First India-Delhi Edition-19th November 2022

MODI MANTRA ON TACKLING TERRORISM

‘STAND UNITED, ISOLATE PERPETRATORS, CUT FINANCES’

Nations have a right to

New Delhi: Prime Min ister Narendra Modi, ad dressing the issue of ter rorism and terror fi nancing, said on Friday that there is an urgent need to tackle the prob lem of terror funding in all its dimensions. The Prime Minister was speaking at the third ‘No Money for Terror’ (NMFT) Ministerial Conference on Counter Terrorism Financing, held in New Delhi. PM Modi said further that the long-term impact of terrorism is particularly hard on the poor and on the local economy, add ing: “Be it tourism or trade, nobody likes an area that is constantly under threat. And due to this, the livelihoods of people are taken away. It is all the more important that we strike at the root of terror financing.” It is well known that terror ist organisations get money through several sources, the Prime Min

own systems but can’t allow extremists to misuse system

Terrorism should not be linked to any religion: Amit Shah

New Delhi: India recog nises that the threat of terrorism “cannot and should not” be linked to any religion, nationality or group, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday.

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ister said, as he spoke at length about the sources in details.

“One source is state support. Certain coun tries support terrorism as part of their foreign

policy. They offer politi cal, ideological and fi nancial support to them,” he said and pointed at the role of technology for terror fi nancing and recruit

ment. He said “Chal lenges from dark net, private currencies are emerging. There is a need for understanding of new finance technolo gies.”

RAHUL’S REMARKS ON SAVARKAR Defamation case against Rahul in Thane, courtesy Shinde ‘gang’!

Thane: The police in Maharashtra’s Thane have registered a case of defamation against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his “deroga tory” remarks against freedom fighter VD Sa varkar. The first infor mation report (FIR) or police case against Ra hul Gandhi was regis tered at Thane Nagar police station.

“The case was filed based on the complaint lodged by Vandana Dongre, a functionary of the Shiv Sena faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. The complain ant alleged that Rahul Gandhi hurt the senti ments of citizens.

Addressing a session at the third ‘No Money for Terror Ministerial’ Conference he said ter rorism is, undoubtedly, the most serious threat to global peace and secu rity but financing of ter ror is “more dangerous”. “Terrorists are constant ly finding new ways to carry out violence, radi calise youth and raise financial resources. Ad ditionally, there is an in crease in the use of vir tual assets like crypto currency. We need to

understand the patterns of these darknet activi ties and find their solu tions,” Shah said. The home minister said the transformation of ter rorism from ‘Dynamite to Metaverse’ and ‘AK-47 to Virtual Assets’ is a matter of concern.

BUILT BY SKYROOT AEROSPACE LIFTS OFF FROM SRIHARIKOTA

ndia’s first privately built rocketVikram-suborbital (VKS)- was launched by the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) on Friday. The rocketdeveloped by Skyroot Aerospace - has been named after Vikram Sarabhai, hailed as the father of India’s space sector. In a bid to symbolise a new start, the mission has been named ‘Prarambh’, which literally translates as “begining”.The launch took place from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at around 11.30 am. The rocket was said to have achieved the peak apogee of 89 km while the target was 80 km.

BJP’s ‘carpet bombing’ in Gujarat as Nadda, Union ministers, 4 CMs attack Rahul, Oppn!

LOCALS FROM SAVARKAR’S VILLAGE PROTEST AGAINST RAGA

Nashik: Residents of Na shik’s Bhagur, the birthplace of VD Savarkar, observed a shutdown in protest over Rahul Gandhi’s remarks. Es tablishments, barring those indulging in essential ser vices, were shut for the day on the call of the BJP, which was supported by Balasa hebanchi Shiv Sena and the MNS. Residents of the area shouted slogans against Gandhi.”Rahul Gandhi keeps insulting Swatantrayaveer Savarkar and he must apologise. We will not allow entry to any member of the Gandhi family into Bhagur till he apologises,” said Prasad Adke, BJP mandal president for Deolali Camp-Bhagur.

Surat: Lashing out at Rahul on remarks against VD Savarkar, JP Nadda said that Congress leader is on road doing Bharat Jodo Yatra to “not to unite India, but to break it”. “yester day, Rahul gave a condemna ble statement against Savarkar. This shows what their thinking is, they have not come out to unite India,” he said.

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Aaftab smoked marijuana before and after he killed Shraddha: Police

New Delhi (ANI): Aaft ab Poonawalla has ad mitted to being high on marijuana on the day of the murder, police sources claimed on Fri day. They said that dur ing questioning Aaftab told police that on May 18 after an argument with Shraddha he left home, smoked marijua na, and returned.

“When he came back, Shraddha started yell ing at him again. Fol lowing which, he got furious and strangled her so violently that she stopped breathing,” the

police sources told ANI.

“The victim was strangled to death be tween 09.00 pm and 10.00 pm, and the ac cused sat next to her body the whole night and smoked marijua na,” they said.

Reportedly, the ac cused has admitted to being addicted to mari juana, and revealed that he disposed of some pieces of the body in Dehradun also.

The official however said the accused may have come out with this story to mislead police.

FRIEND HELPED SHRADDHA FILE FIR AGAINST AAFTAB AFTER HE BEAT HER

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NARCO TEST IN 5 DAYS, NO 3RD DEGREE: COURT TO POLICE

Police personnel search the forest area of Mehrauli to look for body parts of the victim, in New Delhi on Friday.

—PHOTO BY ANI

Mumbai (ANI): A friend of Shraddha Walkar claimed on Friday that he helped her file a police complaint against Aaftab Amin Poonawala. Rahul Rai, who iden tified himself as a friend of Shraddha’s, said, “In 2020, we (him and other friends) helped her file an FIR after she reached out to us for help saying Aaftab beat her. We took her home.”

police officer suggested detaining Aaftab for interrogation but she said such things happen in a relationship,” he added. Rahul claimed the day after she filed the complaint, the police called her over to the police station. She said she was scared that he (Aaftab) would kill her as he has already tried to kill her before and had beaten her multiple times, her friend recalled. “Aaftab would lock her up at home and talk to other girls,” Rahul claimed.

New Delhi (PTI): Metropolitan Magistrate Vijayshree Rathore has directed the Forensic Science Laboratory, Rohini, to complete the narco test of Aaftab within five days, while making it clear to police that it cannot use any third degree measure on him. “The IO is directed not to use any third degree measures,” the judge said in the order.

A visibly injured Shraddha in a pic from 2020.

PM Modi delivers the inaugural address during the third ‘No Money for Terror’ Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing, in New Delhi, on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI

Three Indian Army soldiers of 56 RR were killed in the line of duty in Machhil area of Kupwara in North Kashmir when they came under an avalanche around 12 noon. Mortal remains of Souvik Hajra, Mukesh Kumar and Gaikwad Manoj Laxman Rao have been retrieved.

The Election Commission (EC) on Friday relieved Uttar Pradesh cadre 2011-batch IAS Abhishek Singh of his duties as a general observer in the Gujarat Assembly elections after he shared photos of his posting on the social media, EC sources said.

Financing of terrorism more dangerous than terrorism itself

—Amit Shah, Home Minister

He did not target V D Savarkar but only highlighted a “historical fact’. Rahul had mentioned Savarkar in context of how tribal leader Birsa Munda did not compromise with the British while Savarkar signed a mercy petition, which is a fact.

—Jayram Ramesh, Cong leader

Coming to Maharashtra & saying things about Veer Savarkar won’t be accepted.

Congress leaders in Maharashtra won’t support him (RahulGandhi)

—Sanjay Raut, Shiv Sena MP

The prime minister said tactical gains against terrorists will soon be lost without a larger strategy aimed at hurt ing terror finances

—Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

World needs to unite against all kinds of covert, overt backing of terrorism

TAX COUNTRIES SUPPORTING TERRORISM: PM MODI

New Delhi: PM said cost must be imposed on countries which aid terrorism as part of their foreign policy by providing political, ideological and financial support. Organisations and individuals that try to create sympathy for terrorists must also be isolated, he said, adding, “There can be no ifs and buts interfering in such matters,” Modi said.

‘INDIAN ECONOMY CROSSED BRITAIN’S UNDER PM MODI’

PM MODI IS ‘KALPAVRIKSHA’, KEJRIWAL ‘BABUL’

Wankaner: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday suggested that construction of a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya has became possible only because a BJP-led government under PM Narendra Modi is at the helm at the Centre and asked if the project would not have been feasible under a Congress dispensation. Addressing a rally in Wankaner town of Morbi district, Adityanath said the time has come to fulfil Mahatma Gandhi’s wish of dissolving the Congress and maintained the Opposition party was not capable of protecting the country.

Mandvi: Anurag Thakur took a swipe at the Congress and said that it has ruled the country to “divide people on the basis of caste, religion and area and ruled this country for over 60 years.” Attacking UPA govt, he said, “Modi-led government allot ted 8500cr for them. Now, tribals are progressing.”

“It is under PM Modi’s leadership that India surpassed Britain’s economy. India will become the world’s third-larg est economy by 2029 at the pace at which the economy is growing currently,” Assam CM Himanta Sarma said. “Britain used to once rule India, today PM Modi has crossed Britain’s economy.

Kutch: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh took a dig at Delhi CM Kejriwal and Congress’ Rahul Gandhi by calling them “babul tree” and “shrub” respectively while calling PM Narendra Modi “kalpavriksha” stating that the people will get whatever they want from him.

Rahul Gandhi with Mahatma Gandhi’s great grandson, Tushar Gandhi during the party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, in Maharashtra.

Office of DDCD vice-chairman

Shah sealed on LG’s orders

All facilities enjoyed by him have been withdrawn following an order by the LG

New Delhi (PTI): Delhi government think tank DDCD’s vice-chairman Jasmine Shah has been restricted from dis charging his duties and his office sealed while the facilities enjoyed by him have been with drawn following an or der by the LG, officials said Friday.

Lt Governor VK Sax ena has also asked CM Kejriwal to remove Shah from the post over allegations of misusing his office for “political purposes”, sources said.

Reacting to the devel opment, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Siso dia tweeted, “Jasmine’s office has been locked by LG alleging that he is AAP spokesperson. Then the office of Sam bit Patra, who is ITDC

chairman, should also be sealed since he is a spokesperson of the BJP.”

According to sources, Shah was given two op portunities to reply to the show-cause notice issued by the director of the planning depart ment on October 17 over charges of “misusing public office” by acting as the “official spokes

person” of AAP. But he failed to submit a reply, they said.

“Instead, he said the reply was submitted to the minister of plan ning department. The LG office wrote a letter to the CM’s office on No vember 4, seeking to know his reply. But the CM’s office, till now, has not replied to the letter,” a source said.

ACTION AFTER BJP MP’S PLAINT

The action came after BJP MP Parvesh Verma complained that Shah was “working as a spokesper son of AAP” even as he held the post of vice-chairman of DDCD. The Plan ning Department of the Delhi govern ment on Thursday issued an order, saying the LG has ordered Shah to be restricted from functioning as vice-chairman of DDCD and from enjoying any privileges and facilities associat ed with it. CM Arvind Kejriwal had last month said it was wrong to issue a showcause notice to Shah and asserted that it was the cabinet which has the power to question him.

AAP MLA grilled by ACB for 11 hrs, denies charges

New Delhi (PTI): AAP MLA Akhilesh Pati Tri pathi was questioned for nearly 11 hours by the Delhi government’s An ti-Corruption Branch in connection with the MCD polls ticket brib ery case, officials said.

A senior official said, Tripathi refuted the al legations against him and his associates, in cluding his relative, who were arrested by the ACB on Wednesday.

The ACB had arrested Tripathi’s brother-inlaw and his two associ ates for allegedly de manding Rs 90 lakh as bribe for arranging a ticket for the wife of an AAP worker, Gopal Kha ri, to contest the upcom ing Municipal Corpora tion of Delhi elections.

Tripathi was asked to appear before the ACB at 11 am but he reached its office at around 10:30 pm. He left the ACB of fice at around 9 pm, the

COURT SENDS AAP MLA’S RELATIVE, PA TO 12-DAY JUDICIAL CUSTODY

official said.

“He was questioned for 11 hours. He main tained that he and his associates, including his

brother-in-law, did not take any money from AAP worker and that he was impartial,” the of ficial said.

AAP launches ‘garbage campaign’ vans to disgrace BJP

BJP accuses AAP candidate of graft

Delhi records season’s lowest temp at 9.6 deg

New Delhi (Agencies):

The air quality contin ued to be in the “poor” quality in Delhi on Fri day, while the maxi mum temperature set tled two notches below the normal at 25.9 de grees Celsius.

