group stage games to select the four teams who will ad vance to the knockout rounds (semis and final).
On October 16, Round 1 of the T20 World Cup began, comprising 8 teams aiming for a spot in the Super 12 qualifier round of the competition.
As the cricketing world gears up for the much awaited T20 World Cup this festive season, the eighth edition of the tour nament is set to keep the fans on the edge with 16 Interna tional teams competing for the glimmering trophy pres ently held by the hosts, Aus tralia who are all buckled up to defend the title at all costs. 45 matches are scheduled to be played over 7 venues; Ad elaide, Brisbane, Geelong, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney.
TEAMS Australia, India, England, Pa kistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Srilanka, WestIndies, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Ire land, UAE, Scotland, Nether land, Zimbabwe, and Namibia.
The Super 12s, where eight teams will wait for the four qualifiers, will come after
l GROUP A: Srilanka, UAE, Netherland, Namibia
l GROUP B: West Indies, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Scotland
In Groups A and B, the top two teams will move on to the Super 12 stage, where they will play the other 8 already qualified teams. The Super 12 phase, which starts on Octo ber 22, consists of two groups with a total of six teams each, four of whom have already qualified and two new teams from Round 1.
TOP 3 FAVOURITE TEAMS Australia: Being the defend ing champion, Australia is all ready to show the world again that they still rule the game as they once did back in early 2000’s. With the likes of Steve Smith, Glen Maxwell and Da vid Warner, the Aussies look
Over the years, the cricket fraternity has remained divided on the never-ending Kohli versus Babar debate. While veteran Indian batter Kohli has been the face of Team India for more than a decade in world cricket, Babar has stamped his authority as one of the best batters across formats in recent years, dubbed as the next big thing in Pakistani cricket. They both want to give their best on October 23rd. Virat kohli came back in form in Asia Cup after hit ting his 71st Century after a long gap, while Babar Azam struggled with his form in recent times.
rock solid with Mithchel Starc leading the bowling depart ment of the yellow jersey.
India: The name is enough to decode the hold this team has on the game. One of the most promising teams, India is all set to take over the championship with their bat ting order armed to the teeth!
A slight concern about the
KL Rahul Vs Mohd Rizwan
KL Rahul and Mohammad Rizwan are both consistent batters for their teams. KL Rahul is back after injury and performing superbly in the practice match held against Australia, while Rizwan is also a key player for the Pakistan team. They both open the innings for their re spective teams and want to use the benefit of the powerplay in the clash between Ind vs Pak on the 23rd.
In the absence of Jasprit Bumrah, Shami will lead the Indian team's pace attack, whereas we all know what Shaheen did to Team India in the 2019 World Cup as he completely destroyed the Indian top order. Shami is also returning from injury and looking in good touch, but the only concern is that he is playing after one year in an international match.
bowling as Star Pacer Jasprit Bumrah is out from the squad and Jadeja, the best all-round er across the world facing the same fate. Still the young lads namely Suryakumar Yadav, KL Rahul among others of Team India have given quite promising performances in recent months thus making the team one of the key con
o Liz Truss couldn’t outlast a lettuce and entered record books for the shortest tenure of 45 days as a serving prime minis ter in Britain’s parliamen tary history. Labour Party leader Sir Keir Rodney Starmer aptly described the 10 Downing Street as the “revolving door of cha os” and demanded fresh general elections instead of Conservative Party MPs electing a new prime min ister, the third in a few months’ time. The Tories are in no mood to agree to the demand for fear of elec toral defeat but that may not change their prospects in view of the economic
and financial mess they have landed Britain in.
Truss took over from Bo ris Johnson on September 6 this year and announced
a “bold plan” to revive the economy through tax cuts. The “mini budget” that Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng unveiled proved
The “mini budget” that Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng unveiled proved disastrous for markets and triggered a rout in sterling and gilts. Though she defended the tax cuts, she had to roll them back and chuck out Kwarteng destroying her political image. So much so that even after she had taken a U-turn the “fighter” was forced to become a “quitter”
disastrous for markets and triggered a rout in sterling and gilts. Though she de fended the tax cuts, she had to roll them back and chuck
out Kwarteng destroying her political image. So much so that even after she had taken a U-turn the “fighter” was forced to be come a “quitter”.
The race has begun to find a new tenant and, surprise of surprises, Bo ris Johnson the disgraced former prime minister is expected to toss his hat in the ring. A parliamentary inquiry is still on against him for misleading parlia ment on violating Cov id-19 lockdown by hosting a party at his official resi dence. He was berated by Sir Starmer in the House of Commons for lying on the “partygate”. Call it twists and turns of de mocracy.
tenders for the title.
England: England is all set up to be on the ground with their new captain in command. The team looks good on paper but the ab sence of two key players Jon ny Bairstow and Jofra Arch er would be felt as both the biggies are out due to inju ries. How effective the new captaincy and changes made still remain to be analysed as the English team is all set to go up in the arms against Pa kistan in their first match, who themselves are not be hind in terms of popularity and performance.
Team India, which is the no. 1 ranked side in the T20I ranking will be looking for a much better show compared to their group stage elimina tion in the 2021 T20I World Cup. The absence of Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja is a blow but India is confi dent as they have the depth to cover the absence of these star players. Mohammed Sha mi would replace Bumrah in the Indian camp to begin their campaign with a block buster against Pakistan on October 23, 2022.
Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.Anurag Thakur @ianuragthakur It has been ensured to organize “KashiTamil Sangamam” in Kashi, the city of Baba Bhole, between November 16 and December 16. Through this unique program, between Kashi and Tamil Nadu, our ancient culture, civilization and ideas will be put back on the world stage. Jagat Prakash Nadda @JPNadda Today, the historic victory of BJP’s Shri Rajendra Sharma and Shri Baldev Baloria in the Mayor and Deputy Mayor elections in Jammu is the result of the developing policies being implemented in the state under the leadership of respected Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi ji. Congratulations to State President @ ImRavinderRaina and BJP workers. TOP TWEETS
New Delhi: Addressing the concluding session of the 90th Interpol General Assembly here, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that cross-border propagation of terror ist ideologies through online radicalisation cannot be considered as a “political problem”.
“We cannot fight ter rorists and terrorism globally unless there is a common definition of both. Commitment to fight terrorism and dif ferentiating good or bad terrorism or clas sifying terror attacks as big or small cannot go together,” he said. Shah said there must be a consensus on the cross-border propaga tion of terrorist ideolo gies through online radicalisation.
“We cannot consider this to be a political problem. We must all be committed to ensuring
that an effective fight against terrorism should be long-term, comprehensive and sustainable,” he said.
Interpol is the best platform to achieve “across border coopera tion” which is must to defeat “cross border terrorism”, he said.
“Given this situation, in order to fight terrorism, we will have to bring to gether all the counterterrorism agencies of the world,” he said.
‘Citizens’ security police’s priority’
New Delhi: On the occasion of Police Commemoration Day, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the Narendra Modi government is trying its best to make police forces capable of dealing with all kinds of challenges. He said India is preparing a na tional database on ter rorism and narcotics so that police agencies can use information effectively.
Kejriwal’s ‘bow to all police martyrs’
New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday paid tribute to police martyrs. “On ‘Police Memorial Day’, I bow to all the brave policemen who sacrificed their lives in the service of the public while perform ing their duty with full devotion,” he said.
