First India-Mumbai Edition-29th October 2022

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Take inspiration from each other for India’s betterment”

Surajkund: PM Naren dra Modi on Friday ad vised all the States and the Union Territories to learn and take inspira tion from each other and work for the better ment of the country.

Addressing the gath ering through video conferencing at the con cluding session of the two-day ‘Chintan Shivir of Home Ministers’ of all states that started on Thursday, the PM said that the event is a prime example of “coopera tive federalism”.

He said, “even though law and order are the re sponsibility of the states as per the constitution, they are equally related to the unity and integri ty of the country.”

He said that during the Amrit Kaal, an Am rit generation will emerge carrying the es sence of the ‘Panch Pran’– advance with greater conviction.

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PM MOOTS IDEA OF “ONE NATION, ONE UNIFORM” FOR POLICE

P M Modi said the identity of the police force across the country should be identical. Address ing the Chintan Shivi, he floated the idea of ‘one nation, one uniform’ for police’. Modi said he wasn’t forcing the idea on any state but the ministers must give it a thought. He thought this could happen over a long time. Elaborating on his idea, he said this would help manufactur ers to make a quality product due to the large scale involved and it would also give the law enforcement personnel a common identity so that they can be identified in all states.

People living in border areas are India’s strategic assets: Rajnath

Ladakh: Defence Min ister Rajnath Singh on Friday said the Centre’s aim is to ensure the pro gress of far-flung areas to fulfil the security needs of the country.

He inaugurated 75 in frastructure projects spread across six States and two UTs, during his visit to Ladakh. These projects have been built by the Border Roads Or ganisation (BRO). He also inaugurated the Shyok Setu at Leh.

After inaugurating the projects, Singh inter acted with the locals.

“The people living in border areas are our strategic assets. Infra structure is being rap idly developed in border areas. We cannot say enough in praise for BRO for the work they have done here,” he said.

In past few years, all governments have acted responsibly to demolish ground network of terror.

We need to handle it by combining our forces. We will have to defeat all forms of Naxalism - be it gun-totting or pen-wielding, we will have to find a solu tion for all of them. It’s 5G era, we have to be 10 steps ahead of crime world,” PM Modi calls for smart law and order system

Be smart, formulate ‘common technol ogy’ to check crime, improve policing —Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

TRS, BJP two sides of same coin: RaGa in Telangana

Narayanpet: Amid the MLA poaching contro versy, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has hit out at the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the BJP stating that both parties are two sides of the same coin and are against demo cratic values and in dulge in politics of money. He accused both the TRS and BJP of horse-trading and top pling governments. “I would like to say clearly here that, for us, BJP and TRS are the same.

TRS helps BJP in Delhi and BJP helps TRS in Telangana. Both parties are against democracy and indulge in the poli tics of money. They do money politics by buy ing MLAs and both par ties work to topple the government,” the Con gress leader said.

Rahul Gandhi started the march on Friday from Yeligandla in Narayanpet district of Telangana and Friday was the third day of the yatra in the state. The yatra halted at Maha

Maharashtra’s ‘Maha-crisis’: 90 days, `1.80 lakh crore lost!

Kartikey Dev Singh

Mumbai: The state gov ernment has come un der heavy fire following the Centre’s announce ment that the Tata-Air bus C-295 transport air craft project would be set up in Gujarat, with the opposition demand ing to know why the project, meant to be set up here, went to the neighbouring state.

The Tata-Airbus pro ject, which could have generated 6,000 jobs, is hardly the first to move out of the coastal state led by Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis in recent times. Over the course of about 90 days, investments worth a whopping Turn to P6

National Cong chief to now sort city-level disputes!

Kharge

Municipal Corporation-the country’s richest-which are due shortly.

Those familiar with the issue say Kharge may effect a change in the city panel on

Sandeep Shukla

Mumbai: Newly elect ed Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will soon head to Mum bai, where the party’s city unit is marred by factionalism, to smooth ruffled feathers and hopefully improve its chances in the elections to the Brihanmumbai

his trip here in a bid to coalesce four warring factions that have formed within the Mumbai Congress.

Former Mumbai Con gress President Sanjay Nirupam, formerly of the “Rahul Gandhi camp”, has been side

lined since of late. How ever, that has not stopped him from bend ing the ears of Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and even Kharge with

the latest happenings in the Mumbai Congress. Meanwhile, Kharge, having been in charge of the Mumbai unit of the Grand Old Party in

UNTESTED LEADERSHIP?

The root of the matter is that detractors feel that Mumbai Congress chief Bhai Jagtap and working president Charan Singh Sapra are not field tested. Jagtap has only won one Assembly election, and Sapra is yet to make a single

his meta phorical belt. This has led to

their ability to

win in the coming days.

the past, is well aware of the strife within the unit.

Word is that when Mumbai Congress lead ers went to Turn to P6

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bubnagar on Friday. The Yatra which began on September 7 from Kanniyakumari will cover a further distance of 2,355 km in its 3,570km march.The Andhra Pradesh leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra con cluded on October 21.

The Bharat Jodo Yatra was launched on September 7, 2022, and will cover as many as 12 states.The Yatra started from Kanyakumari and will end in Kashmir nex year by covering 25 km every day. More on P6

It is clear that Shinde and Fadnavis are traitors who are promoting the inter ests of Gujarat. Maharashtra has the largest industry in the country. Prime Minister Modi worries that Gujarat is behind Maharashtra. That is why ever since he became the Prime Minister, he has planned to shift important projects and institutions in Maharashtra to Gujarat.

The agreement to build Tata Airbus cargo plane in Vadodara, Gujarat, was inked on September 21, 2021. At that time, there was no Shinde-Fadnavis govern ment in the state; the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA govern ment was at helm. The Maha Vikar Aghadi government did nothing to bring this project to Maharashtra.

Despite so much development, the then MVA govt did not send a single letter to the Centre. That govt did not even follow up the issue with the Union govt. MVA leaders should avoid diverting attention despite being aware of the facts. I chal lenge them to release a letter they had addressed to Tata-Airbus in the past.

‘The bird is freed’, says Elon Musk as he acquires Twitter

New York: “The

INDIAN CEO AGRAWAL SHOWN DOOR?

Parag Agrawal, 38, was appointed Twitter CEO in Novem ber last year after the social media site’s co-founder Jack Dorsey had stepped down. An IIT Bombay and Stanford alumnus, Agrawal had joined Twitter over a decade ago when there were fewer than 1,000 employees at the company.

“Agrawal, who was appointed Twitter’s chief executive last year, had clashed” with Musk “publicly and privately in recent months about the takeover,” the NYT report said.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge. —FILE PHOTO

Does this ED (Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis) government belong to Maharashtra or Gujarat? This government claimed that the Vedanta-Foxconn project went to Gujarat due to the earlier MVA government. Now because of whom did this project (Tata Airbus) go to Gu jarat? —Ambadas Danve, LoP, Maha Legislative Council

—Keshav Upadhye, Maha BJP chief spokesperson

—Nana Patole, President, Maharashtra Pradesh Con gress Committee

—Uday Samant, Industries MinisterChief Minister Shinde had clearly said that the Tata Airbus project to build C-295 military transport aircraft will come to Nagpur after Vedanta-Foxconn exited. But Shinde’s false role has now come to the fore. BJP has made Shinde the chief minister only to transfer mega pro jects from Maharashtra to Gujarat. Eknath Shinde should also resign like Liz Truss.

—Mahesh Cheche, Spokesperson, Nationalist Cong Party

OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, NEW DELHI & MUMBAI

INDIGO FLIGHT GROUNDED

IAS SAMEER

Raipur: Raipur district and sessions court gave ED 14-day judicial custody of Chhattisgarh IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi and two businessmen in a money laundering case. The IAS officer along with two others, Laxmikant Tiwari and Sunil Agrawal were sent to central jail by the court.

PM Narendra Modi addresses the Bhoomi Poojan ceremony of the expansion of ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel (AM/NS) integrated facility at Hazira, in Gujarat, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, on Friday.

Congress

Defence

—Aditya Thackeray, Former minister

Maha to soon have dedicated cyber intel unit: Dy CM Fadnavis

Platform will multiple stakeholders to ensure speedy response to cyber, financial crime in the state

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Mumbai: Maharash tra will soon have a a dedicated cyber in telligence unit will be set up in the state to curb cyber and fi nancial crime, Depu ty Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis— who also hold the Home portfolio—an nounced on Friday.

He was speaking at the Chintan Shivir, be ing held in Haryana’s Surajkund, which saw home ministers and senior police officials of all states discuss policy matters related to internal security.

Fadnavis said that the cyber intelligence unit will be created using advanced tech nology and with a

Sattar dubs Aaditya Thackeray ‘Chhota Pappu’

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Hingoli: Firing sal vos at Thackeray scion Aaditya Thackeray, Maha rashtra’s Agricul ture Minister and minister in charge of Hingoli, Abdul Sattar on Friday re ferred to the former minister as “Chhota Pappu” referencing a jibe often used for Congress leader Ra hul Gandhi.

Responding to Adi tya Thackeray's jibe at the Shinde-Fad navis government as 'Khokhe government' (government which has been formed by bribing MLAs of crores of rupees), Sat tar said that he was “surprised that ‘Chhota Pappu’ can speak also”.

“When did (the Tata Airbus) project got out of Maharash tra’s hands and how did it go to Gujarat? What exactly was the date then? If you look closely, you will see that th project shifted to Gujarat on Septem ber 21, 2021. Aaditya Thackeray's father was the chief minis ter then, and the one who has made these

I was leading farmers when he was a child.

comments was a cabi net minister at that time,” Sattar said. In another remark belittling Aaditya’s recently attempts to channel farmers’ sen timents over crop loss due to incessant rains, Sattar said, “I was leading farmers when he was still be ing cuddled (as a child). Now these peo ple have who come out of that mood and are trying to create confusion. The gov ernment in Maha rashtra is running well and it is due to this that their stom achs ache.”

view that cybercrime may pose an increas ing challenge in the future. He said this

single platform will ensure a speedy re sponse to any cyber or financial crime as it

will unite banks, fi nancial institutions, social media organiza tions, regulated insti

Criminal activity is not limited to any specific state and hence coor dination between all states, as well as between the Centre and the states is im portant to devise and implement a united plan of action.

