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Renni Abraham
Mumbai: A poor show-
ing of supporters in
Ayodhya on Sunday de-
flated Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) Member of
Parliament Brij Bhush-
an Sharan Singh’s in-
tendedshowof strength.
Reports from Uttar
Pradesh said the MP
was accompanied by a
fraction of the five lakh
supporters he had said
would show up to pro-
test the arrival of MNS
(Maharashtra Navnir-
man Sena) chief Raj
Thackeray’s supporters.
Adding insult to in-
jury, 10 MNS sainiks
also visited Ayodhya for
a darshan of Lord
Rama, ignoring threats
from Singh’s support-
ers, who had earlier
threatened to “drown
any Marathi (Maha-
rashtrian) who dared to
visit the holy land” on
June 05.
Further, Shiv Sena
Member of Parliament
Sanjay Raut and Minis-
ter for Urban Develop-
ment Eknath Shinde
also visited Ayodhya on
Sunday to finalize ar-
rangements for the pro-
posed visit by Maha-
rashtra’s Environment
and Tourism Minister
Aaditya Thackeray on
June 15.
“Our party MP Sin-
gh’s planned show of
strength on Sunday did
not even record the
presence of 5,000 sup-
porters, despite his ef-
forts to garner numbers
by announcing the dis-
tribution of 51 quintal
laddus as prasad to cel-
ebrate UP Chief Minis-
ter Yogi Adityanath’s
birthday
. The BJP lead-
ership had been clear
that it did not encour-
age any disruption to
pilgrimages to Ayod-
hya--something Singh
attempted to disre-
gard,” a senior BJP
leader told First India.
He added that, as pre-
viously reported by
First India, the UP CM
had also readied the
government guesthouse
for Raj Thackeray, who
rescheduled his pro-
posed June 05 visit over
health reasons.
AsFirstIndiahaspre-
viously reported, Sin-
gh’s disregard for the
party’s clear instruc-
tions has put him on the
radar of both the BJP’s
New Delhi leadership
and UP CM Adityanath.
“Singh’s political ca-
reer is now at stake. He
will pay the price for
disregarding the party
line on pilgrimages to
Ayodhya. Given that his
son is a serving member
of the UP state legisla-
tive assembly, the party
will likely deny him a
ticket for the 2024 Lok
Sabha elections citing
the ‘one family
, one post’
rule,” the BJP leader
said.
DHANKHAR
CALLS
ON SHAH
West Bengal Governor
Jagdeep Dhankhar
called on the Union
Home Minister Amit
Shah at latter’s North
Block Office in New
Delhi on Monday.
SHAH TO INAUGURATE
NATIONAL TRIBAL RESEARCH
INSTITUTE IN DELHI TODAY
Amit Shah will inaugurate the National
Tribal Research Institute in the national
capital on Tuesday which will design stud-
ies and programmes to improve socio-
economic aspects of tribal lifestyles. The
Union Tribal Affairs Ministry said the NTRI
will be a premier national-level institute
and will become the nerve centre of tribal
concerns, issues and matters in academic,
executive and legislative fields.
WB CM TO REPLACE GUV AS
CHANCELLOR AT VARSITIES,
CABINET CLEARS PROPOSAL
The West Bengal cabinet on Monday gave its
nod to replace Governor Jagdeep Dhankar
and appoint Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as
the Chancellor of all state-run universities under
different departments like Health, Agriculture,
Animal Husbandry and Minority Affairs Dept
instead. Cabinet also approved a proposal to
remove the Governor as Visitor at private univer-
sities. Decision will be taken up for approval in
state Assembly where ruling TMC is in majority.
BRIJ BHUSHAN SHARAN SINGH’S SHOW
OF STRENGTH FIZZLES IN AYODHYA
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh
Gonda MP had
threatened to
disrupt MNS
leader Raj
Thackeray’s
proposed visit
BJP PLANS TRADE-OFF TO SECURE RS SPOT FOR 3RD CANDIDATE
Renni Abraham
Mumbai: Elections for
Maharashtra’s six Rajya
Sabha seats on June 10
will have an effect on the
Vidhan Parishad elec-
tions scheduled for 10
days later. A pro-active
BJP is readying its strat-
egy to link the two cru-
cial elections and fight
for extra seats in both.
The party has pro-
posed three candidates
for the RS polls with
enough strength for two
seats. It is similarly ex-
pected to nominate five
or six candidates for the
subsequent legislative
council seats, despite
having the requisite
numbers to elect only
four.
In a quid pro quo, the
BJP has sought support
from independents and
amenable political for-
mations by linking it to
the Vidhan Parishad
elections scheduled for
June20. “Ourstrategyis
simple, even as the news
mediakeepsaskingif we
will indulge in so-called
horse-trading. Both
BJP—with 30 votes left
over after electing two
preferredRSmembers—
as well as the MVA—
with 27 extra votes—
would naturally be keen
to not let them go to
waste. We want to lever-
age our extra votes and
negotiatewithindepend-
ents and opposing politi-
calformationstoget our
third RS candidate elect-
ed,” a senior BJP leader
confirmed. Turn to P8
To garner support of Independents,
MLAs from smaller parties, BJP
will leverage a seat in the June 20
Vidhan Parishad polls
Ashwini Vaishnaw Devendra Fadnavis Uddhav Thackeray
For instance, if you have Rs70 and
ice cream costs Rs25, you may choose
to purchase two for Rs50 or try to ne-
gotiate with the vendor to purchase three for
Rs70. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut was also
seeking to secure extra votes for his party’s
second candidate. He even held meetings with
(independent MLA) Ravi Rana.
—Senior BJP leader
REMARK ON PROPHET MUHAMMED
GOVT FIREFIGHTS AFTER
GULF OUTRAGE
“Narrow-Minded”: India’s reply to Islamic nations’ group
Moni Sharma
New Delhi: The sus-
pension of BJP spokes-
person Nupur Sharma
and expulsion of the
BJP’s Delhi media cell
chief Naveen Kumar on
Sunday amid a diplo-
matic furore between
India and West Asian
countries has created a
major buzz within the
BJP. The government
on Monday fought to de-
fuse anger in Gulf
countries and opposi-
tion attacks at home
over comments on
Prophet Muhammad by
two BJP leaders.
India on Monday
slammed comments by
OIC as narrow-mind-
ed, motivated, mis-
leading and mischie-
vous. Reacting to re-
marks by OIC, MEA
Spokesperson Arindam
Bagchi said India ac-
cords highest respect
to all religions and that
the statement by
57-member grouping
exposed its divisive
agenda which is being
pursued at the behest of
vested interests. OIC
also urged UN to take
necessary measures to
ensure that rights of
Muslims are protected
in India.
External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi
KUWAIT SUPERMARKET
PULLS INDIAN PRODUCTS
Kuwait City: A Kuwaiti supermarket pulled Indian products
from its shelves even as Iran became the latest Middle
Eastern country to summon the Indian ambassador as a row
grew on Monday over a BJP
official’s remarks about the
Prophet Mohammed. Workers
at Al-Ardiya Co-Operative So-
ciety store piled Indian tea into
trolleys in a protest against
comments denounced as
“Islamophobic”. Outside the
supermarket, sacks of rice and shelves of spices and chilies
were covered with plastic sheets. Printed signs in Arabic
read: “We have removed Indian products”.
BJP’S BIGOTRY DAMAGED INDIA’S
STANDING GLOBALLY: RAHUL GANDHI
As India faces a chorus of diplomatic outrage from Gulf
countries following derogatory references to Islam and
the Prophet by two now-expelled BJP
spokespersons, Congress leader Rahul
Gandhi on Monday hit out at the ruling
party, alleging that its bigotry not only
isolated India, but also damaged the coun-
try’s position globally. Taking to Twitter, he
wrote: “Divided internally, India becomes
weak externally. BJP’s shameful bigotry
has not only isolated us, but also dam-
aged India’s standing globally.”
Highlights
Dinner to be hosted
by Qatar’s Deputy
Emir for VP Naidu was
cancelled, but reportedly
on health grounds
Pakistan summons
Indian chargé
d’affaires and told the
Indian diplomat that it
“deplores belated and
perfunctory disciplinary
actions taken by BJP
against said officials,
which cannot assuage
pain caused to Muslims”
Saudi Arabia’s Min-
istry of Foreign Af-
fairs welcomed decision
taken by the ruling party
in suspending Sharma
Mumbai Police will
soon send a sum-
mon to suspended BJP
spokesperson Nupur
Sharma, says Mumbai
top cop Sanjay Pandey
Ittehad-e-Millat
Council says it will
hold protests across
country on June 10
All-India Muslim
Personal Law
Board demands legal
action against Nupur
Action should have
been taken 10 days
ago, says AIMIM presi-
dent Asaduddin Owaisi
Indonesia strongly
condemns unaccep-
table derogatory remarks
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PM: India moving ahead with
people-centric governance
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches the national portal
for credit-linked government schemes - Jan Samarth Portal
New Delhi (ANI):
Highlighting the policy
reforms made by the
Centre, PM Narendra
Modi on Monday said
that 21st century India
is moving ahead with
the approach of people-
centric governance
leaving behind the gov-
ernment-centric ap-
proach. PM participat-
ed in the ‘Iconic Week
Celebrations’ of Minis-
try of Finance and the
Ministry of Corporate
Affairs on Monday at
Vigyan Bhawan, New
Delhi. The week (June
6-11) is being celebrated
as part of AKAM.
Modi said, “There
was a time when poli-
cies and decisions in the
country were govern-
ment-centric. It means
that after a scheme
started, it was responsi-
bility of people to reach
the government to avail
benefits.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Minister of State
for Corporate Affairs Rao Inderjit Singh at the inauguration of the Iconic Week Celebrations under the
Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM) at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on Monday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Alargepartoftheworldislookingforwardto
Indiaforthesolutionofproblems.Thisis
madepossiblebecauseinthelast8yearswe
havetrustedwisdomofthecommonIndian.We
encouragedpeopleasintelligentparticipantsingrowth.
—Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
PM NARENDRA MODI
RELEASES SPECIAL
SERIES OF COINS
As a part of AKAM which
marks celebrations of
India’s 75 years of Inde-
pendence, PM Narendra
Modi on Monday released
a special series of `1, `2,
`5, `10 and `20 coins and
these coins will also be
easily identifiable to visu-
ally impaired persons.
BANKS, CURRENCY
CRUCIAL PART OF
INT’L TRADE: MODI
PM stressed need to
make India’s banks and
currency an imp part of int’l
trade. He also exhorted fin
institutions to continuously
encourage good fin corpo-
rate governance practices.
PM TO INAUGURATE
SANT TUKARAM
TEMPLE ON JUNE 14
PM Modi will dedicate to
the nation Shila Mandir,
a temple in honor of Sant
Tukaram, the 17th-century
saint at his birthplace
Dehu, about 30 km from
Pune, on June 14.
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Every leader wants CM from his
party: Sule on Munde’s remarks
First India Bureau
Nagpur: Days after
NCP leader Dhanan-
jay Munde suggested
that the next chief
minister of Maha-
rashtra will be from
their party, NCP MP
Supriya Sule on Mon-
day said every leader
wants a CM from
their party and there
is “nothing new”
about it.
The NCP, headed by
Sharad Pawar, is a key
constituent of the Ud-
dhav Thackeray-led
Maha Vikas Aghadi in
Maharashtra, which
also comprises the Shiv
Sena and Congress.
When some reporters
here asked about
Munde’s remarks, Sule
said every leader, work-
er or follower of a party
wants a CM from their
organization and of the
same ideology
.
“This is a common
phenomenon, there is
nothing new in it,” she
said.
To a query on the pos-
sibility of horse-trad-
ing for the upcoming
Rajya Sabha polls from
Maharashtra, she said
such a thing was “un-
fortunate”, and nomi-
nees for six seats from
the state should have
been elected unopposed
without the need for a
contest. The ruling
MVA has fielded four
candidates and the BJP
has nominated three of
its leaders for the June
10 Rajya Sabha polls to
six seats from the state.
