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MUMBAI l MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2022 l Pages 12 l 3.00 RNI TITLE NO. MAHENG/2022/14652 l Vol 1 l Issue No. 38
BRITAIN’S QUEEN ELIZABETH II OVERTOOK THAILAND’S KING ON
SUNDAY TO BECOME THE WORLD’S SECOND-LONGEST REIGNING
MONARCH IN HISTORY,AFTER FRANCE’S LOUIS XIV.THE UK IS
CELEBRATING THE 96-YEAR-OLD QUEEN’S PLATINUM JUBILEE
FRENCH VOTERS GO TO THE POLLS ON SUNDAY IN THE 1ST
OF 2
ROUNDS THAT WILL DECIDE WHETHER PRESIDENT EMMANUEL
MACRON GETS A WORKING MAJORITY IN PARL OR ENDS UP
WITHOUT SUPPORT NEEDED TO DRIVE BY HIS REFORM AGENDA
OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, LUCKNOW, NEW DELHI & MUMBAI l
SHIV SENA ROARS ITS DISCONTENT OVER RAJYA SABHA POLLS
Renni Abraham
Mumbai: The Congress
party may face difficulty
in getting both its pro-
posed candidates—Bhai
Jagtap and Chandrakant
Handore—elected in the
June 20 election of six
Maharashtra Legislative
Council (MLC) seats in
the state’s upper house
of legislature. This is a
possibility as the Shiv
Sena suffered its first po-
litical loss to the BJP in
the Rajya Sabha elec-
tions on Friday
.
The Sena blames its
MVA alliance partners
Nationalist Congress
Party and Congress of
having forsaken its sec-
ond candidate Sanjay Pa-
war, despite having com-
mitted nine and two ad-
ditional MLA votes.
The Sena is expected
toreturnthefavourinan
apparent political quid
proquotodentCongress’
second MLC candidate
Chandrakant Handore’s
prospects.
The main ruling party
in Maharashtra also
blames NCP chief
SharadPawarfornotem-
ploying any special strat-
egy to ensure the victory
of any other candidate
other than his own can-
didate Praful Patel. He
was elected to the Rajya
Sabha from Maharash-
tra after receiving 43
votes,alongwiththefirst
preference candidates of
the Congress and Shiv
Sena.
According to an MVA
leader, who preferred
anonymity fearing blow-
back on career, “Sharad
Pawar is constantly kow-
towing to the Turn to P6
EYE ON PAWAR
The Shiv Sena also blames NCP chief Sharad Pawar
for not employing any special strategy to ensure the
victory of any other candidate other than his own
candidate Praful Patel. He was elected to the Rajya
Sabha from Maharashtra after receiving 43 votes,
along with the first preference candidates of the
Congress and Shiv Sena.
Congress candidate Handore may
lose out on Vidhan Parishad seat
for want of Sena votes
Chandrakant Handore (right) with Bhai Jagtap after filing
nomination papers.— PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
Each man for himself in MLC elections, says CM Thackeray
Renni Abraham
Mumbai: After an ap-
parent Congress snub
and unenthusiastic
claim of an extra ballot
by Nationalist Congress
Party (NCP) chief
Sharad Pawar in the Ra-
jya Sabha elections held
on Friday, Shiv Sena su-
premo and Maharashtra
Chief Minister Uddhav
Thackeray has informed
his allies that it is each
man for himself in the
June 20 Legislative
Council (Vidhan Pari-
shad) elections.
ElectionstothesixRa-
jya Sabha seats from Ma-
harashtra saw the BJP
securing three Upper
House berths in the Par-
liamentforitsnominees.
On the other hand, the
Congress got one of it s
candidates elected by ex-
pending all its 44 first
preference votes on Im-
ran Pratapgarhi. And
the NCP elected Praful
Patel with 43 votes. This
means that three prom-
ised votes were denied to
the Shiv Sena and that is
why the party is smart-
ing now.
While the Shiv Sena
needed MLA votes from
its Maha Vikas Aghadi
alliance partners to
elect its second Ra-
jyaSabhacandidateSan-
jay Pawar, in the state
Legislative Coun-
cil polls, it
faces a prob-
lem of plen-
ty. It stands
to elect its
two candi-
dates Sachin
A h i r
a n d
Aamsha Padvi easily,
with additional votes to
spare. The Congress, on
the other hand, needs al-
liance votes this time to
elect both its MLC aspir-
ants Bhai Jagtap and
Chandrakant Handore.
It will have to placate the
Sena over the Rajya Sab-
ha voting fiasco other-
wise it stands to lose out
on votes for both its can-
didates.
Sena Spokesperson
andnewlyelectedRSMP
Sanjay Raut, who was
elected by the skin of his
teeth, played down the
simmering anger within
the Sena on Sunday. He
toned down his ‘outrage’
and refrained from level-
ling accusations on any-
one directly. “We have
the proper details of
those persons who did
not transfer their vote to
our party,” he said, add-
ing that the Sena will
consider its next move.
Both senior NCP and
Congress leaders includ-
ingwaterresourcesmin-
ister Jayant Patil and
Nana Patole respectively
exhibited confidence in
being able to contain fis-
sures in the MVA alli-
ance. However, the Se-
na’s displeasure has
been evident. While the
MVA alliance partners
will most likely survive
the current disaffec-
tions, the honeymoon
period of the MVA is
definitely over!
Miffed at losing out on getting Sanjay
Pawar elected to the RS, the Sena is
playing its cards close to the chest
PROPHET MUHAMMAD REMARK ROW
BULLDOZERS ROLL
FOR 2ND DAY IN UP
Moni Sharma
Lucknow: A day after
the Prayagraj Develop-
ment Authority (PDA)
issued a notice to Mo-
hammad Javed, who
has been accused over
his involvement in the
violence in the district
on Friday
, asking him to
vacate his house, the
civic body on Sunday
brought in bulldozers to
demolish the building.
“We have found a 12
bore illegal pistol and a
315 bore pistol and car-
tridges and some docu-
ments that show objec-
tionableremarksagainst
court,” said Ajay Kumar,
SSP
,Prayagraj.Thedem-
olition by the municipal
agency came just hours
afteranoticewasputout
outside the residence of
Javed claiming illegal
construction on ground
and first floors of house.
Bulldozer being used to demolish the illegally constructed residence of Javed Ahmed, a local leader
who was allegedly the key conspirator of violent protests in Prayagraj on Sunday.
THAKUR: NO PLACE
FOR VIOLENCE IN
DEMOCRACY
SPEAK UP MR PM:
THAROOR TO MODI
JHARKHAND POLICE
FILE 25 FIRs AGAINST
‘THOUSANDS’
CLASH BETWEEN 2 COMMUNITIES IN
GUJARAT AHEAD OF AMIT SHAH’S VISIT
Union minister Anurag
Thakur on Sunday said
there is “no
place for
violence in a
democracy”,
apparently
referring to
recent violent
protests in several parts of
country against controver-
sial remarks of suspended
BJP functionary Nupur.
Congress leader Shashi
Tharoor on Sunday said it
is high time
Prime Minis-
ter Narendra
Modi broke
his silence on
the “prolifera-
tion of hate
speech and Islamophobic
incidents” in the country,
asserting that his silence
is interpreted by some as
condoning what has been
happening.
Tension prevailed in
Jharkhand capital
Ranchi on Sunday, as police
strengthened security in
sensitive areas and reg-
istered 25 FIRs against
“thousands” of people in the
aftermath of violent protests
over controversial comments
on Prophet Mohammad.
Internet services, however,
were restored in the district
after nearly 33 hours, Ranchi
Deputy Commissioner
Chhavi Ranjan said.
Hours before Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to
Gujarat’s Anand district on Sunday, a clash broke out
between two communities over a land dispute near a Ha-
numan temple in Borsad. The two communities hurled
stones at each other. A total of four people, including a
police constable, sustained injuries.
l PDA conducts
demolition drive at
Prayagraj violence-
accused’s residence
l Illegal guns were
found in the house
before razing: Cops
Prime Minister’s dream of Atmanirb-
har Bharat can be achieved only
through Atmanirbhar village. And to
make Atmanirbhar village, passed out stu-
dents of the Institute of Rural Management,
Anand (IRMA) have a major role to play.
—Amit Shah, Union Home and Cooperation Minister
Our party and our
government believe
in unity and respect
of all religions. They
are going to work
together with all
parties. We believe in
‘Sabka Saath, Sabka
Vikaas’. Whatever
was said, our party
took a stand and
clarified that respect-
ing all religions is
our priority. We all
should also cooper-
ate in maintaining
law and order.
—Danish Azad, UP
Minority Affairs Minister
The action on
Javed’s house is part
of action taken by
PDA. The police are
present there only to
ensure that the law-
and-order situation
remains under con-
trol. It (demolition)
has nothing to do
with the police. The
case lodged against
him is separate…
We are not linking
it with the incident
on Friday. PDA
may have thought
it is time, and they
should explain that.
—Prashant Kumar,
UP ADG (Law and Order)
WB Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, his wife Dr Sudesh
Dhankhar visited bereaved family of Late Inspector Agni
Mitra at his village and consoled his wife Dipti, daughters
Aditi Adrita. Dhankhar assured all help including Rs
11 lakh from his side for daughters. Dhankhar also said
that Chief Secretary has been called to effect immediate
response to the communication sent by LoP Suvendu
Adhikari. This in context of earlier curtailment of his rights
is inappropriate. Why have undeclared emergency
HIGHLIGHTS
l Internet services have
been restored in Ranchi
after nearly 33 hours
l Kuwait to deport ex-
pats who protested over
remarks against Prophet
l 400 arrested over UP
violence alone; 13 injured
cops receive treatment
l 30 AIMIM workers
arrested over violence
l Protestors vandalise
train, loot shops in Nadia
district, West Bengal
l WB LoP Suvendu
Adhikari stopped from
visiting violence-hit areas
l Kolkata Police say over
100 held, appeals for
cooperation and peace
l Section 144 imposed
in Ghaziabad till Aug 10
Amit Shah stresses on
development of villages
Anand (ANI): Union
Home Minister Amit
Shah on Sunday said
that India cannot be-
come self-reliant unless
rural development is
made a contributor to
the country’s economy.
Addressing the 41st con-
vocation ceremony of
the IRMA Shah said
that institute is playing
a major role in strength-
ening the rural sector
through innovations in
education and profes-
sional management.
“The aspect of rural
development is to make
villages convenient. For
this, remote connectiv-
ity of villages is neces-
sary
. There was no elec-
tricity in villages earli-
er, we provided electric-
ity connenctions to vil-
lages,” he said. Quoting
Mahatma Gandhi, Shah
said, “Gandhi ji had
said country’s soul re-
sides in villages. Coun-
try can never become
self-reliant unless rural
devp is made contribu-
tor to India’s economy
.”
Amit Shah waves to supporters during foundation stone laying
ceremony for renovation of Shaila Lakelet, in Sanand on Sunday.
National Herald: RaGa to
appear before ED today
New Delhi (Agencies):
Congress is planning to
put up a huge show of
strength on Monday
when its leader and MP
Rahul Gandhi will ap-
pear before the ED for
questioning in connec-
tion with a case linked
to National Herald.
However, Delhi Police
on Sunday night denied
permission for planned
march in support of Ra-
hul. Citing “present
communal situation”,
police issued notice re-
jecting permission for
march. Cong has made
a new strategy for foot
march. Cong gen secy
Venugopal asked Mahi-
la Morcha to reach ED
office directly
.
Now, the 10 members
delegation of AICC in-
cluding Rajasthan CM
AshokGehlotwillreach
ED office directly
.
Day 1: IPL
media rights
bids cross
`43,000 crore
Mumbai (ANI): The
IPL media rights value
for the 2023-2027 cycle
has gone past Rs 42,000
crore and is expected to
go even higher as per
sources in BCCI. This is
nearly three times more
than what Star India
paid in the year 2017.
The details of who
bid what are yet to come
but the value for per
match TV
, and digital
rights value have sur-
passed Rs 100 crore
mark.
Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray

NEWS
MUMBAI | MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2022
02
First India Bureau
Mumbai: After regis-
tering a victory in the
Rajya Sabha election
from Maharashtra,
the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) has now
set its eyes on June 20
state council polls for
10 vacant seats. Elec-
tions are slated to be
conducted through
secret ballot, unlike
the RS polls.
“We are aware that
despite winning three
seats in the Rajya Sab-
ha, the Legislative
Council election will
not be easy for us. But,
we are confident main-
ly because of the inter-
nal conflict within the
Maha Vikas Aghadi.
We will register a vic-
tory in at least five
seats,” said Leader of
Opposition Devendra
Fadnavis.
The quota of votes for
the Council election is
27, and based on that,
opposition BJP can
elect four of its MLCs
while six of its mem-
bers will be retiring.
The ruling MVA had
proposed that in return
to making the Rajya
Sabha election unop-
posed, it would ensure
victory of the fifth BJP
candidate, which the
BJP declined. The MVA
is confident of winning
six seats, of which, two
seats may go to each of
the MVA constituents,
namely Shiv Sena, Na-
tionalist Congress Par-
ty (NCP) and Congress.
The Rajya Sabha
polls, which saw BJP
getting 123 votes, has
given the party confi-
dence that it will en-
sure the victory of five
candidates by ensuring
a few more votes from
the MVA. The contest
for the 10th seat is like-
ly to be between Prasad
Lad of BJP and Bhai
Jagtap of Congress.
Shiv Sena Spokes-
person Sanjay Raut
said that the MVA is
prepared to battle for
Legislative Council
seats. “We are sure to
have five seats. We re-
quire some extra votes
from others for the
sixth seat. We will work
on that,” he said.
Congress has 44
MLAs which will en-
sure victory of one of
its candidates, that is,
former minister Chan-
drakant Handore.
Meanwhile, Jagtap,
who is the Mumbai
Congress chief, would
require 17 more votes
to ensure his berth in
the Council.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Shiv Sena
MP Sanjay Raut on
Sunday said if con-
trol of the Enforce-
ment Directorate
(ED) is given to their
party, then even
Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) leader
Devendra Fadnavis
will vote for the Sena.
His reaction comes in
the backdrop of Shiv
Sena candidate Sanjay
Pawar losing the sixth
seat in the Rajya Sabha
polls from Maharashtra
held on Friday. It was a
contest which had be-
come a high-prestige
battle between the rul-
ing Sena and the opposi-
tion BJP in the state.
Fadnavis, the leader
of oppositioninthestate
Assembly
, has been
creditedwiththeBJP’s
victory on the sixth
seat. It was won by
party nominee
Dhananjay
M a -
h a d i k
by de-
feating
S h i v
Sena’s
Sanjay
Pawar.
Prior
to the
polls, Raut had alleged
that the BJP was using
central agencies to put
pressure on independ-
ents and smaller par-
ties to vote in favour of
BJP candidates.
The independents
and smaller parties,
some of whom had
pledged support to the
Sena, played a crucial
role in the BJP’s victory
.
Talking to reporters
on Sunday, Raut said,
“If the ED’s control is
given to us for two days,
thenDevendraFadnavis
too will vote for us.”
The Shiv Sena’s chief
spokesperson had on
Saturday described
BJP’s victory on three
RajyaSabhaseatsinMa-
harashtra as the “man-
date of horse-trading”.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Blaming the
NCP for the defeat of
ruling Shiv Sena’s
second nominee in
the recently-held Ra-
jya Sabha polls, BJP
MP from Ahmedna-
gar, Sujay Vikhe Pa-
til, on Sunday claimed
that the Sharad Pa-
war-led party has
been trying to finish
off Shiv Sena politi-
cally. He said that the
Independents were
not responsible for
Sena’s defeat.
“It is Shiv Sena and
Chief Minister Uddhav
Thackeray who have
sufferedthebiggestloss-
es in the last two-and-a-
half years,” he said.
In the fiercely-con-
tested polls for the total
six seats on Friday, Se-
na’s Sanjay Pawar lost
to BJP’s Dhananjay Ma-
hadik-its third nominee.
Other Maha Vikas
Aghadi partners-the
NCP and the Congress
won one seat each.
The BJP won all the
three seats it had con-
tested.
Speaking to reporters
in Ahmednagar, Vikhe
Patil claimed the Sena
hasbeensufferingpoliti-
cal losses since it joined
hands with the NCP and
Congress after the 2019
Assembly elections.
Vikhe Patil said Se-
na’s second nominee
lost because of the NCP
,
and Independents are
not responsible for his
defeat.
“Uddhav Thackeray
should be cautious and
pull himself out by un-
derstandingtheconspir-
acyof NCP
,”theBJPMP
said.
Without taking any
names, he said people in
Shiv Sena are not advis-
ing Thackeray properly
.
In the last two-and-a-
half years, several Shiv
Sainiks have quit the
Sena, he claimed.
Vikhe Patil wondered
why the quota of the
first preferential votes
of Praful Patel (NCP)
was increased from 42 to
43 in the RS polls.
He also asked why
Congress gave all the 44
votes to its candidate-
Imran Pratapgarhi-
when the quota was 41.
“In the Rajya Sabha
election which was held
through the open ballot,
the Congress could have
given 41 votes to its can-
didate and the surplus
votes to Shiv Sena,” he
said.
lll
Sena’s Sanjay
Pawar lost to
BJP’s
Dhananjay
Mahadik-its
third nominee;
NCP and the
Congress won
one seat each
RS POLLS
BJP MP blames NCP for defeat of Shiv Sena's second nominee
Uddhav
Thackeray
should be cau-
tious and pull
himself out by
understand-
ing the con-
spiracy of
NCP.
—Sujay Vikhe
Patil, BJP MP
BJP eyes 5 Maha Legislative Council seats
Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis celebrates with RS polls winning candidate Piyush Goyal.
—PHOTO BY PTI
As six members retire, the opposition party can get four of its MLCs elected based on quota of votes
STATUS QUO
The quota of votes for
the Council election is 27,
and based on that, oppo-
sition BJP can elect four
of its MLCs while six of
its members will be retir-
ing. The ruling MVA had
proposed that in return to
making the Rajya Sabha
election unopposed, it
would ensure victory of
the fifth BJP candidate,
which the BJP declined.
The MVA is confident
of winning six seats, of
which, two seats may
go to each of the MVA
constituents, namely
Shiv Sena, Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP)
and Congress.
First India Bureau
Jammu: Union
Minister of State
for Social Justice
E m p o w e r m e n t
Ramdas Athawale
on Saturday said
that Maharashtra
Chief Minister Ud-
dhav Thackeray
should have re-
signed after the op-
position Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP)
won three Rajya
Sabha seats from
the state.
He also claimed
that Shiv Sena lead-
ers and activists are
not happy with the
leadership over the
party’s alliance with
the Congress and the
Nationalist Congress
Party (NCP).
In a major setback
to Maharashtra’s
ruling Maha Vikas
Aghadi (MVA) alli-
ance, the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP)
won three of the six
Rajya Sabha seats
from the state on Sat-
urday, even as the
ruling combine
questioned the eight-
hour delay in the
counting of votes.
“The BJP has giv-
en a severe jolt to
Maha Vikas Aghadi.
It is such a jolt that
Uddhav Thackeray
has no right to re-
main in power.
When they have
lost, they should
have resigned on
their own,” the Un-
ion minister of
state for social jus-
tice and empower-
ment told reporters
in Jammu.
He said one is de-
clared a winner even
if the margin is one
vote or two votes.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Union
Minister and BJP
leader Narayan
Rane on Sunday de-
manded Maharash-
tra Chief Minister
Uddhav Thacker-
ay’s resignation,
citing the Shiv Se-
na’s performance
in the Rajya Sabha
(RS) elections, and
claiming that his
Maha Vikas Aghadi
(MVA) government
was in minority
.
Talking to the me-
dia, Rane said the
defeat of Sena’s sec-
ond candidate in the
polls was an embar-
rassment for the
chief minister, who
is also the president
the party.
“They (Shiv Sena)
didn’t even get votes
necessary to keep
them in power. They
did not even get the
MVA alliance votes.
The chief minister is
in minority. You
(Thackeray) resign
and step aside. He
has taken Maharash-
tra 10 years behind,”
Rane said.
In the fiercely-con-
tested polls for the to-
talsixseatsonFriday
,
Sena’s Sanjay Pawar
lost to BJP’s Dhanan-
jayMahadik-itsthird
nominee. Other MVA
partners- NCP and
Congress won one
seat each. The BJP
wonallthethreeseats
it had contested.
Taking a dig at
Thackeray
, Rane said
he has no credibility
and he cannot even
takecareof hisMLAs.
“They (MVA candi-
dates)didnotevenget
enough votes that are
necessary to ensure a
majority (to form the
government). Your
MLAs defect and that
shows that there is no
credibility
. You can-
not take care of your
MLAsbuttalkbig.We
(BJP), despite being
in the opposition, got
more votes than what
you got,” the former
chief minister
claimed.
Uddhav should
resign after BJP
RS win: Athawale
Rane demands
CM’s resignation
post polls result
Even Fadnavis will vote for us
if given ED control, says Raut
AFTER RAUT ACCUSES BHUYAR OF
CROSS-VOTING PAWAR CALMS HIM
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP)
supremo Sharad Pa-
war on Sunday en-
gaged in damage con-
trol by meeting with
Independent MLA De-
vendra Bhuyar. The
Swabhimani Paksha
MLA was upset after
Shiv Sena’s Sanjay
Raut accused him of
cross-voting in the Ra-
jya Sabha polls held
on Friday. According
to reports, Pawar
managed to persuade
Bhuyar to continue
his support of the
Maha Vikas Aghadi
comprising Shiv Sena,
NCP and Congress,
ahead of the June 20
Maharashtra Legisla-
tive Council elections.
“Sharad Pawarsaheb
had asked me to come
and meet him. He ex-
plained that Sanjay
Raut’s remarks were out
of somemisunderstand-
ing and even called him
in front of me. I told him
that I have always been
a loyal supporter of the
MVA government and
will continue to be one,”
Bhuyar told reporters
after meeting Pawar in
Mumbai.
Bhuyar, an MLA of
the Morshi assembly
constituency in Amra-
vati,hadreactedsharply
when Raut on Saturday
named him among the
MLAs who did not vote
for the Shiv Sena, lead-
ing to the Sena candi-
date Sanjay Pawar’s de-
feat. The Shiv Sena
spokesperson had also
named three MLAs of
the Bahujan Vikas
Aghadi (BVA), an inde-
pendent MLA from Kar-
malaSanjaymamaShin-
de,NandedMLAShyam-
sunder Shinde among
those who did not vote
for Sanjay Pawar in the
Rajya Sabha polls.
On Saturday, Bhuyar
had taken strong excep-
tion to Raut naming
him among the MLAs
that betrayed Sena’s
trust after promising to
vote for the party’s can-
didates.
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale. —FILE PHOTO BJP leader Narayan Rane
The BJP has
given a severe
jolt to Maha Vi-
kas Aghadi. It is
such a jolt that
Uddhav Thac-
keray has no
right to remain
in power. When
they have lost,
they should
have resigned
on their own.
—Ramdas
Athawale, Union
Minister
Taking a dig at
CM, Rane said he
has no credibility
and cannot even
take care of his
MLAs
AFTERMATH
The Shiv Sena’s chief spokesperson had on Saturday
described BJP’s victory on three Rajya Sabha seats in Ma-
harashtra as the “mandate of horse-trading”. He had also
accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of siding
with the opposition party, which he claimed “put pressure”
on the poll panel. Some horses were up for sale at a higher
price and shifted sides despite assurance of their votes to
our candidate, he had said.
