Two Go First flights on Tuesday were diverted due to engine issues that are being investigated. The DGCA has grounded the aircraft until they receive clearance. A Mumbai to Leh flight was diverted to Delhi due to an engine fault. Another Srinagar to Delhi flight was diverted due to an engine overheating issue. The DGCA is probing the incidents and the planes will resume flights once cleared by authorities.

1. 2 Go First planes
face snag, probe
ordered
New Delhi: Two Go
First flights were divert-
ed due to engine snags
on Tuesday
. The DGCA
has said that the matter
is being investigated
and aircrafts are being
grounded. DGCA added
that the flights will take
off once they get a clear-
ancebyauthority
.GoAir
A320 aircraft VT-WGA
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Leh was diverted to Del-
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flight, VT-WJG G8-6202,
from Srinagar to Delhi
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Shinde faction claims Sena party before SC date
Maha CM flaunts 12 MPs who have joined his rebel group in Delhi, makes org appointments
Renni Abraham
Mumbai: Maharashtra
Chief Minister Eknath
Shinde officially laid
claim to the Shiv Sena’s
parliamentary and
state legislature, in a
bid to firm up his legal
footing before the Su-
preme Court, which
will address the issue of
his political legitimacy
on Wednesday
.
Maharashtra’s future
political course for
Eknath Shinde-led rebel
Shiv Sena faction and
political reservations
for the Other Backward
Classes (OBC) commu-
nity will likely be set by
the apex court, when
related cases come up
before it. Three SC jus-
tices will hear the is-
sues pertaining to the
disqualification of 16
rebel Sena MLAs, the
motion of no-confi-
dence moved by them
against Deputy Speaker
Narhari Sitaram Zirw-
al, as well as the dis-
qualification notices is-
sued to 53 Shiv Sena
MLAs by the newly in-
stalled Maharashtra
State Assembly Speaker
Rahul Narwekar.
The Maharashtra
government’s efforts to
seek political reserva-
tions for the OBC com-
munity in forthcoming
local body elections will
also come up before the
SC for triple test ratifi-
cation. Freshly consoli-
dated empirical data
was submitted by the
Shinde-led government
on July 07.
While Shinde flaunt-
ed induction of 12 Shiv
Sena MPs (out of a total
18) into his faction as
his latest political con-
quest, he also appeared
to take charge of the
Sena’s organizational
affairs. He announced
dismantling of the ex-
isting National Execu-
tive Committee of the
Shiv Sena Turn to P5
CM Eknath Shinde with 12 MPs of his faction in New Delhi. —ANI PHOTO
‘SUPREME’ RELIEF
FOR NUPUR SHARMA!
...Suspended BJP spokesperson gets
interim protection from arrest till Aug 10
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court Tuesday
granted interim protec-
tion from coercive ac-
tion to suspended BJP
spokesperson Nupur
Sharma in connection
with the FIRs/com-
plaints filed against her
in several states over
her remarks on the
Prophet made during a
TV debate show.
It also protected her
from coercive action in
the FIRs/complaints
which may be regis-
tered or entertained in
the future about the
May 26 telecast.
NOTICES TO CENTRE
AND OTHER STATES
Observing that it never
wanted Sharma to visit
every court for relief, the
bench issued notices to the
Centre and several states
including Delhi, WB, and
Maharashtra on her plea
urging protection from
arrest as well as the revival
of her withdrawn petition
seeking clubbing of FIRs
lodged in several states.
Pakistani man crossed border to kill
Nupur Sharma, arrested in Rajasthan
Jaipur: A Pakistani man Rizwan Ashraf (24), who
was arrested by the Border Security Force (BSF) last
week from the India-Pakistan International Border
in Sri Ganganagar, had come with the intention
going to Ajmer dargah and then kill suspended BJP
spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her controversial
remark on Prophet Mohammad, officials said
on Tuesday. Rizwan Ashraf, a resident of Mandi
Bahauddin City in Punjab province in Pakistan, was
nabbed by BSF troops at 11 pm on July 16 from
near border fence in Sri Ganganagar, they said.
MARGARET ALVA FILES NOMINATION AS OPPN’S VP CANDIDATE
HIGHLIGHTS
Day1washedoutover
GSThikepricerise
Aditi Nagar
New Delhi: Parliament
proceedings resumed at
2 pm and both houses
were adjourned until 11
am for Wednesday
. Min-
ister of External Affairs
S Jaishankar briefed the
Rajya Sabha however
thehousewasadjourned
following sloganeering
by the opposition. As
soonastheHouseassem-
bled at 11 am, opposition
members belonging to
theCongress,Trinamool
Congress, DMK and oth-
ers came to the well of
the House carrying plac-
ards against the imposi-
tion of the GST on some
new items. They raised
slogansagainsttheModi
government over the is-
sue of price rise. The
placards read Gabbar
Singh Strikes Again
among others. P5
Both houses adjourned; Union Cabinet calls meet today
Rahul Gandhi, KC Venugopal, Mallikarjun Kharge, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Pramod Tiwari and
other Opposition parties MPs during a protest at Parliament complex, in New Delhi on Tuesday.
23 killed, 33 hurt
in car crash in
southern Egypt
Cairo: At least 22 peo-
ple were killed and 33
injured in a car crash
on Tuesday near
Egypt’s southern prov-
ince of Minya, authori-
ties said.
The crash took place
in the early morning
when a passenger bus
hit a stopped truck on a
highway linking the
capital of Cairo to the
country’s south, local
authorities in Minya
said in a statement. Au-
thorities said in a state-
ment the truck was
changing tires on the
roadside when the bus
hit it in the city of Ma-
lawi in Minya province,
about 220 km (137 miles)
south of Cairo.
DSP probing illegal mining
mowed down, 1 arrested
Gurugram: A DSP in-
vestigating illegal
stone-mining was killed
on Tuesday when a
truck he signalled to
stop in Har-
yana’s Nuh
d i s t r i c t
drove into
him, offi-
cials said.
Tauru DSP
Surender
Singh had signalled a
dumper-truck to halt to
check documents in
Aravali hills in Pach-
gaon area near Tauru,
but the driver sped on,
running over him.
Hours after the officer’s
death, police said a man
allegedly involved in
killing was arrested.
READ
Crucial
Crucial
‘MR BALLOT BOXES’
REACH DELHI, VOTES
COUNT TOMORROW
New Delhi: A day after
the presidential election,
the ballot boxes boarded
flights from different
states on separate air
tickets under the name
‘Mr Ballot box’. The
boxes were accompanied
by election officers. Re-
sults for elections to be
declared on Wednesday.
BRITAIN RECORDS
HIGHEST TEMP EVER
AT 40° CELSIUS
London: Britain recorded
its highest ever tempera-
ture of 39.1C (102.4F)
on Tuesday, according
to provisional data from
the Met Office, which
forecast even hotter
weather to come from
a heatwave that has
already damaged airport
runways and rail tracks.
POSTPONED ASIAN
GAMES FROM SEPT
23 TO OCT 8, 2023
New Delhi: Olympic
Council of Asia on
Tuesday announced
new dates for the 19th
Asian Games to be held
in Hangzhou, China.
The event, which was
originally postponed due
to Covid-19, will now be
held from 23rd Septem-
ber to 8th October 2023.
JUDGE SETS OCTOBER
TRIAL TO DECIDE
MUSK’S $44BN DEAL
Wilmington: Twitter Inc’s
lawsuit seeking to hold
Elon Musk to his $44
billion takeover will go to
trial in Oct, a Delaware
judge ruled on Tuesday,
adopting a schedule
closer to proposal by
SM firm. Twitter and
Musk laid out competing
proposals in February.
RAHUL
GANDHI JOINS
OPPOSITION
PROTEST ON
INFLATION
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday joined the
opposition protest against inflation and 5 per cent GST
price on essential items, in front of the Gandhi statue in
Parliament. Rahul joined Opposition protest along with other
Congress MPs including LoP in RS Mallikarjun Kharge, KC
Venugopal, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, and Shiv Sena MP
Priyanka Chaturvedi. Speaking on the protest, Mallikarjun
Kharge said that they will fight against price rise, inflation and
GST rate hike of some essential commodities.
KEEP HELPING OUR NATION: LANKA
LoP SAJITH APPEALS TO PM MODI
SERIOUS CRISIS IN SL, NATURALLY WORRY ABOUT
SPILLOVER: JAISHANKAR AT ALL-PARTY MEET
SL’s leader of Opposition
Sajith Premadasa appealed
to PM Modi, and other
political parties of India,
to keep helping the island
nation no matter who is
selected as President on July
21. In a tweet, Sajith said: “Irrespective of
who becomes the President of Sri Lanka it is
my humble and earnest request to Hon. PM
Shri @narendramodi, to keep helping mother
Lanka and it’s people to come out of disaster.”
New Delhi: Sri Lanka is facing “a very serious crisis” that makes India
naturally worried, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told an all-
party meeting here on Tuesday and dismissed suggestions about such
a situation arising in India. He said. “It is a matter which pertains to a
very close neighbour and given the near proximity, we naturally worry
about the consequences, spillover it has for us,” he added.
PARLIAMENT
MONSOON
SESSION
Will help build a strong, united India: Alva
New Delhi: Shortly af-
ter filing nomination
papers for Vice-Presi-
dential elections to be
held on August 6, Veter-
an Congress leader and
Opposition candidate
Margaret Alva hopes to
‘build a strong and unit-
ed India’. “It is a privi-
lege and honour to be
nominated as the candi-
date of the joint opposi-
tion for the post of VP of
India. I accept this nom-
ination with great hu-
mility and thank the
leaders of the Oppn for
the faith they have re-
posed in me,” said Alva.
Opposition’s Vice Presidential candidate Margaret Alva files her nomination papers in presence
of Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Sharad Pawar, Sitaram Yechury, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury,
Sanjay Raut and other opposition leaders at the Parliament House, in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Over these fifty years, I have worked for my country with integrity,
courage and commitment, my only obligation: to serve without fear,
the Constitution of India. I will fight for what is important to India– to
uphold the pillars of democracy, to strengthen our institutions, and for an India
that is ‘Saare Jahan se Accha’. —Margaret Alva, Opposition’s Vice Presidential candidate
PIC OF SHAH WITH JAILED IAS: FILMMAKER HELD
Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad crime branch has arrested
filmmaker Avinash Das in Mumbai for sharing a photo of Union
HM Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal. Das will
be produced in the Ahmedabad Metro Court today.
NSE PHONE
TAPPING: EX-
MUMBAI CP
SANJAY HELD
Mumbai: Former Maharashtra Director General of
Police and ex-Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay
Pandey was on Tuesday arrested by the Enforce-
ment Directorate in connection with a money laun-
dering case involving the NSE co-location scam.
RISHI SUNAK
EDGES CLOSER
TO FINAL SPOT
IN UK PM RACE
London: Rishi Sunak topped another round of voting
on Tuesday to edge even closer to his place as one
of two candidates who will go head-to-head to be
elected new Conservative Party leader and British PM,
as Kemi Badenoch became latest candidate to be out.
OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, NEW DELHI MUMBAI BSE SENSEX 54,767.62 246.47 | NSE NIFTY 16,340.55 62.05
Haryana DSP
Surender Singh
z DSP killed by mining ma-
fia declared martyr; Khattar
announces govt job, `1 crore
compensation to family
z Tauru DSP Surender
Singh was to retire after 3
months: DSP’s brother
z Congress leader Randeep
Surjewala slams Haryana
government over murder
z The entire police team
was with the DSP when
he was killed. They went
there to raid: Haryana home
minister Anil Vij
z Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal condemned
the killing of DSP Singh
z Haryana CM Manohar
Lal Khattar should resign,
says Congress, demands
independent judicial probe

2. New Delhi (PTI):
Faced by a rebellion in
its ranks, senior Shiv
Sena leader Sanjay
Raut on Tuesday said
the party was ready
for a fight over the
symbol and control of
the organization.
