First India-Mumbai Edition-20th November 2022

PLAYFUL PANTHERS!

On sunny Saturday afternoon, FIphotojournalistSunilSharma captured panthers Veena and Pakshi; cute, cuddling yet wild couple seen in playful mood at Nahargarh Biological Park, in Jaipur. The park also houses animals such as Asiatic lions, Bengal tigers, panthers, hyenas, wolves, deer, crocodiles, sloth bear, Himalayan black bear, wild boar, etc.

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ASIAN CUP ’22: MANIKA BECOMES 1ST INDIAN TO WIN BRONZE MEDAL

New Delhi: CCTV footage of Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain, who is lodged in Tihar jail in a money laundering case, emerged on Saturday, showing AAP leader getting a massage. In footage, Jain can be seen reading some documents and a man is massaging his legs.

NOTED ACTOR TABASSUM DIES DUE TO CARDIAC ARREST

Mumbai (PTI): Veteran actor Tabassum has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, her son Hoshang Govil said on Saturday. She was in her 70s. Known for her work as a child artiste, she also hosted popular Doordarshan talk show “Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan”. “Few days ago, she was admitted to a hospital. She had a gastric problem and we went there for a check-up. She suffered two cardiac attacks at 8.40 pm and 8.42 pm. She passed away peacefully on Friday night,” said Hoshang.

ATKANA LATKANA BHATKANA

By 2050, India will be world’s second largest economy: Adani

Navlakha released, to stay under house arrest for 1 month

PM

MODI SAID THAT NORTH-EAST IS WITNESSING A DAWN OF NEW HOPES AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES

Prime Minis ter Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated Arunachal Pradesh's first greenfield airport the Donyi Polo airport, in Itanagar and said that the government is dedi cated to serving the North-East sector. PM said "You know that we have brought a work cul ture where we inaugu rate the projects of which we have laid the foundation stone. The era of 'atkana, latkana, bhatkana' is gone."

“Today even the re motest corners of the North-Eastern region are electrified. And through Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY the treat ment cost of up to Rs 5 lakh is made available to the NE Region,” he said.

KASHI-TAMIL CONFLUENCE AS HOLY AS GANGA-YAMUNA SANGAM, SAYS MODI

Mumbai: Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani on Saturday said India will become the world’s third-larg est econo my by 2030 and the second-largest by 2050, adding that the country took 58 years to become a trillion-dollar economy, but will add an equivalent sum to GDP every 12-18 months hence. “I anticipate that withinnext decade, In dia will start adding a trillion dollars to its GDP every 12-18 months thereby putting us well on track to be a USD 30 trillion economy by 2050 & with a stock mar ket capitalization that will possibly exceed USD 45 trillion,” said Adani at the World Con gress of Accountants.

Mumbai: Gautam Nav lakha, an accused in El gar Parishad-Maoists links case, was released from prison on Saturday evening and taken to a building in Navi Mumbai where he will be living under house arrest for a month.

His release from Talo ja prison in Navi Mum bai after more than two years came nine days after the Supreme Court earlier this month grant ed his plea seeking house arrest on medical grounds.

Navlakha, 70, walked out prison around 6 pm.

A police team took him to a building in BelapurAgroli area of Navi Mum bai where he would be staying. A special court issued a release memo to facilitate Elgar ParishadMaoist links case accused

Gautam Navlakha’s month-long house arrest. On Friday afternoon, the SC had rejected the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) applica tion and ordered that Navlakha be placed un der house arrest “with out fail” within 24 hours. The investigating agency on Saturday submitted to the special court the com pliance report about com pleting release formali ties of the activist, after which the court issued the release memo, which will then be mailed to the jail authorities and the Navi Mumbai police com missioner.

MUMBAI COPS ARREST CHHOTA SHAKEEL KIN

Today Northeast is witnessing a dawn of new hopes and oppor tunities. Today’s event is a great example of New India’s approach towards development. Donyi Polo Airport is the 4th operational airport of AP. Within 8 years, the govt has constructed seven new airports which have improved connectivity.

Narendra Modi, PM

Mumbai: In a major action, the Mumbai police has arrested Arif Abubakar Shaikh, brother-in-law of underworld gangster Chhota Shakeel, identified as Abubakar alias Arif Bhaijaan. Further, realestate agents Salim Kasam Valla and Intekam Alam Qureshi who-along with Bhaijaan--had duped a film producer of Rs3.20 crore on the pretext of providing land for a film studio have also been nabbed. Shaikh, who allegedly looks after the business interests of Chhota Shakeel in Mumbai, was arrested from the high-security Arthur Road jail, where he has been lodged ever since the National Investigation Agency arrested him.

VIRAL CCTV FOOTAGE: JAILED MIN JAIN GETS MASSAGE INSIDE TIHAR

New Delhi: India’s star paddler Manika Batra scripted history by becoming the first Indian female to win a medal at the ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup. Batra beat threetime Asian champion Hina Hayata 4-2 to clinch the bronze medal in Thailand.

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Itanagar:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Andhra Pradesh’s 1st Greenfield Airport, Donyi Polo Airport, in Itanagar on Saturday. AP CM Pema Khandu and Union Minister Kiren Rijiju are also seen here.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inauguration of Kashi Tamil Sangamam, in Varanasi on Saturday. Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel and State CM Yogi Adityanath also seen here.

Surat: With Gujarat assembly elections round the corner, the ruling BJP is now at the peak of its campaign and is banking on its most popular face to lead the charge. PM Modi arrived in Valsad on Saturday to lead the BJP’s massive campaign in the state ahead of upcoming as sembly polls. He will address 18 rallies during his 3-day visit to his home state.

Varanasi: PM Modi inaugurated the month-long Kashi Tamil Sangamam at the amphitheatre ground of the Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi on Saturday. Throwing light on the connection between Kashi and TN, PM Modi said that on one hand, Kashi is the cultural capital of India whereas TN and Tamil culture is the centre of India’s antiquity and pride. Drawing an analogy to the confluence of Ganga and Yamuna rivers, he said Kashi-Tamil Sangam is equally holy which engulfs endless opportunities and strength in itself.

SHAH OUTLINES FIVE-PILLAR APPROACH TO COMBAT TERROR FINANCING

HM Amit Shah with Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla during ‘No Money for Terror’ Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing on Sat urday. Shah outlined five-pillar approach to combat financing of terrorism including a comprehensive monitoring framework that involves collaboration among all intelligence, investigative agencies. P6

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar with his wife Sudesh Dhankhar launched the Vivekananda Sandesh Yatra from Khetri in Jhunjhunu on Saturday. Recalling Vivekananda’s speech at Chicago, the VP said that he introduced India’s spirituality to world.

VP DHANKHAR LAUNCHES VIVEKANANDA SANDESH YATRA

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As row continues, will Sena, Cong come to loggerheads?

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Mumbai: Shiv SenaUddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Sanjay Raut on Satur day said VD Savarkar, Jawaharlal Nehru or any other freedom fighter should not be maligned as they do not belong to any po litical party.

varkar must stop. Free dom fighters who made sacrifices for the coun try’s independence do not belong to any ideol ogy or political party,” Raut, a Rajya Sabha member, told reporters on Saturday.

UDDHAV MUST DUMP CONG: UNION MIN DANVE

Jalna: Seeking to corner the Uddhav Thackerayled Shiv Sena, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has asked it to sever its Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance with the Congress over Rahul Gandhi’s criticism of the Hindutva ideologue and freedom fighter VD Savarkar.

Union minister and senior BJP leader Raosa heb Danve reiterated this demand on Saturday.

“Thackeray and his son Aaditya must an nounce if they intend to break the alliance with

the Congress. Balasa heb Thackeray spread the message of Swa tantryaveer Savarkar across Maharashtra, and now his son and grandson are sitting with a party that insults the freedom fighter,”

Mild tremor felt in Latur dist; none hurt

Danve said.

The Shiv Sena, the Congress and the Na tionalist Congress Party constitute the Maha Vikas Aghadi, which ruled the state till June 29 this year.

Slamming Rahul Gan dhi, Danve said, “Such statements have come from a person who has no knowledge of history or its great personali ties. The BJP accepts the ideology of Savarkar. He is in our thoughts, our minds, our conduct. He is ours.”

Nana Patole, chief of the Maharashtra unit of the Congress, how ever, aggressively de fended party leader Ra hul Gandhi elsewhere and said those slam ming Gandhi must ex plain why Savarkar was getting pension from the British.

Raut had made it clear a day earlier that the Thackeray-led Sena did not approve of Ra hul Gandhi’s controver sial comments about Savarkar and it could lead to cracks in the MVA alliance which also includes the NCP.

“Attempts to be smirch the reputations of both Pandit Jawaha rlal Nehru and Sa

“Just because some one badmouths Sa varkar, it doesn’t mean you speak negatively about Nehru,” the Sena leader added.

Rahul Gandhi kicked up a row earlier this week during the Maha rashtra leg of his Bharat Jodo Yatra by claiming that Savarkar had helped the British and wrote a mercy peti tion to them out of fear.

“Those who criti cised Rahul Gandhi for his comments on Sa varkar should first re ply why the latter was getting a pension of Rs60 from the British,” Patole told reporters on Saturday.

His party wanted an ideological debate, he said, adding that the Congress believed in non-violence.

Need robust legislation to secure justice for all: Chief Justice Datta

Pune (PTI):

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Latur: Killari and oth er villages in Latur district experienced a low-intensity tremor around 2 am on Satur day, officials said, add ing that there were no reports of casualty.

This comes a month and a half after seismo logical stations were installed at Aurad Shah jani and Ashiv villages in Latur district, where the state’s deadliest earthquake killed thou sands of people in 1993.

“The tremor was felt in Killari, Sirsal, Yel

The epicentre of the 2.4 magnitude tremor was located 10 km below the ground

wat, Pardhewadi, Kar la, Kumtha, Nadihat targa, Sanghvi, Jeori, Talni, and Banegaon villages as well as some villages in Os manabad,” a disaster management official said on Saturday.

