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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Itanagar: 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.
New Delhi: Tata Groupowned Air India is in talks with Boeing and Airbus about ordering new aircraft, airline’s CEO Campbell Wilson said.
“We’re in deep discussion with Boeing, Airbus...for a historic order of latest generation aircraft.” P7
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.
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New Delhi (PTI): The owner of Radisson Blu hotel in Kaushambi, Ghaziabad, was found dead at his east Delhi residence in the Com monwealth Games (CWG) village on Satur day, officials said.
Amit Jain was found hanging in his flat, and no suicide note has been recovered from the body or nearby, po lice said.
A senior police offic er said that Jain had come to his house at CWG village in the morning after having breakfast at his new house in Noida. Jain was planning to shift to Noida with his family.
On his way, he also dropped his brother Karan at his office.
New Delhi (PTI): Delhi Police have recovered a sharp object from Aaft ab Poonawala’s flat, which may have been used to chop Sharddha Walkar’s body into piec es, even as CCTV foot age showing Aaftab walking with a bag ear ly morning last month has emerged on social media, police officials said on Saturday.
Investigators are try ing to verify the CCTV footage, officials said, adding it is suspected that Aaftab was carry ing Walkar’s body parts.
A Delhi Police team also searched for the murder weapon at a for est in Gurugram using a metal detector on Sat urday, but returned empty-handed after one-and-a-half hour. P3
CCTV footage seemingly of Aaftab Poonawala walking outside his home carrying a bag early morning last month.
New Delhi (PTI): Del hi Deputy Chief Minis ter Manish Sisodia on Saturday accused the BJP of leaking AAP minister Satyendar Jain’s videos from Tihar jail here and claimed that he was undergoing physiotherapy for a spine injury.
Accusing the saffron party of resorting to cheap theatrics, he said Jain, who is in judicial custody in a money laundering case, had fallen down in jail.
“He (Jain) had sus tained an injury to his spine and even under went two surgeries. The doctor had advised physiotherapy upon dis charge and those videos show him getting physi otherapy,” Sisodia as serted.
Purported videos of Jain (58) lying on a bed and getting a foot mas sage in Tihar Jail here have gone viral on social media. The AAP leader can be seen reading some documents and a man in a white T-shirt massaging his legs in the video.
Sisodia said his col league has been lodged in a false case and that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was poking fun at Jain’s illness. “They (BJP) are losing the MCD and Gujarat polls and that is why they are resorting to such cheap theatrics. They should fight the polls to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on issues,” he said. The senior AAP leader exuded confi
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday sharpened attack on CM Kejriwal, questioning his si lence over videos that purportedly showed jailed minister Satyendar Jain getting massage and receiving visitors inside his prison cell.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has become ‘Spa and Massage Party’, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said citing the videos and challenged Kejriwal to explain Jain’s conduct in the jail.“Where is Kejriwal hidden now? Jain can be seen enjoying massage and meeting visitors in his cell in total viola tion of rules and prison laws. This VVIP culture in jail is dangerous for
dence that the BJP could do whatever they want, but his party will emerge victorious.
He went on to add that the Enforcement Direc torate (ED) was directed by the court to not leak
democracy,” Bhatia said. Kejriwal hasn’t yet removed Jain from the post of minister despite being behind the bars for over five months, he said. Jain is currently lodged in Tihar jail in a money laundering case registered by ED. The agency earlier this month had informed a court that the minister was getting massage and enjoying other facili
BJP MP Parvesh Verma along with his party colleagues Manjinder Singh Sirsa and Tajinder Pal Bagga lodged a police complaint against Jain and Kejriwal, accusing them of carrying out “illegal” activities in the jail. Bagga took a dig at Sisodia for de fending Jain, saying he has fought with his physiotherapist as to why he was not given foot and head massage for his spinal injury.
New Delhi: JetSet Go’s owner Kanika
Tekriwal Reddy on Saturday said its air craft were not used for carrying cash or liq uor, amid reports that the planes of the char tered flight service provider were in volved in the alleged Delhi liquor scam.
