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IS CM YOGI ALL SET TO JOIN BJP’S HIGH-TABLE?
M Tariq Khan
Lucknow: After his
spectacular win in the
UP assembly elections,
is chief minister Yogi
Adityanath all set to as-
cend to the national po-
litical centre stage?
Speculations about
the UP CM’s induction
into the Bharatiya Ja-
nata Party’s Parliamen-
tary Board gained mo-
mentum following his
impromptu visit to New
Delhi on Monday
.
The parliamentary
board is the apex body
of the BJP which takes
all important decisions,
be it finalising policy,
choosing candidates in
elections or CMs.
What has given cre-
dence to Adityanath
joiningtheelite11-mem-
ber panel is the fact that
there are four vacancies
on the party’s high-ta-
ble. Apart from Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi, the six existing
members are BJP na-
tional chief JP Nadda,
Union Defence Minister
Rajnath Singh, Union
Minister Nitin Gadkari,
Madhya Pradesh chief
minister Shivraj Singh
Chouhan, and party’s
organisational general
secretary BL Santhosh.
For quite some time
now, the BJP high-com-
mand has been on the
lookout for ‘worthy’
party heavyweights to
fill up the four vacan-
cies which have arisen
due to the deaths of for-
mer Union Ministers
Arun Jaitley, Sushma
Swaraj, elevation of
Venkaiah Naidu as vice-
president and retire-
ment of Thaawarchand
Gehlot as leader of the
Rajya Sabha. Not all
members get their say
in policy or decision-
making but nonethe-
less being on the board
is much coveted. Being
a chief minister of an
important state that
sends 80 members to
the Lok Sabha, not to
mention the support he
enjoys of the top RSS
leadership, Adityanath
fits the criteria to the T.
RISING STAR
CM Yogi Adityanath meets Prime Minister Modi in New Delhi on Monday.
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Rescue operations were underway to evacuate the stranded tourists on the rope-
way at Tirkut hill near Deoghar district of Jharkhand. The Indian Air Force tweeted
that 19 tourists had been rescued by the IAF Mi17 V5 and Cheetah helicopters and
Garud commandos. Two persons were killed and dozens were left stranded mid-air
after 12 ropeway trollies collided with each other on Sunday afternoon.
J’KHAND ROPEWAY
MISHAP: IAF
CHOPPERS CARRY
OUT RESCUE
Days after Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk became Twitter’s largest
shareholder, Twitter announced that Musk will also be joining the board of direc-
tors. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. In a new tweet by Parag
Agrawal, the Twitter CEO mentions that Musk has now declined from joining the
company’s board. No clear reason was given as to why Musk is not joining board.
ELON MUSK IS NOT
JOINING TWITTER’S
BOARD: CEO
PARAG AGRAWAL
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‘Zero tolerance for violence,
refrain from disturbing
harmony: JNU to students
New Delhi: A day after
violence erupted on the
campus over serving
non-veg food, the Jawa-
harlal Nehru adminis-
tration warned stu-
dents against involving
in any activity that
might disrupt peace
and harmony
.
On Monday, the Vice-
Chancellor, Santishree
Dhulipudi Pandit, in an
official appeal to the stu-
dents reiterated its “re-
solve for the zero toler-
ance towards any form
of violence on campus.”
Meanwhile, Delhi Po-
lice on Monday regis-
tered an FIR against
unidentified people for
voluntarily causing
hurt, wrongful re-
straint, outraging the
modesty of women,
among others.
Telangana’s KCR sows new
farm challenge for PM Modi
Communal clashes rock Gujarat,
MP, J’khand, WB during Ram Navami
New Delhi: Telangana
Chief Minister K
Chandrashekar Rao
set up a fresh confron-
tation with Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi
just months after the
central government’s
climbdown on new ag-
ricultural laws, as he
launched a sit-in pro-
test in Delhi on Mon-
day over a dispute in-
volving the purchase
of rice from farmers in
his state.
“If Modi has the
guts, let him arrest
me... With folded
hands, I tell the PM
and [Union Food Min-
ister] Piyush Goyal.
Please buy our food
grains. I give you 24
hours, after that, we
will take our decision,”
said the leader who
has been on the war-
path with PM Modi for
several months.
Ram Navami cele-
brations on Sunday
were marred by violent
communal clashes
in some parts in four
states — Gujarat, Mad-
hyaPradesh,Jharkhand
and West Bengal. While
the number of injured
have not been ascer-
tained yet, all the areas
in the aforesaid states
have been kept under
strict vigil.
In Madhya Pradesh,
at least 10 houses were
set ablaze and more
than two dozen people,
including Superinten-
dent of Police (SP) Sid-
dharthChoudhary
,were
injured in clashes that
erupted during Ram Na-
vami procession in vari-
ous areas of Khargone
in Madhya Pradesh on
Sunday, forcing the ad-
ministration to impose
curfew in some pockets
of the city
.
Islamabad: Shehbaz
Shari, the 70-year-old
brother of former
Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif and the
leader of opposition
PML-N, has been
elected unopposed as
the 23rd Prime Minis-
ter of Pakistan, suc-
ceeding Imran Khan,
who was removed by
a no-trust vote on Sat-
urday
.
PM-designate She-
hbaz Sharif said that
good has prevailed
over evil as he rub-
bished his predeces-
sor’s claims of a “for-
eign controversy”
behind the ongoing
political turmoil in
the country. “Dra-
ma,” Sharif said as
he refuted the allega-
tions.
The Pakistan’s Na-
tional Security Com-
mittee will be briefed
on the controversial
letter, he has assured.
Meanwhile, Paki-
stan’s President, Dr
Arif Alvi, fell ill just
hours away from
swearing in Sharif.
According to the
president’s official
Twitter account.
New Delhi: Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi
today reiterated India’s
neutral stance on the
war in Ukraine during
his virtual meet with
US President Joe Biden,
who spoke of India’s
contributions to war-
torn Ukraine in terms
of medicines and relief
material. PM Modi also
reminded the US Presi-
dent of New Delhi’s con-
demnation of the Rus-
sian aggression against
civilians in Ukraine’s
Bucha and expressed
hope that the “ongoing
talks between Russia
and Ukraine will pave
the way for peace”.
“I have spoken to the
leaders of both Ukraine
and Russia many times
andurgedthemtodirect-
ly talk,” PM Modi said
today
. “We hope that the
ongoing talks between
Russia and Ukraine will
pave the way for peace,”
he added.
The virtual meet --
which PM Modi said
was initiated by US -- co-
incides with the maiden
India-US 2+2 dialogue
under the Biden admin-
istration. It also comes
amid a fresh tranche of
US sanctions against
Russia and Washing-
ton’s efforts for a strong-
er line against Moscow
from New Delhi.
The US President
said, “I want to welcome
India’s humanitarian
support for the people
Ukraine, who are suffer-
ing a horrific assault”.
CM KCR staged a
day-long dharna
against the Centre
in Delhi, demanding
procurement of
15 lakh tonnes of
parboiled rice from
the state
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
boycotted voting, staged
a walkout from Assembly
Pak President ‘complains of
discomfort’ before swearing-in
Shehbaz Sharif as PM, advised rest
SHEHBAZ SHARIF ELECTED
PAK PM UNOPPOSED
1 2
WON’T SIT WITH ‘THIEVES’: IMRAN KHAN
RESIGNS FROM PAK NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Islamabad: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan decided
to tender his resignation as a member of the National
Assembly ahead of the election for the new prime
minister of Pakistan. This develop-
ment comes after Imran Khan said
that he will not sit in the assemblies
with ‘thieves’. “A man who has one
corruption case of 16 billion rupees
and another corruption case of 8
billion rupees against him...for that
person to be selected and elected as the Prime Minister,
there can not be a bigger insult to the country. We are
resigning from the National Assembly,” Imran Khan was
quoted as saying by PTI’s official Twitter account.
NAWAZ SHARIF TO
RETURN TO PAKISTAN
FROM LONDON NEXT
MONTH: PARTY LEADER
Islamabad: Deposed Paki-
stan prime minister Nawaz
Sharif is expected to return
from London next month
after Eid, a senior PML-N
leader Mian Javed Latif
has said, amid a whirlwind
of political developments
that have embroiled the
country following Imran
Khan’s ignominious ouster
from power.
INDIA TAKES NEUTRAL
STANCE ON UKRAINE: PM
During Modi-Biden virtual meet, US President declared that
two nations are going to continue ‘close consultation on how
to manage the destabilising effects of this Russian war’
Telangana CM Chandrashekar
Rao with BKU’s Rakesh Tikait.
A policeman at the site after a communal clash during the Ram
Navami procession, in Himmatnagar.
(Top) Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the India-US virtual summit with US President Joe
Biden in New Delhi on Monday. (Above) President Joe Biden India’s External Affairs Minister S
jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at White House in Washington on Monday.
We want
good
relations
with India
but a durable
peace can’t be
possible
without
Kashmir’s
solution
—Shehbaz
Sharif,
Pakistan PM
CRUCIAL READ
MAMATA HITS BACK
OVER GANGRAPE
Kolkata: Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee,
under pressure over the
death of a minor girl al-
legedly after gangrape, hit
back at critics The police
has taken action in the
case and made an arrest
“irrespective of (political)
colour,” she asserted. Son
of local TMC leader has
been held.
ED GRILLS KHARGE IN
NATIONAL HERALD CASE
New Delhi: The Enforce-
ment Directorate on
Monday questioned senior
Congress leader Mallikar-
jun Kharge in connection
with the National Herald
corruption case. Kharge,
the leader of the Opposi-
tion in Rajya Sabha, is
being questioned by the
central probe agency in the
money laundering case. P5
LANKA PM, IN ADDRESS TO CRISIS-HIT
NATION, EXPLAINS WHY MONEY RAN OUT
Colombo: Covid lockdown in a weak economy
depleted foreign reserves, Sri Lanka Prime Minister
Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Monday, in an effort to
explain worsening economic crisis and protests rag-
ing in the country. “The President and I are spending
every moment to formulate solutions on how to get
Sri Lanka out of this current crisis,” he said.

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Yogi meets PM, HM to talk
about UP’s development
First India Bureau
New Delhi: CM Yogi
Adityanath, accompa-
nied by his deputies Ke-
shav Prasad Maurya
and Brajesh Pathak,
called on PM Narendra
Modi on Sunday to dis-
cuss various matters
related to the develop-
ment of the state.
“Met CM of Uttar
Pradesh Yogi Adity-
anath and Deputy CMs
Keshav Prasad Maurya
and Brajesh Pathak.
Discussed various mat-
ters related to the devel-
opment of the state.
Their commitment to-
wards public and coun-
try will lead UP towards
new milestones,” tweet-
ed PM Modi.
CM Yogi also took Twit-
ter to extend greetings
and thanked PM Modi
for giving his time.
“Made a courtesy visit
to the architect of New
India, PM Narendra
Modi in New Delhi to-
day. His guidance al-
ways fills you with posi-
tive energy. Thank you
very much respected
Prime Minister for giv-
ingyourvaluabletime!”
tweeted Yogi.
PRIME MINISTER MODI LAUDS THE COMMITMENT OF UP’S LEADERSHIP
CM Yogi greets PM Modi with a book, in presence of Dy CMs Brajesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad
Maurya in New Delhi on Monday.
Awasthi takes measures to improve law order
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Addition-
al Chief Secretary
(Home) Awanish
Awasthi said that the
law and order situa-
tion of each district
would be further
strengthened.
An action plan also
has been sought from
Directorate of Traffic
to strengthen the traf-
fic system in every
district.The system
of regular patrolling
is also being strength-
ened through PRV 112
and for this, a district
wise action plan has
been sought by the
government.
Police officials also
have been directed to
ensure that no confis-
cated vehicle remains
in police station in the
next 60 days.
Further, mafia like
mining, liquor, ani-
mal, forest and land
mafia have been iden-
tified by the govern-
ment funder the
Gangster Act and a
joint report of the dis-
trict and police ad-
ministration has also
been sought.
