Indian newspapers in english first india rajasthan-18 january 2020 edition

RTIpleaquestions
Modi’s citizenship
What happened in
Hitler’s Germany...
New Delhi: Right to
Information (RTI) ap-
plication has been
moved before the Ker-
ala information dept
seeking to know
whether PM Modi is
an Indian citizen.
Josh Kalluveettil,
a native of Chalak-
kudy town in Thris-
sur dist, moved the
application in this
regard on Jan 13.
The application
has sought docu-
ments that prove PM
Modi’s citizenship.
It has been filed
before the public in-
formation officer of
the Chalakkudy mu-
nicipality.
Chandigarh: Punjab
Chief Minister Ama-
rinder Singh on Friday
said the controversial
Citizenship (Amend-
ment) Act was against
the secular fabric of
the country and
claimedthateventsun-
folding now were simi-
lar to the ones wit-
nessed in Germany in
1930s when Adolf Hit-
ler was at the helm.
Participating in the
discussion in the state
Assembly on a resolu-
tion against the CAA,
Singh termed the Act
as “divisive” and the
proposed National
Register of Citizens
(NRC) as a “tragedy”
and said he was unfor-
tunate to witness in
his lifetime the events
unfolding now in the
country. P5
‘Doctor Bomb’
who jumped
parole arrested
Lucknow: A 68-year-
old convict of the 1993
Mumbai serial blasts
case, Jalees Ansari,
who had gone missing
on Thursday after he
jumped parole, has been
arrested
in Kan-
pur on
Friday.
Ansa-
ri, also
k n o w n
as Dr
Bomb, was leaving a
mosque in the city
and headed to the
railway station when
he was caught by the
Uttar Pradesh Po-
lice’s Special Task
Force, police said.
Turn on P4
IT’S FINAL: HANGING ON FEB 1
New Delhi: Fresh death warrants
were issued on Friday evening for
the four men convicted of the gang-
rape and murder of a 23-year-old
medical student in Delhi in 2012.
The four will now be executed at 6
am on February 1, Addl Sessions
Judge Satish Kumar Arora said on
Friday, while also turning down a
plea by Mukesh Singh, one of the
convicts, to postpone the execution.
The warrants were issued mere
hours after President Ram Nath Ko-
vind rejected a mercy plea filed by the
same convict. The new death warrants
are dated to exactly 14 days from Friday,
in accordance with a law that states
convicts to be executed must have a re-
prieve from the time their mercy plea
is turned down. Turn on P4
Indian economy could recover
to 6.6% next fiscal: UN report
New Delhi: A combina-
tion of fiscal stimulus
and financial sector re-
forms, boosting invest-
ment and consumption,
is expected to “support
a recovery” in India’s
economic growth to 6.6
per cent in 2020-21, a
United Nations (UN) re-
port said.
According to the
World Economic Situ-
ation and Prospects
(WESP) report, the
Indian economy is
also expected to grow
at 5.7 per cent in the
current 2019-20 fis-
cal. This is higher
than the Modi govern-
ment’s estimates of
an 11-year-low
growth of 5 per cent
in 2019-20. Turn on P4
3 REASONS FOR GDP DECLINE
3 INDICATORS OF ECONOMY
z Auto Sector: The
sector witnessed a
slowdown last year.
Vehicle sales recorded
the fastest decline in 19
years.
z IIP: Despite major
steps like corporate
tax cuts in September,
industrial activity in the
country remains slug-
gish. The IIP registered
a steady decline in Aug,
Sept and Oct.
z NBFCs: One of the
reasons for the decline
in GDP growth is the
cash crisis of NBFCs.
z Inflation is rising in
the country, employ-
ment is decreasing,
but the stock market
is on boom.
z Retail inflation rate
the highest in five and
a half years.
z The retail infla-
tion rate in December
was 7.35%. This is
the highest since July
2014. Inflation was
more affected in De-
cember due to increase
in prices of vegetables,
especially onions.
A day after Amazon jibe, Goyal
says lawful investments welcome
New Delhi: A day af-
ter Commerce and
Industry Minister
Piyush Goyal called
Amazon investing a
billion dollars in In-
dia “not a favour”,
the Minister on Fri-
day clarified saying
his statement was
takenoutof context.
“My statement
should be seen in
context. Turn on P4
Niti Aayog CEO
Amitabh Kant has
come under fire from
the ‘Swadeshi’ lobby
after he tweeted a story
detailing Amazon’s
India plans. Kant had
Thursday tweeted a re-
port detailing Amazon’s
plans to export $10 bn
worth of Make in India
goods by 2025. Re-
sponding to his tweet,
Ashwani Mahajan of
the Swadeshi Jagran
Manch, a body affiliated
to the RSS, criticised
Kant’s “unending
love” for Amazon at a
time “crores of small
traders are being hurt
by the deep discounts
given by the company”.
Mahajan followed it up
with another tweet ask-
ing Kant to “side with
the people” — shop-
keepers and workers
— pointing out that the
government has made
its stand clear that deep
discounting is not ac-
ceptable.
KANT’S AMAZON LOVE IRKS RSS AFFILIATE
New Delhi: E-commerce giant Amazon on Friday announced that it plans to cre-
ate 1 million jobs in India by 2025 through investments in technology, infra-
structure and its logistics network. The announcement comes in the wake of
India trip by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. During his stay in India, Bezos
also announced that the company planned to invest $1 billion to “help bring
10 million traders and micro, small, and medium-sized businesses (MSMEs)
across India online, enabling the US $10B in cumulative exports by 2025.”
Will create
1 million
jobs in India
‘SAME PEOPLE WHO HELD
PROTESTS...’
NIRBHAYA’S PARENTS
MISGUIDED: KEJRIWAL
sha Devi, mother of Nirbhaya has said that
the case is being used for political mileage.
“Those who attacked my daughter are being
given a thousand options, but we have no
rights? Till now, I never talked about poli-
tics, but now I want to say that those people who held
protests on streets in 2012, today the same people are
only playing with my daughter’s death for
political gains,” she told reporters.
Her comments come amid a blame
game between the BJP which rules at
the centre and the AAP which gov-
erns Delhi over the delay in the exe-
cution of four men convicted of the
rape and murder.
At a news conference on
Thursday, BJP leader and
union minister Prakash Ja-
vadekar had said all four
convicts would have been
hanged by now had the
AAP government act-
ed quickly Turn on P4
elhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged
the BJP on Friday not to indulge in politics
over the Nirbhaya case issue and instead
work together in ensuring that justice in
such cases is delivered at the earliest.
Reacting to Union Minister and BJP leader Smriti
Irani blaming the AAP government for the “delay”
in hanging of the four convicts, Kejriwal
said that he feels “sad that politics is be-
ing done on such an issue”. “I feel sad
that politics is being done on such an
issue. Shouldn’t we be working to-
gether to ensure that the guilty are
hanged soonest? “Shouldn’t we join
hands to ensure a system so that
such beasts get hanged within six
months?
P l e a s e
don’t do
p o l i t i c s
on this.” Ke-
jriwal tweet-
ed. Turn on P4
A D
AKSHAY THAKUR PAWAN GUPTA MUKESH SINGH VINAY SHARMA
The new warrant was
issued hours after
President Ram Nath
Kovind rejected a mercy
petition filed by Mukesh
Singh, one of the convicts
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IT’S REALLY
SUNDAR...
PICHAI
Alphabet hit the $1 trillion market
capitalization, making it the fourth
US company to hit the milestone
after Apple, Amazon and Microsoft.
Pichai had already been the CEO of Google, which
includes company’s all core businesses like
search, advertising, YouTube and Android
and generates all its revenue and profits.
Despite the company’s seemingly
perpetual cultural clashes, Wall
Street sees more dollar signs.
End co-op units’ fraud ‘Raj’ with spl force: CM Gehlot
Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: In an other-
wise busy day, as usu-
al, a sensitive Chief
Minister Ashok Ge-
hlot displayed his hu-
mane face once again
on Friday, when he de-
cided to strictly take
on the growing num-
ber of fraud cases in-
volving several coop-
erative societies regis-
tered in Rajasthan.
CM Gehlot on Friday,
instructed officials to
form a special unit
that would deal in cas-
es related only to
frauds by multi-state
cooperative units.
Moreover, owing to
the increase in econom-
ic activities in the west-
ern districts of the
state, CM Gehlot has
ordered the state police
to form a work plan to
ensure that mafia ac-
tivities are curbed in
the region.
Elaborating on the
matter, he also in-
structed Additional
Director Generals
(ADGs) who are in-
charge of ranges, to
spend two days there
(in the range) in two
months and take stock
of the grassroots sce-
nario. Gehlot also
asked the officials to
ensure that child traf-
ficking is weeded out
from the the state.
He further directed to
include the children
from south-Rajasthan
under the ambit of edu-
cation and skill devel-
opment programmes.
The new unit - chris-
tened Savings and In-
vestment Fraud Control
Unit (SIFCU) will be un-
der the SOG and handle
serious cases. Turn on P4
The new unit, SIFCU, will be under
SOG & handle serious cases
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DG Law & Order ML Lathar, DGP Bhupendra Yadav, ACS Home Rajeeva Swarup, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Principal Secretary to CM Kuldeep Ranka, ACS Finance
Niranjan Arya and Principal Secretary to CM Ajitabh Sharma during review meeting in CMO on Friday morning.
Nirbhaya gangrape convict Pawan
Kumar Gupta has
moved the Supreme
Court in appeal
against Delhi High
Court’s rejection of his
claim that he was a
juvenile at
the time of the crime in 2012.
CONVICT MOVES SC AGAINST
HC ORDER REJECTING
JUVENILITY CLAIM
In yet another confirma-
tion that the first heart
transplant of the state
was successful, the
17-year-old patient has
been taken off the venti-
lator. The medical team
of the SMS hospital that
performed the tricky op-
eration was overjoyed
as the ventilator sup-
port was removed after
24 hours. P3
Patient taken
off ventilator
HEART TRANSPLANT

M
S Dhoni com-
pletes 15 years
in internation-
al cricket having made
his debut against Bang-
ladesh in Chittagong on
December 23, 2004. It
wasn’t a memorable in-
troduction, though, for
the Ranchi cricketer,
who was run out for a
first-ball duck.
The national selec-
tion committee led by
Kiran More, a former
wicketkeeper himself,
handed Dhoni his maid-
en call-up and it would
not be long before he es-
tablished himself as a
regular in the ODI and
Test formats before be-
ing appointed the India
captain for the inaugu-
ral T20 World Cup in
South Africa.
He would transform
his batting to suit the
team’s needs and be-
come its de facto finish-
er, particularly in run-
chases, while his in-
stinctive on-field deci-
sions as captain started
delivering trophies.
The young Indian
side under Dhoni won
the T20 World Cup in
September 2007 to
soothe the scars of the
group-stage exit from
the 50-over World Cup
earlier in the year.
India won the tri-se-
ries in Australia in 2008,
registered its first Test
series win in New Zea-
land in 41 years, drew a
Test series in South Af-
rica in 2010, and under
Dhoni, it wasn’t just
competing but begin-
ning to win consistently
home and away.
In the final of the 2011
World Cup, Dhoni tran-
scended himself to play
arguably the defining
innings of his career -
an unbeaten 91 - to help
India end its 28-year
wait to win the quadren-
nial tournament.
The six over long on
off Sri Lanka seamer
Nuwan Kulasekara and
the outpouring of emo-
tions are among the
iconic moments of In-
dian cricket.
In 2013, he became the
first international cap-
tain to win three ICC
trophies when India
beatEnglandinthefinal
of the Champions Tro-
phy. The captaincy man-
tle was passed on to Vi-
rat Kohli in the middle
of India’s away Test se-
ries against Au stralia
in December 2014 and
India would fail at the
penultimate stage of the
2015 World Cup and the
2016 T20 World Cup on
home soil.