The area had seen at least eight tremors be tween September 06 and October 04 this year.

Justice Datta was speaking at a seminar on ‘Dispute Resolution Mechanism in Telecom, Broadcasting and Cy ber-Sector issue, Ap proach and Way For ward’, organized by the Telecom Dispute Settle ment Appellate Tribu nal (TDSAT).

“Our (information) is in the mobile phone and can be hacked by any body, no privacy, noth ing. So, this is the stage where we should ex plore whether instead of having one principal

bench (TDSAT) at Delhi, with sittings permitted at six other places, why don’t we have regional benches in line with the National Green Tribu nal,” Justice Datta said.

In an indirect refer ence to the Shraddha Walkar murder case, Justice Datta said, “We have just read in the

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newspapers about cer tain stories of ‘love in Mumbai, horror in Del hi’. These crimes are be ing committed because there is so much access to material on the inter net. Now I am sure that the Government of In dia is thinking in the right direction. The In dian Telecommunica

tion Bill is there.”

On the importance of tribunals, Justice Datta said there was no harm in constituting tribu nals if they are appro priately manned and the purpose for which they have been set up as an alternative to the court to render justice, is attained.

Thackeray camp’s Gorhe denies joining Shinde

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Mumbai: Amid ru mours of her joining Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s camp, Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasa heb Thackeray Deputy Leader and Spokesper son, Neelam Gorhe, on Saturday took to her Twitter handle to post a denial.

‘’I had a meeting with

Hawkers menace continues on Hill Road post 7 pm

ever, chaos rules one of the city’s favourite shopping destina tions after 7 pm, when the civic body vehicle leaves the spot.

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Mumbai: With a Bri hanmumbai Munici pal Corporation (BMC) anti-encroach ment van parked on Hill Road in Bandra area of Mumbai, hawkers do not line up to sell their wares during the day. How

Illegal hawkers grab every inch of the foot path and even spill onto the road. Locals said this happens despite as surances by the author ities and politicians.

According to locals, the BMC drove the ille gal street vendors off Hill Road in August af ter repeated pleas. After a few days of peace and tranquillity, the road is back to its chaotic best every evening.

A few hawkers with large stands selling

clothes and fashion ac cessories occupied the space in front of big shops ensuring there was ample space for

walkers on the footpath in the evening.

After the BMC vehi cle left the area at 6.55 pm, within 5 to 10 min

thorized street vendors.

“After our complaints and regular follow-ups, the BMC stationed its van in front of our buildings and so there aren’t any hawkers in the periphery of 50 m. But after the vehicle is gone, the hawker men ace continues,” said Ro hinton Polishwala, a Hill Road resident. He said the van leaves be tween 7 pm and 7.30 pm and hawkers do their business till night.

the Speaker of the Lok Sabha yesterday. Various exaggerated and base less stories were circulat ed about it. I want to make it clear again that I did not have any political discussion with anyone during this meeting. My commitment to Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray is firm and will remain forever,’’ she clarified in a tweet.

utes, one hawker after another appeared from nowhere. By 8 pm, the place was bustling and teeming with the unau

“They find ways to do a patch job for the time being. Even in the hawkers’ case, the ac tion is just an eyewash,” said another resident from Hill Road.

Sanjay Raut warns against attacks on Savarkar, Nehru; Cong’s Nana Patole targets Hindutva ideologue again

Members of the Shinde faction protest against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his alleged controversial remarks on VD Savarkar, in Mumbai, on Saturday. —PHOTO BY PTI

Raosaheb Danve

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CM CONDOLES INDUSTRIALIST KHAMBETE’S DEATH

Thane: Condoling the death of industrialist MR “Appa” Khambete, CM Eknath Shinde on Saturday said his passing was a great loss for the region’s small and medi um sector units. Kham bete, who died on Friday, aged 91, was founder and president emeritus of the Thane Small Scale Industries Association and the chamber of Small Industries Association.

Bombay High Court Chief Jus tice Dipankar Datta on Saturday asserted the need for a

bust” legislation to tackle all situations to achieve the preamble promise of securing justice for all citizens.

We require certain robust legislation to tackle all situations in order to achieve the goal of keeping our preamble promise of justice for all our citi zens' fraternity for re taining the dignity of individuals.

—Dipankar Datta, Chief Justice, Bombay High Court

Dipankar Datta, Chief Justice, Bombay High Court

Gorhe with Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray. —FILE PHOTO

The Congress on Saturday marked the 105th birth anniversary of former prime minister Indira Gandhi by organizing a special “padyatra” for women along with its Bharat Jodo Yatra, which during the day proceeded from Shegaon to Jalamb in Buldhana district. The special march comprised women functionaries of the party and members of self help groups (SHGs). Rahul Gandhi began the day paying tribute to his late grandmother. Speaking at a public meeting in Buldhana at the end of the day, he claimed “733 lives” could have been saved if PM Modi had established dialogue with farmers who were protesting against the new agriculture laws. —PHOTOS BY PTI & ANI

Vendors make hay once antiencroachment van leaves; locals say assurances by civic body, police meaningless

A street vendor selling footwear on a Hill Road footpath.

27-hr mega block on CR route for dismantling Carnac Bridge

Move will likely hit 37 lakh local-train commuters plus those traveling by

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Mumbai: The Cen tral Railway (CR) be gan a 27-hour mega block from 11 pm Saturday night to dismantle the Car nac Bridge between Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) and Masjid Bunder station in south Mumbai.

The block will end at 2 am on November 21, due to which the sched ule of suburban and express trains will get affected during this pe riod, a release by the CR said. More than 37 lakh daily local train commuters as well as those travelling by out station trains are likely to be affected, it added.

The bridge, built in 1866-67, was declared unsafe by an expert team of the Indian In stitute of Technology Bombay in 2018, though the movement of heavy vehicles on it was stopped in 2014.

It was declared un safe for road traffic

this past September.

A major portion of the iron bridge has al ready been demol ished. Hence, during the block only the iron structure of the rail way over bridge (ROB) will be cut and re moved with the help of road cranes.

“The heritage bridge has some six stones with inscriptions that mention the year of construction. These

will be preserved suit ably either at heritage gully or museum area,” CR’s chief pub lic relations officer Shivaji Sutar said.

During the block pe riod, suburban trains will be operated from Byculla, Parel, Dadar, Kurla stations towards Thane, Kalyan, Kasara , Karjat side and vice versa, whereas on the Harbour line the ser vices will be run be

tween Vadala and Pan vel-Goregaon stations, it said.

“As we have limited platforms for reversal of trains at Byculla, Parel, Dadar, Kurla and Vadala Stations, we will be running trains at less frequen cy,” the CR said in the release and requested passengers to avoid un necessary crowding at the suburban stations.

The CR said it has

outstation trains

IN SHORT

z Main line (CSMT to Kasara/Khopoli): No trains will run be tween the CSMT and Byculla station until 4 pm on Sunday z Harbour line (CSMT-Goregaon/ Panvel): No train will run between CSMT and Vadala stations till 8 pm on Sunday

z Mail-Express Yard lines will be made available after 2 am on Monday

requested the civic transport bodies to run extra buses for the con venience of commut ers during the block period and they have agreed to do so.

CR general manager Anil Kumar Lahoti, di visional railway man ager Rajnish Kumar Goyal and other senior officials inspected the demolition work on Friday and gave neces sary instructions.

CRUCIAL READ Bingo, Flash and Alexa:

MAN SLITS MINOR SON’S THROAT AFTER FIGHT WITH WIFE

Mumbai: In a shocking incident in Mumbai’s Malad, a father slit his 6-year-old son’s throat on Saturday morning.

The accused, identified as Nandan Adhikari, 44, allegedly killed his son Laksh, after a fight with his wife Sunita. The in cident happened in the Malwani Church Market area in Malad West The Malwani police detained Nandan on the spot and sent Laksh’s body for autopsy. During the interrogation, it has been revealed the re lationship between the couple was not good as they used to have minor disputes often.

Mumbai: A 28-year-old man was arrested from Virar on Friday for killing his lover’s teen daughter in Chennai on November 12. The accused, Raju Mani Nair, is also believed to have had intercourse with the corpse. As per the complaint filed by the deceased’s mother, the accused strangled her daughter when she was not at home. “When I got home from work, the house was locked from outside. I opened the door with my keys and found my daughter lying on the floor. There were marks around her neck and she was not breath ing,” she said.

RPF CONSTABLE DIES IN TRAIN ACCIDENT

Mumbai: A 39-year-old RPF constable died in a train accident while he was patrolling near Borivali railway station on Friday night. According to the GRP sources, the RPF constable identified as Bharat Kumar Parjapati attached to the Borivali railway station, was patrolling along with his colleague near Poisar when a down local train coming from Churchgate to Borivali hit him. An Accidental Death Report (ADR) has been registered, and the body has been sent for autopsy. Prajapati hails from Palanpur, Gujarat.

Jalna: A gang of armed robbers ransacked a house in Teerthpuri of Jal na early on Friday morn ing and brutally assaulted a couple, before fleeing with valuables. Along with 330 grams of gold, the robbers also took the identity documents of the woman in the house. Au thorities said the robbery took place in Khidkicha Mala, under the limit of Gondi police station. At 2 am, Ulhasrao Pawar, 55, noticed some movements in the house, including noise of the door latches and alerted his brother Suresh, 51, who was sleeping nearby.

Alibag: A case has been registered against un known persons for cheat ing a woman from Alibag in Raigad district of Rs 1.12 crore, an official said on Saturday. The woman, a retired court superin tendent, accepted a friend request in June this year from a person claim ing to be a resident of Manchester in the United Kingdom, he said. “He and some other accused soon started phoning her claiming there was a gift in gold and cash that had been sent for her from the UK, but she would need to pay Customs duty,” he said.

