21122021 first india lucknow

PERSONA NON GRATA? MOS MISHRA
SKIPS SSB FUNCTION IN DELHI
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First India Bureau
Lucknow: Under
mounting Opposition
pressure to resign due
to his son Ashish
Mishra being prime
accused in the killing
of farmers in Lakhim-
pur Khiri, Union Min-
ister of State (MoS) for
Home Ajay Mishra
‘Teni’ on Monday
skipped the Sashastra
Seema Bal’s (SSB) 58th
Foundation Day cere-
mony, where he was
the chief guest, in Del-
hi.
His ministerial col-
league Nisith Praman-
ik instead attended the
ceremony, which re-
mained closed for the
media. Mishra has
also not been attend-
ing the party/govern-
ment programmes as
he was not present at
the foundation laying
ceremony of Ganga
Expressway in Shahja-
hanpur last Saturday.
According to infor-
mation from the Un-
ion Home ministry,
Mishra could not at-
tend the SSB event
because of some ur-
gent work. The minis-
try did not elaborate
further. Turn to P8
Ajay Mishra Teni —FILE PHOTO
LOK SABHA PASSES BILL TO LINK VOTER ID,
AADHAAR CARD AMID PROTEST BY OPPN
The opposition has argued that
allowing the Aadhaar card-voter
ID link could lead to more
non-citizens voting in country
New Delhi: Four
changes in the elec-
toral law, the key one
allowing linking of
Aadhaar to the voter
identity card, was
passed in the Lok
Sabha amid uproar
today
. The opposition
demanded a review
of the bill, arguing
against the Aadhaar-
voter I-card link.
Mohd Fahad
Mumbai: On a day
marked by high volatili-
ty, Sensex and Nifty50
closed at the lowest lev-
elssinceAugust23,amid
increasing worries over
the rapidly spreading
Omicron variant of the
coronavirus.
Some countries in Eu-
rope have already be-
hind lockdowns while
others are also consider-
ing the same. Hawkish
tone by central banks
across the world is not
helping the markets ei-
ther. Sensex declined
1189.73 points or 2.09 per
cent to close at 55,822.01.
The index at one point
had hit the low of
55,132.68 before recov-
ery
. NSE Nifty fell 371
points or 2.18 per cent to
16,614.20.
01 The opposition has
contended that
allowing the Aadhaar
card-voter ID link could play
into the hands of non-
citizens, who can take
advantage of the law and
vote by just showing
Aadhaar
02 “Aadhaar was meant
to be proof of
residence, not citizenship. If
you are asking for an Aadhar
card from the voter, all you
get is a document that
reflects residence. You are
potentially giving voting
rights to non-citizens,” said
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor
03 The Congress, MK
Stalin’s DMK, Sharad
Pawar’s Nationalist
Congress Party, Trinamool
Congress, Shiv Sena and
the BSP opposed the
Election Laws (Amendment)
Bill in the Lok Sabha
04 YSR Congress, too,
sought scrutiny and
debate on bill and asked the
government to return with a
comprehensive version
05 Naveen Patnaik’s Biju
Janata Dal opposed
the way the bill was
introduced and passed
06 Under the right to
privacy judgment of
Supreme Court, the seeding
of Aadhaar with voter
identity cards will be
voluntary
07 The project to link
Aadhaar with electoral
data was started by the
Election Commission as part
of process reforms. The
idea was to stop multiple
entries in electoral rolls and
make them error-free
08 The poll panel had
even started
collecting Aadhaar numbers
as part of its National
Electoral Roll Programme.
09 But the Supreme
Court order on
Aadhaar in August 2015 put
the brakes on it
10 EC then proposed a
change in electoral
law. The proposal was pend-
ing with government since
TOP 10
POINTS
INVESTORS LEFT POORER BY `6.81 LAKH CRORE
BLOODBATH
DALAL STREET
While Nifty 50 hit a
low of 16,653 points,
Sensex fell 1,190
points to 55922.58
Domestic equity
markets were in a
freefall right from
the start of trading
on Monday, with
both the
benchmark indices
opening over a
percent lower
BEARS TOOK CONTROL OF STOCK MARKETS AS BENCHMARK INDICES,
NIFTY50 AND SENSEX, SLIPPED OVER 2 PER CENT EACH
@
BANKS RECOVER
`13,100 CR FROM
MALLYA, NIRAV,
MEHUL: FinMin
Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman on Monday
said that banks have
recovered Rs 13,109.17
crore from asset sale
of fugitives like Vijay
Mallya, Nirav Modi and
Mehul Choksi. She said
this while replying to a
discussion on the second
batch of Supplemen-
tary Demands for Grants
which was approved
by the Lok Sabha amid
uproar by the Opposition
over various issues. The
Supplementary Demands
for Grants authorised the
government to spend an
additional Rs 3.73 lakh cr
during the current fiscal.
Delimitation panel
proposes 6 addl seats
forJammu,1forValley
PM in Prayagraj
today for prog
on the women
empowerment
New Delhi: PM Modi
will visit Uttar Pradesh,
which is scheduled to
hold assembly elections
early next year, on Tues-
day. The Prime Minis-
ter’s Office (PMO) said
in a release the pro-
gramme in Prayagraj is
being held as per PM
Modi’s “vision to em-
power women, especial-
ly at the grassroots lev-
el, by providing them
with the necessary
skills, incentives, and
resources.”
He has already been
to the poll-bound state a
number of times this
month to launch big-
ticket infrastructure
projects, including
Kashi Vishwanath Cor-
ridor in his constituen-
cy of Varanasi.
New Delhi: The Delimi-
tation Commission has
proposed to increase the
number of Assembly
seats in Jammu region
to43andinKashmirVal-
ley to 47 while 24 seats
are expected to remain
in Pakistan-occupied
Kashmir in a draft pro-
posal discussed during
itsmeetinginNewDelhi
on Monday with the as-
sociate members. Nine
seatshavebeenproposed
forSTsandsevenforSCs
in Jammu and Kashmir,
in its first paper drafted
by the Commission.
The commission on
Monday called five Jam-
mu and Kashmir MPs
and asked them to sub-
mit their suggestions by
the end of December.
JAYA BACHCHAN CURSES BJP
WITH ‘BAD DAYS’ OVER
‘PERSONAL’ REMARKS IN RS
BACHCHANS’ BAHU AISHWARYA
INTERROGATED FOR 7 HOURS
BY ED OVER PANAMA PAPERS
FACTORS LEADING TO MARKET ROUT
FII SELLING
SPREE
The tightening of the
policies by the central
banks in developed
markets has resulted
in unabated selling by
FIIs in India and other
emerging markets. In
December alone, the
FIIs have net sold over
Rs 26,000 crore in the
cash market, the highest
monthly selling this year.
On December 17, they net
sold Rs 2,069 crore in the
cash market.
OMICRON
WORRIES
The rapidly spreading
Corona virus variant
continued to spook inves-
tors as most countries in
Europe scuttle to control
the rising number of
infections. Market experts
believe another series of
strict lockdowns could
massively hurt the eco-
nomic recovery prospects
just a year after the global
economy started taking
baby steps to normalisa-
tion. The Netherlands is
the latest in the region to
have imposed a “painful”
lockdown right in the
middle of festival season.
GLOBAL SPILL-OFF
Wall Street finished lower on Friday, weighed down by
major tech giants. All three main US stock indices ended
with a decline for the week after the Fed on Wednesday
signalled three interest rate hikes by the end of 2022 to
fight inflation. Asian indices also fell and oil prices slid.
While Japan’s Nikkei fell 2.2 percent to 27,915 points,
Hang Seng was down 1.5 percent at 22,858 points and
Korea’s Kospi was down 1.8 percent.
POLICY TIGHTENING
A major reason that has caused the spiralling effect on
the equity markets in Asia is the stance by the central
banks world-wide. The Bank of England became the
first major central bank to raise interest rates since the
COVID-19 pandemic began. Norway raised rates for the
second time this year on December 16, while Russia
raised its policy rates for the seventh time this year on
December 17. New Zealand also raised its interest rate,
and Canada has suggested taking the same route soon.
MEETING OF TWO GURUS!
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat meets Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama at his residence in
Dharamshala’s McLeodganj on Monday. —PHOTO BY PTI
‘UNACCEPTABLE,
PROMOTES BJP’s
POLITICAL AGENDA’
Jammu Kashmir politi-
cal parties called the draft
recommendations of the
Delimitation Commis-
sion “unacceptable”, with
former Chief Minister
and National Conference
leader Omar Abdullah
saying it promotes
the “political agenda of
the BJP”.
New Delhi: Upset over
alleged “personal” re-
marks made against her,
Samajwadi Party MP Jaya
Bachchan on Monday
lashed out at the
ruling BJP in Ra-
jya Sabha with
a “curse” that
it will face
bad days.
An agitated
Bachchan
also told the
chair (Bhubane-
swar Kalita) that he
should be fair and alleged
that an attempt was being
made to stifle the voice
of opposition. “I expect
you to take action on the
comment he made on me
and my career. You want
to be fair. You are sitting
on the chair, you don’t
belong to any party,
sir,” she said.
“How can
they make
personal
remarks…
Aap logon
kay buraey
din aayengay
(Your bad days
will come), I curse
you,” she said. Remarks
claimed by Bachchan as
“personal” could not be
heard in the noise.
New Delhi: Actor Aish-
warya Rai Bachchan left
the Enforcement Directo-
rate’s Delhi offices on
Monday night after being
questioned for over
seven hours
in connec-
tion with
alleged forex
violations
related to the
‘Panama Pa-
pers’. It is un-
clear if the actor
has been summoned
for more questioning at
a later date. The probe
agency recorded her
statement over claims
she parked her money in
a company based in the
British Virgin Islands,
sources said. Aishwarya
Rai, 48, the daughter-in-
law of Bollywood
star Amitabh
Bachchan,
had been
summoned
earlier but
twice sought
more time.
ED started
investigating
allegations in 2017.
Rai had submitted for-
eign payments records
received over past 15
years.
CORONA CATASTROPHE
UP
INDIA
13,644
new cases
396
new fatalities
27
new cases
00
new fatalities
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OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, AHMEDABAD, LUCKNOW NEW DELHI
Senior Indian diplomat Pradeep Kumar Rawat,
who is well-versed in negotiating with Chinese
diplomats, was on Monday appointed as
India’s next Ambassador to China. Rawat will
succeed Vikram Misri.
The contentious anti-conversion bill was
cleared by the Karnataka Cabinet and it is
most likely to be tabled in the Assembly on
Tuesday, official sources said. The proposed
bill is being opposed by the opposition.
The Nagaland Assembly on Monday unani-
mously adopted a resolution demanding the
repeal of AFSPA, during a special session
held in the aftermath of the botched security
ambush that claimed 14 lives this month.
PRADEEP KUMAR
RAWAT TO BE
INDIA’S NEW
ENVOY TO CHINA
K’TAKA CLEARS
ANTI-CONVERSION
BILL, LIKELY TO BE
TABLED TODAY
NAGALAND ADOPTS
RESOLUTION
DEMANDING
REPEAL OF AFSPA
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LUCKNOW | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2021
02
‘PREVIOUS DYNASTIC GOVTS
responsible for UP’s poverty’
CM YOGI DEDICATES PROJECTS WORTH RS 1100 CRORE IN JAUNPUR
First India Bureau
Jaunpur: Slamming
the previous state gov-
ernments for their
‘casteist, narrow-mind-
ed and dynastic mental-
ity’ and ‘politics of ap-
peasement’, Chief Min-
ister Yogi Adityanath
on Monday said that
because of them the
state was reduced to
poverty and remained
‘underdeveloped’.
“Under the leader-
ship of PM Modi, the
‘New’ UP has pro-
gressed on the path of
development. Today,
not only faith is being
respected here, but
also, the poor and un-
derprivileged are be-
ing uplifted. Now, the
government is not
backing the riots and
criminals, but is run-
ning bulldozers on
them,” said the Chief
Minister while dedicat-
ing development pro-
jects worth Rs 1,100
crore in the presence
of Union Road Trans-
port Minister Nitin
Gadkari in Jaunpur .
While addressing the
public, Yogi Adityanath
criticised the previous
regimes including that
of the Samajwadi Party
for instigating hatred,
creating chaos and rift
in the younger genera-
tion by making them
fight amongst them-
selves on the basis of
caste and religion.
