First India-Jaipur Edition-13th October 2022

MODI GOVT’S DIWALI BONUS!

for oil

as bonus to the railway workers

Moni Sharma

New Delhi: The Central government on Wednesday approved Rs 22,000 crore as a onetime grant for state-run oil marketing companies (PSU OMCs) for losses incurred due to domestic LPG prices.

The government said that between June 2020 to June 2022, the international prices of LPG increased by around 300%. Accordingly, domestic LPG prices have risen only by 72% during this period. This has led to significant losses for these OMCs, the government said.

The Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved one-time grant to 3 oil marketing companies - Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL).

Payment of productivity linked bonus to the railway employees

BONUS OF `1,832 CR FOR 11.27 LAKH RLY EMPLOYEES: THAKUR

M aking the announcement on Wednesday, Union minister Anurag Thakur said, “Productivity-linked bonus of ` 1,832 crore will be given to 11.27 lakh employees of railways. It will be a bonus of 78 days and `17,951 will be its maximum limit.” According to available data, about 11.27 lakh non-gazetted railway employees are likely to benefit from decision.

Graft convictions extend Aung San Suu Kyi’s prison term to 26 years

PUNJAB-HARYANA HC QUASH FIR AGAINST KUMAR VISHWAS & BAGGA

DEVELOPMENT OF CONTAINER TERMINAL AT TUNA-TEKRA

Union Cabinet approved the project to develop the container terminal at TunaTekra, Deendayal Port in Gujarat under public private partnership mode. The cost of `4,243.64 crore will be on part of Concessionaire and cost of common user facilities of `296.20 crore will be on the part of the concessioning authority toward development of common user facilities.

Russia ready for gas supplies to Europe: Putin

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Moscow is ready to resume gas supplies to Europe via a link of the Germany-bound Nord Stream 2 pipeline under the Baltic Sea — an offer quickly rejected by Berlin. German officials have said Russia halted supplies through the Nord Stream 1.

Chinese national among 10 held in `900 cr fraud case

Hyderabad: The city police arrested 10 persons including a Chinese and a Taiwan national for allegedly cheating lakhs of persons to tune of `903 crore. So far `1.91 crore have been frozen in various bank accounts. Hyderabad police commissioner CV Anand opined that it could even be a Rs 10,000 crore scam, which was run through a network to route money of unsuspecting investors away.

Retail inflation jumps to 5-month high of 7.41 percent in September

NAVY’S MIG

DEVELOPS

Cannibalism suspected, 1 body cut into 56 pieces

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Thiruvananthapuram:

A couple in Kerala who allegedly mutilated and killed two women in a ritualistic “human sacrifice” to get rich quick may have even eaten the flesh of their victims, the police said today, as shocking new details emerged in the case.

Victims Roselin and Padma were tied up and tortured before they were strangled, the police said. The women’s breasts were chopped off and the blood was allowed to flow out. One of the bodies was cut into 56 pieces, the police chief said. The body parts were found from three pits. Two women were allegedly sacrificed as part of a ritual in a remote Kerala village by three people, including a couple, to gain wealth. The victims were killed, their body parts chopped, cooked and eaten by the accused.

The first accused, Shafi, is a sadistic psychopath who takes pleasure in hurting and inflicting wounds on others. He is a sexual pervert. There’s a possibility that the accused ate parts of body after killing the victims. It is being investigated, but not confirmed yet.

—CH Nagaraju, Kochi police chief

ALL 3 ACCUSED SENT TO 14-DAY JUDICIAL CUSTODY

Ernakulam: The Ernakulam magistrate court on Wednesday remanded all the three accused of killing two women allegedly as a human sacrifice in black magic rituals in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta on judicial custody. The accused will be under judicial remand for a 14-day duration which will end on October 26.

‘PALACE ON WHEELS’ RIDE RESUMES AFTER 2-YEAR COVID-19 HIATUS

Myanmar: A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Wednesday sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in prison on charges of accepting a bribe, a source with knowledge of the matter said. 77-year-old Nobel laureate, a figurehead of opposition to military rule, faces charges for at least 18 offences ranging from graft to election violations, carrying combined maximum terms of nearly 190 years.

Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday quashed two separate FIRs registered against former AAP leader Kumar Vishwas and BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga by Punjab Police. Vishwas was booked by the Rupnagar Police in Punjab over his alleged inflammatory statements against AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal, Bagga was booked on charges of making provocative statements and promoting enmity.

SUSHIL KUMAR FACES MORE HEAT AS COURT FRAMES MURDER CHARGES AGAINST HIM

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday framed charges of murder against Olympian wrestler Sushil Kumar in connection with the killing of 27-year-old wrestler Sagar Dhankar, his lawyers said.

Additional Sessions Judge Shivaji Anand framed charges of murder among, other sections of the IPC, against Kumar and 17 others. A detailed order is awaited.

New Delhi: India’s retail inflation touched 7.41 per cent in September, up from 7 per cent in August, and 6.7 per cent in July, fuelled by high food prices, erratic rainfall, and supply shocks from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Prices of daily consumables like cereals and vegetables, which form the largest category in the inflation basket, have climbed over the past two years.

INDIA’S DEBT RATIO PROJECTED TO BE 84% OF ITS GDP: IMF

The factory output, measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), contracted by (-)0.8% in August, as per data released by the MoSPI.

India’s debt ratio is projected to be 84% of its GDP by end of 2022, which is higher than many emerging economies, but its debt is a little bit easier to sustain, a senior IMF official has said. “It would be very important to give reassurance to people and to investors that things are under control, and things are going to become less vulnerable over time,” Mauro, told.

Gehlot: Ensure uninterrupted electricity and proper security for a Happy Diwali

State govt to celebrate the festival with general

Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday stressed on uninterrupted electricity and proper security arrangements for the people have safe and happy Diwali.

“After the last two years of Corona, this time this festival should be full of gaiety and

happiness for the people of the state. So state govt will celebrate the festival in collaboration with the general public.

Decorations and lights and special events will be organized all over the state,” Gehlot said

on Wednesday which chairing a review meeting in the CMO regarding the preparations for organizing Diwali.

He said that anti-social elements should not carry out any untoward incident in state.

students,

others die in five

Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Youth Affairs and Sports, Anurag Singh Thakur holding a press conference on Cabinet Decisions, in New Delhi on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI

of the container terminal at Deendayal Port located in

Laila, one of the accused in the Elanthoor ‘human sacrifice’ case, being produced at court, in Kochi on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI

ACCUSED

VICTIM

The luxury train Palace on Wheels was on Wednesday flagged off from Safdarjung station in New Delhi on its commercial journey after a gap of 2 years due to Covid-19 pandemic. Mukul Wasnik, Bhanwar Jitendra Singh, Dharmendra Rathore, Dhiraj Srivastava, Rafeek Khan, Subhra Singh and others flagged off the royal train back on track. More on P3

CM LIKELY TO VISIT MUMBAI TODAY

Ashok Gehlot

Mumbai today to

Chhagan Bhujbal’s birthday program organised by Chhagan Bhujbal Gaurav Samiti at Shanmukhanand Auditorium in Mumbai.

RAJASTHAN

‘Gehlot & Pilot no challenge to BJP; Cong will be wiped out’

Aishwary Pradhan

Jaipur: Attacking Cong Govt, State BJP in-charge Arun Singh on Wednesday said there is a big fight in Cong not only in Raj but across country & party is divided. Singh said he does not con sider both Gehlot & Pi lot as a challenge to BJP & Cong will be wiped out in 2023.

Singh took a dig at Cong’s state in-charge Ajay Maken saying even Maken had said even Raj ministers do not agree with Cong high command. “When 82 MLAs who have re signed & ministers have resigned then why cabi net meetings have been held and why transfer postings are being done,” said Arun Singh.

On issue of internal turmoil in BJP, Singh said, “there is no turmoil anywhere in our party.”

On the issue of home coming of Devi Singh Bhati & other leaders, he said that a commit tee has been formed for this. Before assembly election, committee

BJP LEGAL CELL TO FILE PILs ON PUBLIC ISSUES

Jaipur: The State BJP has tasked BJP Legal Cell for coming days to take up issues legally. State BJP President Satish Poonia said that they are ready to file PILs. The State Working Committee meeting of Legal Cell was held in BJP Headquarters on Wednesday. National General Secretary and state in-charge Arun Singh said jungle raj and corruption is at its peak in the state. State Organi

will take decisions. Among big leaders who may rejoin party are

DIGEST

Jaipur: CS Usha Sharma on Wednesday reviewed Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP) 2022 at secretariat. Dur ing meeting, she directed officials to ensure timely disposal of targets man dated by Central Industry Promo tion & Internal Trade Dept. She said position of Raj has improved in terms of ‘Ease of Doing Business in country, but we need to strengthen it further. “Concerned depts should work on pending Integrated Framework, on line submission, verification of facts,” said Sharma. Additional CS Veenu Gupta, Commissioner, Mahen dra Kumar Parakh were present.

zation General Secretary Chandrashekhar said development of a sense of duty in a united India. Leader of the Opposition Gulabchand Kataria, inspired advocates for their contribution on

DEVI S BHATI’S REENTRY INTO BJP MAY BE TOUGHER

Jaipur: Amid the controversy over the joining of leaders in BJP, the party has made union minister and LS MP from Bikaner, Arjun Ram Megh

BJP to observe ‘Black Day’ on 4-year anniv of Congress govt

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Shekhawat faces flak for ‘Bharatpur’ jibe

&

cultural nationalism. Oth ers present were Arun Chaturvedi, Dr Praveen Khandelwal, Saurabh Saraswat, Bhuvnesh Sharma, Rakshapal Kuldeep, Nathusinh Ra thod, officers of districts.

wal, as the head of the joining com mittee. Meghwal is the arch rival of former minister Devi Singh Bhati who himself announced to join the party before the visit of former CM Vasundhar Raje in Bikaner on October 9-10. Bhati had left the party against the decision of the BJP high command to give Meghwal LS ticket.

Now, with the help of Vasundhara Raje, Bhati is preparing to return to the BJP before the 2023 assembly elections. The former minister had made an announcement to join BJP on Oct 8 but the joining could not take place.

Jaipur: BJP will ob serve the fourth anni versary of Ashok Ge hlot led Congress gov ernment in Rajasthan as ‘Black Day’. The Ge hlot government will complete 4 years on De cember 17. Ahead of the 4th anniversary of the Cong Govt, the opposi tion BJP will also issue a black paper against the failures of the gov ernment’s four-year rule. The party will start protests against Govt from November on a scale across the state.

The state unit of BJP has planned demonstra tions in all 200 assembly constituencies, fol lowed by protests at dis trict headquarters and then a state level protest & mass rally ‘Jan Aak rosh Rally’ will be held in from Dec 15 to 17.

