“I appeal to all citizens to participate in the Citizen Survey for NCF for developing #NayeBharatKa NayaCurriculum. A dynamic National Curriculum Framework in line with the NEP 2020 will play a major role in achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat,” Pradhan said in a series of tweets. The Digital Survey for National Curriculum (DiSaNC) is being conducted by the education ministry and the National Council of Education and Research Training (NCERT) as part of the public consultation process for the formulation of NCF.
PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN NCF SURVEY PM MODI, OTHER LEADERS EXTEND BIRTHDAY WISHES TO ARVIND KEJRIWAL New Delhi (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday extended birthday wishes to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. PM Modi also prayed for the latter’s long life. “Birthday greetings to Delhi Chief Minister Shri @ArvindKejriwal Ji. I pray for his long life and good health,” tweeted PM Modi. The Delhi chief minister who turned 54 on Tuesday thanked the Prime Minister for his wishes. “Thank you sir,” replied CM Kejriwal in a tweet. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann also extended birthday greetings to Kejriwal. P3 FOR SCHOOL EDUCATION Dharmendra Pradhan www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/delhi I
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Godhra: The eleven men sentenced to the life imprisonment in 2002 Bilkis Bano gang rape case walked out of the Godhra sub-jail after the government of Gujarat approved their release under its remission policy on August 15. P6 Devp came hrs after Nabi was appointed as the Chairman BJP top brass meeting with party’s State core group P6
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Mumbai: The 56-year-old accused arrested for making threat calls to Reliance group head Mukesh Ambani has been produced before 37th Magistrate court in Mumbai on Tuesday. He has been sent to police custody till August 20 by court.
New Delhi (PTI): Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday appealed the public to participate in a citizen survey being conducted by NCERT for development of a new National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for school education. The NCF serves as a guideline for designing syllabus and textbooks and for teaching practices in the country. There are total 10 questions in the digital survey with each of them having five options. The queries include how to make education futuristic and skill oriented and improve the dignity of teachers in the country. that “development of a vibrant, dynamic, inclusive and futuristic National cultur-gratingforessentialFrameworkCurriculumisinteal-rootedness along with global outlook, freeing education from colonial hangover and instilling a deeper sense of pride in our next generations”.
RJD - 16; JD(U) - 11 berths Nitish kept Home Dept Tejashwi got Health, Road Construction, UDH and Rural Development Tej Pratap Yadav is Environment Minister 2 Cong MLAs were inducted HIGHLIGHTS Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav during the swearing-in ceremony of the Bihar Cabinet Expansion of Grand Alliance govt in Patna on Tuesday. (R) Tej Pratap Yadav takes oath as Bihar Cabinet minister.
TRIBUTES TO ATAL B VAJPAYEE!Bihar cabinet: RJD’s ‘MYplus’ push, JD(U) sticks to tried-and-tested 11 Patna: The swearing-in of 31 mins in Bihar on Tuesday reflects RJD’s attempt at implementing its “MY (MuslimYadav)-plus” strategy while JD (U) has stuck to its reliable OBC-EBCDalit-Upper caste mix.
Deeply anguished by the bus accident near Chandanwari in which we have lost our brave ITBP personnel. My condolences to bereaved families & prayers for the speedy recovery of the injured. All possible assistance is being provided to the injured personnel. —Manoj Sinha, J&K Lieutenant Governor (T) President Droupadi Murmu, VP Jagdeep Dhankhar, PM Narendra Modi, former Prez Ram Nath Kovind, HM Amit Shah, BJP chief JP Nadda, Union edu minister Dharmendra Pradhan, MoS Dr Jitendra Singh and others at Sadaiv Atal on death anniversary of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in New Delhi on Tuesday. (B) LS Speaker Om Birla pays tribute to Vajpayee. Amit Shah, JP Nadda, Rajnath Singh and Piyush Goyal are also seen.
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(Bottom) J&K LG Manoj Sinha meets with ITBP personnel who got injured in the Pahalgam bus accident, at Army Hospital, in Srinagar. ‘Tiranga Rallies’ at various places have frustrated terror outfits and prompted new warnings in the Shopian district. (Left) Pintu Kumar, a Kashmiri Pandit who was shot at by militants, being treated at a hospital, in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Tuesday. While Pintu’s brother, Sunil Kumar was shot at in an apple orchard.
ATTACK ON NON-MIGRANT PANDITS ON I-DAY T his is second attack on non-migrant Pandits in Kashmir in less than 24 hours. On Independence day, a civilian, identified as Karan Kumar Singh was injured after terrorists threw a grenade at his house in J&K’s Budgam.
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New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday sought urgent hearing in SC on All India Football Federation matter in wake of FIFA suspending India for “undue influence from 3rd parties” and stripping the country of the right to host Under-17 Women’s World Cup. Bench told Mehta that the matter is listed for Wednesday.
Srinagar: A Kashmiri Pandit was shot dead in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian Tuesday and another was injured, J&K Police tweeted, adding that the injured person is being treated at a local hospital. The dead man has been identified as Sunil Kumar Bhat and the injured man is his brother, Pintu Kumar. The two were shot at in an apple orchard, the policeAccordingsaid. to police, Sunil Kumar, who was shot at by terrorists died on the spot. Reports suggest that both the brothers were non-migrants and were staying at their ancestral village when the terrorists opened fire at them. “Injured person has been shifted to hospital. Area cordoned off. Further details shall follow,” the police said on Tuesday afternoon. 32 INJURED
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New Delhi: Ex-LS Speaker Meira Kumar, in wake of murder of a Dalit boy in Rajasthan, said that even after 75 years of Independence, caste system remains nation’s greatest enemy. She claimed that her father, ex-Dy PM Babu Jagjivan Ram, was beaten for a similar reason a hundred years ago.
SAVARKAR VS TIPU SULTAN PORTRAITS: CLASH IN K’TAKA Shivamogga: Less than 24 hours after clashes broke out in hospital.inggh,identifiedofinus,circle.flexlationvamoggatween15,theplepoliceShivamogga,Karnataka’sthestatearrestedfourpeo-inconnectionwithviolence.OnAugustviolenceeruptedbe-twogroupsinShi-overtheinstal-VeerSavarkar’satAmeerAhmedDuringtheruck-ayouthwasstabbedtheGandhiBazarareathecity.Thevictim,asPremSin-iscurrentlyundergo-treatmentinalocal Srinagar: Senior Cong leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has resigned as the chairman of resignedHeTuesday.forcommitteecampaignCongresstheJ&Konhasalsoas a member of the party’s political affairs committee in J&K. Congress on Tuesday appointed Vikar Rasool Wani, considered close to former CM Ghulam Nabi Azad, as the party’s J&K chief.
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Moni Sharma Srinagar: Seven ITBP personnel died while 32 others returning from Amarnath Yatra duty faced grave injuries on Tuesday after a bus fell into a deep gorge at Zig Morh in Pahalgam area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. The bus was on its way from Chandanwari to the Police Control Room in Srinagar.Astatement released by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police read, “A civil bus carrying 39 personnel (37 from ITBP and two from J&K Police) fell down to a roadside river bed after its brakes reportedly failed. The troops were on their way from Chandanwari to Pahalgam. Casualties feared.”“Several others got injured, who are being airlifted to Army hospital, Srinagar for treatment,” the police said. A wrecked remains of a bus after it fell into a roadside river bed resulting in the death of the ITBP personnel, at Pahalgam on Tuesday.
New Delhi: An Air India-operated Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft returned to Bangkok in Thailand Tuesday, shortly after its take-off as the plane’s system sent out a “slats failure” warning, according to sources.
LG says pandemic far from over, asks to follow Covid norms New Delhi (PTI): Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Tuesday said the pandemic is far from over and appealed to people to adhere to Covid-appropriate behaviour.Delhi on Monday reported 1,227 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 14.57 per cent, while eight more people succumbed to the disease, according to official data. Before this, the city logged more than 2,000 cases for 12 consecutive days. “We are witnessing a rise in COVID19 infections, consistently high positivity & cases of reinfection. It is essential that we realise that the pandemic is far from over. I appeal to all to strictly adhere to COVID Appropriate Behaviour. We cannot afford to let our guards down,” Saxena said in a tweet.As of Monday, Delhi’s COVID-19 caseload stood at 19,85,822 and the death toll at 26,389, according to official data.