Dhoni has remained
the hope and a source of
joy for much of the 15
years since that Decem-
ber afternoon in Chit-
tagong. We don’t know
if we will see Dhoni play
his trade for a 16th year,
but his remains a career
that’s been celebrated
and deserving of more
celebration.
SPORTS
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Indian players Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Manish
Pandey and Yuzvendra Chahal during a training session
ahead of 2nd ODI match against Australia in Rajkot.BEGINS PRACTICE WITH RANJI SQUAD
D
honi’s omission from the central contracts list
was imminent and he was duly informed before
the national selection committee finalised the
names, a top BCCI official told PTI on Thursday. If
the former skipper makes it to the T20 International
(T20I) squad sometime this year, he might be re-
inducted on a pro-rata basis even though chances of
that are remote. The 38-year-old double World Cup-
winning former India captain’s omission from the list
was not unexpected as he has not played any interna-
tional cricket for over six months now.
The 87-year-old woman, who
became an overnight sensa-
tion on social media after
her videos with Virat Kohli
and Rohit Sharma went viral
during the World Cup 2019,
passed away. The Board of
Control for Cricket in India
(BCCI) took to Twitter to
share the news. “#TeamInd-
ia’s Superfan Charulata Patel
ji will always remain in our
hearts and her passion for
the game will keep motivat-
ing us. May her soul rest in
peace,” The BCCI tweeted.
Jaipur: MS Dhoni has
been left out of the BC-
CI's central contacts
list for players. He has
not played for India
since the 2019 Cricket
World Cup semi-final
defeat to New Zealand.
Dhoni had retired
from Test cricket in De-
cember 2014 after play-
ing 90 matches and had
stepped down as captain
of limited-oversformats
in January 2017.
Dhoni was part of
Grade A in the BCCI's
central contracts list
last year but after he
had made himself una-
vailable since the World
Cup, he was left out of
the 27-member list for
the period from October
2019 to September 2020.
The former skipper
has helped earn several
accolades in the global
arena, including the in-
augural World T20 in
2007, World Cup in 2011,
and ICC Champions
Trophy in 2013. He has
so far featured in 90
Tests, 350 ODIs and 98
T20Is and has amassed
over 17,000 runs.
Sydney: In-
dia is ap-
proaching cri-
sis mode with
Virat Kohli under
fire for a batting ex-
periment that is set to
be reversed as it grap-
ples with a concussion
blow to Rishabh Pant.
Kohli is back at No.3
as India face Australia
in the 2nd ODI in Ra-
jkot today with the se-
ries on the line. Kohli
and Co. will go into the
game 0-1 down after a
thrashing in Mumbai,
courtesy David Warn-
er and Aaron Finch,
who hit unbeaten hun-
dreds.
The talking point go-
ing into the match has
been Kohli’s batting
position and it is cer-
tain that the Indian
captain will return at
his favoured number
three spot.
First cricket team
to play 500 Tests
New Delhi: England
became the first cricket
team in the history of
the sport to play 500
away Tests. The side
achieved the feat when
they took the field to
play the third Test of
the ongoing four-match
series against South Af-
rica. England has man-
aged to win 149 match-
es, while losing 182.
Halep knocked
out in Adelaide QF
Adelaide: Two-time
Grand Slam winner Si-
mona Halep will head
into the Australian
Open with room for im-
provement after being
upset 6-4, 6-2 by Aryna
Sabalenka on Thursday
at the ATP-WTA Ade-
laide International.
Chiragh shines at
Singapore Open
Singapore: Indian golf-
er Chiragh Kumar was
impressive off the tee
and he added some good
putting on the back
nine to bring home a
card of three-under 68
in the first round of the
SMBC Singapore Open.
India’s first model
sports villages
New Delhi: Bahadur-
pur & Kheri Viran are
set to become India’s
first ‘Model Sports Vil-
lages’ as part of Insti-
tute of Management
Technology Ghaziabad’s
plan to evolve a sports
culture in the country.
Prajnesh enters
final round
Melbourne: India’s top-
ranked singles player
Prajnesh Gunneswaran
is a win away from seal-
ing a place in the Aus-
tralian Open main draw
after progressing to the
final round of the quali-
fiers but it was curtains
for Sumit Nagal.
Sindhu crashes
out in 2nd round
Jakarta: Indian cam-
paign at Indonesia Mas-
ters 2020 came to an end
when PV Sindhu
crashed out in the sec-
ond round of the tour-
nament with a three-
game loss to Japan’s
Sayaka Takahashi on
Thursday.
Ireland stun
Windies by 4 runs
Grenada: Ireland rode
a career-best 95 from
opener Paul Stirling be-
fore keeping their nerve
in a nail-biting final
over to pull off a four-
run win over world
champions West Indies
in the first of a three-
match Twenty20 series.
Selection of SAI
to be held in Jan
New Delhi: The Sports
Selection Selection of
Sports Authority of In-
dia (SAI) for the training
center at Vidyadhar Na-
gar will be held from
January 20 to 22. In this
selection process, play-
ers will be selected for
Athletics, Basketball,
Volleyball, Weightlifting.
BRIEF
in
Sydney: Close to A$
five million($3.4 mil-
lion) was raised for the
raging Australian bush-
fires after a special
charity event in which
world’s best tennis play-
ers took to the court.
Amid the Australian
Open
qualifying
rounds, the Rally for Re-
lief -- organised on
Wednesday evening --
featured big stars name-
ly Roger Federer, Sere-
na Williams, Novak
Djokovic, Rafael Nadal,
Naomi Osaka, Caroline
Wozniacki, Stefanos
Tsitsipas, Alexander
Zverev, Nick Kyrgios,
Petra Kvitova, Coco
Gauff and Dominic Thi-
em. Firefighters and
emergency personnel
watched on from court
side seats as the multi-
generational stars
played fast four dou-
bles, bringing much
needed laughter and
fun to those who have
struggled over the past
months. Nick Kyrgios,
who comes from an
area near to where the
fires are, described the
emotional feeling of
seeing some of the big-
gest stars in the world
getting behind Austral-
ia in a time of need.
“The awareness has
grown and I think we’re
doing everything we
possibly can to over-
come this,” Kyrgios
said. In an Australian
Open preview, Kyrgios
was joined by Federer
for a friendly one set
match, which the Swiss
legend won 7-6.
“What I wanted to do
was raise awareness,
raise money and tell
people to still come and
travel to Australia be-
cause people probably
think around the world
that you can’t right
now,” Federer said.
Federer paired up with
Nadal to donate A$
250,000 from their pock-
ets too help with relief.
Tennis stars raise 5 mn Aus dollars for reliefBUSHFIRE CHARITY
New Delhi: Javelin
thrower Devendra
Jhajharia on Thursday
dispelled all rumours
of retirement and said
he has his eyes set on a
hat-trick of world re-
cords at the 2020 Tokyo
Paralympics.
The 38-year-old jave-
lin thrower won a gold
at the 2004 Athens Para-
lympic Games in the
men's javelin throw F46
event setting a new
world record of 62.15
metres. He then repeat-
ed the feat 12 years later
at the 2016 Rio edition
bettering his own world
record with a throw of
63.97 metres. He became
the first Indian to clinch
two gold medals at the
Paralympics.
"I have qualified for
the Tokyo Paralympics
and I hope I can break
my own world record,"
Jhajharia told PTI in an
event. A recurring
shoulder injury trou-
bled him for more than
a year and a half, even
forcing him to consider
retirement.
Hobart: Sania Mirza
and her Ukrainian
partner Nadia Kiche-
nok advanced to the
women's doubles
semi-finals of the Ho-
bart International.
The duo defeated
USA's pair of Vania
King and Christina
McHale. On Tuesday,
they had won against
Georgia's Oksana
Kalashnikova and
Japan's Miyu Kato.
33-year-old Sania last
played at China Open
in October 2017.
Earlier in Decem-
ber, she was named
in the five-member
Fed Cup team an-
nounced by All India
Tennis Association
(AITA) to represent
the country in the
Fed Cup Asia/Oce-
ania Group I event.
Riya Bhatia, Ankita
Raina, Rutuja Bho-
sale, and Karman
Kaur Thandi are the
other players of the
five-member squad.
Sowjanya Bavisetti is
the reserve player.
Sania enters women’s
doubles semifinals of
Hobart International
Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: Hyderabad-
based polo player
Shamsher Ali turn the
tables by his excellent
performance. Shamsh-
er lead the Dragon team
to victory path which
was on the verge to lose
the game at Rambagh
Polo Ground. Dragon
won by 3–1 win over Los
Polistas. When the
match was about to
reach the finishing
point, Shamsheer gave
the Dragons the victory
with the easy goal.
In another match
played on the Cavalry
ground, Jaipur Riding
defeated the Cavalry
6-5. Angad Kalan scored
four goals for Jaipur
Riding Club, while Cav-
alry’s Ravi Rathore
scored 3 goals.
IS THIS END OF MS DHONI ERA?
n MS Dhoni has been
left out of the BCCI's
Annual Contracts List
n Dhoni has not
played for India
since the 2019 World
Cup semi-final
n Dhoni will lead
Chennai Super Kings
in the 2020 Indian
Premier League
BCCI CENTRAL CONTRACTS FOR 2019-20 DHONI WAS INFORMED OF EXCLUSION: BCCI
Grade A+ (INR 7 cr):
Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma,
Jasprit Bumrah
Grade A (INR 5 cr):
Ravichandran Ashwin,
Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvnesh-
war Kumar, Cheteshwar
Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, KL
Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan,
Mohammed Shami, Ishant
Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav,
Rishabh Pant
Grade B (INR 3 cr):
Wriddhiman Saha,
Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra
Chahal, Hardik Pandya,
Mayank Agarwal
Grade C (INR 1 cr):
Kedar Jadhav, Navdeep
Saini, Deepak Chahar,
Manish Pandey, Hanuma
Vihari, Shardul Thakur,
Shreyas Iyer, Washing-
ton Sundar.
Rattled Men In Blue to
end Kohli experiment
lll
Devastating
bushfires have
claimed at least
28 lives,
destroying over
2,000 homes
and razed
millions of
hectares of
wilderness
ShamsherleadsDragonstounexpectedwin
‘Want to break my
own world record’
Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: : Rajasthan
won a silver medal and
a bronze medal on
Thursday at the Khelo
India Youth Games 2020
held in Guwahati.
Jubera Raj won sil-
ver in the under-21 boys
wrestling category and
shooter Navdeep Jatra-
na won bronze in the
under-17 boys category.
While in boxing, wom-
en boxers performed
brilliantly to make it to
the quarter-finals. Boys
& girls basketball teams
of Rajasthan enjoying
their winning cam-
paign. So far, Rajasthan
has won a total 28 med-
als, including six gold,
15 silver and 7 bronze.
Rajasthan shines at Khelo India
Youth Games in wrestling
l Sania Mirza
and Nadia Kiche-
nok are making
waves in Hobart
l Sania will also
represent country
in the Fed Cup
Asia/Oceania
Group I event
TEAM INDIA‘SUPERFAN’ CHARULATA PATEL DIES
D
honi began practising with
the Jharkhand Ranji Trophy
squad on Thursday after he
was axed from the BCCI’s list of
centrally contracted players ear-
lier in the day. Amid fresh specu-
lation on his future, the 38-year-
old turned up at his home team’s
net session in Ranchi. This is
probably an indication that he is
getting ready for the upcoming
edition of the Indian Premier
League. Now, Cricket fans
wonder if Dhoni’s career
is over after being
dropped from cen-
tral contract list
by the BCCI.
YOU READ IT FIRST IN FIRST INDIA
JANUARY 17, 2020
He is a
man of
his
words and it
came as no
surprise that
he was out
there train-
ing with the
guys just
like any
other.
—Coach
Kumar
India has won 27, lost 19
and drawn 15 of the 60
Tests he has led the team in.
37-year-old Dhoni, who is
also the team’s wicket-
keeper, took over as Test skip-
per in 2008 after a successful
spell captaining the one-day
and T20 sides.
Under Dhoni, India’s only
notable Test wins away from
home have come in South Africa
and New Zealand – one each.