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Jhunjhunu/Bharat

pur: Union Jal Shakti

Min Gajendra Singh

Shekhawat courted con troversy on Wednesday when he referred to MoS Rajendra Singh Gudha as “Bharatpur ka bin painde ka lota”, which means a person who has no standing or easily changes stand. Shekhawat said this in an event at Udaipurwa ti of Jhunjhunu.

“He (Gudha) is some times with BSP & other

times with Cong. One time he is with CM Ashok Gehlot and other times with Sachin Pilot.

Being like this, no one takes his words seri ously,” Shekhawat said.

After the statement, protest against Shekha wat started in Bharat pur and MLAs and min isters of Bharatpur district have also start ed coming to the fore.

Min Subhash Garg and Min Bhajan Lal Jatav have reacted to this & said Shekhawat to avoid use such language.

JDA distributes 62,147 leases and transfers 7,168 names

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Take maximum benefits of PSKS: Amit Dhariwal

TRIBUTES PAID TO RAJMATA

Vasundhara Raje offering flowers to her mother late Vijaya Raje Scindia on her birth anniv. Arun Singh also offering tribute at BJP headquaters in Jaipur.

Kota: On the initia tive of UDH Minister Shanti Dhariwal, thousands of people are being given the ownership of their houses & plots under unprecedented cam paign of State Govt here under Prashasan Shehron Ke Sang ab hiyan. Pattas were distributed to the peo ple of Ward No. 2 and 32 of Municipal Cor poration Kota North Zone on Wednesday.

Minor girl killed by cousin, rape suspected

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Bikaner: A minor girl who was found dead on railway track was mur dered by her cousin brother. Earlier, it was considered to be a case of suicide. Police said that the girl was a resi dent of Punjab and her dead body was recov ered near Mahajan.

After shifting the

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body to the mortuary, the police traced her family members. As per the investigation so far, the girl was stran gled to death by her cousin’s brother. SP Yo gesh Yadav said that postmortem of the body is being conduct ed and it will become clear only after post mortem if she was raped before murder.

HR skills need to be reassessed: Arora

Jaipur: Chairman, Ra jasthan Small Indus tries Corporation, Rajiv Arora while was speak ing at the 7th edition of the HR & Skills Summit organised by FICCI Ra jasthan State Council on Wednesday said the importance the State is giving to HR can be gauged by the fact that it is the only State which has 2 skill uni versities. He also in formed that for 20202021, the capacity of 9

polytechnic colleges has been enhanced, & new upcoming branch es like robotics cyber

forensic information, artificial intelligence, data science, etc. have started in 30 engineer

ing colleges. Secretary, Skill, Em ployment & Entrepre neurship, Government of Rajasthan, Naresh Kumar Thakral said more than 5.15 lakh youths have been trained in various sec tors through empan elled training partners.

President, The ICFAI University, Dr H P Sin gh, VSM said it is in deed a matter of pride that Raj today has a maximum number of 85 universities with 52 private universities.

14-YEAR-OLD MINOR GIRL RAPED, 4 HELD INCLUDING 3 COUSINS

Barmer: Sedwa police in Barmer has lodged a case of gang rape and blackmailing with a 14-year-old minor by her own cousin. Police said that the accused had recorded some obscene videos of the victim and was blackmailing her. On the basis of the victim’s father, police had booked four accused including her three cousins. Till the last report all the accused were on the run and no arrest was made. In the complaint, victim’s father alleged that around five months back his daughter was grazing the cattle in the field. In the meantime accused raped her. —Mukesh Mathrani

Vaibhav meets families of cylinder blast victims

Rajeev Gaur

Jodhpur: Cong leader & AICC member Vaib hav Gehlot on Wednes day met family mem bers of 4 deceased, who were killed in a gas cylinder explosion in Kirti Nagar area here. Vaibhav Gehlot condoled loss of lives & assured all possible help to family mem bers of the victims.

Mayor of Jodhpur Municipal Corpora tion Kunti Mundra, Cong leader Naresh

Vaibhav Gehlot interacting with gas cylinder explosion victims’ family members.

Joshi, Prakash Beni wal and CWC Chair man Dhantpat Gurjar also accompanied Vai bhav Gehlot during this visit.

Cong leader Amit Dhariwal attended Patta distribution cer emony held in Sakat pura as chief guest & handed over owner ship of his house to more than 150 people of the area. A large number of residents, including councilor of the area, Anoop Kumar, were present at ceremony.

Amit Dhariwal called upon the resi dents to take max ad vantage of such an un precedented campaign.

Jaipur: Under the Pra shasan Shehor Ke Sang campaign, JDA has distrib uted 62,147 pattas (lease papers) so far. The maxi mum 32,499 leases have been issued for free-hold and 20,861 leases have been distributed for leasehold, while 8,787 leases were free-hold from leasehold.

JDA Commissioner Ravi Jain said under Prashasan Shehor Ke Sang, more and more pattas are being is sued to the general public by organizing camps regu larly. JDA has so far issued 62,147 pattas. Apart from this, 7,168 name transfer, 2,411 sub-division & re-or ganization, 38,911 map ap proval were also done.

Devi Singh Bhati, Sub hash Mahariya, Manv endra Singh, Vijay

Bansal, Surendra Goy al, Rajkumar Rinwa, Kishnaram Nai.

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Arun Singh said that Congress is suffering infighting not only Rajasthan but everywhere

Arun Singh addressing BJP members during the Legal Cell State Working Committee meeting.

Rajiv Arora and dignitaries on the dais (L to R) Atul Sharma, Dr G K Prabhu, Praveen Paranjape, Naresh Kumar Thakral, Randhir Vikram Singh, S Y Siddiqui, Dr HP Singh in the Summit.

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat addressing supporters in Jhunjhunu.

Amit Dhariwal distributing pattas to residents in Kota.

CS USHA SHARMA DIRECTS TIMELY DISPOSAL OF WORK UNDER BRAP-2022

Bhanwar S Charan

Governor Kalraj Mishra offering prayer at Maa Tripura Sundari temple during his two-day visit to Banswara. He later left for Udaipur on Wednesday afternoon.

RAJASTHAN

PALACE ON WHEELS BACK ON TRACK

T

he luxury train Palace on Wheels (PoW) started its commercial journey again from Wednesday.

There are 10 such luxury trains in whole world.

The PoW has restarted but the remaining 9 are still on hold. PoW is the the cultural ambassador of Rajasthan. “With the blessings of CM Gehlot, it was possible to run the PoW again. Gratitude to all the officers,” said Dharmendra Rathore.

As coal crisis looms large, Joshi’s Jaipur visit ignites hope for State

Min

Vikas Sharma

Jaipur: Rajasthan Vid yut Utpadan Nigam is now going to take steps towards promotion of renewable energy. A big MoU will be signed be tween Coal IndiaRVUNL regarding the Solar Park here on Thursday in the pres ence of Coal Minister Prahlad Joshi and CM Ashok Gehlot.

Actually, the Gehlot government has given the responsibility of de

veloping 2000 MW solar park to Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam, a government under taking, in order to save coal and reduce pollu tion in thermal power

4-DAY OF COAL STOCK LEFT IN RAJASTHAN

O nly 4 days of coal is left in big power stations in Rajasthan. 4 days in Kota Thermal, 2 days of coal left in Suratgarh Thermal, 3 days in Chhabra, and 3 days in Chhabra SuperCritical. 1 day coal is left in Kalisindh Ther mal Power Project. Eight days coal balance is in Suratgarh Super Critical Power Plant.

plants and to promote solar energy.

For this, 4846 hec tares of land has been allotted in Poogal, Bi kaner, where 810 MW capacity solar project

will be set up by Self Generation Corpora tion and 1190 MW ca pacity solar project will be set up by Coal India Limited. Principal En ergy Secretary Bhaskar

A. Sawant himself is monitoring this project.

During the event, im portant discussions are possible regarding the coal shortage of Ra jasthan as there are problems due to nonstarting of mining from PEKB coal mines.

The State’s power sta tions are not getting enough coal as per their requirement. However, some coal is available through bridge linkage, but it has quality prob lems. In such a situa tion, the focus will be on increasing the supply from NCL, SECL and MCL only.

Dimple Sharma

Jaipur: 246 donors were felicitated for their con tribution in the develop ment of schools and ed ucational institutions by Education Minister BD Kalla at the state level programme Deep Smriti auditorium of TPS in Mansarover.

More than 1000 do nors were felicitated at the district level.

Addressing the function, Kalla ex pressed gratitude to the donors for contri bution in development of school infrastruc ture. He said that they utilized their money for social cause. High lighting the opening of English medium

Final phase of RG Rural Olympic Games from Oct 16-19, Krishna Poonia brings in sponsors

Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: The customs officials on Wednesday recov ered gold brought in the form of paste of about 500 grams worth about Rs 25 lakh at Jaipur International Airport. The gold was recovered from a passenger who reached Jaipur from Sharjah by Air Arabia flight at 5 am. The gold was recovered from the passenger during screening. The authorities weighed the gold which was found to be about 500 grams. The expected market value of the seized gold is believed to be more than of Rs 25 lakh, said a Customs official. The maater is being investigated, added the offical.

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Jaipur: The Rajiv Gan dhi Rural Olympic games, which are being held for the first time in the state, have now reached the final stage and state level competi tion will be organized in six games from 16 to 19 October.

Jaipur: Inauguration and foundation laying program of new medical colleges in the state have been post poned. PM Narendra Modi was to inaugurate 4 olleges and lay foundation stones of 5 colleges on October 14. Inauguration was to be done of medical colleges at Sriganganagar, Chittorgarh, Sirohi and Dholpur, while the foundation stone laying was to be conducted of medical colleges of Bundi, Baran, Karauli, Sawai Madhopur and Jhunjhunu.

But the medical education department has received instructions to postpone the program.

Kota: After Allen coaching announced to give 50 per cent discount to children of policemen in coach ing, five more institutes submitted their offer letters on Wednesday. Kota Superintendent of Police Kesar Singh Shekhawat had got the announcement made during recent tour of DGP ML Lather to Kota.

Now, Resonance, Akash, Motion, Unacademy, and Physicswala have submit ted the letters to the police.

Families of policemen will now get 50 percent fee concession in all five coaching institutes also.

Dausa: A young man died after being hit by a train at Dausa railway station on Wednesday evening. TThe GRP has taken possession of the body and kept it in the mortuary of the district hospital. At the same time, the Kotwali police station is investigating the incident. Ac cording to GRP, a youth was trying to get down on the train while staying at Dausa station around 6 pm. During this, he got stuck between the Ajmer-Agra Fort train and the platform due to slipping of his feet. His neck was cut and separated from the torso. On the information the GRP reached the spot and took possession of the body.