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing arrested a 40-year-old builder who allegedly defrauded 31 people of more than Rs 10 crore after they made bookings for flats and shops at a real estate project in Haryana’s Rewari, officials said onTheTuesday.accused, Deepak Gusain, a resident of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, had been absconding and a Look Out Circular was issued againstAccordinghim. to the police, Gusain advertised for booking of flats and shops in the real estate project of his company, Asian Developers Pvt. Ltd, in Rewari in 2012. The buyers made bookings and regular payments, but the construction was stopped in April 2014. The company misrepresented the facts regarding the project before the public at large and induced them to invest in it despite the fact that the plot was allotted for the purpose of dwelling units for the staff of the land allottee company only, the police said. The builder also assured the investors of time-bound possession within 27 months but the construction was stopped and the accused became unaccounts.”divertedeywasthelysingHaiderOffencesertraceable.DeputyCommission-ofPolice(EconomicWing)MIsaid,“Afterana-theaccountofallegedcompany,itfoundthatthemon-ofhomebuyerswasintodifferent
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“In supersession of all previous orders issued from this office related to the arrangement of teams in Revenue, HQ, to look after the work related to the COVID Data Management, from now onwards, the following team will look after the work in addition to work in their original branches,” the order issued on August 10 Thesesaid.teams will work in supervision of SDM (headquarter) Shimray A Bellrose.
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respectfully; civic bodies set up collection centres DISPOSING FLAG Delhi Government said it had distributed national flags among 25 lakh children in the city Two northeastfoundwomendeadinDelhi
from the Culture Ministry, till August 12, more than 20 crore national flags had been made available to the masses. The Delhi government said it had distributed national flags among 25 lakh children in the city. In a tweet, Saxena said, “Delhi put up an exemplary show of patriotic fervour by colouring the city in the hue of Tiranga. I request you to honour the Tricolour & dispose it with the dignity it deserves. MCD/ NDMC have set up Corporationlizecontactarepurpose.centrescollectionforthisYourequestedtoanduti-them.”of Delhi (MCD) and the New Delhi Municipal(NDMC)Councilhavesetupcollec-tioncentresfornationalCivicof-ficials said that for the convenience of citizens of Delhi, a control room has been set up in the MCD zonalAfteroffices.the‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign and Independence Day celebrations, citizens can deposit the flags with the help of their area’s sanitation inspector in the zonal office for collection, storage and disposal of the tricolours. Citizens can directly contact the area’s respective sanitary inspector, assistant sanitary inspectors as well as ‘safai sainiks’ on their phone numbers by visiting the website of the MCD, they said.
LG Saxena appeals to people to dispose flags
PUBLIC WELFARE KEJRIWAL SPEAKS Kejriwal said that over 17 crore children in the country study in government schoolsmost of the schools are in bad condition. Over 17 crore children in the country study in government schools - most of the schools are in bad condition. Parents do not have money (to educate their children) in private schools. If we make these schools good, every child will make his family rich.
“We are ready to work with the Centre to improve health services and education. I also request Centre to stop calling them freebies,” The Aam Aadmi Party’s national convenor further stressed that every child should get good and free education across the country and everyone collectively should start working on it on a war footing basis. “Every child should get good and free education across the should now start this ing basis. Only then, India will ber one country,”
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IIT inamongalumni4deadroadmishap Gurugram (Agencies): Four persons died while two suffered injuries after a truck overturned and crashed on a car on the NH-48 near Bilaspur in Gurugram on early Tuesday morning.
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New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi University is planning to introduce internal assessment in distance learning programmes from the current academic session. Until now internal assessment was applicable to regular programmes only, and it did not apply to the School of Correspondence Courses and Continuing Education. A resolution in this regard is slated to be tabled during the upcoming Executive Council’s meeting on Thursday, as per the agenda of the meeting accessed by PTI.The Executive Council is the highest decision-making body of the“Theuniversity.implementation of continuous assessment (Internal Assessment) is a offeredtheGrantreau,tancerequirementmandatoryofDis-EducationBu-UGC(UniversityCommission)inprogrammesbeingthroughOpen and Distance Learning Mode,” the agenda read. As the internal Assessment scheme has been made mandatory by DEB-UGC, it has to be implemented in all the programmes being offered by the School of Open Learning (SOL), Distance and Continuing Education, Campus of Open Learning from the academic session 2022- 23, the university said. “The specific ordinances pertaining to schemes of examinations of various courses shall stand amended, mutatis mutandis, to the extent of internal assessment as laid down in this Ordinance, subject,” the agenda mentioned.
New Delhi (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said he is ready to work with Centre if they wish to improve the healthcare and education facilities in the country. He also appealed to the Union government to not term free education and healthcare as “freebies.”
New Delhi (PTI): A 70-year-old woman and her daughter-in-law were murdered at their home in northeast Delhi’s Subhash Park on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Vimla Devi and theliceinaboutaroundwashome.aftereytwo-threeandgoneandRai’spolicesamagri’.businessfamilyDolidaughter-in-lawherRai.Theirwasintheof‘poojaAseniorofficersaidsonsSarthakShashankhadtoRishikeshMussooriefordays.Th-foundthebodiestheyreturnedAPCRcallreceived4.20amthemurdertheWelcomepo-stationarea,officersaid.
New Delhi (PTI): Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena appealed to people on Tuesday to dispose the national flags respectfully and utilise the collection centres set up by the civic bodies for the purpose.People hoisted the tricolour atop their houses from August 13 to 15 as part of the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign on the 75th anniversary of India’sAccordingIndependence.toofficials
“I have only one dream - I want to see India as the most powerful country in the world. We want India to become a rich country. India will become rich when every Indian becomes rich. I want to make every poor of India rich,” he said. The AAP leader said, “I have no problem with the rich people. I want to make every poor person as rich. How can a poor man become rich? We need to think that. The children of labourers, and farmers attend a government school. If the education provided to children by a government school is excellent, then the child will come out of poverty and help his family by pursuing a career as a doctor, engineer, business person.”
A HIGHLIGHT Tiranga March demanding national policy on employment taken out New Delhi (PTI): Representatives of several civil plannedJantarforenearstoppedGopalKiandhiNagri,ganstartedemployment.nationalDelhiNagriMarchtookSamitiukttheorganisationssocietyunderbannerofSany-RojgarAndolanonTuesdayoutaTirangafromNandinnortheastdemandingapolicyonThemarch,whichfromnearGa-CinemainNandwasledbyDel-CabinetministerfounderofDeshBaatFoundationRai.ItwasbythepoliceGokulpuribe-itcouldreachMantar,thesiteforthe agitation.“This movement for implementation of National Employment Policy would continue in Nand Nagri till August 22. We appeal to all the citizen of the country to join the movement,” Delhi minister Rai said after the police stopped the Tiranga March. The Rojgar Andolan was slated to be held at Jantar Mantar from August 16 to 22. Rai further said the march was supposed to culminate at Jantar Mantar, but it was stopped by the police. “Tiranga Yatra is being taken out all over the country, but if we are raising the issue of employment in our Tiranga padyatra (march), we are being stopped.”
Among the victims are techies who worked in private firms in Noida and were returning from Udaipur after a vacation. According to the police, the incident took place around 1.30 am near Sidhrawali on the highway when an Innova car carrying four men and two women was travelling from Jaipur to Delhi. A truck carrying sacks of corncrossed the divider on the highway before crashing down on the car.
New Delhi (PTI) : The Delhi government has formed two teams of revenue department officials for management of Covid-related data, an official orderThesesaid.teams will upload and monitor data on the Delhi government’s COVID-19 Data Management Portal, officials said. According to the order issued by the revenue department, each team will have six members from different branches of the department.
