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Arson, vandalism, clashes in 17 UP districts
Lucknow (PTI): The
Bharatiya Janata Party
here on Friday held a
meeting of party’s MPs
to discuss party-related
issues and ways to take
to public the party’s
achievements during
its eight years’ rule at
the centre.
“Discussions were
held about various gov-
ernment schemes
which are to be taken to
the general public to
mark eight years of
Modi Government,”
said Ashwini Tyagi,
party’s general secre-
tary for UP.
Tyagi said that
around 70 senior mem-
bers of the party in-
cluding MPs and party
office bearers partici-
pated in the meeting.
BJP Rajya Sabha MP
Baburam Nishad who
participated in the
meeting said, “It was
decided to take the
achievements of the
eight years of Modi
Government to the pub-
lic, among other is-
sues.” The party mem-
bers also chalked out a
plan to organise yoga
events across the state
on the upcoming Inter-
national Yoga Day on
June 21.
UP BJP leaders meet to
promote Centre’s schemes
PM Narendra Modi and Home
Min Amit Shah. —FILE PHOTO
Janardan Misra
Lucknow: Young men
vandalised trains,
damaged buses and
torched a police out-
post on Friday as they
protested against the
Agnipath scheme in 17
districts across the
state, including Ballia,
Aligarh, Firozabad,
Amethi, Varanasi, Un-
nao and Deoria.
In Ballia, agitated
young men torched one
bogie of a train and
vandalised a special
train from Mumbai to
Ballia. They also van-
dalised several state
transport buses. Police
lobbed teargas shells
and took 100 persons
into custody
.
In Aligarh district,
youngsters torched sev-
eral state transport
buses and the Jattari
police outpost was van-
dalised and set on fire.
Police used tear gun at
several places to control
the situation but faced
difficulty at several
places due to large num-
ber of agitators.
In Prayagraj, hun-
dreds of youth protest-
ed near the Sahson by-
pass. Senior police of-
ficials with heavy force
reached the spot and
tried to pacify the situ-
ation. In Meerut dis-
trict, an agitated crowd
choked the Commis-
sionery crossing and
clashed with police. Po-
lice used mild force to
disperse the crowd.
It was reported that
in Tappal area of Ali-
garh district agitators
attacked a PAC jawan
near the Yamuna Ex-
pressway and damaged
government property
there. Also, the vehicle
of the SDM was van-
dalised in Jattari area.
In Ahmadgarh area
of Bulandshahr dis-
trict, agitated young-
sters hurled stones on
buses and several buses
were vandalised. Police
had taken six miscre-
ants into custody from
Shikarpur area last
night and vehicle of the
SP was targeted in Gu-
lavathi area.
More on P3
Police outpost set
on fire in Aligarh,
train in Ballia
Scene at the Agra-Delhi national highway in Mathura on Friday.
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Shekhawat convener
of BJP’s 14-member
management team
New Delhi (PTI): The
BJP has constituted a
14-member ‘manage-
ment team’, with Union
Minister Gajendra
Shekhawat as its con-
vener, for coordinating
with all its state units
and allies for the presi-
dential elections.
BJP General Secre-
taries Vinod Tawde and
C T Ravi are the co-con-
veners of the team.
Tarun Chugh, who is
also a general secretary
,
is also part of the team.
Union Ministers G
Kishan Reddy
, Ashwini
Vaishnaw, Sarbananda
Sonowal, Arjun Meghw-
alandBharatiPawarare
also members of team.
The other members
are BJP’s national vice-
president D K Aruna,
national secretary Rit-
uraj Sinha, national
president of women’s
wing Vanati Srinivasan,
national spokesperson
SambitPatraandAssam
unit vice-president Raj-
deep Roy
. More on P5
Mumbai cops in
Delhi in search of
Nupur Sharma
Mumbai: A Mumbai
police team is in Delhi
in connection with the
p r o b e
against now
suspended
BJP leader
N u p u r
Sharma for
alleged objectionable
comments against
Prophet Mohammad,
an official said on Fri-
day. The team is in Del-
hi for the past five days
as it needs to physically
hand over summons to
Sharma to appear be-
fore the police.
Sonia Gandhi
diagonesed with
fungal infection
New Delhi: Congress
President Sonia Gan-
dhi, who was admitted
to Ganga
Ram Hospi-
tal on June
12, has got a
fungal in-
fection and
do the post -Covid com-
plications, according to
the party’s official state-
ment. She has been de-
tected with a lower res-
piratory tract infection
after her admission to
the hospital and doctors
areobservingherhealth
conditions closely
.
CRUCIAL READ
PM MODI TO LEAD INT’L YOGA DAY
CELEBRATIONS ON JUNE 21
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead
the International Yoga Day celebrations from the
Mysuru Palace Grounds on June 21, Ayush Minister
Sarbananda Sonowal said on Friday. The event will
also witness the participation of Karnataka CM Basa-
varaj Bommai. Nearly 15,000 yoga enthusiasts will
perform yoga, and the event will be organized with the
support of MPs, departments of Karnataka Govt.
POLITICAL REACTIONS AGAINST & FAVOUR
RAHUL GANDHI tweeted
that Prime Minsiter Naren-
dra Modi does not under-
stand what
the country
wants,
listing out
initiatives by
the central
government
that were “rejected” by the
people. “He can’t hear any-
thing except the voice of
his ‘friends’,” Rahul said.
PRIYANKA GANDHI asked
PM Modi to withdraw the
scheme immediately. She
added that
the govern-
ment had
changed its
rules for the
Agnipath
recruitment
plan in less than 24 hours,
indicating that it is being
imposed on the youth in
a hurry.
BHUPESH BAGHEL,
Chhattisgarh CM, slammed
'Agnipath'
scheme;
says Centre
playing with
nation's se-
curity, future
of youths.
JP NADDA, National Presi-
dent of ruling BJP, said it
(Agnipath scheme) shows
that Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi is
fully seized
of the con-
cerns of the
country’s youth and is
making efforts for their
bright future.
DHARMENDRA PRADHAN,
Union Education and Skill
Development Minister,
said that the
Agnipath
scheme will
boost the
creation
of a young
and skilled
workforce for Indian
Armed Forces.
ANURAGH THAKUR,
Union Minister for
Sports & Youth Affairs,
on Friday
reached out
to army as-
pirants in an
attempt to
clear doubts
regarding
the new Agnipath recruit-
ment scheme.
KNOW ABOUT
AGNIPATH
l The Agnipath scheme
has been designed
to enable a youthful
profile of the Armed
Forces.
l The scheme aims at
providing an opportu-
nity to the youth who
may be keen to don the
uniform.
l It is envisaged that the
average age profile
of the Armed Forces
would come down by
about 4-5 years with
this scheme.
l The Defence Min-
istry had said while
launching scheme that
the nation stands to
benefit from infusion
of the highly inspired
youth who would be
adequately skilled.
l Is is a major defence
policy reform intro-
duced by the Govt to
usher in a new era in
the Human Resource
policy of the three
Defence Services.
POLITICAL REACTIONS AGAINST & FAVOUR
A vehicle is set on fire by the protesters
in Danapur on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI
FURORE
INTENSIFIES
AGAINST AGNIPATH
 One person dead, 13 injured in police firing in Telangana
 Haryana blocks internet for 24 hrs, buses targeted in Delhi
 HM Amit Shah and Army Chief step in to assuage concerns
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: Nationwide
protests intensified on
Friday against the Cen-
tral government’s Ag-
nipath defence recruit-
ment scheme leaving
one person dead and 13
injured in police firing
in Telangana. The re-
ports of violent protests
were received from Bi-
har, Madhya Pradesh,
Telangana, Haryana,
Rajasthan, Uttar
Pradesh and Delhi.
In Telangana, agita-
tors vandalised the Se-
cunderabad railway sta-
tion premises in Hy-
derabad and set a train
ablaze during a protest
against the Agnipath
scheme. In police firing
one person was killed in
Secunderabad, the first
casualty of protests
against the defence re-
cruitment scheme. Be-
sides at least 13 persons
were injured
As irate protesters,
some armed with brick-
bats and stones, fanned
out across large parts of
thecountry
,HomeMinis-
terAmitShahandArmy
chief Gen. Manoj Pande
stepped in to assuage
concerns.
BJP TRIES TO DEFEND
AGNIPATH SCHEME
Facing countrywide pro-
tests over the Agnipath
scheme, the ruling BJP on
Friday rallied its leaders to
put up a stout defence of the
new recruitment initiative for
the armed forces, with its
senior leader and Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh term-
ing it as a “golden opportu-
nity” for the youth to serve
the country.
CONGRESS DEMANDS
ROLLBACK OF AGNIPATH
The Congress on Friday de-
manded immediate rollback
of the Agnipath scheme, saying
it is neither in the interest of
country nor its security. Party’s
Rajya Sabha MP Deepinder
Hooda said the scheme should
be taken back immediately and
a 3-year age relaxation be an-
nounced for youths who could
not join the armed forces due
to delays in recruitment.
SECTION 144 IN HRY
DISTS; INTERNET OFF
In Haryana protests erupted
at Hero Honda Chowk in
the Narnaul Mahendragarh
district on Friday. Police had
to chase away the agitators
and detain a few of them.
The protestors vandalised
the police barricades, which
had been put on the roads
of Narnaul, following which
Section 144 was clamped in
the area.
2ND BJP OFFICE SET ON
FIRE IN MADHEPURA
Bihar continued to be tense
as violent protests over
the Agnipath scheme con-
tinue on second consecutive
day and second BJP office
was set afire in Madhepura.
On Thursday, a BJP office
was set ablaze in Nawada.
Violent protests in Bihar
left vehicles vandalised and
trains burnt on Thursday and
Friday.
OVER 340 TRAINS AFFECTED ACROSS
THE COUNTRY DUE TO VIOLENT PROTESTS
As many as 340 train services were affected on Friday
due to youth’s agitation against the Agnipath recruitment
scheme. As per the latest reports by the Railways Minis-
try, 94 Mail Express and 140 Passenger Trains have been
cancelled, whereas 65 Mail Express and 30 Passenger Trains
have been partially cancelled to run in the country. Bihar re-
mained the most affected state due to protest as the agitation
continued for the second day on Friday.
AGNIPATH
SCHEME
RECRUITMENT PROCESS TO BEGIN
SOON, SAYS ARMY CHIEF GEN PANDE
‘TRANSFORMATIONAL’ SCHEME FOR
FORCES: DEFENCE SERVICE CHIEFS
A policeman firing in the air to disperse people protesting
against Centre’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme, in Danapur on Friday.
Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande said, “The recruit-
ment process is going to begin soon. Within
next 2 days, notification will be
issued on joinindianarmy.nic.in.
After that, our Army recruitment
organisations will declare a de-
tailed schedule of registration
and rally...” “the training of first
agniveers will begin this December (in 2022) at the
centres,” the Army Chief told ANI.
The three chiefs of Indian Defence services on Fri-
day hailed the decision of the Central government
to approve the Agnipath Scheme, a recruitment pro-
cess for Indian youth to serve in the Armed Forces.
Agnipath Scheme, approved by the Union cabinet on
June 14, was launched in an effort to bring a change
in the recruitment process of the Armed Forces. With
the new military recruitment scheme facing criti-
cism, the Centre has decided to bring a change in
the upper age limit for recruiting Agniveers.
—PHOTO BY PTI
MAN ARRESTED FOR THREAT TO BOMB
AYODHYA COURT
Ayodhya: Police have arrested a man for threatening
to bomb the district court here and it has been estab-
lished that it was he who wrote the threat letter in the
name of his relative to implicate him, over a monetary
dispute. The threat letter was received in the office of
the district judge on June 2. The letter was sent in the
name of Rashid Ali. After investigation it was found
that the letter had been sent by Mohammad Waleem,
the assistant of a lawyer in the Ayodhya district court.

