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‘MVA govt worked well with Centre’
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Shiv Sena
leader Aaditya Thack-
eray on Saturday
slammed the Eknath
Shinde-led government
over the loss of the
Rs22,000-crore project
Tata-Airbus project and
claimed that the Maha
Vikas Aghadi (MVA)
had “worked perfectly
well” with the Centre.
Addressing a press
conference, Aaditya,
whose father Uddhav
Thackeray leads a fac-
tion of the Shiv Sena,
criticized Chief Minis-
ter Eknath Shinde and
stated that Maharash-
tra was going back-
wards because of his
“betrayal” and “demon-
ic ambition”.
“When we talk about
the double engine gov-
ernment during the
time of the MVA gov-
ernment, our double
engine with the Centre
worked perfectly well,”
the former state minis-
ter said, adding, “After
this unconstitutional
government came to
power, one engine has
failed and investments
that were to come to
Maharashtra are going
to other states,” Aadi-
tya said.
He further said that
Subhash Desai, Turn to P6
Aaditya
Thackeray slams
Maha CM for
loss of Tata-
Airbus project
GAUNTLET THROWN DOWN
‘State will get big-
ticket investments’
State Agriculture Minister Abdul Sattar once again targeted
Aaditya Thackeray, while challenging him to let the people
decide their fate in a “pitched battle”. Sharing data on
decisions taken by the state government, in Nandurbar on
Saturday, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said the former Maha
Vikas Aghadi government had done nothing. At the same
event, Sattar said: “Pappu Number Two (a jibe at Aaditya) said
that after two years I will know who is what. Fight against me
in Silo and it will be known who Abdul Sattar is. Mumbai too
will know what you are. We are a total of 50 MLAs. Shiv Sena
has 40 MLAs and 10 Independents. CM Shinde did not take us
to Surat, so 50 of us requested him. We told them that if Shiv
Sena has to survive, you have to take two steps forward.”
Nandurbar (PTI): Amid the blame-
game between the government
and Opposition over the `loss’ of
Tata consortium-Airbus project,
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on
Saturday said the state will get
major investments in the coming
days. The opposition has been
targeting the Shinde government
after a Tata-led consortium
and Airbus chose Vadodara in
Gujarat for its military aircraft
project. Earlier, Vedanta-Foxconn had chosen Gujarat over
Maharashtra for its semiconductor plant. “In the coming
days, the state will get major industries,” chief minister
Shinde said at a function here. “There has been a discussion
going on about the industries in the state and our industries
minister is speaking on this issue. I don’t want to comment
on it. (But) The government will not fall short in generating
employment for the youth,” Shinde added.
Aaditya Thackeray
CM Eknath Shinde
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SWAROOPAM
WORLD’S TALLEST SHIVA STATUE
369FOOT-TALL
statue of Lord Shiva, in-
stalled in Nathdwara town
3,000TONNES
of steel and iron including
2.5 lakh cubic tonnes of
concrete and sand is used
51BIGHAS
is approximate expanse
of the statue which is
installed on a hilltop
45KMS away from
Udaipur is constructed by
Tat Padam Sansthan
z The statue has been coated with zinc alloy to protect it from rain and sun
z It is constructed to last 250 years, can withstand wind speed up to 250 kmph
z 10,000 people can come at a time in the hall built near the Shiva statue
z World’s tallest Shiva idol has lifts, stairs, and a huge hall for the devotees
z The venue around the statue will host activities like bungee jumping, more
z A food court, adventure park, and a jungle cafe for tourists is also built here
z Foundation was laid in August 2012 by Raj CM Ashok Gehlot & Morari Bapu
Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, Morari Bapu, Swami Chidanand Saraswati, Baba Ramdev, Dr CP
Joshi, Shanti Dhariwal, Gulab Chand Kataria, Diya Kumari, Rajendra Rathore, Dr Raghu Sharma,
Rajendra Kumar Yadav, Brij Kishore Sharma and others during the inauguration ceremony of the
world’s largest Shiva statue ‘Vishwas Swaroopam’ at Nathdwara in Rajasthan on Saturday.
Moni Sharma
New Delhi: External
Affairs Minister S Jais-
hankar, on Saturday, at
the Special Meeting of
the Counter-Terrorism
Committee (CTC) un-
derlined that the inter-
net and social platforms
have become potent in-
struments in the toolkit
of terrorists.
Characterising ter-
rorism as one of gravest
threats to humanity, he
said," The UN Security
Council, in the past 2
decades, has evolved an
important architecture,
built primarily around
the counter-terrorism
sanctions regime, to
combat this menace.
And this has been effec-
tive in putting those
countries on notice that
had turned terrorism
into a State-funded en-
terprise," said Jais-
hankar adding terror-
ism as " gravest threats"
to humanity
. More on P5
EAM Dr S Jaishankar with UK Foreign Secy James Cleverly including
other delegates during special meeting of CTC, in Delhi on Saturday.
JAISHANKAR AT THE TOP UN MEET IN DELHI
TALKING TERROR!
UN counter-terrorism council adopted the Delhi Declaration and called
on all 15 member States to ensure zero tolerance towards terrorism
Jaishankar
SPEAKS
Terrorists use technolo-
gies like virtual private
network, encrypted
message services and
money, and importantly,
ethos of open societies,
to attack freedom, toler-
ance and progress
India will contribute
USD 500,000 to United
Nations Trust Fund for
Counter Terrorism this
year to aid capacity-
building support to
member states in
combating terrorism
TERROR GROUPS ABUSING
NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO BE
DEALT GLOBALLY: UN CHIEF
UN Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres on
Saturday called for concerted
global efforts to deal with the
challenge of the use of new
technologies by various terror
groups to radicalise people and
foment discord in societies.
The entire
international
community must
work together to “starve”
terrorists of finance and
emerging technologies to
stop destruction around
the world.
—James Cleverly,
British Foreign Secretary
KANGANA DROPS A
BIGGEST HINT ON HER
ENTRY INTO POLITICS
New Delhi: ‘I would be
grateful if I get a chance to
serve the people of HP’ said
actress Kangana Ranaut. On
question if she would like
to serve country if given a
chance, Ranaut stressed
that she is ‘open to all kinds
of such participation.’
NCB FILES 200-PAGE
CHARGESHEET AGAINST
BHARTI, HER HUSBAND
Mumbai: Mumbai NCB has
said that they have filed
a 200-page chargesheet
against comedian Bharti
Singh and her husband
Haarsh Limbachiyaa.
They were held in 2020 in
connection with drugs case,
are currently out on bail.
READ
Crucial
Crucial
CM SHINDE TO
STEP IN BETWEEN
RANA KADU?
Mumbai: CM Shinde will
meet Independent MLA
Ravi Rana today over the
latter’s ongoing tussle with
PJP MLA Bacchu Kadu.
Those familiar with the
development say the CM will
likely try to convince pacify
Rana to end the feud. P2
59 KILLED, OVER 150
INJURED AFTER
STAMPEDE IN KOREA
Seoul: Over 55 people
died from cardiac arrest
and over 150 others were
injured after a huge crowd
poured into a central
district of the South Korean
capital for festivities late on
Saturday in a narrow alley
near Hamilton Hotel here.
MUSK TO PROVIDE
CHOICE IN DIFFERENT
VERSIONS OF TWITTER
New Delhi: Twitter users
could in future choose a
version of SM platform they
like by providing ratings on
tweets. Being able to select
which version you want is
better, much as it would be
for a movie maturity rating,”
Elon Musk said on Saturday.
India among developed
countries by 2047: Modi
Gujarat targets to fill 35,000 posts in one year
First India Bureau
New Delhi: PM Naren-
dra Modi on Saturday
addressed the Gujarat
Rozgar Mela via video
message. Modi compli-
mented the Gujarat CM
and his team for this
quick response. He in-
formed that in recent
times 10,000 youngsters
were given appointment
letters in Gujarat and
target of filling 35,000
posts in next one year
has been set. Modi said
this type of Rozgar Mel-
as will continue to be
organised at national
and state levels in com-
ing months. Whereas,
Centre is working on
providing 10 lakh jobs,
States and UTs are also
getting associated in the
campaign, number will
risesignificantly
.Under-
lining critical role of
young people in India’s
march to developed na-
tion status by 2047, PM
askedthemtofulfiltheir
duty towards the nation.
DCW CHIEF WRITES TO PM MODI SEEKING
CHANGES IN REMISSION, PAROLE RULES
Delhi Commission for Women chief
Swati Maliwal has written a letter to
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking
changes in remission and parole rules
in context with the parole given to rape
convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and
the release of the rapists of Bilkis Bano.
PM Narendra Modi addresses Gujarat Rozgar Mela via VC on Saturday.

First India Bureau
Mumbai: In an at-
tempt to attract invest-
ments from the Tata
Group in and around
Nagpur, Union Minis-
ter Nitin Gadkari has
cited strengths such as
infrastructure, land
availability and con-
nectivity about his
home city
.
In a letter to Tata
Sons Chairman N
Chandrasekaran, dated
October 07, Gadkari—
who handles the road
transport and highways
portfolio—said group
companies engaged in
businesses such as
steel, auto, consumer
products, IT services
and aviation can choose
to invest in Nagpur.
Thelettersharedwith
the media on Saturday
comes amid Maharash-
tra losing several big-
ticket projects to neigh-
bouring Gujarat, like
the over Rs1.5 lakh crore
investment from Fox-
conn-Vedanta on chip
manufacturing and the
Rs22,000 crore aircraft
manufacturing project
where the Tata Group
has tied up with Airbus.
At a recent event,
Chandrasekaran had
said the Tata Group is
exploring investments
in electronics, renewa-
ble energy
, electric vehi-
cles and other modern
sectors, and is engaged
with the newly-formed
state government under
Chief Minister Eknath
Shinde for the same.
In the letter, Gadkari
said there are over 3,000
acres of land in the
Multi-modal interna-
tional Hub Airport at
Nagpur (MIHAN) SEZ
and non-SEZ area, and
added that already a lot
of companies have set
base in the vicinity
.
“All Tata Group com-
panies like Tata Steel,
Tata Motors, Tata Con-
sumer Products, Voltas,
Titan Industries, Big
Basket may enjoy the
strengths of Nagpur
like overnight connec-
tivity with 350 districts
of six states, lower rates
of land, manpower and
warehousing,” the min-
ister said in the letter.
Underlining that the
group companies have
already been present in
Nagpur for over a cen-
tury
, Gadkari told Chan-
drasekaran that the
Tata Group’s airline
ventures Air India,
Vistara and AirAsia In-
dia can cut costs by
making Nagpur a hub
of their operations and
choosing to park air-
craft at night.
He said that the
group can also look at
entering container
manufacturing, saying
supply from Tata Steel
is possible in the re-
gion, which augurs well
for the business.
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First India Bureau
Mumbai: Vir Yodha
Sanghatana organ-
ized a protest at Azad
Maidan in Mumbai
on Saturday demand-
ing a ban on the US
products from enter-
ing the Indian market
The sanghatana criti-
cized US President Joe
Bidensdecisiontogrant
Pakistan Rs3,651 crore
in financial aid on Sep-
tember 08, 2022 for F-16
fighter jets, claiming it
promotes terrorism.
According to Shri-
kant Ranjankar, Maha-
rashtra State Head of
Veer Yoddha Sangath-
an, in a letter to Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi, the sanghatana
has expressed its strong
anger about the US’s
role in sponsoring ter-
rorism and demanded a
banonAmericangoods.
