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ERRORS, SHORTAGE, CONFUSION: UP BOARD EXAM PAPERS
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Absurd questions
and no correct options
among listed answers in
exams conducted by the UP
Board have now led to an
official probe being ordered.
Director-General, School
Education, Anamika Singh
said, “I have directed the
UPBEC (UP Basic Education
Council) Secretary to exam-
ine issues related to ques-
tions and take appropriate
action on the same.”
Over 1.6 crore students,
enrolled in 1.3 lakh schools
recognised by UPBEC, are
appearing in the ongo-
ing examinations of the
UP Board. “An error-free
question paper can ensure
proper evaluation. These
silly errors point fingers
at the standard that is set
before the students and
teachers,” said a senior
education official.
Schools in several districts
have also reported a short-
age of question papers
besides printing errors.
“We got only three papers
for a Class of 50 students.
So, we were compelled to
write the questions on the
blackboard,” said a teacher
in Gorakhpur.
Teachers said they have
no clarity on how a wrong
question should be treated.
“We have no idea as to
whether we should award
full marks to the wrong
question or whether it
stands cancelled,” said a
teacher.
Sanjay Kanaujiya, an office-
bearer of the UP Junior
High School Teachers’ As-
sociation, said, “The exami-
nations are held to assess
the level of understanding
of lessons by the students.
But, the purpose behind the
exercise is lost.”
Dy CM Pathak
helps family
overcharged by
hospital
Lucknow (PTI): A pri-
vate hospital in Luc-
know had to return
overcharged fees to the
family of a patient af-
ter the intervention of
Deputy Chief Minister
Brajesh Pathak.
RamPyariDevi,54,of
Gondadistricthadcome
to KGMU on March 24
for treatment. When she
could not get admitted
to KGMU, she was alleg-
edly lured to a private
hospital by some agents.
Her son Dileep said the
hospital overcharged
fees and stopped treat-
ment. Dileep then
shared his plight with a
social worker, Mamta
Tripathi, who wrote
about the matter on so-
cial media, which came
into the notice of Depu-
ty CM Pathak.
CHANGE IMMINENT?
Sulking Shivpal takes oath,
then goes to meet CM Yogi
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Sulking so-
cialist leader Shivpal
Singh Yadav took oath
as an MLA of the Uttar
Pradesh Assembly on
Wednesday and later
met Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath, indi-
cating strains in the
Samajwadi Party-led
Opposition alliance.
Much significance is
being attached to this
meeting, which took
place after Shivpal’s re-
turn from Delhi where
he is understood to have
met some leaders in-
cluding his elder broth-
er and SP patron Mu-
layam Singh Yadav.
The meeting lasted
for 20-25 minutes. Apart
from by-poll to Azam-
garh Lok Sabha vacated
by Akhilesh Yadav, elec-
tions to 11 Rajya Sabha
seats are also due in UP
.
The disgruntlement
whichstartedafterShiv-
pal’s son and supporters
were denied ticket by SP
inrecentlyconcludedas-
sembly polls, seems to
have reached a breaking
point when the Shivpal-
led Pragatisheel Sama-
jwadi Party-Lohia (PSP-
L) was not given any
important assignment
post election results by
Akhilesh.
Party spokesperson
Deepak Mishra, howev-
er, said it was a courtesy
call. “Since he could not
meet the Leader of the
House after the elec-
tions, he met him today
after taking oath.
Lucknow (PTI): The
Class 12 English exam
of the UP Board was
cancelled in 24 districts
on Wednesday after the
question paper was
leaked, prompting CM
Yogi Adityanath to or-
der invoking the strin-
gent National Security
Act in the case.
The Ballia police have
arrested Ballia DIoS (Di-
rector Inspector of
Schools), who has also
been suspended, and 16
others. The CM has or-
dered the Special Task
Force (STF) of the Uttar
Pradesh Police to probe
the case. The English
paper cancelled in 24
districts will now be
held on April 13, an of-
ficial statement said.
Additional Director
General of Police (Law
and Order) Prashant
Kumar said the Ballia
DM and SP got informa-
tion on Wednesday
morningthatthesecond
shift paper has been
leaked. The exam was to
be held at 2 pm.
Kumar said two of
the accused were ar-
rested from Ballia’s Kot-
wali police station area,
10 from Nagra and five
from the Sikandarpur
area.
A case was registered
against the accused un-
der provisions of the
Indian Penal Code, IT
Act and the Uttar
Pradesh Public Exami-
nation (Prevention of
Unfair Means) Act, 1998.
Ballia SP R K Nayyar
said the question paper
was found in mobile
phones of some of the
suspects. More on P3
UP BOARD SHOCKER
Class 12 English paper leaked, 17 arrested including DIoS Ballia
Secondary Education Minister Gulabo Devi (3L) arrived at the control room at the Secondary
Education Office in Lucknow after news of the English paper leak on Wednesday.
—PHOTO
BY
SUMIT
KUMAR
Shivpal Yadav with BJP leader and Speaker of Vidhan Sabha
Satish Mahana on Wednesday.
rime Minister Narendra
Modi has never hesitated
in experimentin
g with for-
eign policy
. He has always
tried to bring the Heads of
nations, sportspersons
, in-
dustrialists and youth to-
gether while addressing
the needs of each and eve-
ry section of people.
“When we were scheduled
to visit Australia, I had a
talk with him. There were
other people also. Modi
said that both the nations
had diplomatic talks but
tell me what do the people
of Australia like? We told
him that Australians are
crazy about cricket. Then
Modi said that a function
should be organised at the
world’s largest cricket sta-
dium Melbourne where
cricketers like Kapil Dev
and Sunil Gavaskar
should meet the public.
This shows that Modi has
a pulse on the liking of
public whether it’s our
own country or abroad,”
said G Parthasarthy,
a dip-
lomat and author.
Modi didn’t restrict di-
plomacy to mere few for-
mal and informal dia-
logues between 2 coun-
tries. He increased the
number of meetings and
expanded the scope of dia-
logues during his visits.
“Earlier there used to be a
maximum of 5-6 meetings.
Now 10-12-15 meetings in a
day are scheduled. It’s like
playing test match at the
pace of 20-20. It was not a
one-day affair, it was una-
bated. I am surprised we
would travel 5 countries in
6 days spending nights in
flights, because even Modi
used to do it,” union exter-
nal affairs minister S Jais-
hankar had said.
With great acumen of
foreign affairs, Modi was
fast emerging as a strong
global leader. But people
were surprised as to how a
person who had not been
even a union minister be-
fore becoming Prime Min-
ister could deftly handle
the international
affairs.
“He once told me that he
had been to US. He had
travelled in buses and
went around places. He
has real life experience.
Now if we add his real
life experience with in-
novative thinking, we
can easily understand
his foreign policy,” Jais-
hankar had said.
The aim of Modi’s
whirlwind foreign trips
was not only to elevate
the position of the na-
tion on diplomatic plat-
forms but also to instil
confidence among the
Indian diaspora. Modi
used the rich Indian tradi-
tions and culture to win
the respect for Indian dias-
pora on foreign soil. This
was part of his diplomacy
to use national symbols
and Hindi as language for
communicati
on at global
platform. This practice
won back the glory for In-
dia. Modi as a Prime Min-
ister started speaking in
Hindi at the global plat-
form of the United Nation.
He proposed before the
world to celebrate June 21
as the Yoga Divas.
“Yoga is our ancient tra-
dition and priceless treas-
ure. Let’s work towards
celebrating International
Yoga Day to promote this
invaluable custom,” Modi
had said. The entire world
endorsed his idea of Yoga
in record time and June 21
was accepted as the Inter-
national Yoga Day
.
“World wants to know
about India. The world un-
derstands that we have a
personality…
we have a
culture … a tradition…a
civilisation…
if the Prime
Minister of India doesn’t
express the richness of the
country at this grand plat-
form, then it has no mean-
ing,” Jaishankar had said.
Prime Minister Modi
knows the art of convert-
ing crisis into opportunity
.
He got this opportunity
during the Covid pandem-
ic, which devastated the
entire globe. Modi put
across the mantra of Vas-
udhaiva Kutumbakam
strongly before the global
community…
whether it
was supplying medicines
to various countries or vac-
cines or ventilators… Modi
opened the doors for all the
countries in need. Under
the Vaccine Maitri Mis-
sion, India supplied vac-
cines to several countries.
“The number of vac-
cines we use everyday is
much more than total vac-
cines put together in sev-
eral countries… in such
situation, the position of
India has changed. People
get surprised by knowing
that we have helped 80-90
countries in the world…
either we sent Medicines,
PPE kits, relief materials
or vaccines,” Baijayant
Jay Panda, Vice President
of BJP had said.
When the entire world
was passing through the
devastating pandemic era,
China was busy propagat-
ing its expansionist
agen-
da. Right from infiltrating
areas of neighbouring
countries to showing ag-
gressive tantrums to coun-
tries like Australia, Japan
and India, China was
proving dangerous to the
entire global community.
Amid the challenges put
up by Covid pandemic, In-
dia entered a quadrilater-
al diplomatic agreement
with America, Australia
and Japan. This four-na-
tion strategic security dia-
logue is known as QUAD.
China is upset with this
development but this four-
nation treaty is not a front
against China. This is a
partnership
to bring all
the four nations together
on the highway of devel-
opment.
Modi has continuously
been making the nation
stronger from within, now
has attained a global stat-
ure. “Neither I am going to
stop nor I will get tired.
And I will never bow down
before the falsehoods,”
Modi declared.
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SHASHIKANT
SHARMA
The writer is Consulting
Editor, First India
“MAIN DESH NAHI JHUKNE DUNGA”
MODI KEEPS HIS PROMISE, STEERS
‘BHARAT’ TO GREATER HEIGHTS
DOWN THE MEMORY LANE … PART 11
NARENDRA MODI AS PRADHAN SEVAK… PM OF INDIA
NEITHER I AM GOING TO
STOP NOR I WILL GET
TIRED. AND I WILL NEVER
BOW DOWN BEFORE
THE FALSEHOODS
—PM MODI
When we were scheduled to
visit Australia, I had a talk
with him. There were other
people also. Modi said that
both the nations had
diplomatic talks but tell me
what do the people of
Australia like? We told him
that Australians are crazy
about cricket. Then Modi said
that a function should be
organised at the world’s
largest cricket stadium
Melbourne where cricketers
like Kapil Dev and Sunil
Gavaskar should meet the
public. This shows that Modi
has a pulse on the liking of
public whether it’s our own
country or abroad.
G Parthasarthy,
A Diplomat and Author
With great acumen of foreign
affairs, Modi was fast
emerging as a strong global
leader. But people were
surprised as to how a person
who had not been even a union
minister before becoming PM
could deftly handle the
international affairs. He once
told me that he had been to US.
He had travelled in buses and
went around places. He has
real-life experience. Now if we
add his real-life experience
with innovative thinking, we
can easily understand his
foreign policy.
S Jaishankar,
Union External Affairs Minister
The number of vaccines we use
everyday is much more than
total vaccines put together in
several countries… in such
India has changed. People get
surprised by knowing that we
have helped 80-90 countries
in the world… either we sent
Medicines, PPE kits, relief
materials or vaccines.
Baijayant Jay Panda,
The then Vice President of BJP
YOU READ PART-10
IN FIRST INDIA ON
MARCH 28, 2022
LET’S WORK TOWARDS INT’L YOGA DAY TO
PROMOTE THIS INVALUABLE CUSTOM: MODI
odi as a Prime Minister started speaking in Hindi at
the global platform of the United Nation. He proposed
before the world to celebrate June 21 as the Yoga
Divas. “Yoga is our ancient tradition and priceless treasure.
Let’s work towards celebrating International Yoga Day to
promote this invaluable custom,” Modi had said. The entire
world endorsed his idea of Yoga in record time and June 21
was accepted as the International Yoga Day.
NARENDRA MODI MANTRA: “VASUDHAIVA
KUTUMBAKAM”, WHICH MEANS THAT
“THE WORLD IS ONE FAMILY”
odi put across the mantra of Vasudhaiv Kutum-
bakam strongly before the global community…
whether it was supplying medicines to various
countries or vaccines or ventilators…
Modi opened the doors for all the
countries in need. Under the
Vaccine Maitri Mis-
sion, India supplied
vaccines to several
countries.