New Delhi: Congress National Spokes person Alka Lamba said it looked less like a jail barrack and more like a hotel room. “Kejriwal should answer what is his compulsion that he has not yet sacked his minister Satyendar Jain from the post? If you look at the viral video, it looks less like a jail barrack and more like a hotel room,”Lamba said
New Delhi: Satyen dar Jain’s legal team on Saturday moved to a Special court
team alleged that ED has leaked the CCTV video despite the un dertaking given in the court. Special Judge Vikas Dhull issued a notice to ED and fixed the matter for November
Reddy is the wife of Sarath Chandra Red dy, a director of Au robindo Pharma who is now in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate for his al leged involvement in the scam. Sarath Chandra Reddy is al leged to be one of the conduits for the kick backs given to the public servants and politicians in the Del hi government.
“I strongly con demn such news re ports which have lev elled baseless allega tions of use of our company’s aircraft in the liquor scam,” Kanika said in a state ment on Saturday.
She also claimed that her husband was innocent and there was no proof of his involvement.
According to re ports, the Enforce ment Directorate (ED) has asked the compa ny to provide flight details of its fleet for the past few months as it suspects transfer of cash through the air route.
JetSetGo Aviation Services Private Lim ited (JetSetGo) also said its executive man agement and the board of directors have be come aware of recent media coverage and
New Delhi (ANI): The Rouse Avenue Court on Saturday extended the En forcement Directo rate (ED) remand of Aam Aadmi Par ty’s (AAP) Vijay Nair and Hy derabad-based busi nessman Abhishek Boinpally for an other five days. Both were pre sented in court on Saturday after the 5-day ED remand was over. Earlier on November 14, both the accused in the case were granted bail in a CBI case related to the Ex cise case. Both ac cused were earlier arrested by the CBI and were lodged in Tihar Jail. ED ar
speculation regarding utilisation of the com pany’s flight services.
“Whilst recent spec ulation based on hear say is wholly unwar ranted and without foundation, we are happy to answer any legitimate questions relating to the opera tions of JetSetGo,” the statement said.
New Delhi (PTI): Con trolling pollution, dou bling the income of mu nicipalities and clearing all three landfill sites in Delhi are among the top priorities of the Con gress for the upcoming MCD elections in its manifesto released on Saturday.
Bringing down the level of air and water pollution is the party’s top-most priority, fol lowed by “restoring communal harmony” in the union territory and doubling the income of municipalities to meet their responsibilities.
“We will regularise existing Municipal Cor
poration of Delhi (MCD) employees, fill the va cant posts and generate more employment. As per the National Green Tribunal (NGT) direc tion, unprocessed wastes ‘Kude ka Qutub minar’ at three landfill
sites will be removed. We will also focus on sustainable solid waste management to maxim ise recycling and mini mise ‘waste’ for land fills,” the manifesto said.
Delhi Congress has
also promised a drain age master plan for the civic body in sync with other public authorities to eliminate drain water.
“We will also improve the quality of civic amenities, especially for the bastis of scheduled castes and minorities, JJ Clusters and unau thorised colonies. Some other priorities are zero corruption in the MCD and citizens’ participa tion through RWAs/ NGOs,” the manifesto read.
The manifesto also said Delhi Congress will focus on maximising women’s participation in MCD governance.
rested them and took them into cus tody.
Nair was arrest ed on September 27 by the Central Bu reau of Investiga tion for his alleged role in irregulari ties pertaining to Delhi government’s excise policy. An FIR was lodged af ter LG VK Saxena recommended a CBI probe.
Both the CBI and ED are investigating whether the Delhi government’s excise policy, which has now been scrapped, was framed to provide un due and illegal fa vours to liquor manu facturers and distrib utors at the cost of the government ex chequer.