Interacting with the
media in the national
capital, Raut also
claimed that the
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) was trying to
break Maharashtra
into three pieces. He
also claimed that mak-
ing a dent in the Shiv
Sena ranks was part of
the saffron party’s con-
spiracy
.
Hitting out at Maha-
rashtra Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde, Raut
said, “We are ready for
any fight, be it for the
symbol or the party or-
ganization. A few MPs
and MLAs may be leav-
ing us. But MLAs and
MPs alone do not make
up the Shiv Sena.”
He reminded the
breakaway faction of
the assistance given to
them by party supremo
Uddhav Thackeray over
the years.
Raut also took a
swipe at Shinde saying
he had to make visits to
Delhi as he was a “BJP
chief minister”.
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Mumbai: A day after
he resigned from the
Shiv Sena, and joined
the Eknath Shinde fac-
tion, Shiv Sena leader
Ramdas Kadam, ac-
cused Nationalist Con-
gress Party (NCP)
chief Sharad Pawar of
conspiring to decimate
the party
, on Tuesday
.
He also urged Sena
chief Uddhav Thack-
eray to introspect why
such large-scale defec-
tions have plagued the
56-year-old party
.
Reacting to Kadam’s
claims, the NCP has ac-
cused him of betraying
the trust of Thackeray
family, and placing the
blame on the NCP to jus-
tify his actions.
In an interviewwitha
Marathi news
c h a n n e l ,
Kadam said
that when
Shiv Sena
faced defec-
tions from
Chhagan Bhujbal,
Narayan Rane, and Raj
Thackeray
,hehadfought
hard for the party
.
“Please remember our
struggle when you are
sacking someone. Ud-
dhavji you have not
sacked me, I have re-
signed. You have not re-
moved me; I have re-
moved you from my
heart. I ap-
peal to
you to
intro-
spect
w h y
a
Shiv sainik like me who
gave 52 years to this par-
ty was forced to resign,”
he said.
Hours after Kadam
sent his resignation to
Uddhav Thackeray on
Monday
, Shiv Sena
issued a state-
ment that the
party had re-
moved him
from the post
of ‘Shiv Sena
leader’. Min-
utes later,
Chief Minister Eknath
Shinde released a new
list of national execu-
tive members, and
named Kadam, and
Anandrao Adsul—who
was also sacked—as
leaders.
Kadam also extended
his gratitude to CM
Eknath Shinde for sav-
ing Shiv Sena. “We were
saying that it is a con-
spiracy by Pawar (NCP
chief Sharad Pawar)
uncle-nephew duo to
splittheShivSena.In
the last two-and-
a-half years,
they have tried
to decimate the
party at the
grassroots and they
havesucceededindo-
ing so,” he said.
Meanwhile, NCP
Spokesperson Mahesh
Tapase said, “In 2019,
Pawar saheb stitched
together the NCP-Shiv
Sena-Congress alliance
and made Uddhav
Thackeray the chief
minister. His good per-
formance as the CM
earned him a ranking
among the top five CMs
in the country
. When he
resigned, the NCP stood
firmly behind him.”
The Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) is the real
mastermind behind the
rebellion in the Sena,
and the conspiracy is to
take revenge for the
MVA alliance formed in
2019, he added.
Woman accuses MP Shewale of rape
Mumbai (PTI): A
33-year-old Dubai-
based woman has
sought the registra-
tion of a First Infor-
mation Report (FIR)
against Shiv Sena MP
Rahul Shewale alleg-
ing he had raped her
under the pretext of
marriage. She even
tweeted her com-
plaint to Maharash-
tra Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde.
Dismissing the alle-
gations against her hus-
band, Shewale’s wife
Kamini termed them a
“deliberate conspiracy”
to tarnish the image of
the Mumbai South Cen-
tral MP, who has been
active on the social and
political circuit for
more than 25 years.
In her complaint, the
woman who runs a tex-
tile business has alleged
that Mumbai police had
not registered the FIR,
despite recording her
statement in the past.
She has alleged that
Shewale has been “emo-
tionally and mentally
exploiting her” and rap-
ing her since 2020, said
a Mumbai police official
on Tuesday
.
The woman alleged
Shewale had estab-
lished physical rela-
tions with her saying
his relations with his
wife are strained. He
told her that the two will
get divorced soon after
which he will marry
her, as per the com-
plaint.
“I came to know that
Sakinaka police have
registered an FIR
against me for extortion
and other sections of
the IPC on Shewale’s
complaint. I provided
all the proof to the po-
liceandalsoapproached
the National Commis-
sion for Women (NCW).
I request the chief min-
ister to take action
against Shewale and
direct the police to reg-
ister the FIR against
him,” she said.
On July 11, police reg-
istered an FIR against
the woman on the
charges of extortion,
cheating, and defama-
tion under the direction
of a metropolitan court.
Shiv Sena
MP’s wife
denies charge,
calls it attempt
to ‘tarnish his
reputation’
MP Rahul Shewale
Pune: A BJP leader from Solapur district was
booked for allegedly raping a 32-year-old woman, a
police official said on Monday. Shrikant Deshmukh
had quit as the party’s Solapur district president after
an intimate video of him with the woman went viral
on social media a few days ago. The woman claimed
that Deshmukh established physical relations with
her on the pretext of getting married, and exploited
her multiple times in Pune, Mumbai and Solapur. A
case was registered under Indian Penal Code (IPC)
sections 376 (rape) and 377 (unnatural offences).
BJP leader booked for allegedly
raping 32-year-old woman
Kadam accuses Pawar of decimating Sena, NCP hits back
WAR OF WORDS
Claims BJP behind rebellion
in Shiv Sena as Shinde-led
faction plays blame game
People in Maharashtra will not di-
gest the actions of rebel MLAs and
ordinary Shiv Sena workers have
put their weight behind Uddhav Thackeray.
That’s why the rebel Shinde faction is not di-
rectly speaking against him, but blam-
ing the NCP for the conspiracy.
—Mahesh Tapase, NCP
Spokesperson
ShivSenastaresat
split,Rautvowsaction
There should
be limit to
one’s greed:
Sena MP
First India Bureau
Aurangabad: San-
jay Jadhav, the
Shiv Sena Mem-
ber of Parliament
(MP) from Parb-
hani, slammed
Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde-
led faction saying
that there should
be limit to one's
greed.
The MP said that
Sena helped carve
political careers of
many leaders and
they (the rebels)
should keep that in
mind.
In a video clip,
Jadhav is heard say-
ing that he stands
firmly with Shiv
Sena's party presi-
dent Uddhav Thack-
eray and is indebted
to him for fulfilling
his expectations
“beyond imagina-
tion”.
“Whatever has
been given to me by
Shiv Sena is beyond
my expectations
and I stand firmly
withUddhavThack-
eray,” he said.
Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut —FILE PHOTO
Readyforfightoversymbol,
party,saysMPSanjayRaut
First India Bureau
Nagpur: The Nagpur
police have beefed up
security at the office
of Shiv Sena MP Kru-
pal Tumane, amid an
impending split in the
Sena parliamentary
party. The security
outside the homes
and offices of some of
the other Sena parlia-
mentarians has also
been stepped up, such
as MP Rahul Shewale,
said an official.
The Shiv Sena parlia-
mentary party is star-
ing at a split in its
ranks with a breaka-
way faction set to ap-
proach Lok Sabha
Speaker Om Birla with
a plea to recognize
them as a separate
group with Rahul Sh-
ewale as their leader.
A Shiv Sena Lok Sab-
ha member had claimed
that at least 12 of the 19
Sena members will
meet Birla to submit a
formal letter to recog-
nize it as a separate
group.
A police official on
Tuesday said security
was provided to the of-
fice of Tumane, the Lok
Sabha member from
Ramtek, on the instruc-
tions of Nagpur Com-
missioner of Police
Amitesh Kumar.
Personnel of the
Nandanvan police sta-
tion were also deployed
at Tumane’s office at
the Bhande Plot in
Nagpur city.
A police jeep was also
stationed and a sub-in-
spector was in-charge
of the security cover,
said the official.
The security outside
the homes of some oth-
er Sena MPs, including
Hemant Godse who
represents Nashik con-
stituency, was also
stepped up, said anoth-
er official.
First India Bureau
Mumbai/New Delhi:
After the Shiv Sena’s
division in the Maha-
rashtra Assembly, its
parliamentary party
is also staring at a
split, as several MPs
petitioned Lok Sabha
Speaker Om Birla on
Tuesday, to recognize
them as a separate
group. We will take
action against MPs
who attend the meet-
ing with Shinde, Shiv
Sena Rajya Sabha MP
Sanjay Raut, told re-
porters in Delhi.
In a pre-emptive
move,VinayakRaut,the
leader of the Shiv Sena,
wrote to the Lok Sabha
Speaker asserting that
he was the duly appoint-
ed leader of the Shiv
Sena parliamentary
party and urged him not
to entertain any repre-
sentation from the
breakaway faction.
“You are therefore
called upon not to ac-
knowledge or entertain
representation made by
any other MP(s) or ac-
knowledge or entertain
any direction/whip is-
sued by anybody else,
falsely claiming to be
the leader or the chief
whip of the Shiv Sena
parliamentary party,”
Raut said, adding that
Rajan Vichare was the
chief whip of the party
.
A group of Shiv Sena
MPs had, on Monday
, at-
tended a virtual meet-
ing of the national ex-
ecutive chaired by Ma-
harashtra Chief Minis-
ter Eknath Shinde.
The national execu-
tive, called by the rebel
group ahead of the Su-
preme Court hearing on
July 20, also appointed
Shinde as the chief
leader of the party
, said
a Lok Sabha member.
As speculation about
14 Shiv Sena Lok Sabha
members forming a sep-
arate group swirled,
party MPs gathered at
the residence of Sanjay
Raut. Among those pre-
sent were Lok Sabha
members Arvind
Sawant, Vinayak Raut,
OmrajeNimbalkar,San-
jay Jadhav, Rajan Vich-
are and Rajya Sabha
member Priyanka
Chaturvedi.
Raut said Lok Sabha
member Gajanan Kirti-
kar was unwell and was
firmly with Uddhav
Thackeray-led Shiv
Sena.
“JahanThackeraywa-
han Shiv Sena (Shiv
Sena is where Thacker-
ayis).Howcanyouclaim
14 MPs, when six-seven
of us are here?” Raut
asked, pointing at Lok
Sabha members present
at the press conference.
Raut also dismissed
reports about the Shin-
de faction of the Shiv
Sena dissolving the na-
tional executive of the
party. “A Supreme
Court bench constitut-
ed by Chief Justice of
India NV Ramana will
decide the fate of the
breakaway faction led
by Shinde,” he said.
Security beefed up at
offices of Sena MP, others
Police personnel deployed outside Shiv Sena MP Rahul Shewale’s
office in Mumbai on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
SHIV SENA OFFICE-BEARER ATTACKED
Nashik (PTI): An office-bearer of the Shiv Sena
was attacked and injured by unidentified persons in
Nashik city, police said on Tuesday. Nilesh alias Bala
Kokane sustained injuries in the attack that took place
in the MG Road area of the city around 10.45 pm on
Monday. According to the police, Kokane was riding
his two-wheeler when some unidentified persons
attacked him with sharp objects. Kokane sustained
injuries and was rushed to a private hospital at Gan-
gapur Road, where his condition is said to be stable.
