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First India Bureau
Thane: A Thane court
on Saturday granted bail
to former Maharashtra
minister Jitendra
Awhad and 11 others in a
case where they are ac-
cused of disrupting a
show of Marathi film
"Har Har Mahadev".
The Nationalist Con-
gress Party leader and 11
of his supporters were
arrested on Friday for
the incident that had
taken place at a multi-
plex inside a mall in
Thane city on November
7. The accused were pro-
duced in a court on Sat-
urday
.
The court remanded
them in magisterial cus-
tody
. They subsequently
applied for bail which
the court granted. Advo-
cate Prashant Kadam,
the accused's lawyer,
said they were released
on bail of Rs 15,000 each
but a detailed order was
awaited.
Awhad, who was the
housing minister in the
previous Maha Vikas
Aghadi government,
tweeted about the devel-
opment. "Chanakya
Niti" (conspiracy) failed,
hesaidwhileaddingthat
he received good treat-
ment in jail.
On Nov 7, Awhad and his
supporters forcibly
stopped a show of "Har
Har Mahadev", alleging
that the film distorted
the history of Chhatra-
pati Shivaji Maharaj.
Some moviegoers were
alsobeatenupwhenthey
protestedagainstthedis-
ruption, videos of the
incident showed.
A First Information
Report (FIR) was regis-
teredovertheincidentat
Vartak Nagar police sta-
tion under IPC sections
323 (assault) and 504 (in-
tentional insult with in-
tenttoprovokebreachof
peace).AssoonasAwhad
was granted bail, the
NCP workers started cel-
ebrating and burst fire-
crackers outside the Var-
taknagar police station.
As soon as Awad came
out of the court, flowers
were thrown on his car.
AWHAD GETS BAIL, EXCITED
SUPPORTERS CLAIM ‘VICTORY’!
LATER TWEETS ‘CHANAKYA NEETI FAILED’
Mumbai: Deputy Su-
perintendent of Police
Vinay Rathore, who ar-
rested NCP leader Ji-
tendra Awad, was hast-
ily transferred on Sat-
urday after department
of Home Affairs issued
orders and transferred
DCP Rathore from Cir-
cle V to Traffic Branch.
There was pressure on
the police while arrest-
ing me, claimed Jiten-
dra Awad in a press
conferenceonSaturday
and stressed that DCP
Rathod's face was de-
spondent at the time of
arrest.Interestingly,
Rathod's transfer order
wasissuedbytheHome
Ministry within two
hours after Awhad's
press conference. The
sudden transfer of DCP
Rathore has led to heat-
ed discussions.
Jitendra Awada
along with his workers
tried to shut down the
show of the movie 'Har
Har Mahadev' in the
theater in Viviana Mall
in Thane. Meanwhile,
there was a little row in
the cinema hall. Yester-
day, a case was regis-
tered against Awada in
this case. He was ar-
rested yesterday even-
ing. After yesterday's
arrest, the court today
sent him to judicial cus-
tody for 14 days. But af-
ter Awhad's lawyers ap-
plied for bail, the Holli-
day court granted bail
to 12 others including
Awhad.
"The police had no
handinmyarrestatall.
The police were under
pressure from
'Chanakya'. They kept
me in the police station
and spoke nicely with
me. By that time, the
DCP entered the police
station. Later, they said
that they are detaining
meandarrestingme.In
the meantime, some-
one's phone started
ringing and I heard
themsaying"Sir...Sir..."
and the DCP went out
and started talking.
Someone was giving or-
ders from the other
side. It was the duty of
the police to follow
their orders. DCP
Rathore's desperation
was visible during my
arrest," said the leader.
Awhad holds PC, 2 hours later, DCP transferred!
Nationalist Congress Party leader Jitendra Awhad
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VOTERS BRAVE SNOW!
Voters wade through snow to their nearest polling
station to cast their votes for the Himachal Pradesh
Assembly elections, in the Bharmour Assembly
constituency area on Saturday.
EARTHQUAKE JOLTS
NEPAL, TREMORS FELT
IN DEL-NCR; 3RD
IN WK
New Delhi: Strong tremors
were felt in Delhi-NCR and
Uttarkhand on Saturday
evening after an earthquake of
magnitude 5.4 on the Richter
scale hit Nepal. The quake
hit at around 7.57 pm on
Saturday. The epicentre was
Nepal, 3rd time in a week.
WB TMC MINISTER
APOLOGISES FOR HIS
COMMENTS ON PREZ
Kolkata: WB minister Akhil
Giri addressing a rally said,
“He (Suvendu) says I am not
good-looking. We don’t judge
anyone by their appearance, we
respect office of Prez (of India).
But how does our Prez look?”
Giri later apologised, I did not
mean to disrespect Prez.
OVER 800 TEST
COVID POSITIVE ON
AUSTRALIA CRUISE
Sydney: The Majestic
Princess cruise ship carrying
about 800 Covid positive
passengers has docked in
Sydney and passengers
have disembarked in the
city. Ship docked at Circular
Quay early Saturday, having
sailed from New Zealand.
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Crucial
Crucial
SHAH RUKH BRIEFLY
STOPPED AT MUMBAI
AIRPORT BY CUSTOMS
Mumbai: Bollywood superstar
Shah Rukh Khan on Saturday
paid customs duty of `6.88L
after personnel at Mumbai
airport found `18 lakh worth
watches in combined baggage
of the actor and five members
of his team on their arrival
from Dubai in a private jet. P2
MISSION ‘SOUTH’, DAY 2: PM MODI'S BUSY WEEKEND IN TELANGANA
I GET NUTRITION FROM 2-3 KGS OF
VERBAL ABUSE (GAALI) DAILY: PM
First India Bureau
Begumpet/Peddapal-
li/Visakhapatnam
(Telangana): PM Nar-
endra Modi on Saturday
dedicated the Ramagun-
dam Fertilizers and
Chemicals Limited
(RFCL) plant and Bhad-
rachalam Road- Sattu-
palli rail line in Pedda-
palli district of Telan-
gana to the nation dur-
ing the second of his
two-day visit to the
southern states.
During 2nd day of his
two-day visit to south-
ernstates,whilededicat-
ingvariousdevelopmen-
talprojectstothenation.
PMaddressedthepeople
of Ramagundam. “PM
Gatishakti Nat’l Master
Plan has improved, de-
veloped connectivity to
even remotest areas
within country,” PM
Modi said. Turn to P6
PM Narendra Modi waves to the people at the foundation
of projects worth over `9,500 crore, in Ramagundam on
Saturday. G Kishan Reddy and other dignitaries are also
present here. (Inset) PM Narendra Modi and CM YS Jagan
Mohan Reddy sharing ‘laugh out loud’ moment.
I was in Delhi in
morning, then
in Karnataka,
then in TN, now I am in
Telangana, at night I’ll
be in Andhra. People ask
me, ‘Don’t you get tired?’
I explain to them, ‘See
brother, I eat 2 kilos, 2.5
kilos or 3 kilos of gallis
daily, almighty has created
me in such a way that…
god has blessed me in
such a way that all the
verbal abuses are pro-
cessed within me and are
converted to nutrition.
—Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
MODI SPEAKS
z “Sun will rise and lotus
will bloom” in Telangana
z Telangana wants people-
first politics, not family-first
z Gatishakti Plan improved
connectivity to remotest areas
z The poor are receiving mon-
ey directly in their accounts
z To develop Telangana, we
need to keep superstition away
Home Minister Amit Shah at
Platinum Jubilee of ‘The India
Cements Limited’, Chennai.
TN GOVT TO GO FOR MEDICAL, ENGG EDU
IN TAMIL MEDIUM, SAYS HM AMIT SHAH
Chennai: Batting for medical and engineering educa-
tion in mother tongue, Union Home Minister Amit
Shah speaking at the Platinum Jubilee celebrations
of cement major India Cements Ltd on Saturday
described the Tamil Nadu government’s starting such
courses as a great contribution to language. More on P5
WORLD CUP
FINAL 2022
TODAY
PAKISTAN ENGLAND
HEAD-TO-HEAD BATTLE
Babar Azam’s Pakistan and Jos Buttler’s England
will take on each other in the final of the T20
World Cup 2022 at the iconic MCG stadium on
Sunday. The match is expected to be a nail-biting
contest as these two sides have raised their game
in the middle of the tournament and looked to have
found the best playing XI.
Like Raj, manifesto will be Cong govt's document in Guj: Raj CM
Manish Desai
Ahmedabad: The Con-
gress on Saturday re-
leased poll manifesto for
Gujarat Assembly elec-
tions with 11 commit-
ments which include
waiving farmers’ loan
up to `3 lakh and imple-
menting the Old Pen-
sionSchemeinthestate.
Rajasthan CM Ashok
Gehlot said that this
manifesto would be the
govt’s document in the
very first cabinet if the
party gets elected in the
state assembly election.
“This manifesto will be-
comegovt’sdocumentin
first cabinet if our gov-
ernment is formed. In
thefirstcabinetmeeting
in Rajasthan, the points
of public manifesto
were made official docu-
ments. We will do the
same in Gujarat,” Ge-
hlot said. He said a judi-
cial commission will be
constituted for the im-
plementation of the
manifesto. The Gujarat
Congress has prepared
the manifesto after tak-
ing the opinion of 6 lakh
people. People are fed up
with27yearsof misrule,
he said. More on P5
Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, Dr Raghu Sharma, Jagdish Thakore and
other leaders release party manifesto ahead of Gujarat Assembly
elections, at the Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan, in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
l Rajasthan CM Ashok
Gehlot releases
Congress manifesto
with 11 promises
including OPS
l Gehlot hints that PM
Modi might be behind
name change of
Sardar Patel Stadium
l Gehlot targets Delhi
CM Arvind Kejriwal
questioning his decision
to withdraw from
Himachal elections
RAHUL MAY SKIP PARL
WINTER SESSION: CONG
Congress General
Secretary in-charge
Communications Jairam
Ramesh said that party
leader Rahul Gandhi will
not be able to attend the
Parliament winter session
as he will be busy with
Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Rahul Gandhi with padyatris
in Hingoli, Maha on Saturday.

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BOOK BJP CHIEF FOR
BLACK MAGIC: NCP
LEADER TO COPS
Thane: A Nationalist Con-
gress Party leader on Satur-
day submitted a complaint
with Thane police against
BJP chief Chandrashekhar
Bawankule for the latter's
alleged statement dub-
bing Sharad Pawar as a
practitioner of black magic.
Bawankule reportedly said
Pawar does ‘black magic’on
anyone under his influence.
NCP Chief Spokesperson
Mahesh Tapase, in his
complaint, sought the reg-
istration of a case under the
Maharashtra Prevention and
Eradication of Human Sacri-
fice and Other Inhuman, Evil
and Aghori Practices and
Black Magic Act.
ALIBAG REVENUE
OFFICIAL CAUGHT
TAKING `3L BRIBE
Alibag: A revenue official
and her associate have
been arrested for allegedly
accepting a bribe from
a man for settling a land
dispute in rhe Raigad dis-
trict, said an official from
the Anti-Corruption Bureau
(ACB) on Saturday. Based
on a complaint, a team
from ACB Navi Mumbai on
Friday caught the associate
of the tehsildar of Alibag
accepting the bribe amount
on her behalf. According
to the complainant, the
tehsildar had taken a
bribe of Rs3 lakh to give
judgment in his favour in
a land dispute he had with
his relatives, he said.
THANE COPS BUST FAKE CURRENCY
NOTE RACKET; `8 CRORE SEIZED, 2 HELD
KIDS OF DECEASED NURSE AWARDED
`70L COMPENSATION BY LOK ADALAT
Thane: Police busted a fake currency racket on Sat-
urday near Gaimukh Chowpatty in city and recovered
fake currency worth Rs8 crore. Two persons have also
been arrested in the case. According to the police, the
accused went to Ghodbunder Road at 10 am on No-
vember 11 to print fake currency notes. Acting on a tip
off, the cops conducted a raid at 10.40 pm on Friday.