—Devendra Fadnavis, Home Minister, Maharashtra

tutions, cyber police and experts.

He added that Ma harashtra has already collected biometric details of more than six lakh criminals and the process to enter these details in the Crime and Criminal

Tracking Networks and Systems (CCTNS) is currently under way. He said updating such details will en sure that the crimi nals cannot change their identity easily.

He said the system would benefit all

states, as it would al low them to check the database and expedite their inquiry.

Stating that the fight against Naxalism is going strong with the Centre’s support, the Dy CM said urban Naxalism has emerged as a new challenge and efforts are being made to tackle it effectively. He added that efforts are also on to increase the percentage of crime detection and conviction through various technical and forensic evidence.

Govt reduces security cover

Mumbai: The state government has re moved categorized security cover of sev eral leaders of the opposition alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) after a fresh assessment of per ceived threats to them, an official said on Friday. However, there has been no change to the secu rity detail of former chief minister Ud dhav Thackeray, he added.

The MVA alliance, previously in power in Maharashtra, com prised the Shiv Sena, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) but fell af ter Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and several legislators broke away from the Sena (now called the Shiv Sena - Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray).

While the security cover of former CM Uddhav Thackeray and his family members, NCP president Sharad Pawar and his kin, in cluding his daughter and Baramati Lok Sab ha MP Supriya Sule, has been retained, pro

tection to NCP leaders like Jayant Patil, Chhagan Bhujbal and

jailed Anil Dehmukh has been removed, he said.

“The security cover of NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad has been main

tained as it is, while Shiv Sena (UBT) secre tary Milind Narvekar (a trusted aide of Ud dhav Thackeray) has been given ‘Y-plus-es cort’ cover. Leader of Opposition in the As sembly Ajit Pawar and former home minister Dilip Walse Patil (both of NCP) have been giv en ‘Y-plus-escort’ de tail as well,” he said.

The categorized cov er of leaders like Nawab Malik, Anil Deshmukh, Vijay Wa dettiwar, Balasaheb Thorat, Nana Patole, Bhaskar Jadhav, Satej Patil, Dhanajay Munde, Sunil Kedare, Narhari Zirwal and Varun Sardesai has been removed, he in formed.

Congress leaders Ashok Chavan and Prithviraj Chavan, both former chief min isters, have been pro vided “Y category” se curity, the official in formed.

All decisions regard ing security cover have been taken profession ally considering the threat perception and the move has nothing to do with their politi cal affiliations, he as serted.

EX-MUM MAYOR QUESTIONED IN CHEATING CASE

Mumbai: Former Mumbai mayor and Shiv Sena - Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Kishori Pednekar was on Friday ques tioned in connection with a cheating case in a Slum Rehabilitation Authority project in Dadar, a Mumbai police official said. Her name had cropped up in the interrogation of an ac cused in the case, which is being investigated by the Dadar police.

SOCIAL WORKER, SANJEEV SANE DIES IN THANE

Thane: Vice president of the Maharashtra unit of Swaraj Abhiyan and social worker Sanjeev Sane died on Friday morning after battling cancer for the last two years, a family member said. Sane, who started his career with Rashtra Seva Dal, was the Aam Aadmi Party candidate in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. He was 65.

EX-MINISTER DESHMUKH DIES PASSES AWAY

Latur: Former Maha rashtra minister and veteran leader Bhai Kishanrao Deshmukh passed away on Thurs day morning due to old age-related ailments at a private hospital in Latur, family sources said He was 95.

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Mumbai: Rubbishing rumours that the pending elections to several municipal cor porations in Maha rashtra will be held in January next year, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Fri day said that the au thority to finalize the schedule lies with the State Election Com mission (SEC).

Elections to 27 munic ipal corporations, in cluding the Brihanmum bai Municipal Corpora tion (BMC), and 25 zilla parishads in the state are due.

A statement from the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said, “There is no basis to the reports that

civic polls would be held in January next year. A case is pending before the Supreme Court and after its verdict on it, the State Election Commis sion will decide the schedule for the civic polls.” The civic bodies that have completed their tenure are current ly being governed by the state-appointed adminis trators, it said.

“The issue of holding elections to civic bodies is entirely in the hands of the SEC,” it added.

Mumbai: The police here have issued pro hibitory orders in the Andheri (east) constit uency for November 03, the day of the state Assembly bypoll, to restrict the movement of people who are not part of the electoral process, an official said on Friday.

As per the order in this regard, issued on Thursday by the depu ty commissioner of po lice (operations) under section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), the move ment of any person who is not a candidate, polling agent or gov ernment official on election duty will have

to stay 100m away from polling centres in And heri (east), he said.

The police have also asked voters to remain in queues and follow the instructions of polling officials, the of ficial said.

Voting will take place at 256 booths in 39 polling centres in Andheri (East) constit uency next Thursday. There will be adequate police deployment in side and outside the polling booths, he added.

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Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis (left) in conversation with CM Eknath Shinde. —FILE PHOTO

seen: NHAI Chairperson, Alka Upadhyaya.

—PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE

—Abdul Sattar, Agriculture Minister

Aditya Thackeray

Lucky breaks: 6 fires in 24 hrs in 2 cities; no casualties

in the early hours of Fri day, said a civic official.

Nobody was injured in the blaze which was put out after eight hours.

The fire brigade re ceived a call about a fire in the third Gulab Galli opposite Deluxe Hotel on LBS Marg at 4 am.

nash Sawant, chief of the Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC), said no one was hurt in the fire that broke out at 7.30 pm.

the moving bus due to a technical snag.

First India Bureau

Mumbai: Fires broke out at various loca tions in Mumbai and Thane on Friday in different incidents. However, no casual ties or deaths have been reported so far. A major fire broke out at a cloth godown in Kurla area of Mumbai

Five or six commer cial structures on the godown premises were gutted but the fire re mained restricted to electrical wiring, ply wood, stocks of wood and other material.

In Shil Phata area of Thane city, fire destroyed scrap kept outside go downs in a compound on Thursday evening. Avi

In Kandivali area of Mumbai, an air-condi tioned bus of the Brihan mumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking caught fire on Thursday evening, but no passenger was hurt in the incident.

At least 70 passengers of a state transport bus escaped unhurt when the vehicle caught fire in Thane district on Fri day. A blaze erupted in

In another incident, a speeding car caught fire after it rammed into a divider near Kalanagar flyover in Bandra in the early hours of Friday, said a police official.

The driver of the car, who lost control of the vehicle which resulted in the mishap, was res cued by a police team.

In Mazgaon area of south Mumbai, a fire erupted on the second floor of a four-storey residential building on Friday afternoon, said an official. Nobody was injured in the blaze that broke out at 12 noon.

2 held for theft of idols from 480-year-old Jalna temple

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Jalna: The police ar rested two persons for their alleged in volvement in the theft of 11 “panch dhatu” idols from an ancient but popular temple in the dis trict, an official said on Thursday.

The theft occurred on August 22, when 11 idols—made of the traditional five-metal alloy which suppos edly has sacred sig nificance—was stolen from a 480-year-old temple in Ghansawan gi tehsil’s Jamb Samarth village, re vered as the birth place of saint Ramdas Samarth.

According to the Su perintendent of Police Akshay Shinde, five of the stolen idols were recovered from the two arrested—one a native of Karnataka and the other hailed from Solapur dis trict—who were ar rested from Solapur after a “tip-off” late on Thursday night. “A third accused is on the

Pune saw 3,000+ suspected cases of dengue since Aug

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Pune: The Pune Mu nicipal Corporation (PMC) said on Friday that over 3,000 sus pected cases of den gue fever were re corded during the course of the last three months (Au gust to October).

In total, 2,974 notices have been sent by the civic authority to socie ties and construction sites, along with

questions about why no action should be taken against them for hav ing mosquito breeding grounds.

While doctors are forecasting a drop in instances over the fol lowing two weeks as winter sets in, a lengthy period of heavy rain is what caused a post-Di wali rise in cases.

This year, the civic health body reported 4,493 suspected dengue cases. Of these, 1062

were recorded in Au gust, and 1188 in Sep tember. Up until Octo ber, the PMC has identi fied 796 suspected den gue fever cases.

The prolonged spell of rain in October has led to waterlogging and according to Dr Sanjeev Wavare, assistant medi cal chief, PMC. The breeding of denguecausing aedes aegypti mosquitoes continues at these sites, he added.

“The civic adminis tration is focussing on destroying mosqui to-breeding sites and have appealed that patients with mild illness can be managed at home,” said Dr Wavare, adding that over two lakh rupees have been col lected in terms of administra tive fee from the organisations, in cluding housing socie ties and others, where mosquito breeding sites were found.

Cops apprehend film-maker for hitting wife with his car

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Mumbai: Local po lice have arrested film-maker Kamal Kishor Mishra for allegedly ramming his car into his wife after she spotted him with another woman in the vehi cle here, an official said.

The alleged inci dent had taken place on October 19 in the parking lot of the cou ple’s apartment in Andheri (West) when Mishra’s wife found him with another woman in the car, po lice said.

On Thursday, Mishra, the producer of Hindi film ‘Dehati Disco’, was taken to the Amboli police sta tion for questioning from his home after his wife lodged a com plaint against him.

He was arrested in the case in the wee hours of Friday, the

official said.

As per the com plaint, Mishra’s wife came out looking for her husband and found him with another woman in his car in the parking area. When his wife went to con front him, Mishra drove the car to escape from the spot and in the process hit his wife, causing injuries to her legs, hand and head, the police have said quoting the complaint.

Based on the com plaint lodged by his wife, an FIR (first infor mation report) was reg

FORGING NEW PATHS

Incident took place on October 19 when Kamal Mishra’s wife found him with another woman in the parking lot of their aprtment bldg

istered at the Amboli police station against Mishra under relevant Indian Penal Code sec tions, including 279 (rash driving) and 337 (causing hurt by act en dangering life or per sonal safety of others).

run,” Shinde said.

After the theft came to light on August 23, the Maharashtra po lice had sought the help of Tamil Nadu police to solve the case.

The Tamil Nadu po lice’s idol wing is well known for solving cas es of temple idol heists.

The south Indian state’s police force has been instrumental in pursuing smugglers of antiquities and return ing stolen idols.

