24082021 first india jaipur

NIA: JNU,TISS
students enrolled
for terror
Raped by two
minors, 12-yr-
old delivers baby
New Delhi: National
Investigation Agency
(NIA) has claimed stu-
dents of reputed insti-
tutes like Jawaharlal
Nehru University
(JNU) and Tata Insti-
tute of Social Sciences
(TISS) were recruited to
carry out terrorist ac-
tivities in the country
.
In its draft charge
sheet submitted before
a special court in Mum-
bai earlier this month
in the Elgar Parishad-
Maoist link case, the
premier investigating
agency said the accused
wanted to establish
their own government
and“wageawaragainst
the nation”. “The ac-
cused recruited stu-
dents from various uni-
versities, including
JNU and TISS for com-
mission of terrorist ac-
tivity,” it said.
First India Bureau
Jodhpur: In a shocking
incident, a 12-year-old
girl, raped by two minor
boys in her village
school, has delivered a
baby in a Jodhpur hos-
pital, an official said on
Monday. The girl deliv-
ered the baby on Sun-
day night after she was
admitted to the hospital
by her parents, Child
Welfare Committee
President Dhanpat Gur-
jar said, both the girl
and her baby are fine.
Full Report P3
FM unveils Nat’l Monetisation Pipeline scheme
New Delhi: FM Nir-
mala Sitharaman on
Monday launched the
National Monetisation
Pipeline (NMP) that in-
cludes Centre’s four-
year plan to monetise
its brownfield infra-
structure assets. The
government has
planned a Rs 6 lakh
crore pipeline of assets
that can be monetised
which includes a range
of assets put on the
block for private sector
participation, over a
four-year period.
‘Third wave may peak by
Nov if more variant emerges’
New Delhi: A possible
third wave of coronavi-
rus may peak in Novem-
ber if a new variant,
more virulent than the
Delta, emerges and be-
comes fully active by
September end, a scien-
tist involved in the
mathematical model-
ling of pandemic said
on Monday
.
At the same time, the
third wave may not see
the number of new cas-
es going as high as the
second wave and is
more likely to be on the
lines of the first wave.
However, there may
not be a third wave if no
new variant, more in-
fectious than the Delta,
emerges, said Manin-
dra Agrawal, a scientist
with IIT-Kanpur who is
part of the three-mem-
ber team of experts.
ADOLESCENTS LIKELY TO GET
ZYCOV-D VAC AFTER 4 WEEKS
New Delhi: The DCGI on Friday approved Zydus
Cadila’s DNA vaccine for emergency use in adults and
children aged 12 years and above. It is considered
a timely move amid warnings of an upcoming third
wave in the country. Dr Renu Swarup, Secretary, De-
partment of Biotechnology, said, “So far the vaccines
which were in the market were those which were for
above 18 years. This is the DNA vaccine that has just
received emergency use authorization is for 12 to 18
years and above.” More on P6
TRIBUTES TO KALYAN SINGH
Union Home Minister Amit Shah pays his last respects to former UP CM Kalyan Singh during his funeral, in Aligarh, on Monday.
Meanwhile, the road leading to Ram Janmbhoomi complex in Ayodhya will be named after Singh as a tribute. —PHOTO BY PTI
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NHRC NOTICE OVER
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“HOW’S LALU-JI?”:
PM ASKS TEJASHWI
New Delhi: Indian Army
cleared the way for the
promotion of five women
officers to Colonel rank,
post completion of 26
years of reckonable ser-
vice. This is the first time
women officers have been
approved.
Mumbai: Equity frontline
indices traded firm on
Monday led by gains in IT
and financial stocks. At the
closing bell, the BSE S&P
Sensex was up by 226
points or 0.41% at 55,556
while the Nifty 50 rose by
46 points or 0.28%.
New Delhi: The NHRC
issued notices to the
Centre, Assam and
Mizoram over the deadly
border clash between the
two Northeastern states
in July, stating that “grave
violation of human rights”
took place.
New Delhi: As he met with
a Bihar delegation includ-
ing CM Nitish Kumar and
Tejashwi Yadav over their
demand for a caste-based
census, PM Narendra Modi
started off by asking after
RJD leader Lalu Yadav’s
health. P5
FM Nirmala Sitharaman with NITI Aayog VC Dr Rajiv Kumar and
CEO Amitabh Kant, during launch of NMP on Monday.
Health workers inoculate beneficiaries against Covid-19, at a
vaccination centre in Mumbai, Monday. —PHOTO BY PTI
Taliban forces have re-
captured three districts
in northern Afghani-
stan that fell to local
militia groups last
week, a spokesman said
on Monday. The dis-
tricts of Bano, Deh
Saleh, Pul e-Hesar in
Baghlan province were
taken by local militia
groups in one of the
first signs of armed re-
sistance to the Taliban
since their seizure of
the capital Kabul on
Aug. 15. By Monday,
Taliban forces had
cleared the districts
and were established in
Badakhshan, Takhar
and Andarab near the
Panjshir valley
. Forces
loyal to Ahmad Mas-
soud, son of the anti-
Soviet mujahideen
commander Ahmad
Shah Massoud, have es-
tablished themselves in
the Panjshir valley, a
mountainous area
northwest of Kabul
which resisted the Tali-
ban before 2001.
Prior to this, severe
clashes between the
Taliban men and resist-
ance fighters continued
in the Andarab region.
Sources informed Tali-
ban’s Banu district
chief was reportedly
killed along with three
of his companions.
TALIBAN WARN OF ‘CONSEQUENCES’
IF AUG 31 DEADLINE EXTENDED
ACCEPTED TALIBAN TAKEOVER BUT
WON’T JOIN THEM, SAYS GHANI
New Delhi: There will be ‘consequences’ if
the deadline for withdrawal of US troops from
Afghanistan is extended beyond August 31,
the Taliban said. This warning from the Taliban
seems well-timed with G7 leaders set to meet on
Tuesday to discuss the situation in Kabul. “If the
US or UK were to seek additional time to continue
evacuations, the answer is no. There will be
“consequences” if the deadline for withdrawal is
extended,” a spokesperson said.
New Delhi: Hashmat Ghani Ahmadzai, brother of
Afghanistan’s deposed president Ashraf Ghani,
said he has accepted the Taliban’s takeover of
the country to avoid bloodshed and called for
the formation of an inclusive government. “The
situation in Afghanistan is unbearable. We can
play a facilitating role and for that all sides have to
work together,” Ahmadzai clarified in an exclusive
conversation with India Today.
I don’t trust anybody. Taliban has
to make a fundamental decision. Is
the Taliban going to
attempt to be able to unite
and provide for well being
of the people of Afghani-
stan, which no one group
has ever done for 100
years?
—Joe Biden,
US President
It is vital to avoid any
spillover of radical Is-
lam into the region
from Afghanistan and to keep
Islamist extremists at bay.
It is important to keep a
close eye on the Afghan
drug trade,”
Vladimir Putin, Russian
President
IN INDIA
CENTRE CALLS ALL-PARTY MEET
ON AFGHANISTAN CRISIS
125 AFGHAN SIKHS EVACUATED
New Delhi: The Centre has called for an all-party
meeting on August 26 to discuss the Afghanistan
crisis that has shocked the world over the past
weeks since the Taliban captured power in the
war-torn country. The all-party meeting on the
Afghanistan crisis will take place on August 26 at 11
am. Earlier, PM Narendra Modi asked the Ministry
of External Affairs (MEA) to brief floor leaders of all
political parties on the recent developments in Af-
ghanistan. The government’s briefing is expected to
focus on India’s evacuation mission from Afghani-
stan as well as the government’s assessment of the
developing situation in Afghanistan.
India evacuated a group of 125 Afghan Sikhs to
India, said Vikramjit Singh Sahney, president of the
World Punjabi Organisa-
tion. They are also car-
rying 3 saroops of Sri
Guru Granth Sahib with
them, he added. Moreo-
ver, India on Monday
brought back another
146 nationals on four
different flights from
Qatar’s capital Doha,
days after they were
evacuated from Afghanistan by Nato and American
aircraft in view of the deteriorating security situation
in the war-torn country.
AFGHAN REFUGEES PROTEST
IN FRONT OF UNHCR OFFICE
New Delhi: Amid deepening crisis in Afghani-
stan, a large number of Afghan refugees in
India vociferously protested in front of the
UNHCR office here on Monday demanding
release of “support letters” from the UN agency
to migrate to other countries for better op-
portunities. Hundreds of these demonstrators
gathered in front of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in
Vasant Vihar since morning. —PTI
AFTER A
BLOODY NOSE,
TALIBAN
HOLDS FORT
Taliban have retaken three
districts from Afghan militias
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THIS WEEKEND TO END
GEHLOT CABINET’S ‘DROUGHT’?
First India Bureau
Jaipur: With each pass-
ing day
, the hopes of as-
pirantsof Cabinetberth
keeps dwindling as
there has been an un-
canny silence over the
entire issue. But as they
say when all doors are
closed, other avenues
open up! Perhaps in the
same stride, there has
been a new develop-
ment, one that can uplift
the mood of legislators
hoping to be called
‘mantriji’.
Although there is no
formal development or
movement in this re-
gard, but suddenly
, Con-
gress leaders have be-
come extremely hopeful
about August 28! While
it could not be estab-
lished if there has been
an indication from par-
ty’s New Delhi
circle or if
the high
c o m -
mandhasfinally‘solved’
the‘stalemate’,butthere
are murmurs in the par-
ty’s Rajasthan circles
that the next Saturday
could be the day when
the oath taking ceremo-
ny might be held!
When contacted, sev-
eral leaders from the
grand old party
, on con-
dition of anonymity,
claimed that such pro-
grammes are generally
organised on weekends
and there has been a
long standing tradition
in this regard.
Interestingly
, there is
another line of thought
that goes parallel with
the astrological align-
ments, according to
which the second ‘best
day’forsuchprogramme
is August 29, from 1 pm
to 3 pm. “
As such the As-
semblysessionwillstart
in September for which
ministers would need
one week of time for
preparations and there-
fore the month of Au-
gust is extremely impor-
tant for the state, politi-
cally
,” the leaders said.
Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot
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COURT ASKS SOG TO FILE CASE IN
ATTEMPT TO BUILD ON AGRI LAND
Jaipur: A local court in Jaipur has directed SOG
to register and investigate a case in an attempt to
build a multi-storey building on agricultural land in
Keshopura village of Sanganer without partition.
The direction was given recently on a complaint
by Ram Babu Sharma, a resident of Keshopura,
against the authorised representative of Adarsh
Build estate Ltd Manish Chaudhary, Rajeshwar
Singh and Vivek Purohit, director Rohit Modi, Vai-
bhav Lodha and Mukesh Kumar Modi and partner
of Arihant Enterprises Vinay Chordiya, Madhu
Chordiya and Vivek Chordia.
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First India Bureau
Ram Niwas Mird-
ha, whose birth an-
niversary is today
, made
a different identity on
the political scene of
the country with his
style of work. Mirdha,
born on 24 August 1924
in Kuchera of Nagaur,
had represented India
in many international
conferences and re-
mained Union Minister
of Communications
and Deputy Chairman
of Rajya Sabha.
He was born in the
house of Baldev Ram
Mirdha, Inspector Gen-
eral of Police of Jodh-
pur State. His wife’s
name is Indira Mirdha
and is survived by 2
sons and a daughter.
Mirdha got MA degree
from Allahabad Univer-
sity and LLB degree
from Lucknow Univer-
sity and was educated
at the Graduation Insti-
tute of International
Studies, Geneva.
He resigned from
state service in 1953
and won by-election
from Jayal region. He
remained a minister
in the Sukhadia cabi-
net from 13 November
1954 to March 1957.
Elected MLA from
Ladnun in 1957 and
Nagaur in 1962.
Mirdha remained
Speaker of Rajasthan
Legislative Assembly
from 25 March 1957 to 2
May 1967. He became
the Minister of State for
Home for the first time
in the Indira Gandhi
government in 1970.