Sanjay Raut
Devendra Bhuyar
had taken strong
exception to Raut
naming him
among the MLAs
that betrayed
Sena’s trust
Sharad Pawar —FILE PHOTO

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OF INJURIES, DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
MAN DIVES INTO RIVER TO SAVE WOMAN,
HER DAUGHTERS FROM DROWNING
GIRDER LAUNCHING OF LOWER PAREL
BRIDGE POSTPONED TILL JUNE 13
STRANGER TRIES TO KISS TEEN WAITING
FOR TRAIN, BOOKED FOR MOLESTATION
Akola: A tremor of 3.5 magnitude was recorded on
Saturday evening in Akola, officials said. Meteorolog-
ical Department Scientific Assistants Milind Dharkite
and Kartik Vanve said the tremor was recorded at
5:41 pm and the epicenter was around 21 km from
Akola city. No injury or damage to the property has
been reported due to the tremor, Resident Deputy
Collector Sanjay Khadse said.
Murbad: A 42-year-old man saved a woman and her
two daughters from drowning while he was carry-
ing out the last rites of one of his relatives at Kalu
River near Sangam village. The man, Anil Gondhali
of Manivali village in Murbad, saw the three falling
into the water while washing clothes at the weir built
on the river. Gondhali was half-a-kilometre away
but still jumped into the river, swam towards them
and managed to pull all the three out. The three
were unconscious and were taken to a hospital and
were discharged on Saturday after being on oxygen
support for three days. Gondhali was felicitated for
his bravery by the Murbad police.
Mumbai: The launch of girders at Delisle road over
bridge at Lower Parel has been postponed to Mon-
day as WR now plans to undertake this work after
midnight for four consecutive days. WR said that
launch of the 90 m long girder will be done with help
of push technique as the girder weighs more than
1,000 ton. WR’s chief public relations officer Sumit
Thakur said, “All the preparations have been done
meticulously at the launch site. We hope to complete
the work smoothly, without hampering the rail traffic
that runs beneath the under-construction bridge.”
The ROB was shut for traffic in July 2018 after it was
declared unsafe by a team of IIT experts.
Mumbai: A 35-year-old man held a 19-year-old
college girl by the neck and tried to kiss her while the
teenager was waiting to board a train at Khar railway
station on Thursday, police said. The accused ap-
proached the girl from behind and was nabbed after
she screamed for help. This is the second case of an
assault on a college student on railway premises this
week. The accused, Alok Kanojia, was caught by the
railway police patrolling on platform number 4. He
had come to Mumbai from Jabalpur two days ago.
The Government Railway Police (GRP) at Bandra
railway station arrested Kanojia under the section of
the IPC for outraging the modesty of a woman.
CRUCIAL READ
dose for staff, vaccines for students
First India Bureau
Mumbai: As schools
get ready to begin the
new academic year
from Monday, the
government has is-
sued COVID-19-relat-
ed guidelines for
schools amid increas-
ing COVID-19 cases in
the state. While the
guidelines insist on
booster shots for
both teaching and
non-teaching staff,
schools have been
asked to encourage
vaccination among
children over the age
of 12.
Following Education
Commissioner Suraj
Mandhare’s initial
guidelines issued on
Thursday, which clari-
fied any confusion
about the date of school
reopening, the school
education department
issued a Government
Resolution (GR) regard-
ing the start of the new
academic year.
Apart from reiterat-
ing the school reopen-
ing dates, the June 10
resolution also lists
various precautions
that schools should
take if any students
test positive for COV-
ID-19.
According to the
guidelines, if both ini-
tial doses are complet-
ed, local education de-
partments at different
wards must ensure
complete vaccination
of teaching and non-
teaching staff, includ-
ing the precaution dose.
Furthermore, they
must raise awareness
about the importance
of COVID-19 vaccines
and encourage people
to make arrangements
for them if necessary.
Schools are also being
asked to encourage vac-
cination for children
over 12-years-of age.
The guidelines make
no mention of masks,
which asked schools
and parents to adhere
to local administra-
tion’s guidelines.
“The schools are ex-
pected to create aware-
ness among parents to
avoid sending their
wards to schools if
there are any COVID-
19-related symptoms. If
any student is found
having such symptoms
while on the school
premises, the manage-
ment is expected to pro-
vide an isolation facili-
ty followed by adminis-
tering the test – either
antigen or RT-PCR. If
any student tests COV-
ID-19 positive all other
children, who came in
close contact should be
tested for Covid,” states
the resolution.
Meanwhile, Mand-
hare issued another set
of orders instructing
schools to celebrate
the first day of
school, which is two
days after the reopen-
ing. The idea behind
this initiative is to
create a happy and en-
ergetic atmosphere in
schools so that students
are excited to come
back to school.
According to the
guidelines,if both
initial doses are
completed,local
education
departments at
different wards must
ensure complete
vaccination of
teaching and non-
teaching staff,
including the
precaution dose
Maha govt
issuedpandemic-
related
guidelines for
schools amid
increasing
COVID-19 cases
in the state
Pune man tests +ve for
BA.5 OMICRON VARIANT
First India Bureau
Thane/Mumbai: A re-
port on genetic se-
quencing from BJ
Medical College and
Sassoon General Hos-
pital on Saturday has
diagnosed a 37-year-
old man from Pune
with the BA.5 sub-
variant of Omicron.
According to officials,
he returned from
England on May 21
and has been fully
vaccinated.
“His sample was pro-
cessed at the Indian In-
stituteof ScienceEduca-
tionandResearch,Pune.
“The patient, who had
mild symptoms, was di-
agnosed with COVID-19
on June 02 and cured af-
ter being in home isola-
tion,” said Dr Pradeep
Awate, Maharashtra
surveillance officer.
Dr Rajesh Kar-
yakarte, state coordina-
tor for genome sequenc-
ing, said, “There was no
major symptom and the
authorities are keeping
a close watch on ICU
and hospital admis-
sions. We are also track-
ing the variant, and so
far sporadic cases of
BA.4 and BA.5 sub-var-
iant of Omicron are be-
ing diagnosed.”
Incidentally, Maha-
rashtra had reported its
first cases of COVID-19
infection with BA.4 and
BA.5 sub-variants in at
least seven cases in
Pune. Thane district
has reported 543 new
COVID-19 cases for the
third day in a row, rais-
ing its infection count
to 7,13,653, an official
said on Sunday. These
new cases were record-
ed on Saturday, he said.
Maharashtra on Sun-
day reported 2,946 fresh
coronavirus cases, in-
cluding 1,803 in Mum-
bai, and two fatalities,
while the number of ac-
tive cases rose to over
16,000. A total of 1,432
patients recovered from
coronavirus infection
in the last 24 hours in
Maharashtra.
Caseload has been steadily rising in Maharashtra over the past few days. —PTI PHOTO
Over 500 new
COVID-19 cases
in Thane for 3rd
consecutive day
2,946
NEW COVID-19 CASES
recorded on Sunday, the
count of active patients rose to
over 16,000 in Maharashtra.
TUNED UP
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Mumbai
Narcotics Control Bu-
reau (NCB) unit seized
4.88 kg of charas con-
cealed in a special cav-
ity made inside a wa-
ter purifier, an NCB
official said on Sun-
day, adding that two
people were arrested
in connection with the
seizure.
The drug was to be
senttoAustraliathrough
a courier service.
Acting on a tip-off, the
NCB seized the drug on
Friday
. The value of the
seized contraband was
not revealed by the NCB.
The NCB has arrest-
ed the consignor and a
courier agent on Satur-
day
. During the prelimi-
nary questioning of the
duo, it has been found
that the courier fran-
chise owner is also in-
volved in drug traffick-
ing. The courier agent
used to send parcels
without verification of
the consignor’s identity
and had also sent sev-
eral of such parcels
many times on the in-
structions of the “main
receiver”.
A fake identity was
used by the consignor to
ship the parcel through
courier.
“This network has
sent many such types of
parcels in the past. The
kingpin had created lay-
ers in the delivery net-
work,” the official said.
Villagers say won’t part with land for Metro carshed
First India Bureau
Thane: A sizable num-
ber of villagers from
Murdhe, Rai and
Morva in Thane dis-
trict’s Bhayander re-
gion have expressed
opposition to the ac-
quisition of their cul-
tivable lands for the
construction of a
metro carshed.
The carshed, for the
13.5 km Metro Line
number 9 between Da-
hisar in Mumbai and
Bhayander, is expected
to come up over 27.70
hectares of land.
Ashok Patil, Presi-
dent of the Bhumiputra
Samajik Samanvay San-
stha, a group formed by
disgruntled villagers to
carry forward their
fight, on Sunday said
some 300 property own-
ers and their kin will be
affected if land is ac-
quired for the carshed.
The carshed is to
come up 2.5 km from
their villages, and the
Maharashtra govern-
ment and Mumbai Met-
ropolitan Region Devel-
opment Authority want
to take over land of vil-
lagers instead of opting
for salt pan plots or a
privately held plot of
225 acres in the vicinity,
he alleged.
The Centre and the
Maharashtra govern-
ment are locked in a dis-
pute over the ownership
of 100 acre land in the
Kanjurmarg area. The
former has claimed that
adecreeinthenameof a
privatefirmwithrespect
to the land was obtained
fraudulently and should
be held as null and void.
Carshed was to be set up for the 13.5 km Metro line between
Dahisar and Bhayander. —FILE PHOTO
They have alleged that 300 property owners will be affected by the project
Local train services on the Central, Harbour and Western
lines were disrupted on Sunday as maintenance work on
rail tracks and other related projects was conducted by
designated workers at Mahim station in Mumbai.
—PHOTOS BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
4.8 kg cannabis hidden
in water purifier seized,
two arrested by NCB

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Narendra Modi
@narendramodi
The youth power of the country is the
cornerstone of New India and in the
last eight years we have left no stone
unturned to empower it. Be it the new
education policy or the expansion of
IITs and IIMs, from new start-ups and
unicorns to Khelo India Kendra, every
necessary initiative has been taken for
the youth.
NsitharamanOffice
@nsitharamanoffc
Indian economy has rebounded
strongly despite 3 significant
#COVID19 waves, the US Treasury
has said in report to Congress...
After contracting 7% in 2020, output
returned to pre-pandemic levels by 2nd
quarter of 2021, with full-year 2021
growth of 8%.
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
But seek first the kingdom
of God and his
righteousness, and all these
things will be added to you.
—Bible
IN-DEPTH
TRADE WAR IS
ALL SET TO BEGIN
AT WTO MEET
IN GENEVA
ommerce and trade
ministers from 164
member-countries
are scheduled to meet
at the 12th Ministeri-
alConferenceof theWorldTrade
Organisation at Geneva from
June 12-15, 2022. The meeting is
taking place after a gap of two
years as the one due in 2020 was
postponed due to the pandemic.
There are a host of thorny issues
like subsidies, export restric-
tionsonfarmproductsetc.which
the developed countries want
eased. The developing countries
insist on retaining them in their
own interests. In the agriculture
sector, developed countries are
opposed to imposition of export
curbs in certain cases but India
is against the proposal as it may
hurt domestic food security
.
Subsidy in fishery is another
issue which the big countries
want developing countries to
cut while continuing with deep
sea fishing. India wants the big
countries to slash subsidies
first. The developed countries
will try to have their way but In-
dia and other developing na-
tions are ready for a face-off.
TOP TWEETS
C
lections to find
Ram Nath Ko-
vind’s successor
will be held in
July
. The Bharati-
ya Janata Party is all geared
up with numbers to ensure
victory of the National Demo-
cratic Alliance candidate. On
its own the NDA is short by
13,000 votes but its allies---the
Biju Janata Dal of Orissa and
the YSR Congress Party of
Andhra Pradesh---have more
votes than needed to see the
NDA nominee through. The
BJD has over 31,000 votes and
the YSRCP has 43,000 votes.
A fragmented opposition
has its task cut out. First of all
ithastoensureunityinitsdif-
ferent camps. Unity efforts
have resulted in a face-off be-
tween Congress President So-
nia Gandhi and West Bengal
CM Mamata Banerjee with
both the leaders have called
for separate meetings urging
different political parties to
cometogether.MamataBaner-
jee has asked several opposi-
tion leaders, including Sonia
Gandhi and chief ministers
foran“effectiveandstrongop-
position against divisive forc-
es”. Her initiative has taken
many leaders by surprise.