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Agnipath row: Yogi requests
agitating youth to shun fears
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Even as pro-
tests against Agnipath,
defence recruitment
scheme, continued in
the state, the Yogi Adi-
tynanath government
and the BJP organisa-
tion have reached out to
agitating youth to not
be misled by propagan-
da of the Opposition
parties in the state.
The CM said it was a
golden scheme and
youth not to get mislead
by misleading propa-
ganda. Yogi countering
the opposition charges
said that “scheme
would lay golden foun-
dation for their future
and give a new dimen-
sion to their lives.
Yogi said the scheme
was yet another histor-
ic step to strengthen
India’s defence forces,
adding that it would
prepare the youths for
serving the national
and society
.
Yogi has also assured
the youth that UP gov-
ernment would give
them priority in re-
cruitment in police and
other services after
their 4-year stint in
army
.
The Union Agricul-
ture Minister Narendra
Singh Tomar said that
it was historic decision
providing opportunity
to the youth in the coun-
try. He said the scheme
would pave way for
bright future of youth
force.
Reminiscent of year-
long farmers agitation
against three contro-
versial farm laws, when
the agriculturists had
disrupted normal life in
West UP last year, the
demonstration by youth
is spread over in all the
state.
Chief Minister asks youths to not be
misled by any sort of propaganda
State govt will give them police, other
jobs on priority basis, says CM
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. —FILE PHOTO
DEPUTY CMS
JOIN CM YOGI
Deputy CM Keshav
Prasad Maurya and
Brajesh Pathak said
the scheme had
provided an excellent
opportunity. Pathak
appealed to the youth
to be vigilant of
misleading propa-
ganda against the
scheme. He said the
NDA government was
fully committed to the
welfare of youth force
in the country.
UP Board set to announce
10th and 12th results today
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh Madhyamik
Shiksha Parishad will
announce UP Board
10th, 12th Result 2022
on Saturday
. The UPM-
SP high school, inter
results will be availa-
ble for candidates to
check on upresults.nic.
in and also on official
website of UPMSP on
upmsp.edu.in.
The Class 10 Board
exams were conducted
from March 24 to April
13 and Class 12 Board
exams were conducted
from March 24 to April
13 in the state. A total
of 51,92,689 students
had registered but
only 47,75,749 students
out of them had final-
ly appeared in the ex-
ams. A total of 27.8
lakh students had ap-
peared for Class 10 and
24.1 lakh candidates
appeared for Class 12
board exams.
The Board complet-
ed the evaluation pro-
cess of more than 2.25
crore Class 10, 12 an-
swer sheets in the
month of May. UPMSP
has directed the chief
head examiners and
examiners to award
equal marks to all the
examinees for ques-
tions asked outside
the curriculum in
around a dozen sub-
jects of Class 12 and
seven core subjects of
Class 10, this year.
A total of 5192689 can-
didates were regis-
tered for the board
examination of high
school and intermedi-
ate this year. Of these
4775749 appeared in
the examination and
416940 remained ab-
sent.
Out of total 2781654
registered candidates
in high school, 2525007
were present and
256647 were absent.
Similarly, out of total
2411035 registered
candidates in Inter-
mediate, 2250742 were
present and 160293
were absent.
RESULT TIMINGS
GUNS N’ ROSES
All the tension building
up to Friday prayers at
Lucknow’s Teele Wali
Masjid was eased with
the offering of roses. The
heavy police deployment
received a refreshing
surprise as worshippers
came with roses for them.
Police, in turn, handed
over roses along with civil
defence members to the
Muslim devotees who
arrived for the prayers.
—PHOTOS BY SUMIT KUMAR
First India Bureau
Lucknow: New areas
are being brought un-
der e-governance and
Digital India Mission in
Uttar Pradesh, and the
National Informatics
Centre (NIC) is putting
in efforts to make it pos-
sible very soon.
In the coming days,
the Protocol Portal will
be launched to take care
of all protocol related
issues. These include
approval of the tours of
all dignitaries coming
to UP, their transport,
security arrangements,
boarding and lodging
arrangements etc. all
related documents and
bills etc will also be up-
loaded online for quick
disposal.
In addition, it is also
proposed to connect
citizens to the E-Cabi-
net portal.
Remarkably, the Jan-
sunwai Portal (IGRS)
has been hugely suc-
cessful in the state. So
far, 3 crore 54 lakh 37
thousand 467 com-
plaints have been regis-
tered on it, out of which
3 crore 48 lakh 87 thou-
sand 377 have been dis-
posed. It also has the
provision that citizens
can register their appli-
cation, monitor its pro-
gress, send reminder
and send suggestions.
Yogi govt forms TCP cell to provide
better placements to ITI students
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The state
government has taken a
big step toward making
the youth of the state
self-reliant and con-
necting the youth pow-
er with employment,
self-employment and
entrepreneurship. It
was decided to consti-
tute TCP Cell (Training,
Counseling and Place-
ment) with a view to
prepare the youth of
the state by giving them
skill training according
to the demand of the
market and to provide
them with a proper plat-
form for placement by
establishing contact
with companies.
The constitution of
TCP cells will be differ-
ent at the state and dis-
trict level. The main
objective of the Yogi
government behind
this is to provide a plat-
form, for skilled youth
who are interested in
employment or self-em-
ployment in any field,
through career counsel-
ling, campus place-
ment, apprenticeship
fair, and employment
fair. So that after get-
ting vocational training
in ITI, they can contrib-
ute to the sustainable
economic development
of the state and the
country by becoming
self-reliant.
State-level TCP cell
will be headed by Prin-
cipal Secretary, Voca-
tional Education and
Skill Development and
Vice-chairman/Special
Secretary, Vocational
Education and Skill De-
velopment.
At the same time, the
District Level Cell will
be headed by the Dis-
trict Magistrate and the
Chief Development Of-
ficer as the Vice-Chair-
man.
It will be the respon-
sibility of the TCP cell
to prepare for the place-
ment day in ITI every
month and upload the
details of the candi-
dates on the departmen-
tal website.
Along with this, in
coordination with the
companies, their infor-
mation and human re-
source demand should
also be put on the web-
site.
Youth engaged in a mobile factory.
RESPONSIBILITY OF TCP CELL
Protocol and e-cabinet
portals to launch soon
No Jama Masjid visit
for Yati Narsinghanand,
UNDER HOUSE ARREST
Ghaziabad (PTI): Con-
troversial priest Yati
Narsinghanand Saras-
wati of the Dasna Devi
temple here was put un-
der “house arrest” for a
day on Friday, days af-
ter he declared to visit
the Delhi’s Jama Mas-
jid.
The priest had said
he would go to the
mosque on June 17 and
give a presentation on
the Quran.
On his detention,
SDM (Sadar) Vinay Ku-
mar Singh told PTI,
“The step was taken to
maintain law and order
in the district.” He said
the priest will be kept
under strict watch till
midnight.
Meanwhile, a pur-
ported video clip of the
priest surfaced on so-
cial media.
“Muslims are wander-
ing on the road without
any fear. Violence is
spreading day by day in
the country and Mus-
lim leaders are releasng
‘fatwa’ for beheading
the Hindus,” he said in
the video.
“In the British peri-
od, our saints used to
visit the Jama Masjid
under the security of
the British to discuss
scriptures. Present day
rulers will not provide
security to Hindus and
are suppressing their
genuine demands,” he
alleged.
The priest had
said he would
go to the
mosque on
June 17 to give
a presentation
on the Quran.
—FILE PHOTO