Walkar ripples? Interfaith couple’s reception cancelled

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Mumbai: The wedding reception of a newly married Hindu-Mus lim couple, meant to take place on Sunday evening, was cancelled in Vasai near here, af ter local organizations raised objections in the wake of Shraddha Walkar’s murder, po lice said on Saturday.

Walkar (27) and her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala who has been arrested for allegedly murdering her in May this year both hailed from Vasai.

A news channel editor on Friday morning tweeted a picture of the reception invite and linked it to the Walkar murder case using

A news channel editor had tweeted a picture of the reception invite using hashtags ‘LoveJihad’ and ‘ActOfTerrorism’

hashtags “LoveJihad” and “ActOfTerrorism”, which was then widely shared on social media.

Thereafter, local Hin du and Muslim organiza tions in Vasai called the owner of the reception venue and asked him to cancel the event “for the sake of peace in the area”, a police official told reporters.

There is no so-called Love Jihad angle to this case, the official said,

adding that the Hindu woman (29) and her Mus lim husband (32) had registered their mar riage in court on Novem ber 17.

They have known each other for 11 years and both and both fami lies supported their rela tionship, he also said. The families of the couple on Saturday vis ited Manikpur police sta tion and said that the reception—in which they had expected to host around 200 guests—has been put on hold.

The term “Love Ji had” refers to allega tions by some right-wing organizations that there exists a conspiracy by Muslim men to convert Hindu women to Islam by marrying them.

Zoo penguin chicks finally get their names

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Mumbai: The three Humboldt penguin chicks that hatched at the city’s Veerma ta Jijabai Bhosale Udyan, popularly known as Byculla Zoo, over the past seven months finally have names: Flash, Bingo and Alexa.

Authorities chris tened the two males and one female chicks born at the zoo, an official stated on Saturday, to coincide with the zoo’s 160th anniversary.

With the new arrivals, the penguin population had jumped to 12 at the zoo, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation stated in a release.

The male chicks, hatched on April 02 and 26, have been christened as Flash and Bingo re

spectively, while the fe male chick hatched on August 09, named Alexa, it stated.

Flash and Alexa’s parents are called Don ald and Daisy, while Bingo is the progeny of Molt and Flipper, the release said.

The zoo, which was formerly known as Vic toria Garden, was inau

Byculla

gurated by Lady Cathe rine Friar on November 19, 1862 at Byculla in central Mumbai.

After the park was handed over to the mu nicipal corporation, it assumed the responsi bility of the overall maintenance, the re lease stated.

At least eight pen guins—three males and

Mumbai (PTI): Maha rashtra on Saturday recorded 125 new cas es of COVID-19, which raised the tally of in fections to 81,35,135, an official from the state health depart ment said.

Mumbai reported the only casualty of the day, taking the toll to 1,48,404, he said.

The state had report ed 119 new cases and one fatality on Friday.

The enclosure for penguins is spread over 1,800 sq ft and consists of a water pool, accom modation area, air han dling

BREATHTAKING DISPLAY

According to a health department report, Pune circle recorded the highest 63 fresh cas es, followed by Mumbai circle with 31, Nashik eight, Aurangabad sev en, Kolhapur seven, Akola four, Nagpur three and Latur two.

The count of recover ies reached 79,85,936 af ter 140 patients recov ered in the last 24 hours,

it stated.

With this, the state now has 795 active cas es, of which the highest number of 295 cases was in Pune, followed by 149 and 120 cases in Mumbai and Thane re spectively, it said.

With 15,320 swab samples tested in the last 24 hours, the num ber of tests conducted across the state so far rose to 8,55,20,374.

IAF teams put on aerial extravaganza at Air Fest

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Nagpur: Maintenance Command headquar ters of the Indian Air Force (IAF) saw pilots awe the audience with a brilliant display of air manoeuvring skills at “Air Fest 2022” on Saturday.

“Akashganga” team performed drills using Dornier aircraft, while the Sarang helicopter display team used four modified Advance Light Helicopters (ALHs) Dhruv, and the Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team (SKAT) comprised nine Hawk Mk.132 aircraft.

The event commenced with 14 cadets of NCC (Air Wing) demonstrat ing their skills in aeromodelling, after which a paramotor pilot execut ed aerobatic manoeu vres. Six daredevils of the “Akashganga” IAF team demonstrated sky diving from a Dornier aircraft from a height of 8,000 feet and landed with precision. This was followed by “Avro”—a medium-size turboprop transport aircraft—fly ing at just 500 feet above ground level.

Air Marshal Vibhas Pande, Air Officer Com manding-in-Chief, Main

tenance Command, was the chief guest at the event conducted as a part of the “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav” to cel ebrate the 75th anniver sary of Independence.

Another eye-catching performance was a syn chronized rifle drill per

The Sarang team per formed some breathtak ing manoeuvres like approaching the dais in wine glass formation and then displayed very

crisp and elegant India and diamond forma tions. This was followed by the gravity-defying Dolphin’s leap which is a three-aircraft syn chronized stall turn.

The formation thereaf ter executed high-speed crosses, and two air

craft painted a white heart in the sky.

SKAT also displayed their skills by flying in various formations like the diamond formation, Tejas formation, Prachand formation, barbed wire cross and inverted Vic.

five females—were brought from Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, to the By culla Zoo in 2016, and one of them died later.

units and a cool ing system.

1,800 local trains operate on ‘Harbour’ and ‘Main’ lines. —PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE

formance by 18 air war riors of the world-re nowned Air Warrior Drill Team (AWDT).

Air Marshal Vibhas Pande, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Maintenance Command, was the chief guest

‘Sarang’ and ‘Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team’ of the Indian Air Force show off air manoeuvers.

—PHOTOS BY PTI

ROBBERS RANSACK JALNA

ALIBAG WOMAN

MAN ARRESTED FOR KILLING LOVER’S TEEN DAUGHTER

The zoo’s 12 penguins are its biggest crowd-pullers. —-FILE PHOTO

WORLD LEADERS PONDER OVER GLOBAL

CHALLENGES AT G-20 SUMMIT IN BALI

K NATWAR SINGH The author is Former Minister of External Affairs of India

Leaders of the World’s wealthiest nations (G-20) met in Indonesian island of Bali on 22nd and 23rd of this month. The President of Indonesia, Joko Wido do, presided over the sum mit. President Vladimir Putin did not attend the conference. Russia was represented by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He left Bali before the con clusion of the summit.

The leaders of nineteen countries adopted a decla ration deploring Russia’s aggression in Ukraine in the strongest terms and demanded its uncondition al withdrawal. They also recognized that while most members condemned the war in Ukraine, there were other views and different assessments of the situa tions and on the severe sanctions imposed on Rus sia by some countries.

Most members were of the view that the war in Ukraine was causing im mense human sufferings and, “exacerbating exist ing fragilities in the global economy - constraining growth, increasing infla tion, disrupting supply chains, heightening ener gy and food insecurity and elevating financial stabil ity risks.”

development. Both sides, in their three hour meet ing did mention their dif ferences over Taiwan, trade restrictions and technology transfer. Nev ertheless the two agreed to keep in touch and avoid confrontation. The bilat eral relations between the US and China had plunged to a historic low after the visit to Taiwan by the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.

The concrete results of the Biden-Xi meeting was that Antony Blinken, Sec retary of State, could pay a visit to China early in 2023.

The G7 and G2, the European Union and NATO seem to matter more than the United Nations. The annual meetings of the General Assembly - September to December do not cause New Yorkers to take notice of the deliberations of the Organisation. For decades the “Cry” has been the UN (particularly the Security Council) needs urgent reform. But reform is not on the horizon

The leaders also de nounced any threat of the use of nuclear weapons. This was quite clearly a re buke to Russia. To this the response of the Russian Foreign Minister, Lavrov was that in the absence of President Putin “politici sation of the meeting was uncalled for”. The Summit was preceded by a bilateral meeting between US Presi dent Joe Biden and Chi nese leader Xi Jinping. This was the first time the two had met since Mr Biden became President.

The meeting produced few tangible results, it was in a minor way a positive

Climate change was dis cussed at length. G-20 lead ers agreed to pursue ef forts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius, reiter ating the 2015 Paris Agree ment on Climate Change.

The United States, Japan and their partners de clared that they would “mobilise” 20 billion dol lars of public and private financial institutions to help Indonesia shut coal power plants and bring for ward the sectors emissions date by seven years to 2030.

I have deliberately not quoted from the speeches of Presidents and Prime Ministers. These are writ ten by their advisers and

Modern diplomacy gives precedence to economics, science, technology, climate change, poverty elimination, population control, matters relating to health etc. Politics is now not given excessive importance. India, under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership played an admired and construc tive role. He took over as President of G-20 from President Joko Widodo of Indonesia. Some of his time now will be taken up by G-20 issues.

The leaders of 19 countries adopted a declaration deploring Russia’s aggression in Ukraine in strongest terms and demanded its unconditional withdrawal. They also recognized that while most members condemned the war in Ukraine, there were other views and different assessments of situations and on severe sanctions imposed on Russia by some countries

ambassadors. Broadly speaking controversy is avoided. Words and inane phrases are well chosen and seldom memorable.

Having participated in

several Heads of State and Heads of Government Summits I know this rou tine only too well. Modern diplomacy gives prece dence to economics, sci

THIS YEAR’S SPECIAL AL RIHLA BALL HAS THE AERODYNAMICS OF A CHAMPION

As with every World Cup, at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar the play ers will be using a new ball.

The last thing competitors want is for the most impor tant piece of equipment in the most important tourna ment in the world’s most popular sport to behave in unexpected ways, so a lot of work goes into making sure that every new World Cup ball feels familiar to players.

Despite controversies over corruption and human rights issues surrounding this year’s World Cup, there is still beauty in the science and skill of soccer. As part of my research, every four

years I do an analysis of the new World Cup ball to see what went into creating the centerpiece of the world’s most beautiful game.

THE PHYSICS OF DRAG

Between shots on goal, free kicks and long passes, many important moments of a soccer game happen when the ball is in the air. So one of the most important char acteristics of a soccer ball is how it travels through air.

EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD CUP BALL

Adidas has supplied balls for the World Cup since 1970. Through 2002, each ball was made with the iconic 32-panel construc

tion. The 20 hexagonal and 12 pentagonal panels were traditionally made of leath er and stitched together.

2022’S AL RIHLA BALL

The new Qatar World Cup

er and shaped sort of like an ice cream cone.

Instead of using raised textures to increase sur face roughness like with previous balls, the Al Rihla is covered with dimplelike features that give its sur face a relatively smooth feel compared to its prede cessors.

ence, technology, climate change, poverty elimina tion, population control, matters relating to health etc. Politics is now not giv en excessive importance.

India, under Prime Minis ter Modi’s leadership played an admired and constructive role. He took over as President of G-20 from President Joko Wido do of Indonesia. Some of his time now will be taken up by G-20 issues.

The G7 and G2, the Euro pean Union and NATO seem to matter more than the United Nations. The annual meetings of the General Assembly - Sep tember to December do not cause New Yorkers to take notice of the deliberations of the Organisation. For decades the “Cry” has been the UN (particularly the Security Council) needs urgent reform. But reform is not on the horizon.

FOOTBALL WORLD CUP IN QATAR

From 22 November to 18 December the Football World Cup, being held in Qatar, will be witnessed by millions and millions of people the world over. Foot ball is the richest game in the World. Ronaldo and Messi are probably worth - how much - certainly sev en digits. Which countries will make it to the final? My take. Any two from Germany, France, Brazil and Argentine.

Dharmendra Pradhan @dpradhanbjp

soccer ball is the Al Rihla. The Al Rihla is made with water-based inks and glues and contains 20 panels.

Eight of these are small triangles with roughly equal sides, and 12 are larg

To make up for the smoother feel, the Al Rih la’s seams are wider and deeper – perhaps learning from the mistakes of the overly smooth Jabulani, which had the shallowest and shortest seams of re cent World Cup balls and which many players felt was slow in the air.

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According to the vision of the National Education Policy #KashiTamilSangamam will prove to be a factor in preparing a modern new generation connected to the roots. The nectar emanating from this confluence of scholars and philosophies of North and South will become the banyan tree of knowledge, research and national unity.

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Amit Shah @AmitShah

Heartiest birthday greetings to our Law Minister Shri @KirenRijiju Ji. May he continue to serve the nation with the same zeal and enthusiasm. Wishing him an abundance of health, happiness and long life.

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3 WOMEN DEAD, 8 INJURED AS BUS OVERTURNS IN MP

Indore: Three women were killed and eight seriously injured when their bus overturned after hitting a road divider near Dewas in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, a police official said. The incident occurred in the evening when the bus was going from Indore to Dewas, said police. “As per eye-witnesses, the driver was speeding and lost control of bus. Two women died on the spot, while a third woman succumbed to injuries in a hospital. Eight have received serious wounds and are undergoing treatment,” police said.

3 STUDENTS HELD FOR RAISING PROPAKISTAN SLOGANS

Bengaluru: Bengaluru Police arrested three students of New Horizon College of Engineering after a video of them shouting “Pakistan Zindabad” went viral on social media. The students, suspended by their college authority, were later released on bail as police said that “their act wasn’t intentional”. It happened at a event while the college was preparing to host an inter-college fest on November 25-26, when some students were seen chanting the names of their favourite IPL teams and countries.

OUR AIRCRAFT NOT USED TO CARRY CASH: JetSetGo

New Delhi: JetSetGo’s owner Kanika Tekriwal Reddy has said its aircraft were not used for carrying cash or liquor, amid reports that the planes of chartered flight service provider were involved in the Delhi liquor scam.

Reddy is the wife of Sarath Chandra Reddy, a director of Aurobindo Pharma who is now in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate for his alleged involvement in the scam. Sarath Chandra Reddy is alleged to be one of the conduits for the kickbacks given to the public servants and politicians in the Delhi government.

SEARCHES IN J&K OVER THREAT TO JOURNALISTS

Srinagar: The J&K Police on Saturday conducted massive searches at 12 locations in connection with threatening of journalists by terror outfit The Resistance Front. The searches were conducted in Srinagar, Anantnag and Kulgam districts. The premises where the searches were conducted included residences of several journalists as well as some suspects. The police had on Nov 12 filed a case against militants and handlers belonging to LeT and TRF, for sending threat letters to journalists.

EX-OFFICER ARUN GOEL APPOINTED POLL COMMISSIONER

New Delhi: Former bureaucrat Arun Goel was on Saturday appointed as Election Commissioner. A Punjab cadre officer of the 1985 batch, Goel will join Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey in the poll panel. His appointment was announced by the government in a press statement. Sushil Chandra had retired as the chief election commissioner in May this year after which Rajiv Kumar took charge.

No country can defeat terrorism on its own”

New Delhi (ANI): Call ing for global action against the menace of terrorism, Home Minis ter Amit Shah on Satur day argued that no country — no matter how powerful it is — can deal with the men ace of terrorism by it self.

Speaking at the con cluding session of the 3rd ‘No Money for Ter ror’ Ministerial Confer ence on Counter-Ter rorism Financing, Shah said, “No matter how powerful a country or organization is, it cannot defeat the men ace of terrorism, on its own. The international community has to con tinuously and collec tively work to resolve this difficult and bor derless issue,” he said.

Shah said in the past decades, India has dealt with several challeng ing aspects of terror ism. “Zero terror policy, stringent framework on counter-terror laws, and empowerment of security agencies has resulted in a significant drop in cases of terror ism,” he added.

The conference of

MONITOR COUNTRIES SPONSORING

SHAH TO WATCHDOG

TERRORISM:

In a tweet, the MHA said, “In the bilateral meeting with FATF President, T Raja

Kumar, Hon’ble Home Minister Shri @AmitShah while appreciating the role of FATF, emphasised that there is a need for FATF to continuously monitor the tenden cies of some of the countries to sponsor terrorism.”

fered platform for par ticipating nations to deliberate on the effec

“TERRORISM A GLOBAL ISSUE”

New Delhi : HM Amit Shah on Saturday said the international com munity must continue to fight shoulder to shoulder against this increasingly com plex and borderless threat. “In these terror havens, it’s neces sary to shackle their unrestrained activities along with economic crackdown,” he said.

PM Modi to address over two dozen rallies

Surat (ANI): With Gu jarat assembly elec tions round the corner, the ruling BJP is now at the peak of its cam paign and is banking on its most popular face to lead the charge. PM Narendra Modi is scheduled to hold close to 25 rallies, crisscross ing the state in the next fortnight or so. It will be an action-packed three-day schedule for PM Modi in his home state.

On Sunday, PM Modi will visit Somnath Tem ple and then address four rallies in Saurash tra region. Veraval, Dhorarji, Amreli and Botad have been final ised as the venues for four rallies. In last as sembly polls, BJP was not able to win a single seat in these constitu encies in Saurashtra.

IT’S BIZARRE... RAHUL IS NOWHERE IN POLL BOUND STATES: ANURAG THAKUR

tiveness of the current international regime on Counter Terrorism

Financing and the steps required to address emerging challenges.

On Day 3, PM will hold three rallies in Suren dranagar, Bharuch and Navsari. While Bharuch was the constituency of former Congress strong man Ahmed Patel, BJP state chief CR Paatil who hails from Navsari, has been winning his Lok Sabha seat with one of the top margins across the country.

Surat (ANI): Union I&B Minister Anurag Thakur has taken a swipe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s absence from poll-bound states stat ing that it was indeed “bizarre.” “It’s bizarre to see Rahul Gandhi nowhere in the pollbound states! They know they are going

Nizamabad BJP MP threatens to beat CM KCR with a chappal Accused Aaftab likely to undergo narco test on Monday in Rohini

to lose so they will put the blame on the new party president and not the first family,” Thakur said while campaigning in Surat. He praised the BJP-ruled Gujarat govt ahead of Assembly polls and said that BJP would win with big majority as people continue to trust PM Narendra Modi.

Arvind on Sat

threatened to beat Telangana Chief Minis

Chandrasekhar Rao with a ‘chappal’ amid his ongoing war of words with his MLC daughter K Kavitha.

Reacting to Kavitha’s alleged threats, the BJP MP said that he would beat her father and Tel angana CM KCR with a ‘chappal’ (footwear). He said here he would file a complaint with Telan gana police against al leged threats issued by the ruling TRS MLC and CM’s daughter K Kavitha.

The war of words be tween them started after the BJP leader on Thurs day claimed that Kavi tha had called up Con gress president Mall ikarjun Kharge and ex pressed her wish to join the Congress party.

Reacting to Kavitha’s statement of beating him with chappals, MP Arvind said on Satur day, “I don’t have trust on Telangana Police but trusting my advocate, I am giving a complaint.

I spoke with CV Anand (Hyderabad Commis sioner) he was talking like a TRS Karyakarta in next 10 months our govt (BJP) is coming.”

New Delhi (PTI): Nar co analysis on Aaftab Amin Poonawala, who is accused of killing his live-in partner Shrad dha Walkar, will be con ducted at Dr Baba Sa heb Ambedkar Hospital in Rohini here, most likely on Monday. As Poonawala’s five-day police custody ends on Tuesday, the Delhi Po lice is running against time to get the test con ducted. However, Poon awala can be subjected to narco analysis only after he is deemed fit for it in pre-narco tests.

DELHI COPS RECORD STATEMENTS OF 2 MEN IN PALGHAR

Mumbai: A Delhi Police team on Saturday recorded the statements of two men in Maharashtra’s Palghar from whom Shraddha Walkar, who was allegedly murdered by her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala in May this year, had sought assistance after she was assaulted by the ac cused in 2020, the officials said on Saturday.

