First India-Jaipur Edition-30th September 2022

Confidence & Pride of every Women

UDAAN

Announcement in the State Budget For all the Girls and Women of the State

Menstruation is a normal natural process in women. Today we are living in the 21st century. Now we should openly discuss about menstruation. Women should talk about this in the family without any hesitation. We have started the scheme of free distribution of sanitary napkins. This scheme will prove to be an important step towards women empowerment.

Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister, Rajasthan

Why sanitary napkins are important

conservativeness of the society. Educating girls and women about menstruation and

sanitary pads is a praiseworthy initiative.

Not using sanitary napkins or pads during periods can lead to urine infection, cervix infection, infection in the fallopian tubes and ovaries, infertility (infertility) and even cervical cancer. The free distribution scheme of sanitary napkins the state government is no less than a boon. initiative.

Dr. Sudhir Bhandari

Jaipur

According to a study, about 62% of women in the country use cloth instead of sanitary napkins during their periods. Use of unhygienic items during periods can also lead to serious diseases like cancer. Therefore, it is very important to use of sanitary napkins.

through Anganwadi centres and Schools in the State

Public Relations, Rajasthan

Government of Rajasthan

Chancellor,

of

Dr. Pushpa Nagar Sr. Prof., Dept. of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur

Rajasthan Sanwad

PLEASE CHEER UP! NO ONE CAN CHANGE DESTINY!

FAmit Mishra or nearly five decades, the Congress party has been the ‘writer’ of the present and future of a nation as wide as India and for these five decades, the Gandhi family has reined supreme, although there were some ‘hiccups’ as well challenging the authority of the first family of the grand-old party. However, for these decades, one individual who has been a constant in the ‘grand scheme of things’ has been Gandhi family loyalist Ashok Gehlot who, over the years, rose through the ranks.

A tenacious politician, Gehlot has always been the first to stand for the Gandhis and never asked anything in return, but was rewarded not just for his loyalty, but also for his political abilities.

Even when Congress was going through a ‘rough phase’ in the late 1990s, it was Gehlot who had first supported the idea of giving the reins to Gandhi family member and hence Sonia Gandhi returned to India and was elected party President. The Congress made a thumping recovery post that, and Gehlot was always there to support to Gandhis and their politics.

It was due to his unrelenting and unwavering loyalty to Gandhi family that he was chosen to lead his home state Rajasthan, not once or twice, but three times, thus equalling the record of yet another stalwart leader Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. In fact, ‘Glorious’ Gehlot’s third term as CM,

which has seen close to four years, have been perhaps the most challenging for him. Right from a slow economy, empty coffers, Covid pandemic, and other myriad of issues, Gehlot steered Rajasthan well.

But the recent developments related to Congress presient election have been a ‘shocker’ to him as well. It has been really unfortunate that the person who enjoyed the trust and confidence of Gandhis for the last 40 years and was almost certain to take over the reins of the party as its president had to face an ‘unceremonial exit’. During the recent National Herald crisis Gehlot had virtually emerged as a strong ‘defence line’ for Gandhi’s. He spearheaded the party’s attack on Central government and emerged as the leader whom each and every leader in the party respected.

However, now that Gehlot has apologised to Sonia and the presidency election may be pithced between Digvijaya Singh, who looks to be Gandhis’ choice, and Shashi Tharoor, even the Congress nominee has appreciated Gehlot’s loyalty. Even in the recent crisis, Gehlot, with an unflinching support of 92 Congress MLAs, again proved that he is still the tallest and most popular leader among the Congress MLAs.

All things said and done, the recent political ‘fiasco’ has left a sour taste and with a decision on Gehlot’s future as CM in a day or two, there is just thing that can be said, hard luck Mr CM! Please cheer up! No one can change destiny!

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot

Will not contest Congress president polls, says Ashok Gehlot

CM IN A DAY OR TWO, SAYS VENUGOPAL

“Whatever happend, was wrong. I am hurt”, Ashok Gehlot apologises to Sonia Gandhi for the MLAs’ fiasco

I won’t decide that, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will decide that, says Gehlot when asked about his CMship

New Delhi: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said that he will not fight for the post of Congress chief. His remarks came after the veteran leader met with party’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi at her residence at 10 Janpath in the national capital on Thursday.

“I met Rahul Gandhi in Kochi and requested him to fight the polls (for Congress President). When he didn’t accept, I said I’ll contest but now with that incident (political crisis in Rajasthan), I have decided not to contest the elections,” CM Gehlot said.

Gehlot also apologised for the ruckus in Rajasthan triggered by his loyalists over a pos-

THE BJP’S GUJ ‘RAJ’

sible leadership change in the state after Gehlot was set to file his nomination papers for

the Congress chief polls. Gehlot said that whatever happened in the state in the past two

TODAY IS LAST DAY OF FILING NOMINATIONS, IT WILL BE CLEAR WHO ALL WILL CONTEST: KC

persons after meeting Sonia Gandhi. Infact, Gehlot took a page with him on which was written, “Whatever happened, was wrong. I am hurt.”

SHASHI THAROOR AND DIGVIJAYA SINGH TO FILE NOMINATION FOR CONG PREZ TODAY

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor will submit his nomination papers for the AICC presidential elections 12.15pm in Delhi on Friday.

Tharoor will also hold a PC at 1pm at his residence. However, he will have a tough contest against senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, who will also file his nomination for Congress president’s post on Friday.

Interestingly, according to highly placed sources in the grand old party, Sonia questioned Gehlot, “What all happened in Rajasthan and why did it happen?” To this Gehlot replied, “Even I do not know. But this happened and I am sad for it. You gave me everything.”

GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX 2022: INDIA RISES TO 40TH SPOT

New Delhi: India has leapfrogged to 40th position on GII 2022 from the 81st spot in 2015, the govt said on Thursday. The country was ranked 46th on the index last year. The WIPO, a specialised agency of the UNs, released GII report for 2022 on Thursday.

‘4 UKRAINE AREAS TO BE FOLDED IN RUSSIA TODAY’

Moscow: Russia’s Vladimir Putin will hold a signing ceremony on Friday formally annexing four more areas of Ukraine where occupied areas held Kremlin-orchestrated “referendums” on living under Moscow’s rule that the Ukrainian government and West denounced as illegal and rigged. Putin to attend ceremony today.

CBI AGAINST DRUG

CASES

ARRESTED

New Delhi: The CBI carried out a widespread operation — Operation Garuda — along with the Interpol and state police to bust drug cartels with international links across India. Forces arrested 175, filed 127 cases across the country.

FOR US VISA, 2-YR WAIT FOR DELHI, 2 DAYS FOR BEIJING

New Delhi: Indian visa applicants require a waittime of over 2 yrs just for getting an appointment, a US govt website showed, while timeframe is only 2 days for countries like China. There’s an appointment wait-time of 833 days for applications from Delhi. Whereas, the wait-time is only 2 days for Beijing and 450 days for Islamabad.

days had shocked everyone. “I had a conversation with Congress interim president So-

‘POWER IS A MEAN TO SERVE PEOPLE’

nia Gandhi. Whatever happened two days ago shocked us. It gave a message that all of it

happened as I wanted to be CM. I apologised to her,” said CM Gehlot addressing the media

After this CM Ashok Gehlot reportedly offered to resign from the post of Chief Minister, but Sonia did not give any response to Gehlot’s offer. As a result, now Rajasthan Congress is in a situation of uncertainty. Turn to P10

‘SUPREME’ JUDGMENT : Marital rape is now recognised

New Delhi: The SC on Thurday hearing 25-year-old unmarried woman case said that all women are entitled to safe and legal abortion. No distinction will be made between married and unmarried under abortion law in India. For purposes of abortion, rape will include marital rape too.

Surat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday laid the foundation stone and dedicated various projects worth more than Rs 3,400 crores in Gujarat’s Surat. He is on a twoday visit to the state.

“After the formation of double engine govt in Gujarat, construction of houses has also accelerated and other facilities are also being provided to the poor and middle class in Surat,” PM said.

PM said that Bhavnagar Port will play an important role in building an Aatmanirbhar Bharat and hundreds of new employment opportunities in the fields of storage, transportation and logistics will be created.

In a veiled dig at AAP, which is hoping to oust BJP from power in Gujarat polls, PM said, “For us, power is a means to serve people; we carried out development without spending huge money on publicity.”

Prime Minister Modi also said, “I have implement Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation scheme.”

‘The largest stadium in

It stated unmarried women are also entitled to seek abortion in 20-24 wks arising out of consensual relationship.

INSIDE

RBSE DECLARES

REET 2022 RESULT

New Delhi: Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education, RBSE on Thursday released the Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers, REET Result 2022. RBSE has also released the REET Final Answer Key 2022. Candidates can check the answers in the final key and match against their given answers. P5

RAJ HIGH COURT STAY ON RCA ELECTIONS

Jaipur: The elections of the Rajasthan Cricket Association have been postponed. A petition was filed in the High Court on behalf of the District Cricket Associations regarding election officer Ram Lubhaya. After hearing, HC postpones polls of RCA. P9

PM TO VISIT AMBAJI VIA SIROHI TODAY

is also scheduled to be inaugurated. More on P4

Law in modern times is shedding the notion that marriage is a precondition for the rights of persons. MTP act must consider the realities of today, must not be restricted by old norms. Law must keep in mind changing social realities.

—The court

If the rule is understood as only for married women, then it would perpetuate the stereotype that only married women indulge in sexual activities, which is not constitutionally sustainable.

6 airbags must in cars from Oct 1, ’23: Gadkari

New Delhi (ANI): The Union government has decided to defer the implementation of the sixairbag safety rule for passenger cars in India until October next year. This was announced by Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday. The rule will be implemented from October 1, 2023.

The govt had planned to make 6 airbags must in all eight-seater vehicles from Oct 1, 2022.

Mukesh Ambani’s security cover upgraded to ‘Z plus’ by MHA

Mumbai: The Home Ministry on Thursday has increased the security cover of industrialist Mukesh Ambani, as per sources. The security cover was ramped up to ‘Z +’ category based on the intelligence agency’s threat perception report, sources added. He will pay for this security by himself Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and MD of RIL, was earlier accorded ‘Z category’ security.

Days after Modi’s ‘trouble-shooters’ Nadda and Shah’s visit, now PM’s show in Gujarat

PM Narendra Modi inaugurates projects worth `3,400 crore in Surat, hails double-engine govt in Guj

PM Modi also inaugurated 36th National Games which are being organised for the first time in the State Moni Sharma

PM Narendra Modi lays foundation stone & dedicates various projects to the nation, in Surat on Thursday. Also seen here are Bhupendra Patel, CR Paatil and other leaders during the ceremony.

PM HAILS ATHLETES ON 36TH NATIONAL GAMES AT NARENDRA MODI STADIUM

‘Transfer of Orissa CJ to Madras HC’ SC Collegium headed by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit is learnt to have recommended to Union govt the transfer of CJ of the Orissa HC, Justice S Muralidhar, as CJ of Madras HC, sources said on Thursday.

‘IND IS RICH NATION WITH POOR PEOPLE’ Nagpur: Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday in Nagpur said even as India has emerged as the world’s fifth largest economy and although the country is rich, its population is poor, facing issues like starvation, unemployment, casteism, untouchability and inflation.

RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LTD. TO TAKE ON ZARA AND MANGO UNDER ISHA AMBANI’S LEADERSHIP

n Thursday, the retail division of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd. opened its first in-house premium fashion and lifestyle store as it works to increase its share of the luxury market. The first of a new chain of stores called Azorte, which was opened in Bengaluru, will compete with Zara and Industria de Diseno Textil SA-owned Mango and target millenials and Generation Z.