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New Delhi (ANI): A Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court on Tuesday sent Mohsin Ahmad, an alleged active member of ISIS to Judicial Custody. He was produced before the court on Tuesday by NIA at the end of his remand. He was arrested on August 6, 2022, from Batla House Delhi ahead of Independence Day. The NIA Judge Dharmesh Sharma on Tuesday sent Mohsin Ahmed to Judicial Custody for a month after NIA didn’t seek further remand of him. Mohsin was arrested on August 6, 2022, from his residence in Delhi for alleged involvement in the collection of funds for the terrorist outfit from sympathisers in India as well as abroad and sending it to Syria and other places in form of cryptocurrency, the agency said.
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The Delhi chief minister who turned 54 on Tuesday thanked the Prime Minister for his“Thankwishes.you sir,” replied CM Kejriwal in a tweet.Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann also extended birthday greetings to Kejriwal. Mann said that the AAP “transformedconvenorpolitics in “TheIndia.” man who transformed politics in India and empowered common man to lead the change - I wish him a very happy birthday. May god bless him with a long life to serve the country," Mann tweeted. Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri wrote: “Birthday greetings to Delhi CM Sh @ArvindKejriwal Ji. May God grant him good health & long life ahead. Many happy returns of the Kejriwalday!” earlier on Tuesday paid tributes to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and tweeted, “My tributes to former Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji on his death anniversary.”
CAPITOL NEW DELHI | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2022 03 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/delhi I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia New Delhi (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday extended birthday wishes to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. PM Modi also prayed for the latter's long life. “Birthday greetings to Delhi Chief Minister Shri @ArvindKejriwal Ji. I pray for his long life and good health,” tweeted PM Modi.
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New Delhi (PTI): A Delhi court has acquitted a man, accused of carrying illicit liquor and possessing heroin, saying there were major contradictions in the deposition of the prosecution witnesses. Special Judge Deepak Wason, while giving the accused benefit of the doubt in an order passed on August 8, also said that police showed deliberate disregard of the statutory procedures during its probe. The court noted that the investigating agency could not associate even a single public witness at any stage of the investigation and instead stated casually and routinely that the people, who were asked to join the investigation, declined and left without disclosing their names and addresses, etc. All the above leads to the inevitable inference that the investigating agency was not interested to make any public witness a part of the raiding team and thus there has been a deliberate disregard of the statutory safeguards relating to search and seizure, which renders the recovery proceedings unworthy of credence, the judge said. The judge further said that the statement of official witnesses, without corroboration from independent sources, could not result in a conviction under the stringent provisions of the NDPS Act.
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INVESTIGATION Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters shower flower petals during the flag-in ceremony of IAFs Mountain Terrain Biking (MBT) expedition at the National War Memorial, in New Delhi, on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI
First India Bureau Bhuj/New Delhi: In another pre-poll guarantee for Gujarat, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday announced free and quality education to the people of the poll-bound state and auditing of private schools if the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was elected to power in the year-end Assembly elections. The AAP convener also promised to improve infrastructure of the existing government schools and open new ones in large numbers across the state if his party comes to power in the state currently ruled by the BJP. “All those born in Gujarat will get free and quality education. We will not force anybody. If parents have money, they can send their kids to private schools. But if they do not have money, we will not let the lack of money come in the way of good education for their kids. We will provide them best education for free,” he said at a town hall meetingKejriwalhere.said if the AAP forms the next government in Gujarat, all private schools will be audited and made to return “extra money” collected from parents like what has been done in Delhi, where his party is in power. The Delhi CM said an AAP government will ensure that the practice of private schools selling textbooks and uniforms to students is stopped forthwith. When the AAP forms a government in Gujarat, service of teachers working on a contract basis will be regularised and they will be offered job security, he said. It will also be ensured that government schoolteachers are not given non-teaching jobs, the AAP leader said. Kejriwal guaranteed creation of teaching jobs in new schools. The government will also make sure that facilities of higher education for women are created across the state and issues faced by “Vidya Sahayaks” (education assistants) are sorted out, he Kejriwal,added.during his earlier visits to Gujarat, had announced a host of pre-poll guarantees related to electricity, jobs, unemployment allowance, women and tribals, among others. —With PTI inputs All those born in Gujarat will get free and weeducation.qualityIfparentsdonothavemoney,willnotletthelackofmoneycomeinthewayofgoodeducation.
KEJRIWAL@54 Saurabh Trivedi New Delhi: Around 1,100 Rohingyas staying in tents will soon be shifted into flats equipped with basic facilities and round-theclock security, said the officials on Tuesday. The decision has been taken after a high-level meeting over the accommodation of Rohingya in the national capital was held. The meeting was chaired by the Chief Secretary of Delhi and was attended by senior officials of the Delhi government, Delhi Police and Ministry of Home Affairs. In the meeting that was held during the last week of July, it was emphasised that the Delhi government was bearing around Rs 7 lakh per month rent for the tents where Rohingyas were shifted in the Madanpur Khadar area after a fire incident happen in the camp where they were living. “These refugees will soon be shifted to New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) flats in Bakkarwala village of Outer Delhi. There is a total of 250 flats belonging to the Economic Weaker Section (EWS) category where all 1,100 Rohingyas, currently residing in the Madanpur Khadar camp, will be accommodated,” said a senior official. In the meeting, Delhi Police were instructed to provide security to the premises where these flats are located and the Social Welfare department of the Delhi Government had been ordered to ensure basic facilities like a fan, three times meals, landline phone, television and recreational facilities in the new campus.Delhi government has been ordered to equip the flat with basic amenities and hand it over to FRRO (Foreign Regional Registration Offices) which will felicitate the shifting of Rohingya into these flats. —ANI
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WHAT MAMATA SAID? West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said she will stand with the strongman and announced to “start a movement” against alleged excesses of the CBI and the ED. She told at a gathering, “What has Kesto done? Even as he was locked in his house, we won the Assembly elec tions last year. The ED and CBI ransacked his house at midnight. If you arrest one Kesto, we will create thou sands of them. We will hit the streets from August 16 on the ‘Khela Hobe Divas’. There will be ‘Khela hobe’, again (Let the game start, again).”
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TOP TWEETS IT’S PERFORM OR PERISH MOMENT FOR NITISH KUMAR & LALU’S SONS ith the Rashtriya Ja nata Dal (RJD) get ting the lion’s share in Tuesday’s cabinet expansion the fear of lawlessness returning to Bihar has been revived. Of the 31 in ducted, 16 of RJD have got min isterial berths. Law and order was at its nadir under Lalu Pras ad Yadav with kidnappings, ex tortions and murders, not to speak of corruption, haunting the people. The present coalition has Lalu’s son Tejashwi Yadav as Deputy Chief Minister. Tejashwi’s brother Tej Pratap Yadav is the new Environment Minister, a ministry which is regarded as a gold mine. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar holds the Home portfolio. The second coming of the RJD-Janata Dal - United (JDU) alliance will have two-year ten ure before it faces its first test in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Nitish Kumar is aspiring for a national role in 2024 and his po litical future will depend on the performance of the present gov ernment. In that respect, Lalu’s two sons also face a perform or perish situation. W egislators belong ing to the Eknath Shinde camp have started showing their true charac ter just over a month after the Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra was sworn-in. Amid differences between the Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray camps over which faction is the real Sena, Prakash Surve an MLA from Magathane constituency, ex horted his supporters to “break their leg, I will come the next day to bail you out”, apparently referring to Thackeray camp’s leaders. The other legislator, San tosh Bangar went and slapped a private catering company’s manager for pre paring sub-standard food. The food, Bangar claimed, was to be distributed to la bourers as a mid-day meal and did not buy the manag er’s argument that it was go ing to be disposed of. These incidents are re minders of how Shiv Sainiks can subvert the rule of law now that their faction is in power with BJP’s support. Surve’s exhortation to break the legs of rivals is enough encouragement for his fol lowers. There’s a turf war between the Shinde and Thackeray camps and it is crucial for both the sides. Bal Thackeray’s legacy is at stake and so is the survival of Uddhav Thackeray. He is facing the risk of being mar ginalised the way he earlier got his cousin Raj Thackeray, leader of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, sidelined to wrest control of Shiv Sena. Shiv Sainiks were probably on their best behaviour during the rule of Maha Vikas Agha di, a three-party coalition of Shiv Sena, Nationalist Con gress Party and the Congress. With Shinde pulling the rug from under Uddhav’s feet, will they still remain disciplined as before is difficult to say.