On the initiative of Rajasthan State Sports Council Chairperson Krishna Poonia, a spon sor has come up and cash prizes will be given to the players. The

Sports Council has made full preparations for the final event.

After village, block and district level, now the state level competi

tion in these Olympic Games will be held. The four-day event of the state level competition is being organized from 16 to 19 Oct at SMS Sta

dium in Jaipur. CM Ge hlot will inaugurate the state level competition. 4000 players from the winning teams at the district level will par ticipate in the competi tion. In this, 1782 boys and 1914 girl players of 330 teams from all 33 dis tricts will participate.

Apart from this, about 350 judges including 330 team trainers and 66 team in-charges will participate. 8000 players from each of the dis tricts of the state will also participate.

BIG WINGS

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Jaipur: JMCG has an nounced to give adver tisement exemption to traders for 7 days during Diwali. The corporation will also give awards to markets on Diwali deco ration. JMCG Mayor Sheel Dhabai and com missioner Mahendra Soni held a meeting with the representatives of

market association dur ing which the traders raised these demands. She also appealed to the traders to ensure cleanli ness during the festival season. Meanwhile, JMCH Mayor Munesh Gurjar also held meeting with corporation offic ers and instructed them to for cleanliness and re pairing faulty lights dur ing the Diwali.

l 49 people who donated more than Rs 1 crore were awarded with Shiksha Vibhusan

l 197 people who donated Rs 15 lakh to Rs 1 cr were honoured with Shiksa Bhushan award

l Those who donated over Rs 30 lakh are Preraks.

school in government sector, Kalla said that the state govt is giving

emphasis on funda mental education in English language.

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Jaipur: More than 85 % of the resident doctors on Wednesday an nounced to call off the strike after the agree ment was reached with the government. Resi dent doctors called off the strike from 8 pm on Wednesday.

Principal Secy- Medi cal Education Vaibhav Galaria said that after consensus was reached, more than 85 percent of the residents decided to return to work.

Consensus was made on giving one-time re laxation in service bond for batches of 2020-21 and 2021-22 while keep ing the amount to Rs 100000 and the time pe riod as earlier to 2 years.

The Principal Secre tary said that system for selection for SRship for batch 2020-21 and 202122 will be decided after discussion and consent with the Presidents of the Resident Doctor’s Associations within 7 to 10 working days after the decision of the HC.

Aviation sector eyes a take-off this winter season

Kashiram Choudhary

Jaipur: The Aviation sec tor in State is eyeing a take-off coming winter season. Rajasthan, which reports the high est foot fall of domestic and international tour ists during winter, will also witness an increase in flight operations in the coming months.

The airline compa nies will change flight schedules from Oct 30, following which, there will be an increase in the number of flights.

Sources informed that flight operations will once again begin in Jais almer airport, while

flights will be increased at Udaipur & Jodhpur. SpiceJet, Indigo and Air India will increase flight operations at Jaipur, Udaipur and Jodhpur airports. Pres

ently 11 flights take-off daily from Jodhpur. This number is expected to increase to 15 during the winters. Similarly, the number of flights at Udaipur airport will be

increased to 18 from 12 per day. In Bikaner, one flight has been opera tional for the last two years, while Kishangarh airport also witnesses fewer flight schedules.

Passengers now get an opportunity to win prizes, discount coupons and other freebees. Spin the wheel and selfie contest are the most favorite among the passengers. Jaipur: With Diwali festival sprites high after almost two years, Jaipur International Airport is all geared up to make it even better. Jaipur International Airport announced the start of 20 day long The Diwali Carnival. The carnival shares the idea of making this Diwali more fun and frolic for every passenger at Jaipur. The entire airport is decked up with beautiful decors at both arrival and departure area. Various contest will take place on an hourly basis for

the passengers. The winners will be given various prizes, discount coupons and other freebees. A special selfie zone has also been created.

Resident doctors call off strike as demands met

—Bhanwar S Charan

Dr Krishna Poonia and officials of Atlanture Sports handling over the prize money to be distributed in RG Rurual Olympics.

Sheel Dhabhai inspecting the cleanliness and sanitation in Ward No 126. Suman Sharma and Om Swamy are also seen.

—PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO

Mahant Anjan Kumar Goswami of Shri Radha Govind Dev Ji Temple honored with Shiksha Bhushan Samman on Wednesday. Dr BD Kalla presented the award. Subhash Garg and others are also seen.

FIVE FLIGHTS WILL BEGIN AT JAISALMER AIRPORT

— Aditi Nagar & Nirmal Tiwari

DONORS PROVIDED `303 CR FOR DEVP

Dharmendra Rathore, Bhanwar Jitendra Singh, Shanti Dhariwal, Rajendra Yadav, and Dhiraj Srivastava receiving certificate from World Book of Records, London for PoW in New Delhi.

Mukul Wasnik, Dharmendra Rathore, and Rafeek Khan on Red Carpet before the official launch on Wednesday.

Mukul Wasnik, Shanti Dhariwal, Dharmendra Rathore, Bhanwar Jitendra Singh and Dhiraj Srivastava enjoying in a luxury coach.

Mukul Wasnik, Bhanwar Jitendra Singh, Shanti Dhariwal, Mahesh Joshi, Rajendra Yadav, Dharmendra Rathore, Dhiraj Srivastava, Rafeek Khan, Vijaypal Singh and Subhra Singh flagging off the train.

It has been very challenging to restart the Royal luxury train after a gap of 2 years. PoW is running for last 40 years, since 1982.

—PHOTO BY SUNIL

SHARMA

RUSSIAN JUGGERNAUT & EUROPEAN WINTERS

HUMAN SACRIFICE, A RESULT OF MENTAL SICKNESS OR SUPERSTITION

Will power outages in Europe be the order of the day like in a third world country or, will the EU shift its loyalties away from NATO to lean towards Russia to ensure industrial production, comfortable winters and economic growth. Can we predict that peace can return only if Europe shuns the interference of UK and US which have no contiguity with the main land mass and embrace trade and treaties with Russia to allow a new world order!

Well … implied lessons loom large for India as we wait and watch the Juggernaut

COL ANUPAM JAITLY (RETD)

Just after a little more than 7 months in war, Vladimir Pu tin signs a law formally merging four important Ukrainian regions into Rus sia. The documents annexing 20% of Ukraine, carried out in noncompliance of interna tional laws, were published on a Russian government website on 5th of October 22.

Both houses of the Rus sian parliament ratified trea ties making Donetsk, Lu hansk, Kherson and Zapor izhzhia regions as part of Russia. While Russia calls it ‘referendums’, US, western countries and Ukraine re jected it as a bogus and sham.

As a keen observer of mili tary affairs, I feel that the Rus sia – Ukraine war has now entered a totally new phase with Russia declaring that any attack on these four Rus sian territories will be viewed as a war on Russia and it will retaliate with all its detrimen tal nuclear might.

I am surprised to note that series of sanctions imposed under the banner of US since 2014, following the annexation of Crimea and now the an nexation of four regions have hardly had any effect on either

OUTSIDE FACTORS JOLTING ECONOMY

the military capabilities or, the economic strength of Russia.

Now the question arises if the numerous sanctions im posed on any strong-willed na tion carry any worthwhile meaning or not? Well, in 1974 and then in 1998 US imposed similar economic, technologi cal and trade boycott against India when it carried out nu clear tests in Pokaran. The only result it achieved was that India emerged as a stronger and a self-reliant nation tech nologically and economically.

In my opinion, the ratchet ing-up of sanctions on Russia gives the Western world an illu sion and a psychological satis faction that real action is taking place on Ukraine and US re mains in control of world af fairs. But, will these sanctions have any effect on a leader of Putin’s calibre and his decisionmaking on current war? The

answer is NO. The history as also seen in case of India, sug gests that this is quite unlikely.

I would further state that, the whole theory behind sanctions is fundamentally unsound since it assumes that strong country like Russia will cir cumvent and manoeuver their policies if unbearable financial cost is inflicted on them.

On the reverse slope of all these sanctions stand Euro pean Community, a divided and alienated home where, many members are con vinced that US is in fact hurt ing their economy and pun ishing their people on the

In my opinion, the ratcheting-up of sanctions on Russia gives the Western world an illusion and a psychological satisfaction that real action is taking place on Ukraine and US remains in control of world affairs

pretext of isolating Russia.

A French political class also believes these measures are ineffective. The president of the far-right party Ras semblement National of France, Marine Le Pen, in sisted that “these sanctions serve absolutely no purpose, except to make the people of Europe suffer “ by forcing Europe into an energy crisis during coming winters.

So, apart from France, how do other countries on the continent plan to tide over the monster of looming win ters? Moldova, North Mace donia and Bosnia Herzego vina are fully dependent on gas from Russia and cannot survive the onset of winters. All the three are in Eastern Europe and except North Mecedonia, other two are not under the umbrella of NATO and none are members of EU.

The story of major countries like UK, Germany and Italy that shape the decision making

of EU is no different. The dwin dling economy of UK is no hid den secret. British consumer price inflation is set to peak at 18% - nine times the Bank of England’s target - in early 2023 as per predictions of econo mists. The rising energy prices will hit the middle- and lowerincome households in the worst possible manner as it is directly linked to sanctions on Russia. Italy was also seen ap proaching Austria as a dealer for supply of Russian Gas to meet the challenges of winters.

Though, the political deci sions are pushing EU econo my to ruins courtesy Ukraine war, it’s the common man suf fering on the altar of sanc tions. Alarmingly reports say that Germany, France & Italy have only 60% gas stocks in place to beat the winters and run the industries. Will power outages in Europe be the or der of the day like in a third world country or, will the EU shift its loyalties away from NATO to lean towards Russia to ensure industrial produc tion, comfortable winters and economic growth. Can we pre dict that peace can return only if Europe shuns the in terference of UK and US which have no contiguity with the main land mass and em brace trade and treaties with Russia to allow a new world order! Well … implied lessons loom large for India as we wait and watch the Juggernaut.

The sacrifice of two women in Kerala to get rich is shocking.

It is difficult to imag ine superstitious be liefs as dangerous as in this case also occurring in a Communist state which prides itself on its literacy rate which is the highest in the country. In earlier times human sacrifices were made to please or appease gods for the fulfillment of one’s wish as part of religious practices. Now all religions have criminalised the barbaric practice. Yet they keep being reported, like the ones in Kerala, to shake our conscience.

The Kerala couple---Bhagaval Singh and his wife Laila---were allegedly made to believe that the two sacrifices will make them rich. Last year an Odisha man was charged with making a human sacrifice to appease Goddess Kali. In another report ed case a member of a family was sacrificed for its prosperity.

At least one NCRB report blamed holy men (tantriks) for the sacrifice of 51 children be tween 2014 and 2016.

