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BHU IFTAR SHOULD HAVE BEEN
AVOIDED: KESHAV MAURYA
Varanasi (PTI): Deputy
Chief Minister Keshav
Prasad Maurya on Mon-
day said the state gov-
ernment won’t intervene
in the BHU’s Iftar party
row but suggested that
the programme should
have been avoided. The
controversy should
not have been invited
by organising such a
programme on the BHU
campus, Maurya told
reporters. “No such
work was ever done on
the university campus
established by Pt Madan
Mohan Malviya,” he
said. Maurya, however,
clarified that the matter
is between the university
and students. “We can-
not interfere from the
side of the government,”
he added. On Wednes-
day, an Iftar party was
organised in Banaras
Hindu University, with
Vice-Chancellor Sudhir
Jain and other staff
members attending it,
leading to a protest by
some students.
Alleging that the Iftar
party was held in the
university college
for the first time and
questioning the need
to start a new tradition,
students raised slogans
at the VC’s residence
and burnt his effigy in
protest.
The office and press
of First India will
remain closed on May
3 on account of Eid
al-Fitr. There will be
no edition on May 4.
We wish all our read-
ers a very Happy Eid.
HOLIDAY NOTICE
Notice slapped over
Aligarh Sant Samagam
Aligarh: The Aligarh
district administration
on Monday served a
show cause notice to the
organiser of a conven-
tion, which was attend-
ed by Hindu religious
bodies and preachers,
for permitting inflam-
matory speeches
against a community
.
On Sunday, Hindu re-
ligious preacher Kali-
chran Maharaj, while
addressing the meet,
had said that the coun-
try is facing a major
threat due to the “grow-
ing population of Mus-
lims” and the only way
to prevent the problem
posed by “jihadi” ele-
ments was the estab-
lishment of a Hindu
Rashtra.
Kalicharan Maharaj
was in December last
year sent to jail by the
Chhattisgarh Police for
making derogatory re-
marks against Mahat-
ma Gandhi.
Addressing the con-
vention, Swami Narsin-
ghanand Saraswati said
that “Hindus should
produce more children
otherwise they would
be swamped by Mus-
lims by the year 2029”.
BRIGHT IS THE NIGHT
Fireworks light up the sky as Muslim devotees pray after sighting of the Eid moon in
Varanasi on Monday. —PHOTO BY PTI
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Amid the
blistering heatwave
and shortage of elec-
tricity, Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath on
Monday underscored
the “huge need” for re-
forms in the energy sec-
tor. He said that an ac-
tion plan should be
made keeping in view
future energy needs.
The state is currently
facing a power crisis.
Against the demand of
about 23,000 MW elec-
tricity, only 20,800 MW
is being supplied.
Though the state has
got about 1600 MW of
power from Rajasthan,
Himachal Pradesh and
Madhya Pradesh, there
is still a shortfall of
about 2000 MW, result-
ing in power cuts.
“There is a huge need
for reforms in the pow-
er sector. Action plan
should be prepared
keeping in view future
energy needs. Efforts
should be made to make
comprehensive chang-
es at every level by de-
partmental minister
after thoroughly re-
viewing the function-
ing of the department,”
a statement quoting the
chief minister said.
During a review
meeting here with sen-
ior officers, he said con-
sumers should get cor-
rect electricity bill and
on time.
“Over billing, false
billing or late billing
causes inconvenience
to consumers. The Pow-
er Department will
have to make a concrete
action plan,” he said.
‘HUGE NEED’ FOR POWER SECTOR
REFORMS, ACTION PLAN: CM YOGI
CM Yogi Adityanath holds a Covid review meeting on Monday
with his ‘Team 9’ of senior officials.
Modi-Scholz pen green
energy partnership
Berlin: PM Narendra
Modi was received by
German Chancellor
Olaf Scholz in a ceremo-
nial welcome at the Fed-
eral Chancellery in Ber-
linonMondaywherethe
duo were slated to hold
bilateral discussions fol-
lowed by the 6th Inter-
Governmental Consul-
tations (IGC). During
this, Modi Scholz
signed the green sus-
tainableenergypartner-
ship at the Federal
Chancellery
, in Berlin.
Upon his arrival, the
Indian prime minister
was accorded the Guard
of Honour at the fore-
court of the Federal
Chancellery in Berlin.
This is Prime Minister
Modi’s first meeting
with Scholz as German
Chancellor.
T. KAPOOR APPOINTED ADVISOR TO PM,
RAO CHANDRA AS ADDL SECY IN PMO
Former petroleum secretary Tarun Kapoor has
been appointed as an advisor to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi. Kapoor, a 1987-batch IAS officer
of the Himachal Pradesh cadre, superannuated as
the secretary of the ministry of petroleum and nat-
ural gas on November 30, 2021. Meanwhile, senior
bureaucrats Hari Ranjan Rao and Atish Chandra
have been appointed as additional secretaries in
the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Chancellor of Germany Olaf
Scholz, in Berlin, Germany. —PHOTOS BY PTI
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has been appointed the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) first-ever Chief
Technology Officer. The announcement for the coveted position was made
by Director William J Burns in a blog post and also shared on social media.
INDIAN-ORIGIN
MAN APPOINTED
CIA’S FIRST
TECH OFFICER
With a view to solve the ‘power-problem’, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on
Monday chaired a meeting of the top brass of coal, power and railway ministries
amid electricity outages in various parts of the country due to shortage of coal at
thermal plants, according to sources.
SHAH CHAIRS
CRUCIAL MEET
ON POWER
CRISIS
‘TIMETOGOTOTHE
REALMASTERS’
PM Modi’s 8 years of ‘misgovernance’ is case
study on how to ruin economies: Rahul
New Delhi: Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi on
Monday hit out at Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi saying that his
eight years of ‘misgov-
ernance’ is a case study
on how to ruin economy
.
He tweeted: “PM
Modi’s 8 years of mis-
governance is a case
study on how to ruin
what was once one of
the world’s fastest grow-
ing economies.”
The Congress has
been attacking the gov-
ernment on issues of
power crisis, unemploy-
ment, farmers’ issues
and inflation.
Terming the power
crisis ‘artificial’, Con-
gress’s spokesperson
Gourav Vallabh said:
“We demand that this
artificial power crisis be
immediately resolved.”
Amit Shah arrives in B’luru, to
take final call on K’taka cabinet
SC to hear Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind’s plea against
‘attack’ on Muslims’ beliefs on May 9
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on Mon-
day posted for May 9, a
plea seeking a court-
monitored investiga-
tion and prosecution in
hate crimes related to
the “continuous attack”
on the personality of
Prophet Mohammad
and disparaging re-
marks by various peo-
ple in different parts of
the country attacking
the very belief system
of Muslims at large.
A bench headed by
Justice AM Khan-
wilkar posted the mat-
ter for May 9 for hear-
ing along with similar
pending cases.
Bengaluru: The Kar-
nataka state BJP is wit-
nessing heavy political
activity as Union Home
Minister Amit Shah ar-
rived in the city on
Monday late night. The
visit has assumed im-
portance in the back-
drop of Shah coming
with a specific mission
of finalising the deci-
sion on cabinet expan-
sion or reshuffle. He
would also hold talks
regarding the various
happenings in the state
and strategise for the
state Assembly elec-
tions in 2023.
Mid-air
turbulence
lands 11 flyers
in hosp, 8
discharged
New Delhi: SpiceJet,
on Monday said that 11
passengers on board its
flight from Mumbai to
Durgapur in West Ben-
gal were injured in the
severe turbulence a day
ago were hospitalised
and of these eight have
been discharged so far.
The airline also said
that the seat belt sign
was on when the air-
craft encountered tur-
bulence and several an-
nouncements for the
same were also made.
SpiceJet Spokesper-
son, in a statement,
said, “The seat belt sign
was on when the air-
craft encountered tur-
bulence. Multiple an-
nouncements were
made by the pilots and
the crew instructing
passengers to remain
seated.”
PLEA IN SC SEEKS BAN ON TALAQ-E-HASAN
NO ‘MAHA AARTI’ ON EID: RAJ THACKERAY
New Delhi: A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court
seeking a direction to declare “Talaq-e-Hasan and all other
forms of unilateral extra-judicial talaq”, unconstitutional for
being arbitrary, irrational, and violative of Articles 14, 15, 21,
25 of the Constitution. The plea also sought a direction to the
Centre to frame guidelines for neutral uniform grounds of
divorce and uniform procedure of divorce for all citizens. The
petition has been filed by a Muslim woman.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on
Monday appealed to his party workers to not perform the
announced ‘Maha Aarti’ on the occasion of ‘Akshay Tritiya’ on
May 3 as he doesn’t want to create any obstacle for Mus-
lims during the Eid festival. He reiterated that his campaign
against loudspeakers was a social issue and he would
disclose his future plans through Twitter on Tuesday.
SHAH ON 3-DAY
VISIT TO BENGAL
New Delhi: Shah will
be on a three-day
visit to West Bengal from
Wednesday to attend
various government
programmes, BJP events
and will also address
the ongoing infighting
in the party’s state unit.
Shah will reach Kolkata
on May 4 evening, and
on May 5 he will attend a
government programme
at Hingalganj.
Kartikey Dev Singh
New Delhi: After his
talks with the top brass
of the Congress party
failed,politicalstrategist
Prashant Kishor on
Mondayhintedthatheis
set to take a political
plunge with a tweet in
which he said that he
would be ready to go to
the people’s court, start-
ing from his home state
Bihar. Political observ-
ersbelievethatPrashant,
through this new in-
nings, may try to bring
all opposition parties on
one platform in a more
formal manner as he too
wouldhaveastakeinthe
‘game’, than being just
anadvisortopartiesand
being their strategist
and ‘deal-maker’.
“My quest to be a
meaningful participant
in democracy help
shape pro-people policy
led to a 10yr rollercoast-
er ride! As I turn the
page, time to go to the
Real Masters, THE PEO-
PLE, to better under-
stand the issues the
path to Peoples Good
Governance” Kishor
said in a tweet today
.
He accompanied it
with the hashtag in
Hindi ‘From Bihar’.
The announcement
has come within a week
of hisstatementonTwit-
ter that he had declined
the Congress’ offer to
join a group on strength-
ening the organization
in the run-up to the 2024
general elections.
Kishor is not new to
Bihar politics, for he
was the vice president
of therulingJanataDal-
United led by the chief
minister Nitish Kumar.
Prashant Kishor
@PrashantKishor
My quest to be a meaningful
participant in democracy
help shape pro-people policy
led to a 10yr rollercoaster
ride! As I turn the page, time
to go to the Real Masters,
THE PEOPLE, to better
understand the issues
the path to Peoples Good
Governance
PK’S CRYPTIC TWEET RAISES ‘INTEREST’
Split Wide
Open in
Haryana Cong
New Delhi: Congress is
reaching out to sulking
Haryana leader Kul-
deep Bishnoi as he is
upset over denial of
state presidentship of
the party in the state.
Bishnoi has let his an-
ger public and said that
he will seek a response
from the party
.
The internal rift in
the Haryana Congress
has widened after Con-
gress General Secre-
tary Randeep Surjewa-
la came out openly in
support of Kuldeep
Bishnoi.
Since the appoint-
ment of Udai Bhan, a
known Hooda support-
er, as party chief Kul-
deep Bishnoi has been
upset but Surjewala
who is close to Rahul
Gandhi stoked a contro-
versy by saying that
Bishnoi could have
been good President.