M
INDIA IN THE QUADRILATERAL DIPLOMATIC
AGREEMENT WITH USA, AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN
mid the challenges put up by Covid pan-
demic, India entered a quadrilateral diplo-
matic agreement with America, Australia and
Japan. This four-nation strategic security dialogue is
known as QUAD. China is upset with this develop-
ment but this four-nation treaty is not a front against
China. This is a partnership to bring all the four
nations together on the highway of development.
A
PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI
M
PERSPECTIVE
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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will address the
Kashmiri Hindu community via video confer-
ence during Navreh celebrations on April 3.
The ‘Tyaag and Shaurya Divas’ will be celebrat-
ed to urge ‘Kashmiri Samaj’ to return home.
The Delhi High Court raised concerns about
data sharing by social media platforms as it
heard the appeal of WhatsApp and its parent
company Meta against probe ordered by the
CCI into WhatsApp`s latest privacy policy.
RSS CHIEF MOHAN
BHAGWAT TO
ADDRESS KASHMIRI
HINDUS ON APRIL 3
WHATSAPP PRIVACY
POLICY: DELHI HC
CONCERNED ABOUT
DATA SHARING
KARNATAKA HIJAB BAN: 40
MUSLIM GIRLS SKIP EXAMS
RAJYA SABHA TO BID FAREWELL
TO 72 RETIRING MEMBERS
Hurt by HC hijab order, 40 Muslim girl
students from Udupi abstained from ap-
pearing for first pre-university exam. P5
Rajya Sabha on Thursday will bid farewell
to 72 members retiring from House till
August, said Chairman Venkaiah Naidu.
RUSSIAN FOREIGN
MIN IN INDIA TODAY
The Russian Foreign Min-
ister, Sergey Lavrov, will be
visiting Delhi on a two-day
trip on Thursday. EAM S
Jaishankar will be meeting
with the Russian Foreign
Minister Lavrov on April 1.
New Delhi (Agen-
cies): In a day of high
drama, members of the
Bharatiya Janata Yuva
Morcha managed to
reach the entrance to
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal’s Civil Lines
residence and banged
on the main door, in
what the Aam Aadmi
Party said was an at-
tempt on his life.
BJYM national presi-
dent and Lok Sabha MP
Tejaswi Surya led the
protesters, many of
whom were captured
on CCTV breaking the
boom barrier and kick-
ing and banging the
main gate before paint-
ing it red.
‘BJPTRYINGTO
KILLKEJRIWAL’
...Alleges AAP after violence at his home
TEJASWI SURYA LED THE PROTESTERS DAMAGING CCTVs
DCP (North) Sagar Singh Kalsi said a CCTV camera was also damaged. The CM
was not at home at the time. The BJYM had organised a protest march from IP
College to the CM’s residence on Wednesday against his remarks on making The
Kashmir Files tax free in Delhi. In the assembly, the CM had said that while BJP
workers were promoting the movie and the filmmakers had made crores off it,
the suffering of Kashmiri Pandits had been exploited. While the BJP has been
protesting against Kejriwal for the past week, this is the first time that Surya
joined the protest against the Delhi Chief Minister.
Want to win, but not by
violence against rivals...
New Delhi: The BJP
wants to fight and win
polls everywhere on ba-
sis of its ideology
, pro-
grammes, leadership’s
popularity and perfor-
mance of the govern-
ment,andnotbyunleash-
ing violence against ri-
vals, Home Minister
Amit Shah said on
Wednesday
.
Replying to the debate
overtheDelhiMunicipal
Corporation (Amend-
ment) Bill, 2022, in Lok
Sabha, Mr Shah said the
BJP wants to form gov-
ernmenteverywhereand
that is why it fights polls.
“Why did you go to
Goa,whyareyougoingto
Tripura. You have the
right to go, I don’t say
don’t go, every party
must go with their ideol-
ogy
,programmes,perfor-
mance to all places, this
is the beauty of democ-
racy
,” Shah said in an ap-
parent response to re-
marks made by TMC.
Report: Ukraine
missile hits
military camp
inside Russia
Kyiv: The Ukrainian
forces may have struck
a target inside Russia,
multiple publications
reported.
The Russia-Ukraine
war has been going on
for more than a month
and so far, with numeri-
cally superior Russia
penetrating deep inside
the Ukrainian territory
.
Footage has emerged
from Belgorod, in west-
ernRussia,whichshows
an encampment - be-
lieved to be an arms de-
pot - hit by a Ukrainian
missile late on Tuesday
night.
The site of the missile
blast is just 12 miles
from the Russian-
Ukrainian border.
DearnessAllowance hiked by 3% to 34%,effective from Jan 1,2022
New Delhi: The cabi-
net has approved the
proposal to increase
the dearness allowance
for central government
employees and pen-
sioners by 3 per cent to
34 per cent of the basic
pay from 31 per cent
previously, effective
January 1, 2022.
That increase in DA is
per the accepted for-
mula, which is based
on the recommenda-
tions of the 7th central
pay commission.
The Union Cabinet
chaired by the Prime
Minister, Narendra
Modi, has given its ap-
proval to release an ad-
ditional instalment of
dearness allowance
(DA) to central govern-
ment employees and
dearness relief (DR) to
pensioners effective
January 1 this year.
That represents an
increase of 3 per cent
over the existing rate
of 31 per cent of the ba-
sic pay/pension to com-
pensate for the rise in
prices.
RAJ GOVT GIVES
NOD TO 3% HIKE
CM Ashok Gehlot approved
three percent increase in
dearness allowance of state
employees and dearness re-
lief payable to pensioners on
the lines of Central Govern-
ment employees. Now, 34%
dearness allowance and dear-
ness relief rate will be payable
to staff and pensioners from
January 1, 2022.
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) supporter in a scuffle with Paramilitary and police personnel.
BJYM supporters staged
protest against the
statement of Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal
over the movie ‘The
Kashmir Files’, outside
CMR on Wednesday.
Amit Shah in
Parliament
On the basis of our
programmes, ideolo-
gy, popularity of
leadership and the
performance of our
government, we want
to fight polls and win
everywhere. But we
don’t want to grab
power by killing
workers of rival par-
ties, carrying out se-
ries of murders, by
raping wives and
daughters of (rival)
party workers. This is
not our culture
—Amit Shah
Chirag evicted
from Lutyen’s
bungalow
allotted to late
minister father
PUNE AIRPORT RUNWAY
CLOSES DUE TO IAF
AIRCRAFT TYRE BURST
Ahead of no-confidence
vote, Imran loses majority
Islamabad: Pakistan
Prime Minister Imran
Khan’s future looked
increasingly in doubt
today after a key coali-
tion partner switched
allegiance ahead of a
parliamentary no-confi-
dence vote that could be
held as early as this
weekend. “Imran Khan
is a player who fights
till the last ball. There
will not be a resigna-
tion. There will be a
match, both friends and
foes will watch it,”
tweeted Pak Minister
Fawad Chaudhry
. Khan
cancelled his address to
nation at last minute.
New Delhi: Chirag Pas-
wan, Lok Sabha MP and
son of former Union
minister Ram Vilas Pas-
wan, is being evicted
from the bungalow allot-
ted to his late father,
sources said. The gov-
ernmenthassentateam
to the premises at 12
Janpath Road and Chi-
ragPaswan’sbelongings
are being removed.
The 12 Janpath Road
bungalow, two doors
down from Congress
chief Sonia Gandhi’s
residence, is earmarked
for the use of Union
ministers. Chirag Pas-
wan was asked to vacate
the premises last year –
almost a year after the
death of after the death
of Ram Vilas Paswan.
Pune: Several flights
weredelayedatthePune
airport due to an unex-
pected runway closure
caused by a tyre burst of
a Sukhoi 30 MKI aircraft
on Wednesday after-
noon. As per sources at
the airport, the tyre
burst of the aircraft
happened around 11 am
and the runway re-
mained shut.
PM Modi: Question marks over
international stability; time to
step up BIMSTEC cooperation
ACADEMY PROMISES
TO TAKE ACTION
AGAINST SMITH SLAP
New Delhi: Stating that
recent developments in
Europe had raised ques-
tions over the stability
of international order,
PM Narendra Modi
called for greater coop-
eration among Bimstec
nations and said it was
time to make the Bay of
Bengal a “bridge of con-
nectivity
, prosperity and
security”.
Inhisopeningremarks
at the fifth summit of the
Bay of Bengal Initiative
for Multi-Sectoral Tech-
nical and Economic Co-
operation, Modi said the
results of the summit
would write a golden
chapter in its history
.
New York: Following
Will Smith-Chris Rock
slap incident at the Os-
cars, the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences (AMPAS) has
sent a letter to the Acad-
emy members on
Wednesday and prom-
ised that “appropriate
action” will be taken
over the incident.
Army, ISI chief
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FIX ACCOUNTABILITY, WILL NOT
TOLERATE DELAY IN WORKS: CM
Lucknow (PTI): Chief
Minister Yogi on
Wednesday asked se-
nior state officials to fix
the accountability of
employees and said the
delay in delivery of ser-
vices won’t be tolerated.
The CM ordered that
all heads of depart-
ments should make sur-
prise inspections to
check cleanliness in of-
fice, files pending for
disposal, attendance of
staff and their punctu-
ality, an officials state-
ment said here.
With good gover-
nance being an import-
ant narrative in the
just-concluded Assem-
bly elections, Aditya-
nath at the very outset
of hisnewtermstressed
on expeditious delivery
of services.
Considering the fact
that physical classes
are not taking place in
schools across the state
for the past two years,
Adityanath instructed
officials to launch a
comprehensive “School
Chalo Abhiyan”.
He said the campaign
must be planned in con-
sultation with the min-
ister concerned to en-
sure not a single child is
deprived of school.
The CM asked offi-
cials to ensure that chil-
dren come to school in
proper uniform consid-
ering that the money
for uniforms was depos-
ited in bank account of
their parents.
Regarding wheat pro-
curement, which is
scheduled to begin from
April 1, the CM asked
officials to ensure all
facilities are made
available to farmers at
procurement centres.
Farmers must also get
the benefit of the mini-
mum support price, he
told officials, adding
they should make ar-
rangements for the stor-
age of procured wheat
and prevent waste.
Adityanath ordered
to make arrangements
to prevent damage to
wheat crop by acciden-
tal fires and provide re-
lief to even those farm-
ers not covered under
the Crop Insurance
Scheme.
CM Yogi presides over a meet of officials on Wednesday. Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak, CS Durga
Shankar Mishra, ACS (Info) Navneet Sehgal, ACS (Home) Awanish Awasthi, ACS (Secondary
Education) Aradhna Shukla, ACS (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad, Principal Secy to CM Sanjay Prasad
and DGP Mukul Goel were present.
YOGI ON CHILDREN’S
VACCINATION DRIVE
CM Yogi on Wednes-
day directed officers
to intensify vaccina-
tion of children aged
12-15 years for pro-
tection against Covid.
Yogi also expressed
satisfaction over
the Covid situation
in Uttar Pradesh in
comparison to other
states.
The farmers
must get the
benefits of MSP. Of-
ficials should ar-
range storage facili-
ties and prevent
wastage
—Yogi Adityanath,
Chief Minister
CM YOGI DIALS SLAIN
BABAR’S MOTHER
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Chief
Minister Yogi Adi-
tyanath has spoken
to the mother of
Babar Ali, who was
beaten to death for
allegedly celebrating
the BJP’s victory in
Kushinagar district,
over the phone.
Consoling de-
ceased’s mother Zai-
bunnisha, the Chief
Minister said he was
like her son too and
assured her that the
culprits will not be
spared.
He has also provid-
ed financial help of
Rs 2 lakh to the fami-
ly, with the district
a d m i n i s t r a t i o n
transferring the
amount to the ac-
count of Fatima,
Babar’s wife. Along
with this, the district
administration has
also registered the
names of other fami-
ly members in the
ration card to ensure
that the benefits of
the government’s
welfare schemes
reach Babar’s family
.