New Delhi (PTI): The Enforcement Directo rate Saturday filed a charge sheet in a court here against the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) and its three members in a money laundering case related to unlawful ac tivities.
The document is like ly to be taken up for hearing before Special Judge Shailender Ma lik on November 21.
Besides the PFI, the charge sheet also named Perwez Ahmed, Mohd Ilias and Abdul Muqeet as accused.
New Delhi(PTI): Fall ing from a height is the biggest killer among children under 12 in In dia, an AIIMS-Delhi study has claimed.
According to the study, the most promi nent reason for chil dren under 12 dying of preventable causes is due to falling from a height, in most cases from a balcony.
In India, one person dies from head injury every three minutes
and 30 per cent of those head injuries are wit nessed in children, Pro fessor of Neurosurgery at AIIMS, Dr Deepak Gupta, one of the au thors of the study, said.
Of all head injuries seen in children, over 60 per cent result due to fall from height, Dr Gupta told PTI.
To make people aware about this avoidable phenome non, AIIMS-New Delhi has launched a ‘Safe
Balcony, Safe Child’ campaign.
According to an epi demiological study
conducted among chil dren less than 16 years of age at AIIMS, a total of 1,000 children with
fali Gulati, Professor of Paediatric Neurology said.
“Boys were two times more affected with head injuries than girls and over 60 per cent of them were due to fall from height/balcony,” Dr Gulati, who is the other author of the study, said.
other parent was else where when the acci dent happened, she said.
Dr Gupta advised that balcony railing height should be made “twice the height of children in the family.”
ries are completely pre ventable,” he told PTI.
“Through this cam paign we want this mes sage of ‘Safe Balcony and Safe Child’ to reach each and every house hold having children aged below 10 years,” he said.
head injuries were ad mitted at AIIMS trau ma centre over a period of four years, Dr She
Most such children came from low socio economic status where one of the parents was away at work and the
“Children often end up climbing the railing of the house in the bal cony unprotected and fall over many such children die or sustain severe head injuries. Such deaths and inju
As part of the cam paign, doctors plan to visit schools, interact with students, parents, and teachers and also hold various seminars and competitions.
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 here in Rohini here, most likely on Monday.
As Poonawala’s fiveday police custody ends on Tuesday, the Delhi Police is running against time to get the test conducted.
However, Poonawala can be subjected to nar co analysis only after he is deemed fit for it in the pre-narco tests which will be conducted to as certain his mental well being.
“We have not received any formal request from the police to con duct the test yet. But if the custody remand ends on Tuesday, we will comply with the court’s order and take up the matter. However, no date has been fixed yet,” a source in the hospital said.
“The FSL team will also be involved in the narco test. However, this will be done only after a medical officer gives his nod that the person is physically, mentally, emotionally
Narco analysis, also known as truth serum, involves intravenous administration of a drug (such as sodium pentothal, scopolamine and sodium amytal) that causes the person undergoing it to enter
and psychologically fit. Moreover, these tests take time. “In this case, we are not aware if the accused has any medi cal condition or any psychological disorder.
into various stages of anaesthesia. In the hyp notic stage, the person becomes less
New Delhi (PTI): Aaft ab Poonawala was taken to different locations in south Delhi as Delhi Po lice are trying to locate more body parts he had allegedly disposed of af ter killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, officials said.
According to the po lice, Poonawala alleged ly strangled Walkar (27) on May 18 and sawed her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a 300-li tre fridge for almost three weeks at his resi dence in South Delhi’s Mehrauli before dump ing them across the city over several days past midnight.
they have recovered a sharp object from the house of Poonawala. The blood samples of the victim’s father and brother have been col lected to match their DNA with the skeletal remains recovered till now, police said.
