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First India Bureau
Mumbai: With a view
to have the defining
edge in the upcoming
civic polls, the BJP-Shiv
Sena (Shinde) led coali-
tion will contest some
civic polls in alliance,
while some others, sepa-
rately. Maharashtra
Deputy Chief Minister
Devendra Fadnavis on
Wednesday announced
this and political ob-
servers have started
drawing conclusions as
to the need for such a
bizzare arrangement
and understanding be-
tween the two parties. It
is reported that the par-
ties have decided to
come together to give
the opposition, a run for
their money where it
stands on a firmer
grounds, but where the
BJP-Sena ‘axis’ can
gain as much as it can,
the parties will contest
separately, in order to
have as much ground as
possible to itself. Elec-
tions for 27 municipal
corporations, including
the ‘cash-rich’ Brihan-
mumbai Municipal Cor-
poration (BMC), and 25
zilla parishads due in
the next few months.
Notably, CM Shinde
had in August said the
“original” Shiv Sena
(the party led by him)
and the BJP will contest
the forthcoming elec-
tions to civic bodies in
Maharashtra together.
The elections are due in
various civic bodies in
the state, whose elec-
tion would be under-
taken only after a deci-
sion by the courts.
Moreover, Fadnavis
also said that he and
CM Eknath Shinde will
jointly tour some parts
of the state ahead of
civic elections. Their
terms are already over
and the poll schedule is
not yet announced.
Asked how and when
he will conduct a tour
of the state with the
chief minister, Fad-
navis said, “We will
tour the state jointly in
some areas and sepa-
rately at other places.”
IIT BOMBAY ADJUDGED INDIA’S BEST
EDUCATION INSTITUTE, SCORES 281 OF 300!
First India Bureau
New Delhi: IIT-Bombay
is the best educational
institutions in India in
the inaugural QS World
University Rankings:
Sustainability released
today
. A total of 15 Indi-
an universities ranked
in the list with the Indi-
an Institute of Technol-
ogy
, Bombay (IIT-B) fea-
turing in the 281-300
rank range, followed by
IIT-Delhi (321-340 rank)
and Jawaharlal Nehru
University at the third
rank (361-380).
QS World University
Rankings: Sustainabil-
ity ranking is a new
framework to evaluate
how universities are
taking action to tackle
the world’s most press-
ing environmental and
social issues.
This year, experts
evaluated over 1300
higher education insti-
tutions meeting specific
eligibility require-
ments, out of which 700
institutions appeared
on the final ranking list.
Fourth rank has been
saved for the University
of Delhi which features
in the 381-400 rank
range and the Indian In-
stitute of Technology
Kanpur (IIT-K) is on the
fifth spot (451-500).
Other Indian univer-
sities that feature in the
list are the Indian Insti-
tute of Technology
Roorkee (IIT-R), Ali-
garh Muslim Universi-
ty, Jadavpur University,
Indian Institute of Sci-
ence, Indian Institute
of Technology Kharag-
pur (IIT-KGP), Banaras
Hindu University, Birla
Institute of Technology
and Science (BITS) Pi-
lani, Indian Institute of
Technology Guwahati
(IIT-G) and the Indian
Institute of Technology
Madras (IIT-M).
Experts evaluated over 1,300 institutions out of which 700 institutions
appear on the final ranking list. —FILE PHOTO
UKPMRishiSunakdelayscrunch
budget plan until November 17
First India Bureau
London: Britain’s new
PrimeMinisterRishiSu-
nak, earned cheers from
his lawmakers and plau-
dits from political com-
mentators on Wednes-
day as he locked horns
with the opposition La-
bourPartyinparliament
for the first time since
becomingleader.Britain
postponedtheannounce-
ment of a plan to repair
the country’s public fi-
nances to November 17,
new finance minister
Jeremy Hunt said. The
delay was to ensure the
right decisions are tak-
en, Hunt told.
Sunak made key Cabi-
net appointments and
decided to keep the new
Chancellor,JeremyHunt,
inplaceforeconomicsta-
bility
. He brought back
Indian-origin Suella
BravermanasHomeSec-
retary while James Clev-
erly will remain Foreign
Secretary despite not be-
ing a Sunak loyalist.
MAN BOOKED FOR DEROGATORY WORDS
AGAINST CM SHINDE, FADNAVIS
UNITED FOR VICTORY, DIVIDED FOR VICTORY
QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS: SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
BJP-Shindestandunitedwhereoppnstrong,dividedwhereitisweak!
l 27 municipal corporations, 25 Zilla
Parishad elections due in next few months
Mumbai: An FIR
has been registered
against a person for
using derogatory
words on social media
against Maharashtra
Chief Minister Eknath
Shinde, Deputy Chief
Minister Devendra
Fadnavis and Union
Minister Narayan
Rane, said Mumbai
Police on Wednesday.
A case under sections
153A,153B, 500, 504
and 505(2) of the
Indian Penal Code
(IPC) has been regis-
tered against accused
Pradeep Bhalekar at
Samta Nagar police
station in Mumbai.
Bhalekar is abscond-
ing after the case
was registered, said
police.
Maha CM Eknath Shinde his deputy Devendra Fadnavis came
to power on June 30 this year. —FILE PHOTO
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, centre, alongside the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, centre right, holds his first Cabinet
meeting in Downing street on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
KHARGE TAKES OVER AS A NEW CONG
CHIEF, PROMISES TO RIDE ON THE...
‘NEW WAVE OF INDIA’
Moni Sharma
New Delhi: Mallikar-
jun Kharge on Wednes-
day formally took over
as the new president of
the Congress party—
the first non-Gandhi to
assume the party’s top
post in two-and-a-half
decades. He immediate-
ly vowed to fight the
BJP and break its “sys-
tem of lies, hoax and
hatred”, and to imple-
ment the “Udaipur re-
solve”. Handing over
charge to Kharge, Sonia
Gandhi said she was
confident and relieved
that he will inspire the
party and strengthen it
under his stewardship.
The Congress, on its
part, lavished praise on
Sonia, calling her an
“icon of sacrifice”. Af-
ter Kharge took over as
new president, AICC
gen secy in-charge of
organisation KC Venu-
gopal announced that
CWC members, AICC
gen secretaries and in-
charges of states, have
tendered their resigna-
tions, ostensibly to en-
able the new chief to
choose his own team.
Newly-elected Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with former Congress president Sonia Gandhi
during his charge-taking ceremony, at AICC headquarters, in Delhi on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
HM Amit Shah being presented with a
bouquet by Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel
as Sonah Shah looks on, on the occasion
of Gujarati New Year, in Ahmedabad on
Wednesday. (R) Amit Shah addressing
at a high level regional meeting on ‘Drug
Trafficking and National Security’, in
Gandhinagar on Wednesday.
PM Narendra Modi, who has been celebrating Diwali with
the security personnel since 2014, visited Kargil on Monday.
I’m very happy today. To
tell the truth, I’m feeling
relieved. The President
you have chosen is an experienced
leader who is connected to the
ground. He has reached this position
through dedication and hard work.
I’m confident he will inspire the par-
ty and the party will be strengthened
under his leadership.
—Sonia Gandhi, Former Cong Chief
It was an “emotional moment”
for him that the son of a labourer,
who began his political life as an
ordinary worker, has been elected Con-
gress president. Who would have thought
that the country will face a political era
when lies will hold sway and those sitting
in power and ruling the country will try to
weaken democracy. But I know that we will
break the system of lies, hatred and hoax.
—Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress President
IN A 47-MEMBER STEERING
COMMITTEE...THAROOR OUT
Shah flags increase in heroin
smuggling from West coast
In his first crucial decision after
assuming charge of Congress,
president on Wednesday constituted
a 47-member Steering Committee
which will function in place of CWC.
The newlyconstituted panel includes
Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi,
Priyanka Gandhi, AK Antony, Jairam
Ramesh, Randeep Surjewala, Am-
bika Soni, Ajay Maken, Harish Rawat,
Abhishek Singhvi Anand Sharma.
9 YEARS, 1 TRADITION: MODI’S
DIWALI PLANS WITH SOLDIERS
Ahmedabad: Home
Minister Amit Shah on
Wednesday expressed
concern about the in-
crease in the smuggling
of heroin from the West
coast of the country
.
Speaking at a meet-
ing of the western re-
gion states on `Drug
Trafficking and Nation-
al Security in Gandhi-
nagar, he also urged the
govts of Maha and Goa
to play “proactive role”
in fight against the drug
menace. During a meet-
ing, nearly 12,500 kg of
seized drugs were de-
stroyed in two locations
in Gujarat and Delhi.
Karge says will
continue to look
for Sonia advice;
Relieved: Sonia
Mallikarjun Kharge requests Sonia to sit beside his chair
as he assumes charge at AICC HQ. Rahul Gandhi,Ashok
Gehlot,Venugopal, Chidambaram,Anans Sharma,Avinash
Pande, Girija Vyas other top leaders are also seen here.
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DOUBLE ENGINE
GOVERNMENT DID
A GREAT JOB:
ANURAG THAKUR
LAST NOMINATION DAY IN HP: BJP CHANGES CANDIDATE
Shimla: The BJP changed its Kullu Sadar candidate on last day for filing
nominations for HP Assembly polls after his son submitted papers as an
independent against party choice in state’s Banjar. Narottam Thakur, a retired
teacher, filed his papers as the BJP candidate in place of Maheshwar Singh.
Una: Union Minister Anurag Thakur addressed
election meetings in support of BJP candidate
Virendra Kanwar in Kutlehar’s Lathiani, Dhundhala,
Arlu and other places. During this, Thakur apprised
public about working of double engine government.
SC DECLINES TO
TRANSFER AJAY
MISHRA’S CASE
FROM LOK BENCH
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has declined to
transfer an appeal against the 2004 acquittal of
Union minister of state for home affairs Ajay Mishra
‘Teni’ in a murder case from the Allahabad HC’s
Lucknow bench to the principal bench in Prayagraj.
TERRORIST TRAPPED,
JAWAN INJURED IN
JK’S BARAMULLA
Srinagar: An encounter
broke out between
terrorists and security
forces in JK’s Baramulla
on Wednesday. One army
jawan has been injured
one terrorist is believed
to be trapped. This
comes just hours after
a foreign terrorist was
killed in Kupwara town.
READ
Crucial
Crucial
WHATSAPP EXPLAINS
WHY APP STOPPED
WORKING FOR 2 HRS
New Delhi: WhatsApp
suffered a major outage in
India and other countries
on Tuesday. The app and
web clients were down for
millions of users for nearly
2 hours. Due to the outage,
users were unable to send
messages or use any of
their services. The Meta-
owned company has now
offered clarification about
why its services were down
worldwide. “We have asked
WhatsApp for a report on
the recent outage,” Telecom
Min Ashwini Vaishnaw said.
INTRODUCE CURRENCY
NOTES WITH IMAGES OF
GANESH-LAXMI: KEJRI
New Delhi: Delhi CM Arvind
Kejriwal on Wednesday
appealed to PM Modi to
have the pictures of Lord
Ganesha and Goddess
Lakshmi on the currency
notes. Fresh currency may
have a picture of Mahatma
Gandhi on one side and of
2 deities on other, he added.

NEWS
MUMBAI | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2022
02
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Con-
gress has planned to
organize two rallies
in Maharashtra as
part of Rahul Gan-
dhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo
Yatra’ which is set to
enter the state on No-
vember 07.
Therallieswillbeheld
at Nanded and at She-
gaon in Buldhana dis-
trict, said senior party
leaderManikraoThakre
onWednesday
.Theyatra
will proceed through the
Nanded district for four
days. Rahul Gandhi will
addressapublicmeeting
inthedistrictonNovem-
ber 10, he said.
The campaign—a foot
march—will enter Ma-
harashtra at Deglur in
Nanded district from
TelanganaonNovember
07 and travel for 382 km
across five districts be-
fore entering Madhya
Pradesh on November
20. In Maharashtra, the
yatra is scheduled to en-
ter Hingoli district on
November 11, Washim
district on November 15,
AkoladistrictonNovem-
ber 16 and Buldhana dis-
trict on November 18.