ACS Awanish Awasthi
After CM Yogi’s, cyber
criminals hack GoUP’s
TWITTER HANDLE
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Cyber
miscreants have
challenged authori-
ties again by hacking
Uttar Pradesh Gov-
ernment’s official
twitter account with-
in 48 hours of hack-
ing UP CM’s Twitter
handle.
After hacking UP
government’s twitter
handle, hackers
changed the display
picture and informa-
tion related to the ac-
count and more than
thousand tweets
were broadcasted.
Cyber specialists
have recovered the
account and further
investigations were
underway
.
A team of cyber
specialists was busy
removing tweets ini-
tiated by hackers but
police cyber team
was failed to trace
the information
about the hackers.
The account of infor-
mation department
was also hacked.
Earlier Chief Minis-
ter office had re-
leased that statement
saying “CM office’s
official twitter han-
dle was hacked and
several posts were
done during that pe-
riod. The account
was recovered short-
ly and stringent ac-
tions will be taken
against miscreants”.
Tracing the miscre-
ants seems to be a
tricky task for the
cyber cell as they can
be located anywhere
across the globe.
GoUP’s changed display on
Twitter handle.
YOGI IS NOT
THE ONLY ONE
YOGI-LED GOVERNMENT TO
SET UP 825 FPOS IN A YEAR
First India Bureau
Gorakhpur: The Yogi
Adityanath govern-
ment is set to give fur-
ther impetus to its vari-
ous schemes centered
around farmers of the
state by ensuring that
not only do the farmers
get a better price for
their crops but are also
freed from the clutches
of the middlemen. For
this, it is going to set up
block-wise 825 FPOs in
a year.
A budgetary provi-
sion of Rs 354.75 crore
has already been made
for this, Agriculture De-
partment sources said.
This far-reaching
scheme will benefit
more than four lakh
farmers of the state.
This is in continuation
of various schemes
rolled out by the state
government in its first
regime wherein they
tried to improve the
economic conditions of
farmers. In the year
2022-23, the state gov-
ernment now is going to
set up 825 FPOs under
the specific FPO
scheme.
By doing organized
farming, farmers will
get a better price for
their produce.
FPO i.e. Farmer Pro-
ducer Organization is a
group of farmers, who
do agricultural produc-
tion and also carry out
agro-business activi-
ties. Collective farming
will be encouraged
through FPO and mar-
ket will be easily avail-
able for farmers.
The government will
also provide assistance
for organic farming un-
der the FPO, which will
make it easier to buy
fertilizers, seeds, medi-
cines and farm equip-
ment at the same time.
Apart from this, pro-
cessing units and stor-
age can be arranged
and a good price can be
obtained for the crop.
If the farmer goes to
sell his crop alone, the
middleman takes ad-
vantage of it. There will
be no middlemen in the
FPO system, so farmers
will get a good prices for
their produce.
BENEFITS
Journalists stage
protest against
colleagues' arrest
S h a h j a h a n p u r /
Ballia:(PTI) Jour-
nalists took out a pro-
test march in Shahja-
hanpur and resorted
to a relay fast in Bal-
lia against arrest of
three scribes in the
Class 12 English
exam paper leak
case.
The Class 12 exam
of the UP board was
cancelled in 24 dis-
tricts after the ques-
tionpaperwasleaked
last month.
Three scribes Ajit
Kumar Ojha, Digvi-
jay Singh and Manoj
Gupta were arrested
in connection with
the case though po-
lice have not yet
been able to specify
their role.
In Shahjahanpur,
hundreds of scribes
under the Rural
Journalists’ Associa-
tion marched up to
the collectorate.
They handed a
memorandum ad-
dressed to the gover-
nor to Additional
District Magistrate
Ramsewak Dwivedi.
The district presi-
dent of Rural Jour-
nalists’ Association,
Rajiv Sharma, said
through the memo-
randum they de-
manded immediate
withdrawal of cases
against the arrested
scribes, probe into
the role of the Ballia
DM and the SP as
well as a judicial in-
quiry into the matter.
Nandi suspends
GNIDA official for
being negligent
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Industries
development Minister
Gopal Gupta Nandi has
taken a major action by
suspending the Senior
Manager (Planning.)
Greater Noida Indus-
trial Development Au-
thority (GNIDA) Nimi-
sha Sharma after she
was found prima facie
guilty of negligence in
allotment of industrial
plots.
The minister added
that the suspension
proceedings have been
taken due to Nimisha
Sharma not discharg-
ing her official duties
responsibly.
Nandi in his first de-
partmental meeting
had clearly stated that it
was his priority to give
new heights to the in-
dustrial development
of the state and any in-
convenience caused to
the common man and
industrialists will not
be tolerated at any cost.
Industries Minister Nand Gopal
Gupta ‘Nandi’
CM Yogi greets Home Minister Amit Shah with a book on Somnath
Temple on Monday.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The scheme
of the Common Facility
Center (CFC) which
was started for the bet-
terment of ‘One Dis-
trict, One Product’ has
begun to yield results.
Soon, the inauguration
of CFC - Shivansh Sid-
dharthnagar Agricul-
ture Development Pro-
ducer Company Limit-
ed, established in Sid-
dharthnagar for Kala
Namak rice, will be in-
augurated.
In this sequence,
CFCs - (Siswa Weavers
Welfare Society) at Sita-
pur, (JD Welfare Soci-
ety) at Agra, (Black Pot-
tery Foundation) at
Azamgarh and (Tanda
Textile Association) at
Ambedkar Nagar will
also be inaugurated.
According to Navneet
Sehgal, ACS MSME,
“The state government
has planned to sanction
15 more CFC centers. As
soon as the districts are
selected, the CM will lay
the foundation stone.”
These centers will
have facilities for train-
ing, general or air-con-
ditioned storage, pro-
cessing, grading, pack-
aging and barcoding
machines, etc. as per
requirement for raw
and finished goods
storage.
Stating that UP is fa-
mous for its extremely
rich tradition of exqui-
site handicrafts, Sehgal
said, “A unique product
of every district is its
identity. It is the inten-
tion of CM Yogi that
with the help of tech-
nology, these products
should be made compet-
itive in quality and
price so that people of
every section can get its
benefits.”
This will help in pro-
viding employment to
the people at the local
level and there will be
overall development of
the state. With this in-
tention, with the estab-
lishment of CFCs,
training for branding,
marketing, credit, fi-
nance and skill devel-
opment of the people
concerned is also being
done.
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Centres will
have
multiple
facilties for
training,
general air
conditioned
storage, bar
coding,
packaging
etc
CFC for Kala Namak Rice to be inaugurated soon: ACS Sehgal
IN EVERY DISTRICT
UK official pays visit to Meerut,
LAUDS YOGI’S ODOP SCHEME
First India Bureau
Lucknow: British
Trade Commissioner
for South Asia Alan
Gemmell has praised
Uttar Pradesh CM
Yogi Adityanath’s
‘One District, One
Product’ initiative
for supporting local
industry and boost-
ing the cluster eco-
system. The ODOP
scheme aims to pre-
serve, develop and
boost the demand of
local arts and crafts.
Gemmell, who visit-
ed Meerut’s Sports
Manufacturing Clus-
ter, which is being
supported by the
ODOP programme,
congratulated the
Government of Uttar
Pradesh for coming
up with such an am-
bitious, systematic
and holistic scheme
and said that the UK
Government would
like to explore long-
term collaboration
of its companies
with sports goods
manufacturers of
Meerut.
MODI MEETS UP MINISTERS
UP’s Power Minister and Urban Development Minister AK Sharma meets PM Modi on
Monday to extend an invitation to the PM to attend his son Abhinav’s marriage, which is to
be solemnised in Lucknow on April 22.
Deputy CMs Brajesh Pathak and Keshav Maurya greet PM Modi with books in New Delhi.
ACS (Info) Navneet Sehgal was the Chief Guest at the oath
taking ceremony of office bearers of the Pravidhik Karmachari
Sangathan of the information department on Sunday. He
extended his best wishes to the office bearers on the occasion.
CLASS XII PAPER LEAK CASE
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CRUCIAL READ
Lucknow: Chief Secretary Durga Shankar Mishra
reviewed the programmes being run by departments
under the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’. During the
review, he directed to link all the public welfare works
and schemes being run by the departments with
‘Azadi Ke Amrit Mahotsav’. He said that ‘Azadi Ka
Amrit Mahotsav’ is not a program of a department or
government, but was a programme of the people. All
the departments should prepare a calendar of action
plan till August 15, 2022. He directed that according to
the calendar, in a phased manner, inspirational places
associated with legends of independence and import-
ant days should be added with works of public welfare.
MASSIVE FOREST
FIRE IN U’KHAND’S
TEHRI DISTRICT
New Tehri: A massive
fire broke out in the
jungles above Tiwar-
gaon in Uttarakhand’s
Tehri district, de-
stroying forest wealth
worth lakhs of rupees,
a village head said on
Monday. The blaze
broke out on Sunday
afternoon and engulfed
the whole forest by
the evening, village
head Vinod Rawat
said. Some criminal
elements seem to have
set fire to the forest,
he said. The villagers
informed the author-
ities while they tried
to extinguish the fire
themselves.
22-YR-OLD RAPE
VICTIM DIES IN
GORAKHPUR HOSP
Sant Kabir Nagar: A
22-year-old woman,
who was allegedly raped
and severely beaten up
by a youth, died in a
Gorakhpur hospital on
Monday, police said.
Police were informed on
Monday that the woman
was founds seriously
injured in front of her
house and her family
members admitted her
to a hospital from where
she was referred to Go-
rakhpur for treatment,
SP Dr Kaustubh said.
She was undergoing
treatment in the Gorakh-
pur hospital where she
died on Monday, the
SP said.
LINK ALL PUBLIC WELFARE SCHEMES
WITH AZADI KA AMRIT MAHOTSAV: CS
First India Bureau
Lakhimpur Khiri: A
lineman working in the
electricity department
levelled serious allega-
tions against JE of the
electricity department
and self-immolated af-
ter pouring diesel over
himself.
People in the vicinity
doused the fire, took
him to the district hos-
pital from where he
was referred to Luc-
know but he died with-
out responding to treat-
ment.
The lineman before
setting himself on fire
alleged that the JE has
been harassing him for
a while and that he had
asked him to send his
wife over if he wanted
to be transferred.
The video of the inci-
dent has gone viral and
the DM taking cogni-
zance of the issued sus-
pension order of the JE
and constituted a
high-level committee to
look into the allega-
tions.
A case has been filed
against JE Nagendra
Kumar and Technician
Lineman Jagatpal for
harassment of the line-
man by the family
members of the de-
ceased.
The incident oc-
curred in Palia Hydil
Colony of Lakhimpur
Kheri on Saturday
night and the seriously
injured lineman was
taken to district hospi-
tal initially for treat-
ment. Seeing the in-
jured’ s condition wors-
en, he was taken to
Lucknow but he passed
away without respond-
ing to treatment.
Gokul Prasad, a resi-
dent of Bamnagar Sem-
ri, was posted as a line-
man in Kukra Aliganj
in Gola.
He has been working
Electricity Department
for about 22 years and
was residing in Hydil
colony along with his
family.
Lineman kills self alleging misconduct by JE
LAST RESORT
SET HIMSELF ON FIRE
Late of Saturday night, he poured diesel and set
himself on fire. A video of Gokul had also gone
viral before his death wherein he was seen level-
ling serious allegations like asking for money in
exchange for transfer and sending the lineman’s
wife to him for transfer.
‘Yogi govt committed to ending crisis in state, every house to get tap water’
Waterwatereverywhere
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Jal Jeevan
Mission is giving a fresh
boosttothedevelopment
of the country and the
state. The way water has
reached the houses in
less than the last three
years is a great example
of public aspirations
andpublicparticipation,
Jal Shakti Minister
Swatantra Dev Singh
said at a press confer-
ence held at the BJP
State Office on Monday
.