Acharya Devvrat and Union Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports Anurag Thakur at Opening ceremony of 36th National Games in Ahmedabad.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bhavnagar on Thursday.

Washington: India believes US President’s promise of reforming the UN Security Council is different from past Washington pledges, external affairs minister S.Jaishankar said, while acknowledging that path to Delhi’s elevation in body is still not easy, no one country can make it happen. P7

—Justice Chandrachud

Aditi Nagar & Amit Mishra

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will decide on the Rajasthan CM’s post within a day or two, party general secretary KC Venugopal said on Thursday. He also said it will be clear by Friday, the last day of filing nominations for the top post, who all will contest. The comments came soon after Rajasthan CM Gehlot announced that he will not contest the Congress presidential polls.

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot with Congress Rajya Sabha MP KC Venugopal leaves after the meeting with party interim President Sonia Gandhi, at her residence, in Delhi on Thursday. —

PHOTO BY ANI

Sirohi admin on toes for PM’s visit, reviews arrangements

Ashok Kumawat

Abu Road: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach Manpur in Sirohi district on Friday after laying the foundation stone and inaugurating various projects in Ambaji, Gujarat.

The district administration of Sirohi and police officials have made elaborate arrangements ahead of his visit on Friday.

Officials informed that a stage has been constructed near Manpur Helipad and it is expected that the PM may also address a public gathering. PM Narendra Modi will reach Manpur by road late Friday evening after visiting Ambaji.

Jodhpur Divisional

State Govt fixes fees for courses in medical colleges

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The Rajasthan Medical Education Society on Thursday fixed the fees for various courses being run in medical colleges. Commissioner of Medical Education, Dr Ghanshyam informed, “The tuition fee for Govt seats in MBBS courses was fixed at Rs 60,800.

While the fees for mgmt quota seats has been fixed at Rs 8,26,900. For NRIs, the fees for I and II semesters has been kept at US $ 33,075. Likewise, from the third to final semester for 202223, the fee has been fixed at US$ 16,537.5.

Commissioner Kailash Chand Meena, ADG (Security) and other senior officials reached Abu Road and took stock of preparations ahead of the PM’s visit. From

Manpur, the PM will leave for Ahmedabad via helicopter and later for Delhi by special plane.

BJP State President Satish Poonia and other BJP leaders have also

RAJNATH SINGH IN JODHPUR ON OCTOBER 3

Sudhanshu Trivedi slams Cong over law and order

PK Agarwal

reached Manpur to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Local BJP leaders from Sirohi, Jalore and Pali districts will be present in Manpur during his visit.

New Delhi: The IAF is set to formally induct the indigenous light combat helicopter (LCH) at the Jodhpur air force station on October 3, with the new platform capable of targeting enemy air defences, slow-moving aircraft, highaltitude bunkers as well as carrying out counter-insurgency operations, officials familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Defence minister Rajnath Singh and IAF chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari are expected to attend the function.

Dhabhai inspects Malviya Nagar zone

Bharat Dixit

Jaipur: Acting Mayor of Jaipur Municipal Corporation (Greater)

Sheel Dhabhai on Thursday inspected the Malviya Nagar zone and interacted with locals over sewerage problem in the area.

The Mayor is on an active mode since she took charge of the post.

During her inspection in Malviya Nagar area, she spoke to locals on one-to-one basis and gave necessary directions to the concerned officials from the spot.

The Acting Mayor, in the meeting of the Electricity Committee at the Greater Municipal Cor-

More political appointments at JLN Bal Sahitya Academy

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The State Government on Thursday nominated Vimla Bhandari as the member of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru Bal Sahitya Akademi, Jaipur.

In the order issued by the Joint-Secretary of Art, Literature, Culture and Archeology Department, it was clarified that Nirmala Bhandari was earlier nominated as the member of Pandit

Jawahar Lal Nehru Bal Sahitya Akademi. However, now Vimala Bhandari has been nominated in place of her.

Similarly, the state government appointed members in Rajasthan Khadi and Village Industries Board. Rajkumar Sharma, Murad Gandhi, Parmanand Panwar, Shanti Lal Nimba, Mahasingh Sihag and others have been appointed as members of the Board.

poration gave stern warning to the power companies. In case of negligence, Dhabhai called for stopping of payment and even removal of contract.

Malviya Nagar MLA Kali Charan Saraf also accompanied her dur-

Three minors drown in lake in Ajmer district

First India Bureau

Ajmer: Three children, including brother and sister, drowned in a lake in Sarwad police station area of Kekri. According to the information, Modi (9), Kismat (11), and Rajendra (11), all residents of Bagari’s Dhani, were playing near the lake after returning from the school. Later, police reached the spot and rescues the bodies.

ing the inspection. Acting Mayor Sheel Dhabhai directed officials to address public grievances on priority. The locals raised issues such as cleanliness, sanitation, street lights and sewerage during her inspection.

MUNESH GURJAR INAUGURATES

TRANS SIGNAGE

Jaipur: Municipal Corporation Jaipur Heritage Mayor Munesh Gurjar on Thursday inaugurated transgender signage under the joint aegis of the Center for Advocacy and Research, Nai Bhor Sanstha and Municipal Corporation Heritage. On this occasion, she said that there is an equal rights and laws for women, men and any transgender person in society, so due to this, we should also bring equality in toilet facilities. The toilet is the need of all, and to bring equality, the signage for transgender people has been released.

Chittorgarh: BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi during his two-day visit to Chittorgarh targeted the Congress party saying that while the BJP was observing seva pakhwara and doing people service, the powerdrunk Congress govt was busy in misusing State resources.

Interacting with the media, Trivedi said that in the last four years, this party did not do any work in Rajasthan. “The law and order situation is deteriorating here. Many cases like robbery, rape, atrocities on women are increasing. Communal harmony has deteriorated and fundamental-

ists are being encouraged. This never happened in Rajasthan before,” he said.

Trivedi took potshots at Priyanka Gandhi and said that she goes to Uttar

Filmmakers invited to shoot in Rajasthan

New Delhi (ANI): Anand Tripathi, Joint Director of State Tourism Department on Friday invited the members of the film fraternity to come and explore and shoot films in the hidden gems of Rajasthan.

Addressing the session ‘Come, Shoot in Rajasthan’ at FICCI FRAMES FAST TRACK

2022 in Mumbai, Tripathi highlighted the strength of the state the rich culture and legacy of the state that would act as a perfect backdrop for films, TV serials, OTT platform shooting in India.

Tripati also shared

DISCREPANCIES IN OBC QUOTA

Sangharsh Samiti to protest today

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Former Minister Harish Chaudhary on Thursday once again raised the issue of discrepancy in OBC reservation.

While addressing a press conference at his residence in civil lines, he said that the sangharsh samiti will hold a protest at Shaheed Samarak on Friday against discrepancies in OBC reservation.

“We demand that there should an amendment in the notification issued in 2018. The roster should be rectified and then be imple-

highlights of the newly launched Rajasthan Film Tourism Promotion Policy and various sops being offered to the film fraternity by the Rajasthan government for shooting in the state.

“We have set up a mechanism for giving permissions and allowing film shooting through single-window clearance,” Tripathi said.

Pradesh and sloganeers about ‘Beti hoon, lad sakti hoon’ but she is sitting helpless for Rajasthan. Her leaders are giving wrong statements, yet she is silent.

One held for hurting religious sentiments on FB in Barmer

Barmer (ANI): One person has been arrested allegedly for making “inappropriate” religious comments on his Facebook post in Rajasthan’s Barmer, police said.

Ramesh Dhaka, the in-charge of Barmer Police Station said that the man identified as one Azad Mangilal Meghvashi was arrested on Wednesday.

A complaint was received at the Gudamalani Police Station that Azad Mangilal Meghvashi had created a post on Facebook in which he allegedly used inappropriate words.

mented. We also demand that ex-army men should be given 12 per cent vertical reservation,” Chaudhary said.

Chandna kicks off Rural Olympics in Bundi

Bundi: Sports Minister Ashok Chandna on Thursday inaugurated the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Olympics in Bundi. A total of 47 teams are participating in the district level rural Olympic competition in Bundi district.

While encouraging the participants, Minister Ashok Chandna announced that a playground will be built at a cost of Rs 25 lakh for the winning team at tehsil level, while a playground at a cost of Rs 50 lakh will be built for the winning team at the district level.

“Each minister in charge should make an announcement in their respective district so that talented players can get a platform to perform. Facilities will also be provided to Kabaddi

players in the coming time,” said Sports Minister Ashok Chandna.

During the inaugural ceremony, Collector Dr Ravindra Goswami, SP Jai Yadav and other officials were also present.

CS INAUGURATES RURAL OLYMPICS AT SMS STADIUM, PRAISES PARTICIPANTS

Jaipur: The third phase of Rajiv Gandhi Rural Olympics began on Thursday in the State.

The district-level Rural Olympics was inaugurated by Chief Secretary Usha Sharma at SMS Stadium. While addressing the gathering during the inaugural ceremony, CS Usha Sharma said that Olympics will soon be organised in cities on the lines of rural Olympics.

“The sporting talent from villages has come to limelight. Now, these people will showcase their talent at national and international level competitions. Both men and women participated enthusiasti-

Chief Secretary Usha Sharma at SMS stadium.

cally in the rural Olympics. It is expected that three to four times more participants will take part in the next rural Olympics. This year, more than 30 lakh participants took part in the rural Olympics,” said CS Usha Sharma.

GOVT COMMITTED TO DEVELOPMENT OF SPORTS: POONIA Churu: Rajasthan State Sports Council President and Sadulpur MLA Dr Krishna Poonia said that the Government is committed to the development of sports and the welfare of sportspersons. The happening of rural Olympic Games in Rajasthan has impacted parents a lot, and now they are also becoming aware of the sports routine of their children, she further added. Poonia went on to say that although she belongs to Haryana, the sports policy of Rajasthan is far brilliant. Due to this, the players of Haryana now wish to play from the Rajasthan side.

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State Sports Minister Ashok Chandna during the Rural Olympics in Bundi on Thursday. —PHOTOS BY MUKESH KIRADOO

Satish Poonia plans to give handmade clay sculptures to PM Modi during his arrival in Rajasthan on Friday. These sculptures were made by Tipu Devi of Abu Road’s Siyawa village.

Sudhanshu Trivedi and Chandrashekhar attend State BJP workers’ meeting in Udaipur on Thursday.

‘PFI RALLY IN KOTA DESPITE BAN’

Sheel Dhabhai along with MLA Kalicharan Saraf inspects Malviya Nagar area on Thursday. —PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO

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RAJ GEARS UP FOR INCREASED TOURIST FOOTFALL FROM OCT 1

4 NEW INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS IN WINTERS FROM JPR AIRPORT

Nirmal Tiwari

Jaipur: Preparations are being done on a warfooting as the new tourism season starts from October 1. Travel agents and tour operators have created new and attractive packages to make winter pleasant for those planning to visit the state. In the last eight months, the number of domestic tourists in the state has increased by more than 84 percent.

NEWS

The department is now looking up to more tourists in the new season.

Better Covid management has made the Desert state the most

LAWYERS OF FAMILY COURT PERFORM ‘SADHBUDHI YAGYA’ TO RAISE VOICE

Jaipur: The matter of ADJ Sanganer being given to the jurisdiction of the Family Court by reducing the jurisdiction of the Family Court by the Government of Rajasthan has taken a new turn. The movement has become fierce as the lawyers performed a Sadhbuddhi Yagya on Thursday. Family Court’s Bar Association’s Convenor Convener Poonam Chand Bhandari and President DS Shekhawat said that the lawyers participated enthusiastically in the Sadbuddhi Yagya. Straight on the day 13, no action was taken in the family court, only the next date of appearance was given in the cases.