In India, pilgrimage centres are catego rised into four groups: ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ ac cording to their sig nificance; the 480-yearold temple in Jamb Samarth village comes under the ‘B’

The Maharashtra police had sought the help of Tamil Nadu cops to solve the case

category.

The theft had cre ated a furore in the state Assembly with the Opposition bring ing up the issue in the House. Condemning the theft, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Rajesh Tope, who represents Ghan sawangi, had ques tioned the law and order under the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his depu ty Devendra Fad navis’ government.

Co-passenger of late bizman Cyrus Mistry discharged from hosp

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Mumbai: Darius Pan dole (60), who survived the car accident on Sep tember 04, in which for mer Tata Sons chair man Cyrus Mistry died last month, was dis charged from a private hospital here on Friday.

His wife, Dr Anahita Pandole (55), who was driving the car at the time of the accident, is recovering and will be discharged soon, said a Sir HN Reliance Founda tion Hospital official. Both were admitted to the hospital on Sep tember 05.

Darius Pandole un derwent a surgery on his forearm and a maxil

The injuries were very com plex and there fore our best team of multidisciplinary doc tors is working closely on the Pandoles.

—Dr Tarang Gianchandani, CEO, Sir HN hospital

lofacial surgery. He was also battling infection due to the severity of his injuries, the hospital said in a statement.

“Expert advice was sought from experts across the globe to define the best course of action for their treatment and that has enabled us to achieve results,” Dr Tarang Gianchandani, the hospital CEO, said.

Bengaluru-Pune-Mum expway to cut travel time to 7 hours

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New 700 km project to cost ` 50,000 crore and expected to be completed by 2028; will pass through 12 districts of Maharashtra & Karnataka

Pune: A BengaluruPune-Mumbai road journey will soon be cut down to roughly seven hours, thanks to a proposal for a 700 km new express way.

At present, with tolls and restricted usages, a non-stop trip takes about 17 hours by road from Bengaluru city to Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai, via Pune city.

The new MumbaiPune-Bengaluru ex

pressway will cost around Rs50,000 crore for construction, and it

is anticipated that the National Highways Au thority of India (NHAI)

will receive a formal proposal by December after the completion of

the DPR (Detailed Pro ject Report).

The expressway con struction will begin af ter land acquisition—a process that might start early next year. The project is expected to be completed by 2028. The new roadway will make its way through 12 districts in the two states, nine in Karna taka—Belagavi, Da vanagare, Tumakuru, Chitradurga, Vijayana gara (Ballari), Koppal, Bagalkot, Bengaluru Rural, and Gadag— three in Maharashtra

Satara, Sangli and Pune.

As per reports, the ex pressway will pass via Kanjale from Pune Ring Road to Muthagadahalli on the Satellite Ring Road in Bengaluru. Also, it is expected to bring business to the districts the new road touches.

Keeping in mind the future expansion, the meridian will be 15 me tres in width, while there will be 55 flyovers on the course. Also, plantations will be grown on both sides of the expressway, in ad

dition to amenities and other infrastructure.

The Mumbai/PuneBengaluru expressway will be a visual delight as it will be dotted with beautiful landscapes. The expressway will cross roughly 10 rivers namely Yerala, Nira, Chand Nadi, Krishna, Agrani, Ghataprabha, Tungabhadra, Mal aprabha, Chikka Hagari, and Vedavath. In fact, the overall landscape in the re gion will further make it a pleasing drive for commuters.

Incidents reported in two godowns, BEST and ST buses, pvt car and residential bldg

The idols went missing on August 22. —FILE PHOTO

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The NHAI will receive a formal proposal after

detailed DPR is

Police personnel inspect Mistry’s vehicle after the fatal crash on Sept 04. Darius Pandole survived the accident. —FILE PHOTO

CCTV footage shows Mishra seemingly attempting to run over his wife in a bid to flee. —FILE PHOTO

Henry Ford, who was the owner of the world famous Ford Company, had a different vision and way of working from that of other promoters. His lessons were special for all the employees. He sometimes used to interact directly with the employees and said, “Life is the Ocean of Experiences!”

BHAVESH

The word accountability is giv en least importance in India. Employees work hard at their work place but they don’t care how much contribution their hard work is adding to their organization profit. The con cern of “profit” merely re mains till the promoters and the finance department. The marketing and manufacturing department primarily con tribute to business and prod uct generation. While other departments of any organiza tion identify themselves as a support function, which is not correct. Be it be HR Depart ment, supply chain depart ment or the marketing depart ment, each department and its head must act as profit-centric head for their organization.

What should be the role of the head of the department and how they can work as profit centric head, let’s take a look. It is usually the head of the Department who has to look up to the administrative affairs of his department.

Generally, what a head of de partment does is that he mon itors his department and em ployees working under him perform better than other departments of the company.

Often, it is also possible that the head of the department is superior to all of his employ ees just to show to the man

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CAN A DEPARTMENT HEAD WORK AS PROFIT CENTER HEAD?

GM MUSTARD SOLUTION FOR SHORTAGE OF EDIBLE OIL

agement, to resort to internal constraints and policies and to compete with others. A healthy competition between the two departments offers good productivity in the com pany, but in the competition to prove themselves superior an atmosphere of internal clashes and stress is created.

When we say that the head of the department should act as the profit center head, the meaning of the concept is to change the whole mindset and perspective of the department towards the company. The day when the departmental heads start working considering the point of view of the top man agements and focus on how their departments can con tribute to the company’s di rect growth, they can be called the best departmental head. The head of the department should work with the employ ees of their department in such a way that each and eve ry employee of the depart ment can share their contri bution and show involvement in the company’s growth.

LET’S CONSIDER AN EXAMPLE

Henry Ford, who was the own er of the world famous Ford Company, had a different vi sion and way of working from that of other promoters. He used to hold regular meetings with all the heads of depart ments, his lessons were special for all the employees. He also sometimes used to interact di rectly with the employees and said, “Life is the Ocean of Ex periences!” every experience teach and inspire us to do

The day when the departmental heads start working considering the point of view of the top managements and focus on how their departments can contribute to the company’s direct growth, they can be called the best departmental head. They should work with employees in such a way that the staff is involved in firm’s growth

something new. He also used to say to his employees, do what ever you want to do it with your heart and full dedication. By doing things with heart special contributions can be made to the organization.

Henry always advised his departmental heads that if they are able to give long-term and positive vision to the em ployees and show them how they can contribute and be a partner in company’s growth then you are an excellent lead er. The easiest way to achieve this is to create a sense of ownership spirit in every em ployee. Every work profile should be respected and every work should be done from heart will full dedication. And the person who works with proper dedication will be come a partner in the com pany’s growth in true senses.

The heads of each depart ment should recognize the

strengths of their employees and distribute the work ac cordingly. Henry always ad vised employees saying, “Di vide your wok into small targets, this will make easy for you to reach the goal. This will help you achieve big tar gets.” If you take a look away from your goal then it means that you have lost control to reach your goal and you need to focus. The most difficult and effortful work is to make every employee of your team to work in team. If this is an easy task for you then you come out as a good leader but if you are weak leader then employees will not associate themselves with your vision.

The conclusion of the dis cussion comes out to be that the head of the department should make every employee of his team participate in the company’s work keeping in mind their vision and goals.

Some tips.

z The head of each department should check their employ ees to work in a team.

z The head of the department should work together with other heads and participate equally in the company’s growth.

z The head of the department should check how each em ployee can participate in the company’s growth and distrib ute the work accordingly.

z It is the responsibility of the departmental head to see that every employee looks after their work and works towards progress.

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

Tata-Airbus C-295 MW transport air craft project has gone to Vadodara in Gujarat. It will be the first joint venture for manufacturing a military air craft in India under the Make in India initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The project was initially meant for Maharashtra but the investors and the government thought it was too good a project for Ma harashtra which is being gov erned by a coalition of BJPShiv Sena faction. Foundation of the Rs 22,000-crore project will be laid by the prime min ister on Sunday. It will not only be a boost for the domestic aerospace industry but also give employment to thousands of people.

Earlier in September, an

The project is worth Rs 1.54 lakh cr. Aaaditya Thackeray, leader of Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena said that the project was moved out of Maharashtra after it was “almost finalised.” It was a blow to state govt’s initiative, he said

other prestigious project for manufacturing semi-conduc tors by the Vedanta-Foxconn conglomerate had also been lured away to Gujarat, leaving Maharashtra’s opposition parties fuming. The project is worth Rs 1.54 lakh crore. Aaaditya Thackeray, leader of the Uddhav Thackeray fac tion of Shiv Sena said that the project was moved out of Ma

harashtra after it was “almost finalised”. He said it was a blow to the state govern ment’s initiative for creating job opportunities. Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar claimed that the prom ise of Maharashtra getting bigger projects was like “con vincing a child”. He has been proved right.

Aaditya Thackeray hit out at the double-engine govern ment. “They always boast of a double-engine government. But although one engine of the central government is working, the state govern ment’s engine has failed,” he said. In other words the nonfunctional engine is unable to effectively assert the state’s claim for more invest ment. Is it an opportunity for Uddhav Thackeray camp?

India’s first geneti cally modified (GM) mustard has been ap proved for seed pro duction before it is approved as the country’s first indigenous hybrid mustard and released for commercial purpos es. This will be a major step to wards increasing the production of oilseeds for which the country is heavily import- dependent. Against an annual production of around 8.5 million tonnes of ed ible oil, India imports around 14.5 mt of edible oil to meet its domestic demand of edible oil.

Genetically modified crops have met stiff resistance from farmers and environmentalists. The first to be opposed tooth and nail was Bt cotton despite sui cides by cotton growers due to crop losses. Once introduced in 2002 the insect and pest resistant crop has benefited farmers by cutting expenditure on insecti cides and increased production.

As controversial as Bt cotton was Bt brinjal the commercial re lease of which was foiled by envi ronmentalists. The GM mustard may also require government clearance for commercial release. Environmentalists must un derstand that transgenic crops offer hope.

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It’s 5G era, we have to be 10 steps ahead of crime world: PM

5G technology, along with its benefits, brings the

Surajkund (PTI):

Prime Minister Naren dra Modi on Friday in sisted on having a police technology mission that will enable all states to have the best common technology and mutual cooperation for crime prevention. Addressing a gathering of home ministers of states to de liberate on issues of in ternal security -- ‘Chin tan Shivir’ -- here, he said while ensuring the best technology the states should avoid any budgetary constraints that may come in the way of adoption of tech nological advancements.

