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‘HAR HAR MAHADEV’
ROW: CASE AGAINST
EX-MINISTER
Thane (PTI): Police on Tuesday
registered a case against senior
NCP leader and former minister
Jitendra Awhad and at least 100
others for allegedly roughing
up spectators at a multiplex
screening the Marathi movie
“Har Har Mahadev”. According
to the complaint, Awhad and his
supporters allegedly gatecrashed
a multiplex and disrupted the
show over the alleged “distortion
of history” on Monday. When
spectators demanded a
refund and commented on
the disruption, Awhad and his
supporters roughed up some
of them. No arrest has been
made so far. This comes after
Dy CM Fadnavis on Tuesday
said beating up moviegoers for
watching the film will not be
tolerated.
Sattar’s remarks indefensible, Fadnavis says, as protests continue
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Deputy
Chief Minister Devendra
Fadnavis on Tuesday
said the alleged deroga-
tory word used by his
cabinet colleague and
state agricul-
ture minister
Abdul Sattar
was “wrong” and
cannot be defended
even as protests
against Sattar con-
tinued on the sec-
ond consecutive
day
.
Sattar on Mon-
day stoked a ma-
jor row with his alleged
objectionable remarks
against Nationalist Con-
gress Party (NCP) MP
Supriya Sule, which
evoked strong reactions
including protests, and a
demand from Shiv Sena
leader Aaditya Thacker-
ay that the deputy CM
take responsibility for
Sattar’s alleged com-
ments.
Facing flak, the minis-
ter, who belongs to Chief
Minister Eknath Shinde-
led Balasahebanchi Shiv
Sena, later said he had
apologized for a word he
had used.
“If a person uses
foul language
against a woman
once and apolo-
gizes, then it is
called ‘man-
ners’. But the
minister (Sattar)
has used such lan-
guage multiple times.
The deputy chief minis-
ter should take responsi-
bility for the statement,”
Thackeray had told re-
porters in Aurangabad
before leaving for his
Shetkari Samvad Yatra
in the Marathwada re-
gion. “We have to see
what the National Com-
mission for
Women does.
Merely send-
ing notices
w o n ’ t
work,” he
added.
Later in
the evening,
Fadnavis said,
“What Abdul Sattar said
was wrong and cannot be
defended at all. We will
always oppose the use
of such language. But
there should also be a
code of conduct which
will be applicable to
both sides,” adding,
“Seniors in all the par-
ties should
warntheir
p a r t y
workers
a b o u t
the use
of lan-
guage.”
Aaditya Thackeray had demanded Dy CM take responsibility for Sattar’s alleged comments against NCP leader Supriya Sule 22 BOOKED FOR STONE PELTING AT
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ESCAPES INJURY
AFTER HIT ON HAND
Ahmedabad: A 54-year-old woman was run over by the Vande Bharat
Express near Anand railway station while crossing the railway track
on Tuesday afternoon, railway police confirmed. The deceased was
identified as Beatrice Peter, a resident of Ahmedabad.
Melbourne: Skipper Rohit Sharma resumed his
training on Tuesday after sustaining a blow to his
right forearm. The Indian team somehow managed
to survive a big injury scare ahead of their T20
World Cup semifinal against England on Thursday.
WILL MAKE BIG
ANNOUNCEMENT
ON NOVEMBER
15, SAYS TRUMP
Washington: Former US President Donald Trump
suggested on Monday he would mount a 2024
presidential run as soon as next week, saying at a
political rally in Ohio on Monday he would make a
“big announcement” on November 15, 2022.
WOMAN RUN OVER BY VANDE BHARAT TRAIN IN GUJ
A BIG JOLT TO CONG!
RATHVA JOINS BJP IN
GUJ, 26 IN HIMACHAL
New Delhi: Ten-time Gujarat
Congress MLA Mohansinh
Rathva resigned from
the party on Tuesday and
joined the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP). Meanwhile,
26 leaders of the Congress
party had joined the ruling
BJP on Monday as Himachal
Pradesh is set to vote for
the 68 Assembly seats on
Saturday. P5
JUSTICE CHANDRACHUD
TO TAKE OATH AS NEXT
CHIEF JUSTICE TODAY
New Delhi: Senior-most
Supreme Court judge and
CJI-designate Dhananjaya
Y Chandrachud is all set
to become the 50th head
of the Indian judiciary
on Wednesday when
President Draupadi
Murmu would administer
the oath of office to
Justice Chandrachud at
Rashtrapati Bhawan here.
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Crucial
Crucial
1ST DEATH AT BHARAT
JODO: CONG LEADER
DIES DURING YATRA
New Delhi: Congress leader
Krishna Kumar Pandey taking
part in Bharat Jodo Yatra died
on Tuesday. He was gen secy
of Seva Dal. Confirming death
Jairam Ramesh said Pandey
was walking with Digvijaya
Singh, he handed over Indian
flag to him collapsed later.
THAKUR’S PROMISE: IF
BJP IS RE-ELECTED IN
HIMACHAL PRADESH...
Shimla: IB Minister Anurag
Thakur on Tuesday while
addressing election rallies in
Ghumarvi, Jhanduta and Sadar
constituencies in Bilaspur
district said BJP will implement
‘Project Shakti’ in state over
the next 10 years to improve
transport infrastructure. P5
INDIA, RUSSIA TALKS: 1ST
SINCE UKRAINE WAR
FOREIGN MINISTER S JAISHANKAR IN MOSCOW
“THISISNOTAN
ERAOFWAR”
First India Bureau
Moscow: External Af-
fairs Minister S Jais-
hankar, who is on a two-
day visit to Russia, on
Tuesday said the talks
with his Russian coun-
terpart Sergey Lavrov
focused on trade and
investments, transport
and logistics, and pro-
jects in energy sector.
During bilateral talks,
EAM Jaishankar also
raised the issue of the
Russia-Ukraine conflict
and asserted the “global
economy is too interde-
pendent to have any
conflict”.
Urging Russia and
Ukraine to return to
dialogue, EAM said,
“We exchanged views
on international issues.
Ukraine conflict was
dominant feature. As
PM Modi conveyed to
Prez Putin this is not an
era of war.”
On buying oil from
Russia, he said that the
trade works to India’s
advantage and so the
country wants to keep it
going. Jaishankar also
said that Russia a
“steady partner” and
urged the world to ex-
tend full support to the
Taliban-ruled Afghani-
stan on the humanitar-
ian ground.
Shashikant Sharma
Shimla: The Assembly
elections are round the
corner in HP and as a
result, temperature is
rising continuously in
state capital Shimla.
Amidst this, an inter-
esting picture and a
new type of campaign
has surfaced. Actually
Congress put up posters
and hoardings in Shim-
la and wrote on the
hoardings - ‘Congress is
coming’. However,
when Congress started
something, BJP could
not be far enough in giv-
ing a reply and as soon
as HP BJP got info
about this ‘campaign’,
it immediately put up
other posters next to
Cong poster and wrote,
“In Jairam ji’s oath tak-
ing.” BJP did not stop
just there and hit fur-
ther, by putting up an-
other poster which said,
“And to sit in Oppn.”
Now seeing these pic-
tures, the voters too
have a smile on them as
they can not help but
share Congress’ ‘tac-
tics’ and BJP’s replies
with others.
Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar being welcomed by Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov for talks in Moscow, Russia on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Devendra Fadnavis Aaditya Thackeray
Supriya Sule
Since the Ukraine conflict began, PM Modi spoke to
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy numerous times, says S Jaishankar
Jaishankar’s meeting with Sergey Lavrov comes
amid growing huge global concerns over increasing
hostilities between Moscow and Ukraine due to the war
Where the international situation
is concerned, the last few years of
the Covid pandemic, financial
pressures and trade difficulties; these have
taken a toll on the global economy. India
has substantial and time-tested ties with
Russia and both nations have been trying to
find ways to expand this relationship and
make it more durable.
—S Jaishankar, Foreign Minister
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam!
First India Bureau
New Delhi: Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi on
Tuesday unveiled In-
dia’s logo, theme and
website for its presiden-
cy of the G20, which re-
flects the country’s mes-
sage and overarching
priorities to the world.
The logo derives theme
of G20 India 2023 – Vas-
udhaiva Kutumbakam:
One Earth, One Family,
One Future.
Modi said the logo of
G-20 is not just a logo
but a message, a feeling
which is in our veins.
India’s G20 presidency
is coming at a time of
crisis and chaos in
world. The world is go-
ing through the afteref-
fects of disruptive once-
in-a-century pandemic,
conflicts and lot of eco-
nomic uncertainty. In-
dia will assume the G20
Presidency from Dec 1,
2022 where about 200
meetings in 32 different
sectors will be held.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s‘mic-
drop’ to Congress’‘first blood’!
l PM Narendra Modi unveils logo, website of India’s G20 presidency
l India readies to display global muscle in the elite class grouping
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing at the unveiling of logo, theme and website of India’s G20
presidency via video conferencing, in New Delhi on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
LK ADVANI TURNS 95!
PM Modi meets veteran BJP leader LK Advani to greet him
on his birthday, in New Delhi on Tuesday. Rajnath Singh, BL
Santhosh and family members of Advani are also seen. P5
SIGNIFICANCE OF
THE G20 LOGO....
The logo features Earth with
lotus in the colours of Indian
flag – saffron, white, green
and blue where 7 lotus pet-
als represent 7 continents.
Hoarding war between BJP and Congress in Shimla, Himachal.

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First India Bureau
Deglur: Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi
resumed his Bharat
Jodo Yatra in Maha-
rashtra on Tuesday
morning after visit-
ing a gurdwara in
Nanded district as the
foot march entered
into its 62nd day.
The Congress MP vis-
ited Gurdwara Yaadgari
Baba Zoravar Singhji
Fateh Singhji on the oc-
casion of Guru Nanak
Jayanti a few hours af-
ter the yatra entered
Maharashtra Monday
night from neighbour-
ing Telangana.
At the gurdwara,
Gandhi prayed for har-
mony and equality, the
party tweeted.
As Gandhi resumed
his march, he was
flanked by senior Maha-
rashtra Congress lead-
ers including former
chief ministers Sushil-
kumar Shinde and
Ashok Chavan, state
party chief Nana Pa-
tole, and other leaders
like Balasaheb Thorat,
Manikrao Thakre and
Naseem Khan.
The march will pro-
ceed from to Atkali in
Biloli city of Nanded.
Gandhi is scheduled
to halt at Godavari Ma-
nar Sugar Factory
ground in Biloli for
night stay, a party func-
tionary said.
On Monday night, as
Gandhi said entered Ma-
harashtra holding a
'flamingtorch'(mashaal),
he said small and medi-
um businesses suffered
duetotheCentre'swrong
policieslikedemonetisa-
tionandpoorimplemen-
tation of the Goods and
Services (GST) Tax.
Gandhi said during
his stay in Maharashtra
over the next 15 days, he
will listen to the voice
of the state and also its
pain.