Mumbai (PTI): A Delhi Police team on Saturday recorded the state ments of two men in Maharashtra’s Palghar from whom 27-year-old Shraddha Walkar, had sought assistance after she was assaulted by the accused in 2020, officials said. The team is in Manikpur in Palghar district’s Vasai, which is the native area of the victim and where the couple had stayed before shifting to Delhi. The official identified the two witnesses, whose statements are being recorded as Rahul Ray and Godwin. Both of them are residents of Vasai region. The
process of recording the statement of one person was complete and the other’s was in progress, he added.As per the po lice official, Walkar had sought their assistance in 2020 after she was beaten up by Poonawala near Vasai, and the duo had helped her at the time.Giving details of these two witnesses, the official said one of them is a rickshaw driver and the other is currently unemployed. The fourmember Delhi police team, which landed in Mumbai on Friday, had earlier recorded the statement of friend Lax man Nadar, the official said.
All these factors will have to be kept in mind before subjecting him to the tests. Only then can we move ahead with narco analysis,” another source said.
New Delhi (ANI): The Sessions Court of Del hi’s Tis Hazari Court has granted bail to Ven ice Mall owner Satin der Singh Bhasin in two cases registered against him in an al leged multi-crore builder scam.
After hearing the ar guments of the con cerned parties, the Ses sions Court of Addi tional Sessions Judge Manish Khurana re leased Bhasin on bail subject to conditions imposed by the Ses sions Court.
It was also alleged that Bhasin used a forged RT-PCR report to seek exemption from appearance before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on September 14 this year in cases registered against him. It was al
leged he was not pre sent in Goa at the time of Covid report testing.
In the present case, the Magistrate Court issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Bhasin, the same was subsequently stayed by the sessions Court on the application filed on behalf of Bhasin.
Further, on Novem ber 2, when Bhasin ap peared before the mag istrate court it ordered sending him to judicial
custody for committing cheating before the court.
Further, Bhasin filed a bail application be fore the Magistrate Court on November 3 , which was rejected by the court. After that, an application for bail was filed before the Ses sions Court.
In case Poonawala comes across as a “dis turbed” person during these initial tests, the narco analysis cannot be carried out, the source added.
Two held for extorting Rs 15L from Gurugram property dealer
Gurugram (PTI): A hotel employee and his aide were arrest ed here for allegedly extorting Rs 15 lakh from a person after claiming to be mem bers of Lawrence Bishnoi gang, police said. The accused had hatched the plan to overcome their finan cial crisis and de manded Rs 50 lakh from him, they said.
An FIR was regis tered against the two at Sadar PS, officials said. Property dealer Mohan Singh, of Sec tor 38 here, lodged a plaint, alleging he got a call from an un known number on November 14 during which the caller threatened him, claiming to be a mem ber of Lawrence Bish noi gang.
New Delhi(PTI): Five Uzbek women, who were rescued from the clutch es of human traffickers and later went missing from a shelter home in Dwarka, were found in south Delhi’s Neb Sarai area, police said on Sat urday. The women who were rescued by an NGO - Empowering Humani ty - later told police that they had left the shelter on their own to live with people known to them as the organisation asked them for money and did not give them proper food. According to po
lice, the NGO’s staff in formed Dwarka North police station about the missing women on No vember 2.
The NGO said on Au gust 25 it had rescued seven Uzbek women
from human trafficking and handed them over to the Uzbekistan Embas sy, which asked them to look after the women for some time, a police of ficer said.
A case in this regard was registered at Chanakyapuri Police Station at that time.
On the embassy’s re quest, the NGO shel tered five of the women (aged between 18 to 37 years) in a society in Dwarka Sector-16B, they said. On October 28, the women were found missing, the of
ficer said.
As per the statement of the complainant, a case under section 365 (kidnapping or abduct ing with intent secretly and wrongfully to con fine a person) of IPC was registered, he said.
During probe, raids were conducted in Del hi and NCR. Later, po lice received informa tion that one Sabina alias Axmedura Gulsu noy and her husband Ullubek had taken these women with them, DCP (Dwarka) Harsha Vard han said.
The saw was alleg edly bought from a shop on Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road, police said. The police have so far recov ered 13 body parts, which are mostly bones.A source said the police on Friday recov ered some body parts from Gurugram which will be sent for forensic examination. The head of the victim is still missing.