Ranjankar claimed
that the terrorist at-
tacks of 9/11 and 26/11
had established a direct
connection between Pa-
kistan and terrorism
across the globe. Also,
Pakistan had used F16
aircraft to carry out air-
strikes on Balaghat. In
such a situation, we feel
that the US is directly
fueling terrorism by
providing financial
support for fighter jets
like the F16.
He further added,
Western countries have
a history of creating
tensionsamongnations
in order to benefit
themselves. It is repre-
hensible that America
conducts business in
this manner in order to
sellitsownarmaments.
If America uses the
same money earned
from India to support a
country like Pakistan,
which feeds terrorism,
it is an insult to the sol-
diers guard our territo-
rial borders and even
attain martyrdom in
the line of duty
.
Considering such
incidents and the sen-
timents of all Indians,
we have requested
Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi to ban all
the goods that are be-
ing sold in the market
in America. Also, we,
as an Indian and a
Hindu nation, con-
demn the stance taken
by the US towards Pa-
kistan for selfish rea-
sons. Hence, we have
demanded to boycott
American goods.
Earlier, India’s For-
eign Minister S Jais-
hankar and Defense
Minister Rajnath Sin-
gh have strongly ob-
jected to the US-Paki-
stan deal. The US As-
sistant Secretary of
Defense Eli Reitner
says that the aid to Pa-
kistan is for the benefit
of the US. It has noth-
ing to do with India.
Vir Yodha Sanghatana demands boycott of American products
The organization held a
protest rally at Azad Maidan
in Mumbai on Saturday
The West has a history of creating tensions between nations to benefit from it, protesters say.
Group has
written to PM
Modi,
expressing its
displeasure on
the US’s role in
sponsoring
terrorism by
providing
financial aid to
Pakistan
Uddhav group rakes up Belgaum issue as SC hearing nears!
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Battered by
the split in the party
and the subsequent
loss of power, the Ud-
dhav Thackeray-led
Shiv Sena seems to
have devised a strat-
egy to corner the
Shinde-Fadnavis gov-
ernment—by raking
up old issues.
One such, highly pas-
sionate, issue for Ma-
harashtrians is the bor-
der dispute between
Karnataka and Maha-
rashtra. Notably, late
Bal Thackeray too had
raised the demand and
protested for bringing
Belgaum into Maha-
rashtra—an issue that
his son’s supporters
have now resurrected
in order to gain politi-
cal mileage and cause
trouble for the Maha-
rashtra government.
With the Supreme
Court set to hear the
matter on November 23,
the Shiva Sena - Uddhav
Balasaheb Thackeray
has declared November
01 as a “black day”.
On Saturday, the Shiv
Sena’s Kolhapur unit
chief Vijaya Dhawale
said that Shiv Sainiks
will take out a rally
from Kolhapur October
31. They plan to cross
into Karnataka via the
Kagal check post to
reach Belgaum through
Shinnoli Marg. There-
after, the Sena will ob-
serve Black Day in Bel-
gaum on November 01,
when the Karnataka
government organizes
its annual Rajyotsava
programme to mark the
state’s formation.
The boundaries of
Belgaum city, Khan-
apur, Nippani, Nandgad
and Karwar have been
at the heart of a dispute
between Maharashtra
and Karnataka for more
than 50 years. During
the reorganization of
the states in 1956, some
Maharashtrian leaders
had that the Marathi-
speaking Belgavi dis-
trict be included as part
of Maharashtra. Later,
when the issue escalat-
ed, the Central govern-
ment constituted a com-
mission under the lead-
ership of former Chief
Justice Mehr Chand
Mahajan in 1966. After
reviewing Maharash-
tra’s claims, the com-
mission recommended
the exchange of several
villages in Belagavi dis-
trict between the two
states, but rejected Ma-
harashtra’s claim on
Belgaum city
.
The spotlight re-
turned to the issue in
2006, when the Maha-
rashtra government
filed a petition claiming
Belgaum city in the Su-
preme Court.
FOR POLITICAL MILEAGE
Kolhapur unit chief Vijaya
Dhawale declares November 01
a ‘black day’ in border town
CRUCIAL READ
RECRUITMENT AD
PROCESS PUT ON
INDEFINITE HOLD
WOMAN JUMPS
INTO ‘NULLAH’,
RESCUED BY COP
4-YEAR-OLD DIES
AS BALCONY
COLLAPSES
Mumbai: The process
to publish advertise-
ments for a Maharash-
tra police constabulary
recruitment drive to
fill vacant posts was
postponed until further
orders on Saturday for
administrative reasons,
an official said. The or-
der, was issued during
the day by Director Gen-
eral of Police (Training
and Special Squads),
could delay the recruit-
ment drive by a few
days. The advertisement
was scheduled to be
published on Tuesday.
Mumbai: A constable
of the Oshiwara police
rescued a 40-year-old
woman, who allegedly
jumped into a “nullah”
(major drain) in the
Lokhandwala area in the
early hours of Saturday
due to domestic issues,
an official said. “After
getting her out of water,
she was given first aid.
She told us she took
the step due to some
issues at home. She is a
resident of Andheri’s New
MHADA Colony. She was
counselled and allowed
to go home,” he said.
Mumbai: Pranav
Ashok Mane (4) died
when a portion of a
second-floor balcony
collapsed suddenly in
the Trombay area here
on Saturday evening, a
civic official said. The in-
cident at Cheetah Camp,
occurred around 6.45
pm, he said. The injured
were rushed to the
nearby Shatabdi hospital
where doctors declared
Mane “brought dead”.
An eight-year-old boy
and a 45-year-old man
were undergoing treat-
ment and are stable.
Sandeep Shukla
Mumbai: In what
could be a major po-
litical development,
highly placed sources
in the state govern-
ment re-
v e a l e d
on Sat-
u r d a y
t h a t
Chief MinisterEknath
Shinde has called In-
dependent legislator
Ravi Rana to meet him
on Sunday over the
latter’s ongoing tussle
with Prahar Janshak-
ti Party MLA Bacchu
Kadu.
Those familiar with
thedevelopmentsayCM
Shinde is likely to at-
tempt to paci-
fy Rana in a
bid to con-
vince him
to end the
standoff with Kadu
who, incidentally, sup-
ports the current Maha-
rashtra government.
The worry is that the
next few days could be
difficult, they say, add-
ing that the dispute be-
tween Rana and Kadu
could even destabilize
the state government in
Maharashtra.
Rana had alleged that
Bacchu Kadu had ac-
cepted a bribe from the
Shinde camp to switch
sides from the Uddhav
government and also to
end farmer's agitation.
In response, Kadu
threatened to “take a de-
cision” along with eight
other MLAs unless CM
Shinde and his deputy
Devendra Fadnavis
counter Rana’s allega-
tions or Rana gives evi-
dence.
Kadu had given the
leaders time till Novem-
ber 01 and Saturday’s
development is being
seen to be in connection
with the ultimatum.
Gadkari pitches Tata Group
for investments in Nagpur
Union Minster
says there are
over 3,000 acres
of land in the
MIHAN SEZ
and non-SEZ
area and a lot of
firms have set up
base in the area
All Tata
Group
firms in-
cluding Tata Steel,
Tata Motors, Tata
Consumer Products,
Voltas and Big Bas-
ket may enjoy Nag-
pur’s strengths like
overnight connec-
tivity with 350 dis-
tricts of six states,
lower rates of land,
manpower and
warehousing.
—Nitin Gadkari, Union Min
Shinde calls on Rana to end ‘feud’ with Kadu!
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Mum-
bai Police has inter-
rogated former
Mayor and Shiv
Sena (Thackeray
faction) leader
Kishori Pednekar in
connection with the
Slum Rehabiliation
Authority (SRA)
scam case, which in-
volves the com-
plaint of at least
nine people alleging
‘no flats in exchange
of their money’.
“A total of nine
people had filed a
complaint that mon-
ey was taken in the
name of getting SRA
flats, but did not re-
ceive them,” the
Mumbai Police said
adding that Dadar
Police have arrested
a close aide of for-
mer Mayor Kishori
Pednekar.
According to the
police, Pednekar has
not been named in
the FIR so far.
BJP leader Kirit
Somaiya has alleged
former Mumbai
Mayor of possessing
six SRA flats at
Gomata Janata SRA
Worli, reacting to
which she said that
she would put a lock
on its door if she
found any shop or
the residence in her
name.
“The SRA has al-
ready said that I do
not have any role in
this case, still Kirit
Somaiya continues
to make false allega-
tions. The media can
speak to the chair-
man and security of
this society and if
any shop or resi-
dence is claimed to
be in my name, I will
put a lock at it,” Ped-
nekar said.
She further gave
an ultimatum of sev-
en days to conduct
the inquiry and said
that she lives here in
this society on rent.
Will lock house,
shop if found in my
name: Pednekar
I do not
have any
role in this
case, but Somaiya
continues to make
false allegations.
The media can
speak to the chair-
man and security
of this society and
if any shop or resi-
dence is in my
name, I will put a
lock at it.
—Kishori Pednekar,
Former Mayor of Mumbai
Bacchu Kadu Ravi Rana
Uddhav Thackeray
EXCLUSIVE

MAHARASHTRA
03
ANOTHER BABY GIRL RESCUED
FROM KIDNAPPER IN MUMBAI
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Mumbai
police have arrested a
third person in con-
nection with the kid-
napping of a two-
month-old girl earlier
this week, and res-
cued another infant
from his possession in
Sion area of central
Mumbai, an official
said on Saturday
.
A team from the Azad
Maidan police station
on Friday arrested San-
tosh Dhumale (30) from
Dharavi area, the offi-
cial said.
The police had on
Wednesday rescued a
two-month-old girl, who
was allegedly kid-
napped from the pave-
ment outside St Xavier’s
High School at Lokman-
ya Tilak Marg in south
Mumbai, and arrested a
couple for the offence on
Wednesday
. The rescued
71-day-old infant was
handed over to her
mother by Mumbai Po-
lice Commissioner
Vivek Phansalkar after
a press conference, in
which he said eight
teams of police person-
nel had been formed to
find her.
“We suspect that the
accused was not oper-
ating alone and as per
our prima facie inves-
tigation, he had ab-
ducted the child to sell
her,” Phansalkar had
said at the time, adding
that the cops were in-
vestigating whether
the accused couple was
involved in other simi-
lar crimes.
Dhumale’s name
cropped up during the
couple’s interrogation
and a manhunt was
launched for Dhumale
soon after. Dhumale
was apprehended and
another baby girl was
rescued from his pos-
session, an official said.
Investigations have
revealed that Dhumale
had offered the ac-
cused couple Rs60,000
to abduct the child,
adding that the investi-
gation is ongoing.
Dhumale previously
worked as a paramedic
at a civic hospital in
central Mumbai, he
said.
Third accused
arrested in
abduction case,
police find six-
week-old infant
in his possession
Mumbai police chief Phansalkar handed the 2-month-old infant who was rescued on Wednesday to
her mother. —FILE PHOTO
NEWBORN BABY
GIRL FOUND
ABANDONED
Mumbai: Samta
Nagar police are look-
ing for the parents of
a newborn girl who
allegedly fled after
abandoning her near
the lift of a building
in Kandivli (East) on
Thursday. Concerned
local residents called
the police on hearing
her crying. She was
then taken to the Dr
Babasaheb Ambedkar
hospital, where she is
receiving treatment.
“We have registered
a case of exposure
and child abandon-
ment under the Indian
Penal Code and are
checking CCTV foot-
age in the area where
she was found,” said
a police official.