Dehradun: PM Naren dra Modi offered prayers at the famous Kedar nath and Badrinath tem ples in Uttarakhand on Friday. He reached Ke darnath early in the morning and was re ceived by Uttarakhand Governor Lt Gen Gur meet Singh and CM Pushkar Singh Dhami. He performed the “puja” prayed for strength to PM to take the country forward. During his twoday tour of the state, Modi will inspect vari ous ongoing develop ment projects and lay the foundation stones for some new ones.
At Kedarnath, he laid foundation for 9.7-km Gaurikund-Kedarnath ropeway project and Govindghat to Hem kund Sahib ropeway at cost of Rs 2,430 crore.
Using the ropeway, dev otees will be able to reach temple from Gau rikund in 30 minutes.
Modi also visited Sama dhi Sthal of Adi Guru Shankaracharya. At Badrinath, he reviewed progress of the works.
The Financial Action Task Force of FATF, the global watchdog on terror financing and money laundering, on Friday, said that Pakistan is “no longer subject to FATF’s increased monitoring process. The country would continue to work with APG to further improve its AML/CFT system.”
Itanagar: Four Army personnel were killed and a fifth feared dead in an army chopper crash in Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh on Friday.
The bodies of four of the five army personnel on board have been re covered from the crash site in a densely wooded mountainous area 35 km from the border with China, a defence spokesperson said.
The cause of the
crash is not yet known and details are being ascertained, he said.
The advanced light helicopter (ALH) WSI was on regular sorties when it crashed at 10.43am around Mig ging, around 25 km south of Tuting, the dis trict headquarters.
“Mortal remains of four personnel were re covered from the crash site so far. Search for the other person is on,” the spokesperson said.
Noida (PTI): Officials on Friday said they have received consent letters of more than 70 per cent of farmers -the minimum required by law for government to proceed for land ac quisition for the second phase of Noida Interna tional Airport.
MLA Jewar Dhiren dra Singh said, "The consent for land acqui sition crossed the 70 per cent mark today and reached nearly 73 per cent." In a meeting with farmers in Lucknow, CM Yogi Adityanath had on October 14 as sured them an in creased compensation of Rs 3,400 per sq metre (including interest).
Ghaziabad (PTI): Po lice have registered a case against a Delhi woman and three oth ers for levelling a “fab ricated” gang-rape charge in an attempt to grab property.
Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal on Wednesday had said that the 36-year-old woman was
found wrapped in a jute bag, with her hands and legs tied, and an iron rod was inserted in her private parts.
However, the Ghazi
abad police on Thurs day dismissed as “fabri cated” the woman’s claim. On Friday, Circle Officer (City-2) Alok Dubey said that the
woman and her accom plices Azad, Afzal and Gaurav have been booked under Indian Penal Code sections 420, 467, 468 and 471.
Police say money was paid to some individuals to publicise the caseMeerut Range IG Praveen Kumar
‘CANNOT CONSIDER IT A POLITICAL PROBLEM’
KEDARNATH: PM lays foundation stone for 9.7-km GaurikundKedarnath ropeway project
BADRINATH: PM reviews the progress of development projects along the riverfront
PM DONS TRADITIONAL HIMACHALI CHOGAPrime Minister Narendra Modi at the Kedarnath Temple on Friday. PM Narendra Modi, Lt Gen Gurmeet Singh and Pushkar Dhami at Badrinath Temple. PM Narendra Modi at the Badrinath Temple on Friday. MODI’S TEMPLE RUN
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi government will launch the "Red Light on Gaadi off" cam paign again to curb vehicular pollution from October 28, Envi ronment Minister Go pal Rai said on Friday.
New Delhi (PTI): Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Friday said the government has put on hold the or der asking vehicle own ers to mandatorily car ry a valid pollution-un der-check certificate (PUCC) to buy fuel from October 25.
"The diesel and petrol dealers' association has given some suggestions regarding law and or der... These will be dis cussed with the chief minister and a decision
will be taken thereaf ter," he told reporters.
For now, it is not be ing implemented from October 25, the minister said.
The government had earlier asked vehicle owners to compulsorily carry a valid PUCC for buying fuel at petrol pumps from October 25.
Officials had earlier said vehicle owners not having a valid PUCC may also face suspen sion of registration cer tificate.
Under the cam paign, first launched on October 16, 2020, to cut down vehicular pollution, drivers are encouraged to switch off vehicles while wait ing for the traffic light to turn green. At a press conference, Rai said experts are of the view that pollution lev els may increase in Delhi after Diwali if the wind direction changes.
"The government is on alert. We are strictly implementing all the directions of the Com mission for Air Quali ty Management. CM Arvind Kejriwal on
The Delhi government is on alert. We are strictly implement ing all the directions of the Com mission for Air Quality Management —Gopal Rai, Environment Minister
Friday reviewed the implementation of the 15-point action plan to curb air pollution in winter," he said. Along with dust and biomass burning, vehicular emissions is one of the major contributors to Delhi's pollution gen
erated locally, the envi ronment minister said.
"Therefore, the Del hi government has decided to launch 'Red Light on Gaadi off' campaign to curb ve hicular pollution from October 28 for one month," Rai said.
New Delhi (PTI): A 25-year-old man was ar rested for allegedly fir ing at his neighbour over suspicion of black magic in west Delhi’s Ranhola area, police said on Friday.
The accused, Ashish, is a resident of Vikash Nagar. The injured per son, Sher Singh (42), has been admitted to Ashirwad Hospital Vi kas Nagar and is out of danger, they said.
Ashish suspected that Singh had per formed black magic, due to which his sister
committed suicide and his mother is unwell, the police said.
On Monday, the po lice received informa tion regarding the shooting at Saini En clave in Vikash Nagar.
Upon reaching the hospital, they found that the victim had suf fered a gunshot injury to his head, a senior of ficer said.
He alleged that Ash ish shot at him around 7 pm when he was sit ting in front of his property shop, the of ficer added.
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi government has approved a proposal for the construction of a mini academic block and an engineer block at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here, for which 157 trees will be transplanted, Chief Minister Arvind Kejri wal said on Friday.
Kejriwal said 1,570 new trees will be plant ed on the IIT campus where new labs and re search spaces will come up under the newly an nounced project.
The proposed blocks will be used for con structing new labs and research spaces which will benefit thousands of students and faculty members of IIT Delhi.
"In a major decision, we have approved a pro posal for the construc tion of a new Mini Aca demic Block and a new Engineer Block at IIT Delhi. 157 trees will be removed and transplant ed for the project, but 1,570 new trees will be planted inside the cam pus," the CM tweeted.
“The IIT intends to construct several essen tial labs and research spaces in the new blocks. Our government will leave no stone unturned in ensuring quality edu cation for our students," the CM said in another tweet. According to a statement, IIT had sent a proposal to remove and transplant 157 trees to clear its construction site.
Kejriwal has approved the project against the condition of IIT taking up the plantation of 1,570 trees inside its campus, the statement said. "Ap proving the proposal, the government has noted that out of the 157 trees, IIT will transplant 82 trees, while it will take up felling of 75 trees only. The transplantation will take place within the identified project site," the statement said.
In-service teachers will be trained at the newly developed block at SCERT.
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi government has established a new block with state-of-the-art facilities to train in-service teachers at the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), officials said on Friday.