Mamata’s initiative came
afterSoniaGandhihadsetthe
ball rolling when the Election
Commission announced the
scheduleforPresidentialelec-
tions.Likeinseveralprevious
Presidential elections, Mama-
ta has thrown her hat in the
ring even if it means jeopard-
ising the opposition’s chanc-
es.Theoutcomeof theopposi-
tion’s efforts to close ranks
can easily be foreseen. Based
on that, it is also easy to pre-
dict the NDA’s success in the
July 18 election to the nation’s
highest office as both the ini-
tiators of opposition unity
lack the ability to secure sup-
port of all regional satraps.
BEFORE PREZ POLL THE
SHOW OF DISUNITY
Outcome of opposition’s
efforts to close ranks
can easily be foreseen.
Based on that, it is
also easy to predict
the NDA’s success in
July 18 election to
nation’s highest office
as both initiators of
opposition unity lack
ability to secure support
of all regional satraps
E
ne of the complexities of Raj
Dharmaistheneedtobalance
scarce resources and priori-
tisewhatisbest‘forthelargest
goodof thelargestnumber’.A
state has to maintain a fine
balance between interests
whichareantagonistictoeach
other and evolve a consensus
that is more or less acceptable
to the key stakeholders. In
fact, the clash between legisla-
tiveintent,judicialinterpreta-
tion and the ground level is-
sues which administrators
havetofaceisperhapsinevita-
ble.Thisinevitabilityperhaps
explains the title of Gur-
charan Das’s book ‘The Diffi-
culty of Bring Good’ – for if
beinggoodwaseasy
,mostpeo-
ple would prefer to do so, and
the world would neither need
the state, not Raj Dharma!
In the Indian context , there
are three additional points
which add to the complexity :
we have a carefully crafted
compromisebetweentheFun-
damental Rights and the Di-
rective Principles of State
Policy , contradictions be-
tween rights of individuals as
citizens of India rights
which emanate from their
membership of a community
– SC/ST/OBC/Minority com-
munity , and last but not the
least ,a very wide disparity in
the economic, social, cultural,
intellectual endowments with
which people are born .
Overtime,manyof theseis-
sues are resolved, but newer
ones emerge for we live in a
world in which the expecta-
tions of stakeholders will al-
ways exceed the capacity of
the state to fulfil them. When
the state expands its capacity
,
it extends its powers, includ-
ing those of coercion. The
very first amendment to the
Constitution saw the dilution
of theRighttoFreedomof Ex-
pression,aswellasof theFun-
damental Right to Property
and endorsement of sedition
laws. In fact, without the first
amendment, the abolition of
Zamindari would have been
rendered difficult, if not im-
possible. The main argument
proffered by the state was that
addressing issues of hunger
and employment took prece-
dence over any other Right
enshrinedintheConstitution.
Over the years, there was a
political consensus on land
reforms as well the need to
strengthen the PDS and some
kind of an employment guar-
antee, and finally in the first
decade of this century
, the
Right to Work and the Right to
Food were adopted in a rare
showof bipartisanconsensus.
As things stand today
, The Na-
tional Food security Act cov-
ers nearly seventy percent of
thepopulationandofferscere-
als, pulses, oil, and sugar at
affordable rates. PDS outlets
across the country as well as
welfare schemes like Mid-day
meal and ICDS centres for ex-
pectant and lactating mothers
have addressed the issue of
hunger and absolute depriva-
tion. Besides,theMGNREGA,
has ensured that the landless
and the marginal farmers
haveatleastahundreddaysof
employment in a year. Be-
tween these two rights, the is-
sue of Roti (basic food) has
been resolved.
In the hierarchy of basic
needs, next to Roti is Kapda –
clothing. Till three decades
ago, many state governments
ran the ‘dhoti- saree scheme’
to provide two sets of clothes
to the BPL families before the
festival season. To the best of
my knowledge this has been
discontinued in all states, for
the‘market’hasaddressedthe
needs of all segments of soci-
ety
, including those at the Bot-
tomof thePyramid(BoP).The
expansionof thetextileindus-
try
, coupled with availability
of recycled clothes, rejects
from brands and export sur-
pluses have ensured that al-
most everyone in the country
– from the workers at con-
struction sites to nursing as-
sistants – have access to
clothes as well as footwear.
Thus, we have the interest-
ing proposition under which
thestateensuredRoti,andthe
markets provided Kapda.
Working in tandem they have
also been able to address the
issue of Bijli(power), Sadak
(roads) and Paani(water).
While the state has offered
subsidy for the consumption
of some basic units of water
and electricity to very house-
hold, the tolling at the high-
ways has generated resources
fortheroadbuildingprogram.
However, with respect to a
roof over every head - neither
the state, nor the market has
a grip over the situation. This
is further complicated by the
fact that the judiciary is giv-
ing two sets of instructions.
While on the one hand some
High Courts have directed
the district administration
and municipal authorities to
remove all encroachments
and report compliance to the
court:TheSChasheldinCha-
meli Devi versus the state of
UP that the right to shelter is
a fundamental right available
to every citizen and it was
read into Article 21 of Funda-
mental Rights and Article 39
of Directive Principles of
State Policy of Constitution
of India as encompassing
within its ambit, the right to
shelter to make the right to
life more meaningful.
Isitnotcommonknowledge
that an overwhelming major-
ity of those who live in the
most precarious conditions in
Malin Bastis or JJ clusters be-
long to the BoP
, and do not
havethewherewithaltoowna
roof over their head? The liv-
ing conditions in the slums –
whether authorised or unau-
thorised – are not such that if
a person can afford to, she will
not move out. Is it not obvious
that the land on which their
dwelling unit is built is an en-
croachment? If this be case,
then threat of removal actu-
ally makes the occupants of
these unauthorised colonies
‘electoral fodder’ for parties?
As the occupation is not legal,
the threat of eviction, coupled
with prospects of regularisa-
tion keep voters in a state of
permanent dependency
.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
O
However, if, and only if
political parties , cutting
across party lines evolve a
consensus on the Right to
Shelter will we be able to
move ahead and find
innovative financial, legal
and technology packages to
address the issue .After all , if
we harbour the ambition of
emerging as a global power
with a five trillion-dollar
economy by 2025, and forty
trillion by 2047 , we will
have to factor in the
burgeoning need and
demand for ecologically
sustainable, financially
stable, culturally enriching
habitations in which
children and women have
amenities to ensure their
development as per the SDGs
to which India is a
signatory.
SANJEEV CHOPRA
The writer is Distinguished Fellow,
USI Delhi and Historian Policy
Analyst. Also former Director,
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy
of Administration, Mussoorie
YOU READ RAJ DHARMA 10 ON MAY 30, 2022
A roof over every head?
RAJ DHARMA 11
Clash between legislative
intent, judicial
interpretation and the
ground level issues which
administrators have to face
is perhaps inevitable. This
inevitability perhaps
explains title of Gurcharan
Das’s book ‘The Difficulty
of Bring Good’ – for if
being good was easy, most
people would prefer to do
so, world would neither
need state, not Raj Dharma!

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INDIA
New Delhi (ANI): With
Chief Economic Advi-
sor V Anantha Nag-
eswaran citing the IMF
forecast that the Indian
economy would cross
USD 5 trillion by 2026-27,
senior Congress leader
PChidambaramonSun-
day said the goal of a
USD 5 trillion GDP ap-
pears to be a case of
”shifting goalposts” as
the original target year
was 2023-24.
Speaking at the fi-
nance ministry’s iconic
week celebrations of
’Azadi ka Amrit Mahot-
sav’, Nageswaran had
said last week that IMF
has forecast the Indian
economy to cross USD 5
trillion by 2026-27. In-
dia’s GDP in dollar
terms has already
crossed USD 3 trillion.
Reacting to the remarks,
Chidambaram said the
”goal of a USD 5 trillion
GDPappearstobeacase
of ’shifting goalposts’”.
The original target
year was 2023-24, the for-
mer finmin said.
Goal of $5 tn GDP appears to be case
of ‘shifting goalposts’: P Chidambaram
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram
EVMs are not designed for the
voting system of Prez election
The EVM is an aggregator of votes and under the system of proportional representation
New Delhi: Ever won-
dered why electronic
voting machines, used
in four LS elections and
127 assembly polls since
2004, are not deployed
in polls to elect the Pres-
ident and VP of India.
The EVMs are based
on a technology where
they work as an aggre-
gator of votes in direct
elections such as the LS
and state assemblies.
Voters press the button
against the name of the
candidate of their
choice and the one who
bags the maximum
number of votes is de-
clared elected. But the
election of the Presi-
dent is held in accord-
ance with the system of
proportional represen-
tation by means of sin-
gle transferable vote.
The EVMs, officials ex-
plained, are not de-
signed to register this
system of voting. The
EVM is an aggregator
of votes and under the
system of proportional
representation. In other
words, a different type
of EVM would be need.
Subsequently, in 1989,
Parliament amended
the Representation of
the People Act, 1951.
RS win morale
booster for
the BJP
New Delhi: The RS
poll results came as a
morale booster for the
Modi govt ahead of next
month’s Prez election.
The BJP won 24 of the
57 RS seats on which
biennial polls were held.
Mamata calls
Oppn meeting
over prez poll
New Delhi: WB CM
Mamata Banerjee has
invited leaders of 19
political parties to a
meeting in Delhi next
Wednesday to produce
a “confluence of Oppo-
sition voices” for polls.
LALU PRASAD YADAV TO CONTEST PRESIDENT
POLLS, BUT NOT THE ONE WHO COMES TO MIND
Patna: In the upcoming
Presidential election, Lalu
Prasad Yadav plans to
throw his hat in the ring,
firm in his belief that there
must be a Bihari in the
contest. However, he is
not the Rashtriya Janata
Dal chief.A resident of
Saran district, which
incidentally has been
the karmabhoomi of his
famous namesake, Yadav
claims to have already
booked a flight ticket to
Delhi where he proposes
to file his nomination
papers on June 15. ‘‘My
papers got rejected last
time’’, said Lalu.
Terrorist responsible for killing
JK cop neutralised in encounter
Srinagar: The terrorist
responsible for the kill-
ingof JammuandKash-
mir police personnel
Reyaz Ahmad was
among three LeT terror-
ists neutralized in an
overnight encounter
with security forces at
Drabgam area in South
Kashmir’sPulwamadis-
trict, officials said on
Sunday
.
“At about 1855 hrs,
acting on specific infor-
mation generated by Po-
lice regarding presence
of terrorists in village
Drabgam area of Pul-
wama, a joint cordon
search operation was
launched by Police,
Army and CRPF in the
said area,” police said.
“In the ensuing encoun-
ter, three local terrorists
of proscribedterrorout-
fit LeT were killed and
their bodies were re-
trieved from the site of
encounter,” police said.
Police have registered a
case and investigation
has been initiated.
—REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE
JK GOVT ANNOUNCES RELIEF FOR
HOUSEBOAT OWNERS SHIKARAWALAS
Srinagar : Jammu and
Kashmir govt on Sun-
day announced relief
for houseboat owners
and shikarawalas in the
Union Territory. An official
statement said: “Giving
big relief to the houseboat
owners and shikarawalas
of Jammu and Kash-
mir, the Administrative
Council, which met here
under the chairmanship
of Lt Guv Manoj Sinha,
approved the proposal of
Tourism Dept to provide
subsidised timber for
repairs and maintenance
of houseboats and taxi
shikaras. “The decision
will provide timber for
minor/periodical repairs
and maintenance of regis-
tered houseboats on 50%
discount.
Mamata’s focus is on Oppn
not on those on rampage: BJP
New Delhi: After West
Bengal Leader of the
Opposition Suvendu
Adhikari was stopped
from visiting Howrah,
the BJP on Sunday said
that all of CM Mamata
focus is on opposition
and not on people who
are on the rampage in
her state.