Protest against Nagpur bench
ruling on feeding stray dogs
Labourer attacked over
‘donation’,man arrested
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Animal
lovers in the city
will come together
at Shivaji Park in
protest of the recent
order by the Nagpur
bench of the Bom-
bay High Court on
the matter of feed-
ing stray dogs.
The Nagpur bench,
on October 20, had di-
rected citizens to not
feed stray dogs at any
place except at animal
activists’ own homes
after formally adopt-
ing them. Anyone
found violating this
directive would be
fined, the court said.
Animal lovers will
gather at the popular
maidan for a peaceful
protest, for which they
have obtained police
permission as well.
Gauri Maulekhi, a
trusteewithPeopleFor
Animals,explainedthe
purpose of the gather-
ing: “Sunday’s protest
willbepeacefulbut we
are also planning our
legal strategy
. People
are outraged by this
order because the
court, which should
act as a guardian for
the most defenceless
sections of society
, is
doing the complete op-
posite thing.”
First India Bureau
Pune: A career
criminal from Mum-
bai was arrested in
Pune days after he
attacked a man with
a surgical blade for
refusing to cough up
a “donation” for the
Ganesh festival,
which was celebrat-
ed about two months
ago, an official said
on Saturday.
The accused, a resi-
dent of suburban Go-
vandi in the eastern
part of Mumbai, was
arrested on Wednes-
day from Pune’s Dha-
nori area for the at-
tack, he said.
The accused,
against whom several
criminal cases were
registered in the past,
had attacked the vic-
tim, a 40-year-old la-
bourer, with a surgi-
cal blade when the
latter was sitting
with his colleagues at
a construction site.
Ahead of the 10-day
Ganesh festival,
which was celebrated
from August 31 this
year, the accused had
demanded that the
victim give him mon-
ey as a donation.
However, he refused.
The accused did not
do anything at that
time, but held a
grudge and attacked
the labourer a few
days ago before going
on the lam. The Go-
vandi police had reg-
istered a case of at-
tempted murder
against the accused.
Accused did not do
anything when the
victim refused to pay
him money ahead of
Ganesh festival, but
held a grudge and
attacked him a few
days ago
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Bom-
bay High Court’s Nag-
pur bench has ob-
served that a police
station is not includ-
ed as a prohibited
place as defined un-
der the Official Se-
crets Act (OSA), hence
shooting a video in-
side a police station
cannot be an offence.
A division bench,
comprising of Justices
Manish Pitale and Val-
miki Menezes, in July
this year quashed a
case lodged against
one Ravindra Upadyay
under the OSA for re-
cording a video inside
a police station in
March 2018.
The bench in its or-
der referred to section
3 and section 2(8) of
the OSA pertaining to
spying at prohibited
places and noted that a
police station is not
specifically mentioned
as a prohibited place in
the Act.
“The definition of
‘prohibited place’ as de-
fined in section 2(8) of
the Official Secrets Act
is relevant. It is an ex-
haustive definition,
which does not specifi-
cally include police sta-
tions among the places
or establishments,
which could be includ-
ed in the definition
‘prohibited place’,”
the court said.
Considering the
aforesaid provisions,
this court is of the
opinion that none of
the ingredients of the
alleged offence are
made out against the
applicant, it added.
According to the
complaint, Upadyay
was at Wardha police
station with his wife in
connection with a dis-
pute he had with his
neighbour.
While Upadhyay had
lodged a complaint
against the neighbour,
a cross complaint was
being filed against
Upadhyay as well.
The police at the
time realized that
Upadyay was record-
ing a video of the dis-
cussion taking place in
the police station on
his mobile phone.
The court quashed
the FIR and subse-
quent chargesheet
filed against Upadhyay
in the case.
Ok to shoot video inside police stations, Bombay High Court clarifies
NOT A CRIME
lll
The Nagpur
bench noted that
police stations
are not
specifically
mentioned as
prohibited
places in the
Act, and so
videography
there cannot be
an offence
The definition of ‘prohibited place’
as defined in section 2(8) of the Of-
ficial Secrets Act is relevant. It is an
exhaustive definition, which does not spe-
cifically include police stations among the
places or establishments, which could be
included in the definition ‘prohibited place.
—Bombay High Court
DIWALI RESCUES
Mumbai: The forest department rescued more
than 50 animals, birds and reptiles in coordina-
tion with NGO Resqink Association for Wildlife
Welfare during the Diwali festivities in Mumbai
and Thane district, an official said on Saturday,
adding that authorities responded to more than
110 distress calls over five days. Monkeys,
squirrels, bats, parakeets, kites, ibis cuckoos,
owls, monitor lizards, snakes and turtles were
among the rescues, and many of these had to
undergo emergency surgeries due to the nature
of their injuries, the official said.
The Nagpur bench recently directed people to not feed stray dogs anywhere but their own
homes after formally adopting them. —FILE PHOTO
Attempted murder
charge added to case
against film producer
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Film pro-
ducer Kamal Kishor
Mishra was charged
with attempted mur-
der for allegedly ram-
ming his car into his
wife after she found
him with another
woman in the vehicle,
a police official said
on Saturday.
Mishra, who was ar-
rested in the early hours
of Fridayforsupposedly
running over his wife,
was remanded to police
custody till Sunday
.
Based on the com-
plaint lodged by his
wife, a first information
report was registered at
the Amboli police sta-
tion on Wednesday
against Mishra under
Indian Penal Code (IPC)
sections of rash driving
and causing hurt by en-
dangerment.
“On Friday, IPC sec-
tion 307 (attempt to mur-
der) was added in the
FIR,” the official said.
The alleged incident
took place on October
19 in the parking lot of
the couple’s apartment
in Andheri (West), po-
lice said.
As per the wife’s com-
plaint, she came out
looking for her husband
and found him with an-
other woman in his car
in the parking area.
When the film produc-
er’s wife went to con-
front him, Mishra drove
the car to escape from
the spot and in the pro-
cesshithiswife,causing
injuries to her legs,
hands and head, it said.
36 cases of XBB subvariant
of Omicron found in state
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The number
of cases of XBB sub-
variant of Omicron in
Maharashtra has
reached 36, the health
department said in a
release on Saturday,
adding that in most
of these cases pa-
tients recovered in
home isolation.
Pune district has re-
ported 21 XBB cases to
date, followed by 10 in
Thane, two in Nagpur
and one each in Akola,
Amravati and Raigad.
Two of the XBB pa-
tients were in the 11-20
age group, 13 in the 21-40
segment, 14 in the 41-60
category and seven were
over 60. The patients
comprised 22 males and
14 females.
“Nine of the 36 pa-
tients had some symp-
toms, while others dis-
played mild symptoms
orwereasymptomatic.A
totalof 32patientsrecov-
ered in home isolation
and the rest four had to
be hospitalized as a pre-
cautionary measure or
due to lack of necessary
conditions for home iso-
lation,” the release said.
Thirty-four of the 36
had been vaccinated,
and five had taken the
booster dose as well.
The 10-day Ganesh festival, celebrated from August 31,
precipitated the incident. —FILE PHOTO
STATE GOVT TASK FORCE RAISES
CONCERNS OVER ‘LONG COVID’
Mumbai: The experts on the state government’s
COVID-19 Task Force have expressed concern
about rising cases of ‘Long COVID' at a recent
meeting. “Incidence of conditions such as diabetes,
brain fog and heart diseases seem to be increasing.
Therefore, monitoring and follow-up of COVID-re-
covered patients is necessary,” a health department
release said. The experts instructed that it would be
beneficial to wear masks in hospitals and clinics by
health workers and others.

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Narendra Modi
@narendramodi
Was happy to speak with HH Amir @
TamimBinHamad of Qatar. Thanked him
for his gracious Diwali greetings, and
conveyed best wishes for a successful
@FIFAWorldCup in Qatar. We agreed to
jointly celebrate 50 yrs of India-Qatar
diplomatic relations in 2023.
Kiren Rijiju
@KirenRijiju
Coming together of Judiciary Govt
at Kaziranga to deliberate on critical
issues, “Environment Sustainable
Development- Role of Judiciary” and
“Digitization of Indian Judiciary”, will
provide solution and make India fully
developed by 2047, as visualized by @
narendramodi Ji.
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
The world is afflicted by
death and decay. But the wise
do not grieve, having realized
the nature of the world.
—Buddha
IN-DEPTH
AZAM KHAN OF
SP LOSES HOUSE
MEMBERSHIP IN
JOLT TO THE SP
ohammed Azam
Khan, a senior Sama-
jwadi Party leader
and MLA from Ram-
pur, has become the
first high-profile politician to
have been convicted for hate
speech and disqualified from the
membership of Uttar Pradesh
Assembly. Azam was disquali-
fied from membership as the
MP/MLA court sentenced him
to three years in jail. A two-year
sentence would have come as a
reprieve. In November 2021 BJP
MLA from Aydhya’s Gosaiganj,
Indra Pratap alias Khabbu Ti-
wari, was disqualified after the
court sentenced him for five
years in a fake mark-sheet case.
Hate speech remains unde-
fined under the Indian Penal
Code. Section 153 A IPC deals
with cases pertaining to promo-
tion of enmity between different
groups on grounds of religion,
race, place of birth, residence
and language. According to a
report by the National Crime
Records Bureau, there was a 500
percent increase in cases under
153A IPC between 2014 and 2020
but conviction rate remained
extremely low. For convictions
the judiciary has to play an un-
biased role.
TOP TWEETS
M
hegovernmentan-
nounced tighten-
ing controls on so-
cial media the day
Elon Musk said
that the “Bird is freed“. In In-
dia Twitter will only enjoy the
freedomwhichitisallowedby
the Government of India. In
what can be described as a
nasty welcome the govern-
ment empowered itself with
tough measures like ordering
social media giants like Twit-
ter, Facebook, Instagram and
YouTube to overturn their de-
cisions. So if a user account is
suspended, blocked or re-
movedbythesecompaniesthe
government now has the pow-
er to reverse these decisions.
Content moderation will no
longer be their right.
Questions may be raised
about freedom of expression
as the new IT rules want the
intermediaries(thesocialme-
dia companies) to ensure that
“users do not post or share
any information which does
notbelongtothem”.Thatsim-
ply means a message or post
can no longer be forwarded.
The rule will put Musk in di-
rect confrontation with the
governmentunlessheisready
to beat a retreat on making
Twitter “a freewheeling place
for all types of commentary”.
Thegovernmenthassaidin
nouncertaintermsthatMusk
willhavetofallinline.Having
bought the ‘bird’ in a $44 bil-
lion deal Musk will not risk
losingthehugeIndianmarket
even though users may be dis-
appointed. The first indica-
tion of a compromise came
when Musk said that Twitter
will form “a content modera-
tion council” which will take
keydecisionsoncontentmod-
eration. That may not satisfy
the government which wants
absolute control as opposed to
free speech absolutism of
Musk.
WILL ELON MUSK
WALK THE TALK
In India, Twitter will only
enjoy the freedom which
it is allowed by the Govt
of India. In what can be
described as a nasty
welcome, the government
empowered itself with tough
measures like ordering
social media giants like
Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram and YouTube to
overturn their decisions
T
GANDHI: THE POWER OF
TRUTH AND NONVIOLENCE
ohandas Karamchand Gan-
dhi, after 21 years in South
Africa finally returned to In-
dia for good in January 1915.
He kept away from active poli-
tics action for the next four
years.Buthetravelledallover
IndiaspeakingonTruth,Saty-
agraha and Social reform.
