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First India Bureau
Lucknow: The
Purvanchal Express-
way, the longest e-way
in Uttar Pradesh, inau-
gurated by Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi in
November 2021, is not
even getting half the
traffic as projected,
prompting the toll col-
lection agency to quit.
Toll was levied on
the 342-km long ex-
pressway from May 1
and was expected to
collect `65 lakh a day.
However, it only col-
lects just about 45% of
the target.The reasons
for low traffic cited are
the incomplete Luc-
know Ring Road, an
incomplete bridge over
the Ganga in Bihar,
and high toll for heavy
vehicles.
According to the UP
Expressways Industri-
al Development Au-
thority (UPEIDA),
which held a meeting
in June, the toll agency
collected less than `7.5
crore between May 1
and 26 as against the
targeted `17 crore.
It was also flagged
that toll for heavy vehi-
cles on Purvanchal Ex-
pressway is almost 20%
more than the toll lev-
ied by NHAI on Nation-
al Highways, hence
heavy vehicles are us-
ing competing national
highways rather than
the Expressway
.
“Making the toll for
heavy vehicles on
Purvanchal Express-
way at par with NHAI
will increase collec-
tions,” the minutes of
the meeting say
.
The tolling agency,
Prakash Asphaltings
and Toll Highways (In-
dia) Ltd, has written to
the UP government
asking for a pre-mature
termination of the con-
tract, citing a clause
whereby it has commit-
ted an error in assess-
ing the realisable user
fee on the Purvanchal
Expressway, and has
expressed its willing-
ness for 25% of the per-
formance security fur-
nished by it to be for-
feited. The UPEIDA
Board on June 8 recom-
mended the termina-
tion of the contract
and a new process for
the selection of a new
tolling agency
.
Till a new agency
starts the job, the exist-
ing agency would con-
tinue to do the job, as
per the contract clause.
Light motor vehicles
such as cars pay `675 as
toll tax on the Purvan-
chal Expressway, light
commercial vehicles
pay `1,065, while heavy
vehicles have to pay
`2,145.
WHITE ELEPHANT
A view of the Purvanchal Expressway
LOW TRAFFIC
The reasons for low traffic cited are the incom-
plete Lucknow Ring Road, an incomplete bridge
over the Ganga in Bihar, and high toll for heavy
vehicles. According to the UP Expressways Indus-
trial Development Authority (UPEIDA), which held a
meeting in June, the toll agency collected less than
`7.5 crore between May 1 and 26 as against the
targeted `17 crore.
Poor revenue on Purvanchal
Expressway forces toll agency to quit
PM NARENDRA MODI ON 2-DAY VISIT TO KARNATAKA
‘Ek Bharat – Shreshtha Bharat’
 PM Modi inaugurates rail and
road projects worth `28,000 cr
 PM says that Centre working to
make Bengaluru free of traffic jams
 PM Modi inaugurates Centre
for Brain Research at the IIS
Moni Sharma
Bengaluru: PM Naren-
dra Modi on Monday
inaugurated and laid
foundation stones for
rail and road infra-
structure projects
worth over Rs 28,000
crore in Karnataka. PM
said that “Bengaluru is
a reflection of the spirit
of Ek Bharat – Shresh-
tha Bharat. The devel-
opment of Bengaluru is
devp of millions of
dreams. Therefore, in
the last 8 years, it has
been a continuous ef-
fort of Central govern-
ment to develop Ben-
galuru further.”
He added that his gov-
ernment is committed
to linking the suburban
areas of Bangalore with
better connectivity.
While speaking at the
inauguration of multi-
ple rail and road infra-
structure projects in
Kommaghatta, he said,
“To make Bengaluru
free from traffic jams,
the double-engine gov-
ernment is working on
every possible means
including rail, road,
metro and construction
of underpass, flyover.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates and lays foundation stone of various development projects in Bengaluru on Monday. Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand
Gehlot and Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai were also present during the occasion. —PHOTOS BY ANI
PM Modi unveils a statue of Dr BR Ambedkar at Dr BR Ambedkar School of Econom-
ics (BASE) in Bengaluru on Monday. Basavaraj Bommai & Pralhad Joshi are also seen.
PM MODI UNVEILS
STATUE OF DR BR
AMBEDKAR
NATIONAL HERALD CASE DAY 4: RAHUL
QUESTIONED FOR OVER 40 HRS TILL NOW
ED calls Rahul Gandhi
for round 5 grilling today
New Delhi: Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi
has been summoned on
Tuesday - for the fifth
time - by the Enforce-
ment Directorate for
questioning the investi-
gation in connection
with its probe in Na-
tional Herald case.
Till now, he has been
questioned for about 40
hours by the agency, in-
cluding on Monday.
Gandhi was reportedly
questioned about a few
transactions made by
Kolkata-based Dotex
Merchandise Pvt Ltd.
Earlier, he had denied
having knowledge of
any sort of loan taken
by Young Indian, ac-
cording to ED sources.
Rahul Gandhi accompanied by Priyanka Gandhi arrives at ED office
in connection with National Herald case in New Delhi on Monday.
A delegation of senior Congress leaders comprising Mallikarjun
Kharge, Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Baghel, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, P
Chidambaram, Jairam Ramesh and KC Venugopal meets President
Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Monday.
SONIA DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL,
HAS TO FACE ED PROBE ON JUNE 23
“Congress President Smt. Sonia
Gandhi has been discharged from Sir
Ganga Ram Hospital this evening and
advised rest at home,” party general
secretary Jairam Ramesh said. The ED
has issued a fresh summons to Sonia
for appearance before it on June 23.
Cong leaders meet Prez Kovind
New Delhi: Congress
leaders met President
Ram Nath Kovind at the
Rashtrapati Bhavan on
Monday to raise mis-
treatment of parlia-
mentarians by police
while protesting
against party leader Ra-
hul Gandhi’s question-
ing by ED. Govt did not
hold consultations be-
fore Agnipath rollout,
Congress writes in let-
ter to Kovind. They also
spoke to Prez about the
Centre’s newly unveiled
Agnipath scheme for
short-term recruitment
into defence forces that
have sparked massive
protests across nation.
We have informed the President that the Ag-
nipath scheme was neither discussed with any
committee nor was presented in Parliament.
We said that this is a violation of our democratic rights.
President has been asked to take this into consideration.
—Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress MP
On the initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UNESCO, considering this great tradition of India as
useful for the world, has declared World Yoga Day. This is the global acceptance of our tradition and culture
OUR GREAT TRADITION OF YOGA IS
CONNECTED WITH PEOPLE’S MIND
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA
he word yoga is derived
from the Sanskrit
root
‘Yuj’. It means to join. In
the scriptures related to
yoga, yoga has been desig-
nated as the art and sci-
ence of healthy living. For
the first time here, Maha-
rishi Patanjali
codified
the Yoga Sutras by organ-
izing various meditation
practices.
If you go to the
Indian culture of the Ve-
das, then you will also
meet the tradition of Yoga
there. Hiranyagarbha
preached
yoga at the be-
ginning of creation. The
sages like Patanjali, Jai-
mini etc. later made it ac-
cessible to everyone.
Yoga has been accepted
here from the very begin-
ning as an ideal way of life
with a healthy body and a
healthy mind. Maharish
i
Arvind has described
the
practice of yoga as very
important for the overall
vision of life. I believe that
yoga is not a therapy, it is
the greatest means of self-
development. It has al-
ways been getting im-
portance here in us
only as a method of reali-
zation with the Supreme.
In such times when the
mind constantly wanders
in the blind race of mate-
riality, yoga is very useful
for mental peace and con-
tentment. On the initia-
tive of Prime Minister
Shri Narendra
Modi, UN-
ESCO, considering this
great tradition of India as
useful for the world, has
declared World Yoga Day.
This is the global accept-
ance of our tradition
and culture.
Indian culture is
associated with
loftyvaluesof life.
Yoga is the sound
of that culture.
This is the ideal
way of life, in
which the mind is
attached to the lofty
ideas of welfare
not only
for itself but for the whole
world. It is well known
that we have always be-
lieved in connectin
g, not
breaking. Yoga is the foun-
dation of this. Maharishi
Arvind has explained
yoga very deeply
. He
wrote, “Yoga does not
mean to give up life, but to
face the problems
and
challenges of life with
courage, keeping faith in
the divine power.” Accord-
ingtoAurobindo,yogais
not merely the
practice of dif-
ficult asanas
and pranay-
ama, but self-
less surren-
der to God
and trans-
forming one-
self into divine
form through
mental education.
Yoga is related to the
mind with the body
. If the
mind is healthy, then the
body automatically moves
towards health. In intui-
tion, a person is exposed to
ignorance
within himself.
Yoga helps with this. I
have felt it many times.
Maharishi Aurobindo has
given utmost importance
tointuitioninlife.Because
of this, humanity
has
reached the present stage
of progress. If the modern
generation joins the yogic
routine, it is made manda-
tory in schools and colleg-
es, then many complexi-
ties related to life can be
solved very easily
.
We all know that it is
the Prana Shakti that con-
trols all the activities and
arrangements of the body
.
Accumula
tion of life force
and its arrangem
ent is
possible
only through
yoga. Yoga is naturally re-
lated to Pranayam
a. Pra-
nayama awakens our in-
ner energy and makes it
healthy, balanced and ac-
tive. It is said that yoga
controls the tendencies of
the mind. Its meaning is
that yoga controls the in-
stincts related to our mind
and makes it conducive
to
a healthy life. Bhastrika
,
Kapal Bhati, Tribandha,
Anulom
Vilom, Bhra-
mari, etc. are such easy
yogas, which everyone
can practice with little ef-
fort. If these are done
regularly, then not only
the body but the mind also
remains healthy. For a
healthy, happy, and well-
being life, these activities
related to yoga are also
useful in the way that it
gives direction
to a posi-
tive life.
The meaning of yoga is
to know the powers with-
in, harness them and to
awaken
one’s infinite
powers within by realiz-
ing the inner self. Swami
Vivekananda had advised
yogis in his time that
their conduct and they
themselves should be-
come proof. What he
meant was that yoga
should be kept away from
profession
alism. It should
be seen as the welfare of
humanity, not as a mira-
cle. This is the greatest
need of the hour.
Lord Shri Krishna
has said in the Bhagavad
Gita, ‘Yogah Karmasu
Kaushalam’ which means
doing any work with skill
is yoga. This is a matter of
very deep meaning. If we
understan
d this, then we
will be able to understan
d
more closely our lifestyle
related to yoga contained
inIndianculture.Knowing
the mind and adapting life
accordingly
,thatisthereal
yoga. Come, on this auspi-
cious day of Yoga Day
, let
uscarryforwardthisgreat
tradition of ideal and lofty
life values and spread
‘Sarve Bhavantu
Sukhi-
nah’ in the public mind.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED
BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
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Lord Shri Krishna has said
in the Bhagavad Gita,
‘Yogah Karmasu
doing any work with skill is
yoga. This is a matter of
understand this, then we
will be able to understand
related to yoga contained in
Indian culture. Knowing the
mind and adapting life
accordingly, that is the real
yoga. Come, on this
auspicious day of Yoga Day,
let us carry forward this
great tradition of ideal and
lofty life values and spread
‘Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah’
in the public mind
KALRAJ MISHRA
The writer is Governor of Rajasthan
‘YOGA IS IMPORTANT FOR
OVERALL VISION OF LIFE’
Maharishi Arvind has
described the practice of
yoga as very important
for the overall vision of
life. I believe that yoga
is not a therapy, it is
the greatest means of
self-development. It has
always been getting im-
portance here in us only
as a method of realiza-
tion with the Supreme.
Yoga does not
mean to give up
life, but to face the
problems and challenges of
life with courage, keeping
faith in the divine power.
—AUROBIND
O
Swami Vivekananda had advised
yogis in his time that their conduct
and they themselves should be-
come proof. What he meant was
that yoga should be kept away
from professionalism. It should be
seen as the welfare of humanity, not
as a miracle. This is the great-
est need of the hour.
‘YOGA SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY
FROM PROFESSIONALISM’
rishi Patanjali
codified
practices.
If you go to the
preached
yoga at the be-
healthy mind. Maharish
i
Arvind has described
the
portance here in us
and culture.
Indian culture is
associated with
loftyvaluesof life.
Yoga is the sound
of that culture.
This is the ideal
way of life, in
which the mind is
ideas of welfare
not only
not merely the
practice of dif-
ficult asanas
and pranay-
ama, but self-
less surren-
der to God
and trans-
forming one-
self into divine
form through
solved very easily
.
.
Accumula
tion of life force
and its arrangem
ent is
possible
only through
lated to Pranayam
a. Pra-
and makes it conducive
to
a healthy life. Bhastrika
,
Anulom
Vilom, Bhra-
gives direction
to a posi-
tive life.
awaken
one’s infinite
come proof. What he
meant was that yoga
profession
alism. It should
need of the hour.
T
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday that forces
inimical to India had constituted “cyber armies” to launch
cyberattacks against India but the Home Ministry was ready
to thwart any such attempt. P5
GOOGLE CO-FOUNDER FILES FOR DIVORCE
Washington: World’s sixth-richest person, Google co-founder
Sergey Brin, filed for a divorce from his wife of 3 years. Brin filed
a petition for dissolution of his marriage to Nicole Shanahan,
citing “irreconcilable differences,” as per court the documents.
OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, LUCKNOW, NEW DELHI MUMBAI
As world gears up to mark the International Yoga Day today,
India is also looking forward to celebrate it in physical mode
after a gap of 2 years due to Covid-19. PM Narendra Modi will
lead mass yoga event at Mysuru Palace grounds in Karnataka.
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MODI SPEAKS AMID ‘AGNIPATH’ ROW,
SERVICE CHIEFS TO MEET PM TODAY
Some reforms may seem unpleasant but will benefit the
nation in long run, PM Narendra Modi said on Monday.
Meanwhile, chiefs of the Indian Army, Navy and Air
Force are scheduled to separately meet PM Modi on
Tuesday and would brief him on the Agnipath scheme.
NSitharamanOffice @nsitharamanoffc
Top industry leaders are
hailing #Agnipath - the
pathbreaking scheme of the Modi
Govt - as a much-needed reform to
strengthen the Armed Forces and a
great opportunity for the youth to
serve the nation.
AGNIPATH SCHEME
Army rolls out Agnipath;
recruitment begins in July
New Delhi (PTI): Amid
protests in several parts
of the country, the
Army on Monday is-
sued a notification for
the induction of sol-
diers under the Ag-
nipath military recruit-
ment scheme under
which the online regis-
tration of applicants
will begin next month.
The Army said ‘
Ag-
niveers’ would form a
distinct rank in the In-
dian Army
, which would
be different from any
other existing ranks. It
saidthatbasedonorgan-
isational requirements
and policies promulgat-
ed,‘
Agniveers’aftercom-
pleting their engage-
ment period in each
batch will be offered an
opportunity to apply for
enrol in regular cadre.
Technical cadre: For
this ‘Agniveers’ includ-
ing for the Aviation
wing, aspirants need to
clear class 12 with Phys-
ics, Chemistry, Maths
and Eng with 50%
marks in aggregate and
40% in each subject.
Army issues notification for first recruitment round, said
registration to be done on “www.joinindianarmy.nic.in”
Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi at Leh on a four-day visit to the world’s
highest battlefield, to review training, operational preparedness
and logistics assets under Make in India, in Leh on Monday.
BRIEF
in
in
Himachal Cable Car
Stuck: 11 passengers
rescued after 3 hours
Moose Wala murder:
2 shooters, aide held
New Delhi: Delhi Police
has arrested 3 persons,
including two shooters,
in connection with killing
of popular Punjabi singer
Moose wala, officials
said on Monday, adding
that one of them was in
touch with Canada-based
gangster Goldy Brar at
the time of the incident.
MLC polls: 5 of
ruling allies, 5 BJP
leaders win
Mumbai: 4 candidates
of Maha’s ruling alliance
and 5 of BJP got elected
to Legislative Council on
Monday amid cross-vot-
ing by Cong. Result for
1 seat, for which 2 Cong
candidates are now vying
-- is yet to be declared.
Parwanoo: All 11 people
onboard were rescued af-
ter they were stranded for
more than three hours in
a cable car that stopped
midway in HP’s Parwanoo
on Monday afternoon.
“I will seek a report on
what went wrong,” CM
Jai Ram Thakur said, who
had reached the spot.