SPIRITUAL SPEAK

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child. Buddha

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Aday after the Inter national Mone tary Fund cut In dia’s growth fore cast for 2022 to 6.8 percent, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a gathering in the US, “I am aware that growth forecasts around the world are being revised lower. We expect In dia’s growth rate to be around 7 percent this financial year.

More importantly, I am confi dent of India’s relative and absolute growth performance in the rest of the decade.” No global economy is beyond the impact of extraneous factors as a result of the RussiaUkraine war. Sitharaman es pecially mentioned energy and fertilizers as main disrup tors of growth as their avail ability was becoming difficult by the day. The Reserve Bank

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a gathering in the US, “I am aware that growth forecasts around the world are being revised lower. We expect India’s growth rate to be around 7 percent this financial year. More importantly, I am confident of India’s relative and absolute growth performance in the rest of the decade”

of India had also lowered its growth forecast from 7.2 to 7 percent and the World Bank slashed its forecast for Finan cial Year 2023 from 7.5 to 6.5.

The Russia-Ukraine con flict and the consequent sanc tions on supplies have had serious implications for food prices. The Union Finance Minister was confident of In dia’s absolute growth pros pects but the IMF cautioned, “As storm clouds gather, poli cymakers need to keep a steady hand. The global econ omy continues to face steep

challenges, shaped by the lingering effects of three powerful forces: the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a costof-living crisis caused by per sistent and broadening infla tionary pressures, and the slowdown in China.”

The US Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates again in the near future and the RBI may also follow suit to check inflation which is expected to rise further from 7.41 percent. For the pov erty-stricken people inflation means higher cost of living.

On her birth anniversary, tributes to Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia

She was synonymous with courage and foresight.

devoted her life to serving others.

what I had said during one of the previous #MannKiBaat

about her

Away from the attachment of position and power, Rajmata Scindia ji set high ideals in politics by living life as a national servant. The struggle of Rajmata Scindia ji, who dedicated her life to the service of the country and the organization, will always inspire us to restore democracy in the emergency.

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KHARGE DISMISSES ‘RUMOURS’ OF SONIA GANDHI’S SUPPORT

New Delhi (ANI): Congress veteran leader and party's presidential candidate Mallikarjun Kharge said that his name was not suggested by the party supremo Sonia Gandhi and dismissed the speculations of receiving support from the party's interim president.

Kharge said that Sonia Gandhi had never suggested his name for the party president position and called it a rumour.

"Sonia Gandhi suggesting my name for the president position is all a rumour, I have never said this. She has clearly stated that anyone from the Gandhi family will neither be a part of the election nor support any candidate," Kharge said on Tuesday.

Notably, Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge are up against each other in the race for the post of Congress President.

"Someone has spread this rumour to defame the Congress party, Sonia Gandhi and me. She has clearly stated that she will not participate in the party elections nor will she come in support of any candidate," Kharge said.

New Delhi: When asked about Shashi Tharoor's plan to "decentralise authority" in the Congress, senior party leader Mallikarjun Kharge said he does not want the two of them to be compared. In an exclusive interview with India Today, he made an appeal to not compare him with Tharoor. Speaking on Tharoor's manifesto to "reform the way the party functions", he said, "I have come on my own from block president to this level. Was Shashi Tharoor there during that time?"

Bhopal: Rajya Sabha MP Mallikarjun Kharge said on Wednesday that after becoming the Congress national president, his prime responsibility would be to implement declarations made during the party's meeting held in Rajasthan's Udaipur. Kharge, who is one of the candidates for the Congress president, was in Bhopal to seek support for his candidature.

Addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters in Bhopal, the Congress Rajya Sabha MP said that all the declarations made during the

RaGa to meet unemployed youths from Karnataka

Udaipur conclave were finalised after long discussions and they are the need of the hour.

Tharoor to cancel UP visit to avert ‘clash’ with Kharge

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who is one of the contenders in the race for Congress presi-

dent, has had to cancel his visit to Uttar Pradesh twice in two days amid speculations that he was told to stay away to avert a potential ‘faceoff’ with supporters of Mallikarjun Kharge, another Congress veteran who is in the fray for the party’s top post and was coming to visit the state.

Tharoor suggested

WILL CALL FOR CWC ELECTIONS IF ELECTED CONG CHIEF: THAROOR

New Delhi: Shashi Tharoor asserted that if he becomes the AICC chief, he would fully implement the party’s existing constitution which requires CWC elections and revival of the parliamentary board that has been dormant for a quarter-century. Tharoor also said the Cong must decentralise authority and truly empower the grassroots office-bearers of the party.

visiting on Tuesday but was told that it could result in clashes with

Karnataka (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi resumed the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' from the Challakere town, Chitradurga in Karnataka on Wednesday. The Congress leader will also be meeting around 2000 unemployed youth from the southern state.

The march started at 6:40 am, informed the veteran Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.

‘FOR EVERY AZAD AND SCINDIA WHO LEAVE, CONG WILL HAVE 25 OTHERS’ Bengaluru: Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh said senior leaders quitting the party are unlikely to leave a void as there is an abundance of workers and leaders who can replace them. “For every Azad (Ghulam Nabi Azad) and Scindia (Jyotiraditya Scindia), the Congress will have 25 others. The party’s youth cadre is getting strong.” Ramesh asserted.

Veteran Congress leader Digvijaya Singh led the march in Chitradurga’s Thalaku with the Congress Seva Dal, while Ramesh followed him.

Jairam Ramesh

CALCUTTA HC DIRECTS WB POLICE TO FORM SIT TO PROBE MOMINPUR VIOLENCE

Kolkata: The Calcutta HC on Wednesday directed West Bengal Police to constitute a SIT to probe the Mominpur incident. After the investigation, the SIT will have to submit its report in court. The Calcutta HC has also directed the Kolkata Police Commissioner to take steps so that there is no further violence. The tensions flared up in Mominpur on Sunday after religious flags put up in the area.

PLACES OF WORSHIP ACT: SC GRANTS CENTRE 2 WEEKS

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted two more weeks to the Centre to respond to a batch of petitions challenging certain provisions of the Places of Worship (Special Provision) Act, 1991, that prohibits the filing of a lawsuit to reclaim a place of worship or seek a change in its character from what prevailed on August 15, 1947.

SC TO HEAR ON OCT 31 PLEA RAISING ISSUE OF LSD

New Delhi: The SC said it will hear on Oct 31 a petition raising the issue pertaining to the lumpy skin disease in cattle. The matter was mentioned for urgent listing before a bench headed by Chief Justice U U Lalit. The counsel who mentioned the matter told the bench that the disease has spread among cattle and over 67,000 cows have died till date due to this.

BYPOLL: UDDHAV CAMP NOMINEE MOVES HC OVER DELAY IN ACCEPTING RESIGNATION

Mumbai: Rutuja Latke, the candidate of ‘Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray’ party for the upcoming Andheri (east) bypoll, on Wednesday moved the Bombay HC seeking a direction to the Mumbai civic body to accept her resignation as its employee. The petition will be heard on Thursday. In her petition, Rutuja Latke said the delay by the civic body in issuing a letter or order (accepting her resignation) appears to be deliberate to prevent her from contesting the November 3 byelection.

NO CITIZEN CAN BE PROSECUTED UNDER SCRAPPED SECTION 66A OF IT ACT, SAYS SC

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that no citizen to be prosecuted under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act 2000, which was struck down as unconstitutional by the Court in 2015. Under section 66A of the IT Act, which was scrapped by the top court in 2015, a person posting offensive messages could be imprisoned for up to three years and also fined. A bench of Chief Justice of India UU Lalit and Justices Ajay Rastogi and S Ravindra Bhat said that there needs no reiteration that Section 66A is found to be in violation of the Constitution and as such no citizen can be prosecuted for violation of alleged offences under Section 66A of the IT Act.

Who will be successor to Naveen Patnaik?

Mahesh Sharma

New Delhi: Is Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal supremo Naveen Patnaik about to announce his political successor? At least the murmurs in Odisha’s political sphere seem to suggest so. Patnaik has said that his successor will be announced at the right time. His saying is important because till recently he never talked about his successor. He had said some time ago that Biju Janata Dal is not a party, but a mass movement, it is a party of the people and the people will decide his successor.

Now that he has stressed on announcing the successor at the right time, two ques-

tions have arisen. First, who will be the successor and what will be the right time? It is believed that the right time is the 2024 assembly elections. Elections to the Rajya Sabha will be held along with the Lok Sabha in Odisha and it is possible that before that Naveen Patnaik’s successor may be announced or at least indicated as to who it will be.

supporters of Kharge, who is set to visit the state capital.

"Day 35 of Bharat Jodo Yatra began at 6:40 am from Challakere and the entire day will be in the historic Chitradurga. The afternoon interaction of Rahul Gandhi will be with around 2000 unemployed youth from all over K’taka who face a bleak future in the so-called 'New India'", tweeted Jairam Ramesh.

Karnataka: Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivkumar was seen wearing a t-shirt highlighting the ‘unemployment’ problems during the Karnataka leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra on Wednesday. The Congress leader wore a bright red coloured t-shirt with yellow text- symbolically signifying Kannada colours- highlighting the problem of unemployment while walking alongside Congress MP Rahul Gandhi during the 35th day of the Yatra. “Youth need jobs, not empty promises”, a message, written on DK Shivkumar’s t-shirt in the Kannada language. The State Congress chief accused the BJP government of failing to tame the rising unemployment in Karnataka.

GAURAV YATRA: NADDA ATTACKS CONGRESS IN GUJARAT

‘Atkaya, bhatkaya, latkaya...’

Gujarat (ANI): BJP president JP Nadda on Wednesday flagged off the ‘Gujarat Gaurav Yatra’ in Mehsana.

Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and other BJP leaders were also present at the occasion.

Addressing a public rally on the occasion, Nadda said, “BJP is a pro-active, pro-responsible government and pro-responsive government. He said BJP government understands the plight of the people. What did Congress do for years? Pitted brothers against each other, areas against each other and did not supply water where it was needed. Jo vikas ki yatra chalani thi usko atkaya, bhatkaya, latkaya. Now they themselves are stuck...”

PM TO LAUNCH `3,000 CR PMGSY SCHEME IN HIMACHAL PRADESH

Chamba: In the run-up to the Assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch Rs 3,000 crore Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana-III scheme sanctioned for Chamba in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday. The Prime Minister will address a huge public meeting at the famous Chowgan, or the public promenade in the historic town of Chamba, which ranks 95th in the Centre’s list of the country’s 115 backward districts.

Meanwhile, The country’s fourth Vande Bharat Express starting from Amb Andaura in Himachal Pradesh’s Una district will further shorten the distance to Delhi for people from northern India. It will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the Una station today.

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IMPOSING HINDI UNACCEPTABLE: KERALA CM WRITES TO PM MODI

Kerala: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that efforts to impose the Hindi language are "unacceptable".

