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Ex Industries min cites Fadnavis on investment jibe
Renni Abraham
Mumbai: Senior Shiv
SenaleaderSubhashDe-
saionSaturdaysaidthat
he disagreed with Depu-
tyChief MinisterDeven-
dra Fadnavis’s state-
ment that the 2.5-year
tenure of the Maha Vi-
kas Aghadi (MVA) gov-
ernment in Maharash-
tra witnessed no fresh
investments in the state.
“The progress on in-
vestments(includingthe
recently announced Ve-
danta project) was very
positive even when the
MVAgovernmentwasin
place. We held multiple
meetingsthatmovedfor-
ward. The Foxconn
chairman was there in
Delhi and our meeting
withhimwentverywell.
It was here that he said
that they had positively
consideredMaharashtra
as a location (for their
investment),” asserted
Desai. Turn to P5
Shiv Sena’s Subhash Desai, who served in the MVA govt,
says Foxconn, Vedanta came to Maha during his tenure
Desai greets former CM Uddhav Thackeray after taking oath as
minister in MVA govt. —FILE PHOTO
EXCLUSIVE
Maha to pay `12K cr
compensation for
improper waste mgmt
First India Bureau
Mumbai: In a big blow
to successive Maha-
rashtra governments
since 2014, the National
Green Tribunal (NGT)
has ordered the state
government to deposit
Rs12,000 crore under
the principle of ‘Pol-
luter Pays’ for the dis-
posal of untreated sew-
age and liquid waste.
It may be recalled
that in 2016 the Maha-
rashtra Water Resourc-
es Regulatory Authori-
ty (MWRRA) had pulled
up the state after a de-
veloped city like Mum-
bai was found discharg-
ing less than 15% of
treated sewage into the
Arabian sea.
A bench comprising
chairperson Justice
Adarsh Kumar Goel,
Justice Sudhir Agarwal
and expert member
Prof Senthil Vel held
that compensation un-
der Section 15 of the
National Green Tribu-
nal Act was necessary
“to remedy the continu-
ing damage to the envi-
ronment” and comply
with directions of the
Supreme Court.
Dated September 08,
the NGT order came af-
ter the top court trans-
ferred the task of moni-
toring solid liquid
waste to the Tribunal
pursuant to its direc-
tions in connection
with writ petitions, Al-
mitra Patel vs Turn to P5
National Green
Tribunal invokes
‘Polluter Pays’
principle, orders
govt to
make payment
within 2 months
Celebrating achievements
of our Indian scientists!
l From 81st spot to the 46th spot: India’s Global Innovation Index
achievement hailed by PM l No show by Jharkhand, Bihar in VC
PM Narendra Modi during the Centre-State Science Conclave, via VC on Saturday. Guj CM Bhupendra
Patel and Union MoS (Independent Charge) for Science Technology Jitendra Singh are also seen.
New Delhi (ANI): India
presently stands at 46th
spot in the Global Inno-
vation Index, Prime
MinisterNarendraModi
said on Saturday
, under-
lining that the country
has made huge progress
in terms of innovation
in the last few years.
Highlighting the
country’s achievement
of climbing the list
from 81st spot in 2015,
PM Modi stressed: “Af-
ter 2014, investment in
science and technolo-
gy increased exponen-
tially. Our government
is working towards
science-based develop-
ment.”
The country is head-
ed towards leading the
fourth industrial revo-
lution, he further point-
ed out, recounting the
contribution of experts.
His comments came as
he addressed the Cen-
tre-State Science Con-
clave virtually
.
PM Modi on Saturday spoke to British
PM Elizabeth Truss to congratulate her
on assuming office and appreciated her
role in furthering bilateral relations. “The
two leaders discussed various issues of
bilateral interest including the progress
in the implementation of Roadmap 2030,
ongoing FTA negotiations, defence
security cooperation,” the MEA said.
PM MODI SPEAKS TO BRITISH PM TRUSS
A PERFORMING JP NADDA MAY
GET ONE YEAR EXTENSION!
Aditi Nagar
New Delhi: BJP presi-
dent JP Nadda, who has
performed extremely
well since taking on
the mantle on 20
January 2020 and is
nearing the
three year
tenure of
BJP Presi-
dent, is all set to get one
year extension, broadly
till 2023 assembly polls
in 4 states. According to
highly placed
sources, there
has been a con-
sensus on this is-
sue among Nar-
e n d r a
Modi, Mo-
han Bhag-
wat and Amit Shah.
During the last couple
of months, Nadda’s
‘voice’ has been increas-
ingly heard in the rele-
vant quarters and his
growing proximity with
the Prime Minister, in a
few selected areas of
governance, also has
been noticed by politi-
cal observers.
Charles III officially proclaimed King!
London (Agencies):
Charles III was formally
been proclaimed mon-
arch of UK in a historic
ceremony held two days
after death of his moth-
er, Queen Elizabeth II.
The proclamation
tookplaceSaturdayatSt
James’s Palace in Lon-
don in the form of a cer-
emony called the Acces-
sion Council. For all pre-
vious British monarchs,
the council was carried
out in private, but the
proceedings were broad-
cast live for Charles.
Charles, 73, was pro-
claimed king by mem-
bers of the Privy Coun-
cil – an advisory body to
the monarch – in the
first half of the two-
part ceremony
. Camilla,
now the Queen Consort,
and Prince William,
who inherited Charles’s
former title as the
Prince of Wales, also at-
tended the ceremony
.
King Charles III signs oath to uphold the security of the Church in
Scotland during Accession Council at St Jamess Palace on Saturday.

z Queen Elizabeth’s funeral
to be held on September 19

z PM Liz Truss thanks PM
Modi for his condolences
over Queen’s death

z Putin Offers His
‘Sincerest Congratulations’
to Charles III

z King Charles III to meet
Truss as royal family shed
tears in Balmoral

z Queen Elizabeth II’s
funeral to be a public
holiday, approves Charles III

z PM Liz Truss takes oath
of loyalty to King Charles III

z Princess Beatrice’s
Surprising Promotion in
King Charles’ New Council

z Queen’s bees are told
she’s dead, King Charles is
new master
MAJOR HAPPENINGS
Deeply ‘Aware’ of ‘Duties’
and Heavy Responsibilities
of Sovereignty.
—King Charles III
4 Guj pilgrims
among 3 women
die in accident
Mukesh Mathrani
Barmer: 4 people in-
cluding 3 women were
killed in a road accident
that took place on Sat-
urday morning near
Bhatala village under
Sindhary police station
area in Barmer. Mishap
happened when the car
they were travelling in
head-on collided with a
truck coming from the
front side. Police identi-
fied the deceased as
Kamla Devi (70) and
Rajesh Kumar (22), Dro-
pati Devi (62) and Mani-
sha (32).
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SHARAD PAWAR RE-ELECTED AS NCP CHIEF FOR NEXT 4 YRS
Mumbai: Sharad Pawar has been re-elected as the President
of the National Congress Party for four years on Saturday. The
information was shared by the chief spokesperson of NCP a,
Mahesh Bharat Tapase after discussions during the meeting.
Nathdwara: Reliance Group Chairman Mukesh
Ambani will reach Nathdwara and visit Shrinathji
temple on Sunday. He is expected to land at Udaipur
airport at 11 am, from 12 noon to 4 pm, he will stay
in Nathdwara. Ambani will leave for Mumbai at 5 pm.
BHAGWAT TAKES
PART IN RSS
COORDINATION
MEET IN RAIPUR
Raipur: The All India Coordination Meeting of RSS
held in Raipur on Saturday. The three-day meeting was
inaugurated by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and general
secretary Dattatreya Hosabale. BJP chief JP Nadda also
attended meeting which will conclude on Sept 12. P6

❍ HOME MINISTER AMIT SHAH IN RAJ CM ASHOK GEHLOT'S HOME TURF JODHPUR
Shahtakes on Rahul,Gehlotover
inflation, crime,vote bank politics
Praising Raje regime, Shah said now
Rajasthan is lagging in development
Shah said that if Gehlot cannot
handle the situation, he must quit
Aditi Nagar, Rajeev Gaur,
Shikha Sharma, Shiv Prakash
Purohit Hemant Lalwani
Jodhpur: Union Home
Minister Amit Shah on
Saturday targeted Ra-
hul Gandhi over the
'Bharat Jodo Yatra', say-
ing the Congress leader
had once said India is
not a nation and is now
out to unite the coun-
try wearing a foreign-
make T-shirt.
Addressing the Ra-
jasthan BJP's booth
functionaries,healsohit
out at the state govern-
ment over the murder of
UdaipurtailorKanhaiya
Lal by Muslim extrem-
ists and the Karauli vio-
lence and alleged the
Congress can only prac-
tice politics of vote bank
and appeasement.
In his address at Ra-
vankaChabutraground
in Jodhpur on Saturday
Shah cited banning of
procession during Ram
Navami and razing of
the 300-year-old temple
in Alwar and took a dig
at the Ashok Gehlot gov-
ernment and said he has
planned riots in many
cities of Rajasthan.
Shah said that if Ge-
hlot cannot handle the
situation, he must quit.
“People are ready to
bring BJP to power. Ma-
hant Vijay Das was
forced to commit suicide
in Bharatpur, but no ac-
tion was taken against
theminingmafia.Gehlot
has no control over the
administration,”hesaid.
He said that Vasund-
hara Raje provided free
treatmentuptoRs3lakh.
ThroughtheBhamashah
scheme, treatment facili-
ties were made available
to every person.
Today, Rajasthan is lag-
ging in development. It has
become a crime capital.
Congress
government is left in
only two states - Chhat-
tisgarh and Rajasthan.
—Amit Shah,
Union Home Minister
SEEKING BLESSINGS!
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday morning offered
prayers at the Tanot Mata temple in Jaisalmer district of
Rajasthan. The minister, who arrived in Jaisalmer on Friday
evening, reached Tanot on Saturday morning by helicopter.
Home Minister Amit Shah also laid a floral wreath at the Vijay
Stambh. The revered Tanot Mata temple, located close to
the India-Pakistan border, is managed by the BSF. It is at a
distance of 120 km from Jaisalmer.
—PHOTOS BY SURYAVEER SINGH TANWAR
FOUNDATION OF
BORDER TOURISM
DEVP WORK LAID
IN JAISALMER
Jaisalmer: HM Amit
Shah on Saturday laid
the foundation stone
for border tourism
development work at
Tanot temple complex
adjacent to India-
Pakistan international
border, which lies
around 120 km from
Jaisalmer in Ra-
jasthan. Tanot Mandir
Complex Project is
being started by Union
Ministry of Tour-
ism, under Border
Tourism Development
Program. An amount
of Rs 17,67,00,000
has been approved by
GoI for Tanot Mandir
Complex project.
Home Minister Amit Shah being garlanded by BJP leaders during ‘Booth President Sankalp Mahasammelan’, in Jodhpur on Saturday. Also
seen here are Vasundhara Raje, Kailash Choudhary, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Satish Poonia, PP Chaudhary, Bhajan Lal Sharma and others.

