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AMBANI OFFERS PRAYERS TO LORD KRISHNA IN KERALA Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Saturday visited and offered prayers to Lord Krishna at Guruvayur Shri Krishna Temple in Kerala. He was accompanied by his youngest son Anant Ambani’s fiance Radhika Merchant on visit. Guruvayur Devaswom Board Chairman Prof PK Vijayan welcomed Mukesh Ambani and presented him with a mural painting as a token of appreciation. (R) Ambani offering prayers at the temple. www.firstindia.co.in I https://firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia MUMBAI l SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2022 l Pages 12 l 3.00 RNI TITLE NO. MAHENG/2022/14652 l Vol 1 l Issue No. 132 OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, NEW DELHI & MUMBAI MURMU LEAVES FOR LONDON TO ATTENDOFFUNERALQUEEN New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu left for London on Saturday to attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and to offer condolences on behalf of the Indian govt. Queen Elizabeth II, will be laid to rest at Westminster Abbey on Sept 19.
PM Modi thanks Namibia govt for cooperation in relocating 8 cheetahs to India
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declared extinct domestically by 1952. The arrival of 8 big cats from Namibia is biggest wildlife translocation project in history. Radio collars have been installed on cheetahs to be monitored through satellite for 24 hours. They have been brought under an MoU signed earlier this year. THE ‘BIG CAT’ GANG! 5 FEMALES AND 3 MALES Superstar SRK wished PM Modi on his 72nd birthday. He took to Twitter to wish leader and even asked him to take a day off and enjoy the day. “Your dedication for the welfare of our country and its people is highly appreciated,” he wrote. SHAH RUKH KHAN’S REQUEST TO MODI: TAKE A DAY OFF, ENJOY YOUR BIRTHDAY
firmed the directive is sued on August 03, 2022 that stayed all land al lotment decisions taken by MIDC between June 01 and August 03, 2022.
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Mumbai: Chief Minis ter Eknath Shinde, who stayed rampant allot ment of land parcels by the Maharashtra Indus trial Development Cor poration (MIDC) in June and July 2022, will review all proposals afresh following com plaints of impropriety received by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO).Bhushan Gargrani, Additional Chief Secre tary at the CMO, con
Amit Shah salutes after hoisting National flag during ‘Telangana Liberation Day’ programme, at Parade Ground, in Hyd on Saturday.
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Sheopur: 70 years after its extinction from India, the cheetahs are back on Indian soil. Eight big cats were released into the Indian wildlife in MP’s Kuno-Palpur Na tional Park (KPNP) on Saturday by PM Modi on his 72nd birthday, who termed it “historic day”.
HM Amit Shah on Satur day extended birthday wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling him the “most beloved leader” and lauded his efforts in making impos sible tasks possible with his “India-first” thinking and determination for the welfare of the poor.
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Cheetah,Project continuesIndiainits mission of conservation of wildlife; today is sig nificant in our efforts as Kuno National Park, MP becomes the new home and habitat for cheetahs. Glimpses of their home coming in the presence of PM @narendramodi ji. #CheetahInIndia
New Delhi: A day after his arrest, MLA of AAP, Amanatullah Khan, was sent to custody of ACB for 4 days. This also comes after, a close aide of MLA was held on Saturday after one unlicensed pistol with live cartridges was seized from his possession. IRCTC SCAM: CBI MOVES COURT OVER TEJASHWI BAIL New Delhi: CBI on Saturday moved Rouse Avenue Court of Delhi, seeking cancellation of bail against Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav in connection with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) scam case.
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A Cheetah, which had become extinct from India, was released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Kuno National Park, Sheopur on the occasion of his 72nd birthday, on Saturday.
PM Narendra Modi said that ‘Project Chee tah’, under which BJP govt at Centre reintro duced big catsis the govt’s endeavour to wards environment and wildlife conservation.
crore, the state govern ment’s request for Rs1,000 crore financial assistance from New Delhi was duly ac
PM Modi addressed the ‘Self Help Group Conference’ in Sheopur on Saturday. Emphasizing the need for women empowerment, he said that govt is working continuously to create new avenues for women entre preneurs in the villages. PM also inaugurates the 4 PVTG skilling centres under the PM Kaushal Vikas Yojana here.
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PM Modi, in an address to the nation following the release of cheetahs, said, “We lose certain things when we move away from our roots. Hence, we should take pride in our heritage.”
CM Eknath Shinde and Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis. PHOTO
Cheetahs will add to biodiversity, boost tourism & generate income for locals Centre and TRS-ruled Telangana State govt are both celebrating Hyderabad Liberation Day at diff events
Washington: The main stream American media on Saturday praised PM Modi for telling Russian Presi dent Vladimir Putin that this is not the time for war in Ukraine. Modi-Putin con versation in Uzbekistan’s Samarkand was widely carried by the mainstream American media.
These Cheetahs have come as ‘India’s guests’, unaware of this area. For them to be able to make Kuno National Park their home, We will have to give these Cheetahs a few months’ time. Following international guidelines, India is trying its best to settle these cheetahs. We must not let our efforts fail.
—Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
other states in the run ning.Similarly, Maharash tra had submitted an other proposal for a medical devices park (MDP) in Bidkin Indus trial Area to the De partment of Pharma ceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertiliz ers, Government of In dia (GoI) on October 14, 2020. In a letter, the Ma harashtra government was informed on Sep tember 24, 2021, that the MDP proposal had been waitlisted, even as proposals from Himachal Pradesh, Turn to P6
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P resident Droupadi Murmu on Saturday extended birthday greetings to PM Modi and wished for his good health and long life. The President further wished that the nation-building campaign being carried out by Modi with incomparable hard work, dedication and creativity, contin ues to progress under his leadership. spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Saturday wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 72nd birthday, extending prayers for his continued good health. On his official website, the spiritual leader Dalai Lama praised India for its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
DALAI LAMA APPLAUDS INDIA’S COVID-19 FIGHT ON PRIME MINISTER MODI’S B’DAY India
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First India Bureau Hyderabad: Crediting Sardar Vallabhbhai Pa tel for ‘liberating’ Hy derabad, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday took a swipe at those who had “turned back” on celebrating the day due to vote bank politics and the “fear” of Razakars -- a private militia who defended the erstwhile Nizam rule in thetoities”fightforDay’‘Hyderabadandderabad-Karnataka,ofpolitics,”DayHyderabadcouldwhohaveunfortunately,govt’sbeLiberationlandthere“AfterHyderabad.somanyyears,wasadesireinthisthattheHyderabadDayshouldcelebratedwiththeparticipation.But75yearspassedandthoseruledthisplacenotdarecelebrateLiberationduetovotebankShahsaid.HegreetedthepeopleTelangana,HyMarathwadaonLiberationandpraisedthemtheircourageousagainstthe“atrocofthe‘Razakars’mergetheregionintoUnionofIndia.
ON 72ND BIRTHDAY, PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI GIFTS CHEETAHS TO INDIA AFTER 70 YEARS ‘HISTORIC’ CHEETAH!PROJECT
Thackeray said, “This year’s ‘Dasera Melava’ (Dussehra rally’ will be held at ‘Shivteerth’. Please do not harbour any doubts about it. We have also sent a remind er application to the Brihanmumbai Munic ipal Corporation (BMC) in this Senaregard.”refersto Shivaji Park as ‘Shivteerth’ af ter party founder Bala saheb Thackeray’s me morial was set up at the park.“Uddhavji has asked us to ensure larger numbers for both the
“I believe that the chil dren should not be over burdened and their
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Shinde has assured work on Sena founder Bal Thackeray’s memorial in Aurangabad has been expedited. —FILE PHOTO
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Uddhav reiterates intent to host Dussehra rally
Gavit was 87, and is survived by his daughter former MLA Nirmala Gavit and son Bharat.
Mumbai: State School Education Minister, Deepak Kesarkar, on Friday said that the teachers should teach students in such a manner that no extra burden in form of ‘homework’ is levied on the students.
Shinde was in Au rangabad city to attend the Hyderabad Libera tion Day (also known as Marathwada Mukti Sangram Din) anniver sary programme, where he hoisted the tricolour. The day marks the anniversary of Marathwada’s inte gration with India after the Indian military de feated the Nizam to merge Hyderabad into the Indian room.”takenofandMarathwadavelopmentdertaking“ThechiefonAddressingUnion.peopletheoccasion,theministersaid,governmentisunvariousdeworksintheregionaperiodicreviewtheseworkswillbefromthewar
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However, Jitendra Awhad, who was the housing develop ment minister dur ing the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) gov ernment’s regime, said he had taken over the powers of MHADA as the gov ernment had “zero knowledge” of its functioning.According to Awhad, every gov ernment body has to operate within the purview of the gov ernment and its rules and regula tions. In the case of MHADA, the govern ment was not getting information as to what it was doing.
The minister during an interaction with re porters said that he plans to speak to all stakeholders and see if a policy decision can be taken in this regard, adding that the children should not be ‘overbur dened’ with homework.
When asked, Shinde said the government has not given a stay on the allotment of indus trial plots in the state.
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Mumbai: The state’s Food and Drugs Ad ministration (FDA) has cancelled the baby powder manu facturing licence of Johnson & Johnson Pvt Ltd “in the inter est of public health at large.”
Marathwada Liberation Day celebrated in Latur
ing a report by the De partment for Promotion of Industry and Inter nal Trade (DPIIT).
Mumbai: Questioning Deputy Chief Minis ter Devendra Fad navis’s claim on Fri day that Maharashtra fell behind Gujarat in attracting Foreign Di rect Investment (FDI) under the Maha Vi kas Aghadi (MVA) coalition, the Con gress on Saturday said Maharashtra had topped the statewise FDI equity in flow from October 2019 until June this year.
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Mumbai: Former union minister and Congress lead er Manikrao Gavit has died of old age at a hospital in Ma harashtra’s Na shik, said sources on Saturday.
