First India-Jaipur Edition-27 October 2020

FIRST PHASE OF POLLING ON OCT 28 l Seats going to polls: 71 constituencies in 16 dists. l Candidates in fray 1,066.

Male: 952, Female: 114.

JAIPUR l TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2020 l Pages 12 l 3.00

BIHAR SET FOR FIRST PHASE OF POLLING IN ASSEMBLY ELECTION AS CAMPAIGN CONCLUDES

RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764 l Vol 2 l Issue No. 142

l Total electors: 2,14,84,787. l No of polling stns: 31,380

Top politicians in Bihar were busy with their last rallies as the campaign for 71 constituencies across 16 districts that will vote on October 28 in the first phase of the Assembly elections ended on Monday evening. The second and third phases of polling will take place on November 3 and November 7. Results will be declared on November 10. The opposition RJD is contesting 42 seats - the most number of seats in the first phase of polling by any party.

OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR & AHMEDABAD 19°C - 34°C

l Seats being contested: JDU-35, BJP-29, RJD-42, Congress-21, Left-8.

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Controlling lawfully! Centre plans law to tackle air pollution —PHOTO BY ANI An anti-smog gun deployed outside a construction site to tackle pollution, in New Delhi on Monday.

3 PDP leaders quit after Mufti ‘hurt’ patriotic feelings Srinagar: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leaders TS Bajwa, Ved Mahajan and Hussain A Waffa resigned from the party on Monday stating that they feel quite uncomfortable over some of party chief Mehbooba Mufti’s actions and undesirable utterances especially which hurt patriotic sentiments.

“We... are feeling quite uncomfortable over some of your actions and undesirable utterances especially which hurt patriotic sentiments,” read a letter to Mufti signed by three leaders. “Instead of overcoming the challenges from within and outside by a process of broader consultations and trust, some elements within the party pulling the party and leadership in a particular direction, thus deviating from the basic principles, agenda and philosophy, making it difficult to face the saner voices in the society,” it said.

The three leaders said that some of the actions and utterances are unpardonable and unforgettable by the people, for the party, to emerge out and move in the direction of its fundamental Turn to P6

CENTRE ASSURES SC OF LAW ON AIR QUALITY New Delhi: The Central government submitted before the Supreme Court on Monday that it is contemplating the creation of a permanent body by enacting legislation to deal with the annual air pollution issue in the national capital region arising from stubble burning in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appear-

ing for Centre, said that the government will bring new legislation in three to four days and asked the top court to keep in abeyance ‘Justice Lokur Committee’.

On request by the Central government, a bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde kept in abeyance the operation of it’s October 16 order, which had appointed its former judge Madan B Lokur as one-man commission to

submit a report on air pollution, including stubble burning.

“It is good that the govermment is coming up with a law. This is an issue that anyway should have been looked into by the government. Everyone in this city is choking due to bad air,” the bench said.

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AIR POLLUTION MAY HINDER INDIA’S FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19: EXPERTS New Delhi: Causal link between air pollution and Covid-19 cases is yet to be established conclusively but long-term exposure will certainly make people more vulnerable to lung infections, warn scientists as the skies over large parts of north India, including Delhi, turn smoky and the air quality deteriorates rapidly. A study by researchers at Harvard in September showed that an increase of only one microgram per cubic metre in PM 2.5 is associated with an 8 per cent increase in the Covid-19 death rate.The air quality in north India is expected to deteriorate further from November to February due to several factors such as stubble burning, festive fireworks and low wind speed etc.

LAHDC POLL: BJP WINS 15, CONG 9 Jammu: Bharatiya Janata Party on October 26 won the majority of seats in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh (LAHDC-Leh) polls, by capturing 15 out of 26 constituencies, followed by the Congress with nine seats.

The BJP managed to win most of the far off seats outside the Leh town, including six out of seven seats of the

A voter shows her inked finger after casting her vote for LAHDC polls, in Leh. —FILE PHOTO

remote Nubra valley.

Two Muslim faces, Ghulam Mehdi from

Turtuk, and Mirza Hussain from Chuchot, were among the

BJP winners.

Constituencies won

by BJP included Turtuk, Panamik, Tegar, Hunder, Diskit, Tangtse, Kungyam, Sku Markha, Thiksey, Korzok, Lingshed, Lamayuru, Martseylang, Khaltse and Chuchot while Congress won Lower Leh, Upper Leh, Igoo, Saspol, Basgo, Sakti, Phyang, Skurbuchan and Temisgam.

Chushul and Nyoma were two

seats won by the independent candidates.

“BJP’s victory in Leh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh election is historic. BJP has won 15 out of 26 seats. I congratulate Shri Jamyang Tsering Namgyal and all karyakartas of Ladakh unit of BJP. Gratitude to the people of Ladakh for their faith in BJP,” tweeted BJP prez JP Nadda.

India, US to ink ARE BJP & BSP AGAIN defence pact today COMING TOGETHER? BJP surprises everyone by leaving 1 RS seat for BSP

PRAKASH JAVADEKAR @PRAKASHJAVDEKAR I condemn the remark of Mehbooba Mufti. Disrespect for the tricolour is unacceptable.

The tricolour is our honour and the identity of India.

THERE WON’T BE ‘DO NISHAN, DO PRADHAN’: RAVI PRASAD Aurangabad (Bihar): Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday raised the issue of abrogation of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir and building Ram Temple in Ayodhya at the election rally held in Aurangabad. “A grand Ram Temple is being built. Some people have a problem with it. They also have issues with Article 370 (abrogation). I’d like to say clearly, there won’t be ‘do nishan do pradhan’. There’ll be Tiranga everywhere,” Prasad said. He further lashed out at the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) over the photos of former chief ministers Lalu Yadav, and Rabri Devi missing from its posters during the campaigning phase.

Ahtesham Siddiqui

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and US Defence Secy Dr Mark T Esper meeting in New Delhi on Monday.

—PHOTO BY ANI

New Delhi: India and the US will ink a landmark defence pact on Tuesday that will provide for sharing of highend military technology, logistics and geospatial maps between their militaries, officials said after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held wideranging talks with his US counterpart Mark T Esper in New Delhi.

During the talks, Singh and Esper explored

ways to further deepen cooperation in the IndoPacific region, enhance military-to-military ties, and reviewed key regional security challenges including in India’s neighbourhood, officials said.

The sources said, while deliberating on regional security challenges, the two sides briefly touched upon India’s border row with China in eastern Ladakh. Turn to P6

Lucknow: In what could be termed as perhaps the biggest development in one of the most politically charged state of India—Uttar Pradesh—the ruling BJP has given a berth to Mayawati’s BSP in the run up to the Rajya Sabha elections.

On Monday, the Saffron party announced its 8 candidates for the RS poll, whereas it is firmly placed in the state to make 9 candidates win for the upper house. Political pundits believe that this is a strategic move to give

Yogi Adityanath

Mayawati

one seat to the BSP which can also ferry its candidate without any problem.

The late night development has raised curiosity as to if there is an understanding between the BJP and BSP since at present BSP has merely 14 MLAs and in the run up to Assembly polls, which is approximately two years from now and with Congress harping on the votes, it appears that this would be once again be a time-

ly coalition. With the BJP having 304 members in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, the November 9 election for 10 Rajya Sabha seats from the state may turn out to be a nearly onesided affair for the party, feel poll analysts.

The BJP’s all eight nominees for Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh are likely to win as the party has the threefourth majority in the state assembly.

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DIALOGUE ON JAN AANDOLAN AGAINST CORONA

Wearing masks will be made mandatory in the state: Gehlot State government to bring bill in upcoming Assembly session to make wearing mask mandatory Naresh Sharma Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has said that to prevent the spread of corona infection, the state government is considering making it mandatory to wear masks in the state.

“For this, a bill will be brought in the upcom-

ing assembly session.

Covid-19 can be avoided only by adopting measures such as wearing masks, maintaining a distance of two yards and washing hands repeatedly until the vaccine comes,” Gehlot said on Monday evening while holding the ‘samwaad program’ with

CM Ashok Gehlot holding samwaad where ministers Dr Raghu Sharma, Govind Singh Dotasra and Bhanwar Singh Bhati, were present on Monday. Also seen is Akhil Arora.

District Collectors, Principals of colleges, Municipal Corporation and Municipal Council officials , District Sports Officers, District Education Officers, NCC, NSS, Scouts and Guides and Coordinators associated with Nehru Yuva Kendras, Program Officers, Cadets, Volunteers etc on the success of the ‘No Mask-No Entry-Public Movement Against Corona’ campaign.

Gehlot said that every section and section

of the society should join the government with full commitment to make this campaign successful till the village and dhanis of the state. “This campaign will not be completely successful in its purpose until there is an awareness among the public that if the person wearing the mask is infected, he or she can spread the infection to another person,” Gehlot stressed.

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Stray animals, poor colonies irk residents

Poonia demands DOUBLE-ENGINE LOCAL GOVT: The candidates contesting the elections are promising to solve the general problems compensation for traders Bharat Dixit MUNICIPAL CORPORATION DATA Jaipur: With bifurcation of the Jaipur municipal corporation into two – Heritage and Greater – the issues of the city have also been divided and the residents expect better management of the issues troubling their respective areas. JMC Heritage is plagued by stray animals while several colonies in JMC Greater lack basic amenities.

The candidates contesting the elections are promising to solve the general problems of their respective ward but the reality is that since Jaipur municipal corporation was formed, a number of problems have remained unresolved.

The issues remain the same whether the board was of the Congress or the BJP. With more wards smaller in size, the voters expect their councillors will be easily approachable and focus on the issues.

BIGGEST PROBLEM: STRAY ANIMALS PLAGUE HERITAGE

the biggest problem plaguing the JMC Heritage Iistnisdied its stray animals. Two years ago, a foreign tourwhen attacked by a stray animal that had

brought global shame for the city. Tourism remains a major source of revenue for Jaipur and the issue of stray animals in the walled city presents a poor picture of the area. The issue has time and again been raised in the corporation’s general assembly but the problem is as it as till date. Herds of cows can be seen roaming on the roads in the walled city, a major tourist spot, and many commuters get injured when hit by these animals. The issue of stray animals is on the agenda of both Congress and BJP but how far it will resolve is yet to be seen, said Narottam Sharma, a local resident.

Final Contestants

POOR COLONIES BOTHER GREATER In the JMC Greater, the residents of several colonies are still waiting for basic amenities like proper water supply, sewerage connection, roads, and street lights. These

JAIPUR JAIPUR TOTAL GREATER HERITAGE

686

430

1116

The decision of the two municipal corporations is a historic decision of the Congress government. This will not only bring relief to the general public, but public focused works will also gain momentum.

The formation of two corporations will save the time of the general public.

Earlier, the residents had to come to Lal Kothi for official works. Now they will benefit with the formation of Heritage and Greater boards.

—Pawan Bhardwaj, Sanganer resident

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MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

—Abhishek Chaudhary, State President of NSUAI

Image for representational purpose only.

be easier for them to approach the officials for routine works and seek push for development works in their areas. Earlier, the residents had to come to the main office at Lal Kothi and many of their works were not

fulfilled at the zone level offices. The residents expect that works would also take lesser time now.

The new offices will, however, put an additional burden on the state exchequer as the new offices and additional staff will be required for two corporations.

With the formation

of two municipal corporations, the number of wards has increased from 150 to 250 and the residents are facing difficulties in finding boundaries of their wards and the polling booths. The supporters of candidates and the polling agents are helping the people with details of the wards as well as the polling booths.

