First India-Delhi Edition-18th November 2022

‘MISLED’ BY AAFTAB, COPS NOW PLAN TO ESTABLISH ‘SEQUENCE OF EVENTS’

First India Bureau

New Delhi: Investiga tors probing the killing of Shraddha Walkar in Mehrauli said accused Aaftab Poonawala had misled them about the route taken by him and he will be taken back to the Chhatarpur forest.

“We have recovered body parts from four lo cations in the forest area. He had used a saw to chop the body parts, which he had allegedly bought from a shop on the Mehrauli-Gurgaon road. We will also take him to that shop so that the shopkeeper can identify him,” the source said.

The investigators are also likely to take Aaft ab to locations like Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand to estab lish the sequence of events leading to the brutal murder, sources said on Thursday.

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After leaving Mum bai, Walkar and Poon awala had travelled to several locations and police will visit these places with Poonawala to ascertain whether something had hap pened on those trips to trigger the murder.

Police have also traced the garbage van in which Walkar had disposed of his blood

stained clothes besides recovering an unpaid water bill of Rs 300 and food bills.

“We will talk to the owners and staffers of hotels where the couple had stayed in Himachal and Uttarakhand. We will also take him to the forest area to ascertain the routes taken by him while dumping the body parts,” a source said.

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Conspiracy against my government: Soren on mining case

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Bangladeshis

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UNION MINISTER BLAMES LIVE-IN RELATIONSHIPS FOR RISING CRIME

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Kishore is the Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Af fairs. Kishore, while referring to the Shradha Walkar murder case, said educated girls are responsible for leaving parents for live-in relationships that lead to crime, and suggested that they should instead go for court marriage.

BLAST ON UDAIPURAHMEDABAD RAILWAY TRACK Raj SOG detaines 3 including minor

Jaipur: Three people, including a juvenile, have been detained in connection with the blast on the UdaipurAhmedabad railway track, a police official said on Thursday.

Preliminary investi gation revealed that the accused were upset as they were not given compensation or a job after their land was ac quired by Indian Rail ways and Hindustan Zinc Limited.

“Three people, includ

ing a juvenile, have been detained. Another per son from whom they purchased the explosive has also been detained,” Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and Special Oper ation Group (SOG) ADG Ashok Rathore told re porters. The accused have been identified as Dhool Chand Meena and Prakash Meena. The ju venile is 17 years old. The other accused in the case is Ankush Suvalka, who sold the explosives, he said.

Court rejects objection to ‘Shivling’ worship at Gyanwapi

Varanasi: A Varanasi court Thursday rejected Gyanvapi Masjid com mittee’s objection to peti tion seeking right to wor ship ‘Shivling’ claimed to have been found in the mosque complex and fixed December 2 as the next date of hearing.Fast track court Judge Ma hendra Kumar Pandey

found the petition filed by Kiran Singh worth hearing and fixed De cember 2 for taking up the matter, Assistant Dis trict Government Coun sel Sulabh Prakash said. The court rejected objec tion filed by Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Com mittee questioning main tainability of the plea.

STRIKE AGAINST JUSTICE KARIEL’S

TRANSFER IN GUJ

Ahmedabad:

CM Hemant Soren has alleged big “conspira cy” by BJP to oust his elected government and create instability in the state. He made these al legations ahead of his questioning in the ille gal mining case. Soren also warned his party MLAs of more raids by the central agencies in the days to come to scare them.

“Allegations don’t seem to be possible at all. I feel agencies should come to a concrete con clusion only after a de tailed probe. I’m a CM, the manner in which summoning is being done makes it look like we’re people who flee the country,” he said and added, “Such ac

tions create uncertain ty in state. It can be called a conspiracy to destabilise govt. Our ri vals were conspiring to topple Govt ever since we came to power. This submarine of conspira cy didn’t have strength to rise out of water-at tempts being made to bring it out.”

Bardhaman: A West Bengal MLA has stirred controversy by alleged ly asking TMC workers to ensure that only those Bangladeshi im migrants who support the ruling party in the state find a place in the voters’ list. The draft electoral roll revision is underway in the state along with the rest of the country.

In a purported video that has gone viral on social media, Bardha man Dakshin MLA Khokan Das is heard saying, “Many new peo ple are coming…they are from Bangladesh. Many of these people vote for BJP based on Hindu sentiments. Please ensure that only those who support our party get place in the voters’ list.”

‘Savarkarji helped British’, says Rahul, shows letter as proof

Akola: Rahul Gandhi on Thursday again targeted late Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar, claiming that he helped the Brit ish rulers and wrote a mercy petition to them out of fear. Gandhi also dared the Maharashtra government to stop the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which is currently pass ing through the state.

His statement comes in the wake of some leaders from demand ing that the yatra be stopped in the state in view of his remarks against Savarkar.

Addressing a press conference, Gandhi showed documents dat ing back to 1920, claim ing that they contained a letter written by Sa varkar to the British.

Branch official said.

accused sent two forged notices to Hardev Singh, president of Nippon India Paints Ltd, and convinced him that the ED had filed a case against him

New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi Police has arrest ed a gang of nine peo ple, including its leader, for allegedly extorting around Rs 20 crore from a Mumbai-based busi nessman after sending him forged Enforce ment Directorate sum mons, officials said on Thursday.

The accused appar ently took inspiration from popular Bolly wood movie ‘Special 26’, they said.

Ravindra Singh Ya dav, Special Commis

sioner of Police (Crime Branch), said the ac cused sent two such forged notices to Hard ev Singh, president of Nippon India Paints Ltd, and convinced him that the federal agency had registered a case against him.

They further told Singh that he was going to be in deep trouble and claimed they could sort the whole thing out through a liaison in the ED’s Delhi office, Yadav added.

Singh then received

more such fake notices by speed post and grew apprehensive. He con tacted the accused for

help, who demanded Rs 2-3 crore at first and also asked to meet in Delhi, the Crime

On November 11, the victim tried to negoti ate with the accused to reduce the amount but was asked to meet in person to settle the is sue, he said.

The next day, Singh met two of the accused at the Mumbai airport and was told that the ED had detected alleged illegal properties worth thousands of crores but the issue could be set tled for just a few crores. They asked Singh to pay for their flights to

Delhi, as well as stay, so that they could sort eve rything out.

Giving in to their de mands, Singh booked their flights and set up a meeting at a posh ho tel in the national capi tal but the accused sud denly upped their de mand to Rs 20 crore for negotiating and settling the case, Yadav said.

After this, Singh ap proached the police and a case was registered, the officer said. The po lice said two of the ac cused were arrested

SAVARKAR’S GRANDSON LODGES COMPLAINT

from the hotel itself.

“During interroga tion, they disclosed that three of their associ ates were present in a room at the same ho tel,” the official said. The police arrested them and then subse quent arrests were made, he added.

The whole conspira cy was planned meticu lously, and every role was preciously defined and enacted, the police said, adding that 12 mo bile phones and a car have been seized.

RAHUL’S SAVARKAR BARB SPARKS CONTROVERSY

DNA TO BE MATCHED WITH SEVERED HEAD FOUND IN JUNE IN EAST DELHI

RESPECT AND LOVE SAVARKAR, DON’T AGREE WITH RAHUL’S REMARKS: UDDHAV

Savarkar’s grandson on Thursday registered a complaint against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for allegedly “in sulting” Savarkar, police said. Ranjit Savarkar, in a complaint lodged at Shivaji Park PS, also demanded that Maha rashtra Congress chief Nana Patole too should be booked for ‘making similar statements’.

New Delhi (ANI): The Southern District Police of Delhi have contacted their Eastern counterparts to match DNA samples of remains found in Mehrauli forest with those of a human head and hand which the latter recovered in June this year. The head and hand were found from bushes in Ramlila Ground near Kalyanpuri area. “The body parts were preserved in absence of any missing complaint,” said an investigator of that case.

Mumbai: Uddhav Thack eray said that he and his party disagree with Rahul Gandhi’s views on Savarkar. ‘’We don’t agree with what Rahul Gandhi has said. We respect Veer Savarkar, have great love, loyalty and respect for freedom fighter,” he said.

Delhi

Union Minister Kaushal Kishore on Thursday said live-in relationships are “giving rise to crime” and suggested that educated girls should not get into such relationships, remark that comes against the backdrop of the gruesome Mehrauli killing, prompting Shiv Sena leader Pri yanka Chaturvedi to demand his resignation. Chaturvedi urged Prime minister Narendra Modi to sack Kishore immediately from the Council of Ministers for his “blamethe-women” remark which she described as “heartless and cruel”.

New Delhi (PTI): A 30-yearold man was arrested for al legedly killing his girlfriend in Madanpur Khadar area over suspicion that she was having an affair, police said on Thursday. The killed woman, Gulshana (22), had separated from her husband and was living with her oneyear-old daughter.

ANOTHER CASE IN DELHI OF MAN KILLING GIRLFRIEND

New Delhi: PM Modi will hold rallies in Saurashtra for three consecutive days from November 20-22. He will conduct 3 rallies in Saurashtra on November 20, 2 in South Gujarat-Saurashtra on November 21 and two in Saurashtra on November 22.

NADDA, UNION MINISTERS, CMS TO ADDRESS 89 GUJ BJP RALLIES TODAY

New Delhi: Senior BJP leaders, including president J P Nadda besides Union ministers and CMs, are expected to address public meetings on Friday in the 89 Gujarat going to the polls in the first phase of elections on December 1.

New Delhi: The Union government on Thursday extended by one year the tenure of ED Director S.K. Mishra. The 1984-batch IRS officer has been given the extension till November 18, 2023. Mishra, 62, was appointed ED-Director for two years on November 19, 2018. P6

ED DIRECTOR S.K. MISHRA GETS ONE-YEAR EXTENSION

ED QUESTIONS J’KHAND CM FOR

HC

Advocates of Gujarat HC, based on the reports regarding SC collegium’s recommendation of transferring Justice Nikhil Kariel from the High Court to Patna High Court, Thursday afternoon gathered at Chief Justice Aravind Kumar’s court to oppose the move which they termed it “a death knell”.

Siliguri: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Thursday fell ill after attending a programme at Siliguri and was attended by doctors. Gadkari’s blood sugar dipped resulting in problem. However he later recovered.

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AAP’S TARGET

‘No more cattle menace in Delhi’

New Delhi (ANI): AAP on Thursday promised to provide relief to Delhi residents from stray cat tle, monkey and dog menace if it will be vot ed to govern in the na tional capital's Decem ber 4 civic body polls.

Talking to media on Thursday, AAP's Great er Kailash MLA Sau rabh Bhardwaj said that cattle keep on eating garbage in the national capital. Also AAP's na tional spokesperson, Bhardwaj said his party would build gaushalas for stray cattle if voted to govern in the ensuing Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elec tions.

Monkeys also pose a big problem for Delhi people. Arrangements will be made to send monkeys to their natu ral habitat, he promised.

The third main prob lem is of stray dogs. Delhi government brought problems cre ated by stray dogs to MCD's notice several times but it didn’t pay any heed, he added.

Bhardwaj said if vot ed to govern MCD, AAP would provide relief to Delhi residents from dog menace by encour aging individuals and non-government organi sations (NGOs) to make stray dogs as their pets.

Under "Be Indian, Adopt Indian" slogan, AAP will launch a move ment for making desi breed dogs' as pets, he further added.

BJP’S MANIFESTO A ‘BETRAYAL DOCUMENT’, SAYS ALKA LAMBA

New Delhi (PTI): BJP's manifesto for MCD polls is a "betrayal document" to mislead Delhiites for the party has no work to bank on, Congress spokesperson Alka Lamba said on Thursday. Alleg ing BJP in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has failed to fulfil its promises in the past, the former MLA claimed that the party does not have any achievements to highlight. "Despite ruling the MCD for 15 years, the BJP does not have any achievement to highlight or any issue to project. They failed to implement any of its promises in the past. Their manifesto for the MCD election is nothing but a betrayal document for the people of Delhi," she said.