He said the criminal world has globalised and

stressed that “we need to be ten steps ahead” of them (criminals).

PM pointed out that crime is no longer local ised and instances of interstate, international crimes are going up.

CRUCIAL READ

BSF RECOVERS ARMS & AMMUNITION NEAR INDO-PAK BORDER

Punjab: The BSF troops seized a huge cache of arms and am munition from Ferozepur, Punjab, said, officials. The recovery was made on Thursday. “Troops of BOP Jagdish, ex-136 Bn, Sector Ferozpur (Distt Ferozpur) recovered a bag during a search near the zero line containing arms and ammunition,” read an official statement from BSF. The officials recovered 3 AK 47 rifles with 06 empty magazines, 03 nos mini AK 47 rifles (brand being ascertained) with 05 empty magazines, and 3 nos pistols (Beretta type) with 06 empty magazines.

FROM PG 1

Maharashtra’s ...

Rs1.80 lakh crore cumu latively (four mega pro jects and other smaller projects) have slipped away, taking with them more than a lakh direct and ancillary jobs--hit ting it harder at a time when unemployment is already rising.

Apart from the Rs22,000 crore Tata-Air bus project, another bigticket project, the Rs1.54 lakh crore Vedanta-Fox conn semiconductor fab unit--which, along with ancillary units, would have generated one lakh jobs--will now be set up in Gujarat’s Dholera.

Similarly, the bulk drug park project, esti mated to be worth around Rs3,000 crore and with the potential to cre ate around 50,000 direct and indirect jobs, in Roha and Murud tehsils in coastal Raigad district was also “rolled back”.

At the same time, Himachal Pradesh, Guja rat and Andhra Pradesh received green signals for similar set-ups. In the last week of September, the Union government turned down Maharash tra’s proposal to set up a Rs424 crore Medical De

vices Park project in Au rangabad’s Auric city, approving proposals from Tamil Nadu, UP, MP and HP instead.

National Cong... Delhi to congratulate Kharge on winning the election, Kharge told the delegation that he would visit Mumbai to resolve their issues “soon”. Those familiar with the development say Kharge wants to ensure cohesion within the group well in time for the civic body polls which are already overdue, and also for the Assembly elections to be held in a little over 2.5 years. The root of the matter is that detractors feel that Mum Cong chief Bhai Jagtap and working president Charan Singh Sapra are not field tested. Jagtap has only won one Assembly election, and Sapra is yet to make even one notch on his meta phorical belt. This has led to questions from sev eral local leaders--includ ing Nirupam, former minister Chandrakant Handore, and Varsha Gaikwad--on Jagtap and Sapra’s ability to lead the party to a win in the com ing days.

“That is why mutual cooperation between state agencies and be tween central and state agencies is becoming crucial,” Modi said.

He said whether it is cybercrime or the use of

Court orders

Chatterjee’s physical presence

Kolkata: A special CBI court on Friday reject ed an application by a correctional home in Kolkata for the virtual appearance of former Minister Partha Chat terjee in connection with the multi-crore West Bengal School Ser vice Commission (WB SSC) scam and instead ordered his physical presence on October 31.The state’s former education minister was supposed to be physi cally present at the court on Friday.

DELHI COURT EXTENDS GANGSTER DEEPAK TINU’S POLICE REMAND

New Delhi (ANI): The Patiala House Court of Delhi on Fri day extended the three days police remand of gangster Deepak Tinu. The Delhi Police’s Special Cell arrested Tinu last week, who escaped from Punjab police custody on October 1, from Rajasthan. Tinu was pro duced through video confer encing today before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Patiala House Court after the end of seven days remand granted last week. The Court meanwhile also refused to send Deepak Tinu to transit remand to Punjab at this stage. The transit remand was moved by the Punjab Police. Gangster Deepak Tinu, a member of Lawrence Bishnoi gang had recently escaped from the custody of Punjab’s Mansa Police.

heightened alert: PM

drone technologies for the smuggling of weap ons or drugs, the govt needs to keep working towards new technolo gies to tackle the men ace. “The law and order system can be improved with the help of smart technology,” the prime minister said.

He said 5G technology, along with its benefits, brings the need for a heightened alert.

“With the help of 5G, the performance of fa cial recognition technol ogy, automatic number plate recognition tech nology, drone and CCTV related technology, are going to improve mani folds,” Modi said.

PM MODI ON WAR AGAINST FAKE NEWS

New Delhi (ANI): Em phasising on the need to create awareness against fake news, PM Narendra Modi on Friday said that social media cannot be underestimated and that a small piece of fake news generated by it can create chaos. He said people must be made aware of the various mechanisms that are now available on all social media platforms to verify messages before forwarding them.

Key 26/11 conspirators unpunished, says EAM

Mumbai (PTI): Exter nal Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said key conspirators and planners of the 26/11 Mumbai terror at tacks continue to remain protected and unpun ished.

Speaking at a special meeting here on ‘Coun tering the Use of New and Emerging Technolo gies for Terrorist Pur poses’, he said, the UNSC has “regrettably” been unable to act in some cases when it comes to proscribing some terror ists because of “political considerations”.

Jaishankar, along with Michael Moussa, Gabonese Foreign min ister and president of the UNSC, paid tributes to the victims who lost their lives in the 26/11.

BHARAT JODO YATRA

INDIA PLAYS PAKISTANI TERRORIST & 26/11 CONSPIRATOR SAJID MIR’S TAPE

Mumbai (ANI): In an unprecedented public expose at the Mumbai UN counter-terror meet, India on Friday revealed in detail Pakistan’s role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack by playing Pakistan-based terrorist Sajid Mir’s audiotape. In the audio clip, he is heard directing the attack on Chabad House during Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks. Playing the audio clip, India presented undeniable evidence against Pakistan. The clip was played by a senior Intelligence Bureau officer, Pankaj Thakur.

Cong leaders from various states join RaGa in T’gana

Hyderabad (PTI): Con gress leaders from vari ous states on Friday joined party leader Ra hul Gandhi in his ongo ing ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Telangana.

Former Union Minis ter Bhakta Charan Das from Odisha and Jitu Patwari from Madhya Pradesh were among the leaders who took part in the yatra.

It was a ‘mini Bharat Jodo’ yatra with leaders from different states coming to walk with Gandhi, said Jairam

Ramesh, AICC General Secretary, in charge of communications.

“During the morning

IN THE COURTYARD

SC GRANTS 4 WEEKS TIME TO CURE DEFECTS

OF OVER 1000 CASES FROM 2014 TO 2020

New Delhi: The SC has granted a four-week time to cure defects of over 1000 cases filed from 2014 to 2020 and warned that if the advocates- on- record failed to do it then the cases shall stand dismissed without any further reference. Justice PS Narasimha in its order deliv ered recently observed that there are one thousand-odd matters listed in the court.

AAP’S VIJAY NAIR

MOVES BAIL PLEA

New Delhi : A court on Friday sought response from the CBI on the bail application of business man Vijay Nair, arrested in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam case in which Deputy Chief Minister Manish Si sodia is also an accused. The court issued notice to the agency and directed it to file a reply by Nov 3.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART

As there were defects in the filing, the files were returned to the respective Advo cates-on-Record for curing the defects and for refiling.

New Delhi: The SC is scheduled to hear on Oct 31 a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to declare the Law Commis sion as a “statutory body” and appoint the chair person and members to the panel. According to the cause list of October 31 uploaded on the apex court website.

CAN’T BAR ANTI-PORT PROTESTS, NONE SHOULD DISTURB L&O: HC

Kochi: The Kerala HC on Friday said it cannot prohibit protests, but at the same time no one should take law into their hands or be a threat to law and order while staging agitations like the one against Vizhin jam Port. The observation by Justice Anu Sivaraman came during the hearing of a plea of Adani group, carrying out the Vizhinjam port construction, against the fisherfolk’s continuing protest against the project. The court asked the protestors not to force it to take stringent action against them and also directed that its interim orders be strictly enforced.

jodo with leaders com ing from Tripura, Ra jasthan, Punjab, Odis ha, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Goa and Madhya Pradesh to walk with @ RahulGandhi today,” Ramesh tweeted.

The Rahul Gandhiled Bharat Jodo Yatra resumed from Yeligan dla in Narayanpet dis trict of Telangana on Friday and it will halt at Mahabubnagar for the night.

This is the third day of the yatra in Telan gana.

EC DOESN’T HAVE JURISDICTION ON FREEBIES: CONG

New Delhi (PTI): The Cong said the EC does not have the jurisdiction to regulate issues such as freebies, and urged the panel to focus on ensuring free and fair polls through proper implementa tion of Election Laws. The poll panel on Oct 4 had proposed amending the model code to ask political parties to provide authentic information to voters on the financial viability of their poll promises, a move that came amid the freebies versus welfare measures debate that had triggered a political slugfest.

Rajnath inaugurates 75 infra projects built by BRO

New Delhi (PTI): Lack of infrastructure devel opment in J&K for dec ades post Independence was one of the reasons behind the rise of ter rorism in the union ter ritory, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday after unveiling 75 new projects includ

ing bridges, roads and helipads in border are as.Singh dedicated the projects costing Rs 2180 crore and spread across border six states and two Union territories at a function held at east ern Ladakh’s strategic Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldi (DS-DBO) road.

PM Modi inspired artwork inaugurated

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The paintings show the challenges faced by Modi and his achievements as PM including his impact around the world:

Union Minister GK Reddy

First India Bureau

New Delhi: G Kishan Reddy, Union Minister for Culture, Tourism and Development of North-eastern Region, inaugurated an exhibi tion of paintings by emi nent artist, Akbar Saheb on Friday at National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.

The art of Akbar Sa heb is unique as all fiftyfive artworks are wholly inspired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi

and his incredible jour ney and vision. The ex hibition, curated by the well-known Rajeev

Menon is open to the public from Friday till November 3.

On the occasion, the

Union Minister said that Akbar Saheb has shown the journey of PM Nar endra Modi including from Gujarat to becom ing the world leader. He added that the paintings show major policy deci sions such as GST and depict demonetisation and surgical strike in a clear manner.

The Minister also said the paintings show the challenges faced by Nar endra Modi and his achievements as Prime Minister. Mata.