Mirdha changed political scene of country
BIRTH ANNIVERSARY
Dholpur: A day after Raksha Bandhan, two girls,
aged 13 and 7, drowned in the Parvati river. They
were cousins. Ac-
cording to police, the
cousins, along with
other village girls, had
gone to the riverbank to
clean up barley that the
girls in the Braj region
grow in pots for a ritual
on the day after Raksha
Bandhan. They slipped
into the river and drowned. Although rescuers
jumped into the water, their bodies could be taken
out only after an hour.
Jaipur: BJP’s national spokesperson and Jaipur Rural
MP Col Rajyavardhan Rathore and former Rajasthan
minister Rajpal Singh Shekhawat
on Monday held public meet-
ings and sought votes for BJP
candidates for the Zila Parishad
and Panchayat Samiti elections.
They did electioneering in more
than dozen panchayats including
Bhambhori, Durjaniyawas, Pachar, Mandabhopawas,
Kalwar and Sarnachod under Jhotwara assembly
constituency. Rathore said that it is important to vote
for BJP for the bright future of the state.
2 GIRLS DROWN IN PARVATI RIVER
DURING RAKSHA BANDHAN RITUAL
IMPORTANT TO VOTE FOR BJP FOR
BRIGHT FUTURE OF THE STATE: RATHORE
NEWS DIGEST
SECURITY CHECK!
Rapid Action Team conducting a regular flag march at Johri Bazaar in Jaipur on Monday. The flag march is conducted on
regular basis to acquaint the forces with local streets and locations for quick response in emergency situations.
Lohawat MLA’s attitude is
like Taliban: Shekhawat
600 kg of low
quality spice
destroyed
First India Bureau
Jodhpur: Union Jal
Shakti Minister Gajen-
dra Singh Shekhawat
on Monday addressed
public meetings in sup-
port of BJP candidates
in a dozen of Lohawat
assembly constituency-
Shekhawat compared
functioning of Lohawat
MLA to the Taliban. He
said it is the right of the
public to register a po-
litical protest, but no
one in Lohawat can
raise a voice against
Congress MLA or sup-
port BJP, as Lohawat
MLA sends police to the
house to threaten.
First India Bureau
Jaipur:TheFoodSafety
cell of the Health de-
partment raided a spic-
es grinding centre in the
city and destroyed a
huge quantity of adul-
terated spices on Mon-
day
. According to re-
ports, Safety Commis-
sioner Dr KK Sharma
visited Varsha Enter-
prises in VKI area and
found that 600 kg of chil-
likeptthereforgrinding
was of very low quality
.
Theydestroyedthestock
forthwith.
Monsoon starts receding
Monsoon starts receding
Bikaner, Sri Ganganagar, Jodhpur, Barmer, Jalore and Sirohi
areas are already witnessing drought-like conditions
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Monsoon has
started receding in the
state beginning Mon-
day
. According to the
Meteorological Depart-
ment, there will be no
rain in the state in the
next five days. Temper-
ature is set to soar in
the coming days.
On the other hand,
Bikaner, Ganganagar,
Jodhpur,Barmer,Jalore
and Sirohi areas of
western Rajasthan are
already witnessing
drought-likeconditions.
However, people in
eastern and some parts
of western Rajasthan
have a bit of respite on
Rakshabandhan. In
the past 24 hours, it
rained in many dis-
tricts of western Ra-
jasthan, including
Jaipur, Jodhpur, Chu-
ru and Sikar. Sikar re-
ceived the maximum
32mm rain followed by
19.7mm in Churu and
10.3mm in Jodhpur.
Jaipur received light
and scattered rain. On
Monday, the weather
remained mostly clear
in Jaipur. People got
relief from humid con-
ditions as it was breezy
throughout the day
.
Farmers in western
Rajasthan are worried
about their crops. Due
to the absence of rain
in the Bikaner region,
crops in various places
have been destroyed.
Similar is the situation
of crops in Jalore, Siro-
hi and Jodhpur region.
MIRDHA’S POLITICAL LEGACY!
Mirdha resigned from state service in 1953 and
won by-election from Jayal region. He remained
a minister in the Sukhadia cabinet from 13 November
1954 to March 1957. Elected MLA from Ladnun in
1957 and Nagaur in 1962. Mirdha remained Speaker
of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 25 March
1957 to 2 May 1967. He became the Minister of State
for Home for the first time in the Indira Gandhi
government in 1970.
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat addressing workers at Lohawat.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The rainfall
in the last two days
has brought down the
demand of electricity
by 600 lakh units.
3099 lakh units were
supplied in the
state on August 19,
which was the highest
one day power supply
in the history of
power companies in
Rajasthan but after
that the demand fell
in some districts due
to rain.
A total of 2984 lakh
units were supplied on
August 20, 2799 lakh
units on August 21 and
2441 lakhs units were
supplied on August 22.
RAJE SEEKS RELIEF FOR DROUGHT-
HIT FARMERS IN WESTERN RAJ
Jaipur: Former Chief minister and BJP’s national
vice-president Vasundhara Raje has demanded
immediate evaluation of crop losses due to
drought in western Rajasthan
and timely compensation to the
affected farmers. According to
media reports, only 10 to 15
percent of the total crops sown
have survived and the over-all
losses could be around Rs
2,000 crore. Besides, frequent
power cuts, low voltage supply
and rising temperatures have also broken the back
of the farmers. Uncertain monsoon and scant
rainfall have affected crops in several districts of
western Rajasthan and farmers have been making
appeals to the state government for help.
Rainfall brings down
demand of electricity
Aishwary Pradhan
Jaipur: Even though
the 2023-assembly elec-
tions in Rajasthan are
still far away, BJP has
started working on its
strategy to ensure its
victory in the elections
by activating its lead-
ers and workers across
the state.
BJP state president
Satish Poonia would
start visiting districts
ahead of the panchayat
elections from Tuesday
.
After the panchayat
elections are over, the
party will come up
with a roadmap and
strategy for the 2023-as-
sembly elections.
“We will again go
among the people soon
because our Jan Kalyan
yatra will continue,”
Poonia said.
He said that a strate-
gy will be prepared af-
ter the Panchayat elec-
tions and BJP workers
will be activated
against the Congress
government.
“To protect the inter-
ests of the people, BJP
will gather people in the
form of a mass move-
ment against the gov-
ernment,” he said.
If Preeti gets a ticket, I will
leave the party: Devendra
First India Bureau
Udaipur: In a surpris-
ing move, Congress
leader and former
chairman of Bhindar
Nagar Palika Deven-
dra Singh Shaktawat
on Monday opened a
front against his sister
in law Preeti Shakta-
wat and demanded
from the party to not
give her ticket for by-
polls on Vallabhnagar
Assembly seat.
He announced that
he would quit Congress
and will contest the by-
poll as an independent
candidate if she is giv-
en the ticket.
The seat fell vacant
after the demise of
Preeti’s husband Ga-
jendra Singh Shakta-
wat, who was the
brother of Devendra
Singh Shaktawat.
He wrote a letter to
CM Ashok Gehlot and
demanded to not give
ticket to Preeti Shakta-
wat while making seri-
ous allegations against
her. He also pointed out
that the Vallabhnagar
MLA was involved in an
attempt to topple the
Ashok Gehlot govern-
ment last year.
Assembly poll preps after
panchayat elections: Poonia
Satish Poonia visited Kukas, Achrol, Chandwaji, Lakher and
addressed the party workers on Monday.
Devendra Singh Shaktawat
and Preeti Shaktawat
ALLEGATIONS
—PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR
A view of Jalebi Chowk as clouds hover over it during the monsoon
season in Jaipur on Monday. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA

RAJASTHAN
03
Moni Sharma
Jaipur: Bringing lau-
rels to Rajasthan, Kh-
waish Sharma, from
Fatehpur in Sikar dis-
trict claimed 7 gold
medals, 4 in individual
category and 3 in team
category in the Presi-
dents Cup Air Weapon
Shooting Champion-
ship that concluded in
West Bengal’s Seramp-
ore on Sunday. Partici-
pating in many events
since long the 14-year-
old from Rajasthan
came out with flying
colours on Sunday.
The shooting champi-
onshipwasorganisedby
West Bengal Rifle Asso-
ciation and Bengal
Shooting Sports Acade-
my in Serampore where
224 athletes participated
in the event. Kh-
waish Sharma,
10m air rifle
shooter is un-
d e r g o i n g
coaching
from Joy-
deepKar-
m a k a r
Shooting
Academy
in Kolkata since
last 4 years.
Raj girl Khwaish bags 7 gold medals in shooting
WEST BENGAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Mother of minor rape victim did not notice
changes in daughter’s body and it was too late
Rajiv Gaur
Jodhpur: A 12-year-
old rape victim from
Balesar area of Jodh-
pur has given birth to
a child.
The girl was raped
by two minor boys.
Child Protection Com-
mission Chairperson
Sangeeta Beniwal has
taken cognizance and
visited the victim as
soon as she got infor-
mation about incident.
At the same time,
Child Welfare Commit-
tee President Dhanpat
Gurjar has also in-
quired about the entire
matter. Nine months
ago, while returning
home from school, 3
people including 2 mi-
nors took her away in
a jeep. The family
members came to
know late that the mi-
nor was pregnant and
her mother could
not understand
the changes in her
body
. Doctors have
been asked to
make complete
arrangements for
their treatment.
Sangeeta said
that the police
have interrogat-
ed two sus-
pects & search
for the other
one is on.
Nirmal Tiwari
Jaipur: The Centre will
soon provide financial
and technical help to-
wards the development
of Sariska Tiger Re-
serve. The assurance
came from principal
secretary in the PMO,
Praveen Pardesi, dur-
ing his recent visit to
Sariska. Praveen Pard-
eshi, who was earlier
ACS of Maharashtra, is
considered among PM
Modi’s trusted bureau-
crats. He visited the ti-
ger reserve at the invi-
tation of State Wildlife
Board member Sunil
Mehta and Sariska DFO
Sudarshan Sharma and
stayed here for 2 days.
Pardeshi made safari in
the tiger reserve & took
stock of arrangements.
PK Agarwal
Chittorgarh: In the
Gangrar subdivision
area, a new twist has
come again in the case
of about 154 bighas of
land located near the
station. After the inter-
vention of Begun MLA
Rajendra Singh Bid-
huri in the ongoing dis-
pute to grab the valua-
ble land of closed cotton
mill, DSP Kamal Kumar
Jangid & SHO Shivraj
Gurjar have been sus-
pended in the case. On
Monday, Tehsildar and
ASP investigated the
matter. MLA Rajendra
Singh Bidhuri pressur-
ised to register an FIR.
Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: After its his-
toric performance at
Tokyo Olympics, the
Indian contingent has
now girded up its loins
for the Paralympics
there beginning today.
There are 6 specially-
abled players from Raj
in Paralympics contin-
gent this time.
Devendra Jhajharia
and Sundar Gurjar are
eyeing for medals in
javelin throw while
Sandeep Chaudhary is
also aiming big in the
same event. Mean-
while, shooter Abani
Lekhra and archer Shy-
am are preparing hard
for a good performance
while Krisha Nagar
has high hopes of com-
ing out with flying col-
ours in badminton.
Khel Ratna awardee
Devendra, who is aim-
ing at a hat-trick this
time as he had clinched
gold in the last two Par-
alympics in Athens
and Rio, will remain
the biggest attraction
at the Japanese capital.
He is the only player
who has bagged gold
twice in Paralympics
for India. Devendra
has his date for the
competition on August
30. He lost his father
recently.
First India Bureau
Churu: Deputy LoP Ra-
jendra Rathore had to
face opposition by farm-
ers who
have been
protesting
a g a i n s t
farm laws
enacted by
Centre, during his visit
to Tara Nagar in Churu
on Monday
. The farmers
associated with Akhil
Bhartiya Kisan Sabha &
Sanyukt Kisan Morcha
shouted slogans against
Centre & showed him
black flags.
Vimal Kothari
Jaipur: Bullion traders
across the country ob-
served strike on Mon-
day against hallmark-
ing unique ID on gold
jewellery. Its effect was
also being seen in Raj.