SEARCH CONTINUES FOR THE MURDER WEAPON IN FOREST

Gurugram: The Delhi Police investigating the killing of Shraddha Walkar searched for the murder weapon at a forest here using a metal detector on Saturday, but returned emptyhanded. The search at the forest in DLF Phase 3 area began on Friday after police suspected that accused Poonawala, Shraddha Walkar’s live-in partner, disposed the weapon here after allegedly killing her.

“SHRADDHA DIDN’T EXPECT AAFTAB TO GO TO THIS EXTENT”

New Delhi: In November 2020 his friend Shraddha Walkar first spoke to him about Aaftab physically assaulting her. Two years later, Karan is left with chats detailing her abuse, a medical report from when she sought treat ment for an injured spine and neck. Walkar was about to approach the police but stopped after Poonawala’s parents intervened, Karan said as he comes to terms with Shraddha’s killing.

REMEMBERING IRON LADY

Mumbai: Residents of a housing society here were shocked after learning that a member of the family that shifted into their building last month, has been ar rested for killing his live-in partner and chopping her body into pieces. They said they have not seen Aaftab, arrested by the Delhi police.

Bengaluru (ANI): Con gress leaders reached Karnataka Election Commission (SEC) of fice on Saturday for fil ing a complaint against “electoral fraud” in the state allegedly at the be hest of the BJP govt.

New Delhi: Delhi Police probing the Shraddha Walkar murder have taken possession of all the clothes from accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala’s house in Delhi and they will be sent for forensic examination. They said the investigators have not recovered the clothes the two were wearing on May 18, the day the crime was executed.

Karnataka Congress president DK Shivaku mar and other leaders arrived at SEC office today to file a complaint in connection with “electoral fraud”. The state Congress leaders reached the SEC office two days after Congress leader Randeep Surjew ala had launched an at tack against Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai alleging that he was di rectly involved in elec toral fraud.

DK Shivakumar told ANI, “We have to file a complaint to protect voter rights. This is the biggest fraud commit ted by BJP minister CN Ashwath Narayan and his team, who used data, collected fraud in formation and deleted lakhs of votes.”

Cong leaders pay tribute to Indira Gandhi on her birth anniv

New Delhi (ANI): Sev eral Congress leaders including Sonia Gan dhi and party chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday, paid tributes to former Prime Minis ter Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary.

United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chair person Sonia Gandhi and All India Congress Committee President Mallikarjun Kharge

also paid floral trib utes to the former PM on her birth anniver sary at Shakti Sthal in

Delhi. Earlier on Sat urday, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and senior Congress leader Bhupinder Hooda also paid floral tributes to the former PM at the Shakti Sthal.

Prime Minister Nar endra Modi too paid tributes to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her birth an niversary.

GRANDSONS RAHUL GANDHI AND VARUN GANDHI PAY TRIBUTES TO INDIRA GANDHI

New Delhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and BJP MP Varun Gandhi, on Saturday, paid tributes to their grand mother and former PM Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary. Rahul Gandhi said Indira was ‘Durga’ for the country and ‘Kali’ for enemies. "She grew up in the freedom struggle, learned from the great leaders of India, was her father's darling. Durga was for the country, Kali was for the enemies — fearless, Tejaswini, Priyadarshini,” Rahul tweeted.

Hyderabad (ANI): Ni zamabad BJP MP Dhar mapuri

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ter K

Sonia Gandhi pays tribute to former PM Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary, in New Delhi, on Saturday. —PHOTO BY PTI

Narendra Modi

@narendramodi

Tributes to our former PM Mrs Indira Gandhi Ji on her birth anniversary.

Kids take a selfie with a statue of PM Modi, installed as part of BJP’s election campaign for Assembly polls, in Ahmedabad.

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

AMIT

New Delhi: In a meeting with FATF President T Raja Kumar, Home Minister Amit Shah emphasised that there is a need for FATF to continuously moni tor the tendencies of some of the countries to sponsor terrorism.

International community must fight unitedly to defeat terrorism: Shah

SHRADDHA WALKAR MURDER

K’taka Cong to complain SEC against state’s “electoral fraud”

AAFTAB’S FAMILY LEFT FLAT LAST WEEK: NEIGHBOURS

CLOTHES OF THE VICTIM & ACCUSED COLLECTED

Students of Fergusson College protest demanding justice for Shraddha Walkar, in Pune on Saturday. —PHOTO BY PTI

BJP MP Dharmapuri Arvind. —FILE PHOTO

BRIEFS

‘India to be world’s second largest economy by 2050’

New Delhi: India has climbed up six places to 61st rank in the Network

Readiness Index 2022 re port prepared by US-based non-profit body Portulans Institute, the telecom min istry said on Saturday. The country’s overall score has improved to 51.19 in 2022 from 49.74 in 2021. The NRI Report maps the net work-based readiness landscape of 131 econo mies based on their per formances in 4 different pillars: Technology, Peo ple, Governance, and Im pact covering a total of 58 variables. —PTI

MICROSOFT BRINGS

Mumbai (PTI) : Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani on Saturday said India, which took 58 years to be come a trillion dollar econ omy, will add an equivalent sum to GDP every 12-18 months and will be the world’s second largest economy by 2050.

Speaking at the 21st World Congress of Ac countants here, he said back-to-back global crises have challenged several assumptions, including that China should adopt western democratic prin ciples, secular principles are universal, the EU would stay together, and that Russia would be forced to accept a reduced international role.

“This multilevel crisis has shattered the myth of a unipolar or a bipolar world of superpowers that could step in and stabilize global environments,” he said.

INDIA WILL BE NET EXPORTER OF GREEN ENERGY BY 2050, SAYS GAUTAM ADANI

Mumbai: India will lead the global energy transition, and the country will be a net exporter of green energy by 2050, Gautam Adani, chair man of the Adani group said today. “Cooling the planet down will be one of the most profitable businesses and the largest of job creators over the next several decades. I am in no doubt that India will lead the global energy transition,” Adani said while addressing the World Congress of Accountants in Mumbai. He announced that over the next decade the Adani group will invest over USD 70 billion in the green energy space and build the world’s most integrated renewable energy value chain. Predicting India will need 400 per cent more units of energy by 2050 than it currently consumes, Adani said that there is little doubt that India’s energy transition will be unparalleled as it races to meet its energy needs. India currently ranks third in the renewable energy attractive index and is the world’s third-largest energy-consuming country.

CURRENT SCENARIO

z India is the world’s fifth largest economy with a GPD of USD 3.5 trillion

z The US is USD 23 trillion economy with a stock market capitalization ranging from 45 to 50 tn

z In purchasing power parity (PPP), India’s share of global GDP will be north of 20 per cent by 2050

lion. “A country, crushed and drained by its colonial rulers, today stands on the cusp of an extraordinary growth and is the only ma jor country on a path to emerge as a high-income nation without compromis ing its democracy and di versity,” he said.

“Well before 2030, we will be the world’s third largest economy and, thereafter, the world’s second largest economy by 2050.”

Risk of global hard landing, but India differently placed:Das

New Delhi: The concerted tightening of monetary pol icy by global central banks looking to tame inflation has progressively raised the risk of a hard landing or a recession, but India is placed differently, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Gover nor Shaktikanta Das said.

Das was speaking at the Annual Research Confer ence of the Department of Economic and Policy Re search of the RBI in Hy derabad on Saturday.

Das had said earlier this year that the RBI was striv ing to ensure a ‘soft land ing’ for the Indian economy while bringing domestic inflation back to the cen tral bank’s 4 per cent target over a period of time. The RBI governor has also em

CPI INFLATION AT 6.77 PER CENT

z Latest data showed Consumer Price Index inflation was at 6.77% in Oct, well above the RBI’s tolerance band of 2-6%

phasised in recent public events that raising interest rates prematurely would have taken a heavy toll on economic growth and the citizens of the country.

WITH UKRAINE WAR, WORLD ENCOUNTERED FOOD, ENERGY CRISIS: RBI GOVERNOR

New Delhi: Microsoft has introduced “sign language view”, a new meeting ex perience in Teams that will assist signers - people who are deaf/hard of hearing, interpreters, and others who use sign language. Sign language view will provide a more predictable, static meeting experience that will allow users to pri oritise up to two other signers’ video streams for placement on centre stage. When sign language view is enabled, designated signers remain visible on the centre stage.

KOO TO HIRE EMPLOYEES

BY ELON MUSK

“In my view - in this emerging multipolar world - superpowers will need to be those that take responsi bility to step in and help others in a crisis and not bully other nations into submission, those that keep humanity as their foremost operating principle.”

A superpower, he said,

OTHER STORIES

must also be a thriving de mocracy and yet believe that “there is no one uni form style of democracy.”

Adani, 60, said the foun dations of India’s increas ing economy might have become relevant and a ma jority government has giv

ONE YEAR AFTER AN ALL-TIME HIGH, NASDAQ 100 IS STILL DOWN 29% FROM ITS RECORD CLOSE

New Delhi: A year after the Nasdaq 100 Index last closed at an alltime high, there’s no sign the index is heading back to those heights any time soon. The 249 trading sessions since the close on Nov. 19, 2021, is the tech-heavy benchmark’s longest stretch since the dot-com era, and the third-longest ever: It took the gauge 3,925 trading days — more than 15 years — to recover from the dot-com crash and 416 sessions to rebound from the Crash of 1987. This bear market in tech stocks is shaping up to be the longest that many young investors have ever seen, and may curb their appetite for risk for years to come. Even after a bounce this month, the Nasdaq 100 is still down 29% from its record close.

—AGENCIES

en the nation the ability to initiate several structural reforms in the political and administrative system.

“It took us 58 years to get to our first trillion dollars of GDP, 12 years to get to the next trillion and just five years for the third tril

Adani saw India’s medi an age at just 38 years in 2050, population of 1.6 bil lion with a per capita in come of USD 16,000, over 700 per cent higher than current per capita income.

FDI will touch a trillion dollar, in sign of increasing global confidence in India.

