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Full report P5 Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and state Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, RJD leader Rabri Devi and others during the nomination filing of Bihar legislative Council Chairman, in Patna on Wednesday. 160 MLAs voted in favour of motion while no vote was cast against same l Bihar speaker Vijay Ku mar Sinha resigns ahead of CM Nitish’s floor test l CBI raids 2 RJD lead ers including Lalu’s aide Sunil Singh in connec with land-for-jobs scam l Outgoing Bihar speak er did not want a dalit to preside over House, says his deputy l Bihar CM Nitish Kumar praises Atal Bihari Vaj payee in the Assembly BJP is luring AAP MLAs, says Kejri; BJP denies the charge
—Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy CM IN THE COURTYARD RJD SUPREMO LALU PRASAD YADAV ACQUITTED IN 2015 POLL CODE VIOLATION CASE MUNDRA DRUG HAUL: 2 AFGHANS GRANTED TRANSFER TO UP JAIL TMC’S MONDAL SENT TO 14 DAYS IN JUDICIAL CUSTODY Patna: A court in Bihar’s Hajipur on Wednesday acquitted RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav in a 2015 case pertaining to the former chief minister allegedly making caste-based remarks and violating the Model Code of Conduct during as sembly elections.The court of Additional Chief Judicial Magis trate (Hajipur), Smita Raj, acquitted Yadav of all charges due to lack of substantive evidence.
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New Delhi: The RBI on Wednesday lifted the restrictions on American Express Banking Corp and allowed onboarding of new domestic customers on its card network. Curbs were imposed for not following ‘Storage of Payment System Data’ effective May 1, 2021.
New Delhi: NCA head VVS Laxman will perform the duties of interim head coach for the upcoming Asia Cup after Rahul Dravid tested positive for Covid-19. Dravid is currently in isolation and will link up with the squad once he tests negative, BCCI secretary Jay Shah stated in a release on Wednesday.
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Tokyo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to attend the state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on September 27, Japanese media reported on Wednesday. Modi is also likely to hold a meeting with Japanese PM Fumio Kishida, the report added.
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Ahmedabad: A special NIA court in Ahmedabad has granted the plea of two Afghan nationals accused in the Mundra drug haul case to be transferred to the Central Jail in Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh from the Sabarmati Central Jail in Gujarat. They had sought the transfer primar ily on the ground that a case is pending against them in UP. Asansol: A special CBI court remanded TMC leader Anubra ta Mondal to 14 days in judicial custody. Mondal was arrested by the CBI on Aug 11 in con nection with its probe into the alleged cattle smuggling to Bangladesh. Rejecting the bail plea of Mondal, Asansol special CBI court judge Rajesh Chakraborty remanded him to judicial custody till Sept 7.
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Jaiveer Shergill has quit the grand-old party. Jaiveer Shergill resigned from all posts and membership of the Congress party on Wednesday. He alleged that decision making in Cong party is no longer based on public interest.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates ‘Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre’, in Mohali, Punjab on Wednesday. Also present here on the occasion are Governor Banwarilal Purohit, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh and CM Bhagwant Mann. Full report P5 Nitish wins trust vote after BJP lawmakers walk out Patna (ANI): The new ly-formed ‘Mahagath bandhan’ govt in Bihar on Wednesday comfort ably won the motion of confidence amid a walk out staged by MLAs of the BJP -- which has been stripped of power as a result of recent po litical upheaval in state. Some of BJP MLAs, who had staged a walk out while Nitish was de livering his speech, stormed House demand ing that deputy speaker not waste time on the headcount.
380 projects are stuck due to lack of No Objection Certificates (NOCs). For example, 13 projects are stuck due to no NOC for Coastal Regulation Zone II, four due to lack of NOC from civil aviation authori ties, six projects due to defence-related NOCs, etc. The state government will try to help in securing these NOCs so that 380 projects could be completed.
PM Modi inaugurates State-ofthe-art Amrita Hospital in Faridabad l Modi opens ‘Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital & Research Centre’ in Mohali Moni Sharma Faridabad: Prime Min ister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated the super-speciality Am rita Hospital in Hary ana’s Faridabad man aged by Mata Amritan andamayi Math and said that the hospital will make a lot of pleasuresdom,doka,RecitingersdoctorsmemberswiththeAmritanandamayi,congratulatedFaridabad,HospitalguralAddressingdifference.theinaueventofAmritainHaryana’sPMModiMataallsaintsassociatedherMath,andtheofthetrust,andalltheworkofthenewhospital.aSanskritsloPMModisaid,“Wenotdesirethekingnordowedesireofheaven.”
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`30,000 TO TARGET INDIAN ARMY’ New Delhi: A captured terrorist treatmentundergoingatafacility of the IA in Kashmir said he had been sent on a suicide mission by a colonel of the Pakistani army. Terrorist, identified as Tabarak Hussain, said he had come with four-five other men and had been given `30,000 by Pakistani colonel, Colonel Yunus, to target the Indian Army.
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Satish Nandgaonkar Mumbai: Deputy Chief Minister Dev endra Fadnavis on Wednesday said the government proposed to unlock 276 acres of slum land owned by the Airports Author ity of India (AAI) around Mumbai air port with in-situ clus ter development and some of this freed land could then be used for the expan sion of the airport. During a discussion on slum rehabilitation and redevelopment in Mumbai in the state legislature, Fadnavis said, “By rehabilitating slum dwellers at the same place, the land could be unlocked. We would be able to return around 100 acres of land to AAI, which could then use it to ex pand the Mumbai air port.”Fadnavis said the AAI had given in-prin ciple approval for a similar venture pro posed under the previ ous BJP government. “We will take final approval from AAI and go for in-situ re habilitation through cluster tion,locasametheinghousedprovidcandwellersway,projects.developmentThisslumbeat and the land could be used for airport expan sion.”In2012, the state gov ernment had given the slum rehabilitation of airport land to “The SRA (Slum Re habilitation Authority) houses built by HDIL are in a poor condition now. The CM has also directed the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authori ty (MMRDA) to repair these homes and hand them over to SRA for future use,” he said. As much as 276 acres of AAI land is part of the 673 acres of Union government land under slum acresofernmentland,3,620piedlandthatFadnavisencroachment,said,adding8,333.53acresofiscurrentlyoccubyslumsincludingacresofprivate2,140acresofgovland,856acresBMCland,and272of Turn to P6
Satish Nandgaonkar Mumbai: Union Fi nance Minister Nirma la Sitharaman—who has been assigned by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) high com mand to be in charge of the Baramati Lok Sab ha tripmakeconstituency—willherfirstthree-daytotheNationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar family’s bastion from September 22-24. In its August 08 edi tion, First India had re ported that Prime Min ister Narendra Modi has tasked each of his cabinet ministers with the duty of improving the party’s performance in the 2024 elections. He has given them the re sponsibility of three districts and Turn to P6
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New Delhi: The AAP on Wednesday took on Modi-led union govt, ac cusing it of trying to topple the Delhi govt. BJP is using central probe agencies against its leaders, the party claimed. AAP leaders slammed BJP for alleg edly trying to lure AAP MLAs with cash and threats. The BJP has de nied the charge and ac cused AAP of trying to “deviate and deflect” from questions around alleged corruption in the liquor policy for which Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was recently raided by the CBI.
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New Delhi: Facebook confirmed it is working on fixing problems with its newsfeed after users complained about feeds overrun by posts from strangers directed at celebrity accounts. The glitch has led to more than 2,500 complaints on Downdetector on Wednesday. Fb later issued a statement to restore to normal soon.
—Ajit Pawar, Leader of the Opposition Mumbai (PTI): Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday felici tated five-term former MLA Keshavrao Shan karrao Dhondge, who turned 100 last month, in the Vidhan Bhavan here and lauded his contributions to public life. Dhondge, also a former Lok Sabha MP, was born on July 25, 1922, and participated in the freedom move ment. He founded an organization, the Shri Shivaji Mofat Educa tion Society, to spread education among people. Speaking on the occasion, Shinde said it was Dhondge who per suaded both the Houses of the state legislature to start proceedings by singing Vande Mataram on the first day of a ses sion. His demand was accepted and came into force in 1990.
Mumbai (PTI): Depu ty Chief Minister De vendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said the state government will make all efforts to get the presidential assent speedily for the Shak ti Bill that provides for stringent punish ment for crimes against women. Replying to a debate in the Legislative Coun cil, he said the state had sent the Shakti Crimi nal Laws port,willBilltionaskedionDecemberthelarPradeshDishaThesenttoAmendment)(MaharashtraBill,2020,thePresidentforasearlierthisyear.Bill,inspiredbytheActofAndhraandothersimilaws,waspassedbystatelegislaturein2021.TheUnHomeMinistryforsomeinformapertainingtotheandthestateDGPsoonsubmitareFadnavissaid.
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Raees Sheikh (of the Samajwadi Party) also said the delimitation of wards was a manipula tion done to help a “par ticular party” and claimed that it was done to target councillors from other parties who worked for several years by breaking the wards they represented. Nei ther named any party. Amit Satam (BJP) said in the 2011 census, there was 3.87% in crease in population and since it was a mini mal increase, the wards were not increased in 2017. But the MVa gov ernment illegally in creased the wards by nine, he said.
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Shinde faction, Opposition face off at Vidhan Bhavan
The Congress and the Samajwadi Party sup ported the amendment to reverse the previous government’s decision on wards in the Mumbai civic body, where elec tions are due. The NCP and the Ud dhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena opposed the amend ment by highlighting a Supreme Court decision directing a status quo. But Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fad navis made it clear that the apex court directive was in another case per taining to quota for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs). “Our ordinance is for reversing the num ber of wards from 236 to 227. There is no legal im pediment,” he said. Shiv Sena MLA Aadi tya Thackeray said the Bill was “unconstitu tional, just like the gov ernment”. But, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said, “In a democracy, numbers are important. We have the majority. We have not acted unconsti tutionally.”Shindealso accepted MLA Sada Sarvankar’s demand for an inquiry by the decisionpreviousBureauAnti-Corruption(ACB)intothegovernment’stoincreasethe number of wards. Al though he was the urban development minister in the previous Thackerayled government, policy making is always a col lective decision, he said.