On 4th February 1916 he
made a sensational speech at
Benares. Below I give the
abridged version. In 1892, Mrs
Besant started a school at
Benares, and in 1916 this in-
stitution, guided by Pandit
Malaviya, was expanded into
the Hindu University Central
College. An illustrious gath-
ering of notable attended the
three-day opening ceremo-
nies in February 1916. The
Viceroy was there and so
were numerous bejewelled
maharajas, maharanis, rajas
and high officials in all their
dazzling panoply
.
On February 4th Gandhi
(not yet Mahatma) addressed
the meeting. India had never
heard such a forthright
speech.Gandhisparednoone.
“His Highness, the Maharaja,
who presided yesterday over
our deliberations spoke about
the poverty of India. Other
speakers laid great stress
upon it. But what did we wit-
ness in the great pandal in
which the foundation ceremo-
ny was performed by the Vice-
roy (Lord Hardinge)? Certain-
ly a most gorgeous show, an
exhibition of jewellery which
made a splendid feast for the
eyes of the greatest jeweller
whochosetocomefromParis.
I compare with the richly be-
decked noblemen the millions
of the poor. And I feel like say-
ing to those noblemen: ‘there
isnosalvationforIndiaunless
you strip yourselves of this
jewellery and hold it in trust
for your countrymen in India.
Whenever I hear of a great
palace rising in any great city
of India’, he went on, ‘be it in
British India or be it the India
ruled by our great chiefs, I be-
come jealous at once and say
,
“Oh, it is the money that has
come from the agricultur-
ists”……There cannot be
much spirit of self-govern-
mentaboutus,if wetakeaway
or allow others to take away
from peasants almost the
whole of the results of their
labour. Our salvation can only
come through the farmer. Nei-
ther the lawyers, nor the doc-
tors,northerichlandlordsare
going to secure it.
It is matter of deep humili-
ation and shame for us, that I
am compelled this evening
under the shadow of this
great college, and in this sa-
cred city
, to address my coun-
trymen in a language that is
foreign to me.
Suppose, that we had been
receiving education during
the past fifty years through
our vernaculars, what should
we be today? We should have
today a free India, we should
have our educated man not as
if they were foreigners in
their own land, but speaking
totheheartof thenation;they
would be working amongst
the poorest of the poor, and
whatsoever they would have
gained during the past fifty
years would be a heritage of
the nation.
Noamountof speecheswill
ever make us fit for self-gov-
ernment. It is only our con-
duct that will fit us for it. And
how are we trying to govern
ourselves?.... if you find me
thiseveningspeakingwithout
reserve, pray consider that
you are only sharing the
thoughts of a man who allows
himself to think audibly
, and
if you think that I seem to
transgress the limits that
courtesy imposes upon me,
pardon me for the liberty I
may be taking. … I speak feel-
ingly as a Hindu. Is it right
that the lanes of our sacred
temple should be as dirty as
they are? The houses round
about are built anyhow. The
lanes are narrow and tortu-
ous. If even our temples are
not models of roominess and
cleanliness what can our self-
government be? Shall our
templesbeabodesof holiness,
cleanliness and peace as soon
as the British have retired
from India….?
All of us have had many
anxious moments while the
Viceroy was going through
the streets of Benaras. There
were detectives stationed in
many places. This was not to
be talked about in public. We
were horrified, we asked our-
selves,‘Whythisdistrust?Isit
not better that even Lord
Hardinge should die than live
a living death? But a repre-
sentative of the mighty Sover-
eign may not. He might find it
necessary even to live a living
death. But why was it neces-
sary to impose these detec-
tives on us? We may foam, we
may fret, we may resent, but
let us not forget that the India
of today in her impatience
had produced an army of an-
archists. I am myself an anar-
chist, but of another type….
Theiranarchism…isasignof
fear. If we trust and fear God,
we shall have to fear no one,
not Maharajas, not Viceroys,
not the detectives, not even
King George.”
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
M
We may foam, we may fret,
we may resent, but let us
not forget that the India of
today in her impatience
had produced an army of
anarchists. I am myself an
anarchist, but of another
type…. Their anarchism…
is a sign of fear. If we trust
and fear God, we shall have
to fear no one, not
Maharajas, not Viceroys,
not the detectives, not even
King George”
Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi, after 21 years in
South Africa finally
returned to India for
good in January 1915.
He kept away from active
politics action for the next
four years. But he
travelled all over India
speaking on Truth,
Satyagraha and Social
reform
K NATWAR SINGH
The author is Former Minister
of External Affairs of India

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INDIA
Shimla (PTI): Union
Minister Anurag
Thakur here on Satur-
day lashed out Delhi
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal, calling him “a
symbol of anarchy”.
The Union minister
of Information and
Broadcasting (IB) was
responding to a query
during his press confer-
ence regarding Kejri-
wal’s appeal to incorpo-
rate images of Goddess
Lakshmi and Lord
Ganesha on currency
notes. “Arvind Kejriwal
who used to oppose
(construction of a
grand) Ram temple is a
symbol of anarchy. He
does fake talking. He
does new propaganda to
divert attention of the
people from his fake-
ness,” Anurag Thakur
further said.
The Union minister
further asked AAP su-
premoKejriwalthatwill
hisgovernmentalsopro-
vide Rs 18,000 to temple
priests, gurudwara
granthis and church
priests on the pattern of
maulvis in Delhi. Re-
garding “chargesheet”
of Congress against Jai
Ram Thakur-led BJP
government in poll-
bound Himachal
Pradesh, Thakur said
“Those whose national
leadership is on bail
have no moral right to
issue “chargesheet”
against others.
The Union minister
further said that the
“double engine gov-
ernment” has taken
all necessary steps for
the all-round develop-
ment of Himachal
Pradesh and it is nec-
essary for the BJP gov-
ernment to come to
power again to carry
forward the pace of
development.
The Union minister
said that the power of
double engine govern-
ment is visible in eve-
ry sector.
Kejriwal is a symbol of anarchy: Anurag Thakur
HIMACHAL POLLS
NIA: TN ‘suicide
bomber’ aimed to
hit temple, homes
Coimbatore: The
29-year-old engineering
graduate killed at the
wheel of a car that ex-
ploded in front of a tem-
ple in Coimbatore last
Sunday was possibly a
suicide bomber whose
relative inexperience in
handling explosives
spared the locality the
damage he might have
intended to cause, inves-
tigators said as the NIA
chased more evidence.
A witness told the
cops that the car blew
up soon after Jameesha
Mubin, whom the NIA
had interrogated in
2019, stopped in front of
the Sangameswara tem-
ple at Kottaimedu at
4am on Diwali-eve. He
stepped out of the vehi-
cle covered in flames
before slumping on the
ground a few feet away,
a source privy to the
probe quoted the wit-
ness as saying. The body
was charred before any-
one in the vicinity, in-
cluding cops at a nearby
checkpoint, could react.
Many houses along
the road leading to the
shrine could have been
affected had the explo-
sion, caused by one of
twoLPGcylindersinthe
car,occurredintheman-
ner it had been planned,
the investigators said.
Anurag Thakur addresses media in Shimla, on Saturday.
JAISHANKAR AT UN MEET
‘Terrorismbiggestthreattohumanity’
New Delhi (PTI): The
counter-terror sanction
regime of the United
Nations has been effec-
tive to put countries on
notice that turned ter-
rorism into a state-fund-
ed enterprise, External
Affairs Minister S Jais-
hankar said on Satur-
day, in an apparent ref-
erence to Pakistan.
In an address at the
meeting of the UN Se-
curity Council Counter-
Terrorism Committee
in Delhi, Jaishankar
described terrorism as
“one of the gravest
threats” to humanity
.
He said despite ef-
forts by the UN, the
threat of terrorism is
only growing and ex-
panding, particularly
in Asia and Africa.
“The UNSC, in past
two decades, has
evolved an important
architecture, built pri-
marily around the
counter-terrorism sanc-
tions regime, to combat
this menace,” he said.
“This has been very
effective in putting
those countries on no-
tice that had turned ter-
rorism into a state-
funded enterprise,”
Jaishankar said.
“Despite this, the
threat of terrorism is
only growing and ex-
panding, particularly
in Asia and Africa, as
successive reports of
the 1267 Sanctions Com-
mittee Monitoring Re-
ports have highlight-
ed,” he added.
The minister said the
ethos of open societies
is being used to attack
freedom, tolerance and
progress.
President Murmu greets representatives during a meeting with Heads of Delegations of the UNSC’s
Counter-Terrorism Committee, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI
The blast incident had occurred last Sunday. —FILE PHOTO
JAISHANKAR MEETS BRITISH
COUNTERPART CLEVERLY
New Delhi (PTI): The
Ukraine conflict and
the situation in Indo-
Pacific figured promi-
nently in talks between
External Affairs Min-
ister S Jaishankar and
visiting British Foreign
Secretary James Clev-
erly. Cleverly arrived
in India on Friday
on a two-day visit
primarily to attend a
special meeting of the
UN Security Council
Counter Terrorism
Committee. “De-
lighted to welcome UK
Foreign Secretary @
JamesCleverly on his
first India visit; shortly
after our meeting in
New York last month,”
Jaishankar tweeted.
“Noted the progress
in our Roadmap 2030.
Also discussed the
Ukraine conflict and
the Indo-Pacific,” he
added.
REMOVE ILLEGAL CONTENT ASAP: IT MINISTER
New Delhi (PTI): IT Minister Rajeev
Chandrasekhar on Saturday said
while social media norms require
platforms to remove illegal content
within 72 hours of being flagged,
he feels the timelines are “too long”
and platforms should takedown
such content “as fast as possible”.
handrasekhar said the IT Ministry had
been keen on prescribing a 24-hour
timeline for removal of illegal content
(as specified under rules) given that
“virality and velocity” of misinforma-
tion tends to be much higher, but
then finally settled for 72 hours after
wide consultations.
PLEA SEEKS REPLACING PARTY SYMBOLS
ON EVMS WITH CANDIDATE’S DETAILS
New Delhi (ANI): The Supreme Court has decided to
hear a plea on October 31 that sought direction to the
Election Commission to remove symbols from ballot and
EVMs and replace it with ‘name, age, educational quali-
fication and photograph’ of candidates. The plea sought
direction to declare the use of party symbol on EVM as
illegal-unconstitutional and violative of Articles 14, 15,
and 21 of the Constitution of India. The petition stated
that the best solution to weed out corruption and crimi-
nalisation in politics is to replace the symbols of political
party on ballot and EVM with the name, age, educational
qualification and photograph of the candidates.
PCPNDT: SC NOTICE
TO GOI ON AGE BAR
ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS
TIHAR JAIL OFFICIALS
IN CHARGE SHEET IN
GANGSTER’S DEATH
‘DRIVER CAN’T BE
PUNISHED FOR DEATH
OF PETITIONER’S PET’
New Delhi (PTI): The apex
court has sought response
from the Centre on a plea
against the age restriction of
35 years on women’s repro-
ductive rights for conducting
pre-conception and pre-natal
diagnostic tests. The plea
contended the age bar is a
restriction on the reproduc-
tive rights of women. The
top court was hearing a
plea that contended that the
age restriction of 35 years
in Section 4(3)(i) of the
Pre-Conception and Pre-Na-
tal Diagnostic Techniques
Act, 1994 is a restriction on
the reproductive rights of
women.
New Delhi (PTI): A Delhi
court has taken cognisance
of a charge sheet filed
against former deputy su-
perintendent of Tihar prison
Narender Meena and other
jail officials in a case related
to the death of gangster
Ankit Gujjar last year, citing
“prima-facie” sufficient
material to proceed with the
case. Meena is currently in
judicial custody along with
then ASPs Deepak Dabas
and Ram Avtar Meena,
Head Warder Dinesh Chika-
ra, and warders Harphool
Meena and Vinod Meena.