The accused Ram Hari Sharma (52) and Rajendra Raut
(58) were arrested with 400 currency notes of Rs2,000
denomination which amounted to Rs8 crore.
Thane/Palghar: The National Lok Adalat in the Palghar
district on Saturday awarded Rs70 lakh compensation
to the children of a nurse who was killed in an accident.
The settlement was reached between the claimants
and Iffco-Tokio Gen. Ins. Co Ltd, the insurer of the car
involved in the accident. The deceased Sangita Shan-
taram Baswant was a nurse at the primary health centre
in Durves in the district. She was killed in an accident
while riding pillion on a bike in November 2020,
CRUCIAL READ
SRK stopped at Mumbai airport over Customs duty
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Bollywood
actor Shah Rukh
Khan and five mem-
bers of his entourage
were detained for an
hour at the Mumbai
airport by customs of-
ficers in the early
hours of Saturday for
failing to pay duty on
six expensive watch-
es, said an official.
The incident hap-
pened at 12.30 am fol-
lowing Khan’s arrival
at the airport from
Dubai on a chartered
flight, according to the
official, who also noted
that the General Avia-
tion Terminal’s (GAT)
paymentcounterwasn’t
open at that time.
Officials discovered
six expensive watches
in one of Khan’s suit-
cases when examining
the luggage of him and
his team, he claimed.
The bag containing
watches was carried
by Khan’s bodyguard
Ravi Shankar Singh,
the official said.
As the screening pro-
cess was on, Khan and
his team were stopped
at the GAT—a VIP ter-
minal—for at least an
hour, he added.
After some time,
Khan, his secretary
PoojaDadlani,andthree
other members of the
team were allowed to
leave the airport.
As the Customs duty
payment counter at the
GAT was not operation-
al in the early hours,
Customs officers took
Ravi Shankar Singh
with them to Terminal-
II of the airport, where
Rs6.88 lakh was paid to-
wards Customs duty for
the watches, he said.
The General Aviation
Terminal’s (GAT)
payment counter was
not operational at the
time of SRK’s arrival,
said an airport official
Shah Rukh Khan
‘Centre to give `2L cr for 225 devt projects in Maha’
First India Bureau
Nagpur: Chief Minis-
ter Eknath Shinde on
Saturday said the
Centre has approved
Rs2 lakh crore for 225
development projects
in the state.
He dismissed allega-
tions that the state lost
out the race to bag an-
other project.
Earlier, Shiv Sena
(Uddhav Balasaheb
Thackeray) leader
Aaditya Thackeray had
alleged that Maharash-
tra lost five projects due
to the incompetence of
the state government in
the last three months.
“No project comes
and leaves a state in
just three months. It
does not happen like
that. These are just al-
legations. Our govern-
ment welcomes and
strengthens indus-
tries. In the coming
days, Maharashtra
will get big projects.
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi has also as-
sured the Maharashtra
government that big
projects will come to
the state and a large
number of jobs will be
generated,” said the
chief minister.
“The Central govern-
ment has approved Rs2
lakh crore for 225 devel-
opment projects in the
state,” he said.
He denied any politi-
cal hand in the arrest of
senior Nationalist Con-
gress Party (NCP) lead-
er Jitendra Awhad in
Thane and said the po-
lice must have taken ac-
tion as per law.
Awhad was arrested
on Friday, days after he
and his supporters dis-
rupted the screening of
the Marathi movie “Har
Har Mahadev” and
manhandled a cine-goer
at a Thane multiplex.
Awhad and his support-
ers had alleged that the
movie has “distorted
the history of Chhatra-
pati Shivaji Maharaj.”
CM squashes allegations of political
play in arrest of NCP leader Awhad
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde —FILE PHOTO
FOR THE PEOPLE
Some rebelMLAs
willreturntofold,
feels SanjayRaut
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Shiv Sena
(Uddhav Balasaheb
Thackeray) leader
Sanjay Raut has
claimed that some of
the rebel MLAs (in
the Eknath Shinde
faction) will return to
the party fold.
Speaking two days af-
ter his release on bail in
a case under the Pre-
vention of Money Laun-
dering Act (PMLA), he
also said a joint parlia-
mentary committee
should look into all
such cases.
As many as 40 Shiv
Sena MLAs including
current Maharashtra
Chief Minister Eknath
Shinde rebelled against
the party leadership in
Junewhichledtothecol-
lapse of the Uddhav
Thackeray-led Maha Vi-
kasAghadigovernment.
“Some of them will
certainly come back. I
am confident that some
will return,” Raut told a
Marathi news channel.
On Friday, former
Thane Municipal Cor-
poration (TMC) coun-
cillor Ragini Verishetty
returned to the UBT
faction.
The rebel MLAs were
now giving reasons for
leaving the party, Raut
said, adding, “What has
Shiv Sena not done for
these people? The party
has done more for them
than for me.”
In the PMLA cases
there is no scope for
quick bail, and many of
such cases are regis-
tered out of political
vendetta or to settle per-
sonal scores, said the
Rajya Sabha MP.
There should be a
“bench” of a retired Su-
preme Court judge or a
joint parliamentary
committee with high
representation of oppo-
sition members to look
into these cases, he said.
Raut also said he had
no personal animosity
towards Bharatiya Ja-
nata Party (BJP) leader
andDeputyChief Minis-
ter Devendra Fadnavis.
He reiterated his praise
for Fadnavis for some of
the decisions taken by
the government related
to housing for the poor.
Attacking the Centre,
Raut said, “The situa-
tion is such that a politi-
cal enemy is viewed as
anenemyof thecountry
and he is to be finished
permanentlyforwriting
againstthegovernment.
There was never such
an atmosphere before.”
Yuva Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav
Thackeray at Matoshree in Mumbai. —ANI PHOTO
Sena MP says he
has no personal
animosity
towards Dy CM
Fadnavis, hails
his work on
housing for poor
THOUGHT I
WOULDN’T GET OUT
FOR A YEAR: RAUT
First India Bureau
Hingoli: As the
Bharat Jodo Yatra
entered the sixth
day, Congress leader
Rahul Gandhi on
Saturday said its
message was that In-
dia cannot be divided
and hatred won’t be
allowed to spread.
While addressing a
gathering, the Con-
gress leader also tar-
geted the state and Cen-
tral governments over
the shifting of mega
projects like the Vedan-
ta-Foxconn and the
Tata Airbus from Ma-
harashtra to Gujarat.
“There are three-
four billionaires in In-
dia. They can do what-
ever they want. They
get whatever business
they want, be it air-
port, port, roads, infra-
structure, telecom or
banking. “But if the
country’s youth want
jobs, they don’t get
them,” he said.
Gandhi asked the
crowd to list what the
Modi government had
done for those who
give their blood and
sweat for the country,
and for those who feed
the country
.
Looking at the me-
dia personnel, Gandhi
said, “They are our
friends but are unable
to help (us). Someone
else is controlling
them. They can’t speak
even if they want to”.
Earlier in the day
, the
Yatra resumed from
Shevala village in Hin-
goli district on Satur-
day on its sixth day in
Maharashtra.
The foot march
passed through Arati
village, Pardi Mod bus
stand and Kalamnuri
Zilla Parishad High
School ground, before
halting for the night at
the Shankarrao Satav
Arts and Commerce
College ground in Kal-
amnuri, said a party
functionary
.
Gandhi also interact-
ed with eminent au-
thorsandculturalactiv-
ists from Maharashtra
and Goa during the day
.
Cong leader Rahul Gandhi poses with authors, activists for a
photo after a session. —ANI PHOTO
Gandhi leads Bharat Jodo Yatra in Hingoli district on Saturday. —ANI PHOTO
‘BHARAT JODO’S MSG IS INDIA CAN’T BE
DIVIDED,HATRED CANNOT BE SPREAD’
Rahul Gandhi calls
out Modi govt for
neglecting those ‘who
gave blood and sweat
to the country’
‘Rahul, Aaditya are
both capable of
leading the nation’
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Rajya Sab-
ha MP Sanjay Raut
on Friday said Con-
gress leader Rahul
Gandhi and Shiv
Sena leader Aaditya
Thackeray are two
“prominent young
leaders” capable of
leading the country.
Thackeray partici-
pated in Gandhi’s
Bharat Jodo Yatra ear-
lier in the day
.
Two prominent
young leaders, Rahul
Gandhi and Aaditya
Thackeray, walking to-
gether for Bharat Jodo
will give rise to new
energy
. The two young
leaders are capable of
leading the country,
said Raut.
The Shiv Sena lead-
er, who was released
from jail after getting
bail in a money laun-
dering case, said the
Sena was part of the
Bharat Jodo Yatra.
They (Gandhi and
Thackeray) have a lot
of energy to work for
the state and the coun-
try, he said.
Asked about the
coming together of
Uddhav Thackeray
and Vanchit Bahujan
Aghadi leader
Prakash Ambedkar,
Raut said a bond ex-
isted between their
respective grandfa-
thers, and it has now
percolated down the
generations.
Ambedkar and
Thackeray are two
forces and when they
come together, you will
see the politics of the
country changing,
Raut added.
The prevailing at-
mosphere in the state
will make the Shiv
Sena led by Uddhav
Thackeray a bigger
force. Everyone trusts
him, he claimed.
Aaditya Thackeray greets Sanjay Raut after his release from
jail on Thursday. —ANI PHOTO
People think
next Baramati
MP will be from
BJP:Union min
Pune (PTI): Union
minister Prahlad Singh
Patel on Saturday said
he saw “fear” in Bara-
mati, the home turf of
Nationalist Congress
Party (NCP) chief
Sharad Pawar, and said
people of the Lok Sabha
constituency think the
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) should win from
there in 2024 polls.
The Baramati Lok
Sabha seat in Pune dis-
trict is currently repre-
sented by Supriya Sule,
whoisPawar’sdaughter.
“People in Baramati
think BJP’s candidate
shouldbecomeMPinthe
2024 Lok Sabha elec-
tions. I saw ‘fear’ there
and its certificate will be
seen in 2024 (in terms of
people electing BJP can-
didate as MP),” Patel—
who is Minister of State
for Food Processing In-
dustries—told reporters
on last day of his two-
day tour of Baramati.
Prahlad Singh Patel

First India Bureau
Pune: A group of
around 10 people al-
legedly killed two
history-sheeters in
Pune city by attack-
ing them with sharp
weapons in the wee
hours of Saturday.
The police officials
suspect that the offence
was a fallout of old en-
mity
. The deceased were
identified as Anil, alias
Popat Walhekar, and
Subhash, alias Kisan
Rathod.
The incident took
placeat3amnearPandu
Laman Wasti in Yerawa-
da, a police official said.
“Rathod had been ar-
rested in 2009 in connec-
tion with an attack on
one Shankar Chavhan.
He was released from
jail just a few days
back,” he said.
“When Rathod was
travelling with Walhek-
ar and one more person,
eight to ten people at-
tacked the trio near
Pandu Laman Wasti.
While Rathod and Wal-
hekar died, the third
person managed to es-
cape,” the official added.
Later, Rathod’s broth-
er lodged a complaint
at the Yerawada police
station in this connec-
tion and investigation
into the case is on, po-
lice said.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: In an at-
tempt to provide re-
lief to Vikhroli-Bhan-
dup residents, the
Brihanmumbai Mu-
nicipal Corporation
(BMC) has decided to
rent and run a private
hospital in the area.
Since the Krantiveer
Mahatma Jyotiba Phule
Hospital was shut in
2018, the Sushrusha
Hospital of Vikhroli
(also known as the Su-
man Ramesh Tulsiani
Hospital) had submit-
ted a proposal to replace
it. According to BMC
officials, a decision will
be forthcoming in the
next 15 days.
“We had invited ex-
pressions of interest to
rent private hospitals in
October. Shushrusha
Hospital of Vikhroli
submitted a proposal.
We are studying it, after
which we will decide on
a rent amount,” said a
BMC official.
Additional Munici-
pal Commissioner Dr
Sanjeev Kumar said,
“Our team is working
on a proposal. A deci-
sion on this can be tak-
en in the next 15 days.”