UTTAR PRADESH
LUCKNOW | TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2022
02
Cash Registers jingling in UP govt’s Stamp and Registration dept
First India Bureau
Lucknow: With a re-
cord 32.3 lakhs proper-
ty registrations in a
year (2021-22) netting a
revenue of over Rs
18,926 crore to govern-
ment coffers, Uttar
Pradesh Government’s
citizen services plat-
form PRERNA (Prop-
erty Evaluation and
Registration Applica-
tion) sure seems to be
livng upto it name.
Additionally, this
Stamp and Registration
platform has also con-
tributed for the genera-
tion of 60 types of
deeds, 372 Self-Regula-
tory Organisations
(SROs) and generation
of more than 4.5 lakh
marriage certificates.
The platform has also
recorded more than 1.67
crore document genera-
tions, 3.52 lakh Digital
Non-Encumbrance Cer-
tificates (NECs) genera-
tion and more than 35
lakh deeds registration.
Among the citizen
services, the platform
offers features like on-
line filing of Registra-
tion Application, online
deed generation, online
capturing of photo-
graph and thumb im-
pression, online pay-
ment of registration
fees, online appoint-
ment system and SMS
online query on regis-
tered deeds, etc.
Some of its varied
services also include
Market Value Assis-
tance, computation of
stamp duty
, registration
fees/fines, endorse-
ment and printing of
photograph and thumb
impression, generation
of Encumbrance cer-
tificate, scanning of
registered documents,
and generation of index
registers.
The department is in-
tegrated with multiple
government depart-
ments including Reve-
nue and Civil Courts,
Nivesh Mitra, Land Re-
cords, Nagar Nigam/
Urban Local Bodies,
ElectricityDepartment,
Jal Sansthan, DARPAN,
eDistrict and Stock
Holding.
GOING NORTH