Sule said some MVA
membershadmetsenior
BJPleadersandrequest-
edthemtofindawayout
(toavoidacontestforthe
Rajya Sabha seats). On
speculations that some
smaller allies of MVA
mayhelptheBJP’sRajya
Sabha candidates , Sule
said this issue should be
taken seriously and the
ruling alliance leaders
should discuss it.
On some alleged ob-
jectionable comments
recently made by BJP
legislator Gopichand
Padalkar against NCP
chief Sharad Pawar,
Sule quipped that peo-
ple keep criticising him
as “there cannot be a
headline without criti-
cising Sharad Pawar”.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Maha-
rashtra government
on Monday approved
three new wildlife
sanctuaries and 12
new conservation re-
serves covering an
area of more than 800
square kilometre at
the 18th meeting of
the State Wildlife
Board (SWB) presided
over by Chief Minister
Uddhav Thackeray
.
The meeting, also at-
tended by Environment
Minister Aaditya
Thackeray, approved a
proposal to upgrade the
Kolamarka conserva-
tion reserve in Siron-
cha division of Gadchi-
roli to a sanctuary
. This
was done following an
increase in the number
of endangered wild buf-
faloes. A proposal to de-
clare the extended areas
of Lonar sanctuary
around the Lonar cra-
ter in Buldhana district
and Muktai-Bhavani ti-
ger reserve in Jalgaon
district as sanctuaries
was also approved.
Additionally, 12 new
conservation reserve
areas in the state in-
cluding two in Dhule
district, Chivatibawri
(66.04 sq. km) and Ala-
dari (100.56 sq. km),
four in Nashik district,
Kalvan (84.12 sq. km),
Muragad (42.87 sq. km),
Trimbakeshwar (96.97
sq. km), and Igatpuri
(88.499 sq. km), two in
Raigad district (47.62
sq. km), and Roha (27.30
sq. km), Bhor (28.44 sq.
km) in Pune district,
Dare Khurd (Maha-
dare) in Satara district
(1.07 sq. km), Masai Pla-
teau in Kolhapur dis-
trict (5.34 sq. km), and
Mogaraksa (103.92 sq.
km) in Nagpur district,
were also approved.
The SWB also green-
lighted 10 endangered
wildlife habitats and
Jayakwadi Bird Sanctu-
ary
. Thackeray directed
officials to submit the
proposal to the National
Wildlife Board.
MAHARASHTRA TO GET 12 NEW CONSERVATION RESERVES
NATURAL HABITATS
Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at the Monday meeting with SWB.
Nawab Malik seeks 1-day
bail to cast vote in RS poll
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Maharash-
tra minister Nawab
Malik, currently in
jail following arrest
in a money launder-
ing case, on Monday
approached a special
court here seeking
bail for one day to
cast vote in the up-
coming Rajya Sabha
elections to six seats
from the state.
Former Home Minis-
terAnilDeshmukh,who
is also in jail on money
laundering charges, had
filed a similar applica-
tion last week.
On Monday, a special
court in Mumbai, desig-
nated to hear cases re-
lated to the Prevention
of Money Laundering
Act, directed the En-
forcement Directorate
(ED) to file its affidavit
to both the applications
(Malik and Deshmukh)
and posted them for fur-
ther hearing on June 8.
The Rajya Sabha
polls are scheduled for
June 10. Malik was ar-
rested by the ED on Feb-
ruary 23 this year in
connection with a mon-
ey-laundering probe
linked to the activities
of fugitive gangster Da-
wood Ibrahim and his
aides.
The NCP leader in
his application sought
to be released on bail for
a day on June 10.
Malik in his plea
claimed that he is an
elected MLA and hence,
is duty-bound to repre-
sent the residents of his
constituency in electing
a representative to the
Rajya Sabha, and wants
to cast his vote in the
biennial elections.
The 288-member Ma-
harashtra Assembly
forms the electoral col-
lege for RS polls. While
Deshmukh and Malik
are currently in jail,
one seat is lying vacant.
First India Bureau
New Delhi: Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi will dedicate to
the nation Shila Man-
dir, a temple in hon-
our of Sant Tukar-
am, the 17th century
saint at his birth-
place Dehu, about 30
km from Pune, on
June 14. The Prime
Minister will dedi-
cate to the nation the
Shila Temple of Sant
Tukaram on June 14,
Nitin More, the Pres-
ident of the Jagadgu-
ru Shree Sant Tukar-
am Maharaj San-
sthan toldthe media.
Modi will interact
with warkaris, devo-
tees of Sant Tukaram
who undertake the bi-
annual pilgrimage on
foot to Vithoba temple
at Pandharpur in Ma-
harashtra.
The Shila Mandir is
a temple dedicated to a
slab of stone (shila) on
which Sant Tukaram
had meditated for 13
days. A new idol of
Sant Tukaram has
been installed in the
temple near the shila', a
temple official said.
Legend has it that
Sant Tukaram was
made to drown the
books of his verses in
the river Indrayani by
scholar Rameshwar
Bhat. Sant Tukaram's
pleas that the verses,
elucidating the es-
sence of Vedas in
Prakrit, were not his
writing, but the words
of God who was speak-
ing through him,
found no favour with
Bhat.
According to the leg-
end, Bhat asked Sant
Tukaram to drown the
books of the verses in
the river and declared
that if it was indeed
God's doing, he would
returnthemunscathed.
Sant Tukaram sat on
a slab of stone on the
banks of the river in
meditation for 13 days,
after which books were
found floating in the
river unaffected by the
water, it said. Devotees
of Tukaram,thewarka-
ris, offer prayers at the
Shila Temple before
starting their pilgrim-
age to Pandharpur in
the Hindu months of
Ashad and Kartik.
In November last
year, Modi had laid the
foundation stone of
four-laning of key sec-
tions of the Sant Dy-
aneshwar Maharaj
Palkhi Marg (NH-965)
and Sant Tukaram Ma-
haraj Palkhi Marg
(NH-965G).
Dedicated walkways
are being constructed
alongside the high-
ways to ease the move-
ment of warkaris un-
dertaking the pilgrim-
age to Pandharpur.
PM to inaugurate Sant Tukaram temple in Dehu on June 14
The Shila Mandir is a temple dedicated
to a slab of stone (shila) on which Sant
Tukaram had meditated for 13 days; a
new idol of the 17th century saint has
been installed on its premises
PM Modi in the traditional dress of a ‘warkari’, on March
29, when Sant Tukaram’s followers met him to invite him to
inaugurate the temple in Dehu. —FILE PHOTO
MEET GREET
Nawab Malik —FILE PHOTO
‘Unfortunate that RS nominees for six seats from the state need to contest’
FAITH IN THE SYSTEM?
Asked if NCP MLAs Anil
Deshmukh and Nawab
Malik, who are currently
in jail, would be allowed
to vote in the Rajya Sabha
elections, Sule said,
“The two NCP leaders
are in jail without doing
anything wrong. We have
faith in the judiciary and
we believe that we will
get justice. NCP leader
Chhagan Bhujbal is trying
that both the leaders get
an opportunity to vote.”
On dismissed police of-
ficer Sachin Waze turning
an approver in a corrup-
tion case against former
state home minister Anil
Deshmukh, Sule said,
“The person (Waze),
who himself is facing
allegations is becoming a
witness, and the person
(Deshmukh) who has no
allegations against him,
his residence had been
searched 109 times.
“Have we seen something
like this before? It is sort
of a record,” she said,
claiming that central
agencies were being
“misused” by the Union
government.
Supriya Sule —FILE PHOTO
Submits plea stating that, as an elected MLA, he is
duty-bound to represent his constituents in
electing representatives to the Upper House
People in Kashmir suffering but
‘king’ busy with celebrations
First India Bureau
Mumbai: In a sting-
ing attack on the Nar-
endra Modi govern-
ment over the target-
ed killings in Kash-
mir, the Shiv Sena on
Monday said while
people in the UT are
suffering, the “king”
is busy celebrating.
The Sena’s dig over
the Modi government’s
eighth-anniversary cel-
ebrations attack ap-
peared in the form of an
editorial in the party
mouthpiece ‘Saamana’.
While the BJP is busy
promoting how provi-
sions of Article 370
were nullified and sur-
gical strikes were car-
ried out on Pakistan-
based terrorists, it is
surprising that they are
oblivious to the suffer-
ings of Kashmiri Pan-
dits, it said.
“While Kashmiri peo-
ple are suffering, the
king is busy in celebra-
tions,” the editorial stat-
ed,addingthatwhilethe
party (BJP) derived a
political mileage from
the surgical strikes, the
situation in Kashmir
has worsened and Hin-
dus are still being killed.
“CM Uddhav Thack-
eray has said that the
state will support Kash-
miri Pandits. The state
will do whatever is
needed,” Sena added.
‘Ministersseekcommissionfordevtfunds’
First India Bureau
Nagpur: Ahead of the
June 10 Rajya Sabha
elections, Shiv Sena-
supported independ-
ent MLA Ashish
Jaiswal on Monday
alleged some minis-
ters in the Maha Vi-
kas Aghadi (MVA)
government demand-
ed a “commission” in
the constituency de-
velopment fund.
The Ramtek MLA
told reporters that he
would complain to
Chief Minister Uddhav
Thackeray about such
ministers. Jaiswal is
currently the chief ob-
server for MLAs who
have complaints regard-
ing the distribution of
funds.He, however, said
this discontent among
certain MLAs over the
distribution of constitu-
ency funds would not
impact the forthcoming
Rajya Sabha elections
as he hopes that CM will
address the grievances.
CM Thackeray is ex-
pected to meet with In-
dependent MLAs in
Mumbai on Monday
.
“The discontent over
thedistributionof funds
won’t go away until ad-
dressed,” Jaiswal told a
Marathi news channel,
adding, “We will not tol-
erate any imbalance in
thedistributionof funds
and also not allow that
injustice is done to our
constituencies. Many
ministers ask for mone-
tary gains from the
works carried out in our
constituencies through
the development fund. I
will give the names of
those ministers to the
chief minister.”
He also said that if
the problems of MLAs
are not addressed then
the government will
have to face the conse-
quences.
We will not tolerate any imbalance in
the distribution of funds and also not
allow that injustice is done to our con-
stituencies. Many ministers ask for
monetary gains from the works carried out
in our constituencies through thwe devel-
opment fund. I will give the names of
those ministers to the CM.
—Ashish Jaiswal, Independent MLA
Sena makes pointed
jibe at PM over
Centre’s 8th-
anniversary festivities
amid targeted killings
State Wildlife Board also approves
development of 3 wildlife sanctuaries
on more than 800 sq. km area
SOLUTIONS

First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Centre
on Monday submitted
an affidavit in the
Bombay High Court,
asserting its owner-
ship and title over a
land in the city’s Kan-
jurmarg area, where
the Maharashtra gov-
ernment had proposed
to construct a Metro
car shed. It also
claimed that a decree
in the name of a pri-
vate firm with respect
to the land was ob-
tained fraudulently
and should be held as
null and void.
The Centre and the
Maharashtra govern-
ment are locked in a dis-
pute over the ownership
of the said land. The
state government had
proposed to construct a
car shed for its Metro
project on about 100 acre
of the land.
InMarchthisyear,the
state government learnt
that the high court had
in October 2020 granted
the decree of over 6,000
acrelandinKanjurmarg
area to a private firm-
Adarsh Water Parks and
Resorts.
Following this, the
state government filed
anapplicationintheHC,
challenging the decree
grantedandsoughtforit
to be held as illegal.
OnMonday
,theUnion
government’s salt and
defence departments
submitted their affida-
vits in response to the
application, wherein the
Centre reiterated that it
ownedtheland.Theland
was in the Centre’s pos-
session, the affidavits
said. It also claimed that
the decree granted to the
Adarsh Water Parks and
Resorts Private Limited
in October 2020 was a
“fraud played on the
court and the govern-
ment”.
“The Union govern-
ment denies that the ap-
plicant (Maharashtra
government) or any oth-
er party has any right,
title and interest or pos-
session of the land,” the
Union government’s De-
fencedepartmentsaidin
its affidavit.
Theaffidavitsclaimed
the Centre learnt about
the decree only after the
Maharashtra govern-
ment filed the applica-
tion in March this year.
A single bench of Jus-
tice AK Menon posted
the matter for further
hearing on June 13.
