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Singing Jana Gana Mana now compulsory in all madrasas
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Singing of
the national anthem
“Jana Gana Mana” has
been made compulsory
at all madrasas in Uttar
Pradesh from Thurs-
day, an official said
here.
The Registrar of the
Uttar Pradesh Madrasa
Education Board, SN
Pandey, issued an order
to this effect to all the
District Minority Wel-
fare Officers on May 9.
According to the deci-
sion taken in the board
meeting on March 24,
the singing of the na-
tional anthem at the
time of prayer at all
madrasas across the
state has been made
mandatory, Pandey
said.
He said regular
classes at the madrasas
began on May 12 after
the Ramzan holidays,
and the order came into
effect on the same day.
The order said that
before the commence-
ment of classes, the
national anthem will
be sung by teachers
and students from the
upcoming academic
session in all recog-
nised, aided and non-
aided madrasas in the
state.
The District Minori-
ty Welfare Officers
have been tasked to en-
sure compliance with
the order.
General Secretary of
Teachers’ Association
Madaris Arabia, Diwan
Sahab Zaman Khan,
said that till now at ma-
drasas, usually Hamd
(praises to Allah) and
Salam (salutations to
Muhammad) were re-
cited before the start of
classes.
The national anthem
was also sung in some,
but it was not compul-
sory. “Now it has been
made mandatory,” he
said.
The order comes af-
ter the state’s Minority
Welfare Minister
Dharampal Singh last
month emphasised
teaching nationalism
at madrasas. Minister
of State Danish Azad
Ansari had also said
that the government
wants the madrasa stu-
dents to be “full of pat-
riotism.” At present,
there are a total of
16,461 madrasas in Ut-
tar Pradesh and 560 of
them receive govern-
ment grants.
A class in progress at the madrasa Jamia Arabiya Makhzulul
Uloom located in old Lucknow. —FILE PHOTO
DGPSackedOverIntel
FailureOnGyanvapiMosque
According to sources, Goel was Akhilesh Yadav’s
confidante even in run-up to UP Assembly elections
Renni Abraham
Mumbai:Sacked Uttar
Pradesh Director Gen-
eral of Police (DGP)
Mukul Goel was re-
moved from his post on
Wednesday to establish
Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath’s complete
supremacy in the state
and part of efforts to
plug intelligence loop-
holes that were recently
exposedintheGyanvapi
mosque flare-up.
On May 7, large
crowds assembling to
prevent the survey of
the Gyanvapi mosque in
Varanasi were the pro-
verbial last straw on the
camel’s back that
prompted Chief Minis-
ter Adityanath to crack
the whip and eject Goel
from his perch.
A senior BJP leader
termed the move as a
significant develop-
ment, saying, “You must
remember that the fra-
cas that ensued at the
Gyanvapi mosque was a
consequence of a major
police intelligence fail-
ure or, Turn to P2
Mukul Goel
DG INTELLIGENCE GIVEN
ADDITIONAL CHARGE OF DGP
Lucknow: Director General (Intelligence) Devendra Singh
Chauhan was on Thursday given additional charge of
Uttar Pradesh DGP, a day after Mukul Goel was removed
from the post by the Yogi Adityanath
government. Chauhan, a 1988-batch
IPS officer, has been given additional
charge till appointment of a permanent
DGP, Additional Chief Secretary (Home)
Awanish Kumar Awasthi said in an
order issued here. After removal of Goel
on Wednesday, ADG (Law and Order)
Prashant Kumar was given the addition-
al charge of the state police chief.
DS Chauhan
First India Bureau
Lucknow: With the
unceremonious trans-
fer of DGP Mukul
Goel, the race to oc-
cupy the coveted chair
has begun and several
claimants have al-
ready thrown their
hats in the ring.
While there is no
dearth of competent
and senior officers in
the state, the one who
gets to occupy the ‘hot
seat’ not necessarily
has to be the most
competent and sea-
soned among the po-
licebrass.“Theofficer
chosen to lead the
state would have to
possess several other
traits other than mer-
it,” points out a for-
mer IPS officer, wish-
ing anonymity
. Be
that as it may, the
names of Turn to P2
Race for top cop intensifies
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Confirming its first COVID-19 case on Thursday, North Korea’s Supreme
Leader Kim Kim Jong-un ordered a nationwide lockdown calling it the
“gravest national emergency.” The samples collected from people
suffering from fever in Pyongyang tested positive for Omicron variant.
N KOREA CONFIRMS
FIRST COVID-19
CASE EVER,
IMPOSES LOCKDOWN
The Union Ministry of Law and Justice Thursday announced Rajiv
Kumar, the current Election Commissioner, will take over as the next
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) from May 15. Kumar will take
charge from CEC Sushil Chandra, who is due to retire.
IAS RAJEEV
KUMAR IS NEW
CEC, WILL JOIN
ON MAY 15
HELICOPTER CRASH
AT RAIPUR’s AIRPORT,
TWO PILOTS DEAD
TATA SONS APPOINT
CAMPBELL WILSON AS
CEO, MD OF AIR INDIA
Two pilots were killed after a
helicopter crashed at an air-
port in Raipur. Captain Gopal
Krishna Panda and Captain
AP Shrivastava were killed in
the accident, police said.
Campbell Wilson, the former
CEO of low-cost airline Scoot,
has been named the new CEO
and MD of Air India. Wilson,
50, has an experience of 26
years in the aviation sector.
AAH Taj!
ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT JUNKS ‘TAJ MAHAL
ACTIVIST’s’ PLEA TO OPEN ITS 22 SEALED ROOMS
Prayagraj: The Alla-
habad High Court today
rejected the petition
seeking an inquiry into
the “history” of Taj Ma-
hal. Reprimanding the
petitioner, a bench of
Justices DK Upadhyay
and Subhash Vidyarthi
dismissed the petition
which asked for opening
of the doors of its 22
rooms to see “the truth,
whatever it is.”
The plea was filed by
Dr Rajneesh Singh, me-
dia in-charge of the
BJP’s Ayodhya unit.
Go and
research. Do
MA, PhD. Don’t
make mockery of
PIL system, says
HC as it snubs
petitioner, who
happens to be
media in-charge
of the BJP’s
Ayodhya unit
The issues
lie outside
court and should
be done by
various
methodology and
should be left
with the
historians, the
court added
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2
GYANVAPI: SURVEY TO GO AHEAD
‘CITIZENS NEED TO KNOW’
C
ivil Judge (Senior Division) Ravi Kumar Diwakar on Thursday a plea
by the Gyanvapi mosque management committee to replace the ad-
vocate commissioner it had appointed for conducting a videography
survey of the Gyanvapi-Shringar Gauri complex, and ordered the comple-
tion of the task by May 17. The judge also ordered police to register FIRs
if there are attempts to scuttle the exercise. More on P3
The petitioner argued that there
was a truth that the citizens of
the country needed to know
about the Taj Mahal. “I have also
filed many RTIs. I got to know
about many rooms have been
locked for security reasons.”
I welcome you to debate
the issue with us in the
drawing room and not
in a court of law. Tomorrow
you’ll come and ask us to go to
chambers of Hon’ble judges?
—The Bench said
CRUCIAL READ
VIA ORDINANCE, K’TAKA GOVT
PASSES ANTI-CONVERSION BILL
The government of Karnataka promulgated an
ordinance to give effect to the anti-conversion
bill on Thursday. The ordinance was approved by
the Cabinet after the Assembly and Council were
prorogued. Meanwhile, the Opposition questioned
the government’s way to put in force the bill.
KASHMIRI PANDIT
SHOT DEAD IN JK
PLANE CATCHES
FIRE IN CHINA
Rahul Bhat, a Kashmiri
Pandit, was fired upon
at the Tehsildar’s office
in the Chadoora village.
He was critically injured
and was been shifted to
a local hospital where he
succumbed to injuries.
China’s Tibet Airlines
plane with 122 people on
board skidded the runway
while taking off and
caught fire on Thursday.
All passengers and crew
were evacuated. 40 sus-
taining minor injuries.
WHO must be reformed, India ready to play
keyrole:ModiatBiden’sglobalCovidsummit
Ranil returns as SL’s
new Prime Minister
New Delhi: Speaking at
the second global Covid
summit on Thursday
,
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi said that the
World Health Organisa-
tionneedstobereformed
and strengthened to
“build a more resilient
global health security
architecture”.
He also called for
streamlining of the
WHO’s approval process
for vaccines and thera-
peutics in order to keep
supply chains stable.
“It is clear that a coor-
dinated global response
is required to combat fu-
turehealthemergencies.
Wemustbuildaresilient
global supply chain and
ensure equitable access
to vaccines and medi-
cine,” he said. The sum-
mit was hosted by US
President Joe Biden.
ANURAG THAKUR IN HIMACHAL TODAY
Union IB Minister Anurag Thakur will be visiting
Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh on Thursday.
He will be welcomed by the BJP workers at Banikhet
of Dalhousie Assembly constituency at 10 am.
Thakur will then attend a local programme in
Chamba at 11.30 am.
Colombo: Opposition
leader and former pre-
mier Ranil Wickremes-
inghe was sworn-in as
Sri Lanka’s 26th prime
minister on Thursday to
stabilise the country’s
debt-ridden economy
and end the political tur-
moil, a development
welcomed by India
which said it looks for-
ward to working with
the new government
and reaffirmed its com-
mitment to the Sri Lan-
kan people.
Wickremesinghe was
sworn-in as prime min-
ister by President Gota-
baya Rajapaksa, days
after his predecessor
MahindaRajapaksawas
forced to resign follow-
ing violent protests.
COURT BANS EX-PM
MAHINDA, ALLIES
FROM LEAVING SL
Colombo: A Sri Lankan
court has banned former
prime minister Mahinda
Rajapaksa, his politician son
Namal and 15 allies from
leaving the country over vio-
lence against anti-govern-
ment demonstrators. The
magistrate in the main city
of Colombo on Thursday
ordered police to investigate
Monday’s mob attacks.
PM Narendra
Modi said India
calls for “stream-
lining WHO’s
approval process
for vaccines and
therapeutics to
keep supply
chains stable and
predictable”
PM Modi said
that India
adopted a
‘people-centric’
strategy against
the pandemic. He
also highlighted
the use of
traditional
medicine in India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 2nd Global Covid
Virtual Summit, in New Delhi on Thursday.
June 10: Polls to 57
Rajya Sabha seats
...including four in Rajasthan

z The Election Com-
mission on Thursday an-
nounced June 10 as date of
polling for 57 Rajya Sabha
seats in 15 seats - Andhra
Pradesh, Telangana, Chhat-
tisgarh, Madhya Pradesh,
Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Odi-
sha, Maharashtra, Punjab,
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh,
Uttarakhand, Bihar,
Jharkhand and Haryana.

z Some of the prominent
names set to retire are Un-
ion ministers Mukhtar Ab-
bas Naqvi, Piyush Goyal,
Nirmala Sitharaman, as
well as senior Congress
leaders Kapil Sibbal and P
Chidambaram.

z Overall, Uttar Pradesh,
Tamil Nadu and Maha-
rashtra have the most
number of vacant seats
- 11, 6 and 6, respectively.
Bihar has 5, with 4 open
seats in Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka and Rajasthan.

z There will be 3
vacant seats in Madhya
Pradesh and Odisha, 2
in Punjab, Chhattisgarh,
Telangana, Haryana and
Jharkhand, and one in
Uttarakhand.