PRERNA portal
has played a
fundamental
part in easing
the registration
processes of
services
offered by the
State govt
RELAXATIONS
INT’L YOGA DAY TO CONNECT 3.5 CRORE PEOPLE
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh has geared up
to ensure the participa-
tion of 3.5 crore (35 mil-
lion) people in mass
yoga demonstrations at
75,000 places on the 8th
International Yoga Day
on Tuesday
.
This year, the pro-
gramme will also mark
the 75th year of India’s
independence.
“Yoga is the most pre-
cious gift bestowed by
Indiansagestotheworld,
which helps in the men-
tal and physical well-be-
ing of people. The 8th
edition of International
Day of yoga will be cele-
brated with the theme
“Yoga for Humanity”.
It should be ensured
to make it a grand affair
in the state with par-
ticipation from all
58,000 gram panchayats
and 14,000 urban wards.
The mass yoga demon-
strations will be held at
75,000 places in the state
as we mark Azadi ka
Amrit year,” said CM
Yogi.
In the Amrit Mahot-
sav year of independ-
ence, special events will
be organised at 75 plac-
es of historical, cultur-
al importance on Yoga
Day, out of which six
are in UP.
The state has also
made special prepara-
tions for mass yoga
demonstrations at Var-
anasi, Mathura, Gora-
khpur, Naimish Dham,
Chitrakoot, Bithoor etc.
Elaborate preparations
have also been made for
the mega event at six
sites selected by the
Central government at
Sarnath (Varanasi),
Residency (Lucknow),
Ayodhya, Kushinagar,
Fatehpur Sikri (Agra)
and Hastinapur
(Meerut), where Union
ministers will be
present.
Besides, prepara-
tions at places of reli-
gious, historical and
cultural importance
like Raj Bhavan (Luc-
know), Triveni Sangam
(Prayagraj), Jhansi
Fort, Mathura, Maa
Vindhyavasini Dham
Complex, Shri Gora-
khnath Temple Com-
plex Gorakhpur, Naim-
isharanya (Sitapur),
Shri Kashi Vishwanath
Dham Complex (Vara-
nasi), Bithoor (Kan-
pur), Chitrakoot,
Shravasti and Akshay
Vat Vatika (Muzaffar-
nagar) have been made
by the state government
to organise yoga dem-
onstrations.
Mass yoga demonstrations under the leadership of CM Yogi
Adityanath will be held at 75,000 venues in Uttar Pradesh
75 places of historical, cultural importance in UP to witness
yoga events to mark 75 years of India’s Independence
GUV MEETS IFS OFFICERS
Officers of Indian Foreign Services met Governor Anandiben Patel on Monday.
Health infra in UP
gets needed push
from Yogi govt
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The State
Government is striv-
ing to equip each dis-
trict with medical fa-
cilities under its ‘One
District One Medical
College’ plan.
By 2022-2023, UP may
well have medical fa-
cilities like lab, CHC,
PHC rejuvenation, the
establishment of PICU
NICU, and health ATMs
ineachdistrict,claimed
a medical health de-
partment official.
After getting a
thumbs up in Corona
Management, the Yogi
government has been
focusing on the health
sector and made suffi-
cient allocation in the
budget, to enhance
health facilities.
The money would be
spent to spruce up ser-
vices and facilities at
Community Health
Centers (CHCs) in the
state.
Focus would also be
on to overcome the
shortage of medical
staff, and equipment for
tests like X-rays, ultra-
sound and medicines.
Under the National
Health Mission in the
state, the facilities of
CHC-PHC level health
centres will be in-
creased by an amount
of Rs 10,547.42 crore.
New CHCs, PHCs, sub-
centres and health and
wellness centres will
also be opened in rural
areas from the budget
released under NHM.
According to CMO
Dr Manoj Aggarwal, a
plan has been made to
improve health facili-
ties in rural areas in the
budget.
Under this, sub-cen-
tres will be opened for a
population of 5 thou-
sand, PHCs for more
than 10 thousand popu-
lation and CHCs for
more than that.
At the same time,
keeping in mind the se-
rious cases, there is a
plan to open a 100-bed
hospital.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his Siddharthnagar visit on
October 25, launched projects of nine medical colleges in UP.
CS instructs to take strict action
against traffic rule violators
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Durga
Shankar Mishra, Chief
Secretary (CS) of the
state on Monday
chaired a meeting with
all the Divisional Com-
missioners, District
Magistrates and senior
police officers via video
conferencing.
The CS also instruct-
ed the officials to take
strict action against
violators of traffic
rules and if any illegal
vehicle is plying in any
of the district, then the
senior officer of the dis-
trict be held responsi-
ble. He said, that to
avoid religious events
taking place on the
streets, regular com-
munication be main-
tained with the reli-
gious leaders.
He further instructed
the officials to utilize
the 10 e-courts com-
pletely to recover the
fine of e-challan from
the violators of the traf-
fic rules.
CS DS Mishra meets Indian Foreign Services officials on Monday
Janta Darshan: Yogi assures aspirants of
far-reaching benefits of Agniveer scheme
Qazi Abdur Rehman
Lucknow: The anguish
of the aspirants of In-
dian army also sounded
in Janta Darshan of
Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath here on
Monday
.
Around one dozen as-
pirants for the recruit-
ment in armed forces
appeared before the
Chief Minister to share
their pain and express
their displeasure over
the Agniveer scheme of
the government.
CM Yogi Adityanath
convinced them and
tried to pacify their an-
ger. He said the Ag-
niveer scheme is a job
opportunity for them
and reaching out to the
angry youth he said
government has an-
nounced many conces-
sion including 10 per-
cent job quota for Ag-
niveer in paramilitary
forces. He appealed to
the youth to be careful
as some trouble makers
are making them a tool
for their vested inter-
ests.
Meanwhile the po-
lice launched an opera-
tion in Pipiganj and
Campierganj area and
they have identified 300
trouble makers and 84
spots where these aspir-
ants used to come for
regular exercise.
On one hand police
forces are convincing
the youth and on other
hand they have
launched crack down
operation against trou-
ble makers, the protes-
tors said. Four alleged
rioters have been ar-
rested so far.
CM Yogi at Janta Darshan in Gorakhnath Temple on Monday
PARTIAL RESPONSE TO BHARAT BANDH
Meanwhile the Bharat Band call of angry youth
over short term recruitment evoked partial re-
sponse in the district. According to the CPRO of N
E Railway around 32 trains were cancelled and no
train came from Bihar to Gorakhpur. Heavy police
force was deployed at railway station, bus station
and in Sahjanwa, Nausarh and Belipaar to handle
any untoward incident.
DAIRY PROJECTS COSTING
`500-CR TO START SOON
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Projects
worth approximately
Rs 500 crore in the dairy
sector are expected to
play a vital role in shap-
ing the lives of rural
peopleasamajorsource
of employment and in-
come generation in UP.
With the aim of dou-
bling farmers’ income
from dairying, the Yogi-
led government in UP is
working tirelessly to
ensure utmost priority
is extended to dairy de-
velopment in the state.
At the third ground-
breaking ceremony
(GBC-3) held in Luc-
know on June 3, pro-
jects worth Rs 482 crore
were presented in this
sector.
The investment initi-
atives include projects
of- Duss Bareilly of Rs
80.3 crore in Bareilly,
Creamy Foods Limited
of Rs 60 crore in Bu-
landshahr, CP Milk and
Food Products private
limited of Rs 118 crore
in Gorakhpur, and 2
projects — CP Milk and
Food Products private
limited worth Rs 100
crore and DUSS Luc-
know worth Rs 124
crore in state capital
Lucknow.
Dairy projects
worth Rs 224
crores will also
be started in
Lucknow
Preparations at Raj Bhavan on Monday to mark International Yoga Day that falls on June 21.
CM Yogi to take part
in Raj Bhavan session
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Prepara-
tions have been com-
pleted for the celebra-
tion of 8th Interna-
tional Day of Yoga in
Uttar Pradesh on
Tuesday (June 21) in
which CM Yogi Adi-
tyanath will partici-
pate along with min-
isters from 40 dis-
tricts and nodal offic-
ers from 32 districts
in different events,
while group Yoga
practice sessions will
be held at 75,000 plac-
es in UP, attracting
participation of
crores of people.
CM Yogi, who has
aimed connecting 3.5
core people with Yoga
Day celebrations,
will take part in a
Yoga practice session
to be held at Raj
Bhavan in Lucknow.
It is worth men-
tioning here that spe-
cial programmes are
being organised at 75
places of historical
and cultural impor-
tance across the
country on the occa-
sion of Yoga Day as
India celebrates 75th
year of Independ-
ence as Amrit Mahot-
sava, of which six are
in Uttar Pradesh.
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE

UTTAR PRADESH
03
NO IMPACT OF
BHARAT BANDH
UP top cop says no trouble reported from anywhere,
situation under control with vast deployment of force
Lucknow(PTI): The
Bharat Bandh’ call
against the Agnipath’
scheme of the Central
government has had no
impact in Uttar
Pradesh and the situa-
tion in the state is fully
under control, a senior
police officer said here
on Monday.
Thirty-nine cases
were lodged and 475
people were arrested,
of whom 330 were ar-
rested under serious
sections for protesting
against the scheme, the
officer said.
Protests against the
‘Agnipath’ scheme
have been on since
June 16 in various dis-
tricts of Uttar Pradesh,
having earlier started
in Bihar and West Ben-
gal, and later spread-
ing to other states of
the country.
Thousands of young
people have come out
on streets taking re-
course to destructive
means protesting
against the central gov-
ernment’s rolling out
of Agnipath’ scheme,
which seeks to recruit
soldiers in the armed
forces on short-term
contract basis.
The scheme was an-
nounced last Tuesday.
“Bharat Bandh call
was given on social me-
dia though no group
had owned it, the police
were on alert since
morning having made
elaborate arrange-
ments with vast de-
ployment of the force,”
ADG law and order
Prashant Kumar said.
As many as 141 com-
panies of PAC and 10
companies of CAPF be-
sides the civil police
had been deployed, he
said, adding that no
trouble was reported
from anywhere and the
conditions were fully
under control.
“There has been no
impact of the Bharat
Bandh call anywhere
in the state,” he said.
In state capital Luc-
know, all business es-
tablishments and of-
fices remained open
and there was normal
traffic on the roads
since the morning, he
said.
First India Bureau
Sultanpur: The po-
lice registered a case
against four persons
including former
MLA Chandra Bhad-
ra Singh Sonu for
thrashing a Dalit
youth. District ad-
ministration has ex-
pelled MLA’s brother
Yashbadra Singh
from district and
case was registered
against both on May
23 also.
According to police
casewasregisteredin
Dhanpatganj police
station on complaint
of BaijnathNishadof
Mayang village, in
which he alleged he
had land dispute with
relative Phool Chand
Nishad and brother
of formerMLAChan-
dra Bhadra Singh
threatened him to kill
in that matter.
He alleged that for-
mer MLA threatened
to raze his house and
said he will kill him.
Police have initiated
investigations into
the matter. Accused
BSP leader said that
he was being targeted
over election rivalry
.
Singh had lost in
Parliamentary elec-
tion on BSP ticket
andpartyhadthrown
him out over anti-
party activities.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Today’s aca-
demic requirement is to
narrow down the gap
between the students
and the teaching institu-
tions so that the stu-
dents are not misled on
the one hand and be
more productive to the
society and their alma
mater on the other. Luc-
know University V-C
Alok Kumar Rai in this
direction has set up a
committee for the for-
mation of “LU Students
Meritorious Students
Council (LUMSC)”.
Committee consists of
Dean Faculty of Arts,
Dean Academics, OS-
DIMS, Chief Proctor
and a student represent-
ative. Dean Student Wel-
fare Prof Poonam
Tandon is the Convener
of the committee.
Major objectives of
the Council is to pro-
mote and encourage the
involvement of students
in organizing Universi-
ty activities in the direc-
tionof academic,sports,
cultural and other extra
extra-curricular activi-
ties. The ultimate goal
of LUMSC is to enable
the students successful-
ly making their career
through problem solv-
ing approach.
The committee today
initiated a virtual meet-
ing to interact with the
topper students of dif-
ferent programmes run-
ning in various Depart-
ments of Lucknow Uni-
versity
. In this session a
group of topper stu-
dents were asked to
speak about their future
career related vision,
the ways these students
are going to contribute
in the healthy academic
environment the Uni-
versity and their ulti-
mate contribution to the
society as a whole.
Two more such ses-
sions are lined up.
Noida (PTI): Around
30 people, including
Congress leaders and
workers, were on Mon-
day detained as a pre-
cautionarymeasureby
police in Noida while
they were moving to-
wards Delhi to partici-
pate in anti-Agnipath
protests, officials said.
The action came
amid a call for Bharat
Bandh’ by a section of
people who have de-
manded the rollback
of the new central gov-
ernment scheme for
recruitments to the
armed forces.
Police personnel, in-
cluding senior officers,
were deployed at the
border points of Gau-
tam Buddh Nagar dis-
trict, adjoining Delhi,
and inspection of vehi-
cles intensified in view
of thecallforthestrike,
the officials said.
The enhanced vigil
caused lengthy hold-
ups of cars and two-
wheelers including
those of office-goers at
Delhi-Noida border
points like the DND
and Chilla routes.
Gautam Buddh Na-
gar Police Commis-
sioner Alok Singh also
hit the ground to over-
seethesecuritydeploy-
ment in the western
Uttar Pradesh district,
which had witnessed
violence on June 17 at
Jewar toll plaza over
the Agnipath scheme’s
announcement.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Police have
registered an FIR under
charges of SC /ST Pre-
vention of Atrocities
Act in the case of a Zo-
mato delivery man who
said he was thrashed,
abused, and spat on his
face when he went to de-
liver food in Ashiyana
late on Saturday night.
ACP, East, Qasim
Abidi, said an FIR was
registered and CCTVs
in the area were being
scanned to trace the ac-
cused. “Probe has been
given to ACP Canton-
ment who would record
statements of both the
victim and accused,”
he said.
According to the de-
livery man, Vineet Raw-
at, he went to deliver
food at the residence of
Ajay Singh in Ashiyana
on Saturday night. He
said Singh asked for his
name and caste.
“On getting to know
that I belonged to Sched-
uled Caste, he used
casteist remarks, say-
ing he will not take the
order from the hands of
an untouchable.”
Police personnel stand guard outside Varanasi Cantt railway station on Monday. —PHOTO BY PTI
Former BSP MLA Chandra Bhadra Singh. —FILE PHOTO
‘NO LENIENCY TOWARDS
INFILTRATING ANTI-SOCIALS’
ADG Prashant Kumar said the police had acted
with sensitivity up to the time only students
were involved, but later when anti-social and politi-
cal elements infiltrated into it causing violence, po-
lice started registering cases and making arrests.
The ADG also said the cost of damages to property
will be realised from the culprits. He said under
the directives of the CM, police and administration
has launched an extensive public outreach, seeking
cooperation of operators of coaching centres.
Case against ex-MLA for
threatening to kill Dalit
Police probe assault
on Dalit delivery boy
SPAT, THRASHED
CRUCIAL READ
Lucknow: BoB Financial Solutions Limited (BFSL), a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank of Baroda and Nain-
ital Bank – (managed by Bank of Baroda since 1973),
announced the launch of Nainital Bank - BoB co-brand-
ed Contactless RuPay Credit Card. The card, being
launched in the centenary year of Nainital Bank, is
designed to reward customers for everyday spend like
grocery and departmental stores. Cardholders of Nain-
ital Bank - BoB RuPay Contactless Credit Card will be
able to earn 5X i.e. 5 reward points (per Rs 100 spent)
for spends on grocery, department stores and movies.
For all other spends, they will earn 1 reward point per
Rs 100 spent. In addition, they will also benefit from
1% Fuel Surcharge Waiver on fuel purchases.
NEPAL LANDSLIDE:
TWO BALRAMPUR
YOUTHS MISSING
Kathmandu: Two Indian
youths travelling in a
group of pilgrims went
missing after being
swept away by a land-
slide in Kapilvastu district
of Nepal on Monday,
according to police.
Nikhil Kaushal, 17, and
Suraj Soni, 18, from Bal-
rampur district in Uttar
Pradesh were washed
away when the two tried
to cross a local stream
on foot in Shivaraj Mu-
nicipality-1 area of the
district, the police said.
The landslide occurred
when they came out
of their vehicle, which
also had about 16 more
Indian pilgrims aboard, a
police official said.
DALIT COUPLE DIE
AFTER CONSUMING
POISON
Muzaffarnagar: A
Dalit couple died after
consuming poison in
Shamli district, police
said on Monday. Tinku
(22) and Priti (19) had
eloped from their hous-
es on June 16 as their
family did not approve
their relationship. The
couple on Monday
consumed poisonous
substances and ended
their lives at Bharsi
village in Kandhla area
of Shamli district, they
said. According to
SHO, Kandhla, Shyam-
bir Singh, though they
were of the same caste,
their families were
not accepting their
relationship.
BOB FINANCIAL-NAINITAL BANK LAUNCH
CONTACTLESS RUPAY CREDIT CARD
STANDSTILL AND RUSH
Rush at Charbagh Railway Station, after most trains were cancelled
due to Bharat Bandh call given against the Centre’s Agnipath
scheme, in Lucknow on Monday. —PHOTOS BY SUMIT KUMAR
SplcommiteeinteractswithLUtoppers
for Meritorious Students Council
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON
PLASMA THEORY
Lucknow: The 2nd
International Conference
on Plasma Theory and
Simulations (PTS - 2022)
is being organized in
online mode by the
Department of Physics,
University of Lucknow
between June 20-22 and
is being chaired by Punit
Kumar. The conference is
having 20 plenary talks,
16 invited talks and 93
paper presentations.
The conference has
236 participants. It was
inaugurated today at 9:30
am with the welcome
address by Professor NK
Pandey, Head, Depart-
ment of Physics followed
by presidential address
by Prof. Avinash Khare,
V-C of Sikkim central
and state universities in
which he spoke about the
current trends in plasma
research and discussed
about pathway to future
research.
Agnipath row: Cong
leaders detained
Traffic jam on Noida-Delhi
road as police closed off
several roads ahead of the
Congress protest, on Monday.