On October 28, 2020,
the private firm had ob-
tainedanHCorderonits
suit filed in 2006 against
a few persons. The com-
panyhadsoughtspecific
performance or compli-
ance with an agreement
of August 2005, as per
which, the firm claimed,
thatitwasgranteddevel-
opment rights of the en-
tire Kanjur village.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Parts of Ma-
harashtra could see
some pre-monsoon
showers in the com-
ing days. The mon-
soon, which usually
arrives in the state
between June 05 and
June 15, has been
slightly delayed this
year, weather service
provider Skymet said
on Monday.
Tuesday could bring
rain to parts of south
Konkan and South
Madhya Maharashtra,
including the cities
of Sangli and Satara,
and their adjoining ar-
eas, the weatherman
predicts.
Around June 08, rain
spread and intensity
will increase, and South
Marathwada will also
see some rainfall activi-
ties. Konkan will re-
main light and no rains
will be seen over Vid-
arbha. There could be
some heavy spells in
isolated pockets as well.
On June 09, rains will
be seen over parts of
Vidarbha, but they will
remain scattered and
light to moderate in in-
tensity
. Rains will see a
reduction in activities.
Notably, Skymet
highlights that these
are merely pre-mon-
soon showers.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Reserve
Bank on Monday dis-
missed reports that it
was considering a pro-
posal to replace the
face of Mahatma Gan-
dhi on currency notes.
In a statement, the
central bank said there
are reports in certain
sections of the media
that the Reserve Bank
of India is considering
changes to the existing
currency and bank-
notes by replacing the
face of Mahatma Gan-
dhi with that of others.
“It may be noted that
thereisnosuchproposal
in the Reserve Bank,” it
said.
There are certain re-
ports suggesting the fi-
nance ministry and the
RBI were contemplating
using the faces of other
prominent Indians, in-
cluding Rabindranath
Tagore and APJ Abdul
Kalam, on banknotes of
certain denominations.
First India Bureau
Ahmedabad/Mumbai:
Over 90% of the total
land required for the
Ahmedabad-Mumbai
bullet train project
spread across Guja-
rat, Maharashtra and
the Union Territory
of Dadra and Nagar
Haveli has been ac-
quired, the project's
implementing agency
NHSRCL said on Mon-
day
.
Out of 1,396 hectares
(ha) of land required
for the project, 1,260.76
ha, or 90.31%, has been
acquired as on June 5,
said the National High-
Speed Rail Corporation
Ltd (NHSRCL), the spe-
cial purpose vehicle
formed to implement
the project.
As per details shared
by the NHSRCL in a re-
lease, 71.49% of the land
required for the project
in Maharashtra—310.14
ha of the required 433.82
ha of land across Mum-
bai, Thane and Pal-
ghar—has been ac-
quired. Inneighbouring
Gujarat, the figure
stands at 98.79%, while
all the land required for
the stretch covering
the Dadra and Nagar
Haveli has been ac-
quired, it said.
The high-speed bullet
train is expected to cov-
er the 508-km journey
from Ahmedabad to
Mumbai in 2 hours and
58 minutes, as against
the current travel time
of over six hours.
MAHARASHTRA
03
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Refusing to
grant urgent bail to a
22-year-old pharmacy
student, arrested last
month for an alleged
objectionable tweet
against NCP Chief
Sharad Pawar, the
Bombay High Court
on Monday said fun-
damental rights are
not absolute.
A division bench of
Justices SS Shinde and
MN Jadhav was hearing
a petition filed by Nikhil
Bhamre, a resident of
Nashik, seeking that all
five FIRs registered
against him in different
districts of Maharash-
tra be quashed. He also
prayed that he should be
released from jail in the
meantime while his pe-
tition was pending.
R e p r e s e n t i n g
Bhamre, advocate Sub-
hash Jha told the court
that it was unfortunate
that this was happening
to a young man in a
state like Maharashtra,
while “we are living in
a democracy”.
The bench noted that
Bhamre was 22 years
old, and said at this age
there has to be some
“responsibility”.
“Every citizen has
fundamental rights. But
these are subject to re-
strictions. Fundamental
rights are not absolute.
No one has the right to
comment on someone
else’s private life,” Jus-
tice Shinde said.
The bench directed
the state government to
file a progress report of
probe against Bhamre.
Advocate Jha then re-
quested the court to
pass an order releasing
his client on bail.
The judges, however,
said such an order can-
not be passed on the
first date of hearing.
IN SOLIDARITY
Activists hold placards as they react to remarks of suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma on Prophet Muhammad during a
protest in Mumbai on Monday. —PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Mumbai
bagged the title for the
most forgetful city in
the country, as far as
Uber commuters are
concerned. People are
most likely to forget
unique things such as
ghevar (an Indian
sweet dish), flutes,
Aadhaar cards, dumb-
bells, a bike handle,
cricket bats, spike
guards, and college
certificates, to name a
few in their cabs.
Uber released the 2022
edition of its Lost and
Found Index, which is a
snapshotof themostfre-
quently forgotten items,
the most forgetful cities,
as well as the days of the
week and times of the
year when Uber riders
tendtobemostforgetful.
While Mumbai
bagged the title of the
most forgetful city in In-
dia for the second time
in a row, Delhi NCR and
Lucknow were not far
behind. Backed by rider
insights and gigabytes
of data, the index aims
toeducateridersinafun
yet informative manner
about Uber’s in-app op-
tions available to them
at the tap of a button, in
case they lose or forget
something in their Uber
during their trip.
Over the last year, ob-
jects, including phones,
speakers/headphones,
wallets and bags, top
the list of items left in
Ubers across India, fol-
lowed by utility items
such as groceries, ther-
mos/water bottles and
phone chargers.
The top 10 most com-
monly forgotten items
were phone/camera,
laptop, backpack, wal-
let, speaker, clothing,
groceries, cash, water
bottle, and headphones.
The four most ‘forget-
ful’ cities were Mum-
bai, Delhi NCR, Luc-
know, and Kolkata. And
the five most forgetful
days of the year were
incidentally all in the
month of March. Ac-
cording to the survey,
March 25, March 24,
March 30, March 31,
and March 17 were the
most forgetful days.
Mumbai commuters most absent-minded in the country
UBER’S LOST FOUND INDEX
lll
People forgot
sweets, flutes,
Aadhaar cards,
dumbbells,
certificates, as
well as phones,
chargers, bags
and wallets
during their
cab rides Afternoon hours between 1 and 3 pm were most forgetful for
Indians in Uber cabs this year. —FILE PHOTO
The Lost and Found
Index also found that
people are most likely to
forget their clothes on
Saturday, their laptops
on Wednesday, and
most likely to forget
their water bottle on
Sunday. Also people
forgot their headphones/
speakers on Monday
and Friday.
DAYS OF
RECKONING
Pre-monsoonrainspredictedinMaha
Youngsters sit at Marine Drive as dark monsoon clouds hover in the sky in Mumbai. —FILE PHOTO
No urgent bail for student held
over Pawar tweet: High Court
Nikhil Bhamre being handed
over to officers of the Thane
Crime Branch on May 19.
—FILE PHOTO
Every citi-
zen has
funda-
mental rights. But
these are subject to
restrictions. Fun-
damental rights
are not absolute.
No one has the
right to comment
on someone else’s
private life.
—Justice SS Shinde
No proposal to replace face of
Gandhi on currency notes: RBI
DISPUTED LAND OWNED BY
UNION GOVT: CENTRE TELLS HC
More than 1.8K acre of the 6K acre land
in Kanjurmarg area was to be used for
the construction of a Metro car shed
The state government had in its application claimed that over 1,800 acre of the disputed
land belonged to it and the private firm did not have any right on it, adding the order was
fraudulently obtained by the private firm. Advocate Himanshu Takke said the HC was not
informed that out of the over 6,000 acre land, over 1,800 acre belonged to the state gov-
ernment, nearly 120 acre to the Centre and about 200 acre of land parcels in Kanjurmarg
village belonged to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
OWNERSHIP ISSUES
Over 70% land acquired in Maha for bullet train project
PM Modi and his then Japanese
counterpart Shinzo Abe laid the
foundation stone for the project
on Sep 14,2017.—FILE PHOTO

PERSPECTIVE
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SPIRITUAL SPEAK
Do not be misled:
“Bad company corrupts
good character.”
—Bible
IN-DEPTH
Anurag Thakur
@ianuragthakur
Organization is power, party is family.
Participated in the meeting of BJP
state office bearers in Hamirpur in
which extensive discussion was held
on Mission Repeat in Himachal. BJP
is once again going to form a majority
government in Himachal on the basis
of conscientious workers.
Smriti Z Irani
@smritiirani
Infrastructural development in India
has witnessed massive transformation
under the leadership of PM @
narendramodi Ji. #8YearsOfInfraGati
across all the sectors has paved
the way for last-mile connectivity,
strengthened supply chain fuelled
economic growth.
TOP TWEETS
UNCLE SAM, BAN
GUN CULTURE IN
US, THEN LECTURE
INDIA ON RIGHTS
he Americans do not
miss an opportunity
toflayIndiaforitshu-
man rights viola-
tions. Of late, India
hasbeengivingitbacktothemin
equal measure. And that’s heart-
ening to see. For far too long the
US has taken on the role of a
monitor while remaining oblivi-
ous to the rights abuse in its own
backyard.Noonequestionedthat
role during the cold war days but
the world is no longer the same.
Countries like India and China
are no longer poor countries and
cannot be dictated to. Uncle Sam
must recall former Prime Minis-
ter Indira Gandhi’s snub to Pres-
ident Richard Nixon and come to
terms with an India which has
grown more powerful and richer.
Before pointing a finger at In-
dia, the US should stop wanton
killings of innocents, mostly
Blacks and immigrants. After
last month’s shooting in Texas
in which 21 were killed, Presi-
dent Joe Biden said America
must act now. In response, more
shootings followed.
T
hewidespreadout-
rage over BJP
spokespersons’ re-
marks against
Prophet Muham-
mad should have a sobering
effect on the politics of hate
which the Bharatiya Janata
Party practices directly and
indirectly
. It has tried to pla-
cate Qatar, Kuwait, Iran and
Saudi Arabia by reaching out
to the respective governments
and suspending national
spokesperson Nupur Sharma
and expelling Naveen Kumar
Jindal,theother.Clarifyingits
position, the party stated that
“BJPrespectsallreligionsand
strongly denounces insult of
any religious personalities”.
Why Nupur was not ex-
pelled is a question which the
BJP will find difficult to an-
swer and also leave its inten-
tions on respect for all reli-
gions open to doubt amid in-
creasing claims over mosques
andotherhistoricmonuments
by the Hindus. Mere suspen-
sion of Nupur hints at a pos-
sible bigger role for her in the
near future. What is baffling,
however, is describing the two
national spokespersons as
“fringe elements”, especially
in the case of Nupur who was
even fielded by the BJP in Del-
hi elections. Even this action
is being condemned by BJP
zealots, the real fringe ele-
ments, who view it as suc-
cumbing to Islamic forces.
The BJP-led government is
caught in a bind. On the one
hand it has its fringe elements
persistingwiththeiranti-Mus-
lim rhetoric and on the other
it has to keep the Gulf coun-
tries in convinced about its
religious tolerance. The Arab
countries which form part of
the Gulf Cooperation Council
areIndia’smajorstrategicand
trade partners. Also, the num-
ber of Indians in these coun-
tries is nearly 1.36 crore. Real-
politik may force BJP to do
some course-correction.
BJP NEEDS TO CHECK
“FRINGE” ELEMENTS
Why Nupur was not expelled is
a question which the BJP will
find difficult to answer and
also leave its intentions on
respect for all religions open to
doubt amid increasing claims
over mosques and other
historic monuments by the
Hindus. Mere suspension
of Nupur hints at a
possible bigger role for
her in the near future
T
NEVER FORGET THAT YOUR
LIFE IS OF LIMITED TIME
ntrepreneurs, Employees,
and Students live in a con-
tinuously stressful life, in
today’s highly competitive
era. Entrepreneurs want to
achieve those turnovers and
profit numbers. Corporate
executives want to complete
those targets. Students want
to get good marks. House-
wives have to continuously
work for the ambition of hus-
band and children. At this
time one question arises, is
the purpose of our life just to
achieve ambitions like profit,
money, designation, good
scores? Let me give you an
example of a small event.