A member of the di-
rectorial board of Sush-
rusha Hospital, Suresh
Sarnobat said, “We
have submitted our pro-
posal. Now, they will
make a decision.”
“The hospital has a
160-bed capacity. We
will use their infra-
structure while our doc-
tors will be deputed
there. This is the first-
time BMC is renting a
private hospital,” in-
formed a BMC official.
Another official said
the civic body has de-
cided to redevelop
Phule Hospital and the
new hospital will have
500 beds.
Expressing angst at
delay in identification
of the hospital's alterna-
tive, local resident, Dr
Yogesh Bhalerao, said,
“BMC should complete
this process to rent the
hospital quickly
. Also,
the new hospital should
be constructed soon.”
Vikhroli-Bhandup
residents had gone on a
hungerstrikeinSeptem-
ber this year to protest
closure of Phule Hospi-
tal in 2018. The building
had been declared dilap-
idated and shut but
nothing was done about
the facility
. Chief Minis-
ter Eknath Shinde had
takennoteof thehunger
strike and asked BMC
officials to come up with
an immediate solution.
MAHARASHTRA
03
First India Bureau
Pune: In a shocking
incident, a 15-year-
old girl was allegedly
forcibly married by
her mother to the lat-
ter’s 28-year-old lover
and she also forced
the teen victim to
have sexual relations
with him.
According to a Chan-
dannagar police station
official, the incident
came to light when the
victim narrated her or-
deal to a classmate and
a woman social worker
was alerted.
“The man is a distant
relative and stayed with
the accused woman,”
the police official said.
The 36-year-old wom-
an and her lover have
been arrested under
provisions of the POC-
SO Act and Prohibition
of Child Marriage Act.
BMC SET TO RENT AND RUN PVT HOSPITAL
AFTER PROTESTS FROM LOCALS ABOUT NO ALTERNATIVE TO CLOSED GOVT HOSP, CM
EKNATH SHINDE HAD INSTRUCTED THE CIVIC BODY TO REMEDY ISSUE EFFICIENTLY
NEED AUDIT
REPORTS BEFORE
BRIDGE
HANDOVERS: BMC
Mumbai: With the
October audit reveal-
ing the poor state
of 54 bridges under
its care, the Brihan-
mumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC)
has decided not
to take chances
with the handover
of overpasses by
state authorities.
The civic body’s
Bridges Department
will write to authori-
ties concerned and
ask them to submit
the latest structural
audit report of all
bridges that they will
be transferring. The
state government has
directed the MMRDA
and the MSRDC to
hand over all roads,
including bridges,
under their jurisdic-
tion to the BMC for
maintenance.
Civic body to introduce
night hawking zones
in southern Mumbai
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Beautify-
ing the congested B
ward, which com-
prises areas such as
Dongri, Umerkhadi
and Mohammed
Ali Road, is noth-
ing short of a chal-
lenge for the Bri-
hanmumbai Mu-
nicipal Corpora-
tion (BMC).
According to the
civic body, there are
plans afoot to first
clear hawker en-
croachments and re-
habilitate vagrants
under the bridges to
impart an aesthetic
look to the B ward.
Dedicated hawk-
ing zones with night
markets, a concept
borrowed from Goa,
will be implemented
first on Mohammed
Ali Road, followed by
the whole of South
Mumbai. The con-
cept was introduced
at the behest of
guardian minister
Deepak Kesarkar af-
ter he visited the
ward this week.
AccordingtoDepu-
ty Municipal Com-
missioner Sangeeta
Hasnale, “We are ex-
ploring the possibili-
ty of utilizing spaces
that empty out in the
late evening and can
be used for night
markets.”
“The sites are yet
to be identified, but
the concept will be
implemented in all of
South Mumbai even-
tually from A ward in
Fort to E ward in By-
culla,” she added.
BMC plans to clear
encroachments
and rehabilitate
vagrants under the
bridges to impart
an aesthetic look
BOY DIES AFTER
COMPOUND WALL
FALLS, 1 INJURED
ROBBERS OPEN FIRE,
LOOT `25L FROM
ANGADIA OFFICE
Palghar: An 11-year-old
boy died and a teenager
sustained injuries after part
of a bus depot’s compound
wall collapsed on them at
Jawhar in Palghar district,
police said on Saturday.
The incident occurred
at around 8.30 pm on
Thursday. “The driver was
reversing the bus when it
hit the compound wall of
Jawhar depot, due to which
a portion of the wall col-
lapsed on those who were
standing close to it,” said
Inspector Sudhir Sankhe of
Jawhar police station.
Pune: A gang of robbers
opened fire and looted
Rs25 lakh from an angadia
(courier) office in the
Market Yard area here on
Saturday. The incident
took place around 11.30
am. Five people barged
into the courier firm’s
office and when one of the
owners of the firm tried
to push an intruder out,
his accomplice smashed
the office’s glass exterior
and fired a round into the
ground. The unidentified
robbers decamped after
looting Rs25 lakh in cash.
SEX RACKET BUSTED IN PALGHAR;
1 WOMAN ARRESTED, 2 RESCUED
MAN SHOOTS NEIGHBOUR’S PET
DOG FOR BARKING AT HIM IN BEED
Palghar: The police have busted a sex racket
in Palghar district and arrested a 39-year-old
woman who allegedly pushed women into flesh
trade, police said on Saturday. The MBVV police
had received information about the accused
woman who allegedly operated the racket by
forwarding photographs of women to custom-
ers on WhatsApp. The anti-human trafficking
cell sent a decoy customer to the woman in
Vasai on Wednesday and apprehended her just
as the deal was struck, he said.
Beed: A man allegedly shot his neighbour’s
pet dog for barking at him in the Beed district,
police said on Saturday. The incident took place
in Dharavati Tanda area of Parli taluka on Friday
morning, an official said. The accused allegedly
shot his neighbour Vikas Bansode’s female pet
dog after she barked at him, he said. A staffer
at Bansode’s beer bar witnessed the shooting
and informed him about it, the official said. No
arrest has been made in this regard so far.
CRUCIAL READ
INNOCENT FUN
Medical staff members at the Global Hospital in Mumbai
held a Children’s Day celebration for paediatric patients
on Saturday. The day is marked on November 14, which is
the birth anniversary of the country’s first Prime Minister
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. He was known to be fond of
children and was called ‘Chacha Nehru’.
—PHOTOS BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
Woman gets her
lover married to
her 15-year-old
daughter, held
Group of people kills
two history-sheeters
with sharp weapons
Police officials
suspect that the
offence was a fallout
of old enmity
First India Bureau
Pune: Three 60 days
old leopard cubs were
reunited with their
mother by farmers of
Shiroli village in
Pune district.
The agricultural
workers stumbled upon
the cubs in a sugarcane
field, while harvesting
the crop. They looked to
have been stranded and
separated from their
mother. Being used to
seeing leopards in the
area, they informed the
state Forest Depart-
ment, post haste. Forest
officials, along with
Wildlife SOS rescue
team operating out of
the Manikdoh Leopard
Rescue Centre in Jun-
nar, took over the case.
The Wildlife SOS vet-
erinary doctor exam-
ined the cubs for any
diseases and tagged the
cubs with microchips
before their reunion
with the mother.
Dr Chandan Sawne,
Wildlife SOS, Veteri-
nary Officer said, “We
conducted a clinical ex-
amination to rule out
any abnormality or dis-
ease. Following proto-
col, we also carefully
implanted each cub
with a microchip before
the release. This is an
excellent measure of
identifying leopards in
the wild and allows us
to study the range and
territory of the majes-
tic big cats.”
The team then waited
till nightfall, when the
leopards were most ac-
tive, and placed the
cubs in a safe box. In the
early hours of Friday
morning, a camera in-
stalled to monitor the
cubs recorded the moth-
er leopard approaching
the safe box and reunit-
ing with her cubs.
The rescue centre’s
CEO Kartick
Satyanarayan praised
the community for
their conservation ef-
forts and mitigating
human-wildlife con-
flict. “The awareness of
the local community
plays a huge role here
in avoiding any kind
of mishap and ensur-
ing that these cubs are
safely reunited with
their mothers.”
Locals help reunite three leopard cubs with
mother in Shiroli village of Pune district
HAPPY ENDING
Found in a
sugarcane field,
they were
examined for
diseases and
tagged with
microchips
before release
Wildlife SOS rescue team with the three cubs.

PERSPECTIVE
04
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amil Nadu has
decided not to
implement the
10 percent quo-
ta for the Eco-
nomically Weaker Section.
Chief Minister MK Stalin
views it as arbitrary and
exclusionary
. The DMK
leader called the Supreme
Court’s order upholding
the Central government’s
decision on the EWS quota
asasetbackforthecentury-
old struggle for social jus-
tice. Stalin has a strong
reason to oppose the ver-
dict as the interest of 82
percent of the population
comprising Scheduled
Castes, Scheduled Tribes
and Other Backward Class-
es is at stake. Implementa-
tionof theSupremeCourt’s
verdict could cut into the
existing quota in the state.
Boycotted by the main
Opposition, the AIADMK
and the BJP, an all-legisla-
tive party meeting called
by Stalin there was agree-
ment on rejecting the 103rd
Constitutional Amend-
ment which provides for
reservation for the EWS as
it “created caste discrimi-
nation” among the poor.
Tamil Nadu is not the
only state to be bothered by
thereservationissue.Inan-
other part of the country,
Jharkhand, the Jharkhand
MuktiMorchagovernment
of Chief Minister Hemant
Soren, a Bill was passed at
a special session of the As-
sembly to raise caste-based
reservation to 77 percent.
The Jharkhand Reserva-
tion of Vacancies in Posts
andServices(Amendment)
Bill, 2022 raised total reser-
vations from 60 percent to
77 percent.
Consequently
, the quota
of Scheduled Castes has
goneupfrom10percentto12
percent, of OBCs has in-
creasedfrom14percentto27
percent and Scheduled
Tribes from 28 percent to 30
percent. This decision will
besubjecttotheCentralgov-
ernment and the Supreme
Court’sapproval.Preparing
for 2024, Mr Soren?
QUOTA POLITICS
GOING OUT
OF HAND
Boycotted by the main
Opposition, the
AIADMK and the BJP,
an all-legislative party
meeting called by Stalin
there was agreement on
rejecting the 103rd
Constitutional
Amendment which
provides for reservation for
the EWS as it “created
caste discrimination”
among the poor
T
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
For whatever things were written
before were written for our learning, that we
through the patience and comfort of the
Scriptures might have hope.
—Bible
Narendra Modi @narendramodi
Shri RL Kashyap was a multifaceted
personality and great scholar. He was
blessed with rich mathematical and
scientific knowledge. He was very
proud of India’s cultural roots and
distinguished himself in Vedic studies.
Pained by his demise. Condolences to his family. Om Shanti.
Dharmendra Pradhan @dpradhanbjp
The indecent remarks made by Mamta
didi’s minister on His Excellency
Rashtrapati ji shows his feudal
mindset. There is evidence of her
tribal and anti-women character. In a
democracy like India, there is no place
for this kind of inferiority complex and malice towards
women of colour, race and women.
TOP TWEETS
he outcome of the mid
term elections in the Unit-
ed States took almost eve-
ry one in America and
large parts of the world by
surprise. The Republicans,
i.e former President
Trump took victory for
granted. The incumbent
President, Joe Biden was
more or less written off. To
some extent the powerful
American media was re-
sponsible for the denigra-
tion of Mr Biden.
The vigorous, intellectu-
ally impressive and untir-
ing campaigning of for-
mer president Barack
Obama did much to put life
into the Democratic Party
.
The other factor that went
against the Republican
Party was the divisive, er-
ratic, irresponsible record
of Mr. Trump’s presidency
.
Apart from the Democrats,
the independent voters
had not forgotten, the un-
presented and violent at-
tack on Capital Hill, mas-
ter minded by the presi-
dent and his dangerous
and anti-national staff in
the White House. The
world watched the insur-
rection on TV and was
aghast. The world’s oldest
and greatest democracy
was being torn apart
by hoodlums. The life of
Vice President Pence
was in grave danger.
He had refused to declare
that the 2018 election had
been stolen.