PERSPECTIVE
04
On the initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UNESCO, considering this great tradition of India as
useful for the world, has declared World Yoga Day. This is the global acceptance of our tradition and culture
OUR GREAT TRADITION OF YOGA IS
CONNECTED WITH PEOPLE’S MIND
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA
he word yoga is derived
from the Sanskrit root
‘Yuj’. It means to join. In
the scriptures related to
rishi Patanjali codified
practices. If you go to the
preached yoga at the be-
healthy mind. Maharishi
Arvind has described the
portance here in us
only as a method of reali-
zation with the Supreme.
In such times when the
mind constantly wanders
in the blind race of mate-
riality, yoga is very useful
for mental peace and con-
tentment. On the initia-
tive of Prime Minister
Shri Narendra Modi, UN-
ESCO, considering this
great tradition of India as
useful for the world, has
declared World Yoga Day.
and culture.
Indian culture is
associated with
loftyvaluesof life.
Yoga is the sound
of that culture.
This is the ideal
way of life, in
which the mind is
ideas of welfare
not only
for itself but for the whole
world. It is well known
that we have always be-
lieved in connecting, not
breaking. Yoga is the foun-
dation of this. Maharishi
Arvind has explained
yoga very deeply
. He
wrote, “Yoga does not
mean to give up life, but to
face the problems and
challenges of life with
courage, keeping faith in
the divine power.” Accord-
not merely the
practice of dif-
ficult asanas
and pranay-
ama, but self-
less surren-
der to God
and trans-
forming one-
self into divine
form through
mental education.
Yoga is related to the
mind with the body
. If the
mind is healthy, then the
body automatically moves
towards health. In intui-
tion, a person is exposed to
ignorance within himself.
Yoga helps with this. I
have felt it many times.
Maharishi Aurobindo has
given utmost importance
tointuitioninlife.Because
of this, humanity has
solved very easily
.
.
Accumulation of life force
and its arrangement is
possible only through
lated to Pranayama. Pra-
and makes it conducive to
a healthy life. Bhastrika,
Anulom Vilom, Bhra-
gives direction to a posi-
tive life.
awaken one’s infinite
come proof. What he
meant was that yoga
professionalism. It should
need of the hour.
Lord Shri Krishna
has said in the Bhagavad
Gita, ‘Yogah Karmasu
doing any work with skill
is yoga. This is a matter of
related to yoga contained
inIndianculture.Knowing
the mind and adapting life
accordingly
,thatisthereal
yoga. Come, on this auspi-
cious day of Yoga Day
, let
uscarryforwardthisgreat
tradition of ideal and lofty
life values and spread
‘Sarve Bhavantu Sukhi-
nah’ in the public mind.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
T
Lord Shri Krishna has said
in the Bhagavad Gita,
‘Yogah Karmasu
doing any work with skill is
yoga. This is a matter of
related to yoga contained in
Indian culture. Knowing the
mind and adapting life
accordingly, that is the real
yoga. Come, on this
auspicious day of Yoga Day,
let us carry forward this
great tradition of ideal and
lofty life values and spread
‘Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah’
in the public mind
KALRAJ MISHRA
The writer is Governor of Rajasthan
‘YOGA IS IMPORTANT FOR
OVERALL VISION OF LIFE’
Maharishi Arvind has
described the practice of
yoga as very important
for the overall vision of
life. I believe that yoga
is not a therapy, it is
the greatest means of
self-development. It has
always been getting im-
Yoga does not
mean to give up
life, but to face the
problems and challenges of
life with courage, keeping
faith in the divine power.
—AUROBINDO
Swami Vivekananda had advised
yogis in his time that their conduct
and they themselves should be-
come proof. What he meant was
that yoga should be kept away
from professionalism. It should be
seen as the welfare of humanity, not
as a miracle. This is the great-
est need of the hour.
rishi Patanjali codified
practices. If you go to the
preached yoga at the be-
healthy mind. Maharishi
Arvind has described the
portance here in us
and culture.
Indian culture is
associated with
loftyvaluesof life.
Yoga is the sound
of that culture.
This is the ideal
way of life, in
which the mind is
ideas of welfare
not only
not merely the
practice of dif-
ficult asanas
and pranay-
ama, but self-
less surren-
der to God
and trans-
forming one-
self into divine
form through
solved very easily
.
.
Accumulation of life force
and its arrangement is
possible only through
lated to Pranayama. Pra-
and makes it conducive to
a healthy life. Bhastrika,
Anulom Vilom, Bhra-
gives direction to a posi-
tive life.
awaken one’s infinite
come proof. What he
meant was that yoga
professionalism. It should
need of the hour.
T portance here in us only
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INDIA
05
WOMEN PENAL
ISSUES NOTICE TO
INDIAN BANK
New Delhi: DCW Chair-
person Swati Maliwal has
issued a notice to Indian
Bank on Monday, seek-
ing withdrawal of its “new
recruitment rules” which
denies immediate joining
to a woman who is three or
more months pregnant. “A
woman candidate, who as
a result of tests, is found to
be pregnant of 12 weeks’
standing or over, should be
declared temporarily unfit
until the confinement is over.
HIJAB: 5 MUSLIM
GIRLS SEEK TC
FROM UNIVERSITY
Mangaluru: 5 Muslim girl
students of the university
college at Hampankatta in
the city have requested the
college administration to
issue transfer certificates
to enable them to join other
colleges. The college had
prohibited wearing of hijab
in classrooms which had
triggered protest. Manga-
lore Univ VC Yadapadithaya
had announced that the
varsity will make special
arrangements for girls.
PM EXPRESSES
SOLIDARITY WITH
SIKH IN LETTER
New Delhi: PM Narendra
Modi has written an open
letter to the members of
the Afghan Sikh commu-
nity following the deadly
attack on a Gurdwara in
Afghanistan. The attack
that took place on Saturday
claimed the lives of two
persons.PM Modi called
the act a ghastly one which
was against humanity. “I
would also like to offer my
prayers for the victims of
the terror attack.
CRUCIAL READ
CBI APPREHENDS SOME PERSONS OVER
RS 3 LAKH BRIBERY CASE AT DCGI OFFICE
New Delhi: The CBI on Monday apprehended some per-
sons at the office of the Drugs Controller General of India
in connection with a Rs three lakh
alleged bribery case in which the
role of Joint Drugs Controller S
Eswara Reddy is under scanner,
officials said. The CBI team, after
getting inputs about exchange of
bribery, allegedly carried out trap
operation in which some persons
were apprehended, they said. The searches were conducted
as part of this operation, they said.
Govt will increase the number of Agniveers!
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi : The notifi-
cation of Agneepath
Scheme of Army Re-
cruitment is about to be
released and the re-
cruitment process will
start soon. In this, the
appointment will be
done in the recruitment
rally as before. After the
announcement of this
scheme, within two
days, the government
changed the rule and
increased the age limit
of appointment from 21
to 23 years. This was
done because the rein-
statement in the army
was closed for the last
two years. Because of
this, the age limit for
the recruitment of
lakhs of youth in the
army had ended and ex-
tending this by two
years will give them a
chance to be reinstated
inthearmyasAgniveer.
However, this will cre-
ate a new problem.
Increasing the age
limit will greatly in-
crease the number of
youth participating in
the recruitment rally.
That is why it is being
said that just as the cen-
tral government has in-
creased the age limit, in
the same way, it can in-
crease the number for
the first year as well.
According to the plan so
far, a total of 46 thou-
sand youth are to be re-
cruited in the three ser-
vices in the first year.
This number is also
very less as compared to
the recruitment done
every year. The last time
when the recruitment
process was carried out,
80 thousand youth were
recruited. Even before
that an average of 60 to
70 thousands youths
were being recruited.
Since the appointment
has been closed for two
years, a large number
of youth have come un-
der the age limit re-
quired for appointment.
Duetonon-appointment
for two years, close to 1.5
lakh posts have become
vacant. Therefore, if the
government has given
relaxation in the age
limit in the first year,
then the number can
also increase slightly
.
SHUTDOWN CALL
600 TRAINS IMPACTED
AGNIPATH ROW
STATES INCLUDING WEST BENGAL, BIHAR, JHARKHAND AND OTHERS INCREASED
THE SECURITY IN VIEW OF THE VIOLENCE THAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK
New Delhi: More than
600 trains were can-
celled and massive traf-
fic jams were witnessed
across Delhi-NCR on
Monday as some organ-
isations called for
Bharat Bandh to protest
against the Agnipath
recruitment scheme.
The protests against the
centre’s Agnipath
scheme for defence re-
cruitment have been go-
ing on in several parts
of the country as the
tri-service chiefs ruled
out withdrawal of the
scheme.
Indian Youth Cong
workers stopped a train
at the Shivaji Bridge
railway station near
Connaught Place in Del-
hi to protest against Ag-
nipath defence recruit-
ment scheme and the
ED questioning of Ra-
hul Gandhi. The track
was cleared by police
and security personnel
and train movement re-
sumed after about half
an hour, sources said.
Police personnel stops supporters during a protest in the wake of the Bharat Bandh on Monday.
HERE ARE THE
TOP UPDATES