"The essence of India is defined by the concept of 'unity in diversity' which acknowledges cultural and linguistic diversity. Acknowledging this, it is brotherhood, tolerance and mutual respect between different peoples that sustains our country. The Chief Minister said that promoting any one language above others would destroy this integrity," said CM Pinarayi Vijayan.

IAS Jai Shankar appointed as VC of Sushant Univ

Ahtesham Siddiqui

Lucknow: IAS Jaishankar Mishra, a retired bureaucrat from Uttar Pradesh’s bureaucracy, has been appointed as the new Chancellor of Gurgaon’s Sushant University. In this university that is more than three decades old, the chancellor has been selected by a well-known academician and a search committee of enterprises.

Former bureaucrat

Jai Shankar Mishra has

Lucknow: IAS Sujata Sharma, who came to Uttar Pradesh on inter-cadre deputation, will now go back to her home cadre - Hyderabad - after completing her 3 years deputation in December. Sujata Sharma, a 2006 batch officer, came to Uttar Pradesh on December 4, 2019 and at present, she is posted as Secretary,

Infrastructure and Industrial Development. Since she came to UP in 2019, she is handling the same industries department. In view of the Global Investors Summit to be held in February 2023, the Uttar Pradesh government may soon appoint a principal secretary or secretary rank officer. Due to the Global

Investors Summit, a lot of industries are coming to UP from across the country and the world. So in view of the increasing work in this department, there is a great need for officers, that is why the government can appoint an IAS officer of the rank of Principal Secretary and Secretary of Industries Department any time now.

been a 1980 batch IAS of Uttar Pradesh cadre and has served as collector of many districts

of Uttar Pradesh, rising to the ranks of secretary and principal secretary, handling several

departments.

He has written more than 15 books in Hindi and English. His son

Abhishek Mishra has also been a minister in the Samajwadi Party government. Jais-

hankar Mishra has been considered a very friendly and cheerful officer !!

Kharge said that Sonia had never suggested his name for the party prez position

‘If elected Congress Prez, will implement Udpr declarations’

Rahul Gandhi with padyatris during the party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, in Chitradurga on Wednesday.

SHIVKUMAR ATTACKS BJP, WEARS T-SHIRT HIGHLIGHTING ‘UNEMPLOYMENT’

JP Nadda speaking at the flagging-off of the “Gaurav Yatra”, in Mehsana on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI

DON’T COMPARE ME WITH THAROOR, SAYS KHARGE ON CONG PREZ POLL

CONGRESS TO MIX BALLOT PAPERS

Naveen Patnaik

Mallikarjun Kharge

Jai Shankar Mishra

SUJATA SHARMA TO GO BACK TO HER HOME CADRE HYDERABAD

Sujata Sharma

Shashi Tharoor

‘Aus is India’s important partner for security’

Jaishankar on his 2-day visit to Australia, addressed the Indian community and spent time with military

Sydney (PTI) Austral

ia is an important part ner for India in terms of security and stabili ty in the Indo-Pacific and working together ensures that this region remains free, open, sta ble and prosperous, Ex ternal Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said.

Jaishankar, who is on a two-day visit to Aus tralia, during his ad dress to the Indian com munity said during the visit he spent time with the Australian military.

“They are a very im portant partner for us

today in terms of secu rity and stability in the Indo-Pacific. In fact, the big change in our rela tionship is the fact that today we both are mem bers of the Quad mech anism and are working together in many ways to ensure that this re gion remains free, open, stable and prosperous,” Jaishankar said on Tuesday.

“I have seen again even in the last year how much progress we have made just in the last few weeks. We have had two major exercises in Australia where the Indian military has par ticipated,” he said. He said the perception, the

CRUCIAL READ

SAJID OUTBURST: DCW CHIEF GETS RAPE THREAT

New Delhi (ANI): Delhi Commission for Wom en chief Swati Maliwal on Wednesday said she has been receiving rape threats on social media after she wrote to Union Information and Broadcasting Minister to remove filmmaker Sajid Khan out of Bigg Boss over allegations of sexual harassment against him. She also asked Delhi Police to ar rest who allegedly gave her rape threats.

‘KHAN SHOULD NOT HURT RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS’

Bhopl (PTI): Madhya Pradesh Home Minister and BJP leader Narot tam Mishra said actor Aamir Khan should stay away from ad vertisements and acts which hurt religious sentiments after a bank commercial featuring Khan and actor Kiara Advani faced criticism. Mishra said Khan should not do such advertisements keeping Indian traditions and customs in mind.

DISCUS THROWER KAMALPREET KAUR BANNED FOR 3 YRS FOR USE OF STEROID

New Delhi (PTI): Top Indian discus thrower Kamal preet Kaur, who achieved stardom for her exploits at the Tokyo Games, was on Wednesday banned for three year for using prohibited substance Stanozolol, the Athletics Integrity Unit has announced.Kamalpreet was handed a provisional suspension in May this year after testing positive for the steroid, which was found in her sample that AIU collected at Patiala on March 7. “The AIU has banned Kamalpreet Kaur of India for 3 years for the Presence/Use of a Prohibited Substance, starting from 29 March 2022. DQ results from 7 March 2022,” the AIU said in a statement.

GETS BAN FOR ATTEMPTING MATCH-FIXING

Dubai (Agencies) : Mehar Chhayakar, an Indian cricketer former ly based in the United Arab Emirates, has been banned from all cricket for 14 years for seven breaches of the sport’s anti-corruption code, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Wednesday. Chhayakar was found guilty by an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal of attempting to influence aspects of the UAE’s one-day.

SIT INTERROGATES FORMER PUNJAB CM BADAL

Chandigarh (Agen cies): Fresh trouble mounted for Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch and former Chief Minister of Punjab Prakash Singh Badal after a Special In vestigation Team (SIT) constituted by Punjab police reached his residence to probe the 2015 post-sacrilege fir ing case in connection with an FIR registered at Kotkapura city police station on October 14, 2015.

relevance of each coun try to the other and the two nations’ common shared ability to con tribute to the better ment of the region, is “something which is today an important fac tor in the relationship “, he said.

The US, India and several other world powers have been talk ing about the need to ensure a free, open and thriving Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of China’s rising mili tary manoeuvring in the region.

INDIA’S TIES WITH JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, CHINA IMPROVED: EAM

Singapore (ANI): India’s bilateral and economic ties with Japan, South Korea and China were bolstered because of its association with the 10-nation ASEAN bloc, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations NationsIndia trade in goods agreement was signed on Aug 13, 2009 and it came into force in Jan, 2010. The ten ASEAN

‘National games foster spirit of national unity among participants’

Surat (FIB): Under the chairmanship of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, the closing ceremony of the 36th National Games-2022 has been organized at Pandit Deendayal Upad hyay Indoor Stadium, Surat. Lok Sabha Speak er Om Birla and Chief Minister Bhupendrab hai Patel will be present on the occasion.

Addressing the Clos ing Ceremony of 36th National Games at Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya Indoor Stadium in Surat today, the Vice President congratulated the state government for the suc cessful organisation of the mega sporting event which saw many new records being set in dif

ferent streams over the last few weeks. “Athletes will carry fond memo ries and a new enthused spirit of nationalism from here,” he said.

Significantly, 7500 athletes from 36 states and union territories participated in 36 types

Racial attack on Agra student in Australia

The victim was stabbed 11 times and is critically ill

Shubham Dubey

Agra: A 28 year student from Agra’s town Kirav ali studying in Australia was attacked with a knife in Australia.

Family members fear that it was a racist inci dent and has requested govt to bring him home. Student Shubham Garg, pursuing PhD in Syd ney, was attacked on the night of October 6 when he was returning to his room after withdrawing money from an ATM.

He got seriously in jured and was admitted to a hospital. In Agra, the victim’s family met

Shubham Garg

MP Rajkumar Chahar on Tuesday and pleaded for help. Ram Niwas Garg, resident of Paith Gali , said that his son Shubham had gone to Australia on September 1 to pursue PhD in MS in University of New South Wales.

Shubham’s roommate Bhuvan Tilani, a resi dent of Delhi, informed the police about the attack.

of sports in the 36th Na tional Games to realize Prime Minister Naren dra Modi’s ‘Khelo India’ and ‘Fit India’ cam paign. A total of 1100 competed for gold, silver and bronze medals. 2000 technical staff and over 2500 volunteers helped.

TMC lashes out at “political vendetta”

Kolkata (ANI): Amid the buzz over ex-crick eter Roger Binny likely to replace Sourav Gan guly as chief of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the Trinamool Con gress (TMC) attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), accusing it of attempting to hu miliate the former In dian skipper since it had failed to induct him into the party.

TMC Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen al leged political vendetta of the BJP behind the possible exit of Gan guly as BCCI president. “Amit Shah visited Sourav Ganguly’s house a few months ago.

AROUND THE WORLD

OM BILRA ENCOURAGES SPORTSMANSHIP

countries include Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myan mar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Jaishankar made these comments in a foreword published in a book titled: “ASEAN and India: The Way Forward,” which was launched in Singapore on Wednes day. “Ties with Japan and South Korea were energised as a result,” the minister said.

RAISES VISA BACKLOG ISSUE WITH AUSSIES

Sydney (PTI) Exter nal Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has that he took up with Australian authorities the issue of visa backlog, particu larly related to students seeking to return to educational institutions in the country following the COVID pandemic, and was assured that the problem would be resolved by the year end.

Haryana govt orders halt of cough syrup prod

Ambala (Haryana)

(ANI): Haryana gov ernment has ordered a halt of total production of cough syrups from Sonipat-based company Maiden Pharmaceuti cals Limited, which was recently flagged by the World Health Organisa tion (WHO) following the deaths of 66 chil dren in The Gambia.

Surat (Agencies): The Indian National Flag got international recognition with the greatest effort made by their athletes, the Lok Sabha president said. Female players have made our country proud time and again—Lok Sabha’s President. Om Birla, President of the Lok Sabha, stated at the conclusion of the 36th National Sports in Surat, Gujarat.

The company has also been issued a show cause notice for 12 vio lations found at its man ufacturing plant. State health minister Anil Vij told ANI on Wednesday,

“The samples of three drugs of the Soni pat-based pharmaceuti cal company which were mentioned by WHO, have been sent to

Central Drug Labora tory in Kolkata. The re port is yet to come. We will take action only after the report comes. After a joint in spection by Central and State officials, 12 violations were found in the manufacturing facility. ... It has been decided to shut total production. We have sent a notice in this re gard.”

Prez lays foundation stone for Law University in Tripura

Agartala (Agencies): President Droupadi Murmu, who arrived in Tripura on Wednesday, inaugurated a Judicial Academy and laid the foundation stone of the National Law Universi ty at Narsingarh, on the outskirts of the Agarta la city.