The impartial voter in
the mid-term elections
made sure that Trump
should be taken care of by
the electoral guillotine.
This mercifully has hap-
pened. A rival has ap-
peared. The incumbent
Republican Governor of
Florida has been re-elect-
ed. He is no admirer of Mr
Trump. He is a dedicated
adversary. He will have
massive support at the Re-
publican Convention in
2024. This has changed the
political scenario of
America. Mr Trump is al-
ready been called a have-
been. A second Trump
presidency would have
been a cataclysm not only
for the United States, but
for the World.
President Biden lacks
charisma, but his politi-
cal carrier began when he
was twenty eight years of
age. He is a decent man
and an upright one. A vis-
it by him to India is over-
due. Humankind is facing
horrendous crises. The
most frightening is the
climate calamity hanging
over the globe. It is large-
ly man made. As the UN
Secretary General said at
the Sher-mal-Sheikh con-
ference, “time is running
out”. Pious resolutions
will not do. Drastic, im-
mediate action must be
taken to save humanity
and the globe. The two are
inseparable. Enough con-
ferences have been held,
endless speeches have
been made, the T.V
screens are working over
time to record the not so
inspiring oratory of a
hundred world leaders.
NO END TO RUSSIAN-
UKRAINIAN WAR
The end of Russian-
Ukrainian war is nowhere
in sight. The number of
child orphans and young
widows increase by the
day
. Has humanity gone on
an endless furlough.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
T
What happened on last
Thursday at Adelaide,
was not just a
disappointment it was
an unmitigated,
shameful disaster.
India, with the
exception of Hardik
Pandaya made us
all more than
uncomfortable. It took
Virat Kohli an age to
get his fifty. The much
praised Surya Kumar
Yadav was caught after
scoring sixteen runs.
He should take lessons
in how to be patient
Apart from the Democrats, the independent voters
had not forgotten, the unpresented and violent
attack on Capital Hill, master minded by the
president and his dangerous and anti-
national staff in the White House. The world
watched the insurrection on TV and was aghast
K NATWAR SINGH
The author is Former Minister
of External Affairs of India
Democrats defy expectations, push back
Republican’s ‘Red Wave’ in US mid-term polls
TEAM INDIA
PLAYED POOR
IN SEMIFINALS
Millions of people are
enthusiastic fans of our
cricketers. Tens of thousands
go to stadiums in Mumbai,
New Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai
and other cities to watch
them play. Test cricketers
have the same popularity as
film stars do. The TV audi-
ences cannot be counted or
measured. Nor can the touts
who make illegal money.
What happened on last
Thursday at Adelaide, was
not just a disappointment
it was an unmitigated,
shameful disaster. India,
with the exception of Hardik
Pandaya made us all more
than uncomfortable. It took
Virat Kohli an age to get
his fifty. The much praised
Surya Kumar Yadav was
caught after scoring sixteen
runs. He should take les-
sons in how to be patient.
Our bowlers could not
get a single wicket. The
fielding was dismal. The
T-20 players are payed
huge amounts for playing
in T-20 matches. So are
the commentators. The
BCCI is the second richest
sports organisation in the
World. One of the current
Vice-President’s, I have lit-
tle doubt does not know the
difference between a yorker
and a googly.
The Cricket Board should
meet immediately. Sack
six out of eleven of the
team that let down India at
Adelaide. Unless one is a
Bradman, Walter Hammond
or Tendulkar, none of the
T-20 team players should
be retained who are above
thirty five years of age.

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INDIA
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: Under the
pressure of RLD leader
Jayant Chaudhary, by-
election has been an-
nounced for Khatauli
assembly seat in west-
ern UP. In
fact, on Oc-
tober 11,
theverdict
c a m e
against
B J P
MLA Vikram Saini
from this seat in the Mu-
zaffarnagar riots case
and he was sentenced to
two years jail. But nei-
ther his membership
was terminated nor his
seat was declared va-
cant. On the contrary,
the verdict against SP
leaderAzamKhancame
on 27 October and on 28
October the Speaker of
the Assembly declared
his Rampur seat vacant.
At the same time, Jay-
ant Chaudhary raised
the question as to why
Vikram Saini’s seat is
not being declared va-
cant. Speaker did not
declare Vikram Saini’s
Khatauli seat vacant,
despite his repeated
questions. Then on No-
vember 5, the EC an-
nounced by-elections to
Rampur assembly seat
of UP and the Mainpuri
LS seat vacated due to
death of Mulayam Sin-
gh. After this, the con-
troversy escalated as
Jayant Chaudhary and
other leaders expressed
their Oppn and a day
later Speaker declared
the seat vacant.
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi: There are
some areas in Uttar
Pradesh, which have
been a stronghold of
the Samajwadi Party
for a long time. Main-
puri is one such region
from where Mulayam
Singh Yadav won the
Lok Sabha elections.
Another similar SP fort
was Azamgarh, which
has now ‘collapsed’.
Akhilesh Yadav won
the Lok Sabha elec-
tions from Azamgarh.
But after becoming an
MLA this year, he re-
signed from his seat.
On that seat, the party
had contested Mulay-
am Singh’s nephew
Dharmendra Yadav,
who was a multiple-
time MP from Badaun,
but he was defeated by
Bhojpuri film actor and
BJP candidate Dinesh
Lal Yadav Nirhua.
However, he lost by a
small margin of eight
thousand votes and it
was largely due to
BSP’s Muslim candi-
date Shah Alam getting
2.66 thousand votes. Yet
a fort of the Mulayam
family has collapsed.
This time, SP names
Dimple Yadav as its
candidate from Main-
puri. This seat is be-
lieved to be more se-
cure than Azamgarh
and yet, the SP is wor-
riedaboutmanythings.
Have by-poll to Khatauli been called
under pressure of Jayant Chaudhary?
SAMAJWADI PARTY IS WORRIED
TO SAVE MAINPURI STRONGHOLD
BIHAR ‘POL’ TALKS!
Ahtesham Siddiqui
Lucknow: 11 IPS offic-
ers including five SPs
were transferred in Ut-
tar Pradesh.
Siddharth Shankar
Meena was made the
new SP in Unnao while
Omveer Singh has been
transferred to Ghazipur
as SP. He was SP Vigi-
lance in Lucknow.
Hemraj Meena
who was SP Railways
in Prayagraj, has
been made SSP Mo-
radabad whereas DCP
in Kanpur commis-
sionerate Brijesh Ku-
mar will be the new SP
of Kaushambi.
Hemant Kutiyal has
been put under await-
ing posting orders and
attached to the DGP
Headquarters. Similar-
ly, Ghazipur SP Botre
Rohan Pramod has been
kept in the waiting list.
2013-batch IPS officer
Anurag Vats, who was
posted as the SP of
Barabanki, has been re-
lieved for central depu-
tation in the Ministry
of Home Affairs, Gov-
ernment of India.
Nikhil Patha, who
was in the waiting list,
has been made SP in re-
gional notification Luc-
knowinplaceof Brijesh
Singh. Singh has been
sent to Headquarters as
SP law and order.
Unnao SP Dinesh Tri-
pathi has also been kept
in the waiting list of
waiting for posting.
Dinesh Kumar Singh
has been made the new
SP in Barabanki.
11 IPS including 5 SPs
transferred; Vats sent
on central deputation
UP BUREAUCRACY
JAIRAM THAKUR WILL CONTINUE TO
BE CM FACE, SAYS BJP CHIEF NADDA
Poll body
prohibits exit,
opinion polls
for HP, Guj
Shillai
recorded the
highest turnout
at 77 per cent
First India Bureau
Bilaspur (Himachal
Pradesh): BJP Nation-
al President Jagat
Prakash Nadda on Sat-
urday said that the cur-
rent Chief Minister of
Himachal Pradesh
would be the face of the
new CM of the state if
the party wins the as-
sembly election.
Hesaid,“Wedefinitely
are in a comfortable ma-
jority
. The election has
beencontestedunderthe
leadership of Jairam
Thakur and he will con-
tinue(tobetheCMface).”
He also took a swipe
at Congress leader Ra-
hul Gandhi as the latter
did not participate in
any campaign for HP
assembly election and
said that they (Con-
gress) are careerist
leaders. As the state al-
ternates between the
BJP and the Congress
in the last several elec-
tions, Nadda thinks
that this would change
in this electio and peo-
ple of the state were
showing zeal to elect
the “BJP” again.
VOTING CONCLUDES, RESULTS ON DEC 8
Jayant is hoping that Samajwadi Party’s
alliance will get him the Khatauli seat again
and hoping for favourable ‘clime’, his party
has also started preparations for the elections
Akhilesh Yadav and Dimple Yadav.
Jayant Chaudhary
New Delhi: The SC has
junked a PIL seeking
direction to remove
Nitish Kumar from the
office of Chief Minister
of Bihar alleging that
his appointment was in
complete violation of
the different provisions
of the Constitution
of India. A bench of
Justices MR Shah and
MM Sundresh said
that post-poll alliance
is allowed by anti-de-
fection law and the
10th schedule of the
Constitution, subject to
certain conditions.
New Delhi: The
Madhya Pradesh
state government
was ordered to
turn over further
investigation to a
Special Investiga-
tion Team (SIT)
at SC when it was
reviewing a father’s
petition stating that
his son had been
missing for nearly
17 years. A minor,
Manoj Prajapati, pe-
titioner Attu’s son,
was charged with
violating a woman’s
modesty in 2005.
PIL ASKING TO
REMOVE NITISH
FROM BIHAR CM
POST DISMISSED
SC DIRECTS SIT
PROBE TO FIND
MISSING MAN
FOR 17 YEARS
IN THE
COURTYARD
HIMACHAL PRADESH
ELECTION
2022
JP Nadda pose for a picture after casting his vote alongwith his family members in Vijaypur on Saturday.
First India Bureau
Chennai: Union Home
Minister Amit Shah on
Saturday said the coun-
trywitnessedfast-paced
economic growth under
the leadership of PM
Modiandwouldachieve
the USD 5-trillion econ-
omy goal by 2025. Shah
was speaking during
the 75th platinum jubi-
lee celebrations of N
Srinivasan-helmed The
India Cements Ltd.
HM Amit Shah dur-
ing the event said devel-
opment of the country
was based on its infra-
structure and robust
infrastructure is based
on the quality of the ce-
ment used and noted
that the company pro-
duces 15.5 million tonne
of cement through its
10 manufacturing facili-
ties across the country.
“In the last eight years,
Economy fast paced under PM
Modi’s rule, says Amit Shah
I AM CONFIDENT OF WIN, SAYS CM
THAKUR AFTER CASTING HIS VOTE
HP CHIEF
CASTS
HIS VOTE
Himachal
Pradesh BJP
President Suresh
Kashyap casts his
vote with his wife
on Saturday.
‘CONG TO HAVE MAJORITY, BJP
WON’T SUCCEED IN POACHING’
Chief Minister Jairam Thakur, after casting his vote in
the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, said the
BJP is confident of a win and called upon voters to turn
out in large numbers
and “further strength-
en democracy”. “I am
confident that people
want to repeat this
govt. I started receiv-
ing greetings this
morning. I received
PM Modi’s message
a while ago, he gave me his blessings and best wishes,”
he added. CM Thakur’s wife, Sadhna, said there are 50
per cent female voters and it is a big day for us.
Congress president Anand Sharma on Saturday said
that the people of HP are in the mood for a change
of government in the state by eliminating the BJP in the
state assembly elec-
tions. Slamming the
ruling BJP, Sharma
said, “There is a
climate of change.
Many sections of the
society have suffered
especially the govern-
ment employees, the
youth who are desperate due to unemployment, women
and youth. who will work after Agnipath.”
They (Congress) are careerist lead-
ers, realised that they will gain
nothing in HP and Gujarat. Once
they feel they are winning or can win, they
all will come here for credit. They know they
won’t gain anything. So they won’t be seen.
—JP Nadda, BJP National President
Union Home Minister Amit Shah with MOS DrL Murugan, TN Governor RN Ravi, releases a special
Postal Stamp to mark the Platinum Jubilee of ‘India Cements’, in Chennai on Saturday.