Babar, who hailed
from Kushinagar dis-
trict in Uttar
Pradesh, died after
he was allegedly
roughed up by his
neighbours for cele-
brating the BJP’s vic-
tory in the recently
concluded state as-
sembly elections.
The incident took
place on March 20,
said police.
Babar was
allegedly
beaten to death
for celebrating
BJP’s victory
B’WOOD IN BHAKTI MODE
Bollywood actor Rajat Bedi during the shooting of the hymn Jogi re Jogi at Nandeshwar Ghat in Varanasi on Wednesday.
GOVT SETS RESPONSE TIME FOR
FIRE OUTBREAKS IN SUMMERS
First India Bureau
Lucknow: To avert fire
mishaps amid sum-
mers, the Yogi Govern-
ment has taken a slew
of measures ranging
from utilizing the Inte-
grated command and
control centre (ICCC) to
prevent such incidents
to ensuring provision
of fire tender facility in
all tehsils.
While chairing his
first high-level review
meeting with officials
after assuming charge
for his second term,
Yogi on Wednesday
said, “Many states saw
fire outbreaks in hospi-
tals amid Covid-19 men-
ace. Our arrangements
helped in avoiding any
such incident in UP,
however, we must main-
tain caution and carry
out physical review of
fire safety arrange-
ments at all places.”
Determined to protect
the state against any
such incidents, he di-
rected the officials to
utilize the Integrated
Command Control Cen-
tres (ICCCs), which con-
tributed significantly
towards Covid-19 man-
agement, for keeping
round-the-clock vigi-
lance on fire safety
management so that in
case of any deficiency
or disturbance, the sys-
tem is rectified with im-
mediate effect.
The ICCCs that are
functional in each dis-
trict, will also comfort
people in cases of natu-
ral calamities such as
heat waves, floods, etc.
BRING DOWN EMERGENCY RESPONSE TIME: CM
UP govt is also working to provide fire tender with modern
facilities in all the tehsils. This will not only give a substan-
tial boost to Fire and Rescue Services in the State, but will
also enable in controlling such incidents. Yogi has also
instructed to bring down emergency response time to 15
minutes in rural areas and 7 minutes in urban areas.
CM Yogi Adityanath
On CM Yogi’s orders, UP Police draws
up plan to maximise use of technology
First India Bureau
Lucknow: In order to
achieve even better po-
licing and main-
tainence of law and or-
der in Uttar Pradesh,
the Home Department
and the Police Depart-
ment is all set to under-
go major changes on the
instructions of Chief
Minister Yogi Aditya-
nath.
In this regard, prepa-
rations are going on in
all the units of the po-
lice and changes will be
visible at the district,
range, and zone level as
well.
Chief Minister Yogi
has always made it a
point to improve polic-
ing in the state to give
people, women, in par-
ticular, a sense of secu-
rity
.
The result of which
was witnessed in the as-
sembly elections, when
the people appreciated
the law and order of the
state and extended their
support.
In his second term,
CM Yogi Adityanath
has tasked the Home
Department to further
improve the law, order,
and policing.
A meeting of other
departmental officers
including ACS Home
Awanish Awasthi and
DGP Mukul Goel was
held,where DGPMukul
Goel gave a five hun-
dred page presentation.
In order to make UP
Police a top performer
in the country, all the
police units have been
asked to provide mi-
cro-details from zero to
two years, short-term
details from two to five
years, and long-term for
more than five years.
Details have also
been sought for maxi-
mising use of technolo-
gy, and the expenditure
incurred on it.
LAW AND ORDER
DGP Mukul Goel gives a
presentation spanning 500
pages in a high-level meet
of Home dept officials
UP Police Headquarters in Lucknow
Women beat
officers to
visit villages
First India Bureau
Lucknow: To
make women safe,
and self-reliant,
Women Help
Desks have been
set up in all police
stations under
Mission Shakti on
the instructions
of the CM. Over
10,370 Women
Beats have been
formed in all po-
lice stations to
provide legal aid
to women.
For the first time
in the state, 20,740
women constables
have been made
beat police offi-
cers.These offi-
cers will visit vil-
lages once a week
and make them
aware.
These women
constables will
also record an ac-
count of the prob-
lems being faced
in the village on
the beat book.
DGP HQ to submit a report
on ‘Sankalp Patra’ promises
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The DGP
headquarters is mak-
ing all the prepara-
tions to fulfill the
promises related to
law and order and po-
licing made in the
Lok Kalyan Sankalp
Patra presented by
BJP before the re-
cently concluded
elections.
A report in this re-
gards will be submit-
ted soon.
The report will
consist of a flow-
chart to fulfill prom-
ises including the
establishment of
Anti Corruption Or-
ganization Unit in 18
divisions, establish-
ment of Kotwal Dhan
Singh Gurjar State
ModernPoliceTrain-
ingCenterinMeerut,
Establishment of
Anti-Terrorist Com-
mando Centers in
Deoband, Meerut,
Rampur, Azamgarh,
Kanpur, and Bah-
raich to curb terror-
ist activities, setting
up of Cyber Help
Desk (CHD) in every
police station.
CM’s ambitious Mission
Shakti enters fourth phase
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Chief Min-
ister Yogi Adityanath,
who has started his sec-
ond inning, seems de-
termined to take his
government’s ambi-
tious project ‘Mission
Shakti’ to the next level.
This campaign has
been empowering, up-
lifting, and safe-guard-
ing the women and
daughters of the state
ever since its inception.
In Yogi government 2.0,
the Mission Shakti is all
set to get into the fourth
phase.
The officials have
been asked to prepare
an action plan ensuring
all women get the bene-
fits of various govern-
ment schemes and live
their lives with dignity
and respect in a safe en-
vironment.
During the last ten-
ure of the Yogi govern-
ment, along with run-
ning a massive aware-
ness campaign across
districts, women were
connected with various
beneficial schemes in
the first, second and
third phases of Mission
Shakti.
In the third phase,
the Department of
Women and Child De-
velopment and the De-
partment of Child De-
velopment Services and
Nutrition made over
28.32 lakh people aware
in just four months till
December 2021.
So far, over 10 crore
people have been made
aware about Mission
Shakti across phases.
Under the campaign,
the work of making
people aware of vari-
ous laws and provisions
related to violence
against women and
children was done in all
the districts. The de-
partments organised
special programmes to
educate people against
harassment of women
and children, domestic
violence, drug abuse,
trafficking, child mar-
riage, discrimination,
child labour, and other
exploitations.
CM Yogi Adityanath attends a Mission Shakti event in presence of
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. —FILE PHOTO
ENSURING ALL WOMEN GET BENEFITS
—PHOTO BY PTI

UTTAR PRADESH
03
Janardan Misra
Unnao: Objectionable
posters, wall paintings
and graffiti announcing
thatnon-Hinduswillnot
beallowedtosetuptheir
shops near temples at-
tracted the attention of
locals here. The posters
were placed by workers
of Hindu Jagaran
Manch (HJM) who are
trying to start a cam-
paign on this issue.
It was reported that
wall paintings that said
non-Hindus were not al-
lowed to put up shops
near temples were no-
ticed near several tem-
ples here. Also, Hindu
Jagaran Manch had giv-
en a memorandum for
the same to the district
administration earlier.
The paintings and post-
ers, issued in the name
of Vimal Dwivedi, re-
gional in-charge of
HJM, were seen as a
threat to social harmo-
ny in the area.
But Dwivedi said it
would be helpful for
the security and
tranquillity of Hin-
du religious places.
He said his organisa-
tion was demanding
that only Hindus be
allowed to put up
shops near Hindu re-
ligious places as peo-
ple other than Hindus
have no respect for such
places which are sacred
for Hindus. He also said
miscreants gathered at
shops of non-Hindus
near temple premises
and created nuisance.
He added people who
ate meat and consumed
alcohol had no respect
for Hindu religious plac-
es and their presence
should be prohibited.
HJMwarnsnon-Hindusagainstopeningshopneartemples
NSA AGAINST ACCUSED
As part of its action on Yazdan Builders, LDA demolished its illegal construction in Lucknow
on Wednesday . —PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The Luc-
know Development
Authority (LDA) on
Wednesday razed an
illegalunder-construc-
tion apartment build-
ing belonging to a
nephew of Samajwadi
Party (SP) leader Man-
sud Hasan and Saima
Yazdan of Yazdan
Builders. Bahujan Sa-
majParty(BSP)leader
Fahadhadseveralflats
in his name in the
building located in
Balu Adda area near
Hazaratganj.
Official sources said
theconstructionof the
building was done
without an approved
map and several notic-
es were issued in this
regard. They said the
construction of build-
ing started in 2016 and
LDA had seized the
building twice earlier,
but even after official
action, the construc-
tion continued.
According to LDA
sources, the seven-sto-
rey building was con-
structed on 15,000
square feet land.
Huge police force
was deployed at the
spotduringdemolition
proceedings to deal
with any untoward sit-
uation. The valuation
of the building was
more than Rs 25 crore.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Deputy CM
Brajesh Pathak and
Minister of State for Ur-
ban Development
Rakesh Rathore met the
families of the two sani-
tation workers who died
on Tuesday while clean-
ing a sewer line in
Sa’adat Ganj area of
Lucknow. The ministers
expressed their condo-
lences to the victims’
families and assured the
government’s support
in this time of their
tragic loss. They in-
formed that Rs 20 lakh
each has been trans-
ferred by NEFT/RTGS
to the bank accounts of
the legal heirs of the de-
ceased to help them
overcome the adverse
situation.
The Lucknow Munic-
ipal Corporation on
Wednesday released a
statement about Tues-
day’s incident, saying
that 2 employees of Sew-
age India Pvt. Ltd. were
cleaning a sewer line
near Amberganj Gulab
Nagar Mabia Masjid un-
der Zone-6 of the Luc-
know Municipal Corpo-
ration when they were
trapped inside a man-
hole along with 2 other
fellow sanitation work-
ers. Karan, 20, and Pu-
ran, both residents of
Ghazi Haider Canal,
E-Block, Rajajipuram,
Lucknow, lost their lives
while two other sanita-
tion workers were res-
cued and admitted to
KGMU Trauma Centre.
First India Bureau
Prayagraj: The Alla-
habad HC granted bail
to an accused of refus-
ing to marry and raping
a Scheduled Caste girl,
after having relation-
ship with her for seven
years.
The Division Bench
of Justice Suneet Ku-
marandJusticeVikram
D. Chauhan passed this
order, while hearing a
Criminal Appeal by
Vishal Verma.
It was submitted that
the applicant has been
convicted merely on the
ground that the rela-
tionship did not culmi-
nate into marriage.
“We are of the opin-
ion that the sentence be
kept in abeyance and
the appellant-applicant
in consequence be en-
larged on bail. The
prayer for bail is grant-
ed,” the court observed.
First India Bureau
Bulandshahr: A case
was registered against
11 persons including
three policemen- then
Kotwali inspector and
two sub-inspectors un-
der murder and other
charges, for death in po-
lice custody in Khurja
police Kotwali.
Police said Sonu alais
Somdutt, resident of
Shahjadpur Kaneni vil-
lage, had died in police
custodyonDecember11,
2020. He was taken into
custody for eloping with
girl of different cast.
The case was regis-
tered against policemen
on complaint of mother
of deceased. After one
and half year High
Court sought report
about the action taken
against accused police-
men into the matter.
Mother of deceased
also alleged that police
cremated the dead body
of her son with
post-mortem. Also it
was mentioned in her
complaint that police
filed case against de-
ceased on influence of
opposition party
.
Under-construction building
ofSPleader’skinrazedbyLDA
WORTH `25-CR
UP Board’sClass 12 Eng paper leaked,
exam cancelled in 24 dists
Lucknow(PTI): The
Class12Englishexamof
the Uttar Pradesh sec-
ondary school board
was cancelled in 24 dis-
tricts on Wednesday af-
ter the question paper
was leaked.
Cancellation of the
exam was announced
hoursbeforethetestwas
scheduled to begin at 2
pm.CMYogiAdityanath
has directed officials
that the stringent Na-
tional Security Act
(NSA)beslappedagainst
those involved in the
leakandorderedtheSTF
to probe the matter, an
official said.