Popularly known as “Kestoda”, Mondal is among the most trusted associates of Chief Minister CM Mamata Banerjee. He used to enjoy more clout, power and visibility in West Bengal even than ministers and many MLAs. He used to be considered as the “betaaj badshah” of Birbhum!
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SENA MLAs ARE BACK TO THEIR OLD WAYS There’s a turf war between the Shinde and Thackeray camps and it is crucial for both the sides. Bal Thackeray’s legacy is at stake and so is the survival of Uddhav Thackeray L
T Mondal’s clout can be gauged from the fact that in February 2022, he was included in the TMC’s national working committee. He was the only district-level leader who managed to make it to the top TMC organisation. Both Partha and Anubrata were heavyweights, but Partha was never a mass leader, but Anubrata was crucial to the party’s organisation in western and central districts
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CBI’S TAKE IN THE CASE? According to the CBI, Mon dal is directly involved in the case and was in touch with the main accused, Enamul Haque, through his aide Sai gal Hossain. The CBI also al leged that Saigal had collect ed money which was part of the proceeds from this illegal trade “in the name” of the strongman.
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OF ANUBRATA’S RELEVANCE AND POLITICAL ‘CRISIS’
ABOUT THE CASE A case was registered by the CBI on September 21 way back in 2020 against four ac cused, including Satish Ku mar, who was the Comman dant of the BSF’s 36 Battalion in Malda during the time span between December 19, 2015 to April 22, 2017. The FIR also alleges that during Ku mar’s tenure, the BSF seized more than 20,000 heads of cattle before they could be transported across the bor der, but the vehicles ferrying the same were not confiscat ed and also persons involved were not even apprehended.
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Several TMC leaders, in cluding political analysts had initially thought that Mama ta would not stand by Anu brata as she did when anoth er TMC heavyweight Partha Chatterjee was arrested. Chatterjee was removed from the cabinet and was also sus pended from the party. Blasting the BJP, CPI(M) and the Congress, the CM said, “They all are comrades in arms. They have no place in this state. They do not have a place in the country either.” In a veiled attack against the BJP, she also claimed that the West Bengal Police had saved the Jharkhand govern ment following the arrest of three Congress MLAs with a huge cash haul. “They (BJP) would have toppled the Jharkhand government. Now they called our officers to Delhi out of revenge. Why is the central government har assing our officers” she asked. The 62-year-old “Kestoda” who hails from a farmer’s family, has been with the TMC since the party was launched in 1998. He is well known for the Khela Hobe slogan. He first hit the head lines during the 2013 pan chayat election. It may be noted that Mon dal has been named in a num ber of cases, including for threatening people, murder and those related to stone and cattle-smuggling, sand but has never been tried. Mondal’s clout can be gauged from the fact that in February 2022, he was includ ed in the TMC’s national working committee. He was the only district-level leader who managed to make it to the top TMC organisation. Both Partha and Anubrata were heavyweights, but Par tha was never a mass leader, but Anubrata was crucial to the party’s organisation in western and central districts.
MC heavy weight and the party’s Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal, who had evaded at least eight CBI summons in the cattle smuggling case, was taken into custody on Thursday, re portedly for “not cooperat ing” with the agency. Popularly known as “Kes toda”, Mondal is among the most trusted associates of Chief Minister CM Mamata Banerjee. He used to enjoy more clout, power and visi bility in West Bengal even than ministers and many MLAs. He used to be consid ered as the “betaaj badshah” of Mondal,Birbhum!who has never contested any election in his career so far, has always managed party affairs from behind the scenes. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, TMC won both Bolpur and Birbhum. TMC repeated the act in the 2021 Assembly polls as it managed a clean sweep in the district, winning 10 out of 11 seats – and the victory was entirely credited to the booth management skills of the po litical heavyweight Mondal! It may be noted that in both these elections, the Election Commission had kept him under hawkeye surveillance after the poll panel received complaints that he could re portedly influence voters in a majorWithway.his arrest, the CBI is probing a bigger conspiracy (possibly) the “role” of other politicians in the case. Mon dal’s arrest came soon after former state minister Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the ED in the SSC scam. Both are TMC heavyweights and it’s not tough to guess how the arrests could have been major setbacks for the party. Agencies like the ED and CBI had earlier stepped up investigations into Ponzi schemes in Bengal ahead of the 2013 panchayat polls, the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elec tions and the 2016 Assembly elections and made several arrests too. And now with the Lok Sab ha polls barely two years away in 2024, the cattle smug gling investigation may accel erate, feel political analysts. It may be noted that West Bengal has 42 Lok Sabha seats and the BJP in the 2019 parliamentary elections man aged to clinch 18 of them. It goes without saying that for the TMC, given its national ambition, each of these seats will be important as the bat tle will go down to the wire. Investigators so far have found evidence of illegal cross-border selling of cattle and use of ill-gotten money. According to the CBI, Mon dal “procured huge number of cattle” from the Ilambazar Pashuhat and allegedly en sured safe passage of the same to the border along Bangladesh.
Even as party leaders feel that the top leaders’ silence and maintaining a distance from every arrested leader could have a backlash from the workers on the ground, the TMC is apparently planning a protest against the alleged ex cesses of the central agencies.
Buddha IN-DEPTH Amit @AmitShahShah On Parsi New Year, I extend warm greetings to our sisters and brothers of the Parsi community. May the coming year be filled with joy, peace and good health. Navroz Mubarak.
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Home Minister Amit Shah virtually inaugurating the Cancer and Heart Institute in Surat on Tuesday.
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CENTRE OPPOSES PIL ON ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS IN SC
Core Committee Meet: Shah, Nadda discuss Bihar strategy
New Delhi: Supreme Court said the practice of divorce in Muslims through ‘Talaq-eHasan’ is not akin to triple talaq and women also have option of ‘khula’. In Islam, a man can take “talaq”, while a woman can part ways with him through “khula”. SC said if husband and wife cannot live together, it can also grant divorce on the ground of 142breakdownirretrievableunderArtofConstitution.
Patna (Agencies): Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda held a meeting of the party’s core committee in Delhi to Tuesday to discuss the political developments in Bihar and take a call on the party’s next course of action. In a quick turn of events, Nitish Kumar’s JD-U swapped ties with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance and rejoined the Mahagathbandhan.Withthis, the BJP became the main Opposition in the eastern state from being a ruling ally in a span of a few hours. According to reports, discussions were being held on the BJP’s role as the Opposition party in the state and issues to be raised, selection of a new Bihar BJP chief, besides naming the leader of Opposition in the Assembly and Legislative Council.Theparty leadership also deliberated upon the BJP’s future course of action and the strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Among others present were Union Ministers Ashwini Choubey, Giriraj Singh and Nityanand Rai, and senior leaders Ravi Shankar Prasad and Sushil Modi.
IN THE COURTYARD Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. —FILE PHOTO Bilkis’ family surprised on release of 11 convicts Ahmedabad (PTI): The husband of Bilkis Bano on Tuesday said they were surprised after coming to know from the media about the release of all 11 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for her gang rape and murder of seven members of her family during the 2002 GujaratBilkisriots.Bano’s husband Yakub Rasul told PTI that he does not intend to comment on the latest development in the case on Monday. Rasul said he, his wife and five sons, the eldest now aged 20, continue to live without a fixed address, more than 20 years after the incident.The11 convicts on Monday walked out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy. A special CBI court in Mumbai on January 21, 2008, sentenced the 11 accused to life imprisonment on the charge of gang rape and murder of seven members of Bilkis Bano’s family. Their conviction was later upheld by the Bombay High Court.