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First India Bureau
Mumbai: On Anant
Chaturdashi—also
the last day of this
year’s Ganesh
Chaturthi festival—
noise levels recorded
in the state capital
were almost ear-
splitting, data
shared by a city-
based organization
revealed on Satur-
day.
As per the informa-
tion provided by NGO
Awaaz Foundation, the
highest noise level
120.2 dB was recorded
at Opera House in
south Mumbai after
midnight on Friday,
the final day of immer-
sion of Lord Ganesh
idols.
Music was stopped
after the Mumbai po-
lice received a com-
plaint, raised on Twit-
ter, said an official
from the foundation.
The second highest
noise level of 118 dB
was recorded at Shas-
tri Nagar, where peo-
ple played drums, met-
al cylinders and loud-
speakers, while 106 dB
was recorded at Gir-
gaon Chowpatty,
where idols were im-
mersed, he said.
Along the immer-
sion route at Girgaon
Chowpatty, loudspeak-
ers from pandals of
political parties con-
tinued till about
1.25am, despite a per-
sonal visit to the po-
lice control room in
the area and a Twitter
complaint at 1.06 am,
claimed the NGO offi-
cial.
The city witnessed
the noisiest visarjan
in 2019 at 121.3 dB, last
year however, it was at
93.1dB.
The combination of
drums and banjo
created the highest
noise level 115.6 dB at
Marine Drive’s Babul-
nath corner, and
112.1dB at Bandra on
the fifth day of the fes-
tival.
Mumbai witnesses noisy Ganpati visarjan after 2 years
EARFUL OF JOY
SII duped of
`1 crore in
CEO’s name
by fraudsters
First India Bureau
Pune: The Serum In-
stitute of India (SII)
was duped of more
than Rs1 crore by
fraudsters who sent
messages in the name
of its CEO Adar Poon-
awalla directing them
to transfer the money
,
said the Pune Police
on Saturday.
The incident came to
light between the after-
noons of Wednesday
and Thursday, said an
official of the Bundgar-
den Police station.
Senior inspector
Pratap Mankar said
that a First Information
Report (FIR) has been
registered against uni-
dentified persons under
the Information Tech-
nology Act.
Satish Deshpande,
one of the directors of
SII got WhatsApp mes-
sages from a person pos-
ing as Adar Poonawalla
and asked him to trans-
fer money to certain
bank accounts immedi-
ately
, said the complaint
filed by the finance
manager of the firm.
BIDDING ADIEU
BIDDING ADIEU TO BAPPA
TO BAPPA
First India Bureau
Mumbai: More than
1.93 lakh idols were
immersed in Mumbai
during the ten-day
Ganesh festival
which concluded on
Friday, said the Bri-
hanmumbai Munici-
pal Corporation
(BMC) on Saturday.
A total of 1,93,062
idols, including 6,795
idols of Goddess Gauri,
were immersed this
year in the city, the civ-
ic body said.
This was a 17% in-
crease over 2021 when
1,65,040 Ganesh and
Gauri idols had been
immersed amid the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Gauri idols usually
form a very small pro-
portion of the number.
As many as 66,127
idols were immersed in
artificial ponds set up
across the city over the
last 10 days. Notably,
the number dropped by
20% as last year 82,061
idols had been im-
mersed in artificial
ponds. After a gap of
two years, Ganesh
Chaturthi festival was
celebrated without any
pandemic-related
restrictions this
year. According
to the BMC, the
highest 60,557
idols were
immersed
on the sec-
ond day of
the festi-
val.
M o r e
than 38,000 idols of
Lord Ganesh were im-
mersed in various wa-
ter bodies across Mum-
bai till Saturday morn-
ing following the con-
clusion of the 10-day
festival a day ago.
The idols
were im-
mersed
in the
Arabi-
an sea
o f f
G i r -
g a o n
Chow-
patty
(beach) in south Mum-
bai, in artificial ponds
and some other water
bodies. While Girgaon
Chowpatty is one of the
major spots for immer-
sion of popular Ganesh
idols like Lalbaugcha
Raja, Ganesh Gully and
others, idols are also
immersed at other
beaches across the city,
including Shivaji Park,
Bandra, Juhu and Mal-
ad. The immersion pro-
cessions had begun on
Friday morning.
As many as 38,214
Ganesh idols were im-
mersed in the metropo-
lis till 9 am on Saturday
.
Of these, 31,259 were
household idols, 6,647
‘sarvajanik’ (those in-
stalled in public pan-
dals), while 308 idols
were of Goddess Gauri,
informed a Brihan-
mumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC) of-
ficial.
Of the total, 9,751
idols, including 796
‘sarvajanik’ ones, were
immersed in artificial
ponds, he said.
SECURITY
MEASURES
1.93 lakh idols immersed in Mumbai during 10-day
Ganesh festival; over 38K idols found way to sea on Sat
Thousands of devotees gathered to witness the
immersion processions of various Lord Ganesh
idols at Lalbaug and Girgaon Chowpatty.
—PHOTOS BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
A giant idol of Lord Ganesh being pulled for
immersion. —ANI PHOTO
Devotees during immersion of Lalbaugcha Raja
idol of Lord Ganesh, one of the biggest draws of
the festival, at Girgaon Chowpatty in Mumbai, on
Saturday morning. —PTI PHOTO
An idol being immersed into the Arabian
sea —PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
20 dead in Maha
during immersion
of Ganesh idols
First India Bureau
Mumbai: At least 20
persons died, 14 of
them due to drown-
ing, in various inci-
dents that occurred
during immersion of
Ganesh idols in parts
of Maharashtra, said
police on Saturday.
The 10-day Ganesh
Chaturthi festival, that
started on August 31,
ended on Friday
.
In Wardha district
three persons drowned
at Sawangi, while an-
other one drowned at
Devli, said an official.
Twopersonsdrowned
in a pond in Yavatmal
district when they went
for immersion of idols.
In Ahmednagar dis-
trict, two persons died
of drowning in separate
incidents at Supa and
Belvandi. Two others
died in Jalgaon district
of north Maharashtra.
One each died in
Pune’s rural regions,
including Dhule, Satara
and Solapur city, said
an official.
In Thane, a 55-year-
old woman was killed
and four others injured
after a tree collapsed on
a Ganesh pandal in Kol-
bad area amid rains.
The incident occurred
on Friday night, said a
civic official.
“A huge tree fell on
the pandal while the
aarti of the Lord
Ganesh was going on as
part of the immersion
of the idol. The woman,
Rajashri Walavalkar,
was seriously injured
in the mishap. All of
them were rushed to a
hospital, where she was
declared brought dead,”
said the official.
Meanwhile, at least
11 persons, including a
nine-year-old girl, were
injured after suffering
an electric shock at Pan-
vel in Raigad district
during a procession.
The incident took place
on Friday evening at
Vadghar Koliwada after
a cable of an electric
generator snapped, in-
formed an official.
Police personnel deployed during a Ganpati procession in
Mumbai. —PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
On concluding day of
the 10-day Ganesh
Chaturthi festival, 14
people lost their lives
due to drowning and
in other incidents
Noise level of 106 dB was recorded at Girgaon Chowpatty, where
many idols were immersed. — PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
Highest noise level of 120 dB,
recorded at Opera House and was
followed by Shastri Nagar at 118 dB
LOUD HUMDRUM
NCP leader slams BJP nod to build Memon’s grave
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Amid the
ongoing controversy
around the beautifi-
cation of 1993 Mum-
bai bomb blasts con-
vict Yakub Memon’s
grave, Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP)
leader Jayant Patil on
Friday took a shot at
the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) and said
that “permissions to
build the grave were
granted during BJP’s
regime.”
“It is important to
check during whose
tenure permission was
granted to build his
grave. It was built when
BJP was in power at the
Centre and also in Ma-
harashtra. They (BJP)
are responsible for it,”
said Patil on Saturday
.
His remarks came af-
ter a matter of Me-
mom’s grave beautifica-
tion located in Bada
Qabrastan (big ceme-
tery) of Mumbai came
to the fore on Septem-
ber 08.
Earlier, Maharashtra
Chief Minister Eknath
Shinde had said on Fri-
day that 1993 Mumbai
blast convict Yakub Me-
mon cannot be glorified
after the issue pertain-
ing to the latter’s grave
beautification emerged.
While talking to the
media persons in Mum-
bai, Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde said,
“Yakub Memon is an ac-
cused in the Bombay
blasts, and hence, can-
not be glorified. We
won’t accept this or let
it happen. I have in-
formed the BMC (Bri-
hanmumbai Municipal
Corporation) and Mum-
bai police about it. The
Home Department will
take appropriate ac-
tion.”
BJP UDDHAV
‘SENA’ CLASH
Grave of Yakub Memon, convict of the 1993 Mumbai blasts, was
recently beautified with lighting. —FILE PHOTO
`3,501 crore relief okayed
for rain-affected farmers
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Farmers in
the state, who suf-
fered losses in the
heavy rains and
floods across Maha-
rashtra, would be
compensated by the
state government,
said an official on Sat-
urday. The Maha-
rashtra government
has sanctioned
Rs3,501 crore towards
financial relief.
As per a government
order issued on Thurs-
day, compensation pro-
vided will be Rs13,600
per hectare for loss of
non-irrigated crops,
Rs27,000 per hectare for
irrigated crops and
Rs36,000 per hectare for
perennial crops.
Between June and
August, the farmers
across Maharashtra
suffered massive crop
losses in the floods and
heavy rains witnessed
in various parts of the
state.
SII CEO Adar Poonawalla