He also suspended
Ballia’s District Inspec-
tor of Schools, Brajesh
Mishra, following the
incident, he said.
ACS (Secondary Edu-
cation) Aradhana Shuk-
la said, “The question
paper was leaked before
the start of the exam.
The matter is being
looked into.”
Confirming that Adi-
tyanath has directed
slapping of NSA against
the accused, ACS (Info)
Navneet Sehgal said,
“The CM has directed
theSTFtoprobethemat-
ter and he suspended
DIoS of Ballia Brajesh
Mishra.”
The order is in line
with the state govern-
ment’s warning before
the start of the Uttar
Pradesh Board exam to
slapthestringentNSAif
anyoneisfoundinvolved
in a question paper leak.
The Class 12 English
exam was cancelled in
Agra, Mainpuri, Mathu-
ra, Aligarh, Ghaziabad,
Bagpat,Badaun,Shahja-
hanpur, Unnao, Sitapur,
Lalitpur, Mahoba, Ja-
laun, Chitrakoot,
Ambedkarnagar, Prata-
pgarh, Gonda, Gorakh-
pur, Azamgarh, Ballia,
Varanasi, Kanpur De-
hat, Etah and Shamli
districts, Shukla said.
The exam in 24 districts
will be held on April 13
between 8 am and 11.15
am.Thegovernmenthas
also launched helplines
and asked students to
reachouttotheUPboard
in case of any difficulty
.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Everthought
of an antonym for ‘tree’
or the opposite of 60?
Thestudentsinthestate-
run schools in UP are
facing weird questions
in their ongoing annual
examinations.
A Hindi question pa-
perinaPrayagrajschool
asked the Class 5 stu-
dents the opposite of
‘ped’ (tree), while an En-
glish question paper in
Bhadohi district asked
the Class 7 students to
write the opposite of 60.
Class 5 students in
Prayagraj were asked to
identify the rectangle
among the figures in an
English question paper.
If it was not bizarre
enough to have a mathe-
matics question in an
English paper, the choic-
es for this question had
no figures. The issue has
now snowballed into a
major controversy and a
probe has been ordered.
DG school education,
Anamika Singh said,
“Despite Covid and elec-
tions, we managed to
hold annual exams after
2 years. I have directed
the UPBEC secretary to
examine issues related
to questions and take ap-
propriate action.”
Lucknow: Additional
Chief Secretary (ACS
Secondary Education)
Aradhana Shukla said
on Wednesday, “The
question paper was
leaked before the
start of the exam. The
matter is being looked
into.” Confirming that
Adityanath has directed
slapping of NSA against
the accused, ACS (Info)
Navneet Sehgal said,
“The CM has directed
the Uttar Pradesh
Special Task Forse
(UP STF) to probe the
matter and he suspend-
ed District Inspector of
Schools (DIoS) of Ballia
Brajesh Mishra.”
UP STF ASKED TO
PROBE INCIDENT
View outside an exam centre in Ghaziabad on Wednesday after officials announced the cancellation
of the Class 12 English exam. —PHOTO BY PTI
Lucknow: UP minister in-charge of secondary educa-
tion Gulab Devi said, “It appears the English question
paper of class 12 was leaked in Ballia. The matter is
being looked into and strict action will be taken against
the guilty.” Asked why the exam was cancelled in only
24 districts, Gulab Devi said it was done in only those
districts where the leaked paper was distributed. “In the
remaining 51 districts, the English exam is underway.”
‘EXAM NORMAL IN REMAINING DISTRICTS’
Question
paper stumps
students
CRUCIAL READ
New Delhi: The fire at east Delhi’s Ghazipur dump-
ing yard was put out on Wednesday evening, over
50 hours after it broke out, officials said. The fire
broke out at the dumping yard on Monday, leading
to a huge cloud of smoke enveloping the region and
neighbouring areas. The fire was doused around 5
pm. Firefighting operations went on for more than
50 hours, the officials said. Cooling operations have
been completed. No casualty was reported in the
incident, a fire department official said.
MISCREANTS LOOT
ORNAMENTS FROM
GIRL STUDENTS
Moradabad: Criminals
looted ornaments worth
Rs 2 lakh from girl stu-
dents after taking them
on gunpoint. Police have
registered case against
unidentified criminals
into the matter and fur-
ther investigations were
underway. Senior police
officers including SSP
Chandra Prakash Shukla
rushed to the spot after
information. Police said
several girl student of
Hashmi Girls’ Degree
College, Amroha were
heading towards college
when bike-borne crimi-
nals looted them on gun
point. It was reported
that gold chain and ring
of Shirine Fatima was
taken by the criminals.
MISSING JAIPUR
GIRLS RECOVERED
FROM CHARBAGH
Lucknow: The police
have recovered two
missing girls from Jai-
pur who reached state
capital on February 4
and police was search-
ing for them vigorously.
Chiranjeev Nath Sinha,
additional DCP (west)
here said the missing
sisters Bhawana Kawar
and Rama Kawar of
Mahesh Nagar in Karta-
pura area of Jaipur had
eloped on February 2
and their location was
found in Charbagh area
on February 4. Both
missing sisters were
spotted in CCTV cam-
eras on February 4 and
Lucknow police helped
Mahesh Nagar police,
Jaipur to find them.
FIRE AT GHAZIPUR DUMPING YARD
FINALLY DOUSED AFTER 50 HOURS
Case against 11 cops for death in custody
Pathakmeetskinofdeadsanitationworkers
Bail to accused who refused
to marry Dalit rape victim
DyCM Brajesh Pathak and MoS for Urban Development Rakesh
Rathore meet the kin of two sanitation workers who died on Tuesday.
Secondary Education Minister Gulab Devi at the control room in
Secondary Education Office, Lucknow after the paper leak.
A notice painted on a wall in Unnao
—PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR

PERSPECTIVE
04
rime Minister Narendra
Modi has never hesitated
in experimenting with for-
eign policy
. He has always
tried to bring the Heads of
nations, sportspersons, in-
dustrialists and youth to-
gether while addressing
the needs of each and eve-
ry section of people.
“When we were scheduled
to visit Australia, I had a
talk with him. There were
other people also. Modi
said that both the nations
had diplomatic talks but
tell me what do the people
of Australia like? We told
him that Australians are
crazy about cricket. Then
Modi said that a function
should be organised at the
world’s largest cricket sta-
dium Melbourne where
cricketers like Kapil Dev
and Sunil Gavaskar
should meet the public.
This shows that Modi has
a pulse on the liking of
public whether it’s our
own country or abroad,”
said G Parthasarthy, a dip-
lomat and author.
Modi didn’t restrict di-
plomacy to mere few for-
mal and informal dia-
logues between 2 coun-
tries. He increased the
number of meetings and
expanded the scope of dia-
logues during his visits.
“Earlier there used to be a
maximum of 5-6 meetings.
Now 10-12-15 meetings in a
day are scheduled. It’s like
playing test match at the
pace of 20-20. It was not a
one-day affair, it was una-
bated. I am surprised we
would travel 5 countries in
6 days spending nights in
flights, because even Modi
used to do it,” union exter-
nal affairs minister S Jais-
hankar had said.
With great acumen of
foreign affairs, Modi was
fast emerging as a strong
global leader. But people
were surprised as to how a
person who had not been
even a union minister be-
fore becoming Prime Min-
ister could deftly handle
the international affairs.
“He once told me that he
had been to US. He had
went around places. He
has real life experience.
Now if we add his real
life experience with in-
novative thinking, we
can easily understand
his foreign policy,” Jais-
hankar had said.
The aim of Modi’s
whirlwind foreign trips
was not only to elevate
the position of the na-
tion on diplomatic plat-
forms but also to instil
confidence among the
Indian diaspora. Modi
used the rich Indian tradi-
tions and culture to win
the respect for Indian dias-
pora on foreign soil. This
was part of his diplomacy
to use national symbols
and Hindi as language for
communication at global
platform. This practice
won back the glory for In-
dia. Modi as a Prime Min-
ister started speaking in
Hindi at the global plat-
form of the United Nation.
He proposed before the
world to celebrate June 21
as the Yoga Divas.
“Yoga is our ancient tra-
dition and priceless treas-
ure. Let’s work towards
celebrating International
Yoga Day to promote this
invaluable custom,” Modi
had said. The entire world
endorsed his idea of Yoga
in record time and June 21
was accepted as the Inter-
national Yoga Day
.
“World wants to know
about India. The world un-
derstands that we have a
personality… we have a
culture … a tradition…a
civilisation…if the Prime
Minister of India doesn’t
express the richness of the
country at this grand plat-
form, then it has no mean-
ing,” Jaishankar had said.
Prime Minister Modi
knows the art of convert-
ing crisis into opportunity
.
He got this opportunity
during the Covid pandem-
ic, which devastated the
entire globe. Modi put
across the mantra of Vas-
udhaiva Kutumbakam
strongly before the global
community…whether it
was supplying medicines
to various countries or vac-
cines or ventilators… Modi
opened the doors for all the
countries in need. Under
the Vaccine Maitri Mis-
sion, India supplied vac-
cines to several countries.
“The number of vac-
cines we use everyday is
much more than total vac-
cines put together in sev-
eral countries… in such
India has changed. People
get surprised by knowing
that we have helped 80-90
countries in the world…
either we sent Medicines,
PPE kits, relief materials
or vaccines,” Baijayant
Jay Panda, Vice President
of BJP had said.
When the entire world
was passing through the
devastating pandemic era,
China was busy propagat-
ing its expansionist agen-
da. Right from infiltrating
areas of neighbouring
countries to showing ag-
gressive tantrums to coun-
tries like Australia, Japan
and India, China was
proving dangerous to the
entire global community.
Amid the challenges put
up by Covid pandemic, In-
dia entered a quadrilater-
al diplomatic agreement
with America, Australia
and Japan. This four-na-
tion strategic security dia-
logue is known as QUAD.
China is upset with this
development but this four-
nation treaty is not a front
against China. This is a
partnership to bring all
the four nations together
on the highway of devel-
opment.
Modi has continuously
been making the nation
stronger from within, now
has attained a global stat-
ure. “Neither I am going to
stop nor I will get tired.
And I will never bow down
before the falsehoods,”
Modi declared.
P
SHASHIKANT
SHARMA
The writer is Consulting
Editor, First India
“MAIN DESH NAHI JHUKNE DUNGA”
MODI KEEPS HIS PROMISE, STEERS
‘BHARAT’ TO GREATER HEIGHTS
DOWN THE MEMORY LANE … PART 11
NARENDRA MODI AS PRADHAN SEVAK… PM OF INDIA
NEITHER I AM GOING TO
STOP NOR I WILL GET
TIRED. AND I WILL NEVER
BOW DOWN BEFORE
THE FALSEHOODS
—PM MODI
When we were scheduled to
visit Australia, I had a talk
with him. There were other
people also. Modi said that
both the nations had
diplomatic talks but tell me
what do the people of
Australia like? We told him
that Australians are crazy
about cricket. Then Modi said
that a function should be
organised at the world’s
largest cricket stadium
Melbourne where cricketers
like Kapil Dev and Sunil
Gavaskar should meet the
public. This shows that Modi
has a pulse on the liking of
public whether it’s our own
country or abroad.
G Parthasarthy,
A Diplomat and Author
With great acumen of foreign
affairs, Modi was fast
emerging as a strong global
leader. But people were
surprised as to how a person
who had not been even a union
minister before becoming PM
could deftly handle the
international affairs. He once
told me that he had been to US.
He had travelled in buses and
went around places. He has
real-life experience. Now if we
add his real-life experience
with innovative thinking, we
can easily understand his
foreign policy.
S Jaishankar,
Union External Affairs Minister
The number of vaccines we use
everyday is much more than
total vaccines put together in
several countries… in such
India has changed. People get
surprised by knowing that we
have helped 80-90 countries
in the world… either we sent
Medicines, PPE kits, relief
materials or vaccines.
Baijayant Jay Panda,
The then Vice President of BJP
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MARCH 28, 2022
LET’S WORK TOWARDS INT’L YOGA DAY TO
PROMOTE THIS INVALUABLE CUSTOM: MODI
odi as a Prime Minister started speaking in Hindi at
the global platform of the United Nation. He proposed
before the world to celebrate June 21 as the Yoga
Divas. “Yoga is our ancient tradition and priceless treasure.
