First India-Jaipur Edition-24th November 2022

Governor Kalraj Mishra and Union I&B Minister Anurag Thakur honours a social worker Vimla Devi in the presence of Dr CP Joshi, Dr BD Kalla, Satish Poonia and Gopal Sharma during Silver Jubilee Celebration of Mahanagar Times at Birla Auditorium on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA

THAKUR SAYS THAT THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IS WORKING IN THE DIRECTION OF EASE OF DOING BUSINESS AND EASE OF LIVING

Aishwary

Pradhan

Jaipur: Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday said that the Centre is working on a bill to regulate digital media.

The minister said that earlier, there used to be one-way commu-

nication of news, but with the emergence of electronic and digital media, communication of news has become multidimensional.

He said that now even small news of a village reaches the national platform through digital media. Thakur said that digital media pre-

sent opportunities as well as challenges in today’s era. He said that the government has left most of the print, electronic and digital media on self-regulation.

“Digital media presents opportunities as well as challenges. To have a fine balance, the government will see

what can be done on this. I would say that whatever changes have to be brought in law, we will bring that to make your work simple and easy,” he said while speaking in the silver jubilee programme of Mahanagar Times at Birla Auditorium here.

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Media should work responsibly, avoid creating fear & confusion Centre takes care of the interests of journalists

The process of registration of newspapers would be simplified

Small news of a village reaches the all platform VIA digital media

CASTEISM, VOTE-BANK POLITICS:

PM PM Modi addresses public meetings in Gujarat’s Mehsana, Dahod, Vadodara & Bhavnagar

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‘If everything is hunky-dory…’

Top Court asks Centre on new poll commissioner’s appointment today

Walmart manager kills 10, later shoots self at US store

Virginia: At least 10 people were killed after a gunman opened fire in a Walmart department store at Sam’s Circle in Chesapeake, Virginia. The police said that the shooter was also dead. “Chesapeake Police confirm an active shooter incident with fatalities at the Walmart on Sam’s Circle. The shooter is deceased,” the City of Chesapeake said in a tweet. More than 40 emergency vehicles were rushed to the Walmart outlet on Bat-

tlefield Boulevard after a 911 call was made, as per the reports.

‘I will not rest until we find the solutions to end this gun violence epidemic,’ Virginia state Senator Louise Lucas said on Twitter.

PM Narendra Modi is being garlanded by BJP supporters during a public meeting, in Mehsana on Wednesday. —PHOTOS BY ANI

Ahmedabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s gesture of taking along antiNarmada activist Medha Patkar during his Bharat Jodo Yatra is the “biggest insult” meted out to Gujarat’s people by the Opposition party.

He was addressing a poll rally in Jasdan town in Rajkot district in support of BJP candidate Kunvarji Bavalia for the next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections.

Shah also slammed AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal for giving a ticket to Patkar in the 2014 LS elections from the NE Mumbai constituency.

OBC RESERVATION

HM Amit Shah addresses public meeting in Rajkot on Wednesday.

The foundation stone of Sardar Sarovar dam was laid by India’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru in 1963, one year before my birth. The water finally reached here when I turned 58. So who stalled the Narmada project? The Congress party had stalled this project from 1963 till 2002.

—Amit Shah, Union Home Minister

New Delhi (ANI): The Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday said it wants to go through files pertaining to the recent appointment of Arun Goel, a 1985 batch IAS officer, as the Election Commissioner.

A five-judge bench headed by Justice K M Joseph, who is hearing petitions seeking an independent mechanism to appoint the election commissioners said it wants to know whether there was any “hanky panky” and asked AG R Venkatramani to produce files pertaining to Goel’s appointment on Thursday. Bhushan told that this post had been lying vacant since May, he had filed application seeking interim orders against Goel’s appt.

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OTHER TOP RAJ STORIES

PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA

Jaipur: The OBC reservation issue which has sudenly got the politics of state in a state of ‘polarisation’, has now been addressed by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. Gehlot, on

Wednesday, said important things on the issue of OBC reservation and took a dig at those who want to incite caste sentiment on this issue.

CM stressed that his government will take care of the interests of OBC youth and ex-servicemen as well, and

will not allow injustice to happen to anyone. “Justice will be done to both parties. I did work of harmony between various castes. There is no question of distance even between Gurjars & Meenas,” Gehlot said.

On OBC reservation issue, Gehlot govt has made up its mind to protect interests of youth, and for this, formulas of other states have been studied. Turn to P8

ACB on Wednesday nabbed woman SI at Jamwa Ramgarh PS in Jaipur with `5,000 and a woman patwari Preeti Khubchandani with `9,000 in Kota. P3

Many policemen were injured when locals pelted stones at them while removing encroachment at Hanuman temple at Abu Road in Sirohi. 20 detained by the police. P7

Gehlot warns against those inciting casteist sentiments, stresses injustice will not be done with any community

Yogesh Sharma and Naresh Sharma

There is no issue of Jats versus Rajputs or Gurjars versus Meena, that time is past now, CM stressed

BJP’S

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi being embraced by a 103-year-old supporter during a public meeting, in Dahod on Wednesday.

Amit Shah targets RaGa, says Patkar’s presence in Yatra is insult to Gujarat

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In a case of interfaith marriage, a woman was injured after she was shot at by 2 men in Murlipura area of Jaipur, she later sustained grievous bullet injuries P3

Mehsana: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday addressed public meeting in Gujarat’s Mehsana. Slamming Congress, PM said, “The Congress model means corruption, nepotism, dynastic politics, sectarianism & casteism. They are known for indulging in vote bank politics and creating rifts between people to be in power. This model has not only destroyed Gujarat but India too. That is the reason why we have to work hard to take India ahead today.”

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Cong leader moved SC seeking review of its verdict upholding the 10 per cent reservation introduced in 2019 for the EWS in educational institutions and govt jobs excluded poor among SC SC/ ST/OBC categories

HEMOPHILIA

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Centre is working on a bill to regulate digital media: Thakur

VETERAN ACTOR VIKRAM GOKHALE PASSES AWAY AT 82 DUE TO ILLNESS

Mumbai: Veteran TV and film actor Vikram Gokhale passed away at the age of 82 late Wednesday. Gokhale had been admitted to the ICU of a hospital in Pune after his health deteriorated earlier today. His condition was critical.

TOP QUOTES

Mercury drops in parts on Rajasthan

FATEHPUR COLDEST @5.1

Rakesh Gurjar

Jaipur/ Fatehpur: Mercury dipped in parts of Rajasthan where the minimum temperature was 5.1 degrees Celsius in Fatehpur (Sikar), ac cording to officials.

The minimum tem perature in Churu was 5.3 degrees, 6.7 degrees in Chittorgarh, 7.8 de grees in Sikar, 8.6 de grees in Nagaur and 9 degrees in Sangaria

(Hanumangarh), ac cording to the Met de partment here.

The weather condi tions would remain the same for the next 48 hours, they said.

On Tuesday, Fatehpur recorded a minimum of 6 degrees Celsius, the Met said. Cold winds are blowing due to snow fall in hilly areas like Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Uttarakhand.

Ramdev to inaugurate 68th nat’l convention of ABVP tomorrow

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Jaipur: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) will hold its 68th national convention in Jaipur from November 25 to 27.

While addressing a press conference, ABVP National Gen eral Secretary Nidhi Tripathi and Secretary Hoshiyar Meena in formed that the Yoga guru Ramdev will in augurate the conven tion while Union Edu cation Minister Dhar mendra Pradhan will preside over the con cluding session.

“The university premises have been given the name of Ma harana Pratap Nagar.

On the second day of

the convention, a Shob ha Yatra will be taken out. ABVP workers from across the coun try will take part in the convention. On Novem ber 27, Yashwant Rao Kelkar Yuva Puraskar will be given to Nand Kumar Palve of Maha rashtra’s Buldhana district for working for the rehabilitation of special abled people,” said ABVP leader Ni dhi Tripathi.

BJP holds ‘Jan Akrosh’ workshop

Aishwary Pradhan

Jaipur: The Opposi tion BJP in Rajasthan is geared up to corner the Ashok Gehlot led Con gress government on its fourth anniversary through Jan Aakrosh rallies which will be taken out in all 200 as sembly constituencies from December 1.

BJP state president Satish Poonia addressed a workshop of coordina tors and co-coordinators of all organisational dis tricts to review the prep arations of the rally.

Poonia addressed the party leaders and said

that the people of the state are fed up with the Congress government and want a change.

He said that there is not only anti-incum bency, but a huge re sentment among the

people. He said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had promised to waive farmers loans within ten days of gov ernment formation but the farmers are still waiting for the promise

IN THE COURTYARD

Jaipur:

Jodhpur: The Rajas than High Court has permitted a minor rape victim in Jodhpur to terminate her pregnan cy and has also directed the Superintendent of Umaid Hospital that the abortion of the minor girl should be done with utmost care. The single bench of Justice Vinit Kumar Mathur allowed the petition filed by the victim’s father after a medical board submitted its report in the court stating that it is possible to have an abortion, although it in volves some risk given the age of the minor.

—Shiv Prakash Purohit

Rais Khan. Property owner Rakesh Kumar Gupta had filed a contempt petition.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stayed the ex ecution of on order of administrative action against an ADJ. Judge Sarita Swamy had given bail to an accused while converting a case of IPC 302 to 304. The decision was appealed in the High Court by the complainant. Rajasthan High Court made a strong comment in the case and gave instructions of administrative action against the ADJ. The high court also cancelled the bail of the accused.

to get fulfilled.

The BJP leader said that when Gandhi comes to Rajasthan dur ing his yatra, he should tell people what hap pened to the promises made by the party in the last assembly elections.

The campaign against the state government will be launched from November 25. A social media campaign will be run during this. The party will hold a press conference at the party office on November 26 in Jaipur and the party leaders will hold the press conferences in dis tricts on November 27.

Ajmer man slits wife’s throat after quarrel

Shubham Jain

Ajmer: A quarrel be tween a newly married couple went ugly and resulted in the death of the wife in the Chris tianganj area of the city.

The husband slitting her throat and then threw away the dead body in a gunny bag near Pushkar. Neighbours of the deceased informed the local councillor after seeing the dead body in the sack. The accused has confessed to his crime, police said.

Jodh exporter booked for smuggling antiques

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Jodhpur: A team of CBI, Mumbai has reg istered a case against a handicraft exporter from Jodhpur for smuggling antiques from the country to foreign countries in the name of export.

The accused presented false documents to send goods abroad.

The seized items also included an ancient idol of Lord Vishnu.

The exporter has claimed to buy these goods from the scrap market of Delhi and Mumbai. He used to deal in these items on the e-commerce plat form. Based on this, it came to the notice of

the Customs Depart ment and on its com plaint, the CBI regis tered a case.

CBI says that last year a courier company presented bills for ex porting three ship ments of an exporter from Jodhpur. These goods were being sent from Delhi airport to Australia, Germany and Thailand.