The Shegaon rally in
Buldhana will be held
between November 18
and 20. Senior leader
Balasaheb Thorat, who
is the state coordinator
for the Yatra, recently
visited Nanded district
to oversee the prepara-
tions. Nationalist Con-
gress Party (NCP) Presi-
dent Sharad Pawar and
Shiv Sena President Ud-
dhav Thackeray
, both
part of the Maha Vikas
Aghadi (MVA) coalition
that includes the Con-
gress, will join the yatra
in the state.
First India Bureau
Pune: Senior Nation-
alist Congress Party
(NCP) leader Ajit Pa-
war on Wednesday
said farmers in Maha-
rashtra were facing a
crisis after suffering
crop losses due to the
“wet drought” caused
by heavy rains in
parts of the state.
Pawar also said he
met Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde and Dep-
uty Chief Minister Dev-
endra Fadnavis before
Diwali and told them
that the “situation has
gone out of hand”.
The former deputy
CM was speaking on the
occasion of the Pawar
family’s Diwali celebra-
tion at their residence
‘Govindbaug’ in Bara-
mati town of Pune.
The kharif and rabi
crops were damaged
and farmers were fac-
ing a crisis, he said.
A number of people
and party workers came
there to greet NCP chief
Sharad Pawar, his
daughter and Lok Sab-
ha member from Bara-
mati Supriya Sule and
other family members
on Diwali. On Sunday,
former Chief Minister
Uddhav Thackeray also
demanded that the Ma-
harashtra government
declare “wet drought”
in the state and provide
Rs50,000 per hectare as
compensation to farm-
ers affected by rains
without waiting for the
loss assessment reports.
CM Shinde on Tues-
day described farmers
as “anna data” or food
providers and said culti-
vators who have suf-
fered crop losses due to
excessive and unseason-
al rains will be ade-
quately compensated.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Chief Minis-
ter Eknath Shinde on
Wednesday said his
government was com-
mitted to all-round de-
velopment of the
state. He also reiter-
ated that after taking
charge three months
ago, he has taken wel-
fare measures for var-
ious sections of the
society, including
farmers and senior
citizens.
In a video message
greeting people on the
occasion of Diwali, the
chief minister said agri-
culture, irrigation, edu-
cation and infrastruc-
ture sectors are being
given priority by the
stategovernment,which
was inclusive in nature.
Maharashtra is the
country’s growth en-
gine, said Shinde, who
took oath on June 30 and
celebrated his first Di-
wali as chief minister.
Maintaining that his
“government is the gov-
ernment of people”,
Shinde said in the last
three months, the state
administration has tak-
en various decisions for
the welfare of common
citizens.
Hesaidmorethanone
crore senior citizens
above the age of 75 years
have benefited from the
government’sschemeof
free travel in state trans-
port buses targeted at
them.
Speaking about farm-
ers, Shinde said cultiva-
tors have been given fi-
nancial assistance of
more than Rs4,000 crore,
while Rs950 crore of
loans taken by agricul-
turists from land devel-
opmentbankshavebeen
written off.
Recruitment has
started in the police de-
partment and a drive
was underway to fill va-
cant posts of constables,
he added.
The Nagpur to Shirdi
(Ahmednagar district)
stretch (around 520km
long) of the Samruddhi
Mahamarg (express-
way) will be inaugurat-
ed soon, said the chief
minister. The 700km-
long expressway will
connect Nagpur and
Mumbai.
Steps are being taken
to ease traffic conges-
tion in the Mumbai Met-
ropolitanRegion(MMR)
and more than 600km
longroadsarebeingcon-
cretized, said Shinde.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde addresses the public in a video
message on Twitter.
My govt committed to Maha’s all-round devt: Shinde
FOR THE PEOPLE
CM talks about aid disbursed to
farmers, concretization of roadways,
free ST travel for senior citizens
First India Bureau
Navi Mumbai/Pune/
Thane/Palghar: As
many as five fire ten-
ders successfully
brought the blaze
which broke out at a
rice godown of Food
Corporation of India
(FCI) in Navi Mum-
bai’s Kalamboli under
control.
Chief Fire Officer
Saurabh Patil informed
that the department re-
ceived the call about the
incident in the early
hours of Wednesday
.
“We got a call about
the fire at around 7.04
am. Five fire tenders
were present at the spot.
The fire has been
brought under control,”
said CFO Patil.
However, the cause of
the fire is yet to be ascer-
tained, said officials.
In another incident, a
fire broke out at a go-
down in Mumbai’s Saki-
naka area where eight
fire tenders reached to
douse off a level-2 fire.
Meanwhile, another
fire broke out in a house
in Goregaon East in a
Mumbai building. A
team of fire tenders was
deployed to the spot im-
mediately
. The cause of
the fire is yet to be ascer-
tained but no injuries or
deaths were reported in
the incident.
Atleast15incidentsof
fire caused by firecrack-
ers were reported in
Punecityonthefirstday
of Diwali and in one in-
cident an entire flat was
gutted,saidanofficialon
Tuesday
.
While no one was in-
jured in these incidents,
a four-year-old boy suf-
feredburninjurieswhen
a firecracker exploded.
All 15 incidents, sus-
pected to have been
caused by firecrackers,
werereportedfromvari-
ous parts of the city be-
tween 7 pm and 11 pm on
Monday
.
In Thane and Palghar
districts, around 20 inci-
dentsof firewerereport-
ed on Diwali. Most of
them occurred due to
burstingof crackers,but
no one was injured, offi-
cials said on Tuesday
.
Chief of the Thane
Municipal Corporation
(TMC)’s Regional Disas-
ter Management Cell
(RDMC), Avinash
Sawant, said no one was
injured in the fire-relat-
ed incidents.
Of the total incidents,
11 were reported in
Thane and nine in its ad-
joining district of Pal-
ghar, he said.
MAHA ‘PLAYS’ WITH FIRE
ON OCCASION OF DIWALI
BLAZE AT FCI RICE GODOWN BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL,
AS PUNE, THANE PALGHAR DISTS REPORT INCIDENTS
BLAME ON
CRACKERS
Two scrap godowns
were gutted in
separate incidents
in Bhiwandi taluka
of Thane district. Six
fire-related incidents
were reported in Va-
sai taluka of Palghar
district alone. A fire
broke out in a four-
bedroom flat located
on the first floor of a
12-storey building in
Aundh area of Pune.
“Seven fire tenders
were rushed to the
spot. Around 30 to
35 residents were
shifted to the terrace
for safety and the fire
was doused,” said a
fire brigade official.
No one was injured
but the entire flat was
gutted in the blaze,
he said. Most of the
blaze-related inci-
dents were caused
due to bursting of
firecrackers on the
festival of lights.
Fire tenders douse flames at Food Corporation of India’s rice godown in Kalamboli of Navi Mumbai
on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Deshmukh moves HC
toseekbailingraftcase
Court directs CBI
to file response
on Nov 09, sets
hearing for Nov 11
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Former state
Home Minister Anil
Deshmukh on Wednes-
day moved the Bom-
bay High Court (HC)
seeking bail in a case
of corruption and mis-
use of official power
which is being probed
by the Central Bureau
of Investigation (CBI).
Deshmukh (73) ap-
proached the HC after a
special CBI court reject-
edhisbailplealastweek.
The Nationalist Con-
gressParty(NCP)leader
is presently in judicial
custody and lodged at
the Arthur Road prison
in Mumbai.
His lawyer Aniket Ni-
kam mentioned the peti-
tion before a vacation
benchof JusticeSharmi-
laDeshmukhonWednes-
day seeking an urgent
hearing.
The court directed the
CBI to file its reply affi-
davit by November 09
andpostedthematterfor
hearingonNovember11.
The NCP leader is in
jail since November last
year after the Enforce-
ment Directorate (ED)
arrested him in a money
laundering case.
The CBI arrested him
in April this year in the
corruption case. The HC
hadgrantedbailtoDesh-
mukhearlierthismonth
in the case registered by
theED.However,thespe-
cialCBIcourthadreject-
edhispleainthecorrup-
tion case, noting that
there was prima facie
evidence against him.
In his plea in the HC,
Deshmukhsaidheissuf-
fering from several ail-
ments and is incarcerat-
ed since almost a year
and the trial in the case
may not commence any-
time soon. The plea
claimed the special
court, while refusing
him bail, has merely
done a “cut, copy and
paste” of the CBI charge
sheet filed in the case.
The NCP leader is currently lodged in Arthur Road jail in Mumbai.
‘IsCMShinde’s Diwali
revelry for publicity?’
Mumbai (PTI): The
Nationalist Con-
gress Party (NCP) on
Wednesday asked
Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde if he
celebrated Diwali
with police in
Naxalite-affected
Gadchiroli district
for the sake of pub-
licity
.
“Good to know that
CM Eknath Shinde ji
celebratedDiwaliwith
Police in Gadchiroli.
But the question is,
whyonlythere?Didhe
celebrate there be-
cause it is a naxal area
and it will garner him
more publicity?”
tweeted NCP Spokes-
person Clyde Crasto.
Shinde on Tuesday
visited Bhamragad in
theeasternMaharash-
tra and celebrated Di-
wali with police per-
sonnel.
Police across Maha-
rashtra risk their lives
in the line of duty and
if the CM genuinely
wanted to boost their
morale he should have
celebratedDiwaliwith
them across the state,
he added. “Anyway
CM ji is spending a lot
of his time attending
functions, he could
have attended more
and for a change it
would have been for a
good cause,” he said.
CM Eknath Shinde breaks bread with cops in Gadchiroli district.
NCP questions
CM’s move to
spend time with
police personnel
in Naxal-
affected dist
CRUCIAL READ
THREE KILLED, 12
INJURED IN BLAST
AT CHEM FACTORY
EX-MLA VINAYAK
NIMHAN DIES OF
HEART ATTACK
Palghar: At least three
workers were killed and 12
others injured in a blast at
a chemical factory located
at Tarapur MIDC in Boisar
town of Palghar district on
Wednesday. The incident
occurred at 4.20 pm at the
unit that produces gamma
acid used in the textile
industry. The intensity of
the blast was such that the
roof of the plant got ripped
off, said officials. “Due to
the explosion in the reactor
vessel at the chemical
factory, three workers died
and 12 others suffered
injuries. While the bodies
of the victims were sent to
a government hospital for
post-mortem, the injured
were admitted to a nearby
hospital,” said Sachin
Navadkar, Palghar Police
Spokesperson. On being
alerted, personnel from the
Boisar police station and
local fire brigade rushed to
the spot, he said.
Pune: Former Member of
the Maharashtra Legis-
lative Assembly Vinayak
Nimhan (59) died due to
heart attack in Pune on
Wednesday. He suffered a
heart attack while heading
for the family’s resort
near Pune and died on
the way to the hospital,
said a family member.
Nimhan represented the
Shivajinagar constituency
in Pune as Shiv Sena MLA
from 1999 to 2004. He
later joined the Congress
along with Narayan Rane
and retained the seat in
2009 on the Congress
ticket. He is survived by
parents, wife and son. The
last rites will be performed
on Wednesday night.
Congress to hold
two ‘Bharat Jodo
Yatra’ rallies in Maha
Farmers in the state
facing crisis due to
‘wet drought’: Pawar
Party leader Rahul Gandhi has been
leading the yatra across India.
Ajit Pawar —FILE PHOTO
HEALTH EXCUSE
In his plea in the HC, Deshmukh said he is suf-
fering from several ailments and is incarcerated
since almost a year and the trial in the case may
not commence anytime soon. The plea claimed the
special court, while refusing him bail, has merely
done a “cut, copy and paste” of the CBI charge
sheet filed in the case.
—FILE
PHOTO

MAHARASHTRA
03
LeopardtrappedatAarey;babykillerornot?
Yet to be ascertained if it killed 1.5-yr-old girl two days ago; officials find another feline in area
First India Bureau
Mumbai: A male leop-
ard was trapped in a
cage in Mumbai’s
Aarey Colony on
Wednesday. However,
forest officials have
stated that it was yet
to be determined if it
was the same feline
which killed a toddler
in the area two days
ago. Officials have
spotted another leop-
ard in the area.