On being alerted about the attack, patrolling squads
of Bhadrakali and Sarkarwada police stations combed
the area for the unidentified attackers.
Eknath Shinde, who had led a rebellion within the
Shiv Sena ranks, was sworn-in as chief minister
on June 30 with the support of the BJP. He has the
support of 40 of Shiv Sena’s 55 MLAs in the Maha-
rashtra Assembly and Speaker Rahul Narwekar has
recognized the faction as the Legislature Party.
Move comes
amid reports
of a possible
fracture in the
parliamentary
party
Ramdas Kadam Sharad Pawar
AS CM EKNATH SHINDE AND UDDHAV THACKERAY-LED GROUPS TUSSLE
Sanjay Jadhav
Party spokesperson claims allegiance of 6-7 MPs,
dismisses reports of national executive dissolution
Sanjay Raut.
—PHOTO BY
BHUSHAN KOYANDE
‘OPPOSITION’ FACTION

3. First India Bureau
New Delhi: The En-
forcement Directorate
(ED) arrested former
Mumbai Police com-
missioner Sanjay Pan-
dey on Tuesday in the
National Stock Ex-
change (NSE) co-loca-
tion case.
TheEDactionagainst
Pandey comes five days
after the agency took
former NSE managing
director and chief exec-
utive officer Chitra
Ramakrishna under its
custody
.
Pandey appeared be-
fore the Enforcement
Directorate (ED) in Del-
hi on Tuesday for ques-
tioning in a money
laundering case linked
to the alleged illegal
phone tapping of NSE
employees, officials
said.
It was the second con-
secutive day that the re-
tired Indian Police Ser-
vice (IPS) officer was
being questioned by the
federal probe agency in
the case.
Like Monday, the of-
ficer will continue to re-
ply to questions on the
business and operations
of a firm floated by him
for security audit of the
NSE and his statement
will be recorded under
the Prevention of Mon-
ey Laundering Act, they
said.
CBI had said on Mon-
day that it questioned
Pandey and another for-
mer Mumbai police
commissioner Param
Bir Singh in connection
with the Rs100 crore ex-
tortion allegations
against former minister
Anil Deshmukh.
Pandey, who is cur-
rently under the ED’s
scanner, also met Maha-
rashtra chief minister
Eknath Shinde in New
Delhi on Tuesday
.
Pandey is facing two
ED and Central Bureau
of Investigation FIRs-
-illegal interception of
phones of NSE employ-
ees by iSec Services Pri-
vate Ltd, a company
foundedbyhim,andvio-
lation of Securities and
Exchange Board of In-
dia guidelines in con-
ducting NSE’s system
audit.
He has been ques-
tioned early this month
by the ED in the alleged
co-location scam at the
NSE.
The CBI and ED have
named Pandey, his Del-
hi-based company iSEC
Services Pvt Ltd, NSE’s
former MD and CEOs
Narain and Ramkrish-
na, executive vice presi-
dent Ravi Varanasi and
head(premises)Mahesh
Haldipur, among others,
in their respective com-
plaints.
The ED discovered se-
cret phone surveillance
while probing the al-
leged financial irregu-
larities at the NSE, fol-
lowingwhichitreported
the matter to the Minis-
try of Home Affairs,
which in turn, asked the
CBI to probe the charg-
es, officials had said.
TheCBIhadallegedin
itscomplaintthatduring
the period 2009-17,
Narain, Ramkrishna,
Varanasi and Haldipur
conspired to illegally in-
terceptthetelephonesof
NSE employees for
which they hired iSEC
Services Pvt Ltd, found-
ed by Pandey in 2001.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Floods due
to incessant rains and
overflowing dams
have caused excessive
damage in Maharash-
tra’s Wardha and oth-
er districts. Maha-
rashtra Deputy Chief
Minister Devendra
Fadnavis on Tuesday
inspected crop and
property damage
caused due to flooding
amid heavy rains in
Chandrapur district.
Fadnavis also assured
that financial help will
be provided to rain-af-
fected people in the dis-
trict as soon as possible.
Thedeputychief min-
ister inspected crop
damage at Navegaon
(Peth) in Chimur tehsil
of the district.
Whilethelivesof local
residents have gone hay-
wire,anorangealerthas
been sounded for Gad-
chiroli and Gondia dis-
tricts by the Regional
Meteorological Centre.
The centre also has pre-
dicted heavy thunder-
stormsandheavytovery
heavy rains in isolated
areas of the state.
Sironchatownof Gad-
chiroli district has been
one of the most affected
regions, where the lives
of people have been bad-
ly impacted as large
swathes of land remain
inundated in water.
Essential items have
been distributed in
flood-affected areas of
Gadchiroli district by
National Disaster Re-
sponse Force (NDRF)
teams. A report from
Maharashtra State Dis-
aster Situation Report
Index on Saturday
claimed 102 lives had
been lost in the state
due to heavy rains since
June 01.
According to the re-
port, 189 animals lost
their lives due to rain-
related incidents in the
state and over 11,800
persons have been evac-
uated and 73 relief
camps have been set up
in the state.
While several dis-
tricts have been facing
torrential rainfall, the
state government has
deployed as many as 13
National Disaster Re-
sponse Force (NDRF)
and three State Disaster
Response Force (SDRF)
teams to control the
situation.
More than 28 districts
havebeenaffecteddueto
heavy rains including
Pune, Satara, Solapur,
Nashik, Jalgaon,
Ahmednagar, Beed, La-
tur, Washim, Yavatmal,
Dhule, Jalna, Akola,
Bhandara, Buldhana,
Nagpur, Nandurbar,
Mumbai Sub, Palghar,
Thane, Nanded, Amra-
vati, Wardha, Ratnagiri,
Sindhudurg,Gadchiroli,
Sangli,andChandrapur.
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Nagpur: A woman
and her seven-year-
old daughter were
killed, and three oth-
er family members
were injured after
their house collapsed
in Amravati district
on Tuesday morning,
a senior official said.
The incident took
place around 6 am at
Fubgaon village in
Chandur Bazar taluka
of the district, located
about 150km from Nag-
pur. There were five
family members inside
the house when it col-
lapsed and they got
trapped under the de-
bris, Amravati’s resi-
dent district collector
Ashish Bijwal said.
Their neighbours
managed to rescue
three of the family
members who suffered
injuries. A 35-year-old
woman and her seven-
year-old daughter, could
not be pulled out quick-
ly and both of them
died, the official said.
In another incident,
aleast six persons were
injured after a single-
storey building col-
lapsed on another struc-
ture in Bhiwandi town
of Thane district on
Tuesday, an official
from the fire brigade
said.
The incident took
place around 7 am when
a building in Panjra-
pole locality, which was
unoccupied, collapsed
on an adjacent struc-
ture, in which the vic-
tims were asleep. Local
firemen and a disaster
control team rushed to
the spot, cleared the de-
bris and pulled out peo-
ple who were trapped,
the official said.
The building, which
was 35 years old, had
been declared danger-
ous and occupants had
vacated it. The injured
have been admitted to
the government hospi-
tal at Bhiwandi and
their condition is said
to be stable.
First India Bureau
Thane: As Bhatsa
dam has reached its
full capacity due to
heavy rainfalls re-
ceived in the region,
gates of the dam will
be opened on Wednes-
day. The administra-
tion, therefore, has
issued an alert for all
the villages along
Bhatsa river.
All five gates of Bhat-
sa dam will be opened
and 6215.44 cusecs of
water will be released
from the dam, an offi-
cial said.
The dam crossed the
139.10m mark till 12.30
pm on Tuesday
.
The administration
has alerted the villages
falling under Shahpur
and Murbad Talukas.
Villages near the Sap-
gaon bridge have espe-
cially been alerted by
the authorities. The lo-
cals have been warned
to keep off the river wa-
ters on Wednesday,
when the gates of the
dam would be opened.
Heavy rains wreak havoc in Wardha
13 NDRF, 3 SDRF teams
deployed to undertake relief
measures; Dy CM reviews
situation in Chandrapur
Bhandara: Darkness and rising levels of waters are playing spoilsport in saving lives
of six fishermen, who have been stranded on the bed of Wainganga river in Maha-
rashtra’s Bhandara district, said an official. The operation continues in Pathri village
in Pavni taluka, where the district disaster management officials have requested
their counterparts in Mumbai to arrange for a State Disaster Response team (SDRF)
team to come into picture, he added.
Efforts on to save six fishermen stranded in Wainganga
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis meets with the flood affected victims of
Kanholi village, in Hinganghat on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Bhatsa dam gates to be opened today, villagers alerted
Bhatsa dam
Zero-yieldinKharif
seasonasfloods
washedawaycrops,
topsoil:Farmers
First India Bureau
Mumbai: While
heavy rains led to
relief in many are-
as of Maharashtra,
they also meant ze-
ro-yield Kharif for
many peasants in
Kurunda village
situated in Hingoli
district.
The farmers said
thatthefloodsnotonly
washed away the
crops, but also a part
of the topsoil layer
covering their fields.
The floodwaters of
Asana river also dam-
aged many houses in
the village, local
farmers informed.
“I have a three-acre
farm, where I had
sown soybean, but
now, not only the crop,
but the top layer of
the soil also has been
washed away by the
floods,” says Shreer-
am Ingole, farmer.
Big craters in his
field spell the devasta-
tion caused by floods
in his fields.
“I don’t expect any
earnings coming in
the kharif season.
Apart from the losses,
I will also have to in-
vest in the massive re-
pairs of the farm be-
fore sowing a new
crop. All of this will be
possible only after the
monsoons,” said Raju
Ingole, the sarpanch
of the village, who
claimed that many
houseshavebeendam-
agedbecauseof floods.
He too had sown
soybean in his eight-
acre land, which has
been washed off by
the flooded waters.
Floodwaters of Asana
river also damaged
many houses in
the village, local
farmers informed
The retired IPS officer was
questioned by the federal
probe agency for the second
consecutive day
PHONE TAPPING CASE
Two dead, three injured in
Amravati house collapse
At least 6 persons were injured after a single-storey building
collapsed on another structure in Bhiwandi town of Thane district
on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI
As Amravati has been
witnessing heavy
rains for the past few
days, it may have led
to the collapse of
the old construction
A house gets submerged in floodwater near
electrical lines following heavy rainfall, in
Chandrapur on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
A makeshift house gets submerged in
floodwater following heavy rainfall, in
Chandrapur on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey at the ED
office after being summoned in connection with the NSE co-
location scam, in Delhi. —FILE PHOTO
ED arrests ex-Mumbai police chief
Sanjay Pandey in NSE co-location case

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courage instilled the confidence
of the countrymen to fight against
foreign rule by blowing the trumpet
of revolution in 1857. His supreme
sacrifice shook the entire nation and
a strong foundation of independence
was laid. Salute to him on the birth
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ever facility to manufacture 3D-printed
rocket engines.
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
Work for work’s sake, not for
yourself. Act but do not be
attached to your actions. Be in
the world, but not of it.
—Bhagavad Gita
IN-DEPTH
WHEN WILL COPS
LEARN FROM
STRONG WORDS
OF SC JUDGES
f the Supreme Court
will not let go of a
chance to castigate
the police for their
high-handedness, the
cops too won’t mend their ways.
Every time there’s a stricture
against the police one hopes that
they will not go out of their way
to harass an individual, but that
does not happen. Take the case of
Mohammed Zubair, the editor of
Alt News, who is under arrest for
alleged blasphemous tweets.