BUSINESSWOMAN RAPED IN JAIPUR ON PRETEXT OF SHOWING DESIGNS

Jaipur: A shocking case of rape with a business woman has been reported in the city, informed police. The woman had came to buy clothes from Bhilwara. The seller merchant, who is also accused in the matter took her to a house in Bhairav Circle Pratap Nagar on the pretext of showing the new design clothes. Where he assaulted and raped the victim, police said. The FIR has been lodged at Pratap Nagar police station and matter is being investigated. The victim was called for medical on Thursday afternoon, police added.

sought after destination among tourists.

According to Gayatri Rathore, Principal Secretary, Tourism Department, Rajasthan has

I nternational connectivity is all set to improve at Jaipur international airport in coming days. As many as four new flights have been proposed in winter schedule. The proposed flights also include connectivity to three new destinations – Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi Airport) and Doha. Indigo has proposed to start two new flights to Doha and Dubai which will be operating seven days a week. Air Asia will start new flight to Kuala Lumpur which will operate 4 days a week. Thai Smile Airways have proposed to start new flights to Bangkok.

topped the country in terms of strong return of tourism. “Tourism, art, culture and archaeology are our strengths. Tiger and Leopard safa-

ris, adventure tourism, our rich religious and ancient heritage and our culture attracts tourists to Rajasthan,” Rathore said.

Jaipur: After a gap of three months, tourism activities will start in the core areas of Ranthambore and Sariska Tiger Reserves. Preparations have been completed to start the safari from October 1. Ranthambore is fully booked from day one while bookings for Sariska are on. It is expected that in the new season, both places will see huge tourists’ footfall.

Due to the closure of half day and full day, R’bore is witnessing a rush for morning and evening safaris. There are a total of 10 safari zones in Ranthambore.

Raj HC dispose off 125 petitions related to Lab Asst Recruitment

Jaipur (FIB) : The Rajasthan High Court while disposing of more than hundred petitions related to recruitment of Laboratory Assistant (2018), directed the petitioners to make a representation before the state government within a time period of four weeks.

The single bench of Justice Inderjit Singh heard the petitioners and ordered the state government to take a representation and decide it as per the rules. Advocate Laxmikant Sharma Malpura, RP Saini, Tanveer Ahmed, Naresh Singhal, Akhilesh Pareek, Amit Jindal, Ilyas Khan and others represented petitioners in the court.

LAKSHYARAJ SINGH CONFERRED WITH NATIONAL TOURISM AWARD

Udaipur: Member of former royal family of Mewar and noted hotelier Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar was conferred with National Tourism Award (2018-19) by Union Tourism Min G Kishan Reddy in New Delhi. Lakshyaraj Singh was honoured for his contribution in the field of conservation of vibrant heritage of more than 17 hotels of HRH Group of Hotels. Shikarwadi and Shivniwas Palace Hotel was chosen for best performance in Heritage category.

Devaram Saini may become member of RPSC; proposal in line

Formal proposal will be sent in 1-2 days to Raj Bhavan, for which discussion has started

First India Bureau

Jaipur: If all goes well, senior officer of Rajasthan Administrative Service (RAS) Devaram Saini may become a member of Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) as preliminary preparations for making him a member have been initiated.

A formal proposal will be sent in 1-2 days to Raj Bhavan and discussion has started for this at informal level.

Preparation has also

Now, Raj govt bans PFI for 5 yrs, alert sounded on its activities

Shivendra Parmar

Jaipur: A Day after the union govt declared the Popular Front of India (PFI) an “unlawful association” under the UAPA, the Raj Govt too banned PFI in the state.

An order to this effect was issued by state home dept on Thursday.

The govt has banned PFI and its eight affiliated wings for five years. Based on the notification of centre govt, the DGP, all Range IGs, Jaipur and Jodhpur Po-

lice Commissioners as well as all District Magistrates have issued orders in this regard in their respective jurisdictions. Notably, the NIA and the ED recently conducted multiple raids at PFI in Raj.

COPS ON TOES

Jaipur: The Raj Police has directed all District SPs and Collectors to be on an alert mode and increase security in parts of the state, following the ban on PFI. PFI’s Jaipur, Baran, Kota offices were raided on Sept 22.

REET 2022 results out

Shubham Jain and Dimple Sharma

Ajmer/Jaipur : The result of Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers (REET) 2022, conducted by the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education on July 23 and 24, was released at 5 pm on Thursday. The result is available on the REET website.

REET chief coordinator LN Mantri and coordinator Meghna

VCs at 8 Raj varsities appointed

Chaudhary said that 3,20,014 candidates had appeared in the REET Level 1 examination. Of these, 2,03,609 were declared eligible.

“The exam result was 63.63 percent. A total of 11,55,904 candidates appeared in Level 2 examination out of which 6,03,228 were declared eligible. The result stood at 52.19%,” they said. Meanwhile, the RSSB released the syllabus for teacher recruitment exam.

Girl fainted after thrashing by school director

Jaipur: Governor and Chancellor Kalraj Mishra issued orders for appointment of ViceChancellors in as many as eight universities.

These include, Dr Abhay Kumar at Vyas Agricultural University, Kota, Prof. Bagda Ram Choudhary at Agricul-

tural University, Jodhpur, Dr Arun Kumar at Swami Keshwanand

Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner, Prof Ramsevak Dubey

at Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Sanskrit University, Dr Ajit Kumar at Maharana Pratap Agricultural University Udaipur, Prof Pradeep Prajapati to Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Rajasthan Ayurveda University, Jodhpur, Prof Kailash Sodhani at Vardhman Mahaveer Open University, Kota and Dr Balraj Singh at Shri Karan Narendra Agricultural University, Jobner.

Ajmer (FIB) : An eight-year-old student was thrashed brutally by the director of a private school so much that she fainted. The Class 3 girl was thrashed mercilessly as she didn’t complete her homework. After coming home the girl was so terrified after the beating that she did not even have her meal. Police have registered a case and started an investigation.

started for the stamp of the Council of Ministers. Devaram is considered Chief Minister Gehlot’s old loyal and most result oriented officer. In fact, the pair of Devaram and Saubhag has always been with CM Ashok Gehlot.

Meanwhile, sources in Raj Bhavan has denied that the file has reached in their hands.

Kashiram Choudhary

A Camel Cart owner inviting the tourists for free ride at recently concluded Abhaneri Festival organised by Rajasthan Tourism.

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Art, culture are our strengths: Tourism secy Gayatri Rathore

Locks are in place at Jaipur’s PFI office since September 22.

Guv Kalraj Mishra appointed all of them for 3 years or until the age of 70 years

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LET’S DO GARBA!

1. Group of girls playing Garba at Maharani College’s navrang utsav in Japur on Thursday. 2. Girl is engrossed in dancing tunes. 3. Selfie time with Nirmal Choudhary RUSU President. —PHOTOS BY SANTOSH SHARMA

After Batting Dominance over Aussies, Bowlers Shine in First Win over Proteas!

After a narrow series win against the Aussies, India began with a dominant victory in the first encoun ter against the Proteas.

While Indian batting flourished through the matches against Austral ia, experts felt that Indian bowling was a major chink in the armour with the T20 World Cup just a month away.

After the Asia Cup deba cle, fans hoped that the return of Jasprit Bumrah would turn the tide and as he hit peak form, he would help other bowlers to find their best rhythm. On Wednesday evening in Thiruvanathpuram, how ever, it was young left arm seamer Arshdeep Singh who pegged the Proteas back with 3 quick wickets in his very first over which left South African batting in tatters. Eventually, the Proteas could set just a modest challenge of 107 runs which the Men in Blue knocked off with comfort. India won the match with 18 balls and 8 wickets in hand and that too without their super star pacer - Bumrah!

BOWLERS ENSURED THAT INDIAN BATTING GETS EASY TARGET TO CHASE

Besides the Bumrah uncertainty, the Indian squad is looking settled and there are no major problem areas. Axar has filled in Jadeja’s shoes quite well and Karthik has cemented his place in the eleven as a finisher. The batting unit is now firing like a well-oiled machine with King Kohli also back in form. The remaining matches with the Proteas could be used to give more game time to the World Cup squad as India look to iron out all flaws before the big event!

Indian bowling came under heavy scrutiny after India’s shockingly early exit in the Asia Cup. Even in the series with Austral ia, Indian fast bowling was quite ordinary. Team India suffered a setback before the first game with the South Africans as Bumrah was injured and needed rest. Skipper Rohit Shar ma still chose to bowl at the Greenfield Stadium, which was hosting an in ternational match after a gap of 3 years. But a stun ning display of swing bowling by Arshdeep and Deepak Chahar rocked the Proteas who crumbled badly, losing 5 wickets for 9 runs in just 3 overs.

Besides Arshdeep and Chahar’s brilliant spells, Ravi Ashwin was extreme ly economical giving just 8 runs in his 4 overs. Though he couldn’t pick up a wick et, the wily offie tied the

While the bowlers en sured that the Indian batting had an easy target to chase, South Africa sent jitters in the Indian dress ing room by dismissing Rohit and Virat cheaply and the score was just 17 runs after 6 overs. India’s new sensation -Suryakumar Yadav- now stepped to the crease and hit 2 sixes of his first 3 balls to calm Indian nerves. India could afford to play slowly with no runrate pressure and KL Rahul did just that as he picked momentum taking cue from Suryakumar’s book.

Proteas batting down which led to wickets at the other end. Harshal Patel who struggled in the se ries against Australia, was back in form and took 2 wickets at an economy of under 7.

A brief resistance from Wayne Parnell and Keshav Maharaj ensured that South Africa were not bowled out and managed to reach a modest total of 106 for 8. But it was Axar Patel who broke their

growing partnership when he got Parnell caught at deep midwicket region. Patel has been in amazing form and was the Player of the Series against the Aussies. He carried the form against the Proteas and conceded just 16 runs in his tight spell of 4 overs and even picked up a wicket.

While the bowlers en sured that the Indian bat ting had an easy target to chase, South Africa sent

jitters in the Indian dress ing room by dismissing Rohit and Virat cheaply and the score was just 17 runs after 6 overs. India’s new sensation -Suryaku mar Yadav- now stepped to the crease and hit 2 sixes of his first 3 balls to calm Indian nerves. India could afford to play slowly with no run-rate pressure and KL Rahul did just that as he picked momentum tak ing cue from Suryaku mar’s book. Both of them

A MECHANISM TO APPOINT JUDGES

Every time the Supreme Court Collegiums rec ommends a name for eleva tion there are guesses as to what may have gone in in fluencing the Collegium’s choice. When the govern ment sends a name back for reconsideration also leaves the common man wondering as to the pa rameters which determine if a certain judge deserves to be elevated to the Su preme Court. Is it the length of a judge’s stint in a high court which is con sidered, or it is investiga tive agencies’ reports on his integrity? Political leanings may not be offi

cially acknowledged as a criterion but unofficially it is also thought to carry weight. When a high court judge gets pulled up by the Supreme Court for the lan guage of his judgments,

not once but thrice, one can assume that his eleva tion won’t be easy.

The Supreme Court is now learnt to be evolving a mechanism for an objec tive process for elevation.

The Supreme Court is now learnt to be evolving a mechanism for an objective process for elevation

Reports said that the CJI, Justice UU Lalit, plans to go through past judicial performances of judges before recommending them for appointment as a judge of the apex court

Reports said that the Chief Justice of India, Justice UU Lalit, plans to go through past judicial per formances of judges be fore recommending them for appointment as a judge

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of the apex court. The Col legium is learnt to be col lecting information about those in line for elevation. The criteria for recom mending names include “number of judgments de livered, their quality and rates of disposal”. For high courts a lawyer’s per formance, his income and number of reported judg ments will form the basis for his/her appointment as judge.