BJP urges to order CBI probe into Telangana poaching claims

New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Friday urged the EC to order a CBI probe into the Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s alle gation that its members tried to poach some MLAs of the regional party, claiming that the entire event has been staged to influence the Munugode bypoll. A BJP delegation, which met the commission, also ac cused Odisha’s ruling BJ of being behind a “sinister” attempt to ma lign the “personal im age” of Amit Shah

through a “fake and doc tored” audio clip with a view to influence the Dhamnagar bypoll.

It sought “deterrent” action against the ac cused and urged the EC to get an FIR lodged against BJD members allegedly behind it.

AUDIO CLIP SURFACES IN ‘MLAs POACHING’ CASE

Hyderabad: In another twist in ‘MLAs poaching’ case, an audio of telephonic conversation between the main accused and a TRS MLA surfaced on Friday. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leaked the audio of purported conversation between Ramachandra Bharati, alias Satish Sharma alias Swamiji, and Pilot Rohit Reddy, the MLA who tippedoff the Cyberabad police about the attempt to buy him and three other MLAs re sulting in the arrest of three alleged agents of BJP.

SC TO HEAR PLEA SEEKING APPT OF CHMN IN LAW PANEL

PM Modi addressing ‘Chintan Shivir’ of Home Ministers of States, through video conferencing, in New Delhi on Friday.

S Jaishankar speaks at the Special Meeting of the UN Security Council’s (UNSC) CTC in Mumbai on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI

session today in the #BharatJodoYatra in Telangana, we wit nessed a mini @bharat

Rajnath Singh dedicating 75 BRO infrastructure projects to the nation, on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi waves to the supporters during the party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, in Narayanpet on Friday.

—PHOTO

BY ANI

GLOBAL HEALTH SETS

IPO PRICE BAND AT `319-336 PER SHARE

New Delhi: Global Health Limited, which operates and manages hospitals under the Medanta brand, on Friday said it has set a price band of `319-336 a share for its `2,206 crore initial public offering (IPO). The initial share sale will open for public subscription during No vember 3-7. The bidding for anchor investors will open on November 2, ac cording to the company. The IPO consists of a fresh issue of equity shares aggregating to `500 crore and an offer for sale of up to 5.08 crore equity shares. —PTI

Ease logistics burden on exporters: Nirmala

Kakinada (PTI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday asked States to adopt a multi-modal approach and ensure logistics did not become a burden on exporters.

She said the PM Gati Shakti was a beautiful pro tocol with which a synergy could be brought in.

Sitharaman referred to ‘One District-One Product’ and ‘Vocal for Local’, initia tives, aimed at promoting local products and creating their export markets.

She said the Commerce Ministry was working on getting an export policy that would help the export ers by giving them incen tives and promoting many things.

WHAT NIRMALA SITHARAMAN SAID

z Nirmala Sitharaman asked States to adopt a multimodal approach and ensure logistics did not become a burden on exporters

New Delhi: Gold price in the national capital fell

`105 to `50,889 per 10 grams on Friday amid weak global trends, ac cording to HDFC Securi ties.In the previous trade, the precious metal had closed at `50,994 per 10 grams. Silver, however, gained `21 to `58,336 per kg from `58,315 per kg.

the international mar ket, gold was trading in red at $1,653.25 per ounce while

was flat at $19.34 per ounce.

TATA POWER NET PROFIT RISES 85% TO `935 CRORE

“There’s a repetitive and very relevant line that the Commerce Minister refers to … ‘We can’t be exporting taxes.’ We also should iden tify ways in which those taxes – whether Centre, State or local – that are on these products should be removed so that we don’t burden their exporters,” the Finance Minister said.

The governments did not get much revenue from those products but bur

OTHER STORIES

z Sitharaman referred to ‘One District-One Product’ and ‘Vocal for Local’, initiatives, aimed at promoting local products and creating their export markets

dened the exporters never theless, she noted. She said the growing cost of elec tricity and logistics was also affecting the exports.

“With better roads and ports coming… electronic facilitation for the customs operations coming…surely,

RETAIL PORTION OF NHAI ‘INVIT’ TO RISE GOING AHEAD, SAYS UNION MIN GADKARI

Mumbai (PTI): Enthused by the overwhelming retail investor re sponse to the recent InvIT from NHAI, wherein NCDs worth `1,430 crore were issued, Union Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said the retail portion will go up in new such fund-raising ahead. The min ister was addressing a gathering at BSE after listing the second tranche of the NHAI Infrastructure Invest ment Trust (InvIT) and NCD, which earlier this month raised `1,430 crore and the issue was oversubscribed nearly seven times.

the logistics element is be ing addressed little by lit tle. State governments should also spend some time to see that logistics doesn’t become a burden on exporters,” Sitharaman said. The Finance Minister referred to the Prime Min ister’s suggestion that States should open export promotion offices in Indian embassies abroad.

“If you have the capacity to tell the kind of things you produce that are inter national class… our embas sies are the place where you should be and target the markets there. Some of our States are the size of some European countries. We have the capacity even as a district to capture the market outside,” she said.

SpiceJet allowed to wet lease 5 planes

Mumbai (PTI): SpiceJet has received aviation regu lator DGCA’s approval for wet leasing five Boeing 737 Max planes for up to six months and the airline has already deployed two of the aircraft on different routes, according to sources.

Foreign trade would help India become a $30 tn eco: Goyal

Kakinada (PTI): Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal on Friday said that foreign trade would become a truly defining feature that would help India become a $30 trillion economy in the Amrit Kaal.

“We have reached that inflection point, we are at the cusp, where we are go ing to take off. If we have the ambition to be at least ten times in the next 25 years...We are looking to cross the $30 trillion economy with a per capita GDP of 15,000 dollar,” Goyal said.

Goyal noted that foreign trade would become a truly defining feature in the years to come “as we work in the Amrit Kaal in the next 25 years and progress towards a developed India.”

Goyal said foreign trade

MAJOR HIGHLIGHTS

z Goyal noted that foreign trade would become a truly defining feature in the years to come “as we work in the Amrit Kaal in the next 25 years and progress towards a developed India”

z Foreign trade was going to truly help in achieving the $30 tn ambitious target

was going to truly help in achieving the $30 trillion ambitious target.

“This is the path that we are going to achieve. It’s very much achievable and doable,” he remarked.

The Commerce Minister pointed out that the Indian economy grew 11.8 times in dollar terms in the last 30 years to $3.5 trillion today, from less than $300 billion.

High inflation is a result of price shocks: Bhide

New Delhi (PTI): The high inflation rate in the last three quarters is main ly a consequence of the ‘exogenous’ price shocks, and addressing the issue will require coordinated policy efforts, RBI Mone tary Policy Committee (MPC) member Shashanka Bhide has said.

Bhide further said the inflationary pressures are high and it certainly is a test for India’s inflation targeting framework.

“The high inflation rate in Q2 FY2022-23 follows high inflation in the previ ous two quarters.

“High fuel and food pric es and their spillover to other sectors have sus tained the high inflation rate,” he said.

The retail inflation based on CPI has remained above 6% since January 2022, and it was 7.41% in September.

“While this pattern is mainly a consequence of the exogenous price shocks, it is important to take measures to limit the spillover of the price shocks to the rest of the economy.

Markets log gains for 2nd day on buying in Reliance Industries Ltd

New Delhi: Tata Power on Friday reported about an 85% rise in its consoli dated net profit to `935.18 crore in the Sep tember 2022 quarter, mainly on the back of higher revenue. The con solidated net profit of the company was `505.66 crore in the quarter ended September 30, 2021, a BSE filing stated. The to tal income of the compa ny rose to `14,181.07 crore in the quarter from `10,187.33 crore a year ago. Tata Power’s PAT (profit after tax or net profit) has increased for the 12th consecutive quarter.

MARUTI SUZUKI Q2

PROFIT SEES 4-FOLD RISE AT `2,112.5 CR

SEBI REDUCES FACE VALUE FOR DEBT SECURITIES

New Delhi (PTI): To enhance liquidity in the corporate bond market, Sebi on Friday reduced the face value of debt security and non-convertible redeemable preference share issued on pri vate placement basis to `1 lakh from the current `10 lakh. The move came after the regulator received representations from various market participants, including issuers, requesting for review of the denominations.

Further, non-institutional inves tors consider the high ticket size as a deterrent.

ATHER ENERGY SETS UP FIRST EV RETAIL STORE IN PUDUCHERRY

Chennai (PTI): Electric twowheeler maker Ather Energy has inaugurated its first retail store ‘Ather Space’ in Puducherry making it the 58th experi ence centre in the country. The company has launched its latest flagship products the 450 X and 450 Plus which come with a certified range of 146 km and would be retailed at the new store. Con sumers in Puducherry would be able to take up test-ride and also receive in-depth knowledge of the product ahead of making their purchase.

The approval for taking the planes on wet lease was given by the DGCA earlier this month. The sources said the remaining three aircraft will be inducted into SpiceJet fleet in the coming weeks. The airline already has Boeing 737 Max planes in its fleet.

To cater to rising de mand in the winter sched ule which begins from Oc tober 30, SpiceJet and In diGo have received approv al for their proposals to take planes on wet lease.

Under wet lease arrange ment, planes are leased along with operating crew and engineers.

Mumbai (PTI): Equity benchmarks ended high er on Friday helped by buying in index major Re liance Industries along with fresh foreign fund inflows. Extending its previous day’s rally, the 30-share BSE benchmark climbed 203.01 points or 0.34% to settle at 59,959.85.

On similar lines, the broader NSE Nifty ad vanced 49.85 points or 0.28% to end at 17,786.80 .

In the Sensex pack, Maruti, Reliance Indus tries, NTPC, Power Grid, Mahindra & Mahindra, Bajaj Finserv, Titan and Kotak Mahindra Bank were the major winners.

Tech Mahindra, Tata Steel, Sun Pharma, ICICI Bank and State Bank of India were among the laggards.

iPhones revenue grows 10% to $42.6 bn

First India Bureau

New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India on Friday reported an over four-fold increase in consolidated net profit to `2,112.5 crore in the second quarter that ended September 30, 2022, rid ing on record sales. The company had posted a consolidated net profit of `486.9 crore in the same period last fiscal, MSIL said in a regulatory filing. Total revenue from opera tions was at `29,942.5 crore as against `20,550.9 crore in the year-ago period.

