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HEADED BY CM YOGI, UP CABINET GIVES NOD
TO GANGA E-WAY & LALITPUR AIRPORT
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The Uttar
Pradesh government on
Thursday approved var-
ious proposals includ-
ing tender documents
related to the Ganga
Expressway and an air-
port at Lalitpur.
The decisions were
taken at a cabinet meet-
ing presided over by
chief minister Yogi Adi-
tyanath. Giving infor-
mation about the deci-
sions taken at the Cabi-
net meeting chaired by
Chief MinisterYogiAdi-
tyanath, the state gov-
ernment’sspokesperson
and Cabinet Minister
Siddharth Nath Singh
said that in the coming
times, the network of
Expressway will play a
big role in making UP a
$1-trillion economy
.
“The Ganga Express-
way will be the coun-
try’s largest express-
way being built
through a state. Till
now, 92.02 per cent land
has been acquired for
Ganga Expressway.
“Tender documents,
both RFQ (request for
proposal) and RHP (re-
quest for quotation), are
being brought out. This
expressway is of six
lanes which can be in-
creased to eight lanes,”
he said.
The Ganga Express-
way is being planned
between Meerut and
Prayagraj and it will be
594-km long.
“There are four pack-
ages of the expressway
and the cost of each
package will Turn to P2
Cabinet Minister Sidharth Nath Singh briefing the Press about the
decisions taken during the Cabinet meeting on Thursday, at Lok
Bhawan. He was accompanied by ACS Home Awanish Awasthi &
ACS Information Navneet Sehgal.
Both, the e-way as well as the airport,
hold key to UP’s development as they
speed up movement to & from these
areas to the rest of the country
SUHAS LY
BEGINS TOKYO
RUN WITH WIN
CM YOGI FORMS
SIT TO PROBE
SUPERTECH CASE
Tokyo: Noida District
Magistrate and para-
badminton player Suhas
L Yathiraj on Thursday
defeated Jan Niklas
Pott of Germany 21-9,
21-3 in men’s singles
SL4 - Group A match
one of the ongoing Tokyo
Paralympics.Suhas
dominated the proceed-
ings and completed the
match in 19 minutes
with a straight-set vic-
tory. Niklas Pott had no
answers to Suhas’ shots.
Suhas will lock horns in
his second group stage
match on Friday.
More on P3
Noida: The UP govern-
ment has suspended a
manager in the planning
department of the Noida
Authority in connection
with the construction
of two multi-storey
towers that had come up
in violation of build-
ing bye-laws, officials
said on Thursday. On
the directives of Chief
Minister Yogi Adityanath,
a four-member Special
Investigation Team (SIT)
was formed under the
chairmanship of Sanjiv
Mittal, secretary of the
Industrial and Infra-
structure Development
department. More on P2
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Mumbai: Sensex closed at all time high of 57,852.54,
up 514.33 points, or 0.90%, while Nifty closed at
17,234.15, up 157.90 points, or 0.92%. Auto, PSU
Bank stocks were top drags. Rupee settled with a
marginal gain of 2 paise at 73.06 against US dollar.
New Delhi: Covid-19 cases in India witnessed a rise
on Thursday, with the country registering over 47K
new infections, according to health ministry. The last
time cases were higher than this was 63 days ago,
on July 1, when India had reported 48,786 cases.
New Delhi: Centre has notified new income tax rules
under which the existing provident fund accounts
will be split into two separate accounts, to enable
the government to tax PF income generating from
employee contributions which exceed Rs 2.5 L p.a.
SENSEX AT
ALL TIME
HIGH, NIFTY
AT 17,234
RECORD
COVID CASES,
HIGHEST IN
TWO MONTHS
RULES TO
BIFURCATE
PF ACCOUNT
NOTIFIED
CORONA CATASTROPHE
UP
INDIA
47,092
new cases
509
new fatalities
36
new cases
00
new fatalities
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on Thurs-
day expressed concern
over fake news being
spread over social me-
dia platforms and web
portals stating that
they exhibit no ac-
countability.
The bench led by
Chief Justice of India N
V Ramana noted that
“web portals are not
governed by anything.
There is an attempt to
give communal colour
to news and that is the
problem. It ultimately
brings bad name to
country
.”
The Solicitor General
Tushar Mehta respond-
ed that the new Infor-
mation Technology
Rules, 2021 seek to “take
care of this.”
SC STEPS ON WAGGING TAIL OF
1
SC was hearing petition filed by Jamiat
Ulema-i-Hind seeking action against those
responsible for disseminating “fake news”, which
links the spread of Covid-19 with the Tablighi
Jamaat gathering at the Markaz Nizamuddin
2
SC expressed
serious concern
over fake news on
social media platforms
and websites
The problem is, everything in this
country is shown with a communal
angle by a section of the media. That
is the problem. The country is going
to get a bad name ultimately
Web portals and social media
platforms like Twitter, Facebook and
YouTube only listen to powerful
voices and write anything against
judges, institutions without any
accountability. Web portal only
worry about powerful men and not
judges, institution or common
people. That is our experience
—NV Ramana, Chief Justice
LAPDOG
MEDIA
‘Communalising of
news a problem, brings
bad name to country’
As expected, new Taliban cabinet
& senior posts to have no women
Shah opens `50 crore
worth projects in K’taka
Kabul: Women can
continue to work in
government in Afghan-
istan but are not guar-
anteed cabinet or other
senior positions, a Tali-
ban spokesman has
said.
The deputy head of
the Taliban political of-
fice in Qatar said sen-
ior positions in the new
administration would
be filled on merit.
Nearly half of civil
service jobs in Afghan
ministries were occu-
pied by women who
“should come back to
their work”, the official
said, but “in the new
government that will
be announced, in the
top posts, in the cabi-
net, there may not be
women”.
Davangere: Union
Home Minister Amit
Shah on Thursday inau-
gurated three develop-
ment projects worth
over Rs 50 crore in Kar-
nataka’s Davanagere.
The projects include a
library
, Gandhi Bhavan,
and a public school and
hostel building.
“Inaugurated the var-
ious development pro-
jects Turn to P6
DIGITAL MEDIA RULES: SC TO
CONSIDER TAKING OVER CASES
PENDING IN OTHER COURTS
‘ISI BEHIND QAEDA’S
KASHMIR STATEMENT’
AF TRUCKS TO BE
X-RAYED AT ATTARI
CHINA TRYING TO TAKE AFGHAN AIR
BASE, USE PAK AGAINST INDIA: NIKKI
Supreme Court will consider trans-
ferring to itself all cases linked
to the new Information and
Technology for digital media and
giving it a combined hearing.
New Delhi: The terror outfit
Al Qaeda released a state-
ment in which it called for
“global jihad” to liberate “Is-
lamic lands”, and mentioned
Kashmir. The inclusion of
Kashmir and omission of
Chechnya and Xinjiang ex-
poses the hand of Pakistan,
government sources said.
New Delhi: Amid the ongo-
ing situation in Pakistan
and Afghanistan, India has
installed its first Radiation
Detection Equipment at
Integrated Check Post at the
Attari Border. Machines will
help the border guarding
forces to detect illicit traffick-
ing or smuggling.
Washington: The US needs to
closely watch China as it might try to
take over the Bagram air force base
in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s
takeover of the war-torn country and
use Pakistan to get stronger to go
against India, a former senior American diplomat has
warned. America’s former envoy to the United Nations
Nikki Haley said President Joe Biden has lost the trust
and confidence of American allies after his hasty deci-
sion to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
AMIT SHAH LAUDS
CM BOMMAI
Amit Shah on Thursday
lauded Chief Minister
Basavaraj Bommai for
his “small but significant
moves” in a short
time and said those
monitoring Karnataka
from Delhi say that the
BJP has strengthened
its position in the state
under him.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai welcomes Union
Home Minister Amit Shah at Hubbali airport on Thursday.
Chandan Mitra breathes his last
Veteran journalist and former Ra-
jya Sabha MP Chandan Mitra died
late Wednesday at his south Delhi
residence after a long ailment. He was
65. Mitra, who did a stint in various
newspapers, including the Times of
India and the Hindustan Times, in his
long career as a journalist before he
became editor of The Pioneer.
opular TV and film actor Sidharth Shukla died at
the age of 40 on Thursday. He was brought dead
to Cooper Hospital. Since the
news of his demise, an
outpouring of grief and condo-
lences has flooded the internet.
He found immense fame after
winning Bigg Boss 13. After
hearing the unfortunate news,
a number of celebrities and
colleagues of Sidharth took to
social media to pay their
tribute. Congress leader
Rahul Gandhi and
other political leaders
also condoled his
death. P11
BIG BOSS OF REALITY
TV, SIDHARTH NO MORE
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UTTAR PRADESH
LUCKNOW | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
02
CM Yogi has
mourned the
death of former MP
and renowned jour-
nalist Chandan Mitra
and actor Siddharth
Shukla and conveyed
his condolences
to the bereaved
families.
UP CM has lauded
shuttler and IAS
officer Suhas LY, also
DM of Gautam Bud-
dh Nagar, for his win
against his Germany
counterpart at the
Tokyo Paralympic on
Thursday.
CM Yogi has
Yogi Speaks
Yogi Speaks
First India Bureau
Lucknow: In order to
increase employment
opportunities in the
state, and to give more
profit with less capital,
the Yogi Government is
encouraging small, mi-
cro-business units in
the state including fish
farming.
Looking at the im-
mense potential of em-
ployment generation
and income growth
from fisheries, the Yogi
government is going to
provide golden opportu-
nities to the farmers by
providing them with
jobs in fish farming.
Along with imparting
training in fisheries, ef-
forts are being made by
the government to ex-
pand this business on a
larger scale. Now farm-
ers can increase their
income by farming as
well as fisheries.
As many as 1191.27
crore fishery seeds were
produced in four years
and 7883 fish farmers
were distributed Kisan
Credit Cards. The state
also provided the bene-
fit of free fishermen ac-
cident insurance
scheme to the farmers
by implementing the
‘Pradhan Mantri Mat-
sya Sampada Yojana’
under the Self-Reliant
India Campaign.
UP received 1st Prize
Uttar Pradesh has also
received the first prize
of the best state in in-
land fisheries under the
leadership of CM Yogi
Adityanath.
BJP’s 2017 Sankalp
Patra also includes...
 Fisheries Welfare Fund
will be set up with a cor-
pus of Rs100 crores for
promotion of fisheries it.
 Minimum contract
period for fish reservoirs
increased from 3 years to
10 years
 More than 1191.27
crore fish seed production
in the last four years
 Implementation of
‘Pradhan Mantri Matsya
Sampada Yojana’
Fish farming in UP gets major boost under Yogi regime
SANKALP PATRA
RESERVOIR TIME
INCREASED
SPIRITUAL CONNECT
Emmanuel Lenain, Ambassador of France to India, met Uttar Prasdesh’s BJP President
Swatantra Dev Singh on Thursday. Singh greeted him with a copy of Shrimad Bhagwat Gita
on the occasion.
OLD AGE PENSION SCHEME:
CM GIVES OUT `836.55 CR
AMOUNT TRANSFERRED TO ACCOUNTS OF 55.77L BENEFICIARIES
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Chief Min-
ister Yogi Adityanath
said on Thursday that
every poor, farmer, el-
derly person and desti-
tute woman should get
the benefit of the wel-
fare scheme of the gov-
ernment without any
discrimination. No one
will be deprived of ba-
sic amenities in the
state.
“It is the intention of
the government that
every poor, farmer, el-
derly person and desti-
tute woman should get
the benefit of the wel-
fare scheme of the gov-
ernment without any
discrimination. In this
sequence, Prime Minis-
ter Modi has also re-
leased schemes time to
time to benefit people.
No one will be deprived
of basic necessities or
die of hunger”, said CM
Yogi while transferring
Rs 836.55 crore to 55.77
lakh beneficiaries of
National Old Age Pen-
sion Scheme.
The CM said, “Out of
these beneficiaries
there are 4.56 lakh new
beneficiaries. The quar-
terly installment is be-
ing sent to these ac-
counts for the first time.