Zubair has six FIRs against him
at Hathras, Lakhimpur Kheri,
Sitapur, Ghaziabad and Muzaffa-
rnagar. There was another case
lodged against him in Delhi
where an Additional Sessions
Judge granted him bail saying
that dissent is the essence of de-
mocracy
. He was also granted in-
terim bail by the Supreme Court
in the case filed by Sitapur police.
While seeking protection for
Zubair from arrests Vrinda
Grover told the court that it is a
“vicious cycle” in which when
Zubair gets bail in one FIR, he
gets arrested in the other.
TOP TWEETS
I
he previous Sun-
day Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath
inaugurated Lulu
HypermarketinLucknow,the
first big ticket investment
worth Rs 2,000 crore in the
statecapitalandthehundreds
of jobs it has created directly
and indirectly
. All this has
happened at a time when the
state is rolling out the red car-
pet for investors from India
and abroad and is trying to
figure out how to make UP a
trillion dollar economy
. On
Monday, the CM asked offi-
cials to keep a target of Rs 10
lakh crore investments. The
state, he said, had emerged as
a dream destination.
It may surely have become
a dream destination for some.
What may shatter his dream,
however, is the growing reli-
gious animosity between
groups and the police admin-
istration’s blatantly soft ap-
proach towards one set of
people. Some groups are bent
on disrupting communal
harmony when alleged Mus-
lims offered namaz a day af-
ter the mall was inaugurated.
A Hindu group then swung
into action and reached the
place to recite their religious
prayer. To cap it all, a sadhu
descended on the place to
perform shuddhikaran. The
mall administration may
have been caught napping by
the namazis but other at-
tempts were foiled.
Realising the size of invest-
ment the new mall has
brought and the wrong mes-
sage that will go out to pro-
spectiveinvestors,YogiAdity-
anath has now issued a stern
warning not only to trouble-
makers but also to Lucknow’s
police administration. Hope-
fully
, the police will now firm-
ly deal with all those itching
for trouble for the sake of
CM’s Rs 10 lakh crore dream.
LEST YOGI’S
DREAM IS SHATTERED
Yogi Adityanath has now
issued a stern warning not
only to trouble-makers but
also to Lucknow’s police
administration. Hopefully,
the police will now firmly
deal with all those
itching for trouble for the
sake of CM’s `10 lakh
crore dream
T
PREZ POLLS AGAIN EXPOSE
‘MYTH’ CALLED OPPN UNITY
n July 18, the BJP and espe-
cially the astute politician
that PM Narendra Modi is…
once again showed his politi-
cal prowess and the Opposi-
tion cut an extremely sorry
figure as far as the presiden-
tialelectionswereconcerned.
To start with, the way the
candidates’ names, especially
in the Opposition camp was
announced and the thereby
rejection from the candidates
themselves only reduced the
stature of the Opposition.
The presidential race has
clearly exposed the “myth”
called Opposition unity and
also displayed the clueless lot
of parties and their divided
and half-hearted attempts to
take on the Saffron might.
By just naming Draupadi
Murmu, PM Modi gave it a
check and mate status and the
BJD which (understandably)
stayed away from the Opposi-
tion meeting in this regard
(otherthanAAPandTRS)was
thefirstpartytofallinlineow-
ingtothefactthatMurmuwas
the daughter of Odisha!
HOWEVER, ALL THAT
WAS THE TRAILER…
And what happened on the
voting day was the full fea-
ture film which exposed the
fragile and brittle unity of
the Opposition camp (if
there’s anything left in this
regard!). Yashwant Sinha, the
Opposition’s pick for Presi-
dent, looked already defeated.
Though his name was final-
ly announced by the Trina-
mool supremo after the rejec-
tionsfromGopalKrishnaGan-
dhiandFarooqAbdullah…yet
the TMC made no real-time
efforts to campaign solidly for
Sinha.Instead,daysbeforethe
presidential polls, Mamata
herself said, “Draupadi Mur-
mu, who represents the tribal
community and is a woman,
would have been a preferred
choice as a consensus candi-
date, had BJP informed about
her name as presidential can-
didate well ahead.
This itself may have been
sodishearteningforYashwant
Sinha and only he must have
understoodhowitfeltthereaf-
ter to continue in the race.
Also, it may be recalled
that the Congress, which also
seconded Sinha, made almost
cipher efforts to solicit sup-
port for Sinha and Rahul
Gandhi was away on a trip
abroad (his fifth foreign trip
this year) and returned on
the voting day
.
By naming Murmu, the
BJP made its political goal
clear - to woo and win back al-
lies like the Akali Dal, which
supported presidential and
the vice-presidential candi-
dates Murmu and Dhankhar.
BIHAR
Even Bihar Chief Minister
Nitish Kumar, who these days
hardlyagreeswiththeBJPon
anyissues,alsofellinlineand
followed the Saffron party’s
strictures regarding the pres-
idential polls. If all these was
achieved before the battle was
won, guess what happened on
the day the war was fought? A
day later on Tuesday while
this article was being written,
news reports trickling in
from various parts of the
country weren’t very bright
for the Opposition camp.
MAHARASHTRA
InMaharashtra,threeMLAs…
onefromtheCongressandtwo
fromSharadPawar’sNational-
istCongressParty(NCP)came
on record and said they voted
for NDA candidate Draupadi
Murmu. In Gujarat, the sole
NCP legislator, Kandhal Jade-
ja(alsoonrecord)saidhesided
for Murmu.
GUJARAT
Gujarat NCP president Jay-
ant Patel ‘Bosky’ immediate-
ly cracked down and sought
an explanation from Jadeja
for his act but it may be noted
here that the party did not is-
sue a whip, although its leg-
islators were instructed ver-
bally to vote for Sinha.
JHARKHAND
Another NCP MLA, Kamlesh
Singh (from Jharkhand), cast
hisballotinfavourof Murmu.
Haryana Congress MLA Kul-
deepBishnoi,whocross-voted
in last month’s Rajya Sabha
polls, said he voted according
to his conscience. Indicating
that he cast his ballot in fa-
vourof Murmu,Bishnoisaid,
“Like in Rajya Sabha, I have
cast my vote in this election
too as per my conscience.”
Heavily criticising
YashwantSinhaforoncealleg-
edly calling SP patriarch Mu-
layamSinghYadav“ISIagent”,
PragatisheelSamajwadiParty
chief andbrotherof Mulayam
Singh… Shivpal Yadav said,
“Hardcore SP leaders, who fol-
low “Netaji’s” principles, will
neversupportacandidatewho
levelled such allegations.”
ASSAM
In Assam, AIUDF legislator
Karimuddin Barbhuiya al-
leged that at least 20 Con-
gress MLAs voted for Mur-
mu. A Congress MLA from
Odisha, Mohammad Mo-
quim, voted for Murmu, as
the NDA presidential nomi-
nee is a ‘daughter’ of (his)
state and so he went by his
“conscience” call.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
O
However, little after this
article is published and
read… the truth… that is
the verdict will be out. With
the Lok Sabha elections
slated in 2024, the BJP
showed clarity in its
thought… and once again
the depleted, disoriented
and unplanned Opposition
was found struggling to get
its act together!
By just naming Draupadi
Murmu, PM Modi gave it
a check and mate status
and the BJD which
(understandably) stayed away
from the Opposition meeting
in this regard (other than AAP
and TRS) was the first party
to fall in line owing to the fact
that Murmu was the daughter
of Odisha! Yashwant
Sinha, the Opposition’s
pick for President, looked
already defeated
ROBIN ROY
The writer is Senior Associate Editor,
Free Press Journal, Mumbai and former
Managing Editor, First India

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Nagpur: Maharash-
tra’s Deputy Chief Min-
ister Devendra Fad-
navis called upon the
Rashtriya Swayamse-
vak Sangh (RSS) Chief
Mohan Bhagwat on
Tuesday and is believed
to have bounced off
three names as the
probables being consid-
ered for the post of
BJP’s Maharashtra
President.
Currently, Chandra-
kant Dada Patil is the
state president and is
likely to be moved out
of the organisational
role for a cabinet berth
in the Maharashtra gov-
ernment.
Current general sec-
retary Srikant Bharti’s
name was among the
three probables dis-
cussed by Fadnavis
with Bhagawat during
his meeting in Nagpur.
Other posts, that were
always the prerogative
of the RSS till before
2014, like organisation-
al secretary were also
discussed. Bhagwat is
believed to have posi-
tively supported the
process being taken for-
ward by Fadnavis and
asked him to go ahead
without making any
preferences known.
Fadnavis meets Bhagwat
MAHA BJP PREZ
Mohan Bhagwat
1997 Uphaar fire: Court orders
release of Sushil, Gopal Ansal
New Delhi (PTI): A
Delhi court on Tuesday
ordered the release of
real estate tycoons Su-
shil and Gopal Ansal
against the jail term al-
ready undergone by
them in a case of tam-
pering with evidence in
the case related to the
1997 Uphaar cinema
fire, which had claimed
59 lives.
A magisterial court
hadonNovember8,2021,
awarded seven-year jail
terms to real estate bar-
ons and since then they
were in prison.
District Judge
Dharmesh Sharma on
Tuesdayalsoorderedthe
release of former court
staff Dinesh Chand
Sharma and another
convictPPBatraagainst
their already undergone
jail term since Novem-
ber 8, 2021.
IN THE COURTYARD
SC NOTICE TO NIA
ON RAO PLEA
AGNIPATH PLEAS
WITH DELHI HC
‘GOVT DOES NOT
MAINTAIN DATA OF
ARRESTED JOURNOS’
RAI SAYS ‘NO’ AS
MP ASKS IF TERROR
ATTACKS RISING
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court issued notice to
National Investigation
Authority on a plea filed
by activist P Varavara
Rao, an accused in Bhima
Koregaon case, seeking
bail on medical grounds.A
bench of Justices UU
Lalit, S Ravindra Bhat and
Sudhanshu Dhulia said
its order of extending the
interim bail granted on
medical grounds to Rao
will continue.
The Supreme Court
transferred PILs pend-
ing before it, including
the plea challenging the
Agnipath scheme to Del-
hi HC. Additionally, the
bench of SC Justices
DY Chandrachud, Surya
Kant and AS Bopanna
asked the HCs of Kerala,
Punjab and Haryana,
Patna and U’khand to
transfer the PILs pend-
ing before them against
the scheme to Delhi HC.
Union Minister for Home
Affairs Nityanand Rai on
Tuesday informed in a writ-
ten reply in Loksabha that
the National Crime Records
Bureau (NCRB) does not
maintain any specific data
with respect to the arrest
of journalists.His remarks
came after Trinamool
Congress MP Mala Roy
had asked about the total
number of journalists ar-
rested in the country since
2019 along with the details
of all the individual charges
against these journalists.
Union MoS for Home Ni-
tyanand Rai on Tuesday
replied ‘No’ to a query of
a Lok Sabha MP when he
asked whether incidents of
terror attacks are rising in
the country. Rai said that
the “situation has improved
significantly in Jammu and
Kashmir and that there
has been a substantial
decline in terrorist attacks
from 417 in 2018 to 229 in
2021”. In a written reply to
the question of DMK leader
A. Ganeshamurthi, the
Minister said, “No, Sir”.
NCUI to study
Covid’s impact on
cooperatives: Shah
New Delhi (PTI): The
National Cooperative
Union of India (NCUI)
will conduct a study to
ascertain the impact of
the COVID-19 pandemic
on cooperatives, Coop-
eration Minister Amit
Shah informed Parlia-
ment on Tuesday
.
The pandemic exten-
sively affected all sec-
tors, including coopera-
tives. However, the gov-
ernment has extended
COVID-19 relief
through various meas-
ures/ packages from
time to time to mitigate
challenges faced by dif-
ferent sectors, he said
in the Lok Sabha.