The 3,570-km-long
yatra led by the Con-
gress MP reached De-
glur in central Maha-
rashtra's Nanded dis-
trict from Telangana.
During his stay in the
state, Gandhi will ad-
dress two rallies as part
of the cross-country
march aimed at reviv-
ing the party
.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: A fresh non-
bailable warrant
(NBW) has been issued
against Lok Sabha
member Navneet Rana
and her father in a
fake caste certificate
case by a Mumbai
court.
Earlier, the court in
September issued the
NBW against Rana and
her father, which is yet
to be executed.
On Monday
, the police
sought more time for ex-
ecution of the warrant.
However, the court re-
jected the request. Met-
ropolitan Magistrate PI
Mokashi then issued a
freshNBWagainstthem.
The court adjourned
the matter to November
28 for filing of a report
on the NBW.
As per the complaint,
Rana and her father al-
legedly forged a caste
certificateastheseatshe
is elected from is re-
served for Scheduled
Caste (SC) candidates.
RaGabackatitafter gurudwaravisit
BHARAT JODO YATRA
Cong Seva Dal functionary
dies during Maha march
Nanded (PTI): A Con-
gress Seva Dal func-
tionary died after col-
lapsing during the
party’s Bharat Jodo
Yatra here in Nanded
district on Tuesday,
said a senior official.
Senior Congress lead-
er Rahul Gandhi, who is
leading the foot march,
expressed grief over
the death of Seva Dal
General Secretary
Krishna Kumar Pandey
.
He said Pandey held
the national flag till the
very last moment.
“His dedication to-
wards the country will
keep inspiring us,”
Gandhi said, while ex-
tending condolences to
Pandey’s family
.
Senior Congress lead-
er Jairam Ramesh said
Pandey was holding the
tricolour and walking
with him and party vet-
eran Digvijaya Singh
before experiencing
shortness of breath and
uneasiness.
“After a few minutes,
as is the practice, he
handed the flag to a col-
league and moved back.
Thereafter he collapsed
and was taken in an am-
bulance to a hospital
where most sadly he
was declared dead,”
Ramesh tweeted, add-
ing, “He was a staunch
Congressman and used
to take on the RSS in
Nagpur. It is a most
humbling moment for
all yatris.”
The body was later
taken to Naygaon rural
hospital for postmor-
tem, he added.
“The Yatris, Maha-
rashtra Pradesh Con-
gress Committee and @
RahulGandhi paid last
respects to Krishna Ku-
mar Pandey this after-
noon at the Yatra halt
site in Atkali village in
Nanded district,”
Ramesh said in another
tweet.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi offers condolences to a family
member after paying his respects to the mortal remains of Seva
Dal General Secretary Krishna Kumar Pandey, who died during
the march, in Nanded on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Congress national leader Rahul Gandhi mingles with fellow yatris
as he resumes his march after a visit to the gurudwara in Nanded
district on Tuesday.—PHOTO BY ANI
Foot march will proceed through Nanded distrist for four days and enter Hingoli
on Nov 11, Washim on Nov 15, Akola on Nov 16 and Buldhana on November 18
Gandhi prays for harmony and equality at the Gurdwara Yaadgari
Baba Zoravar Singhji Fateh Singhji. —PHOTO BY PTI
Non-bailablewarrant
againstMPNavneet
Ranaandherfather
Mumbai court rejects
police’s request for
time to execute it,
issues fresh NBW
Meeting between Sudha Murthy,
Sambhaji Bhide draws criticism
First India Bureau
Mumbai: A video
showing author and
philanthropist Sudha
Murthy bowing be-
fore Sambhaji Bhide,
the Hindutva activist
who was served a no-
tice by the Maharash-
tra Women’s Com-
mission for refusing
to talk to a woman
journalist because
she had no bindi on
her forehead, has
raised eyebrows.
Bhide had asked the
woman journalist to
not be “like a widow”
(without a bindi) and
to apply one before
speaking to him.
The latest video,
from a promotional
event in Sangli, where
Murthy on Monday in-
teracted with readers
of her books, many of
which have been trans-
lated into Marathi, has
been widely shared on
social media.
A functionary of
Bhide’s Shiv Pratish-
than outfit said he met
Murthy for help in in-
stallation of a golden
throne at the Raigad
fort.
However, an aide to
Murthy, said the author
wasn’t aware who
Bhide was and had
bowed to him out of re-
spect for his age.
Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP) national execu-
tive member Preeti
Sharma Menon tweet-
ed, “Trust she wore a
bindi. When people
like Sudha Murthy
meet bigots like Bhide,
they reveal their true
colours.”
Sudha Murthy had refused to meet
anyone but Bhide's supporters ar-
rived at the event without any invi-
tation…. The pressure was so much that a
visibly annoyed Murthy had to discontinue
her interaction with her readers and go out
to meet Bhide. She was not aware who he
was… she bowed before him out of respect ac-
corded to elders. —Sudha Murthy’s aide
First India Bureau
Aurangabad: Kalyan
MP Shrikant Shinde,
son of Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde, on
Monday launched a
veiled attack on ex-CM
Uddhav Thackeray
and his MLA son Aadi-
tya Thackeray on the
issue of their visit to
farmers.
“When Maha Vikas
Aghadi (MVA) was in
power they (Aaditya and
Uddhav Thackeray)
didn’t remember farm-
ers. But now they are
visiting farmers in
fields,” said Shrikant
while addressing a rally
in Aurangabad district,
home turf of state Agri-
culture Minister Abdul
Sattar.
“Their real concern
is they have lost the gov-
ernment,” he alleged.
Sattar said the Shin-
de government has al-
lotted funds which are
triple in comparison to
the funds given by the
previous government to
farmers. “They are ma-
ligning our MLAs,” he
said.
Without taking Aadi-
tya’s name, Sattar said,
“Some people are com-
ing here to take photo-
graphs at night. We do
notknowwhattheyhave
seen.”
CM’s son fires veiled
barbs at Thackerays
over visit to farmers
Mahima Singh Tanwar
Shimla: On Tuesday,
Rajasthan CM Ashok
Gehlot strongly at-
tacked PM Modi, claim-
ing that policies and
principles of Congress
have strength, and said
that ultimately the DNA
of the country and the
DNA of Congress are
the same. He stressed
that Congress can never
end. Gehlot was on an
election tour of
Himachal on Tuesday
where he conducted a
press conference and
fired salvos on BJP and
PM Modi.
“Those who say that
they will make a Con-
gress-Mukt Bharat,
they themselves will
become ‘mukt’.
Gehlot stressed that
Congress will win the
Himachal Pradesh
polls. Himachal CM Jai
Ram Thakur will not be
able to win the election
by keeping Modi as the
face, he claimed.
Gehlot said, “BJP
used to talk about
tricks, character and
face but now they have
been exposed. There is
loot in BJP ruled states.
The old pension scheme
will be implemented if
the Congress govern-
ment is formed in
Himachal Pradesh. We
will do better financial
management and will
implement the old pen-
sion scheme. Black
money did not come
from demonetisation.
Blackmoney is not
over. Terrorism is not
over. No one is taking
the name of Lokpal in
the country for 8 years.
No one is taking names
of the Coal scam and
2G spectrum. A con-
spiracy was hatched to
defame the UPA
government.”
Winds of change blowing in Himachal,
BJP will be ousted: Rajasthan CM Gehlot
RAJ CM GEHLOT DAY OUT IN AHMEDABAD, SHIMLA
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot addressing press conference
in presence of Alka Lamba, Pratibha Singh, Shashikant Sharma and
others at the Rajiv Bhavan in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday.
OPS
should be
imple-
mented across the
country today. I
urge Modi ji to im-
plement OPS across
the country. When
I implemented OPS
in Rajasthan, there
was a crowd for
many days to meet
me. In the end I
had to refuse. One
day time will come
that Centre and all
states will have to
implement it.
—Ashok Gehlot,
Chief Minister, Rajasthan
FROM THE QUEEN OF HILLS!
(Top) Dr Jagdeesh Chandra
welcoming Rajasthan CM
Ashok Gehlot with a bouquet
at The Oberoi Cecil, Shimla
on Tuesday. Gehlot had
reached Shimla for election
campaign while Dr Chandra
was there to take stock of the
Assembly election scenario.
(Bottom) Ashok Gehlot,
Rajeev Shukla,Tajinder Singh
Bittu, Dr Jagdeesh Chandra
and Shashikant Sharma with
others in Shimla on Tuesday.

MAHARASHTRA
03
NEW NORTH FOB AT
CHARNI ROAD STN
OPEN FOR PUBLIC
Mumbai: The North Foot
Over Bridge (FOB) on Char-
ni Road station’s platforms
number two and three
was opened for the use of
passengers on Monday.
The Western Railway’s FOB
is expected to reduce the
track crossing instances
which had increased lately
as the facility was closed for
reconstruction. The FOB has
come up on the Mumbai
Central end of Charni Road
station’s. The linkway is
20m long and 3.25m wide,
while the staircase is 25m in
length and 3.25m in width.
The Mumbai Railway Vikas
Corporation (MRVC) has
wrapped up the construc-
tion of the foot-over bridge
in a record time of 28 days.
ASHOK KUMAR
MISRA IS NEW GM OF
WESTERN RAILWAY
Mumbai: Ashok Kumar
Misra
has taken
over the
charge of
General
Manager,
Western
Railway
on
Monday. Prior to this he
was working as Additional
General Manager, North
Eastern Railway, Gorakhpur.
Misra is a senior officer of
Indian Railway Services of
Mechanical Engineering.
He joined Indian Railway
Service of Mechanical Engi-
neer through Special Class
Railway Apprentice batch of
1983. His first appointment
was as Assistant Workshop
Manager (Repair), Dahod on
Western Railway. He shoul-
dered the responsibilities of
various posts successfully
on Western Railway, RDSO
and Northern Railway.
FIVE INJURED IN
CYLINDER BLAST IN
VILE PARLE AREA
Mumbai: Five people were
injured when a cylinder
exploded at around 6 am
in New Kalpana Chawl
(tenement) located near the
Western Express Highway
in Mumbai’s Vile Parle area
on Tuesday morning, a civ-
ic official said. Five people,
in the age group of 27 to
45 years, suffered injuries
and were rushed to the
nearby VN Desai Hospital,
the official said, adding that
their condition was stable.
FIRE UNDER FLYOVER
CAUSES TRAFFIC
JAM IN MUMBAI
Mumbai: In the second such
instance of the day, a fire
broke out under a flyover
on the Western Express
Highway in Mumbai, an
official said. While no one
was injured, the incident
led to a traffic snarl on the
highway. The Fire Brigade of-
ficial said the blaze engulfed
some scrap vehicles parked
under the Andheri-Vile Parle
bridge near Sahara Hotel a
little before 4 pm, and was
doused within 15 minutes.