z Even as the protests
continued over the centre’s
‘Agnipath’ short-term
recruitment plan for armed
forces, the Army on Monday
issued a notification for the
induction of soldiers under
the scheme. The online reg-
istration begins from July,
said the notification

z More than 500 trains
were cancelled on Monday
across the country. While
539 trains were affected,
600 trains were cancelled,
including 181 mail/express
trains and 348 passengers
trains, the Railways said in
a statement. The Railways
also partially cancelled
four mail/express trains

z Bihar suspends Internet
services in 20 district

z The traffic police also
advised commuters to
avoid Motilal Nehru Marg,
Akbar Road, Janpath and
Man Singh Road between
8 am and 12 pm

z UP Police said strict
action will be taken against
those found involved in
jeopardising peace
SUBODH KANT SAHAY SAYS ‘MODI
WILL DIE HITLER’S DEATH IF…’
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and
former Union minister Subodh Kant Sahai
on Monday said PM Modi is
behaving like Adolf Hitler and
“will die like Hitler” if he fol-
lows the path of the German
dictator, leading to his party
distancing from the statement
and the BJP slamming his “hateful” com-
ments. Cong veteran and communications
cheif Jairam Ramesh said in a tweet.
‘PEOPLE’S LOVE FOR MODI RISING
AS IS CONG’S HATRED FOR HIM’
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday slammed
the Cong for “hateful” comments of its
leaders against Modi and
asserted that people’s love
for him has been increasing
as is the opposition party’s
“hatred” for him. BJP spokes-
person Sudhanshu Trivedi
cited several instances of Cong leaders’
objectionable comments against Modi over
the years.
SALMAN KHURSHID
QUESTIONS THE
CHARACTER OF ARMY
EX-K’TAKA CM: RSS
WILL USE AGNIVEERS
TO TAKEOVER ARMY
‘AGNIPATH HAS LARGE
JOB POTENTIAL IN
CORPORATE SECTOR’
New Delhi: Industry leaders,
including Mahindra Group
Chairman Anand Mahindra,
RPG Enterprises Chairman
Harsh Goenka and Biocon
Ltd Chairperson Kiran
Mazumdar-Shaw on Monday
came out in support of the
Agnipath scheme, saying
it has large potential for
employment of youth in the
corporate sector. Mahindra
also expressed dismay over
the violence against the
scheme.
New Delhi: Amid Agnipath
scheme, senior Congress
leader and former union
minister Sal-
man Khurshid
on Monday
questioned the
“character”
of the Armed
Forces, doubting their inten-
tion behind bringing the
sch. We would not have any
problem if those for whom
the scheme is made were
satisfied.
‘WILL RECOVER COST
OF DAMAGE PROPERTY
FROM PROTESTERS’
Varanasi District Mag-
istrate Kaushal Raj
Sharma, on Monday said
that the damage caused to
public properties during the
violent protest over Agnipath
scheme will be recovered
from the miscreants.As
many as 36 buses were
damaged by miscreants, due
to which the government
had to suffer a loss of over
Rs 12 lakh. While a total of
27 miscreants have been
arrested so far.
AGNIPATH ROW:1,238
PERSONS ARRESTED
ACROSS INDIA
At least 1238 persons were
arrested following the
nationwide protest in Bihar,
UP, and Telangana against
the Union government’s new
proposed Aginath scheme.
The police have arrested
1,238 persons in all – 805 in
Bihar, 387 in UP, and 46 in
Telangana’s Secunderabad.
The scheme which offers
temporary recruitment to the
armed forces without any
further benefits raged the
Indian youth.
Bengaluru: Former Karnataka
CM HD Kumaraswamy has al-
leged that the Agnipath sch is
a hidden agenda
by the RSS to
take control of
the Indian Army.
He added that
Agniveers would
become RSS workers inside
the Army and outside as well,
even after their service ends.
Making a big statement CM
said, “Will RSS leaders recruit
them or the army’’.?
Union Home Minister Amit Shah with IB Director Arvind Kumar at the inaugural session of the
National Conference on Cyber Safety and National Security, at Vigyan Bhawan, in New Delhi.
Cyber security integral to
national security: Amit Shah
New Delhi: Union
Home Minister Amit
ShahonMondaysaidcy-
ber security is integral
to national security and
the Narendra Modi gov-
ernmentiscommittedto
making it robust.
Addressing a confer-
enceon‘cybersafetyand
national security’, Shah
said technology is being
taken to the grassroot
level in India and if cy-
ber security is not en-
sured, it will be a big
challenge for the coun-
try
. “We all know how
important is cyber secu-
rity and how it can con-
tribute for the develop-
ment of India. India’s
progress is not possible
without cyber security
.
Cyber security is inte-
gral to the national secu-
rity and the Modi govt is
committed to making it
robust,” he said.The
home minister said eve-
ryone knows that the
misuse of cyber space is
not new and various
kinds of cyber crimes
are seen very often that
includemalwareattacks,
phishing,attacksoncrit-
ical infrastructure, data
theft, online economic
frauds, child pornogra-
phy among others. Such
crimes are expected to
increase in the coming
days, he said.
In 2012, a total of
3,377 cyber crimes
were reported and it has
gone up to 50,000 in
2020. The number of
cyber crimes which
were not reported could
be in lakhs. We are
resolved to create the
most secured cyber
atmosphere in the world
Intel agencies see design
behind riots, destruction
Renni Abraham
New Delhi: Central In-
telligence agencies may
take over the probe into
ongoing incidents of
violenceinBihar,fourth
day in running, ostensi-
bly over the Agnipath
armed forces recruit-
ment scheme even as
theUnionGovthasbeen
sensitised about forces
inimical to India being
behind the out-of-con-
trol mayhem.
Central Revenue In-
telligence Agencies are
probing the genesis of
the violence that erupt-
ed separately in UP and
now in Bihar to unearth
the real design behind
the apparent mayhem
that they believe was
sought to be engineered
all across India.
Confirming this a
person in the know told
First India, “Our inter-
est was piqued begin-
ning with the Kanpur
riots where the role of
Hayat Zafar Hashmi
came to the fore.
Around Rs 4 crore was
found to have been
channelised through
three of his banking ac-
counts and is suspected
to have been chan-
nelised to engineer the
riots and violence. Af-
ter his arrest around Rs
60 odd lakh is still held
in one of the accounts.”
Things are slowly un-
ravelling and we are fo-
cussing on the master-
minds behind the vio-
lence.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat
calls for 'Bharat-centric'
approach to farming
Nagpur: RSS chief Mo-
han Bhagwat on Mon-
day laid importance on
organic and ancient
methods of farming and
saiditwouldbewrongto
reject such local knowl-
edge as unscientific
without examining
them.
He was speaking at
the annual ‘Convoca-
tion-cum-ScientificCon-
vention’ jointly organ-
ised by National Acade-
my of Veterinary Sci-
ences(India),NewDelhi.
India’s farming and ani-
malhusbandrymethods
are the oldest, Bhagwat
said, adding that mod-
ern science has side ef-
fects but our ancient
knowledge and methods
do not have side
effects.“Focus must be
onflexibilityinresearch
and use of local knowl-
edge.Itiswrongtoreject
local knowledge by
terming it unscientific.
Mohan Bhagwat
Airline refuses
to fly artist’s
wheelchair
Kochi: An award-win-
ning artist with special
needs has claimed she
was prohibited from
boarding an Alliance
Air flight from Bengalu-
ru to Kochi recently as
she was not willing to
leavebehindherbattery-
operated wheelchair.
The only option the
airline provided to the
woman, Sarita Dwivedi,
was to leave her wheel-
chair behind or book a
flight on another air-
line, she claimed while
talking to media on
Monday. A statement
from the airline on the
issue was awaited.
Gopalkrishna declines offer
to be opposition candidate
New Delhi: After
Sharad Pawar and Fa-
rooq Abdullah, Go-
palkrishna Gandhi be-
came 3rd person to rule
himself out of reckon-
ing to be joint Oppn
candidate for Prez polls.
“Opposition’s presi-
dential candidate
should generate nation-
al consensus, there will
be others who will do
this far better than I,”
Gandhi said while an-
nouncing his decision.
Opposition is now in a
race against time to
field a joint candidate
against the NDA nomi-
nee. Filing of nomina-
tion for the presidential
election began on June
15, and will continue till
June 29.Abdullah and
Gandhi’s names were
proposed by TMC chief
Mamata on June 15 dur-
ing a meeting attended
by 17 Oppn parties. Ab-
dullah withdrew his
name as the potential
joint Oppn candidate,
saying he has a “lot
more active politics”
ahead of him, and that
he wanted to contribute
in navigating the UT of
JK through the cur-
rent “critical juncture”.

❍ PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Sharad Pawar Farooq Abdullah Gopalkrishna
3 MILITANTS KILLED
IN TWO SEPARATE
GUNFIGHTS: POLICE
Srinagar: Security forces
in JK on Monday killed 3
militants in two separate
gunfights, the police said.
2 suspected militants were
killed in the Kupwara dis-
trict, while one died during
a gunfight in the Chat-
pora area of Pulwama. One
militant killed in Kupwara
was identified as Showkat,
police said on Monday.
Security forces recovered
arms and ammunition,
from the site.