India beat West Indies in the Car-
ibbean once, but even that was a
laboured effort. India have won just
six away Tests out of the 30 that
Dhoni has captained
Dhoni has played 90 Tests and
scored 4876 runs at an average
of 38.09
Under Dhoni’s captaincy, India
became the No.1 Test team and
retained the ranking for 18 months
starting December 2009.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni broke the world re-
cord for the most number of stumpings in
international cricket after he effected his 134th
dismissals during the third Test against Australia
in Melbourne. He surpassed Sri Lanka’s Kumar
Sangakkara when he stumped Mitchell Johnson
off the bowling of off-spinner R Ashwin for his
world record dismissal. He reached the landmark
in his 460th innings while Sangakkara has 133
stumpings from 485 innings.
MS Dhoni’s omis-
sion from BCCI’s
central contract list
which was announced
on Thursday came as a
surprise to many in-
cluding the fans of the
veteran wicket-keeper
batsman, who have
been eagerly waiting
for his comeback in in-
ternational cricket.
Dhoni has not played
for India since the con-
clusion of the 2019
World Cup extending
his sabbatical to over
six months. Dhoni’s last
appearance for India
came in the World Cup
semi-final against New
Zealand where he
scored a gritty fifty but
failed to take India over
the line in the 241-run
chase as the Men in
Blue bowed out of the
showpiece event after
an 18-run loss. In his ab-
sence, speculations have
been doing the round
overDhoni’sfuturewith
the Indian team. His ex-
clusion from the BCCI
contract further fueled
the rumours of his re-
tirement, however, Dho-
ni is yet to address the
rumours. He has re-
sumed training with the
Jharkhand side.
Jharkhand coach Rajiv
Kumar said he was ex-
pecting Dhoni to be a bit
rusty having not played
any cricket for quite
some time but he was
left surprised when the
former Indian captain
middled the ball well
against both pacers and
spinners.
EXPECTED RUSTINESS BUT MS DHONI SURPRISED ME
WITH HIS FLUENCY IN NETS: JHARKHAND COACH
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He became the second Indian
captain to lift the World Cup in 2011
against Sri Lanka in Mumbai
The two first met at the Taj Bengal in Kolkata in
2007. It took a few months of serious wooing on
Dhoni’s part before they started dating in 2008
Ziva has been
constantly stealing
the attention of
fans with her
adorable gestures
He also holds the
all-time record of
107 stumpings in
ODI cricket and is
third overall in Test
cricket with 38
stumpings
Dhoni led India to the title triumph in
the inaugural edition of the ICC T20
World Cup in 2007
He has numerous motorcycles ranging from the Suzuki
Shogun to the Kawasaki Ninja H2 and Confederate Hellcat
Dhoni has been unlike many great players
who drag their feet in the twilight of their
careers. And his outstanding career has
showed that professional sport need not
always be about fitting in. He stood
out for his acumen and an
undemonstrative approach that
earned the nickname ‘Captain Cool’
MS WIN DOSE...
LOGS OUT? MS
Dhoni’s
journey
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
announced his retire-
ment after the third Test
of the Border-Gavaskar
Trophy at Melbourne
on December 30, 2014.
Australia beat India in
the series with one Test
remaining. Virat Kohli will
take over the reigns
Having led India in 60
matches, MS Dhoni
ranks 6th in list of players
to have captained a side.
Dhoni holds the record for highest Test score by an
Indian captain - 224 (Vs Australia in 2013). His 224 is
also the highest by a Test wicketkeeper-captain in history.
Nicknamed ‘Captain Cool’ for his calm demeanour in the
face of challenging situations, MSD will continue to
lead India in ODIs and T20s.
Post the World Cup win
in 2011, India lost eight
straight Tests away from
home. This put Dhoni the
captain under immense
pressure, which was ac-
centuated by a 2-1 home
series loss to England in
2012-13, the first time
India had lost at home in
more than eight years.
Dhoni was the 31st
captain of India in Tests
and is the most successful
Indian Test skipper.
In batting,
he aver-
aged 40.63
as captain,
and to-
talled 3454
runs. He
had hit five
centuries
as captain.
In 2013, he
became the first
international
captain to
win three ICC
trophies

RAJASTHANJAIPUR | SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020
Cold wave,
dense fog
warning for
many dists
First India News
Jaipur: Severe cold
conditions were ob-
served across most
parts of West Rajasthan
as mercury dropped by
up to six degrees in the
state on Thursday
night. In Ajmer, the
mercury dropped six
degrees from 12.6°C to
6.5°C. In Jaipur too, the
mercury dropped from
13.3°C to 9.1°C. There is
a warning of cold wave
in many districts.
On Friday, cold wave
prevailed in Sriganga-
nagar, Churu, Hanu-
mangarh, Bikaner, Si-
kar, Jhunjhunu, Jaipur,
Alwar, Dausa, Bharat-
pur, Karauli, Sawai
Madhopur, Kota etc.
On Saturday, dense
fogmayoccurinSrigan-
ganagar, Churu, Hanu-
mangarh, Bikaner, Jais-
almer, Sikar, Jhunj-
hunu, Alwar, Bharat-
pur, Dhaulpur, Karauli,
Sawai Madhopur, Kota,
Baran, Tonk among
others, MeT warned.
First India News
Jaipur: If all goes well,
children in Aanganbadi
and schools in Ra-
jasthan, will be served
a nutritional mid-day
meal as the government
is mulling over fortify-
ing the meals. Further-
more, the government
will also transform the
State Secretariat along
with other offices into
‘Eat-Right Campus’
across the state. The
move is in line with CM
Ashok Gehlot’s vision
of ‘Nirogi Rajasthan’.
The CM chaired a
meeting on Friday at
the CMO, where sever-
al important decisions
were taken. “The State
Government is striving
hard to provide unadul-
terated food products
to people so that their
health is not harmed in
any way. Under this, a
special drive on food
security will be initi-
ated wherein, those re-
sponsible for adultera-
tion, will be dealt with
severely & people will
also be sensitised,” Ge-
hlot said. He directed
officials to ensure that
Food Safety Officers,
apart from carrying
out tests for adultera-
tion, should also sensi-
tise people.
Gehlot also provided
a major relief to the
youth of the state by
announcing relaxation
in age by one year in
Constable recruitment
2019. The last date of
the recruitment of
5,000 constables have
been increased by fif-
teen days as well.
The CM also deliv-
ered his vote of thanks
to officials for conduct-
ing Panchayat elections
in the state. “The offi-
cials carried out their
duties under rigoruous
weather conditions &
challenging circum-
stances, which is com-
mendable. Such acts
strengthendemocracyin
our country. All the offi-
cials have my profound
thanks,” the CM said.
For Nirogi Raj, govt to
deal with adulteratorsAanganbadiandschoolsinstatewillbeserved nutritionalmid-daymeals
CMAshok Gehlot,Tourism MinisterVishvendra Singh,veteran actor Prem Chopra and JIFF Chairperson
Rajiv Arora during the opening ceremony of the fest on Friday. —PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA
BUGGED? Or is it
the grapevine... .
First India begins a
column that brings
to you gossips or
tete-e-tete from
the corridors of
power
GUP
SHUP
THIS SAHAB HOPES
FOR DG RANK
BEFORE HE RETIRES
Asenior police officer, who
sits on the second floor of
the PHQ, is worried these days
over a DPC. Well, the sahab
is retiring in the summer of
2020, and before that,w he
wants the rank of Director
General added before his
name. Hence, with a handful
of months left, the ‘sahab’
has been running from pillar
to post and hoping to keep
both the bureaucrats and
politicians in ‘good faith’, so
that he is accorded the DG
rank. While ‘setting the board’
is one thing, however, sahab’s
movement has made his office
almost redundant, as for
the past several days, as no
constructive work has taken
place here.
THIS GAMA SAHAB IS
PLAYING JAI TO
MANY VEERUs!
While Jai and Veeru are
hailed as the epitome of
friendship, it appears the Jaipur
Commissionerate has its own
version of Jai-Veeru. One ‘Gama
Sahab’ from Jaipur West police
district is being touted as playing
‘Jai’ to not just one but several
‘Veerus’ ie the sand mafia! Well,
the sahab has made a deal with
sand mafia on a per truck basis,
and thus, he is going out of his way
to ensure that ‘Veeru’ is ‘hail and
hearty’. Interestingly, much like in
the movie where ‘Jai’ was ‘removed’
from the plot, similarly, this sahab
was ‘removed’ ie transferred from
the post some time back. However,
what the ‘reel life’ Jai lacked, is
covered by the ‘real life’ Jai. Taking
cue from another movie, where
the protagonist delivered a famous
dialogue ‘Mere Paas Maa hai,”
this Jai (the Gama Sahab) has a
‘Baap’ in the Police Head Quarters
who stayed the transfer order and
brought the official back on this
current ‘assignment’.
A ‘DICTATOR’ BADE
SAHAB AND A
CONFUSED STAFF!
One ‘bade sahab’, who sits in his
office located on the fifth floor
of the Police Head Quarters (PHQ)
has been
famously
named
‘Dictator’
by his staff.
Let us tell
you the
story behind
this. The
sahab ‘cracks a whip’ if any of
his subordinate answers to any
complainant or person connected
with any case. As a result the staff
members keep quite and do not
entertain any ‘civilian’ or for that
matter, even any cop, such is the
terror! Furthermore, the staff has
been strictly instructed to first
consult with ‘sahab’ and only if
he permits, then roll out the info.
Moreover, what is to be said to
the information seeker, is also told
by the sahab. In his ‘regime,’ his
staff claims to be disappointed,
demotivated and confused.
HECTIC LOBBYING BEGINS FOR THE POST OF
ROADWAYS MANAGING DIRECTOR
The Roadways Managing Director has been relieved of his position
to head to Delhi now, however, with it, a new game has begun.
The Chairman has initiated efforts to fill the position of the MD and
thus, the officials have started ‘lobbying’ to take charge of the coveted
position of MD. Meanwhile, a senior IAS officer Sudhansh Pant is also
awaiting posting and has recently met Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot as
well. On the other hand, several ministers are finding it hard to work in
their departments and sources say that it is now time for another IAS
transfer list wherein, around a dozen officials will be transferred.
SMSdocsheldthreemock
drillsbeforethetransplant
Vikas Sharma
Jaipur: SMS Hospital,
became the first govern-
ment hospital, not just
in Rajasthan but the en-
tire country (leaving out
South India) where a
heart transplant sur-
gery was performed on
Thursday.
Anothernotablething
about this operation
was that the SMS doc-
tors completed the en-
tire process themselves
as no outside support
from other institute was
sought or taken.
Principal SMS Medi-
cal College, Dr Sudhir
Bhandari while sharing
the experience with the
media said that they did
complete preparation
for this kind of opera-
tion and prior to the ac-
tual surgery the doctors
held a mock drill thrice.
The drill involved
every step including
bringing the heart to the
OT and the transplant to
leave no scope of error.
“For three days we did
not sleep yet we did not
feel tired. This surgery
is a proud moment not
just for Rajasthan but
the entire country,” Dr
Bhandari said.
Meanwhile, Gover-
nor Kalraj Mishra also
wanted to join the or-
gandonationcampaign.
The Governor spoke to
Dr Bhandari and con-
gratulated him and his
team for the successful
transplant and ex-
pressed his wish to join
the campaign for organ
donation. The Gover-
nor also invited the
family of the donor to
the Raj Bhawan.
Governor Kalraj Mishra called Principal SMS Medical College, Dr
Sudhir Bhandari to congratulate him and his team for first heart
transplant at SMS Hospital on Friday.
TTT
THE HEART TRANSPLANT TEAM

RAJASTHANJAIPUR | SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020
Man dies as car
hits Metro pillar
Jaipur: In a tragic inci-
dent a man died in
Jaipur when his car col-
lided with a Metro pil-
lar near Ganga Jamuna
petrol pump. The man
lost control of his vehi-
cle while driving which
led to his car hitting the
metro pillar. According
to eye witnesses, the
man suddenly applied
brakes, but as he was
not wearing seat belt,
his head hit the pillar
and he got seriously in-
jured. After that, he was
rushed to the hospital,
where he died during
treatment. The de-
ceased has been identi-
fied as 35-year-old Abhi-
nav Gupta, a resident of
Shyam Nagar. The po-
lice took the man out of
the car with help of lo-
cals after half an hour.