Nayla allottees meet CM Gehlot at PCC war room, get assurance

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Jaipur: On the call of Chalo Nayla Sangathan, 571 allottees of Pinkcity Press Enclave, Patrakar Nagar Nayla met Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in the war room of PCC on Wednesday. Gehlot asked PCC president Govind Singh Dotasra to talk to UDH Minister Shanti Dhariwal soon to allot plots to journalists. Later, he also said that I will definitely give. Recently, the Chief Minister had author ised Dotasra to take ac

4 arrested in property dealer murder case

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Jaipur: A case of killing a property dealer by stopping his Scorpio came to the fore in the Kard hani area 14 days ago. The police teams raided more than half a dozen cities in search of the ac cused. The police have arrested four miscreants involved in the murder.

According to the information, miscre ants attacked Vi jender Singh Gulab bari in the Kardhani area on November 9. After this, he was ad mitted to a hospital where he died during treatment.

tion on the housing problem of journalists.

On Wednesday, a big meeting was held in the PCC war room regard ing the Bharat Jodo Yatra. On this occasion, Dotasra also invited

Is Kumari

the next Raj Congress in-charge?

New Delhi: With sus pense looming large on the the post of Ra jasthan Congress in charge, Congress lead ers are now trying to find out as to who will be the new in-charge of Rajasthan Congress?

Word in the ‘relevant party circles’ is that the high command is con sidering many names and according to ‘in formed sources’, Ku mari Selja is leading the race as the high com mand is seriously con

State Govt mulls category-wise reservation for ex-servicemen

Jaipur: The Ra jasthan Government is considering giving category-wise reser vation benefits to exservicemen in state recruitments.

sidering Selja’s name. In such a situation, Selja can be the new Ra jasthan Congress incharge and her name can be announced in next 5 to 10 days.

For this, the state government has stud ied the rules of reser vation given to ex-ser vicemen in the re cruitment of most of the states and union territories of the country including Maharashtra, West

Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattis garh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Karnataka.

In this, detailed in formation was taken about such states

where more than 5 per cent reservation is be ing given to ex-ser vicemen in recruit ment, the release said.

Along with this, re cruitment notices of recruitment commis sions and selection boards of various states were also studied.

A detailed discus sion was held by Chief Minister Ashok Ge hlot and Chief Secre tary Usha Sharma with various organisa tions and delegations of ex-servicemen.

journalists to discuss the housing problem with the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister asked Dotasara to talk to Dhariwal in this matter and take imme diate action.

Aditi Nagar

Kumari Selja

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Satish Poonia addresses BJP coordinators in Jaipur on Wednesday. Ghanshyam Tiwari, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Chandrashekhar, GC Kataria and others were also present during the event.

ABVP workers make rangoli ahead of Union’s 68th national convention in Jaipur.

CM Ashok Gehlot along with GS Dotasra interacts with journalists.

A court has issued contempt notices to JDA officers in a case related to illegal action of JDA in Municipal Corporation area. The notices were issued to Deputy Commissioner Zone-2 Shefali Kushwaha, Chief Enforcement Officer Raghuveer Singh Saini, Kanungo Kishan Singh Bhandari, JEN Ritesh Sharma, Inspector Mohammad Rafiq, constables Deenbandhu and Manish and home guard

CONTEMPT NOTICE PERTAINS TO ‘ILLEGAL ACTION’ SERVED TO JDA OFFICERS

SUPREME COURT STAYS HIGH COURT’S ‘ADMIN ACTION’ ORDER AGAINST ADJ

HC ALLOWS MINOR RAPE VICTIM TO TERMINATE PREGNANCY

WOMAN SHOT AT IN JAIPUR FOR MARRYING MAN FROM MINORITY HONOUR ATTACK IN STATE CAPITAL

Sharma

Jaipur : A married woman sustained griev ous bullet injuries after she was shot from a close range by unidenti fied assailants in the Murlipura area on Wednesday. Police in formed the victim has been identified as An jali Verma, a resident of Murlipura.

“The victim works at an ayurvedic medicine company, located at Road No 5 in the Murli pura area. On Wednes day morning, two uni dentified men came on a two-wheeler and shot

Anjali from behind while she was on his way to the office. She immediately fell on the road and was rushed to Kanwatia Hospital in a bloodied condition,” said DCP (West) Vandi ta Rana.

“In July 2021, the vic tim had an inter-caste marriage with Abdul Latif. The victim’s hus band, Abdul Latif, had left his home in Bhatta Basti and started living in Murlipura with An jali. This led to resent

Woman SI and patwari land in ACB net in Jaipur & Kota

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Jaipur/Kota: A wom an sub inspector posted with Jamwa Ramgarh police station was held by the ACB for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 5000.DG ACB BL Soni said that the accused SI Sangeeta Meena had de manded the bribe from the complainant to help him in a case. After ver ification of the com plaint, a trap was laid and the accused SI was caught red handed while taking the bribe

amount. She is a resi dent of Ranoli village in Sikar.

In Kota, Preeti Khubchandani, Pat wari of Reechhadiya in Ramganjmandi Tehsil along with a middle

man Lekhraj were held for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 9000 in lieu of a land related work. The ACB received a complaint that she was demanding a bribe through a broker.

(L) Abdul Latif & Anjali Verma.

(R) Anjali at the hospital after she got hit by bullet.

(Top) CCTV footage in which shooters are escaping.

ment among his family members. It may be pos sible that the family members of Abdul had attacked Anjali to kill her. The FSL team has taken samples from the spot and CCTV footage is being gathered to nab

After registering the report, the girl’s brother-inlaw Abdul Aziz and his friend Riyaz Khan have been detained by the po lice. Both are being ques tioned regarding the inci dent. Latif had married another girl even before Anjali. Who was divorced by giving 25 lakh rupees.

—Pramod Swami, ACP

the accused,” added DCP (West) Vandita Rana.

According to Latif, his family members did not approve their mar riage and his elder brother Ajeej could be behind the attack.

PL Meena inaugurates new ICU, medical services at Janana Hosp

Jaipur : Health Minis ter Parsadi Lal Meena on Wednesday inaugu rated various services including the newly constructed ICU at San ganeri Gate Janana Hospital by cutting the ribbon. Meena de scribed the Medical Health Scheme of the Centre as a failure and said that the medical facilities currently available in Rajasthan are being seen as a mod el in every State.

He raised the demand from the PM Modi that the Chiranjeevi scheme should be implemented across the country. Food and Civil Supplies Min ister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and Adarsh Nagar MLA Ra feek Khan were also pre sent on the occasion.

Minister Meena gifted

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Jaipur: The police could not get any clue about the daughter of a Congress leader even two days after the al leged kidnap. Former CM Vasundhara Raje said that the girl who has been kidnapped is not just the daughter of any party leader but the daughter of Rajasthan.

raids at two Udaipur

Udaipur: Income Tax department con ducted raids at the premises of two real estate businessmen.

“I believe that whose daughter is the victim should not be a matter of politics. Rather, the issue is that the people of the state are asking the Congress govern ment, ‘When will there be justice?” she said.

DCP Karan Sharma said that the girl’s scooty has been recov ered from Pratapnagar area.

Jaipur (FIB): NCRB has traced mobile num ber of accused who posted a child pornog raphy video. His loca tion was found to be in Sanjay Nagar DCM of Chitrakoot area. An FIR has been filed at Chitrakoot police sta tion under POCSO and IT Act. SHO Gunjan Soni is investigating.

newly constructed ICU and HDU and labour room services to the pa tients of Sanganeri Gate Janana Hospital. Meena gave clean chit to the hospital administration in the matter of a foetus being found in dog’s mouth on the hospital.

“We have got the matter thoroughly investigated.

All deliveries that have taken place a day or two prior to the time

the embryo was found. The family members of all of them have been interrogated by the ad min, in which such a thing did not come to fore.” he said while fur ther adding that Right to Health Bill will be introduced soon.

Khachariyawas said that health care model of Raj has its own dis tinct identity in the world.

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Jaipur: Congress and independent council lors once again sat on a dharna against their own government and mayor in the JMC Her itage on Wednesday. This is the sixth time in the last year and a half that the councillors sat on dharna regarding the formation of com

mittees. On the infor mation, cabinet minis ter and Chief Whip Ma hesh Joshi reached the spot and held discus sions with the council lors. But all the council lors stuck to the de mand for the formation of steering committees. Since November 2020, Mayor Munesh Gurjar and govt have not con stituted committees.

Jaipur: Two more IPS will be promoted in the New Year as two ADGs will be promoted to the post of DG. The process of screening committee under the chairman ship of CS Usha Shar ma has been done in the secretariat. Pankaj Ku mar Singh and BL Soni are in first and second place in seniority. Both of them will retire on 31 December 2022. In this situation, out of total 6 posts of DG, 2 posts will be vacant and 1990 batch IPS and now ADG Rajeev Kumar Sharma and Janga Sriniwas Rao will get promoted.

Jaipur: The dispute be tween Panchayati Raj minister Ramesh Mee na and Bikaner collec tor Bhagwati Prasad Kalal seems unending. A delegation of IAS officers association met Chief Secretary Usha Sharma for the second time and said that it is not possible to work in such an atmosphere.

This is the first inci dent in the political and bureaucratic history of Rajasthan when IAS of ficers have given such an ultimatum.

IPS and IFS associa tions have also come out in support of the

IAS association. Both the associations have also written a letter to the Chief Secretary to take immediate action against Minister Ramesh Meena. On the other hand, Principal Secretary to CM Kul deep Ranka had an in formal meeting with the chief secretary over the issue.

I-T sleuths launched raids in the morning at 35 premises of Akme group, owned by Nirmal Jain and Ramesh Jain, and Arihant Group of Kalulal Jain in Udaipur and at 2 loca tions in Mumbai. The team also reached out to several associates.

The employees of the groups were ques tioned. These groups have properties worth more than 1,000 cr in Udaipur.

Kalulal Jain has lands in Udaipur worth more than Rs 500 crores. Nirmal has a real estate busi ness in Savina.

Jaipur: The royal train Palace on Wheels start ed running again after a long gap of 2.5 years but has started falter ing since the begin ning. Due to non-re ceipt of tourist book ings, 5 of the initial 8 tours of the royal train had to be cancelled. Even in the five tours that have taken place, the RTDC did not earn significant income.

RTDC is now search ing for a private agency

for operation of the train on O&M model for five years. Bid can be submitted till Dec 2. Till now about 4 operators

have shown interest. The old formula i.e. op erations revenue shar ing of 56:44 between Railways and RTDC has

been stopped and now Railways has started charging per trip haul age fee, which is caus ing concerns for PoW.