INDIA
06
‘Threat to life’: Nupur Sharma seeks 4
weeks to appear before Kolkata Police
Kolkata: Suspended
BJP spokesperson Nu-
pur Sharma has sought
four weeks’ time to ap-
pear before the Kolkata
Police citing alleged
threat to life over her
remarks on Prophet
Mohammad. She sent
the Kolkata Police a let-
ter through the mail in
response to a summons
asking her to appear be-
fore Narkeldanga police
on Monday
.
Sharma was sum-
monedbyKolkataPolice
for questioning in con-
nection with her contro-
versialremarksProphet
Mohammad. She was
asked to appear at Nar-
keldanga police station
on June 20 to record her
statement. Trinamool
Congress minority cell
general secretary Abul
Sohail lodged an FIR
against Sharma at Con-
tai police station over
remarks,whichsparked
violent protests in sev-
eral parts of the coun-
try. On June 10, violent
protests, which in-
volved stone-pelting
and vandalisation of
vehicles, erupted in sev-
eral parts of the coun-
try, including outside
Delhi’s Jama Masjid, as
protesters demanded
arrest of Sharma.
Sharma sent the Police a letter through the mail in response to a summons asking her to appear
PROPHET ROW
West Bengal Jamiat ulama-e-hind President TMC MLA Siddiqullah Chowdhury with other dignitaries
Bengal Assembly passes
resolution condemning
Nupur remark on Prophet
New Delhi: The Ben-
gal Assembly passed
a resolution con-
demning BJP leader
Nupur Sharma’s re-
marks on the Prophet
Muhammad on Mon-
day while the opposi-
tion BJP staged a
walkout when the
government passed
the resolution, ac-
cording to media.
The BJP leaders, led
by Leader of Opposi-
tion Suvendhu Adhi-
kari, started a protest
when West Bengal
CM Mamata Baner-
jee was addressing
the Assembly
.
This comes after
the suspension of
seven BJP MLAs, in-
cluding Leader of the
Opposition Suvendu
Adhikari and chief
whip Manoj Tigga,
from the West Bengal
legislative assembly.
The suspension has
nowbeenwithdrawn.
Mamata Banerjee in
assembly said, “We
took action when
there was violence in
the state. But how
come this lady is still
not arrested? I know
she will not be ar-
rested. She has
sought time from Kol-
kata Police for four
weeks. She was to ap-
pear before the police
today.” Addressing
the state Assembly,
Banerjee said that
the BJP practices
politics of provoca-
tion and hatred.
‘PM MODI, PLEASE ASK YOUR FRIEND ABBAS,
IF HE EXISTS...’: A ASADUDDIN OWAISI’S DIG
New Delhi: PM a
Modi should ask his
“childhood friend Ab-
bas” if suspended
BJP leader Nupur
Sharma’s remarks on
Prophet Muhammad
are objectionable or
not, Hyderabad MP
Asaduddin Owaisi
has said. Mr Owaisi’s
fresh attack on the
Prime Minister
comes a week after
Ms Sharma’s remarks
kicked up a political
storm and
sparked a wave
of protest
across the country
. In
a blog post written to
mark his mother
Heeraben Modi’s 99th
birthday, thePM re-
called his memories
with Abbas. “A close
friend of my father
used to stay in a near-
by village. After his
untimely death, my
father brought his
friend’s son, Abbas,
to our home. He
stayed with us and
completed his stud-
ies. Mother was as af-
fectionate and car-
ing towards Abbas
just like she did for
all of us siblings. Eve-
ry year on Eid, she
used to prepare his
favourite dish-
es,” he wrote.
Guwahati: Assam
Chief Minister Him-
anta Biswa Sarma will
hold a meeting with
the Deputy Commis-
sioners (DCs) and the
Sub-Divisional Offic-
ers (Civil) - SDOs on
Monday to review the
flood situation and dis-
aster preparedness.
Taking to Twitter, he
wrote, “In wake of ongo-
ing situation of floods
to review preparedness,
will connect with my
cabinet colleagues, DCs
and Civil SDOs on June
20, 9.30 am onwards
from my office via
VC.”The Indian Army
continued flood relief
operations for the
fourth consecutive day,
informed officials on
Sunday. The relentless
relief operations in in-
clement weather con-
ditions have been car-
ried out in seven dis-
tricts of Assam.
West Bengal CM Mamata
Banerjee
Dr Jitendra Singh
addresses a mammoth
public rally at Kathua
New Delhi: Union Min-
ister Dr Jitendra Singh
on Monday said that one
of the major contribu-
tions of Narendra Modi
as Prime Minister in the
last eight years has been
thatherestoredself-con-
fidence and self-esteem
among common Indi-
ans.
Addressing a mam-
moth public rally in this
remote area, Dr Jitendra
Singh said, the best way
to appreciate 8 years of
the Modi rule is to recall
the scenario that existed
in the 8 years prior to
that. When Modi took
over as Prime Minister
in 2014, the entire coun-
trywasreelingunderthe
shadow of pessimism
and the common citizen
had lost all hope in the
din of mega scams and
scandals involving Min-
isters and functionaries
at high places, he said
and added that Modi’s
swearing-inceremonyas
Prime Minister of India
in the evening of 26 May
2014 marked the begin-
ning of the nation’s jour-
ney from pessimism to
optimism.
Assam CM Sarma to chair
Assam CM Sarma to chair
meeting over flood situation
meeting over flood situation
DEATH TOLL IN ASSAM RISES TO 72
IN THE COURTYARD
SC denies Malik, Anil
Deshmukh temporary
bail to cast vote
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on Mon-
day declined the plea of
Nawab Malik and Anil
Deshmukh, Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP)
MLAs, who were seek-
ing temporary release
from prison to cast their
votes in the Maharash-
tra Legislative Council
election.
However, a vacation
bench of Justices C T
Ravikumar and Sud-
hanshu Dhulia issued a
notice to the Maharash-
tra government and
others involved in the
case. The court agreed
to examine the issue re-
lating to the interpreta-
tion of Section 62(5) of
the Representation of
the People Act 1951,
which bars jailed per-
sons from voting.
HIKE IN DEARNESS ALLOWANCE MAY
RAISE SALARIES OF GOVT EMPLOYEES
New Delhi: Govern-
ment employees are
expected to soon
get three good news
regarding their sal-
ary, going by media
reports. As the dear-
ness allowance (DA) is
revised twice a year in
January and July, it is
set to be revised next
month. Apart from DA,
the employees may
also get the payment
of an 18-month DA
arrear and interest on
provident fund (PF), ac-
cording to the reports.
The issue of 18-month
DA arrears payment
from Jan 2020 to June
2021 may be addressed
soon and the employ-
ees of the central govt
may also receive Rs 2
lakh in pending arrears
in one go, according
to a media report. The
amount of DA arrears
is decided by the em-
ployees’ pay band and
structure. And, as the
govt as already ratified
the interest rate on em-
ployees provident fund,
the Employees’ Provi-
dent Fund Organisation
will now credit interests
into the accounts of
PF account holders.
For the financial year
2021-22, the govt has
approved an interest
rate of 8.10 % on EPF.
Teenager killed, police among 3
injured in Washington DC shooting
Washington: A teen-
ager was shot dead and
three others including a
police officer were in-
jured in a shooting in
the area of 14th and U
Street Northwest in
Washington, DC, offi-
cials said.
The shooting took
place at a music event
on U Street Northwest
in Washington, DC, at
a location that is just
less than 2 miles from
the White House.
“MPD (Metropolitan
Police Department) is
responding to the situ-
ation in the area of
14th and U Street, NW,
for a shooting inci-
dent in which multi-
ple people have been
shot, including an
MPD officer. Media
staging at 15th and U
Street, NW. Chief Con-
tee to provide a media
briefing,” said the DC
Police Department in
a tweet.
—PICTURE FOR REPRESENTATION
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi : The Con-
gress party has re-
placed Randeep Sur-
jewala with Jairam
Ramesh as the in-
charge of the commu-
nication department.
He is in charge of me-
dia, social media and
all communication.
There was talk earlier
that Randeep Surjewa-
la is in charge of Kar-
nataka, where elec-
tions are due next year,
so the communication
department could be
taken over from him.
Now the question is,
will Jairam Ramesh re-
tain or change the old
team of Communica-
tions Department?
There is speculation
about AICC secretary
and co-in-charge of
communication de-
partment Pranav Jha,
social media in-charge
Rohan Gupta and me-
dia department’s
Vineet Punia. After
Ramesh became the
head of the communi-
cation department,
there is a general per-
ception that the num-
ber of people working
in Hindi will be less
and their importance
will also decrease.
In Randeep Surjewa-
la’s team, the number
of people who spoke,
understood and worked
in Hindi were more.
Most of the people were
from Hindi belt, but
this situation will not
remain with Ramesh.
He is from Karnataka
and has a team working
with him in English.
Secondly, they are lead-
ers living in their ‘in-
tellectual ego’, so they
do not give preference
to too many people.
Thirdly, Ramesh is not
too active on social me-
dia. By the time he was
appointed the head of
the communications
department, he had 1.5
lakh followers on Twit-
ter and he used to fol-
low only 18 people. In
contrast, Surjewala
had more than 17 lakh
followers. That’s why
many Congress leaders
are believing that
Jairam Ramesh him-
self and the entire team
will have to work hard-
er and at the same time
give preference to Eng-
lish speaking along
with Hindi speaking
individuals. This is also
necessary because al-
most the entire media
team of BJP is going to
work in Hindi only
.
Under Jairam, will Cong’ ‘connect’ improve?
Jairam Ramesh
PM WITH SRI SHIVARATHRI IN MYSURU
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Jagadguru Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Mahaswamiji
at the inauguration of the KSS Sanskrit Pathashala and hostel building and releases
books, at Sutturu Math in Mysuru on Monday.
SYRIAN MILITARY:
ATTACK ON BUS
KILLS 13
Damascus: An attack on
a civilian bus in northern
Syria on Monday killed 13
people, including 11 sol-
diers, and wounded three
troops, Syrian state media
reported, quoting an
unnamed military official.
According to state news
agency, SANA, the attack
occurred in the province
of Raqqa, which was once
controlled by the extrem-
ist Islamic State group.
Avinash Pande
@avinashpandeinc
I have unfortunately
tested positive for
COVID today. I am un-
der home quarantine. I
request everyone who
have recently come
in my contact to take
precautions incase of
any symptoms, isolate
themselves and get
tested. Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh addressing a mammoth public
rally at remote Bani in district Kathua of JK on Monday.