CM Yogi further said
that the older people
have a wealth of experi-
ences. They are our
guide. The Central and
State Governments are
working with a sense of
service for life and live-
lihood of each and eve-
ry senior citizen.
“Whether the elderly
needs ration or medical
treatment at the time of
illness, everything is
being provided free of
cost. Not only this, ‘El-
derly Helpline 14567’
(Elderline) has been
specially issued, where
any senior citizen can
contact and get help
24×7”, he said.
The CM also had an
interaction with the old
age pension beneficiar-
ies of various districts
through virtual medi-
um where he inquired
about the health of all.
He also instructed the
district magistrates to
provide the benefit of
Ayushman Bharat or
Chief Minister Jan
Arogya Yojana to every
needy. Earlier, Social
Welfare Minister Rama-
pati Shastri presented a
brief description of the
departmental activi-
ties, while the vote of
thanks was given by Dr.
GS Dharmesh, Minis-
ter of State.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Social Welfare Minister Ramapati Shastri, MoS Social Welfare GS Dharmesh, CS RK Tiwari, ACS (Home) Awanish Awasthi, ACS (MSME and
Info) Navneet Sehgal and other officials during the release of funds under the National Old Age Pension Scheme on Thursday.
CM Yogi interacts with beneficiaries while transferring the funds under Old Age Pension Scheme.
Lucknow: Yogi said
that the elderly were
neglected in the earlier
governments. No one
used to pay attention
to them, but today
many efforts are being
made for the happy
life of old people.
Today, the poor in UP
is getting 5 kg of free
ration, he added.
GOVT EFFORTS
FOR ELDERLY
Yogi forms SIT to probe
builder-officers nexus
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath has or-
dered the setting up of
a Special Investigating
Team (SIT) to probe the
collusion between Noi-
da authority and the
real estate company
, Su-
pertech for the illegal
construction of two
40-storey twin towers --
Tower Apex and Tower
Ceyane -- in Noida.
The SIT will com-
prise an additional
chief secretary, an ad-
ditional directors gen-
eral of police, a town
planner and some other
officers. The state gov-
ernment has already
suspended town plan-
ner of the NOIDA.
“Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath has direct-
ed to form an SIT at the
government level im-
mediately for investiga-
tion in Noida’s twin
towers case. Instruc-
tions were given to fix
the accountability of
officers of the authori-
ty who approved the
building plan and were
associated with this
case from 2004 to 2017,”
said a communique
from the Chief Minis-
ter’s office on Thursday
.
It added that the SIT has
been ordered to take
time-bound action.
Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Yogi Adity-
anath on Wednesday
said that strict action
will be taken against
the guilty officials in
the Noida twin towers
case. The development
came after the Supreme
Court of India, on Tues-
day, upheld the Alla-
habad High Court’s ver-
dict that had ordered
the demolition of two
40-storey twin towers;
Tower Apex and Tower
Ceyane in Uttar
Pradesh’s Noida.
SUPERTECH CASE
PURSUIT PAID OFF
Ganga expressway to
be built on PPP model
Prabuddh Sammelans
in all 403 seats by BJP
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Gearing up
for assembly elections
2022, the UP BJP has de-
cided to hold ‘Prabud-
dha Sammelans’ (Intel-
lectual Conferences) in
all 403 assembly con-
stituencies of the state
from September 5.
The campaign will be
kicked off by Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath, Na-
tional Vice President
and State In-charge
Radha Mohan Singh,
State party chief Swa-
tantra Dev Singh, Dep-
uty Chief Minister, Ke-
shav Prasad Maurya,
State General Secretary
(Organization) Sunil
Bansal and State Co-
Organization General
Secretary Karmveer
Singh simulatenously
in 17 cities across the
State.
“From September 6
to September 20, these
conferences to mobilise
enlightened people of
the society like teach-
ers, professors, engi-
neers, doctors, littera-
teurs would be held in
all 403 assemblies of the
state with Central and
State ministers also tak-
ing part,” said BJP Ut-
tar Pradesh’s General
Secretary and in-charge
of the campaign, Sub-
rata Pathak.
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be from Rs 5,000 crore to
Rs 5,800 crore. The en-
tire process of tender
will be completed with-
in 60 days. The Cabinet
has approved it all so
that its work on it could
start soon,” Singh said.
He said the construc-
tion of the Ganga Ex-
pressway will be done
on public-private part-
nership (PPP) model,
and the maximum
speed of vehicles on
this expressway has
been fixed at 120 kmph.
“There will also be an
airstrip on it. The CM
has also said places
where industrial clus-
ters are to be made
should be earmarked.
Provision has also been
made for public facili-
ties at nine places. In
future, it will be in-
creased further,” the
minister said.
The estimated total of
works on the project is
Rs 36,230 crore, and Rs
19.754 crore will be
spent on civil works.
There is also a GST of
Rs 2.371 crore on this.
Singh said that in the
Cabinet meeting, ap-
proval was also given
on various matters re-
garding the construc-
tion of Lalitpur airport.
Min camps in Gkp
to monitor floods
First India Bureau
Gorakhpur: Jal Shakti
minister Singh has
been camping in flood
affected Gorakhpur
since Tuesday to moni-
tor the situation.
On late Wednesday
night, he held a meet
with officials and di-
rected them to provide
essential medicines, es-
pecially for patients
with chronic ailments,
in flood-affected areas.
He also said that em-
ployees and doctors of
villages which have not
been deluged should
provide services in
flood-hit areas also.
He also said swimming
and bathing in flood wa-
ter in deluged areas like
Tarkulani and Khora-
bar areas, should be
prohibited and potable
water, food packets and
clothes should be pro-
vided to people as per
their requirements.
Meanwhile, the Ba-
sawanpur ring embank-
ment on the right bank
of the Rapti river in the
Kaudiram block of the
Bansgaon tehsil was
damaged on Thursday
morning due to which
around 20 houses have
been affected in Ba-
sawanpur and Bharou-
valia villages.
Medicinal
plants to be
promoted
First India Bureau
Saharanpur: Me-
dicinal plants will
be cultivated on
75,000 hectares of
land across the
country as part of a
campaign launched
by the National Me-
dicinal Plants
Board (NMPB) that
functions under the
Ministry of Ayush.
The NMPB has
launched the cam-
paign to promote
cultivation of me-
dicinal plants in the
country as part of
the “Azadi Ka Amrit
Mahotsav” celebra-
tions to mark 75
years of independ-
ence, the Ayush
ministry said on
Thursday
.
In Saharanpur
district of Uttar
Pradesh, Minister
of State for Ayush,
Government of Ut-
tar Pradesh, Dhar-
am Singh Saini,
along with Re-
search Officer of
the NMPB Sunil
Dutt and officials
of the Ministry of
Ayush participated
in the programmes.
The farmers culti-
vating medicinal
plants were felici-
tated by Saini, the
statement said.
CM Yogi listens to issues faced by commoners during Janata
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UTTAR PRADESH
03
Bareilly: A junior engineer of the Uttar Pradesh Power
Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has been suspended
after an audio clip, in which he was purportedly heard
demanding Rs 500 for every
new electricity connection,
went viral on social media,
an official said on Thursday.
Accused Aswani Verma
was posted at the Faridpur
sub-station. UPPCL Execu-
tive Engineer Ashok Chaurasia also recommended
action against computer operator Shivam and lineman
Sobaran Singh for allegedly helping Verma.
PCL JR ENGINEER SUSPENDED AS AUDIO
CLIP OF BRIBE DEMAND GOES VIRAL
MAN ARRESTED WITH WEAPONS
PROCURED TO KILL WIFE
New Delhi/Aligarh: A 36-year-old man was arrested
along with weapons that he procured to kill his wife,
the police said Thursday.
Accused Kamal Sehgal
of Uttam Nagar in West
Delhi, decided to kill his wife
after she refused to give
him divorce, they said.He
procured the weapons from
Aligarh through one of his contacts to execute his
plan. He wanted divorce to marry another woman.
CRUCIAL READ
‘Sahasi’ Suhas nails Tokyo Paralympics opener with easy win
First India Bureau
Tokyo: Noida District
Magistrate and only
bureaucrat to repre-
sent India in the Tokyo
Paralympics Suhas La-
linakere Yathiraj on
Thursday comprehen-
sively defeated Jan
Niklas Pott of Germa-
ny 21-9, 21-3 in what
pretty much seemed a
one-sided affair. This
wasSuhas’sfirstmatch
in the men’s singles
SL4-Group A.
The spirited bureau-
crat dominated the pro-
ceedings and complet-
ed the match in a mere
19 minutes as he posed
some tough questions
before his opponent.
On the other hand,
Niklas Pott seemed to
having no answers to
Suhas’ shots.
Suhas will step on to
the court on Friday for
this round 2 match
against Indonesia’s
Hary Susanto and then
France’s top seed
Lucas Mazur.
In SL classification,
persons with standing/
lower limb impair-
ment/severe are al-
lowed to compete,
while SU refers to ath-
letes with upper limb
impairment.
Suhas, who has an
impairment in one of
his ankles, has been at
the forefront in the
fight against COVID-19
menace as the district
magistrate of Gautam
Buddh Nagar in Uttar
Pradesh.
Suhas, who had qual-
ified after the game’s
governing body BWF
granted bipartite quo-
tas to India, said he is
looking forward to his
match against top seed
and title favourite Ma-
zur on Friday
.
“We are both looking
forward to that. We
have gone head-to-head
on the circuit running
up to the Paralympics
and I have lost some
and won some against
him. It will be a good
challenge,” he said.
“Because of his
height, his strokes
come from a certain
depth which generally
you are not used to, but
I have trained specifi-
cally for that. I am
sure he will also spe-
cifically train for me,”
he added.
Suhas LY after his first match triumph in Tokyo on Thursday.
COACHING RIGOUR
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Chief Minis-
ter Yogi Adityanath has
ordered to launch State-
wide Surveillance Drive
from September 7 to 16
during which the health
officials will go from
door-to-door to identify
those with viral fever,
covid symptoms and
other diseases arising
outof seasonalvagaries.
Nodal officers will be
appointed in every dis-
trict to monitor the re-
lief work in the areas
affected by floods and
heavy rains.
In a high-level meet-
ing, CM Yogi instructed
officials to, “Ensure sup-
ply of pure drinking wa-
ter and chlorine tablets
in flood-hit districts.”
Stating that any kind
of carelessness could
spiral into a scary situa-
tion, the CM said, “Spe-
cial efforts should be
madetoimprovesurveil-
lance.Thehealthdepart-
ment, Rural, and Urban
Development, and Child
Development depart-
ments should stay alert
and run special cleanli-
ness campaigns with in-
ter-departmentalcoordi-
nation.”
Officials have been di-
rectedtosprayanti-larva
and undertake fogging
drivesintheareaswhere
more than one dengue
patient is found. People
are advised to take pre-
cautionary measures to
check the breeding of
mosquitoes in and
around their houses.
The DMs have been
asked to keep a constant
watch on the arrange-
ments of ambulance in
theirrespectivedistricts.
Amit Mohan Prasad,
ACS Health, said, “It
should be ensured that
all preventive actions
are being taken in the af-
fectedareaswithinthree
days of confirmed den-
gue case. In areas where
there are no cases, the
process of source reduc-
tion has to be done con-
tinuouslybypreparinga
weekly action plan.”
Regular sanitation
and cleanliness drives
should be performed to
curb the threat of water-
bornediseasesinschools
of Basic Education
Council by Panchayati
Raj and Urban Develop-
ment Department.
First India Bureau
Bahraich: Three Jal
Nigam engineers
werebookedoncharg-
es of cheating and for-
gery for writing let-
ters to CM Yogi on
fake letter heads of
former minister An-
upma Jaiswal recom-
mending their trans-
fers to the CM.
The three engi-
neers were booked on
the complaint of for-
mer Jal Nigam Minis-
ter Jaiswal and the
FIR was lodged at
Bahraich rural police
station.
The engineers Ab-
hishek Verma, Manoj
Kumar and Anubhav
Gupta were posted in
Azamgarh and Ballia
districts,saidJaiswal.