The 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 289, which falls in the poor category, according to

the Central Pollution Control Board. The sky was clear throughout the day.

The national capital has recorded its coldest morning of this season with a minimum tem perature of 9.6 degrees Celsius, three notches below the normal, ac cording to the India Me teorological Depart ment.

2020 Riots: 4 acquitted of rioting, torching shop

New Delhi (PTI): A court here acquitted four persons from charges of rioting and setting ablaze a shop during the 2020 Delhi riots. Mohd Shahnawaz, Mohd Shoaib, Shahrukh and Rashid were ac cused of being a part of a riotous mob that set ablaze a shop and

a vehicle in Gokalpu ri on February 24, 2020. “In view of my foregoing discus sions, observations and findings, I find that charges levelled against the accused persons are not proved beyond doubt., Addl Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala said.

New Delhi (PTI): AAP Delhi unit convener Go pal Rai and the party’s MCD election in-charge Durgesh Pathak on Fri day flagged off ‘garbage campaign’ vehicles to highlight the BJP’s “garbage mismanage ment” ahead of elec tions to the civic body.

Launching the cam paign, Rai alleged that the BJP had “littered entire Delhi” in the last 15 years.

The campaign vehi cles showcase artificial garbage mountains with a banner that reads “Vote for BJP if you want garbage. Vote for Kejriwal if you want cleanliness”.

“In the last 15 years, the BJP has littered the entire national capital. Through this campaign vehicle, we will tell Del hiites that if they want garbage in the city, they should vote for the BJP; if they want cleanliness, they should vote for Kejri wal,” Rai said.

He further alleged that the BJP’s only “achievement” while running the civic body was creating three land fill sites in Delhi.

FROM APRIL 1, 2023

BJP PROMISES TO LAUNCH APP FOR MUNICIPAL SERVICES AT DOORSTEP

New Delhi (PTI): If it wins the Corporation polls, Delhi BJP will de velop an app for a face less delivery of munici pal services to the peo ple of the city, con vener of the party’s MCD elec tion manifesto commit tee, Satish Upadhyay, said on Friday.

The party will make Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) “paper less” and develop ‘My MCD’, a mobile app, by March 31 next year to render civic ser vices to the public at their doorstep, he said in a press conference here.

“More than 61,000 people in Delhi have

sent suggestions to us through our portal and a whatsapp number. BJP’s theme of Sabki Delhi, Sabke Suraj’ is

All payments at AIIMS to go digital

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This project will be piloted in the new Rajkumari Amrit Kaur OPD from November 21 and taken up on a mission mode from January 1 across all OPDs

New Delhi (Agencies):

All payments at AIIMS will go fully digital from April 1, 2023, with the premier healthcare in stitute introducing smartcards in addition to UPI (Unified Pay ments Interface) and card payments at OPD counters.

“AIIMS New Delhi in troduces #SmartCard in addition to UPI and card payments at all coun ters. All payments at AIIMS to go completely digital from April 1,

2023,” it said in a tweet. The institute has also decided to promote the use of Ayushman Bharat Health Account

(ABHA) IDs for outpa tient department (OPD) registrations of new and follow-up cases. According to an office

memorandum issued on November 15, this will entail adoption of the National Health Author ity’s (NHA) ‘Scan and Share QR Code’ solution in all OPDs at AIIMSNew Delhi to facilitate quick registration and provide a queue number to patients on arrival.

Dedicated counters and kiosks will be oper ated from at least 7 am to 10 pm to facilitate the creation of ABHA IDs for patients without a smartphone.

becoming very popular among the people,” said Upadhyay, who is a former Delhi BJP pres ident.

New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Friday accused AAP leader Mukesh Goel of demanding Rs 1 crore from a junior engineer of the Munic ipal Corporation of Delhi for giving gifts to party leaders.

The BJP also re leased a sting opera tion video of the AAP leader and urged Chief Minister Arvind Kejri wal to sack him from the party without any delay.

Reacting to the alle gations, Goel, the AAP’s Madhya Pradesh in-charge, said the vid eo was a “concocted” one and that his party will take legal action against the same.

Speaking at a press conference here, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra claimed, “Goel demanded Rs 1 crore from the MCD junior engineer, saying it was needed for giving Diwali gifts to 100-150 leaders.”

He also said Goel was the “right hand” of Ke jriwal who never took any decision in the matters of the Munici pal Corporation of Del hi (MCD) without con sulting him.

Goel is the AAP can didate from Adarsh Na

AAP HITS BACK

Hitting back at the Bharatiya Ja nata Party (BJP), AAP candidate Mukesh Goel said the video released by the saffron party is a tactic to divert the public attention from “BJP’s corruption in the MCD”. “It is a concocted video. We will take legal action against it. The BJP has been indulging in corruption since the last 15 years in Delhi MCD and this is a tactic to divert the attention of citizens. The Delhiites are frustrated with the BJPled MCD and the party is going to lose in the upcoming elections,” he added. Goel, a five-time municipal councilor, quit Congress in November last year and joined AAP.

ward in the Delhi civic body polls slated for December 4.

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Sealed office of DDCD Vice Chairman Jasmine Shah.

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai flags off ‘garbage campaign vehicles’ for MCD polls, in New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI

AAP leader Mukesh Goel addresses a press meet in New Delhi on Friday.

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AMIT SHAH, NADDA, RAJNATH TO CAMPAIGN IN MCD POLLS

New Delhi: Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, BJP National President JP Nadda, MPs and movie stars Hema Malini and Ravi Kishan will be the BJP’s star campaigners in the upcoming municipal corporation polls on December 4. The party announced a list of 40-star campaigners on Thursday. All seven Delhi MPs are also part of the list, as is Delhi BJP unit president Adesh Gupta.

AAP MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi speaks with media as he arrives to appear before the ACB in New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI

New Delhi (ANI): Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court Friday sent Aam Aadmi Party MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi’s brother-in-law Om Singh and his PA Shiv Shankar Pandey to judicial custody for 12 days in an alleged bribery case for MCD election ticket. The Anti Corruption Bureau recently had arrested three per sons including Om Singh and Shiv Shankar Pandey along with another person Prince Raghuvanshi in the matter.

BJP has littered entire Delhi in the last 15 years, claims Minister Gopal Rai

Security personnel disperse agitators during a protest by people from the Ahir community demanding formation of Ahir regiment in the Indian Army, in Gurugram on Friday.

Ssmartcards, UPI and card payments will start at the counters.

Police mum on evidence found in bushes in Ggm

New Delhi (PTI): A Delhi Police team prob ing the killing of Shrad dha Walkar visited the office of a private firm in Gurugram where Aaftab Amin Poonawa la used to work, officials said on Friday.

Following a search, the police were seen carrying a plastic bag containing items recov ered from bushes in the vicinity of the office.

However, the officials did not reveal the con tents of the bag.

The accused used to work at the private firm after he and Walkar shifted from Mumbai to the national capital.

An official said the Delhi police team which visited Gurugam also searched premises of Aaftab’s office to find out if he had thrown in the vicinity parts of her dismembered body, the murder weapon or anything related to the case which could prove to be crucial in the in vestigation.

The police team also searched the vacant land behind the Nation al Media Center Society located ahead of the Ambience Mall for clues in the vicinity.

DELHI POLICE TEAM REACHES MUMBAI

Mumbai (ANI): A team of Delhi Police team has reached Va sai in Palghar dis trict of Maharashtra to investigate the Shraddha Walkar murder case.

The three-member team of Delhi police met officials of Man ikpur police station and sought their as sistance in the inves tigation. The police team is likely to re cord statements of friends of Aaftab and

‘degree’ case

New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi High Court has deferred hearing till May 3 next year a peti tion by Delhi University challenging the Central Information Commis sion’s order which di rected the varsity to al low inspection of re cords of all students who had passed the BA exam in 1978, the year when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also cleared it. Justice Yashwant Varma, in his order on November 15, noted that no one ap peared for DU and ad journed hearing.

Shraddha, and also their mutual friends.

“We are making a list of people includ ing relatives, and friends and mutual

Man who killed girlfriend nabbed in Aali jungle area

New Delhi (PTI): Ra hul, the 30-year-old man accused of strangling to death his girlfriend, Gulshana, 22, was ar rested from Aali jungle area here, police said on Friday.

Police had received a call at around 2.50pm last Friday, informing them that a woman was lying unconscious in a room which was locked from outside.

The woman was later identified as Gulshana (22). She had separated from her husband and was living with her oneyear-old daughter.

Autopsy reported confirmed that she had been strangulated.

During inquiry, the owner of the room where Gulshana’s body was found, told the po lice that a person named Rahul had been living there for the last 20-22 days. The owner said he had received a call from Rahul last Friday, say ing his girlfriend had fainted in his room af ter suffering an episode of epilepsy and that he was not in the room.

Woman’s body found inside trolley bag on Expressway

Man accused of pushing woman to death held after encounter

Lucknow (PTI): Sufi yan, the man accused of pushing to death a 19-year-old woman, was arrested on Friday in a police encounter here during which he was shot in the leg, a senior police official said.

Mathura (PTI): A woman’s body was found stuffed inside a trolley bag kept on a service road of the Yamuna Expressway in Mathura district on Friday, police said. The woman, who is yet to be identified, seems to be around 22 years old, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Trigun Bisen said. Her body was wrapped in a plastic sheet and kept inside the red-coloured trolley bag, the officer

said, adding that she was five feet and two inches tall. Information was received that the bag was kept on the service road near the Agricultural Research Centre in Raya and it was seized in the afternoon, Bisen said. It seems that she was shot dead and later, her body was put inside the bag which was found on the road, the officer said. He said two sarees were also found in the bag.

BJP LEADER MEETS LG SAXENA WITH CHHAWLA GANGRAPE VICTIM’S FAMILY

The woman was pushed to death from the fourth floor of a building on Tuesday night allegedly by her neighbour who was trying to befriend her and force her to con vert, according to the vic tim’s family.

Dubagga Station House Officer (SHO) Sukhvir Singh Bhadauriya told PTI, “Sufiyan was arrest ed in an encounter at around 1pm. He suffered a bullet injury on his right feet. He has been admitted to King George’s Medical University (KGMU).”

The family members of the young woman had al leged that Sufiyan, who is in his early 20s, was forc ing her to convert to Islam.

friends with the help of Manikpur police to record their state ments in connection to the case,” said a Delhi Police officer.

Jamia teachers cancel meeting after administration’s warning

New Delhi (PTI): A general body meeting (GBM) called on Fri day by the now-dis solved teachers’ asso ciation of Jamia Millia Islamia was cancelled after the administra tion threatened action.

An advisory issued by Registrar Nazim Husain Al-Jafri al leged that the meeting was being planned to “disrupt the smooth functioning of the uni versity”.

This comes a day af ter a Jamia Teachers’ Association (JTA) member was suspend

ed and the varsity dis solved the body. The varsity has also sealed the office of JTA.

“In the interest of our colleagues and JTA, a GBM scheduled today for 2.30 pm is herewith called off af ter an advisory was is sued by the registrar,” said president of JTA, Majid Jamil.

DU GOES TO UGC IN FACEOFF WITH ST STEPHEN’S

New Delhi (PTI): Delhi University has sought the UGC’s intervention in the matter of reappoint ment of professor John Varghese as principal of St Stephen’s College, alleging that his exten sion is “ultra vires” of the UGC Act. In a letter, DU assistant registrar wrote, “The intervention of the UGC is very kindly solicited to preclude any act of defilement of UGC regulations by the St. Stephen’s College.”

No video calls for inmates due to ‘security reasons’ in Tihar

New Delhi: In a plea moved by Pinjra Tod ac tivists Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita seeking video calling facility for inmates in Tihar jail whose fami lies are abroad, the jail authorities informed the Delhi High Court on Friday that the same is not provided due to “se curity reasons”.

A single judge bench of Justice Yashwant Varma was hearing a plea by Narwal and Ka lita, who were granted bail along with Asif Iqbal Tanha on June 15, 2021, after their arrest in the Delhi riots case under the UAPA.

When the matter was called on Friday, the counsel for the state of Delhi said that prison ers can avail of the dai

PETITION MOVED WHILE IN PRISON

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hile still in jail, Narwal and Kalita

ly calling facility, to which the petitioner’s counsel replied that not all inmates may be able to avail of it due to the

HC REFUSES TO TRANSFER 66-YR-OLD MILITANT

Rahul’s mobile num ber was put on surveil lance and he was appre hended from Aali Jun gle area here on Wednesday, the police said. He worked at a pri vate company in Okhla.