4 KILLED AS SPEEDING DUMPER TOPPLES
ON AUTO-RICKSHAW IN RAIGAD DISTRICT
Mumbai: Four persons were killed when a speeding
dumper lost control and toppled onto the auto-rickshaw
in which they were travelling in Kashedi ghat in Raigad
district, police said. Both vehicles had been heading
towards Poladpur, with the auto-rickshaw moving ahead
parallel to the dumper, when the accident occurred, at
Chole village around 7.10 pm on Monday, an official
said. Raigad district guardian minister Uday Samant
announced Rs5 lakh assistance to the kin of each of the
deceased persons, he said.
THREE HELD FOR ACCOSTING PEOPLE AND
STEALING THEIR MOBILE PHONES IN LATUR
Latur: The police have arrested three persons, identified
as Prafulla Prakash Pawar (23), Vishal Vishnu Jadhav
(26) and Mahesh Namdeorao Narhare (20) for allegedly
accosting people and stealing their mobile phones in
Latur city, police said on Tuesday. At least 22 mobile
phones and a motorcycle were seized from the trio, who
targeted people in different parts of the city, he said,
adding that they were arrested on Sunday.
CRUCIAL READ
Reserve1policesub-inspector
postfortranscommunity:MAT
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Mum-
bai bench of the Ma-
harashtra Adminis-
trative Tribunal
(MAT) has directed
the state government
to keep one post of a
police sub-inspector
(PSI) reserved for
transgenders.
In an order passed on
Monday, the tribunal’s
chairperson, retired
Justice Mridula Bhat-
kar, said it was bound
by the Supreme Court’s
2014 judgment asking
all state governments to
have reservation for
transgenders for all
public appointments.
The tribunal was
hearing an application
filed by one Vinayak
Kashid, seeking a direc-
tion to the Maharashtra
Public Service Commis-
sion (MPSC) to allow
the applicant to apply
for the PSI’s post as a
transgender candidate.
On Monday
, the state
government lawyer told
the tribunal that it was
stillconsideringframing
a reservation policy for
transgenders.
Irked over this, the tri-
bunal said the govern-
ment had to follow the
law of the land and the
apex court judgment,
which said all transgen-
der persons have the
right to decide their self-
identified gender.
“Itisdifficulttoaccept
the stand of the state
government that the
policy decision is not
takentilldate.Inviewof
the Supreme Court judg-
ment of 2014, it is obliga-
tory on part of the gov-
ernment to follow the
lawof theland,”saidthe
MAT in its order.
“We hereby direct the
respondent (state gov-
ernment) to keep one
post of PSI reserved for
transgenders in socially
and economically back-
ward class for this ex-
amination first and
thereafter at all stages
(of appointment)asonly
one applicant has ap-
proached this tribunal,”
said the tribunal.
SC had passed judgment on reservation for transgenders in all public appointments. —FILE PHOTO
THE APPLICATION
Mumbai bench
directs state
govt to abide by
2014 Supreme
Court ruling,
calls it out for
not granting
provision
Civic body claims 65%
work of Mumbai Coastal
Road Project complete
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Bri-
hanmumbai Munici-
pal Corporation
(BMC) has claimed
that 65% of the
Rs12,000-crore Mum-
bai Coastal Road Pro-
ject was completed
on Tuesday
.
Thecoastalroadwill
reduce the travel time
by 70% and fuel con-
sumption by 34%. The
entireprojectisexpect-
ed to be completed by
November 2023.
The 10.58km road is
being built from Priya-
darshini Park to Worli
Sea Link for which the
BMC had started work
in2018,itwillhavetun-
nels on both the sides.
Two tunnels will be of
2.07km each. The civic
body has also men-
tioned that the 78%
work of the right tun-
nel is completed and
the left tunnels is on
thepathof completion.
Around 62.24% of
the 3.82km stretch
from Priyadarshini
Park to Baroda Palace
in Package 1 has been
completed.
The BMC had earli-
er claimed that the
land acquisition is al-
most completed as out
of 111 hectares of land
for the project, 107
hectares (97%) has al-
ready been reclaimed.
Moreover, 78% work
of the sea wall has
also been completed.
On completion of
the south phase, an ad-
ditional8.5kmlongand
20m wide sea prome-
nade will be available,
alongwithbiodiversity
park, a butterfly gar-
den,landscaping,cycle
tracks, open-air thea-
tre, seating arrange-
ments, toilets and un-
derground parking lot
for over 1,800 vehicles.
BMC started work
on the 10.58km road
from Priyadarshini
Park to Worli Sea
Link in 2018; set to
finish in 2023
The Coastal road will reduce travel time by 70% and fuel
consumption by 34%.
FIR against
Vir Das,
Netflix over
copyright
infringement
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Stand-up co-
median Vir Das, two
other persons and on-
line streaming plat-
form Netflix have
been booked on
charges of copyright
rules violation fol-
lowing a complaint by
a producer, an official
said on Tuesday.
According to a com-
plaint filed by noted
theatre producer Ash-
vin Gidwani, his com-
pany signed a contract
with Das to produce a
show in October 2010. In
January 2020, when
Gidwani saw a promo
of a new show of Das on
Netflix, the producer
realized that some con-
tent had allegedly been
copied from the previ-
ous show (of 2010) with
just a few changes, the
official from Cuffe Pa-
rade police station said.
A case was registered
on November 04 against
Das, two other persons
and Netflix service un-
der relevant provisions
of the Copyright Act,
the official said, adding
that no arrest has been
made so far.
On Monday, right-
wing group “Hindu
Janajagruti Samiti” ap-
proached the police in
Bengaluru, seeking can-
cellation of a show by
Das, alleging that it will
hurt the religious senti-
ments of Hindus and
show India in bad light.
First India Bureau
Nagpur: A training
programme to in-
crease orange pro-
ductivity while deal-
ing with the effects of
climate change and
biotic stress saw par-
ticipation from more
than 300 producers
from here and neigh-
bouring Amravati
district.
The day-long training
programme, held at the
Indian Institute of
Management, Nagpur
(IIM-N), was organized
by Maharashtra Agri-
business Network
(MAGNET) in associa-
tion with IIM-N and
Grant Thornton
Bharat, a release by
IIM-N stated.
MAGNET is a project
assisted by the Asian
Development Bank
(ADB) to strengthen the
horticulture value
chain in the state,
while Grant Thornton
Bharat is its project
implementation sup-
port consultant.
The aim of this initi-
ative is to train 30,000
horticulturists across
Maharashtra.
Key horticulture ex-
perts and progressive
orange growers provid-
ed guidance to the
farmers on innovative
ways to increase pro-
ductivity, climate
change, handling biotic
stress, technology
adoption and imple-
mentation.
While explaining the
idea behind conducting
the training pro-
gramme at IIM-N,
ADB’s executive direc-
tor Sameer Khare said:
“MAGNET decided to
tie up with institutes of
national repute for
capacity building and
exchange of knowledge
in a more effective
manner. With various
institutes involved in
the process, knowledge
sharing becomes easier
under various govern-
ment projects.”
Workshop trains 300 orange cultivators
with innovative agri practices in Nagpur
FRUITFUL GAINS
The easy-to-peel Mandarin orange is cultivated extensively in
Amravati and Nagpur districts. —FILE PHOTO
DID YOU KNOW?
Woman raped on pretext of marriage in Pune
First India Bureau
Pune: A man allegedly
sexually exploited a
31-year-old woman for
two months on the pre-
text of marrying her.
According to the Far-
askhana police station
officials, the accused
and the survivor were
members of a library as
the duo was preparing
for competitive exams.
The survivor in her
complaint stated that
when she asked the ac-
cused about marriage
on November 05, the lat-
ter refused and physi-
cally assaulted her.
Later, the survivor ap-
proached the police and
an FIR was lodged
againsttheaccused.The
accused is yet to be ar-
rested, police said.
In another incident, a
school van driver alleg-
edly raped a 14-year-old
student at Tope Layout
in Nagpur last month
and blackmailed her by
threatening to make her
photographs viral, po-
lice said. The matter
cametolightonMonday
when the driver was ar-
rested, they added.
According to a local
police officer Krishna
Shinde, the accused
Pawan Kohpare (26) is a
neighbour of the girl.
Kohpare allegedly took
thegirltoahutmentand
raped her before drop-
ping her to school and
later home. The driver
continued to blackmail
her until she narrated
her ordeal to her family
,
which reported the mat-
ter to the police.
Shinde added, that
the accused was black-
mailing the girl to con-
tinue her sexual exploi-
tation. The accused has
been booked under the
IPC, Protection of Chil-
dren from Sexual Of-
fences Act, and SC and
ST(Preventionof Atroc-
ities) Act.
Mumbai: The Mumbai Crime Branch arrested an
18-year-old man on Monday for allegedly sexually
assaulting a minor. The 14-year-old victim, a res-
ident of the suburbs in the city, had left her home
on Sunday evening and did not return till late night.
The accused dropped the victim near her house
on a motorbike early Monday and escaped. On
questioning, the minor told police that they were
Instagram friends. The accused had convinced the
victim to meet him near her house. Based on the
victim’s statement, police added relevant sections
of the IPC and POCSO Act, traced and arrested the
accused.
18-YR-OLD HELD FOR ALLEGED SEXUAL
ASSAULT OF MINOR HE MET ONLINE
Experts reveal
ways to increase
productivity,
climate change,
handling biotic
stress and tech
adoption

PERSPECTIVE
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Narendra Modi
@narendramodi
Hearty greetings on Prakash Purab
of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji. May their
noble teachings continue to guide
us in our efforts to build a just and
compassionate society.
Amit Shah
@AmitShah
Hearty greetings to all on the 553rd
Prakash Parv of the founder of Sikh
Panth, Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji. Guru
Nanak Dev ji showed the path of truth,
action and compassion to the entire
mankind with the ideas of peace,
equality and service to humanity. His
teachings will always guide us.
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
You have a right to
perform your prescribed
duties, but you are not
entitled to the fruits of
your actions.
—Bhagavad Gita
IN-DEPTH
DEMONETISATION:
BLACK MONEY KEEPS
TUMBLING OUT AND
CASH STILL RULES
emonetisation hap-
pened six years ago
but not a year has
passed without a re-
view of its conse-
quences on the quantum of liq-
uid cash in the market which it
was supposed to bring down to
curb the circulation of black
money and promote digital
economy
. In the last six years the
digital economy has indeed
made much progress with con-
sumers and traders finding it
more convenient. Stringent up-
per limits for cash transactions
and bank withdrawals have had
notable impact.
On the flip side, however, it
did not bring down the currency
in circulation to the desired
level. A Reserve Bank of India
report said that almost 99 per-
cent of the Rs 3 to 4 lakh crore
black money that was invalidat-
ed returned to the system. Fresh
seizures of black money, which
run into thousands of crores,
prove that the exercise was fu-
tile. The dream of a cashless
economy also lies shattered as
currency with the public has in-
creased to Rs 30.88 lakh crore.
Cash still rules.