UTTAR PRADESH
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UNCEREMONIOUS
removal of DGP Goel
sparks off debate
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The uncere-
monious removal of UP
DGP Mukul Goel with
the government’s state-
ment against him has
led to debate in the offi-
cial circle in the state.
Never in the past the UP
government issued
such statement like
“negligence in duty, in-
dolence and lack of in-
terest n the work” while
shifting a DGP or any
other top officer head-
ing a department.
“This is unprece-
dented, I have never
seen such thing in the
past in UP”, said for-
mer UP DGP Vikram
Singh. Vikram Singh,
however, said that “the
government must have
some information
which led to such a sit-
uation”. While there
are unsubstantiated
charges of “hobnob-
bing with political ri-
vals especially Sama-
jwadi Party” against
him Goel was ADG (law
and order) when worst
communal riots broke
out in Muzaffarnagar
in 2013 during Akhilesh
Yadav’s government
(2012-17).
In 2000 during his
posting as SSP Saha-
ranpur he was suspend-
ed following murder of
BJP leader Nirbhay Pal
Sharma.
The officer was the
charged with not pro-
viding adequate securi-
ty to Sharma.
In the appointment
of Goel as DGP the gov-
ernment had also tried
to dispel the rampant
impression of “Thak-
ur-dominated” police
administration. How-
ever, he has now been
accused to “laxity in
work”. But sources
said since there were
impediments in perfor-
mance of his duties, he
again wanted to go
back to centre on depu-
tation as he has already
been empaneled to the
rank of DG.
Since 2010 Goel is the
fourth DGP to have
been removed from the
post before the comple-
tion of two-year tenure
as per the norms.
TALK OF TOWN
Sudden move of
the government
seems to be
‘unprecedented’
Former DGP Mukul Goel.
A CAREER FULL OF UPS AND DOWNS
Goel has been recipient of Gallantry award and
other service medals for his performance.
Goel’s long career has been full of ups and downs.
He was suspended along with 25 other IPS officers
in 2007 by the then Chief Minister Mayawati for
committing alleged irregularities in police recruit-
ment during Mulayam Singh Yadav regime (2003-
07). A PIL against his appointment as DGP in
which he was accused of indulging in corruption.
75 Anganwadi centres centres adopted
First India Bureau
Muzaffarnagar: Gov-
ernor Anandiben Patel
on Thursday attended
a programme where 75
Anganwadi centers of
Muzaffarnagar dis-
trict were adopted by
various universities of
the state and the Bank-
ing Association Muzaf-
farnagar.
Chaudhary Charan
Singh University,
Meerut, adopted 15 An-
ganwadi centers, Sha-
kumbhari Devi Uni-
versity, Saharanpur,
adopted 10 Anganwadi
centers while PNB, SBI
and Canara Bank ad-
opted 5 Anganwadi
centers each. Central
Bank of India, Indian
Bank, Punjab and Sind
Bank and Union Bank
of India adopted 3 An-
ganwadi centers each,
Bank of Baroda adopt-
ed 2 Anganwadi cen-
ters and 1 Anganwadi
center was adopted by
Bank of India. On the
occasion, Vipul Bhat-
nagar, President IIA
Chapter (Muzaffar-
nagar), Rajnish Ku-
mar, President Federa-
tion of Muzaffarnagar
Commerce and Indus-
tries, Satish Chandra
Goyal, Director, Tehri
Iron and Steel Casting
Ltd., Muzaffarnagar
and Sanjay Kumar
Jain, Director, Best
Rolling Mills Pvt Ltd.
Muzaffarnagar adopt-
ed 5 centers each.
In her address on the
occasion, the Gover-
nor said that even
though the Central and
State Governments
make various efforts
for upliftment of An-
ganwadi centers, there
is a need of contribu-
tion by the society
.
Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel during her
visit to Muzaffarnagar on Thursday inspected the
Banking Panel (State Bank of India), Aadhar Regis-
tration Center, Reception Room of One Stop Center,
Reporting Police Post, Medical Room, short stay
home, Kitchen etc. During the visit Central Manager of
One Stop Center, Pooja Narula informed the Governor
in detail about entire functioning of One Stop Center
and cases received in past few years. The Governor
inquired about condition of women residing in short
stay home and distributed fruits and hygiene kits to
them.The Governor also inaugurated the Creche set up
for children living with women prisoners in women’s
barracks and interacted with women prisoners and
appreciated the products prepared by them. Various
toys, fruits, sweets were distributed by Governor to
the women prisoners and their children.
GUV INSPECTS ONE STOP
CENTRE, OTHER FACILITIES
Governor Anandiben Patel in Muzaffarnagar on Thursday.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Aam’ is go-
ing to turn ‘khaas’ for
the second consecutive
year as the yield is
much lesser than ex-
pected.
Mango growers in
outskirts of Lucknow
say that extreme tem-
peratures in April have
taken a toll on all vari-
eties of mangoes.
“More than 20 %of the
fruit has been lost due
to temperature that
started rising in March
and continued till
April,” said Insram Ali,
President, All India
Mango Growers Associ-
ation.
Naseem Baig, Presi-
dent, Malihabad Phal
Mandi Samiti, said, “.
The flowering known as
‘baur’ got destroyed due
to heat. The high tem-
perature and scorching
heat have not only im-
pacted Dussehri but
also the late maturing
varieties like Chausa,
Langda, Safeda and
Lakhnauva, all of
which are also high on
export demand.”
Baig added, “When the
baur itself gets de-
stroyed it does not leave
much for the growers
for damage control.”
The saving grace, how-
ever, is the quality of
the fruit which is ex-
pected to be better be-
cause the yield is low.
“Since less yield
means more nutrition
for the surviving fruits,
Dussehri is expected to
be sweeter, juicier and
bigger in size and of
course, more expensive
too,” said Salim, anoth-
er mango grower.
Dussehri is expected
to hit the market by the
end of May or begin-
ning of June and the
price will be decided
after the harvest.
Mango crops are sen-
sitive to weather chang-
es during the flowering
stage. Weather condi-
tions affect the emer-
gence of panicles (baur)
which is the very first
stage of the crop and
usually happens in Jan-
uary
.
This year, even the
winters were quite
harsh and extended and
this made the panicles
emerge very late in
mid-February
. It is to be
noted that Uttar
Pradesh has at least
four lakh hectare under
mango cultivation in
north and central parts
of the state.
CROP STOP
lll
Rising
temperatures
in March and
April played a
role in
affecting the
panicles of
the mangoes
in Lucknow
With predictions of low yield. ‘aam’ set to become ‘khaas’ this year
OFF-YEAR
Race for top cop
intensifies in UP
Lucknow: at least four
senior IPS officers are
doing the rounds. Of
these, the two hottest
contenders are said to
be Raj Kumar Vishwa-
karma, chairman of
the Uttar Pradesh Po-
lice Recruitment
Board, and DG Vigi-
lance DS Chauhan.
Also in the reckon-
ing are DG Training
RP Singh and DG CB-
CID Gopal Lal Meena.
DG Prisons Anand Ku-
mar, according to
sources, is also not far
behind.
The Yogi govern-
ment will soon send a
list of three of these
names to the Center for
approval to appoint the
successor of Goel.
While Chauhan en-
joys an impeccable
reputation and image,
Vishwakarma is ahead
in seniority. Hailing
from the 1988 batch,
Chauhan is at number
five in seniority but is
said to be the hot favou-
rite.
He has been working
as DG Intelligence
since February 15,
2020. It is pertinent to
mention that both
Chauhan and Anand
Kumar have done a
stint in Gorakhpur and
are known to the BJP
brass.
But Uttar Pradesh
Police Recruitment
Board chairman Raj
Kumar Vishwakarma
is also a powerful con-
tender for the plum
post if seniority is tak-
en as the criteria for
the appointment as the
new DGP of Lucknow.
That he has been
performing well can be
gauged from the fact
that he has been given
additional charge of
many major depart-
ments from time to
time.
He also enjoys a
good image and cama-
raderie among his IPS
colleagues.
In terms of seniori-
ty, other IPS officers
who fit the bill are DG
Training RP Singh and
DG CBCID Gopal Lal
Meena.
According to sourc-
es in the Home Depart-
ment, after the remov-
al of the DGP, the gov-
ernment is in no mood
to take any decision
that the opposition can
make an issue of.
Rules of appoint-
ment state that senior-
ity has to be kept in
mind in selecting the
officer, which means
the state government
will have to choose the
DGP from among the
officers of 1987-88
batch.
Then, the Union
Public Service Com-
mission will select 3
senior IPS officers as
per the norms. One of
them would be handed
over the baton of the
top cop.
Till then, one can
only keep fingers
crossed.
FROM PG 1
UP govt plans to create international
record on International Yoga Day
DGP GOEL FAILED TO ACT
ON INTELLIGENCE INPUTS
State targets to double production
of maize in the next five years
First India Bureau
Lucknow: In order to
boost farmers’ income,
the Uttar Pradesh gov-
ernment has set a tar-
get to double the state’s
maize yield from the
current 14.67 lakh MT
and increase produc-
tion to 27.30 lakh MT
by 2027.
Maize is the second
most important cereal
crop in the world in
terms of acreage and is
called the ‘Queen of
Cereals’.The govern-
ment has been direct-
ing the farmers to
plant maize to increase
the income from un-
conventional crops.
To meet the target,
along with increasing
the area, there will be
equal emphasis on in-
creasing the produc-
tion per quintal per
hectare. Farmers’ in-
come can be increased
with more cultivation
of maize, which is used
as food, feed (poultry
feed) and fuel (grain
based ethanol).
Maize is also used in
pharmaceutical, cos-
metic, lap, textile, paper
and alcohol industries.
Apart from this,
maize is eaten in the
form of flour, ‘dhokla’,
baby corn and popcorn.
The demand for
maize is continuously
increasing in the mar-
ket due to its multiple
uses. Now, the state
government will make
the farmers aware of
the cultivation of
maize so that the farm-
ers of the state get max-
imum benefit of this
increased demand.
Along with educating
them about the im-
proved methods of
farming, the govern-
ment will also increase
the rate of seed re-
placement.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh plans to create
a world record of sorts
on International Yoga
Day on June 22 by con-
necting at least 7.5
crore people with yoga
to mark the 75th anni-
versary of India’s inde-
pendence.
The period from May
21 to June 21 will be cel-
ebrated as ‘Amrut Yoga’
month.
According to Chief
Secretary, Durga Shan-
kar Mishra, the Inter-
national Yoga Day will
be celebrated on a
grand scale. Mishra
has directed all District
Magistrates to prepare
a micro plan to achieve
the target of linking 7.5
crore people and make
it available to the
Ayush department.
However, plans are
afoot to hold yoga pro-
grammes at the Ganga
ghats on the occasion
of World Yoga Day on
June 21.
Cities along the Gan-
ga river will hold such
programmes on the riv-
er banks.
Kanpur District
Magistrate, Neha Shar-
ma has already direct-
ed all the departments
and their heads to en-
sure compliance of di-
rectives issued for the
Yoga Day to be held on
June 21 and submit
their work plan.
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even worse, failure by
the DGP to act on intel
inputs through timely
intervention to prevent
the flare-up.”
What is even more sig-
nificant about Goel’s
removal is the fact that
he was recommended to
the post by none other
than Union Home Min-
ister Amit Shah about a
year back. Before he be-
came DGP, Goel served
as Additional Director
General of the Border
Security Force.
CM Yogi, however, had
red-flagged Goel’s close
association with Sama-
jwadi Party (SP) chief
Akhilesh Yadav, espe-
cially in the run-up to
the Uttar Pradesh state
assembly elections.
Goel was found to have
been regularly meeting
up with the SP leader
and he even believed
that there was an immi-
nent change in govern-
ment in UP with Akh-
ilesh set to take over,
and was an almost daily
visitor to the opposition
party leader’s office.
He had also served as
Additional Director
General (Law and Or-
der) when the infamous
Muzaffarnagar riots
had broken out in 2013
under the SP govern-
ment led by Akhilesh
Yadav.
MAIZE HAS A LOT OF GROWTH
POTENTIAL IN UTTAR PRADESH
The state has a lot of potential for increasing its yield.
The average yield per hectare of the country and Ut-
tar Pradesh is 26 and 17.88 quintals respectively. In
2021-22, it was increased to 21.63 quintals. The aver-
age yield of Tamil Nadu, the largest producer of maize,
is 59.39 quintals. According to experts, the average
yield per hectare is possible up to 100 quintals. The
production per hectare in United States of America is
about 960 quintals. In such a situation, there is a lot
of potential for increasing the yield through improved
farming methods.
CM Yogi. —FILE PHOTO
PHQ in Lucknow awaits a new
Police chief’s presence.
FILE PHOTO