The accused were charged
with Section 304 (culpable
homicide not amounting to
murder) of the IPC.
Bengaluru (PTI): The
Karnataka High Court has
quashed a case pending in
a lower court against a car
driver who was charged for
causing an accident that
led to the death of a peti-
tioner’s pet dog. Prathap
Kumar G was driving his
SUV in Vijayanagar, Benga-
luru, on Feb 24, 2018 when
his car hit a pet dog named
Memphi. Dhiraj Rakheja,
whose mother was taking
the dog for a walk, filed a
complaint. The Vijayanagar
police investigating officer
conducted the investigation
and filed a charge sheet
against the petitioner for
offences under the
various sections.
CATTLE SMUGGLING:
MONDAL’S JUDICIAL
CUSTODY TILL NOV 11
Asansol (PTI): A special
CBI court here on Saturday
rejected the bail plea of TMC
leader Anubrata Mondal
in a cattle smuggling case
and extended his judicial
custody for 14 days till
November 11. Claiming
that Mondal was unwell and
needed proper treatment,
his lawyers had moved
the bail plea. Opposing
the prayer, the counsel
representing CBI said that
the TMC Birbhum president
was a powerful politician
who could try influence the
probe. The agency pleaded
that the TMC strongman’s
custody be extended.
UP FAST TRACK COURT AWARDS LIFE
SENTENCE TO MAN FOR KILLING DOCTOR
Mathura (PTI): A fast track court here has sent a man to
life imprisonment for killing a lady doctor over four years
ago, an official said here on Saturday. Additional District
and Sessions Judge Neeru Sharma on Friday also
imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Ravindra after convicting
him for the murder. “On the evening of July 13, 2018,
the accused entered the residence of physiotherapist
Khushbu Agrawal and slit her throat when she resisted
his loot attempt,” Additional District Government Counsel
(ADGC) Subhash Chandra Chaturvedi said.
IN THE COURTYARD
HIMACHAL MODEL
1 killed, 5 trapped
as landslide hits
power project site
in J-K’s Kishtwar
Jammu (PTI): One per-
son was killed on Satur-
day and five are feared
trapped after a land-
slide hit an area where
labourers were con-
structing a link road
near a power project
site in Jammu and
Kashmir’s Kishtwar
district, officials said.
Five people were also
injured in the incident
that occurred in the Ra-
tle area, they said.
Labourers were
working on the con-
struction of a link road
near the Ratle power
project site and a JCB
machine was digging
when a big boulder
rolled down, trapping
the workers, Kishtwar
Deputy Commissioner
Devansh Yadav said.
A rescue operation
was launched immedi-
ately and five people
were pulled out from
the debris and taken to
the hospital. One per-
son died in the incident,
he said.
Five people are still
feared trapped under
the debris. Army, police
and administration are
carrying out the rescue
operation, Yadav said.
AAP to declare CM face for
Guj Assembly polls on Nov 4
UP:16PCSofficerstobepromotedasIASsoon
Ahtesham Siddiqui
Lucknow: The notifi-
cation of promotion of
16 PCS officers to IAS
cadre in Uttar Pradesh
will be issued soon.
This includes PCS of-
ficers of 2000, 2002 and
2004 batches.
The DPC of 23 PCS of-
ficers in Lucknow was
held on October 7 under
the chairmanship of
Chief Secretary
.
The panel of officers
from UPSC had come to
the DPC.
Sources said that 16
out of 23 PCS officers
may get promotion in
IAS cadre while the en-
velope of 7 PCS officers
can be closed.
Central government
had declared 23 vacan-
cies for UPSC’s selec-
tion in 2021. Prosecu-
tion proceedings are
going on against 4 PCS
officers while other ac-
tion is going on against
3. Ashutosh Mohan Ag-
nihotri of 2000-batch
posted as Special Secre-
tary to the Chief Minis-
ter is at the top among
the PCS officers to be
promoted in IAS.
Manju Lata, Alka
Verma, Santosh Kumar,
Sunil Kumar Singh Chi-
tralekha Singh, Satish
Pal, Madan Singh Ga-
briyal, Vipin Kumar
Mishra, Rekha S Chau-
han, Anil Kumar Singh
and Reena Singh are
among the other PCS of-
ficers who would be-
come IAS officers after
promotion.
Shah on 2-day visit to
Himachal from Nov 1
New Delhi (PTI): BJP
leader and Union Home
Minister Amit Shah
will address six rallies
in two days in poll-
bound Himachal
Pradesh starting from
November 1.
He will also hold
closed-door organisa-
tional meetings during
his two-day visit to the
hill state, his office said.
Shah will stay the in-
tervening night of No-
vember 1 and 2 in Shim-
la and is likely to hold a
meeting with the senior
leaders of the BJP’s
state unit, sources said.
He will hold a rally
each in Bhattiyat, Kar-
sog and Kusumpatti as-
sembly segments on
November 1. The next
day, he will hold a rally
each in Dhramshala,
Nandon and Nalagarh.
Surat (PTI): Delhi CM
Arvind Kejriwal on
Saturday said that his
Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP) will announce on
November 4 the name of
its CM face for the up-
coming Gujarat Assem-
bly elections on the ba-
sis of opinion given by
the people of the state.
Addressing a press
conference, AAP’s na-
tional convener urged
people to contact the
party through SMS,
WhatsApp, voice mail
and e-mail to give their
views about who should
be the CM candidate
from the party
.
“Today, I would like
to ask the people of Gu-
jarat as to who they
want to see as the next
CM of Gujarat. To know
the opinion of the pub-
lic, we are releasing a
number — 6357000 360.
You can send SMS,
WhatsApp messages,
and leave voice mes-
sages. We are also re-
leasing e-mail — aap-
nocm@gmail.com,” Ke-
jriwal said.
He said people can
give their choice in four
ways - SMS, WhatsApp,
voice mail or e-mail till
5 pm on November 3.
“We will announce
the result on November
4,” he said.
U’khand govt to
rename ‘symbols
of British slavery’
Dehradun: Uttara-
khand CM Pushkar
Singh Dhami on Satur-
day confirmed that he
has given instructions
to all state
d e p a r t -
ments to re-
name all
the symbols
of British
slavery. All
the departments have
been asked to present a
report on such names,
he added.
Alka Verma Chitralekha Singh

06
INDIA
PAKISTAN DRONE SPOTTED CLOSE TO
INTERNATIONAL BORDER IN PUNJAB
PAKISTANI CIVILIAN, IN ATTEMPT TO CROSS
BORDER, SHOT BY BSF
Ferozepur (PTI): A
drone from Pakistan
was spotted close
to the international
border here, said
officials on Saturday.
The unmanned aerial
vehicle flew back to
Pakistan after the Border Security Force troops fired
at it, they said. The BSF personnel fired at least 18
rounds towards the drone, they said. A search opera-
tion is underway, they said.
Sri Ganganagar: A Pakistani civilian allegedly trying
to enter Indian territory was killed by BSF personnel in
Anupgarh sector of Sri Ganganagar district here, police
said. On Friday night, BSF personnel patrolling the
area saw a Pakistani civilian trying to enter the Indian
side. When he did not stop despite being alerted by
the jawans, they opened fire, Sriganganagar SP Anand
Sharma said.
CRUCIAL READ
FROM PG 1
‘MVA govt...
who served as the state
industries minister
from 2014-2022, had
brought in investments
worth Rs6.6 lakh crore
during his tenure.
“When we went to Da-
vos, Desai, Nitin Raut
and I could bring in
Rs80,000 crore in invest-
ments. The important
aspect is that it was the
same Central govern-
ment. So, if the MVA
government and the
Centre could work and
bring investment to Ma-
harashtra, then why did
their engine fail?” he
asked.
The opposition has
been attacking the state
government after a con-
sortium of European
aviation firm Airbus
and the Tata group
chose to manufacture
military aircraft at Va-
dodara in Gujarat.
“No investor has any
faith in the government.
Be it law and order, in-
vestmentoragriculture,
the focus is only on poli-
tics,” he said.
Delhi Deputy
CM plays an
audio clip to
support claim
New Delhi (Agencies):
Delhi Deputy Chief
Minister Manish Siso-
dia on Saturday played
an audio clip of an al-
leged BJP man purport-
edly luring a TRS MLA
in Telangana and dis-
cussing the party's bid
to poach AAP MLAs in
the national capital.
He also showed the
photographof threemen
in the briefing and al-
leged that “all three Da-
lals (brokers) have been
caught with Rs 100 crore
kept aside for poaching
the TRS MLAs.”
Addressingthemedia,
Sisodiaalleged,“Today
,a
huge example has come
to the fore of operation
lotus, which is being car-
ried out by the BJP
. The
waytheybuylegislators,
they topple the elected
governments.. such
links have been found in
Delhi and Telangana.
AAP has proof of it.”
On October 27, three
men were arrested dur-
ing raids in Telangana
and Rs 100 crore were
seized, Sisodia said.
“All three men are
linked to the BJP.
There were attempts to
poach four TRS MLAs.
On October 28 (Friday),
audio clips surfaced,
which further gave de-
tails of the conspira-
cy,” Sisodia alleged.
Hyderabad (ANI): Con-
gress leader Rahul Gan-
dhi surprised everyone
with his dancing skills
during his Bharat Jodo
Yatra in Telangana.
On Saturday, Rahul
took to Twitter and
shared a video in which
he is seen dancing with
members of tribal com-
munities in Telangana.
Rahul wore tribal
headgear as he partici-
pated in “Kommu
Koya” ancient art form
dance with the tribals
in Telangana’s Bhad-
rachalam. “Our tribals
are the repositories of
our timeless cultures
diversity. Enjoyed
matching steps with the
Kommu Koya tribal
dancers. Their art ex-
presses their values,
which we must learn
from and preserve,” he
captioned the clip.
Bharat Jodo Yatra,
which began on Sep-
tember 7 from Kanya-
kumari, will cover a
further distance of
2,355 km in its 3,570-km
march. It will end in
Kashmir next year. It is
the longest march on
foot by any Indian poli-
tician in the history of
India, the Congress
claimed earlier in a
statement.
The yatra has already
covered parts of Kerala,
Karnataka, and Andhra
Pradesh, after having
been flagged off in Ta-
mil Nadu.
AFFAIRS OF GRAND OLD PARTY
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: Will Mall-
ikarjun Kharge change
the Congress organiza-
tion after becoming the
president or will he con-
tinue with the old team?
This is a big question
because the old team is
made up of Sonia and
Rahul Gandhi and the
people they trust are in
this team. There have
been some changes in
the organization re-
cently. Like the entire
team of media has been
changed a few months
back. Jairam Ramesh
was made in-charge in
place of Randeep Sur-
jewala and Pawan
Khera and Supriya Sri-
net were given big re-
sponsibility along with
him. This team is also
doing a good job, so the
question of replacing it
does not arise.
Now talking about
the party general secre-
taries, what changes
will Kharge instill
there? The Congress
has 10 general secretar-
ies, one of whom is Pri-
yanka Gandhi Vadra
and the rest nine are
trusted leaders of Sonia
and Rahul. Everyone
knows about Ajay Mak-
en, Randeep Surjewala,
Jairam Ramesh, Jiten-
dra Singh and KC Venu-
gopal that Rahul trusts
them a lot. Oommen
Chandy hails from Ker-
ala, where the Congress
is focussing on the elec-
tion, and Tariq Anwar
is the only Muslim face.