The minister was pre-
sentingthedetailsof the
progress of Har Ghar
Nal Yojana being operat-
ed in the state under Jal
Jeevan Mission wherein
heinformedthatthegov-
ernmenthasmadeapro-
visionof givingabudget
of Rs 3.70 lakh crore in
five years so that every
housecangetwaterfrom
the taps and no one has
to wander for water.
In rural areas includ-
ing inaccessible hills,
people should get clean
drinking water and the
women of the house
should get rid of the
problem of water com-
pletely is the commit-
ment of the BJP govern-
ment.
The minister said the
scheme is also improv-
ingthehealthof women.
He added that in order to
realise the vision of
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi, work is being
done at a fast pace in UP
to improve water man-
agement and the lives of
millions of families are
improving. In the first
phase, along with Bun-
delkhand and Vindhya,
work is going on a war
footing to provide pure
drinking water from
door to door in 66 dis-
tricts of the state.
Swatantra Dev Singh
said continuous work is
beingdoneinthefieldof
water under the leader-
shipof PMModiandCM
Yogi Adityanath in the
state. The PM believes
that it is very important
to end the water barrier
for the development of
the country
.
HAR GHAR NAL YOJANA
Cabinet Minister, Water, Power and Flood Control, Swatantra Dev Singh, at Conservation Capacity
2022 Festival, Indira Gandhi Pratisthan in Lucknow on Monday. —PHOTO BY ASHOK DUTTA
Swatantra inaugurates fuel
conservation campaign
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Minister
Swatantra Dev Singh
on Monday inaugu-
rated the people-cen-
tric fuel conservation
mega campaign
‘Saksham-2022’ from
Indira Gandhi
Prathisthan.
Appreciating the
efforts being put in by
the Oil Marketing
Companies in promot-
ing cleaner and green-
er substitute of ener-
gy the Minister said,
“Several new initia-
tives have been taken
by the government of
India for promoting
‘Green and Clean En-
ergy’ which include
the expansion of CGD
networks, Ujjwala
programme, a road-
map for 20 per cent
ethanol blending, an
augmentation of the
share of natural gas
in the primary energy
mix, SATAT initia-
tive, LNG as a trans-
port fuel, National
Hydrogen Mission
and policies for the
promotion of Electric
Vehicles”.
“Energy secure and
Energy efficient
Bharat is truly the At-
manirbhar Bharat”,
added Singh.
Addressing the
gathering of school
children, media per-
sonnel and captains
from the industry,
Sanjeev Kakkar, Exec-
utive Director State
Head and State Level
CoordinatorforOMCs
said, “Every year
OMCs in collabora-
tion with PCRA, un-
der the aegis of Min-
istry of Petroleum
Natural Gas organis-
es a mass awareness
campaign, Sanrak-
shan Kshamata Ma-
hotsav (SAKSHAM).
Minister Swatantra Dev Singh being greeted by Sanjeev Kakkar, EDSH, UPSO-1 as Mohd.
Zahir Ali, BPCL, and Rajendra Pratap Singh (IAS), MD, UPSRTC look on.
TILL APR 30
DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT
Isabella Thoburn College students celebrate after Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology, Yogendra Upadhyay,
and BJP MLA from Lucknow North, Neeraj Bora, distributed smartphones and tablets to them on Monday.
—PHOTOS BY SUMIT KUMAR
Case against Pulkit Maharaj
First India Bureau
Ghaziabad: Police
have registered case
against Kathak and
spiritual Guru Pulkit
Maharaj alias Pulkit
Mishra for his inciting
statements to disturb
social harmony. In his
video Pulkit said Hin-
dus should give befit-
ting reply to terrorism
in their language. He
further said Hindus
should become terror-
ists to counter such per-
sons. The case was reg-
istered against him in
Sahibabad police sta-
tion and investigations
were underway
.
Meanwhile, Sama-
jwadi Party media cell
twitter handle said,
“Public should be aware
of such fraud Babas...”
CASE AGAINST 15 FOLLOWING
COMMUNAL TENSION
Baghpat: Several
persons were injured in
a brawl over a dispute
in Mavikhurd village and
police have registered
case against 15 mis-
creants into the matter
while further investiga-
tions were underway.
The tension prevails in
village after the incident
and police force was
deployed to prevent
any untoward situation.
Police ssaid that clash
started when pet dog of
Lokesh was crushed to
death by Firoz’s vehicle.
After heated arguments
both partied attacked
each other. Several
persons were injured
in stone pelting, attack
with sharp weapons
and cross firing. Injured
were identified as Lok-
endra, Moni, Rani, Kapil,
Prem and Jitendra.
Tension
after idols
of deities
vandalised
Muzaffarnagar: Com-
munal tension pre-
vailedintheareaafter
statuesof deitieswere
vandalised in Baghra
village. One accused
wasnabbedbyvillagers
from the temple and
handed over to the po-
lice. Police said Yakub
and his associate van-
dalised several deity
idols in temple in
Baghravillage.Agitated
over vandalism several
devotees and villagers
chocked Panipat-Khati-
ma national highway
for hours demanding
stringentactionagainst
miscreants.
Baghpat (PTI): Two
policemen were injured
here after a liquor smug-
gler they had gone to ar-
rest pelted stones and
threw empty bottles at
them from the roof of
hishouse,thepolicesaid
on Sunday
.
The liquor smuggler,
Vikas, was soon over-
powered and arrested,
they said.
Acting on a tip-off, the
house of liquor smug-
gler Vikas under Ch-
haprauli police station
area was raided on Sat-
urday night. After po-
licemen reached there,
the accused started pelt-
ing stones and throwing
empty liquor bottles at
them from the roof of
his house, SHO Om-
prakash Arya said.
Constables Vinay and
Naresh Pal were injured
in the incident. Vikas
also hurled abuses at the
police personnel and
threatened to kill them,
he said. Additional force
was rushed to the spot
and Vikas was overpow-
ered and arrested.
Liquorsmugglernabbed
after fight with cops

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Editor-In-Chief: Jagdeesh Chandra.
Editor: Vishal Srivastav
responsible for selection of news
under the PRB Act
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
The Lord is my strength
and my shield. My heart
trusts him. I was helped, my
heart rejoiced, and I thank
him with my song.
—Bible
IN-DEPTH
Amit Shah
@AmitShah
Mahatma Jyotiba Phule ji not only
gave the right of respect and equality
to women in the society by giving the
mantra of women empowerment through
education but also created a progressive
and prosperous society by organizing the
deprived and backward class against the
evils. His ideas will always be the center
of inspiration of the nation.
Dharmendra Pradhan
@dpradhanbjp
Deeply shocked and disturbed by the
selective targeting and continued string
of attacks, including hurling of bombs at
the residence of Smt. Jayanti and Shri
Ramchandra Patra in Dhenkanal. The
voice of BJP leaders’ will not be silenced
with such acts of terror intimidation.
TOP TWEETS
IS ELON MUSK’S
NO TO JOINING
TWITTER’S BOARD
END OF STORY?
esla and SpaceX
chief Elon Musk’s
decision to not join
Twitter’s board may
not be the end of the
story
. The billionaire, who is the
richest person in the world, re-
cently sprang a surprise by an-
nouncing that he has become
Twitter’s largest stakeholder
with a 9.2 percent stake. After
becoming the social media gi-
ant’s biggest shareholder, Musk
said he will be joining Twitter’s
board of directors as a member
but chose not to when the posi-
tion was offered to him. Twit-
ter’s CEO Parag Agarwal said
that Musk was offered a seat but
he declined the offer.
As soon as Musk’s sharehold-
er status became public, he be-
gan tweeting his ideas about the
social media platform. One of
them was to have an edit button
to change tweets. His other ideas
included banning advertising
and the option to pay in crypto-
currency
.
It is now being wondered if
Musk will raise his stake in
Twitter to gradually buy it off,
something which he is fully ca-
pable of.
T
pposition parties
in Uttar Pradesh
are in a self-de-
structive mood.
After allegations
of Mayawati playing footsie
with the BJP
, the Bahujan Sa-
maj Party came a cropper in
the recent state assembly
elections. The party is now
making an effort at restruc-
turing by infusing fresh
blood but for now it is as good
as finished, a pale shadow of
its glorious days. The Sama-
jwadi Party which put up a
reasonably good perfor-
mance finds its age-old Ya-
dav-Muslim formula is fall-
ing apart. The surprising
part is that SP chief Akhilesh
Yadav has not spoken a word
to dismiss suggestions that
his party was not doing
enough for Muslims.
The first criticism came
from Shafiqur Rehman Barq,
party’sMPfromSambhal,who
said that the SP was not work-
ingfortheinterestof Muslims.
For some reason, Akhilesh Ya-
dav did not react to Barq’s re-
mark. Now a more serious
charge against Akhilesh has
been levelled by Azam Khan’s
camp. Azam’s close aide Fasa-
hat Ali alias Shanu found CM
Yogi Adityanath’s statement
that Akhilesh Yadav does not
want Azam to come out of jail
to be “correct”.
Akhilesh Yadav has sacri-
ficed Azam Khan. We have
been made enemies of the
BJP. Akhilesh Yadav did not
even go to jail to meet Azam
Khan,” Fasahat said while
giving Muslims credit for the
111 seats won by the SP
. If this
disenchantment of Muslims
spreads, the SP will meet the
same fate as the BSP. The
older he gets the more he
comes across as one still
needing mentoring in poli-
tics. The uncle he listens to
isn’t sagacious either.
AKHILESH YADAV IS
ALIENATING MUSLIMS
The Samajwadi Party
which put up a reasonably
good performance finds
its age-old Yadav-Muslim
formula is falling apart.
The surprising part is
that SP chief Akhilesh
Yadav has not spoken
a word to dismiss
suggestions that his
party was not doing
enough for Muslims
O
SINO INDIAN RELATIONS
POST GALWAN THE PATH AHEAD
ndia and China, the 2 ancient
civilisations had a rich histo-
ry of cultural exchanges and
other historical lineage in-
cluding spread of Buddhism
to China, mutual visits of
many scholars, monks and
tradeexchangesviaSilkRoad.
Post-independence Sino Indi-
anrelationsstartedwellonan
optimistic note where Nehru
and Zhou Enlai articulated a
vision governed by the ethics
of the 5 Principles of Peaceful
Coexistence-Panchsheel.Asit
stands today
, China and India
are the two most populous
countriesintheWorld,second
and fifth largest economies
(Nominal GDPs of $18,013bn /
$3312bn)withbalanceof trade
tilted towards China. China is
almost 2.9 times India’s size
with defence spending thrice
that of India. In today’s global
scenario China has emerged
as World Power and India is
making big progress as amili-
tary and economic power.
However,overaperiodof time
the Panchsheel between two
countries has almost got re-
placed by‘Panchshool’ (Irri-
tants/Thorns).
Border Disputes: India and
China share about 3440 km
long border separated by
mighty Himalayas but not
fully delineated. Both nations
have fought a war in 1962, bor-
der skirmishes in Sikkim in
1967, Sumdorong Chu Valley
1987, Daulat Beg Oldie 2013,
Doklam in 2017 and Galwan
in 2020. Border dispute re-
mains a major irritant and a
potential source of conflict
between the two neighbours.
The Strings of Pearls and
Sino Pak Nexus: China has
undeclared policy of Strings
of ‘Pearls to encircle’ India
and has been building ports
and naval bases around In-
dia’s maritime reaches. India
on the other hand has im-
proved relations with Chi-
nese neighbours. China con-
sidersPakistanasall-weather
friend and despite Indian ob-
jections is constructing Chi-
na- Pakistan-Economic-Cor-
ridor(CPEC)passingthrough
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
River Water Dispute and
Conflicting Economic Inter-
ests: Water sharing of Brah-
maputra River is a major
flashpoint between India and
China. China has been build-
ings dams after dams in up-
per reaches of Brahmaputra
also called Tsangpo. Lack of
information sharing from
China on river waters has ex-
posed Indian states to sudden
and huge floods. Both the
countries are fast growing
economies of the World with
huge domestic markets and
potential in tapping foreign
markets. Being competitors
in the World market, both
have conflict of interests in
trade and commerce.