This was her first vis it to the northeastern region after assuming the highest office on July 25. According to the officials, National Law University, Tripura un der the Higher Educa tion Department of the state government, would now function from the Tripura Judi cial Academy as both are adjacent places.

Prof. (Dr.) Yogesh Pratap

Singh has recently been appointed as first ViceChancellor of National Law University, Tripu ra, for which the state government has allotted 9.23 acres of land at Narsingarh for setting

up of a permanent cam pus of the varsity.

Officials said that stu dents from the north eastern and other states of India would be able to take higher studies on law in the University.

At least twenty-eight children killed, many arrested in Iran

Nicosia (Agencies): At least 28 children have been killed in protests that have swept Iran since the death of Mah sa Amini, with hun dreds more mostly de tained in adult prisons, rights groups inside and outside the country said.

Amini, 22, was pro nounced dead days af ter the notorious moral ity police detained the Iranian Kurd last month for allegedly breaching the Islamic

Republic’s strict dress code for women.

Anger flared at her funeral and spread to become the biggest

wave of protests to rock Iran in almost three years, despite a crack down that has killed scores and seen hun

dreds arrested. Iran’s Children’s Rights Pro tection Society con demned security forces for resorting to violence against children who have protested in schools. “According to statistics, 28 children have been killed in these confrontations, most of which hap pened in the underpriv ileged province of Sistan-Baluchistan,” the Tehran-based group said in a statement post ed on its website.

INDIAN STUDENTS GET CHINESE VISAS

Over 1,300 In dian students have received visas to return to China to resume their studies after being unable to do so for over two years owing to strict Covid-19 travel re strictions imposed by the country in early ‘20 at the start of the pandemic.

RUSSIAN STRIKE KILLS SEVEN AT MARKET IN EAST UKRAINE

XI JINPING ALL SET TO REWIND CHINA’S CLOCK

Beijing (PTI): China’s ruling Com munist Party is set to slide back to its founder Mao Ze dong’s era soon as President Xi Jinping is set to break the decades-old rule to cling in power and perhaps for life, amid pressure from the US-led West against Beijing.

Moscow (Agencies): Russian strikes on Wednesday killed seven people and wounded another eight at a mar ket in the east Ukraine city of Avdiivka near the frontline, said a regional governor. “At least seven dead and eight wounded as a result of the shelling this morning on Avdiivka. The Russians struck where many people were at that time,” the regional governor said.

Public

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar interacts with Indian community, in Sydney. —PHOTO BY ANI

Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar at the national games in Surat on Wednesday.

Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij —FILE PHOTO

President Droupadi Murmu during the inauguration of the Tripura Judicial Academy laid the foundation stone of the National Law University, in Agartala on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI

95 cops, including 39 IPS, get DGP’s Commendation Disc, other medals

Shivendra Parmar & Satyanarayan Sharma

Jaipur: Director Gen eral of Police (DGP) ML Lather on Wednesday honoured 95 police and other officials for their outstanding and com mendable service.

The DGP conferred police medals, Ati Ut krisht Seva Medal, Ut krisht Seva Medal, Un ion Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation and DGP Discs and Rolls to police officials for commenda ble work in their duty.

The awardees also in cluded 39 IPS officers.

While congratulating the officers, DGP ML Lather said that it is the result of the sheer hard work of Rajasthan police personnel that criminals are behind bars and get ting punished.

“I express confidence in officials that they would continue to work with dedication and de votion in future also,” Lather said.

ADG Dinesh MN, IG Jose Mohan and Consta ble Man Madan Nair were honoured with the police medal.

Sikar PNB manager, clerk caught red-handed for graft

First India Bureau

Sikar: The Jaipur ACB team caught PNB bank manager Vijay Meena and clerk Mayank Gaur red-handed taking bribe in Sikar’s Ajit garh on Wednesday.

The manager had de manded Rs 10,000 in lieu of giving the NOC. Bank manager Vijay Meena and clerk Mayank Gaur had demanded Rs 10,000 from the complainant to give NOC of the seized account. After this, the deal was fixed for Rs 5,000. After receiving the complaint, ASP Jaipur ACB Pushpendra Singh and Inspector Subhash Meel took the action.

The complainant failed to pay his Mudra loan installment, after that the bank froze his account. Then the bank manager had asked for a bribe in lieu of issuance of NOC after settlement.

I-T PROGRAMMER ARRESTED BY ACB WITH `20,000 BRIBE

Sikar: The ACB on Wednesday nabbed Abdul Khaleel Qureshi, Assistant Programmer of Information Technology Department red-handed taking a bribe of Rs 20,000 at Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra located in Panchayat Samiti office. The ACB Jaipur-III Unit took the action on Wednesday. ASP Himanshu Kuldeep said that the accused was demanding a bribe of Rs 30,000.

ACB ARRESTS VDO, SARPANCH’S HUSBAND IN KOTA

Kota: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Kota team on Wednesday arrested a Village Development Officer (VDO) Rajendra Bairagi and Arjun Chobdar, husband of sarpanch of Dokun gram panchayat in Nainwa tehsil of Bundi district, for taking a bribe of Rs 5,000. The bribe was taken in lieu of making a lease of the house of the complainant. The accused had already taken Rs 20,500.

Sirohi: Police detain four with over `3 cr cash

Sirohi (PTI): Four peo ple travelling in two cars with more than Rs 3 crore unaccounted cash were detained in Rajasthan’s Sirohi dis trict on Wednesday, po lice said.

They were intercepted during patrolling in the Aburoad RIICO police station area in the morn ing, the police said.

Sirohi Superinten dent of Police Mamta Gupta confirmed that the cash was recovered from the cars coming from Ahmedabad.

Deputy Superinten dent of Police (Abu Par vat) Yogesh Sharma said the police found bundles of notes wrapped in pa per under the seats of the two cars at Maval post. He said Rs 3 crore cash has been counted so far, but the amount is likely to increase.

“In preliminary inter rogation, the four de tained accused have re vealed that it is ‘hawala’ money,” Sharma said.

EMOTIONAL, PROUD MOMENT FOR MN’S PARENTS

As ACB ADG Dinesh MN received the Police Medal on Wednesday, his father Narayana Swami V, retired tehsildar of Karnataka, and mother Gouramma, who were also present on this occasion, got emotional and their eyes also got a gleam of happiness.

Dinesh Munagana Halli Narayan Swamy was selected by the Union Home Ministry for the Police Medal.

Fourteen people die in separate road accidents across State

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Fourteen peo ple, including 2 students in Kota, died in separate accidents across the State on Wednesday.

In Kota, two cousin brothers on bike were killed after being hit by a pickup truck. The acci dent happened on the Patan road. According to the information, cousins Ankit (18) and Dheeraj

bulance, the police said.

In Tonk, 3 people in cluding a couple were killed when a speeding public transport bus hit the bike on the TonkJaipur Kota National Highway, CO City Saleh Mohammad said.

4 big cats to be shifted from R’bore

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(17) were returning home from Dussehra ground. They were brought to the hospital with the help of an am

In similar road acci dents across the State, three people died in Bi kaner, four in Jhunj hunu, and two died in Udaipur.

Jaipur: National Tiger Conservation Authori ty (NTCA) has given permission to shift 4 ti gers from Ranthambore national park. Pairs of tiger and tigress will be shifted in Sariska and Mukundra hills tiger reserves. After the ap proval, shifting may take place next week. Mukundra currently has one tigress while Sariska has 24 tigers.

State to strengthen mineral exploration

Nirmal Tiwari

Jaipur: Geophysical, petrology and remote sensing activities will be made more effective and will be strength ened at a cost of Rs 2.65 crore in the State.

The expenditure on this will be done from the Rajasthan State Min eral Exploration Trust.

In the executive com mittee meeting of Ra jasthan State Mineral

FOR PEOPLE WITH LOWER LIMB DISABILITY

Exploration Trust (RS MET) held on Wednes day, ACS Mines, Dr Sub odh Agrawal said that with the strengthening

IIT Jodhpur designs robotic trainer for physiotherapy

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According to the 2011 census, the number of people with mobility disabilities in India is 50 lakh, and limb disability is a serious disease among Indians

Sangeeta Sharma

Jodhpur: Researcher from the Department of Mechanical Engineer ing, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur has designed a robotic trainer. It can be used in physiotherapy to treat lower limb of body dis abilities. Especially for the disabled, paralysed and patients suffering from spinal diseases, this robot trainer can prove to be effective.

The researcher Dr Jayant Kumar Mohan

ta, Assistant Professor, Department of Me chanical Engineering along with other co-re

searchers has designed the robotic trainer.

This can perform criti cal and necessary reha

bilitation therapeutic movements.

“Rehabilitation of the lower limbs, espe cially walking, takes time and sometimes involves multiple phys iotherapists. In robotic rehabilitation, the therapist only needs to provide supervision and installation of equipment,” Kumar ex plained.

Dr Mohanta in formed that the trainer proposed by the IIT Jodhpur team is con ceptually simple and

has a modular mechani cal configuration which is easy to fix and use.

Furthermore, since only linear actuators are used for hip and knee motion, the robot itself is stable, safe and robust during use.

The robotic trainer we have designed will help provide physio therapy to paralysed patients, and to those who have suffered spi nal cord injuries that have disrupted the func tion of their lower limbs, he added.

of geophysical, quanti ty, quality etc. of miner als available at greater depth will be analysed in a scientific manner.

MINES DEPT CREATES HISTORY, AUCTIONS 3 BLOCKS IN BANSWARA

Jaipur: The Mining Department created history by auctioning three blocks of major minerals in Banswara. Manganese blocks of Kala Khunta, Roop Kheda and Tambesara were auctioned. Tampsara block was auctioned on October 10 to Syed Akhtar Ali. The bid by this firm was of 10.05 per cent. The firm also got Roop Kheda block.

Beniwal assault case: Choudhary refutes claims

Mukesh Mathrani

Barmer: In a three-yearold assault case, in which a mob had attacked Na gaur MP and RLP leader Hanuman Beni wal and Union Minister Kailash Chaud hary, Baytu po lice in Barmer have booked for mer revenue Minister Harish Choud hary and around hun dred others. The action has been recommended by Lok Sabha’s privileg es committee.

The development has also sparked politi cal reactions. Harish Chaudhary, while re futing all the allega tions said, “The matter had already been probed by the police and he wondered on which ground and un der which pro visions Lok Sabha’s privileges committee had recom mended the action. It looks like that it is nothing less than prop aganda.”

5 LAND IN ACB TRAPS

DGP ML Lather and other senior officials pose with recipients during the award ceremony at Police Headquarters in Jaipur on Wednesday.

ML Lather felicitates Jaipur CP Anand Srivastava on Wednesday.