Jaipur: BJP State President Satish Poonia has written to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray demanding relief to the businessmen hailing from Jalore who suffered huge losses in a fire that broke out in Mumbai’s city center.

Poonia said that more than 800 shops were gutted to fire in the city center in which several businessmen from Jalore’s Sanchore, Raniwara, Ahore, Chitalwana, and Sayla have suffered crores of losses and the incident has posed a challenge for their livelihood that too amid the corona pandemic. He said that adequate compensation to the businessmen should be given.

Poonia also forwarded a copy to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot requesting him to talk to his Maharashtra counterpart to get the businessmen compensated.

colonies have always faced these issues. The candidates are asking for votes promising to solve these issues. The voters are also expecting that a separate municipal corporation might lead to more focus on their areas. The

residents feel that the candidates are promising to solve the civic issues of the area but these promises have been made in the past also.

The residents are hoping that with two corporations it would

Dhariwal organises mega roadshow

Rebels expelled from Congress

Vaibhav hits Jodhpur streets 1116 CANDIDATES

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Jaipur: The Congress on Monday expelled 50 of its workers who were either contesting against the party candidates or supporting the rebel candidates.

Transport Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas said that whoever stood against the party’s authorised candidate was expelled. “Action has been taken against the rebels of both Jaipur Greater and Heritage,” he said.

Kota: UDH Minister Shanti Dhariwal had changed the municipal election campaign scenario for his party with his powerful campaigning on the very first day on Sunday. On Monday, he took the Cong municipal election campaign to next level by a mega roadshow which passed through major parts of the city. The 20 km long roadshow started from Bhadana in the station

road area and passed through Rangpur, Railway Station, Haat Bazar, Borkheda, Kala Talab and went up to the trans river areas.

Deputy LoP Rajendra Rathore was angered by the mega roadshow and called in an urgent press conference in which he said that he would complain to the State Election Commission regarding the gross misuse of official machinery during the roadshow on Monday.

Public holiday and dry day on polling day First India Bureau Jaipur: A public holiday will be observed on the day of polling on October 29 and November 1 in six municipal corporations in Jaipur, Kota, and Jodhpur.

In Jaipur Heritage, Jodhpur North, and Kota North polling will take place on November 29 while in

the second phase Jaipur Greater, Jodhpur South and Kota South will go to polls on November 2.

The shops will remain closed from 5.30 pm on October 27 till 5.30 pm on 30 October while in the second phase, the shops will remain closed from 5.30 pm on 30 October till 5.30 pm on November 1.

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REMAIN IN FRAY

Rajeev Gaur Jodhpur. As the campaign for municipal corporation election is heating up, Congress leader and RCA president Vaibhav Gehlot has hit the streets of Jodhpur to ensure victory for the party candidates.

Vaibhav, AICC member, and son of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot reached Jodhpur on Sunday night and visited different municipal wards of the Sardarpura constituency and campaigned

Shivendra Pramar

Vaibhav Gehlot visited different municipal wards of the Sardarpura constituency in Jodhpur on Sunday.

in favour of the Congress candidates.

He ensured that corona guidelines were followed through his campaign events. Gehlot appealed to the

people to connect the dots of the civic bodies with the state government by voting Congress candidates in both the corporations of Jodhpur.

Jaipur: The picture of the upcoming municipal election battle has become clear after the withdrawal of names and allotment of symbols to the candidates.

There are total 1116 candidates in the fray for all 250 municipal wards in both the corporations out of which 686 will be contesting in 150 wards of Greater Jaipur Municipal Corporation (GJMC) and 430 for 100 wards

of Heritage Jaipur Municipal Corporation (HJMC). One on one or triangular fights in as many as 250 wards is making the battle interesting.

Due to the efforts of Congress and BJP leaders, 213 candidates withdrew from the contest and now there are 247 Congress and 245 BJP candidates in the fray. There are 51 wards where there are only two candidates in for a straight fight.

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KHACHARIYAWAS TARGETS BJP

Jaipur: Congress leader and transport minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas on Monday cornered the Bharatiya Janta Party for not giving space to photos of former CM Vasundhara Raje on the party’s publicity material for the municipal elections.

“There is no photo of the former CM on BJP’s vision document. Photographs of

K Pratap Singh Khachariyawas

former CMs have been appearing on poll material. This means that the BJP does not recognize her vision,” said Khachariyawas.

On a media query about no photos of Sachin Pilot on Congress poll material, Khachariyawas said Pilot is not the state

president now but photos of the former CMs are usually carried.

He also targeted the BJP’s vision document saying that it was re-

leased after the Congress’ Sankalp Patra.

“BJP has brought a bundle of lies. Many points are copied from Congress’ resolution letter. BJP leaders are not updated and the vision document shows their frustration,” Khachariyawas said.

This Vision Document has photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, National President JP Nadda, Leader of Opposition Gulabchand Kataria,

and state president Satish Poonia but not on former CM Raje.

When Union Minister Arjunram Meghwal and former State President Ashok Parnami, who released the document on Monday, were asked about missing photos of Raje, the leaders did not give any reply. Raje’s photo was also missing in the hoarding placed at the inauguration of the party’s election.

BJP’S SMART PROMISES

BJP’s 40-point Vision Document promises modern cities Aishwary Pradhan Jaipur: The BJP on Monday issued a ‘Vision Document’ listing 40 promises for developing Jaipur, Jodhpur, and Kota as smart and modern cities.

The party has promised, if voted to power, to waive off the urban development tax for schools not charging fees during the corona period, waive off electricity bills for this period, resuming Jaipur

Festival, free travel in urban bus services for senior citizens, and roads in every colony.

They have also promised to waive off UD tax of businessmen and shopkeepers also.

BJP also promised to install CCTV cameras in Jaipur, a promise made by transport minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas a day before. Elections for six corporations are scheduled on October 29 and November 1. The three

cities would be developed as smart cities under the Central government’s dream project, ‘Smart City and Heritage City’, said Meghwal.

Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, the coordinator of JMC elections, released the document in the presence of former BJP president Ashok Parnami, former mayor Pankaj Joshi, Neeraj Jain, and Anand Sharma.

The party has prom-

Arjun Meghwal released the ‘Vision Document’ in the presence of Ashok Parnami, Pankaj Joshi, Neeraj Jain & Anand Sharma.

ised that each municipal corporation would be developed as a role mod-

el based on the concept of a self-reliant, modern, and efficient India.

On the civic front, the party has promised roads in each colony, community buildings, theme-based parks in each ward, encouragement to artists from traditional disciplines, reduction in fares of urban bus services, and operation of e-bus with the help of Central government and senior citizens would be given the benefit of free travel.

Besides, women would be given concession and relaxation in travel.

Offices will be established in each ward with online facilities from where birth and death certificates would be made available at ward level.

Development works, cleaning, and lighting would be carried out as per the requirements of local Mohalla development committees.

In the new master plan, commercial and residential colonies would be streamlined and included in the

master plan 2025.

There will be a master drainage plan for waterlogging and sewerage for the cities, parking projects, smart traffic management, disposal of e-waste, solid waste management, simplification of the building bylaws and online disposal, a permanent shelter for the poor, various pensions such as a widow, elderly, disabled pension, development of the green zone.

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Alwar burning incident: Family retracts plaint, police rule out foul play Ashwani Yadav Alwar: The incident of the death of a 22-yearold salesman, Kamal Kishore, who was found burnt inside the liquor shop on Sunday in Alwar district, took political proportions on Monday as the BJP leaders cornered the state government over the incident.

The Bhiwadi police on Monday, however, termed the incident as an accident. Bhiwadi SP, Ram Murti Joshi said that the spot was investigated with the help of an FSL team and there was prima facie no hint of a conspiracy or planned killing of the deceased. The family of the deceased also told the police that they did not want any action in the matter.

Kamal kishore, a resident of Jhadka village in Alwar, had died of burns on Saturday night in Kumpur village of Kishangarhbas in Alwar district and his body was found in-

side a deep freezer.

His brother Roop Singh had on Sunday, lodged an FIR at Khairthal police station that his brother Kamal was burnt to death when he asked for his salary dues from liquor contractors, Subhash and Rakesh Yadav. The police had filed a case under section 302 and others of IPC and the SC/ST Act. However, on Monday Roop Singh took a uturn and told cops that they did not want any action against the accused. Bhiwadi SP Ram Murti Joshi also visited the spot on Monday along with an FSL team and investigating officer DSP Tarachand Chaudhary and Khairthal SHO Dara Singh Meena. “So far there are no signs that petrol or other inflammable was used in fire.

But we are waiting for FSL report to take further action in the matter. Action will be taken if anyone is found guilty,” Joshi said.

VASUNDHARA RAJE @VasundharaBJP Mind is disturbed by seeing such pictures ...After a priest was burnt alive in Karauli, a murder case has come to light of putting a salesmen in the deep freezer in #Alwar. Which is another example of the Congress government’s bad governance and inhumanity. #Rajasthan

Cops along with the FSL team inspect the incident site.

BJP LEADERS CONDEMN THE INCIDENT Jaipur: The BJP leaders on Monday condemned the incident in which a liquor salesman was burnt inside the container from where the liquor shop was operating in Kumpur village in Alwar district. Former CM Vasundhara Raje termed the incident as unfortunate. Raje said these brutal incidents are not only tarnishing the

image of Rajasthan, but also the entire human civilisation. The state government should stop the recurrence of such incidents by providing strict punishment to the culprits, she said.

BJP state chief spokesperson Ramlal Sharma said that there was jungle raj in entire Rajasthan. The state has been suffering

from robberies. “When this is the situation of Jaipur then what will be the situation of the state. It is not enough just to catch criminals.

There should be a fear of law in the state,” he said. The number of fast track courts should be increased so that the culprits can be punished as soon as possible.

Kishangarhbas MLA

Deepchand Khairia also visited the spot and condoled the deceased’s family.

BJP state president Satish Poonia targeted Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who is also Home Minister. “It seems from this incident that we are living in a country like Somalia in Africa, where there is no such thing as called law,” he said.

3 killed in separate accidents in Jaipur

Vedas show the best way to live life: Guv

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Jaipur: Rajasthan Governor, Kalraj Mishra has said Vedic knowledge is important today to preserve tribal heritage in a scientific form.

The Governor said that Veda is a written constitution provided

by God, which describes the best way to live life.

He called upon Veda Vidhyapeeith to spread the unique heritage of Indian culture to the people.

While dedicating a digital platform of Veda Vidhyapeeth in

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Jaipur: Three persons including a girl and a woman were killed in three separate road accidents in Jaipur on Monday.

A girl who was working in a private firm after completing graduation was going to her office in Ambabari on a scooty when a speeding bus hit her vehicle near Parivahan Bhawan. She got stuck in the tyres and died on the spot.

In Jhotwara area, a car hit a woman who was walking towards her

home after purchasing medicines.

The impact of the accident was so high that the woman Neetu Morya jumped several feet high. She was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared her dead. Her seven year old girl, who was accompanying her, also received mild injuries.

A bike rider, Mukesh Kumar was crushed to death by a speeding truck on Delhi-Ajmer highway in another incident in Jaipur.

His wife, Maya Devi was critically injured.

Bkn: Labour Inspector held for graft

Woman charred to death as house catches fire due to short circuit

Govind Guru Tribal University of Banswara through video conference, he said that Vidhyapeeth will be helpful in preserving the tradition of recit-

ing Samaved mantras.

He highlighted the importance and relevance of Vedas in today’s life and laid emphasis on preserving them.

