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WILL FULFILL LATE HUSBAND’S
PROMISES, RUTUJA LATKE VOWS
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Rutuja Latke,
the candidate of the
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Bal-
asaheb Thackeray), on
Sunday promised to
carry forward her late
husband’s legacy after
winning the bypoll to
Andheri (East) Assem-
bly seat in Mumbai.
“This victory is of
my husband and the de-
velopment works he did
in Andheri. He made a
promise and I will work
towards fulfilling that,”
she said after her land-
slide win.
She bagged 66,530
votes out of the total
86,570 votes, followed by
12,806 votes polled in fa-
vour of the None of the
Above (NOTA) option,
an official said.
NOTA gives voters
the option not to vote
for any of the candi-
dates in an election.
Latke was pitted
against six independent
candidates in the No-
vember 03 bypoll, neces-
sitated due to the death
of sitting Shiv Sena
MLA and her husband
Ramesh Latke in May
.
Many saw Turn to P5
The newly elected MLA and her sonAmey called on Shiv Sena
chief UddhavThackeray on Sunday.
Uddhav’s Sena candidate takes
Assembly seat, NOTA is 2nd choice
MAHA TO PLAN FILM
CITY BETWEEN
MUMBAI THANE: CM
Mumbai (PTI): The
Maharashtra government
will work on planning a
film city between Mumbai
and Thane cities to provide
a wider platform to
artists, said Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde on Sunday.
Speaking at an event where
noted Marathi theatre
actor Prashant Damle was
felicitated for the 12,500th
show of his play ‘Eka
Lagnachi Gosht’, Shinde
said the state government
will support Marathi theatre
and cinema. “There is a lot
of shooting happening in
Thane too,” he said, adding
that a film city will be
planned between Mumbai
and Thane, separated
by 23 km. He also said
a nodal officer would be
appointed to review and
inspect the condition of
drama auditoriums and
take necessary steps to
improve them. Shinde
said a recommendation
has been forwarded to the
Centre to confer the Padma
award to Damle.
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OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, NEW DELHI MUMBAI
19 DEAD AFTER
PASSENGER
PLANE CRASHES
IN TANZANIA
Mumbai: Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor welcomed their first
child, a baby girl. On Sunday, Alia was admitted to the Sir HN
Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre in Mumbai
for her delivery. The actress gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
Dar es Salaam: Death count from Sunday’s plane
crash in Lake Victoria in Tanzania has jumped to 19,
PM Kassim Majaliwa said, after the Precision Air
flight with 43 passengers aboard plunged into water
while approaching northwestern city of Bukoba.
AIRASIA FLIGHT
SAFELY ABORTS
TAKE OFF AFTER
A TECH GLITCH
New Delhi: AirAsia India Pune-Bengaluru flight (I5-
1427) with over 180 people onboard safely rejected
take off at the origin on Sunday evening after the
pilots got a “brake hot”caution. Directorate General
of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is probing this case.
IT’S A GIRL! ALIA, RANBIR WELCOME FIRST CHILD
“Aa Gujarat, Mai Banavyu Chhe”
First India Bureau
Nana Pondha (Gujarat):
PM Narendra Modi on
Sunday said the forces
that indulged in spread-
ing hatred, defamed Guj
will be swept out of state
again in next month’s
Assemblypollswhichhe
saidBJPwouldwinwith
a record margin.
Addressing his first
election rally in his
home state after the an-
nouncement of the poll
schedule, Modi came up
with a new slogan — “
Aa
Gujarat, mai banavyu
chhe”, also made people
chant it several times.
He further said, “As
every Gujarati is full of
confidence, that is the
reason every Gujarat
speaks the voice of the
inner soul. Every sound
comes from the heart of
Gujarat (saying) ‘I have
made this Gujarat” and
added sitting in Delhi, I
am getting inputs that
BJP will win Gujarat
with a record margin.
Modi launches new election
slogan in Gujarati which
means I have made this Gujarat
Those spreading hatred,
defaming Gujarat will be
swept out of state, says PM Modi
PM stresses, he was getting
inputs that BJP will win
Gujarat polls with a record margin
Those who try to defame Gujarat are
surprised why people of Gujarat are not
believing their false propaganda. This is
because the people of this state have made Gujarat
with hard work and they will never allow someone to
harm the state. —Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
PM Narendra Modi exchanges greetings with CM Bhupendra Patel
during a public meeting at Nana Pondha in Valsad on Sunday.
HM Shah: UCC to be
implemented in HP
if you vote for BJP
MUGHAL ROAD CLOSED
AS JK HIGH ALTITUDE
AREAS GET SNOWFALL
CENTRAL PANEL LIFTS
RESTRICTIONS AS DEL’S
AIR QUALITY IMPROVES
YADAV BECOMES FIRST INDIAN TO SMASH
1,000 T20I RUNS IN A CALENDAR YEAR
BJP RELEASES MANIFESTO; UCC, 8 LAKH
JOBS AMONG 11 OTHER COMMITMENTS
Union Home Minister
Amit Shah addressing a
public meeting at Nagro-
ta, in Kangra on Sunday
said Uniform Civil Code
(UCC) will be imple-
mented in HP if the Jai
Ram Thakur govt comes
back to power. Urging
women to encourage
their daughters to study
at least up to Class 12,
Shah said govt will gift
their two-wheelers.
Jammu: Mughal road, an alter-
nate link connecting Kashmir
with rest of the country, was
closed for vehicular traffic on
Sunday as most of the high
altitude area experienced light to
moderate snowfall overnight.
New Delhi: The central panel on
air quality management lifted the
restrictions it had imposed in
Delhi and NCR over plummeting
air quality. Meanwhile, Environ-
ment Minister Gopal Rai will
chair a high level meeting today.
l Pakistan put up a clini-
cal bowling display to beat
Bangladesh by five wickets
in their high-stake final
group match and qualify
for the semifinals of the
T20 World Cup on Sunday.
l Sri Lanka cricketer
Danushka Gunathilaka,
who was with the national
squad for T20 World Cup
in Australia, has been
arrested on charges of
sexual assault, team
sources said on Sunday.
Suryakumar Yadav became the first Indian and only
the second player after Mohammad Rizwan in the
world to score 1,000 runs or more in a calendar year
during the Super 12 match against Zimbabwe on
Sunday. Rizwan had scored 1326 runs in 2021.
BJP on Sunday released the party’s manifesto - ‘ BJP
Sankalp Patra 2022’ for the Himachal Pradesh as-
sembly elections and highlighted BJP’s manifesto lists 11
major promises: The Uniform Civil Code l `3,000 per year
to small-scale farmers l 8 lakh new jobs l Roads to every
village l Development of pilgrimage sites l Development
of ‘Himteerth Tourist Circuit’ l Reducing GST to 12% to
apple farmers l Five new medical colleges, mobile health
clinics l `900 crore start-up fund l Increase in financial
aid to soldiers killed in line of duty l Survey of Waqf
Board properties, investigation of their illegal use l Reso-
lution of irregularities in salaries of the govt employees.
JP Nadda along with Anurag Thakur, Jai Ram Thakur and
others releases BJP’s manifesto for the upcoming Himachal
Pradesh Assembly elections, in Shimla on Sunday.
SURYA ADDS ‘LIGHT’
TO TEAM INDIA!
Team India beats
Zimbabwe to top
group 2; to face
England in Semis
Melbourne: India de-
feated Zimbabwe by 71
runs at the Melbourne
Cricket Ground on Sun-
day to set up a semi-fi-
nal clash with England.
Defending 186 for 5, In-
dia bundled out Zimba-
bwe for 115 runs in 17.2
oversasAshwinstarred
with 3 wickets for 22
runs in 4 overs. Earlier,
Suryakumar Yadav
scored 61 not out off 25
balls as India posted 186
for 5 against Zimbabwe.
India and England will
meet for second T20 WC
semi-final on Thursday
.
ASSEMBLY BYPOLL RESULTS ON 7 SEATS IN 6 STATES
Modi’s BJP shines in UP,
Haryana, Bihar Odisha
BJP wins 4 seats; TRS, RJD, Sena (UBT) bag 1 each
Moni Sharma
New Delhi: The 7 As-
sembly constituencies
that had gone to polls on
November 3, their re-
sults were announced
on Sunday. The bypoll
in Adampur was neces-
sitated after former sit-
ting MLA Kuldeep Bish-
noi resigned from the
Vidhan Sabha in Au-
gust to switch from
Cong to BJP. Andheri
East contest was held
due to the untimely
death of Sena MLA
Ramesh Latke. Moka-
ma seat, in Bihar, fell
vacant after Anant Sin-
gh, was dismissed due
to a conviction in a
criminal case. The con-
test in Gopalganj, also
in Bihar, was necessi-
tated due to the death of
sitting BJP MLA Sub-
hash Singh. Munugode
witnessed a bypoll after
sitting MLA Komatired-
dy Raj Gopal Reddy re-
signed on August 2. The
bypoll was necessitated
in Gola Gokarannath
seat of Lakhimpur fol-
lowing death of Arvind
Giri, while Dhamnagar
seat fell vacant due to
demise of Bishnu Das.
Adampur (Haryana)
Mokama (Bihar)
Dhamnagar (Odisha)
Gola Gokaran Nath (UP)
Gopalganj (Bihar)
Bhavya Bishnoi
Neelam Devi
Aman Giri
KP Reddy
Kusum Devi
67,492 VOTES
79,646 VOTES
80,351 VOTES
1,14,444 VOTES
67,363 VOTES
70,032 VOTES
BJP
RJD
BJP
BJP
TRS
BJP
WINS
WINS
WINS
WINS
WINS
WINS
LOSE 51,752 VOTES
Jai Prakash (Cong)
LOSE 62,939 VOTES
Sonam Devi (BJP)
LOSE 70,470 VOTES
Abanti Das (BJD)
LOSE 90,512 VOTES
Vinay Tiwari (SP)
LOSE 74,224 VOTES
KR Gopal Reddy (BJP)
LOSE 68,243 VOTES
Mohan P Gupta (RJD)
VOTER
TURNOUT
VOTER
TURNOUT
VOTER
TURNOUT
VOTER
TURNOUT
VOTER
TURNOUT
VOTER
TURNOUT
75.25%
52.47%
66.33%
55.68%
77.55%
48.35%
Suryabanshi
Suraj
Munugode (Telangana)
Yogi Adityanath
@myogiadityanath
UP Hearty
congratulations to all the
hardworking workers and
respected voters for the Virat
victory of @BJP4UP in the
by-election in Gola Gokar-
nath Vidhan Sabha seat!
This spectacular victory is a
symbol of unwavering public
faith in the public welfare
policies of the double engine
BJP government. Thank you
Gola Gokarnath!
Jagat Prakash Nadda @JPNadda
Gratitude to the godlike people and congratulations to
the workers for the victory of the BJP candidate in the
Dhamnagar assembly by-election of Orissa. This victory is a symbol
of public’s faith in the welfare schemes and policies being run under
the leadership of respected Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi ji.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters celebrate their candidate Suryavanshi Suraj’s wins in
Dhamnagar by-elections, at party state office after the results were declared on Sunday.

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First India Bureau
Mumbai: Deputy
Chief Minister Dev-
endra Fadnavis on
Saturday said the
2024 Assembly elec-
tions will be contest-
ed under the leader-
ship of Chief Minis-
ter Eknath Shinde.
Speaking at an event
in Mumbai, he also said
that the toppling of the
Uddhav Thackeray-led
Maha Vikas Aghadi
(MVA) government was
a “revenge” for a “be-
trayal”.
The Bharatiya Jana-
ta Party (BJP) will con-
test the coming civic
polls as well as the next
Lok Sabha and Assem-
bly elections in alliance
with the Shinde-led
Balasahebanchi Shiv
Sena, he said.