About 50,000 traders,
2 lakh workers and 5
lakh artisans did not
work. Due to which the
bullion business of
Jaipur came to a com-
plete standstill. Bullion
traders in Udaipur,
Jodhpur, Kota & Jaipur
are demanding to with-
draw decision of Cen-
tral Govt by boycotting
work. “The jewellers
had accepted Centre’s
decision. But Unique ID
process after hallmark-
ing is having impact on
business,” said Jaipur
Bullion Association
President Kailash Mit-
tal. Sarv Swarnkar Sa-
maj Netritav Vikas San-
stha said that strike
was boycotted by many
jewellers and shops re-
mained open.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Rajasthan
Cricket Association
will conduct a selection
trial on August 24 and
August 25 at the RCA
Academy for selection
of the Under-19 team.
The Rajasthan team
will participate in the
Under-19 Vinoo
Mankad Trophy in the
upcoming domestic
cricket season of BCCI.
RCA secretary Mahen-
dra Sharma said that
the date of birth of the
player to participate in
the trial should be 01.
09. 2002 or after this.
Sangeeta Beniwal@SangeetaBeniwa3
The incident of rape of a minor in Shergarh
is heart-wrenching, request will be made to
keep a close watch on all the activities of the
growing children and get their trust by talking
to the children from time to time.
Jaipur: A 16-year-
old boy was de-
tained for allegedly
molesting his rela-
tive here, police
said on Monday.
SHO of Vidhyad-
har Nagar po-
lice station
Virendra Ku-
mar said the
four-year-old
girl and her
mother, who are
residents of Delhi,
had come to the
boy’s house in
Jaipur a month ago.
The incident took
place a few days ago
when the girl’s moth-
er left her with the boy
at home and went to
the market, he said.
The girl narrated the
incident to her mother
when they returned to
Delhi last week. The
girl’s mother lodged a
police complaint on
Saturday, following
which the accused
was detained and sent
to a juvenile home on
Sunday. The accused
is allegedly addicted
to porn. SHO said fa-
ther of accused died
due to Covid-19 this
year and the boy was
living with his mother
and sister. —PTI
Teen addicted to porn
molests 4-year-old
Over 50k jewellery traders in Raj join
nationwide strike against hallmarking
Centre pitches in to help
in Sariska development
Chittor DSP, SHO put
on APO in land row
PARALYMPICS:
Jhajharia aims
golden hat-trick
Rathore shown
black flag by
farmers in Churu
‘MINOR’
RCA under-19 selection
trial kick starts today
It is like a feeling I have never felt before. Despite pandemic
scare for the past 2 years, I wasn’t able to practice that well
so this was a very big challenge and it completes the feeling
of accomplishment. There is now a level of anxiousness as to
what will come next. My coaches have been very supportive all
through and helped me to achieve my dreams and I will always be
grateful to them for their hardwork to train me. —Khwaish Sharma, Shooter
Air rifle peep
sight Junior
Women
individual
GOLD
Air rifle peep
sight Youth
Women
individual
GOLD
Air rifle peep
sight Sub
Youth
individual
GOLD
3 Team GOLD
for Joydeep
Karmakar
Shooting
Academy
Air rifle
peep sight
Women
individual
GOLD
MAYOR SUSPENSION ISSUE: STATE GOVT
LIKELY TO SUBMIT REPLY IN SC TODAY
Jaipur: The Rajasthan government is expected to
submit its reply on Tuesday in the Supreme Court
on a plea challenging the suspension of Jaipur
mayor Dr Somya. Senior lawyer Abhishek Manu
Singhvi is expected to appear in the Supreme
Court on behalf of the state government. On July
20, the Supreme Court had issued notice to the
local bodies department and acting mayor Sheel
Dhabhai over Dr Somya’s suspension and given
3 weeks to the Rajasthan government to submit
its reply. Dr Somya has appealed the apex court
against her suspension.
Jaisalmer: A cricket team named as Taliban club
created controversy in Jaisalmer district. The team
registered online for Alaldeen
cricket trophy which is held in
Jesurana village in Jaisalmer
every year. For this, team Tali-
ban Club sent an entry online
which was initially approved but
when they noticed the name, the
team was removed from the tournament. However,
by then, reaction started pouring in on social media
about the name of the team. The tournament started
on Sunday in which 10 teams are participating.
Jodhpur: Two labourers were killed and one injured
when a balcony of an under construction house
collapsed in Jodhpur’s Krishna
Nagar on Monday. Six workers
were working at construction site
here while incident took place.
2 of them, identified as Paras
Meghwal & Gangaram Songara,
were working while standing on
balcony when it collapsed. Both the labourers also
fell from balcony, ACP (Mandor) Rajendra Prasad Di-
wakar said. They were rushed to MG hospital where
doctors declared them dead on arrival, he said.
CRICKET TEAM NAMED ‘TALIBAN’ COURTS
CONTROVERSY, REMOVED FROM GAME
2 LABOURERS KILLED, 1 INJURED AS BALCONY
SLABS OF UNDER CONSTRUCTION HOUSE FALL
NEWS DIGEST
‘A TREE AT EVERY BOOTH’
MLA Kalicharan Saraf planted a neem plant at Shyam Vatika Park in Malviya Nagar under
a programme ‘A tree at every booth’. Also seen here are Suman Sharma, Gajendra Singh,
Narendra Singh, Rampal Jain, Brahm Kumar Saini, Natwar Kumawat, Chandra Bhatia,
Maganlal Goyal and others, who came forward to protect the environment.
Praveen Pardeshi, Sunil Mehta & Sudarshan Sharma in Sariska.
Jewellery traders stage a sit-in at Badi Chaupar in Jaipur on Monday. —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR
MOTHER, CHILD
STARE AT
BLEAK FUTURE
PARDESHI ASSURES
FIN, TECH SUPPORT
The official promised
central help in removal
of weeds from the reserve,
financial assistance for the
displacement of villages in
the core area and to get 4
tigers from Maharashtra to
Sariska. He also spoke to
Maha CWW about giving
tigers to increase gene
pool of tigers in Sariska.
SHIFTEDTOJAIPURHQ
In the order issued by
DGP ML Lather, DSP Ka-
mal Kumar Jangid is sus-
pended with intention of
a departmental inquiry &
his HQ has been shifted to
Jaipur. ADGP Biju George
issued a suspension of
Shivraj Gurjar & his HQ
too shifted to Jaipur.
Players must
produce their
Covid-19 neg-
ative report done 72
hours before. They
must come in coloured
attire.
—Mahendra Sharma,
RCA Secretary

PERSPECTIVE
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SPIRITUAL SPEAK
Perform your obligatory
duty, because action is
indeed better than inaction.
—Bhagwad Geeta
IN-DEPTH
Dr. S. Jaishankar
@DrSJaishankar
In view of developments in
Afghanistan, PM @narendramodi
has instructed that MEA brief Floor
Leaders of political parties. Minister of
Parliamentary Affairs @JoshiPralhad
will be intimating further details.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
@priyankagandhi
Prices continue to rise. No money to
fill cylinder. Businesses are closed.
This is the suffering of common
women. When will we talk about their
pain? Reduce inflation.
TOP TWEETS
NO, BEARD ISN’T
ALLOWED IN A
DISCIPLINED
FORCE FOR
‘SECULAR IMAGE’
eards are banned in
the Indian armed
forces. An exemption
is made in the case of
Sikh servicemen
who have to keep a beard as it is
a necessary requirement of
their religion. They have to keep
their beards properly dressed.
The same rule applies to those in
the police. Mohammad Farman,
a constable of Uttar Pradesh po-
lice challenged the guidelines
issued by the DGP on maintain-
ing proper appearance by mem-
bers of the force. Farman, who
was suspended for maintaining
a beard, filed a petition in the Al-
lahabad High Court. He argued
that keeping a beard was his fun-
damental right.
The high court did not agree
with the contention and dis-
missed his petition. Justice
Rajesh Singh Chauhan said that
Article 25 does not “confer an
absolute right”. Citing another
case, that of Corporal Moham-
med Zubair, the judge said that
the litigant was unable to prove
that there was any “specific” law
in Islam which prohibited “cut-
ting or shaving of facial hair”.
B
avjot Singh Sidhu
and his advisers
are behaving like
loose cannons.
The Punjab Con-
gress president attacks Chief
Minister Capt. Amarinder
Singh as if that is the man-
date given to him from “his
captain” Rahul Gandhi. His
advisers have gone a step fur-
ther. They have questioned
the country’s policy on Kash-
mir and Pakistan with which
even the Congress Party is in
agreement and attacked for-
mer Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi for 1984 incidents in
Amritsar. Malvinder Singh
Mali, one of the advisers, left
the Congress red-faced with a
controversial sketch of Indi-
ra Gandhi which he posted on
social media. The sketch was
earlier published by Mali in a
Punjabi journal in 1989.
In a tweet last week Mali
described Kashmir as a sepa-
rate country and both India
and Pakistan as occupiers.
While it may be music to the
ears of Kashmir’s leaders it
is at complete variance with
India’s stated policy on Kash-
mir. He also accused Ama-
rinder Singh of creating
communal divide in the state.
Pyare Lal Garg, the other
adviser, questioned the chief
minister’s criticism of Paki-
stan. It was against Punjab’s
interest, he is reported to
have said. Infuriating Ama-
rinder Singh but Sidhu’s si-
lence was deafening.
It will be disgraceful for
the Congress high command
if it lets these atrocious re-
marks pass. The party will
then have to explain its stand
on Kashmir and Pakistan
and if Sidhu has been per-
mitted to take a pro-Pakistan
and anti-Indira stand.
Sidhu may have clarified
his stand to Harish Rawat but
has not issued a public clari-
fication yet. The responsibil-
ity of his advisers making
controversial utterances will
lie on him.
SIDHU MUST CLARIFY
HIS ADVISERS REMARKS
It will be disgraceful for
the Congress high
command if it lets
these atrocious
remarks pass. The party
will then have to explain
its stand on Kashmir and
Pakistan and if Sidhu
has been permitted to
take a pro-Pakistan and
anti-Indira stand
N
n the recently carried out
changesintheUnionCabinet,
theUnionMinisterforEduca-
tionhasbeengivenadditional
responsibilityof theMinistry
of Skills Development and
Entrepreneurship (MSDE).
This is a very important
convergenceattemptedbythe
Prime Minister by having a
unity of command under one
authority. This augurs very
well both for the education as
well as the skills sector, this
organic blending is the need
of hour and it would pave the
way for “Formalization of Vo-
cational (Skills) Education
Vocationalization of formal
Education” to make the ‘Edu-
cated Youth’ employable,
skilling is the only way out
and need of the hour.
THE GANDHIAN
VISION AND ANCIENT
INDIAN LEGACY
Father of Indian Nation Ma-
hatma Gandhi always spoke
of having ‘RAM-RAJYA” in
independent India because
Bhagwan Ram as ruler of
Ayodhya was always con-
cerned for the welfare of citi-
zens of Ayodhya.
Even Bhagwan Ram while
studying at the ashram of
Guru Vashishtha was taught
Archery (Skill) before teach-
ing the holy texts (the book-
ish knowledge) because
Guru Vashishtha needed ex-
pert fighters/ archers to de-
fend the Ashram from the
ever attacking recalcitrant
and disrupting Demons
(Rakshasha – Asura).
The priority and the pol-
icy was: FIRST SHASTRA
(Skill); THEN SHAASHTRA
(Knowledge), SKILLS First;
ACADEMICS Later.
After Independence Ma-
hatma Gandhi’s vision was
translated into action by Vi-
sionary Prime Minister Pan-
dit Jawahar Lal Nehru by
launching Rural Arts, Crafts
and Cottage Industry Orient-
ed Buniyadi Shiksha (Basic
Education) in 1950s.