Undertrial hurt in an attempt to murder

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by ASP, Rajnish Poonia arrested a labour inspector, Khemchand Kumawat while accepting a bribe of Rs 8000 on Monday at his office.

The arrested labour inspector had demanded the bribe from the complainant owning a chilling centre in Khara village threatening him of strict action on the basis of his inspection report. The complainant agreed to pay the bribe but registered a formal complaint with the ACB which in turn arrested the labour Inspector after verifying the complaint.

Kalraj Mishra receives the portrait of the police flag presented by the Additional Director of IB KC Meena at Raj Bhavan on Monday.

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First India Bureau Chittorgarh: A woman was burnt alive when a fire broke out in Pratap nagar area of the city.

The incident occurred at around 4 am due to short circuit.

Several fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the flames and the members were rescued but a woman was killed.

The land lord Vinod

Phulwani rushed for help. Vinod’s sister, Aarti died while his brother- in- law Dilip and niece, Kanak are critical. A total of 9 members were present in the house when the incident occurred. Local MLA Chandrabhan Aakya reached the spot and took stock of the situation. Sadar SHO Darshan Singh and other officers were also present on the spot.

Jodhpur: An under trial prisoner was injured in an attempt to murder in Jodhpur Central Jail on the night of October 19.

The jail inmate, Muzahid was sleeping when three other prisoners Mohammad Asif, Saddam and Mohammad Nadim hit him with a heavy stone. He fractured his jaw received other facial injuries in the attack.

He was immediately rushed to the prison

dispensary, where he is undergoing treatment, the police said while sharing about the incident.

Raatnada police said that the injured undertrial has alleged that three accused kept searching his bag for eatables like biscuits, and other snacks etc.

Investigation has been handed over to ASI Kalu Singh of Raatanada police station in connection with the incident and the matter is being investigated.

The Governor on the occasion also announced Veda Vidyapeeth’s scholarly discussion series ‘Saraswat’.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor IV Trivedi said that Ved Vidyapeeth has a research and academic project of the university for which 25 bighas of land has been allotted near the city and construction of the building will begin soon.

On the other hand, Additional Director of IB, KC Meena met the Governor and presented him a portrait of police flag.

Sand mafia attacks police team, 11 held First India Bureau Tonk: A team of police officers was attacked by sand mafia who also freed a tractor trolley seized by the police in Tonk district.

Additional SP Tonk, Goverdhan Lal Sonkaria said the incident occured in Todaraisingh area, where the police team had seized a tractor trolley in connection with illegal sand transportation.

During this, nearly 40-50 people attacked the police team near the Jaipur chungi naka.

They also pelted stones at the police jeep.

Cops have arrested 11 people in the case.

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COVID-19: Raj records 14 more fatalities

First India Bureau Jaipur: Rajasthan recorded 14 more fatalities due to the novel coronavirus on Monday, taking the COVID-19 death toll in the state to 1,853, according to a health department bulletin.

The state also reported 1,805 new cases on Monday. The total number of people infected by COVID-19 now stands at 1,88,048 in Rajasthan and out of these 16,233 are under treatment.

As per the bulletin, 1,69,962 people have been discharged after treatment till now.

In Jaipur, the death toll from the

Coronavirus infection is 365 till now, followed by 178 in Jodhpur, 136 each in Bikaner and Ajmer, 116 in Kota, 92 in Bharatpur, 74 in Pali, 68 in Udaipur, 56 in Nagaur, 53 each in Alwar and Sikar, 34 in Barmer and 29 in Dholpur, 28 in Rajsamand, 27 in Jhunjhunu and 26 each in Banswara and Baran.

On Monday, Rajasthan recorded 1,821 new cases, including 352 in Jaipur, 332 in Jodhpur, 257 in Bikaner, 141 in Alwar, 97 in Nagaur, 87 in Jhunjhunu, 80 in Jalore, 73 in Ajmer besides cases reported in other districts of the state.

Corona patient found dead @ Jodh AIIMS

First India Bureau Jodhpur: A case of sheer negligence of the staff of the Covid ward at AIIMS hospital in the city came to light when a corona positive patient was found missing from his bed and later his dead body was recovered from the nearby washroom.

The AIIMS doc-

tors called the family of the 55 year old Kudi resident, who demanded the CCTV footage of the ward in order to trace their relative, when they did not find him in the hospital. The body was recovered from the washroom through CCTV footage, which after counselling, was taken by the family.

56-year-old shot dead over land dispute in Bharatpur First India Bureau Bharatpur: A 56 year old man was shot dead over a land related dispute in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan on Monday.

The incident occurred in Girpeh village in Deeg area where members of two groups clashed with each other

over an old dispute related to land.

In the middle of the clash, someone opened fire in which Jamman Singh received bullet injuries on back. He was rushed to a nearby community health centre, where doctors declared him dead, police said while informing about the incident.

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SC ORDER JOLTS CENTRE TO ACT ON DELHI’S AIR

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ir pollution in Delhi is finally being dealt with the seriousness it deserves.

Very poor quality of Delhi air has been a major cause of concern over the past few years but even the recent remark of President Donald Trump describing Delhi air as “filthy” did not embarrass mandarins in the Union and Delhi governments enough to jolt them into taking, or promising to take, corrective measures.

The Supreme Court should be credited with shaking the Centre out of its slumber.

While hearing a PIL filed by a Class 12 student through video-conferencing, a three-judge Bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, Justice A.S. Bopanna and Justice V. Ramasubramaniam observed, “People are choking because of the pollution. The government should have taken the step itself without a PIL being filed on the issue.” The Bench had ordered setting up of a one-man committee headed by former Supreme Court judge, Justice Madan B. Lokur, to monitor/prevent stubble burning in Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. Responding to the SC’s order Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta said that the Centre was considering making comprehensive legislation on the issue. After the Centre’s assurance, the court put its earlier order in abeyance.

Burning of stubble by farmers in Punjab has been the main cause of air pollution in Delhi and NCR, although Aam Admi Party, Congress, and the BJP disagree. The latter two political parties accuse AAP of overplaying the stubble-burning card.

Traffic, dust from construction sites, the inability of pollutants and dust particles to move in stagnant air and industries are the other major contributors to Delhi’s poor air quality.

UDDHAV-KANGANA SPAT TURNS ACRIMONIOUS

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fter a brief lull, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and film actress Kangana Ranaut were at each other’s throats once again, with the acrimony between the two now turning into a noholds-barred row. Taking a jibe at Kangana, Thackeray said, “People who have no means of livelihood in their home come to Mumbai and betray it. Calling Mumbai PoK is in fact the failure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He had said he would get PoK back into India.” Thackeray knows that Kangana is batting for the BJP which is plotting his downfall.

Not holding his punches, Thackeray persisted with his attack on Kangana and the BJP. Thackeray said, “Mumbai is PoK, there are drug addicts everywhere—they are painting such a picture.

They don’t know in our house we grow tulsi, not ganja (marijuana). Ganja fields in your state, you know where, not in our Maharashtra.”

A stung Kangana hit back with equal venom, calling Thackeray a “worse product” of nepotism.

“Chief Minister, I am not drunk on my father’s power and wealth like you. If I wanted to be a product of nepotism, I could have stayed back in Himachal, I hail from a renowned family, I didn’t want to live off their wealth and favours, some people have self-respect and self-worth.”

Not just Kangana, Raj Bhawan too is also blatantly anti-Thackeray. Then there are elements whipping up communal hysteria in the name of temples.

Reference to Modi was Thackeray’s way of telling the BJP that he knows the tricks it was up to.

A THREAT IN PRESENT CIVIL STRIFE IN PAK BRIG VIJAY SAGAR DHEMAN The writer is a leading defence and strategic expert, prolific writer, national TV news Commentator, and internationally accredited life coach

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Pakistan has a chequered history of nondemocratic polity gravely influenced by the military. Immediately after independence, even when the Queen of England was still the premier of the country, Pakistan decided to take on the path of dictatorship/ martial law. Over a period of time, the military kept influencing/ousting the civilian elected govt on the pretext of inefficiency, personal ambitions, or Islamisation. During this sojourn, Pakistan with the connivance of China was able to clandestinely acquire/build a nuclear arsenal. Nuclear weapons, being the harbingers of wiping out humanity from the surface of Earth, have to be protected from all inimical forces especially the everflourishing Jehadis institutions in Pakistan.

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Today, it appears that Pakistan is on the verge of a civil war with Nawaz Sharif leading the PDM alliance against Imran govt supported by Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and ISI chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed of the Pakistan army.

The multi-centric turmoil in Pakistan raises serious questions about safety, security, and operational control of Pakistani nuclear weapons. The shades of paramountcy in this maze of likely civil war vary from the combined opposition led

by Nawaz Sharief against collusion of ‘Imran and

Army’ on one side to a power struggle within the Army between ‘Bajwa supporters and Lt Gen Sarfraz Sattar and his supporters aided by the then CJI Asif Saeed Khosa’ to the individual insurgent groups in Baluchistan, Sindh, Gilgit Baltistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In the case of a conflagration of present turbulence, it is the obscurity that threatens humanity as regards the eventual control of Pak Nucs which could be captured by irresponsible stakeholders or the rogue Jehadi institutions.

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Present disarming of Sindh Police, abduction of IGP Karachi, mass leave by Sindh Police personnel, with Pakistan Rangers (Army) taking over of administration shows the brutal crushing of Sindis in Pakistan. This happened after Nawaz led opposition opened the outright front against Imran-Bajwa coalition. Nawaz Sharif being in exile in London has launched an unscathed attack against Army by openly naming the specific generals including Bajwa and his supporters.

Nawaz Sharif, in doing so, has been very careful not to commit political suicide. He has fully exploited the internal turmoil created in Pakistan by very high rates of inflation, the subversion, and suffering of the population by the Chinese, the perfidious use of Pakistani resources by China(CPEC),

The financial position of Pakistan needs less to be said. It had to borrow 1 Bn $ from their coloniser China to pay the part of the debt to Saudi Arabia. The FATF has not upgraded Pakistan’s standing from the GREY list

TODAY, IT APPEARS THAT PAKISTAN IS ON THE VERGE OF A CIVIL WAR WITH NAWAZ SHARIF LEADING THE PDM ALLIANCE AGAINST IMRAN GOVT SUPPORTED BY GEN QAMAR JAVED BAJWA AND ISI CHIEF LT GEN FAIZ HAMEED OF THE PAKISTAN ARMY. THE MULTI-CENTRIC TURMOIL IN PAKISTAN RAISES SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT SAFETY, SECURITY, AND OPERATIONAL CONTROL OF PAKISTANI NUCLEAR WEAPONS

and Imran’s return of favour to Bajwa by granting him an extension as Army chief.

The movement has gained alarming proportions and an imminent civil war-like situation is being crushed by the military.

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The passions amongst the masses are being fuelled with the antiChina sentiment on account of promises of employment, extremely high cost of electricity, a wide range of corruption with heavy losses to the state, and usage of Paki-

stan territory by China for its own economic, strategic and defence purposes. Besides the surrender of Pakistani territory to China by Imran Khan from Khyber Pass to Gwader port, Imran has decided to cede two islands outside Karachi port to China for military purposes. This would translate into a loss of livelihood for more than 100000 native fishermen.