After the animal
walked into the cage, it
was taken to a rescue
centre at the Sanjay
Gandhi National Park
(SGNP) for further ex-
amination and observa-
tion, said a forest offi-
cial. Aarey Colony is a
green belt of Mumbai’s
western suburb of
Goregaon and is located
close to the sprawling
SGNP. A one-and-a-half-
year-old girl was at-
tacked and killed by a
leopard in a forested
area in unit number 15
of Aarey Colony on
Monday morning when
the child followed her
mother who was on way
to a temple nearby
.
“There is another
male leopard, identified
as ‘C-56’, in the field. We
will continue to moni-
tor his movements
through 30 camera
traps and have also set
up three trap cages at
strategic locations,”
said the forest official.
Forest officials and
wildlife volunteers lat-
er put up cages at stra-
tegic locations in and
around the site to cap-
ture the animal.
The official said it
was yet to be ascer-
tained if the captured
leopard was behind the
attack on Monday
.
But since the feline
was captured from a
strategic location, it
could be the same ani-
mal, he said.
After the incident on
Monday, various loca-
tions were decided for
the installation of trap
cages based on the
ground information
and evaluation of facts.
“As many as 30 wild-
life volunteers from Aar-
ey
, NGOs (non-govern-
mental organizations),
forest department offi-
cialsandpersonnelfrom
the SGNP were working
togethertoinitiateanac-
tion plan to prevent hu-
man-wildlife conflict in
the area,” said Resqink
Association for Wildlife
Welfare (RAWW) Found-
er and President, Pawan
Sharma,whoisalsohon-
orary wildlife warden
with the state forest de-
partment.
The forest depart-
ment and wildlife vol-
unteers will continue
the mitigation exercise
and keep monitoring
the movement of other
animals in the area
throughout the week,
said a forest official.
Defaming husband without proof is cruelty, says HC
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Bom-
bay High Court Divi-
sion Bench, compris-
ing of Justice Nitin
Jamdar and Justice
Sharmila Deshmukh,
ruled that false and
baseless allegations
against a man, such
as calling him a
“womanizer” and “al-
coholic”, constitute
cruelty under Section
13(1) of the Hindu
Marriage Act, 1955.
The case pertains to
a petition filed by a
woman before a family
court for restitution of
conjugal rights even as
her husband sought a
divorce. The family
court was also hearing
a petition filed by the
wife for maintenance.
In response to
her husband’s counter-
claim, the woman
stated in court that he
was a “womanizer and
alcoholic”.
After hearing both
parties, the family
court issued a decree
granting divorce and
Rs2,000 in monthly
maintenance to the
wife. The wife then filed
an appeal against the
decree of the family
court before the high
court. The man, who
had retired as ‘Major’
from the Army, had
died while the appeal
was being heard by the
high court.
The high court
dismissed the petition
after noting that the
petitioner had not sub-
stantiated her allega-
tion and did not pro-
duce any evidence be-
fore the court to prove
her allegation.
The court also took on
record that the wife
had caused the husband
mentalagonybymaking
false and defamatory
allegations against him
in society
. The respond-
ent had informed the
court that the wife had
approached the mem-
bers of the institution
wherein he was doing
social work and levelled
the same allegations
against him, defaming
him in society, and by
reason of this conduct,
his marital, as well as
social life, has been com-
pletely destroyed.
The captured animal was taken to a rescue centre at Sanjay Gandhi National Park for examination
and observation. —PHOTO BY ANI
ON THE HUNT
CRUCIAL READ
WOMAN CHEATED OF
`18.5L BY SOCIAL
MEDIA ‘FRIENDS’
Thane: Unidentified social
media users cheated a
woman of Rs18.51 lakh af-
ter befriending her on Face-
book. A man and a woman
sent friendship requests to
the 48-year-old complainant
earlier this year. In August,
the duo messaged the
woman that they had sent
an expensive gift to her
but she will need to pay
some money for getting it
cleared from the customs,
which she did. When no gift
arrived, she realized that she
had been cheated.
DACOITS ATTACK
FAMILY, DECAMP
WITH VALUABLES
Thane: A gang of five armed
dacoits looted valuables
from a bungalow and
attacked family members,
leaving two of them injured,
in Thane district in the
wee hours of Tuesday. The
unidentified dacoits gained
entry into the bungalow in
the Raju Nagar locality from
the rear side and assaulted
its occupants at around 2
am before decamping with
valuables, they said. The
exact value of the looted
items was not yet known,
the police said.
FOUR HELD FOR EXTORTING `5 LAKH FROM
GROCERY TRADER BY POSING AS REPORTER
MAN KILLED OVER OLD DISPUTE, HIS BODY
WITH SLIT THROAT FOUND IN THANE CITY
Pune: A man has been arrested for extorting Rs5 lakh
from a city-based grocery trader by posing as a reporter
of a leading English daily and threatening the shop
owner of publishing his
news about the sale of adul-
terated grains. The accused
also demanded Rs20 lakh
from the trader. Three aides
of the main accused have
also been arrested, police
said on Wednesday. A complaint in this connection was
lodged by Tejaram Devasi, who runs the grocery shop in
Mundhwa area of the city.
Thane: A 32-year-old man was killed allegedly by his
friend and a few others, at Mumbra in Thane city over
some old dispute, police said on Wednesday. The body
of the victim, Faizan Iqbal Memon, a resident of Kausa,
was recovered on Tuesday.
Around 4 pm on October
24, the victim’s friend called
him out of his house and
took him along. Memon did
not return home that night.
But the next day, he was
found dead with his throat
slit, said an official of Mumbra police station. His wife
later lodged a complaint, based on which an offence
under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 302 (murder)
was registered against the accused.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The day af-
ter Diwali was a
smoggy one, as the
air quality of Mum-
bai city was one of
the worst on record.
The air quality index
(AQI) hovered between
poor to very poor cate-
gories with Mazgaon,
BKC, Chembur, Malad,
Borivali and Andheri
being the most polluted
areas.
The AQI across the
city remained in the
same category on
Wednesday as well,
with predictions for
Thursday not too hope-
ful. However, a change
in the weather could
improve the air quality
.
Although it began at
“moderate” in the day,
the AQI plummeted to
“very poor” level late at
night on Diwali. The
overall PM 2.5 (fine in-
halable particles)
jumped to 290 (poor) on
Tuesday morning and
by evening, it further
deteriorated to 305
(very poor) as per Sys-
tem of Air Quality and
Weather Forecasting
and Research, or SA-
FAR, a Government of
India initiative to meas-
ure the air quality of
metropolitan cities.
Mumbai’s AQI dips to ‘poor’ on 3rd day of Diwali
DIFFICULT TO BREATHE
More than 90K
LSD-affectedcattle
recover in Maha
First India Bureau
Pune: Since the first
week of August, when
the first case was re-
ported from Chinawal
village of Jalgaon dis-
trict’s Raver taluka,
the lumpy skin dis-
ease (LSD) has affect-
ed 1,43,089 cattle in
Maharashtra so far.
The good news, how-
ever, is that 93,166 of
them have recovered af-
ter treatment, said a
senior animal husband-
ry department official
on Wednesday
.
According to Animal
Husbandry Commis-
sioner Sachindra
Pratap Singh, in Sep-
tember, the state gov-
ernment had declared
the entire state to be a
“controlled area” and
restricted the move-
ment of cattle and out-
lawed animal fairs.
Since then, the disease
has now spread to 3,030
villages in 32 districts.
“The affected cattle
are being treated in the
state and as on date,
140.97 lakh vaccines
have been made availa-
ble in various districts,”
Singh said, adding that
around 97% of the cattle
had been vaccinated.
So far, 135.58 lakh cat-
tle have been given free
vaccination in the state,
he said.
The vaccination pro-
cess has been completed
in Jalgaon, Ahmedna-
gar, Dhule, Akola, Au-
rangabad, Beed, Kol-
hapur, Sangli, Washim,
Jalna, Nandurbar and
Mumbai suburbs, said
the official.
LSD is a contagious
viral infection that af-
fects cattle and can also
lead to death.
The court stated the wife’s conduct
in making unwarranted and false
allegations against her husband’s
character results in damage to
his reputation in society
HIGH COURT GRANTS BAIL TO
MAN ACCUSED OF RAPING TEEN
Mumbai: The Bombay
High Court was of
the view that a mar-
ried man from Pune,
accused of kidnapping
and raping a minor,
“need not be subjected
to further custody”, and
granted him bail. The
bench of Justice PD
Naik was hearing a peti-
tion for bail filed by ac-
cused Sunny Bike, who
was arrested on June
13, 2021 in connection
with a case registered
with the Vimantal
Police Station, Pune, in
2020. According to the
girl’s mother, on June
18, 2020, the 16-year-
old told her that she
was going to work and
did not return home.
An FIR was registered
against unknown per-
sons. Finally, on August
26, she was found at
Saswad, a two-hour
drive from Pune. The
police then handed her
over to her mother.
The lumpy skin disease has so far spread to 3,030 villages in 32
districts of the state. —FILE PHOTO
Vaccination drive on
as over 135.58 lakh
animals get jabbed,
say officials
Mazgaon, BKC, Chembur, Malad, Borivali and Andheri recorded to
be the most polluted areas in Mumbai. —ANI PHOTO
For past two years, the air quality
index was not this bad as the city
witnessed continuous rains on days
before and during the festival
“The situation this year has changed as
the southwest monsoon has already
withdrawn and the anti-cyclonic sys-
tem prevails due to which conditions such as
stagnation of winds prevail…it holds pollutants
in the air. Hence, firecrackers and additional
emissions lead to the deterioration of AQI.”
—Gufran Beig, Founder Project Director, SAFAR
Family wanted for
filing fake rape case
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Amboli
police are looking for
a woman who married
a 30-year-old man
from Andheri after ly-
ing about her matri-
monial past and filed a
rape case against him.
Thewoman,identified
asHarshitaPandey
,mar-
ried the man in Novem-
ber last year. In May
, she
filed a rape case against
him, which made him
suspicious. The man
then applied for a copy
of his marriage certifi-
cate and learnt that no
application was found.
According to the cops,
she has filed rape and
dowry cases against two
other men, too. Her fam-
ily
, including her broth-
er,motherandfather,are
involved in the racket.
Minor girl gang raped after
‘escape’ from hosp, 1 held
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Police have
detained a cab driver
and are searching for
another accused of
sexually assaulting a
15-year-old girl in
Mumbai.
The minor was
brought to Nair Hospi-
tal for a suicide risk as-
sessment after threat-
ening to kill herself if
she was not permitted
to leave the shelter
home where she was
staying after a prior in-
cident of sexual as-
sault. After making her
way out of the hospital,
she was raped by two
people who had prom-
ised to get her a job.
The girl had been
sexually assaulted ear-
lier, said sources at the
MRA Marg police sta-
tion in south Mumbai.
She was subsequently
transferred to a shelter
home in Matunga in
July by the Child Wel-
fare Committee in Don-
gri, said police.
She escaped from the
hospital a few days later
and went to the CSMT,
where two taxi drivers
approached her and of-
fered to help her find a
job, said officials. They
took her to a lodge on
October 22 and raped
her, they added.
The next day, the
minor returned to the
shelter home and
narrated her ordeal.
They alerted the police
who lodged a case of
rape, gang rape and
kidnapping.
The survivor identi-
fied the two perpetra-
tors as Sonu and Rajen-
dra. The police identi-
fied and nabbed Ab-
himanyu after examin-
ing CCTV camera foot-
age at CSMT, said cops.

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PERSPECTIVE
04
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
Those who cling to
perceptions and views
wander the world
offending people.
—Buddha
IN-DEPTH
Jagat Prakash Nadda
@JPNadda
Hearty congratulations to all of you
on the festival of ‘Govardhan Puja’, a
symbol of nature, cattle promotion and
environmental protection. On this holy
day, taking inspiration from Lord Shri
Krishna, let us all take a pledge for the
protection and promotion of mother cow.