Belt and Road Initiative
(BRI) and Indo Pacific Initia-
tive: A Chinese initiative to
spread its influence in neigh-
bourhood in the form of BRI
less India and India joining
the US policy of free and open
Indo- Pacific region with four
QUAD nations is a thorn in
eye of both countries.
The Dalai Lama / Tibet and
Arunachal/StapledVisa:Chi-
na occupied Tibet in 1950 that
led to mass uprising by locals.
The 14th Dalai Lama fled to
Indiain1959withhisfollowers
and took political asylum
much against Chinese wishes.
Chinabeganthepracticeof is-
suingstapledvisastoresidents
of Arunachal and JK. On In-
dian objection China stopped
this practice for residents of
JK but continues to do for
people living in Arunachal.
Galwan Valley Dispute: In
Jun 2020, on differing percep-
tions on LAC, Indian and Chi-
nese troops got engaged in a
brawl in Galwan Valley that
left casualties on both sides.
This border dispute marked
an implacable decline in In-
dia-China ties. In reality it is
not the border technicalities
but rising tempers on both
sides alongside more robust
nationalism in each country
that frames the other as an
antagonistic power.
Russia-Ukraine War: India
and China took a similar
stance and abstained from
votingonaUNSecurityCoun-
cil resolution condemning
Russia’s assault on Ukraine’s
sovereignty
. The conflict has
given both countries proxim-
ity to a common friend Russia
and similarities of views on
this international conflict.
Post Galwan - The Path
Ahead: As the snow melts in
Himalayas, India will have to
make a move of high deter-
rence value. The bilateral
discussions between India
and China post Galwan con-
flict need to pick up common
grounds and require a recon-
ciliatory approach rather
than confrontational one.
India will have to carefully
craft its way to use Russia as
moderating influence on Chi-
na and US as countervailing
partner. India will also have
to strengthen its position in
Shanghai Cooperation Or-
ganisation (SCO), BRICS,
Indo Pacific Initiative and
other global fora.
Bigger stress on “Aatm
Nirbhar Bharat” and bal-
anced trade and economic
relationship with China
might lay a solid foundation
for future relations, given the
size of both economies.
The commonality of stand
between India and China on
Russia- Ukraine war and suc-
cessful Modi - Xi Ping sum-
mit meetings should be fur-
ther explored to build mutual
trust and arrive at mutually
acceptable solutions to nor-
malise bilateral relations..
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
I
RAJESH BHUKAR
The writer has served JK for
over 5 years and is a keen follower
of Kashmir socio-political scene
India will have to carefully
craft its way to use Russia as
moderating influence on
China and US as
countervailing partner. India
will also have to strengthen its
position in Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation
(SCO), BRICS, Indo Pacific
Initiative and other global
fora. Bigger stress on “Aatm
Nirbhar Bharat” and
balanced trade and economic
relationship with China
might lay a solid foundation
for future relations, given the
size of both economies. The
commonality of stand between
India and China on Russia-
Ukraine war and successful
Modi - Xi Ping summit
meetings should be further
explored to build mutual trust
and arrive at mutually
acceptable solutions to
normalise bilateral relations
China is almost 2.9 times
India’s size with defence
spending thrice that of
India. In today’s global
scenario China has
emerged as World
Power and India is
making big progress
as a military and
economic power.
However, over a period
of time the Panchsheel
between two countries
has almost got replaced
by‘Panchshool’
(Irritants/Thorns)

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STABILITY IN NEIGHBOURHOOD IS
GOOD FOR US: MUFTI ON PAKISTAN
Srinagar (PTI): De-
mocracy is gaining
roots in Pakistan and
political stability in the
neighbourhood “is
good for us”, PDP chief
Mehbooba Mufti said
here on Monday.
The former Jammu
and Kashmir chief
minister said Pakistan
should decide whether
it wants a new govern-
ment or to hold fresh
elections so that de-
mocracy flourishes
there.
“(Former Pakistan
prime minister Zulfi-
kar Ali) Bhutto used to
say that India is alive
because of the hustle-
bustle of its democracy
.
Today, we are also see-
ing the hustle-bustle of
democracy in Pakistan
and the democracy in
that country is gaining
roots,” she told report-
ers outside her party
office here.
“It is our neighbour
and we want it to be a
stable country. They
should take a decision
soon whether have a
new government or
fresh elections, what-
ever they want — so
that the democracy
flourishes there in the
same way as it is in our
country. Stability in
our neighbourhood is
good for us,” she said.
Asked about the seiz-
ing of properties of
those charged with har-
bouring militants, Me-
hbooba Mufti said that
it was “wrong”.
She also called for
dialogue and reconcili-
ation with the people
of Kashmir.
Ex-JK Chief Minister and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti.
AFGHANISTAN WILL REMAIN UNTOUCHED
BY PAKISTAN CRISIS, SAY TALIBAN
Kabul (Agencies): Taliban has issued a statement
saying the political crisis in Pakistan seeing a constant
soar, will have no effect on Afghanistan. However,
analysts predict an impact is inevitable on Afghanistan’s
situation due to changes in Pakistan’s administration.
“The Islamic Emirate seeks good economic and political
relations between the two countries”, said the deputy
spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, Inamullah Samanga-
ni. “The current political crisis in Pakistan will not have
any particular impact on relations between Afghanistan
and Pakistan,” he said in a further statement, reported
TOLO News. Meanwhile, political analysts claimed that
there will be some impact on Afghanistan’s situation as
there will be a major change in the administration in Pa-
kistan. In a statement, Tahir Khan, a Pakistani journalist
explained “There is a possibility that the consultation
between the two sides will increase”.
3 BJP teams to begin K’taka
poll prep tour from today
Bengaluru (PTI): The
BJP has formed three
teams, led by senior
leaders to travel across
Karnataka from Tues-
day, to prepare the
ground for the state as-
sembly elections next
year, party strongman
and former chief min-
ister B S Yediyurappa
said on Monday.
Making an appeal to
end the flare-up of
communal issues in
the state, he said Hin-
dus and Muslims
should lead their lives
as “children of one
mother.”
“From April 12 to 24,
in three teams, we will
be travelling across the
state. BJP state presi-
dent Nalin Kumar Ka-
teel will be in the first
team, our national gen-
eral secretary (Arun
Singh) and I will be to-
gether in the second
team and Chief Minis-
ter Basavaraj Bommai
will be in the third
team,” Yediyurappa
said.
Talking to reporters
here, he said this tour
is aimed at strengthen-
ing the party, holding
discussions with party
workers for drawing
up strategies and pre-
paring for the polls.
“Such tours will con-
tinue here...in the first
phase we will be travel-
ling in three teams,”
he added.
BJP sources in Delhi
said every team will
have seven to eight
members.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai
Hate, violence weakening country:
Rahul on clashes during Ram Navami
New Delhi (Agencies):
After reports of vio-
lence in many parts of
the country during Ram
Navami processions,
Congress leader Rahul
Gandhi on Monday said
that hate was weaken-
ing the country
.
In a tweet, he said,
“Hate, violence and ex-
clusion are weakening
our beloved country.
The path to progress is
paved with the bricks of
brotherhood, peace and
harmony
. Let’s stand to-
gether to secure a just,
inclusive India.”
Communal violence
erupted in at least two
districts of Madhya
Pradesh during the
Ram Navami celebra-
tions on Sunday
.
The first incident of
violence was reported
in Khargone district,
where nearly half-a-doz-
en police personnel got
injured while a similar
incident occurred in
the Sendhwa town of
Barwani district. A
similar incident took
place in Gujarat’s Sa-
barkantha.
Rahul Gandhi
CONGRESS DISCIPLINARY PANEL ISSUES
NOTICES TO KV THOMAS, SUNIL JAKHAR
New Delhi: The disciplinary action committee of the
Congress on Monday issued show-cause notices to
former Punjab Congress president
Sunil Jakhar and former Union min-
ister KV Thomas for their comments
and actions that were not in tune with
the party line. Both have been asked
to reply to the notices within a week.
The A K Antony-headed panel’s move
against Thomas comes after the party
leadership in Kerala sought action against him.
CONG CALLS STATE IN-CHARGES, GENERAL
SECYs MEET TO DECIDE ON ‘CHINTAN SHIVIR’
New Delhi: The Congress has called a meeting of
the party general secretaries and state in-charges on
Tuesday to discuss the issue of the membership drive
and proposed ‘Chintan Shivir’ on the poll debacle in five
states. The Congress working committee has decided
to organise a brainstorming session to derive a forward
path for the party. The Chintan Shivir has been neces-
sitated since the dissidents have been raising voices
against the present functioning of the party, particularly
the G-21 have been up against Rahul Gandhi and team.
Delhi HC notices to SDMC,
DJB over maintenance
of ‘Westend Greens’
New Delhi (ANI): The
Delhi High Court has
issued notice to South
Delhi Municipal Corpo-
ration (SDMC) and Del-
hi Jal Board (DJB) on a
plea moved by a society
Westend Greens, seek-
ing directions to take
over and maintain the
civic amenities and
other facilities and oth-
er statutory and public
services of the colony
‘Westend Greens’, situ-
ated in revenue areas
of Villages Rajokari,
Rangpuri, and Samal-
ka, New Delhi.The
bench of Justice Manoj
Kumar Ohri last week
sought a response and
listed the matter for
July 25, 2022. The peti-
tioner society through
Advocates Sumit Gahl-
awat and T.S. Thakral
has also sought re-
straint against the re-
spondents from levying
property tax unless the
said services are per-
formed by the respond-
ents as well as compen-
sation from respond-
ents in failing to per-
form their statutory
duties is given.
Will enter
politics if
people want:
Robert Vadra
Indore(PTI): Congress
president Sonia Gan-
dhi’s son-in-law Robert
Vadra has said he is
ready to enter politics
“if people want” and
this will allow him to
serve them in a major
way
.
Speaking to a local
YouTube channel on
Sunday after offering
prayers at the Ma-
hakaleshwar Temple in
Ujjain, Robert Vadra
(53),thehusbandof Con-
gress general secretary
Priyanka Gandhi, said
he understands politics.
“If people wish I
should represent them
and if I can bring some
change for them, then I
will definitely take this
step,” he said, adding
that by doing so, he will
be able to serve people
“in a major way”.
“My charitable
works are going on for
more than 10 years and
will continue in future
also. Whether I enter
politics or not, works
will continue as it is my
way of serving people,”
he said.
CRUCIAL READ
‘WILL TAKE ACTION
OVER AL-QAEDA
PRAISING STUDENT’
Bengaluru: Karnataka
Chief Minister Basavaraj
Bommai said on Monday
that he would consider
appropriate action against
Karnataka student Muskan
Khan, who was recently
praised by Al-Qaeda ter-
rorist Ayman al-Zawahiri
over the hijab row. The
row erupted after Zawahiri
praised Muskan for raising
the slogan ‘Allahu Akbar’
to counter a mob chanting
‘Jai Shri Ram’.
AFRAID THAT KIRIT
SOMAIYA, SON WILL
FLEE COUNTRY: RAUT
Mumbai: Shiv Sena MP
Sanjay Raut on Monday
claimed that BJP leader
Kirit Somaiya and his
son Neil Somaiya, “who
committed a scam” under
the pretext of saving the
decommissioned aircraft
carrier Vikrant, may es-
cape from the country and
hence, a lookout notice
should be issued against
them. The Shiv Sena
leader has been accusing
Somaiyas over funds.
TAMIL NADU CM STALIN MOVES RESOLUTION
IN TN ASSEMBLY SEEKING REMOVAL OF CUET
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on Monday
“unanimously” adopted a resolution urging the Union gov-
ernment to withdraw the proposal of con-
ducting of Common University Entrance
Test (CUET). All politicial parties except
the BJP supported the resolution moved
by Chief Minister MK Stalin. The Assembly
resolution said the people of Tamil Nadu
felt the CUET would only favour further
mushrooming of coaching centres and
enforcing such an entrance examination along with regular
schooling would lead to mental stress among students.