Churu MP flags off
Kota-Hisar train
Churu: The train run-
ning to Kota-Hisar from
Churu was flagged off
by MP Rahul Kaswa at
Churu railway station
on Friday. This train
will run from Kota to
Hisar for three days in a
week and has cheap
tickets. Now, it would be
convenient for the peo-
ple of Churu district to
reach Kota and Hisar.
The demand for such a
train was going on for a
long time, which has
been met by the efforts
of the MP.
Man held stealing
gold from jeweller
Churu: In a gold theft
case in Taranagar po-
lice station area, the po-
lice have arrested the
accused, who stole gold,
from West Bengal. Ac-
cording to the informa-
tion, Laxminarayan
Soni had lodged a case
against a youth Sheikh
Rafiqul who was work-
ing in his jewellery
shop near Radha
Krishna temple for the
last 3 years. The com-
plainant had given 110
grams of gold to the
accused on November
11, 2019, and he ran
away with it. The ac-
cused Sheikh Rafiqul
was arrested from
West Bengal on Friday.
Two killed in bike
pick-up collision
Churu: Two youths lost
their lives in motorcy-
cle and pick-up collision
on Friday. They were
coming to their village
Haripura from Sahwa
late at night when their
motorcycle collided
with a pick-up near
Jhadsar. According to
police, the deceased
have been identified as
Mangilal (28) and Rajen-
dra’s (29) . The collision
was so severe that both
the legs of the rider
were broken along with
severe injuries to the
head and abdomen.
Both the youth were
taken to Taranagar
Government Hospital
with the help of 108
Ambulance, where the
doctor declared them
brought dead.
BRIEF
in
1st phase of Panchayat polls:
State witnesses 74% pollingFirst India News
Jaipur: Polling for the
first phase of the pan-
chayat elections in the
state was conducted in
a peaceful manner
across the state on Fri-
day. Till 5 pm, 74% poll-
ing was done while vot-
ing continued at many
centres even after the
time was over as the
people said that they
are waiting to vote from
2 pm, but their chance
has not come yet.
In some places,
EVMs were not work-
ing properly and were
replaced immediately.
These panchayat elec-
tions are being held
for 2,726 posts of Sar-
panch, for which
17,242 candidates are
trying their luck. Ex-
cept Jhunjhunu and
Jaisalmer, all dis-
tricts have voted in
the first phase.
Meanwhile, villagers
boycotted voting in
Bhojpura village of Ar-
ampura Gram Panchay-
at in Kota district. They
are claiming that they
are troubled by mon-
keys and nilgai since
long, but their issue has
not been heard yet. On
the other hand, two par-
ties got into a dispute
during voting in Bhauri
Gram Panchayat of Ka-
man Panchayat in
Bharatpur.
The police reached
the spot and settled the
issue. In another inci-
dent in Ajitgarh Pan-
chayat of Sikar dis-
trict, a youth grabbed
the police constable’s
uniform, after which
he was taken to the po-
lice station. Chief Min-
ister Ashok Gehlot also
posted a tweet after the
successful conclusion
of polling.
In his tweet, Gehlot
thanked all the person-
nel involved in the
election process for
working in difficult
circumstances and bad
weather in Dholpur
and Karauli.
For the post of Panch,
70,732 candidates have
filed 70,936 nominations
in 26,800 wards of 2726
gram panchayats in 31
districts of the state.
Out of which, 11,035
panch have been elected
unopposed. Now, 42,704
candidates will be in
the fray for the post of
Panch. Applications for
Panch were not re-
ceived for 131 wards.
SEC’s no to request
for timely conduct
of panchayat polls
First India News
Jaipur: In a snub to
deputy CM Sachin Pi-
lot, State Election Com-
mission (SEC) has re-
jected his request for
holding election on
time in all panchayat
raj institutes.
Pilot had written a
letter to SEC recently,
requesting it to hold
panchayat polls on time
while making it clear
that panchayat raj de-
partment has no inten-
tion of appointing ad-
ministrator in these in-
stitutes. SEC in its writ-
ten response to the de-
partment said that it
has made all efforts to
hold polls on time and
the department had
been duly apprised
about it in writing as
well as in various meet-
ings on this issue.
Putting Pilot’s de-
partment in the dock, it
said, “However, from
the letter it appeared
that these facts were not
brought to his notice.”
SEC also pointed out
that regarding interim
order on special leave
petition, the advocate
general has given his
advice, which was pro-
vided to the department
vide letter on January
10, 2020. First, it is not
clear if department
agreed with AG’s advice
or not. Also, if SC was
informed of AG’s ad-
vice, there would have
been no confusion. SEC
wrote, it is clear from
these facts that it had
made sincere efforts but
department took so
much time in delimita-
tion and frequent notifi-
cations posed problem
for it. Thus SEC re-
leased poll schedule in
wake of court decision
and as per best possible
option available.
A group of voters gathered for voting in the Boraj Gram Panchayat
polling station of the Maujmabad Panchayat Samiti on Friday.
End co-op...
The Chief Minister
chaired a review meet-
ing of ADGs on Friday
wherein, he stressed on
the purpose of handing
over monitoring of
range to ADG level offi-
cers. He said, “The
main reason is proper
monitoring of law and
order. This move will
ensure that the feed-
back from grassroots
reaches the state gov-
ernment based on
which we can take steps
towards better polic-
ing.” A review of the
same will be held every
three months.
Gehlot also stressed
that the state police
must get accustomed
with new technology
and develop a sensitive
and professional ap-
proach amongst police
officials. “The State
Government will not
leave any stone un-
turned in strengthen-
ing the state police and
providing resources,”
Gehlot said.
Gehlot also directed
the officials to take
stern action against the
mafia operating in li-
quor, land, mining,
drugs and other sectors.
“For this purpose, offi-
cials that would be tak-
en under the District
Special team (DST) will
be specially trained and
provided proper re-
sources,” CM said.
Gehlot, while appre-
ciating the self defence
training being impart-
ed free of cost to women
in the state, also wanted
more females included
in the scheme. On the
issue of promotions,
Gehlot green signalled
to officials to hold pro-
motions of state police
within three months.
The Chief Minister
also asked the senior
officials to take effec-
tive action against false
advertisement of vari-
ous ‘magical’ medicines
being advertised on
television, newspapers
and magazines.
A day...
Investments are wel-
come but they should be
within the law,” Com-
merce and Industry
Minister Piyush Goyal
told reporters on Fri-
day.
‘Doctor Bomb’...
“Jalees Ansari has
been arrested when
he was coming out
from a mosque. He
has been brought to
Lucknow. It is a big
achievement of the
UP Police,” said Uttar
Pradesh top cop OP
Singh.
IT’S FINAL...
Vinay Sharma,
Mukesh Singh, Ak-
shay Kumar Singh
and Pawan Gupta
were to be hanged at
Delhi’s Tihar Jail on
January 22, the same
trial court judge had
declared last week,
signing a death war-
rant more than seven
years after the young
girl was gang-raped
on a moving bus, tor-
tured and killed.
‘Same People...
and served notices to
them immediately after
the Supreme Court re-
jected their appeal
against death sentence
in 2017.
Nirbhaya’s
parents...
Lets together create a
safe city for our wom-
en,” Kejriwal said in a
tweet.
Indian economy...
Speakingatthelaunch
of the report Friday,
Nagesh Kumar, head,
UNEconomicandSocial
Commission for Asia
and the Pacific, stressed
the need for “continued
structural reforms” to
bring India’s growth
backtoitspreviouslevel.
Hesaidcountryhascom-
mitted to an ambitious
fiscal expansion to com-
plement its loose mone-
tary policy.
FROM PG 1
ON-DUTY TEACHER DIES OF CARDIAC ARREST
‘People voted for party
rather than individual’
First India News
Jaipur: In what may
be considered as anoth-
er ‘indirect’ attack on
his own government
and leader, Deputy
Chief Minister and
PCC president Sachin
Pilot said on Friday
that people have voted
for the party rather
than any individual.
Pilot’s remarks came
in light of the claims
made by Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot that he
was chosen by the peo-
ple to lead the state. Pi-
lot also said that it is
election commission’s
prerogative to decide
when to hold panchayat
elections. He also criti-
cised attack on RLP
leader and Nagaur MP
Hanuman Beniwal.
“Peopledon’tchoosea
person. They have elect-
ed a party and the party
has appointed minister
and chosen the leader,”
Pilot told media persons
on Friday. Once again
Pilot did not take any
name but context of his
barb and whom it was
aimed at was apparent.
Pilot also responded
cautiously on state elec-
tion commissioner’s
comments regarding
panchayat elections. He
said state election com-
mission was a statutory
body and it is a collec-
tive responsibility to
keep its respect intact.
Government has sought
advice from the Su-
preme Court about pan-
chayat elections but it is
for the election commis-
sion to decide when to
conduct the polls.
Interestingly, dis-
gruntled Tourism min-
ister Vishvendra Singh
also met Pilot on Friday.
Singh, who is unhappy
with officers in his de-
partment with whom he
is having a tussle, took
pot shots at them.
“The Rajasthan gov-
ernment will intervene
and take immediate ac-
tion if there are any is-
sues in coordination
between officers and
ministers,” Pilot said
while adding, “If any
team member faces a
problem, then I think
that government should
take immediate action
after taking cognisance
of it. Running govern-
ment is a collective re-
sponsibility as people
have chosen Congress
party and not any one
person. It is very impor-
tant to resolve problems
of team members.”
‘Those opposing CAA must
visit Pak to know reality’
First India News
Jaipur: BJP National
Vice President Om
Prakash Mathur
reached Kishangarh on
Friday where he cleared
the air on various is-
sues currently on in the
country including NRC,
CAA and Article 370,
while interacting with
the media. Mathur said
that in the present sce-
nario, the Opposition
has no issue and they
are making allegations
without any informa-
tion. There is no base in
their charges and they
are tricking the public.
Also, those who are op-
posing CAA must visit
Pakistan to know the
reality, he added.
Speaking about the
upcoming elections, the
BJP leader said that he
would fulfil whatever
responsibility BJP en-
trusts him, whether it is
in Rajasthan or any
other state. Mathur add-
ed that Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot is very
sensitive, but his lan-
guage is not appropri-
ate for some years. Ma-
thur also met Gaj Singh
of Jodhpur Royal fami-
ly in Kurki during the
wedding ceremony of
son of Pushpendra Sin-
gh Kurki. Mathur also
went to Peesangan and
met the general public
and BJP workers dur-
ing the day.
BJP National V-P Om Prakash Mathur along with BJP leader
Neeraj Jain & Rakesh Mohan Pahadia at Kishangarh on Friday.
First India News
Jaipur: To provide re-
lief to the farmers, the
purchase period of
groundnut has been ex-
tended till February 19,
said State Cooperative
Marketing Federation
(Rajfed) managing di-
rector Sushma Arora
on Friday. Earlier, the
purchase of groundnut
was to take place on
February 4.
She said, 94% farm-
erswhohadsoldground
nut, moong, urad and
soyabean, on minimum
support price (MSP),
have been paid and
money has been credit-
ed to their account.
Farmers had request-
ed to extend the pur-
chase period of ground-
nut and Rajfed had writ-
ten a letter to GoI on the
issue, on which Coop-
erative and Farmer
Welfare department has
extended the purchase
period till February 19.
She said produces
worth Rs1590.55 crore
have been purchased
from farmers till Janu-
ary 16, of which pay-
ment of Rs1497.74 crore
has been made. Farm-
ers are being paid with-
in three days of selling
their produce. Rajfed
MD said that till now
2,57,057 farmers have
registered themselves
to sell moong, urad,
soyabean and ground-
nut on MSP.