First India Bureau
Pune: The Maharash-
tra government has
declared the whole
state as a “controlled
area” to curb the
spread of lumpy skin
disease in cattle.
The viral disease has
so far claimed the lives
of 29 animals in the
state, said an official.
The disease was first
reported in the state at
Chinawal village in
Raver tehsil of Jalgaon
district on August 04.
Cases have been re-
ported since in 185 vil-
lages across Jalgaon,
Ahmednagar, Akola,
Dhule, Pune, Satara, La-
tur, Aurangabad, Beed,
Buldhana, Amravati,
Osmanabad, Kolhapur,
Sangli, Yeotmal, Parb-
hani, Solapur and
Washim districts.
A notification issued
by the Agriculture, Ani-
mal Husbandry, Dairy
Development and Fish-
eries Department(s)
said the Union govern-
ment has advised states
to curtail the entry of
animals suspected to be
suffering from the dis-
ease.
“However, bovine
species of animals are
still entering Maha-
rashtra from adjoining
states,” it said.
“Therefore, under
the Prevention and
Control of Infectious
and Contagious Diseas-
es in Animals Act, the
state government de-
clares Maharashtra as a
‘controlled area’ to con-
trol, prevent and eradi-
cate lumpy skin disease
(LSD) and prohibit the
movement of all the cat-
tle and buffaloes,” the
notification added.
The state order pro-
hibits the holding of
animal markets, animal
races, animal fairs, ani-
mal exhibitions and
any activity involving
any sort of gathering of
animals.
The disease is cura-
ble with medication,
said the animal hus-
bandry department on
Friday
.
Lumpy skin disease
affects cattle and is
spread by blood-feeding
insects such as flies,
ticks and mosquitoes. It
causes fever and lumps
on the skin and even
leads to death. Though
it is a vector-borne dis-
ease, it can also be
transmitted through
direct contact to mucus
of infected animals.
MAHARASHTRA
03
First India Bureau
Nagpur: Four mem-
bers of a family, in-
cluding two minor
brothers, were killed
after they were tossed
up in the air and fell
off a flyover in an ac-
cident. A Sports Util-
ity Vehicle (SUV)
rammed into their
motorcycle, said the
police officials.
The accident took
place in Sakkardara
area at around 9 pm on
Friday
.
SUV’s driver Ganesh
Adhav, was later arrest-
ed by the police.
“Adhav was driving
his vehicle at a great
speed. When he reached
the flyover, the SUV
rammed into three mo-
torcycles coming from
the opposite direction,”
said an official of Sakk-
ardara police station.
“Due to the impact,
four members of a fam-
ily who were going on
one of the motorcycles
got tossed up in the air
and fell on the road be-
low from the flyover.
They were rushed to a
hospital, where doctors
declared them brought
dead,” he said.
The deceased were
identified as Vinod
Khapekar (45), his
mother Laxmibai (65),
and his two sons aged
five and eleven years, he
said, adding that two
others were also in-
jured and are being
treated.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: A daily
wage labourer man-
aged to rescue his
12-year-old daughter
who was kidnapped
by the accused identi-
fied as Shahid Khan
(24), from his house
in suburban Bandra
and was rescued at
Aitroli village of Ali-
garh near Uttar
Pradesh, with the
help of local police
and the villagers, an
official said.
The accused, who
used to work in a gar-
ment manufacturing
facility in Bandra, and
the victim’s family lived
in the same locality
.
On September 4, the
accused had allegedly
asked the girl to accom-
pany him for shopping
and took her to Kurla,
from where he boarded
a bus to Surat and then
reached Delhi by train.
When the girl, who
had given some excuse
to her mother, did not
return, the family
lodged a police com-
plaint and a case of kid-
napping was registered.
The father enquired
about the accused in the
neighbourhood and got
his location with the
help of the police.
After finding out that
the accused hailed from
Aitroli village of Ali-
garh in Uttar Pradesh,
the man contacted the
family of the accused
and managed to rescue
her with the help of lo-
cal police and villagers,
the officer added.
“My daughter said
that the man had raped
her in an drunken state
on the bus to Surat,” the
girl’s father said and de-
manded that an FIR un-
der Protection of Chil-
dren from Sexual Of-
fence Act (POSCO), be
registered against the
accused.
An FIR under section
363 (kidnapping) has
been lodged. More sec-
tions will be added after
recording the victim’s
statement, said a police
official posted at the
Nirmal Nagar police
station of the city
.
Maha now ‘controlled area’
to curb lumpy skin disease
Govt issues notification after the viral disease claims 29 animals in the state
First case was reported in Chinawal village of Jalgaon district on August 04. —FILE PHOTO
VIRAL ATTACK
Mentally unwell woman
from WB, reunited with
family after two years
First India Bureau
Palghar: A 50-year-
old mentally unwell
woman from West
Bengal, who board-
ed a train to Mum-
bai about two years
ago and got lost in
the state capital
during the COV-
ID-19 lockdown,
was finally united
with her family on
Saturday
.
Taslima Khatoon, a
resident of Singur in
West Bengal’s Hoogh-
ly district, was sent to
a destitute home in
Virar Phata by the
MHB Colony police
in Borivali West
on July 13, 2021.
Adi Moon, a
counsellor with
Jeevan Anand
Sanstha, a so-
cial service
group where
Khatoon was
lodged, man-
aged to pry
out informa-
tion from her
in Bengali
about her home,
family
. Social media
platforms such as
Google and Facebook
were used to locate
her relatives in West
Bengal.
“On August 23, we
received information
through social media
thatshewasfromBal-
rambathi and man-
aged to contact the
local MLA as well as
the sarpanch. That
night, her family
spoke to Taslima
through video call,”
said Kisan Choure,
Trustee, Jeevan
Anand Sanstha.
Khatoon’s brother
Sheikh Mohammad
Ali came to take her-
on Thursday and
thanked its function-
aries, as well as
the police,
for all
t h e
help.
A social service
group counsellor
was able to get info
from Taslima by
conversing in
Bengali language
Man rescues kidnapped daughter from UP village
BRAVE HEART
The man said his daughter told him
about how the accused had raped
her on a bus. He now wants an FIR
registered under POSCO Act
The girl’s father
enquired about
the accused in
the locality and
zeroed upon his
location with the
help of the
police
Four persons killed
after bike collides
with SUV, driver held
Deceased belong to the
same family including
two minor boys aged 5
and 11 years
Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s wife
Amruta, Bollywood actors Anupam Kher and Parineeti
Chopra along with members of Brihanmumbai
Municipal Corporation (BMC) and volunteers of NGOs
take part in a clean-up drive organized following
the immersion of Lord Ganesh idols at Juhu Beach
on Saturday. The 10-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival
celebrations witnessed the immersion of over several
thousand idols across Mumbai. —PHOTOS BY ANI
THE DAY AFTER VISARJAN
THE DAY AFTER VISARJAN
DIFFERENTLY ABLED
WOMAN GANG
RAPED; 3 ARRESTED
Jalna: Five men have
been accused of gang
raping a differently-
abled woman in Dab-
hadi village in Badnapur
tehsil of Jalna district,
said a police official on
Saturday. While the
police have arrested
three accused involved
in the case, a manhunt
has been launched to
track the other two, he
said. The incident that
took place on August
28, came to light ear-
lier this week when the
victim’s family came to
know of the assault and
approached the police.
Arrested accused were
presented in front of
a court that remanded
them to police custody
for five days, he added.
FOUR BOOKED FOR
FIGHTING IN PUBLIC
PLACE AT KALWA
Thane: The police have
registered a case under
section 160 (punish-
ment for committing
afray) under Indian
Penal Act against four
men for fighting in pub-
lic place on the night of
September 8 at Koliwada
in Kalwa area of Thane
district on Saturday,
said a police official.
The accused alleg-
edly quarrelled amongst
themselves and were
disturbing public peace,
he said. They kept on
fighting even during the
presence of the police.
Some of them were
also injured during the
scuffle, said the official
adding that some of the
accused were history
sheeters.
POLICE CONSTABLE RUNS OVER 55-YEAR-
OLD PEDESTRIAN IN MUMBAI, ARRESTED
WAITER KILLED BY COLLEAGUE AFTER
VERBAL SPAT IN DOMBIVLI RESTAURANT
Mumbai: A 55-year-old man was killed when a car
driven by a police con-
stable ran over him in the
south Mumbai, said the po-
lice on Saturday. The con-
stable has been arrested.
Advocate Salim Ansari was
mowed down by a speeding car driven by a police
constable at the Mahalaxmi race course at around
8.46pm on Thursday, said the police. A case un-
der sections 304(A) (causing death by negligence)
and 279 (rash driving) of Indian Penal Code have
been registered at Tardeo police station.
Thane: A waiter Avimannan Ayyadeyar (60) was
killed by his colleague identified as Sitappa alias
Natrajan (70) who hit him
with a log of wood after a
verbal spat in the restau-
rant he worked in at Nilje
village near Dombivli town.
The victim was spotted
lying dead in a pool of
blood in the restaurant’s store room. A case under
section 302 of IPC has been registered against the
accused, who is being treated in a local hospital.
CRUCIAL READ