BJP MP Anil Baluni met Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena along with the parents of the 2012 Chhawla gangrape victim and requested him to file a review petition in the case. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court acquitted the three men sentenced to death for the gangrape and murder. The three men were accused of abducting, raping and killing the 19-year-old woman in February 2012. Her mutilated body was found three days later. Baluni, tthe BJP’s national media in-charge, is a Rajya Sabha MP from Uttarakhand, from where the victim hailed.

According to the police, Sufiyan had given a mo bile phone to the woman, and when her family came to know about it, they reached his house to con front them. “While the two families were talking, the accused took the girl to the fourth floor of the building and allegedly pushed her down from there,” JCP Moradia said.

high charges (starting from Rs 400). The court said it wants to hear the matter and listed it on February 9.

New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi High Court has declined to transfer from Tihar Jail to Srinagar Jail a 66-yr-old Jaishe-Mohammad (JeM) militant, who is serv ing life term in a UAPA case. Abdul Majeed Baba sought transfer to his native state jail pleading his ill health and that his family members were unable to meet him fre quently. Justice Poonam A Bamba said the Delhi Prison Rules, 2018 only provide that the prisoner may be transferred from one prison to another on medical and humanitarian grounds with prior ap proval of the government.

Police team searched office where Aaftab worked and areas nearby

A police personnel rushes with evidence found during the investigation of the Mehrauli murder case, in Gurugram on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI

Natasha Narwal (L) and Devangana Kalita have filed the petition.

had moved the high court in April 2021 stating that ‘physical mulaqat’ at prisons in Delhi had been suspended in the wake of the rising number of Covid cases in the national capital, and prisoners were only allowed ‘e-mulaqat’ with family members thrice a month for 15 minutes each. Earlier, they would be allowed eight physical meetings a month for 30 minutes each.

BJP workers stage a protest in Thane on Friday.

No one appears in PM Modi’s

SUSTAINABLE POLITICS: THE RISE OF GREEN PARTIES

IN-DEPTH

PRIVATE SECTOR’S SUCCESSFUL SPACE DEBUT WITH PRARAMBH

Green political parties reflect a broader social movement seeking to reorient civilization in what supporters say is a more sustainable & way of socio-economics. The environmental concerns began with opposition to nuclear power but have expanded to include climate change, pollution& industrial agriculture

The agitation towards the mas sive environmental damage has grown up fast in the last few decades. It has reached now beyond the personal stakes and political parties are taking growing responsi bility across continents. In European countries, it is a sigh of relief that certain po litical parties have taken cli mate change and the environ ment to the core agenda. This has incarnated in the percep tion of green political parties and attempts to encode the future of politics. What is af ter all a green party? Green political parties reflect a broader social movement seeking to reorient civiliza tion in what supporters say is a more sustainable and hu man direction and way of socio-economics. The envi ronmental concerns began with opposition to nuclear power but have expanded to include climate change, pol lution, and industrial agri culture. Apart from climate, these so-called green parties encompass some grass root issues such as socio-econom ic challenges, democracy, non-violence, and ecological sustainability.

However new this idea seems to us, it has its roots in the wave of social movement in industrial societies begin ning in the 1960s. The student movement of 1968 in Europe

broke with the earlier forms of class-based worker organ izing, preferring instead rad ical critiques of industrial civilization itself and the utopian vision of life in har mony with the environment. The first green party was formed in Australia. The UK ‘s people’s party was the first in Europe warning the col lapse of ecological wrap-up. “It was not until the 1980s that the first green party went mainstream- in West Germany a stronghold of green politics. The west Ger man greens contested nation wide in 1980 and then in 1983 became a full-fledged politi cal force by entering parlia ment with twenty-seven seats. By the 1990s, green were contesting, and often winning seats at local, state, and national level across Eu rope”. The beginning of the 21st century witnessed an increasing breakthrough into the European main stream. Latvia`s Emsis be came the first-ever prime minister from a green party in 2004, and greens entered governments in Belgium, France, Italy, and elsewhere.

By 2022, with mainstream parties continuing to lose popularity and climate change getting hold of the voter’s attention, green par ties were in national govern ments in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, and Luxembourg. If we move our attention to Asia, the Middle East, and a huge con tinent Africa, we find not so big of a favorite pie in green politics. However, naturally, rich Africans seem they have less of a foothold in the green

The first green party was formed in Australia. The UK ‘s people’s party was the first in Europe warning collapse of ecological wrap-up. “It was not until the 1980s that the first green party went mainstream- in West Germany a stronghold of green politics. The west German greens in 1983 became a full-fledged political force by entering parliament with 27 seats

concept of political theory. “Africa has seen a range of environmental activism, in cluding the Green Belt Move ment, led by Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, but few electoral gains. Rwanda is the only Af rican country with greens in parliament.

The nuclear disaster in Ja pan has led to some awaken ing in commotion. It led to a force in the political arena but remains not so popular. In Middle east, the green per ception is fragmented and has not seen the rising popu larity of green political ideol ogy to its peak. In India green thinking has made some in roads as Indian politics seems to be on the threshold of green politics with energy policies and environmental safety issues gaining popu larity. India as the leading technological giant and one

of the largest growing econo mies across the globe carries a huge influence on world politics and is very impres sionable. Green future poli tics has gained the support of hundreds of political par ties from all over the world, revealing the evolving ideol ogy and expansion from local environmental groups to de cision-makers. The gap be tween the urban class ideol ogy and worker class real-life issues, which was seen ini tially as a massive challenge seems to be bridged everyday brick by brick. “Climate and environmental protection is a question of equitability be tween present and future generations.” In this, we as voters and citizens have a special responsibility: How we act today determines the conditions governing the life of tomorrow’s generation. It’s not only cutting down the emission waste from cars or lessening the vehicle sounds, maybe promoting kids to bik ing. This is something funda mental that every child de serves. That’s why not only to bequeath to future genera tions modern, environmen tally sensitive technologies: not only energy use from re newable energy sources, and recycling and energy-saving systems, but also systems providing environment-safe mobility instead of gridlock in all arenas of life. These are the outcomes that will guar antee the life quality of a safe future in the long term. This is a task that transcends the borders of any country alone and functions across borders.

RAHUL STOKES

CONTROVERSY

Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra is not drawing the media attention which it might de serve, but his remark against RSS ideologue Vinayak Sa varkar for seeking apology from the British government during the Maharashtra leg of his yatra has certainly caught the attention of both his allies and rivals. At a time when Hindutva is the domi nant word and its strong in fluence is all pervasive, at tacking Savarkar in Maha rashtra requires some cour age. Or is it foolhardy on Ra hul Gandhi’s part as the Congress is part of Uddhav Shiv Sena-led MVA alliance along with Nationalist Con gress Party? Uddhav Thack eray and his party’s leader

Attacks on Congress party’s offices in different parts of state go to show how sensitive an issue Savarkar is. If questioning Savarkar’s loyalty to the nation could fetch votes then the Congress wouldn’t have been ousted from power

Sanjay Raut have both dis tanced themselves from Ra hul’s remark and categori cally stated that their party has only love & immense re spect for Savarkar. At one of his press confer ences Rahul said that he wasn’t sure of votes which

his yatra will fetch for Con gress but with his comment on Savarkar won’t help par ty’s cause, which is almost non-existent in Maharash tra. Attacks on Congress of fices in different parts of state go to show how sensi tive an issue Savarkar is. Moreover, Rahul Gandhi must realise that whipping a dead horse won’t make it run. If questioning Sa varkar’s loyalty to nation could fetch votes then the Congress wouldn’t have been ousted from power. Rahul has given BJP a chance to hit back at him. BJP reminded Rahul of Indira Gandhi who said that “Veer Savarkar’s daring defiance of the Brit ish Government has its own importance in the annals of our freedom movement”.

Step aside Elon Musk, a private start-up Skyroot Aerospace made a historic de but when it success fully launched the country’s first privately made rocket named Vikram-S after founder of India’s space programme Vikram Sarabhai into space on Friday. It is a milestone for the private sector marking its entry into the commercial space pro gramme. Of course Vikram-S is much smaller than Elon Musk’s Falcon but then Skyroot Aero space is only four-year old and the government passed laws to reform the space sector only in 2020 allowing the private sector to use ISRO’s infrastructure. That came as a big boost to pri vate players and culminated in Friday’s launch of Prarambh.

Vikram-S mission was aptly named “Prarambh”, the Begin ning, to demonstrate the techno logical capability of Skyroot. The fledgling private sector’s space programme faces the con straint of funds and may need foreign direct investment. Be sides, it will also need the gov ernment’s support by way of cuts in import duty, incentives in taxes and domestic manufac ture of space equipment.

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WAS RAM TEMPLE OR ARTICLE 370 REMOVAL POSSIBLE UNDER CONG: YOGI

Wankaner (PTI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Fri day suggested that con struction of a grand Ram Temple in Ayod hya has became possi ble only because a Bharatiya Janata Par ty-led government un der Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at the helm at the Centre and asked if the project would not have been feasible under a Con gress dispensation.

At a rally here in sup port of BJP candidate Jitu Somani, Adity anath said the time has come to fulfil Mahatma Gandhi’s wish of dis solving the Congress

and said the Opposition party was not capable of protecting the country. The UP CM said the now-abolished Article 370 of the Constitution

Kutch (ANI): Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj

Singh Chouhan on Friday took a dig at Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by calling them “babul tree” and “shrub” respectively and said that the former would give only thorns while the latter would “destroy the crop”. He also called PM Narendra Modi “kalpavriksha” stating that the people will get whatever they want from him. Chouhan was addressing an election rally here. “Narendra Modi is a ‘kalpavriksha’, you’ll get whatever you want. Kejriwal is a babul tree, you’ll get only thorns. Rahul Gandhi is a shrub that will destroy the crops,” he said. Chouhan slammed Rahul Gandhi for his remarks on freedom fighter Savarkar and said

was the root cause of terrorism in J&K. He targeted the Con gress and sought to know if a Ram Temple and abrogation of Arti

GUJARAT RIOT-FREE DUE TO PM MODI, BJP, SAYS UNION MINISTER ANURAG THAKUR

Mandvi (Agencies): Kicking

What is the politics of Congress-AAP in poll-bound Gujarat?

cle 370, which provided special status to J&K, would have been possi ble if the main Opposi tion party had been in power at the Centre.

and area and ruled this country for over 60 years,” Thakur said. He further took a pot-shot at the former UPA government saying that it didn’t pay attention to the Tribal communities of the country.

FADNAVIS COMPARES AAP LEADERS TO ‘DANCERS AT WEDDINGS’

that the country will never forgive him for “in sulting” him. “Rahul Gandhi insulted Veer Sa varkar yesterday. The man who was sentenced to punishment equalling two lifetimes, the one who sacrificed everything for the country. You insult such a freedom fighter, this country will never forgive you,” Chouhan said.

IN THE COURTYARD

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Friday remarked that a lawyer appearing in court without carrying a copy of his brief is like Sachin Tendulkar without his bat on the cricket pitch. CJI Chandrachud said, “A lawyer without a brief is Sachin Tendulkar without his bat.” The CJI also com mented to the lawyer that it looks bad that the lawyer is wearing a gown and band but doesn’t have a copy of the brief. The court passed this remark as it noted that a lawyer was arguing his case without any copy of the brief.

Kolkata: A court at Tufanganj in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar on Friday issued an arrest warrant against BJP MP and Union Minister of State John Barla, in connection with a case of violation of model code of conduct during the Lok Sabha elections in 2019. According to public prosecutor Sanjay Burman, on April 4, 2019, a motor cycle rally was taken out at the premises of the block development office (BDO) in Tufanganj violating the model code of conduct. Barla, who was the BJP candidate from Alipurduar, was present at the rally.

GUJARAT: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING AND MURDERING MINOR

Vadodara: A special POCSO court in Gujarat’s Vadodara has sentenced a man to death for raping and murder ing a minor girl in 2019. Special Judge JA Thakkar on Thursday awarded capital punishment and also slapped a fine of Rs 1.30 lakh on Sanjay Baria. The Judge observed, “Sanjay Baria raped and strangulated the girl, who was just a little older to his daughter. It was a heni ous crime but Baria has no remorse for the offence he has committed, that is why this case is rarest of rare.”