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brains should be allowed to develop. Homework should not be an excuse for teachers. Whatever we teach for half-anhour, should be taught will full concentration, so that there is no need of doing homework,” he said.The minister further said that this was his personal opinion and he will talk to teacher asso ciations and institutions before taking a decision.
confrontation with members of the Eknath Shinde fac tion, who are vying to host the rally as well. Addressing a meet ing of deputy vibhag pramukhs (department heads) at the Shiv Sena Bhavan in Mumbai,
Talking to reporters after the event, Shinde said, “A national-level event to mark the Hy derabad Liberation Day will take place in Hyderabad on this day for three states (Telan gana, Maharashtra and Karnataka that were part of the Nizam rule
Latur (PTI): Maharashtra Labour Minister Suresh Khade kicked off the Marathwada Liberation Day celebrations in Latur on Saturday. He hoisted the tricolour and paid floral tributes at ‘Hutatma Smarak’ in the presence of former state minister Sanjay Bansode, Collector Prithviraj BP, Zilla Parishad Chief Executive Officer Abhinav Goyal, Municipal Commissioner Aman Mittal, among other officials. “In the history of Indian independ ence, the Marathwada liberation struggle has a unique importance. I humbly salute the martyrs of the struggle and freedom fighters who actively participated and sacrificed their lives,” said the minister, at the event. To mark 74 years of the Marathwada Liberation Struggle, the district administrations have planned various activities, including a documentary underlining the impor tance of the liberation struggle, which will be shown in villages and competitions and lectures will be organized for students, he said. Freedom fighters who had actively participated in the liberation struggle were felicitated at the event.
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also been given to the authorities to expedite the work of the memo rial of Shiv Sena found er Bal Thackeray in Aurangabad, he said.
“The government had ‘zero knowledge’ about its functioning.
Pune: A govern ment resolution (GR) was issued on Friday to restore powers of the Ma harashtra Hous ing Area and De velopment Author ity ownthethereby(MHADA),enablingbodytotakeitsdecisions.
till September 17,1948).”Aproject has been undertaken to divert to the Marathwada the water that drains into the sea to mitigate the region’s problems aris ing out of the drought situation, he said.
GSDP in 2021-22 was Rs31,97,000 crore while that of Gujarat was Rs19,44,107 crore, he tweeted.“Gujarat is not in Pa kistan. It is our brother. This is a healthy compe tition. We want to get ahead of Karnataka, eve ryone,” Fadnavis had said after the semicon ductor project went to the neighbouring hadbillion,"fromrashtrainvestmentlionandGujaratpositionthe“Unfortunately,state.inlasttwoyearsourslippedandtoppedthelistitwentfrom$3bilto$23billionandinMahacamedown$26billionto$18thedeputyCMsaid.
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Aurangabad: Maha rashtra Chief Minis ter Eknath Shinde on Saturday said his government would carry out various de velopment projects in Marathwada region of the state. He also said that a periodic review of these works will be undertaken.
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nativeBMCvenue.officials have since maintained that as the legal proceedings of both factions over be ing the ‘real’ Shiv Sena are pending before the Supreme Court’s Con stitution bench, the civic body’s legal de partment will give its opinion on the rally matter before it can grant thisfromtractthenaryhasShinderebellionoverSenawouldtheThackeray’scallyWhenpermission.hewaspolitiactive,BalasahebspeechatDussehrarallyattractShivactivistsfromallMaharashtra.ThebyEknathand40MLAschargedupordiSenaactivistsandrallyislikelytoatahugecrowdacrossthestateyear.
lotment of plots to in dustry has been taken. A review has been tak en. The government is committed to take max imum service to the in vestors coming here,” heHesaid.was reacting to a query about reports that the government has ordered a stay on the MIDC plots allotted after June 01, 2022, ask ing the authorities to review the allotment sanctioned.
According to the re lease, FDA had drawn samples of Johnson’s Baby Powder from Pune and Nashik for quality check purposes. The government ana lyst had declared the samples as “not of the standard quality” as they do not comply with IS 5339:2004 specifica tion for skin powder for infants in the test pH, it said.Thereafter, FDA is sued a show-cause no tice to Johnson and Johnson under the Drugs Cosmetics Act 1940 and Rules, besides issuing instructions to the company to recall the stock of the said product from market, said the release.
Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray addresses party workers at Shiv Sena Bhavan in Mumbai on Saturday.
Shinde promises devt projects for Maha Marathwada region
The CM was in Aurangabad to attend an event to mark Hyderabad Liberation Day
Instructions for recall of product from the market also issued.
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Mumbai: Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray on Satur day reiterated the party’s resolve to hold the annual Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park this year. He urged party activ ists to gather in large numbers on the day, setting the stage for a
Meanwhile, Gujarat had remained at the third spot, state Con gress general secretary Sachin Sawant said, cit
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The Opposition has been blaming the Eknath Shinde-Deven dra Fadnavis govern ment over Gujarat pip ping Maharashtra to win a mega semicon ductor project of Ve danta-Foxconn.“Whenwe are al ready on the top, how are you going to take us further?” Sawant asked, targeting Fadnavis. As per Revised Esti mates, Maharashtra’s
In a release issued on Friday, the state govern ment agency said the company’s product, Johnson’s Baby Powder, may affect the skin of newbornSamplesbabies.ofthe pow der for babies did not conform to standard pH value during a labora tory test, said the regu lator.The release said the action was taken after Kolkata-based Central Drugs
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Nagpur: An Indian Army recruitment rally for ‘Agniveers’ began in Nagpur on Saturday, informed the Nagpur district in formation officer on Saturday.
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The demand for LSD centres was made by RR Patil Foundation presi dent Vinod Patil during a meeting with the chief minister on the day.
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The accused, identi fied as Sahil Luftar Sheikh (35), was ar rested on September 13 from Masjid railway station in south Mum bai for allegedly steal ing a mobile phone.
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in Haryana’s Hisar, which went on for a few days. The first-ever ex amination for the re cruitment in Indian Air Force (IAF) through the new Agnipath recruit ment scheme was con ducted across the coun try on July 24, amid tight police security.
other dignitaries at Juhu beach.Asper a release issued by the civic body, the campaign concluded with a special clean-up
5,000 kg garbage collected at Juhu beach: BMC
antine centres will also be set up to treat ani mals affected by LSD. The government has taken a series of deci sions to prevent spread of the disease,” said Shinde.Assuring the state government’s assis tance in implementa tion of several meas ures to curb the spread of LSD and vaccination,
LSD quarantine centres to be established in 24 districts
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Mumbai: A 22-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly printing counterfeit notes. Rs7 lakh of fake currency was seized from his premises in the eastern suburb of Mankhurd here, police said. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided the premises belonging to Rohit Shah, a salesman, in Jyotirling Nagar local ity in Mankhurd, and seized fake currency of various denominations from his possession, an official said. The police also recovered a printer, laptop and other materials, worth more than Rs2 lakh, used for printing fake currency. Shah, a resident of Kandi vili, has been arrested under section 489-A and other theprovisionsrelevantoftheIPC,officialsaid.
—Sachindra Pratap Singh, Animal Husbandry Commissioner
gar Surakshit Sagar’ took place in the pres ence of Union Minister Jitendra Singh, Maha rashtra Governor Bha gat Singh Koshyari and
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Volunteers pick up trash during a cleanliness drive at Juhu beach in Mumbai on Saturday.
Similarly, the Indian Army has also organized a two-month pre-train ing programme for youth residents of vil lages located in border areas of Uri subdivision along the Line of Control (LOC) in Baramulla dis trict of Kashmir for en rollment in the Army under the Agniveer scheme.Earlier on August 14, a similar recruitment ral ly for ‘Agniveers’ began
During wee hours of Saturday—between 3 to 3.15 am—he escaped from the hospital. An alert message was cir culated.Railway police re ceived a tip off that, Sheikh is seen in Haji Ali area. A team of railway police officials rushed to the spot and apprehended the ac cused. His medical ex amination has been done and sent in hospi tal again for treatment.
CM Shinde said, “At pre sent, the lumpy skin dis ease is spreading from one state to another. The department of animal husbandry and dairy de velopment has been asked to step up efforts and take necessary steps to combat it.”
These centres will be come functional in due course of time, he added.
organized on the occa sion of International Coastal Cleanup Day at the beach, during which 5,000 kg of garbage washed up from the sea
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while it had witnessed 3,164.27mm in the same period last year. Rains played havoc in all low-lying areas with several incidents of tree falls being reported in various parts of the city, said the
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wasMumbaicollected.is home to several beaches, with Girgaon, Mahim, Dadar and Juhu, being the prominent ones. To im prove public participa tion for keeping beaches clean, various pro grammes were under taken with the help of schools, NGOs, Indian Coast Guard and the In dian Navy, said the BMC, in a Therelease.Union Ministry of Earth Sciences imple mented the ‘Swachh Sa gar Surakshit Sagar’ campaign on the 7,500km-long coastline of the country.
Putting forth other demands, Patil said, “Apart from setting up quarantine centres at
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Thane: Unidentified persons opened fire on a labour contractor in Thane city in the wee hours of Saturday. The incident took place at Ghodbunder Road area of the city around 3.45 am. However, no one was injured in the incident, senior inspector Sulabha Patil of Chitalsar police station said. Ganesh Kokate was trav elling in his car, when five motorcycle-borne men and shot at the vehicle. He did not sustain any injuries due to the shots that were fired at point-blank range, the official said, adding that the accused fled the scene soon after. An investigation has been initiated.
Kadam.Inthe third incident, a man fell into a quarry in Sonale village and drowned, he said.
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Thane: A court in Thane sentenced Sand eep Joginder Jha, alias Batlya, to life impris onment for killing 50-year-old Mahendra Dalvi in November 2016 after trying to rob him.
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An Indian Coast Guard helicopter arrives during the drive.
Mumbai: Two persons were arrested for allegedly cheating a general insurance firm and its clients, a police official said on Friday. The accused, identified as Vikeshkumar Singh (39) and Abdul Razzak Shaikh (32), were ar rested on Wednesday by Unit III of the Crime Branch. “They would visit the website of an online insurance and general insurance aggregator, fill false information about vehicles to cheat insur ance companies and customers. They used to show two-wheelers while seeking insur ance for four wheelers and three wheelers and would siphon off the difference in pre mium,” he said. On the basis of a complaint filed at NM Joshi Marg police station, a case was registered.
ID-19 positive, hence, was immediately shift ed to St. George’s Hos pital on September 15.