Once the above mecha nism is formalised the Col legium’s recommenda tions should ideally face no criticism or hurdles from the Union law ministry ex cept if it is about a candi date’s background.

Dr Jagdeesh

INDIA BEGAN WITH A DOMINANT VICTORY IN THE FIRST ENCOUNTER AGAINST THE PROTEAS. WHILE INDIAN BATTING FLOURISHED THROUGH THE MATCHES AGAINST AUSTRALIA, EXPERTS FELT THAT INDIAN BOWLING WAS A MAJOR CHINK IN THE ARMOUR WITH THE T20 WORLD CUP JUST A MONTH AWAY

ensured that there were no more hiccups and as they reached their respective fifties, India sailed through to a comfortable win.

All matches of Aussie series were high-scoring thrillers. In contrast, the game with the Proteas was a low scoring but absorb ing contest on a sticky wicket. Suryakumar was simply superb even on a tough surface where all other batters struggled. He now has the highest num

ber of runs in a calendar year and has risen to No2 in T20 Batting rankings. He is India’s standout bat ter in the shortest format this year and the team, fans and experts all expect big things from him at the World Cup!

At the end of Australia series there were many unanswered questions about Indian bowling. Now, in case Bumrah is ruled out of the World Cup, India will need an in cisive fast bowler and Mo hammad Shami could well get the nod. He was in fine form during the IPL and could lead the bowling at tack in Bumrah’s absence. Besides the Bumrah un certainty, the Indian squad is looking settled and there are no major problem are as. Axar has filled in Jade ja’s shoes quite well and Karthik has cemented his place in the eleven as a fin isher. The batting unit is now firing like a well-oiled machine with King Kohli also back in form. The re maining matches with the Proteas could be used to give more game time to the World Cup squad as India look to iron out all flaws before the big event!

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Need for UNSC reform cannot be denied forever: Jaishankar

Washington (PTI):

The need to reform the UN Security Council cannot be denied forev er, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said even as he not ed that India never be lieved that revamping the top organ of the world body will be an easy process.

India has been at the forefront of the yearslong efforts to reform the Security Council, saying it rightly de served a place as a per manent member in the United Nations.

Currently, the UN Se curity Council has five permanent members -China, France, Russia, the UK and the US. Only a permanent member has the power to veto any substantive resolu tion. India, currently a non-permanent member of the 15-nation UN Se curity Council, will com plete its two-year tenure in December this year.

IN THE COURTYARD

SC BENCH TO HEAR IN JAN PLEA AGAINST WHATSAPP’S POLICY TO SHARE USERS’ DATA

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would take up on January 17, 2023 a plea by 2 students contending that WhatsApp’s policy to share users’ data with parent company Facebook and others is a violation of their privacy and free speech. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice KM Joseph asked the parties to complete pleadings by December 15. “We are inclined to adjourn the matter to January 17, 2023 for final hearing,” the bench said.

NIA OPPOSES PLEA OF J&K WOMAN SEPARATIST

New Delhi: The NIA has opposed in the Delhi High Court the plea of a Kashmiri woman separatist leader challenging the attachment of her mother-in-law’s house, saying the property was utilised for “terror activities” and even for celebrating “Pakistan Day.”

The NIA claimed that the attached house was used as the office of proscribed terrorist organisation.

LUMPY: DELHI GOVT, MCD TO REPLY OVER PIL TO SAVE COWS

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Delhi govt and Municipal Corporation of Delhi on a PIL seeking direction from concerned authorities to take immediate remedial steps to eliminate contagious viral disease known as ‘Lumpy Skin Disease’. The Bench directed the respondents to file a reply within a period of 10 days and listed the matter for 14th October.

5 SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS RI IN VYAPAM SCAM

Bhopal: A CBI court here on Thursday convited five people and sentenced them to seven years rigorous imprisonment in connection with the Vyapam scam. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each, while their two co-accused were acquitted due to lack of solid evidence. These people were involved in scam in police constable exams held in 2013.

MYANMAR DEPOSED LEADER SAN SUU KYI GETS 3 YRS JAIL

Naypyidaw: A military court in Myanmar on Thursday sentenced country’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her team to three years in jail. Kyi’s team included Australian economist Sean Turnell who was imprisoned for violating the Official Secrets Act. The latest verdict delivered at a special court means that Kyi has been sentenced to over 20 years in prison so far in a dozen cases.

Rajnath Singh visits forward areas of 3 Corps in Arunachal

Washington: EAM S Jais hankar has said that India will continue to maintain a relationship with China that is based on “mutual” sensitivity, respect and interest. He said while responding to a query on consistent comments from Beijing about how things are “okay” between the two countries. “The phase of emergency response since the Gal wan Valley incident has basically come to an end, and the border situa tion is now switching to normalized management and control,” China’s Ambassador to India, Sun Weidong has said. “What I have said, to my mind represents accurate policy assessment of where the state of our relations is. We continue to strive for a relationship with China, but one that is built on mutual sensitivity, mutual respect and mutual inter est,” Jaishankar said.

L Adimoolam is new director on PTI Board

New Delhi (PTI): KN Shanth Kumar was reelected as the vice-chair man and L. Adimool am was ap pointed a di rector of the Press Trust of India’s Board of Direc tors at its Annual Gen eral Meeting on Thurs day. Shanth Kumar, who is the vice-chairman of The Printers (Mysore) Pvt Ltd, was elected for a second one-year term.

Twitter handles of PFI, its leaders taken down

New Delhi (Agencies):

A day after the Union Home Ministry banned the Popular Front of In dia (PFI) for five years, Twitter on Thursday took down its profile, along with those of its leaders. Facebook and Instagram, too, withheld the PFI official accounts.

On Twitter, where the PFI had over 80,000 fol lowers, it showed that the account had been with held in India following a legal demand. A similar notice was seen on the ac counts of its chairperson OMA Salam and general secretary Anis Ahmed.

On Wednesday, after invoking the UAPA Act to effect the ban, the MHA said that the PFI and its affiliates are linked to terror groups like the ISIS, propagate “anti-national senti ments… radicalise a particular section of so ciety with the intention to create disaffection” and constitute a “major threat to internal secu rity of the country”.

New Delhi: The banned PFI has been maintaining close ties with a radical Turkish group accused of supplying arms to Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists in Syria and even two PFI leaders were hosted by the terror group, officials said on Thursday. The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief, commonly known as IHH, projects itself as a Turkish human rights organisation.

Kochi: The Kerala high court on Thursday directed the PFI to pay in two weeks ₹5.20 crore as damages estimated to have been caused during the bandh it called against raids on the premises of the group and people associated with it last week. The bandh was called days before the Centre on Wednesday outlawed the group and its affiliates for five years after a crackdown across several states.

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday reviewed operational prepared ness along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) during his two-day visit to the country’s eastern most Army formations.

He said, “strengthen ing India’s military prowess has been the Government’s top prior ity ever since it came to power since 2014, with a focus on equipping the Services with state-ofthe-art weapons/equip ment through an ‘Aat manirbhar’ defence in dustry.” On Thursday, he interacted with Army jawans at Dibang valley in Arunachal

Pradesh and joined Army personnel at Bada Khana at Solmara Mili tary Station in Tezpur.

Singh termed the Armed Forces as the very reason behind the strength and confidence of the Nation.

He appreciated the fact that the Govern ment’s efforts have re sulted in making a strong military which is fully capable of pro tecting the Nation from all kinds of threats.

Singh lauded the Armed Forces for in stilling a sense of na tional pride and patriot ism among the people, especially the youth, by displaying their strength and courage from time to time.

BANKING ON OUTSIDERS?

India plays important role as frontline state in fight against terrorism: Murmu

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday said India’s leadership in several fields has become un challenged now and the country plays an impor tant role as a frontline state in the fight against terrorism. Addressing a group of officer trainees of the Indian Foreign Service (2021 batch), who had called on her at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, she said that India’s strong position is based on its economic performance, among other factors.

Congress pitches its hopes on non-Congress leaders

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New Delhi: The Con gress will certainly have a role to play in Opposi tion unity. Therefore Jairam Ramesh need not say again and again that without Congress there will be no Opposi tion unity or after Bharat Jodo Yatra Con gress will become so strong that no one will be able to ignore it. These things are have no standing because re gional parties have no conflict with the Con

gress in most states. Where there is conflict, however strong the Con gress becomes, coordi nation will be difficult.

So, when the time comes, the unity of the Opposition will be forged and Congress will also have a role in it.

Congress will get the biggest help in this work from the leaders of Bi har. Lalu Prasad and Ni tish Kumar will be the most helpful for the Con gress in this work.

Lalu Prasad and Nit ish Kumar had met So

nia Gandhi last Sunday. Before that, Nitish’s deputy and Lalu’s son Tejashwi Yadav (Bi

har’s deputy CM) had met Sonia Gandhi in Delhi. Nitish Kumar was in Delhi for several

days and met Opposi tion leaders but then Sonia Gandhi was abroad. That’s why Nit ish Kumar could not meet Sonia Gandhi. However, the recent meeting of Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar with Sonia Gandhi it would not make any differ ence. Both these leaders will make room for the Congress in the Opposi tion alliance.

In Bihar and Jharkhand, although the Congress is part of the alliance, Lalu and

Nitish will make such an effort in other states as well. Both of them can play a role in getting the Congress included in the socialist camp. The most interesting case is of Ut tar Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana and Haryana.

With Akhilesh Yadav, HD Kumaraswamy, K Chandrasekhar Rao and Omprakash Chautala, Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar can do the work of building the harmony of the Congress. This will have a big impact on the electoral prospects.

New Delhi (ANI): The Department of Youth Af fairs of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports will launch a month-long nationwide Clean India 2.0 from October 1 to 31, after the successful cam paign of last year.

The programme is being organised in all the villages across the country through the network of Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), affiliated Youth Clubs and Na tional Service Scheme Affiliated Institutions. Briefing media persons

New tech nologies give us hopes of better healthcare, for example, but they threaten existing business practices too. We can use tech nology to reach out to those on the margins. At the same time, technology also resets the security paradigm with new threats. As a nation, we have before us a chance to reset our choices.

in New Delhi, Secretary, Youth Affairs Sanjay Kumar said that Union Minister Anurag Sin gh Thakur will launch the Clean India 2.0 from October 1 with an aim to clean waste, mainly single-use plastic and create awareness.

BANNED GROUP PFI KEPT CLOSE TIES WITH RADICAL TURKEY GROUP: REPORT

KERALA HIGH COURT DIRECTS PFI TO PAY `5.20 CRORE AS DAMAGES

“WE STRIVE FOR A RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA BUT...”, SAYS EAM

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in a business luncheon with US-India Strategic Partnership Forum Board members.

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Dr S Jaishankar @DrSJaishankar

An extensive discussion on pressing global challenges with UN Secretary General @antonioguterres. Agenda included the Ukraine conflict, UN reform, G20, climate action, food security and data for development.

Security personnel deployed outside a sealed office of Popular Front of India, in Bhopal. The Union govt banned the PFI and many of its associates for 5 years under a stringent anti-terror law.

Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav leave after meeting with Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi last week.

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President Droupadi Murmu being greeted by officer trainees of Indian Foreign Service of 2021 batch, during a meeting, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI

Rajnath Singh meets troops during his visit to Anini village, in Dibang valley, Arunachal Pradesh, on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI

ROBOTIC SURGERY CONVENTION

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla with Union MoS for Civil Aviation VK Singh (L) and others during a robotic surgery convention, in Ghaziabad, on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI

—Droupadi Murmu

Rahul's posters, flexes torn in K’taka before Bharat Jodo Yatra

Chamarajanagar: (ANI): Ahead of Bharat Jodo Yatra entering Karnataka, welcome flexes bearing pictures of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi were seen van dalized in the Gundlu pet town in the Chamarajanagar dis trict of the state on Thursday.