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The financial position of Pakistan needs less to be said. It had to borrow One Bn $ from their coloniser China to pay the part of the debt to Saudi Arabia. The FATF has not upgraded Pakistan’s standing from the GREY list. This means Pakistan will continue to reel under abject poverty and will not get a bailout package to rescue its citizens from impoverishment. Meanwhile, the default on Chinese loans has halted the funds to stall the CPEC projects. All these combined shows a way for Pakistan to surrender its sovereignty in Baluchistan the way it happened in the Hambantota port in Sri Lanka.

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The utter chaotic conditions prevalent in Pakistan point towards tumultuous pandemonium which has created lawless-

Trump’s last stand for apartheid America T

he ferocity of the 2020 presidential election in the United States is not about Donald Trump per se, but about what he represents: the racist structures of power that have persisted in America for centuries, though sometimes in mutated form. The long history of America’s state-sponsored racism will draw to an end in the coming generation, which is why Trump is so strikingly reactionary in his attempts to prolong it. Yet the damage that Trump’s brand of white nationalism could still cause to the US and the world if he wins a second term makes the election easily the most important in modern American history.

Racism was hard-wired into the US from the found-

ing of the American colonies, with their economies built on the enslavement of Africans and the slaughter and dispossession of Native Americans. Slavery became so deeply enmeshed in American society that only a bloody civil war ended it, in contrast to most other countries, where the African slave trade and slave holding ended peacefully.

When the US Civil War ended, a brief period of African-American emancipation during the Reconstruction era (1865-76) gave way to a renewed system of racist repression so encompassing and systematic that it was, in effect, an American apartheid system. The legal racism of Jim Crow in the US South is well known, but the repression and segregation in the North and West, in-

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cluding segregated housing, flagrant job discrimination, poor or no schooling, and systemic failures of justice, were similarly noxious.

In his brilliant and eloquent book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein examines how federal, state, and local governments, in

collaboration with vigilante white violence, created and perpetuated AfricanAmerican ghettos across the country, while underwriting and promoting the spread of segregated, allwhite suburbs. Much overtly racist legislation was eventually eliminated

by Congress or overturned

by the federal courts by the end of the 1960s. Yet racism continued, reflected in police brutality, the mass incarceration of black young people starting in the 1970s, ongoing suppression of black votes, and pervasive employment discrimination. And most of America’s segregated suburbs

remained nearly all white.

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s produced deep and lasting changes. Yet it also fueled a political backlash among white conservatives, especially in the South and Midwest. Working-class and evangelical whites who had long been part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition switched their allegiance to the Republican Party, which promised to resist further desegregation and to support policies promoted by social conservatives. This “Southern Strategy” helped to put Richard Nixon in the White House in 1968, and then Ronald Reagan in 1980. The same white, evangelical rural and suburban base helped to elect George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Trump.

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ness. It will raise a serious question on the capture and subsequent control of Nuclear weapons. Pakistan, as it is rife with irresponsible statements on the use of nuclear weapons whether they are politicians (Imran/ Rashid), Jehadi terrorists, or even a section of Press in Pakistan. Prior to this turmoil, what was said about the Pakistani Nuclear weapons was “WE MANUFECTURED NUCLEAR BOMBS BECAUSE WE COULD NOT HAVE PEACEFUL SLEEP DUE TO SECURITY REASONS and NOW WE CAN NOT SLEEP BECAUSE OF SCARE OF LOSING CONTROL OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS”. Now with present pandemonium and unclear understanding as to ‘who will wield power and in what measure’, the Pakistani Nuclear weapons can well be tamed by the Jehadi forces, that can spell potential doom for the entire world. Only 100 nuclear bombs are enough to engulf the whole world in thick smog which will deplete the entire Ozone layer surrounding the Earth. The ozone layer protects the Earth against UV radiations from the Sun which will literally burn every possible animate and non-animated\thing on the surface of the earth.

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BIHAR POLLS: LJP chief also raised accusing finger on Kumar in implementation of prohibition laws & gaining from smuggling of liquor

Corruption on right under Nitish’s nose: Chirag Will give momentum to growth in Bihar, if voted to power: Nitish

‘Will get Saat Nishchay scheme probed, if found guilty, the CM will also go to jail,’ Chirag said.

Patna: LJP chief Chirag Paswan alleged corruption in Nitish Kumars flagship ‘Saat Nishchay’ (seven resolves) scheme and said if voted to power he will get it probed and send to jail those found guilty, including the chief minister.

The LJP chief also raised accusing finger on Kumar in the implementation of prohibition laws in the state and accused the CM of gaining from smuggling of liquor into the state.

“Why not, if found guilty. Just because he is chief minister he wont go to jail? Corruption is taking place right under his nose, Chirag told PTI-Bhasha over phone from Arwal when asked if he indeed intends to send Kumar to jail on charge of cor-

RAGA TO HOLD 2 RALLIES ON OCT 28

ruption in the implementation of seven resolves.

“Saat Nishchay is a scheme formulated by him. We will get it probed after an LJP government is formed.

And if found guilty, the chief minister will also go to jail,” he said.

Earlier, talking to reporters at Patna airport before flying for his election rallies, Chirag said “12 crore Biharis,

including ministers in his cabinet and media persons, know about widespread corruption in implementation of seven resolves”. Continuing with his tirade against Kumar, he alleged illegal trade in liquor is rampant in the state due to patronage of the bigwigs in the Nitish Kumar’s government. “Why doesn’t he gets this inquired too?”

Chirag asked.—PTI

Muzaffarpur: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar exhorted voters to bring him back to power so that the development initiatives taken by his government in the past 15 years could be continued.

At a rally in Sakra assembly segment, Muzaffarpur, to canvass for party’s nominee Ashok Kumar Choudhary, the JD(U) leader also pointed at Leader of the Opposition, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav , saying some try to get publicity by attacking him.

“Some leaders get publicity and eyeballs by talking against me. Let them do it . I am not interested in any publicity. I have worked for Bi-

‘Borders of country secure under PM’s leadership’

JP Nadda addresses a public rally in Aurangabad.

Nitish Kumar addresses an election rally at Mahua on Monday.

har and will continue to do so, if given another chance,” he said. He also targeted the RJD obliquely by accusing it of promoting nepotism during its stint in power. “For some , their family, sons ,daughters are all that matters...

For me, the entire state and people are my family and I keep working

for their development,” he said. “You all must go to your respective polling stations to cast your vote for a government which has been committed to the development of the state s for the past 15 years. There are a lot of projects still going on towards giving you a better life,” he said. —ANI

Aurangabad: BJP president JP Nadda addressing a public rally in Aurangabad said, “Aren’t all borders of the country secure under PM Narendra Modi’s leadership? In the last six years, 4700 kilometers long 4-lane roads have been constructed from Arunachal Pradesh to the Galwan so that jawans can reach the borders

without delay, whenever needed.” He also said, “When our leaders speak they talk about development.

But remember 15 years ago when polls were being fought in the state candidates spoke about caste, religion and about dividing people. When Narendra Modi came he changed the culture of Indian politics.” —ANI

‘60 scams occurred under Nitish’s leadership’

Tejashwi Yadav during a public rally at Bhagalpur on Monday.

Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday said that besides unemployment, inflation is the biggest issue in Bihar Assembly Elections as onion prices are skyrocketing. He also alleged that 60 scams to the tune of about Rs 30,000 crore have taken place in the state under the

leadership of Nitish Kumar. "Inflation is the biggest issue. BJP people used to wear a garland of onions. Now it is about to touch Rs 100/kg. Those who were speaking about onion when it touched Rs 50-60/kg are now silent when it has crossed Rs 80/kg. Starvation and poverty are rising in the state," Ya-

dav said while speaking to media.

"There is unemployment, small traders are destroyed. GDP is falling, we are going through an economic crisis. Farmers are being destroyed, youth is unemployed, Bihar is poor and people are migrating for education, jobs and medical help," he added. —ANI

MP BYPOLLS : Voting on 28 assembly seats will take place on Nov 3

Afraid of by-poll results BJP trying to buy what they can get, says Nath Bhopal: Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Monday alleged that afraid of the forthcoming by-poll results the Bharatiya Janata Party has gone to the market again to buy what they can get.

While addressing a press conference, the Congress leader said, "BJP has got clarity about the results of this election (Madhya Pradesh by-polls) are going to be on November 10. They are so afraid that they have started running again to the market to buy what they can get. I have received calls from many MLAs that BJP is calling them and making offers."

The Congress leader said that in the month of March, he had rejected the "politics of bargain".

‘Kamal Nath, Digvijaya biggest gaddars’

Kamal Nath

"I have written a letter to the Election Commission today that these elections should be fair," he said.

On Sunday, former Congress MLA Rahul Lodhi joined BJP in the presence of MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Bhopal.

A total of 22 Congress MLAs had resigned from state Assembly in March this year, paving the way for BJP's Shivraj Singh Chouhan to take over as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister for the fourth time. —ANI

New Delhi: Accusing former CMs Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh of being the "biggest traitors" in Madhya Pradesh, BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia said they betrayed voters' trust by running a "corrupt" government and he had to leave the Congress after people's issues raised by him were not addressed despite approaching "every port of call". He also expressed confidence that the BJP will "win a majority", if not all, of the 28 assembly seats where bypolls will be held on November 3. “BJP has everything to gain, while the Congress has everything to lose,” Scindia said. —PTI

‘CONG GAVE ENOUGH RESPECT TO JYOTIRADITYA’

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Coal scam: Former Union min Dilip Ray sentenced to 3-year imprisonment New Delhi: Former Union minister Dilip Ray was on Monday sentenced to three-year imprisonment in a coal scam case. Ray was convicted in the case which pertains to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.

A Delhi court had earlier this month re-

Dilip Ray

served the order for October 26 after hearing arguments from the Central Bureau of In-

vestigation (CBI) as well the convicts. The court directed the convicts to be present before it physically on that date.

Ray was convicted under various sections including 409 of the (IPC), which pertains to criminal breach of trust of trust by a public servant.—ANI

SC JUNKS UBHL PLEA AGAINST HC New Delhi: The SC dismissed a plea filed by liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s United Breweries Holdings Limited (UBHL) to challenge a Karnataka HC order to uphold the winding up of the company for recovery of dues payable by Kingfisher Airlines Ltd.—PTI

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India’s energy future is bright, secure: PM Modi New Delhi: India will drive the global energy demand, PM Narendra Modi said on Monday as he showcased his government’s recent reforms in the sector to global investors.

Speaking at the India Energy Forum by CERAWeek, Modi said the coronavirus had resulted in global energy demand falling by onethird, investment decisions being impacted and predictions of a contraction in demand over the next few years.

India was on track to meet its COP21 commitment of raising electricity from renewable energy sources to 175 gigawatts by 2022. “We have extended target to

PM to launch national conf on vigilance, anticorruption today

PM Narendra Modi addresses 4th India Energy Forum by ERAWeek, virtually via VC in New Delhi on Monday. —PHOTO BY ANI

450 GW by 2030,” he said, adding India has lowest carbon emissions. “India’s reform has been on high speed in five years,” he emphasised. India’s energy future is bright and

secure, Modi said, adding access to energy should be affordable and reliable. “Our energy sector will be growthcentric, investor-friendly, environment conscious,” he added.

India’s case fatality rate at 1.5%, lowest since March 22 New Delhi: India’s CFR of COVID-19 has touched 1.5 per cent, the lowest since March 22 and is continuously declining, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) here on Monday. With 480 new deaths, the COVID-19 toll mounted to 1,19,014, as per the Union Health Ministry.

According to the WHO, CFR is a measure of the severity of a disease defined as the proportion of reported cases of a specified disease or condition, which are fatal within a specified time.