UTTAR PRADESH
03
CLEAN WEATHER, COLOURFUL SKY
Rainbow seen on the sky over Lucknow on Thursday evening during pleasant weather after
rain and strong winds. —PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR
CRUCIAL READ
Lucknow: Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, will be
arriving on a two day visit to his parliamentary constit-
uency Lucknow on Saturday. He will reach the state
capital at 10:30 am on May 14 and them head straight
to Hotel Regnant Nirala Nagar to attend a programme
“Namaste Lucknow with Shri Rajnath Singh” organized
by Lucknow Prabuddha Varg Foundation. Subsequently,
he will attend a workshop at Hotel Grand JBR “Capital
Market” at Gomti Nagar at 12.30 pm and and then leave
for Dilkusha residence.
ANSARI’S SON
ABBAS’S PLEA
DISMISSED BY HC
STF BUSTS IPL
BETTING RACKET, 6
ARRESTED
Prayagraj: The
Allahabad HC has
dismissed the petition
filed by Mau Sadar
MLA Abbas Ansari, the
son of mafia turned
politician Mukhtar
Ansari challenging
the FIR registered for
his alleged statement
threatening the govern-
ment officials with pay-
back at a public rally
in Mau district during
the state elections,
this year. On an earlier
occasion, court had
stayed the arrest of An-
sari and had directed
him to co-operate in
the investigation.
RAJNATH TO ARRIVE ON TWO-DAY VISIT
TO LUCKNOW ON SATURDAY
Lucknow: The Special
Task Force of the Uttar
Pradesh Police busted
an IPL betting racket on
Thursday and arrested
six people, including the
kingpin. According to
an STF statement, the
accused were involved
in betting on matches
in the ongoing Indian
Premier League cricket
tournament. “The racket
was active in Prayagraj
and nearby districts from
where the accused were
arrested,” it said. Those
arrested include, the king-
pin Vikas Kesarwani, and
Ambar Yadav, who acted
as the betting manager.
Lucknow(PTI): The
BJP is set to increase
its members in Rajya
Sabha from UP, while
the BSP and the Con-
gress would be the ma-
jor losers in the up-
coming election to 11
seats of the upper
house from the state.
Uttar Pradesh sends
31 members to Rajya
Sabha. Among the 11
retiring MPs from the
state, five are from the
BJP, three from the SP,
two from the BSP and
one from the Congress.
The Election Com-
mission on Thursday
announced that vot-
ing will be held on
June 10 Sto fill 57 Ra-
jya Sabha seats from
15 states, including
111 from Uttar
Pradesh. These seats
will be falling vacant
due to the retirement
of members between
June and August.
Kapil Sibal from
Congress, Satish
Chandra Mishra, BSP
general secretary, and
Reoti Raman Singh of
Samajwadi Party are
among the members
whose terms are end-
ing. With 403 elected
members in the UP as-
sembly, a candidate
will require at least 34
votes for victory. The
outcome of the recent-
ly held state assembly
elections has changed
the equation this time.
With 273 MLAs, the
BJP-led NDA will be
able to get eight mem-
bers elected easily,
while SP and its allies
(RLD and SBSP), with
a strength of 125 legis-
lators will be able to
ensure victory of
three candidates. The
Congress has two
MLAs while Mayawa-
ti’s BSP has one legis-
lator in the Assembly.
BJP to get more Rajya Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh
ENSURING VICTORY
lll
The Election
Commission on
Thursday
announced that
voting will
be held on June
10 to fill 57
Rajya Sabha
seats from
15 states
—PICTURE FOR REPRESENTATION
Mosque verdict: Commissioner
unchanged, break lock if needed
Janardan Misra
Varanasi:Dismissing
the appeal of Anjuman
Intezamiya Masajid
Committee, which man-
ages the Gyanvapi
Mosque in Varanasi, to
change the court-ap-
pointed advocate com-
missioner for conduct-
ing a videographic sur-
vey of the Gyanva-
pi-Shringar Gauri com-
plex adjacent to the
Kashi Vishwanath Tem-
ple, Ravi Kumar Diwa-
kar, Civil Judge (Senior
Division), Varanasi ap-
pointed a special advo-
cate commissioner and
an assistant advocate
commissioner and or-
dered to complete the
survey by May 17.
Judge Diwakar said
that the advocate com-
missioner appointed by
the court, senior lawyer
Ajay Mishra, will con-
tinue his duties and se-
nior advocate Vishal
Singh will be special
advocate commissioner
while senior lawyer
Ajay Pratap Singh will
be assistant advocate
commissioner for the
legal proceedings.
The district administra-
tion will have authority
to complete the legal
proceedings either by
opening the locks or
breaking them, the
judge said.
The order was cele-
brated by the petition-
ers and religious slo-
gans were raised out-
side the court premises,
while the Masajid com-
mittee has decided to
move the HC against the
order.
Security of the dis-
puted site and of Kashi
Vishwanath Temple
was enhanced after the
court’s order.
The counsel for the
Hindu side, Madan Mo-
han Yadav, said the
court has clarified that
videography will be
done inside the Gyanva-
pi Masjid. The mosque
management had said
there are locks prevent-
ing access to the two
basements. The court
made it clear that in
case the keys are not
available, the locks
should be broken to get
the survey done.
Kanpur(PTI): A
16-year-old mentally
challenged Dalit girl
was allegedly raped
multiple times after
being kidnapped
here in Barra, police
said on Thursday
.
The matter came to
the fore three days
ago, following which
the accused was de-
tained for question-
ing, they said.
The police said an
FIR was registered
under relevant sec-
tions of the IPC and
the POCSO Act after
medical tests con-
firmed the girl is two
months’ pregnant.
Additional Commis-
sioner of Police, Law
and Order, Anand
Prakash Tiwari said
the victim’s father
alleged that the ac-
cused had been phys-
ically exploiting the
girl for several
months and pressur-
ing her to adopt Is-
lam. Forensic ex-
perts have been
called in to collect
samples of the ac-
cused for DNA to
strengthen the case.
Dehradun(PTI): Over
two lakh pilgrims have
visited the Kedarnath
and Badrinath since
their opening on May 6
and May 8 respectively,
officials said on Thurs-
day
.
Till 4 pm on Thurs-
day 1,30,257 pilgrims
have visited Kedarnath
and Badrinath was vis-
ited by 76,968 devotees,
Badrinath-Kedarnath
Mandir Samiti, which
manages the temples,
said. It is an indication
that the four Himalayan
shrines are all set to re-
ceive a record number
of pilgrims this time,
Samiti chairman Ajen-
dra Ajay said.
Very good arrange-
ments for the conve-
nience of pilgrims have
been made along the
Chardham Yatra route
and they are thanking
the administration for
everything, he said.
Chief Secretary S S
Sandhu said it is only
natural for pilgrims to
arrive in large numbers
fortheCharDhamYatra
this time as it taking
place on its full scale af-
ter a gap of two years
duringwhichitwascon-
ducted in a severely lim-
ited manner due to the
Covid pandemic. How-
ever, in view of the car-
rying capacity of tem-
ples, a cap has been put
on the number of pil-
grims visiting them dai-
ly and their registration
has been made compul-
sory so that they face no
inconvenience, he said.
First India Bureau
Prayagraj: The Alla-
habad High court on
Thursday directed to de-
cide within four months
the temporary injunc-
tion application as well
as application for join-
ing the trial of all the
pending cases related to
Krishna Janma Bhoomi
of Mathura.
Justice Salil Kumar
Rai passed the order
while disposing of a pe-
tition filed by Bhagwan
Shri Krishna Virajman
And Another. Petition-
er’s plea was that his ap-
plication for temporary
injunction, restraining
members and persons
related to Sunni Waqf
Board from entering 13
acres of land of Krishna
Janma Bhoomi, was not
being decided by the tri-
al court, i.e., the Civil
Judge, Mathura.
The court while al-
lowing the application
observed, The Civil
Judge (Senior Division),
Mathura is directed to
decide the aforesaid ap-
plications expeditiously
preferably within a peri-
od of four months from
the date a certified copy
of thisorderisproduced
before him and after giv-
ing an opportunity of
hearing to the affected
parties, in case there is
no legal impediment in
deciding the aforesaid
applications.
Court has
given time till
May 17 to
complete the
survey
CARRY OUT SURVEY BETWEEN
8AM AND 12PM
The mosque management committee had opposed
filming inside the mosque and also accused the
court-appointed commissioner of partiality. Amid
opposition, the survey was stalled on Saturday and the
Masjid Committee went to court to appeal for changing
the court-appointed commissioner. The counsel for
the Hindu side, Madan Mohan Yadav, said the court
has clarified that videography will be done inside the
Gyanvapi Masjid. The court said the survey could be
done between 8 am and 12 pm daily till its completion.
Truth will soon come out, says VHP after
Varanasi court’s order on Gyanvapi mosque
New Delhi:The Vishva Hin-
du Parishad on Thursday
hailed a Varanasi court
direction for completion of
a video survey of the Gyan-
vapi mosque premises by
May 17 and hoped that the
“truth” will soon come out.
The RSS affiliate appealed
to the mosque management
committee to “cooperate”
in the implementation of
the court’s direction and
slammed the objections
being raised against the
video survey of the Gyanva-
pi-Shringar Gauri complex
by a court-appointed
advocate commissioner.
‘‘The country should now
hope that they will definitely
place the truth before the
court after completing the
survey in five days. All
sides should cooperate
in that instead of raising
objections,” Vinod Bansal
said in a video message.
The VHP’s reaction came
after a district court earlier
in the day rejected a plea to
change the court-appointed
advocate commissioner for
conducting a video survey
of the Gyanvapi-Shring-
ar Gauri complex and
appointed two additional
advocate commissioners to
assist him.
Mentally
challenged
girl raped in
Kanpur
Devotees stand in a queue to offer prayers at Kedarnath Temple on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Over 2 lakh pilgrims visit Char
Dham shrines in about a week
GOOD PLANS
Sort Temple-Idgah tiff
within 4 months: HC
Petition filed in
HC to enter the
Taj Mahal in
saffron robe
Prayagraj: A petition has been filed in the Allahabad
High Court in the matter of not allowing entry in the
Taj Mahal with saffron clothes. The petition has been
filed by Jagat Guru Paramahansa Acharya Dharmen-
dra Goswami through Advocate Abhishek Tiwari. The
petition has sought permission to enter the Taj Mahal
with saffron robes. The petition said that Jagat Guru
Paramhans had been prevented from entering the Taj
Mahal on 26 April with saffron robes. As the dispute
escalated, he was sent an invitation from ASI RK
Patel to enter the Taj Mahal. ”On this invitation, when
he went to the Taj he was asked to keep the saffron
robes. Despite repeated requests by Paramhansa, he
was not allowed to enter in saffron robes.