The block has five training halls, an audito rium, conference room, faculty office, inset room and a canteen. Inaugurating the training block for teachers, Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said the new facilities will take the teachers' training standards to "new heights.” "Our teachers can be trained here in a good environ ment with better facilities. This new block will also act as a centre for research and innovation in Delhi," Sisodia said. He stated while the Delhi government has provided the facilities, it is SCERT's "responsibility" to ensure proper training for teachers in the new block.
“The government has provided facilities but beyond this, it is SCERT's responsibility to en sure excellent training for the teachers. SCERT has played an important role in the formula tion of Mindset Curricula and Delhi education revolution," the deputy chief minister said.
New Delhi (PTI): Lieu tenant Governor VK Saxena has flagged that he has received Lokay ukta reports from the city government after an “inordinate delay” of three years, and said being the custodian of public trust, it should display appropriate alertness.
Saxena has written to
CM Arvind Kejriwal over the matter.
“I would like to ad vise that the minister concerned may please
be guided appropriately to dispose such impor tant matters of public interest within reason able period, so that the statutory purpose of laying it before the leg islative assembly is not defeated and Delhi is not deprived of its wis dom,” the lieutenant governor (L-G) said in his letter.
New Delhi (PTI): Con tradictory statements were made by the wom an who had alleged she was gang-raped in Gha ziabad, the National Commission for Women said on Friday. The com mission had sent a fact finding team to look into the incident.
The Ghaziabad police in a press conference on Thursday dismissed as "fabricated" the Delhi woman's claim that she
It was also in formed that no foreign ob ject was found in the private parts of the woman during pri mary medical exam ination in the District Hospital, Ghaziabad.
—Rekha Sharma, NCW chief
the entire "conspiracy" was hatched over a prop erty dispute. The team found that the state ments made by the wom an, who claimed she was gang-raped in Ghazi abad, and her family to be "contradictory", a NCW official said.
tion in the MMG Dis trict Hospital, Ghazi abad, and she was re ferred to another hospi tal in Delhi but her rela tives took her to the GTB Hospital, Shahdara," according to a NCW statement.
had been gang-raped and brutalised by five men in the UP district
bordering the national capital.
Police claimed that
“It was also informed that the foreign object found in the private parts of the woman was not found during pri mary medical examina
Police said the inci dent was planned to im plicate the five men, the initial suspects, who had a property dispute with the woman, the NCW said.
Challenging recent MCD advisory on pets’ registration, plea also sought direction to restrain the authorities from killing or harming any street dog
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi High Court has sought the stand of the Centre and the Munici pal Corporation of Del hi (MCD) on a petition challenging the civic body’s power to “de tain” and “destroy” un registered and un claimed dogs found wandering in public places.
A bench of Chief Jus tice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad issued a notice on the
public interest litiga tion petition filed by Kamini Khanna, who has claimed that she has moved the plea “on behalf of all dogs of Delhi” and that “the re cent incidents of dog bites in Noida and Gha ziabad were staged”.
“Issue notice. Let a reply be filed before the next date of hearing.
List on February 10, 2023,” the court said in its order passed on Oc tober 14.
The petition has also challenged a recent MCD advisory asking
sought a direction to restrain the authori ties from removing, killing or harming any street dog.
citizens to register their pets in light of an increasing number of dog-bite cases and
It has argued that care-givers may be dis couraged from provid ing meals to the com munity dogs as they would want to wriggle out of the responsibili ty to get the dogs regis tered, which would de prive the animals of “one decent meal” and also “give arbitrary power” to the MCD to
“kill dogs, remove dogs, detain dogs, which could also result in ex tortion and can have serious implication on law and order and the health of the commu nity dogs”.
The petitioner said section 399 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act enables the MCD to “kill dogs in an arbi trary manner”, which is in direct conflict with Article 51 of the Consti tution and the law on animal protection.
n Govt has put on hold the order asking vehicle owners to carry a valid certificate to buy fuel from Oct 25Stray dogs seen around a bonfire on a cold winter evening in New Delhi. —FILE PHOTO TOP COPS MEET Director of Intelligence Bureau Tapan Deka with INTERPOL President Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi and other officials during the Police Commemoration Day, at National Police Memorial at Chanakyapuri, in New Delhi, on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI
All is not well in PM’s home state, he should open a camp office there: Cong leader Raghu Sharma
New Delhi (PTI): The Congress on Friday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his long visits to poll-bound Gujarat saying it indicates all is not well for the BJP in his home state and he should open up a camp office there.
Raghu Sharma on Fri day claimed that there is a lot of anger against the BJP in the state, and called the ruling party "anti-tribal."
He said the party's stance towards tribals was evident from the re cent attacks on Con gress MLA and tribal leader Anant Patel, which he alleged was done at the behest of Gu jarat BJP chief CR Patil.
Sharma also accused new entrants, Aam Aad mi Party and AIMIM, as "B-teams" of the BJP, as they were aiding the saf fron party in elections across the country, in cluding in Gujarat.
He took a dig at Home minister Amit Shah
saying he is always seen in Gujarat these days, which is indicative of the rising unrest among local people in the state, which will be reflected in the upcoming assem bly elections.
"Going by the fre quent long visits of the
‘CONGRESS WILL STORM TO POWER’
Noida (PTI): Four peo ple have been arrested as the Noida Police on Friday claimed to have busted three different gangs while probing a single case of extortion.
The gangs were sepa rately involved in extor tion, supplying of SIM cards and bank ac counts illegally and running an unauthor ised call centre, police said. Additional DCP (Central Noida) Saad Miyan Khan said the gangs were busted by officials of the Phase 3 police station as part of a probe into a complaint of extortion.
Gurugram: A leopard was spotted on the premises of the Maruti Suzuki plant in IMT Manesar, a forest department official said on Friday. According to police, the leopard was spotted inside the premises at around 7.20am through CCTV cameras by a worker who raised the alarm. The Maruti management issued a safety advisory for the workers and others. “Possibility cannot be ruled out that the big cat has left the factory and returned to the Aravalli region. The area is under forest team’s vigil and we are taking precautions,” said M S Malik, Principal Chief Conservator.
Noida: Noida and its hosuing societies are making news for all the wrong reasons.
After recent brawls with security guards involving women, on Friday, it was a dog fight among residents themselves regard ing an administrative post in the society.
Two security guards were taken into police custody, officials said on Fri day. Two groups of residents of Hyde Park in Sector 78, un der Sector 113 police station, got into a fight, resulting in in
The clash broke out over the post of president of the society’s Apart ment Owners’ Asso ciation. Two guards also got involved.
Official, Delhi Police
juries to two women, they added.
“The clash broke out over the post of president of the soci ety’s Apartment Owners’ Association.
The guards also got involved in the fight, leading to injuries to two women,” a cop confirmed.
PM and the HM to Gu jarat, it is evident that all is not well with the BJP in their home state.
To me, the prime minis ter should open up his camp office in Gujarat, as he is spending many days there and is not fo cussing on governance
in the country," he told reporters.
"The AAP and AIMIM are also functioning as 'B-teams' of the BJP as they do not have any cadre in Gujarat and all people working for them are paid," he al leged.
“Recently, a man and a woman had been to a hotel and after a few days, they started get ting extortion de mands. The accused person said they had filmed them in an inti mate situation and threatened of circulat ing the videos online,” Khan said.