At the time of Independ-
ence majority of Indian pop-
ulation lived in villages and
were dependent on Agricul-
ture, Animal Husbandry and
Cottage/ Village industries
for livelihood, Hence, initial-
ly the emphasis at school
level was on promoting vil-
lage/ cottage Industry and
Agriculture through Voca-
tional Education promoted
under ‘Buniyadi Shiksha’
The National Education
Policy of 1986 went a step fur-
ther and upgraded the Voca-
tional Education at second-
ary (10+1) level by imparting
vocational education by con-
ducting courses in weaving,
carpentry, tailoring etc.
However during late 1980s
and 1990s vocational Educa-
tion at secondary level was a
limited success and majority
of parents did not want their
wards to become ‘Blue Col-
lar’ workers, they preferred
science/ commerce/ engi-
neering courses so that their
wards can aspire for higher
and in-demand prestigious
professional courses like
MBBS, B.Tech., B.E, M.Com
etc., gradually the indiffer-
ence of students at second-
ary level to opt for vocational
courses led to marginaliza-
tion of Vocational Education
from the mainstream.
Learning from the luke-
warm response and perfor-
mance of integrating Voca-
tional Education with main-
stream educational curricu-
lum, the new National Edu-
cation Policy (NEP) – 2020
has prescribed an innovative
new approach.
Article 16.1 to 16.7 provide
the policy directives on “Re-
imagining Vocational Educa-
tion”. Quoting the South Ko-
rean example of its 96% of
workforce with formal voca-
tional education (Compared
to less than 5% for India). Art.
16.1 providing for vertical
mobility with well – defined
pathways to students from
vocational streams to con-
tinue with their chosen voca-
tions in higher education.
Article 16.2 highlights the
‘Social – Status – hierarchy’
in which vocational educa-
tion is considered/ perceived
to be inferior to mainstream
education, hence article 16.3
clearly provides for all
schools, colleges and univer-
sities to integrate vocational
education in mainstream
education in a phased man-
ner with especial emphasis
on dignity of labour.
THE RAJASTHAN
INITIATIVE
In a first of its kind move
translating the vision of CM
Rajasthan in action the Ra-
jasthan State (ILD) Skills
University (RISU) embarked
upon ‘Concurrent award’ of
skill development certifi-
cate/ diploma (NSQF Level 4
to 6) to the students of all
govt. colleges from July 2020.
The response to the RISU
initiative has been very en-
couraging as during 2019-20
more than 3000 students took
up over 30 skill development
courses offered by over 100 af-
filiated skill development col-
leges/institutesinRajasthan.
THE WAY FORWARD
Leading entrepreneur and
co-founder of India’s IT glob-
al success story INFOSYS Mr.
NRN Narayan Murthy once
observed that 70% of even
IIT graduates are not directly
employable. That’s the chal-
lenge, making our ‘educated’
youth appropriately and suf-
ficiently skilled to make
them employable.
Time is running out, to
harvest the ‘India’s Demo-
graphic Dividend’, in coming
5-10 years we have to aggres-
sively attempt and ensure
skilling the unskilled (edu-
cated/ uneducated) and up-
skill, reskill and even ‘de-
skill’ our existing human
resource/ work force to en-
courage them to learn, im-
bibe and excel in new age
technologies and skill sets of
future like Automation, Arti-
ficial Intelligence (AI), Ma-
chine Learning (ML), 3-D
printing, Robotics, Anima-
tion, Big Data Analytics, Vir-
tual Reality and Augmented
Reality (VR/AR), Block –
Chain, Drone technology,
IOT and IT enabled services
including e-commerce and e-
learning.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
MAKING ‘EDUCATED’
YOUTHEMPLOYABLE
I
DR. LALIT K. PANWAR
The writer is IAS (Rtd.),
Former VC (RISU) Secretary Tourism GOI
In a first of its kind move
translating the vision of
CM Rajasthan in action
the Rajasthan State
(ILD) Skills University
(RISU) embarked upon
‘Concurrent award’ of
skill development
certificate/ diploma
(NSQF Level 4 to 6) to
the students of all govt.
colleges from July 2020
Learning from the
lukewarm response
and performance of
integrating Vocational
Education with
mainstream educational
curriculum, the new
National Education Policy
(NEP) – 2020 has
prescribed an innovative
new approach
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INDIA
05
Rakesh Ranjan
New Delhi: Experi-
ments without follow-
ing the required pro-
cess never yield the
desired results in Sci-
ence as much as in pol-
itics. This is what has
come to hit the UP Con-
gress. By putting Lallu
(Ajay Kumar Lallu) at
the helm of state af-
fairs, the grand old
party might have re-
vealed its utter failure
to feel the pulse of the
people of the state.
It is known that UP
has been churning new
political equations for
the last few decades.
Congress opponents
have been successful in
their attempts to make
their way into the Brah-
min vote bank, once the
party’s monopoly
. Ear-
lier, Mayawati succeed-
ed followed by the BJP.
The success of both
BSP and BJP in gaining
the confidence of Brah-
manvotersisattributed
to the absence of any
tall Brahman leader in
the state Congress.
It is pointed out that
Pramod Tiwari could
have, and still, mini-
mised the Congress
losses among the Brah-
min voters who are
said to constitute 12%
of voters in central UP
.
But for some reasons
beyond comprehension
he has always been cut
to size.
Plots against Tiwari
first surfaced in 2013
when he was packed
off to Rajya Sabha to
apparently fill a vacan-
cy arising in a by-elec-
tion due to the disquali-
fication of Rasheed
Masood. Instead of let-
ting him build the state
party for which he is
said to have been emi-
nently qualified, the
Congress made its state
unit rudderless.
That he wasn’t the
original choice for fill-
ing the RS vacancy was
apparent. This is seen
to have sent out a to-
tally wrong signal at
the time of extreme dis-
tress in the party
. Why
is Tiwari seen as a man
who can manage the
crisis the Congress
Party is facing in the
state?
For one, he is a grass-
roots leader. He has re-
tained his Assembly
seat Rampur Khas for
nine consecutive terms
from 1980 onward.
Whether it was Behenji
wave or SP wave, noth-
ing could dislodge him
from his seat in the
Pratapgarh district. At
present his daughter
Aradhana Mishra rep-
resents Rampur Khas
constituency in the UP
Assembly
.
But instead of recog-
nising his strength,
darbari politics of the
Congress ensured to re-
move him in 2012 as the
Congress Legislature
Party (CLP) leader and
replaced him with
Pradeep Mathur, a
three-term MLA from
Mathura.
And, in 2013, he was
packed off to Delhi.
This deprived Con-
gress of a tall and
grassroots Brahmin
leader. The vacuum
thus caused was adroit-
ly exploited by the BJP
.
Even as the BJP built
up its forces, the Con-
gress, in the absence of
Pramod Tiwari, got it
all wrong. It returned
to its usual Muslim ap-
peasement politics that
was again fully exploit-
ed by the BJP to com-
plete the process of
Brahmin alienation
with the Congress par-
ty. This process culmi-
nated in Rahul Gandhi
running away from the
family bastion of Am-
ethi.
It may be recalled
that Tiwari has never
lost an election. Such is
his bonding with his
voters of different de-
nominations. In fact,
he is credited with suc-
cessively ensuring the
victory of Congress
candidate Ratna Singh
from the Pratapgarh
Parliamentary constit-
uency
. But even she got
so much disenchanted
with the Congress that
she moved over to the
BJP, more so because
of sidelining of Tiwari.
As the 2022 UP elec-
tion gets nearer, the
only way for the Con-
gress party to rally its
workers and support-
ers is to contest the
election under the lead-
ership of Pramod Ti-
wari, instead of im-
porting characters or
promoting little men
with little courage and
imagination to take on
the BJP and SP
.
Despite Congress
facing existential crisis
it’s unlikely that it may
bring back Pramod Ti-
wari to lead its cam-
paign in UP because
the institutional mem-
ory of the party still
sees him as a rebel who
once sided with the late
Narayan Dutt Tiwari
in forming a parallel
Congress party
.
PRAMOD TIWARI CONGRESS’
ONLY OPTION IN UP?
MISSION UP 2022
Rivals Nitish,Tejashwi meet PM Modi
New Delhi: A cross-
party delegation led by
Bihar CM Nitish Ku-
mar met PM Narendra
Modi on Monday to dis-
cuss the conduct of a
caste-based census (in
the state and across the
country) and called on
him to take “the appro-
priate decision”.
Members included
RJDchief andLeaderof
the Opposition, Tejash-
wi Yadav; the BJP’s
Janak Ram, a state min-
ister; Congress leader
Ajeet Sharma and those
from Left parties; and
Jitan Ram Manjhi, for-
mer Chief Minister and
President of the Hindu-
stani Awam Morcha.
“People in Bihar and
theentirecountryareof
the same opinion on this
issue. We are grateful to
the PM for listening to
us. We urge him to take
an appropriate deci-
sion,” Nitish Kumar
said after the meeting.
He also said the dele-
gation had reminded
the Prime Minister that
the Bihar Assembly has
twice passed resolu-
tions on holding a caste-
based census.
RJD leader Tejashwi
Yadav said that the del-
egation had told the PM
that if the centre feared
a caste-based census
would lead to tension,
collecting information
on religion should also
be avoided. The PM lis-
tened to them patiently,
he added. —PTI
THE MEETING
Such a census was in national inter-
est and will be a historic measure
and help the poor and the most de-
prived sections of the society. If animals and
trees can be counted, so can people.
—Tejashwi Yadav, RJD Leader
The PM listened to all members of the
delegation on caste census. We urged
PM to take an appropriate decision
on it. We briefed him on how resolutions have
been passed twice in the state Assembly on
caste census. —Nitish Kumar, Bihar Chief Minister
Arvind Kumar is Chennai
Petroleum Corporation MD
Azad to Upper House via ‘down under’?
Rakesh Ranjan
New Delhi: Chennai
Petroleum Corporation
Limited, a group com-
pany of Indian Oil, got
its new Managing Di-
rector in Arvind Kumar
who is currently func-
tioning as ED, IOCL.
Appointment Commit-
tee of Cabinet chaired
by PM Modi on Monday
approved recommenda-
tion of ministry of oil
and natural gas and ap-
pointed Kumar as MD
for 5 years or till his su-
perannuation, which-
ever earlier. It may be
underlined that public-
sector head-hunter
(PESB) had on May 18,
2021 found Kumar suit-
able for MD post in
Chennai based ‘Sched-
ule B’ Central PSU. He
succeeds SN Pandey
.
Kartikey Dev Singh
New Delhi: By-election
has been announced for
1 RS seat in Tamil Nadu
by the EC on September
13 for the seat vacated
due to death of Anna
DMK leader A Moham-
madjan. By law, this
seat belongs to ruling
DMK, but CM MK Sta-
lin has promised to give
it to Congress. Two
more seats are vacant
in state, on which the
DMK will field its can-
didates if elections are
held. However, the seat
vacated by demise of A
Mohammadjan has a
term of nearly 4 years
left it is being said
that Congress can send
senior leader Ghulam
Nabi Azad to this seat.
Azad’s tenure ended
in February this year
and PM Modi was very
emotional in his fare-
well ceremony
. Prior to
that, Azad, along with
23 Congress leaders,
had written a letter to
Congress President,
asking for early elec-
tions to all posts of the
organisation.
It was then thought
that now Congress will
not send him to RS. But
later Azad’s equation
with party High Com-
mand became better. It
is also being said that
while in charge of Ta-
mil Nadu, Azad’s rela-
tions with Stalin are
also very good. Moreo-
ver, the seat vacated be-
longed to a Muslim MP.
So, from this seat, Azad
may return to the Up-
per House. Additional-
ly, there is also talk of
sending Mukul Wasnik
to the Upper House
from Maharashtra.
Maha Chief Secy
in quagmire in
Rashmi Shukla case
Rakesh Ranjan
New Delhi: Official
sources believe that Ma-
harashtra Chief Secre-
tary Sitaram J Kunte,
who has allegedly tried
to wriggle out of the
leakage of an evidence-
based (through phone
tapping) report on high-
level corruption in po-
lice transfer and post-
ing, is finding himself
dragged into the vortex
of law.