New Delhi: According to Apple, in the September quarter of 2022, iPhone rev enue increased 10% year over year to a record $42.6 billion, with the new 14 se ries driving brisk sales in India.

The CyberMedia Re search (CMR) showed that the iPhones grew 44% (quarter-on-quarter) in the July-September period in India, selling over 1.7 mil lion iPhones.

According to company’s CEO Tim Cook, the high and better-than-expected

customer demand, exceed ed their aspirations.

“Customers are loving our iPhone 14 lineup. Load ed with camera upgrades for sharper photos, Action Mode for smoother videos

and new safety features like Crash Detection and Emer gency SOS via Satellite, iP hone is even more indis pensable to our daily lives,” Cook stated this during the company’s quarterly earn

ON RISE IN INDIAN MKT

z The CyberMedia Research showed that the iPhones grew 44%in the July-Sept period in India, selling over 1.7 million iPhones z High, better-than-expected customer demand, exceeded Cos aspirations

ings call with investors.

Luca Maestri, Chief Fi nancial Officer at Apple, said that iPhone revenue grew despite significant foreign exchange head winds.

INDIAN RUPEE SLIPS 14 PAISE TO SETTLE AT 82.47 AGAINST AMERICAN CURRENCY

Mumbai (PTI): The rupee declined by 14 paise to close at 82.47 against the US dollar on Friday as a stronger greenback in the overseas markets weighed on the local unit. However, a posi tive trend in domestic equities and fresh foreign fund inflows capped the rupee’s loss, traders said. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local currency opened weak at 82.39 and witnessed a high of 82.29 and a low of 82.49. It finally settled at 82.47 against the American currency, registering 14 paise loss over its previous close. In the previous session on Thursday, the rupee jumped 48 paise to close at 82.33 against the dollar. Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s strength against a basket of six currencies, rose by 0.25% to 110.86. Global oil benchmark Brent crude futures fell 0.91% to $96.08 per barrel.

Wheat sown in 54,000 hectare so far: Govt data

New Delhi (PTI): Wheat has been sown in 54,000 hec tare so far in the ongoing rabi (winter) season of the 2022-23 crop year, 59% high er than 34,000 hectare in the year-ago period, according to the agriculture ministry data released on Friday.

The sowing of wheat, the main rabi crop, begins in October and harvesting in March-April.

Besides, gram and mus tard are other major crops grown during the rabi sea son (July-June).

According to the latest sowing data, wheat sowing is underway in Uttar

Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Ra jasthan and Jammu & Kashmir.

About 39,000 hectare was covered under wheat in Ut tar Pradesh, 9,000 hectare in Uttarakhand, 2,000 hec tare in Rajasthan and 1,000 hectare in Jammu & Kash mir as on October 28, the data showed.

UDDHAV’S SHIV SENA OPPOSES ROZGAR MELAS, CALLS FOR BAN

First India Bureau

Mumbai: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the nationwide ‘Rozgar Melas’ to hand over appointment letters to 75,000 youth, Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasa heb Thackeray lodged a protest with the Election Commis sion of India (ECI) on Friday.

National spokesper son of the faction led by former Chief Minis ter Uddhav Thackeray, Kishore Tiwari, filed a petition with the ECI, seeking an urgent ban and investigation into the meetings. Terming Rozgar Melas as “plant ed”, he said they are “illegal and unethical as they violate the All India Services (Con duct) Rules and other regulations”.

The petition con tends that the Melas are events organized for sheer political gains by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and con trary to all civil servic es as well as Army rules. It also claims that BJP banks and other

ETHICAL VIOLATION

This is ri diculous, illegal and immoral. What kind of loyalty will these future public servants display toward their official duties or the common people? They might only do the bidding of the BJP leaders who al legedly did a ‘fa vour’ by giving them government jobs.

Modi’s 2014 promise to create two crore jobs every year.

In the petition, Ti wari said by organizing such grand events, vari ous Central govern ment departments and PSU undertakings have violated their own ser vice rules and recruit ment regulations. They do not allow distribu tion of so-called ap pointment letters with the hands of ruling party members, that too, when the poll pro cess of elections to Himachal Pradesh have already been set in mo tion by the ECI and dates are likely to be an nounced for Gujarat soon.

Diwali brings rise in air and noise pollution in Thane

First India Bureau

October 22. Over 800 youth were given their job letters amid much fanfare.

public sector undertak ings which took part in the jamboree held si multaneously all over India, were sponsored

by government funds.

In Maharashtra, the Rozgar Melas was spearheaded by Union ministers Piyush Goyal

(Mumbai), Narayan Rane (Pune) and Ram das Athawale (Nagpur) in the presence of vari ous party leaders on

Opposition Maha Vi kas Aghadi (MVA) coa lition leaders like Con gress’ Atul Londhe, Na tionalist Congress Par ty’s Mahesh Tapase and Shiv Sena’s (UBT) Ti wari had slammed the BJP for giving only 75,000 jobs against

“Any such event with the eyes to benefit the ruling party politically is not only illegal but it is against the several judgments of the Su preme Court as well as ECI guidelines for free and fair polls,” he said.

He urged the ECI to immediately ban all fu ture Rozgar Melas, ad here to the SC orders, and initiate an investi gation into authorizing parties of the events.

MAHA LOGS 273 NEW COVID-19 CASES, ONE FATALITY

First India Bureau

Mumbai: Maharash tra on Friday recorded 273 new cases of COV ID-19 and one fatality that raised the tally of infections to 81,31,139 and death toll to 1,48,383, said an offi cial from the state Health Department.

There has been a slight rise in infections, as the state had on Thursday reported 164 new cases.

As per the Health De partment’s report, the highest number of cas es were detected in the Mumbai circle (158), fol lowed by Pune (64), Nag pur (32), Akola (06), Na shik (04) and Latur (03) cases.

Of the eight circles in the state, Kolhapur did not report a single new COVID-19 case, while only Nagpur reported one fatality in the last 24 hours, stated a health bulletin.

At least 439 patients recovered from corona virus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the

total number of recov eries to 79,81,135, said the report.

Maharashtra cur rently has 1,621 active cases, with Mumbai ac counting for the highest number of 575 infec tions, followed by Thane and Pune dis tricts with 336 and 303 cases respectively.

INTUC THREATENS TO GO ON STRIKE OVER UNPAID COVID-19 ALLOWANCE

First India Bureau

Navi Mumbai: The chief of the Indian National Trade Un ion Congress (IN TUC) in Navi Mum bai, Ravindra Sawant, in a letter to the commissioner of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corpora tion (NMMC), de manded that the COVID-19 allow ance for contract workers be paid within 15 days.

He made the point that although other

Navi Mumbai transport dept contract workers demand dues be cleared in 15 days

employees and offic ers had received COV ID-19 allowance, the contractual, salaried, and transport employ ees had not. “Contract workers in the trans port department are not being taken into consideration despite their sincere work

ARC set to begin new equestrian season

Regional league competitive event to be held on October 29 & 30 at Mahalaxmi Race Course in Mumbai city

First India Bureau

Mumbai: Amateur Riders’ Club (ARC) is all set to kick off a new season with the Regional Equestrian League (REL) 2022-23, to be held on October 29 and 30 at the ARC on Mahalaxmi Race Course in Mumbai.

The event will see participants from Ma

harashtra, Goa, Gujarat and Rajasthan—cover ing the western zone of the country. The event comprises show jump ing and dressage com petitions which will

take place under four categories.

The Regional Eques trian League (REL) is a national-level bench mark event for young and aspiring Indian

equestrian athletes to compete and qualify for the Junior National Equestrian Champion ship (JNEC) as well as other national-level competitions.

The ARC saw a tre mendous response to the Asian Games trials and National Equestri an Championship (NEC) held earlier this year. The REL will act as a stepping stone for young Indian equestri an athletes to partici pate and showcase their talent. The event will enable wider participa tion and attention to wards the sport across the country as well.

Shyam Mehta, Presi dent of Amateur Rid ers’ Club, said in an of ficial statement, “With the beginning of the new season, we are ex pecting a better re sponse and participa tion in REL and upcom ing competitions.”

during the COVID-19 period. The payment of the COVID allow ance is being delayed. We warn that if the administration does not give the COVID-19 allowance to the em ployees of the trans port industry within the next 15 days, Navi Mumbai INTUC will hold a protest includ ing work stoppage and hunger strike,” said Sawant.

Sawant has written a similar letter to the NMMC’s transport undertaking.

Thane: With the state celebrating Diwali minus any pandemic-related restrictions, air pollution went up by 4%, as compared to last year, while noise pollution rose by 24% during the festival of lights in Thane city, civic officials said.

An official report of the Thane Munici pal Corporation’s pollution control de partment on pollu tion figures during Diwali this year and in 2021 was shared with the media here.

The highest con centration of partic ulate matter (245 µg/ m³) was reported in the city on Diwali, the report said, add ing that the level of SO2 (sulphur diox ide) went up from 25µg/m³ on October 21 to 29 µg/m³ on Oc tober 24, 2022.

The level of nitro gen oxides, which are responsible for the yellowish colour of smog, also rose from 48 µg/m³ to 56 µg/m³ during the same pe riod while the RSPM (respirable suspend ed particulate mat ter) rose from 152 to 245 units.

According to the Air Quality Index of India, levels from 101 to 200 are categorized as “poor”, which could cause slight discomfort, breathing difficulty

The air quality re corded in the city was 197 on Monday as compared to 189 recorded during the festival last year. Meanwhile, the noise decibels was report ed around 89 as com pared to last year's 69 decibels.

A team consisting of Chief Environ ment Officer Mani sha Pradhan, Depu ty Environment Of ficer Vidya Sawant and Junior Chemist Nirmiti Salgaonkar inspected the air quality and noise pollution levels. Pradhan said there was a rise in the use of green firecrackers this year as com pared to the last year. She further stated that the increase partly was caused because of the re duced temperature and added that heavy air contributes to pollution.

Mumbai GRP’s social media handle hacked, says official

First India Bureau

Mumbai: A social me dia handle of the Mumbai Government Railway Police (GRP) has fallen victim to hackers, said its top official on Friday.

The GRP is responsi ble for ensuring safety and security of passen gers travelling on the Mumbai suburban rail way network.