Krishna bless everyone. Jai Shri Krishna!
Bhupender Yadav
@byadavbjp
Proud moment! Two more Indian
beaches have made it to the list of Blue
Beaches. Minicoy, Thundi Beach and
Kadmat Beach - both in Lakshadweep
- are the proud entrants in the coveted
list of Blue Beaches, an eco-label given
to the cleanest beaches in the world.
TOP TWEETS
GANESH, LAKSHMI
ON CURRENCY IS
AAP’S TWIST TO
RELIGIOUS POLITICS
elhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal has
come up with a new
idea to give the coun-
try’s religious poli-
tics a new twist. While doing
Diwali puja, he said, the idea
dawned on him that images of
Lord Ganesh and goddess Lak-
shmi, the deities who represent
wealth and prosperity
, should be
there on India’s currency notes.
The new currency notes being
printed should carry these im-
ages for the sake of the coun-
try’s prosperity when even with-
out invocation of gods it is be-
lieved to be doing much better
than developed economies.
Kejriwal’sisnotsosubtleanat-
tempt to give religious politics a
new turn has been done with Gu-
jarat and Himachal Pradesh elec-
tions in mind and to beat the BJP
at its own game. The ruling par-
ty’s politics has revolved around
Ayodhya, Kashi and Mathura. To
make his proposal acceptable to
Muslims he cited the example of
Indonesia, a Islamic country
,
whichhasLordGaneshonitscur-
rency
. It may still not work.
D
ore than Britain,
there is joy in In-
dia over Rishi Su-
nak becoming the
first Briton of col-
our to become the country’s
prime minister because of
his India link. Sunak is the
youngest to lead the country
and, reportedly, is richer
than the King and is a prac-
ticing Hindu. His appoint-
ment is indeed a milestone
moment in British history
and speaks volumes about
the equal opportunities avail-
able to immigrants in the
United Kingdom, which
ruled over us for centuries.
No matter how excited we
may be at the prospect of
puja being performed at 10
Downing Street, his official
residence and his Bengaluru-
based billionaire in-laws, Ri-
shi Sunak will have to watch,
and promote, Britain’s inter-
ests if wants his Conserva-
tive Party to win elections in
two years’ time.
Rishi Sunak leading the To-
ries to an electoral victory
will be a true test of the white
man’s (and woman) having
come out of the colonial and
racistmindset.Lestweforget,
Sunak is the choice of Tory
MPs and that he earlier lost to
Liz Truss when over a million
Tory members were asked to
choose between the two.
For now Sunak’s appoint-
ment as prime minister has
stabilised Britain’s revolving
door politics. His new cabi-
net reflects Sunak’s attempt
to unite Tory factions and
now has the task of propping
up the inflation-plagued
economy and making life af-
fordable for Britons. Retain-
ing Jeremy Hunt as Chancel-
lor showed his belief in con-
tinuity and seriousness to-
wards the economy
. For India
the proof of pudding will lie
in early signing of the Free
Trade Agreement promised
by Boris Johnson.
IT IS RISHI SUNAK’S
TURN AT THE HELM
Rishi Sunak leading the
Tories to an electoral
victory will be a true test of
the white man’s (and woman)
having come out of the
colonial and racist mindset.
Lest we forget, Sunak is the
choice of Tory MPs and that
he earlier lost to Liz Truss
when over a million Tory
members were asked to
choose between the two
M
PANCHAYAT POLLS
BJP MEETING CPM TO
DESTABILISE TMC?
n politics, especially in India,
there are no permanent
friends or foes. Politics is a
game of strange bedfellows
and there is no change in this
old order. Recently, the meet-
ing of BJP MP Raju Bista and
party MLA Shankar Ghosh
with veteran CPI(M) leader
and former mayor of Siliguri
Ashok Bhattacharya at his
(Bhattacharya’s) house
raised eyebrows and the po-
litical grapevine was quick to
spin a yarn about the report-
ed saffron camp’s plan to
rope in the Left leader ahead
of the panchayat elections
slated for next year.
Though both the Left and
the BJP leaders described it
as a “courtesy visit”, the rul-
ing Trinamool Congress has
smelt a conspiracy! However,
brushing aside speculations
and describing the meeting
as a “courtesy visit” by the
BJP leaders, Bhattacharya
told the media, “If an MP
pays a visit on the occasion
of Diwali, I cannot shut the
door on his face. It was also
the death anniversary of my
wife and everyone was invit-
ed. The speculations that are
doing rounds are baseless
and unjust.”
Calling it a “courtesy vis-
it”, BJP Darjeeling MP Raju
Bista said, “Ashok Bhattacha-
rya is a former minister, MLA
and mayor of Siliguri. I came
here to extend my Diwali
greetings to him. It was also
the death anniversary of his
wife. Therefore, I wanted to
meet him at his residence.”
“Our party MP Raju Bista
wanted to meet the Left lead-
er to inquire about his health.
So, during the auspicious oc-
casion of Diwali, I went with
him. It is wrong to draw a
conclusion based on this. It is
also not right to consider it a
political meeting,” said BJP’s
Siliguri MLA Shankar
Ghosh, who was previously
with the CPI(M).
The TMC’s mouthpiece
‘JagoBangla’onTuesdaypub-
lished an editorial, mention-
ing that the BJP’s meeting
with Bhattacharya may have
seriouspoliticalconnotations.
Meanwhile, TMC state gener-
al secretary Kunal Ghosh
went on to say
, “There is a con-
spiracygoingontodestabilise
the government, especially in
the northern part of the state.
It may be noted that BJP lead-
ers have been demanding a
separatestateforthepeoplein
north Bengal.
“We have information that
the BJP wants to destabilise
the northern part of Bengal
and plan to make it a Union
Territory with some parts of
Bihar.Wehavesaidthisbefore
and are saying it now that the
Left and the BJP are trying to
destabilise the state govern-
ment. They will, of course,
say that it was a courtesy visit
but we know what is happen-
ing. They are seeking Bhat-
tacharya’s support to execute
their plans,” alleged Ghosh.
HINDU MAHASABHA TO
FIGHT RURAL POLLS?
The Akhil Bharat Hindu Ma-
hasabha announced that it
will contest next year’s pan-
chayat elections in West Ben-
gal. The outfit that was rela-
tively unknown in the con-
temporary political land-
scape of West Bengal also
tried to strike another contro-
versy on Friday by demand-
ing that the photo of Gandhi
on currency notes should be
replaced with that of Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose.
SUVENDU’S CLAIM
The Trinamool Congress’s
rule in West Bengal will be
over in a few months, leader
of opposition Suvendu Adhi-
kari claimed recently, stating
that the police cannot save
the regime anymore.
Addressing a ‘Bijaya Sam-
milani’ or post-Durga Puja
meetinginhishometownKan-
thi in Purba Medinipur dis-
trict, the BJP leader said that
his party will fight next year’s
panchayat elections “inch by
inch”. He said the BJP will
form “strong” teams in every
booth to counter the TMC’s
“terror”inthepanchayatpolls.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
I
TMC MOCKS SUVENDU
The TMC said it does not
give importance to Adhikari’s
statements. “Suvendu Adhikari
used to say ‘BJP hatao Desh
Banchao’ till mid-2020. He
had campaigned against Amit
Shah during the 2019 Lok
Sabha polls. Being an oppor-
tunist and unethical person, he
crossed over to the BJP. We
don’t attach any importance to
the utterances of an unethical
person,” TMC state general
secretary Kunal Ghosh said.
FEW POINTS TO PONDER
z The recent ED raids and
the visuals doing the
rounds across the media
in the country, political
observers feel will have
an impact on the ruling
party in the state
z The party had to go on
a defensive mode and
distance itself from the
leaders who were in the
ED scanner
z It may also be noted that
TMC will have to prepare its
panchayat poll blueprint on
its own with its prime politi-
cal strategist and strong-
man, Anubrata Mondal in a
spot and under ED scanner
z Mondal has been a poll
striker for the TMC in its
citadel in Birbhum and
the adjacent districts for a
very long time
ROBIN ROY
The writer is Senior Journalist and
former Managing Editor, First India

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INDIA
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi: Even be-
fore the results of Con-
gress President’s elec-
tion were out, Shashi
Tharoor and his team
had started making al-
legations of election
malpractices. Shortly
after the counting of
votes began on Wednes-
day, Tharoor’s election
agent Salman Soz made
allegations of election
rigging. He said that he
was in touch with the
head of the election au-
thority Madhusudan
Mistry and informed
him about many things.
However, he said that he
cannot go into detail
about it. He made alle-
gations of electoral mal-
practices in Uttar
Pradesh, which has the
maximum number of
representatives, approx-
imately elevenhundred.
Tharoor’s team also de-
manded cancellation of
elections in UP. Earlier,
during the election cam-
paign, Tharoor himself
had alleged of favorit-
ism.
The allegations and
complaints leveled by
Shashi Tharoor and his
team, who contested the
election against Mall-
ikarjun Kharge, have
given legitimacy to this
election. No one can call
this election a mixed
game, however, it was
actually so. A face was
needed to fight against
a candidate backed by
Sonia and Rahul, who
had the image of an in-
dependent leader.
Shashi Tharoor was
meeting this criterion
because he was also a
member of G23 and
used to give statements
from time to time re-
garding the policies of
the party
. Now his com-
plaints will further
prove that he was not a
proxy candidate, but
contested the election
of his own free will,
with full preparation.
The Congress party
wanted to create this
message so that no one
can call the election of
the President as a sham
and in this agenda, Con-
gress has tasted
success.
Have Tharoor’s candidature hidden ‘scripted’ electioneering of Cong?
SOMETHING FISHY
HM AMIT SHAH IN GUJARAT
In Shah’s presence, over 12,500 kg
drugs destroyed in Gujarat Delhi
Ahmedabad (Agen-
cies): Union Home Min-
ister Amit Shah ad-
dressed a meeting of the
western region states on
‘Drug Trafficking and
National Security’ in
Gandhinagar on
Wednesday
. “I congratu-
late Gujarat Chief Min-
ister Bhupendra Patel,
GujaratPoliceandGuja-
rat Minister of State for
Home Harsh Sanghavi
for doing commendable
work in stopping this
activity by running sev-
eral operations in coor-
dination with central
agencies,” Shah said at
the meeting.
While Patel was pre-
sent on the dais, Goa
CM Pramod Sawant,
MP CM Shivraj Singh
Chouhan and Maha-
rashtra deputy CM Dev-
endra Fadnavis among
others joined through
VC. Nearly 12,500 kg of
seized drugs were de-
stroyed at two locations
in Gujarat and Delhi as
the meeting was in pro-
gress in Gandhinagar.
Peace and tranquillity in border essential: Jaishankar to Chinese envoy
New Delhi: Peace and
tranquillity in the bor-
der areas are essential
for normal ties between
India and China, Exter-
nal Affairs Minister S
Jaishankar conveyed to
outgoing Chinese Am-
bassador Sun Weidong
on Wednesday
.
Jaishankar made the
remarks when the en-
voy called on him.
India and China are
locked in a lingering
border standoff in
eastern Ladakh for
over 29 months. The bi-
lateral relationship
came under severe
strain following the
deadly clash in Galwan
Valley in Eastern
Ladakh in June, 2020.
“Received Ambassa-
dor Sun Weidong of
China for a farewell
call. Emphasized that
the development of In-
dia-China relations is
guided by the 3 Mutu-
als. Peace and tranquil-
ity in the border areas
is essential,” the exter-
nal affairs minister
tweeted.
“The normalization
of India-China rela-
tions is in the interest
of both countries, of
Asia and the world at
large,” he said.
India has been as-
serting that the Sino-
India ties must be
based on three mutu-
als: mutual sensitivity,
mutual respect and
mutual interest.
In his farewell re-
marks at an event on
Tuesday, Sun said it is
natural for China and
India to have some dif-
ferences but the focus
should be to seek com-
mon ground for devel-
opment while resolv-
ing the pending issues
through dialogue.