Oneverytensepersoncame
to a very well known monk.
The monk asked him the rea-
son for coming. The person
said “I am living a very trou-
bled life. I am working very
hard. I am working almost 18
hours a day
. I am constantly
engaged with thoughts of
workthewholeday
,justsothat
I could be superior to my col-
leagues. But still, my col-
leagues are one step ahead of
me even today
. I can’t achieve
myambition.Mywifeandchil-
dren are offended of me be-
cause I don’t have time to
spend with them. Please show
me the path for a successful
and happy life.” The monk lis-
tened to him very quietly and
asked him to come the next
morning at the bank of the
river. Second-day early morn-
ing that person came to the
bank of the river. Monk was
already present there. Monk
tookhimintotheriverandtold
him to dive into it. With lots of
amazement, the person did so.
As he drowned his head
into the water suddenly
monk grabbed his head from
the neck and kept it sub-
merged in water. The person
started panicking. He could
not even breathe properly
. As
the person was about to die,
the monk took his head out
of the water. The person was
so angry he started saying
bad words to the monk.
But the monk asked him
humbly “What did you expe-
rience while drowning in the
water?” The person replied,
“I could just think about how
I can save my life” The Monk
smiled and said “God has
given you such a beautiful
life. Only one thing is pre-
decided and yet unknown
and that is, the time of your
death. Then why so many
ambitions and why are you
living a life full of stress?
At that time that person got
true guidance and after that
started living his life happily
.
The ultimate moral is god
gifted this valuable life to us
only for one time. So, all of us
should appreciate our life
and enjoy it with maximum
happiness. We should keep
the stress of small problems
aside and should try to live
an excellent life.
PRESENTING A FEW
POINTS BELOW

z Workload should be limited
to our office time only. There
is no need to bring work-
stress to home. Time after
office hours are for family
and friends so use it wisely

z Similarly, there is also no
need to bring the stress
of home to the office also.
While being at office you
should keep your focus at
work at a 100 percent. Try to
give your best and you will
surely get success.

z Whether you are a student or
a housewife, there is no need
to take unnecessary stress.
Whatever you do, do it with
a cheerful mind. Low grades
don’t matter, what matters is
your intelligence and ardor,
which will help you in identi-
fying new directions.

z Never forget that your life is of
limited time. So work in such a
way that the society and your
friends will remember you.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
E
But the monk asked him
humbly “What did you
experience while drowning
in the water?” The person
replied, “I could just think
about how I can save my
life” The Monk smiled and
said “God has given you
such a beautiful life. Only
one thing is pre-decided and
yet unknown and that is,
the time of your death. Then
why so many ambitions
and why are you living a
life full of stress?
Corporate executives want
to complete those targets.
Students want to get good
marks. Housewives have
to continuously work for
the ambition of husband
and children. Question
arises, is the purpose
of our life just to
achieve ambitions?
BHAVESH
UPADHYAY
The writer is a Businessman
and HR Expert

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INDIA
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: In deciding
the Rajya Sabha candi-
date, there has been an
amazing ‘check-mate’
politics going on be-
tween the BJP and its
ally JDU in Bihar. JDU
leader and Chief Minis-
ter Nitish Kumar had
given a very clear indi-
cation that he is not go-
ing to give ticket to the
Union Minister and Ra-
jya Sabha MP of his
party - RCP Singh. Then
there was talk that BJP
can give ticket to RCP,
but the BJP did not want
to upset Nitish under
any circumstances. The
BJP was apprehensive
that Nitish was betting
on the BJP on the pre-
text of RCP and if the
BJP took any step in re-
sponse, Nitish might
once again go with the
RJD. That is why BJP
too ignored RCP
.
Despite this, BJP took
care of politics and gave
ticket to Shambhu
Sharan Patel. Shambhu
Sharan Patel is not an
old leader associated
with any Sangh or BJP,
rather he was earlier in
JDU. But his most strik-
ing feature is that he
comes from the Dhanuk
caste, which is similar
to the Kurmi caste of
both the CM and RCP.
The majority of the pop-
ulation in the Kurmi
community is of Dha-
nuks. BJP played a gam-
ble by giving ticket from
a member of that com-
munity
. Nitish Kumar
countered BJP’s move
and gave ticket to JDU’s
Jharkhand president
Khiru Mahto. He is also
Kurmi and will work for
the politics of around 17
per cent Kurmi popula-
tion of Jharkhand. BJP
practices Kurmi politics
in Jharkhand through
its ally Sudesh Mahto’s
AJSU.NowJDUhasalso
played its hand there.
Will Nitish accomplish his vision of countering BJP?
lll
The BJP was
apprehensive
that Nitish was
betting on the
BJP on the
pretext of RCP
and if the BJP
took any step in
response, Nitish
might once again
go with the RJD
RAHUL GANDHI TO VISIT MOOSE
WALA’S NATIVE VILLAGE TODAY
Moose Wala had joined Congress in December, just months before Punjab elections
New Delhi: Senior
Congress leader Rahul
Gandhi will visit Mansa
on Tuesday to meet the
family of Punjabi sing-
er and party leader Sid-
hu Moose Wala who
was killed by assailants
in Jawaharke village of
the district on May 29.
Party sources said
that Gandhi will first
visit Chandigarh
and then visit Mansa
in Punjab.
“Congress leader Ra-
hul Gandhi will visit
Mansa in Punjab to
meet the family of sing-
er and party leader Sid-
hu Moose Wala. Accord-
ing to the information
received, Rahul Gandhi
will reach Chandigarh
by flight tomorrow
morning. After that, he
will go to the village
of Moose Wala,” a
source said.
Earlier on Monday,
former Deputy Chief
Minister of Rajasthan
Sachin Pilot visited
Moose Wala’s house.
Punjab Police last
week reconstituted Spe-
cial Investigation Team
(SIT) to expedite the in-
vestigations in the mur-
der of Shubhdeep Sin-
gh Sidhu, known as
Sidhu Moose Wala.
In the recently held Punjab state elections, Moose Wala was the Congress candidate from Mansa.
He was, however, defeated by the Aaam Aadmi Party candidate.
MOOSE WALA KILLING: COPS ARREST
THIRD SUSPECT FROM HARYANA
The Punjab Police has arrested another person
in connection with the killing of Punjabi singer
Sidhu Moosewala, taking the number of peo-
ple held in the case so far to three. Davinder
alias Kala was nabbed on Sunday evening from
Haryana’s Fatehabad. Two suspects involved in
the killing had allegedly stayed with him police
sources said on Monday. On June 3, two other
suspects were nabbed by the Punjab Police from
Fatehabad and their roles in Moosewala’s killing
were being probed. Two days after the killing of
Moosewala in Mansa district, the Punjab Police
on Tuesday made the first arrest in this case.
LAWRENCE BISHNOI QUESTIONED
OVER LETTER TO SALMAN KHAN
Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, whose name
recently emerged during the investigations
of Sidhu Moose Wala’s killing, has now
been linked to another high-profile case.
The gangster, who is lodged in prison, was
questioned by the police on Monday in
connection with the threat letter addressed
to actor Salman Khan and his father Salim
Khan. Meanwhile, the security given to
Khan was beefed up after a threat letter was
found near his residence Sunday morning.
Punjab: High alert in four
prisons after jailbreak intel
Ludhiana: The securi-
ty has been beefed up
across jails in Punjab
after an intelligence in-
put from the Union
Ministry of Home Af-
fairs (MHA) sent to the
Punjab Police has alert-
ed that the Babbar
Khalsa International
(BKI) operative and
wanted gangster-terror-
ist Harvinder Singh
Rinda, believed to be
hiding in Pakistan, has
“conceived a jailbreak
plan in Punjab” to “en-
sure release of some
prominent gangsters
and militants”.
According to the let-
ter accessed by The In-
dian Express, the “like-
ly targets of execution
could be Bathinda jail,
Ferozepur jail, Amrit-
sar jail or Ludhiana
jail”. The development
comes few days after
Punjab witnessed back-
to-back incidents of vi-
olence and security
breach, allegedly
planned and executed
by the gangsters operat-
ing from abroad with
the help of local crimi-
nals, including murder
of kabaddi player Sand-
eep Singh Nangal Am-
bian on March 14, RPG
attack on police intelli-
gence.
HQs in Mohali on
May 9 and gruesome
killing of singer-rapper
Sidhu Moosewala on
May 29.
Rinda, a wanted ter-
rorist-gangster consid-
ered close to BKI chief
Wadhawa Singh and
‘being protected’ by the
ISI in Pakistan, is a
close associate of Lakh-
vir Singh Landa, a
gangster hiding in Can-
ada and the key con-
spirator of RPG attack
on Punjab Police’s intel-
ligence HQs, said Pun-
jab Police.
Rinda is also wanted
in at least four cases of
murder, attempt to mur-
der and illegal weapons
by Chandigarh Police.
Punjab Jails Minister Harjot Singh Bains on a surprise visit to
Ludhiana Central Jail on Sunday.
WHAT THE LETTER SAYS...
NEWSVIEWS
Dr Jitendra Singh calls for promoting
Agri-tech start-ups in Uttarakhand
Union Minister Singh pitched for efforts to stop large-scale migration of youth
First India Bureau
Dehradun: Before con-
cluding his Uttara-
khand visit, Union Min-
ister Dr Jitendra Singh
had a meeting with Ut-
tarakhand Chief Minis-
ter Pushkar Singh Dha-
mi, during which,
among others issues, he
impressed upon the CM
to promote Agri-tech
StartUps, since Uttara-
khand had a vast poten-
tial for it. He also up-
dated Dhami about the
Aroma Mission
launched by CSIR in the
Union Ministry of Sci-
ence Technology
.
The two leaders also
discussed implementa-
tion of various central-
ly funded schemes in
the State the current
affairs related to the
State.
Dr Jitendra Singh
urged Dhami to pro-
mote Agri-tech start-
ups in the State to ar-
rest the large-scale mi-
gration of youth and
promised all help from
the Ministry of Science
and Technology
.
The Union Minister
said that the geography
and climatic conditions
in Himalayan states
like Uttarakhand fa-
vour the cultivation of
medicinal and aromatic
plants and these can be
developed into Agri-
tech and aromatic en-
terprises.
Referring to the huge
success of CSIR sup-
ported Aroma Mission
in Jammu and Kashmir,
the Minister said, the
same can be replicated
in a big way in Devb-
hoomi.
PULSE
DAILY
DAILY
New Delhi: A vacation bench of the Delhi
High Court on Monday refused an urgent list-
ing of a petition challenging the Archaeolog-
ical Survey of India (ASI) order to stop the
offering of ‘namaz‘ at a mosque near Qutub
Minar. vacation bench of Justices Manoj
Kumar Ohri and Poonam A Bamba said that
there was no urgency in hearing the matter,
denying the Delhi Waqf Board’s request. Last
week, a division bench headed by Acting
Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi also refused an
urgent hearing in the matter.
Chennai: A leader of
Tamil Nadu’s ruling
DMK has controver-
sially called Hindi the
language of “yet to be
developed states” and
has said its imposition
will reduce Tamils to
the status of “Shu-
dras”. TKS Elangovan,
a DMK Rajya Sabha
member, has also
said that enforcing
Hindi in southern
states amounts to
“Manu Dharma” being
imposed. “Hindi will do
us no good. Hindi is
not the mother tongue
in developed states
including West Bengal,
Maharashtra, Karna-
taka, Andhra Pradesh,
Tamil Nadu and
Kerala,” Elangovan said
at a meet organised to
protest the imposition
of Hindi.
HC REFUSES URGENT LISTING OF PLEA
AGAINST ASI’S ORDER STOPPING
WORSHIP AT QUTUB MINAR MOSQUE
HINDI WILL REDUCE TAMILS TO
SHUDRAS: DMK LEADER’S SHOCKER
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh and Uttarakhand Chief Minister
Pushkar Singh Dhami holding a meeting in Dehradun.