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First India Bureau Mumbai: In a bid to prevent flooding, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday an nounced that the gov ernment plans to im plement a “compre hensive policy” for desilting Maharash tra’s rivers in the on going session of the state Assembly.
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Sena MLA Mahesh Shinde (from the CM’s faction) and NCP MLC Amol Mitkari virtually came to blows at the steps of the Maharashtra legislature building They first.arguingstartedWhen they protested all these days, we did not interfere.
First India Bureau Mumbai: The state As sembly passed a Bill reversing a decision of the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi govern ment to increase the number of wards in the cash-rich Brihan mumbai toCorporationMunicipalfrom227236,onWednesday.
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Maha’s anti-conversion law to be stricter: Fadnavis First India Bureau Mumbai: In response to the demand for anti-conversion law made by Maharash tra Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legisla tor, Nitesh Rane, cit ing alleged religious conversion of Hindu women, Deputy Chief Minister Dev endra Fadnavis an nounced in the state Assembly on Wednesday that there is already an anti-conversion law in Maharashtra. “No one can carry out conversion with co ercion. If there are flaws in the provisions of the law, the govern ment will make efforts to make the provisions further stringent,” he said, in his reply to the motion by Rane. The MLA had called atten tion to the law after the alleged conversion of a minor girl from Ahmednagar district. Rane urged Fad navis to step up ac tions against forced conversion. “People’s rate cards are based to religion and caste and minor girls are victim ized,” he Referringalleged.to the Shrirampur case, Rane alleged that the ac cused and the police were in cahoots. “It is a serious incident. A mi nor girl is cheated and tortured in the name of religious conversion. Action against the ac cused was taken a long time after the case was registered,” he said. The legislator de manded that the police officer in charge of the case be terminated. In response, Fadnavis said that an inquiry will be conducted in the matter.
Some of the ban ners carried the mes sage: “Raja stayed indoors due to fear of COVID-19 while friends of the yuvraj looted the treasury.”
Amin Patel (Congress) said ward delimitation was done to “benefit a particular party” and was not in the interest of the citizens of Mumbai.
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Several parts of the state saw flooding in the wake of incessant rain last month. —FILE PHOTO
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The Maharashtra Legislative Council on Tuesday passed two Bills that will en able election of gram panchayat sarpanches, presidents of municipal councils and nagar panchayats directly by voters.
The Shinde faction MLAs tried to snatch the carrots from the NCP legislators, rais ing tensions between the two groups. Sena MLA Mahesh Shinde (from the CM’s faction) and NCP MLC Amol Mitkari then vir tually came to blows at the steps of the legisla ture fusedintervenedfromSomebuilding.legislatorsthetwosidesthenanddifthetension.Earlier,legislators of the ruling BJP and those from the Shinde faction staged a pro test in the Vidhan Bhavan premises tar geting former CM Ud dhav Thackeray and his son Aaditya Thackeray.Theycarried ban ners with messages al leging corruption in the cash-rich Brihan mumbai HindutvaeraysandCorporationMunicipal(BMC)claimedtheThackcompromisedforpower.
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First India Bureau Mumbai: The state As sembly witnessed a row on whether or not the state has seen any child deaths due to malnutrition in the past five years, lead ing Speaker Rahul Narvekar to reserve the issue and as Tribal Development Minister Vijaykumar Gavit to produce fresh infor mation. Gavit on Wednesday said that there has been no child death reported due to malnutrition in the state in the last five years. However, mem bers of the NCP and Congress objected to the minister’s claim. Gavit said, “As per data shared by the health department, there is no child death reported due to malnu trition in the state.” There are 16 districts with tribal populations. “No district has reported such a death in the last five years,” he said. It is a thatknownwell-facttherehave been cases of malnutri tion in the state and many children die due to it every year. In Mel ghat (Amravati district) alone, 18 children died between July 15 and Au gust 15 this year.
First India Bureau Mumbai: Deputy Chief Minister Deven dra Fadnavis on Wednesday told the state Legislative As sembly that the Comp troller and Auditor General (CAG) will conduct a special au dit into the function ing of the Brihan mumbai CorporationMunicipal(BMC).
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BMC has been experimenting with technology to fill the city’s potholes, so as to eliminate them all in three years.
Mumbai (PTI): An MLA from Maha rashtra Chief Minis ter Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena faction and a legislator of the NCP almost came to blows in the Vidhan Bhavan premises on Wednesday after shouting slogans against each other. The NCP MLAs car ried carrots on the steps of the legislature building in an bid to taunt the ruling Shiv Sena-BJP coalition.
The MLAs also shouted slogans like “standing committee che khoke...Ma toshree okay,” alleg ing corruption in the BMC with the sup port of teeUddhavpersonal“Matoshree”Thackerays.istheresidenceofThackeray.Standingcommitisthegoverning body of the BMC, where the elections areBharatdue. Gogawale, the MLA from the Shinde camp, told re porters that the oppo sition legislators need not have come near them when they were staging the protest. “They started argu ing first. When they protested all these days, we did not inter fere,” he Memberssaid. from both the sides kept shouting slogans against each other for some more time and then went into the House to attend the day’s proceedings.
Opposition and rebel Shiv Sena MLAs raised slogans against each other outside the Maharashtra Assembly during its ongoing Monsoon session on Wednesday.
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Tabling the Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965, in the Upper House, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said the move was aimed at increasing accountability of these local bodies, mem bers of which have so far been electing their own chiefs.
Speaking in the Lower House of the state legis lature, he also said that the state Urban Develop ment Department (UDD) will separately conduct a time-bound probe into the allegations that serv ing civic officials in Mumbai have started their own companies and accepting work con tracts.“Aspecial audit will be conducted by the CAG into the BMC’s function ing, including the quali ty of roads, allegation of scams in setting up of COVID-19 centres,” he said.Municipal elections in the city are due soon.
“The ersforagovernmentMaharashtraisformingcomprehensivepolicydesiltingofallrivinthestate.Itwould work as a guideline for the implementing au thority to take neces sary steps to clean and desilt the river beds,” Shinde said, replying to a question from by BJP member Sunil Rane. Meanwhile, to a question by some members on satellite phones, minister Ab dul Sattar said in the House that the previ ous government had bought satellite phones at a rate of Rs1,70,000 per unit, when similar phones are available at Rs80,000 per unit.
Devendra Fadnavis BJP legislator Nitesh Rane alleged that the accused and police colluded in the Shrirampur case
A total of eight stu dents complainedatpuriyalya,MatimandAnusuyatmajaNiwasiVidlocatednearIginthedistrict,ofsymp toms like vomiting and loose motions after dinner on Tuesday night, said the police official.Theailing students were taken to the Igat puri rural hospital where Bhoir and Sheikh succumbed.Thefood samples have been sent for test ing and further investi gation is underway, added the official. The residential insti tution located in the Nashik district has around 120 students.
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First India Bureau Mumbai: The state government has hiked the onMungantiwarministerRs20fromwildofassistancefinancialforlosshumanlifeinanimalattacksRs15lakhtolakh,forestSudhirsaidWednesday. Making the an nouncement in the Legislative Council, he said the incidence of human-animal conflict was rising in the state. In 2019-20, 47 people lost their lives in attacks by wild animals, 80 peo ple died in such inci dents in 2020-21 and 86 died in 2021-22, he said. The financial as sistance (in such cas es) has been hiked from Rs15 lakh to Rs20 lakh, Munganti warThesaid.assistance is provided in the case of death due to an at tack by tiger, leopard, bear, gaur, wild boar, wolf, hyena, croco dile, wild dog and el ephant, the minister said. The compensa tion for the death of cattle in such attacks has been hiked from Rs60,000 to Rs70,000. If a sheep or goat is killed, the amount has been hiked from Rs10,000 to 15,000. In case of cattle suf fering permanent dis ability, the compensa tion has been hiked from Rs12,000 to Rs15,000, and for sheep and goat it has been increased from Rs4,000 to Rs5,000.
First India Bureau Mumbai: Reacting in differently to girl friend’s apprehen sion of being preg nant falls short of instigation or incite ment to commit sui cide, said the Bombay High Court, while granting bail to a man arrested for rap ing and abetting the suicide of his girl friend. A 16-year-old girl al legedly committed sui cide at her residence in Thane in March 2021 after her boyfriend (ac cused), then aged 19 years, reacted indiffer ently to her message to him saying she might be pregnant, according to Apolice.single bench of Justice Bharati Dangre granted bail to the ac cused, Kunal Doke, not ing that the victim’s post-mortem report has revealed she was not pregnant. “The sudden reaction of the accused to her news of being pregnant falls short of instigation or incite ment for the victim to commit suicide,” he said.
First India Bureau Nashik: Two students of a residential school for specially abled children in Nashik district died due to suspected food poi soning on Wednesday, police said. The condition of two other students was seri ous, they Harshaladded.Bhoir (23), who hailed from Bhi wandi, and Mohammed Zuber Sheikh (10) who was from Nashik died at the Igatpuri rural hospital, said a police official.Two other students whose condition was serious were shifted to the Nashik district Hos pital where they were undergoing treatment.
India Bureau Mumbai: Two persons from Valsad in neigh bouring Gujarat were detained on Wednes day for suburbanupthreateningreportedlytoblowTheLalithotelinAndheri.
The applicant, at the time of the incident, was merely 19 years old and he had reacted in an indifferent manner which can be seen from the WhatsApp chat (with the victim). The chat reveals the two were sharing a proxi mate relationship, said the court.
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First India Bureau Thane: Panic spread in the district after a leopard was found loitering inside a house in a residen tial area of the dis trict. Forest personnel, however, managed to catch the big cat after about 10 hours on Tuesday, a department official said. The leopard had re portedly entered a house in Sahapur ta luk’s Umbarkhand vil lage at around 4am on Tuesday.Theleopard was found resting in a room by a family mem ber—a theimmediatelywoman—wholockeddoor.Thefamily then alerted the local police and forest de partment.Forestofficials and a team from the Sanjay Gandhi National Park arrived at the house and tranquilized the leopard. According to the forest official, it was a two-year-old fe male which was later released into the forest. The forest official said the leopard pos sibly entered the vil lage in search of prey. He also assured that no one was hurt by the feline.