Hapur: A history-sheeter from Haryana was shot dead here outside the district and sessions court, where he was brought for a hearing in a case registered against him, a senior police official said on Tuesday. The firing took place 25 to 30 metres outside the gate of the district and sessions court,” Circle Officer (City) S N Vaibhav Pandey said. Lakhan, alias Yashpal (35), was killed in the incident. The officer said Lakhan is a history-sheeter from Haryana and had a number of cases registered against him. Lakhan was brought from Haryana’s Faridabad jail in connection with a case registered against him at the Dhaulana police station in Hapur, the circle officer said. Pandey said the shooters will be identified soon and the CCTV footage of the incident is being examined.
TAJ EXPRESS VACATED, SEARCHED FOR 2 HRS AFTER FALSE BOMB SCARE CLASH ALONG ASSAM-ARUNACHAL BORDER; AASU STAGES BLOCKADE FAKE FOURFACTORYSPICEBUSTED,HELD Shahjahanpur: A factory manufacturing fake black pepper was busted and four people were arrested here on Tuesday, police said. SP (City) Sanjay Kumar said eight quintals of fake black pepper and 25 quintals of ingredients were found in the factory.
Ahmedabad: A day after he and ten others were released from jail in the case related to the gangrape of Bilkis Bano and murder of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots, convict Shailesh Bhatt claimed that they were “victims of politics.” Bhatt, 63, who said he was a local functionary of the ruling BJP when he was arrested, and others including his brother and co-convict Mitesh left for their village Singor in Gujarat’s Dahod district after walking out of the Godhra jail. Bilkis Bano with her husband Yakub Rasul. —FILE PHOTO
‘BOLLYWOOD STARS SHOULD REASONABLECHARGEFEE’ New Delhi: BJP national spokesperson SZ Islam suggested on Tuesday that Bollywood stars should reduce their fee to allow producers to focus on good cinema. The film industry should realise that OTT platforms are a better and cost-effective option to people now, he tweeted.
New Delhi: The Central government while fi ling its response before the Supreme Court on a plea alleging a rising number of attacks on Christian institutions and priests across the country, submitted that the majority of the incidents cited by the petitioner as attacks on Christians were wrongfully projected in news reports.
Aditi Nagar New Delhi: It seems that the issue surrounding leadership in the Congress party is bound to hang for a long time as it is still unclear, even though it is middle of August 2022, as to who will be the National President of the thus,nationalyetnotRahulgrand-old-party?Gandhihasgivenhisconsenttobecomeparty’spresidentandinsuchasitua-
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As Nitish-led JDU govt deserts NDA, BJP and allies gear up for new Opposition role
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Min’s ‘somehow managing’ remark embarrasses govt Bengaluru (PTI): With a Karnataka Minister’s alleged remarks that the “government is not functioning, we are somehow managing”, causing an embarrassment to his administration, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday tried to do damage control by stating that the comments were made in a “different context”.The CM also said that he will talk to other ministers, who are upset about the remarks made by Law Minister JC Madhuswamy, and have expressed their displeasure against him. Among others, Horticulture Minister Munirathna even advised Madhuswamy to quit the Ministry.
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‘PM’s speech inspires in making of Golden India’
New Delhi: Delhi High Court Tuesday reserved its order on a PIL seeking to declare AAP leader Satyendar Jain, arrested in a money laundering case, as a “person with unsound mind” and thus disqualify him from being MLA here and a minister. “We will pass appropriate orders,” said a bench of CJ Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad.
Reluctant Rahul, hesitant leaders: Is this a recipe for another ‘presidency-goofup’ in Congress?
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New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech from the Red Fort on Independence Day as marvellous and said that it inspires every Indian to contribute in the making of a “Golden India”. In a series of tweets, Shah said, “PM Modi gave a wonderful speech from the Red Fort. It inspires every Indian to contribute towards the making of a Golden India. Modiji called on citizens to work with determination for the prosperity of the country and unitedly face challenges that hinder development.”TheUnion Home Minister said, “Speaking from the Red Fort, Prime Minister called on countrymen to make five pledges during the period of Azadi Ka Amrit Kal - a developed India, freedom from every trace of slavery, pride in our heritage, unity and solidarity and fulfilling duties as citizens. Let us all contribute in making India of freedom fighters’ dreams for the next 25 years.”
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear on August 22 a plea by activist Teesta Setalvad seeking interim bail in a case in which she was arrested for allegedly fabricating documents to frame innocent people in 2002 Gujarat riots cases. A bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices JK Maheshwari and Hima Kohli posted the matter for hearing before a bench headed by Justice UU Lalit on August 22 after advocate Aparna Bhat mentioned the case for urgent listing.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would consider a joint request for mediation of SpiceJet and media baron Kalanithi Maran and his Kal Airways for amicably settling pending disputes between them. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for SpiceJet said there were 3 pending issues between the low-cost airline and Maran and of these, one has been settled.
The facility, established by PP Maniya Group, is a 150-bed specialty hospital and trauma centre opened to cater to the needs of residents with high quality service. —PHOTO BY ANI WOMEN POWER
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to list next week for hearing a plea of the Unnao rape survivor seeking transfer of a criminal case filed by the father of one of the accused in her sexual assault case from a trial court in Uttar Pradesh to Delhi. A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices J K Maheshwari and Hima Kohli took note of the submissions of lawyer Vrinda Grover on urgent hearing of the fresh plea of the rape survivor.
tion, the high command is considering some other name. Word within the party’s relevant circle is that the name of Mallikarjun Kharge was thought about in the past and according to sources, Kharge is at the forefront of the race and consensus can be formed in the party in the name of Kharge.However, a senior leader close to Rahul Gandhi did not agree on this. It has been contested that if consent is made in the name of Kharge, then there will be another challenge before the party, i.e. Organization General Secretary KC Venugopal and National President will both be from South. Now many big leaders of the party are waiting for Rahul Gandhi’s approval. Meanwhile, Rahul Gandhi is going to start India Jodo Yatra from 7th September.Insucha situation, this big issue is still hanging in the party amid movements.nationwide
Agra: Passengers were asked to get off the Delhi-bound Taj Express at Mathura and the train was searched for two hours after a false bomb scare on I-Day, officials said. The train was coming from Jhansi. Rajeev Kumar SI, Agra Cantt GRP Police Station said, a man made a hoax call to a passenger regarding a bomb saying it will explode when the train will reach Delhi.
CONG ASKS IF PM MODI BELIEVES IN HIS OWN WORDS WE WERE VICTIMS OF POLITICS, SAYS CONVICT New Delhi: The Congress hit out at PM Modi over the release of 11 people convicted for rape and murder in the Bilkis Bano case of the 2002 Gujarat riots within hours of his praise for “Nari Shakti” in his I-Day speech and alleged the decision reflects BJP’s mindset. Party spokesman Pawan Khera asked if the PM’s statements had any meaning and said Modi should tell the country if he himself believed in his words when he spoke about the safety, respect and empowerment of women.
N. Lakhimpur: A group of miscreants allegedly attacked a Village Defence Party in Assam’s Lakhimpur district injuring six persons in the area bordering Arunachal Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.The incident has sparked tension with local units of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) staging a blockade on the road leading to Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday morning. “The VDP let the youths go after some questioning. However, they returned with around 40 miscreants, who attacked the VDP personnel,” he added.
BJP President JP Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah at he Bihar BJP core committee meeting, at party headquarters, in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Patna: Backing his deputy’s promise of providing 10 lakh jobs to the youth of Bihar, CM Nitish Kumar went a step further and indicated that total employment opportunities created could eventually be double the number. Kumar said the RJD and JD (U) alliance government has a “concept” to provide at least 10 lakh jobs in government and additional 10 lakh towilladdingtowesectors.opportunities”“employmentinvarious“...ifwesucceed,wanttotakethefigure20lakhs,”theCMsaid,thegovernmentworkhardeverywhereensurethis.