Then there is Mukul
Wasnik whose powers
have been curtailed.
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi: Mallikar-
jun Kharge has taken
over as Congress Presi-
dent. On Wednesday, he
took the chair in the
presence of both Sonia
and Rahul Gandhi at
party headquarters at
24, Akbar Road, becom-
ing an important part
of the history of the
137-year-old Congress
party. Now his name is
included among politi-
cal behemoths like Ma-
hatma Gandhi, Netaji
Subhash Chandra
Bose, Sardar Patel and
Jawaharlal Nehru are
named. However, with
him becoming the Pres-
ident, the discussion
has started whether the
party will appoint a
Vice President or Work-
ing President to aid the
80-year-old Kharge!
Congress has a tradi-
tion of both. Rahul Gan-
dhi has worked with
Sonia Gandhi as the
Vice President. Arjun
Singh has been the Vice
President of the party
in the past as well. Ji-
tendra Prasad has also
worked as Vice Presi-
dent. For some time
now, the Congress has
started the practice of
making several work-
ing presidents along
with the president in
the states. However, its
advantagesordisadvan-
tages have not been as-
sessed. Informed sourc-
esintheCongressstress
that Kharge will either
be accompanied by one
or two vice-presidents
or at least two working
presidents.
Will Kharge continue with the old team
or bring fresh faces in Cong’s ‘think tank’?
Will appointment of Vice President or
working Prez actually benefit Congress?
Aurangabad (Agen-
cies): At least 50 people,
including some police
personnel, were in-
jured after a huge fire
broke out in Bihar’s Au-
rangabad district, caus-
ing an LPG cylinder
blast in the early hours
of Saturday
.
The incident hap-
pened in the Shahganj
locality of the Aurang-
abad town around 3.30
AM after a short circuit
led to a huge fire at a
shop. The mishap took
place when a family
was preparing “pras-
ad” for Chhath Puja,
sub-inspector in-
charge of the Town po-
lice station Vinay Ku-
mar Singh said.
Fire tenders were im-
mediately rushed to the
spot to douse the flame
but the cooking gas cyl-
inder explosion further
fuelled the blaze.
More than seven po-
lice personnel, includ-
ing a woman consta-
ble, suffered burn in-
juries in the firefight-
ing operations.
The owner of the
shop, Anil Goswami,
said that the incident
took place when his
wife was preparing food
for Chhath Puja.
Rahul Gandhi shakes a leg with
tribal dancers in Telangana
BHARAT JODO YATRA
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi dances with the members of tribal
communities of Telangana on Saturday.
MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan during the foundation stone of CM
Rise school, in Indore, on Saturday. —PHOTO BY PTI
CONG WANTS PROBE
IN ‘CASH GIFTS’ TO
JOURNOS ON DIWALI
HOPE TWITTER WILL NOW ACT AGAINST
HATE SPEECH: RaGa TO ELON MUSK
New Delhi (PTI): Congress
on Saturday alleged that
Karnataka CM Basavaraj
Bommai tried to bribe jour-
nalists by sending Rs 1 lakh
cash gifts to them on Diwali
and demanded the regis-
tration of a case and his
resignation. The Congress
demanded a judicial inquiry
into what it called “Chief
Minister’s Office ‘sweet
box bribe’ to journalists”.
CMO sources said Bommai
has said he was unaware
that “cash” was given to
journalists. Addressing the
media in New Delhi, senior
Congress leader Randeep
Surjewala said, “The Bom-
mai govt’s bribegate is now
out in the open and this
time the responsibility lies
at the doorstep of the chief
minister himself.” “This
time, Mr Bommai has sur-
reptitiously, overtly and in a
conspiratorial fashion tried
to bribe the entire journal-
istic fraternity by sending 1
lakh cash to every journalist
in Karnataka. Hats off to our
journalist friends who open-
ly exposed the bribegate,”
said Surjewala.
New Delhi (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi
on Saturday extended a congratulatory mes-
sage to Elon Musk on his Twitter takeover. In
a cryptic tweet, Rahul Gandhi showed alleged
Twitter followers manipulation data in an image
he attached with the congratulatory message
directed to Elon Musk. “Congrats @elonmusk. I
hope @Twitter will now act against hate speech,
fact-check more robustly, and will no longer
stifle the opposition’s voice in India due to
government pressure,” Gandhi Tweeted. Last
year in December, Rahul Gandhi alleged that the
number of his followers on the micro-blogging
site Twitter was being restricted.
Over 50 hurt in cylinder blast
during Chhath puja in Bihar
ON LEAVE FOR CHHATH, TWO BIHAR
COPS KILLED AS TRUCK HITS BIKE
Arrah: Two policemen were killed on Saturday after
the motorcycle they were riding was knocked down
by a truck in Bihar’s Bhojpur district, an officer said.
Bhojpur Superintendent of Police Sanjay Singh
said that the accident took place on a national
highway near Arrah town around 10 AM when the
both the policemen were travelling to their homes
for Chhath festival. The truck lost control after the
accident and overturned. The driver fled the spot by
the time a police team reached there, he said.
People get wood on 2nd day of Chhath in
Ranchi, on Saturday. (INSET): A firefighter
attempts to douse in Bihar’s Aurangabad.
MP CM Chouhan lays
foundation of 69 CM
Rise Schools in Indore
Indore (ANI): MP CM
Shivraj Singh Chouhan
laid the foundation
stone of 69 CM Rise
Schools in Indore on
Saturday. He said that
CM rise school would
bring a social revolu-
tion. CM Rise School
wouldbebetterthanany
private school. He said,
“CM rise schools will
have proper facilities
which include a grand
building, proper lab, li-
brary
,smartclassrooms,
playgrounds, sports
equipment and good
teaching faculty
.”
He raised a slogan
“Khelenge Kudenge,
Ashman Ko Chhoo
Lenge, Padhenge
Likhenge, Ashman Ko
Chhoo Lenge.” He ap-
pealed to teachers,
“Teach the students
wholeheartedly and
prove that Madhya
Pradesh’s teachers are
nolessthanaGuru.This
is my request to all of
you that create history
.”
“WILL BRING BACK
GODDESS’ IDOL
FROM LONDON”
Indore: CM Shivraj Singh
Chouhan on Saturday said
the state govt would resume
efforts to bring back the idol
of goddess Vagdevi (Saras-
wati) kept in a museum in
London. Although demand
by Hindu community to
bring back Vagdevi's idol
to India is old, Chouhan's
announcement comes in
the wake of Rishi Sunak
becoming the first Indi-
an-origin PM of Britain.
AAP has proof of ‘operation lotus’
in Delhi, Telangana: Manish Sisodia
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia addresses a press
conference, in New Delhi on Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI
MLAS POACHING CASE: CYBERABAD
POLICE RE-ARREST ACCUSED
LAW WILL TAKE ITS
OWN COURSE: KTR
TELANGANA HIGH COURT STAYS PROBE
IN TRS MLAS ‘POACHING’ CASE
Hyderabad: Three accused in the ‘MLAs poaching’
case were re-arrested by the Cyberabad police on Sat-
urday, hours after the Telangana High Court set aside
the lower court’s order rejecting their remand. Ram-
achandra Bharathi alias Satish Sharma, Kore Nanda
Kumar alias Nandu and Simhayaji, allegedly linked to
the BJP, were arrested from Nandu’s residence. They
were later taken to Cyberabad Police Commissioner-
ate and from there to Moinabad police station.
Hyderabad: Minister and TRS
working president KT Rama
Rao (KTR) alleged that BJP
state chief Bandi Sanjay had
desecrated Sri Lakshmi Nara-
simha Swamy Devasthanam and the devotees should
clean it. He said BJP is asking for votes by telling the
works done by TRS. He said that a chargesheet was
filed against the BJP during the previous by-polls.
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Saturday stayed
the ongoing investigation into ‘MLAs poaching’ case till
further orders. A single judge bench of the court passed
the interim orders on a petition by the BJP seeking probe
by the CBI into the alleged attempt to buy four MLAs of
the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Justice B Vijaysen
Reddy asked the state government and other respondents
to file the counter by November 4. Petitioner’s counsel
Rachna Reddy said the court deferred the investigation
temporarily until further orders of the court.
If it happens, it
will not be a very
good thing for
the Congress
Recently, some
changes were
made in the party
organization

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CURRENCIES
business
BRIEFS
New Delhi: Despite the
global tablet market de-
clining by 16% (year-on-
year) in the third quarter
this year, Apple marinated
the lead with 39% market
share and shipped 14.7
million units. As per Strat-
egy Analytics, Apple ship-
ments fell by 14% (on-
year) but still gained mar-
ket share as its higher tier
portfolio benefits from
wealthier customers
shrugging off inflation.
Samsung shipments were
better than expected at 7.2
million units, falling only
4% year-on-year. —PTI
TABLET MARKET
DOWN 16%, APPLE
MAINTAINS LEAD
New Delhi: The global
smartphone market de-
clined by 12% (year-on-
year) even as it grew by
2% (on-quarter) to reach
301 million units in Q3, its
lowest Q3 level since
2014. As per Counterpoint
Research, the smartphone
market remained under
pressure given deteriorat-
ing economic conditions.
Ongoing international po-
litical tensions resulting in
economic uncertainty hit
the smartphone market,
even though it reversed its
slide below the 300-mil-
lion-mark last quarter
thanks to a slight quarterly
recovery in Apple Sam-
sung shipments, as per
report. —PTI
SMARTPHONE MKT
SINKS TO LOWEST Q3
LEVEL SINCE 2014
Bengaluru: Amid reports
of forcing its employees to
resign, BYJU’s said on Sat-
urday that it is not forcing
its staff to resign or face
terminations, as the whole
exercise is part of the 5%
reduction in its
50,000-strong workforce.
Earlier, BYJU’s had an-
nounced to reduce 5% of
its 50,000-strong work-
force, which will be “ration-
alised across product, con-
tent, media, and technolo-
gy teams in a phased man-
ner” in a bid to consolidate
its India business. —PTI
EMPLOYEES NOT
FORCED TO RESIGN,
SAYS BYJU’S
New Delhi: Last month,
The 59-year-old Nykaa-
founder Falguni Nayar
was named India’s rich-
est self-made woman by
the IIFL Wealth Hurun
list, with a Rs 38,700
crore net worth. But
since then the stocks of
her e-commerce behe-
moth have plummeted
by 24 per cent in a
month, wiping off Rs
8,300 crore from her for-
tune. The fall of Nykaa
has come after a bumper
debut on the stock mar-
ket last year, when it de-
livered 80 per cent re-
turns to investors. —PTI
FALGUNI NAYAR’S
FORTUNE TAKES A
` 8,300 CRORE HIT
*Rates till the edition went to print.
IOC REPORTS `272 CRORE LOSS IN Q2 ON
ACCOUNT OF SELLING PETROL AT LOW COST
New Delhi: Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) on Saturday reported a
net loss of `272.35 crore for July-September - the second straight
quarter of loss arising from selling petrol, diesel and cooking gas
LPG at rates below cost. The net loss of
`272.35 crore compared to a profit of `
6,360.05 crore in July-September 2021,
as per company’s filing with the stock ex-
changes. IOC as well as other state-owned
fuel retailers had booked heavy losses in
the first quarter of the current fiscal as
they did not revise petrol, diesel and cooking gas LPG prices in line
with the cost to help the government contain runaway inflation.