PERSPECTIVE
04
REMEMBERING
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
HERVISITS
TO INDIA
he Commonwealth Heads of
State and Government was
held in New Delhi in Novem-
ber 1983. The Prime Minister
appointedmeChief Coordina-
tor. Her Majesty Queen Eliza-
beth, as Head of Common-
wealth came to New Delhi for
the occasion. She and her hus-
band, Prince Philip stayed at
Rashtrapati Bhavan. The first
item on the agenda was to se-
lect a new Secretary General
to succeed Sonny Ramphal
who completed his five years
term. Mrs Gandhi wanted
Ramphal to get another term.
Mrs Thatcher did not. Indiraji
was the Chairman. She got
Ramphal his second term.
OutsidetheSummit,amini
crisis was averted. As far as I
remember, it was the second
day
. Mrs Gandhi asked me to
quietly enquirefrom Rashtra-
pati Bhavan if the Queen was
holding an “Investiture’ at
Rashtrapati Bhavan for giv-
ing Mother Teresa the Order
of Merit. The Rashtrapati
Bhavan confirmed what the
Prime Minister had heard.
Invitations for the “Investi-
ture” had apparently been is-
sued, that too on “Bucking-
ham Palace” stationery
, with-
out consulting the Secretary
or the Military Secretary to
President Giani Zail Singh.
I conveyed this to Mrs Gan-
dhi, who did not like what she
heard. In the meanwhile HN
Bahuguna, MP, had written
to the Prime Minister saying
that he had from his own
source gathered that the
Queen was to hold an “Inves-
titure” at RB for Mother Te-
resa. He hoped that what he
heard was incorrect. Only the
President of India could hold
an “Investiture” at RB. If the
queen was to go ahead with
the “Investiture” then he and
other Opposition leaders
would be compelled to raise
the matter in the Lok Sabha.
It was quite evident that Ba-
hugunawasrightandtheBrit-
ish, had, in good faith, erred.
That error had to be rectified.
It fell to my lot as Chief Coor-
dinatorof CHOGMtosortthis
quiteunprecedentedandspec-
tacular protocol cock-up.
MrsGandhiaskedmetoget
in touch with Mrs Thatcher
and get back to her. The Brit-
ish High Commissioner, was
an accomplished and skilful
diplomat. I asked him to con-
vey to Mrs Thatcher and Her
Majesty the Queen that the
proposed “Investiture” could
notbearrangedatRB.Itcould
be held either at the UK High
Commission or the residence
of the High Commissioner. I
added that we held Queen in
high esteem and Mother Te-
resa was a very special per-
son. At the same time, we
could not countenance and
were surprised that we had
not been consulted.
Within two hours he rang
back to say that his Prime
Minister felt it was too late to
change the venue. Invitations
hadbeensentandaboveallthe
Queen would be inconven-
ienced. The UK Press too were
aware of the “Investiture”.
This was bad news. I told the
High Commissioner that I
would pass on Mrs Thatcher’s
response to Mrs Gandhi, but I
wanted to make it clear that
my recommendation to Mrs
Gandhiwouldbethatwecould
not agree to a formal “Investi-
ture” at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Here was high-grade proto-
col dynamite. The dramatis
personae consisted of four
worldfamousladies.Twopow-
erful Prime Ministers, One
Queen and the fourth some-
thingmorethanaSaint.What,
if the Indian Press got hold of
the story
. What a diplomatic
bonfire that would light!
I reported to Mrs Gandhi
what her British counterpart
hadsaid.Afleetingirritation,a
moment’s pause and then a
masterly diplomatic googly
.
“Natwar,gobacktoMrsThatch-
er and tell her from me that the
Queen can have the “Investi-
ture”atRashtapatiBhavan.But
leave her in no doubt about the
matter being raised in Parlia-
mentthenextday
.Criticalrefer-
ences would be made and the
Queen’snamewouldbedragged
in.itwasonlyfairtheQueenbe
made aware of this.”
It really was a brilliant ri-
poste. No “Investiture” was
heldatRashtrpatiBhavan.The
Queen invited Mother Teresa
to tea in the garden where she
handed the OM to the Nobel
Laureate, who was blissfully
unaware of the diplomatic up-
heaval she had caused. The fi-
nale was entirely satisfying to
me personally
. Prime Minister
Thatcherintheconcludingses-
sion singled me out of praise.
BeforeleavingIndia,theQueen
received me. She could not
have been more gracious; she
even had a royal gift for me.
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THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
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Dharmendra Pradhan
@dpradhanbjp
Its a great honour to be in the by-lanes
from where PM @narendramodi ji
embarked on his inspiring life journey.
This tea stall at Vadnagar railway
station where he helped his father
is an edifice of grit, determination,
courage and hardwork.
Kiren Rijiju
@KirenRijiju
Diamond Jubilee ceremony of the Bar
Council of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram,
Arunachal Pradesh Sikkim is a
momentous occasion to celebrate. I
extend my heartiest congratulations to
both the Members of the Bench and
the Bar of Guwahati High Court.
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
Train up a child in the
way he should go, and
when he is old, he will not
depart from it.
—Bible
IN-DEPTH
THE MELTING OF
ICE IN EASTERN
LADAKH A THUMBS
UP FOR DIALOGUE
he announcement
that Indian and Chi-
nese forces have
started the process of
disengagement at Pa-
trolling Point 15 in eastern
Ladakhisapositivedevelopment
in the Sino-India ties after a few
years’ of tension. The disengage-
ment is expected to be over on
Monday giving hope for further
disengagement.Indiaiscautious
lest the Chinese soldiers repeat
their Galwan-like assault on In-
dian troops while disengaging
from Point 14 two years ago. The
two sides have also agreed to
cease forward deployments and
dismantletheirtemporarystruc-
tures. The development is
enough to silence Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modi’s critics. The
disengagement in Ladakh could
pave the way for a likely summit
between Modi and President Xi
Jinping. With India moving clos-
er to Russia after the Ukraine
war, the dynamics between India
and China are also giving hints
of change.
Those hints, like the disen-
gagement, will not make India
lower its guard against the Chi-
nese who are always looking for
a chance to hurt India.
TOP TWEETS
T
iddique Kappan
has been granted
bail by the Su-
preme Court after
the Kerala jour-
nalist spent over two years in
jail. His actual crime: he was
headed towards Hathras to
cover the gang-rape and
murder of a Dalit girl. But
adept as they are at creating
wrong perceptions, the UP
Police arrested him under
the Unlawful Activities Pre-
vention Act for allegedly
planning to incite violence.
It was a charge that did not
stand scrutiny in the court.
Granting Kappan bail, a
three-judge Bench headed by
the Chief Justice of India,
Justice UU Lalit, emphasised
that “every citizen has the
right to free expression” and
underlined Uttar Pradesh
government’s inability to
produce any evidence
against Kappan “that was
provocative”. When Senior
Advocate Mahesh Jethmala-
ni, representing UP, read out
the documents recovered
from Kappan, the court
pointed out that they were
unrelated to India and talked
about Black people.
That hints at the journal-
ist being falsely implicated.
That possibility was further
strengthened when the court
pointed out that one of the
pamphlets was about justice
for the Hathras gang-rape
victim. It was clear that a
protest for the victim by a
journalist or the crime’s cov-
erage would have damaged
reputations. Putting him be-
hind bars was easier.
The Supreme Court put a
pertinent question, “See eve-
ry person has the right to
free expression and there-
fore he is trying to propagate
an idea that there is this vic-
tim who requires justice and
therefore let us raise a com-
mon voice. Is that something
like a crime in the eyes of
law?” Yes, your lordships, in
some places it is.
Siddique Kappan has been
granted bail by the Supreme
Court after the Kerala jour-
nalist spent over two years in
jail. His actual crime: he was
headed towards Hathras to
cover the gang-rape and
murder of a Dalit girl. But
adept as they are at creating
wrong perceptions, the UP
Police arrested him under
the Unlawful Activities Pre-
vention Act.
Granting Kappan bail, a
three-judge Bench headed
by the Chief Justice of
India, Justice UU Lalit,
emphasised that “every
citizen has the right to
free expression” and
underlined UP govt’s
inability to produce any
evidence against Kappan
“that was provocative”
S
T The Commonwealth Heads of State and Government
was held in New Delhi in November 1983. The Prime
Minister appointed me Chief Coordinator. Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth, as Head of
Commonwealth came to New Delhi for the
occasion. She and her husband, Prince Philip
stayed at Rashtrapati Bhavan
K NATWAR SINGH
The author is Former
Minister of External Affairs of India
It really was a brilliant
riposte. No “Investiture” was
held at Rashtrpati Bhavan.
The Queen invited Mother
Teresa to tea in the garden
where she handed the OM to
the Nobel Laureate, who was
blissfully unaware of the
diplomatic upheaval she
had caused. The finale was
entirely satisfying to me
personally. Prime Minister
Thatcher in the concluding
session singled me out of
praise. Before leaving India,
the Queen received me. She
could not have been more
gracious; she even had
a royal gift for me
Natwar Singh, Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi and Queen Elizabeth
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05
INDIA
New Delhi: Five senior
Congress MPs have re-
iterated their demand
for making public the
electoral rolls for the
upcoming election for
party president’s post.
In a letter to AICC cen-
tral election authority
chief Madhusudan
Mistry, they have ex-
pressed concern that
question may be raised
about the “transpar-
ency and fairness” of
the poll process unless
this is done.
The joint letter
dated September 6
was written by
Shashi Tharoor,
Manish Tewari,
Karti Chidam-
baram,Prady-
ut Bordoloi
and Abdul
Khaleque.
CONG POLL
5 MPS REITERATE
DEMAND FOR
PUBLICISING
ELECTORAL ROLLS
Manish Tewari
New Delhi: Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi
on Saturday said that
42 percent youth in In-
dia are unemployed,
asking if the country’s
future is secure in such
a situation.
The former Congress
chief raised the ques-
tion on the fourth day
of the party’s ‘Bharat
Jodo Yatra’.
“42 percent of our
youth are unemployed.
Is Bharat’s future se-
cure if theirs isn’t? We
walk for them all.
We walk for jobs,” Ra-
hul Gandhi tweeted
along with a picture
from the Yatra.
On Friday, the Way-
anad MP said that the
country faces “bank-
ruptcy of vision” for
what its future should
be and claimed that his
party was against crea-
tion of monopolies and
wanted fairness.
“India now faces a
bankruptcy of vision
for what the future of
our country should be.
We are for corporate In-
dia. We are against the
idea of massive monop-
olies. We are against
unfairness, be it against
farmers or MSMEs. We
will act to ensure fair-
ness prevails,” Gandhi
tweeted.
With the ‘Bharat Jodo
Yatra’, Gandhi, along
with other party lead-
ers, has commenced a
journey to unite India.
Addressing media
persons on Friday, he
said that the Yatra is an
attempt to undo
the damage done
by the BJP and
RSS.
BHARAT JODO YATRA RAHUL SAID, THE YATRA IS AN ATTEMPT TO UNDO THE DAMAGE DONE BY THE BJP RSS
RaGa’s VIDEO
WITH CHRISTAIN
PRIEST TRIGGERS
CONG, BJP SPAR
New Delhi: The
Congress on Satur-
day hit out at the BJP
for its ‘mischievous’
post on a Christian
pastor’s conversa-
tion with former
party president Rahul
Gandhi, who is on
his 3,570-km Bharat
Jodo Yatra. Jairam
Ramesh, Congress’
General Secretary
in-charge of com-
munications, tweeted,
“An atrocious tweet
from the BJP hate
factory is doing the
rounds. It bears no
relation whatsoever
to what is recorded in
the audio”.
IN THE COURTYARD
New Delhi: A Delhi
Court hearing North
East Delhi riots of 2020
recently directed to
provide security to a
prosecution witness in
a case against Shah-
rukh Pathan. Witness
Rohit Shukla had suf-
fered a gunshot injury
during the riots. Addi-
tional Sessions Judge
Amitabh Rawat of
Karkardooma Court
directed Delhi police to
provide security to
Prosecution witness
Rohit Shukla.
The court has direct-
ed to send a copy of the
order to the Commis-
sioner of Police, Delhi.
Shukla suffered
a gunshot injury and
is a prosecution
witness against Shah-
rukh Pathan.
This case is con-
nected to an FIR no.
49/2020 registered at
Jafrabad. The Court
had on December 23,
2021 framed charges
against Shahrukh Pa-
than under various of-
fences dealing with
rioting, unlawful as-
sembly and an attempt
to murder.
Courtprovidessecuritytoprosecution
witnessafterheallegesthreattolife
Uttar Pradesh (PTI):
Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Yogi Adity-
anath, without naming
him, compared Jawaha-
rlal Nehru with PM Nar-
endra Modi, saying that
unlike him the current
PM is proud of the
country's heritage.
The country has
now got a Prime Minis-
ter who not only feels
proud in connecting
with his heritage, but is
also determined to
make India 'Ek Bharat,
Shreshtha Bharat',
Yogi Adityanath said.
Yogi was speaking as
the Chief Guest at the
launch of a book titled
Modi@20, in UP's Vara-
nasi at the Rudraksh
Convention Centre.
Speaking about PM
Modi in comparison
with the former PM,
Yogi Adityanath said:
There was one Prime
Minister who did not
feel proud of his herit-
age, and then there is
Narendra Modi who has
resolved to make the
whole India, 'Ek Bharat
Shreshtha Bharat', by
connecting with his her-
itage. He said that In-
dia has set an example
before the world in how
to deal with terrorism,
and lauded the prime
minister for showing
no hesitation in ending
the root of terrorism in
Kashmir forever.
This is the capability
of PM Modi's leader-
ship, he said.
We have also seen a
PM who was against
sendingthePresidentof
the country for the res-
toration of the Somnath
temple, and today we
have a Prime Minister
who himself has started
the construction work
of the grand Shri Ram
temple in Ayodhya,
Yogi Adityanath said.
PM Modi is proud of the
country’s heritage: Yogi
“THERE WAS ONCE A PM...”
Yogi Adityanath
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi: Delhi Chief
Minister and Aam Aad-
mi Party supremo
Arvind Kejriwal has his
own brand of national
politics wherein he sits
in Delhi, and does na-
tional politics through
statements or writing
letters etc. Since people
from every state of the
country live in Delhi,
they also feel that he is
doing politics across the
country
.Forexample,on
theoccasionof Onamon
Thursday, Kejriwal
printed a one-page ad-
vertisement. Onam is a
festival of South India
and especially Kerala,
but in Delhi, Kejriwal
got a one-page advertise-
ment printed and also
congratulated by tweet-
ing in Malayalam lan-
guage. In this way he
‘carried out’ the politics
of Kerala. With such ad-
vertisements, he contin-
ues to do politics of oth-
er states. Although the
weaponof advertisingis
with every state govern-
ment, but the Delhi gov-
ernment has made it
into a ‘Brahmastra’.
Similarly
, he wrote a
lettertothePrimeMinis-
ter, in which he said that
80 percent of the schools
in the country have be-
come junkyards and
their condition is dilapi-
dated. Now the question
is,whatshouldthePrime
Minister do in this? Edu-
cation is the subject of
the state government, so
Arvind Kejriwal should
have written a letter to
the chief ministers of
the states. Moreover, on
that basis, if he has any
survey of the schools
that have become junk,
and has the required
datatobackhisclaim,he
should,ideally
,havewrit-
ten letters to the Chief
MinistersandEducation
Ministers of the states,
telling them how many
schools have become
junkyards in which
state.But,thatwouldnot
have projected him as a
‘national leader’, so he
wrote a letter directly to
the Prime Minister.
They directly target the
Prime Minister on the
matter so that his party
can say that Kejriwal’s
fight is with Modi.
KejriwaltargetingModitopavewayfornational
politics, but is he choosing the right issues?
POLITICS FOR COUNTRY
Arvind Kejriwal
New Delhi: The Con-
gress has dug up a
12-year-old tweet of As-
sam Chief Minister
Himanta Biswa Sarma
praising Rahul Gandhi,
hours after he posted a
parody video mocking
him. Sarma, in the
tweet made during his
stint in the Congress,
predicted that Gandhi
will become the “Prime
Minister of our country
in an appropriate time”.
Clearly, the tweet
hasn’t aged very well
for the senior BJP lead-
er as it has appeared
amid his escalated at-
tacks on Gandhi over
his party’s ambitious
‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.
Congress leader Man-
ickam Tagore shared a
split image of Sharma’s
tweets - mocking Rahul
Gandhi in his latest
post and praising him
in the 2010 post. “Dear
@narendramodi ji
Whom @himantabiswa
cheating? His tracked
record shows.. beware
of him. I know you
won’t allow him to
cheat,” he wrote.
Biswa's RaGa cartoon
gets a counter from 2010
Himanta Biswa
Union Minister Sm-
riti Irani on Satur-
day slammed Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi
for his party’s ‘Bharat
Jodo Yatra’ questioning
him on who has harmed
the unity of India
that required the oppo-
sition party to take out
such a campaign.
Making an indirect
reference to Congress
leader Kanhaiya Ku-
mar, Irani also took a
dig at Gandhi for being
in the company of peo-
ple who allegedly chant-
ed “anti-India” slogans.
“Rahul Gandhi is on
the way to unite India
but he should answer
first who dared to break
India.Youmakeaperson
a member of your party
who had shouted the slo-
gan ‘Bharat Tere Tukde
Honge, Insha Allah’,”
Irani said at Doddabal-
lapura in Bengaluru.
She was addressing
the gathering at the
Bharatiya Janata Par-
ty’s ‘Jana Spandana’
programme celebrat-
ing the ruling party’s
three years in office in
Karnataka.
At BJP meet in K’taka, Irani hits out
at RaGa over ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’
Smriti Irani
RAGA’S ‘42% UNEMPLOYED’ JIBE
ATCENTRETOBACKFOOTMARCH
RaGa MEETS HATE SPEECH
PASTOR, TRIGGERS DISPUTE
New Delhi: Rahul
Gandhi’s visit to a pastor
in Tamil Nadu during
a short break amid the
party’s ‘Bharat Jodo
Yatra’ has given a new
ammunition to the BJP.
The Catholic priest, dur-
ing the interaction with
Gandhi, said, “Jesus is
the real God...not like
Shakti”, drawing
sharp reactions.
“This man was
arrested for his
Hindu hatred
earlier - he also
said ‘I wear shoes
because impurities of
Bharat Mata should not
contaminate us.’ Bharat
Jodo with Bharat Todo
icons?” BJP’s Shehzad
Poonawalla, while shar-
ing the clip of their con-
versation on Twitter. The
Cong, in turn, accused
the BJP of run-
ning a “hate
factory,
alleging
it has
turned
more
des-
perate.
New Delhi: A day after
five Cong MP raised
concern about the
“transparency” of the
poll process to elect the
party chief, AICC central
election authority chief
Madhusudan Mistry said
that a QR code-based
identity cards will be is-
sued to all the delegates
across the 28 states and
9 Union territories that
have Congress commit-
tees. In a joint letter to
Mistry dated September
6, Congress MPs Shashi
Tharoor, Karti Chidam-
baram, Pradyut Bordoloi
and Abdul Khaleque
sought that the PCC
electoral rolls should be
securely provided to all
electors and potential
candidates.
WILL ISSUE QR
CODE-BASED ID
CARDS: MISTRY
Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Poll strate-
gist Prashant Kishor on
Saturday said Bihar
chief minister Nitish
Kumar’s efforts to unite
the opposition will go in
vain as there is a need
for a “credible face” and
a “mass movement”.
He also laughed off
Kumar’s claims that he
is in close ties with the
BJP saying nobody
takes the Bihar CM seri-
ously on such com-
ments. While speaking
to media about Nitish
Kumar’s push to unite
opposition, Prashant
Kishor said, “He just
left BJP a month ago
and is meeting leaders
and parties in opposi-
tion to BJP, but doing
that won’t make much
of a difference. We
need a credible face for
that, public faith, work-
force and mass move-
ment for 2024 polls.”
Need a credible face
mass movement:
Prashant Kishor
Uma Bharti
praises Nitish
Kumar for ban on
liquor sale
New Delhi: Senior BJP
leader Uma Bharti lauded
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
for implementing the
prohibition on liquor sale
in his State, but said he
can not be an alternative
to PM Modi who is a
“creation of God”. She
has been demanding a
total ban on liquor in the
BJP-ruled State for long.
“Nitish Kumar has at least
shown the courage to im-
plement total prohibition
in his State,” she said,
speaking to reporters.
Uma Bharti
Ex Industries...
Elaborating on invest-
ments in the state, he
said, “I was the indus-
tries minister even dur-
ing the five-year tenure
of DevendraFadnavisas
CM (between 2014 and
2019) and then for anoth-
er 2.5 years under the
MVA government. Dur-
ing my tenure, I pursued
investments from Fox-
connaswellasVedanta.”
The senior Sena lead-
er further noted that his
party
, the Shiv Sena had
objected to the very gov-
ernment formation of
thecurrentChief Minis-
ter Eknath Shinde and
Deputy CM Devendra
Fadnavis-led dispensa-
tion.
“The fact is that for a
long period of time the
Maharashtra governor
(Bhagat Singh Koshi-
yari) did not concede to
the requisition made by
the MVA government to
authorize elections for
thepostof speakerinthe
state legislature. There-
fore, the deputy speaker
heldpowersandissueda
notice of disqualifica-
tion against 16 MLAs of
the Shinde-led rebel fac-
tion.Buttheychallenged
this before the apex
court. We are confident
thatthecourtrulingwill
hold in our favour,” add-
ed Desai.
Talking about the
Central government’s
stance on various issues
pertainingtoMaharash-
tra, Desai said, “All is-
sues related to Maha-
rashtra, including clas-
sical status for Marathi,
the Union government
was reluctant to con-
cede justified demand.”
On his appeal for an all-
party delegation from
the state on issues of
common consensus
(when he refused to ac-
cept the legitimacy of
the current Maharash-
tragovernment)hesaid,
“It is not a question of
Shinde or Fadnavis or
Subhash Desai. Every
government is duty-
bound to fulfill its re-
sponsibilities to state-
related issues, and all
political parties, includ-
ing the ruling dispensa-
tion (on the treasury
benches) must work to-
gether on these con-
cerns unitedly
.”
Maha to...
Union of India, and
Paryavaran Suraksha
vs Union of India.
In January, 2020, Ma-
harashtra chief secre-
tary had presented com-
pliance status on solid
waste management and
sewage management.
“It is disappointing to
see from the data pre-
sented by the Chief Sec-
retary that after Janu-
ary 24, 2020 when he last
appeared before the Tri-
bunal in the present
matter, there is no
meaningful progress.
There are huge gaps in
management of solid as
well as liquid waste,”
the bench said. The pay-
ment has to be made to
a separate ring-fenced
account within two
months. It has to be op-
erated as per the direc-
tions of the chief secre-
tary and utilized for
restoration measures, it
added.
The tribunal said the
compensation payable
by the state was deter-
mined at the rate of Rs2
crore million litres per
day. It said Maharash-
tra’s gap in treatment
of liquid waste/sewage
was 5420.33 and the
compensation was
worked out to
Rs10,840.66 crore and
Rs1,200 crore for unre-
mediated legacy waste
rounding off to Rs12,000
crore.
FROM PG 1