While indirectly dis-
cussing the exploits of
the SP tenure, he said
that whenever a job
came out, the entire
family fanned out to do
extortion in job recruit-
ments and at the same
time, the BJP govern-
ment gave government
jobs to nearly five lakh
people with utmost
transparency in five
years.
The CM went on to
say that under the pre-
vious governments, the
benefits of the govern-
ment schemes only
reached ‘selective peo-
ple’, no farmer, no
needy or poor was ben-
efitted. “Unlike them
(opposition), we do not
believe in benefitting
ourselves, ‘Humne sa-
madhan ki rajneeti
kari hai’,” he re-
marked.
Jaunpur: If UP contin-
ues to pursue its double-
engine growth under
the Mod and Yogi gov-
ernments in the Centre
and the state for anoth-
er five years, the roads
here will vie with those
in America, Union Min-
ister Nitin Gadkari said
on Monday
.
The Union Minister
of Road Transport and
Highways made the as-
sertion while laying
foundation stones for
three national highway
projects worth Rs 1,123
crore here along with
Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Yogi Adity-
anath.
“If Uttar Pradesh
continues to grow un-
der the double-engine
governments (of Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi in the Centre and
Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath in UP) for
another five years, the
UP roads will not only
surpass European
standards but will vie
with those in America,”
asserted Gadkari.
Mark my words. They
are lines carved in
stones”, he said, seek-
ing to assure the audi-
ence attending the rally
.
Road and Transport
Minister Nitin Gadkari
recalled the famous
quote of former US
President John F Ken-
nedy: American roads
are not good because
America is rich but
America is rich be-
cause American roads
are good.
Gadkari said all road-
building work and oth-
er developmental ven-
tures of his ministry
stayed stalled when he
joined PM Modi’s Cabi-
net in 2014.
They were, however,
expedited by the PM, he
said. Giving details of
expenditure on build-
ing roads in UP since
2014, Gadkari said pro-
jects worth Rs 1.40 lakh
crore have already been
completed in the state
and projects worth Rs
1.80 lakh crore are un-
der progress.
More than Rs 45,000
crore have been spent
on land acquisition
and other related
works, he added.
“More than Rs 3 lakh
crore have been spent
in UP by my ministry
since 2014 and if the
double engine govern-
ment is allowed to work
for another five years,
this will be raised to Rs
5 lakh crore,” Gadkari
said and asked people to
mark his words. —PTI
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Union
Education Minister
Dharmendra Prad-
han on Monday said
that Congress gener-
al secretary Priyan-
ka Gandhi Vadra
cannot understand
importance of toilets
and free gas connec-
tions for women.
The UP assembly
poll campaign in-
charge made the al-
legation a day after
Priyanka Gandhi re-
portedly said in Rae
Bareli that free gas
connections, oven
and ration are being
given to women for
their votes.
She also reported-
ly told women that
toilet and gas connec-
tions alone will not
do and they have to
be empowered.
“She (Priyanka
Gandhi Vadra) says
that toilets and gas
cylinders do not em-
power women. She
does not feel the pain
and ‘sharm’ (humili-
ation) of those wom-
en who have to go in
the open after the
sunset or before the
sunrise to answer na-
ture’s call, said Prad-
han in a statement.
She is not connect-
ed to the ground re-
ality, and so she is
talking like this,” he
added.
Asserting that
building toilets and
providing free LPG
gas cylinders under
Ujjwala Yojana are
the two most effec-
tive schemes of Inde-
pendent India, Prad-
han said that both
these schemes have
brought a major pos-
itive change in the
social structure of
the country.
But Priyanka ji
cannot understand
these transforma-
tions because she
neither understands
the villages nor she
understands the
poor,” he alleged.
“We started these
schemes from UP.
We were not in the
government (then)
but we knew that
this would change
the social atmos-
phere of the state
and a message would
go to the country,
Pradhan said.
First India Bureau
Prayagraj: PM Modi
will visit Prayagraj on
Tuesday and partici-
pate in one of its kind
programmes to be at-
tended by over two lakh
women.
The programme is
being held as per PM
Modi’s vision to empow-
er women, especially at
the grassroots level, by
providing them with
necessary skills, incen-
tives and resources, the
PMO said, adding that
he will transfer an
amount of 1000 crore in
the bank account of
Self Help Groups
(SHGs), benefitting
around 16 lakh women
members.
This transfer is being
done under the Deen-
dayal Antyodaya Yojana
- National Rural Liveli-
hood Mission (DAY-NR-
LM), with 80,000 SHGs
receiving Community
Investment Fund (CIF)
of 1.10 lakh per SHG
and 60,000 SHGs receiv-
ing a revolving fund of
15,000 per SHG, it said.
To encourage busi-
ness correspondent-
Sakhis (BC-Sakhis), the
PM will also transfer a
sum of 4000 as the first
month’s stipend in the
account of 20,000 of
them. When BC-Sakhis
commence their work
as providers of door-
step financial services
at the grassroots level,
they are paid a stipend
of 4,000 for six months,
so that they get stabi-
lised in their work and
then start earning
through the commis-
sion on transactions.
During the programme,
PM Modi will also be
transferring a total
amount of over Rupees
20 crores to more than 1
lakh beneficiaries un-
der the ‘Mukhya Mantri
Kanya Sumangala
Scheme’.
CM Yogi Adityanath presents a Guinness Book of World Records certificate at the Residency in Lucknow
on Monday to the Department of Tourism and Culture, UP Govt, and District Administration Gorakhpur
for the largest online album of people saluting, consisting of 23,529 videos, created at an event in
Gorakhpur’s Chauri Chaura on 4th Feb, 2021. MoS for External Affairs and Culture of India Meenakshi
Lekhi and Principal Secretary Sanjay Prasad were also present. —PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, addresses the gathering during the
inauguration of various national highways in Jaunpur on Monday.
Union Education Minister Dharamendra Pradhan addressing
the Destination Uttar Pradesh Conclave in Lucknow.
PM Narendra Modi
CM Yogi said
there can be
no substitute for
development. Devel-
opment is necessary
to bring happiness
in the life of every
person, adding
that good roads,
electricity, toilets
should be present
in every house,
houses should be
present for the poor
and the poor should
get benefit of health
facilities through
Ayushman Bharat
Yojana.
CM Yogi Aditya-
nath thanked
Union Minister
Nitin Gadkari for
construction of
the country’s first
water-way, the ‘Va-
ranasi-Haldia’ wa-
terway.
madhan ki rajneeti
Yogi Speaks
Yogi Speaks
YOGI FLAYS OPPOSITION FOR PLAYING
DIRTY POLITICS IN PANDEMIC DAYS
Jaunpur: Mentioning ‘dirty politics’ played by
the opposition on indigenous covid-19 vaccine,
Yogi asserted that, “Under PM’s guidance, the
entire country was provided with free testing
facilities, free vaccines and free treatment amid
Covid-19 pandemic. Besides, the double-engine
government is also providing double-benefits to
the poor by providing free ration.”
UP roads will soon vie with
those of America: Gadkari
‘PGV does not
know importance of
toilets for women’
PM Modi to transfer `1000-cr in
accounts of SHGs in Prayagraj
EMPOWERING WOMEN
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The new
phrase coined by Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi about the chief
minister Yogi Aditya-
nath- UP plus Yogi ba-
hut hai UPYOGI- has
become a debating
point in political circle
in the state.
Modi has in fact giv-
en far reaching mes-
sage about the emer-
gence of Yogi on the
political horizon of not
only UP but in the coun-
try as well.
With “CM face” in
2022 elections Yogi has
successfully estab-
lished his dominance in
the party hierarchy as
number three after
Modi and Amit Shah.
Earlier the defence
minister Rajnath
Singh had commented
that “the God has made
an unmatched Mo-
di-Yogi Jodi”.
With repeated pre-poll
survey predicting BJP
winhispositionhasbeen
further consolidated.
Even though Yogi
during the last five
years has successfully
salvaged the state from
the messy situation on
all developmental and
law and order fronts
with his unique style
of functioning, “Brand
Yogi” has assumed
central position na-
tionally also.
The BJP has real-
ised that Yogi’s “upyo-
gita” (utility) is not
just for UP but nation-
ally also. “He has be-
come a focal point of
all BJP activities in
the country”, com-
mented a senior IAS
officer on the condi-
tion of anonymity.
“The leader in saffron
robes (yogi) has been
mighty effective in
controlling the mafia
in Uttar Pradesh and
no one can cast doubts
on his honesty and
that, a mere mention
of his name gives
criminals the shivers.
UP has witnessed mas-
sive anti-mafiosi drive
and encounters during
the four years”, said
the officer.
While Modi and Yogi
have become major face
of the party for the elec-
tion campaign other
members of the BJP
brigade have pitched in
their respective areas
for which the BJP-RSS
has identified the re-
gional leaders.
Yogi ‘upyogi’ not just for UP, but for the nation
INSIDE BJP
Yogi has successfully established his
dominance in BJP as number three
after PM Modi and HM Amit Shah
W
W
W
GOOD GOVERNANCE, DEVELOPMENT
First India Bureau
Lucknow:Chief Secre-
tary Rajendra Kumar
on Monday held a re-
view meeting with Divi-
sional Commissioners
and District Magis-
trates via video confer-
encing ahead of the
Good Governance Week
organized from Decem-
ber 20, 2021 to December
25, 2021 in UP.
The Chief Secretary
during the meeting di-
rected the officials to
conduct on-site inspec-
tion of all cow shelter
centers every week and
ensure that no cows die
of cold and adequate ar-
rangements for shed,
straw, fodder, water and
treatment be made
available for them.
Chief Secretary RK
Tiwari further added
since the state is seeing
cold days sufficient
funds have already been
made available to all the
districts for the estab-
lishment of night shel-
ters, blankets and bon-
fires etc.
‘Sufficient funds for
combating cold wave’
CS RK Tiwari presides over the meet ahead of Good Governance
Week organised from December 20 to December 25.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The city
witnessed a drone
show on the theme of
India’s freedom strug-
gle at the Residency
area here with the
state government
claiming it to be the
largest ever such
event in India.
The show was a part
of the Azadi Ka Amrit
Mahotsav celebra-
tions to mark 75 years
of India’s independ-
ence.
CM Yogi A was the
chief guest at the
show organised joint-
ly by the Union Minis-
try of Culture and the
Uttar Pradesh govern-
ment’s department of
tourism and culture.
Spectacular
drone show
in Lucknow
CM Yogi at the Chauri Chaura Shatabdi Mahotsav at Residency
in Lucknow. MoS for External Affairs and Culture of India,
Meenakshi Lekhi was also present. —PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR

UTTAR PRADESH
03
CRUCIAL READ
PNB SETTLES INSURANCE CLAIMS
OF CHOPPER CRASH MARTYRS
Lucknow: Punjab National Bank (PNB) has expressed
solidarity towards the defence personnel who lost their
lives in the Coonoor helicopter crash. It has proactively
settled the insurance claim to the families of Para
Commando Lance Naik Shri Vivek Kumar and Lance
Naik Shri B Sai Teja, amounting to Rs 1 crore each.
PNB officers personally handed over the claim settle-
ment cheque to the families of Lance Naik Vivek Kumar
at village Upper Theru, Kangra district in Himachal
Pradesh, and Lance Naik B Sai Teja at Eguvaregada-
palli, in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.
THIRD PHASE OF MISSION SHAKTI EVENT
HELD AT LU COMMERCE FACULTY
Lucknow: The third phase of Mission Shakti was
held on Monday in SB Singh Auditorium, Depart-
ment of Commerce, University of Lucknow under the
patronage of V-C Alok Kumar Rai. This initiative aims
at promoting women safety, self reliance and women
empowerment. Renowned former IAFofficer Sqn.Ldr
Toolika Rani Ambassador of India, Women Empower-
ment Committee, World Leader Summit Ecosystem
was the guest speaker. The event was organised in
the presence of Madhurima Lal, convenor and Sunita
Srivastava, coordinator of the event. Awdhesh Kumar,
head of department of commerce started the event by
introducing and welcoming the speaker. Professors
Arvind Kumar, Somesh Shukla, Ram Milan, Geetika
Tandon Kapoor were also present.