WB BJP President
Sukanta Majumdar was
arrested on Saturday
afternoon while he was
on his way to Howrah
where tension has been
brewing for the past few
days over remarks
made against Prophet
Muhammad by two now
suspended BJP spokes-
persons. WB BJP co-in-
charge Amit Malviya
tweeted: “After putting
BJP WB President Su-
kanta Majumdar under
detention, Mamata Ba-
nerjee is now ensuring
that LoP Suvendu Adhi-
kari is not able to visit
Howrah, where BJP of-
fices have been gutted.
Her entire focus is on
the opposition, not on
rampaging ‘Dudhel
Gais’, as she calls
them.”Malviya also
shared a letter ad-
dressed to Inspector.
BJP’s Amit Malviya
CRUCIAL READ
Ujjain: Spurred by Union minister Nitin
Gadkari’s promise that his ministry would
allot `1,000 crore per kilogram of weight
lost by Ujjain MP Anil Firojiya for devel-
opment works, the latter has claimed that
he is now lighter by 15 kgs and entitled to
ask for `15,000 crore fund.The challenge
to lose weight started in February this year
after Nitin Gadkari made the “funds for flab”
promise while addressing an event in Ujjain
in which the foundation stones of a few
projects were laid.
BJP MP LOSES 15 KG AFTER GADKARI
PROMISES RS 1,000 CRORE FUNDS
Vijayawada: A teenager allegedly committed
suicide after his friends mocked him follow-
ing defeat in online game PUBG. The incident
was reported from Machilipatnam town of
Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district on Sunday.
The 16-year-old felt reportedly humiliated
after his friends mocked him when he lost
the online game. He came home and alleged-
ly hanged himself to the ceiling fan.Police
shifted the body for autopsy and took up
investigation. District Cong president Tantia
Kumari, demanded govt to ban PUBG .
BOY KILLS SELF AFTER FRIENDS
MOCK HIM OVER DEFEAT IN PUBG
Mumbai: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi will visit
Maharashtra to inau-
gurate the Jal Bhushan
Building and Gallery
of Revolutionaries at
Raj Bhavan in Mumbai
on June 14, said the
Prime Minister’s Office
(PMO). During his visit,
the Prime Minister will
inaugurate Jagadguru Shri Sant Tukaram Maharaj
Temple in Dehu, Pune, and Jal Bhushan Building
and Gallery of Revolutionaries at Raj Bhavan in
Mumbai. In the evening, the Prime Minister will
participate in Dwishatabdi Mahotsav (200 years’
celebration) of ‘Bombay Samachar’ (now Mumbai
Samachar) at Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai.
PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI TO
VISIT MAHARASHTRA ON JUNE 14
5 devotees in
Bengal killed
due to heat at
religious fest
New Delhi: Five elder-
ly devotees died and 40
others were inured due
to heat and humidity
amid a crowd surge at a
religious gathering in
Bengal on Sunday
. Doz-
ens of people, most
without masks, were
seen jammed together
in visuals from the
event at Barrackpore
sub-division of North
24 Parganas district.
“Distressed to know
of 5 old devotees’ death
due to heat and humid-
ity in Danda Mahotsav
at ISKCON temple at
Panihati, tweeted CM-
Mamata Banerjee. “Au-
thorities have rushed to
the spot, she informed.
According to adminis-
tration sources, “The
accident took place un-
der the pressure of ex-
treme crowd and tem-
perature.
The temple and was
closed for the last two-
years. So, this year, the
event saw a huge crowd
of about two and a half
to three lakh people”.
“The police administra-
tion had no advance in-
formation about the
crowd, they said.
Over 19L devotees took
Char Dham Yatra in ‘22
Dehradun: Over 19
lakhs devotees under-
took the Char Dham
Yatra since the pilgrim-
age began on May 3 this
year, informed the
Badrinath-Kedarnath
Temple Committee on
Sunday
.
Temple Committee
said that till the evening
of June 11, the total
number of pilgrims
who reached Uttara-
khand Chardham is
19,04,253 (nineteen lakh
four thousand two hun-
dred fifty-three). From
May 8 to June 11 even-
ing, 6,57,547 pilgrims
reached Badrinath
Dham while 6,33,548 pil-
grims have reached the
Kedarnath Dham from
May 6 to June 11 even-
ing. Meanwhile, a total
of 91 pilgrims have lost
their lives during the
course of the Char Dam
Yatra in Uttarakhand
till May 27.
Kedarnath Temple
Will SP lose Azamgarh and Rampur seats before BJP’s ‘trump cards’?
Sharat K Verma
Lucknow: Elections to
both Azamgarh and
Rampur Lok Sabha
seats are to be held on
June 23. If BJP wins
even one of these seats,
it will be a big setback
for the Samajwadi Par-
ty as both the seats are
heavily influenced by
SP
.InthelastLokSabha
elections, Akhilesh Ya-
dav himself had con-
tested from Azamgarh
and got more than 60
per cent votes. Before
him, Mulayam Singh
Yadav had won from
thisseatinthe2014elec-
tions. Thus it is a se-
cured seat of the party
and the Mulayam fami-
ly
. Similarly
, Azam
Khan, who was the par-
ty’s Muslim face in
Rampur, had won and
the seat fell vacant due
to his resignation. SP
cannotaffordtoloseany
seat, on the other hand
BJP is laying cards to
win both the seats.
The first card seems
to be fitting the bill. The
BSP, which indirectly
helped the BJP in the
assembly elections, has
announced that it will
not contest the Rampur
seat and will field Shah
Alam from the Azam-
garhseat.Thisbetisgo-
ing to help BJP, which
wants to create a one-
on-one contest in Ram-
pur. The second ‘trump
card’of BJPisMukhtar
AbbasNaqvi,whomthe
party will field from
Rampur. If Azam Khan
does not come out open-
ly to defeat BJP on this
seat, then BJP will win.
Similarly
,inAzamgarh,
if the BJP fielded a
member of the Mulay-
am family, the contest
would become interest-
ing.Inresponse,if Akh-
ilesh contests his wife,
then the contest will be
of equal powers!
(L) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav (R) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
Elections to both
Azamgarh and
Rampur LS seats
are to be held on
June 23. If BJP
wins even one of
these seats, it
will be a big
setback for the
Samajwadi Party
PM SHOULD’VE INTERVENED, SILENCE
NOT NEW: CHIDAMBARAM ON PROPHET
—REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE
HIGH SECURITY

06
INDIA
New Delhi (PTI): Sun-
day authorised its presi-
dent JP Nadda and Un-
ion minister Rajnath
Singh to hold consulta-
tions with different po-
litical parties, including
those in Opposition, on
president’s poll, in what
is being seen as an out-
reach by ruling party to
arrive at a consensus on
choice for top constitu-
tional post. Leaders will
talktobothrulingNDA
Oppn UPA constituents,
besides other parties and
members.
Nadda, Rajnath to hold
talks with other parties
JP Nadda Rajnath Singh
Shiv Sena...
Bharatiya Janata Party
and was mostly silent in
the run up to the Rajya
Sabha polls. He has been
adversely detrimental to
Shiv Sena’s politics by
beingadormantpartner
in the MVA alliance at
crucial times.”
The Congress is obvi-
ously worried about its
Vidhan Parishad pros-
pects in Maharashtra’s
upper house in the state
legislature considering
the Sena’s posturing.
Meanwhile,theBJPis
onlytoohappytotryand
exploit the prospect of
attracting votes of dis-
gruntled MLCs in the
June 20 elections of the
Legislative Council. It
has nominated five can-
didates and backed one
Independent candidate
Sadabhau Khot, even as
it only boasts of the req-
uisitestrengthtovotefor
four MLCs of the BJP
.
Whether the upcom-
ing polls will be a second
major political win in
MaharashtrafortheBJP
ornot,onlytimewilltell.
But the opposition party
planstowaittillthefinal
dayof candidaturewith-
drawal on June 13, be-
fore announcing its next
move.
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EYING GUJARAT ASSEMBLY POLLS,
AAP APPOINTS NEW OFFICE BEARERS
FORMER TV JOURNO ISUDAN GADHVI IS NAT’L JT GEN SECY
Ahmedabad (ANI):
Eying Gujarat assem-
bly polls later this year,
the Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP) on Sunday an-
nounced a new organi-
zation structure for Gu-
jarat with over 850 of-
fice bearers. The party
has appointed Kishorb-
hai Desai as the state
president (frontal or-
ganization) and Manoj
Sorathiya as the state
general secretary
.
“MAJOR AN-
NOUNCEMENT AAP
announces a New Or-
ganization structure
for Gujarat with over
850 office bearers Shri
@isudan_gadhvi has
been appointed as the
National Joint General
Secretary Shri Indra-
nil Rajguru has been
appointed as the Na-
tional Joint Secretary
Best wishes,” the AAP
posted on its official
Twitter handle.Delhi
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal-led party has
appointed Isudan Gad-
hvi as the national
joint general secretary
of Gujarat, while In-
dranil Rajguru has
been appointed the na-
tional joint secretary
of the state.Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejri-
wal-led party, on June
8, said its Gujarat or-
ganizational structure
has been dissolved to
restructure the party
unit with the aim to de-
feat the ruling Bharati-
ya Janata Party
(BJP) in the State As-
sembly elections due
later this year.
AAP announces new organization structure for Gujarat with over 850 office bearers.
AAP TO CONTEST ALL SEATS, ANNOUNCE
CM CANDIDATE AT RIGHT TIME: KEJRI
BJP SLAMS AAP
AS COUNCILLOR'S
SON OPENS FIRE
Chandigarh: BJP leader
Manjinder Singh Sirsa on
Sunday hit out at Punjab
chief minister Bhagwant
Mann after AAP council-
lor's son opened fire
killing one and injuring
three others. Stating that
an innocent person died
in the presence of the
police, the BJP leader said
Punjab is crying tears
of blood under Mann's
leadership while Mann is
counting his achievements
in Himachal.A 35-year-
old man was killed
and three others were
injured after the son of an
AAP woman councillor
Charandeep Singh, alias
Babba, opened fire over
a property dispute at the
100-Feet Road area falling
under the B-Division
police station in Amritsar
city. A video of the incident
has gone viral in which a
police party is purportedly
seen present at the spot
when the firing incident
happened. The deceased
has been identified as
Gurpartap Singh, alias
Raja, while the injured are
his friends who has not
been identified yet.
New Delhi- India
logged 8,582 new coro-
navirus infections tak-
ing the total tally of
Covid-19 cases to
4,32,22,017, while the ac-
tive cases increased to
44,513, according to the
Union Health Ministry
data updated on Sunday
.
The death toll
climbed to 5,24,761 with
four fatalities, the data
updated at 8 am stated.
The active cases com-
prises 0.10 per cent of
the total infections,
while the national Cov-
id-19 recovery rate was
recorded at 98.66 %, the
ministry said. An in-
crease of 4,143 cases has
been recorded in the ac-
tive Covid-19 caseload
in a span of 24 hours.
India logs
India logs
8,582 new
8,582 new
Covid-19
Covid-19
cases,4
cases,4
deaths
deaths
New York : Inactivated and mRNA Covid-19
vaccines appear to be safe for patients treated
for hypothyroidism, say researchers. The
study, to be presented at ENDO 2022, found
that these vaccines do not cause significant
fluctuations in thyroid function and are not
associated with increased risks of emergency
department visits or unscheduled hospitalisa-
tions. No previous studies have looked at any
possible relationship between COVID-19 vac-
cines and unstable thyroid function control
among patients receiving thyroid hormone
replacement for hypothyroidism, said lead
researcher David T.W
. Lui from the University
of Hong Kong.Our reassuring findings
should encourage patients treated for hypo-
thyroidism to get vaccinated against Covid-19
for protection from potentially worse Covid-
19-related outcomes, Lui added.