“Dear Mumbaikars, it has come to our no tice that the @GRP Mumbai handle seems to have been hacked. We request you to not pay heed to any fresh tweets until we update,” Quais

er Khalid, Commission er of GRP Mumbai, tweeted, adding that the concerned agencies were working on re gaining access.

Since then, several tweets related to Tesla CEO Elon Musk have

been retweeted from the Mumbai GRP Mumbai's Twitter account. He appealed to people to direct queries and complaints to his Twit ter handle @cpgrp mumbai or use the hel pline number 1512.

—Kishore Tiwari, National Spokesperson, Shiv Sena UBT

Uddhav Thackeray’s

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pointed out towards Model Code of Conduct, directions /orders given by the ECI to safeguard the free and fair polls without inducement of the ruling party in power.

Faction has registered petition with the ECI over ‘unethical’ distribution of job letters to youth

In slightly good news, there was an increase in the use of green firecrackers this year.

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Participants from Maha, Goa, Gujarat and Rajasthan to compete for top honours. —FILE PHOTO

GRP is responsible for ensuring safety and security of passengers travelling on Mumbai’s suburban railway network. —FILE PHOTO

ashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are. In dian fashion is wonderful. ash ion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are. Indian fashion is wonderful. Every en chanted flower, each brisk breeze, each wintry snowfall, the end less hours and agonising efforts it takes to complement the wearer’s style like Indian girls themselves. You can style ethnic jackets anyplace and however, you choose. An ordinary outfit can be come a standout piece by adding an eth nic jacket. Three different jacket styles can be worn over a saree - long jackets, short jackets and medium-sized jackets. This modern way of wearing a saree with a jacket makes it another designer ensemble in and of itself. There are two ways to wear it, either inside like a blouse and wrapping the pallu over the jacket, or outside like a jacket over a sa ree pallu. Again, the body form is what immediately lends a glam appearance. Indian design is complex. Go for a black skirt and blouse combo with a colourfully embroidered short jacket if you’re having trouble deciding what kind of jacket to wear with what colour. This instantly creates a ritzy appearance that can be worn for any

Who in the world will say no to pairing an ethnic embroidered jacket with a full-length Anarka li kurta? Some embroidery jackets are finely made with alluring details in them giving a classy yet posh weddingready look. When you have a straightforward Anarkali suit and a stylish jacket with an all-over body sequence, it is pure happiness.

Traditional jackets are also frequently worn by people who seek to give their appearance a sense of authority and power. Such jackets were worn by the royals of Western India during those grand cele brations and ceremonies. See how the same kurta set can give you a light look when worn alone or a weighty look when worn with a jacket that has delicate sequin em broidery. For women or girls who want to achieve two looks with one dress, this three-piece set is perfect. The same attire can be transformed into a du al-look outfit. By sim ply mixing and match ing the components of an outfit, it is pos sible to dress Indian wear in a variety of ways. By experi menting, you can generate a wide va riety of fashion trends. Just start with the ethnic jackets if you wish to incorpo rate new things into your fashion sense. Jackets over ethnic are the finest work wear for a girl who likes to style her ordi nary work clothing in a contempo rary way.

Adding a jacket to any ensemble gives it charm and makes one look sophisticated and classy. Any ensemble that incorporates ethnic jackets gains magic and becomes an occult statement item. City First brings to you the significance of jackets in the ethnic world!

MRIDULA SHARMA cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

RIDDHI, Influencer

RISHI SUNAK: PIONEERED THE WORLD STAGE

represents is the tri umph of core human values of hard work, in tegrity and learning.

Aries

MARCH 21 - APRIL 20

Tensions on the family front are likely to get sorted out. Your spouse is someone who can do anything for your happiness. You are happy spending whole day at home. Help your mothers at home today and give them a reason to smile. You are an opportunist.

Gemini

MAY 21 - JUNE 21

You are very fortunate to have a great friend circle. Whatever you have in mind, you will manage to implement it at work. You are likely to feel much healthy and energetic today. Visit a doctor if you have any doubts about your health. You want to have your own house and you will work hard for it.

Leo

JULY 24 - AUGUST 23

This is the best time try something new with life give yourself a new purpose. You will feel amorous towards your wife. Work on your limitations, there can be no better time than this. You have more opposite sex friends than the same and you may be judged sometimes but don’t care.

Libra

SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 22

Today is a favourable day for business. Listening to someone’s advice on the profes sional front will be in your interest. You are very generous by nature and also you are the backbone of your family. Be careful of the words that come out of your mouth. Your lover may finally say yes.

Sagittarius

NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22

Pending paperwork concerning a property will be completed. Your spouse may make you spend more than you expected. Admit your faults in relationship. Fantastic day for investing money in stock market as you can make fortune. You miss your parents a lot and somewhere fear to loose them.

Aquarius

JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19

Fortunes are set to rise for those in trade and business. You love to live close to your family. You are a child at heart and never let this child die. You have a big heart and you always help someone if you can. Expected payments are likely to get released soon.

Taurus

APRIL 21 - MAY 20

You make sure to make things work your way. You are most wanted by your friends. You can have romantic affair in office and a serious one. You will invest money in clothes and accessories today. You are a God fearing person. Never demotivate someone even if someone is not capable.

Cancer

JUNE 22 - JULY 23

You will enjoy good health by remaining regular in your workouts. It will be in your interest to guide a family youngster on the academic front. Scrumptious food is what you are craving for today. You may start a side business to earn extra money. You are a very grounded person.

Virgo

AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23

Some family issues may need urgent resolution, so don’t neglect them.

Some of you are likely to enjoy an excursion with friends.You will feel financially comfortable. Your personality will attract many eligible bachelors. Spend time talking with likeminded people as it will make you feel good for now.

Scorpio

OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 22

You must create an environment of understanding at home.

Your regular exercise routine promises to keep you fit and energetic. You will succeed in any sort of examination if you put your heart and soul to it. You need a break from day to tensions and the way to cope up with stress.

Capricorn

DECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20

Don’t make friends for money and status rather make friends who will stick with you forever. You care about you lover but somehow hesitate in expressing that care. On social front, you may have to spend some extra money in buying gifts for someone for some specific occasion.

Pisces

FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20

Family will be supportive of your ideas, but only to an extent. You give tough competition to people. Many people get inspired by you. You will get special treatment from your dear ones. Good health is assured through own efforts. Meet people you get along with well.

hen Shake speare, the great play wright, penned his immortal words “ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE”, his view was limited to a metaphor. He could not have imagined that a young, skinny Hindu would become the PM of the UK and pio neer a new World Stage for generations to follow.

The meteoric rise of Rishi Sunak to the high est office in Great Brit ain is being hailed the world over, albeit through deviating prisms. Sadly, in some dark minds, his rise is being seen as a body blow and a conspiracy against the whites.

But, as a matter of

He has proven that the barriers of religion & colour are high only for the mediocre. To step over them with alacrity, sangfroid & the confi dence of a Barack, Ri shi, Manmohan or Lal Bahadur, one has to be come taller in character, professional integrity & wisdom, all honed by quality education. Such personalities belie the excuses, alibis and selfjustifications of the lazy and corrupt.

Having said that, for such efforts to fructify, the ground of liberal thought (democracy) is a prerequisite, even if partly tilled. Is it any surprise that such leaps are well nigh impossible in autocratic or theocrat ic states? Only democra cies, the crucibles of lib eral thought, can make it possible. They welcome pure talent & integrity to break their fossilized thoughts on colour, reli gion etc and cement their democratic values.

Even though the irre pressible comics & cyn ics will add grist to their humour & rumour mills, they can never take away the breathtaking conquest of Rishi Su nak, the 57th PM of Great Britain, once the biggest empire the world has known. The trail he has blazed will make it easier for the ones who are sure to emulate his extraordinary feat.

by Saurabbh Sachdeva

RAINU SINGH cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

Great Britain PM Rishi Sunak with his wife Akshata Murthy

PRINCESS OF HEART

On Aditi Rao Hydari's 36th birthday, actor and ru moured boyfriend Siddharth has penned a lovely note for her alongside an unseen photo of them to gether. The rumoured couple has remained tightlipped about the relationship but Siddharth's birth day message for Aditi speaks volumes about their true love. "Happy Happy Happy Birthday Princess of Heart @aditiraohydari I pray all your dreams, the big ones, the small ones, and the ones yet unseen, always come true, always for you. Have the best trip around the sun yet. P.S- growing up is for squares. Don't!," read his Instagram caption for Aditi. Although they have not of ficially confirmed their relationship according to the sources they have been seeing each other for a long time. They fell in love on sets of Ajay Bhupathi's Maha Samudram and since then have been spending time together.

Desi Charmers

The Jonas family's recent looks are the best in the fashion league and it all packs a punch given the patterns and fabrics. Styled and put together in wonderful ways, they looked like a winning team. All in warmed-up and chic perfection, their outfits are giving strong desi realness that could be your formula too for weddings and gath erings ahead.

The family was dressed up in spectacular Fal guni and Shane Peacock designs in the latest Ins tagram post of Priyanka and it was a pretty rev elation that bright hues like neon, pink, orange, yellow and so on aren't always the winners. The baby girl's lehenga set with colourful floral em broidery. While Priyanka donned a three-piece set that featured a sweetheart neckline and cropped blouse with a plunging neckline and straps. She wore it with embroidered sheer and floor-length cape.

Malaika's fall look

Malaika Arora steps out in a classic ivory-white knitted sweater paired with a trendy pair of straight-fit dis tressed jeans. The oversized white knitted sweater features a ribbed U-neck, dropped shoulders, and long sleeves in addi tion to a knitted pattern which makes it stand out. The star amped up her casual look with Louis Vuitton's Dauphine MM bag which is worth Rs. 313,235.90. The bag features a long strap, the iconic LV monogrammed canvas, along with a magnet lock. To add to her LV look she also completed her look with LV Beaubourg Platform Derby which is worth Rs. 104,734.95.

Crafted from signature Louis Vuitton's Monogram canvas, the Louis Vuitton shoes are the perfect blend of a masculine and feminine vibe.

The magic of Thumkeshwari

Janhvi's ethnic glam

Janhvi Kapoor doesn't stop inspiring. With every movie promotion, she comes to make statements with her looks. Glam our is at the heart and soul of it all and to do it once again with Mili came to us as no revelation, our eyes are lovin' it. The actress is primarily paying pretty and flawless trib utes to ethnic ensembles and we love how this Monika Nidhii saree got itself hooked onto her style list.

