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Uddhav camp targets Shinde in CM’s own bastion!
‘If festivities & tours are over…’
NCP’s Supriya jibes at Maha govt
First India Bureau
Mumbai:Remindingthe
state government that
the heavy rains--which
have continued even as
the monsoon withdraws
from Maharashtra--have
caused heavy damage to
crops, hitting the state’s
farmers hard NCP MP
Supriya Sule on Thurs-
day again asked the
state government to de-
clare a “wet drought” in
the state.
Notably, the opposi-
tion has been demand-
ing that the state gov-
ernment declare
drought before Diwali
and provide relief to
farmers since before Di-
wali, but the govern-
ment has not taken any
action on the issue yet.
“It is my request to
Chief Minister Eknath
Shinde and Deputy
Chief Minister Deven-
dra Fadnavis to declare
wet drought in the
state,” the Baramati MP
tweeted on Thursday,
adding, “The state
should positively con-
sider making direct fi-
nancial assistance to
farmers along with an-
nouncing wet drought.”
Diwali was a “dark pe-
riod” for farmers as pro-
duce could not be har-
vestedintimeandrotted,
she further said, adding,
“Many leaders of Maha
Vikas Aghadi are con-
tinuously demanding
that a wet drought be de-
clared. Turn to P6
Kartikey Dev Singh
Mumbai: The Bharati-
ya Janata Party’s strat-
egy to “weed out” the
Maha-Vikas Aghadi
government from Ma-
harashtra through a
coup in the Shiv Sena
resulted in a change of
government in the
state. While Shiv Sena
was taken aback by the
swift and surgical preci-
sion of BJP’s “strike”,
it now seems that the
Uddhav Thackeray fac-
tion of the Shiv Sena is
walking on the lines set
by his late father Bala-
saheb Thackeray and
taking the fight to the
opposition; in opposi-
tion’s bastion itself!
Eknath Shinde, who
is akin to a villain for
the Thackeray faction,
has been challenged
and negated, to some de-
gree, in his own home
turf. Considered to be
the stronghold of Shin-
de, Thane, on Thursday
witnessed a shattering
response from Uddhav
sympathisers who put
up banners praising Ud-
dhav praising the junior
Thackeray as “Maha-
rashtra Yoddha” (Maha-
rashtra’s Warrior).
A few days ago, al-
most all the former
councillors of Thane
Municipal Corporation
from Thackeray’s group
had joined the rival
group as Shinde domi-
nates Thane. However,
the tide seems to be
turning, at least a little,
in Uddhav’s favour with
these banners becom-
ing a subject of discus-
sion among the masses.
The text on this ban-
ner reads, “Uddhav
Thackeray
, the true heir
to Balasaheb’s challeng-
er-like thinking,Turn to P6
Posters proclaiming
Uddhav as a warrior
go up in Shinde’s
constituency Thane,
as workers clash for
the right of control
on local branch
Uddhav Thackeray. —FILE PHOTO
IN HIS FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS?
FINALLY, WOMEN IN BLUE GET THEIR DUE...
Moni Sharma
New Delhi: The BCCI on Thurs-
day announced an equal match
fee for both men’s and women’s
cricketers of India. The historic
move was announced on the offi-
cial Twitter handle of BCCI sec-
retary Jay Shah. Shah highlight-
ed new fees for contracted players
and said that Indian Women’s
cricket team will earn same
match fees as their male counter-
parts. This essentially means that
all BCCI contracted players, male
or female, will receive same fee.
SAMEPLAY
PAY!
India’s Virat Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav during the match.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on
Thursday spoke to new British premier Rishi Sunak
with the two leaders agreeing on the importance of
early conclusion of a comprehensive and balanced
free trade agreement between the two countries.
I WILL DO EVERY
THING I CAN: UK
PM PROMISES
HOPEFUL FUTURE
London: Newly elected UK PM, Rishi Sunak attended a
Diwali reception pledged to provide Britain with a hopeful
future. He also thanked PM Modi and said
I’m excited about what our two great
democracies, UK and India can achieve.
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l In last AGM of BCCI, it
was announced women’s
IPL will be held next year
l In a historic move BCCI
announces equal pay for
both men and women
Truly a red letter day for Women’s
Cricket in India with pay parity
announced for women and men. Thank
you BCCI and Jay Shah.
—Harmanpreet Kaur, Captain Indian Women’s Cricket Team
Jay Shah @JayShah
I’m pleased to announce @
BCCI’s first step towards
tackling discrimination. We are
implementing pay equity policy
for our contracted @BCCIWomen
cricketers. The match fee for both
Men and Women Cricketers will be
same as we move into a new era of
gender equality in Indian Cricket.
Anurag Thakur
@ianuragthakur
The pay equity policy
announced by @BCCI is a landmark
step in the right direction with an
emphasis on gender equality. It
ushers in a new era for India @
BCCIWomen’s cricket and will
encourage budding talent towards
the game!
AfterArticle370abrogation,34%
decreaseinterroristactivities:Shah
Pakistan committed atrocities
against people in PoK: Rajnath
First India Bureau
Faridabad:UnionHome
Minister Amit Shah on
Thursday addressed the
inaugural session of the
2-day Chintan Shivir in
Surajkund, Haryana.
While speaking at the
Shivir, Shah said after
the abrogation of Article
370 in JK, there has
been a 34% decrease in
terroristactivities,a64%
decreaseindeathof secu-
rity forces and a 90% de-
crease in civilian deaths.
“We have to give im-
portance to the 3Cs - Co-
operation, Coordination
and Collaboration, to be
able to further our goals
of cooperative federal-
ism and whole-of-govt
approach... Resource op-
timisation and integra-
tion necessary
,” he said.
Amit Shah, Manohar Lal Khattar, Pinarayi Vijayan, Yogi Adityanath, Banwarilal Purohit, N Biren Singh,
senior officers during the ‘Chintan Shivir’ of home ministers of all states in Faridabad on Thursday.
Rajnath Singh with Manoj Sinha being briefed during ‘Shaurya
Diwas’, as Lt Gen ADS Aujla looks on, in Budgam on Thursday.
PM Narendra Modi
to address ongoing
Chintan Shivir of
Home Ministers of
States via VC today
Amit Shah with Ashwini Vaishnaw Manohar Lal Khattar greets
at ‘Jan Utthan Rally’, in Faridabad on Thursday. Shah lays fndn of
projects worth `6,629 cr, said Hooda ran “3D” govt in Haryana. P5
First India Bureau
Srinagar: Defence Min-
ister Rajnath Singh on
Thursday said Pakistan
is “committing atroci-
ties” against people in
its occupied Kashmir
and will have to bear its
consequences.
Hinting at retrieving
Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir (PoK), the
minister said the goal
of overall development
in the twin Union Ter-
ritories of JK and
Ladakh will be achieved
“after reaching Gilgit
and Baltistan” parts of
PoK. “Terrorism has no
religion. The only aim
of terrorists is to target
India,” he said.
The
discrimination
against the
people of Jammu and
Kashmir was ended under
the leadership of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
on August 5, 2019.
—Rajnath Singh,
Defence Minister
MAKE-IN-INDIA! Tata, Airbus to
make military aircraft in Gujarat
European aviation gi-
ant Airbus and India’s
TATA group will joint-
lymanufactureatleast
40 C-295 transport air-
craft in India with the
production unit being
set up in Gujarat’s Va-
dodara as part of a
`21,935-crore deal. The
foundation laying of
samewilltakeplaceon
October 30 and will be
attendedbyModi.“For
thefirsttime,theC-295
aircraft will be manu-
facturedoutsideof Eu-
rope,” Defence Secre-
tary Ajay Kumar said
on Thursday
.
PM Modi to lay the
foundation stone of
the plant on Oct 30
Various suggestions
have been received
regarding improvement
in CrPC IPC. I’m
looking into it in detail,
invested hours in it. We
will very soon come
up with new CrPC, IPC
drafts in the Parliament.
—AMIT SHAH,
HOME MINISTER
AZAM GETS 3-YR JAIL
TERM IN HATE SPEECH
CASE, GRANTED BAIL
Bareilly: SP leader Azam
Khan was on Thursday
convicted in a 2019 hate
speech case and sent to
3 years in jail, and faces
disqualification from
UP Assembly. Court in
Rampur granted bail to
the MLA and imposed
a fine of Rs 6,000, a
government lawyer said.
SACRED PORTALS OF
KEDARNATH AND
YAMUNOTRI CLOSED
Dehradun: The sacred
portals of the Kedarnath
and Yamunotri located in
high Garhwal Himalayan
region of Uttarakhand
were closed for winter on
Thursday. 3,000 devotees
along with temple
committee president
Ajendra Ajay were present
during the occasion.
TWO BAGS CONTAINING
EXPLOSIVES FOUND AT
JAMMU RLY STATION
Jammu: Explosive materials
were recovered in a
suspicious bag that was
found near a taxi stand in
Jammu Railway Station
in JK on Thursday,
according to a police
official. SSP GRP Arif Rishu
said that 18 detonators and
some wires were recovered
from the spot.
READ
Crucial
Crucial
DELHI-BOUND AKASA
AIR HIT BY BIRD, NOSE
DAMAGED; ALL SAFE
New Delhi: A Delhi-bound
Akasa Air plane was hit by
a bird during the climb on
Thursday. The Boeing 737
Max 8 aircraft, suffered
a radome damage due to
the bird hit at 1,900 feet.
‘Aircraft landed safely and all
passengers were deboarded,
flight positioned for detailed
inspection,’ Akasa Air said.
RAHUL GANDHI-LED
BHARAT JODO YATRA
RESUMES IN T’GANA
Narayanpet: After four days,
the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat
Jodo Yatra resumed from
Makthal in the Narayanpet
district of Telangana on
Thursday at 6.30 am. P6
EQUAL
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MEN
MEN AND WOMAN CRICKETERS
CHANGE IN FEES AS BELOW...
CONTRACTS FOR THE WOMEN’S
CRICKET TEAM FOR YR 2021-22
CONTRACTS FOR THE MEN’S
CRICKET TEAM FOR YR 2021-22
`15 Lakh
`4 Lakh
FOR A TEST MATCH
`6 Lakh
`1 Lakh
FOR AN ODI MATCH
`3 Lakh
`1 Lakh
FOR A T20 MATCH
l Category A (`50 lakh)
l Category B (`30 lakh)
l Category C (`10 lakh)
l Category A+ (`7 crore)
l Category A (`5 crore)
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THEN NOW
INDIA THUMP NETHERLANDS;
ZIMBABWE BEATS PAKISTAN
Sydney: India stormed back to being on top of Group 2
points table with a thumping 56-run win over the Nether-
lands in their Super 12 match of Men’s T20 World Cup at
the Sydney Cricket Ground. Meanwhile, Zimbabwe pulled
off a stunning one-run win over Pakistan on Thursday to
put the Asian giants in danger of an early exit. The excite-
ment dragged till the last minute as Zimbabwe floored a last
ball win with Pak’s Shaheen losing his wicket at 11th hour.

First India Bureau
Pune: In a bid to gain
the state govern-
ment’s attention amid
an agitation to secure
higher prices for their
produce, farmers in
Solapur deflated the
tyres of a vehicle
transporting the har-
vest to a sugar factory
.
A police official on
Thursday said 11 tyres
of a tractor-trolley were
deflated by unidentified
persons near Wakhari
in Solapur on Wednes-
day night, but the trac-
tor owner has not
lodged a complaint.
Various farmer out-
fits, under the aegis of
Solapur District Sugar-
cane Rate Struggle
Committee, have been
demanding Rs3,100 per
tonne of sugarcane as
against the current rate
of Rs2,100-2,300, a mem-
ber of one of the pro-
testing organizations
said on Thursday
.
The pro-farmer bod-
ies had also appealed to
transporters not to fer-
ry the sugarcane har-
vest from farms to sug-
ar mills.
“Recently, we had a
conclave of around
20,000 sugarcane culti-
vators in Solapur dis-
trict. In the meeting, we
demanded that the
farmers get a rate of
Rs3,100 per tonne. We
sought that a farmer
should get Rs2,500 as the
first instalment and the
remaining Rs 600 at the
time of the final bill,”
Sachin Patil, a member
of the pro-farmer Swab-
himani Shetkari Sang-
hatana, said.