“In 2024, we will fight
the election under the
leadership of Eknath
Shinde as chief minis-
ter and me as deputy
CM and we will return
with a huge majority,”
said Fadnavis.
He also said that the
Shiv Sena and Uddhav
Thackeray betrayed
him and the BJP in
2019 when they ended
the saffron alliance
and joined hands with
the Nationalist Con-
gress Party (NCP) and
Congress to form a
government.
“If Eknath Shinde
wanted to leave Shiv
Sena because of the
way he was treated by
Uddhav Thackeray and
Aaditya Thackeray, we
were not going to ask
him to go back. We were
going to welcome him
and support him. We
have taken revenge for
the betrayal,” said Fad-
navis who was the chief
minister of the BJP-Se-
na government from
2014 to 2019.
He also reiterated
that the BJP never
promised the chief min-
ister’s post for half the
term to the Shiv Sena as
the latter claimed.
Instead of sharing
the CM’s post, the BJP
had offered the Pal-
ghar Lok Sabha seat
and more ministries in
the state to the Sena
and finalized the alli-
ance, he claimed.
Eknath Shinde be-
coming chief minister
instead of him after
the fall of the Thack-
eray government was
not a “shocker”, Fad-
navis asserted. “Shin-
de was made chief
minister after consul-
tation with me. It was
my proposal, so it was
not a shocker for me,”
he said.
Will contest 2024 polls under CM Shinde’s leadership: Fadnavis
DETERMINED
Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis at an event in Mumbai on Sunday.
Deputy CM slams Thackerays for
2019 ‘betrayal’; says Shinde
landing CM post ‘not a shocker’
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The victory
of Rutuja Latke in the
Andheri (East) As-
sembly bypoll shows
people are supporting
Shiv Sena, said party
president Uddhav
Thackeray on Sunday
.
Latke, who contested
the by-election as the
candidate of the Shiv
Sena Uddhav Balasaheb
Thackeray faction with
the support of Nation-
alist Congress Party
(NCP) and Congress,
has emerged victorious.
“Thisisjustthebegin-
ning of a fight. The (par-
ty) symbol is important
but people look for the
charactertoo.Thebypoll
results show people sup-
port us,” Thackeray told
reporters after Rutuja
Latke called on him at
his residence ‘Ma-
toshree’ after the results
were declared.
He said the name of
Shiv Sena and the par-
ty symbol (bow and ar-
row) were frozen (by
the Election Commis-
sion of India) ahead of
this election.
“This victory is the
beginningof afight.Iap-
peal to Shiv sainiks to
fight unitedly for all fu-
ture battles. Our party’s
name and symbol were
frozen for this election
but those who wanted
this are nowhere near
the electoral ring,” said
Thackeray in a swipe at
the faction led by Chief
MinisterEknathShinde.
TargetingtheBharati-
ya Janata Party (BJP),
which withdrew its can-
didate at the last mo-
ment,hesaidShivSena’s
opponents backed out of
the race sensing defeat.
Queried on the 12,806
votes in favour of the
NOTA (None of the
Above) option, Thack-
eray said, “Had our op-
ponents been in the
poll fray, their candi-
date would have se-
cured the same number
of NOTA votes.”
Left: Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief Uddhav Thackeray with party leader Aaditya Thackeray holds the flaming torch (mashaal), the party’s election symbol, during the celebration following the victory of party candidate Rutuja Latke in the Andheri (East)
Assembly by-election, at his residence ‘Matoshree’ in Mumbai on Sunday; Centre and right: Supporters celebrate Latke’s win on the streets outside the party headquarters. —PHOTOS BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE, ANI PTI
This shows people are with us: Uddhav
TERMS RUTUJA LATKE’S BYPOLL VICTORY THE BEGINNING OF A FIGHT,
CALLS ON SHIV SAINIKS TO STAY ‘UNITED TO FIGHT FUTURE BATTLES’
First India Bureau
Mumbai: People
have rejected “poli-
tics of horse-trading
and terrorizing po-
litical opponents” by
the Bharatiya Jana-
taParty(BJP),which
was proven by the
result of the by-elec-
tion to the Andheri
(East) constituency
in Mumbai, said Ma-
harashtra Congress
President, Nana Pa-
tole, on Sunday
.
Rutuja Latke, wife
of the late MLA
Ramesh Latke and the
candidate of Shiv
Sena Uddhav Balasa-
heb Thackeray,
emerged the winner
on Sunday by bagging
morethan66,000votes.
The Congress and
the Nationalist Con-
gress Party (NCP)—
Shiv Sena’s two part-
ners in the previous
Maha Vikas Aghadi
(MVA) government—
had supported Latke.
Patole, while talk-
ing to reporters after
Latke’s win, said he
was confident that
the Congress and its
allies would defeat
the BJP in the com-
ing elections. He said
the Andheri (East)
bypoll result showed
that people did not
trust the “ED”
(Eknath Shinde-Dev-
endra Fadnavis) gov-
ernment.
“People in the con-
stituency showed
their trust in the
MVA through their
voting and rejected
BJP’s politics of
horse-trading and
terrorizing political
opponents,” he said.
‘Pollprovespeopledislike
BJP’shorse-tradingpolitics’
QUICK RECAP
This is the beginning of a fight. I ap-
peal to Shiv sainiks to fight unitedly
for all future battles. Our party’s
name symbol were frozen for this but those
who wanted this are nowhere near the elector-
al ring. —Uddhav Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief
People in
the con-
stituency
showed their
trust in the MVA
alliance through
their votes and
rejected the BJP’s
politics of
horse-trading
and terrorizing
their political
opponents.
—Nana Patole, Maha
Congress President
Maha Congress
chief says by-
election result
showed that the
voters do not trust
the ‘ED’ government
Sambhaji Chhatrapati warns against
‘distortion of facts’ in films on Shivaji
Rahul Gandhi-led ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’
to enter Maha from Telangana tonight
Pune (PTI): Former
Rajya Sabha member
and Kolhapur royal
family scion Sambhaji
Chhatrapati on Sun-
day warned that if
facts are found dis-
torted in any upcom-
ing films based on leg-
endary warrior king
Chhatrapati Shivaji
Maharaj, he would op-
pose such movies and
take all efforts to stall
their release.
Sambhaji Chhatrapa-
ti,whoisadescendentof
Shivaji Maharaj, was
speaking to reporters
here,whereheexpressed
displeasure over two
Marathi films “Har Har
Mahadev” (released re-
cently) and “Vedat Mar-
athe Veer Daudale Saat”
(an upcoming project).
“Using the term cine-
matic liberty
, inaccura-
cies have been displayed
in the recently released
‘Har Har Mahadev’ and
upcoming ‘Vedat Mar-
athe Veer Daudale Saat’.
I won’t tolerate the dis-
tortion of historical
facts in movies based on
Shivaji Maharaj,” he
said, adding, “If such
movies with incorrect
elements are made in fu-
ture, I will oppose them
in my style and also re-
strict their release.”
He further added: “If
required, I will pen a let-
ter to the Censor Board.
I will also suggest that a
committee be estab-
lishedtocheckhistorical
facts before the release
of such movies.”
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Con-
gress’s “Bharat Jodo
Yatra” led by Rahul
Gandhi will arrive in
Nanded district
around 9 pm on Mon-
day—its 61st day—
from Kamareddy in
neighbouring Telan-
gana and reach De-
glur in Nanded dis-
trict, party officials
said on Sunday.
The yatra will pass
through 15 Assembly
and six parliamentary
constituencies in Maha-
rashtra during its 14-
day sojourn.
Rahul Gandhi is
scheduled to address a
rally in Nanded on No-
vember 10 and another
on November 18 at She-
gaon in Buldhana dis-
trict-, the Maharashtra
Pradesh Congress
Committee said.
The party’s state unit
has planned to hold a
welcome ceremony for
the yatra participants
at the Chhatrapati
Shivaji Maharaj statue
at Kalamandir in De-
glur, it said.
After the welcome
ceremony, the yatra
will resume at 10.10
pm, in which the par-
ticipants will carry
‘Ekta Mashals’ (Unity
Torches). Post mid-
night, the marchers
will take a break at a
gurdwara in Deglur
and later, they will
take a night halt at the
Chidravar Mill there.
The yatra will resume
on November 08 at 8.30
am, the party said.
My line is clear. I will oppose such
movies if made incorrectly. If re-
quired, I will pen a letter to the Censor
Board. I will also suggest that a committee be
established to check historical facts before the
release of such movies.
—Sambhaji Chhatrapati, Ex MP Kolhapur royal family scion
Ex-minister Aaditya Thackeray (centre) and Shiv Sena - Uddhav
Balasaheb Thackeray supporters (top and bottom) hail party
candidate Rutuja Latke’s win in the Andheri (East) by-election.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi talks to supporters during the rally.
—FILE
PHOTO

MAHARASHTRA
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School goes the extra mile to make a difference in students’ lives
Aditya Waghmare
Aurangabad: A gov-
ernment-run primary
school in a hamlet in
Aurangabad district
has been coming up
with novel ways to
keep students en-
gaged with the insti-
tution and ensure at-
tendance.
The Zilla Parishad-
run primary school at
Babuwadi-Chartha vil-
lage has only 50 stu-
dents and two teachers.
The village is located
on a hillock around
45km from the district
headquarters.
Over the years, the
school catering to stu-
dents up to Class V has
been adopting unique
initiatives to teach
children social respon-
sibility, make sure they
care for the environ-
ment around the school
and motivate them to
study well.
Whether it is helping
their teachers clean the
school every morning,
planting saplings or en-
joying “no bag” days,
children have come to
love the school because
of its initiatives.
Speaking about the
latest “smile badge”
programme, headmas-
ter Sudhir Tupe said,
“The smile badge initia-
tive was started to en-
sure that children are
motivated to finish
their homework.”
Children who finish
their homework win the
badgeandwearitduring
school hours, he said,
adding that a committee
of students has been
formed to check the
homework every day
.
In order to keep the
students motivated to
come to school, “no
bag” days have been ob-
served for the past four
to five years.
The school has also
undertaken a planta-
tion programme to
maintain green cover in
and around the facility,
Tupe said.
On the academic
front, three students
from the school were
granted admission to
Navodaya Vidyalayas,
while 15 students have
bagged scholarships
since 2017, he said.
Zilla Parishad educa-
tion officer Jayashree
Chavansaidtheschool’s
initiatives have been
unique and some of
them were replicated by
other institutions in the
district.
—PTI
UNIQUE INITIATIVES
Three students from the
school have been admitted to
Navodaya Vidyalayas, while
15 students have bagged
scholarships since 2017.
—FILE PHOTO
School begins at 9.30 am every day. But the
children come half an hour early to help
teachers clean the premises…. On no-bag
days, we do some gardening, yoga and other fun ac-
tivities. This has helped improve attendance and chil-
dren love to come to school because of it…. We have
planted nearly 60 saplings since 2013 in the school
premises. Students save some water in their bottles
and water the trees on their way home every day.
—Sudhir Tupe, Headmaster
ZP school, catering to 50 kids, aims to teach them social responsibility, make sure they care for the environment and motivate them to study well
30-year-oldwebjournalistheld
for killing his girlfriend in Pune
First India Bureau
Pune: A 30-year-old
man from Pune’s Bho-
sari area, who works
as a digital journalist
for a news website in
the Pimpri-Chinch-
wad area, was arrest-
ed on Saturday for al-
legedly killing his
28-year-old girlfriend,
police said.
The accused had
lodged a missing com-
plaint in August, after
which the police began
aninvestigationintoher
disappearance. The in-
quiry revealed that the
complainant had killed
the woman and disposed
of her body near Bhor
taluka in Pune district.