On May 17, 2019, Sanjay kidnapped the eight-year-old girl from the slums of the Goraj village in Vadodara. He took her to bushes, raped and strangulated her and fled the crime scene. When the parents started search ing for the missing girl and were unable to trace her, the police were informed, and the next morning, the victim’s body was found from bushes.

SELECTION PROCESS FOR CIVIL JUDGES:

NOTICE TO MP GOVT

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought the response of the Madhya Pradesh govt to a plea challenging the selection process for appointment of civil judges. The court was hearing a petition challeng ing the minimum 40 per cent marks allotted for the interview conducted as part of the selection process for appointment to the post of civil judge conducted by the Madhya Pradesh High Court. A bench of Justices K M Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy issued notices to the state government and the registrar of the high court on the plea.

CENTRE, DELHI MAY PAY 50% EACH OF AWARD TO DAMEPL

New Delhi : The DMRC on Friday told the Delhi High Court that the Centre and state government might have a meeting by December 12 to consider the issue of making 50 per cent payment each of the arbitral award, which was passed in favour of Reliance Infrastructureowned Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited.

Justice Kameswar Rao was informed by Attorney Gen eral R Venkataramani that because of the intervening elections in Delhi, the gov ernments need some more time and a cabinet meeting is required.

Hyderabad (Agencies): Telangana CM K Chan drasekhar Rao’s daugh ter and TRS MLC K Kavitha on Friday warned BJP MP D Arvind that if he contin ues to make personal comments against her she will slap her with chappal (footwear). Re acting strongly to cer tain remarks made by him, Kavitha said Arvind had stooped to a new low. “What do you think of yourself? If you make baseless com ments again, I will slap you with chappal in Ni zamabad crossroads,” she warned Arvind, who represents Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency. The MLC apparently vented her anger over Arvind’s derogatory re mark made on Thursday. Meanwhile TRS activ ists on Friday ransacked the house of BJP MP Dharmapuri Arvind’s house here over his al leged derogatory re marks against Kavitha.

Surat (ANI): Lashing out at Rahul Gandhi over his re marks against VD Savarkar, BJP chief JP Nadda on Fri day said that the Congress leader is out on the road do ing Bharat Jodo Yatra to “not to unite India, but to break it”. “Just yesterday, Rahul Gandhi gave a condemnable statement against freedom fighter Veer Savarkar. This shows what their thinking is, they have not come out to unite India, they have come out to break it,” Nadda said

Letter threatens blasts

at Indore stadium

at an election rally here. He accused Gandhi of standing with those who protested against the hanging of Afzal Guru, the mastermind of the Parliament attack, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2016. “Congress always works to break the country. Rahul Gandhi even went to Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University and stood with those who protested against the hanging of Afzal Guru, mastermind of the Parlia ment attack,” he alleged.

New Delhi: The Con gress party in Guja rat is constantly clar ifying that it has nothing to do with the Aam Aadmi Par ty and inform the voters that it is nei ther with AAP now nor will it ever go ahead. In fact, in the past, former Con gress President and former Union Minis ter Bharat Singh Solanki has said that if the Aam Aadmi Party gives its sup port, the Congress will have no objec tion. However, he added that he has said this in his per sonal capacity and has not given the opinion of the Con gress. But after this, continuous clarifica tion was given by the Congress. Many Con gress leaders also criticized Solanki and said that he was the state president at the time of the last election and Con gress could not win the election because of the defeat of 15 candidates selected by him.

Actually Congress is worried about re peating the history of Delhi. Congress also won eight seats in Delhi in 2013, but the result of forming the government by supporting AAP has been that the Con gress came down to zero in the 2015 elec tions and has re mained at zero since then. Congress feels that even the core vote of the Congress can go towards AAP if it shows any close ness to it. That is why Congress leaders are refusing to coordi nate. But the Aam Aadmi Party has kept a strategic si lence on this. In a program of a media group, Arvind Kejri wal was asked if he would take the side of the Congress if needed, but Kejriwal avoided answering the question. rather he asked to be wished good luck so that AAP can form gov ernment. In this way, he has indicated co ordination with the Congress. Now Con gress has to answer this.

Odisha BJP launches indefinite protest over farmers’ issues

Bhubaneswar (Agen cies): Ahead of Padam pur bypoll, the BJP on Friday launched an in definite dharna “satya graha” in front of the Odisha Assembly to protest “anti-farmer policies” of BJD govt.

The party has launched this dharana over several issues of farmers including farm

assistance, crop insur ance, supply of fertilis ers and Kalia money distribution.

The BJP leaders al leged that the state gov ernment’s potato mis sion and onion mission have completely failed. But despite that, there is no policy in place to help farmers recover losses, they said.

ACCOUNTANTS’ MEET!

They said the farmers are getting Rs 4,000 un der the Kalia scheme in stead of Rs 10,000 as promised in 2019 polls. Due to irregularities in opening of mandis, the farmers are forced to sell their paddy at Rs 1,250 per quintal against the MSP of Rs 2,040 per quin tal, said BJP general secy Prithiviraj Harichanda.

Indore (PTI): A shop in Madhya Pradesh’s In dore has received a let ter threatening that bomb blasts would be carried out in the city if the participants of the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi make a scheduled overnight stay at a local stadium on November 28, prompting the police to launch investigation, an official said on Friday.

Police have regis tered a case against an unidentified person in

this connection, he said, adding that they suspect that it was a hoax threat.

Talking to PTI, In dore Commissioner of Police H C Mishra said, “A sweet-snacks shop in Juni area of the city has received a letter on Thursday evening, which says that if the participants of the Ra hul Gandhi-led yatra stay at the Khalsa sta dium, bomb blasts could be carried out in the city.”

AAP’s ‘strategic weapon’ used for ‘tactical’ gains!

Sharat K Verma

New Delhi: There was a time when the Left, lib eral intellectuals of the country used to allege that the RSS and BJP were rumour mongering factories. On the other hand, the Sangh and BJP alleged that the Left, lib eral intellectuals create narratives according to their ideology and prop agate and establish them. But now the Aam Aadmi Party has left eve ryone behind in this

work. Like those who engage in ‘yellow jour nalism’, AAP leaders say anything about any par ty or leader. They would hold a press conference and make a big claim and publicize it in social media, but later these claims turn out to be completely wrong.

The latest issue is the resignation of all the dis trict presidents of Delhi BJP. AAP’s chief and na tional spokesperson Sau rabh Bhardwaj said at a press conference that

because of AAP, there is such panic within the BJP that all its district presidents have re signed. After this state

ment, the BJP was shocked because the res ignation of any district president had not reached the party presi dent. The reality is that no BJP district president has resigned. Similarly, recently, AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak claimed that BJP was denying tickets to all its former councillors. The fact is that the party has fielded nine former mayors and 52 former councillors.

Earlier, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal him

self had spread various rumours about Gujarat!

He started saying from June-July that fearing AAP, BJP is going to hold elections ahead of time. But the reality is that elections are being held on time. Kejriwal and his party leaders have said many times that fearing AAP, BJP is going to replace Gujarat State President CR Patil.

The reality is that even now the BJP is contest ing elections under the command of CR Patil.

The funny thing is that many AAP leaders sometimes become journalists and tell journalists only that they have got such and such news and claim it to have been learnt from sources. Sometimes they become psepholo gists and tell that in their survey it has come to know that such and such thing is happen ing. Sometimes they be come astrologers and claim that a certain work is going to happen.

Mahesh Sharma

off campaign in Gujarat, Union In formation & Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said that if the state is riot-free today it is because of BJP and PM Modi. “If Gujarat is riot-free today then it’s because of BJP and PM Modi. The more Gujarat progresses, the more India will progress. If Gujarat wins, then India will progress,” Thakur said. Thakur took a swipe at the Congress and said that it has ruled the country to “divide” people. “Congress only divided the country on the basis of caste, religion

Bhavnagar (Agencies): Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis on Friday took a jibe at Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party and compared it to dancers at a wedding. While address ing an election rally in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar, Fadnavis said, “In every marriage, dancers come uninvited and leave. Similarly, for the Gujarat elections, Aam Aadmi Party has come without any invitation. Kejriwal is the biggest liar,” Fadnavius said. Apart from Kejriwal, Fadnavis also took a pod shot at Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra and spoke about the Centre’s vaccination drive.

DEVENDRA

TOP BJP LEADERS, INCLUDING NATIONAL PRESIDENT JP NADDA, CMs OF MP, UTTAR PRADESH, ASSAM, UNION MINISTERS HOLD RALLIES IN MANY AREAS OF POLL-BOUND GUJ

PM IS ‘KALPAVRIKSHA’, KEJRI ‘BABUL TREE’, RaGa ‘SHRUB’: MP CM

ARREST WARRANT AGAINST UNION MINISTER BARLA

LAWYER WITHOUT A BRIEF COPY IS LIKE SACHIN SANS BAT: CJI

NADDA RAPS RAHUL GANDHI OVER HIS REMARKS ON SAVARKAR

UP CM Yogi Adityanath at a rally for Gujarat polls, at Wankaner, in Morbi on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI

if “Bharat Jodo Yatris” stay

Will slap with chappal, Kavitha warns BJP MP

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi greets at a public rally during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, in Shegaon on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla with outgoing IFAC President Alan Johnson during the inauguration of the 21st World Congress of Accountants, at Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, on Friday.

—PHOTO BY PTI

12 killed as Tata Sumo falls into gorge near Joshimath

Dehradun/Gopeshwar

(PTI): Twelve people, including two women, were killed and three injured as a passenger vehicle fell into a deep gorge in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Friday, the State Disas ter Response Force said.

A Tata Sumo carry ing 17 passengers fell into a gorge at Urgam in Joshimath area of the district at around 4 pm, said the SDRF which carried out the rescue operation.

The passengers were on their way to Palla Jakhol village from Joshimath when the ac cident occurred, Cha moli SP Pramendra Dobhal said.

Two of the occupants

US Secretary of Navy on India visit, to inspect IAC Vikrant

New Delhi : US Secre

tary of Navy Carlos Del Toro is on a five day of ficial visit to India Nov 17-21, officials said on Friday. Officials said that Del Toro is sched uled to visit Indian Na vy’s Southern Naval Command at Kochi, wherein he would inter act with its chief and visit India’s first indig enous Aircraft Carrier, INS Vikrant at Cochin.

He will also meet In dian Navy chief, Admi ral R. Hari Kumar, and high-ranking govern ment officials in New Delhi. India and the US have traditionally main tained close and friend ly relations, and the de fence relationship be tween the two countries has been one of mutual trust and confidence

In addition, both countries have conclud ed certain foundational agreements, including the Defence Framework Agreement, signed in 2015, which lays a blue print for collaboration between the defence es tablishments of both countries, the Logistics Exchange Memoran dum of Agreement (LE MOA) signed in 2016, which is a foundational agreement facilitating reciprocal logistics sup port between the armed forces of both countries.

Punjab gives nod to old pension scheme

Chandigarh (ANI): The Punjab cabinet has approved the restora tion of Old Pension Scheme. The decision has been taken in a cab inet meeting on Friday. An official notification would be put out subse quently. Faced with sev eral demands from gov ernment employees, the Punjab government took the decision to re store the Old Pension Scheme.

Under the old pen sion scheme, a govern ment employee is enti tled to a monthly pen sion after retirement. The monthly pension is typically half of the

last drawn salary of the person.

Under the new pen sion scheme, employ ees contribute a por tion of their salaries to the pension fund. Based on that, they are entitled to a one-time lump sum amount on superannuation.

WORLD TOILET DAY

SOLDIERS KILLED IN AVALANCHE

TRF operatives

Jammu (PTI): The Na tional Investigation Agency on Friday filed a charge sheet against five members of The Resistance Front, an offshoot of the pro scribed Lashka-e-Taiba terrorist organisation, here in a case related to seizure of arms in Sri nagar’s Chanapora lo cality in May.

Bobby Kataria’s bail plea rejected in extortion case

jumped out of the vehi cle in the nick of time, the SP said.

The SDRF has recov ered all the 12 bodies.

The gorge was around 300 metres deep and reaching the spot where the remains of the vehicle lay was dif ficult, an eyewitness told PTI over the phone.

The vehicle is said to have been overloaded

with some occupants also sitting on its roof.

Chief Minister Push kar Singh Dhami ex pressed grief at the loss of lives in the ac cident and announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the next of those killed.

Most of those killed were from Kimana, Kalkot, Dumak and Palla villages.

The charge sheet against Aamir Mushtaq Ganie, Adnan Ahsan Wani of Srinagar, Ashaiq Hussain Hajam and Ghulam Mohideen Dar of Budgam and Faisal Munir of Jammu was filed before NIA special judge, Jammu, under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Unlawful Ac tivities (Prevention) Act and the Arms Act, a spokesperson of the federal agency said.