However, the state
government and local
administration have
not taken cognizance of
the protest, he said.
“Meanwhile, mill
owners have started in-
stigating tractor opera-
tors who transport the
harvesttofactories.This
is hitting cultivators fur-
ther as the input cost is
very high due to infla-
tion and rise in prices of
fertilizers,” Patil said.
As a result, tyres of a
tractor carrying sugar-
cane to the factory were
deflated at Wakhari
near Pandharpur town
in Solapur late Wednes-
day evening, he said.
“The state govern-
ment should pay heed to
the farmers' demand
before the situation
goes out of hand. The
government and the lo-
cal administration
should meet the protes-
tors and resolve the is-
sue,” he warned.
Pandharpur Gramin
police station's inspec-
tor Dhananjay Jadhav
said 11 tyres of the trac-
tor which had two sug-
arcane-laden trolleys
were deflated by uni-
dentified persons near
Wakhari on Wednesday
night.
“So far, the tractor
owner has not come for-
ward to file a com-
plaint, he said.
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UPGRADE COMING
An outer view of Mumbadevi temple as Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced the transformation of
Pandharpur and Mumbadevi pilgrimage sites on the lines of Ayodhya and Ujjain, in Mumbai on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Bom-
bay High Court on
Thursday quashed
the Brihanmumbai
Municipal Corpora-
tion’s (BMC) order re-
voking permission
granted earlier to an
organization headed
by a former council-
lor of the Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP)
to conduct Chhath
Puja at a suburban
ground.
The HC also quashed
another BMC order
granting permission to
another group to hold
the puja at the venue af-
ter it submitted an ap-
plication seeking nod
along with a letter from
a former councillor of
the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP).
A vacation bench
comprising Justice NJ
Jamadar and Justice
Gauri Godse said there
was “malice” on the
part of the BMC in
granting permission to
one group and revoking
the nod given earlier to
the other group.
The Chhath Puja is to
be held on October 30
and 31 on a ground in
suburban Ghatkopar.
The court quashed
the BMC’s order by
which it had revoked
permission granted to
NCP’s former council-
lor Rakhee Jadhav’s or-
ganization Shri Durga
Parmeshwari Seva
Mandal to hold the
Chhath festival at Acha-
rya Atre Maidan in
Ghatkopar.
The corporation can-
celled permission
granted to the mandal
and gave nod to Atal
Samajik Sanskruti
Seva Pratisthan whose
name was recommend-
ed by former council-
lor Bhalchandra
Shirsat of the BJP.
Jadhav approached
the HC through her
mandal against the
BMC order.
The high court set
aside both these orders
anddirectedthelocalpo-
licestationtotakeadeci-
sion on grant of No Ob-
jectionCertificate(NOC)
tothepetitionermandal.
It also questioned the
timing of the revoca-
tion of nod. “You (BMC)
should have cancelled
immediately. They vio-
lated for Ganpati, but
you let them hold
Navratri as well. Why
did you let them hold
Navratri? Now you can-
celled before Chhath
Puja?” asked the bench.
According to the peti-
tion, the mandal had
sought permission in
August this year for
holding three functions
—Ganpati visarjan,
Navratri and Chhath
Puja. It was granted per-
mission to hold all three
functions in August.
While revoking the
permission later, the
BMC had claimed the
mandal had not submit-
ted the requisite NOCs
from police, fire and
traffic departments. It
said the other group
had all the NOCs and
hence permission was
granted to it.
Court accused BMC of ‘malice’ in allowing another group to hold
puja by cancelling permission to one organization. —FILE PHOTO
HC quashes BMC order revoking nod for Chhath Puja festivities
NO DICE
Civic body rescinded permit given to
group backed by ex-NCP councillor in
favour of org endorsed by BJP leader
First India Bureau
Jalna: Union Min-
ister Raosaheb
Danve on Thurs-
day brushed aside
speculation that
some legislators
belonging to the
Shiv Sena faction
led by Maharash-
tra Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde
may form a group
with the intention
of merging with
the Bharatiya Ja-
nata Party.
The senior BJP
leader said there was
no need for such a
move as the Shinde
group and his party
were in alliance and
running the state gov-
ernment smoothly
and efficiently
.
Queried on the is-
sue further, Danve
went on to claim
MLAs of the Nation-
alist Congress Party
and the Congress
were on the verge of
defecting, though he
did not elaborate.
“The opposition is
spreading rumours
about some MLAs of
Shinde group want-
ing to defect. Actual-
ly, legislators from
these opposition par-
ties are seeking to
defect,” Danve
claimed.
Meanwhile, the
Shinde group on
Thursday took over a
Shiv Sena “shakha”
(area office) in
Thane’s Dombivli,
which has been at
the centre of a dis-
pute between the two
factions, by paying
the pending dues to
the land owner.
Workers from
both groups used to
routinely assemble
at the office to lay
claim to it, often re-
sulting in fights and
tension in the area,
officials said.
A Shinde faction
functionary said the
possession of the
“shakha” was taken
after pending pay-
ments were made to
the land owner and
relevant documents
have been submitted
to the local police
station to formalize
the issue.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The COV-
ID-19 tally in Ma-
harashtra reached
81,30,866 after 164
cases were detected
in the last 24 hours,
while the death toll
remained un-
changedat1,48,382,
said a state Health
Department bulle-
tin on Thursday.
Mumbai circle ac-
counted for 106 of the
new cases, followed
by Pune circle (43),
Nagpur circle (6),
three each in Aurang-
abad and Latur cir-
cle, Nashik circle (2),
and Akola circle (1).
The addition to the
Mumbai circle tally
was a drop from the
81 cases reported a
day earlier, a Brihan-
mumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC)
official pointed out.
Only 10 of the new
cases required hospi-
talisation, including
two needing oxygen
support, he said, add-
ing that the number
of people on oxygen
support in the city
now stood at nine.
The recovery count
increased by 147 and
reached 11,33,254,
leaving the metropo-
liswithanactivecase-
load of 650, he said.
As per the state
Health Department’s
data, the active case-
load in the state is
1,788 and the number
of coronavirus tests
conducted so far
stands at 8,52,01,913.
MoS Danve junks
defection rumours
of Shinde faction
Maha reports 164
cases, no death;
active tally at 1,788
Raosaheb Danve
—FILE
PHOTO
The opposition is
spreading ru-
mours about
some MLAs of
Shinde group
wanting to de-
fect. Actually,
legislators from
these opposition
parties are seek-
ing to defect.
—Raosaheb Danve,
Union Minister
Says legislators
from NCP and
Congress on the
verge of defecting
First India Bureau
Jalna: Union minister
Raosaheb Danve has
said that running pas-
senger trains does not
benefit the Railways
in terms of revenue,
and added that the
Central government
runs these services
for the convenience
of people.
The Minister of State
for Railways also said
that the national trans-
porter tries to make up
for the losses incurred
due to passenger trains
from freight services.
He was speaking af-
ter flagging off a week-
ly special train from
Jalna to Chhapra Junc-
tion (in Bihar) on
Wednesday night.
“The Railways does
not earn any profit by
running daily (passen-
ger) trains. For every
rupee spent, it suffers a
loss of 55 paise. There is
no profit in running
passenger trains...there
is a loss. But the Modi
government does not
work for profit. (Prime
Minister Narendra)
Modi ji says we have to
operate these services
for the convenience of
people,” he said.
“And we try to make
up for the losses (suf-
fered due to passenger
trains) by operating
freight services and
through other sources
of revenue,” said the
minister.
Danve said the train
connectivity between
Jalna and Chhapra via
Khandwa, Prayagraj
and Varanasi was a
long-cherished dream
of the people of the
Marathwada region.
The inaugural service
of the (weekly special
Jalna-Chhapra) train
has 96% passenger occu-
pancy
, which is very en-
couraging. The train is
being run as a weekly
service, but depending
onresponseandneedsof
the passengers, its fre-
quencywillbeincreased
in the future, he said.
One more special
train, which will run
between Jalna and
Tirupati, will be
flagged off on October
29, added Danve.
Around 2,495 nCoV tests
conducted in Mumbai on
Thursday. —FILE PHOTO
‘No profit in running passenger trains for Railways’
Union Minister of State Railways Raosaheb Danve —FILE PHOTO
Min Danve informs
services operated only
for the ‘convenience
of people’ even as
Railways incurs losses
MAHA’S FARMERS DEMAND HIGHER
PRICE FOR SUGARCANE HARVEST
Deflate tyres of vehicle carrying harvest to factory, warn ‘situation could go out of hand’
Cultivators have been demanding Rs3,100 per tonne of sugarcane as against the current rate of
Rs2,100-2,300. —FILE PHOTO
`2L SUGARCANE
CROPS GUTTED
Pune: Three acres of
sugarcane crops in
Indapur taluka were de-
stroyed in a fire caused
by a short circuit on
the pole supplying
electricity to Rohitra
on Thursday, officials
said. Another seven
acres of crops were
salvaged when the fire
was put out by villagers
and farmers, he added.
Farmers say the gutted
crops were worth Rs1.5
-2 lakh and have asked
the administration for
prompt compensation.
MAHA NCOV TALLY
Fresh Cases 164
Total Cases 81,30,866
Fatalities 0
Death Toll 1,48,382
Active Cases 1,788
Recoveries 11,33,254

MAHARASHTRA
03
COPS RESCUE KIDNAPPED
INFANT WITHIN 12 HOURS
Mumbai (PTI): Police
here have rescued a
two-month-old girl,
who was allegedly kid-
napped two days back
from south Mumbai,
and arrested a couple
in this connection
within 12 hours of the
offence, a senior offi-
cial said on Thursday
.
The accused allegedly
wanted to sell the child,
he said, adding that po-
lice suspect the couple
might have been in-
volved in more cases of
child kidnapping.
A 30-year-old woman
livingonafootpathinLT
Marg area of south
Mumbai approached po-
lice late Tuesday night
saying her 71-day-old
daughter was missing.
After that, the Azad
Maidanpoliceregistered
a case under Indian Pe-
nal Code (IPC) section
363 (kidnapping) and
formed eight teams to
find the baby
, Mumbai
Police Commissioner
Vivek Phansalkar told
reporters.
The police then
launchedanoperationto
trace the accused. Be-
sides the personnel from
the police stations in the
south region, the Rail-
way Police were also
roped in, he said.
Police got the lead af-
ter they examined the
CCTV footage from
south Mumbai and also
the area near the
Chhatrapati Shivaji Ma-
harajTerminus(CSMT).
The footage showed the
accused walking to-
wards the CSMT carry-
ing the baby
. At the
CSMT, the accused
boardedalocaltrainand
disembarked at the
Wadala railway station,
where he hired a taxi
and proceeded further,
another official said.
Based on specific in-
formation, a police team
apprehended the ac-
cused on Wednesday
evening and rescued the
child, he said, adding
that his 39-year-old wife
was also taken into cus-
tody after her involve-
ment came to light.
“We suspect that the
accused was not operat-
ing alone and as per our
prima facie investiga-
tion, he had abducted
the child to sell her,”
Phansalkarsaid.“Weare
investigating whether
the accused were in-
volved in any other sim-
ilar instances,” he said.
After being rescued,
the child was handed
over to her mother.
Baby girl reunited with parents; accused couple allegedly wanted to sell her, police say
Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar with the parents of the baby girl who was rescued,
on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI
Despite it being Di-
wali time, everyone
chipped in and
launched a massive
search. Police in-
formers also provid-
ed inputs and the
man was traced af-
ter 12 hours of ef-
forts. The child was
rescued from him.
—Vivek Phansalkar,
Mumbai Police Commissioner
Manquestionedover
rammingcarintowife
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Hindi film
‘Dehati Disco’ pro-
ducer Kamal Kishor
Mishra was brought
in for questioning at
a police station here
in the city, after his
wife accused him of
ramming into her
with his car, causing
severe injuries.
Mishra ran into his
wife after she found
him with another
woman in his car on
October 19 in the
parking lot of the
couple’s apartment
complex in Andheri
(West), a police offi-
cial said.
“We brought
Mishra in for ques-
tioning today after-
noon, and we are in-
vestigating the case,”
he said, clarifying
that the film producer
was not under arrest.