Guwahati: Lok Sabha Speaker Shri Om Birla, who is on a five day
tour to Assam, inaugurated the 8th Commonwealth Parliamentary
Association (India Region) Conference at Assam Legislative
Assembly in Guwahati on Monday.Assam Chief Minister Himanta
Biswa Sarma and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh
among others were also present during the occasion.
Jagan’s cabinet rejig triggers rebellionin YSRC
Amravati (PTI):
Andhra Pradesh chief
minister YS Jagan Mo-
han Reddy will contin-
ue to have five deputies
along with 20 other
ministers in his recon-
stituted Cabinet.
On Monday
, Reddy re-
constituted the state
cabinet, inducting 13
new faces and re-in-
ducting 11 from his first
team. Governor Biswa
Bhusan Harichandan
administered the oath
of office and secrecy to
25 members of the cabi-
net at a public function
near the state secretari-
at in Amaravati. The
reconstitution of the
state cabinet, however,
triggered a rebellion in
the ruling YSR Con-
gress on an unprece-
dented scale as the par-
ty cadre took to the
streets and organised
protests in many dis-
tricts.
According to PTI,
former home minister
M Sucharita, who was
denied a second term,
submitted her resigna-
tion as MLA. She held a
meeting with the party
workers in Guntur, at
the same time the new
Cabinet was being in-
ducted, and told them
she was resigning as a
legislator “due to per-
sonal reasons.”
Sucharita was report-
edly upset over not be-
ing re-inducted into the
cabinet when fellow Dal-
its such as T Vanita and
others were taken back.
Sucharita, however,
claimed she was not un-
happy over not getting a
second chance and
maintained she would
continue in the party
.
PTI reported that an-
other former minister
Balineni Srinivasa Red-
dy, who was the first to
trigger the rebellion on
Sunday, sent a message
to the YSRC leadership
that he would resign
from his MLA post. Ba-
lineni’s supporters or-
ganised road blockades
in Ongole and some
otherpartsof Prakasam
district, demanding
that he be re-inducted
into the cabinet.
YSRC party chief and Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Tej Pratap invites Nitish Kumar
to re-enter Mahagathbandhan
Patna (Agencies): RJD
chief Lalu Prasad’s el-
der son Tej Pratap Ya-
dav has invited Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar
to re-enter the ‘Maha-
gathbandhan’.
Taking to Twitter, Tej
Pratap has shared a
poster with his picture
on one side of the frame
and “Entry Nitish Cha-
cha (Uncle)” written on
the other.
Tej Pratap’s move
comes at a time when
the BJP and JD-U are at
loggerheads over sev-
eral issues, including
caste-based census,
leadership of NDA in
Bihar, liquor ban, law
and order situation.
Recently, BJP leader
and minister Janak
Ram had claimed that
the BJP is the single
largest party in Bihar
Assembly with 77 seats
while JD-U has only 45
seats. Hence the chief
minister should come
from the BJP quota. He
also advocated for the
ban on loudspeakers for
Azan (prayers in
mosques).
Several netizens took
a dig at Tej Pratap for
the post as few years
ago, he had stood out-
side Rabri Devi’s resi-
dence with a placard
reading “No entry for
Nitish Chacha.”
Notably, Nitish Ku-
mar led JD-U contested
the Assembly elections
with RJD and Congress
party in 2015 and
formed the govern-
ment.
Tej Pratap Yadav Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
Congress’s Kharge questioned
by ED in National Herald case
New Delhi (Agencies):
Congress leader Mall-
ikarjun Kharge was ex-
amined on Monday in
the National Herald
corruption case by the
Enforcement Directo-
rate. The 79-year-old
leader of opposition in
the Rajya Sabha,a re-
lentless BJP critic, was
summoned to appear
before the officials.
His statement will be
recorded under the Pre-
vention of Money Laun-
dering Act (PMLA) as
the agency wants to un-
derstand some issues in
the investigation.
The probe in the Na-
tional Herald corrup-
tion case - linked to the
Congress and the Gan-
dhis - has been going on
for years. There have
been accusations of
cheating, conspiracy
and criminal breach of
trust in the acquisition
of the Associated Jour-
nals Limited or AJL by
Young Indian Pvt. Ltd
(YI).
The National Herald,
started by former prime
minister Jawaharlal
Nehru, was published
by the AJL. The daily
was said to be a Con-
gress mouthpiece.
In 2010, the AJL -
dealing with financial
challenges - was taken
over by a newly-floated
company called Young
Indian Private Limited
(YIL) with Suman
Dubey and technocrat
Sam Pitroda as direc-
tors, both of them Gan-
dhi loyalists.
Mallikarjun Kharge

INDIA
06
New Delhi (PTI): Expo-
sure to air pollution has
been linked to 1,00,000
excessprematuredeaths
in the Indian cities of
Mumbai, Bangalore,
Kolkata, Hyderabad,
Chennai, Surat, Pune
and Ahmedabad be-
tween 2005 and 2018, ac-
cording to a study
.
The international
team of scientists
aimed to address data
gaps in air quality for 46
cities in Africa, Asia
and the Middle East us-
ing space-based obser-
vations from instru-
ments onboard NASA
and European Space
Agency (ESA) satellites
for 2005 to 2018. The
study, published last
week in the journal Sci-
ence Advances, shows
rapid degradation in
air quality and increas-
es in urban exposure to
air pollutants which are
hazardous to health.
The researchers
found significant annu-
al increases in pollut-
ants directly hazardous
to health of up to 14 per
cent for nitrogen diox-
ide (NO2) and up to 8 per
cent for fine particles
(PM2.5).Theyalsofound
increase in the level of
up to 12 per cent for am-
monia and up to 11 per
cent for reactive volatile
organic compounds.
The team, including
researchers from the
Harvard University in
the US, attributed this
rapid degradation in
air quality to emerging
industries and residen-
tial sources like road
traffic, waste burning,
and widespread use of
charcoal and fuelwood.
“Open burning of bi-
omass for land clear-
ance and agricultural
waste disposal has in
the past overwhelm-
ingly dominated air pol-
lution in the tropics,”
said study lead author
Karn Vohra from Uni-
versity College London.
1L premature deaths in 8 Indian cities
AIR POLLUTION KILLS
Man from Bihar’s Buxar released
from Pakistan jail after 12 years
Patna (Agencies): The
Pakistan government
has released from its
jail a man from Bihar’s
Buxar district, 12 years
after he accidentally
strayed into the neigh-
bouring country, a po-
lice official said.
Chavi Kumar, a na-
tive of Khilafat Pur un-
der Mufassil police sta-
tion in the district, had
gone to Punjab as a la-
bourer to earn his live-
lihood. One night, while
returning from an agri-
cultural field after
work, he lost his way
and reached Pakistan.
He was arrested by
the rangers for illegally
entering the territories
of Pakistan.
“We received a letter
from a special branch in
the month of December
last year regarding him.
We immediately went to
the village and gathered
the information about
him and cross checked
the details mentioned in
the letter. The villagers
said that a person had
been missing for 12
years. Accordingly, we
met Chavi Kumar’s
mother who immediate-
ly identified him,” said
Amit Kumar, SHO of
Mufassil police station.
“Following the confir-
mation, we submitted
the report with a special
branch which further
communicated to exter-
nal affairs ministry
.
ED attaches assets of Indians
working to ‘resurrect’ LTTE
New Delhi (PTI): The
Enforcement Directo-
rate on Monday said it
has attached assets
worth Rs 3.59 crore of
four Indians allegedly
involved in drugs and
arms smuggling as part
of a plan to ‘revive’ the
banned Sri Lankan ter-
ror group LTTE that
was militarily defeated
by the island nation in
2009. The accused are
being probed by the fed-
eral agency in a case
linked to the seizure of
3,000 kgs of heroin,
arms and ammunition
from a Sri Lankan boat
that was intercepted by
the Coast Guard in In-
dian waters on March
18 last year.
Six plots, a dozen ve-
hicles, cash and bank
deposits of Suresh Raj
A, Satkunam alias
Sabeshan, Ramesh A
and Soundararajan ali-
as Sounder have been
provisionally attached
under the Prevention of
Money Laundering Act
(PMLA), the agency
said.
INDIA ADDS NAME
TO DESIGNATED
TERRORISTS LIST
HUGE CACHE OF
ARMS RECOVERED
IN KOKRAJHAR
New Delhi: The Centre
on Monday designated
Jaish-e-Mohammed’s
Mohiuddin Aurang-
zeb, involved in the
Pulwama terror attack,
as a terrorist under
the Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act, 1967.
The Home Ministry
said Mohiuddin Au-
rangzeb Alamgir was
designated a terrorist
after it was ascertained
that he was involved in
the terror attack on a
CRPF bus in Pulwama
in Jammu Kashmir
in 2019.
Guwahati: The Assam
police has recovered
huge cache of so-
phisticated arms and
ammunition in Assam’s
Kokrajhar district in a
major breakthrough,
the police said on Mon-
day. Acting on a secret
information that some
weapons are kept
hidden forest areas of
Kokrajhar district, and
recovered three AK-56,
one AK-47, one Sniper
Rifle, one M-16 Rifle,
one Serili Rifle, four
magazines and 130
rounds of AK series.
Seoni: A tiger was found dead at Pench Tiger
Reserve (PTR) in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni district,
with officials suspecting that it was killed by another
feline during a territorial fight. This is the fifth tiger
death in the state in a fortnight. A forest patrolling
team on Sunday spotted the carcass of the tiger,
around two years old, in Kurai range. Following an
inspection of the spot, it appears the tiger was killed
in a fight with another adult tiger.
Ghaziabad: At least 20 cows died after a massive
fire took place in Kinauni village near Ghaziabad’s
Indirapuram on Monday, officials said. DM of
Ghaziabad, Rakesh Kumar Singh, while interacting
with the reporters said that prima facie it looked like
around 15-20 cows have been charred to death.
People present at the site claimed that over 50 cows
were charred to death, although the exact number of
cows burned in the incident remains unknown.
1 MORE TIGER FOUND DEAD IN MADHYA
PRADESH RESERVE; 5TH IN 14 DAYS
20 COWS CHARRED TO DEATH IN
DEADLY INFERNO IN GHAZIABAD
CRUCIAL READ
Lankan parties seek interim Govt
with new PM as IMF talks loom
Colombo (Agencies):
Three parties that re-
cently withdrew from
Sri Lanka’s ruling coa-
lition have proposed
forming an interim gov-
ernment with a new
prime minister replac-
ing President Gotabaya
Rajapaksa’s brother,
they said on Monday, as
the country’s economic
crisis rolls on.
Dragged down by
debt, the island nation
of 22 million people is
running short of power,
fuel, food and medicines
due to a lack of money
for imports. It has
reached out to the Inter-
nationalMonetaryFund
(IMF) and countries like
India and China for ur-
gent financial help.
Rajapaksa dissolved
his cabinet last week
and called for a unity
government to help
tackle the crisis, as 41
lawmakers walked out
of the ruling coalition
to become independ-
ents in the 225-seat par-
liament.
Three parties that 16
of those lawmakers be-
long to told reporters
that they had met the
president and the prime
minister, Mahinda Ra-
japaksa, and that more
talks were scheduled
for Tuesday. The prime
minister is expected to
address the nation later
on Monday
.
“The main proposal
is to have an all-party
committee to make key
decisions and the ap-
pointment of a new
prime minister and a
limited Cabinet,” said
Udaya Gammanpila,
chief of the Jathika
Hela Urumaya party
.
“We want this before
a new election. We have
to reverse shortages
and stabilise the econo-
my.” The Sri Lanka
Freedom Party (SLFP),
with 14 lawmakers, said
the independents would
speak with other politi-
cal parties to come to a
consensus, as the gov-
ernment prepares to
hold loan discussions
with the IMF next week.
“Talks with the IMF
will need a stable gov-
ernment capable of im-
plementing clear poli-
cies,” SLFP General-
Secretary Dayasiri
Jayasekera said. “This
is necessary to repair
the economy and bring
relief to the people.”