06
INDIA
Renni Abraham
Mumbai: Come Mon-
day and the Indian Ru-
pee is scheduled to oper-
ate on the Moscow Stock
Exchange (MOEX)
though logistical chal-
lenges faced by the Re-
serve Bank of India
(RBI) may actually end
up delaying literal trade
in Indian rupees on the
Russian equities mar-
ket. The planned foray
into rupee trades on the
international markets
was a news break re-
ported by this journal in
its First India July 19,
2022 issue, “The Rs held
its own in value terms
and has literally gone
global, despite deprecia-
tion in value when com-
pared to the US dollar,
since the Russia-
Ukraine war began
right until July 13, 2022.
According to industry
sources, a false narra-
tive is being created
within India about the
falling rupee, even as
the Indian government
ensured not only that
the rupee stayed strong-
er than most other cur-
rencies, but also em-
barked on a global busi-
ness plan that dislodged
the $ as the mainstay for
international transac-
tions. ”The July 24, 2022
First India issue also
tracked this global ru-
pee plan in another ex-
clusive news report that
added, “The Indian gov-
ernment has not only
ensured the rupee
stayed stronger, but also
embarked on a global
business plan that dis-
lodged the USD as the
mainstay for interna-
tional transactions. Ru-
pee settlements are now
the norm as India has
tied up Russia, Indone-
sia, United Arab Emir-
ates (UAE), even Sri
Lanka, Afghanistan,
Nepal and other mar-
kets where it deals in oil
(imports), food-grains
(exports). She has be-
gun transacting in ru-
pee terms, thereby, giv-
ing the USD the go-by
.”
The MOEX is cur-
rently working on a
plan to launch trading
in the Indian rupee al-
though ‘obstacles’ were
cited on the side of the
Indian central bank
(RBI), as Reuters report-
ed in a news article that
said Daniil Korablev,
head of sales to non-
credit organizations,
had revealed on social
media about the launch
being “not that simple”
an getting delayed be-
yond 2022.
Russia began actively
shifting its trade out of
the $ US and € with cur-
rencies of nations it re-
gards as “friendly”
countries.
MOEX is Russia’s
largest exchange operat-
ing its only multifunc-
tional trading platform
for equities, bonds, de-
rivatives, currencies,
money market instru-
mentsandcommodities.
From Monday, non-
resident Russian clients
from friendly jurisdic-
tions as well as non-res-
idents controlled by
Russian legal entities or
individuals will be able
to trade on the MOEX
Equities Market.
Rupee to trade on Moscow Stock Exchange now, say officials
IN A FIRST
WASTE MANAGEMENT
NOW ‘ELECTRICAL SHOCKS’ AWAIT
FLOOD VICTIMS RETURNING HOME
The rainwater that flooded roads, houses and apartment basements is now receding
Bengaluru (Agen-
cies): While the flood
water has started to re-
cede in some parts of
Bengaluru, the worst is
not over for the IT capi-
tal yet, with the weather
bureaupredictingheavy
rainfall over south inte-
rior Karnataka, includ-
ing the city
, for the next
two days. Experts say
particular person
households must shell
out Rs 7 lakh, whereas
massive residence com-
plexes must spend as
much as Rs 50 lakh to
exchange the electrical
energy infrastructure.
Preliminary estima-
tion by electrical spe-
cialists based mostly on
information studies
mentioned that resi-
dence dwellers might
should shell out Rs 10 to
fifteen lakh to exchange
the digital meters, carry
cables, electrical panels,
circuits, lighting, cables
and swap boards. “If in-
verters, diesel gen-sets
or batteries stored at the
basement are to be con-
sidered, then each build-
ing owner must spend
over Rs 40 to 50 lakh to
replace all of them,” de-
finedRameshShivanna,
an electrical engineer
and former president of
the vitality and renew-
able vitality committee
of FKCCI.
MOEX is Russia’s largest exchange
operating its only multifunctional
trading platform for equities bonds
Whatregionalpartiesaredoingtoberelevant?
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: There
seems to be a big change
in the politics of the
country. So far, the re-
gional parties, which
have worked in an arbi-
trary manner, are im-
proving their function-
ing. Regarding the rest
of the regional parties,
there was a belief that
there is no constitution
for them, which they
could follow. There was
also a belief that they
work arbitrarily, mem-
bers of the same family
get everything, there
domination of one caste
along with misuse of
power, etc. But now, it is
changing.
One by one, the three
big regional parties
have framed their own
code of conduct and
asked the party leaders
to follow them. The Shi-
romani Akali Dal,
which has run the gov-
ernment several times
in Punjab, has framed a
code of conduct for its
party
. The party’s work-
ing president Sukhbir
Badal has released the
said code of conduct.
The most surprising
thing in this is that SAD
has adopted the rule of
one ticket in a family.
The question is, will the
Badal family be an ex-
ception to this? At pre-
sent both Sukhbir and
his wife Harsimrat
Kaur Badal are MPs of
Lok Sabha.
First of all, West Ben-
gal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee made
a code of conduct for
the leaders of her party
.
She asked the ministers
to stay away from vehi-
cles with red beacons
and hooters. Ministers
and MLAs were also
asked to maintain a low
profile and if they go to
the districts, they
should stay in the cir-
cuit house. Ministers
have been instructed
that if any file comes to
them, they should sign
it only after reading it
carefully
.
After the formation
of the new government
in Bihar, RJD leader
and Deputy Chief Min-
ister of the state Tejash-
wi Yadav has also for-
mulated a code of con-
duct for his party
.
Prime Minister pays condolences
over ASI Braj Basi Lal’s demise
New Delhi (Agencies):
Former Director Gen-
eral of the Archaeologi-
cal Survey of India
(ASI) Braj Basi Lal
passed away at the age
of 101 on Saturday
. BB
Lal led an excavation at
the Ramjanmabhoomi
site in the mid-1970s and
was honoured with the
Padma Vibhushan in
2021.
Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi expressed
his condolences on the
demise of BB Lal on
Twitter, saying that he
will be remembered as a
great intellectual who
deepened our connec-
tion with our past. Un-
ion Minister G Kishan
Reddy said that BB Lal
contributed significant-
ly towards the archeo-
logical excavations.
NGT slams `200 cr fine
on Ghaziabad authorities
Noida (Agencies): The
National Green Tribu-
nal (NGT) on Thursday
imposed a hefty envi-
ronmental fine of ₹200
crore on the GDA and
the Ghaziabad munici-
pal corporation for
their “far from satisfac-
tory” management of
sewage and solid waste
in Ghaziabad city
.
Issuing its final order
on a petition filed in
2018 by the Confedera-
tion of Trans-Hindon
RWAs, an umbrella
group of residents’ as-
sociations, the tribunal
observed that different
committees constituted
over the past four years
have submitted several
reports agreeing in es-
sence to the confedera-
tion’s contention that
the solid waste manage-
ment at Indirapuram’s
Shakti Khand landfill
was “improper”, posing
health hazards to near-
by residents.
Raipur (ANI): 36 or-
ganisations affiliated to
Sangh are attending the
ll India Coordination
Meeting of Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS) meeting on Satur-
day
.
They include Vidya
Bharati, Akhil Bharati-
ya Vidyarthi Parishad,
Saksham, Vanvasi
Kalyan Ashram, Sewa
Bharati, Vishwa Hindu
Parishad, Rashtra
Sewika Samiti, Bharati-
ya Janta Party, Akhil
Bharatiya Mazdoor
Sangh, Akhil Bharatiya
Kisaan, etc. Akhil
Bharatiya Prachaar
Pramukh of RSS Sunil
Ambekar said the
Sangh coordinates with
the volunteers active in
such organizations.
“The meeting will
share information
about the respective
organization’s activi-
ties as well as hold a
discussion on coordi-
nated efforts on topics
such as the environ-
ment, family aware-
ness, and social har-
mony,” Ambekar said.
A view of the areas of Bengaluru remain waterlogged following heavy rainfall that has bared the
damage caused by unplanned development. —BY PHOTO ANI
Cloudburst
in U’khand’s
Pithoragarh
RIVER KRISHNA, PENNA CONTINUE TO OVERFLOW
Amaravati (PTI): Rivers
Krishna and Penna con-
tinued their full flow in
Andhra Pradesh as rains
have not stopped, keep-
ing the official machin-
ery on its toes. The flood
touched 4.43-lakh cfs
mark at Prakasam Bar-
rage on river Krishna at
Vijayawada on Saturday,
but remained steady,
with the first warning
signal in place. The So-
masila reservoir on river
Penna in SPS Nellore
dist, received bounti-
ful water, filling it up
to 91.40 pc. While the
inflow was recorded at
44,493 cfs, the outflow
was 50,745, according
to Water Resources In-
formation Management.
‘More people came to my
support than Cong meet’
Jammu (Agencies):
Former Congress
leader Ghulam Nabi
Azad on Saturday con-
vened an all-party
meeting in Jammu
and claimed that del-
egations from 30-35
Assembly constituen-
cies extended their
support to him.
He also added that
the regional leaders
have given him assur-
ance they will join
whatever party he
forms. The all-party
meet was attended by
many senior leaders
from Jammu and
Kashmir including
former chief minis-
ters Mehboob Mufti
and Abdullah Farooq.
While speaking to
media, Azad said, “I
met around 400 peo-
ple from delegations
of 30-35 Assembly
constituencies in
Jammu. They gave
their support; will be
a part of whatever
party I make.”
“I can safely say
that 4 times more peo-
ple have come to my
support than to the
meetings I held in
Congress,” added the
former Congress lead-
er. It should be noted
that Ghulam Nabi
Azad is looking to
float his own party af-
ter severing decades
old ties with the Con-
gress. He intends to
contest the next As-
sembly elections in
JK.
He maintains that
he will fight to restore
the statehood of JK
and the rights of its
people. Earlier this
week, Azad attacked
Congress’ Rahul and
Sonia Gandhi saying
he had maintained a
“dignified silence”
since his departure.
A view of the all-party meet that was attended by many
senior leaders from Jammu and Kashmir including former
CMs Mehboob Mufti and Abdullah Farooq.
OWAISI SLAMS OPPOSITION
Hyderabad (ANI): Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi
on Saturday slammed Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee while making a
statement on the next Lok Sabha polls. “In 2024,
even if a mix-and-match government is formed,
and a weaker prime minister takes charge, at least
he would do something for those who belong to
the weaker sections of the country,” Owaisi said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted this picture to pay
condolences to Padma Vibhushan archaeologist Braj Basi Lal over
his demise, in New Delhi on Saturday. —FILE PHOTO
West Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee
36 organisations
affiliated to RSS
attend meet
—BY
PHOTO
ANI
Pithoragarh
(U’khand) (PTI): A
woman went miss-
ing and 28 houses in
Khotila village in Ut-
tarakhand’s Pithora-
garh district were
inundated after a
cloudburst triggered
a flashflood in the
Kali river in the early
hours of Saturday,
officials said. The
cloudburst occurred
past midnight in
Bangabagar village
across the India-Ne-
pal border, causing a
flashflood in the Kali
river whose raging
waters mixed with
debris gushed into
28 houses.
EXCLUSIVE
KIBITHU CAMP IS
GEN BIPIN RAWAT
MILITARY GARRISON
New Delhi: To honour
the country’s first Chief
of Defence Staff, General
Bipin Rawat, the Indian
Army has renamed Kibithu
military camp in Arunachal
Pradesh as General Bipin
Rawat Military Garrison.
Kibithu is an important
military camp of the Indian
Army guarding the Line of
Actual Control (LAC).
NIA FILES CHARGE
SHEET AGAINST 6 IN
JK KILLING CASE
New Delhi: The National
Investigation Agency (NIA)
on Friday filed a charge
sheet against six accused
in case related to targeted
killing of a sarpanch in
south Kashmir’s Kulgam
district. NIA filed charge
sheet in court in Jammu in
targeted killing of sarpanch
Shabir Ahmad of by
militants of the HM.
MOOSE WALA: 6TH
SHOOTER ARRESTED
FROM WEST BENGAL
New Delhi: The sixth and
last shooter allegedly
involved in singer Sidhu
Moose Wala’s murder was
arrested from the West
Bengal-Nepal border on
Saturday, Punjab Police
said. He was caught along
with his two aides after
evading arrest for over 100
days. Deepak Mundi was
nabbed by police in jt ops.
ED RECOVERS `17 CR
IN RAID ON BIZMAN
LINKED TO GAME APP
Kolkata: ED is conducting
searches at six locations
in Kolkata while probing
an alleged case of
fraud through a mobile
gaming app. A team
of ED accompanied by
bank officials, raided the
premises of businessman
Aamir Khan in the Garden
Reach area on Saturday.
Till now, `17.32 cr seized.
CRUCIAL READ
ARMY CHIEF SEES EXERCISE IN LADAKH
LAWRENCEBISHNOIGANGMEMBERARRESTED
Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande interacts with the officers and
troops and complimented them for their steadfastness and
professional standards during his visit to Ladakh Sector.
Mohali : The Punjab Police said it has arrested a member
of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang and recovered 11 pistols
from him. Three months ago, Bishnoi had admitted
that he was the “mastermind” in Punjabi singer Sidhu
Moosewala’s killing and was planning it since August last
year. His gang member Manpreet Singh, a resident of
Ludhiana, was nabbed, Mohali SSP Vivek Sheel Soni said.