TOP TWEETS
D
ongress working
president in Kar-
nataka Satish
Jarkiholi has cre-
ated an avoidable
row with his definition of the
word Hindu. The 60-year-old
billionaire sugar baron from
Belagavi ignited a controver-
sy when he asserted that the
word Hindu has a Persian
origin with a very “dirty”
meaning which will make
Hindus “ashamed”. Jarkiho-
li is a leader of the Scheduled
Tribe Valmiki Nayak com-
munity. Countering BJP’s
claim on Hindutva, Jarkiholi
stated that because of its Per-
sian origin there was no link
between the word Hindu and
India. “How did ‘Hindu’ be-
come yours,” he asked the
BJP. He insisted that a Wiki-
pedia search would confirm
his statement.
That may not be correct as
the Wiki page describes the
word Hindu as being derived
from the river Indus or Sind-
hu which has originated
from Sanskrit and the Indo
Aryan. According to Gavin
Flood who is regarded as an
authority on Hinduism, the
term Hindu “first occurs as a
Persian geographical term
for the people who lived be-
yond the river Indus”.
Jarkiholi alone can ex-
plain his intention for raking
up this controversy when
Karnataka is preparing for
Assembly elections and his
party is on a weak footing.
The immediate fallout could
be on Hindu votes consolidat-
ing behind the BJP at a time
when the powerful Lingayat
community is upset about
the arrest of their chief pon-
tiff in a sexual harassment
case. Lingayats have so far
been the biggest supporters
of the BJP. To control the
damage Randeep Singh Sur-
jewala of the Congress, who
is in-charge of Karnataka,
condemned the remark and
said, “Hinduism is a way
of life…”
AN AVOIDABLE ROW
OVER ‘HINDU’ TERM
The 60-year-old billionaire
sugar baron from Belagavi
ignited a controversy
when he asserted that
the word Hindu has a
Persian origin with a
very “dirty” meaning
which will make
Hindus “ashamed”
C
Mamata argued, “Formation of
a Union territory takes away a
people’s rights as it denies them
of the benefits of statehood. I
will not allow anyone to divide
Bengal. UT means being at the
mercy of New Delhi and losing
all freedom. But I will not allow
North Bengal or any other part
of Bengal to lose its freedom
and become dependent on New
Delhi.”The longest and most
violent agitation movement in
North Bengal was for a
separate territory for
Gorkhaland which was
resolved following a series of
accords which finally saw the
setting up of Gorkhaland
territorial Administration
he politically heart-burning
issue of dividing the state
further into Union Territo-
ries seems to die. The “ghost”
returns to haunt, it seems.
Triggering a controversy
(again), Ananta Rai, who has
been demanding a separate
Cooch Behar comprising
parts of north Bengal, on Fri-
day met Union Minister of
state for Home affairs Nisith
Pramanik and said the crea-
tion of a new Union Territo-
ry is only a matter of time.
Rai who leads a faction of
the Greater Cooch Behar had
an hour-long meeting with
Pramanik in Bhetaguri town
of Cooch Behar district. “I
believe it (new Union Terri-
tory) will happen soon. I can-
not comment on the time and
date. But you can be rest as-
sured that the new union ter-
ritory of Cooch Behar is only
a matter of time,” Rai told
reporters after the meeting.
Asked about Rai’s com-
ments regarding union terri-
tory, Pramanik, the MP of
Cooch Behar constituency,
said, “I will comment on it
when the time comes.” Rai’s
organisation Greater Cooch
Beharhasbeendemandingan
independentstatecomprising
Cooch Behar and several oth-
er districts in the northern
part of West Bengal.
His remark drew a sharp
retort from the ruling Trina-
mool Congress which said it
would never allow the divi-
sion of West Bengal. “They
can hold as many meetings
as they want or say whatever
they feel like. But there will
be no division of West Ben-
gal,” TMC leader and North
Bengal Development Minis-
ter Udayan Guha said.
THE GEOGRAPHY
North Bengal, with its eight
districts including pictur-
esque Darjeeling, is both eco-
nomically important for West
Bengal as it houses the mon-
ey-minting tea, timber and
tourism industries. The re-
gion is also strategically im-
portant for the country for its
Siliguri corridor, commonly
known as ‘chicken neck’, as it
connects the North Eastern
states with the rest of India.
The region, which shares a
border with Nepal, Bhutan
and Bangladesh, has wit-
nessed several violent state-
hood movements since the
early eighties by various eth-
nic groups such as Gorkhas,
Rajbanshis, Koch and
Kamatapuri communities.
The BJP’s Alipurduar MP
John Barla and MLAs of Mat-
igara-Naxalbari and Dab-
gram-Phulbari seats, Anan-
damay Barman and Shikha
Chatterjee respectively, have
demanded that a Union terri-
tory be carved out of North
Bengal districts. BJP MLA
from Kurseong Bishnu Pras-
ad Sharma last year had writ-
ten to BJP national president
J P Nadda demanding separa-
tion of Darjeeling Hills from
West Bengal.
FOR SOME TIME
This demand for carving out
a Union Territory compris-
ing North Bengal districts
out of Bengal, made by two
BJP MPs from the region in
July 2021 had sparked off a
sharp reaction with the rul-
ing TMC with party Supremo
Mamata Banerjee stating she
would not allow any part of
Bengal to lose its freedom
and be dependant on the na-
tional capital.
Barla had told news agency
PTI in a telephonic conversa-
tion, “I made the demand that
there have been movements
here for a separate Kamtapu-
ri, a greater Cooch Behar and
for Gorkhaland. My belief is
that North Bengal should be
detached and made into a
separate union territory
.”
The MP who has earlier led
an agitation for an autono-
mous tribal area in the last
decade, said small states per-
form better. North Bengal is
neglected, it also faces secu-
rity issues. Our economy is
affected, tea gardens are be-
ing shut down. We will be bet-
ter off as a Union territory
.
Barla, said that he along
with others from the region
would be meeting both Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and
the Union Home Minister
Amit Shah on this issue as
well as would raise it in Par-
liament. BJP has four MPs
from the region and at least
one of them Jayanta Roy
from Jalpaiguri said that
though Barlas comments
were made in his personal
capacity, he supported them.
DIFFERENCE OF OPINION?
However, Dilip Ghosh had
said his party does not have
any such agenda. “None of
our officials has said any
such thing,” he had said,
claiming that attempts were
being made by the TMC to
malign the BJP by raking up
various issues. “I want to
make it clear that the BJP
has no such agenda to divide
Bengal or create a different
state,” Ghosh had said.
The Trinamool Congress
had come out strongly de-
spite BJP’s denials. CM
Mamata Banerjee had said,
“They should be ashamed af-
ter their humiliating loss in
the elections but, instead,
they are trying to divide Ben-
gal. In whose interest are
they trying to split Bengal?”
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
T
ROBIN ROY
The writer is Senior Journalist and
former Managing Editor, First India
Rai who leads a faction of the Greater Cooch Behar had
an hour-long meeting with Pramanik in Bhetaguri town
of Cooch Behar district. “I believe it (new Union
Territory) will happen soon. I cannot comment
on the time and date. But you can be rest assured
that the new union territory of Cooch Behar is only a
matter of time,” Rai told reporters after the meeting
BENGAL
PARTITION,
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INDIA
Ahmedabad (PTI):
Ahead of the upcoming
Gujarat Assembly polls,
senior Congress leader
P Chidambaram on
Tuesday hit out at the
BJP over its arro-
gance, saying no one so
far has apologised or
resigned for the Morbi
bridge collapse tragedy
which claimed 135 lives.
Chidambaram, who
washeretocampaignfor
his party
, also claimed
that Gujarat was being
“run from Delhi” and
not by the CM of state.
The Gujarat polls will
be held in two phases on
December 1 and 5 and
the counting of votes
will be taken up on De-
cember 8. On October
30, a suspension bridge
on the Machchuu river
in Gujarat’s Morbi dis-
trict collapsed, claim-
ing 135 lives.
Chidambaram said,
“As per my knowledge
nobody has apologised
or resigned for such a
big tragedy. This is due
to the BJP's arrogance.
If such a thing would
have happened in a for-
eign country, there
would have been imme-
diate resignations.”
WAIT TILL NOV 17
FOR ACTION ON VCS:
KERALA HC TO GUV
Kochi: The Kerala High
Court on Tuesday told
Kerala Governor, and
Chancellor, Arif Mohammed
Khan, that till it disposes of
the petition filed by 10 Vice
Chancellors against the
show cause notice issued
by him against them, he
should take no further
action. The court posted
the case for November 17,
and said that until then, he
should not take any action.
UP COURT FRAMES
CHARGES AGAINST
SP'S KAIRANA MLA
Muzaffarnagar: A court in
neighbouring Shamli on
Tuesday framed charges
against Samajwadi Party
MLA Nahid Hasan in a
2019 attempt to murder
case. Hasan, who is
lodged in Chitrakoot jail,
was produced before the
special court in Kairana.
Charges were framed
against the Kairana MLA
under various sections of
the Indian Penal Code.
IN THE COURTYARD
CHARGE SHEET FILED IN 40 UAPA CASES
WITHIN 90 DAYS: DELHI POLICE TO HC
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi Police has informed the
high court here that out of 83 cases registered by it
under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA)
since 2005, charge sheets were filed in 40 cases
within 90 days, while an extension was sought in 20
cases. The data was submitted on the direction of the
Delhi High Court which was hearing a plea by a UAPA
accused challenging a trial court order extending the
90-day deadline granted to the Delhi Police in the case
against him.
SC: PROSECUTION FAILED TO PROVIDE
CLEAR EVIDENCE IN CHHAWLA CASE
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court acquitted three
men sentenced to death for the gangrape and murder
of a 19-year-old woman in Delhi’s Chhawla area in
2012, noting the prosecution failed to provide leading,
cogent, clinching and clear evidence, including those
related to DNA profiling and call detail records (CDRs),
against the accused. The three men were accused of
abducting, gangraping and brutally killing the woman
in February 2012. Her mutilated body was found three
days after she was abducted.
New Delhi (PTI): All
inhabited villages in the
northeasternregionand
border areas must be
connected with 4G net-
work by December 2023,
Union minister Kiren
Rijiju said on Tuesday
.
After reviewing the
4G saturation project
for providing 4G mobile
service to all inhabited
villages of the North-
east at a meeting here,
Rijiju said as telecom
revolution is happen-
ing, no remote area
should remain uncon-
nected and this is the
motto of PM Modi.
“By December 2023,
all inhabited villages of
the Northeast and bor-
der areas must be con-
nected by the 4G net-
work,” he told PTI.
Rijiju said the pur-
pose of the meeting was
to ensure coordination
among different stake-
holders, bring all of
them onboard and fill
the gap if any
.
“Reviewed the 4G
Saturation project for
providing 4G Mobile
Service to all inhabited
villages of North-East.
Secretary
, Telecom of-
ficials including from
Armed Forces attended.