New Delhi: The war in Europe brought with it new challenges, just when the economy was about to normalise fully despite the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and suddenly, the world encountered a severe food and energy crisis, Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Saturday. Delivering the inaugural address at the annual research conference of the Department of Economic and Policy Research of RBI here, Das said the COVID-19 pandemic crisis created an opportunity to explore and harness the power of big data and strengthen direct feedback mechanisms while working from home. He further said the pandemic also posed new research issues and analytical challenges for policy-making as it caused a demand shock or a supply shock, the size and nature of policy stimulus required, and their effectiveness, among others.

Air India in talks with Airbus, Boeing to buy planes, says CEO

New Delhi: Since Elon Musk completed $44 mil lion deal to take over Twit ter at the end of October, the company’s headcount has decreased through layoffs and resignations to a tiny fraction of its origi nal number. Following this chaotic situation, India’s microblogging site rival Koo said that he will hire some of ex-Twitter em ployees. Taking to Twitter, the co-founder of Koo, Mayank Bidawatka claimed that he is willing to hire Twitter employees that have either been laid off or who have voluntari ly left after Musk asked them to ‘go extremely hardcore or leave’.

DUTY ON STEEL, IRON ORE

New Delhi: The government has cut the export duty on steel products and iron ore with effect from Saturday in order to provide a fillip to the domestic steel industry and boost exports. Besides, im port duty on anthracite, coking coal and ferronickel used as raw material in the steel industry — has been hiked, as per a finance ministry notification issued. The export duty concessions and import tax have been restored after a gap of six months. —PTI

‘THE OFFICE PASS’ TO OPEN NEW COWORKING CENTRE IN GURUGRAM

operator

New Delhi: Coworking

The Office Pass will open a new centre in Gurugram this month with a capacity of 100 desks as part of its expansion plan. The company has 12 coworking centres in Delhi-NCR comprising of 2,600 desks and its capacity will reach 2,700 seats spread over 13 facilities. The new office will be launched in Unitech Cyber Park, Sector 39, Gurgaon, The Office Pass said in a statement. —PTI

NOW ZOMATO

New Delhi: After 5 days of testimony, including 3 hours from Elon Musk, a Delaware judge will now decide whether Musk’s $56 billion pay package from Tesla Inc was justified by the company’s explosive growth or undermined by a flawed process. Musk and the Tesla directors named as defendants repeatedly testified that the package achieved what it set out to do deliver 10-fold growth in the company’s stock price, enriching investors and Musk.

New Delhi: Gurugramheadquartered food aggre gator firm Zomato has re portedly started laying off employees this week and plans to drop at least 3 per cent of its total workforce to cut costs and turn prof itable on Saturday. This update comes after its Cofounder Mohit Gupta re signed from his post.

At least 100 employees have already been impact ed across functions like the product, tech, cata logue and marketing, re ported MoneyControl cit ing sources. It further added that employees in

New York: The rise of trade barriers against Chi na and other countries over the past year could cost the global economy $1.4 trillion, on top of the severe damage being done by the war in Ukraine, the head of the Interna tional Monetary Fund said. “What I am hoping to see is some reversals in policy blocks towards Chi na and globally,” Kristali na Georgieva told Bloomberg Television’s Stephen Engle in an inter view in Bangkok on Satur day. “The world is going to lose 1.5% of gross domestic product just because of division that may split us into two trading blocs. This is $1.4 trillion.”

—AGENCIES

New Delhi: Tata Groupowned Air India is in talks with Boeing and Airbus about ordering new air craft and is meeting its im mediate needs by leasing planes and repairing grounded aircraft, the air line’s chief executive said on Saturday.

The autos-to-steel con glomerate, which complet ed its purchase of Air India in January, faces an uphill struggle to upgrade an age ing fleet, turn around the company’s financials and improve service levels, in dustry analysts say.

“We are in deep discus sion with Boeing, Airbus and engine manufacturers for a historic order of the latest generation aircraft that will power Air India’s medium- and long-term growth,” Campbell Wilson, the airline’s chief execu tive, said at a Tata corpo

TO BOOST MARKET SHARE

z Air India said in September it would lease 30 Boeing and Airbus planes, expanding its fleet by more than 25 per cent as part of the drive to boost market share and to improve service levels

rate event in Mumbai.

Wilson said Air India planned to expand its fleet and global network, aiming

z At present, Air India

the supply chain haven’t been impacted.

The source told the news portal that employees in roles that had become re dundant had been let go.

The source also added

that a few account manag ers dealing with cloud kitchens had also been replaced.

Zomato recently saw multiple top-level exits from the company.

per cent of the Twitter workforce, as sev eral key executives resigned.

to increase its market share to 30% on both domestic and international routes over the next five years.

‘Rising interest rates will help banks post profits’

Chennai: The rising inter est rates will enable Indian banks to continue posting good profits during the re maining part of FY23, ac cording to S&P Global Mar ket Intelligence.

In a report on the Indian banking sector, S&P Global Market Intelligence said five of the six biggest banks by assets in India reported an increase in net income for the fiscal second quar ter ended September 30, 2022.

“Banks took advantage of the higher interest rate environment to bolster

their net interest margins, while previous efforts to reduce their non-perform ing assets resulted in lesser loan loss provisions, their recently released earnings reports showed,” the re port notes.

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AMID TWITTER WAR, MUSK IS TACKLING $56 BN TESLA TRIAL

GOVT WITHDRAWS EXPORT

Trade divide could cost global economy $1.4 trillion: IMF chief

Gautam Adani, speaks at the World Congress of Accountants in Mumbai.

Courting trouble again, Guv calls Shivaji ‘OLD IDOL’ Mirch Masala

FIRST INDIA SUNDAY SPECIAL

BY TRIDIB RAMAN

WHY WERE PRIYANKA’S MEETINGS CURTAILED IN HIMACHAL?

When Priyanka Gandhi took over the reins of Himachal Pradesh, she had enthusiastically told the cadre that ‘she can go around and will campaign for the Congress in Himachal and touch every assembly seat there.’ The Congress organisa tion had also prepared a plan for some 68 public meetings for her in the Himachal elections. But after this Priyanka went to her home in Mashobra in Himachal and her mobile phone was also switched off for two days. There was a stir in the state Congress, and that is when Virbhadra Singh’s son Vikramaditya Singh went to Mashobra to meet Priyanka at her house. In this meeting, it was decided that instead of 68, Priyanka would hold only 15 public meetings. However, in reality, only eight public meetings of Priyanka could be held in Himachal elections. Angry Rani Sahib i.e. MP Pratibha Singh said on this – ‘In BJP, the leader carries the party on his shoulders, but in Congress, the leader has to be carried on workers’ shoulders.’

BJP ON THE PATH OF DHAMNAGAR

After winning the Dhamnagar by-election in Odisha, the entire BJP is elated. The seat was vacant due to the death of a prominent BJP leader Bishnu Charan Sethi. On this seat, the BJP fielded Sethi’s son Suryabanshi Suraj, who defeated his nearest BJD candidate by 9,881 votes while Suryabanshi got total 80,351 votes. After this, the churning intensified in the BJP as to which face the party should field as its CM face in the coming assembly elections. Then a list of potential CM faces was prepared by the party. Then a public opinion poll was conducted by a favourite agency working for the party, but all these faces could not prove their usefulness on the scale of popularity. Then the General Secretary of the party, BL Santhosh, held a brainstorming meeting with the BJP leaders of Odisha in Delhi and wanted to know why the activism of these leaders in Odisha is so low that the general public does not know them properly.

WHY DOES DIGVIJAY SINGH WANT TO TAKE RAHUL’S TRIP TO BIHAR?

Digvijay Singh wants to be the charioteer to take Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra to Bihar.’ Singh wishes is that Rahul’s journey starts from Digvijay’s maternal grandfather’s native place, Githor in Bihar & ends at Bodh Gaya by travelling a distance of 1,023 kms. Digvijay Singh & Jairam Ramesh have entrusted Yatra’s responsibility to Bihar’s ex- minister Awad hesh Singh. But problem for Bihar Cong is that who will bear expenses of Rahul’s trip, because Cong has been out of power in Bihar for years & the magnates have also kept a dis tance from party. It is said that cost of one day’s Yatra runs into crores. It was suggested that Yatra should be limited to Patna, but Awadhesh wants to take it to Gaya, as he is keen to contest 2024 polls from there.

IMPORTANT CLUES OF MURDER LOST IN THE MEDIA MARKET

T he barbaric manner in which Mumbai’s Shraddha Walker was murdered in Delhi’s Chattarpur, it seems that Delhi media has jumped into the market regard ing this. There is such a rush to break the news that the channel is doing ‘piece to camera’ by sticking to the bathroom, kitchen and room of the accused Aftab Poonawala’s house. Delhi Police hasn’t yet been able to collect all evidence. The discussion is hot whether media, its cam eras & journos are unknowingly tamper ing with important clues of the murder?

Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora is deeply troubled by these things.

UNHAPPY WITH DELHI BJP MPs

First India Bureau

Mumbai: Governor Bhagat Singh Koshy ari has raised hackles again by referring to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj as an icon of “olden times”.

Koshyari made the re marks on Saturday, after conferring D.Litt de grees on senior Bharati

Devanagari and Farsi inscriptions found in well

The party’s powerful Organisation General Secy BL Santosh is said to be angry with the BJP MPs from Delhi. In fact, many local MPs includ ing the names of Manoj Tiwari, Pravesh Verma and Hansraj Hans, are said to have submitted the list of claimants on their behalf to party High Command regarding civic polls in Delhi. However, field reports of most of them came negative, and their chances of victory in party’s opinion polls were also said to be bleak.

Complaints started piling up with Santosh, wherein, most plaints were about offering money for tickets. Annoyed, Santosh demanded resignation of all District Presidents of Delhi BJP in a hurry, warning the MPs to reform themselves, say ing, ‘You reform yourself, otherwise, the Chhat tisgarh model will have to be implemented in Delhi’.

RSS ‘CHURNING’ IN MALDIVES!