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Lucknow(PTI): The
Rashtriya Kisan Manch
on Friday alleged the
Centre was trying to
cheatIndia’syouthwith
its Agnipath recruit-
ment scheme as it did
with farmers over the
farm laws.
The Left parties al-
leged the newly intro-
duced recruitment
scheme will not fulfil
the national interests
but will harm the secu-
rity and sovereignty of
the country
.
“We always stand
with farmers and
youths of the country
.
The Rashtriya Kisan
Manch will not allow
any injustice to happen.
The way the Centre had
tried to cheat the farm-
ers, it is trying to do the
same with the youth.
They have not even
spared the Army,” al-
leged Shekhar Dixit,
the president of the
farmers’ outfit, in a
tweet.
In another tweet, he
said, “Agnipath nahi
jumlaa hai, yuvaao ke
bhavishya per hamlaa
hai (Agnipath is a rhet-
oric and an attack on
the future of the
youth).”
CPI(M) state secre-
tary Hiralal Yadav, in a
statement, claimed the
Agnipath scheme will
not serve any national
interest.
“This scheme will af-
fect the quality of the
armed forces because
pension won’t be avail-
able. There was no reg-
ular recruitment in the
Army in the last two
years. Lakhs of posts
are lying vacant which
shouldbefilledimmedi-
ately
,” he said.
He added the Ag-
nipath scheme should
be immediately abol-
ished in view of the
spontaneous protests
across the country
.
CPI state secretary
Girish alleged that the
Agnipath recruitment
scheme will “harm the
security and sovereign-
ty of the country”.
“The CPI demands
that the ‘Agnipath’
scheme be abolished
immediately and the ex-
isting vacancies should
be filled through the ex-
isting process,” he said
in a statement.
Ballia(PTI): Raising
slogans of ‘Bharat Mata
ki Jai’ and ‘
Agnipath Va-
pas Lo’, youths vandal-
isedtrainsandtorcheda
railway coach in Ballia
and damaged buses at
other places as protests
erupted again in UP on
Friday over the Ag-
nipath defence recruit-
ment scheme.
Police wielded lathis,
lobbed teargas shells
and took 100 people in
custody in Ballia.
Officials said pro-
tests over the recently
announced scheme
took place at 17 places
across the state, includ-
ing Firozabad, Amethi,
Varanasi, Unnao and
Deoria.
A bus was set afire on
theYamunaExpressway
near Tappal in Aligarh
and at least two others
damaged. Four buses
were damaged in stone
pelting on Agra-Luc-
know Expressway in
Firozabad. Protesters
also targeted buses in
Varanasi and Ballia.
Several trains were
cancelled or held back
to prevent damage.
ADG (Law and Order)
Prashant Kumar said
arsonwasreportedfrom
Ballia and Aligarh.
“In Ballia, youths set
a bogie of a spare coach
on fire. Minor incidents
were reported from oth-
er places. “Police offi-
cials have explained o
them the scheme.
Through the public rep-
resentatives, the youths
arebeingtakenintocon-
fidence,”theADGPsaid.
A video showed
youths raising slogans
and vandalising the Bal-
lia-Varanasi Memu and
Ballia-Shahganj trains.
They also pelted stones
neartherailwaygodown
and targeted shops on
the platform. Ballia SP
RK Nayyar said, “Some
students, while return-
ing from the railway sta-
tion, tried to break the
window pane of an emp-
ty train and also set on
fire a bogey
. RPF and
police brought the fire
under control,” he said.
Unnao/Varanasi(PTI):
In Unnao, youths
staged a demonstration
in Safipur area near
Mahatma Gandhi Inter
College. Later, they
handed over a memo to
sub-divisional magis-
trate addressed to the
defence minister.
They also took out a
bike rally and shouted
slogans against Ag-
nipath.
SSP Shashi Shekhar
said, the protesters
were sent back after ex-
plaining them the new
recruitment scheme.
In Deoria, too, youths
staged a demonstration.
Firozabad SP (rural)
Akhilesh Narayan said
the protesters in Matse-
na police station area
setup barriers around
7 am and stopped buses
on the Agra-Lucknow
Expressway. Around
four buses were van-
dalised.
The unruly elements
are from nearby villag-
es and they are being
identified, the SP said.
In Varanasi, youths
raised anti-government
slogans at the Canton-
ment Railway Station
and damaged buses and
carts outside.
As the police force
chased them, they ran
towards the Mahatma
Gandhi Kashi Vidyap-
eeth and pelted stones,
officials said. The
youths also damaged
buses outside the DRM
office in the Lahartara
area of the city.
Varanasi Police
Commissioner A Satish
Ganesh said an appeal
has been made to those
trying to take law into
their own hands.
In Amethi, too,
youths staged a protest
and blocked the Ame-
thi-Durgapur and Ame-
thi-Pratapgarh road.
First India Bureau
Jhansi: Police have ar-
rested assistant manager
of a bank for raping and
blackmailing a girl.
The police said Ashish
Meena of Sawai Madho-
pur in Rajasthan was
posted as assistant bank
manager in Prathama UP
Grameen Bank. He was
posted in Deoria branch
in 2019 when he came in
contact of a girl there.
It was alleged that Ash-
ish Meena raped that girl
on pretext of marriage
and made video of the
crime. He raped the vic-
tim for long time after
threating her to make the
objectionable videos vi-
ral. Ashish was trans-
ferredtoJhansiandwhen
the victim was getting
married, he sent the ob-
jectionable photos and
videos to her fiancé.
Ashish was blackmail-
ing the girl and extorted
Rs 50,000 for the videos.
When her marriage was
broken the victim faced
severe depression and
was under medical treat-
ment. Police have regis-
tered the case against
Ashish and further inves-
tigations were underway
.
It was also alleged that
Ashish was threatening
the victim to cancel the
marriage and trying to
contact her family mem-
bers to defame her.
Centre trying to cheat India’s youth, says RKM
AGAINST AGNIPATH
Rashtriya Kisan Manch president Shekhar Dixit. —FILE PHOTO
CRUCIAL READ
UNION BANK RAISES
INTEREST RATES
ON DEPOSITS
New Delhi: Union Bank
of India today announced
increase in Interest Rates
on Term Deposits across
all maturity buckets. The
revised rates would be
applicable across various
tenures for Domestic
Term Deposits, Non-Res-
ident Ordinary and
Non-Resident External
Term Deposits. Interest
rates on Domestic/NRO
Term Deposits (Below Rs
2 crore) of 46-90 Days
tenure increased by 55
bps to 4.05 percent from
3.50 percent, tenure
more than one year to
two years is increased by
35 bps to 5.45 per cent
from 5.10 per cent.
DM ORDERS WEEKLY
REDRESSAL OF
WOMEN’S PROBS
Lucknow: SP Gangwar,
District Magistrate of
Lucknow announced
that every Friday will be
celebrated as Women’s
Problem Redressal Day
in order to achieve quick
and effective redressal
of women’s problems.
Following the decision,
on Friday hearing and re-
dressal of women’s prob-
lems were conducted in
all district level offices on
priority. In Lucknow, the
DM himself held a public
hearing and solutions
were provided for the
complaints. the DM
asked officers to ensure
that all complainants are
resolved at the earliest.
‘WORKING RAPIDLY TO PROVIDE GLOBAL
MARKET TO TRADITIONAL ARTISANS’
Lucknow: Additional Chief Secretary (MSME) Navneet
Sehgal on Friday said that the state government is taking
rapid steps towards providing a global market to the
traditional artisans of Uttar Pradesh and that efforts are
being taken to connect ‘ODOPmart.com’ on the Open Net-
work for Digital Commerce (ONDC) platform of the Union
Ministry of Commerce. He added that this will help all the
artisans registered on the portal to display their products
on all e-commerce sites and apps which will be linked to
ONDC. He further added that such a step will eliminate
role of middlemen in the selling and buying of traditional
products. The ACS commenting on the integration said
UP will be the first state in the country to join ONDC.
AGNIPATH PROTEST IN 17 PLACES IN STATE
Trains, buses under attack
Police wield lathis, lob teargas
shells and take 100 people into
custody in Ballia to control violence
Firozabad, Amethi, Varanasi,
Unnao, Aligarh and Deoria
among worst hit cities
Northern Railway cancels or
holds back several trains to
prevent further damage
1 2 3
A bus vandalised by protesters at Varanasi bus station. Police chase away protesting youths at Varanasi Cantt Station.
PROTESTERS BLOCK ROADS,
PELT STONES, RAISE SLOGANS
Police vehicle,
outpost set on
fire in Aligarh,
cop injured
Aligarh (PTI): In
Aligarh’s Jattari, a
group of protesters
set a police vehicle
and outpost on fire. A
police official was also
injured during the pro-
test. Jattari is on the
highway connecting
Aligarh with Yamuna
expressway. ADG (Law
& Order) Prashant
Kumar said Circle
Officer Khair Indu Sid-
dhartha was injured in
the protest in Aligarh.
“... He sustained
minor injuries but he is
continuing his duty like
a brave policeman,” he
said. Protesters also
disrupted traffic on
Agra-Gwalior highway.
They pelted stones the
vehicle of the Malpura
police station SHO in
Agra. Thereafter, they
hurled stones at a
train near the Bhandai
railway station. SP
(West) Satyajeet Gupta
said no one was hurt
in the accident.
Noida: Protests against the Centre’s Agnipath
scheme continued on Friday as scores of young-
sters descended on Yamuna Expressway and
blocked traffic movement briefly, officials said.
The movement through Jewar toll plaza between
Greater Noida and Mathura-Agra was blocked for
around an hour from 12 pm, the officials said.
“Police per-
sonnel in
large num-
bers were
rushed to
the protest
spot in
view of
the law
and order
situation,”
a police
official
said. A traffic police official said movement was
briefly disrupted at the Jewar toll plaza due to
the protests and several vehicles were diverted
from Pari Chowk. “Normal traffic movement was
restored on the Yamuna Expressway in Jewar
around 1.30 pm,” the traffic official told PTI.
A video showed
youths raising
slogans and
vandalising Ballia-
Varanasi Memu
Protest disrupts traffic
on Yamuna Expressway
Assistant bank
manager arrested
for rape,blackmail
ISSUING THREATS
Cops interact with protestors at Agra-Delhi
national highway in Mathura on Friday.
Ballia DM Saumya
Agarwal with police
takes stock of the
situation.
Smoke billows from the train coach that was set on fire in Ballia on Friday. (Inset) A family heads
for safety during a clash between security personnel and youths protesting against the Agnipath
scheme, on Agra-Delhi national highway in Mathura on Friday. —PHOTOS BY PTI
—PHOTO BY ANI —PHOTO BY PTI
—PHOTO BY PTI

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SPIRITUAL SPEAK
Detachment from
material things is the
way to inner peace.
—Bhagavad Gita
IN-DEPTH
Piyush Goyal
@PiyushGoyal
India rallies for the poor at WTO.
PM @NarendraModi ji’s unflinching
commitment to Garib Kalyan reflects
in our stand at @WTO.Forum echoes
India on multiple issues, emerging
as a trusted partner in global good.
#NewIndiaAtWTO
Ashwini Vaishnaw
@AshwiniVaishnaw
The decision to increase the entry
age from 21 to 23 years for Agniveer
reflects the people-centric governance
approach.Thankful to PM @
narendramodi Ji.
TOP TWEETS
INDIANS ONCE
AGAIN CHOOSE
TO PARK THEIR
WEALTH IN
SWITZERLAND
rores of rupees
which were deposit-
ed by Indians in their
Swiss bank accounts
were supposed to
have been brought back. That
was the promise made in 2014.
Maybe, some portion of unac-
counted wealth was netted by
tax authorities but that did not
dampen the penchant of Indians
to park their money in the Swiss
National Bank. After declining
in 2018 and 2019, the deposits
rose to a 14-year high of 3.83 bil-
lion Swiss franc in 2021.
Of all opposition leaders it is
Mayawati, president of the Ba-
hujan Samaj Party, who has
raised the issue through a tweet.
She said in her tweet that there’s
a buzz about Indian deposits in
the Swiss bank having touched
a record high but those facing
unprecedented crisis of poverty
,
inflation and unemployment
don’t know how to feel happy
about it, a tongue in cheek re-
mark on the social divide. De-
tails of funds having been
shared with India, tax officials
can always investigate.
C
gnipath, the radi-
cal recruitment
scheme for armed
forces, is already
meeting with vio-
lent resistance from the
youth for whom it is meant.
Arson and stone pelting by
those who were ready for en-
trance tests before they were
cancelled and by those wor-
ried about their future after
four years continued for the
second day across several
states. Not just the chiefs of
the three services but also
chief ministers of Uttar
Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh
and Haryana have promised
to absorb these youth after
they have served their term
in para-military forces, police
and state government’s jobs.
The government also agreed
to raise the upper age limit.
But the angry young men
are not convinced. Those in
Haryana point to the unem-
ployment rate of 34.5 per-
cent, as per CMIE data, which
is highest in the country to
assert that post army stint
their prospects won’t be as
rosy as is being made out. In
states like MP and UP where
governments have been suc-
cessful in bringing down un-
employment rates convinc-
ing these job aspirants will
be relatively easy
.
The Central government
has defended Agnipath argu-
ing that schemes such as
these exist in several coun-
tries. It also denied that the
scheme would weaken the ef-
fectiveness of the forces.
These were not the main
concerns of aspirants. Many
of them were angry that they
had already applied against
earlier recruitment adver-
tisements when the govern-
ment decided to introduce a
new policy which does not
offer pension and gratuity
benefits as money was need-
ed to buy military hardware.
The government should
stay firm and convince pro-
spective Agniveers of the
scheme’s benefit.
FUTURE AGNIVEERS
ON WARPATH
Many of them were angry
that they had already applied
against earlier recruitment
advts when the government
decided to introduce a new
policy which doesn’t offer
pension & gratuity benefits as
money was needed to buy
military hardware
A
hose who do not learn from
history are doomed to repeat
it’. Defence Forces are a
‘force of deterrence’ and a
price that nation state pays
for unhindered peaceful
growth and prosperity of it’s
citizens. The expenditure on
defence should never be con-
sidered as extravagance.
Those who do not agree, can
have a look at Ukraine war.
Citizens of Ukraine are sub-
jected to devastation, misery
and humiliation, though be-
ing a developed nation with
luxurious lifestyle. This hap-
pened because they did not
pay attention to defence pre-
paredness and thought some-
one else will do that for them.
Hon’able Raksha Mantri,
flanked by the three Service
Chiefs, addressed a press
conference on June 14, 2022,
introducing ‘Agneepath’ con-
cept for entry into Armed
Forces. Agneepath is about
a 04 years tenure with de-
fence forces, as soldier/ air
warrior/ sea warrior. More
than 46,000 Agniveers will be
inducted to armed forces this
year. Only 25% of these, if
found suitable will be ab-
sorbed, permanently. The
youth and defence aspirants
have expressed their anguish
by riots, protests and disrup-
tions. Sensing an opportuni-
ty to create chaos, they are
well supported by opposition
parties. I am sure 90% of the
protestors don’t even know
the details of Agnipath or
what they are protesting
against. Situation is akin to
the ‘Kisan Andolan’.
CHALLENGES

z Soldiering is a serious
profession and short term
Agniveers will destroy the
core competencies of the
Army and make the nation’s
combat readiness weaker.

z Defence forces have always
maintained exacting selec-
tion criteria. By Agnipath
entry, we are agreeing
to dilute our standards of
intake and training. In Army
career, first 03 years are very
crucial for having a strong
foundation. Absence of long
term competence and skill en-
hancement will not be good.

z My other fear is that as the
scheme becomes old, dull
and lackluster, demand for
more and more privileges
and concessions like op-
tions for permanent service/
extensions/ ex-servicemen
status/ECHS/ CSD facilities
will be raised.

z The Agniveers will also be
looking at these four years
for enhancement of his
qualifications, getting awards
for trophy display sake and
focusing on post defence ca-
reer options. Soldiering will
certainly take a back seat.