Proper coordination is
worked out to complete
the project timely as de-
sired by PM,” the Min-
ister tweeted.
“4G network in N-E villages by Dec 2023”
NET IS SET TO WIDEN
LUNAR ECLIPSE!
Moon partially covered by the earth’s shadow during lunar
eclipse, in New Delhi, on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI
BATTLEGROUND HIMACHAL PRADESH
BJPandCongressintensify
campaignaspollinchescloser
Shimla (Agencies):
With only 6 days left for
campaigning ahead of
the Assembly elections
in Himachal Pradesh on
November 12, political
campaigning has inten-
sified with star cam-
paigners and prominent
leadersof variouspoliti-
cal parties holding pub-
lic meetings and road
shows across the state.
The star campaign-
ers of BJP and Con-
gress campaigned in
favor of their candi-
dates in different parts
of Kangra, Hamirpur,
Bilaspur, and Shimla
districts, on Tuesday
.
Several senior lead-
ers of the BJP and the
Congress are constant-
ly addressing election
meetings and surround-
ing each other on sev-
eral issues.
Union minister Nitin
Gadkari and UP Chief
Minister Yogi Adity-
anath addressed elec-
tion rallies back to back
in various assembly
constituencies of the
Kangra and Bilaspur
districts on Tuesday.
BJP national president
JP nadda held a road
show at Kusumpati in
Shimla.
On the other hand,
Congress General Sec-
retary Priyanka Gan-
dhi Vadra addressed a
rally at Nagrota Bag-
wan in Kangra district.
Bharmour (PTI): Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on
Tuesday promised more ropeways, cable railway
system, tunnels and
clean energy projects
for Himachal Pradesh
which is going to poll.
At a rally in the tribal
area of Chamba, Gadkari
said constructing roads
here is difficult and
new-age projects can solve the connectivity issue
in the sub-Himalayan range of mountains. “Con-
structing roads is difficult here. There is a need for
tunnel projects, ropeways and funicular train sys-
tems...if we can connect these mountains through
the electric transport system, these will ease your
travel and improve connectivity,” he said.
Shimla (PTI): The Congress on Tuesday said a
new line of leadership has emerged in Himachal
Pradesh and anyone can
lead the party after the
election results are an-
nounced. Claiming that
the party was headed
towards a two-third
majority in the election-
bound state, Congress
general secretary Randeep Surjewala said Chief
Minister Jai Ram Thakur would have difficulty
in saving his own seat. Surjewala said change is
the law of nature. A new line of leadership has
already emerged in the Congress and anyone can
lead the party, he told reporters at a presser here.
GADKARI PROMISES ROPEWAYS, CLEAN
ENERGY PROJECTS FOR HIMACHAL
ANYONE CAN LEAD CONG IN HIMACHAL, NEW
LINE OF LEADERSHIP READY: SURJEWALA
Anurag Thakur addresses a rally in Bilaspur on Tuesday.
Bilaspur (ANI): Union minister Anurag Thakur on
Tuesday compared Congress’ 60 years of rule in
Himachal Pradesh with five years of rule of BJP
and said BJP’s rule had more weightage. “Com-
pare Congress’s 60 years of rule to our 5 years of
rule, and you'll see that our 5 years of the rule will
have more weightage. They (Congress) have only
stopped developments whereas we have brought
developments,” Thakur said at a rally here.
BJP’S 5 YEARS RULE IN HIMACHAL HAS MORE
WEIGHTAGE THAN CONS'S: ANURAG THAKUR
GUJARAT ELECTIONS
New Delhi (ANI): PM
Narendra Modi and sev-
eral others on Tuesday
visited the residence of
veteran BJP leader LK
Advani to greet him on
his 95th birthday. De-
fence Minister Rajnath
Singh also visited Ad-
vani to wish him on his
birthday
.
“Visited respected
Advaniji’s residence
and wished him a hap-
py birthday. I pray to
God for his good health
and long life,” Singh
said in a tweet.
Union Home Minis-
ter Amit Shah also
wished the senior BJP
leader and said that he
made an invaluable
contribution to the de-
velopment of the coun-
try while being in the
government.
“Wishing a very hap-
py birthday to respect-
ed LK Advani ji. Advani
ji, on one hand,
strengthened the organ-
ization across the coun-
try with his continuous
hard work, while on the
other hand made an in-
valuable contribution
to the development of
the country while being
in the government. I
pray to God for his good
health and long life,”
Shah said in a tweet.
External Affairs Min-
ister S Jaishankar who
is currently in Moscow
wished Advani. “Warm
birthday greetings to
revered Shri LK Advani
ji. His many contribu-
tions and services to the
nation will always keep
inspiring us,” he said.
Union Minister of Pe-
troleum and Natural
Gas and Minister of
Housing and Urban Af-
fairs Hardeep Singh
Puri wished and said,
“Birthday greetings to
one of the leading lights
of BJP, India’s political
stalwart, a fine human
being veteran leader
Sh LK Advani Ji.”
Born on November 8,
1927, in Karachi, Adva-
ni was the Minister of
Home Affairs in the
BJP-led National Demo-
cratic Alliance govern-
ment from 1998 to 2004.
He also served as the
Deputy Prime Minister
under Atal Bihari Vaj-
payee from 2002 to 2004.
He is one of the co-
founders and a senior
leader of the BJP.
He began his political
career as a volunteer of
the Rashtriya Swayam-
sevak Sangh (RSS). In
2015, Advani was
awarded the Padma
Vibhushan - India’s sec-
ond-highest civilian
honour.
Several ministers, leaders greet LK Advani on 95th birthday
Besides PM, Shah, Rajnath, Hardeep
Puri, Jaishankar wish BJP stalwart
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh presents a bouquet to veteran BJP
leader LK Advani to wish him on his birthday. —PHOTO BY ANI
ChidambaramtargetsBJP
overMorbibridgecollapse
“GUJ PEOPLE SHOULD VOTE FOR CHANGE”
GUJ CONGRESS LEADER RATHVA QUITS
Ahmedabad (Agencies): Former Finance Minister and
Rajya Sabha member P Chidambaram
on Tuesday urged the people of Gujarat
to vote for Congress as it performs
better than the BJP. It laid the founda-
tion stone for a developed Gujarat from
1960 to 1995, he added. Addressing
mediapersons in Ahmedabad, Chidam-
baram said that people should vote for
change every five or ten years.
Ahmedabad (PTI): In a jolt to the opposition Congress
ahead of the Assembly polls in Gujarat,
senior MLA Mohansinh Rathva on Tues-
day resigned as a party member and
legislator. Rathva sent his resignation
letter to state Congress chief Jagdish
Thakor. A prominent tribal leader,
Rathva is a ten-time Member of the
Legislative Assembly and currently rep-
resents Chhota Udaipur constituency in central Gujarat.
Congress initiated appeasement
politics: K’taka Health Minister
UP’s Khatauli Assembly bypolls
on December 5 counting on 8
Bengaluru (ANI):
Karnataka Health Min-
ister K Sudhakar on
Tuesday hit out at Con-
gress and said that the
oldest party of the
country initiated ap-
peasement politics in
the nation and from the
last 75 years they are
the one who have been
indulging in it adding
that BJP’s mantra is
“sabka saath sabka vi-
kas sabka vishwas”.
Speaking here to
ANI, Minister Sudha-
kar said that the BJP is
not in favour of ap-
peasement politics.
New Delhi (ANI): The
Election Commission
on Tuesday announced
the schedule of the by-
poll for Khatauli As-
sembly constituency in
UP. The election will be
held on December 5 and
the counting of votes
will be done on Decem-
ber 8, with the result
dates of the Gujarat and
Himachal polls. The
Khatauli seat fell va-
cant on Monday when
BJP MLA Vikram Sin-
gh Saini was disquali-
fied after his conviction
in a case related to 2013
Muzaffarnagar riots.
Bengaluru: After apolitical row erupted over Karna-
taka Congress leader Satish Jarki-
holi’s comment on the word ‘Hindu’,
the party has said that it would seek
an explanation. Karnataka Congress
president DK Shivakumar on Tues-
day said, “Satish Jarkiholi’s state-
ment is his personal opinion.”
Lucknow (PTI): The Samajwadi Party demanded
on Tuesday the removal the Moradabad divisional
commissioner to conduct a fair bypoll in Rampur
assembly seat next month. In a memorandum to
the CEO, Samajwadi Party state president Nar-
esh Patel said Aunjaneya Singh was the district
magistrate earlier of Rampur, which falls under the
Moradabad division.
CONG TO SEEK EXPLANATION FROM JARKIHOLI REMOVE MORADABAD DIV COMMISSIONER: SP
Congress leader
Rahul Gandhi
at a Guru
Nanak Jayanti
programme
during the
ongoing ‘Bharat
Jodo Yatra’ in
Nanded district.
—PHOTO BY PTI

06
INDIA
New Delhi (Agencies):
The Union Ministry of
Home Affairs in its 2021-
22annualreporthassaid
that there was a need to
updatetheNationalPop-
ulation Register (NPR).
The report, published
on Monday (November
7), has underlined the
need to update the NPR
database across the
country, except Assam.
Through this, changes
in the demographic
data due to births,
deaths and migration in
the country will be
identified and record-
ing information of peo-
ple and their families
will also be possible,
said the report.
The report stated that
due to Covid-19 pan-
demic, the work of up-
dating the NPR and
other field activities
had come to a halt.
The home ministry
added that the people
will be able to update
the NPR data them-
selves. No documents or
biometrics will be col-
lected during the upda-
tion. The Central gov-
ernment has approved
a budget of Rs 3,941
crore for the same.
The report stated that
the NPR has been pre-
pared under various
provisions of the Citi-
zenship Rules, 2003
made under the Citizen-
ship Act, 1955.
The name, gender,
date of birth, place of
birth, place of resi-
dence, father’s and
mother’s name were up-
dated and Aadhaar
number, mobile number
and ration card num-
bers were collected. The
ministry said that the
register needs to be up-
dated to include the
changes due to births,
deaths and migration.
The NPR was pre-
pared in 2010 and was
updated in 2015. Several
politicalpartiesopposed
it and alleged that it was
a step towards making
the National Register of
Citizens (NRC).
According to the re-
port, from April 1, 2021
to December 31, 2021, a
toatl of 1,414 people
across the country were
provided certificates of
citizenship under the
Citizenship Act, 1955.
MoS Dr Jitendra
Singh chairs the
first ever Joint
Society Meeting
of Autonomous
Institutes
First India Bureau
New Delhi: “Marine
Surveillance” will get a
facelift with support
from Space applications
for sharing valuable in-
puts with the Security
Agencies. The Oceansat
will be launched on No-
vember 26.
This was stated by
Union Minister of State
(Independent Charge)
Dr Jitendra Singh on
Tuesday at the first ever
Joint Society Meeting
of Autonomous Insti-
tutes (IITM, INCOIS,
NCESS, NCPOR, NIOT)
of Ministry of Earth
Sciences (MoES) and
called for breaking the
“silos” to work with in-
tegration and “whole of
government” approach.