UTTAR PRADESH
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CM YOGI ON THREE
DAY UTTARAKHAND
VISIT FROM TODAY
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Yogi Aditya-
nath will visit Uttara-
khand on a three-day
tour from Tuesday, an
official privy to the mat-
ter said on Saturday
.
The chief minister
will visit his native vil-
lage Panchoor in Yam-
keshwar block of dis-
trict Pauri Garhwal in
Uttarakhand on May 2.
This will be the CM’s
first visit to the state af-
ter his father Anand
Singh Bisht’s death on
20, April 2020.
The CM is slated to
visit his mother Savitri
Devi and the rest of the
family, said an official.
Owing to Covid-19
spread, Adityanath was
unable to visit Pan-
choor to attend the last
rites of his father.
During his visit, the
CM will also inaugurate
the statue of his spiritu-
al guru late Gora-
khnath, at the Guru
Gorakhnath Degree
College in Bithyani vil-
lage. He will also ad-
dress a public meeting
here, said the official.
The foundation stone
for the hotel was also
laid by Yogi Adityanath
in May 2018 during his
first term as the UP CM.
Bhagirathi hotel which
has 100-room capacity,
has been built at the
cost of ₹41 crore.
It was built after the
Alaknanda hotel, an
earlier property of Ut-
tar Pradesh Tourism
Corporation, which
was handed over to Ut-
tarakhand government
in 2018.
In view of the UP
Chief Minister’s visit to
Uttarakhand, the state
cabinet minister for
health and education
Dhan Singh Rawat also
visited Panchoor vil-
lage to oversee the ar-
rangements.
District magistrate
Pauri Garhwal, senior
superintendent of po-
lice (SSP) Vijay Kumar
Jogdande also accompa-
nied the minister on his
visit.
CM’S TOUR
To unveil statue of
Guru Gorakhnath,
lay foundation
stone of a hotel
CM Yogi paid a courtesy visit to Raj Bhawan and met Governor
Anandiben Patel on Tuesday.
CM TO INAUGURATE ‘BHAGIRATHI’ ON MAY 5
On May 5, the CM will arrive in Haridwar to inau-
gurate the newly built Bhagirathi hotel adjacent to
Ganga Canal near NH-58. The hotel is built by Uttar
Pradesh Tourism Corporation and is spread across
2,564 square metres.
Over 1-cr benefitted from CM Arogya Melas
First India Bureau
Lucknow: CM Arogya
Melas have been a
grand success story in
the last more than 2
years. A total of One
crore patients suffer-
ing from various ail-
ments have been treat-
edduringthe‘Mukhya-
mantri Arogya Melas’
organised at every
primary health centre
(PHC) in the state.
As many as 1.53 lakh
people were referred to
higher medical cen-
tres for further treat-
ment in the melas con-
ducted by the state
government in associ-
ation with the Indian
Medical Association.
While 8.73 lakh Golden
Cards were distributed
at the melas so far.The
data clearly reflects
the popularity of these
melas among the pub-
lic.
Chairing a high lev-
el meeting with the of-
ficials on Monday, the
CM said that “The
Mukhyamantri Arog-
ya Melas aimed to pro-
vide people with the
best treatment and ac-
cessible health ser-
vices at rural level are
serving their purpose.
Efforts should be made
to benefit more people
from these melas orga-
nized at the primary
health centers.”
CM Yogi had
launched the state-
wide Mukhyamantri
Jan Arogya Mela on
February 2, 2020 in
Chandauli district.
The event is aimed at
making people aware
of schemes being run
by the health depart-
ment and providing
them with health ser-
vices along with dis-
tributing ‘Golden
Health’ cards and oth-
er benefits.
The fourth Arogya
Mela was organized
following the Covid-19
protocol. All the pa-
tients and their accom-
panying relatives were
informed that facili-
ties for testing and
treatment of corona
virus are also avail-
able in the hospitals.
In the 42nd mela or-
ganised on May 1, as
many as 1.63 lakh pa-
tients —which include
65552 men, 72267 wom-
en and 25889 children
— were treated by spe-
cialist doctors and
paramedics.
A bus carrying 50 labourers on a pilgrimage was
flagged off from here on Sunday on the occa-
sion of International Labour Day from Hapur.
DM Medha Rupam flagged off the bus under the
Shravan Kumar Shramik Parivar Teerth Yojana.
Assistant Labour Commissioner Sarvesh Kumari
said the scheme rununder Labour Welfare Coun-
cil. The labourers are likely to visit Vaishno Devi
shrine, Shakumbhari Devi temple and Haridwar
among other places.
50 WORKERS GO ON PILGRIMAGE
Min Girish Chandra rushed to hosp following ‘bite’
Banda (PTI): Uttar
Pradesh Minister Gir-
ish Chandra Yadav was
rushed to a hospital
here in the early hours
of Monday following a
bite possibly by a rat or
a mole, a senior official
at the district hospital
said.
The Minister of
State for Youth Welfare
and Sports, who was on
a tour of Banda dis-
trict and was staying in
a circuit house, is fine
and left for Lucknow in
the morning, officials
added.
The minister woke
up feeling uneasy
around 3 am, suspect-
ing that he had been
bitten on the hand by an
insect and was rushed
to the trauma centre of
the district hospital.
An examination re-
vealed that the bite on a
finger of the right hand
was possibly from a rat
or a shrew (an insectiv-
orous mammal that re-
sembles a mouse), said
the district hospital’s
Chief Medical Superin-
tendent (CMS) Dr SN
Mishra.
The 47-year-old min-
ister told PTI over the
phone that he doesn’t
know which animal had
bitten him but blood
was oozing from the
spot of the bite.
The minister said he
was asleep when he felt
sharp pain and got up.
He said accordingly
he alerted his staff.
“After keeping me un-
der observation for
three hours at the Ban-
da hospital, I was dis-
charged after thorough
examination,” he said.
Minister Girish Chandra Yadav.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: In another
attempt to promote lo-
cal artisans, craftsmen
and boost local econo-
my, the Yuvak and Ma-
hila Mangal Dals — lo-
cal groups of young-
sters formed at village
level — will be trained
as ‘Paryatan Mitra’ and
will encourage Rural
Tourism.
The youngsters of the
Yuvak and Mahila Man-
gal Dals will be trained
in a way to promote lo-
cal tourism by high-
lighting the indigenous
and specialised prod-
ucts, handicrafts, pro-
cessed foods, garments
and other traditional
goods manufactured by
the local artisans, par-
ticularly in villages and
rural areas.
To foster Rural Tour-
ism, the Uttar Pradesh
government is also
working to develop vil-
lages as ‘tourist centres’
and to expand facilities
for the convenience of
the tourists.
Thisinitiativewillnot
only highlight the tour-
ism potential of the re-
mote, neglected areas,
butwillalsoaidingener-
ating employment op-
portunitiesforthelocals.
To realise the above
objective, during the
first term of the Yogi
government, the tour-
ism policy of 2018 had a
special mention of vil-
lage and agri tourism.
In its second term,
the Yogi government
will work towards ex-
panding this with the
formation of Eco and
Rural Tourism Board,
and will identify 75 vil-
lages for tourism
purposes.
MANGAL DALS TO PROMOTE RURAL TOURISM
MAKING UP BETTER
UTTAR PRADESH GOVERNMENT
IS WORKING TO DEVELOP
VILLAGES AS TOURIST CENTRES
CM’S VISION
Yogi govt to aid
Divyangjans in UP
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The Yogi
government, which
has become huge
support of Divyang-
jan, will further
make their daily
lives by giving mo-
torized tricycles to
100 Divyangjans of
each Lok Sabha con-
stituency in the next
two years. Under the
Motorized Tricycle
Scheme launched in
the financial year
2021-22, more than
1500 tricycles have
been approved.
The state govern-
ment, which has al-
ready increased the
subsidy to Divyang-
jans for buying artifi-
cial limbs, is going to
increase the grant
per beneficiary to Rs
15000 (proposed) in
the next two years.
Apart from this, a
foster and pension
scheme is also pro-
posed for the welfare
of Divyangjan.
Along with devel-
opment, the Yogi gov-
ernment is commit-
ted to social security
.
It is the result of the
successful imple-
mentation of nation-
al and state-level
schemes that the
standard of living of
a large section of the
population of the
state has become eas-
ier. In the past five
years, the govern-
ment has started new
schemes for the up-
liftment of Divyang-
jans and making
their lives easier,
while improving the
facilities available in
the old schemes fund
allocation has also
been increased.
In this sequence,
the Yogi government
increased the grant
of artificial limbs
and assistive devices
scheme drastically
from 800 to 10,000 in
February 2019.
In the year 2029,
the total beneficia-
ries were 27,887
which increased to
42,184 in 2021-22. The
total number of ben-
eficiaries in the last 5
years was 2,56,165. It
is proposed to in-
crease the grant per
beneficiary to
Rs.15,000 in the next
2 years.
GRANT INCREASED
After a gap of two yrs, Lucknow set to celebrate Eid today
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The month-
long fasting is all set to
end as Lucknow gets
ready to celebrate Eid
on Tuesday
.
The feasting that fol-
lows fasting assumes
greater significance as
it comes after a gap of
almost two years that
were paralysed by the
Covid-19 pandemic.
Preparations are in full
swing this time to cele-
brate the festival with
usual fervour.
Clerics, however,
have appealed to people
to participate in the fes-
tival while adhering to
the pandemic protocols,
with cases rising again
in some parts of the
country, and have ad-
vised that they offer Eid
Namaz only at designat-
ed places like mosques,
Eidgah, etc.
Eid Namaz is expect-
ed to be held at 7,436 Ei-
dgahs, 19,949 mosques,
and 31,151 other places.
A total of 2,846 sensi-
tive spots have been
identified by authori-
ties.
Also, as part of an on-
going drive in the state,
60,150 unauthorised
loudspeakers have been
taken down while the
volume of 60,178 have
been lowered as per pre-
scribed limits.
Head of Islamic Cen-
tre of India and promi-
nent cleric Maulana
Khalid Rashid Farangi
Mahali said, “Tomor-
row the festival of Eid-
ul-Fitr will be celebrat-
ed across the country
. It
is the biggest festival
among the followers of
Islam, as Muslims fast
for one month, after
which they celebrate
Eid. This time almost
after two years of
Covid, Eid will be cele-
brated without many
restrictions.
At Eidgah Lucknow,
we have made prepara-
tions more than before
in order to accommo-
date the maximum
number of people possi-
ble. Also, some of the
encroachments have
been removed from Ei-
dgah. Arrangements
have also been made in-
side the building of
Shaheen Academy for
those coming to offer
Eid-ul-Fitr Namaz.”
Arrangements have
also been made for
women inside Baradari
at Eidgah, he said.
“Rows have been
marked for the conve-
nience of the people
coming to offer Namaz.
All the guidelines and
orders of the govern-
ment, be it the volume
of loudspeakers, Covid
guidelines, or any other
protocols, everything
will be properly fol-
lowed,” added Khalid.
UP additional direc-
tor general of police
(law and order)
Prashant Kumar has
said that police are on
alert to avert any kind
of mischief.
“Any kind of disre-
spect to religious scrip-
tures or books will not
be tolerated and will be
dealt with strictly. We
are also keeping an eye
on social media plat-
forms. 46 companies of
PAC (Provincial Armed
Constabulary) and 7
companies of paramili-
tary forces have been
deployed across the
state,” he said.
There were instances
of sporadic violence in
parts of the country
last month during the
Ram Navami and Hanu-
man Jayanti celebra-
tions. Also, seven men
were arrested last week
for allegedly throwing
objectionable items
outside a mosque in
Ayodhya.
UP records
lowest rate of
unemployment
Lucknow: In a
major achieve-
ment, Uttar
Pradesh has re-
corded the lowest
unemployment
rate of 2.9%as per
the latest survey
released by the
Center for Moni-
toring Indian
Economy (CMIE).
UP has outclassed
states like Delhi,
Punjab, Rajas-
than, West Bengal,
Kerala and Tamil
Nadu under the
leadership of CM
Yogi Adityanath.
Uttar Pradesh is
followed by Tamil
Nadu with an un-
employment rate
of 3.2%, Kerala
and Andhra
Pradesh with 5.8
% each, West Ben-
gal with 6.2% and
Punjab with 7.2
%. CMIE, the or-
ganisation moni-
toring unemploy-
ment and busi-
ness activities in
the country, has
revealed that Ra-
jasthan (28.8%),
Jharkhand (14.2
%) and Delhi (11.2
%) are the worst-
hit states in terms
of unemploy-
ment.
According to the
monthly data of
CMIE, the unem-
ployment rate in
Uttar Pradesh has
reduced to 2.9 %
in April 2022, from
4.4 percent in
March this year.
CM Yogi at the re-launch of ‘Arogya Mela’, in Gorakhpur on April 10.
Women shopping for bangles at a market on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr
festival, in Lucknow on Monday. —PHOTO BY ANI
—FILE PHOTO