U’khand bus accident will
be investigated, pilgrims’
safety our priority: Governor
New Delhi: Uttara-
khand Governor Gur-
mit Singh on Monday
said that reason be-
hind the bus accident
that claimed 26 lives
in the state will be in-
quired, and lessons
will be taken from the
incident as the safety
of pilgrims is the pri-
ority of the state gov-
ernment.
Singh made his
statement after a
short meeting with
Union Home Minister
Amit Shah at his of-
fice.
The Governor also
assured of adopting a
Standard Operating
Procedure (SOP) to
avoid such kinds of
road accidents.
“Lesson will be tak-
en from the accident.
We will check minute-
ly about the reason
behind the incident
and a robust SOP will
be prepared. This will
define our responsi-
bility so that similar
incidents do not occur
in future as the safety
of pilgrims is the
most important part
for us. It is a very sad
incident,” Singh told
ANI after meeting
Shah. The family
members of those
who lost their lives in
the accident will be
helped in all ways,
added Singh when
asked if kin of the de-
ceased and victims
will be taken care of.
Uttarakhand Governor Gurmit Singh met Union Minister Amit
Shah in New Delhi on Monday.
BODIES TO BE AIR-LIFTED TO
KHAJURAHO: MP CM CHOUHAN
Mortal remains of the tourists who died in a
bus accident in Uttarakhand will be air-lifted to
Madhya Pradesh by an Indian Air Force (IAF)
aircraft, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
said. All the bodies have been extricated and
sent to Dehradun airport. A special aircraft will
fly them to Khajuraho, the CM said, adding that
he has requested Defence Minister Rajnath
Singh to provide an IAF plane for the same.
Chief Minister Chouhan, along with few senior
officials, had left for Uttarakhand late on Sun-
day and stayed in Dehradun.
Finance Ministry
gives 3rd instalment
of revenue
deficit grant of
`7,183 cr to states
New Delhi: Finance
Ministry has released
therevenuedeficitgrant
worthRs7,183croreto14
states as per the recom-
mendation of the 15th
Finance Commission.
This the third month-
ly instalment of the
grant in the current fis-
cal and with this, the to-
tal revenue deficit grant
releasedtostatessofaris
Rs 21,550 crore.
States will get a total
revenue deficit grant of
Rs86,201crorein2022-23,
a statement by Finance
Ministry said. hese
grants are released in 12
monthly instalments.
HANDSHAKE WITH THE FUTURE!
Minister Dharmendra Pradhan shaking hand with a robot during a ‘Digital Skilling’ event.

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INDIA
Pro-Khalistani agitation,
slogans at Golden Temple
Sec 144 imposed
Amritsar: Pro-Khal-
istan slogans were
raised by supporters of
radical Sikh outfits as
well as that of Shiroma-
ni Akali Dal (Amritsar)
at the Golden Temple on
the 38th anniversary of
Operation Bluestar.
The marbled premis-
es of the Golden Temple
near Akal Takht, the
supreme temporal seat
of the Sikhs, echoed
with pro-Khalistan slo-
gans.
Many youths held
banners and placards
with ‘Khalistan
Zindabad’ written on
them.Theyworet-shirts
with the picture of slain
separatist leader Jar-
nail Singh Bhindran-
wale printed on them.
Pro-Khalistan slo-
gans were also raised by
activists of the Shirom-
ani Akali Dal (Amrit-
sar) outfit led by former
MP Simranjit Singh
Mann, who was also
present at the spot. He
raised the killing of
Punjabi singer Sidhu
Moosewala and de-
manded justice for the
family
. Operation Blue-
star was a military op-
eration carried out in
1984 to flush out the
militants from the Gold-
en Temple.
Elaborate security ar-
rangements were put in
place in Amritsar to en-
sure that the event
passed off smoothly
.
Jathedar of Akal
Takht Gyani Harpreet
Singh, in his message to
the Sikh community on
the occasion, said Sikh
preachers and scholars
need to visit the border
areas to promote Sikh-
ism and apprise the
youth about the rich
Sikh tenets and history
.
He also talked about
the need to fight the
scourge of the drug
menace which has af-
flicted many youths.
The Shiromani Gurd-
wara Parbandhak Com-
mittee (SGPC), the apex
religious body of the
Sikhs, displayed the
bullet-ridden holy ‘Sa-
roop’ (volume) of the
Guru Granth Sahib.
The ‘Saroop’, which
was installed in the
sanctum sanctorum at
that time, was hit by a
bullet during the mili-
tary action in 1984.
Activists shout pro-Khalistani slogans after offering prayers on the occasion of the 38th anniversary
of Operation Blue Star at Golden temple in Amritsar on Monday.
38TH OPERATION BLUE STAR ANNIVERSARY
Justice to all, appeasement to
none is our hallmark: Nadda
Vijaywada: BJP Na-
tional President JP Na-
dda has said that India
was known as a ‘cor-
rupt state’ and that In-
dian polity had lost re-
spect before Narendra
Modi took the reigns
eight years ago.
“Today, India, a $3
trillion dollar economy,
is poised to grow to $5
trillion dollar in the fu-
ture due to the phenom-
enal transformation
brought about by the
BJP-led NDA govern-
ment at the Centre. Jus-
tice to all and appease-
ment to none is our hall-
mark. We launched a
full-fledged develop-
ment programme in
2014 and it is going to
achieve many wonders,
said Nadda on Monday
.
He was addressing a
meeting of intellectuals
on ‘Seva, Sushasan and
Gareeb Kalyan’ organ-
ised on the occasion of
completion of eight
years of the Modi gov-
ernment. BJP national
general secretary Dag-
gubati Purandeswari,
and State party affairs
co in-charge Sunil Deod-
har were also present.
Medicine students who returned from Ukraine felicitating
BJP national president JP Nadda in Vijayawada on Monday.
Describing corruption as a bane, Nadda said it
could be checked by delivering the benefits of
welfare schemes to the beneficiaries through the
Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) platforms. “There
are a host of other accomplishments. India has
evolved into a global supplier of vaccines from
being an importer,” he said.
India evolved into a global
supplier of vaccine: Nadda
Hardik deletes
messages
saying he was
threatened
Ahmedabad: Minutes
after claiming to have
received threats,
Hardik Patel, the newly
anointed BJP leader, on
Monday suddenly re-
tracted his statement.
The Patidar Anamat
Andolan Samiti (PAAS)
leader had claimed that
he was receiving
threats. But, after con-
firming this, within
minutes he retracted,
thus raising questions
as to why the bold lead-
er was shying away
from stating that a sec-
tion of the society is
angry with him and a
few of them have threat-
ened him.
Hardik confirmed
that he has received
threats. He even stated
that he has informed
the local police, but has
not been provided with
the security
.
Responsibility towards public paramount:
Birla tells newly-elected Manipur MLAs
New Delhi:Lok Sabha
Speaker Om Birla on
Monday called upon the
newly elected legisla-
tors from Manipur to
adopt a public first”
policy and underlined
the importance of tak-
ing all stakeholders on
board while formulat-
ing any law.
Speaking on the occa-
sion of the 3-day orien-
tation programme for
the newly elected mem-
bers of the legislative
assemblyfromManipur
in New Delhi, Birla
said, “Whenever you
formulate a law make
sure you take all the
stakeholders on board,
it is important to place
a draft of such bills in
the public domain to
seek public feedback in
order to make a lot
more effective and pub-
licly acceptable.”
The Speaker also
asked lawmakers to
keep Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s call in
mind to do away with
obsolete and outdated
laws.
Talking about the
beautiful legacy of the
north-eastern state of
Manipur with diverse
culture, Birla lauded
the efforts with which
Manipur was striving
forward in the field of
development.
“The north-eastern
state of Manipur is the
doorway to the south-
east and is also of a cru-
cial part of India’s Act
East policy,” Birla
said.
The Manipur Legisla-
tive Assembly was es-
tablished in the year
1972 and this year, it
completes 50 years.
Birla further said
that India is the world’s
largest democracy and
itsprinciplesaresought
after.
“The whole world is
watching India and its
Parliamentary legisla-
tive democracy… Sev-
eral delegations from
across the world have
travelled to India and
also Indian Parliament
delegations have gone
recently to countries
like Singapore Vietnam
etc… Nations across the
world have many things
to learn from India and
the Indian democratic
setup,” he said.
Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla with Manipur MLAs.
Norovirus: Centre asks Kerala for reports
New Delhi: Amid two
confirmed cases of the
norovirus infection be-
ing reported from Kera-
la, the Union health
ministry has asked the
State Surveillance Of-
fice (SSO) to submit a
detailed report in the
matter, official sources
said on Monday
.
Norovirus is a viral
illness that is the most
common cause of acute
gastroenteritis globally
.
Symptoms of norovirus
include acute onset di-
arrhoea and vomiting.
Emerging evidence sug-
gests that the norovirus
infection is associated
with intestinal inflam-
mation, malnutrition
and may cause long-
term morbidity, an offi-
cial explained.
Globally, an estimat-
ed 685 million (68.5
crore) cases of norovi-
rus are seen annually,
including 200 million
(20 crore) cases amongst
children under five
years of age.
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi: The story
of the ‘dog walker’ IAS
couple is a much dis-
cussed topic these days,
not just in bureaucrat-
ic circles but in the gen-
eral public too. The
‘dog walker’ IAS cou-
ple, it is alleged, used to
vacate the Thyagaraj
Stadium in Delhi for
‘morning walk’. Ath-
letes exercising and
practicing in the stadi-
um were asked to va-
cate the stadium before
7:30 so that the officials
could walk around
with the dog. An Eng-
lish newspaper re-
vealed this and in a
hurry, the government
transferred both of
them and sent the hus-
band to Ladakh and the
wife to Arunachal
Pradesh. This decision
of the government was
highly praised in social
media and a lot of
memes were also made.
But the question is
whether both have
been sent to Ladakh
andArunachalPradesh
as punishment for a big
mistake? Officers liv-
ing in Delhi generally
refer to postings in
these states as punish-
ment posting or com-
pulsion posting. But in
reality these two areas
are the most sensitive
areas for India. China
has an eye on both
Ladakh and Arunachal
Pradesh and its sol-
diers keep infiltrating
these areas every day.
China is trying to
change the geography
of these two areas and
is also plotting to
change the population
structure or regional
structure. Therefore, it
is extremely dangerous
proposition if such a
sensitive state is being
made a dumping
ground as a punish-
ment posting. As a rule,
only the best of the best
officers should be sent
to these two areas.
Are Ladakh and Arunachal regions now only a dumping ground of officials?
PUNISHMENT POSTING?
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China is trying to
change the
geography of
these two areas
and is also
plotting to change
the population
structure
or regional
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INDIA SUCCESSFULLY TESTS AGNI-IV,
CAN STRIKE TARGETS 4,000 KM AWAY
New Delhi: A nuclear-capable Agni-IV ballistic missile,
which can strike targets 4,000 km away, was successfully
test-fired off the Odisha coast, marking a significant boost
to country’s military capabilities. Test was a part of routine
user training launches carried out under aegis of Strategic
Forces Command, said Defence Ministry. “Successful test
reaffirms India’s policy of having a credible minimum de-
terrence capability,” it said. Missile was test-fired off APJ
Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha on Monday evening.
WALIULLAH GETS
DEATH SENTENCE
ED RAIDS AT DELHI
MIN’S RESIDENCE
Ghaziabad: Waliullah, a
terrorist who was held
guilty in the 2006 Varanasi
serial blasts case on Satur-
day, has been sentenced to
death by a Ghaziabad court
on Monday. On March 7,
2006, blasts at Sankat
Mochan temple and the
cantonment railway station
in Varanasi claimed over
20 lives.
New Delhi: The ED raided
residence and other
locations linked to Delhi
Minister Satyendra Jain.
The search operation
started early Monday
morning. Notably, Jain is
currently in ED’s custody
till June 9 in connection
to the money laundering
case involving a company
from Kolkata.
NAVJOT SIDHU
ADMITTED TO
PGIMER IN C’GARH
Chandigarh: Congress
leader Navjot Singh Sidhu,
lodged in Patiala jail, was
admitted to Chandigarh’s
PGIMER on Monday.
‘Sidhu has been admitted
in Heptology ward, due to
liver-related problems and
require further evaluation.