All the five autono-
mous bodies Societies,
that is, Indian Institute
of Tropical Meteorolo-
gy (IITM), Indian Na-
tional Centre for Ocean
Information Services
(INCOIS), National
Centre for Earth Sci-
ence Studies (NCESS),
National Centre for Po-
lar and Ocean Research
(NCPOR) and National
Institute of Ocean Tech-
nology (NIOT) have
been merged into a sin-
gle Society of MoES.
Dr Singh said that the
move is in tune with
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi’s directive to
avoid duplication and
working in silos and to
aim for greater integra-
tion to achieve the max-
imum output. He said,
PM Modi not only has a
natural predilection for
science but is also forth-
coming in supporting
and promoting science
and technology based
initiatives and projects
in the last 7-8 years.
Apart from Dr Jiten-
dra Singh, who is the
President of the Socie-
ty
, Members, Dr M Ravi-
chandran, Secretary,
Ministry of Earth Sci-
ences, S Somanath, Sec-
retary, Department of
Space, and others at-
tended the meeting.
Oceansat to be launched on November 26
MARINE SURVEILLANCE
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh at the meeting on Tuesday.
CRUCIAL READ
JK POLICE SI RECRUITMENT SCAM: CBI
CONDUCTS SEARCHES AT 7 LOCATIONS
SIKHS TO REGISTER
THEIR MARRIAGE,
SAYS PUNJAB CM
UNION MINISTER
SCINDIA TESTED
COVID-19 POSITIVE
2 HELD FOR MURDER
OF RETIRED IB
OFFICER IN MYSURU
CENTRE CALLS
MEETING OF TELUGU
STATES ON NOV 23
New Delhi (PTI): The CBI on Tuesday conducted searches
at seven locations in Jammu, Pathankot, Rewari and
Karnal in connection with the police sub-inspector
recruitment scam in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
The searches were conducted at the premises of arrested
mastermind Yatin Yadav and CRPF constable Surender
Singh among others, they said. The CBI had taken over
investigation into the case on August 3 on a reference
from the Jammu and Kashmir government.
Chandigarh (Agencies):
On the occasion of Parkash
Purb of Guru Nanak Dev,
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann
on Tuesday paid obeisance
at Takht Sri Kesgarh
Sahib and announced that
Anand Marriage Act will
be implemented for Sikhs
to register their marriages
in the state. Mann said the
Act was notified in 2016
but had been hanging in
fire since then. He said
though several other states
have already implemented
this Act but Punjab had
lagged behind.
Union Minister Jyotiraditya
Scindia’s investigation
of Covid-19 has come
positive. It is being told
that after getting viral fever,
Scindia got his Covid test
done in Delhi on Tuesday
morning. Whose report has
come positive. After which
Scindia has requested
all his supporters that all
those who have come in
contact with him should
also get their Covid test
done. Scindia also attended
the BJP core committee
meeting held in Bhopal.
Kochi (Agencies): The
Karnataka police have
cracked the murder case
of an 82-year-old retired
Intelligence Bureau (IB)
officer in Mysuru with the
arrest of two persons. The
police said the murder
took place over a property
dispute. Mysuru City
Police Commissioner
Chandragupta said
on Tuesday that the
arrested persons have
been identified as Manu
(30) and his friend Arun
Gowda. Manu was into the
construction business.
Hyderabad (Agencies):
The Centre has convened
a meeting of top officials
of Andhra Pradesh and
Telangana on Nov 23 to
discuss unresolved issues
between the two states.
The Ministry of Home
Affairs (MHA) has asked
chief secretaries of both
the Telugu states to attend
the meeting to be held in
Delhi. Union Home Secretary
Ajay Bhalla will preside
over the meeting which will
discuss the pending issues
after bifurcation of Andhra
Pradesh in 2014.
Six years after Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi’s demonetisation
experiment, some com-
mentators and econo-
mists are now citing
strong growth in Goods
Services Tax (GST)
collections to claim that
demonetisation was a
success, or at least not
the disaster it was pur-
ported to be. Apparent-
ly, 23 quarters after de-
monetisation, last quar-
ter’s strong GST collec-
tions are evidence of
increasing formalisa-
tion of India’s economy
and hence, the fulfil-
ment of demonetisa-
tion’s stated goals. This
is as bizarre as former
US President Donald
Trump claiming in No-
vember 2018 that since
it was among the cold-
est months on record in
America, global warm-
ing and climate change
are a hoax.
Modi’s cherished ob-
jective of demonetisa-
tion was the elimination
of black money
. While
black money is a collo-
quial term with no pre-
cise definition, it is gen-
erally acknowledged as
untaxed money
. Such
unaccounted money is
typically used to buy
real estate, gold, luxury
goods, etc. and only a
very small fraction is
stored as cash. If there
is a reduction in overall
black money in the
economy, it should logi-
cally be reflected as
higher tax collections.
Black money may be
routed as income or con-
sumption expenditure
or as business loans.
Chandigarh (PTI):
Scores of devotees
thronged gurudwaras
in Punjab, Haryana and
Chandigarh on Tues-
day to mark the 553rd
birth anniversary of
Guru Nanak Dev, the
founder of Sikhism.
Devotees reached
shrines, including the
Golden Temple in Am-
ritsar, Sultanpur Lodhi
inKapurthalaandNada
Sahib in Panchkula to
pay obeisance.
In Punjab, devotees
thronged gurudwaras
in major cities — Ludhi-
ana, Jalandhar, Bathin-
da, Mohali and Anand-
pur Sahib. In Haryana,
gurudwaras in Kuruk-
shetra, Ambala, Sirsa,
Karnal and Yamunana-
gar also witnessed huge
crowds for Gurpurab.
People of different
faiths also queued in
line to witness the cele-
brations at gurudwaras,
which were tastefully
decorated for the occa-
sion. They also offered
prayers and listened to
‘shabad kirtans’.
The first Sikh guru
was born at Nankana
Sahib near Lahore (now
in Pakistan) in 1469.
Devotees also of-
fered prayers at the his-
toric Gurudwara Ber
Sahib in Sultanpur Lo-
dhi in Punjab.
Guru Nanak Dev is
believed to have stayed
at Sultanpur Lodhi for
over 14 years and at-
tained enlightenment
after taking a bath in
the Kali Bein. The
first Sikh master used
to meditate under a
‘ber’ tree.
Akhilesh Solanki
Bhopal: 27 IAS officers
including 14 district col-
lectors have been trans-
ferred in MP
. Indore col-
lector Manish Singh has
been made MD- AKVN
while Ilayaraja T, who
was Jabalpur collector,
will be the new collector
of Indore. Illayaraja T
will be replaced by Sau-
rabh Kumar, who was
Chhindwara collector.
Burhanpur collector
Praveen Singh has been
sent to CM’s hometown
Sehor. Chandramohan
Thakur, who was Se-
hore collector, has been
shifted to Pollution Con-
trol board as secy while
Dewas collector Chan-
dramauli Shukla will be
the new commissioner
in the Housing Board.
New Delhi (ANI):
Jharkhand’s Income
Tax Department recov-
ered Rs 2 crore in cash,
Rs 100 crore in unac-
counted investments/
transactions and a total
of 16 bank lockers have
been put under re-
straint after a series of
search and seizure ac-
tions on 50 premises in
various states.These
raids were done on a few
business groups en-
gaged in coal trading/
transportation, execu-
tion of civil contracts,
extraction of iron ore
and production of
sponge iron on Novem-
ber 4, 2022. Those
searched include two
politically exposed per-
sons and their associ-
ates. The searches were
carried out at more than
50 premises spread over
Ranchi, Godda, Bermo,
Dumka, Jamshedpur,
Chaibasa, Patna, Guru-
gram and Kolkata.
The operation has led
to the seizure of a large
number of incriminat-
ing documents and digi-
tal evidence. A prelimi-
nary analysis of this
evidence indicated that
these groups have re-
sorted to various modus
operandi of tax evasion
including inflation of
expenses, transactions
of loans in cash, pay-
ments/receipts in cash
and suppression of pro-
duction, sources said.
J’khandI-TDeptraidsunearth`2crore
cash,`100crunaccountedtransactions
These raids were conducted on a few business groups engaged
in coal trading/ transportation, execution of civil contracts etc.
First India Bureau
New Delhi: Lok Sab-
ha Speaker Om Birla
will inaugurate the
Annual Convention
of Central Informa-
tion Commission
(CIC)titled,“
AzadiKa
AmritMahotsav:Citi-
zen – centric Govern-
ance through RTI” at
Vigyan Bhawan, here
on Wednesday
. All
present and former
Chief Information
Commissioners and
InformationCommis-
sionersof theCentral
InformationCommis-
sion, CICs and ICs
from State Informa-
tion Commissions as
well as First Appel-
late Authorities and
Central Public Infor-
mation Officers have
been invited for the
convention.
The National Investiga-
tion Agency (NIA), in its
charge sheet filed before
a special court in Mum-
bai, has claimed that
underworlddonDawood
Ibrahim led D-Company
has set up a special unit
to target politicians and
businessmen and made
availablelethalweapons
to be used against prom-
inent personalities.
“The D-company set
up the unit to strike
terror in people by at-
tacking eminent per-
sonalities, including
politicians and busi-
nessmen. We have
learnt that the arrested
as well as wanted ac-
cused were “active
members” of an organ-
ised crime syndicate
working as a terrorist
gang,” the probe agen-
cy has mentioned.
According to the NIA
sources, the charge
sheet was filed on Sat-
urday against Dawood
Ibrahim, Chotta Sha-
keel and three others in
connection with carry-
ing out terror activities
across India.The charge
sheet was filed against
three arrested and two
wanted accused.
Om Birla to inaugurate
CIC convention today
NIA says Dawood set
up unit to target bizmen
27 IAS officers
transferred in MP
NPR NEEDS TO BE UPDATED AGAIN,
SAYS HOME MINISTRY’S REPORT
Report underlines need to update NPR database across the country, except Assam
The report was published by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)
on Monday. —FILE PHOTO
Devotees light lamps at Golden Temple on Guru Nanak Dev’s
553rd birth anniversary in Amritsar, on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI
WORK IS ON
Devoteesthronggurudwaras
on Guru Nanak’s Gurpurab
SIX YEARS OF DEMONETISATION
GSTcollectionssuggestitwasasuccess:Experts
DEMONETISATION
ANNIVERSARY:
CONG DEMANDS
WHITE PAPER
FROM MODI GOVT
New Delhi (PTI): The
Congress on Tuesday al-
leged that demonetisation
was independent India’s
“greatest organised loot”
and demanded a white paper
from the Modi government
on the 2016 move. Address-
ing a press conference on
the sixth anniversary of
demonetisation at the AICC
headquarters here, Congress
leader Gourav Vallabh said
PM Modi had surprised all
by declaring that currency
notes of Rs 500 and Rs
1,000 were being scrapped
on this day in 2016 and
the decision triggered
“panic, creating unspeakable
problems linked to cash and
destroying countless small
and medium businesses”.