Lowest since July 22 when 37,000 new cases added. —ANI

Civil Defence volunteers hold anti-coronavirus mascot to raise awareness about Coronavirus at Connaught Place, in New Delhi.

Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar tests positive for Covid Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

In a message, Pawar said his health condition is fine. “I have tested positive for COVID-19. My health condi-

tion is fine. As a precautionary measure I have admitted self to Breach Candy Hospital on the advice of doctors,” the NCP leader said.

Thursday, he tested negative for covid, was in home quarantine.

New Delhi: CBI organises the National Conference coinciding with ‘Vigilance Awareness Week’, which is observed in India every year from October 27 to November 2.

According to the PMO, the inaugural session of the conference will be livestreamed and available on ‘pmindiawe b c a s t . n i c. i n’ link. —ANI

New Delhi: Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Nitin Gadkari will lay the foundation stones of 9 NH projects with a total length of nearly 262 kms worth over Rs 2752 crore in Tripura on Tuesday.

“The Projects, on completion, will provide faster and hasslefree inter-state and international connectivity to Bangladesh and will be a major stride towards strengthening the tourism sector of the State. The new projects will provide better connectivity, fast and safe movement of traffic to various tourist places, historical places and religious places in the entire State and also

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generate a large number of employment,” said the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways.

According to the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, these National Highway projects will improve the transport of agricultural goods and access to greater markets and will reduce the cost of goods and services.

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Plea for Salian’s case be filed in HC : SC New Delhi: The SC on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking a court-monitored probe by the CBI into the death of actor Sushant’s former manager Disha Salian. A bench headed by CJ SA Bobde asked the petitioner to withdraw the plea from the apex court and approach the Bombay HC with the same. PIL sought a court-monitored CBI probe into the death of Salian along with Sushant Singh saying both are interlinked.

The petitioner further stated that as per reports Salian’s case file is missing or has been deleted from records of investigation.

‘We should talk on Common Civil Code’ New Delhi: International Joint General Secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Surendra Jain has backed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Joint General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale’s reported demand for a debate on the Uniform Civil Code.

VHP leader Jain said, “What is the problem if the Common Civil Code is discussed openly, and whatever apprehensions are there, they

Nitin Gadkari to lay foundation stones of 9 highway projects today

VHP TO HOST 200 MAHANTS, SADHUS IN DEL

Surendra Jain

should be neutralised.

I think it is very important that there should be an open debate on the Common Civil Code in order to stop the feeling of al-

ienation for the development of the country and to create a peaceful environment. This is the demand of today.”

“Bhimrao Ambedkar

himself had placed this in the Directive Principle of Constitution. SC has given instructions that we should implement the Common Civil Code, ” asked Jain. —ANI

During the interaction, international players Chauhan and Rajulal Dhaka appreciated the out of turn policy of the state government for promoting the players in the state along with the ‘no mask-no entry’ campaign. Both the players said that such a policy is not there in any other state to support the players.

Medical and Health Minister Dr. Raghu Sharma said that the state government has succeeded in preventing infection of corona by better medical management. “Our treatment protocol is considered to be completely safe and life-saving. I appeal to

the officers and volunteers associated with the mass movement to make this campaign more intense. The state government has extended it till November 30 in view of its importance,” he said.

Minister of State for Education Govind Singh Dotasara said that the state government is taking decisions in the public interest by taking public representatives, religious leaders, social activists, medical experts etc. together.

Minister of State for Higher Education Bhanwar Singh Bhati said that it is a matter of happiness that college teachers and students

associated with NSS, NCC and Scouts and Guides continuously participate in mass movement against Corona by distributing masks, putting up posters, using social media etc Minister of State for Health, Dr. Subhash Garg said that the way the Chief Minister has interacted with the youths associated with these organizations for the purpose of protecting the lives of the people of the state will definitely increase their enthusiasm and they can work more energy.

Earlier, Principal Secretary, Medical and Health Department,

SC stays contempt proceedings in Uttarakhand HC against ex-CMs, CS The SC on Monday stayed the contempt proceedings pending in the Uttarakhand HC against former CMs ND Tiwari, BS Koshiyari, BC Khanduri, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Vijay Bahuguna and CS who have not yet started paying rent for the accommodations allotted to them. HC, after finding that govern-

ment was delaying recoveries of market rent, had initiated contempt proceedings. HC had also quashed legislation, passed by the state, which permitted former CMs to pay appropriate rent instead of market rent for the bungalow allotted to them.

Unfortunate, say SC on ex-HC Judge’s attempt to forcibly enter house of SC Judge The SC on Monday termed an incident as unfortunate, in which for mer judge of HC forcefully attempted to enter residence of retired top court judge Justice R. Banumathi, who retired in July this year, in Chennai.

Why no Bharat Ratna to Savarkar? Raut asks BJP New Delhi: Amid the ongoing war of words between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena, senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has asked why the BJP government at the Centre had not given Bharat Ratna to Vinayak Damodar (Veer) Savarkar.

The question comes a day after BJP spokes-

person Ram Kadam asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray why he did not utter a single word of praise for Veer Savarkar in the Dussehra rally and claimed he was afraid of the Congress party, which Kadam said had “repeatedly used derogatory remarks” against Veer Savarkar. —ANI

Akhil Arora gave a detailed presentation on medical arrangements like Covid-19 testing facilities, plasma therapy, life saving drugs, oxygen, expansion of ICU and ventilators facilities, 181 helplines etc.

pressed its concern that the citizens of Delhi-NCR get to breathe clean and fresh air and appointed Justice (retd) Madan B Lokur, a former judge of the top court, to act as the one-man monitoring committee to prevent stubble burning in the states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, and submit a report.

The order was issued on a plea, which referred to a Harvard University study that air pollution may now be an important factor that aggravates a mild COVID-19 infection into an acute one, —ANI

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POWER Gallery 23 IAS OFFICERS RETIRING IN OCTOBER

As many as 23 IAS officers of various cadres and batches are retiring in October, 2020. They are: Kumar Sanjay Krishna of Assam-Meghalaya cadre; Shobhendra Kumar of Bihar; Chhattar Singh Dehre of Chhattisgarh; Sangeeta Singh, Sunil M Patel and A J Shah of Gujarat; Ramakanat Singh and Binay Kuamr Roy of Jharkhand; A B Ibrahim of Karnataka; M B Ojha of Madhya Pradesh; R R Jadhav and N K Poyam of Maharashtra; Bijay Kumar Nayak of Odisha; Rajeev Swarup and Shyam Singh Rajpurohit of Rajasthan; M Vijayakumar of Tamil Nadu; Bibhu Prasad Acharya of Telangana; Ishvari Prasad Pandey of Uttar Pradesh; Atul Kumar Gupta of Uttarakhand; Hari Ramulu, Syed Sarwar Imam, Sailesh Mukhopadhayay of West Bengal.

INTER-CADRE DEPUTATION OF VIVEK RAJ SINGH EXTENDED

Inter-cadre deputation of Vivek Raj Singh - from Assam-Meghalaya cadre to Madhya Pradesh cadre - has been extended for a period of two years beyond October 25, 2020. He is a 2006 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

V K SHARMA IS INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR IN ANIL AMBANI LED RELIANCE

Former Chairman of the LIC V K Sharma has joined as Independent Director in Anil Ambani led Reliance.

MRS. RENUKA GERA TO JOIN AS DIRECTOR (IS&P), BHEL ON DEC 1

Mrs. Renuka Gera, Executive Director of BHEL, will be taking over the charge as Director (Industrial System & Products), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) on December 1, 2020.

She will succeed present incumbent S Balakrishnan retiring in November, 2020.

1990 BATCH IPS OFFICER DR B SRINIVAS PROMOTED TO DGP GRADE IN J&K

Dr. B Srinivas has been promoted to the grade of Director General of Police in Jammu & Kashmir.

He is a 1990 batch IPS officer of J&K cadre.

30 ISS PROBATIONERS GET POSTINGS

As many as 30 Probationers of Indian Statistical Service (ISS) of Examination 2019 have been posted to Grade IV. They are: Harshit Agrawal, Jagrati Goyal, Priyanka Anjoy, Himanshi Trivedi, Bhawana Joshi, Ankit Kumar Jain, Akshita Arora, Anjali Maury, Preeti Tiwari, Alisha Khanam, Jyoti Nagarkoti, Sonakhya Samaddar and many others.

SUNIL KUMAR GULATI APPOINTED AS CHIEF RESIDENT COMMISSIONER, HARYANA BHAWAN

Sunil Kumar Gulati has been appointed as Chief Resident Commissioner, Haryana Bhawan, New Delhi. He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

VINAY PARTAP SINGH IS ADDITIONAL RESIDENT COMMISSIONER, HARYANA BHAWAN

Vinay Partap Singh has been appointed as Additional Resident Commissioner, Haryana Bhawan. He is a 2011 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

V UMASHANAKR APPOINTED S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO HARYANA CM

V Umashankar has been appointed as Principal Secretary to Chief Minister of Haryana. He is a 1993 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

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He called upon the cadets and volunteers associated with NCC, NSS and Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan to participate in connecting people with this ambitious campaign to defeat Corona.

The Chief Minister said that the pollution caused by fireworks increases the risk of spreading of Covid-19 and adversely affects the health of the infected and recovered people.

According to the advice of medical experts, we should celebrate Deepawali without crackers and inspire others to save life from corona, he said.

Controlling lawfully!... days and will be implemented immediately.

The draft law under consideration would be placed before the court within a period of a few days, Mehta assured the court while urging the Court to keep its October 16 order in abeyance.

The Supreme Court had, on October 16, ex-

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besides regaining it’s image as a political alternative to the people.

“In view of this, we feel uncomfortable and suffocated in the party, forcing us to take difficult decision of leaving the party,” they stated. —ANI

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“The two ministers expressed satisfaction that agreement of BECA (Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement) will be signed during the visit,” the defence ministry said in a statement. Separately, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, focussing on a broad spec-

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The ten Rajya Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh falling vacant are three of BJP, four of Samajwadi party, two of Bahujan Samaj Party and one of the Congress.

The BJP’s candidates for Rajya Sabha polls from Uttar Pradesh include Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri, party’s general secretary Arun Singh and Neeraj Shekhar. All three are sitting MPs. Besides them, other five candidates are Geeta Shakya, Haridwar Dubey, Brijlal, BL Varma and Seema Dwivedi.

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‘WAR FOR PURITY’ CAMPAIGN Vikas Sharma Jaipur: The ‘Shuddh ke liye Yudh’ (war for purity) campaign kickstart on Monday after the state government formed a core group to make this campaign effective, which include Principal Secretary of the Home Department, the Government Secretary of the Department of Food and Civil Supplies and the Government Secretary of the Animal Husbandry and Dairy Department. The Medical and Health Department will play the role of Coordinator and will also be the administrative department of this group.

At the launch of the campaign, health minister Dr Raghu Shar-

ma said that strict action will be taken against the adulterators in the ‘Shuddh ke liye Yudh’ campaign.

He said that during the festive season, complaints of adulteration increase in products especially made of milk. Therefore, this campaign has been started from today in the entire state as per the directions of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.

He said that at present there are more than 11 testing laboratories in Rajasthan and samples in these laboratories are tested using high technology.

Apart from this, the Health Department has developed a mechanism in which there is no possibility of contact between the person taking the sample and the one who is testing it.

He said the campaign currently being run is a special campaign, but under the ‘Nirogi Rajasthan’ campaign the government is making efforts to take action against the adulterators throughout the year.