SPECTACULAR SHOW
People in large numbers savoured a mega drone show under
the series Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and Chauri-Chaura
Centenary Festival held at Lucknow’s iconic Residency, on
Monday evening. —PHOTOS BY SUMIT KUMAR
60 e-buses flagged off
Minister Ashutosh Tandon says much-needed move to keep city environs clean
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Urban devel-
opment Minister Ashu-
tosh Tandon on Monday
flagged off 60 electric
buses from Polytechnic
Chauraha here.
Tandon has flagged
off 60 of the total 100
electric buses allotted
to the city by the Minis-
try of Heavy Industries
and Public Enterprises.
The trial run of pro-
totype of 4 such air-con-
ditioned electric buses
was started sometime
back
Tandon, in his ad-
dress said these envi-
ronment friendly e-bus-
ses can last 2 to 3 hours
on a single charge and
are fitted with air-con-
ditioners in-order to
provide the best com-
fort for the passengers.
He added these buses
had been introduced
due to the efforts of the
CM in lines with his
mantra ‘Vikas ki reet,
Sab ki Jeet’. He further
said these busses will
run on PPP mode which
will improve their
maintenance and en-
hance the experience of
journey
.
He said the fare of
the buses had also been
kept low to provide
comfortable, affordable
and accessible travel fa-
cility to everyone. He
said these busses being
driven by batteries
would not be harmful
for the environment
and help keep the city
clean.
The event was attend-
ed by Sanyukta Bhatia,
Mayor Lucknow, Ran-
jan Kumar, Divisional
Commissioner, Indram-
ani Tripathi, Special
Secretary, Urban Devel-
opment Department
and other important
dignitaries.
Minister Ashutosh Tandon flags off the bus service along with Mayor Sanyukta Bhatia, Div Comm Ranjan Kumar and Special Secy, Urban Dev Dept Indramani Tripathi.
LOW FARE TO COVER MORE PEOPLE
VHP starts Dharma Raksha
Abhiyan against conversion
Janardan Misra
Lucknow: Vishwa
Hindu Parishad (VHP)
has launched nation-
wide ‘Dharma Raksha
Abhiyan’ against ille-
gal conversions start-
ing from Monday
.
The information
about the 11-day long
campaignwasgivenby
VHP’s Union Joint
Minister and National
Spokesperson Vijay
Shankar Tiwari who
said that the campaign
will expose the evil ef-
forts of conversion.
Headdedthegovern-
ment would have to en-
act strict laws to stop
the nationwide men-
ace of illegal conver-
sion, in which inno-
cent forest dwellers,
villagers and back-
ward settlements were
especially targeted.
Speaking to First In-
dia Surendra Jain,
Joint Secretary of
VHP said, “Ancestors
of about 99 per cent
Christians and 95 per
cent Muslims were
Hindusandtheyadopt-
ed Christianity
, Islam
forcefully
, for greed or
through misguidance.
For united Bharat all
of them should come
back to their roots.”
Jain said ‘back to
roots’ campaign was
going across the world
and it was not a new
concept in India.
The leader said divi-
sive forces with ‘vest-
ed’ interest were mis-
guiding people from
other communities as
unity was not favoura-
ble for them. He said
such forces can get
benefit only when we
are not united.
VHP Union Joint MinisterVijay ShankarTiwari.—PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR
UPgovtinvokesESMA,bans
strikeinstateforsixmonths
RaremigratorybirdsflocktoLko,
experts say healthy ecosystem
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The Yogi
Adityanath government
has banned strikes
across the state for six
months ahead of assem-
bly polls 2022.
A notification in this
regard was issued by
ACSDeveshChaturvedi.
A similar order was
issued in May this year
where strikes were
bannedforsixmonthsin
view of the pandemic
through the Essential
Services Maintenance
Act or ESMA.
The order states that
allstrikesincludingpub-
lic service, corporations
and local authorities
that deal with the mat-
ters of the state shall be
banned and those who
defy orders shall be pun-
ished and legal action
will be taken against
them.
The ESMA Act em-
powers a state govern-
ment to take action
against employees who
refusetofollowrulesand
go on strikes that affect
essential services. It
gives state police power
toarrestanyonewithout
any warrant if found
violating it.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: With winter
now peaking, several
rare migratory birds
have been spotted in
Lucknow this season.
While the sunbird is
found all over Lucknow,
bird watchers say Indi-
an pitta (also called
‘Navrang’ for nine col-
ours in its plumage), mi-
gratory duck from
trans-Himalayan re-
gion, ruddy shelduck
(surkhaab), black hood-
ed oriole (beautiful en-
demic bird) and the mi-
gratory bird from north-
ern Siberia -- northern
pintail (seekpar) are
some of the other rare
birds that have been
spotted.
According to former
director of Bombay Nat-
ural History Society
Asad R Rehmani, “Luc-
know has many hamlets
preferred by birds
which are the most im-
portant indicators of
the health of an ecosys-
tem. They play an im-
portant role in stabilis-
ing nature’s health.”
IAS officer Sanjay Ku-
mar, who has written
seven books on birds of
different cities, said the
diversity and density of
birds, especially in the
urban landscape, de-
cide how much a place
is environmentally in-
tact. Kumar, along with
Neeraj Srivastava, has
authored ‘Birds of Luc-
know’, which is a visual
document of 250 kinds
of birds found in the
city
.
Bank employees at a protest meet in Lucknow. —FILE PHOTO
Ruddy Shelduck
Akhilesh fires cartoon
salvoonBJPforI-Traids
27 new infections take
active cases to over 200
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Samajwadi
Party president Akhile-
sh Yadav on Monday
tweeted a cartoon to hit
back at the BJP after the
I-T raids on some of his
close associates.
Akhilesh wrote on his
Twitter handle, “Tulsi-
das ji has said, “Hit un-
hit pashu, pakshi, hu
jana (animals and birds
too know what is good
and what is bad for
them)”.
He also posted a car-
toon of a government
car carrying I- T offi-
cials which has a sticker
saying, “On election
duty” and “raids at
premises of close aides
of Akhilesh” written in
Hindi.
Earlier on Sunday
, Ya-
dav held a press meet
and alleged the BJP
leadersweretappingthe
phones of his office,
residence and those of
other SP leaders.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The active
Covid cases (number of
patients under treat-
ment) in Uttar Pradesh
crossed the 200-mark on
Monday with 27 fresh in-
stances of the coronavi-
rus infection reported
across the state during
the day
, including 10 in
Lucknow.
There are 203 active
Covid cases in the state
now, according to addi-
tional chief secretary
(medical health) Amit
Mohan Prasad.
“There were 27 new
Covid cases reported
from 1,52,506 samples
tested while 20 patients
recovered in the past 24
hours,” said Prasad. He
advised all to follow the
Covid protocol, adding
all those eligible should
take the vaccine doses.
Among fresh cases, 10
were reported in Luc-
know. Eight of them were
fresh cases while two
were found positive in
the repeat test. Only two
patients are in hospital
LUCKNOW REPORTS
1O CASES
Yamuna E’way
crash kills 2
schoolstudents
Noida: Two Class
12 students died in
a road crash on
Monday after the
car which they
were allegedly
speeding hit the di-
vider and fell into a
drain along the Ya-
muna Expressway
in Greater Noida,
the police said.
A third student
whowasalsointhe
car suffered inju-
ries and was hospi-
talised after the in-
cident which took
place in the after-
noon in Dankaur
police station area,
the officials said.
According to
government rules,
peopleunder18are
notallowedtodrive
cars in public spac-
es nor are they eli-
gible for a driver’s
license.
Police said the
students,including
a girl, studied in a
governmentschool
in Greater Noida
and were aged
around 17 years.
They had gone to
nearby Rabupura
for a school-related
assignment and
were returning
home. —PTI
‘GHAR WAPASI FOR INDIAN CULTURE’

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SPIRITUAL SPEAK
Indeed, the mercy of
Allah is near to the
doers of good.
—Quran
IN-DEPTH
Nitin Gadkari
@nitin_gadkari
Foundation stone laying
ceremony of 3 NH Projects
of 86 km worth `1123 crores
in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh.
#PragatiKaHighway #GatiShakti
Dr Mansukh Mandaviya
@mansukhmandviya
Congratulations to stupendously
talented @SriKidambi on
becoming the first male shuttler
from Flag of India to clinch a Silver
medal Second place medal at
the #WorldChampionships2021
Badminton racquet and shuttlecock
India is proud of him. Best wishes
to him for his future endeavours.
TOP TWEETS
DANGER OF
DIGITALISING AID
igital systems are
critical to develop-
ment and humani-
tarian activities, but
they can expose
some of the world’s most vul-
nerable communities to unfore-
seen risks. Recent examples
from Afghanistan highlight
these dangers.
In September, it was reported
that the UK Ministry of Defence
had been involved in two sepa-
rate data breaches, potentially
compromising the safety of par-
ticipants in the Afghan Reloca-
tions and Assistance Policy pro-
gram, which is intended to pro-
tect people who had worked for
British forces. These breaches
followed revelations that the
Taliban now control systems for
digital identification that were
built using international aid.
As a former official with the
United Nations High Commis-
sioner for Refugees put it, “The
Taliban have been given the
keys to the server room.” Moreo-
ver, information in the Tazkira,
the digital identity cards used in
Afghanistan, reportedly can be
used to target ethnic groups.
PROJECT-SYNDICATE.ORG
D
s the third year of
the COVID-19
pandemic ap-
proaches, class-
rooms remain
fully or partially closed for
as many as 647 million
schoolchildren around the
world. Even where schools
have reopened, many stu-
dents continue to lag behind.
It is now abundantly and
painfully clear that children
have learned less during the
pandemic. According to
World Bank estimates, pan-
demic-related school clo-
sures could drive up “learn-
ing poverty” – the share of
10-year-olds who cannot read
a basic text – to around 70%
in low- and middle-income
countries. This learning loss
could cost an entire genera-
tion of schoolchildren $17
trillion in lifetime earnings.
As Omicron variant takes
hold, more governments may
be tempted to close schools.
Without the online infra-
structure in place to support
learning, doing so would ex-
tend the educational losses
and deny children the many
other benefits of daily school
attendance, like the possibil-
ity to connect with class-
mates and develop social
skills for personal growth.
Interactions with teachers
and peers are essential to de-
velop the abilities necessary
to work collaboratively. Be-
ing part of a class promotes
a sense of belonging helps
build self-esteem empathy
.
Throughout the pandemic,
marginalised children have
struggled the most. When
classrooms around world re-
opened this fall, it became
clear that these children
fallen even further behind
their peers. Before pandemic,
gender parity in education
was improving. But school
closures placed an estimated
ten million more girls at risk
of early marriage, which
practically guarantees the
end of their schooling.
PROJECT-SYNDICATE.ORG
REVERSING PANDEMIC’S
EDU LOSSES
Investment in
education must
include funding for
educational technology,
taking into account what
has worked well in
different contexts
around the world
A
f we watch Indian social me-
dia closely, the most domi-
nant observation is a relent-
less effort to promote hate
and polarisation. Initially, it
was religion oriented but
gradually it has started en-
compassing ideology, region,
cast, class and many more
things including as trivial as
food habits and dresses.
Friends of decades are
now openly declared foes and
close relatives no longer visit
each other because of politi-
cal affiliations. We have
started disliking colour of
clothes or buildings, animals,
architecture, beard, lan-
guage and food as per our
bias of other religion.
Even saying “ good morn-
ing” has a potential to make
one an illegitimate offspring
of long dead Macaulay!
Such a behaviour pattern
wasn’t visible openly before
these times but has become a
new normal. But one has to
take a very serious view that
these nonsensical behaviour
patterns could be harbinger
of major civil strife including
civilwarinfuture.Thoughnot
a certainty but the possibility
can’t be completely negated.
Small changes accumulate
andmayleadtochainreaction
inthewholesociety
.If nothing
is done to rein them early
, the
cascading effect could be mas-
sive and unmanageable.
Big buildings collapse be-
cause small repairs were not
managed meticulously
.
Everyone should remem-
ber that violence erupts like
a volcano. One of the most
brutal civil war happened in
United States of America and
one of the most bloodiest bat-
tle of this war was fought out-
side a small town called Shar-
pburg in Western Maryland.
The horrific incident is
known in history as Battle of
Antiem and it happened on
September 17, 1862. This was
the first battle of American
civil war where dead were
photographed though photog-
raphy at that time was primi-
tive and very tedious. These
photographsbroughtforward
the gruesome reality of a civ-
il war where more than 22,000
soldiers died, wounded, went
missing and captured.