Police have also said
In a statement, police also said in view of the “deceptive nature” of responses provided by the accused, an applica tion for conducting his narco-analysis test has been approved by court.
“To ascertain that the bones belong to the vic tim, the blood samples of the father and brother of ‘A’ (Walkar) have been collected for DNA analy sis. To find out if any incriminating evidence resides in digital devices seized from the place of the offence, the same has also been sent for foren sic retrieval of data,” the statement said.
New Delhi: It was in November 2020 that Shraddha first confided about the physical assault from Aaftab, recalls a former colleague, adding she was about to approach copsbut stopped short of pressing charges after Aaftab’s parents intervened. Karan, who worked with Walker in Mumbai till March 2021, remembers her as a “lively and energetic person”. His chats with Walkar about the assault are doing the rounds on social media. He said she was very
energetic and full of enthusiasm, “but on some days when she had fights with Aaftab, she isolated herself so that she does not have to lie. I can’t imagine Aaftab going to this extent...”Demanding justice for Walkar, Karan says he is ready to co-operate with police. PTI
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
According
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.
SOURCE: THE CONVERSATIONThe way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by. Buddha
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.
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.
Jaipur (PTI): Five men, including three BSF personnel, were arrested on Saturday for allegedly gang-raping a woman in Sri Ganganagar district, a police official said. The victim informed the Raisingh Nagar police station about the alleged incident that took place on Friday night, following which an FIR was registered, a medical examination of the woman was conducted and evidence was collected. Five accused were arrested after the statement of the woman was recorded in front of the magistrate.
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
fered
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.
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.
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.
New Delhi (PTI): Khalid Jawed’s “The Paradise of Food”, translated by Baran Farooqi from Urdu, won the fifth JCB Prize for Literature on Saturday. The book, originally published as “Ne’mat Khana” in 2014, is the fourth translation to win the award and the first work in Urdu. “The Paradise of Food” tells the story of a middleclass joint Muslim family over a span of fifty years where the narrator struggles to find a place for himself, at odds in his home and the world outside. Jawed received Rs 25 lakh as prize.
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.
Hyderabad (ANI): Ni zamabad BJP MP Dhar mapuri Arvind on Sat urday threatened to beat Telangana Chief Minis ter K 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.”
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
Jabalpur: The man ac cused of murdering a 22-year-old woman at Mekhla Resort hotel room here and then posting a video on so cial media, has been arrested from Sirohi district of Rajasthan. police said on Satur day, adding that the ac cused is a criminal with 37 cases regis tered against him in Nashik of loot, theft
Siliguri (PTI): A major fire erupted in a slum in Siliguri city in north ern West Bengal on Sat urday evening, fire of ficials said. Several hundred houses and shops were feared to have been gutted in the blaze that erupted at around 8pm in Rana Bustee in ward number 18 in the city. At least five fire tenders have been deployed to bring the blaze under control.
and others. The ac cused has been identi fied as Hemant Rajen dra Bhadane, 29, a resi dent of Nasik. He had mentioned a fake name, Abhijeet Patidar, while staying at Me khla resort hotel on November 6. He had also submitted fake identity proof in the hotel.
The police also re covered Rs 1.52 lakh cash, the deceased’s mobile phone, ATM
card, chain and ear rings from the accused.
Jabalpur Inspector General (IG) Umesh Joga told ANI that Bha dane was continuously changing his location but police were able to trace him with help of the girl’s ATM card as he was withdrawing money from her ac count. “We will pro duce him before the court and demand his custody for further in vestigation,” Joga said.
Mumbai (PTI): Gau tam Navlakha was re leased from Taloja pris on Saturday evening and taken to CPI(M)’s Comrade BT Randive Building, which houses a public library on the ground floor, in Navi Mumbai where he will be living under house arrest for a month.