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SPIRITUAL SPEAK
Taste and see how good the Lord is!
The one who takes refuge in him is
truly happy! —Bible
Smriti Z Irani @smritiirani
At QS I-GAUGE Academic Excellence
Conclave, felicitated institutions
from across India for setting
high benchmarks in academia.
Congratulated institutions which
received ‘Institution of Happiness’
awards for making happiness
quotient an integral part of students’ lives on campus.
Dr. S. Jaishankar @DrSJaishankar
Glad to engage with senior IFS
officers undergoing MEA’s Mid
Career Training Programme-III.
The lively discussion reflected our
understanding of a changing world.
Confident that they would represent
India’s interests abroad effectively
in the decade ahead.
TOP TWEETS
n a landmark
judgment to
protect free-
dom of speech
the Supreme
Court denied unlimited
time to the government to
review the obnoxious Sec-
tion 124A of the Indian Pe-
nal Code, which was being
grossly misused by states
to suppress dissent and
criticism, and stayed its
operation.ItaskedtheCen-
tral government and those
in the states to refrain from
registering fresh cases till
the law is reviewed as per
Solicitor General Tushar
Mehta’s submission that
the Centre has prepared a
draft for the reconsidera-
tion of law. On that ground
the Centre wanted the case
to be deferred which the
Supreme Court rightly did
not agree to.
For all those who could
not voice their opinions
for fear of being jailed for
months, the verdict comes
as a major relief. However,
how draconian or soft it
will be in its new avatar
after the review can’t be
predicted but the govern-
ment would want to retain
some such weapon in its
armoury to keep dissent-
ers in check.
During arguments on
Monday the Centre re-
quested for time to re-ex-
amine IPC Section 124A
but the bench of Chief
Justice NV Ramana, Jus-
tices Surya Kant and Hima
Kohli wanted to know if
the government will put
the law in abeyance while
it is under review.
The sedition law was
struck down by the Pun-
jab and Allahabad High
Courts in the fifties for be-
ing against freedom of
speech, but in 1962 the Su-
preme Court upheld its
validity in the Kedar Nath
Singh versus State of Bi-
har. It has taken 60 years
for the apex court to grant
citizens the much-needed
freedom.
SC’S HISTORIC STEP
AGAINST SEC 124A
In a landmark judgment to protect freedom of
speech SC denied unlimited time to the
government to review the obnoxious Section
124A of the IPC, which was being grossly
misused by states to suppress dissent and
criticism, and stayed its operation
I
ISRAEL - PALESTINE CONFLICT
LATEST STATUS AND INDIA’S POSITION
India has backed the
Palestinian right to self-
determination and
recognised PLO ruled
independent state of
Palestine with its capital in
East Jerusalem. India has
voted for Palestine to be
full member of UNESCO
and to “non-member”
observer state at the UN
without voting rights
ackground. The Israelite
Monarchy is believed to
have existed as early as
11th Century BC and de-
spite first great Diaspora
the Jews remained origi-
nal inhabitants of the Pal-
estinian region till driven
out by Romans in 66 A.D.
from their homeland. The
conflict arose when the
Jews returned to their
homeland in Palestine
which was under Muslim
Rule since 6th Century.
Britain’s support for the
creation of Jewish state
of Israel (Balfour Declara-
tion, 1917) escalated the
conflict. Establishment of
the state of Israel on May
14, 1948, provoked an
eight-month war with the
Arab states.
There have been series
wars and conflicts involv-
ing Israel, Arab nations,
Palestine, Hamas and
Hezbollah. The prominent
ones are the Six-Day War
1967,YomKippurWar1973,
intermittent attacks on
each other by Israel and
Palestinian militants,
1978 - 2000 and Israel Leba-
non war 2006. The region
has witnessed two intifa-
das or Palestinian upris-
ings against Israeli rule,
from 1987 to 1993 and 2000
to 2005. The first one end-
ed in 1993 with Self-rule in
the Gaza Strip and the
West Bank. The second
intifada ended when Is-
raeli Defence Forces (IDF)
vacated occupation of
Gaza in September 2005.
Peace Initiatives.
United Nations Security
Council Resolution 242,
passed on November 22,
1967, called for the ex-
change of land for peace.
Since then, many attempts
to establish peace in the
region have been made es-
pecially by US namely,
Camp David Accord 1978,
Oslo Accords 19931995,
Peace summit between
Yasser Arafat and Ehud
Barak in 2000, US initia-
tive of Jun 2009 2010,
Revival of peace talks in
2013 and Donald Trump
peace plan of 2020. But the
dispute between Israelis
and Palestinians over
land, refugees and holy
sites remain unresolved
mainly due to lack of trust
between both the sides,
failure to present mutual-
ly acceptable peace plans
on security, settlement,
control over Jerusalem
and involvement of mili-
tant outfits like Hamas
and Hezbollah.
Current Status. The
region has witnessed
fresh violence in May
2021. Hamas fired over
2,000 rockets at Israel and
Israeli military airstrikes
razed buildings in the
Gaza Strip. The month of
Ramadan has been
marked by violence in the
West Bank, East Jerusa-
lem and terror attacks in
Israel, killing and injur-
ing many civilians. In-
flammatory rhetoric and
violent clashes between
Palestinians and IDF have
taken place at the Holy
Sites in Jerusalem.
Causes of Conflict.
The major issues that
need to be resolved be-
fore a lasting peace can
be reached are:-

z Disputed Borders, Division
of the land and Strong
emotions relating to the
conflict on both sides.

z Israeli settlements in the
West Bank and Rights
of return of Palestinian
refugees.

z Status of Jerusalem. The
three largest Abrahamic
Religions - Judaism (Tem-
ple Mount), Christianity
(Church of Holy Sepul-
chre), and Islam (Al- Aqsa
Mosque) hold Jerusalem
as an important setting for
their religious and histori-
cal narratives.,

z Security concerns
over terrorism, safe
borders, incitements,
violence and Water shar-
ing issues.
INDIA’S POSITION
AND WAY AHEAD
India and Israel marked
30 years of full diplomatic
relations in 2022 and both
countries have moved
closer since then and have
developed strategic part-
nership in areas such as
defence, security, agricul-
ture, water management
and innovation. Today the
Indo Israeli trade (exclud-
ing Defence) stands at 6.5
bn USD with balance of
trade in favour of India.
India has backed the
Palestinian right to self-
determination and recog-
nised PLO ruled inde-
pendent state of Palestine
with its capital in East
Jerusalem. India has vot-
ed for Palestine to be full
member of UNESCO and
to “non-member” observ-
er state at the UN without
voting rights. India has
extended monetary assis-
tance and implemented
construction projects in
Palestine and has a mar-
ginal trade to the tune of
30 million USD.
India has so far adopted
a balanced posture while
dealing with both sides.
During the visit of Pales-
tinian President to India
in 2017 the customary line
in support of East Jerusa-
lem as the capital of Pal-
estine was dropped and
Ramallah was excluded
from Indian PM’s itiner-
ary during his visit of Is-
rael. Subsequently Indian
PM separately visited Ra-
mallah in February 2018,
and called for an inde-
pendent Palestinian state.
Way Ahead. India’s re-
lationship with Israel has
to be on its own merits, in-
dependent and separate
from India’s relationship
with the Palestine. Indian
support to commence ne-
gotiations by both sides to
resolve all conflict issues
and achieve a two-state so-
lution to the problem re-
mains critical. If India
joins Arab-Israeli scientif-
ic and technological initia-
tives, where Israel is seen
not necessarily as an ene-
my
, but, rather, a potential
partner in achieving pro-
gress in the Middle East,
then India will be able to
protect and secure its
growing stakes and vital
interests in the region. As
India is emerging global
player in politics and eco-
nomics, de-hyphenating
Israel and Palestine be-
comesanessentialingredi-
ent of our foreign policy
.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
B
COL RAJESH
BHUKAR,
The author is a retired Army officer