Nagpur: A tiger carcass was dead in the Navegaon Khairi reservoir in the buffer zone of the Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR), said a forest of ficial on Tuesday, adding that the likely cause of death could be “accidental drown ing”. There was no sign of electrocu tion or poisoning, the release from the deputy director of PTR
BDDS undertook a four-hour frisk-and-check operation of the hotel’s rooms and adjacent areas, said officials.
Leopard rescued after 10 hrs in Thane house
Relief in fatal attacks by wild animals increased to ` 20 lakh
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The sudden reaction of the applicant to the news of pregnancy may fall short of it, added theConsideringcourt. the young age of the appli cant, his incarceration on the completion of investigation is unwar ranted, Justice Dangre said, while directing that Doke be released on bail on a personal bond of Rs25,000. The Thane police had arrested Doke in March 2021 based on a com plaint made by the vic tim girl’s mother. He was booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for rape and abetment of suicide and under pro visions of the Protec tion of Children from Sexual Offences (POC SO) Act.
Man held for murder of bed-ridden aunt Mumbai (PTI): A 39-year-old man has been arrested here for allegedly killing his ailing aunt over a finan cial dispute, police said on Wednes day. Anthony Benja min Fernandes al legedly assaulted his aunt Santan Bastev Fernandes (65) even though she was bed-ridden, said an official of the Byculla police station.Anthony and his aunt lived in the same house. He was allegedly angry af ter learning that she was helping his brother to get a bank loan.His wife contacted police when she re alized that the old woman was lying motionless after he had beaten her. An thony was booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 302 (murder) and further probe was on, said the official.
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The hotel administra tion approached Sahar police station to file an FIR, while the hotel premises, located in Andheri East, were thor oughly scanned after the call. The FIR was initial ly lodged against an uni dentifiedAccordingperson.toa Mum bai police official, multi ple teams were formed to catch the caller.
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Three-judge bench of apex court warns of ‘action’ in case of violations; will hear the matter in next hearing on August 30 Environmentalists and local residents have been protesting against felling of trees at Aarey colony.
The leopard was found resting in a room by a family member who locked the door and alerted the authorities.
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To invoke the offence of abetment to commit suicide, it is necessary to establish that there was instigation or in citement from the ac cused to the deceased to commit suicide, it said.
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In 2019-20, 47 people lost their lives in attacks by wild animals, 80 people died in such incidents in 2020-21 and 86 died in 2021-22
First India Bureau New Delhi: The Su preme Court on Wednesday directed the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) to strictly abide by its undertaking that no trees would be cut in Mumbai’s Aarey col ony and warned that any violation will re sult in strict action. A three-judge bench headed by Justice UU Lalit said he would hear the matter on Au gust 30 after counsel for the Maharashtra gov ernment sought time to collate“Thedocuments.counsel for MMRCL submits that her clients have al ready filed an affidavit that no trees have been or would be cut in any manner. The said un dertaking by the MMR CL director has already been taken on record and MMRCL shall be strictly bound by the same,” said the bench also comprising Jus tice SR Bhat and Jus tice Sudhanshu Dhulia. Senior advocate Ani tha Shenoy, appearing for the petitioner, al leged that clearing and levelling work is going on despite the apex court’s order. The MMRCL had ear lier told the Supreme Court that no trees have been cut in Mum bai’s Aarey colony af ter October 2019. The apex court in 2019 had taken suo motu cognizance of a letter petition ad dressed to the then chief justice of India by a law student seek ing a stay on the felling of trees in the Aarey colony.Thetop court had re strained authorities from cutting any more trees in the Aarey colo ny after the solicitor general had submitted on behalf of the state of Maharashtra that no further trees will be cut.The felling of trees in the colony has been opposed by green activ ists and residents. I I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia
Valsad police’s special opera tions group (SOG) helped the Mumbai police to nab the two culprits, said Valsad SOG Sub-Inspec tor LG Rathod. The two, identified as Vikram Singh and Yeshu Singh, were caught from Vapi town around 3.00am on Wednesday, said Rathod. The two are friends who hail from Bihar, but were living in Vapi town. They called in the bomb hoax in an at tempt to make easy money by extorting the administration of the five-star luxury hotel, saidAnofficials.official said the two used Yeshu’s phone to first threaten the onduty receptionist that they would blow up the hotel, before demanding that the manager with whom they spoke next— deliver Rs5 crore to Su rat to keep them from detonating their bombs.
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esirous of just the most elementary food and accommo dation arrange ments, Modiji comes out as a saintly figure in this account of his persona and attributes as a pracharak. The narrator was touched by the candour and purity of Modiji’s words and actions. Our house was no palace. It was a humble dwelling, not built out of cement and concrete. The roof too was built out of tin shade. When Modiji visited me, I was certain he would not like to sleep under a tin shade roof. I requested him to shift base to a better accommodation as there was provision for him at other places too. But Modiji said “Ni tin bhai, no. I will share the place with you. Wherever you eat, drink and sleep is good enough for me.” Such was his temperament. He would not look for material comforts but in modesty and simplicity, he would be completely at peace. The next day we went out to the pravas in the morning. The pro tocol says that when pracharaks arrive, their accommodation, food and comfort is taken care of. It got to be noon and we were still at the pravas and I was be ginning to get anxious about making arrangements for lunch for Narendra bhai. But it was Modiji who spoke up first and said “Nitin bhai, you must be craving some food now as its quite late!” I felt embarrassed and I said “It’s me who has to worry about your comfort and not the other way round.” And here we had the quintessential Modi in his truest avatar - sim ple, saintly and easy-going. He took out two chana packets from his pocket, gave me one and kept one with himself. “Let’s have a little chana and keep going with ourThework!”incident left a deep im pact on me. So many times he would work till late after mid night, there would be lengthy meetings stretching till 2 or 3 in the morning, yet nothing could change the time at which Nar endra bhai would begin his day. Five in the morning was when he would wake up, irrespective of the time he slept at. Those were days sans mobile phones; in fact there weren’t any land line phones either and all cor respondence used to be through letters. And it is hard to believe, Narendra bhai, in order to keep in touch with the swayamse vaks would wake up so early to write letters and reply to those he had received from the kar ykartas. Writing postcards, in ternational letters and estab lishing communication with the swayamsevaks, Narendra bhai would make each morn ing, noon and night count to ensure that work and progress never stopped!
YOU READ PART-16 ON JULY 28, 2022 Anita Hada Sangwan on behalf of First Express Publishers. Printed at Dangat Media Pvt Ltd, No.22, Dighe MIDC, Vishnu Nagar, TTC Industrial Area, Dighe, Navi Mumbai-400701. C Garden Home, CHS Limited, Survey No. 5, 6C (Part) Ville Parle East, Mumbai 400057. Editor-In-Chief: Dr Jagdeesh Chandra Editor: Anita Hada Sangwan responsible for selection of news under the PRB Act COMPILED AND EDITED BY SHASHIKANT SHARMA AND SHWETA SHARMA MODI IS SIMPLE AND SAINTLY AVATAR ALWAYS Ifelt embarrassed and I said “It’s me who has to worry about your comfort and not the other way round.” And here we had the quintessential Modi in his truest avatar - simple, saintly and easy-going. He took out two chana packets from his pocket, gave me one and kept one with himself. “Let’s have a little chana and keep going with our work!”
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D And it is hard to believe, Narendra bhai, in order to keep in touch with the swayamsevaks would wake up so early to write letters and reply to those he had received from the karykartas. Writing postcards, international letters and establishing communication with the swayamsevaks, Narendra bhai would make each morning, noon and night count to ensure that work and progress never stopped!
Sorry,’ A lesson in punctuality
THE EXTENT OF HUMILITY AND PUNCTUALITY THAT DEFINES NARENDRA MODI Iwas overwhelmed with awe and became certain that something was extraordinarily special about him. When we reached the meeting spot, it had already commenced. When it was Narendra bhai’s turn to address the delegates, can you imagine how he started off his speech? He did it with an apology. General Secy of party apologizing to gathering and for what? For being late to the meeting by 3 minutes.
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he narrator brings to the fore the tremen dous value Modiji at taches to time. A de lay of 3 minutes for a meeting is a matter of concern for him and this incident speaks volumes about Modiji’s simplicity and ut most dedication towards duty. This incident is from the time when Narendra bhai was Gen eral Secretary in Gujarat, more than 35 to 40 years ago. In my opinion, Narendra bhai was dif ferent when immersed in Sang hathan activities but I have been fortunate to have known him at very close quarters, not the Nar endra bhai of the Sanghathan. In 1992, there was a traders’ confer ence in Gujarat. Being the Gen eral Secretary Narendra bhai was visiting Rajkot. He was com ing by road to Rajkot while the other members had reached the previous night. At that time the party did not have any big car. He was travelling by Esteem. As per party protocol, whenever the senior leadership of the party is travelling, it is the party’s re sponsibility to manage the move ment of leaders. Well this time it was my responsibility to arrange for Narendra bhai’s movement.
Raninga Wadi is a big banquet hall in Rajkot and delegates had arrived from all over the coun try and adequate arrangements for their stay had been made by me. The meeting was about to begin and I was in the car with Narendra bhai. He turned to me and said, “Kashyap I hope we aren’t getting late for the meet ing!” I replied “No, Narendra bhai. We are 10 minutes ahead of the scheduled time.” If I talk about his persona, he is nothing less than a rock. Confidence oozes out of his being and his power of speech, his words of wisdom are such that anyone who listens to him is bound to be overpowered by his eloquence, logic, confidence and truth. At that time I was only a lower rung karyakarta and used to handle the voting section. Listening to Narendra bhai talk to me in the car completely mesmerized me and it was as if he had cast a spell on me. I was overwhelmed with awe and became certain that something was extraordi narily special about him. When we reached the meeting spot, it had already commenced. When it was Narendra bhai’s turn to address the delegates, can you imagine how he started off his speech? He did it with an apolo gy. The General Secretary of the party apologizing to the gather ing and for what? For being late to the meeting by 3 min utes. This is the extent of humility and punctuality that defines Narendra Modi. The program had barely commenced and no one there expected the General Secretary to be apologizing for joining in 3 minutes late. But then, it is no ordinary man we are re ferring to here. It is all about an incredible gentle man who even when com manding a high post con verses and shares his views just like an ordinary kar yakarta would and teaches a lesson in humility each and every time!
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Patna: The homes of three senior leaders of the Tejashwi Yadav-led Rash triya Janata Dal (RJD) were raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today in connection with the “land-for-jobs” case that alleges irregu larities during his father Lalu Yadav’s tenure as Railway minister in the UPA-I government.
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Patna: cricketingTejashwiturned-politicianCricketer-YadavcitedaanalogytodaytodescribethenewGrandAlliancewithNitishKumar--whohadendedtherulingalliancewithhimandtheCongressfiveyearsago.“Iamacricketerandthispartnershipwillcreatetumult.Thisisa never-ending innings, it will be historic. Our partnership will be long. No one is going to be run out,” he said in Bihar assembly today, ahead of the trust vote. The new govt headed by Nitish Kumar has to prove its majority in the floor of the house. Tejashwi Yadav, who has reoccupied the post of Nitish Kumar’s Dep uty in the new govt, ac cused the BJP of play ing divisive politics and attempting to stamp out opposition parties.“Go to any state where the opposition is in power or where the BJP is scared. They bring in their three Jamai (sonsin-law) -- the CBI, the ED and the IT dept”.
Patna: Bihar Assembly Deputy Speaker Maheshwar Hazari accused outgoing Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha of having “insulted Dalits” by denying him the opportunity to conduct proceedings of the House after stepping down. The deputy speaker subsequently adjourned the proceedings for 20 minutes.
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Mahesh Sharma Patna: Speculations are still being made about the reason that Nitish Kumar left the BJP in Bihar and got back with the RJD? BJP leaders used to make statements against him or question the functioning of the government, which was not a big deal. This hap pens everywhere in coa lition govts. But the goodwill of the BJP cen tral leaders was towards Nitish. Despite this, the reason for Nitish’s sud den change of heart is being said to be the elec tion result of UP. He was not much trou bled by Yogi Adityanath becoming the CM for the first time in UP, rather Nitish had returned to the BJP after Yogi be came CM for the first time. But the BJP’s vic tory for the second time troubled him. Before the elections, he had told people close to him that Akhilesh Yadav would win and Mandal politics would return in UP. But the results made him feel that a bastion of Mandal politics had collapsed permanently. He did not understand how BJP can win under the command of an upper caste leader. That’s when he decided to save Mandal’s strong hold in Bihar and at the same time Lalu was con tacted through Vijendra Yadav. UP results were out in March and Nitish’ efforts over five months were successful. Now he and Lalu Prasad togeth er will protect Mandal politics in Bihar.
STATE FETCHES `70K CR MOUs IN INVEST RAJ EVENT New Delhi: Raj’s — Invest Rajasthan 2022 — began on Wednesday in national capi tal and MoUs of `69,789.93 crore were signed by various firms. CM Gehlot, present on the occasion, said that investment commitments worth `1L cr would come in Sept following a conducive environment for investors in the state. The MoUs will cre ate a total of 11,846 direct employment opportunities.
New Delhi (PTI): Any form of terrorism, in cluding curity.tomostrorismSCOdaySinghfencedealttheagainstterrorism,cross-borderisacrimehumanityandmenacemustbewithunitedly,DeMinisterRajnathsaidonWednesataconclaveoftheinTashkent.“TerisoneoftheseriouschallengesglobalpeaceandseIndiareiterates its resolve to fight all forms of terrorism and make the region peace ful, secure and stable,” he“Wesaid.seek to develop joint institutional capa bilities with the SCO member states, which, while respecting the sensitivities of each country, create the spir it of cooperation among individuals, societies and nations,” he added. Rajnath Singh at the meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation at Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Wednesday.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah interacts with former vice president M. Venkaiah Naidu during a meeting, in New Delhi on Wednesday.
CENTRE TRYING TO TAKE CREDIT FOR STATE GOVT’S SCHEMES: NITISH BIHAR SPEAKER VIJAY SINHA RESIGNS AHEAD OF NITISH KUMAR’S FLOOR TEST CBI RAIDS RJD LEADERS IN LANDFOR-JOB SCAM BIHAR CM NITISH KUMAR PRAISES ATAL BIHARI
CM Ashok Gehlot during an investors meeting and MoU signing ceremony, at a hotel in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Mohali (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday in augurated Homi Bhab ha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre at Mul lanpur of Punjab’s Mo hali district. After inau gurating the state-ofthe-art 2,600-bed Amrita Hospital in Haryana’s Faridabad, PM Modi ar rived here in the after noon.Punjab CM Bhag want Mann was also present when PM Modi inaugurated the cancer hospital in Mullanpur on the outskirts transplant.pytherapy,tiesblecertophyraphy,agingMagneticthe-artequippedistalBhabhaChandigarh.HomiofCancerHospiandResearchCentrea300-bedfacilityandwithstate-of-facilitiessuchasresonanceim(MRI),mammogdigitalradiograandbrachytherapytreatalltypesofcanusingeveryavailatreatmentmodalilikesurgery,chemoimmunotheraandbonemarrow
CM Ashok Gehlot with (L) KC Venugopal and Dr Raghu Sharma addresses a press conference, in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
Nobody knows the future: Gehlot downplays presidency speculation l Claims his entire focus is on winning Gujarat and repeating his government in Rajasthan l Will continue to fulfill the responsibility of Chief Minister, High command has given two roles of Gujarat Senior Observer and Rajasthan CM, stresses CM Ashok Gehlot Senior Gujarat Observer Ashok Gehlot stresses that party’s manifesto will address the hopes and aspirations of Gujaratis, as directed by Rahul Gandhi
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MILIND SOMAN THANKS PM FOR ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO TAKE UP YOGA, AYURVEDA New Delhi: Fitness guru Milind Soman, on Wednesday, shared a couple of pictures with PM Narendra Modi and thanked him for en couraging people to take up Yoga and Ayurveda across the country. Taking to Instagram, Milind shared a couple of pictures which he captioned, “Was so happy to meet Hon PM @narendramodi after the #UnityRun and discover a mutual interest in ancient Indian tradi tions of sport, health & fitness :) I thanked him for all he is doing to encourage people to take up Yoga and Ayurveda across the country.
New Delhi: As Nitish Kumar-led govt won the motion of confidence by voice vote on Wednesday, the JD(U) supremo said that the Central govt is taking credit for state government schemes. In a scathing attack on BJP, he alleged that ‘Har Ghar Jal’ was a state govt’s scheme for which the Centre is taking credit.
New Delhi: Congress leader Feroze Khan made an appeal to Mus lims to thrash suspend ed BJP MLA T Raja Singh over his remarks on edwasmad.MuhamprophetSingharrestinHy derabad on Tuesday fol lowing his alleged re marks against Islam and prophet Muhammed in a video which was later pulled down by the so cial media platform on which it was uploaded. Following an uproar against his remarks, BJP had suspended Sin gh from the party. Now, in an expletiveladen rant, Congress leader Feroze Khan de manded an apology from Singh, and sought to know what was the need for the BJP leader to make such statements. Khan said it was wrong to criticise the be lief system of anyone. How can a responsible MLA make such re marks, he asked.
PM Narendra Modi visits ‘Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital & Research Centre’, in Mohali on Wednesday. Bhagwant Mann & Dr Jitendra Singh are also seen.
Patna: BJP’s Vijay Kumar Sinha resigned as the Speaker of the Bihar Assembly ahead of a floor test to prove the majority of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ alliance govt led by the chief minister Nitish Kumar. JD(U)’s Narendra Narayan Yadav, whose name was recommended by Sinha will chair the floor test now.
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Ahmedabad: Ra jasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday promised that several people-ori ented and social welfare schemes implemented in his state by the rul ing Congress, will be replicated in Gujarat if the party is voted to power following the As sembly elections due later this year. These schemes will also find a mention in the party’s manifesto for the Gujarat elec tions, he said, adding that industrial develop ment will also be pro moted on lines of Ra jasthan.InAhmedabad to hold meetings on the Gujarat Assembly poll preparations, Gehlot while talking to report ers denied speculations that he was the top choice to be the next Congress president. Gehlot said if the Congress is voted to power in Gujarat, it will introduce a health insurance scheme like the one implemented in Rajasthan, old pension scheme, separate agri culture budget and daytime electricity to farmers, itsposedthethings.schools,plate,qualityguaranteeemploymentscheme,foodforRs8perEnglishmediumamongother“Weareheretowinelection.BJPisexafter27yearsofruleinGujarat.
‘No run-out this time’: Yadav on alliance with Nitish Kumar
New Delhi: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and his govtmahagathbandhanwonthetrustvote on Wednesday amid a walkout by BJP lawmakers. Lead ers like Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani treated me with respect. I snapped ties with the BJP in 2013 in protest against Advani and other senior leaders being sidelined, said Kumar.
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Naresh Sharma New Delhi: Raj Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday sought to downplay speculation that he could be made Congress chief, saying nobody knows what will be decided. Gehlot’s meeting with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi led to the buzz that the two may have discussed the possibility of him being next party prez.
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Govt investing on six fronts to healthcare:strengthen PM Mohali (ANI): PM Nar endra Modi while inau gurating Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital laid down the six fronts on which the Central govt is making “record in vestments”. PM Modi said, “The healthcare services are being strengthened on six fronts. The first front is encouraging preven tion healthcare. The second one is opening small and modern hos pitals. The third front is opening big institutes of medical colleges and re search. The fourth front is increasing the num ber of doctors and para medical staff. The fifth one is to make medicines available to patients at cheap rates and afforda ble medical equipment. The sixth is lessening the patients’ problems using technology.”
PROBE IS CONDUCTED:BEINGCM SOMETHING FISHY: PHOGAT’S SISTER Panaji: Goa CM Pramod Sawant on Wednesday said the state police were con ducting a detailed inves tigation into the death of BJP leader Sonali Phogat. Considering the opinion of doctors and Goa DGP Jaspal Singh, it preliminary looks like she died due to a heart attack, Sawant said. Phogat (42), BJP leader from Haryana had found fame on Tik Tok.
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Panaji (PTI): In a com plaint to Goa Police, the family of Haryana BJP leader and actress Sona li Phogat, who died in Goa early on Tuesday, has demanded that her personal assistant Su dhir Sangwan and his friend Sukhwinder Sin gh be booked for her murder, alleging that Sangwan raped and blackmailed her. With the police yet to register an FIR, the family has refused to give its con sent for her autopsy.
Hyderabad (PTI): Pro tests continued in Hy derabad’s old city for a second day on Wednes day over suspended BJP lawmaker T Raja Sin gh’s alleged remarks against Prophet Mo hammad.Rallieswere taken out at separate places to press for action against Singh even as the BJP also stripped him of his floor leader’s post in as sembly. Singh insisted he did not make any comments against any religion or name any person. “It was wrongly understood,” Singh said refusing to elaborate.
New Delhi (PTI): After her “no god is upper caste” remark stoked controversy, JNU Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit on Wednesday defended her comments as an aca demic exercise and said she was misquoted. She also said she is an academic first and peo ple should get angry with BR Ambedkar for it was he who she was “paraphrasing.” “I was asked to speak on Ambedkar’s views on gender justice. I was paraphrasing him. You can see his writings. Why should people get angry with me? They should get angry with Ambedkar,” she said. Delivering the Dr BR Ambedkar Lecture Se ries titled ‘Dr B R Ambedkar’s Thoughts on Gender Justice: De coding the Uniform Civ il Code’, Pandit had tribe.fromLorduppergods“anthropologically”saiddonotbelongtothecasteandevenShivacouldbescheduledcasteor
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FARMER WHO HELPED WORKERSBIHARDIES UP LINEMAN CUTS POWER TO PS FOR BEING FINED New Delhi: A Del hi-based farmer, who had bought flight tickets for his themlabourersBihar-basedtosendhomeduring the Covid-19 pandem ic, allegedly died by suicide at his home in Tigi Pur village of Outer North Delhi on Tuesday evening. The deceased farmer has been identi fied as Pappan Gahlot.
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Sonali’s brother Rinku Phogat said. In his com plaint, Rinku cited two phone calls that Sonali made to her family members and alleged that she told her rela tives that Sangwan raped her, blackmailed her using an intimate video shot by him, gave her drug-laced food, and threatened to ruin her acting and political ca reer if she did not ac cept his demands. Rinku said that both Sangwan and Singh were at Goa’s Anjuna police station but the police had not taken any action against themEarlieryet. on Wednesday, Goa CM Pramod Sawant had said a thorough in vestigation would be conducted into Sonali’s death.In his written complaint to the police, Rinku said that Sonali had been working as an actress in films for the last 15 years and that she was an active party worker of BJP who had contested the 2019 As sembly polls from Ad ampur, Haryana.
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Srinagar: The National Conference on Wednesday gave a clear indication that it will contest all the 90 seats in J&K assembly on its own and not in alliance with other members of the five-party PAGD alliance. In a devp ahead of polls expected to be held after November this year, Kashmir provincial committee of party unanimously passed a resolution resolving that the NC “should prepare and fight all 90 seats”.
Bhubaneswar: The 23-yr-old software engineer Sweta Utkal Kumari, from Bhadrak who allegedly died by suicide and her body was recovered last Friday from her flat here, had made 15 unsuccessful phone calls to her theanSoumyajeetboyfriendMohapatrahourbeforeshetookextremestep.
Nagaland needs exposure investment:forFM Dimapur (Agencies): Finance Minister Nir mala Sitharaman on Wednesday said Naga land has huge resourc es and it needs good exposure for invest ment. After a 3-day visit to the northeast ern state, the minister said here that indus tries can come to Naga land to utilise the re sources. “From the Fi nance Ministry side, we would see enough bank access in all the districts. Banking fa cilities can be availed through mobile bank ing. There are 271 bank branches functioning in different districts of Nagaland with 94 branches in Dimapur.”
Kolkata: With the Tripura assembly elections barely six months away, the Trinamool Congress on Wednesday dropped Subal Bhowmik from the post of state party president just four months after he was put in charge. The reason behind this step is not known yet. “Subal Bhowmik is being relieved from his duties of state president of Tripura Pradesh Trinamool Congress with immediate effect,” a party statement said. SACKS TRIPURA UNIT PRESIDENT SUBAL BHOWMIK AHEAD OF POLLS
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla with the Indian delegation at the 65th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Halifax, Canada.
Ahtesham Siddiqui Lucknow: The UP gov ernment has trans ferred 13 IAS officers, a government spokesman said here on Wednesday. The spokesman said that Secretary UP Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, Luc know Vipin Kumar Jain has been transferred as Special Secretary Min ing department. Trans fer of Secretary UPPSC Jagdish has been can celled and now he has been shifted as Addi tional Managing Direc tor of Medical Supplies Corporation. VC of ADA Ajay Kumar Dwivedi has been trans ferred as Special Secre tary APC branch. CDO, Firozabad Charchit Gaur has been posted in place of Dwivedi. Joint Magistrate Hardoi Dik sha Jain has been post ed as CDO Firozabad. VC MDA Madhusudan Nagraj Hulgi has been shifted to APC branch. CDO Jhansi Shailesh Kumar has been posted in place of Madhusu dan Hulgi. Joint Magis trate, Ballia Junaid Ah mad has been posted as CDO Jhansi. Nisha, who was put on the waitlist has been posted as Secretary UP Build ing and Other Construc tion Workers Welfare Board.
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Justice Dalveer Bhandari, Judge, International Court of Justice called on President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday. Earlier, on Tuesday, Justice Bhandari had also met Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on a courtesy call at Uparashtrapati Niwas in New Delhi.
A number of Mumbai MLAs including Ameet Satam, Parag Alvani, Manisha Chaudhary, Vidya Thakur, Mihir Ko techa, Atul Bhatkhalkar, Kalidas Kolambkar, and Jitendra Awhad among others participated in the discussion.
“The police are not cooperating with us. They are insisting that we should first get the post-mortem done and then they would register an FIR. We know that the viscera examination report would take at least one or two months, and till that time, the culprits will keep roam ing freely. How can we trust the police when they are not even will ing to register an FIR?”
I&B Minister Anurag Thakur at the launch of the app on Wednesday. Late Haryana BJP leader and actor Sonali Phogat.
Lucknow: The power supply to a police sta tion in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli, was cut off by the electricity depart ment, citing overdue bills, after the district traffic police fined a contractual employee from the state power department ` 6,000 for not wearing a helmet while riding a motor cycle.
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New Delhi (Agencies): Information & Broad casting Minister Anur ag Thakur launched the Azadi Quest, a series of online mobile games on heroes and milestones of Indian freedom in New Delhi. Azadi Quest is a set of online games designed for players of all ages for interactive learning with fun game play. On the occasion, an MoU was signed be tween Publication Divi sion and social game developer Zynga. Thakur urged people to downloads Azadi Quest App as it will prove to be a very effec tive tool in spreading awareness on India’s freedom fighters. He said, these are unique games, which will en tertain people along with engaging and edu cating them.
Ajay Kumar Dwivedi Junaid Ahmad Charchit Gaur Slum land... MHADA land. The Deputy Chief Minister said 230 SRA projects were presently stalled out of which 59 are over unpaid rent ar rears, 33 projects over delays in sanctions or internal differences, and 11 due to legal tan gles, etc.
TECHIE CALLED BF 15 TIMES BEFORE KILLING SELF New Delhi: The Con gress on Wednesday said its YouTube chan nel has been deleted and it is investigating whether a technical glitch or sabotage had caused this. “Our You Tube channel ‘INC’ has been deleted. We are fixing it and have been in touch with Google/ YouTube teams,” the party said on Twitter.
New Delhi: A day after Sonali Phogat passed away suddenly in Goa, her family has raised questions about the manner in which the she died claiming they suspect foul play in the matter. They have also demanded probe by au thorities into the death. Sonali was brought dead to hospital in Goa with several reports stating that she had suf fered a heart attack.
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Located in Western Maharashtra close to Pune city, the Barama ti seat has never been won by the BJP, so far. The Congress was the dominant force there, and Sharad Pawar won from the seat as the party’s candidate in 1984. NCP’s Ajit Pawar represented it in 1991 as a Congress candi date and Sharad Pawar won the seat in 1996, 1998. In the 1999 and 2004 Lok Sabha elec tions, he won as a NCP candidate. His daugh ter Supriya Sule has represented the con stituency since 2009. In the 2014 elections, Baramati was one of the five opposition seats that survived the ‘Modi Wave’. For the first time, the victory margin of a Pawar family member dipped below 1 lakh votes, when Sule won by over 69,000 votes even though BJP did not field a candidate, but backed Rashtriya Sa maj Paksha’s Mahadev Jankar.In2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP gave a ticket to debutant Kan chan Kul, but Sule im proved her vote per centage and won with a margin of 1.55 lakh votes.The Baramati Lok Sabha constituency is divided into six assem bly segments, starting from Khadakwasla to wards Pune, followed by Bhor, Purandar, Baramati, Indapur, and Daund assembly seats.Inthe 2019 state As sembly polls, the BJP won Khadakwasla and Daund, while the Con gress bagged Bhor and Purandar. Ajit Pawar and Dattatray Barne from the NCP are sit ting MLAs from Bara mati and Indapur.
‘India, Aus youth should work for dev’ Toronto / New Delhi: Underlining the impor tance of youth power in nation building, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Bir la emphasised that the youth of India and Aus tralia should work to gether and regularly interact with each oth er to share their knowl edge and experiences. He said regular dia logue will lead to devel opment in both the countries.Healsourged for pro moting more people-topeople contact between the two countries to further strengthen the bilateral ties. Om Birla is current ly leading the Indian Parliamentary Delega tion to the 65th Com monwealth Parlia mentary Conference which is being held in Canada.
Newly appointed state BJP natebeenondentBJPisterwithBawankule,ChandrashekharPresidentwhometUnionHomeMinAmitShahandNationalPresiJPNaddainDelhiWednesday,hasaskedtocoordi‘Mission45’.Sitharamanisexpectedtomakesimilarthree-dayvisitstoBaramatioverthenext20monthstostrengthenpartyorganization,strategizeandmakeaseriousbidtowintheconstituencyheldbytheSharadPawarfamilysince1996.
‘India can add 23.7 GW of RE by 2026’
—PTI ONGC REBIDS KG GAS, SEEKS $15 PRICE New Delhi: Full service carrier Vistara will start daily non-stop flights be tween Mumbai and Abu Dhabi from October 1. The airline, a joint venture between Tata group and Singapore Airlines, will use the A320 neo aircraft for the services. “We are delighted to expand our presence in the UAE, with a second Emirate, and of fer the choice of flying In dia’s best airline on one of the busiest international routes from India. Abu Dhabi will be the 12th overseas destination for Vistara.
INDIA WIND ENERGY MARKET OUTLOOK 2026
FUTURE PROJECTION z India can add another 23.7 GW of capacity within the next five years provided necessary enabling policies, instruments,facilitativeandthe right institutional interventions are put in place, according to a new report.
The central bank has been tasked by the govern ment to ensure that retail inflation remains within the range of 2-6%. “Finally, inflation and inflationary expectations appear to be moderating and this would reduce one of the major headwinds for the Indian economy,” VarmaTurningnoted.to the negative side, he observed that in the current global environ ment, exports might not be as buoyant as they were in the past and said while In dia is not an export-driven economy, an export slow down would be a drag on growth, if it is sustained.
Jio, Voda Idea, Adani didn’t take E-band
“The current proceeds of pref erential shares and warrants would be utilised to fund our long-term capital requirements and to enhance the working capital needs.”
EAM IN LATIN AMERICA z On Monday, Jaishankar concluded his first-ever official visit to Paraguay and held talks with the country’s leadership and vowed to strengthen bilateral ties. He inaugurated Indian Embassy in Asuncion. z India and Brazil are not only partners but can share best practices for their mutual growth and progress, Jaishankar has said. z Jaishankar is on a six-day official visit to Brazil, Paraguay & Argentina. This is his 1st-ever official visit to South America.
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z RBI MPC member said Inflation would be above the target for several quarters, but there is reason to believe that the worst is over, unless the world is confronted by another unforeseen global shock. z MPC member is cautiously optimistic about the Indian economy.
HONDA 2 WHEELERS INDIA INSTALLS 3rd WIND TURBINE SYSTEM Bengaluru: Honda Motorcy cle & Scooter India (HMSI) said on Wednesday that inturbinethirdinstalledcompanythehasitswindsystemKarnataka.
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“This depicted a decline of 9% over the quantum of ware housing space leased in H1 2021,” it pointed out.
“I would like to empha size that high inflation will certainly not become the norm in India,” he said. The Reserve Bank in its latest MPC meeting in Au gust had decided to in crease the benchmark lend ing rate by 50 basis points.
Kolkata (PTI): India's banking sector is faced with the predicament of a "massive asset-liability mismatch" that could ex plode anytime, renowned economist Pronab Sen said. Sen said "that explo sion" has not yet happened as most of the banks are in the public sector. He said the Indian banks had adopted the British model, and the laws don't allow lenders to borrow from the capital market, which essentially makes deposits the only source of funds. "Today, the average tenure of bank lending is about nine years, and de posits' tenure is close to two-and-a-half years. So, you have nine years on the asset side, and 2.5 years on the liability side... Which means there is a massive asset-liability mismatch which can explode any time," the former chair man of the statistical com mission said. "It hasn't happened be cause the largest chunk of our banks are in the public sector... But, now banks have to assess not only the risk of the borrower, but also the length of time of lending... There is an enor mous risk for the banking sector," he said. Banking sector at enormous risk of mismatch:asset-liabilityPronab
—PTI PARAG RAISES `131 CR VIA ALLOTMENTPREFERENTIAL
Markets settle with modest gains Mumbai (PTI): Equity benchmarks eked out mar ginal gains to settle in the positive zone after swing ing between gains and losses during the session on Wednesday amid weak ness in global bourses. In a trade marked with highs and lows, the 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 54.13 points or 0.09 per cent to settle at 59,085.43.Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty went up by 27.45 points or 0.16 per cent to From17,604.95.theSensex pack, IndusInd Bank, NTPC, Larsen & Toubro, ICICI Bank, Power Grid, HDFC, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Asian Paints were the biggest gainers.
Latin America can be a major biz hub for India: Jaishankar
STATES’ REVENUE GROWTH TO SLIDE TO 7%-9%
New Delhi: High infla tion and global headwinds slowed down demandasJanuary-Junespacesandwarehousingforlogisticsduringleasing dipped 9% annually across top seven cities, a report said. Vestian said in a report that the total absorption across the seven key cities was recorded at 13.16 million square feet.
“Capacity utilization has been inching up, and is now approaching levels at which business will have to seriously consider capital expenditure for expan sion,” Varma added. He further noted that the MPC is determined to bring inflation down close to the target rate of 4% as quickly as possible without imposing intolerable costs in terms of eco growth.
—PTI 25% OF MERCEDES BENZ SALES IN INDIA FROM EVs IN 5 YEARS Mumbai: German luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz expects 25% of its sales in India to come from fiveinvehicleselectricthenextyears.
—PTI New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India on Wednesday said it is recalling 166 Dzire Tour S units to replace faulty airbag component. The affected lot of the compact sedan has been manufactured between August 6 &16 this year. “The recall is being under taken to replace Airbag Control Unit, free of cost, in these vehicles.” It is suspected that there is a possible defect in airbag control unit, which in rare case might result in mal functioning during de ployment.
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DESPITE ROBUST GST COLLECTIONS Mumbai : States’ revenue growth will slide to 7-9% in FY23 even as handsome GST collections will help in the accretion, a report said on Wednesday. The revenue growth had galloped 25% in FY22 courtesy a lower base in the pandemic-affected FY21, Crisil report said. In FY23, healthy tax buoyancy will be supporting the rev enue growth, with GST collections and devolutions from the Centre -- which to gether comprise up to 45% of the states’ revenue -- expected to show robust double-digit growth, it said.
“The biggest risk to the growth outlook is that of an escalation of geopoliti cal tensions especially if these tensions spread to the Asian region,” he said. Noting that inflation has already peaked, Varma said Inflation would be above the target for several quarters, but there is rea son to believe that the worst is over, unless the world is confronted by an other unforeseen global shock.Onthe other hand, he said any adverse shocks to economic growth (domes tic or global) could cause a steeper decline in inflation than is currently expected.
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New Delhi: Parag Milk Foods Ltd announced that it has raised a total of `131 investorsfromallotmentpreferentialthroughcroremarqueeand promoters. Investors have invested `113 cr & promoters about `18.75 crore looking at the promising growth strategy.
Sao Paulo (PTI): External Affairs Minister S Jais hankar has emphasised the importance of making Lat in America a major busi ness hub for India by hav ing more engagements, contacts and meetings with the stakeholders in the vast region. India and Brazil are not only partners but can share best practices for their mutual growth and progress, Jaishankar said. "Visited Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo, the largest In dustry association of Bra zil. Presentations from WEG, @embraer and UNI CA reaffirmed the signifi cant opportunities exist for greater business coopera tion," he tweeted. India & Brazil are not only partners but can share best practices for their mutual growth & progress," he wrote. "Visited Fiesp (Federa tion of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo), the big gest industry association of Latin America. Presen tations from WEG, Em braer and UNICA reaf firmed the significant op portunities that exist for greater business coopera tion. Business is the ballast that provides steady sail ing for relationships," he said in another tweet.
Mercedes-Benz India will be launching three electric vehi cles in the next four months of which the first Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 4MATIC was launced on Wednesday. It will launch the locally assembled allelectric sedan EQS 580 next month followed by seven-seat er electric SUV, EQB around November.
The agency’s senior director Anuj Sethi said the biggest impetus to the revenue growth will come from aggregate state GST collec tions, which had already rebounded by 29% in FY22.
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Geopolitical tension biggest risk to growth’
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—PTI MARUTI RECALLS 166 DZIRE TOUR S FOR FAULTY AIRBAGS TVS TO ACQUIRE 48 PER CENT STAKE IN DRIVEX New Delhi: Oil and Natu ral Gas (ONGC)Corporationhasrelaunched a tender to sell gas from its KG fields at a higher price of $15 per mmBtu as it looks to capitalise on a global surge in energy prices. The firm sought bids for the sale of 0.75 million standard cubic meters per day of gas for one year from the KGDWN-98/2 (KG-D5) fields in the Bay of Bengal. The firm asked users to quote a premium they are will ing to pay over.
New Delhi (PTI): The big gest risk to India’s growth outlook is an escalation of geopolitical tensions, espe cially if these tensions spread to the Asian region, RBI Monetary Policy Com mittee member Jayanth R Varma said on Wednesday. Varma said that infla tion & inflationary expec tations appear to be moder ating and high inflation will certainly not become the ‘norm’ in the country. He is cautiously optimis tic about the Indian econo my as after the pandemic abated, consumption de mand has begun to recover though the recovery is un even across sectors and industries.
LEASING OF LOGISTICS SPACE DOWN 9% ACROSS 7 CITIES
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SLIPS 2 PAISE TO CLOSE AT 79.85 AGAINST US DOLLAR Mumbai (PTI): The rupee consolidated in a narrow range and depreciated 2 paise to close at 79.81 (provisional) against the US dollar on Wednesday. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the domestic cur rency opened at 79.84 per dollar. It hovered in a range of 79.68 to 79.87 during the session. The domestic unit finally settled at 79.85, down 2 paise over its previ ous close of 79.83. New Delhi (Agencies): Bharti Airtel is the only telco to have taken E-band (71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz) band spectrum from the Department of Telecom munications (DoT) to meet the backhaul require ments. The remaining three 5G spectrum winners – Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea and Adani Data Net works – have so far not ap plied for E-band operators. According to DoT offi cials, one reason why most companies are not seeking the E-band is that the gov ernment has decided to al lot the radio administra tively for now, but said the telcos will have to pay this market rate retroactively from the date of allotment once the rate is decided . In effect, this means that operators will be charged the discovered auction price from the date of allot ment of E-band operators.