Let’s work towards celebrating International Yoga Day to
promote this invaluable custom,” Modi had said. The entire
world endorsed his idea of Yoga in record time and June 21
was accepted as the International Yoga Day.
NARENDRA MODI MANTRA: “VASUDHAIVA
KUTUMBAKAM”, WHICH MEANS THAT
“THE WORLD IS ONE FAMILY”
odi put across the mantra of Vasudhaiv Kutum-
bakam strongly before the global community…
whether it was supplying medicines to various
countries or vaccines or ventilators…
Modi opened the doors for all the
countries in need. Under the
Vaccine Maitri Mis-
sion, India supplied
vaccines to several
countries.
M
INDIA IN THE QUADRILATERAL DIPLOMATIC
AGREEMENT WITH USA, AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN
mid the challenges put up by Covid pan-
demic, India entered a quadrilateral diplo-
matic agreement with America, Australia and
Japan. This four-nation strategic security dialogue is
known as QUAD. China is upset with this develop-
ment but this four-nation treaty is not a front against
China. This is a partnership to bring all the four
nations together on the highway of development.
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INDIA
05
KARNATAKA HIJAB BAN
40 Muslim girl students skip
exams at Udupi govt colleges
Udupi (PTI): 40 Mus-
lim girl students from
the Udupi district of
Karnataka abstained
from appearing for the
first pre-university ex-
amination as they were
apparently hurt by the
recent High Court ver-
dict against the wear-
ing of hijab inside
classrooms.
The students decided
to not appear for the ex-
aminationwithoutwear-
ingtheheadscarf asthey
were hurt by the March
15 order, sources said.
The Karnataka High
Court on March 15 had
dismissed petitions
seeking permission to
wear hijab inside the
classroom, saying the
headscarf is not a part
of the essential reli-
gious practice in the Is-
lamic faith and that the
uniform dress rule
should be followed in
educational institu-
tions where it has been
prescribed.
Those who shunned
the examinations on
Tuesday include 24 girl
students from Kun-
dapur, 14 from Byndoor
and two from Udupi
Government Girls PU
college, who are in-
volved in the legal fight
over the wearing of hi-
jab in classrooms. The
girls had earlier boy-
cotted the practical ex-
aminations also.
At the RN Shetty PU
college, 13 out of 28
Muslim girl students
appeared for the exami-
nation. Though some
students reached the
examination centre
wearing hijabs, they
were denied permis-
sion.
Four out of five girl
students appeared for
the examinations at
Bhandarkar’s college in
Udupi, while all the girl
students of Basrur
Sharada college attend-
ed the examinations.
Six of the eight girl
students of Navunda
Government PU Col-
lege abstained from the
examinations, while
only two out of 10 Mus-
lim girls appeared for
the examinations.
Some private colleges
in the district allowed
students wearing hijab
to attend the examina-
tions, sources said.
7 SUSPENDED FOR
ALLOWING HIJAB
IN CLASS X EXAMS
Bengaluru: The Karna-
taka Education Depart-
ment has suspended
7 teachers including
2 superintendents for
allowing hijab clad stu-
dents to take SSLC (class
10) exams in Gadag
district. The department
has also ordered an
inquiry on the suspended
persons. These teachers
and superintendents
allowed hijab clad girls to
write exams on Monday
at the C.S. Patil Examina-
tion Centre in Gadag.
Meanwhile, Sriram
Sene Kalaburagi District
President, Ninganna
Gouda Patil has lodged
a complaint with the
Block Education Officer
of Kalaburagi demanding
the suspension of Mo-
hammad Ali, the teacher
of Ijeri Urdu School in
Jevargi taluk for allowing
a student to write exams
wearing hijab. In his
complaint he has warned
that if action is not taken,
protest will be staged.
Birbhum killings: BJP team
claims ‘mafia rule’ in Bengal
New Delhi (PTI): A
BJPfact-findingteamon
Wednesday submitted
its report to party chief
JP Nadda on the recent
massacre of nine people
in West Bengal’s Birb-
hum, claiming “mafia
rule” prevailed in the
state with the conniv-
ance of police and politi-
cal leadership, provok-
ing sharp reaction from
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee, who said the
report will “weaken and
interfere” with the CBI
probe in the case.
The BJP team, in-
cluding four former IPS
officers, demanded cen-
tral intervention for
restoration of the “col-
lapsed” law and order
situation in the state.
The party had consti-
tuted a five-member
team in the aftermath
of the violence in Bog-
tui village in Birbhum
district, where eight
people were burnt alive,
while one more suc-
cumbed to the injuries
a week later, after a mob
set some houses ablaze
allegedly in retaliation
for the killing of a rul-
ing TMC leader Bhadu
Sheikh on March 21.
The panel comprised
Rajya Sabha MP and
former Uttar Pradesh
police chief Brajlal,
Lok Sabha MP and for-
mer Mumbai police
commissioner Satyapal
Singh, Rajya Sabha MP
and former IPS officer
KC Ramamurthy, a na-
tional spokesperson for
the party, former West
Bengal cadre IPS officer
Bharati Ghosh and
state BJP chief Sukanta
Majumdar.
The law and order
machinery has totally
collapsed in West Ben-
gal under the TMC rule
and there is a rule of
the mafia in the state
that’s run with the con-
nivance of police and
the political leadership,
the report said.
Claiming that “state-
sponsored extortion,
goonda tax, cut-money
and tolabazi (organised
extortion)” were the
main reasons behind
the violence, the report
said the Centre should
intervene and direct of-
ficials of the All India
Services like the IPS
and the IAS to follow
the rule of law.
Mamata says BJP
report will interfere
with CBI probe
Bengal BJP delegation submits Birbhum report to JP Nadda.
Can’t give relaxation in attempts
in UPSC Main exam, Govt to SC
New Delhi (Agen-
cies): The Centre has
opposed a plea before
the Supreme Court
seeking extra attempts
for candidates, who
could not take the Civil
Services (Main) exam
held in January this
year, due to Covid-19.
In a counter affidavit,
the Department of Per-
sonnel and Training
(DoPT) said: “The mat-
ter has been considered
and it has not been
found feasible to change
the existing provisions
regarding number of
attempts and age-limit
in respect of CSE (Civil
Services exam).
“That it is also sub-
mitted that any relaxa-
tion to age-limit and
number of permissible
attempts due to Cov-
id-19 pandemic could
lead to similar de-
mands being made by
the other categories of
candidates.”
The DoPT added
that it will also im-
pinge on the chances
of other candidates
who are eligible as per
existing provisions be-
cause it will increase
the number of candi-
dates competing with
such candidates.
PM-led CCS OK’s procurement
of 15 light combat helicopters
New Delhi (PTI): The
Cabinet Committee on
Security (CCS) chaired
by Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi, on Wednes-
day
, approved procure-
mentof 15LightCombat
Helicopter (LCH) Limit-
ed Series Production at
the cost of Rs 3,887 crore
along with Infrastruc-
ture sanctions worth Rs
377 crore.
LightCombatHelicop-
ter Limited Series Pro-
duction (LSP) is an in-
digenously designed,
developed and manufac-
tured state-of-the-art
modern combat helicop-
ter containing approxi-
mately 45 per cent indig-
enous content by value
whichwillprogressively
increase to more than 55
per cent for ‘series pro-
duction’ variant.
Public Sector giant
HAL makes the copter.
The helicopter is
equipped with requisite
agility, maneuverabili-
ty
, extended range, high
altitude performance
and around-the-clock,
all-weather combat ca-
pability to perform
roles of Combat Search
and Rescue (CSAR), De-
struction of Enemy Air
Defence (DEAD), Coun-
ter Insurgency (CI) op-
erations and against
slow moving aircraft.
No fee hike in Pb
private schools
this year: Mann
Chandigarh (PTI):
Aheadof thecommence-
ment of the next school
a c a d e m i c
year, Punjab
Chief Minis-
ter Bhag-
want Mann
on Wednes-
day ordered Punjab
schools against increas-
ing admission or tution
fee.TheCMalsoordered
that no school can force
parents to buy books,
stationery and uniform
from a particular shop.
AAP’s Gujarat,
HP campaigns to
begin from Apr 2
New Delhi (ANI): Aam
Admi Party (AAP) will
kickstart the campaign
for Gujarat
a n d
H i m a c h a l
Pradesh As-
sembly polls
from the
first week of April.
Delhi Chief Minister
and AAP national con-
venor Arvind Kejriwal
and his Punjab counter-
part Bhagwant Mann
will hold a roadshow in
Ahmedabad on April 2.
Bihar BJP MLA demands
Nitish’s removal as CM
Patna (Agencies): Af-
ter surgical strike on
Vikassheel Insaan Par-
ty (VIP), BJP leaders
are now directly target-
ing Bihar Chief Minis-
ter Nitish Kumar.
Vinay Bihari, a BJP
MLAclaimedthatNitish
Kumar lost his fire that
hewasknownfor,during
the first tenure in 2005.
“I firmly believe that
the BJP top leadership
shouldthinkaboutitand
make a Chief Minister
from our party
,” he said.
“People of the states
are talking about the
Yogi model as inci-
dents of crime are ris-
ing in Bihar every day.
We are living in Bihar,
so we advocate for Nit-
ish Model here. But we
do not want the present
Nitish model, but we
want Nitish Kumar as
we knew him in 2005.
As I belong to the BJP,
I firmly believe that
the Chief Minister
should be from our par-
ty,” Bihari said.
Nitish Kumar
Use of Gujarat model of ministerial appointment in UP?
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi: This is not
entirely an experiment
of the Gujarat model
but a glimpse of it is
visible in Uttar Pradesh
as when the BJP formed
the government for the
second time in Uttar
Pradesh, half of the
new ministers were ap-
pointed immediately.
Some ministers did not
contest and some lost,
while 20 of the remain-
ing ministers were not
given a chance this
time. In this way, out of
52 ministers, half are
such ministers, who
were not in the previous
government. In this
way, even after Yogi be-
came the Chief Minis-
ter, the BJP was suc-
cessful in getting the
message of being a new
government. BJP’s for-
mula of removing old
ministers and appoint-
ing new ministers is
old, but the surprise is
about those names,
who, it was claimed,
were sure shot of a min-
isterial berth. For ex-
ample Shrikant Shar-
ma, Siddharth Nath
Singh and Neelkanth
Tiwari.
These three were
ministers and all three
represent Mathura,
Prayag and Varanasi
respectively. Shrikant
Sharma and Siddharth
Nath Singh have lived
in Delhi and were the
national media in-
charge and national
spokesperson. These
two were also the most
popular face of the Yogi
government, but both
got ‘discharged’. That is
why it is being said that
in Modi-Shah’s BJP
, it is
not right for the leaders
to come in much discus-
sion. However, it is also
being said that some
names have also been
cut to balance the list of
the central leadership
of the party and the list
of Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath. For exam-
ple, the name of Mahen-
dra Singh and Jai
Pratap Singh, consid-
ered very close to the
Chief Minister, has
been striked off. Some
ministers were re-
moved to strike a bal-
ance, some were left out
because of allegations
against them, while
some were left out be-
cause of reports of poor
performance.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath, Dy CM Maurya and other BJP leaders.
‘Charity begins at home’
The dynasty politics
of BJP’s allies in UP!
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: BJP targets
political dynasty and
calls it a threat to de-
mocracy, but in Yogi
Adityanath’s govern-
ment, many dynastic
faces have been includ-
ed. Even among the
BJP’s own ministers,
many ministers are
from political families
like from Jitin Prasad
to Sandeep Singh. But
both the allies of BJP,
have not looked past the
family for a share in the
power pie. BJP ally
Apna Dal leader Ashish
Patel was made a minis-
ter in the state govern-
ment. He is the husband
of Union Minister Anu-
priya Patel, which
means that the wife is at
the center and the hus-
band is a minister in
the state government.