He has been kept under
observation and is stable
now,’ Prof Virender Singh,
head of Hepatology dept
said.
India to increase
Russian oil imports
from Rosneft
New Delhi: India is
looking to double down
on its Russian oil im-
ports with state-owned
refiners eager to take
more heavily discount-
edsuppliesfromRosneft
PJSC as international
players turn down deal-
ings with Moscow over
its invasion of Ukraine.
State processors are col-
lectively working on fi-
nalising and securing
new six-month supply
contracts for Russian
crude to India, said peo-
ple with knowledge of
the companies’ procure-
ment plans.
New Delhi (PTI): People
can now book 24 train
tickets in a month on
the IRCTC website and
app if their user ID is
linked to Aadhaar, oth-
erwise only 12 tickets
can be bought, the
Railways announced on
Monday. So far, IRCTC
allowed people to book
six tickets a month if the
account is not con-
nected to AadhaAr and
12 if it is linked.
LINK IRCTC ID TO AADHAAR, BOOK UPTO 24 TICKETS IN A MTH

BIZ BUZZ
07
Sebi rejigs MF
advisory
committee
New Delhi (PTI):
Sebi has restructured
its advisory commit-
tee on mutual funds.
The 25-member ad-
visory committee will
be chaired by former
Deputy Governor of
the RBI Usha Thorat.
Earlier, the panel
had 24 members.
The regulator has
inducted Chairman
of NJ India Invest
Neeraj Choksi in the
advisory committee.
Other members
include Independent
Trustee at SBI Mutual
Fund Sunil Gulati,
and Independent
Trustee at DSP MF
Dharmishta Naren-
draprasad Raval.
‘No proposal to
replace Gandhi’s
face on notes’
Mumbai (PTI):
Dismissing reports,
the Reserve Bank on
Monday said there
is no proposal to
replace the face of
Mahatma Gandhi
with that of others on
currency notes. In a
statement, the central
bank said there are
reports in certain
sections of the media
that the RBI is con-
sidering changes to
the existing currency
and banknotes by
replacing the face
of Mahatma Gandhi
with that of others.
“It may be noted that
there is no such pro-
posal in the Reserve
Bank,” it said.
IRCTC increases
limit of booking
tickets
New Delhi (PTI): In-
dian Railways has de-
cided to increase the
maximum number of
tickets that may be
booked in a month
from 6 to 12 using
a user ID that is not
linked to Aadhaar. In-
creasing the number
of tickets booked in
a month from 12 to
24 by a user ID that
is linked to Aadhaar
and that one of the
passengers in the
ticket to be booked
is verifiable through
Aadhaar. Currently,
a user ID that is not
Aadhaar linked can
book a max of 6 tick-
ets per month on the
IRCTC website/app.
Canara Bank
and Karur Vysya
up lending rates
New Delhi (PTI):
Canara Bank and
Karur Vysya Bank on
Monday said they
have revised their
lending rates leading
to an increase in
EMIs linked to the re-
spective benchmarks.
State-owned Canara
Bank has raised the
marginal cost of
funds based lending
rate by 0.05% of 5
basis points to 7.40%
for one year tenure.
The bank has also
raised the MCLR
rate for 6 months
tenure to 7.35% from
7.30%.
New Delhi (PTI): Tata
Motors on Monday said
it has bagged an order
for supply of 10,000
XPRES-T EV units from
BluSmart Electric Mo-
bility. The deployment
of 10,000 units makes
this the biggest ever EV
fleet order in India, the
auto major said in a
statement.
With deliveries start-
ing soon, these vehicles
are an addition to the
3,500 XPRES-T EV or-
der, which was signed
by both the companies
in October last year, and
will be used across In-
dia for commuters, in
turn helping minimise
the carbon footprint.
“Tata Motors is tak-
ing active steps towards
the rapid electrification
of mobility, and it is
heartening to see re-
nowned fleet aggrega-
tors joining the green
mobility wave with us,”
Tata Motors Passenger
Vehicles Managing Di-
rector Shailesh Chan-
dra noted.
The company is de-
lighted to continue its
association with
BluSmart Electric Mo-
bility as 10,000 XPRES-
T EVs will be deployed
across the country, he
added.
“With our $50 million
in Series A fund raise,
we are supercharged to
rapidly expand across
Delhi NCR and the met-
ro cities. We are thank-
ful to Tata Motors for
charging up our jour-
ney to scale up at a fast
pace,” BluSmart Elec-
tric Mobility Co-Found-
er Anmol Singh Jaggi
said.
The company has
covered 50 million clean
kilometres and deliv-
ered over 1.6 million
zero-emission rides
with an elevated cus-
tomer experience on its
platform, he added.
TATA MOTORS TO SUPPLY 10K EVs
TaMo bagged an
order for supply
of 10K XPRES-T
EV units from
BluSmart Electric
Mobility
KPDL, Tata Power ink pact
to set up EV charging infra
New Delhi (PTI):
Tata Power has part-
nered with real estate
company Kolte-Patil
Developers Ltd
(KPDL) to set up e-
charging stations
across its projects in
Pune, Mumbai and
Bengaluru for conven-
ience of electric vehi-
cle owners. As part of
the wider green mobil-
ity adoption, EVs and
the charging infra-
structure play a key
role to mitigate cli-
mate change challeng-
es in the urban mobil-
ity space. “Tata Power
has partnered with
Kolte-Patil Develop-
ers, a leading Pune-
based real estate de-
veloper to set up
charging stations for
providing comprehen-
sive charging solu-
tions to the EV own-
ers,” statement said.
Mumbai (PTI): Credit
ratings agency Icra on
Monday revised up-
ward its projection of
international air pas-
senger traffic at Indian
airports at 80-85% of
the pre-pandemic vol-
umes during this fiscal.
The volume of such
travellers has already
touched 72% of the pre-
Covid level in May
.
The steep recovery in
international passen-
gers’ demand came on
the back of resumption
of scheduled flight op-
erations in late March
in the wake of easing of
travel restrictions
norms and resilient
passenger demand.
Major destinations
driving the internation-
al traffic demand are
Southeast Asia, the
Middle East and Eu-
rope, it said.
Commercial opera-
tions of international
flights resumed on
March 27 after a hiatus
of two years amid COV-
ID-19 pandemic. During
that period internation-
al operations were lim-
ited to countries
through special flights
under the ‘Vande
Bharat Mission’ and bi-
lateral ‘air transport
bubble’ agreements
with several countries.
The ramp-up is
healthy with interna-
tional passenger traffic
reaching 63% and 72%
of pre-Covid levels
(similar period in 2019)
in April and May, re-
spectively, this year
compared to the recov-
ery of less than 50% to
that of pre-pandemic
levels during FY22, the
ratings agency said.
Icra said it also ex-
pects the ramp-up in the
overall passenger traf-
fic to 96-97% of the pre-
Covid levels in FY23 on
the back of a strong and
sharp recovery in do-
mestic passenger traffic
and the resumption of
international commer-
cial operations.
The recovery in do-
was strong post-Omi-
cron and has reached
98% of pre-Covid levels
in April and May, it
said, adding, overall,
passenger traffic has
reached 93% of pre-
Covid levels in May
.
“Resumption of in-
ternational commercial
operations has acceler-
ated the traffic recov-
ery. Considering the
healthy ramp-up in in-
ternational traffic in
the last two months,
Icra expects interna-
tional traffic to reach
80-85% of the pre-Covid
level in FY23 as against
earlier estimates of 70-
75%,” said Abhishek
Lahoti, senior analyst,
for corporate ratings at
Icra. Further, as expect-
ed, the recovery of do-
was sharp and much
faster post-Omicron, he
said.
Int’lairpassengertraffictohit
80-85%ofpre-Covidlevel: ICRA
The volume of such travellers has already touched 72% of the pre-Covid level in May
Commercial operations of int’l flights resumed on
March 27 after a hiatus of two years. During that pe-
riod int’l operations were limited to countries through
special flights under the ‘Vande Bharat Mission’ and
bilateral ‘air transport bubble’ agreements.
RESUMPTION
ON MARCH 27
AFTER WAIT
OF 2 YEARS
Sensex slips 94
pts;Niftyat16,570
Mumbai (PTI): Mar-
kets continued to fall
on Monday, with the
Sensex declining 94
points as investors
remained cautious
amid unabated sell-
ing by foreign funds
and elevated crude
oil prices ahead of
the RBI’s policy deci-
sion later this week.
The 30-share BSE
Sensex declined 93.91
points to end at
55,675.32.
The broader NSE
Nifty fell 14.75 points
to finish at 16,569.55.
From the Sensex
pack, Asian Paints,
UltraTech Cement,
Bajaj Finserv, Dr
Reddy’s, Nestle, Lars-
en Toubro, HUL
Axis Bank were big-
gest laggards.
` GAINS 2 PAISE TO
CLOSE AT 77.64/$
Mumbai (PTI): The
rupee inched up 2
paise to close at 77.64
against the US dollar.
The local unit opened
slightly strong at 77.65
against the greenback
and witnessed an
intra-day high of 77.55
and a low of 77.67. It
finally settled at 77.64,
a rise of 2 paise.
GOLD GAINS `43;
SILVER UP BY `850
New Delhi (PTI): Gold
in Delhi on Monday
increased by `43 to
`50,908 per 10 grams
amid firm global
trends. In the previous
trade, the yellow metal
settled at `50,865
per 10 grams. Silver
also gained `850 to
`62,211 per kg from
`61,361 per kg.
WORK FROM HOME IS
HERE TO STAY: CIRIL
Kolkata (PTI): As
WorkfromHome(WFH)
has become a reality
post-Covid-19 pandem-
ic, there is an increased
demand for functional
and flexible spaces that
canaccommodatework-
space conveniently lo-
cated in urban centres
for easy access of the
employees, according to
CIRIL. It is not the only
business that is looking
for more resilience
through flexible forms
of real estate, property
developers and land-
lords also are seeking a
sustained model of cre-
ating a need-based eco-
system for future of
work where hybrid
models of working are
becoming norms.
With the prospect of
more workforce and of-
fice workers taking up
remote or flexible work
practices, building oc-
cupancy rates may de-
crease in short term but
a few segments such as
co-working and flexible
spaces are going to be
the main demand driv-
er in the commercial
and real estate segment,
it said. Developers and
corporates have to work
in tandem to address
the needs of the hybrid
work culture through
augmentation of exist-
ing infrastructure.
Smaller cities are be-
coming an attractive
investment option for
both customers and in-
vestors.
Auto sales in slow lane in May: FADA
New Delhi (PTI): Re-
tail sales of passenger
vehicles grew last
month but the sales of
two-wheeler and com-
mercial vehicles re-
mained low compared
to the pre-COVID
month of May 2019, ac-
cording to automobile
dealers’ body FADA.
On Monday, FADA
said that overall auto
retails stood at
16,46,773 units in May,
down from 18,22,900
units in May 2019.
“May 2022 retails
when compared to May
2019 reveal that sales
arestillnotonagrowth
trajectory as overall
retails were down by
10%. While PV and
tractors continued its
positive run... Two-
wheeler, three-wheeler
and CV sales are yet to
show any signs of
healthy run-rate,”
FADA President Vink-
esh Gulati said in a
statement.
While a Year-on-
Year (Y-o-Y) compari-
son with May 2021
shows an exceptional-
ly healthy growth rate
across all categories, it
is important to note
that both May 2021 and
May 2020 were affected
by nationwide lock-
down due to the COVID
pandemic, he stated.
May palm oil
imports surge
to 7-month high
New Delhi (Agencies):
India’s palm oil exports
in May were its highest
in seven months and up
15% on April as the
country overcame
curbs on Indonesian ex-
ports by sourcing more
of the commodity from
Malaysia, Thailand and
Papua New Guinea, five
industry officials said.
India imported
660,000 tonnes of palm
oil in May, up from
572,508 tonnes in April,
according to the aver-
age estimate from five
dealers. India’s soyoil
imports in May rose to
352,614 tonnes from
315,853 tonnes in April.
Sunflower oil im-
ports jumped to 123,970
tonnes in May from
67,788 tonnes a month
earlier.