The flexes were in stalled by Congress to welcome Rahul Gandhi, who is scheduled to ar rive at Gundlupet on September 30. Other flexes, that were put on the Highway passing through Gundlupet having pictures of dif ferent Congress Party leaders were also torn, according to reports.

More than 40 flexes were reported to be torn. The Congress lead ers have accused Bhar tiya Janta Party’s work ers of this ‘mischief’.

Previously, senior BJP leaders seem to be targetting Congress Par ty’s Bharat Jodo Yatra elsewhere. Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra earli er said that the Bharat Jodo Yatra of the party

has turned into a Leave Congress Project. “The Bharta Jodo Yatra has become Congress Chodo Yatra (Quit Congress Yatra). Ghulam Nabi Azad Ji’s resignation from Congress shows that now there is an at mosphere of panic in the party,” said Mishra in a video he tweeted.

Rahul Gandhi is cur rently leading Bharat Jodo Yatra, a national campaign of the party

❍ PROPHET ESSAY CASE

Karnataka school headmaster suspended

Gadag (ANI): Karna taka school headmas ter- alleged of trying to facilitate the religious conversion- has been suspended, a day after the state education de partment ordered an inquiry after the head master was heckled by right-wing outfit activ ists for organizing an essay competition on Prophet Mohammed for children of a govern

in a few decades. The 3,500-km march from Kanyakumari to Kash mir will be completed in 150 days and cover as many as 12 states. From Kerala, the Yatra will traverse through the state for the next 18 days, reaching Karnataka on September 30. It will be in Karnataka for 21 days before moving north. The Padyatra (march) will cover a distance of 25 km every day.

CONGRESS LEADER KC VENUGOPAL MEETS SONIA GANDHI AGAIN

New Delhi: Congress leader KC Venugopal on Thursday arrived at 10 Janpath to meet Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi in the national capital. He had previously met Gandhi on Monday to discuss the political turmoil in Rajasthan. Venugopal’s meeting with Gandhi came a day before the final date for filing nominations for the top post in the Congress party.

‘FRIENDLY CONTEST AND NOT BATTLE BETWEEN RIVALS’

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, who is likely to file his nomination for the Congress president’s post on Friday, met Shashi Tharoor, who said they agreed that theirs is “not a battle between rivals but a friendly contest” among colleagues. Singh met the party MP from Thiruvanan thapuram on Thursday after collecting nomination papers for the polls.

Rahul takes knee problem lightly: says “somebody is pulling me out of trouble”

Malappuram (PTI): Con gress leader Rahul Gandhi, who concluded his Kerala leg of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ has said he was ex periencing knee problems during the foot march, but he was distracted from the pain when members of the public approached him and discussed various issues as the journey pro gressed.Gandhi revealed this during his candid con versation with Congress leaders of the southern state on Wednesday in Wandoor. The video of the conversation was released by the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee.“I am having knee problem

while I am walking. When I am walking, sometimes I am getting quite bad pain. And I have noticed whenever I am finding that difficulty, somebody is coming doing something or telling me something that is removing the dif ficulty,” Gandhi said.

‘BJD govt failed to fulfil people’s aspirations’

Bhubaneswar (PTI):

The BJD government in Odisha has failed to ful fil the aspirations of the people, BJP president JP Nadda said on Thursday, calling upon the voters to oust it.

Addressing a rally here, Nadda alleged that there is corruption in different spheres of the government in the state.

“The protector is kill er in Odisha as at least three ministers were al legedly involved in the different murder cas es,” he said.

“There is corruption in the implementation of PMAY, MGNREGA and other schemes,” he alleged. Alleging mis rule under the BJD re gime, Nadda claimed that people here have to take their relatives to hospital on bicycles. Na dda said that it is unfor tunate for a democracy like India that most of the national parties have been reduced to re gional parties.

BJP is the only na tional party and has re gional aspirations, he claimed. “It is unfortu nate that all the nation al parties have been re duced to regional par

‘AAP assign `700 cr for fake publicity’

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ment school in Gadag district. Abdul Muna far Bijapur , the head master had organized an essay competition.

Ludhiana: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) presi dent Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday said even as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) govern ment had allocated Rs 700 crore for fake pub licity, farmers and the disadvantaged sections of society were suffer ing with crop damage compensation and di rect seeding incentive

Pressure mounts on accused Lingayat seer to step down

Bengaluru (Agen cies): Pressure mount ed on the rape accused, jailed Karnataka Lin gayat seer Shivamur thy Murugha Sharana ru, to step down as the head of Chitradurga Murugha Mutt, amid the demand that new religious pontiff should be anointed in place of rape accused seer. The followers and prominent leaders of

the Lingayat commu nity held an important meeting in Chitradur ga to discuss the future of the historical, cash rich mutt on Thursday.

Making things more complicated, Karnata ka High Court has de nied permission tem porarily to the accused Lingayat seer to put his signatures to cheques. Sources state that as ac cused seer is not al lowed to sign the 200 plus cheques, the ac tivities of the mutt are severely affected and employees are not able to get salaries.

not being given to farmers even as the ‘aata-daal’ scheme had

been closed.

Asserting the chief minister was drunk on

‘BJP using poll panel to reduce votes of Yadavs’

New Delhi (ANI): Sa majwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav al leged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with the help of the c “snatched” away the power in Uttar Pradesh from Samajwadi Party because they are aware that without UP, they cannot remain in power at the Centre.

Elaborating further he accused the Election

power, Sukhbir Badal said “Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has al located an unprece dented 42 vehicles for his own cavalcade and enforces a virtual cur few at every place he visits. All promises made to the people have been forgotten with the entire government functioning to the whims and fancies of AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal”.

DGCI allows institute to export malaria vaccine to UK

NADDA ON TWO-DAY VISIT TO ODISHA Bhubaneswar (PTI): BJP president JP Nadda arrived on a two-day visit to Odisha on Thursday. BJP’s state president Samir Mohanty, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, BJP national vice-president Baijayant Panda and Bhubaneswar MP Aparajita Sarangi were among the leaders who welcomed him at the airport here. A cultural performance was also held at the airport in his honour. Nadda, who is on a maiden trip to Odisha as the BJP president, went straight to the party’s state headquarters, in a massive bike rally. He is scheduled to address around 25,000 panchayat-level leaders at Janata Maidan. He will also hold a meeting over the political situa tion in the state with MLAs, MPs and other leaders.

ties. The BJP being the world’s largest political party now fights against the family-based par ties in different states,” he said. “The Indian National Congress is neither national nor In dian. It is now the ‘BhaiBehen’ (brother-sister) party,” he quipped. Na dda said that the Con

gress’s situation is such that its candidates lost deposits in most assem bly seats of Uttar Pradesh.

“In Odisha, obviously, Biju Patnaik’s family is ruling the roost,” Nadda said, maintaining that the Shiv Sena in Maha rastra is now getting free of “family raj”.

VETERAN CONG LEADER JAYANTI PATNAIK PASSES AWAY AT 90 IN BHUBANESWAR

Bhubaneswar: The wife of former Odisha CM and ex-gov ernor of Assam JB Patnaik, Jayanti was rushed to a private hospital at around 8pm after she developed complications. Four time Congress MP and first chairperson of National Commission for Women (NCW), Jayanti Patnaik passed away at a hospital in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday evening. She was 90. The wife of former Odisha CM and ex-governor of Assam JB Patnaik, Jayanti was rushed to a private hospital at around 8pm after she developed complications. She died at the hospital. She is survived by son Prithvi Ballav Patnaik and two daugh ters. Jayanti was elected from Cuttack and Berhampur Lok Sabha constituencies in 1981, 1984 and 1998. —PTI

TWO BLASTS HIT JAMMU AND KASHMIR WITHIN HOURS

NIA TEAM SENT TO UDHAMPUR, TO TAKE OVER BLAST CASE

Commission of deliber ately reducing the votes of ‘Muslim’ and ‘Yadav’ communities by 20,000 in almost every Vidhan sabha seat on the diktats of BJP and its aides.

WILL SATPAL MALIK JOIN RLD?

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New Delhi: Meghalaya

Governor Satpal Malik will retire on 30 Septem ber. Even before retir ing, he has opened a front against the cen tral government and the BJP as he has been making allegations of one kind or the other all the time. He raised the issue of farmers as gov ernor and put the cen tral government in the dock. He had raised the issue of alleged corrup

tion while being the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. After his removal, he will also be investigated and on this pretext also he will have a direct confrontation with the BJP. It is being said that after retiring from the post of Gover nor, he can join Jayant Chaudhary’s party Rashtriya Lok Dal.

Even before joining the Rashtriya Lok Dal, he had started creating an atmosphere in favor of the party. Jayant

Choudhary also needs a leader who has a fight ing image and the media pays attention to. Satpal

Malik is perfect in this respect. His words are featured prominently in the media. However,

what will be the situa tion after the removal of the governor’s post can not be said. But since he is the governor made by the NDA government and has lived in many states, people are inter ested in what he has to say. He can also play a role in uniting the Jats and the farmers, but it remains to be seen how the Jat leaders who are already in RLD accept this move i.e. whether they welcome him to the party or not.

New Delhi (PTI): In dia’s drug regulator has allowed the export of the first produced-inIndia vaccine against malaria, developed by scientists at the Univer sity of Oxford and man ufactured by Serum In stitute to the U.K., offi cial sources said on Thursday.

The move comes after an application was sub mitted by Prakash Ku mar Singh, director, Government and Regu latory Affairs, at Serum Institute of India (SII) to DCGI on September 27 seeking permission to export the vaccine against malaria, offi cial sources told PTI.

“SII has developed the vaccine against ma laria under leadership of our CEO Dr Adar C Poonawalla. We have been relentlessly work ing to make available made-in-India and world-class vaccines against malaria to our country and world at large,” an official source quoted Singh as having said in the ap plication.

Udhampur/Jammu: A blast in a bus parked at a stand in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Udhampurcity on Thursday morning, the second within a few hours, sent security agencies in a tizzy as they sounded a high alert, sources said. The roof and the backside of the bus were blown away by the blast that occurred around 5.30 am but no one was injured, they said. —PTI

Srinagar: The Udhampur blast case in which two persons suffered injuries, is likely to be handed over to the National Investiga tion Agency (NIA) on Thursday. Highly placed sources said that a team of elite NIA officials has been sent to J&K’s Ud hampur. The team is likely to take charge of all the documents regarding the blast from the local police. —Agencies

NCW SEEKS REPLY FROM IAS OFFICER

HARJOT OVER HER ‘FREE CONDOM’ REBUKE

Patna: The incident took place at a workshop in Patna where a schoolgirl asked the IAS officer if sanitary pads can be made more affordable. After triggering a huge uproar, Bihar IAS officer Harjot Kaur Bhamra, who snapped back at a Patna schoolgirl with a “condom” remark for asking for cheaper sanitary pads, apologised for the incident, saying she did not intend to hurt anyone’s feelings. “I express regret if my words hurt any girl’s sentiments. I didn’t intend to humiliate anyone or hurt anyone’s sentiments,” Bhamra said.Riya Kumari asked the official, who is also the managing director in Bihar’s women’s development department, if they could be provided with sanitary napkins at a cost of `20-30. —Agencies

BOAT CAPSIZES IN DHUBRI, AT LEAST 7 PEOPLE MISSING Dhubri (Assam): A country-made boat carrying at least 50 people on board capsized in the Brahmaputra River in Assam’s Dhubri district on Thursday, officials said. “Search and rescue teams have rushed to the spot and started search and rescue operations,” Gyanendra Dev Tripathi, Chief Ex ecutive Officer of ASDMA told ANI. —ANI

4 KILLED IN FIRING IN PATNA OVER ILLEGAL SAND MINING

Patna: At least four people were killed and nine injured after mutliple rounds of firing in con nection with illegal sand mining in the Maner in Bihta in Patna district of Patna, police said on Thursday. Among the four dead included notorious criminal Shatrughan Rai, Patna Police said. The incident took place in the Diara area of Maner.