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INDIA
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New Delhi (ANI): The
Supreme Court on
Thursday, refused to
grant any interim re-
lief in a matter pertain-
ing to the Life Insur-
ance Corporation of
India (LIC) initial pub-
lic offering (IPO) issue
and issued notice to the
Centre on petitions
challenging the consti-
tutional validity of pro-
visions of certain sec-
tions of Finance Act,
2021 and certain provi-
sion of LIC Act 1956. A
bench of Justices DY
Chandrachud, Surya
Kant and PS Narasim-
ha asked the Centre to
file a reply on various
petitions. But the bench
said, “We are of the
view that no case of in-
terim relief has been
made out. No interim
relief granted.” The
Court also tagged the
matter with proceed-
ings before the Consti-
tution Bench as the pe-
titions also raised is-
sues regarding the en-
actment of law as a
money bill.
One of the petition-
ers has challenged the
order of the Madras HC
while other one has
challenged Bombay HC
order.
PIL in Madras HC C
was filed by L Ponnam-
mal, a LIC policyholder,
challenging passing of
Finance Act, 2021 as a
money bill as he stated
that the amendment
does not fall in the cat-
egory of Money Bill.
Supreme Court refuses interim relief, issues notice
LIC IPO SHARE ALLOTMENT
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A bench of
Justices DY
Chandrachud,
Surya Kant
PS Narasimha
asked the
Central
government to
file a reply on
various petitions
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
has named 10 NGOs, including Omidyar, a US-based
organization, as accused in the
case of allegedly conspiring to
illegally facilitate the registration
and renewal of Foreign Contri-
bution (Regulation) Act (FCRA)
licences. FCRA is a mandatory
requirement to receive foreign funds. The FCRA unit
is part of the Foreigners Division of the MHA and it
offers services such as renewal of registration, filing
annual returns and even fresh registration. To main-
tain transparency, most of the services are online.
Omidyar was placed on a watch list by the MHA last
year and all of its foreign donations were restricted.
Ranchi: The Jharkhand
government has
suspended state mining
secretary Pooja Singhal
after she was arrested
Wednesday by the
Enforcement Directorate
in connection with a
money laundering case
and sent to remand for
five days. The state’s de-
partment of personnel,
administrative reforms
and ‘rajbhasha’ (official
language) has issued a
notice citing Singhal’s
arrest under section 19
of the PMLA Act as the
reason for her suspen-
sion.This comes after
chief minister Hemant
Soren on Wednesday
said his government
would take all ‘possible
legal actions’ against
Singhal following her ar-
rest.Singhal was arrest-
ed by the central agency
in connection with the
alleged embezzlement of
(MGNREGA) funds from
Khunti district.
New Delhi: The SC
directed the authori-
ties to examine future
applications for a grant
of visa to be filed by
those foreigners, who
were blacklisted from
travelling to India for
10 years for alleged
involvement in Tablighi
Jamaat activities, on a
case-to-case basis in ac-
cordance with law. The
apex court was hearing
pleas, including those
challenging the orders
blacklisting several
citizens of 35 countries
from travelling to India
for 10 years for alleged
involvement in Tablighi
Jamaat activities. A
bench headed by Justice
A M Khanwilkar noted
that SG Tushar Mehta,
appearing for Centre,
has in “all fairness”
submitted that separate
blacklisting order hasn’t
been served on petition-
ers or similarly placed
persons.
CBI NAMES 10 NGOS INCLUDING
OMIDYAR IN FCRA BRIBE CASE
JHARKHAND GOVT
SUSPENDS IAS
POOJA SINGHAL
FUTURE VISAS OF
BLACK LISTERS BE
REVIEWED, SAYS SC
IN THE COURTYARD
The petitions also raised issues regarding the enactment of law
as a money bill.
New Delhi (ANI):
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi on Thursday
stressed on 100 per cent
coverage of the welfare
schemes and said that
saturation is his dream.
The Prime Minister
added that saturation
leaves no space for ap-
peasement politics.
“My dream is satura-
tion. We should move
towards 100 per cent
coverage. Government
machinery should get
used to this and a belief
should be generated
among the citizens,” he
said while addressing
‘Utkarsh Samaroh’ vir-
tually
.
“The country has
made this resolve to
cover 100 per cent of the
beneficiaries. When
there is 100 per cent cov-
erage of schemes, the
appeasement politics
come to an end. There
remains no space for
it,” PM Modi added.
The PM also high-
lighted the motive of
his government as it
moves to complete eight
years at the Centre, and
said that his tenure has
been dedicated to ser-
vice, good governance
and welfare of the poor.
The Prime Minister re-
called his life in Gujarat
spent with the people of
the state and said that it
is due to his experience
here that he is working
for the country as a
member of the family
.
“The eight years of
my government at the
Centre have been dedi-
cated to service, good
governance poor’s
welfare. Whatever I am
able to do today, I have
learnt it all near you. It
is through that experi-
ence that I am working
for the citizens as a fam-
ily. It is government’s
effort that the deserv-
ing beneficiary
shouldn’t be left behind
from government
schemes,” he said.
“Saturation means that the benefit reaches the last person in society,” the PM said
‘APPEASEMENT POLITICS ENDS WITH
100% COVERAGE OF GOVT SCHEMES’
EMOTIONAL
PM PROMISES
HELP TO GIRLS
New Delhi (ANI):
PM Modi got emo-
tional while interact-
ing with daughter of
a beneficiary of govt
schemes who was
visually challenged.
He asked him if he
imparts education
to his daughters, to
which the latter said
that one of the three
daughters wanted
to become a doctor.
PM asked the rea-
son for the daugh-
ter to choose medi-
cine as a career, to
which she said, “I
want to become a
doctor because of
the problem that my
father is suffer-
ing from”. Getting
emotional, the PM
maintained a few
moments of silence
“Your compassion
is your strength,”
he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Utkarsh Samaroh through a video conference in
Gujarats Bharuch district, in New Delhi. —PHOTO BY PTI
PM TO PAY 5TH VISIT TO NEPAL ON MAY 16
New Delhi (ANI): Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
will pay an official visit
to Lumbini next week
on Monday at the invi-
tation of Nepali coun-
terpart Sher Bahadur
Deuba, according to the
Ministry of External Af-
fairs on Thursday. This
will be Prime Minister’s
fifth visit to Nepal since
2014. According to a
ministry statement,
PM Modi will visit
the sacred Mayadevi
temple to offer prayers
at Lumbini. He will
also deliver an address
at a Buddha Jayanti
event organized by the
Lumbini Development
Trust under the aegis
of the Government
of Nepal. Separately,
during his visit on the
occasion of Buddha
Purnima, PM Modi
will participate in the
“Shilanyas” ceremony
for the construction of
a centre for Buddhist
culture and heritage, in
a plot belonging to the
International Buddhist
Confederation (IBC),
New Delhi within the
Lumbini Monastic
Zone.
Chinaatdoor:IndianArmytobuy
12 more weapon-locating radars
New Delhi: The Army
is looking to acquire 12
made-in-India weapon
locating radars, which
would add significantly
to its defences along
the China front.
The system, called
the Swathi, enables sol-
diers to automatically
detect the location from
where enemy weapons
like mortars, shells and
rockets are being fired
upto a distance of 50
kilometres. The sys-
tem is capable of simul-
taneously detecting
multiple projectiles
which have been fired
towards friendly posi-
tions. Knowing the lo-
cation of enemy weap-
ons such as artillery
guns enables the Army
to launch a counter-
strike to take them out.
The Swathi radars,
which have been devel-
oped by the DRDO and
built by Bharat Elec-
tronics Limited, will
likely cost the ex-cheq-
uer Rs 1, 000 crore if
the acquisition is
cleared by a high-level
Defence Ministry meet-
ing. The newly devel-
oped Swathi system
was given for trials in
the Army in 2018.
ED siezes over `133cr worth
funds of former Odisha MLA
MEA, Saudi
counterpart
discuss devp
New Delhi (ANI): EAM
S Jaishankar held talks
with his Saudi counter-
part Prince Faisal bin
Farhan Al Saud and re-
viewed bilateral coop-
eration between the
two countries. “A good
discussion with FM @
FaisalbinFarhan of
SaudiArabia.Reviewed
our bilateral coopera-
tion and the Strategic
Partnership Council’s
progress. Also spoke
about the Ukraine con-
flict and its political,
energy and economic
fallout,” S Jaishankar
said in a tweet.
Bhubaneswar (ANI):
The Enforcement Di-
rectorate (ED) carried
out search operations
at various offices and
residential premises of
former MLA of Cham-
pua Constituency Ji-
tendra Nath Patnaik
related entities at Joda
in Keonjhar district
and Bhubaneswar un-
der PMLA Act, 2002
and seized Rs 70 lakh
cash and Rs 133.17 cr
fixed deposits in an il-
legal mining case. Pat-
naik has allegedly de-
rived undue pecuniary
advantage by way of il-
legal mining without
necessary statutory ap-
provals. “A seizure of
cash amounting to Rs
70L 124 Nos of fixed
deposits amounting to
Rs 133.17 cr have been
made during search op-
erations along with a
seizure of various in-
criminating documents
digital evidences,”
the ED said.
Colombo (PTI): Sri Lankan
Parliament will debate
a no-confidence motion
against President Gotabaya
Rajapaksa on May 17, the
Speaker’s Office confirmed
on Thursday, amid the
ongoing political turmoil
triggered by the worst
economic crisis plaguing
the debt-ridden country.
The decision was taken
during the party leaders’
meeting on Thursday. The
motion would be taken up
for debate after obtaining
special approval from
Parliament, the Daily Mirror
newspaper reported.Speak-
ing at a press conference
after the party leaders met
at the Parliament complex,
Speaker Mahinda Yapa
Abeywardena said that the
proposal submitted by the
leaders will be prepared
and handed over to the
President Rajapaksa.
New Delhi (ANI): In his
first visit outside Delhi after
taking over as Army Chief,
General Manoj Pande on
Thursday started his three-
day tour of the Ladakh
sector where he would
review the overall security
situation along the borders
with China and Pakistan.
The Army Chief arrived
in Ladakh on Thursday
and would be briefed on
the Line of Actual Control
(LAC) with China by North-
ern Army Commander
Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi
and ‘Fire and Fury’ Corps
Commander Lt Gen A
Sengupta. On the first day
of his visit, the Gen Pande
reviewed the equipment
used by the Army in the
Ladakh sector including
unmanned aerial vehicles
along with other ‘Made-in-
India’ defence equipment,
Army officials said.
SRI LANKA PARL TO DISCUSS NO-TRUST
MOTION AGAINST PREZ RAJAPAKSA ON MAY 17
ARMY CHIEF GEN PANDE VISITS LADAKH
TO REVIEW OPERATIONAL PREPAREDNESS
CRUCIAL READ
FAKE CH RAID:
4 CBI OFFICERS
ARRESTED,
DISMISSED
KASHMIRI
PUNDIT
SHOT IN
OFFICE
New Delhi: The
CBI has dis-
missed its four
sub-inspectors
allegedly involved
in a fake raid on
a company in
Chandigarh to
extort money
after arrest-
ing them in a
corruption case,
officials said.As
part of its zero-
tolerance policy
towards corrup-
tion, CBI Director
Subodh Kumar
Jaiswal swung
into action after
the episode was
brought to his
notice and issued
directions to
dismiss the ac-
cused officers-
Sumit Gupta,
Pradeep Rana,
Ankur Kumar,
Akash Ahlawat
from service,
they said.
Srinagar, (PTI)
A Kashmiri Pun-
dit government
employee, Rahul
Bhat was shot
dead by sus-
pected militants
at his office in
Chadoora area
of Budgam
district of JK.
The gunmen en-
tered the Tehsil
office and shot
at Rahul Bhat,
a clerk, the of-
ficials said. They
said Bhat, who
was residing in
a migrant colony
at Sheikhpura,
was shifted to a
hospital here but
succumbed to
his injuries.Cops
are searching
for assailants.
LEGAL PURVIEW
‘TN will take steps to
get share of Cauvery’
Chennai (PTI): Tamil
Nadu government will
take all possible steps,
including legal and po-
litical, to obtain its due
share of Cauvery water
from Karnataka, Chief
MinisterMKStalinsaid
on Thursday even as he
assured to safeguard the
interests of the farmers
in Tamil Nadu by better-
ing their prospects and
in not allowing indus-
trial ventures in the
Cauvery Delta region.
He asserted that the
pro-farmer initiatives
launched by his govern-
ment ensured a turna-
round on the agricul-
ture front, leading to
increased acreage un-
der the kuruvai paddy
cultivation.
Speaking at the maid-
en meeting of the Tamil
NaduProtectedAgricul-
tural Zone at the Secre-
tariat here, the Chief
Minister said the gov-
ernment would not al-
low any industrial ven-
tures that would affect
agriculture in the delta
region. The State gov-
ernment had declared
the Cauvery Delta re-
gion as a Protected Agri-
cultural Zone as per the
Tamil Nadu Protected
Agricultural Zone De-
velopment Act, 2020.
Thanjavur, Tiru-
varur, Nagapattinam,
Pudukottai, Cuddalore,
Ariyalur, Karur, and
Tiruchirappalli are
among the eight dis-
tricts covered under the
Act.“The government
will diligently strive to
protect the welfare of
the farmers and en-
hance the employment
opportunities of the
farmers and agricultur-
al labourers through
agro-based industries,”
said the CM.