Highly placed sources in Saffron Party & its parent organisation have hinted that a major brainstorming session of hand ful of top level RSS functionar ies was held in Madives.

According to sources, 35 prominent office bearers of the Sangh, who reached Maldives by a special plane during Oct end, mulled upon the strategy for post 2024 election dur ing the 5- day long trip. These officials returned to Delhi by a charter plane.

Latur (PTI): A stone structure with in scriptions in Devana gari and Farsi has been found in a well in Sugao in Chakur tehsil in Latur dis trict, a historian who was part of the team that spotted it said on Saturday.

The Devanagari and Farsi words are in six

The words make up six lines found on a stone sculpture; historians believe it dates back to the 17th or 18th century

lines in the middle of the Chandrashila sculpture, and provide information of Sugao and Wadval vil lages, historian Krishna Gudade said.

“It was found in a well. It may be of the 17th-18th century. At the time, Sugao village was an administrative divi sion under Wadval with Muslim rule,” he said.

The inscription was sculpted on an old tem ple stone that had been used in the construc tion of the step well near the house of one Sanjay Kale-Patil, Gu dade said.

ya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nitin Gadkari, and Nationalist Con gress Party (NCP) Presi dent Sharad Pawar at an event held in Aurang abad district.

“‘Earlier, when you would be asked who is your icon Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chan dra Bose and Mahatma Gandhi used to be the answers. In Maharash tra, you need not look elsewhere (as) there are so many icons here. While Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is of olden times, there are Ambedkar and Nitin Gadkari,” the governor said.

Predictably, his com

ments on Maharashtra’s most iconic figure have drawn strong criticism.

“Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is not only our deity but our source of inspiration. He will al ways be our idol,” Anand Dubey, a spokesman for the Shiv Sena - Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray said in a statement.

The NCP meanwhile accused him of demean ing Maharashtra and equating Union minister Gadkari with Shivaji.

“The President must seriously rethink letting this person (Koshyari), who constantly makes controversial state ments, hold a constitu tional position,” he said,

NOT THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR

adding, “The BJP is al ways silent about his (Koshyari’s) demeaning statements that hurt the

NGT’s stay on Nerul CRZ plot sale set to continue till Dec 20; CIDCO opposes move

First India Bureau

Mumbai: The Nation al Green Tribunal (NGT) ruled to con tinue the stay on the sale of the partially affected coastal zone plot at Nerul, adjoin ing the NRI Seawoods, even as City and In dustrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) defended its tender process and denied any environmental violations.

Earlier, on August 22, the western zonal bench of the NGT admitted

two sets of petitions by the Navi Mumbai Envi ronment Preservation Society (NMEPS) and another by a group of city residents and di rected CIDCO not to proceed with the tender process of Plot 2A in Sectors 54-56-58. The pe titioners challenged the 25,000 sq m plot sale by pointing out that it vio lates the coastal regula tion zone provisions as one-third of the area fall under CRZ1 and a similar area is CRZ-ll.

CIDCO filed its re sponse challenging

FOR THE KIDS!

NGT’s jurisdiction to admit petitions and ar gued that the tender pro cess fulfills all CRZ pro visions. “There is noth ing in the law that pre vents CIDCO from show ing the CRZ1 area as part of the plot for sale,” said the affidavit signed

Petition has challenged the transaction as it violates coastal regulation zone provisions

by Gajndra K Jangam, CIDCO’s Marketing Of ficer (Commercial). In response, local NGO NatConnect Foun dation has requested the Navi Mumbai Mu nicipal Corporation (NMMC) to join the le gal battle.

ADMIRABLE FEAT

Pune woman cycles 3,955 km in 13 days to set Guinness record

First India Bureau

Mumbai: Pune-based Preeti Maske, 45, will set a new record as the first woman to cy cle from the Indo-Pak border at Koteshwar to reach Kibithu in Arunachal Pradesh on the Indo-Tibetan border in 13 days, 19 hours and 12 min utes. She completed her journey at 12.19 am on November 15.

The 3,955 km trip cov ered seven states, begin ning from Gujarat, Ra jasthan, Uttar Pradesh (UP), Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh. The route which passes through Assam and Arunachal Pradesh was challenging with a total 15,679 m of elevation gain, said Maske. The mom of two cycled almost 350 km in the first 10 days with an average saddle cycling

time of 19 hours.

“All the paperwork, evidence, time stamp pictures have been ac cepted by WUCA – World Ultra Cycling Associa tion (USA) for certifying for the Guinness World Record,” said Maske.

The solo ride was flagged off at 5.07 am on November 01 at Kotesh war on Indo-Pak border, by Border Security Force (BSF) Assistant Com mandant N K Sharma.

Arunachal was extremely cold in the even ing and night, which made it difficult to ride in 2-3°C temperatures. With zero net work coverage, we missed the direction and took a longer route. But we could complete the expedition with Border Roads Organization’s support.

Maske said that it was a real challenge to man age sleep deprivation in a continuous non-stop ride. “I was cycling con tinuously for 19 hours and sometimes for more

than 24 hours. Coffee kept me awake”.

The expedition was undertaken to create awareness on organ do nation for the NGO Re Birth Foundation.

Preeti Maske is the first woman to cycle from the Indo-Pak border at Koteshwar to reach Kibithu in Arunachal Pradesh in 13 days, 19 hours and 12 minutes

—Preeti Maske, Cyclist

Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus is illuminated in blue lights on the eve of World Children’s Day, on Saturday. —PHOTO BY PTI

sentiments of Maha rashtrians,” said NCP’s Chief Spokesperson Clyde Crasto.

NCP, Uddhav-led Shiv Sena take offence at insult to one of Maha’s most iconic historical figures

Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has developed something of a reputation for putting his foot in his mouth. —FILE PHOTO

The author is a journalist and political commentator and views expressed are his personal

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SURFING THROUGH

SEASON THE SCARF

Even though we hate to say it, summer is officially over. But as the weather cools, we're hesitantly anticipating the start of layering season. And thus, City First is here to guide you through it with nothing else or nothing better than the SCARVES!

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When the weather per mits, sundresses are great fun, but to ward off the chill of this winter, is there anything more satis fying than covering yourself with a symbol of comfort and warmth? Abso lutely not! Therefore, the easi est method to stay warm

fect for changing up your look without com pletely changing your cloth ing, whether you choose cash mere or mohair, one with pat tern or one without, or both. The finishing touch to any winter layering outfit is un doubtedly a gorgeous winter scarf, regardless of whether your go-to street style still con sists of stylish tracksuits or you've started to make the ef fort to put on jeans with your cropped sweaters. Scarves have earned their place as sta ples for the winter wardrobe. The scarves this season are fresh and lively, with vibrant colorblock designs and bold checkered prints. They usu ally come in knit, cashmere, or wool blend fabrics and offer lots of warmth while fre quently adding a touch of luxury. An elegant touch can

be added to any outfit by wrap ping a solid-colored scarf around a shirt and wearing it with pants. Feel free to tie your cable-knit sweater over your neck for the same effect while you decide which one to buy.

The colours navy and ma roon are also very popular this season, as is wearing scarves open to create long er lengths. A silk scarf adds a sophisticated necktie to a straightforward all-black suit, giving it a chic, Paris ian edge. Perfect comfort and fashion! It might be challenging to locate a scarf to match an outfit for an evening occasion, a shawl scarf can be worn in a more formal way by drap ing it over your shoulders, as well as more casually by wrapping it around your neck.

CARETIPSFORPETS

Here are some tips on how to keep your furry friends warm and cosy in the cold months.

KEEP THEIR OUTDOOR HOURS RESTRICTED TO DAYTIME:

Try to keep your pets indoors, es pecially during the night. Go out for walks with them during the late morning hours. Being ex posed to the sun during these hours will give them much-need ed Vitamin D.

CHECK FOR HYPOTHERMIA:

If the temperature drops severely, your pet needs special attention. Ushija Asthana, pet parent of a dog Cooper and a cat Silver said, “The paws of your dog or cat need to be protected from the freeze as they aren’t covered by fur. If your pet is picking up their paws off the floor, it is a sign that the weather is too cold for them. In case there’s a drop in your pet’s body temperature, make sure you cover them up with warm blan kets and feed them hot drinks like chicken broth.”

selves. Holding pee for too long can cause urinary tract infections in your pets. You can con sider potty training your pets indoors.

Pee pads and pee trays can be used to make sure as an option.

Ipsita Gupta, pet parent of a Labrador says, “During the winters, Mia sometimes ends up accidentally peeing in the house. I use a pet-friendly floor cleaner like ITC Nimyle, which is a 100% natural action floor cleaner made with neem that keeps the floors clean and also does not cause rashes on Mia’s skin, unlike other floor cleaners I’ve used before. Acti vated with the Power of Neem, Nimyle also has anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties.”

ARRANGE WARM

Never let your pet sleep on the cold floor during winter. Make sure

they have warm and cosy bedding. Place the bedding in a warm spot, preferably where they sleep every day. Make sure the area is cleaned regularly with water and a petfriendly floor cleaner. Unclean sur

faces may lead to underbelly rash es. Many pet owners use pet-friend ly heaters and warmers to keep the room temperature controlled.

ADELINE DORCAS M.Sc, M.Phil

SHEHNAAZ GROOVES WITH GURU

Shehnaaz Gill is a highly reck oned name in the entertain ment industry.

She won the heart of the au dience and other con testants with her ador able looks and inno cence. Post Bigg Boss, she has worked in a popular movie Honsla Rakh and some music videos also. She will be soon seen in multiple new projects. The ac tress recently shared a sweet video where she is seen dancing with Guru Randhawa.

In the post shared on social media, Shehnaaz is seen enjoying the cool breeze on a

yacht. She is accompa nied by ace Punjabi Singer Guru Randha wa. He is seen dancing along with her on the Punjabi song Pai gayian shaman ne. Shehnaaz looks simple yet elegant with a green off-shoul der jumpsuit and Guru Randhawa sported a black T-shirt with a green jacket. The duo look adorable as they dance under the open sky. He wrote in the captions, “Pai gayian shaman ne with my fav @shehnaazgill Should we do a video to gether."