DELHI BJP RELEASES ‘CHARGE SHEET’ AGAINST KEJRIWAL GOVT

New Delhi (PTI): In the run up to MCD polls, Delhi BJP on Thursday brought out a “charge sheet” against the AAP government accusing it of failing to fulfill its promises. Reading out the “charge sheet” at a press confer ence, senior BJP leader Ramvir Singh Bidhuri claimed the issues raised in it were verified, and chal lenged AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal to have a de bate on it with him. “In 8 years of its rule, Kejriwal government turned Delhi into the most polluted national capital in the world, and also a capital of addiction by allowing liquor shops in every street of the city,” Bidhuri charged.

‘Show of women empowerment’ as contenders exceed quota

New Delhi (PTI):

The upcoming civic elections in Delhi will be a "show of women empowerment", said candidates, as women contenders fielded by political parties ex ceeded the mandatory 50 per cent quota.

In the 250-ward Mu nicipal Corporation of Delhi, which goes to polls on December 4, 50 per cent seats are reserved for women.

While AAP has fielded 138 women, BJP and Congress have nominated 136 and 129, respectively.

While the last date to withdraw nom inations is November 19, votes will be count ed on December 7.

Ritu Goel, a BJP candidate, who is con testing the MCD polls from Rohini-F(52) for the second time said

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HC restrains illegal streaming of ‘Bhuj:

The Pride of India’

New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi High Court has permanently restrained over 700 websites from unlawfully streaming Ajay Devgn starrer

‘Bhuj: The Pride of In dia’ and confirmed its earlier order blocking the “rogue” websites.

The order was passed by Justice Prathiba M Singh on a lawsuit by the producers of the film to prevent several websites from unlawfully stream ing its pirated copies.

found there were 689 ad ditional websites illegal ly streaming the movie.

“The orders of blocking shall also stand con firmed permanently in respect of all the im pugned domain names / websites,” court said.

women have started walking shoulder to shoulder with men in politics as well.

“Women are strong and capable of doing all kinds of job. Even in politics, women have started walking at the same pace as men now,” Goel, a for mer deputy mayor, said.

BJP candidate from Shalimar Bagh-B ward Rekha Gupta, contesting for the third time said, “I've been holding public meets and reaching out to everyone in my ward. We will be focus ing further on pollu tion and cleanliness. Days begin with 'pady

CBI court denies bail to Satyendar Jain, 2 others

New Delhi (ANI): The CBI Court at Rouse Ave nue on Thursday dis missed the bail petitions of Minister Satyendar Jain, and two other coaccused, Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain, in a money laundering case.

Jain was arrested on May 30 under the Pre vention of Money Laun dering Act (PMLA) by the ED. Special CBI Judge Vikas Dhull on Thursday said all three bail petitions are dis missed and fixed the matter for November 29 for arguments in the main matter.

During arguments for

detail, it was submitted on behalf of Jain that the investigation related to the applicant has been completed and a charge sheet has been filed. No case of money launder ing is made out against the applicant.

Senior advocates N Hariharan and Rahul Mehra submitted that it is alleged that a conspir

acy for money launder ing was hatched in 2010.

At the time neither Jain was an MLA nor a Min ister. So how could he hatch a conspiracy for money laundering?

It was also submitted that as per the charge sheet the other accused have admitted that the money allegedly laun dered belongs to them.

Jain has nothing to do with the companies in question. The bail plea was opposed by ASG SV Raju, who submitted that there are witnesses and materials sufficient to make out a case of money laundering.

New Delhi (ANI): The Rouse Avenue Court on Thursday extended the Enforcement Di rectorate remand till November 21 of two businessmen from Andhra Pradesh and Tel angana in connection with its ongoing mon ey laundering probe into the Delhi Excise policy 2021-22. Earlier, Sharath Chandra Reddy and Binoy Babu were sent to seven days' remand by the court. They were ar rested last week under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act following long ques tioning with them at the Enforcement Direc torate headquarters. Reddy is the head of Hyderabad-based Aurobindo Pharma com pany. Babu is the head of a wine company named Pernord Ricard.

CIVIC ELECTIONS

cleanliness

—Shivani Chauhan, candidate

atras' (marches), fol lowed by meetings with senior citizens at parks. We have been holding door-to-door campaigns and public meetings too.”

Shivani Chauhan, 23, a fashion designer, is one of the youngest candidates in the fray. She is contesting from the Kalkaji ward and has been associated with the party for the last four years.

AAP candidate from Rajinder Nagar ward, Aarti Chawla, who is contesting the election for the first time, said this time the polls will be a show of ‘women empower ment’.

In August, the HC had passed an interim in junction blocking and restraining 42 websites from broadcasting the film in violation of the plaintiffs’ copyright and broadcast reproduction rights. However, it was

Producers and owners of various TV channels and ‘Disney+Hotstar’, had earlier told the court if their exclusive rights to the film are not pro tected and illegal stream ing continued, they will suffer adverse monetary impact.

New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the city government to decide within two months whether it will grant exgratia to the 49-year-old widow of an assistant traffic inspector died of COVID-19 after contract ing the disease while per forming his duties dur ing the second wave of the pandemic.

The petitioner submit ted as per government policy, if any govern ment employee deployed for COVID-19 duty dies due to the viral disease, the grieving family is en titled to a compensation of Rs 1 crore, but author ities have not enter tained her request for it.

New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi High Court has upheld the life impris onment awarded to a man for kidnapping a 10-year-old for ransom and murdering him af ter getting money, say ing the modus operandi adopted by the convict was “diabolical”. The HC said the guilt of ap pellant Sidharth Jeitley has been proved beyond reasonable doubt by the prosecution.

The court said there was clearly a deliberate attempt to mislead the parents of the child and those assisting them to different locations to en sure whoever comes in his way was sufficiently distracted.

On LG’s initiative, Najafgarh drain being cleaned: Officials

New Delhi (PTI) :A 2-km stretch of the Na jafgarh drain in north Delhi has been com pletely cleaned and the work upstream is fast progressing, officials said on Thursday.

Ever since he took over, LG Vinai Saxena has been personally overseeing the cleaning operations of the Najaf garh drain, which is the main polluting source of the Yamuna as well, the officials said.

The 57-km-long chan nel has as many as 121

smaller drains that dis charge sewage into it.

The annual silt depos it in the drain is over 3 to 4 lakh tonnes and around 85 lakh tonnes of solid waste is lying in

the drain at present, ac cording to officials.

The silt, accumulated in the form of two solid mounds, is equal to the 85 lakh tonnes of waste at the Ghazipur landfill site. These underwater mounds block the natu ral flow of water, espe cially during the mon soon. Over the years, the drain has deteriorated into a health hazard.

A 2-km stretch of the drain that has been com pletely cleaned is from Timarpur to Mall Road Bridge, officials said.

AAP MLA Tripathi appears before ACB in poll ticket bribery case

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ACB arrested Tripathi’s brother-in-law and his two associates for demanding Rs 90L as bribe for arranging a ticket to a party worker’s wife in the civic polls

On Tuesday, the ACB arrested Tripathi’s brother-in-law and his two associates for alleg edly demanding Rs 90 lakh as bribe for arrang ing a ticket to a party worker’s wife in the civic polls.

A senior ACB official said Tripathi was asked

to appear at 11 am. He is being questioned, the of ficial said.

The incident came to light on Monday after a

Tripathi allegedly de manded Rs 90 lakh to

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Kha ri’s wife. Khari

Rs 35 lakh to him. He also allegedly gave Rs 20 lakh to AAP MLA Rajesh

Tripathi’s in sistence, according to a complaint.

Khari had told Trip athi the remaining amount would be paid after getting the ticket, it said. On Sunday, the complainant did not find his wife’s name in the list of candidates re leased by the AAP.

Delhi (PTI): AAP MLA Akhilesh Pati Tri pathi on Thursday ap peared before the AntiCorruption Branch (ACB) in connection with the poll ticket brib ery case, officials said.

person named Gopal Khari, who claimed to have been associated with the AAP as an ac tive worker since 2014,

approached the ACB with the complaint, ac cording to an official statement on Wednes day. Khari met Tripathi,

the Model Town MLA, last Wednesday (Novem ber 9) with a request for a ticket from AAP for his wife to contest the

upcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections from Ward No. 69 in Kamla Nagar, the ACB said.

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(From L) Akhilesh Pati Tripathi arrives at the ACB office in New Delhi on Thursday. Gopal Khari, the complainant, arrives at the ACB office on Thursday. The three men, including a relative and a personal assistant of Tripathi, arrested by the ACB. —PHOTOS BY ANI

Gopal Khari said he paid Rs 35L to Tripathi and also gave Rs 20 lakh to AAP MLA Rajesh on Tripathi’s insistence

Party will build gaushalas for stray cattle if voted to govern MCD, says MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj

Campaign ‘Be Indian, Adopt Indian’ to be launched encouraging people to make desi breed dogs as pets

Citizens to get relief from monkeys too as AAP plans to send the simians to their natural habitat

AAP MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj

AAP leader Atishi Marlena with party candidates for MCD polls. —PHOTO BY ANI

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HC asks Delhi govt to consider widow’s plea

HC upholds life for kidnapping, murdering child

Court extends ED remand of two businessmen till Nov 21

Court extends police custody for 5 days, allows narco test

n Delhi Police had asked for 10 days’ extension

n Plea for narco test was moved on Saturday

First India Bureau

New Delhi: Metropoli tan magistrate Aviral Shukla of Saket court extended the police cus tody of accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala for the next five days in the Shraddha Walker mur der case.

The court also al lowed the application for a narco test of the accused. The applica tion for the narco test was moved on Saturday.

Aaftab was produced before the court through video confer encing after five days of police custody.

Delhi police had moved an application seeking an extension of police custody for ten

days. Delhi police sub mitted before the court, "The investigation is going on and the ac cused is to be taken to Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh where he went with Shraddha."

Delhi police submit ted that further custo dial interrogation of the accused is required to unearth the entire case and to collect the evidence.

ANOTHER LEAD: WATER BILL

New Delhi (ANI): The Delhi Police have come across a fresh lead in the form of a pending water bill in accused Aaftab Poonawalla's flat. Accord ing to sources, two neighbours living on the floor above Aftab had informed the police that the water bill of all the floors comes to zero, except for Aftab's, who had an outstanding due of Rs 300, thus raising suspicion.

"After the murder, Aftab used a lot of water to clean the blood stains leading to a high water bill and the pending bill. Neighbours told the Police that Aftab used to regularly go and check the building's water tank," the sources said.

Threat from 'religious groups', Aaftab not brought to court

New Delhi: Earlier, the court allowed an appli cation seeking the ap pearance of Aftab through video confer encing.

"As per the informa tion, some religious groups and miscreants may attack the accused. Under these circum stances, it would not be appropriate to produce the accused in the courtroom," Delhi Po lice submitted.

After considering the application, the judge said, "I am aware of the public sentiment at tached to the case. I am also aware of the media coverage and sensitivi ty of the matter. In the interest of justice, the application for appear ance through video con ferencing is allowed."

While the court was hearing the application, lawyers were protesting outside the courtroom and raising slogans against Aftab. They were raising the slogan "Shraddha ke hatyare ko fansi do, fansi do".

He has a vicious mind, he should be hanged: Father

New Delhi (ANI): Shraddha Walkar's fa ther on Thursday said that he felt that Aftab had been lying all along the investigation.

"I have been feeling since the beginning that Aftab has been ly ing all along. I said this firstly to Mumbai Po lice and then to Delhi Police. He confessed right away, I doubted even this. He was con fusing us with his lies," he said.

"Delhi Police have re

alised that Aaftab some times lies and some times speaks the truth. So, they applied for the narco test. I feel I'm about to get justice. He should be hanged," he said, adding that Aftab “has a vicious mind”.