Mishra was taken
to the Amboli police
station from his
home, after his wife
lodged a complaint
against him, said the
official.
According to the
complaint, on the day
of the incident, the
victim went looking
for her husband and
found him with an-
other woman in his
car in the parking
area. When she went
to confront him,
Mishra tried to es-
cape from the spot in
his car and in the pro-
cess hit his wife and
sped away, causing
injuries to her legs,
hand and head, said
the complaint.
Based on the com-
plaint, a first informa-
tion report was regis-
tered at the Amboli
police station against
Mishra for rash driv-
ing and causing hurt
by act endangering
life or personal safety
of others.
The car which film-maker Kamal Kishore Mishra allegedly
rammed into his wife. —PHOTO BY PTI
The alleged incident
occurred on Oct 19
in the couple’s
apartment complex’s
parking lot
CRUCIAL READ
SECURITY GUARD ARRESTED FOR FIRING
INTO THE AIR ON DIWALI
Thane: Police have arrested a 66-year-old security
guard of a bank in Thane district for allegedly firing
in the air on the
occasion of Diwali,
said an official on
Thursday. The
accused, who is
a resident of Diva
township, alleg-
edly fired a couple
of shots from his
gun at around 8 pm
on Monday. Some people posted about it on social
media following which police conducted an inquiry and
arrested the security guard on Wednesday. A case has
been registered under relevant provisions of the Indian
Penal Code and the Arms Act.
9 HELD FOR
ATTACKING 2 MEN
AT THANE TEMPLE
‘PAY `20K FOR
CAUSING WOMAN
TO MISS FLIGHT’
TECH ISSUES
DELAY MUMBAI
LOCAL TRAINS
PRICE OF LEAFY
VEGGIES SHOOT UP
TO `40 PER BUNCH
Thane: Two men were
injured after nine people
allegedly stabbed them
with a knife, hurled beer
bottles at them, threw
stones on their houses
and damaged their
vehicle attacked them
on the suspicion that
the duo had complained
against them for dam-
aging a CCTV camera
at a temple in Thane’s
Ambernath town. A case
has been registered but
no arrests had been
made. The two victims
suffered injuries and
were hospitalized.
Mumbai: A local consum-
er court has ordered Uber
India to pay Rs20,000 fine
to a woman who missed
her flight due to the delay
caused by the cab service.
While half of this amount
is for causing the pas-
senger mental stress, the
other half is for her legal
bills. The woman, advocate
Kavita Sharma from Dom-
bivli, has been fighting
the case since 2018. Uber
claimed that it is just an
aggregator and a facilitator
for connecting consum-
ers with drivers, the court
found that the firm handled
the app’s management
and all transactions and
services being used there.
It then ordered Uber India
to pay Sharma.
Thane: Local train
services in Mumbai and
its suburbs were delayed
on Thursday morning
due to a technical issue,
which was later rectified
said the Central Railway
(CR). There was a tech-
nical problem in the S-3
Chhatrapati Shivaji Ma-
haraj Terminus (CSMT)-
Karjat local between
Ambernath and Badlapur
(in Thane district) on the
down line, the CR said in
a tweet. The local train
services on the Amber-
nath-Karjat section were
delayed, it said.
Navi Mumbai: Rainfall
in several regions of the
state during the second
week of October affected
the supply of green leafy
vegetables due to which
the cost of a bunch of
coriander, spinach, and
fenugreek leaves in retail
increased up to Rs40. Even
other green veggies like
capsicum and peas have
doubled in cost. As per the
administrative office of the
Agriculture Produce Mar-
ket Committee (APMC),
the arrival of vegetables
decreased by around 30
to 40% due to extended
monsoon rainfall. In the
last week, the supply has
come down to 450 to 500
vehicles, most of which are
small pick-up vans.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: In the wake
of Delhi Chief Minis-
ter Arvind Kejriwal’s
demand that Goddess
Lakshmi and Lord
Ganesh appear on In-
dian currency
, BJP
legislator Ram Kadam
has added Chhatrapati
Shivaji Maharaj, Dr
Babasaheb Ambedkar,
VD Savarkar and
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi to the “bank-
note pantheon”.
Tweeting an image of
Rs500 notes with these
leaders photoshopped
onto them, Kadam said:
“Akhand Bharat, Naya
Bharat, Mahan Bharat,
Jai Shriram, Jai Mata
Di.”Healsolashedoutat
the Aam Aadmi Party
founder Kejriwal saying
that the country would
have accepted his de-
mandsif theywere“gen-
uine”. “But they remem-
ber our gods and god-
desses only during elec-
tions. Nobody can deny
the fact that the images
of Shivaji Maharaj, Dr
Babasaheb Ambedkar
and Swatantryaveer Sa-
varkar will inspire eve-
ryone,’’Kadamsaid,add-
ing “Modi ji is on a mis-
sion to make India a
vishwa-guru...a curren-
cy note with his photo
wouldbehonouringhim
and his commitment.”
Joining the bandwag-
on, another BJP legisla-
tor Nitesh Rane tweeted
a photoshopped image
of a Rs200 note bearing
an picture of Chhatra-
pati Shivaji Maharaj
instead of Mahatma
Gandhi.
Similarly
, Republican
Party of India (Kharat)
President Sachin
Kharat demanded that
Gautam Buddha’s pho-
to should be put on the
currency notes.
Predictably
, these de-
mands have drawn flak
from the opposition,
with Shiv Sena Uddhav
Balasaheb Thackeray’s
deputy leader Sushma
Andhareallegedthatthe
ongoingdebatetriggered
after Kejriwal’s demand
was a trap by the BJP
andPrimeMinisterNar-
endra Modi.
“Instead of falling
into this trap, Modi and
Kejriwalshouldbeasked
to answer how the con-
tinuous slide in rupee
can be stopped and how
rupee can be improved
against dollar,” she said.
BJP leader demands PM Modi’s face on ` notes
POLITICS OF MONEY
2 passengers from Dubai held
with `1.39 cr gold at airport
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Cus-
toms Department has
confiscated 2.65kg of
24 carat gold worth
Rs1.39 crore from two
Indian women pas-
sengers, who arrived
at the Mumbai Inter-
national Airport
from Dubai, an offi-
cial said on Thursday.
The passengers were
arrested on Wednesday
following the recovery
of the yellow metal from
them, he said.
The seized gold was
in the form of wax that
was concealed with an
adhesive bandage-like
material, the official
said.
“On the basis of pro-
filing and surveillance,
officers of the Mumbai
Airport Customs inter-
cepted two Indian
women passengers fol-
lowing their arrival
from Dubai. During
their personal search,
it was found that some-
thing was wrapped be-
low their knees with
bandage-like materi-
al,” he said.
On a closer examina-
tion, it was found that
both the women had
wrapped 24 carat gold in
wax form around their
leg that was concealed
with an adhesive band-
age-like material under-
neath their jeans, the
official said, adding that
the recovered 24 carat
gold weighed 2.65kg and
is valued at Rs1.39 crore.
After the interroga-
tion, both the passen-
gers were arrested and
remanded in judicial
custody, he said adding
further investigation in
the matter is ongoing.
As Mahatma Gandhi
is the father of our na-
tion, his photo ap-
pears on the currency
notes. It is really sur-
prising that Chief
Minister Arvind Ke-
jriwal, who has
worked as an assistant
commissioner in the
Income Tax depart-
ment, wants to have
the photos of Ganapati
and Lakshmi on the
currency notes. Does
Kejriwal want to push
PM Modi’s Hindutva
agenda forward?
—Sushma Andhare, deputy
leader, Uddhav faction,
Shiv Sena
HISTORY REPEATING?
Back in 2014, former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan was
asked why we couldn’t have Homi J Bhabha or Ra-
bindranath Tagore instead of Gandhi on rupee notes. “There
are many great Indians that we could get on the notes. But
I sense that almost anybody else would be controversial,”
Rajan had reportedly said at the time. Similarly, in 2014,
then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told the Lok Sabha that
an RBI panel had rejected suggestions for replacing Gandhi
with any other leader as “No other personality could better
represent the ethos of India than Mahatma Gandhi”.
The seized gold
was in the form
of wax that was
concealed with
an adhesive
bandage-like
material
Teen ends life,
woman tries
to kill herself
First India Bureau
Thane: A 16-year-old
girl allegedly commit-
ted suicide by hanging
herself in her home in
Thane’s Dombivli , a
police official said on
Thursday
.
The incident took
place in Tukaram Na-
gar on Wednesday
night, after which an
accidental death case
was registered and an
inquiry launched to
find the cause for the
extreme step, the offi-
cial said.
In another incident
in Titwala in the dis-
trict, a 21-year-old wom-
an consumed poison on
Sunday night after she
was allegedly molested
and is receiving treat-
ment at a local hospital.
A Titwala police sta-
tion official said a case
has been registered
against a man and fur-
ther probe into the inci-
dent was underway
.
Court grants pre-
arrest bail to assault
case accused
First India Bureau
Thane: A Thane court
has granted pre-arrest
bail to a man accused
in a case of assaulting
a person over an en-
mity in May this year.
In an order passed on
October 20, Additional
Sessions Judge PM
Gupta, also directed
that in the event of his
arrest, the accused be
released on furnishing
a bond of Rs25,000with
one or two sureties of
the like amount.
The applicant, Arbaz
Makbul Khan, and oth-
ers were booked under
relevant sections by the
city police for allegedly
assaulting a person on
May 06, 2022 over a pre-
vious enmity.
Khan had ap-
proached the court for
pre-arrest bail.
The judge in his or-
der noted that during
the investigation into
the case, the inform-
ant/injured person’s
supplementary state-
ment was recorded, but
he had not named the
applicant/accused in
the statement.
The injured person
had also not stated the
role played by the ac-
cused in commission of
thecrime,saidthecourt.
Theapplicantisresid-
ing in Thane city
. There
is remote possibility
that he may abscond
and will not be available
for trial. Similarly
, there
is no likelihood that the
applicant may tamper
with the prosecution
evidence, it said.
Ram Kadam,
Nitesh Rane also
propose Shivaji,
Ambedkar,
Savarkar appear
on currency

PERSPECTIVE
04
Who is Rishi Sunak, the new UK prime minister?
hen Rishi Su-
nak was elected
by Conserva-
tive MPs as
their new lead-
er and hence prime minis-
ter of the United Kingdom,
theBritishnationbreathed
a sigh of relief: thank God
it wasn’t Boris Johnson.
Had Johnson been re-elect-
ed leader it would have
had serious consequences,
not just for the Conserva-
tives, but in the real world
too. Only the most obtuse
political observer could
have failed to see that the
optics of cutting short
your Caribbean holiday to
try to resolve a cost of liv-
ing crisis was not good
politics. It sounds hard to
believe, but this was not
obvious to everyone.
Johnson garnered pub-
lic support from some of
the Brexiteer old guard
like Jacob Rees-Mogg and
in the pro-Boris media.
But in characteristic fash-
ion, Johnson exaggerated
his chances. This latest act
of self-promotion back-
fired and he withdrew
from the leadership race
on Sunday (regretably
having missed half his
holiday). Nevertheless, the
fact that many Conserva-
tives seriously thought a
chaotic government could
be brought under control
by someone known for
chaotic management,
shows how deep the ideo-
logical divisions within
the party have become.
With the third contend-
er, Penny Mordaunt, fall-
ing just shy of the 100 MPs’
votes needed to send the
leadership contest to a vote
of the grassroots party
members – a fate to be
avoided at all costs after
they forfeited the confi-
dence of MPs by installing
Truss – Rishi Sunak will
become the next prime
minister of the UK.
Now such divisions
seem to be affecting the
right of politics too. As we
saw in the 2022 federal
election in Australia, the
right’s traditional sup-
port base is split between
affluent moderates con-
cerned about climate
change, and older social
conservatives concerned
about immigration. This
appears to be happening
in the UK too.
This internal division
can be exploited by the op-
position as we saw with the
fracking vote. On paper,
Sunak should feel secure
with a 71-seat majority in a
650-seat parliament. But
the Conservatives have
lost confidence. The party
is behaving like one that
has only the slimmest of
majorities and is on its
way out. Sunak’s premier-
ship may well be a case of
the band playing on.