BJP national president JP Nadda addresses party workers during the ‘Karyakarta Sammelan’, in Bhubaneswar, on Thursday.

—PHOTO BY PTI

Sukhbir Badal urges PM to commute death sentence of Rajoana to life term

Sukhbir Singh Badal addressing media in Ludhiana on Thursday.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s flexes bearing were torn ahead of Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kerala, on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI

STILL A SUSPENSE

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High Court postpones RCA election

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Jaipur: The elections of the Rajasthan Crick et Association have been postponed. A peti tion was filed in the High Court on behalf of the District Cricket As sociations regarding election officer Ram Lubhaya. After hearing the petition, the High Court has postponed the elections of Ra jasthan Cricket Associ ation. On the other hand, the matter will be heard again on Friday on various pending is sues including Lokpal.

The nomination pa pers for Rajasthan Cricket Association were filed on Sept 26, whereas Thursday was the last day for with drawal of nominations. At the same time, vot ing was to be held on September 30 and the result was to be released

after that. But a day be fore the election, the High Court has post poned the election. In fact, for the elec tions to be held on Sep tember 30, retired IAS officer Ram Lubhaya was made the Chief Electoral Officer. On this, a complaint was filed in the court against Ram Luhya on behalf of Nandu group in which he said that Ram Lubhaya has been given an office of profit by the Rajasthan gov ernment. Since, the son of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is contesting the RCA elections, due to this there is every possibili ty that Ram Lubhaya will benefit the Chief Minister’s son. In such a situation, the elec tions should be post poned till a fair election officer is appointed. On this, the court has ruled to stay the election.

Jodhpur: Barkatullah Khan Stadium here will witness stars of inter national cricket for the first time since 2012 from Friday. The stadi um will host four matches including qualifier and elimina tor matches of Legends League cricket. The fi nal match of Legends League Cricket 2022, be ing held for the first time in India, will be played on October 5 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur.

Legends League Crick et co-founder and CEO Raman Raheja said that first match qualifier will be played in Jodh pur on Oct 2 in which top two teams of the league stage will clash for a place in final. How ever, Eliminator match to be held on Oct 3 will see a match between the third-placed team and the team that loses the qualifiers. According to Raheja

It was chosen as the venue for the big match keeping in mind the his torical relevance of the ground and the city of Jaipur. He said, “It is a wonderful stadium and we hope fans will thor oughly enjoy experi

ence of watching stal warts of the sport com pete to win the trophy.”

As we have seen, the

ONE MAN’S ‘STRUGGLE’ TO ‘UNCLOG’ JAIPUR’S TRANSPORT ‘CONGESTIONS’!

Rajendra Chhabra

Jaipur: Senior IAS Sandeep Verma has been under ‘limelight’ because of his aggres sive way of working and his habit of sticking to the rule book. Lackadai sical attitude towards work and circumvent ing of rules does not go down well with him. In latest example, he has found several loopholes in JDA’s working and shown mirror to several officers. On September 14, the Traffic Control Board met at JDA and Verma too was a par ticipant in the meeting. The very next day, he wrote a two page letter to member-secretary citing the loophopes and gaps in the manner the meeting was con ducted and the content and language of the let ter is extremely serious.

The letter, which went public, takes on the JDA officials for not circulating the agenda of the meeting beforehand. Verm has termed it as the need of the hour to show the right way of function ing to offiers who have been acting irresponsi bly. He had objected to the point that even af ter one and a half years have passed, the deci sion taken in the previ ous board meeting are still pending. He has

also ‘accused’ the JDA officials of only taking interest in megapro jects while not giving any attention to pro jects affecting people in city.

Verma has even chal lenged the jurisdiction of Traffic Control Board as according to him, the right to decide on the routes of buses and issuing permits falls under the jurisdic tion and rights of RTO. He has stressed that no law goves the Board any right to interfere in this matter. Further more, Verma has also objected to the point that isntead of handing the reponsibility of city transport to JCTSL and RSRTC, it is being handed to private op erators. He is strongly in favour of bringing BRTS scheme under us age and has contested

that legally, JDA has the right to decide on use of BRTS and that the law does not allow for UDH to interfere in the matter.

It is possible only for an officer like Sandeep Verma to give a re sounding lecture to a powerful public institu tion like JDA and to take its officers by the ‘scruff’. He has even ob jected to the interfer ence caused by minis ter. In fact he had taken on a direct confronta tion with ministers while serving as Princi pal Secertary of PHED. In 2009, while serving as Divisional Commis sioner of Jodhpur, he had courted controver sy. 1993 batch IAS Sand eep Verma is currently CMD of RSRTC and the state government has given him a NOC to head to New Delhi.

league has been as com petitive as surrounding T20 leagues. The world and players, be it bowl ers or batsmen, are mesmerizing. We have seen tough competition in league stage and hopefully the final will be no less than that. The organizers had earlier tried to organize all the matches in Cuttack, but that decision had to be changed due to festivi ties in the city.

2 friends killed, 1 injured in road mishap

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Churu: 3 friends of Kusumbi village in Sujangarh became victims of a road ac cident. All three were on same bike, when an unknown vehicle hit the bike on Na tional Highway 58 late on Wednesday night. The accident took place near the Shobhasar Pulia. 2 out of 3 died on spot in the accident, while a seriously injured third was referred to Jaipur. According to the police, Madhusu dan Soni (23), San warmal Meghwal (20) & Chandra Prakash Prajapat (18), residents of Ku sumbi Alipur, Na gaur, went on a bike on Wednesday to visit Sainan Mata temple.

STATE GOVT APPROVES OVER `119 CRORE FOR ROADS DEVP IN STATE

Jaipur (PTI): The Ra jasthan Government has approved a financial proposal of Rs 119.32

crore for various road construction and devel opment works in the state.

With the approval, 46 works like bridge con struction, new roads construction, road wid ening, strengthening, asphaltization and re pair works and recon struction of dilapidated roads will be started in different dists in a time bound manner, it said.

ACB held Tonk ASI for taking bribe of `10,000

Gehlot had announced in budget of financial year 2022-23 to make available max financial resources to develop ex cellent road network in all districts of the state.

ACB Tonk unit held Suresh Singh Chaudhary, Assistant SI, Police Station, Bane tha, District Tonk, redhanded, taking bribe of Rs 10,000 from the com plainant on Thursday.

Director General of Anti-Corruption Dept Bhagwan Lal Saini said that the Tonk unit re ceived the complaint.

The complainant said that Chaudhary de manded the bribe mon ey in lieu of not taking action in the case relat ed to him. He had been harassing him for the

Deputy Inspector General of Police, ACB, Ajmer Sa meer Kumar Sin gh, Additional Superinten dent of Po lice, Tonk Unit of ACB, Rajesh Arya, Police Inspector Nar endra Singh veri

Dungarpur: ACB on Thurs day filed a case against a police head-constable, posted in Dungarpur, for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs. 7000. Police informed head-constable, Dharmendra Singh, is presently posted at Dungar Sagar Police Chowki in Dungarpur. “The accused had demanded a bribe of Rs 7,000 from the complainant to investigate a complaint. Dharmendra Singh had already taken Rs 2,000 from complainant,” police said. “The complaint was verified and a trap was laid. However, the head-constable refused to accept remaining amount, suspected ACB trap,” police.

fied the complaint and took action.

Under the direction of Additional Director General ACB Dinesh MN, Chaudhary’s resi dence and other places were searched and an interrogation is on. The ACB has registered a case under the Preven tion of Corruption Act & further action will be taken.

Mentally challenged minor raped

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Bikaner: A 14-year-old mentally challenged mi nor girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Khajuwala area here, police said on Thursday.

Police informed the mat ter to light when the vic tim became pregnant.

“The accused has been identified, a resident of

a village in Khajuwala area. On September 27, the victim fell ill and was taken to PBM Hospital in Bikaner. The girl was admitted, following

which, she underwent a series of investigations. The family members then came to know that the girl is five-month pregnant,” police said. “Victims’ brother has filed an FIR in Khaju wala Police Station un der various provisions of POCSO Act, SC/ST Act & rape against ac cused,” police added.

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500 CR ALLOTED FOR MEDICAL FACILITIES

Jaipur (PTI): Raj govt has approved an additional budget provision of Rs 500 crore for payment of medical facilities to its employees, officials said.

This amount has been approved for Oct, Nov and Dec months under the the Rajasthan Government Health Scheme (RGHS), they said. A provision of Rs 1,045 crore was made by govt for financial year 2022-23 under RGHS. CM Ashok Gehlot gave financial approval of Rs 500 cr.

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22 CR SANCTIONED FOR BRIDGE ON TWO RIVERS IN SIROHI

Jaipur: CM Ashok Gehlot has approved a financial proposal of Rs 22 crore for construction of high level bridge on Jhabua and Gomti rivers in Sirohi district. Both these bridges will be located on SanchorRaniwada-Mandar-Aburod state highway. With this decision of Gehlot, better transport facility will be available to local residents and people coming from different areas. CM had announced Rs 3 thousand 133 crore for major repair.

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Suresh Singh Chaudhary in ACB custody on Thursday.

Bhilwara Kings practicing at Barkatullah Khan Stadium on Thursday ahead of their match with Gujarat Giants today.

HEAD CONSTABLE BOOKED FOR BRIBE

Vaibhav Gehlot, Mahendra Sharma and other RCA officials inspecting Barkatullah Khan Stadium on Thursday.

Capitals India sweating it out before the game.

Gautam Gambhir

Guv of odisha Prof Ganeshi Lal tossing coin ahead of match in Cuttack on Thursday. Also seen Gautam Gambhir and Harbhajan Singh.

CM Gehlot has ap proved proposal to up grade Baori Khurd Pri mary Health Center (PHC) located in Phalodi Panchayat in Jodhpur district to CHC.

Jaipur-Kishangarh expressway.

—FILE PHOTO

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Leadership

EVEN AJAY MAKEN CAN’T HIDE THE SINS OF ‘MANESAR GANG’: DHARMENDRA RATHORE

Jaipur: Amid the meet ing of CM Ashok Ge hlot and Congress Pres ident Sonia Gandhi, Cabinet Minister Go vind Ram Meghwal & RTDC Chairman Dhar mendra Rathore held a press conference & lev elled fierce allegations against Pilot camp. Meghwal warned that if Pilot is made CM, all MLAs will resign. They also accused Pilot camp MLA Ved Prakash Solanki of conspiring to get two Congress votes for BJP in Zila Pramukh polls.

Notably, on Wednes day, MLA VP Solanki had called Dharmendra Rathore a ‘registered broker.’ Hitting back at Solanki, Rathore said, “Votes of two Zila Pari shad members of Chak su, Jackie and another member, were given to BJP candidate due to which BJP’s candidate Rama Chopra became the Zila Pramukh. The

report was sent by elec tion observer Govind Meghwal to Raj incharge Ajay Maken.

Pilot meets Sonia, says will accept what she decides!

New Delhi: Former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot said on Thursday that he met the Working President of All India Congress Committee Sonia Gan dhi. He said that Sonia Gandhi has to decide about who will be given what role in Rajasthan. He expressed confi dence that whatever de cision she takes, we (Pi lot and his supporters) will gladly accept it.