PROVE NOTE-BAN ENDED BLACK,
FAKE MONEY: NCP, CONG TO CENTRE
Mumbai: Exactly six years after PM Narendra Modi
had announced the demonetisation that left the Indian
economy crippled, the govt has still not been able to jus-
tify that “blunder”, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
said here on Tuesday. The Congress also took a swipe
at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre on the
move six years ago, on November 8, 2016, terming it as
a “cruel” blow inflicted on the common man of India.

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Commodity Price Change % Chg
GOLD 51,200.00 130.00 0.25 (Per 10g)
SILVER 60,850.00 450.00 0.73 (Per 1kg)
COMMODITIES
Currency Price Change % Chg
USDINR 81.91 0.00 0.00
GBPINR 93.06 0.00 0.00
CURRENCIES
Indianemployeespreferhybridworkmodel
New Delhi (Agencies): In-
dian employees are unwill-
ing to go back to the office
full-time as they are relish-
ing the hybrid work model,
whichbecameanecessityin
the last two years due to the
pandemic,findsanewstudy
.
According to a global
survey by technology firm
HP, Indian employees
strongly favour the hybrid
work model as they believe
it improves their produc-
tivity and gives them a
much-needed work-life bal-
ance. They also indicate a
higher probability of stay-
ing in their current job if
given a hybrid work option.
The hybrid model is seen
to amplify employees’
chance to prioritise per-
sonal well-being. Most of
the responders prefer
working from office for
two-three days a week.
Findings reveal that eve-
ryday individuals working
in India believe in a higher
retention capacity, owing
to the hybrid model.
DUE TO IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY
WORK-LIFE
BALANCE
z Indian employees strongly
favour the hybrid work
model as they believe it
improves their productivity
and gives them a much-
needed work-life balance.
z Findings reveal that
everyday individuals
working in India believe in
a higher retention capacity,
owing to the hybrid model.
business
BRIEFS
New Delhi (PTI): The new
business premium in-
come of India’s life insur-
ance companies rose by
15.3% to `24,916.58
crore in October 2022,
data from the Life Insur-
ance Council showed. All
the 24 life insurers had a
collective new business
premium income of
`21,606.25 crore in the
same month a year ago
(October 2021). LIC -- the
only state-owned and the
largest life insurer in the
country -- recorded 18%
rise in its new business
premium at `15,920.13
crore during the month,
as against `13,500.78
crore a year ago.
New Delhi (PTI): German
luxury carmaker Audi on
Tuesday said it has
launched Q5 special edi-
tion trim in India priced at
`67.05 lakh (ex-show-
room). The new trim fea-
tures equipment enhance-
ments, including a new
black styling package and
five spoke graphite gray
diamond cut alloy wheels.
“The Audi Q5 is a volume
seller and we are happy to
introduce a special edition
for our customers. The
Audi Q5 special edition
will be available in limited
units.”
AUDI LAUNCHES Q5
SPECIAL EDITION AT
`67.05 LAKH
LIFE INSURERS
REGISTER 15% RISE
IN NEW BIZ PREMIUM
New Delhi (PTI): Digital
financial services firm
One97 Communications,
which owns Paytm brand,
reported widening of con-
solidated loss to `593.9
crore in the second quar-
ter ended September 30,
2022. The company had
posted a loss of `481
crore in the same period a
year ago, Paytm said in
its regulatory filing. Pay-
tm’s consolidated revenue
from operations increased
by about 76% to `1,914
crore during the reported
quarter from `1,086.4
crore in the Sept 2021
quarter.
PAYTM LOSS WIDENS
TO `594 CRORE IN
JULY-SEPTEMBER
New Delhi (PTI): Non-
banking finance company
SBFC Finance Ltd has
filed preliminary papers
with capital markets regu-
lator Sebi to raise up to
`1,600 crore, through an
IPO. The IPO comprises a
fresh issue of equity
shares aggregating to up
to `750 crore and an OFS
component aggregating
up to `850 crore by pro-
moter selling sharehold-
ers, according to the Draft
Red Herring Prospectus.
Going by the draft papers,
the company may explore
a pre-IPO placement ag-
gregating to `150 crore.
SBFC FINANCE FILES
`1,600-CRORE IPO
PAPERS WITH SEBI
*Rates till the edition went to print.
Three Indians in Forbes Asia’s power-women list
Singapore (PTI): Three
top Indian businesswomen
are featured in the Forbes
Asia November issue high-
lighting 20 Asian women
who came up with varying
strategies that helped their
businesses soar despite the
uncertainty of the new
normal and three years of
Covid-19.
Soma Mondal, the chair-
person of Steel Authority
of India Ltd, Namita
Thapar, executive director
at India business of Em-
cure Pharma, and Ghazal
Alagh, co-founder and
chief innovation officer of
Honasa Consumer, are on
the list. Thapar is also an
author, an entrepreneur-
ship coach, and a host of a
YouTube talk show titled
‘Uncondition Yourself
with Namita Thapar’.
Some of these women op-
erated in hard-hit sectors
such as shipping, property,
and construction, while
others continue to inno-
vate in areas such as tech-
nology, pharmaceuticals,
and commodities, Forbes
said in release on Tuesday
.
The Asia-Pacific region
this year has mostly moved
on to a post-pandemic era
where governments, peo-
ple, and businesses are
learning to live with Cov-
id-19, it said.
The other women on the
list are from Australia,
China, South Korea, Indo-
nesia, Japan, Singapore,
South Korea, Taiwan and
Thailand.
LEADING LADIES
FROM INDIA
z (from L) Namita Thapar,
executive director at
India business of Emcure
Pharma; Ghazal Alagh,
co-founder and chief
innovation officer of
Honasa Consumer;
and Soma Mondal, the
chairperson of Steel
Authority of India Ltd, are
on the list.
Kolkata (PTI): Chief Eco-
nomic Advisor (CEA) to
the government V Anantha
Nageswaran said that In-
dia is in a stable situation
and the growth momentum
is good despite the multiple
crises taking place simulta-
neously and getting entan-
gled with each other.
The Chief Economic Ad-
visor said that the world is
passing through a ‘polycri-
sis’, which is multiple cri-
ses of high inflation, tight-
ening of monetary policy,
high interest rates, slow-
down in China which af-
fected global supply chain,
and the Russia-Ukraine
war.
“The challenges that the
country is facing are un-
precedented since World
War II. But India is in a sta-
ble situation and the
growth momentum is good.
India will have a growth
rate of 6.5% to 7% in 2022-
23, which is considered to
be good despite a high infla-
tion rate of 7.4%,” he said.
Nageswaran said that
what India needs at the mo-
ment is to maintain macro-
economic stability, aug-
ment foreign exchange re-
serves and their judicious
use, and finance the trade
deficit due to high imports
of crude oil.
“Financing the trade
deficit is a challenge for the
country caused by high
crude imports. The flow of
FDI is steady while portfo-
lio investments have be-
come volatile as the USD is
becoming attractive due to
high interest rates in the
United States,” he added.
The CEA said that al-
though India has become
the fifth-largest economy
in the world, the country’s
per capita income needs to
increase.
New Delhi (PTI): The production of major chemicals rose 7.22%
to 32.56 lakh tonnes during the April-June period of this fiscal,
as against 30.37 lakh tonnes in the
year-ago period, barring pesticides
and insecticides, according to the
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers.
Production of all major chemicals
like Alkali chemicals, inorganic
chemicals, organic chemicals has
increased except pesticides, insecti-
cides, and dyes and pigments in the said period, the ministry said
in its monthly report.
INDIA NOW STRONG
TRADE PARTNER OF
RUSSIA: SP GLOBAL
New Delhi (ANI): Amid sig-
nificant bilateral trade volatility
between Russia and nearly all
other markets
due to the war
in Ukraine,
India has
emerged as a
strong trade partner of Russia
and is expected to remain so
in 2023, according to a new
SP Global Market Intel-
ligence report released on
Tuesday.“The trade value of
total imports from Russia has
increased in recent months,
primarily due to rising oil, gas
and coal prices.”
13 PRIVATE AGENCIES
ACCREDITED FOR
MINERAL EXPLORATION
New Delhi (FIB): The Centre
has given accreditation to
13 private
agencies for
engaging in
mineral explo-
ration. With
this, there are now a total of
22 private agencies which are
engaged in mineral explora-
tion. With the amendment of
Mines Minerals (Develop-
ment Regulation) MMDR
Act in 2021, private agencies
can also participate in explora-
tion for the mineral sector
after getting duly accredited by
QCI-NABET.
COAL STOCK AT
THERMAL POWER
PLANTS AT 25.6 MT
New Delhi (PTI): The closing
stock of coal at domestic
thermal power
plants as
on October
31 was
25.6 million
tonnes (MT), the govt said on
Tuesday. The supply of coal to
the power sector is regularly
being supervised by the coal
ministry in close coordination
with the ministries of power
and railways. The domestic
coal supply to the power
sector is 12% more than
the same period of last year,
which is the highest ever.
INDIA SAW 6 PER CENT
DECLINE IN HIRING IN
OCTOBER: REPORTS
New Delhi (FIB): India saw
a 6% drop in hiring activity
(year-on-year) in October,
amid changing
patterns in
the start-up
ecosystem,
funding winter
and fears of an upcoming
recession. However, with com-
panies ramping up internal
initiatives to facilitate growth
and government interventions
in promising sectors, hiring
projections for the coming
months are expected to pick
up, according to Monster
Employment Index.
PRODUCTION OF MAJOR CHEMICALS EXCEPT
PESTICIDES INSECTICIDES UP 7.22%: DATA
OTHER STORIES
‘Great potential for
Ind-UStradetogrow’
Washington (PTI): As-
serting that India and the
United States share a
strong bilateral relation-
ship, US Treasury Secre-
tary Janet Yellen has said
there is a great potential
for the trade to grow be-
tween the two countries
that will benefit their work-
ing people.
She also said the US and
India have a strong belief
in democratic values and a
commitment to upholding
the rules-based interna-
tional order, especially at
“this time of geopolitical
risks”.
“We have a very strong
bilateral relationship with
India. I expect we will dis-
cuss efforts to strengthen
the resilience of supply
chains, issues pertaining
to climate change, our
great global climate ambi-
tion and climate finance,”
Yellen said.
“We certainly hope to
deepen our trade relation-
ship. We think there’s great
potential to grow our trade
in ways that will benefit
the working people of both
of our countries,” said the
Treasury Secretary, who is
headed to India later this
week to participate in the
US-India Economic and Fi-
nancial Partnership on No-
vember 11.
She would also hold a bi-
lateral meeting with Union
Finance Nirmala Sithara-
man.