According to current data, a total of 89 infect ed animals have died in various districts of Ma harashtra.
The concluding cere mony of coastal cleanup campaign ‘Swachh Sa
“This was the highest rainfall recorded by the city in one day this sea son,” said Avinash Sawant, Chief of the Re gional Disaster Manage ment Cell (RDMC) of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC).
Vehicles ply on a waterlogged road following heavy rainfall, at Kalwa, in Thane —ANI PHOTO
As per official data, Thane city has recorded a total of 2,690.40mm rain till date this season,
An announcement to this effect was made by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday, at an event in Aurangabad.
Mumbai: A thief, who was arrested al legedly for mobile theft and was found to be COVID-19 posi tive, escaped from a state-run hospital in the early hours of Saturday, but was later nabbed by the railway police, in formed sources.
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employee accidentally fell into ‘nullah’ (drain) in Kamba of Subash Na gar at 5 pm, while a fiveyear-old girl Gulnaz An sari was washed away in a swollen nullah Diwan shah Dargah area of the town. “The two have not been traced as yet. Search operations are on at the two sites,” an officialTheresaid.has been no rain-related injury to anyone in Palghar dur ing the day, informed district Disaster Control official Vivekanand
Thane: The city of Thane received 122.14mm rain in 24 hours ending at 8.30 am on Saturday, and three rain-related deaths were reported in the district, said civic officials.
Shaikh was booked under IPC section 392 (robbery) and was later placed under arrested by the police. He was produced in the court that remanded him to judicial custody. But, during medical checkup, he was tested COV
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Nagpur: A man was stabbed to death allegedly by five persons in Seminary Hills area of Nagpur on Friday, a police official said. Harsh Dange (22) and his friend Aniket Kasar were standing near a tea-stall when a fight broke out between them and one Dipanshu Pandit (19). “Pandit and four of his friends stabbed Dange to death while Kasar is criti cal. Efforts are on to arrest the five accused,” the Gittikhadan police station official said.
MAN STABBED TO DEATH BY FIVE PERSONS, FRIEND CRITICALLY INJURED
“Treatment centres were set up for the gen eral public in the wake of the COVID-19 pan demic. Similarly, quar
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Around 89 animals have died of lumpy skin disease in Maharashtra so far. —FILE PHOTO
every Zilla Parishad group level, we have also demanded that the gov ernment make vaccines available on war footing. It should also provide financial assistance to farmers who have lost their cattle due to LSD.”
An officer from Ani mal Husbandry and Dairy Development De partment said, “The de
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According to reports, nearly 60,000 aspiring candidates registered for the Agnipath recruit ment rally, which has been embroiled in a con troversy, following a na tionwide agitation
against this short-term recruitment scheme.
On June 14 this year, the Union government approved a recruitment scheme for Indian youth to serve in the three ser vices of the armed forces called Agnipath.
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Although LSD is a rapidly spreading infectious disease in livestock, it is almost certainly curable if treated promptly. The mortality rate of livestock from this disease is very low, so livestock keepers should not panic.
Thane sees 122.14mm rain; 3 deaths reported in 24 hrs
City has monsoon2,690.40mmrecordedtilldatethisseason
partment will coordi nate with district collec tors on setting up quar antine centres at the Zilla Parishad group level, in 24 districts af fected by LSD.”
Mumbai: At least 5,000kg of garbage was collected from the Juhu beach on the last day of the coastal cleanup campaign on Saturday, said an offi
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Mumbai: Amid the outbreak of lumpy skin disease (LSD) in cattle in the state, the government proposes to set up quarantine centres in affected dis tricts for treatment of cattle. The concept will be implemented in 682 villages of 24 districts, on the lines of COVID-19 quaran tine centres, which were set up during the peak of the pandemic.
60K ‘Agniveers’ show up for recruitment in Nagpur
The author is Former Minister of External Affairs of India
awaharlal Nehru attended the coronation of Queen Eliz abeth in 1952. The Common wealth was than a small or ganisation. The Queen be came Head of Common wealth the same year. Till 1947 it was a white man’s club: United Kingdom, Aus tralia, New Zealand and Can ada. India and Pakistan be came members on becoming independent. Ceylon fol lowed in 1948. In 1957 Ghana became the eighth member. Government has taken the correct decision for Presi dent Droupadi Murmu to represent India at the funeral of the Queen. She will get to know many of her counter parts. Several hundred Heads of State and Government have been invited. Most will be in London by the Septem ber 18. Will President XI of China and President Putin attend? The funeral is on the September 19.
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sion of Ukraine calling it “cri sis in Ukraine” instead, but his emphasis on full transit rights in the presence of Paki stan’s Prime Minister She hbaz Sharif was important. The prime minister calling for transit rights was aimed at Pa kistan which has blocked the land route for easier access to the Central Asian markets of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and other countries of the re gion. This need for full transit right across Pakistan has been accentuated by the conflict in Ukraine which has disrupted global supply chains causing acute hardship to people.
land, Brunei, the Malay Kingdoms, Bhutan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf King doms. The last eight are not democracies.HastheBritish monarchy a future. The Queen was widely admired, popular and respected. King Charles III is not endowed with these in dispensable qualities. I have met him three or four times. The first time in February 1975 in New Delhi. He was ac companied by Lord Mount batten. They stayed in New Delhi for two days.
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Roger Federer, the greatest Tennis player of all time an nounced his retirement on Thursday. He is 41 years of age. His home is in Basel, Switzerland. What will he do now? The Secretary General of the UN should invite him to become a roving U.N Am bassador for one of its agen cies e.g Human Rights Com mission.
PREZ MURMU TO REPRESENT INDIA AT QUEEN ELIZABETH II’s FUNERAL
eventy years after their extinction in India, Cheetahs are back. They are Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 72nd birthday gift to In dia. The eight big cats translo cated to the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh from Na mibia were released into the for est by the prime minister to mark his birthday on Saturday.
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Some years ago Murli Manohar Joshiji walked from South India to Srinagar to hoist the BJP flag in Lal Chowk in Srinagar. He was then President of the BJP. The late Prime Minister Chandra Shekherji and for mer Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, also undertook shorter yatras. The Bharat Jodo
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Praveen Davar, a devoted congressman for forty years has published a fascinating book of essays on India’s freedom movement, its founders and future leaders. Essays on Kashmir, Goa, World War II. BR Ambedkar, Operation Blue Star are also included. He writes with candour and conviction. “Freedom Struggle and Beyond” is an illuminating and worth reading book
PM Modi may have avoided making reference to Russian invasion of Ukraine calling it “crisis in Ukraine” instead, but his emphasis on full transit rights in presence of Pak’s PM Sharif was important
Government has taken the correct decision for President Droupadi Murmu to represent India at the funeral of the Queen. She will get to know many of her counterparts. Several hundred Heads of State and Government have been invited. Most will be in London by the September 18. Will President XI of China and President Putin attend? The funeral is on the September 19
The guard is changed while members of the public file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereigns orb and sceptre, lying in state on the catafalque in Westminster Hall, London on Saturday.
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The sleek sprinter of the wild was hunted down by the lovers of big game sport with the last of them being brought down in 1947. Their translocation will not only restore ecological bal ance but also revive the grass lands and forests of Kuno Park.
The most famous yatra was Gandhiji’s in MarchApril 1930, from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi to break the salt laws in March-April 1930. The Dandi march attracted worldwide attention.
Guided by the spirit of Sewa and Jan-bhagidari, I have adopted all TB patients in the four districts of Angul, Deogarh, Dhenkanal and Sambalpur as a part of the #TBMuktBharat initiative to help realise PM @narendramodi’s goal of a TB-free India by 2025 and also mark his birthday.
efforts to develop reliable, re silient and diversified supply chains in our region. This will require better connectivity and also full right to transit for each other. Denial of access to the oil rich Central Asia by Pa kistan is not new. On several earlier occasions too India had flagged its below expectation presence in Central Asia on Pakistan which has adopted a stubborn stand on the issue. This stubbornness prevented it from accepting help from In dia during the recent devastat ingNofloods.matter how much it is targeted, Pakistan will nei ther seal its terror factories nor clamp down on jihadi mullahs. Consequently, rela tions between the two nations also will remain only superfi cially friendly.
No country can out do the United Kingdom in planning and organising ceremonial events. The late Queen’s jour ney from Buckingham Place to Westminster Hall on Sep tember 14 was as memorable as it was spectacular.
The World is running out of Monarchies. UK, Japan followed by Cambodia, Thai
I was then Deputy High Commissioner in London. I came to New Delhi a couple of days before the arrival of Prince Charles and Uncle Dickie. They left Delhi for Kathmandu after two days to attend the coronation of the King of Nepal. By then Charles, was somewhat irri tated with Mountbatten.
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At Palam airport Prince Charles took me aside and said, “I would very much like to come again in October for a longer stay. If that is con venient to you, but without Uncle Dickie.” “Your Royal Highness, you are most wel come”.King Charles III is 73 years of age. Will he attain the age of his mother? That will cer tainly prolong the life of Brit ain’s monarchy.
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Yatra will take 150 days to reach Srinagar, a distance of 3,500 KM from Kanyakumari. What is the objective of the Bharat Jodo Yatra? Bharat remains united. No worth while government will per mit dismemberment of the country. Interest in Rahul’s yatra will be eroded, if the number of participants is dramatically reduced on the way to Srinagar. If 500 con gress walkers reach Srina gar, the congress will earn some ‘cudos’. Its revival is a very distant dream. The ma laise is too deep.
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cooperation and mutual trust among the Shanghai Coopera tion Organisation countries, the Prime Minister said, “The pandemic and crisis in Ukraine caused many obsta cles in global supply chains, due to which the whole world is facing an unprecedented en ergy and food crisis.” He sug gested that the SCO must make
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If anyone complete the Bharat Jodo Yatra it will be Rahul, provided he does not decide to go on a trip outside India.
Praveen Davar, a devoted con gressman for forty years has published a fascinating book of essays on India’s freedom movement, its founders and future leaders. Essays on Kashmir, Goa, World War II. BR Ambedkar, Operation Blue Star are also included. He writes with candour and con viction. “Freedom Struggle and Beyond” is an illuminat ing and worth reading book.