It should be noted that
Pallavi Patel, sister of
Anupriya Patel, contest-
ed in the Samajwadi
Party alliance and de-
feated BJP veteran and
Keshav Prasad Maurya
from Sirathu assembly
seat. However, another
ally of the BJP is the Ni-
shad Party
, whose leader
Sanjay Nishad has been
made a minister. Sanjay
Nishad’ssonPraveenNi-
shad is a Lok Sabha MP
and for a long time both
fatherandsonhavebeen
making all attempts to
get Praveen Nishad in-
cluded in the Modi gov-
ernment as a minister.
For now, Sanjay Nishad
has become a minister,
but it will not be surpris-
ing if Praveen Nishad
also gets a chance in
Delhi till the next Lok
Sabha elections.
UP CM with Amit Shah, JP Nadda and Anupriya Patel.
What happened to Aparna and Aditi’s
inclusion in Adityanath government?
Moni Sharma
New Delhi: It is rightly
said that in today’s BJP
,
if some leader comes
into lime light or if they
are discussed to a great-
er extent by the media,
then their name may be
struck off from the po-
litical rolls for ever! Ear-
lier, if there was talk of
a BJP leader becoming a
minister or getting a
ticket or getting any oth-
er post, then the discus-
sions usually turned out
to be correct. But if
there is a discussion
thesedays,thenitissure
tobeprovedwrong.Like
this time, for the forma-
tion of Uttar Pradesh
government, the oath of
the government was
stalled for 15 days and in
the meantime dozens of
names were kept in the
running by the media,
but in the end, all the
names were dropped.
Therewastalkof mak-
ing Mulayam Singh’s
daughter-in-law Aparna
Yadav a minister. Simi-
larly
, the name of Aditi
Singh, who left the Con-
gress and joined the BJP
,
was also in the news. But
neither of them got a
chance. There are 10 per-
centiefivewomenminis-
ters in the government
with 52 ministers, but
both of them were left
out.Similarly
,Rajeshwar
Singh, a high profile of-
ficer in the ED, was also
believed to be appointed
as a minister. But he also
got a chance to sit in the
audienceattheswearing-
in ceremony
. Although
about 10 ministerial
posts have been kept va-
cant, but there will be no
reshuffle in the govern-
ment for the next several
months. Those who are
leftoutwillhavetowaita
long time for a crack at
the ministerial berth!
Aditi Singh Aparna Yadav

INDIA
06
Patna (Agencies): In
an embarrassment for
Bihar Chief Minister
Nitish Kumar, who has
been at the state’s top
job for close to 15 years
at a stretch now, a new
report has revealed that
the state was woefully
unprepared for the Cov-
id pandemic. A perfor-
manceauditonthefunc-
tioning of district hospi-
tals in Bihar has re-
vealed that just as the
Covid pandemic hit the
country, there was a 52
to 92 per cent shortfall
of beds in district hospi-
tals and a persistent
shortage of doctors,
nurses, paramedical
staff, and technicians.
The bed strength was
not raised in 10 years
and the department did
not publish the total
staff vacancies to get
them filled from 2014 to
2020, the report said.
The Comptroller and
AuditorGeneralof India
(CAG) report, tabled in
the state assembly today
,
has a performance audit
on ‘Functioning of Dis-
trictHospitals’sampling
five districts - Biharsha-
rif, Hajipur, Jehanabad,
Madhepura, and Patna -
for the period 2014-15 to
2019-20. It aimed to as-
sess the overall health
services being provided
by district hospitals.
On Out-Patient ser-
vices, the report found
thatthehospitalsdidnot
provide 12 to 15 signifi-
cant OPD curative ser-
vices like cardiology
,
gastroenterology
, neph-
rology
, ENT etc. due to a
shortage of specialist
doctors and infrastruc-
tures such as building,
equipment and furni-
ture.The patient load on
registration counters
went as high as 208 per
cent higher than nor-
mal. Further, 59 per cent
of OPD patients bought
medicines out of their
own pocket, defeating
the goal of providing
free medication, it add-
ed. The facility for diag-
nosis and management
of cases of cardiovascu-
lar disease, stroke and
cancer was not availa-
ble in any of the district
hospitals.
Accident/Trauma
and Psychiatry wards
were also not found in
any of the checked hos-
pitals. Positive/negative
isolation wards for in-
fectious patients were
also not found. This
finding is especially
concerning as it shows
the state’s health infra-
structure was ill-pre-
pared for the pandemic.
New report shows Bihar district hospitals were woefully unprepared
COVID PANDEMIC
lll
The facility for
diagnosis and
management of
cases of
cardiovascular
disease, stroke
and cancer was
not available in
any of the
district hospitals
New Delhi (PTI): Rus-
sian foreign minister
Sergei Lavrov will
make a two-day official
visit to India, the union
minister of external af-
fairs informed. The
visit would be the high-
est-level visit from Mos-
cow since Vladimir Pu-
tin’s attack on Ukraine.
“Foreign Minister of
the Russian Federation,
H.E. Mr. Sergey Lavrov
will pay an official visit
to New Delhi on 31
March -1 April 2022,”
the government said in
a press release.
Lavrov’s visit follows
Chinese Foreign Minis-
ter Wang Yi’s visit to
New Delhi last week, the
first in over two years.
Despite mounting
pressure from the West,
China and India haven’t
condemned Russia’s in-
vasion of Ukraine.
India also abstained
from UN resolutions
censuring Russia and
continues to buy Rus-
sian oil and other goods.
India and Russia
have had a close rela-
tionship for decades.
New Delhi, which de-
scribes Moscow as its
“longstanding and
time-tested friend”,
sources most of its key
military hardware from
Russia.
The foreign ministry
has not given any de-
tails on whom the Rus-
sian leader would meet
on his trip, which coin-
cides with visits by
British foreign secre-
tary Liz Truss and US
Deputy National Secu-
rity Advisor for Inter-
national Economics
Daleep Singh.
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER
LAVROV TO VISIT DELHI TODAY
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
China, Russia ‘more
determined’ to boost
ties, says Beijing
AS WEST MOUNTS PRESSURE
Beijing (PTI): Mos-
cow and Beijing are
“more determined”
to develop bilateral
ties and boost coop-
eration, Chinese For-
eign Minister Wang
Yi said on Wednesday
following a meeting
in eastern China with
his Russian counter-
part, Sergei Lavrov,
amid the Ukraine cri-
sis. The two also con-
demned what they
called illegal and
counter- productive
Western sanctions
imposed on Moscow
over its actions in
Ukraine, the Russian
foreign ministry said
in a statement.
Wang and Lavrov
spoke in the eastern
Chinese province of
Anhui, where China
is hosting two days of
multilateral meetings
on Afghanistan.
“Both sides are
more determined to
develop bilateral ties,
and are more confi-
dent in promoting co-
operation in various
fields,” Wang said.
“China is willing
to work with Russia
to take China-Rus-
sian ties to a higher
level in a new era un-
der the guidance of
the consensus
reached by the heads
of state,” he said.
Terrorist killed in JK
was carrying press card
Srinagar (Agencies):
One of the two terror-
ists killed in an encoun-
ter between terrorists
and security forces at
Rainawari area in Cen-
tral Kashmir’s Srinagar
district was carrying a
press card, officials said
on Wednesday
.
“One of the killed cat-
egorised local terrorists
of proscribed terror
outfit LeT was carrying
Identity Card (ID) of
media. It indicates a
clear case of misuse of
media,” Jammu and
Kashmir police quoting
Inspector General Po-
lice Kashmir zone Vijay
Kumar tweeted.
Earlier police said
two terrorists were
killed in the encounter
and incriminating ma-
terials including arms
and ammunition recov-
ered from them.
The gunfight took
place after a joint team
of the police and the se-
curity forces cordoned
off theareaandlaunched
asearchoperationonthe
basis of specific infor-
mation about presence
of terrorists.
TERROR LINKS: 2 COPS AMONG 5 MORE
GOVT EMPLOYEES SACKED IN JK
Srinagar (PTI): Jammu Kashmir administration
on Wednesday sacked police constable Tawseef
Ahmed Mir, who has been accused of actively work-
ing for Hizbul Mujahideen and trying to kill two of
his colleagues, and four more employees for alleged
links with terror groups. The Union Territory admin-
istration terminated the services of the employees
following a recommendation of a designated com-
mittee constituted under Article 311 (2) (c) of the
Constitution that allows dismissal without an inquiry
in the interest of the security of the State.
Will look into ‘objections’ to
‘halal’ meat, Karnataka CM
Bengaluru (PTI): Kar-
nataka Chief Minister
Basavaraj Bommai said
that the state govern-
ment would look into
the ‘serious objections’
raised over ‘halal’ meat.
Responding to queries
at a news conference,
Bommai said that the
government “had to
study(theissue)initsen-
tirety
.Ithasnothingtodo
with rules. It was a prac-
tice that was going on.
Now, serious objections
are raised. We will take a
look into it,” he said.
Bommai said that the
government will clarify
it’s stand on the issue
soon. On campaigns by
various right-wing
groups, he said there
were many similar
campaigns. The govt
will study the demands
of these groups and as-
sess whether there is
any truth in their
claims, the CM said.
It can be recalled that
the Hindu right-wing
groups have launched a
campaign seeking a ban
on ‘halal’ meat in the
state. BJP general sec-
retary CT Ravi, who
also sought a ban, had
described ‘halal’ meat
as ‘economic Jihad’ per-
petrated by the minori-
ty community
.
Rajya Sabha passes Bill to remove
Bhogta from Scheduled Castes list
Winter sports activities closed at Gulmarg
due to fast melting snow: JK authorities
Rajya Sabha on Wednes-
day approved a Bill that
seeks to remove the
Bhogta caste from the
list of Scheduled Castes
(SCs) and include cer-
tain communities in the
list of Scheduled Tribes
(STs) for Jharkhand.
The Constitution
(Scheduled Castes and
ScheduledTribes)Order
(Amendment) Bill, 2022
was introduced in the
Upper House of Parlia-
ment on February 7. It
was passed by a voice
vote on Wednesday
.
Replyingtothedebate
of the Bill, Tribal Af-
fairs Minister Arjun
Munda said, “We will
bring such amendments
related to more states in
the House. We have done
(such amendments for)
Arunachal Pradesh and
Karnataka. Now, it is be-
ing done in case of Uttar
Pradesh, Tripura and
Jharkhand. We are do-
ingresearchonOdisha.”
Srinagar (PTI): Au-
thorities in Jammu and
Kashmir have ordered
closure of all winter
sports activities in the
famous ski resort of
Gulmarg due to “insuf-
ficient snow depth”
caused by melting of
snow due to higher than
normal temperature.
“Keeping in view the
insufficient snow depth
and changing weather
conditions, the winter
sports activities viz
skiing, snowboarding
etc inside the marked
boundary and back
country area of the
slopes of Mount Aphar-
wat are hereby official-
ly closed with effect
from 31.03.2022,” an or-
der issued by Assistant
Director Tourism Gul-
marg, Javid-ur-Re-
hman said.
The snow has melted
faster than usual in
Kashmir this year due
to unusually high tem-
perature. While Srina-
gar city is witnessing a
spike of 10 degrees in
temperature for this
time of the year, Gul-
marg has recorded tem-
peratures six to seven
degrees above normal.
Andhra to
formally
launch 13
new dists
Testing of two
more surface-
to-air missiles
successful
Amaravati (Agen-
cies): Andhra Pradesh
is all set for the official
inauguration of 13 new
districts on April 4.
A high-level meeting
chaired by chief Minis-
ter YS Jagan Mohan
Reddy, reviewed the
progress on Wednes-
day and finalised the
details.
With the process of
forming new districts
completed, Chief Min-
ister Jagan Mohan
Reddy will inaugurate
the 13 new districts on
April 4 between 9.04 am
and 9.45 a.m, officials
said on Wednesday.
The final notifica-
tion pertaining to the
reorganisation of the
existing 13 districts
into 26 is expected to be
released in the next
few days.
Lucknow (Agencies):
PragatisheelSamajwadi
PartyLohia(PSPL)pres-
ident Shivpal Yadav met
Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Yogi Adity-
anath at the latter’s resi-
dence on Wednesday
evening , setting off po-
litical speculations. Af-
ter the meeting that
lasted about 45 minutes,
Shivpal said that it was
a ‘mere courtesy call’.
He declined to comment
further on the political
outcome of the meeting.