Last month, the In-
dian and Chinese mili-
taries carried out dis-
engagement from the
Patrolling Point 15 in
the Gogra-Hotsprings
area last month.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar meets outgoing Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong
for a farewell call , in New Delhi on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
“I’M VERY
IMPRESSED BY
YOUR MINISTER...”
New Delhi (PTI): Omar
Sultan Al Olama, the
UAE’s Minister of State
for Artificial Intelligence,
on Wednesday lauded
External Affairs Minister
S Jaishankar, saying he
is impressed by how he
positions India’s foreign
policy on the world stage
amid geopolitical tugs
of war.Omar Sultan Al
Olama, praised Jaishankar
during a conference at a
Delhi-based think tank.
He had virtually joined
union ministers from
India and several parlia-
mentarians.
ENOUGH ROOM IN WORLD FOR CHINA,
INDIA; LET’S NOT INTERFERE IN
OTHER’S AFFAIRS: OUTGOING ENVOY
New Delhi (ANI): Out-
going Chinese envoy
to India Sun Weidong
in his farewell address
has stressed the need
to manage and resolve
differences between
India and China and
uphold the principle
of non-interference in
each other’s internal
affairs. Sun, who as-
sumed office in July
2019, is leaving at a
time when the two
sides continue to man-
age ties, following the
Ladakh border clash
that has remained
the dominant issue
between the two sides.
In his farewell remarks
posted on the Chinese
embassy website,
Sun said it is only
natural for important
neighbours China and
India to have some
differences but the
key is how to handle
the differences. “We
should be aware that
the common interests
of the two countries
are greater than differ-
ences,” the envoy said.
Shashi Tharoor
Yogi approves VRS application for ‘87 batch
Ahtesham Siddiqui
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minis-
ter Yogi Adityanath
has given his approval
to the VRS application
of 1987-batch Indian
AAdministrative Ser-
vices officer Renuka
Kumar.
An officer of UP cad-
re, Renuka Kumar was
on central deputation.
Annoyed by the central
government’s move to
send her back from the
deputation, Renuka in-
stead of returning to
UP sent her VRS to the
UP government in the
office of the Resident
Commissioner, New
Delhi in August.
After getting NOC
from the central gov-
ernment, Chief Minis-
ter Yogi has given his
approval to the VRS ap-
plication.
Her husband Sunil
Kumar is also an IAS
officer and currently
he is on central deputa-
tion.Sources in the bu-
reaucracy said that if
the VRS of IAS Renuka
Kumar would not have
been approved and if
she had returned to Ut-
tar Pradesh, many
equations could have
changed in the state bu-
reaucracy.
Renuka Kumar was
to retire in June 2023.
She has been a trusted
officer of Yogi.
Earlier the UP gov-
ernment had approved
the VRS of IAS officer
Juthika Patankar.
IAS officer Renuka Kumar
PK hints that he
is being aided by
former clients
Patna (PTI): Political
strategist-turned-activ-
ist Prashant Kishor on
Thursday hinted that
he was receiving finan-
cial assistance for his
‘Jan Suraaj campaign’
in Bihar from his for-
mer clients, many of
whom were now chief
ministers of their re-
spective states.
He made the candid
disclosure at a press
conference in Valmiki
Nagar, a picturesque
but remote forest re-
serve situated along
the Indo-Nepal border,
about 300 kms from the
Bihar capital.
Kishor has been on a
‘padayatra’ since Octo-
ber 2 and intends to
cover 3,500 km on foot,
touching every nook
and corner of his home
state before his cam-
paign evolves into a full
fledged political party.
Senior IAS officer on long leave
Ahtesham Siddiqui
Lucknow: Senior IAS
officer of UP cadre
Monika S Garg, ACS
Minority Welfare, Mus-
lim Waqf, has gone on
a long leave. Many ACS
rank officials have al-
ready retired in the
state and those who are
left have the charge of
many departments.
In such a situation,
the government has
handed over the charge
of ACS Minority Af-
fairs to IAS Dr Hari om,
an officer of the rank
of Principal Secretary
.
Hari Om is a 1997
batch officer and cur-
rently holds the re-
sponsibility of Princi-
pal Secretary Social
Welfare and Director
ST Development.
Monika S Garg IAS Dr Hari Om
A face was
needed to fight
against candidate
backed by Sonia
and Rahul Gandhi
SHAH TO INAUGURATE, LAY STONE OF
PROJECTS WORTH RS 6,629 CR IN H’YANA
Home Minister Amit
Shah inaugurates a high
level regional meeting
on ‘Drug Trafficking
and National Security’,
in Gandhinagar on
Wednesday. (Left)
Drugs being destroyed
in presence of Shah.
Chandigarh (PTI): Union
Home Minister Amit
Shah will inaugurate and
lay foundation stones
of four projects worth
Rs 6,629 crore from a
programme in Haryana’s
Faridabad, according to
a statement. The event
will be held on Thursday
at Faridabad’s Parade
Ground, Sector 12.He will
lay the foundation stone
of the Haryana Orbital Rail
Corridor project costing
Rs 5,618 crores besides
the inauguration of a
Rs 590 core rail coach
refurbishment factory in
Sonipat. The projects also
include the country’s first
longest elevated railway
track built in Rohtak at Rs
315.40 crore.The home
minister will also dedi-
cate and inaugurate the
Haryana Police Residence
Complex, Bhondsi, con-
structed at a cost of Rs
106 crore.
HM TO CHAIR 2-DAY
‘CHINTAN SHIVIR’
EASTERN ZONAL
COUNCIL MEET
PM TO INAUGURATE
VARIOUS PROJECTS
PM LIKELY TO VISIT
AP ON OCT 30
New Delhi: Develop-
ment of an ecosystem
for cybercrime man-
agement, increase in
usage of IT in criminal
justice system, wom-
en’s safety, coastal
security issues will be
discussed at the two-
day ‘Chintan Shivir’
of home ministers of
states at Surajkund on
October 27 and 28.
Kolkata: Chances
of West Bengal CM
Mamata Banerjee and
Union Home Minister
Amit Shah coming face
to face on November
5 are high as the latter
is scheduled to attend
and chair the meeting
of the Eastern Zonal
Security Council at the
Bengal secretariat of
Nabanna.
Visakhapatnam: PM
Narendra Modi will
visit Visakhapatnam
on November 11 to
inaugurate and lay
foundations for vari-
ous developmental
and infrastructure
projects. Railway of-
ficials have received
the communication
that he will be in the
port city.
Itanagar: Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi
is likely to visit AP on
October 30 to inau-
gurate the Donyi Polo
Airport near here, a
senior official said.
CM Pema Khandu had
recently met the prime
minister and request-
ed him to inaugurate
the greenfield airport
in Hollongi, he said.
Kharge chairs Congress CEC
meeting for Guj assembly polls
New Delhi (ANI):
Mallikarjun Kharge,
who on Wednesday
took over as Congress
president, chaired a
meeting of the par-
ty’s Central Election
Committee (CEC) to
finalise candidates
for the Gujarat as-
sembly polls.
Former Congress
president Sonia Gan-
dhi was also present
at the meeting. Three
meetingsof Congress
screening committee
have already been
held for Gujarat as-
sembly polls. The
Congress is seeking
to oust the BJP gov-
ernment in Gujarat
and is also facing
challenge from Aam
AadmiPartywhichis
seeking to establish
itself in the state. The
BJP has been contin-
uously in power in
Gujarat from 1998.
The assembly polls
in Gujarat would be
held before the end of
the year. Kharge offi-
cially took charge as
the party president at
the AICC headquar-
ters in New Delhi.
BHARAT JODO
YATRA SET TO
RESUME IN T’GANA
“MA, NO MATTER
WHAT WORLD
SAYS...” PRIYANKA
Telangana (PTI): After
a three-day break,
Congress leader Rahul
Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo
Yatra is set to resume
its march from Tel-
angana on Thursday.
The Congress Minister
of Parliament will be
reaching Hyderabad
later in the day and will
leave for Makthal in
Narayanpet district to
resume the yatra after
a night halt.
New Delhi (PTI):
Hours after Sonia Gan-
dhi handed over charge
as Congress chief to
Mallikarjun Kharge,
her daughter and
party general secretary
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
shared an Instagram
post with the mes-
sage: “So proud of
you Ma, no matter
what the world says or
thinks, I know, you did
it all for love.”
Ashok Gehlot with Bhupesh Baghel, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra,
Deepender Singh Hooda and Ajay Maken and party members
attend the charge-taking ceremony of newly elected party
president Mallikarjun Kharge, in New Delhi on Wednesday.

06
INDIA
Chennai (PTI): A probe by the National Investiga-
tion Agency (NIA) into the Coimbatore explosion
case would be
recommended
to the Centre,
the Tamil Nadu
government
said here on
Wednesday. The
state govern-
ment also announced raising a special police force to
foil sabotage and bolster its intelligence wing.
Kedarnath (ANI): The sanctum sanctorum of
Kedarnath Dham has been decorated with gold.
The walls and ceiling of the sanctum sanctorum
have been
given a new
look with 550
gold layers. The
gold layering
has provided
the sanctum
sanctorum a
more attractive look. Temple Committee President
Ajendra Ajay said that the work of golden deco-
ration of the sanctum sanctorum of Kedarnath
temple was completed this morning.
TAMIL NADU TO HAND OVER COIMBATORE
EXPLOSION CASE PROBE TO NIA
KEDARNATH DHAM'S SANCTUM SANCTORUM
DECORATED WITH 550 GOLD LAYERS
CRUCIAL READ
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: By-elec-
tions may be announced
soon in the Mainpuri
seat, which was vacated
by the death of Sama-
jwadiPartyfounderMu-
layam Singh Yadav. This
election will be very in-
teresting. One reason
for this is the suspense
over who will contest
the election from the
family of Netaji i.e. Mu-
layam Singh and sec-
ondly what will the
Bharatiya Janata Party
and Samajwadi Party
do? Will the BJP field a
candidate for Netaji’s
seat against any mem-
ber of his family in the
by-election? Right now,
citing tradition in Ma-
harashtra, the party has
not fielded a candidate
against the wife of late
MLARameshLatte.Can
thishappeninMainpuri
seat of Uttar Pradesh
also? The question is be-
ing raised in view of the
kind of affection shown
by top BJP leaders to-
wards Mulayam Singh
on his death and Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi said that Mulayam
Singh had blessed him,
which is his heritage.
Before that it has to be
decided as to who will
contest the election
from Mulayam Singh’s
family
. So far Dharmen-
dra Yadav is considered
to be the strongest con-
tender. He was earlier
MP from Badaun from
where he lost last time.
Recently, Akhilesh Ya-
dav resigned from
Azamgarh seat, Dhar-
mendra Yadav fought
from there but he lost by
close to 10 thousand
Will BJP ‘honor’ Mulayam in Mainpuri by-election?
ELECTORAL BLOOD-BATH
Late former UP CM Mulayam
Singh Yadav —FILE PHOTO
QUESTION RAISED
New Delhi (Agen-
cies): This year, the day
after Diwali has seen
the cleanest air in Delhi
since 2015. This, despite
the AQI remaining in
the ‘very poor’ category
on both Diwali and the
day after, with pollu-
tion levels recording a
surge when firecrack-
ers were set off in viola-
tion of Delhi govern-
ment’s ban.
The AQI (air quality
index) on Diwali day
was 312, while it was 303
on Tuesday, according
to data from the Central
Pollution Control Board
(CPCB). AQI between
301 and 400 is consid-
ered to be ‘very poor’.
The AQI on Diwali day
this year is the cleanest
that the city has seen
since 2019.
CPCB data available
from 2015 onwards
shows that the worst
post-Diwali air quality
was seen last year, when
the day after Diwali re-
corded an AQI of 462, in
the ‘severe’ category.
The AQI on Diwali day
last year was 382. Since
2015, there have been
four years when the day
after Diwali saw ‘se-
vere’ air quality
.
Meteorological con-
ditions played a role in
the improved air quali-
ty this time. Gufran
Beig, founder project
director, SAFAR, said
that wind speed helped
prevent the accumula-
tion of pollutants and
an early Diwali this
year meant that the
temperature is still rel-
atively warm.