07
Commodity Price Change % Chg
GOLD 51,150.00 62.00 0.12 (Per 10g)
SILVER 55,540.00 579.00 1.04 (Per 1kg)
COMMODITIES
Currency Price Change % Chg
USDINR 79.58 0.13 0.17
GBPINR 92.5111 0.87 0.95
CURRENCIES
‘INDIA’S STRATEGY OF FISCAL PRUDENCE HAS PAID OFF’
New Delhi (Agencies):
While the US, UK and EU
are facing a double wham-
my of unprecedented in-
flation and negative
growth there is a school of
thought which argues that
India’s prudent fiscal poli-
cy has paid off.
Over 2022-23, India’s
growth will average 7 per
cent, the strongest among
the largest economies, con-
tributing 28 per cent and 22
per cent to Asian and glob-
al growth, Morgan Stanley
said in a report. India is
best positioned within Asia
to deliver domestic demand
alpha. Its cyclical recovery
will be sustained by struc-
tural factors.
The recent strong run of
data increases our confi-
dence that India is well po-
sitioned to deliver domes-
tic demand alpha, which
will be particularly impor-
tant as developed markets
growth weakness perco-
lates into Asia’s external
demand, Morgan Stanley
said. Some observers argue
that while the Russia-
Ukraine war has definitely
contributed to the misery
of the west, this was set
into motion during Cov-
id-19 when the govern-
ments in these countries
went on a massive spend-
ing spree to give economic
stimulus, pushing inflation
at a time when growth was
slowing.
These observers argue
that the so-called econo-
mists were “pushing” In-
dia to follow the same path
that these western coun-
tries took.
They remind that some
were glorifying USA’s $3200
to everyone, Germany’s
stimulus and UK’s fur-
lough scheme -- trying to
create dissatisfaction
among Indian public and
pushing the Indians to de-
mand something similar.
NATION BEST POSITIONED WITHIN ASIA
business
BRIEFS
New Delhi: With the pre-
order window now open
for the new Apple iPhone
14 series, Apple India Au-
thorised Resellers and
third-party vendors have
received robust response
and were inundated with
record number of pre-or-
der queries, as per indus-
try sources said on Satur-
day. The pre-booking win-
dow especially for Apple
iPhone 14 series opened
Friday evening and iPhone
14, iPhone 14 Pro and iP-
hone 14 Pro Max were
available for pre-order,
which will be available
from September 16.—PTI
New Delhi: Indigenous
crafts and products manu-
factured at district level in
UP under the flagship ‘One
District One Product’
(ODOP) scheme have gen-
erated huge demands even
outside the country in the
past few years. Govern-
ment data said that the val-
ue of exports of ODOP
products increased from `
58,000 cr in FY17-18 to `
96,000 cr in FY21-22. Offi-
cials said that the state un-
dertook studies of these
manufacturing clusters.
—AGENCIES
EXPORTS OF ODOP
PRODUCTS RECORD
SIGNIFICANT RISE
INDIA SEES ROBUST
PRE-ORDER RUSH
FOR APPLE IPHONES
New Delhi: The US Inter-
national Development Fi-
nance Corporation (DFC)
recently announced that
the institution will support
key sectors in India by in-
vesting a capital of $37.5
million, which roughly
converts to ` 299 crores.
The investment is expect-
ed to fuel the growth of
businesses working in fi-
nancial services, agricul-
ture, healthcare, and cli-
mate. The US Internation-
al DFC is a financial insti-
tution that channels capi-
tal in developing nations.
—AGENCIES
US INT’L DFC TO
INVEST $37.5 MN IN
INDIAN BUSINESSES
Wilmington: Elon Musk
contended that Twitter
Inc’s (TWTR.N) decision
to pay millions of dollars
to a whistleblower it had
fired gives the world’s
richest person another
justification for terminat-
ing his $44 billion agree-
ment to buy the social
media company. In a Fri-
day letter to Twitter, law-
yers for Musk said Twit-
ter’s failure to seek his
consent before paying
$7.75 million to Peiter
Zatko his lawyers vio-
lated the merger agree-
ment, which restricted
when Twitter could make
such payments. —PTI
ELON MUSK CITES
ANOTHER REASON TO
SCRAP TWITTER DEAL
*Rates till the edition went to print.
KEY CHANGE IN INDIA’S STRUCTURAL STORY
LIES IN THE CLEAR SHIFT: MORGAN STANLEY
The Morgan Stanley report has mentioned that international econo-
mists were prescribing policies to India that have now spelled doom
for the west. Fortunately, the team of economists under the govern-
ment of India assessed the situation much better and did not cave
into the immense pressure. Experts say that with passing time, more
and more evidence as well as consensus is emerging that mindless
stimulus did more harm in the long run even in those large econo-
mies which were fiscally surplus before the pandemic or were highly
advanced, Morgan Stanley said. The key change in India’s structural
story lies in the clear shift in policy focus towards lifting the produc-
tive capacity of the economy. Policymakers have taken up a series
of reforms which will catalyse an upswing in the private capex cycle,
helping to unleash a powerful productivity dynamic, it said.
EU NATIONS STRUGGLE
TO FIND APPROACH ON
ENERGY PRICES
Brussels: European Union
nations struggled to find com-
mon ground Friday on ways
to shield
the popula-
tion from
dramatically
increasing
energy prices that threaten
to plunge millions into cold
and poverty over the winter
as Russia chokes off natural
gas supplies. As tensions with
Moscow mount over the war in
Ukraine, the energy ministers
of the EU’s 27 nations could
not paper over differences.
RBI IMPOSES `12.35L
MONETARY PENALTY
ON INDIABULLS
New Delhi: The Reserve Bank
of India (RBI) has imposed
a monetary penalty of Rs
12.35 lakh
on Indiabulls
Commercial
Credit Limited
(IBCCL) for
non-compliance with certain
KYC-related provisions. The
RBI issued an order in this
regard on 7th September 2022.
The penalty has been imposed
for non-compliance with certain
provisions of the “Reserve
Bank of India Know Your Cus-
tomer (KYC) Directions, 2016”.
OTHER STORIES
‘ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK WILL FURTHER
STRENGTHEN PARTNERSHIP WITH INDIA’
New Delhi: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will further
strengthen its partnership with India and support the country’s
development priorities for inclusive growth, an official said. Asian
Development Bank (ADB) Vice-Pres-
ident Shixin Chen, on his India visit
during September 5 – 9, reiterated
the multilateral lending agency’s
commitment to further strengthen its
partnership with India. Chen affirmed
ADB’s support to the government’s
development priorities that target the
country’s fast, green, and inclusive post-COVID-19 economic
recovery, ADB said in a release on Saturday.
Current account
deficit likely to grow
New Delhi (PTI): Asecono-
mists have predicted that
India’scurrentaccountdefi-
cit (CAD) is likely to reach
the level of 3 per cent of the
GDPinthecurrentfinancial
year and is unlikely to come
down in the near future, the
government seems to be
cautiously optimistic about
reining it within tolerable
standards.Experts though
feel that it would be a tough
task as current account
deficit may further go up to
morethan3%of theGDPin
the current financial year.
Government, on its part,
feels that with prices of
global commodities like
crude oil, fertilisers and
gold among others falling,
the current account deficit
will gradually cool down.
Official sources say that
the aforementioned com-
modities consume a signifi-
cant part of foreign ex-
change and as their prices
are showing a downward
trend, its positive impact on
current account deficit will
reflect in the near future.
Experts, however, differ
completely from this esti-
mation, as Sher Mehta,
economist and Director of
Research at Virtuoso Eco-
nomics, feels that current
account deficit is likely to
worsen in the coming days.
“In my estimation, the
current account deficit will
probably worsen to 3.4-3.5%
of GDP and is likely to re-
verse only from the second
half of 2023. Given the pros-
pects of a rapidly weaken-
ing global economic envi-
ronment, exports are likely
to fare worse over the com-
ing 9-12 months and most
of the worsening of cur-
rent account deficit will be
due to a widening trade
deficit,” he said.
INDIA’S FOREX RESERVES DIP BY $7.94 BN;
HIT THE LOWEST LEVEL IN 23 MONTHS
Mumbai (ANI): India’s foreign exchange (forex) reserves slumped
by $7.941 billion to $553.105 billion for the week ended Sept 2, the
lowest level in almost two years, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data
showed. This is the fifth weekly fall in the country’s forex reserves.
The forex reserves had dipped by $3.007 billion for the week ended
August 26 and by $6.687 billion in the previous week. The country’s
foreign exchange reserves have declined sharply in recent months
as the RBI continues to intervene in the currency markets to defend
the rupee.As per the RBI’s weekly statistical supplement, foreign cur-
rency assets, which are the biggest component of the forex reserves,
dropped by $6.527 billion to $492.117 billion during the week ended
September 2. The foreign currency assets had declined by $2.571
billion and $5.779 billion in the previous two weeks respectively.
GOVT HOPEFUL DESPITE PREDICTIONS
Reliance acquires
polyesters business
of Shubhalakshmi
Mumbai (PTI): Billion-
aire Mukesh Ambani’s Re-
liance Industries Ltd has
acquired polyester chips
and yarn manufacturer
Shubhalakshmi Polyesters
Ltd for Rs 1,592 crore, the
company said in a stock ex-
change filing.
“Reliance Petroleum Re-
tail Ltd (under name
change to ‘Reliance Polyes-
ter Ltd’), a wholly owned
subsidiary of the company,
today executed definitive
documents to acquire poly-
ester business of Shub-
halakshmi Polyesters Ltd
and Shubhlaxmi Polytex
Ltd for cash consideration
of Rs 1,522 crore and Rs 70
crore respectively, aggre-
gating to Rs 1,592 crore by
way of slump sale on a go-
ing concern basis,” the
firm said.
The deal is subject to ap-
proval of the Competitiorn
Commission of India (CCI)
and the respective lenders
of SPL and SPTex.
SPL produces polyester
fibre, yarns and textile-
grade chips through direct
polymerisation as well as
extruder spinning with
value addition through
texturising.
It has a continuous poly-
merisation capacity of
2,52,000 tonnes per year.
The firm has two produc-
tion facilities, one each in
Dahej in Gujarat and Sil-
vassa in Dadra and Nagar
Haveli. At Dahej, SPTex
operates a plant for the
production of texturised
yarn.
“The acquisitions are
part of the company’s
strategy to expand its
downstream polyester
business,” Reliance said.
Recently, RIL backed out
from the race to acquire the
petrochemicals unit of JBF
Induatries which is under-
going bankruptcy proceed-
ings. RIL did not give any
reasons for its exit.
RIL TO EXPAND
POLYESTER BIZ