Covid vax likely safe for
hypothyroidism patients
New Delhi: The Delhi
HC will on Monday pro-
nounce its verdict on a
plea by CPI(M) leaders
Brinda Karat and KM
Tiwari challenging the
trial court’s refusal to
direct registration of
FIR against Union Min-
ister Anurag Thakur
and his BJP colleague
and MP Pravesh Verma
for their alleged hate
speeches over anti-CAA
protest at Shaheen Bagh
here.
Justice Chandra Dha-
ri Singh had reserved
the order on March 25
on the petition which
claimed that an FIR
shouldbelodgedagainst
the leaders as a cognis-
able offence is made out
against the leaders and
that they were only ask-
ing the police to investi-
gate the matter.
The petitioners had
alleged in their com-
plaint before the trial
court that “Thakur and
Verma had sought to in-
cite people as a result of
which three incidents
of firing took place at
two different protest
sites in Delhi”.
Delhi HC verdict today
on plea for hate speech
Mumbai: “The situa-
tion is not in our favour
these days... For some
time you carry out your
work from inside the
central jail, do not wor-
ry about anything,”
Nana Patekar told Ajay
Devgan in the 2005 Bol-
lywood flick ‘
Apaharan’.
The movie in the be-
ginning also mentions
that all characters and
incidents in the film are
fictitious and any re-
semblance to any per-
son -- be it living or dead
-- is purely coincidental.
The public believed the
director’s version as
such things can only
happen in reel life, and
not in the real world.
However, incidents like
the killing of acclaimed
Punjabi singer Sidhu
Moosewala have made
the people rethink
whether the movie was
just a figment of imagi-
nation of the script
writer or a reality
.
Soon after the brutal
murder of Moosewala,
Punjab Police had made
apprehension that
jailed gangster Law-
rence Bishnoi could be
behind it. Since then,
the Special Cell of Delhi
Police took the custody
of Bishnoi, who was at
that time lodged in the
high-security Tihar Jail
in a MCOCA (Maha-
rashtra Control of Or-
ganised Crime Act)
case.
He is allegedly in-
volved in more than
five-dozen criminal cas-
es lodged against him in
Delhi, Haryana, Ra-
jasthan and Punjab and
had once even threat-
ened to kill Bollywood
star Salman Khan.
While reports kept
coming everyday re-
garding the involve-
ment of Bishnoi in
Moosewala’s killing, the
police could not finding
anything concrete in
the matter to divulge
the information with
the media. It was also
reported that Lawrence
Bishnoi was not cooper-
ating with the police.
On June 2, Sachin Bish-
noi, a nephew of Law-
rence claimed responsi-
bility for Moosewala’s
murder while speaking
to a news channel. He
claimed that Mossewa-
la’s murder was a re-
venge for the killing of
Youth Akali Dal leader
Vicky Middukhera in
August last year.
Moosewala killer Lawrence, but wasn’t he in jail?
PULSE
DAILY
DAILY
Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)
chief Parkash Singh Badal’s health is said
to be improving a day after he was admitted
to Fortis Hospital in Mohali. The five-time
Punjab chief minister was rushed to the hos-
pital on Saturday night with complaints of
gastritis and bronchial asthma. His condition
is said to be improving now, and all of his
parameters are normal, doctors said. Earlier
this year, Badal had contracted Covid-19. In
February, he was taken to a private hospital
in Mohali for a post-Covid health check-up.
FORMER PUNJAB CM PARKASH
BADAL ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi: AICC gen-
eral secretary and close
aide of the Nehru-Gan-
dhi family- Ajay Maken
- lost the Rajya Sabha
election and with it any
hopes of sitting in the
hallowed Upper House
of the Indian Parlia-
ment is also lost.
BJP supported inde-
pendent candidate
Karthikeya Sharma de-
feated him by a very
narrow margin in a
close contest. Voting
was held on Friday and
after hours of drama,
the results were de-
clared at around 2.30
am. After settling vari-
ous disputes, the count-
ing of votes started at
1.30 pm. Congress lead-
ers started celebrating
as soon as the Election
Commission ordered
the counting of votes to
begin. Because the elec-
tion officer had rejected
the demand of BJP to
reject two votes of Con-
gress, so, Congress lead-
ers were confident that
Maken got 30 out of 31
votes. But when the re-
sults were announced, it
was found that he got
only 29 votes and the
vote of a Congress MLA
became invalid. Kul-
deep Bishnoi, a Con-
gress MLA, had already
voted for the BJP on the
basis of conscience. He
followed the rules of Ra-
jya Sabha voting and
showed it to Congress’s
election in-charge Vivek
Bansal by voting for
BJP. So his vote could
not be cancelled. De-
spite this, the Congress
wasconfidentthatithad
garnered 30 votes. The
surprising thing is that
the Congress does not
know about the one vote
which has been
canceled.
So, now there is a dis-
pute as to whose fault
led to Maken’s Maken
electoral loss. Leaders
close to Bhupinder Sin-
gh Hooda say that all the
fault lies with the Con-
gress high command,
while on the other hand,
leaders close to the high
command are claiming
in the media that Hooda
could not handle or
couldnotarrangeoneor
two extra votes. Those
closetoHoodaareclaim-
ing of two mistakes of
the high command. The
first is the fault of Vivek
Bansal, the in-charge,
who did not even know
which MLA’s vote was
invalid. All the MLAs
cast their vote by show-
ing him their choice, but
he could not understand
which MLA did what
mistake, due to which
the vote may become in-
valid. The second mis-
take is that of Rahul
Gandhi, who did not
give time to meet Kul-
deep Bishnoi.
On the other hand,
leaders close to the high
command and the anti-
Hooda lobby says that
the Congress lost be-
cause of overconfidence
of Hooda father-son as
both did not arrange for
a single additional vote.
Even knowing that
Bishnoi would cross
vote, the duo did not try
to persuade him. If
Bishnoi was not being
persuaded, an addition-
al vote should have been
arranged. In that sce-
nario, independent Bal-
raj Kundu could have
been persuaded. Inde-
pendent legislator Rake-
sh Daulatabad and IN-
LD’s Abhay Chautala
voted for the BJP sup-
ported candidate. How-
ever, it is a matter of
satisfaction for Hooda
that he managed to keep
29 Cong MLAs united
but the bad thing is that
he could not pass in the
very first examination.
Who is at fault over Ajay Maken’s Rajya Sabha poll loss?
HOW MAKEN LOST HARYANA SEAT?
Ajay Maken
PICTURE FOR REPRESENTATION
New Delhi: Congress
chief Sonia Gandhi
was on Sunday ad-
mitted to Ganga Ram
Hospital
for treat-
ment of
Covid-re-
lated
issues.
Party
spokes-
person Randeep Singh
Surjewala said her
condition is stable and
she will be kept at the
hospital for observa-
tion and thank all Con-
gress men and women
for their wishes.
Bhubaneswar: BJP
national spokesperson
Sambit Patra while
addressing media here
on Sunday
said is
making
huge
drama
like press
confer-
ences and
plan over the case. “If
you write a book on
corruption, National
Herald case will find
its way in this book in
a big way. Sonia and
Rahul are out on bail in
this case,” he said.
SONIA GANDHI IN
HOSP DUE TO
COVID ISSUES,
CONDITION STABLE
CONGRESS IS
MAKING A HUGE
DRAMA: BJP’S
SAMBIT PATRA

BIZ BUZZ
07
New Delhi (PTI):
Construction work of
nearly 4.8 lakh homes
worth `4.48 lakh crore
are currently stuck or
significantly delayed
across seven major cit-
ies, although builders
have completed 37,000
such units so far this
year, according to
property consultant
Anarock.
For its research, An-
arock has taken only
those housing projects
that were launched in
2014 or before across
seven cities -- Delhi-
NCR, Mumbai Metro-
politan Region, Kolka-
ta, Chennai, Bengalu-
ru, Hyderabad Pune.
As per the data,
36,830 languishing
homes were completed
in these cities between
Jan 2022 and May 2022.
At the end of May
2022, Anarock said that
4,79,940 units worth
`4,48,129 crore were
stuck in various con-
struction stages across
these seven cities.
The property mar-
kets of these seven cit-
ies were saddled with
about 5.17 lakh units
worth `4.84 lakh crore
at the end of 2021 cal-
endar year.
“Developers remain
committed to complet-
ing their projects and
are capitalizing on the
ongoing demand for
ready-to-move homes,”
said Prashant Thakur,
Senior Director Head
- Research, Anarock.
“What is notable is
that they are maintain-
ing momentum despite
considerable head-
winds from increased
input costs, which
have gone through the
roof in the last five
months. The fact that
housing demand has
remained strong in
last two years obvious-
ly helps,” he said. Ana-
rock said that the Del-
hi-NCR and MMR to-
gether account for 77%
of the total stuck/de-
layed housing units.
4.8 lakh homes worth `4.48 lakh cr stuck in 7 cities
PENDING
lll
According to
property
consultant
Anarock the
Delhi-NCR and
MMR together
account for 77
per cent of the
total stuck/
delayed housing
units
Electricity demand on June 9 was recorded at an all-time high of 2,10,792 megawatts
India’s power demand jumps
by 45K MW in a year: Singh
New Delhi (PTI): In-
dia’s power demand
this year has jumped by
a record 40,000-45,000
MW per day as an in-
tense heat wave sweeps
through northern parts
of the country
, the econ-
omy expands, and elec-
tricity reaches millions
of unelectrified homes,
Power Minister RK Sin-
gh has said.
A massive addition in
the generation capacity
,
integrating the country
into one transmission
grid and strengthening
of the distribution sys-
tem during eight years
of the Modi govern-
ment is ensuring the 23
to 23.5 hours of electric-
ity supply, he said.
India’s electricity de-
mand on June 9 was re-
corded at an all-time
high of 2,10,792 mega-
watts, and 4,712 million
units of electricity were
consumed.
Power plants are op-
erating at full throttle to
meet this demand, and
the government has or-
dered coal import to
meet the shortfall in do-
mestic supplies.
“The whole power
sector has changed (in
last 8 years),” Singh
said. “Before (2014), we
were power deficit, load
shedding was endem-
ic”.
According to a sur-
vey by an NGO, the av-
erage availability of
power in rural areas
was about 12.5 hours at
the national level. “To-
day it is 22.5 hours,” he
said.
A power deficit na-
tion with an average
shortage of anywhere
between 17 and 20%, In-
dia has been trans-
formed into a power
surplus country
.
Detailing the steps,
he said in 8 years,
1,69,000 MW of capacity
was added to take elec-
tricity generation ca-
pacity to over 4,00,000
MW (or 400 gigawatts).
Against this, the peak
demand is just 215 GW.
Power plants operate
at run rates much lower
than their capacity.
This in the case of re-
newable energy units,
such as solar power, is
just one-fifth of the rat-
ed capacity
.
Also, the whole coun-
try was connected into
one grid with one fre-
quency after 1.66 lakh
circuit kilometres of
transmission lines were
laid. This was supple-
mented by strengthen-
ing of the distribution
system with the re-
placement of old lines,
the addition of high
and low tension lines,
transformers, substa-
tions and feeder lines.
“Today, India is the
world’s largest single
frequency electricity
grid,” he said.
“Earlier, we could
transfer about 37,000
MW (of electricity)
from one corner to the
other. Now we can
transfer 1,12,000 MW.”
New Delhi (PTI):
Wary of the scenario
on the global and
domestic fronts,
foreign investors
continued to with-
draw from Indian
equity markets and
pulled out close to
`14,000 crore in this
month so far.
With this, net outflow
by foreign portfolio
investors (FPIs) from
equities reached
`1.81 lakh crore so
far in 2022, data with
depositories showed.
Going forward, the
FPIs' selling may
continue in the near-
term, however, a
moderation in sell-off
is expected during
short to medi-
um-term, Vinod Nair,
Head of Research
at Geojit Financial
Services, said.
This is because
a large part of the
changeover like
economic slowdown,
hawkish mone-
tary policy, supply
constraints and high
inflation is factored
in, in the market
prices, which was
consolidating over
the last 7 months.
