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SAFETY All Puja pandals in WB FIRST! no-entry zones: HC
NADDA IN WB: CAA TO BE IMPLEMENTED SOON Siliguri: BJP national president JP Nadda Monday said the execution of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act has been delayed due to the pandemic and asserted that the law will be implemented soon. Nadda, who was speaking at a meeting of social groups of north Bengal, accused the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal of indulging in “divide and rule politics” in the state to serve the political interests of her party - the TMC, unlike BJP which works for the development of all. All of you will get the benefits of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. It has been passed in Parliament. We are committed to it,” he said at the meeting. “Due to COVID-19 pandemic, implementation of CAA got delayed. But as the situation is slowing improving, Turn to P6
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JP Nadda reached Siliguri on Monday on a day-long tour of West Bengal where he and Kailash Vijayvargiya communicated with party workers.
NADDA TO ADDRESS 4 RALLIES, NDA MEETING IN BIHAR ON OCT 20, 21 New Delhi: BJP president JP Nadda will address four public rallies in poll-bound Bihar on Tuesday and Wednesday and also speak at a meeting of leaders of the ruling National Democratic Alliance during a two-day visit to the state. Nadda will address election rallies in Buxar and Arrah on Tuesday afternoon, party spokesperson Sanjay Mayukh said. The BJP president will then address the NDA meeting in Arrah. District heads, MPs, district in-charges, assembly constituency in-charges, assembly convenors and candidates besides other important leaders from the region will participate in the meeting, he said. On Wednesday, Nadda will address election rallies in Bettiah and Motihari, Mayukh said.
Kolkata: In view of the COVID-19 situation in West Bengal and to contain the spread of the virus, the Calcutta High Court on Monday said Durga Puja pandals would be no-entry zones for visitors. Court also ordered that people would not be allowed within a five-metre distance for small pandals and 10 metre for big pandals. The HC also asked each puja committee to submit a blueprint on crowd management and only the organisers can enter the pandal and for that names have to be put up outside the pandals beforehand. Only those people would be allowed to enter whose names will be mentioned outside the pandal. Maximum 25 members are allowed in the pandal premises and the number of visitors is to be fixed, which will remain the same during the Durga puja celeberations. The court’s order will apply to all 34,000 registered Durga Puja pandals in the state. Last week, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee had urged Durga Puja Committees not to allow people without masks in pandal. This year, Durga Puja be celebrated from October 23 to October 26. —ANI
Issue summons to Arnab before arraignment: HC Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday said if the Mumbai police crime branch proposes to arraign Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami in the TRP case, it should first issue summons to him as was done for eight others in the case. A division bench of justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik said if such a summons is issued then Goswami shall ap-
pear before police and cooperate with probe. The court also directed police to submit for its perusal investiga-
Farooq grilled for 6 hrs by ED
tion papers pertaining to the case in a sealed cover by November 5 when it would hear the matter. “The FIR is not an encyclopedia. We would like to peruse the investigation papers and see what probe has been done from today till the next date of hearing,” the court said. The court was hearing a petition filed by ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd, Turn to P6
Srinagar: Enforcement Directorate on Monday questioned National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah for over 6 hrs in connection with a multicrore scam in Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association, prompting accusations of “political vendetta” by newly-formed People’s Alliance comprising several mainstream parties. CBI has already filed a chargesheet against him. P5
Chinese soldier ‘strays’ into Ladakh, held October 2020 after he had strayed across the LAC.” “A request has also been received from the PLA about the whereabouts of the missing soldier,” the Army said, adding that, “as per established protocols, he will be returned back to Chinese officials at the Chushul – Moldo meeting point after completion of formalities”. Turn to P6
Ladakh: Indian Army on Monday apprehended a Chinese soldier in eastern Ladakh. The Army said that the soldier had “strayed across LAC” and will be handed over to PLA soon. In a statement, the Army said, “a PLA soldier identified as Corporal Wang Ya Long was apprehended in the Demchok sector of Eastern Ladakh on 19
GEHLOT WRITES TO MODI
Bleeding co-ops under RBI, how do we act upon them? CM asks PM Under the new provisions, all administrative control of Co-operative Banks has been given to RBI. As a result, the administrative control of these banks under the state govt will go under RBI, which is an encroachment on principle of co-operatives
Naresh Sharma Jaipur: Several frauds related to multi-state co-operative societies have come to light in recent years and Rajasthan too is facing its share of ‘brunt’ of these frauds! These have caused much loss of money to people and in view of this, ‘sensitive’ chief minister Ashok Gehlot has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving powers to states co-operative departments to take actions
against such fraud societies and ‘save the people’. On Monday, the chief minister took to micro blogging site Twitter to take out his anger and anguish over the issue and also apprise of the demand he has raised before the PM. “A large number of common people have invested in Multi State Cooperative Societies. In Rajasthan, we have received complaints from around 73,000 investors regarding irregularities amounting to Rs1419.77 crore,” he said. Gehlot, in
CM Ashok Gehlot
a series of tweets, added, “As Multi-State Cooperative Societies are under administrative control of Government of India, (I have) written a letter to PM Narendra Modi ji seeking remedial measures including directing Central Registrar to authorise State’s Cooperative dept to take action in matter in order to save interests of common people. Central Government has recently amended provisions of Banking Regulation Act, which are against basic
principles of cooperatives and would have a negative impact on functioning of State Cooperative Banks. I have written to PM Narendra Modi ji asking him that these amendments be withdrawn.” Meanwhile the chief minister further said, “Under the new provisions, all administrative control of the Co-operative Banks has been given to the RBI. As a result, the administrative control of the co-operative banks under the state govt Turn to P6