New Delhi (PTI): A 25-year-old man was ar rested for allegedly pre tending to be a captain in the Indian Army and cheating women on the pretext of marrying them, police said on Friday.
The accused has been identified as Bipin Ku mar Jha, a resident of Madhubani district in
er in a private company, said Jha approached her on a matrimonial site where he presented himself as a captain in the Indian Army.
New Delhi (PTI): For mer Vice President M Hamid Ansari on Fri day lamented that the number of Urdu speak ers was declining and held responsible state education policies for this sorry trend.
Ansari was speaking at the launch of two books -- Book of Wis dom' and Ehsas O Izhar' by former Union minis ter Ashwani Kumar.
Bihar, they said. The case came to light on July 27 after a 24-year-old woman lodged a complaint with the police. The woman, an HR manag
New Delhi (PTI): Po lice arrested a Chinese woman for staying in India under a false identity and allegedly indulging in "anti-na tional activities", offi cials said on Thursday.
The woman has been identified as Cai Ruo and is a native of Hain an province in China, they said on Thursday.
She was residing in India as a Nepalese citizen and was de tained from Majnu ka Tila in north Delhi, po lice said.
During verification, a Nepalese citizenship
certificate in the name of Dolma Lama was re covered from her. How ever, when inquired with the Foreigners Regional Registration Office, it was found that she is a Chinese citizen and had trav elled to India in 2019, they said.
New Delhi (PTI): A collective exhibition featuring seven ceram ic artists here aims to revive the fading art form of artisanal pot tery and take it to global audiences.
Organised at British Council as part of the ‘India/UK Together, Season of Culture’ pro gramme, the exhibi tion, ‘Journeys of Clay and Fire’, brings to gether Indian and UK artists and organisa tions to co-develop and collaborate on projects which explore new fu tures for the craft in India.
The exhibition, a col laboration between the Charles Wallace India
Trust and the British Council, also explores the fostering of a crea tive dialogue between design institutions in India and the UK.
Jonathan Kennedy, Director, Arts India, British Council said the exhibition serves as a
platform for providing networks and opportu nities for emerging art ists in India and UK.
“It explores contem porary ceramics and traditional design and brings together emerg ing and mid-career In dian artists,” he said.
They started talking on the phone and be came good friends. He told the victim that he was posted in Jammu and Kashmir and had to travel to Bihar for
the treatment of his fa ther and sought finan cial help from her, the police said.
The woman trans ferred about Rs 2 lakh to him in instalments. Later, when she asked Jha to return the mon ey, he started avoiding her and even threat ened her with dire con sequences, they said.
New Delhi: The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) received Rs 38.24 crore through donors in 2021-22, includ ing monthly contributions from party leaders, according to documents made public by the Elec tion Commission. While a bulk of the donations came from electoral trusts of corporates, Kejriwal and Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel and minister Gopal Rai donated Rs 10,000 each every month to the party in the 202122 financial year. DyCM Manish Sisodia and RS member Raghav Chaddha contributed Rs 5,000 each per month in the fiscal.
New Delhi: Delhi Univer sity has extended the last date for acceptance of allocated seats by a day till 12pm Saturday, even as more than 70,000 can didates have accepted the college and undergrad uate course allotted to them in the first round of allocations. “The universi ty allocated 80,164 seats across various categories. By 7.29 pm on Friday, 71,741 candidates had accepted the seats allo cated to them,” a senior university official said. It said candidates who have been allocated a seat in CSAS Round-I must “accept allocation” through the dashboard.
‘Congress in-charge of Gujarat Raghu Sharma with All India Adivasi Congress chairman Shivajirao Moghe, State party President Jagdish Thakor showing pictures of wounded party MLA Anant Patel during a press meet, at AICC headquarters, Delhi on Friday. First India Bureau A video grab of the fight among the residents, with some security guards also in it.
‘Education policies responsible for decline of Urdu’Hamid Ansari, ex-CJI TS Thakur, filmmaker Muzaffar Ali and Dr Ashwani Kumar during the book launch at the IIC in New Delhi on Friday. CRUCIAL READ
Morena: Four persons, including a mother-daughter duo, were killed and six others injured after a house, where firecrackers were stored by a tenant, collapsed following a blast in Banmore town of Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district on Thursday, police said. The impact of the blast was so severe that the ground-plus-one-storey structure was reduced to rubble, while two nearby houses were also damaged. The tenant’s wife, their eight-year-old daughter and two more persons, including a seven-year-old boy, died in the incident that occurred around 11am, they said.
Badrinath (ANI): As part of the Vocal for Lo cal initiative, PM Nar endra Modi during his visit to Uttarakhand on Friday appealed to peo ple, particularly tour ists, to spend money on locally made products.
“I appeal to all tour ists in the country to spend at least 5 per cent of their travel budget on buying local prod ucts,” PM said at a pub lic event held at Badri nath’s Mana, the last village bordering Chi na. Earlier too, he had appealed to fellow Indi ans on various occa sions to purchase indig enous products to sus tain the local economy.
Talking about villag es situated near inter national borders and far-flung areas, he said every village located in the border areas will be now considered as the first village of India.
On the occasion, PM
Modi laid the founda tion stone for road wid ening projects worth around Rs 1,000 crore.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the two road widening projects — from Mana to Mana
Srinagar: J&K Lt Guv Manoj Sinha on Friday said some people were trying to disturb the communal harmony by justifying the killings of innocent civilians in the Valley and warned them of strict action.“We will have to be alert as some elements are trying to dis turb communal harmony. We will have to keep an eye on them and deal with them strictly,” he said.
Prayagraj: Ten members of a gang allegedly selling fake platelets to patients were arrested here on Friday, police said. SSP Shailesh Kumar Pandey said the accused used to take plasma from different blood banks and then put it in pouches and sell the plasma as platelet. The arrests were made fol lowing a tip-off, he said, adding some fake platelet pouches were seized.
DEMAND FOR SEPARATE STATE BY PEOPLE OF EASTERN NAGALAND NOT WRONG: CM Kohima: Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Friday said the demand for a separate state by the people of the six eastern districts is “not wrong”. “Nagas, we speak our mind and it is not wrong for them (Eastern Nagaland people) to say what their thinking and desire is, but all these issues will be resolved,” Rio said. During a function here, the CM was asked by reporters that Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation has decided not to participate in the Hornbill Festival and also asked 20 legislators from the region to resign in support of their demand for a separate state.
The Punjab government on Friday decided to re store the old pension scheme for its employ ees, with Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann term ing it a Diwali gift for the state staff.
In another decision, the state Cabinet decid ed to give six per cent dearness allowance (DA) to employees and pensioners, with effect from October 1 this year, a statement said. The statement said the em ployees will be given the option of adopting the old pension scheme or the current one.
“We have taken an inprinciple decision to this effect in a cabinet
meeting. This will ben efit lakhs of employ ees,” he said while add ing that modalities of the old pension scheme for the employees will be worked out.
The restoration of the old pension scheme, which was discontinued
in 2004, has been a ma jor demand of state gov ernment employees.
The state govern ment’s decision has come ahead of the Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat Assembly polls Mann said it’s a Di wali gift for people.
Pass (NH07) and from Joshimath to Malari (NH107B) — shall be an other step towards pro viding last-mile allweather road connec tivity to our border ar eas. Apart from boost ing connectivity, these
Guwahati (PTI): Four persons allegedly linked to the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) were arrested on Friday from Kamrup district of Assam, po lice said.