Talking to reporters, he said that the matter of Rajasthan has been dis cussed in detail and in a peaceful manner. “Sonia Gandhi has spoken of working together and a strategy will be prepared to win the elections in the year 2023 and joint efforts will be made to reform the government. To win the elections to be held in the near future, we will all work together and make Congress suc cessful,” he said

Interestingly, after meeting with Pilot, where KC Venugopal was also present, Sonia reached Priyanka Gan dhi’s residence. Mean while, many Pilot group MLAs, including Harish Meena & Suresh Modi, reached Pilot’s resi dence & met their leader.

Talking to media, the duo said, “The decision of the high command will be accepted by all.”

But, till date no action has been taken on that report,” he said. Rathore added, “To

Raj HC’s contempt notice to Secy Edu

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Jaipur: The Ra jasthan HC has is sued a contempt notice to the Secre tary of Education directing him to file a clarification in the matter relating to admission in PrePrimary classes un der the RTE Act.

The division bench of Acting Chief Justice MM Srivas tava and Justice VK Bharwani issued a contempt notice and sought reply by October 20. The gov ernment while pre senting a recall ap plication stated that state government doesn’t give recog nition for Pre-Pri mary classes. How ever, division bench had already given interim orders for admission under RTE Act in pre-pri mary classes.

day those who are talk ing about indiscipline, they should pay atten tion to what was trai tors’ discipline who made BJP win by harm ing Congress. Why did Maken not take action on this incident of be trayal from Congress despite State Cong’s re port and why was VP Solanki saved & notice wasn’t issued to him.

Every Congress worker isasking this question.

Even Ajay Maken can not hide the sins of ‘Manesar Gang.’

‘CM’s apology shows his moral aptitude’

Yogesh Sharma

Jaipur: Amidst the on going political drama that has engulfed Con gress party, one of CM Ashok Gehlot’s trusted lieutenant and Minister in his government, Dr Mahesh Joshi , ad dressed a presser on Thursday and stressed that Gehlot’s apologis ing to Sonia ‘for what he didnt do, shows Ge hlot’s moral aptitude.’ Joshi said that Gehlot made it clear to Sonia how things panned out on September 25.

“CM apologised to Sonia ji for that work which he didn’t even do. This is an example in itself in politics. This is his decency which is exemplary,” he said, adding, “Many times situations like this happen. In this the

person himself is not involved, but because he was in the highest position, he has taken moral responsibility.”

On resignation of ministers & MLAs, Joshi said that they (all Gehlot supporters) will follow High Command’s decision. “Party presi dent will inform us of the decision. But the question arises as to when have meetings been called to take MLAs’ opinions. Opin ion has to be told first.”

Raj political crisis draws mixed reactions from various leaders

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Former minis ter in Gehlot govern ment, Harish Chaud hary, while speaking on the ongoing develop ments in Congress said, “CM regrets the Sep tember 25 incident.

There was a group that want ed to talk collective ly, but miss-communi cation happened. I am with the party, I am a member of the party’s apex body CWC, I am a member of Congress because of thought and principle. Rahul ji’s Bharat Jodo Yatra is not merely a road show. The purpose of the padyatra is to end the problems of the nation, be it economic or social.”

In the meanwhile, Congress MLA from Dhod Parasram Mor dia said, “ I am com pletely away from all these developments.

GEHLOT ALWAYS WORKED IN THE INTEREST OF THE PARTY: DIGVIJAY

Senior Congress lead er Digvijaya Singh said on Thursday that Congress would be hollow without NehruGandhi family and informed that he would be contesting for the presidential position. "So far it seemed Gehlot would be the official candi date. Gehlot always worked in the interest of the party and has been a Congress loyalist. An unpleas ant incident happened in Jaipur. I don't know about any other candidate, but I have decided to contest elections on my own discretion.'

Whatever decision the High Command takes will be acceptable.”

‘Don’t focus on Gehlot-Pilot feud, look at work done’

Dausa: On Thursday, when MLA Dharmen dra Rathore called the MLAs going to Manesar as traitors, the Pilot fac tion MLA and Minister of State for Agricul ture, Murarilal Meena retaliated and said that “at that time we had raised the voice of our rights to New Delhi”. Advising the media not to focus on the GehlotPilot feud, Meena said that more work was be ing done because there were more disagree ments. He told the me diapersons to inform

JDA cancels tender for bridge at OTS Chauraha

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The Jaipur De velopment Authority (JDA) on Thursday can celled the tender floated for constructing a bridge at OTS Chaura ha located on JLN Marg. The tender was cancelled after only one company participated in the bidding process.

Officials informed that

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a re-tendering will be done and the terms and conditions of the tender will also be changed in order to get more bid ders. The decision was taken by the tender committee of the JDA.

The much-awaited Sodala elevated road will be soon opened for people. JDA officials have started preparing for the programme.

WILL STAND BY THE DECISION OF THE HIGH COMMAND: SHAKTAWAT

Jaipur: Vallabh Nagar MLA Preeti Shaktawat while speaking to media persons in Udaipur said that CM Ashok Gehlot himself wasn’t aware of the meeting that took place at UDH Minister Shanti Dhariwal’s residence. She clarified that she will withdraw her resignation submitted to the speaker and will stand by whatever decision regarding the CM will be taken by the party high command. Congress MLA In the meanwhile, Giriraj Singh Malinga said, “Speaker Dr CP Joshi should accept the resigna tions of those MLAs who submitted mass resigna tions to the Speaker on September 25.”

him if work is not being done. Meena said that people misinterpret it. “Somebody said that we

have rebelled. Some said you have become a traitor. I say there is no traitor. We stayed there

(Manesar) for a month. But we did not utter a word against the high command and the Con gress. It is simple. One has to fight for one’s rights,” he said. Minis ter Mamta Bhupesh said that this is party’s internal matter.

The Minister “I have been against the ideol ogy of RSS from the very beginning. Even if I get defeated in the election, I will never go with the RSS and BJP. People keep making al legations and counter allegations,” he said.

Jaipur (FIB) : Knowl edgeable sources in the Grand -Old- Party have revealed that soon a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party will be held again, for the con sensus on the name of the new Chief Minister. Therefore, now every one is waiting for official announcement of AICC in this regard.

Despite being CM, I couldn’t pass resolution: Gehlot

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The one and a half hour meeting between Sonia and Gehlot also saw participation of Gener al secretary (Organiza tion) KC Venugopal and after the meeting, Ge hlot appeared to be in a happy mood.

Meanwhile, further in his address to the media persons, Gehlot said that he won’t con test the elections in this atmosphere. “I won’t contest these

elections in this atmos phere, with moral re sponsibility. For fifty years, I have been a loyal soldier of the par ty,” Gehlot said. On be ing asked if he will re main Rajasthan CM, Gehlot said, “I won’t decide that, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will decide that.”

“One-line resolution is our tradition. Unfor tunately, a situation arose that resolution wasn’t passed. It was my moral responsibili

ty (to pass the resolu tion), but despite being a CM I couldn’t get it passed,” he added. Talking to reporters, Gehlot said the party works under the Con gress president and decisions will be taken in the time to come. He said Congress workers worry about the direc tion in which the coun try is heading and tackling the issue was more important.

There are major indi cations, about the devel

opments to come, from Gehlot-Sonia meeting. While CM Gehlot of fered to Sonia that he would resign from his post and the party ma triarch did not respond to the offer, Gehlot was then questioned by me dia about continuing as CM to which he said, “Sonia Gandhi will take this decision.” Now po litical experts are ana lyzing Gehlot’s expres sions. Although Gehlot does not let anyone know his ‘Mann Ki

Baat’, but Gehlot of fered his resignation to Sonia after being upset by Sunday’s inci dent. Now Sonia Gandhi has to decide on Ge hlot’s future.

CM Ashok Gehlot met Mukul Wasnik on Thursday morning at Rajasthan House, during his stay in Del hi. The duo met for about 50 minutes. Meanwhile, in the evening, Gehlot met Anand Sharma at Jodhpur House.

Raje to visit Tripura Sundari, welcome PM in Abu Road today

Banswara: Former Chief Minister of the State, Vasundha ra Raje will visit Tripura Sundari to day. She will leave for the temple in a heli copter to offer prayers at 11 am at the famous temple.

After her brief stay, Raje will leave for Sirohi at 3 pm. She will reach Abu Road from Sirohi at 4 pm and welcome Prime Minister Nar endra Modi there.

She would spend the night in Abu Road.

In the meanwhile, on the morning of October 1, Raje will visit the Sundha Mata temple. She would also visit Takhtgarh in Sirohi at noon.

The former CM would also pay a visit to Awadhesh Chaitanya Brah machari Maharaj in Takhtgarh.

Raje would leave for Dholpur today in the evening.

Meghwal warned that if SachinPilot is made CM, all MLAs will resign & that MLAs are also ready for mid-term polls Nirmal Tiwari

Dharmendra Rathore and Govind Ram Meghwal address a press conference at Hotel Gangaur in Jaipur on Thursday. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA

Aditi Nagar & Ashvini Yadav

CONG WARNS LEADERS TO REFRAIN FROM MAKING PUBLIC STATEMENTS New Delhi (PTI): The Congress on Thursday warned of strict disciplinary action against its leaders in Rajasthan for making public statements on party's internal matters and against other functionaries. In an advisory, AICC General Secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal said all Congress leaders at any level should refrain from making public statements against other leaders or about party's internal matters. The advisory follows an open rebellion in Rajasthan with MLAs supporting CM Ashok Gehlot defying the central observers' attempts to hold a CLP meeting for passing a resolution authorising Sonia Gandhi to decide on the next chief minister.

Murarilal Meena & Mamta Bhupesh attend the inaugural ceremony of Rajiv Gandhi Rural Olympic Games at Shri Ramkaran Joshi Govt Higher Secondary School in Dausa.

Vasundhara Raje offered prayers at the famous Govind Dev Ji Temple in Jaipur on Wednesday.

—PHOTO BY YASH MATHUR

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Sachin Pilot after a meeting with party interim President Sonia Gandhi, at 10 Janpath in New Delhi on Thursday.

CM Ashok Gehlot after a meeting Sonia Gandhi, at 10 Janpath in New Delhi.

CLP meet soon to decide on new Raj CM

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THE RISING PASSION!

ACTING: A FLURRY OF ACTIVITY, A BURST OF COLOURS, A PALETTE OF EMOTIONS!

Aanya Galav, 6 years old from Kota Rajasthan is a true star. Her mother’s constant support and guidance has helped Aanya tap her highest potential. She started her television presence with the Big Boss fashion show in 2019 and bagged the princess of the year, later, she joined Act to Action screen acting school in Jaipur when she was just 3 years old. From the beginning, she was a very talkative and expressive kid who could grab things very quickly and as a result, she got many opportunities to work with various national TVCs like Hyundai cars and joy e-bikes among others. Recently Aanya is streaming in a Dettol advertisement and soon her film with Bollywood stars Dimple Kapadia and Angora Khan will be released. Kritesh Agarwal, casting director and Aanya’s acting coach said, “She did very well in her online audition of Doosri Maa, that the production team which was earlier looking for Jaipur-based actors only changed their mind and her performance convinced them to cast her for the character of Nupur Gupta, the younger daughter of Yashoda in ‘Doosri Maa’.

Pranay has played a lead role in the short film Chowmein streaming on MX player. Recently casting director and acting coach Kritesh Agarwal cast him in ‘Doosri Maa’, a daily soap streaming on &TV and produced by Zee Studios, Jaipur. Here he is playing the character of Cheenu, an orphanage kid and is a parallel lead with

advika Sharma, 8 years old based in Dausa, Rajasthan, started her acting career in 2019 with ‘Act to Action’ acting school in Jaipur. She used to travel for her training every day.