India-ASEAN nations to boost
cooperation against terrorism
Rajiv Gandhi
assassination:
Nalini and four
others released
Chennai: Nalini Sri-
haran, her husband and
three other convicts in
the Rajiv Gandhi assas-
sination case were re-
leased from Tamil Nadu
prisons on Saturday
.
Immediately after
she was released from
special prison for wom-
en in Vellore, Nalini
went to Vellore central
prison from where her
husband Sriharan alias
Murugan was released
and became emotional
upon seeing him. Earli-
er, another convict who
was set free in May, Per-
arivalan, along with his
mother Arputhammal
received the duo at Pu-
zhal prison.
VP Jagdeep Dhankhar calls on Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni in Phnom Penh on Saturday.
Phnom Penh: With an
eye on the growing Chi-
nese military and eco-
nomic assertiveness in
the region, India and
the 10 members of the
Asean (Association of
Southeast Asian Na-
tions) on Saturday de-
cided to establish a com-
prehensive strategic
partnership enhance
cooperation against ter-
rorism. At 19th Asean-
India Summit in the
Cambodian capital of
Phnom Penh, that was
attended by Vice-Presi-
dent Jagdeep Dhankhar
on Saturday, India and
the ten-nation bloc “re-
affirmed the impor-
tance of maintaining
and promoting peace,
stability
, maritime safe-
ty and security
, freedom
of navigation and over-
flight in the region”
while “enhancing coop-
eration against terror-
ism and transnational
crimes”. This year
marks the 30th anniver-
sary of India’s relations
with southeast Asian
grouping and is being
celebrated as the Asean-
India Friendship Year.
Medical and engineering education
should be in Tamil and the State gov-
ernment should start that, it will be
easy for the students to study in their
mother tongue and they can also do research and
development (RD) in their own language.
—Amit Shah, Union Home Minister
HM Amit Shah Vice Chairman,
India Cements, N Srinivasan.
the country has seen
fast-paced economic
growth. By 2025, India
will become a USD
5-trillion economy, ”
Amit Shah said.
Jagdeep Dhankhar meets Vietnam
PM Pham Minh Chinh at the 19th
ASEAN-India Summit on Saturday.
Hemant Kutiyal
Siddharth Meena
Anurag Vats
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INDIA
PM NARENDRA MODI’S
‘BIG’ SOUTHERN PUSH...
From Pg 1...
PM Modi on Saturday
dedicated the RFCL
plant and Bhadracha-
lam Road- Sattupalli rail
line in the Peddapalli
district of Telangana to
the nation during the
second of his two-day
visit to the southern
states. Addressing BJP
workers he said it is be-
cause of the ‘karyakar-
tas’ of BJP that it has
won more than 300 seats
in the last LS election,
PM Modi said on Satur-
day while addressing a
public rally in Begum-
petregionof Telangana.
PM Modi also laid the
foundation stone of var-
ious road projects worth
over Rs 2,200 crores,
namely the Medak-Sid-
dipet-Elkathurthy sec-
tion of NH-765DG; Bod-
han-Basar-Bhainsa sec-
tionof NH-161BB;Siron-
cha to Mahadevpur Sec-
tion of NH-353C during
the event. PM Narendra
Modisaidwhileaddress-
ing a public rally in the
state’s Begumpet took
tookadigattheTRSsay-
ing that the southern
state now wants a gov-
ernment that would
work for “every family”
instead of “only one”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit to RFCL plant, in Ramagundam
on Saturday.
Law shouldn’t become instrument of oppression: CJI Chandrachud
New Delhi (PTI): It is
the responsibility of all
decision makers not
just judges to ensure
that the law does not be-
come an instrument of
oppression but remains
an instrument of jus-
tice, Chief Justice of
India D Y Chandrachud
said on Saturday
.
Justice Chandra-
chud, while speaking at
the Hindustan Times
Leadership Summit,
said it is great to have
expectations from citi-
zens but “we need to
understand the limits
as well as the potential-
ity of the courts as in-
stitutions”.
“So, how do we en-
sure, as citizens, that
the law becomes an in-
strument of justice and
thelawdoesnotbecome
an instrument of op-
pression.Ithinkthekey
is the way in which we
handle the law which
includes all decision
makers and not just
judges,” the Chief Jus-
tice of India (CJI) said.
What sustains judi-
cial institutions in the
long run is the sense of
compassion, sense of
empathy and ability to
answercriesof citizens,
he said.
“When you have the
ability to hear unheard
voices in your system,
(see)unseenfacesinthe
system and then see
where the balance be-
tween the law and jus-
tice lies then you can
trulyperformyourmis-
sion as a judge,” Justice
Chandrachud said.
Social media has
posed one of the great-
est challenges as there
is real-time reporting
of every little word that
a judge says in court-
roomsand“youarecon-
stantly evaluated as a
judge”, he said.
“There is real-time
reportingof everyword
that a judge says in the
court.Thoseof youwho
are lawyers will be able
to tell your colleagues
that everything said by
a judge during a course
of conversation in the
court does not reflect
either the mind of the
judge or the ultimate
conclusion that the
judge would arrive at,”
the CJI said.
“The process of judg-
ing that goes on in the
courts is dialogic.
There is free flowing
dialogue between law-
yers in the court and
the judges between
themselves in an effort
to unravel the truth,”
he said.
“So, I do believe that
we need to fashion, re-
engineer, find new solu-
tions, retrain, recoup,
rethink our role in try-
ing to understand how
we meet the challenges
of the age we are living
in,” he said.
Sometimes the law and justice do
not necessarily follow the same lin-
ear trajectory. The law can be an
instrument of justice but the law can be an
instrument of oppression as well. We know
how in colonial times the same law, as it
exists in the statute books today, could be
used as an instrument of oppression.
—D Y Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India
EAM meets Kuleba; discuss
nuclear concerns in conflict
Jaishankar met Kuleba on sidelines of the ASEAN-India summit in the Cambodian capital
Phnom Penh (PTI):
External Affairs Minis-
ter S Jaishankar on Sat-
urday held a meeting
with his Ukrainian
counterpart Dmytro
Kuleba and both the
leaders discussed recent
developments in the re-
gion, nuclear concerns
andwaystoendRussia’s
war on Ukraine.
Jaishankar met Kule-
ba on the sidelines of
the ASEAN-India sum-
mit here in the Cambo-
dian capital.
“Pleasure to meet FM
@DmytroKuleba of
Ukraine. Our discus-
sions covered recent
developments in the
conflict, the grain ini-
tiative and nuclear con-
cerns,” he tweeted.
Jaishankar is accom-
panying Vice President
Jagdeep Dhankhar who
is leading the Indian
delegation to the ASE-
AN-India Commemora-
tive Summit and the
17th East Asia Summit
here. Ukraine Foreign
Dmytro Kuleba took to
Twitter and said that he
discussed bilateral co-
operation and ways to
end Russia’s war on
Ukraine.
“My Indian counter-
part @DrSJaishankar
and I met to discuss bi-
lateral cooperation and
ways to end Russia’s
war on Ukraine. I em-
phasized that Russia
must immediately
cease deadly attacks,
withdraw all troops
from Ukraine, and com-
mit to peace. We also
focused on global food
security
,” Kuleba tweet-
ed. India has not yet con-
demned the Russian in-
vasion of Ukraine and it
has been maintaining
that the crisis must be
resolved through diplo-
macy and dialogue.
Since the Ukraine
conflict began in Febru-
ary
,PrimeMinisterNar-
endra Modi spoke to
Russian President
Vladimir Putin as well
as Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy a
number of times.
S Jaishankar meets with Dmytro Kuleba in Phnom Penh on
Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI
17TH EAST
ASIA SUMMIT
Indian External Affairs
Minister Subrah-
manyam Jaishankar
is accompanying Vice
President Jagdeep
Dhankhar, who is leading
the Indian delegation to
the ASEAN-India Com-
memorative Summit
and the 17th East Asia
Summit, which are both
being held in Cambodia.
SituationnearLACstable
butunpredictable:Pande
New Delhi (ANI): The
situation in eastern
Ladakh is stable but un-
predictable and in spite
of the onset of winter,
there is no significant
reduction Chinese ar-
my’s force levels on Line
of ActualControl(LAC),
Army Chief General
Manoj Pande said on
Saturday
.
The Army Chief was
speaking at the
‘Chanakya Dialogues’
here in the national
capital on subject ‘Arm-
ing the Army-At-
manirbhar Bharat’. Re-
plying to a question of
Major Gaurav Arya
(retd) during ‘fireside
chat’ on situation in
Eastern Ladakh, Gen-
eral Manoj Pande said
“situation is stable but
unpredictable”.
“You are aware about
the talks on the politi-
cal, diplomatic and mili-
tary level which is going
on between the two
sides. Because of these
talks, we have been able
to find resolution in five
of the seven friction
points which were on
the table. And it is for
the next two friction
points, on that we are
trying to find resolu-
tion,” Gen Pande said.
The Army Chief re-
ferred to the meeting of
Working Mechanism for
Consultation and Coor-
dination on India-China
Border Affairs (WMCC)
heldlastmonthinwhich
the two sides agreed to
continue discussions
through diplomatic and
military channels to re-
solve the remaining is-
sues along the LAC.
D Y Chandrachud
BJP SUBVERTING
INDEPENDENCE
OF ELECTION
COMMISSION: MUFTI
BJP SEEKS GIRI’S
DISMISSAL FROM
WB GOVT, APOLOGY
FROM CM MAMATA
Srinagar: PDP president
Mehbooba Mufti on
Saturday accused the
BJP of subverting the EC
to an extent that it was
no more an independent
body. She alleged that the
Election Commission has
become “an extension”
of the BJP. “It will do
whatever the BJP tells it
to do.” “EC has been sub-
verted to an extent that it
is no more the indepen-
dent body of which the
country was proud. Our
election commissioners
were invited by other
countries to seek expert
advice on conducting
elections,” Mufti told
reporters in Khiram area
of Anantnag district.
New Delhi: The BJP
condemned West Bengal
minister Akhil Giri’s
derogatory comments on
Prez Murmu’s looks and
sought his dismissal from
the state govt. Union Trib-
al Affairs Minister Arjun
Munda also demanded
that West Bengal CM
Mamata Banerjee tender
a public apology for Giri’s
comments and clarify
that at whose behest he
made such “unfortunate”
remarks. Munda said Giri
had insulted the country
and claimed that his
statement exposed the
state’s ruling Trinamool
Cong which has been
“exploiting” the tribal
population.
Guwahati: After some of their counterparts in
Tripura, at least five MLAs are likely to change
party colours in Meghalaya. Along with Nagaland,
these two north-
eastern States are
headed for Assembly
polls by February-
March 2023. Unlike
Tripura, where the
ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its ally Indig-
enous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) have lost
their MLAs to the Tipraha Indigenous Progressive
Regional Alliance or Tipra Motha and Congress,
the constituents of the Meghalaya Democratic
Alliance (MDA) government are targeting each
other. The MDA is headed by Chief Minister Con-
rad K. Sangma’s National People’s Party (NPP).
IN POLL SEASON, TURNCOATS ON
THE RISE IN MEGHALAYA, TRIPURA
CRUCIAL READ
New Delhi (PTI): The
Modi govt is adopting a
zero tolerance policy to-
wards the terrorism
and will convey to the
international commu-
nity India’s determina-
tion in its fight against
the menace.
The Union Home
Ministry said the govt
of India is organising
the 3rd Ministerial ‘No
Money for Terror’
(NMFT) conference on
November 18 and 19 in
New Delhi where repre-
sentatives of 75 coun-
tries and international
bodies will participate
in the deliberations
over two days.
Hosting of the NMFT
conference shows the
importance being given
by the Modi govern-
ment to the issue of in-
ternational terrorism
as well as its zero toler-
ance policy against the
menace and having dis-
cussions on this issue
in the international
community, a home
ministry statement
said.Union Home Min-
ister Amit Shah will be
participating in the
conference and will con-
vey India’s determina-
tion in its fight against
terrorism.