Photographs also showed
severely injured Union sol-
diers also who were being
treated at some makeshift
ground hospital along with
large number of dead horses.
The whole scenario was very
macabre.
On September 19, 1862, two
days after the battle, Confed-
erate General Robert E.Lee
withdrew to Virginia. Photos
of that day show shrunken
road partly packed with dead
Confederate soldiers’ bodies.
This lane was called “ bloody
lane” for many years.
The entire countryside
reeked of death. As commu-
nication system was very
poor at that point of time,
things came to public domain
much later. People were hor-
rified but that was no solace
to those who died and there
families. The facade “ United
States” is still internally
deeply divided to observant
eyes and it stands as a single
entity because of its diverse
population, post civil war.
World shouldn’t forget
what happened in Rwanda
where Hutu militia selective-
ly slaughtered Tutsi minori-
ty alongwith moderate Hutu
and Twa people. At present,
we are witnessing civil war
or strife in Syria, Libya, Af-
ghanistan and Lebanon. Very
near to India, Srilanka lost so
many of its citizens in a bru-
tal and protracted civil war
because of ego and stupidity
of leaders on both sides - Sin-
hala and Tamils.
The examples are so many
but few learn from examples
as many people have psycho-
logical block toward peace.
They are weaklings them-
selvesbutarecapableof incit-
ing mob and then participate
in that frenzy
. It appears as
though these people are born
with a streak of malice run-
ning through them, which
poisons their blood forever,
the poison of hate swimming
in their veins like a mysteri-
ous virus. The hate-filled
thoughtproceessmaylurkun-
noticed for many years be-
cause its training to a large
number of young people is
very subtle where parents,
teachers, preachers, senior
members of society all par-
ticipate under the garb of “
saving the culture and herit-
age”. But it ultimately sur-
faces and may destroy a large
number of lives, can cause
physical disintegration of a
nation or permanent seclu-
sion of its minorities - both
things could be avoided pro-
vided a process of assimila-
tioniskeptalivewithadegree
of sincerity for perpetuity
.
In a highly diversified
country
, civil wars go on hap-
pening on local levels where
people butcher each other in
small or large scale pogroms
and then the opportunistic
politicians and socio-reli-
gious charlatans take full ad-
vantage and perpetuate the
divide. A malicious trickster
is always highly capable of in-
novative falsehood and propa-
ganda. People, unfortunately
,
almost always fall prey to
such a propaganda. Those
who don’t, are pushed to cor-
ners and persecuted.
Historically, logical people
mostly lose to passion and
malice driven mobs. People
always want someone to wor-
ship and adore and this some-
one might not be the person
capable of understanding the
value of assimilation. Soon-
er or later cold hatred wins
over and becomes an incur-
able condition because it eats
up the core of the people, in-
fecting them forever, erasing
all that is good in them. There
are people in every society,
from a small hamlet to a
mega city, who carry with
them the embers of dislike,
malice, hate and prejudice.
They keep blowing at them so
as not let them be extin-
guished by time and a day
might come in the history of
a nation when life seeks a
bunker and death roams all
over its streets and houses.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
NEVER PREPARE NATION
FOR CIVIL STRIFE
I
The hate-filled thought
proceess may lurk
unnoticed for many years
because its training to a
large number of young
people is very subtle
where parents, teachers,
preachers, senior
members of society all
participate under the
garb of “ saving the
culture and heritage”.
Small changes
accumulate and may
lead to chain reaction in
the whole society. If
nothing is done to rein
them early, the
cascading effect could
be massive and
unmanageable
DR RAMAWATAR
SHARMA
The writer is a practising doctor with
a special interest in psychology

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INDIA
05
Kavita Pant
New Delhi: It seems
that all is not well be-
tween Janata Dal U and
Bharatiya Janata Party
in Bihar as there has
been an increase in
mistrust between the
two parties. During the
last assembly elections,
JDU had suffered im-
mensely because of Lok
Janshakti Party
.
The NITI Aayog of
the GoI released the
first health services re-
port, in which Bihar
was placed at the bot-
tom. After this the pov-
erty report came and
which marked Bihar as
the poorest state in the
country with about 52
percent poor popula-
tion. Think, the state in
which Nitish was the
CM for 15 years and his
party is ruling for 16
consecutive years,
if it is said to be
the poorest,
backward, and poor
health service state,
then what would it lead
to? Wouldn’t it cause re-
sentment? Not only this,
policing in Bihar was
also described as the
worst in the country
.
Angered by this, Nit-
ish’s government raised
questions on the figures
of the NITI Aayog but at
the same time demand-
ed special status for Bi-
har based on the same
figures. If Bihar is the
most backward, poorest
state then it should get
special status. But as
soon as the Bihar gov-
ernment demanded
special status, the state
BJP started opposing it.
State Deputy Chief
Minister and BJP lead-
er Renu Devi said that
Bihar does not need
special category status
as the central govern-
ment is giving more
funds to Bihar than the
special category status.
Interestingly, there is
also a tussle between
the two parties over
caste census.
All is not well in JDU-BJP! NITISH ENGAGED IN GIVING
BJP ITS OWN MEDICINE!
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: Bihar CM
Nitish Kumar seemed
to have surrendered his
ambition and appeared
satisfied to become the
CM of Bihar with the
help of BJP. But after
three-four years of si-
lence and tolerating
everything, once again
his ‘ambition streak’ is
back and he is again en-
gaged in ‘playing the
game’. There was a
time when he, along
with the RJD and the
Congress, had decisive-
ly defeated the BJP in
Bihar. At that time he
was being seen all over
the country as an alter-
native to Narendra
Modi. Nitish was be-
lieved to be the
natural face of
the opposi-
tion to com-
pete with Modi. He
comes from a backward
caste, does not even
have a degree problem
i.e is educated and be-
came an engineer and
came out of the move-
ment of Jayaprakash
Narayan and is an im-
portant face of social
justice i.e. Mandal poli-
tics. But one day sud-
denly he left the opposi-
tion and reached the
safe
shell with the BJP.
When he returned to
the BJP camp in July
2017, it was assumed
that he had given up his
desire to become an all-
India leader. But by re-
suming the demand for
caste census special
status for Bihar, he has
revived his old politics.
Nitish met PM with a
delegation of leaders of
all the parties of Bihar
appealed for a caste
census. After that, he
waited for six months
and when it was not de-
cided by Centre, he uni-
laterally announced
caste census.
Now his govt has sent
an official letter to NITI
Aayog and has demand-
ed special status for Bi-
har. The state govt has
said that Bihar fits all
the criteria that have
been fixed for granting
special status.
POLITICS OF BIHAR
All JDU leaders believe that at the behest
of BJP, LJP leader Chirag Paswan fielded
candidates against JDU, due to which JDU
was reduced to 43 seats and became 3rd
party. Nitish and his party were recovering
from that setback that in 2 reports of the
NITI Aayog, Nitish was described as the
most useless CM, due to which the leaders
of the party were shaken
Nitish Kumar has announced that he will
conduct a caste census in Bihar and the
Bihar govt will bear its expenses. This is
huge which will put the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) in trouble. Keep in mind that the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not
in favor of caste census as it
can disintegrate structure of
its Hindutva politics
Chirag Paswan Nitish Kumar
AHEAD OF ASSEMBLY POLLS
ECdelegationona
three-dayvisittoGoa
toreviewpollpreps
Panaji: A high-level
team of the ECI led by
CEC Sushil Chandra
will embark on a three-
day visit to Goa from
Monday to take stock of
the poll preparedness
ahead of the upcoming
state Assembly polls.
Goa is slated to go to As-
sembly elections early
next year.
High-level Election
Commission teams will
be visiting poll-bound
states in the upcoming
months to review poll
preparedness.Thehigh-
level EC team visiting
Goa recently concluded
its two-day visit to Pun-
jab where assembly
elections are to be
held in 2022. The
team headed by
CECSushilChan-
dra landed in
Punjab on
D e c e m -
ber 15 to
t a k e
stock of the poll prepar-
edness in the state.
As part of the stand-
ard practice, senior
EC officials are
expected to visit
Uttarakhand, Ut-
tar Pradesh, Ma-
nipur poll-
b o u n d
states.
—ANI
The ECI team led by
Chief Election
Commissioner
Sushil Chandra will today
visit Goa on three-day from
December 20 to take stock of
the poll preparedness ahead of
the State Assembly elections,
due in February 2022.
—Kunal Singh,
Chief Electoral Officer
AFTER RESIGNING FROM CONGRESS,
LOURENCO LIKELY TO JOIN TMC PARTY
Kolkata: Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco, who
resigned from Congress on Monday, ar-
rived in Kolkata and is likely to join Trina-
mool Congress, which is also set to con-
test the upcoming state polls. Lourenco is
likely to meet the TMC's general secretary
Abhishek Banerjee today. Lourenco, the
party's state working president, resigned
from the Member of the Legislative Assembly.
CEC Sushil Chandra
IN THE COURTYARD
BAIL TO ACCUSED OF
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
New Delhi: The SC has
granted bail to a tribal
woman accused of human
traffick-
ing on the
ground that
despite a
lapse of
almost two
years her
trial has not
commenced and said she
cannot be kept in confine-
ment indefinitely.
COURT GRANTS EXEMPTION TO CHIDAMBARAM
FROM PERSONAL APPEARANCE, KARTI APPEARS
New Delhi: Court granted exemption from
personal appearance to ex-union minister P
Chidambaram in Aircel Maxis case of CBI
ED. Karti Chidambaram appeared before
Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court. His lawyer
Arshdeep informed Court that they both
are on anticipatory bail. The court directed
them to move for regular bail in the matter.
MY SILENCE MISTAKEN
AS WEAKNESS: KUNDRA
Mumbai: Businessman
and Bollywood actor Shilpa
Shetty’s husband Raj
Kundra on Monday said
that his silence has been
misconstrued for weakness
in connection with one
of the cases involving al-
legations of producing and
streaming pornographic
content. However, unfortu-
nately, I have already been
pronounced “guilty” by the
media my family, he said.
VP EXPRESSES DISAPPOINTMENT OVER LACK OF PROGRESS IN
RESOLVING STALEMATE ON ISSUE OF SUSPENSION OF 12 MEMBERS
NAIDUCALLS
FOR DISCIPLINE, DECORUM
OPPOSITION TO HOLD PROTEST, SEEKS RESIGNATION OF MoS HOME
OM BIRLA ANSWEARS TO ALL 20 SATRRED QUESTIONS IN QUESTION HOUR
WINTER SESSION OF THE PARLIAMENT REACHES ITS FINAL WEEK
RS ADJOURNED AFTER VERBAL SPAT BETWEEN JAYA TREASURY BENCHES
New Delhi: Rajya Sab-
ha Chairman M Venkai-
ah Naidu on Monday
expressed disappoint-
ment over noisy scenes
in the House during the
Zero Hour and called for
discipline and decorum.
The ruckus began af-
ter the MoS for Parlia-
mentary Affairs V Mu-
raleedharan briefed
Naidu on the meeting
between the Centre and
theleadersof fiveopposi-
tion parties for the reso-
lution of the stalemate
on the suspension issue
on Monday morning.
Muraleedharan ex-
plained that the Centre
waited for the opposi-
tion leaders to turn up
for the meeting but they
did not. Naidu then re-
called that he had ad-
journed the House for
the day last Friday
, after
urging both the sides to
sit together and discuss
the matter so as to ena-
ble the House to return
to normal, “but was dis-
appointed over the lack
of progress as reported
to him by the Minister”.
STATES CAN ALLOW
TEACHING GITA IN
SCHOOLS: EDU MIN
State govts can allow
the teaching of the
Bhagavad Gita to school
students if they want,
the govt told LS. Reply-
ing to members’ ques-
tions in the Lower
House, Education Min
Annapurna Devi said
that state govts can also
make provisions for the
teaching of Bhojpuri
language in schools if
they want. She said un-
der NEP, edu of kids in
regional languages has
been made must. —ANI
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu conducts proceedings in House during the Winter Session of Parliament in New Delhi on Monday.
MEDIATION BILL,
2021 INTRODUCED
IN RAJYA SABHA
Amid Opposition
uproar, the Centre on
Monday introduced the
‘Mediation Bill, 2021’
in RS to promote and
facilitate mediation,
especially institutional
mediation. The govern-
ment subsequently
moved the Bill for
further consideration
into the Parliamentary
Standing Committee
on Law and Justice on
demand of the Opposi-
tion parties.