z A large number of physically
fit and weapon trained ex
Agniveers will be available
in the society. Not finding
a suitable vocation after
Defence tenure, they will be
tempted to join terrorists,
naxals, dacoits and other
anti-national elements.
BETTER SUGGESTIONS

z Optimizing Defence Budget.
Approx 40% of the defence
pension budget goes to civil-
ian defence employees which
are about 22% compared to
approx 78% military pension-
ers. It’s interesting to know
that there are 5.85 lakh civil-
ian-defence employees, who
are paid from defence budget.
Need for civilian support in
the ratio of 1:4 needs intro-
spection. Additionally, Rs
1000 crore annually goes on
attached MoF personnel.

z Induction into CAPF through
Defence. The most simple
method of optimizing defence
expenditure is to have induc-
tion into CAPF and PMF via
defence forces, after a tenure
of 04 years. After 04 years,
75% of Agniveers , who do
not make it to permanent
cadre in defence should be
absorbed directly into CAPF
and state police forces. Du-
plicity of training by Defence
and CAPF will be avoided,
reducing the training cost.
This will resolves all the likely
challenges of Agniveers.
DON’T EXPERIMENT
WITH DEFENCE
In war, there are no runners
up. Either you are a winner
or you are not there. For that
moment of reckoning, we se-
lect the best man and ma-
chine for war fighting. It’s
the man behind the machine
that matters the most. They
lead from the front setting
personal example of bravery,
courage, perseverance and
competence. Professional-
ism, Leadership, camarade-
rie, regimentation and battle
experience are developed
over a period of time. In Ag-
nipath, , these battle winning
factors will certainly be com-
promised. Such experiments
tinkering with established
norms of Defence Forces are
better avoided.
CONCLUSION
Expenditure on defence
should be taken as insurance
on growth and prosperity or
a premium to be paid for un-
hindered growth. In the
Army
, we are preparing hard-
core, battle-worthy and
time-tested soldiers, where
no compromise is made with
the safety and security of
the Nation. Four years, with
truncated training will be too
short a time to mould them
into passionate fearless sol-
diers, ready for combat
against trained terrorists
and battle-worthy enemy sol-
diers. Adventures to experi-
ment with the DNA of the
Armed Forces and it’s opera-
tional readiness, in the name
of ‘economy of resources’
should be best avoided.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
AGNIPATH
PLAYING WITH FIRE?
THOSE WHO FEEL ‘SECURITY OF THE NATION’ IS COSTLY, CAN BUY DEFEAT
“
T
Agneepath is about a 04
years tenure with defence
forces, as soldier/ air
warrior/ sea warrior. More
than 46,000 Agniveers will
be inducted to armed forces
this year. Only 25% of these,
if found suitable will be
absorbed, permanently. The
youth & defence aspirants
have expressed their
anguish by riots, protests
Defence forces have
always maintained
exacting selection
criteria. By Agnipath
entry, we are agreeing to
dilute our standards of
intake and training. In
Army career, first 03
years are very crucial
for having a strong
foundation. Absence of
long term competence
and skill enhancement
will not be good
MAJ GEN
CP SINGH (RETD)
The writer is a scholar soldier accredited
with MA, MSc, LLB, MBA, M Phil (Def Mgt)
and M Phil (International Strategic Affairs)

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05
New Delhi: The Skill
India and the ministry
of skill development
and entrepreneurship
(MSDE) will work col-
laboratively with vari-
ous wings of the
Armed Forces to train
the Agniveers in addi-
tional skills for vari-
ous job roles.
The MSDE on Fri-
day said it will work
closely with the
“Armed Forces in the
implementation of the
Agnipath scheme as
the country prepares a
future-ready army of
young Indians.”
Hyderabad: Bharat
Biotech International
Limited on Thursday
announced that Covax-
in, its whole-virion in-
activated COVID-19 vac-
cine has proven to be
safe, well-tolerated, and
highly immunogenic in
paediatric subjects in
phase II/III study, said a
press release.
The study has been
accepted and published
in Lancet Infectious
Diseases, a peer-re-
viewed high-impact fac-
tor journal, added the
statement. Bharat Bio-
tech conducted phase
II/III, open-label, and
multicentre studies to
evaluate the safety, re-
actogenicity
, and immu-
nogenicity of COVAX-
IN in healthy children
and adolescents in the
2-18 years of age group.
The clinical trial con-
ducted in the pediatric
population between
June 2021 to September
2021 has shown safety,
less reactogenic, and ro-
bust immunogenicity
.
The data was sub-
mitted to the Central
Drugs Standard Con-
trol Organisation (CD-
SCO) in October 2021
and received a nod for
emergency use in chil-
dren aged 6-18years. Dr
Krishna Ella, Chair-
man and Managing Di-
rector, Bharat Biotech,
said, “Safety of the
vaccine is critical for
children and we are
glad to share that COV-
AXIN has now proven
data for safety and im-
munogenicity in chil-
dren. We have now
achieved our goal of
developing a safe and
efficacious COVID-19
vaccine for adults and
children, for primary
immunization and
booster doses, and
making COVAXIN a
universal vaccine.
Covaxin safe for children 2-18 years, says Bharat Biotech
PROVEN SAFE
lll
Bharat Biotech
said the study
has been
accepted and
published in
Lancet Infectious
diseases, peer-
reviewed high
impact factor
journal
New Delhi: The BJP on
Fridayformeda14-mem-
ber management com-
mittee for next month's
Presidential poll.
Union Minister for
Water Resources Gajen-
dra Singh Shekhawat
has been made convener
and BJP national gen-
eral secretaries Vinod
Tawde and C T Ravi are
co-conveners of the
committee. Union min-
isters G Kishan Reddy,
Ashwini Vaishnaw, Sar-
bananda Sonowal, Ar-
jun Meghwal and
BharatiPawararemem-
bers of the committee.
Bharatiya Janata Party
national general secre-
tary Tarun Chugh,
vice-president D
K Aruna, nation-
al secretary Rit-
uraj Sinha,
women's wing
national
presi-
d e n t
Vanati Srinavasan,
spokesperson Sambit
Patra and MP and vice-
president of the party's
Assam unit Rajdeep Roy
are also part of the
14-member commit-
tee. Sources said
that the commit-
tee will manage a
nationwide cam-
paign for the
NDA candi-
date. In an
electoral
college of
around 10.86 lakh votes
for the Presidential
polls, the BJP and its al-
liance partners in the
NDA are a little short of
the halfway mark but
are likely to get their
nominee elected as the
next President of India.
The Presidential poll
will be held on July 18
and counting of votes
will take place on July
21. The last day for fil-
ing nomination papers
is June 29.
AHEAD PRESIDENT POLL
BJP’s 14-MEMBER PANEL TO
MANAGE CAMPAIGN FOR NDA
Minister for Water Resources Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has been made convener
New Delhi: The opposi-
tion parties will meet
on June 21 to discuss
the candidate for the
Presidential election.
The meeting will be
chaired by NCP chief
Sharad Pawar. Sources
say that 17 parties will
attend the meeting. The
parties have to arrive
at a consensus on the
candidate's name after
Sharad Pawar declined
to contest. The op-
position parties had on
Wednesday decided to
field a joint candidate
in the Presidential
polls next month. The
meeting of opposi-
tion leaders, called by
Trinamool Congress
supremo and West
Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee, was
held here for building
a consensus on a joint
opposition candidate. In
the meeting, a resolu-
tion was passed to field
a common candidate.
OPPOSITION
MEET TO PICK
PREZ CANDIDATE
ON JUNE 21
IN THE COURTYARD
8 YEARS OF MODI GOVT
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani felicitates women on the occasion
of an outreach programme on 8 Years Achievements of Govt, in Kevadia, Gujarat on Friday.
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: AICC gen-
eral secretary and close
aide of the Nehru-Gan-
dhi family- Ajay Maken
- lost the Rajya Sabha
election and with it any
hopes of sitting in the
hallowed Upper House
of theIndianParliament
is also lost. BJP support-
ed independent candi-
dateKarthikeyaSharma
defeated him by a very
narrowmargininaclose
contest. Voting was held
on Friday and after
hours of drama, the re-
sults were declared at
around 2.30 am. After
settling various dis-
putes, the counting of
votes started at 1.30 pm.
Congressleadersstarted
celebrating as soon as
the Election Commis-
sion ordered the count-
ing of votes to begin.
Because the election of-
ficer had rejected the de-
mand of BJP to reject
two votes of Congress,
so, Congress leaders
wereconfidentthatMak-
en got 30 out of 31 votes.
But when the results
were announced, it was
found that he got only 29
votes and the vote of a
Congress MLA became
invalid. Kuldeep Bish-
noi, a Congress MLA,
hadalreadyvotedforthe
BJP on the basis of con-
science. He followed the
rules of Rajya Sabha
voting and showed it to
Congress's election in-
charge Vivek Bansal by
voting for BJP. So his
vote could not be can-
celled. Despite this, the
Congress was confident
that it had garnered 30
votes. The surprising
thing is that the Con-
gress does not know
abouttheonevotewhich
has been canceled.
So, now there is a dis-
puteastowhosefaultled
to Maken's Maken elec-
toral loss. Leaders close
toBhupinderSinghHoo-
da say that all the fault
lies with the Congress
highcommand,whileon
the other hand, leaders
close to the high com-
mandareclaiminginthe
media that Hooda could
not handle or could not
arrange one or two extra
votes. Those close to
Hooda are claiming of
two mistakes of the high
command. The first is
thefaultof VivekBansal,
the in-charge, who did
not even know which
MLA's vote was invalid.
All the MLAs cast their
vote by showing him
theirchoice,buthecould
not understand which
MLA did what mistake,
due to which the vote
maybecomeinvalid.The
secondmistakeisthatof
Rahul Gandhi, who did
not give time to meet
Kuldeep Bishnoi.
On the other hand,
leaders close to the high
command and the anti-
Hooda lobby says that
the Congress lost be-
cause of overconfi-
dence of Hooda father-
son as both did not ar-
range for a single addi-
tional vote. Even know-
ing that Bishnoi would
cross vote, the duo did
not try to persuade him.
If Bishnoi was not be-
ing persuaded, an addi-
tional vote should have
been arranged. In that
scenario, independent
Balraj Kundu could
have been persuaded.
Independent legislator
Rakesh Daulatabad
and INLD's Abhay
Chautala voted for the
BJP supported candi-
date. However, it is a
matter of satisfaction
for Hooda that he man-
aged to keep 29 Con-
gress MLAs united but
the bad thing is that he
could not pass in the
very first examination.
Who is at fault over
Maken’s RS poll loss?
Skill development ministry to provide
on-the-job training to Agniveers
Punjab: Jailed
Dera Sacha Sauda
chief Gurmeet Ram
Rahim Singh
walked out of a pris-
on in Haryana's
Rohtak Friday
morning on a
month-long parole.
Haryana'sJailsMin-
ister Ranjit Chauta-
la said the 30-day
parole was granted
by the Rohtak Divi-
sional Commission-
erontherecommen-
dationfromofficials
concerned. Accord-
ing to the minister,
Singh had said in
his plea he wanted
to go to the Dera Sa-
cha Sauda Ashram,
Barnawa in Uttar
Pradesh's Bhagpat.
A go-ahead from
the administration
in Baghpat was tak-
en before clearance
was given for the
parole, the minister
said. "He has been
granted a month-
long parole and he
came out of the
prison on Friday
," a
senior police offi-
cial from Rohtak
told .The sect chief
is serving a 20-year
term for raping two
women disciples at
his ashram in Sirsa,
where the Dera is
headquartered. He
was convicted by a
special CBI.
Ram Rahim
Singh gets
one month
parole;
leaves jail
A total of 374
adverse events
were reported
and majority of
them were mild
in nature and
resolved within
a day, said the
company
New Delhi: Justice M
R Shah, a sitting judge
of the Supreme Court
who was airlifted to New
Delhi on Thursday after
he complained of chest
discomfort, has under-
gone angioplasty at a
private hospital in the
national capital, said a
statement from Fortis Es-
corts. Justice Shah was
airlifted after he experi-
enced chest discomfort
while travelling to Kangra,
Himachal Pradesh on
Thursday and was admit-
ted to the Fortis Escorts
Heart Institute, Okhla,
New Delhi, added the
statement. He has been
placed under the care of
Dr Atul Mathur, Executive
Director – Cardiology.
SC JUDGE JUSTICE
MR SHAH
UNDERGOES
ANGIOPLASTY New Delhi: The SC on Friday said that the
Jharkhand govt’s plea challenging the High court
order on the maintainability of the PIL in connec-
tion with shell companies allegedly related to CM
Hemant Soren and his associates will be listed be-
fore an appropriate bench after reopening of the top
court.The vacation bench of justices AS Bopanna
and Vikram Nath said that on request of Senior Ad-
vocate Mukul Rohatgi, list the matter upon reopen-
ing before an appropriate bench. Senior Advocate
Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the petitioner, said
that petition in Jharkhand HC is politically moti-
vated, and is only to destabilise the govt.On June
3, Jharkhand HC held two PILs against the CM and
rejected the arguments made by senior advocates
Kapil Sibal and Mukul Rohatgi.
SC LISTS HEARING ON J’KHAND
GOVT PETITION CHALLENGING HC
RAJIV GANDHI
CASE: HC REFUSES
ORDER RELEASE
OF CONVICTS
The Madras HC on
Friday refused to
direct the TN govt
to release Nalini and
Ravichandran, who
were convicted in the
Rajiv Gandhi assas-
sination case, without
the Guv assent. The
order was passed by
the first bench of the
HC comprising CJ Mu-
nishwar Nath Bhandari
and Justice N. Mala
dismissing the pleas.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to halt the
Jharkhand High Court’s proceedings against Chief
Minister Hemant Soren on PILs seeking a CBI/ED
probe against him in
connection with the
grant of mining lease
and transfer of funds
into shell companies.
Hearing a plea against
the High Court order
which had upheld the maintainability of the Public
Interest Litigation (PIL) against Soren, a bench
comprising Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice
Hima Kohli asked the petitioner to approach the
High Court with the matter. “We cannot look at it in
a piecemeal way. High Court has already decided
what we had asked them to,” the bench said.
SC REFUSES STAY ON HIGH COURT
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST CM SOREN
New Delhi: SC on Friday
sought the response of the
Centre on the plea by con-
man Sukesh Chandrashek-
har claiming a threat to
his life inside the Tihar Jail
and seeking a shift to any
other prison outside of
Delhi. “I asked for a shift
to a prison anywhere out
of Delhi, saying my client
is willing to go anywhere
in the country due to the
threat’’ his counsel Ashok
K. Singh told .
SC ASKS CENTRE ON
SUKESH PLEA FOR
JAIL CHANGE