‘FIRST DISPOSED OF BODY PARTS THAT MAY STINK’

New Delhi (ANI): According to police sources, Aaftab during his interroga tion said that after killing Shraddha and chopping her body into 35 pieces, he had first disposed of those parts which could stink quickly.

"Accused Aaftab told the police that he used bleach to destroy the evidence, and also used chemi cals so that not a single stain of blood remained on the floor," the sources said. "He threw all the parts of the body in the forest and left thumb at some other location," the sources added.

According to sources, there was no remorse visible on his face during his interrogation.

Lawyers shout ‘Hang the Killer’ at Saket court

New Delhi (PTI): A section of lawyers on Thursday at the Saket court premises shouted slogans such as "Shrad dha ke hatyare ko fansi do, fansi do" (Hang the murderer of Shraddha) against Aaftab Amin Poonawala.

About 100 advocates practising at Saket dis trict courts assembled at around 3pm when they came to know that the accused will be pro duced before Metropoli tan Magistrate Aviral Shukla. One of the pro testing lawyers, Suren dra Kumar, said the pro

Narco test: Hits and Misses

ABDUL KARIM TELGI FAKE STAMP PAPER SCAM

MUMBAI TERROR ATTACK CASE

BAR BODIES CONDEMN PROTEST

New Delhi (PTI): The Saket Bar Association on Thursday condemned the protest by lawyers at Saket court. Association President Advocate Vinod Sharma said, "Our Association did not hold the protest, nor did we support it. The law takes its own course. I am also not sure if those were lawyers or some outsiders in advocates' uniform.” Bar Council Secretary, Advocate Murari Tiwari, said, "It's a very heinous crime, but law takes its own course.” Advocate Rajnish Kumar Jha con demned the protest and said, Courts and probe agencies are already doing their job, what is there to protest at this stage."

test was organised against the heinous crime of the accused.

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VHP, other groups take out candle marches

O nly a few scams created such strong ripples in Maha rashtra politics as the stamp paper racket did after its kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi alleged during a narco test that NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, then a Union minister, and former state deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhu jbal received money from him. However, the narco test became redundant after Telgi recorded his statement before a chief judicial magistrate, where there was no mention of either Pawar or Bhu jbal. In the videotape of the 2003 narco-anal ysis test, aired by TV channels in 2006, Telgi claimed to have made payments to them.

New Delhi (Agencies):

The minimum tempera ture in Delhi is set to drop further over the next two days, accord ing to the forecast is sued by the IMD.

The minimum tem perature recorded early Thursday was 11.3 de grees Celsius, a degree below the normal for this time of the year and the season’s lowest yer. It is likely to drop to around 9 degrees Celsi us by November 19.

Misty mornings are also on the forecast for Delhi over the next six days, and the maximum temperature is likely to be around 26 or 27 de

grees Celsius. The max imum temperature re corded on Wednesday was 27.5 degrees Celsi us, a degree below the normal.

With a western dis turbance affecting parts of Northwest In

dia, light to moderate snowfall or rainfall is likely over Himachal Pradesh on November 19, and Jammu, Kash mir, and Ladakh from November 18 to 20.

Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality remained in

the ‘poor’ category on Thursday morning with a 24-hour average Air Quality Index (AQI) of 254 at 9 am. Most monitoring stations in Delhi recorded AQI in the ‘poor’ or ‘moderate’ categories on Thursday.

AARUSHI TALWAR MURDER CASE

The CBI had drawn a blank during narco-tests conducted on parents of Aarushi --Nupur and Rajesh Talwar -- as it failed to get any concrete clue which could help investigators in solving the murder case of the teenage girl. The probe agency had conducted narco test on the couple and others in 2010 while it had conducted brain mapping and lie detector tests of the Talwars in 2009. The dentist couple were convicted of murdering their 14-year old daughter Aarushi and their domestic servant Hemraj on the intervening night of May 15-16, 2008 and sentenced to serve life term.

New Delhi (PTI): People "angry" over the grue some killing of 27-year-old Shradha Walkar took out candle marches in the city on Thursday to de mand capital punishment to the accused, Aaftab Amin Poonawala, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) said.

The candle marches were taken out from eight different locations in South Delhi's Mehrauli area at 6pm to demand enactment of stringent laws against "illegal religious conversion and love ji had" in the national capital, VHP national spokes person Vinod Bansal said.

"The people angry over the gruesome murder of Shradha Walkar will take out the marches in Me haruli to pay tribute to the victim, demand speedy trial of her murder case and award of capital pun ishment to the accused within three months," the VHP leader said announcing the march. "They will also demand enactment of stringent laws against illegal religious conversion and love jihad," he added. The people's candle march has been backed by the VHP and various other groups, Bansal said.

DU expands capacity of UG classes to 60 students, of PG classes to 50

New Delhi: An under graduate class in Delhi University can now have 60 students for lec tures, 30 for tutorials and 25 for practicals, while a postgraduate class will be able to ac commodate 50 students, with 25 for tutorial classes and 15-20 for practicals.

The change was an nounced via a notifica tion dated 11 November, which stated the move was being executed to “observe uniformity in

the teacher-student ra tio in all programmes being offered by the University and its col lege”. The notice speci fied the size of class rooms in terms of the number of students.

However, the Nation al Education Policy 2020 puts the student-teach er ratio between 10-20 students per teacher.

Professor Nandita Narayan of the Demo cratic Teachers Front,

This notifica tion looks like a desperate act by the University to ‘create’ teachers for the 4th year of the Four Year UG Prog.

in a statement, called the move a ‘travesty’ and a ‘desperate act’ and said this could se verely impact the qual ity of teaching and learning happening in a classroom.

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Vehicles ply on Gurugram-Delhi Expressway amid low visibility due to heavy smog, in Gurugram on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI

The AQI is likely to deteriorate, but will remain in the ‘very poor’ category over the weekend, according to a forecast.

—Prof Nandita Narayan, Democratic Teachers

vestigation in the mat ter. It should be decided expeditiously in a fast track court," he said.

Aaftab was produced before court through video conferencing after five days of police custody.

Media personnel stand outside the Mehrauli Police station in New Delhi on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI

Lawyers raise slogans during the hearing of Mehrauli murder case at Saket Court on Thursday.

Hindu Ekta Manch activists take part in a candle light vigil in Mehrauli on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI

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The lone Mumbai terror accused Ajmal Kasab arrested by police was subjected to narco analy sis test to corroborate all that he had confessed in his interrogation and to get more information about the conspiracy that was being hatched from Pakistani soil. Kasab had provided details of the Mumbai terror attack plan including the training received from banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror groups and his family background, security agencies still went ahead with the test to sift facts from fiction. His narco analysis test provided a deep insight into LeT and its masterminds including its founder Hafiz Saeed’s involvement.

Key lessons from T20 World Cup as Team India rebuilds in New Zealand

IN-DEPTH CALM HANDLING OF MISSILE CRISIS AVERTS A GLOBAL CONFLICT

“E

veryone has the will to suc ceed, but few have the will to prepare for it.” This quote by American Basketball coach Bobby Knight, resonates well with the current state of In dian cricket. While many plans and strategies were laid out after the debacle in the 2021 T20 World Cup, none were strongly implemented whereby India returned emp ty-handed from yet another World Cup. Now, the wait for an ICC Trophy has extended to 10 years since it was 2013 when Indian won the Cham pions Trophy in England.

It wasn’t just the captain that they changed in 2015. In stead, players suited to and specialists in the shorter for mats were given priority over more established play ers. The whole cricketing world wants to emulate their strategy now, and India put a plan in place last year by bringing together the RohitRahul duo as the captaincoach to usher in this change, especially keeping in mind the 2022 T20 World Cup. Sad ly, at the recent World Cup, India faltered by playing the same brand of cricket that they have been following for years.

The T20 game has changed a lot since India won the title back in 2007 and the approach to batting has evolved enormously. Unfortunately, most Indian players are still stuck in the past, playing old-fashioned cricket. Many experts questioned why a match winner like Rishabh Pant was not in the playing eleven

team lacked.

More than the quicks it was the surprising omission of Yuzvendra Chahal who wasn’t picked for a single game! England bamboozled India and Pakistan both in the knockout matches with the leg spin of Adil Rashid. In fact, much of Pakistan’s success can be attributed to the leg spin of Shadab Khan. But India played Ashwin and Axar, both of whom went for plenty in the semis against England as they bowled pre dictably without any element of surprise.

missile believed to have been misfired by Ukraine landed in Poland killing two people could have brought the Russia-Ukraine con flict to Europe. Luckily, timely and fair investigation allayed the initial suspicion that the missile was fired by Russia. The Soviet-era missile came from Ukraine, the investigators con cluded, thus averting a major confrontation. Had it been proved that the projectile came from Russia the Nato countries and the US would have been forced into a direct war against Russians.

Ukraine escaped an outright condemnation as it is facing a barrage of missile attacks from Russia. On the day the missile was misfired, Kyiv’s critical fa cilities, including power stations, were hit by as many as 50 mis siles. The human error looks quite possible as the Ukrainian missile was directed at an incom ing Russian projectile.

Moscow strongly denied any missile strike on Poland and the West also reacted with maturity and calm to save the world from a disaster.

The fans are unhappy and want major changes to take place in the team. A traditional approach to batting, backing out of form senior players, an effective bowling attack with no space for wrist spinners and poor captaincy are some of the key factors behind India’s poor show in big games

For the change to happen, Team India just has to take a leaf out of England’s book. Many experts have pointed out the transformation and the efforts put in by the Eng lish management to overhaul their white ball cricket. In 2015, England were rudely jolted as they were ousted from the group league in the ODI World Cup. What hap pened after that is history as the English team appointed a new captain for the shorter format in Eoin Morgan and changed their approach to playing fearless cricket. To day, they have become the only team in cricket history to hold both the ODI and T20 World Cups at the same time.

NOTHING CURIOUS ABOUT JARIWALA CASE

The fans are unhappy and want major changes to take place in the team. A tradi tional approach to batting, backing out of form senior players, an effective bowling attack with no space for wrist spinners and poor captaincy are some of the key factors behind India’s poor show in big games. But it is the style of play that needs the biggest tweaking along with an ag gressive approach to the game.

In the semi-final against England, India started poorly in the powerplay overs, some thing that Rohit had claimed the team was working on se riously. In many bilateral se ries leading up to the World Cup, India had played aggres sively at the start but in cru cial games and tense situa tions, they faltered. The T20 game has changed a lot since India won the title back in 2007 and the approach to bat

ting has evolved enormously. Unfortunately, most Indian players are still stuck in the past, playing old-fashioned cricket.

Even some of the selec tions were bizarre and many experts questioned why a match winner like Rishabh Pant was not in the playing eleven. Dinesh Karthik was not part of the team’s setup for years after the 2019 ODI World Cup and had started commentating with Sky Sports. But he was recalled solely on the basis of his per formances in the IPL. Moreo ver, India lacked depth in the bowling department. With the injury to Jasprit Bum rah, India missed a genuine pace bowler, one who could bowl well at the top and in death overs. Every team had one or two genuine quick bowlers which the Indian

Now, barely a week after crashing out of the World Cup, Team India begins a white ball series in New Zea land hoping for a fresh start to its search for a right com bination. With Hardik Pan dya leading a young side, In dia will look ahead to locate players with an approach that befits the modern T20 game. Umran Malik, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishan Kishan and San ju Samson will be the players to lookout for in the series.

This new-looking squad under Pandya will give the selectors an idea of who can be the potential replace ments for many of the sen iors in the coming years. Both India and New Zealand were knocked out in the Semi-finals of the T20 World Cup and will be keen to make amends - and that promises a gripping series as both sides battle to showcase their full potential!!

SPIRITUAL SPEAK

Bhagavad Gita

The case of Kan chan Jariwala, Aam Aadmi Par ty’s candidate from Surat (East) would have been curious had it not happened in the midst of a hec tic political campaign. This disappearance of a candidate and his re-emergence the next day to announce a change in his allegiance from one party to another is not surprising.

But was Jariwala kidnapped, as alleged by the AAP, to force him to withdraw his nomina tion papers or did AAP over play its hand? In his statement Jariwala said he was voluntar ily withdrawing due to the in ternal conflicts with AAP “leaders and workers”.

The AAP chief Arvind Ke jriwal said that Jariwala and his family went “missing”

Hullabaloo by AAP over Jariwala’s alleged kidnapping was needless. In 2021, he contested the Surat civic body election on Congress ticket but lost to the BJP. Surat East is considered a stronghold of the BJP

since Tuesday. He tweeted, “First, the BJP tried to get his nomination rejected. But his nomination was accepted. Later, he was being pressured to withdraw his nomination. Has he been kidnapped?” The BJP rejected the charge. AAP has demanded a “free and

fair” probe into the incident. However, after Jariwala’s statement there is nothing left for investigation.

Hullabaloo by AAP over Ja riwala’s alleged kidnapping was needless. In 2021, he con tested the Surat civic body election on Congress ticket but lost to the BJP. Surat East is considered a stronghold of the BJP. In 2017 Assembly election AAP was able to gar ner only 0.22 percent of the votes which was less than the votes polled by NOTA.

Notwithstanding the truth behind the controversy, it does expose the dark side of Indian politics. Clean and controver sy-free elections have become a rarity. Most of the times these allegations are baseless and frivolous and malign the democratic process.

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Saffron party’s Alpesh Thakor files nomination from Gandhinagar South

Ahmedabad (PTI):

OBC leader Alpesh Thakor on Thursday filed his nomination as a BJP candidate from Gan dhinagar South Assem bly constitu ency in Gu jarat. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel accom panied him as he filed his papers on the last day of filing of nominations for the sec ond phase of the Assem bly elections.

Thakor, who had lost from Radhanpur in North Gujarat in a byelection in 2019 on the BJP ticket, has been fielded from Gandhina gar South this time.

“I am confident that with the support of our workers, the BJP will win massively in the state,” he told media. The BJP will take the state forward in the coming days, he added.

CM Patel said the state has achieved a lot under PM Narendra Modi’s leadership.

New

(ANI):

Congress cries foul, demands K’taka CM’s resignation

Bengaluru (PTI): The Congress in Karnataka on Thursday charged the Chief Minister with “corrupt electoral elec toral practice” vis-a-vis an “awareness pro gramme,” a charge re jected outright by Basa varaj Bommai who said the opposition party was bankrupt with ideas.

The CM asserted he was ready to face an en quiry and also get inves tigated, Congress’ alle gation that a private firm engaged in voter survey in the city col lected details, including on individuals’ caste and their Aadhaar.

As the issue erupted into a political row, the city’s civic body an nounced terminating the permission granted to the NGO involved in the programme and au thorities said action will be taken against it if it was found to be in volved in violations.

Congress national general secretary Ran deep Surjewala de

CONG DISSOLVES UP PANELS FORMED FOR STATE POLLS

Kharge on Thursday dissolved all commit tees formed in Uttar Pradesh for the as sembly elections this year, and the state unit of the party is likely to be reconsti tuted. Party sources said office-bearers of the unit would be replaced under the leadership of state Congress president Brijlal Khabri. An of ficial communication from the party said.

manded the resignation of Bommai, alleging he is directly responsible for the corrupt electoral practice by assigning a private entity, Chilume Educational and Rural Development Institute, to collect door-to-door voter information.

Digvijaya targets PM Modi, Guj CM over Morbi bridge collapse

Ahmedabad (PTI): Sen ior Congress leader Dig vijaya Singh on Thurs day targeted Prime Min ister Narendra Modi and Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel over the Morbi bridge col lapse and claimed it was an “act of fraud of the highest degree”.

Addressing a press conference here in pollbound Gujarat, Rajya Sabha member Digvi jaya Singh said there cannot be a bigger ad ministrative failure than the bridge collapse tragedy last month which claimed 135 lives, and said CM Patel should have resigned over the incident.

The suspension bridge located on the Machchhu river in Mor bi collapsed on October 30, four days after it was reopened following its repair and renovation.

CIVIC BODY TO HC

Ahmedabad: The Morbi municipality has told the Gujarat High Court that the company tasked with renovating the bridge, which collapsed killing 135 people, reopened it without any prior approval and without informing the civic body. The municipality also informed the court that as per a 2022 agreement between the civic body and the firm, it was for the Ajanta company to “ap propriately renovate” the bridge and only then open it for the public.

Non-bailable warrant against SP MLA Irfan Solanki

Kanpur (PTI): A spe cial MP-MLA court has issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki and his young er brother Rizwan in a case of burning down a woman’s house in Jajmau area, officials said on Thursday.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Or der) Anand Prakash Tiwari said hunt is on to nab the Seesamau

MLA and his brother who have gone under ground to evade arrest.

On

ing and arson after a woman he had a land dispute with accused them of burning her house down .

The FIR was regis tered based on a com plaint by Nazir Fatima of Defence Colony Jaj mau in the city who ac cused the SP leader and his aides of de stroying her house when she and her fam ily were away to attend a marriage ceremony.

Fatima had said she

JMM supporters demonstrate in Ranchi as J'khand CM being questioned by ED

Ranchi (PTI): Thou sands of JMM workers from across Jharkhand gathered in Ranchi on Thursday to show soli darity with Chief Minis ter Hemant Soren, who is facing questioning from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to alleged illegal mining in the state.

The Jharkhand Muk ti Morcha supporters, holding placards bear ing messages such as ED, CBI ka durupayog bandh karo’ (stop mis

use of ED, and CBI’) and

PHASING DOWN FOSSIL FUELS

They raised slogans against the BJP and the central agencies.

“The Hemant Soren govt is being harassed by the opposition through the central agencies. We came here to support our chief minister,” said a sup porter Sukumar Munda.

Meanwhile, several legislators from the JMM and its partnersthe Congress and the RJD- in the UPA also gathered at CM’s House to show their unity and solidarity.

owned a plot having an area of 535 square yards in the posh De fence Colony where she had been staying since 1986. She alleged that the MLA and his brother have grabbed around 200 square yards of her land.

SHO of Jajmau po lice station Abhishek Shukla was placed un der suspension for not taking action against the MLA and refusing to file the complaint.

TO WIN AMRELI FOR 4TH TIME WILL BE A TOUGH TASK FOR CONG’S PARESH DHANANI

Amreli (PTI): It would be an uphill task for Congress leader Paresh Dhanani to win from the Amreli Assembly constituency for the fourth time in the next month’s Gujarat elections, especially when the Patidar quota agitation has faded out. The former Leader of Oppo sition in the Assembly is also facing challenge from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which is expected to eat into the Congress's traditional vote banks. The rul ing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded its district unit chief Kaushik Vekariya from the seat, while the AAP has given ticket to Ravi Dhanani. All three — Dhanani and his two rivals — belong to the Patidar community.

CBI court acquits Chhota Rajan in double murder

Mumbai (ANI): A spe cial CBI court has ac quitted underworld don Chhota Rajan and three others in the 2009 dou ble murder case of JJ Signal in Bhindi Ba zaar. In 2009, Asif Dadhi alias Chhote Miyan and Shakeel Modak of the Chhota Shakeel gang were shot dead. Rajan is currently lodged in Tihar jail, serving life imprisonment for mur der of journalist J Dey.

IN THE COURTYARD

HC EXTENDS TILL DEC 19 ORDER OF NO COERCIVE ACTION AGAINST ANIL AMBANI

Mumbai (PTI): The Bombay High Court on Thursday extended till December 19 its earlier order directing the Income Tax department to not take any coercive action against Reliance ADAG group chairman Anil Ambani on a show cause notice seeking to prosecute him under the Black Money Act. The order was extended by a division bench after the Income Tax department sought more time to file its affidavit in response to Ambani’s petition challenging the notice.

REMARKS AGAINST PREZ: WB GOVT TO FILE AFFIDAVITS

Informal draft of COP27 omits India’s proposal

transitions”.

New Delhi (PTI): The UN published a first in formal draft of the cli mate deal on Thursday and it doesn’t mention phase down of all fossil fuels, a proposal that was put forward by In dia and supported by the European Union and many other countries.

The draft, reflecting needs and demands of countries, expresses “deep regret” that de veloped countries who have the most capabili ties financially and

technologically to lead in reducing their emis sions continue to fall short in doing so.

It encourages “the continued efforts to ac celerate measures to wards the phase down

INDIA HOPEFUL OF RENEWAL OF UN DEAL

of unabated coal pow er and phase out and rationalize inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, in

line with national cir cumstances and recog nizing the need for support towards just

Nearly the same lan guage was used in the Glasgow Climate deal last year.

When contacted, a spokesperson of the En vironment Ministry said the Indian negotia tors do not wish to com ment “as negotiations are going on”.

The cover text also doesn’t mention when a loss and damage fi nance facility will be launched and what its contours will be.

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the West Bengal govt, and its minister Akhil Giri to file separate affidavits in response to the PIL filed over the derogatory comments by Giri referring to the looks of President

Droupadi Murmu. The court directed the state govt to file an affidavit within two weeks on the steps taken by it on the FIR filed against Giri in the matter.

ED CASE AGAINST FORMER UNION MINISTER QUASHED

Chennai: The Madras High Court has quashed an Enforcement Case Information Report reg istered by the ED against DMK MP S Jagathrak shakan, representing Arakkonam constituten cy, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act of 2002. Justices PN Prakash and RMT. Teekaa Raman allowed his writ petition pending since 2020, and quashed the ECIR registered on June 12, 2020.

PARESH MESTA DEATH: COURT ALLOWS OBJECTIONS TO CBI’S CLOSURE REPORT

Honnavar (Agencies): In a major development, a court in Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada on Thursday allowed filing of objections to the CBI’s closure report in connection with the suspicious death of Paresh Mesta during a commu nal clash in the district in 2017. The father of the deceased, Kamalakar Mesta had objected to the closure report and filed a submission in the Judicial Magistrate in Honnavar city, stating that they don’t agree with the report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Union Minister Bhupender Yadav at COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

PM MODI TO ADDRESS POLL RALLIES FROM NOV 20 IN SAURASHTRA REGION NADDA, UNION MINISTERS, CMS TO ADDRESS 89 BJP RALLIES TODAY

Delhi

Ahead of Gujarat polls, PM Narendra Modi will hold rallies in Gujarat’s Saurashtra for three consecutive days from November 20. More than 1.5 lakh people will participate in these rallies, , said sources. The PM will conduct three rallies in Saurashtra on Novem ber 20, two in South Gujarat and Saurashtra on Nov 21 and two in Saurashtra on Nov 22. A BJP source said that a detailed program of the PM’s rallies and road shows is being prepared. Since the PM was out of the country for the G20 summit, the party waited for his return to seek approval and finalize the rally venues.

New Delhi (PTI): Senior BJP leaders, including chief JP Nadda besides Union ministers and chief ministers, are expected to address public meetings on Friday in the 89 constituencies going to the polls in the first phase of polls on December 1. With the BJP intensifying its campaign, party sources said Nadda will hold rallies in three places — Navsari, Ankleshwar and Rajkot East — while Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Narendra Singh Tomar and Anurag Singh Thakur will speak at three, four and four meetings, respectively. UP CM Yogi Adityanath and MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan will address three and four rallies, respectively.

Students create ‘rangoli’ to spread voting awareness ahead of upcoming Assembly polls, in Ahmedabad, on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI

MORBI BRIDGE WAS REOPENED SANS APPROVAL:

Hemant Soren zindabad’, assembled at

Ranchi’s Morabadi Ground and marched towards the CM house.

PVT ENTITY IN VOTER SURVEY

JMM supporters protest over summoning of Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren by ED, in Ranchi on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI

New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun

November 7, po lice had booked Solan ki and Rizwan for riot

SP MLAs meet Kanpur Police Commissioner BP Jogdand in connection with the FIR registered against Irfan Solanki.

Ex-IAS officer CV Ananda Bose is new West Bengal Governor

n Bose, 71, last served as an administrator in the National Museum before superannuating

New Delhi (PTI): For mer bureaucrat CV Ananda Bose was on Thursday appointed the Governor of West Ben gal, a communique from the Rashtrapati Bhavan said.

Bose (71) is a 1977 batch (retired) Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Kerala cadre. He last served as an administrator in the National Museum here before superannuating in 2011.

“The President of In dia is pleased to appoint Dr C V Ananda Bose as regular Governor of West Bengal,” the com munique said.

His appointment will take effect on the date he assumes charge of his office, it said.

had been holding the additional charge of West Bengal since July this year after Jagdeep Dhankar became the V-P

Manipur Governor La Ganesan had been holding the additional charge of West Bengal since July this year af ter incumbent Jagdeep Dhankhar was nomi nated as the vice presi dent candidate by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majum dar had on Wednesday claimed that the state would soon get a new

governor who would follow the footsteps of Dhankhar, who had fre quent run-ins with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government.

Bose has been the dis trict collector of Quilon district (now Kollam) in Kerala, served as the secretary to the then chief minister of the state, and as additional secretary in the Minis try of Agriculture, among others.

Sheena case: My father is innocent, says Peter’s son

Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has declined to grant police the custody of tainted IPS officer Manilal Patidar for interrogation in a corrup tion case, citing technical grounds. The bench said though the special Preven tion of Corruption Act court in Lucknow erred in not allowing police custody for interrogation earlier, it cannot be granted at this stage “be cause section 167(2) of CrPC puts embargo on granting police custody after fifteen days judicial custody period, which expired on Nov 13.

Panaji: The international airport in Mopa in Goa will be tentatively commis sioned on December 11 but an official announce ment would be made after confirmation is received from the Prime Minister’s Office, said Chief Minis ter Pramod Sawant on Thursday. Private firm GMR, which will oper ate the airport, the state government as well as the Civil Aviation ministry are all ready to commission the facility, located in North Goa bordering Maharash tra, Sawant added.

MORTAL REMAINS OF 8 INDIANS KILLED IN MALDIVES GARAGE FIRE REPATRIATED

Male: The mortal remains of eight Indians who were killed in the deadly garage fire in the Maldivian capital here last week have been repatriated to India, the Indian High Com mission said on Thursday. The eight Indians were among 10 people who died on November 10, when a major fire broke out in the garage below a cramped living quarters that housed foreign workers here. The fire broke out in the M. Nirufehi area near Maaveyo Mosque, and is reported as the worst-ever recorded in Male in terms of lives claimed. “Mor tal remains of all 8 Indian nationals, who lost their lives in this unfortunate incident, have been repatriated to India.We thank Maldivian authorities for their support in this regard,” the Indian High Commission in Maldives tweeted.

Mumbai (PTI): Rahul Mukerjea, son of for mer media baron Peter Mukerjea, told the spe cial court here conduct ing the trial in the Shee na Bora murder case on Thursday that he still believes that his father is innocent.

Rahul Mukerjea was being cross-examined by main accused Indra ni Mukerjea’s lawyer Ranjeet Sangle before special judge for Cen tral Bureau of Investi gation cases SP NaikNimbalkar.

Peter Mukerjea, Ind rani’s former husband, was also arrested in the case. All the accused in cluding Indrani are out on bail.

Sheena Bora (24), with whom Rahul Muk erjea was stated to be in a relationship, was al legedly killed by her mother Indrani Muker jea with the help of coaccused Sanjeev Khan na and her driver Shay amvar Rai in 2012. The murder came to light in 2015 when Rai, arrested in another case, spilled the beans.

ED Director Sanjay Mishra gets third 1-year extension

New Delhi (PTI): The Union government on Thursday extended by one year the tenure of ED Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra. The or der issued by the Personnel Minis try said the 1984-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer has been given the ex tension till No vember 18, 2023.

Mishra, 62, was appointed director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for a pe riod of two years by an order on November 19, 2018. Later, by an order of November 13, 2020, the appointment letter was modified retrospec tively by the Central government and his term of two years was replaced by three years.

The government last year brought an ordi nance allowing that the tenure of the direc tors of the ED and the Central Bureau of In vestigation (CBI) can be extended by up to three years after the mandated term of two years. Mishra was subsequently given a oneyear extension then, his second.

Pradhan writes to Tomar on farmers’ insurance scheme

Bhubaneswar (PTI): Claiming that irregu larities have been com mitted in paying insur ance sum to farmers in Odisha under a central scheme, Union educa tion minister Dharmen dra Pradhan sought a probe into the alleged malpractices.

Pradhan, who held a meeting with farmers during his recent visit to Bargarh district, urged Union Agricul ture and Farmer Wel fare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to insti tute an investigation

into the “scam” pulled off in the implementa tion of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), and review the sum paid by the in surance company en listed by the state gov ernment under the cen tral scheme.

abuse

Pune (ANI): Pune Po lice said on Thursday it had arrested a man ac cused of repeatedly sex ually abusing and mo lesting his 17-year-old daughter for the past six years. The minor al leged that her father, uncle and grandfather sexually abused and mo lested her several times over the past six years, police said, adding that the victim made the rev elations after being vis ited by members of the Vishakha Committee.

"Acting on the com plaint, an FIR was regis tered and the accused father arrested on Wednesday. A Pune Po lice team has left for Ut tar Pradesh to appre hend the victim's uncle and grandfather," a sen ior officer said.

"The girl alleged that between 2016 and 2018, she was sexually abused by her uncle and grand father at their native place in UP. Her father, too, sexually harassed her after she wrote to him complaining about it," the officer added.

NGT files suo-moto case in Mizoram quarry collapse

Aizawl (PTI): The Na tional Green Tribunal (NGT) has registered a suo-moto case in the stone quarry collapse in south Mizoram’s Hnahthial district and directed authorities concerned to appear be fore it on November 28.

Seven officials, in cluding the member sec retary of Mizoram pol lution control board and the director of the state’s disaster manage ment directorate, have been asked to appear at the tribunal’s Faridkot House office in Delhi, according to the notice issued by the NGT on Wednesday.

District Superinten dent of Police (SP) Vineet Kumar said that suo-moto case into the

incident has also been filed at Hnahthial police station. Meanwhile, the toll in the stone quarry collapse in south Mizo ram’s Hnahthial dis trict climbed to 11 after one more body was re covered from the site, an official said on Thurs day. Hnahthial deputy commissioner (DC) R Lalremsanga said that the body of a 25-year-old man, a resident of Lun glei district, was found under the debris during the ongoing search op eration on Wednesday evening.

Twelve people were confirmed to have been trapped after the stone quarry caved in at Maudarh village, about 23 km from Hnahthial town, on Monday.

V-P Dhankhar interacts with parl committee chairpersons

New Delhi (PTI): VicePresident and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday interacted with chairpersons of various department-re lated parliamentary standing committees at his Parliament House complex.

Among those present were BJP leaders Sush il Kumar Modi, Radha Mohan Singh, Rama Devi, Jagdambika Pal, Bhubaneswar Kalita and Brijlal, BJD MP Su jeet Kumar, YSRCP

leader V Vijayasai Red dy and the Congress’ Shashi Tharoor.

The department-re lated standing commit

tees are formed to cover various central minis tries to strengthen ac countability of the gov ernment to Parliament.

CEC Kumar invited as Int’l Observer for Nepal polls

First India Bureau

New Delhi: Chief Elec tion Commissioner (CEC) of India Rajiv Ku mar has been invited by Election Commission of Nepal as Internation al Observer for the forthcoming elections to Nepal’s House of Rep resentatives and Pro vincial Assembly. Elec tions are scheduled in Nepal on November 20 for the Federal and Pro vincial elections to elect

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Hyderabad: A seven-mem ber gang, allegedly running a fake arms licence racket here, has been busted and the seven included a mas termind belonging to J&K, police said on Thursday. The gang used bogus seals of licence-issuing officials and forged signatures to prepare the arm licences and procured real weap ons, said Hyderabad city commissioner of police C V Anand in a release. The police caught the gang and booked it for allegedly cheating, forgery, making counterfeit seals, criminal conspiracy and illegal possession of arms.

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said. Confirming the development on the basis of reports provided to him by local officials, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) Subharanjan Sen told PTI in the afternoon the tiger may have strayed in from Ranthambore, adding “from where else will it come”.

vember 18 to 22. During his visit Kumar would be visiting Polling sta tions at Kathmandu and areas around.

ECI also has a similar International Election Visitors Program where members from other Election Management Bodies are invited to ex perience firsthand our General and Assembly Elections held periodi cally. The Election Com mission of India has al ways been in the fore

front with fellow Elec tion Management Bod ies and relevant interna tional organizations/as sociations in promoting the cause of democracy worldwide, through bi lateral as well as multi lateral interactions and has always endeavored to promote contacts, fa cilitate exchange of knowledge and sharing of best practices with a view to strengthen democratic institutions and processes.

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India has most cost-effective healthcare: Dr Singh

First India Bureau

New Delhi: Union Min ister of State (MoS) Dr Jitendra Singh said on Thursday that India un der Prime Minister Narendra Modi has be come one of the world’s most cost-effective healthcare destination, with the latest technol ogy tools deployed, across care delivery.

Addressing the Healthcare Leaders Summit-2022 of the Eco nomic Times, Dr Jiten

MoS

dra Singh said that more than 10 lakh medi cal visas were issued to foreigners between 2019

and 2022 and the coun try is fast emerging as the Medical Tourism Hub of the world. He

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globally and nationally accredited hospitals that provide world-class treatment in cost-effec tive manner.

said, this number is quite significant as there was almost com plete ban on interna

tional travel during the pandemic. The Minis ter also pointed out that India has almost 600

The Minister said that healthcare sector in India is expected to grow to reach a size of $50 billion by 2025, while the global medi cal tourism market is estimated to be worth about $72 billion. He said, India’s share in medical tourism is ex pected to be around 10 billion dollars by 2023.

New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi will on Saturday inau gurate Arunachal Pradesh’s first greenfield airport Donyi Polo, developed over an area of 690 acres and built at a cost of more than Rs 640 crore, in a boost to connec tivity, trade and tourism in the scenic region. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said that he will also inaugurate

the ‘Kashi Tamil Sangamam’, a month-long programme being organised in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi, on Saturday. The airport is suitable for day operations in every weather. The name of the airport reflects the tradi tions and rich cultural heritage of Arunachal Pradesh and its age-old indigenous reverence to the sun and moon.

Dr Jitendra Singh at the event.

275 members of the Fed eral Parliament and 550 seats of the seven Pro vincial Assemblies.

CEC Kumar will be leading a delegation of ECI officials as State guest in Nepal from No

FAKE ARMS LICENCE RACKET BUSTED, 7 IN POLICE NET

TIGER ENTERS HUTLIKE STRUCTURE IN MP’S MORENA

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MOPA AIRPORT MAY BE COMMISSIONED ON DEC 11: GOA CM

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India, GCC to launch free trade pact talks

New Delhi (PTI): India and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are expect ed to launch negotiations for a free trade agreement on November 24 with an aim to boost economic ties between the two regions, an official said.

GCC is a union of six countries in the Gulf re gion -- Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain. “The FTA will be launched on November 24.

GCC officials will be here to launch the talks,” the of ficial said. India has al ready implemented a free trade pact with the UAE in May this year.

‘Binding commitments on new issues in FTAs may hamper India’s exports in future’

PTI

Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal had, on November 16, said that India will be launching a new free trade agreement (FTA) next week.

New Delhi: Oil refining and marketing company BPCL’s former chairman Arun Kumar Singh is likely to be the new chairman of India’s top oil and gas producer ONGC -- the first instance of a top PSU board-level position going to a person aged over 60. A search-cum-selection committee, constituted by the oil ministry, zeroed in on Singh after interview ing six candidates on Au gust 27. If his selection is approved, Singh will get three years as head of the cash-rich PSU. PTI

BHARATX TO INVEST $15 MILLION IN INDIGENOUS STARTUP

This would be a kind of resumption of FTA talks as earlier two rounds of nego tiations held in 2006 and 2008 between India and GCC. Third round did not happen as GCC deferred its negotiations with all coun tries and economic groups.

India imports predomi nately crude oil and natu ral gas from the Gulf na tions like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and exports pearls, precious and semi-

OTHER STORIES

New Delhi (PTI): Taking binding commitments on new issues like environment, labour and sustainability in the proposed free trade agreements (FTA), being negotiated by India, may hamper the country’s exports in the future, according to a report by Global Trade Research Initiative. India’s already “weak” FTA outcomes may worsen if it takes obligations in the new issues, the report -- FTAs: Fabulous, Futile, or Flawed? An evaluation of India’s FTAs with ASEAN, Japan and South Korea -- said. It added that like many developing countries, India has an evolv ing regulatory framework on most new issues.“International commitments must be taken only after the domestic regulatory framework is in place. And both must be in sync. New non-trade issues may serve as non-trade barriers and hamper our exports in the future,” GTRI report said.

precious stones; metals; imitation jewellery; elec trical machinery; iron and steel; and chemicals to these countries. India’s ex ports to the GCC grew by 58.26 per cent to about $44 billion in 2021-22 against $27.8 billion in 2020-21, ac cording to data from the commerce ministry.

The share of these six

INDIA ENTERS INTO DEAL FOR EXPORT OF 35 LAKH TONNES SUGAR SO FAR IN 2022-23 SEASON: ISMA

New Delhi: India has entered into a contract for export of about 35 lakh tonnes of sugar so far in the ongoing 2022-23 season, out of which 2,00,000 tonnes have been shipped last month, industry body ISMA said on Thursday. The 2022-23 sugar export policy announced on November 5 allowed exports of 60 lakh tonnes of the sweetener on a quota-basis till May 31. Further quantities for export would be allowed after assessing the do mestic production. Sugar season begins from October to September. FIB

countries in India’s total exports has risen to 10.4 per cent in 2021-22 from 9.51% in 2020-21. Similarly, imports rose by 85.8% to $110.73 billion compared to $59.6 billion in 2020-21, the data showed.

The share of GCC mem bers in India’s total im ports rose to 18% in 2021-22 from 15.5% in 2020-21.

Polarisation in performance of Indian banks to persist:

S&P

Mumbai (PTI): Equity benchmark indices ended lower on Thursday in line with weak global market trends.

The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 230.12 points or 0.37% to settle at 61,750.60.

It said SBI and leading private sector banks have largely addressed their as set quality challenges, and their profitability is im proving more sharply than the banking system. S&P said economic recovery is driving credit costs to cycli cal low levels and stronger balance sheets and higher demand should boost bank loan growth, but deposit growth will lag.

“Polarisation in the per formance of banks to per sist,” S&P said, adding the return on average assets would be ‘adequate’ at 1%.

“Many large public sec tor banks are still saddled with weak assets, high credit costs, and poor earnings. Similarly, we ex pect a mixed-bag perfor mance for finance compa nies (fincos),” it added.

TV, OTT need selfregulation: Goyal

New Delhi (PTI): Com merce and industry minis ter Piyush Goyal on Thurs day asked the entertain ment industry to self-regu late content of pro grammes on televisions and over-the-top (OTT) platforms as some of them are beyond acceptable standards within the Indi an cultural landscape.

He said that some form of self-regulation and some levels of decency in the presentation of India, In dian families and culture needs to be there.

“I do believe that some form of self-regulation within the media and en tertainment industry is called for. On the one hand, we talk of our culture, rich tradition, our heritage, our family value systems and on the other hand, some of what we see on television and OTT platforms, cer tainly is beyond what is ordinarily acceptable standards within the Indi

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Piyush Goyal on Thursday asked the entertainment industry to self-regulate content of programmes on televisions and OTT platforms

He said that some form of self-regulation and some levels of decency in the presentation of India and culture need to be there

an cultural landscape,” the minister said.

“I do not know if it helps in sell your product any better. I suspect not,” Goyal said, adding, “while we welcome modern content...I do believe that some form of self-regula tion and some levels of de cency in the presentation of India, Indian families and Indian culture is some thing where the captains of this industry should also” play a role.

BANK STRIKE: WORK IN SOME PSBs LIKELY TO BE HIT

New Delhi (PTI): Opera tions of PSBs may be im pacted as bank union AI BEA has given a strike call for Satto oppose incessant outsourcing of jobs.

New Delhi: Startup accel erator BharatX will invest $15 million over the next 18 months in the Indian startup ecosystem. A joint venture between India Ac celerator and think-tank CIEU, BharatX will invest `1-5 crore in each startup during the first edition of the accelerator pro gramme. “The number of startups in India rose from 471 in 2016 to 72,993 by June 2022, which is fuelling the Indi an tech wave. To build a Swadeshi Startup Ecosys tem in India, BharatX an nounces to inject $15 mil lion over the period of 18 months to build and scale nationwide,” it said. PTI

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TEA EXPORTS RISE 14.8% TO 140.28 MKGS IN JANUARY-AUGUST

Kolkata: Exports of tea from India increased by 14.8% to 140.28 million kilograms in the first eight months of the 2022 calendar year, according to Tea Board data. Tea shipments during the January-August period in 2021 stood at 122.18 million kilograms. The CIS countries, including Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, remained the larg est importer of Indian tea with 30.56 mkgs in the first eight months of 2022, marginally higher than 29.13 mkgs shipped in year-ago period. —PTI

CATER TO PENDING ORDERS

During the day, it fell 337.45 points or 0.54 per cent to 61,643.27.

The broader NSE Nifty dipped 65.75 points or 0.36 per cent to end at 18,343.90.

From the Sensex pack, Titan, Mahindra & Mahin dra, Maruti, HDFC, Dr Reddy’s, Bajaj Finserv, In fosys, and HDFC Bank were the major laggards.

Larsen & Toubro, Power Grid, ICICI Bank and Bhar ti Airtel were among the winners.

Foreign Institutional In vestors (FIIs) offloaded shares worth `386.06 crore on Wednesday, as per ex change data.

PAYTM SHARES TANK NEARLY 11% AFTER REPORTS OF SELLOFF

New Delhi (PTI): Shares of One97 Communications, Paytm’s parent firm, on Thursday tumbled nearly 11% following reports that Japan-based SoftBank has started the process to sell a 4.5% stake in the company in a block deal. The stock tanked 10.31% to settle at `539.55 on the BSE.

During the day, it went lower by 11% to `535.20. At the NSE, it fell 10.78% to settle at `536.60.

The company’s market valuation eroded by `4,021.85 crore.

Kia India looks to bring in more EV6 units

New Delhi (FIB): Kia In dia is looking to bring in more EV6 units into the country in order to cater to the pending bookings, the automaker said on Thurs day. The company said it has delivered 200 units of the EV6, which comes as a completely built unit (CBU), to customers till date.

This number is already twice the initially planned 100 units for the entire year, the South Korean au tomaker said in a statement.

“Now, the company is planning to further in crease the total allocation of EV6 in 2022 and com plete most of the pending deliveries within this year,” it added. The company had launched EV6 in the coun try in June this year, and

z The company said it has delivered 200 units of the EV6, which comes as a CBU, to customers till date. This number is already twice the initially planned 100 units for the entire year

the deliveries to customers began last month.

“At the launch of EV6, amid the very positive re sponse received, we had promised our customers to bring in more units of the EV6, over and above the initially allotted 100 units for 2022. Going forward, our focus will be on com pleting the deliveries of all the existing and new book ings at the earliest,” Kia India Chief Sales Officer Myung-sik Sohn stated.

` FALLS 37 PAISE TO CLOSE AT 81.63 AGAINST AMERICAN DOLLAR

Mumbai (PTI): The rupee depreciated by 37 paise to close at 81.63 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday, tracking the strength of the American currency in the overseas markets and a muted trend in domestic equities. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local unit opened at 81.62 and later wit nessed an intraday high of 81.45 and a low of 81.68 during the session.The domestic unit finally settled at 81.63.

Although the officers are not part of the strike, there may be some impact on cash deposit and withdraw al, clearing of cheques etc.

Several banks, including BoB and Punjab & Sind Bank, have already in formed their customers about the potential impact on services if November 19 strike materalises.

If the strike materialis es, a certain section of the Bank’s employees may par ticipate in strike on the said date, in which case, it is likely that the normal functioning of the branch es/offices of the bank may get affected, Punjab & Sind Bank said on Thursday.

NSE to soon introduce Electronic Gold Receipt

New Delhi (PTI): The Na tional Stock Exchange is likely to introduce trading of electronic gold receipts on its platform and market regulator Sebi is ironing out some taxation issues related to the product with the government, an official said on Thursday.

Referring to the Elec tronic Gold Receipt (EGR), V S Sundaresan, Executive Director at the Securities and Exchange Board of In dia (Sebi), said, this prod uct has been introduced by Sebi and BSE has launched it about a month back and “we hope that this product

will definitely gain trac tion over a period of time”.

“Under this product, what is proposed is that the physical gold is to be depos ited in a vault, that vault manager will issue an elec tronic receipt and this will be credited to the demat ac count of the investor, that receipt can be traded on the stock exchange,” he said.

ARUN KUMAR SINGH TO BE NEXT CHAIRMAN OF ONGC

APPOINTS S DEVANATHAN AS NEW INDIA HEAD

New Delhi (PTI): Polarisa tion in the performance of Indian banks will persist as many large public sector banks are still saddled with weak assets, high credit costs, and poor earnings, S&P Global Ratings said.

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SOCIAL MEDIA BEING USED TO FUND TERROR ACTIVITIES: NIA

New Delhi (PTI): India has evidence social me dia platforms are being used to raise terror funds, NIA Director General Dinkar Gupta said Thursday, under lining that the issue will be deliberated dur ing a two-day interna tional ministerial con ference on countering terror financing.

Addressing a press conference ahead of the meeting beginning Fri day, Gupta also said Pa kistan and Afghanistan were not participating in the conference, while China was yet to con firm. The third 'No Mon ey for Terror Ministerial Conference on CounterTerrorism Financing' hosted by the Ministry of Home Affairs will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, among others.

Asked if Pakistan, China and Afghanistan were invited to the con ference, Secretary (West), Ministry of Ex ternal Affairs, Sanjay Verma said, "China has been invited." He, how ever, remained silent on the other two neigh bouring countries.

Giving details of the conference, Gupta made it clear that no countryspecific discussion is part of the agenda but representatives of 73 na tions, including minis ters of over 20 of them, will discuss with an open heart all issues, be

it the source of terror, the threat or its funding.

"Every participating country has full right to express its views," he said. Gupta said terror activities have declined

Terror activi ties have de clined in In dia during the last 8 years. Terror financ ing was a critical issue and it needed to be dis cussed, be it the tradi tional modes of fund ing like hawala, wire transfers or cash cou riers, or the new ways.

—Dinkar Gupta, DG, NIA

nisms, and frameworks to fight this menace of global terrorism and its financing.

in India during the last eight years, and there is a "huge reduction" in terror activities in all "theatres of conflicts", be it Jammu and Kash mir, Punjab, the north

east or the areas affect ed by Left Wing Ex tremism. He said it was a battle to be fought, and the country has to strengthen its infra structure, mecha

To a question on the inclusion of social me dia platform regulation in the agenda of the ter ror financing confer ence, Gupta said social media platforms are be ing used to raise financ ing, funding or as crowdfunding plat forms. "We do have evi dence of this kind of thing happening. This is an issue that needs to be discussed because such platforms are be ing used for raising fi nances which are being used in terror activi ties," he said.

NIA not complying with house arrest order, Navlakha tells Supreme court

New Delhi (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday was told by the counsel appearing for Gautam Navlakha that the apex court’s order directing that he be placed under house arrest was not being complied with by the State authorities.

Senior Advocate Ni tya Ramakrishnan, ap pearing for Navlakha, mentioned the matter before a bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices Hima Kohli and JB Pardiwala that probe agencies were

asked to inspect the premises where Nav lakha was to be shifted within 48 hours. Ram akrishnan said, “They were supposed to in spect premises within 48 hours and not with in 96 hours. The order was on November 10.

The order is not being

J&K student in ICU after cricket match turns violent at AMU

First India Bureau

New Delhi: A Kashmi ri was seriously injured after being hit on the head with a cricket bat during an altercation with a fellow student at Aligarh Muslim Uni versity (AMU).

The victim student, Sajid Hussian, a native of Poonch district, Jam mu and Kashmir, re ceived grievous injuries in the incident and was rushed to the Jawahar

The students demanded immediate rustication of the attacker: Official

lal Nehru Medical Col lege in an unconscious state. Husain is in ICU and his condition is said to be serious.

According to AMU spokesperson Omar

Peerzada, Husain and Shobhit Singh, who had allegedly hit him with a cricket bat, are secondyear students of AMU’s Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology.

A large group of stu dents blocked the cam pus’ centenary gate fol lowing the incident on Wednesday, he said. The students demanded im mediate rustication of the attacker, as per sen ior university official.

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followed.”

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appear ing for the National Investigation Agency (NIA), told the top court that instead of providing details of a house where he wants to be placed under house arrest, Navlakha

has given details of a library-cum-residen tial place belonging to the Communist Party. “He is a Maoist and we objected to it, but now instead of the house he has given the address of a library-cum-stay place

CORBETT FOREST GUARD BOOKED FOR KILLING TIGRESS

First India Bureau

New Delhi: A forest of ficial has been booked in connection with the killing of a tigress whose carcass with a bullet wound was found in Corbett Tiger Re serve three days ago when the animal en tered a village, an offi cial said on Thursday.

Dheeraj Singh, a for est guard of CTR’s Mandal range first fired several rounds in the air to scare away the big cat.

But, the animal be gan to move closer to ward houses and shops, Chief Wildlife Warden Samir Sinha said. Ku mar then fired 2 rounds and the pellets hit the tigress on its right thigh, causing its death. Kumar has been booked under Wildlife Conser vation Act and attached to the plain range office of the Kalagarh forest division, Sinha said.

SKM to hold marches to Governors’ houses

New Delhi (PTI): The Samyukta Kisan Mor cha (SKM) will hold marches to Raj Bhavan across the country on November 26, alleging a breach of assurance by the Centre on farmers’ pending demands, the organisation an nounced on Thursday.

The SKM, a body of farmers’ unions that spearheaded the agita tion against the new agri laws later repealed by the Centre, has called a meeting on De cember 8 to decide the future course of the movement. The farm ers will also celebrate November 19 as “Fateh

Diwas” or “Victory Day” as the Centre had ordered the repeal of the new farm laws fol lowing their agitation.

“Marches to offices of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs of all politi cal parties will be held from December 1 to 11,” SKM leader Darshan Pal said at a press con ference here. The deci sions were taken dur ing the SKM’s National Council meeting on No vember 14.

The SKM leaders also condemned the BJP-led Modi govern ment’s “hurried” at tempt to clear GM-Mus tard seeds.

Akhilesh meets uncle Shivpal ahead of Mainpuri bypoll

Bureau

First India

New Delhi: Samajwadi Party (SP) Chief Akh ilesh Yadav, along with his wife and SP Main puri candidate Dimple Yadav met with his un cle and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lo hia) chief Shivpal Sin gh Yadav ahead of the Mainpuri by-poll elec tions on Thursday.

The couple met Shiv pal, who is also the younger brother of Sa majwadi Party founder late Mulayam Singh Yadav to discuss about

the elections.

The Mainpuri seat fell vacant on October 10 after the demise of

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Akhilesh Yadav said, “Along with the bless ings of ‘Netaji’ and el ders of the family, the people of Mainpuri are also with us.”

Akhilesh also shared a picture of the meeting. Reacting to the meeting, BJP leader Sidharth Nath Singh took a dig at the SP chief, saying the fear of defeat made Akh ilesh Yadav remember his uncle.

“Akhilesh-ji remem bered his uncle because of elections this is called fear of defeat,” Singh said in a tweet in Hindi.

Artist Paresh Maity exhibits lifetime of romance with boats, Benaras & play of light

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Paresh Maity’s inimitable landscapes in watercolour are long-drawn prose that hold one’s gaze in a trance

New Delhi (PTI): Blurred by the morning mist, the mountains stand grand on the hori zon while fishing boats sit afloat in rippling river water in the fore ground. Artist Paresh Maity’s inimitable land scapes in watercolour are long-drawn prose that hold one’s gaze in a trance.

After a lifetime spent in front of nature and behind canvas, painting

a great spectrum of sub jects, it is the dinghy boats of his childhood on the banks of the Hooghly in Tamluk, West Bengal, that the 57-year-old artist keeps going back to.

“Growing up in a town near the sea, it was my first inspiration to draw a boat,” Maity, whose paintings are be ing exhibited at Bikaner House here, told PTI.

Organised by Art Alive Gallery in Delhi,

the retrospective art ex hibition, “Infinite Light”, showcases 150 artworks, like paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics & films. In the next 5 months, about 450 pieces of art will be shown in Mumbai, Kol kata and Bengaluru.

Over the nearly 4 dec ades of his career, it is the image of a boat, steeped in nostalgia, that has stayed with Maity, manifesting it

self in most of his crea tions - some times up front, at others tucked away in a corner.

“The boat strikes me as a symbol of life. You have to remember before any other vehicles, we had these wooden vehi cles. A boat is always there. Even when it is stationary, anchored, it has a movement. I al ways feel that the boat has a life,” the Padma Shri award winner said.

Maity talked about his relation with arts, cities that inspired him to paint and how he looks at light, a prominent play in his paintings. Be it Venice or the spiritual ghats of Vara nasi, he finds inspira tion in these cities on water. A large section of the show has been dedi cated to the latter while a few grand watercolour paintings point at his ro mance with the former.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla being presented a memento to Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Girish Chandra Murmu during the Accountants General Conference, organised by Comptroller and Auditor General of India, in New Delhi, on Thursday.

NIA chief Dinkar Gupta holds presser ahead of ‘No Money for Terror’ meet

Says no countryspecific discussion is part of the agenda

Pak, Afghanistan not part of conference, China yet to confirm

NIA Director General Dinkar Gupta with Ministry of External Affairs Secretary (West) Sanjay Verma addresses a press conference regarding the third edition of ‘No Money for Terror’ conference, at National Media Centre in New Delhi, Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI

of the Commu nist Party,” he said.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta

Navlakha’s lawyer Nitya Ramakrishnan

NIA

Delhi: The National Investigation Agency on Thurs day moved the SC seeking vacation of its order allowing the plea of Gautam Navlakha, incarcerated in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case, to be put under house arrest. Contending Navlakha need not be given any special treatment, the NIA said that he being a charge-sheeted accused in a case involving threat to national security and integrity, does not deserve any extra leeway.

Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) leaders Hannan Mollah, Yudhvir Singh and Darshan Pal during a press conference in New Delhi on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI

Painter and sculptor Paresh Maity poses for a photo at his exhibition titled ‘Infinite Light’, at Bikaner House in New Delhi.

Mulayam Singh Yadav and Dimple Yadav, is ex pected to carry the leg acy of her father-in-law

a tweet after the meeting at Shivpal Sin gh’s residence in Saifai,

Akhilesh Yadav and wife Dimple Yadav with Shivpal Singh Yadav and his son Aditya Yadav during a meeting in Mainpuri on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI

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THE MAJESTIC BEAUTY ANSHIKA CHOUDHARY, ONE OF THE FINALISTS OF FIRST INDIA QUEEN SHARES HER JOURNEY AS A MODEL IN A CANDID CONVERSATION WITH CITY FIRST!

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Do not go where the path may lead, go in stead where there is no path and leave a trail. Anshika Choudhary, one of the finalists of First India Queen shared her dreams and aspiration, she said “I am always more inter ested in studies since child hood and wants to make my career in the Medical field. Currently pursuing hospital administration from Mahat ma Gandhi Jaipur. My only passion is to miss India and soon I will make it to it. I was born in Shri Ganganagar and brought up in Jaipur. My par ents support me always. My father Dharmapala Saharan took care of my studies and my mother Sonia Saharan helped in growing my passion for beauty pageants.”

“My love towards Pageants is increasing day by day. Pa gent is Just not about beauti ful faces in the face it is a plat form where a girl can raise her voice for the welfare ciety,” she added.

The gorgeous beauty proved that the future belongs to those who be lieve in the beauty of their dreams.

While describing her inspiration, she said “I have always been involved in fashion as my mom is a fashion designer so I got used to be having naturally in front of the camera.

I noticed very young that it isn’t about looking it’s about how the camera per

ceives you. I focused on my look and defined what type of modelling I enjoyed Fashion should be a form of escapism and not a form of impris onment, but sadly models are stuck in the fashion world with lots of difficulties, while shar ing her jour ney, the diva said, “My jour ney has been very challenging as my studies were difficult. There was a time when I was preparing for the Neet exam mad my pag eant was also at that time as I managed both and suc ceed in both. but I am grateful to FIRST INDIA QUEEN for giving me this golden opportu nity and for providing wings to my dreams. When asked about her memorable mo ments, the beauty said “When I won Miss Congeniality India 2022 and Miss Vivacious jasthan 2021. I want to thank you Jagdeesh Chandra and Parimal Mehhta for support ing me a lot during my jour ney and special thanks to my principal Dr Tanjul Saxena for constant support during

emories ex press them selves in tears, sadness and depression and at times denial. Which should be the best way to deal with the memories of the departed ones yet alive in our hearts? There is a designated Day by the United Nations that an swers this question - The UN World Day of Remem brance for Road Traffic Victims which falls on every third Sunday of No vember.

It is a day to acknowl edge the pain of those families who have lost their dear ones in road ac cidents. It is a Day to pay homage to their memory. The United Nations en dorses it as a global day, making it a major advoca cy for road traffic injury prevention. The day is ob served by civil societies and social groups all over the world in more than 58 countries. We have 13.50 lakhs in the world and over 1.50 lakhs in India dy ing on the roads every year.

The poignant poser is what do we do with the fact that roads take away peo ple we love and leave the families totally resource less to deal with the sud den demise?

One most effective and positive steps are to turn the pain into a campaign, a mission to prevent such a loss. Yes, it is not easy, yet it is possible. Well then, there are those who some how go beyond their per sonal sorrow and include others by forming civil societies. Such individual efforts take a huge step for ward to mitigate accidents and pain. Empathy has a sense of brotherhood. The UN World Day of Remembrance does that.

Muskaan foundation for Road Safety which had re solved to move from per sonal to universal has been observing the Day for the sixth year now. These days the Muskaan office is a hub of activities as the team members work from nine to nine putting to

gether the Memory Out Reach program details in place. Old volunteers drop by and contribute, food or ders give a happy hour break on the terrace of the

Muskaan office. The event is victims-centric. The in spiration emanates from the overpowering inter face with some villager who has donated his

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daughter or son’s organs in a bid to save somebody’s life. There have been mo ments in the past when on stage the young organ do nor’s mother could not an

MAR 21 - APR 20

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. Be careful of the words that come out of your mouth. Your lover may finally say yes to get married to you.

swer the soft question posed to her and simply broke down- no words could replace the loud res onance of her tears! In an other such case, the bro

TAURUS

APR 21 - MAY 20 You must create an environment of understanding 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 from day to day tensions.

ken but proud sisters of the family stand mute over the fact that four people got life from their brother whose organs were carried and trans

planted in Jaipur, Delhi and even further through a green corridor. Here Mo han Foundation is doing exemplary work in organ donation and counselling after the brain death of any dear one.

Then there are people like Dilip Petro in Hy derabad who was on his way to the international airport to travel on a schol arship to study further when he was hit by a vehi cle. This left him a paraple gic. The never say die spirit of this young man not only healed him, he put together ‘The Ability People,’ an or ganization that helps peo ple like him in rehabilita tion. He fights for the rights of survivors of life-limiting injuries in traffic crashes. Dilip though lives in severe pain, he is tireless in spirit!

Close to home, the Day of Remembrance is being commemorated by Muskaan NGO at Ravin dra Manch on November 20, 2022, at 6 pm. The day will have 350 voices of school children from thir ty-five plus schools of Jaipur city singing ‘Shrad hanjali song’, and other songs with messages of happy and safe behaviour on the roads. The Host for the Music workshop, pre paratory rehearsals and the finale is The Palace School for three months now. The Palace School Principal, Urvashi Var man said, ‘We are happy to be an associate for the Re membrance Day as this massive event is not only an expression of collabo rative social empathy for the victims, it is also a powerful medium to spread awareness about road safety. Besides the 35odd schools of Jaipur, still another school collaborat ing is the Tagore Public School with its Mime Thea tre that will relay the mes sage of road safety loudly through its forty-member group of students. The most innocent junior chil dren of Canvas Interna tional Pre School, a regular associate, contribute through a display of plac ards - walk on stage. There is a lot of music, and flow ers but no speeches! Here the silence is eloquence!

GEMINI

MAY 21 - JUNE 21

Pending paperwork concerning a property will be completed. Your spouse may make you spend more than you expected. Admit your faults. 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.

CANCER

SAGITTARIUS

NOV 23 - DEC 22

Tensions on the family front are likely to get sorted out.

Your spouse can do anything for your happiness. You are happy spending whole day at home. Help your mothers at home today and give them a reason to smile. You are opportunist and this will make you successful one day.

CAPRICORN

DEC 23 -

a great friend circle. Whatever you have in mind, you will 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 will work hard to make your dream come true.

AQUARIUS

JAN 21 - FEB 19

This is the best time to try something new. 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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DR MRIDUL BHASIN Social activist and writer

tress pictures from events including the time she won

poor, and more. Later, she and Boney Kapoor’s wedding photos and revealed that it was their ‘secret wedding.’

The actress said: “This is mom and dad’s wedding photo. This was some sort of a secret wedding, I think. Which is why they seem so

hvi added, “I don’t know if I

Kareena, who has been shooting for several days now for her upcoming film in London, has dropped stills from behind-thescenes. Taking to Instagram, she captioned her post as “Dover Dia ries, United Kingdom 2022 Al ways a mood on set @ hansalmehta @balajimotion pictures@mahana_films.”

The new mom in B-Town, Alia Bhatt, complimented the actress and wrote, “Loving these looks.” Ekta Kapoor also commented, “Looking fab.”

hen asked about whether relationship rumours both er Sunny or not, the actor stated, “It doesn’t bother me when my personal life makes headlines. It doesn’t hamper our equation at all because we under stand that at the end of the day, these are just news headlines. It would be stupid of us to make it a reality and take it very seriously.”

He was all praise for his rumoured lady love. He said, “Sharvari is very level-headed. She has different sides to her, but she always keeps her head on her shoulder. She likes to weigh out the pros and cons when it comes to approaching any situa tion.”

The Shiddat actor also spoke about his wedding plans. He said, “I’ve a lot of time be fore that.”

MALAIKA ON AGEIST TROLLS

In the promotional video, Malla introduces herself as the “woman everyone loves to talk about,” which Malaika posted on her Instagram page. She stated that no matter what she does, she is constantly the target of trolling. “Kuchh bhi karo, people talk. I break up, it’s breaking news. I move on, all hell breaks loose. I’m with my partner, I’m trolled. Take a god damn walk, I’m trolled,” Malai ka said. She continued by say ing that she receives ageist remarks like “Ma’am, ghar pe raho na. Ye sab karne ki umar nahi hai,” whether she is wearing a swim suit or a ball gown.

“Sure. I’m not get ting any younger. But you know what’s getting really old? These com ments. The same old comments. So I thought I’ll give eve ryone something new to talk about. Show you the real Malaika up close.” Malaika continued.

the queen of effortless airport fash

Bollywood actor Ananya Panday, who will next be seen in the film Dream Girl 2 alongside Ayushmann Khurrana, has dropped pictures from an event in the USA. Here, she has got the opportunity to meet and get clicked with Hollywood models and actors like Freida Pinto, Lucy Hale, and Irina Shayk. Soon after this develop ment, Shah Rukh Khan’s daughter Suhana Khan, Amitabh Bachchan’s granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda and Sanjay Kapoor’s daughter Shanaya Kapoor dropped hearts in the comments section with special messages. Popular Bollywood actor Katrina Kaif has liked the post as well.

n the video shared by Vogue, Janhvi gave a bilia wall,’ which was her mother’s idea and features

Sharvari Wagh

Malaika Arora

Ananya Pandey

Deepika Padukone

Janhvi

Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor Khan

Ananya Pandey with Indya Moore and Irina Shayk

Tribute to artist Swadesh Deepak

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Conceived in memory of Sangeet Natak award-winning playwright Swadesh Deepak the Elsewhere Foundation was an nounced in his memory by art management ex pert Nagina Bains and the writer’s son, Sukant Deepak on No vember 15.

Speaking to the me dia, co-founder, Su kant Deepak ex pressed “Frankly, this idea would not have taken a concrete shape without Nagi na's encouragement and expertise in the field of management.

I hope the artists and audiences will appre ciate our effort."

Later, co-founder

Nagina Bains added, “In my professional and personal journey, Elsewhere Foundation comes closest to my core. We would like to present the work of artists belonging to one region, to another.

Art education, in teractions with artists, and work ing on social themes by commis sioning art projects are high on our agen da. "

The foundation’s advisory board in cludes Padma Bhush an awardee Mallika Sarabhai (classical dancer and actress), Padma Shri awardee Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry (theatre di rector), Sahitya Aka demi award-winning author and poet Jerry Pinto and others.

Maison de bose FASHION WEEK

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An exclusive fashion week focusing on the Millennial Man starts on November 17 and will end on November 21, 2022. Be ing conceptualized by Santanu Bose, Associ ate Professor of World Drama at the National School of Drama (NSD), the fashion week will be held at Alliances Fran caise and Lexicon Art Gallery, New Delhi.

Decoding the Millen nial Man, the theme of this year’s fashion week is an investigation into “Manness”. The age of feminism has restruc tured and displaced the idea of Man, manliness and masculinity.

The week will begin with a Curtain Raiser at Alliance Francaise, on November 17 with a se lect gathering of Diplo mats, Actors, Celebri ties, Industrialists, and the media. November 19 will have a Panel Dis cussion with Designer Santanu Bose and Su permodel Zander Lama being moderated by Ve ronique Dieu, Ambas sador for India for the World Gastronomy Or ganization (OMG), arts, sciences, luxury, at Lex icon Art Gallery, New Delhi.

Nov 20th will have Fashion Shows by lead ing designers viz., He mant Lecoanet, Jenjum

Gadi and Gaurav Khanijo and Nov 21st will be showcasing Next Gen designers at Alliance Francaise

“The idea behind this fashion week is an in vestigation about “Manness”. The age of feminism has restruc tured and displaced the

“Art is an extension”

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Asolo art exhibition titled "Revelation" by Delhibased artist, Shafali R Aanand is going to be or ganised from November 22-28 at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.

A REVELATIONS art exhibi tion is a selection of oil paint ings from Artist Shafali R. Anand’s works. These colourful paintings are visual expres sions of the emotions that we experience as we ride the roller coaster of life. These emotions appear on the faces and are felt through the twisting-turning bodies of men and women –emotions made of joyous yel lows and greens that sometimes sink into leaden browns and deep purples and of the calm blues and aquamarines that crash into violent reds and or anges. The oil paintings in this collection are about relation ships with others and with our selves, while the pen and ink art renders our own reflection in nature.

Artist Shafali R. Anand said "These paintings are the testi mony to the courage, persever ance, and patience that estab lish the ambitious framework for success, and the revelation of the fears and tears that stay hidden in the foundations that are never seen, but without which there wouldn’t be the edifice of achievement. View this collection to experience the force of colours and the momen tum of the brushstrokes, each of which tells a story." believes artist Shafali R. Anand.

‘Postcards from India to Slovenia’

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Recently was the closing ceremony of 2 days of art residency cu rated by Jitendra Padam Jain under Gallery Sree Arts. It was held at the Embassy of the Republic of Slo venia where 11 artists painted live to celebrate 30 glori ous years of diplo matic relations be tween India and Slovenia. A special vote of thanks has been given to her

Slovenia

Vodeb

Ljuba Pevec

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Kochhar, Adi

Devarajan. Many well-known names from art and culture were pre sent at the do were Lata and Srinivas Kotni, Annkush B. Shar ma, Prerna Shar ma, Madhuri Ver ma, Tirthankar Biswas, Seema Pan dey, Uma, Sawan Taank, to name a few.

idea of Man, man liness and masculinity. Do we already observe the emergence of a post-feminist neo - mas culinity? The stereotyp ing of macho or toxic or chauvinist has evolved into a new phase where

STRENGTH LIES IN THE DIFFERENCE

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dian textile crafts in cluding Hand Block Print, Hand Applique, Bandhani Tie and Dye, Kantha Stitch Embroi dery, and Ikat Weaving. In the autumn of 2023, the Indian Master

Craftsmen will travel to Denmark to conduct workshops for Danish artists. " Happy to an nounce - Textile Master Program between India and Denmark. This program will strength en the collaboration between Danish and Indian Textile design ers, also it will high light the value of craftsmanship with textile and design ", says H.E. Freddy Svane Danish Ambassador to India.

JAIPURFOOT USA’S FIRST Global Humanitarian Award!

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At a recent award ceremony held in the Indian Consulate, New York; Jaipur Foot USA announced the first-ev er Global Humanitarian Award.

The award has been constituted to honour and recognise the selfless work of Indians who without caring for their lives, manage to help those in need. The first-ever recipient of this prestigious award is Dan ish Manzoor Bhat.

Originally from Kash mir valley in North India, a journalist by profes sion, Danish leads News

week Magazine in Asia as its Editorial Director and Sr. Vice President for Global Editorial Strategy & Innovation. In the hard est initial 30 days of the covid-19 pandemic’s sec ond wave, he helped 326 patients and tele-triaged 460 patients suffering from the viral infection. His unique initiatives like #BengaluruHeals & #SabkaOximeter gained massive mo mentum and helped thousands of Covid patients and their fami lies. Besides this Danish also helps “Rescuing In dians”, a not-for-profit helping Indians stuck overseas.

For this and more,

Danish Manzoor Bhat was conferred with the first Global Humanitar ian Award by Jaipur Foot USA-BMVSS.

The award was pre sented by Consul Gen

eral Randhir Jaiswal, IFS and Prem Bhandari, Chairman, JaipurFoot USA. Deputy Consul General, Varun Jeph was also present at the private ceremony.

Excellency Ambas sador of

to India Mateja

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Daruwalla,

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tya Kaushik and Deepa

—PHOTO BY SHAZID CHAUHAN

(L-R) Adil Mustak Katri, Khushi ram Panday, Freddy Svane, Frederik Hardvendel, Jan Machenhauer and Meenu Chopra

Sukant Deepak and Nagina Bains, Co Founders of Elsewhere Foundation

Swadesh Deepak.

Fashion Show by Santanu Bose

Model Saud Khan

Model Imran Ahmad

Super model Zander Lama

Ljubica Pevec Daruwalla Blossom and Jitendra Padam Jain

Mann and Amit Dua Ruchi Merha

Super Model Paras Solanki

Artist Group.

Prem Bhandari, Chairman Jaipur Foot USA with others during the occasion

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BY SHAZID CHAUHAN