Dr Subodh Agrawal and other officials during the meeting.

Arjun & Rajendra BairagiManager Vijay Clerk Mayank

Accident site in Jhunjhunu.

Parents of ACB ADG Dinesh MN and DGP ML Lather pose for a photo after the award ceremony, in Jaipur on Wednesday.

ML Lather felicitates Vijay Kumar Singh during the event.

ML Lather felicitating RPA Director Rajiv Sharma.

CM DIRECTS ALL DEPTS TO BE ON TOES AHEAD OF FESTIVITIES

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday gave neces sary instructions to the officers of all depart ments regarding the preparations for Diwali.

“Lighting, cleanliness arrangements at Govt buildings, tourist places, religious places and re pair of roads should be ensured before Diwali,” Gehlot said.

Various instructions were given to the officials regarding uninterrupted supply of electricity and availability of emergen cy services and vehicles.

The CM also directed strict action against food adulterators under the ‘Shuddh Ke Liye Yuddh’ campaign.

Diwali for Rajasthan has great significance. Therefore, the tourism department and district administration should organise the pro grammes and cultural performances by local artists at various plac es,” he said.

CM holds meet regarding Diwali preparations, asks officials to act against food adulterators

FREE SEEDS TO STATE’S RAIN-HIT FARMERS: CM

Jaipur: With a view to give relief to the farmers, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has taken a major decision that free seeds will be avail able from Chief Minister Krishak Saathi Yojana under which certified seeds will be given for re-sowing of mustard. Due to untimely rains, crop has been damaged in the areas where mus tard is sown early.

Gehlot to soon inaugurate City Park developed by RHB

Shivendra Parmar

Jaipur: Jaipurites are going to get the gift of the State’s largest and grandest ‘City Park’ be ing developed by the Rajasthan Housing Board in Mansarovar area of Jaipur. The RHB has sought time from the Chief Minis ter’s Office for the inau guration of the park.

CM EXTENDS RIICO AMNESTY SCHEME TILL MARCH 2023!

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has approved the proposal to extend the period of various exemptions and concessions to the units located in RIICO Industrial Area till March 31, 2023. RIICO Amnesty Scheme is being operated by the State Government to provide exemptions to various units and establishments located in RIICO area with the aim of providing support to industries and their associated units due to COVID-19 pandemic. RIICO Amnesty Scheme-2022 was announced by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in the budget for the financial year 2022-23, which was effective till 30 September 2022. The benefit of various exemptions and con cessions will be available till March 31, 2023.

Are Shanti Dhariwal, Joshi and Rathore

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Jaipur: Ministers Shanti Dhariwal, Ma hesh Joshi, and Dhar mendra Rathore reached New Delhi on Wednesday after re plying to the showcause notice on the political crisis in Ra jasthan. Both the Min isters had sent their reply to the Congress high command. While the Congress high command may mull on the fate of the three,

but before that the three leaders can meet the prominent leaders of AICC and present their side.

On September 25, show cause notice was given to the three lead ers for boycotting the meeting of the legisla ture party and holding a parallel meeting.

While Chief Whip and Water Minister Ma hesh Joshi had reached Delhi on Tuesday for his personal work, Dharmendra Rathore reached on Wednesday to flag off the royal train in Delhi. Simi larly, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shan ti Dhariwal has also reached Delhi for some personal work.

CM OKAYS SETTING UP E-SERVICE CENTRES IN 21 COURT COMPLEXES

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has ap proved a financial provision of Rs 40.32 lakh for setting up of e-seva centers in 21 court complexes of the State. With this, various works including computer, scanner, internet connection and human resource will be done in the court premises. These centers are located in Bijainagar of Ajmer district, Alwar, Mandawar (Alwar), Chauhtan (Barmer), Talera (Bundi), Sujangarh (Churu), Sambhar (Jaipur), Biratnagar (Jaipur), Dudu (Jaipur), Pokaran (Jaisalmer), JJB Court (Jaisalmer), Raniwada (Jalore), Jhunjhunu, Khetri, Chirawa (Jhunjhunu), Osian (Jodhpur), Sojat (Pali), Rajsamand, Nathdwara, Rajsamand JJB and family court complexes.

Satish Poonia on two-day Guj visit from

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Jaipur: In the midst of the ongoing political crisis in Rajasthan, the politics of ‘tour’ is go ing on in the BJP these days. Some leaders are engrossed in Devdar shan, while some are visiting to strengthen the organisation and showcasing their politi cal power. Meanwhile, now BJP State presi dent Satish Poonia is going on a two-day tour of Gujarat on 13th and 14th. Poonia’s visit to Gujarat is being consid ered important before the elections to be held in Gujarat this year.

A ceremony and Deepawali Sneh Milan programme have been organised by the mi grant Rajasthanis on October 13 in Surat.

Poonia will take part in this event. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Gu jarat Governor Achar ya Devvrit, Gujarat BJP State president CR Patil and many BJP stalwarts will attend the programme.

Along with creating an atmosphere of unity, we have to celebrate an accidentfree and happy festi val. Remove the sor row and pain of the poor and needy peo ple and bring light in their lives. It should be our endeavor that this Diwali brings happiness in the life of every resident.

—Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister

What Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and UDH Minister Shanti Dhari wal dreamt for the peo ple of Mansarovar, the Housing Board has ful filled it. Following the instructions of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, the Housing Board has developed the state’s largest ever park - City Park - in Mansarovar, the first phase of which has been completed.

It is believed that Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot can inaugurate this park within a week. The park has been devel oped in 52 acres of space between VT Road, Ara valli Marg and New San ganer Road. Notably, the RHB has developed more than 75 per cent

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fountain square

Entry Plaza

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green area in the park.

RHB Commissioner Pawan Arora said, The city park has been de veloped in a unique way. This park is not

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only for walking and jogging, but will also find favour with local and foreign tourists as they will get many fa cilities in the park.”

Joshi, Pilot pay tributes to BL Sharma

Gajendra Singh

Churu: Speaker of the State Assembly Dr CP Joshi and former Depu ty CM Sahin Pilot on Wednesday paid hom age to former MLA of Sardarshahr, Late Bhanwarlal Sharma.

“Late Bhanwarlal Sharma used to raise the issue of the public strongly in the House. Such politicians are rare who contribute fully to the society along with being a pub lic representative. His

leaving is a great loss for all of us,” said Joshi.

Pilot stayed at the MLA’s residence for about 20 minutes and shared the memories of MLA Sharma with

SHAH MEETS MATHUR

MLA’s son, Anil Shar ma who has Minister of State status. Pilot said that popular MLA Bhanwarlal Sharma was a leader attached to the ground and he

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday met senior BJP leader Om Prakash Mathur at the latter’s residence in New Delhi. The duo had a meeting for about

political

WHAT IS DoP SUFFERING FROM?

Lack of officers or perpetual lethargy?

Jaipur: State’s Science and Technology depart ment is in shambles.

Principal Secretary of the department, Mugd ha Sinha recently relin quished her responsibil ity on Monday and left for New Delhi where she has even joined on the post of Joint Secretary.

Under normal pro cess, when permission is given to an IAS to get re

lieved, in the same page is also mentioned the name of the officer who would be given the addi tional charge of the post beong vacated. But while DoP gave permission to Migdha Sinha to leave, but her charge was not handed to anyone.

Actually DoP’s work ing is extremely ‘dis turbed’ these days and unnecessary delays are being caused in giving charge. T Ravikant’s

charge of Chairman, Pollution Control Board was to be given to Pawan

did not leave for his for eign tour rather was working on his post.

Mugdha Sinha’s or der to head to Delhi came pn October 2, but over the past ten days, the DoP has been una ble to decide on the name of the officer who can be given the charge. Is it because the DoP is struggling with a dearth of officers? Or is it DoP’s own lackaidasi cal attitude?

knew how to speak truth in words.

During this, Pilot said that Sharma had seen many ups and downs in his political career, but everyone

Fadnavis’

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Maharash tra’s Deputy CM Dev endra Fadnavis will be on a 2-day visit to Rajasthan beginning from Thursday.

was convinced of his way of working, no matter what the cir cumstances, Sharma was devoted to the peo ple of the area and the way he worked.

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Fadnavis will reach Jodhpur at 1:50 pm by special aircraft. From Jodhpur, he will head to Ramdevra by helicopter and visit the Baba Ram

dev Temple. Thereafter, he will reached Jodh pur airport at 4:45 PM and leave for Churu.

New HC CJ arrives in Jaipur, receives guard of honour

Kant

Jaipur: Newly appoint ed Chief Justice of Ra jasthan High Court Pan kaj Mithal reached Jaipur on Wednesday.

About 5 guests including his wife and daughter have also come along. A guard of honour was also given to Justice Mithal at the Rajasthan High Court Guest House.

Acting Chief Justice MM Srivastava, High Court Registrar General

SP Kangra, High Court Registrar (Administra tion) Bharat Bhushan

Gupta, Principal Secre tary Law Praveer Bhat nagar and others met Mithal.

Justice Mithal will take oath on October 14 as 40th Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court. The Swearing-in cere mony will be held at Raj Bhavan on October 14 at 4 pm. Governor Kalraj Mishra will administer oath to Mithal. CM Ge hlot, Speaker Dr CP Joshi, Cabinet members, High Court judges, High Court Bar officials and prominent dignitaries will be present in the oath taking event.

Rajendra Chhabra

First India Bureau

CM Gehlot along with Usha Sharma, ML Lather, Abhay Kumar, Akhil Arora and other officials of various departments holds meeting regarding the preparations for Diwali, in Jaipur on Wednesday.

Shanti Dhariwal Mahesh Joshi Dharmendra Rathore

CP Joshi (L) and Sachin Pilot pay floral tributes to Bhanwarlal Sharma in Churu on Wednesday.

As ethnic trends rule people’s sanities ahead of Karwa Chauth and Diwali festive occasions, paying attention to your jewellery is as important as picking a perfect outfit. If you are looking for fashion tips, here’s a guide on how to lift your fashion game

Anewlywed look consists of a basic satin dupatta, a highwaisted skirt with heavy, detailed embroidery, and a cropped hanky halter top that adds a modern touch. Add beach waves to your hair, huge earrings, and studded kadas to complete the ethnic style. Stuck at work but want to make it on time when the moon makes an appearance? To work, you can don a deep red silk anarkali suit that goes well with golden jhumkas and coordinating juttis. Leave your locks open with a middle split and highlight your cheeks to instantly heighten your look. You can even doll up yourself in a red flowy georgette saree with a glass beaded with a fullsleeved, corset-style, intricate lace blouse, which will surely get you praise.