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First India Bureau
Lucknow: The Luc-
know police on Friday
tried their hands on the
act of ‘Gandhigiri’ by
handing out roses to
Muslim ‘Namazis’ out-
side mosques to ensure
that Friday prayers
pass off peacefully
. The
policemen were sta-
tioned outside the
mosques to prevent any
incidents of violence
which had become ram-
pant in the region after
the controversial re-
marks of BJP leader
Nupur Sharma.
On seeing citizens
coming in for the Fri-
day prayers, policemen
handed out roses to
them as a gesture of
goodwill and peace.
During the previous
Friday prayers which
took place on June 10,
there were violent dem-
onstrations in Praya-
graj, Saharanpur, and
some other districts af-
ter the prayers. Close to
13 policemen were in-
jured and UP Police
have arrested around
357 miscreants involved
in stone-pelting and vio-
lence.
The policemen led by
Additional Deputy
Commissioner of Po-
lice (ADCP) Chiranjeev
Nath Sinha, offered a
rose to every ‘namazi’
who came to the Tile
Wali Masjid to offer
prayers. “This was a
gesture on our part to
dispel the negativity
that had been prevail-
ing due to past inci-
dents. We wanted to en-
sure the community
that we were always
there for them and also
send out a message of
love and peace,” Sinha
said.
Lucknow cops offer roses to all namazis
ASSAM FLOODS: 4 DEAD, MANAS RIVER
FLOWING ABOVE DANGER MARK
AS 4 PEOPLE DIED IN THE LAST 24 HOURS IN ASSAM DUE TO THE
FLOOD WHICH HAS AFFECTED OVER 110K PEOPLE IN 25 DISTRICTS
Guwahati: As many as
four people died in the
last 24 hours in Assam
due to the flood which
has affected 11.09 lakh
people in 25 districts of
the state.
The water level of the
Manas, Pagladiya,
Puthimari, Kopili,
Gaurang and Brahma-
putra rivers are also
flowing above the dan-
ger level mark in many
places in Assam.The
flood waters have sub-
merged 19782.80 hec-
tares of cropland in the
flood-hit districts. Ac-
cording to state govern-
ment data, 1,510 villages
under 72 revenue circles
are currently underwa-
ter. All educational in-
stitutions in Kamrup
Metropolitan District
are closed on Friday
, in-
view of the heavy rain-
fall warning. In view of
water logging at km
347/6-8 between Nalbari
and Ghograpar of Rang-
iya division of Assam,
services of several
trains have been can-
celled, partially can-
celled and diverted by
North East Frontier
Railway, informed
CPRO, Northeast Fron-
tier Railway
. Earlier on
Thursday, the flood wa-
ters washed away a part
of the Kalaigaon-Udal-
guri connecting road in
the Major area and sub-
merged at least 10 vil-
lages in the Kalaigaon .
Shillong: Incessant
rainfall in Meghalaya
caused a landslide in
Darrang village on Dar-
rang Shnongpdeng
Road under Dawki Po-
lice Station limits in
the West Jaintia Hills
district. The restora-
tion work is underway
at present. Several
roads were also dam-
aged by landslides in
the East Khasi Hills dis-
trict. Four minors were
killed and two injured
in a landslide that oc-
curred at Laitlarem vil-
lage under Mawphlang
CRD block in Megha-
laya’s East Khasi Hills
district yesterday.
Among the deceased
children, two were girls
and all are below 10
years old. The injured
persons are being given
treatment at
Mawphlang CHC. Ac-
cording to the district
administration, one
residential house was
destroyed by the over-
flowing mud.
New Delhi: The En-
forcement Directo-
rate (ED) was con-
ducting raids at mul-
tiple locations in
Delhi-NCR in con-
nection with a Pre-
vention of Money
Laundering case in-
volving the national
capital’s Health Min-
ister Satyendar Jain.
The ED arrested
Jain on May 30 un-
der section 19 of the
PMLA. Officials
from the Dept of
Education were
raiding the offices
of a well-known pub-
lic school system, ac-
cording to reports.
The school is man-
aged by a charitable
trust. Its promoters
and directors are be-
ing questioned be-
cause of their ties to
the Jain case.
Officials from the
Department of Edu-
cation have yet to re-
spond to this. On the
basis of an FIR filed
by the CBI in 2017 un-
der section 13(2) read
with 13(1)(e) of the
PC Act, 1988, the ED
launched a money-
laundering investi-
gation into Jain, his
wife Poonam Jain,
and Ajit Prasad Jain,
Sunil Kumar Jain,
Vaibhav Jain, and
Ankush Jain.
Heavy rainfall triggers
landslideinMeghalaya
ED raids at
places linked to
Satyendar Jain

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People gather near a truck after it crashed as some part of the
NH06 caved in due to a landslide in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills
Police offered roses to all the namazis ahead of Friday prayers.
While the south-
ern and eastern
halves of India have
already started enjoying
monsoon showers, the
northwestern parts of
the country are set to
experience some wet
conditions of their own
this week albeit in the
form of pre-monsoon
rainfall. As per the
IMD, a fresh western
disturbance and lower-
level easterly winds
will collectively bring
some wet weather over
the Western Himalayan
Region and the adjoin-
ing plains of Northwest
India. While the rain
spell over the plains was
initially expected to last
only until Saturday, the
updated forecast has
indicated that it may
stretch well up to the
start of next week. The
aforementioned systems
are expected to cause
scattered to rainfall,
across Punjab, Haryana,
Chandigarh, Delhi.
MONSOON ONSET
TO BEGIN NEXT
WEEK IN DEL, RAJ
NEWS DIGEST
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi: There is no
need to draw any con-
clusions on the basis of
the victory of the third
BJP candidate in the
Rajya Sabha elections
of Maharashtra as
there is no threat to the
Uddhav Thackeray gov-
ernment of the state.
The government still
has the support of leg-
islators much more
than the figure re-
quired for a majority.
The main opposition
party BJP may have
been successful in get-
ting the cross voting
done in the Rajya Sab-
ha elections but even
the MLAs who have
done cross voting will
not support the BJP in
the task of toppling the
government. They
know that switching
sides will not lead to
the fall of the govern-
ment and if instability
occurs, leading to mid-
term elections, it will
be a problem for them.
Keep in mind that in
the Rajya Sabha elec-
tions, all the three can-
didates of BJP got 123
votes of first prefer-
ence while the party
has a total of 113 votes,
including that of allies
which means that it
added 10 MLAs to its
side. Out of this, except
one MNS MLA, the rest
of the MLAs were with
BJP only till the Rajya
Sabha elections. On the
other hand, despite los-
ing, four candidates of
the Mahavikas Aghadi
government got 160
first preference votes,
while the majority
mark is 145. This
means that the govern-
ment has 15 MLAs
more than the majority
.
Even if the smaller
parties are omitted, the
Mahavikas Aghadi has
a strength of 153 MLAs
from all the three ma-
jor parties – Shiv Sena,
NCP and Congress.
This figure is also more
than required for a ma-
jority
.
MVA’s poor performance in RS election no measure of any threat to its existence!
SEVEN SRI LANKAN TAMIL REFUGEES
REACH TAMIL NADU ON ILLEGAL FERRY
CENTRE URGES STATES TO SPEED UP
COMPLETION OF PROJECTS ECRP-II
Chennai: Seven Sri Lankan Tamil refugees reached Tamil
Nadu’s Dhanushkodi on Friday on board an illegal ferry,
police said. Locals in
Mandapam noticed
them and contacted
the Coastal Security
Police, who arrived on
the scene and arrested
them. According to
police sources, the migrants would be housed at the Man-
dapam refugee camp. The seven persons are from two
families, according to the Coastal Security Police. Doss-
navis (40), his wife Rajini (38), and their three children are
from Vavuniya, while Mathiya (40) is from Trincomalee
and has a seven-year-old son. With the latest arrivals, the
total number of Sri Lankan refugees who have reached
Indian shores since the economic crisis emerged.
New DElhi: Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Fri-
day chaired a virtual meeting with all states and Union Ter-
ritories to review the physical
and financial progress under
the National Health Mission,
Emergency COVID Response
Package (ECRP)-II, Pradhan
Mantri Ayushman Bharat
Health Infrastructure Mis-
sion, 15th Finance Commis-
sion grants and the Pradhan
Mantri National Dialysis Programme. The Centre asked the
states and UTs to complete all activities under the ECRP-II
scheme by Dec 31 this year. The states were also advised
that instead of seeking the approval of the Union Health
Ministry, State Health Societies have been authorised to
accord the remaining approvals of activities under ECRP-II.
MAN HELD IN SOUTH DELHI’S TIGRI
COLONY FOR TRYING TO BREAK ATM
New Delhi: A 22-year-old man was arrested in Delhi
for trying to break an ATM in a bid to steal money from
it, an official said on Friday. Sanjay, an Agra resident,
was not carrying any equipment that could be used
to breach the ATM machine. DCP Benita Mary Jaiker
said a PCR call was received at 2.38 a.m. on Thursday
about the entry of a thief into an ICICI Bank ATM at
C Block, Tigri Colony in South Delhi. The cops went
to the scene after receiving information and caught
the accused red-handed. During questioning, it was
discovered that the accused worked as a confectioner
and came to Delhi for work. “He tried to break the ATM
machine because he ran out of money,” the DCP said,
adding that the culprit was discovered drunk.
Bengaluru: Personnel
of the Anti-Corruption
Bureau(ACB) of Karna-
taka raided the offices
and premises of 21 offi-
cials, who are suspected
to have amassed assets
disproportionate to
their known sources of
income, at 80 locations,
ACB authorities said on
Friday
.
The exercise started
from early in the morn-
ing on Friday in which
300 officers and staff
took part, the ACB said.
The officials found valu-
ables and cash, besides
investment documents,
sources in the ACB said.
They, however, did not
share details as the
raids were still under-
way
. Those who were
raided include engi-
neers in the Irrigation
department, public
works department and
Rural Development and
Panchayat Raj. A police
inspector, District Reg-
istrar in the office of the
Inspector General of
Registration, Road
Transport Officer, a Pro-
ject Director of the Nir-
miti Kendra, Panchayat
grade-2 secretary in
Gadagdistrictandassis-
tant comptroller in the
veterinary dept were
also among those whose
premises were raided.
New York: An unprec-
edented 36.5 million
children were displaced
by conflict, violence
and other crises by the
end of 2021, the highest
number since World
War II, the United Na-
tions Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) reported Fri-
day.The figure, which
increased by 2.2 million
in 2021, includes 13.7
million child refugees
and asylum-seekers and
nearly 22.8 million in-
ternally displaced due
to conflict and violence,
according to the state-
ment issued by the
agency
.
Children displaced by
climate and environ-
mental shocks and dis-
asters, and those dis-
placed in 2022, including
by the Russia-Ukraine
conflict, are not includ-
edinthereport.UNICEF
Executive Director
Catherine Russell said
she hopes the alarming
number will move govts
to prevent children from
being displaced and en-
sure safety
.
Mumbai: The Bombay
High Court on Friday
declined permission for
the temporary release
of Minister Nawab Ma-
lik and former state
Minister Anil Desh-
mukh to vote for the up-
coming June 20 elec-
tions to the Maharash-
tra Legislative Council.
This is the second time
this month that the duo
-- both MLAs -- will not
be allowed to cast their
vote, first in the June 10
RSelectionsandnowfor
the MLC polls. Justice
N.J. Jamdar passed the
ordersinaninterimbail
plea filed by Deshmukh
and a plea by Malik only
seeking relief to enable
him cast his vote under
a police escort.
B h u b a n e sw a r :
Odisha recorded 25
new coronavirus
cases on Friday, 16
less than the previ-
ous day, taking the
tally to 12,88,762, a
health bulletin said.
The toll remained
unchanged at 9,126
as there was no
more death due to
the pathogen in the
last 24 hours. 53 oth-
er coronavirus pa-
tients have died due
to comorbidities so
far, it said. There
are 185 active cases,
while 17 more peo-
ple have recuperat-
ed from the disease,
taking the total
number of recover-
ies to 12,79,398.
lll
Cops were
stationed outside
the mosques to
prevent violence
which had
become rampant
in the region after
the controversial
remarks of BJP
leader Nupur
Sharma
ACB raids premises of
21 officials in K’taka
36 m kids displaced
globally: UNICEF
For 2nd time, no
relief for NCP
MLAs Deshmukh,
Malik to vote
Odisha logs
25 new
COVID cases
Uddhav
Thackeray
Devendra
Fadnavis