Sources say that he
did serious miscalcula-
tions by blaming senior
state cadre IPS officer
Rashmi Shukla, now
ADG CRPF, based in Hy-
derabad, for leakage of
corruption report that
was cited in March this
year by former CM and
leader of opposition in
Assembly Devendra
Fadnavis.
While giving Shukla
protection against any
coercive action by the
state administration on
August 21, a Bombay HC
divisionbenchonFriday
and Saturday heard
Shukla’s lawyer Mahesh
Jethmalani’srevelations
of the whole episode
whose center of gravity
,
as pointed out by Ma-
hesh, was none other
than Kunte. Jethmalani
said, “My client is made
a scapegoat for the al-
leged leakage (of confi-
dential documents). The
whole reason behind fil-
ing this FIR is to prevent
documentsfromgoingto
the CBI. You (Sitaram
Kunte) sanctioned inter-
ceptions then why are
you making an issue
aboutitnow?AfterShuk-
la was stripped of her
post, over 150 police offi-
cials were transferred
and 9 people got posting
they bargained for.”
Mahesh, then, hit the
nail into Kunte, “What
were you doing when
you repeatedly sanc-
tioned all intercep-
tions? Kunte cannot
disown his interests
and make my client a
scapegoat, however
hard he may try, he can-
not do it. Where was the
application of mind
while sanctioning the
phone taps?”
State advocate Darius
Khambata stated the
FIR against Rashmi
Shukla pertained to
data theft and leakage.
He argued that the docu-
ments were admittedly
confidential and “leak-
ing of such documents
which eventually found
their way into the pub-
lic domain was a seri-
ous offence to be inves-
tigated into”.
Was Khambata jok-
ing? Could a report on
corruption be termed
‘confidential’ and an ‘of-
ficial secret?’ When was
alawmadetothiseffect?
BOTH LEADERS MADE A STRONG PUSH FOR COUNTING THE POPULATION ON THE BASIS OF CASTE
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav addresses the media after meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi
over caste-based census at South Block in New Delhi. —PHOTO BY PTI
PUSH FOR
CASTE CENSUS
Ghulam Nabi Azad
Pramod Tiwari

SATRAPS: THE REAL CHALLENGE BEFORE BJP?
WILL SONIA FINALLY SUCCEED THIS TIME?
Anita Hada
T
he highlight or
special feature of
the meeting of
opposition parties
called by Congress’ in-
terim president Sonia
Gandhi was that four
non-Congress CMs at-
tended it.
All four are great ‘sa-
traps’ of their state and
have the ability to
change the game in
their respective states.
Tamil Nadu Chief Min-
ister MK Stalin, Maha-
rashtra Chief Minister
Uddhav Thackeray,
West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Ba-
nerjee and Jharkhand
Chief Minister He-
mant Soren attended
the virtual meeting.
These four states
have 143 Lok Sabha
seats, out of which the
BJP has 53 seats. These
53 seats are with the
BJP from three states-
Maharashtra, West
Bengal and Jharkhand
and it is believed that a
partnership of the op-
position in these
three states can
change the pic-
ture in the Lok
Sabha elections.
In the previous Lok
Sabha elections, BJP
and Shiv Sena had
fought together. If this
time BJP fights alone
and Shiv Sena, Con-
gress and NCP fight to-
gether then BJP will be
in danger of losing the
23 seats it has to its kit-
ty right now as with
Shiv Sena, BJP has won
23 seats, twice, in the
last two elections.
But if the saffron
party is devoid of its
‘smaller entity’ i.e.
Shiv Sena, it will be dif-
ficult for BJP to win the
seats. That’s why the
BJP is worried
about Maha-
rashtra.
Simi-
larly, in West Bengal,
the BJP had won 18
seats last time in a four-
cornered struggle.
This time if Mamta
Banerjee and Congress
fight together and some
kind of alliance is
formed with Left, di-
rectly or indirectly,
then it will be difficult
for BJP to save its seats.
In Jharkhand, BJP has
won 12 out of 14 seats
even though Congress,
RJD and JMM fought
together.
But the situation has
changed after the 2019
assembly elections.
Last time in Bihar, the
entire opposition alli-
ance could win only
one seat out of 40, but
after the 2020 assembly
elections, the situation
has changed there too.
Therefore, preventing
the possibility of part-
nership between the
satraps and their cor-
responding alliance
with the Congress will
be the biggest chal-
lenge for the BJP. If the
BJP is unable to formu-
late a strategy to cope
with the problem, then
it will be in trouble in
the next election.
INDIA
06
CRUCIAL READ
MIB OFFICIALLY RECOGNISES
NBF’S SELF-REGULATORY BODY
New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting (MIB) has officially recognised the
News Broadcasters Federation (NBF)’s self regu-
latory body. The granting of official status by the
MIB to the NBF makes the body the only institution
of its kind in the entire nation to get accreditation
from the Government. The NBF’s body’s emer-
gence as the sole body to meet all criteria to be
granted validation by the Union of India and be the
only recognised body regulating the news media.
CHARGE SHEET FILED AGAINST
ANIL DESHMUKH’S AIDES
Mumbai: ED on Monday submitted its prosecu-
tion complaint (equivalent to chargesheet) against
two aides of former Maharashtra home minister
and NCP leader Anil Deshmukh in connection
with a money laundering case before a special
court here. The chargesheet was filed before the
special court assigned to hear matters related to
the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against
Deshmukh’s private secretary Sanjeev Palande
and personal assistant Kundan Shinde.
BENGAL BJP DIVIDED OVER
DEMAND OF DIVISION OF STATE
Kolkata: Different opinions from within the BJP’s
Bengal chapter surfaced in the past 24 hrs over
the issue of statehood for north Bengal after the
party’s state president Dilip Ghosh supported the
demand raised by a Union minister for separate
state while another MP Chatterjee refused to sec-
ond it. Referring to minister John Barla’s demand
for the formation of separate state, Ghosh said, “If
north Bengal or Junglemahal eventually turns into
separate states, Mamata would be responsible.’’
WE AREN’T A TALIBAN STATE: COURT
REJECTS HINDU DAL CHIEF’S BAIL PLEA
New Delhi: A Delhi court said that “we are not in a
Taliban state”, while dismissing the anticipatory bail
application of Hindu Raksha Dal president Pinky
Chaudhary, under investigation for his alleged role
in the Jantar Mantar anti-Muslims sloganeering.
Additional Sessions Judge Anil Antil passed the
order on August 21, observing, “We are not in a
Taliban state. Rule of law is the sacrosanct govern-
ing principle in our plural and multicultural society.
While the whole country is celebrating Azadi ka
Amrut Mahotsav, there are some minds still chained
with intolerant and self centric beliefs.”
NE DELHI RIOTS CASE: FRAMED BY THE
PRESS, UMAR KHALID’S LAWYER TO COURT
New Delhi: Ex-JNU student Umar Khalid’s lawyer
told a Delhi Court that he was framed in northeast
Delhi riots UAPA case by press which played an
edited video of his speech initially tweeted by BJP
leader Amit Malviya. Senior Advocate Trideep Pais,
who appeared on behalf of Umar was addressing
arguments before Additional Sessions Judge Ami-
tabh Rawat who adjourned the case for September
3. He told the court that the UAPA FIR is “unnec-
essary and has been drafted and filed in order to
target people selectively based on the opposition
to CAA.” Pais said in each FIRs, a cognisable
offence was disclosed, however, in the present FIR
there is no such thing.
ARMY TO NEWLY-RECRUITED
MILITANTS: RETURN TO MAINSTREAM
Srinagar: Lt. General, Y.K. Joshi, General Officer
Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Army’s
northern command on Monday said the newly-re-
cruited militants should
accept their mistakes
and return to the
mainstream. Address-
ing a function at the
Manasbal Lake Park in
north Kashmir Gander-
bal district, Lt. General Joshi said, “We are ready
to facilitate surrenders even in the midst of intense
anti-militancy operations. —ANI
India’stotalvaxcoveragetouches
58.82 cr; 56 L get jab on Monday
New Delhi: India’s Cov-
id-19 vaccination cover-
age has crossed 58.82
Crore as per Union
Health Ministry report
on Monday while more
than 56 lakh doses have
been administered.
Meanwhile, than
57.05 crore COVID-19
vaccine doses have been
provided to States and
Union Territories, said
the Central government
in a press release on
Monday
.
More than 3.44 crore
unutilized vaccine dos-
es are still left with the
states and UTs while
13.34 lakh doses are cur-
rently in pipeline, said
the release. The Govern-
ment is committed to
accelerating the pace
and expanding the
scope of vaccination
throughout the country
.
The new phase of uni-
versalization of COV-
ID-19 vaccination com-
menced on 21st June
2021. The vaccination
drive has been ramped
up through the availa-
bility of more vaccines,
advance visibility of
vaccine availability to
States and UTs for ena-
bling better planning by
them, and streamlining
vaccine supply chain.
As part of nationwide
vaccination drive, govt
has been supporting
States and UTs by pro-
viding them Vaccines
free of cost. Centre will
procure and supply
(free of cost) 75% of vac-
cines being produced by
the vaccine manufac-
turers in country to
States and UTs. —ANI
Over 3.44 crore unutilised COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs
A healthcare worker fills a syringe with a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. —PHOTO BY ANI
INDIA WORKING TO DEVELOP PAN-CORONA SHOT
New Delhi: Dr Renu Swarup, Director Department of Biotechnology on
Monday said GOI is working on vaccines with the needed modification to fight
against any strain of COVID-19 i.e Pan-Corona Vaccine. She said, “We are
already preparing for the future, for a new vaccine, which is Pan-Corona. So
that if there is any other such virus that comes in or any other such variant that
comes in, the vaccine would be able to respond to all of them. So that’s really
our next preparedness which we’ve already started. We have a very strong
team which is working on that.” On the effort made by the Department of Bio-
technology in handling COVID-19, she said, “We have been working with the
scientific community to bring solutions to fight COVID and we started COVID
consortium. DBT was the first department that actually prepared a full roadmap
and RD roadmap for protect from the pandemic. In the meeting of WHO in
February 2020 our roadmap was presented, and we’ve been following that in
vaccines and therapeutics and diagnostics, creating an ecosystem.” —ANI
COVID VAX ON AT
RAPID PACE IN
KUTCH: HM
New Delhi: Vaccination
in India’s largest district
Kutch in Gujarat is un-
derway at a rapid pace,
said Minister of Health
and Family Welfare
Mansukh Mandaviya on
Monday. “Together we
will win the war against
Corona! Most of the
area of Kutch, India’s
largest district, is desert
and marshy. It was a
challenging task to de-
liver the COVID vaccine
here. But this work was
done with the help of
the administration and
today vaccination is
being done at a rapid
pace in every village,”
tweeted the Health
Minister.
2 PASSENGERS
FROM AFGHAN
FOUND POSITIVE
New Delhi: Two
persons out of the
146 passengers who
landed in Delhi from
Afghanistan on Monday
were found positive for
COVID-19. Speaking
to media, Rajendra
Kumar, Sub Divisional
Magistrate said, “Two
people coming from
Afghanistan have been
found COVID positive.
They have been sent
to LNJP Hospital.” The
second batch of 146
Indian nationals who
were evacuated from
Afghanistan via Doha
arrived in the national
capital on Monday on
various flights.
363 MPs, MLAs
face criminal
cases, can be
disqualified if
convicted: ADR
New Delhi: A total of
363 MPs and MLAs face
criminal charges that,
in case of conviction,
will lead to their dis-
qualification under the
Representation of Peo-
ple Act, poll rights
group Association for
Democratic Reforms
(ADR) said.
Thirty-nine minis-
ters at the Centre and in
states have also de-
clared criminal offenc-
es that are included in
Section 8 of the Repre-
sentation of People Act
on disqualification.
Sub-sections (1), (2)
and (3) of Section 8 of
the Act provide that a
person convicted of an
offence mentioned in
any of these sub-sec-
tions shall stand dis-
qualified from the date
of conviction and shall
continue to be disquali-
fied for a further period
of six years since his/
her release.