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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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
guttedplatform for par ticipating nations to deliberate on the effec tiveness of the current international regime on Counter Terrorism Financing and the steps required to address emerging challenges.
K’taka Cong to complain SEC against state’s “electoral fraud”BJP MP Dharmapuri Arvind. —FILE PHOTO URDU WRITER KHALID JAWED WINS JCB PRIZE
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
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.
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.
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.”
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
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.
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.
“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,
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.
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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.
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’.
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
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
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.”
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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
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 has
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
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.
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.
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.
Trade divide could cost global economy $1.4 trillion: IMF chief
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.’
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.
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.
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 MPsstamps, passports, pa pers, cash and some Saudi currency.
Srinagar (PTI): The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday con ducted searches at 12 locations in connection with threatening of journalists by terror outfit The Resistance Front, officials said.
The searches were conducted in Srinagar, Anantnag and Kulgam districts of the Valley.
The premises where the searches were con ducted included resi dences of several jour nalists as well as some suspects, they said, add ing that some suspects are being questioned.
The police had on No vember 12 filed a case against militants and handlers belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow
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’.
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.
organisation of LeT, for sending threat letters to journalists in Kashmir. Police said that hous es of fugitives like Saj jad Gul, Mukhtar Baba,
all terrorists of LeT/ TRF and other suspects were raided in Srina gar, Anantnag and Kul gam districts early morning.
Uttarkashi (PTI): Five persons, including two women, were killed and one sustained serious injuries when the car in which they were travel ling fell into a deep gorge near Brahmakhal in Uttarkashi district on Saturday, police said.
Baba—a Turkeybased terror operative —and six of his con tacts in J&K are sus pected to be behind the threats.
The officials said po lice teams have seized mobile phones, laptops, memory cards, pen drives and other digital devices, documents, bank papers, rubber
The TRF had issued the threat to a few me dia houses in the Valley for their “traitorous acts” and “nexus with the fascist Indian re gime”.
Following the threat, several journalists had resigned from local publications.
Baba (55) used to work for various news papers in Kashmir. He was a resident of Srina gar in the 1990s and is believed to have es caped to Turkey, an in telligence dossier said.
Baba, who often vis its Pakistan, has emerged as a master mind responsible for grooming youngsters in the Valley to join the TRF, the dossier said.
Baba has built a net work of informers in the journalist commu nity and used their in puts to prepare a list of scribes to threaten, the dossier said.
Srinagar (PTI): Two soldiers of an army pa trol party died near the Line of Control in Machil sector while evacuating a colleague for treatment, an offi cial said on Saturday.
Srinagar-based De fence PRO Col Emron Musavi said Gunner Souvik Hazra com plained of breathing difficulty during a rou tine patrol in Machil sector. During his evac uation, the tail of the patrol party came un der a massive snow slide. As the condition of Hazra, who was diag
nosed with hyperther mia, started deteriorat ing, an air evacuation request was raised and he was evacuated to 168 Military Hospital in Kupwara where he died. The search party located Lance Naik Mukesh Kumar and also airlifted him to 168 MH. He succumbed dur ing treatment. The search for Naik Gaik wad Manoj Laxman Rao involved a special ised rescue unit and he was recovered around 4.30 PM and airlifted to 168 MH, where he died, the PRO said.
The accident oc curred on DharasuYamumotri national highway at around 11 am when the vehicle go ing to Purola from Ut tarkashi fell into a 400-metre-deep gorge, killing five on the spot and leaving a woman grievously injured.
The injured woman named Samli Devi was first rushed to a hospi tal in Brahmakhal from where she was referred to Uttarkashi district hospital after first aid. She continues to be in a critical condition.
Chief Minister Push kar Singh Dhami ex pressed grief at the in cident and announced ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh.
Nagpur (PTI): Indian Air Force (IAF) pilots displayed their air ma noeuvring skills at the ‘Air Fest 2022’ event held at the Nagpurbased Maintenance Command headquar ters on Saturday.