NEWS
07
LYNCHING CASE:
COURT TO
RECORD
STATEMENT OF
VICTIM
AKHLAQ’S
DAUGHTER
Afast-track court here deferred
till Monday the recording of
the statement of lynching victim
Mohammad Akhlaq’s daughter as
she could not depose before it
due to lack of security. Akhlaq
was lynched by a mob in 2015
allegedly over suspicion that he
had stored beef in his house. His
daughter could not depose before
Justice Anil Kumar Singh at the
District and Sessions Court on
Friday in Surajpur due to lack of
police security for her, said Yusuf
Saifi, who is representing
Akhlaq’s family in the case. He
said police officials were engaged
in law and order duty on Friday.
“Shaista had recorded her
statement on June 14. She had to
continue the recording of her
statement today. However, due to
unavailability of proper security
she could not visit the court after
which the court fixed Monday as
the next date,” Saifi told PTI. The
52-year-old Akhlaq, a resident of
Bisada village in Dadri area of
Gautam Buddh Nagar, was
lynched on September 28, 2015
by a mob allegedly over
suspicion that he had stored beef
in his house. Once the
statements of all witnesses are
recorded, the hearing in the
seven-year-old case will move to
the evidence stage. —PTI
MAN POSING AS
SDM ARRESTED
IN HAMIRPUR
Police have arrested a fraudster
for extortion from truck drivers
after posing as SDM. After pasting
stickers of UP Government and
SDM on his vehicle, he used to
burgle money from the truck
drivers. Police sources here said
that acting on tip-off, police
arrested a miscreant posed as a
fake SDM for burglary. The
arrested accused is identified as
Ankit Singh, a resident of Kanpur
district. He was involved in illegal
extortion from truck drivers on
highways. Police have registered a
case against Ankit Singh under
fraud, extortion charges, and
Gangster act and actions will be
taken against him after complete
investigation. One accomplice
escaped during the arrest and a
manhunt has been launched to
nab him. —Janaradan Misra
WOMAN STABBED
TO DEATH BY
DAUGHTER’S
TUITION
TEACHER
A45-year-old woman was
stabbed to death and her
teenage daughter injured by the
girl’s tuition teacher here on
Friday, police said. The accused,
Dawosod, barged into the girl’s
house at the Puttu Lal crossing
under Ramchandra Mission
police station here when she and
her mother were offering
prayers. He attacked them with a
sharp-edged weapon, they said.
Dawood, who used to teach the
girl Urdu and Arabic, is on the
run, the police said. Circle Officer
(City) Akhand Pratap Singh told
PTI that police immediately
reached the spot and rushed the
girl and her mother to the
medical college hospital where
the latter was declared dead. The
girl’s condition is stated to be
very critical. Efforts are being
made to arrest the accused, the
police said. The girl’s father told
reporters that Dawood often
asked his daughter to call him on
his phone but she did not oblige.
—PTI
7GKPtouristsmissing
inNepalriverrescued
Kathmandu (PTI): As
many as seven Indian
tourists, who went miss-
ing while rafting in a
river in Nepal’s Lumbi-
ni province, have been
rescued, the media re-
ported on Friday
. The
Indian tourists from
Gorakhpur district in
UP went missing when
their boat capsized
while rafting in Kali-
gandaki river in Palpa
district on Thursday
evening, The Rising Ne-
pal newspaper reported.
The tourists went
missing near the Rani
Mahal area of Palpa and
were rescued with the
help of local people
within 45 minutes of the
incident, according to
the Chief District Offic-
er of Palpa Jagganath
Panta. The CDO added
that people have been
advised not to go boat-
ing in the Kaligandaki
river as the monsoon
season has began and
the rivers in the country
were flowing with a
strong current. The Kali
Gandaki river, having
its source in Tibet at an
elevation of 6,268 me-
tres at the Nhubine
Himal Glacier, is one of
the major rivers in Ne-
pal and a left bank tribu-
tary of Ganga river in
India. The river in Ne-
pal Himalayas, notable
for its deep canyon,
mostly flows with a
strong current during
the Monsoon season.
RAFT CAPSIZED
Kaligandaki river in Palpa district, Nepal.
SAVED IN 45 MIN
SECURITY TIGHTENED
Police personnel patrol near Shahi Jama Masjid in Agra on Friday. —PHOTOS BY ANI
Police officials monitor the area using drone cameras at Shahi Jama Masjid in Agra on Friday.
A policeman stands guard ahead of Friday prayers at Atala in Prayagraj on Friday.
Woman killed
brutally in
Shahjahanpur
Shahjahanpur: A
woman was brutally
murdered and her mi-
nor daughter was se-
verely injured in an at-
tack by Dawood (a Hafiz
whoteachesQuran).Po-
lice sources said that
Faheem, his wife Sai-
ma, their daughter, and
two sons were a family
of 5 who were living in
the house in the Ram
Chandra Mission area
near Fatehpur Chungi.
It was reported that ac-
cused Dawood along
with an accomplice en-
tered the house when
Saima was offering
prayers. He attacked
her with a sharp-edged
weapon and killed
her. When the 17-year-
old daughter of Saima
tried to save her, Da-
wood attacked her also
with a knife leaving her
injured. When the
younger son of Saima
screamed for help,
the accused escaped
from the house.
Faheem had hired
Dawood for religious
teachings to his daugh-
ter. It was alleged that
Dawood had a one-sid-
ed love affair with his
daughter and when
Faheem came to know
about the ill intentions
of Dawood, Faheem de-
nied his further servic-
es. The injured daugh-
ter was rushed to the
district hospital where
her condition is said to
be critical. Police have
registered a case
against the accused on
the complaint of
Faheem and investiga-
tions are on.
Cyber thug
robs retired SI
of over `20
lakh in GKP
Gorakhpur: Cyber
thug looted more than
Rs 20 lakhs from the ac-
count of a retired sub-
inspector leaving the
victim traumatised. A
case has been regis-
tered in the Cyber po-
lice station and investi-
gations are on. Police
sources said that sub-
inspector Phoolbadan
Dwivedi was posted in
the Dhanghata police
station in Sant Kabir
Nagardistrict. He said
that he received a call
on his number on June
13 and the caller intro-
duced himself as a
treasury official and
confirmed his birth
date and other informa-
tion to win his trust.
The caller told him that
to start his pension, he
will receive an OTP on
his mobile which he has
to share with him. After
sharing the OTP, the
burglar robbed Rs 20.30
lakh from the SI’s ac-
count. The police are
trying to figure out the
location of the cyber
criminals with all the
data available.
ROAD RASH IN MULTIPLE DISTRICTS
THREE OF FAMILY KILLED IN
ROAD MISHAP IN AYODHYA
TWO BIKE-BORNE MEN DIE
AFTER BEING HIT BY TRAIN
Ayodhya: Three
members of a family
died while three oth-
ers received severe in-
juries when an SUV
rammed into a bus
from behind in the Ru-
dauli Kotwali area on
the Ayodhya-Lucknow
highway. The police
sources here said that
Riyaz Qadari, a Guja-
rat based business-
man was heading to-
wards Ismailganj,
Gonda with his family
when his car dashed
into the bus from be-
hind under the Rudau-
li police station area.
Three car-borne per-
sons died on the spot.
The injured were
rushed to the hospital
where two of them
were stated to be in
critical condition.
The deceased were
identified as Shifa Qa-
dari (8), Samaira Qa-
dari (2), and Asma Qa-
dari (38) while Sana
(6), Riyaz Qadari (40),
and Samiya Qadari
were severely injured.
Bijnor (PTI): Two
bike-borne men were
killed after being hit
by a train while trying
to pass through a
closed railway cross-
ing here, police said on
Friday. Pramod (50)
and Arjun (35) tried to
pass the closed railway
crossing on Noorpur
road by going under
the barriers, Station
House Officer Ashish
Tomar said. Moments
after they crossed the
barrier they were hit
by a train and died on
the spot, he said. Their
bodies have been sent
for post mortem, the
police said.
Two killed after
getting hit by truck
Gonda (PTI): 2 people
were killed while a mi-
nor was injured after a
pickup truck hit a cy-
cle and a motorcycle
on Friday, police said.
A truck hit two vehi-
cles before falling into
a shallow ditch on the
side of the road, Sta-
tion House Officer
(SHO) Chandra Para-
tap Singh said. Babban
Maurya(48),andChete
(25) were killed, where-
as Maurya’s daughter
suffered injuries, the
SHO said. The truck
driver fled from the
spot, the SHO said.
Father-son, a third killed by speeding car
1 dead, 3 injured in head-on collision of trucks
Pilibhit (PTI): Three people were killed and as many
injured when a speeding car allegedly rammed into a
tractor-trolley on Lucknow Highway here on Friday,
police said. The accident took place in area under Seh-
ramau Police Station, station in-charge Kamlesh Mishra
said. The deceased, Mangulal (50), his son Arvind (24),
and a contractor Dinesh Kumar (28), were unloading
goods from the tractor when the incident took place,
police said. The injured — a couple and a labourer —
were rushed to a hospital, police said.
Amethi (PTI): A man was killed and 3 others were
injured in a head-on collision of trucks in Jais area of
the district on Friday, police said. The deceased was
identified as Asaram (32), they said. Station House
Officer Rakesh Kumar Singh said one of the trucks
lost balance when its tyre burst and it collided with
the other truck coming from the opposite direction.
The injured have been admitted to the community
health centre in Jais for treatment, he added.
Stepmother of Kanpur violence key
accused served notice for illegal hostel
Kanpur (PTI): The
Kanpur Development
Authority (KDA) has
served a notice to Sha-
hida Zafar Hashmi, the
stepmother of June 3
violence key accused
Zafar Hayat Hashmi,
seeking from her expla-
nations about a hostel
allegedly owned by her
and built without per-
mission.
The notice, issued on
Tuesday, was pasted
the next day at Purvan-
chal Boys hostel, a
three-storey structure
with 40 rooms, located
in Hitkari Nagar,
Kakadev, said a senior
official.
sKDA’s chief Engi-
neer, Rohit Khanna,
has issued the notice
under section 27(1) of
the Town Planning and
Development Act ask-
ing Shahida to appear
before him on June 30
personally and submit
a written explanation
about raising of the
structure at her
200-square yard plot
without getting the
map sanctioned. If she
fails to reply, the con-
struction would be de-
clared unauthorised,
the notice read.
Shahida has been
asked to submit her re-
ply, with documents, by
12 noon June 30, said
the Chief Engineer’s
notice. In the notice,
Khanna is said to have
asked Shahida to sub-
mit in writing, as to
why an order for demo-
lition of the illegally
constructed hostel
should not be passed.
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE
Police investigating the case
at the accident site.