Elaborating she said,
1,32,428 farmers have
registered to sell
moong, while 1,22,410 to
sell groundnut.
Rajfed extends purchase period of groundnut
First India News
Jaipur: Governor and
Chancellor, Kalraj
Mishra, appointed Dr
Praveen Chandra Trive-
di as Vice Chancellor of
Jai Narayan University,
Jodhpur and Prof Jag-
dish Prasad Yadav as
the Vice Chancellor of
Rajrishi Bhatrihari
Matsya University, Al-
war for a period of
three years from the
date of joining.
Flags off Jal Yod-
dha Vahini: The Gov-
ernor also flagged off
‘Jal Yoddha Vahini’
from Raj Bhawan.
Regional Outreach
Bureau of I&B Ministry
has specially designed
these multimedia exhi-
bition vehicles for pub-
licity of water conser-
vation.
Vahini will travel to
Jaipur, Dausa, Sawai
Madhopur, Alwar,
Bharatpur, Karauli,
Dholpur, Ajmer,
Bhilwara, Rajsamand,
Chittorgarh, Pratap-
garh, Dungarpur, Ban-
swara and Udaipur to
inform people about im-
portance and ways of
water conservation.
First India News
Kota: A 26-year-old
man died after falling
from a moving train in
Rajastahan’s Bundi dis-
trict on Friday morn-
ing, police said.
Nikhil Bawail was
travelling in Nagpur-
Jaipur passenger train
and fell from it near
Etoda village in the
morning, said ASI Dur-
gashankar Gautam.
The victim was a res-
ident of Sardargarh vil-
lage in Rajsamand dis-
trict, the officer said.
Bawail’s body was
handed over to his
family after a post-
mortem and an inves-
tigation has been
launched into the mat-
ter, Gautam said.
Governor appoints
V-Cs of 2 universities
Man falls off
moving train in
Bundi, dies
Tourism minister Vishvendra Singh met Dy CM Sachin Pilot on Friday.
LLL
PILOT MEETS MINORITY CELL MEMBERS
Sushma Arora, MD Rajfed

INDIAJAIPUR | SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020
‘Rohingyas carried out massacre in India’BJP MP Pragya added that the community was thrown out of their native country for the same reason, thereby, hinting at their fate in Myanmar
New Delhi: BJP MP
Pragya Thakur on Fri-
day accused the Roh-
ingya people of con-
ducting a massacre in
India, adding that the
community was thrown
out of their native coun-
try for the same reason,
thereby hinting at their
fate in Myanmar.
Pragya Thakur was
addressing a pro-Citi-
zenship Amendment
Act (CAA) gathering in
Sehore when she said
the following, “Rohing-
yas were thrown out
from their country be-
cause they carried out a
massacre there. They
took shelter in our
country and started do-
ing the same thing here.
They damaged our cul-
ture and tried to disin-
tegrate the country.
They insulted our law
and the Constitution.
CAB has now become
the Citizenship Act.”
Thakur also clarified
the contentious act be-
fore the gathering, ex-
plaining that the CAA
“will not take anyone’s
citizenship.” She al-
leged that the political
parties opposed to the
amended citizenship
act are bringing in peo-
ple to the anti-CAA with
money.
“CAA will not take
away anyone’s citizen-
ship. They are alluring
people with money
to bring rallies against
CAA,” the BJP MP
said. —ANI
Mamata, Dhankhar
are two jokers of
circus: Chowdhury
Midnapore: Congress
leader Adhir Ranjan
Chowdhury on Friday
took a dig at West Ben-
gal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee and
Governor Jagdeep
Dhankhar over their
tussle and described
them as “two jokers of
circus”.
“In Bengal, a circus
is going on at Raj
Bhavan (Governor’s
House) and Nabanna
Bhavan (State Secre-
tariat). The heads there
are the two jokers of
the circus,” he told re-
porters here. Dhankhar
and Trinamool Con-
gress government in
West Bengal have dif-
fered on several issues
with the ruling party
accusing the Governor
of running a “parallel
administration”.
The Governor has re-
futed the allegations.
Chowdhury was in
Midnapore to attend a
rally against the Citi-
zenship Amendment
Act, National Popula-
tion Register (NPR) and
National Register of
Citizens (NRC) organ-
ised by Paschim Medin-
ipur District Youth Con-
gress. —ANI
Nadda dares Rahul to speak 10 sentences on CAA
New Delhi: In a stri-
dent defence of the
Citizenship Act, BJP
working president JP
Nadda on Friday dared
Congress leader Rahul
Gandhi to deliver just
10 lines on the act.
Nadda further ac-
cused the Congress
leader of speaking
without knowing all
the attendant facts.
“I challenge Rahul
Gandhi to speak 10
lines on Citizenship
(Amendment) Act
(CAA). He talks with-
out knowing. It is un-
fortunate for the na-
tion. All those oppos-
ing CAA are making
the nation weak,” said
Nadda.
The BJPworking
president, speaking at
an event in New Delhi,
accused Gandhi of
misleading the coun-
try and said the newly
amended citizenship
law is for minorities
who took shelter in In-
dia after facing reli-
gious persecution in
neighbouring coun-
tries for years.
The amended law
provides for fast-track-
ing Indian citizenship
for non-Muslim refu-
gees from Pakistan,
Bangladesh and Af-
ghanistan.
Shah had also earli-
er challenged Rahul
Gandhi to prove that
the act can take away
somebody’s citizen-
ship. “I challenge Ra-
hul Gandhi to find out
a provision in the Citi-
zenship Amendment
Act that can take citi-
zenship away from
anyone in this coun-
try,” Shah had said
while addressing a
public meeting in Con-
gress-ruled MP.
VIEWPOINT
DELHI ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2020
BJPannounces57candidates
New Delhi: BJP an-
nounced a list of 57 can-
didates out of 70 for the
upcoming Delhi Assem-
bly elections, which are
scheduled to be held on
February 8. Kapil
Mishra, who switched
from AAP to BJP, will
contest from Model
Town.
Delhi BJP chief
Manoj Tiwari’s candi-
dature has not been an-
nounced in the first list
of candidates. Party
leader Anil Jha will
contest from the Kirari
seat, while Vijender
Gupta will contest from
the Rohini seat. The
party is yet to announce
the names of 13 candi-
dates.
Meanwhile, the Aam
Aadmi Party an-
nounced their list of 70
candidates for the elec-
tions on Wednesday.
The party has fielded
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal from the New
Delhi Assembly seat
and his deputy Manish
Sisodia from the Patpar-
ganj seat.
The Congress Party
is yet to declare the
names of their candi-
dates for the upcoming
polls.
WOMEN POWER
New Delhi: Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi
on Friday alleged that
the best way to “si-
lence” Jammu and
Kashmir DSP Davin-
der Singh was to hand
the investigations
against him to NIA
chief Y C Modi, under
whose care the case
will be “as good as
dead”.
Training his guns on
the National Investiga-
tion Agency chief, Gan-
dhi said he had earlier
investigated the Guja-
rat riots and the Harem
Pandya assassination
cases.
“The best way to si-
lence Terrorist DSP
Davinder, is to hand
the case to the NIA,”
Gandhi said on Twit-
ter, adding that the
agency is headed by
“another Modi” who
investigated the Guja-
rat riots and the Haren
Pandya’’s assassina-
tion.
In his care, “the case
is as good as dead”,
Gandhi alleged.
Using the hashtag
“WhoWantsTerrorist-
DavinderSilenced”, the
Congress leader asked
“And why”.
Singh was arrested
from Kulgam in south
Kashmir along with
Hizbul Mujahideen ter-
rorists Naveed Baba
and Altaf and a lawyer
operating as an over-
ground worker for ter-
ror outfits. —PTI
RAGA HITS OUT AT NIA CHIEF
‘Give him Davinder
case to silence him’
POPULATION CONTROL ON RSS
AGENDA: BHAGWAT
Moradabad: It is not
Mathura or Kashi that is
on RSS agenda. It is now
population control that
the RSS will push for.
RSS chief Mohan Bhag-
wat who is presently on a
four-day visit to Morad-
abad, said at a meeting
that a law for two children
should be brought in
to ensure proper devel-
opment of the country.
Addressing the meeting at
the Moradabad Institute
of Technology, Bhagwat
said that RSS will support
any law that calls for two
children only.”We feel this
is the need of the hour
though it is up to the gov-
ernment to take the final
call on this. This law will
not have any relation to
any particular religion and
will be applicable to all.”
ARUN SOOD ELECTED AS NEW
CHANDIGARH BJP CHIEF
Chandigarh: Arun Sood was unanimously elected
president of the Chandigarh unit of the BJP for
the next three years. Outgoing president Sanjay
Tandon was unanimously elected member of the
national council of the BJP. Both were elected
unopposed. The announcement was made by
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who
was appointed observer by the central BJP. Tan-
don had been Chandigarh BJP chief for a decade.
After his three-year term ended, he was given an
extension of another 3 years & later for 4 years.
‘VIJAYAN TRYING GOOD BOY
IMAGE IN FRONT OF PM’
Thiruvananthapuram: Days after the Left govern-
ment in Kerala moved SC against CAA, the Con-
gress alleged that CM Pinarayi Vijayan was trying
to implement the controversial act “secretly,”
Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Ramesh
Chennithala alleged at a press meet in Thiruva-
nanthapuram. “The Chief Minister should end
his attempts to make political gains in the name
of CAA. Instead of cheating people, he should
ensure that the Act is not being implemented in
the state,” he alleged.
OBC LEADER SWATANTRA DEV
SINGH ELECTED AS UP BJP CHIEF
Lucknow: Prominent
OBC leader Swatan-
tradev Singh was elected
unopposed the chief of
UP BJP, party’s media
co-incharge Alok Awasthi
said. The announcement
about Singh’s election
was made by party’s
national general secretary
Bhupendra Yadav at Uttar
Pradesh BJP office. The
55-year-old Singh, who
will have a three-year
tenure, was appointed
UP BJP chief in July last
year after Mahendra Nath
Pandey was re-elected
to Lok Sabha and joined
the government at the
Centre. Belonging to the
influential Kurmi caste,
Singh made his presence
felt during the 2019 LS
elections as in-charge of
party affairs in MP.
AzadcallsoutPMfor‘identify
peoplebyclothes’remark
New Delhi: A day after
he was released from
Tihar Jail, Bhim Army
chief Chandrashekhar
Azad Friday called for
repealing the conten-
tious Citizenship
(Amendment) Act and
said that it would be
shameful if he does not
raise his voice when the
Prime Minister say
‘identify people from
their clothes’.
“If I don’t raise my
voice when PM says
identity people from
their clothes, it would
be shameful. Insaniyat
(humanity) is some-
thing that is greater
than caste and reli-
gion,” Azad said while
addressing a press con-
ference. He also said
that if someone is dis-
criminating on the be-
half of religion, they
are disrespecting the
Constitution of the
country.
Holding the Constitu-
tion in hand, Azad said,
“I cannot go against the
Constitution. I respect
PM because he is in a
constitutional position.
I urge him to honour
the Indian Constitu-
tion. Shri Modiji says I
am the servant of the
people, but he is not see-
ing the troubles taken
by women in Shaheen-
bagh.”
Terming CAA as a
“black law,” Azad said
CAA & NRC could be “a
political agenda”.
“They (BJP) have fewer
numbers in RS. This
could be to increase it.
But for us, it’s not poli-
tics. It’s about rights of
the people.” —ANI
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad addresses a press
conference in New Delhi on Friday.
AMARINDER SINGH’S TAKE ON CAA
‘Nazi rule unfolding in India now’
New Delhi: Stating
that the contentious
Citizenship (Amend-
ment) Act was against
the secular fabric of
the country, Punjab
Chief Minister Ama-
rinder Singh Friday
claimed that events
unfolding now bear
similarity to the ones
witnessed in Germa-
ny in 1930s when Ado-
lf Hitler was at the
helm.