The drills were per formed by IAF’s “Akash ganga” team using Dornier aircraft and a Sarang helicopter dis play team comprising four modified Advance Light Helicopters (ALHs) Dhruv. A Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team (SKAT) comprising
nine
A paramotor pilot en thralled the audience with aerobatic manoeu vres including a spiral descent from 1,000 feet and a ‘wingover’ at a height of 300 feet.
The daredevils of the “Akashganga” IAF team consisting of six air warriors displayed skydiving from a Dorn ier aircraft from a height of 8,000 feet and landed with precision in the designated land ing zone.
Panaji (PTI): Dr BR
Ambedkar was India’s first male feminist, who propagated such ideas decades back that could be considered as pro gressive even for the current generation of politicians, Congress leader and writer Shashi Tharoor said here on Saturday.
He was speaking dur ing an interaction pro gramme at the ongoing Goa Heritage Festival.
“He (Ambedkar) was probably India’s first
male feminist. Way back in 1920, 30s, 40s he made speeches, includ ing in front of a female audience, which today would be considered as progressive for a male politician,” Tharoor said while speaking about his latest book “Ambedkar: A Life”.
“He (Ambedkar) urged women not to al low themselves to be forced into marriage. He urged women to de lay marriage, delay childbirth. He urged
them to stand up to their husbands as equals,” the Thiru vanathapuram MP said.
Ambedkar as a legis lator fought for women workers and labourers, he said, adding, “It was a remarkable feminist thinking of this man 8090 years ago.”
“There is a tendency to see Ambedkar as a Dalit leader. He was the principal Dalit leader of the country. From his early 20s, he was an in fluential voice and be
came more and more influential,” he said.
Ambedkar was an ex traordinary constitu tionalist, being the chairman of the draft ing committee. It was he who presented and defended every single one of the provisions of the Constitution, Tha roor said.
Responding to a ques tion on India’s image globally, Tharoor said that in 1975, the coun try’s image in America was awful.
“It was considered a poor country and peo ple’s idea about India was about fakirs sleep ing on nail-bed or snake-charmers doing road tricks. From there, the transformation has been astonishing. By the turn of the millen nium, you have Indian software revolution and Americans suddenly imagining Indians as computer gigs,” he said.
Tharoor said that the ‘Y2K’ phenomenon was a turning point for In
dian computer profes sionals. “There was a fear that all the comput ers would crash...Sud denly we had a demand for Indians doing codes to overcome that prob lem and that’s when In dia’s software revolu tion really took off,” he said.
The other thing that happened, Tharoor said, was about the con sciousness of Indian expatriates as not just computer people, but engineers and doctors.
Residences of journalists also searched in Srinagar
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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!
KHUSHI TAMBI cityfirst@firstindia.co.inWhen 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
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around a shirt and wearing it with pants. Feel free to tie your cable-knit
over your
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.
added to any outfit by wrap ping a solid-colored scarf sweater neckHere are some tips on how to keep your furry friends warm and cosy in the cold months.
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.
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.”
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.
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."
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
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.
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
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.
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The European Union Film Festival (EUFF) kicked off its 27th edi tion recently with the Ital ian film “Easy Living”, directed by two broth ers, Orso Miyakawa and Peter Miyakawa.
The on-ground film fes tival is running in New Delhi across three ven ues – India Habitat Cen tre, Instituto Cervantes and India International Center - till 13th Novem ber. The festival will screen 27 movies from 27 European Union (EU) member states. This will be followed by the virtual leg of the festival from 15 Novem ber to 15th December 2022.
EUFF brings the au dience a boutique of 40 days of high-quality, award-winning cinema that’s curated to delight audiences and take them on a roller coaster
of emotions. Highlight ing individual stories yet reflecting universal experiences, these films offer a ‘Window to Eu rope’ and demonstrate the power of cinema to transcend boundaries and create shared expe riences.