The NIA said the case was registered on May 23 at the Chanapora po lice station in Srinagar.

CEC reaches Kathmandu as int’l observer for Nepal polls

Kathmandu (PTI): In dia’s Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Friday reached here as an in ternational observer for Sunday’s general elections in Nepal.

Kumar, 62, is leading a four-member delega tion, including two of ficials from the Election Commission of India.

Nepal is scheduled to hold elections on No vember 20 to elect 275 members of the federal Parliament and 550 seats of the seven Pro vincial Assemblies.

Upon their arrival, Shaligram Sharma

DDWS to organise ‘Swachhta Run’ across rural India today

New Delhi: The De partment of Drinking Water & Sanitation (DDWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti, under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) is organiz ing ‘Swachhta Run’ across rural India, to mark the World Toilet Day today. States & UTs have been directed to conduct the “Swachhta Run” at the Gram Pan chayat (GP) level in volving local heroes, Swachhagrahis’, ASHA

workers, volunteers, youth, school children, and local folk artists etc. It was suggested to engage the local elected representatives/sports persons/celebrities/lo cal influencers to flag off the “Run” to en

thuse the local populace for participation. Un dertaking ‘Swachhta Pledge’ by all partici pants at the start of the “Run”; display of ban ners, posters, slogans and other outdoor IEC materials of SBM(G) Phase II along the route, starting and ending the “Run” at a site of his torical significance.

DDWS with NIC devel oped a dedicated e-mod ule to monitor the ac tivities.

Poudel, Joint Secretary at the Election Commis sion of Nepal, wel comed Kumar and other members of the delega tion at the Tribhuvan International Airport.

He will join other in ternational delegates to observe the election.

Kumar will visit polling stations in Kathmandu and surrounding areas before wrapping up his five-day visit on Novem ber 22.Kumar, who is here at the invitation of Dinesh Kumar Thapali ya, CEC of Nepal Elec tion.

MEA driver arrested for espionage: Sources

New Delhi (PTI) : Del hi Police’s Crime Branch team has arrest ed a driver working in the MEA on charges of espionage for allegedly leaking confidential de tails to a Pakistan-based person, sources said on Friday. According to a source, the arrest was made on Friday from the Jawaharlal Nehru Bhawan here. The sus pect allegedly used to pass “confidential and sensitive” information related to national secu rity to a person based in

Pakistan. The source said the driver was hon ey-trapped by an ISI per son who pretended to be a woman when he spoke with him.

Police, however, re fused to share any de tails of the case citing concerns over national security.

ICG conducts National Maritime Search & Rescue NMSAR INDIAN

Gujarat: The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) in a series of Annual Mari time Search and Rescue (M-SAR) Meetings, con ducted its 20th National Maritime Search and Rescue (NMSAR) Board meeting at Kevadia in the Narmada district of Gujarat on Friday.

The apex level meet ing was chaired by Di rector General VS Pathania, President’s Tatrakshak Medal (PTM), Tatrakshak Medal (TM), Director General Indian Coast

Guard and the Chair man of the National Maritime Search and Rescue Board.

The Chairman in his inaugural address high lighted various initia tives undertaken by the Indian Coast Guard in coordination with other stakeholders and re source agencies for strengthening the MSAR services under the aegis of the Board.

“The NMSAR Board comprising 31 members from various central ministries and agencies,

Gurugram (PTI): So cial media influencer Bobby Kataria who was once booked for light ing up a cigarette ap parently inside a plane, has been denied antici patory bail now in a case pertaining extor tion and abusing a woman on social media.

The matter was booked on December 26, 2017 at the Women’s Po lice Station (East) of Sector 51 at the com plaint of a woman who had alleged that Kataria tried to extort money from her when she ap proached him for help regarding some marital issue.

The woman had ap proached Kataria on social media when she found out that her hus band was married to another woman and had a kid with her.

In her complaint she wrote that Kataria asked her to meet at a place in Gurugram and allegedly demanded Rs 1.5 lakh from her. When she refused to give him the money, Ka taria started abusing her on social media, she said.

Kataria was arrested on January 10, 2018, and was given bail on Feb ruary 3, 2018, which was cancelled after he failed to appear in court for his hearings, said police.

Chandigarh: Close on the heels of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann directing a review of all the existing arms licenses to check gun culture, DGP Punjab Gaurav Yadav, on Friday, ordered mandatory inspection of the shops, premises and stocks of all the gun houses on a quarterly basis across the state. The DGP said rule 20.14 of Punjab Police Rules, 1934 authorises gazetted officers of police to inspect the shops, premises, and stocks of all licensed manufac turers and dealers under the Arms Act every quarter.

FIRE BREAKS OUT IN NAVJEEVAN EXPRESS IN AP

Andhra Pradesh: Fire broke out in the pantry car of Train No 12655, Navjeevan Express bound for Chennai from Ahmedabad when the train reached Gudur rail way station in Tirupati district on Friday. Rail way officials promptly stopped the train at Gudur Junction railway station & brought the fire under control.

CBI NABS INDIAN RAILWAYS OFFICIAL FOR TAKING BRIBE

New Delhi: The CBI on Friday arrested a Principal Chief Engineer of Rail Wheel Factory in Bengaluru for demand ing and accepting bribe. The arrested accused has been identified as G.K.Jalan, Principal Chief Engineer of Rail Wheel Factory. It has been alleged that the accused demanded Rs.1,00,000 as a bribe.

members of armed forc es, and all Coastal States and Union Territories meets annually to dis

cuss the policy issues. In the meeting, guidelines and procedures are for mulated, to assess the

efficacy of the NMS and Rescue Plans and ser vices for the mariners and the fishermen, in the vast 4.6 million sq km of the Indian Search and Rescue Region (ISRR),” read an official statement.

During the meeting, Director General VS Pathania launched the ‘National Maritime Search and Rescue Plan2022’ which serves as the policy document for all the participating agen cies and stakeholders for directing an inte

grated and coordinated approach towards the functioning of the MSAR system. The policy document is aimed to wards the capacity and capability building of SAR services in India.

The Search and Res cue Aid Tool-Integrated (SARAT-I) software ver sion 1.0 which has been developed jointly by the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) was also launched.

THIRD CHEETAH RELEASED INTO ENCLOSURE

Sheopur (PTI): The number of cheetahs that have been moved from their quarantine area into the accli matisation enclosure in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park reached three on Fri day after big cat Obaan joined male siblings Alton and Freddie, a senior forest official said.

MASJID’S CARETAKER BOOKED IN MP

Madhya Pradesh: The caretaker of a mosque in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa has been booked on the charge of converting a Hindu youth, the police said on Friday.A case under var ious sections of Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act and Indian Penal Code has been registered against Alim Ameenudin Qadri.

union territory, were also arrested, they said.

Taxi was carrying 17 passengers, some sitting on the roof; 2 jumped out in nick of time

The spot where the Tata Sumo fell on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI

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Srinagar (PTI): Three army personnel allegedly died after coming under an avalanche in the Machil sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, officials said here. Three soldiers of 56 RR came under an avalanche in the Machil sector in the Kupwara dis trict near the Line of Control (LoC), they said. Their bodies were recovered after a search operation, they said, adding that further details of the incident are awaited.

NIA files charge sheet against 5

Indian Coast Guard meeting in Gujarat on Friday.

Guwahati: An FIR has been lodged against a private madrasa in Assam’s Cachar district for allegedly “teaching jihadi ideology”, an official said on Friday. Sahab Uddin Khan, a resident of the Sonai area, said that his son Sain, a student at the Swadhin Bazar Islamia Madrasa, was assaulted by the teachers.He ac cused head teacher Abul Hussain Laskar and secretary Dilwar Hussain Mazumdar of beating and locking his son within the madrasa premises. Khan also accused Laskar of trying to incite anti-racist to his son.

Jammu: Police on Friday arrested two drug peddlers and recovered 800 kilograms of poppy in J&K’s Udhampur district, officials said. A police team conducting routine checks of the vehicle on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway intercepted an oil tanker at Jakhani, they said. . Two inter-state smug glers, who were smuggling the consignment of poppy straw outside the

PUNJAB DGP ORDERS QUARTERLY INSPECTION OF GUN HOUSES

FIR LODGED AGAINST ASSAM MADRASA FOR ‘TEACHING JIHADI IDEOLOGY’

Bhagwant Mann

Rajiv Kumar

SCHEDULED ELECTION

BRIEFS

ONLY 11% TECH INVESTMENT IN DEEP TECH STARTUPS

Working quickly on UK-India FTA: Sunak

Bengaluru: India’s deep tech startups need higher seed and early stage fund ing to grow faster as only 11% of technology-related funds reach this ecosys tem as of now, National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) president De bjani Ghosh said on Friday.

Deep tech or deep technol ogy startups are enterpris es that work in the area of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, ro botics, quantum, block chain, Internet of Things, drones and AR.

WHEAT SOWING UP 15% TO 101.49 LAKH HECTARE SO FAR

UNDER DATA PROTECTION BILL

`500 cr penalty proposed for each data breach

New Delhi: Area sown to wheat has risen by 15% to 101.49 lakh hectares while pulses acreage has declined in the current rabi season so far com pared to the year-ago pe riod. Acc to sowing data, wheat has been sown in 101.49 lakh hectares till November 18 of this rabi season as against 88.46 lakh hectares. However, the area sown to pulses remained lower at 73.25 lakh hectares so far this rabi season as against 76.08 lakh hectares in the year-ago period. —PTI

SEBI PLANS TO INTRODUCE NEW SCORES SYSTEM

New Delhi (PTI): The gov ernment has raised the penalty amount to up to Rs 500 crore for violating pro visions under the proposed draft Digital Personal Pro tection Bill 2022 issued.

The draft personal data protection bill, issued in 2019, had proposed a pen alty of Rs 15 crore or 4% of the global turnover of an entity. “The purpose of this Bill is to provide for the processing of digital per sonal data in a manner that recognises the right of in dividuals to protect their personal data, the need to process personal data for lawful purposes and for

other incidental purpos es,” an explanatory note of the draft bill said.

The proposed bill comes in place of the Data Protec tion Bill, which was with drawn by the government in August this year.

The draft proposes to set up a Data Protection Board of India, which will carry on functions as per the pro visions of the bill.

New Delhi (PTI): Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that the UK govern ment remains committed to working “as quickly as possible” towards a suc cessful conclusion to the ongoing free trade agree ment (FTA) talks with In dia, as the majority of the substantive negotiation conversations were com pleted at the end of last month.

The British Indian leader updated Parliament that he reviewed progress on the FTA during his first meet ing with Prime Minister Narendra Modi since tak ing charge at 10 Downing Street. He was questioned by Opposition Labour Party

Some foreign Cos keen to bring hyperloop tech to India: Niti member

New Delhi (PTI): Some foreign companies have shown interest to bring hy perloop technology for ul tra-high-speed travel in In dia, but discussions are at a very early stage, Niti Aayog Member VK Saras wat said on Friday.

“We have also interacted with some of the compa nies which are foreign com panies, which are already developing this (hyperloop) technology.

“They have shown some interest in bringing this technology (to India). The discussion is in a very ear ly stage,” he was quoted as saying by PTI.

MARKETS SLIP FOR 2ND DAY; CLOSE FLAT FOR THE WEEK

New Delhi: Capital mar kets regulator Sebi is planning to overhaul the existing investors com plaint system SCORES by introducing a newer ver sion of its website and mobile application fea tures. In this regard, the Sebi has invited expres sions of interest from in terested parties to replace the old system with a new version. SCORES (SEBI Complaints Re dressal System) is an on line platform designed to help investors lodge their complaints pertaining to the securities market, mainly against listed companies and registered intermediaries. —PTI

Mumbai (PTI): Market benchmarks ended lower for the second straight ses sion on Friday, paring their initial gains amid a mixed trend in the global equities.

The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 87.12 points or 0.14% to settle at 61,663.48.

During the day, it fell 413.17 points or 0.66% to 61,337.43.

The broader NSE Nifty dipped 36.25 points or 0.20% to end at 18,307.65 .

From the Sensex pack, Mahindra & Mahindra, Maruti, Bajaj Finance, In dusInd Bank, NTPC, Bhar ti Airtel, ITC and UltraT ech Cement were among the laggards.