And for central
banks to maintain
the aggressive policy
in long-term, the
inflation must remain
high, he added.
New Delhi (Agen-
cies): From the
backwaters of Kerala
to the beaches of
Gokarna to the foot-
hills of Himalayas,
India’s uber rich are
travelling to some
of the most exotic
and secluded places
in the country – not
on a holiday but to
detox themselves
or boost immunity
post Covid-19.
Investment bankers,
startup founders,
stockbrokers, fund
managers, entrepre-
neurs and industri-
alists are taking time
off for a complete
detox, helping luxury
wellness resorts
and spas across
the country recover
from the shocks of
pandemic-induced
lockdowns and travel
restrictions.“Indian
clients to Anan-
da for Wellness
programmes have
doubled since 2020,”
COO at IHHR Hospi-
tality said.
FPIs pull out
`14K-cr from
Indian mkt
Uber rich help
resorts detox
Covid blues
ISA seeks govt
intervention
New Delhi (PTI): In-
dustry body ISA has
sought the govern-
ment’s immediate in-
tervention to check
coking coal price,
which has grown
three-fold to around
$450 a tonne.
“Coking coal prices
is something, which is
impacting the indus-
try drastically and the
production cost is im-
pacted, affecting the
steel prices,” Alok Sa-
hay, Secretary-Gener-
al of ISA said. Indian
Steel Association
(ISA) represents do-
mestic steel industry
.
Sahay said the price
of coking coal used to
be in the range of $120-
130 per tonne around a
year back.
In March 2022, cok-
ing coal prices had
peaked at about $670
per tonne, he added.
At the current price
range, the industry ex-
pert said, the cost of
coking coal alone in
steel making is around
`28K to `30K per tonne,
which works to about
40-45% of the produc-
tion cost. Besides,
there are other input
materials like iron
ore, ferroalloys, logis-
tics, fuel costs and
other fixed costs.
Loan demand is bouncing back: SBI
New Delhi (Agen-
cies): Consumer cut-
backs due to raging in-
flation and higher bor-
rowing costs are failing
to dent investment
plans at Indian busi-
nesses tapping the
country’s biggest lend-
er, a sign that a recov-
ery in Asia’s third-larg-
est economy is gather-
ing pace.
Companies are
steadily drawing down
from a $71 billion loan
pipeline, Dinesh Ku-
mar Khara, chairman
of State Bank of India
said. Loan growth at
the 216-year-old lender,
a banker to one out of
every three Indians, is
expected to be robust,
underpinned by de-
mand from businesses
after two straight years
of credit contraction,
Khara said.
That broadly mir-
rors a trend where loan
growth in India’s 120
trillion rupees bank-
ing system is expand-
ing annually at its fast-
est pace in three years.
While part of the cred-
it demand is to cover
rising costs, the
rest is going
into business
expansion
and invest-
ments for
capacity ad-
dition.
“Whether
it is working
capital loans
or term
loans, the
draw downs
have been ris-
ing, and the ratio
of pipeline to loan
book narrowed by at
least six percentage
points in recent
months,” Khara said.
“Capacity utilisation
at several sectors like
iron and steel is full,
and if we get a good
monsoon too this year,
things
will get way better.”
The rise in business
confidence and credit
demand in India comes
despite rising cost of
funds. On Wednesday,
the RBI’s rate-setting
panel raised the key
interest rate for a sec-
ond straight month.
The rising demand
for loans means
SBI will have to
shore up its
capital adequacy
ratio, since it is
hovering at less
than two per-
centage points
over the mini-
mum regulatory
requirement. The
bank’s overall capi-
tal buffer of
13.8% is the low-
est among the
top lenders in country
.
New Delhi (PTI): The
inflation data for May
and the US Fed interest
rate decision are the
crucial factors that
would dictate terms in
the equity market this
week, analysts said.
Moreover, foreign
fund trading activity,
movement of rupee and
crude oil prices would
be the other key monit-
arables for the markets,
they added.
“All eyes will be on
the US FOMC (Federal
Open Market Commit-
tee) decision scheduled
on June 15, and the mar-
ket is fearing aggres-
sive rate hikes amid in-
flation monster. Bank
of Japan will also an-
nounce its credit policy
on June 17.
“It will be crucial to
see FIIs’ behaviour
amid panic in global eq-
uity markets because
they are selling relent-
lessly for the last 8
months,” according to
Santosh Meena, Head
of Research, Swastika
Investmart Ltd.
On the domestic
front, CPI inflation will
be announced on June
13 and WPI on June 14,
he added.
Tencent buys stake worth $264 mn in
Flipkart from Binny Bansal
New Delhi (PTI): Chi-
nese technology con-
glomerate Tencent has
bought stake worth $264
million (about `2,060
crore) in Flipkart from
its co-founder Binny
Bansal through its Eu-
ropean subsidiary, ac-
cording to official docu-
ments.
Singapore-headquar-
tered e-commerce firm
Flipkart has operations
in India only
.
Bansal holds around
1.84% stake in Flipkart
after selling part of his
stake to Tencent Cloud
Europe BV
.
The transaction was
completed on October
26, 2021 and was shared
with the government
authorities at the begin-
ning of the current fi-
nancial year.
Post the transaction,
Tencent arm holds
0.72% stake in Flipkart
which is valued at
around $264 million, as
per last valuation of
$37.6 billion disclosed
by the e-commerce firm
in July 2021.
The company’s valu-
ation surged to $37.6 bil-
lion after raising $3.6
billion (about `26,805.6
crore) in funding round
led by Singapore’s sov-
ereign wealth fund GIC,
CPP Investments, Soft-
Bank Vision Fund 2 and
Walmart.
DisruptAD, Qatar In-
vestment Authority,
Khazanah Nasional
Berhad as well as mar-
quee investors Tencent,
Willoughby Capital,
Antara Capital, Frank-
lin Templeton and Ti-
ger Global also partici-
pated in the funding
round. The transaction
between Bansal and
Tencent took place after
the July funding round.
Govt loses gas field
fight to Reliance
New Delhi (PTI):
The government has
lost its appeal in the
English High Court
against a $111 million
arbitration award in
favour of Reliance In-
dustries Ltd and Shell
in a cost recovery dis-
pute in the western
offshore Panna-Muk-
ta and Tapti oil and
gas fields.
High Court judge
Ross Cranston on June
9, 2022 ruled that the
government should
have brought its objec-
tions over the arbitra-
tion tribunal not meet-
ing the required
thresholds, when issu-
ing the 2021 award ear-
lier, two sources said.
Rejecting the gov-
ernment’s arguments,
the court said the ob-
jections are barred by
an English law princi-
ple whereby a party
cannot raise matters
in new proceedings
that could have been
raised in earlier pro-
ceedings.
Officials said the
govt will study the
court order and look
for appropriate fo-
rums for remedy
.
Reliance and Shell-
owned BG Explora-
tion Production In-
dia on December 16,
2010, dragged the gov-
ernment to arbitra-
tion over cost recovery
provisions, profit due
to the State and
amount of statutory
dues including royalty
payable. They wanted
to raise the limit of
cost that could be re-
covered from sale of
oil and gas before prof-
its are shared with the
government. The govt
of India also raised
counter claims over
expenditure incurred,
inflated sales, excess
cost recovery, and
short accounting.
country’s largest car-
maker Maruti Suzuki
India (MSI) has shipped
2.33 lakh units through
Railways last fiscal, its
highest ever dispatch in
a financial year so far,
since commencing the
initiative eight years
ago, as per a senior com-
pany official. The cos’
dispatch in 2021-22 was
23% up from 1.89 lakh
units it transported us-
ing Railways in the
2020-21 financial year.
MSI dispatches
2.33 lakh units
via Railways
Inflationdatatodrive
markets this week
Top 10 cos
lose `2.29 L
cr in m-cap
market capitalisation
(m-cap) of the top-10
most valued companies
eroded by over `2.29
lakh crore last week,
with LIC taking the big-
gest hit.
Corporate major Reli-
ance Industries’ m-cap
fell by `44,311.19 crore
to `18,36,039.28 crore.
IT bellwethers TCS
and Infosys lost
`45,746.13 crore from
their cumulative mar-
ket cap. The valuation
of TCS stood at
`12,31,398.85 crore,
while that of Infosys
was `6,21,502.63 crore.
LIC declined by
`57,272.85 crore to
`4,48,885.09 crore.

Mumbai: With the ar-
rival of the monsoon
on Saturday, the BMC
has advised residents
to avoid self-medica-
tion, fearing an in-
crease in mosquito-
borne ailments.
“As cases of malaria
are rising, all precau-
tions must be taken to
preventbreedingof mos-
quitoes.Usebednetsand
window sheets,” the
BMC advisory issued
earlier this week added.
Mumbai reported 57
instances of malaria in
the first five days of
June, even before the
monsoon arrived. Most
of these cases are re-
ported from G South
(Elphinstone) and E
(Byculla) wards.
Mumbai had report-
ed 950 cases of malaria
and 94 cases of dengue
fever as of June 05, this
year. There were no re-
lated deaths reported.
According to
the BMC’s pre-
liminary investiga-
tion, the
cases have
been reported
from both res-
idential areas
and construc-
tion sites.
Since symptoms of
malaria and COVID-19
are similar, doctors ad-
vised patients to seek
treatmentassoonaspos-
sibleif theyexperienced
fever, headache, rashes,
muscle and joint pain,
vomiting, or diarrhoea.
BMC executive
health officer Dr Man-
gala Gomare
said, “We
are in-
vestigating all
malaria cases
individually
tofindoutthe
source of the
disease. Due to
the fear of COV-
ID-19, many people
with symptoms
like fever and
body pain
areapproachingthehos-
pitals faster, which is
helping in timely diag-
nosis and treatment.”
Apart from malaria,
Mumbai recorded 10
dengue cases in the first
five days of June. Total
78 cases of vector-borne
gastro were reported in
the E, H West (Khar),
and H East (Bandra)
wards during the same
time period.
All hospitals are pre-
paring to treat patients
suffering from mon-
soon-related illnesses.
“We’ve kept separate
beds available to treat
patients. Last year, we
had seen a large num-
ber of malaria cases,
which had surpassed
the footfall of patients
from the previous year,”
said Dr Mohan Joshi,
Dean of Sion hospital.
08
2NDFRONT
A fitness regime will not just keep
you physically healthy, but mentally
alert and emotionally calm.
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra,
CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
BMC alerts people as cases of Malaria increase
Apart from malaria,
Mumbai recorded 10
dengue cases in the
first five days of June.
Total 78 cases of
vector-borne gastro
were reported in the E,
H West (Khar), and H
East (Bandra) wards
during the same time
Mumbai reported 57 instances of
malaria in the first five days of June,
even before the monsoon arrived
‘Police of 4-5
states working
together on case’
First India Bureau
Nagpur: Maharash-
tra Home Minister
Dilip Walse Patil
said police teams
from four to five
states were working
together on the case
of popular singer
and Congress lead-
er Sidhu Moosewa-
la’s murder in Pun-
jab last month, and
the Maharashtra
A n t i - Te r r o r i s m
Squad (ATS) was
also keeping an eye
on it.
Speaking to the me-
dia here on Sunday,
Patil said police
teams from four to
five states were work-
ing together on the
case.
“However, I can’t
publicly comment on
the ongoing inquiry
because it is a sensi-
tive issue. The Maha-
rashtra Police and the
state ATS are keeping
a watch on it,” the
minister said.
The Delhi Police re-
cently stated that
gangster Lawrence
Bishnoi was the mas-
termind behind the
murder and that they
had identified six
shooters allegedly in-
volved in Moosewa-
la’s death. According
to Delhi police, the
singer’s death was a
planned and brazen
killing.
Investigators also
revealed that Ma-
hakal, alias Siddhesh
Kamble, who was re-
cently arrested by
Pune rural police in
Maharashtra, knew
Moosewala was going
to be murdered and
was in contact with
gangster Vikram
Brar a week before
the murder.