Special Director Gen eral of Assam Police (Law and Order) Gyanendra Pratap Sin gh said in a tweet that the “four members of the banned PFI” were apprehended from dif ferent parts of the dis trict.
With the latest ar rests, a total of 40 peo ple from various parts of the state have so far been arrested for their alleged linked to the banned outfit.
Bengaluru: Five premises in Bengaluru were raided by the ED under the provi sions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on Oct 19 in connection with the Chinese loan app fraud case. The case is based on 18 FIRs registered by the Cyber Crime Police Station, Bengaluru City, against numerous entities and persons in connection with their involvement in the extortion.
New Delhi: Agni Prime new generation ballistic missile was successfully test fired off the coast of Odisha Friday. “During the test flight, missile travelled maximum range and all test objectives were successfully met. With this third consecutive success ful flight test of the Agni Prime missile, the accuracy and reliability of the system has been established,” Defence officials said.
New Delhi (ANI): The production of India’s first indigenously de veloped quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) “CERVAVAC” vaccine, for the preven tion of cervical cancer, by the Serum Institute of India will start in the first quarter of 2023 which got delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic, said SII CEO Adar Poonawala on Friday.
Indigenously devel oped vaccine, “CERVA VAC” was announced for the prevention of cervical cancer.
“The capacity got delayed by one year because we are
using a new building to this. We use the original HPV vaccine building for Covovax. So, we have to, at that time, had no choice during the pan demic and you know, there are many vac cines like dengue and so many other develop ments that were de ferred by two years for this,” Poonawala said.
Bhopal: PM Narendra Modi will participate virtually in ‘Griha Pravesh’ event of 4.5 lakh beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday. The event on Dhanteras day will start at 3pm at BTI ground in the presence of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, an official said.
“The prime minister will conduct their ‘griha pravesh’ (ceremony performed when entering one’s new house) virtually,” he said. Chouhan reviewed the preparations for the event today.
projects will also prove beneficial from a strate gic point of view as well. PM Modi reviewed the progress of develop ment work of the river front in Badrinath.
In Kedarnath, he laid the foundation stone for
a ropeway project, which will be around 9.7 km long and will connect Gaurikund to Kedarnath, reducing the travel time between the two places from 6-7 hours at present to only about 30 minutes.
Patna (ANI): Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Fri day refused to respond to the claims made by political strategist Prashant Kishor and said he is resorting to a publicity stunt.
He was responding to Kishor’s claim that his channels with BJP are not yet closed even as he left the NDA in August to rejoin hands with RJD.
“Kindly don’t ask me about him. He speaks for his own publicity and can speak whatever he wants, we don’t care,” he said.
“It is difficult to under stand if he (Nitish) has come out of the alliance, why one of his MPs is still holding an impor tant position in Rajya Sabha. So as far as I know,
Nitish Kumar has not closed his channels with BJP,” Kishor had said.
“As far as I know, Nit ish is surely with Maha gathbandhan but hasn’t closed his channels with BJP, biggest proof is that Rajya Sabha Dep uty Chairman Hari vansh, who is a JD-U MP, neither resigned from his post nor the party asked him to do so or action has been taken against him,” he added.
New Delhi (ANI): For mer Union minister and Congress leader Shivraj Patil has stoked controversy with his claim that con cept of ‘jihad’ finds mention not only in Quran but in Bhagavad Gita and in Christiani ty as well.
At a book launch event, Patil said that Lord Krishna also taught lessons of jihad to Arjun in a part of Gita. Patil’s remarks have drawn flak from the BJP which has hit out at the Congress for “Hindu hatred”.
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday said the remarks made by party leader Shivraj Patil on the Bhagavad Gita were unacceptable and asserted the scripture was a key foundational pillar of Indian civilisation. Patil has claimed the con cept of jihad was not just in Islam but also in the Bhagavad Gita and in Christianity.
Kurnool: With conclusion of Bharat Jodo Yatra’s Andhra leg, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday thanked the people for their overwhelming support and promised to fulfil the commitments made by him to the people of the State.
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Fri day refused to enter tain a plea of a mother whose son, a law stu dent, has been de tained for the last four months under a Kerala law on prevention of anti-social activities.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and Jus tice Bela M Trivedi said the counsel for the woman, whose son is under detention, failed to substantiate his submission that the state advisory board had supported
their case against de tention. The counsel then withdrew the plea.
Jasheela TM, a na tive of Kozhikode in Kerala, had moved the apex court against the high court’s order in the case. The plea had sought quashing of the detention order without further delay.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the plea of a women’s organisation seeking directions to revoke the remission granted to 11 convicts, who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots. A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and CT Ravikumar tagged the matter with the main petition pending before the apex court. The plea was filed by the National Federation of India, whose General Secretary is Annie Raja, challenged the remission of sentence and the release of convicts in the case.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday junked a plea seeking the opening of 22 rooms in the Taj Mahal to enquire into the monument’s history. A bench dismissed the plea saying it was a “publicity interest litigation”. Dismissing appeal filed against the Allahabad High Court order, the bench said, “The High Court was not in error in dismissing the petition, which is more of a publicity interest litigation. Dismissed.”
Kochi (PTI): The Kerala High Court on Friday dismissed a plea filed by the three accused in the sensational human sacrifice case, in which two women were allegedly killed in a brutal manner, seeking to quash a magisterial court decision granting their custody to the police for 12 days, holding that there was nothing wrong with the order. The high court, however, allowed each of the accused to meet their lawyer for 15 minutes on Friday and Sunday. The accused, in the plea filed through lawyer B A Aloor, had sought permission to meet lawyers during the police custody period.
New Delhi (PTI): The SC on Friday sought responses from the Centre and others, including the Medical Council of India, to petitions alleging rising assault on doctors and seeking guidelines for their protection. A bench of Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice Bela M Trivedi also issued notice to Rajasthan govt as a gynaecologist there had allegedly committed suicide.
New Delhi (Agencies): After final week’s check of a nuclear-succesful ballistic missile from nuclear-powered subma rine INS Arihant, India’s underwater fight arm is about to get one other main increase early next year with the induction of one other nuclear and two diesel-electrical typi cal submarines.
INS Sindhuratna, which had a significant accident in February 2014 that killed two of ficers, is slated to return to Mumbai after present process a protracted “medium refit-cum-life extension” improve at Severodvinsk in Russia in February. INS Sind huratna is the second of
the 4 outdated Russian Kilo-class submarines earmarked to endure the modernisation im prove, every costing round Rs 1,400 crore, to stem the depletion with in the typical fleet.
The Navy may also fee the fifth of the six new French-origin Kalvari-class Scorpene submarines being con structed at Mazagon Docks below the over Rs 23,000 crore ‘Project-75’.
PM APPEALS TO PEOPLE TO SPEND MONEY ON PURCHASING LOCALLY MADE PRODUCTS
‘Cervical cancer HPV vax production to start in 2023’
New Delhi: Reliance Jio Infocomm on Friday post ed a 28% year-on-year rise in its net profit for the September quarter at `4,518 crore. Its net prof it stood at `3528 crore in the same period previous fiscal, the telco said in a regulatory filing. The rev enue from operations jumped 20.2% to `22,521 crore for the just ended quarter, from `18,735 crore in the year-ago peri od. The Q2 scorecard comes amid large-scale network deployments across the country for 5G services.