“In order to assess
the impact of pandemic
on the cooperative soci-
eties, a study has been
entrusted to National
Cooperative Union of
India,” Shah said in his
written reply to the
Lower House. In order
to address the fallout of
the COVID pandemic,
the minister said Na-
tional Cooperative De-
velopment Corporation
(NCDC) has stepped up
its financial assistance
to cooperative societies.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Parliament on Tuesday.
METHODOLOGY OF
WHO UNSCIENTIFIC,
SAYS GOVT
The mathematical
modeling approach of
WHO that projected excess
mortality estimates related
to Covid suffers from
erroneous assumptions
and is unscientific and
India had registered
its strong objection to
this methodology, the
government informed
Parliament on Tuesday.
India had objected to the
‘one size fits all’ approach
adopted by the WHO as it
might be true for smaller
countries but cannot be
applied to a huge and
diverse country like India,
MoS for Heath Bharati
Pravin Pawar said.
Maken moves HC
against Kartikeya
win in RS polls
Chandigarh (PTI):
Congress leader Ajay
Maken moved the Pun-
jab and Haryana HC,
challenging BJP-JJP
backed Independent
candidate Kartikeya
Sharma’s win in last
month’s Rajya Sabha
polls. The
leader said
a vote cast
in favour
of Sharma
s h o u l d
have been
rejected as
it was not marked in the
column where the pref-
erence was supposed to
be marked. As the vote
was counted as valid, it
had a bearing on the poll
result, and therefore,
Maken said, he had to
file the petition.In a
veiled dig at senior Har-
yana Congress leader
Kiran Choudhary
, Mak-
en said there was no
doubt the vote which
was rejected was that of
the Tosham MLA.
Over1.6LIndiansrelinquished
citizenshipin2021:Nityanand
New Delhi: Over 1.6
lakh Indian citizens
have renounced their
citizenshipin2021toset-
tle in other countries.
The information was
shared by Minister of
State (Home) Nityanand
Rai on Tuesday in Lok
Sabha.
The statistics shared
by Rai in a written reply
showed that compared
to 2020 when 85,256 In-
dian citizens renounced
their citizenship,
1,63,370 Indian citizens
relinquished their citi-
zenship in 2021. As for
2019, the figure stood at
1,44,017. “Individuals re-
nounced Indian citizen-
ship for reasons person-
al to them,” stated Rai.
Rai said that in 2021
the highest number of
Indian citizens relin-
quished their citizen-
ship to settle in the Unit-
ed States. A total of
78,284 Indians settled in
the United States, he
added.
Lko admn must take matter very
seriously, CM Yogi on Lulu row
Lucknow (ANI): UP
CM Yogi Adityanath
pulled up the adminis-
tration and directed
them to take strict ac-
tion against the miscre-
ants who create nui-
sance.
His remarks came af-
ter a video sparked a
controversy in which
some people were seen
offering namaz inside
the Lulu mall and pro-
tests followed.
“Some are making
unnecessary remarks
and staging demonstra-
tions, to obstruct move-
ment of people. Luc-
know administration
must take the matter
very seriously
,” he said.
AYODHYA SEER PARAMHANS DAS TRIES
TO ‘PURIFY’ LULU MALL, DETAINED
Mahant Paramhans Das of
Ayodhya was taken into
custody on Tuesday after
he reached the Lulu Mall
in Lucknow carrying water
to ‘purify’ the premises,
further escalating the
ongoing controversy. After
he was prevented from
entering into the mall, a
minor scuffle with the police
personnel also took place.
The seer said if saints are
not being permitted into
the mall, then it should be
shut down. Paramhans Das,
who is known for creating
controversies at regular
intervals, was recently
prevented from entering
into the Taj Mahal and
performing puja. Earlier, he
had written to the President
demanding a Hindu Rashtra.
PMMODIMEETSTOPMINISTERS
Discusses startegy for monsoon session of Parliament as Oppn sharpens attack
New Delhi (ANI):
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi on Tuesday
held discussions with
his top ministers to for-
mulate the govern-
ment’s strategy in Par-
liament, for the ongoing
Monsoon session.
This comes after the
Opposition parties are
up in arms to attack the
government on the is-
sues of price rise, GST
hike, Agnipath scheme
and even forced ad-
journments in both the
Houses of the Parlia-
ment.
As soon as Rajya Sab-
ha assembled on the sec-
ond day of the Monsoon
Session, the Rajya Sab-
ha was adjourned till 2
pm amid protests and
sloganeering by the op-
position parties over in-
flation and GST rate
hikes.
Congress general sec-
retary in charge of com-
munications Jairam
Ramesh tweeted, “To-
day the Opposition got
the Rajya Sabha ad-
journed till 2pm on the
issue of intolerable
price rise and increase
in GST, especially on
food items, on which the
Modi Sarkar is unwill-
ing to have a debate.”
MODI REMEMBERS MANGAL
PANDEY ON BIRTH ANNIV
TEJASHWI SLAMS BJP, RSS
RAJNATH, THAKUR SLAM
OPPN ON AGNIPATH
New Delhi (ANI): PM
Narendra Modi on Tues-
day remembered Mangal
Pandey on his birth
anniversary and said that
the freedom fighter had
ignited the spark of pat-
riotism at a very critical
period in India’s history.
“The great Mangal Pandey
is synonymous with cour-
age and determination. He
ignited the spark of pat-
riotism at a very critical
period of our history and
inspired countless people.
Remembering him on his
birth anniversary. Had
paid tributes to his statue
in Meerut earlier this
year,” PM Modi said in
a tweet. Earlier this year,
Prime Minister paid floral
tribute to the statue of
Mangal Pandey in Uttar
Pradesh’s Meerut. Vice
President M Venkaiah
Naidu also paid tribute to
Mangal Pandey.
RJD leader Tejashwi
Yadav on Tuesday
slammed the BJP and
RSS for having caste
and religion section
under the documents
required during the re-
cruitment of Agniveers.
He cited a popular
Hindi idiom where it
highlights that never
ask the caste of a sage
or a monk. Taking to a
micro-blogging site Ya-
dav slammed the RSS
and BJP citing that the
‘Agniveers will be sort-
ed out or filtered out
on the basis of caste.’
“Don’t ask the caste of
the monk. But ask the
caste of the soldier.
The BJP government of
the Sangh runs away
from caste census but
asks for caste from
Agniveer brothers who
gave their lives for the
service of the country,”
he said.
Defence Minister Ra-
jnath Singh on Tuesday
outrightly rejected the
Opposition’s allegations
of caste certificates
being asked from the
Agnipath aspirants and
said that the practice
has been in existence
“since pre-independ-
ence era” adding that
no change has been
made in the registra-
tion criteria. “It’s just
a rumour. (The) earlier
system, existing since
the pre-independence
era, is going on. No
change has been made.
(The) old system is be-
ing continued,” Singh
told reporters as he
rejected the allega-
tions. The Opposition
criticised the govern-
ment alleging that caste
and religion certificates
are being sought for the
Agnipath recruitment
scheme. Union Infor-
mation and Broadcast-
ing Minister Anurag
Thakur also slammed
allegations by AAP and
the Opposition.
New Delhi: A day after
Enforcement Directorate
(ED) questioned jailed
Delhi minister Satyendar
Jain’s wife Poonam Jain
in connection with a dis-
proportionate assets case,
Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha
MP Priyanka Chaturvedi,
said that ‘ED has become
an extended part of BJP’.
Attacking the Centre she
said, “Nowadays, the ED
has become an extended
department of the BJP.
Wherever the BJP is in
Opposition in a state,
action is taken against the
ruling party.”
‘ED HAS BECOME
AN EXTENDED
PART OF BJP’
Minister of State Nityanand Rai
Opposition leaders protest in front of the Speaker in Parliament on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI
New Delhi (PTI): The
three services are reel-
ing under a shortage of
1,35,784 personnel with
the Army having the
maximum vacancies at
1,16,464, according to
details provided by the
government. The total
shortage includes of-
ficers and soldiers.
In a written reply to
a question in Rajya
Sabha on Monday, MoS
for Defence Ajay Bhatt
said the average annu-
al recruitment in
Army, Navy and Air
Force is 60,000, 5,332
and 5,723 respectively.
The minister did not
give a direct reply to a
specific question on
whether the average
recruitment figure is
more than the pro-
posed annual intake of
‘Agniveers’ and, if so,
how the shortage of
manpower in the
armed forces will be
met. To this, Bhatt only
said the matter is sub-
judice in the Supreme
Court.
Shortage of 1.35 lakh
personnel in services
Devendra Fadnavis
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed a Delhi
High Court order directing the AAP government to try
and clear the backlog of unfilled EWS seats in private
schools in the next five years. A bench of Justices S K
Kaul and M M Sundresh issued notice to the Delhi gov-
ernment’s Education Department and others on an appeal
challenging the high court order.
HC ORDER FOR AAP GOVT REGARDING
EWS BACKLOG IN SCHOOLS STAYED
—PHOTO
BY
PTI
Shinde faction...
and the appointment
of his own ‘men’ on
the same.
He appointed Rahul
Shewale as the leader
of the Shiv Sena in
Parliament and made
Bhavana Gawli the
chief whip to replace
Rajan Vichare, who
had been appointed by
former CM Uddhav
Thackeray.
Shinde also replaced
the Yuva Sena General
Secretary Varun Sard-
esai, cousin of former
Environment Minister
Aaditya Thackeray,
with Vikas Gogawle,
son of Bharat
Gogawle-- who is the
Shinde faction’s whip
in Maharashtra.
All that remains
now is for the Supreme
Court to either en-
dorse the BJP-sup-
ported political gam-
bit in Maharashtra
and Delhi launched
by Shinde, failing
which, the Thackeray
faction will likely rise
again.
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New Delhi (ANI): The
Central Government
has received a proposal
from the Government
of West Bengal for re-
naming the State as
“Bangla” in all three
languages ie. Bengali,
English and Hindi, in-
formed Ministry of
Home Affairs in the
Parliament on Tuesday
.
Minister of State in
MHA, Nityanand Rai
in a written reply to the
Lok Sabha has in-
formed that MHA has
given “No Objection
Certificate (NOC)” to
the proposals received
during the last five
years, for changing the
name of cities across
the country.
All India Trinamool
Congress (AITC) MP
Saida Ahmad has
asked a question on
the details and the
number of proposals
received by the Minis-
try of Home Affairs for
getting approval to
change the cities name
across the country, and
whether the Govern-
ment has revamped
the guidelines for
changing the names of
the heritage places.
Rai replied that MHA
has no such guidelines
for the change of
names of heritage
places. In the year
2022, Punjab city “Shri
Hargobindpur” name
was changed to “Shri
Hargobindpur Sahib”.
He further informed
that, in addition to the
above details, a pro-
posal for changing the
name of “Nasrullaganj
Nagar” to “Bherunda”
has been received in
the Ministry of Home
Affairs on April 25,
2022, from the Govern-
ment of MP.
‘Proposal to change WB to Bangla received’
NAME CHANGE
BJP eyeing Raj Thackeray for a ‘bigger’ role?
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: The
Bharatiya Janata Par-
ty is mulling over a ma-
jor role for Raj Thack-
eray in the politics of
Maharashtra where
he will be used in
Maharashtra the
way Trinamool
Congress is
thinking of
Shubhendu
Adhikari
in West
B e n -
gal or O Panneersel-
vam in Tamil Nadu.