Nirmal Tiwari

PoW in trouble! Private agency being searched to run royal train for next 5 yrs

Satyanarayan

Vikas Sharma

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Ravi Sharma

Dr Rituraj Sharma

Anjali Verma has sustained bullet injury in her back and is undergoing treatment; her husband claims his family could be behind the attack

Parsadi L Meena, PS Khachariyawas and Rafeek Khan at Sanganeri Gate Janana hosp on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA

SI Sangeeta Meena

Preeti Khubchandani

JMCH councillors sit on dharna again for 6th time

‘When will there be justice?’ Raje on Jpr girl’s abduction

Mobile location of child porn video found in DCM

MODI MANTRA

he narrator brings out the remarkable vision of Modiji when it comes to conducting meetings. He says that the party is bound to succeed if every karyakarta, every booth, every baithak and the minutest detail is taken with utmost seriousness.

Municipal Corporation elections were going on in Shimla and Bimla Kashyapji was contesting from Ward No 13 which is now Ward No. 17.

Bimlaji had been a Rajya Sabha member as well and her commitment towards the ward was exceptional. It was night time and we were pasting posters in our constituency for the impending elections. In this digital age, you know, we don’t put up posters any more. But back then we got free by 1:30 at night and returned home. Next day we convened a baithak to discuss what all had been accomplished and what tasks remained to be completed.

Bimlaji already knew that we

had been very busy all these days. In fact she was watching us work at 1:30 in the night from her window. Such was the energy and commitment of Bimla Kashyapji towards her ward and booth workers! Her days had no beginning nor end. Waking up at 4:00 am and working till 2 in the night, but her energy and josh toward work would not diminish. She harboured tremendous devotion for the Sangathan and worked incessantly towards its strengthening, growth and success.

I am fortunate to have several such examples to talk about, about people who have inspired me and continue to do so by their unshakeable loyalty and commitment towards the Sangathan.

It was Narendra Modiji who taught me what baithak really means. What is a baithak? It is indeed a group of people coming together to put forth their views and discuss important issues. But how Modiji defined it to me was a complete eye-opener. He has the ability to explain concepts in very few words, in a way that’s logical and makes instant sense to the listener.

He said “When people arrive for a baithak, you must know that they are coming from different places and viewpoints. But when they leave the baithak, they must all leave with a united plan in mind.

Baithak must clear all differences and help people come to a unanimous decision. Only when this happens can we say that the baithak has indeed yielded desired results. And this alone is the true and correct measure of the suc-

Once we spotted a group of men coming towards us from afar. I remarked that they must be tourists. Immediately, Narendra Modiji said “Look carefully at their belts! They are not tourists. They are members of the Sangh.” Well, the broad brown belts they were wearing, were indeed the belts that members of our Sangh wear. This is how Modiji is an exceptionally keen observer. His eye for detail is such that he can never go wrong with his judgement of people or of situations!

cess of baithak.”

Not just this, Modiji would say that baithak is not some non-serious business wherein people come strolling from somewhere, sit here and there sipping tea and coffee and chit-chatting with each other, causally, gossiping away about the happenings in various Zilas! No, this is not what baithak is!

Contemplating on the seemingly smallest aspects of governance, and discussing them threadbare for as much time as it takes is the first priority according to Modiji. Baithak does not happen again and again and when it does, people must devote time and discuss the smallest issues in detail so that progress can be made in the right direction.

‘NARENDRA MODIJI EXPLAINS CONCEPTS IN VERY FEW WORDS’

It was Narendra Modiji who taught me what baithak really means. What is a baithak? It is indeed a group of people coming together to put forth their views and discuss important issues. But how Modiji defined it to me was a complete eye-opener. He has the ability to explain concepts in very few words, in a way that’s logical and makes instant sense to the listener.

Secondly, coming fully prepared to the baithak is of utmost importance. Come with a holistic picture in mind, keeping a note of all the issues and subjects that can possibly be discussed in the meeting. Preparation implies doing the home-work well and arriving to the baithak with a focus on identifying, resolving, discussing, reflecting upon and finding the way ahead to all issues.

Well, I vividly recall an incident that took place some time back in a baithak where Modiji was present too. I will not name my colleague for obvious reasons here but will share the incident. The Pradesh Karya Samiti baithak was ongoing and the usual trend is that people come to the baithak with dif-

ferences in opinions and viewpoints. So when my colleague got the opportunity to speak about one particular issue, he decided to vent out all his thoughts at once. He had negative views about several aspects and he spoke at length over that issue, but bringing forth only the disadvantages and weaknesses about the subject.

Narendraji, as always, listened patiently to the entire speech. Once the speaker had finished, Modiji remarked “Well said! You are indeed very eloquent. Can you now share with us just one positive aspect about all of this?”

Don’t you think what a big observation this is? Just one remark and Modiji turned around the conversation to a positive note, encouraging

people to think of solutions, rather than contemplating only on the negatives. Now that karyakarta had not expected this and he fumbled. He literally had nothing to say! But at the same time, he had learnt his lesson for the future. So had everyone present in the baithak. Everyone has flaws and it is human to err. Dwelling on the negatives of people in a meeting is just waste of time.

Modiji would say that the aim of baithak is to delegate work to karyakarta, to hear out his side of the story and to take care of his well-being. He inspired every karyakarta to ensure hundred percent dedication to his booth. If a both has 100 votes, those 100 votes are all that should matter to the karyakarta. If you get those 100 votes, no one can defeat the party. Thus encouraging the booth workers to simply win their booth and not bother about others is Modiji’s message to the karyakartas.

Morning walks with Narendra Modi have taught me a lot. He used to call me in the morning and I would reach US club where our office was. From there we would often go to different areas of Shimla for walks. Once we spotted a group of men coming towards us from afar. I remarked that they must be tourists. Immediately, Narendra Modiji said “Look carefully at their belts! They are not tourists. They are members of the Sangh.” Well, the broad brown belts they were wearing, were indeed the belts that members of our Sangh wear. This is how Modiji is an exceptionally keen observer. His eye for detail is such that he can never go wrong with his judgement of people or of situations! TO BE CONTINUED...

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‘MODIJI’S JUDGEMENT FOR PEOPLE OR SITUATIONS IS NEVER WRONG’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

DEFINING BAITHAK: Come in with diverse viewpoints and move out with a singular stance

Raghav Chadha Gives Gujarat Pitch A ‘Sholay’ Twist

BATTLEGROUND GUJARAT

Modi hopes for record turnout in upcoming polls

Dahod (ANI): PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday said he hoped that Gujarat will witness a record voter turnout in the upcoming state polls, particularly among the youth and first-time voters.

Modi’s remarks came after Jam Saheb Shatrushalya Singhji, scion of the Jamnagar royal family, cast his vote at his residence in the presence of the deputy collector and other election officials on Monday.

Tagging a tweet by the Press Information Bureau in Gujarat, Modi said, “I commend Jam Saheb Shri Shatrusalyasinhji for this remarkable passion towards the festival of democracy.”

“Inspired by him, I hope Gujarat witnesses a record turnout, particularly among young and first time voters,” the prime minister said. In its tweet posted on Monday, the PIB in Gujarat had said, “Jam Saheb Namdar Maharaja Shatrushalya Singhji of Jamnagar cast his vote today at his residence in the presence of the Deputy Collector and other election officials.” Voting for the 182-member Gujarat Assembly will be held in two phases — December 1 and 5 — and counting on Dec 8.

‘CONGRESS TRIED TO DEFEAT TRIBAL WOMAN NOMINATED BY

New Delhi(PTI): At least seven legislators who have won the Gujarat Assembly elections for five or more times are seeking a term again in the state polls scheduled next month.

Jadeja’s wife & sister play from different teams

Sarma sounds like a petty troll: Tewari

The ruling BJP has reposed faith in five of the leaders by fielding them for yet another term, while one has sought to contest as an independent. These five candidates fielded by the BJP are Yogesh Patel (Manjalpur seat), Pabubha Manek (Dwarka), Keshu Nakrani (Gariadhar), Purshottam Solanki (Bhavnagar rural) and Pankaj Desai (Nadiad).

"MY NAME IS ENOUGH TO WIN," SAYS

Ahmedabad (ANI): Congress leader Manish Tewari on Wednesday, while reacting to Himanta Biswa Sarma’s “Saddam Hussein” jibe at Rahul Gandhi, said that the Assam CM “sounds like a petty troll”. Sarma on Tuesday said Rahul Gandhi “looks like Saddam Hussein”, who was the former Iraqi president and was executed by hanging on Dec 30, 2006, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal. When asked about Sarma’s remark, Tewari said, “In public life, it is very imp that we maintain decorum.”

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President’s post by fielding a candidate. After addressing the first rally in Mehsana, PM Modi addressed the public in Dahod in Central Gujarat. On July 21, NDA’s presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu clinched the country’s highest constitutional post after defeating her rival and joint opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha. Droupadi Murmu’s ascent as the 15th elected President of India makes her the first tribal and the second woman after Pratibha Devisingh Patil to hold the coveted post. “Cong always wanted to keep people poor so they remain dependent on govt,” PM said.

Rajkot: On opposite sides of the electoral fence in Gujarat, cricketer Ravindra Jadeja’s wife Rivaba and sister Naynaba are sparring over the former’s campaign strategy. Naynaba, who is actively working with the Congress, has accused her sister-in-law, who is the BJP candidate from Jamnagar (north), of violating laws. Naynaba alleged that Rivaba had been taking along children. “Many of these kids are below 10 years of age. A complaint with the district election officer,” Naynaba said.

The 'Lady Don' was an MLA from Porbandar's Kutiana seat from 1990 to 1995. According to police records, she had more than 500 cases.

HIMANTA SARMA TAKES DIG AT RAHUL

Ahmedabad (ANI): Assam CM Himanta

Biswa Sarma has taken a dig at Cong leader Rahul Gandhi’s bearded appearance, which he said resembled that of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Addressing a campaign rally in Ahmedabad on Tuesday, he said, “If he (Rahul Gandhi) wanted to change his looks, why did not he choose to look like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel or Jawaharlal Nehru?

Even Gandhi ji’s look would have been better, but why he is he changing his face to look like Saddam Hussein now?” Sarma also hit out at the Congress leader’s Bharat Jodo Yatra and said, “Rahul Gandhi is

visiting places where there are no elections.” Soon after the statement of the Assam CM went viral, Cong leaders termed it “stunt”.

“You (Assam CM) just want a headline and you get that only when you take Rahul Gandhi’s name. Him-

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COURT SEEKS PROBE AGENCY'S STAND ON BAIL PLEA FOR UNITECH EX-OWNER'S WIFE

anta Biswa Sarma can say anything. He can go to any level for power. We don’t pay attention to such statement,” Assam Cong chief Bhupen Kumar Borah said.

Rajasthan Cabinet Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas also condemned the remark.

ASSAM COPS ACTIONS ‘UNPROVOKED, UNCONTROLLED’: CM HIMANTA SARMA

New Delhi (PTI): A day after six persons were killed, and several injured in a clash between Assam Police and a mob along the Assam-Meghalaya border, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Wednesday criticized the former over its handling of the violence and said it used force in an “unprovoked, uncontrolled and arbitrary” manner. “I feel there was no need to fire to the extent the police did. The firing was a little unprovoked, and the police could have acted in a little more controlled manner,” CM Sarma was quoted as saying.