Trust to deliver the best with the 25-year-old's latest look. In her case, it was striking with colours and it is good for when you want something colourful such as a wedding or a puja attendee. This lime green crea tion isn't a clichéd hue, the top reason why this look is worth ref erencing and giving it a first pref erence will read triumph.

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There has been a lot of buzz around Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone starrer Fighter right from the mo ment it was announced. This film marks the first onscreen collaboration of Deepika Padukone and Hrithik Roshan and fans cannot keep calm. The Siddharth Anand directorial is an aerial-based action thriller that also stars Anil Kapoor.

The release date of Fighter has been postponed many times in the past and looks like the makers have now locked the release date. “All systems go! #FIGHTER is cleared for take-off on

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NFDC FACES BACKLASH OVER IFFI SELECTION

from the final list, it does not justify the inclusion of two movies from a single filmmaker. To top this chaos, the two films also include one that was rejected from the film festival in 2020. Filmmak er Sudipto Sen could be simply consid ered lucky if it hadn’t been for his film ‘Before I Die’ which was rejected in 2020.

after being selected for the IFFI. “I got multiple emails from IFFI officials con gratulating me for my film's selection. However, I have come to know that they have dropped it now. It is due to political reasons,” he claimed.

KATRINA'S TOUGH LIFE

Katrina Kaif is all set to tickle the audi ence's funny bones as a ghost in her up coming movie Phone Bhoot. She posted a humor ous behind-the-scenes vid eo of her filming proce dure in advance of the movie's premiere. In the opening of the vid eo, Katrina's co-star Ishaan Khatter inquires as to her presence on the set before cutting to her say ing, "Bhootni ke yahaan."

The video shows Katri na fixing her bangs on sets before each shot, and she captioned it, 'Ragini and Her Bangs - A Love Story.'

The filmmaker even com ments that it almost seems

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like a shampoo adver tisement because she doesn't seem con vinced by her 'flying fringe'. She can be seen copying her Slice advertise ment in another brief moment.

Ishaan, Sid dhant, and another crew member give an ex hausted Kat rina hand and shoulder massag es as the video come to a close.

ASHISH TIWARI ADITI CHAVAN

The NFDC is the mother body that looks over four film media units - Films Division, Directo rate of Film Festivals (DFF), National Film Archive of India (NFAI), and Children's Film So ciety of India (CFSI) after the Union Cabinet expanded the Memoran dum of Articles of Association of NFDC in 2020. However, the merger came into effect in April 2022 due to the heavy con troversy surrounding it. There were claims made by some of the prominent personalities of the Indian film industry that the effort is nothing but an attempt to privatise the film archives and gov ernment properties. There was a fear lingering between them that the merger would result in archives being damaged, destroyed and rewritten according to the government if they do not remain autonomous public institutions.

While NFDC has many a time come under scrutiny due to film fraternities claiming it to be corrupt, more prob lems have risen now as the Internation al Film Festival of India 2022 nears.

‘BEFORE I DIE’ 2022 SELECTION AFTER ITS 2020 REJECTION

There was a tough competition for se lecting 25 films among the 354 entries and the jurors had a small time limit of a month to make their decision ready. Although this reason can be used as an excuse for excluding some great movies

Two of his films, including the second named Gurujana, have been selected for the film festival whereas some of the most appreciated feature films such as Anik Dutta’s ‘Aparijito’ which was a tribute to Satyajit Ray’s ‘Pather Pan chali’ have been dropped. Sudipto Sen’s production company Last Monk Media is responsible for co-producing both the films – Before I Die which is directed by Nakul Dev and Gurujana which is Sen’s directorial.

Expressing his dismay, the producer of Aparijito, Firdausul Hasan had even written a letter to the I&B minister An urag Thakur and secretary Apurva Chandra. He had mentioned that his film was even selected by the ministry to be screened at the Shanghai Film Fes tival where it won a Special Jury Award. It was also selected for the ministry’s special screening for Ray’s 100th birth anniversary. He mentioned that a film so good being rejected for the Indian Panorama of the IFFI “deprives cinegoers of a brilliant piece of artistic ex cellence that for which every Indian would be proud of”.

However, despite the ministry asking for reconsideration, all the jury head of 12 members, Vinod Ganatra could say was, he felt “sorry”.

BRATYA BASU’S 2021 UNJUSTIFIED REJECTION

This is not the first time such an inci dent has occurred as the 2021 IFFI was laced with similar controversy when TMC minister, Bratya Basu claimed that his film ‘Dictionary’ was dropped

We approached Bratya Basu and the Managing Director of NFDC Ravinder Bhakar for their view and reaction to the controversy but did not get a re sponse on time.

HEAVY SCRUTINY OVER SOUTH FILMS

While the film selections are a question able decision, the root problem arises from the jurors themselves. The 12-jurymember team assembled for the selection of films at IFFI should be a diverse panel that represents the Indian cinema as a whole. However, this year, eight of the jury members from the panel of 12 are from the South Indian industry. Hence several have raised their concern over whether the inclusion of a variety of South films in the feature films category is the result of the juries’ bias. Although the south has come up with some of the most amazing films of 2022, there have been many that could have been ignored instead of being selected for the IFFI.

This apparent bias has resulted in the rejection of various critically and inter nationally acclaimed films. Apart from Aparijito, Shiv Shashtri Balboa, a heart felt film which received several interna tional awards was also dropped from the final list of feature films.

The NFDC’s questionable decisions surrounding the selection of films for a prestigious festival such as IFFI that has been held by the Indian government and the privatisation of the film ar chives have raised eyebrows in the film fraternity. Will this decision by the NFDC face the rightful consequences or will it be brushed under the carpet like several of its past controversies?

Actor Sudhanshu Pandey, who recently received the Garhwal Post Award for his contribution in Hindi cinema from his excellency Governor of Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Manisha Koirala, said that the honour means a lot to him. “Any sort of recognition whether it’s an award or a certificate or a medal is a symbol of recognition. It’s a reward for all the hard work that an actor or any artist puts into their work. Being acknowledged is the biggest reward. Whenever I win awards it’s a very big reassurance of the fact that whatever I am doing there is something right and people are liking it and that is the acknowledgement that I am getting for all my hard work and sincerity to my profession,” said the actor.

Shaheer in a peppy wedding track

The talented actor Shaheer Sheikh who is known for his wonderful act ing skills is all set to feature in a peppy wedding track for the first time ever! Shaheer has expressed his skills in all genres except one and that is of a wedding! The fans have been in awe of his versatility, and this song is a first as he features in the avatar of a groom in the T-Series song Main Tenu Chadh Jaungi sung by Zahrah S Khan featuring the Shaheer Sheikh and the singer herself.

The bits and snippets of the music video featuring Shaheer and Zahrah have shown us a glimpse of the song and piqued our interest as Shaheer is shown playing the character of a groom. The fans have an ticipated this to be Shaheer’s best role to be ever played based on what has been doing the rounds of social media up until now.

JK Cement inaugurates its second grey cement grinding unit in UP

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JK Cement Ltd.

one of India’s leading manu facturers of Grey Cement in India and one of the largest White Cement manufacturers in the world today inau gurated its grey cement grinding unit at JK Temple in Kanpur, Ut tar Pradesh with a for mal ceremony.

The unveiling cere mony was presided over by Smt. Sushila Devi Singhania, Chairper son, JK Cement Ltd. and by the members of the Singhania family.

This greenfield grind ing unit strengthens JKCement’s commit ment to improving its presence in the U.P. market and providing high-quality cement.

The newly-built unit in Hamirpur has a total production capacity of 2 million tonnes per an num (MTPA) and has begun functioning.

Speaking on the launch, Dr Raghavpat Singha nia, Managing Director, JK Cement Ltd. said “The Hamirpur plant is a significant milestone in our growth journey. In spite of the challeng ing external conditions, consistent progress to wards our long-term goals has been achieved.

The commissioning of this plant has enabled a new growth engine for our grey cement busi ness that will help us

expand into new geog raphies and consolidate our footprint.” Adding to this Dy. Managing Di rector and CEO, Mr Madhavkrishna Sing hania said “ As India’s growth story revives and gathers renewed momentum, JKCement is very well placed to ad dress the emerging de mand.

With around 7 – 8 % y-o-y growth expected for the industry, pri marily from infrastruc

ture and rural housing, the Company is well placed through its ca pacity expansions, growing regional di versification and expanding portfo lio mix to cater to the market needs.

The Hamirpur plant has a geographical ad vantage in catering to the increased demand for infrastructure de mands in the region.”

With this addition, JKCement has further

reinforced its growing footprint in India. As part of our expansion plans for its grey ce ment division, the company with the commissioning of our next plant in Panna will reach its grey cement capacity of 20 MTPA. Owing to a greater demand in the market, the plant along with providing highquality cement will also work towards improv ing the livelihood of the

nearby areas, thereby increasing employment opportunities. The plant has also been de ployed in an environ mentally friendly man ner in line with the company’s sustainabil ity vision.

Keeping pace with the changing market dynamics and customer expectations, JKCe ment’s new plant ren ders a strong identity and presence to the brand in U.P while

strengthening its solid legacy of trust with all stakeholders. About JK Cement Ltd. JK Cement Ltd. is one of India’s leading manufacturers of Grey Cement and one of the leading White Cement manu facturers in the World.

Over four decades, the Company has partnered with India’s multi-sec toral infrastructure needs on the strength of its product excellence, customer orientation

and technology leader ship. JKCement’s oper ations commenced with commercial production at its flagship grey ce ment unit at Nimba hera, Rajasthan in May 1975. The Company has an installed Grey Ce ment capacity of 15 MTPA as of date, mak ing it one of the top ce ment manufacturers in the Country.

The Grey cement business has a strong Pan India presence across 19 states with an enhanced reach in the entire state of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. With a total white cement capacity of 1.48 MnTPA and wall putty capacity of 1.33 MnTPA. JK White Ce ment is sold across 36 countries around the globe and the Company has a strong interna tional presence with two subsidies, JK Ce ment Works Fujairah FZC and JK White Cement (Africa) Ltd.

Singhania family during the official launch of JK Cement’s Hamirpur grinding unit.

Singhania family

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