“You want to
change secular fabric
of this country. It is
very sad what is hap-
pening now. We had
not even thought of
such a thing. We want
to break brotherhood
merely for politics,”
Singh said while par-
ticipating in the dis-
cussion in the state
Assembly on a resolu-
tion against the CAA.
“Clearly, no lessons
have been learnt from
history,” he added.
The Punjab Assem-
bly, through voice
vote, passed the reso-
lution against the
controversial CAA
and sought its repeal
by the Centre. Shortly
after passing the reso-
lution, CM Ama-
rinder also said that
his government will
move the SC on the is-
sue.
“Like Kerala, our
government will also
approach the Su-
preme Court on the
issue,” Singh said.
With this, Congress-
ruled Punjab became
the second state after
Kerala to bring in an
Assembly resolution
seeking the repeal of
the CAA and move
the top court.
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IS INDIAN
ECONOMY
STARING AT
STAGFLATION?
Lower lending rates in this scenario
would only make inflation higher
n a few days from now, when fi-
nance minister Nirmala Sithara-
man would present the Budget for
the next fiscal year, she would be
reminded of a Tamil verse she
quoted in her 2019 speech to argue that an
elephant doesn’t trample afield if it gets the
required quota of its food. The implication
was that when people pay their taxes and the
compliance rate is high, the government does
not consider raising the rates or introducing
new taxes. But, considering the state of the
Indian economy and the need to spend more,
this year she would find it difficult to stick to
her philosophy.
It is now almost certain that the growth rate
for the current year would stay just around 5
percent—the lowest in many years. The next
fiscal will begin with the economy falling for
nine straight quarters and showing no signs
of recovery. Some of the problems India is fac-
ingarebecauseof aglobalslowdown.But, the
slowdown across the world has only added
to India’s problems that date back to de-
monetisation and GST, both of which hurt
the informal sector and wiped out many
small and medium businesses.
To bring the economy back on track, to
keep its promised tryst with a $ 5-trillion
economy, the finance minister needs more
money in her account to spend on big-tick-
et projects. But, unfortunately, since the
tax revenue has remained low—a result of
falling corporate earnings—she has noth-
ing to spare for new projects. Her only op-
tion would be to look at new sources of
income through additional taxes.
The other option is to rely on corporate and
foreign investors to pump in more money by
offering them cheaper loans and sops. But,
the policy planners have very little scope for
being liberal with their lending rates. In all
probability, India is moving towards a phase
that’s a nightmare for policy planners. On
the one hand, the growth is falling, on the
other inflation is rising. This combina-
tion is called stagflation and it can lead
to job losses, destruction of savings and
bring about a lot of misery. Lower lend-
ing rates in this scenario would only
make inflation higher.
Political challenges would further test the
finance minister’s resolve. Since the govern-
ment gave tax sops to India Inc—the 2019 deci-
sion was meant to encourage investment but
didn’t yield the desired result—the middle
class is expecting a cut in personal income
tax rates. A government that has very little
in its pocket can think of becoming charita-
ble only if it believes in miracles. In all likeli-
hood, this year, trampling over the field
would be a more tempting proposition.
IN-DEPTH
I imply because a woman is
physically weaker than a man,
he has done everything to make
her psychologically weaker,
spiritually lost and financially
nowhere. Till man learns to re-
spect women, he will never
know himself – because half of
him is just that.
Indian spirituality has al-
ways been a rich mixture of
men and women reaching the
heights of their conscious-
ness. A woman is as capable as
a man when it comes to inner
nature. It is only the peel, the
body, which you call as a man
or a woman. What is within is
the same. The peel is not going
to decide what one’s spiritual
capabilities are. Right from
Vedic times, there have been
many women who have
reached the very heights of
their consciousness.
In ancient times, women
also wore the sacred thread,
because without it, they
could not read the scrip-
tures. Like a man, she could
live within the marriage for
ten to twenty years, and
when she had the urge to be-
come spiritual, she could
renounce the family. How-
ever, when barbarian hordes
invaded India, women slowly
lost their freedom. The rules
started changing. Maybe it was
necessary for a certain period
of time, because the physical
situation was such that some
restriction had to be placed on
women for their own safety.
But unfortunately it became
the law. In the Vedas, the first
let down for a woman was
when they declared that she
cannot wear the sacred
thread. It was also said that
the only way she can attain
mukti, or her Ultimate Na-
ture, is by serving her hus-
band. It was fixed that only
a man could renounce.
Unfortunately, this contin-
ues even today. A woman is told
that she has been born only to
serve her father or her hus-
band. People who talk about
advaitha, nonduality of ex-
istence, have taught this,
“Everything is one, but
women are less.” In spite of
the fact he knows that his
existence depends upon her,
if he cannot even accept her,
his accepting all the duali-
ties in the existence is sim-
ply out of question. The
question of inferiority or
superiority comes only in a
prejudiced mind. It is just a
question of two qualities. If
a woman, out of whom a man
is born, is inferior, how can
man be superior? The possibil-
ity just does not arise. This
problem is universal. It is not
just about one gross man think-
ing like this. It has become a
man’s way of life, a part of his
very culture and religion.
Once, a certain social re-
former went to Vivekananda
and asked, “It is great that you
also support women, what
shall I do? I want to reform
them. I want to support this.”
Then Vivekananda said,
“Hands off. You do not have to
do anything about them; just
leave them alone. They will do
what they have to do.” This is
all that is needed. It is not that
a man has to reform a woman.
If he just gives room, she will
do what is necessary.
Generally, a woman’s fem-
ininity will not allow her to
be an effective Master. But
she is very good at pursuing
the path. A man can do many
things here and there, but
his receptivity is lesser. He
can prepare himself, but a
woman comes with that nat-
ural quality. So wherever
there is a Master, more wom-
en will gather, simply be-
cause they are more suited
for receiving. There have
been some very wonderful
Masters who were women, but
they are of a different kind.
They cannot operate the way a
man does. They have to find a
certain kind of situation, a cer-
tain kind of support system in
the society. Society never sup-
ported a woman as a Master.
Especially in the West, when-
ever a woman started express-
ing her wisdom, wherever a
woman started having access
to something beyond what nor-
mal people had, she was labeled
a witch and burnt at the stake.
However, there have been a
few women who have more
masculine fire in them than
most men do. Such women can
become very wonderful Mas-
ters, if the social support is
there. There have been such
people, but in all these many
centuries of human history,
they never had that kind of
support. Probably in the fu-
ture, it should be possible.
There may be many women as
spiritual Masters.
WOMEN – ON THE
PATH OF FREEDOM
A woman is told that she has been born only to serve her father or her husband
S
A woman is
told that she
has been born
only to serve her
father or her
husband.
People who talk
about advaitha,
nonduality of
existence, have
taught this,
‘Everything is
one, but women
are less’
Indian spirituality has
always been a rich
mixture of men and
women reaching the
heights of their
consciousness. A
woman is as capable
as a man when it
comes to inner nature
argaret At-
wood’s novel,
The Hand-
maid’s Tale, de-
scribed the hor-
ror of the authoritarian
regime of Gilead. In this
theocracy, self-preservation
was the best people could
hope for, being powerless to
kick against the system.
But her sequel, The Testa-
ments, raises the possibili-
ty that individuals, with
suitable luck, bravery and
cleverness, can fight back.
But can they? There are
countless examples of
past and present mon-
strous regimes in the real
world. And they all raise
the question of why peo-
ple didn’t just rise up
against their rulers. Some
of us are quick to judge
those who conform to
such regimes as evil psy-
chopaths – or at least mor-
ally inferior to ourselves.
But what are the chances
that you would be a heroic
rebel in such a scenario,
refusing to be complicit in
maintaining or even en-
forcing the system?
To answer this question,
let’s start by considering a
now classic analysis by
American organisational
theorist James March and
Norwegian political scien-
tist Johan Olsen from 2004.
They argued that hu-
man behaviour is gov-
erned by two comple-
mentary, and very differ-
ent, “logics”. According
to the logic of conse-
quence, we choose our
actions like a good econo-
mist: weighing up the
costs and benefits of the
alternative options in the
light of our personal ob-
jectives. This is basically
how we get what we want.
But there is also a second
logic: the logic of appropri-
ateness. According to
this, outcomes, good or
bad, are often of second-
ary importance – we of-
ten choose what to do by
asking “What is a person
like me supposed to do in
a situation like this”?
The idea is backed up by
psychological research.
Human social interactions
depend on our tendency to
conform to unwritten rules
of appropriate behaviour.
Most of us are truthful, po-
lite, don’t cheat when play-
ing board games and follow
etiquette. We are happy to
let judges or football refer-
ees enforce rules. A recent
study showed we even con-
form to arbitrary norms.
The logic of appropri-
ateness is self-enforcing
– we disapprove of, ostra-
cise or report people who
lie or cheat. Research
has shown that even in
anonymous, experimen-
tal “games”, people will
pay a monetary cost to
punish other people for
being uncooperative.
The logic of appropriate-
ness is therefore crucial to
understanding how we can
organise ourselves into
teams,companiesandentire
nations.Weneedsharedsys-
tems of rules to cooperate –
it is easy to see how evolu-
tion may have shaped this.
The psychological foun-
dations for this start early.
Children as young as three
will protest if arbitrary
“rules” of a game are vio-
lated. And we all know how
punishing it can be to
“stick out” in a playground
by violating norms of
dress, accent or behaviour.
Both logics are required
to create and maintain an
authoritarian regime. To
ensure that we make the
“right” personal choices,
an oppressive state’s main
tools are carrots and sticks
– rewarding conformity
and punishing even a hint
of rebellion.
But personal gain, or
survival, alone provides a
fragile foundation for an
oppressive state. It is easy
to see how the logic of ap-
propriateness fits in here,
turning from being a force
for cooperation to a mecha-
nism for enforcing an op-
pressive status quo.
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FIN MIN BUDGET EXERCISE COULD
DELAY BANK APPOINTMENTS
Budget exercise underway in the Finance
Ministry could temporarily delay some key
appointments in the Banking sector.
HOW MANY MEMBERS WILL BE IN RLY
BOARD ?
There is an utter confusion about the
number of members to be stationed in Rail
Bhawan after reorganisation. One official
says, there will be five members in the
RB whereas a CRB press note, issued on
December 26,2019 says there will be one
CRB /CEO and four members on Functional
basis. Independent members will be induct-
ed as non - executive Members and will be in
Advisory role.
NOW POPULARITY IN FOREIGN BUREAU-
CRACY CIRCLES COUNT
A new trend is being seen in the appointment
of diplomats in key missions. The popular-
ity - of those who have earlier served in key
missions - in the bureaucracy of that country
is being seen as the benchmark to hold the
Ambassador posts. However, the decision still
rests with the Prime Minister.
FOUR ICS POSTS ARE VACANT IN CIC
In CIC, four Info Commissioners posts are
vacant for the last two years. No CIC has been
appointed after retirement of Sudhir Bhargava.
93 OFFICERS GET JOB AT JOINT
SECRETARY LEVEL IN GOI IN 2018-19
As many as 93 officers were appointed at Joint
Secretary or equivalent level in Government of
India from April to March 2019, according to
data released by DoPT.
FIVE 1987 BATCH IPS OFFICERS ARE
NOW DGPS
Police Chiefs in Punjab, Bihar, Uttarakhand,
Sikkim and J&K are 1987 batch IPS officers.
WHO SUITS THE CHIEF MINISTERS ?
In a chitchat of retired IPS officers, one senior
remarked “In the present day system DGP
only suits to the Chief Minister because of “T”
theory. What is this “T” theory?
ONLY 47 OFFICERS GET JOB AT ADDL
SECRETARY LEVEL IN GOI IN 2018-19
Only 47 officers were appointed at Additional
Secretary or equivalent level in Government of
India from April to March 2019, according to
data released by DoPT.
DESAI POSTED AS DG, PIB, MUMBAI
Ministry of I&B has transferred two IIS
officers to new places. Manish V Desai ,
Press Registrar ,RNI has been transferred as
DG(West), PIB, Mumbai while S Vankateshwar
is going to Chennai as DG (South) in PIB.