In his address, the
prime minister said the
government would re-
introduce a critical fer-
tiliser subsidy to assist
farmers who have been
hit by crop losses after
a ban on chemical ferti-
lisers last year.
A protestor holds a Sri Lankan national flag in front of the Presidential Secretariat during a protest
against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. —FILE PHOTO
Moscow-backed
separatists claim
control of key port
Moscow (Agencies): A
Moscow: A pro-Russia
rebel leader said Mon-
day that separatist forc-
es in eastern Ukraine
have taken control of
the port of the strategic
city of Mariupol.
“Regarding the port
of Mariupol, it is al-
ready under our con-
trol,” Denis Pushilin,
leader of the separa-
tists in the breakaway
Donetsk region, said in
televised remarks.
AFP could not inde-
pendently verify these
claims.
Russian troops have for
over a month besieged
Mariupol on the shores
of the Sea of Azov.
Thousands of civilians
are believed to have
died there since the
start of Russia’s mili-
tary operation in
Ukraine.
Eduard Basurin, a
senior official in the re-
bel stronghold of
Donetsk, said the re-
maining Ukrainian
forces in Mariupol were
concentrated in the
city’s large Azovstal
metallurgical plant.
Come,‘makeinIndia’:Rajnath
exhorts aerospace giants in US
Phule champion
of social justice,
source of hope
for people: PM
New Delhi: Paying
tributes to noted social
reformer Jyotirao
Phule on his birth an-
niversary, PM Naren-
dra Modi on Monday
said he was a multifac-
eted personality who
worked tirelessly for
social equality, women
empowerment.
Phule is widely re-
spected as a champion
of social justice and
sourceof hopeforcount-
less people, he said.
Noting that the birth
anniversary of BR
Ambedkar, a key archi-
tect of the Constitution
who like Phule came
from disadvantaged
section of society and
fought for social re-
forms, follows in a few
days on April 14.
Washington: Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh
has met senior execu-
tives of American aero-
space and defence ma-
jors Boeing and Raythe-
on and asked them to
take advantage of poli-
cy initiatives in India to
steadily march from
‘Make in India’ towards
‘Make for the World’.
Rajnath Singh along
with External Affairs
Minister S Jaishankar
arrived in the US capi-
tal yesterday to attend
the India-US 2+2 minis-
terial dialogue in Wash-
ington on Monday —
the first under the US
President Joe Biden
administration.
NTAGI chief says‘nothing to
panic’ as India confirms‘XE’
New Delhi: New Cov-
id-19 variants will keep
coming, however, the
new variants aren’t
causing severe diseases
or increasing the num-
ber of cases said Chair-
man of the Covid-19
working group of India,
National Technical Ad-
visory Group on Immu-
nisation (NTAGI), Dr
NK Arora.
Dr Arora said,” vari-
ants will keep coming
but at the moment
these aren’t causing se-
vere disease or in-
crease in the number
of cases.”
“So, I would like to
tell people that these
variants will keep on
occurring,” he added.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh meets with the US aerospace
and defence majors in Washington on Monday. —PHOTO BY ANI
2 GHAZIABAD SCHOOLS SHUT AS 5
STUDENTS ‘FOUND’ COVID POSITIVE
SHANGHAI COVID
CASES TOP 26,000
CENTRE: SC FIXES
TIME FOR RELIEF
EAM S JAISHANKAR TO MEET US
TRADE REPRESENTATIVE TODAY
NIA COURT TO
FRAME CHARGES
AGAINST YASIN
SC NOTICE TO
CENTRE ON TMC
LEADER’S PLEA
CHOPPER CASE:
COURT SUMMONS
EX-CHIEF AUDITOR
New Delhi: Two schools in Ghaziabad have been shut
after five students were claimed to be found infected
with Covid-19. The health department officials said that
they have set up camps which will test school staff and
children for next three days. The officials said that the
school in Indirapuram reported two children infected
while three were reported from the school in Vaishali.
Shanghai: China’s largest
Covid outbreak contin-
ues to spread despite
an extended lockdown
of Shanghai’s 25 million
people. There were 26,087
new daily infections re-
ported in Shanghai. Resi-
dents have been locked
down for weeks now, with
frustration building.
New Delhi: The Union
Health Ministry in a state-
ment on Monday said that
the Supreme Court vide its
order dated March 24 in
the Miscellaneous Applica-
tion No. 1805 of 2021 in
Writ Petition (C) No. 539
has fixed the a timeline to
file claims for the payment
of ex-gratia assistance.
Washington: India’s External Affairs Minister S Jais-
hankar will meet United States Trade Representative
(USTR) Katherine Tai on Tuesday.“Ambassador Tai will
meet with India’s Minister of External Affairs Dr Sub-
rahmanyam Jaishankar. This meeting is closed press,”
US Trade Representative said in a statement on Sunday.
New Delhi: A Special NIA
Court on April 18 will frame
formal charges against Yasin
Malik and others in connec-
tion with the Jammu and
Kashmir terror funding case.
Earlier the court had ordered
the framing of charges
against several separatist
leaders under UAPA and IPC.
Special NIA Judge Praveen
Singh on Monday deferred
the framing of formal
charges against the accused
persons in this case.
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court on Monday issued
notice to the Centre and oth-
ers on TMC leader Sushmita
Dev’s plea seeking issuance
of Aadhaar numbers to
persons included in the final
supplementary list of the
National Register of Citizens
(NRC) in Assam. A three-
judge Bench led by Justice
UU Lalit asked the Centre,
Assam Government and the
UIDAI to respond to the peti-
tion by May 17.
New Delhi: A Special Court
on Monday issued summons
against former Defence
Secretary and former CAG,
Shashi Kant Sharma and
four IAF retired officials
in AgustaWestland VVIP
Chopper alleged scam case.
Special Judge Arvind Kumar
issued summons against
all accused named in the
chargesheet. The court took
cognizance and directed all
the accused to appear before
it on April 28, 2022.
IN THE COURTYARD

NEWS
07
SUPREME COURT
FLAYS HC FOR
GRANTING BAIL
TO ACCUSED IN
PF CASE
The Supreme Court on Monday
came down heavily on
Allahabad High Court for
granting bail to a person accused
in fraud of Provident Funds
worth Rs 22000 crore. A bench
of Justice Khanwilkar of
Supreme Court said that the
High Court has no business to
say when the Supreme Court has
dealt with the merits of the case
while dealing with the Mukul
Rohtagi appearing for the
Respondent said that the
Supreme Court court order of
15th May 2020 recorded, ” we
do not find any ground to release
the petitioner on bail at this
stage” which means that it is not
a final decision forever. The
Court was made aware of the
reason why the bail was needed.
It was told that the respondent is
72 years of age and has got 5
stents in his heart already. Not
only this, but also out of 17
accused ,16 have been released
on bail. All of which have been
released on bail on merits. ON
the observation of the HC that
the respondent was not involved
in making investment in DHFL,
etc. Justice Khanwilkar observed
– If HC is considering the case
on medical grounds we have no
difficulty but if it makes
observations on the merits of the
case, it is not acceptable.
—First India Bureau
ONE HELD IN
CASE AGAINST
12 GOVT
OFFICIALS FOR
CORRUPTION IN
GORAKHPUR
Police have registered a case
against 12 officials of Stamp
and Registry, Regional Transport
Office (RTO) under corruption
charges, and one accused was
arrested while the manhunt was
launched to nab the other
accused. Police sources said that
the case was registered in Cantt
and Shahpur police stations on
orders of the district magistrate.
Several complaints of corruption
were received from both
government offices. It was
reported that officials were
openly asking for bribes for any
departmental work. On directions
of DM, investigation was
launched and Tehsildar probed
the issue. The corrupt officials
were identified and their
corruption was recorded. After
evidence, a case was registered
against the accused officials who
are deputy registrar KK Tewari,
Vijay Mishra, Ashok Upadhyay,
Jitendra Jaiswal, Rajeshwar of
the Registry department. Dr Vipin
Tada, senior superintendent of
police said that accused Vijay
Mishra was arrested while raids
were being conducted to nab
other accused. Names of more
corrupt officials can be included
after an interrogation with the
accused. —Janaradan Misra
Qutab Minar is ‘Vishnu Stambh’ built
on a Vishnu temple at site: VHP leader
New Delhi (PTI): The
Vishva Hindu Pari-
shad (VHP) Sunday
claimed that the Qutab
Minar was a ‘Vishnu
Stambh’ before some
of its portions was re-
constructed by a Mus-
lim ruler and renamed
as Quwwat-ul-Islam.
VHP national spokes-
person Vinod Bansal
claimed that the 73-me-
tre-high structure was
built on a temple of
lord Vishnu construct-
ed during the times of
a Hindu ruler.
“When the Muslim
ruler came, some of its
portions were recon-
structed with the mate-
rials obtained after de-
molishing 27 Hindu-
Jain temples, and re-
named as Quwwat-ul-
Islam (Might of Is-
lam),” Bansal claimed,
speaking to PTI. He
claimed that Muslim
rulers made multiple
efforts to rebuild some
of the top floors that
they had “damaged”,
but they could not re-
store it. “One can see a
clear difference in the
structure of the first
three floors of the tow-
er and the remaining
floors towards the top.
These floors were su-
perimposed by them as
they (Muslim rulers)
just wanted to show-
case the dominance of
Islam,” he claimed.
“It was actually a
Vishnu Stambh built
on a Vishnu temple.
They (Muslim rulers)
did not build it. Our
(Hindu) rulers built
it,” he claimed. The
VHP on Saturday de-
manded that the gov-
ernment rebuild the
ancient temples at the
Qutab Minar complex
and allow resumption
of Hindu rituals and
prayers there. The de-
mands came after a
group of VHP leaders,
including Bansal, vis-
ited the compound of
the monument, which
was designated as a
World Heritage Site by
UNESCO in 1993.
‘GANESHA IDOLS PLACED DISRESPECTFULLY’
National Monument Authority (NMA) chairman
and BJP leader Tarun Vijay had on Thursday said
that Ganesha idols were placed “disrespectful-
ly” in the Qutab Minar complex. “The idols are
currently placed at the most disrespectful place,
upside down at the feet level of visitors. The idols
should either be removed or placed respectfully
inside the Qutub complex, he had told PTI.
DECLARE INDIA HINDU
RASHTRA, SEEKS
MUSLIM RASHTRIYA
MANCH OFFICE-BEARER
Saharanpur (PTI):
An office-bearer of
the Muslim Rash-
triya Manch, an
RSS affiliate, on
Sunday staged a sit-
in here, demanding
that India be de-
clared a Hindu
Rashtra. Speaking
to reporters here,
Chaudhary Imran
Ansari, an office-
bearer of the
Meerut unit of the
Muslim Rashtriya
Manch, said, “India
is a Hindu-majority
country
. Hindus are
our elder brothers
and they love us in-
tensely.” Citing the
Muslim nations of
the world, he asked
why India cannot
become a Hindu
Rashtra? He urged
the President to de-
clare India a Hindu
Rashtra.
—REPRESENTATIONAL
IMAGE
Registration for annual
Amarnath Yatra begins
Jammu (PTI): The reg-
istration for the annual
pilgrimage to the cave
shrine of Amarnath in
south Kashmir com-
menced across the
country on Monday
with enthusiastic pil-
grims making a beeline
for designated bank
branches to secure a
permit for undertaking
the journey. The 43-day
yatra is scheduled to
start on June 30 after
the coronavirus pan-
demic enforced break
of two years. The jour-
ney will begin from the
twin routes -- the tradi-
tional 48-km from Nun-
wan to the cave shrine
from Pahalgam in south
Kashmir’s Anantnag,
and 14-km shorter but
steep Baltal route in
Ganderbal district of
central Kashmir. The
government, this year,
is also introducing a Ra-
dio Frequency Identifi-
cation (RFID) system
for pilgrims to track
their movement en-
route to ensure their
well-being. Shri Amar-
nathji Shrine Board
(SASB), which manages
the annual pilgrimage,
has designated 566
branches across the
country for the registra-
tion of the pilgrims, in
addition to the facility
on its website. Accord-
ing to SASB, no one be-
low the age of 13 years
or above the age of 75
years, and no woman
with more than 6 week’s
pregnancy, shall be reg-
istered for the yatra.