PAYTM SHARES END OVER 1% HIGHER

New Delhi (PTI): Shares of One97 Communications, Paytm’s parent firm, on Friday ended over 1% higher, a day after falling sharply. In morning trade, the stock had declined over 2% after SoftBank divested 4.5% stake in the firm for Rs 1,631 crore through an open market transac tion. The stock dipped 2.23% to Rs 527.50 during the day on the BSE. But it recovered all the lost ground and ended at Rs 546.30 apiece, higher by 1.25%.

RUPEE SLIPS 6 PAISE TO CLOSE AT 81.70/$

Mumbai (PTI): The rupee depreciated 6 paise to close at 81.70 (pro visional) against the US dollar on Friday amid a lacklustre trend in do mestic equities and firming crude oil prices. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local unit opened up at 81.59 and later erased all its early gains. During the session, it witnessed a high of 81.52 and a low of 81.78. The domestic unit finally settled at 81.70 against the American currency, registering a fall of 6 paise over its previous close of 81.64.

AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARY PANEL RECOMMENDS RATIFICATION OF AI-ECTA

New Delhi (PTI): An Australian parliamentary committee on treaties has recommended to its government to ratify the trade pact with India, which was inked on April 2 this year. The India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agree ment (AI-ECTA) needs ratification by the Australian parliament before its implementation. In India, such pacts are approved by the Union Cabinet. “The Joint Standing Committee on Trea ties has recommended the Australian Government ratifies the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (AI-ECTA),” according to a release of the Australian Parliament issued on Friday. Committee Chair Josh Wilson MP said that this ‘early harvest’ agreement with India paves the way for further trade, market access, investment and regulation that requires global cooperation.

agree ment with India.

“I discussed the free

cessful conclusion to the negotiations,” said Sunak.

“Without negotiating all these things in public, I am pleased that the majority of the substantive negotia tion conversations were concluded by the end of October. We will now work at pace with the Indian teams to try to resolve the issues and come to a mutu ally satisfactory conclu sion,” he said.

trade agreement with In dia, and both the Prime Minister of India and I com mitted our teams to work ing as quickly as possible to see if we can bring a suc

More broadly, he reiter ated the UK government’s stance since the Diwali deadline for the FTA was missed, that he would not “sacrifice quality for speed” because it is impor tant to take the time to get trade deals right.

Economy on course to acheive 7% growth in FY’23: RBI article

Mumbai (PTI): With head line inflation beginning to show signs of easing, the domestic macroeconomic outlook appears to be resil ient and on a course for about 7% GDP growth in the current fiscal, an RBI article said on Friday.

The article published also said the outlook for the global economy remains clouded with downside risks. Global financial con ditions have been tighten ing and deteriorating mar ket liquidity is amplifying financial price movements.

Markets are now pricing in moderate increases in policy rates and risk-on ap petite has returned. In In

Visa processing to reach prepandemic level in FY23: US

Washington (PTI): The US visa processing is re bounding faster than pro jected and is expected to reach pre-pandemic levels in Fiscal Year 2023, the State Department has said.

“The Department of State is successfully lower ing visa interview wait times worldwide. We have doubled our hiring of US Foreign Service personnel to do this important work, visa processing is rebound ing faster than projected, and in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 we expect to reach pre-pan demic visa processing lev els,” it said in a media note on Thursday.

dia, supply responses in the economy are gaining strength, it noted.

“With headline inflation beginning to show signs of easing, the domestic mac roeconomic outlook can best be characterised as re silient but sensitive to for midable global headwinds,” the article said.

OTHER STORIES

FM SITHARAMAN URGES AIIB TO SCALE UP INVESTMENT IN R-E

New Delhi: FM Sitharaman on Friday asked the AIIB to scale up investment in renewal energy and smart technol ogies. “While appreciating AIIB’s growing portfolio in India, FM Smt.@ nsitharaman suggested that @ AIIB_Official should scale-up #investments and mobilise private finance in India’s key priority areas including #RenewableEnergy, #Energy Efficiency and climate #Smart Technologies,” the finance ministry said in a tweet. —PTI

ACC TO LATEST RBI ARTICLE

z The outlook for the global economy remains clouded with downside risks. Global financial conditions have been tightening and deteriorating market liquidity is amplifying financial price movements

BLACKSTONE-BACKED NEXUS FILES FOR $500 MILLION IPO

New Delhi: Blackstonesponsored Nexus Select Trust has filed the draft paper with market regula tor Sebi to launch India’s first public issue of retail REIT to raise around $500 mn (about `4,000 crore), sources said. As per the sources, Nexus Select Trust has on Thursday filed the DRHP with the Sebi and is looking to hit the capital market with India’s first retail REIT public issue in the first half of the 2023 calendar year. —PTI

MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA EXPECTS TO END CURRENT FISCAL WITH 3,700 SALES OUTLETS

5G services available across Delhi NCR

New Delhi (FIB): Telecom major Jio on Friday said that it has started to pro vide 5G coverage across Delhi NCR

New Delhi: The maximum tenure of CEO and MD of public sector banks has been increased to 10 years, a move that will help the government re tain the best talent in the banking sector. The term for the appointment has been extended to 10 years, from the earlier 5 years, subject to superan nuation age of 60 years. Earlier, the MD of a PSU bank was eligible for a maximum tenure of 5 years or 60 years which ever was earlier.

The company said that its 5G service is available across Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and other major NCR locations where it is delivering data speed of up to 1 gigabit per second.

“Covering the majority of the National Capital and NCR region is a matter of pride for us. Jio is expand ing its True-5G reach at a rapid pace and has already rolled out a large portion of

the planned True-5G net work in this area. It is the only operator to be present across the Delhi-NCR re gion with True-5G services.

“The reason Jio engi neers are working round

the clock to deliver True-5G to every Indian is because of the transformational power of this technology and the exponential bene fits it can deliver to every citizen,” Jio official said.

AIRTEL LAUNCHES 5G

SERVICE AT LOHEGAON AIRPORT Pune (PTI): Bharti Airtel has deployed Airtel 5G Plus service here at Lohegaon Airport, mak ing it the first airport in the state to provide ultrafast 5G services. The telecom service provider stated in a release that custom ers flying in and out of Pune can enjoy high-speed Airtel 5G Plus across the airport terminal. All customers with 5G smart phones will enjoy the high-speed Airtel 5G Plus on their existing data plans. There is no need to change the SIM as the existing Airtel 4G SIM is 5G enabled, it said. Airtel recently announced the advent of 5G at the new airport Terminal in Bengaluru.

New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India expects its sales network to touch the 3,700-mark by the end of this fiscal amid a push to ramp up production capacity at its Manesarbased plant by 1 lakh units to cater to enhanced demand, according to a senior company official. The country’s largest carmaker on Friday crossed the 3,500 car sales outlets mark, more than doubling it from 1,300 dealerships a decade ago. “We are likely to touch the 3,700 outlets mark by March-end,” MSI Senior Executive Officer, Marketing & Sales, said. —PTI

CENTRE REFUTES ANY SHORTAGE OF KEY FERTILISERS

New Delhi: The Centre on Friday said there is adequate availability of key fertilisers, including urea and DAP, across the country for the ongoing rabi season. “There have been some media reports claiming short age of fertilizers in Trichy, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan. Such reports are beyond the facts. It is clarified that there is more than adequate availability of fertilizers in the country to meet the needs of the ongoing rabi (winter) season, it said. —PTI

‘POWER FROM COAL, GAS FORMS BASE LOAD AT PRESENT’

New Delhi: Union Minister R K Singh on Friday said electric ity generated from coal and gas forms the base load as round-theclock supply of renewable energy is not viable at present due to expensive storage. The power minister also said eventually coal and gas-based energy will be phased out.

“Battery storage cost is Rs 10 per KWh. Solar power is Rs 2.30 KWh. You cannot have round-the-clock without storage...,” he said.

GOVT RAISES

TENURE OF PSU BANKS’ CEO

Leader Keir Starmer and his own Conservative Party MPs on the timeline for the completion of the

JIO’S CAPITAL MOVE

TERROR FINANCING more dangerous than terror, says HM Shah

New Delhi (PTI): Ter rorism is the most seri ous threat to global peace and security, but terror financing is more dangerous than terrorism itself, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday.

To achieve the goal of “No Money for Terror”, the global community must understand the “Mode - Medium - Meth od” of terror financing and adopt the principle of ‘One Mind, One Ap proach’ in cracking down on it, he said . He noted that in the last few years, India un der PM Narendra Modi’s leadership has succeed ed in cracking down on terror financing, and said that the “means and methods” of terror ism are nurtured from such funding.

“The transformation of terrorism from ‘dy namite to metaverse’ and ‘AK-47 to virtual as sets’ is definitely a mat ter of concern for the countries of the world. And we all have to work together to formulate a common strategy against it,” he said.

“The darknet is being used by terrorists to spread radical content and conceal their identi ties. Additionally, there is an increase in the use of virtual assets like cryptocurrency. We need to understand the pat terns of these darknet activities and find their solutions,” Shah said.

“I believe that financ ing of terrorism is more dangerous than terror ism itself because the ‘means and methods’ of

In a veiled attack on Pa kistan and China, Shah said there are countries that “seek to undermine, or even hinder, our col lective resolve to fight terrorism”. “We have seen that some nations protect and shelter terrorists. Protecting a terrorist is equivalent to promoting terrorism. It will be our collective responsibility that such elements never succeed in their intentions,” Shah said. “We also have to expose the double-speak of such elements who support them.” There fore, it is important that this conference, the participating countries, and organisations do not take a selective or complacent perspective of the challenges of this region, he said.

terrorism are nurtured from such funding. Fi nancing of terrorism weakens the economy

Referring to the regime change in Afghanistan, the home minister said after August 2021, the situation in the South Asian region has changed and the grow ing influence of Al-Qaeda & ISIS has emerged as a significant challenge to regional security. “These new equations have made the problem of terror financing more serious. Three decades ago, the whole world had to bear the serious consequences of one such regime change, the result of which we all have seen in the horrific attack of 9/11,” he said. Shah said in this background, slast year’s changes in the South Asian region are a matter of concern for everyone.

TERRORIST ACTIVITIES HAVE DECLINED SIGNIFICANTLY UNDER PM MODI: NIA DG

New Delhi (ANI): National Investigation Agency (NIA) Director General Dinkar Gupta on Friday said that terrorist activities have declined significantly in the country in the last eight years under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “It’s an honour for me to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sir, your zero-tolerance policy to terrorism, the whole of government approach, along with the strong and resolute leadership provided by you has brought about a remarkable change in the security scenario of the country,” the NIA DG said.

of countries,” Shah told delegates at the confer ence hosted by the Min istry of Home Affairs.

SHAH RAISES ISSUE OF ATTACKS ON MINORITIES, TEMPLES IN B’DESH

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday met his Bangladeshi counterpart Asaduzzaman Khan and raised the issue of at tacks on minorities and temples in that country, official sources said.

tive

J&K Students Assn writes to Adityanath after AMU clash

New Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir Students Association has voiced grave concern after an AMU student from the Union territory was in jured in a clash during a friendly cricket match.

The Association in a statement released on Thursday, said it has written to UP Chief Minister Yogi Adity anath to ensure the safe ty of all students of Jammu and Kashmir studying in different colleges in the state.

Sajid Husain, a native of Jammu and Kashmir, was injured during a friendly cricket match which turned violent.

A varsity official had said that Sajid got in jured after being hit on the head. He was rushed to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College in an unconscious state.

Nasir Khuehami, na

tional convenor, Jam mu and Kashmir Stu dents Association also urged the AMU authori ties to immediately rus ticate the student who had attacked the victim. The statement also said that such incidents are leading to a sense of in security among stu dents from the region.

The Association ap pealed to students from the Union territory to live amicably in differ ent colleges & avoid the possibility of such inci dents. The hospital au thorities have described the condition of the in jured student as “stable and under observation”.

Jet Airways to cut pay, send many staff on LWP

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New Delhi: Grounded airlines Jet Airways, which is yet to resume operations under its new controller will temporarily reduce sal aries for various em ployees and has decided to send several on leave without pay (LWP) starting December 1.

The measures were revealed hours after the winning bidder JalanKalrock Consortium (JKC) said it might take "difficult" near-term decisions to manage cashflows. According to the sources, a section of mid- and senior-level employees had been asked to work for a “re duced number of hours” at salaries re duced by up to 50%.

According to Jet Air ways CEO Sanjiv Ka poor, "two-thirds of staff (are) not impacted at all" and no staff has been asked to go.