10 LAKH JOBS, 20 LAKH EMPLOYMENT: NITISH’S BIG BIHAR ANNOUNCEMENT
TEESTA SETALVAD MOVES SC FOR BAIL IN GUJARAT RIOTS CASE, HEARING ON AUG 22 SC TO HEAR NEXT WEEK PLEA OF UNNAO RAPE
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WPI inflation eases to 5-month low of 13.93% IN JULY New Delhi (PTI): The wholesale price-based inflation eased to a fivemonth low of 13.93% in July on easing prices of food articles and manufacturedTheproducts.WPI-based inflation softened for the second consecutive month in July, raising hopes of further decline in wholesale prices in the months to come. The Wholesale Price Index-based inflation, after scaling a record high of 15.88% in May, declined to 15.18% in June. It was 13.43% in February. The WPI inflation continued its declining trend for the second month in July but remained in double-digits for the 16th consecutive month beginning April last Inflationyear.infood articles in July eased to 10.77% from 14.39% in June. The rate of price rise in vegetables declined substantially to 18.25% in July against 56.75% in the previous month. In the fuel and power basket, inflation was 43.75% in July compared to 40.38% in the last month. Inflation in manufactured products and oil seeds was 8.16% and (-) 4.06%,CRCLrespectively.LLPCEO and Managing Partner DRE Reddy said higher crude oil prices and input costs still weigh on the producers and pass-through has resulted in pushing the retail inflation higher. “The global economy is recovering as we witness an increase in demand for metals, oils, crude and fertilisers. Moving forward, as the crude prices soften in the summer season and supply issues getting resolved will help ease WPI inflation in the next few months,” Reddy added. The RBI mainly looks at retail inflation to frame monetary policy. Retail inflation remained above the RBI’s comfort level for the seventh month in a row.
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The wholesale price-based inflation (WPI) continued its declining trend for the second month in July but remained in double-digits for the 16th consecutive month beginning April last year.
New Delhi: Government on Tuesday unveiled a platform to drive collaboration between the industry and technology-implementinstitutesresearchto based social impact innovations and solutions in the country.Powered by NSEIT, the Manthan platform will help scale up interactions among stakeholders, facilitate research and innovation, and share challenges in various emerging technologies and scientific interventions, including those that make a social impact. —PTI OTHER STORIES
INDIA’S FUEL DEMAND CONTINUES TO FALL IN AUGUST AS MONSOON SETS IN New Delhi: Diesel demand in India fell for the second month in a row as the onset of monsoon chipped away consumption in key sectors like agriculture, preliminary industry data showed Tuesday. Petrol and diesel demand had fallen month-onmonth in July. While petrol consumption is almost flat in the first half of August, diesel - the most widely used fuel in the country - saw demand drop 11.2% during August 1-15 to 2.82 million tonnes from 3.17 million tonnes in the same period of the previous month.
Amul, Mother Dairy to hike milk prices by `2/L
IMPACT ON CONSUMERS The partnership will enable consumers purchasing Samsung devices from any authorised store in the country to pay through Paytm payment instruments, including UPI, wallet, buy now pay later scheme, debit cards and credit cards.
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The Wholesale Price Indexbased inflation, after scaling a record high of 15.88% in May, declined to 15.18% in June. It was 13.43% in February.
BRIEFS New Delhi: The Public Systems Lab, inaugurated in IIT campus here, can contribute significantly in bringing efficiency in public food procurement and distribution, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday. He also said the lab is a perfect example of innovation that will contribute towards the development and rid the country of corruption by ushering efficiency in the public distribution system. The Public Systems Lab will use knowledge from fields such as operations research, and artificial intelligence to solve critical problems.
New Delhi (PTI): Leading milk suppliers Amul and Mother Dairy will increase milk prices by ` 2 per litre with effect from Wednesday on account of rising inputThiscosts.isthe second hike by Amul and Mother Dairy in nearly six months. In the beginning of March, both had increased milk prices by `2 per litre. The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, which sells milk and other dairy products under the Amul brand, on Tuesday said it has decided to increase the milk prices by ` 2 per litre in Ahmedabad and Saurashtra of Gujarat, Delhi-NCR, West Bengal, Mumbai and other markets effective from August 17. The hike of ` 2 per litre will translate into a 4 % increase in MRP which is lower than the average food inflation.“Thisprice hike is being done due to an increase in overall cost of operation and production of milk. The cattle feeding cost alone has increased to approximate 20% compared to last year. Considering the rise in input costs, our member unions have also increased farmers’ price in the range of 8-9% over the previous year,” GCMMF said. The co-operative passes on almost 80 paise of every rupee paid by consumers for milk and milk products to the milk Separately,producers.Mother Dairy announced that it will hike milk prices in the DelhiNCR by ` 2 per litre from Wednesday.
STARTING FROM TODAY SECOND RISE THIS YEAR This is the second hike by Amul & Mother Dairy in nearly six months. In the March, both had increased milk prices by `2 per litre `2/litre hike will translate into a 4%rise in MRP
—PTI COMPANIES IN INDIA EXPECTED TO GIVE 10% HIKE IN 2023
The WPI-based inflation softened for 2nd straight month, raising hopes of further decline in wholesale prices.
New Delhi: Digital financial services firm Paytm on Tuesday said it partnered with Samsung stores across India to facilitate smart payments as well as its loan service Paytm Postpaid through deployment of point of sale devices. The partnership will enable consumers purchasing Samsung devices -- laptops, smartphones, television, smart watches etc -from any authorised store in the country to pay through Paytm payment instruments, including UPI, wallet, buy now pay later scheme, debit cards and credit cards. “We continue to drive innovation in the offline payments market and with our PoS (Point of Sale) devices, merchants are able to drive higher customer loyalty. The partnership with Samsung stores will enable us to further extend the convenience of smart payments to a larger customer base,” said Bhavesh Gupta, Paytm CEO - Lending and HeadPaytmPayments.through its postpaid or buy-now-pay-later service will provide credit limit of up to ` 60,000 per month. It will also give customers an option to avail personal loan of up to ` 2 lakh through financial institution partners of Paytm, acc to a statement.
New Delhi: Revival in housing demand and rise in construction cost have led to a 5% majoracrosspropertyinannualaverageincreaseresidentialpriceseightcities during the April-June quarter, according to a report. DelhiNCR saw the maximum rise in housing prices at 10%. “During Q2 2022, housing prices in India have surpassed pre-pandemic levels, indicating robust demand and supply that is well-aligned with the demand,” the report said & added prices would remain “range bound”. —PTI CENTRE INDUSTRY,PLATFORMUNVEILSFORBETTERR&DCOLLAB
Inflation: Things might get ‘better’ towards Sept-end National flags worth over `60 crore procured New Delhi (PTI): More than 2.36 crore national flags worth over Rs 60 crore were procured by different government departments and states from public buying portal GeM from July 1 to August 15, according to an official data. The Government e-Marketplace was launched on Aug 9, 2016 by the commerce ministry to create an open and transparent procurement platform for govt buyers. "By virtue of being an online platform it was possible for GeM to rapidly onboard sellers and meet very large requirements for an item that has had no history of procurement at such a scale. The team at GeM regularly interacted with buyer entities to ensure that the procurement process was smooth, and delivery was made in time," GeM CEO P K Singh said.
Mumbai (PTI): Benchmark BSE Sensex rose by over 379 points on Tuesday as gains in oil & gas, banking and auto shares helped the barometer continue winning run for the third straight session. The 30-share BSE benchmark index advanced 379.43 points or 0.64% to settle at 59,842.21. The broader NSE Nifty climbed 127.10 points or 0.72% to 17,825.25 as 42 of its constituents advanced. From the Sensex pack, Mahindra & Mahindra, Maruti, Asian Paints, Hindustan Unilever, UltraTech Cement, HDFC and HDFC Bank were lead gainers. Sensex climbs over 379 points; Nifty above 17,800 Bengaluru (PTI): SBI Chairman Dinesh Khara on Tuesday said that things might get “better” on the inflation front towards the end of September. He said the supply side constraints getting addressed and crude oil prices trending low will help ease the “Inflation...Thesituation. recent numbers which came out was 6.7. Going forward the way things are - the supply side constraints which are there are getting addressed, so the situation should be improving going forward,” he said in response to a portanthere,Speakingquestion.toreportershesaidoneoftheim-factorsofinflation is crude oil prices, and with them also trending lower, it will also support the inflation to be further tapered down. “...Overall expectation is that, maybe towards the end of September things might look to be even better as compared to what you are seeing (now),” he added. Further pointing out that policy rates by RBI is a very key component for inflation, Khara in response to a question said, the policy rates are the outcome of the MPC meeting, which assesses multiple data points before they arrive at any decision. “So I think we will have to wait and watch till the next MPC meeting happens, but I think till such time in the intermediary phase, I feel that the supply side constraints are getting addressed,”he added.