AMITABH KHARKWAL RETURNS TO
PARENT CADRE
Amitabh Kharkwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of
Home Affairs, has been accorded premature
repatriation to his parent cadre on the grounds
of availing promotion. He is a 1989 batch
officer of Indian Postal Service.
MAJOR RESHUFFLE OF IAS OFFICERS IN
MAHARASHTRA
As many as 22 IAS officers have been trans-
ferred and posted to different places in
Maharashtra.
45 OFFICERS AT DSP LEVEL
TRANSFERRED IN CBI
As many as 45 officers at Deputy Superinten-
dents of Police (DSP) level have been trans-
ferred and posted to different places in Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
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COPS BUST SEX RACKET IN MUM,
3 FEMALE ACTORS RESCUED
Mumbai: Mumbai police have busted a high-pro-
file sex racket in a hotel here, arresting a woman
and rescuing three female actors, including a mi-
nor.The police conducted the raid in the hotel on
Thursday evening. The woman who forced wom-
en into prostitution has been identified as Priya
Sharma, who runs a travel and tour business. A
case has been registered against Sharma. While
one of the rescued is a woman actor and singer,
who has worked in a TV show, another one has
worked in a Marathi movie and serials.
BHIM ARMY CHIEF AZAD READS
PREAMBLE AT JAMA MASJID
New Delhi: Bhim Army
Chief Chandrashekhar
Azad visited Jama Masjid
on Friday and read out the
Preamble to the Constitu-
tion as a mark of his pro-
test against CAA & NRC &
said that peaceful protest
is the strength. “Peaceful
protest is our strength.
People from all religions
who support us should
join us in great number to
prove it to the govt that
these protests are not led
by Muslims alone,” Azad
said. Meanwhile, Delhi
Police on ‘Bhim Army
chief Chandrashekhar
Azad’s visit to Jama Mas-
jid’ said, “He has a time of
24 hours after his release
from Tihar Jail yesterday,
to leave Delhi. He is not
holding any protest at
Jama Masjid.”
IN THE COURTYARD
He’s beyond formal recognition: SC
declinesPILfor Bharat RatnatoBapuThe bench agreed with the sentiments of the petitioner for granting official decoration to the father of the nation
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court Friday
refused to entertain a
PIL seeking confer-
ment of ‘Bharat Ratna’
on Mahatma Gandhi
saying that people hold
the father of the nation
in ‘high esteem,’ be-
yond any formal recog-
nition.
A bench, comprising
Chief Justice S A Bob-
de and justices B R Ga-
vai and Surya Kant,
however asked peti-
tioner Anil Dutta Shar-
ma to give representa-
tion to the central gov-
ernment in this regard.
“Mahatma Gandhi is
the father of nation
and people hold him in
high esteem, beyond
any formal recogni-
tion,” the bench said.
The issue of direct-
ing the government to
award Bharat Ratna to
the father of the nation
was not a “justiciable
issue”, it said.
The bench however
said that it agreed with
the sentiments of the
petitioner for granting
official decoration to
Mahatma Gandhi.
Disposing of the pe-
tition, the top court
said, “We will allow
you to give a represen-
tation to the Centre in
this regard.” Sharma,
in his PIL, had sought a
direction to the govern-
ment to give “official
decoration” to Mahat-
ma Gandhi to honour
him for the contribu-
tion to the nation.
Delhi HC issues notice to CBI
on Kuldeep Sengar’s plea
New Delhi: The Delhi
High Court on Friday
issued a notice to the
Central Bureau of In-
vestigation (CBI) on an
appeal filed by expelled
BJP MLA Kuldeep Sin-
gh Sengar challenging a
trial court’s verdict
which had sentenced
him to life imprison-
ment for raping a minor
girl in Uttar Pradesh’s
Unnao in 2017.
A Division Bench of
Justices Manmohan
and Sangeeta Dhingra
Sehgal sought response
from the investigating
agency and rape survi-
vor’s family and posted
the matter to May 4. The
court also granted Sen-
gar time of two more
months to deposit the
amount levied on him
for the commission on
crime.
The trial court, in its
judgement, had direct-
ed him to give Rs 10
lakh amount to the vic-
tim and Rs 15 lakh to
the court’s registry
within 30 days.
Advocate N Hari-
haran, who represented
Sengar in the court, ar-
gued that the trial
court’s order was full of
“misconclution”. “Evi-
dence was ignored. My
client presence was not
at the location where
this alleged incident
took place,” he told the
court.
Sengar has ap-
proached the Delhi
High Court challenging
his conviction and sen-
tencing in connection
with the rape case. —ANI
Another petition
in SC against CAA
New Delhi: A petition
has been filed in the Su-
preme Court challeng-
ing the Citizenship
(Amendment) Act, 2019
that grants citizenship
to non-Muslim refugees
from Pakistan, Afghan-
istan and Bangladesh.
A professor Apurba
Baruah and two mem-
bers of ‘Sushta Samaj
Bikash Chakra’ have
filed the petition. A
Bench headed by Chief
Justice of India SA Bob-
de have asked senior
advocate Indira Jaising
to mention the matter
before the Mentioning
Registrar. The petition-
ers have stated that sec-
tion 6A of the amended
Citizenship Act has
shifted cut off date of
1971 to 2014 that violates
the 1985 Assam Accord.
The Indian Union
Muslim League & the
Kerala Government
have moved the apex
court against CAA that
grants Indian citizen-
ship to refugees from
Hindu, Christian, Sikh,
Buddhist & Parsi com-
munities fleeing reli-
gious persecution from
Pakistan, Afghanistan,
& Bangladesh & who
entered India on or be-
fore Dec 31, 2014. —ANI
NOTICE TO
GOPAL
KANDA
Chandigarh: Pun-
jab& Haryana HC
issued a notice to
Haryana Lokhit
Party (HLP) leader
Gopal Kanda on a
petition seeking
his election from
Sirsa assembly seg-
ment to be an-
nulled.
Gokul Setia
claimed that Kan-
da used money and
liquor to sway the
votes in his favour,
the PIL stated.—ANI
Plea for school in
every Tehsil in SC
New Delhi: The SC has
directed the Central
government to take a
call on a petition seek-
ing to establish Kendri-
ya Vidyalayas in each
tehsil, taluk, sub-divi-
sion, circle or State Leg-
islative Assembly
across the country, ad-
vocate Ashwini Upad-
hyay said.
Upadhyay, who had
filed the petition in this
regard, said, “The Su-
preme Court has direct-
ed the Ministry of Fi-
nance and the Ministry
of Human Resource
Development to take a
decision in three
months on plea seeking
to open a Central school
in each tehsil of the
country and inclusion
of the Indian Constitu-
tion in the syllabus of
primary schools.”—ANI
SC to hear Azam Khan’s
son’s plea against HC order
New Delhi: The SC
agreed to hear a peti-
tion filed by SP leader
Mohammad Azam
Khan’s son, Moham-
mad Abdullah Azam
Khan against the Alla-
habad High Court’s or-
der which annulled his
election as UP legisla-
tor on grounds that he
was underage and not
qualified to contest the
poll in 2017.
A Bench headed SA
Bobde agreed to hear
his plea but refused to
stay the High Court’s
order. It also issued a
notice to BSP leader
Nawab Kazim Ali Khan
who had moved the plea
against Khan before HC
order. It posted the mat-
ter for hearing on
March 25. Allahabad
HC had declared elec-
tion of Abdullah Khan
from Suar Assembly
segment from Rampur
district null and void.
Abdullah Khan was
elected as MLA on a SP
ticket on 2017. —ANI
SC refuses to
entertain MPs’
attendance PIL
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on Friday
refused to entertain a
petition regarding the
issue of MPs not attend-
ing the Parliament and
asked the petitioner to
approach the Speaker.
The court gives liberty
to petitioner Anil Dutt
Sharma to withdraw
the plea and make a rep-
resentation before the
Speaker. —ANI
Can withdraw ` 20 cr
deposit: SC to Karti
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court allowed
Congress MP Karti
Chidambaram to
withdraw Rs 20 crore
which he had depos-
ited with the court’s
registry as a condi-
tion for being allowed
to travel abroad.
Earlier, the apex
court had in January
and May last year
granted Karti Chid-
ambaram permission
to travel abroad after
depositing Rs 20 crore
(Rs 10 crore for Janu-
ary and 10 Crore for
May) with the Secre-
tary-General of the
Supreme Court. The
Supreme Court had
allowed Karti Chid-
ambaram, son of for-
mer Union Minister P
Chidambaram, to
travel to the United
States, Spain and
Germany in May and
June 2019. Providing
the relief, the bench
headed by the then
Chief Justice of India
Ranjan Gogoi direct-
ed Karti to deposit a
security of Rs 10
crore.
Karti has been
questioned on sever-
al occasions in the
INX media case in
which both the En-
forcement Directo-
rate (ED) and CBI are
probing how Karti
managed to obtain
clearance to the tune
of Rs 305 crore from
the Foreign Invest-
ment Promotion
Boardin2007whenhis
father was the finance
minister. —ANI
CM: Investigate insulting reference to Bhils in MPPSC
Anirudh Tiwari
Bhopal: There was a lot
of uproar over the issue
of insulting the Adivasi
Bhil Samaj in the MPP-
SC examination in a
special session to ex-
tend reservation for the
ST SC class to ten years.
Congress MLA Kantilal
Bhuria took up the mat-
ter and said that strict
action should be taken
for terming the Bhil
community as criminal
and alcoholic in the pre-
liminary examination
of Madhya Pradesh
Public Service Commis-
sion.
Responding to it,
Chief Minister Kamal
Nath said that the gov-
ernment has ordered an
inquiry into the matter
and whoever is found to
be negligent in the case,
will be punished. On
the promise to increase
the reservation, Kamal
Nath said that he would
demand the Central
Government to make
special amendments in
this act for the tribal
community. If the cen-
tre does not make this
amendment, then the
CM will do it in his state
and give special facili-
ties to the tribal com-
munity.
The CM also said that
MP has maximum trib-
al population. On this,
former BJP Speaker
Sitasharan Sharma
raised objection & said
that the government
should dismiss the de-
mand for amendment.

NEWSJAIPUR | SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2020
BRIEF
in
z In the mother-son murder
case of Pratap Nagar in
Jaipur, the police presented
the murder accused Saurabh
Chaudhary before the court
on Friday. The court of MM-31
Preksha Jhunjhunwala has
jailed Saurabh till January 28.
z In a contempt petition
filed in the matter of con-
tempt of consumer forum
orders, bail warrants have
been issued for Air Asia CEO
and MD Amar Abrol and
Agent Ram Sharma. The
petition was filed by Ajmer
resident Rohit Sankhala and
others. Rohit had bought 6
air tickets in 2015 through
the agent, but he was not
given the boarding pass in
Bengaluru. Also, Rs. 17,000
was taken from him for
sending via another flight.
The forum had ordered Air
Asia to pay a compensation
of Rs. 72,000.
z The division bench of
Justice Sandeep Mehta and
Justice PS Bhati expressed
concern about the condi-
tion of subordinate courts.
The High Court ordered
Law Department Secretary,
Home Department Secre-
tary and Additional Chief
Secretary Finance to appear
before the court. The court
has also directed to send
notice to Sachin Acharya
for representing the court
in the case, along with AAG
Karan Singh Rajpurohit for
appearing on behalf of the
government and AAG Sand-
eep Shah. Now, the case will
be heard on February 3.
z Sirohi MLA Sayyam
Lodha passed comments
on BJP during the Shivganj
Block Congress meeting
and said that if someone
related to BJP becomes the
Sarpanch, I know ways to
send him/her home within
6 months. The video of the
MLA’s statement has gone
viral on social media.
z Deputy Chief Minister
of Uttar Pradesh Dinesh
Sharma held a public aware-
ness program regarding
the Citizenship Amendment
Act in the Somnath area of
Dausa on Friday. Sharma
was accompanied by SD
Sharma, Shankarlal Sharma
and Pankaj Joshi.
z The 2nd edition of Rajas-
than Skills Summit was or-
ganized by FICCI Rajasthan
State Council in partnership
with Rajasthan Skill and
Livelihoods Development
Corporation (RSLDC) at Ho-
tel Holiday Inn, Jaipur. Set
against the theme ‘Skills for
Industry 4.0’, the summit
focused on New Age Skills;
Skilling, Re-skilling &
Upskilling; Apprenticeship &
Productivity; Integration of
Education with Skills; Blue
Collar Entrepreneurship, etc.