z The acquisition will
strengthen the textile
manufacturing business
of Reliance

z The acquisitions, which
total to a gross amount
of ` 1,592 crore, will
be made by Reliance
Petroleum Retail Ltd and
are subject to approval of
the CCI
Los Angeles (PTI): India
has at present not agreed to
the trade pillar of the Indo-
Pacific Economic Frame-
work (IPEF), a 14-member
bloc which held its meeting
here, US Trade Representa-
tive Katherine Tai said.
The IPEF was launched
jointly by the US and other
partner countries of the
Indo-Pacific region on May
23 in Tokyo. It seeks to
strengthen economic part-
nership among participat-
ingcountrieswiththeobjec-
tiveof enhancingresilience,
sustainability, inclusive-
ness,economicgrowth,fair-
nessandcompetitivenessin
the region. The 14 members
of theIPEFare—Australia,
Brunei, Fiji, India, Indone-
sia,Japan,Korea,Malaysia,
New Zealand, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand, Viet-
nam and the US.
The framework is struc-
tured around four pillars
relating to trade, supply
chains, clean economy, and
fair economy. “That ques-
tion you should pose to (In-
dian commerce) minister
(Piyush) Goyal. I would not
characterise it as opting
out, India is not in the trade
pillar right now,” Tai told
reporters here when asked
why India opted out of the
trade pillar.
Earlier, Goyal has stated
that India will take deci-
sions on different aspects
of IPEF based on its nation-
al interest. Tai also said
that “India is not now in the
trade pillar. However, Goyal
and I have been talking and
we have our bilateral and
trade policy forum. I should
be meeting him by the end
of this year”.
India stays out of Trade Policy Pillar at IPEF
Union minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal at a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the IPEF
ministerial meeting in Los Angeles. —PHOTO BY PTI
RBI committed
to hold rupee
at 80 to USD
Chennai (Agencies):
While the Indian rupee has
fallen against the US dollar,
it has plunged less than
most other currencies, said
a top official of Mecklai Fi-
nancial Service Private
Ltd. He also gave the Re-
serve Bank of India (RBI)
high marks for using its
reserves to stem the ru-
pee’s fall. “The rupee has
fallen quite sharply this
year. But it has fallen less
than most other curren-
cies,” Jamal Mecklai, CEO,
Mecklai Financial Services
Pvt. Ltd told IANS.
According to him, the
main forces driving the ru-
pee lower are the interest
rate hike by the US Federal
Reserve to bring down the
inflation.Thishasstrength-
ened the dollar sharply and
as a result, like all other
currencies, the rupee has
been under pressure.
“With the global equity
markets nervous about the
prospects of a recession, as
a result of the interest rate
hikes, risk aversion is high
and so investors are pull-
ing money out of emerging
markets, including India,”
Mecklai said.
FOR NATION’S
RISING ECONOMY

z IPEF has 14 members -
Australia, Brunei, Fiji, India,
Indonesia, Japan, Korea,
Malaysia, New Zealand,
Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand, Vietnam and the
United States of America

z Goyal expressed confidence
that the 14-member grouping
will “define the rules of trade
among countries which believe
in fair play transparency”

z The framework is structured
around four pillars relating
to trade, supply chains, clean
economy, and fair economy