MEGHALAYA DELEGATION TO MEET AMIT SHAH TODAY TO DEMAND PROBE

Shillong (PTI): A delegation of Meghalaya ministers led by CM Conrad K Sangma will meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah on November 24 to demand a CBI or NIA probe into the violence that left 6 people dead on state’s border with Assam. Assam government, however, on Tuesday said it would hand over investigation into violence on its disputed boundary with Meghalaya in West Karbi Anglong district to neutral agency. “The govt of Meghalaya has decided that all festivals will be cancelled,” he said.

Rajkot (ANI): With the Gujarat assembly elections round the corner, the entire state is engulfed in election fever, the residents of Raj Samadhiyala village in Rajkot district are free from these political dramas as they have barred entry of political parties and campaigning in the village because they think that allowing candidates to campaign would be detrimental to the region. No political party can enter the vilage as they have been banned to campaign. Raj Samadhiyala village which is 20 km away from Rajkot, not only banned political campaigning but it also imposes a fine of Rs 51 on those who do not come out to vote.

Adani's mega port proj stalled as fishing community protests

Vizhinjam (PTI): On the main road to billionaire Gautam Adani’s planned Vizhinjam mega port on the southern tip of India, a shelter built by the coastal region’s Christian fishing community blocks the entrance, preventing construction.

The simple 1,200 square-feet structure with a corrugated-iron roof has since August stood in the way of ambitions for the country’s first container transhipment port - a $900 million project that seeks to plug into the lucrative shipping trade flowing between juggernaut manufacturers in the East and wealthy consumer mar-

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kets in West.

Decorated with banners proclaiming “indefinite day and night protest”, shelter provides cover for roughly

THREE GAME-CHANGING REVOLUTIONS

100 plastic chairs, although the number of protesters taking part in the sit-ins on any one day is usually much lower.

‘India will be a 40 trillion-dollar economy by 2047’

CONSEQUENCE

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has granted bail to a 22-year-old man, arrested last year for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl, noting the two were in a relationship and the girl, though minor, was capable of understanding the consequences of her act. A single bench of Justice Bharati Dangre in order dated Nov 15 also noted girl had voluntarily accompanied accused to his aunt's place where alleged offence took place. "It appears that girl, though a minor, was capable of understanding consequences," bench said.

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court sought the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) stand on Wednesday on a bail plea moved by Unitech promoter Sanjay Chandra's wife, Preeti Chandra, in a money-laundering case.

Justice Jasmeet Singh issued a notice to federal investigating agency and asked it to file its status report. Court also asked ED to "address" Chandra's plea for interim release. Appearing before the court on behalf of Chandra, lawyer Adit Pujari said applicant is has been in custody since October 4, 2021.

Clean Energy, Bio-Energy & Digital Revolution will help save the planet

Gandhinagar (ANI): India will be a USD 40-trillion dollar economy by 2047 and ranked among the top three economies of the world, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh D Ambani has said and identified Clean Energy Revolution, the Bio-Energy Revolution and the Digital Revolution as “three game-changing revolutions” that will govern India’s growth

From 3 trillion-dollar economy, India will grow to become a 40 trillion-dollar economy by 2047. A bright future beckons you. Be ready to step out confidently when opportunity knocks on your door.—Mukesh D Ambani, Reliance Industries Chairman

in the decades ahead.

Addressing the convocation of Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU) here on Tuesday, Mukesh Ambani said India is poised

for an “unprecedented explosion in economic growth and opportunities” during the Amrit Kaal, 25-year period to 2047 when India will celebrate centenary of its

independence. He said three game-changing revolutions will together transform lives in ways unimagined.

“While Clean Energy Revolution and the BioEnergy Revolution will produce energy sustainably, the Digital Revolution will enable us to consume energy efficiently. All 3 revolutions will together help India & save our beautiful planet,” he said.

RAPE ACCUSED GETS BAIL, HC SAYS GF, MINOR, KNEW OF

Police officers with batons gather to carefully monitor the situation in Vizhinjam.

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Nirmala Sitharaman with Himanta Biswa Sarma during inauguration of 400th birth anniversary celebration of of Ahom General Lachit Barphukan in New Delhi.

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“So Ja Warna...”: AAP’s

Yogi on Gujarat tour for 3rd time in a week, will take multiple meetings

BJP suspends 12 more rebels for contesting as independent candidates

BJP govt in Gujarat legitimised corruption, alleges Manish Tewari

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a public rally, in Dahod on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI

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GUJARAT IS GANGOTRI OF CULTURE OF DEVELOPMENTAL POLITICS: NADDA

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched an attack on Congress and said the grand old party tried to defeat

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Botad (Gujarat) (ANI): BJP national president JP Nadda on Wednesday lauded the work done by the Gujarat government over the years and said that the Gujarat model is not just a model of development but is the source of the "culture of developmental politics." While addressing an election rally in Botad, Nadda said, "The Gujarat model is not just a model of development, but the Gangotri of the culture of developmental politics." Mentioning PM Narendra Modi's welfare schemes for the poor, BJP chief said, "PM Modi built 3.07 cr 'pucca' houses in the whole country under PM Awas Yojana and in Gujarat, 15 lakh houses were built. " he added.

BJP national president JP Nadda during his visit to Swaminarayan Temple, at Gadhada, in Botad on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI

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7 MLAs who won for 5 times again in fray

LADY DON'S SON KANDHAL JADEJA

Porbandar (ANI): For Kandhal Jadeja, SP candidate from Kutiyana seat in Porbandar district and son of the late mafia don Santokben Sarmanbhai Jadeja, said that his sufficient to win the Gujarat Assembly elections. Jadeja, who recently quit Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), after the party denied him the ticket and hopped on to the bicycle of the Samajwadi Party stated that the NCP was "finished in Gujarat." 1999 film "Godmother" starring Shabana Azmi is based on the life of Santokben Sarmanbhai Jadeja.

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani addresses during the launch of 5G services in India.

Aaftab Amin Poonawala likely to undergo narco analysis today

New Delhi: Narco test on Aaftab Amin Poon awala, accused of mur dering his live-in part ner Shraddha Walkar, is likely to be conducted on Thursday, sources said.

The 28-year-old will, however, have to under go a set of tests to ascer tain his emotional, men tal, physiological and psychological well-be ing. The narco analysis cannot be conducted if he is found to be "dis turbed" in the prelimi nary tests.

On Tuesday, Aaftab had undergone poly graph test, also known as lie detector test, at the Forensic Science Labo ratory (FSL), with police hoping to find vital clues in the murder.

The narco analysis involves administering the individual medica tion which reduces their self-consciousness and allows them to speak freely.

Polygraph test, on the other hand, records physiological phenome

CASE CLOSED IN 2020: POLICE

Maharashtra: Maharashtra Police on Wednesday said that based on a complaint by Shraddha Walkar in 2020, they had begun an investigation but the case was closed after she gave a written statement to withdraw the case. DCP of Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar (MBVV)

na such as blood pres sure, pulse rate and res piration, and the data is

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used to determine whether the person is speaking the truth.

MASSIVE FIRE BREAKS OUT IN ASSAM’S KARBI ANGLONG

Assam: A large number of houses and shops were gutted in a massive fire in the Lahorijaan area near Bokajan in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district along the Assam-Nagaland border on Wednesday. SDPO of Bo kajan, John Das, told ANI that no casualty had been reported in the incident.

“Fire tenders have reached the spot and tried to douse the flames,” John Das said.

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Surat: The Gujarat police on Wednesday arrested two persons and seized Rs 75 lakh in cash from a car during vehicle checking in Surat. As per the police, they have impounded the car and arrested the ac cused persons who had Rs 75 lakh in their possession.

This vehicle checking by the EC of India and Surat Police was underway amid the security setup.

Bhubaneswar (PTI): The Strategic Forces Command, responsible for managing India’s nuclear weapons as part of the Nuclear Command Authority, has successfully tested an Agni-III ballistic missile from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island (formerly known as Wheeler Island) off the coast of Odisha. The missile has a strike range of 3,000 to 5,000 km and is capable of carrying both con ventional and nuclear warheads. “Successful test was part of routine user training launches carried out under aegis of the Strategic Forces Command,” Ministry of Defence said.

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MURDER CASE

Mumbai (ANI): In the latest twist in the tale of the Shraddha Walkar murder case, a letter has surfaced that Shraddha alleg edly wrote in 2020 at the Tulinj police sta tion in Maharashtra’s Palghar, in which she complained that Aaft ab Poonawala, the accused in her mur der case, had beaten her and threatened to kill her.

The Maharashtra police have confirmed that the deceased had written a complaint letter on November 23, 2020, at the Tulinj police station. The Maharashtra police also confirmed the authenticity of the

said compaint letter shared by Shraddha’s neighbour as to have been written by Sharddha. In the com plaint letter, Shrad dha said that she “did not have the guts to go to the police” because Aftab had threatened to kill her. However, she added that Aaftab tried to kill her on the day she was writing the letter.

‘Ensure name on voter list to avoid detention camp’

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mama ta Banerjee today asked people of the state to ensure that their names are on the electoral roll to avoid getting sent to deten tion camps under the garb of enforcing NRC.

She was addressing a programme organised by the state government to distribute land 'pat tas' (documents) to mar ginalised families from all districts.

"Ensure your name is there on the voter list, or else, you will be sent to detention camps in the name of NRC. It's a shame, shame and shame," Banerjee said.

Referring to inci dents of "forcible takeo ver of land by the rail way and airport author ities", Ms Banerjee said, "No eviction will be al lowed in Bengal with out proper compensa tion and rehabilita tion." At the public function, she asked peo ple to start "protests if your land is forcibly taken and the state will be with you".

Kolkata: Leader of Opposition in Bengal Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday skipped the oath-taking cere mony of the new governor, alleging that the Trinamool govt "humiliated" him by allotting him a seat beside two MLAs who defected to the ruling party from the BJP after last year's assembly polls. The BJP leader also claimed that the Trinamool govt was pursuing "vindic tive" politics as it was yet to come to terms with CM Mamata Banerjee's poll defeat to him in Nandigram.

"Just to humiliate me and the BJP at the oath-taking ceremony, I was given a seat beside two legislators who had won last year's elections on a party ticket and later defected to the Trinamool without resigning as BJP MLAs." "This Trinamool govt is acting in a vindictive manner. It is yet to digest the fact that the Trinamool chief lost to me in Nandigram. The govt did not maintain decorum and showed disrespect to the chair of leader of opposition," Adhikari told reporters.

Ranjan seeks Guv intervention against govt power misuse

Kolkata (ANI): The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday wrote a let ter to the West Bengal Governor seeking his intervention with re gard to the misuse of power by the state ad ministration.