4,000 TINS OF ADULTERATED MAWA SEIZED

Bikaner: A team of the medical department seized thousands of containers of adulterated mawa in Bikaner on Monday. The Mawa was to be supplied to several cities of the state. Following a tip off that adulterated mawa is being prepared at cold storage near satellite hospital, the team raided the premises and found 4,000 tin containers with adulterated mawa. The samples were collected for testing and legal action will be taken against the trader. Bikaner is the main center of Mawe in the state and every day large quantities of mawa is sent to Jodhpur, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Nagaur, Churu, Sikar and other areas.

212 KG ADULTERATED MAWA DESTROYED Kishangarh: Health department team under the ‘Shudh ke liye Yuddh’ campaign on Monday seized and destroyed 212 kg of adulterated Mawa from the town. On the first day of the campaign the team raided Sitaram mawa trader near Dant petrol pump and took samples from there along with seizing the adulterated Mawa from the trader. As the news of the administrative action spread in the town many sweet shop owners closed their shops and ran away. Protocol officer Alok Jain said that the campaign will continue and running away won’t help much. The health team destroyed the seized mawa at the trenching ground in the town.

AJMER COLLECTOR FORMS TWO TEAMS Ajmer. In compliance with the state govt orders district collector Prakash Rajpurohit constituted two teams for Shuddh ke liye Yuddh campaign in the city to ensure pure, hygienic and unadulterated food items during the festival season. The district administration has two dedicated phone numbers 0145-263 1111 and 0145-2627 300 where anybody having complaints about adulterated food items can call and also win a reward of Rs 51,000 if the complaint is found correct. On Monday the team led by sub division officer Avdhesh Meena raided the Mawa market at Madar Gate in the city and took samples from leading mawa traders.

Information & Technology Dept to become battleground for supremacy!

Rajendra Chhabra

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t appears that all is not well in the Information and Technology Department (IT), since, for the past four months, the chair of the Secretary is lying vacant here. Till July, before he fell ill, IAS Abhay Kumar had handled the affairs of the department in an exemplary manner and then for sometime Akhil Arora was given the additional charge. But sometime after this, for two months, no one was handling the additional charge as well.

The state government had issued orders for Ajitabh Sharma to handle the charge, however, the man declined. Now,

Dinesh Kumar

Virendra Singh

after much trouble, the additional charge of IT has been handed to Dinesh Kumar but now a controversy has marred the department. Dinesh has not been given the ‘reins’ of RAJCOMP. in truth, the state government’s ‘company’ holds the ‘power’ behind the entire department and is, in a way, a field agency for the department since

all planning and work execution falls under the purview of RAJCOMP. The secretary of the department is also the CMD of this company but for the first time, it has happened that the Secretary, in this case Dinesh Kumar, has not been handed the important post.

The file that was sent to CMO for the appointment of CMD was re-

turned on the direction that Virendra Singh, serving as Director IT, will become MD while Dinesh Kumar would be given charge of Chairman, and now the entire episode is pending, for want of final order in the matter!

Notably, the Chairman’s position is a decorative position while the real power lies with the MD. Therefore, being the MD, Virendra Singh would become the whole and sole in the department and thus Dinesh would be merely for show which would result in a tug of war in the department which will ultimately affect the work of the department.

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Barring Jaipur, all other Raj airports reel under corona

Dacoit Gurjar, constable injured during encounter in Dholpur village

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Dholpur: In an encounter in the Madakhur village in Bari Sadar police station area of the district between the dacoit Keshav Gurjar gang and police constable Avdhesh Sharma was seriously injured.

The encounter started when a joint police team surrounded the dacoit Keshav Gurjar gang in Madakhur village in the Dang area but before the police could act the guards deputed by dacoit Keshav Gurjar started firing on the police team.

The police also retaliated with return fire. Constable Avdhesh Sharma sustained a bullet injury in the stomach and was referred to the district Trauma hospital but due to his serious condition was referred to Jaipur.

While Keshav Gurjar and most of his gang members were able to escape, police detained Gurjar’s wife along with 2 others.

Meanwhile, constable Sharma was operated under the monitoring of SMS hospital Superintendent Dr Rajesh Sharma at SMS hospital in Jaipur. His condition is said to be stable.

Jaipur: Daily cases of coronavirus may witness a dip, the economy may be functioning with future promises, but even after five months, the scene of aviation isn’t improved much. The scenario at airports in the state is also no different. Although Jaipur airport has shown some improvement, but other locations are doing badly when it comes to the passenger load. The dismal show is also impacting the tourism scene in the state.

After Jaipur, Udaipur airport is the second most important airport in the state and had been performing really well until last season when on average 18 flights were operated daily from the Lake city airport.

This year despite the tourist season already on, there are 6 flights scheduled daily at the Udaipur airport but a couple of these also get cancelled every day.

Director of the Udaipur airport Nandita Bhatt said that Covid-19 pandemic hasn’t yet allowed the flights to operate to their capacity. Jodhpur airport which boasted

of connectivity to 7 cities which included Indore, Surat and Ahmedabad until last year only offers connectivity to Delhi Mumbai Chennai and Bangalore this year.

The Sun City airport, at an average, is operating 3-4 fights every day.

Jaisalmer airport has fared even worse with the flights to Jaipur and Surat being stopped.

Another desert airport of Bikaner is also in dire straits with only one flight offering connectivity to Delhi while the Air India flight to Jaipur has been stopped.

The only small airport breathing easy seems to be the Kishangarh airport where not only old connectivity to Ahmedabad has been restored but a new flight to the same destination by Star Air will also start from 10 November.

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4,775 aspirants take RUHS exam for medical staff First India Bureau Jaipur: After postponing exams twice due to technical issues, Rajasthan University of Health Sciences (RUHS) finally held the offline exams for the Medical Officers (MO) at 13 centres across the city on Monday.

Rajasthan University of Health Sciences registrar Kaluram said that the examination was held with corona guidelines in which 88% of the candidates attended the exam. 4,775 out of the total 5,437 registered candidates appeared for the MO exam.

The administration left no chances of any technical interference and had installed jammers outside every examination hall.

PUNJAB HAMMER KOLKATA

Punjab seal the deal with seven balls to spare to register an eight-wicket victory.

Mandeep Singh (66*) and Chris Gayle (51) guided KXIP to 150/2 in 18.5 overs to a fifth consecutive victory in the IPL. A statement win against KKR which lifts them to fourth in the standings.

LOOSING A BATTLE TO WIN THE ‘WAR’!

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hey say when one door closes, another opens, but you have to be willing to look for it. The saying fits perfectly on one ‘young’ leader of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) who lost a battle but actually won a ‘war’, thereby proving his credentials. Well this ‘youngster’ had been wishing to be appointed as the state president of the youth wing, and he ran about from pillar to post to become one too.

Meeting senior leaders and paying his ‘respects’, however, did not provide him the spot he was looking for. But the youth did not become disheartened and realized that instead of trying to woo the local leaders, he should probably try to meet even their boss in New

Delhi. As they say where there is a will, there is a way and thus the youth reached Delhi and lobbied hard to meet the National President of the saffron party JP Nadda and it was just his luck that he succeeded. To everyone’s utter surprise, the youth not only spent time with Nadda, but he also post his picture with him creating ripples in the youth wing of the saffron party! This youth Rajesh Gurjar - is now being viewed as the next upcoming young turk of the Rajasthan BJP. Whether he fulfills his ‘potential’ remains to be seen.

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ANYTHING FOR SURVIVAL!

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olitics is a funny game where those who swear by standing for the party, could end up making the party loose so that their survival is assured. And it appears that two BJP leaders have been ‘smitten’ by this thought process!

Well the recent issue pertains to the local body election and particularly of the Greater Jaipur municipal board where tickets have been accorded to individuals who are not favoured by two

former ministers of the saffron party. Under such a situation, the BJP leaders have started ‘Karseva’ of these candidates itself and even hardcore Congress voters have

been phoned and told to never vote for these BJP candidates, while they are rooting for victory of a former IPS! —Naresh Sharma

There is something about kindness that is warm and spreads like wildfire. It is a rare man who has had kindness done to him and is not kind to others.

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CHIEF MINISTER WRITES TO PRIME MINISTER AGAIN

Declare ERCP a Nat’l Project: ‘Determined’ Gehlot to Modi Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has again written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanding the status of National Project to the East Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP).

Drawing attention of the Prime Minister to the lack of availability of drinking water in 13 districts of the eastern part of the state, Gehlot has stressed in his letter that this project will provide relief to the large population living

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in these districts from the serious crisis of lack of clean drinking water. Also, 2 lakh hectares of new irrigation area is also proposed to be developed under this project.

The Chief Minister has also mentioned the importance of ERCP and acceptance of it as National Project Status in his address during PM Modi’s Rajasthan visit on two separate oc-

‘Sensitive’ Yogi releases `50L for dead Corona warrior babu’s kin But wife’s pension file and daughter’s job are still pending Ahtesham Siddiqui Lucknow: IAS officer Sushil Kumar Maurya, who was acting as a nodal officer on Covid-19 duty in Uttar Pradesh, died at SGPGI Hospital while undergoing treatment after being tested corona positive nearly a month back. The UP government, on Monday, released a lump sum of Rs50 lakh towards his family on lines of the announcements done for Corona warriors.

Maurya was acting as nodal officer in districts like Bareilly and Sonbhadra during pandemic.

He was posted as special secretary (Language) in UP government. On the death of a very decent, affable, good-natured officer of 2009 batch, the entire UP bureaucracy has become shocked. Officials say that Maurya was the first IAS officer of the country to die of Corona while performing his duty.

After posting, Maurya contacted Corona and was undergoing treatment at SGPGI Hospital at Lucknow.

Sushil Kumar Maurya

Although he did not suffer from pre-condition, but his condition worsened and he even needed plasma during treatment for which the bureaucracy did all it could. A special ambulance carrying plasma was rushed from Noida to Lucknow, however, inspite of umpteen and untiring efforts of bureaucracy and doctors, he could not be saved.

Meanwhile, sanction has been given by UP Government’s Relief Commissioner and Revenue Secretary IAS Sanjay Goel on behalf of UP govt, with the approval of financial assistance of Rs50 lakhs. Lucknow DM IAS Abhishek Prakash has been issued an order to provide the amount to the be-

reaved family.

Notably, it is the first instance that after the death of an IAS officer, money has been received by his family as financial assistance.

But the surprising thing is that after all efforts of the bureaucracy of UP and UP IAS Association, who were in perpetual tears on the demise of IAS officer, the pension file of his wife Savita Maurya and the job for the daughter, is still kept in the run of red tapeism. In such a situation, the question arises that when an IAS officer dies due to Corona, the assistance to his family is also delayed. The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh monitors Covid-19 daily and although he has issued strict instructions that there cannot be any negligence, but when the officers sitting in bureaucracy spend so much time in providing the right to the family of an IAS officer, then one can wonder how long the facilities will reach the general public after CM’s announcement.

casions in July and October 2018. “16 multipurpose irrigation projects have been accorded national project status in various states by the Government of India, but none of the projects in Rajasthan have received national project status yet,” Gehlot said in the letter. It is noteworthy that the Chief Minister has written this third letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in continuation of the letters written on this subject on July 9, 2020 and July 20, 2020.

Reopening of educational institutions: Home dept prepares draft for guidelines analysis of their situation.

Principal Secretary (Home) has also asked all the district collectors to hold such consultations locally and send their suggestions on reopening of the educational institutions in the state.

PS Kumar said that the state govt would decide on the phased reo-

pening once it receives inputs from all concerned stakeholders.

The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of the state govt will be based on the SOPs released by the School Education & literacy department and Govt. of India.

Government of India has already issued it’s Standard Operating Procedure.

Sensex dips 540 points, RIL tanks 4%

Raj public reps seek help for traders affected in Maha fire

Civil Procedure Code gets nod

Mumbai: Equity indices spiralled lower on Monday following heavy losses in Reliance Industries after Amazon won an interim arbitration award to stall the Mukesh Ambani-led firm’s acquisition of Future Group’s retail assets.

A sharp fall in the rupee and a negative trend in global markets further unnerved investors, traders said.

After tanking 737 points during the day, the 30-share BSE index recovered some lost ground to end 540 points or 1.33 per cent lower at 40,145.50. The broader NSE Nifty tumbled 162.60 points or 1.36 per cent to 11,767.75.

Index heavyweight RIL accounted for most of the losses, sinking 3.97 per cent, after Amazon.com Inc won an interim arbitration award against its partner Future Group for selling its retail business to RIL for Rs 24,713 crore. Amazon, which acquired an indirect minority stake in the retail and fashion group last year, alleged that Future’s sale of its retail to Reliance breached its pre-existing contract.

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Jaipur: The Gehlot government took a major decision on Monday against the farm act passed by the union government as the government approved amendment in the Civil Procedure Code.

Law Minister Shanti Dhariwal gave the approval for the amendment and now any land measuring about 5 acre in area would not be attached. A bill in this regard will be tabled in the upcoming session of the state assembly.

First India Bureau Jaipur: The state home department has prepared the draft of the guidelines for reopening of the schools and coaching centres in the state, informed Principal Secretary (Home) Abhay Kumar on Monday. Kumar said that the draft has been sent to the education and health de-

Jaipur: Over 800 shops of migrant traders of Rajasthan were gutted to fire in a major fire that broke out in Mumbai’s city center recently. The traders, mostly from Jalore district, have suffered losses worth crores of rupees.

They were running mobile shops in the city center in which the fire suddenly broke out and left the mall devastated.

The state forest minister Sukhram Vishnoi

CS Rajeeva Swarup taking a meeting where RHB Commissioner Pawan Arora was also present.

ti Dhariwal and after clearance from the Cabinet through circulation, the construction of flats

will start.

After the Cabinet approval, the land will be allotted to the Rajasthan

Housing Board.

A meeting to decide on 24,810 sq meter land in Jalupura, for the pro-

has requested the Maharashtra government to help the migrants by writing a letter while Jalore MP Devji Patel reached Mumbai and took stock of the situa-

tion and met the affected traders.

Patel will also meet leaders of Maharashtra and narrate the pain of migrant traders whose shops were gutted.

Yogesh Sharma Jaipur: Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee President Govind Singh Dotasra held a video conference with all the district in charges of the party over the issue of farm laws enacted by the Centre.

AICC general secretary in charge Ajay Maken also joined the virtual conference from New Delhi.

Dotasra introduced each in charge to Maken after which the discus-

JDA to provide land to Rajasthan Housing Board Jaipur: The Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) will provide land to Rajasthan Housing Board (RHB) for multistorey flat project for MLAs. The proposal was approved in a meeting chaired by chief secretary Rajeeva Swarup.

With this, a Cabinet memo regarding handing over 22,260 sq meter land in Jyoti Nagar east was also forwarded to the UDH minister Shan-

Devji Patel meeting migrants from Jalore in Mumbai.

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Maken’s virtual meet with Raj Congmen

MULTI-STOREY FLATS FOR MLAS Dr Rituraj Sharma

partments for their inputs & suggestions on the guidelines.

He said that the state govt vide it’s guidelines released on 30 September had mentioned its intention of reopening the educational institutions in the state in a phased manner in consultation with the school managements based on their own

ject is proposed to be held on November 5.

On the other hand, tendering process for the construction of flats for the legislators is going on. RHB Commissioner Pawan Arora informed the chief secretary about the progress related to the project.

Principal secretary UDH Bhaskar A Sawant, collector Antar Singh Nehra, Jaipur Development Commissioner Gaurav Goyal and other officials were present in the meeting.

Ajay Maken

Govind Singh Dotasara

sions over the farm laws were held.

Maken said that the entire country is standing against the antifarmers laws and Congress is standing with the farmers over this issue.

He said that Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party leader Rahul Gandhi have already said that the party is standing with the farmers in their struggle and will continue to do so.

Maken has interacted

with the state unit leaders after a long gap. He was not feeling well and therefore he could not attend the events held by the Rajasthan PCC. Dotasra asked the district leaders to give a detailed report on the issue from their respective districts. Earlier in the day PCC chief Dotasra tweeted saying, there is a program to communicate through video conferencing with Congress in-charge where @ajaymakenji will also join.

KANGANA: UDDHAV WORST PRODUCT OF NEPOTISM Mumbai: Hitting back at Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray for his comments at a rally, actor Kangana Ranaut on Monday described him as the worst product of nepotism and said her state Himachal Pradesh is the land of the gods not ganja fields’.

The actor, who has been vocal about her criticism of the state government’s handling of the investigation into actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death and labelled

Bollywood a drug haven, lashed out against Thackeray a day after his Dussehra address.

“People who have no means of livelihood in their home come to Mumbai and betray it.

Calling Mumbai PoK is in fact the failure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He had said he would get back PoK into India,” Thackeray said on Sunday. Ranaut’s remark equating Mumbai with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir had led to a furore, drawing the battle-

lines between the Shiv Sena and her.

“Those crying for justice for Bihar’s son are indulging in character assassination of Maharashtra’s son,” the chief minister said at the Sena’s annual Dussehra rally,, breaking his silence on allegations against his son Aaditya Thackeray in the Rajput death case. “As a CM, you have let down an entire state only because you are angry with a woman who is of your son’s age,” she said.

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THE VIRTUAL CONNECT Introducing the first glimpse of the virtual edition of The Fashion Connect by First India, which was shot on Monday at Rambagh Palace —PHOTOS BY MUKESH KIRADOO

—PHOTOS BY JITEN AGARWAL

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oing digital is the ‘New Normal’, and this is definitely something everyone is adapting to. Since the existence of the Coronavirus, everything has taken a toll and the digital presence of everything and everyone has eventually increased.

You might be aware of the fact that The Fashion Connect Season 7 by First India was cancelled just 5 days before the big day back in March this year.

But that did not stop the excitement, as we are back with the virtual season for the same, and TFC-

Jagdeesh Chandra with (from left) Shaan, Nehal, Anita, Varsha, Priety, Rashi, Lokesh, Sanjay, Nishi, Vanshika, Reet, Jatin, Jiten, Sahil, Syed Umar and Rishee

8 will take place at Rambagh Palace (dates to be announced soon).

The shoot for the virtual edition of TFC took place at Maharani Mahal at Rambagh Palace on Monday, and it is going to be out on all the digital platforms soon. Happening for the first time in Rajasthan, virtual TFC is going to set a benchmark, with the show beautifully curated by show director Lokesh Sharma, fashion designer

Varsha Sethi, photographer Jiten, videographer Sahil, hair and makeup by Riya and Vishnu from Beauty Creation, and top models from New Delhi.

Talking about the virtual edition, brand ambassador of TFC, Rishi Miglani stated, “People have been eagerly waiting for TFC this year since it was called off a few months back due to COVID. We wanted to do something different and eventually

landed upon this idea. Being the first ones from Rajasthan to do a virtual fashion show of such a huge scale, we are going to absolutely nail it.”

Show director, Lokesh Sharma stated, “I have been a part of various virtual events, but this is the first one in Rajasthan. Since TFC is so close to my heart, we’ve worked really hard for this, and can’t wait for the final outcome to be showcased to the audience.”

Varsha Sethi

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story evolved in Lamba village of Tonk district after the nationwide lockdown was imposed due to COVID-19 pandemic.

With this unavailability of sanitary pads, a group of adolescents from project area in Tonk district took the courage to take up this issue about the unavailability of sanitary pads and highlighted their demands through a video clip. They broke the long driven custom of silence with regards to men-

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ovid-19 pandemic and the resultant lockdown has caused a major disruption in delivery of healthcare services. While grocery and daily need items in stores are easily available availability of and access to affordable sanitary napkins by adolescent girls residing in rural areas has posed as a major challenge since the lockdown came into effect.

Maintaining good menstrual health and hygiene requires a trade-off between availability of sanitary napkins along and effective behavior change communication thereby bridging the supply and demand gap. In Tonk districts, after the lockdown was announced, the girls in villages of Tonk and Todaraisingh blocks started facing problems in access to free sanitary napkins. The adolescent girls in these blocks who are part of FAYA project being implemented by Shiv Shiksha Samiti with support from TYPF and Population Foundation of India.

Adolescents in the intervention geographies, through capacity building sessions have started understanding the need of taking care of their health and they are also working with the community gatekeepers to get better access to health services.

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struation.

One of the adolescent girl Priya Harijan (Age 15) said “During periods, we used to approach our teachers in schools or Anganwadi Workers at Anganwadi centers (before lockdown) for pads on routine basis.

Leaving our hesitance behind, we could do this as Maya didi (field staff from Shiv Shiksha Samiti, PFI’s implementation partner) would tell us during group meetings that it is a normal process and we should not hesitate speaking about it. But now due to lock down, schools & anganwadi centers are closed and we were not getting Sanitary napkins when required.

Me and my friends discussed the problem with each other and decided to develop a video highlighting our need for sanitary napkin. We shared this video with Maya didi to seek her support.”

Ekta Chaudhary, Project Coordinator, SSSR Tonk explains – “Adolescent girls raised their voice to demand sanitary napkin to be included in the essential commodity list. Further, SSSR presented this concern in front of district administration and advocated for easing supply chain of sanitary napkins in the district. Meanwhile to respond immediately to problem, project staff donated a part of their own salaries and also took support from local philanthropists to make sanitary napkins available to women & girls in need.”

The efforts paid at last - In response to adolescents’ relentless campaigning, district administration readily issued 5000 sanitary napkins to SSSR

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for further distribution, for adolescents in need. SSSR team distributed these to women & girls in need at village level. Then District Collector, Tonk & the Chief Medical and Health office supported the cause out rightly.

Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director, Population Foundation of India explains “Adolescent girls and women faced a serious problem of non-availability of sanitary napkin, during the lockdown. It is encouraging to see these young girls stepping up for themselves and ensuring continued supply with support from the local administration”.

Tonk is one of the four intervention districts where a community based program called FAYA is being run by Shiv Shiksha Samiti with support from TYPF and Population Foundation of India. The program pri-

Priya Harijan

“Healthy menstruation is our fundamental right” says Adolescent girls from FAYA group.

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You can be especially motivated to keep the peace and promote harmony in your personal life and close relationships, dear Aries, and this theme will strengthen after today. Today, you may not find enough room to give everything and everyone their due attention.

Shifts occurring today boost your interest in and attention to details, work, health, and problemsolving in the weeks ahead, dear Taurus. Small jobs and duties are in stronger focus. There can be some difficulty keeping yourself mentally focused.

You may feel slightly off your game and not very understood, dear Gemini, with a couple of shifts happening now. The trick may be to pour energies into something productive, which can be therapeutic for your mood. You will be surrounded with romance and joy today.

You may not find it easy to make a firm decision today, dear Cancer, because what you want to do seems to be at odds with what you think is best or most logical. You can feel a little torn between light and expressive needs and your drive to focus on one good thing at a time.

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JUNE 22 - JULY 23

LEO

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

You may need to work on keeping your wits about you and avoiding mental strain or stress today, dear Leo. Restlessness can develop if part of you feels you should be more involved than you are. Take steps to wind down so that you can enjoy mental tasks and exercises.

There may be some worry or overstimulation related to money, possessions, and resources today, dear Virgo. Watch for overthinking things.

Consider that there can be some distractions to manage, and in truth, you can’t expect to be producing at every moment of the day.

Problem areas related to overdoing can be in focus today, dear Libra, but you appreciate that people are putting in an effort to cooperate.

Narrowing your focus may get you into a better mood. Today holds the potential for improving your understanding.

Focusing on solvable problems and tuning out the rest can be therapeutic, dear Scorpio. Take advantage of any opportunity to detox and think without overthinking.

In your communications, watch that you’re not focusing too much on problem areas.

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AUG 24 - SEP 23

SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22

OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

You may be too close to a problem to see it clearly, dear Sagittarius, and you may very well discover that the only way to resolve it is to pull back from it to gain perspective. The Moon in your home and family sector all day indicates the need to keep things simple.

Watch today for a situation of having too many balls up in the air, dear Capricorn, or perhaps too much information. Choices are nice, but too many of them can feel overwhelming today. Circumstances may be such that you have more decision-making responsibility.

Life may feel a little chaotic if you’re not focusing on priorities today, dear Aquarius, and it’s easy to feel distracted. Shifts occurring today put more emphasis on personal enjoyment, learning, and sharing in the weeks ahead. You’re likely to be going over old decisions.

The Moon spends the day in your sign, dear Pisces, and there is more emotional color in your life.

There is some inclination to over-analyze or read between the lines to your detriment today, but for the most part, you’re in a good cycle for gathering information.

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icky Kaushal, while spending time at home, kept focusing on his work and scripts. Vicky will be teaming up with Uri: The Surgical Strike director Aditya Dhar for a superhero film titled Ashwatthama.

Fans of the actor have been excited to see him in an action avatar since the project was announced. And now, director Aditya revealed that he revisited the script of the film amid the free time he had and also prepped another draft which is grander as compared to the previous one. Further, he revealed that he finalized the heads of various departments.

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hahid Kapoor’s wife Mira Rajput often drops gorgeous photos of herself on social media.

However, her recent photo was clicked by daughter Misha and she had quite a lot to say about it. Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput are among the most adored couples in Bollywood.

Whenever the duo steps out together, they manage to make heads turn with their looks. Not just this, their photos on social media tend to go viral and whenever they share glimpses with

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their daughter Misha and son Zain, fans cannot stop gushing over it.

Misha also often captures her mommy Mira in the frame.

Taking to her Instagram handle, Mira shared a gorgeous photo of herself that was clicked by her little girl Misha. In the photo,(her post) Mira could be seen sitting on a chair in a floral kurta with matching pyjama. Mira shared the photo and wrote, “Mama!

Look!” I have an in-house pap and she catches my worst OOTDs! #missyclicks.”

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obert 2020 has been a dream year for Katy Perry as she not only released her sixth studio album Smile but also welcomed her first child with fiance Orlando Bloom on August 26; a daughter who the couple named Daisy Dove Bloom.

The Teenage Dream singer celebrated her 36th birthday on 25 October, and taking to Instagram was Bloom who shared some romantic snaps of the couple along with a very special wish by a ‘surprise someone.’ It was Sacha Baron Cohen’s infamous alter-ego Borat who hilariously wished Perry on her birthday while talking about how Orlando ‘blooms.’ Borat quipped, “Jak sie masz [How are you in Polish], Katy Pepsi.”

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bring about a change. Recently, Gigi took to her social media account and shared a bunch of photos to reveal she has voted. One of the photos revealed Gigi’s postbaby body.

The photo saw the 25-year-old sport a black tee with the word “vote” printed on them. She shared the photos with an elaborate caption.

—Agency

Shahid and Mira Kapoor

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that came out in 2019 and since then, she has won the hearts of her fans. Tara took a trip down memory lane and remembered her first shot for her film Student Of The Year 2.

Taking to her Instagram handle, Tara

shared a gorgeous photo of herself taken by designer Manish Malhotra. The actress could be seen getting her hair and makeup done in the stunning behind-the-scenes photo clicked by the designer.

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aapsee Pannu is currently busy with her project Haseen Dilruba. She was supposed to start shooting for Rashmi Rocket in November.

Taapsee Pannu has her hands full for the coming months this year as she has some interesting projects lined up. One of them is Rashmi Rocket that was scheduled to go on floors in Bhuj during the first week of November. However, there has been a change of plans. The shoot for the movie has been postponed. This has been confirmed by the movie’s producer Pranjal Khandhdiya.

The filmmaker states that it has been raining in Bhuj and its adjacent areas for some time.

However, the good news is that the movie’s shoot has not completely come to a halt.

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s the world continues to grapple with the Covid-19 crisis, City First takes a look at the impact of India’s draconian lockdown on individuals and Salons from Rajasthan and Gujarat.

Temperature checks. Sanitisation.

Full personal protective equipment including gloves, a mask, a face or eye shield, shoe cover and a suit, that’s what is now expected from staff at upscale salons or those belonging to a chain, around India, in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis.

They also need to ensure that the customers don’t endanger them.

Most chains have opted for an increase in the prices to cushion the blow from the losses and additional expenses due to Covid-19 safety measures. While some are charging an extra sanitisation fee, others have raised their rates. This comes with its own set of constraints as most salons have resumed operations with just haircuts and are avoiding services like facials, manicure and pedicure that involve close contact.

With a reduced staff and decreased footfall, salon chains across the country face absolute uncertainty on the recovery of their losses, leave alone generate profit. With many resorting to DIY (Do It Yourself) haircuts and professional athome beauty services, there is bound to be a fall in the number of salon appointments.

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Me and my family have started to adopt skincare practices at home to avoid maximum contact. I either indulge in DIYs or shop for products online to keep up with my skin, body and health. Even though stores are taking legitimate safety precautions, it is difficult to rely upon the condition as it won’t be safe for my family members too. This festive season makes it all the more hard to adapt to the “New Normal”.

Covid 19 has affected everyone. The salon is one such place where one feels rejuvenated. So yes, safety is our priority. We are taking enough precautions for ourselves as well as our clients. We are following all the guidelines and providing pocket-friendly services. Even though our stores are taking legitimate safety precautions, we might not witness the footfall we had earlier. Our members are getting the usual discounts. We believe, “customers first”.

—SANJANA KHANDELWAL, Home maker

—HEMA AKHADE, Owner, Ambellish Salon

DURING THE DAY! RAJ: A one-day national webinar was organised on the subject of National Education Policy -2020 Academy-Industries Interface under the joint aegis of Bikaner Technical University and Bhardwaj Foundation on Monday. KL Jain, General Secretary, Rajasthan Chamber of Commerce and Industry welcomed everyone.

Vice-Chancellor of Bikaner Technical University, HD Charan said that development of the village is necessary for the development of the country. The webinar was attended by stakeholders, representatives of various colleges, professors and industry personalities.

GUJ: Children from the fisherman community were seen walking on the wall of river front as they were finding fishing sites for their parents on Monday.

—PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI

HAPPY B’DAY!

GUJ: Members of heart foundation and research institute organised food stall for specially-abled people inside the blind people association at Vastrapur on Monday. The funds received from these food stalls will be used for the treatment of speciallyabled needy people in Ahmedabad. —PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI

IAS Bhagwati Prasad Kalal celebrated his birthday on 26 October, Monday. We wish him all the best!

Honestly, I was quite scared to go to the salon but my sister’s previous visits had put my mind at ease. Also, after seeing all the precautionary measures in place, I felt safe. I would suggest ensuring social distancing and avoid crowding in the waiting areas and make an appointment in advance as well.

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he Rajasthan Fashion Awards Season 4 was organised by Rajasthan Fashion Dreams at G Club, Jaipur on Monday, where Bollywood actress Pooja Chopra honored 25 awards in the fashion and lifestyle category. The models donned the outfits of fashion designer Dipesh Rawat, Heena Bilani, Minaj, Mitushi and Aditya Soni during the catwalk. The clothing brand Blue Button was also launched on the occasion, where Socialite Ram Aggarwal registered his presence as Chief Guest.

Jagdeesh Chandra also made his presence as a Chief Guest during the event. Organisers Gaurav Pratap Singh and Charu Singh shared that earlier three seasons of this award show have been successfully completed.

Jagdeesh Chandra with Pooja Chopra and Gaurav Pratap Singh

This is the fourth season of this event in which we have focused on subjects like Vocal Four Local and Self-reliant India. Gaurav and Charu further revealed that the brand ambassador of this event is celebrity astrologer Surabhi Gupta. cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

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Dr Sandeep Sharma NEHAL NAYAR

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he coronavirus pandemic has upended nearly every aspect of today’s work environment, resulting in taking a huge toll on everyone’s mental and physical health in the country. Amid the darkness of such a deadly virus, a ray of light has appeared that could help stop the spread of C o r o n av i r u s, which is commonly known as Ultraviolet Rays.

While extending a helping hand for the betterment of the future of our country, FB Tech company is introducing a wide range of human care products in the field of UVC Sterilization lamps and

UVDR ultraviolet disinfection Robots.

The new COVID-19 protection devices designed specially to help kill coronavirus bacteria include FB Tech’s Aluminium and Metal Lamp, ABS Plastic Lamp, UV Sterilization Cart, Pocket UVC and Car & Ambulance UVC. The director of the company, Dr Sandeep Sharma said that their products ensure high-quality standards with prime focus on the safety of genuine products and its users with warranty.

He further stated that all the products are certified with added advanced features of Human Care Sensors and Protection. nehal.nayar@firstindia.co.in

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n good news for the tourism sector of the state after Palace on Wheels being declared the 2nd best luxury train in the world by Conde Nast magazine, now Rajasthan tourism has won two coveted India Today awards even during the critical Covid times.

Pink City Jaipur has been awarded the Best Heritage Destination Award, while Ranthambore was given the Best Wildlife Destination Award in the India Today Conclave award ceremony. CM Ashok Gehlot expressed his happiness on the awards. It is noteworthy that all the tourism activities in the state were

During the award show

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n elderly gentleman, who sells tea in Phase 1, Pocket 1, Sector 13 Dwarka with a fractured arm and backbone was recently in the social media limelight.

The couple was first noticed by Manish Beniwal a businessman and Inderpreet Singh a student and then both posted a video on their Facebook account which states that his son had thrashed him and broke his hand and also thrashed the cou-

Manish and Inderpreet

ple out of the house.

Later, the old man was also attacked brutally by his son-in-law that impaired his backbone.

After that, foody Vishal contacted Manish & Inderpreet and posted a video about the old couple’s situation

on his social media handles and in no time, the news got viral. Manish and Inderjeet visit Baba & Amma daily and look after all their needs.

People from across are now helping the old couple with money, food, clothes etc.

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Jaipur

completely banned for four months yet when the historical tourist attractions in Jaipur were opened for the tourists the domestic tourists proved

Ranthambore

Jaipur as their preferred destination. The wildlife tourism activities in Ranthambore and Sariska started from 1 October and receiving the best

wildlife destination award within a month’s time gives hope of the kind of tourist footfall the state would attract in times to come. cityfirst@firstindia.co.in