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The second coming of chee tahs must be welcomed with crossed fingers as it is an exper iment fraught with risks. Such international translocations in the wild have low success rates. Even With the prime minister’s keen interest in the project vet erinarians, park officials and the MP government all will have to conspire to ensure its success. If it succeeds then 12 more chee tahs will be translocated from South Africa.
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New Delhi (ANI): PM Narendra Modi on Sat urday launched the Na tional Logistics Policy in the national capital which, he said, was an important step towards the “making of a devel oped India”, while add ing that the policy has come with a “new en ergy for every sector”.
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has taken an important step towards the making of a developed India.”
New Delhi (PTI): A 15-day blood donation drive began on the occasion of PM Narendra Modi’s birthday on Saturday, with Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya donating blood at a camp at Safdarjung Hospital here. The minister urged citizens to register on the Aarogya Setu app or e-Raktkosh portal to donate blood as part of the ‘Raktdaan Amrit Mahotsav’, which will be held till Oct 1 — National Voluntary Blood Donation Day. The drive aims to collect close to one lakh units of blood in a day.
Chennai (Agencies): 4 former senior officials of Indian bank have been sent to jail for three years in a `30 crore loan scam. A CBI court here sentenced the four bank officials and two others to three years of rigorous imprisonment with a `10,000 fine each. The CBI court said Aziz, then Chief Manager, GV Srinivasan, then Senior Manager, Muthiah, then Senior Manager and S Arunachalam, then General Manager, all of Indian Bank, will undergo three years’ rigorous imprisonment.
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New Delhi (Agencies): The release of the eight cheetahs in the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh set off political bickering between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress as Congress called the event a ‘tamasha orchestrated by PM Modi’ amid the Bharat Jodo Yatra of the Congress. As PM Modi released the cheetahs on Saturday which is also his 72nd birthday, he said no meaningful efforts were made to bring cheetahs after they went extinct in 1952.
Stressing that the legal aid work in the country is neglected, Chief Jus tice of India Uday Umesh Lalit on Satur day said young law graduates should devote as much time and ener gy as possible to provid ing legal aid services.
Kerala Guv, CM in row over campus politics
Rahul Gandhi with Spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar was accompanied by his wife Dr Sudesh
CJI to law students
New Delhi (Agencies): The Central Bureau of Investi gation (CBI) on Saturday moved a Delhi court against Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) scam case. The CBI sought cancellation of bail granted to the Rash triya Janata Dal (RJD) leader in the matter. Yadav was issued a notice by special judge Geetanjali Goel on the CBI’s plea and his response was sought on the matter.
PM Modi with Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and Nitin Gadkari.
New Delhi: The Con gress party did manage to save its MLAs from the BJP in Goa. In July, when the information about the breakdown of the MLA was first re ceived, Congress Presi dent Sonia Gandhi hur riedly sent the party’s General Secretary Mukul Wasnik to Goa. He met all the MLAs and when he came to know that some MLAs of the party had made up their mind to join the BJP, he
ing divisive politics here; I am folding hands and asking PM Naren dra Modi, whose birth day it is today, to please approve that Bill,” he said at a public function organised by the Telan gana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) government. “Even the President of India is an Adivasi (tribal) woman. She won’t stop the move.” He then announced that his government will issue an order for the quota next week.
Firozabad (Agencies): A court has sent a school teacher to 20 years jail for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy. The boy was a student in the same school where the man was teaching. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on the man and ordered him to pay half the amount to the boy as com pensation. The assault took place on May 14, 2015, when the accused identified as Vijay Pal Singh, lured the boy to come with him to the roof of the school building and once there he sexually abused the child.
Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party supporters offer laddu to the photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 72nd birthday, in Patna on Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI
New Delhi (ANI): Con gress MP Rahul Gan dhi on Friday met spir itual leader Amritan andamayi Maa at her ashram in Kerala’s Kol lam, during the Bharat JodoTakingYatra.to social me dia, Rahul Gandhi shared some pictures with Amritanandamayi Maa who is also known as ‘Amma’ and is also revered as ‘the hugging
PM’S MANTRA OF SKILLING, RESKILLING & UPSKILLING
Vice President Dhankhar calls upon former PM Dr Manmohan Singh
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar with Dr Manmohan Singh.
NADDA LAUNCHES EXHIBITION ON PM NARENDRA MODI’S LIFE
New Delhi (ANI): PM Narendra Modi while addressing the Kaushal Dikshant Samaroh of ITI which was being attended virtually by over 40 lakh student, said that it is necessary to ensure that the youth excel not only in studies but also in skills. Modi, who was having an eventful day on his birthday, gave the mantra of “skilling, reskilling and upskilling” to the youth to keep upgrading their capabilities.
New Delhi (ANI): On the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday, the Union Ministry of Culture on Saturday has started the e-auction of prestigious and memorable gifts presented to Prime Minister Modi. The mementos are displaced at the National Gallery of Mod ern Art, New Delhi. These items can also be viewed on the website also.
KCR takes ‘divisive politics’ swipe at HM Amit Shah
New Delhi: Leaders across political lines ex tended their wishes to PM Narendra Modi with Rahul Gandhi among the first in the Opposi tion to wish Modi.
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PM Modi said, “In the Amrit Kaal, the country
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work Amma’s organisa tion has done for the poor and downtrodden people around the world.
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sent five MLAs to Chen nai. Digambar Kamat and Michael Lobo, who were then trying to break the party, had a total of five MLAs, while eight legislators were needed to avoid the antidefection law. That’s when the attempt failed.
leader of the legislature party. This was a big mistake which angered the old and loyal leaders of the party, including Digambar Kamat.
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in the Congress earlier but had switched to the BJP and was a minister in the BJP government.
ilies bereaved of their sons and daugh ters and mourning teachers and parents.
Hyderabad (Agen cies): Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of “doing divisive politics”, countering the BJP in a rally-versusrally battle to mark the annexation of erstwhile princely state of Hy derabad by India in 1948. He said this while rais ing the demand — and virtually setting a dead line — for the BJP-led central government to okay 10 per cent reserva
Before the elections, he had left the BJP and re
CONGRESS TAKES JIBE AT PM MODI’S CHEETAH EVENT
Goa CM Sawant with ex-Congress MLAs who recently joined BJP.
“Fortunate to have met Amritanandamayi Maa at her ashram near Karunagappally, Kollam. Very impressed by the amazing work Amma’s organisation has done toward helping the poor and the downtrodden. Offered my humble salu tations and received her warm, love-filled hug in return!” he yakavuthepartyteredBharatMeanwhile,tweeted.party’sJodoYatraenits10thdaywithleadersinitiatingmarchfromPuthionSeptember7.
Speaking at the 9th convocation ceremony of National Law Univer sity, Odisha, at Cuttack on Saturday, the CJI said that he had been associ ated with legal aid work from the past year-and-ahalf and that work across the country in this field is a “bit neglected”.
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“I am against poli ticians using stu dents as cannon fod der. Let there be de bates and disputes on campuses. Not vio lent clashes between students fuelled by politicians. Civility is paramount in aca demic life,” he said.
dence in New Delhi today,” Dhankhar said in a tweet.
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blogging site, West Ben gal CM Mamata Baner jee added, “Heartiest greetings to the Hon’ble Prime Minister Naren dra Modi Ji, on his 72nd birthday. I pray to God for your good health and longPrimeaArvindGehlot.ChieftweetedhealthedModi.wishesgreetingslife,”himdraPrimebirthday.PrimegresspositionjoinedalliancewhoBiharhappiness.”ChiefMinister,recentlybrokethewithBJPandhandswithOpRJDandConalsowishedtheMinisteronhis“HappyBirthdaytoMinisterNarenModiji.WishingahealthyandlongsaidKumar.“ConveyingbirthdayandbesttoPMNarendraMayyoubeblesswithhappiness,goodandlonglife,”RajasthanMinisterAshokDelhiChiefMinisterKejriwalputouttweetwishingforMinisterModi’sandhealthylife.
New Delhi (ANI): On the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda inaugurated an exhibition on the various aspects of his life from his child hood to becoming the leader of the nation. Nadda also launched a blood donation camp organised at BJP headquarters. The party is holding similar exhibitions and campaigns in others states also. Speaking to mediapersons, Nadda said, “We all know Prime Minister Narender Modi’s life is dedicated to human service and that is why we decided to celebrate his birthday as Sewa Pakhwada.”
saint’ by her followers. He captioned the post by mentioning that he was impressed with the
After that the Con gress removed Michael Lobo as the leader of the legislature party. Now the big question that is being raised in party circles is why was Lobo made a leader after the election? Lobo has been
How did Congress manage to axe its own foot in Goa?
Congress leader Ra hul Gandhi tweeted a one-line greeting for PM Modi. “Wishing PM Narendra Modi a happy birthday,” he tweeted followed by wishes from his colleague Shashi Tharoor, Sachin Pilot among others. Other op position leaders too took to Twitter to wish PM for his stead,”&progress,bringourvelopingmove“MayhealthandaShashiCongressbirthday.leaderTharoorpostedphotowithPMModiwishedhimgoodandlonglife.heworktorethedarknessensomanyoffellowcitizens&themthelightofdevelopmentsocialharmonyinhetweeted.Takingtoamicro
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Governor Arif Mu hammad Khan coun tered CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s statement that the former was averse to campus politics.Khan said campus politics in Kerala had descended into vio lence. It has resulted in lost lives, de stroyed careers, fam
TEJASHWI INTIMIDATED OFFICERS, CANCEL HIS BAIL: CBI TO COURT; NOTICE ISSUED
Cuttack (Agencies):
New Delhi (PTI): Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar called on for mer prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh at Singh’s residence.
tion for tribal people in Telangana.“TheBill (proposed law for 10 per cent tribal quota) is pending with the Centre. I am asking Amit Shah, who is do
Kamat needed an ex cuse for an opportunity to leave the party. He was tired of being in constant opposition and wanted power. Last time he was hopeful that maybe next time Congress would win. But when the Con gress’s seats fell further, he made up his mind to leave the party.