There is a proposal to
include the rebel lead-
ers of Shiv Sena in Raj
Thackeray’s party Ma-
harashtra Navnirman
Sena (MNS). With this
Shiv Sena will be left
with Uddhav Thacker-
ay and Eknath Shinde
faction will also get one
party, one Thackeray.
The second proposal is
to eliminate Shiv Sena
through Shinde and in-
stall Raj Thackeray in
its place which will be
extremely easy. If the
matter of Eknath Shin-
de and Uddhav Thack-
eray reaches the Elec-
tion Commission, the
commission will con-
fiscate the party’s name
and symbol. After that
most of Uddhav’s re-
maining leaders will
also go with Shinde or
BJP. At the same time
Raj Thackeray will be
established with the
help of BJP. For this
there is talk of making
his son a minister in
the state government.
Raj Thackeray’s son
Amit Thackeray is very
active and was current-
ly on a tour of Konkan.
He is being considered
as the ‘kaat’ of Aaditya
Thackeray. He is not
even MLA or MLC
right now. Still, if he
becomes a minister, it
will be easy for Raj
Thackeray to unite his
supporters.
ELECTION COMMISSION CAN CONFISCATE
PARTY’S NAME AND SYMBOL
If the matter of Eknath Shinde and Ud-
dhav Thackeray reaches the Election
Commission, the commission will con-
fiscate the party’s name and symbol.
After that most of Uddhav’s remaining
leaders will also go with Shinde or BJP.
At the same time Raj Thackeray will be
established with the help of BJP. For
this there is talk of making his son a
minister in the state government. Raj
Thackeray’s son Amit Thackeray is very
active and was currently on a tour of
Konkan. He is being considered as the
‘kaat’ of Aaditya Thackeray.
REVIEW MEET
TRAINING OF COPS SHOULD
CHANGE WITH TIMES: SHAH
New Delhi (PTI): Un-
ion Home Minister
Amit Shah on Tuesday
said training of police-
men should be changed
over time and empha-
sised that there is a
need to inculcate the
spirit of patriotism,
discipline and sensitiv-
ity along with modern
techniques.
Chairing a review
meeting of the central
police training insti-
tutes here, Shah said
use of technology and
modern equipment in
training of police forc-
es is the need of the
hour but at the same
time there should be
focus on basic policing
and put it into practice.
“It is very important
that training of police-
men should be changed
over the time,” he said,
according to an official
statement.
The home minister
emphasised on both,
strictness and sensitiv-
ity in training and said
that along with modern
techniques, there is a
need to inculcate the
spirit of patriotism, fit-
ness, discipline, sensi-
tivity and self-dedica-
tion in police forces. He
stressed the need to re-
view the impact of on-
line training for police-
men at all levels be-
sides an effective train-
ing system to fulfil ex-
pectations, sense of
duty and achievement
of goals. The home
minister said 60 per
cent training for all po-
licemen should be com-
mon to all, while 40 per-
cent training should be
force-based, so that we
can make the best use
of our training capa-
bilities. Presentations
were made by the cen-
tral police training in-
stitutions emphasising
upon the importance of
right training to build
up the capacities of the
police personnel for
providing prompt and
responses to the ever
changing nature of se-
curity challenges.
Soren’scloseaide
MishrareachesED
Ranchi (ANI): The En-
forcement Directorate
has started questioning
PankajMishra,theMLA
representative of
Jharkhand Chief Minis-
terHemantSorenincon-
nection with an alleged
money laundering case.
On July 8, the ED had
conducted searches at 19
locations linked to Pan-
kaj Mishra and his aides
in Sahebganj, Berhait,
Rajmahal and Mirza
Chauki. Since then, ED
had summoned him to
join the investigation
but didn’t turn up twice
giving the reason of ill
health. He joined the in-
vestigation on his third
summon today
. Prior to
him, ED has already
grilled two of his close
associates Dahoo Yadav
and Bachchu Yadav.
Earlier, the Enforce-
ment Directorate (ED)
informed that it had
seized cash amounting
to Rs 11.88 crore lying in
37bankaccountsbelong-
ing to Pankaj Mishra, a
close aide of Jharkhand
Chief Minister Hemant
Soren, and others in the
illegal mining case. The
seizedamountbelongsto
Mishra, Dahoo Yadav
and their associates.
The amount was
seized under the Preven-
tion of money-launder-
ingAct(PMLA),2002.ED
had conducted searches
at 19 locations in Sahib-
ganj, Barhet, Rajmahal,
Mirza Chauki and
Barharwar in
Jharkhand resulting in
the seizure of various
incriminating docu-
ments and Rs 5.34 crore
unaccounted cash on
July 8.
HM stresses need
to inculcate spirit
of patriotism
sensitivity along
with modern
techniques
HOLISTIC
APPROACH
The Home Minister
said under ‘Mission
Karmayogi’ launched
by Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi, training of
police personnel up to
the level of constable,
sub inspector and DSP
should be conducted
with a holistic ap-
proach.
‘NOC GIVEN TO
MANY CITIES’
Minister of State in
MHA, Nityanand Rai in
a written reply to the
LS has informed that
MHA has given NOC to
the proposals received
during the last 5 years,
for changing the name
of cities across the
country.
Minister of State in MHA,
Nityanand Rai
HC permits re-PM of girl
even sans parents’ nod
Chennai: The Madras
High Court on Tuesday
permitted authorities to
proceed with the re-
postmortem on the body
of a Class XII girl, who
was found dead in a pri-
vate school in Kallaku-
richi, even if her par-
ents refuse to cooperate.
Justice N Sathish Ku-
mar passed the order in
view of an urgent men-
tion made by state pub-
lic prosecutor Hasan
Mohammad Jinnah
that they could not lo-
cate the parents and
that the doctors team
appointed by the court
were waiting to com-
mence autopsy. Court
permitted authorities to
go ahead without wait-
ing for parents.
5 women who forced aspirants
to remove innerwear arrested
Kollam (Agencies):
Five women, who were
on NEET exam duty
held in an educational
institute in Kerala,
were arrested on Tues-
day here for allegedly
asking girl students to
remove their innerwear
for appearing for the
test held on Sunday, po-
lice said.Police said
that they were arrested
after hours-long inter-
rogation by police prob-
ing the case.
While three women
work for an agency
hired by National Test-
ing Agency (NTA), two
work for the private ed-
ucational institute at
Ayur where the inci-
dent happened.
Bioeconomy key to India’s
future in next 25 yrs: Min
New Delhi (Agencies):
Union Minister of State
(Independent Charge)
Science Technology;
Minister of State (Inde-
pendent Charge) Earth
Sciences; MoS PMO,
Personnel,PublicGriev-
ances, Pensions, Atomic
Energy and Space, Dr
Jitendra Singh on Tues-
day said, Bioeconomy
will be key to India’s fu-
ture economy over the
next 25 years.
Releasing India’s Bio-
economy Report 2022,
Singh pointed out that
India’s Bioeconomy has
reached over 80 billion
US Dollars in 2021 re-
cording 14.1% growth
over $70.2 billion in 2020.
Noting the rapid growth
in the sector, the minis-
ter said, Bioeconomy is
likely to touch 150 bil-
lion dollars by 2025 and
over 300 billion dollars
by 2030. Singh urged all
the stakeholders of Bio-
tech sector to collective-
ly work to achieve the
ambitious target.
He said, number of
Biotech Startups have
increased from 50 to
over 5,300 in the last 10
years, because of the
growing enabling eco-
system and prioritisa-
tion provided by PM.
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu
government on Tuesday
transferred Kallakurichi
district collector P N Sridhar
and SP S Selvakumar, two
days after violence erupted
at Kaniyamoor following
the death of a Class XII
girl student. Shravan
Kumar Jadavath has been
appointed as the collector
while Triplicane deputy
commissioner of police S
Pakalavan has been appointed
as the new SP.Sridhar has
been posted as the planning
director of Kanyakumari
Industrial Corridor while
Selvakumar has been kept in
vacancy reserve.
DIST COLLECTOR,
SP TRANSFERRED
Assembly polls
may get further
delayed in JK
New Delhi: With gov-
ernment of India once
again putting ball of
holding of Assembly
elections in Jammu and
Kashmir in the court of
Election Commission
(EC), the much awaited
polls may be deferred
further. In a written re-
ply to a question about
the time-frame by by
which the situation in
Kashmir would be
brought to normal for
starting democratic
process in the Valley,
Minister of State for
Home Affairs Nity-
anand Rai in a written
reply in the Parliament
said the decision to elec-
tions is the prerogative
of the EC. “The govern-
ment constituted a De-
limitation Commission,
which notified Orders
on March 14, 2022 and
May 5, 2022, on delimita-
tion of Parliamentary
and Assembly constitu-
encies of Jammu and
Kashmir.
Sikkim-cadre officer Aunjaneye
Singh empanelled by Centre
Ahtesham Siddiqui
Lucknow: Aunjaneye
Kumar Singh, SIkkim
cadre IAS, currently
on inter-state deputa-
tion to Uttar Pradesh
and serving as Com-
missioner Moradabad,
has been empanelled
by the Centre.
Seventeen IAS offic-
ers of 2005 batch from
across the country
have been selected to
the rank of Joint Sec-
retary, however, no UP
cader officer is includ-
ed in this list. Only
Aunjaneye Kumar of
Sikkim carder, has
been selected for em-
panelled.
Singh came to UP
cardre on deputation
in 2015. Keeping in
view his performance,
the state government
approved his plea to
increase his deputa-
tion period and after
being accorded a pro-
motion to the Secre-
tary rank, on March 2,
2021, he was apponted
as Commissioner of
Muradabad.
In the case of
Aunjaneye Kumar Sin-
gh, who has been on
deputation in UP for
the last 8 years, the Un-
ion Ministry of Per-
sonnel and Pension
has issued an order
and now he will re-
main in the state till
February 14, 2023.
Minister Jitendra Singh releasing Bioeconomy report on Tuesday.
Union Minister for Home Affairs and Cooperation Amit Shah presiding over meeting of Central Police
Training Institutes, in New Delhi on Tuesday. Also seen here are Ajay Kumar Bhalla Nityanand Rai.
TAKE BRA IN HAND AND LEAVE,
COMPLAINS KERALA GIRL
Ateen, one of the many allegedly forced to re-
move her bra before the NEET medical entrance
exam on Sunday, described her humiliation as she
sat for the exam using her hair to cover her chest.
It was a “very bad experience”, said the 17-year-
old, choking up as she shared what happened at
the centre for NEET. “They asked me, are you wear-
ing underwear with a metal hook? I said yes, so
was asked to join that line.” The girl said she could
scarcely understand what was happening and why.
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New Delhi (PTI): In-
dia’s renewable energy
capacity (excluding
large hydro) stood at
114.07 GW till June-end
this year, while 60.66
GW of projects are un-
der various stages of
development, Parlia-
ment was informed on
Tuesday
.
India has set a target
of having 175 GW of
renewable energy ca-
pacity, including 100
GW of solar and 60 GW
of wind energy, by
2022. “Against the tar-
get of achieving 175
GW of Renewable En-
ergy (excluding Large
Hydro) installed capac-
ity by 2022, a total of
114.07 GW renewable
energy capacity (ex-
cluding large hydro)
has been installed in
the country as on
June 30, 2022,” Minis-
ter of State for New
and Renewable Energy
Bhagwanth Khuba
said in a written reply
in the Rajya Sabha.
Further, he said ca-
pacity of 60.66 GW is
under various stages
of implementation,
while 23.14 GW capaci-
ty is under various
stages of bidding.
In another reply,
Minister of New and
Renewable Energy R K
Singh said the share of
renewable energy (in-
cluding large hydro) in
the total installed elec-
tricity generation ca-
pacity in the country
was 39.85 per cent as on
June 30, 2022.