In his letter ad dressed to the Honora ble Governor of West

Bengal CV Ananda Bose, the president of West Bengal Congress and Leader of Opposi tion in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowd hury sought the Gover nor's intervention as a Constitutional Head in the state regarding the issues of the Jhalda Municipality. Adhir Ranjan in his letter al leged that ever since

Speaker will decide: Minister on winter session at new building

New Delhi: Union Min ister of State for Hous ing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore has said finishing touches are being given to the new Parliament build ing and the Lok Sabha Speaker will decide whether the forthcom ing Winter Session will be held there or in the existing building.

The Winter Session of Parliament will be gin on December 7 and conclude on December 29. The govt has main tained that the project would be completed by

Nov. Kishore said on Tuesday that the pro ject is on track and ef forts are being made to complete the construc tion work as soon as possible.

"The Speaker will de cide whether the Winter Session of Parliament will be held in the new building or the old one," Kishore told PTI.

Union Housing & Ur ban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said earlier this month that it was up to the govt to make announcement regarding the date.

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the election of Jhalda Municipality and the declaration of its re

sult, the councillors, party leaders and mem bers of the Indian Na tional Congress have been subjected to tre mendous torture. Ad dressing the Governor, Adhir further alleged that the ruling dispen sation of West Bengal has left no stone un turned to forcefully take control of Jhalda Municipality and cling

on to power.

Adhir Ranjan in his letter asserted, "From the murder of a coun cillor namely Tapan Kandu to implicating councillors, party lead ers and members of Indian National Con gress the ruling dispen sation has left no stones unturned to forcefully take control of Jhalda Municipality".

I’m a bit irritated over issues created by media: Tharoor on ‘sectarian’ accusation

Kerala: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday sought to know how his attending events and meeting some prominent per sons in Kerala, along with MP M K Raghavan, could be construed as sectarian and said he was “a bit irritated” over the issues being created in the media.

A day after LoP in the state assembly V D Satheesan said any kind of sectarianism or parallel activities would not be allowed in the party and warned

that such moves would be dealt with “serious ly”, Tharoor questioned how activities of the two Congress MPs could be seen as sectar ian. Speaking to report ers at Kannur after

Japan stun Germany in dramatic World Cup comeback

Al Wakrah [Qatar], (ANI): Following his team’s win over Austral ia in their FIFA World Cup 2022 opener, defend ing champions France coach Didier Deschamps said that though his side started well, it was able to let the Aussies score a goal that should have been avoided.

Olivier Giroud’s brace and a stunning goal from Adrien Rabiot and Kylian Mbappe guided reigning champions France to register victo ry over Australia by 4-1 in the Group D match of the ongoing FIFA World

Cup 2022 at the Al Janoub Stadium in Qatar.

Des champs also added that France showed more confidence in second half to push Aus tralia on backfoot.

“We began the match well in the first

the second half, we showed a lot more con fidence and forced Aus tralia on to the back foot and then we creat ed a lot of chances and four goals, which is good,” Sky Sports quoted Des champs as say ing.

“It is a good beginning to the tournament. The opening match is al ways vital and impor tant. I would like to con gratulate the team and the players,” he added.

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KARNATAKA GOVT RELEASES RS 738 CR FOR MODERNIZATION OF VANI VILASA CANALS

Karnataka: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday said that the state government released Rs 738 crore grant for the desilting of Vani Vilas Sagara canals and its modernisation in order to help farmers of this region. Speaking at the inauguration of the BJP’s (BJP) Jan Sankalp Yatra here, Bommai said Rs 20 crore has been reserved for the maintenance of Vani Vilas Sagar Dam, and also initiated steps to strengthen it further.

GUJ POLICE ARREST TWO PERSONS, SEIZE ` 75 LAKH

CPI NATION SECY DEMANDS CHANGE IN G20 SUMMIT LOGO WHICH HAS LOTUS Andhra Pradesh: Communist Party of India (CPI) National Secretary K. Narayana on Wednesday took a swipe at the central government for choos ing a lotus flower in the logo of the G20 summit and demanded a change. “CPI welcomes the G20 meeting, and we appreciate Prime Minister Modi on this occasion as we would be the host for the coming two years,” said K. Narayana.

He will have to undergo tests to ascertain his emotional, mental, physiological

meeting Thalassery Archbishop Mar Joseph Pamplany, Tharoor said he was sad to hear, via media, that some were saying he and Raghavan were indulging in such activities.

Police along with Aaftab Poonawalla leaves from the FSL office, in New Delhi on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI

SUVENDU ADHIKARI SKIPS BENGAL GOVERNOR'S OATH OVER SEATING PLAN

WE WERE PUNISHED BY OUR MISTAKES, SAYS AUSTRALIAN COACH AFTER LOSS

Qatar: Following the loss to France in their FIFA World Cup 2022 opener, Australia head coach Graham Arnold said the quality of their opponents contributed to their win and his side was punished by their mistakes.

Olivier Giroud’s brace and a stunning goal from Adrien Rabiot and Kylian Mbappe guided reigning champions France to 4-1 victory over Australia in the Group D match of the ongoing FIFA World Cup 2022 at the Al Janoub Stadium in Qatar.

Commissionerate, Suhas Bavache said that Shraddha in her written statement had stated that "the dispute between herself and Aaftab Poonawala was resolved."

‘RIGHT TIME TO SEEK A NEW

Qatar: Germany players covered their mouths during their team photo prior to their Group E game against Japan, in order to mark their protest against the OneLove armband ban. After FIFA threatened seven European teams with sanctions if they wore the armband sym bolising diversity and tolerance, all German players took part in the gesture in front of doz ens of photographers.

Qatar: Star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo on Tuesday announced the end of his contract with Manchester United, say ing that it "feels like the right time to seek a new challenge". Star striker of the club Cristiano Ronaldo has parted ways with Manchester United, the club said in a statement on Tuesday. Ronaldo also took to Twitter to announce that he has parted ways with the club.

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POLICE TEAM GOES TO REMOVE TEMPLE, ATTACKED; 20 DETAINED

Hanuman temple at Satpur-Talab was to be removed on HC’s order

First India Bureau

Sirohi: The local people started pelting stones at the police team that went to remove the Hanuman temple at Abu Road in Sirohi Wednesday morning. An ASP, a DSP and five policemen were injured in this stone pelting. Within no time, the atmosphere deteriorated

so much that the police had to resort to lathicharge. After this the police chased people and beat them. More than 20 people were detained by the police.

According to the information, on the orders of the High Court, the administration had reached at 6 am to remove the Hanuman temple built near Satpur Talab. As soon as

Police resorted to lathi-charge to disperse the crowd on Wednesday. (Inset) Temple being removed on the HC’s order.

the information was received, the angry people blocked the Satpur-Abu Road road.

Gudha, Gurjar hit back at Bainsla, affirm full support to BJY in State

Bainsla conspiring to defame Pilot and Gurjar community, both leaders allege

First India Bureau

Jaipur : After Gurjar leader Vijay Bainsla threatened to stop Bharat Jodo Yatra, two leaders from faction of former CM Sachin Pilot, Minister Rajendra Gudha and MLA Indraj Gurjar on Wednesday targeted Bainsla and said that he is playing in the hands of BJP. They termed Bainsla’s statement as a conspiracy to defame Pilot and the Gurjar community.

Minister Rajendra Gudha and MLA Indraj Gurjar during the press conference on Wednesday. Gudha had met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday in New Delhi.

and will receive an unprecedented reception.

There is no such tradition in the entire Rajasthan and Gurjar society that any guest should be opposed. There is a tradition of hospitality in Rajasthan,” said Indraj Gurjar.

Even after persuasion for a long time, when the people did not agree, then around

11.30 am, an attempt was made to thrash them. On this people pelted stones at the police. Seeing the worsening of the matter, RAC jawans were called from the line. When the police lathicharged, the people scattered and entered the streets and started pelting stones.

After the incident, Collector Dr Bhavan Lal Chaudhary and SP Mamta Gupta reached the spot and inquired about the incident.

6 killed in separate accidents in Bikaner and Kuchaman City

The accident occurred near 264 RD near Lunkaransar, The deceased are identified as

Raju (30), Madan Lal (44) and Sheopat (40). Meanwhile, 3 more were killed and 4 injured in Kuchaman in a tractor and car collision on Wednesday. Two women in a car and a child on a tractor were among the dead.

Bundi: The LS Speaker Om Birla visited Bundi district during visit to his constituency on Wednesday. He interacted with social workers and intellectuals of Indragarh and Karwar area in Bundi. Addressing the social workers at Sahastrafani Parshwanath Atishay Tirtha Complex, Indragarh, Birla said that they should become members of common man’s family and try to solve their problems.

LDC slits his throat, dies in Bharatpur

Bharatpur (FIB): A lower-division clerk (LDC) allegedly died by suicide by slitting his throat owing to a dispute with his wife, police said. Police informed the deceased, Niranjan (31), an LDC posted in police headquarters, Jaipur, died by suicide at his in-laws house in New Pushp Vatika Colony in Bharatpur. The victim even attempted suicide on November 21, the police said on Wednesday.

President Murmu, PM Modi, V-P Dhankhar extend wishes to Om Birla on his birthday

New Delhi: President Draupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Home Minister Amit Shah, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath wished Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on his birthday on Wednesday. Several other dignitaries also extended birthday wishes to Birla. They said that Birla is doing unique work in strengthening parliamentary democracy in the country.