Mathura (Agencies): The dozen odd Hindu petitioners in Mathura, seeking ‘liberation’ of the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi from the Shahi Idgah, have been rejoicing ever since the Varanasi court ruled in favour of the Hindu petitioners in the Gyanvapi case. The Varanasi district court ruled that the case was maintainable in the court of law and rejected the application moved by the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee that the Places of Worship Act (Special Provisions) 1991 is applicable in this case.
E-AUCTION OF GIFTS PRESENTED TO PM MODI BEGINS
turned to the Congress and the party had given tickets to both him and his wife. Both also won and after winning, the Congress made him the
PM launches National Logistics Policy
“You are the young torch-bearers, now think of legal aid to a certain extent. Devote your time, energy to the extent possible to legal aid work and it will again bring you back to that level of compas sion. That compassion will drive you in the right direction,” said justice Lalit, who also heads the National Le gal Services Authority.
Rahul Gandhi meets Amritanandamayi Maa during Cong’s Bharat Jodo Yatra
Manmohan Singh Ji and Smt Gursharan Kaur Ji at their resi
Union Ministers Pi yush Goyal & Nitin Gad kari were also present.
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Further, six other state-based projects also await GoI nod and more importantly, funding un der Union government schemes aimed at pro viding an impetus and incentivized industriali zation for Maharashtra.
MODERATE RAIN: IMD PREDICTION
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Bhubaneswar (PTI):
Lucknow: 6 IPS officers of UP cadre have been nominated in Special Foundation Course 2022 which will be undertak en at Haryana Institute of Public Administra tion at Gurgaon from September 19 to Decem ber 30. Out of these six, five officers are of 2019 batch IPS while 1 IPS is from 2018 batch. IPS
First India has learnt that despite seeking de tails of all land allot ments in June-July were sought on August 03, 2022, the CMO is still awaiting them; a delay which it has not taken kindly.OnFriday, Maharash tra’s Additional Chief Secretary (Industries), Baldev Singh, was sum moned by Chief Minis ter Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to answer questions relat ed to the delay. “The in dustries secretary com mitted to submitting the full list of these land al lotments by Monday (September 19). Once it comes through, those fishy deals will be dis criminated against and set aside, while those taken in genuine inter est of industry in Maha rashtra will be ratified and cleared again,” said a state secretariat offi cial. Another state secre tariat official said, “Spe cific complaints were received about a spate of allotments carried out at
A submerged temple following heavy monsoon rains in Jabalpur, on Saturday —PHOTO BY PTI
Goyal, a 2004 batch IAS, is currently posted as Commissioner in Jhansi and had come to
Shinde, Fadnavis... regarding fishy land deals were received by the CMO, we decided to review all allotments by the MIDC during this period. This is to dis criminate between allot ments that were as per proper procedure from those where improprie ty is detected.”
It may be recalled that Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari had also cited some deci sions taken by the previ ous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government dur ing the interim period of the political dispensa tion comprising Shiv Sena, Nationalist Con gress Party and Con gress, before the new Maha Yuti government formally took charge.
Maha awaits... Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh were given inprinciple approval on October 14, 2020.
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the State Public Works Department and NHAI authorities to ensure proper maintenance of roads leading to the Mandi town besides making elaborate ar rangements for adequate
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But now, he is saying that he fully supports the scheme. He is the only leader of the oppo sition who is openly supporting this plan. The rest of the opposi tion leaders are still op posing it or at least not supporting it. The state governments are giving the help to the army that is being sought in organizing recruitment rallies for the inducting Agniveers, but the Op position parties are not supporting it.
A cyclonic circulation has formed over the eastcentral Bay of Bengal in the morning. Under its influence, a low-pres sure area is set to take shape over the north west part of the embay ment around Tuesday, according to a bulletin by the Met Fisherfolkoffice.have been directed not to go into the deep-sea areas on Tuesday. They have also been told to avoid ven turing off the Odisha coast for the subsequent two days due to possible squally weather with gusty wind speed of 4555 Thekmph.Met predicted heavy rain in a few are as across Cuttack, Khur da, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Ganjam, Gajapati, Kala handi, Kendrapara and Kandhamal districts on Sunday. The Bhubane swar Meteorological Centre issued a yellow alert of heavy showers of 65-115 mm across coastal and southern Odisha on Monday.
The Met office on Satur day warned of heavy rain in Odisha over the next four days due to the likely formation of a low pressure area over Bay of Bengal.
6 UP IPS officers nominated in Spl Foundation Course
Mumbai: The IMD has forecast mostly overcast sky with moderate rainfall over the next 48 hours after heavy rains pounded Mumbai overnight and on Friday morning.A few isolated areas may see sporadic severe periods, according to the meteorological agency’s forecast.IMD has also is sued an “orange” signal for Saturday, predicting severe to very heavy rainfall in the nearby Palghar and Thane districts.The IMD predicts that for the next two days, the city’s temperature will range between 26 and 31 degrees Celsius.Additionally, the meteorological service forecasted in its bul letin on Saturday that during the next 24 hours, there would likely be heavy rain, thunderstorms, and lightning across the ghat regions of Madhya Maharashtra, Konkan, and Goa.
the behest of a close fam ily member of a minis ter in the MVA govern ment.”Reacting to the charge, a bureaucrat for merly associated with the state Industries De partment said, “There were so many plots allot ted in many of the 289 MIDC industrial town ships across Maharash tra. Many allotments were based on recom mendations, requests received by the depart ment from MLAs of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress across 288 con stituencies. Proposals were also processed at the request of ministers from other departments to synergize joint col laborations for indus trial progress allied to their departments as well.” The move is likely to result in a bout of liti gation as land allottees, who are expected to come under scrutiny for indulging in alleged ‘fishy’ deals, may move court to stay a govern ment rethink on the in dustrial plots allotted to them.
of Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam. In 2020, he was entrusted with the responsibility of re lief commissioner and in the year 2021 he was made the commissioner of Prayagraj and in July 2022 he was posted as commissioner Jhansi. IAS Sanjay Goyal was sent by DoPT on 29 June 2017 on deputation to UP for 3 years.
MLA Jawahar Thakur, officers of PWD, Jal Shakti Vib hag, Municipal Corpo ration, NHAI, Health, and other departments attended the meeting. IAS Sanjay Goyal not given extension of UP deputation
Lucknow: IAS Sanjay Goyal has not been giv en extension of stay on deputation in UP by the Central government, due to which he will have to go back soon to his native cadre Assam.
Palash Bansal, the sole 2018 batch IPS from the lot, is currently serving as ASP (Rural) Aligarh. The remaining 2019 batch officers are IPS Vivek Chandra Yadav serving as ASP Meerut, IPS Sagar Jain serving as ASP Moradabad, ASP Prayagraj IPS Sara vanan T, ASP Agra IPS Satyanarayan Prajapat and ASP Lucknow IPS Shashank Singh.
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stead of Punjab. Re sponding to this letter, Kejriwal said that he is not in favor of this scheme but when the government has taken a decision, he fully sup ports it. Now just imag ine the double talk. If Kejriwal is not in favor of any law, then how can he support the deci sion of the government? And if he thinks his changing the stance was right, then why did he not do so in the case of agricultural laws?
New Delhi: In the cur rent list of politicians, only AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal is the leader who can take a Uturn on his stands. Take for example his recent stand on the Agneepath scheme. He had com pletely opposed the Ag neepath plan brought for four years’ recruit ment in the army and had demanded full-time jobs instead of making the youth Agniveers.
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In Punjab also the state government was to provide similar help to the army, but when the army did not get help in Punjab, it shot a letter to
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UP cadre in 2017. His first posting in UP was Special Secretary- Fi nance. Post that in 2018, he was appointed as MD
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Corporation (BPC) in Maharashtra awaits fi nancial closure from Centre.Thefive multi modal logistics parks (MMLPs) project in Maharashtra, under the Bharatmala scheme is also awaiting nod. MIDC signed an MoU with the National Highway Authority of India’s (NHAI) to form a special purpose vehicle with the Rail Vikas Nig am Board to acquire land parcels at proposed sites.Similarly, MIDC sub mitted one greenfield project for Bidkin (1,000 acres) in Aurangabad and one brownfield pro ject for Amravati (100 acres) to the Ministry of Textiles under the PM Mega Integrated Tex tiles Region and Apparel (PM-MTTRA) parks scheme. On March 17, 2022 a presentation was made by MIDC to the Ministry of Textiles and GoI approvals are await ed.Another pilot project proposal for setting up a manufacturing zone for power and renewable en ergy equipment in Ma harashtra is awaiting support to ensure timely closure of the project. It is set to be located on 227 acres of land in Butibori at an outlay of Rs400 crore.Ameeting to discuss a proposed onteda151-acreRaigad.clusterwearernmentpipelineapprovalreviewproval19,Pune(EMC)manufacturingelectronicsclusteratRanjangaoninwasheldonJuly2022,whereverbalapwasgivenbythecommittee.Finalispending.ThefinalprojectintheofthestategovisaleatherfootandaccessoriesatRatwadinTobesetupatasiteatMangaon,proposalwassubmitonthenationalportalSeptember13,2022.
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es were recovered from Hamid Ali’s house. He was arrested in this case,” Deputy Commis sioner of Police (south east) Esha Pandey said. The second FIR was registered against Kausar Imam Siddique alias Laddan, a resident of Jogabai Extension, also under the Arms Act.“A country-made pis tol and three live rounds were recovered from his place. He is evading arrest,” the senior official in formed.Thethird FIR was lodged for obstructing the raiding party of ACB in discharge of government work. The police said that those people who were in volved in obstruction were being identified.
the Chief Minister that if it does not help in or ganizing the rallies for recruitment, then the army will organize ral lies in other states in
ACB officials before taking AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan to a court, in New Delhi, on Saturday.
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Mandi (ANI): Himachal Chief Minis ter Jai Ram Thakur pre sided over a meeting in Mandi on Saturday to review the prepared ness for Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the state. The PM’s visit is scheduled for September 24 at Mandi. Jai Ram Thakur directed the of ficers to ensure fool proof arrangements to make the event a suc cess. The CM directed
ti Vibhag to ensure an uninterrupted water supply in the town. He directed the Mu nicipal Corporation au thorities to launch a spe cial cleanliness cam paign in the town, both before and after the rally.