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New Delhi (PTI): ICICI Securities, Axis Capital and Citigroup Global Markets are among the five investment bankers selected to manage the sale of the govt’s 29.53% residual stake in Hindustan Zinc Ltd, an official said. Also, HDFC Bank and IIFL Securities will act as investment bankers and work with the government and handle the share sale offers, the official said. As many as 6 merchant bankers had made a presentation before the government officials on August 12. The official said that the five bankers selected are ICICI Securities, Axis Capital, Citigroup Global Markets, HDFC Bank and IIFL Securities.TheDIPAM had in early July invited bids from merchant bankers for managing HZL residual stake and set July 28 as the deadline for putting bids. The selected merchant bankers will assist the government on the timing of the divestment, get investor feedback, and hold investor road shows, besides seeking regulatory approvals.
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—PTI Mumbai: Industry leader Ratan Tata on Tuesday announced an undisclosed investment into startup Goodfellows that offers companionship to senior citizens as a service. The octogenarian industrialist has been an active backer of startups ever since retiring from the helm of the salt-tosoftware Tata Group and has invested in over 50 companies till now. The latest investee company is founded by Shantanu Naidu.
New Delhi: Adani Logistics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd, on Tuesday said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ICD Tumb (Vapi) from Navkar Corporation for `835 crore. The deal comprises the acquisition of the operational ICD with a capacity to handle 0.5 million TEUs. Associated 129 acres of land provides an additional expansion path to inc capacity & cargo in near future.
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—PTI ADANI LOGISTICS BUY ICD TUMB FOR `835 CRORE Mumbai: Companies in India are expected to give a salary hike of 10% in 2023 as they struggle with rising attrition in the tight labour market, according to a report. Willis Towers Watson’s Salary Budget Planning report found that companies in India are budgeting an overall increase of 10% for 2022-23, compared with the actual 9.5% growth in the previous year. It further said around 42% of Cos in India have also projected a positive business revenue outlook.
Mohan Bhagwat hoists Tricolour at RSS Headquarters, in Nagpur.
Naresh Sharma Jaipur: Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot has made a scathing attack on RSS and BJP and stressed that the saffron party and its parent institution ‘play with people in the name of Gaumata, Hindus.’ “They get votes by instigating people and win elections. It has to be understood, if they sincerely want to do good for the country, talk about Hindu interest, then I believe that they should first start the campaign to eradicate untouchability. Go to the houses of the scheduled caste yourself, go to the Dalits and sit with them and eat food on their plate. Stop pretending,” Gehlot said at an Independence Day programme on Monday. He said, “I remember my childhood days. There were agitations regarding Hindi-English. We used to be against the English and people of Tamil Nadu and South were against Hindi. There were so many riots, they forget. Ask them, you talk about Hindu Rashtra and when Hindu Rashtra will be formed, then there are people from the backward strata also. Why don’t you talk about eradicating untouchability? Your 100 years old RSS is an organization, a cultural organization, which was banned by Sardar Vallabh Bai Patel. They had given in writing that we will not do politics in future, what are those people doing today? What are you doing with BJP today?” Targeting the BJP, he said, “BJP people, RSS people, eradicate untouchability, end discrimination among OBCSC-STs, make all Hindus equal. Then it should be known that their intentions are for Hindus. Untill then you are merely provoking, taking votes and winning elections.”
OVER 6 CR SELFIES WITH FLAG UPLOADED ON ‘HAR GHAR TIRANGA’ WEBSITE New Delhi: More than five crore Tiranga selfies have been uploaded on the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign website so far, the Ministry of Culture informed on Monday and termed it a “stupendous achievement”. PM had given a call on July 22, to join the Har Ghar Tiranga’ movement by hoisting or displaying the national flag at homes. “In a stupendous achievement, more than five crore ‘Tiranga’ selfies have been uploaded on ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ website,” the ministry said. As India embarks on its 76th year of MinistryKanodalgovernmentTiranga’15countdownwrappingIndependence,upthe75-weektoAugustwasthe‘HarGharinitiativeofthedrivenbytheministryfor‘AzadiAmritMahotsav‘theofCulture.
MOHAN BHAGWAT HOISTS TRICOLOUR AT RSS HQ IN NAGPUR ON I-DAY Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat hoisted the national flag at the RSS headquarters in Maharashtra’s Nagpur city on Monday on the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence. Some RSS volunteers and pracharaks were present during the event which was held amid tight security.
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Chandigarh (PTI): A 40-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly abducting, raping and murdering a girl child in Haryana’s Panipat, police said on Tuesday. Police said the incident took place Monday when the girl, 6, was playing in a park near her home in Panipat’s Sector 29, with her younger brother. She was abducted from the park by the accused who raped and later killed her, the police said. Man held for rape & murder of 6 yr old girl in Panipat
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The country got freedom after a lot of struggle, it needs to be selfreliant. Those who want to be independent need to become self-reliant in everything,” he said. Bhagwat said the RSS has worked for creating an awareness about “desh bhakti” (patriotism) and imbibing it in the people of the country.
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New Delhi (PTI): Delhi Lt Governor VK Saxena on Tuesday entered the Najafgarh Drain in a motor boat and spent an hour inspecting the desilting work being done there, an official statement said. It claimed that after Tuesday’s visit, Saxena became the first L-G ever to enter the drain where work was being done using the partial gravitational desilting process instead of the conventional method. Saxena entered the drain in a motor boat near Punjabi Bagh and spent over an hour inspecting the dredging work in about one km area, it Aftersaid.taking over as L-G, Saxena has been consistently stressing and working towards cleaning the much maligned drain and converting it into an eco-tourism hub, it said. In meth-tionalconven-the od, the silt is removed from the drain and put on both banks of the drain, which incurs a major cost, it said. While some amount of silt is transported in trucks, a large quantity flows back again into the drain with rainwater. Further, a part of the silt flowing back into the drain gets carried away with the water while most of it gets deposited at the bed which renders the entire processdesiltingalmostfutile,thestate-mentsaid. bouncers held for thrashing Army man, brothers Delhi LG inspects desilting work in Najafgarh DrainIndia needs to be self-reliant: Bhagwat Nagpur (PTI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday said India got freedom after a lot of struggle and it needs to be self-reliant.Addressing a gathering at the RSS headquarters in Maharashtra’s Nagpur city after hoisting the national flag on India’s 76th Independence Day, Bhagwat said the country will give the message of peace to the world. He also said people should think what they can give to the country rather than ask what the country or society is giving“Todaythem.is the day of pride and resolution.
Thecelebrations.trainrunby the South East Central Railway left Korba at 13:50 and took 11.20 hours to cover the distance of 267 km. This is the longest and heaviest freight train ever run by the Railways, the national transporter said, adding the train takes about four minutes to cross a station. The amount of coal carried by Super Vasuki is enough to fire 3000 MW of power plant for one full day, officials said. This is three times the capacity of existing railway rakes (90 cars with 100 tonnes in each) which carries about 9,000 tonnes of coal in oneThejourney.trainwas formed by amalgamating five rakes of goods trains as one unit.