NTPC Q2 NET DIPS OVER 7% TO `3,418 CRORE
New Delhi: State-run power giant NTPC on Saturday reported an
over 7% dip in its consolidated net profit at Rs 3,417.67 crore for the
September quarter, mainly due to higher expenses. The consolidated
net profit of the company stood at Rs 3,690.95 crore in the quarter
ended September 30, 2021, it said in a BSE filing. Total income rose
to Rs 44,681.50 crore in the quarter from Rs 33,095.67 crore in the
year-ago period.Total expenses jumped to Rs 40,000.99 crore in the
second quarter of this fiscal from Rs 28,949.53 crore earlier.
FUSION LTD TO RAISE
` 600 CR BY ISSUING
FRESH EQUITY SHARES
Jaipur: Microfinance company
Fusion Limited is planning
to raise around `600 crore
through
fresh
issuance
of equity
shares in
its initial public offering (IPO),
a top official said on Saturday.
The initial share sale will open
for public subscription on
November 2 and conclude on
November 4. The company
has fixed a price band of `
350-368 a share, its MD and
CEO Devesh Sachdev said.
TELEGRAM CEO
CRITICISES APPLE FOR
APP STORE POLICIES
New Delhi: Telegram’s CEO has
accused Apple of “destroying
dreams and ruining entrepre-
neurship”
because
of its App
Store
policies. The
company charged a 30% fee on
in-app purchases for develop-
ers that earn more than $1
million annually, as per MacRu-
mors. Telegram enables content
creators to charge users for
access to channels through a
paywall, as opposed to Apple’s
in-app purchasing system.
OTHER STORIES
‘Techensuresbenefitsreachcommonman’
New Delhi (PTI): Technol-
ogy adoption by the govern-
ment for the benefit trans-
fer to targeted people has
plugged leakages and en-
sured good governance, Fi-
nance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman has said.
Delivering the NT Rama
Rao Memorial Lecture, she
said, “What Prime Minister
Modi has done is by adopt-
ing technology he has con-
tained the leaky bucket
process. There are no leaks,
the beneficiary who must
get that money gets it”.
Technology has become
a big instrument through
which human folly and
temptation are contained,
she said.
“Today, the way we have
adopted technology is en-
suring that benefits reach
the common public, one of
the goals of good govern-
ance has been achieved,” a
press release by GITAM
quoted Sitharaman as say-
ing. Speaking at an event
in Hyderabad, Sitharaman
also urged students of all
institutes under the aegis
of the commerce ministry
to follow the five principles
outlined by Prime Minister
Modi in his independence
day speech this year, which
includes moving forward
with a bigger resolve of a
developed India.
“I am not saying this is
foolproof. Ingenuity will
have some element in
which people will know to
hack even this but now, it is
for sure that who should
get what is going absolute-
ly without any kind of pil-
ferage. Good governance is
about looking for instru-
ments with which you are
able to implement the ob-
jectives,” she said.
Students should learn
about sustainable designs
developed in the country
over a period of time and
improve them for the ease
of living of the current gen-
eration, Sitharaman said at
an event.
WORLD IS LOOKING AT
INDIAN ECONOMY AS A
‘BRIGHT’ SPOT: GOYAL
New Delhi: Piyush Goyal, Union
Minister of Commerce Indus-
try, Consumer Affairs, Food
Public Distribution, and Textiles
said that the world is now
looking at the Indian economy
as a ‘bright’ spot. During the
pandemic, India came up with
many innovations, including the
Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin. The
Minister exhorted the students
to come up with good designs
which lead to cost reduction. Go-
yal also spoke on the occasion,
said that collaborative effort and
breaking silos will transform
India into global power soon.
The ministers were speaking at a
students meet of all the institutes
under the aegis of the commerce
ministry-- National Institute of
Fashion Technology, National
Institute of Design, Footwear
Design Development Institute,
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
and Indian Institute of Packaging
in Hyderabad on Saturday.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks during interaction with students, faculty/alumni of Indian Institute
of Foreign Trade, National Institute of Design, National Institute of Fashion Tech, Footwear Design Development
Institute, as Union Minister for Commerce, Piyush Goyal looks on, in Hyderabad on Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Guj govt to generate 10L jobs
with new Electronics Policy
Ahmedabad (PTI): The
Gujarat government on
Saturday launched a new
Electronics Policy to gen-
erate 10 lakh new employ-
ment opportunities in the
Electronics System Design
Manufacturing (ESDM)
sector in the state.
The ‘Gujarat Electron-
ics Policy 2022-2028’ has
been designed to make Gu-
jarat a national hub of
ESDM by offering a host of
subsidies and incentives to
the investors, said an offi-
cial release.
Those wanting to invest
in the ESDM sector in Gu-
jarat will be given up to 20
per cent capital expendi-
ture (capex) assistance
with a ceiling of Rs 200
crore under the policy, the
release said, adding that
eligible investors will be
entitled to get 100 per cent
reimbursement on stamp
duty and registration fee
paid to the government.
While eligible entrepre-
neurs are exempted from
paying any electricity
duty, the state government
will provide a power tariff
subsidy of Rs 1 per unit for
a period of five years.
Other incentives in-
clude interest assistance
of up to 7 per cent on a
term loan for a period of
five years and logistics
subsidy of up to 25 per cent
on the freight charges for
five years, up to Rs 5 crore
per annum, as per the re-
lease.
As per the policy docu-
ment, the state govern-
ment will develop Gujarat
Electronics Manufactur-
ing (GEM) clusters for the
ESDM ecosystem in the
next five years. These
GEM clusters will have
common RD facilities,
testing labs and common
infrastructure facilities.
Curbs on sugar
exports extended
by a year through
October 2023
New Delhi (Agencies): In-
dia, the world’s biggest
sugar producer, has ex-
tended restrictions for sug-
ar export by one year
through October 2023, the
government has said in a
notification. The south
Asian country restricted
exports through the end of
this month in May to con-
tain a rise in domestic pric-
es following record exports,
according to the news
agency Reuters.
The government official
added that India is expect-
ed to produce record sugar
crop this year, which could
allow New Delhi to allow
exports of up to 8 million
tonnes. India’s domestic
sugar consumption is esti-
mated at around 27.5 mil-
lion tonnes and mills are
expected to divert 4.5 mil-
lion tonnes of sugar for
ethanol production in the
2022-23 season.
Chennai: The Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) can ar-
gue its case strongly with
the Central government as
to why the inflation was
not controlled at 4 per cent,
said experts.
The RBI’s Monetary Poli-
cy Committee (MPC) will
meet on November 3 to dis-
cuss what it would tell the
Centre as to why it was not
able to restrain the infla-
tion. In India, the retail in-
flation rose to 7.41 per cent
in September. Experts were
of the view that a combina-
tion of global and local (glo-
cal) factors — geopolitical
developments, crop produc-
tion, reduction in crude oil
production and the result-
ing price increase and de-
preciating rupee — are ex-
pected to heat up the prices.
The RBI on its part is try-
ing to contain the inflation
by increasing the repo rate
— the rate at which it lends
to the banks.
The central bank has in-
creased the repo rate by 190
basis points in recent times
and the last one was by 50
basis points last month.
‘RBI can argue its case
for not curbing inflation’
COURSE OF
INFLATION
z The RBI may also sound out
the Central government as to
the course of inflation as well
as the reasons as to why it
may be at the elevated levels
z RBI can say inflation is due
to supply side constraints
and excess liquidity, says K
Ramasubramanian, retired
General Manager, RBI, and a
forex advisor
India’s defence ministry is biggest employer
Hamburg (Germany),
(ANI): India’s Ministry of
Defence is the world’s big-
gest employer with 2.92
million people, which in-
cludes combined active ser-
vice personnel, reservists
and civilian staff, accord-
ing to a report in ‘Statista’.
A close second to the In-
dian Defence Ministry is
the US Department of De-
fense which employs 2.91
million people, according
to the Statista infographic
on employers with the
largest workforces world-
wide in 2022. Statista is a
Germany-based private or-
ganisation that provides
data and statistics about
various issues worldwide.
“At the top of the ranking
for the world’s largest em-
ployers is India’s Ministry
of Defence. Combining ac-
tive service personnel, re-
servists and civilian staff,
the total headcount comes
to 2.92 million – a touch
ahead of the United States
equivalent, the Department
of Defense,”thereportsaid.
As per Stockholm Inter-
national Peace Research In-
stitute, the 5 largest spend-
ers in 2021 were the United
States,China,India,UKand
Russia,togetheraccounting
for 62% of expenditure.
WITH 2.92 MILLION PEOPLE
Chandigarh(Agencies):
The More than 105 lakh
metric tonnes (MT) paddy
arrived in marketing yards
in Punjab, out of which 104
lakh MT paddy was pro-
cured till Saturday
.
In neighbouring Hary-
ana, a record 52 lakh MT
paddy has been procured
and Rs 10,000 crore paid to
farmers. Punjab Food Civ-
il Supplies Minister Lal
Chand Kataruchak said
timely purchase, payment
and lifting is going on
smoothly in each ‘mandi’.
All arrangements of
‘bardana’, labour and trans-
portation have been made.
As of now, the marketing
yards are witnessing an ar-
rival of nearly 7.5 lakh MT
in a day
, and almost all pad-
dy is purchased by the end
of the day
. About the mini-
mum support price (MSP)
payment, Kataruchak said
nearly Rs 15,400 crore has
been released directly into
theaccountsof farmersand
another Rs 2,000 crore has
beenapprovedandwouldbe
released on Monday
.
Haryana Deputy CM Du-
shyant Chautala said the
government had set a tar-
get of making payment to
thefarmersinjust48hours.
Over 10 mn MT paddy procured in Punjab

Focus not just on being well-
off; success within is more
important than success
outside. Focus on well-being.
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra,
CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
08
2NDFRONT
GIRLS’ EVENING OUT
The sun sets behind a pair of peahens, as they bask on a ramp at the Maharashtra Raj Bhavan, in Mumbai.
—PHOTO BY ANI
3 officers held in
angadia extortion
case reinstated
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Police In-
spector Om Vangate,
Assistant Inspector
Nitin Kadam and Sub-
Inspector Samadhan
Jamdade of the Mum-
bai police—arrested
earlier this year for
allegedly extorting
money from angadias
here—have been rein-
stated by the Police
Establishment Board
at the Police Commis-
sionerate level, fol-
lowing a review meet-
ing, an official said on
Saturday.
Suspended IPS officer
Saurabh Tripathi, who
was then Deputy Com-
missioner of Police
(Zone II), is on the run.
The three accused
cops were suspended af-
ter their arrest, and an
inquiry was initiated. A
court granted them bail
after the police submit-
ted a charge sheet.
“
AstheMumbaipolice
force is already short-
staffed, the decision to
reinstate them was tak-
en,” he said.
Notably
, the officers
continuedtoreceive50%
of their pay even after
their suspended, which
increased to 75% once
they completed three
months under suspen-
sion, the official said.
All three have been
given non-executive
postings at the Local
Arms Department,
where they will be given
bandobast duty
, he said.
Angadias are tradi-
tional couriers who de-
livercashsentbytraders
from one state to anoth-
er.Theangadiasystemis
by and large used in the
jewellery business. A
complaint filed last De-
cember by the Angadia
Association in south
Mumbaihadallegedthat
the accused officials ex-
torted money from them
on several occasions.
Tripathi had demanded
a monthly bribe of Rs10
lakhtoallowthemtorun
theirbusiness,theysaid.
Vangate, Kadam and
Jamdade were later ar-
rested along with a do-
mestic help who worked
for Tripathi.