The Association for
Democratic Reforms
(ADR) and the National
Election Watch have
analysed the affidavits
of 542 Lok Sabha mem-
bers and 1,953 MLAs
from 2019 to 2021.
Out of the 2,495 MPs/
MLAs, 363 (15 per cent)
have declared that
charges have been
framed against them by
courts for offences list-
ed in the Act, the ADR
said in its new report.
Dealer discount policy: `200
cr penalty on Maruti Suzuki
Mumbai: Competition
Commission of India
(CCI) on Monday im-
posed a penalty of `200
crore on Maruti Suzuki
India Limited (MSIL)
for indulging in anti-
competitive conduct. In
a release, the ministry
of corporate affairs
said that MSIL imple-
mented a discount con-
trol policy in passenger
vehicle segment
through Resale Price
Maintenance. “CCI
found that MSIL had an
agreement with its deal-
ers whereby the dealers
were restrained from
offering discounts to
the customers beyond
those prescribed by
MSIL. In other words,
MSIL had a ‘Discount
Control Policy’ in place
for its dealers whereby
the dealers were dis-
couraged from giving
extra discounts, free-
bies, etc. to the consum-
ers beyond what were
permitted by MSIL,”
the ministry said.
CCI had launched
probe into allegations
in 2019. It was probing
allegations that Maruti
forces its dealers to lim-
it discounts they offer,
effectively stifling com-
petition among them
and harming consum-
ers. —Agencies
IN THE COURTYARD
HAND RESIDENTIAL
KEYS OF MARKAZ
TO OCCUPANTS: HC
New Delhi: The Delhi HC
on Monday directed the city
police to handover the keys
of the residential portion of
the Nizamuddin Markaz to its
occupants after it was locked
by the authorities in the
wake of an FIR in connection
with the Tablighi Jamaat
congregation there last year.
Justice Yogesh Khanna,
directed that the keys be
handed over within two days
and clarified, occupants
cannot enter the property.
PLEA IN SC ON
HEARING THROUGH
VIRTUAL MODE
New Delhi: A plea has been
moved in the Supreme Court
by a lawyers’ body against
the decision of the Uttara-
khand High Court to exclude
virtual hearing of cases
while resuming physical
functioning from Tuesday.
The plea also seeks to make
the virtual mode of hearing
a fundamental right. The
petition has challenged the
August 16 notification issued
by the Registrar General, Ut-
tarakhand High Court. —ANI
NORTHEAST DELHI VIOLENCE: HC ASKS
POLICE TO FILE FRESH STATUS REPORT
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday asked Delhi
Police to file a fresh affidavit having all the detail and status
of cases going before the trial courts in connection with
the violence that broke out in the north-east district of the
national capital in February 2020. The Bench of Justice
DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh sought a fresh affidavit
having all the details regarding the number of chargesheets
filed. The bench deferred the matter for October 8 for
further hearing. The bench is currently examining the batch
of petitions raising questions on the investigation.
DELHI HC GRANTS ECI TIME TO FILE REPLY
ON VIOLATION OF COVID-19 NORMS
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday granted more
time to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to file a
reply on a petition seeking action against political leaders
and officers who violated COVID-19 norms during assem-
bly election rallies in five states and campaigning held
there earlier this year. The bench of Justice DN Patel and
Justice Jyoti Singh granted time to ECI to file its response,
after finding no urgency in the matter. Meanwhile, Advo-
cate Sidhant Kumar appearing for ECI strongly opposed
the plea, called the petition malafide. —ANI
GREEN CAUSE
Chief Justice of India Justice N V Ramana along with his
spouse Sivamala planted a sapling of Amrapali variety of
mango at his official residence in Delhi.

Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: Sports Minis-
ter Ashok Chandna
on Monday, know as a
cricket and polo play-
ers, tried his hands at
archery on Monday at
SMS Stadium here. As
he reached the stadi-
um, his saw the arch-
ers practicing. Chan-
dna also could not
stop himself and shot
the arrow. Interna-
tional Archer Rajat
Chauhan taught the
techniques of ar-
chery to Chandna,
who hit many precise
targets. Archer Swati
Dudhwal was also
present. Rajat and
Swati have recently
got government jobs
from sports quota.
NEWS
07
Mukesh Mathrani
Barmer: A team led by
Central Pollution Con-
trol Board scientist
Praveen Kumar Jain on
Monday reached Bar-
mer to take stock of pol-
luted water in Luni
River. The team mem-
bers conducted a de-
tailed survey of river
bank areas and also col-
lected samples of pol-
luted water. Team mem-
bers said that soon they
will send a detailed re-
port to the ministry
.
Discharge of polluted
water of industrial
units of Pali and Jodh-
pur in Luni river is a
decades old issue and it
is causing loss to farm-
ers of Balotra region
who are facing adverse
situations for farming.
Polluted water con-
taining hazardous
chemicals is not only
polluting the river wa-
ter but it is also causing
threat to the land fertil-
ity. As a result of haz-
ardous chemicals a
large amount of land in
the surrounding area is
becoming barren. How-
ever, the farmers of this
region have been pro-
testing this for the past
long but ignored.
CPCB team conducts survey of Luni river
INCREASING POLLUTION
Farmers have been protest-
ing on this issue for the past
long. I have many times re-
quested the state government but no
action was taken. Recently met the
union environment minister and
shared the farmer’s pain with him.
—Hameer Singh, BJP MLA
No move to ban liquor in
Rajasthan, says Govt
Govt said it wants to fill its treasury by selling good quality liquor
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Rajasthan
government has cleared
that there will be no liq-
uor ban in the state, as
the government earns a
lot of revenue from it.
In a written reply to a
question asked in the
Assembly, the govern-
ment has clearly said
that it wants to fill its
government treasury
by selling good quality
liquor to the people.
At present, no pro-
posal to ban liquor is
under consideration at
the government level.
The government has
confessed this while
giving a written an-
swer to the question of
Bharatiya Janata Par-
ty MLA Madan Dila-
war recently.
The Rajasthan gov-
ernment has been talk-
ing about adopting a
policy of alcohol absti-
nence instead of ban-
ning alcohol in the
past. This kind of open
answer has come for
the first time on the in-
tention of the govern-
ment regarding liquor,
when the government
has accepted that the
objective is to earn
more and more money
from alcohol.
The Rajasthan gov-
ernment has set a tar-
get of earning Rs
13,000 crore from liq-
uor this year.
BJP MLA Madan
Dilawar had submitted
a question that is it not
proper and necessary
to completely ban alco-
hol even after a serious
accident? He recetnyl
received the reply from
the Assembly, which
came to light now.
ROAD ACCIDENTS
Alcohol restraint policy is in force
in the state. Under this, action is
taken on illegal liquor activities.
Keeping control over the liquor products,
the objective is to provide quality liquor to
the liquor consumers and earn proper rev-
enue. The proposal to ban alcohol is not
under cosideration. —State Government
COPS ARREST 2 WITHIN 24 HRS FOR
MURDERING ELDERLY WOMAN
Jhalawar: The Bhawani Mandi police have
cracked the murder case of an elderly woman in
Pachpadra town in straight
24 hours. The woman was
killed using a sharp weapon
in the early hours of Sun-
day. Police have arrested
accused Nadeem Ansari
and Sajid Hussain from the
same town. Police said the accused entered the
elderly woman’s house with the intention of rob-
bing and stealing, but after the woman raised an
alarm, they stabbed her using a knife.
Jodhpur: Two important cases to be heard in the
Rajasthan high court on Monday were deferred for
the next hearing on August 25
as it was a holiday. In the first
one, related to an alleged money
laundering case involving Rob-
ert Vadra, husband of Congress
leader Prinyanka Gandhi, in
a land scam in Bikaner, argu-
ments have concluded. The second case, a transfer
petition by actor Salman Khan in the infamous deer
hunting case, was also deferred to August 25 for
the next hearing.
HIGH COURT TO HEAR ROBERT VADRA,
SALMAN KHAN CASES ON AUGUST 25
Jodhpur: A message on the social media claiming
that self-styled godman and rape convict Asaram
Babu has died in the prison on
Monday has turned out to be
fake. When the false news start-
ed spreading, curious citizens
sought clarification from the
jail authorities about it but they
refuted it. The message writer
had, however, cunningly mentioned that the news
was not confirmed. Later, DIG Surendra Singh too
confirmed that the news is fake and Bapu is hale
and hearty. Asaram was taken to AIIMS but doctors
clearly said that he had no ailment.
NEWS OF ASARAM BAPU’S DEATH IN JAIL
TURNS OUT FAKE, DEVOTEES WORRIED
NEWS DIGEST
Chinks in
secuirty at
Secretariat
raise questions
Dr Rituraj Sharma
Jaipur: Recent inci-
dents of breach of secu-
rity at the Secretariat
here have raised ques-
tions on the efficacy of
the security system
presently in place.
Though the security
measures have been
tightened at the recep-
tion, implementation of
the Intelligence Bureau
(IB) report in this re-
gard is still under cloud.
No action has been
taken so far in the case
wherein an unidenti-
fied person had man-
aged to enter the cham-
ber of a lady IAS officer
at the Secretariat but
was later let off by the
staff. IB’s suggestions
like installation of four
CCTV cameras at the
reception are under ac-
tive consideration but
in view of the lackadai-
sical attitude of the ad-
ministration, nobody is
sure of execution of the
proposals. The IB re-
port has also sought in-
stallation of body scan-
ners etc.
Man accidentally hit by bro’s bullet, dies
First India Bureau
Sikar: A man was ac-
cidentally shot dead by
his younger brother at
Sirohi village of Neem-
kathana area of Sikar
district on Monday. Ac-
cording to the informa-
tion, victim Rati Ram
Gurjar, a resident of
Keroda Dhani, had a
fight with his neigh-
bour Gokul when inci-
dent happened.
Meanwhile, Rati’s
younger brother Man-
ish also reached the
spot. In the midst of the
scuffle, he pointed a gun
at Gokul and opened
fire. But, after missing
the target, instead of
Gokul, the bullet hit
Rati Ram’s head, who
died on the spot.
Later, police reached
the incident site and in-
spected the spot. After
the incident, accused
Manish fled from the
scene. According to re-
port Gokul’s cousin had
eggs’ thela in front of
the liquor shop in Siro-
hi river. About 15 days
ago he had a fight with
Rati Ram. Regarding
which the people of
Gokul’s side had lodged
a report at the Kotwali
police station. After
this, Rati Ram threat-
ened to kill Gokul on
Sunday night.
Body of victim Rati Ram being shifted to a mortuary.
Ashok Chandna, Rajat Chauhan, Swati Dudhwal and young archers at SMS stadium.
Sports enthusiast Chandna
tries hands at archery
Ashok Chandna aiming the target.
Pak national to return
home after two years
Farmers’ stir hits
train movement
JSSY scam key
accused held
First India Bureau
Barmer: After two
years, a Pak national
will soon be reunited
with his family as the
government of India
has decided to repatri-
ate him. According to
the directions he will be
handed over to Paki-
stani rangers at Attrari
border on August 28.
It may be mentioned
here that on September
9, 2019, a Pakistani na-
tional, identified as
Bhagchand Koli, a resi-
dent of Dhoranada vil-
lage of Sanghad district
in Pakistan was caught
by the local villagers of
Akali located at Indo-
Pak international bor-
der in Rajasthan’s Bar-
mer district.
He had crossed the
international border by
breaching the fencing
installed at the interna-
tional border and en-
tered into India from
Pakistan. He was
caught by BSF and later
he was handed over to
Police. Later he was
sent to juvenile home.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Train opera-
tions will be affected
due to farmers’ agita-
tion in Punjab’s Fi-
rozpur railway divi-
sion. Trains running
on Jammu Tawi and
Amritsar route from
the state have been af-
fected. The protesting
farmers have occupied
the tracks between Ja-
landhar Cantt to Chi-
heru stations.
Chief Public Rela-
tions Officer of North-
Western Railway Lieu-
tenant Shashi Kiran
said four trains of
North-Western Railway
were affected on Mon-
day due to agitation.