New Delhi: India’s forex reserves dropped by $4.50 billion to $528.37 billion for the week ended October 14, the RBI said on Friday.
The overall reserves had increased by $204 million to $532 billion in the previ ous reporting week, which was the first weekly in crease in the kitty since August this year.
In October 2021, the country’s forex kitty had reached an all-time high of $645 billion.
The reserves have been declining as the central bank deploys the kitty to
defend the rupee amid pressures caused majorly by global developments.
Foreign Currency Assets (FCA), a major component of the overall reserves, saw a drop of $2.828 billion to
New Delhi (PTI): Sched uled airlines will operate 21,941 flights on domestic routes every week in the winter schedule starting from October 30.
New Delhi: FMCG major Hindustan Unilever Ltd on Friday reported a 22.19% rise in its consolidated net profit to Rupees 2,670 crore for the second quarter ended September 30, mainly helped by vol ume growth. The compa ny had posted a net profit of `2,185 crore in the Ju ly-September quarter of the previous fiscal. Its to tal income increased 16.44% during the quar ter under review to `15,253 crore. It was `13,099 crore in the yearago period, Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) said in a regulatory filing.
The number of weekly flights will be 1.55% lower than 22,287 flights operated in the previous winter schedule.
The winter schedule will be effective from October 30, 2022 till March 25, 2023.
“In the upcoming Winter Schedule 2022, 21,941 de partures per week have been approved from 105 air ports.
New Delhi: Indian aviation regu lator DGCA on Friday removed the 50% cap restrictions on SpiceJet flights. A senior DGCA official said that SpiceJet can operate at full capacity from October 30 onwards. During the ‘Enhanced surveillance’ period, SpiceJet has shown improve ment in their operations, he said.
“Out of these 105 air ports Deoghar, Shimla and Rourkela are the new air ports proposed by the scheduled airlines,” avia tion regulator DGCA said in a release on Friday.
$468.668 billion during the week to October 14, accord ing to the Weekly Statisti cal Supplement released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday.
Expressed in dollar
z India’s forex reserves dropped by $4.50 billion to $528.37 billion for the week ended October 14
z The overall reserves had increased by $204 million to $532 billion in the previous reporting week
terms, the FCAs include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US units like the euro, pound and yen held in the foreign exchange reserves.
Gold reserves, whose
value had risen by $1.35 bil lion in the previous report ing week, saw a decline of $1.502 billion in the value to $37.453 billion, it said.
The Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) were down by $149 million to $17.433 billion, the apex bank said.
The country’s reserve position with the IMF were down by $23 million to $ 4.813 billion in the report ing week, the apex bank data showed.
On October 14, the rupee ended at 82.3500 per US dol lar, compared with 82.3450 in the previous session and down less than 0.1% from 82.3200 in the prior week.
New Delhi (Agencies): Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said India’s talks with the UK on the pro posed free trade agreement (FTA) are well on track, but India will have to “wait and watch” the ongoing po litical developments in Britain.
Goyal’s statement came after the resignation of Liz Truss as British PM on her 45th day in the job. “We will have to wait and see...what happens, whether they have a quick change of
Mumbai (PTI): Equity benchmark indices man aged to end in the positive territory after facing vola tility in the latter part of the trade on Friday amid gains in Axis Bank and ICICI Bank.
New Delhi: Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reli ance Industries Ltd on Friday reported a flattish net profit for the Septem ber quarter after a newly introduced windfall profit tax dented mainstay oil earnings. The oil-to-retailto-telecom conglomer ate’s consolidated profit of `13,656 crore during July-September - the sec ond quarter of the 202223 fiscal year - compared to `13,680 crore in the year-ago period, it said in a stock exchange filing. The profit fell 24 per cent quarter-on-quarter.
Foreign institutional in vestors (FIIs) turning net buyers in the market on Thursday after many ses sions also added to the mo mentum.
The 30-share BSE Sensex ended 104.25 points or 0.18% higher at 59,307.15, logging its sixth day of gains.
The broader NSE Nifty ended marginally higher by 12.35 points or 0.07% at 17,576.30.
From the Sensex pack ICICI Bank, Hindustan Unilever, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Nestle, Titan and Ul traTech Cement were the major winners.
leadership, whether it goes to the whole process... So, let us see who comes into the government and what their views are. It is only after that we will be able to formulate a strategy vis-avia the UK,” Goyal said.
Highlighting that politicians and busi nesses across the board UK rec og nised that it is “very impor
tant” for them to do an FTA with India, Goyal said, “So, my own sense is that who ever comes into the govern ment will be wanting to engage with us.”
The minister said the trade pact should be fair, equitable and balanced. It has to be a win-win for both sides and there is no deal un less both are sat isfied, he said.
New Delhi (PTI): The gov ernment has extended the deadline for filing GST re turns for the month of Sep tember by a day to October 21, the CBIC said on Friday.
On Thursday, taxpayers faced a slow functioning of the GST portal, which was the last date for filing monthly GST returns for some taxpayers.
Following that, the Cen tral Board of Indirect Tax es and Customs (CBIC) had said that an extension of the due date was being con sidered.
“The GST Implementa tion Committee of GST Council has approved ex tension of the due date of filing GSTR-3B return for the month of September 2022, for the monthly filers, from 20th October, 2022 to 21st October 2022,” the CBIC tweeted on Friday.
Monthly return and tax payment form GSTR-3B is filed in staggered manner between the 20th, 22nd, and 24th of each month by tax payers in different states.
GSTN provides the tech nology backend for run ning GST.
New Delhi (PTI): Shares of Axis
over 9% on Friday after the firm reported a 66.29% jump in consolidated net profit for the Sept quar ter. The stock jumped 8.96% to settle at `900.25 apiece on the BSE. During the day, it advanced 9.53 to its 52-week high of `905. On the NSE, it rallied 9.46% to end at `904 apiece. Its mcap also jumped `22,757.86 crore to ` 2,76,592.86 crore.
Mumbai (PTI): The rupee slipped 9 paise to close at 82.88 against the US dollar on Friday amid a strong greenback overseas. At the interbank for eign exchange market, the local currency opened at 82.89 and witnessed a high of 82.59 and a low of 82.91.It finally settled at 82.88 against the American currency, registering a drop of 9 paise over its previous close.
New Delhi (Agen cies): The world’s top automakers are plan ning to spend nearly $1.2 trillion through 2030 to develop and produce millions of electric vehicles, along with the batter ies and raw materials to support that pro duction, according to a Reuters analysis of public data and projections.
The EV investment figure, which has not previously been pub lished, dwarfs previ ous investment esti
mates by Reuters and is more than twice the most recent calcula tion published just a year ago.
To put the figure in context, Alphabet, the parent company of Google and Waymo,
has a market cap of $1.3 trillion.
Automakers have forecast plans to build 54 million battery elec tric vehicles in 2030, representing more than 50% of total vehi cle production, accord
z World’s top automakers have forecast plans to build 54 million battery electric vehicles in 2030
ing to the analysis.
To support that un precedented level of EVs, carmakers and their battery partners are planning to install 5.8 terawatt-hours of battery production ca pacity by 2030.