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE
Multiple fire incidents in Agra
cause damage worth lakhs
First India Bureau
Agra: On Monday
, there
were incidents of fire at
three different places in
Agra. A fire broke out in
a shoe factory in the in-
dustrial area of Sikan-
dra, where 2 workers
were scorched. Apart
from this, there was
panicinNaglaPadmain
Sadar area due to a fire
in a shoe factory and in
the green gas pipeline in
the New Agra area.
The artisans of the
shoe factory told that
work started at 10 in the
morningwhere two arti-
sans were removing the
chemical from the
drum. Suddenly the
chemical left his hand
and fell to the ground.
The fire started as soon
as the chemical fell on
the ground. Due to the
non-availability of fire
extinguisher, a lot of ef-
fort had to be made to
douse the fire and 2 em-
ployees were badly
burnt. In another case
in Sikandra, seeing the
flames of the fire broke
out in the factory, peo-
ple informed the police
factory owner. The
fire is feared to have
caused a loss of lakhs.
Also, the green gas pipe-
line also caught fire in
Nagla Budhi of Dayal-
bagh in the morning.
Fire outbreak in gas pipeline in
New Agra area.
Fire brigade trying to put down
fire at Sikandra.
COWS CHARRED TO DEATH
Smoke billows from a fire in a slum area and cow-shed nearby, at Indirapuram in
Ghaziabad on Monday. At least 20 cows were burnt to death in the fire, as per officials.
2 DIE AS PICKUP VEHICLE RAMS INTO DUMPER
Etawah (PTI): Two
members of a family
were killed and seven
others injured after a
pickup vehicle collided
with a dumper here on
theEtawah-KanpurNa-
tional Highway on
Monday morning, po-
lice said. The accident
took place when the
pickup vehicle travel-
ling to Unnao from Del-
hi collided with a
dumper near Nai Man-
di under the Friend’s
Colony police station
area, Circle Officer
(City) Amit Kumar
said. Ram Sajeevan (69)
and his son Sonu (20),
residentsof Azadpurin
Delhi, died on the spot,
police said, adding that
seven others travelling
in the pickup vehicle,
including the driver,
were injured and
rushed to the district
hospital, Kumar said.
Family of Indian
student killed in Canada
seeks arrest of culprit
Ghaziabad (PTI): The
family of Kartik Vas-
udev, an Indian student
killed in a shootout in
Canada, on Sunday de-
manded that the culprit
be arrested at the earli-
est and justice done in
the case. Hundreds of
people, including Vas-
udev’s friends, relatives
as well as locals, car-
ried out a candle light
march here on Sunday
evening with a demand
for justice for the
21-year-old student.
The march started from
the DAV school and cul-
minated outside the
family’s house in the
Rajendra Nagar area.
Whoever has killed
my son should be ar-
rested at the earliest. I
will fight for him even
if it requires me to trav-
el to Canada but I will
not spare the person
who has done this, Kar-
tik’s father Jitesh Vas-
udev said, as he broke
down during the candle
light march. An uncle
of Kartik said the fam-
ily seeks support of the
people and the govern-
ment in the case. No
child should meet a fate
like this. Nothing bad
should happen to the
children, the uncle, who
preferred not to be
named, said. Kartik had
moved to Toronto in
Canada in January this
year for higher educa-
tion. He had also taken
up a part-time job at a
restaurant. The family
said they had received
information about a
shootout in Toronto
around 5 am (IST) on
Friday and Kartik’s
death was confirmed to
them around 10 am.
Family members of the killed
student.
An uncle of
student said the
family seeks
support of the
people and the
govt in the case
2 KILLED AS CAR CRASHES INTO BRIDGE
M u z a f f a r n a g a r
(PTI): Two people
were killed and one
seriously injured af-
ter their car crashed
into a bridge here on
the Delhi-Haridwar
national highway, po-
lice said on Monday
.
The deceased iden-
tified as Sonu (29) and
Ravi (28), while
26-year-old Ankit was
injured.
All were residents
of Panipat, Station
House Officer Ashu-
tosh Kumar said. The
accident took place
whenthethreefriends
were going to Harid-
war to take a bath in
Ganga, the SHO said.
Ankit was rushed to
the hospital, he said.
The bodies have
been sent for post-
mortem examination,
the Station House Of-
ficer added.
—PHOTOS
BY
PTI
—FILE PHOTO

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2NDFRONT
Council polls: Independents
gave real fight to BJP
Gyanendra Kumar Shukla
Lucknow: After the an-
nouncement of the re-
sults of the counting of
votes for the MLC elec-
tions on Tuesday, the
BJP is set to cross the
majority mark in the
Upper House of the UP
Legislature as well.
Significantly, the pro-
cess of election is going
on for three dozen seats
of the hundred mem-
bers UP Legislative
Council. These 36 seats
are spread across 35 lo-
cal authorities’ constit-
uencies. Of this, BJP
candidates have been
declared elected unop-
posed in nine seats. Af-
ter the voting for the
remaining 27 posts, the
fate of 95 candidates
has been recorded in
the EVM, about which
the announcement will
be made today
.
In the recently con-
cluded assembly elec-
tions, the SP had suc-
ceeded in making a
clean sweep in
Azamgarh, Ambedkar
Nagar, Ghazipur, Sham-
li and Kaushambi.
Apart, there were many
other districts where
the SP had performed
better in the Panchayat
elections held last year.
But in all such places,
the SP could not seem to
compete effectively in
the elections for the
seats of the Upper
House. In Azamgarh,
Mau, Pratapgarh and
Varanasi, the BJP was
seen to be getting more
challenges from inde-
pendents than from the
SP. SP’s position in
Ghazipur, Ayod-
hya-Ambedkarnagar,
Basti-Siddharthnagar
was considered strong,
but this trend did not
appear to be sustained
when voting for MLC
seats was held.
In the assembly polls,
the SP had won all the
ten seats in Azamgarh.
But in the MLC elec-
tions, independent can-
didate Vikrant Singh
was seen fighting
strongly against BJP’s
Arun Kant Yadav here.
The former is the son of
outgoing MLC Yash-
want Singh, expelled
from BJP.
In Ghazipur, SP can-
didate Bholanath Shuk-
la withdrew his nomi-
nation at the last mo-
ment, forcing the SP to
support independent
candidate Madan
Singh.
Here BJP candidate
Vishal Singh Chanchal
has the upper hand.
From Ayodhya-Ambed-
karnagar seat, instead
of outgoing MLC and
SP candidate Hiralal
Yadav, only BJP candi-
date Hari Om Pandey
was seen getting an
edge.
In Pratapgarh, SP’s
Vijay Bahadur was defi-
nitely in the fray, but
the contest on the
ground was centered
between BJP’s Harip-
ratap Singh and Jansat-
ta Dal’s Akshay Pratap
Singh. SP’s Umesh Ku-
mar contested in Vara-
nasi. But BJP’s Sudama
Patel was given a tough
competition by Anna-
purna Singh, wife of
outgoing MLC and Ba-
hubali don Brajesh
Singh.
COURTESY MEET
CM Yogi Adityanath with Deputy Chief Ministers Brajesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Mourya meet President Ram Nath Kovind
in New Delhi on Monday .
Despite doing better in the Assembly polls held recently, SP failed
to repeat it in the MLC polls, paving the way for BJP’s easy success
SEVERAL MLCS ELECTED UNOPPOSED
AfterShivpal,voicesofdissent
fromAzam’scampinSP
First India Bureau
Lucknow: After Sama-
jwadi Party MP from
Sambhal Shafiqur Reh-
man Barq openly criti-
cised the party and al-
leged that it has stopped
working for Muslims,
voices of dissent have
emerged from the office
of SPleaderAzamKhan,
MLA from Rampur.
At a meeting held in
Rampur on Sunday
, it
was said that Azam
Khanwassacrificedand
Muslims were made en-
emies of the BJP. Azam
Khan’s media in charge
Fasahat Khan Shanu
said, “CM Yogi Aditya-
nath was right when he
said that Akhilesh does
not want Azam Khan to
be out of jail.”Fasahat
made the remark at a
meeting of Khan’s sup-
porters at the party of-
fice in Rampur, late on
Sunday night.
According to sources,
Azam Khan has been
upset over the fact that
Akhilesh did not visit
him in Sitapur jail-ex-
cept once-- where he is
lodged since February
2020. Pragatisheel Sam-
ajwadi Party-Lohia
chief Shivpal Yadav’s
rift with Akhilesh and
his possible shift to the
rulingBJPhasstrength-
ened reports about
Azam Khan also quit-
ting SP
.
Khan fought the 2022
UP elections and won
the Rampur seat for the
10th time from behind
the bars in Sitapur jail.
HC upholds
recruitment
cancellation
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The Alla-
habad High Court has
justifiedthecancellation
of the selection process
by the Uttar Pradesh
governmentduetowide-
spread irregularities in
the recruitment of 152
Group C posts in the
Handloom and Textile
Department in 2015.
DivisionBenchof Jus-
tice Surya Prakash Kes-
arwani and Justice
Jayant Banerji passed
theorderwhilehearinga
Special Appeal Defective
filed by State of Uttar
Pradesh and 3 Others.
By means of the intra
court special appeal,
the appellants have
challenged the order
dated 19.12.2019 passed
by the Court in a bunch
of connected writ peti-
tions, whereby, the or-
der dated 28.9.2017
passed by the appel-
lant-respondents, can-
celling the entire selec-
tion process made pur-
suant to the advertise-
ment dated 22.1.2015,
was quashed.
The Advertisement
dated 22.1.20151 was is-
sued for recruitment of
152 Group C posts in the
Handloom Textile De-
partment,UttarPradesh.
Muntashir graces
Ekal function
First India Bureau
Kanpur: Eminent lyri-
cist and poet Manoj
Muntashir on Monday
took part in EKAL
BharatLokShikshaPar-
ishad’s education cam-
paign‘EkShaamEkalke
naam’. In his address at
the event, he said that
the Kanpur chapter of
EKAL will be a success-
ful attempt to make stu-
dents self-reliant with
education by providing
free education.
Monday marked the
end of ‘Ek Shaam Ekal
ke naam’ organised by
Ekal Bharat Lok Shik-
shaParishadinthemed-
ical college auditorium
in Kanpur. The cam-
paign’s aim was to
spread the message that
everyoneshouldhaveac-
cess to education espe-
ciallyruralareas. Goldie
Group’s Director Suren-
dra Gupta, Ashok
Prasad, Prakash Kano-
dia,AnuradhaVarshnai,
Umesh Paliwal, Secre-
taryDhruvRuia,Praveen
Katiyar and Gopal Soot
Wala were present.
Senior SP leader Azam Khan. —FILE PHOTO
Preparations at collectorate office a day before MLC poll results,
in Lucknow on Monday. —PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR
First India Bureau
Gorakhpur (PTI): A
local court on Monday
extended the police re-
mand of Gorakhnath
temple attack accused
Murtaza Abbasi till
April 16.
Abbasi was presented
before the Additional
Chief Judicial Magis-
trate and the UP An-
ti-Terrorist Squad along
with Shahpur police
urged the court to ex-
tend his police remand.
His week-long remand
ended on Monday
.
ATS and Shahpur po-
lice jointly appealed the
court for the extension
of police remand of
Murtaza Abbasi. The
ACJM court extended
theremandforfivemore
days, stating that it is
necessary for investiga-
tion.“The magistrate
has extended the re-
mand till April 16,” se-
nior lawyer PK Dubey
told reporters here. On
April 3 evening, Abbasi,
an IIT graduate, at-
tacked two policemen
with a sharp-edged
weapon at a gate of the
famed Gorakhnath tem-
ple here and tried to
barge into the premises
before being overpow-
ered.
In an earlier state-
ment issued, the UP
Home Department had
said, “The attack on po-
lice jawans at Gora-
khnath temple is a part
of deep conspiracy and,
based on the available
facts, it can be said that
itwasaterrorincident.”