First India Bureau
Ajmer: Christianganj
police on Monday ar-
rested Ravindra Singh
Rawat, the main ac-
cused in the Janani
Sishu Suraksha Yojana
(JSSY) scam wherein
Rs 27.60 lakh was em-
bezzled within a year’s
time. The cops are in-
terrogating Rawat (32),
a fourth-grade employ-
ee at the Janana Hospi-
tal here, to recover the
amount from him.
Hospitals Deputy Su-
perintendent Dr Nand-
lal has registered a com-
plaint against Rawat.
CPCB team conducts survey of Luni river.
Son of former MLA dies
inroadmishapinChuru
First India Bureau
Churu: Pratap Singh
Saran, son of former
MLA Late Hazarimal
Saran, died in a road
accident in Churu’s
Sardarshahr on Sun-
day night. According
to the information, a
rashly driven trolley
collidedwithaTavera
head-on late on Sun-
day night near Mega
Highway Hanuman-
garh Road Apni Yoja-
na Office. Saran died
in the accident. An-
other person Om
Prakash Meena was
seriously injured.
People nearby
took them to the gov-
ernment hospital,
where the body of
the deceased was
kept in the mortuary
and the injured was
referred to Bikaner
after first-aid.
Police handed
over Saran’s body to
his relatives after a
post-mortem on
Monday. A case has
been registered and
a probe is on.
WOMAN, SON ON A BIKE HIT BY A
SPEEDING VEHICLE, DIE ON THE SPOT
EIGHT-YEAR-OLD DIES AS BIKE HITS
CAR, PARENTS AND SISTER INJURED
Tonk: An unidentified speeding vehicle hit a
bike leading to death of mother and son on
Monday. The Sadar police station reached the
spot and sent the bodies to mortuary of Saadat
Hospital. Sadar SHO Dasrath Singh said both
mother and son are residents of Moh village,
they were returning home from their fields on
a bike in the morning, when an unidentified
speeding vehicle hit a bike their bike.
Kota: An eight-year-old boy Ankush died and
4 others were injured after a head-on collision
between a car and a bike at Itawa of Kota on
Sunday evening. Ankush died during treatment
in Kota. Sultanpur CI Chhutanlal Meena said
that Sukhvir Bhil of Haripura village was going
on bike with his wife Parvati Bai, Ankush, and
daughter Anjali when the bike was hit by a car.
The injured were rushed to a hospital.

Rajiv Gaur
Mukesh Mathrani
Jodhpur/Bar mer:
Former deputy CM
Sachin Pilot during an
informal discussion
with journalists said
Cabinet expansion is
the prerogative of the
chief minister and dis-
cussions have already
been held with Ajay
Maken, Rajasthan in-
charge, in the matter.
Pilot said PM Modi
and BJP are only focus-
ing on UP polls and af-
ter that their eyes are
on Gujarat. He, howev-
er, mostly kept silent
upon his return trip to
Jodhpur via Balotra,
where he had gone for a
condolence meet. Ear-
lier Pilot paid condo-
lences on the death of
former Revenue Minis-
ter Hemaram Choud-
hary’s brother, who
passed away recently.
He also offered prayers
at Asotara Temple.
If you are to do it, do it now.
Delaying can cause a ‘job well
done’ to become a tragedy.
—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
08
2NDFRONT
POSTAL REG NO. JPC/010/2019-21
Rajendra Chhabra
Jaipur: The tussle be-
tween two senior and
powerful officials has
reached its epitome
now and this ‘develop-
ment’isbeingdiscussed
not just in the entire
bureaucracy, but also in
the industrial sector of
the state. As a result of
the ‘infighting’ between
the duo, investment in
the state is being affect-
ed, whose negative re-
sults will be seen after a
few months.
The situation is
alarming and to stop
this battle from becom-
ing a war that would
eventually ‘bleed’ Ra-
jasthan, Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot will have
to intervene as soon as
possible. The two offi-
cials - CMD of RREC
Subodh Agarwal and
Principal Secretary En-
ergy Dinesh Kumar. In
the bureaucratic hierar-
chy, 1988 batch Subodh
Agarwal is eight years
senior to 1996 batch IAS
Dinesh Kumar. But
since he is the ‘chief’ of
the Energy Depart-
ment, RREC falls under
his ambit and due to
this, he is in a position
to give direction to Sub-
odh Agarwal and give
approval to files for-
warded by him, there-
fore, he is in a com-
manding position. As
can be understood, it is
a tussle for establishing
who is more ‘creditwor-
thy’ and ‘powerful’ in
the affairs of the depart-
ment which is the base
of the ongoing tussle.
Rajasthan is numero
uno in the nation in re-
newable energy in 2019,
it was on CM Ashok Ge-
hlot’s behest that the
new Solar Energy Poli-
cy was floated in the
state which was appre-
ciated by all, including
the Government of In-
dia. As a result, in the
next six months, regis-
tration of a twenty
thousand megawatt so-
lar plant was done.
However, what is wor-
rying is the fact that in
the past 6-8 months, the
situation has changed
and gone from bad to
worse as the confidence
of investors in the RE
sector is at its lowest
ebb. The work on new
plants has stopped and
even major groups like
Reliance, Ambani, Jin-
dal and Adani have
stalled their forward
movement. It was a co-
incidence that both Sub-
odh and Dinesh took
their current office on 1
November 2020 and
highly knowledgeable
sources claim that their
feud of establishing ‘rel-
evance’ in the depart-
ment started soon after.
The recent matter
which has resulted in a
fresh spat between the
duo is on land allotment
policy for solar plants
after the Secretary re-
turned the file, with a
‘strict’ letter, to RREC.
The letter claimed that
the file had been pre-
pared without conduct-
ing proper exercise and
not keeping the minute
details of the sector in
mind. The letter de-
mands that a study of
policy in other states
should be conducted,
thereafter a fresh draft
of policy should be for-
warded.
Reportedly, Subodh
Agarwal has also com-
plained of the ‘non-co-
operation by the Ener-
gy Department to min-
ister BD Kalla, who has
been unsuccessful in
making the flowers of
friendship bloom be-
tween the two senior of-
ficials of the Rajasthan
government and it is
said that now it will be
CM Ashok Gehlot’s in-
tervention, which will
actually solve the mat-
ter. A delay in solving
the tussle is only going
to hurt the flagship sec-
tor of Rajasthan, more.
BABUS’ ‘POWER’ TUSSLE ECLIPSES SOLAR POWER!
Yogesh Sharma
Jaipur: Ahead of
Cabinet expansion,
expectations of lead-
ers from nearly a doz-
en districts that have
no representation in
the Ashok Gehlot
Cabinet have in-
creased.
So far, there are no
ministers from
around a dozen dis-
tricts. Sources said
that in the cabinet ex-
pansion, priority will
be given to SC, ST,
OBC and minority
community legisla-
tors.
Also, MLAs from
the areas from where
there is no minister
as of now would also
get a chance.
There is no minis-
ter from Jhunjhunu,
Sirohi, Churu, Dhol-
pur, Tonk, Pratap-
garh, Bhilwara,
Pratapgarh, Sri Gan-
ganagar, Sawai Mad-
hopur, Hanuman-
garh, Dungarpur and
Karauli. Since there
is no Congress MLA
from Pali, Jhalawar
and Sirohi, independ-
ent MLAs can be giv-
en the opportunity.
Subodh Agarwal Dinesh Kumar
Dists with ‘no ministers’, hopeful
to get plum posts in Gehlot Cabinet!
Legislators from SC, ST, OBC minority communities are likely to get ministerial berths
JHUNJHUNU
There are Congress MLAs from all
the assembly constituencies in the
district. Dr. Jitendra Singh is from
Khetri, Dr. Rajkumar Sharma from
Nawalgarh, Rita Chaudhary from Man-
dawa and Rajendra Singh Gudha from
Udaipurwati. Gudha won as BSP candi-
date and later defected to Congress.
CHURU
Except Churu constituency,
all other seats are held by
Congress legislators. Narendra
Budania is from Taranagar,
Bhanwar Lal Sharma is from
Sardarshahar and Manoj Megh-
wal from Sujangarh. Budhania
and Sharma are senior MLAs.
Budania has also been a MP.
DHOLPUR
All MLAs except Dholpur seat
are from Congress. Player
Lal Bairwa is from Basedi,
Giriraj Malinga from Bari and
Rohit Bohra is from Rajkheda.
BHILWARA
Ramlal Jat is from Man-
dal and Gayatri Devi is
from Sahara.
SAWAI MADHOPUR
All the MLAs in Sawaim-
adhopur are from
Congress. Ashok Bairwa
(Khandar), Danish Abrar
(Sawai Madhopur), Indra
Meena (Bamanwas).
HANUMANGARH
Vinod Leelawali (Ha-
numangarh), Ashok
Chachan (Bhadra).
SRIGANGANAGAR
Gurmeet Singh Kunnar
(Karanpur), Jagdish
Jangid (Sadul Shahar).
Independent Rajkumar
Gaur supporting Congress
is from Sriganganagar
KARAULI
Earlier, Ramesh Meena was the minister from
here but there is no minister at present from
Karauli district. Ramesh Meena (Sapotra), Bha-
rosi Lal Jatav (Hindaun), PR Meena (Todabhim),
Lakhan Singh Meena (Karauli). Lakhan Meena also
won on BSP ticket and defected to Congress later.
TONK
Earlier, Tonk MLA Sachin Pilot was
the deputy chief minister. Congress
MLAs from Tonk are
Harish Meena (Deoli-
Uniara) and Prashant
Bairwa (Niwai).
FLORAL TRIBUTES...
Governor Kalraj Mishra on Monday, paid a heart-felt tribute to former Governor of Rajasthan
and former CM of Uttar Pradesh, Late Kalyan Singh by observing silence for two minutes at
the Raj Bhawan in Jaipur while reminiscing about the time spent with Kalyan Singh.
Birla extends help
to 5,000 flood-hit
families in Kota
Cabinet expansion is CM’s
prerogative, says Sachin Pilot
PSKS drive: JDA to fulfill
20% target of 10L leases
AN 11th
HOUR CHARTERED FLIGHT
FOR GOVERNOR’S LUCKNOW VISIT
Dhariwal on Kota tour, pulls up officials
LS Speaker Om Birla met flood victim Hanuman at Kishanganj
village of Pipalda assembly constituency in Kota dist on Monday.
Sachin Pilot on Monday, visited Gudamalani MLA and Senior
Congress Leader Hemaram Choudhary at his residence in Mul
Ji Ki Dhani in Barmer district to condole the demise of latter’s
brother, Jaisaram Choudhary.
First India Bureau
Kota: Mahavir Bairwa,
a resident of Kis-
hanganj, had lost all
hope when his kutcha
house collapsed due to
heavy rains around 20
days ago. He was sad
and broken and took
shelter in a government
school.
However, when LS-
speaker Om Birla visit-
ed the shelter and got to
know about his pain, he
assured to help him in
making the house
again. Just 15 days later,
when Birla reached Ma-
havir’s house on Mon-
day, the man could not
express happiness in
words and repeatedly
thanked Birla while
pointing towards the
new house.
These are among the
5,000 families, who have
been helped by Birla in
rebuilding their homes
after their kutcha hous-
es collapsed due to
heavy rainfall in Kota.
Birla expressed dis-
pleasure over delay in
release of compensa-
tion to flood victims.
Abhishek Shrivastava
Jaipur: The Jaipur De-
velopment Authority
alone will fulfil more
than 20 per cent of the
target of 10 lakh pattas,
which are targeted to be
issued during the ‘Pra-
shasan Shehron Ke
Sang’ campaign this
year. The minimum tar-
get of the campaign is to
issue 10 lakh leases in
the campaign, which
will start from 2 Octo-
ber in the state.
Sources said that JDA
alone can issue more
than 2 lakh leases in the
campaign and the offi-
cials have examined the
records of the colonies.