BJP PARL PARTY
MEETING TODAY
As the ongoing winter
session of the parlia-
ment reaches its final
week, the Bharatiya Ja-
nata Party parliamenta-
ry party meeting will be
held today at Ambedkar
International Centre,
Delhi. In its notice,
the BJP Parliamentary
Party has requested the
attendance of all BJP
members of Lok Sabha
and Rajya Sabha.
CENTRE: VT IS
NOT ‘VICEROY
TERRITORY’
The call sign of Indi-
an planes “VT” does
not mean “Viceroy
Territory”, replied
MoS Civil Aviation
VK Singh on Mon-
day. MP Harnath S
Yadav on Monday
sought a reply on
whether Govt has
taken cognizance of
the fact that during
the British Rule,
aircraft of India had
been given VT code,
by the IATA which
means “Viceroy Ter-
ritory”. Singh said
the call sign “VT”
was assigned to
India during the In-
ternational Radiotel-
egraph Convention
of Washington, 1927
signed at Washing-
ton on November
25, 1927. “VT” does
not mean “Viceroy
Territory” and call
signs close to India
or Bharat such as I,
IN, B, BH, BM or HT
are already assigned
to other countries,”
he replied.
ONUS ON GOVT TO RUN
PARL: RAHUL GANDHI
New Delhi: Congress
MP Rahul Gandhi on
Monday blamed the
government for the
stalemate in Parlia-
ment and said that the
onus of running the
House is on govt.
Countering the gov-
ernment’s charge ac-
cusing the opposition
of not allowing the
House to function, Ra-
hul Gandhi said: “We
are not being allowed to
raise issues in the
House. We want the gov-
ernment to remove Un-
ion Minister Ajay
Mishra Teni and dis-
cuss the Lakhimpur
Kheri case in the House
but the govt did not al-
low us to do so.” —ANI
Rahul Gandhi speaks to media over Ajay Mishra Teni, Ladakh and
Lakhimpur Kheri case, outside parliament in New Delhi on Monday.
I wanted to raise the
Ladakh issue and
the struggle my
brothers and sisters there are
going through asking for their
rights, their statehood. I want
to reiterate and tell the people
of Ladakh that they will get
what belongs to them.
Unfortunately, the govt does
not allow us to raise the issue.
I want to send a message to
the people of Ladakh that we
are with you, we are going to
raise your issue.
—Rahul Gandhi, Congress Leader
OPPOSITION
NOT TO ATTEND
MEETING
CALLED BY
CENTRE TO END
RS LOGJAM
New Delhi: Monday’s meeting of floor leaders of both Houses
of Parliament was convened to chalk out the further strategy
on revoking suspension of 12 Opposition MPs and demand for
resignation of MoS for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni over the
Lakhimpur Kheri issue. “We will not attend the meeting called
by the Government. We will demand the resignation of MoS
Home Ajay Kumar Misra and revocation of suspension of 12
Opposition MPs in Rajya Sabha. We will not let both Houses of
Parliament function,” Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said.

INDIA
06
New Delhi: India has
reported 161 cases of
new coronavirus vari-
ant Omicron, Union
Health Minister Man-
sukh Mandaviya said
on Monday
.
As of now, India has
161 Omicron cases...We
are monitoring the situ-
ation daily with ex-
perts, the minister told
Rajya Sabha while re-
plying to a debate on the
COVID-19 situation.
He said the govern-
ment has taken steps to
deal with the situation
if the virus spreads.
With our experience
during the first and sec-
ond waves, to ensure
that we don't face prob-
lems if variant spreads,
we have arranged a
buffer stock of impor-
tant medicines.
He said the country's
vaccine manufacturing
capacity has also in-
creased.
Today all states and
UTs have adequate
quantity of vaccines, 17
crore doses available
with them. Our manu-
facturing capacity has
increased. Today India
has the capacity to man-
ufacture 31 crore doses
of vaccine per month.
In the next two months,
it'll further rise to 45
crore doses per month,
the minister said.
Under PM Modi's
leadership, with the ef-
forts of our healthcare
workers, 88 per cent of
first doses of vaccine
have been administered
and 58 per cent of sec-
ond doses administered
so far. The majority of
the population in India
is vaccinated today
. —ANI
With the Covid positive
and Omicron cases
increasing across the
city, the Delhi govern-
ment has decided
to conduct genome
sequencing tests of
all samples testing
positive for Covid-19,
Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal said
on Monday. As of
now, only samples of
international travellers
were being sent for
genome sequencing.
Kejriwal also requested
the Centre to allow
the Delhi government
to start administering
booster shots to fully
vaccinated people. The
CM further asked the
people to not panic and
assured that his gov-
ernment is prepared.
New Delhi: Foreign
Ministers of five Cen-
tral Asian countries --
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz
Republic, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Uz-
bekistan -- called on
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi on Monday
and emphasised the
readiness of their lead-
erships to further
strengthen relations
with India.
PM emphasised the
importance that India
attaches to its long-
standing relations with
Central Asian coun-
tries, which are part of
its 'Extended Neigh-
bourhood'.
He also underscored
the potential of en-
hanced economic coop-
eration between India
and Central Asia, and
the role of connectivity
in that regard. The
Prime Minister con-
veyed his felicitations
to the Ministers on the
30th anniversary of
their independence
this year.
Recalling his memo-
rable visits to all Cen-
tral Asian countries in
2015 and subsequently
to Kazakhstan, Uzbeki-
stan and Kyrgyz Re-
public, PM Modi un-
derlined the impor-
tance of maintaining
cultural and people-to-
people contacts be-
tween India and Cen-
tral Asia, given the
popularity of Indian
films, music, yoga etc
in the region.
The Foreign Minis-
ters of the Central
Asian countries are in
New Delhi and partici-
pated in the third meet-
ing of the India-Cen-
tral Asia Dialogue.
The Foreign Minis-
ters conveyed the greet-
ings of their Presi-
dents to Prime Minis-
ter Modi and empha-
sized the readiness of
their leadership to
further strengthen re-
lations with India, a
PMO release said.
External Affairs Min-
ister S Jaishankar and
National Security Ad-
viser Ajit Doval were
also present during PM
Modi'smeetingwithFor-
eign Ministers of Cen-
tral Asian countries.
The ministers
briefed PM Modi on the
deliberations of the
India-Central Asia Dia-
logue held under the
chairmanship of Ex-
ternal Affairs Minister
Jaishankar on Sunday
.
The Dialogue fo-
cused on trade and con-
nectivity, development
partnership and re-
gional developments,
including the situation
in Afghanistan. The
India-Central Asia Dia-
logue has given impe-
tus to the excellent bi-
lateral relations be-
tween India Central
Asian countries. India
and Central Asian
countries will mark
the 30th anniversary
.
Five Central Asian Countries’ FM Call On PM Modi
PM Modi in a group photograph with the Foreign Ministers of Central Asian Countries, in New Delhi on Monday. —PHOTO BY ANI
161 OMICRON CASES REPORTED
IN INDIA: MANDAVIYA TELLS RS
Mansukh Mandaviya
OMICRON MATTER OF CONCERN,
AVOID OVERCROWDING:THAKUR
New Delhi: Himachal
Pradesh CM Jairam
Thakur on Monday
said that Omicron
variant is a matter of
concern and urged
tourists to come after
getting fully vacci-
nated. Thakur said,
Omicron is a matter
of concern. Himachal
Pradesh has done
good work as far as
COVID-19 vaccination
is concerned. In a way
we can say that it is a
fully vaccinated state.
I hope that the variant
will not have much
of an impact on the
state. He added that
a lot of tourists come
to Himachal Pradesh
on the occasions of
Christmas and New
Year. “We have asked
the administration to
regulate the crowd
and do not let it get
overcrowded. We have
also urged tourists to
come after getting vac-
cinated.
India has so far re-
ported over 100 cases
of the Omicron.
A new variant of
COVID-19 was first
reported to the WHO
from South Africa on
November 25. The
WHO has classified
Omicron as a 'variant
of concern'. —ANI
DELHI TO SEND SAMPLES FOR
GENOME SEQUENCING TESTS
CRUCIAL READ
REAR ADMIRAL SANJAY BHALLA TAKES
OVER AS EASTERN FLEET COMMANDER
New Delhi: Rear Admiral Sanjay Bhalla took over
the Command of the Eastern Fleet, the Sword Arm
of the Eastern Naval Command, from Rear Admiral
Tarun Sobti, VSM on 20 December
21. The change of guard took place at
an impressive ceremony held at Naval
Dockyard, Visakhapatnam. Rear Admiral
Sanjay Bhalla was commissioned into
the Indian Navy on Jan 1 1989 and is a
specialist in Communication and Electronic Warfare.
The Flag Officer is an alumnus of the Defence Ser-
vices Staff College, Wellington.
MOHIT JAIN
ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF INS
New Delhi: The Indian
Newspaper Society
(INS) has elected Mohit
Jain of the Economic
Times as its president
for 2021-22.
K Raja Prasad Reddy
of the
publication
'Sakshi'
was elected
the deputy
president,
Rakesh
Sharma of 'Aaj Samaj'
was chosen as the vice-
president and Tanmay
Maheshwari of 'Amar
Ujala' was elected the
honorary treasurer of
the society for 2021-
22, stated a statement
released recently.
‘GIRLS ONLY SAFE
IN MOTHER’S
WOMB, GRAVE’
Chennai: Three days
after a school girl died
allegedly by suicide in
Chennai, leaving a note
that said a girl is safe
only in the mother's
womb or the grave, a
21-year-old college stu-
dent has been arrested
for sexual assault.
On Saturday, the Class
11 student's mother
found her hanging at
home on the outskirts
of Chennai. The mother
had been out for only
an hour. She returned
from the market to
find the teen's room
bolted. The young man
confessed that he and
the girl were close and
he had harassed her.
Rajnath launches GIS-based
automatic water supply system
Sitting licking feet of PM Modi:
Sidhu lashes out at Captain
New Delhi: Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh
unveiled a Geographic
Information System
(GIS)-based ‘Automatic
Water Supply System’
for residents of Canton-
ment Boards on De-
fence Estates Day 2021,
according to the Minis-
try of Defence.
Theministryinforms
that, the Bhaskaracha-
rya Institute for Space
Applications and Geo-
informatics created the
module of the GIS-
based water supply sys-
tem for Cantonment
Boards under the guid-
ance of the Defence Sec-
retary and Director
General of Defence Es-
tates, Delhi. According
to the ministry, provid-
ing water to Canton-
ment residents is a sim-
ple and quick process. It
is a fully automated
system that allows citi-
zens to find the location
of their water supply
connection, automati-
cally determine nearest
water pipeline, define
the capacity of water
supply lines. —ANI
Kapurthala (Punjab):
Ahead of Punjab As-
sembly Polls, Congress
state President Navjot
Singh Sidhu launched a
scathing attack on Cap-
tain Amarinder Singh
over his party’s alliance
with BJP stating that
former CM was now
“sitting at home” and is
“licking the feet of PM
Modi.
While addressing a
gathering here, Sidhu
launched a verbal at-
tack on former CM,
called him “arrogant
king”. Recalling Cap-
tain’s remarks, Sidhu
said, “Captain said that
doors have been closed
for Sidhu, but see to-
day…he is sitting at
home and is licking the
feet of Modi.”
On November 2, Am-
arinder Singh quit Con-
gress after months of
in-fighting with current
state Punjab PCC Presi-
dent Navjot Singh Sid-
hu formed his party
.
BJP is likely to keep a
major share of seats in
the alliance with Cap-
tain Amarinder Singh’s
party Punjab Lok Con-
gress and will contest
on 70-80 seats, said
sources on Saturday
.
Punjab assembly
polls will be held in
2022. In the 2017 Punjab
Assembly polls, Cong
won an absolute major-
ity in state by winning
77 seats ousted the
SAD-BJP govt. —ANI
Rajnath Singh
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Congress MLA ‘joins
govt’, but to remain
in Opposition party
Guwahati: Opposition
Congress MLA Sashi
Kanta Das “joined the
government” in Assam
on Monday, the first day
of the winter session of
the Assembly, and will
work in association
with it though he will
not resign from the par-
ty immediately, CM
Himanta Biswa Sarma
said. Sarma and BJP
Assam unit president
Bhabesh Kalita wel-
comed Das, who has
been with the Congress
for long years, at the
chief minister”s cham-
ber inside the Assembly
complex while the
House was in progress.