the Central and state govts that are yet ot reach common people. कारायालर नगरपाललका रारसिंहनगर, सिला श्रीगंगानगर (राि.) क्रमांक: - राजस्व/3220 दिनांक: 23.11.2022 आपत्ति सूचना स्व साधारण को सू ित दकया जाता है दक श्री दजतेन्द्र पाल दसंह पुत्र श्री जस्वरी दसंह जादत कशमरीर दसख दन्वास ्वार्ड नं. 21 नया रायदसंहनगर ने प् रना पत्र के सार शपर पत्र, मृतयु प्माण पत्र ्व काया्वलय अधयक्ष नगरपादलका रायदसंहनगर द्ारा जार ्वाररस प्माण पत्र क प्दत प्सतुत कर आ्वास य भूखणर सं. 100 एम बललॉक साईज 25’x50’ फ ट के ्वाररसान नामान्तरण िज्व करने हेतु दन्विन दकया है। पादलका रक र्ड अनुसार उकत भूखणर श्री मनमोहन दसंह, श्री जस्वरीर दसंह पुत्रगण श्री प्रीतम दसंह के नाम िज्व है। प्सतुत मृतयु प्माण पत्र अनुसार श्री जस्वरीर दसंह पुत्र श्री प्रीतम दसंह क मृतयु दिनांक 29.06.2022 को हुई। प्सतुत काया्वलय अधयक्ष नगरपादलका रायदसंहनगर द् रा जार ्वाररस प्माण पत्र क्रमांक ्वा.प्./198 दिनांक 02.11.2022 अनुसार स्व. श्री जस्वरीर दसंह के दनम्न जायज ्वाररस है1. बल्वन्त कौर - पत् , 2. दजतेन्द्र पाल दसंह - पुत्र, 3. अंगि िरीप दसंह - पुत्र, 4. संिरीप कौर - पुत्र कुल 4 जायज ्वाररस है। उपरोकतानुसार प्सतुत ्वाररसान के आधार पर नामान्तरण िज्व करने पर यदि दकस भ वय कत को आप ति / ऐतराज हो तो नगरपादलका क ई-मेल आई.ररी nagarpalikarsnr@gmail.com अर्व दलदखत में अपन आप ति / ऐतराज मय सबूत / िसता्वेज 07 दि्वस में दनम्न हसताक्षरकता्व के समक्ष प्सतुत करें। अन्यर बाि गुजरने दमयाि आपदत मान्य नहीं होग । सू ित रहे। अ िशाषी अ िकारी नगरपा िका रायत्संहनगर

the public,” he said while adding that there are many schemes of NEWS JAIPUR | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2022 07 www.firstindia.co.in I https://firstindia.co.in/epapers/jaipur I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia कारायालर नगरपाललका रारसिंहनगर, सिला श्रीगंगानगर (राि.) website http://urban.rajasthangov.in@ulbraisinghnagar Phone/Fax No. : 01507-221023, E-mail: nagarpalikarsnr@gmail.com, nagarpalika_rsnr@yahoo.in क्रमांक: न.पा.रा./कृ.भू./राजस्व/2022-23/3198 दिनांक: 22.11.2022 आपत्ति सूचना एतद् द् रा स्व साधारण को सू ित दकया जाता है दक प्रदतष् पुत्री श्री पृथ्वरीराज जादत िश्ोई दन्वासरी ्वार्ड नं. 02 रायदसंहनगर ने प्रारना-पत् के सार शपर-पत् ्वाररस प्रमाण-पत्, मृतयु प्रमाण-पत् आदि िसता्वेज संलग्न कर िक 25 प एस िरी मु.नं. 7/37 दकला नं. 1 ्व 2 में आ्वास य भूखणर सं. 06 का साईज 30’x65’ का नामानतरण हेतु दन्विन दकया। उकत भूखणर श्री पृथ्वरीराज पुत् श्री रामदसंह के नाम से है। प्रसतुत मृतयु प्रमाण-पत् अनुसार श्री पृथ्वरीराज पुत् श्री रामदसंह क मृतयु दिनांक 07.02.2022 को हुई है। प्रसतुत अधयक्ष नगरपादलका रायदसंहनगर द्ारा जार ्वाररस प्रमाण-पत् क्रमांक ्वा.प्र. 197 दिनांक 02.11.2022 अनुसार श्री पृथ्वरीराज पुत् श्री रामदसंह के दनमांदकत जायज ्वाररस है :(1) श्रीमत सुदमत् ि्वरी - प नि (2) प्रदतष् -पुत्री (3) सलोिना - माता। कुल त न जायज ्वाररस हैं। उकतानुसार प्रसतुत ्वाररस प्रमाण-पत् के आधार पर नामानतरण िज्व करने पर यदि दकस भ वय कत को आप ति / एतराज हो तो नगरपादलका क ई-मेल आईररी nagarpalikarsnr@gmail.com अर्व दलदखत में अपन आप ति / एतराज मय सिूत / िसता्वेज 7 दि्वस में दनमहसताक्षरकता्व के समक्ष प्रसतुत करें। अनयरा ि ि गुजरने दमयाि आप ति मानय नहीं होग । सू ित रहे। अ िशाषी अ िकारी नगरपा िका रायत्संहनगर

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Minister Gudha said that Bharat Jodo Yatra will be welcomed in Rajasthan like never before. “If BJP has to oppose Bharat Jodo Yatra, then do it openly and do not take anyone’s help. The Bharat Jodo Yatra in Rajasthan will be historic

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla listening to people’s grievances in Karwar, Bundi on Wednesday.

Bikaner/Nagaur (FIB):

Three bike-borne men were killed after they were hit by a tractor in Bikaner district on Wednesday, police said.

Birla: Social workers should work to improve life of common man

Media should work responsibly, avoid creating fear, says Thakur

Jaipur: Union Infor mation and Broadcast ing Minister Anurag Thakur while speaking at the silver jubilee pro gramme of Mahanagar Times at Birla Audito rium on Wednesday, said . “ We are working to introduce a bill to rgulate digital media,” he informed. The Min ister further said that the process of registra tion of newspapers would be simplified.

“The Central govern ment will soon bring a new law to replace the previous law of 1867. Under this, it will be possible to complete the registration process, which now takes about four months, in a week through online mode,” he said.

He said that the Cen tre is working in the di rection of Ease of Do ing Business and Ease of Living. Be it the reg istration of companies or the process of open

ing a bank account by a common citizen, all have been simplified. He urged that the media should do its work re sponsibly and avoid cre ating an atmosphere of fear and confusion.

He said that the Cen tre also takes care of the interests of journal ists.

Himachal & Rajasthan share similar culture, but today people are afraid to visit Ra jasthan because crime is increasing here with each passing day and the government is doing nothing.

—Anurag Thakur, Union Min

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Jaipur: Rajasthan Housing Board Com missioner Pawan Arora said on Wednesday that RHB has been selected once again for the ‘SKOCH Gold Award’ in the housing category for innovations. The Board has got the distinction of earning this honour for the second consecu tive year. Congratulat ing all the officers-em ployees for this success, the Housing Commis sioner has said that this achievement is the re sult of collective efforts and hard work of the Board’s team.

“In the past years, through innovations like Wednesday auction festival, e-bid submis sion and e-auction, dis posal of more than 16,000 surplus proper

ties, Coaching Hub, MLA Housing, CM Jan Awas Yojana, AIS and SS Residency, Chaupatis and successful efforts made for administrative reforms, RHB has estab lished a new identity. Due to the hard work and efficiency of the of ficers and personnel of the Board, the Board is receiving awards and honours one after the other at the national level. Due to this, the Board’s prestige has been restored among the common people,” he said.

Arora said that in the last three and a half years, RHB has received many awards and hon ours from institutions like Indian Building Congress, National Real Estate Council and Skoch Group. “Sale of 1,213 properties worth Rs 185 cr in just 12 days under Wednesday auc tion festival in year 2020, sale of 1,010 houses in just 35 working days in year 2019 & first 5 hous es in Mansarovar and Pratap Nagar Chaupa tis during Nov, 2021 to March, 2022 along with foot-fall of over 6.10 lakh people in the month has been recognised by World Book of Records as an international re cord. After the ‘SKOCH Gold Award- 2021’ the Skoch Gold Award - 2022 is another step in this direction,” Arora said.

Jaipur: Congress leader Sachin Pilot distanced himself from the threat by a prominent Gurjar outfit to disrupt the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ instead blamed BJP for trying to create ‘dis turbances.’ Asked about Bainsla’s threat, the for mer Deputy CM said, “No matter how hard the BJP tries, the Yatra will be successful”.

“The BJP may try to create disturbances... BJP’s policy may be to break but the yatra is ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ and it will be successful. We all will welcome the Yatra in the State with unity,” he said outside party’s war room where a meeting to review the preps for the march has been convened. Pilot will join Priyanka in RaGa’s journey from Burhanpur.

Aishwary Pradhan

Jaipur: CEO and Edi tor-in-Chief, Bharat24Vision of New India and First India & CMD, First India News, Dr Jagdeesh Chandra met I&B Minister Anurag Thakur in Jaipur on Wednesday. Interest ingly, Thakur has now thought of an initia tive to earn billions from dept’s idle prop erties. Under this, survey will be con ducted in the entire country like railway properties of vacant lands of Doordarshan and All India Radio stations.

After the survey, a plan will be made for their auction. Simi

larly, instructions have been issued for exist ing Doordarshan & All India Radio stations with a plan to get rid of 2 lakh square feet of land from its existing premises. Notably, a 3-storey Doordarshan

Kendra is located on Peddar Road in Mum bai & according to plan, similar parts of other big properties will also be made free of possession & then government will put them on rent on merit.

Gehlot warns…

Talking to media, CM Gehlot said, “We re spect ex-servicemen, we are proud that Raj is also the land of mar tyrs. The package that I gave after the Kargil war, no one gave it to families of ex-service men. The demand by OBC youth is reasona

ble.There was a techni cal mistake during pre vious rule. We have con ducted survey in 16 states, the same formu la will be applicable in Raj too. We want every one to discuss & de cide.” CM also took a dig at those who are spreading confusion on OBC quota. Harish

Chaudhary has object ed to CM’s remark on OBC quota. “OBC Sang harsh Samiti did not talk about caste enmity at any level. This is a fight of all classes. Those who are giving this fight the color of caste fight want to di vert and delay the is sue,” Harish tweeted.

Bharat Jodo Yatra against hatred, inflation will be historic: CM

Gehlot

Jaipur:

Jaipur: The focus of Raj Congress is on Ra hul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra.’ In view of preparations, a meeting of Cong Coordination Committee was held wherein, all prominent leaders including CM Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot & PCC Chief GS Dotasara were present. However, State in-charge Ajay Maken didn’t come. A strategy was also chalked out to ensure that Yatra turns out to be peaceful.

The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ of ex- Congress National President Ra hul Gandhi will enter Rajasthan in first week of December. Panel heads were also pre sent. PCC Chief GS Do tasara said that Con gress workers will leave no stone unturned to make Yatra memorable.

Amarathon meeting of core group was held at CMR at night which was attended by Ministers Shanti Dhari wal and Dharmendra Rathore. Both these leaders weren’t involved in morning meeting held at Cong war room.

Meanwhile, MLA Rafiq Khan, Danish Abrar and Rohit Bohra were also present. Notably, important decision taken in the meeting held at that CMR was that an in-charge will be ap pointed for each day of the Yatra under which ministers and MLAs will get this responsibility.

Jaipur: CM Gehlot will visit Shri Mahavirji in Karauli dis trict’s Hindaun today. He will reach Shri Mahavirji from Jaipur in a helicopter and will inaugurate Panchkalan yakandMahaMastakab hisheka festival. From there, he will go to Gangapur city at 11 am. In Gangapur city, he will do BhoomiPujan of District Hospital to be built in Gangapur city. Besides, the CM will lay foundation stones and inaugurate vari ous developmental projects.

Team Bharat24 committed to achieve greater heights!

briefed reporters about how every small and big news from 81 assembly seats of Jharkhand should reach the view ers of Bharat24 news channel. During this, the correspondents also shared the experi ences of working in the past with Dr Jagdeesh Chandra.