Suspended cop
Saurabh Tripathi—
accused of seeking
a monthly bribe of
`10 lakh—is still
absconding
All three have been given non-executive postings at the Local Arms Department, where they will be
given bandobast duty. —FILE PHOTO
THE CASE
Man rapes
buffalo
calf, gets
arrested
Bhiwandi Nizampur civic body urges
hawkers to make use of PM SVANidhi
First India Bureau
Thane: The civic au-
thorities in Bhiwandi
of Thane district have
urged hawkers to
take advantage of the
PM SVANidhi scheme,
which will resume in
the town from Novem-
ber 01, an official said
on Saturday.
Bhiwandi Nizampur
Municipal Corporation
(BNMC) commissioner
Vijaykumar Mhasal has
asked hawkers to make
use of the scheme that
provides affordable col-
lateral-free loans to
street vendors.
In an official release,
the BNMC’s public rela-
tions officer Sunil Zalke
said that all categories
of hawkers will be eligi-
ble for a loan of
Rs10,000, and those in
the urban region will be
eligible for an addition-
al Rs10,000.
People who repay the
loans promptly will be
eligible for a 7% subsi-
dy in the loan amount,
he said, adding that peo-
ple using digital trans-
actions will be given
priority in the disburse-
ment of loans.
During the pandem-
ic, the disbursal of
loans was suspended
and it is being resumed
now, the official said.
First India Bureau
Pune: A 38-year-
old man was ar-
rested for alleged-
ly raping a buffalo
calf in the Deccan
area of the city on
Friday, police said
on Saturday.
Locals caught him
in the act and beat
him up till he fell un-
conscious, an official
said, adding that the
accused, who hails
from Nepal, was
rushed to Sassoon
General Hospital
where he is being
treated.
“Based on the evi-
dence submitted by
area residents, we
have registered an
FIR against the man
undersection377(un-
natural sex) and oth-
er relevant provi-
sions of the Indian
Penal Code and Pre-
vention of Cruelty
Against Animals
Act,” an official said.
Local residents
caught him in the
act and beat him
up till he fell
unconscious
Digital transactions
will get priority in loan
disbursement; 7%
subsidy for repaying
the loan promptly
The disbursal of loans,
suspended uring the pandemic,
is being resumed now. —FILE
PHOTO
LOW TURNOUT AT
KHARGE’S
SWEARING IN?
The swearing-in cer-
emony of the new-
ly-elected Congress
President Mallikarjun
Kharge witnessed some
turmoil, beginning
with a glitch in the dis-
tribution of invitation
cards. It was decided
that the invitation for
swearing-in would be
sent to former Union
Ministers, Chief Minis-
ters, former Chief Min-
isters, State President,
MPs, Working Presi-
dent of the Party, and
Legislature Leaders etc.
This action plan was
implemented, but many
important leaders of
the party were seen be-
wildered in the Con-
gress office in search of
invitation cards. Many
names were in the list,
but they couldn’t get the
card, so first they were
sent to the control room.
Then, they were asked
to go to room number
17, from where they
were asked to head to
the war room at 15 Gur-
dwara Rakabganj. The
invitation cards were
being handled by Man-
ish Chatrath, who was
very close to the late
Ahmed Patel. Many big
leaders didn’t even
bother to come, like the
absence of three big
leaders of MP i.e. Ka-
mal Nath, Digvijaya
Singh and the Leader of
Opposition Govind Sin-
gh also raised many
questions. Seeing that
many of the chairs be-
hind the press gallery
were empty, people
standing outside were
slowly called in so that
a crowd could be seen at
the ceremony
.
‘KISSA KURSI KA’
BETWEEN ANAND
SHARMA AND
PRIYANKA!
Ch a i r s
were set
up on the
stage for Kharge’s
swearing-in ceremony
and there were sofas for
VIPs in the front row.
Khargehadreservedhis
right and left chairs for
Sonia and Rahul. But
Rahul did not sit with
Kharge at once, he left
his chair for Madhusu-
dan Mistry
, and sat after
Mistry
. One of the front
sofas was reserved for
Priyanka Gandhi. Two
Delhi Police personnel
were also ready to moni-
tor that sofa. Pawan
Bansal, Bhupendra Sin-
gh Hooda and Ashok
Gehlot were seated on
the sofa next to it. By
then the message of Pri-
yanka’s arrival on wire-
less had arrived. In the
meantime, Anand
S h a r m a
reached the
stage and
sat on the
sofa re-
served for
Priyanka.
The police-
men imme-
diately ap-
p r i s e d
h i m
that the sofa was meant
for Priyanka, but Shar-
ma ji did not get up from
that sofa. By the time
Priyanka enters, Pawan
Bansal gets up in a pan-
ic and takes Anand
Sharma to sit with him
on his couch, holding
his hands all the way
. It
seems that Priyanka
was aware of this entire
scene, so she did not sit
on the sofa set for her-
self and sat in the row
behind it. She met all
the big leaders of the
party smiling, but did
not move towards
Anand Sharma. Priyan-
ka also met Ashok Ge-
hlot warmly while Hoo-
da and Anand Sharma
were ignored by Rahul.
PRIYANKA’S LAST
MINUTE CHANGE
OF SCHEDULE
MARS CONFIDENCE
It seems that Gandhi
family’s ‘role’ in the
Gujarat elections is less
and the reason for this
is no longer unknown.
Recently, when KC
Venugopal, who is con-
sidered very close to the
Gandhi family, had
reached Ahmedabad, a
crowd of party leaders
and workers surround-
ed him. After this Venu-
gopal held a meeting
with senior party
MLAs. More or less all
the Congress MLAs in
the meeting were of the
opinion that ‘Rahul
Gandhi should also in-
clude Gujarat in his
Bharat Jodo Yatra,
since it can create an
atmosphere for the Con-
gress here. But Venugo-
pal could not give any
assurance from his side
to the MLAs on this. In
this, a legislator
of twoterms
u r g e d
Venugo-
p a l
that he wants ‘to invite
Priyanka Gandhi in his
grand Garba pro-
gramme as her partici-
pation can create a fa-
vourable atmosphere.’
Venugopal agreed to
this and once the MLA
learnt that his request
has been cleared, the
MLA got excited and
bought a heavy garba
lehenga worth Rs 45,000
for Priyanka’s Garba.
But a few days before
the programme, Priyan-
ka was forbidden to
visit. So, although the
Garba happened, but
Congressmen didn’t
have much enthusiasm.
GEHLOT’S ‘MAGIC’
STILL HOLDS
RELEVANCE
EVEN AFTER
RAJ
CRISIS
The ‘fra-
grance’
of the politi-
cal crisis in
Rajasthan was
seen scattered
in the swear-
ing-in cere-
mony
. Even
after all this, the Chief
Minister of Rajasthan,
Ashok Gehlot was meet-
ing most of the people.
There was an influx of
leaders, who came to
meet him. Although
leaders like Jairam
Ramesh did not walk up
to Gehlot to meet him,
but sitting in his place,
he signalled ‘ Thumbs
up’ to the Rajasthan
CM. At the same time,
Sachin Pilot, sitting in
the back row of Gehlot,
was smiling. Initially,
he had put a mask on
his face, but when the
media cameras started
clicking his pictures, he
took off his mask. Mo-
han Prakash was seated
besides Sachin. No one
was coming to meet
Shashi Tharoor, who
had garnered 1,072
votes in the presiden-
tial contest against
Kharge, but Tharoor
looked confident.
BJP LOOKING FOR
FOOLPROOF
VICTORY IN
GUJARAT
Elections are
to be held on
182 seats of Gu-
jarat Assembly
.
Keep in mind
that in the 2017
assembly elec-
tions, Con-
g r e s s
h a d
won
77 seats here, but after
luring a dozen Congress
MLAs, the political col-
our changed to saffron,
so the count of Con-
gress MLAs has re-
duced to merely 65. So,
the focus of BJP strate-
gists has now been re-
duced to these 65 seats
and thus BJP has called
for ‘Gujarat Gaurav
Yatra’ before the elec-
tions. Many Union min-
isters including BJP
President JP Nadda,
Home Minister Amit
Shah are continuously
participating in this
yatra. The entire focus
of the Gaurav Yatra is
on the seats dominated
by the Congress, but the
Congress seems devoid
of any concrete pro-
gramme of counterat-
tack. The Congress
High Command also
seems to have left the
Gujarat elections to its
own fate. Rahul Gandhi
also does not seem
ready to tour Gujarat
and neither Sonia Gan-
dhi nor Priyanka are
displaying any enthusi-
asm in visiting Gujarat.
FIRST INDIA SUNDAY SPECIAL
BY TRIDIB
RAMAN
The author is a journalist
and political commentator
and views expressed are
his personal
Mallikarjun Kharge Anand Sharma
Priyanka Gandhi CM Ashok Gehlot
Amit Shah

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MUMBAI, SUNDAY,
OCTOBER 30, 2022
elena Gomez once
said that I don’t
know if I would’ve
had the opportu-
nity to be on ‘Wiz-
ards of Waverly
Place’ if it weren’t
for my heritage. I realize
everybody wants what they
don’t have. But at the end of
the day, what you have in-
side is much more beauti-
ful than what’s on the out-
side! And this inspired me
to write an article on wiz-
ard clothing. But wait
what? Wizard clothing??
Yes, because for me ‘No-
body knows what the fu-
ture is except for wizards’.
Our favourite Harry Potter
has given us many rounds
of imagination that
gave us a hint that
wizards at large in
the Muggle commu-
nity may disclose
themselves to each
other by wearing the
shades purple and
green. However, this
is no more than a ver-
bal code, and there is
no responsibility to
blend into it. A bunch
of members of the
mystical society prefer
to wear their favourite
colours when out and
about in the Muggle world
or adopt black as a practi-
cal colour, especially when
flying on their brooms at
night. According to the
movie, ‘The International
Statute of Secrecy laid
down clear guidelines on
the dress for witches and
wizards when they are out
in public.’ Apart from the
imaginary film, we all have
grown up visualizing the
cloak or pointed cony hats,
long black boots and of
course big magical flying
broom. I am sure by far
now, wizard clothing has
stayed out of fashion, al-
though slight alterations
have been made to such
garments as dress
robes. But Classic wiz-
ard clothing comprises
plain robes, worn with
or without the tradi-
tional pointed hat, and
will always be worn
on such formal occa-
sions as christenings,
weddings and funer-
als. Women’s dresses
tend to be long. Wiz-
ard clothing might
be said to be frozen
in time, harking
back to the seven-
teenth century, when they
went into hiding. Their
nostalgic adherence to this
old-fashioned form of
dress may be seen as a
clinging to old ways and
old times; a matter of cul-
tural pride.
UTTKARSHA SHEKHAR
uttkarsha.shekhar@firstindia.co.in
S
TOUCH
OF
RARE
WIZARDRY
FASHION!
The wizards represent all that the true ‘muggle’ fashion: Mostly comprises plain robes, worn with or without the traditional
pointed hat, and will always be worn on such formal occasions. City First brings to you glimpses of the magical fashion!

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activation rate of over
65 per cent. After in-
stalling UPI QR, we
have seen a 68 per cent
rise in CASA monthly
average balances in
associated current ac-
counts. We have also
commenced unse-
cured lending for over-
draft loans to small
merchants based on
their transactions
through UPI QR with-
in a year of the
launch”, Manoj fur-
ther said.
With a strong man-
agement team and a
technology-first ap-
proach, AU Small Fi-
nance Bank is well-
poised to empower
merchants using digi-
tal solutions like low-
cost acquisition (UPI
QR), digital CASA ac-
counts, holistic bank-
ing solutions, and
digital lending solu-
tions.
A

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