According to the First
Information Report
(FIR) filed in the case,
the deceased was de-
mandingaflatandjewel-
lery from her father in
thenameof theaccused.
This led to a dispute be-
tween them, and she had
allegedly threatened to
file a case of sexual
abuse against him if he
didn’t support her
against her father, a po-
lice officer said.
“On August 03, the ac-
cusedallegedlyabducted
her from her house and
travelled to Bhor where
he killed her. To hide the
evidence,hedumpedher
body near a river in
Bhor,” he said, adding
that further probe is on.
Investigation revealed, the accused—who had lodged a
complaint over her ‘disappearance’ in August—murdered
his 28-year-old girlfriend and dumped her body in a river
Vastu consultant
kidnapped and killed;
body found in river
First India Bureau
Pune: Body of a
43-year-old ‘Vastush-
astra’ consultant,
who was allegedly
drugged, kidnapped
and murdered by two
men for his gold jew-
ellery, was found in
the Neera river on
Saturday
.
Thefamilymembers
of Nilesh Dattatraya
Warghade, a resident
of Super Indira Nagar
in Bibvewadi, reported
him missing on Octo-
ber 16. Police conduct-
ed an extensive search
operation that lasted
for over two weeks.
In the initial investi-
gation, the police
found that Warghade
had met his friend
Deepak Jaikumar Na-
rale (35), resident of
Narhe, who was ini-
tially untraceable.
Based on various tech-
nical leads, the police
arrested Narale and
his aide Ranjit Dn-
yabndev Jagdale (29).
The probe revealed
that the duo took War-
ghade to a religious
function in the Narhe
area on the pretext of
performing a ‘Vastu’
puja and gave him cof-
fee laced with seda-
tives. They strangled
him to death and
dumpedhisbodyinthe
Neera river in the Sa-
rola area Bhor taluka
of Pune district, the
police said.
FAILED LOVE
IN THE MIST
A flotilla sets
out, highlighted
against a fuzzy
cityscape in
Mumbai, which
saw a balmy
high of 32°C on
Sunday. Unlike
other parts of the
country that are
gearing up for a
cold winter, the
early morning
haze is the only
indication of any
change in season
here.
—PHOTO BY
BHUSHAN
KOYANDE
Navi Mumbai civic body to
selldrinkingwatertoMIDC
First India Bureau
Navi Mumbai: The
civic body here plans
to soon start selling
drinking water from
its tertiary treat-
ment plant at
Koparkhairane to
companies run by
the Maharashtra In-
dustrial Develop-
ment Corporation
(MIDC), an official
of the Navi Mumbai
Municipal Corpora-
tion (NMMC) said.
The tertiary water
treatment plant, built
under the Union gov-
ernment’s flagship
Atal Mission for Reju-
venation and Urban
Transformation (AM-
RUT) scheme, will not
only enable MIDC
firms to avail potable
water at subsidized
rates but will also
bring more revenue to
the NMMC.
“Ours is the first
municipalcorporation
to provide potable wa-
ter to companies in
this manner. The mu-
nicipality has also
started providing
drinking water to a
chemicalfirminTurb-
he (Navi Mumbai) on
an experimental ba-
sis,”NaviMumbaiMu-
nicipal Commissioner
Rajesh Narvekar said.
“Once formally in-
augurated, our ter-
tiary water treatment
plant will be able to
generate 40 MLD (mil-
lion litres a day),” he
added.
The flagship AM-
RUTscheme,launched
by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi in
June 2015, aims to pro-
vide basic civic ameni-
ties to the country’s
urban areas and im-
prove the quality of
living by focusing on
poor and disadvan-
taged communities.
The Union government’s AMRUT scheme aims to provide
basic civic amenities such as drinking water and improve
the quality of life in urban areas. —FILE PHOTO
The initiative
will enable MIDC
firms to avail
potable water at
subsidized rates
Belapur MLA demands to
expedite plot buying for hosp
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Belapur
MLA Manda Mhatre
called on Navi Mum-
bai Municipal Corpo-
ration (NMMC) Com-
missioner, Rajesh
Narvekar, last week to
demand an immediate
release funds for land
acquisition to build a
super specialist hospi-
tal and medical col-
lege at Sector 15A,
CBD Belapur.
After meeting the
municipal commission-
er, MLA Mhatre alleged
that a section of politi-
cians in the city is
against the develop-
ment. However, she
urged local administra-
tion to not stop work on
the hospital project and
tackle it on a priority
basis.
“A super speciality
hospital and medical
college is being pro-
posed in the CBD. How-
ever, a section of people
is opposing this. It
needs to be understood
that opposition to the
said developmental
work is not against me.
In fact, they are against
the people of Navi
Mumbai,” she said.
She added that there
is only one municipal
hospital with 300 beds
in the city with a popu-
lation of 15 lakh.
“In the past 25 years,
only an MRI facility has
been installed in the
municipal hospital. The
hospital lacks major
healthcare facilities,”
said Mhatre. There is
no set up for surgery
and treatment system
for any type of heart,
brain, kidney problems
in the municipal hospi-
tal. Upgradation of
healthcare facilities in
the city is needed, espe-
cially at the civic hospi-
tal, which helps the
poor, she added.
Manda Mhatre urges
NMMC commissioner
to step up work on
project even as a few
political leaders
oppose the devt
MLA Manda Mhatre —FILE PHOTO
Man gets 10 years in jail for raping 5-year-old girl
First India Bureau
Thane: A 36-year-old
man was sentenced to
10 years of rigorous
imprisonment by a
court here for raping a
five-year-old girl in
2018.
The accused was con-
victed by Special Judge
VV Virkar on Saturday
under provisions of the
Protection of Children
from Sexual Offences
(POCSO) Act. Virkar
also imposed a collective
fine of Rs25,000 on the
accused.
Taking in the serious-
ness of the crime, the
judgeruledthatthepros-
ecution had proven “be-
yond reasonable doubt”.
The prosecution, led
by Special Public Prose-
cutor Rekha Hiwrale,
examined eight witness-
es to prove the state’s
caseagainsttheaccused.
The accused and the
victim lived in the same
locality
, Thane’s Bhi-
wandi town, Hiwrale
told the court. The pros-
ecution also told the
court that on October 14,
2018, the victim was
lured by the accused on
thepretextof gettingher
a cold drink, and then he
raped her. The victim
and her siblings had
gone to a nearby temple
to collect ‘prasad’ when
she was taken by the ac-
cused. She later told her
parents about what hap-
pened, who caught the
accusedandhandedhim
over to the police.

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Bhupender Yadav
@byadavbjp
Warms the hearts of all Indians to see
the progress of the ambitious project
to reintroduce Cheetahs in our wilds.
Under the leadership of PM Shri @
narendramodi ji, India looks to scale
up the programme to protect, preserve
and restore its wildlife.
Piyush Goyal
@PiyushGoyal
Government led by PM @
NarendraModi ji has issued guidelines
along with mill-wise export quota for
sugar season 2022-23. This will boost
India’s sugar ecosystem benefitting
both sugarcane farmers Industry.
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
Remember this: Whoever
sows sparingly will also
reap sparingly, and
whoever sows generously
will also reap generously.
—Bible
IN-DEPTH
REGIONAL PARTIES
SHOW THEIR
STRENGTH IN
ASSEMBLY BY-POLLS
f the state assembly by-
election results have any
message it is that the BJP
is becoming increasingly
unstoppable. It has won
the Gola Gokarannath seat in
Uttar Pradesh, Haryana’s Ad-
ampur and Odisha’s Dhamna-
gar seats. The BJP also retained
the Gopalganj seat. The Con-
gress, on the other hand, has
come a cropper, which is bad
news for its prospects in Gujarat
and Himachal Pradesh.
The regional parties like Shiv
Sena (Uddhav), Rashtriya Jana-
ta Dal and Telangana Rashtra
Samithi denied victory to BJP in
prestigious and close battles for
Mumbai’s Andheri East, Bihar’s
Mokama and Telangana’s
Munugode seats. The Munugode
win is of special interest as the
BJP was desperate to grab this
seat. Andheri East victory has
come as a boost to Uddhav
Thackeray faction’s claim of en-
joying people’s support over
that of Eknath Shinde faction.
Significantly, these results
provide a clearer picture of Op-
position unity before the 2024
parliamentary election. It is the
regional parties which will pose
a challenge to the BJP.
TOP TWEETS
I
oliticians and
journalists in Pa-
kistan have to be
careful not to rub
the army and the
ISI on the wrong side. If they
do, they either end up in a
mortuary or in the wilder-
ness. Despite Pakistan’s
claim of being a democracy,
it has not been able to get out
of the army and ISI’s shadow.
The role of ISI is alleged in
the killing of a Pakistani
journalist in Kenya and also
the assassination attempt on
former Prime Minister Im-
ran Khan. Imran Khan al-
leged Prime Minister She-
hbaz Sharif, Interior Minis-
ter Rana Sanaullah and Ma-
jor-General Faisal Naseer
were part of the conspiracy
to eliminate him.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf
(PTI) party president’s
charge has not gone down
well with the army which has
issued a terse warning. In a
statement the Army said that
the “baseless allegations
against the institution and
particularly a senior Army
officer are absolutely unac-
ceptable and uncalled for”.
Shehbaz Sharif described
Imran Khan as a liar “from
head to toe”.
To tighten the screws on
PTI, the country’s electronic
media watchdog has passed a
gag order on all electronic
channels from broadcasting
or rebroadcasting Imran
Khan’s press conferences or
speeches to avoid creating ha-
tred among people. A similar
gagorderissuedbythewatch-
dog earlier was struck down
by the Supreme Court of Pa-
kistan. Free speech, anyone?
These are not signs of a
healthy democracy which,
incidentally, Pakistan has
never been. For the army and
ISI a strong democracy is an
anathema and the two insti-
tutions prefer to keep their
national and state govern-
ments’ strings in their hands.
IMRAN TAKES ON
POWERFUL ARMY
To tighten the screws
on PTI, the country’s
electronic media
watchdog has passed a
gag order on all
electronic channels
from broadcasting or
rebroadcasting Imran’s
press conferences or
speeches to avoid creating
hatred among people
P
INDIA CRUSHES ZIMBABWE,
STRIDES INTO SEMIS AS SURYA SHINES
he Men in Blue have left the
ghosts of the 2021 T20 world
Cup well behind them as they
enter the semi-finals topping
their group in the league
stage. On Sunday, in front of
an 80 thousand plus crowd in
Melbourne Cricket Ground,
India won by 71 runs against
Zimbabwe and set up a semi-
final clash against England
on Thursday
. India’s win had
all the bases covered as they
dominated the match in all
departments of the game.
But the cherry on the cake
was Suryakumar Yadav’s
scintillating hitting in the
last 5 overs of Indian innings.
His 61 of 25 balls not only
made sure that India reached
a formidable total but also
reminded Indian fans about
how good a middle order
batsman Surya is and the one
that Team India was missing
over the past few years.
India’s berth in the Semis
was already booked after
Netherlands pulled off a stun-
ning upset over South Africa
earlier in the day
. But as is
rightly said, momentum is
easy to lose and one must
keep it going as long as pos-
sible, especially heading into
the business end of a major
tournament. So, it was impor-
tant for India to win comfort-
ably to stay confident before
thebigclashagainstEngland.
India made only one change
in their line up as Rishabh
Pant was included in the elev-
eninplaceof DineshKarthik.
Winning the toss, Rohit Shar-
ma chose to bat first. This was
a correct decision according
to most experts particularly
since Rohit himself needed to
find form and spend some
time at the wicket.