“Wind speed picked
up around 2 am on
Tuesday. In the early
hours of the morning,
pollutants would have
normally accumulated,
when the temperature
is cooler and the bound-
ary layer comes down
and winds become slow-
er. But the wind speed
picked up, aiding dis-
persion. The highest
AQI levels were record-
ed around midnight,
after which it improved
and settled at 323 in the
morning,” Beig said.
“It appears that there
may have been a reduc-
tion in firecracker
emissions compared to
last year,” Beig said.
Delhi sees cleanest day
after-Diwali since 2015
The AQI on Diwali day this year is the cleanest that the city has seen since 2019
Raisina Hills is barely visible due to dense smog as air quality
remains in the 'severe' category, in New Delhi. —FILE PHOTO
It appears
that there
may have
been a reduction in
firecracker emissions
compared to last
year. The air quality
did not deteriorate
as much as it
could have.
—Gufran Beig,
SAFAR project director
New Delhi (ANI): Delhi Lieutenant Governor
Vinai Kumar Saxena has given his nod to hold
Chhath Puja at designated ghats on the Yamu-
na and directed the officials to ensure basic
amenities along with adequate security
.
Having perused the note of the Minister
(Revenue) on pre page as endorsed by Chief
Minister, I approve the proposal for allowing
Chhath Ghats at the Designated River Ya-
muna Ghats subject to the strict adherence to
the directions/orders issued by the National
Green Tribunal (NGT) and by the National
Mission for Clean Ganga in this context. It may
also be ensured that the designated Ghats are
properly cleaned, basic amenities
are provided and security con-
cernsaretakencareof,theGov-
ernor said. The LG directed the
officials of the Revenue Depart-
ment, Environment Department
and concerned authorities to
ensure strict enforcement of
the above orders to protect
the environment.
Delhi LG allows Chhath
Puja at designated ghats
28deadinB’deshcyclone,
millions without power
Dhaka (Agencies):
Bangladesh rescue
workers found the bod-
ies of four missing
crew of a dredger boat,
taking the death toll
from Cyclone Sitrang
to 28 as millions re-
mained without power,
officials said on
Wednesday (Oct 26).
Cyclones - the equiv-
alent of hurricanes in
the Atlantic or ty-
phoons in the Pacific -
are a regular menace
in the region but scien-
tists say climate
change is likely mak-
ing them more intense
and frequent. Cyclone
Sitrang made landfall
in southern Bangla-
desh on Monday but
authorities managed to
get about a million peo-
ple to safety before the
monster storm hit.
Withwindsof 80kmh,
it still left a trail of dev-
astation in the coun-
try's densely populated,
low-lying coastal re-
gion, which is home to
tens of millions of peo-
ple. The government
said nearly 10,000 tin-
roofed homes were ei-
ther destroyed or dam-
aged and crops on
large swathes of farm-
land were wrecked at a
time of record-high
food inflation.
Fire department di-
vers found the bodies
of four crew of a dredg-
er boat that sank dur-
ing the storm in the Bay
of Bengal. We found
one body on Tuesday
night and three more
this morning. Four
crew are still missing,
Abdullah Pasha from
the fire department.
Cyclone Sitrang crossed the Bangladesh coast on Monday taking
the death toll to 28. —PHOTO BY PTI
Prayagraj (PTI): The
authorities here have
ordered the demolition
of a private hospital
where a dengue patient
died after being trans-
fused with what the
family claimed was
sweet lime juice and not
blood platelets.
Prayagraj District
Magistrate Sanjay Ku-
mar Khatri said that
report of the sample col-
lected from the hospital
revealed that platelets
and not sweet lime juice
was transfused to the
patient. He, however,
charged Global Hospital
with laxity in the
transfusion process,
saying the reports
showed the platelets
were stored in an im-
properwaywhichmight
have led to clotting.
UP hospital in platelets row to be demolished
Bijapur (ANI): The
BJP on Wednesday took
a jibe at AIMIM presi-
dent Asaduddin Owaisi
over his remark that he
wishes to see a hijab-
wearing woman as the
Prime Minister of In-
dia. Addressing the
press Owaisi had also
said the BJP wants to
eradicate secularism
and is against equal op-
portunity for all in the
country. BJP's Shehzad
Poonawalla said, Owai-
si ji hopes that a hijab-
wearing girl becomes
PM of India! Well, Con-
stitution bars nobody
but do tell us when
will a Hijab-wearing
girl get to become the
President of AIMIM.
“Hijab-wearing
woman will
become PM”
Amritsar (ANI): Vice-
President Jagdeep
Dhankhar on Wednes-
day offered prayers at
the sanctum sancto-
rum of the Golden
Temple here.
Dhankhar, who also
partook in the 'langar'
(community kitchen),
was accorded a warm
welcome by Shiroma-
ni Gurdwara Parband-
hak Committee
(SGPC) chief Har-
jinder Singh Dhami.
Dhami had earlier
told the media that the
apex gurdwara body
would also give a mem-
orandum to the vice-
president for the re-
lease of 'Bandi Singhs'
(Sikh prisoners). He
had said this issue was
the most important for
the community as Sikh
prisoners had not been
released even after
they had completed
their sentences.
Last month, the
SGPC had sought time
from Prime Minister
Narendra Modi for a
meeting to discuss the
issue of the release of
Sikh prisoners.
VP pays obeisance at Golden Temple
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar along with his wife Sudesh
Dhankhar and SGPC officials pose for photographs as they pay
obeisance at the Golden Temple, on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Thiruvananthapuram
(Agencies): KeralaGov-
ernor Arif Mohammed
Khan has written to
Chief Minister Pinarayi
Vijayan, demanding the
dismissal of Finance
Minister KN Balagopal
over recent remarks at a
university, which he
said were “seditious”.
In his letter to the CM
the Governor alleged
that Mr Balagopal deliv-
ered a speech at a cam-
pus in Thiruvanan-
thapuram last week,
seeking to “stoke the
fire of regionalism and
provincialism and un-
dermining the unity of
India”. According to re-
ports, minister KN Bala-
gopal had said at the
function that “those
who come from places
like UP, may find it
tough to understand
universities in Kerala.”
Kerala Guv writes to CM, says fire FM
Ramnagara (Karna-
taka) (Agencies): The
45-year-old Lingayat
seer in Karnataka who
died by suicide on
Monday was “hon-
eytrapped” and being
blackmailed over
“obscene video calls”
with a woman, police
today said.
Two names in the
suicide note are con-
nected to the mutt, in-
vestigators have said.
“The private mo-
ments of the
woman (unidentified
so far) and the seer
were captured by the
woman using her
phone's screen-record-
ing function,” the
sources said.
‘A woman has hone this to
me,’ behind seer’s death
Patna (Agencies): In
Bihar rail traffic on
Gaya – Dhanbad section
has been disrupted fol-
lowing the derailment
of 53 wagons of a coal-
laden goods train.
The derailment took
place at 6.24 this morn-
ing at Gurpa station be-
tween Koderma and
Manpur railway sta-
tions of Dhanbad divi-
sion. The rail traffic
was disrupted on the Up
and Down lines after
the accident.
53 wagons of
coal train derail
The patient was being treated at Global Hospital in Jhalwa
locality of Prayagraj.
POORLY PRESERVED PLATELETS, NOT
MOSAMBI JUICE: UP OFFICIAL ON DEATH
Lucknow (Agencies): Days after the family of a
dengue patient in UP alleged that he died because
he was intravenously given 'mosambi' or sweet
lime juice instead of blood platelets, triggering
widespread outrage, a senior government official
on Wednesday denied the claim. Sanjay Khatri,
the District Magistrate of Prayagraj, on Wednes-
day said they had found that the patient had been
given a packet of poorly preserved platelets. We
had formed a three-member team to probe the
incident. Their report found that the patient had
been given poorly preserved platelets. We are tak-
ing action based on this information, Khatri said.
Thiruvananthapuram
(Agencies): Protests are
growing against actions
of Kerala Governor Arif
Mohammad Khan on
his actions on state-run
universities. Recently, the
Governor issued a show-
cause notice to VCs of
nine universities, asking
them to step down.
SFI LAUNCHES
PROTEST
votes in this seat which
was a stronghold of the
party
. So, now his name
isbeingconsideredfrom
Mainpuri. Tej Pratap
Yadav, the grandson of
Mulayam Singh, was
once an MP from Main-
puri. He is also the
son-in-law of Lalu
Prasad. So, he also has
a claim on this seat.
The name of Akhilesh
Yadav’s wife Dimple
Yadav is also discussed
but it is less likely that
she will fight.
Nuclear option should
not be resorted: Singh
New Delhi: Defence
Minister Rajnath Sin-
gh on Wednesday told
his Russian counterpart
Sergei Shoigu that the
Ukraine conflict should
be resolved through dia-
logue and diplomacy
and the nuclear option
should not be resorted
to by any side. In tele-
phonic talks, Shoigu
briefed Singh on the
evolving situation in
Ukraine, including his
concerns about possible
“provocations through
use of ‘dirty bomb’”, de-
fence ministry said.
Theconversationtook
place at the initiative of
Russian defence minis-
ter amid escalation of
hostilities between Rus-
sia and Ukraine. It said
the two ministers also
discussed bilateral de-
fence cooperation as
well as deteriorating
situation in Ukraine.

New Delhi: Close to
14.62 lakh new members
joined the ESIC-run social
security scheme in Au-
gust 2022, according to
official data. It showed
that the gross new enrol-
ments with ESIC rose to
1.49 crore in 2021-22,
from 1.15 crore in 2020-
21. According to the re-
port, net new enrolments
with EPFO stood at 16.94
lakh in August 2022. It
showed that from Sep-
tember 2017 to August
2022, around 5.81 crore
(gross) new subscribers
joined the scheme. —FIB
ESIC SCHEME ADDS
14.62 LAKH NEW
MEMBERS IN AUGUST
New Delhi: The initial
share-sale of Global
Health Limited, which op-
erates and manages hos-
pitals under the Medanta
brand, will open for public
subscription on Novem-
ber 3. The initial public
offering (IPO) will con-
clude on November 7, ac-
cording to the red herring
prospectus (RHP). Ac-
cording to merchant
banking sources, the IPO
size could be about
`2,200 crore. The IPO
consists of a fresh issue
of equity shares aggregat-
ing to `500 crore, and an
Offer-For-Sale (OFS) of up
to 5.08 crore equity
shares. —PTI
MEDANTA BRAND’S
GLOBAL HEALTH IPO
TO OPEN ON NOV 3
New Delhi: Housing sales
are likely to hit an all-time
high this year at 3.6 lakh
units in seven major cities
on a strong demand
across all price categories
despite hardening of in-
terest rates on home
loans and property rates,
according to Anarock.
The previous high was re-
corded in 2014 when
housing sales stood at
3,42,980 units across pri-
mary markets of Delhi-
NCR, MMR, Kolkata,
Chennai, Bengaluru, Hy-
derabad and Pune. —PTI
HOUSING SALES MAY
HIT RECORD 3.6 LAKH
UNITS THIS YEAR
business
BRIEFS
New Delhi: The govern-
ment is planning to
launch the fourth tranche
of Bharat Bond ETF, In-
dia’s first corporate bond
exchange traded fund, in
December, an official
said. The funds raised
would be utilised for un-
dertaking capital expendi-
tures by public sector en-
terprises. “We are cur-
rently in discussion with
CPSEs and assessing
their needs. The issue
size for the fourth tranche
of Bharat Bond ETF could
probably be close to last
year’s,” the official said.
—PTI
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BHARAT BOND ETF
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Premium productsliftfestivesalespirit
New Delhi (PTI): Premi-
um and mid-end products
have lifted sales of consum-
er durables and FMCG
items this festive season
amid inflation woes, ac-
cording to industry players.
Industry body Consumer
Electronics and Applianc-
es Manufacturers Associa-
tion (CEAMA) said the sec-
tor is estimated to clock
volume growth of 20% and
value growth of over 30%.