INDIA
06
New Delhi (PTI): A
team of researchers at
the Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) Mandi
has developed efficient
remote powering and
communication tech-
nology for futuristic
IoT-based applications
such as battery-free
wireless cameras, wire-
less monitors, sensors
and skin-attachable
sensing platforms.
The findings of this
study were published in
the Wireless Networks,
a prominent journal.
The Internet of
Things (IoT) is a collec-
tion of objects that can
exchangedatawitheach
other through the Inter-
net. IoT devices range
from ordinary house-
hold appliances in a
“smart” home to sophis-
ticated industrial and
scientific tools. These
smart things are
equipped with sensors,
chips, and software that
must be powered and
stay in communication
with other devices at all
times.
According to the
team, simplistic power
sources like batteries
may be unsuitable for
such applications be-
cause of the constancy
of power required, and
because some of these
“things” may be embed-
ded or hidden, which
makes changing batter-
ies difficult. “We have
developed a cooperative
model, in which, back-
scatter communication
and radiofrequency en-
ergy harvesting devices
acttogethertooptimally
allocate the resources
such as time and anten-
na weights,” said Shi-
vam Gujral, PhD schol-
ar, School of Computing
and Electrical Engineer-
ing, IIT Mandi.
“In backscatter com-
munication, as before,
power is transmitted
via radio waves, but
with or without the
need for a dedicated
transmitter. Instead, RF
signals available in the
vicinity, such as WiFi,
cell phone signals, etc,
are harnessed through
reflection and backscat-
ter to power the IoT ob-
jects,” Gujral said.
IIT- Mandi team develops wireless powering tech for IoT apps
POWER OF COMMUNICATION
THE INTERNET OF THINGS IS A COLLECTION OF OBJECTS THAT CAN
EXCHANGE DATA WITH EACH OTHER THROUGH THE INTERNET
A view of IIT Mandi campus. —FILE PHOTO
New Delhi (PTI): The
SC on Thursday told
the ED that they can go
to Kolkata and conduct
the investigation in a
m o n e y - l a u n d e r i n g
probe, linked to an al-
leged coal scam in West
Bengal, in which the
agency had issued
summons to TMC MP
Abhishek Banerjee
and his wife Rujira Ba-
nerjee.
As the ED referred to
how CBI officials were
‘gheraoed’ in Kolkata
earlier and said that Ab-
hishek Banerjee is po-
litically “influential”,
the apex court observed
it may say the Kolkata
Police shall extend all
cooperation and the
state would be bound by
that, the moment the
agency would make a
requisition 72 hours in
advance.
A bench headed by
Justice UU Lalit was
hearing an appeal of
Abhishek Banerjee and
his wife Rujira Baner-
jee against a Delhi HC
order dismissing their
petition seeking quash-
ing of summons issued
to them in the money-
laundering probe
linked to an alleged coal
scam in West Bengal.
Sr advocate Kapil
Sibal, appearing for pe-
titioners, said they are
not preventing probe
ED can visit Kolkata
conduct probe. “Sup-
posing in case we say
whatever documents,
records you need, every
page shall be made
available and you can
come down to Kolkata,”
the bench, told ASG S V
Raju who was repre-
senting the ED.
Can go to Kolkata conduct probe, says SC
PLEA BY TMC MP ABHISHEK BANERJEE, WIFE
Birla:Actionplanneeded
toaddressNEchallenges
Centre has taken steps for region’s all round development, he said
Itanagar: LS Speaker
Om Birla while address-
ing the inaugural cere-
mony of two-day con-
ference of Common-
wealth Parliamentary
Association, India Re-
gion Zone 3, at State As-
sembly, emphasised on
the need to prepare an
action plan for diversed
northeastern states to
address their challeng-
es and achieve sustain-
able development.
The multiplicity of
topographical features,
tribal communities,
are significant chal-
lenges which, however,
is offset by ‘multifari-
ous strengths’ of NE, he
pointed out. “Diligence,
hardworking ethos,
people’s talent can be
harnessed to overcome
challenges,” Birla said.
Om Birla Inaugurated state of the art museum of Arunachal
Pradesh State Legislative Assembly in Itanagar on Thursday.
The northeast
has been affect-
ed by extrem-
ism terrorism for a
long time. The more we
nurture democratic
ethos, involve people in
democratic process,
make action plans for
development.
—Om Birla, LS Speaker
Covid-19: India records 2,827
fresh cases in the last 24 hrs
New Delhi: India on
Thursday recorded a
minor dip in daily Cov-
id-19 cases as compared
to a day before. A total
of 2,827 fresh cases
were reported in the
last 24 hours - 70 fewer
than Wednesday - tak-
ing the total tally of
cases to 43,113,413. The
country reported a total
of 24 deaths in last 24
hours, taking total fa-
talities to 5,24,181, ac-
cording to the union
health ministry
.
India’s active case-
load currently stands at
19,067 - it is 0.04% of the
total cases.The daily
positivity rate in India
stands at 0.60%, while
the weekly positivity
rate stands at 0.72%, as
per the health ministry
.
India’s cumulative Cov-
id-19 vaccine coverage
has reached around
190.83 cr people. Over
3.10 cr first doses 1.10
cr second doses have
been administered for
those aged 12 to 14 yrs.
New Delhi: Seeking to
give a thrust to medical
tourism, Union Health
Minister Mansukh
Mandaviya on Thurs-
day suggested establish-
ing facilitation centres
at Indian embassies
across the world for
people wanting to travel
to India for treatment.
Addressing a round-
table conference with
senior IFS officers on
Building Brand India,
he also said that a ‘One
Step’ portal will be set
up for the convenience
and to provide credible
information for those
from abroad who want
to avail treatment in
India.
“Today, people from
different countries of
the world are coming
to India for treatment
in large numbers.
With an aim to further
boost medical tour-
ism, the Government
of India has launched
‘Heal in India’ pro-
gram under the lead-
ership of the PM.
‘One Step’ portal will be set up
for convenience: Health Minister
Telangana needs ‘double
engine govt’: Sawant
Hyderabad (PTI): Not-
ing that Goa has
achieved rapid progress
under BJP rule with the
help of NDA govern-
ment at the Centre,
state CM Pramod
Sawant said Telangana
should also achieve
similar development
with a “double engine
government” in place.
He said “Goa takes up
development in every
way, as a double engine
government, with the
help of Central govern-
ment. You will come to
know if you visit Goa
and see as to what are
the benefits of double
engine,” Sawant said.
Kendrapada, Odisha: Odisha has escaped being hit by
Cyclone ‘Asani’, but the high tide under its influence
and the resulting erosion has washed away thousands
of eggs of Olive Ridley turtles from the mass nesting
site at the mouth of Rushikulya river off Ganjam coast.
The erosion in land mass at river mouth due to Cyclone
Asani near Podampeta in southern Odisha’s Ganjam
district was more than in other beaches in river mouth,
said Amlan Nayak, the DFO, Berhampur on Thursdsay.
Due to the erosion around 15 to 20% of record 5.5L
eggs laid by sea turtles in 5 km-long nesting site from
March 28 to April 4 might have been damaged, he said.
New Delhi (PTI): Gold in the national capital on
Thursday jumped Rs 241 to Rs 50,797 per 10 grams,
supported by a sharp fall in rupee, according to HDFC
Securities. The precious metal had ended at Rs 50,556
per 10 grams in the previous trade. In contrast, silver
declined by Rs 729 to Rs 60,158 per kg from Rs
60,887 per kg in the previous trade. Snapping its two-
day winning streak, the rupee slumped by 15 paise to
end at 77.40 (provisional) against the US dollar on
Thursday. In the international market, gold was trading
marginally lower at USD 1,851 per ounce while silver
was flat at USD 21.30 per ounce.
THOUSANDS OF OLIVE RIDLEY TURTLES’ EGGS
WASHED AWAY DUE TO ASANI’S IMPACT
GOLD JUMPS RS 241; SILVER DECLINES BY
RS 729, SAY STOCK MARKET EXPERTS
CRUCIAL READ
Shimla (PTI): Former Union minister Pandit Sukh
Ram was cremated on Thursday with full state
honours in Himachal Pradesh’s
Mandi as hundreds of people
joined CM Jai Ram Thakur and
other state ministers to pay their
last respects. Before the
cremation at Hanuman Ghat, his
mortal remains were kept for Seti
Manch for Antim Darshan. His son and BJP MLA
Anil Sharma lit the unreal pyre.
UNION MINISTER SUKH RAM CREMATED
WITH FULL STATE HONOURS
Dubai (AP): Dubai International Airport, the world’s
busiest for international travel, reported on Thursday it
handled over 13.6 million
passengers in first 3 months of
2022 more than double last year’s
number in a clear sign that a long-
awaited travel revival has reached
global aviation hub. This quarter’s
passenger count represents airport’s
busiest since the virus struck in 2020 compares to
just 5.7 million passengers logged last year.
TRAVEL IS BACK: DUBAI AIRPORT LOGS
BUSIEST QUARTER IN YEARS
Inflationsurgesto8-yrhighasfoodpricesspike
New Delhi (PTI): Re-
tail inflation soared to
an eight-year high of
7.79 per cent in April on
annual basis mainly
due to stubbornly high
food prices, remaining
above the RBI’s upper
tolerance level for the
fourth month in a row.
Inflation based on
the Consumer Price
Index (CPI) was 6.95
per cent in March this
year and 4.23 per cent
in April 2021.Inflation
in the food basket rose
to 8.38 per cent in April
from 7.68 per cent in
the preceding month
and 1.96 per cent in the
year-ago month.
The Reserve Bank of
India has been man-
dated by the govern-
ment to ensure that
inflation remains at 4
per cent with a margin
of 2 per cent on either
side.
Sanskrit scholar
Bhagirath Prasad
Tripathi dies at 86
Varanasi: Sanskrit
scholar Bhagirath Pras-
ad Tripathi, better
known as Vagish Shas-
tri, has died in Varanasi
after a prolonged ill-
ness, his family said on
Thursday. He was
86-years-old.
PM Narendra Modi,
expressing his condo-
lence tweeted, “Prof
Bhagirath Prasad Trip-
athi ‘Vagish Shastri’
made priceless contri-
butions in making San-
skrit more popular
among youth using
modern scientific meth-
ods. He was extremely
knowledgeable Pained
by his demise. Condo-
lences to his family and
friends. Om shanti.”
Abhishek Banerjee
Bulldozers roll in Delhi’s Madanpur
Khadar, AAP MLA held
New Delhi (PTI ): Con-
tinuing its controver-
sial anti-encroachment
drive within the nation-
wide capital, the BJP-
governed civic phy-
sique in the present day
rolled into Madanpur
Khadar in South East
Delhi and demolished a
number of buildings it
deemed as unlawful de-
velopment. As the stir
escalated, there was
stone pelting the po-
lice resorted to lathi-
charge to disperse an
indignant crowd. More
than 10 folks, two girls
the native MLA, Ama-
natullah Khan, have
been detained by police.
At least 168
terrorists active
in JK, 75 killed
this year:Army
Jammu (PTI): At least
168 terrorists are oper-
ating in Jammu and
Kashmir while 75 have
been killed in encoun-
ters with security forc-
es this year, officials
said. Among those neu-
tralised include 21 for-
eign mercenaries, they
pointed out. In past 11
months, 11 terrorists
were encountered 12
infiltration bids were
foiled in vicinity of the
LoC alone, they said.
Will call me once he
is free: Cong’s Patel
on RaGa’s snub
New Delhi: Rubbish-
ing speculations of him
joining the BJP, Guja-
rat Congress working
president Hardik Patel
said rumours are part
of politics. On Rahul
Gandhi not meeting
him personally during
his Gujarat visit, a de-
fensive Patel said there
was no time as he had
to wrap up a lot of
meetings with commu-
nity leaders in 5-6
hours.
Mansukh Mandviya
Pramod Sawant
Cases drop
everywhere,
except Africa
Geneva (AP): The number
of new coronavirus cases
reported worldwide has
continued to fall except
in Americas and Africa,
the WHO said in its latest
assessment of pandemic.
In its weekly pandemic
report released late
Wednesday, the U.N.
health agency said about
3.5 million new cases and
more than 25,000 deaths
were reported globally,
which respectively rep-
resent decreases of 12%
25%. The downward
trend in reported infec-
tions began in March.