“Last year in July
,
letters were written
on my letterheads to
the CM, with the Jal
Nigam MD and other
officers recommend-
ing transfer of the
three, Jaiswal, the
BJP MLA from Sadar
seat, said.
“I was not the min-
ister on the date when
the letters were writ-
ten. The signature too
was not mine. After
getting the informa-
tion about this fraud,
I had got an FIR regis-
tered in the matter
through my private
secretary at the rural
police station here,”
she said.
First India Bureau
Noida: Three men ac-
cused of duping e-com-
merce giant Amazon of
lakhs of rupees were ar-
rested on Wednesday
, of-
ficials said on Thursday
.
The accused, two of
them from Fatehabad
and one from Hisar,
were nabbed by a team
of Noida cybercrime po-
lice station, they said.
“The accused had cre-
ated several accounts on
Amazon’s website and
used them to order dif-
ferent products. They
placed prepaid orders,”
according to a UP police
statement.
After receiving the
goods they would con-
tact Amazon and re-
quest a refund claiming
that the products were
defective or on some
other pretext, it added.
The accused would
collude with the deliv-
ery agents and replace
the original product.
The delivery agents
would fraudulently
mark these orders as
“picked up” on the data-
base and the accused
would get a refund in
the bank accounts
linked with their Ama-
zon accounts, they said.
The three accused
would then sell these
products in markets of
Delhi-NCR at cheaper
rates to make money,
they added.
First India Bureau
Prayagraj: Denying
bail to a self proclaimed
sorcerer (Baba), who is
accused of raping a mi-
nor girl, the Allahabad
High Court has ob-
served that “on account
of these kinds of inci-
dents, faith and trust in
people are decreasing.”
The court, on the
crime committed by
the accused, said, “A
rapist not only violates
the victim’s personal
integrity but leaves in-
delible marks on the
very soul of the help-
less female. In this
case, a hapless girl had
been ravished by the
accused”.
Rejecting the bail ap-
plication of one Bhoot-
nath of UP’s Fatehpur
district, Justice Sanjay
Kumar Singh further
said, “In this case, a
hapless girl had been
ravished by the ac-
cused. The act of sexu-
al assault induces trau-
ma and horror for any
girl or regardless of
her social position in
society. As a matter of
fact, the crime is not
only against the vic-
tim, it is against the
whole society as well. It
demands just decision
from the court and to
such demand, the
courts of law are bound
to respond within the
legal parameters.”
First India Bureau
Lucknow: To strength-
en Covid Control Man-
agement and to connect
youthwithemployment,
as many as 372 govern-
ment ITI trainees will be
engaged in operation of
oxygen plants in the
state.
As 11 new oxygen
plantshavebecomefunc-
tional in last two days,
the UP government is
working on a mission
mode to equip the state
withallmedicalresourc-
es and skilled techni-
cians before the possible
third Covid-19 wave.
The government will
engage ITI trainees as
‘Oxygen Plant Opera-
tors’ at the 554 plants
sanctioned by the gov-
ernment during the sec-
ond Covid-19 wave.
Making a rapid stride
towards becoming self-
reliantinoxygengenera-
tion, close to 370 oxygen
plantshavebecomefunc-
tional in UP
.
Ensuring adequate
availability of medical
oxygen, the government
on Thursday announced
that 368 oxygen plants
had already been set up,
while work to get the
other plants functional
isgoingonawar-footing.
Reviewing the covid
situation in a high-level
meeting with senior of-
ficials,theCMsaid,“The
process of establishing
the remaining under-
construction plants
should be completed ex-
peditiously
. Two techni-
cal experts must be pre-
sent at each plant.”
AMIDST MYSTERY FEVER & DENGUE ALERT
Lucknow Municipal Commissioner Ajay Kumar Dwivedi on an inspection of slums on Thursday.
Lucknow Municipal Corporation is making efforts
to effectively control vector-borne diseases like
dengue, malaria, filariasis, chikungunya and scrub
typhus. Special cleanliness drives are being con-
ducted in different parts ofthe city since last three
months. All officers of LMC have been designated
as nodal officers for different areas under all eight
zones for ensuring cleaning of streets and drains,
garbage lifting, cleaning of vacant plots as well as
sanitization work. On Thursday, Municipal Com-
missioner Ajay Kumar Dwivedi inspected cleanli-
ness work in slums. In this campaign, 162 drains
were cleaned by 642 sanitation workers.
LMC COMMISSIONER INSPECTS SLUMS TO
PUSH CLEANLINESS DRIVE
Over 370 govt ITI
trainees to handle
O2 plants in state
The oxygen plants
are to be mandatory
in hospitals of more
than 50 beds capacity.
The CM directed the
officials to assess the
updated situation in
this regard and take
necessary action. Re-
al-time monitoring of
the installation work
has been planned,
with the district
administrations being
asked to continuously
monitor the progress
of installation work of
these plants.
MUST IN HOSPITALS
WITH OVER 50 BEDS
Jal Nigam engineers
booked for forgery
—FILE PHOTO
Cyber cops arrest 3 for duping
e-com giant Amazon of lakhs
First India Bureau
Noida/Kasganj: The
police arrested a man,
believed to be dead, for
allegedly killing his
wifeandtwokidsthree
years ago and then
buryingtheirbodiesin
the basement of his
house in Greater Noi-
da, officials said.
The skeletal re-
mains were exhumed
from the site by the po-
lice on Wednesday and
sent for forensic exam-
ination, they said.
Theman,alongwith
his girlfriend, had also
killed a friend of his
and dumped his head-
lessbodyinKasganjin
2018 and placed his
own identity cards
near the body to lead
the investigators into
believingitwashewho
got murdered, the offi-
cials said.
Policesaiditwashis
extramarital affair
thattriggered34-yr-old
Rakesh and his girl-
friend Rubi, who is a
police constable, into
plotting the whole epi-
sode.Bothaccusedand
fourmembersof Rake-
sh’s family
, including
his parents and broth-
ers, were arrested,
Kasganj SP Rohan
Pramod Botre said.
Man who feigned his murder
arrested for killing wife, kids
Self-styled Baba fails to get bail in rape case from miffed HC
LOST FOR A MONTH
CMORDERSCLEANLINESS
CAMPAIGNACROSSSTATE
SHO SUSPENDED AFTER MOLESTATION
PLAINT BY 15-YEAR-OLD
Kanpur: A Station House Officer (SHO) in Kanpur
Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh has been suspended
following a complaint of
molestation against him by
a 15-year-old girl who tried
to commit suicide, an official
said on Thursday. The inci-
dent came to light three days
ago when the girl, who was
allegedly molested by Vinod Kumar, SHO, Rajpur,
attempted to take the extreme step by consuming
pesticide.

PERSPECTIVE
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fter capturing Kabul the Taliban
want to be seen as rulers rather
than just as a religious militia.
Eager to secure legitimacy – in-
ternationally and among Af-
ghans – closed-door negotiations
are afoot for a government inclu-
sive of non-Taliban Afghans. Will
these actually work out? And
what lies ahead for young, urban-
ised, internet-savvy Afghans
seeking to live in the 21st century
rather than the 7th? This choice
had been denied just a while ago.
UnderMullahOmar,theearlier
phase (1996-2001) of Taliban rule
had single-mindedly concentrat-
ed upon rigorous enforcement of
the Quranic injunction amr bil
ma’roof wa nahi ‘anil munkar
(promote that which is good and
approved, and forbid that which
is evil and disapproved). Imbibed
from madrasas scattered across
Pakistan, this was understood in
the sense of a demand for strict
religious policing.
Liberal Islamic scholars, how-
ever, say the injunction merely
enjoins believers to seek piety
through self-control. The Taliban
under Mullah Omar disagreed
emphatically with this inter-
pretation.
They carried
out stoning
of adulter-
ers to death, amputation of
limbs for theft, public floggings,
closure of girls’ schools, extreme
limits on the mobility of women
and destruction of the 2,000-year-
old Bamiyan Buddhas. Similar
actions do not exist in the living
memory of older Afghans.
The new face suggests that
amr bil ma’roof will henceforth
be more liberally interpreted.
Whether rank-and-file fighters
will see eye to eye on this cannot
presently be foreseen. But some
leaders of this religious militia
– one that thrived for decades on
foreign aid and extortion – have
become aware that economic rea-
sons demand change.
This is understandable. Those
accustomed to the comfort of Do-
ha’s luxury hotels, and of their
bungalows in Quetta and Pesha-
war, are unfit for returning to the
mountain villages from where
they fought against an invader. In-
stead, they now want the good life
the invader has invented. In time
they
, or maybe the generation that
succeedsthem,willsendtheirchil-
dren to regular schools instead of
Pakistani or Afghan madrasas.
For this to happen, the spigot
of international aid must be
turned on again. Still more ur-
gent: under Afghan soil lies a tril-
lion dollars ready to be scooped
up. But to extract these minerals,
technology and organisation
have to come from outside. Many
countries are eager, China and
Russia particularly
. This implies
complicated geopolitics and
much wheeling and dealing.
‘NAYA TALIBAN’
In this new game, Pakistan hopes
to play a big part. While the Chi-
nese are said to be capable of eat-
ing everything that moves, they
cannot stomach an unreformed
Taliban.Thiswouldcreatehellish
indigestion within Xinjiang. For-
mer Taliban allies, Saudi Arabia
andtheUnitedArabEmirates,are
wary of Taliban radicalism spill-
ing over and wrecking attempts to
liberalise their countries. Much
needs to be thrashed out.
That Pakistan may be accepted
as a mediator is possible because
the “Naya Taliban” – an
evocative term first used by
Dawn’s columnist Niaz Murtaza
– feel ideologically comfortable
with the leader of Naya Pakistan.
The commonality lies in shared
opposition to western dress, edu-
cation and language. Both place
a high value on symbols such as
shalwar-kameez and turban, and
both equate morality with the
regularity of prayers and fasting.
Indeed, unable to contain his joy
at the Taliban takeover of Kabul,
Pakistan PM Imran Khan de-
clared that Afghanistan had
“broken the shackles of slavery”.
In creating a new dispensa-
tion, the Naya Taliban will natu-
rally turn towards those who
made their ascent possible. But
here caution will kick in. Even if
pragmatism presently forces
them to deal with those they
know to be hypocritical, the Tali-
ban are not hypocrites them-
selves. They also know full well
who packed off their comrades to
Guantanamo Bay – from where
some are yet to return.
To quote from the back cover of
General Musharraf’s autobiogra-
phy, written in 2006 while still in
office: “We have captured 672 and
handed 369 to the United States.
Wehaveearnedbountiestotalling
millions of dollars.” Memories
cannot disappear easily although
the freshly victorious may not
dwelluponsuchbetrayalsfornow.
On the other hand, the Taliban
have fully trustable allies inside
Islamabad. When some days ago
the white Taliban flag flew – al-
beit briefly – from Jamia Hafsa,
this sent across an important
message from Maulana Abdul
Aziz and his likes to their victori-
ous Afghan colleagues: we were
with you when you were being
bombed in Tora Bora. And we are
with you now that you have won.
AFGHANISTAN
AND PAKISTAN
Like it or not, AfPak has
become reality
. Despised
in Pakistan because of
its American origin, this
term rings true. Geo-
graphical proximity is
now augmented by the
ideological proximity of
rulers in both countries.
Taliban style thinking
is bound to spread
through the length and
breadth of Pakistan.
Now that the Indians
have been chased out of Afghan-
istan, Pakistan’s dream of strate-
gic depth stands fulfilled. So has
the country reached nirvana?
Well, almost, but not quite.
Fears that the Naya Taliban
are no different from the Purana
Taliban has made millions of
Afghans desperate to flee. But
there is opposition to accepting
these refugees into Pakistan
even from those who might have
on their lips Iqbal’s couplet: bu-
tan-e-rang o khoon ko tor kar
millat mai gum ho ja; na toorani
rahay baqi na irani na afghani.
(Smash the idols of blood and
colour, become Muslim; be not
Turani nor Irani nor Afghani, be
just Muslim.)
Subcontinental pan-Islamism
– that which created Pakistan –
ends at the Durand Line for most
Pakistanis. But the Naya Taliban
could think differently. Afghan
nationalism has come into its
own. The cultural and ethnic con-
tinuity from ages past cannot be
eliminated by fencing. Indeed,
after booting out the mightiest
power of all times, why should
the Taliban consider as sacred
the arbitrary straight lines
drawn by a long dead, stuffy old
Englishman?
Pakistan must open its doors
for fleeing Afghans – to not do so
is immoral. Using its considera-
ble influence it must also im-
press upon Taliban victors that
the world will not accept their
old-style barbarity. This is not
the age when women should be
confined to their homes and
shoved into burqas, or where re-
ligious and ethnic minorities are
persecuted and killed. For this
message to get across, Pakistan
might first have to get its own
house in order.
handed 369 to the United States.
A
Fears that the Naya
Taliban are no different
from the Purana Taliban
has made millions of
Afghans desperate to flee.
But there is opposition to
accepting these refugees
into Pakistan even from
those who might have on
their lips Iqbal’s couplet:
butan-e-rang o khoon ko
tor kar millat mai gum
ho ja; na toorani rahay
baqi na irani na afghani.
(Smash the idols of blood
and colour, become
Muslim; be not Turani
nor Irani nor Afghani, be
just Muslim.)
PERVEZ HOODBHOY
THE WRITER IS AN ISLAMABAD-BASED
PHYSICIST AND AUTHOR
accustomed to the comfort of Do-
ha’s luxury hotels, and of their
WILL ‘NAYA TALIBAN’
FIND IDEOLOGICAL COMMON GROUND
‘NAYA PAKISTAN’?
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INDIA
05
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi: Is Gautam
Adani, country’s second
richest businessman
and the one with the
strongest hold in the
current ruling estab-
lishment, caught in the
corporate war or has his
troubles increased due
to some other reason?
It is being discussed
that his ‘tension’ with
the country’s number
one industrialist has in-
creased and the new
corporate war has in-
creased his problems.
However, whatever be
the reason, the reality is
that the Adani Group is
in a bad shape. The com-
pany’s shares are falling
and the market capital
is continuously decreas-
ing. On top of this, SEBI
has stopped the IPO of
an Adani Group com-
pany through which an
amount of more than
Rs4,000 crores was to be
raised. It is reported
that SEBI has stopped
IPO of Adani Wilmar.
According to SEBI
rules, if any investiga-
tion is going on in any
branch of the company
that brought IPO, then it
is stopped. There is a
rule to keep it for 90
days.
As the investigation
of irregularities in for-
eign portfolio invest-
ment against Adani En-
terprises, the flagship
company of the Adani
Group, is going on, SEBI
has stopped the IPO of
Adani Wilmar.
Adani’s troubles,
however, are much larg-
er than anticipated. Na-
tional Security Deposi-
tory Limited has frozen
the accounts of three
foreign funds investing
heavily in the shares of
the Adani Group.
As a result, the shares
of Adani Group have
fallen by more than 50
per cent in the last three
months and the compa-
ny has suffered a loss of
Rs 43,000 crore in the
market capital. Due to
this, the wealth of Gau-
tam Adani has fallen
from $ 77 billion to close
to $ 55 billion.
Adani Group’s shares
were at a peak in June
this year. A share of
AdaniPower,whichwas
selling for `167, fell 55%
to `77.30 on August 18.
Adani Total Gas fell
37%, Adani Transmis-
sion 33%, Adani Green
Energy 32% and Adani
Port SEZ fell 21.
ADANI’STROUBLESAREGARGANTUAN!
Anita Hada
New Delhi: Elections
are going to be held in
Uttarakhand next year
and it seems that the
ruling BJP is prepar-
ing to fight on issues
other than works done
by it in past five years.
After all, in a span of
four-and-a-half years,
the BJP has made three
chief ministers in the
state. Therefore, the
question of fighting
over the work of a
Chief Minister does
not arise. There will
definitely be publicity
for the work of the Cen-
tral government for
seven years, but in that
too the focus will be
only on the face of
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi.
Informed sources in
the BJP say that the
party will fight the
elections on a cultural
and religious agenda
and to further the reli-
gious agenda, the sup-
port of cultural work-
ers, especially singers,
will be taken.
Recently, famous
singer Anuradha Paud-
wal met party general
secretary Arun Singh
and media in-charge
Anil Baluni at the BJP
headquarters. Baluni
hails from Uttara-
khand. It is being told
that Paudwal ex-
pressed her desire to
do some social work in
Kedarnath Dham and
sought help from BJP.
Paudwal has sung
songs on Kedarnath
Dham and her working
there will promote
BJP’s agenda. Recently,
Chief Minister Push-
kar Singh Dhami ap-
pointed Pawandeep Ra-
jan, who won the song-
music reality show In-
dian Idol, as the cultur-
al brand ambassador of
the state.
On the day of the fi-
nale of Indian Idol, the
video of Chief Minister
Dhami was broadcast
several times, in which
he appealed to the peo-
ple to vote for
Pawandeep. The leader
of any other state had
not appealed for the vic-
tory of its contestant.
Obviously Dhami had
appealed according to
the election and the ef-
fect of his appeal was
that Pawandeep won.
After winning, he made
a programme to visit
Kedarnath Dham with
the six contestants who
reached the finals of In-
dian Idol. In this way,
through singers, the
BJP is carrying for-
ward the cultural and
religious agenda.
Syed Umer
New Delhi: In most of
its ‘premier’ states, the
Congress is witnessing
a turmoil and now it
has witnessed one in
Kerala where senior
Congress leader AV
Gopinathan has re-
signed due to infight-
ing within the party.
Gopinathan’s resigna-
tion came about after a
controversy regarding
election of new presi-
dent of 14 districts.
Gopinathan, a senior
leader, is a former MLA
and party president of
Palakkad district of
Kerala. He left the Con-
gress saying that now
he does not have faith
in the top leadership,
and because of this
there is no justification
for continuing in the
party.
“I have been working
in Congress for the last
50 years, but now I have
lost all hope. Now there
is no question of con-
tinuing in Congress,”
he stressed.
According to re-
ports, the Congress
party had earlier not
given ticket to Gopina-
than in the Assembly
elections, due to which
he was reportedly an-
gry and now the party
did not even accept the
demands raised by his
supporters to appoint
Gopinathan as district
president.
However, after re-
signing from the Con-
gress party, there are
speculations of Gopi-
nathan going to anoth-
er party.
State’s ruling CPM
leader AK Balan has
said that the decision
is in Gopinathan’s
hands.
Since then there are
speculations that Gopi-
nathan may go towards
CPM. However, Gopi-
nathan has said that he
is not going to join any
other party as of now.
BJP’s ‘mission election’ depends on singers in Uttarakhand!
Singer Anuradha Paudwal recently met BJP leader Arun Singh.
BJP will fight polls
in U’khand on cultural
religious agenda
and to further it
support of cultural
workers, especially
singers, will be taken
First India Bureau
New Delhi: A negative
RT-PCR result not old-
er than 72 hours has
been made mandatory
for passengers travel-
ling to India from sev-
en more countries, in-
cluding, China and
South Africa.
The move comes af-
ter the discovery of a
new Covid variant,
C.1.2, which could be
more infectious and
has shown signs of
evading protection pro-
vided by vaccines.
While earlier this
rule was only applica-
ble for arrivals from
the UK, Europe and
Middle East, seven
more countries—
South Africa, Bangla-
desh, Botswana, Chi-
na, Mauritius, New
Zealand, Zimbabwe—
have been added to the
list on Thursday, ac-
cording to a latest
guideline by Ministry
of Health.
As per the new
guidelines, only
asymptomatic passen-
gers will be allowed to
board the flights from
India and on arrival,
they will again be
tested for Covid
through RT-PCR test.
—PTI
RT-PCRtestmustforarrivalsfrom
7morenationsamidnewstrainfear
A healthcare worker takes a nasal swab sample of a child for the
COVID-19 test in Hyderabad on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI
After Raj, Punjab C’garh,
Cong hits turmoil in Kerala!
Andhra High Court’s
historic judgment sends
5 IAS officers to jail
Rakesh Ranjan
New Delhi: Justice for
a woman named Sai
Brahma has culminat-
edinjailingof 5Andhra
cadre IAS officers for
occupying her land in a
village called Tallapaka
located in Nellore dis-
trict. While Brahma
knocked at every door
in vain, Andhra
Pradesh HC admitted
her case and on Thurs-
day sentenced five ac-
cused IAS officers to
jail for having illegally
occupied her land.
Their irresponsible
behavior provoked HC
to initiate a contempt of
court case.
Manmohan Singh, a
retired IAS officer, is
jailed for a month and
fined Rs1,000, while Nel-
lore Collector Seshagiri
Babu was fined Rs 1,000,
and jailed for two
weeks. Finance Minis-
try official SS Rawat
jailed for a month and
fined Rs 1,000, and for-
mer Nellore Collector
Muthyala Raju, cur-
rently holding key re-
sponsibilities in CMO
jailed for 2 weeks and
fined Rs 1,000.
Another IAS officer,
Imtiaz, sentenced to one
month in jail, with Rs.
1000 fine.
AV Gopinathan
Gautam Adani
BSF NABS PAK SMUGGLER WITH OVER
2 KGS SUSPECTED HEROIN
Ferozepur: BSF has caught a Pakistani smuggler with
two packets of suspected Heroin weighing 2.124 kgs
in the Ferozepur sector in Punjab when he was trying
to intrude into Indian territory through the IB. Officials
in BSF find it a great achievement as it may help in
finding involvement of traffickers of Indian side and
their cross-border linkages. Smuggler was caught on
intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. He was
injured during an anti-narcotic operation conducted by
BSF troops and evacuated to Civil Hospital, Ferozepur.
CRUCIAL READ
44 MERITORIOUS TEACHERS WILL BE
AWARDED BY PREZ ON SEPT 5: MEENA
New Delhi: On the occasion of Teachers’ Day on Septem-
ber 5, President of India Ram Nath Kovind will virtually
award 44 meritorious teachers who
have been selected by the jury in their
respective fields. Event will take place
virtually due to pandemic. RC Meena,
Joint Secy, Ministry of Education said,
“Selection for National Teachers’
awards first begins at dist level, then at
state level finally meritorious teachers are selected at
national level selected teachers will be awarded.”
JAISWAL ADMITTED TO AIIMS, DIAGNOSED
WITH STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME
Patna: BJP Bihar state president Sanjay Jaiswal has been
admitted to Patna AIIMS after being diagnosed with a
rare disease Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Jaiswal took
to Facebook on Thursday to inform about his health. The
Bihar BJP president informed that he will remain admitted
in AIIMS Patna for next 7 days. In the meantime, he won’t
meet anyone. Jaiswal in video message said, “I devp a fe-
ver in Kolkata on August 25. Since I am chairman of Water
Resources Committee, I finished work came Patna.”
SIDDARAMAIAH URGES PEOPLE TO
SUPPORT CONG IN CORPORATION POLLS
Bengaluru: Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah
on Thursday appealed to the people to support the
Congress candidates in the polls for the city corpora-
tions of Belagavi, Hubballi-Dharwad and Kalaburagi
city, to be held today. “The election is happening for 3
corporations Kalburgi, Hubli Dharwad and Belagavi. I
couldn’t go for campaigning due to medical treatment.
I request all the voters to bless the Congress candi-
dates,” he said at a press conference on Thursday.
New RS SG urges officers to prioritise
House and members’ requirements
Rakesh Ranjan
New Delhi: The newly-
appointed Secretary-
General of Rajya Sabha
(SG RS), Dr Parasaram
Pattabhi Kesava Ra-
macharyulu, on Thurs-
day urged the senior
Secretariat officials to
be “imaginative” and
proactive to fulfil the
needs of the House and
its members.
Holding a two-hour-
long meeting with sen-
ior officials after as-
suming new charge, he
called for identifying
the bottlenecks in the
present functioning of
the Secretariat and
evolving an action plan
for removing them to
ensure improvement in
performance. “While
the functioning of Ra-
jya Sabha and the Sec-
retariat are guided by
defined sets of rules,
there is substantial
scope for taking initia-
tives, imagination, an-
ticipation, and dyna-
mism within the frame-
work of rules for more
effective functioning of
the House and Secre-
tariat,” Dr. Ramachary-
ulu said.
Thanking the Rajya
Sabha Chairman M
Venkaiah Naidu for re-
posing confidence in
and appointing an in-
sider for the first time
in about 70 years as
Secretary-General, Dr.
Ramacharyulu urged
the officials to work as
a more dynamic team to
meet the expectations
of the Chairman.
Naidu on Tuesday ap-
pointed Dr. Ramachary-
ulu as the SG to benefit
RS from the latter’s
over 40 years of experi-
ence.
The new SG has suc-
ceeded Desh Deepak
Verma, a retired 1978
batch UP cadre IAS,
who demitted office on
August 31, 2021, after
serving for four years.
Dr. Ramacharyulu has a
wide experience of han-
dling various aspects of
the functioning of Par-
liament. He joined the
RS Secretariat in 1983
after serving in the Lok
Sabha Secretariat for a
year earlier. He served
as Special Secretary,
Andhra Pradesh Leg-
islature in 2017.
Dr Parasaram Ramacharyulu
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a report by an expert
panel constituted for it.
GOVT: CELEBRATE
FESTIVALS AT HOME
Warning against lower-
ing the guard against
coronavirus disease
ahead of festive sea-
son, Health Ministry on
Thursday said people
should celebrate festivals
at home, follow Covid-
appropriate behaviour
and get vaccinated as and
when their turn comes.
The ministry stated that
mass gatherings have to
be discouraged and full
vaccination should be a
prerequisite if attending a
gathering is essential. The
WHO said that it is closely
monitoring a new corona-
virus “variant of interest”
named Mu, warning that
the new variant shows
signs of possible resist-
ance to vaccines. The new
variant was first identified
in Colombia in Jan 2021.

INDIA
06
IN THE COURTYARD
CRUCIAL READ
MAKE FIGHT AGAINST TB PEOPLE’S
MOVEMENT: HEALTH MIN MANDAVIYA
New Delhi: The Union Health Minister Mansukh Man-
daviya on Thursday interacted with the state Health
Ministers and Secretaries of
all states and union territories
to review the progress made
in the fight against TB through
focussed and concerted ef-
forts. Expressing satisfaction
at the convergence of focus
to eliminate TB, Mandaviya
suggested the continuance of regular interaction so
that best practices of States/UTs may be discussed and
taken up for emulation.
SCINDIA WRITES TO CMs OF TELANGANA,
MEGHALAYA TO STRENGTHEN AVIATION
New Delhi: Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya
Scindia has requested the personal intervention of
CMs of Telangana and Meghalaya for expediting the
work of strengthening aviation
infrastructure in these states.
In a letter, to Telangana CM K
Chandrashekar Rao, Scin-
dia has drawn his attention
towards the issue of extension
of the period of Concession
Agreement for HIAL. He has
requested for the personal intervention of Conrad K
Sangma, CM of Meghalaya, in expeditious operationali-
sation of Tura Airport.
CAG GC MURMU URGES AUDITORS FOR
GREATER USE OF DATA ANALYTICS, AI
New Delhi: Comptroller and Auditor General of India
G.C. Murmu on Thursday urged auditors to make far
greater use of data analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning for optimizing efficient use of their
own scarce resources. Speaking at the e-seminar “IT
Audit in Era of Industrial Revolution 4.0: Oppor-
tunities and Challenges” of INTOSAI WGITA, he
emphasized that in 4th industrial revolution, must
prepare themselves to face multi-faceted changes.
BIHAR BJP MLA GYANENDRA HITS OUT
AT SINGH’S TALIBAN REMARK FOR RSS
Patna: Bihar BJP MLA Gyanendra Singh Gyanu has
slammed RJD state president Jagadanand Singh for
his Taliban remark on the RSS. Jagadanand Singh on
Tuesday had said that the RSS is the Taliban of India.
“It has an ideology to create communal tension in the
society, assault people having beards, wearing caps
and makers of bangles. The Taliban is not a name but
a culture based in Afghanistan and the RSS is having
similar mindset in India,” he had said. Reacting sharply
to this, Gyanu said that Jagadanand Singh should be
ashamed of his remark on the RSS.
Kishor’s induction into Cong
Sonia to decide soon
AS PER PARTY SOURCES, GANDHI HAS ALREADY STARTED PREPS
New Delhi: Congress
President Sonia Gandhi
will take a final call on
inducting election strat-
egist Prashant Kishor
in the party as Congress
leaders are divided over
the issue. According to
party sources, Sonia
has already started the
consultation process.
AsKishorwantsafull-
fledgedroleanddecision
making authority on
election related issues,
party leaders are averse
of giving free hand to
one person on the selec-
tion of candidates.
Rahul has informally
discussed the plan with
theCongressleadersand
sought their view for
Kishor’s entry into the
party
, and to what extent
hecanbegivenresponsi-
bility for the party’s poll
strategy
, said party lead-
ers who were part of
these deliberations.
Kishor who has also
met General Secretary
Priyanka Gandhi and
interim chief Sonia
Gandhi in these delib-
erations, has given a
plan to the Congress
leadership and the talk-
ing points are being dis-
cussedamongthesenior
leaders. Kishor is likely
to take political plunge
soon in Congress. —ANI
WHY
KISHOR?
Prashant Kishor
has more
recently worked
with the Trinamool
Congress and has
been credited as
the man behind the
thumping victory
of the party in the
WB assembly elec-
tions. After 2 poll
debacles, Congress
is in search of ad-
visors. With the de-
mise of seasoned
leader Ahmed
Patel, Congress
has already lost an
ace strategist.
SOURCES SAY...
Kishor has met
Congress leader and
party’s former president
Rahul Gandhi quietly a
few times to discuss the
party’s revival ahead of
several Assembly elec-
tions -- including Uttar
Pradesh, scheduled
to be held next year,
sources said.
CONGS' UPCOMING POLL PREPS...
The Congress is preparing for polls in Uttar Pradesh,
Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and some northeastern
states next year. Kishor has recently handled cam-
paigns of the TMC, the DMK and the YSRCP and has
relations across party lines.
‘All is not well’
IN PUNJAB CONG: RAWAT
OVER SINGH-SIDHU RIFT
BJP selling assets
created by Cong: Singh
New Delhi: Taking a
jibe at Centre, senior
Congress leader Digvi-
jaya Singh on Thursday
said that Centre has an-
nounced NMP to sell
national assets created
by Cong from 1947-2014.
“Monetisation Pipe-
line to sell projects or
the assets build by the
Congress from 1947-
2014,” said Digvijaya
Singh while speaking to
reporters. Emphasising
on allegations made by
BJP that Cong has done
nothing in 70 years, he
said, “that’s difference
between worthy un-
worthy son, between
Cong BJP. Modi ji
says nothing happened
in last 70 years. Then
what are you selling?”
he asked. Furthermore,
he said, BJP has refused
to debate in Parl over
inflation, unemploy-
ment, Pegasus. —ANI
Chandigarh: Amid the
ongoing rift in the Pun-
jabCongress,AICCstate
in-charge Harish Rawat
on Thursday revealed
that all is not well in the
party but claimed that
state Congress is head-
ing towards the ‘all is
well’ situation.
“I won’t say all is
well, but we are heading
towards it. I do not want
to hide from you. We are
trying to solve the is-
sue,” Rawat said. This
comes after Punjab PCC
general secretary Par-
gat Singh on Sunday
questioned AICC state
in-charge Harish Rawat
over the decision that
Congress will contest
the 2022 Punjab Assem-
bly elections under the
leadership of Chief
Minister Captain Ama-
rinder Singh.
If Rawatissayingpolls
will be fought under the
leadership of CM Cap-
tain Amarinder Singh,
then he should also
tellwhenthisde-
cision was
taken. —ANI
MODI GOVT RUINED
ECONOMY: RAHUL
New Delhi: Accusing
the Centre of mishan-
dling the country’s
economy, Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi
on Thursday said the
nation was at a “critical
crossroad” and the
Congress, as a major
opposition party, has
a moral duty to fight
the forces that threaten
the very idea of India.
“Modi Government has
clearly mishandled the
economy. And, what
this country has
built over
the last 70
years, is
being given
away to select
few friends
of Modi-ji”,
Gandhi said.
Harish Rawat talking to media
in Chandigarh on Thursday.
l NARADA STING OPERATION
ED files prosecution plaint
against 4 leaders, IPS officer
New Delhi: ED has filed
aProsecutionComplaint
under PMLA in case of
Narada sting operation
case against TMC lead-
ers Firhad Hakim, Sub-
rata Mukherjee, Madan
Mitra, Sovan Chatterjee
and IPS Officer SMH
Meerza before the Spe-
cial Judge (PMLA) in
Kolkata.
According to the of-
ficial statement by the
government agency,
“Enforcement Directo-
rate has filed a Prosecu-
tion Complaint under
Prevention of Money
Laundering Act, 2002
(PMLA) in the case of
Narada Sting Opera-
tion, against Firhad
Hakim, Transport and
Housing Minister, Gov-
ernment of West Ben-
gal, Subrata Mukher-
jee, Panchayat Minister,
Government of West
Bengal, Madan Mitra,
MLA West Bengal, So-
van Chatterjee, former
Mayor of Kolkata and
SMH Meerza, an IPS Of-
ficer of West Bengal
Cadre before the Spe-
cial Judge (PMLA), Kol-
kata with the prayer for
awarding punishment
to the accused for com-
mitting offence of mon-
ey laundering and con-
fiscation of the amount
of gratification.” —ANI
ED FILES CASE IN `200 CR DUPING OF
EX-RANBAXY PROMOTER’S WIFE
New Delhi: The ED has registered an ECIR against
Rohini Jail inmate Sukesh Chandrashekar for alleg-
edly duping the wife of former promoter Ranbaxy
Shivinder Mohan Singh of Rs 200 crore, a source told.
A money laundering case has been registered against
Chandrasekhar and his aides Deepak Ramdani and
Pradeep Ramdani and others for duping Aditi Singh,
wife of Shivinder Mohan Singh. The ED has registered
the case based on the FIR registered by Delhi Police,
alleging that she was cheated of Rs 200 crore by a man
posing as a Home Ministry official who promised to
help with her husband’s cases.
Puri blames UPA
govt for `1.5L cr
unpaid oil bonds
New Delhi: Union min
of Petroleum Natural
Gas, Hardeep Singh
Puri on
T h u r s d ay
blamed UPA
govt said
govt has
burdened fu-
ture govts
with oil bonds of more
than Rs 1.5L crore. Union
Min said it is limiting fis-
cal space and restricting
fin freedom of OMCs and
thus tying up crucial re-
sources. “Important EP
sector was fund-starved.
So, our import bill con-
tinues to be high. Nearly
Rs 3.6L cr profits of oil
companies were instead
used for price stabilisa-
tion by a remote-con-
trolled govt of ‘economic
experts’ to hide behind
an ‘All is Well’ smoke-
screen,” Puri said. —ANI
It is a big resolution to protect
life of Indian citizen: Rajnath
Kevadia: Indicating to-
ward the successful
evacuation of over 500
Indians Afghan na-
tionals from Afghani-
stan, Defence Minister
Rajnath Singh on Thurs-
day said govt works dili-
gently when it comes to
question of protecting
Indian citizens.
“It is a big resolution
for us to protect the life
and property of an In-
dian citizen. That is
why when it comes to
the question of protect-
ing Indian citizens, our
government works dili-
gently to get them out of
foreign countries as
well,” he said while ad-
dressing the inaugural
session of Gujarat BJP
Executive meeting in
Kevadia. He empha-
sised making country
‘
Atmanirbhar.’ “Defence
production has been
promoted in India. 64%
of total purchase is re-
served to purchase De-
fense Equipment made
in India,” he said. —ANI
MoU signed between Ministry of Defence, Gujarat Govt for organizing
DefExpo-2022. Seen here are, Rajnath Singh, Vijay Rupani others.
Rajnathsingh_in
@RajnathSingh_in
Congress and Rahul Gandhi
made unnecessary Rafale
issue. What was the result?
Raphael got ready in France.
Rafale has also landed in
India but Rahul ji still has not
been able to ‘Take off’.
India ready to join
the like-minded
towards IT: MoS IT
New Delhi: India is
ready to partner with
nations towards devel-
opment in technology
embedded governance,
said MoS for Electron-
ics and Information
Technology Rajeev
Chandrasekhar on
Wednesday
.
Speaking at a pre-
event organised in the
run-up to the fifteenth
session of Ministerial
Conference of UNC-
TAD through VC, Min-
ister shared India’s suc-
cess story of digitalisa-
tion. He also said that
India has demonstrated
the power of technolo-
gy in businesses. —ANI
Currently, India is
poised as one of the
largest connected
countries in the world in
terms of internet connectivi-
ty with “around 80 Crore
people online” and one of the
“world’s largest rural broad-
band connectivity projects
being executed”.
—Rajeev Chandrasekhar,
MoS for Electronics and IT
Nitin Gadkari addresses 29th AGM of AMCHAM session on ‘Infra
Propelling India in the Global Supplying Chain’, on Thursday.
India to be 5 Trillion Dollar
economy in 5 yrs: Gadkari
New Delhi: Emphasis-
ing importance of infra-
structure for improving
revenue base of govt,
Union Minister for Road
Transport Highways
Nitin Gadkari on Thurs-
day said that well-devel-
oped infrastructure
would play an impor-
tant role in fulfilling vi-
sion of India in becom-
ing Five Trillion Dollar
economy in 5 years.
Minister said, the bilat-
eral trade between India
US has grown from
USD 16 Billion USD to
USD 149 Billion in 2 dec-
ades is projected to
reach more than USD
500 Billion by 2025. —ANI
4 FIRs in NORTH EAST
VIOLENCE QUASHED
New Delhi: The Delhi High
Court has quashed four FIRs
lodged for the alleged of-
fences of looting and setting
on fire a compound during
the North East Delhi riots
last year, saying there cannot
be a second FIR and fresh
investigation for the same
cognisable offence.
DELHI HC ISSUES NOTICE TO CENTRE
ON PLEA FILED BY TELECOM WATCHDOG
New Delhi: The Delhi HC has issued notice to Centre on plea
filed by Telecom Watchdog alleging that whistleblower has been
harassed pressurised on pretext of an FIR lodged against
him. CJ DN Patel Justice Jyoti asked Centre through Dept of
Telecommunications others to file reply, listed matter on Sept
17. Petition was represented by advocate Prashant Bhushan. The
petitioner has sought to pass appropriate orders initiating suo
moto contempt proceedings against Anshu Prakash, Secy of DoT,
Ashi Kapoor of T-II, USO Fund, DoT, Ajay Karan Sharma, SHO,
Manish Kumar, SI, Parl PS, for interfering with administration.
DELHI HC ISSUES NOTICE TO CENTRE ON
NCISM CHAIRMAN APPOINTMENT PLEA
New Delhi: The Delhi HC on Thursday issued notice to the
Centre and others on a petition challenging the appointment
of the Chairman of the regulatory body of the NCISM. The
plea sought the court’s direction to quash the appointment of
Vaidya Jayant Yeshwant Deopujari as Chairperson of NCISM,
stating he is a disqualified candidate as per the prescribed
qualification under the relevant act. The bench of Justice DN
Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh sought a response from the Un-
ion of India through the Ministry of Ayush, NCISM Vaidya
Jayant Yeshwant Deopujari and posted matter for October 22.
Digvijay Singh speaks to media at Sadaqat Ashram in Patna on Thursday.
Sonia Gandhi
Prashant Kishor
FROM PG 1
Shah opens...
in Davanagere, Karnata-
ka. Also had a great for-
tunetofelicitateandinter-
act with our valiant free-
dom fighters during this
event. We will always re-
main indebted to their un-
paralleled role in India’s
freedom struggle,” the
home minister said. After
attending this series of
eventsinDevangere,Amit
Shah will head back to
Hubballi. From there,
ShahwillbeattendingUn-
ion Coal Mine Minister
Prahlad Joshi’s eldest
daughter’s wedding. Un-
ion Parliamentary Affairs
minister Pralhad Joshi’s
eldest daughter Arpita is
gettingmarriedtoKSHru-
shikesh.

First India Bureau
Lucknow: The race for
the upcoming assembly
elections in Uttar
Pradesh has started to
heat up with JDU an-
nouncing that if the
BJP doesn’t allocate
enough seats for the
party in the upcoming
assembly elections,
then it might contest in
200 seats of the state.
The resolution for the
same was passed during
the meeting of the Na-
tional Council of JDU.
National spokesperson
KC Tyagi said that the
first round of the talks
between JDU and BJP
has concluded and in
the next round of talks
it would be clear as to
how many seats each of
the parties will contest.
KC Tyagi though has
put caution in the wind
by saying that if BJP
does not allocate decent
number of seats, then
the JDU will contest
alone in 200 seats in the
state. Uttar Pradesh
state president Anoop
Singh Patel has also
made tall claims re-
garding the upcoming
assembly elections. He
said that if the BJP does
not allocate decent
number of seats
to JDU, then just
like it was the
case in 2012 elections
where BJP won a mea-
sly 47 seats in the as-
sembly elections.
Voting percentage
needs to be increased.
JDU’s state spokes-
person Abhishek Jha
said that during
the meeting of
the National
Council, a goal has
been set of elevating
the JDU to a national
party at the earliest. He
added that in order to
achieve the goal, JDU
will have to increase
the voting percentage
in the assembly elec-
tions of every state and
only then that JDU will
be included in the list of
national parties. He fur-
ther added that people
of Uttar Pradesh like
JDU and the image of
CM Nitish Kumar is
that of Vikas Purush.
The enthusiasm of
JDU toward the Uttar
Pradesh elections draw
jibes from RJD with
RJD’s state spokesper-
son Mrityunjay Tiwari
taunting RJD for being
the no. 3 party in party
.
He said that one does
not win an election just
by words and that one
has to work hard for it.
—FILE PHOTO
Yogi Adityanath
Nitish Kumar
First India Bureau
Unnao: A shameful
case of a father-daugh-
ter relationship has
come to fore in Unnao.
A Prantiya Rakshak
Dal (PRD) jawan has
been accused of raping
his own daughter for a
year. The police claim
that the accused has
also confessed to his
crime. The accused fa-
ther has been arrested
and sent to jail. The
medical test of the vic-
tim daughter is being
done. The matter is of
a colony located in city
Kotwali where a PRD
jawan lives with his
wife two daughters.
The jawan’s wife is
also in the PRD. Ac-
cording to police, the
duty timings of the
PRD jawan his wife
were different. So as
soon as his wife went
on duty, he started co-
ercing her 21-year-old
daughter. A year ago,
the PRD jawan started
it under an influence
of alcohol after that
started raping her con-
tinuously. The victim
said that she did not
speak to anyone for a
year due to fear of so-
ciety, but when the fa-
ther’s eyes fell on the
younger sister, she
could not bear it. The
victim narrated her
ordeal after reaching
the Kotwali and de-
manded to save her
younger sister from
becoming a victim of
her father’s lust after
which the police im-
mediately arrested the
accused father sent
him to jail.
On the complaint of
the victim, the police
took the accused fa-
ther into custody and
interrogated him. Po-
lice said that the ac-
cused has accepted his
crime. Sadar Kotwali
incharge Anil Singh
said that on the com-
plaint of the girl, a re-
port has been regis-
tered against the ac-
cused father under
several sections
statement of girl has
been recorded.
Rain pours misery on
repaired city roads
First India Bureau
Mathura: The road
which was repaired
overnight so that every-
thing looks pristine
during the visit of the
Chief Minister during
Janmashtami was una-
ble to withstand a sin-
gle downpour. The pic-
tures posted on social
media were followed by
comments which criti-
cized the work done by
the Municipal Corpora-
tion. Patch works were
done on all bad roads,
but all the good work
went down the drain as
a downpour after Jan-
mashtami undid all the
patch work. On the oc-
casion of Janmashta-
mi, the Municipal Cor-
poration had done
patchwork to make
roads pothole-free.
Actor Deepika Padukone donates `10
lakh to Agra’s acid attack survivor
First India Bureau
Agra: Bollywood ac-
tress Deepika Padukone
has given Rs 10 lakh for
treatment to acid attack
survivor Bala Prajapati,
a resident of Bijnor, UP
.
25-year-old Bala is cur-
rently battling between
life and death.
Bothherkidneyshave
failed and she is on dial-
ysis currently it will
be difficult to survive
without a kidney trans-
plant. She is being treat-
ed at Safdarjung Hospi-
tal in Delhi and Rs 16
lakh is needed for the
transplant. The finan-
cial condition of her
family is not good. Shi-
roz Hangout Cafe, locat-
edinAgra,haslaunched
a crowdfunding (bit.ly/
SaveBala) cam-
paign where she
used to work. So
far more than
Rs 10.78 lakh
hasbeenraised
for Bala’s treat-
ment. Bala’s
health suddenly
deteriorated a
month ago. First treat-
ment was done at Ram
Manohar Lohia in Luc-
know.Hereshewasdiag-
nosed with kidney fail-
ure after which she was
shifted to Safdarganj
Hospital in Delhi. Bala
has gone to the
Comedy Night
with Kapil
show. She
starred oppo-
site actress
D e e p i k a
Padukone in
the film
‘Chhapaak’ by
Meghna Gulzar. She is
no less than a celebrity
in Agra.
Bala Prajapati, a resi-
dent of Bijnor, faced an
acid attack 9 years ago.
There was a family dis-
pute with Harkesh Sin-
gh Chauhan during
which Harkesh Singh
entered the house and
attacked Bala and his
grandfather with acid.
Bala’s grandfather was
killed in the attack
while her neck, hands
and face were badly
scorched by acid.
NEWS
07
GONE YET NOT
FORGOTTEN
How well can we remember
someone’s life after they
die? A case in point in is the
death of former UP chief
minister Kalyan Singh. The only
time the maverick BJP
politician attracted so much
attention than he is now was at
the peak of the ‘Ayodhya
Movement’ when he
relinquished office as CM after
the demolition of the ‘Babri
Masjid’ and became a poster
boy of the BJP instantly. There
has been a virtual political
slugfest being fought on
various social media platforms
by Samajwadi Party, Congress
and the BJP on the former
CM’s legacy and the cast to
which he belonged. The ruling
party has been indulging in
counter-attacks on social media
against Akhilesh Yadav and
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who
were initially the more
aggressive ones to take on the
BJP on Twitter and Facebook.
But now the UP BJP seems to
have reworked its strategy and
launched counter attacks on
social media against its
opponents. It began with BJP
getting ten of its OBC leaders
to speak out against Akhilesh
Yadav and Priyanka Gandhi for
skipping paying last respects to
Kalyan Singh and the BJP
posted these videos on Twitter
and Facebook to corner Yadav.
The BJP feels there is anger
amongst Kalyan Singh’s Lodh
community over the matter.
The ruling party has also begun
a social media campaign in UP
saying ‘Farq Saaf Hai’(the
difference is clear) to compare
the achievements of Yogi
Adityanath’s government with
the pre-2017 situation in UP.
—First India Bureau
STALL VENDORS
AT MORADABAD
RAILWAY STATION
GO ON STRIKE
Vendors who set up stalls on
Platform No. 2 and 3 went on
strike at Moradabad railway
station on Thursday as they
alleged that Power Cabin Staff and
Station Master together divert
trains coming on their platform to
Platform No. 4 and 5. The striking
vendors have alleged that in lieu
of diverting trains from platform
number 2 and 3 to 4 and 5, the
station master and power cabin
staff charge Rs 1600 per train.
This amount is taken from the
stall contractors of platform
number 4 and 5. The striking
vendors have warned that if action
was not taken against the culprits
after conducting an inquiry, they
will commit suicide. Protesting
vendors include Ved Prakash
Mishra, Nasir, Amber, Brijesh
Saini, Chandramoli Mishra etc.
They said that this game is going
on due to the complicity of station
master and power cabin staff with
the vendors of platform number 4
and 5. It is alleged that there are
maximum stalls on 2 and 3 only.
Despite this, goods trains are
parked here whereas passenger
trains are diverted to platform 4
and 5. Protesting vendors said
that they had complained earlier
also, but no action was taken. In
the memorandum sent to Senior
Commercial Railway Manager,
they claimed that they had not
been able to recover even the fare
of the stalls for a long time and
were facing a situation of
starvation. Vendors have
threatened to commit suicide,
demanding a fair investigation
against the station master and the
power cabin staff. Gaurav Dixit,
DCM of Moradabad Railway
Division, said that an application
has been given on behalf of the
vedors which would be
investigated. —First India Bureau
UTTAR PRADESH ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS
‘IF BJP DOESN’T ALLOCATE ENOUGH
SEATS,THENJDUWILLCONTESTALONE’
The resolution for the same was passed during the meeting of the National Council of JDU
RJD’S JIBE AT JDU
23 cases registered
against Nilgiri
Infracity in 3 days
First India Bureau
Varanasi: The police
are tightening the noose
on Chief Managing Di-
rector (CMD) of Nilgiri
Company, Vikas Singh,
his wife Managing Di-
rector (MD) Ritu Singh
and close friends, who
are trapped in fraud
case. In the last three
days, a total of 23 cases
have been registered at
Chetganj police station.
The company has also
cheated people living
abroad. One of the vic-
tims is a resident of Ku-
wait. Policehavestarted
marking the properties
of Vikas Singh, his wife
Ritu Singh. The immov-
able property of both
will soon be confiscated
under the Gangster Act.
Their bank accounts
will also be frozen.
All the evidence gath-
ered by the SIT set up by
Police Commissioner A
Satish Ganesh is likely
to be shared with the
Enforcement Directo-
rate (ED) after which
the ED will start its in-
vestigation separately
.
The accused have
grabbed more than Rs
10 crores in the name of
investment in gold and
land and tour packages.
Police Commissioner A
Satish Ganesh has
formed the SIT under
the leadership of ADCP
Varuna Zone. ACP Chet-
ganj, SHO Sigra and
SHO Jaitpura have been
included in the SIT.
The 23rd case against
Vikas and Ritu has been
filed in Chetganj police
station by Anand Ku-
mar, resident of Parta-
purinGhazipurdistrict.
Anand told that he had
signed a deal with Vikas
and Ritu in June 2015 for
Rs 10.40 lakh to get 1300
square feet of land.
B-townactorVidyut
JammwalvisitsTaj
Mahalwithgirlfriend
First India Bureau
Agra: Bollywood actor
Vidyut Jammwal visit-
ed the Taj Mahal in
Agra along with his girl-
friend Nandita Mahtani
on Thursday. The actor
his girlfriend during
the visit learned vari-
ous facts about the his-
torical monument from
a guide. Even though he
was in a different look,
fans were still able to
recognize him took
selfies with the celebri-
ty. The CISF (Central
Industrial Security
Force) however formed
a circle around the cou-
ple. Vidyut who made a
mark in the Bollywood
industry with his movie
Commando, arrived at
Taj Mahal around
12.30pm on Thursday.
Dressed in a white t-
shirt white jeans,
Vidyut was not immedi-
ately recognized by peo-
ple as he was wearing
glasses, had long hair
with beard but some
fans of the actor recog-
nized him following
which scores of people
turned up. The actor
was accompanied by
CISF security personnel
who ensured that no one
came too close to the
couple. The actor has
come to Agra for the
shoot of his upcoming
movie Khuda Hafiz-2 so
he took the opportunity
to visit the Taj Mahal.
Father arrested for sexually exploiting daughter in Unnao
—REPRESENTATIONAL
IMAGE
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Motherly Love: Holy cow unites Ramdev,AIMIM, for nat’l animal status
First India Bureau
Lucknow: A day after
the Allahabad High
Court batted for the
cow to be declared as
the national animal,
Yoga guru Baba Ram-
dev has come out in
support of the idea.
Samajwadi Party MP
from Sambhal district
Dr Shafiqur Rahman,
Mulayam Singh’s
daughter-in-law and so-
cial worker Aparna Ya-
dav and AIMIM nation-
al spokesperson and
UP in-charge Asim
Waqar have also wel-
comed the decision of
the High Court.
The Allahabad HC
on Wednesday, while
denying bail to a per-
son accused of cow
slaughter in Uttar
Pradesh, asserted that
the cow should be de-
clared a national ani-
mal and their protec-
tion should be made a
fundamental right of
Hindus.
“The protection of
cows is not the respon-
sibility of only one re-
ligion. The cow is an
integral part of India’s
culture and should be
declared as the Nation-
al Animal,” the single-
judge bench of the Al-
lahabad HC had said.
Baba Ramdev, who
had pitched the same
idea in 2018, backed the
court order on Thurs-
day, saying it is time to
declare the cow as a na-
tional animal. Earlier
in 2018, Ramdev had
told a news agency: “If
tiger and peacock can
be the pride of the na-
tion, why can’t a cow be
one?”
Prior to this, in 2015,
the Patanjali co-found-
er had asked the Naren-
dra Modi government
to impose a nationwide
ban on cow slaughter.
He had also said that
killing cows is as hei-
nous a crime as killing
a human being.
On Wednesday, a sin-
gle-judge bench of Jus-
tice Shekhar Kumar
Yadav suggested that
the Centre should in-
troduce a bill in Parlia-
ment to declare the cow
as a national animal.
The High Court
also said that strict
laws should be
framed against
those who harm
cows
Cow is the
integral part
of our culture
should be
declared as
the National
Animal.
—BABA RAMDEV, Yoga guru
Government can ban it, we
have no objection. There are
other animals for Muslims to
sacrifice. But mob lynching is
being done in the name of
cow, we are against it.
— DR SHAFIQUR RAHMAN,
SP MP
We have been demanding
from the beginning that for
the protection and safety of
the cow, a law should be
made at the level of the
central government.
—ASIM WAQAR,
AIMIM National Spokesperson
IN HINDUTVA PUSH, PARTIES DITCH MUSLIMS
The oppn too has changed strategy; now they want Muslim votes but without the pro-Muslim tag
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The BJP has
built a huge vote bank
withitself ontheagenda
of Hindutva and nation-
alism. After Narendra
Modi became the Prime
Minister in 2014 and
2019, this agenda got
more edge.
The effect of this po-
litical strategy of BJP
was such that former
Congress President Ra-
hul Gandhi wearing a
janeuturnedShivBhakt,
Aam Aadmi Party’s su-
premo Arvind Kejriwal
claimed himself to be a
Hanuman devotee while
SPchief AkhileshYadav
started proving himself
to be a Krishna devotee.
During this, leaders of
almost every political
party have tried to
change the ‘image’ of
their party by adopting
soft Hindutva. The po-
litical parties which
wereseenopenlybatting
for Muslim vote bank on
the election pitch before
2014 have suddenly tak-
en a U turn.
With the coming of
Modi government at
Center due to political
compulsion, the opposi-
tion parties changed
their strategy and now
they want Muslim votes
butwithoutthepro-Mus-
lim tag. Indeed, the
emergence of BJP with
an agenda of national-
ism and Hindutva has
almost marginalized the
relevance of Muslim
vote bank. In this case,
West Bengal can be
left as an excep-
tion. But, to give a
political competi-
tion to BJP in al-
most every state, po-
litical parties want Mus-
lim vote bank, but are
shying away from mak-
ing open efforts for it. At
the same time, this
can be one of the
biggest reasons
for the growing
hold of Asaduddin
Owaisi’s party
amongMuslimvotersin
the last few years.
Excited by perfor-
mance in Bihar assem-
bly elections last year,
Owaisi is now trying to
increase his political
power in Uttar Pradesh.
Owaisi, in association
with Omprakash Rajb-
har’s Bhagidari Sankalp
Morcha, is exposing the
thinkingof politicalpar-
tiesaboutMuslimvoters
as vote banks. Owaisi’s
partyline is very clear,
hedoesnotwanttoallow
Muslims to become the
vote bank of any politi-
cal party and demands
participation in politics.
Owaisi’spartyAIMIM
isbeingaccusedof being
the ‘B’ team of BJP
. But,
he does not seem to be
making any fuss in his
effortstomakehimself a
national leader of Mus-
lims. On every issue like
RamMandir,Article370,
CAA, Love Jihad, Owai-
si talks about the Mus-
lim side in a frank man-
ner from Parliament to
the road. And, slowly he
is moving towards be-
comingthenewMessiah
of Muslims.
First India bureau
Lucknow: The
Bharatiya Janata Par-
ty in Uttar Pradesh has
started its prepara-
tions for the assembly
elections 2022. The
party has begun pre-
paring a report of the
MLAs after reviewing
their work in the state.
This report will cate-
gorize the work done
by MLA in the field
into three different
categories and carry
information about the
MLAs gathered from
government and pri-
vate agencies.
The BJP has this
time around decided to
conduct a survey on
every seat in UP and
will form booth com-
mittees in all the as-
sembly seats of the
state.
These booth commit-
tees will be responsi-
ble for the preparation
of the report about the
amount of work done
by the MLA in the last
5 years and based on
this report the party
decide whether to give
a ticket to an MLA or
not.
The BJP organiza-
tion will collect the de-
tails of all the MLAs in
the next two months
and once these details
are received it will be
scrutinized by party
leaders.
Once the assessment
is done, if the perfor-
mance of an MLA falls
under the average cat-
egory, then he will be
given a month to im-
prove upon his work in
the field by spending
more time among the
public and if anyone’s
performance is found
unsatisfactory then
he/ she will not be con-
sidered for a ticket
with the ticket being
given to another capa-
ble candidate.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Asserting
that the BJP will cross
the 300-mark in the Ut-
tar Pradesh Assembly
polls next year, Deputy
Chief Minister Keshav
Prasad Maurya on
Thursday said the elec-
tions will be decisive
and pave way for the
2024 Lok Sabha polls.
He said the elections
will be fought under the
leadership of CM Yogi
Adityanath and added
that the next CM will be
decided by the central
leadership and elected
MLAs.
Claiming that the
BJP would cross the
300-mark in 2022, Mau-
rya said, “I don’t see
any doubt in crossing
this figure.”
On the question of
leadership, Maurya
said “At present Yogi
Adityanath is the chief
minister. Right now we
are also believing and
everyone else is also be-
lieving that when the
results of 2022 will
come, Yogi ji will be the
CM.But this cannot be
said by me. This deci-
sion has to be taken by
the central leadership,
the Central Parliamen-
tary Board and central
observers.” Maurya
was the state President
of the BJP at the time
of the 2017 assembly
elections, and under his
leadership, the party
got 312 out of the 403
seats while 13 seats
were won by allies.
After the win, there
was speculation that
Maurya would be made
the CM but the central
leadership chose Adity-
anath.
—FILE PHOTO
NETA JI BACK IN ACTION
Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav with son and National President Akhilesh Yadav
at state party head office where several political leaders joined the SP, in Lucknow on Thursday.
—PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR
Mission’22:BJP
tomakereportof
everyMLA’swork
WORK PLAN
UP polls will be decisive, pave
way for LS polls: Dy CM Maurya
Deputy CM Maurya said
the elections will be
fought under the leader-
ship of CM Yogi Adi-
tyanath and added the
next CM will be decided
by the central leadership
and elected MLAs
CENTRAL LEADERSHIP
WILL DECIDE NEXT CM
HC denies stay on
arrest of Munawwar
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The Luc-
know bench of the Al-
lahabad High Court
did not provide relief
to the accused poet
Munawwar Rana in a
criminalcaseforcom-
paringMaharishiVal-
miki, the author of
Ramayana, to the
Taliban. The court
refused to stay his ar-
rest in the criminal
case. Also dismissed
the petition challeng-
ing the FIR registered
against him.
A division bench of
JusticeRameshSinha
and Justice Saroj Ya-
dav delivered this or-
der on the plea of
Rana on Thursday
. In
this plea, the petition-
er had requested to
quash the FIR lodged
in the Hazratganj po-
lice station. Along
with this, he had also
requested the court to
stay his arrest in the
case. Rana allegedly
had said that Valmiki
wasawriter,TheTali-
ban will also be Val-
miki after ten years.
In Hinduism, anyone
is called God. Subse-
quently an FIR was
lodged against him,
on behalf of ‘Samajik
Sarkokar Founda-
tion’, alleging that
Rana had insulted
Hindu faith.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Accusing the
YogiAdityanath-ledBJP
government in Uttar
Pradesh of failing to
keep its promise of dou-
bling the income of
farmers, Samajwadi
Party (SP) chief Akhile-
sh Yadav on Thursday
said that people no more
want to see a BJP gov-
ernment in 2022, assert-
ing that his party shall
win over 400 seats of the
total 403 assembly seats
in the upcoming polls.
Further accusing the
governmentof fuelprice
hike, Akhilesh claimed
that the people of the
state are “unhappy”
withthecurrentBJP-led
state government.
Akhilesh said, “Sa-
majwadis have aimed
‘abki baar 400 paar’...
Our effort will be to take
peoplewithus.Youcan’t
imagine the unhappi-
ness among them, they
don’t want to see the
BJPgovernmentin2022.
The incomes of farmers
weren’t doubled but the
prices of gas cylinders
were doubled. Petrol
diesel prices are sky-
rocketing.
The SP leader also al-
leged that instead of do-
ing away with corrup-
tion,theCentre’sdemon-
etisation policy has, in
turn, increased corrup-
tion. “BJP government
isabouttogo.Noonecan
stop the bicycle from
coming to power in
2022,” added Akhilesh
Yadav.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Thirteen po-
licemen including the
then DIG Anant Dev
have been found guilty
in the judicial investiga-
tion of the Bikru case of
Kanpur.
A 132-page long in-
quiry report has been
drawnupbytheJudicial
Commissionconstituted
underthechairmanship
of former Justice Dr BS
Chauhan found SP (Ru-
ral) Pradyuman Singh,
then CO Cantt RK
Chaturvedi, Sukshuk
Prakash,SSPDineshKu-
mar,COBillaurNandlal,
Additional SP Brijesh
Srivastava and Passport
Nodal Officer Amit Ku-
marguiltyof negligence
towards duty
.
The Commission has
also instructed the gov-
ernment to take neces-
sary disciplinary action
against the guilty
. SIT
was also formed for in-
vestigation into the Bik-
ru scandal, and it too
mentioned in its report
of complicity of police
officers with Vikas
Dubey and negligence
towards duty
.
The SIT had recom-
mended harsh punish-
ment to 4 police officers
and minor punishment
to four police officers.
Thejudicialcommission
has its report recom-
mended action against
all the guilty police offic-
ers and employees in-
volved in the Bikru case.
Samajwadis
have resolved
‘Abki baar 400
paar’:Akhilesh
Bikru case: 13 cops including then DIG
Anant Dev found guilty in judicial probe
Gangster Vikas Dubey —FILE PHOTO
A human’s ability to break
barriers is only limited by his
thoughts.
—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
A motion regard-
ing it should
come to the Par-
liament. Every
party should
support this.
—APARNA YADAV,
Social worker
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ell us about your
journey so far.
Ans: My modelling
journey has not been
very easy, I’ve faced
hardships but I keep
my focus on myself
and how I can do better. I was
always an all-rounder and en-
joyed playing badminton. Cur-
rently, I’m pursuing psychology
and besides modelling, I strong-
ly wish to be a successful psy-
chologist one day. Since my
school days, I was fascinated
with the modelling and glamour
industry
.
Ques: What do you think
makes you stand out?
Ans: My willpower and my con-
fidence and the way I handle
things set me apart. The
amount of hard work I
pour into any-
thing is ir-
respec-
tive of the work allotted to me.
I have great respect for ‘dignity
of labour’ and I like to sign my
work with excellence. I feel the
three D’s are a must in life, ded-
ication, devotion and determi-
nation which would help soar
heights.
Ques: Who is your source of
inspiration?
Ans: My mother is my true
source of inspiration each day
.
My mom is the epitome of love,
sacrifice and strength. Besides
her, I strongly look up to Ur-
vashi Rautela in the field of
modelling and acting.
Ques: Did your family/par-
ents support you, if yes, how?
Ans: My family has been very
supportive of my work.
Ques: Why did you choose psy-
chology?
Ans: I believe that psychology
helps in understanding life bet-
ter and also we become more
accepting of the faults of oth-
ers. The depth of character that
studying psychology has given
me has helped me immensely in
not just the modelling field but
my day-to-day life.
Ques: Chahak, any message
you’d like to give?
Ans: My motivation Mantra
is ‘Never Give Up’. There
are no roses without
thorns so learn
from your strug-
gles too and al-
ways respect
your men-
tors and
Gurus.
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thorns so learn
from your strug-
gles too and al-
ways respect
your men-
tors and
Gurus.
Ans: My willpower and my con-
fidence and the way I handle
things set me apart. The
amount of hard work I
pour into any-
thing is ir-
respec-
ter and also we become more
accepting of the faults of oth-
ers. The depth of character that
studying psychology has given
me has helped me immensely in
not just the modelling field but
my day-to-day life.
Ques: Chahak, any message
you’d like to give?
Ans:
is ‘Never Give Up’. There
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CHAHAK BHANDULA, AN ALL-ROUNDER, IN
AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CITY
FIRST ARTICULATED HER VIEWS ON
MODELLING AND SHARED HER HOPES FOR
THE FUTURE OF FASHION AND HER DREAM
OF BECOMING A PSYCHOLOGIST!

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YAMINI,
Model
FACE
OF
THE
DAY!
Aries
MARCH 21 - APRIL 20
This is the time when
you enjoy yourself with
a new group of friends
or colleagues. A change
of job is likely to give
you better salary and perks. Those in
business will soon get a chance to
make profits. A new deal is likely to
come through and give you a taste of
success.
Gemini
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
Excellent opportunities
may knock at your door.
Professionals will be
able to give their best.
Financially, this day may
prove lucky for you, so go ask for the
raise. Don’t take any chances with your
health today. You will succeed in
putting your stagnant love life back on
the track.
Leo
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
Those looking for
buying a house can get
a good bargain.
Appreciation is in store
for some homemakers.
A professional victory is yours if you
play your cards well. Those in business
will be able to maintain good earning.
You may enjoy good health. Young
lovers mayenjoy total bliss.
Libra
SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 22
You may wait for
someone’s invitation for
a trip. Your profession-
alism in handling
problem areas will be
appreciated. Tenant troubles are
foreseen for some house owners. You
will find family life more than fulfilling.
A senior is likely to put in a good word
for you to the higher ups.
Sagittarius
NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22
You are likely to take up
someone’s cause and
earn appreciation from
all quarters on the social
front. Remaining on the
good side of those who matter on the
academic front will help you achieve
much. Good tidings of your well
wishers will keep you going on the
professional front.
Aquarius
JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19
You will have to be
more focussed on the
academic front. You
may get busy
organising something
on the social front. You may need to
put your ideas into action. A party may
be thrown in your honour at work.
Your good performance may be
noticed by higher ups.
Taurus
APRIL 21 - MAY 20
A family youngster is
likely to do you proud.
Your strategy to
promote yourself on the
professional front will
bear fruits. You may need to speed up
things on the academic front to remain
ahead. On the social front, the day finds
you in your element. Something special
awaits you on the romantic front today.
Cancer
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
Your performance at
work will be commend-
able. Your happiness is
in your hands today.
Spouse may need her
space, respect that. This is a favourable
day for completing pending jobs.
Financially, no problems are foreseen.
It is best to avoid outside food. Much
fun is in store on the social front.
Virgo
AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23
Getting into a favourable
situation on the
academic front is
possible. Good luck
promises to brighten
your day. Some positive changes can be
expected on the home front. This seems
a good day for job seekers. New
avenues for earning open up as you get
more determined.
Scorpio
OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 22
Good performance at
work will help enhance
your reputation. Some
favourable develop-
ments on the social
front are foreseen. Buying new
furniture or appliance is possible. With
good networking, a prized posting can
be yours. Those trying to get back their
money will succeed.
Capricorn
DECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20
Success is foretold on
the academic front.
Your reputation is likely
to boost your image on
the social front. On the
work front, you will manage to keep
your superiors in good humour. This is
an excellent day to spend time with
family.Good planning will see you
complete a task at work in record time.
Pisces
FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20
You will manage to
achieve what you had
aimed for on the
academic front. A
celebration can find you
in your element today. Praise and
honour are likely to greet you in
something that you have managed to
achieve. You will be a pillar of strength
to a friend or associate.
jjain a.k.a Mahakal ki
Nagri is a historic city
situated on the banks of
the holy Shipra River.
Several pilgrimage sites
including Mahakalesh-
war, one of the twelve
Jyotirlingas and are located in
the city. The indigo-stained
house is a landmark to those
searching for traditional wood-
en comb makers in the area,
which earlier had a flourish of
such craftsmen. Hence, Ujjain
is swarmed with devotees and
tourists across the globe
throughout the year. However,
beyond being a significant Hin-
du pilgrimage destination, the
city is home to ancient crafts
and rich heritage that draw
travellers’ attention. Years ago,
the Kangi mohalla of Ujjain
was a residence of several
comb makers who crafted
wooden combs. The intricately
crafted teeth, organic material
and ergonomic design of these
combs resulted in improved
blood circulation, reduced hair
fall, dandruff/lice free scalp
and other remedial benefits.
But, as the plastic market
boomed, people switched to
mass-produced plastic combs.
These combs were available at
cheaper prices and fancy de-
signs. As a consequence, many
craftsmen relocated and opted
for alternative sources of in-
come. Today, there is only
Thedalal Banjara left, who is
continuously struggling to pre-
serve this craft and keeping
the ancient art of comb mak-
ing alive.
He carves beautiful pieces in
Sheesham wood to date with
his ageing hands. The crafts-
man derives inspiration from
nature and carves designs like
peacocks, fishes, lotus over
combs, making each piece
unique. Thedalal has received
many awards and was also ap-
preciated by many prominent
personalities like Sonia Gan-
dhi, Kamal Nath to name a few.
Additionally, Thedalal keeps
innovating and enhancing the
techniques, designs and quali-
ty of these handcrafted combs
at his workshop. Although he is
proud of his achievements, he
is extremely saddened by the
fact that nobody in his family
wants to continue the legacy.
Nevertheless, his contribu-
tions to the Indian crafts indus-
try is laudable. Since people are
moving towards sustainability,
switching back to wooden
combs would be a healthy and
eco-friendly option. So when in
Ujjain, do not forget to visit his
indigo blue workshop in Kangi
Mohalla, listening to his inter-
esting stories and shopping for
some pieces of art.
COMB MAKING
The intricate designs and re-
medial advantages of a wooden
comb were once used to be the
driving factors behind the pur-
chase. With the growing plastic
market, it has become hard to
find wooden combs that pro-
vide good sustenance to hair.
But Ujjain has kept the art of
wooden comb making alive!
The kangi mohalla in town
used to be the hub of comb
makers however today, there is
only Thedalal Banjara left who
is preserving this art by creat-
ing beautiful combs out of
sheesham wood. From duck
shape to peacock, he tries to
give each of his art pieces a dif-
ferent design. According to
him, the wooden comb has its
own importance. It improves
blood circulation and stops
hair fall. Not just this, one can
pour in some oil and enjoy a
head massage too. If you are
visiting Ujjain anytime soon,
do not forget to pay a visit to
Thedalal Banjara’s workshop
and do bring some pieces to gift
and keep as a souvenir.
Continuing
Continuing
the Legacy
the Legacy
of Comb-
of Comb-
making
making
NITIKA PANJWANI
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
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