The Congress has de-
scribed the develop-
ment as “shocking”.
“Das decided to join the
government to develop
Raha constituency from
where he was elected. It
is not decided yet
whether he will join our
political party,” Sarma
told reporters while
welcoming the opposi-
tion MLA. He will re-
main Cong MLA. —PTI
Raha MLA Sashi Kanta Das with CM Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Not in good taste:
Hema on Maha
minister’s cheeks
comment
New Delhi: BJP MP
Hema Malini has react-
ed to Maharashtra Min-
ister and Shiv Sena
leader Gulabrao Patil’s
remarks comparing the
roads in his constitu-
ency to the cheeks of
the veteran actress. Af-
ter the remarks drew
support from party
spokesperson Sanjay
Raut, Malini said that
such remarks were un-
becoming of a Member
of Parliament.
When Shiv Sena MP
Sanjay Raut was asked
about the comment,
said, “This type of com-
parison has happened
earlier too.” —ANI
Hema Malini
New Delhi: Tejas is not
being inducted as a re-
placement of MIG-21
fighter aircraft, but as a
part of the modernisa-
tion of Indian Air
Force, Ministry of De-
fence said.
Minister of State for
Defence Ajay Bhatt in a
written reply to Brijlal
in RS on Monday said,
“Tejas is not being in-
ducted as a replacement
of MIG-21 fighter air-
craft, but as a part of
the modernisation of
IAF.” “Amount spent so
far on the manufacture
of 24 LCA Tejas deliv-
ered till Sept 30, 2021, is
Rs 6,653 cr. Considering
contract with Hindu-
stan Aeronautics Lim-
ited (HAL) by IAF, a to-
tal of 123 Tejas fighter
aircraft are to be manu-
factured. Further pro-
duction depends upon
requirement for Indian
Defence Services,”
Bhatt said. —ANI
New Delhi: Bangla-
desh Air Force chief
Air Chief Marshal
Shaikh Abdul Hannan
called on Indian Army
chief General MM Nar-
avane to discuss bilat-
eral defence coopera-
tion. “Air Chief Mar-
shal Shaikh Abdul Han-
nan, Chief of Air Staff,
Bangladesh Air Force
called on General MM
Naravane #COAS and
discussed ways to
strengthen the bilateral
defence cooperation be-
tween the two coun-
tries,’ tweeted Addi-
tional Directorate Gen-
eral of Public Informa-
tion, IHQ of MoD.
Earlier, Bangladesh Air
Force chief Shaikh Ab-
dul Hannan on Monday
called on his Indian
counterpart Air Chief
Marshal VR Chaudhari
and discussed avenues
to enhance bilateral de-
fence cooperation.
Recently
, Indian Pres-
ident Ram Nath Kovind
was on a three-day visit
to Bangladesh to attend
the 50th Vijay Diwas
celebrations as the
Guest of Honour.
The visit was of his-
torical significance
given 50th anniversary
of the shared sacrifices
of the people of the two
countries in 1971. —ANI
Tejas isn’t the replacement
of MIG-21fighter: Ministry
BangladeshAirchiefcallsonNaravane
Bangladesh Air Force chief calls on General MN Naravane.

NEWS
07
AGRA POLICE
ARRESTS
BOOKIES FOR
THE 2ND
CONSECUTIVE
DAY
The Agra police have arrested
46 bookies and have sent
them to jail. Along with taking
action against the arrested
bookies under the Gangster Act,
now the police is also going to
run a campaign against their
patrons. On the call of the
Inspector General of Police, Agra
Police is in active mode again
against the bookies. Agra Police
took action against bookies in
different police station areas
from the city to the countryside
in which the police were able to
arrest 46 bookies. The police
have recovered betting slips, Rs
80, 545 overall in cash, and 6 kg
200 grams of illegal drugs, and 2
motorcycles from the arrested
bookies caught in the city. SP
City said that along with taking
action against all the bookies
caught under the Gangster Act,
this time the police is also going
to run a campaign against those
who patronize the accused.
—Preeti Nagia
COP SUSPENDED
FOR JUSTIFYING
BRIBE
Asub-inspector (SI) was
suspended on Monday after a
video emerged in which he was
allegedly seen justifying taking
bribes from people for doing their
work. “If the police take money,
it also does the work. Go to some
other department, they will take
money but they won’t do your
work,” SI Umesh Tripathi, posted
at Bighapur Police Station, was
reportedly heard saying in the
video made during a programme
here. The video was stated to be
of November 29, when a police
programme was held at a local
school. “There is no better
department than the police. Look
at teachers, they teach from
home, stay at home for six
months on leave. When there is
COVID, they again don’t go to
school,” the SI added in the
video. Additional Superintendent
of Police Shahi Shekhar Singh
said a probe into the video has
been ordered and will be
conducted by Circle officer,
Bighapur. “The CO will give his
report about the video, where it
was shot when,” he said. —PTI
New Delhi: The Uttar
Pradesh government
has acquired approxi-
mately 52 hectares of
land for around Rs 716
crore for the rehabilita-
tion of families that
have been displaced
due to the Noida inter-
national airport pro-
ject in Jewar, Minister
of State for Civil Avia-
tion V K Singh said on
Monday. Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modi had
on November 25 laid
the foundation stone of
the airport in Jewar in
Uttar Pradesh.
“The GoUP has in-
formed that the reha-
bilitation of the dis-
placed families as a re-
sult of Jewar airport
project has been car-
ried out in accordance
with the provision of
Land Acquisition Act,
2013,” Singh said in his
written reply to a ques-
tion in Rajya Sabha.
As per state govern-
ment, they have allot-
ted developed plots by
creating a new sector
equal to 50 percent of
the total inhabited
area and have ensured
that a minimum plot
of 50 square meters is
allotted to each dis-
placed family, he men-
tioned. In line with the
demand of the 3,074
displaced families,
they have been allotted
developed plots and
the government of Ut-
tar Pradesh (GoUP)
has made arrange-
ments to provide nec-
essary basic facilities
and infrastructural
facilities, he noted.
“The GoUP has ac-
quired approximately
52 hectares of land for
rehabilitation of the
displaced families and
incurred an expendi-
ture of approximately
Rs 716 crores,” he said.
Yamuna Interna-
tional Airport Private
Limited, a fully owned
subsidiary of Zurich
Airport International,
is building the Noida
International Airport.
The airport site is
around 70 km from the
main Delhi region. The
first phase of the air-
port is scheduled to be
completed and become
operational by Septem-
ber 2024.
First India Bureau
Prayagraj: The Alla-
habad High Court
granted anticipatory
bail to Quavi Ahmad,
the son of Phulpur’s for-
mer MLA Saeed Ahmed
of the Samajwadi Party
,
in a case registered at
Civil Lines police sta-
tion on charges of mis-
conduct and forced con-
version. A single-judge
bench of Justice Saumi-
tra Dayal Singh passed
this order while hearing
a Criminal Misc Antici-
patory Bail Application
under Sections 438 CrPc
filed by Quavi Ahmad.
The anticipatory bail
application has been
filed on behalf of Quavi
Ahmad, seeking antici-
patory bail in case un-
der Sections 328, 376,
323, 504, 506, 392, 452, 120
B IPC and Sections-3,
5(1) of Uttar Pradesh
Prohibition of Unlawful
Conversion of Religion
Ordinance, 2020, Police
Station Civil Lines, Dis-
trict Prayagraj, during
pendency of trial. At
present, there are no
criminal antecedents of
the applicant shown as
also no real apprehen-
sion has been expressed
by the State of the appli-
cant fleeing from jus-
tice, if the application is
allowed, the court not-
ed. The Court held that
while the bail applica-
tion has been opposed
by Additional Govern-
ment Advocate, the
counsel for the appli-
cant submitted that
though allegation of
heinous offence is made
out in the FIR, at the
same time, present is an
exceptional case where
there is a complete ab-
sence of material to es-
tablish the basic fact al-
legation. In fact, enough
material exists that may
never be rebutted to es-
tablish that the parties
were in a long standing
relationship since 2018,
both at the personal
level and at business
level wherein they start-
ed the joint venture at
Lucknow.
Barabanki: Three
people were arrested
on Monday with smack
worth about Rs 2.5
crore in the interna-
tional market, police
said.
Maroof, Mohammad
Shahim, and Moham-
mad Mustkeem were
arrested from Balch-
hait village in Jaidpur
area here with 1.8 kg
smack, Superintendent
of Police Anurag Vats
said. The three were
booked under Narcotic
Drugs and Psychotrop-
ic Substances Act and
sent to jail after inter-
rogation. They also re-
vealed names of some
people of the area, who
are involved in narcot-
ics trade, police said,
adding that attempts
are on to nab them.
—PTI
Prayagraj: Over one
lakh people of this his-
toric city on Sunday es-
tablished a new record
by reciting the coun-
try’s national song
“Vande Matram” as
part of the year-long cel-
ebration of India’s 75th
Independence Day cer-
emony, a senior RSS
functionary said. Peo-
ple were led by 75
schoolgirls in reciting
the national song, com-
posed by Bankim Chan-
dra Chattopadhyaya in
1870s, as part of the
city’s month-long Amrit
Mahotsav celebration,
said RSS functionary
Ramdatt Chakradhar.
The event was held in
Prayagraj’s KP Ground
with a majority of stu-
dents from city’s
schools and colleges
participating in it, he
said. India can become
the world’s spiritual
guru by evoking its
swatava (self-realisa-
tion), he said, adding it
can be achieved by fol-
lowing one’s duty and
religion using own’s
language. He urged the
people to sign in their
own languages and use
their mother tongues in
their letters and invita-
tions to rekindle their
swatava’. If the country
has to protect its self-
importance, it has to
safeguard its spiritual
prowess and nurture its
cultural heritage, he
said. Participating in
the function, Justice
Shekhar Yadav of the
Allahabad High Court
observed that the coun-
try had lost its inde-
pendence due to paucity
of unity and it is im-
perative to maintain its
unity in diversity
. —PTI
Noida: A 25-year-old
man, who had come to
Delhi NCR with his ju-
venile cousin sister
from Fatehpur district,
was found dead along a
highway in Greater
Noida, police officials
said on Monday
.
The juvenile was also
found injured uncon-
scious when the two
were spotted by the po-
lice in Beta 2 area of
Greater Noida on Sun-
day evening, the offi-
cials said, adding she is
undergoing treatment
at a hospital. Two broth-
ers of the girl have been
arrested from Fatehpur
over their alleged in-
volvement in the mur-
der, Deputy Commis-
sioner of Police (Great-
er Noida) Amit Kumar
said. Officials privy to
the probe said the exact
reason behind the epi-
sode was yet to be ascer-
tained. On Sunday even-
ing, during patrolling, a
police response vehicle
(PRV) of the local police
had spotted the injured
girl and a man’s body in
the bushes near it, Ku-
mar said. The girl was
immediately rushed to a
hospital. Later she told
the police that they
were cousins and hailed
from a village in
Fatehpur district in UP
.
They had left home to
travel to Delhi and had
then visited Noida and
Greater Noida, the of-
ficer said. The girl’s
brothers had intercept-
edtheduoatPariChowk
in Greater Noida. —PTI
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE
‘UP GOVT MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO
PROVIDE NECESSARY BASIC FACILITIES’
According to the state government, they have
allotted developed plots by creating a new sec-
tor equal to 50% of the total inhabited area and
have ensured that a minimum plot of 50 square
meters is allotted to each displaced family,
Singh mentioned. In line with the demand of
the 3,074 displaced families, they have been
allotted developed plots UP govt (GoUP) has
made arrangements to provide necessary basic
facilities and infrastructural facilities, he noted.
‘UP GOVT ACQUIRED LAND TO
RESETTLE JEWAR FAMILIES’
Noida airport project: Centre says UP govt has acquired 52
hectares land for ` 716 crore to rehabilitate displaced farmers
POLICE NAB
KIDNAPPER,
ABDUCTED
PATIENT STILL
MISSING
First India Bureau
Agra: It’s been
overaweekthere
is no sign of the ab-
ductedpatientwho
was undergoing
treatment for can-
cer at SN Medical
College in Agra.
Police however
were able to arrest
the kidnapper.