“Under Component-
B of PM-KUSUM
Scheme, Government
has allocated over 3.59
lakh standalone solar
pumps to various
States. Out of this, over
1.23 lakh standalone
solar pumps have been
installed as on June 30,
2022,” the minister said
in reply to another
question.
Under the scheme,
standalonesolarpumps
up to 10 HP capacity
have been installed.
However, central finan-
cial assistance is re-
stricted to 7.5 HP pump
capacity, Singh said.
The Ministry of New
and Renewable Energy
is working towards
achieving 500 GW of in-
stalled electricity ca-
pacity from non-fossil
sources by 2030.
INDIA’S
RENEWABLE
energy capacity at 114
GW till June-end
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New Delhi (PTI): Pa-
tanjali Foods Ltd will
soon cut prices of soy-
abean oil, sunflower
oil and palm oil by Rs
10-15 per litre to pass
on the benefits of fall
in global prices, a top
company official said.
Earlier this month,
the food ministry had
directed edible oil
companies to reduce
prices of edible oil in
line with the fall in
global rates.
Following the Cen-
tre’s direction, Mother
Dairy has reduced pric-
es by up to Rs 14 per li-
tre and Adani Wilmar
by up to Rs 30 per litre.
“We are going to re-
duce prices of palm
oil, sunflower oil and
soyabean oil by Rs 10-
15 per litre each in a
day or two. But in the
last 45 days, the total
reduction will be Rs 30-
35 per litre,” Patanjali
Foods CEO Sanjeev
Asthana told PTI. The
effective reduction in
the last 45 days, includ-
ing the proposed Rs 10-
15 per litre cut, would
reach to Rs 30-35 per
litre, he said, and
pointed out that its
competitors have not
taken similar cuts in
the last one and half
months.
Asthana highlighted
that the global prices
have come down by 15-
20 per cent but said the
market is very volatile.
Patanjali Foods, erst-
while Ruchi Soya In-
dustries Ltd, sells its
products under brands
like Ruchi Gold, Maha-
kosh, Sunrich, Nutrela,
Ruchi Star and Ruchi
Sunlight.
Patanjali Foods to soon reduce
prices of palm, sunflower oil
`10-15/
litre
We are going to reduce prices of palm oil,
sunflower oil and soyabean oil by ` 10-15 per
litre each in a day or two.
New Delhi (PTI): The
Comptroller and Audi-
tor General (CAG) has
pulled up the telecom
department for not fi-
nalising policy on
spectrum assignment
for captive uses and
flagged the absence of
spectrum price review
for captive users ad-
ministratively
.
In its report titled
‘Management of spec-
trum assigned on the
administrative
basis to gov-
ernment de-
par tments/
agencies’,
the CAG
asked the
D e p a r t -
ment of Tel-
ecom (DoT) to re-
view the spectrum
pricing mechanism for
captive users to incen-
tivise ministries, de-
partments and agen-
cies, and for maintain-
ing spectrum manage-
ment discipline.
“They may consid-
er differential pric-
ing, depending on the
features and usage of
various spectrum
bands,” the CAG said
in a report tabled
in Parliament on
Monday.
It noted that despite
receiving a legal opin-
ion (July 2021) on its
own reference, regard-
ing the method for al-
lotment of spectrum
for captive uses, in-
cluding government
departments, the de-
partment had not fi-
nalised the policy for
allotment and assign-
ment of spectrum for
captive uses/
other com-
mercial ser-
vices with
the ap-
proval of
the Digi-
tal Com-
munications
Commission. The
DCC is the apex body
for telecom policy for-
mulation.
“DoT had also not
reviewed the pricing
of spectrum assigned
for captive users ad-
ministratively, on for-
mulae basis since
2012, though a Com-
mittee had recom-
mended for a periodi-
cal review of the pric-
ing policy in 2013,” the
CAG report said.
New Delhi
(PTI): Russia
has defaulted on
the supply of at
least 5 cargoes or
shiploads of
LNG to India af-
ter its retaliatory
sanctions hit one
of the companies
that supply gas
to India, sources
said.
India’s largest
gas firm GAIL
has a long-term
deal to import
2.85 million
tonnes of lique-
fied natural gas
(LNG) per an-
num from a Sin-
g ap o re - b a s e d
unit of Russian
gas producer
Gazprom.
The company
has since June
defaulted on the
supply of 5 car-
goes of LNG un-
der that contract
citing difficulty
in sourcing gas
due to sanctions,
two sources
briefed on the
matter said.
While the con-
tract provides for
making up of the
volumes not sup-
plied later, the
Russian firm has
so far nor indi-
cated how and
whenitwillmake
up for the lost vol-
umes. Sources
said Gazprom
has told GAIL
that it will from
hereon supply
LNG on a best en-
deavour basis.
Russia
defaults on
LNG supplies
to India
Nifty ends above 16,300, Sensex gains 248 pts
Mumbai (PTI):
Bulls continued posi-
tive momentum third
day in a row, the Nifty
ends 62 points higher
while the Sensex was
up by 246 points. Among
Sectors, strong buying
was seen in Reality and
Banking stocks. Amid
sectoral indices, Realty
was the top gainer ral-
lied nearly 2.5 percent.
Technically, the Nif-
ty/Sensex not only
cleared the short term
resistance of
16300/54500 but it suc-
ceeds to close above the
same which is broadly
positive. In addition, it
also holding higher bot-
tom formation and on
daily charts it has
formed long bullish
candle.
The short term trad-
ing setup is indicating
further uptrend from
the current levels. For
the traders now
16250/54300 would be
the trend decider level.
Above which the index
could move till 16400-
16450/55000-55200. On
the flip side, below
16250/54300 the index
could slip up to
16150/54000.
VEDANTA SHARES
GAIN 1.1% AS
SENSEX RISES
Shares of the Vedanta
Ltd NSE 0.55 %. traded
at Rs 240.0 on BSE at
11:11AM (IST), up 1.1 per
cent. The stock quoted a 52-
week low price of Rs 206.1
and a high of Rs 440.75.
Earlier in the day, the stock
saw a gap up opening. At
the prevailing price, the
stock traded at 4.75 times
its trailing 12-month EPS of
Rs 50.58 per share and 2.3
times its book value, as per
BSE data. A total of 342,656
shares changed hands on
the counter till 11:11AM
(IST). The stock com-
mands a market value of Rs
89268.53 crore and is part
of the Diversified industry.
Shares of Petronet LNG
Ltd NSE -0.02 %. traded
at Rs 226.55 on BSE at
01:14PM (IST) on Tuesday,
up 0.24 per cent from
previous close. The
stock quoted a 52-week
low price of Rs 190.3
and a high of Rs 243.0.
Earlier, shares of the com-
pany saw a gap
down opening in the
morning. A total of 39,698
lakh shares changed
hands on the counter
till 01:14PM (IST).
he stock of Petronet
LNG Ltd. commanded
a market value of Rs
34020.0 crore, according
to BSE.
PETRONET LNG
RISES 0.24% AS
SENSEX CLIMBS
Curbs on two co-op
banks; customers
can’t withdraw funds
New Delhi (PTI): Cus-
tomers of Karnataka-
based Sri Mallikarjuna
Pattana Sahakari Bank
Niyamita and Maha-
rashtra-based Nashik
Zilla Girna Sahaka-
ri Bank will not
be able to
withdraw
funds from
their ac-
counts with
the RBI im-
posing re-
strictions on
the lenders.
The re-
s t r i c t i o n s
have been im-
posed on the
two coopera-
tive banks by
the Reserve Bank of
India in wake of their
deteriorating financial
positions.
The restrictions on
Sri Mallikarjuna Pat-
tana Sahakari Bank
Niyamita, Maski (Kar-
nataka) and Nashik
Zilla Girna Sahakari
Bank, Nashik (Maha-
rashtra) will remain in
force for six months, as
per two statements is-
sued by the central
bank.
In the case of Nashik
Zilla Girna Sahakari
Bank, the RBI said
99.87 per cent of the de-
positors are fully cov-
ered by the Deposit In-
surance and Credit
Guarantee Cor-
p o r a t i o n
(DICGC) in-
s u r a n c e
scheme.
A l s o ,
99.53 per cent
of the depos-
itors of Sri
Mallikarju-
na Pattana
S a h a k a r i
Bank Niy-
amitaare are
fully covered
by the DICGC
insurance scheme.
“Considering the
bank’s present liquidi-
ty position, no amount
from the total balance
across all savings
bank or current ac-
counts or any other ac-
count of a depositor,
may be allowed to be
withdrawn, but are al-
lowed to set off loans
against deposits...,”
the RBI said in regards
to the Karnataka-based
bank.
KEY REASON
The restrictions
have been imposed
on the two cooper-
ative banks by the
Reserve Bank of India in
wake of their deteriorat-
ing financial positions.
New Delhi (PTI): En-
thusedbystrongrecovery
in retail consumption,
realty major DLF Chair-
man Rajiv Singh has said
thecompanyhasinitiated
the development of new
shopping malls and looks
to double retail portfolio
in next five years.
At present, DLF has a
retail footprint of 42 lakh
square feet comprising
eight properties, includ-
ing malls and shopping
centres, mainly across
Delhi-NCR. In a message
to the company’s share-
holders’, he said the com-
pany would also scale up
development of housing
and office projects. Singh
mentioned that the past
couple of years have
been one of the most
challenging and uncer-
tain times experienced
across the globe because
of the outbreak of the
COVID-19 pandemic.
DLF aims to double retail presence
in 4-5 years: Chairman Rajiv Singh
COVID-19 EFFECT
The past couple of years have
been one of the most challenging
and uncertain times experienced
across the globe because of the
outbreak of the COVID-19.
CAG pulls up DoT
over spectrum policy
Bengaluru: The larg-
est electric car firm
in India, Ola Electric,
announced on Monday
that it would spend
$500 million to estab-
lish a battery innova-
tion centre and sup-
port domestic cell re-
search and develop-
ment in the country.
The largest electric car
firm in India, Ola Elec-
tric, announced on
Monday that it would
spend $500 million to
establish a battery in-
novation centre and
support domestic cell
research and develop-
ment in the country
.
The business in-
tends to establish a
cutting-edge “Battery
Innovation Center
(BIC)” in Bengaluru.
Accord- i n g
to a
s t a t e -
ment by
Ola Electric, it will be
one of the biggest and
most sophisticated cell
research and develop-
ment centres in the
world with more than
165 unique pieces of
cutting-edge lab equip-
ment to cover all area
of cell-relatedresearch
and development.
Ola’s BIC will house
prototype lines that
can create all cell
types, including cy-
lindrical, pouch,
coin-shaped, and
prismatic.
Ola invests USD 500
million in battery RD
New Delhi (PTI): Sterlite Technologies (STL)
rose 1.55% to Rs 144.20 after the company se-
cured Rs 250 crore deal for building Indian tel-
ecom operator’s optical network.
Under this arrangement, Sterlite Technolo-
gies seeks to fulfil the telecom operator’s
requirement for setting up a high-performance,
modern communication network in India.
Sterlite Technologies is already a
network modernisation partner for the telecom
player and with this deal the company further
strengthens its relationship with the telco.
STERLITE TECH RISES ON
`250 CR ORDER WIN
Shiprocket
acquires Omuni
for `200 crore
New Delhi (PTI): Tech-
enabledlogisticsstartup
Shiprockethasacquired
textile company
Arvind’s omnichannel
technology business
Omuni for about Rs 200
crore in a mix of cash
andequitydeal,thecom-
pany said on Tuesday
.