NEWS
07
MAN BEATEN TO
DEATH OVER
MINOR ISSUE IN
RAEBARELI
Aman was beaten to death
over minor issues in
Ruknapur village under
Harchandpur village. Police
sources here said Alok, a
resident of Ruknapur village, was
attacked by two unidentified
persons over minor issues. He
was rushed to the community
health center where doctors
declared him brought dead. The
police have initiated an
investigation into the matter.
Alok Priyadarshini,
superintendent of police said that
injury marks on the neck of the
deceased and the cause of death
can be ascertained after a post-
mortem report. Initial
investigation revealed that Alok
had a dispute with some local
villagers over the mobile phone.
—Janardan Misra
CONG APPOINTS
SUPRIYA AS NEW
SOCIAL MEDIA
HEAD
The Congress on Monday
appointed Supriya Shrinate as
chairperson of the social media
and digital platforms in its
communications department. She
replaces Rohan Gupta, who has
been appointed as the party
spokesperson with immediate
effect. “Congress president has
approved the appointment of
Supriya Shrinate as chairperson,
Social media and digital platforms
in the new Communications
department with immediate
effect,” an official statement from
the party said. “The party
appreciates the contribution of
Rohan Gupta, the outgoing
chairman, social media
department. Rohan Gupta has
been appointed as AICC
spokesperson with immediate
effect,” the statement also said.
The party has rechristened its
communications department by
appointing Jairam Ramesh as its
general secretary in-charge. The
party has also appointed Pawan
Khera as chairman of the media
and publicity in the
communications department. The
Congress during the Udaipur
‘Chintan Shivir’ had decided to
strengthen its communications
wing to help improve its connect
with people. —PTI
MAN, HIS WIFE
JAILED FOR
FIRING ON
POLICE TEAM IN
KANPUR
Share trader Rajkumar Dubey
and his wife Kiran were jailed
for firing more than 40 rounds
on a police team in the Shyam
Nagar colony under the Chakeri
police station area. Rajkumar
Dubey, the resident of C-Block
Shyam Nagar, had spat with his
daughter-in-law and son over a
minor issue. He had locked his
son and daughter-in-law in the
room. When police reached the
spot, Rajkumar Dubey opened
fire on the police team in which
one sub-inspector and three
police constables were injured. It
was alleged that the wife of
Rajkumar Dubey was helping
him and inciting him to shoot.
Senior police officials had taken
him into custody after three
hours of struggle. A case was
registered against Rajkumar
Dubey and his wife under an
attempt to murder, threatening,
Arms act charges, and was later
sent to jail.
—Janardan Misra
IMC members booked for violating
Sec 144 in protest against Nupur
Bareilly (PTI): A case
has been booked against
the members of the Itte-
had-e-Millat Council
(IMC) for violation of
Section 144 during a pro-
test held to demand ar-
restof NupurSharma,a
seniorpoliceofficersaid
on Monday
. Sharma, a
former spokesperson of
BJP
, has been in the eye
of the storm since she
made a remark against
Prophet Mohammad
during a TV debate.
The case was regis-
tered on Sunday against
the organisers of the
protest held on the call
of IMC Chief Maulana
TauqirRaza,policesaid.
The case was lodged
against the organisers
of the protest for alleg-
edly allowing gathering
of over 1,500 people. The
authorities have limited
the number of people to
1,500 who can gather at
a spot in a public meet-
ing or a protest. Yome
Durooh’ was organised
on Sunday evening by
Maulana Tauqir Raza
Khan, National Presi-
dent of Ittehad Millat
Council, in the grounds
of Islamia College in the
city
. Bareilly Municipal
Magistrate Rajiv Pan-
dey on Monday said that
according to estimates
more than 10,000 people
had gathered during the
meet in violation of the
Section 144. Two office
bearers of the council,
Mohd Farhat and Makh-
doom Baig, had taken
permission for the event
and a case was regis-
tered against them un-
der Section 188 of the
IPC at Kotwali Police
Station, police said.
Khansaidthatthecall
for the event was earlier
given on his behalf first
for June 10 and then on
June 17, but both being
Fridays, it was organ-
ised on Sunday
. Khan is
an Indian politician and
an Islamic cleric. He is a
religious leader of the
Barelvi sect of Sunni
Muslims and the found-
er of the political party
Ittehad-e-MillatCouncil.
Thecasewaslodgedagainsttheorganisersforallegedlyallowinggatheringofover1,500people
Ittehad-e-Millat Council during
a protest demanding the arrest
of Nupur Sharma in Bareilly. Ex- BJP spokesperson Nupur
‘ONLY 1,500 WERE
ALLOWED’
COW SLAUGHTERING
ACCUSED ARRESTED
AFTER ENCOUNTER
First India Bureau
Saharanpur: Police
havearrestedacrimi-
nal accused of cow
slaughtering and oth-
er crimes, after an en-
counter. Police sourc-
es here said that act-
ing on tip-off, the po-
lice team intercepted
suspects near the
Chaura Khurd area
but they opened fire
on the police team in
which police consta-
ble Uttar Rathi was
injured. In retaliato-
ry firing, one crimi-
nal was injured while
others managed to
escape. The injured
criminal was identi-
fied as Shamshad and
was shifted to the dis-
trict hospital. Police
have recovered one
country-made pistol
along with cartridg-
es, one cow, and cow
slaughtering equip-
ment from
them. More than 10
criminal cases under
cow slaughtering, at-
tempt to murder,
Gangster Act, and
Arms Act were regis-
tered against Sham-
shad and he was
wanted in several
cases. SSP has an-
nounced a reward of
Rs 25,000 for the po-
lice team involved in
the encounter.
NARROW ESCAPE
A damaged car after the balcony of a house collapsed on it, in Varanasi on Monday. At least 6 persons suffered
injuries, according to officials. —PHOTO BY PTI
DyCMordersprobeinnewborn’s
deathinBandahealthcentre
Shahjahanpur (PTI):
UP Deputy CM Brajesh
Pathak on Monday or-
dered a probe into the
death of a newborn
child here allegedly for
lack of treatment. As
per Chief Medical of-
ficer Dr SP Gautam, a
pregnant woman Kiran
had arrived at Banda
health centre on Mon-
day at about 2 am and
had given birth to a
child at about 8 am.
He said that Kiran
was still undergoing
treatment at the health
centre and is fine. He
said that a detailed re-
port has been sought
from health centre su-
perintendent Virendra
Verma and it is being
sent to the Deputy CM.
Pathak ordered the
probe after he came to
know about the incident
through a tweet, which
alleged that a newborn
had died in the district
for lack of treatment.
Pathak tweeted about
the matter to inform
people about the probe.
“Taking note of the re-
port that a newborn
died for lack of treat-
ment at Banda health
centre, Shahjahanpur,
CMO has been asked to
give his report taking
action against the
guilty
,” he said in tweet.
Health Minister and Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak visits
Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital for inspection in Prayagraj.
‘KIN TOOK BABY TO A PRIVATE HOSPITAL’
Cops solve `15 lakh theft case,
arrest three with guns, part of loot
Ghaziabad (PTI):
Three men were arrest-
ed on Sunday for alleg-
edly robbing a collec-
tion agent of Rs 15 lakh
he was carrying in a bag
about a week ago from a
store, police said here.
Veer Bahadur Singh
wasattackedandrobbed
by Sachin, Hrithik, and
Kashish on June 13,
when he was on his way
to deposit the cash.
The accused during
interrogation confessed
to robbing the collection
agent of Rs 15 lakh after
observing his routine
and identifying the days
he usually went to de-
posit the cash, Senior
Superintendent of Po-
lice Muniraj G told me-
dia at a press confer-
ence. During interroga-
tion, the accused told
the police that they had
been helped in identify-
ing the target by anoth-
er associate of theirs,
who gave them infor-
mation about the cash,
the bike he would be
coming on, and a mark
on the bike’s headlight.
As per plan, on June
13 the 3 accused reached
a store where the collec-
tion agent was present
with a bag that was later
found to contain Rs 15
lakh, police said. Just
as he was leaving the
store, the accused hit
the collection agent
with a stick and caused
him to fall down. While
he was on ground, they
snatched his bag and
fled. Police recovered
over twelve lakh rupees
in cash of the loot from
the accused, he said.
3 TEAMS FORMED
13 INJURED AFTER BUS OVERTURNS
S h a h j a h a n p u r
(PTI): Around 13 peo-
ple were injured when
a private double-deck-
er bus overturned
here, police said on
Monday.
The incident took
place when the bus
was on its way to Pun-
jab from Gonda, Su-
perintendent of Po-
lice (city) Akhand
Pratap Singh said.
“Around 13 passen-
gers got seriously in-
jured. They were ad-
mitted at the medical
college,” Singh said,
adding that the bus
driver fled from the
spot. According to
passengers, the driver
was reportedly driv-
ing the bus in an ine-
briated state.
In a tweet, the of-
fice of Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath said the
CM has directed offi-
cials to ensure proper
treatment to the in-
jured persons.
Passengers say
the driver was
reportedly
driving the bus
in an inebriated
state
Unknown
person defaces
mosque wall
with graffiti
against Prophet
NMA to organise
astrophysical
study of
movement of
sun around
Qutub Minar
Aligarh (PTI): A case
hasbeenfiledagainstan
unidentified person for
defacing the wall of a
mosque here with objec-
tionableandprovocative
comments against
ProphetMohammad,po-
lice said on Monday
. The
incident happened in a
mosqueinKeshopurGa-
drana under Mahua
Khera police station
area,theysaid.Thecare-
taker of the mosque, Ha-
bibur Rehman, on Sun-
day found inflammatory
graffiti on the mosque
wall and immediately
reported the matter to
the police, they said.
New Delhi (PTI): To
mark the International
Day of Yoga on Tuesday
,
the National Monu-
ments Authority will
organise an astrophysi-
calanalysisof themove-
ment of the sun around
the Qutub Minar with
the help of the Ministry
of Science and Technol-
ogy
,thecultureministry
said. The study will de-
termine if Qutub Minar
is tilted at a certain an-
gle, does it have any as-
tronomicalsignificance,
and whether there is a
zero shadow of the Min-
aret at local noon on 21st
June. The study begins
at 11.30 am on June 21
and will go on till 1.30
pm. An App has also
been created to help the
peopletotracktheevent.
—FILE
PHOTO