“Atul Kumar had
told the police that
after a few days, he
received a ransom
call for Rs 5 lakh
for the release of
his father,” said SP
City Vikas Kumar.
The man who al-
legedly made the
ransom call was
arrested. During
interrogation, the
kidnapper Hari-
om, from Firo-
zabad confessed to
his crime. The po-
lice have also re-
covered the mobile
from which the
ransom was made.
Accused Hariom
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE
The national song being sung at KP College grounds in Prayagraj.
HC grants anticipatory
bail to son of former
SP MLA Saeed Ahmed
THREE ARRESTED WITH
SMACK WORTH ` 2.5 CR
Over 1 lakh people recite
Vande Matram in Prayagraj
25-YEAR-OLD MAN KILLED IN GR NOIDA
DISRUPTING SERVICES
Ambulance workers protest outside the GVK EMRI office in Lucknow on Monday over the
dismissal of 9,000 employees. Ambulance workers have protested against GVK several
times in the past regarding other demands. —PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR
THE ALLEGED VICTIM GIRL CREATED
A FALSE NARRATION, SAYS THE COURT
The court said, “Instead of first testing the basic
veracity of that material, the applicant is being
threatened with arrest under the pressure of
the first informant. The Court further noted that
“referring to the CCTV recording, it has been
submitted that the alleged victim girl had parked
her two wheeler vehicle outside the house of the
applicant and hired a three wheeler rickshaw only
to create the false narration.” The court said no
impediment has been placed in the investigation
and thus, without expressing any opinion on the
merits of the case, the applicant is entitled to
interim anticipatory bail at this stage.

08
2NDFRONT
Forgiveness helps to move on -
unshackle the bondage of
resentment and hate!
—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
Preeti Nagia
Agra: As the date of UP
assembly elections is
approaching, along
with the political circle,
the turmoil is also in-
creasing in the admin-
istrative department.
Under this, the trouble
of transfers has started.
In view of the elec-
tions, the office bearers
posted in any district
for two years or more
are being transferred.
Among them, Agra DM
Prabhu Narayan Singh
is a name who has been
occupying the post for
almost two years. It is
worth noting that even
after being embroiled
in controversies many
times, he is posted
there, while many of
his counterpart have
been transferred in the
same cases.
During Covid, many
questions were also
raised on his role as DM
and before the answers
came out, even the ques-
tioners disappeared
somewhere. If the dis-
cussions are to be be-
lieved, Agra DM was
first in the discussion
after making objection-
able remarks on a na-
tional channel on the
labourers who had gone
on foot for their homes
during the lockdown. In
the second Paras Hospi-
tal case also, the role of
DM remained in doubt.
Many social organi-
sations and relatives of
patients raised ques-
tions on the investiga-
tion by the DM, but de-
spite being posted on a
responsible and high
post, their voices did
not reach the DM. Not
only this, despite the
confirmation of 10
deaths in Agra in hooch
tragedy, the DM had
completely denied the
deaths due to poisonous
liquor. Whereas after
the post-mortem report
came, the deaths were
confirmed due to poi-
sonous liquor.
There have been con-
stant allegations
against the DM that he
does not sit at his office
for public hearing and
even if he does sit, the
public is not allowed to
meet him. The big ques-
tion is that when the
people of Agra, social
organisations and
state-level surveys are
all pointing out that
Agra needs a big
change, then why is
Agra still untouched de-
spite major changes in
the bureaucracy re-
mains a billion dollar
question.
‘Controversial’ DM remains untouched in reshuffle
STRONG HOLD
Prabhu Narayan Singh
In view of the elections,
the office bearers
posted in any dist for
2 years or more are
being transferred. Agra
DM Prabhu Narayan
has been occupying
the post for almost two
years. Even after being
embroiled in controver-
sies many times, he is
posted there
EXCEPTION!
SEAT-SHARING WITH ALLIES BIG
CHALLENGEFORAKHILESH
Ahead of polls SP has made electoral deals with half-a-dozen small parties
Gyanendra Kumar Shukla
Lucknow: Samajwadi
Party supremo Akhile-
sh Yadav, who is dream-
ing of a massive victory
in the upcoming assem-
bly elections of UP
through alliance with
smaller parties, is fac-
ing a big challenge of
seat-sharing with allies.
On Thursday, Akh-
ilesh met his uncle and
Pragatisheel Samajwa-
di Party (Lohia) chief
Shivpal Yadav after a
five-year-long separa-
tion due to a bitter fam-
ily feud. The alliance
of parties of uncle and
nephew has been an-
nounced but the issue
of seat-sharing is yet to
be resolved. Similarly,
the picture of seat
sharing with the rest of
the SP’s allies has not
been clear yet. Notably,
SP has made electoral
deals with half-a-dozen
small parties. At the
same time, talks are go-
ing on with three to
four other parties to
become allies. Al-
though, it is a matter of
relief for SP that two of
its allies Keshav Dev
Maurya of Mahan Dal
and Dr Sanjay Chau-
han of Janwadi Party
has expressed their in-
tention to contest elec-
tions on SP ticket in-
stead of taking sepa-
rate seats. But the situ-
ation is not so favor-
able with the rest of
the allies.
These allies of SP
are trying their best to
get maximum seats un-
der the alliance quota.
The Jayant Chaud-
hary-led RLD, which
has its influence in
western UP, has de-
manded about forty
seats, while Om-
prakash Rajbhar is also
hoping to get 20-22
seats. Azad Samaj Par-
ty (Kanshi Ram), which
is inclined towards alli-
ance with SP, is seeking
more than ten seats.
Chandrashekhar Azad,
the head of this party,
popular among the
youths of the Dalit
community in western
UP, has indicated that
seats should be given in
accordance with his po-
litical strength.
The SP’s agreement
with the Trinamool
Congress is also in the
pipeline, if this materi-
alizes, then the SP may
have to give two to three
seats. Expectations of
25 to 30 seats have been
expressed by the AAP.
In such a situation, if
the expectations of the
demand for seats of all
the allies are realized,
then the SP may have to
give at least a hundred
seats to the allies. Obvi-
ously
, it is a complicated
task for SP Chief Akh-
ilesh Yadav, who claims
to have won 400 seats in
the 403-member UP as-
sembly, to short out an
amicable seat sharing
formula.
SP president Akhilesh Yadav with RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary.
The SP has stitched
the alliance with these
parties… Omprakash Ra-
jbhar-led SBSP, People’s
Socialist Party, Mahan
Dal, Kanshi Ram Bahujan
Mool Samaj Party, Gond-
wana Gantantra Party, Po-
litical Justice Party, Apna
Dal (Camerawadi). At
the same time, the Labor
Party and the Bharatiya
Kisan Sena have merged
with the SP.
MAIN ALLIES
OF SP
Former BJP MLA Ram
Iqubal Singh joins SP
Lucknow: Former
BJP MLA from Ballia
Ram Iqbal Singh, a
known critic of his
party’s government in
Uttar Pradesh, on
Monday joined the Sa-
majwadi Party ahead
of the UP Assembly
polls.
In a tweet, the SP
dubbed the BJP’s ex-
MLAjoiningitasasign
of itsgrowingcaravan.
“The growing caravan
of SP
.FormerBJPMLA
from Chilkahar assem-
blyconstituencyinBal-
lia Ram Iqbal Singh
joined the SP along
with his associates, re-
posing faith in the lead-
ership of (its) national
president (Akhilesh
Yadav),” the SP said in
a tweet.
Singh, also a former
member of the BJP’s
stateexecutivecommit-
tee, was elected as an
MLA from Chilkahar
assembly constituency
inthe2002UPassembly
elections.
Following the delim-
itationof assemblycon-
stituencies in 2008,
Chilkahar ceased to
exist. On October 14,
Singh had accused
UnionMinisterof State
for Home Ajay Kumar
Mishraof beingbehind
the Lakhimpur vio-
lence and sought his
sacking from PM Nar-
endra Modi.
He had earlier said
bureaucrats are run-
ning the government
in the state and had
also raised a question
mark on the handling
of the second Covid
wave by the Yogi Adi-
tyanath government.
—Agencies
Former BJP MLA Ram Iqubal Singh and his team with SP chief Akhilesh Yadav
Oppn continues protest
for Mishra’s removal
Continued from page 1
Lucknow: He was last
seen in Lucknow at the
DGPs/IGs conference
last month along with
Union Home Minister
Amit Shah, before the
SIT revised its charges
against the accused to
attempt to murder and
conspiracy to murder.
The BJP has since been
keeping him away from
public appearances.
The Opposition parties
have been holding pro-
tests inside and outside
Parliament regularly to
demand the resignation
of the minister, who
was recently seen in a
video abusing and in-
timidating journalists
in Khiri.
Recently the Khiri
court had added strin-
gent charges of attempt
to murder and planned
conspiracy to the police
complaints against Ash-
ish Mishra and 12 other
accused.Thiscameafter
a special investigation
team said the Lakhim-
purKheriviolencewasa
“deliberate, pre-planned
conspiracy”. This
touched off protests in
Parliament where Oppo-
sition parties demanded
that Teni should resign
for an impartial probe
andstalledtheHouse.At
a time when the Khiri
violence had almost dis-
appearedfromheadlines
during the last one
month, the decision of
theSITtoslapattemptto
murder charge on main
accused Ashish Mishra
and12otherssnowballed
into a major political
controversy
.
The SIT charge that
the incident was a “pre-
meditated conspiracy”
has provided fresh am-
munition to rival politi-
cal parties who have
steppeduptheirdemand
for the resignation of
Mishra. The demands
gained momentum after
a video went viral on so-
cial media in which
Mishra was seen intimi-
dating journalists when
they asked questions
about the SIT charges.
The incident occurred
when the minister was
coming out of a mother
and child care centre
where he had inaugurat-
ed an oxygen plant. A
news channel journalist
sought to know his reac-
tion on the SIT charges,
and enraged over the
query
,theministerstart-
ed abusing him and
seemed about to assault
him. After the appear-
ance of the video, the
ministerwassummoned
to Delhi in the evening.
There is also reported
discomfort in the BJP
over the Mishra issue as
a section of the party is
of the view that his con-
tinuationintheministry
would adversely affect
the party in the Ro-
helkhand region.
Exercise power in
logical manner: HC
First India Bureau
Prayagraj: The Alla-
habad High Court has
observed that govern-
ment officials are ex-
pected to exercise their
power in a logical and
proper manner. The
Cane Commissioner,
while reserving sugar-
cane areas for sugar
mills, should keep in
mind that sugar mills
notonlydevelopthearea
butalsoprotectinterests
of farmers, the court
said.
The Division Bench of
Justice Ashwani Kumar
Mishra and Justice
Vikram D. Chauhan
passed this order while
hearingapetitionfiledby
J.H.V
.SugarLimited.The
company runs a sugar
mill in Maharajganj. It
was aggrieved by a reser-
vation order passed by
the Cane Commissioner,
Uttar Pradesh, dated No-
vember 22, 2021, in so far
as sugarcane allocation
by the authorities was
madeonlytotheextentof
29.75% of its assessed re-
quirement.
The Court noted that
other sugar factories
have been allocated cane
area to the extent of 66%
to 204% of their assessed
requirement of sugar-
cane while the petition-
er’s sugar mill is allotted
only 29.75% of its as-
sessed requirement
whichwouldatbestallow
the petitioner to crush
sugarcane for twenty
days and would render it
economically unviable.
Kheriaccusedbailpleaheldup
Gopal Giri
Bahraich: The bail ap-
plication of the main
accused of Tikunia vio-
lence case in Lakhim-
pur Kheri could not be
heard due to technical
reasons.
The bail application
of Ashish Mishra, son
of Minister of State for
Home Ajay Kumar
Mishra, the main ac-
cused in the Tikunia
violence case filed at
the Sessions Court after
the SIT increased sec-
tions has been post-
poned due to some tech-
nical reasons. The bail
application of the main
accused and 5 other
were previously reject-
ed by the sessions court
when hearing cases
filed under old sections.
The SIT had recently
filed an application to
the court to increase
the count of sections of
the court which were
accepted by the court
and the bail application
of Ashish Mishra was
rejected by the CJM
court following which a
bail application was
filed in the sessions
court but could not be
heard on Monday due to
technical issues.