Sharing in detail about the
upcoming programmes of
RSLDC, Dr Samit Sharma,
Commissioner – Labour,
Skills, Employment &
Entrepreneurship and MD,
RSLDC, Government of
Rajasthan shared that,
“Youth in big number every
year join Armed Forces and
Police. Considering the re-
quirement and opportunity,
RSLDC will soon introduce
training programme to train
youth to join Indian Armed
and Police Services. The
programme will be intro-
duced first in Naguar, Churu
and Jhunjhnu districts.”
Dr Sharma also stated
that skilling impacts jobs,
economic growth, GDP and
prosperity of the country.
z The Taliban have offered
a brief period of reducing
violence in Afghanistan
during ongoing negotiations
with U.S. diplomats, three
officials familiar with the
talks said on Thursday, a
concession seen as import-
ant to finalizing a prelimi-
nary peace deal between the
insurgents and the United
States to end their 18-year
war. If the US side accepts
the offer, it could amount
to the most significant
development in the yearlong
negotiations since talks
resumed after President
Donald Trump had scuttled
the peace process on the
eve of a deal in September.
z Former minister and
four-time MLA from Jahaz-
pur Ratanlal Tambi died on
late Friday night. He was
suffering from blood cancer
for several days, and was
admitted at SMS Hospital
where he breathed his last.
Tambi will be cremated in
Jahazpur. Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot mourned his
death.
Ready to hold referendum in
PoK, says Pak PM Imran Khan
Islamabad: Prime
Minister Imran Khan
has reiterated that his
country is ready to hold
a referendum in Paki-
stan-occupied Kashmir
(PoK) to give people the
right to decide whether
they want to remain in
the country or be inde-
pendent.
“The best thing is (to)
let the people of Kash-
mir decide. The people
of Pakistan Kashmir
and the Indian Kashmir.
Pakistan is all ready to
give them the right
through a referendum
or a plebiscite. Let them
decide whether they
want to remain with Pa-
kistan or want to be in-
dependent. We’re all for
it,” he said.
“We invite anyone,
anywhere in the world
to come see the Pakistan
side of Kashmir and
then go see the Indian
side of Kashmir. Let
them see the differ-
ence… they will not be
allowed to go to the In-
dian side of Kashmir,”
he said. Khan claimed
he made “every effort”
to talk to the Modi gov-
ernment.Healsosaidhe
was the first leader to
“warn the world about
what is happening in In-
dia”. Khan said, “India
has been taken over by a
racially extremist, ex-
clusive ideology which
is called Hindutva. The
ideology stems from
RSS. Its inspiration was
Nazi Party in Germany.
Its ideology is based on
hatred for Muslims and
other minorities…
Christians as well. —ANI
Kashmir tragedy did not receive deserved media attention, said Khan in an interview
‘Lukewarm response to
Kashmir issue from world’
Bonn: Pakistan
Prime Minister Im-
ran Khan on Friday
admitted that there
are no takers of the
Kashmir issue from
the international
community.
In an interview
with DW, a German
state-owned public
international broad-
caster, He said that
there has been a
“lukewarm re-
sponse” to the Kash-
mir issue and said
that “commercial in-
terests are more im-
portant for the West-
ern countries”. “Un-
fortunately, commer-
cial interests are
more important for
Western countries.
India is a big market
and that is the reason
behind the lukewarm
response to what is
happening to some 8
million people in
Kashmir, as well as to
minorities in India,”
he said.
“Sadly, yes. Con-
sider the sort of me-
dia attention the
Hong Kong protests
are getting. The trag-
edy of Kashmir is
much greater,” Khan
said when asked
about the attention
given to Kashmir.
‘Improve discussions
in Parl, assemblies’
Lucknow: Lok Sabha
Speaker Om Birla on
Friday said there is a
need to raise the stand-
ard of discussions in
Parliament and state as-
semblies to identify
loopholes of proposed
laws.
He was addressing
the closing ceremony of
the Seventh Common-
wealth Parliamentary
Association, India Re-
gion, Conference at the
Uttar Pradesh legisla-
tive assembly.
“There is a need to
raise the standard of
discussions which take
place inside Parliament
and legislative assem-
blies. The more a pro-
posed law is studied
before it actually be-
comes a law, chances
are more that it will be
made in the correct di-
rection,” Birla said.
The people have given
legislators the responsi-
bility of making laws
and “discussions should
be held as to how can we
raise the standard, how
people will benefit from
a proposed law or what
are the possible loop-
holes,” he said.
The Lok Sabha speak-
er said that it was de-
cided at a meeting in
Dehradun that before a
state government
brings a law, MLAs
should deliberate as to
why the law is being en-
acted and go through its
provisions. The MLAs
should also hold discus-
sions with people be-
fore a law is enacted,
Birla said.
Lok Sabha will assist
state assemblies, he
said, adding that elect-
ed public representa-
tives act as a bridge be-
tween people and gov-
ernment. —Agencies
Woman drives 7 km
with 3 bullets in head
Chandigarh: With
three gunshot wounds
to the head and one on
the face, Sumeet Kaur,
a 42-year-old woman
drove 7 km to a police
station in Muktsar dis-
trict of Punjab to regis-
ter a complaint against
her brother and neph-
ew in a land grab case.
She said that her
nephew, a student of
Class 10, shot at her
and her mother,
Sukhjinder Kaur, 65, in
a fit of rage over the
land dispute at Same-
wali village of Muktsar
on Wednesday evening.
Sukhjinder suffered
two bullet injuries in a
leg. Police booked her
nephew and her broth-
er, Harinder Singh. A
search is on for both of
them.
On reaching the po-
lice station, Sumeet
was rushed to a private
hospital in Muktsar
where doctors removed
the bullets. Both the
women survived the at-
tack. Station house of-
ficer, SHO, Lakhewali,
Krishan Singh said,
“After the attack, the
victim rushed to the po-
lice station and we ad-
mitted her to the hospi-
tal in an ambulance.
The matter is being
probed.” —Agencies
After bullet train, Thackeray
govt says hyperloop unlikely
Mumbai: The proposed
Mumbai-Pune ultrafast
hyperloop transport
system in Maharashtra
has come under a cloud,
with the state govern-
ment today signalling
that undertaking a
first-of-a-kind project
of such magnitude
could turn out to be a
risky proposition at
this juncture.
“Hyperloops have
never been constructed
anywhere in the world
until now, so let this be
tried somewhere else
before us. Once it is suc-
cessful, then we can
think of it,” Maharash-
tra Deputy Chief Minis-
ter Ajit Pawar said.
The $10 billion pro-
ject pushed by multi-
billionaire Richard
Branson’s Virgin Group
is the second high-budg-
et initiative that the Ud-
dhav Thackeray-led
government in Maha-
rashtra has applied the
brakes on, after the
Ahmedabad-Mumbai
bullet train system. The
previous government
had granted infrastruc-
ture project status to
the plan in August.
Restore
statehood:
J&K Congress
Jammu: The executive
committee of J&K Con-
gress met under the
chairmanship of Ghu-
lam Nabi Azad, leader
of opposition in the
Rajya Sabha, on Friday
and passed a four-point
resolution for the res-
toration of statehood
for J&K and demanded
constitutional guaran-
tees in jobs and land.
The resolution passed
by 216 members from
20 districts also de-
manded freeing of all
the political detainees
and creating an atmos-
phere conducive for
politics. —ANI
Google owner Alphabet is worth $1 trillion
San Francisco: Goog-
le’s parent company Al-
phabet saw its value
reach USD1 trillion
(Sh100tr) for the first
time Thursday, becom-
ing the fourth US tech
company to hit the
milestone.
Shares in the online
giant rose 0.76 percent
for the day to reach the
trillion-dollar mark at
the close of trade.
The Silicon Valley
group joins Apple,
which first reached
USD1 trillion (Sh100tr)
in 2018 and on Thurs-
day showed a valuation
of some USD1.38 tril-
lion (Sh139tr); and Mi-
crosoft, now valued at
some USD1.26 trillion
(Sh127tr).
Another tech titan,
Amazon, rose above the
trillion-dollar mark in
September 2018 but has
since declined to a val-
ue of around $930 bil-
lion (Sh93.8 trillion).
Google is the leading
online search engine
and produced the popu-
lar Android mobile op-
erating system. Alpha-
bet, formed as a holding
company in 2015, has a
number of other units
working on “moonshot”
projects including Way-
mo on autonomous cars
and Verily for life sci-
ences.
The company last
year announced that
Google chief executive
Sundar Pichai would
also assume the CEO
functions at the compa-
ny, raising speculation
on whether fresh reor-
ganisation is planned.
Pichai’s promotion ena-
bled Google co-founders
Larry Page and Sergey
Brin to step away from
daily operations at the
company. —Agencies
Baldev Ram Mirdha’s
birth anniv observed
First India News
Nagaur: Nathuram
Mirdha Gramothan
Charitable Trust and
Veer Teja Vikas Samiti
commemorated 131st
birth anniversary of so-
cial reformer and farm-
er leader Baldev Ram
Mirdha in Nagaur,
Deedwana and Kuchera
on Friday.
Mirdha is revered in
Marwar region for his
struggle for the rights
of farmers. He is also
known for spreading
awareness in the field
of education among
farmers especially girls
education.
Former UP zila pra-
mukh Sahdev Choud-
hary said that Mirdha
successfully fought
against jagirdari sys-
tem for waiving off la-
gaan.
On this occasion peo-
ple were felicitated for
their achievement in
different field.
President of Na-
thuram Mirdha Gramo-
than Charitable Trust
Mehram and Mirdha
Dharmshala Trust
chairman Ashok Bag-
dia also paid obeisance
to late Baldev Ram
Mirdha.
‘Bad behaviour
towards public
reps unfortunate’
First India News
Jaipur: Tourism and
Devasthan Minister
Vishvendra Singh held
jansunwai at PCC. He
said “I am not angry, I
had commented on im-
proper arrangements
in the hospital of
Bharatpur. I believe
that public representa-
tives had paid a sur-
prise visit to hospital
for inspection.” On at-
tack on Hanuman Beni-
wal he said bad behaivi-
our towards public rep-
resentatives is inappro-
priate and unfortunate.
Ukraine PM resigns after
audio criticising Prez leaked
Kiev: Ukraine’s Prime
Minister Oleksiy
Goncharuk offered his
resignation on Friday
after audio was leaked
of him reportedly criti-
cising President Volod-
omyr Zelensky’s under-
standing of economy.
“To remove any
doubts about our re-
spect for and trust in
the president, I have
written a resignation
letter and handed it
over to the president,”
Goncharuk wrote on
his official Facebook
page.
He said the audio “ar-
tificially created an im-
pression that my team
and I do not respect the
president”.
“This is not true,” he
said. “I came to this
post to carry out the
president’s pro-
gramme.” The alleged
recording came from
an informal December
meeting between min-
isters and senior offi-
cials from the National
Bank. Participants dis-
cussed how to explain
recent economic devel-
opments to Zelensky, a
comedian and political
neophyte who won a
surprise election vic-
tory last year. Gon-
charuk is reportedly
heard saying that ex-
planations need to be
simple because “Zelen-
sky has a very primi-
tive understanding of
the economy.” —Agencies
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajasthan Assembly Speaker
CP Joshi during the Seventh Commonwealth Parliamentary
Association, India Region, Conference in Lucknow on Friday.

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