In a very short span of time, Bharat24 has selected very active and hardworking corre spondents at every small and big place in

Jharkhand who will bring every news of Jharkhand to the audi

ence of Bharat24. They will also be seen roam ing in the field with the

spirit to take the pub lic’s questions to the government. All the cor

respondents were also advised to stay connect ed with all the social me

dia platforms of Bharat24.

Earlier on Tuesday, a large number of corre spondents of Bharat24 from 243 assembly seats of Bihar reached Pat na’s Vidhyapati Bhavan in Patna to participate in this programme.

Bharat 24 is the first national TV channel whose 4,000 reporters are alert and active in every corner of the country.

Channel’s News Con trol Room Head Sand

eep Mishra,

Prashant

re porters. Along with this, the correspond ents were motivated to make the slogan of Dr Jagdeesh Chandra Bharat24 ‘New Vision of India,’ a success.

Kashiram Choudhary & Ziauddin Khan

Shivendra Parmar

Prashant Jha & Manoj K Singh

Ranchi/Patna: In Ranchi on Wednesday , Bharat-24’s News Con trol Room Head Sand eep Mishra, Consulting Editor Shishir Awasthi, Marketing V-P Vishal Mathur, Jharkhand Edi tor Manoj Kumar Singh and Senior Correspond ent Kanhaiya Kumar

Consulting Editor Shishir Awasthi and Consulting Editor Bihar

Jha dis cussed how every small and big news on 243 as sembly seats of Bihar reached the viewers of Bharat24. Vice- Presi dent Sales Vishal Ma thur briefed all the

Kalraj Mishra, Anurag Thakur, Dr CP Joshi, Dr BD Kalla, Dr Satish Poonia, Gopal Sharma and Bhagwan Singh Rolsahabsar during the Silver Jubilee programme of Mahanagar Times at the Birla Auditorium in Jaipur on Wednesday. —PHOTOS BY SUNIL SHARMA

Governor Kalraj Mishra and Anurag Thakur felicitate late Kanhaiyalal Teli’s family from Udaipur at Birla Auditorium in Jaipur on Wednesday. Also seen here are Dr Satish Poonia, Dr BD Kalla and Gopal Sharma.

Anurag Thakur lights the lamp at the Silver Jubilee event of Mahanagar Times at the Birla Auditorium. Kalraj Mishra, Dr CP Joshi, Satish Poonia & Gopal Sharma are also seen.

Dr Jagdeesh Chandra extends floral greetings to Anurag Thakur during their meeting in Jaipur on Wednesday.

Sandeep Mishra, Shishir Awasthi, Vishal Mathur and Prashant Jha along with team in Patna.

Sandeep Mishra, Shishir Awasthi, Vishal Mathur, Manoj Kumar Singh and Kanhaiya Kumar along with team in Ranchi.

The members of Rajput community felicitate Anurag Thakur during an event held at the Rajput Sabha Bhawan in Jaipur on Wednesday. Also seen here is Rajpal Singh Shekhawat and others.

Centre working in direction of Ease of Doing Business, he says

The Centre also takes care of the interests of journalists, Min adds

Thakur’s ‘billion dollar’ plan to generate money for I&B Ministry!

Jaipur: Union I& B Minister Anurag Thakur targeted Congress govt in Raj, alleging that state has witnessed a deterioration in law & order under the Ashok Gehlot regime. “Everyday some or the other news is coming from Raj, be it about crimes against women or atrocities against Dalits. Law & order situation has deteriorated,” Thakur told reporters at Jaipur airport. “The way BJP won in UP, U’khand, Manipur, Goa, BJP govt will be formed in Gujarat & Himachal. Congress has been divid ing people in the name of caste-religion & they are doing the same today,” he said. —Kashiram Choudhary

‘LAW & ORDER DETERIORATED IN RAJ’

CM Gehlot will chair his cabinet meet today wherein, decision on retire ment of state employees from Jan 1, 2004 to March 31, 2022. An amendment related to opening of a Flying Club in State Hangar & a decision to give land to social organisations at con cessional rate may be on the cards. A proposal to install statues of freedom fighters, may also be approved. OBC issue may be discussed.

Yogesh Sharma & Naresh Sharma

CONG’S WAR ROOM MEETING OVER ‘BHARAT JODO YATRA’ PREPS

RHB WINS PRESTIGIOUS SKOCH GOLD AWARD FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR

CM Ashok Gehlot chairs the meeting of state-level co-ordination committee to review preparations for successful organisation of Bharat Jodo Yatra at the PCC War Room in Jaipur on Wednesday. Also seen here are GS Dotasra, Jitendra Singh, Pratap Singh Khachariyawas, Mamta Bhupesh, Raghuveer Meena, Govindram Meghwal, Sachin Pilot, Harish Chaudhary, Lalchand Kataria, Parsadi Lal Meena, Zubair Khan & others.

GEHLOT TO CHAIR CABINET MEET TODAY

FROM P1…

CM IN HINDAUN AND GANGAPUR CITY TODAY

CORE GROUP MEETING OVER YATRA @ CMR

The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Rajasthan will be spectacular, whose message will go to the Government of India. There will be pressure on the Union Government to take action on inflation. —Ashok Gehlot, CM

Pilot distances self from ‘Bainsla controversy’!

Collective efforts and hard work of the Board’s team has resulted in achievement: Commissioner Arora

Pawan Arora

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CHRISTMAS CAKES WINES and

During winter, oranges are one of the fruits associated with Christmas and are available in the northern countries. Orange peelis candied or the juice from orange is used in cakes.

hristmas is celebrated as a religious and cultural festival by billions of people around the world. It is an annual festival that recalls the birth of Jesus Christ observed most commonly on the 25th of December and is an integral part of the holiday season. Carol singing, decorating the house in red and green and preparation of a sumptuous meal are the highlights of the celebration.

One of the most important part of the special holiday celebration, is the food that is prepared and served. Based on the cultural practises, the meal varies greatly from country to country. A standard Christmas meal in the United Kingdom and the countries influenced by its tradition include large birds like turkey or goose, potatoes, vegetables, sometimes bread and cider. Rich fruitcake, Eggnog, Christmas pudding are few of the special desserts.

Brandy, rum, wine or bourbon are often added in cooking or consumed as such. It gives warmth to the body and pacifies the mind. Without a glass of sweet grape wine and a piece of fruitcake, Christmas dinner would be incomplete.

Homemade Christmas Wine : Wine making is a longstanding tradition, which holds good especially during Christmas. The homemade wine preparation begins early in October, as the weather is not as ideal in tropical countries as compared to the west. Wine making is still done at home by few while many opt to buy them from stores.

The fermentation period is briefer for sweet grape wine as the process is halted before all the sugar turns to alcohol.

The color of this wine is from the red pigment in the grape skin. Grapes give the flavor, sweetness is from the sugar, the yeast ferments, and spices bring out the aroma. Wheat or barley acts as the clarifying agent and adds strength to the wine.

EGGLESS CHRISTMAS CAKE RECIPE

Cooking time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Serving size: 6 - 7

Ingredients (1 cup = 250 ml)

To soak in the rum:

Raisins - ½ cup

Chopped cashews½ cup

Chopped citrus peels - ¼ cup

Apricots (dry or fresh) - 8-9

Chopped dates - ½ cup

Tutti fruity - ¼ cup

Glazed cherries, sliced - 9-10

Rum or orange juice or apple juice - 1 cup

To make the sponge:

All purpose flour1½ cup

Whole wheat flour¾ cup

Demerara sugar or brown sugar or powdered sugar - 1 and ½ cup

Oil or melted butter - 1 cup

Soy milk or any nut milk or dairy milk - 1 cup

Apple cider or regular vinegar - 2 tbsp

Baking soda - 1 tsp

Baking powder - ½ tsp

Vanilla extract - 1 tsp

Spices, powdered:

Cinnamon - 1 inch or 1.5 inches

Cloves - 2

Cardamom - 2

Grated nutmeg – a pinch or two

PREPARATION METHOD

Soaking the dry fruits: Chop all the dry fruits and take them in a bowl. Pour rum in the bowl. Cover the bowl let the dry fruits soak for 12 or 24 hours.Stir or shake at intervals so that the dry fruits get soaked evenly.

ARIES

MAR 21 - APR 20

You are likely to find the day most auspicious. Your knowledge about your line of work will be roundly appreciated and get you the thumbs up from higher ups. Friends and family may get together to give you a surprise and make your day. Business travel may leave little time for romance.

TAURUS

APR 21 - MAY 20 Previous investments are likely to give you good returns. Some of you may decide to follow in the footsteps of celebrities and visit the very same exotic destination that they had been to.No amount of excuses will dispel lover’s suspicions about your tendency to stray the path.

GEMINI

MAY 21 - JUNE 21

Continue doing whatever you are doing to remain healthy. Some of you will have to curb your splurging ways. Family life will cruise along smoothly with much love and bonhomie. Don’t speed up on the road. Chance of moving to a new location on transfer is likely for some.

CANCER

JUNE 22 - JULY 23

People falling under this sign will have a refreshing day. Visiting a mall or watching a movie is likely to be the highlight of the day for some. You may enjoy travelling to a tourist destination recommended by your friends. Reignite the flickering romance in your life by spending more time together.

LEO

JULY 24 - AUGUST 23

Money put together on previous occasions is likely to come in handy now. A family youngster is keen to learn from you, so don’t disappoint. Settling down in a new house is indicated for some.You may have to awaken partner’s interest in you once again.

VIRGO

AUG 24 - SEP 23

LIBRA

SCORPIO

OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

A vacation you only dreamed about is likely to become a reality soon. Healthy eating will help prevent digestive ailments. So don’t drool after those junk foods. Money will be no constraint in buying what you like. Driving down with lover to a happening place is indicated today.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV 23 - DEC 22

Your financial situation is set to improve, as earning opportunities come to you. Help from co-workers in a time consuming task will be forthcoming on the work front. Support of family will encourage you to take up a challenge. Socially, your presence will be much looked forward to.

CAPRICORN

DEC 23 - JAN 20

Some clarification will need to be sought on a financial issue, before you take the next step. A project left halfway by someone else may come on your shoulders, but your efforts will be acknowledged. Some of you are all set to enjoy a splendid vacation.

AQUARIUS

JAN 21 - FEB 19

You will derive great benefit from an exercise routine that you keenly follow. Extra workload is foreseen at work, but nothing that you cannot handle within office hours. Taking the family on a trip seems impossible today due to your professional commitments, so postpone it for some other day.

PISCES

Something you have implemented

polyunsaturated fats are packed in nuts, been shown to lower LDL cholesterol.

PREPARING THE CAKE

■ Grind the whole spices in a dry grinder and keep aside.

■ Grease a loaf pan or a round cake pan with oil or butter paper (6.5 inches round pan was used). ■ Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. ■ Sieve the flours, baking powder and the powdered spices.

■ In a mixing bowl, add oil and Demerara sugar and mix well with the flour-spice mixture.

■ Mix some flour with the cherries and keep aside.