Sadly, the Indian skipper
was unable to benefit much
from batting first as he was
dismissed quickly once
again. His terrific shot mak-
ing against short pitched
balls is proving to be his nem-
esis for the time being on the
bouncy pitches of Australia
and Rohit holed out pulling
one straight to deep square
leg scoring just 15. Kohli and
Rahul then kept the score
card moving, stitching a 60-
run partnership for the sec-
ond wicket. Rahul was the
aggressor between the two
and he put up another classy
show of his striking abilities.
His 51 off 35 balls set up the
base for a big total and at the
halfway stage, India was at 80
having lost just 1 wicket.
It was then that a mini col-
lapse threatened to derail In-
dia. Rahul, Kohli and Pant all
perished within a span of
just 14 runs. The stage was
set for a Hardik and Surya
show. While Hardik played
the second fiddle making 18
of 18 balls, Surya stole the
limelight with his 4 sixes and
6 fours. His constant scoop-
ing of Zimbabwean bowlers
over the short fine leg for
boundaries and sixers had all
fans in a tizzy
. His knock put
India in a powerful position
and gave their bowlers a
strong total of 186 to defend.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar has
been in fine form since his
return from injury and has
bowled many dot balls in pow-
erplay overs. His first over
was a maiden again as he
picked up a wicket on his very
first delivery
. Kohli dived to
pick up a stunning catch to
dismiss Wessly Madhevere. It
was total capitulation from
then on by the Zimbabwe
batsman. All Indian bowlers
chipped in with wickets at
regular intervals. After the
powerplay Zimbabwe was at
27 runs having lost 3 wickets
and then got reduced to 36 for
5 in the next two overs. Si-
kandarRazahasbeenthebest
batsman for Zimbabwe in the
tournament and his 34 along
with Ryan Burl’s 35 took their
team to a semblance of a total
before it all concluded in the
18th over as they were bowled
for a paltry 115.
The Men in Blue now head
to Adelaide for their semi-fi-
nal meeting with England.
India’s roaring juggernaut
has gained the much-needed
confidence ahead of the
knock-out contest. England
meanwhile, struggled to win
against a weak Sri Lankan
team in their last league
game. Both teams though
were tagged as the favorites
at the start of the tournament
and now stand just 2 wins
away from ultimate glory
.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
T
The other semi-final clash is
between Pakistan and New
Zealand, which is on
Wednesday in Sydney.
India doesn’t play Pakistan
in bilateral series anymore
but fans now wait for them
to meet in such ICC events.
The expectations of them
clashing once more in the
finals are immense and its
not just the fans praying for
this scenario to play out but
the broadcasters all over the
world too must be licking
their lips of an India-
Pakistan World Cup final in
Melbourne next Sunday!
SIDDHAARTH MAHAN
The writer is a specialist on Sports
and Cinema who works as an actor
in the Hindi film industry
The Men in Blue have left the ghosts of the 2021 T20
world Cup well behind them as they enter the semi-
finals topping their group in the league stage. On
Sunday, in front of an 80 thousand plus crowd
in Melbourne Cricket Ground, India won by 71
runs against Zimbabwe and set up a semi-
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INDIA
Sheopur (ANI): Two
cheetahs among the
eight cheetahs brought
from Namibia, shifted
to a larger enclosure of
Kuno National Park,
Madhya Pradesh’s
Sheopur district on Sat-
urday, an official said.
Divisional Forest Of-
ficer of Kuno Wildlife
Circle Prakash Kumar
Verma said, “After the
completion of the quar-
antine period of the
cheetahs brought from
Namibia, two male
Cheetahs have been re-
leasedinabigenclosure.
The rest of the cheetahs
will also be released in a
phase-wise manner
soon”. The cheetahs are
shifted in a different en-
closure where the leop-
ards are not being
traced, he added.
The eight cheetahs
brought from Namibia
were released by PM
Narendra Modi at Kuno
National Park on the oc-
casion of his birthday
on September 17.
Initially, the cheetahs
were kept in a separate
small enclosure. Now,
two of them have been
shifted into the big en-
closure and they will
hunt themselves.
On the occasion of
his birthday, PM Modi
reintroduced cheetahs
brought from Namibia
in Kuno National Park
as part of his efforts to
revitalise and diversify
the country’s wildlife
and habitat.
2cheetahsshiftedinbigenclosureatKunoNationalPark
BIG ENCLOSURE FOR BIG CATS
RETHINK AGE OF
CONSENT IN POCSO:
HC TO LAW PANEL
Bengaluru: The Karnataka
High Court has directed
the Law Commission of
India to reconsider the age
of consent in Protection
of Children from Sexual
Offences (POCSO) Act.
The court heard an appeal
by the police challenging
the acquittal of a POCSO
accused. It found that the
girl, then 17, had eloped
with the boy in 2017.
Though the girl’s parents
had filed the complaint,
all the witnesses turned
hostile. While the case
continued, the two had
married and now have two
children.
PM DELIGHTED OVER
RELEASE OF CHEETAHS
IN BIGGER ENCLOSURE
“HIGH DENSITY OF
LEOPARDS AT KNP A
MATTER OF CONERN”
New Delhi (ANI): Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
on Sunday expressed his
delight over the release of
two cheetahs in the bigger
enclosure. Sharing the
video of the cheetahs, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
tweeted on Sunday, “Great
news! Am told that after the
mandatory quarantine, 2
cheetahs have been released
to a bigger enclosure for
further adaptation to the Kuno
habitat. Others will be released
soon. I’m also glad to know
that all cheetahs are healthy,
active and adjusting well.”
Bhopal (PTI): As 8 Namibia-
born cheetahs complete more
than 50 days in their new home
Kuno National Park in Madhya
Pradesh, a South Africa-based
animal conservationist has
expressed concern over the
high density of leopards in the
sanctuary, but said the two
carnivores have a history of co-
existence as well. According to
animal conservationist Vincent
van der Merwe, who manages
the cheetah metapopulation in
South Africa, the high density
of leopards in KNP is a matter
of concern for the new guests
at the Kuno National Park.
SC VERDICT TODAY
ON PLEAS AGAINST
10% EWS QUOTA
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court is scheduled to
pronounce on Monday
its judgement on a batch
of pleas challenging the
validity of the 103rd
Constitution amendment
providing 10 per cent
reservation to economically
weaker sections (EWS)
persons in admissions
and government jobs.
According to the causelist
of November 7 uploaded
on the apex court website,
a five-judge Constitution
bench headed by Chief
Justice Uday Umesh Lalit
would deliver the verdict in
the matter.
IN THE COURTYARD
2 cheetahs being released to a bigger enclosure, at Kuno National
Park, in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh.
Nagrota (PTI): The
BJP will win both the
lowerandupperpartsof
Himachal Pradesh, Un-
ionHomeMinisterAmit
Shah said on Sunday
ahead of the Assembly
polls on November 12.
During an election
rally here in Kangra
district, Shah also took
a swipe at the poll guar-
antees given by the Con-
gress in its manifesto.
The state is divided
into upper and lower
Himachal. While Man-
di,Kullu,Shimla,Solan,
Kinnaur, Lahaul-Spiti,
Sirmaur and Chamba
form upper Himachal,
the lower parts of the
state comprise Chamba,
Una, Kangra Bilaspur
and Hamirpur. Tradi-
tionally, the Congress
has been a strong con-
tender in the upper
parts of the state.
Shah claimed that the
saffron party will
trounce the Congress in
its bastion.
Alleging that the
Congress was involved
in corruption during its
tenure,Shahsaid,“Who
will believe in their
guarantees? They ruled
for 10 years but only in-
dulged in big scams.
Now they are making
guarantees to befool the
innocent people of
Himachal Pradesh.”
Hailing Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modi,
Shah said his stature
had grown globally
.
He claimed when In-
dian students were
strandedinUkrainedur-
ing its war with Russia,
Modi had called up pres-
idents of the two coun-
tries and asked them to
stop the war for a couple
of days so that Indians
could be evacuated.
“This is unprecedent-
ed for the world. Our
students were evacuat-
ed safely,” Shah said.
The home minister
also made a mention of
the development work
and government initia-
tives like Himcare
health scheme and Jal
Jeevan Mission to en-
suresafedrinkingwater.
Lauding Chief Minis-
ter Jai Ram Thakur,
Shah said the state at-
tracted an investment
of Rs 44,000 crore under
his leadership.
The home minister
has been holding a se-
ries of rallies in the
state on Sunday as only
six days are left for the
polling.
Shah exudes confidence in BJP’s win
BATTLEGROUND HIMACHAL PRADESH
Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra
of Congress party completes 60 days
Hyderabad: Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi’s
Bharat Jodo Yatra con-
tinued in Telangana on
Sunday
. On the 60th day
of his walkathon, the
Congress MP started
walking at Alladurg in
Medak district.
He along with state
Congress chief A Re-
vanth Reddy and other
state leaders walked
through different parts
of Alladurg headquar-
ters before the mid-
break halt at Chintal
Lakshmapur. During
the padyatra, Rahul in-
teracted with people
from various walks of
life. He waved at the peo-
ple standing on either
side of the road and en-
tertained the requests
of some youngsters for
selfies with him.
Morbi collapse accused
being shielded: Kejriwal
Wankaner (PTI): AAP
leader Arvind Kejriwal
on Sunday alleged ef-
forts are being made to
save the people respon-
sible for the repair work
of theMorbisuspension
bridge which collapsed
on October 30 killing
more than 130 people.He
also said if AAP forms
government in Gujarat,
it will construct a grand
Morbi bridge.
Rahul Gandhi caresses the buffalo during the party’s Bharat Jodo
Yatra in Telangana, on Sunday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Amit Shah holds a mace during a public meeting at Nagrota, in Kangra on Sunday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Arvind Kejriwal during a roadshow, in Surendranagar on Sunday.
WILL SAVE GUJARAT
FROM DECEIT OF BJP’S
‘DOUBLE ENGINE’: RaGa
New Delhi (PTI): Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi on Sun-
day said his party will fulfil
the promises it has made
to the people of Gujarat and
save them from the “deceit”
of the BJP’s “double engine”.
“LPG cylinder in Rs 500, 10
lakh jobs to youth, Farmer’s
loan waiver up to 3 lakh. We
will fulfill the ‘CongressNa-
8Vachan’ we made to the
people of Gujarat,” Gandhi
said in a tweet in Hindi.“Will
save you from the deceit of
BJP’s ‘double engine’, will
celebrate ‘festival of change’
in the state,” Rahul Gandhi
said.Elections will be held
in Gujarat in two phases on
December 1 and 5.
PRASHANT BHUSHAN
JOINS BHARAT JODO
YATRA IN TELANGANA
CONG’S ‘CHARGE
SHEET’ AGAINST
GUJARAT BJP GOVT MALLIKARJUN GETS
GRAND WELCOME
IN BENGALURU
Hyderabad (Agencies)
Activist-lawyer Prashant
Bhushan on
Sunday joined
the ‘Bharat
Jodo Yatra’ led
by Congress
leader Rahul
Gandhi on its 60th day in
Telangana.
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat
Congress released a 22-point
‘charge sheet’ against the
state BJP govt on Sunday
accusing it of being anti-
people. All that an average
Gujarati got was “hunger,
fear and tyranny,” it claimed.
The Opposition party also
highlighted in the ‘charge
sheet’ the recent Morbi
bridge collapse incident.
Bengaluru (PTI): Congress
president Mallikarjun Kharge
on Sunday
reached here to
a grand welcome
accorded by
party leaders and
workers on his
maiden visit to Bengaluru after
becoming Congress chief.
AMIT SHAH TAKES ON CONGRESS ‘10
GUARANTEES’ IN HIMACHAL MANIFESTO CONG LIKELY TO
MOVE POLL PANEL
AGAINST MODI
BJP’S HP MANIFESTO
COPY-PASTE OF OLD
PROMISES: CONG
New Delhi (PTI): The
Congress Sunday
accused Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi of “pressuring”
a rebel BJP leader
against contesting
the Himachal Pradesh
assembly polls and
alleged he is “misus-
ing his power” to
influence free and fair
elections.Congress
spokesperson Ab-
hishek Manu Singhvi
cited a viral video
on social media
platforms,
claiming that in
it Modi’s voice
is heard in a
call with BJP
rebel Kripal
Parmar.
Shimla (PTI): The Con-
gress hit out at the ruling
BJP on Sunday over its
Himachal Pradesh poll
manifesto, terming it a
“cut-copy-paste” of their
five-year-old promises
and in parts borrowed
from the grand old party’s
2022 election document.
At a presser on Sunday,
Congress’ in-charge for
Himachal Pradesh Rajiv
Shukla and party leader
Alka Lamba termed the
BJP’s manifesto a “cut-
copy-paste” document.
“CM Jairam Thakur has
used cut, copied and
pasted the BJP’s 2017
manifesto and borrowed
points from the Congress’
2022 manifesto,” Alka
Lamba claimed at the
press conference.
Kangra (ANI): Union
Home Minister Amit
Shah on Sunday took
on the Congress’ ‘10
guarantees’ in its elec-
tion manifesto for the
upcoming elections for
the Himachal Pradesh
state Assembly, and
said that guarantees of
only those are believed
“who have some record”.
Addressomg an election
rally in Nagrota, Kangra
in Himachal Pradesh on
Sunday, AmitShah said,
“I was coming here, I
saw a rally of one of the
Congress candidates
where 10 guarantees
were written. Guarantees
of only those people are
believed who have some
record. Who will believe
in your guarantees?
There was the Sonia-
Manmohan government
at the Centre, they did
corruption of Rs 12 lakh
crore. And today they
are giving guarantees
to the innocent people
of Himachal.”The Union
Home Minister, differenti-
ating the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) from the
Congress, said that “it
is difficult to count cor-
ruption in the Congress
regime, and it is difficult
to find corruption in the
BJP regime.”
New Delhi (ANI): Congress
MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi
on Sunday slammed BJP
chief JP Nadda for his
claims of implementing
Uniform Civil Code (UCC)
in Himachal Pradesh. Na-
dda released BJP’s mani-
festo for Himachal Pradesh
polls, in which it stated a
committee of experts will
be formed and UCC will
be implemented in the
state on the basis of their
report. “Whenever there is
dearth of votes during the
elections, BJP brings up
the issue of religion
and today JP Nadda
saying that the
party will be bring-
ing the UCC in
Himachal,” said
Singhvi. “BJP
has completed
8 years in the
centre and 5
years in Himachal. Why
haven’t they implemented
the UCC till now? UCC is
a legal issue, so how can
every state implement it
in a different way? BJP is
just trying to fool the public
in the name of UCC,” he
added.
CONGRESS MP SINGHVI SLAMS BJP CHIEF
NADDA FOR CLAIMS OF IMPLEMENTING UCC
Shimla (ANI): Bharati-
ya Janata Party nation-
al president JP Nadda
on Sunday said that
Congress “doesn’t be-
lieve in its own mani-
festo”, which he
claimed, has no vision,
while also stating that
the manifesto released
by the BJP is “taken se-
riously” by the people.
Nadda’s remarks came
after releasing the BJP
manifesto. “Congress
party doesn’t believe in
its own manifesto and
there’s no vision,
weightage, and direc-
tion in it. Our manifesto
is done with due dili-
gence and is taken seri-
ously by people,” Nadda
said while speaking to
the media. The Con-
gress manifesto gives 10
guarantees which in-
clude the implementa-
tion of the Old Pension
Scheme, 1 lakh govern-
ment jobs, as many as 5
lakh jobs for youth, Rs
680 crore Start-up fund
for the youth, Rs 1,500
per month to the wom-
en, and free electricity
up to 300 units of con-
sumption.
Participating in the
Jan Sampark Abhiyan,
the BJP chief said that
the people are excited
and are blessing the
party’s campaign.
BJP chief JP Nadda distributes pamphlets during the Jan
Sampark Abhiyan (public relations campaign) for the Himachal
Pradesh elections, in Shimla on Sunday. —PHOTO BY ANI
CONGRESS DOESN’T BELIEVE IN ITS OWN
MANIFESTO, SAYS NADDA IN HIMACHAL
the election as mere
formality after the
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) withdrew its can-
didate, Murji Patel,
from the race.
After thanking every-
one who supported her,
Rutuja Latke later al-
leged BJP had no sym-
pathy and said that if
they had any, they
would not have filled
the form.
“If BJP had any sym-
pathy, they would not
have filled the form ear-
lier. Votes met by NOTA
belong to BJP…. A sur-
vey was conducted be-
fore the election and
they knew that they
were losing hence they
withdrew the nomina-
tion of their candi-
date,” Latke said.
Meanwhile, BJP’s
Mumbai unit chief Ash-
ish Shelar on Sunday
said Latke won because
his party did not field a
candidate against her.
The Thackeray-led Sena
could not increase its
vote share despite hav-
ing the support of the
Congress and National
Congress Party (NCP),
he told reporters.
C o n g r a t u l a t i n g
Latke, Shelar said,
“Had BJP contested the
election, they (Maha Vi-
kas Aghadi combine)
would have lost for
sure.”
Predictably, these
comments did not go
down well with the Se-
nas’ MVA allies.
Slamming Shelar for
his remarks, NCP
spokesperson Clyde
Crasto said, “Shelar
and BJP’s reaction that
‘had we contested the
Andheri East Assembly
by-election, (Latke’s)
defeat was certain’ is
like the fox who said
‘grapes are sour’ when
he could not get them
because they was out of
his reach.”
FROM PG 1

06
INDIA
Srinagar (ANI): Tour-
ists are thronging JK
with the onset of the
autumn season in the
valley and winter all set
to fall in some time.
One reason behind
the tourists (local and
foreign) heading to J-K
is the poplar tree which
has become an impor-
tant part of the Kash-
miri culture. The poplar
here doubles the beauty
of the place due to its
height and beauty, a re-
port said. In the months
of October and Novem-
ber, the view of poplars
in Kashmir gives a dif-
ferent colour. In sum-
mer, poplar trees are
dressed in deep red, yel-
low and amber colours.
The beautiful atmos-
phere of the region is
enhanced by the cool-
ness in the air, mild sun-
shine throughout the
day, cold mornings and
evenings and burning
poplar trees all around
during this period.
Mughal Gardens are
the first choice of tour-
ists during this season
as these gardens are
filled with poplar trees.
Kashmir is known
and recognized all over
the world because of its
changing seasons, be it
winter or summer,
spring or autumn. All
the weathers here have
a different feel and vis-
ual appeal.
However, walking on
the fallen poplar leaves
in the autumn season is
a different experience
for tourists, report said.
“The thing here is dif-
ferent. We have seen
suchscenesonlyinmov-
ies till now. The joy and
happiness that is felt to-
day by witnessing them
cannot be expressed in
words,” said Mumbai-
based Busha Patel who
visited Kashmir.
Tourists mesmerised after visiting JK in autumn
TRULY HEAVEN ON EARTH
lll
The beautiful
atmosphere of
the region is
enhanced by the
coolness in the
air, mild
sunshine, cold
mornings and
evenings
BYPOLL RESULTS
BJP wins 4 out of 7 assembly seats
BJP wins 4 seats; TRS wins high-stakes Munugode, RJD retains Mokama in Bihar
New Delhi (Agencies):
The Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) won in four
out of seven assembly
constituencies in six
states, retaining the
three seats it held, in the
by-election results de-
clared on Sunday
, while
the TRS and RJD won
one each after a stiff
contest with the BJP
.
The BJP secured four
seats out of seven went
to bypolls in six states.
BJP won Admapur
(Haryana), Gopalganj
(Bihar), Dhamnagar
(Odisha) and Gola
Gokarannath seat in UP
.
The counting of votes
was held on Sunday in
the by-election to seven
assembly constituen-
cies in six states.
The BJP said the re-
sult was a stamp of ap-
proval by people on PM
Narendra Modi’s poli-
cies as it retained Gola
Gokarannath in UP,
Dhamnagar in Odisha
and Gopalganj in Bihar
where it had fielded the
kin of its party MLAs
whose death necessi-
tated the polls.
REDDY RUES “DELAY OF ROUND WISE
RESULTS” IN MUNUGODE BY-POLLS
Hyderabad (ANI): Union
Minister for Culture
G Kishan Reddy on
Sunday called Chief
Electoral Officer Vikas
Raj over the phone
expressing resentment
over the “delay of round
wise results” in the
Munugode by-elections
which is underway. Ac-
cording to the BJP PRO,
Reddy questioned the
CEO “why the results
are not being disclosed
from time to time”.
HARYANA DEPUTY
CM CONGRATULATES
BHAVYA BISHNOI
Adampur (ANI): Haryana
Deputy Chief Minister Du-
shyant Chautala on Sun-
day congratulated Bhavya
Bishnoi, son of Kuldeep
Bishnoi, pitted from the
Adampur Constituency
after winning the bypolls.
Taking to Twitter, Deputy
Chief Minister Dushyant
Chautala expressed his
joy over the victory of
the Bhartiya Janata Party
(BJP) and the Jannay-
ak Janta Party (JJP)
coalition in the Adampur
assembly constituency
byelections and congratu-
lated Bhavya Bishnoi.
BJP’S SHAHNAWAZ
HUSSAIN TAKES
SWIPE AT JDU-RJD
Patna (Agencies): BJP
leader Shahnawaz Hussain
on Sunday took a swipe
at the Nitish Kumar-led
Janata Dal (United) as
results of Bihar Assembly
bypolls poured in - the first
election after the JD(U)
snapped ties with the
saffron camp and joined
hands with the Lalu Ya-
dav’s RJD to form a Grand
Alliance govt in the state.
Hussain said the results
sent a “clear message”
that the JD(U) and RJD
combine cannot defeat the
BJP and that Bihar’s future
lies with his party.
Bhajan Lal family retains Adampur bastion
as BJP’s Bhavya Bishnoi wins byelection
Hisar (PTI): BJP candi-
date and former chief
minister Bhajan Lal’s
grandson Bhavya Bish-
noi on Sunday defeated
his nearest rival and
Congress nominee Jai
Prakash in the Adam-
pur assembly seat by-
election, retaining the
family bastion. The res-
ignation of Bhavya’s
father Kuldeep Bishnoi
necessitated the by-
election after he left the
Congress and joined the
BJP. Bhavya defeated
Prakash by a margin of
15,740 votes.
Supporters burst firecrackers to celebrate after BJP candidate Kusum Devi won from Gopalganj
constituency, during the Bihar Assembly by-elections, in Patna, on Sunday. —PHOTO BY PTI
Tribal freedom fighters’
role to be celebrated
First India Bureau
New Delhi: On Novem-
ber 15, the Ministry of
Educationwillcommem-
oratethecontributionof
tribal freedom fighters
with a celebration of
‘Janjatiya Gaurav Di-
was’ in schools and high-
er educational institu-
tions across the country
.
Janjatiya Gaurav Di-
was will be marked in
schools and colleges by
a variety of pro-
grammes, including a
debate competition on
the theme ‘Contribu-
tion of Janjati Heroes
in Freedom Struggle’
and other social activi-
ties. During these cele-
brations, the contribu-
tions of courageous
tribal leaders such as
Bhagwan Birsa Munda
and others will be high-
lighted, as per a state-
ment released by the
government.
“The Ministry of Ed-
ucation under the lead-
ership of Union Educa-
tion and Skill Develop-
ment and Entrepre-
neurship Minister Shri
Dharmendra Pradhan
will be celebrating ‘Jan-
jatiya Gaurav Diwas’ in
a grand manner in the
schools, skill and high-
er educational institu-
tions across the coun-
try,” the ministry said.
Last year, the govern-
ment declared Novem-
ber 15 to be ‘Janjatiya
Gaurav Divas,’ honour-
ing the brave tribal free-
dom fighters. Birsa
Munda, who is revered
as Bhagwan by tribal
communities across the
country, was born on
November 15th.
Union Education Minister at an event. —FILE PHOTO
WOMAN SET ON FIRE
OVER WITCHCRAFT
SUSPICION IN BIHAR
Gaya: A woman died
after she was set on fire by
Pachmah villagers in Bihar’s
Gaya over the suspicion
of practising witchcraft,
according to the police.
According to the Imamganj
police, Gaya, Manoj Ram,
the villagers entered her
house where she was “mob
lynched”. “A woman died
after she was set on fire by
villagers, in Pachmah village
in Gaya over suspicion of
practising witchcraft.
3 HELD FOR HONEY-
TRAPPING DELHI
CRICKETER IN WB
Kolkata: Three persons
were arrested for hon-
ey-trapping, blackmailing
and extorting money from
a Delhi-based cricketer,
the police said on Sunday.
The police did not disclose
the name of the victim
for the sake of protecting
the cricketer’s reputation.
However, the three arrested
in this connection have
been identified as Rishav
Chanda, Subhonkar Biswas
and Shiva Singh.
DALIT COUPLE IN
K’TAKA DENIED
WEDDING IN TEMPLE
Chikkaballapur: The
authorities of a temple
marriage hall have refused
to give permission to a
Dalit family to conduct
marriage. The incident
took place in Gudibande
town of Chikkaballapur city.
Avulukondappa, a resident
of Bramhanara Halli, had
approached the temple
management for conduct-
ing the marriage but was
denied. A complaint has
been filed in this regard.
SSB RAISING DAY TO
BE HELD IN TURF
LAKHIMPUR KHERI
New Delhi: Border guard-
ing force Sashastra Seema
Bal will hold its annual
Raising Day celebrations
in Union Minister Ajay
Mishra ‘Teni’s political turf
Lakhimpur Kheri in UP next
month. The mega event
is expected to be held
on Dec 20 in the district
whose border runs along
the fenceless India-Nepal
international frontier. Home
Minister Amit Shah is ex-
pected to be chief guest.
TEEN KILLS 4 OF HIS FAMILY IN TRIPURA
Agartala: A teenaged boy killed four members of his fam-
ily, including mother and sister, in Tripura’s Dhalai district,
police said on Sunday. The police arrested the 15-year-old
accused boy on Sunday when he went to the market to
sell a duck. A police official said that the boy killed his
grandfather Badal Debnath (70), mother Samita Debnath
(32), 10-year old sister, aunt Rekha Deb (42), with an axe
when the victims were sleeping, late on Saturday night.
The horrific incident occurred at Durai Shib Bari village
under Kamalpur police station in Tripura’s Dhalai district.
CRUCIAL READ
Tirupati temple richer than Wipro, Nestle
New Delhi (PTI): Tiru-
pati’s world famous
LordVenkateswaratem-
ple’s net worth of over
Rs 2.5 lakh crore (about
USD 30 billion) is more
than the market capi-
talisation of IT services
firm Wipro, food and
beverage company Nes-
tle and state-owned oil
giants ONGC and IOC.
Tirumala Tirupati
Devasthanams, keeper
of the temple dedicated
to Tirupati’s presiding
deity
, for the first time
sinceitsfoundingin1933
declared its net worth.
Its assets include
10.25 tonnes of gold de-
posits in banks, 2.5
tonnes of gold jewellery
,
about Rs 16,000 crore of
deposits in banks, and
960 properties across In-
dia. All these total to
over Rs 2.5 lakh crore.
At current trading
price, the networth of
Tirupati temple is more
than several blue-chip
Indian firms, according
to stock exchange data.
Wipro had a market
cap of Rs 2.14 lakh crore
at close of trading
on Friday
.
Shikaras anchored near the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar.
Lord Venkateswara Temple. —FILE PHOTO
Three K’taka
farmers die of
electrocution
Mysuru: Three farm-
ers died after being elec-
trocuted in Neelasoge
village in Mysuru on
Sunday. The deceased
include Rache Gowda
(60), Harish (33) and Ma-
hadevaswamy (38). Ra-
che Gowda got electro-
cuted when he stepped
on the electric wire that
had fallen on the farm-
land. Seeing Rache be-
ing electrocuted and
struggling, his son Ma-
hadevaswamy rushed
to his rescue, but he
also got electrocuted.
Harish went to rescue
both and he also died on
the spot, the police said.
Light to moderate
rain in Tamil Nadu
till November 9
Chennai: The weather
department has fore-
cast light to moderate
rain in Tamil Nadu till
November 9. Ever since
the North East mon-
soon hit Tamil Nadu,
rains have been lashing
many parts of the state
including Chennai,
Kancheepuram, Chen-
galpattu and Tiruvarur.
The IMD has predicted
light to moderate rains
on Sunday with isolated
thunderstorms and
lightning in many parts
of the state. Heavy
rains are likely to occur
over isolated places in
several districts.
PAPA NI PARI!
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the mass
marriage programme ‘Papa Ni Pari’ Lagnotsav, in
Bhavnagar on Sunday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Sikhs rue visa rejection
for Nankana Sahib
New Delhi (ANI): Sikh
pilgrims expressed dis-
appointment after the
Pakistani authorities
rejected 586 visas, out of
a total 1496 visas, of In-
dian Sikhs, wanting to
visit the Nankana Sahib
in Pakistan. “SGPC had
applied for 1496 visas,
out of which, 910 were
approved but 586 were
rejected. The vias are
valid for 10 days, and
those whose visas were
rejected, have been dis-
appointed a lot. Govern-
ment should not reject
the religious visa,” said
Harbhajan Singh.
“Both govts need to
provide the facility of
On Arrival Visa. Visa of-
fice must be open at At-
tari wagha Border. The
buses which used to run
earlier, for the darshan
of the Gurdwara of Pa-
kistanwerealsostopped.
That should run again.
Like Delhi Lahore bus .
Amritsar Nankana Sa-
hibevenSamjotaExores
train have been stopped.
We should connect the
people of both the coun-
tries through religious
places. “, he stated.
10 IAS transferred in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: In yet an-
other bureaucratic re-
shuffle, 10 IAS officers
including five district
collectors were trans-
ferred in Uttar Pradesh.
S Rajalingam, DM
Kushinagar, has been
made the new collector
of Varanasi. The charge
of collector in Varanasi
was with commissioner
Kaushal Raj Sharma.
Hathras collector
Ramesh Ranjan will
now be the new Kushi-
nagar collector. His
wife Deepa Ranjan, who
was Budaun collector,
was made the Banda
collector.
Both husband and
wife are the IAS officers
of 2013 batch.
Deepa Ranjan will be
replaced by Manoj Ku-
mar –III in Budaun. He
is the first officer of
SCS service of 2014
batch whom the govern-
ment has made Badaun
District Magistrate.
2014-batch officer
Archana Verma has
been made District
Magistrate Hathras
from VC Hapur Pilkhu-
wa Development Au-
thority, while the cur-
rent District Magistrate
of Banda Anurag Patel
has been sent to waiting
af-
ter complaints.
Addl Commissioner
Agra Sahab Singh has
been made the Member
of Board of Revenue
while Ghanshyam Sin-
gh, Spl Secy Planning
and Program Imple-
mentation, has been
made Addl Commis-
sioner Lucknow.
UP BUREAUCRACY By Ahtesham Siddiqui...
Manoj Kumar Deepa Ranjan Ramesh Ranjan IAS M Rajlingam Archanva Verma

business
BRIEFS
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki
India (MSI) is planning to
increase its Manesar plant
production capacity by
one lakh units to cater to
the enhanced demand be-
fore its Sonipat facility
commences operations in
2025. MSI may also look
at expanding production
capacity at its Gurugram-
based mfg facility to cater
to the rising demand for
its products. Currently,
MSI has a cumulative pro-
duction capacity of 15
lakh units per annum at
both Manesar and Guru-
gram plants. —FIB
MARUTI SUZUKI MAY
EXPAND MANESAR
PLANT CAPACITY
New Delhi: After with-
drawing funds in the last
two months, foreign in-
vestors came back
strongly in the first week
of November and infused
`15,280 crore in Indian
equities on hopes that US
Federal Reserve would go
soft on rate hikes. Accord-
ing to the data with de-
positories, Foreign Portfo-
lio Investors invested
`15,280 crore in equities
during November 1-4.
This came following a net
outflow of just `8 crore
last month and `7,624
crore in Sept. So far this
year, the total outflow by
Foreign Portfolio Inves-
tors in equities has
reached `1.53 L cr. —PTI
FPIs INVEST `15,280
CRORE IN EQUITIES
IN 1st WEEK OF NOV
New Delhi: As the air
quality of Delhi NCR and
the surrounding area is
touching at alarming lev-
els in November, ritually
sales of air purifiers are
also going up and some
of the makers are expect-
ing double-digit growth
this season. Air purifier,
which has a sub
`500-crore market size, is
sold mostly in metros. Its
demand steps up in No-
vember and December
only, when the Air Quality
Index (AQI) touches
alarming levels. —PTI
RISING POLLUTION
PUSHES UP AIR
PURIFIER SALES
New Delhi: The dispatch
of coal to the power sec-
tor registered 5.5% de-
cline at 56.49 million
tonne last month. The
coal supply to the power
sector was at 59.79 mil-
lion tonne (MT) in Octo-
ber 2021. “The power util-
ities dispatch has reduced
by 5.51% to 56.49 MT
during October 2022 as
compared to 59.79 MT in
October 2021,” provision-
al statistics of the coal
ministry showed. Howev-
er, in April-October period
of ongoing financial year,
the dispatch increased
13.07% to 413 MT. —PTI
COAL DISPATCH TO
POWER SECTOR
DROPS 6% IN OCT
07
Commodity Price Change % Chg
GOLD 51,440.00 1000.00 0.02 (Per 10g)
SILVER 60,500.00 500.00 0.05 (Per 1kg)
COMMODITIES
Currency Price Change % Chg
USDINR 82.43 0.00 0.00
GBPINR 92.57 0.00 0.00
CURRENCIES
*Rates till the edition went to print.
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=
OLA ELECTRIC AIMS
10 LAKH UNITS BY
NOVEMBER 2023
New Delhi: Ola Electric will
touch cumulative produc-
tion of 10
lakh units by
November
2023, accord-
ing to a new
set of numbers shared by
its founder and CEO Bhavish
Aggarwal on Sunday (Novem-
ber 6). Earlier the company
had said in a statement that
it has the current capacity of
20 lakh units per annum at
its factory and it would be
exhausted in the next six to
eight months. “Our cumula-
tive production numbers: Dec
2021: 0; Nov 2022: 1,00,000;
Nov 2023: 10,00,000; Nov
2024: 1,00,00,000.. This is
the journey to #EndICEAge by
2025,” Aggarwal said. —PTI
SC ALLOWS STAFF TO
INCREASE THEIR EPS
CONTRIBUTION
New Delhi: Eligible employ-
ees who had not opted for
enhanced
pension
coverage prior
to 2014 can
jointly do so
with their employers within
the next four months after
the Supreme Court upheld
the Employees’ Pension
(Amendment) Scheme, 2014.
Employees who were existing
EPS members as on Septem-
ber 1, 2014 can contribute
up to 8.33% of their ‘actual’
salaries -- as against 8.33% of
the pensionable salary capped
at `15,000/month -- towards
pension. This will facilitate
the subscribers to contribute
higher to the scheme and get
enhanced benefits. —PTI
LESS THAN 50 PER CENT CAPEX PLANNED FOR
FINANCIAL YEAR 23 UTILISED: TATA STEEL CEO
New Delhi: Tata Steel has spent less than half of the capex
planned for ongoing 2022-23 fiscal year, its CEO T V Narendran
said. The company had planned
`12,000 crore of capex for the year,
of which about `8,500 crore was for
India and the balance for Europe.
“We have spent a little less of the 50
per cent (of the planned capex) till
now,” Narendran said. For Sep-
tember quarter, Tata Steel reported
90% drop in consolidated net profit to `1,297 crore as against
`12,547.70 crore in the year-ago period. —PTI
SEBI SETTLES 107 CASES UNDER SETTLEMENT
MECHANISM IN FY22; COLLECTS `59 CRORE
New Delhi: As many as 107 applications pertaining to flouting
of securities law were settled with capital markets regulator Sebi
fetching `59 crore through settlement
charges in 2021-22. This was way
lower than 216 applications disposed
of by passing appropriate settlement
orders and the regulator collected
`68.23 crore in 2020-21, according
to the latest disclosure made by Sebi
in its annual report. The settlement
orders were passed in cases related to alleged violations of AIF (Al-
ternative Investment Funds) as well as mutual fund norms, insider
trading rules, PFUTP and LODR rules, among others. —PTI
OTHER STORIES
‘Ind fastest growing innovation ecosystem’
Dubai (PTI): India is the
fastest growing innovation
ecosystem in the world
where around 102 unicorns
havebeencreatedinthelast
few years, Minister of State
for Skill Development, En-
trepreneurship,Electronics
and Information Technolo-
gy Rajeev Chandrasekhar
has said here.
Speaking at ‘Vishwa Sad-
hhavna’ event here on Sat-
urday, Chandrasekhar said
that none of these unicorns
have famous last names.
“They don’t have any po-
litical connection. They
have been built on enter-
prise and capability, and
determination and hard
work,” he said.
The minister spoke
about various initiatives
taken by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and trans-
forming India into “New
India” during the Dubai
Chapter of the event.
He said that Prime Min-
ister Modi “is very clear
that businesses create in-
vestments, they create jobs,
and most importantly, they
create revenues for the gov-
ernment to support those
who are vulnerable.”
Chandrasekhar said that
India has covered a great
distance in the electronics
and digital space. “In 2014,
92% of all mobile phones
that we used in India were
imported. In 2014, we ex-
ported zero electronics,
and now in 2022, 97% of the
mobile phones consumed
in India are manufactured
at home,” he said.
According to him, the to-
tal exports of mobile
phones alone as a category
was `70,000 crores. He also
said that for the first time
in independent India’s his-
tory, actual tax collection
exceeded the targets by
over 10% last year.
‘SIGNIFICANT WORK DONE, DRAFT DIGITAL
INDIA ACT FRAMEWORK BY EARLY 2023’
New Delhi (PTI): A significant amount of work has been done
on proposed Digital India Act, and the draft legislative frame-
work to support ‘India’s techade’ is expected by early 2023,
MoS for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said. The comments
assume significance as India is moving swiftly towards a strong
framework to catalyse its digital ambitions and govern online
ecosystem, with openness, user safety and trust. At the same
time, the govt has asserted that extensive consultation will go
into framing key legislations which are going to be essential
building blocks for ‘new India’ and its digital architecture.
Mumbai (PTI): Currency
with the public has jumped
to a new high of `30.88 lakh
crore as of October 21, il-
lustrating that cash usage
is still robust even six years
after demonetisation move.
At `30.88 lakh crore, the
currency with the public is
71.84% higher than the
level for the fortnight end-
ed November 4, 2016. On
November 8, 2016, PM Nar-
endra Modi had announced
the decision to withdraw
`500 and `1,000 denomina-
tion notes with the ulti-
mate aim of reducing cor-
ruption and black money
.
The intent of the move,
which was criticised by
many experts for poor
planning and execution,
was to make India a “less
cash” economy
.
As per the fortnightly
data on money supply re-
leased by the RBI on Friday
,
the currency with the pub-
lic increased to `30.88 lakh
crore as on October 21. The
central bank data for Re-
serve Money had put the
currency in circulation at
`17.7 lakh crore on Novem-
ber 4, 2016. Currency with
public refers to notes and
coins used by people to
transact, settle trades, and
for buying goods and ser-
vices. The figure is arrived
at after deducting cash
with banks from the cur-
rency in circulation.
6 years since DeMo,
cash with public rises
First India Bureau
New Delhi: Quarterly
earnings, global cues and
foreign fund movement is
expected to set the tone for
the equity market in a hol-
iday-shortened week.
“On the domestic front,
the market will react to the
last batch of Q2 earnings
from companies like BPCL,
Coal India, Tata Motors,
Eicher Motors, Hindalco
and Mahindra Mahin-
dra,” said Pravesh Gour,
Senior Technical Analyst,
Swastika Investmart Ltd.
Apart from this, institu-
tional flows are playing a
vital role because foreign
investors have shown their
interest in the Indian eq-
uity market, Gour added.
“This week is a holiday-
shortened one and partici-
pants will be eyeing earn-
ings and macroeconomic
data i.E. IIP for cues. Be-
sides, the trend of foreign
flows and the performance
of the global markets will
also be in focus,” said Ajit
Mishra, VP - Research, Re-
ligare Broking Ltd.
Industrial production
data for the month of Sept
would be announced post
market hours on Friday
.
Earnings global trends to guide
stock markets this week:Analysts
MAJOR
HIGHLIGHTS
z Last week, the Sensex
jumped 990.51 pts, while the
Nifty climbed 330.35 points
z On the domestic front, the
market will react to the last
batch of Q2 earnings from
companies like BPCL, Coal
India, Tata Motors
New Delhi (PTI): Voda-
fone Idea (VIL) on Sunday
said it has rolled out 300
new-format ‘Vi Shops’
across multiple towns in
Maharashtra, TN, Kerala,
West Bengal and UP West,
in line with its expansion
blueprint to digitally con-
nect the rural population.
VIL plans to further
strengthen its local pres-
ence and enhance engage-
ment with mobile users by
expanding its retail foot-
print to cover more rural
markets in coming months.
“To ramp up its retail
footprint at the sub district
level, Vi has rolled out 300
new format ‘Vi Shops’
across multiple towns in
Maharashtra, TN, Kerala,
WB and UP West,” the com-
pany said in a statement.
Customers in Indapur,
Maharashtra; Hapur in
Western UP; Basirhat in
WB; Usilampatti in TN;
Payyoli in Kerala; and hun-
dreds of other such towns
will have access to quick,
face-to-face service along
with a range of differenti-
ated products and offer-
ings, it added.
The Vi Shops concept for
Tier 3 towns is intended to
deliver a uniform experi-
ence to local customers,
enabling quick support
and handholding.
VIL opens 300 new Vi shops in
rural markets across 5 circles
AMBITIOUS
PLANS AHEAD
z SVIL plans to further
strengthen its local presence
and enhance engagement
with mobile users by
expanding its retail footprint
to cover more rural markets
in the coming months
SBI becomes most profitable company in Q2
First India Bureau
New Delhi: In the second
quarter of Financial Year
2023, State Bank of India
has become the country’s
most profitable corporate
with `14,752 crore of con-
solidated net income, beat-
ing Reliance Industries
having net earnings of
`13,656 crore.
On a standalone basis
too, with `13,256 crore of
net profit, it has beaten RIL
which remained the most
profitable corporate for
decades, by a wider margin
as Reliance took a hit of
`4,039 crore in windfall tax
on its exports during the
quarter. The net income of
Reliance includes `4,729 cr
from Jio Platforms and
`4,404 cr from the retail
business, both pre-tax
earnings, which was mar-
ginally down from `13,680
cr in the year-ago period.
On the other hand, SBI’s
standalone net soared 74%
to `13,256 crore in the July-
September quarter, mak-
ing this the best-ever quar-
terly numbers for the bank
and beating all other usu-
ally more profitable compa-
nies by a wider margin.
PIPS RIL WITH `14,752 CR NET
RELIANCE INDIA’S BEST
EMPLOYER: FORBES
New Delhi (PTI): Reliance In-
dustries is India’s best employer
and the world’s 20th best firm to
work with, according to Forbes’
World’s Best Employers rankings
2022.The global ranking was
topped by South Korean giant
Samsung Electronics, followed
by US giants Microsoft, IBM,
Alphabet and Apple. US compa-
nies occupy rankings from 2nd
to 12th, followed by German
automaker BMW Group at 13th.
The world’s largest online retailer
Amazon is ranked 14th in the
list and French giant Decathlon
is at 15th rank. Oil-to-telecom-
to-retail conglomerate Reliance,
with 2,30,000 employees, is
ranked 20th - the highest ranked
Indian firm.
4 COMPANIES
SET TO LAUNCH
IPOs THIS WEEK
New Delhi (PTI): The pri-
mary market continues to
be a busy one with four
firms, including Archean
Chemical Industries and
FiveStarBusinessFinance,
are set to float their IPOs
this week to collectively
raise about `5,000 crore.
The other two firms
whose initial public offer-
ings (IPOs) are ready to
open are -- Kaynes Technol-
ogy India and Inox Green
Energy Services.
New Delhi (ANI): The gov-
ernment, which has al-
lowed export of 6 million
tonne of sugar till May 31
of the ongoing 2022-23 sea-
son, on Sunday said it
could consider allowing
more export after periodic
assessment of the domestic
production.
“The sugarcane produc-
tion in the country will be
reviewed periodically and
based on the latest availa-
ble estimates, the quantity
of sugar exports to be al-
lowed could be reconsid-
ered,” the ministry said.
GOVT ISSUES
GUIDELINES FOR
SUGAR EXPORT

08
2NDFRONT
Sandip Kolhatkar
Pune: A doctor from
Pune has embarked
on a mission to save
the girl child by waiv-
ing the fees if a baby
girl is born in his hos-
pital, but also makes
sure the little one
gets a rousing wel-
come.
As part of his ‘Beti
Bachao Janandolan’
initiative, Dr Ganesh
Rakh, who runs a ma-
ternity-cum-multispe-
ciality hospital in Ha-
dapsar area of Maha-
rashtra, has been trying
to create awareness
against female foeticide
and infanticide.
He claims to have de-
livered more than 2,400
girl children in the last
11 years without charg-
ing fees from their par-
ents and relatives.
According to Dr
Rakh, the small initia-
tive that he started in
2012 at his Medicare
Hospital has now
spread across various
states and in some Afri-
can countries.
“Before 2012, in the
initial years of the hos-
pital, we came across
different experiences
here where in some cas-
es if a girl was born, the
family members would
shy away from coming
to see her. That picture
struck me and gave me
a fillip to do something
to save the girl child and
create awareness about
gender equality,” said
the doctor, while hold-
ing a newborn girl in
his arms.
Dr Rakh said as per a
government survey,
there were more than
six crore female foeti-
cide cases in the last 10
years. This is a kind of
“genocide”, he claimed.
The reason for female
foeticide is people’s pref-
erence for a son. This is
not limited to one re-
gion, state, or a country
,
but it is a global societal
issue, he said.
“As per our survey, of
late there has been a re-
markable drop in cases
of female infanticide
and this is a positive
takeaway,” added Dr
Rakh.
Dr Shivdeep Undre,
working at the same
hospital, said as part of
the mission, they are
reaching out to various
states in the country
and conducting gender
sensitization pro-
grammes.—PTI
Pune doctor delivers baby girls free of charge at his hospital
‘BETI BACHAO ANDOLAN’
Dr Rakh has delivered over 2,400 girl infants in the last 11 years.
Dr Ganesh Rakh has taken the
onus to prevent female foeticide
and infanticide in Hadapsar
In order to
support
the cause,
we decided to
waive the entire
medical fees if a
girl was born. In
the last 11 years,
we have delivered
more than 2,400
girls without
charging any fees.
—Dr Ganesh Rakh,
Medicare Hospital
KOPRI ROB ON
EASTERN EXP HWY
TO OPEN IN 3 MNTHS
Mumbai: The Mumbai Met-
ropolitan Region Develop-
ment Authority (MMRDA)
plans to open Kopri ROB
in the next three months.
According to Metropolitan
Commissioner SVR Srini-
vas, “Eastern Express High-
way commuters will soon
get relief. Ongoing work of
Kopri ROB is progressing
at a fast pace. This phase is
part of upgrading 2+2 lane
bridge to 4+4 which will
help decongest traffic. With
85% work done, the project
will be completed in the
next three months.”
CEILING PLASTER
COLLAPSES; PEOPLE
IN HOME UNHURT
Navi Mumbai: A portion of
the kitchen ceiling plaster
fell off at a house in Sector
48 of Seawoods here on
Sunday morning. While no
one was reported injured,
the frequent slab falling
instances have created
panic among residents.
The incident was reported
at Priyadarshini Society, at
around 5 am on Sunday.
Since the incident took
place in the kitchen area,
residents escaped unhurt.
Bharat Jadhav, an ex-coun-
cillor said the houses were
constructed by CIDCO.
19-YEAR-OLD STUDENT KILLS SELF AFTER DOG
SHE FED DIED FROM INJURIES IN ACCIDENT
Meerut: A 19-year old medical student committed suicide
after a street dog, she fed regularly, died in an accident.
Gauri Tyagi, was fond of pets and always fed strays. On
Thursday, she went for a walk and found that a dog had
been hit by a vehicle. She brought it home and also spoke
to a vet over the phone. But the dog died in front of her.
Distraught, she climbed a water tank the next day and
jumped off. Gauri succumbed to her injuries at a hospital.
2 MEN ELECTROCUTED TO DEATH AFTER COMING
IN CONTACT WITH LIVE WIRE ON FENCE IN GONDIA
Gondia: Two men died in Gondia after coming in contact with
a fence having a live wire, said a police official on Sunday. The
incident happened at around 11pm on Saturday in Parastola
village in Deori tehsil. The deceased have been identified as
Anmol Gaikwad (22) and Ashish Kosre (26), he said. “The live
wire fence may have been placed for poaching purposes. We
have registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting
to murder. A hunt is on for those responsible,” said the official.
CRUCIAL READ
New alliance between BJP,
Shinde rebel faction MNS?
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Even as the
two factions of the
Shiv Sena continue to
battle for supremacy,
and the legacy of par-
ty founder, the late
Balasaheb Thackeray
,
former Chief Minis-
ter Uddhav Thackeray
could well face a big-
ger challenge in the
upcoming civic body
polls in Mumbai,
where Marathi votes
play a crucial role.
A new alliance seems
to be forming in the
state, with the Maha-
rashtra Navnirman
Sena (MNS), led by Ud-
dhav’s cousin and arch
nemesis Raj Thackeray
,
seeminglyformingclose
bonds with the Bharati-
ya Janata Party and the
Shiv Sena faction led by
CM Eknath Shinde.
The bonhomie be-
tween Shinde, his depu-
ty Devendra Fadnavis
and Raj Thackeray
were evident when the
former two attended the
MNS’s Deepotsav event
in Shivaji Park on the
eve of Diwali.
Further, Raj Thack-
eray’s letter to Fadnavis,
urging him to withdraw
the BJP candidate from
the Andheri East As-
sembly bypoll in favour
of late Shiv Sena MLA
Ramesh Latke’s wife
came to swift fruition.
BJPlaterwithdrewits
candidate from the race,
forwhichRajThackeray
thanked Fadnavis.
Previously
,RajThack-
eray also wrote a letter
tohis“friend”Fadnavis,
hailing him for setting
an example of loyalty
and commitment to his
party by taking over as
the deputy CM.
Officially, each side
has declined to com-
ment on a possible tie-
up in the state.
However, Sujata
Anandan, the author of
‘Hindu Hriday Samrat:
How the Shiv Sena
Changed Mumbai For-
ever’, says it is clear
that MNS will go with
the BJP as it is not a
threat to the party
.
More importantly,
Raj Thackeray’s has
consistently worked
against Uddhav Thack-
eray politically
, since he
parted ways with Shiv
Sena in 2006, she added.
Ketan Bhosale, associ-
ate professor at Sathaye
College, said Raj Thack-
erayleanedtowardsHin-
dutva two years back
and shares the same
cause with the BJP and
the Shinde faction.
“The MNS chief… is
fiercelyagainstUddhav,”
said Bhosale, adding the
BMCelectionscouldalso
be the last chance to con-
solidate MNS, which is
trying to stay relevant
politically
.
Will be interesting to see if MNS fills void left by Sena split, attracts Marathi votes
CM Shinde addresses a gathering during the MNS's 'Deepotsav' as Deputy CM Fadnavis, MNS chief
Raj Thackeray and others look on, at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Park. —FILE PHOTO
IN THE FUTURE
First India Bureau
Mumbai: In re-
sponse to a com-
plaint filed by the
Ambedkar Periyar
Phule Study Circle
(APPSC) at IIT Bom-
bay, the National
Commission of
Scheduled Tribes
(NCST) has issued a
notice to the Minis-
try of Education
and IIT Bombay.
In June, the APPSC
filed a complaint to
several authorities,
including the NCST,
requesting it to look
into the inadequate
mental health support
system present for
students belonging to
Scheduled Castes (SC)
and Scheduled Tribes
(ST) at the IIT.
The complaint was
filed after the head
counsellor of the stu-
dent wellness centre
at IIT Bombay was ac-
cused of carrying an-
ti-reservationist sen-
timents based on her
social media posts.
The email filed by
the APPSC men-
tioned, “The students
do not feel safe or
comfortable going to
talk about their men-
tal health issues to
such a person who is
sharing their casteist
views against a con-
stitutional provision
for representation of
underrepresented
communities (sic).”
After receiving the
complaint, the NCST
decided to look into
the matter under sec-
tion 338A of the Indi-
an Constitution and
asked the Ministry of
Education to submit
information on the ac-
tions taken against
these allegations
within 15 days of the
notice being issued.
If the ministry fails
to do so, the commis-
sion may exercise
civil court jurisdic-
tion and summon a
representative, wrote
NCST in the notice.
IITB asked to defend
no support for SC, ST
IIT Bombay campus. —FILE PHOTO
Study circle
complains about
anti-reservation
sentiments of student
wellness centre head
counsellor
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Mumbai
cricket team clinched
their first ever Syed
Mushtaq Ali T20 tro-
phy when they beat
Himachal Pradesh by
three wickets in the
final at Eden Gardens
in Kolkata.
This was a redemp-
tion of sorts for Mum-
bai in the T20 cricket as
two seasons ago the
team had finished last
in their group. This sea-
son, it looks like Mum-
bai has found its spark
again—almost like the
team of old when they
were the favourites in
all forms of this gentle-
men’s game—as the
team made the Ranji
Trophy final earlier
this year.
Saturday’s stars were
off-spinner bowler Ta-
nush Kotian and middle
order right-hand bats-
man Sarfaraz Khan,
with his not-out 36 runs
off 31 balls, while chas-
ing a target of 144 runs.
Kotian gave only 15 runs
and took three wickets.
Mumbai elected to
bowl, and thanks to Ko-
tian and medium fast
bowler Mohit Avasthi
(with his three-wicket
haul for 21 runs conced-
ed, put a dampener on
Himachal Pradesh, who
in the 10th over, were 58
runs with six wickets
down.
When chasing the
target, Mumbai hit ear-
ly snag as they lost
Prithvi Shaw in the sec-
ond over and Ajinkya
Rahane in the fifth.
Even though Mumbai
lost wickets at regular
intervals, Khan stood
steady and took the
team to victory with
three balls to spare.
Mumbai lifts maiden Syed
Mushtaq Ali T20 trophy
The Mumbai team celebrates its victory after the match.
They beat Himachal
Pradesh by three
wickets in the final at
Eden Ga$rdens in
Kolkata
First India Bureau
Navi Mumbai: Ever
since the monsoon
ended officially, lo-
cals and trekkers
have started de-
manding to reopen
the Karnala fort for
trekking.
The Karnala fort—
a popular trekking
site located around
10km from Panvel—
was closed in August
2022 for visitors after
cracks developed on
the wall of the fort.
The Forest Depart-
ment decided to close
the fort after cracks
were discovered on
the wall. However, the
Gram Paristhitiki
Samiti Kalhe has re-
quested that the au-
thority complete the
fort’s repair work as
soon as possible and
open it for tourists.
AccordingtoaGram
Paristhitiki Samiti
Kalhe member, over
theperiod,thewallsof
this fort have deterio-
rated and the fortifica-
tions of the fort have
become dilapidated.
“On seeing the con-
dition of the fort, the
decision of closing
the fort for visitors
was taken. However, it
has been more than
four months now. It is
important that the
work is completed
soon and the fort is
open for the public
again.” he said.
Located in Raigad
district, Karnala fort
has a lot of historical
significance. Due to
its scenic location
and easy accessibility
(along the Mumbai-
Goa highway), the
fort is a preferred des-
tination for trekking
enthusiasts.
GP demands reopening of
Karnala fort for locals, visitors
The fort is popular among trekkers. —FILE PHOTO
The fort was closed
for visitors in
August 2022 after
cracks developed
on its walls
One change you can make right now
to make your life better is to adopt
gratitude as the guiding principle.
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra,
CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
—FILE
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challenging at various lev-
els. To be able to find good
developers who can work
on our idea with the same
passion as we have was one
of the biggest. Then it was
also a task to look for well-
certified trainers since In-
dia still has a shortage of
certified professional
trainers. We were fortu-
nate enough to come across
hardworking and sincere
trainers and provided
them with multiple work-
outs training before they
could finally reach people.”
Whether the session
would be available offline
or online, Dushyant smil-
ingly answered, “This app
provides a platform for the
patients to consult both on-
line and offline sessions.
One can book their ses-
sions very easily through
Fitkutumb and we directly
connect patients to certi-
fied physiotherapists. Af-
ter discussing general
things and understanding
the patient’s main cause,
the professional physio-
therapist doctors will pro-
ceed further accordingly
.”
He further added, not
only patients can consult
the doctor but will also be
provided with proper coun-
selling. Concluding the
conversation, Dr Dushyant
Khandelwal while giving a
message to the younger
generation said, “As we are
in high tech and fast-mov-
ing generation, we need to
be fit and healthy physi-
cally and mentally
.
People need to work
on their lifestyle and
they need to manage
work and health so
that they grow
faster in their
profession and
make a healthier
society.”
FITKUTUMB, A
ONE-STOP
SOLUTION
As we come close to the end of
the year, many of us be feeling low
with broken resolutions to improve
our health and fitness. While having
specific health and fitness goals in
mind is excellent, people often go
to extremes to accomplish these
goals. In a tete-a-tete with Dr
Dushyant Khandelwal, senior
physiotherapy consultant City First
highlights the importance of health
and fitness, physiotherapy and a
life-changing app ‘FitKutumb’, to
be launched soon.
MITALI DUSAD
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
P
Sulochna, Ambassador - Fitkutumb
Dr Dushyant Khandelwal
BPT, MPT (Neurology),
Senior consultant physiotherapist
Vazida Ansari, Co-founder
Jay Kohli, Founder Fitkutumb
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