Everything does happen for a
reason, it’s just that we may not
understand it at the moment.
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra,
CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
08
2NDFRONT
CRUCIAL READ
Thane: A case under relevant sections of Indian Penal
Code (IPC) and Maharasthra
Protection of Interest of
Depositors Act has been
registered against four ac-
cused for allegedly cheating
investors of Rs9.19 crore, an
official of the Kalwa Police
station said on Saturday. The accused had floated an
investment agency and used to promise good returns to
the investors. They duped as many as 54 investors over
a period of six years. The accused have been identified as
Prafull Jaiswal, Sandhya Prafull Jaiswal, Sachin Koumal
and Padmini Koumal. No arrest has been made so far.
Nashik: Gauri Suresh
Agivale of Ubhade
Vasti in Nashik’s Ig-
atpuri taluka died on
September 03, said
a Ghoti police station
official. “As per her
mother’s complaint,
the child was left
at her doorstep
on August 27 with
assault injuries and
strangulation marks.
We filed an attempt
to murder case on
August 28,” he said.
“She succumbed
to her injuries on
September 03,
after which murder
charges were added
in the case,” he said.
Mumbai: A power
supply sub-station
of Brihanmumbai
Electric Supply and
Transport (BEST) un-
dertaking caught fire
in Prabhadevi area of
Mumbai on Saturday.
No one was injured
in the blaze which
broke out at around
2.50pm at the
sub-station located
in Nagate building
opposite Saamana
Press, said an of-
ficial, adding that it
was doused within
30 minutes. At least
four fire engines
were rushed to the
spot, he added.
Latur: An 85-year-old farmer allegedly committed
suicide in the district,
reportedly over not getting
enough compensation,
or any other relief, after
his land was acquired for
a power infrastructure
project. Raosaheb Shivram
Ghodke reportedly hanged himself from a tree in
Shindala village in Ausa tehsil on Friday morning, said
a police official. His family said five hectares of his land
was acquired over a decade ago by two state-run firms
to set up a wind power project, but Ghodke was appar-
ently unhappy with the compensation.
CASE AGAINST FOUR FOR DUPING
INVESTORS OF `9.19 CRORE UNDER IPC
YOUNG GIRL
LEFT INJURED
OUTSIDE NASHIK
HOME DIES
POWER
TRANSFORMER
CATCHES FIRE IN
PRABHADEVI
85-YEAR-OLD MAN HANGS SELF, FAMILY
MEMBERS CITE LAND ACQUISITION WOES
ODE TO THE QUEEN!
Students of Gurukul School of Arts create paintings of Queen Elizabeth II, the late monarch of the United Kingdom, as a
tribute on her demise at the age of 96 years on September 08, in Mumbai on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI
My work in Baramati speaks for itself: Ajit Pawar
NCP leader dismisses BJP’s claims of winning the constituency in upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha polls
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP)
leader Ajit Pawar has
undermined the at-
tempts made by the
Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) to hype
it’s game plan to win
Baramati constituen-
cy in the 2024 Lok
Sabha polls. The for-
mer deputy chief
minister said that he
was not worried
about Baramati as his
work (in the constitu-
ency) spoke for itself.
Pawar is the sitting
MLA from Baramati As-
sembly constituency,
while his cousin Supri-
ya Sule represents the
Lok Sabha constituency
.
Speaking to report-
ers in Pune on Satur-
day, Pawar reacted to
the recent visit of Ma-
harashtra BJP Presi-
dent Chandrashekhar
Bawankule to Barama-
ti, where the latter had
reinforced BJP’s inten-
tions to win Baramati
in 2024 polls. The Lok
Sabha polls in April-
May will be followed by
state Assembly polls in
October the same year.
“You don’t worry
about Baramati. My
work in Baramati will
speak for itself,” Pawar
said adding that if
there is anyone who
works harder than him,
then Baramati resi-
dents may think about
voting for them.
“When you are newly
elected (Bawankule),
you speak with enthu-
siasm, and that is the
reason why the media
has been giving public-
ity to his visit. Bara-
mati residents welcome
everyone, but on the
day of voting, they
know very well where
to cast their vote,” said
Pawar.
The Pawar family
has represented Bara-
mati in the Lok Sabha
in all elections dating
back to 1991 when Ajit
Pawar won the seat.
NCP supremo Sharad
Pawar won it in 1996,
1998 as a Congress can-
didate, and 1999, and as
an NCP candidate in
the 2004 Lok Sabha
elections. His daughter,
Supriya Sule, has rep-
resented the constitu-
ency since 2009.
The BJP has never
won elections from
Baramati, and to that
end, party high com-
mand has now assigned
Union Finance Minis-
ter Nirmala Sithara-
man to the Pawar bas-
tion. She is scheduled
to pay the first of her
multiple visits to the
constituency from Sep-
tember 22-24.
PAWAR BASTION
Ajit Pawar —FILE PHOTO
HAS CONG
‘LOYALIST’ WASNIK
BEEN ‘CUT TO
SIZE’?
There were two sen-
ior Congress lead-
ers, who were striving
hard to declare them-
selves the most suitable
face for the post of Pres-
ident, but Rahul’s ‘team’
has put the lofty ambi-
tions of these two lead-
ers on the back burner.
Well,thesenamesdonot
include the names of
Shashi Tharoor or Dig-
vijay Singh, because no
leader within the party
takes them so seriously
.
In fact, Mukul Wasnik,
who has been in one or
the other post of Con-
gress continuously for
the last 25 years, and
Mallikarjun Kharge,
hailing from South
India, were pre-
senting them-
selves indi-
rectly as
strong con-
tendersforthe
post of Presi-
dent. About
Mallikarjuna
it was con-
stant-
ly being published by
the South’s newspapers
that ‘making him the
president will increase
the support base of the
Congress in both the
Northern and Southern
states. He had demon-
strated his strength in
AICC. On the other
hand,Wasnikconducted
a ‘show of strength of
sorts at AICC two days
before the recent rally
wherein,alargenumber
of party leaders and
workers from Maha-
rashtra, Madhya
Pradesh, Bihar and Ra-
jasthan were mobilised
in favour of Wasnik to
attend the rally
. But the
entire outline of cutting
Mukul to size was de-
cided in the Congress’
Chintan Shivir at
Udaipur. So, recent-
ly, after taking
back the
charge of an
i m p o r t a n t
state like MP
from Wasnik,
this responsi-
bility has
b e e n
given to Jai Prakash
Agarwal. In the Chintan
Shiviritself,thetoplead-
ership cleverly got the
resolution passed from
the Mukul-led commit-
teethat‘anyleadermust
leave this post after be-
ing office-bearer for 5
consecutive years.’ That
is, in a way it has now
been decided that Rahul
will run the party by re-
mote control without oc-
cupying any post and he
will have complete con-
trol over the party
.
WILL RAJ
THACKERAY HOLD
SHINDE’S HAND?
It was only last week
that MNS chief Raj
Thackeray reached out
to Maharashtra CM
Eknath Shinde at
around 11 PM. During
the meeting, Shinde
proposed to Raj Thack-
eray, “Since you are a
Thackeray, you become
the President of my
newly formed party
take care of it. If you
get associated with the
party, the confidence
of Shiv Sainiks will
also be restored in the
party and we will also
be able to raise a strong
challenge before Ud-
dhav Thackeray
.” Word
is that Thackeray can
accept the offer in re-
turn, Raj Thackeray’s
wife can be sent to the
RS. Raj has also tak-
en a promise from
Shinde that Shin-
de will make his
son contest LS
polls from his
party in 2024’.
While Shinde
has agreed to
both the
demands, he just has to
get the ‘saffron seal of
approval’ from Delhi
on this.
CHAUTALAS IN A
MAJOR DILEMMA
Indian National Lok
Dal General Secre-
tary Abhay Chautala
and his father Om
Prakash Chautala are
holding a big rally in
Fatehabad on the birth
anniversary of Tau
Devi Lal on September
25.Thesloganof opposi-
tion unity is also hidden
in this rally called ‘Sam-
man Diwas’. Big opposi-
tion leaders are likely to
participate in this rally
such as Sharad Pawar,
Akhilesh Yadav,
Nitish Kumar,
HD Deve
G o w d a ,
TejashwiYa-
dav,Parkash
Singh Badal
and Megha-
laya Gover-
nor Satpal
Malik. Abhay Chautala
called up Telangana CM
KCR requesting him to
attendtherally
.KCRhas
assured him in affirma-
tion. However, KCR was
immediately told that
JJP belongs to Abhay
Chautala’s nephew and
hehadcalledforco-ordi-
nation with INLD,
which is based on the
ideals of Tau Devilal.
Abhay Chautala then
called West Bengal CM
Mamata Banerjee in-
vited her to attend the
rally
.Mamataalsoasked
almost the same ques-
tion that ‘
Are you people
still partners of the BJP
government of Hary-
ana?’ Here too Abhay
has to clarify that it is
not him, rather his
nephew Dushyant
Chautala, who is head-
ing a separate party
.
TWO CMS OF
NORTH-EAST CAN
BE CHANGED
BJP’s top leadership
wants to change
CM of two north-east
states That is, one of
them is Conrad Sang-
ma, son of P Sangma
and the other is
Arunachal CM Pema
Khandu. Late Sangma’s
son Conrad has been
asked by the BJP to
merge his regional par-
ty NPP with the BJP. It
will not happen because
his party has the biggest
supportof theChristian
community and the BJP
is known as a Hindutva
party
. On the other
hand, the Pema Khandu
government of
Arunachal is constantly
being accused of cor-
ruption. The top leader-
ship of the BJP is trou-
bled by these things. On
the other hand, Union
Law Minister Kiren Ri-
jiju, who is very close
to BJP’s number
two, has an old
wish to become
the CM of
Arunachal. So,
he directs all
the news going
against Pema
Khandu to
t h e
BJP top, because only
when Khandu vacates
the throne, will Kiren be
able to ascend to it.
...AND FINALLY
When Rahul re-
turned home
from Italy after the
death of his maternal
grandmother, he sum-
moned three or four big
leaders of the party,
such as P Chidambar-
am, Kamal Nath and
Bhupendra Singh Hoo-
da and wanted to know
from them that even
though Ghulam Nabi
said a lot about Rahul
and the Gandhi family,
yet they did not refute
any of his comments
whereas, he had even
messaged Jairam about
this. On this, Chidam-
baram said that ‘You
made the same mistake,
Jairam should not have
been asked to tell us, he
is much junior to me.
When I was the Finance
Minister of the country
,
he used to look after
the arrangement
of tea and water
in my office.”
Even Kamal
Nath also ech-
oed Chidambar-
am’s concerns.
Rahul was bewil-
dered and
shocked as to what
was going on
in the party
after all.
FIRST INDIA SUNDAY SPECIAL
BY TRIDIB
RAMAN
The author is a journalist
and political commentator
and views expressed are
his personal
Raj Thackeray Abhay Chautala Rahul Gandhi
Mukul Wasnik
Conrad Sangma

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MUMBAI, SUNDAY,
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
OWNING THE NIGHT
The majestic royal fashion show titled, Udaipur Couture Show 2022 presented by First India and Bharat 24 took place at Ramee
Royal Resort, Udaipur on Monday, September 5. City First brings to you glimpses of pure fashion from the mega show!
glimpse of
g l a m o u r
and ele-
gance were
witnessed
in the fash-
ion festival
of Rajasthan
‘Udaipur Couture
Show 2022’ pre-
sented by First In-
dia and Bharat 24
was held at Ramee
Royal Resort in the
beautiful lake city
of Rajasthan on
Monday.
The show was
embellished with
nine fashion se-
quences in which
designers from
Udaipur as well as
Jaipur, Surat, Ra-
jkot, Mumbai and
Delhi presented
their garments on
the exhibition
stage. The show
showcased western
and party wear
gowns known as
Jenneverse by de-
signer Jyoti Agar-
wal with showstop-
per Bhavya Jain.
Jenneverse is a
brand by the girls,
for the girls. The
designer believes
women can achieve
anything and pro-
vides them with
the best styles that
complement their
personalities and
boost their confi-
dence. When asked
about the designs
the designers said
“We celebrate
women and offer
them the most fash-
ionable, timeless
and sophisticated
pieces. All body
types should be em-
braced and cele-
brated, and so shall
we believe. Our
brand aims to bring
body positivity to a
new level by creat-
ing inclusive cloth-
ing for individuals
of all sizes.”
While sharing
her vision the de-
signer further said
“ Through Jennev-
erse, we strive to
curate the latest
fashion trends,
with keeping sus-
tainability in mind.
Our vision is to
bring a diversified
range of styles and
collections that ex-
udes creativity and
happiness, made
using the highest
quality materials
and sold at the
most attainable
prices. We recog-
nize the signifi-
cance of sustaina-
bility and that is
why we tend to gen-
erate small batches
of products in op-
position to mass
production. We are
here to upgrade
your closet with
the best of designs
and we never let
you down when it
comes to price,
fashion and quali-
ty”. Designers from
different corners
of the country
showcased their
collections during
the fashion event.
Gaurav Gaur, the
director of the
Show said he was
overjoyed with the
astonishing de-
signs showcased in
Couture Show.
A
—PHOTOS
BY
SUNIL
SHARMA
UDAIPUR COUTURE SHOW 2022
KAVITA CHAUHAN
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
(L-R) Rewati Upadhyay, Himakshi Choudhary,
Bhavya Jain and Kritika Swarnkaar
(L-R) Rewati, Vasudha, Jyoti Agrawal, Bhavya, Rutvi and Nilanjana with others flaunting the designer outfits
(L-R) Somya, Himakshi, Saniya and Khushi

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