The deal comes about a
month after Shiprocket
acquired a majority
stake in logistics firm
Pickrr for USD 200 mil-
lion in a mix of equity
and cash transaction.
“The transaction will
be carried out as a com-
bination of stock and
cash for a total consid-
eration of Rs 200 crore.
The combination of
both entities will facili-
tate quick, efficient de-
liveries of shipments
from the nearest store
or warehouse, signifi-
cantly reducing deliv-
ery timelines and en-
hancing customer expe-
rience, Shiprocket said
in a statement.

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CRUCIAL READ
FATHER, DAUGHTER KILLED AFTER
TRUCK COLLIDES WITH BIKE IN PUNE
Pune: A 35-year-old man riding a motorcycle and
his 10-year-old daughter sitting pillion were killed
when their two-wheeler was hit by a truck here on
Tuesday. The incident occurred on the Hadapsar-
Saswad road when Nileh Salunkhe was riding
the motorcycle to drop his daughter Meenakshi
at school, a police official said. A container truck
rammed into the motorcycle from behind, follow-
ing which Nilesh and Meenakshi fell on the road
and were run over. While Nilesh Salunkhe died on
the spot, Meenakshi was rushed to a hospital in
critical condition, where she succumbed to her
injuries, said Hadapsar police station senior in-
spector Arvind Gokule. The truck driver, identified
as Dilip Kumar Patel, was arrested.
FIRE BREAKS OUT AT CLOTH GODOWN IN
BHIWANDI, NO CASUALTIES REPORTED
Thane: A fire broke out at a cloth godown in
Bhiwandi town of Thane district on Tuesday, but
no casualties were reported, a civic official said.
The blaze erupted at a godown, located near a
school and a petrol pump, in Rahanal village
around 9 am, said Avinash Sawant, chief of the
Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) of
the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC). A fire
engine with firemen of the Bhiwandi Nizampur
Municipal Corporation was pressed into service
and the firefighting operation was underway, he
said, adding that the cause of the blaze is yet to
be ascertained.
MAIN ACCUSED WANTED IN CASE OF
PALGHAR MAN'S MURDER HELD
Palghar: Police have arrested the main accused
wanted in the case of killing of a man about five
months ago. On February 26, Samarsingh, alias
Samay Vikramsingh Chouhan, a resident of Virar
town in Palghar, was shot dead by two unidenti-
fied men in Manvelpada. The main accused,
Akilesh Shailesh Tiwari alias Raju, hid in UP, Delhi,
Bihar, and Nepal to avoid arrest, Virar crime unit
senior police inspector Pramod Badakh sais. Act-
ing on a tip-off, police nabbed him from Katihar
in Bihar on Saturday, the official said. The police
have registered offences against the accused
under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code
(IPC), Arms Act and the Maharashtra Control of
Organized Crime Act (MCOCA), he added.
THREE HELD FOR `12.2CR THEFT IN
MAHA BANK IN THANE DISTRICT
Thane: Police have arrested three persons for
allegedly stealing Rs12.20 crore from a private
bank in Thane district, an official said on Tuesday.
The theft took place on July 9 at the bank’s branch
in Manpada area of Dombivli town here. On
Monday, sleuths from the Thane crime branch’s
property cell set a trap and apprehended three
of the accused in the Mumbra area of Mumbai,
senior police inspector Anil Honrao said. The
police recovered from them Rs 5.80 crore out of
the stolen cash and property worth Rs 10 lakh,
he said. Efforts were on to recover the remaining
amount from them.
Workers of the
Republican
Party of India
(RPI) held a
protest over
the poor
condition
of roads in
Mumbai city,
on Tuesday.
They plopped
down in
potholes
filled with
rainy water
to express
dissent.
—PHOTO BY
BHUSHAN
KOYANDE
HIGHLIGHTING ROAD WOES
Seven e-bikes gutted in Pune
showroom blaze, none injured
First India Bureau
Pune: At least seven
electric bikes kept at
a showroom in Pune
city were gutted after
a fire broke out at the
outlet during charg-
ing on Monday even-
ing.
No one was injured in
the incident which took
place at a e-bike shop
located near the Gan-
gadham area of Market
Yard.
The bikes were
plugged in for charging
and prima facie a short
circuit might have oc-
curred due to over-
charging which led to
the fire. However, the
exact cause of the blaze
will be known after a
detailed investigation, a
fire brigade official
said.
“We received a call at
around 8 pm. The blaze
was doused with the
help of four water ten-
ders. However, seven
bikes were gutted,” he
said.
An official from Mar-
ket Yard police station
said the exact cause of
the blaze will be ascer-
tained once they receive
a report from the fire
brigade department.
The incident took
place at an e-bike
shop located near the
Gangadham area of
Market Yard
In March this year, an Ola
electric scooter had caught fire
in Pune.—FILE PHOTO
CBI dir Jaiswal claims HC plea
filed out of ‘personal vendetta’
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Central Bu-
reau of Investigation
(CBI) director Subodh
Jaiswal has urged the
Bombay High Court
to dismiss a former
police officer’s peti-
tion challenging his
appointment as the
head of the central
agency
, citing that the
plea was filed out of a
“personal grudge”.
In an affidavit filed
before the high court
earlier this month,
Jaiswal has claimed
that the plea filed by Ra-
jendra Trivedi, a for-
mer assistant commis-
sioner (ACP) of the Ma-
harashtra police, was
malafide and a result of
a “personal grudge”.
“No case has been
made out by the peti-
tioner to invoke the ex-
traordinary jurisdic-
tion of the high court,”
Jaiswal’s affidavit read.
“The petitioner has
filed the present peti-
tion with a personal
grudge against the an-
swering respondent
and only out of sheer
vendetta and venge-
ance,” it said.
The CBI director filed
his affidavit in response
to a previous direction
by the high court while
hearing Trivedi’s plea.
In his plea filed
through advocate SB
Talekar, Trivedi has
sought that Jaiswal’s
appointment as the di-
rector of the CBI be
quashed.
Jaiswal’s appoint-
ment was in contraven-
tion of the Delhi Police
Establishment Act, the
plea stated, seeking that
the high court call for
the records and pro-
ceedings of the three-
member committee that
had approved Jaiswal’s
candidature.
The petitioner also
said that the CBI direc-
tor must necessarily be
the senior most IPS of-
ficer with impeccable
and unbreachable cred-
ibility and an experi-
ence in investigating
anti-corruption cases.
Jaiswal, during his
tenure, had never been
attached to any anti-
corruption wing and
hence, did not possess
the requisite experi-
ence required under the
Act, Trivedi claimed in
the plea.
The petition also stat-
ed that a special investi-
gation team (SIT) head-
ed by Jaiswal, who was
then a deputy inspector
general, was set up in
2002 to investigate a
fake and counterfeit
stamps case, in refer-
ence to the Telgi case.
Strictures were
passed against Jaiswal
by the Supreme Court
in the case and it was
transferred to the CBI.
The Apex Court’s obser-
vations had not been
withdrawn or expunged
till date, it said.
URGES COURT TO DISMISS PETITION IN AN AFFIDAVIT FILED IN RESPONSE TO A
PREVIOUS DIRECTION BY IT WHILE HEARING EX-ACP RAJENDRA TRIVEDI’S PLEA
No case has been made out by the petitioner to invoke the extraordi-
nary jurisdiction of the high court. The petitioner has filed the pre-
sent petition with a personal grudge against the answering re-
spondent and only out of sheer vendetta and vengeance.
—Subodh Jaiswal, Director, Central Bureau of Investigation
‘Overhang of unsold housing units
lowest since the pandemic hit markets’
Satish Nandgaonkar
Mumbai: The months’
inventory overhang
of housing units — or
the estimated period
to sell unsold inven-
tory in eight Tier I cit-
ies—has dropped to
36 months in the first
six months of 2022. It
is for the first time
since COVID-19 pan-
demic hit the country
that the overhang pe-
riod has lowered.
It hit an all-time high
of 64 months during the
first half of 2020, dur-
ing the COVID-19 lock-
down in March 2020,
according to a Liases
Foras Q1 report re-
leased on Tuesday
.
The unsold inventory
of housing units in-
creased by 2% from
901,949 units in January
to March quarter of FY
2021-22 to 924,408 units
in April to June quarter
of FY 2022-23 in Tier I
cities.
The monthly over-
hang—which averaged
around 43 months in
pre-pandemic year of
2019—shot up to 64
months in the first half
of 2020. It fell to 58
months in the second
half of 2020, when the
sector tried to recover
with the help of incen-
tives by the Centre. Pre-
mium and stamp duty
cuts announced by
states like Maharashtra
also helped the sector.
This led to the over-
hang coming down to 43
months in the first half
of 2021, and decreasing
further to 39 months in
the second half.
“Months’ inventory
has attained its lowest
value since 2014, at 36
months in H1 2022,”
said Pankaj Kapoor,
Managing Director, Li-
ases Foras, an inde-
pendent, non- broking
real estate research
firm.
GOOD RECOVERY
Fadnavis condoles singer
Bhupinder Singh’s death
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Deputy
Chief Minister Dev-
endra Fadnavis on
Monday condoled
the death of veteran
singer Bhupinder
Singh and said that
his contribution to
the field of music
will be remembered
forever.
Fadnavis took to
Twitter and wrote,
“Sad to hear about the
demise of veteran
playback singer
Bhupinder Singh Ji.
With his gifted voice,
he gave us many
memorable songs. His
contribution to the
field of music will be
remembered forever.
My deepest condo-
lences to his family,
friends and fans”.
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi too
took on to the social
media to express his
grief on the demise of
the singer.
“Anguished by the
passing away of
Bhupinder Singh Ji,
who has given memo-
rable songs for dec-
ades. His works
struck a chord with
several people. In this
sad hour, my thoughts
are with his family
and admirers. Om
Shanti,” PM Modi
tweeted.
JP Nadda, Presi-
dent of Bharatiya Ja-
nata Party (BJP) also
expressed his condo-
lences on the demise
of veteran singer.
“Saddened to hear
about the passing
away of legendary
singer Bhupinder
Singh. His regal voice
has mesmerized us
for years and his lega-
cy will live on forever
through his immortal
music. My thoughts
and prayers are with
his family and loved
ones. Om Shanti,” Na-
dda tweeted.
Bhupinder
Singh, aged
82, died on
Monday. He
was best
known for
his hit songs
such as ‘Do
D e e w a n e
Shaher Mein’
and ‘Hoke Ma-
j b o o r
Usne
B u -
laya Hoga’.
He had developed
many health com-
plications and
was under-
going treat-
ment at the
h o s p i t a l
for the last
ten days.
JALOTA GRIEVES
PRICE MARKET
Bhupinder
Singh.
—FILE
PHOTO
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UNIQUELY
ashion is most
often thought of
as a global in-
dustry that is
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we wear and
how we wish to ap-
pear to others. It
refers to a predomi-
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pression, whether
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other. Inherent in
the term is the idea
that the mode will
change more quickly
than the culture as a
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ions in clothing have
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Youwillassociatefeelings
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To better organise your
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er that the industry is
considerably bigger than
this. Your senses’ emo-
tional cords have been
mastered by it, and it has
woven them into society’s
fabric. Fashion is more
than just a way to express
your identity or original-
ity via your style. Addi-
tionally
, fashion is more
than just a trend in cloth-
ing. In actuality
, it is in
charge of influencing so-
cial interactions and
moods. Science has also
provided us with suffi-
cient evidence to support
the notion that clothing
can affect how we feel.
Emotion and fashion go
hand in hand.
UTTKARSHA SHEKHAR
uttkarsha.shekhar@firstindia.co.in
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