■ Add the soaked dry fruits.

■ In a bowl add soymilk, apple cider and stir gently.

■ Add baking soda and stir. It will

begin to froth. Then, add this mixture to the cake batter.

■ Add vanilla extract and mix. Pour in the cake pan.

■ Spread the batter uniformly in the cake pan.

■ Place the sliced cherries on the top.

■ Bake for 1 hour 45 minutes or more or less depending on your oven at 180 degrees C. The cake can be stored in an airtight container for two weeks.

SOURCE: Christmas Feast, It’s always Grand with Cake and Wine (medindia.net)

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SONAM KAPOOR’S

CHIC AIRPORT LOOK!

Actress Sonam Kapoor is currently enjoying a new phase of her life. On August 20, she and her husband Anand Ahuja welcomed a baby boy to the family. The couple named their son Vayu. Sonam keeps sharing glimpses of her son on Instagram. Meanwhile, the new mom was seen making heads turn on Wednesday as she was clicked at the Mumbai airport. The actress never fails to impress when it comes to fashion. Earlier today, Sonam was seen making a starry appearance at the airport. Her son Vayu was not seen accompanying her. She was seen sporting a chic green dress with funky prints. She wore a matching jacket and styled the look with a black trench coat. She opted for high black boots, layered chains and a messy bun to complete her look. Sonam also wore quirky sunglasses to amp up her overall look.

Alia’s obsession with ANANYA’S PLAY-ON-DATE DRESS

nanya Panday stepped out for Kartik Aaryan’s birthday bash in a picture-perfect white ruched dress. However, what we cannot get over is the envy-worthy lilac bag that takes the ensemble to a whole new level of perfection. This party season certainly brought in an influx of solidcoloured ensembles and Ananya has

certainly been on top of it. With her latest appearance, she served lessons on how

Priyanka’s shocking REVELATION

to style a white ruched dress to make a feminine and flattering statement

without going OTT. As Ananya Panday pauses and poses for the paps at Kartik Aaryan’s birthday bash she proves a white look has a timeless charm and is a fail-safe option when you want to step out in style. She chose to sport a Sirene Dress in White by House of CB. The dress is a figure-perfecting curation entirely made up of luxurious organza mesh that delivers a sheer look.

‘WEIGHT AND BODY’

Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt has come a long way in her acting career. At the time of her first film’s release, Alia was just 19 years old. In past interviews, she had mentioned that she lost weight before she forayed into Bollywood. Now, in a recent interview, Alia revealed

First look of ‘BLURR’

Taapsee is all set for her next film titled Blurr. The actress today anncounced the release date on her social handle and also shared the first look. Sharing it, Taapsee wrote, “There’s always more than what meets the eye!

#BlurrOnZEE5 premieres 9th December.” As reported, the story revolves around a woman and her struggles. This film is about a Gayatri who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the death of her twin sister.

riyanka Chopra needs no introduction and always leaves her fans stunned with her acting skills and amazing work.

A few weeks back, Priyanka who resides in Los Angeles with her husband-singer Nick Jonas and daughter Malti Marie Chopra Jonas, recently visited India after three long years and was busy with her work commitments. During her visit, Priyanka interacted with YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia aka BeerBiceps for his podcast, The Ranveer Show and during their chat, the actress shared that people were trying to ‘jeopardise’ her career and also take away from her work. While others also made sure she wasn’t cast just because she was doing well in what she was doing. Further, she continued that it’s not something that stops her. “I don’t sit and wait and harp on, maybe I will cry one night when an opportunity was taken away from me, but I don’t sit in the s**t. You have to shut off the noise,” she added.

icky Kaushal, Bhumi Pednekar and Kiara Advani are busy promoting their upcoming film - the Shashank Khaitan-directed Govinda Naam Mera. Vicky and Kiara play choreographers in the movie. Recently, when asked, who from the film industry would the

team like to choreograph for, here’s what they had to say.

“I would like to choreograph Katrina Kaif, woh theek thaak dance karti hai. Talented hai ladki, better kar sakti hai,” laughs Vicky, further adding, “Bas aaj khana nahin milega”.

Vicky and Katrina got married in December last year in Rajasthan in the presence of their families and close friends. Has life

Sonam Kapoor

Ananya in white ruched dress

Ananya Panday Vicky’s

confession!

Taapsee Pannu

Priyanka Chopra

Alia Bhatt

Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif

Poster of the film

WEDDING BELLS!

Saviour of Nature!

CAFE EARNEST: BEST OF BREWS

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Located in CScheme, the heart of Jaipur’s mod ern culinary hub, Cafe Earnest is a pas sionate participant in the city’s coffee culture reformation. More than anything it is a space for collaboration and participation. Designed for anyone who loves a peaceful haven to enjoy music, art, literature, or even work, or to just sit back and relax, Ear nest promises inclusion and care.

While the name is inspired by the work of the fabu lous Oscar Wilde, the cafe itself is filled with diverse artistic and cu linary delights. The place is perfect for peo ple from all walks of life to drop in for a cof fee, a chat with a friend, a work meeting, or just a breather. The place serves speciality coffee made using the best of coffee beans, delicious food made with care

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The famous ac tress, Tani sha Mukerji reached the Pink City at Hotel Amara, Jagatpura, Jaipur on wednesday and interacted with the media during her private stay.

When asked about her future planes, the actress said, “I have only one plan and that is to work for the envi ronment” . She urged people to feed people as she feels starvation is the biggest problem in the country and to serve the nature, as Earth is in danger.

While talking about her mission, the diva said “We as a family are associated with NGO that fights against carbon emis sion, my NGO, The Stamp is about tree planting initiative.

Keeping the kids alive is very important as they are the future generation.” “One of the most difficult chal lenges that we are fac ing is environmental degradation, result ing from deforesta tion, pollution, and climate change. Dete riorating environ mental conditions have resulted in many other prob lems such as scarcity of resources, poor sanitation and hy giene, as well as ca lamities such as floods and droughts. We hu mans are causing ex cessive damage to the environment, many of which are irreversible” she added.

Tanishaa said that she felt “re ally blessed” to work for the nature. “The plantation drives are strategically planned so that they reach vari ous strata of the society. Her NGO in volves all the aspects of envi ronmental pro

Cake mixing ceremony organised in JNU

CITY FIRST

The cake-mixing ceremony was or ganised by JNU.

The main objec tive of this event is also to make aware of the re sponsibilities towards society. On this occasion, a special traditional Christmas cake will be made by the students of the School of Hotel Man agement to make the Christmas festival cel ebrated on Decem ber 25 memorable.

The ceremony was inaugurated by Dr Bakshi, Chancellor of the University, by mixing the ingredients of the cake. This cake will be distributed to poor chil dren and orphanages on

Christmas day. On this occasion, Dr Bakshi dis tributed sweaters, jer seys, jacket to class IV employees, poor and needy people.

On this occasion, Dr Bakshi said that JNU is always committed to ful filling social duties. He said that be it in the field of medicine, the univer sity always fulfills its re sponsibilities towards the economically weaker people. Dr Bakshi said that he continued to get inspiration from his mother Mohini Bakshi and said that we are running with a mission in which we aim to provide cheap and hitech medical facilities to the general public along with education.

JK Lakshmipat University (JKLU) celebrated its 10th Convocation Day in the presence of Chief Guest, NASSCOM Co-Founder and Padma Shri awardee Saurabh Srivastava at the college premises on Wednesday. 107 students were awarded graduation and post-graduation degrees. The event also coincided with JKLU’s 11th Founder’s Day, which is celebrated on the birth anniversary of Lala Lakshmipat Singhania, on Tuesday.

Jazba Foundation, ESAM FLY HIGH and Ideal Computer Institute organised a second-day audition of the Talent Hunt in Jaipur on Wednesday at Jazba Foundation Institute. Regarding Talent Hunt a lot of excitement is being seen among the students, on the second day of the talent audition, the students gave a tremendous performance in mehndi and painting. During this, the selection committee gave a ranking considering the skills of the contestants.

Little Millennium Preschool Mahaveer Nagar, organised Anuttara’22, the annual day program, after a gap of 2 years due to COVID-19 lockdowns. The programme was held in the Rangayan Auditorium, JKK Jaipur. The chief guest was Rajkumar Mosun, MD JKJ Jewellers. Parents and grandparents were invited to attend the event. The theme for Anuttara’22 was Rangilo Rajasthan. The preschoolers from different classes performed Theatre and Dance.

Renowned Shyam Bhajan singer Raj Pareek inaugurated the brochure of Shyam Bhakti Seva Sansthan on Wednesday. During this, Shyam Bhakti.com news portal editor Monika Prajapat and web designer Anil Prajapat informed Shyam Bhajan singer Raj Pareek about the news portal and plans of Shyam Bhakti Seva Sansthan.

Anurag Thakur, Union Minister for I&B and Youth Affairs & Sports was felicitated by Moni Sharma, Editor (News), First India, Jaipur during a courtesy meeting at Birla Auditorium, Jaipur on Wednesday.

The wedding ceremony of Dr Anish Raja, Son of Sarita and Raja Mohammad Nagra with Dr Norin Diwan, daughter of Batul and Dr Sattar Diwan held on Tuesday, November 22 at Hotel Bhanwar Singh Palace, Jaipur. Jagdeesh Chandra reached to bless the newlyweds and wished them a happy married life. Various dignitaries including Vaibhav Gehlot, President Rajasthan Cricket Association and other Congress leaders were also present on the occasion. —PHOTOS BY SANTOSH SHARMA

tection – rural devel opment, cleaner schools, tree planta tion in cities and com munity-based land protection. Their prin cipal aim is to create a greener, cleaner and healthier environ ment so that our fu ture generations get a better and greener planet with even richer bio-diversi

ty and abundant natu ral resources” She fur ther added.

Manpower will be used from all villages and panchayats to re forest land and villag es will be helped with techniques of rainwa ter harvesting, drip irrigation, education of various plant life and how they grow and jobs will be creat ed for caring for and

Tanisha Mukerji, a renowned Indian actress known reached Jaipur to spare some royal time in royal city She also shared some insights about her NGO, The STAMP in exclusive interview with City First!

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and a sincere com mitment to quality. Some of the must try dishes here include Ra chel salad, Roast Chick en Pizza, Pumpkin par mesan fettucine with bacon, chocolate brown ies, pumpkin hot bread, among others. Wash them down with lemon nana, Brazilian lemon ade, or a cup of your favourite brew.

Jagdeesh Chandra greets Yakub Nagra and Amjad Nagra

Vaibhav Gehlot with (L-R) MD Chopdar, Sattar Diwan Chopdar, Salim Diwan Chopdar, Yakub Nagra, Imran Raine Mandelia and Babu Bhai with others

Newlyweds Dr Anish Raja and Dr Norin Diwan

Tanisha Mukerji with Raj Bansal and Abhimanyu Bansal

Dr Sandeep Bakshi with others

—PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO