New Delhi: Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Sunday decided that the election for the Congress president post will be held on October 17, said sources. The counting of the votes will be done on October 19. CWC meeting took place virtually to discuss the final schedule for the elections. P5
PM Narendra Modi addresses the inauguration of the various development projects in Kutch, Gujarat on Sunday. (R) Amit Shah felicitating the students at the 1st convocation ceremony of NFSU, in Gandhinagar on Sunday.
Mumbai: Mukesh Ambani’s RIL, India’s biggest business conglomerate in terms of market valuation will hold its 45th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday. The RIL boss will address shareholders through the VC and other audio-visual means.
All eyes are focused on the Supreme Court hearing before a constitution bench, which is scheduled for Monday, and how the judiciary views the legitimacy of the Eknath Shinde faction that is ruling Maharashtra. On the cabinet front the remaining deficiencies (read: urban, youth and women’s representation) will be resolved. Any existing dissidence of not being accommodated in the cabinet will be neutralized through appointments to state body’s with minister of state rank for the rebel Sena MLAs.—Senior BJP leader Amit Shah
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S mriti Van memorial celebrates the courage shown by people during the devastating 2001 earthquake in the Kutch region of Gujarat which took the lives of 13,000 people. The grand structure is spread over 470 acres on Bhujiyo Hill. It informs about different kinds of disasters and future readiness for any type of disaster. It has a block to relive the experience of an earthquake with the help of a 5D simulator and another block for people to pay homage to lost souls.
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Dubai: Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Hardik Pandya led an impressive performance from India as they bowled out Pakistan for 147 in their Asia Cup 2022 opener. Pakistan continued to lose wickets regularly as India pacers dominated them throughout innings. More on P5 TOWERS 9 years to 9 seconds
BJP’s enforcer Amit Shah to visit Mumbai, aid cabinet plan after Ganesh darshan
Renni Abraham & Satish Nandgaonkar Mumbai: The BJP’s en forcer, Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s proposed Mumbai visit on September 05 is ex pected to provide the impetus to resolve any lingering discord with in the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde led alli ance government with Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ party.While Shah’s official schedule seeks to limit the visit to seeking di vine blessings, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political troubleshooter will likely re solve any residual has sles remaining in the second phase expan sion for cabinet induc tions of MLAs into the Maharashtra Council of DuringMinisters.the first ex pansion (of 18 new min isters on August 08), the BJP high command had given in to compulsions of coalition politics, conceding to not only CM Shinde’s pick of nine new cabinet col leagues but also allow ing Dy CM Fadnavis of the BJP a free hand to leverage his political authority over the par ty in Maharashtra. This was notwithstanding a high command’s initial directive (of limiting new inductions to 13 on August 03) of a lean cabinet in the first go.
A person familiar with the development had then said, “The BJP top leadership had sought a lean team which along with an em phasis on youth, women and untainted MLAs. It had also advised due representation to SC/ ST, other backward castes (OBC) along with urban Gujarati and Marathi candidates, which did not take pace in toto. The backdrop of the political setback suf fered in Bihar also played a role in the BJP’s decision to con cede to regional impera tives in Maharashtra.”
PM inaugurates India’s 1st earthquake memorial; Launches and lays fndn for projects worth `5k cr There were conspiracies to defame Gujarat & stop investment: PM Modi takes a jibe at Oppn First India Bureau Bhuj: PM Narendra Modi on Sunday said there have been conspir acies to defame Gujarat and stop investments in his home state, but Gu jarat ignored them and charted a new path of progress. He was ad dressing people while inaugurating laying, foundation stone of de velopment works in Bhuj. Modi said India will be a developed na tion by 2047. “Smriti Van Memorial is at par with 9/11 memorial in US & Hiroshima Memo rial in Japan,” he said. After the 2001 Kutch earthquake, in the midst of the destruction, I had spoken about the redevelopment of Kutch and we worked hard for it. In that hour of challenge, we had proclaimed that we will turn disaster into an opportunity and we achieved it. Today, you are witnessing the results.—Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates ‘Smriti Van Memorial’ for 2001 Bhuj earthquake victims, in Bhuj on Sunday.
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BJP repeating govt in Guj, HP with FirstmajoritythumpingIndiaBureau New Delhi: BJP is repeating govts in Gujarat and HP with a thumping majority, as per an assessment of Bharat24, fastest growing Hindi news channel. In both states, govts will repeat on face of PM Narendra Modi and strategy of HM Amit Shah. Even on Sunday, a huge crowd reached events of Modi & Shah in Gujarat. In Guj, BJP is expected to get 109 seats, Cong 68, & remaining 5 may go to independents and other parties. This means there is no chance for AAP in Guj. However, commenting on these possible results in Guj, a political observer said, “Guj has a general perception of clean sweep of BJP with 130 to 135 seats.” Now, it will only be clear on counting day that which assessment proves to be correct. In HP, BJP is likely to get 45 seats, Cong 21 seats, Independents and other parties may get 3 seats. Assembly polls may be held in Nov-Dec. Himachal is home state of BJP nat’l prez JP Nadda & Union Minister Anurag Thakur. PM Modi himself was also in-charge of Himachal for a long time.
SILENCE OF EVS IS BRINGING A NEW SILENT REVOLUTION IN INDIA: MODI PM Modi, on Sunday, said the increase in demand for electric vehicles in India suggests that it is the begin ning of a silent revolution. Modi was speaking at a programme organised at Mahatma Mandir convention centre in Gandhinagar of Gujarat to mark the 40 years of collaboration between Suzuki Motor Corporation and Maruti. Modi said in COP-26, India announced that by 2030 it will obtain 50 per cent of its electrical capacity from non-fossil sources,” he further added.
CM Shinde has also asked for increased manpower to prevent traffic congestion and rush at toll plazas dur ing the festivals and holidays, and directed the authorities to strengthen the CCTV system to prevent ac cidents and ensure se curity on the express way.On Friday, the Ma harashtra government had waived the toll 11gust(PWD)WorkszaswaysandMumbai-BengaluruonMumbai-GoahighaswellastollplaofotherPublicDepartmentroadsfromAu27toSeptemberinviewofGanesh festival.Themove was aimed at providing a relief to Ganpati devotees trav elling from different parts of the state to the coastal Konkan belt of the state.
Our overall loss is around `500 crore, taking into account the amount we have spent on land interestapprovals,paidcost,constructionandchargesforpaid to banks over years and 12% interest paid back to buyers of these towers, among other costs.—RK Arora, Supertech Chairman Broadly, no damage to nearby housing societies. Only some bit of debris has come towards the road. We will get a better idea of the situation in some time.—Ritu Maheshwari, CEO, Noida Authority
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Moni Sharma New Delhi: The illegal Supertech Twin Towers in UP’s Noida were de molished on Sunday and fell like a pack of cards, bringing to close a nine-year-long legal battle. The nearly 100-metre-high towers. higher than Delhi’s iconic monument Qu tub Minar fell like a pack of cards within 9 seconds, courtesy 3,700 kg of ex plosives that was infused in the buildings. Over 5,000 residents of the nearby societies had evacuated their flats for the demo lition on Sunday. A combination of pictures shows Twin Tower before and after its demolition, in Noida on Sunday. PHOTOS BY SHAZID CHAUHAN
Union Home Minister to offer prayers at Lalbaugcha Raja Ganesh Mandal before tackling hassles of Phase 2 of Maha cabinet expansion
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First India Bureau Mumbai: Chief Minis ter Eknath Shinde on Sunday directed the state administration to create a separate lane at the toll plazas on the Mumbai-Pune Ex pressway for the vehi cles heading to the 10day Ganesh festival, which begins on Au gust 31. A statement from the chief minister’s of fice said the decision was taken to ease the movement of traffic on the highway followed a visit by Shinde to the Khalapur toll plaza. He took the decision after meeting officials there, it added.
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“PRESERVE YOUR OWN LANGUAGE. IT IS MY REQUEST TO YOU...”: AMIT SHAH Gandhinagar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday urged students to preserve their mother tongue and said they should make it a point to use it for conversation at home. He also said that govt is now promoting education in engineering, technical and medical courses in local languages. Shah stressed this point while addressing students of NFSU at its convocation ceremony.
With discontent brewing, predominant ly among the remaining 41 MLAs (both rebel Shiv Sena and inde pendents) in CM Shin de’s political formation still to crystalise into a single political entity, meeting expectations of all ministerial aspir ants had scuttled the BJP high command’s plans.“On the other hand, nine new BJP ministers also missed out on di rectives by the party leadership, especially on aspects of urban rep resentation keeping in mind the forthcoming civic elections across 23 municipalities in Ma harashtra. Another big cabinet expansion (tak ing it to the full strength of 44-odd ministers) may follow during 10 days of the Ganesh Chhaturti festival that begins August 31 . Shah’s visit will help iron out wrinkles re maining over the cabi net expansion plan if, it is not accomplished be fore his Mumbai visit,” a senior BJP leader said.According to the leader, “All eyes are fo cused on the Supreme Court hearing before a constitution bench, which is scheduled for Monday, and how the judiciary views the le gitimacy of the Eknath Shinde faction that is ruling Maharashtra. On the cabinet front the remaining deficiencies (read: urban, youth and women’s representa tion) will be resolved. Any existing dissidence of not being accommo dated in the cabinet will be neutralized through appointments to state body’s with minister of state rank for the rebel Sena MLAs.”
“The work will com mence after the mon soon season and will be carried out over a peri od of two months. The upper portion of the temple has blackened a little and plaster con solidation of this layer will be done along with restoration of sculp tures,” Misra said, add ing that the ASI re stored the interiors of the temple last year. The temple was de stroyed and rebuilt several times during the theAhilyabaiagain17thShivajicestorjirajewastheconflict.Mughal-MarathaAccordingtoASI,thetemplerestoredbyMaloBhosale,ananofChhatrapatiMaharajinthecenturyandwasrestoredbyHolkarin18thcentury.
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Congress will not survive a ‘puppet’ president: Chavan
By Anwarul Haque New Delhi: Former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Sunday cautioned that the Congress will not sur vive if someone is made a “puppet presi dent“ as the party an nounced the schedule to elect its new chief. Stating that elections should be held for all posts, including the Congress Working Committee (CWC), Chavan who is a mem ber of the G-23 dissi dent group said the ur gent steps are needed to save the party and the “backseat driving“ will notOnwork.Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation, he said, “His resignation is unfortunate... Elec tions are due in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. In J&K a very junior and outsider (Tariq Ha meed Karra) was made the head of the Politi cal Affairs Committee (PAC) and Azad Saheb was made a member. What was the reason for this? Was this dis cussed?,” Chavan asked.“There was no need to humiliate Azad sa hib. There was no need to say that he has no value,” Chavan said in an“Oninterview.onehand Sonia Gandhi tried to include leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma in the election campaign. He was also given some responsibil ity. The people at the bottom, whom Azad sa hib called “coterie”, did not even listen to Sonia ji.” On the issues raised by Azad in his resigna tion letter, he said, “There are some per sonal allegations in Azad’s resignation let ter, I will not say any thing on them. The is sues raised in the earli er letter (of August, 2020) are valid. We stand by that even today.” Azad had on Friday resigned from the par ty’s primary member ship and all posts, al leging that the Con gress leadership was cheating in the name of internal elections. He had also accused Rahul Gandhi of “im mature and childish” behaviour.TheCongress had hit back at Azad, accus ing him of betraying the party and said that “his DNA has been Modi-fied”.TheCongress Work ing Committee on Sun day decided to hold the election for the party’s full-time president on October 17.
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ANOTHER HIGH-RISE FIRE A fire broke out on Sunday evening in a flat located on the eighth floor of the 22-storey “Baya Victoria” building in Mumbai, a civic official said, adding that no casualties were reported. The blaze was doused by the fire brigade within 30 minutes.
The 11 men convict ed in the case walked out of the Godhra subjail on August 15 after the Gujarat govern ment allowed their re lease under its remis sion policy. They had completed more than 15 years in jail. Some reports had claimed that they were felicitat ed by local leaders uponSeveralrelease. organiza tions across the coun try have protested against the release of the convicts by the Gu jarat government in the Bilkis Bano case. The column in ‘Saamana’ stated that Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar says PM Modi does not practice what he preaches. “The Bilkis case has proven him right,” it said. It is surprising that the convicts were re leased when PM Modi spoke of women em powerment in his Inde pendence Day speech, the Marathi publica tion said.
The temple was restored by Malojiraje Bhosale, an ancestor of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the 17th century and was again restored by Ahilyabai Holkar in the 18th century Ghrishneshwar temple
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An issueimportantisthatifRahulGan dhi has said that nei ther he, nor anyone from his family will be Congress presi dent, then why shouldn’t he be be lieved? If they are not made then another alternative arrange ment will have to be made. Elections should be held and then someone will be come the president. You decide the date of the election, who ever has to fill the form will come. Why are you causing the re verse process? You will confirm the name in advance and then con duct elections, does this ever happen? Hold elections, whoev er has to fight, will fight…. If backseat driving continues, the party will not be able to survive.
The project covers 16.5 acres with more than 250 decrepit buildings, 3,200 families and 1,250 shops.
The notice issued on Saturday by executive engineer Rajesh Dholay of the BMC’s building proposal de partment said the de partment will take ac tion against it under the BMC Act and the Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act if SBUT did not comply. A deputy city engi neer of the department said, “There was a dis cussion in the Assem bly and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said he will inquire into it. Hence, we decided to issue a ‘stop work’ notice.” The SBUT project aims to improve the lives of 25,000 people who live and work in Bhendi Bazaar by giv ing the area a complete makeover.
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lll In chief‘Saamana’,mouthpieceitsSenasaidthatNCPPawarsaysPMModidoesnotpractisewhathepreaches;‘Bilkiscasehasprovenhimright’
NEWS MUMBAI | MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2022 02 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia First India Bureau Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Sunday ques tioned the silence of Prime Minister Nar endra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the re lease of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case and also asked if fe licitation of rapists was “Hindu culture”. The comments were made in Rokhthok col umn of the Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, which carried the ‘Ka daknath Mumbaikar’ byline and not of the Marathi daily’s execu tive editor Sanjay Raut, who is currently in jail on money laundering charges.Whyare Modi and Shah quiet on this is sue? Just because Bilkis Bano is a Mus lim, the crime against her cannot be forgiven, it said.“Itis not a Hin du-Muslim issue, but a matter of the soul of Hindutva and prestige of our great culture,” the Sena “Whensaid.thePM visits Gujarat, he should visit her (Bilkis Bano) and extended his support,” it said.Bilkis Bano was five months pregnant when she was gang-raped while fleeing the riots which broke out after the Godhra train burn ing in 2002. Her threeyear-old daughter was among the seven killed.
The exterior of the structure, considered the 12th Jyotirlinga (special shrine dedicat ed to Lord Shiva), is built using red basalt rock, while the “shikha ra“ (spire) of the temple has a lime coating, Mis ra said. The “shikhara“ rises as a single tower with spires of diminish ing sizes, and the lower most band has sculp tures of dancing figures carved on it.
First India Bureau Mumbai/Nagpur: Ni tin Khare, a 41-yearold former employee of a nationalized bank here has been arrested for allegedly cheating the institu tion of Rs4 crore by way of cashback for credit card holders, Saki Naka police said on Sunday. The bank had registered an FIR against him in May. Khare, a contractual employee who handled data of bank customers’ shopping and cashback, diverted cashback earned on 83 credit cards and duped the bank to the tune of Rs4 crore be tween January and Au gust 2021, the official said. However, the mat ter only came to light when some customers complained to the bank. A case has been regis tered in this regard and more arrests are likely, the official Meanwhile,said.a woman and her son have been booked for allegedly dup ing her employer of Rs2 crore in Nagpur city, a police official said. It is reported that the woman sold products worth Rs1.62 crore and trans ferred Rs39 lakh into her son’s account, said an of ficial at the Sitabuldi po liceThestation.mother and son duo have been booked for cheating on the complaint of Dr Sadan and Thote, the owner of the two firms where the accused woman works as a director, the official added.
First India Bureau Mumbai: Police are on the hunt for an uni dentified person who demanded Rs25,000 from a Yuva Sena worker while pretend ing to be Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thack eray, an official said on Sunday. The complainant, a resident of Dadar in cen tral Mumbai, told the police that he was sur prised when he received a Whatsapp call from a number, which had the image of the Thackeray scion as a display pic ture. When he answered the call, the caller told the complainant to transfer Rs25,000 as he wanted to help his friend. The caller also said he would return the money the next day, the official said, quoting the First Information Report (FIR) filed on Saturday against the unidentified caller on the charge of impersonation.Realizingitwas a con, the complainant imme diately informed Shiv Sena functionaries, the official said.
Nagpur (FIB): A twoyear-old girl was killed after a gas cylinder used to fill balloons exploded in Amravati district, a police official said on Sunday.The incident took place on Saturday even ing at Shindi village in Achalpur taluka, where the child had gone with her policetreatmentriessuccumbedhitAgrandfather.partofthecylinderherleg,andthechildtoherinjuwhileundergoinginahospital,said. 2-year-old killed as cylinderballoon-gasexplodes
First India Bureau Aurangabad: The Ar chaeological Survey of India (ASI) will begin conservation work, at an estimat ed cost of Rs15 lakh, on the exterior of the Sunday.encecaltendingra,ends,thetempleGhrishneshwaratElloraoncemonsoonseasonShrikantMisdeputysuperinarchaeologichemistofscibranch,saidon
‘Irregularities’ lead to ‘stop work’ notice for Bhendi Bazaar project
First India Bureau Mumbai: Following a debate in the Maha rashtra noticesuedtionMunicipaltheprojectliftmentSaifeeirregularitiesAssemblyLegislativeinwhichintheBurhaniUpTrust(SBUT)werealleged,BrihanmumbaiCorpora(BMC)hasisa“stopwork”totheproject.
Conservation work at Ghrishneshwar temple in Ellora to begin soon
Ex-bank employee held for `4 cr fraud
“We have found that people in Mumbai are using online platforms to purchase daily-need products, but they should be aware that 99% of these products purchased through un recognized apps are fake and duplicate,” an EOW official said. He said people fall prey as the rates of the merchandise available online are cheaper compared to genuine products.“Thisyear we have seized duplicate copy right products like floor cleaners, make-up items, branded shoes, iPhone mobile accessories, sin gle-touch diabetic ma chine, salt, jeans, etc,” the official added.
“Investigations re vealed that the boy, Mo hammed Aamir, had gone missing from his home in Jabalpur. Us ing his Aadhaar details, we were able to reunite him with his family,” Marathe Hehaar,heAnplacedinreunitedingwhomanSimilarly,said.a21-year-oldwithdisabilities,wasreportedmisssixyearsago,waswithhisfamilyBihar.Theboywasinanorphanage.inquiryrevealedthatalreadyhadanAadgeneratedin2016.wasthenidentifiedas Sochan Kumar, based on his thumb print, eventu ally reunited with his family in Bihar’s Khagariya district after completing the legal pro cedures on August 19, Marathe said. —PTI
The Aadhar Seva Kendra had recently helped a 21-year-old specially abled man, who was reported missing six years ago, reunite with his family based in Bihar.
Ware consulted head master Sandip Mhas udge—hiterto the only teacher at the “ZP (Zilla Parishad) school”— about his plans. “We then spoke to the locals and sought their participation in re vamping the school, both in terms of infra structure and a qualita tive change in stu dents,” Ware said. The leaking roof was replaced by polythene sheets, the floor was spruced up with marble tiles and the construc tion of a compound wall also started with the help of government funds.Setting a target of 100 days for the physical re vamp, they utilized the summer vacation to the fullest.“By the time we opened the school for the new academic year in June, more than 150 students were seeking admission,” Ware said, “We had to reject half the applications as the schools where they were already enrolled would have been closed down due to the Mhasudge,exodus.”his col league, said the school was on the verge of shutting down in 2018 for want of stu dents.
Activist to Ganesh mandals: Eradicate widowhood practices
SPREADING OUT Three held for gang rape of teenage girl
People’s attitude towards the Zilla Pari shad school has changed. Now, people are ready to extend help to develop the school further. Students have improved.… At the Independence Day programme, students even delivered impromptu speeches,” he added.
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The Aadhaar Seva Kendra (ASK) in Mankapur has been in strumental in reuniting persons with disabili ties, women, and oth ers, with their families scattered across the country in the past year. The centre’s manager Honorary Captain Anil Marathe identified cas es in which applica tions would get rejected because of issues with biometrics during the registration process. It all started last year with the application of an 18-year-old men tally challenged man, whose school needed his Aadhaar card de tails. However, his ap plication would get re jected each time due to issues with biometrics, MaratheMarathesaid.has been making a special effort, with the help of the UIDAI technical centre in Bengaluru and the regional office in Mum bai, to get Aadhaar de tails of persons report ed missing based on their biometric data. The boy was found at a railway station when he was eight years old and was looked after by an orphanage and later by one Samarth Damle, who got him admitted to a school, he said. When the boy’s appli cation got rejected re peatedly, Damle ap proached the centre in Mankapur and found that his Aadhaar regis tration had already been done in 2011, before he was reported missing.
Dattatray Ware, a ZP teacher, got the infrastructure upgraded and introduced novel teaching methods
20-YEAR-OLD MAN HELD FOR RAPING, BLACKMAILING MINOR People fall prey as the rates of availablemerchandisethethroughunrecognizedappsarecheapercomparedtogenuineproducts
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First India Bureau Mumbai: The upcom ing Ganpati festival should create mass awareness about eradicating from so ciety the “evil prac tices” related to wid owhood, a social ac tivist spearheading the campaign in Ma harashtra said on Sunday.
—PHOTOS BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE Bhiwandi Ganpati mandal festivitiesgivesamissThane(PTI): A Ganpati mandal (group organizing public festival) in Bhiwandi in Thane district on Sunday said it would not be participating in one of the state’s most patronized festivals due to price rise and dearth of dona tions this year. In a letter to the police, the ‘Dream Complex Ganesh Utsav Mandal’ in Kongaon said it was not celebrating the festival due to the difficulty in get ting donations and soaring costs of essential items. The 10-day festival will kick off on August 31 and it is the first time since 2019 that it will be celebrated restrictions.pandemic-inducedwithout
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Pune: When Dat tatray Ware, a nation al notprimaryrolls.onlyPuneJalindernagarremotementferredteacher,award-winningwastranstothegovernschoolinthehamletofindistrict,ithad13studentsonitsThedilapidatedschooldidevenhaveaprop er approach road. Today, not only is en rolment at an all-time high, it also has a wellequipped laboratory, a library, laptops and even Virtual Reality (VR) goggles among other educational aids. “When I joined this school, I decided to turn it around,” he said.
Centre’s manager has been making special efforts to get biometricbasedreporteddetailsAadhaarofpersonsmissingontheirdata
First India Bureau Thane: Three men— a merchant navy em ployee, a historysheeter and a vaga bond—have been ar rested for the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in Thane district, po lice said on Sunday, adding that the inci dent occurred on Au gust 26. “On Friday after noon, the trio took the girl to a flat at Kalher in Bhiwandi, tied her hands together and sex ually assaulted her. When she resisted their attempts, one of the ac cused bit her,” an offi cial of Thane crime branch (unit V) said. The accused, identi fied as Sachin Kamble (30), Akash Kanojia (22) and Asu (20) were later arrested based on a complaint lodged by the victim at Chitalsar po lice station in Wagle Estate division of Thane city, he said. While Kanojia is em ployed in the merchant navy, Kamble has a number of offences reg istered against him. The third accused, iden tified by only one name, is a vagabond, he said. The girl and her three assailants all re side in Wagle Estate area, he “Offencessaid.under var ious sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act have been registered against the three ac cused,” the official added.
Activist Pramod Zin jade has been cam paigning against prac tices like wiping sin door from a woman’s forehead after her hus band’s death, breaking her bangles, removing her toe rings and pre venting her from par ticipating in social and religious functions. He has now circulat ed an appeal in a What sApp group of sar panches (village heads), asking that they request all Ganesh mandals in their villages to organ ize events and put up banners to create such awareness during the 10-day Ganpati festival beginning on August 31. Notably, since Her wad in Kolhapur dis trict in May this year became the first village in the country to pass a resolution banning the discriminatory rituals against widows, several gram sabhas have fol lowed suit.
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Aadhaar centre helps 14 people reunite with family
—FILE PHOTO Mumbai: A 20-year-old man has been arrested under relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, for allegedly raping and blackmailing a 17-year-old girl in Mumbai, police said on Sunday. According to the complaint filed by the victim, she and her alleged assailant were friends in college. How ever, when she snapped ties with him several months ago, he started blackmailing her. The accused has been remanded to police custody.
Devotees carry idols of Lord Ganesh in processions ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, in Mumbai, on Sunday.
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Charles Salve Nagpur: A simple ap plication for Aadhaar card in tryoustheirreported14changedMaharashtrathelivesofpeople,whoweremissingbyfamiliesinvaripartsofthecounyearsago.
l Vol 1 l Issue No. 114 l RNI TITLE MAHENG/2022/14652NO.Printed and published by 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. Published at Plot No. 3 Scheme C of Manglorean 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 Jagat Prakash @JPNaddaNadda On the auspicious occasion of the Parkash Purab of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, we recall the teachings & vision of a compassionate and inclusive society that the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji teaches us. My greetings to everyone & all our Sikh brothers and sisters on this special day.
Dharmendra@dpradhanbjpPradhan 2023 is going to be a very special year. The UNGA has endorsed India’s proposal to observe 2023 as International Year of Millets. Given the benefits of super foods like millets and being a large producer, it is our responsibility to make the Millet Year a resounding success.
umber nine proved to be a cursed digit for Supertech devel opers whose twin towers in Noida were razed in nine seconds on Sunday. The over 100 feet towers with 40 floors each were built in viola tion of building construction laws with the alleged conniv ance of some NOIDA officials. The gap between the two tow ers was only 16 metres. It took nine years for the Residents’ Welfare Associa tion (RWA) to win the legal battle against the developers after they filed a case in the Allahabad High Court in 2012. After the high court ordered demolition of the twin towers in 2014, the developer sought relief from the Supreme Court which upheld the dem olition order in 2021 and also ordered for buyers’ money to be refunded with interest. The demolition of the tall structures, India’s first, was a sight to watch. Carried out with complete technical effi ciency, it met all safety pa rameters. Even the dust clouds that arose from the site did not disturb the air quality level. Nor did the im plosion cause much collater al damage.
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he Aam Aadmi Party is not holding its punches against the BJP. At a special as sembly session called a few days back to prove his strength Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alleged that the BJP wants to topple his govern ment by buying out his AAP leg islators. He alleged that the BJP had set aside Rs 800 crore to buy his 40 MLAs, offering them Rs 20 crore each. Calling BJP a “serial killer” , Kejriwal cited the exam ples of Maharashtra and Goa where elected governments were brought down by the BJP and said that the same pattern was being followed in Delhi when CBI raided Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s premises.Kejriwal also put his national ambition on the table when he directly attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said that the raid on Sisodia was not part of the fight against corruption but was “to satisfy one man’s lust for power”. Can Arvind Kejriwal hide his own lust for power?
RAZING OF TOWERS, VICTORY OF BUYERS
Real interest rates appear to be on a firm upward trend, because nominal interest rates will rise and inflation will fall. Together with decelerating global growth, that could mean that the recent decline in the real prices of oil, minerals, and agricultural products will persist
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At the root of the problem, however, was corruption along with the alleged com plicity of NOIDA officials. The connivance between offic ers and engineers of various development authorities has allowed scores of illegal con structions to come up in state after state. To avoid such oc currences in future, stricter monitoring of the staff at de velopment authorities is re quired and as punishment to them and the developers all illegal constructions should be demolished. Strict preven tive measures are needed as not all buyers can fight so dog gedly to save their hardearned money.
The over 100 feet towers with 40 floors each were built in violation of building construction laws with the alleged connivance of some NOIDA officials. The gap between the two towers was only 16 metres commodity prices are likely to fall further?
Real interest rates appear to be on a firm upward trend, because nominal interest rates will rise, and inflation will fall. Together with decelerating global growth, that could mean that the recent decline in real prices of oil, minerals, and productsagriculturalwillpersist
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ambridge – Big movements in the prices of oil, minerals, and agricultural commodi ties have been among the most salient economic devel opments of the past couple of years. The sharp rise in com modity prices for much of this period was virtually im possible to miss. A barrel of Brent crude that sold for $20 in April 2020, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pan demic, fetched a peak of $122 in March 2022, just after Rus sia invaded Ukraine. Oil was not the only com modity to experience a price surge. The price of copper doubled; wheat more than doubled; and global indices of commodity prices almost tri pled from April 2020 to March 2022. And these increases are in dollar terms; prices in eu ros, yen, won, or other curren cies rose even more. Less widely noted, however, is that the prices of many commodities fell this sum mer. The price of oil de creased by about 30% between early June and mid-August. The politically sensitive price of gasoline in the United States fell by 20% over the same period, from $5 per gal lon to $4 per gallon. The over all index fell 12%. Is this dip in commodity prices just temporary? Or is it a sign that prices have peaked and can be expected to decline further?Commodity prices are highly correlated. One reason is direct microeconomic link ages. When the price of oil rises, wheat producers’ costs increase (because harvesting equipment runs on diesel and fertilizer is made from natu ral gas), which puts upward pressure on grain prices. Moreover, as the US Feder al Reserve and other central banks tighten monetary poli cy, real interest rates are like ly to rise. This will probably push down commodity prices, and not just because high real interest rates make a reces sion more likely. The level of real interest rates affects com modity prices independently of GDP, both in theory and empirically.Thetheory of the relation ship between real interest rates and commodity prices is long-established. The sim plest intuition behind the re lationship is that the interest rate is a “cost of carrying” inventories. An increase in the interest rate reduces firms’ demand for holding in ventories and therefore low ers the commodity price. Three other mechanisms operate, in addition to inven tories. First, for an exhausti ble resource, a rise in the in terest rate increases the in centive to extract today and thus expand the available supply. Second, for “financial ized” commodities, an in crease in the interest rate en courages institutional inves tors to shift out of the com modities asset class and into Treasury bills. Lastly, for a commodity that is interna tionally traded, an increase in the domestic real interest rate causes a real appreciation of the domestic currency, which works to lower the domesticcurrency price of the com modity.Econometric analyses have demonstrated the statistical relationship between real in terest rates and commodity prices. These include simple correlations; regressions that control for other important determinants, such as GDP and inventories in a “carry trade” model; and high-fre quency event studies that are much less sensitive to the econometric problems of the regressions.Twoepisodes illustrate that the effect of real interest rates on commodity prices operates independently of the GDP effect. Neither the spike in dollar commodity prices in the first half of 2008 nor the decline in 2014-15 can be explained by fluctuations in economic activity. They can instead be interpreted as the result, respectively, of loose US monetary policy (quantitative easing) and a tightening of US monetary policy with the end of QE.
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Hardik Pandya celebrates after winning the Asia Cup match against Pakistan on Sunday. Watched the exciting match between India and Pakistan of Asia Cup being played in Dubai (UAE) today with RCA officials and encouraged Team India. Vaibhav Gehlot President, Raj Cricket Assn.
The State has set a target of harnessing 10,000 MW of addi tional power potential by the year 2030, of which upto 2000 MW would be solar.
Panaji (PTI): The Goa Police have arrested one more drug peddler in connection with the case of alleged murder of BJP leader Sonali Pho gat, an official said on Sunday. With this, five people have so far been arrested in the case. Phogat (43), a former Tik Tok star and con testant on the reality TV show “Big Boss”, was brought dead to a hospital August 23, a day after arrival in Goa. On Saturday night, the Anjuna police in North Goa arrested drug peddler Rama alias Ramadas Mandrekar for allegedly supplying drugs to another peddler Dattaprasad Gaonkar, who is already in custo dy in connection with the case, the official said.
ANIBY—PHOTO Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Sunday said his government was ready to hand over the probe into the death of Haryana BJP leader and actor Sonali Phogat to the Central Bureau of Inves tigation (CBI), if necessary. WILL HAND OVER THE CASE TO CBI: GOA CM Ravindra Jadeja plays a shot during match between India and Pakistan, in Dubai on Sunday. Indian fans cheer for team India during the Asia Cup 2022 Group A match between India and Pakistan, at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on Sunday.
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Jharkhand Congress chief Rajesh Thakur said, “Both discussed about the state political situation and the cloud of uncertainty.”
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New Delhi (ANI): Prime Minister Naren dra Modi, while address ing the 92nd episode of his monthly programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sun day, urged the citizens to watch the serial ‘Swaraj’ and also suggested to students to compose a special programme at their shan,”dayIttheoinesunsungtrygenerationtoThisaanfreedomwhoaboutrisesaidTheinstitutions.PrimeMinisterthatthiswillgivetoanewawakeningthegreatheroestookpartinthestruggle.“IgotopportunitytogotopremiereofSwaraj.isagreatinitiativeacquainttheyoungerofthecounwiththeeffortsofheroesandherwhotookpartinfreedommovement.istelecasteverySunat9pmonDoordarPMModisaid.
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Shimla (ANI): Mount ing a strong counter-at tack on the Aam Aadmi Party’s election sop of free electricity the BJPled Himachal Pradesh govt has promised 125 units of free electricity per month to over 14 lakh voters of the State. CM Jai Ram Thakur while presiding over the function organized by the Himachal Pradesh State Electric ity Board Ltd. to launch the Scheme, ‘125 Units of Free Electricity’ to the consumers of the State held at the Paddal ground at Mandi on Sunday said, “The state government has taken many such welfare deci sions during the tenure of the present govern ment to ensure direct benefits to the common people.” The CM said that the state govern ment recently took a decision that 125 units of free power would be provided to the people of the State which has benefitted over 14 lakh electricity consumers of the State as they were now getting zero electricity bills.
Ranchi (ANI): Amid the political mayhem in Jharkhand, CM He mant Soren on Sunday called on state Congress in-charge Avinash Pan de to discuss the next course of action. The meeting between the two leaders took place at the state Guest House and lasted for an hour. Asked about the delay in Governor’s deci sion over the CM’s post, Soren said, “It is Gover nor Ramesh Bais who can answer this better.”
Chief Minis ter Manik Saha was also present in the meeting held at State Guest House, Agartala. Nadda who is on a two-day visit to Tripura arrived at Agartala on Sunday morning. He was recieved by Chief Minister Manik Saha and other BJP state leaders and party work ers at Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport.
New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi on Sun day extended greetings on the occasion of the 418 years of Parkash Purab of Shri Guru Granth Sahib. He took to Twit ter to extend his greetings on the auspi cious occasion of the Parkash Purab.
Jai Ram Thakur, Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh
Gandhinagar: Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the Centre has set a target of taking the conviction rate high er than even developed countries and integrate the criminal justice sys tem with forensic sci ence isalityindependencestructuretryeachinvestigationprovideconvocation.Gandhinagar,UniversityalstudentsdressingsixishmentfencessoryinvestigationaimsTheinvestigation.governmenttomakeforensic“compulandlegal”forofattractingpunofmorethanyears,ShahsaidadthegraduatingoftheNationForensicSciences(NFSU),atitsfirstThegovernmentwillaforensicmobilefacilityindistrictofthecounandcreatealegaltoensurethatandpartioftheinvestigationmaintained,hesaid.“UnderPMNarendra
6 killed as tanker hits into tractortrolley in Bareilly Bareilly (PTI): At least six people, including two children, were killed and 24 others injured when a tractor-trolley in which they were travel ling was hit by a tanker here on Sunday. The ac cident occurred at Kich ha-Khatima road near Sirsa outpost in the Ba hedi area. A tractortrolley carrying 35 peo ple was going to Uttam Nagar gurdwara from Uttrakhand.
PM Modi urges citizens to watch serial ‘Swaraj’ on freedom struggle
Jharkhand crisis: CM Soren meets Cong incharge Pande Himachal Pradesh govt counters AAP: Offers 125 units of free electricity to 14 lakh voters
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New Delhi: PM Modi urged people to make ef forts to remove malnutri tion stressing that social awareness was a crucial aspect of this fight. In his Mann Ki Baat broadcast, Modi said the ‘Amrit Dhara’ of ‘Amrit Mahot sav’ marking 75 years of India’s independence was flowing in all corners of the country in this month.
Tezpur: A wild elephant from the Kaziranga Na tional Park wreaked havoc in Tezpur city of Assam’s Sonitpur district, damag ing scores of vehicles and other properties, officials said on Sunday. The elephant swam across the mighty Brahmaputra river and entered Tezpur city on Saturday night, they said. The officials said the tusker crossed the Brah maputra from the southern bank and entered Tezpur on the northern banks. Rewa: 5 inmates escaped from a juvenile home by breaking a window at the facility in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district on Sunday, police said. In the early hours of the day, five inmates who were brought here some days back broke the window of the kitchen and fled, police said.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren chairs a meeting of the United Progressive Alliance legislators, in Ranchi. —FILE PHOTO
JP Nadda chairs Tripura BJP meeting in Agartala Phogat case: One more drug peddler arrested
Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that India has decided to become self-reliant in energy sector in the next 25 years. At a programme held to mark 40 years of Suzuki Motor Corporation in India, Modi also hailed the relationship between India and Japan.
BS Yediyurappa with PM Narendra Modi.
Chennai: The ICG on Sunday held 10th National Maritime Search and Res cue Exercise SAREX-22 off Chennai coast. A total of 24 observers from 16 foreign nations took part in it. The theme of the 10th edition is ‘Capacity Building Towards Marine Passenger Safety.’
Ranchi (ANI): Amid the political turmoil in Jharkhand, state minister and Congress leader Banna Gupta on Sunday dared the BJP-led Centre to impose Article 365 of the Constitution in the state. He said, “It is a preplanned conspiracy to destabilise the Jharkhand government. We want to know from the Governor that if the Election Commission has sent something, then it should be made public. ED has raided for months but nothing was found.”
—PHOTO BY ANI BJP National President JP Nadda, Tripura CM Manik Saha, State BJP President Rajib Bhattacharya and Union Minister Pratima Bhowmik listened to PM Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat, in Agartala on Sunday.
Bengaluru: As Karna taka goes to state elec tions next year, a series of meetings former Kar nataka CM BS Yedi yurappa held in Delhi with top BJP leaders, including PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president JP Nadda and others this week, indicate sthat Yediyurappa has again become number 1 leader for BJP in the southern state. For Yediyurappa, this visit is about flexing muscle and emerging as numero uno within the party once again; post his resignation in July last year, he was increas ingly becoming irrele vant within the party.
Modi’s leadership, the central government is going to make changes in the Indian Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and the Evidence Act, because nobody saw these laws from an Indi an perspective after in dependence, he said. “These laws need to be reframed from the per spective of independent India. Therefore, we have been consulting a lot of people to change the IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act,” he said addressing the convoca tion as chief guest. Amit Shah being felicitated at the ceremony of the foundation stone of beautification work at Vadsar Pound in Vadsar, Gandhinagar, on Sunday. (Right): Amit Shah at the 1st convocation ceremony of NFSU, in Gandhinagar on Sunday.
JHARKHAND MINISTER DARES CENTRE TO IMPOSE PRESIDENT RULE IN THE STATE
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Narendra Modi @narendramodi Today, on the auspicious occa sion of the Parkash Purab of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji my greet ings to everyone, particularly the Sikh com munity. The holy teachings of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji give strength to millions and make our society more just, inclusive and compassionate.
Agartala (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Na dda who is on a visit to Tripura chaired the state office bearers meeting in Agartala on Sunday.Tripura
Hardik Pandya took three crucial wickets in the middle overs while Bhuvneshwar Kumar snared four as India bowled out Pakistan for 147 in their opening Asia Cup match on Sunday. Pandya ended with figures of 3/25 in 4 overs while opener Mohammed Rizwan was the top-scorer for Pakistan with a sedate 43 off 42 balls. Earlier, India won the toss and elected to field.
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As part of its tightrope walk on the Bharat Jodo Yatra, that is to be Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s biggest masscontact programme to date, the party has reached out to civil society groups, with the message that the march is bigger than about a person and party.
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New Delhi (ANI): While noting the dy namic leadership of UNGA President and Foreign Minister of Maldives Abdulla Shahid, Vice-Presi dent Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday praised his work in revitalizing the UN and added that his visit to India will fur ther bolster the mul ti-faceted ties with the“HisMaldives.dynamic lead ership of the 76th UNGA and his Presi dency priorities, in particular on revital izing the UN, have universal appeal. We are confident that his visit would further strengthen India’s close and multi-facet ed ties with the Mal dives,” said Dhankhar while welcoming For eign Minister of Mal dives Abdulla Sha hid. Foreign Secre tary Vinay Mohan Kwatra, on SecretarySunday,.Kwatra congratulated the UNGA President on his ‘Presidency of Hope’ and for his vi sionary leadership in the 76th session of the UNGA. Notably, in November, the UNGA president launched the Presi dent of the General Assembly’s (PGA) Harnessing Opportu nities for fortheYouthEmpowermentPromotingofFellowship-PGA’sFellowshipHOPE.
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Islamabad: Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said August 28, as the country’s climate minister called the deadly monsoon season “a serious catastrophe.”climateFlash flooding from the heavy rains has washed away villages and crops as soldiers and rescue workers evacuated stranded residents to the safety of relief camps and provided food to thousands of displaced Pakistanis.
J&K unit of Congress suf fered another jolt on Sun day as its senior leader and former minister Taj Mohiuddin quit from the party and joined Ghulam Nabi Azad led front. Today, I wrote to the Congress president and the general secretary and others that I am resigning from all the posts which I was hold ing, including the primary membership of Congress, Mohiuddin told reporters at a press conference.
UP’s 5 IAS officers empanelled as Joint Secretaries at the Centre Ahtesham Siddiqui Lucknow: 55 IAS offic ers including 5 from the UP cadre have been em panelled for the post of Joint Secretary in the center.The officers are from the 2006 batch. From the UP cadre, Varanasi collector Kaushal Raj Sharma, ICDS Director Dr Sarika Mohan, Commissioner of Bareilly district Sel va Kumari J, special sec retary - National Inte gration Department Pranjal Yadav and secre tary UPIC Abhishek Prakash have been em panelled. Sarika Mohan is cur rently on leave. They are all 2006batch IAS officers. The most important name is Kaushal Raj Sharma Is the collector of Varana si district, who has be come a secretary after getting promotion but still he is continuing as the District Magistrate.
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An illuminated Golden Temple on the eve of first Parkash Purab of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, in Amritsar on Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI Anand Sharma questions electoral rolls at CWC meet New Delhi (PTI): To day’s big Congress meet ing to approve dates for the election for a new President had no discus sion on the recent explo sive resignation move of veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad. Sources say dissident Congress lead er Anand Sharma, ques tioning the preparations of electoral rolls for the Prez elections, wanted the electoral rolls of the Pradesh Congress Com mittee and District Con gress Committee to be distributed and publi cised. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi agreed to it, though Sharma al leges there has been no real meeting of the CWC.Speaking at the CWC meeting before the party’s Central Election Authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry listed out the schedule for the election of the Congress president. Dr Sarika Mohan Kaushal Raj Sharma Pranjal Yadav Selva Kumari J Abhishek Prakash
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Varanasi: Crime branch of Varanasi police commis sion succeeded in arresting Rs 300 crore finan cial scam’s mas termind Arunesh Sita from Lucknow while his close aide Bal Chand Chaurasia was nabbed from Ballia. Running his firm in the name of “Indus Ware Company”, Sita had ensured depositing of Rs 300 crore from innocent investors of UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi and other states. Commissioner of police A Satish Ganesh on Sunday said, “Sita and Chaurasia had been produced before the court after bringing here on Sunday and sent to jail.”
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New Delhi (ANI): CWC on Sunday decided that the election for the Con gress president post will be held on Oct 17, said sources. The counting of the votes will be done on Oct 19. The CWC meet ing took place today to discuss the final sched ule for the election of the Congress prez. Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra & Former PM Dr Man mohan Singh joined the meeting virtually. This comes in the backdrop of the party’s senior leader Gulam Nabi Azad’s resignation on Friday. The sources had said that the elec tion for the post of presi dent has now become a challenge for Congress with the reluctance of Rahul Gandhi to contest the polls. According to sources, the Central Election Authority has made preparations to complete the election process on time. Sources said the pro cess seems to remain stuck since Rahul Gan dhi is not willing to con test the election for the post of Congress prez, although all the efforts to convince him are still going on. Meanwhile, Congress plans to em bark on ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ from Kanyaku mari on Sept 7 under the leadership of party lead er Rahul Gandhi and the 148-day march will cul minate in Kashmir. Notification will be issued on Sept 22, while the filing of nomination would begin on Sept 24
VAISNHO DEVI SHRINE TO GET SKYWALK FOR CROWD MANAGEMENT BY NOV Jammu: After introducing Radio Frequency Identity Cards (RFID) to keep a track on the movement of pilgrims, the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) has started work on the much needed ‘Skywalk’ which would help separate the incoming and outgoing pilgrims near the Bhawan area. The skywalk with a length of 200 metres and width of 2.5 metres is expected to be completed by November at a cost of over Rs 9.89 crore to allow smooth movement of inbound pilgrims, an official of the SMVDSB said. He said the facility, 20 feet above the track level, will help overcome the problem of multidirectional flow of yatra
New Delhi: Internet ser vices across 27 districts of Assam were suspended for over four hours on Sunday for the second time this month to prevent possible malpractices during written examination for recruitment in various state government departments. The author ities decided to go ahead with its decision to suspend internet services during exam hours, after the Gauhati High Court refused to stay it following a writ petition against the order.
VP praises UNGA prez for revitalizing UN
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The Congress Working Committee on Sunday announced dates for the election for the party’s full-time president. Soon after, senior party leader Harish Rawat said that Rahul Gandhi will soon be the Congress president. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed PM Modi over his pitch for Khadi, alleging that his words and actions “never match”. Slam ming the PM, he said, “’Khadi for Nation’ but Chinese Polyester for National flag! As always, the words and actions of the PM never match.”
Patna: Senior BJP lead er, Sushil Kumar Modi, on Sunday, demanded the removal of Bihar Co-operative minister, Surendra Prasad Yadav, from the Nitish Kumar Cabinet for his alleged involvement in crimi nal cases. Modi, a for mer deputy chief min ister of Bihar, had re cently demanded the resignation of state Agriculture minister Sudhakar Singh for his alleged involvement in the rice scam.
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a fresh list of 780 components and subsystems which will only be procured from domestic industry after a ban on their import kicks in under a stag gered time-line of around six years. It is the third such “positive indigenisa tion” list comprising line replacement units, sub-systems and compo nents used for various military platforms, equipment and weapons, and the aim is to mini mise imports by the DP SUs. The ministry has set specific timelines for import ban of the items, spanning a period from Dec 2023 to Dec 2028.
Savarkar flew on a bulbul says textbookKannada Bengaluru: A fresh controversy has erupt ed in Kar nataka mentgovernthehistory”“rewritingchargesoverofbyBJP-ledasthe textbook revision committee has reportedly insert ed a section on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in the revised high school curriculum in the state.“There was not even a keyhole in the cell where Savarkar was incarcerated. But, Bul bul birds used to visit the room, and Savarkar used to sit on their wings and fly out and visit the motherland every day,” a passage in the new textbook says. Savarkar’s role in the Indian freedom struggle has been a big ideological flashpoint between the —calorSwayamsevakRashtriyaSangh,RSS—theideologimentoroftheBJPandrivalCongress.
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UN General Assembly and Foreign Minister of Maldives, HE Abdulla Shahid meets Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, in New Delhi on Sunday. —PHOTO BY ANI
New Delhi: India’s flagship overseas firm ONGC Videsh Ltd has got the seventhextension to explore for oil and gas in blockVietnameseainthe contested waters of the South China Sea, officials said. OVL, the overseas arm of stateowned ONGC, has secured extension of the exploration phase upto June 15, 2023, they said. It has not found any commercially recoverable oil in the 16 years.
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New Delhi: The deadline for submission of bids for debtridden Reliance Capital Ltd (RCL) ends on Monday theinvestorsconcernsamidofovercompany’s most-valuable arm Reliance General Insurance Company. IDBI Trusteeship Services Limited acting in its capac ity as a debenture trustee on behalf of Credit Suisse, had invoked the pledge of Reliance Capital’s 100% shareholding in Reliance General.
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Washington (PTI): India is embarked on a journey to restore itself to the top of the global leadership ta bles in terms of economy and prosperity, the head of an India-centric American business group has said, underlining that US com panies are geared up to be part of the country's ambi tious vision to become a $30 trillion economy.
“I think it's clear that In dia is going to grow in eve ry decade of the 21st cen tury. It's gonna rise to be one of the biggest econo mies in the world, if not the biggest economy in the world," Atul Keshap, the president of the US India Business Council (USIBC) said. "I've heard Indian of ficials talk about India po tentially becoming a $30 trillion economy,” he said. A lot of American com panies and members of the USIBC understand and ap preciate that vision, Kes hap said.“India is em barked upon a journey to restore itself to the top of the global leadership tables in terms of economy and prosperity. India used to oc cupy as much as 25% of the global GDP. I think that po tential is there,” he said. Keshap said that Ameri can companies are excited and geared up to be part of India's ambitious journey. US in for India’s vision of $30 tn eco
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—PTI New Delhi: Seven of the top-10 valued firms suf fered a combined erosion of `1,54,477.38 crore in market valuation last week, with IT majors TCS and Infosys emerging as the biggest laggards. RIL, ICICI Bank and State Bank of India (SBI) were the only gainers in the top-10 pack. The market valua tion of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) plunged `59,862.08 crore to `11,78,818.29 crore. The valuation of Infosys tanked `31,789.31 crore to `6,40,351.57 cr.
New Delhi: Mutual funds have launched a clutch of new fund offers in the sil ver ETF (exchange traded fund) category this year and collected `1,400 crore in assets after the introduction of the newlycreated investment asset class by market regulator Sebi in 2021. Further, fund houses including Kotak Asset Management Company have filed draft documents with the mar kets regulator to float sil ver ETF as well as silver ETF fund of funds for in vestors, information with the Securities and Ex change Board of India (Sebi) showed.
—PTI COST OVERRUNS OF `4.7L CR PLAGUE 386 INFRA PROJECTS
MARKET FORECAST z Last week, the Sensex tumbled 812.28 points or 1.36 per cent, while the Nifty lost 199.55 points or 1.12 per cent z The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) data for the manufacturing sector, scheduled to be announced on Thursday, would also influence trading business
Panaji: Adani Group firm AdaniConneX is planning to build 1,000 megawatt data centres — almost double the present size of the total industry —over a period of 10 years, a senior company official said. AdaniConneX Senior Vice President and Head of Data Centre Business, Sanjay Bhutani said the the first seven data centres of the company will come up in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bengaluru and Pune. “We are building 1,000 megawatt data centres,” Bhutani said.
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Financial inclusion big step towards growth: Nirmala
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Diesel exports dropped to 2.18 million tonnes in July from 2.45 million tonnes a month back, data from the Oil Ministry’s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) showed z Diesel exports in March touched the second highest level of 3.36 million tonnes, before tapering to 2.7 million tonnes in the following month z Petrol exports fell to 1.1 million tonnes from 1.16 million tonnes in June. It had peaked at 1.6 MT in March
ADANI GROUP PLANS TO BUILD 1,000-MW DATA CENTRES IN NEXT TEN YEARS
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States peg kharif rice procurement at last year's level of 506 LT New Delhi (PTI): The state governments have pegged the rice procurement target for the 2022 Kharif market ing season at around 506 lakh tonnes, the same as the last year's level, not withstanding the likely marginal drop in the out put, according to sources. However, the procure ment estimates would be firmed up by the Union Food Ministry next week after deliberations with the state government officials, the sources added. The government pro cures paddy and converts it into the rice at mills. The procurement of paddy grown in the Kharif season starts in October. The gov ernment has fixed the MSP of 'common' grade paddy at ` 2,040 per quintal and 'grade A' at 2,060 per quin tal for the 2022-23 market ing year.
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FINANCE MINISTER SAYS New Delhi (PTI): Finan cial inclusion is a major step towards inclusive growth which ensures the overall economic develop ment of the marginalised sections of the society, Fi nance Min Nirmala Sithar aman said on Sunday. The success of the Prad han Mantri Jan Dhan Yo jana (PMJDY) since August 28, 2014 is reflected in terms of opening of over 46 crore bank accounts with deposit balance of `1.74 lakh crore with its expanded coverage to 67% rural or semi-urban areas as well as 56% of women Jan Dhan account holders, she said on the eighth anniversary of the flagship financial inclu sion"Continuationscheme. of PM JDY beyond 2018 saw a marked shift in approach to meet challenges and re quirements of the emerg ing FI (financial inclusion) landscape in the country. "There has been a shift in focus from 'every house hold' to 'every adult', with added emphasis on usage of accounts by enhancing Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) flows through these accounts, promoting digi tal payments through the use of RuPay cards, etc," an official statement quoted. The underlying pillars of PMJDY -- namely, bank ing the unbanked, securing the unsecured and funding the unfunded -- has made it possible to adopt multistakeholders' collaborative approach while leveraging technology for serving the unserved and underserved areas as well, she observed. She also said the JAM (Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mo bile) pipeline created through account holders' consent-based linking of bank accounts with Aad har and mobile numbers of the account holders, which is one of the important pil lars of the financial inclu sion ecosystem, has ena bled instant DBT under various government wel fare schemes to the eligible beneficiaries.
New Delhi (PTI): Trading in the domestic stock mar ket would be influenced by trends in the global equi ties, macroeconomic data and foreign fund move ment in a holiday-short ened week, analysts said. Markets may face vola tile trends on Monday after Federal Reserve Chair Je rome Powell’s speech at the Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole on “PowellFriday.sounded ultra hawkish in his brief speech at Jackson Hole. Markets will be concerned about the tight monetary conditions persisting longer than ex pected. The near-term im pact on equity markets will be negative,” V K Vijayaku mar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Finan cial Services, said. “The direction of global markets will be the domi nant factor for this week while on the domestic front, India’s GDP num ber and August auto sales numbers will be impor tant factors. Apart from this, the market will also have an eye on the move ment of crude oil prices, the dollar index, and the US bond yields,” Santosh Meena, Head of Research, Swastika Investmart Ltd,Thesaid.Purchasing Manag ers’ Index (PMI) data for the manufacturing sector, scheduled to be an nounced on Thursday, would also influence trad ing, analysts said. “This week is a holidayshortened one and it marks the beginning of the new month also so, participants will be eyeing important data like auto sales num bers. Amid all, the perfor mance of the global indices especially the US would remain on the radar for cues,” Ajit Mishra, VP - Re search, Religare Broking Ltd,Thesaid.investment pattern of Foreign Institutional In vestors (FIIs) and the ru pee-dollar trends would also continue to drive mar kets. Last week, the Sensex tumbled 812.28 points or 1.36%, while the Nifty lost 199.55 points or 1.12%.
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Diesel export falls 11% in July after levy of windfall profit tax
New Delhi: Reliance Industries will on Monday broadcast its annual shareholder meeting simultaneously on a virtual reality platform as well as on five social media platforms as it takes another leap in digitally connecting people for its AGM.
—PTI FPIs INVEST `49,250 CRORE IN AUGUST ON CORP EARNINGS New Delhi: As many as 386 infrastructure pro jects, each entailing an in vestment of `150 crore or more, have been hit by cost overruns of more than `4.7 lakh crore, as per a report. Out of 1,505 projects, 386 reported cost overruns and as many as 661 projects were delayed. “Total origi nal cost of implementa tion of the 1505 projects was `21,21,793.23 cr and their anticipated comple tion cost is likely to be `25,92,537.79 cr, which reflects overall overruns of `4,70,744.56 cr.”
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MFs FLOCK TO SILVER ETF SPACE WITH NEW SCHEMES New Delhi: After turning net buyers last month, foreign investors have be come aggressive shop pers of Indian equities and pumped in `49,250 crore so far in August on improvement in corporate earnings and macro fun damentals. This was way higher than a net invest ment of nearly `5,000 crore by FPIs in the entire July. According to data, FPIs pumped a net amount of `49,254 crore in Indian equities during August 1-26.
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Reliance Chairman and MD Mukesh Am bani will virtually address shareholders at the 45th annual general meeting on Monday afternoon, sources said.
New Delhi (PTI): India's diesel exports fell by 11% in July and overseas ship ment of petrol dropped by 4.5% after the government slapped a windfall profit tax on such sales, official dataDieselshowed.exports dropped to 2.18 million tonnes in July from 2.45 million tonnes a month back, data from the Oil Ministry's Pe troleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) showed. Similarly, petrol exports fell to 1.1 million tonnes from 1.16 million tonnes in June. India first imposed windfall profit taxes on July 1, joining a growing number of nations that taxes super normal profits of energy companies. Ex port duties of ` 6 per litre were levied on petrol and aviation turbine fuel and `13 a litre on diesel. The duties were partial ly adjusted in three rounds on July 20, August 2 and August 19, and have now been removed for petrol, with `7 per litre and `2 per litre remaining for diesel and ATF, respectively. In July, India exported 4.68 million tonnes of pe troleum products, 82% of which was petrol, diesel and ATF. ATF exports were marginally down to 583,000 tonnes in July from 591,000 tonnes in the previous month, the PPAC dataDieselshowed.exports in March touched the second highest level of 3.36 million tonnes, before tapering to 2.7 mil lion tonnes in the following month. They rose to 3.05 million tonnes in May and fell to 2.45 million tonnes in June. The highest ever amount of diesel was ex ported in April 2020 when 3.4 million tonnes of the fuel was shipped. Petrol ex ports peaked at 1.6 million tonnes in March.
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‘JAN DHAN A BIG SUCCESS’ z The success of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) is reflected in terms of opening of 46 crore bank accounts with deposit balance of `1.74 lakh crore with its expanded coverage to 67% rural or semi-urban areas as well as 56% of women Jan Dhan account holders.
CIDCO casts 500 slabs in 489 days in mass-housing project
First India Bureau Pune: notsomewineries,boostmarketssellaernmentAghadisaidPawar(NCP)CongressNationalistPartychiefSharadonSundaytheMahaVikas(MVA)govhadtakengooddecisiontowineinsuperinabidtofruit-basedbutforreasonsitwasimplemented.
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3 NAXALITES WITH CUMULATIVE BOUNTY OF `10L ON THEIR HEADS NABBED TWO ARRESTED FOR TRIGGERING EXPLOSION AT THERMAL POWER STATION
Nagpur: Three alleged Naxalites carrying a cumulative reward of Rs10 lakh on their heads were arrested from Koyar forest and Jharewada in Gad chiroli district, a police official said on Sunday. Ra mesh Pallo (29) and Tani alias Shashi Pungati (23) were held in an operation by the Special Operation Squad (C-60 commandos) and the Central Reserve Police Force’s Battalion 37 from Koyar forest while Arjun alias Mahesh Narote (27) was nabbed from Jharewada in another operation, Superintendent of Police Ankit Goyal said.
First India Bureau Mumbai: Setting an other record of rapid construction, the state-run planning authority City and In dustrial (PMAY)Mantriunderingdays500onCorporationDevelopment(CIDCO)Sundaysaiditcastslabsinjust489atitsmasshousschemeprojectthePradhanAwasYojanaatTaloja.
Kamboj alleges Rohit Pawar has links with Wadhwans
Punishment occurred after Class X boy quarrelled with his classmate. An x-ray taken after his wrist began to swell up revealed that his hand had been fractured BUS RAMMED INTO MOTORCYCLE VICTIM WAS RIDING AND THEN THE
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Beed: Two men have been arrested for allegedly triggering an explosion at the thermal power station in Parli of Beed district, police said on Sunday. The security supervisor on patrol, heard the blast—which occurred in the ash fall area of the power station around 7.30 pm—on Friday, and spotted two men at the scene, an official from Parli rural police said. At least 103 gelatine sticks and 150 detonators were found on the two men, who claimed that they were daily wage labourers, and had triggered the blast on the directions of another accused, who is absconding.
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lll Last month, the state-run body had finished building12-storeyawith96apartmentsin96days—inanotherPMAYproject Teacher booked for caning student, fracturing his wrist `11.32L
Nashik: Authorities at the Combat Army Aviation Training School (CATS) in Nashik have lodged a police complaint after a drone was briefly spotted over the campus along the Nashik-Pune Highway at around 10 pm on Thursday, an official said on Sunday. It disap peared before security personnel at the premier facility could counter it, he said, adding that a detailed probe has begun. CATS provides combat flying and ground training to all aviators of the Army.
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First India Bureau Thane: An offence has been registered against a teacher of a private school for al legedly caning a 15-year-old boy and fracturing his hand in Thane district’s Titwala town, police said on Sunday. Based on a complaint lodged by the injured student’s parents, the police on Saturday reg istered a case under sec tion 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) of the Indian Penal Code, senior inspector Raju Vanjari of Kalyan taluka police station said.The official said that, on Thursday, the Class X student had quar relled with his class mate, who complained to the teacher. The ac cused in turn caned the victim causing his wrist to swell up, he said.An x-ray revealed that the boy’s hand had been fractured, follow ing which the com plaint was lodged, the official said, adding that no arrest has been made so far. The school manage ment was also conduct ing a parallel probe into the incident and suita ble steps will be taken, a member of the school management said.
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First India Bureau Mumbai: BJP leader Mohit Kamboj on Sunday once again targeted NCP MLA Rohit Pawar through a series of tweets, al leging links between him and Rakesh Wad hwan, who is accused in the PMC Bank scam case. Pawar, the MLA from Karjat-Jamkhed assem bly constituency and a grand nephew of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, has rubbished the claims.“When I do get such queries (notices or calls) from the ED (En forcement Directorate), I will provide them with the necessary informa tion,” he said. “In 2006, BJP leaders forced Shri Rohit Pawar to become partner (sic) with #PMCBank #HDIL scam (accused) Rakesh Wadhawan. From 2006 to 2012. Crores of transac tions done in start up company Green Acre Re sorts which do business from jewellery to under garments to real estate. It's all the fault of the BJP,” Kamboj had tweet ed on Sunday morning. In subsequent tweets in Hindi, Kamboj, with out naming anyone, said a 21-year-old entre preneur had launched a startup in 2006 that deals in import and ex port of 200 products ranging including plas tics, diamonds and gold, through the platform of Green Acres Resorts. “Request Guiness Book of World Records to please include his name,” Kamboj said. He tweeted that from 2007 to 2012, the Maha rashtra State Co-opera tive Bank had lost Rs1000 crore, but the same bank gave a loan worth crores of rupees to a sugar mill. “When the sugar mill could not pay up in 2012, the mill was auctioned, and Bar amati Agro made a car tel to purchase it for just Rs50 crore,” he al leged. Rohit Pawar is the CEO of Baramati AgroEarlier,Ltd. on August 16, Kamboj had threatened to expose a “big NCP leader” and demanded a reinvestigation into the irrigation scam. On August 22, he tweeted that he was studying the business model of Baramati Agro Ltd as a casePersonsstudy. in the ED, who are familiar with the issue, confirmed that the agency had had launched a preliminary enquiry based on a com plaint involving some transactions of Green Acres Resorts and Real tors Pvt. Ltd. The complaint al leged links between Ro hit Pawar and Rakesh and Sarang Wadhwan. Pawar was a director of the company from 2006 to 2012. Three other di rectors of the company were close associates of Wadhwan.
First India Bureau Thane: The family of a 22-year-old man who was run over by a state transport bus accident in 2018 has been awarded Rs11.32 lakh com pensation by the Mo tor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Thane district. MACT member HM Bhosale directed the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corpo ration (MSRTC) to pay the compensation along with an interest of 8% per annum from the date of filing of the claim and Rs2,000 to wards the cost of the petition to the claim ants.The copy of the or der dated August 24 was made available on Saturday.Theclaimants were the mother and broth er of the victim, Sufy an Abdul Rashid Mo min, residents of Bhi wandi.Appearing for the petitioners, advocate SM Pawar told the tri bunal that the victim was an AC mechanic who had been earning around Rs25,000Rs30,000 per month. On March 12, 2018, Sufyan was riding his motorcycle to Bhiwan di along with a friend on pillion, when a speeding MSRTC bus took a turn and dashed the two-wheeler at Ma jiwada bridge. The pillion rider died on the spot, while Sufyan was run over by the bus and died while undergoing treatment for his inju ries at a hospital on April 10, 2018. The filialandandwardsloss,wardscludesawardedcompensationbyMACTinRs10.58lakhtodependencyRs16,500eachtolossofestatefuneralexpensesRs40,000towardsconsortium.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar also said he will hold talks with the state and central governments on how to promote the grapes market
PAYOUT Dependency loss Rs10.58 lakh Loss of estate Rs16,500 Funeral expenses Rs16,500 Filial consortium Rs40,000 MSRTC
The apartments un der this scheme will be made available to peo ple from the Economi cally Weaker Sections and Low Income Group categories. CIDCO has emphasized ficialcommondreamthewithoutapartmentsconstructioncompletingofthesequicklycompromisingqualitytofulfiltheofahomeforpeople,anofsaid.Earlier,CIDCOhad completed the construc tion of a 12-storey build ing comprising 96 apart ments—also under PMAY—in just 96 days. The complex in Baman dongri in Navi Mumbai was built in between April 04 and July 09 this year due to the use of modern pre-cast tech nology, a system in which concrete is cast in a reusable mould, treat ed and transported to the construction site, the agency had stated at the“CIDCOtime. has set an objective of complet ing the construction of apartments under the scheme in less time, with the use of ad vanced technology. The casting of 500 slabs in 489 days is a next stage after ‘Mis sion 96’ under this ob jective,” Dr Sanjay Mukherjee, vice chair man and managing di rector, CIDCO, told re porters.“CIDCO on Sunday completed the 500 slab feat at the PMAY project in Sector-28, 29, 31 and 37 in Taloja node. That is a record speed of 1.02 slabs a day. The team of architects, planners, en gineers in CIDCO and the project consultants AHC, TCE-HSA Associ ates achieved this with meticulous planning,” he added.
Pawar was speaking at a conference here on grapes organized by the Maharashtra Ra jya Draksha Bagaitdar Sangh (MRDBS), an umbrella body of grape farmers. He also said he will hold talks with the state and central gov ernments on how to promote the grapes market.InJanuary of this year, the previous MVA government, of which the NCP was a constituent, allowed the sale of wine in su permarkets and walkin stores across Ma harashtra. A minis ter had then said the decision was taken to boost fruit-based win eries, which provide additional income to farmers.Later,a social work er filed a public inter est litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court to challenge the decision, claiming that it would under mine the goal of deglamorizing alcohol consumption and al low people to buy alco hol on their own with out situation,”ershouldendingder,economywrenching.thinktoandsuicidesconcernPawarsupervision.alsoraisedoverfarmerinthestatesaidpeopleneedcometogethertoandpreventit.“Itisutterlyheart-Iftheisnotinorfarmersoptfortheirlife.Wethinktogethtopreventsuchahesaid.
ED starts preliminary enquiry into certain transactions in the company in which Pawar was a director from 2006 to 2012 MOHIT KAMBOJ @Mohit Kamboj In 2006, BJP leaders forced Shri Rohit Pawar to become partner (sic) with #PMCBank #HDIL scam (accused) Rakesh Wadhawan. From 2006 to 2012. Crores of transactions done in start up com pany Green Acre Resorts which do business from jewellery to undergarments to real estate. It’s all the fault of the BJP. Rohit Pawar, Karjat-Jamkhed MLA and grand nephew of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, was a director of Green Acres Resorts and Realtors Pvt. Ltd from 2006 to 2012. focuses on completing construction quickly without compromising on quality, officials say. Pawar
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PISCES FEB20 - MARCH 20 You are likely to experience a positive phase in your ofregardingbedecisionFavourableexistence.canexpectedapiecepropertyunder dispute. Those in tourism and hospitality sectors will find new opportunities knocking at their door. You may take the initiative of organising a family gathering.
LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22 Switching to healthy foods will be the key to remaining fit and active. A family issue may need to be doesupon,deliberatedsothatitnotdisturb domestic harmony. An out of town invitation will tempt some to undertake the journey. Spirituality may bring a special meaning to your life.
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VIRGO AUG 24 - SEP 23 Things positivelymoveon the academic front and encourage you to give your best. Good inwillmanagementmanhelpyoucompleting a project or assignment in time. Travelling with your near and dear ones to the countryside will prove immensely fulfilling.
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Some additional perks can be expected by those in the private sector. An Familycardsoutingenjoyableisontheforsome.lifewill cruise along smoothly and give you time for rest and recoup. A promotion or a prestigious appointment is in store for those in a government job.
You will be able to get the study stream you desire on the academic front. Going is likely to get better on the front.professionalPurchasing a new car or an expensive appliance is indicated. Children can keep you entertained. The day is favourable to get a project underway.
Those in the financial sector can hope to start making profits. You may think up ways renovationhealth.improvingofyourAmajorwork may be undertaken at home. A journey is likely to take you down the memory lane. Travel stars look bright for some, especially for overseas travel.
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CROWN THAT WON’T LET YOU DOWN! B SHARMASANTOSHBY—PHOTOS
Yogesh Mishra and Nimisha Mishra with (L-R) Gargi, Bhavlin Kaur, Suhani, Priyan, Sanjana, Himadri, Mansi, Simran, Mittali, Tarushee, Navita, Sapna, Riya, Asha, Khushi, Gaurvanvi, Kumkum, Shahrukh, Anupriya, Jyoti, Poorvi, Poonam, Taruna and Shivani
Mrs Rajasthan 2022 winner Jyoti Singh, 1st Runner up Taruna Sharma, 2nd Runner Up Shivani Saini, 3rd Runner Up Poonam Pradhan and 4th Runner Up AnuPriya Doi
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eauty and confidence spread on the run way with the tunes of western music in the grand finale of Mrs Rajasthan-2022 of Fusion Group organised at Arya En gineering College Auditorium, Jaipur on Sunday in which Jyoti Singh was de clared the winner in the auditions held in three rounds. Taruna Sharma bagged the title of the first standby, Shivani Saini as the second standby, Poonam Pradhan as third Runner Up and AnuPriya Doi as fourth Runners Up. The Chief Guest Pandit Suresh Mishra inaugu rated the pageant by lighting the lamp along with Pawan Goyal, Chairman of Hotel Safari Group, Arvind Agarwal, President of Arya Group of Colleges, Devanshu Jain, Director of Gulabi Rasai and Vasu Jain Director of Jain Photos. The programme started with an energetic Ganesh Vandana dance performance by AJ Dance Group. The momentous finale wit nessed three sequences namely (first) tradi tional round, (second) one-piece western round and (third) ball gown round, in which the top 15 finalists were dolled up in gorgeous one-piece, gowns and par ticipants presented unsurpassed talent and wooed the hearts of the jury by walking the ramp in majestic designer clothes and enviable hairstyles by eminent designers Monika Aadwani and Kritika Soin. During which, the crowning of the best 5 contestants was done in beautiful ball gowns. The contestants flaunted the mag ic of this exquisitely crafted Adorn Designer Gown on the ramp. A royal, classy and bold makeover by Geetu Sachdeva, beauty expert at Sparsh Salon, added a new dimension to the look of the top finalist. The jury panellists of this beauty pageant contest included Simran Sharma, Mithali Kaur, Mukesh Mishra, Pooja Agarwal, Arshad Hussain, Pankaj Ojha and Ajay Singh Meena. Everyone carefully ex amined the beauty, style and stage etiquette of each contestant. In the same episodes, the top finalists of the contest were given sub-titles in various categories. Pooja Nathawat bagged the title of Mrs Rajasthan-2022 Talented, Jyoti Patodia for Personality, Dr Preeti Jain for Confidence, Chan drakala for Sparkling Smile, Shivani Saini for Photogenic, Jyoti Singh for Ramp walk, Poonam Pradhan for Style Diva, Taruna Sharma for Best Hair, Neha Sharma for Iconic Eyes, Priyanka Gautam for Eternal Beau ty, Deepali Jain for Viewers Choice, Priyanka Agarwal for Rising Star, Rekha Johri Radiant for Skin and Anupriya Doi for Mrs Ra jasthan-2022 Vivash were given sub-titles. In the end, organisers Yogesh Mishra and Nimisha Mishra thanked all the visitors. The choreogra pher was Shah Rukh Khan and photographer Vasu Jain. The ceremo ny was hosted by Kumkum Choudhary.
Shilpa Shetty felicitates Amrita Bhagyshree Shilpa Shetty felicitates Neha Bhasin Siddharth Kannan with his daughters Saisha and Adhira
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bir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt are going out and about promoting their film. As the anticipation around the fantasy adventure film builds up, there have been multiple times neti zens called for the boycott of the film for different reasons. This time around, netizens dug out a decade-old interview of Ranbir Kapoor from the promotions of the movie Rock star’ wherein he talks about his love for food and says he likes to eat beef. A section of netizens found it reason enough to trend mastra#BoycottBrahonemore
SHILPA SHETTY GRACED the International Glory Awards 2022
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Ashish Tiwari, Sohini Shastri and Shilpa Shetty Shilpa Shetty felicitates Namita Rajhans and Tasneem Lathiwala Vishal Kotian, Ashish Tiwari and Siddharth Kannan
Shefali Shah reacts to MADAM SIR Twinkle enrolls for a fictional writing course
Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna Alia Bhatt Shefali Shah konnect Star Events and laughterglamour,2022tionalPresentEntertainmentInternaGloryAwardswasanightoffunandonthe27th of August. To describe the night, it surely was a starfilled event. An evening filled with entertainment, glamorous stars and stylish personalities, the event was a starry affair and a super amazing experience for all thoseChiefpresent.Guest Shilpa Shetty Kundra lit the stage on fire with her presence and light. She made sure to attend the event even with a serious leg injury and that really warmed the audience's hearts. At the same time, it was a double whammy celebration as Bharat 24 won the Emerg ing News Channel of the year. Ashish Tiwari, Manag ing Editor of First India Group known for delivering some of the finest inter views with stalwarts from the industry for his show #UnfilteredBaatien won the award as Best Entertain mentManyEditor.prominent person alities were present and were also awarded for their dili gence and dedication in their careers such as Akshay Oberoi, Bhagyashree, Karan Mehra, Nakuul Mehta, Si kandar Kher, Vishal Kotian, Shivam Sharma, Neha Bha sin and many more. The stylish turnout of all the celebs left quite an im pact and everyone turned up looking their ultimate best. An evening to remember, the International Glory Awards was an enriching event to tally out of this world.
T winkle Khanna has en rolled herself in a fiction writing course in the UK and her beau Akshay Kumar decided to join her and enjoy a small family break. Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khana are each other’s support systems and have been seen standing with each other in every thick and thin. “August end to Sep tember is the period of holiday for Akshay, as he prefers to spend some time with his fam ily around the time of his birthday. This year is special as Akshay turns 55. He is off to London today. He is accompa nied by his wife, Twinkle Khanna and two kids, Aarav and Nitara,” re vealed a source close to the development. On his re turn to India and being the workaholic that he is, he would straight away dive into his film commitments.
S hefali Shah’s pens around this, but there was a very interesting thing I was told when I did season 1. Actually, Chaya ma’am told me, “It doesn’t matter what they call me, as far as I get the job done. And it really doesn’t.” She also explained that her character’s job was not to ‘cor rect people’s point of view’. Shefali also admit ted that she loves the term because it comes from love and respect. “Also, she is not here to correct peo ple’s points of view, which are not affecting her job and society. She knows it comes only from love and respect. She is not going to go to every constable in the cop station correcting them. And it only comes from love and respect, or it just comes ki acha this is the term. Honestly, I love the term, I love it.”