Modigovtadoptingzero
tolerance policy: MHA
HM Amit Shah
‘Will hire best
lawyers to
fight in SC’
Srinagar (PTI): JK
Apni Party chief Altaf
Bukhari on Saturday
said his
party will
hire the
country’s
best law-
yers to fight
in the SC
for the restoration of
Articles 370 and 35A.
On August 5, 2019, the
Centre revoked the spe-
cial status granted to
the erstwhile state of
Jammu and Kashmir
under Article 370 of the
Constitution and divid-
ed it into two union ter-
ritories — Jammu and
Kashmir, and Ladakh.
It also abrogated Ar-
ticle 35A which allowed
the state to define its
permanent residents.
Chennai: Tamil Nadu
Chief MinisterM.K.Sta-
lin on Saturday chaired
an all-party meeting of
representatives of legis-
lative parties, at which a
resolution was passed,
rejecting the 103rd Con-
stitution Amendment
providing for a 10% quo-
ta for economically
weaker sections (EWS)
of the society
. As per the
resolution, the parties
have also decided to file
areviewpetitionagainst
the Supreme Court ver-
dict upholding the valid-
ity of the Constitutional
amendment.
The AIADMK and the
BJP boycotted the meet-
ing. Former CM O. Pan-
neerselvam’s faction
also did not take part in
the meeting.
Representatives from
the Congress, PMK,
MDMK, VCK, CPM, CPI,
Manithaneya Makkal
Katchi, Tamilaga Val-
vurimai Katchi and The
Kongunadu Makkal
Desiya Katchi were pre-
sent. The EWS reserva-
tion is contrary to the
social justice principle
prescribed in the Con-
stitution and also
against the various
judgements of the Su-
preme Court and is also
discriminatory against
the poor, the resolution
stated. It also called for
the Tamil Nadu govern-
ment to put forth its ar-
gument strongly
.
All-party meet in TN rejects 10% EWS quota
FILE REVIEW PETITION
lll
Meeting,
boycotted by
Principal Oppn
AIADMK its
ally BJP, urged
the state govt to
‘strongly’ register
its opinions
when a review
petition is filed
EWS RES. IS
CONTRARY
The EWS reservation
is contrary to the
social justice princi-
ple prescribed in the
Constitution and also
against the various
judgements of the
Supreme Court and
is also discriminatory
against the poor, the
resolution stated.
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Story Network announces top 10 business trainers in India
New Delhi: Story Net-
work announced the
names of the top business
coaches in India who can
give you the right vision
and direction to grow and
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ness training.
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ness, Dr. Vivek Bindra is a
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z Saurabh Kaushik work has
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z Monk turned businessman, Dr.
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z Dr. Patni has inspired and
motivated over a million people
around the world.
business
BRIEFS
New Delhi: Vedanta Re-
sources Chairman Anil
Agarwal on Saturday said
production at its semi-
conductor and display
manufacturing unit in Gu-
jarat will start within two
and a half years of the
groundbreaking ceremo-
ny. Semiconductor chips,
used in cars, mobile
phones and other elec-
tronics devices, are not
manufactured in India at
present. Vedanta-Fox-
conn would invest Rs
1,54,000 crore to set up
the facility in Gujarat,
which would create one
lakh job opportunities,
Chief Minister Bhupendra
Patel had said after the
MoU was signed. —PTI
New York: Crisis-struck
cryptocurrency platform
FTX has gone bankrupt in
the United States and its
chief executive Sam
Bankman-Fried has re-
signed, it said, the latest
blow in a saga that has
reverberated across the
digital currency land-
scape. The filing comes
after the world’s biggest
cryptocurrency platform
Binance agreed to buy its
rival earlier this week but
backed out, leading mar-
ket players to consider
possible regulator re-
sponses. —Agencies
CRYPTOCURRENCY
PLATFORM FTX FILES
FOR BANKRUPTCY
VEDANTA-FOXCONN
STARTS PRODUCTION
FORSEMICONDUCTOR
New Delhi: Elon Musk-
owned electric vehicle
company Tesla has started
to allow other automakers
to use its EV connector de-
sign. The Tesla charging
connector, which com-
bines AC charging and up
to 1 mega-watt of DC in a
“slim package”, is the
most well-known connec-
tor in America, the compa-
ny said in a blogpost. It is
half the size, twice as pow-
erful, and has no moving
parts compared to Com-
bined Charging System
connectors. —Agencies
TESLA OPENS ITS EV
CONNECTOR DESIGN
TO AUTOMAKERS
California: Facebook own-
er Meta Platforms told
employees that it would
stop developing smart dis-
plays and smartwatches
and that nearly half of the
11,000 jobs it eliminated
in an unprecedented cost-
cutting move were tech-
nology roles. In a meeting
by Reuters, executives
said they were reorganiz-
ing parts of the company,
combining a voice and
video calling unit with oth-
er messaging teams
setting up a new division,
Family Foundations, fo-
cused on tough engineer-
ing problems. —Agencies
HALF OF META JOB
CUTS WERE IN TECH,
SAY EXECUTIVES
GODREJ ACQUIRE TWO
LAND PARCELS IN
NOIDA FOR `337 CR
New Delhi: Godrej Properties
on Saturday said that it has
been declared
the highest
bidder for
two adjacent
land parcels
in Noida for a total bid value of
Rs 377 cr. The land parcels are
located in Noida. “GPL will de-
velop residential group hous-
ing on the land parcels located
in Sector 146, Noida. The land
parcels will offer approximately
3.2 million square feet of pre-
mium residential apartments of
varied configurations,” Godrej
Properties said.
VISTARA ANNOUNCES
NON-STOP FLIGHTS
FOR MUM MUSCAT
New Delhi: Vistara on Sat-
urday announced non-stop
flights be-
tween Mumbai
and Muscat,
the capital of
Oman, starting
from December 12. Vistara
will operate daily flights
between the two cities using
its A320neo aircraft and will
be the only airline to offer the
choice of premium economy
class on the route, in addition
to Business and Economy
Class. This new route will
further aid the growing traffic
between the two countries.
OTHER STORIES
New Delhi: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has been awarded the pro-
ject to build India’s first multimodal logistics park (MMLP) in Chen-
nai by the Ministry of Road Transport
and Highways (MoRTH). The project
comes under the “PM Gati Shakti Na-
tional Master Plan (NMP)” launched in
October 2021 and is aimed at improv-
ing multi-modal connectivity and last-
mile connectivity across the country,
according to a statement by the ministry. The estimated project cost
is Rs 1,424 crore. The total concession period is 45 years. The SPV
will provide four-lane NH connectivity of 5.4 km with an estimated
cost of Rs 104 crore and new rail siding to the MMLP site of a length
of about 10.5 Km with an estimated cost of Rs 217 crore.
RELIANCE INDUSTRIES TO BUILD INDIA’S FIRST
MULTIMODAL LOGISTICS PARK IN CHENNAI
Now, Disney set to
reduce workforce,
freeze hiring
San Francisco: Facing a
slow revenue growth, Dis-
ney has reportedly planned
to reduce its workforce and
freeze hiring. According to
an internal leaked memo
from Disney CEO Bob Cha-
pek, seen by CNBC, the
company is “limiting head-
count additions through a
targeted hiring freeze”.
“Hiring for the small sub-
setof themostcritical,busi-
ness-driving positions will
continue, but all other roles
are on hold. Your segment
leaders and HR teams have
morespecificdetailsonhow
this will apply to your
teams”, he wrote. “As we
work through this evalua-
tion process, we will look at
every avenue of operations
and labour to find savings,
and we do anticipate some
staff reductions as part of
this review,” said Chapek.
z TASKFORCE
z Approximately 190,000
people work at Disney.
z Additionally, the company
has planned to create “a cost
structure taskforce”.
India-US trade may
reach $500-600 bn
by 2030, says Goyal
New Delhi: Commerce and
Industry Minister Piyush
Goyal on Saturday exuded
confidence that the India-
US bilateral trade in goods
andserviceswillreachUSD
500-600 billion by 2030 as
their relation continues to
strengthen.
On whether India will
join the trade pillar of
14-memberIndo-PacificEco-
nomic Framework for Pros-
perity (IPEF), Goyal said it
woulddependonwhatIndia
will get in return.
“India and the US rela-
tions are continuously im-
proving and strengthening
and today we have a bilat-
eral trade of about USD 175
billion (exports and im-
ports of goods and servic-
es).Ibelievethatinthecom-
ing 7-8 years , it will be USD
500-600billionby2030,when
our exports in goods and
services will be USD 2 tril-
lion each,” Goyal said.
On a free trade agree-
ment with the US, the min-
ister said America is not
looking for a new trade pact
with any country
.
Upcoming decade going to
be ‘Techade’: Sitharaman
Bengaluru: UnionFinance
Minister Nirmala Sithara-
man on Saturday said that
the coming decade will be a
‘Techade’,andtechnologyis
going to drive us.
Delivering the keynote
address at YourStory’s 13th
Edition ‘ Techsparks’ here,
she also stressed on frugal-
ity and scalability of inno-
vation. “.... technology driv-
en innovators are the ones
we need, who are going to
look at local solutions
which are affordable and
have scaling up probabili-
ties,” Sitharaman said.
She said that unless solu-
tions are cost-effective and
scalable, that typical thing
about India innovation is
not going to be there, and
without these features,
things cannot be achieved
as aspired. Noting that the
coming decade is going to
be a “techade”, and technol-
ogy is what is going to drive
us, the Minister said, “in
technology is not just going
to be looking at some funda-
mental things you are going
to change, but to do some
things using several of
those, which are yet not
available for many of the
parts of the world.”
‘Economy remains resilient’
New Delhi:Reserve Bank
Governor Shaktikanta
Das on Saturday exuded
confidence that India will
continue to be the fastest-
growing major economy
with a likely growth rate
of 7 per cent in 2022-23 on
the back of strong macro-
economic fundamentals
and financial sector sta-
bility.
Speaking at the HT
Leadership Summit 2022,
Das emphasised that the
country’s economy re-
mains resilient, supported
by the banking and non-
banking sectors.
Das said the entire world
has withstood multiple
shocks. “I call it the triple
shocks of the COVID-19
pandemic, then the war in
Ukraine, and now the fi-
nancial market turmoil.”
The Governor said the
financial market turmoil
is mainly emanating from
the synchronised mone-
tary policy tightening
across the world by central
banks, especially those in
advanced countries, led by
the US Fed, and the spillo-
vers are being felt by the
emerging market econo-
mies, including India.
He further said in this
kind of successive tur-
moil, European Union is
facing a recession situa-
tion, but there are possi-
bilities that it will avoid
that.
The US is holding stable,
but there are other coun-
tries where the growth has
slowed down.
“So far as India is con-
cerned, economy, overall
macroeconomic funda-
mentals, the financial sec-
tor stability, all these as-
pects remain resilient. The
banking sector that is the
financial sector is stable
because of all the param-
eters with regard to bank-
ing or the non-banking
lenders or the other major
financial sector players,”
he said.
The growth numbers
are looking good in the
current context, he noted.
“The IMF has projected
that India will grow by
about 6. 8 per cent in the
current year. And that
puts India among the fast-
est-growing major econo-
mies in the world,” he said.
Das, however, added
that India has a major
challenge with regard to
inflation.
RBI GOVERNOR SAYS
MAJOR
CHALLENGE
z Our estimate is India will
this year grow by 7%. IMF
has projected India will grow
by about 6.8% in the current
year which puts India among
the fastest growing major
economies in the world,” the
RBI governor said.
z Das said India has a major
challenge with regard to
inflation. Retail inflation in Sept
raised to 7.4% from 7% in Aug
on higher food and energy costs
z The Governor also said India
is taking over the presidency
of the G20 at a time which is
perhaps the most challenging
year in modern times.
z The trade between the two
countries stands at about USD
175 billion at present.
z While 13 member countries
have joined all four subjects
trade, supply chains, clean
economy and fair economy
under IPEF
z India has opted out of the
trade pillar as of now. It has
joined the other 3 subjects.