New Delhi (PTI): With overcast skies on Saturday morning, the minimum temperature in the national capital settled at 22.5 degrees Celsius, three notches below the normal, an India alsopleasantdays,rainfallofwitnessedbulletinduringrainfallcloudyletinDepartmentMeteorological(IMD)bulsaid.Agenerallyskyandlightisexpectedtheday,thesaid.Thecitybriefspellslighttomoderateinthelasttwowhichledtoaweatherbutwaterloggingand
traffic jam in several areas. The relative hu midity recorded at 8.30 am was 95 per cent, the IMD bulletin said. The air quality index (AQI) of Delhi was recorded in the good (38) category around 9.30 am, data from the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecast ing And Research (SA FAR) showed. An AQI between zero and 50 is considered good, 51 and 100 satisfactory, 101 and 200 moderate, 201 and 300 poor, 301 and 400 very poor, and 401 and 500 severe.
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The study found that “the world’s 3 largest economies have been slowing sharply”
New Delhi: In a board re shuffle following the completion of the acquisi tion of cialoftheasditionalKaran,chairmancementnamedhisofwasandassets,glomeratebuildingSwitzerland-basedmaterialsconHolcim’sIndiaAmbujaCementsACC,GautamAdaniappointedchairmanAmbujaCementswhileeldersonKaranwasadirectorofbothfirmsandasofACC.Forthiswouldbeadresponsibilities,the35-year-oldisalsochiefexecutiveofficerAdaniPortsandSpeEconomicZone.
Kolkata: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said there is need to reduce logistics costs in the country, which is higher than that of China, the US Europeanand countries. The idea is to make waterways as a popular mode of transport for passengers and goods as this will help in bringing down the import cost of petrol and diesel, which is around `16 lakh crore for the country annually, he said.—PTI
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EAM S Jaishankar, Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal, Singaporean Deputy PM Lawrence Wong and his ministers participate in the India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable in New Delhi on Saturday.
Raising rates makes bor rowing more expensive to try to bring down the pace of price rises. But it also makes loans more costly, which can slow economic growth. The warning from the World Bank came
Mumbai: The Indian econ omy is all set to get past the slight growth tapering in the first quarter of 2022-23, as per RBI Bulle tin. It stated that aggregate demand is firm and set to expand further with the offset of the Indian festival season. The bulletin also mentioned that inflation remained elevated and was above the tolerance level, while underlining the need for monetary policy to keep second-order ef fects contained and infla tion expectations firmly anchored.
of its corresponding level of 2019-20, marking a strong beginning to India’s growth revival in the post-pandem ic phase, the review said. It further said that sustained growth in government’s revenues will also aid capi tal expenditure during the current fiscal. Risks to growth and inflation tra jectories persist as India is integrated with the rest of the world, the finance ministry said.
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New Delhi: YouTube is going to make its shortform video app Shorts part of its partner pro gramme that will help mil lions of creators get a share of the ad money generated in Shorts. You Tube is also making it eas ier for creators, who don’t qualify for the partner pro gramme, make money via tips, subscriptions and merchandise sales, re ports The Verge. To date, YouTube has monetised Shorts via creator funds, shopping and tips.
Interest rate hikes by cen tral banks around the world could trigger a global recession in 2023, the World Bank has warned, media reports said. Central banks have raised rates “with a degree of synchronicity not seen over the past five dec ades” to tackle soaring pric es, World Bank said.
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New Delhi: The Artificial Intelligence (AI) market value is expected to reach nearly $450 billion this year and maintain a yearover-year growth rate in the next 5 years, a new re port has forecast. In 2021, the global revenues for the AI market, including software, hardware, and services for both AI cen tric and AI non-centric ap plications, reached $383.3 billion, an increase of 20.7 per cent over the prior year, according to the In ternational Data Corpora tion (IDC). The reality is that AI offers solutions to everything we are facing at the moment.
of India’s weekly statisti cal supplement, foreign currency assets, which are the biggest component of the forex reserves, dipped by $2.519 billion to $489.598 billion during the week ended September 9. The foreign currency assets
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New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sat urday participated in the India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable conference along with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal with a visiting delegation from the island nation led by its Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong. During the meeting, the Ministers emphasised on ways of enhancing cooperation between the two countries in the emerging and futuristic areas.The two sides deliberated upon a wide range of issues which inter alia included financial sector operations, fintech, regulatory cooperation, investment opportunities and current economic arrangements.
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Expressed in US dollar terms, the foreign currency assets include the effect of appreciation or deprecia tion of non-dollar curren cies like Euro, UK’s Pound Sterling & Japanese Yen held in the foreign ex change reserves.
NEED TO REDUCE COST OF LOGISTICS TO BOOST GROWTH: GADKARI
PADDY SOWING IN THE STATES SO FAR MadhyaJharkhandPradeshWestBengalChhattisgarhUttarPradeshBihar 9.80 lakh 6.32 lakh 3.91 lakh 2.61 lakh 2.18 lakh 4.45 lakh All figures in lakh hectares
New Delhi (Agencies): As contact-intensive services have revived and there is growth in private consump tion, economic growth is expected to improve in the coming months, the month ly economic review re leased by Finance Ministry on Saturday said.
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had declined by $6.527 bil lion in the previous week.
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Several people were cheated in the last few years by cyber frauds be cause they have stored their card data on the mer chants website for future payments.Letsusunderstand what these new norms are and why you should tokenise yourFirstly,card. tokenisation means the details of your cards such as 16-digit num ber, names, expiry dates and codes which you used to save earlier for the fu ture payments will now be replaced by a token. The token is used by the merchant`s website for the transaction.TheRBIis implement ing these norms of tokeni sation in order to secure the card details of the cus tomers. Currently, the bank card details are saved by a merchant during a transaction.If,themerchant`s web site is hacked, the details of the customers will be
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New Delhi: The government has received 75 applications from domestic players under the SchemePLI includeApplicantsspecialtyforsteel.major
“Under the circumstanc es, even a moderate hit to the global economy over the next year could tip it into recession,” it said.
India’s forex reserves have dropped by almost $80 billion since the RussiaUkraine war earlier this year. As per Reserve Bank
The value of gold re serves rose by $340 million to $38.644 billion during the week ended September 9. The value of gold reserves had declined by $1.339 bil lion in the previous week.
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“The real GDP in the first quarter of 2022-23 is now nearly four per cent ahead
New Delhi: A Finance Ministry report on Saturday underlined the need for deft management of stocks of agriculture commodities in view of lower crop-sowing for the Kharif Season, stressing there should be no room for complacency on the inflation front. Overall, inflation ary pressures in India appear to be on a decline with a pre-emptive set of administrative measures by the govern ment, agile monetary policy and easing of international commodity prices and supply-chain bottlenecks, according to the monthly Economic Review released by the Finance Ministry. However, it said, there is no “room for complacency on the inflation front as lower cropsowing for the Kharif season calls for deft management of stocks of agricul tural commodities and market prices without unduly jeopardising farm exports.” India’s rice production could fall by 10-12 million tonnes during the Kharif season this year due to a fall in paddy sowing area, Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey had said earlier this month. The Kharif season contributes about 80% of India’s total rice production.
New Delhi: Adani Power on Saturday said its pro moter entity Adani Proper ties has withdrawn a pro posal to delist the company due to non-receipt of inprinciple approval of stock exchanges. The company in a regulatory filing stated that it has received a letter from a member of the pro moter group seeking with drawal of delisting offer. The company shall be tak ing necessary steps includ ing inter alia noting and taking on record the Delist ing Withdrawal Letter by the Board of Directors.
The review noted that as external pressures will di minish, inflationary pres sures are expected to wear down. India’s GDP growth was 13.5 per cent in the first quarter of the cur rent fiscal. “Increase in private consumption and higher capacity utilisation in the current year has further reinvigorated the capex cycle to take the in vestment rate in the first quarter of 2022-23 to one of its highest levels in the last decade,” it said.
FOREX RESERVES DROP BY $2.23 BN, LOWEST LEVEL IN TWO YEARS
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global economy is in its steepest slowdown since 1970, BBC reported. The World Bank also called on central banks to coordinate their actions and “commu nicate policy decisions
period this year. As per data released by AdEx India, a divi sion of TAM Media Research, film stars cornered a larger share of TV ads compared to sports stars. Nearly 30% of the TV ads were found to be endorsed by celebrities.
Mumbai (ANI): India’s for eign exchange (forex) re serves dropped by $2.234 billion to $550.871 billion for the week ended Septem ber 9, the lowest level in two years, the RBI data showed. This is the sixth weekly fall in the country’s forex reserves. The forex re serves had dropped by $7.941 billion during the week ended September 2.
Step 5: Congratulations!!! Your card details are now secured. Once the customer tokenised their cards they will be able to recognise their details on the merchants website using the last 4 four digits of the cards, which is the only data the merchant will be able to save on their portal.
Mumbai (PTI): The Re serve Bank of India (RBI) is ready to bring its card-onfile tokenisation norms into effect from October 1 after various complaints were filed regarding the misuse of debit or credit cards.
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ahead of the monetary pol icy meetings of the US Fed eral Reserve and Bank of England, which are expect ed to increase key interest rates next week. The World Bank had said that the
steel players Tata Steel, JSW Steel, JSPL, AMNS India and SAIL, a senior steel ministry official said. “A significant number of applications have been received. There are 75 applications in total, so far,” the official said.
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Core inflation may also remain sticky in the months ahead as companies pass on higher inputs costs to the consumer sooner than later. During the winter months, heightened international focus on energy security in advanced nations could el evate geopolitical tensions, testing India’s astute han dling of its energy needs so far. In these uncertain times, it may not be possible to remain satisfied and sit back for long periods, it further noted.
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Saturday. “With control over used data and online real es tate, the digital platforms are in a unique position to shape and influence consumer choices on one hand and steer consumer traffic to their businesses to the other,” Gupta said. —PTI
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New Delhi: In order to meet the criteria for performance-linked in centive (PLI) scheme, ‘Make in India’ smartphone shipments grew 16% year-on-year to reach 44 million units in the first quarter of this financial year, as per new report. The govern ment’s push with multiple PLI schemes has been showing a positive impact and “we saw increased local manufacturing share in product segments like smart watch, TWS, neckband and tablet”, said Counterpoint Research.OPPO led the ‘Make in India’ smartphone shipments with a 24% share, followed by Samsung and Vivo.