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New Delhi (PTI): A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of a man accused of raping his former live-in partner in the east Delhi area in June this year. Considering the nature of the case, the gravity of the offence, allegations against the accused, and overall facts and circumstances, I deem it a fit that no case for bail is made out, Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat said. The victim was earlier in a live-in relationship with the accused, but she had reportedly parted ways at the time of the incident because of the accused’s attitude, the advocate appearing for the alleged victim, said. When the victim went to meet the accused in June after he threatened to make her pictures and videos public, he beat her up and raped her, the advocate alleged before the court.
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Dark monsoon clouds hover in the sky after rain at Raisina Hills area, in New Delhi, on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI Gurugram (PTI): Four bouncers were arrested for allegedly beating up an Army man and his two brothers outside a clubThehere.assault took place in Sector 29 late Sunday night. While one bouncer was nabbed on Monday night, the other three were arrested on Tuesday, a police official said.The arrested bouncers, identified as Rahu, Monu, Naveen and Satish, are now being interrogated by police. The Army man and his two brothers were injured badly in the attack by the bouncers. An FIR in this connection was registered on Monday.According to the complaint filed by Naik Sunil Kumar, hailing from Rohtak in Haryana, he along with his two brothers, Khajan Singh and Anil Kumar, had gone to Friction Club to celebrate a party. “It was around 11.20 pm when we entered the Friction Club. We were dancing and enjoying ourselves. Around 20 minutes later, the music in the club stopped. My brother Anil made a request to play a song, but two bouncers came and denied the request. They then started an argument with us and were joined by two others, and took us outside the bar where they thrashed us with sticks,” Naik had said in his complaint.
Rlys conducts test run of its longest freight train New Delhi (PTI): The Railways conducted a test run of 3.5-km-long freight train, Super Vasuki, with 295 loaded wagons carrying over 27,000 tonnes of coal between Korba in Chhattisgarh and Rajnandgao in Nagpur on August 15, as part of the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’
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CM Ashok Gehlot addresses the function on the occasion of 76th Independence Day on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA
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AFTER AKHAND BHARAT, WILL YOU LEAVE ASIDE PEOPLE IN BACKWARD STRATA, RAJ CM GEHLOT QUESTIONS RSS, BJP GEHLOT TO VISIT GUJARAT TODAY Gehlot’s 3-day visit to Gujarat starting Tuesday was postponed due to bad weather, official sources said. He will now visit Gujarat on Wednesday and Thursday, official sources said. He will be going to Vadodara on Wednesday and hold meeting with party leaders from central & north Gujarat in Ahmedabad.
‘Fight against corruption, nepotism’
Prime Minister Modi sets Panch Pran target to make India a developed nation in next 25 years New Delhi (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the time has come to cleanse the country of corruption and nepotism and asked people to have ‘nafrat’ (hatred) for these twin evils that go beyond politics, as he set a ‘Panch Pran’ (five resolves) target to make India a developed nation in 25 years. “The nation should now only be setting big goals. That big goal is a developed India and nothing less,” Modi asserted in his ninth consecutive address from the ramparts of Red Fort on the country’s 76th Independence Day. He spelt out the the five pledges as a resolve for a developed India; removing any trace of the colonial mindset; taking pride in our legacy; our strength of unity; and fulfilling the duties of citizens, which include prime minister and chief ministers as well.“We have to move forward with these five resolves in mind and take up the responsibility to fulfil the dreams of our freedom fighters in the next 25 years when we attain 100 years of independence.”Indiahas entered a decisive era in its battle against corruption which is “eating the country like termites”, he said, adding corruption and nepotism are the two main challenges for the nation. Modi said it is a time to move forward with a new resolve and he also spoke strongly for cooperative federalism, celebrating the country’s diversity, unity among citizens, gender equality and research and innovation.
PM Narendra Modi addressing the nation from Red Fort in New Delhi on Independence Day.
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nel Bharat24- Vision of New India, on Sunday by Anurag Thakur, Union Minister Information & Broadcasting and Sports & Youth Affairs. Dr Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO & Editor-in-Chief thanked the Union Minister and also welcomed all the guests who had come to join in the occasion.The launch with traditional music, festivity, joyous togetherness and a feeling of hopeful achievement at the fulfilment of a dream made the evening beautiful and magical! A bevy of dignitaries reached to congratulate Jagdeesh Chandra on the occasion, Amit Malviya (Incharge BJP’s National Information & Technology Dept.), First India News Director Virendra Choudhary, Naveen Kapoor (National Bureau Chief, ANI), Sant Prasad Rai (Sr. Vice President, News & Production, ABP News), Amit Mishra (Consulting Editor, ANI), Tridip Raman (Editor, Parliamentarian magazine) and many others.
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CITY FIRST s part of the on going HovalVietnamNamasteFestiofIndiainChiMinh city, the consul general of India in Vietnam, Dr Madan Mohan Sethi, hoisted the Indian flag at his residence amid the Indian film delegation and other guests on Mon day on the occasion of the Indian Independence Day. The delegation reached the city on August 12 for the festival. Dr Sethi made a speech after hoist ing the flag. A variety of entertainment pro grammes followed with patriotic songs being ren dered and played on the synthesiser by various performing artists as well as children of Indi ans settled in Vietnam. The Indians as well as the Vietnamese guests danced to hit Bollywood patriotic numbers, add ing to the gaiety and pa triotic fervour. The lead er of the film warmthandsionalsoer-actoraward-winningdelegation,filmmakRahulMittraspokeontheoccaandthankedIndiansVietnamesefortheirandlove.
CITY FIRST U tsav Educational and Cultural Society of New Delhi will cele brate the 75th Anniver sary of Independence as part of Saare Jahan Se Accha, 2022 which is the 17th edition of Utsav’s two-day festival of In dian classical dance as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. It will start on Wednesday at Stein Auditorium of India Habitat Centre in NewUtsav,Delhi.founded by Ranjana Gauhar Pad mashree and SNA Awardee, has complet ed 35 years of its cul tural journey in pre serving and promoting the classical dance and music traditions of India, particularly Odissi. The pro gramme commemorates Inde pendence Day where senior and established dancers of the country pay their tribute to the martyrs and achievers of theThenation.first day will feature the production “Nritya Dharaa Tribute to India’s Cul tural Herit age” and(Odissi),nasentedgraphedchoreoandprebyGuruRanjaGauharanddisciplesGuruSantoshNairdisciples(Chhau),Guru
T he NGO Tamana in collaboration with the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) recently organised its annual fashion show ti tled “Fashion Beyond Boundaries” (Khadi & han dloom) co-hosted by the Hy att Regency, Delhi. The chief guest of the event was UP Singh, Secretary, Minis try of Textiles, who was fe licitated with the torchbear er of the year 2022 award, for his contribution to the handloom sector. Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud was also pre sent besides several other distinguished guests. The event began on a soulful note, with an unfor gettable performance by Diwakar of Sa Re Ga Ma Little Champs fame. Tama na along with her mother Padma Bhushan & Padma Shri Dr Shayama Chona and the designers closed the show carrying the National Flag, supporting the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign. Dr Shayama Chona, Founder and President of Tamana said, “The found ing principle of this fashion show is quite simple: all are created equal. And inclu sion creates a unity that goes beyond fashion.” “This is our way of celebrating the invincible spirit of the Tamana children as they add hues of happiness to the runway,” Sunil Sethi, FDCI Chairman, said. A mix of fashion and forti tude where Tamana kids were beautifully dressed by Anju Modi, Rajesh Pratap Singh, Payal Jain, Namrata Joshipura, Nitin Bal Chau han, Reynu Taandon, Pawan Sachdeva, Dhruv Vaish, Nee tu Singh and Abhi Singh.
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VANDE MATARAM! The Twitter handle of the Police Families Welfare Society (PFWS) shared on Tuesday glimpses of Independence Day celebrations under the aegis of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. Shalimar Bagh's ASI Yashraj Malik sang a patriotic song and his voice filled everyone with patriotism at PFWS's Wellness Center.
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The Twitter handle of the Police Families Welfare Society (PFWS) shared on Monday glimpses of Independence Day celebrations at all the centres of PFWS. The flag was hoisted at all the welfare centres with the slogans of Jai Bharati, Vande Mataram, Jai Bharat and the spirit of patriotism.
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