KARVA CHAUTH

Karva Chauth is upon us, the day when women observe a fast restricting food and water till they see the moon. It is believed that this fast is done to either be blessed with a good husband or for those who are married; their husbands are blessed with a long and happy life. This festival is celebrated on the fourth day or Chauth of Kartik month, the holiest month in the Hindu calendar.

Fasting women are fussed over by their mothers-in-law and husbands along with other members of the family. Dressing up is a huge part of this day as well. The elusive moon sighting is often celebrated with great communal fervour. While there is great romance in these ritualistic and cultural practices, one cannot forget the primary benefit of fasting is to detox and rest your overworked system.

As the warmth of the sun grows distant we adopt auspicious rituals of fire to maintain a strong Tejas through the cooler months. The month of Kartik provides a salubrious environment to rejuvenate skin cells. If you have ever considered an all-natural skincare regime then this is the time of year for a favourable start. While karva Chauth is a day to celebrate the love between spouses, it is only fitting to start with some self-love.

To make radiant beauty divine we must strive to achieve brilliant ‘Ojas’ (immune mechanism and bodily tissue), excellent ‘Tejas’ (cellular intelligence and metabolic activity) and vibrant ‘Prana’ (life force and flow of communication). We must also work on flushing out Ama (toxic waste) and balancing the three Doshas–Vata (principle of movement including neuro-electrical impulses) Pitta (metabolic fire responsible for digestion, absorption and assimilation of nutrition) Kapha (building block material like protein and fat).

But often, even in a spiritual science like Ayurveda, beauty is true, skin deep.

Skin is the reflection of what is going on deep inside, even down to our organs and is used in clinical observations and diagnosis of ailments. So we must make great efforts to keep our skin beautiful and radiant.

A SPECIAL NOTE ON MEHNDI

Karwachauth Special:

7 Fun Ways to Stop Thinking About Food

EXPLORE THE ARTIST IN YOU

Get busy creating something. Whether you like to paint, write, or do a DIY craft, utilize today to nurture the artist in you.Warning: If you love cooking, today isn’t an ideal day to experiment or try out a new dish.

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS FOR A GAME DAY

Go binge-watch the series that has been on your watchlist forever now. The next thing you know, it will be chaand-dekho time, just like that!

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Today is probably the only time when Sunday will feel like a long day to you if you are observing the Karwachauth fast.

Have you noticed that on fasting days, you tend to think about food more everything around reminds you of the food? Ahh, we know the feeling!

We have even observed that our social media feed will also be full of yummy-looking dishes, recipe tutorials, etc, on the days of the fast. (Or is it every day?)

Anyhoo, we are not here to talk about and remind you about food. In fact, we are here for the exact opposite. In an effort to make things a little easier for you, we have listed down seven ways to help you get through the day without thinking about food and getting ‘hungry.’

So, without any further ado, let’s get started!

PAMPER YOURSELF WITH SOME SKIN & HAIR CARE

Call your besties home or go to their place and just kill time playing video games. The adrenaline rush to win will make you forget those hunger pangs for sure.

KEEP DRINKING WATER

Drinking water is very important on the fasting day to avoid dehydration.

Sipping water frequently throughout the day also keeps you feeling full, which means, fewer feelings of hunger.

BINGE ON NETFLIX INSTEAD

THE STORY OF DEVELOPMENT

COLOURS OF LOKRANG!

CITY FIRST

The play of Katha Ram garh was per formed on Ravindra Manch with much enthusi asm on Wednesday. In the play, there was a wonderful musical per formance of the story of the emergence, de velopment and tradi tions of various indus trial and business hous es that became worldfamous from Ramgarh

Shekhawati. The play was directed and writ ten by renowned play wright Rama Pandey. The performances and plot of the cast en thralled the audience and made them think of returning to their roots.

Prior to the release of the play, Jaipur Citizen Forum’s Chairman Ra jiv Arora and Ratnav’s Rama Pandey present ed the Life Time Achievement Award to renowned theatrical ar tistes Late Deepak Gera and Mohan Mehrishi.

ACT OF HUMANITY!

CITY FIRST

Jagriti was awarded the prestigious State level hon our of ‘Shiksha Vib hushan’ and ‘Bha mashah Award’ by the Education Min ister of Rajasthan, Dr B.D Kalla on Wednesday. Jagri ti is a non-profit organisation that focuses on providing free-ofcost quality and val ue-based education to underprivileged children and various other social services under its umbrella.

J.K Jajoo, the found er and president of Jagriti has received several awards at both the National and State level for the immense contribu tions and impact they are making in peo

ple’s lives.

To name, in 2018, Jajoo was awarded the National Youth Award by the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Adityanath Yogi. PM Narendra Modi was the Chief Guest for the same event. Recently, on Oc tober 7, Jajoo has awarded the na tional honour Pride of the Na tion Award by Central Minister General Dr VK Singh in a ceremony in Del hi. Fulfilling its main objectives of provid ing free-of-cost valuebased quality educa tion to underprivi leged children, Jagri ti also provides the free service of provid ing oxygen concentra tors and Mobile Mor tuaries by the name Antim Darshanika in Jaipur and Ajmer.

PROUD MOMENT!

In his speech, Rajiv Arora, speaking about the important cam

paign organ donation of Jaipur Citizen Fo rum, said that the im

portance of immortali ty in our society has been there since time immemorial and in the 21st century there is no other way to be come immortal than an organ do nation. Rajiv Arora shared about the work done by the Jaipur Citi zen Forum during the Corona period and the oxygen plant set up by the Forum and also in formed about the gaspowered cremation ma chine shortly. Rajiv Arora thanked all the

viewers while explain ing the plans to organ ise a special show for the upcoming film A Zindagi, releasing on October 14, dedicat ed to organ dona tion. Rama Pandey thanked all the or ganisers Anil Bakshi, JK Jajoo, Bhavna Jag wani and SS Bhandari for the wonderful per formance in the audito rium. All the trustees of Jaipur Citizen Fo rum were present in the show.

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Aglimpse of the folk culture of different re gions of the country, and enthusi asm was seen on the third day of Lokrang Mahot sav organised by JKK. About 150 artists both in Mad hyamik and Shilp gram enthralled the audience with their performances. During the fest, the handicraft products stalls, the chance to taste the cui sines of different states and the fun ac

tivities are all getting to the visitors in one place. As the evening progressed, people en joyed algoza playing, teratali followed by Thapattam folk dance of Tamil Nadu, where the intermediate became the energy centre of the JKK. After this, the tune of traditional musical instruments like the bhapang resonated. The melodious and the carefree dance with the male performers tied ghungroos to the beats of the dholak re flected the liveliness of the Rajasthanis.

A STEP TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT!

CITY FIRST

Dr V Ramgopal Rao, former direc tor of IIT Delhi, delivered a lec ture at Jaipur National University on Tuesday. Professor Rao guided the students on how academ ic research can be turned into a start-up. He told that India has the third place in research after America and China, but the applications for pat

ents by Indians are less than 1%, due to this, the benefit of re search done by them is also patent in their own name by companies in other countries. He said

Giri Raj Agrawal was awarded PhD degree on the topic ‘Critical Evaluation of Housing Schemes for EWS and LIG under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) - 2015 in the Jaipur Region of Rajasthan’ by RU recently. Agarwal has completed his research work under the guidance of Harsh Dwivedi, Director, Podar Institute of Management.

that the company has developed world-class equipment which is be ing used at some airports in India and soon explo sives can be detected with the help of these

devices. University Chancellor Dr Sandeep Bakshi said that the speech of India’s leading nanotechnology prof to the students of JNU will provide a new direction.

Jaipur-based Harshvardhan Singh, a 16-year-old teenage entrepreneur launched his self-written book ‘Teenage Startup: How to Start Business as a Teen’ recently. He is a class 12 student of Jayshree Periwal International School, this 84-page book contains 12 chapters of useful information for teenagers aspiring to start their own business and company at an early age.

HARD WORK

CITY FIRST

Delhi Public School, Jaipur organised its 17th C.L. Jaipu ria Memorial Cup un der the able guidance of its Pro Vice Chairper son Devyani Jaipuria, a very well-known edu preneur, a philanthro pist and the founder of Alia charitable trust.

The event was men tored and guided by the School Director Aditi Misra. The tournament was declared open by the Principal, Rita. P. Taneja, on October 8, followed by the oathtaking and flag-hoisting

ceremony. A total num ber of 234 teams from 37 schools in Jaipur par ticipated in the event.

The tournament wit nessed senior and jun ior category matches of Football, Badminton, Handball, Volleyball

Chess and various rac es. The Principal, Rita P Taneja, welcomed all the dignitaries followed by the Ganesh Vandana and dance performanc es. Devyani Jaipuria, the Pro Vice Chairper son, awarded the win

ners at the prize distri bution ceremony. In her address, Devyani Jaipu ria, motivated the stu dents to give their best and appreciated the efforts put in by the school team for or ganising such a grand event and to keep up the spirit of sportsmanship throughout the C.L journey. Col. Deepak Se hgal, Vice President, of administration and op erations, at DPS also graced the occasion.

The overall C L Jaipuria Memorial Tro phy was bagged by Neerja Modi School with 44 points.

The annual meet of Advocate A.K.Jain & associates was organised on Wednesday, in which around 100 lawyers participated. During the occasion, A.K.Jain and Sushila Nagar were felicitated for their impeccable work.

The office of Advocate Harshit Mittal, son of senior journalist SP Mittal of Ajmer was inaugurated with great pomp on Wednesday. On this occasion, Dy Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Rajendra Singh Rathore, MLA Anita Bhadel, Pushkar MLA Suresh Rawat, Champalal Maharaj, MD NS Nirman of Ajmer Vidyut Vitran Nigam, Pushkar Police Officer Dr Ravish Samaria among others were present.

Dr Jayshree Periwal was felicitated with the Lifetime Achievement award in the field of education in a glittering ceremony held in Delhi on Wednesday.

Lavishka Rajawat and Navneet Singh Nirwan celebrated the festival of love ‘Karwa Chauth’ with much fervour to strengthen marital bliss and for the long life of her husband.

A seminar on World Arthritis Day was organised by the Dept of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology at SMS Medical College on Wednesday. The main theme of the program was to spread awareness and interact with patients to understand and discuss common issues. The program was attended by more than 100 patients along with caregivers. Dr Rajeev Bagarhatta (Principal) and Dr Achal Sharma emphasized the importance of education. The program was conducted by Dr Aradhana Singh and Dr Avinash Jain

Seedling

Ashu Wadhwa, Principal congratulated the council members and added that the student

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Hema Gera accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award for late Deepak Gera from Rajiv Arora, Rama Pandey and JCF trustees

Rama Pandey

Rajiv Arora addresses the audience

A scene from the play

Mesmerizing dance performance

Dr V Ramgopal Rao

JK Jajoo receiving the award from BD Kalla and Dr Subhash Garg

The captivated audience