Noida (PTI): Five peo-
ple, including four
from Maharashtra and
one from Karnataka,
were killed in a road
crash on the Yamuna
Expressway in Uttar
Pradesh’s Greater Noi-
da on Thursday morn-
ing, police said. Two
other people, who were
along with them in an
SUV
, were hospitalised
after the 5 am road
crash, police said.
Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath has ex-
pressed grief over the
incident and directed
Gautam Buddh Nagar
district officials to en-
sure proper treatment
to those injured.
“The seven people
were in a Mahindra
Bolero. They were on
their way from Agra
towards Noida when
their car hit a dumper
truck from the rear
side near Jewar toll
plaza,” a Gautam Bud-
dh Nagar police
spokesperson said.
The dumper truck has
been impounded by
the police, the official
said. Taking note of
the incident, the Chief
Minister’s Office
tweeted in Hindi, “CM
Yogi Adityanath has
expressed deep grief
over the loss of lives
due to collision of two
vehicles on Yamuna
Expressway in Greater
Noida. Praying for
peace to departed
souls, the chief minis-
ter has extended his
condolences to the be-
reaved families.” The
deceased were identi-
fied as Chandrakant
Burade (68), Swarna
Burade (59), Malan
Kumbhar (68), Ranja-
na Pawar (60) -- all four
residents of Maha-
rashtra’s Pune -- and
Nuwanjan Mujawar
(53), a native of Bel-
gaum in Karnataka,
according to police.
NEWS
07
BJP HAS TURNED
UP INTO ‘RAPE
STATE’, SAYS
AKHILESH YADAV
Samajwadi Party (SP) president
Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday
alleged the ruling BJP
government has “bulldozed” law
and order, and has made Uttar
Pradesh a “rape state”, where
women are not safe. The state
government under the BJP has
proved to be insensitive towards
women, Yadav said in a statement
here. “The BJP government in
Uttar Pradesh has bulldozed law
and order. It has now become
most unsafe for women. Schools,
homes, police stations and now
in hospitals, rapes are taking
place. Uttar Pradesh has been
made a rape state under the
second government of the BJP. It
has proved insensitive towards
women,” he said. Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath should not give
false advertisements of law and
order to deceive people, Yadav
said. The SP chief alleged that in
Kanpur, the police picked up a
mother-daughter duo without any
FIR, and the woman killed herself
after being harassed.
The rape incidents of Lalitpur,
Aligarh and Mirzapur have
brought bad name to the state, he
added. “Under the double-engine
government, the rate of crime has
risen with double speed. Police
stations have become hotspots of
anarchy. While development has
been set aside by the
government, hatred and activities
to divide the society are being
promoted,” Yadav claimed. —PTI
YOUNG MAN,
WOMAN FOUND
HANGING FROM
TREE; SUICIDE
SUSPECTED
Aman and a woman were found
hanging from a tree in this
district on Thursday, police said
suspecting it to be a case of
suicide. Local people claimed that
the 22-year-old man and the
19-year-old woman, residents of
nearby villages, were in a
relationship. Kheero Station House
Officer (SHO) Adarsh Singh said
the villagers spotted the bodies
near Basha bridge in the morning
and informed the police.
The bodies have been sent for
post-mortem, police said. Prima
facie it appears that the duo died
by suicide, the SHO said, adding
that a probe is underway. —PTI
2 COPS
SUSPENDED
AFTER MAN
ATTEMPTS
SELF-
IMMOLATION
Two policemen, including a
Station House Officer, were
suspended days after a man
attempted self-immolation outside
the district collectorate here as the
police failed to track his daughter
who was allegedly kidnapped,
officials said on Thursday. The
man, identified as Sanjay Nagar,
claimed that his daughter, a class
11 student was a victim of “love
jihad”, a term used by right-wing
activists to refer to alleged
conversion through marriage.
Confirming the development,
Superintendent of Police (City)
Nipun Agarwal said, “The SHO of
Maduban Bapu Dham police
station Sunil Kumar and police
outpost in-charge Ranjit Kumar
were suspended over dereliction
of duty.” The suspension was
ordered by Inspector General,
Meerut Zone, Praveen Kumar.
The suspended officials failed to
track the missing daughter of the
man who attempted self-
immolation, officials said. An FIR
was lodged at Madhuban Bapu
Dham police station on April 18 in
this connection. The investigation
and search for the missing girl is
underway. The district police has
pressed two teams to track the
missing girl. One of the teams is
being headed by SP (City),
officials added. —PTI
CM has directed officials to ensure proper treatment to those injured
Road accident on Yamuna
Expresswayleaves5dead
2 KILLED AS BIKE HITS DIVIDER
20-YEAR-OLD GANG
RAPED IN ALIGARH
School booked
for holding kids,
parents over
fee disspute
Aligarh (PTI): A
20-year-old woman was
allegedly raped in this
district by two men who
also uploaded a video
of the crime on social
media. One of the ac-
cused has been arrest-
ed, police said. The
woman, who narrated
her ordeal to a local
news channel on
Wednesday, had threat-
ened to kill herself if
the two, who are from
the same village as her
and known to her fami-
ly, were not arrested.
One of the two ac-
cused was arrested on
Thursday, police said.
She has alleged that the
accused took her to a se-
cluded place near her
village under Atrauli
police station limits on
April 14. They allegedly
forced her to consume a
spiked beverage there
and raped her when she
lost consciousness.
However, the rape
charges were not men-
tioned in the FIR. The
woman said that her
family did not lodge any
complaint immediately
after the incident fol-
lowing the mediation of
some elders and threats
by the accused. The
matter came to light af-
ter about 10 to 15 days
when a video of the in-
cident surfaced on so-
cial media, following
which her approached
police with a complaint
on May 5. The police
lodged an FIR on May 6
in which the two named
accused were charged
under section 354 (as-
sault or use of criminal
force against a woman
intending to outrage
her modesty) of the In-
dian Penal Code and
provisions of the IT Act
among others, Circle Of-
ficer Atrauli, Shiv Prat-
ap Singh told PTI.
Bareilly (PTI): 2 FIRs
were lodged against the
management of a pri-
vate school here for al-
legedly holding some
students and their par-
ents captive over a
fee-related dispute, offi-
cials said on Thursday.
According to the police,
over 30 students of the
school were forced to
stay inside a room on
May 7.
When the parents of
these students reached
the school, they too
were held captive inside
the campus for over 2
hours. The school man-
agement has refuted the
allegations of holding
students or parents cap-
tive. Inspector General
of Police Ramit Sharma
said, “I received a com-
plaint against the man-
agement of Hartmann
College for holding
some students and their
parents captive.
I have directed offi-
cials concerned to take
suitable action against
the accused.” On the
direction of IGP, an
FIR against the school
was lodged on Wednes-
day night.
TO END GENDER STEREOTYPES
Cabinet Minister
Baby Rani Maurya
inaugurates a one-
day programme
on gender equality
organised at the
auditorium of the
State Commission
for Women,
Lucknow, on
Thursday.
—PHOTO
ASHOK DUTTA
Three Myanmar nationals sent to six
months in jail for living in India illegally
NEW MICROBIOLOGY
LAB AT LUCKNOW’S
BALRAMPUR HOSP
Gang of thieves from
Raj nabbed in Agra
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Deputy CM
Brajesh Pathak con-
ducted a sudden inspec-
tion of Dr. Ram Mano-
har Lohia Institute of
Medical Sciences, Luc-
know on Thursday and
found that 2,40,668 types
of medicines worth
crores were neither giv-
en to the patients nor
returned to the depart-
ment and were found
lying in the drug store.
The Deputy CM was
displeased with the find-
ings ordered the Special
Secretaryof theMedical
Education Department
to conduct an inquiry
into the matter. Deputy
CM Brijesh Pathak who
holds the charge of
Health Ministry, since
taking charge as minis-
ter has been constantly
visiting hospitals to
check the facilities.
The Deputy CM also
visited Balrampur Hos-
pital, Lucknow, and in-
auguratedtheMicrobiol-
ogy Lab which will help
with all kinds of tests
available in the hospital.
He also verified the data
of medicines main-
tained in the PC and
sternly instructed the
doctors and director of
the institute to improve
the working methods.
Preeti Nagia
Agra: Police has
cracked the case of theft
of valuablesworthmore
than Rs 1 crore from the
house of a mobile trader
in Chandra Lok Colony
under the Jagdishpura
police station area and
have arrested nine ac-
cused, including 2 gold-
smiths, for the theft.
All the arrested per-
sons are residents of
the Ajmer district of
Rajasthan and are pro-
fessional robbers who
used to carry out bur-
glaries as per po-
lice. SSP Sudhir Kumar
Singh said that the
theft took place on the
afternoon of April 23.
He said that a team of
SOG, CIW, and surveil-
lance was constituted
under the leadership of
SP City Vikas Kumar to
investigate the inciden.
The arrested gold-
smiths used to smelt
the gold and silver jew-
ellery that was stolen.
During the interroga-
tion, the thieves told
police that Rs 22,000 in
cash was stolen in addi-
tion to the jewellery,
which they divided
among themselves.
They said that they are
natives of Rajasthan
butusedtoroamaround
in search of houses for
the stealing purpose.
Women were also the
part of their gang.
Muzaffarnagar (PTI):
A court at Kairana in
Shamli district has sen-
tenced three Myanmar
nationals studying in a
madrasa to six months
imprisonment for liv-
ing in India without a
visa. Judicial Magis-
trate Arun Kumar also
imposed a fine of Rs
2,000 each on three
brothers Furkan Hu-
sain, Rizwan and Nau-
man after holding them
guilty under section 14
of the Foreigners Act.
The court also directed
that they should be de-
ported to their country
Myanmar after serving
the jail term.
According to the
prosecution, the three
brothers were arrested
at Jalalabad town in
Shamli on July 28,
2019. According to
their lawyer Jansher
Choudhry, the court
has directed that since
the three have already
been in jail for over six
months, they should be
deported to their coun-
try of origin.
One accused has
been arrested,
according to police
Dy CM Brajesh Pathak at Balrampur Hospital in Lucknow on
Thursday. —PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR The arrested nine accused in police custody.
‘INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY’

08
2NDFRONT
The person with whom you can
share your wildest dreams,
treasure that person always.
—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
Gyanendra Kumar Shukla
Lucknow: For the
country’s oldest party,
getting the worst defeat
in the most populous
state is like turning a
nightmare into reality.
Victory is a distant goal
for the party; the imme-
diate challenge before it
is survival.
Notably, after 3 de-
cades, for the Congress
party, which got a
thumping majority of
269 seats in UP in 1985, it
has become difficult to
even touch the ten-seat
mark today
. In the year
2017,despitethealliance
with the SP, Congress
could win a meager sev-
en seats with a 6.25 per-
cent vote share. But in
the assembly elections
this time, the number of
seats of the Congress
party has slipped down
to two seats.
The vote percentage
has plummeted to 2.33
percent. The Congress
party has been com-
pletely wiped out even
from Amethi, and Rae
Bareli, which were once
considered bastions of
the Nehru-Gandhi fami-
ly
. The Congress party,
which contested 402
seats, could get the sec-
ondpositioninonlyfour
seats; the electoral secu-
rities of more than nine-
ty percent of the party’s
candidates were forfeit-
ed. In many seats, this
party got fewer votes
than NOTA. The party’s
UP state president Ajay
Kumar Lallu was also
badly defeated.
In the ongoing discus-
sion after the election
results,theideahasbeen
mooted to divide the
Congress organization
into West-East-Kanpur
Bundelkhand Awadh
region on the lines of
BJP
.Asperhighlyplaced
sources of the party
, a
requesthasbeenmadeto
the top leadership to en-
trust the command of
the state president to
such a person who can
carry out the task by
winning the trust of all
the workers at the grass-
roots level. It is also be-
ing considered to make
fourtofiveworkingpres-
idents under this state
chief.Politicalobservers
insist that the biggest
challengeforthepartyat
the moment is to retain
big leaders in the party
fold.JitinPrasada,Jyoti-
raditya Scindia, and
RPN Singh, once consid-
ered loyalists of Rahul
Gandhi, have become
part of the saffron camp
today
. With these veter-
ansbecomingturncoats,
a negative message has
been delivered to the
ground-level workers.
Nevertheless, selec-
tionof aninfluentialand
effective person for the
post of state president is
an uphill task for the
party strategists. The
Congressmen in UP are
hopeful that along with
restructuring of the or-
ganisation, the roadmap
regarding the alliance
will also be decided in
theChintanShivirbeing
organized in Udaipur.
Running out of ideas, UP Congress convenes ‘chintan shivir’
TIME-BOUND REVAMP
lll
The Congress
party, which is
becoming
electorally
irrelevant in UP,
has high hopes
from the
brainstorming
sessions to be
held in the
Chintan Shivir
SEEING FOR THEMSELVES
Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak talks with patients at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Lucknow
during a surprise inspection on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ASHOK DUTTA
Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya inspects Kanha Gaushala in Firozabad on Thursday.
—PHOTO BY PTI
‘TARGETING OPPONENTS’
‘STRANGULATION OF JUSTICE’:
MAYA BACKS AZAM KHAN
Lucknow (PTI): Com-
ing out in support of
senior Samajwadi Par-
ty leader Azam Khan,
BSP supremo Mayawati
on Thursday said his
continued incarcera-
tion is being regarded
as a “strangulation of
justice” by the common
man. Mayawati also hit
out at the BJP govern-
ment for allegedly tar-
geting the poor, Dalits,
tribals and Muslims
and harassment of its
political opponents.
In a series of tweets,
the BSP president said,
“In Uttar Pradesh and
other BJP ruled states,
like the Congress, the
manner in which poor,
Dalits, tribals and Mus-
lims are being harassed
by making them vic-
tims of atrocities and
fear is very sad, where-
as their (BJP) kindness
is continuing in the af-
fairs of others.”
SpeakingupforKhan,
the BSP president said,
“In this sequence, the
matter of continuous
hateful and terror (like)
action by the UP govern-
ment on its opponents
and keeping senior
MLA Mohammad Azam
Khan in jail for about
two-and-a-half years is
in the news which, in
the eyes of the people, if
not strangulating jus-
tice then what.”
Khan, a senior SP
leader and MLA from
Rampur, is currently in
jail on several charges
including corruption.
He has been lodged in
Sitapur jail for over two
years.
In a major relief to
him, the Allahabad
High Court on Wednes-
day granted Khan bail
in the case of illegal pos-
session of enemy prop-
erty
. Khan, a former
state minister, has got
bail in 88 out of 89 cases.
He will be released
from jail only after the
bailisgrantedinthelast
case. Mayawati, a for-
merUttar Pradeshchief
minister, also slammed
the anti-encroachment
drive carried out in
some places including
the national capital by
civic authorities.
New Delhi (ANI): The
Supreme Court on
Thursday issued notice
to the Uttarakhand gov-
ernment on a plea of
Jitendra Narayan Singh
Tyagi, formerly known
as Wasim Rizvi, against
the HC order rejecting
his bail in connection
with the investigation
into the hate speeches at
the Hardiwar Dharam
Sansad held in Decem-
ber last year.
A bench of Justices
Ajay Rastogi and
Vikram Nath sought the
State’s response on the
bail plea of Jitendra Ty-
agi while observing that
they are “spoiling the
whole atmosphere”.
“Before they ask to sen-
sitiseotherstheyhaveto
sensitise themselves
first. They are not sensi-
tised. This is something
which is spoiling the
whole atmosphere,” the
bench said while refer-
ring to the controversial
Haridwar Dharam San-
sad event. Tyagi, who
wasoncethechief of UP
Shia Waqf Board before
accepting Hindusim,
has challenged the
March 8 order of the Ut-
tarakhand High Court
which denied him bail.
“File the counter. We
are not concerned about
what happened, we have
to take the totality of
matter, punishment, pe-
riod of custody, etc.,”
said the apex court.
Ballia (PTI): Three rev-
enue department em-
ployees and another
person have been
booked for forging land
records, police said on
Thursday
. Complainant
Vinod Kumar Jaiswal
on Wednesday alleged
that a property, which
he owns, had been
fraudulently registered
in the name of another
person named Hanu-
man Prasad. Following
this, an investigation
was carried out and an
FIR was registered
against four people, in-
cluding a revenue clerk
officer (kanungo) and
two accountants (lekh-
pals), police said. Avi-
nashSingh,in-chargeof
Ubhaon police station,
where the case is regis-
tered,saidfurtherinves-
tigation is underway
.
BSP supremo Mayawati —FILE PHOTO
Mayawati also hit out at the BJP
govt for targeting the poor, Dalits,
tribals and Muslims harassment
of its political opponents
‘PEOPLE ARE BEING MADE
VICTIMS OF FEAR TERROR’
Mayawati slammed the
anti-encroachment drive
carried out in some
places including the
national capital by civic
authorities. “The manner
in which migrants and
people are being made
victims of fear and terror
in the name of encroach-
ment by adopting a
malicious attitude in
many states and their
livelihood is being
snatched, raises many
questions ,” she added.
Azam Khan’s hearing deferred due
to ‘absence of papers’, returns to jail
Sitapur (ANI): Samajwadi
Party leader Azam Khan,
who is lodged in Sitapur jail
for 38 months, was taken
to Lucknow on Thursday to
appear before the CBI court
today. However, due to the
absence of a few docu-
ments on the part of the
CBI, the hearing could not
take place and the SP leader
was set back to the Sitapur
jail. The next date for the
hearing will be given by
this evening. He was taken
to the court in connection
with a case concerning an
alleged Jal Nigam recruit-
ment scam which is being
investigated by the Central
agency. The investigation
of the alleged scam, which
was registered by the SIT
in 2017, was handed over
to the CBI. A total of eight
persons, including the
then minister Azam Khan,
Director Jal Nigam, and the
Project Manager, involved
in the alleged scam, were
granted anticipatory bail in
the case. However, Khan
was sent back to Sitapur
jail as charges could not
be framed against him
today due to the absence
of papers on the part of
the CBI in the case. After
Khan was produced in the
court, his advocate, Kalim
Rehman, said, “Today Azam
Khan was produced before
the court for the framing of
charges against him. The
court had sought some
documents from the state
government which were not
provided today.
Azam Khan appears in CBI court in Lucknow on Thursday.
SC notice to U’khand on plea
by Wasim Rizvi aka Tyagi
ACTION TAKEN

z Tyagi was arrested
in a case registered for
offences under Section
153A 298 of IPC.