SOURCE: THE CONVERSATION
Johnson garnered public
support from some of the
Brexiteer old guard like
Jacob Rees-Mogg and in the
pro-Boris media. But in
characteristic fashion,
Johnson exaggerated
his chances. This latest act
of self-promotion backfired
and he withdrew from the
leadership race on
Sunday (regretably having
missed half his holiday).
W
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
If I speak in human or angelic tongues,
but do not have love, I am only a
resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
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eographically, the Indian
Subcontinent consists of
the peninsular part of pre-
sent-dayIndia,southof the
Himalayas, on the Indian
tectonic plate. From a po-
litical perspective, the In-
dian subcontinent consists
of eight countries: India,
Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan,
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Af-
ghanistan and the Mal-
dives. The people of the
Indian Subcontinent have
shared ethnic, linguistic,
cultural, and historical
ties. Even today these na-
tions bear some marks of
their origins. Both the
terms - ‘South Asia’ and
‘Indian subcontinent’ are
used in an interchangeable
manner. The peace in the
region is marred by unre-
solved territorial disputes
like Kashmir, separatist
and insurgent movements
linked to global outfits, a
broad range of ethnic, reli-
gious conflicts, the prolif-
eration of nuclear technol-
ogy
,climatechangeandthe
ensuing water issues. In-
dia is generally viewed as
an ‘Interfering Big Broth-
er’ by her neighbour.
As the largest country,
India needs to promote re-
gional peace and stability
in order to have a strong
claim to be a major world
player. India’s ability to in-
tervene in countries is lim-
ited by resentment at In-
dia’s paternalism towards
its smaller neighbours. An
assertive surge in Chinese
economic and diplomatic
involvement in the region
has elevated long-linger-
ing tensions with India
and poses a challenge as
the regional economic and
diplomatic heavyweight.
The South Asian Associa-
tion for Regional Coopera-
tion (SAARC) is an eco-
nomic and political region-
al organisation of coun-
tries in South Asia set up
in 1985. It aims to acceler-
ate the process of econom-
ic and social development
in its member states
through increased intra-
regional cooperation but
so far has characterized by
weak institutionalism and
is often constrained in
their effectiveness.
India’s Relations With
Its Neighbours
The relationship with Paki-
stanhasbeencharacterised
by a virtually unbroken re-
cord of sustained hostility
.
The continued Pak support
toterrorismanditsstandon
Kashmir remains a major
irritant between India and
Pakistan.Despitechangeof
government, the anti India
standstillflourishesinPak.
Indo-Bangladesh rela-
tions had become strained
over the Farakka issue, the
Tin Bigha controversy and
illegal Bangladeshi mi-
grants and their alleged
involvement in communal
riots in India. The agree-
ment on sharing of Ganga
waters and the pro Indian
stance of Sheikh Hasina
regimehasdefinitelymade
some positive impact.
Despite increasing Chi-
nese influence the Indo
Nepalese relationship are
likely to see a qualitative
improvement owing closer
economic ties and better
political understanding.
The renewed Mahakali
Treaty and grant of over-
land transit route for its
trade with Bangladesh by
India underlines the posi-
tive shift, but border dis-
pute of Kalapani still re-
mains a major issue.
The renewal of $400-mil-
lion currency swap facility
and helping hand extended
to Sri Lanka facing severe
economiccrisishasbecome
apositivemilestoneinIndo
Sri Lankan relations. The
main irritant in Indo-Sri
Lankan relationship that
stillremainsisissueof kill-
ings of Indian fishermen
by Sri Lankan forces.
The volatile situation in
Afghanistan is of major
concern to India. The fun-
damentalist regime in Af-
ghanistan is an insidious
threattoIndiansecularism
andapotentiallydestabilis-
ing factor in the region.
Defence matters of Bhu-
tan have remained Indian
responsibility but owing
to Indian weak stance dur-
ing Doklam skirmishes
with China, the Bhutan
King has established a
fairly good relationship
with China. India is trying
to regain the lost ground.
Despite Chinese over-
tures, the Maldives has
remained fairly under In-
dian influence. During re-
cent elections a political
party sought votes with
the slogan “Keep India”
out definitely needs to be
watched out.
Indian Options
Create effective and endur-
ingincentivesforourneigh-
bourstoremainsensitiveto
India’s security interests
and emerging as a security
provider for the region.
Lesser Intervention, due
respect of the sovereignty
and use more powerful In-
dian economy to become
an engine of growth of
neighbours.
No physical presence of
a hostile foreign power in
a manner that would ad-
versely impact its security
especially in a case of open
borders.
It is in India’s interest to
promote regional econom-
ic integration, and need to
step up role of SAARC in
regional co-operation, dia-
logue and regional eco-
nomic integration.
Enhance effectiveness
of Bay of Bengal Initiative
for Multi-Sectoral Techni-
cal and Economic Cooper-
ation (BIMSTEC) compris-
ing Bangladesh, Bhutan,
India, Myanmar, Nepal,
Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
India’s needs to further
its positive role in the new-
lyformedTheIndianOcean
Rim Association (IORA)
which is a dynamic inter-
governmentalorganisation
aimed at strengthening re-
gionalcooperationandsus-
tainable development with-
in the Indian Ocean region.
To bring into use its
proximity with the other
countries, India requires
efficient cross-border con-
nectivity both in terms of
infrastructure and proce-
dures to allow the smooth
and seamless transit of
goods and peoples.
The economic and tech-
nological power of India is
a vast and expanding mar-
ket. Even if this market
were opened up fully to
whatever our neighbours
can produce and sell, this
would constitute only a
small fraction of India’s
market but would mean a
great deal for them.
Given its much more de-
veloped land and maritime
transport system, India
should develop its role as
the partner of choice for
trade and transportation.
This will also create strong
inter-dependencies with
our neighbours, thus cre-
ating more sensitivity
among them to our secu-
rity concerns.
India needs to counter
Chinese influence by better
management of Sanghai
Cooperation Organisation
(SCO),theQuadcomprising
fourcountriesincludingUS
committed to supporting a
free and open Indo-Pacific,
UNthroughSecurityCoun-
cilpresentmembership,the
ASEAN member states and
Pacific partners.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
ROLE AND CONCERNS
OF INDIA IN SOUTH ASIA
G
India needs to counter
Chinese influence by better
management of Sanghai
Cooperation Organisation
(SCO), the Quad comprising
four countries including US
committed to supporting a
free and open Indo-Pacific,
UN through Security
Council present membership,
the ASEAN member
states and Pacific partners
COL RAJESH BHUKAR
The author has been Head Security
Rajasthan Operations of Cairn Energy and
DGM HR in Jindal Saw Ltd
ABOUT THE SAARC
An assertive surge in Chinese economic and diplomatic
involvement in the region has elevated long-lingering
tensions with India and poses a challenge as the regional
economic and diplomatic heavyweight. The South Asian
Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an
economic and political regional organisation of countries in
South Asia set up in 1985. It aims to accelerate the process
of economic and social development in its member states
through increased intra-regional cooperation but so far has
characterized by weak institutionalism and is often con-
strained in their effectiveness.
As the largest
country, India
needs to promote
regional peace
and stability in
order to have a
strong claim to be a
major world player.
India’s ability to
intervene in
countries is limited
by resentment at
India’s paternalism
towards its smaller
neighbours
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happy Bhai Dooj - a symbol
of immense affection and
unwavering faith of brother
and sister.
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INDIA
Faridabad (ANI):
Launching a scathing
attack on Congress
leader Bhupinder Sin-
gh Hooda, Union Home
Minister Amit Shah on
Thursday said the for-
mer Haryana CM used
to run a “3D” govt with
the nexus of “darbaris,
damad and dealers”.
Addressing the BJP’s
Jan Utthan rally, Shah
said, “I congratulate
Manohar Lal Khattar
for completing 8 glori-
ous years of govern-
ance. When he became
the CM, I was the BJP
chief. When he came to
meet me after the polls,
I asked him who should
be the chief minister.
He told me 15 names ex-
cept his own. Such a
man is governing and
developing Haryana for
the last 8 years. In 8
years, Manohar Lal ji
has done the work of
changing Haryana.”
Shah remembered
late BJP leader and for-
mer Haryana deputy
CM Mangal Sein on his
birth anniversary
.
Attacking previous
Haryana governments,
Shah said, “Recall the
Haryana that existed 8
years ago. When one
govt used to come, there
used to be corruption
and when the other gov-
ernment came, hooli-
ganism increased.
Khattar-led BJP govt
neither allowed corrup-
tion nor hooliganism.”
First India Bureau
New Delhi: Union Min-
isterof StateDrJitendra
Singh said on Thursday
that National Education
Policy (NEP-2020) aims
at de-linking degree
from education and live-
lihood opportunities.
Addressing the stu-
dents at Krishna Ma-
havidyalaya at
Thakurdwar in Mo-
radabad, Uttar Pradesh,
Dr Jitendra Singh said,
NEP-2020 also supple-
ments Start-Up ecosys-
tem with the promise to
open new career and
entrepreneurship op-
portunities for students
and youth in India.
Dr Singh said, NEP-
2020 introduced by PM
Modi will reorient In-
dia’s Education Policy
as per global bench-
marks. Describing it as
the biggest path-break-
ing reform in India
since independence, the
Minister said, the new
policy is not only pro-
gressive and visionary
but is also in keeping
with the emerging
needs and requirements
of 21st century India.
He said, it gives due pri-
orities to the inherent
talent, knowledge, skill
and aptitude of the stu-
dents, rather than focus-
ing only on degrees.
He said that linking
degrees with education
has taken a heavy toll on
our education system
and society as well and
one of the fall-outs has
been an increasing
number of educated un-
employed. He said, NEP-
2020 is having the provi-
sion of multiple entry/
exit option thus provid-
ing academic flexibility
to the students.
Referring to Skill In-
dia Mission, he urged
students to imbibe mul-
tiple skills to be success-
ful in life as there are
ample number of exam-
ples to show that those
equipped with the latest
skills are doing wonders
in the world today
.
He urged students to
explore livelihood op-
portunities in the Start-
up sector. He said that
only in August this
year, the Uttar Pradesh
government injected Rs
4,000 crore into the
state’s start-up corpus
for employment genera-
tion and economic ac-
tivity. The fresh infu-
sion of capital has been
made to constitute the
maiden ‘UP Innovation
Fund’ that will be man-
dated to provide seed
capital to start-ups.
It aims at de-linking degree from edu livelihood: MoS Dr Singh
NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY-2020
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Dr Jitendra
Singh gave full
credit to the
futuristic vision
of PM Narendra
Modi, who had
given a call for
Start-Up India,
Stand-Up India
in 2015 itself
Hyderabad (ANI): Re-
jecting the charge that
his party was trying to
poach Telangana Rash-
tra Samithi (TRS)
MLAs, Telangana BJP
chief Bandi Sanjay on
Wednesday said that
Chief Minister K Chan-
drashekar Rao has
scripted the raids at a
farmhouse and de-
manded a probe by a sit-
ting judge.
The BJP chief said
that if KCR is not re-
sponsible for this then
he should come to Ya-
dadri Lakshmi Nar-
asimha Swamy temple
and swear on God. “Sto-
ry-Screenplay-Direc-
tion by CM KCR at
Moinabad Farmhouse
Boomeranged and is
laughable. It’s TRS’
farmhouse, TRS com-
plained, TRS are vic-
tims, TRS are crimi-
nals. KCR if you haven’t
scripted this, come to
Yadadri Lakshmi Nar-
asimha Swamy temple
and swear on God - You
fix time and date,” said
Sanjay
.
The BJP leader al-
leged that the TRS lead-
ers are staying at a ho-
tel for the last three-
four days.
Bhopal (PTI): Seven
people fell sick after
chlorine gas leaked
from a cylinder at a wa-
ter filtration plant in
Bhopal, bringing back
grim memories of the
1984 gas tragedy in the
Madhya Pradesh capi-
tal. A 900 kg chlorine
cylinder leaked on
Wednesday at the water
treatment plant of the
Bhopal Municipal Cor-
poration at the Idgah
Hills,Shahjanabad’sAs-
sistant Commissioner
of Police Umesh Mishra
said on Thursday
.
Seven people living in
slums near the plant
complained of some
health issues. They
were shifted to hospital.