UDH Advisor GS
Sandhu held a meeting
and reviewed the prepa-
rations for the cam-
paign. According to the
records checked by
JDA, around 2.15 lakh
leases can be issued to
such colonies, which
have already been regu-
lated by JDA and there
are no technical and le-
gal hurdles in their reg-
ulation.
There are 1,536 colo-
nies of housing socie-
ties that are approved
by JDA and 41, 603 pat-
tas can be issued in
these colonies without
any hindrance.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The need for a
quick mode of transpor-
tation has seldom been
of necessity for the Ra-
jasthan government,
but when the need aris-
es, the entire machinery
is seen working ‘over-
time’ to procure one
such mode since the
government’s plane is
unusable as of now.
The recent incident
pertainstotheLucknow
visit of Governor Kalraj
Mishra to pay respect to
former UP Chief Minis-
ter and Rajasthan Gov-
ernor Kalyan Singh,
who passed away re-
cently on August 21.
AlongwithPMNaren-
dra Modi, several impor-
tantleadersreachedLuc-
know to pay their last
respects and therefore,
Governor Mishra also
planned on Sunday to
reach and pay his last re-
spects. But in absence of
a state plane, the entire
government machinery
initiated a drive to find
one that could ferry the
Governor to Lucknow
and return to Jaipur.
But such was the situ-
ationthattillthelastmo-
ment, a plane befitting
Governor’sstaturecould
not be arranged. Thus a
much smaller - Beech-
craft 200 - plane was
somehow sourced from
NewDelhi.Asaresultof
plane’s limitations, it
reached 20 minutes late
than expected. However,
the ‘gentleman’ Gover-
nor, neverdidoncemake
any fuss over the issue.
Bhanwar S Charan
Kota: UDH Minister
Shanti Dhariwal took
stock of the ongoing de-
velopment works in
Kota city on Monday
.
He visited the oxygen
zone near IL Colony
, un-
derpass near Aero-
drome Circle, Ghode
Wale Baba circle, flyo-
ver at Gumanpura and
other sites and gave
necessary directions to
officials.
Dhariwal also ex-
pressed displeasure
over delay in the con-
struction of flyover at
Indira Gandhi Circle
and oxygen park in IL
Colony. During the vis-
it, he also inspected the
beautification work of
the historic gate of
Surajpole. He shocked
officials and workers
when he suddenly held
the hand of a labourer
and asked what had
been mixed in the mate-
rial.
He was upset at the
slow pace of work in the
government college and
he reprimanded offic-
ers for negligence.
UDH Minister Shanti Dhariwal tries his hands at giving final
touches to an idol during his visit to Kota on Monday. Also seen
here is renowned Architect Anoop Bartaria.

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LEO
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
Someone close may pay
you a visit. You will get the
opportunity to acquire new
property at a good price.
Health may become a concern. Think
twice before investing in anything big.
A debate with someone in the knows
may open up your mind to the
possibilities at work.
LIBRA
SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22
Praise of a family member
by someone will make you
proud. Getting unwell due
to changing weather
cannot be ruled out for some. You
may need to monitor your finances
closely. You are likely to win the day
on the professional front by your
original ideas.
ARIES
MAR 21 - APR 20
Your performance may
leave you feeling good
today on professional or
academic front. A diet plan
adopted recently will suit your
system well. Maintain confidentiality
regarding a property deal being
negotiated by you. A chance for an
outing with lover finally arrives.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV 23 - DEC 22
A new plot, house or
apartment can be acquired
by some.Be more assertive
in dealing with workplace
issues, otherwise you can be taken for
granted by others. Joining an online
exercise routine is indicated and will
prove beneficial. Those trying to boost
income may figure out newer ways.
GEMINI
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
Things may move
favourably on the
professional front. Health
may become a concern.
You will need to muster all your
persuasive powers to bag a deal.
Good negotiating skills are likely to
bring a lucrative deal within your
grasp on the professional front.
AQUARIUS
JAN 21 - FEB 19
You may find it difficult to
convince a family member
regarding something you
want to achieve. Clarity of
mind and retentive power will help you
forge ahead on the academic front.
Some of you can safely say goodbye to
depression, as positivity enters your
life once again.
TAURUS
APR 21 - MAY 20
A new health routine may
start giving benefits. You
gel well with new people.
Opportunities to further
your career will come if you make
efforts. Self-discipline may help you
achieve physical fitness. Financial
scene may stabilise once you review
your investment options.
CAPRICORN
DEC 23 - JAN 20
Positive steps may be
required to restore health.
It will be in your interest to
speed up a financial
transaction. You will come out with
flying colours in a competitive
situation on academic front.
Appreciation for the work done
professionally is in the pipeline.
VIRGO
AUG 24 - SEP 23
Do not misunderstand the
motives of someone trying
to help you. A friendly bet
with a friend may turn into
a fight, so be careful. Will power will
be your key to remain in shape. An
exciting time lies ahead as travelling
with friends is foreseen. You are set
to grow professionally.
CANCER
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
Your initiative will help
mend fences with someone
you were not in talking
terms. Academic pursuits
will be fruitful. Taking up a regular
fitness routine will help you get into
shape. Increase in household
expenditure is possible, so take all
steps to cut it down.
PISCES
FEB20 - MARCH 20
Getting quality time at
home will help in focussing
on activities that appeal to
you. Your efforts at work
will be richly rewarded by getting
noticed. A balanced diet will be the
first step in achieving good health.
Help people out as much as you can
as monetarily you face no problems.
SCORPIO
OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22
Some of you may feel the
home environment restful.
There is a fair chance of
some property getting
allotted to you. Good opportunities
are likely to appear on the academic
front. Good health is assured through
own efforts. A healthy bank balance
will allow you to buy a major item.
YOUR
DAY
Horoscope by
Saurabbh Sachdeva
AN INTERESTING MAN TO KNOW
he struggle of survival
between man, bacteria,
parasites and viruses
started from the day the
first man was born. His-
torically
, the human pop-
ulation was never al-
lowedtogrowbeyondapointasan
onslaught of infectious diseases
occurred regularly killing mil-
lions in a short period. But some
people wanted to change it all and
after the late 19th century scien-
tists in the field of medicine did
some remarkable job despite lim-
ited resources that changed the
demographyof thedifferentareas
on earth. When we look at history
,
so many of the pandemics were
completely eradicated and many
of them were contained, even the
recent pandemic of Covid19 has
caused significantly less damage
as compared to previous pandem-
ics. This all was possible by the
great determination of some peo-
ple who worked courageously for
years to achieve a level where the
various infectious diseases were
wellunderstoodtofindprevention
andcure.OnesuchmanwasAlex-
andre Yersin.
Yersin was born in Switzerland
in 1863 and migrated to France
later on. He, thus, was a Swiss-
French physician and bacteriolo-
gist. That was the era of major
epidemics and pandemics like
plague,cholera,mumps,smallpox,
anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, ra-
bies etc. The causes of diseases
were unknown and there was
minimal treatment available. Peo-
ple died like winged ants. Small-
poxkilled90to95percentof indig-
enous Americans, Mexico lost 11
million of its population. London
had 40 epidemics of plague in a
period of 300 years and lost 20 per
cent of its population, total Euro-
pean human loss was more than
200 ( 20 crores) million in a period
of 4 years sometimes during 1300
to 1350. Global history isn’t avail-
able but death was significantly
more in other parts of the world.
As modern medicine started
evolving, people like Louis Pas-
teur, Alexandre Yersin, Emile
Roux, Koch, Shibsaburo and Emil
Behring etc worked on causation
and vaccination of these diseases
and contributed significantly to
the longer survival of human be-
ings. It would be unwise to forget
these pioneers.
AlexandreYersinworkedmain-
ly on bubonic plague and tried to
develop anti-plague serum but
couldn’t succeed as the organism
causing it and its vector (carrier
of disease-causing agent) were
both unknown. As people used to
die in millions, it was of para-
mount importance that the causa-
tive organism is known. Yersin
was working as a ship physician
and was persuaded by French au-
thorities to work on bubonic
plague in India-China ( now Viet-
nam). As there was a major out-
break of the disease in Hongkong,
Yersin was invited by the Gover-
nor-General to help the British
doctors working there. When he
reached Hongkong, he realised
thathewasn’tawelcomeguestfor
the medical fraternity there. Dr
Lowson, the chief physician of
Hongkong was a rabid French
hater and didn’t allow him to use
any laboratory facility
. Yersin saw
piles of dead bodies on the streets
of Hongkong,peopleweredyingin
hundreds a day and no one was
picking the dead! Hongkong was
practically a ghost town. It should
be noted that around 95% of
plague-infected people used to die.
He also noted that he saw a large
number of dead rats.
Despite Dr Lowson’s response,
Yersin decided to stay in Hong-
kong. He constructed a wood and
thatch laboratory
, bribed the
morgue man to look away as he
drew samples from dead bodies
and finally succeeded in identify-
ingthecausativebacteriumwhich
was later named in his honour “
Yersinia Pestis”. Dr Kitasato
Shibasaburo of Japan was also
working in a state of art British
bacteriological laboratory in
Hongkong and, probably
, discov-
eredthebacteriaafewdaysearlier
but his samples got contaminated
duetothehightemperatureof the
laboratory
,thecreditfordiscovery
wenttoYersinandwiththisallthe
honour. Dr Lowson, the Franco-
phobic, wrote to Shibasaburo “ if
you can ......kill a man called Yers-
in, for God’s sake do so.” Hate can
bring even the most learned to the
lowest level of morality
. Yersin
came out of Hong Kong safely and
with a great success of his time
but was attacked by bandits at his
home in Indochina ( today’s Viet-
nam) in a nighttime raid for loot.
Hewasattackedwithmacheteand
spear, was left for dead, a spear
penetrating his chest. Villagers
found him in the morning, his
whole body covered with blood.
Yersinhimself guidedvillagerson
how to remove the spear, arrest
bleeding and dress the wound. He
survived, the bandit chief was
identified,arrestedandbeheaded.
HewasalsosenttoCanton,Chi-
na to study a plague epidemic. He
injected anti-plague serum to one
Chinese person who survived but
it was unethical as he took no per-
mission from the patient. He then
went to Bombay and also injected
his serum but more than 50 per
cent of his patients died of plague
hence, he felt disgusted and went
back to Indochina. His successor
Paul Simond carried his research
further and found that it was the
rat flea that was the vector of
plague. The flea from infected rats
transfers plagues to a person by a
bite, most commonly on the lower
leg especially near the ankle joint.
Yersin missed a great discovery
due to his impatience though he
wasthefirstonetodocumentdead
rats in Hong Kong.
He also worked with legendary
bacteriologists like Koch and
EmileRouxbutwasnotinterested
to settle in France. He preferred
Indochina and bought land there
to become an agriculturist. He
brought rubber trees to this land
along with Peruvian cinchona,
coffee and coca. He used to make
cocaine elixir from the coca plant
and this was his only mid-age ad-
diction. He also acclimatized the
quinine tree in Indochina. The
treeswerebroughtfromtheAndes
in South America. From these
trees,quininewasextractedwhich
helpedalotintreatingmalaria.He
used to treat his patients free of
cost because he became very
wealthyasaresultof cheaplabour
for his agricultural investment.
People of Vietnam were very fond
of him for his free treatment and
caring nature for them. He was
known affectionately as Ong Nam
and there is a pagoda dedicated to
him. He contributed to establish-
ingamedicalschoolatHaNoi.His
house has been converted into Ye-
rsin Museum. Vietnam has a Yer-
sin University and a French inter-
national school named after him
along with names of some roads
and streets. He never married,
showed no interest in any woman
and it is suspected that he was a
closeted homosexual, that’s why
hepreferredtoliveinIndochinaas
punishment for homosexuality in
Europe at that time was death.
He died peacefully during 1943
at the age of 80 years but before
that he took a keen interest in
meteorology and the Latin lan-
guage. Yersin was a very inter-
esting person who dared to walk
the streets where death was lurk-
ing on every corner of every
street. It was because of people
like him that mankind could win
a disease that had a mortality
rate of up to 95 per cent.
DR RAMAWTAR
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
T
Alexandre Yersin

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