z The HC had refused
him bail for making
derogatory remarks.
U’khand CM owns property
worth `2 cr, including rifle
C h a m p a w a t
(U’khand) (PTI): Ut-
tarakhand Chief Min-
ister Pushkar Singh
Dhami owns property
worth Rs 2 crore, in-
cluding a rifle. Dhami
declareditinanaffida-
vit filed along with his
nomination papers
recently for the May 31
bypoll to the Cham-
pawat assembly seat.
The fact that Dhami
owns a rifle does not
go with his amiable
and soft demeanour
and has become a hot
topic of discussion in
political circles here.
However, it is in keep-
ing with Defence Min-
ister Rajnath Singh’s
remark at a campaign
meeting in Pithor-
agarh when reacting
to Dhami being ad-
dressed on social me-
dia as “Pushpa” after
a popular south Indi-
an movie, he had said
“Dhami is not just a
flower but fire too”.
However, Dhami
stated in the affidavit
that he has never used
his rifle worth Rs 1.5
lakhclarifiedthatheis
underadebtof overRs
47 lakh and there is no
case pending against
him. He said he owns
property worth Rs 2
crore while his wife
Geeta owns property
worth Rs 47 lakh.
3 revenue dept officials
booked for forgery
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE
—PHOTO
BY
SUMIT
KUMAR
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MAY 13, 2022
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ajasthan State
Handloom Cor-
poration, under
the leadership
of CMD IAS
Neha Giri, con-
ducted the Ra-
jasthan Handloom
Show 2022 on the
eve of Ra-
jasthan Di-
was, which
is observed
on March
30 every
year. The
‘ T i m e
Travel’ con-
cept of the
fashion show was to
promote sustainable
fashion as well as the
craftsmen, weavers,
and manufacturers be-
hind textile crafts. The
fashion show’s design
development partner is
Aachho, one of India’s
premier ethnic wear
fashion firms situated
in Jaipur.
The complete collec-
tion was developed uti-
lising indigenous natu-
ral materials and tradi-
tional dyeing and print-
ing processes. The as-
semblage was wonder-
fully created by Rim-
jhim Hada, Founder
and Creative Head of
Aachho, with an em-
phasis on integrating
ethnic fashion tradi-
tions with modern sen-
sibilities. White prints
contrast with the
brightly blue coloured
attire. The colour white
is said to be neat, easy,
and absolute. It fills in
firm opposition to the
colour black, and its
aims are straightfor-
ward. As white light in-
cludes all the shades of
the spectrum, it’s a
comprehensive, unbi-
ased colour, choosing
no particular hue and
denying to take sides.
The colour white is il-
luminating, easing our
minds to concentrate
and assisting in coor-
dination. The colour
white is also
straightforward,
brings in trans-
parency, and marks cer-
tain boundaries. Also,
too much white colour
can be difficult, and
sometimes even mis-
leading.
Floral themes and
prints on chanderi,
Bagru Print and cotton
grabbed the show, with
matching bags, accesso-
ries, and shoes fash-
ioned from the same
fabric and oxidised sil-
ver jewellery.
The fashion show,
which took place at
Hawa Mahal, with mod-
els from Style Skool as
well as supermodels
Candice Pinto and
Deepti Gujral as show-
stoppers.
Sizzlin Scizzors, the
official make-up hair
partner followed the
show theme, giving all
the models a striking
look Diggi Palace set
an example for amazing
hospitality for guests.
The show was directed
by the renowned TV
stylist and fashion Cho-
reographer, Abhiman-
yu Singh Tomar and the
entire event was man-
aged by Abhishek Singh
from Vanamo Enter-
tainment. Official fash-
ion photographer Yash
Jangid captured magi-
cal moments thru his
lens. The collection will
be available on aachho.
com starting June 1.
GILDED GLAMOUR
GILDED GLAMOUR
WHITE ATTIRE
WHITE ATTIRE
THE COLOUR WHITE IN ITSELF LOOKS SO
PEACEFUL. IT IS A SYMBOL OF OFFERING,
HUMANE, APPRECIATION, ISOLATION, AND
ENDURANCE IF NOT STRAIGHT THEN
DIFFUSELY. CITY FIRST BRINGS TO YOU SOME
MORE GLIMPSES FROM THE EXOTIC FASHION
SHOW HELD AT HAWA MAHAL RECENTLY!
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ARIES
MAR 21 - APR 20
It’s a very good
day to take
calculated risks in
financial matters.
Those suffering
from chronic
ailments may
find remarkable
improvement
in their health with home remedies.
Today you will enjoy the trust of senior
management. Try remaining calm and
positive.
LIBRA
SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22
Your sole
dependency on
friends may fail to
bring any respite
from loneliness
today. The sound
financial health
of businessmen
would enable
them to give monetary benefits to
employees. Some of you are going to
experience emotional fulfilment on the
romantic front.
TAURUS
APR 21 - MAY 20
You will remain
much in demand
on the social
front. You
will succeed
in resolving
disputes with
family members,
and normalizing
ties. You need to stand by a romantic
partner during testing times to make the
relationship stronger. Seek the opinion of
an expert before anything.
SCORPIO
OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22
Avoid raising
controversial
issues at home
to maintain
harmony.
Successful
implementation
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.
GEMINI
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
Paying special
attention to
planning your
career would give
you 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.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV 23 - DEC 22
Investment in
antiques and
jewellery would
bring handsome
financial
gains. On the
professional
front, recognition
for good work
would motivate you to work harder. Those
awaiting an affirmation on the romantic
front are likely to get lucky today, as their
partner responds positively.
CANCER
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
Continue to put
in efforts at work
and you will
see promising
opportunities
coming your way.
A matrimonial
match for
siblings will bring
happiness to the entire family. You will
get a good price for your property. You
are likely to receive invaluable guidance
from a spiritual leader.
CAPRICORN
DEC 23 - JAN 20
You may get a
chance to pursue
an old hobby.
Health tips from
an expert will
enable you to get
closer to your
fitness goals.
Your generous
behaviour would enable you to enjoy
some lovely moments with your family.
Love comes your way as friendship turns
into romance.
LEO
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
You succeed in
completing an
important project
well before
the 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.
AQUARIUS
JAN 21 - FEB 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
on the romantic front bring back passion.
VIRGO
AUG 24 - SEP 23
Some of you
are going to
experience
emotional
fulfilment on the
romantic front.
Yoga would
help in raising
energy levels and
improving your metabolism. Emphasize
domestic affairs to enhance domestic
tranquillity and harmony. Associating
yourself with a social group today.
PISCES
FEB20 - MARCH 20
Better to consult
an expert in
financial matters
before investing.
Harsh words
may create a rift
in your romantic
relationship;
be careful. The
family will be supportive of my career
aspirations. A promising day overall as
you stay in limelight without any effort.
Health will be satisfactory.
YOUR
DAY
Horoscope by
Saurabbh Sachdeva
married woman
once said, “There
arenotmanythings
in life which can be
equal to the happi-
ness of a successful
marriage. And
there are not many things
worsethananunhappymar-
riage.”Thismakesmarriage
sound like a gamble. A cou-
ple can either win a lifetime
of happiness or experience
much pain.
Why do so many mar-
riages fail to bring happi-
ness? It is usually because
the wedded pair banks too
much on romantic love, an
emotion that is derived
more from one’s imagina-
tion and less from reality
.
Romantic love causes the
couple to think that all
their problems will be
solved by being happily
married. But marriage
multiplies these problems
which then results in frus-
tration. This love tempts
them to distort the facts,
where the woman may hide
her flaws through makeup
and the man may be in debt
and might not let her know
about it or he may claim to
be earning more than he is.
Infatuation is temporary
but true affection is not
short-sighted.Ittakesalong-
rangeviewof matters.There
isasayingthat‘loveisblind.’
But a person with true love
has eyes to see qualities, pos-
sibilities and faults. Such a
person can spare himself
from disillusionment and
disappointment.
In some ways, marriage
is like travelling through
an area one has never vis-
ited before. If we set out
with only a vague idea of
how to reach our destina-
tion, we are surely taking a
risk. This risk can be re-
duced if one consults some-
one who has made this
journey before.
Often persons have
useless thoughts and
considerations when
choosing a partner
than they do when bet-
ting on a horse, a counsellor
said. Honeymoons reveal
that two persons just do not
always want the same thing
at the same time. They must
try to complement and not
compete with each other.
Does marriage give a li-
cence for thoughtless
speech? Even if a partner is
right and has the best of in-
tentions, a harsh remark
still hurts. The other part-
ner could become sullen,
clam up and refuse to
talk or can retaliate
with similar
harshness. Both
partners must
consider how
costly their
w o r d s
can be in terms of the oth-
er’s self-esteem.
Is either partner indiffer-
ent, insensitive or blind to
the other’s needs, prob-
lems, feelings and wishes?
Being suspicious, over-pos-
sessive, rude, vulgar or dis-
respectful brings about a
gradual alienation and se-
rious psychosomatic ef-
fects in married life.
Many marriages gener-
ate discontent due to un-
reasonable expectations.
Some are dissatisfied
because they
imagine that
other couples
are happier
than them. The
reality is, that
there are un-
der the surface
problems in eve-
ryone’s life.
Difficulties,
cracks and rifts in a rela-
tionship develop over a pe-
riod of time, due to a series
of small irritations and
disagreements. A marriage
cannot be made happy
within a week or a month.
The process can be com-
pared to repairing the walls
of a house that is falling
apart. Kindness can be ap-
plied just as a mason ap-
plies cement brick by brick.
One can cement the fam-
ily bonds and promote the
well-being of the other
partner by not demanding
that everything be done his
or her way. Spontaneously
doing little things to make
the other person feel appre-
ciated and needed – the
very things that were
quickly done during court-
ship can lift the spirits.
A couple married for 70
years said, “the secret of
happiness is trust, trying
not to argue and a common
goal of helping others.”
These ideas can sound old
fashioned, but they work.
One can feel that what
works for another person
may not work for us be-
cause people have different
problems and personalities.
Nobody is perfect, hence
living with each other’s
weaknesses and having a
giving attitude are the foun-
dation of a marriage. A
woman, who struggled for
many years says, “I’ve
learned that it takes three
‘Cs’ to make a good mar-
riage – consideration, coop-
eration and communica-
tion. We failed to cultivate
them. We were busy mak-
ing a ‘good life’ and we be-
gan falling apart.”
A man after getting di-
vorced said, “I realized that
there’s more to life than
dancing and having fun at
the disco. I asked myself, do
I hope to meet someone
with whom to share my life
in a bar?” Kindness gives
special meaning to mar-
riage. There is a tendency
to think of oneself first.
Showing unselfish love
b r i n g s
many re-
wards.
MARITAL
MARITAL
BLUES
BLUES
IS HAPPINESS
IS HAPPINESS
ELUSIVE?
ELUSIVE?
A
REKHA KUMAR
Personal development skills facilitator

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