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Sanjay Ingale (39), the sole bread earner of his family died in an ac cident that took place at the Mumbai-Pune Ex pressway on February 11, 2016. He was coming from Airoli to Shirur when the incident took place.While Ingale was re pairing a mechanical fault of his truck that stood at tyretruckspeed,comingExpressway,Mumbai-PuneatrailerataveryhighdashedintohiscausingitsfronttogooverIngale,
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“As the convoy had to move further, the police cleared the road and moved the youngsters aside by hitting lathis on the ground. There was no lathi charge as such and no one was injured. We detained some of them and let them go af ter questioning,” assert edMeanwhile,Shewale. Fadnavis denied reports of lathi charge and assured that the state government will begin the police re cruitment process.
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ecently, Bihar’s Deputy CM and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav held a tea party at his house and invited senior leaders of his party who couldn’t find a place in
Tejashwi was sharing his mind with these leaders when suddenly a senior RJD leader who came from Munger asked Tejashwi, “You made Nitish Kumar again the CM while his vote percentage is less in front of our party at only 10-12%, and on rid ing our vote share, he is dreaming of becoming nation’s PM in 2024. And what have you got in return, only the post of Deputy CM?” Tejash wi listened carefully and patiently answered, “You are senior to me in both age & experience. Try to understand that in Bihar there are 40 LS seats. Congress and Left will fight on 4-6 seats in 2024. Out of the remaining 34 seats, 1717 seats will be left for RJD and JDU. Our tar get is that this time we have to win all these 17 seats by employing our entire might. Now it is up to Nitish ji that how many seats he can win out of his share of 17.
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“Yearly income was Rs1,20,000 and out of which 1/4th was de ducted for personal ex penses. As per Supreme Court guidelines, the suitable multiplier is 14 with the age, thus the loss of dependency was Rs12,60,000. The fixed funeral expenses and loss of estate will be Rs15,000. With a 10% in crease in conventional heads every three years, the family is entitled to receive Rs14,69,000 and added a rate of interest of 7% per annum,” the Bench directed.
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R ahul and Congress are in awe of the initial successes of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. This visit of Rahul is also in tended to give a big jump to the Congress’s seat count in 2024. Keeping in view the ‘24 elections, Rahul’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is passing through the same states where the Congress is seeing some ray of hope, where they have a cadre, a lead er, and thus, a hope.
the growing crowd and allow Fadnavis’ convoy to pass though Shree Nagar area, police had to use force to move the youngsters out of the way,” said Pramod kumar Shewale, Nand
I n the recently con cluded Raipur session of the RSS, in which BJP President JP Nadda and Organisation General Secretary BL Santosh had specially come to Raipur to attend, there was a rift in relations be tween the Sangh and the BJP. The Sangh believes that in last few years, the BJP has achieved the de sired political expan sion, but in comparison, Sangh hasn’t been able to give desired expan sion to its organisation.
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Those states have also been left where the Con gress is dependent on its allies, such as Tamil Nadu, where the Con gress’s journey lasted only 3 days. The journey started from Kanyaku mari and reached Kerala on the third day because the Congress poli tics in Tamil Nadu is de
DMK. Rahul’s journey is to last 19 days in a small state like Kerala, 21 days in Karnataka, and 13 days in Telangana. That is, in a journey of 148 days, Rahul is spending 53 days only in those 3 states of the South. Sim ilarly, the assembly elec tions are to be held in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh next year, where the Congress wants to maintain its previous performance. Rahul’s journey in Rajasthan is of 21 days and in Mad hya Pradesh it is of 16 days. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, there were 29 seats where the BJP defeated the Con gress by a small margin and 57 seats where the BJP’s victory margin over the Congress was less than one lakh.
The Sangh is also said to be angry with BJP that it wasn’t involved in changing K’taka’s CM, where BJP has expanded due to Sangh’s efforts.
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the Presidential and Vice- Presidential elec tions, he supported the NDA and towed a line other than TMC. His votes were in support of Droupadi Murmu and Jagdeep Dhankhar. Now Didi has been informed Faleiro may go to the BJP’s court very soon. Sources reveal that a ma jor reason for this is the fact that the Faleiro fam ily has a large and luxu rious resort in the coast al area, which still falls under the legal defini tion of illegal and legal izing it can take up to three years. Not even six months have passed since BJP government was formed in Goa and 8 Congress MLAs have already shifted to BJP. There is a huge void in the name of Opposi tion, so Faleiro is being cautious & doesn’t want to
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ning the LS polls in As sam on a TMC ticket is nothing less than mira cle. So, she has already started exploring the new door of possibili ties. Such is the situation now that when TMC’s core group meeting was going on in Guwahati and instead of Sushmita attending that meeting, she went to meet Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sar ma, Didi scolded Sush mita to which Sushmita replied naively and said, “I had gone to talk to the CM that’s why so many atrocities are being com mitted against the peo ple of our party in the state?” Didi couldn’t say anything further!
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sis situation, the air port operator said, add ing that such emergen cy mock drills are held from time to time, to test the alertness, effi ciency and prepared ness of the airport staff.
First India Bureau Aurangabad: Demand ing commencement of the police recruitment drive, youngsters gathered along the route of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ convoy in Nanded on Saturday.
rinamool leader Mamata Banerjee is trying to become the new head of the Opposition unit, but her own house seems to have been marred with strife. Take the example of Goa, the champion land of defec tion, from where Luiz inho Faleiro, came to TMC just before the Goa elections, didn’t even contest the Assembly elections, and went straight to the Rajya Sabha. Now it is being said that Mamata is an gry with him these days.
ments to show that In gale was earning Rs10,000 per month, so the Tribunal took Rs8,000 per month as his income. The annual income was thus, taken to be Rs96,000, factoring 25% more for the pros pects of the deceased.
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the new coalition gov ernment of Bihar de spite their seniority.
Sangh’s opinion wasn’t taken when BJP incharges were changed before Sangh’s coordina tion meet in Raipur. Acc to sources, Modi & Shah want to extend tenure of BJP’s current National President JP Nadda till 2024, while Sangh is pro jecting Un
As part of the simu lated exercise, the pri vate airport operator carried out a full-scale bomb threat drill for about 1.35 hours at ter minal-2 (T2) beginning from 1.02 pm on Satur day without causing any inconvenience to
The simulation is also a part of the efforts to improve the safety meas ures which are highly critical in cases of a threat to the life of pas sengers and twocisesdromeductairlinesrequireandAviationInternationalemployees.CivilOrganizationDGCAregulationsallairportsandgloballytoconafull-scaleaeroemergencyexeratleastonceeveryyears.
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ment. The colour green has healing power and is understood to be the most restful and relax ing colour for the hu man eye to view. Green can help enhance vi sion, stability and en durance. Green takes up more space in the spectrum visible to the human eye and it is the dominant colour in the natural.Itisa natural choice in interior design as an ideal background or backdrop because we as humans are so used to seeing it everywhere. In different cultures, green carries different meanings, the colour green is symbolic of the happiness, peace
and harmony that the deities bring to Hindus, too little green can cause feelings of apa thy and fear of rejec tion. Green gemstones are believed to help cre ate balance, promote change or growth, in crease feelings of hope fulness and optimism and break the emotion al demands of others. Different shades, tints and hues of green have different meanings. For example, dark green represents greed, ambition and wealth, while yellow-green stands for sickness, jealousy and cowardice and the olive green rep resents the traditional colour of peace.
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reen is the col our between cyan and yel low on the vis ible spectrum. In tionscombinatocreate all other colours. Green fashion with its motto “Green envi ronment- upcycle fashion” stroke as a sustainable idea, with managing the great number of cut-offs and second hand pieces with the
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efforts of our hard working team and their simple yet talent ed machines and hands. It is a symbol of happiness and peace. Even if you do not wear green clothes and only use green acces sories, you will convey this freshness and peace to others. In the 15 century, green was used for wedding dresses because it was considered a symbol of fertility. Green the col our of life, renewal, nature and energy, is associated with meanings of growth, harmo ny, andsafety,freshness,fertility,environ
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STIMULATION OF PRESSURE POINTS AND NERVE ENDINGS It has been well established in Ayurveda and other al ternate therapies that the
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
‘PADABHYANGA’ OR FOOT MASSAGE
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JAN 21 - FEB 19 Fortunes are set to rise for those in trade and business. You love to live close to your family. You are a child at heart and never let this child die. You have a big heart and you always help someone if you can. Expected payments are likely to get released soon.
Tensions on the family front are likely to get sorted out. Your spouse can do anything for your happiness. You are happy spending day at home. Help your mothers at today and give them a reason to smile. You are opportunist, this will make you successful one day.
WEEKLY FOOT MASK our feet accumu late a lot of dead skin that some times gets left behind weeklydothatmendedrecomcare,toapproachfocusedForwashing.regularinamorefootitisyoua
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around for 5-10 minutes. Another simple, at-home trick is to roll each foot on a tennis ball to strengthen foot muscles and increase
You will enjoy good health by remaining regular in your workouts. It will be in your interest to guide a family youngster on the academic front. Scrumptious food is what you are craving for today. You may start a side business to earn extra money. You are a very grounded person.
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friends for money and status rather make friends who will stick with you forever. You care about you lover but somehow hesitate in expressing that care. On social front, you may have to spend some extra money in buying gifts for someone for some specific occasion.
This is the best time try something new with life give yourself a new purpose. You will feel amorous towards your wife. Work on your limitations, there can be no better time than this. You have more opposite sex friends than the same and you may be judged sometimes but don’t care.
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Pending concerningpaperworkaproperty will be completed. Your spouse may make you spend more than you expected. Admit your faults in relationship. Fantastic day for investing money in stock market as you can make fortune. You miss your parents a lot and somewhere fear to loose them.