“Overall mid and pre-
mium product sales have
done well this festive sea-
son. The mid and premium
segment has witnessed
around30%volumegrowth
at least and value growth
between 40 to 50% this fes-
tive season. The last three
days were great for mid
and premium products,”
CEAMA President Eric
Braganza said.
However, he said, “Sales
of entry-level products are
down by 10-15% this festive
season.”
The decline in sales of
entry-level products is pri-
marily due to upgrading
by consumers and also
stress witnessed in the
rural market.
Panasonic Marketing In-
dia Managing Director
Fumiyasu Fujimori said
consumers are looking for
a premium range of appli-
ances and the company ex-
pects double-digit growth
this festive season, led by
smart ACs, large-screen
TVs and the home appli-
ances category
.
“In terms of value
growth invertor ACs re-
corded 38% growth, overall
LEDs grew by 10% whereas
4K TVs grew by 34%. Our
top-load washing machines
registered 13% growth this
festive season,” he said.
The company is seeing a
rise in demand for appli-
ances that are easy to use
(allowing users to multi-
task), energy-efficient, con-
nected (smart), and healthy
and hygienic.
Consumers have become
conscious of their choices
and value-proposition pre-
mium appliances are tak-
ing precedence in their
purchase decisions.
“This growth trend is
here to stay,” he said on
Wednesday
.
MAJOR
HIGHLIGHTS
z Industry body CEAMA said
the sector is estimated to
clock volume growth of
20 percent and value growth
of over 30 percent
z The decline in sales of
entry-level products is
primarily due to upgrading
by consumers and also
stress witnessed in the
rural market
Fin Ministry extends ITR filing
deadlineforCostillNovember7
New Delhi (PTI): The Fi-
nance Ministry on Wednes-
day extended the deadline
for filing income tax re-
turns for the assessment
year 2022-23 by businesses
till November 7.
The last date for filing
ITR by companies who are
required to get their
accounts audited was
October 31.
The Central Board of Di-
rect Taxes (CBDT), the
apex decision-making body
in matters of income and
corporate tax, in a notifica-
tion said since it had last
month extended the dead-
line for filing audit reports,
hence the ITR filing due
date too is extended.
“CBDT... Extends the due
date of furnishing of Re-
turn of Income under sub-
section (1) of section 139 of
the Act for the Assessment
Year 2022-23, which is Octo-
ber 31, 2022... To November
7, 2022,” the CBDT notifica-
tion said.
Domestic companies are
required to file their in-
come tax returns by Octo-
ber 31, 2022, for the Finan-
cial Year 2021-2022.
The due date to file ITR
will be November 30, 2022,
for companies which are
subject to transfer pricing
norms.
Last month, the CBDT
extended the deadline for
filing audit reports by 7
days till October 7.
25cr+ e-KYC
transactions
carried out using
Aadhaar in Sept
New Delhi (PTI): Over 25
crore e-KYC transactions
were carried out using Aad-
haar in September, almost
7.7% higher than the levels
seen in August, according
to an official release.
An e-KYC transaction is
done with the explicit con-
sent of the Aadhaar holder,
and eliminates physical
paperwork, and in-person
verification requirement
for KYC. “In September
alone, 25.25 crore e-KYC
transactions were executed
via Aadhaar, almost 7.7%
jump in such transactions
when compared with Au-
gust,” the release said.
The cumulative number
of e-KYC transactions
through Aadhaar so far has
increased to 1,297.93 crore.
New Delhi (PTI): The gov-
ernment is nudging LIC to
tweak its product strategy
to maximise profitability
in a bid to help the coun-
try’s largest insurer real-
ise its full growth potential
and yield better returns for
investors, an official said.
LIC has been trading be-
low the issue price of `949
a share ever since it got
listed on stock exchanges
on May 17.
It listed at `872 apiece on
NSE. The finance ministry
in its performance review
has been sensitising the
LIC management
about the
steps that
could be
taken to bet-
ter investor
wealth and fo-
cus on non-
participating products or
term plans to improve
profitability
.
“With the listing of LIC,
the process of modernisa-
tion of the over 65-year-old
institution has started. We
are working with the man-
agement so that they mod-
ernise their product offer-
ing and lower dividend
payout to policyholders,”
the official said.
“The younger genera-
tion is more inclined to
term plan. LIC will have to
rework their strategy and
decide what should
be done so that
their asset under
management is
utilised to its
full poten-
tial,” the
o f f i c i a l
added.
Govt nudges LIC to tweak
its product strategy
Again, states
borrowing cost
again rises
Mumbai (FIB): After a
fall in the previous week,
the market-funding cost
for the states continues to
go up, with the latest auc-
tion seeing the average
cut-off rate or yield jump-
ing by as much as 12 bps to
7.84%, but for the Centre,
it remained flat.
After rising for four
weeks in a row, the average
price that the states pay to
their debt investors fell by
11 bps to 7.72% at the auc-
tions held on October 18.
The weighted average
cut-off rose by 12 bps to
7.84% from 7.72% in the
last auction, with a rise in
weighted average tenor to
13 years from 12 years, Adi-
ti Nayar, of Icra said.
Mumbai (PTI): Budget
airline Air India Express is
looking to lease two Boeing
737 aircraft from full-ser-
vice carrier Vistara to offer
more flights during the
winter schedule, according
to a source.
Both Air India Express
and Vistara are part of the
Tata group, which also has
Air India and AirAsia In-
dia under its wings.
The source close to the
development said the two
narrow-body planes are ex-
pected to be inducted into
the Air India Express fleet
on a short-term lease in No-
vember and December, re-
spectively
.
The move is part of con-
solidating as well as tap-
ping the synergies in the
group’s airline business.
Also, the leasing of the
planes will help Air India
Express to operate more
flights during the winter
schedule, which starts from
October 30, the source said.
When contacted, a Vista-
ra spokesperson said, “we
cannot comment on specu-
lations”.
Tata group took over Air
India and Air India Ex-
press in January this year
after emerging as the win-
ning bidder in the disin-
vestment process that con-
cluded last year.
AIR INDIA
EXPRESS TATA
z Both Air India Express and
Vistara are part of the Tata
group, which also has Air India
and AirAsia India under its
wings. Tata group took over Air
India and Air India Express in
January this year
z The two narrow-body planes
are expected to be inducted
into the Air India Express
fleet on a short-term lease in
November and Dec, resp
z The move is part of
consolidating as well as
tapping the synergies in the
group’s airline business
Air India Express to lease 2 Boeing
737 planes from Vistara
Sprite becomes bn-$ brand in Indian mkt
New Delhi (PTI): Global
soft drinks major Coca-Co-
la Company said its lemon
and lime-flavoured soft
drink Sprite has become a
billion-dollar brand in the
Indian market.
The company has record-
ed a “strong” volume
growth in its India business
in the third quarter of 2022,
helped by its sparkling soft
drinks portfolio and fruit
drink brand Maaza.
Coca-Cola Company
Chairman and CEO James
Quincey said, “Trademark
Coke delivered strong
growth through effective
execution and occasion-
based marketing.”
“We drove 2.5 billion
transactions in India at af-
fordable price points
through the expansion of
returnable glass bottles
and single-serve PET pack-
ages,” he noted.
“Sprite has grown to be-
come a billion-dollar brand
in the market, driven by
the success of locally
adapted, occasion-based
global marketing cam-
paigns and screen time,”
said Quincey
.
Earlier in January, Coca-
Cola had said its Indian
soft drink brand Thums Up
had become a billion-dollar
brand in 2021.
DUE TO STRONG GROWTH
COCA-COLA
IN INDIA
z India is the fifth-largest
market for Coca-Cola
globally
z Earlier in January this year,
Coca-Cola had said its Indian
soft drink brand Thums Up
had become a billion-dollar
brand in 2021
INVESTMENTS IN
ENERGY STORAGE,
SMART GRID UP 66%
New Delhi: Investments in the
energy storage and smart grid
globally grew 66% year-on-
year to record
$25 billion in
Jan-Sept pe-
riod this year,
according
to a Mercom Capital report.
The funding includes those
through venture capital, public
market financing and debt
financing. “Total corporate
funding for energy storage,
smart grid, and efficiency
companies in 9M 2022 was
record $25 bn compared to
$15.1 bn in 9M 2021. —PTI
DLF TO LAUNCH NEW
PROPERTIES WORTH
`3.5K CRORE IN FY23
New Delhi: Realty major DLF
plans to launch new projects
worth `3,500
crore during
the second
half of this fis-
cal, mainly in
Gurugram and Panchkula as it
seeks to tap a rising demand.
DLF informed that the com-
pany plans to launch residen-
tial projects across Gurugram
and Panchkula by March 2023
after getting requisite approv-
als from authorities. The com-
pany plans to launch around 3
million square feet area across
residential projects. —PTI
IRDAI SETS UP
HEALTH INSURANCE
CONSULTATIVE CMTE
New Delhi: Regulator Irdai on
Wednesday announced to set
up a 15-mem-
ber Health
Insurance
Consultative
Committee
with an aim to achieve the goal
of universalisation of health
insurance in the country. The
committee, headed by Irdai
member Rakesh Joshi, has
been tasked to identify the
challenges in carrying out the
health insurance business
smoothly and make recom-
mendations to facilitate ease
of doing business. —PTI
TATA STEEL INKS PACT
WITH FORD TO SUPPLY
GREEN STEEL
New Delhi: Tata Steel has
inked an agreement with
American carmaker Ford to
supply “zer-
emis green
steel” from
its Nether-
lands-based
IJmuiden plant after the unit
shifts to hydrogen-based
steel making. “Tata Steel
Nederland has signed a MoU
with Ford in Europe to supply
the carmaker with Zeremis
green steel once the IJmuiden
steelworks switches to green
hydrogen-based steelmaking,”
a statement said. —PTI
COAI ROOTS FOR ‘SAME SERVICE, SAME RULES’
FOR PARITY WITH OTT COMM SERVICES
New Delhi: Telecom operators’ association COAI has made a
strong pitch for ‘same service, same rules’ with regard to OTT
communication services, arguing
that a level playing field needs to be
maintained for all technologies. “...
There is a need to ensure a level
playing field among all technologies,
that is Same Service Same Rules
with respect to OTT Communication
Services, so that fair and healthy
competition prevails in the industry,” Cellular Operators’ Associa-
tion of India (COAI) said. —PTI
OTHER STORIES

08
2NDFRONT
For excitement to run in your
veins, do not simply connect to
a purpose intellectually, but
with emotions and your heart.
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra,
CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
z With the tag of be-
ing a ‘Rubber Stamp
President’, how effec-
tive do you think
Mallikarjun Kharge
would be as the new
Congress President?
Dr Jagdeesh Chandra:
It is not merely a tag, it
is a reality. He is one
hundred percent a rub-
ber stamp president
who will be remotely
controlled either by 10,
Janpath (Sonia Gan-
dhi’s residence) or 12,
Tughlak Lane (Rahul
Gandhi’s residence)
and there is nothing
bad about it. Congress
cant function, let along
run, without the Gan-
dhis and therefore, even
Kharge has said that
there is no shame in
taking advice or hold-
ing consultations with
the Gandhi family ma-
triarch. He is the most
dignified, decent and
senior face of Congress
and you can say that he
is the most safe nomi-
nee of Gandhis’. Al-
though Rahul Gandhi
had said prior to elec-
tion said that it would
not be honourable to
call Kharge and Tha-
roor as remote control
presidents, but you
know, in politics, some-
times denial amounts to
confirmation. So yes,
Kharge is a remote con-
trolled president. And
this is also a fact that
without Gandhis Con-
gress can not exist. But
their working is such
that Congress govern-
ment is left in only two
states. And the tragedy
is that no one other
than Gandhis can actu-
ally take the Congress
forward and ensure its
resurgence. Secondly,
you asked how effective
as a president Kharge
would be. That is a sepa-
rate question and I
think even the Gandhis
do not have any second
thoughts about
Kharge’s effectiveness.