Locals said after the gas
leak, some people com-
plained of breathing
difficulties, coughing
and vomiting. The snag
has been fixed, he said.
Thousands of people
were killed and more
than five lakh affected
after inhaling a toxic
gas that spewed out
from the now defunct
Union Carbide factory
in Bhopal on the inter-
vening night of Decem-
ber 2 and 3, 1984.
IN THE COURTYARD
New Delhi: The NGT has
refused to entertain a plea
seeking a direction to moni-
tor and test efficiency of a
device to control air pol-
lution. A bench headed by
Justice AK Goel said the Tri-
bunal’s role is to adjudicate
on substantial questions of
environment and not to test
devices of commercial en-
terprises. According to the
applicant, he is an expert on
the subject of control of air
pollution and has invented
a device to control air
pollution. He has accord-
ingly sought a direction to
monitor and test efficiency
of devices of the applicant.
Mumbai: If a married woman is asked to do household
work for family, it cannot be equated to the work of a
maid and would not amount to cruelty, the Aurangabad
bench of Bombay High Court said while quashing a case
lodged by a woman against her husband and his parents
for domestic violence and cruelty. A division bench on
October 21, quashed the First Information Report lodged
against the man and his parents. The woman had alleged
she was was treated properly for a month after marriage,
but thereafter, they began treating her like a maid servant.
New Delhi: Former BJP MP Subramanian Swamy moved
a plea before the Delhi High Court claiming that the
Central Govt had failed to provide adequate security at his
private residence as assured before the court. The appli-
cation has been listed for hearing on Monday. In Septem-
ber the Delhi high court had asked Swamy to vacate the
government accommodation. The matter was mentioned
by the senior advocate Jayant Mehta before the bench
headed by chief justice Satish Chandra Sharma.
New Delhi: The Delhi
High Court on Thursday
refused to pass an interim
order extending tenure of
last presiding officer of
Delhi School Tribunal and
granted time to the govt
to state its stand on a plea
seeking expeditious ap-
pointment to the currently
vacant post. Delhi govt
counsel Santosh Kumar
Tripathi told the court that
the rules for appointment
have been changed and
are pending approval be-
fore the Lt Governor and a
“temporary arrangement”
has been put in place until
a regular selection is done.
NGT JUNKS PLEA TO
SEEK MONITORING OF
POLLUTION DEVISE
MARRIED WOMAN ASKED TO DO HOUSEHOLD
WORK FOR FAMILY NOT CRUELTY, SAYS HC
SWAMY MOVES HC OVER CENTRE’S FAILURE
TO PROVIDE SECURITY AT HIS PVT RESIDENCE
HC: WON’T EXTEND
TENURE OF SCHOOL
TRIBUNAL’S HEAD
“Hooda used to run 3D govt”
SHAH ATTACKS PREVIOUS HARYANA GOVT
Union Home Minister Amit Shah being greeted by Haryana CM ML Khattar, Kerala CM Pinarayi
Vijayan, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, Punjab CM Bhagwant
Mann, Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit, Manipur CM N. Biren Singh, Goa CM Pramod Sawant,
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami and others during the ‘Chintan Shivir’ of home ministers of
all states, at Surajkund in Faridabad, on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI
Seven people fall
sick after chlorine
gas leaks in Bhopal
Locals wait outside their houses after chlorine gas leaked from a
cylinder at a water filtration plant, in Bhopal, on Wednesday night.
BJP demands probe in TRS’ poaching bid charges
Chandigarh (PTI): A
day after Delhi CM
Arvind Kejriwal sought
printing images of Lord
Ganesha and Goddess
Lakshmi on currency,
Congress MP Manish
Tewari on Thursday
asked why not Bhimrao
Ambedkar's photo on a
new series of notes.
The AAP national
convener’s demand
drew sharp reactions
from the Congress with
its Punjab unit chief
Amrinder Singh Raja
accusing Kejriwal of
resorting to “competi-
tive Hindutva” to out-
wit the BJP in poll-
bound Gujarat.
Reacting to Kejri-
wal’s statement,
Tewari, a Congress MP
from Punjab’s Anand-
pur Sahib, tweeted,
“Why not Dr Babasahib
Ambedkar’s photo-
graph on new series of
currency notes? On one
side the great Mahatma
(Gandhi) the other side
Dr (B R) Ambedkar.”
“Non-violence, Con-
stitutionalism and egal-
itarianism fusing in a
unique union that
would sum up the mod-
ern Indian genius per-
fectly,” he said in the
tweet. During a media
briefing on Wednesday,
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal appealed to
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi to have imag-
es of Lord Ganesha and
Goddess Lakshmi on
currency notes.
WhynotAmbedkar’spiconnotes:Tewari
Manish Tewari
BJP leader Bandi Sanjay
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court has criti-
cised the practice of
High Courts to grant
anticipatory bail to ac-
cused in criminal cases
on the ground that no
custodial interrogation
isrequired.Abenchsaid
there is a misconception
that if no case for custo-
dial interrogation is
madeoutbyprosecution
then that alone would be
a good ground to grant
anticipatory bail.
“In many anticipato-
ry bail matters, we have
noticed one common
argument being can-
vassed that no custodial
interrogation is re-
quired and, therefore,
anticipatory bail may
be granted. There ap-
pears to be a serious
misconception of law,”
the bench said.
SC:‘Custodial interrogation not
needed’ not a ground for bail
Hyderabad: The ruling
TRS in Telangana and
the Asaduddin Owaisi-
led AIMIM practice the
same politics as that of
the BJP, AICC General
Secretary, in-charge
of communications,
Jairam Ramesh alleged
on Thursday. Ramesh,
who spoke to reporters
during a break in the
Bharat Jodo Yatra led by
party leader Rahul Gan-
dhi, said the main focus
of Yatra is the “divisive
politics” of BJP and the
RSS, but in Telangana
the challenge is also to
face the ruling TRS.
TRS, MIM USING
BJP’S STYLE OF
POLITICS, SAYS
JAIRAM RAMESH
Hyderabad: Telan-
gana BJP on Thursday
approached the High
Court seeking transfer
of a case pertaining to
the TRS MLAs’ poach-
ing allegations against
the party, to the CBI or
to constitute a special
investigation team to
carry out a fair probe
into the matter. In a writ
petition filed by BJP
State Genl Secy Gujjula
Premendar Reddy, he
claimed the “bias and
unfair investigation” be-
ing carried out is with a
“sole intention to frame
the leaders” of his party.
BJP URGES HC TO
TRANSFER TRS
MLAS’ POACHING
CASE TO CBI Hyderabad (Agencies): The Telangana BJP has
released a manifesto for the Munugode bypoll to be
held on November 3, promising to develop the con-
stituency in 500 days with the help of over Rs 1,000
crore in central government funds. Neither the ruling
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), nor Congress or
other contesting parties, including Independents,
have released any manifestos for the by-poll. The
eight-page, 28-point “master plan” promises all-
round development of Munugode, with funds and
direct oversight of at least 10 Central ministries. As
per the manifesto, the National Highways Authority
of India will invest over Rs 200 crore to develop three
stretches of highways that connect to Munugode. Un-
der the Union Ministry of Textiles, a textile park would
be developed with Rs 100 crore. The manifesto states
that a central fluoride research centre attached with
a 100-bed hospital will be established at Munugode,
at a cost of Rs 100 crores. It will be managed by the
National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad.
Surajkund (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on
Thursday announced to open branches of the National
Investigation Agency (NIA) in all states by 2024 as
part of the Centre’s plan to build an anti-terrorism
network. The Home Minister made the announce-
ment while speaking at the two-day ‘Chintan Shivir’ of
Home Ministers’ of all states here to prepare an action
plan for the implementation of the Centre’s ‘vision
2047’. “Government led by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi has a zero-tolerance policy against terrorism
and NIA and other agencies are being strengthened to
achieve a decisive victory,” Shah said.
Faridabad (PTI): Union HM Amit Shah on Thursday
laid the foundation stone of Haryana Orbital Rail Corri-
dor and inaugurated three other projects here worth a
combined Rs 6,629 crore. He inaugurated the projects
virtually from an event at the Parade Ground. He laid
the foundation stone of Rs 5,618-crore Haryana Or-
bital Rail Corridor project. He inaugurated a rail coach
refurbishment factory worth Rs 590 crore in Sonipat’s
Barhi and India’s first longest elevated railway track in
Rohtak, built at a cost of Rs 315.40 crore.
Surajkund (PTI): Most of the non-BJP CMs holding the
charge of their Home Departments on Thursday skipped the
‘Chintan Shivir’ of home ministers of all states organised by
the Centre here. Non-BJP chief ministers holding the home
portfolios are Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), Nitish Kumar
(Bihar), Naveen Patnaik (Odisha) and MK Stalin (Tamil
Nadu). Only two non-BJP CMs — Punjab’s Bhagwant Mann
and Kerala’s Pinarayi Vijayan — attended the conference
being chaired by Union HM Amit Shah. The rest of the non-
BJP states were either represented by a cabinet minister or a
minister of state holding charge of the home department.
BJP RELEASES MANIFESTO IN HIGH
STAKES TELANGANA BYELECTION,
CATCHES TRS, CONG OFF-GUARD
NIA BRANCHES IN ALL STATES BY
2024 TO BUILD ANTI-TERRORISM
NETWORK, SAYS HM AMIT SHAH
UNION HM INAUGURATES, LAYS
FOUNDATION STONE OF PROJECTS
WORTH `6,629 CR IN HARYANA
MOST NON-BJP CMS HOLDING HOME
MINISTRY PORTFOLIOS SKIP MHA MEET
NOIDA IN DEMAND

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INDIA
Gorakhpur (Agencies):
Sharing the joys of Di-
wali with members of
Vantangiya and Mush-
ar communities, Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minis-
ter Yogi Adityanath on
Monday said that Ram
Rajya is all about en-
suring that the benefits
of welfare schemes of
the government reach
every person honestly.
Inaugurating and
laying the foundation
stone of 288 develop-
ment projects worth Rs
80 crore for various
gram panchayats of
the district at Van-
tangiya village, Yogi
said that Ram Rajya is
where compassion and
facilities reach people
together simultane-
ously.
Washington (ANI): US
Secretary of State An-
tony Blinken on
Wednesday hosted in-
person Diwali recep-
tion following a gap of
two years due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
This event, which fol-
lows the White House’s
biggest Diwali event on
Monday
, received guests
from the diplomatic and
religious communities,
from the private sector
and from all across civil
society
. “Simply to you:
it’s an honour - an hon-
our to host you at the
State Department for
this first in-person Di-
wali since before the
pandemic,” Blinken
said in his remarks at a
Diwali reception.
“Over the past few
days, Hindus, Sikhs,
Jains, Buddhists have
decorated their homes
with rungolee; they’ve
shared sweets; they’ve
given thanks through
pooja; they’ve lit spar-
klers.
All around the world,
from the streets of New
Delhi, to the parks of
Kuala Lumpur, to right
down the street at the
White House, people
have gathered to share
in the simple joy of be-
ing around friends and
family,” he added.
Blinken hosts in-person Diwali reception
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The event,
which follows
the White
House’s biggest
Diwali event,
received guests
from the
diplomatic and
religious
communities
T’gana leg of Yatra resumes after 4 days
Hyderabad (PTI): Af-
ter a gap of four days,
the Rahul Gandhi-led
Bharat Jodo Yatra re-
sumed from Makthal in
Narayanpet district of
Telangana on Thursday
,
sources in the Congress
party said.
The yatra kicked off
at 6.30 am from Makthal
with State Congress
president A Revanth
Reddy, MP Uttam Ku-
mar Reddy, CLP leader
Bhatti Vikramarka and
a number of party lead-
ers joining Gandhi.
This is the second day
of the yatra in the state.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra
entered the state via
Gudebellur on October
23 morning, after exit-
ing Karnataka from
Raichur. After a brief
march, it took a break
from Sunday noon till
October 26.Gandhi who
left for the national cap-
ital on October 23, land-
ed here last night and
left for Gudebellur by
road. The Gandhi scion-
led march is expected to
complete 26.7 km, be-
fore halting for the day
at Sri Balaji Factory,
Makthal for the night,
according to party
sources. From Makthal,
the yatra will continue
for 16 days in Telangana
state, covering 19 As-
sembly and 7 Parlia-
mentary constituencies
spanning a distance of
375 km, before entering
Maharashtra on No-
vember 7.
Dislodging BJP not possible without Congress, says Jairam Ramesh
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi interacts with the children during the party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, in
Narayanpet on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Will K’taka Cong witness a third
power centre in Kharge faction?
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: After Mal-
likarjun Kharge be-
came the Congress
President, there may or
may not be any new fac-
tion in the national
politics of the party, but
it is certain that a new
faction will be formed
in Karnataka, which
will be called Kharge
faction. It can also be
called a high command
group. At present there
are two factions in Kar-
nataka i.e. Siddaramai-
ah and DK Shivakumar.
Siddaramaiah has been
the chief minister of
the state but he is not a
traditional Congress
leader. He left the JDS
and joined the Con-
gress and Rahul Gan-
dhi made him the Chief
Minister. Shivakumar,
on the other hand, is
the state president,
troubleshooter of the
Congress and a re-
source-rich leader.
Right now the entire
party is divided be-
tween these two lead-
ers. However, apart
from these, there are
many other big leaders
like Margaret Alva and
Veerappa Moily
.
Kharge is from Kar-
nataka and has now be-
come the national pres-
ident of the party. In
such a situation, the
leaders who are not in
any group have got a
shelter. Keep in mind
that Kharge being the
grassroots leader of
Karnataka, every small
and big leader has di-
rect contact with him.
Therefore, the leaders
of the party can contact
him in Delhi and speak
their mind. This fac-
tion will also be formed
because elections are
going to be held in Kar-
nataka next year and
both the big leaders -
Siddaramaiah and Shi-
vakumar - are busy pre-
paring their list of can-
didates. Any leader
who is not in the list of
these two will remain in
Kharge or high com-
mand faction. So, Kar-
nataka politics is going
to be interesting in the
next few days. This dis-
cussion has also started
among many knowl-
edgeable Congress lead-
ers that Kharge fell
short of becoming CM
thrice, and it could be
that after becoming the
national president, he
may yet again become
CM. Thus if Congress
wins, Kharge may be
the consensus candi-
date instead of Siddara-
maiah and Shivakumar.
Cong Prez Mallikarjun Kharge
CONG DEMANDS WHITE PAPER ON ‘PLIGHT OF KASHMIRI PANDITS’
New Delhi (PTI): The Con-
gress attacked the BJP over
the alleged exodus of Kash-
miri Pandits from south
Kashmir’s Shopian district
and demanded that the
Modi government release
a white paper on the plight
of the minority community
during its eight-year rule.
The opposition party also
hit out at the BJP-led
Centre over the
targeted killings of
Kashmiri Pandits
in Jammu and
Kashmir and said
the government
must apolo-
gise for it.
As terrorists carried out a
number of targeted killings
recently, 10 Kash-
miri Pandit families left
their village, Choud-
harygund, in Shopian
out of fear and reached
Jammu, ac-
cording to
residents.
CRUCIAL READ
ASSAM POLICE CONFISCATES GANJA
WORTH `15 CRORE, TWO ARRESTED
Guwahati (ANI): Assam police on Thursday foiled inter-state
smuggling by intercepting a truck carrying more than two
thousand kilos of contraband drugs (Ganja) near the Jorabat
area, along the Assam-Meghalaya border. “Two persons
have been arrested,” officials said. Acting on a tip-off, an
operation was launched by a team of Guwahati city police
and intercepted a truck, on its way to mainland Assam from
Manipur, carrying Manipuri Ganja, worth Rs 15 crore.
Indian Army jawans celebrate
Bhai Dooj with women at LoC
Poonch (PTI): The
Jawans of Indian Ar-
my’s Durga Battalion on
Thursday celebrated
Bhai Dooj with women
and girls at Line of Con-
trol (LoC) in Gulpur sec-
tor in Poonch district of
Jammu and Kashmir.
Women applied ‘tika’
on the forehead of the
army personnel and
performed other
rituals.“OurBattalionis
posted here at Loc and
today is the festival of
Bhai Dooj. Our sisters
are at home and we can’t
meet them but here the
sisters of Poonch cele-
brated the festival with
us,” said an officer. An-
other Army Officer
posted here at LoC said
that the sister of Poonch
has come to celebrate.
Army personnel gets tilak applied on his forehead on the
occasion of Bhai Dooj festival, in Poonch. —PHOTO BY ANI
CDS ANIL CHAUHAN
LAYS WREATH AT NAT’L
WAR MEMORIAL
New Delhi (Agencies): On
the occasion of Infantry Day,
Chief of Defense Staff (CDS)
General Anil Chauhan laid a
wreath at the National War
Memorial in the national
capital on Thursday. Mean-
while, Defence Minister
Rajnath Singh will visit Sri-
nagar in Jammu and Kash-
mir to attend the ‘Shaurya
Diwas’ program organized
by the Indian Army. Later in
the day, he will arrive in Leh
on a two-day visit to
Ladakh.
Worldwide
emissions will
peak in 2025,
says IEA
Paris (ANI): The Inter-
national Energy Agen-
cy (IEA) on Thursday
released its World En-
ergy Outlook 2022 re-
port, which stated that
global emissions will
peak in 2025.
Based on the latest en-
ergy data and market
developments, this
year’s WEO explores
key questions about the
crisis, including set-
backs for clean energy
transitions,government
responses on energy
markets and possible
risks ahead on the path
to net zero emissions.
“In the Announced
Pledges Scenario (APS),
the commitments in the
NDCs bring about a fast-
er reduction in emis-
sions: global emissions
peak before 2025 and fall
to 31.5 Gt CO2 in 2030,
which is around 15pc
lower than in the
STEPS,” the report said.
UP BUREAUCRACY By Ahtesham Siddiqui...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Ensuring welfare schemes for
everyone is ‘Ram Rajya’: UP CM
UP CM Yogi Adityanath
‘MADRASA SURVEY
ONLY TO ALLOW
HOLISTIC POLICY’
Lucknow (Agencies):
Uttar Pradesh Minister
of State for Minority
Affairs, Danish Azad
Ansari said that the
government’s objec-
tive for conducting a
survey of unrecognised
madrasas is to facili-
tate in developing ho-
listic welfare policy for
all students. “It is up
to madrasas whether
they want to benefit
from the government’s
welfare scheme or
not,” he said.
Lucknow: After the ap-
plications of IAS offic-
ers Juthika Patankar
and Renuka Kumar for
Voluntary Retirement
Scheme were accepted,
all eyes are on the
2003-batch IAS officer
Vikas Gothalwal who
has also sought VRS.
However, the matter
of his VRS seems to be
stuck in some technical
issue. Gothalwal’s wife
Amrita Soni, is also a
2003 batch IAS of UP
cadre, who is currently
posted in the office of
Chief Secretary IAS
Durga Shankar Mishra
as his Principal Staff
Officer.
Gothalwal went
abroad on academic
leave from September 13
last year to September 1,
2022. Sources said that
there is some issue re-
garding the payment of
salary of this period due
to which his VRS has
not been approved yet.
Final decision on the
VRS application will be
taken after this pay-
ment issue is resolved.
However, the in-
formed sources said
that IAS Vikas Gothal-
wal may withdraw his
VRS application at the
last moment.
Meanwhile, the resig-
nation of IAS Vidya
Bhushan, who sought
resignation in the bu-
reaucracy of UP, may
also be accepted soon.
IAS Gothalwal may withdraw application for VRS: Sources
IAS Vikas Gothalwal IAS Vidya Bhushan
UP: Fight over
rasgulla shortage
leaves 1 dead
Agra (Agencies): A
22-year-old man was
killed and five others in-
jured after a fight erupt-
ed at a wedding ceremo-
ny at Etmadpur here
due to a shortage of
sweets, police said. The
incident occurred on
Wednesday night at the
wedding ceremony of
Mohalla Shaikhan resi-
dent Usman’s daugh-
ters, the police said.
Gas tanker explodes
after overturning,1dead
Dumka (PTI): One per-
son was killed and an-
other injured as a gas
tanker overturned after
hitting a bus that was
parked on the roadside
in Jharkhand’s Dumka
district on Thursday af-
ternoon, following
which it exploded and
caught fire.The acci-
dent happened on State
Highway 17 in Dhava-
tand area when the
tanker was on the way
to Hansdiha, Superin-
tendent of Police Am-
ber Lakra told PTI. Af-
ter the tanker exploded,
it caught fire that rav-
aged at least three buses
that were parked one
after the other. Several
trees were also burnt,
police said. “There was
an explosion after the
tanker overturned.
Three buses that were
parked nearby and sev-
eral trees also caught
fire,” police inspector
said.
BHARAT JODO YATRA
FROM PG 1
Uddhav camp...
who challenges the un-
justsuperpowerof Del-
hiites with the self-re-
spectof Maharashtra.”
It is visible from the
banner that the sup-
port of Uddhav Thack-
eray is increasing in
Thane.
However, Thane city
isn’t the only spot
where the “fight for
right” is being fought.
On Thursday
, the
Thackeray and Shinde
factionscametologger-
heads in Dombivli, af-
ter the Shinde group
“captured” the party’s
central office there.
Interestingly
, Shilpa
More, a functionary of
the Thackeray group,
came to the Dombivli
branch and was chased
away by women from
the pro-Shinde group.
Due to this, tension
reigned supreme in the
area. Only after the lo-
cal police intervened
anddetainedafewindi-
viduals did the tussle
come to an end--for the
time being.
If festivities...
If the festival or tour
(of the leaders) is over
and someone has time
andtheyvisitthefarm-
ers, they will know
what the situation is.
The situation in the
state is extremely seri-
ous.”
Sule also reminded
the Shinde-Fadnavis
government of the fi-
nancialandotherhard-
ships faced by farmers
during the COVID-19
crisis,adding,“If there
was one person who
went to work every day
,
even during the pan-
demic, it was the farm-
er. A lot has gone down
but food continues to
come to the table, and
allthecreditgoestothe
farmers of this coun-
try
. This is an insensi-
tive government.”

07
Commodity Price Change % Chg
GOLD 51,024.00 106.00 0.20 (Per 10g)
SILVER 58,323.00 334.00 0.57 (Per 1kg)
COMMODITIES
Currency Price Change % Chg
USDINR 82.47 0.34 0.41
GBPINR 95.38 0.36 0.38
CURRENCIES
business
BRIEFS
New Delhi: Business-to-
business trade platform
Udaan has recently
wrapped up a fund raise
of $120 million (about
`989.89 crore), through
convertible notes and
debt, led by existing
shareholders and bond-
holders, according to an
internal note. The internal
communication to Udaan
employees from chief fi-
nancial officer Aditya
Pande on Thursdaymen-
tioned that the company
is looking at “being public
market ready in 12-18
months”. —PTI
UDAAN RAISES $120
MN FROM EXISTING
SHAREHOLDERS
Mumbai: The Reserve
Bank has called a special
meeting of the Monetary
Policy Committee on No-
vember 3 to prepare a re-
port on its failure to keep
retail inflation below 6%
for three consecutive
quarters. “Under the pro-
visions of Section 45ZN
of the Reserve Bank of In-
dia (RBI) Act ...An addi-
tional meeting of the MPC
is being scheduled on No-
vember 3, 2022,” the cen-
tral bank said in a state-
ment on Thursday. The
inflation has remained
above the upper tolerance
limit of 6 per cent for nine
straight months or three
quarters. —PTI
RESERVE BANK TO
HOLD SPECIAL MPC
MEET ON NOV 3
New Delhi: IGI Airport in
Delhi has emerged as the
world’s 10th busiest air-
port in October. In its re-
port, aviation analytics
firm OAG said Delhi air-
port has improved its po-
sition from 14th place in
October 2019, which was
the pre-pandemic time. In
October 2022, Hartsfield-
Jackson Atlanta Interna-
tional Airport was the
busiest in the world. After
Atlanta, Dubai and Tokyo
Haneda airports are at the
2nd and 3rd positions, re-
spectively. —FIB
DELHI’S IGI WORLD’S
TENTH BUSIEST
AIRPORT: REPORT
Beijing: India and China
bilateral trade continued
to boom, crossing $100
billion for the second year
in the first nine months of
2022 while India’s trade
deficit climbed to over
$75 billion, according to
trade data released by
Chinese customs. The to-
tal bilateral trade, amidst
the military standoff in
eastern Ladakh, went up
to $103.63 billion, regis-
tering a 14.6% increase
compared to 2021 during
the same period. China’s
exports to India climbed
to $89.66 billion, register-
ing rise of 31%. —PTI
INDIA, CHINA TRADE
CROSSES $100 BN
DURING JAN-SEPT
*Rates till the edition went to print.
‘India to see biggest jump
in energy demand globally’
New Delhi (PTI): India is
likely to see the world’s big-
gest rise in energy demand
this decade, with demand
climbing 3% annually due
to urbanisation and indus-
trialisation, the Interna-
tional Energy Agency
(IEA) said in its World En-
ergy Outlook released on
Thursday
.
While the push for re-
newable energy will see it
meeting as much as 60% of
the growth in demand for
power, coal will continue to
meet a third of overall en-
ergy demand by 2030 and
another quarter will be
met by oil.
“India becomes the
world’s most populous
country by 2025 and, com-
bined with the twin forces
of urbanisation and indus-
trialisation, this underpins
rapid growth in energy de-
mand, which rises by more
than 3 per cent per year in
the Stated Policies Scenar-
io (STEPS) from 2021 to
2030,” IEA said. “It sees the
largest increase in energy
demand of any country
.”
Even though India con-
tinuestomakegreatstrides
with renewables deploy-
ment and efficiency poli-
cies, the sheer scale of its
development means that
the combined import bill
for fossil fuels doubles over
the next two decades, with
oil by far the largest com-
ponent. “This points to con-
tinued risks to energy secu-
rity,” IEA said.
IEA said the world is in
the midst of the first global
energy crisis, triggered by
Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine.“Pressuresinmar-
kets predated Russia’s inva-
sion of Ukraine, but Rus-
sia’s actions have turned a
rapid economic recovery
from the pandemic -- which
strained all manner of glob-
al supply chains, including
energy -- into full-blown en-
ergy turmoil,” it said.
In India, coal meets a
third of growth with de-
mand rising above 770 mil-
lion tonnes of coal equiva-
lent (Mtce) by 2030, and
continuing thereafter be-
fore peaking in the early
2030s. Oil demand meets a
further quarter of the en-
ergy demand growth and
rises to nearly 7 million
barrels per day by 2030
from 4.7 million bpd in 2021.
MAJOR
HIGHLIGHTS
z While the push for
renewable energy will see
it meeting as much as 60%
of the growth in demand for
power, coal will continue to
meet a third of overall energy
demand by 2030
z Oil demand meets a further
quarter of the energy demand
growth and rises to nearly 7
million barrels per day by 2030
from 4.7 million bpd in 2021
z Coal generation is
projected to continue to expand
in absolute terms, peaking
around 2030
Mumbai (PTI): The rupee appreciated 34 paise to close at 82.47
(provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday as the greenback
retreated from its elevated levels. At the
interbank foreign exchange market, the local
currency opened at 82.15 and witnessed a
high of 82.14 and a low of 82.51. It finally
settled at 82.47 against the American cur-
rency, registering a rise of 34 paise over
its last close. In the previous session on
Tuesday, the rupee appreciated by 7 paise
to 82.81 against the dollar. The forex market
was closed on Wednesday.
INDIAN RUPEE RISES 34 PAISE ON THURSDAY
TO CLOSE AT 82.47 AGAINST US DOLLAR
Mumbai (PTI): Equity
benchmarks Sensex and
Nifty settled on a positive
note on Thursday, helped
by buying in metal and re-
alty stocks amid mixed
global market trends.
The 30-share BSE bench-
mark climbed 212.88 points
or 0.36% to settle at
59,756.84. During the day, it
jumped 415.98 points or
0.69% to 59,959.94.
On similar lines, the
broader NSE Nifty ad-
vanced 80.60 points or
0.46% to end at 17,736.95.
In the Sensex pack, Tata
Steel, Power Grid, Sun
Pharma, Bharti Airtel, Ti-
tan, Axis Bank, Dr Reddy’s
and NTPC were among the
major winners.
On the other hand, Bajaj
Finance, Bajaj Finserv,
Asian Paints, Tech Mahin-
dra and Nestle were among
the laggards.
Sensexclimbs212pts
amidmixedglobal
cues,TataSteelrises
Deadline for filing Form 26Q extedned till Nov 30
New Delhi (PTI): The Cen-
tral Board of Direct Taxes
on Thursday extended the
deadline for filing quarter-
ly TDS statement in Form
26Q for the June quarter by
a month till November 30.
Form 26Q is used for
quarterly filing of TDS re-
turns on payments other
than salary
.
“Consideringthedifficul-
ties in filing of TDS state-
ment in the revised and
updated Form 26Q, the Cen-
tral Board of Direct Taxes
(CBDT) has extended the
due date of filing of Form
26Q for the second quarter
of financial year 2022-23
from 31st October, 2022 to
30th November, 2022,”
CBDT said in a statement.
The form captures de-
tails of total amount paid
and tax deducted on such
payments during the quar-
ter. It would include pay-
ments on account of inter-
est on securities, dividend,
winnings from lotteries
and crossword puzzles,
rent, interest other than
interest on securities, fees
for professional or techni-
cal services.
KNOW ABOUT
FORM 26Q
z Form 26Q is used for
quarterly filing of Tax
Deducted at Source (TDS)
returns on payments other
than salary
India’s textiles sector eyeing $100
billion exports in next 5-6 yrs: Goyal
New Delhi (PTI): India’s
textiles sector aims to hit
$100 billion exports in 5-6
years, which would take the
industry’s combined do-
mestic and international
economic value to $250 bil-
lion,UnionministerPiyush
Goyal said on Thursday
.
Outbound shipments
from the country’s textiles
segment stood at around
$42 billion in 2021-22.
The minister said that
last year, textile export was
approximately $42 billion,
while the target is to
achieve $100 billion by next
5-6 years.
He said that if achieved,
the economic value of the
sector will be worth $250
billion collectively, includ-
ing its domestic as well as
international markets.
Production of cotton is
estimated at 34.19 million
bales (of 170 kg each) in the
2022-23 crop year (July-
June) as against 31.20 mil-
lion bales in the previous
year, as per agriculture
ministry’s latest data.
‘Satellite comm
to play key
role in driving
India’s tech’
New Delhi (PTI): Satellite
communications is emerg-
ing as an important part of
India’s ambitions to scale
up quality internet access
across the country, Minis-
ter of State for IT Rajeev
Chandrasekhar said.
For the digital economy
and India’s growing clout
in global technology land-
scape, satellite communica-
tions holds significant rel-
evance, the minister said.
“Our goal...Is by 2025-26
to have 1.2 billion Indians
have the ability to connect
to the internet directly
through their device, and...
Role of satellite communi-
cations and space segment
is an inherent part of this,”
Chandrasekhar said.
At times, wireless tech-
nology may have limita-
tions and “satellite is clear-
ly emerging as an impor-
tant part of the blueprint
of delivering quality inter-
net to all citizens and en-
terprises of India,” he said.
Satellite space, there-
fore, will be important in
the overall mission to en-
sure delivery of internet
and goal of connecting peo-
ple to the digital economy
.
Potato tomato output estimated to be down by 4-5%
First India Bureau
New Delhi: According to
agricultural ministry data
released on Thursday, the
production of potato and
tomato in India is estimat-
ed to have declined by 4-5%
during the crop year that
ended July 2022, while on-
ion output remained high-
er than the previous year.
Releasing the third ad-
vance estimate of produc-
tion of horticultural crops,
the ministry said potato
production is pegged to be
lower by 5% at 53.39 million
tonnes in 2021-22, as against
56.17 million tonnes in 2021.
Similarly, production of
tomato is estimated to have
declined by 4% to 20.33 mil-
lion tonnes as against 21.18.
However, production of
onion is pegged higher at
31.27 million tonnes during
the 2021-22 crop year as
against 26.64 million
tonnes in the previous year.
The production of over-
all vegetables is projected
to be higher at 204.84 mil-
lion tonnes as against
200.45 million tonnes.
Production of fruits is
also estimated to be higher
at 107.24 million tonnes
during 2021-22 crop year as
against 102.48 million
tonnes in the previous year.
The total horticultural
crops production is pro-
jected to increase by 2.31%
at 342.33 million tonnes in
2021-22 as against 334.60
million tonnes in the previ-
ous year, the data showed.
The government releas-
es production estimates at
different stages of plant
growth and harvesting.
FOR YEAR ENDING JULY 2022
ACCORDING TO
MINISTRY DATA
z The agriculture ministry said
potato production could be
lower by 5% at 53.39 million
tonnes in crop year July 22
z Production of tomato is
estimated to have declined
by 4% to 20.33 million
tonnes in the same period
z Production of onion is higher
at 31.27 million tonnes
DIAL TO DEPLOY MORE
ELECTRIC VEHICLES TO
REDUCE EMISSIONS
New Delhi: Delhi airport
operator DIAL on Thursday
said it has deployed 57 electric
vehicles to
reduce carbon
emissions in
the airport
ecosystem
and more such vehicles will be
operated soon. The Delhi Inter-
national Airport Ltd (DIAL) has
initiated the adoption of electric
vehicles and aims to replace all
diesel and petrol-run vehicles in
a phased manner, according to
a release. Out of the 57 electric
vehicles, 21 are being deployed
on the airside. —PTI
‘TELECOM DEPARTMENT
HAS ADDRESSED TRAI’S
TELECOM BILL FEARS’
New Delhi: TRAI’s apprehen-
sions over potential dilution of
powers under the draft telecom
bill have been
addressed, and
the government
may look at
the option of
taking up provisions related to
strengthening of the regulatory
body separately at a later stage,
DoT sources said. On OTT com-
munication apps, sources said,
the focus is on user protection
related regulation, not licencing.
The DoT, through the provisions
of the draft bill, will come down
heavily on spammers. —PTI
NITI AAYOG’S VICE-CHAIARMAN BERY SATISFIED
OVER PROJECTIONS ON INDIA’S GDP GROWTH RATE
Jamshedpur: Niti Aayog vice-chairman Suman Bery expressed satis-
faction over the projections on the country’s GDP growth rate despite
the prevailing uncertain global scenario. The International Monetary
Fund has predicted that India GDP rate will
be 6.5% despite the prevailing conflict (in
Ukraine), the post-COVID conditions among
others, he said. He told the media that the
Reserve Bank of India has pegged the GDP
growth at 7% and the government is target-
ting to acheive the figure in 2022-23. —PTI
FINMIN EXTENDS QUERY SUBMISSION DEADLINE
FOR IDBI BANK STAKE SALE TILL NOVEMBER 10
New Delhi: The finance ministry on Thursday extended the deadline
for potential bidders to submit queries on IDBI Bank privatisation
by 13 days till November 10. The ministry
on October 7 had floated the Preliminary
Information Memorandum (PIM) inviting
bids for selling about 61% stake in IDBI
Bank. The deadline for raising queries and
submission of bids by interested bidder was
October 28 and December 16, resp. —PTI
OTHER STORIES

08
2NDFRONT
z But other than estab-
lishing a synergy with
the Young Gandhis,
what other challenges
do you see would befall
Mallikarjun Kharge?
Dr Jagdeesh Chandra:
Challenges abound but in
Indian politics, the biggest
challenge before him is how
to take on or counter the be-
hemothNarendraModiand
Amit Shah. Then there is
the challenge of winning
elections since before 2024,
11 states will witness elec-
tions.Firstlyelectionwould
be held in Kharge’s home
state Karnataka, then in
2023 the three states of Ra-
jasthan, MP and Chat-
tishgarh would elect
governments, im-
mediatelyHimachal
and Gujarat will un-
dergo election
in this year.
All these are
political chal-
lenges, which
honestly no one expects
Kharge to do miracles in.
Thesearethechallengesbut
he is not concerned or con-
nected with it. If Congress
doesnotdowellinHimachal
and Gujarat election, then
perhaps no one would say
that this loss is on Kharge’s
leadership. Secondly
, the
challenge within the party
is that now workers have
started feeling a divide in
the party between North
andSouth.Workersfeelthat
everything has been given
to leaders of the south. Now
look at their handling of
events. Bhai Dooj was on
26th and that very day eve-
ryone was called for cover-
age as the new President
would formally take over.
Who all would come to wit-
ness this event and moreo-
ver, will people at homes
across the North India get
time to see this unfold? Had
itbeenPongalorotherfesti-
val, this formal take over
would not have happened.
So basically
, from day one, a
trust deficit has occurred in
their leadership that every-
thing has been given to
South and North has been
differentiated against. So
this is another challenge to
counter. Moreover, he will
also have to sort the gap be-
tween the old guards and
the young brigade of Con-
gress. Although the gap has
lessened and issues have
been sorted, but still some
areas on concern remain.
The formation of commit-
teesandboardsinpartyhas
tobedone,butheappearsto
be relaxed and I don’t think
he is worried to much.
z It is said that Rahul
Gandhi wanted the elec-
tion process to be devoid
of any intervention and
held in a free and fair
manner. But word is
that Priyanka Gandhi
called up various lead-
ers and asked for votes
in Kharge’s favour. How
true is that?
It sometimes seem that Pri-
yanka Gandhi is the ‘real
boss’ whether it is anything
to do worth Rajasthan or
any other state. She han-
dles issues, has a different
thoughtprocessandmoreo-
ver, she is practical while
Rahul is more of a rule
book leader. It is my firm
belief that Rahul Gandhi
must have surely thought
that the election should be
free, fair and independent,
but among the loyalists
only
. He may or may not
want Shashi Tharoor to
come to helm, nothing can
besaidforcertainaboutRa-
hul Gandhi. So, he wanted
free elections, but that is
not what happened. If you
try to find out, you will
learn that Priyanka defi-
nitely called up leaders and
calls were made to leaders
from state PCC to vote in
Kharge’s favour, which ba-
sically beats the sentiment
of free and fair elec-
tions. As such a gap
between the votes
amassed by Kharge
and Tharoor is so
great that this
sentence has
noimportance.
Shashi Tha-
roor was hard-
ly a candidate to challenge
Kharge, but the situation
could have been different or
tough had Digvijaya Singh
been at helm. So by and
large, it was fair but there
were exceptions has people
tried to influence the out-
come at the level of Priyan-
ka Gandhi.
z Rahul is a MP from
Kerala’s Wayanad, KC
Venugopal, the Organi-
sational General Secre-
tary, too is from Kerala
and now the new Presi-
dent is from South Indi-
an state of Karnataka.
Is it a well thought out
strategy to give impetus
and focus on South India
or it is a coincidence?
No, this is merely a coinci-
dence and not part of any
strategy
. Rahul Gandhi
thought he would surely
win from Kerala so he went
there. KC has been a long
time standard bearer for
him. Ashok Gehlot denied
becoming present and if he
hadbecomethePartyChief,
then the President would
have been from North. It
was because of his denial
that situation developed
and Kharge’s name came in
front and incidentally he is
from South. So, this is
merely a coincidence. Al-
though this coincidence is
hurting Congress, however,
that is a separate issue. Ba-
sically
, Congress is a North
Indian political party, but
over time, it has gained
more prominence in South-
ern states.
z Rahul has started from
Kerala and is still in
Karnataka although so
much time has passed.
Amid this, Kharge be-
comes the Party Chief.
Do you think, this is a
part of Congress think
tank’s strategy?
Well, the party is working
on promoting the South In-
dian states and to strength-
enitsbasethere.Theythink
thatthiswouldbebeneficial
for them since there are 52
eats in more than half are
from South India. So, this is
their strategy that they
would first gain some mo-
mentum and popularity in
southandthenenterNorth-
ern states. So, this is a fact
that the party would focus
more on South and later en-
ter North and as such they
have less hopes from North
primarily because of Nar-
endraModiandAmitShah.
z It seems that BJP has
taken a vow of silence
on Kharge’s elevation as
Party President. What
does this entail?
It could be part of their
strategy
. Normally, they do
not do this, but it could be
a strategic move. But one
thing is there. PM Modi
showed large- heartedness.
He called up Kharge and
congratulated him. So, he
behaved as a ‘Statesman’
and he is being praised eve-
rywhere for it, in Congress
too. It is a fact that BJP did
not engage in a large scale
attack on this develop-
ment, rather PM called up
and spoke to Kharge con-
veying his best wishes.
z Kharge was asked
about his take on Shashi
Tharoor contesting
against him and he said
that the party and na-
tion would be strength-
ened through this elec-
tion. Is it really so?
Kharge is a decent and
simplified individual. He
knows its the same party,
same family
. So, its alright
that he has given this state-
ment for media’s consump-
tion and for this, he should
be commended.
z What are the similar-
ities and differences
between Kharge and
Tharoor’s personal-
ities?
See, the similarity
is that both are well
e x p e r i e n c e d .
Kharge is 80
yearsold,Tha-
roor is 62.
Both have
been Cen-
tral Ministers, both have
had good connect with gen-
eral public. Kharge was in
politics, while Tharoor was
in the Foreign Services and
UN for almost three dec-
ades. Speaking of differ-
ences, Kharge is a Gandhi-
an leader, while Tharoor is
the new age leader. Tha-
roor’s look is inspired with
today’s fashion, while
Kharge’s is of the age gone
by
. Kharge is a little senior
to him but basically there is
no comparison between the
two, but broadly speaking
both are senior, been for-
mer ministers and are well
experienced. But the only
difference is that Tharoor
is a ‘man of change’ and
Kharge would maintain
‘statue-quo.’
z Tharoor garnered
nearly a thousand
votes. Is it a picture of
the internal democra-
cy of the party or a de-
cline in Gandhi family’s
popularity within party,
considering that Kharge
was the informal choice
of Gandhi family?
On face value, it may be
termed as internal party
politics, but in reality, this
is a warning bell. Without
any support or anything,
he was voted for, by 1,072
voters, which is more than
the combined vote share of
the previous two leaders.
So this is a new start.
Moreover, there was
heightened monitoring
and vigilance by Priyanka
Gandhi to ensure that no
voter goes to the other side.
And those who sided with
Tharoor, on them an en-
quiry was called and they
literally had to give an
apology
. Even under an in-
direct control, against the
theory of free and fair
polls, 1,072 individuals
went to the other camp. So
this is a beginning. People
thought nothing is going to
happen as such even
Shashi Tharoor hasn’t
been punished for his past
acts and is still working in
the party
. So, this is a start
to end the Gandhis’ hold
over Congress. Tharoor’s
agenda was different and
he said that he is a repre-
sentative of change. So
when there is a vision doc-
ument for change, it is al-
ways against the establish-
ment. So, this is the start
of raising voice against the
establishment in Congress.
Like in movies, one man
stands against the mafia
and either the people back
that man or the mafia re-
moves the person. Simi-
larly, Tharoor garnering
1,072 votes against Gan-
dhi family’s nominee is a
major development in it-
self. I read in some newspa-
per where the
writer sus-
pected that it might come
to this that the entire 8,000
votes roll to the other side.
So, it is a word of caution
for Gandhis. And if there
is internal democracy in
the party, the Sonia, Rahul
and everyone deserves a
vote of thanks.
z But there surely is a
dissatisfied camp of
G-23. Was Tharoor a
candidate of that camp?
But an even more impor-
tant question is who
backed him?
He follows his own mind. I
am sure he wasn’t a candi-
date of G-23. I know that
when Gehlot denied, every-
one in G-23 thought that
Tharoor is contesting and
hasn’t consulted anyone.
So, they too wanted that Ge-
hlot should contest and
thus, they kept aside their
differences also and sup-
ported Gehlot initially.
Moreover, Hooda, Manish
Tewari and others said that
theycannotcontestagainst
Gehlot due to their person-
al relations with him, so no
candidate was left. So, his
contesting the election was
incidental and he was not a
candidate of G-23.
z Why didn’t Kamal
Nath or DK Shivaku-
mar contest the Presi-
dential election?
The same reason applies
here too. Since Ashok Ge-
hlot was contesting, so
these and other leaders did
not think of standing for
the election, but when Ge-
hlot declined at the elev-
enth hour, then the groups
started taking action. It is
said for Kamal Nath that
he was given this offer
once in the not so distant
past, and perhaps the high
command did not wanted
to disturb Rajasthan at
that time. Nath also, infor-
mally told the high com-
mand, as to how will he
handle three bosses. More-
over he also reportedly
said that he feels at home
in Bhopal. The point is no
one was ready to let go of
the chair of the Chief Min-
ister and in Rajasthan, the
situation became such that
Gehlot himself backed out.
Had the Rajasthan crisis
not occurred, it would
have been Gehlot as Con-
gress President. Similarly,
Shivakumar is happy and
content in Karnataka. So,
all leaders are happy and
satisfied in their con-
cerned state capital and no
one wants to come to Cen-
tre. Now you can imagine
that the Congress’ honour
is at stake since none of
your own leader wants to
come to the centre, leaving
the state.
Dr Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Bharat24-Vision of New India and First India; CMD, First
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mountain of challenges before him apart from managing the ‘Young Gandhis’, and if he will be able to revive
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bell for Gandhis, their supremacy
may be shortlived: Dr. Chandra
Dr Jagdeesh Chandra with (R-L) Poornima
Mishra, Mimansa Malik, Aditi Nagar, Srishti
Khatri and Amit Mishra during The JC Show.
Dr Jagdeesh Chandra during The JC Show
One day you will have the power to
manifest your unmatchable potential,
but you must be open to receive the call.
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra,
CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India

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MUMBAI, FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 28, 2022
FASHION!
Leather accents on pieces make it fun
and spice up an outfit. City First brings
to you the significance of leather
clothing in the fashion world...
or a while
now, leath-
er clothing
has domi-
nated the
f a s h i o n
world, but
these days, the de-
mand for leather
clothing is soaring.
The fashion world
of leather is evolv-
ing. It is utilised
for both fashiona-
ble outerwear as-
sortments and in-
nerwear. Leather
clothing is now
available in a vari-
ety of colours and
textures thanks to
technology.
The texture of
the leather cloth-
ing is referred to as
its hand. The softer
the hand of the ap-
parel, the more ex-
pensive the piece
of clothing. The
quality of the hide
affects the quality
of the finished ap-
parel to a great ex-
tent. Environmen-
tal conditions as
well as the genetics
of the animal af-
fect the hide quali-
ty greatly.
Initially, it was
thought that leath-
er clothing would
only be appropriate
for use in the win-
ter, but modern
technology has as-
sisted in the devel-
opment of leather
clothing that is
lighter, making it
feasible to use it in
the summer as
well. These days,
leather clothing
comes in a variety
of styles so that it
can be worn all
year round. Cloth-
ing made of leather
is available for both
men and women.
Numerous items,
including hats,
jackets, shoes,
belts, pants, and
jewellery are of-
fered in leather
and can be worn in
various combina-
tions. Leather
clothing can be
worn with other
outfits to create a
distinctive and cur-
rent look. While
leather pants can
be worn with a sim-
ple cotton shirt, a
leather vest can be
worn with denim
pants or a layered
skirt. A leather
jacket can also give
an otherwise basic
outfit a stylish ap-
peal.
Comparatively
speaking, leather
clothing is more ex-
pensive than other
common textiles.
However, the price
is reasonable. They
have a great degree
of visual appeal
and are quite ap-
pealing. Addition-
ally, they are very
durable. It can be
worn repeatedly
without losing its
smoothness. It may
be worn for a long
time because it
does not wrinkle
easily. This makes
it the best clothing
for travel. Leather
clothing is typical-
ly windproof and
waterproof, mak-
ing it perfect for
use while biking,
for example. Once
worn, high-quality
leather clothing
stretches to fit the
body. It is this
leather quality
that ensures a nice
fit. They are com-
fortable for the
user to wear be-
cause they are
breathable.
The fashion in-
dustry has long fa-
voured leather
clothing despite
protests from ani-
mal rights cam-
paigners. Everyone
can wear leather
clothing. They can
last nearly a life-
time if chosen
wisely and taken
care of properly.
SHUBHANSHI PATHAK
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
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