UTTAR PRADESH
03
CRUCIAL READ
Lucknow: Kumar Keshav, Managing Director, UPMRCL
awarded MD’s Employee of the month for ‘April 2022’
to Irshad Khan, Nitish Kumar Sharma and Ramu for
outstanding services provided to the UP Metro Rail
Corporation Limited. Khan, a Security Guard at Singar
Nagar Station saw a passenger Kulwant Singh fall
on the tracks while talking on phone. Without taking
a moment Khan pressed the emergency button and
informed the Station Controller which led to the timely
halt of the arriving train and saved the passenger’s life.
MINOR AMONG
THREE HELD
FOR RAPE
HEAT RELIEF:
RAIN, STORMS
AT MANY PLACES
Shahjahanpur: Two
men were arrested and a
minor was apprehended
on Monday for alleged-
ly raping a 30-yr-old
woman here, police said.
Confirming the develop-
ment, ASP (City) Sanjay
Kumar said efforts are
on to nab the rest of the
accused. The woman, in
her complaint, alleged
that on April 22, five
men dragged her into a
hut outside her house
and took turns to rape
her. The accused, she
alleged, also filmed the
act and made the video
viral a week after the
incident.
Lucknow: Light rain
accompanied with
thunderstorms occurred
at isolated places in UP,
the India Meteorologi-
cal Department (IMD)
said on Monday. While
heatwave conditions
occurred at isolated
pockets in western part
of the state, thunder-
storms and dust storms
accompanied with gusty
winds (speed reaching
40-50 kmph) are likely
to be witnessed on May
2 and May 3, the IMD
said.Very light to light
rain and thunderstorm
are expected at isolated
places on May 4 and 5.
UP METRO MD FETES SECURITY
GUARD FOR SAVING LIFE
12-year-old killed by
crocodile in Chambal
Villagers at the incident site.
First India Bureau
Agra: A heart-wrench-
ing incident took place
in the Chambal river on
theborderinPinahatpo-
licestationareaof Agra.
A 12-year-old boy who
went to fill water in the
river died in a crocodile
attack. Villagers rushed
there with sticks after
hearing the cries of a
friend of the victim and
somehow extracted the
childfromthegripof the
crocodile, but by then he
had died.
Following a storm on
Sunday evening in Us-
aith village of Thana
Mahua in Morena dis-
trict, the supply of
drinking water came to
astandstillduetolackof
electricity
. For this there
wasadrinkingwatercri-
sis in the village. Anil,
12-year-old son of Chho-
telal of the village, had
gone to fetch water from
the Chambal river along
with another boy on
Mondaymorning.While
filling water from the
river, the crocodile at-
tacked Anil and grabbed
his leg. Seeing this, the
other boy started
screaming.
The villagers tried to
saveAnil,butbythenthe
crocodile grabbed his
throat. The villagers
started hitting bricks
and stones.Then some-
where the crocodile left
him.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Maj Gen
Sanjay Puri, SM, VSM
tookchargeasnewAddi-
tional Director General
of Uttar Pradesh NCC
Directorate,Lucknowon
April 30, 2022 from Maj
Gen Rakesh Rana who
superannuated after 37
years of service.
Maj Gen Rakesh Rana
was posted as Addl DG,
Uttar Pradesh NCC Di-
rectorate on September
30, 2019 and during his
tenure the UP NCC Di-
rectorate achieved 06th
position in the Republic
Day Camp 2022 and
achieved 1st position in
cultural competition
among 17 NCC Director-
ates.
Maj Gen Sanjay Puri
who assumed the duties
of ADG Uttar Pradesh
NCC Directorate is a
highly experienced offi-
cer. He has been instruc-
tor in Officers Training
Academy
, Chennai and
has held several import-
ant appointments in the
Army
. He joins the Uttar
Pradesh NCC director-
ateafterasuccessfulten-
ure at Army Headquar-
ters New Delhi.
Noida(PTI: Two Delhi
residents were hospi-
talised with injuries
after a knife attack on
them at a restaurant in
Noida, with the police
here arresting three of
the attackers, officials
said on Monday
.
The incident took
place on April 30, five
days after an attack on
a private firm’s execu-
tive at a restro-bar in a
mall allegedly after an
argument over the bill.
The executive (30) had
died of the bare-hand-
ed attack by employees
of the restro-bar and
the mall.
In this case, com-
plainant Shailendra
Pal (23) said he and his
friends Rohit Nishad
and Vishal Gautam had
gone to ‘Food Zilla Chai
Sutta’ restaurant and
caf in Sector 15 for din-
ner on Saturday night.
“We had ordered a
cold coffee and a shake
but they had turned out
to be bad in taste. When
we reported this to the
restaurant owner, he
started fighting with
us, hurled abuses and
called in three or four
of his staffers for the
fight,” Pal claimed.
“Somehow we man-
aged to escape but they
caught hold of Vishal
and attacked him with
a knife. Rohit and I
went back to save him
but then Rohit was also
attacked. Both of them
were injured and taken
to a hospital for treat-
ment, he alleged in a
complaint to the police.
On the basis of the
complaint, an FIR was
lodged at the Phase I
police station against
the owner of the
restaurant and its staff-
ers. They have been
booked under Indian
Penal Code (IPC) sec-
tions 323 (voluntarily
causing hurt), 324
(causing hurt by dan-
gerous weapons), 504
(intentional insult to
provoke breach of
peace) and 506 (crimi-
nal intimidation).
“The incident had
taken place on Satur-
day night when the
three people from Delhi
had come to a restau-
rant in Noida. A fight
broke out between the
customer trio and the
restaurant’s owner
over some issue. After
that, the restaurant’s
staffers attacked the
customers with sharp
weapons, Additional
Deputy Commissioner
of Police (Noida) Ran-
vijay Singh said.
We lodged an FIR in
the case immediately
and three people have
been arrested. Further
legal proceedings are
being carried out,
Singh said.
First India Bureau
Lucknow:A customer
service executive (CSE)
Meghna Ghosh at
Chaudhary Charan
Singh International
Airport here, proactive-
ly helped two senior cit-
izens travelling to Hy-
derabad with web
check-in.
The passengers were
not aware of the man-
datory web check-in
process to get boarding
passes. Meghna, sta-
tioned at the ‘May I
Help You’ desk of Ter-
minal 2 helped them
with the procedure and
generated their board-
ing passes.
The passengers were
happy with her help,
thanked her and pro-
ceeded towards the se-
curity check.
CCSI Airport has
‘May I Help You’ desk in
Departure and Arrival
halls of Terminal 1 and
2, respectively. The
CSE’s designated at
these desks help pas-
sengers navigate issues
they face at the airport.
First India Bureau
Kasganj: Police have
arrested two miscre-
ants for celebratory fir-
ing in Sahavar area and
taken their arms and
licence in custody.
The police said
Deepak Kumar and
his friend Sumit
were firing indiscrimi-
nately during a
marriage celebration
in Katra colony under
Sahavar police station
area here.
Video of the incident
went viral on social me-
dia, following which
the police arrested both
miscreants.
Suprintendent of Po-
lice (SP) Rohan Pramod
Botre said a case was
registered against both
miscreants and report
to cancel the licence
was sent to district
magistrate.
Chandauli(PTI): A
young woman died un-
der suspicious circum-
stances during a police
raid here, after which a
case of culpable homi-
cide was registered
against six cops.
Her family members
haveallegedthatshewas
raped, a charge yet to be
confirmed by the police.
Meanwhile, SP presi-
dent Akhilesh Yadav de-
manded lodging of a
murder case against the
accused.
SP Ankur Agarwal
said a police team had
gone to the house of a
sand trader in Manrag-
pur village of Saidraja
area on Sunday
.
Itisallegedpolicebeat
upthefamilyof thebusi-
nessman when he was
not found there.
Agarwal said the fam-
ily alleged a policeman
rapedthebusinessman’s
24-year-old daughter
during the incident and
she died due to manhan-
dling by the police.
The girl was to get
marriednextmonth,the
SP said.
Agarwal said on get-
ting information about
the incident, villagers
thrashed constable
Mukesh Kumar and
Home Guard jawan Ch-
havinath.
As Chhavanath’s con-
dition is serious, he was
referred to the Trauma
Centre in Varanasi.
Mukesh is being treated
at the district hospital,
he said.
A case of culpable ho-
micide has been regis-
tered against six people,
including SHO Uday
Pratap Singh and four
policewomen, on the
complaintof thebrother
of the woman.
Meanwhile,DyCMKe-
shav Prasad Maurya ex-
pressed unhappiness
over the incident.
He said the inspector of
the police station con-
cerned had been sus-
pended with immediate
effect.Actionwillbetak-
en on the investigation
report, Maurya said as
he claimed the law and
order situation is fine in
the state.
WOMAN DIES DURING POLICE
RAID, CASE AGAINST 6 COPS
MAURYA UNHAPPY, SHO SUSPENDED
Officials probing the incident.
HELD FOR RAPE,
YOUTH FOUND
HANGING IN JAIL
Kannauj: A 21-year-
old man arrested for
allegedly raping a Dalit
girl was found hanging
in the district jail here,
police said on Monday.
They said the man, a
resident of Bhaura Mau
village, was arrested on
March 24 after the girl
from his village filed a
rape case against him.
On Sunday evening, the
jail warden found the
body of the man hanging
from a water pipeline
behind the barrack with
a ‘gamchha’ (scarf),
Jail Superintendent
(JS) Vishnukant Mishra
said. District Magistrate
Rakesh Kumar Mishra
has ordered a magis-
terial inquiry into the
matter, the officer said.
In her complaint, the
girl had alleged that he
raped her on the pretext
of marriage. DM Mishra
and SP Prashant Verma
visited the district jail to
enquire into the incident,
the jail superintendent
said.
Two held for
celebratory
firing in
marriage event
1 DEAD, 4 HURT AS CAR
PLUNGES INTO CANAL
TRUCK HITS BIKE: 5-YR-
OLD AMONG 4 DEAD
3 KILLED, MINOR GIRL
INJURED IN ACCIDENT
FATAL ACCIDENTS
Noida: A 19-yr-old man died and four others
were hospitalised with injuries after their
speeding car plunged into a canal in Greater
Noida on Monday morning, police officials said.
The driver of the car had fallen asleep on the
wheel, leading to the crash around 5 AM under
the Dadri police station area, the officials said.
“They were going from Delhi to Sikandrabad
in Bulandshahr district. They driver of the car,
identified as Chand (19), apparently fell asleep
while driving and the car plunged into the Kot
Canal,” a police spokesperson said. While Chand
died of drowning, the other four passengers, all
aged between 18 and 25 years, were rescued by
the locals and rushed to a nearby hospital where
they are undergoing treatment, the official said.
The body has been sent for post mortem.
Hardoi: A five-year-old girl and three other
people were killed after their motorbike was
hit by a truck here, police said on Monday. The
deceased were identified as Ram Avtar (32),
Ganga Devi (30) and Avreshu (20) Minakshi,
they said. While the three adults died on the
spot, Minakshi succumbed during treatment at
a hospital, police said. The incident took place
at Station Road in Shahabad area on Sunday,
they said. Police said they have launched a
probe in the matter and making efforts to nab
the truck driver.
Hardoi: Three people, including a woman,
were killed and a five-year-old girl seriously
injured after their motorbike was hit by a truck
here, police said on Monday. The injured girl
has been admitted to a nearby hospital and
her condition was stated to be serious, they
said. The incident took place at Station Road
in Shahabad area on Sunday, they said. Those
killed are being identified, they said, adding the
incident is being probed.
Maj Gen Sanjay Puri
is new ADG, UP NCC
Airport CSE sets example
by helping elderly flyers
2 customers injured in knife attack at
Noida restaurant, 3 staffers arrested
ANOTHER BRAWL
“The incident had taken place on Saturday night when
the three people from Delhi had come to a restaurant in
Noida. A fight broke out between the customer trio and
the restaurant’s owner over some issue. After that, the
restaurant’s staffers attacked the customers with sharp
weapons. We lodged an FIR in the case immediately
and three people have been arrested, Additional Deputy
Commissioner of Police (Noida) Ranvijay Singh said.
FIGHT WITH OWNER
Maj Gen Sanjay Puri (L) takes charge from Mag Gen Rakesh Rana

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SPIRITUAL SPEAK
Radiate boundless love
towards the entire world.
—Buddha
IN-DEPTH
Narendra Singh Tomar
@nstomar
Assistance to farm machinery
training and testing institutes for
demonstrations on farms, institutes
of Bhakrianup, Agricultural Science
Centres and State Agricultural
Universities at the rate of 100% of the
cost for purchase of drones and grants
will be given upto 75% of the cost to
farmers producing organizations for
demonstrations on farms.
Kiren Rijiju
@KirenRijiju
I don’t blame the young British MP
who is unaware of reality portrays
negative image of Indian. It’s the
result of the negative campaigns
launched by the Tukde-Tukde gang
whose only aim is to discredit the huge
achievements of @narendramodi Govt.
India believes in Rule of Law.
TOP TWEETS
CJI NV RAMANA’S
CASE FOR JUDICIARY
IS REASONABLE
AND STRONG
hief Justice of India
NV Ramana’s plain-
speak at the Confer-
ence of Chief Jus-
tices and Chief Min-
isters should be taken in the
right spirit for the sake of eas-
ing the burden on courts. “Non-
performance by the various
wings of the executive” and
“legislature not realizing its full
potential” was to blame for the
burden on courts, Justice Ra-
mana said. The CJI also includ-
ed PILs in this category as he
explained them to be personal
interest litigation. The govern-
ment being the biggest litigant,
the CJI said that if government
officials from the panchayat to
the state level discharge their
duties in accordance with the
law there will be fewer people
approaching the courts. Land
disputes alone account for 66
percent of cases pending in
courts, Justice Ramana said.
The CJI also emphasised that
the judiciary wouldn’t cross the
“Lakshman Rekha” if the other
two wings acted as per the law. It
is reasonable advice and the leg-
islature and executive should
give it a serious thought.
C
ndians and Indian
Americans in the
US are among the
highly educated
and affluent cate-
gory
. They can be found in
every sphere of society hold-
ingtoppositions.Asadiaspora
they are the true representa-
tives of India’s culture and,
also,itssocialevilof casteism.
Theyhadbeensilentlypractic-
ingcaste-baseddiscrimination
between high and low castes
until two law suits exposed
their ugly side. The first case
was filed by the California
State’s Department of Fair
Employment and Housing
againstCiscoin2020following
a complaint by an Indian ori-
gin employee that he was dis-
criminated against by two fel-
low Indian employees on
groundsof hiscaste.Ciscohas
deniedtheallegation.Thecase
isintheCaliforniastatecourt.
The second case was filed
last year against the Swami-
narayan Sanstha for paying
low wages to its “low caste”
workers, a charge denied by
the organisation. This case is
also pending in court. Cali-
fornia State University has
added caste to its anti-dis-
crimination policy. Other
universities which have add-
ed caste in their non-discrim-
ination policies include Har-
vard, Colby College, UC Da-
vis and Brandeis.
One can celebrate Azadi ka
Amrit Mahotsav in the 75th
year of Independence but
alsobearinmindthatcasteist
slurs and discriminations
still mark the Hindu society
.
What’s strange is that we
talk of Hindu caste hierarchy
but forget, or are ignorant,
about the caste system among
Muslims who have Ashrafs,
the original Muslims, at the
top of the ladder. Below them
are “low-born” Ajlaf, the Hin-
du converts. At the lowest end
are the Dalit converts called
Arzal, meaning vile.
NO STOPPING THE
CASTE SYSTEM
Indians and Indian Americans
in the US are among the
highly educated and affluent
category. They can be
found in every sphere of
society holding top
positions. As a diaspora
they are the true
representatives of India’s
culture and, also, its social
evil of casteism
I
RISING GLOBAL TEMPERATURE
MIGHT KILL MILLIONS
ife is the creation of certain
specific environmental condi-
tions. When human activities
started destroying the envi-
ronment leading to the world
getting warmer, various
health hazards started taking
roots. As the concentrations
of carbon dioxide, methane
and other greenhouse gases
started their upward trend in
the atmosphere, extreme
weather events like storms,
heatwaves,floodsanddrought
became noticeable in differ-
ent parts of the world.
There are people who keep
a close watch on the impact of
climate changes on human
health. Older people are more
vulnerable to heat and vari-
ous diseases getting activated
because of higher atmospher-
ic temperature. The other
groupthatwouldbeadversely
affected is children.Malnutri-
tion, malaria and diarrhoea
may kill a large number of
children, especially in eco-
nomically backward coun-
tries. But the people of rich
countries shouldn’t feel elat-
ed as some different diseases
like Covid-19 might strike
them at frequent intervals.
The so-called development
will impact quality of air and
wateralongwithfoodwhichis
getting more and more laden
with chemicals. Activities like
construction of roads, dams,
industrialcomplexesetc.force
people to leave their villages
and this human displacement
takes its own toll. Rising tem-
peratureactivatesanumberof
diseasescarryingvectors,bac-
teria and viruses. As both the
displacement and rising tem-
perature do not cause large
number of death in a very
short time span like Covid-19,
they are being overlooked and
underestimated by people and
governments but the final
death rate and level of disabil-
ityisnolessthananypandem-
ic - this, actually
, can be called
a slow pandemic. It is in offi-
cial records that heatwaves
during 2004 caused additional
70,000 deaths in Europe. We
overlook such calamities be-
cause the death is spread over
alongerperiodof time.Deaths
in such calamities happen be-
cause of an increase in the
number of heart attacks and
other vascular diseases due to
heat along with particulate
pollution in air. Particulate
pollution impacts people hav-
ing asthma and chronic lung
diseases killing many of them
prematurely
.
Children below 4 years and
senior citizens above 80 are
particularly prone to suffer
kidneydiseasesastheclimate
gets warmer. This may be
caused by dehydration and
electrolyte imbalance. Warm
weather can also trigger vari-
ous infections like malaria
and yellow fever as the in-
creased breeding of mosqui-
toes leads to their massive
growth. When deforestation
happens, many wild animals
lose their habitat and start
movingtowardshumanpopu-
lation carrying many viruses
with them. When episodes of
famine and floods take place
then hunger forces human be-
ings to kill animals for food
which might release many
dormant viruses on human
beings resulting in severe
epidemics and big loss of life.
Coastal areas and many
low-lying islands may be
threatened due to rising sea
levels and it is getting more
and more probable that cities
like Jakarta, New Orleans
and Bangkok would be en-
gulfed by seawater in the not-
so-distant future. Indian
coastal city Mumbai may lose
a significant part of it to ris-
ing sea if the glaciers go on
melting. Powerful sea storms
and hurricanes may contam-
inate drinking water by forc-
ing seawater into aquifers.
The resultant waterborne
diseases would kill hundreds
of thousand people, especial-
ly children and elderly
.
Itishightimethatthesedan-
gers are recognised by a wider
population so that strong voic-
es are raised to force the au-
thorities to take action.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
L
DR RAMAVTAR
SHARMA
The writer is a Physician
and Columnist
The so-called development will
impact quality of air and water
along with food which is getting
more and more laden with
chemicals. Activities like
construction of roads, dams,
industrial complexes etc. force
people to leave their villages and
this human displacement takes
its own toll. Rising temperature
activates a number of diseases
carrying vectors, bacteria and
viruses. As both the displacement
and rising temperature do not
cause large number of death in a
very short time span like
Covid-19, they are being
overlooked and underestimated
by people and governments but
the final death rate and level of
disability is no less than any
pandemic - this, actually, can be
called a slow pandemic
Sarah Vogel, PhD at
Healthy Communities:
She points out that
climate changes are
causing heat strokes,
heart and lung
diseases, food and
waterborne diseases
and mental stress
CLIMATE CHANGES ARE CAUSING HEAT STROKES

z Studies by various bodies
of WHO point to the possibility
of higher additional deaths up
to 2,50,00 every year between
2030-2050

z Activities like construction
of roads, dams, industrial
complexes etc. force people
to leave their villages and
this human displacement
takes its own toll

z It is in official records
that heatwaves during 2004
caused additional 70,000
deaths in Europe

z Children below 4 years
and senior citizens above
80 are particularly prone to
suffer kidney diseases as the
climate gets warmer

z Coastal areas and many
low-lying islands may be threat-
ened due to rising sea levels

z Indian coastal city Mumbai
may lose a significant part of
it to rising sea if the glaciers
go on melting

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INDIA
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Two CRPF
personnel
injured in IED
blast in J-K
Awantipora (Jammu
and Kashmir) (ANI):
Two CRPF personnel
were injured in an im-
provised explosive de-
vice (IED) blast in the
Awantipora area of
Jammu and Kashmir
on Monday, said police.
IGP, Kashmir, Vijay Ku-
mar said the blast took
place as a joint team of
police and Central Re-
serve Police Force
(CRPF) were conduct-
ing an area domination
exercise in the Larmoo
area of Tral. “A joint
team of police and
CRPF were conducting
area domination in 2 BP
bankers during which a
minor IED blast took
place in Larmoo Tral,
Awantipora. Two CRPF
personnel got minor in-
juries. Our team retali-
ating reinforcement
sent along with senior
officers,” Vijay tweeted.
India’s cumulative COVID-19 vaccination
coverage exceeds 189.23 crore, says report
New Delhi (ANI): In-
dia’s COVID-19 vax cov-
erage has exceeded
189.23 cr mark on Mon-
day, Union Health Min-
istry said on Monday
.
“India’s COVID-19
vax coverage has ex-
ceeded 189.23 cr as per
provisional reports till
7 am on Monday. This
has been achieved
through 2,33,82,216 ses-
sions,” the official re-
lease stated.
COVID-19 vax for the
age group 12-14 years
was started on March
16, 2022. So far, more
than 2.91 cr adolescents
have been administered
with first dose of COV-
ID-19 vaccine. More
than 193.30 cr COVID-19
vaccine doses have been
provided to States Un-
ion Territories.
NTAGI TO REVIEW DATA OF COVID-19
VACCINES FOR CHILDREN AGED 5-12
MORE THAN 193.30
CR VAX DOSES GIVEN
TO STATES, UTS
Looking to expand the vaccination drive for chil-
dren aged between 5 and 12 years, the National
Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation
(NTAGI) will review the COVID-19 vaccines for the
said age group on May 4, Republic Media Network
learnt on May 2, Monday. The last meeting of the
NTAGI which took place on April 29, remained
inconclusive.
New Delhi: Indian
Health Ministry has
released data informing
that till now more than
193.30 crore COVID-19
vaccine doses have
been administered to
States and Union Ter-
ritories. According to
the Centre, over 19.12
cr balance and unuti-
lized COVID vaccine
doses are still available
with the States/UTs to
be administered. The
Union government has
said that it is commit-
ted to accelerating the
pace and expanding the
scope of COVID-19 vac-
cination throughout the
country.
Chandauli (ANI): The UP
Police have registered an FIR
against more than seven po-
lice personnel in connection
with case of gangster Kan-
haiya Yadav’s daughter, who
was found dead inside house
in mysterious conditions
on Monday. Complainant
Vijay Yadav, son of gangster
Kanhaiya Yadav, lodged
the FIR under section 154
of the Criminal Procedure
Code (CrPC) in Sayyidraja
police station. It stated police
personnel forcibly entered
house of the complainant
and thrashed his sisters.
Dehradun (ANI): Uttara-
khand Education minister
Dhan Singh Rawat on
Monday said that Vedas,
the Ramayana, and the
Gita will be taught in
schools across the state.
Speaking to ANI, minister
Rawat said that Uttara-
khand will be the first state
to implement the new
National Education Policy
(NEP) this year. “We are
going to implement NEP
this year in the upcoming
session, Uttarakhand
will be the first state to
implement it. We will be
including Vedas, Gita,
Ramayana, and the history
of Uttarakhand in the sylla-
bus after taking sugges-
tions from the public and
consulting academicians,”
education minister said.
Mandi (ANI): Researchers at
the Indian Institute of Tech-
nology, Mandi have identified
a drug molecule that can be
used to treat diabetes. This
molecule, called “PK2” is
able to trigger the release of
insulin by the pancreas and
can potentially be used as an
orally administered medicine
for diabetes. IIT Mandi in a
statement said, “ Findings of
the research have been pub-
lished in Journal of Biological
Chemistry. Paper has been
authored by Dr. Prosenjit
Mondal, Associate Professor,
School of Basic Sciences.”
UP: FIR AGAINST
POLICE PERSONNEL
VEDAS, GITA, RAMAYANA WILL BE
INCLUDED IN SCHOOLS: U’KHAND EDU MIN
MOLECULE TO TREAT
DIABETES FOUND
CRUCIAL READ
Heatwave condition to
abate in country: IMD
New Delhi: Heatwave
conditions are abating
inmostpartsof country
,
the weather office said
on Monday, predicting
light rain in Delhi over
next three days amid
hottest pre-summer
months in decades.
Abatement of Heat
wave conditions over
most parts of country
.
Senior scientist at India
Meteorological Depart-
ment, RK Jenamani,
said there are chances
of heatwave ending in
most parts of India, in-
cluding Delhi, Punjab,
Haryana and UP
.
“TheheatwaveinOdi-
shaandBengalwasover
on April 30. Strong
winds will be there in
the next two to three
days. We are also giving
a Yellow warning to
NorthwestIndiaasthere
is a Western distur-
bance,” he said.
SIZZLING HEAT WAVE CLAIMED 25 LIVES
IN MAHARASHTRA, HIGHEST IN 6 YEARS
As many as 25 people are suspected to have died
due to heatstroke in Maharashtra this year which
is the highest in six years, as per the data from the
health department. The last time Maharashtra wit-
nessed a high number of heatstroke deaths was
in 2016 when 19 people died due to heatstroke. A
total of 381 cases of heatstroke were reported to
the health department till May 1, 2022. The high-
est number of deaths due to heatstroke has been
reported in Nagpur with 11 deaths, followed by 5
in Aurangabad and 4 in Nashik. Nagpur division
has 300 cases which are the highest in the state.
A man washes his face in a hot summer day. —PHOTO BY ANI
Modi expresses his
happiness over meet
with Indian diaspora
Berlin (ANI): Prime
MinisterNarendraModi
on Monday expressed
happiness after meeting
the members of the In-
dian community in Ber-
lin and said that India is
proudof theaccomplish-
ments of its diaspora.
“It was early morning
inBerlinyetseveralpeo-
ple from the Indian com-
munity came by
. Was
wonderful connecting
with them. India is
proud of accomplish-
ments of our diaspora,”
tweeted PM Modi. PM
Modi, who arrived in
Germany on first leg of
his three-day Europe
visit, got a rousing wel-
come from the Indian
diaspora in Berlin.
INTER-
GOVERNMENTAL
CONSULTATIONS
INDIA AND GERMANY SIGN AGREEMENT
ON DIRECT ENCRYPTED CONNECTION
Berlin (ANI): The sixth
Inter-Governmental
Consultations, a unique
biennial format which
India conducts only with
Germany, have begun
here with Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and
German Chancellor Olaf
Scholz co-chairing it IGC
is a unique mechanism
which brings together
several ministers and
officials from both sides
to engage in bilateral
discussions culminat-
ing in a plenary session
which is chaired by the
two leaders. It reviews
cooperation between the
two countries.
Berlin (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met
with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock on
Monday and signed an agreement on a direct encrypt-
ed connection between the two foreign offices. Taking
to Twitter, Jaishankar informed that both the leaders
discussed the Ukraine conflict and Indo-Pacific. “Good
conversation with FM @ABaerbock. Reviewed our
bilateral cooperation. Discussed the Ukraine conflict
Indo-Pacific. Signed agreement on direct encrypted.”
PM Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz signing agreement,
at Federal Chancellery, in Berlin on Monday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Moni Sharma
What was the main pur-
pose of the meeting of
the Prime Minister
with the Chief Minis-
ters of the states to con-
sider the increasing
cases of Corona virus?
Did it consider the situ-
ation in Corona and dis-
cuss measures to pre-
vent a possible new
wave? Nothing like this
happen because most
states do not have coro-
na cases. Many states
have become complete-
ly free from Corona. In
Uttar Pradesh too, new
cases have increased in
the districts adjacent to
NCR. In Haryana also
only in the districts ad-
jacent to NCR have wit-
nessed a rise. Apart
from Delhi, Haryana,
Uttar Pradesh and Ker-
ala, most of the states
have either no cases or
few cases.
That is why it was as-
tonishing that the
Prime Minister called a
meeting of Chief Min-
isters of all the states
over Corona. By law, the
meeting of the Prime
Minister should have
been held with the
Chief Ministers of
three or four states.
It has happened
many times in the past
that the Prime Minister
held a meeting with the
Chief Ministers of the
states where there were
more cases. But this
time the Chief Minis-
ters of all the states and
the Lieutenant Gover-
nors and Administra-
tors of the Union Ter-
ritories were called,
and that is why
, it seems
that PM’s aim was to
put the states in the
dock regarding VAT on
petrol and diesel.
And one has to admit
that it was a job well
done. Now the state gov-
ernments and the lead-
ers of the opposition
parties are giving clari-
fication and asking the
Center to reduce the
tax, but the Prime Min-
ister has sent the mes-
sage to the people that
the state governments
with the opposition par-
ties have not given re-
lief to the common peo-
ple by cutting VAT,
while the Center And
BJP ruled states gave
relief.
Modi’s ‘surgical strike’ on opposition ruled states over fuel prices!
MASTERSTROKE
Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacting with state CMs on the COVID-19 situation in the country
via video conferencing, in New Delhi. —PHOTO BY ANI
CBI raids eight locations,
fresh case against Choksi
New Delhi (ANI): The
Central Bureau of In-
vestigation (CBI) has
registered a fresh case
against fugitive dia-
mantaire Mehul Choksi
and his company Gitan-
jali Gems for allegedly
defrauding the Indus-
trial Finance Corpora-
tion of India (IFCI).
A senior CBI officer
said that after the pre-
liminary inquiry into
the complaint received
against Mehul Choksi
and his company Gitan-
jali Gems from the As-
sistant General Man-
ager (AGM) of IFCI, an
FIR under IPC section
420 (cheating), 468 ( For-
gery for purpose of
cheating) and 471 (Who-
ever fraudulently or
dishonestly uses as gen-
uine) has been regis-
tered in Mumbai.
The officer informed
that during the period
2014 to 2018, IFCI Ltd re-
lying on the representa-
tion, assurances and
undertaking of said pri-
vate company as well as
its Director and the
value of the pledged
jewels on the basis of
valuation conducted by
Valuers, had disbursed
the entire loan amount
of Rs 25 crore (approxi-
mately) on the basis of
security cover of two
times, pledge of shares,
pledge of gold, diamond
and gold CS studded
jewellery
.
It was further alleged
that accused had start-
ed committing defaults
in repayment of loan
installments and in or-
der to recover defaulted
amount of the install-
ments, IFCI Ltd invoked
the pledge and the fresh
valuation obtained by
IFCI dropped the valua-
tion of the pledged jew-
els by 90 per cent.
The CBI also alleged
that Director colluded
with the Valuers.
DIAMONDS WERE
OF LOW QUALITY
The diamonds were
allegedly of low quality
not real gemstones,
officer said. Searches
were conducted at eight
premises of accused valu-
ers in Mumbai and Kolkata
which led to recovery of
incriminating documents
and fresh case against the
fugitive diamantaire has
been registered.
Mehul Choksi. —File Photo
New Delhi (Agencies):
Union Home Minister
Amit Shah on Monday
chaired a meeting of the
top brass of coal, power
and railway ministries
amid electricity outages
in various parts of the
country due to shortage
of coalatthermalplants,
according to sources.
The meeting was attend-
edbyCoalMinisterPral-
had Joshi, Power Minis-
ter R K Singh and top
officials, among others.
During the meeting,
Shahreviewedthesitua-
tionof coalsupplytothe
power plants and power
generation,amongother
issues, the sources told
media.
The Union home min-
istry is the coordinating
ministry between the
Centre and states on
various issues.
Since last week, vari-
ous states have been
grappling with power
outages and efforts are
being made to increase
coal supplies to the ther-
mal power plants.
According to the lat-
est data, coal stock at 147
non-pithead plants with
total generation capaci-
ty of 164 GW monitored
by Central Electricity
Authority (CEA) was 26
per cent of the norma-
tive level as on May 1.
Shah reviews power
situation amid outages
SC SEEKS CENTRE’S REPLY ON
REMOVAL OF MEAT FROM MIDDAY MEAL
NOBODY CAN BE FORCED TO UNDERGO
COVID-19 VACCINATIONS: SC
New Delhi: SC on Monday asked the Centre and others
to file their responses on a plea against the Lakshad-
weep administration’s decision to remove meat from
the midday meal scheme of the schools in the islands
and close down dairy farms. A bench of Justices Indira
Banerjee and AS Bopanna issued notice to Centre, Lak-
shadweep administration and others on an appeal filed
against Sep 2021 judgment of the Kerala High Court
which dismissed PIL. PIL challenged Lakshwadweep
administration’s decision to exclude chicken from meals.
New Delhi: The SC on Monday while saying bodily
autonomy and integrity are constitutional rights and no
individual can be forced to get vaccinated against COVID
also affirmed the Central government’s COVID-19 vacci-
nation policy. A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and
BR Gavai also held that vaccine mandates imposed by
various state governments and other authorities in the
context of the COVID-19 pandemic are “not proportion-
ate”. Saying that restrictions on unvaccinated individuals
in relation to public places is unreasonable.
IN THE COURTYARD

INDIA
06
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: In the last
20-25 years, many Con-
gress conventions and
contemplation camps
were held, but what
was the decision taken
in them and what was
implemented, even the
Congress leaders will
not have any idea. Even
now, there is a discus-
sion about Pachmarhi
and Shimla conven-
tions. Therefore, it is
meaningless to expect
that the Congress will
take a historic decision
at the Chintan Shivir to
be held in Udaipur in
May and march to-
wards victory from
there. That too will be a
routine conference, as
happened in Jaipur in
2013. But this time the
special thing will be
that the new pesident
of Congress will be de-
cided in this.
Keep in mind that the
election of Congress
president is going to be
held in August-Septem-
ber. Just before that, the
name of the new Presi-
dent of Congress will
be considered in the
Chintan Shivir to be
held in mid-May. The
Congress leaders are
more interested in de-
ciding the name of the
new president than de-
ciding an ideological
line or making an alter-
native agenda. It is be-
ing told that Rajasthan
Chief Minister Ashok
Gehlot, who is hosting
the Chintan Shivir, is
working on this line.
According to informed
sources, in the presence
of four hundred impor-
tant Congress leaders,
he can propose to make
Rahul Gandhi the na-
tional president of the
party. Remember, he
has been saying this in
the Congress Working
Committee meetings in
the past as well.
According to sources
in the Congress, an at-
tempt will be made to
reach a consensus on
the name of Rahul Gan-
dhi in the Chintan Shi-
vir and different state
committees can also
propose his name. It is
also being said that the
suggestions given by
election strategist
Prashant Kishor will
also be discussed in it.
But that discussion will
be a sham as the Con-
gress is trying to decide
whether Rahul Gandhi
should be made the
president, whereas
Prashant Kishor did not
suggest Rahul in any of
his three formulas.
Prashant Kishor’s
first suggestions was
that Sonia Gandhi
should be the Con-
gress President, Rahul
Gandhi should be
made the President of
the Parliamentary
Board, Priyanka Gan-
dhi Vadra should be-
come the General Sec-
retary of the Organi-
zation and any col-
league who had left
the Congress should
be made the President
of the UPA. The sec-
ond suggestion was
that someone from
outside the Nehru-
Gandhi family should
become the president,
Sonia should become
the UPA president, Ra-
hul should become the
president of the par-
liamentary board and
Priyanka should be-
come the general sec-
retary of the organiza-
tion. The third propos-
al was to make Priyan-
ka Gandhi Vadra the
president. Obviously,
Kishor was not in fa-
vor of making Rahul
Gandhi the president,
but contrary to his
suggestions, the Con-
gress is adamant on
making Rahul the par-
ty president at any
cost. And thus, this
‘wish’ of the ‘party’
can be stamped on in
the ‘chintan shivir’.
Congress’ new president to be decided in Chintan Shivir!
FLUTTER IN PARTY CIRCLE
Bengaluru (Agen-
cies): In a strong rebut-
tal to Maharashtra
Deputy Chief Minister
Ajit Pawar’s statement,
Karnataka Chief Min-
ister Basavaraj Bom-
mai on Monday said it
wasbeingcontemplated
to take back Kannada
speaking regions from
the neighbouring state.
Bommai said there
are Kannada speaking
regions in Maharash-
tra and it is being con-
templated on how to
take them back.
Pawar had stirred a
controversy after
he said that an agita-
tion will be launched
to include the Karna-
taka cities of Belaga-
vi, and Nippani to Ma-
harashtra.
In response, Bom-
mai claimed that there
is a political crisis in
Maharashtra and the
entire government is
in rough waters.
The border is very
clear between Karna-
taka and Maharashtra,
he said, adding: “We
will not yield to them.
Theyalsoknowit.They
are raking it up to sur-
vive in politics.”
“I strongly urge Ma-
harashtra political
leaders not to use such
language for political
gains,”heappealedand
said that there was
question of giving
away even an inch of
land from Karnataka.
KARNATAKA-MAHARASHTRA BORDER DISPUTE
Bommai says ‘thinking of taking
backKannada-speaking regions’
PAWAR REIGNITES
BORDER ROW
Maharashtra Deputy Chief
Minister Ajit Pawar on
Sunday said they would
continue to support the
fight of Marathi-speaking
people residing in border
areas of neighbouring
Karnataka to include those
places in Maharashtra. He
was addressing a gather-
ing in Pune city on the
occasion of Maharashtra’s
foundation day.
HARDIK PATEL DROPS GUJARAT
CONGRESS POST FROM TWITTER BIO
New Delhi: Hardik Patel, the working president of the
Congress in Gujarat, has dropped the party name from
his Twitter bio, appearing to hint at his exit just months
before elections in the state. “Working President of the
Gujarat Congress” is now missing from Hardik Patel’s
bio, which says: “Proud Indian Patriot. Social and
Political Activist. Committed to a better India.” The
Congress’s “hand” symbol has also been removed.
Mumbai: Maharashtra Min-
ister Nawab Malik, arrested
by the ED in the Money
laundering case, was admit-
ted to hospital on Monday
after he complained of fever
and diarrhoea, his lawyer
told a special court here and
claimed that Malik’s health
had deteriorated and he was
in a “serious” condition.
Last week, Nawab Malik,
lodged in the Arthur Road
jail, had sought interim bail
on medical ground from
the special court for trial of
criminal cases against MPs
and MLAs.
MALIK IN HOSPITAL,
CONDITION
SERIOUS: LAWYER
CRUCIAL READS
Will not cede even
an inch, says
Karnataka CM in
response to Ajit
Pawar’s remark
Basavaraj Bommai Uddhav Thackeray
Hyderabad (Agencies):
Protests, vandalism and
arrests are threatening
to overshadow former
Congress president
Rahul Gandhi’s visit to
Telangana on May 7.
Police arrested lead-
ers of the Osmania Uni-
versity Joint Action
Committee (OU JAC)
when they staged a pro-
test in front of Arts Col-
lege on the campus.
Alleging that the uni-
versity authorities de-
nied permission for
Rahul’s visit at the be-
hest of the Telangana
Rashtra Samithi (TRS)
government, they de-
manded that the Con-
gress leader be allowed
to visit the campus to
interact with the stu-
dents. Police arrested
the JAC leaders.
Police have beefed
up security on the cam-
pus in view of the con-
tinuing protests by stu-
dent groups.
Large number of po-
licemen was deployed in
the campus after Sun-
day’s incident in which
proestors led by NSUI
state president Venkat
Balmoor stormed into
the OU administrative
building and tried to
barge into the locked
Vice Chancellor’s office.
They broke glass
panes of the door, rais-
ing slogans against the
Vice-Chancellor and the
government, alleging
the Vice Chancellor was
acting at the behest of
the Chief Minister K.
Chandrasekhar Rao.
They were booked for
unlawful assembly
, as-
sault, rioting, trespass
and preventing public
servants from discharg-
ing their duties.
Srinagar (Agencies):
Seventeen Kashmiri
youths, who returned
from Pakistan to Jam-
mu and Kashmir, were
killed in recent counter-
terror operations,
sources in the security
set up said.
Sources further in-
formed that of the stu-
dents who went to Paki-
stan for higher studies
had received weapon
training.Thesestudents
had gone to Pakistan for
higher studies and re-
turned with terror
training, they added.
According to the
sources, at least 17 were
trained by the terror
outfits on the behest of
Pakistan’s Inter-Servic-
es Intelligence (ISI) and
became the part of the
sleeper cells active in
JK, media reported.
A large number of
Kashmiri youths have
been going to Pakistan
on the pretext of higher
studies, meeting their
relatives or even for
marriage purposes
since 2015, as per offi-
cials in the security
agencies in JK.
They further said
that these youths were
misguided by the anti-
India elements and
some of them were
also trained by the
ISI’s handlers.
More protests at Osmania varsity
over Rahul Gandhi’s proposed visit
17 Pak-returnee JK youths
killed in counter-terror ops
Birbhum massacre:
CBI submits progress
report to Calcutta HC
Stalin’s son likely to be
inducted in TN cabinet
Bypoll for three
Assembly seats in
Odisha, Kerala,
U’khand on May 31
MADC polls: Cong,
MNF, BJP lock
horns in Mizoram
Kolkata (Agen-
cies): The Central
Bureau of Investiga-
tion (CBI), on Mon-
day submitted a pro-
gress report on the
agency’s ongoing
parallel probe into
the carnage at Bogtui
village in Birbhum
district of West Ben-
gal on March 21, 2022
and the reasons be-
hind the murder of
Trinamool Congress’
deputy chief of pan-
chayat, Vadu Sheikh.
Altogether, 10 per-
sons have died so far
in the Bogtui massa-
cre. It is learnt that
in the progress re-
port submitted to the
division bench of
Calcutta High
Court’s chief justice,
Prakash Srivastava,
the CBI has detailed
the steps taken by its
sleuths in its probe.
It is learnt that in
the report, the cen-
tral agency has in-
formed the court that
two accused in the
case have been grant-
ed bail by a lower
court without in-
forming the CBI.
Chief Justice Srivas-
tava has asked the
CBI to submit the
copy of the lower
court’s directive that
granted bail to the
two accused. The
next hearing is sched-
uled on May 10, 2022.
Advocate Phiroze
Edulji, a counsel of
one of the petition-
ers, said that the low-
er court granted the
bail to the two ac-
cused because both
were minors.
Chennai (Agencies):
Udayanidhi Stalin,
the youth wing leader
of the DMK and son of
Tamil Nadu Chief Min-
ister MK Stalin, is like-
ly to join as a minister
in the state government
by the first week of
June. Sources in DMK
told media that discus-
sions are on in the party
to make the first-time
MLA a minister.
DMK state organis-
ing secretary and mem-
ber of Rajya Sabha, RS
Bharathi while speak-
ing to media said,
“Udayanidhi Stalin is a
great crowd puller and
demand has come from
across the state to make
him a minister. It is for
the Chief Minister, MK
Stalin to take a deci-
sion and in all likeli-
hood, he will be a min-
ister soon.”
Karunanidhifamilyis
deemed as the first fam-
ily of Tamil Nadu by the
DMKleadersandcadres,
and whenever Udayani-
dhi comes into the As-
semblyhall,partyMLAs
standupfromtheirseats
to greet him.
New Delhi (Agencies):
Bypolls to one Assembly
seat each in Odisha, Ker-
ala and Uttarakhand will
be held on May 31, the
Election Commission an-
nounced on Monday. The
results will be declared
on June 3.
With the announce-
ment of the bypolls, the
Model Code of Conduct
has come into force in the
constituencies concerned.
The constituencies are
Brajrajnagar in Odisha,
Thrikkakkara in Kerala
and Champawat in Uttara-
khand. A notification re-
garding the bypolls will be
issued on Wednesday, the
ElectionCommissionsaid.
Uttarakhand CM
Pushkar Singh Dhami
will contest the election
in Champawat constitu-
ency. In the 2022 state
assembly election, Dha-
mi had lost from Khati-
ma seat in Udham Sin-
gh Nagar district.
Aizwal (Agencies):
The ruling Mizo Nation-
al Front (MNF), BJP
and the opposition Con-
gress continued their
hectic campaign for the
Thursday’s 25-member
Mara Autonomous Dis-
trict Council (MADC)
polls in Mizoram.
Ahead of the next
year’s elections in the
40-member Mizoram
Assembly, the MADC
elections in Siaha dis-
trict are crucial for both
the ruling and the oppo-
sition parties.
Dharamshala (ANI):
Himachal Pradesh
Chief Minister Jairam
Thakur on Monday
said the state will bring
Uniform Civil Code
(UCC) soon.
Thakur reached
Kangra for a two-day
visit. Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) workers
gave him a warm wel-
come at the airport.
“We will do it (UCC)
soon. The situation in
Himachal is different
from other states and it
will not harm Muslim
society. I think every-
one especially Muslim
women will welcome
this step. They will have
a healthy family life to
live and it will be bene-
ficial for them,” Thakur
told media on Monday
.
Last month, Thakur
had said the imple-
mentation of UCC is
not ruled out and “a
decision will be taken
after examining it”. He
had said officials were
examining it and no
decision will be taken
in a hurry.
A debate over the uni-
form civil code has
sparked in several
states in the country
.
Recently Assam
Chief Minister Himan-
ta Biswa Sarma said
that UCC should be im-
plemented in the great-
er interest of Muslim
women otherwise po-
lygamy would continue.
Earlier, Uttarakhand
CM Dhami has said a
“high-powered” expert
committee will be
formed to prepare a
draft of the uniform
civil code for the state.
Himachal to implement Uniform
Civil Code soon: Jairam Thakur
CM says move won’t harm Muslims

NEWS
07
HC ISSUES NBW
AGAINST
MATHURA DM
NAVNEET SINGH
The Allahabad High court has
issued NBW against Navneet
Chahal DM Mathura for non-
compliance with the court’s
order by which the court had
directed DM to pay pension to
four state government
employees. The court has
directed the police to produce
Chahal before the Court on May
12 for ‘disrespecting’ the court’s
September 2021 order. Justice
Saral Srivastava passed the
order in a petition filed by Braj
Mohan Sharma And 3 Others
whereby CJM concerned was
directed to ensure that the
District Magistrate, Mathura
shall be produced in police
custody on the next date fixed.
Earlier, the court in a writ petition
had directed officers concerned
to pay the pension of petitioners
as per law. However, they were
not paid their pension. On
February 11, 2022, Court issued
notices to the district magistrate
to comply with the order and in
case of non-compliance of order
of the Court, to remain present
before this Court. During the
course of the hearing, the court
was apprised that pension was
not granted to petitioners as a
review application was filed
seeking review of the court’s
earlier order and till its disposal,
pension can’t be granted to
petitioners. —First India Bureau
MENTALLY
UNSTABLE MAN
CLIMBS POLICE
QUARTERS WALL,
ATTACKS COPS
Two police personnel suffered
injuries after a mentally
unstable person, who climbed a
boundary wall of the police
quarters here, attacked them
with stones while they tried to
bring him down, officials said
on Monday. Superintendent of
Police Neeraj Kumar Jadaun
told PTI, “On Monday, at around
3.30 am to 4 am, a youth
climbed the walls of the police
quarters located near the
Chhaprauli police station, and
started creating a ruckus. As
policemen tried to stop him, he
attacked them with stones. Two
police personnel were injured in
the incident.” The SP added that
the youth, whose identity is yet
to be ascertained, was caught
around 8.30 am. “Since he is
mentally unstable, he has not
been arrested, and instead sent
for medical examination at a
mental hospital,” SP Jadaun
said. —PTI
56-BIGHA ENEMY
PROPERTY
FREED IN GONDA
The district administration has
freed a 56-bigha enemy
property from encroachers in
Akauni village here, officials said
on Monday. An enemy property is
the one which is left behind by
the people who took the
citizenship of Pakistan and China
during and after the partition.
Tehsildar of Tarabganj tehsil
Paigam Haidar said that a team
of revenue officials along with
heavy police force in the
presence of senior officials,
operated a tractor over the
sugarcane crop which was
planted on the said piece of land,
and destroyed it. In this
connection, a case was registered
against four encroachers, he
said, and added that the owner of
the 56-bigha plot of land had
gone to Pakistan, and settled
there. The encroachments have
been removed now, he said. The
government has vested enemy
properties in the Custodian of
Enemy Property for India, an
office instituted under the central
government. After the India-
China war of 1962 and Indo-
Pakistan war of 1965, the Enemy
Property Act was enacted in
1968, which regulates such
properties and lists the
custodian’s powers. —PTI
DEOBANDSEMINARYUNDERPRESSURETOWEEDOUTSUSPECTS
ATS has held a Bangladeshi nat’l from Deoband who
was studying for the last 7 years on fake documents
The student of class 8 staying in DUD hostel is reported
to have links with banned organisation of Bangladesh
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The student
of class VIII Arabic
Alim staying in DUD
hostel Farooq is report-
ed to have links with the
banned organization of
Bangladesh- Jamatul
MujahideenBangladesh
(JMB).Claimingtobean
Indian citizen Farooq,
who belonged to district
Kumlla in Chattogram
division in Bangladesh,
had acquired Aadhar
and PAN cards from Me-
ghalaya. He also had a
life membership card
from the seminary
.
The arrest has thus
put the DUD under pres-
sure to quickly identify
and weed out such stu-
dents. Thereafter the
DUD, a premier Islamic
educational seminary in
the country
, has made
verification of students
by the police agencies
and local intelligence
unit (LIU) before the ad-
mission. The DUD has
made it clear that no ap-
plication for admission
wouldbeprocessedwith-
outproperidentification
documents,whichwould
be scanned by the police.
Making the admis-
sion policy more strin-
gent the DUD Naib
Mohtamim (deputy
vice-chancellor) Maula-
na Abdul Khaliq Ma-
drasi has said that “stu-
dents seeking admis-
sion this year will have
to submit their docu-
ments, including their
Aadhaar cards, origi-
nal residence certifi-
cates, and an affidavit,
whichwouldbechecked
and verified by govern-
ment agencies, includ-
ing the Local Intelli-
gence Unit (LIU) of the
police.” The additional
director general (law
order) Prashant Kumar
said that during inter-
rogation Talha could
not give a proper reply
and bared the facts
about him. Bangladeshi
passport and other doc-
uments have also been
recovered from him.
According to infor-
mation the National
Investigation Agency
(NIA) which had re-
cently nabbed few JMB
activists in Bhopal
came to know about
Talha’s presence in
Deoband, who has also
revealed the identity of
two more students- Sal-
lahuddin Salim and If-
tikhar-ul-Haq. Since
some other seminaries
connections with DUD
are functioning in West
UP the investigation
agencies have launched
extensive probe
against them. InMarch
2022 the ATS had arrest-
ed Inamul Haq alias
Inam Imtiaza who was
accused of being in di-
rect touch with Paki-
stan-based terrorist or-
ganization Laksh-
kar-e-Taiba. He was also
reportedly in touch
with terror groups of
Bangladesh and Af-
ghanistan. The ATS had
then interrogated two
of his roommates in the
hostel. In view of rising
sensitive of Deoband
the CM Yogi Adityanath
had laid foundation of
ATS commando train-
ing centre at Deoband in
January 2022 where 56
commandos would be
permanently deployed.
Darul Uloom, Islamic seminary in Deoband. —FILE PHOTO
LINKS WITH LeT
CRIME
ROUND-UP
COPS NAB COW SMUGGLER
AFTER ENCOUNTER
AYODHYA POLICE NABS
CYBER-CRIMINAL
MAINPURI POLICE NABS
FRAUD WHO POSED AS
CM’S SECRETARY
FLAG MARCH
RAF personnel take out a flag march in Meerut on Monday, a day ahead of Eid festival. —PHOTO BY PTI
Manallegedlygetswiferapedtoframeopponents
Budaun (PTI): Hoping
to frame his opponents,
a man got his friend to
rape his wife, police
here said on Monday.
The incident happened
on Sunday when the
22-year-old woman was
taken on a bike to a for-
est in Budaun’s Sah-
sawan area by her hus-
band, officials said.
The friend was also
called to the forest and
raped the woman
twice, officials added.
The husband later
called the police help-
line and alleged that
two people had sexual-
ly assaulted his wife.
The woman told police
that her husband want-
ed to frame two people
in their village to settle
scores with them.
An FIR has been reg-
istered against the hus-
band and the friend.
The husband has been
detained and the hunt
is on for the second
man, Assistant Super-
intendent of Police
(ASP) Rural Siddharth
Verma said.
WOMAN KILLED FOR OPPOSING
HUSBAND’S EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR
M u z a f f a r n a g a r
(PTI): A 33-year-old
married woman was
allegedly strangulated
by her husband for op-
posing his extramari-
tal affair, police said
Monday. The incident
happened Sunday eve-
ning at Rampur village
in Purchapar area
here, they said. Police
said a case was regis-
tered against the de-
ceased woman’ s hus-
band Sohanlal, his fa-
ther Ramlal and broth-
er Papendra on a com-
plaint by her father.
Police have arrested
Sohanlal while the two
other accused are ab-
sconding. The incident
was a fallout of an Zal-
leged illicit relation-
ship, police said, add-
ing the body has been
sent for a postmortem.
NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL RAPED
BY TEEN RELATIVE IN BIJNOR
Bijnor (PTI): A
nine-year-old girl
was allegedly raped
by her 18-year-old un-
cle who works as a
labourer at a brick
kiln here, police said
on Monday. They
said the incident
happened at Shival-
akala Kalan when
the girl’s parents had
gone for work at the
same brick kiln.
They said the ac-
cused was arrested
after an FIR was filed
against him under
relevant sections of
the Indian Penal
Code and the Protec-
tion of Children
Against Sexual Of-
fences Act.
Muzaffarnagar: Police have arrested a cow
smuggler after encountering them at Baseda-
Nandeha road in the Chhapar area. The
criminal was injured in cross-firing while his
associate managed to escape during the
encounter. Ashutosh Kumar, inspector in
charge said that acting on tip-off, the police
team intercepted 2 motorbike-borne suspects
but they opened fire on the police team. In
retaliatory firing, 1 criminal was injured while
the other managed to escape. The arrested
criminal was identified as Sher Ali while his
associate Salman managed to escape during
the encounter. More than 12 cases under cow
slaughtering charges, Gangster Act, and
Gunda Act charges were registered against
him and he was wanted in several cases.
Ayodhya: Police have arrested a cybercriminal
who created a fake website of Sri Ram Janm
Bhumi Trust (SRJBT) and burgled several
persons. Chandrabhan Yadav, a cyber police
station in charge said that Avinash
Bahukhandi, a resident of C-20 Indra Park
Najafgarh New Delhi was arrested for making
fake websites on Sri Ram Janm Bhumi Trust
and burgles several persons. He said that case
was registered in 2020 on the complaint of
SRJMT general secretary Champat Rai. During
investigations, it was revealed that all details
including phone numbers, and account
numbers belonged to Avinash.
Mainpuri: Police have arrested a miscreant
who threatened police officials posing as
personal secretary to Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath. Ashok Kumar Rai,
superintendent of police here said that
Jagat Kishor Bajpai, a resident of Juri
Baradevi under Kidwai Nagar police station
area in Kanpur, used to threaten people
after posing as personal secretary to
CM. Rai said that Bewar police had arrested
drug peddler Gagan Solanki with drugs on
Sunday. Jagat called the police station in
charge Surendra Chandra Sharma and
threatened him to leave Gagan or face the
consequences. Jagat also called other
senior police officials to instruct them to
release the drug peddler Gagan. SP said
that after tracing his calls, police arrested
him near Bewar By-pass bridge. During
interrogation, he confessed to his crime.
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE

08
2NDFRONT
Greetings on the occasion of
‘World Press Freedom Day’, let
us all strive together to ensure
press freedom worldwide.
—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
(From Top) People out
in Prayagraj for Eid
shopping. Women
purchase bangles from a
shop in Mirzapur. Women
purchase jewellery in
Lucknow. Children
wish a Happy Eid in
Moradabad.
—PHOTOS BY PTI
ANI
CHAND
MUBARAK
RISE AND FALL IN ROUND
OF SIXTEEN TRANSFERS
Ahtesham Siddiqui
Lucknow: The transfer
of 16 IAS officers by the
Yogi government on
May 1 has enhanced the
stature of some IAS of-
ficers while others have
suffered a decline. For
example, IAS Manoj Ku-
mar Singh, who has
been made Agriculture
Production Commis-
sioner (APC), has su-
perseded 7 senior IAS
officers.
His name was first
published by First India
on April 13, 2022, as be-
ing in the race for APC.
He was ACS of Depart-
ment of Rural Develop-
ment, Panchayati Raj
and Revenue till now
and has been rewarded
by the Yogi government
with a stellar promo-
tion. Singh continues to
have additional charge
of ACS Village Develop-
ment and ACS Pancha-
yati Raj. Singh has also
earlier been ACS Urban
Development in the Yogi
government.
IAS Sanjeev Kumar
Mittal, who had the im-
portant responsibility
of Infrastructure and
Industrial Development
Commissioner IIDC,
has been made the new
chairman of the Reve-
nue Council. He will
also have additional
charge of State Vigi-
lance Commission and
Administrative Tribu-
nal. IAS Arvind Kumar,
Additional Chief Secre-
tary of Infrastructure
and Industrial Develop-
ment,ITIElectronicand
N.R.I. departments, now
has been entrusted with
the new responsibility
of Establishment and
Industrial Development
Commissioner. IAS M
Devraj, who is Chair-
man of Uttar Pradesh
PowerCorporationLim-
ited, UP Jal Vidyut
Nigam, UP Rajya Vidyut
Utpadan Nigam, and
Pratap Transmission
Corporation, in view of
theongoingpowercrisis
in UP has been given ad-
ditional charge of Prin-
cipal Secretary, Energy
and Additional Energy
.
The fifth officer to be
rewarded is Meerut Di-
visional Commissioner
IAS Surendra Singh,
who has been given ad-
ditional charge of CEO
of Greater Noida.
It is clear that while
the stature of Manoj Ku-
mar Singh, Sanjeev Mit-
tal, Arvind Kumar and
Surendra Singh has
been enhanced, the
same has not happened
with ACS Rajneesh
Dubey and Principal
Secretary Rajesh Singh,
who have been given de-
partments of compara-
tively less significance.
Manoj Singh Sanjiv Kumar Arvind Kumar M.Devaraj Surendra Singh
2 WOMEN IAS OFFICERS FROM
UP IN CENTRE’S SELECT LIST
The Appointment Committee of Cabinet (ACC)
of Government of India has empanelled 8 IAS
officers from across the country for Central dep-
utation, while 6 IAS officers on Central deputation
have been upgraded from Special
Secretary rank to Secretary rank,
including woman IAS officer S
Radha Chauhan from UP. Anoth-
er name is of Archana Agarwal,
1990 batch UP Cadre IAS, who is
already on Central deputation and
is currently posted as Member
Secretary, NCR Planning Board,
New Delhi. She has been promot-
ed from Special Secretary rank to Secretary to
Govt of India. Radha Chauhan’s husband is IPS
officer Devendra Singh Chauhan of 1988 batch UP
Cadre. He is currently serving as DG Intelligence.
IAS Radha Chau
First India Bureau
Prayagraj: The Alla-
habad High Court re-
jected the transfer ap-
plications of gang-rape
accused and said justice
is not for the accused
alone but also for the
victim.
The submission of
the counsel for the ap-
plicants was that the
victim’s father is a prac-
ticing advocate in Dis-
trict Jhansi and there-
fore, no advocate is
ready to appear on be-
half of applicants in the
District Court Jhansi.
The allegation against
Vipin Tiwari and Rohit
is that they shot a video
on a mobile while the
victim was being raped,
allegation against appli-
cant Shailendra Nath
Pathak is that he took
Rs 1,000 from victim and
also took Rs 2000, and
there is no allegation
except this.
The Court observed,
“It is a case of gang
rape wherein victim
happens to be the
daughter of a practic-
ing advocate at Jhansi.
If a case is transferred
from Jhansi to other
districts, the victim will
have to travel to anoth-
er district which may
ultimately result into
hardship and mental
agony to the victim.
Not only this, all oth-
er witnesses who are
the residents of Jhansi
except the formal wit-
nesses, will have to trav-
el to another district
where the case will be
transferred. ”
If the case is trans-
ferred from District
Jhansi to any other dis-
trict, it will be inconve-
nient for the victim,
witnesses, prosecution
and for the society as a
whole because the case
sought to be transferred
relates to gang rape.
If a case is trans-
ferred, it will add insult
to injury to the victim.
The court directed the
DMs to monitor the
progress of the case.
Ald HC rejects plea to transfer gangrape case out of Jhansi district
COURT-AFFAIRS
lll
A single-judge
bench of Justice
Anil Kumar
Ojha passed this
order while
hearing a
transfer
application filed
by Vipin Tiwari
and two others
HIGH ON DRIVING
UP IAS RESHUFFLE
‘Drunk’ official gives cop hard time,
probe ordered after video goes viral
Bahraich(PTI): The
police on Sunday have
referred to the UP La-
bour Department the
case of an official who
gave them a hard time
when she was alleg-
edly in an inebriated
state. Police identified
the woman official as
Rachna Kesarwani,
the Deputy Labour
Commissioner of
Devipatan Division,
whose headquarters
is in Gonda.
According to a video
clip went viral on so-
cial media platforms
on Sunday, Kesarwani
can be seen insisting
on driving in spite of
being in the “inebri-
ated state”. The inci-
dent is of April 27.
In the video, it could
be seen that a woman
police official is try-
ing to convince Kesar-
wani to sit on the back
seat of the car but she
was repeatedly trying
to occupy the driver’s
seat. Station House
Officer (SHO) of Jar-
wal Road police sta-
tion, Rajesh Kumar
Singh said that on
April 27, Kesarwani
was going from Luc-
know to Gonda.
However, she lost
her way and moved
towards Bahraich,
and then rammed her
car into a road divid-
er. Police arrived at
the spot, and saw Kes-
arwani was adamant
to drive in the inebri-
ated state.
When police offi-
cials refused her to
drive the car, she said
that she is a “division-
al-level officer” and
not a “district-level of-
ficer”, the SHO said.
When the police
sought details about
her, Kesarwani said
that she is the deputy
labour commissioner
of Devipatan division,
he said. The SHO also
said that when Kesar-
wani was could not be
controlled, women po-
lice officials were
called. Later, her hus-
band was called and in
the presence of the
police Kesarwani was
handed over to him.
First India Bureau
Saharanpur: A joint
team of police and rev-
enue department on
Sunday attached al-
leged illegal property
worth Rs 21 crore regis-
tered in the name of
former MLC Haji
Iqbal’s aide. The prop-
erty was registered in
the name of Naseem
and it was attached un-
der the provisions of
the Gangster Act, po-
lice said. Iqbal was a
Bahujan Samaj Party
MLC from 2010 to 2016.
Iqbal, who headed
the gang, was involved
in smuggling wood, il-
legal mining, threaten-
ing people and using
fraudulent means to
purchase government
and non-government
land, and registering
them in the names of
his aides, family mem-
bers, relatives and even
servants, Senior Super-
intendent of Police
Akash Tomar told.
SSP Tomar said that
a case was registered
against Hazi Iqbal alias
Bala and six others un-
der Gangster Act on
April 9. During investi-
gation it was found that
Hazi Iqbal had pur-
chased land in names
of his relatives, ser-
vants and associates
and encroached on sev-
eral government lands.
He had amassed
money from criminal
activities and pur-
chased a number of
properties in Behat
area of Saharanpur,
the SSP said.
The police officer
further said that Mo-
hammad Saheem used
to supply smack, also
called black tar heroin,
to some states.
Drunk woman officer arguing with lady constable.
Ex-BSP MLC Haji Iqbal’s ‘illegal’ property
worth `21 cr seized in Saharanpur
HIGHLIGHTS

z The UP police tight-
ened the noose around
former Bahujan Samaj
Party MLC Haji Iqbal.

z He had amassed mon-
ey from criminal activities
and purchased a number
of properties, SSP said.
STAY ON RECRUITMENT ON 1729
VACANT POSTS OF STAFF NURSE
The Ald HC has stayed the recruitment process for
the 1729 vacant posts of Staff Nurse Recruitment
Examination-2021 conducted by the Uttar Pradesh
Public Service Commission. A Single Bench of Justice
Manju Rani Chauhan passed this order while hearing a
petition filed by Priti Patel and another. Nishith Yadav,
counsel for the respondent Commission, on the basis
of instructions so received, informed the Court that
they have decided to re-scrutinize the experience
certificate of 814 selected candidates, whose recom-
mendations have not been sent till date to the State
Govt as well as other candidates, who had applied, for
which committee is required. He further informed that
request in this regard has been passed on to the Court.

hen it comes
to achieving
yourgoals,de-
votion is es-
sential. When
you discover
your passion and connect
it to whatever you’re do-
ing, you’ll discover a
wonderful synergy
that will catapult
you to new heights
with ease. In the
fashion sector,
this is also true.
If you keep your ex-
citement alive and prac-
tise discipline, you can
achieve anything. City
First conversed with
beautiful diva, Priya

z Describe yourself,
and what would you
say are some vital
skills or characteris-
tics to have to make it
in the modelling world?
I’m young, eager to prove
what I’m capable of and
extremely confident of
what I can go on to do. I
believe confidence far
supersedes any other vi-
tal skill a model needs to
possess to make it big in
this profession.

z If you could go
in future and
tell yourself
one thing
about your ca-
reer what would
it be?
We did this! Congratu-
lations! YOU GO GIRL.

z What inspired you
to find the Super-
model in you.
Share some
insides of
your jour-
ney.
I have a pas-
sion for
writing
and penning down my
experiences and strug-
gles. This little innate
passion of mine made
me want to express it,
and I saw an opportunity
to do this through the in-
sider’s guide.

z What was the big-
gest rookie mistake
you made when just
starting out?
My biggest rookie mis-
take I guess, was the time
it took me to realize that
thiswaswhatIwasmeant
to do, and not starting
soon enough.

z What has been the
most memorable or re-
warding moment in
your career?
The look on my parent’s
faces when they saw the
independent Priya. Mod-
ellingwasn’tacareerthey
sawforme.Buttoday
,each
time I see them smile I’m
reminded of my great-
est reward.
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UTTKARSHA SHEKHAR
uttkarsha.shekhar@firstindia.co.in
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AS PLEASING AS THE
SCENERY
BEAUTY IS
CERTAINLY A
SOFT, SMOOTH,
SLIPPERY THING,
AND THEREFORE
OF A NATURE
WHICH EASILY
SLIPS IN AND
PERMEATES OUR
SOULS”. PRIYA
VINOD SINGH, A
STUNNING DIVA
FROM DELHI,
SPOKE CANDIDLY
WITH CITY FIRST
ABOUT HER
INSPIRING
CAREER AS A
MODEL
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MAY 3, 2022

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