GORAKHNATH TEMPLE ATTACK ACCUSED
MURTAZA’S REMAND EXTENDED TILL APRIL 16
TEMPLE OFTEN VISITED BY CM
The attack occurred
at the temple which is
under high security as
it is frequently visited
by CM, who is the
head seer. Abbasi was
arrested and remanded
in police custody for
two weeks, police had
said and alleged that he
tried to forcibly enter
the temple while rais-
ing a religious slogan.
His father Munir Abbasi
said Murtaza belonged
to the 2015 batch of
IIT-Mumbai and was a
chemical engineer.
Gorakhnath Temple (R) Accysed Murtaza Abbasi.
Jagdeesh Chandra was on a one day visit to Srinagar on Monday and visited the renowned Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden, the largest in Asia spread over 30 hectares, to enjoy the unique
arresting beauty of Tulips in full bloom. The Tulip festival is open till April 30. He also visited the Dal Lake area and interacted with locals, who told him that Kashmir tourism is touching new heights
after the abrogation of Article 370 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah and life is back to normal in Jammu and Kashmir.
PARADISE REVISITED!
The constituencies
where MLCs were
elected unopposed are
Budaun, Hardoi, Kheri,
Mirzapur-Sonbhadra,
Banda-Hamirpur,
Aligarh, Buland-
shahr and Mathu-
ra-Etah-Mainpuri.
MLC elections were
held on these seats….
Moradabad-Bijnor,
Rampur-Bareilly,
Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur,
Sitapur, Lucknow-Un-
nao, Rae Bareli,
Pratapgarh, Sultanpur,
Barabanki, Bahraich,
Azamgarh-Mau,
Ghazipur, Jaunpur,
Varanasi , Allahabad,
Jhansi-Jalaun-Lalit-
pur, Kanpur-Fatehpur,
Etawah-Farrukhabad,
Agra-Firozabad,
Meerut-Ghaziabad, Mu-
zaffarnagar-Saharanpur,
Gonda, Faizabad,
Basti-Siddharthnagar,
Gorakhpur-Maharajganj,
Deoria and Ballia seats.
There is more beauty in an open
smile and a happy face than in
the world’s most expensive dress.
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diva who rose to the
top through hard work and
determination, revealed her
success story with City First.
Tell us something about
yourself.
I am a rebel who wants
to look good and still
stand up for the
equality of women.
But beneath the makeup
and behind my smile I am an
18-year-old girl fighting for
my dream life. I consider my-
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learner.
Where do you see yourself af-
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but for now, I see myself 100
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empowered woman. I
want to make my loved
ones proud of myself
and I am trying my best
for this goal of mine. I
want to motivate young girls
who want to pursue model-
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How did your journey be-
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My true journey to the path of
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am grateful to Gaurav Gaur
and the entire team for his
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my love and enthusiasm for
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I was in the top 15 Finalists of
Elite Miss Rajasthan 2021.
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hewa is derived from
two local dialect terms,
‘Tharna’ – meaning to
hammer to get thin foils
of gold from a very tiny
quantity of the metal,
and‘Vada’–meaningsil-
ver wire, which in the loop shape
forms the resting foundation for
the main piece, both of which are
crucial parts of the art.
While the pioneers of this
craft only manufactured chests
and boxes, today’s experts have
expanded their talent to include
photo frames, mirrors, cuff
links, brooches, trays, plates,
and personal accessories like
rings and necklaces that are
worn by both men and women.
This work is inspired by Mughal
miniature paintings with con-
ventional design subjects span-
ning from mythical genres to
more secular ones. In 2002, the
Government of India produced
a stamp with an awe-inspiring
piece of thewa on a plate.
Small chunks of gold are
pounded into multiple slender
sections, about one-tenth of a
millimetre thick, and placed on
the lac plate like a canvas mat.
The metal becomes somewhat
embedded in the lac when the
plate is warmed. The design is
then sketched and carefully
carved out on the gold foil using
tools such as ‘Hummaney’ (for-
cep), ‘Katya’ (cutter), and
‘Tankale’ (to cut out the jaali).
Thedesignseithercontainlocal
histories of hunting adven-
tures inside small vegetation
and streams, animals and birds,
or they represent the nature of
indigenousmythssuchasimages
of Radha Krishna, Sri Ram, or
Hanumanji. It is critical to regu-
larly inspect the lac bed for air
bubbles, since these may cause
unavoidable denting of the deli-
cate gold foil. Master artisans, on
the other hand, do not draw but
instead immediately penetrate
the plan with delicate chisels and
sharp tools. However, because
of the intense concentration re-
quired, any error or deviation in
the process of separating the pat-
tern might result in the waste of
the entire piece of foil.
All of the jail’s leftover pat-
tern sheets and cutouts are melt-
ed down and made ready for new
production. To reduce the pos-
sibility of damage, the entire jali
is then set out in a silver wire
frame known as “vaada.” The
silver wire frame utilised in this
operation is precisely construct-
ed on brass dies and soldered.
The entire framed artwork is
then laid down on a mica sheet
using forceps and very calm and
steady hands. The two metals
may be readily soldered together
after being pinned together over
the mica, and the mica can then
be removed. The tiny substance
so formed is then mounted on a
piece of col-
oured Belgian
glass using a bonding
procedure that is a fam-
ily secret. The entire com-
position, including the Bel-
gian glass, is then encased in a
solid silver shell known as
‘Chandi ki dibiya.’
The art has remained
a well-guarded secret;
even the family’s
daughters are kept
in the dark about the
masterstroke meth-
od, assuming that
they would ulti-
mately leave the
clan. The boys of the
household, on the oth-
er hand, are schooled in
pattern drawing from the
age of ten, so that when they
eventually begin to practise
the art, the language and ex-
pression of these jaali scener-
ies unconsciously and readily
flow out of their hands, right
onto the foil.
Every art form in India has a
cultural background that may be
noticed in the designs of that art
form. Its origins may be traced
back 400 years when the mon-
archsof Pratapgarhgrantedland
grants to the families of crafts-
men.Itsoriginsmaybetraced
back 400 years to when the
monarchs of Pratapgarh
grantedlandgrantstothe
families of the artisans
who practised the pro-
fession. This type of
jewellery is distin-
guished by its dis-
tinctive and colour-
ful patterns. They
are adaptable and
perfect for a
s t y l i s h
s t y l e ,
thanks to
their elabo-
rate work-
manship.
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P
ratik Gan-
dhi has
been a
name that
doesn’t need an
introduction. The
actor has success-
fully carved a
niche for himself
with his perfor-
mance in se-
ries like
Scam 1992
etc. and now,
is once again
making head-
lines as the
makers of his
upcoming movie
Phule have unveiled
the first look of the
movie featuring the
actor opposite Pa-
tralekhaa. Pratik
and Patralekhaa
will be seen play-
ing the role of
social activists
and reformers
Mahatma Jy-
otirao Govin-
drao Phule
and Savitrib-
ai Phule re-
spectively in
the movie.
—Agency
J
enner was missing from
the LAs premiere of her
family’s new Hulu series
The Kardashians on
Thursday night. The 26-year-old
supermodelwasunabletoattend
the event due to her health.
Kendall‘triedreallyhardtobe
there and support the family
but was really sick.’ Fortu-
nately
, other Kardashians
were present. —Agency
T
he last time Jada
Pinkett Smith
attended a
public event,
it became a massive
talking point as her
husband Will Smith
smacked Chris Rock
on the Oscars 2022
stage for making a
joke about her. After weeks
since the incident, Jada
stepped out for the first
time to attend the
opening of the
Rhimes Perform-
ing Arts Center in
LA. The actress
was seen posing
on the red carpet
for the event.
—Agency
FANS
REACT
en Affleck and
Jennifer Lopez are
engaged. The pair,
who was a media
hit in the early
2000s and revived
their relationship
in 2021, is ready to marry
after Lopez announced
their engagement on Fri-
day night. The couple has
received a lot of love over
the last year, and that love
has shown up in the after-
math of the revelation.
L o p e z revealed the
news as well as the
engagement ring
in her On the JLo news-
letter. She emotionally
showed off the new
bling in a short emo-
tional video, and the
story quickly circulat-
ed on social media.
——Agency
B
JADA
ATTENDS
PUBLIC
EVENT
BIG B’S REUNION
A
mitabh Bachchan has been having a busy
schedule these days. Reportedly he has
been shooting for his upcoming Sooraj
Barjatya film Oonchai in Delhi. It is always a
visual treat for the fans to look at two actors
from yesteryear reuniting. Something similar
happened on the sets of Oonchai. Big B reunited
with his Major Saab co-star Nafisa Ali only to send
all their fans on a nostalgic trip. For the unversed,
the two played a married couple in Major Saab
which also starred Ajay Devgn. —Agency
SPOTTED!!
A
ctor Sunny Deol was spotted at Jaipur
airport on Monday. The actor came here
for the shoot of his upcoming film. Deol
plans to stay in the city for around one month.
—PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO
P
ranitha Subhash took to
her Instagram handle
and shared a couple of
love-filled pics with her
husband Nithin to announce
her pregnancy
.
Yes! the actress, who took the
plunge with Nthin in 2021, is
expecting her first child. She
termed this news as a special
gift on her husband’s birthday
.
Sharing the pregnancy news
with adorable pics, Pranith
wrote, For my husband’s 34th
bday , the angels above have a
present for us.”
—Agency
Pregnancy
announcement
S
ara, on the other hand, was clicked as she exited
her Pilate class. Sara Ali Khan was also seen
warmly greeting the paparazzi. She quickly
waved to the paps and did her iconic Na-
maste pose before she sat in the car and left for
home. One can see the Love Aaj Kal actress
donning an all-black outfit. Along with it, she
also wore a black mask to protect herself
from the COVID-19. —Agency
T
he week has begun on
a sorrowful note. Noted
actor and award-
winning screenwriter
Shiv Kumar Subramaniam
passed away on Sunday
night. The 2 States actor,
who was known for
his standout onscreen
presence, starred in several
Hindi film. The exact details
of his demise are not yet
known. —Agency
2 STATES ACTOR PASSES AWAY
Jenner skips
premiere
SARA GREETS
PAPARAZZI
K
im Kardashian is
indeed making a
name for herself in
her law career as
well. The SKIMS founder
may be already a big name
in the entertainment in-
dustry but she is also now
making everyone around her
proud by giving her best in her law
journey
. Recently
, Kim revealed on
her Instagram Stories on Saturday
that her essay was chosen as a
model answer after it obtained the
highest score. —Agency
KIM’S MODEL
ANSWER
A
nushka Shar-
ma is gearing
up to make a
solid return
tothemovies.Forthe
unversed,theactress
has already started
prepping for Chak-
da Xpress in which
she will be seen
bringing to life Jhulan Goswa-
mi’s cricketing avatar. Based on
the life of the fast bowler, the
sports biopic is a first for
Anushka. Meanwhile, direc-
tor Prosit Roy and producer
Karnesh Sharma are sure to
not hold back. —Agency
CHAKDA
XPRESS SHOOT
LOOK OF
PHULE
UNVEILED
Jada Pinkett Smith
Kim Kardashian
Jennifer Lopez
Patralekhaa
Pranitha Subhash
Anushka Sharma Ananya Panday
Sara Ali Khan
Kendall Jenner
Nafisa Ali
Shiv Kumar
Sunny Deol
T
he Stu-
dent Of
T h e
Year 2
actress was
seen making
her way to her
Yoga class, and
the Atrangi Re star
was seen exiting
her Pilates class.
Ananya Panday
was seen keeping it
casual in a grey
sleeveless tank top
paired with yoga
pants and flats.
Ananya Panday
will be seen next in
Zoya Akhtar’s film,
Kho Gaye Hum Ka-
han which will also
feature Siddhant
Chaturvedi and
Adarsh Gourav.
Next, she will fea-
ture in Puri Jag-
annadh’s pan-
India film Liger
opposite Vijay
Deverakonda.
—Agency
ANANYA’S
YOGA
CLASS

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