Vijayan seeks PM’s intervention
in deported British professor case
Thiruvananthapuram
(Agencies): Finally,
Chief Minister
Pinarayi Vijayan de-
cided to intervene in
the case of veteran an-
thropologist and soci-
ologist Filippo Osella
who was deported as
soon as he landed here
last Thursday
. On
Wednesday the Kerala
Chief Minister wrote
to Prime Minister Nar-
endraModitolookinto
this issue with the ut-
most urgency
. Vijayan
in his letter requested
Modi to ensure that
such a thing does not
happen again and ap-
propriate instructions
are issued to all con-
cerned for that.
“Our country has a
traditionof welcoming
scholars and social sci-
entists,whodoconduct
extensive field studies
in various places cov-
ering diverse aspects
of our social life and
economy
. These schol-
ars have produced val-
uableresearchpublica-
tions,” wrote Vijayan.
Basavaraj Bommai
Pinarayi Vijayan
Jagan Mohan Reddy

NEWS
07
SPECIALLY-
ABLED MAN
BEATEN UP BY
KIN IN GREATER
NOIDA, 2 HELD
Acouple has been arrested for
allegedly beating a specially-
abled man and vandalizing his
two-wheeler over a property
issue in the Jewar area of
Greater Noida. Additional
Director General of Police of
Greater Noida, Vishal Pandey
said, “The specially-abled man
had rented a property from his
relatives to run a school. But due
to the Covid-19 lockdown, he
couldn’t afford the expenses.
This escalated into a heated
argument between them and the
two accused attacked the elderly
man beating him and vandalizing
his two-wheeler.” In the viral
video, a man and woman were
beating a specially-abled man.
First, the man was seen beating
him with a heavy wooden stick
while the elderly man was sitting
on the scooty. Later, he was
joined in by a woman who also
carried wooden stick and was
hitting the victim. Both the
accused not only had beaten him
but vandalized his two-wheeler.
The two accused have been
arrested by the police and further
investigation into the case is
underway. —ANI
10 ROADWAYS
DRIVERS
SUSPENDED IN
‘DIESEL SCAM’
The case of corruption emerges
in Bahraich district as 10
drivers have been suspended for
their involvement in the Diesel
scam. The state government
which follows ‘Zero Tolerance’
towards corruption saw the ARM,
Bahraich take strict actions
against 10 drivers and another
person posted at the department’s
diesel counter following reports of
the scam. The incident pertains to
the recently concluded assembly
elections in the state where a fleet
of 10 roadways buses was
deployed in the Bahraich to help
transport home guards to the
block level. The drivers of these
buses have been found to lie
about the distance driven by them
in order to hoard diesel. The
administration acting on reports,
initially suspended the person
posted on the diesel counter while
letting go of the drivers but when
the whole incident gained more
traction, the ARM secretly sacked
10 drivers in a hurry and posted a
notice near the inquiry center of
the roadway’s bus stand about it.
This is not the first time such
corrupt incidents have taken place
in the roadway’s department of
Bahraich as, during the lockdown
in June 2020, a similar case of
diesel theft was reported.
—Ajay Sharma
MAYAWATISLAMS AKHILESH
OVER ‘FOREIGNTOUR’REMARK
Lucknow (PTI): BSP
supremo Mayawati on
Wednesday took a
swipe at Samajwadi
Party chief Akhilesh
Yadav for linking his
overseas trips with the
building of Kanpur
Metro and Lucknow
Expressway, stressing
right thinking and vi-
sion were required for
overall development,
not foreign tours.
She was referring to
Yadav’s comments in
the state Assembly on
Tuesday during his
welcome speech on the
election of Satish Ma-
hana as Speaker of the
House. Reading out the
House Speaker’s polit-
ical experience, Akh-
ilesh Yadav, the Leader
of Opposition in the
Assembly, pointed out
that Mahana has visit-
ed 35 countries. “I nev-
er knew this. Else, I
would have mentioned
it whenever there was
any noise over foreign
visits,” he said. Yadav
added, “Good that I
went abroad... because
hadn’t it been the case,
the state would not
have got Lucknow Ex-
pressway and Kanpur
Metro by the SP.”
SP had been at the
receiving end of barbs
by the BJP leaders who
had targeted him
during the election
campaign over his for-
eign visits. Mayawati
onWednesdaysaidthat
like iron will was re-
quired for freeing the
state of riots and vio-
lence, right-thinking
wasneededfordevelop-
ment. The BSP chief
has been continuously
attacking Akhilesh Ya-
dav, especially after her
party’s electoral deba-
cle in Assembly polls.
In swipe at SP chief, says ‘right thinking’ needed for development
‘JUNGLE RAJ’
5 killed, 1 injured as truck rams
into pickup vehicle in Firozabad
Firozabad (PTI): 5
people were killed and
one other was seriously
injured after a speeding
truck rammed into a
pickup vehicle near a
toll plaza, police said on
Wednesday. Senior Su-
perintendent of Police
Ashish Tiwari said a
speeding truck hit a
pickup vehicle laden
with potato that was
parked on the roadside
and was being repaired.
Four people died on
the spot while one per-
son succumbed to inju-
ries at Agra hospital,
the SSP said, adding
that the owner of the
pickup vehicle is seri-
ously injured and un-
dergoing treatment.
The deceased were
identified as Ram Baha-
dur alias Chhotu (19),
Rahul (17), Wali Mo-
hammad (18).
U’KHAND POLICE VAN COLLIDES WITH
TRUCK IN UP, CONSTABLE KILLED
Baghpat (PTI): A constable was killed and seven
persons, including a sub-inspector, were injured
when a van of the Uttarakhand Police collided with
a truck here in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tues-
day. The van of the Nanital police had eight people,
including three undertrials and five policemen, they
said. The incident took place on a highway when
they were returning to Uttarakhand from Jind in
Haryana after a court hearing, police said. All of
them were rushed to a hospital, where constable
Arun died during treatment. The condition of the
others was stated to be stable, they said. A probe
is on in the matter and the Nainital police has been
informed about the incident, officials here said.
PARANJAPE’SBOOKOFFERS
INSIDER’SACCOUNT OFJNU
New Delhi (PTI): Just
because India’s aca-
demic and intellectual
circles have seen “Left-
wing intolerance” for
long,itwouldbeagrave
mistake to substitute it
with “Right-wing intol-
erance”, cautions JNU
professor Makarand R
Paranjape in his book
billed as an insider’s
account of the varsity
.
In “JNU: Nationalism
and India’s Uncivil
War”, Paranjape seeks
tofindthetruthbehind
the controversies that
have plagued the JNU
especiallysincethelast
sixyears-fromanti-na-
tionalism to arrest of
student leaders to the
disappearance of a stu-
dent who to date re-
mains untraced.
Paranjape says his
book is neither merely
a collection of anec-
dotes or personal expe-
riences, nor is an exer-
cise in institutional
historiography or hagi-
ography but an “in-
formed insider’s ac-
count of the cataclys-
mic changes” in the
JNU during 2016-2021.
He feels the image of
the university has tak-
en a severe beating in
the last five years so
much so that “many
parents do not wish to
send their children to
study there”. While the
book, published by
Rupa, deplores the
“ideological hegemony
and intolerance of the
Left in JNU”, arguing
that it has brought the
universitytosuchasor-
ry pass, it also makes a
case for “not simply
substituting the dog-
matic Left with the doc-
trinaire Right”. There
should not be an at-
tempt to merely substi-
tute the Left with the
Right, but a compre-
hensive reform should
be facilitated which
will include a better ad-
ministration, cleaner
campusandbetterame-
nities, he suggests. The
book pleads for resto-
ration of civil disagree-
ment in place of bitter
opposition, dialogue
rather than irreconcil-
able conflict. It propos-
es remedial strategies
of dealing with differ-
ences, along with inter-
medial hermeneutics
to negotiate extreme
positions and bipolar
oppositions. The book
begins with the outline
of the wider context.
The national, even
worldwide, debates on
liberalism and nation-
alism form the core of
the first chapter. In the
next chapter, the au-
thor narrates how he
joined the JNU under
somewhat unusual cir-
cumstances and also
recounts his “culture
shock at confronting
its time-warped Leftist
politics, which I con-
sidered a combination
of delusion and oppor-
tunism”. The3rdchap-
ter is about the events
that led to those fateful
days in February 2016.
Starting on February
9, the university en-
tered a phase of turbu-
lence when a rally was
taken out against the
so-called ‘judicial mur-
der’ of two convicted
criminals Afzal Guru
and Maqbool Bhat.
HOW JNU CAME INTO NATIONAL
AND INTERNATIONAL LIMELIGHT?
The chapter goes on to recount the slogans that
were shouted on campus, the clash between two
student groups, and how the JNU came, for all
the wrong reasons, into national and interna-
tional limelight. Paranjape also talks about the
lecture on nationalism that he delivered at the
‘Teach-in’ on March 3, 2016. “In this most com-
prehensive and augmented version of my talk, I
record how I confronted the then JNU Students’
Union (JNUSU) president, Kanhaiya Kumar ,” he
writes. In the book’s epilogue, Paranjape men-
tions how for a change, the JNU campus went
quiet not because of political unrest or student
protests but because of a global pandemic.
PARIVARTAN MORCHA
Babu Singh Kushwaha, Asaduddin Owaisi and Dr. Ayub participated in a workers’
conference of the Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha organised at the Gandhi Bhavan
auditorium in Lucknow on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR
TWO HELD IN VARANASI FOR
KILLING MAN IN MAHARASHTRA
Palghar (PTI): Police
have arrested 2 persons,
including a criminal al-
ready wanted in a num-
ber of cases, from Vara-
nasi for allegedly shoot-
ing dead a man in Maha-
rashtra, an official said.
The victim, Samarjit
alias Samay Vikrams-
ingh Chouhan, was
gunned down in Virar
area of Maharashtra’s
Palghar district on Feb-
ruary 23. The police had
then registered a case
against unidentified
persons on charges of
murder and under pro-
visions of the Arms Act,
Deputy Commissioner
of Police (Crime) Dr Ma-
hesh Patil said. The po-
lice later carried out
searches in Vasai and
Virar areas of Palghar
as well as in neighbour-
ing Mumbai and Thane.
Acting on various in-
puts, a police team from
here rushed to Varanasi
and with the help of the
UP Special Task Force,
they arrested two per-
sons - Rahul Virendra
Sharma alias Ram (30)
and Abishek Tarkesh-
war Singh alias Ankur
- from there on Tuesday,
the official said.
Kanpur DM,
top cops
inspect exam
centres
First India Bureau
Kanpur: After strict
orders were issued from
the government in the
paper leak case during
the ongoing Intermedi-
ate examinations of UP
Board, the Kanpur Po-
lice Commissionerate,
otherdistrictpolice,and
district administration
jointly swung into ac-
tion. While DM Neha
Sharma inspected the
ongoing examinations
of firstandsecondshifts
in many schools, STF
and crime branches also
swung into action mode.
On Wednesday, as
soon as news broke of
the paper leak, DCPs of
all three zones of Kan-
pur Police Commis-
sionerate besides DM
Neha Sharma, Crime
Branch and STF, and
Outer SP Ajit Sinha be-
came active. While po-
lice teams started en-
quiring in plain uni-
form among people who
brought their children
to examination centers,
investigations were con-
ducted at mobile shops,
photostat shops, inter-
net cafes around the ex-
amination centers.
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE

COVID-19
UPDATE
WORLD
61,59,278
TOTAL DEATHS
42,14,70,928
TOTAL RECOVERED
5,86,51,819
ACTIVE CASES
48,62,82,025
TOTAL CASES
INDIA
5,21,131
TOTAL DEATHS
4,24,87,410
TOTAL RECOVERED
14,674
ACTIVE CASES
4,30,23,215
TOTAL CASES
08
2NDFRONT
We learn more from ‘fear of loss’
than timely advice given by
well-wishers.