Kamble is an al-
leged member of the
Lawrence Bishnoi
gang, which is ac-
cused of murdering
Moosewala. Brar is a
close associate of
gangster Lawrence
Bishnoi, who is cur-
rently in the Delhi
Police’s custody
.
When asked about
Friday’s protests by
Muslim community
members in Maha-
rashtra over alleged
objectionable re-
marks about Prophet
Mohammad made by
suspended BJP
spokesperson Nupur
Sharma and her for-
mer party colleague
Naveen Jindal, the
minister said the pro-
tests were peaceful.
Police teams
from four to
five states
were working together
on the case. However, I
can’t publicly com-
ment on the ongoing
inquiry because it is a
sensitive issue. The
Maharashtra Police
and the state ATS are
keeping a watch on it.
—Dilip Walse Patil,
Maharashtra Home Minister
SIDHU MOOSE WALA MURDER
BMC builds wall to curb
flooding in Kandivali West
First India Bureau
Mumbai: In a huge re-
lief to residents of
Kandivali West, the
Brihanmumbai Mu-
nicipal Corporation
(BMC) has completed
construction of a pro-
tective wall to prevent
monsoon flooding.
Civic officials also de-
molished illegal en-
croachments that
were obstructing the
stormwater flow of
Poisar river.
Local residents of the
area have been facing
flooding during the
monsoon for the last few
years. After encroach-
ments cropped up in the
Poisar riverbed, it made
the river very narrow
thereby blocking the
flow of stormwater into
the Arabian Sea.
Following repeated
complaints from resi-
dents and elected repre-
sentatives, Additional
Municipal Commission-
er (Projects) P Velarasu
organized a meeting of
all stakeholders on May
09 to discuss possible so-
lutions. He then direct-
ed Deputy Commission-
er(BasicInfrastructure)
Ulhas Mahale to study
the region and recom-
mend solutions.
Accordingly, a civic
team under the supervi-
sion of Velarasu began
working on the project.
The R South ward Assis-
tant Commissioner
Sandhya Nandedkar
was tasked to remove 29
hutments built in the
riverbed. Accordingly,
Deputy Commissioner
(Zone 7) Bhagyashree
Kapse and Nandedkar
began the process of de-
molishingthehutments,
and rehabilitating their
residents. By May 20,
the demolition of these
hutments had been com-
pleted. Velarasu then
personally visited the
area on May 24, and ini-
tiated work of removing
debris and starting on
construction of a pro-
tective wall on the Pois-
ar river. A civic team
then worked non-stop to
clear the area, and build
the protective wall in 15
days. The team plans to
continue their work to
broaden the riverbed.
Poisar river is one of
the four rivers—also in-
cluding Mithi, Dahisar,
and Oshiwara-
Walbhat—that run
throughMumbaiandits
suburbs.
DISSENT ACTION
After complaints
from residents,
civic officials have
broadened the
Poisar riverbed
Poisar riverbank
has been
ridden of illegal
encroachments.
Bhiwandipolicesummon
NupurSharma,NaveenJindal
First India Bureau
Thane: In connec-
tion with Nupur
Sharma’s objection-
able remarks
against Prophet Mo-
hammad the Bhi-
wandi police have
summoned the now
suspended BJP
spokesperson to re-
cord a statement on
Monday, an official
said on Sunday.
Besides, expelled
BJP functionary
Naveen Kumar Jindal
has also been asked
by the Bhiwandi po-
lice in Thane district
to record his state-
ment on June 15 over
his alleged controver-
sial tweets against
Prophet Mohammad,
senior police inspec-
tor Chetan Kakade
told reporters.
The Bhiwandi po-
lice had registered a
case against Sharma
following a complaint
lodged by a represent-
ative of the Raza
Academy on May 30,
he said.
They had also
registered a case
against Jindal, the of-
ficial said.
Earlier, the Mum-
bra police in Thane
asked Sharma to
appear before them
on June 22 to record
her statement over
her remarks.
The Mumbai Police
have also summoned
her to record a state-
ment on June 25 in
same case.
The police had
asked for a video
of the debate from
the news channel
concerned.
The BJP had on
June 05 suspended
its national spokes-
person Nupur Shar-
ma and expelled Delhi
BJP media head
Jindal after their al-
leged derogatory re-
marks against the
Prophet led to an out-
rage in India and Gulf
countries.
PROPHET ROW
The Bhiwandi police had registered a
case against Nupur Sharma following
a complaint lodged by a representative
of the Raza Academy on May 30
Nupur Sharma
RajThackerayappeals
nottovisithimonb’day
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Maharash-
tra Navnirman Sena
chief Raj Thackeray
on Sunday issued an
audio appeal to his
party workers and
well-wishers not to
visit his house at
Shivaji Park to wish
him on his birthday
on May 14.
Thackeray said the
COVID-19 cases are in-
creasing and there is a
possibility of the trans-
mission of the virus if
a large number of peo-
ple get together.
“My surgery is sched-
uled next week, and if
the infection spreads,
it could result in
further delaying my
surgery. So, it is my
humble appeal to every-
one not to visit my
house on my birthday.
Please stay where
you are, and after I
recover from the sur-
gery, I will definitely
visit and meet you,”
Thackeray told his
supporters in an audio
recording circulated by
the party
.
Thackeray had
canceled his June 05
visit to Ayodhya, and
was admitted to Lilava-
ti Hospital on May 31
for a hip bone surgery
on June 01. The surgery
has been scheduled
next week.
Extortion complaint against Param Bir
Mumbai (PTI): In a
setback to the city
crime branch, the
stringent Maharash-
tra Control of Organ-
ized Crime Act (MCO-
CA) invoked against a
businessman and his
two family members,
has been dropped.
This has prompted
him to file a complaint
against former Mumbai
top cop Param Bir Sin-
gh, a builder, and two
officers of the Anti-Ex-
tortion Cell for allegedly
pressuring him for ex-
tortion, an official said.
Recently
,thebusiness-
man, Hemant Bankar,
metwithMumbaiPolice
Commissioner Sanjay
Pandey
, who transferred
his case to ACP (crime),
following which his
statement was recorded.
Sources said that
crime branch officers
could not find any un-
derworldconnectionsof
Bankar and dropped the
MCOCA charge.
Bankar had levelled
allegations against a
builder, two Mumbai Po-
lice officers and others
for allegedly filing a
false extortion case
against him and threat-
eningtobookhimunder
the MCOCA. Bankar’s
statement was recorded
against builder Kailash
Aggarwal and others. In
his complaint, he
claimed that after being
implicated and given
bail in a false case in
2021, he was called to the
Crime Branch office
several times where
some officers tried to
pressure him to settle
the case and threatened
to invoke MCOCA if he
did not agree.
The complainant fur-
ther stated that the then
Mumbai police commis-
sioner Param Bir Singh
was aware of the matter.
Bankar also named two
AEC officers in his
complaint. He alleged
that when he did not
agree to their demands,
MCOCA was invoked
and he was arrested.
Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh.
Bizman accuses
builder, two AEC
officers of
pressuring him;
case transferred
to ACP (crime)
ALLEGATION
Naveen Kumar Jindal

N
ow it’s time to cast your
mind on something cuter,
butterfly prints are in. The
attention now has been
shifted to Kriti Sanon’s latest
look. This gives rise to another
moment of hoarding on fun and
fabulous things. The Bachch-
han Paandey actress donned
Summer Somewhere’s An-
drea dress today to a Salon
session with her mother,
Geeta Sanon. Her mini deep
blue ensemble curated with
viscose crepe featured butterfly
prints in turquoise. Just so pretty, a
green signal indeed!
A
nushka Sharma is one of the
most loved actresses in Bolly-
wood. Anushka is currently
enjoying her vacation with
hubby Virat Kohli and daugh-
ter Vamika in the Maldives.
The Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
actress is having a gala
time with her family and we
are getting to see a glimpse of
it each day. The actress shared
her selfie from the beach in a swim-
suit and we cannot stop looking at her.
Anushka Sharma can be seen wearing an
orange coloured swimsuit that she layered
with an orange-coloured shrug over it with
tassels. She also wore a hat and left her hair
open, wore a cute gold chain and smiled for the
camera. In the next picture, she is standing in
front of the camera yet again with a bright
smile. Sharing these pictures Anushka
wrote, “The result of taking your photos.”
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lia Bhatt is in London for the past couple of weeks
as she is shooting for her Hollywood debut, The
Heart Of Stone alongside Gal Gadot. The Dear Zind-
agi actress keeps sharing pictures and videos from
London and those are proof of the fun time she is
having there. Well, today Alia’s mom Soni Razdan
took to her Instagram handle to share a picture of
her posing with both her daughters Alia and Shaheen.
The trio seem to be enjoying their time at a restaurant
in London.
In the picture that Soni Razdan shared we can
see Alia Bhatt looking pretty as she is dressed
in black attire with a plunging neckline. She
has tied her hair in a bun and can be seen
wearing golden hoops. She is sitting be-
side Shaheen Bhatt who is flaunting her
cute dimples as she is dressed in a denim
jacket. Then sits Soni who looks classy
in a leopard print shirt. The ladies
make for a lovely picture. Sharing this
snap Soni wrote, “Hello there” with
three red heart emojis. Alia took
to the comments section and
wrote, “Hello mommy”.
ALL-GIRL CREW
A
li Fazal and Richa Chadha are like two peas in a
pod. When the couple is not filming their respec-
tive projects, they are busy working on producing
films with some path-breaking initiatives. Richa
and Ali were asked about working with an all-female
crew for their upcoming production Girls Will Be
Girls. Ali said, “This particular challenge came out
o f necessity. When we began our project
Girls Will Be Girls, the movie which we
will be shooting in October,
we realized that we
wanted an all-girl
crew.”
POSE IN
LONDON
A
I
t is always a good day for the
paps when they spot Karee-
na Kapoor Khan in the town.
For the past couple of days,
the diva is spotted in the city as
she steps out for work. But to-
day seems to be a free day for
her hence she decided to
spend it with her family.
Bebo was snapped entering
her father’s building look-
ing like a doll in her colour-
ful frill maxi dress that
looked so comfy yet stylish.
In the pictures, we can see
Kareena Kapoor Khan
wearing this multi-col-
oured maxi dress. She
sported a no-makeup look
and tied her hair in a bun.
Her dress had a belt at her
waist and she held a bag in
one hand. The actress com-
pleted her look with neon
green heels and smiled and
posed for the paparazzi.
She gave out the girl next
door vibes in a floral
dress. We can’t take eyes
off her.
G
lobal icon Priyanka Chopra needs no formal introduction. The
Indian actress has cemented her position as one of the most
skilled actors across continents. In her career spanning almost
two decades, Priyanka has impressed viewers in films and tele-
vision alike. And now, the mommy of one is all set to make her digital
debut with the upcoming web series Citadel. PeeCee, as she is fondly
known by her fans across continents, is quite active on social me-
dia and often treats her many fans and followers to glimpses of
her personal and professional lives. Be it her candid photos
with friends and family, or her professional photoshoots,
Priyanka never fails to make fans swoon over her. Keep-
ing up with this trajectory, a few minutes back, Priyan-
ka yet again took to her social media space and
shared a couple of pictures and a video from the
sets of Citadel.
FASHION
CODE
VACATION TIME
FROM CITADEL SETS
SUNDAY
VIBES
Styling journey
F
ashion matters to them
and their stylists as much
as it does to us. Behind
every inspiring look lies
a challenge, that needs to be met
with strategies and
whole lotta ex-
pertise from
many crea-
tive hands,
here’s when a
dream team
that believes in
growing and
glowing steps in.
Here’s what we’ve
been up to lately. As
our minds grew curi-
ous, we caught up
with Fashion Stylist
Namrata Deepak
for an exclusive
interview. She’s
known to every
fashion enthu-
siast as the
creative soul be-
hind the looks
of Shraddha
Kapoor. To-
gether, the
duo is here
to change
the face
of fash-
ion.
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Shraddha Kapoor
Anushka Sharma
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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