08
2NDFRONT
Greetings to the world wide
family of Yoga practitioners,
our lives have been much
interesting by this age-old practice.
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra,
CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
The struggle of the
‘Saifaiclan’tomaintain
dynasty, political heft
Gyanendra Kumar Shukla
Lucknow: SP patri-
arch Mulayam Singh
Yadav is an important
figure among the
founders of political
dynasties in North In-
dia; who transformed
the Saifai clan into the
most influential polit-
ical family of the
country with very pre-
cise strategy and con-
certed efforts. To
achieve this position,
he made tremendous
efforts,
Political experts be-
lieve that after analyz-
ing caste equations
and vote arithmetic,
Mulayam Singh chose
some parliamentary
seats, and then won
these seats. After be-
ing convinced that the
seat concerned would
be included in the
stronghold of SP, lat-
er, the electoral legacy
of this safe seat was
handed over to a
member of the Saifai
family.
This viewpoint is
ratified by the fact
that Mulayam Singh
Yadav, who became
MP from Mainpuri
parliamentary seat in
1996, contested elec-
tions from Sambhal
and Kannauj in 1999
and won from both the
seats. But he left the
Kannauj seat for the
sake of making a po-
litical career for his
son Akhilesh.
In the by-election
held for this seat in
1999, Akhilesh won
the election by a huge
margin and became
an MP for the first
time. In the 2004 gen-
eral elections, Mulay-
am contested and won
from Mainpuri but
later left this seat for
his nephew Dharmen-
dra Yadav. Latter
won the by-election on
this seat.
The SP founder
won elections from
Mainpuri and Azam-
garh in 2014. Again he
preferred to quit
Mainpuri, after which
his nephew’s son Tej
Pratap Yadav became
MP by winning the
by-election here. On
the lines of his father
Mulayam, Akhilesh
contested the 2009
elections from two
seats, Kannauj and
Firozabad and won
both. After this, he
left Firozabad seat,
where his wife Dim-
ple Yadav was fielded
in the by-election.
However, she was de-
feated by Raj Babbar
of Congress.
In the 2014 elec-
tions, despite the Modi
wave, Dimple Yadav
defeated Subrata
Pathak of BJP from
Kannauj seat. At the
same time, Akshay Ya-
dav of Saifai family
won the election from
Firozabad seat in the
same election.
Earlier, after be-
coming the UP CM in
2012, Akhilesh fielded
his wife Dimple from
his vacant Kannauj
seat and she won un-
opposed. And in this
way Firozabad, Main-
puri, Kannauj became
the bastions of SP.
The Badaun seat
also remained with
the SP for long . From
here, Salim Sherwani
of SP won 4 consecu-
tive times since 1996;
later Dharmendra Ya-
dav became MP from
here. However, he lost
the election last time,
after which the search
for a safe seat was go-
ing on for him, which
zeroed in on Azam-
garh parliamentary
seat.
Lucknow(PTI): Bahu-
jan Samaj Party supre-
mo Mayawati and Sama-
jwadi Party chief Akh-
ilesh Yadav on Monday
slammed the Centre
over‘
Agnipath’claiming
the scheme was intro-
ducedinahasteandthat
the country’s security
was paramount.
Mayawati said in a
Hindi tweet, “The new
‘Agnipath’ scheme has
taken the country by
surpriseandisbeingim-
plemented in haste like
‘notebandi’ (demoneti-
sation)and‘taalaabandi’
(lockdown), which af-
fected crores of youths
and their families, and
there is anger among
them. The government
should avoid having an
arrogant attitude.”
The “unrestrained
statements” by the BJP
leaders and the “nar-
row politics” of spread-
ing confusion among
the people and creating
difficulties for the army
should immediately
end, she said in another
tweet.
Akhilesh Yadav also
took to Twitter to con-
demn the scheme.
“The youths are feel-
ing disappointed and
there is a feeling of fear
and insecurity towards
their future. This will
prove to be fatal for the
country’s development.
The responsibility of
the government is to
improve the present
and shape up the coun-
try’s future. The opposi-
tion to the BJP from all
sides shows it has lost
its support base,” he
wrote in Hindi.
In another tweet, he
told the government not
to nudge anyone else to
bat for Agnipath.
Noida (PTI): A fast-
track court in Uttar
Pradesh’s Gautam Bud-
dh Nagar hearing the
Mohammad Akhlaq
lynching case on Mon-
day deferred till July 4
the recording of state-
ment of his daughter
after she could not de-
pose before it due to
lack of security.
Akhlaq’s daughter
Shaista (28), a key wit-
ness of the 2015 inci-
dent, could not depose
in the court due to lack
of security as police
personnel remain en-
gaged in law and order
duty in the wake of the
Bharat Bandh call over
the Agnipath military
recruitment scheme,
family’s lawyer Yusuf
Saifi said.
The case is being
heard by fast-track
court judge Anil Ku-
mar Singh at the Dis-
trict and Sessions
Court in Surajpur,
Greater Noida.
Shaista had on June
14 started recording her
statement and was sup-
posed to continue it on
June 17 also but securi-
ty could not be provided
to her by the police who
were engaged in law
and order duty on that
day too, the lawyer said.
In view of police’s en-
gagement in other du-
ties, adequate security
could not be provided to
Shaista and hence she
could not reach the
court after which the
next date was deferred
to July 4, Saifi said.
Mathur a(PTI):
Miffed over not ac-
cepting his friend
request on social
media, a youth here
allegedly killed a
16-year-old girl and
injured her mother,
police said on Mon-
day
. Accused Ravi is
a resident of Mu-
zaffanagar, SP (city)
MP Singh said.
A case has been
registered based on
a complaint by the
girl’s father Tejveer
Singh, a security
personnel at a
Faridabad factory,
SHO Ajay Kaushal
said.
The incident took
placeinNaglaBohra
village under High-
way police station
lateonSundaywhen
Ravi came over to
their house with a
wedding card.
As the girl walked
towards Ravi to col-
lect it, he allegedly
stabbed her, the SP
said. When her
mother Sunita came
to rescue her, he at-
tacked her as well-
Later, he tried to kill
himself, the SP said.
Dimple Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav and Mualayam Singh Yadav. —FILE PHOTO
BSP supremo Mayawati. —FILE PHOTO
MAINTAINING STRONGHOLD
ONE OF MAJOR CHALLENGES
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav’s victory in the 2019
elections in Azamgarh with a vote share of
60.4 percent proved that this seat is one of the
powerful strongholds of SP. In the assembly
elections too, the SP won all the seats here.
Akhilesh’s cousin Dharmendra Yadav is now
in the electoral fray from this family bastion.
Maintaining this stronghold is one of the major
challenges of the SP.
WORLD
YOGA DAY People perform yoga asanas as part of preparations for International Day of
Yoga, at Khidkiya Ghat in Varanasi on Monday. —PHOTO BY PTI
PRESSING ISSUE
MSY ENSURED PARTY BASTIONS DON’T
GO OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE FAMILY
Janardan Misra
Kanpur: After two
years of notorious Bik-
ru case, probe was or-
dered against IPS Anant
Dev Tewari and IPS
Neelabja Chaudhary
into the matter,
After Bikru case, advo-
cate Saurabh Bhadauri-
ya had complained
about former senior su-
perintendent of police
Anant Dev Tewari for
his connection with
dreaded criminal Vikas
Dubey and his cashier
Jay Bajpai. The probe
was conducted by IPS
Neelabja Chaudhary
and in his report, he was
clearedfromallegations.
Other investigations
found relations of IPS
Anant Dev Tewari and
Jay Bajpai and now
probe was ordered
against accused IPS of-
ficer for his connection
with Dubey and another
IPS officer for providing
him clean chit in inves-
tigations.
Two teams were
formed to probe the is-
sue. A team was formed
by Union Home Minis-
ter’s office while other
team will be of state of-
ficials and Saheli
Ghosh, joint secretary
Home department and
Durga Shanker Mishra,
chief secretary UP will
be parts of teams.
Saurabh Bhadauriya,
complainant said that
SIT formed by state gov-
ernment and led by IPS
Lakshmi Singh had also
found relations of
Anant Dev and Jay Ba-
jpai. Several police offi-
cials were under scan-
ner after Bikaru case
which underlined po-
lice-criminal relation-
ship. Eight policemen
including deputy super-
intendent of police were
killed and seven other
injured when Vikas
Dubey and his accom-
plices opened fire on po-
lice team that had gone
to arrest and accused in
Bikaru village late on
July 2, 2020 night.
Probe against Neelabja Chaudhary for clean chit to fellow IPS
VIKAS DUBEY LINK

Advocate
Saurabh
Bhadauriya had
complained about
former SSP
Anant Dev Tewari
for his connection
with Vikas Dubey
and his cashier
Jay Bajpai
The eight cops killed in Bikru village on July 2, 2020
Agnipath introduced in haste, say BSP, SP
‘SECURITY OF
NATION MORE IMP’
Akhilesh said national
security was more
important than security of
industrialists. “Agnipath
policy has been made by
the government. So, the
government and the rul-
ing party spokespersons
should not push forward
(anybody else to en-
dorse). The safety of the
country is more important
than safety of the income
of industrialists, he said
Youth kills
girl for not
accepting
friend request
DUBEY PROTECTED
BY SOME COPS
During investigation
it was revealed that
criminal Vikas Dubey
had protection from
police officials and was
informed about the
raid following which
he massacred eight
policemen. Several
policemen came under
scanner into the matter
and two policemen were
sent to jail.
Akhlaq case: Court pushes next date to
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hen virtue and
modesty en-
lighten her
charms, the lus-
tre of a beauti-
ful woman is
brighter than the
stars of heaven, and the in-
fluence of her power it is in
vain to resist. When asked
about her journey
, she said,
”Without being boastful I
can say that I have got the
passion, enthusiasm and
confidence to take my step
forward in the modelling
world because it excites me
when I see the ramp and I
always feel like walking on
it and showing my charm
and confidence to the world
and inspire people. I me-
ticulously follow the latest
trends and fashion which I
think Is the mainstream
for the modelling world. I
am an athlete and dancer
as well.
I won the title of the
Miss Body beautiful 2021
and from that day I never
thought of stopping my-
self.”
She further talked about
her inspiration and said,“I
grew up watching glamour
and beauty pageants
through the tv and since
my childhood I took so
much interest that I gave
my first audition for EMR
in class 12th. I didn’t get
selected but I didn’t lose
hope. Then in 2022 I gave
the auditions again and I
got selected since then I
haven’t stopped. At the
start, my dad wasn’t sup-
portive at all but somehow
I convinced him that I can
do wonders in this field
and here I am doing so far.
I am an empathetic person
and humanity comes above
all and that’s what is im-
portant that you have beau-
ty and use your senses and
brains. So I would leave no
stone unturned to become
a supermodel.
I saw Manushi Chillar
winning Miss World title
on the TV and that day I
thought to be on the other
side of the screen.”
Talking about biggest
rookie mistake Sanya
said,”It was all an experi-
ence like the part and par-
cel of this field and the life.
I was guided by the right
one like Gaurav Gaur who
is always there with me on
this journey and is very
supportive and tells me
what’s right and wrong and
keeps me on the right path.
And my parent’s wise ad-
vice always kept me safe.
When asked about her
memorable moment in
your career, she said,” The
day when I won Ms body
beautiful 2021 title. When
I won the title and was
recognised as Ms
body beautiful on
the stage then I
saw my father
from the stage
in the crowd
having fun
and cheering
up for me
with his
puf fed-up
chest and I
c o u l d n’ t
hold my-
self be-
ing emo-
t i o n a l
seeing
t h a t
side of
m y
Dad.
UTTKARSHA SHEKHAR
uttkarsha.shekhar@firstindia.co.in
W
AS PRETTY
AS PRETTY
AS A PICTURE
AS A PICTURE
—PHOTOS
BY
MUKESH
KIRADOO
LUCKNOW, TUESDAY,
JUNE 21, 2022
A 22 YEARS OLD BEAUTIFUL AND CONFIDENT DIVA AND SUPERMODEL HAILING FROM
A 22 YEARS OLD BEAUTIFUL AND CONFIDENT DIVA AND SUPERMODEL HAILING FROM
JAIPUR, SANYA HISSARIA SHARES HER INSPIRING JOURNEY AS MODEL WITH CITY FIRST!
JAIPUR, SANYA HISSARIA SHARES HER INSPIRING JOURNEY AS MODEL WITH CITY FIRST!

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