Coal India aims green mining options,says Chairman
New Delhi (PTI):
State-owned CIL is aim-
ing at green mining op-
tions and increase pro-
duction from its under-
ground mines, which
are favourable for
cleaner ecosystem,
through installation of
technologies, compa-
ny’s Chairman Pramod
Agrawal said.
The comments come
at a time when there
have been concerns
about global climate
change on account of
the burning of fossil
fuels including coal, re-
sulting into green-
house gas emission.
For environmentally
cleaner transportation
of coal, CIL is setting
up coal handling plant/
silos in 35 projects un-
der the first phase of
the first-mile con-
nectivity, and
stressed that it
is continuing
in the second
phase as well.
“The com-
pany is
a l s o
aiming at green min-
ing options and plan-
ning to increase its un-
derground output,”
he said.
Stating that
CIL is committed
to preservation
of environment
and creating a
green can-
o p y
around its mining are-
as, the chairman said
that the public sector
unit planted over 30.4
lakh saplings during
FY22, expanding its
green cover to 1,468.5
hectares. The chair-
man said that 27 eco
parks and mine tour-
ism projects have been
developed as on date.
RBI’S MPC STARTS
3-DAY DELIBERATIONS
Mumbai (PTI): The
RBI’s rate-setting panel
MPC on Monday began
its three-day delibera-
tion amid expectations
of another round of
hike in benchmark in-
terest rates to contain
inflation that continues
to remain above the
central bank’s upper
tolerance level. RBI
Governor Shaktikanta
Das will announce the
decision of the MPC af-
ter deliberations on
Wednesday. Das has al-
ready indicated that
there may another hike
in the repo rate.
SALE FIGURES

First India Bureau
Pune: Pune-native
Santosh Jadhav, one
of the suspects in the
Punjabi singer Sidhu
Moose Wala murder
case, is a wanted fugi-
tive in a 2021 murder
case in the district,
police said on Monday
.
Four cases including
those of murder and at-
tempt to murder have
been registered against
Jadhav at Manchar po-
licestationinthedistrict,
a senior official said.
Abhinav Deshmukh,
Superintendentof Police
(Pune district), said they
learnt about Jadhav’s al-
leged involvement in the
Moosewalamurderfrom
media reports.
“We have not received
any formal communica-
tion from Punjab police
aboutJadhav
.Wecontact-
ed them this morning,
and their reply is await-
ed,’ he said on Monday
.
In one of the cases
registered at Manchar
police station, the strin-
gent Maharashtra Con-
trol of Organized Crime
Act (MCOCA) has been
invoked against Jadhav.
“After being involved
inthemurdercaseregis-
teredatMancharin2021,
he absconded and went
to the Rajasthan-Punjab
region, where he was ac-
tive. There was also a
case of attempt to mur-
der against him in Gan-
ganagar,Rajasthan,”the
senior official said.
08
2NDFRONT
A True friend is not one who is a
shadow to us, but one who stands and
guides us when we falter.
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra,
CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
First India Bureau
Mumbai: On May 25,
four people allegedly
intercepted a busi-
nessman's car and
robbed him of his mo-
bile phone and gold
chain, worth Rs2
lakh, on Mumbai's
Western Express
Highway (WEH).
All the four accused,
who fled after the inci-
dent in a white cab,
were arrested on Satur-
day after police zeroed
in on them while re-
viewing CCTV footage
of some 35 cars, which
passed through the
highway following the
crime, a police official
from Kasturba Marg po-
lice station said on
Monday
.
An FIR was regis-
tered based on the com-
plaint. The police exam-
ined CCTV footage from
key spots near the WEF.
As per the time of crime
mentioned by the vic-
tim, the police focused
their investigation on
one cab. They then ap-
prehended Bhavin Swa-
mi (29), the cab driver.
Based on the infor-
mation provided by
Swami, the police
nabbed the three oth-
er accused - Sarfaraz
alias Prince Shaikh
(26), Manish Kumar
Gopal Turi (28) and
Ankit Patel (22) from
different parts of
Mumbai and neigh-
bouring districts.
BIZMAN ROBBED ON MUMBAI HIGHWAY;
POLICE NAB 4 AFTER CHECKING CCTV FOOTAGE
Pune (PTI): Top-seed
Farrukh Amonatov
of Tajikistan posted a
43-move win over
Russian Boris
Savchenko to take his
tally to 7.5 points and
shoot into the lead af-
ter the ninth round of
the inaugural Maha-
rashtra International
Open Grandmaster
chess tournament
here on Monday.
GM Amonatov (Elo
2622)—who is unbeaten
so far—got the better of
fellow GM Savchenko to
take the sole lead in the
top board clash.
Three players—Arjun
Kalyan, Deep Sengupta
andAleksejAleksandrov
,
all Grandmasters—trail
theleaderbyhalf apoint.
Kalyan, Sengupta
and Aleksandrov regis-
tered wins over GMs
Karthik Venkatarman,
Mihail Nikitenko and
Duc Hoa Nguyen of Vi-
etnam in their respec-
tive ninth-round games.
Luka Paichadze, who
held the lead till round
five, made short work of
Indian Grandmaster Di-
vya Deshmukh to take
his score to 6.5 points, a
point behind the leader.
First India Bureau
Rabat (Morocco): In-
dia’s Avinash Sable
finished a creditable
fifth at the prestig-
ious Diamond League
Meet being held in Ra-
bat. In the process, he
shattered his own
3,000m steeplechase
national record for
the eighth time.
The 27-year-old army
manfromahumblefam-
ily in the Beed district
of Maharashtra clocked
8:12.48 in a high-quality
field late on Sunday
night. He shaved off
morethanthreeseconds
from his own previous
national record of
8:16.21, which he set dur-
ing the Indian Grand
Prix in Thiruvanan-
thapuram in March.
Sable finished ahead
of Tokyo Olympics
bronze medallist Benja-
min Kigen of Kenya
who ended in eighth po-
sition with 8:17.32.
Local hero and Tokyo
Olympics gold medallist
Soufiane El Bakkali
won the race with a
meet record of 7:58.28.
Ethiopia’s Tokyo
Olympics silver winner
Lamecha Girma was
second, clocking
7:59.24, while his com-
patriot Hailemariyam
Tegegn took the third
position with a person-
al best of 8:06.29.
The 2016 Rio Olym-
pics champion Conses-
lus Kipruto of Kenya
was fourth with a tim-
ing of 8:12.47, a one-hun-
dredth of a second
ahead of Sable.
Sable is known for
breakinghisown3,000m
steeplechase national
record multiple times.
He first broke it in 2018
when he clocked 8:29.80
at the National Inter
State championships to
erase the then 37-year-
old mark of 8:30.88 mark
of Gopal Saini.
Last month, Sable
smashed the 30-year-old
men’s 5,000m national
record at a meet in the
USA, clocking 13 min-
utes and 25.65 seconds,
bettering Bahadur Pras-
ad’s long-standing re-
cord of 13:29.70s set in
Birmingham in 1992.
Avinash finishes 5th in Diamond League Meet at Rabat
REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT
lll
Breaks own
national 3,000m
steeplechase
record for the
eighth time. Last
month, Sable
smashed a
30-year-old
men’s 5,000m
national record
at a meet in the
USA Avinash after completing the race.
Sable finished ahead of Tokyo Olympics bronze
medallist Benjamin Kigen of Kenya who ended
in eighth position with 8:17.32. Local hero and
Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Soufiane El Bak-
kali won the race with a meet record of 7:58.28.
Ethiopia’s Tokyo Olympics silver winner Lame-
cha Girma was second, clocking 7:59.24, while
his compatriot Hailemariyam Tegegn took the
third position with a personal best of 8:06.29.
THE RESULTS
MP writes to
CM about
Aurangabad
projects
In one of the cases registered against
Santosh Jadhav at Manchar, stringent
MCOCA has been invoked by police
Suspect also wanted for murder in Pune
First India Bureau
Aurangabad: All
India Majlis-e-Itte-
hadul Muslimeen
(AIMIM) MP Imti-
yaz Jaleel has writ-
ten to Maharash-
tra Chief Minister
Uddhav Thacker-
ay
, seeking decla-
ration of “dead-
lines” for pending
projects in the city
.
Jaleel, who repre-
sents Aurangabad
in the Lok Sabha,
sent the letter to
Thackeray ahead of
the chief minister’s
rally on June 8.
Rather than mak-
ing ‘misleading’ an-
nouncements for
the city, the chief
minister should
state when pending
development pro-
jects will be com-
pleted, he said.
The CM should
declaredeadlinesfor
these works instead
of talking about re-
naming the city
, the
AIMIM MP added.
People light candles to pay tribute to Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala, at Aram Nagar in Mumbai.
—PHOTO BY PTI
Accused Bhavin Swami, Sarfaraz aka
Prince Shaikh, Manish Turi Ankit
Patel were caught after review of 35
cabs which passed through the site
Top-seed Amonatov jumps
into the lead at Maha Open
Rane demands more Chipi-Mumbai flights
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Bharatiya
Janata Party MLA
Nitesh Rane on Mon-
day met Civil Avia-
tion Minister Jyotira-
ditya Scindia de-
manding more flights
between Mumbai and
Chipi airport in the
Sindhudurg area
ahead of the upcom-
ing Ganesh festival.
Rane also requested
the minister to allow
nightlandingattheonly
airport in the coastal
Konkan region, to fur-
ther boost tourism.
Rane, the MLA from
the Kankavli assembly
constituency in Sind-
hudurg, said greater
flight connectivity in
the Konkan region will
ease the strain on rail
and road transport,
which see overcrowd-
ing when thousands of
people return their na-
tal villages for the 10-
day Ganesh festival.
The October 09 inau-
guration of the Chipi
greenfield airport, Ma-
harashtra’s 14th air-
port, was attended by
Scindia, and saw arch-
rivals Uddhav Thack-
eray and Narayan Rane
together on the same
daisafteryearsof bitter
verbal sparring.
The trip to Chipi
airport, located 530km
from Mumbai, can be
covered in a 50-minute
ride.
During the inaugura-
tion, Scindia had said
thatChipiwouldbecon-
nected with Bengaluru,
Hyderabad, Kolkata
and other major cities
and that the number of
flights would be in-
creased to 20-25 over the
course of five years.
The 2.5km airport
runway can handle
landingsbyaircraftlike
Airbus 320 and Boeing
737, and potentially be
extended by another
1,000 metres.
Greater connectivity would mean less stress on road, rail transport during Ganesh festival
The Mumbai-Konkan
rail and road routes
see very heavy traffic
each year during
the annual 10-day
Ganesh festival,
when thousands of
people make the trip
to their natal vil-
lages. Increasing the
number of flights be-
tween Mumbai and
Chipi could help to
ease traffic conges-
tion on rail and road
transport.
SOLUTION!
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Nitesh Rane with Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia; Chipi airport
Imtiyaz Jaleel
MOOSE WALA MURDER
BJP plans...
He added that the
BJP’s Sunday meet-
ing was attended by
Union Minister for
IT, Communication
and Railways Ash-
wini Vaishnaw
(Prabhari for Maha-
rashtra RS polls),
Commerce Piyush
Goyal, Pankaja
Munde (aspirant for
MLC elections),
Ashish Shelar, Jai-
kumar Rawal and
Girish Mahajan.
The discussions re-
volved not only
around the RS polls
but also dwelt at
length on the acid
test that the June 20
Vidhan Parishad
elections will throw
up, he said.
However, BJP
spokesperson Kes-
hav Upadhyay said
he was not aware of
“any other discus-
sions” apart from
those related to the
RS polls.
Contradicting
him,theseniorlead-
er told First India,
“We have four fixed
seats in the Vidhan
Parishad elections
but have decided to
contest five or even
six seats. We may of-
feroneof theseseats
to the political for-
mation that is will-
ing to support our
bid to send Dhanan-
jay Mahadik as our
third candidate to
the Upper House.”
FROM PG 1

BUTTERFLY IN
HER STOMACH
T
elevision actress
Helly Shah is back to
the pavilion from the ex-
travagant gala at the French Riviera.