Greetings on the occasion of Dhanteras! May your Life sparkle with golden joy, gleam with diamond smiles and mountains of happiness.
“Where have we reached in the name of religion, what have we reduced religion to is tragic,” an anguished Supreme Court ob served on Friday, as it asked three states, in cluding Uttar Pradesh, to crack down hard on those making hate speeches, calling them shocking for a country that is religion-neutral.
Holding that the Con stitution envisages a secular nation, the court directed Delhi, Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand to promptly register criminal cases against the offenders without waiting for a complaint to be filed. The apex court warned any delay on the part of the ad ministration in taking action on this “very seri ous issue” will invite the court’s contempt.
A bench of Justices K M Joseph and Hrishi kesh Roy also issued notices to Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttara khand on the petition filed by journalist Shaheen Abdullah.
“This is 21st century! Article 51A (Fundamen
New Delhi (PTI): Former vice prez M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said the media must ensure it does not cross the “Lakshman Rekha” between “news & views.” He also said it should not forget its “dharma” or original mission of informing, educating, & em powering people. The practitioners of agenda-driven journalism are doing a grave disservice to their pro fession, he said as per statement issued by his office.
tal duties) says we should develop a scien tific temper. Where have we reached in the name of religion, what have we reduced religion to is tragic,” a distressed Justice Joseph said.
“Statements are cer tainly very shocking for a country that is to be religion-neutral,” he went on to add. A num
ber of leaders, includ ing lawmakers of the ruling BJP, have been accused of making hate speeches and some are even facing cases over their utterances. The court said action must be taken against those making hate speeches irrespective of their re ligion to preserve the secular fabric of the na
tion. “Respondents 2-4 (the 3 states) will file a response as to what ac tion has been taken for the speeches highlight ed. They shall ensure that as and when any (hate) speech or action takes place without any complaint being filed, suo motu action is tak en in such cases in fu ture without waiting for complaints.
“Respondents will is sue directions to their subordinates for appro priate action and such action will be taken irre spective of religion against the person who delivers hate speech so that the secular charac ter of this country as en visaged in the preamble is maintained,” it said.
New Delhi(PTI) :The Supreme Court on Friday said it would hear on November 9 the plea of jailed activist Gautam Navlakha that he be placed under house arrest instead of judicial custody in the Elgar Parishad case. A bench of Justices K M Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy deferred the matter after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta apprised it that he is being treated in Mumbai’s Jaslok hos pital. “Parties are granted liberty to inspect the medical reports by Jaslok hospital,” the bench said. The top court on September 29 had directed the Taloja jail superintendent to immediately shift Navlakha, jailed in connection with the Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case, to Mumbai’s Jaslok hospital for treatment. It had said receiving medi cal treatment is a fundamental right of a prisoner. The 70-year-old activist has appealed to the apex court against the April 26 order of the Bombay High Court dismissing his plea for house arrest over apprehensions of lack of adequate medical and other basic facilities in Taloja jail near Mum bai where he is lodged.
New Delhi (PTI): The AIIMS administration on Friday withdrew a set of standard operat ing procedures (SOPs) it had issued to facilitate treatment for MPs, a day after facing flak from a section of doctors.
In a recent letter to YM Kandpal, joint sec retary at the Lok Sabha Secretariat, AIIMS Di rector M Srinivas said duty officers will be available at the AIIMS control room round-theclock for MPs.
The move drew sharp criticism from several associations of doctors who called out the “VIP culture” at the premier health institute.
On Friday, the hospi tal administration withdrew the letter.
“Letter dated Octo ber 17 on the ‘medical arrangements for sit ting Members of Parlia ment in AIIMS’ may be treated as withdrawn with immediate effect,” the latest letter signed by Chief Administra tive Officer Deo Nath Sah wrote.
Soon after this, the Federation of Resident
New Delhi (PTI): A case has been regis tered against the daughter of a police officer after she hit a 34-year-old parking attendant at south Delhi’s Saket Mall, police said on Friday.
The parking atten dant filed a complaint on Thursday and said the accident occurred around 9.35 pm on Sunday, a senior po lice officer said.
Varanasi (PTI): A court here on Friday fixed November 2 for the hearing of a plea by the Hindu side for the survey of two under ground places (tehkha na) in the Gyanvapi Mosque complex.
The Varanasi district court also imposed a penalty on the mosque committee for not filing an objection to this prayer in time. District Government Counsel
Mahendra Pandey said, “The advocates repre senting the Hindu side have earlier appealed for a survey of two closed underground places (tehkhana) in Gyanvapi complex. The court had given time to the mosque side to file an objection regarding this.”
“The mosque side could not file any objec tion today after which the court slapped a fine of Rs 100 on them and
fixed the date of hear ing,” Pandey added. One of the petitioners from the Hindu side also pleaded for ensuring the safety of idols of Lord Ganesh & Goddess Lak shmi which they claimed to have been recovered from the complex.
According to the complaint, when the attendant was hand ing over a car to a cus tomer, another car came out of the park ing area all of a sud den. In the process, it hit him and he suf fered injuries in his legs, the police said.
He is undergoing treatment at Max Hospital.
After receiving the
complaint, a case un der sections 279 (rash driving or riding on a public way) and 337 (causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered, the senior officer said.
The woman was not drunk at the time of the accident and she has not been ar rested yet, the police said, adding that fur ther investigation is underway.
New Delhi (ANI): The Delhi High Court has granted transit antici patory bail to recently suspended IAS officer Jitendra Narain in an alleged sexual assault of a woman.
The bench of Justice Yogesh Khanna while granting the transit an ticipatory bail said the order of protection from arrest shall auto matically be vacated on October 29. The Minis try of Home Affairs suspended senior IAS officer and former
Chief Secretary of An daman and Nicobar Is lands Jitendra Narain with immediate effect over allegations of sex ual assault. An FIR also has been registered against Narain, a 1990-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre.
The petition moved in Delhi HC stated that while being posted as Chief Secretary he at tempted to bring vari ous reforms in different departments of the ad ministration and had incurred the wrath and
enmity of various indi viduals both in the ad ministration and in pri vate circles. He specifi
cally referred to the fact that on April 20, 2022, he passed an order of im posing a minor penalty
upon a Junior Engineer for misconduct. There after, the Lieutenant Governor had removed that Junior Engineer from service on 15.01.2022 and the pre sent FIR has been filed by the daughter-in-law of that junior Engineer.
Narain’s lawyers submitted that the peti tioner from April 14, 2022, to April 18, 2022, was not in Andaman and Nicobar Island but rather was in Delhi and had filed sufficient evi dence for the same.
We will never compro mise with our stand! … Director had to withdrawn letter of Special treatment for #MPs (sic)!
—All India Medical Association (FAIMA)Doctors Association (FORDA) tweeted: “So, Special Privilege stands withdrawn. Proud of everyone who supported.”
The Federation of All India Medical Associa tion (FAIMA) had also tweeted and shared a letter sent to Union Health Minister Man sukh Mandaviya, ap pealing to him to take cognisance of the issue.
New York: Diwali will be a public school holi day in New York City starting 2023, said May or Eric Adams, calling it a “long overdue” step.
Adams, joined by New York Assembly Member Jenifer Rajku mar and New York City Schools Chancellor Da vid Banks, said Thurs day that in conversa tions on the campaign trail around how to run the state better, he “learned so much” about the Diwali holi day and what this festi val means.
He said that by de claring Diwali a holiday in New York City public schools, “we wanted to send a loud and clear message to the count less number of people who acknowledge this period of time of cele bration.
“At the same time, this is an educational moment because when we acknowledge Diwa li, we are going to en courage children to learn about Diwali. We’re going to have them start talking about what it is to cele brate the festival of lights, and how to turn the light on within yourself,” he said.
Consul General of In dia in New York Ran dhir Jaiswal thanked Adams for making Di wali a school public holiday.
“This had been a long pending demand of the Indian-American com munity. The recogni tion gives a deeper meaning to diversity and pluralism in New York City while allow
New York (PTI): New York Assembly Member
Jenifer Rajkumar, the first South Asian-American woman ever to be elected to a state office in New York, said that today she is proud to say that “our time has come. The time has come to recognise over 200,000 New Yorkers of the Hindu, Bud dhist, Sikh and Jain faiths who celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights.” “For over two decades South Asians and Indo-Caribbeans in New York have been fighting for the Diwali school holiday. I stand on the shoulders of those advocates. And now we are finally going to realise that goal,” she said.
ing people from all walks of life to experi ence, celebrate and en joy Indian ethos and heritage,” he told PTI.
Adams said “as we deal with so much dark ness that is around us, we fail to realise the overwhelming amount of light that is around us. And when we take
this period to acknowl edge Diwali, we are ac knowledging the light that is within us, the light that clearly can push away darkness and that is why this is so significant.”
Adams added that the city has identified pub lic holidays like Eid and Lunar New Year.
Friday witnessed a magical evening full of glamour and elegance as people from all walks gathered for the Grand Finale of First India Queen at Jade Ballroom, Hotel Sahara Star, Mumbai. City First highlights a couple of magical moments from the grand show!
t was an eve of glitz and glamour, livewire perfor mances and nerve-wracking decisions, as the winners of First India Queen were an nounced in a star-studded ceremony at Jade Ball room, Hotel Sahara Star, Mumbai on Friday. With 30 finalists from across the country battling it out for the coveted title, the jury had a tough time choosing the top five.
Jagdeesh Chandra graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.
The scintillating even ing in the mesmerising land of picturesque beach es and the City of Dreams began by welcoming Jagdeesh Chandra, the man who made it possible for every young girl to dream big with confidence
so that she may reach greater heights. While con gratulating all the finalists, Jagdeesh Chandra wel comed the audience and said, “We strongly wish to open the gates of opportu nity in the fashion and en tertainment industry for many deserving girls. First India and youth are natu ral allies and we promote talent for one and all.”
Famous anchor Simran Ahuja set the mood swing ing by introducing the fi nalists of the First India Queen.
Special Guest for the evening, Deepak Agarwal, MD, Bikaji Group, on the occasion said, “ The crown is an added privilege, I am sure the girls will take so much confidence from here. I am glad to be a part of the event.” He further congratulated Jagdeesh Chandra and the First In dia family for the wonder ful event.
First India Queen is a platform of inspiration, learning and stardom for a common girl – coming from different parts of the country. The pageant cel ebrates inner beauty and talent as much as the physical appearance of
any contestant, and hence it is instrumental in set ting standards for evaluat ing and expressing the inner beauty of an Indian woman.
Many celebrities and dignitaries graced the mega event.
Rajendra Jain (MD SVAR Group), Archana Kochhar (Fashion Design er), Parimal Mehhta (Founder- Blanckanvas Pvt Ltd), Dr Priti Shenai (Skin works), Roopmati Manere (Dy. Commissioner State Tax (GST) Thane), Aditi Jaggi Rastogi (Celebrity Fashion Designer), Jayan thi Ballal (Designer and Founder Mysore Fashion Week), Poonam Pandey (Actress), Ishika Taneja (Supermodel and Miss In dia winner), Shibani Kashyap (Singer), Raayo S. Bakhirta (Actor), Madhuri Bhosle (Founder- IRA), Ka rishma Modi (supermodel and actress), Akanksha Bhalla (supermodel and actress) and Nitinn R Mi ranni (Actor) were present as the jury members on the occasion.
On the occasion, various celebrities namely Riya Soni (Emerging Star), Pra tik Sehajpal (Best Actor),
Manish Raisinghan (Ver satile Actor), Rajiv Adatia (Favourite Entertainer), Nikita Rawal (Glamorous Actress), Umar Riaz (Most popular Actor), Vishal Ko tian (People’s Choice), Manit Joura (Charming Personality), Rehaa Khan (Style Icon), Sak shi Dwivedi (Siz zling Personali ty), Kenisha Awasthi (Fashion Influenc er), Elli Avrram (Best Versa tile Actress), Kriti Verma (Most Promising Actress), Sara Khan (Best TV Personality) and Mrunal Jain (Most Stylish Actor) were also felicitated by First India.
Parimal Mehhta, Founder of Blanckanvas Pvt Ltd while congratulat ing the participants also thanked Jagdeesh Chan dra and the First India team for allowing them to showcase this extrava gant event.
(The grand finale was still underway as we went to print. Watch this space more for winners.)
The 30 faces, 3 day long grooming sessions and all the hustle and bustle of Mumbai came together to mark an end to the second season of the mega show, First India Queen 2022. The final day of the show turned all the eyes to the main stage as the beauties flaunted elegant sarees by Parram Para. With this, all the well deserved participants begin a new journey into the glamorous era, exclusively presented to them by The First India and Bharat24-Vision of New Media.
A beautiful evening full of glamour and class was witnessed in the grand finale of First India Queen, at Hotel Sahara Star in Mumbai on Friday. City First brings to you glimpses of the training and grooming sessions conducted at Hotel T24, Mumbai!
—PHOTOS BY SANTOSH SHARMA
TCITY FIRST he momentous grand finale of First India Queen, where beau ties from pan India competed for the priv ileged titles and crowns, took place at Hotel Sahara Star in Mumbai on Friday. Jagdeesh Chandra graced the grand finale with his presence and wished the participants all the best.
First India Queen, a nation al-level beauty pageant sup ports the significance of team work and camaraderie in a quality & structured environ ment. The brand encourages women to be spontaneous, con fident, unhindered and free as they live. The three-day grand show organised many training and grooming sessions for the participants by fashion and modelling experts conducted at Hotel T24, Mumbai.
The first day kicked off with a ceremony where all the final ists were welcomed with a sash and a gift hamper and as the evening rolled in, the talent round and question-answer round for First India Queen also started. The day witnessed
an interactive session with Dentokraftt by Dr Nida Kha teeb followed by a session with Skinworks by Dr Priti Shenai. While the second day caught an equally insightful session by Pooja Misra, the multi-talented ravishing model, a VJ and Big Boss fame, who enlightened the girls on various fashion and modelling topics, her session was followed by an entertaining talent round.
Thursday, another exciting day kicked off with a rejuvenat ing health and fitness session by
Fitness Coach Karan Hebbar from Kinesiis, followed by Parimal Me hhta’s session. The even ing witnessed sessions by Kavita Kharayat and Sunny Kamble, supermodels of India, from the Manish Malhotra group.
The young beauties were fas cinated with the mentoring ses sions. First India Queen is cu rated by Blanckanvas Media and the finale was choreo graphed by Parimal Mehhta. cityfirst@firstindia.co.in