If you want to assess or
evaluate this new presi-
dent in terms of perfor-
mance or capacity to
handle a position of
this stature and in
terms of his capacity to
win elections against
the likes of Modi and
Shah, then you will be
deeply disappointed. I
am sure, as far as per-
formance is concerned,
even Gandhis, would
not be expecting much
out of him. Its just a full
time Congress presi-
dent sitting at AICC
which was the function-
al requirement of Gan-
dhis. It was Rahul’s
stubborn demand for an
outsider to become Con-
gress president as he
did not want to take di-
rect responsibility or
let Priyanka take the
mantle, so they brought
an outsider. Secondly
they wanted an individ-
ual who would appear
to be non-controversial
and balanced and from
among the Congress’
clout, this individual
appears balanced and
without sides. So as far
as performance is con-
cerned, at this age of 80
years, don’t expect
much out of him.
z An outsider has
come to helm of Con-
gress, but a huge sec-
tion of the party con-
siders that Congress
will face major loss
in Ashok Gehlot not
taking over as party
president. Also, how
did this entire jour-
ney of new Congress
president, right from
Ashok Gehlot to
Kharge, happened?
Congress has surely
faced a major loss since
Ashok Gehlot was
unanimous face and is
a face of north India.
Congress is basically a
party of north-India. As
far as loyalty and com-
fort level is concerned,
between Gehlot and
Kharge, even though
Kharge has been with
the Gandhis for fifty
years, but there is no
equal or parallel to
Ashok Gehlot. Today
Sonia Gandhi can not
feel as comfortable or
easy with Kharge as
much she can with Ge-
hlot. The, Kharge is
merely a face or a lead-
er, but he is not a re-
source manager, who
plays an important role
in politics. Gandhis
have an understanding
and a wavelength with
Ashok Gehlot and they
say it too that they
shared such a relation
or bond with late
Ahmed Patel or Ashok
Gehlot. The situation
changes and Gehlot
could not become Presi-
dent. So definitely it has
been Congress’ loss that
Gehlot has not become
President and the most
loss has been incurred
by Sonia Gandhi. Eve-
rybody here has been a
loser in this and even
Ashok Gehlot too. A
north Indian leader
could not ascend to the
party’s presidency, hav-
ing started from Jodh-
pur district President
and reaching to these
heights and if, as Presi-
dent, he would have
walked along side Ra-
hul Gandhi, that would
have been a powerful
spectacle. He has a stat-
ure and a persona and
he always stands with
Gandhis and he could
even get decisions done
by Gandhis. So every-
one is a loser in this
sense and in totality
Congress party has lost
much more. Secondly,
you as ked about se-
quence of events which
started from Gehlot and
ended at Kharge. As far
as I know, it has been an
interesting sequence of
events. Sonia Gandhi
met Gehlot in August
and told him that Rahul
is not agreeing to come
to helm. She asked him
whatcanbedone,which
also meant as to what
Gehlot should take re-
sponsibility of the par-
ty. So he agreed and af-
ter a month he said he
is going to file nomina-
tion. But when the time
for nomination came,
the Rajasthan fiasco
happened and fate had
something else in mind.
So he later met Sonia
Gandhi and even dur-
ing the Rajasthan cri-
sis, Sonia was of the
firm belief that Gehlot
is more suitable as par-
ty president. When the
crisis happened Sonia
Gandhi asked him as to
why he didn’t believe in
her and why did he
think that a single line
proposal would come
for Pilot, so he said he
was sorry and said he
was hurt. My guess is
Gehlot too must have
felt bad. At that mo-
ment, Sonia Gandhi
again asked him to be-
come party president,
but, it has come to my
knowledge, that Gehlot
said it would not be pru-
dent for him to become
party president in such
a situation. He came
back to Jodhpur house
and announced he wont
be contesting. This was
part one of the se-
quence wherein Ashok
Gehlot moved out of the
race. Second part starts
when the vacancy for
presidency candidate
occurred and on the op-
posite end was Shashi
Tharoor. He could not
be given the reins and
someone had to be ap-
pointed, so suo-moto
Digvijaya Singh be-
came active and his
team rushed to Delhi.
Singh though that since
Gehlot isn’t the one,
then he (Digvijaya) is
the best person. So peo-
ple became active and
by nightfall it turned
out that he would file
nomination the very
next day. But it is poli-
tics and there are
groups against Digvi-
jaya Singh in Congress
and as such it is said
there are two groups in
Congress, one is pre-
2000, that includes old
and senior leaders, and
another is post-2000,
which include young
guns and favours Ra-
hul. This young bri-
gade, it is said, pre-
pared a dossier of all
controversial state-
ments of Digvijaya Sin-
gh and ended up, what
in politics is called as
Karseva. So that hap-
pened and prior to this
he had called KC Venu-
gopal and stressed on
his candidature as to
when there is a va-
cancy who cant he be
a candidate. KC told
him to speak to Sonia
Gandhi but before he
could meet and
speak with Sonia, this
development happened.
So next day Singh was
to speak to Sonia and
the night before, an
emergency meeting oc-
curred at Manmohan
Singh’s home where Ge-
hlot too was present
and the leaders mulled
on who after Gehlot
could taken the mantle.
Gehlot was again asked
to become President,
and it shows the indis-
pensability of Ashok
Gehlot and even after so
much came to pass, the
party was still looking
at him. He again, with
folded hands, said sorry
.
And that is when the
name of Mallikarjun
Kharge came forward
as a proposal, where Ge-
hlot too played a role.
There was no other op-
tion and all leaders
were in agreement on
his name since he is a
Dalit, has been in poli-
tics for past five dec-
ades, has never courted
controversy and is hon-
est among other quali-
ties of his. When Shashi
Tharoor went to meet
Sonia, she said its you
choice. So that is how
the events unfolded and
Kharge won the elec-
tion.
z Rahul Gandhi said
that Kharge is his
new boss and will de-
cide on his new role.
Do you think it will
be so?
See, on the face value
this statement perhaps
highlights what Rahul
may have wanted. Ra-
hul is different from
Priyanka and Sonia,
perhaps because he
studied in a British in-
stitution, where a dif-
ferent mind-set and ide-
ology is forged. Rahul is
a decent person and he
must not have though
on these grounds. I
think that although
what he has said he
would mean and not
merely say it for politi-
cal optics, but in reality,
it will boil down to face
value. So what ever has
to be done, will be done
by Rahul Gandhi, Pri-
yanka Gandhi and to
some extent, Sonia Gan-
dhi as well. So you can
say that it is merely a
formality, although it
can be well intentioned
formality, or a ritual,
but this does not hold
any meaning because
everyone knows who
will take the ultimate
call.
z What is the mes-
sage behind Sonia
Gandhi leaving 10,
Janpath and reach-
ing 10, Rajaji Marg,
the residence of Mall-
ikarjun Kharge, spe-
cially when 10, Jan-
path, for all practical
purposes, came to be
known as the Con-
gress headquarters?
Message is that it is So-
nia Gandhi’s nobility
and also, at times when
a person gets free from
the burden, then too
they show such large
hearted approach. Ask
Ashok Gehlot, he has
had so much to deal
with like Pilot factor
and pressures created
by other leaders. There
are other chief minis-
ters too and only they
know how to make
things work, similarly,
Collectors or SPs or any
official for that matter
knows how they get
things done. And then a
time comes when per-
son lets everything go
or keeps it aside and fo-
cuses on living peace-
fully. So perhaps Sonia
may have had this
thought in her mind too
that she is out of it now
and she must be happy
that now a good indi-
vidual will be handling
the work, so it has sent
a good message. It
wasn’t a PR exercise
rather a well inten-
tioned move and every-
one in the party liked it.
But ultimately what
ever happens, the ulti-
mate result of all this
exercise is zero, since
whether it is Kharge or
anyone else, Congress
is in no situation to
counter the onslaught
of Narendra Modi and
Amit Shah.
z Although Mallikar-
jun Kharge has sever-
al challenges before
him, but perhaps the
biggest challenge for
him is to strike syner-
gy with Priyanka
Gandhi. How do you
assess that situation?
Handling three bosses
will be a challenge for
anyone and this is why
Kamal Nath back-
tracked. But the biggest
challenge is Rahul Gan-
dhi because there is no
accessibility
. Moreover,
he is currently on his
Bharat Jodo Yatra so
how many times can
anyone contact him un-
abated. Some decisions
are to be taken after per-
sonally meeting some-
one. And when a party
functions, one has to
speak to the president
several times a day
. Here
by president I mean the
real president which is
RahulGandhi.Secondly
,
he does not take direct
responsibility and when
askedheaskstheperson
to take their call, so how
will it work. Thirdly he
is like a reluctant bride
and so Kharge would
alsomullonthesethings
and think that how and
why would he stress
with Rahul Gandhi go-
ing beyond a point. As
far as Priyanka is con-
cerned, if they get a few
decisions done by her,
then she is also not sure
that Rahul will be okay
with them. So yes, there
is a challenge before
Kharge in handling the
Gandhi family
, but I am
sure he will handle it.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Editor-in-ChiefofBharat24and
FirstIndia,DrJagdeeshChandra
takes a look at the ascendence of
Mallikarjun Kharge to the top post in
Congress party and the problems
associated with it. Dr Chandra also
explains in detail how Gehlot’s
Presidency would have eased much of
Congress’ problems, how Rahul
Gandhi will continue to stay the
‘definitive voice’ in Congress and why
it will be extremely difficult for a
80-year-old Kharge to handle the
Gandhis while also ensuring the party
runs smoothly. Excerpts... (Part-1)
With a ‘rubber stamp’ tag, Kharge’s real challenge is
to ensure accessibility to Rahul making young
Gandhis hear to his advices as well: Dr Chandra
Dr Jagdeesh Chandra with (R-L) Poornima Mishra, Mimansa Malik, Aditi Nagar, Tripti Arora and Sachin Arora during The New JC Show.
During the show
#JConMallikarjunkharge
trended top All-India
on Twitter
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ment is in the air. But it’s not
just the dresses and gifts
which bring happiness to our
surroundings, it’s the sense
of belonging, the connection
that we all feel with each oth-
er during these festivals. This
festival is often the reason for
bringing the family together,
making friends and celebrat-
ing the very spirit of man-
kind and spreading happi-
ness. To mark the auspicious
occasion Bollywood stars
threw momentous Diwali
bashes to celebrate the festi-
val of light. This year, the fes-
tivities kicked off with a scin-
tillating bash thrown by
Ayushmann Khurrana and
his wife Tahira Kashyap. All
the big names of Hindi show-
biz turned up with their fash-
ion game on point and their
excitement levels skyrocket-
ing. From the newlywed Ali
Fazal and Richa Chadha to
Sanya Malhotra, Karan
Johar, Ananya Panday,
and Nushrratt Bharuc-
cha, the young and fa-
mous turned up at the
gala affair.
Celebrity fashion de-
signer Manish Mal-
hotra’s Diwali parties
are an amalgamation
of the fashion and
movie world. From
Sara Ali Khan, Su-
hana Khan, and Kar-
tik Aaryan to Katrina
Kaif, Vicky Kaushal,
and Siddhant Chatur-
vedi, all the young and
happening celebrities
turned up in great
numbers. His parties
always have good-
looking people in
their best attires and
the pictures and vid-
eos from inside the
fashion designer’s
parties are always
awaited with bated
breath.
Kareena Kapoor
Khan too hosted a
party at her home
in Mumbai on Sun-
day, although hers
was a more inti-
mate gathering, fea-
turing members of
her extended film
family.
D
UTTKARSHA SHEKHAR
uttkarsha.shekhar@firstindia.co.in
(L-R) Ananya Pandey, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Kiara Advani, Manish Malhotra and Sara Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan and Kareen Kapoor Khan with their cute son Taimur
Anshula Kapoor
and Janhvi Kapoor
(L-R) Natasha Dhawan,
Karuna Dhawan
and Varun Dhawan
(L-R) Katrina Kaif, Manish Malhotra and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
(L-R) Anushka Sharma, Bhumi Pednekar,
Janhvi Kapoor and Sara Ali Khan

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