TRADE PILLAR
New Delhi: Terming price
rise as a major challenge,
Reserve Bank Governor
Shaktikanta Das on Satur-
day expressed hope that
inflation print for October
will be lower than 7 per
cent. Retail inflation in
September increased to 7.4
per cent from 7 per cent in
August on higher food and
energy costs. Das attributed
the expected moderation
in inflation in October to
measures taken by both the
government and RBI in the
last 6-7 months. Speak-
ing at the HT Leadership
Summit, Das said there is
no need to change the goal
post for inflation targeting
as higher than 6 per cent
inflation would hurt growth.
The rate-setting Monetary
Policy Committee headed
by the RBI Governor has
been mandated by the gov-
ernment to keep inflation
within 2-6 per cent range.
On the Indian economy, Das
said the macroeconomic
fundamentals remain strong
and growth prospects are
looking good. “We ex-
pect the October number
which will be released on
Monday to be lower than
7 per cent. Inflation is a
matter of concern with
which we are now dealing
and dealing effectively,”
he said.The RBI on its part
increased the interest rates
and the government also
announced several supply
side measures, he added.
INFLATION PRINT FOR OCT
LIKELY TO BE LOWER THAN
7%, SAYS RBI GOVERNOR

First India Bureau
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court has di-
rected Satara district
collector to file a re-
port on the process
followed for the demo-
lition of alleged en-
croachments around
Afzal Khan’s tomb at
Pratapgarh fort.
A bench comprising
Chief Justice of India
DY Chandrachud and
Justice Hima Kohli
asked the report to be
filed within two weeks.
In response, the govern-
ment of Maharashtra
stated that demolition
had been carried out of
illegal encroachment
and the collector could
file a report on it.
The court asked the
collector to file a report
on what structures were
thereatthelocation,was
dueprocessfollowedand
what kind of demolition
was carried out.
The state govern-
ment informed the
court that irregulari-
ties were discovered on
forest land surrounding
the tomb of Afzal Khan
and that there was no
illegality committed by
the state, which only
followed a court order.
The bench was hear-
ingapleafiledbyHazrat
Mohd Afzal Khans Me-
morial Society seeking
to direct the Maharash-
tra government to en-
sure that no damage is
caused to the tomb.
According to the peti-
tion, since November
10, there has been wide-
spread belief that Afzal
Khan’s tomb will be de-
molished.
“A local online news
channel has been run-
ning live coverage of the
demolition of unauthor-
ized structures around
Afzal Khan’s tomb in
Satara, Maharashtra.
Screenshots from the
said live coverage show
men climbing the roof
of the tomb with the
help of a ladder and at-
tempting to demolish
it,” said the plea.
The petitioner sub-
mitted that they are ap-
prehensive that the
tomb may have sus-
tained damage during
razing of encroachment
or it may be demolished.
It urged the top court to
issue appropriate direc-
tions to protect the
Khan’s tomb that has
existed on the site since
before November, 1659.
08
2NDFRONT
First India Bureau
Mumbai: There is
greater conscious-
ness of caste in Indi-
an society today com-
pared to the decade
after independence,
said Congress MP and
author Shashi Tha-
roor at an event in
Mumbai on Saturday.
Speaking during a
discussion on the
lost legacy of Dr BR
Ambedkar at the Tata
Literature Festival, he
said now every caste is
conscious of its identi-
ty, and this “identity
label has become a
marker for political
mobilization.”
Tharoor’s book
“Ambedkar: A Life,” a
biography of Dr BR
Ambedkar, was
launched during the
programme.
Ambedkar wanted to
completely destroy the
caste system and he will
probably be horrified to
realize that, if any-
thing, the caste system
is more and more en-
trenched in the political
parties, he said.
In response to a ques-
tion from the audience,
Tharoor, the third-term
MP from Thiruvanan-
thapuram, noted that
the political parties
which are against dis-
crimination or un-
touchability nonethe-
less seek votes in the
name of caste.
The caste system is
“far from annihilated”,
he added.
Both Ambedkar and
JawaharlalNehruwant-
ed the caste system to
disappear from India
and the latter thought
that with moderniza-
tion it would disappear,
said Tharoor.
Ambedkar fought for
“annihilation of caste”
because he felt that as
long as the conscious-
ness of the caste system
existed, oppression
wouldalsoexist,hesaid.
Caste is very much a
feature of matrimonial
pages, he pointed out.
Going forward, “all
we can hope is that caste
becomes a benign label
of identity like an old
school tie,” added the
Congress leader.
Caste consciousness greater today than in 1950s, says Tharoor
STATE OF AFFAIRS
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor at the launch of his book at Tata
Literature Festival in Mumbai on Saturday.
—PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
Cong leader hails social reformer
Dr BR Ambedkar for fighting
for ‘annihilation of caste system’
NAVAL GATHERING
A group of 50 young cadets of the Sea Cadet Corps met
with Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at
Raj Bhavan in Mumbai on Saturday. ‘Grand Old Man of
Indian Sailing’ Commodore (SCC) Rabi Ahuja, Western
Naval Command Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Vice
Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh were also present on the
occasion. —PHOTO BY ANI
First India Bureau
Nagpur: The ancient
discipline of Ayurve-
da, the spread of
which had halted be-
cause of foreign inva-
sions, is getting due
recognition again,
said Rashtriya Sway-
amsevak Sangh (RSS)
chief Mohan Bhag-
wat on Saturday.
Bhagwat, speaking at
theinternationalconfer-
ence ‘Ayurveda Parv’,
organized in the city by
the Ministry of
AYUSH—it encompass-
es the ancient and alter-
nativemedicinesystems
of Ayurveda, yoga, na-
turopathy
,unani,siddha
and homeopathy—said
more steps needed to be
taken so that Ayurveda
gets global recognition.
Sarbanand Sonowal,
Union AYUSH minister,
and Goa Chief Minister
Pramod Sawant were
present on the occasion.
“Spread of Ayurveda
among people stopped
due to invasion by for-
eigners. But it is again
getting recognition and
it is time to expand the
knowledge of Ayurve-
da,” said Bhagwat.
“So how should we
takeitforward?Theway
is that everyone should
get affordable and sim-
ple medical treatment,
and for this, there is no
better option than Ayur-
veda,” he added.
According to the RSS
chief, Ayurveda should
bepractisedinitspurest
form so that it gets inter-
national recognition.
Speakingattheevent,
Sonowal said for the
past seven years, Ayur-
veda has been getting
international recogni-
tion, a system that was
earlier neglected.
HealsopraisedPrime
Minister Narendra
Modi for boosting the
discipline by forming a
separate ministry for it.
Afzal Khan tomb case: SC
seeksreportfromcollector
BJP supporters celebrate after demolition of illegal structures
near Afzal Khan’s tomb in Mumbai on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Local officials
demolished
unlawful
encroachments
around the tomb
at Pratapgarh
fort on Friday
WHO WAS AFZAL?
Ayurveda’s spread stopped
due to invaders: Bhagwat
Maha records 146 COVID-19
cases, no fatality in 24 hours
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Maharash-
tra reported 146 COV-
ID-19 cases on Satur-
day
, taking the state’s
infection count to
81,34,150, while the
death toll remained
unchanged at 1,48,400,
a health official said.
Most number of cases
were reported from
Mumbai circle with 78
new cases, followed by
Pune circle 54, Akola cir-
cle 17, Nagpur circle 6,
andAurangabadcircle5.
Three each in Kolhapur,
NashikandLaturcircles
were reported, he said.
The recovery count
increased by 222 in the
last 24 hours to touch
79,84,581, leaving the
state with an active case-
load of 1,169. Pune leads
with 335 active cases, fol-
lowed by 331 in Mumbai
and 228 in Thane.
Mohan Bhagwat addresses ‘Ayurveda Parv’, international conference
as Union Minister of AYUSH Sarbananda Sonowal, Goa CM Pramod
Sawant and others look on, in Nagpur on Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Spread of Ayurveda among people
stopped due to invasion by foreign-
ers. But it is again getting recogni-
tion and it is time to expand the knowl-
edge…. The way (to do that) is that everyone
gets affordable and simple medical treat-
ment, and for this, there is no better option
than Ayurveda. —Mohan Bhagwat, RSS chief
(BR) Ambedkar wanted to complete-
ly destroy the caste system and he
will probably be horrified to realize
that, if anything, the caste system is more
and more entrenched in the political parties.
They are against discrimination or untouch-
ability but seek votes in the name of caste.
—Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP
If one can laugh wholeheartedly
once a day with one’s family
and friends, one will have little
need of medicines.
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra,
CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
Mirch Masala
FIRST INDIA SUNDAY SPECIAL
BY TRIDIB RAMAN
The author is a journalist and political
commentator and views expressed are his personal
GADKARI PRAISES DR MANMOHAN SINGH
CONG STILL TREADING THE OLD PATH
RAHUL PUTS
CHAVAN IN AN
UNCOMFORTABLE
POSITION!
When Rahul Gandhi,
heading the ‘Bharat
Jodo Yatra’, reached
Nanded in Maharashtra,
he was received by the
former Chief Minister of
the state, Ashok Chavan,
for whom it was being
widely discussed that he
would be joining the BJP
along with 12 of his sup-
porting MLAs. The names
of senior Congress
leaders Balasaheb Thorat
and Vijay Vadattiwar were
also being mentioned.
Anyway, these specula-
tions were strengthened
when Chavan along with
his 12 supporting MLAs
reached there late during
the trust vote motion
of Shide-Fadnavis. His
meeting with Fadnavis at
a friend’s house during
Ganesh festival was also
in news. Chavan is look-
ing for a suitable platform
to bring his daughter
Sreejaya into active poli-
tics. When Ashok’s father
Yashwant Rao Chavan
wasn’t declared as Maha
CM by Congress, he
reportedly got angry
formed a new party.
So, this time as soon as
Ashok Chavan received
Rahul in Nanded, the
Gandhi scion headed
straight to a Gurudwara
then held an important
meeting of party leaders.
While speaking in that
meeting, Rahul pointed
to Chavan sitting next to
him and said, “Look, he
is sitting here, till recently
there was talk of joining
BJP.” Chavan was left
without words.
Someone should learn from Nitin Gadkari the skill of
‘hooking or pulling’ dangerous bouncer balls coming
towards him on political pitches that bounce uncontrol-
lably. On November 8, at an important event of ‘TIOL’
at the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi, in the presence of
several corporate leaders, Gadkari heaped praises on
former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Giving the
‘TIOL Fiscal Heritage’ award for
the year 2022 to former Prime
Minister Dr Singh, Gadkari said
that ‘The economic reforms initi-
ated by the then Finance Minister
Manmohan Singh in 1991 worked
to show India a new direction, the
country will always be grateful
for it.” Gadkari advocated a liberal
economic policy whose benefits
would reach the poor and the
farmers. Gadkari also disclosed that he intended to raise
money from the common man for the construction of
Indian National Highways, for which people would be able
to make monthly payments at an interest rate of 8 percent
per annum. It should be noted that on the previous day,
Gadkari was campaigning for the party in Himachal
Pradesh. But to honour Dr Manmohan Singh, he had
come straight from airport to the venue of the event.
The Congress may have got a new president in the
form of Mallikarjun Kharge, but the functioning looks
the same. In the Delhi civic polls, the responsibility of
distributing tickets has again been given to the same
troupe, which was accused of selling tickets indirectly
in past. The chairmanship of Screening Committee
for polls has been handed over to Avinash Pandey.
Dr. Ajoy Kumar has been made co-incharge of Delhi.
The other two members are Dr KK Jayakumar and Qazi
Mohammad Nizamuddin, ex- MLA from U’khand. It is
this team that becomes active in every election, which
is said to have received the blessings of Alankar Sewai,
an important member of Rahul’s team. Later Jagdish
Tytler’s name was also added. BJP accused Congress of
neglecting Sikhs.
...AND FINALLY
In Bihar’s Gopalganj seat, Lalu Yadav’s party’s candidate Mohan
Gupta had to face defeat at the hands of BJP by just 1,794
votes. In this election, two undeclared friends of BJP i.e. BSP
and Owaisi’s AIMIM played an important role in making BJP win.