—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
MEET AND GREET
Jagdeesh Chandra in conversation with Anurag Thakur, Union Minister for IB and Youth
Affairs Sports at the mega event hosted by TV9Network to celebrate the third anniversary
of TV9 Bharatvarsh at Taj Palace, New Delhi on Wednesday. The evening was not just to
mark the remarkable journey of TV9 Bharatvarsh to reach the no 1 spot but also the launch
of News9 Plus, the world’s first OTT Video Magazine Service for the ‘GenFlix’, a trend for the
world to follow. Dignitaries from the political, media and business world including Rajnath
Singh, Union Minister for Defence, attended the event.
Statebureaucracyinformajor
reshuffle in YOGI 2.0 REGIME
Gyanendra Kumar Shukla
Lucknow: After the
Yogicabinettookoverits
responsibilityinUP
,now
the flurry of change in
the bureaucracy has
started intensifying.
Many senior officers are
retiring this year after
serving long tenures
while many other bu-
reaucrats are going to
join Central deputation.
During the recently
concluded elections, the
role of many officers
posted from the gover-
nance to the field level
hasbeenunderquestion.
On the basis of the feed-
back received regarding
their partisan actions,
they are bound to be
stripped of their present
postings.
Many officers of 1989
batch and subsequent
batches have been em-
panelled to the post of
Secretaries in the Cen-
tral Government. The
influential officers in-
cluded in the list of po-
tential officers going for
central deputation are
Additional Chief Secre-
tary to CM SP Goyal, Ad-
ditional Chief Secretary
excise, sugar industry
and cane development
Sanjay Bhusreddy
, Addi-
tional Chief Secretary
Appointment and per-
sonnelDeveshChaturve-
di. Officers holding the
post of joint secretaries
anddirectorscanalsobe
relieved. After the post
of Chief Secretary
, the
officers posted in two
keypositionsarealsogo-
ing to retire within a
month. In these, the ten-
ure of the present chair-
man of the Revenue
Board, Mukul Singhal
and Alok Sinha, posted
as Agriculture Produc-
tion Commissioner
(APC), will end on April
30.Discussionsareabout
to start regarding the
namesof senior bureau-
crats for posting to these
key posts. DMs of 10 dis-
tricts including Luc-
know, Varanasi
Aligarh have been pro-
moted to secretary level
officers.
M Tariq Khan
Lucknow: After a brief
patch-up during the Ut-
tar Pradesh polls, fault-
lines have resurfaced in
the Yadav clan. Not only
did.
Shivpal Yadav didn’t
attend the meetings of
Samajwadi Party and its
allies with Samajwadi
Party president Akh-
ilesh Yadav on Tuesday
,
he also skipped the
oath-takingceremonyof
the newly elected MLAs
giving rise to specula-
tion that the estranged
uncle of Akhilesh may
jumptheshipandoptfor
a Rajya Sabha berth. He
is said to have already
sounded his elder Mu-
layam Singh Yadav
about his plan whom he
met in New Delhi on
Tuesday
.
Eleven Rajya Sabha
seats will fall vacant in
UP in July
. Of the 11 re-
tiring MPs, five are of
BJP
, three of SP
, two of
BSP and one of the Con-
gress. With 273 MLAs,
the BJP-led NDA will
easilybeabletoelectsev-
en members as 37 votes
would be required for
winning a seat, while SP
and its allies (RLD
+SBSP) have a total
strength of 125 MLAs --
and will be able to elect
three members.
Making his anguish
with SP known, Shivpal
had told reporters that
he was disappointed at
not being invited to the
meeting of party legisla-
tors. “I have won on the
Samajwadi Party sym-
bol. So, I felt that I would
be invited to the meet-
ing.” SP president Na-
resh Uttam Patel had
played down the inci-
dent, describing Shivpal
as an alliance partner
and that he would be in-
vited to the meeting pf
allies.
Lucknow (PTI):
Pragatisheel Samajwa-
di Party-Lohia leader
Shivpal Singh Yadav
was sworn in as an
MLA on Wednesday
amid speculation that
he “delayed” the
oath-taking to indicate
a strained relationship
with SP president Akh-
ilesh Yadav. Three other
MLAs too took oath on
the occasion.
Shivpal Yadav had
contested the Assembly
polls from Jaswant-
nagar seat of Etawah
on the symbol of the
Samajwadi Party head-
ed by his nephew Akh-
ilesh Yadav.
He had on Tuesday
skipped a meeting here
between Akhilesh Ya-
dav and SP allies. Earli-
er, he did not attend the
oath ceremony in As-
sembly. Assembly offi-
cials did not say any-
thing about his taking
oath late.
The three other MLA
who took oath on
Wednesday were Fateh
BahadurSinghfromCai-
mpiyarganj (Gorakh-
pur),SurendraMaithani
fromGovindnagar(Kan-
pur) and Ashish Kumar
SinghfromBilgram-Mal-
lawa(Hardoi).SixMLAs,
includingseniorSPlead-
er Azam Khan and
Kairana legislator Na-
hid Hasan, are yet to
take oath.
Ahtesham Siddiqui
Lucknow: IAS Sanjay
Agarwal presently post-
edinDelhiissettoretire
on March 31, 2022. After
Chief Secretary Durga
Shankar Mishra, IAS
Sanjay Aggarwal, the se-
nior most bureaucrat of
Uttar Pradesh govern-
ment, will have to re-
maincontendedwithhis
last posting as now he
will not be able to be-
come Chief Secretary of
UP
. Even his junior IAS
Rajendra Kumar Tiwari
had fulfilled his aspira-
tion of becoming the
Chief Secretary of UP
.
However as of now with
the service extension of
oneyeargiven byCentre
to CS Durga Shanker
Mishra, the chance of
being appointed on top
post of officers slated to
retirein2022hasalready
been put to a halt.
Agarawal is a 1984
batch officer currently
serving as Secretary
, Ag-
riculture and Farmers
Welfare Deptt in Central
Government. New Delhi
has served as Principal
Secteary of UP Power
Corporation, ACS and
Chairman UPPCL from
the year 2013 to 2017.
Originally from
Aligarh, he completed
his B.Tech. and M.Tech.
in Electronics Engi-
neering before turning
bureaucrat.
Supreme Court on
Wednesday directed
the Uttar Pradesh gov-
ernment to respond by
April 4 to the two re-
ports of a retired judge,
monitoring the SIT
probe into the Lakhim-
pur Kheri violence
case, which had sought
cancellation of bail to
Ashish Mishra, son of
Union minister Ajay
Mishra.
A bench headed by
Chief Justice N V Ra-
mana said the monitor-
ing judge had written
to the state for cancella-
tion of bail granted by
the Allahabad High
Court to Ashish Mish-
ra in connection with
the case.
“There are two let-
ters sent by the SIT to
the Additional chief
secretary (home) of the
ment by the monitor-
ing judge who had writ-
ten to the state to file
appeal in SC to cancel
bail of main accused
Ashish Mishra,” said
the bench also compris-
ing Justices Surya
Kant and Hima Kohli.
Senior advocate Ma-
hesh Jethmalani, ap-
pearing for the state
government, took in-
structions and in-
formed the apex court
that the Additional Sec-
retary, Home, has stat-
ed now to us that he did
not receive the letters.
The bench then
askedhimtogothrough
the reports submitted
by the SIT and respond
to it by April 4.
Prayagraj: The Allahabad
HC has granted an-
ticipatory bail to Amazon
Prime Video head Aparna
Purohit against whom
an FIR was registered in
Lucknow, for allegedly
depicting Hindu gods in
a bad light in the web
series Tandav. A Single
Bench of Justice Krishan
Pahal passed this order
while hearing a Criminal
Misc anticipatory bail ap-
plication under Section
438 CrPc filed by Aparna
Purohit. The applicant
is seeking anticipatory
bail in connection with
FIR/Case under Sections
153-A, 295, 505(1)(b),
505(2), 469 IPC Sec-
tions 66, 66-F 67 of
Information Technology
Act, 2008 (as amended),
Police Station – Hazrat-
ganj, District- Lucknow.
New Delhi: Basic health
facilities and proper edu-
cation are two primary
functions that every
state is obligated to pro-
vide to its citizens, the
Supreme Court empha-
sised while asking the
ment to make sure all
75 district hospitals in
the state have the bare
minimum number of
qualified doctors. A
bench, headed by justice
Sanjay Kishan Kaul,
noted that at least half
the sanctioned posts
at district hospitals
are vacant. “We must
emphasize that provid-
ing basic health facility
along with education are
the primary obligations
of every state and we
expect that the State of
UP will take appropri-
ate steps now that the
elections are over,” the
order by the bench,
which also included
justices MM Sundresh,
stated. The court said of
3,620 posts for doctors
advertised by the state
government in 2021,
only 1,881 positions
were filled. “This leaves
the state with a vacancy
of under 1,800. Some
doctors may have also
retired in the last one
year,” the court said,
while pointing out a
glaring shortage of
general physicians,
gynecologists, paediatri-
cians and anaesthetists.
FEEDBACK ON ROLE OF OFFICERS DURING POLLS TO SHAPE PLAN
Devesh Chaturvedi The Supreme Court (Inset) Ashish Mishra.
Shivpal Singh Yadav at the residence of Samajwadi Party leader
Subhash Chandra Yadav in Karhal. —FILE PHOTO
SP Goyal Sanjay Bhusreddy
Sanjay Agarwal
Lucknow: At the beginning of this year, half a dozen IAS
officers have retired during the election process. These
include Devashish Panda, RP Pan-
dey, Tevenketesh, A Samad, Mohd.
Iftekharuddin and AK Sharma. Sanjay
Agarwal will retire on March 31 while
MVS Ramireddy, Shamim A Khan
and Prabhat Sarangi will retire next
month. Due to all these reasons, a
roadmap has been set for a compre-
hensive change in the bureaucracy of
the state from top to bottom, which
is waiting for implementation till April 13, when the code
of conduct for the MLC elections will be removed.
MANY IAS OFFICERS RETIRE
Agarwal to retire with
CS dream unrealised
SMART OFFICER
LAKHIMPUR KHERI
OurpanelisagainstbailtoMishra,
what do you say? SC asks UP
Senior advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing for the
petitioners, submitted that the UP government has
submitted that it had opposed the bail in the HC. “It is
imminent that the bail be cancelled or set aside in these
circumstances as the HC verdict suffers from non appli-
cation of mind,” he said. Dave said Mishra in his affidavit
had relied on documents to show he was not present at
the scene on October 3 last year. “The state terms these
documents as doctored,” Dave said and requested the
top court to take a serious view of this. The bench said
it will hand over the report of the judge and the letters to
the petitioners and the UP government counsel.
STATE TERMS DOCUMENTS DOCTORED
Anticipatory bail
to Amazon Prime
Video head
SC to govt: Ensure hosps have
bare minimum mumber of docs
Shivpal’s souring ties and soaring
ambition pushes him to eye RS berth
Shivpal Yadav,
3 others take
oath as MLAs
Lucknow: The defeat
of Samajwadi Party in
2022 Assembly election
has put a question mark
over the continuation
of its allies with the
party because of “Big
Brother” attitude. While
SP MLA Shivpal Yadav
has already expressed
his resentment against
the style of functioning
of his nephew SP chief
Akhilesh Yadav, another
SP MLA Pallavi Patel,
who belongs to Apna
Dal (Kamerawadi), also
not very happy with the
leadership.
Shivpal Yadav, who
heads Pragatisheel
Samajwadi Party-Lohia
(PSP-L) was elected on
SP ticket from Jas-
want Nagar. Similarly,
Pallavi turned out to
“giant killer” by defeating
Keshav Prasad Maurya
from Sirathu on SP
ticket. Despite being SP
MLAs, both were not
called for meeting as
they were bracketed as
allies. Shivpal Yadav ton
Wednesday took oath
of MLA. Though at the
allies meeting attended
by Akhilesh Yadav,
Om Prakash Rajbhar
of Suheldeo Bharatiya
Samaj Party (SBSP) and
Rashtriya Lok Dal MLA
Rajpal Baliyan, Pallavi
stayed briefl, Shivpal
Yadav did not turn up
at the meeting. Sources
in Apna Dal (K) said the
party was unhappy over
the way it was treated
during election and after
the results.
Shivpal attended a
meeting where BJP
candidate from
Sirsaganj, Hariom
Yadav, was present.
SP ALLIES
UNHAPPY
WITH
PARTY’S
STANCE
SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar

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