New Delhi (Agencies): In dia can add another 23.7 GW of capacity within the next five years provided necessary enabling poli cies, facilitative instru ments, and the right insti tutional interventions are put in place, according to a newWindreport.power constituted the majority of the renew able energy mix in India, with 37.7% of cumulative installed capacity, as of March 2022. However, the overall estimated potential dwarfs the current in stalled capacity, said the report. There is over 600 GW of onshore capacity at 120m hub height, with an other 174 GW of fixed-bot tom and floating offshore wind“Thesepotential.statistics demon strate that there is a huge untapped wind energy po tential that will be crucial for advancing the country’s clean energy transition,” the report added. As per the report, the Covid pandemic and global supply chain challenges caused disruption. “How ever, the MNRE took sev eral measures at this time. For example, the ministry granted a blanket timeline extension.”
business BRIEFS New Delhi: TVS Motor Company on Wednesday said it will acquire 48% stake in Narain Karthikey an’s pre-owned twowheeler startup ‘DriveX’ for a consideration of Rs 85 crore. The company said it will acquire 48.27% stake in NKars Mobility Millennial Solutions Pvt Ltd (NMMSPL), which op erates under the brand ‘DriveX’, through primary and secondary invest ments. Founded by For mula 1 driver Karthikeyan, DriveX is into leasing of two-wheeler motorcycles and scooters and selling, trading, and distributing pre-owned two-wheeler bikes and scooters.
The 2.7 MW wind turbine at Jagalur in Davanagere district will generate 75 lakh kWh of energy annually thus enabling HMSI’s Narsapura manufac turing plant to reduce carbon emissions by more than 5,400 tons per year. HMSI will now produce a total of 7.4 MW wind energy including its wind turbine systems.
Facelift for Dharavi: New tenders in 3 next months
No action is taken against those who support BJP. This party is working in the country in a more brutal way than the British rulers. Infla tion, unemployment have increased tremen dously in the country, problems of farmers and workers have increased, but the central government has failed to resolve them.
The Aurangabad po lice recently filed a clo sure report in the case (scheduled offence) against Verma and Gup ta which was accepted by the court and the duo wasThedischarged.ordercomes fol lowing guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court last month, speci fying that a case under the PMLA cannot con tinue if there is no sched uled offence. And hence, the special court has no jurisdiction to extend the judicial custody of the persons arrested un der the Act.
Patole told reporters in Mumbai that the BJP is misusing agencies like the Enforcement Directo rate (ED), the Central Bu reau of Investigation (CBI) and Income Tax Department to topple the non-BJP party-led gov ernments in states and break the opposition.
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Pune cops allow Ganesh mandal to stage Afzal Khan’s killing U-TURN
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—Devendra Fadnavis, Dy CM RENTS TO RISE Fadnavis further said rent paid to the original tenants of BDD Chawl and Patra Chawl would now be Rs25,000.
“The country has been under an undeclared Emergency since 2014. BJP has been working on eliminating the opposi tion in the country. The CBI raids on Aam Aadmi Party’s Manish Sisodia and Rashtriya Janata Dal legislator’s house in New Delhi are examples of this. BJP is restless after losing power in Bihar,” he lleged.
A case was regis tered against M/s Life line Hospital Manage ment Service Firm, Dr Hemant Ramsharan Gupta, Sujit Mukund Patkar, Sanjay Madan lal Shah and Raju Nandkumar Salunkhe, based on complaint by Bharatiya Janata Party ex-MP Kirit Somaiya. Notably, Sujit Patkar is a close aide of Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and the husband of Sapna Patkar, a wit ness in the Patra Chawl scam case in which the Enforcement Directo rate (ED) recently ar rested Raut. It is also important to remember that there is no love lost between the two politicians, with Raut being vocal in his allegations against So maiya and his wife Medha Somaiya. Just last month, a court is sued a bailable warrant against Raut after he failed to appear in a criminal defamation complaint filed by Med haTheSomaiya.FIRstates that the partners in the hos pital management firm had allegedly submitted fake partnership deed to the obtained(BMC)MunicipalBrihanmumbaiCorporationinJune2020andcontractsof
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Pune (PTI): The Ma harashtra Anti Ter rorism Squad (ATS) has filed a charge sheet against five persons in a case re lated to alleged re cruitment for a ter rorist organization and funding. The charge sheet was filed in the court of special judge SR Navandar here on Saturday, said an ATSTheofficial.ATS had ar rested 28-year-old Ju naid Mohammed on May 24 from Pune’s Dapodi area. He was allegedly in touch with members socialrorLashkar-e-TaibaPakistan-basedofternetworkthroughmediaplat forms, officials had claimed.Shah and Yusuf were held from Jam mu and Kashmir while Haque was taken into custody from Uttar Pradesh where he had been arrested in another case.
Sanjay Raut aide among four named in fraud FIR
A pandal structure on the theme of Kashi Vishwanath temple being constructed by a Ganpati mandal ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi at Lalbaug, in Mumbai, on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY PTI allows discharge pleas of 2 booked under PMLA
—Nana Patole, Maha Congress President
The money launder ing case was based on a First Information Re port (FIR) registered against the duo by the Aurangabad police. As per the PMLA pro visions, a prior FIR (scheduled offence) is a requisite for the ED to initiate action against a person involved with the process or activity.
First India Bureau Pune: City police on Wednesday allowed a Ganesh mandal to stage the historical scene of warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj killing Bi japur general Afzal Khan, after initially denying permission on the grounds that it might lead to commu nal tension. The Sangam Tarun Mandal which installs a Lord Ganesh idol in a public pandal in Ko thrud area had sought permission from police to stage the famous in cident from Shivaji’s life during the upcom ing Ganesh festival, slated to start from Au gustGanesh31. mandals or groups which celebrate the festival in roadside pandals often erect tab leaus of historical scenes or even stage their live enactments. When the mandal, headed by local Maha rashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Kishor Shinde, sought permission to stage the scene of Khan’s killing earlier this month, po lice denied it. Officials stated that their reason for denying permis sion was potentially disturbing communal harmony.Aftervarious organ izations approached the police permissionnewearlierpolicethemissiondemandingauthoritiesthatperbegivenforstaging,Kothrudwithdrewitsnotification.Alettergrantingforstaging of the historical scene, signed by senior in spector Mahendra Jag tap, was issued. The mandal should take utmost care to en sure that communal harmony was pre served, stated the letter. Afzal Khan, a general of the Adilshahi state of Bijapur, was sent in 1659 to subjugate King Shivaji. Khan was killed during a meeting between the two and his army was routed in the battle of Pratapgad.
The state has been waiting to receive a parcel of land from the Railway Ministry to start the Dharavi project. —FILE PHOTO Homes for police personnel in BDD chawl to be provided at minimal cost I understand that Rs50 lakh is unaf fordable and Rs25 lakh is also unaf fordable to the police families. So, we will try to provide homes at less than Rs25 lakh at minimal cost possible for the sake of Marathi families who have been living in the BDD chawl for three generations in poor conditions.
“The government had asked MHADA to complete the rehabilitation of tenements at the earliest, provide rent arrears unpaid by the developer, and pay monthly rent of Rs18,000. However, Patra Chawl residents had demand ed that they should be paid monthly rent of Rs40,000. We had agreed to pay monthly rent of Rs22,000 to BDD chawl residents. So we have decided that both chawl residents will be paid monthly of Rs25,000.”
Authorities had initially denied permission for staging of the historical scene with warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
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Kirit Somaiya addresses a press conference on Wednesday, after the FIR was registered based on his complaint.
First India Bureau Mumbai: Deputy Chief Minister Deven dra Fadnavis on Wednesday said fresh tenders for the rede velopment of Dhara vi’s slums—one of the biggest urban renewal initiatives in Asia— will be issued within the next three months. Replying to a discus sion in the state legisla ture on slum rehabilita tion and housing, Fad navis, who had pushed the Dharavi Redevelop ment Project during his tenure as CM, said the project would be soon flagged off as the state was on the verge of re ceiving the 45-acre land parcel from the Rail ways.He said Dharavi was declared a notified area in 2002-03 but the De tailed Project Report was not“Inprepared.2016,we prepared the DPR and issued the global tenders. One key condition in the tenders was that the bidding party needed to demon strate its financial via bility by showing the funds in an escrow ac count. A bid was final ized but railway land was required for the pro ject for transit homes so that another part of Dharavi could be reha bilitated there, and rede velopment could start,” heThesaid.state then signed a Memorandum of Un derstanding with the Railway Ministry and even transferred Rs800 crore for the purchase of the land parcel. “We hope to sign a de finitive agreement by August 30. CM Shinde and I will finalize some details with the Railways minister. I can say that the project is more via ble now that the railway land will be transferred,” he added. In another major an nouncement, Fad navis—who also handles the Housing portfolio apart from Home and Fi nance—said state police personnel will be pro vided with homes in the BDD Chawl redevelop ment project at a price of less than Rs25 lakh. The MVA government had earlier drawn flak for an nouncing that homes for police would be priced around Rs50 lakh. Fadnavis said while he personally felt that state police personnel should be given homes free of cost, officials pointed out that for rea sons of parity, the gov ernment would then have to provide free housing to other state employees too, which may not be feasible.
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First India Bureau Mumbai: In a scathing attack against the Bharatiya Janata Par ty, Maharashtra Con gress president Nana Patole on Wednesday alleged it was working in a “more brutal way” than the British rulers in EmergencyunderthatIndia,pre-Independenceandclaimedthecountrywasanundeclaredsince2014.
First India Bureau Mumbai: A officialcaretractsmentstinginwereandmanagementhospitalfirmfourpersonsnamedaccusedanFIRforsubmitforgeddocutoobtainconforCOVID-19centres,apolicesaid.
First India Bureau Mumbai: A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Mum bai allowed the dis charge pleas of two businessmen in a case in the absence of ‘predicate’ (scheduled) offence which led to the case against them, on Wednesday. The Enforcement Di rectorate (ED) had booked Babulal Verma and Kamalkishor Gupta, top executives of the Omkar Relators and De velopers, under provi sions of the PMLA. The case pertains to alleged irregularities in the execution of a Slum Rehabilitation Authori ty (SRA) scheme in de velopment of a Mumbai housing society.