Pankaj Tripathi to essay role of Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Mumbai (PTI): Actor Pankaj Tripathi is set to play the role of former Prime Minister Atal Bi hari Vajpayee in a bi opic titled “Main Ra hoon Ya Na Rahoon Yeh Desh Rehna Chahiye— ATAL”, the makers an nounced Friday.

Written by Utkarsh Naithani and directed by three-time National Award-winner Ravi Jad hav, the film will revolve around the journey of Vajpayee, one of the cofounders and a senior leader of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP).

Terrorists and terror groups now understand the nuances of modern weapons, information

Place Navlakha under house arrest within 24 hours ‘without fail’: SC

New Delhi (PTI):

Trashing the NIA’s ar guments, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered Gautam Navlakha to be placed under house ar rest “without fail” with in 24 hours.

Navlakha is under judicial custody in Taloja Jail in Navi Mumbai in connection with the Elgar Pari shad-Maoist link case. A bench of Justices KM Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy passed the order after sharp exchanges between the prosecu tion and the court.

The bench, however, ordered some addition al security measures to be put in place at the building where Nav lakha will be kept un der house arrest.

“Our order of Novem ber 10 shall be given ef fect to without fail with

in 24 hours,” the bench said. The NIA had moved the SC on Thurs day seeking vacation of its order for house ar rest, saying Navlakha, being a charge-sheeted accused in a case involv ing threat to national security and integrity, does not deserve any ex tra leeway.

The bench, however, went ahead with its No

vember 10 order of placing the 70-year-old activist under house ar rest. The top court said a kitchen door leading to the exit should be locked and sealed along with the grille win dows whose keys can be kept by the NIA and another CCTV camera shall be installed at the southern door which leads to the exit.

technology, and the dy namics of cyber and fi nancial space very well, Shah ssaid.

The actor said he feels honoured to play the role of an iconic multi-faceted personal ity like Vajpayee.

“It is an honour to

portray such a humane politician on screen. He was not just a politician but so much more, he was an excellent writer and a renowned poet. Getting to be in his shoes is nothing but a privilege for an actor like me,” the 46-year-old

HC defers hearing on Khalid Saifi’s bail

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday deferred hearing till No vember 21 on bail pleas of Khalid Saifi and oth er accused persons in a UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy be hind the 2020 riots.

A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar said that being a special bench, it does not as semble on a regular ba sis and therefore, it has

to “take a call” on whether these bail pleas can be heard by it or if they have to be sent to the designated bench for such cases.

“We are posting all

of them for 2:15 pm on Monday. We will have to take a call. This is likely to take a long time. We will have to take a call on whether we can devote some time every day in the post-lunch session,” the bench said.

It observed that the cases were not part heard before it and were only tagged along with the bail plea by co-ac cused Umar Khalid.

actor said in a state ment. “ATAL” is pro duced by Vinod Bhanushali, Sandeep Singh, Sam Khan & Kamlesh Bhanushali in association of 70MM Talkies and co-pro duced by Zeeshan Ah mad and Shivv Sharma.

SC judge recuses from hearing on ED director’s tenure

The

HC GRANTS BAIL TO ANAND TELTUMBDE

When the NIA sought time till Monday, Justice KM Joseph snapped: “You think we cannot see through attempts to delay the case? For what purpose will we post on Monday? We are passing an order.”

Mumbai (PTI): The Bombay High Court on Friday granted bail to scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde, arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Mao ist links case, noting that prima facie the only case made out against him relates to alleged as sociation with a terror outfit and support given to it, for which the maxi mum punishment is 10 years in jail.

A division bench of

Justices AS Gadkari and MN Jadhav said Teltumbde has already spent more than two years in jail.

The high court, how ever, stayed its order for a week so that the Na tional Investigation Agency (NIA), the pros ecuting agency in the case, can approach the Supreme Court. This means that Teltumbde will not be able to walk out of jail till then.

New Delhi (PTI): Supreme Court judge Justice SK Kaul on Friday recused himself from hearing the pleas challenging the amended law al lowing extension of up to 5 years for the ED director, a day after Sanjay Kumar Mishra was given a fresh one-year ex tension as the chief of the anti-money laundering agency.

Though the judge did not assign any reason for his deci sion announced in an open court, the SC had made it clear that Mishra will not be granted any fur ther extension.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah during the 3rd ‘No Money for Terror’ Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing, in New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI

GROWING INFLUENCE OF AL QAEDA, ISIS POSES CHALLENGE TO SOUTH ASIA: HM

‘SOME COUNTRIES PROTECT & SHELTER TERRORISTS’

Shah also had produc

exchanges with the Bangladeshi minister on border management and common securityrelated issues.

Home Min Amit Shah with Bangladesh counterpart Asaduzzaman on Friday.

Actor Pankaj Tripathi will portray the role of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in the biopic titled ‘Main Rahoon Ya Na Rahoon Yeh Desh Rehna Chahiye — ATAL’.

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Gautam Navlakha with his wife.

—FILE PHOTO

The NIA, represented by Solicitor General Tush ar Mehta, raised con cerns about the safety of the location chosen by Navlakha’s team and urged the court to scrap the house arrest ruling.

court reacted sharply to the objections. “Is Solicitor General Mehta & (Addi tional Solicitor General SV Raju) here to say that the police can’t keep a watch on an ail ing 70-year-old man?”

COURT’S RETORT TO MEHTA

Her Potential Is

MRIDULA SHARMA cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

When you culti vate a deep sense of faith in your abili ties and an in domitable spirit, noth ing can stop you from succeeding in your pursuits and living with great rewards, the quote has been proved by this dazzling beauty from Haryana who is also a finalist of the First India Queen stood tall against every hardship she has faced in her journey.

The 21 years old, Kalpana Yadav is cur rently pursuing her bachelor’s degree from Delhi University. She is also a national-level archer, athlete and cer tified yoga trainer. Ac cording to Kalpana, her father is the inspi ration behind her be ing independent in to day’s world.

“Being brought up in a boarding school taught me accountabil ity and self-contain ment. Becoming a role model came naturally to me after losing my mother at 17. There are ample opportunities in life, the thing is we need to find our call ing. I am grateful to the First India Queen for giving me this oppor

tunity and also ex tremely thankful to the Jagdeesh Chandra Sir for finding me worthy enough to be in the show.” Talking about self-acceptance beauty said, “Some challenges are physical attributes of a person that needs to be accepted by one because we need to un derstand that we all are unique. At the end of the day, acceptance is something we all should cherish. Per sonality is super essen tial to make a mark in modelling and that is our part to leave a mark in society on the way we speak, the way we carry our selves, and how people respect us.” expressed Kalpana.

While stating her achievements Kalpana shared “I have been an athlete there are a lot of rewarding moments in my life, But a re warding moment in the modelling/pageant field is When I won Runway 1. Miss Guru gram 1 st runner up and Miss body fit title.

And lastly, I believe taking small steps

“At the end of the day, acceptance is Something we all should cherish” expressed Kalpana Yadav, One of the finalists of First India Queen during a chit-chat session with City First

Of all the mod ern-age dis eases and ail ments that plague socie ty, arguably the worst, most unattended epi demic is that of Smart phone Addiction. Let us be under no mis conceptions here, and call a spade, a spade. It is, very much, an ad diction. What consti tutes an addiction? Is it not when there is tangible irritability and annoyance when the concerned sub stance is denied to the subject? I find that for too many young kids nowadays, denial or taking away their re spective cell phones leads to anger and ir rational outbursts! It is a most worrisome phenomenon that is multiplying steadily, and we need to under stand it, curb it, and correct it!

ROOT CAUSE

Most of us parents, perhaps tired from our hectic jobs, suffering the pitfalls of living nuclear, are happy to entertain our toddlers with cell phones/ screen content/vide os, just to get that ten or fifteen minutes of much-needed peace. At the time, it hardly seemed like anything was wrong. At the time, it rarely feels like a compromise or

the setting up of a wrong precedent that could later have poten tially catastrophic consequences.

It is however in suc cumbing to these tem porary lures wherein we lay the seeds of fur ther and serious addic tion. Children absorb things unconsciously, and subconsciously, and by exposing them to a regular cycle of screen time, we are al ready conditioning their minds and sys tems to receive that daily ‘dose’ of phone, akin to that certain amount of nicotine, or any addictive sub stance for that matter!

NIP IT IN THE BUD!

The wisest course of action, which I appre ciate is easier said than done, is for us parents to NOT give our toddlers this screen time, to begin with. To engage, dis tract, and entertain them through alterna tive means such as n Garden Play n Kinesthetic Activi ties n Story Time

By NOT setting up the habit, there will be NO expectation. Where there is no ex pectation, there is no habit formation or any negatives such as dis appointment or frus tration, then associat ed with NOT receiving that ‘daily dose’ of the screen.

NEVER TOO LATE!

In case you have not managed to ‘nip it in the bud’ and have un fortunately and inad vertently created a situation where your child is now a young kid, a student at school, seeking his or her regularly and

SMARTPHONE ADDICTION IN KIDS!

alarmingly increasing screen time; it is still NOT too late. There are ways of dealing with addiction even at this stage.

SET THE RIGHT EXAMPLE

Children watch their parents carefully and not only do they learn/ imbibe/follow by ob servation, but they are also increasingly prone to pointing out the points of hypocri sy in our behaviour, contradictions be tween our own actions and what we preach and expect of our chil dren. If we are seen to be on our smartphones half the day, we cannot

not qualifying that statement any further.

It’s all well and good to say, distract your smartphone-addicted child. But with what?

I find the best and most effective distrac tions come by way of ‘interests.

If the distraction is not enjoyable, the child will relapse into the habit. So the dis traction must be de signed to be engaging. And one sure-shot way of ensuring that is for that activity to relate directly to the child’s interests. For exam ple, if the child loves Photography, enrol them in a Photogra phy Workshop!

either scenario, the parent making time and investing it in the child will serve as the best possible solution. It will make the child loved and special. And, a parent and child spending time together will also cre ate opportunities for the child to discover interests (through the course of parent-child interaction, spending time chatting, travel ling, doing things to gether). Smartphone addiction is a serious problem with dire consequences ranging from: n Loss of Innocence n Loss of Academic Interest

ARIES

MAR 21 - APR 20

Your innovative ideas on the professional front are likely to be well received.

Good health will keep you fit and energetic. Spirituality will have a special allure for you. You are likely to expand your social circle. You are likely to get immense fulfillment in your current romantic relationship.

TAURUS

APR 21 - MAY 20

You succeed in putting an ambitious project on the tracks and cross all hurdles in making it a success.

Homemakers can exceed budget in doing up their homes. An old friend or a relative is likely to pay you a visit. Love beckons and promises to give immense joy and fulfillment.

GEMINI

MAY 21 - JUNE 21

A job switch needs to be considered taking all aspects into consideration. It is one of those days when you will feel satisfied with whatever you do on the social front. Those seeking love may not get lucky, but persistence will pay. A friend or relative can touch a sensitive nerve and get you all upset.

CANCER

JUNE

LIBRA

SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22

Homemakers will get a chance to implement their ideas. You are likely to be recognised for your efforts on the professional front. Chance of a raise is possible for some. Timely and correct decision will help you in saving a lot of money. You will be able to de-stress yourself completely today.

SCORPIO

OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

Speculation may not be profitable and you can very well burn your fingers, so take precautions. A major purchase may make a dent in your savings, but will help in keeping up with the flow. Some of you may get hard pressed to find a good match for someone eligible in the family.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV 23 - DEC 22

A profitable day for entrepreneurs is envisaged. You may be played upon for spending on someone else’s needs and desires.

Homemakers are likely to enjoy the day in the company of neighbors and friends. Fatigue threatens in a long journey, but adequate breaks will keep you going.

CAPRICORN

DEC 23 - JAN 20

Money coming from various sources will keep you in a happy state of mind.

A new fitness regime that you have adopted promises to keep you in the pink of health. Getting an old furniture upholstered may be at the top of the mind of some homemakers. Overall health remains satisfactory.

LEO

JULY 24 - AUGUST 23

possibly expect our children to give up theirs. One might think that we need our phones for work, and that justifies our us age. Think from the child’s perspective. They cannot discern that intellectually. So at least in front of them, make the right decision. Lead by ex ample, first and fore most, and DO NOT be seen on the phone yourself.

SET UP THE RIGHT DISTRACTION

People will be quick to suggest ‘distractions’,

GIVE TIME:

There are two aspects to this. In the first place, smartphone addiction is caused in many cases due to lack of time on the parents’ part, which prevents them from being involved with their children. Sec ond, it isn’t always possible to create the ‘distractions’ I re ferred to earlier, be cause in some cases, children don’t have any interests (at least not ones they are con sciously aware of), aside from their smartphones! In

n Loss of Social Inter est n Inability to Commu nicate n Introvertedness n Secret/Dual

Life

As parents and car egivers, we need to make a concerted ef fort and come up with creative solutions to the problem. There is no one-size-fits-all so lution, only general suggestions, with tai lor-made details, that can be tried, because every individual is dif ferent. What’s impor tant is that we are aware, and we make the effort.

Support from the family may seem most encouraging for those aiming an academic pursuit. Sticking to workout routine may benefit you on the health front. Meeting relatives at a marriage or party cannot be ruled out. A passion-filled evening is foreseen, as romantic front brightens.

VIRGO

AUG 24 - SEP 23

AQUARIUS

JAN 21 - FEB 19

Something concerning property will work out in your favour. A lot of time may be wasted in socialising, but you will love every moment of it. You will succeed in surmounting the odds to get a stalled job back on the tracks. A romantic outing is on the cards and promises much fun.

PISCES

FEB20 - MARCH 20

Those not in a stable job can expect permanency.

You will manage to ignore distractions and interruptions at work to complete a pending task in time. Job prospects for those freshly out of professional institutes are set to brighten up soon. Health will be satisfactory.

FACEOFTHEDAY

You are likely to spend an enjoyable time with a close relation today.

Satisfaction is foreseen for the image conscious people trying to achieve perfect figure and physique. Your efforts on the academic front will keep you in contention. Your helping hand to someone in need will be appreciated.

Horoscope by Saurabbh Sachdeva

KARTIK BAJORIA (The author is a Jaipur-based Communication Skills Educator & Writer)

FAMILY TIME

ON THE BEACH

Shahid Kapoor is often seen treating fans with cool self ies on Instagram. He also keeps sharing lovely memo ries with his wife Mira Rajput, and kids, Misha and Zain. In a picture, the Kabir Singh actor is seen look ing at Mira, Misha and Zain from a distance as they spend time on the beach. Mira is seen playing with Misha and making sand cas tles while Zain is seen enjoying the serene sunset view. Shahid, on the other hand, captured this beauti ful moment while sitting at a dis tance. Sharing the adorable pic ture with fans, he wrote, “Life!” He shared the picture with AP Dhil lion’s song Wo Noor playing in the backdrop. Soon after he

GOVINDA COMING SOON..

icky Kaushal took to his Instagram account and announced that Govinda Naam Mera is set to stream on Disney+ Hot star from 16th December 2022. The new poster shows him as Govinda Wagh mare, and sharing the same, Vicky wrote, “Govinda naam mera, naachna kaam mera. Aa raha hun jald, apni ka haani le kar! #GovindaNaam Mera streaming from 16th Dec, only on Disney+ Hot

star!” Karan Johar shared two ad ditional character posters featur ing Kiara Advani and Bhumi Ped nekar. The poster introduces Bhumi as ‘Govinda ki hotty wife,’ while Kiara as ‘Govinda ki naughty girl friend.’ Karan wrote, “Hero, his wife & his girlfriend - what could possi bly go wrong, right? A LOT it seems! Get ready for some murder, mystery, madness & masala!”

Sara Ali Khan enjoys a crazy fanbase all across the nation. Her fans al ways keep an eye on her upcoming project and its up date. While it is usual for Sara's fans to shower their immense love on her for almost every thing, they have now got her new look with Vicky Kaushal from Laxman Utekar's film, which has created more antici pation for the fresh pairing on screen. As Sara Ali Khan is com ing on the screen for the first time with Vicky Kaushal in Lax

arineeti took to social media on Thursday and shared that she used a hair dryer to keep her self warm in the cold region while shooting for her film 'Uunchai'. She called her hair dryer her saviour. Parineeti also dropped a video in which she is seen blowing hot air into her boots and using a hair dryer to keep her feet warm. The actress' hack has impressed many.

Speaking of 'Uunchai', the film is helmed by Sooraj Barjatya. It is the story of three friends (Anupam Kher, Amitabh Bachchan and Boman Irani) who

go on to climb Mt Ever est to fulfil the wish of their late friend, played by Danny Denzongpa. Parineeti essays the role of a trek leader in the film.

Hrithik & Saba to move in together

Asource close to Hrithik Roshan revealed that the Bang Bang actor and his girlfriend Saba Azad have been planning to move in to gether for quite some time now. It is reported that these two will be moving in together into an apartment in a building called Man nat in Mumbai. Appar ently, the top two floors of the building are be ing renovated and the couple will shift there very soon. Hrithik has spent nearly Rs 100

crore on the two apart ments, which are spread over three floors. The Greek God of Bollywood pur chased the two apart ments for Rs 97.50 crore, which are located near the Juhu-Versova link road. His apartments give an amazing view of the Arabian Sea and they are spread over 38,000 sq ft. For the du plex, located on the 15th and 16th floor, the actor paid Rs 67.50 crore. And on the other apartment, he spent nearly Rs 30 crore.

release on

iddharth Malhotra and Rashmika Man danna starrer Mission Majnu will di rectly

OTT. The movie will be released on Netflix on January 18 next year. For the unversed, Mission Majnu will narrate a story based on India's RAW op eration in Pakistan. As per a report, the streaming platform is expected to make an announcement regarding the same in the coming days. Quoting a source in the report, the portal said, “The makers have decided to release the film on January 18 on Netflix. The platform will make an official an nouncement soon.”

Parineeti Chopra

Kiara Advani

Saba Azad

Mira Rajput

Sara Ali Khan

Rashmika Mandanna

movie

Poster of the movie

LIVE UP YOUR DREAM!

What inspired you to become an influencer?

UTTKARSHA SHEKHAR uttkarsha.shekhar@firstindia.co.in

Tell us something about yourself.

My name is Anubha and I am 25-year- old from Noida, cur rently studying in Gautam

What are the chal

Although this ca reer appears opu lent and beautiful, there are several difficulties in volved.

A professional’s consist ency and steadiness may occasionally be lacking. But the trick is to remain concen trated. Every newcomer should know that pressure and criticism are inevitable parts of the process. There fore, having a positive atti tude about the feedback pro motes exponential growth.

I firmly believe in the zeal to follow dreams and passion. If you have that spark in you then the sky is the limit. I firmly believe that everyone possesses a unique gift that should be distributed to the entire world. I can bring out a person’s inner confidence and accentuate their natural beauty through my social media pages.

Where do you see yourself after five years?

I take each challenge as it comes and try to live in the present. I want to experience more with every day that goes by. I want to go be yond the limitations of the modelling industry in order to improve society.

Tell us about your achievements.

I have worked with brands such as Generic on Amazon. in besides this I have a well established youtube channel with all most, on which I love to post my dance and fashion videos.

DANISH SILVER AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM IN DELHI!

CITY FIRST

At the beginning of March 2023, Museum Kold ing and the Na tional Museum in New Delhi will open the joint exhibition “Silver treasures from Den mark and India. Muse um Kolding has been invited to exhibit the best of the museum’s silver collection at the National Museum of Cultural History in New Delhi in the spring of 2023.

The exhibition “Sil ver treasures from Den mark and India”, will be an exhibition focus ing on similarities and differences in Danish and Indian silversmith ing, an exhibition where both museums showcase the best silver

objects from their col lections.

“I am very happy to note that Museum Kold ing and National Museum in New Delhi will together open the silver ex hibition, ‘’Silver treasures from Den mark and India’’ at the

beginning of March 2023’’ says H.E. Freddy Svane, Danish Ambas sador to India.

The collaboration be tween the National Mu seum in New Delhi and Museum Kolding on the silver exhibition was marked by the signing/ exchange of an MoU during an official pro gramme in New Delhi on Thursday.

“I am very excited that Museum Kolding is invited to be part of the cultural exchange pro gramme between India and Denmark. We are delighted to be working with the National Mu seum in New Delhi and look forward to showcasing the best of the museum’s sil ver collection. We are of course very excited about how our Danish silver will be received by the Indian pub lic,” says Rune Lund berg, Director of the Museum Kolding.

Denmark’s finest sil ver works will be dis played at the National Museum in New Delhi, visitors will be able to see Indian and Danish silver objects. Museum Kolding will contribute around 100 of its best silver objects.

BMM Testlabs’s new gaming laboratory

CULT GYMS IN CAPITAL!

THE GYM

BY SHAZID CHAUHAN

BMM Test labs, the world’s origi nal gaming test lab and product certification consultan cy, recently announced that it will formally open its newest office and product testing labora tory in India in Novem ber 2022. The new office is located in Cybercity, the technology hub that hosts the larg est IT and Fortune 500 companies in Gurgaon, India.

BMM India will pro vide product testing and certification services for games, systems and as sociated equipment for the gaming industry across online and landbased gaming. The team in India will work closely with BMM’s 14 other test labs around the world, to continue to provide its customers access to the global gaming industry.

Talking about the

launch Martin Storm, Executive Chairman and CEO, commented, “To meet the extraordinary demand for BMM’s ser vices, our new BMM In dia expansion underpins our offer of market-lead ing test services for any gaming product. India offers BMM the opportu nity of enormous scale with technical prow ess and intellectual capital, and we are opening the Gur gaon office with more than 50 trained staff.”

Later, Reena Varma, Head of Quality and Op erations, in India, stated, “We are proud to open the newest BMM office in India, and our team is growing quickly. Our ex perience and dedication in this fast-paced, and evolving market ensure that we continue to de liver beyond the expecta tions that BMM custom ers are accustomed to.”

Delhi is a city that values physical activ ity just as much as it values cui sine. You will discov er something that fits your health demands and budget, whether it be nearby gyms, health clubs, aerobics fitness facilities, dancing courses, or speciality martial arts centres. Here is a list of Delhi’s top gyms that has been personally compiled by City first.

FITNESS FIRST

Fitness First, a health club that is a part of one of the largest training franchises in the world, is a pioneer in several of Les Mills’ cutting-edge fitness methods, including Body Combat, RPM, Body Pump, and Body Balance. They brag about Vision Web, which offers controlled admittance by using access cards and iMac internet stations in the members’ area. This feature allows you to stream the web while working out.

GOLD’S GYM

Anyone who wants to be in shape and learn how to work with their body should visit Gold’s Gym. The gym has weightlifting, cardio, and swimming machines, as well as squash courts, valet parking, physiotherapists, spinning studios, and a massage room. In addition, the club includes a fitness academy where it offers classes in group exercise teaching, personal training, and fitness management.

This gym chain, which is situated in Delhi, is quite well-liked in West Delhi. The goal of the gym is to raise consciousness so that one’s body, mind, and spirit can function at their best. Their highly qualified teachers determine a person’s needs and design individualised fitness plans. Gaining muscle and losing weight is hugely popular here. For its customers’ improved fitness experiences, The Gym also features a specialised spa.

EVERY CHILD MATTERS!

CITY FIRST

The Child-cen tered inclusive sport and music event was or ganised on Friday, No vember 18 at Thya garaj Sports Com plex, New Delhi.

The event was orchestrated to recognise that “Every child deserves to feel safe, protected and cel ebrated in ways that are inclusive and nondiscriminatory, and sports demonstrate this”. And sports have the potential to posi tively transform the

lives and development of all children, includ ing the most marginal ised and vulnerable. Sports and World Chil dren’s Day could be used to create a power ful platform for dis cussing such im portant topics as gender equality in play and sports.

During the occa sion, the Minister of State, MoYAS, UN Rep resentatives, Senior Officers from MoYAS and UNICEF celebrity ambassadors Sachin Tendulkar and Ayush maan Khurana were present

Anubha, a 25-year-old model and influencer from Delhi, shares her story with City First

H E Freddy Svane, Danish Ambassador to India

Lily Pandeya, H E Freddy Svane, and Rune Ottotgreen Lundberg

Lily Pandeya, H E Freddy Svane and Rune Ottotgreen Lundberg during the event

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KHUSHI TAMBI cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

OZONE

One of the top workout facilities in South Delhi, Ozone Fitness Club is outfitted with the most up-to-date machinery. At Ozone, all forms of relaxation, fitness, and group activity are combined under one roof, along with spa, yoga, and aerobics facilities. They provide lessons in lower body blast, kickboxing, body conditioning, and ball pilates in addition to regular exercise instructors.

at the show.

Anubha

Ayushmann Khurrana and Sachin Tendulkar during the show

Glimpse from the event

—PHOTOS BY SHAZID CHAUHAN

During the event