She opened up about focussing on life's posi-
tives, her favourite outfit, etc. The actress was
asked to describe the last five minutes before
stepping onto the red carpet, and she excitedly
said, I literally could feel the butterflies in my
stomach. Adding further, she said, When I sat
in the car from my hotel to arrive at the venue,
I had butterflies in my stomach and was very
excited. I wasn't nervous at all. I wanted to be
myself and rock the red carpet. When I walked
out of the car and saw the entire scenario and
nowtowitnesseverythinginpersonwasavery
different feeling. For 2-3 secs I felt, 'Oh my God,
I am here!' It all felt very dreamy
.
D
eepika Padukone’s latest Instagram
post gives us a glimpse into her lazy
Sunday. The actress, who was a jury
member at the recently concluded
Cannes Film Festival, was spotted taking a
nap with her sleeping mask on. The 36-year-
old was caught in a resting mode in her latest
Instagram post. Sharing the post on the social
media platform, Deepika gave us a reference
to the American sitcom, The Office through
the caption. The wrote, “That’s what she said.”
The caption was followed by a bunch of
hashtags that read, “Sunday,” and “Snooze.”
LAZY SUNDAY
PERFECTING
CHICNESS
F
ashion looks like medicine for the soul in
the hands of Kriti Sanon. She keeps it pep-
py, funky, and cool often, and sometimes
those desi, we instantly try to manifest a
wedding invite. At the recently concluded IIFA
2022 held at Abu Dhabi, Kriti Sanon won her first
Best Actress award for her performance in last
year’s ‘Mimi’. Taking to her social media, Kri-
ti shared a sweet note of gratitude as she cap-
tioned it, “Dreams do come true! All you
need to do is keep working hard towards it
and never lose faith!” The actress added,
“It has taken me 8yrs to get my first
#BestActress award.
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K
areena Kapoor Khan is set to
make her OTT debut with Sujoy
Ghosh’s next with Vijay Varma
and Jaideep Ahlawat and the
team has already completed a schedule
in Darjeeling. And as Kareena is enjoy-
ing every bit of her shoot, she has shared
a BTS pic with Vijay. In the pic, the Jab
We Met actress was seen in a stylish
dress and was busy scrolling through
her phone while Vijay was standing in
the background in an all-suited avatar.
Kareena gave the pic a witty caption
and wrote, “Acha
Vijay are you
trying to read
my messag-
es? @itsvi-
jayvar ma
# D S X
Shoot”.
argis Fakhri stole attention with her
swoon-worthy, when she opted for a
bright green gown as she made her
fairytale entry at IIFA 2022 awards
ceremony
. The actor's gown was from
the clothing brand Michael Cinco.
The stunning green gown had strap-
py sleeves, corset detailing with a plunging
neckline and an ultra-glamorous flare. The
ball-room gown had delicate beadwork and
embellishments at the top and featherlike col-
oured patterns in shades of white, pink, yellow
and green throughout the bottom flare. Nargis
tied her hair in a dramatic updo and opted for
dewy makeup with sparkly details and glossy
lip colour. She accessorised the outfit with dan-
gling earrings.
Straight Out Of A
FAIRYTALE
FAIRYTALE
N
M
alaika Arora is treating her Insta fam with breathtak-
ingly beautiful pictures and videos from the Turkish
trip. The actress shared her latest vacation pics in hot
swimwear, giving yet another dose of eye candy, in a
blue monokini that is sure to make your heart skip a beat. In
the latest post, the 48-year-old actress can be seen soaking in
the sun in a breezy blue dress, light make-up, and bold red
lip shade adding a hint of chic with a black cap. We also get
to see the serene beauty of the deep blue sea and the bright sun in
the pictures. Malaika captioned the post, Sundaze Turkish style
#turkishdelight.” Malaika Arora also offered a sneak peek into
her favourite city. Sharing a post on her Instagram stories,
she captioned it as “Now in (one of) our fave cities ever”.
In the picture, the actress looks stunning in a black
bralette paired with matching tights.
TURKISH DELIGHT!
TURKISH DELIGHT!
KAREENA'S WITTY
CAPTION!
MUMBAI | TUESDAY,
JUNE 7, 2022
Deepika Padukone
Helly Shah
Malaika Arora
Kriti Sanon
Nargis Fakhri
her post...
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TANWAR,
Model
FACE
OF
THE
DAY!
Aries
MARCH 21 - APRIL 20
It’s a very good day to
take calculated risks in
financial matters. Those
who are suffering from
chronic ailments may
find remarkable improvement in their
health with home remedies. Today you
will enjoy the trust of your senior
management. Overall a very good day
for you.
Gemini
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
Paying special attention
to plan your career
would give immense
joy. You are likely to get
clearance or approval
for your construction plans. You find
things moving in the way you want
them. Gifting something to your
beloved is likely to make the day
memorable.
Leo
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
You succeed in
completing an
important project well
before deadline.
Disagreements on the
family front are foreseen. Be careful
about the legal apprehensions in the
property you are planning to buy. Your
intuition will save you from a tricky
spot today.
Libra
SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 22
Your sole dependency
on friends may fail to
bring any respite from
loneliness today.A
sound financial health
of businessmen would enable to give
monetary benefits to employees. Some
of you are going experience emotional
fulfillment on romantic front. A very
good day for you.
Sagittarius
NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22
Investment antiques
and jewellery would
bring handsome
financial gains. On
professional front,
recognition for good work would
motivate you to work harder. Those
awaiting an affirmation on romantic
front are likely to get lucky today, as
partner responds positively.
Aquarius
JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19
Chances of being
misled by competitors
in business are high, so
remain alert. Seek the
opinion of your family
before finalizing a property deal. An
impromptu invitation to a function
from an unexpected friend is likely to
be received. Your bold initiatives bring
back passion and spark in relationship.
Taurus
APRIL 21 - MAY 20
You will remain much in
demand on social front.
You will succeed in
resolving misunder-
standing with family
members, normalizing ties. You need to
stand by romantic partner during
testing times to make the relationship
stronger. Seek opinion of expert before
opting for a health supplement.
Cancer
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
Continue to put in
efforts at work and you
will see promising
opportunities coming
your way. Matrimonial
match for siblings will bring happiness
for entire family. You will get a good
price for your property. You are likely
to receive invaluable guidance from a
spiritual leader.
Virgo
AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23
Some of you are going
experience emotional
fulfillment on romantic
front. Yoga would help
in raising energy levels
and improve your metabolism. Place
emphasis on domestic affairs to
enhance the domestic tranquility and
harmony. Associate with humanitarian
group on social media.
Scorpio
OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 22
Avoid raising controver-
sial issues at home to
maintain harmony.
Successful implemen-
tation of new ideas and
projects would add to your prestige on
the professional front. It is a wonderful
day to build new connections. Your
relationship requires you to be tactful.
A very good day for you.
Capricorn
DECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20
You may get a chance
to pursue old hobby.
Health tips from an
expert will enable you
to get closer to your
fitness goals. Your generous behavior
would enable to enjoy some lovely
moments with family. Love comes
your way as friendship turns into
romance.
Pisces
FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20
Better to consult an
expert in financial
matters before making
an investment. Harsh
words may create a rift
in your romantic relationship; be
careful. Family will be supportive of
career aspirations. A promising day
overall as you stay in limelight without
any efforts.
YOUR DAY Horoscopeby
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the Power Corridors of MAHARASHTRA
ajasthan is the
land of royals.
Therearehistory
,
culture, and her-
itage spread
across the dunes
of Tharandsome
magnificent forts where
you can spend a night or
two.Thesefortsareoff the
typical tourist trail and of-
fer luxurious stays and
world-classfacilitiesinthe
middle of nowhere.
TIJARA FORT
The 19th-century fort
palace was abandoned
for over a century but is
now restored as a luxury
retreat. Tijara fort is just
a short drive from the
city of Jaipur in the Al-
war district. The stag-
gering terrace gardens
of the fort are at seven
levels beckoning the
Hanging Gardens of
Babylon. The fort over-
looks the expansive
fields surrounding it.
The palace has 70 rooms,
one restaurant, a swim-
ming pool, and a spa.
KHIMSAR FORT
While Aurangzeb was out
on his conquests, the fort
of Khimsar was his tem-
porary residence. The
16th-century fort lies on
the eastern edge of the
Thar desert, between the
district of Nagaur and
Jodhpur. Situated in the
middle of uninhabited
land, the sheer magnifi-
cence of the structure ris-
ing above the dunes is
awe-inspiring. As you
stroll along the fort corri-
dors,youwillseegodsand
goddesses defaced by Au-
rangzeb carved in sand-
stone.Theturrets,stables,
andpassagewaysechothe
500 year-old-stories of
both glory and plunder.
There are 68 luxuriously
traditionally decorated
rooms, equipped with all
modern facilities such as
air-conditioning, LCD tel-
evision, and a minibar. In
addition to this, most of
the rooms have a private
terrace or balcony
. Begin
yourdaybyhavingbreak-
fast at the fort Ramparts.
Relax at the spa and pool.
Have lunch at the terrace
gazebo while basking in
the winter sun. Visit the
royal garage, home to a
row of vintage cars and
get cosy in the indoor res-
taurant for a candlelight
dinner. The property also
has glamping options in
the dunes. It is a one-of-a-
kind experience to stay in
a desert oasis that offers
fantastic views and star-
gazing opportunities.
ALILA FORT
The 230-year-old fortress
is an ultra-luxury prop-
ertyatastone'sthrowdis-
tance from Jaipur. In the
city of Bishangarh, the
fort stands tall atop a
granite hill with a 360-de-
gree view of the sur-
roundings. The newly-
built modern fort has an
old-world charm, its her-
itage and grandeur intact
making it an excellent
example of adaptive ar-
chitecture. All 59 rooms
have 22 different layouts
with a big jharokha style
window is common
among them—multicui-
sine restaurants, outdoor
grills, lounge, library
, spa
and swimming pool. A
weekend spent in the fort
is sure to keep you busy
.
NEEMRANA FORT
The once-abandoned
15th-century fort of
Neemrana stands as an
icon of luxury today.
Neemrana Fort is one of
the premier heritage ho-
tels in Rajasthan. Situ-
ated between the Jaipur-
Delhi highway
, it attracts
visitors from both cities
looking for weekend es-
capes. The most promi-
nent feature of the fort
design is its many levels,
with 72 rooms at 14 lev-
els. You can spend an en-
tire day just exploring
and marvelling at the
property's features and
views. And once you get
tired and want to relax,
take a dip in the gor-
geous swimming pool or
have a rejuvenating mas-
sage at the fort's spa.
CASTLE
MANDAWA
The region of Shekhawa-
ti in Rajasthan is where
the stories of the desert
land are narrated in col-
ours. Every nook and cor-
ner is adorned with fres-
cos, wall art, and murals.
Castle Mandawa is per-
haps the best place to dis-
cover the legacy of Shek-
hawati art. Besides the
painted walls and ceil-
ings, the medieval tur-
reted towers, palanquin
roofs, cannons, and fami-
ly portraits are all part of
your stay at the castle.
Spend a leisurely hour
overinthecolonialveran-
dah or relax in the cosy
comfortof theDiwankha-
na; there is much more to
the court than just spend-
ing a day like royalty
.
RAMATHRA FORT
Is spending a lazy week-
end in the company of
wildlife your idea of a
getaway? Head to
Ramathra Fort in the dis-
trict of Karauli, Ra-
jasthan. Located between
the Bharatpur Bird sanc-
tuary and Ranthambore
Tiger Reserve, the city
dwellers gravitate to this
forttoexperiencethebest
rural habitats amidst
wildlife. Nothing sur-
rounds the fort besides
the lake and hills, and it
has no disturbing urban
influences.Theroomsare
spacious and have an un-
usual and old-fashioned
vibe. The outdoor bath-
tub in the suite overlook-
ing the valley is breath-
taking. Apart from stand-
ard rooms, there are lux-
ury tents where you can
spend your day strolling
throughtheuntaintedru-
ral or watching water
birds abound on the lake,
which is also a rich feed-
ing ground for the ducks,
storks and cormorants.
SPEND A NIGHT AT THESE HIDDEN
SPEND A NIGHT AT THESE HIDDEN
FORTS OF RAJASTHAN
FORTS OF RAJASTHAN
SHALBHA SARDA
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