At the last moment, BSP fielded Lalu’s brother-in-law i.e. Sadhu
Yadav’s wife Indra Yadav, who single-handedly got 8,008 votes,
as long as Sadhu was with Lalu, he used to handle the responsi-
bility of Gopalganj and still holds some influence there. Owaisi’s
candidate got more than 12 thousand votes, Nitish Kumar did
not even go for the Gopalganj by-election campaign because
Mohan Gupta is a liquor businessman.
SANGH ENSURES HIMACHAL’S
REBELLION DOES NOT REACH GUJARAT
The Sangh had taken command of the Gujarat
elections a year ago, reliable sources related to the
Sangh revealed that after consulting the BJP top, the
Sangh had entrusted
the responsibility of
Gujarat to more than
6,000 of its volunteers,
one in each assem-
bly. More than 40
volunteers are active.
Two main centres of election management have been
set up, one in Ahmedabad and the other in Rajkot
for the Saurashtra region. The BJP High Command
had clearly told its workers to work in coordination
with the Sangh. Perhaps this was the reason that in
the Gujarat elections, the BJP cut off the tickets of its
established leaders on a large scale, but there was no
squabbling anywhere, the Sangh did not allow Gujarat
to become Himachal, the Sangh itself took up the task
of convincing the angry leaders.

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lthough the shirt may
appear unassuming
and unimportant, it ac-
tually plays a crucial
role in the history and
culture of women. A
shirt is more than just
a top-of-the-body garment;
women have used shirts to rein-
vent themselves throughout
history. Shirts and blouses
came to represent women’s
freedom and equality, but let’s
face it, we still adore shirts. The
development of shirts closely
parallels the advancement of
women and their social roles.
Early on, women’s shirts only
served the purpose of covering
the upper body
, but men’s shirts
evolved into status and power
emblems. Women’s shirts fell
behind when it comes to fash-
ion for a very long period.
Women’s shirts have
changed over time, moving
away from being only
functional clothing and
toward being more about
style and flair. Women’s
shirts evolved and took
on a more feminine shape with
the addition of finer fabrics
and other aesthetic altera-
tions. The shirt’s focus shifted
from pure functionality to el-
egance and beauty. The gar-
ment started to draw atten-
tion to women’s femininity.
Shorter sleeves and lower
necklines started to high-
light rather than conceal a
woman’s body. The idea
that a woman’s body
should always be hidden
was disproved by this re-
vealing, which gave
women a more sensual and
attractive appearance.
The shirts were once
again at the forefront of
social problems in
the last ten or so
years. A shirt was
used to break
down gender bar-
riers and became a
representation of
even greater equal-
ity
. Men and women
started to find com-
mon ground as the
gender divide started to con-
verge and blur. In the world, the
shirt stood for the strength and
equality of women. Shirts have
always represented particular
decades and times they repre-
sent. They are worn by all. In
their closets, everyone keeps
shirts of various styles and
colors. The shirt is a fantastic
way to show off the wearer.
MRIDULA SHARMA
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
THE SHIRT WILL ALWAYS BE IN STYLE AND A NEED IN EVERY
WOMAN’S WARDROBE, DESPITE CHANGING FASHION TRENDS.THEY
HOLD UP OVER TIME.THE SHIRT FASHION IS HERE TO STAY!
A
WEAR
SWAG!
THE

he COVID-19
pandemic the
coronavirus is
changing how
we greet each
other. The tra-
ditional Indi-
an and far east way of
greeting with folded
hands and saying Na-
maste is slowly becom-
ing the accepted norm
the world over and re-
placing the convention-
al handshake.
Unlike a handshake,
in Namaste there is no
contact with the other
person and so avoids
any transfer of bugs,
and it makes this a safe
practice of greeting
one another, amid all
this panic and anxiety
the virus has created.
The Namaste greet-
ing is used in yoga ex-
tensively and is meant
to connect both the
spheres of the brain
through the nerve end-
ings of our hands. The
word Namaste is de-
rived from the San-
skrit word. Nama
means bow or me,
and the means you,
hence namaste literal-
ly means “bow me
you” or “I bow to the
divine in you.”
Conventionally after
folding hands together,
one is expected to bow
forward towards the
other person and close
one’s eyes as a gesture
of respect. The folded
palms and fingers are
kept close to the heart
and the hands point to
the third eye that is
supposed to be located
between our eyebrows.
If it is done with deep
feelings in the heart
and with our minds
surrendered, we can
invite a deep union of
our spirits.
Namaste in yoga is
an Añjali Mudrā and is
practised in many
Asian countries. It is
used as a sign of re-
spect and a greeting
not only in India but
also in Nepal, Bhutan,
Burma, Sri Lanka,
Thailand, Laos, Cam-
bodia, and Indonesia.
It is also used among
all yoga practitioners,
Buddhists, Taoists,
and Shintoists. The
gesture is incorporat-
ed into many yoga
asanas and is used for
worship among Hin-
dus, Sikhs, Jains, and
Buddhists.
This gesture, when
used as a mudra, can al-
leviate mental stress
and anxiety and is
therefore used to assist
yoga and other practi-
tioners to focus and get
into a meditative state
of mind. The physical
execution of the
pose itself helps to
promote flexibility
inthehands,wrists,
fingers, and arms.
NAMASTE IN OTHER
INDIAN LANGUAGES
The folded hand greet-
ing though called Na-
maste or Namaskār in
Hindi and Devanagri,
is different in other
languages. And here is
the list -
Hindi Nepali -
Namaste
Devanagari- Na-
maste and Namaskar
Odia - Namaste/ Na-
maskar
Tamil - Vanakkam
Malayalam - Na-
maste/ Namaskaram
Kannada (in Kar-
nataka –Namaskara
(singular) Nam-
askaragalu (plural)
Kannada (in North-
ern Karnataka) -
Sharanu
Telugu -
–Dandamu/ Nam-
askaram (singular)
–Dandaalu/ Nam-
askaralu (plural)
–Pranamamu (Formal
Telugu)
Bengali -
–Namashkar (used for-
mally)
–Pranäm (informally)
Assamese - Nômôskar
Marathi - Namaskar
NAMASTE IN SOUTH
EAST ASIAN LAN-
GUAGES
Nepal - Namaste/
Namaskar
Bhutan - Kuzoozang-
po La
Burma - Mingalaba
Sri Lanka - Ayubowan
Thailand - Sawasdee
Laos - Sabaidee
Cambodia - Sam-
peah/ Choum Reap Sur
Indonesia - Selamat
siang
NAMASTE GESTURE
AS YOGA ASANA
While Anjali Mudra
may be performed by
itself from any seated
or standing posture,
the gesture is also in-
corporated into physi-
cal yoga practice as
part of many full-body
asanas, including:
Anjaneyasana (Cres-
centMoonPose)–Lunge
with arms overhead
Eka Pada Rajakapo-
tasana (Pigeon Pose/
King Pigeon Pose) –
Seated back-bending
Hanumanasana(Mon-
key Pose) - Front splits
Malasana (Garland
Pose) - Squat
Matsyasana (Fish
Pose) – Reclining back-
bending
Prasarita Padottana-
sana - Wide-legged for-
ward bend
Tadasana/ Samas-
thiti (Mountain pose)
– A variant of the pose
used during sun saluta-
tion sequences
Utkatasana (Chair
pose, literally “fierce
pose”) - Low squatting
with arms overhead
Urdhva Hastasana
(Upward salute/ Ex-
tended mountain pose)
– Standing and raising
arms overhead
Virabhadrasana I
(Warrior I) – High
lunge pose with the
right knee bent and
arms overhead
Vrikshasana (Tree
pose) - Balancing pose
which replicates the
graceful, steady stance
of a tree.
WHAT ARE THE UNI-
VERSAL PRECAU-
TIONS TO BE FOL-
LOWED TO CONTAIN
THE SPREAD OF
CORONAVI-
RUS (COV-
ID-19)
Self-quar-
antine and
social dis-
tancing are the first
line of defence to con-
tain the spread of the
virus. These are a few
precautions that we
can all observe to con-
tain the virus -
Frequent hand wash-
ing using soap or hand
sanitiser and use them
frequently both at
home and when you
are outside and touch
any object
Keeping a distance of
one to two meters when
your cough
Cough or sneeze into
your arm sleeve by
turning your face to a
side
Self-quarantine
and stay at home
if you feel unwell
and even have mild
symptoms such as
headache and slight
runny nose, until you
recover
Avoid travel, confer-
ences and crowded
places if it is not neces-
sary
Covid-19 can be
contained if we all
follow simple instruc-
tions, and it all starts
with the way we greet
each other. So, Na-
maste is in and hand-
shakes are out.
T
ADELINE DORCAS,
M.SC, M.PHIL
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
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RAKSHANDA TIWARI, Model
LEO
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
Financial front remains
rosy and promises to
bring in gains. Good
professional guidance may
become the key to further your
career. A family member may make
you proud with an achievement.
Some of you may decide to take
your romance to the next level.
LIBRA
SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22
You may want things
differently on the domestic
front, but will need to
convince others about your
ideas. A break from the routine is
indicated and will give you time to do
things you were not getting time.
Change of season requires you to
take good care of your health.
ARIES
MAR 21 - APR 20
Limiting some items from
your diet will have a positive
effect on your health. There
is much to achieve today
and you will find yourself up to it.
Academic front seems favourable. You
are likely to buy something you have
been longing for. You are likely to
spend some time in self introspection.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV 23 - DEC 22
You will succeed in wriggling
out of a tight financial
situation by curbing wasteful
expenditure. An outing with
family promises much fun. Prepare well
for a long journey, if you want to travel
comfortably. Shifting to a new house or
a new city cannot be ruled out for some.
Plan an exclusive time with lover.
GEMINI
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
Family issues that are
leading to disputes are
likely to be resolved
amicably. There is a chance
of somebody taking you along for a
function or a party. Your standing in
your professional circle is likely to
get a boost. Not keeping regular in
your routine can tell on your health.
AQUARIUS
JAN 21 - FEB 19
Something being
organised on the social
front may get you totally
involved. Workload is
likely to increase on the professional
front and you’ll manage to earn a
lot. Good understanding and mutual
respect is likely to enhance
togetherness for the newlyweds.
TAURUS
APR 21 - MAY 20
Your bank balance is likely
to swell and make you
financially secure.
Responsibilities are likely
to increase manifold. Those feeling
lethargic and unwell may get back on
the path to perfect health. Love is in
the air and you are likely to enjoy the
day in the company of beloved.
CAPRICORN
DEC 23 - JAN 20
This is a positive day that
proves special for some.
Meditate to embark on a
new spiritual journey. You
will be able to regain lost ground on
the academic front to come at par
with the rest. Excellent showing at
work will get you hand-picked for an
important assignment.
VIRGO
AUG 24 - SEP 23
Someone’s good advice will
help in making the right
decisions on the academic
front. Things start looking
up on the health front as you
manage to remain regular in your
workouts. Prospects of marriage for
lovers are set to brighten.Overall
health remains perfect.
CANCER
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
Problems faced on the
financial front are likely to
disappear. Someone who
admires you will leave no
stone unturned in appeasing you today.
Those unwell are likely to recover soon
through regular medication. Something
may keep you from realizing your full
potential on the academic front.
PISCES
FEB20 - MARCH 20
Going the extra mile for
someone will be greatly
appreciated by all. Much
hustle and bustle can be
expected on the social front to your
delight. You will get a chance to tap
your potential on the professional
front and impress those who matter.
Overall it will be a good day.
SCORPIO
OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22
An initiative on the health
front is likely to give rich
dividends. Those involved
in a project will be able to
give a good account of themselves.
Someone you despise is likely to turn
over a new leaf, so let bygones be
bygones. Good news awaits you on
the social front.
YOUR
DAY
Horoscope by
Saurabbh Sachdeva
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INDIAN NAMASTE
THE PREFERRED
GREETING OVER
GREETING OVER
A CONVENTIONAL HANDSHAKE
A CONVENTIONAL HANDSHAKE
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