08
2NDFRONT
The secret of success is that
our efforts and sincerity are
the same for a minor task as
they are for a major one.
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra,
CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
Ahtesham Siddiqui
Lucknow: UnderSecre-
taryof DoPT,UdayBhan
Singh, has issued notifi-
cationtosendIASKruti-
ka Sharma from West
Bengal cadre to Uttar
Pradesh cadre as per the
High Court’s order of
March 7, 2022. Her join-
ing will be considered in
UP from May 18, 2022.
The state bureaucra-
cy has now received an-
other 2014 batch IAS of-
ficer, pushing the num-
ber to 51, including 20
IAS of direct recruit-
ment and 31 IAS of state
cadre. If the state gov-
ernment makes every-
one of 2014 batch a DM,
then it would have to
change DMs of 51 dis-
tricts, although the Yogi
government has already
made DMs 5 IAS officers
of 2014 batch: Neha
Jain, Manish Bansal,
Medha Rupam, Ash-
wani Kumar Rai and
Ravi Ranjan.
Kritika Sharma had
bagged 86th All India
Ranking in 2013 and was
givenWestBengalcadre.
Aftershemarriedfellow
2014 batch IAS officer
Abhishek Anand of Ut-
tar Pradesh cadre, the
duo applied to DOPT to
be posted together in Ut-
tar Pradesh cadre. The
DOPT had sought NOC
from Chief Secretaries
of Uttar Pradesh and
West Bengal Govern-
ments for the cadre
change. The UP govern-
ment issued its NOC on
Jul 8, 2015, but the West
Bengal government did
not.
The West Bengal gov-
ernment argued that it
was short of IAS offi-
cers, post which Kritika
Sharma filed a case in
the Central Administra-
tive Tribunal, New Del-
hi. But still the West
Bengal government did
not issue her NOC and
instead advised that if
her husband Abhishek
Anand wanted to come
from UP to West Bengal
cadre, then it would be
considered.
Finally, after a long
legal battle, the High
Court refused to accept
any of the arguments of
West Bengal govern-
mentanddecreedthatif
she was not given NOC,
she would be relieved
from Bengal cadre after
May 17, 2022.
After this direction of
the High Court, a notifi-
cationhasbeenissuedto
change her cadre from
West Bengal to Uttar
Pradesh.
Kritika Sharma is
currently ADM Purulia
inWestBengalwhileher
husband Abhishek
Anand is Municipal
Commissioner, Bareilly
.
Gyanendra Kumar Shukla
Lucknow: In the
by-election of
Azamgarh Lok Sabha
seat, the hopes of SP-
BSP and BJP rest on
caste equations. All
three parties have their
own calculus of votes.
According to the demo-
graphic data, there are
about 19 lakh voters in
Azamgarh, of which
Yadav and Muslim com-
munities together make
up nearly 45% of the
electorate.
Around 30 per cent of
the Dalit voters are in a
decisive role here, while
25 per cent of upper
castes and most back-
ward castes also have
their own influence.
Through the M-Y (Mus-
lim-Yadav) combina-
tion, the Saifai family
converted this seat into
a pocket borough of SP.
BSP supremo Mayawati
has bet on Muslim-Dalit
equations by fielding
Shah Alam alias Guddu
Jamali, a two-time MLA
from Mubarakpur as-
sembly seat here.
BJP strategists have
calculated that its can-
didate Bhojpuri sing-
er-actor Nirahua will
make a significant dent
among Yadav voters as
well as if he gets the
support of the upper
caste, most Dalit and
most backward voters,
then the electoral histo-
ry of 2009 can be re-
peated. When for the
first time BJP got suc-
cess from here, Ra-
makant Yadav won.
Political observers
insist in the last LS
elections the vote per-
centage of SP had in-
creased tremendously
due to alliance with
BSP. In the elections
before that, the margin
of victory for the SP
was relatively small.
This viewpoint is cor-
roborated by the fact
that Akhilesh, who en-
tered the fray with the
SP-BSP alliance in the
2019 elections, won this
seat by securing a re-
cord 621578 votes i.e.
60.4 percent vote share.
While BJP candidate
Dinesh Lal Yadav was
runner up by getting
361704 votes i.e. 35.1
percent votes. Whereas
in 2014, SP patriarch
Mulayam Singh Yadav
won this seat by get-
ting 35.4 percent vote
share.
Haridwar (PTI):
Bhartiya Kisan Union
leader Rakesh Tikait
on Thursday opposed
the Centre’s ‘Agnipath’
scheme for recruit-
ment to the armed forc-
es, saying a country-
wide movement is
needed to stall it.
On farmers’ issues,
Tikait said the country
now needs another big
movement. “Till now,
the youth were getting
at least 15 years’ ser-
vice in the armed forc-
es and a pension
post-retirement but af-
ter the implementation
of this scheme, when
they retire from the
services of the armed
forces, they will return
home without pen-
sion,” Tikait said.
“Going by this logic,
there should be a simi-
lar law for MLAs and
MPs contesting the
elections,” he said
stressing that a coun-
trywide stir is required
to stall it.
“MLAs and MPs can
contest elections up to
the age of 90 years and
can also avail pension.
But imposing retire-
ment on the youth just
after four years of ser-
vice is unfair. We won’t
let it happen,” said the
BKU leader who was in
the forefront of the ag-
itation against the Cen-
tre’s now-withdrawn
agriculture laws.
The BKU will agi-
tate against the Ag-
nipath scheme, he
said. On the withdraw-
al of the farm laws, he
said, “Farmers have
seen the way to Delhi
and four lakh tractors
are ready. There is a
need for a big agita-
tion on the issue in the
country.”
Noida(PTI): A fast-
track court here de-
ferred till Monday the
recording of the state-
ment of lynching vic-
tim Mohd Akhlaq’s
daughter as she could
not depose before it
due to lack of security
.
Akhlaq was lynched
by a mob in 2015 al-
legedly over suspicion
that he had stored beef
in his house.
His daughter could
not depose before Jus-
tice AK Singh at the
District and Sessions
Court on Friday in
Surajpur due to lack of
police security for her,
said Yusuf Saifi, repre-
senting in the case.
He said police offi-
cials were engaged in
law and order duty on
Friday
.
“Shaista had record-
ed her statement on
June14.Shehadtocon-
tinue the recording of
her statement today
.
However, due to un-
availability of proper
security she could not
visit the court after
which the court fixed
Monday as the next
date,” Saifi told PTI.
The52-yr-oldAkhlaq
of Bisada village in
Dadri area of Gautam
Buddh Nagar, was
lynched on September
28, 2015 by a mob al-
legedly over suspicion
that he had stored beef
in his house.
IAS officer Kritika Sharma reaches UP after 8-year legal battle
TOGETHER AT LAST
Abhishek Anand and Kritika Sharma
5 IAS COUPLES
In IAS 2014 batch of UP
cadre, there are now 10 IAS
officers who are married
couples-- Manish Ban-
sal-Medha Rupam, Rahul
Pandey-Kritika Jotsana,
Abhishek Anand-Kritika
Sharma, Mridul Chaud-
hary-Prerna Sharma, Garima
Yadav-Shildhar Yadav.
PERMUTATIONS AND
COMBINATIONS OF
POLITICAL PARTIES
AZAMGARH BYPOLL
Dinesh Lal Yadav with CM Yogi Adityanath
ON TOES
Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel stand guard outside a mosque in
Prayagraj on Friday. Policemen outside a mosque in Aligarh during
Friday prayers. Police deployed in Lucknow for the Friday namaz at
Teele Wali Mosque. An aerial view of the security arrangements outside
the Jama Masjid in Prayagraj’s Atala area during Friday prayers.
n SP-BSP and
BJP eye caste
equations
n Yadavs and
Muslims make
up 45% of voters
DETAILS OF CONSTITUENCY
Azamgarh Lok Sabha Constituency consists of 5
Vidhan Sabha seats.... Gopalpur, Sagdi, Mubarak-
pur, Azamgarh Sadar and Mehnagar. In the recent
assembly elections, SP got 4.35 lakh votes, BJP
3.30 lakh and BSP 2.24 lakh votes in these 5 seats.
Countrywide movement needed to stall
Centre’sAgnipathscheme:RakeshTikait
‘WON’T LET IT
HAPPEN’
“MLAs and MPs can
contest elections up
to the age of 90 years
and can also avail of
pension. But imposing
retirement on the youth
just after four years of
service is unfair. We
won’t let it happen,”
said the BKU leader
Akhlaq’s daughter
fails to reach court PNB implements PPS for
protection against fraud
CUSTOMER FIRST
First India Bureau
Lucknow: In a move
to protect the bank
customers against
large value cheque
frauds,PunjabNation-
al Bank (PNB), na-
tion’s leading public
sector bank has imple-
mented Positive Pay
Confirmation since
from April under the
Positive Pay System
(PPS) mandatory for
the cheque of Rs 10
lakh and above.
As per bank’s guide-
lines, customers are
required to submit the
details of their
cheques at least one
working day prior to
clearance to enable a
smooth verification
process and avoid
cheque returns.
As per the Positive
Pay System developed
by National Payments
Corporationof India,a
customer issuing the
high-value cheque has
to reconfirm some es-
sential details like
cheque number,
cheque alpha, cheque
amount, date, benefi-
ciary name, which are
cross-checked while
presenting the cheque
in clearing before pay-
ment.
RBI had issued the
guidelines to provide
the facility of Positive
Pay System for the
cheque of `50,000 and
aboveandadvisedthat
the banks may consid-
er to make it mandato-
ry for the cheque of ` 5
lakh and above. Ac-
cordingly
, this facility
was made available by
the PNB for cheque of
Rs 50,000 and above
since January 2021
andthenmademanda-
tory for high-value
cheques of Rs 10 lakh
and above in April ‘22.
YOU READ IT FIRST IN FIRST INDIA
MAY 20, 2022
—PHOTO BY ANI
—PHOTO BY PTI
—PHOTO BY PTI
—PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR

A
ctors Varun Dhawan Kiara Advani vis-
ited Swarrnim Start-UP Innovation Uni-
versity, Ahmedabad to promote their up-
coming film ‘Jugjugg Jeeyo’. The duo re-
ceived a grand welcome from the university.
Rishabh Gayapprasad Jain, Founder President
of Swarrnim Startup and Innovation University
felicitated both the actors with university memen-
tos and their portraits designed by the students of
Swarrnim Institutes of Design. The actors had an
amazingsessioninteractingwithstudentsandfans
present at the campus, talking about their film
experiences in their career.
The students from The
Swarrnim University
campus were delighted
to meet their favorite
actorsandspendsome
time with them. The
actors interacted
with the students and
urged them to inno-
vate newer technolo-
gies startups that can
elevate Bollywood and
Indian cinema.
K
im Sharma and Leander Paes
are the new ‘it’ couple of the
town. The couple has been dat-
ing each other for a while now
and is going strong with their rela-
tionship. Kim, who is quite active on
social media, often shares mushy pics
with her main man as they paint the
town red with their romance. So, as Lean-
der Paes turned 49 today, Kim made sure
to make him feel special and penned a
sweet note for the tennis star on social me-
dia which was all about love and best wish-
es. The actress shares stunning pics of Le-
ander on her Instagram along with some of
their love-filled pics. In the caption, Kim
wrote, “Happy happy birthday to My
Sexy
, Cool, Funny
, Kind, Loving, Disney
loving, Handsome, Irresistible, Goofy,
Soulmate. #49 never looked this
good baby. I love you. May all my
wishes for you come to true Leo”.
Besides, Kim also gave a glimpse
of Leander’s midnight birth-
day celebrations. In the pics,
Leander looked dapper in his
all-black outfit.
mtiaz Ali's style
of cinema is of-
ten associated
with travel,
love stories
and deep hu-
man connec-
tions.Inhiswebseries
She, which returns for its
second season, the filmmak-
er goes off the beaten track and
explores a murky road as he
banks on his capability of writ-
ing layered characters. Starring
Aaditi Pohankar, Kishore Kumar
G,VishwasKini,ShivaniRangole,
Sam Mohan and Suhita Thatte
among others. While Netflix con-
tinues dishing out strong female
characters, Imtiaz Ali's 'She' char-
acter Bhumi Pardeshi is yet an-
other addition to this list. The
gritty drama enters season two
from where it left off and it doesn't
take too long to join the dots. A sim-
ilar setup and the dingy lights of the
red light area where Bhumi (Aadit
Pohankar) takes her covert midnight
stroll for antagonist Nayak.
09
LUCKNOW, SATURDAY,
JUNE 18, 2022
P
inkvilla hosted its
first-ever award
show on Thursday
,
celebs aced the
show with their pres-
ence. Pinkvilla Style
Icons Awards took place
in Mumbai’s JW Marri-
ott. The prestigious
awards ceremony was a
starry affair to celebrate
the style and fashion of cel-
ebs from all fields - entertain-
ment, fashion designing, food,
etc. To note, the jury of Pinkvilla
Style Icons awards included
nameslikeMalaikaArora,Milind
Soman, Karisma Kapoor, Urmila
Matondkar, Eka Lakhani and Ali
Abbas Zafar. It was a night to re-
member for B-town followers as
several stars from the industry
came under one roof for Pinkvil-
la Style Icons Awards. The
awards night was a starry affair
and has been all over the headlines.
Celebs from Bollywood and the tel-
evision industry were seen slaying
on the red carpet and won hearts
with their style sense. From Janhvi
Kapoor to Hina Khan, Ranveer Sin-
gh to Kartik Aaryan, each celeb
brought a new charm to the red
carpet and kept the shutter-
bugs on their toes.
As Pinkvilla Style Icons
awards celebrated the style
and fashion at the grand cer-
emony, the prestigious event
also had some special and fun
moments. Be it Ranveer Singh’s
quirky speech which left every-
one amused or Sara Ali Khan,
Varun Dhawan, Kriti Sanon and
Kartik Aaryan taking over the
red carpet with a bang, the cel-
ebs were seen enjoying every bit
of the glam night.
JUGJUGG JEEYO
PROMOTIONS
SHE
S2
I
BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATIONS
Aaditi Pohankar
Kim Sharma
Sara Ali Khan Nia Sharma Mandira Bedi
Kiara Advani Urvashi Dholakia
Kriti Sanon Vaani Kapoor Anusha Dandekar
PINKVILLASTYLEICONSAWARDS
Janhvi
Kapoor
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10
ETC
riya Kumar is an
Internationally
acclaimed Moti-
vational Speak-
er and best-sell-
ing author of 11
inspirational
books. She has worked
with over 2,000 multina-
tional corporates across
46 countries and has
touched over 3 million
people through her
workshops and books.
She is the only Indian
author who has won 31
International awards
for her books. Her posi-
tivity, upbeat attitude
and undying spirit, have
made her one of the
most sought-after speak-
ers. Her areas of exper-
tise are corporate train-
ing, leadership, motiva-
tion, team building and
personal breakthrough.
Priya Kumar's 'I Am
Another You' is a story
of big breakthroughs.
It's her journey. A his-
toric event which
changed and trans-
formed me forever... It
blew my mind and set
my spirit free. You start
this journey with Priya,
many years ago, trying
to escape from a world
that did not feel right.
It's a journey towards
enlightenment. It offers
lessons she learnt from
that spiritual odyssey,
along with answers to
the questions that com-
monly haunt the human
spirit. You travel with
the author to the Nether-
lands, where she learns
the greatest lessons of
her life by taking part in
some amazing processes
in the tradition of the
Ancient Spiritual Mas-
ters- the fourth genera-
tion Shamans. They are
believed to be the inter-
mediaries between the
human and the spirit
world. They heal nega-
tives and illnesses at the
soul level. They helped
her realize that there is
nothing wrong with the
outside world. It's your
world inside that
needs to be sorted.
'I Am Another
You- A Journey to
Powerful Break-
throughs' is not just
about the author. It
involves each one of
us - the thoughts and
feelings are univer-
sal. Life sometimes
becomes too familiar
and predictable. Today
seems like yesterday and
tomorrow holds the cer-
tainty of the past... a
boring existence.
Somewhere at some
point, you will realize
that YOU are another
ME. We have to over-
come our fears and
reach out to each other
to establish 'The Bond'.
We are all the same be-
ings, the same force,
partaking in the same
pressure and the same
passion- 'In Lak'ech'- I
am another you- is the
Shamans' greetings.
Priya Kumar goes
through varied rituals.
The Sweat Lodge- over-
coming your shy-
ness and inhibi-
tions; The Salt
Cleanse- the shit
that we have to
bear with in life;
The Drummer's
Edge- freedom
from your past
and life's stresses
to free your caged
spirit; The Spiritual
Walk- facing and over-
coming your insecuri-
ties; The Fire Walk Dis-
covery - a great tool for
transforming beliefs,
renewing confidence
and handling challeng-
es; The Ritual of Self-
Mastery- there is no
Master without a Seeker.
It's in your teaching that
you find your learning.
The Material and the
Spiritual worlds comple-
ment each other. Abun-
dance is your legacy and
Spirituality is your herit-
age. Freedom is found in
the balance of material
attainment and spiritual
renunciation. Every page
of this book is an honest
narration of struggle,
overcoming and victory.
The experiences are fol-
lowed up with learnings,
meticulously extracted
from real life, which can
be applied- professionally
and personally- to live a
better life. The approach
is fresh, engaging and in-
spiring. The language is
simple, lucid and flaw-
less. There is listening
beyond words, and that is
the call of the spirit.
This is a book of many
lessons, many insights,
and many truths. It has
the power to awaken you
to your best self. The
learning will urge you to
take that path you always
knew was right, but nev-
er dared to follow. It will
guide you, humour you,
inspire you, touch you
and above all lead you to
your breakthroughs.
I AM another YOU-
how I treat you, reflects
who I am.
I AM another YOU-
whenyouknowtheDivin-
ity in yourself, you will
know the God in me.
I AM another YOU- If
I can, You already
have......!!!
F
A
C
E
O
F
T
H
E
D
A
Y
RIYA MARWAL, Model
LEO
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
Don’t give a firm
commitment in financial
matters before considering
the viability of the project.
You succeed in completing an
important project well before
deadline. Disagreements on the family
front are foreseen. Your intuition will
save you from a tricky spot today.
LIBRA
SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22
It is good day to confess
your love as stars appear
favourable for positive
reply. Your sole
dependency on friends may fail to
bring any respite from loneliness
today.A sound financial health of
businessmen would enable to give
monetary benefits to employees.
ARIES
MAR 21 - APR 20
It’s a very good day to take
calculated risks in financial
matters. Those suffering
from chronic ailments may
find remarkable improvement in their
health with home remedies. Today
you will enjoy the trust of senior
management. Overall a very good
day for you.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV 23 - DEC 22
Distant relatives may drop in
for a surprise visit.
Investment antiques and
jewellery would bring
handsome financial gains. On
professional front, recognition for good
work would motivate you to work
harder. Those awaiting an affirmation
on romantic front will get lucky.
GEMINI
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
Develop a good adaptabil-
ity to handle pressurized
situation on professional
front. Paying special
attention to plan your career would
give immense joy. You are likely to
get clearance or approval for your
construction plans. You find things
moving in the way you want them.
AQUARIUS
JAN 21 - FEB 19
Senior management will be
appreciative of your creative
inputs on professional front.
Seek the opinion of your
family before finalizing a property deal.
An impromptu invitation to a function
from an unexpected friend is likely to
be received. Initiatives in romance
bring back passion in relationship.
TAURUS
APR 21 - MAY 20
You will succeed in
resolving
misunderstanding with
family members,
normalizing ties. You will remain
much in demand on social front. You
need to stand by romantic partner
during testing times to make the
relationship stronger.
CAPRICORN
DEC 23 - JAN 20
Chances of being misled
by competitors in business
are high, so remain alert.
You may get a chance to
pursue old hobby. Health tips from
an expert will enable you to get
closer to your fitness goals. Your
generous behavior would enable to
enjoy lovely moments with family.
VIRGO
AUG 24 - SEP 23
Yoga would help in raising
energy levels and improve
your metabolism. Some of
you are going experience
emotional fulfillment on romantic
front. Place emphasis on domestic
affairs to enhance the domestic
tranquility and harmony. Associate
with humanitarian groups more.
CANCER
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
Avoid being indulgent in
your spending to balance
budget. Continue to put in
efforts at work and you will
see promising opportunities coming
your way. Matrimonial match for
siblings will bring happiness for
entire family. You will get a good
price for your property.
PISCES
FEB20 - MARCH 20
Your hard work and
dedication are likely to be
noticed by seniors, paving
way for promotion or
increment. Better to consult an
expert in financial matters before
making an investment. Family will be
supportive of career aspirations. A
promising day overall.
SCORPIO
OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22
A sound monetary position
would enable you to keep
pace with changing times.
Avoid raising controversial
issues at home to maintain harmony.
Successful implementation of new
ideas and projects would add to your
prestige on the professional front. A
wonderful day to build connections.
YOUR
DAY
Horoscope by
Saurabbh Sachdeva
P
I AM
ANOTHER
YOU
DEEPAK
deepaklifemusings@gmail.com
Priya Kumar

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