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here was a time in Indian history when the washing of feet had great cultural and ritu alistic signifi cance. Washing the feet of a deity was an integral part of the prepa ration for worship. It was also an act of honour to anoint a person’s feet. Even on an individual lev el, one was expected to wash their feet before en tering a temple or their own home. There was a belief that evil spirits and negative energy would fol low you into the house if your feet had not been washed. In reality, it was probably just a belief put in place to limit the germs entering the house. Either way, our Vedic sages were not wrong about the im portance of foot care. But some of these practices did not translate into our 21st-century modern living.Our feet are our ‘Kar mendriya’, action organs or faithful servants that are often neglected and for gotten about until a prob lem arises. Our feet are important not only be cause they are our modes of mobility but also be cause they are connected by subtle energy channels to all our body organs, in cluding the brain. Foot re flexology, the centuries-old practice of applying pres sure on these meridian points, is believed to have several benefits that in clude reducing stress, aid ing digestion and improv ing sleep quality. Ayurveda believes that when feet are tired, so is the mind and when feet are healthy and beautiful it is the founda tion of physical grace and stamina.Ayurveda says it is very important to remember to keep your feet clean but never suppress foot perspi ration; suppressing perspi ration can cause damage to internal organs. It also emphasizes the impor tance of keeping one's feet comfortable and allowing the soles proper air and ventilation. To take a de
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23 Some family issues may need urgent resolution. Some of you are likely to enjoy an excursion with friends.You will feel financially comfortable. Your personality will attract many eligible bachelors. Spend time talking with likeminded people as it will make you feel good for now.
Don’t make
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herbs and salt has a deep detoxification action. Take a relaxing foot soak by dip ping your feet in warm wa ter with 2- 3 drops of witch hazel and 1-2 drops each of lavender, sage and rose mary essential oil. If you would like to the whole before bed time then simply soak your feet in warm water with rock salt or Epsom salt fol lowed by the night ly well.relieveThisPadabhyanga.ritualhelpseyestainsas
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tailed look into proper Ayurvedic foot care we can divide the rituals into 4 broad categories - ‘Padab hyanga’ or foot massage, herbal foot soak, weekly foot mask, stimulation of pressure points and nerve endings.
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You must create an environment of understand ing at home. Your regular exercise routine promises to keep you fit and energetic. You will succeed in any sort of examination if you put your heart and soul to it. You need a break to cope up with stress is to meditate.
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This is considered the mother of all alternate therapies because it holds the power to balance the Doshas, it reduces Vatarelated ailments like men tal stress, tension and anx iety while providing calm ness and deep restorative sleep. Regular Padabhi yanga activates the im mune system and helps the
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You make sure to make things work your way. You are most wanted by your friends. You can have romantic affair in office and a serious one. You will invest money in clothes and accessories today. You are a God fearing person. Never demotivate someone for their incompetent.
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Family will be supportive of your ideas. You give tough competition to people. Many people get inspired by you. You will get special treatment from your dear ones. Good health is assured through own efforts. Meeting people you get along with well is likely to make the day enjoyable for you.
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foot mask by making a paste using half part al mond meal and half ‘Masoor dal’ or red lentil flour along with water and
body resist autoimmune diseases. Apart from mak ing your feet soft and sup ple, it improves your eye sight as well. This type of foot massage is usually done at Ayurvedic centres using medicated oils but you can do this regularly at home using sesame oil or pure ghee. The best time for Padabhiyanga is at night before going to sleep. This must not be done when you are suffering from a cold, fever, indiges tion etc.
Today is a favourable day for business.Listening to someone’s advice on the professional front will be in your interest. You are very generous by nature and also you are the backbone of your family. Be careful of the words that come out of your mouth.
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You have a great friend circle. Whatever you have in mind, you will manage to implement it at work. You are likely to feel much healthy and energetic today. Visit a doctor if you have any doubts about your health. You want to have your own house and you will work hard for it.
Sushruta, one of the found ing fathers of Ayurveda, writes in the scriptures, that a regular foot soak, in warm water infused with
atima Sana Shaikh is all set for Sam Bahadur next to Vicky Kaushal in the lead. Taking to her so cial media, Fatima shared a glimpse of how she is preparing for the role of Indira Gandhi, whom she will be playing in Sam Bahadur. While there is no doubt about her talent, Fa tima shares a glimpse of how she is going all out to get into the skin of her character. She
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tional attires. Soha wore a pink coloured kurta which she paired with a golden pyjama and completed her look with em broidered jooti. Saif Ali Khan on the other hand wore attire.all-whitean
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Zaheer Iqbal took to their Instagram han dles and posted a short teaser of their upcoming music vid eo Blockbuster. The song has been sung by Ammy Virk and Asees Kaur, and the music video will star both the actors. The lyrics have been penned by Vibhas and Abhen dra Kumar Upad
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lia Bhatt tied the knot with her beau Ranbir Ka poor in an intimate cere mony. And now, the love birds are expecting their first child together. Speaking of which, did you know that Alia Bhatt once revealed she wants to have two baby boys? Back in 2019, Alia Bhatt shared a video on her YouTube channel, which featured herself with BFF and actress Akansha Ranjan Kapoor. During this, Alia picked up a chit with the question, “How many kids do I want?” Both Akansha and she answered that the actress wants 2 kids. Akansha wrote, ‘2 boys’, and Alia promptly agreed.
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aif Ali Khan is all geared up for the release of his upcoming mov ie Vikram Vedha these days. On Saturday Saif was snapped in the city this morning and he was ac companied by his gorgeous sister
fter making it big on the small screen, Sargun Me hta moved to production and acted in Punjabi cin ema, where she won hearts.
esides ruling the big screen with her exemplary acting skills, Shama Sikander is known to win hearts on social media as well. She is one of the most active celebrities on Instagram and with her every post she is known to draw in the netizens. Even to day, she took to her social media handle to share a very mesmer izing reel of herself on the popular Hindi song ‘Tip Tip Barsa Pani’, which is nothing less than a treat for her fans. In the video, we can see the actress being sensual in a see-through yellow saree and a backless blouse. The atmosphere in the background is also mesmerizing, all thanks to the monsoon. It enhances her beauty by becoming a perfect background for
actor wrote, “Wishing our hon Prime Minis ter Narendra bhai Modi a very happy themgreatyouspiresendramodiPrime“ज…@narendramodi.”birthdayAjayDevgntweeted,honorableMinister@narYourleadershipinandme.WishinggoodhealthandayearaheadSir.”Sharingapictureofinaconversation
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“I was very sure that I didn’t want to just be around there and do two songs without giving impor tance to the story of the film. If someone wants to watch a certain type of my work, they can see it in Punjabi too. The re sponse to Cuttputlli has been fantas tic. There’s going to be a point when people will accept new genres. Even when I did Qismat, every body said that it wouldn’t work in Punjab because it was not a typical comedy film that Pun jab was very used to. That film be came one of the biggest blockbust ers and then there was its second film. So, when you give people content with a lot of meat and something that they can enjoy also, it doesn’t matter what gen re it is,” Sargun said.
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Federer’s! Yes, you read that right! The actor has often been called the doppel ganger of the tennis player and Hansal Mehta’s tweet only made Federer’sfullyaspulledsir”.hahahaerretirement”,tweetcomments,ter#RogerFederer.”wheeze.netizensHewroteinthecaptions,“Goingtomissyouchampion.WhileoneTwituserwroteinthe“BestonFederer’sanothtweeted,“HahabrilliantAfollowerevenArbaaz’sleghewrote,“hopeyouwon’tmissacting.”
Akshay Kumar praised the PM for inspiring him constantly. He wrote, “Your vision, your warmth, and your capacity to work…just some of the many things that I find deeply inspiring. Happy Birth day, @narendramodi ji. Wish you health, happi ness and a glorious yearCallingahead.”him the strongest pillar of our nation, filmmaker Karan Johar wrote, “To the strongest pillar of our nation, leading our country to making agined...thewethewhoBirthdaywrote,happywhileharbingerPMAnil@narendramodienduringanmarkontheworldmap-happybirthKapoorcalledNarendraModi,theofacchedinwishinghimabirthday.He“AveryHappytothemanhasputIndiaonworldmapinawaycouldneverhaveimharbinger
he news of Roger Feder er’s retire ment from the Grand Slam and other big tourna ments was a shock to the world. Sever al Indian stars tweeted and posted their dis may while also hailing Federer for being the best throughout.Recently, film maker Hansal Me hta sent his good byes to the star player with a hilari ous twist. While Me hta expressed that he will miss him, he tweeted Arbaaz Khan’s photo in stead of Roger
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of acche din, the leader of our proud nation. May you live long and stay youAvatar…blessedthat’scanwillnationintalGandhiRamaajourney…wewhatfulcomingformsontotookstrengthhealth,wishingendramodi.PMOIndiaprimedaytweeted,while,onShriHon’blewrote,Abhishekhealthy!”Bachchan“WishingourPrimeMinister@narendramodijihisbirthday.”MeanVarunDhawan“Happybirthtoourhonourableminister@shri@narHere’syougreatpeaceandsir.Hariom”.KanganaRanauttoherInstagramwrite,“Fromsellingtherailwayplatasachildtobethemostpowermanonthisplanet,anincrediblewishyoulonglonglifebutlikelikeKrishnalikeyouareimmornowetchedforevertheconsciousofthisandbeyond,youforever,Nothingeraseyourlegacy,whyIcallyouantohaveasourleader.”
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A laya F is set to star in her second film with none other than Kartik Aaryan, who is considered among the hottest stars in town. Well, Alaya is not im mune to his charm as she re cently praised him, calling the shoot with him an endearing ex perience. In a recent interview, talking about her experience working with Kar tik Aaryan, Alaya said, “Shooting Freddy with Kartik was wonderful, he is actually STAYVACCINATEDMASKED
here are many times wordsthePM,noneingcomesoccasion.aercomesBollywoodwhentogethtocelebrateprestigiousAndwhenittocommemoratthebirthdayofotherthantheBollywoodhasmostglitzytosay.CelebratingthebirthdayofHonourablePrimeMinister,NarendraModi,Bollywoodpouredintheirhumblewishesforthecountry’sleaderontheirsocialmediaplatform.Whilemanysharedsomephotosfromtheinstanceswheretheywereinaface-to-faceconversationwiththePM,severalotherswrotesomecongratulatorywordsfortheleader.ActorShahRukhKhanwhoiscurrentlybusyjugglingtheshootoftwofilms,JawanandDunki,didnotmissoutonwishingModiJiwithsomehearti
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