BJP more brutal than Brit colonialists: Cong’s Patole CASE ATS charge sheet against 5 in terror recruitment case
“BJP has adopted a di vide-and-rule policy like the British colonists,” Patole said, adding that action was being taken against the leaders or po litical parties who do not support the party.
jumbo COVID-19 cen tres at NSEL, Worli, Mulund, Dahisar (in Mumbai) and Pune without having any medical experience. The firm had even submitted bills of these centres to the BMC and collected Rs38 crore, the FIR said. It also said that the staff and doc tors at these COVID-19 centres did not have requisite medical cer tificates, and allegedly failed to provide proper treatment.Thecase was regis tered under sections of the Indian Penal Code including those for cheating, criminal breach of trust, causing death by negligence and forgery.
Sujit Patkar is also the husband of Sapna Patkar, a witness in the Patra Chawl case in which Raut was arrested Chandra, CEO
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CAPRICORN DEC 23 - JAN 2S Family will be most supportive, when it really matters for you. Some of you may add to your list of properties by booking a new one. It is good day to confess your love as stars ap pear favourable for positive reply. A long drive is likely to help you get over mental tiredness.
GEMINI MAY 21 - JUNE 21 Happiness in the domestic sphere will only come with a changed mind set. Some of you are likely to become a part of an overseas official trip. Bet ter to consult an expert in financial matters before making an invest ment. Harsh words may create a rift in your romantic relationship.
LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22 Despite hectic schedule you will manage to find time for family. Seek the opinion of your family before finalizing a property deal. Your bold initiatives on romantic front bring back passion and spark in romantic relationship.Overall health remains fine.
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Gifting something to your beloved is likely to make the day Matrimonialmemorable.matchfor siblings will bring happiness for entire family. You will get a good price for your property. Those awaiting results are assured of succeeding with flying colours.
VIRGO AUG 24 - SEP 23 Using your initiative at work will be much appreciated. You may get a chance to pursue old hobby. Health tips from an expert will enable you to get closer to your fitness goals. Your generous behavior would enable to enjoy some lovely moments with family.
AQUARIUS JAN 21 - FEB 19 Avoid raising controversial issues at home to maintain harmony. implementationSuccessfulofnew ideas and projects would add to your prestige on the professional front. It is a wonderful day to build new connections. Your relationship requires you to be tactful.
PISCES
SCORPIO OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22 Following a health diet will be a good idea. Luck favours you today on the professional front. Focussing on health now will help you in keeping physically fit. Clarity of mind and retentive power will help you forge ahead on the academic front.
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
It’s a very good day to take calculated risks in financial matters. Your efforts on the professional front will be recognised. Opting for some healthy choices will ensure you remain in perfect health. You will feel much happy and contented on the family front.
You will succeed in misunderstandingresolving with family members, normalizing ties. Despite your misgivings, you retain good health. You will do much to bring peace and harmony at home. You will remain much in demand on social front.
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ARIES MAR 21 - APR 20
A friend or colleague may motivate you to take up a healthy activity. Parents may appear more than happy with what you deliver. Plans for overseas travel are likely to materialise. You are likely to get clearance or approval for your construction plans.
Your intuition will save you from a tricky spot today. Yoga would help in raising energy levels and improve your metabolism. You will manage to achieve your aim through travel. This is a great time on the academic front, when you mange to render your best. The day will be in your favour.
TAURUS APR 21 - MAY 20
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A ccording to Sujoy has roped Tamanin naah Bhatia to play the female lead in this anthol ogy film. According to a source close to the development, Ta mannaah and Vijay will start shooting with Sujoy from next month. They will start with the readings and the prep closer to the shooting date. Reportedly, a while back the Baahubali actress was even spotted at Sujoy Ghosh’s office. This is the first time that Ta mannaah Bhatia and Sujoy Ghosh are working together. I I twitter.com/thefirstindia
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Since her breakthrough, Nora Fatehi has become a cultural icon, loved by mil lions. While her exemplary dancing skills continue to astonish us every day, she has also made her mark with her acting skills. The Saki Saki dancer is gor geous and she enjoys a mas sive fan following. And, her fans wait for her photos to come out in the public do main. Speaking of which just a while ago, Nora Fate hi was snapped at Mumbai She made heads turn in an all-black ensemble. She pulled off the ‘clean girl’ look. To complete her look, Nora also donned sunglass es and a purse. She looked effortlessly beautiful as she got clicked.
E ver since the promo of the 8th episode of Koffee With Karan 7 featuring Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani has been released, fans are jumping with joy. Getting the ex citement of their fans a notch higher ahead of their Koffee With Karan episode, Shahid and Kiara re-created their iconic scene from Kabir Singh. In the video, we can see Kiara Advani looking gorgeous in her white dress with her makeup team. One of them can be seen applying makeup on Kiara’s face and the other one holds a mirror for the actress. Suddenly we can hear Shahid Kapoor yelling at them in Kabir Singh style which scares them and they stop everything. The actor comes near the Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 actress and pulls her towards him ask ing ‘kisne touch kiya usko?’ in Kabir Singh style.
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E ver since the gripping trailer of the Akshay Kumar and Rakul Preet Singh starrer Cuttputlli was re leased fans have been going gaga over it. On Wednesday as promised, the first song of the film, Saathiya is released and we bet Akshay and Rakul’s chemistry will blow your mind. Akshay Kumar and Rakul Preet Singh’s chemistry in this song is quite sizzling and we bet you would not be able to take your eyes off them. From dancing on top of a plane, to danc ing on top of a car,
A nanya Panday is one of the most popular actresses in the tinsel town of Bollywood. Ananya is leaving no stones unturned to promote Liger with Vi jay and ahead of the film’s release, in an interview she was asked if she gets bothered by the trolls on social media. To which, she said: “I think it depends on the day. Obviously, on some days, I get very affected. And then some days, I’m not bothered. And that’s normal, that’s a human reaction that you would have. I’ve just realized that there’s nothing bet ter than to just keep working hard and making sure that my work speaks for itself.”
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Bollywood?Downfall of ilms play a pivot al role in society as they not only portray society through the lens of viewers highlightingwhilethe wrongs and rights, but they are also one of the major mediums of enter tainment. But nowadays, filmmakers have taken this appreciation for granted as films now se verely lack sense, creativ ity, story and originality. After taking on this non sense for years, the audi ence is finally retorting by speaking up against the same. With the boycott trend going on, netizens are not only holding celeb rities accountable for their ignorant comments but are also calling out the lack of good and original content in Bollywood.
Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sid hwani’s EntertainmentExcel has landed itself in trouble. On Mon day, the Film Stu dios Setting & Al lied Mazdoor Union (FSSAMU) publicly accused Excel Enter tainment of non-pay ment of dues to 300 daily-wage workers who served in the pro duction design team of ‘Mirzapur 3’. FS SAMU released a let ter to the media ac cusing Excel En tertainment ports,Accordingnon-payment.oftorethework ers have been contin uing to employ their services as the web series was shot across several studios in Mumbai and Benares. FSSAMU reportedly wrote a letter to the media that states that the workers are made to work for extended hours that go beyond the permissible limits as per the provision in the labour law. It also alleged that they are not provided with quality food or ade quate seating provi sions on the set.
Af ter Laal Singh underVikramKhan’sRoshanBrahmastra,RakshabandhanChaddha,andHrithikandSaifAliupcomingfilm,Vedhahascomefire.Themovieis the remake of the hit 2017 Telugu film of the same name which starred R Mad havan and Vijay Sethupathi. A di aspora of trolls on social media is targeting the film for being a cheap copy even before its trailer is dustryhand,whenHindiofof#BoycottVikramVedha.”supporthere..toonavailablevedhainaled,otherfortheyouthemoney“WhynetizenTubeavailableoriginalcheapnotrequestingsocialTakingreleased.toTwitter,mediausersareeveryonetospendmoneyonacopywhenthefilmisonYouforfree.Onewrote,wastetowatchcopywhencanwatchoriginalfree”.Antweet“theorigVikramisYouTubewatchitDon'tremake!ThisraisesthequestionwhythereisadearthoriginalideasinthefilmindustryontheothertheSouthinisoverflowingwithgoodandcreativecontent. PR's 4th year anniversary It’s the 4th year anni versary of Planet Media PR where the finest actors from the entertainment industry attended the event. The event was held at Glocal Junction, Malad with actors pouring out their wishes on the firm’s an niversary.Gauahar Khan, Amaal Mallik, Helly Shah, Payal Rohatgi, Pearl V Puri, Raj Anad kat, Karanvir Sharma, Taha Shah Badussha, Rego B, Rema Lahiri, Chandni Sharma, Jay Soni, Nehha Pendse, Akanksha Puri, Ali Mer cchant and Roshni Walia attended the event. Nidhi Gupta who is one of the youngest and most successful found ers of the entertain ment PR industry shares her gratitude and expresses how she is living a life she has dreamt of. In this exclu sive conversation with us, she says, “As a kid, I always dreamt of being a part of this beautiful industry. Well, I can to tally say, what I mani fested and dreamt of, is finally happening. But this is just the begin ning “
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I t seems that some thing did not sit well with the differ ently abled commu nity as Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha along with Taapsee Pannu’s Shabaash Mithu have come under flak over ‘ridiculing’ comments made about theThecommunity.complaint was filed by the co-founder of Doctors with Dis abilities, Dr Saten dra Singh, who is 70% disabled in his locomotor function. Ac cording to his com plaint, Singh alleged that both the films vio lated provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016. According to a report, the notice issued by the Court of Commission ers for people with disa bilities on Dr Satendra Singh’s com inAamir-Taapseelegaltrouble?
that I have in my life. And what happened on that, I think it’s a joke that didn’t turn out to be funny. I really want to apologize if I have triggered anyone. It was not my in tention. So, I want to say sorry to people who got of fended or triggered. I spoke to Alia about it and she really laughed it off and she didn’t mind it. But I do have a bad sense of humour and some times it falls flat on my own face. So, I am sorry if I have hurt anyone about it.”
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