Commenting on the
festival, H.E. Ugo As tuto, Ambassador of the European Union to India said, “It gives us great pleasure to invite the public to rediscover the pleasure of the shared experience of cinema-going with the 27th edition of the Eu ropean Union Film Fes
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KNP Arises, a Del hi-based startup run by Kirti and Sushil Vaishnav, collects used cooking oils from restaurants and converts them into bio diesel, which generates 80% lower carbon emis sions as compared to fos sil fuels.
Their aim is to recycle 100% of the waste gener ated so that none has to be disposed of in a land fill. So far, they claim to have collected over 3 mil lion litres of used cook ing oil (UCO) from more than 40 cities. “During
our market research, we observed a lack of aware ness and infrastruc ture for used cook ing oil. We wanted to make sure once our families go out to eat, they can eat without health risks,” shared Su shil. “One fine day a cou ple of years ago, we were
eating at a good restau rant and found they were not aware of UCO disposal practices. So, we decided to help them with a sus tainable solution and incorporated KNP Aris es Green Energy Private Ltd in November 2019,” explains Kirti.
tival. The Festival is designed to offer an im mersive experience for audiences through sto ries set in particular cultural contexts but with universal ap peal. The Festival showcases some young, powerful, off-beat and inde pendent filmmakers. We hope that the audi ence will discover through the Festival a whole new world of sto rytelling.” He further added, “This year marks 60 years of diplo matic ties between EU and India. To celebrate
this milestone, the festi val features a specially curated section: India @ European Film Festi vals.”
The specially curated “India@ European Film Festival” sec tion celebrates 60 years of diplomatic relations between the EU and India and will be part of the vir tual leg of the festival. The section will put the spotlight on works by filmmakers such as Ra jan Khosa, Shrihari Sathe, Rima Das and Shubhashish Bhutiani. cityfirstdelhi@gmail.com
OPS Art Gallery organised an ongoing group art exhibition titled ‘Reflection of Tribes’ (An Indian Folk and Tribal Art Ex hibition) from Novem ber 17-23 at Open Palm Court, New Delhi. This show is curated by Kiran Kethline Mo han.
The folk and tribal art traditions of India are the true guardians of our ‘Mother Na ture,’ and are constant visual reminders to us ‘Humans’. The tradi tion to emulate nature and rituals has begun to reflect in our mod ern life and aspira tions. Although, these have evidently under gone a massive change, over a period of time and decades. These folk and tribal art forms in their own sub tle way carry through a message to respect
Youth Hub at Vil lage Square in partnership with the Indian School of Development Management (ISDM) organised an event ti tled ‘Development Un plugged’ at India Habi tat Centre on November 15, 2022.‘The develop ment sector is full of great opportunities for young bright students and offers careers in a diverse set of domains at competitive salaries’, was the conclusion of a thoughtful convening. The event was attended
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and safeguard our global resources and leave a better future for our forthcoming gen erations to enjoy. Dis played in this exhibi tion are various forms of folk and tribal art like –Warli Tribal Paint ing, Gond Tribal Painting, Kalamkari, Phad painting, Hazari bagh Tribal Painting, Bengal Patachitra, Bhil Tribal Painting, Rautawa Painting,
Leather Puppet Art, Kerala Mural Paint ing, Sanjhi Art, Kan gra Miniature paint ing, Cheriyal Painting, Saura Painting and Bhuta Masks. The exquisite crea tions by Anil Chai tyavangad, Bhuri Bai, Kalpana Chitra kar, Pooman Katoch, Praveen Joshi, Putli Ganju, Ram Singh Ur veti, Roshni Shyam and many more were exhibited at the show.
development, and inno vations. advocacy, agri culture, livelihoods, ed ucation, community collectives and many more. And, a vast array of development organi sations exist at the grassroots/community to national and interna tional levels, think tanks and policy, advo cacy groups. Their com pensations are compa rable, sometimes even better than other sec tors, based on skill set, qualification, experi ence and the nature of the organisation one chooses to join.
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