MALAIKA IN A SAFIYAA JUMPSUIT

ensemble will soon be on the rise and some outfits around us may get a second or no preference.

The Jaime ensemble featured a satin ivory top that looked sleeveless on one side and the other was in its dramatic ele ment with the long and broad cape which truly became the foundation for a party look. And, to this high-waisted and black straight-fit trousers were joined.

Malaika's look was accessorised with Christian Louboutin pumps, a micro hand

Virushka’s Unseen Pictures

irat Kohli and Anushka Sharma are one of the cut est couples in Bollywood. These two never fail in giving couple goals and making our hearts flutter. Well, the cou ple was recently snapped at the Mumbai airport as they left for an undisclosed location. And now there are several pictures of the couple from Uttarakhand that are going viral. We can see Virat and Anushka posing with their fans in Uttarakhand with smiles on their faces.

In the picture, we can see the couple posing with sev eral fans. Both of them had smiles on their faces as they posed.

Aadar wishes girlfriend Tara

Bollywood ac tress Tara Sutaria is said to be dating Aadar Jain for quite a few years now. While both of them have re mained hushhush about their relation ship, they do share some lovefilled posts for each other on spe cial occasions. They are also often spotted together during family functions and other out ings. Tara Sutaria is cel ebrating her 27th birth day today, and the ac tress has received many wishes on social media. However, the one that stood out the most was the lovely post from Aadar Jain! Aadar

Kareena’s celine bag steals the show

Time and again, Ka reena Kapoor Khan showcased her love for casual yet chic off-duty fits. This time she was spot ted at the airport, sport ing a casual blue sweat shirt with matching trousers. While comfort was the supreme ele ment of her airport look, the actress decided to style it up with her Celine bag.

Kareena Kapoor Khan managed to stir up the airport-style dressing for the season as she stepped out in a mono

tone outfit casual outfit that featured an over sized hoodie and match ing relaxed-fit trousers. The diva stuck to stick ing to the muted blue color palette and added a stylish twist to the clas sic off-duty look with her chunky black boots.

The actress teamed up her all-blue look with a Celine Calfskin Large Soft 16 Bag in Tan. This designer bag is carefully crafted with tan-hued leather and features a statement leather top handle with striking gold-tone hardware.

Jain took to his Insta gram to post a picture with Tara Sutaria. The picture is from their France vacation, and the two lovebirds can be seen posing in front of the iconic Louvre pyramid. Wishing his ladylove, Aadar Jain wrote, “Hap py Birthday ma chérie,’ along with a heart and fire emoji.

The post quickly gar nered thousands of likes, and several comments from fans poured in.

alaika Arora has a razor-sharp eye for style and it's unquestionable. She's giv ing our autumn style the elevated pow er of something that can be termed sultry. Mala is an all-rounder and definitely a learned fashion lady who looks stylish all year round. This month and the next, our calendars are blocked big for par ties and there is something interesting that's available. This

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conic Brands of Maharashtra Awards 2022 rec ognised business leaders and en trepreneurs who deserve to be ac knowledged and heard by the world The felicitation programme was organ ised by Maharashtra So cieties welfare associa tion Powered by Prober, Co-Powered by Once More Studios, along with In dia’s leading PR company Red Ant Brand promo tions, supported by Prit tle Prattle, and Eventz Factory.

IBMA 2022, honouring the late Balasaheb Thack rey on his death anniver sary, was hosted on Thursday, November 17, 2022, at the Yashwantrao Chavan Pratish than in Mumbai.

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde graced and wished all the awardees pre sent in the Event along with other dignitaries.

Awards were presented to industry leaders like Amit Mulchandani from Kailasa Speciality Cui sine Pvt Ltd (Kailash Par bat), Rohan Tavare from

from Dr Heli's Aesthetic Stu dio, Seema Raut (Crimi nal Lawyer) from Seema Raut and Associates, Dr Deepak Monga (h.c) from Spartan Fire and Safety Pvt Ltd (Fire Evacuation Solution), Dr Vikram Me hta from Spartan Engi neering Industries Pvt Ltd, Suhaani Jadhav from Nature Blosssom, Anupam Shukla From Uniquo, Shailesh Acha rekar From Artist – Paint er, Sonal Jain from Spar kling Minds Learning Centre, Anaisha Vijay vergia from Child Artist, Sarvesh Kocheta from Rajdhani Universal Fab rics

Sushmita Sen may not have stepped into Hindi films for a long time now, but her fan following and the love of her fans have never dwin dled. The actor rang in her 47th birthday this year on November 19. She did not miss out on giving her fans a glimpse of her beauti ful face on this auspicious day. Sharing a selfie on Insta gram, Sushmita wrote a cryptic paragraph in the cap tions. Taking to her captions, she wrote, “47 finally!!! A number that has consistently followed me for 13 years now!!! The most in credible year is on its way….I’ve known it a long time…and I am thrilled to finally announce its arrival!!! #duggadugga I love you guys!!! #yourstruly #birthday girl #19thnovember #scorpio #yassssssss”.

hris Hemsworth, an actor, has ac knowledged that he may have a higher chance of ac quiring Alzheimer's.

The actor, Chris Hems worth, claimed that while having standard testing for the mak ing of a new do cuseries that will be shown on Disney Plus, he dis covered that he is genetically

prone to the illness.

The actor claimed to have found out he pos sesses two copies of the APOE4 gene, which has been associated with a higher chance of develop ing Alzheimer's dis ease. He emphasised that it is not an official diagnosis of Alzhei mer's and that he is not certain to contract the illness, but it is none theless a reason for concern.

from M.J Group Of Com panies, Prof. Saurabh Ba jaj from Knowledge Cir cle, Dr Arvind Singh from Radiant Hospital, Nilesh Dhahifule from Swastik Enterprises, Subhash k Shinde (M.D & Chair man) from SP Agro Ex port (SMGT Farmers Pro ducer Company), Dr Saakshi Ashish BhoiteMotivational Speaker & Counsellor, Aslam Shai kh from Swimwell Pools India Pvt Ltd, Anil Mansing Vasave from Making India Proud, Pravin Kshirsagar from Xpilot Farners Producer Company LTD, Prashant Karmalkar from Circu lar Angle Pvt Ltd, He mant Maheshwari from Provices, Mayur Nandan from Ellora EPC Pvt Ltd, Sunil Pinto from Elite Classes, PawanKumar Dass from Valuquo Financial Ser vices, Hanumant Pandey from Trigati Packers and Movers, Dr. Shubham Ma hajan from Prepsmart, Dr. Manoj Sahoo from Winners Academy, Babu lal Jain (Chairman) and Suresh Jain (M.D) from Toptime Consumer Pvt Ltd (A Venture Of Deltas Pharma), Milin Shah from Sarom, Pooja Doshi from Miraya Arts, Shiva ni Shah from Vision Academy -The IGCSE Ex pert, Dhawal Shah and Navin Maheshwari from Furnitech, Arpana Mishra from AEROBOTT - Dronetech Solutions Pvt Ltd, Sagar Suke (Group Director) Dr. Tanaji Dabade (Director), Dr. Ru pesh Patil (Principal) from NAVSAHYADRI

GROUP OF INSTITU TIONS, Pournnima Shirishkar from Day2Day Profit, Dr. Shahrookh Du masia from Kiyara Asso ciates, BabuBhai Bhaya ni Galaxy Dryfruits, Ro han Devrukhkar from Jayshree Films, Manan Raval from BHARAT FM, Harold D'Souza from Eyes Open International, Hri day Raval from BHARAT FM and many other sig nificant dignitaries were awarded.

Bharat24 was the media partner of the event and our very own Managing Editor, (Entertainment) Ashish Tiwari was award ed with the Best Enter tainment Editor award.

Additionally, the evening witnessed many celebrity stars from Film and Television In dustry Jagdeesh Chandra, Anees Bazmee, Elli Avr Raam, Dheeraj Dhoopar, Soniya Bansal, Nayandeep Rakshit, Sanjay Gagnani, Lipika Varma, Arjun Bi jlani, Aneri Vajani, Amit Tyagi, Ashish Tiwari, Vishal Kotian, Varinder Chawla, Shravan Shah, Yogen Shah, Siddharth Kannan, Russel D'Silva, Assad Khan, Payal Ghosh, Chahatt Khanna, Donal Bisht, Pavitra Punia, Ma nav Manglani, Aly Goni, Hiten Tejwani, Twinkle Vasisht, Raaj Shandilya and many more.

Eknath Shinde, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, said he is proud of the awardees who have worked tirelessly to im prove our nation and get us closer to the motto "Aatmanirbhar Bharat.

Amother's love knows no bounds and when she loves, she loves unconditionally.

Her affection is hidden in

Since his grandpa has Alzheimer's disease, Hemsworth said that the diagnosis did not come as a surprise.

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Pvt Ltd, James Silvai

"It's like one in a thousand people... or one in 10,000. I can't re member. But eight to 10 times more likely," he revealed, jokingly adding, "Since you told me that, I feel like my memory's getting worse. It's a pla cebo effect-or it's taking place."

the lit tle things she does for her children, in the little things she gives up for them, in the wrinkles on her face and the smiles

to nurture a better future for their chil dren. Named 'Mom bae' the short film is directed by Sau mitra Singh.

Mombae is Produced by Kanchan Srikrish na under her Banner Radiant Rays Pro ductions and in asso ciation with Shukar Studios Pvt Ltd &

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Saurabh Bajaj with others

Ashish Tiwari, Vishal Kotian and Siddharth Kannan

Pravin Kshirsagar with others Rohan Tavare with others

Nilesh Dhahifule with others Shifa Hakam with others

Dr Deepak Monga with others

Chris Hemsworth

Shama Sikander

Sushmita Sen

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