Union Mos Home Ajay Mishra loses his temper at a journalist over
questions on his son, in Lakhimpur Kheri last week. —FILE PHOTO
Lko,VnsDMssettobecommissioners
Ahtesham Siddiqui
Lucknow: Christmas
Eve and New Year are
known to be great for
IAS officers and its no
different this time
around as gifts of pro-
motion is being consid-
ered for the state’s IAS
officers.
While the political
leaders of the state are
busy preparing their
campaigns for the up-
coming assembly elec-
tions in 2022, the bu-
reaucracy of the state is
also engaged in decid-
ing on promotions as
the recruitment depart-
ment is busy preparing
promotion of 125 ad-
ministrative officers in
the state. The depart-
ment is busy updating
the gradation list and
photos but it’s the name
of the two officers who
are getting promoted
that has become the ma-
jor topic among the bu-
reaucracy corridors.
These 2 names in-
clude IAS Kaushal Raj
Sharma of batch 2006
who is currently the
DM Varanasi and IAS
Abhishek Prakash of
batch 2006 who is cur-
rently DM Lucknow as
these two officers will
be promoted from their
current special secre-
tary rank to secretary
and commissioner rank
coming new year.
IAS Kaushal Raj
Sharma who is origi-
nally from Bhiwani
(Haryana) has been
posted as District Mag-
istrate of Varanasi, the
Parliamentary seat of
Prime Minister since 31
October 2019. He was
previously posted as
DM of Lucknow, Kan-
pur Nagar, Prayagraj,
Muzaffarnagar and
Pilibhit and holds the
distinction of being the
longest serving DM for
some time now.
The other officer IAS
Abhishek Prakash,
originally from Bihar
has held the post of DM
Lucknow since 31 Octo-
ber 2019 and is consid-
ered close to CM Yogi
Adityanath. Varanasi
and Lucknow are con-
sidered two most im-
portant districts in UP .
Kaushal Raj Abhilshek Prakash
KNOW MORE ABOUT OFFICERS
—FILE
PHOTO

orever Star India
awards and In-
dia’s biggest beau-
ty pageant Forev-
er Miss and Mrs
India were organ-
ised in Jaipur
from December 17 to
20 at hotel Marriott.
More than 300 final-
ists of the city, state
and national win-
ners were crowned
day by day after the
talent rounds and
grooming ses-
sions. Women par-
ticipated with
great enthusiasm
and owned the ti-
tles with grace
and gratitude.
Jagdeesh Chan-
dra was present
as Chief Guest on
the third day of
the event.
On the fourth or
final day of the
event, more than 250
awardees from
across the country
were honoured with
the title of ‘Forever
superheroes and
Forever superwom-
en’, among other
awards. The models
also got a chance to walk
the ramp in various attires
by renowned designers.
They did complete justice
to the prestigious labels as
they graced the ramp with
utmost panache. With gor-
geous makeovers and daz-
zling attire, the partici-
pants looked like the belles
of the ball.
Decked up with dazzling
lights, beautiful decor and
upbeat music, the gala
event was the talk of the
town. The participants and
organisers worked in com-
plete harmony
to ensure the
smooth flow of
the events.
During this
event, all the
Covid proto-
cols were fol-
lowed by or-
g a n i s e r
Rajesh Agraw-
al and the
team.
LUCKNOW, TUESDAY
DECEMBER 21, 2021
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THE FOUR-DAY EVENTS, FOREVER STAR INDIA AWARDS FOREVER MISS AND
MRS INDIA HELD AT HOTEL MARRIOTT CAME TO A BEAUTIFUL CONCLUSION ON
MONDAY AS WINNERS WERE ANNOUNCED FOR MANY CATEGORIES!
GLAMOUR
FASHION
FASHION
GLAMOUR
GLAMOUR
GLAMOUR
GLAMOUR
GLAMOUR
Of beauty,
POORVI SINGHAL
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
F
Naomi Reibero and Binita Shankar
Neha Barwase
Amrita Srivastava
Hemlata Kashyap, Dr Sonali Soner, Sadhna Singh,
Naina Bhalodiya and Dr Vasundhara
Jagdeesh Chandra addressing the audience, also seen are Tanya Dubey, Sobita and Saloni Gusain
Riya
Paul,
Jaya
Chauhan,
Jerry
Khosa,
Rajesh
Agrawal,
Amrita
Srivastava,
Kirti
Choudhary,
Shruti
Chautani,
Tanya
Dubey
—PHOTOS
BY
MUKESH
KIRADOO

10-11
ETC
BRUNCH
BRUNCH
DIARIES!
pre-launch brunch party for
the two mega First India events
for 2022: First India Queen of
Cosmos’22 and Fashion Connect
Season 11 was held at Reloaded
Blackout on Sunday. Queen of Cosmos,
an initiative by Jagdeesh Chandra
will be held on March 10, 2022, in
Dubai and Fashion Connect Season 11
curated by brand ambassador Rishee
Miglani will also be held in March
2022 in Dubai. Amidst a delectable
menu and an ethereal white ambience
against the view of the Pink City, the
brunch was a lush affair. City First
brings to you some
more glimpses from
the celebratory
afternoon.
A
—PHOTOS BY MUKESH KIRADOO
Ayan, Ashwin, Rishee and Swati Neeta Joshi Deepak Gupta, Anjali Gupta and Veerransh
Sushmita Aind, Yash Kothari and
Poorvi Singhal Vinay Singh, Hardeep Singh, Vanya, Sid and Sujata Bhandari
Tushar and Deepak Sankit Balveer Singh and Garv Khurana Deepak Sharma, Amitabh Sharma, Jagdeep Singh and Gurinder Virk
Pankaj and Reema
Ankit Chaudhary, Ayan and Rohit Kukreja
Dr Poonam Madan, Angela Falod, Jassi Chhabra, Ayush Soni, Mohit Faold and Shivani Soni
Vishal Jalani with his wife Chefs: Harvendra Singh, Manoj Kumar, Jibrail Ansari and Rajesh Kumar Hiteshi Bagrecha and Khushi Sonkhiya
Shalini Narukaa and Farha Ansari
Sanjay Sardana and Devendra Singhasan Nadeem, Jinu and Ashish from the band, Nisva
Manmeet Singh
Raj, Sidharth Lodha, Mandakini, Vinay Singh, Vanya and Abhimanyu
Dr Puneet Saxena
Dr Monica Saxena
Nitika Kasliwal and Ayush Jain Rajat Sharma, Jasbir Kaur and Ajay Saini
Guests caught in a candid moment
Kewal Miglani, Keval Mehra and Gurinder Virk Minal Sahni and Doorva
JD Maheshwari and Rahul Jonwal
Kayna
Mayuri Sogani and Priyatam Sogani
Rajat with his wife
Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Ryan, Shreya Gupta and Anita Hada Anjana Miglani
Payal and Shreya

CITY FIRST
Chief Sec-
r e t a r y
Niranjan Arya re-
leased the poster of the
14thJaipurInternation-
al Film Festival (JIFF
2022) at the Chief Secre-
tary's residence. Arya
assured that the Ra-
jasthan government
would give financial
support to JIFF. The
founder-director of
JIFF Hanu Roj and
spokesperson Rajendra
Boda were also present
on the occasion.
During this, Chief
Secretary Niranjan
Arya said that JIFF has
given Jaipur and the
country a new identity
in the field of cinema.
Today
, filmmakers from
many countries come to
Jaipur with their films.
12
CITY BUZZ
GET VACCINATED
STAY MASKED
he Sunday
evening in
Lucknow saw
a star-studded
event of Mrs
UttarPradesh-
Queen of Vir-
tue unfold its charm as
21 women showcased
their talent.
The show started
with a formal introduc-
tion of the event an-
choredbycelebrityhost
A m a n Verma fol-
lowed by a round of in-
troduction of the par-
ticipants.
The show was an in-
clusive title judging the
participants on the
three parameters:
Beauty
,Intelligenceand
Virtue.
Mrs Uttar Pradesh-
Queen of Virtue, a first
of its kind beauty pag-
eant for married wom-
en was judged by Zoya
Afroz (Miss India Inter-
national 2021), Rony
Kaula (Celebrity Pho-
tographer), Preeti Ya-
dav (Founder direc-
tor- Mrs Uttarpradesh
Queen of Virtue) and
Aditi Jaggi Rastogi
(Fashion Designer).
Aditi Jaggi Rastogi,
official couture partner
for the event shared her
idea behind gold gowns
for all the participants
and said, “Every wom-
anonthestagewashere
to live the best days of
her life with us.”
Thepageantconclud-
edwiththecrowningof
the first-ever Mrs Uttar
Pradesh-Queen of Vir-
tue, Aditi Singh who
hails from Lucknow
and is a mother.
A cake-cutting cere-
mony with the winners
amidst the presence of
the judges and anchor,
Aman Verma and SAS
Hyundai sponsor, Gun-
jit Kalra was also held.
—PHOTOS BY ASHOK DUTTA
Mr Miss and Mrs India International Beauty Pageant Shaka was organised under the joint aegis
of Femina Institute of Design Art and Sparrow on Monday in which more than 50 enthusiasts
participated.
B’DAY!
MARKETS INTRUDED?
ashion Week
L u c k n o w,
Winter Festi-
val 5th Edi-
tion was
held at Hotel Ram-
ada, Lucknow on
Sunday. Many de-
signers showcased
their dazzling collec-
tion on the occasion.
Mansha by Deepika
is a premier designer
studio in Lucknow.
During the winter
launch, the label pre-
sented its men's col-
lection for the first
time. PCS Ritu Suhas
ADMGhaziabad(Mrs
India 2019, Ghazi-
abad) walked the
ramp for Mansha by
Deepika in a maroon
lehanga in Zardozi
work. As a show stop-
per, her elegant and
gracefulwalkbrought
the collection to life.
Celebratedhotel-
ier and passionate
photographer Ajaish
Jaiswalalsolaunched
his fifth calendar at
the Fashion Week
Lucknow,Winter Fes-
tival 5th Edition.
With lights, camera
and extravagant at-
tire, the event was a
majestic affair.
OF FASHION BEAUTY...
OF FASHION BEAUTY...
VIEW FROM THE SKY!
VIEW FROM THE SKY!
NEW BEGINNINGS!
NEW BEGINNINGS!
As the first
season of Mrs
Uttar Pradesh-
Queen of Virtue
comes to an
end, City First
brings to its
readers some
exclusive bits
from the event's
glitzy night
Fashion
Fashionistas
AN
ODE
TO
MONICA
PRABHAKAR
MONICA
PRABHAKAR
T
FASHION FOOT FORWARD!
FASHION FOOT FORWARD!
POORVI SINGHAL
F
CITY FIRST
Niranjan Arya re-
leased the poster of the
14thJaipurInternation-
al Film Festival (JIFF
2022) at the Chief Secre-
tary's residence. Arya
assured that the Ra-
jasthan government
would give financial
support to JIFF. The
founder-director of
JIFF Hanu Roj and
MARKETS INTRUDED?
The birthday of IPS Sagar Jain and IPS S.B. Shiradkar was
on Monday, December 20. We wish them all the best!
(L-R) Rony Kaula, Pushpanjali Dixit,
Aditi Singh, Neha Mohanty
and Aman Verma
Sandeep Ahuja crowning
Deepali Mishra
Aditi Jaggi, Zoya Afroz, Rony Kaula,
Shazia and Sushil Bharti
(L-R)
Swati
Upadhyay,
Deepika
Singh
Roka,
Poonam
Dixit,
Pushpanjali
Singh,
Neelam
Hamdard,
Rajbir
Kour,
Priyanka
Singh,
Neha
Mohanty
and
Sakshi
Bhatt
Deepali Mishra
PCS Ritu Suhas
Kanak Rekha,Vipul Varshney, Ritu Suhas,
Ajaish Jaiswal, Meghna T and Sangita Jaiswal
Meghna T and Sangita Jaiswal
Traders of the city
met Municipal
Commissioner
IAS Ajay Kumar
Dwivedi on
Monday to discuss
encroachment of
Bhootnath market.
Jiff Poster Launch!
A large crowd gathered
to witness a mega
drone show under
the Azadi Ka Amrit
Mahotsav and Chauri-
Chaura Centenary
Festival at the
Residency in Lucknow
on Monday.
—PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR
Amaze Inverters
and Batteries
will hold a press
conference to
announce their
new partnership
with UP Yodha
today, at 2 pm
at Renaissance
Lucknow Hotel
Vipin Khand,
Gomti Nagar
Lucknow.

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