Aadvika has been fortunate enough with highly supportive parents who gave wings to her dreams and let her discover her true passion at an ear-

She has done various shoots, and short films under Rising Passion Productions and lately did PTKK season 12 on ZingTv. The young kid was recently featured in Heropanti 2 and Tata Punch advertisements. Aadvika shifted to Pinkcity for her education from Neerja Modi School and started her extensive training under Act to Action school, with Kritesh Agarwal as the mentor who cast her in ‘Doosri Maa’, a daily soup streaming on &TV and production by Zee Studios, Jaipur, where we can see Aadvika playing the character of Aastha Gupta, the daughter of the Yashoda, another protagonist in the show.

MITALI

ranay Prashant Malpani, a 13 years old based in Jaipur. He started his acting career in 2019 at ‘Act to Action’ acting school in Jaipur. Since childhood, he has actively participated in all theatric activities at his school, Maheshwari Public School. Coming from a joint family, he has grown up with immense values and traditions and has an understanding of emotions. All this has helped Pranay in this acting career. His consistent training for the past 3.5 years under his mentor Kritesh Agarwal has also shaped him. He has done a music album, various modelling shows, and web series.

phanage kid and is a parallel lead with Aayudh, who is playing the role of Krishna in Doosri Maa. With the right guidance, Pranay is flourishing and winning hearts.

Kritesh Agarwal

The crazy ‘Act to Action’ team

Kritesh Agarwal with the talented children

Act to Action kids during rehearsals

Aanya Galav

Pranay Prashant

Aadvika Sharma

PERSONAL EVOLUTION

Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone

Trailer release

Parineeti Chopra and Harrdy Sandhu starrer Code Name: Trianga trailer released on Thursday. The film is action-packed and Parineeti will be seen doing some intense action scenes as a RAW agent. When the trailer was released, many celebrities praised her. Her Ishaqzaade co-star Arjun Kapoor appreciated the trailer. He shared it on his Instagram stories.

The actor, who is in Scotland currently, wrote, “@ parineetichopra This looks amazing. Make way for an action-packed dhamaka!: In the film, Parineeti Chopra is playing a RAW agent and is on a fearless mission for the country. Harrdy Sandhu is playing the role of a doctor. Sharing the trailer on social media, Parineeti wrote, “HERE IT IS! - TRAILER OUT NOW #CodeNameTiranga trailer out now! Releasing in cinemas on 14th October 2022.”

POOJA HEGDE CHANNELS INNER DIVA

Pooja Hegde has successfully established her status as a fashionista with some impressive dress choices both on and off the screen. Recently, a video of the Radhe Shyam star garnering eyeballs in a sleeveless green gown has made it to social media. This latest ensemble of the Beast star was for an event in Hyderabad. The star even dropped a few

sneak peeks from the evening on her Instagram account.

Meanwhile, on the work front, Pooja Hegde will be seen sharing screen space with Mahesh Babu in Trivikram Srinivas' directorial SSMB28. The makers have concluded the first schedule for the much-awaited drama.

NEW PHASE OF MOTHERHOOD

Priyanka Chopra is completely enjoying the new phase of motherhood in her life and her social media space is proof of the same. A few moments back, Priyanka took to the story feature on Instagram and shared a new picture with Malti. In the photo, the actress can be seen taking her baby daughter on a walk, while she carried her in a stroller. Priyanka looked pretty as she donned a knitted white dress and left her hair open. She wore a pair of white heels to match her outfit. Little Malti can be seen dressed in an adorable white dress as well. Sharing the photo, Priyanka wrote, “Just two girls walkin’

NUMBER

Ayushmann Khurrana and Rakul Preet Singh are gearing up for their next release Doctor G.

On Thursday they released a peppy number featuring Ayushmann Khurrana and Rakul Preet Singh’s dance moves.

Sharing the song on his Instagram handle, Ayushmann wrote, “Ab CPR ki nahi zaroorat! Aapke dil ki dhadkan badhaane #DoctorG has brought to you his special remedy, the #DilDhakDhakKartaHai song. Song out now! #DoctorGInCinemas on 14th October 2022.”

NAVRATRI

hraddha Kapoor is one of the most popular actresses in B’Town. Lately, Shraddha has been sharing sneak peeks of her Navratri celebrations as she drops photos of her in outfits that coordinate with the colour for each day of the festival.

And so, as day three of Navratri is associated with the colour blue, she shared a selfie wearing the same hue.

A few hours back, Shraddha took to her Instagram space and shared a picture on the story feature on the social media platform. The actress shared a boomerang as she clicked a mirror selfie and winked at her reflection.

Sharing the photo, Shraddha wrote, “Navratri Day 3 – Royal Blue Tranquility (meditation emoji) 9 Ratri9Rang.”

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GET DRENCHED IN CELEBRATION

CITY FIRST

Once again in the capital Jaipur, Dandiya Maha ras 2022 is going to be organized on a very large

GREETINGS!

scale in Janki Paradise, Vaishali Nagar from Octo ber 2 to 4 and the final prac tice session was organised for the participants at Jana ki Paradise located in

Vaishali Nagar on Thursday. In which eve ryone learnt the beauti ful Garba Dance and practised dandiya with each other for the last time. Si

multaneously, the models launched the look of the event by posing in tradi tional dandiya clothes. The event is being choreographed by Sunita Raj Verma from

Natraj Dance Academy. Organizer Pawan Tank shared that this is the eleventh season of Dandiya Maharas, which is celebrated as the big gest and grandest Dandiya

Navratri festival of Rajasthan. This event has become a great way for people to enjoy the fes tival season with full enthusi asm, enthusiasm, joy and en thusiasm.

RASHMIKA MANDANNA BRINGS

“GOODBYE “, TO PINK CITY!

was there for my cake cutting. He is a very warm person and very focused when it comes to his work and that’s what I have learnt from him”

EVENTS!

DURING THE DAY!

The national crush of India, the sensational Rashmika Mandanna was in the pink city to promote her upcoming film “Goodbye”. The press conference of the muchawaited family drama starring Amitabh Bach chan and Rashmika Mandanna was held at Inox, crystal palm where Rashmika inter acted with the media and shared her experi ences with the press.

During the Press con ference she spoke about the story of the film Goodbye and said that it revolves around selfdiscovery, the impor tance of family, and the celebration of life.

The actress recalled her first meeting with Big B and how their re

lationship evolved. Dur ing the press confer ence she said “I met Amitabh sir for the first

Amitabh Bachchan and Rashmika Mandan na will be seen sharing a father-daughter rela tionship and their bond evolves with the chang ing aspects of life. The film portrays the may hem of every family dealing with the ups and downs that life throws but it also gently reminds the significance of being there for each other, through it all. The trail er of the film touches your heart and takes you on a roller-coaster ride of emotions.

time two years back on my birthday. It was a great experience where I spoke to him and he

The film stars Neena Gupta, Pavail Gulati, Elli Avram, Sunil Grov er, Sahil Mehta, and Ab hishek Khan in pivotal roles and is helmed by Vikas Bahl. Produced by Ektaa R Kapoor’s Balaji Motion Pictures in association with Good Co., GoodBye is all set for worldwide re lease in cinemas on 7th October 2022.

THROUGH THE

CITY FIRST

The inaugural Late Justice An shuman Singh Memorial Golf Cup will be held from 30 September to 01 Octo ber 2022 at Rambagh Golf Club in Jaipur. The trophy of the tour nament was unveiled at the Rambagh Golf Club on Thursday. Late Jus tice Anshuman Singh was Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court and the former Gover

TROPHY UNVEILED!

nor of Gujarat and Ra jasthan.

Addressing the press conference for the tour nament, Arun Pratap

Singh, son of late Jus tice Anshuman Singh said “We are over whelmed to receive more than 300 entries to

participate in this tour nament including girls, youngsters and veter ans. This tournament has also enabled us to start a charitable initia tive in India honouring the war widows of the Indian Army, wives of martyrs of Rajasthan Police, and the caddies of the Golf Club. We are raising funds for a few selected families that will be handed out on 1 October evening at 7:30 during the Trophy Pres entation time.”

Arun Pratap Singh further informed that they will be announc ing the formation of Justice Anshuman Sin gh Golf Foundation de signed for helping up coming talented kids belonging to under privileged families of Rajasthan.

On behalf of the Rambagh Golf Club, Captain, Dr Ashok Gup ta said that the club feels honoured to host and contribute to this social cause.

Jagdeesh Chandra was greeted by Sheetal Chand Jain, of Bharat24- Vision of New India family, as he reached the former’s residence to seek blessings on the occasion of his birthday, as his birthday was on Wednesday, September 28.

Jagdeesh Chandra was greeted by Satyanarayan Sharma of the First India family, as he reached the former’s residence to seek blessings on the occasion of his birthday on Thursday, September 29.

MLA Rafeek Khan was greeted by Mukesh Bhatia, as he reached the former’s residence to seek blessings on becoming a member of the ‘Vyapar Kalyani Board’ on Thursday. Addressing the workers, Mukesh Bhatia said that I am grateful to senior leaders of the party and respected CM Ashok Gehlot for giving a big responsibility to a small worker like me.

The Pratibha Samman ceremony of Sain Samaj was organised at Itawa Bhopji, Jaipur on Thursday. During the event, Payal Sain was honoured for securing 78% marks in MSc Chemistry. Payal Sain is the daughter of Anil Kumar Sain.

Mithali Raj, former captain - the Indian Women’s cricket team was papped at Jaipur International Airport on Thursday.

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Rashmika Mandanna reached Apex University and interacted with the students on Thursday for her upcoming Hindi film Goodbye. On this occasion, Rashmika Mandanna also released Apex University’s magazine Apex.

Rashmika Mandanna visited at Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kukas, Jaipur for the promotion of her upcoming film Goodbye. She danced all the way with the students that pepped up the environment. She was welcomed Group President Dr Arvind Agarwal and Group Vice President Dr Pooja Agarwal.

Rangarasia and Siya Ke Ram fame actor Ashish Sharma reached Jaipur for the promotion of his upcoming film ‘Hindutva’ on Thursday. Ashish along with the lead actress Television show ‘Devo Ke Dev Mahadev’ fame Sonarika Bhadoria, show ‘Qubool Hai’ fame Ankit Raj and producer Sachin Chaudhary shared the experiences of the film with the media. While talking about his experience he said, “Hindutva is the story of today’s youth, it is the story of a friend who is living in every corner and street of the country. I felt that my character will connect with the youth.”

Rajasthan Cricket Association organised an under-16 district match at SMS Stadium, Jaipur, in which Mayank scored 61 runs into the semi-finals on Tuesday. During the match, Team Jaipur defeated team Udaipur and made it in the semi-finals.

Mrs India Glam Rajasthan Madhuri Durgani

Upendra Mosoon, Ravindra Pratap Singh, Prashant Poddar, Mahendra Yadav and Pawan Tank with participants of Glam Girls and Maha Arti

Rashmika Mandanna

Unveiling the trophy (L-R) Jaideep Singh Bika, Sadhna Singh, Narendra Singh, Arun Pratap Singh, Dr Ashok Gupta and Nidhishwar Singh

Narendra Singh with trophy

Pawan Tank and Suneeta Raj with participants of Glam Girls

Rafeek Khan with Mukesh Bhatia

Jagdeesh Chandra with Satyanarayan Sharma

Jagdeesh Chandra with Sheetal Chand Jain

Starcast of Hindutva

FICCI LADIES ORGANISATION JAIPUR, organised a Famously Fit session on Thursday exclusively for all the FLO entrepreneur members. Chairperson Mudrika Dhoka shared “Healthy lifestyle is the key to success and mindfull living”. FICCI FLO Jaipur chapter witnessed talented motivational speaker, blooming author & a fitness guru Ritesh Bawri and actress Rashmika Mandanna.

Mudrika Dhoka and Rashmika Mandanna

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