‘India in stable eco situation,
growth momentum is good’
...despite multiple crises taking place simultaneously: CEA Nageswaran
‘Inflation to slow
down digital
transformation’
5G gear to
become available
by March: DoT
IOC, HPCL, BPCL loss at
`2,749 cr in 2nd quarter
First India Bureau
New Delhi: About 58%
healthcare industry profes-
sionals globally believe
that digital transformation
initiatives would be slowed
down due to in-
flation and ris-
ing costs, a new
report showed
on Tuesday
.
About 63%
of healthcare
and pharmaceutical indus-
try professionals in North
America expected a disrup-
tion to digitalisation initia-
tives in their business
units due to inflation. The
same opinion was ex-
pressed by 55% of industry
professionals in Europe.
Full-fledged indigenously
designed and developed
fifth generation (5G) equip-
ment that includes core
and radio network compo-
nents could be
commercially
available by
March next
year, a top offi-
cial said.
“The pro-
cesses will take an extra
three to four months. So, I
potentially feel that by
March next year, it (C-DoT)
will be in a position to actu-
ally commercialise both
radio and core equipment,”
K Rajaraman, secretary,
DoT told ET.
New Delhi (PTI): State-
owned oil marketing com-
panies IOC, BPCL and
HPCL posted a second con-
secutive quarterly loss to-
talling `2,748.66 crore in
July-September as a one-
time LPG payout by the
government could not
mask the losses from petrol
and diesel prices freeze.
According to stock ex-
change filings by the three
fuel retailers, the losses
were due to erosion in the
marketing margin on pet-
rol, diesel and domestic
LPG.
Indian Oil Corporation
(IOC) on October 29 report-
ed a net loss of `272.35
crore for the July-Septem-
ber quarter, which came on
the back of `1,995.3 crore
loss in the previous three
months.
On November 3, HPCL
reported a loss of `2,172.14
crore in the second quarter
of the current fiscal, on the
back of its highest-ever
quarterly loss of `10,196.94
crore in April-June.
BPCL on Monday posted
a loss of `304.17 crore in
July-September, according
to a company’s stock ex-
change filing. In the first
quarter, it posted a loss of
`6,263.05 crore.
WORLD IN
‘POLYCRISIS’
z The CEA said that the
world is passing through
a ‘polycrisis’, which is
multiple crises of high
inflation, tightening of
monetary policy, high
interest rates, slowdown in
China, Russia-Ukraine war.
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08
2NDFRONT
years ago,
when you
used to study
in school,
did you ever
thought that
one day you would reach
such heights?
JP Nadda: No, I had never
thought along these lines
and I don’t usually think
much about myself. What-
ever responsibilities I
would be given or the envi-
ronment I would be in, I
would shape myself ac-
cordingly. So, I had not
thought of this, but cir-
cumstances became such
that I entered the political
field, where I had the
chance to carry out several
responsibilities and I make
the effort to ensure that I
give my best always.
z I heard somewhere
that your mother asked
you not to join politics?
Yes. See every mother is ap-
prehensive and considers
politics to be akin to risk-
takingandtheyareworried
about the future of their
child. My mother was in-
clined towards education
and was extremely under-
standing so when I tried to
convince her, she agreed.
Myfatheralwayslistenedto
reasonafterwhichhewould
give go ahead on sound log-
ic. So, I did a lot of things
wherein, they completely
supported me. Like for ex-
ample, no father would give
their child permission to
swim across the Ganga, but
he permitted me and said
cross it if you can. So, I
crossed Ganga six times in
Patna. He used to look out
for me using binoculars
since Ganga’s swell is im-
menseandthebanksarefar
off.Wehadagroupof about
a dozen people where one
person would always carry
a tube with them so that in
case of need, it can be used.
If you do it properly
, then it
would take 45 minutes to
reach the other bank, but at
times, people get carried
over by the strong current
of the stream so at times, it
even takes over an hour to
reach the bank.
z So seated in Delhi,
don’t you miss Pat-
na and Shimla?
Definitely
, old mem-
ories are refreshed,
and when I get
time, I meet
oldfriendstoo.
And when I
visit Patna, I
sometimes visit my college
andschool.Mypoliticallife,
public life, or student life
began in Shimla. I learnt
student activism here. I
graspeditthere(Patna),but
it was here (Shimla) that I
activated it and came up as
an activist. I would want
you to visit this University
,
where about 4,000-5,000 peo-
ple live here like a family
.
Dayscholarsareless.There
are a few shops there too
like Panditji’s tea shop and
Thakur Dhaba. So during
myrecentvisitafterseveral
years, I met them also.
Thakur Sahab has grown
old now, but I spoke to him
overphoneandrequestedto
come to Dhaba to which he
agreed.
z Elections are going to
be held in Himachal and
Amit Shah had said
that Gujarat is Modiji’s
‘Janma-bhoomi,’ but
Himachal has been his
‘Karma-bhoomi’. What’s
your take on this?
See, When Modiji became
General Secretary and the
first assignment that he
took was of North-India
and states like Haryana,
Punjab, Himachal JK
were under him and his
‘Centre’ was Chandigarh.
And Modiji has been ha-
bitual of working system-
atically since the begin-
ning so he started making
rounds, had set up the or-
ganisation and in a short
period, he gave voice to
BJP in this region and
made it a powerful party
.
z That means you must
have had regular inter-
action with Modiji at
that time?
Yes, I was the LoP then.
When I was the National
President of Yuva Morcha,
I used to stay in Delhi
and he used to work
as National General
Secretary
. He had an
immense interest in
youth and
used to guide
the activities
of Yuva Mor-
cha. So, it was
then that the contact grew
and I got to work with him.
But soon after I came back
here (Himachal) and con-
tested the polls and became
the LoP, it was then that he
came to Himachal as State
in- charge and so this is
how I got a chance to work
with him.
z Once a government
had also fallen and then
you formed govern-
ment...
Yes, under his leadership,
we formed government in
Punjab, Himachal Pradesh
and Haryana.
z Recently PM Modi
came to Bilaspur, you
were also there and a
huge crowd has assem-
bled for the rally. Does it
mean even today he has
huge popularity
amongst the masses?
Yes, apart from popularity,
there is a special bond and
people from Himachal con-
sider him their own, be-
cause he has toured so
much on the grassroots
level and established con-
nections with households.
People know him here like
their own and there would
be individuals saying
Modiji sat here and spoke
to people or that he ate food
at this house or that Modiji
chaired a ‘Baithak’ here
and so many people attend-
ed that meeting. When we
come to Shimla everyone
says that Modiji used to sit
in this coffee house and
used to gauge the political
atmosphere talking with
journalists here and inter-
acting with them. So, the
journos from that time
know him and Modiji too
knows them. And what
then happens is that people
hear from others and there
are several of his pictures
from Mall Road area and
the people who accompa-
nied him in those pics also
say that they spent time
with Modiji. Recently, I
chaired a meeting and a
party worker asked me if I
remembered the ‘Baithak’
that Modiji chaired and I
said I do remember.
z So the election is being
contested on PM Modi’s
face?
Modiji is the biggest per-
sonality in not just the
party but the entire nation,
and he has also established
himself across the world
and it is our good fortune
that he is a soldier of BJP.
So, if any elections are to
happen, it is obvious that
he too would be a part of it.
And even you know that
the amount of interest he
takes in administrating
and running the govern-
ment, he takes a similar
interest in the organisation
as well. He also makes all
effort to take the organisa-
tional work forward. And
hence, when elections
occur, he carried out
the work required
of him in the best
manner possi-
ble and as a
result, the
party gets
strength-
ened.
z There was a time when
he was addressed as
‘Pracharak Se PM’ and
now we have seen a dif-
ferent spiritual side of
him and now people say
that he has transformed
from ‘PM to Adhyatm-
Guru.’ This is a new
side of his that has come
fore, which has become
extremely popular. What
do you think about this?
Well, he has been spiritual-
ly inclined since the very
beginning. Although, he
does not talk much about
his spiritual journey
, but a
little that we have come
across, we know how he left
homeandrightfromKedar-
nath to many other spiritu-
al centres that he visited
and came in contact with
several spiritual gurus and
masters.AndthensomeGu-
ruji told him that he should
not go towards ‘Sanyas’ but
should work for the society
and that would be your ‘Ta-
pasya.’ So after this, he
came back and became a
‘Pracharak,’ where he
worked and was handed the
political life and quickly
took the work forward. So,
spirituality is deeply in-
grained in him. Now, that
today he is working as
Prime Minister, what we
callasculturalnationalism,
he also tries to put this as-
pect before everyone in a
proper manner. Over some
time, what happened in our
country was that the defini-
tion of secularism was at-
tributed to
the gov-
ernment
not sav-
ing or
s a f e -
guarding
the nation’s
inherent cul-
ture.Butitisnot
so.Itisthegovern-
ment’s job to save
the culture and
to carry it for-
ward. So, to en-
hance the facili-
ties of spiritual
and religious cen-
tres since lakhs
of people visit
these places, Modiji has an
immense interest in this.
So, perhaps people may
have seen a ‘Dharma-Guru’
in him, but in reality
, he has
worked as a ‘Tapasvi’, even
though he is in politics.
z Amit Shah also came
and conducted rallies.
How was the response?
The response has been
great. It has been akin to an
electrifying effect.
z How do you rate
Jairam Thakur as a
Chief Minister?
Jairam Thakur ji is a si-
lent and down-to-earth
worker, and he is an incre-
mentor. He is also success-
ful in implementing ideas
and policies. There is no
two ways about it and eve-
ryone accepts that
Himachal Pradesh can not
work without the Centre’s
blessings. And there is
more than enough bless-
ings of Modiji, and to
bring that down on the
ground, in letter and spir-
it, Jairam Thakur has
played a huge role. Take
the vaccination drive for
example. Over 2,00 crore
doses were administered
across the nation, but first
in administering the first
and second doses as well
has been Himachal. So,
that was implemented by
Jairam Thakur. And I be-
lieve that there is a mas-
sive difference between
implementing this in say
Delhi or any state in the
plains and doing so in the
hills. Just imagine the re-
gions like Lahaul-Spiti,
Malana, Chota Bangal and
such places, where you
may feel like you are in a
different world and taking
the vaccine to the people in
these regions, and ensur-
ing that the optimum tem-
perature required for the
vaccines is also main-
tained, Jairam Thakur has
made Himachal ‘Numero-
Uno’ in this work. So, this
is his silent-worker’ image.
And the people of
Himachal praise a leader,
who works silently, does
not indulge in vengeance
politics and works for the
people.
z There is another
young and upcoming
leader in BJP- Anurag
Thakur...
Anurag Thakur is a young
and energetic leader. He
has been given an impor-
tant responsibility and he
is fulfilling that as IB
Minister and even in the
election too. And handling
the IB Ministry, is a full-
time work since news nev-
er stops, so he too has to
work round the clock along
with that he is the Sports
Minister too and that ac-
tivity also he is handling.
So, he has been given this
responsibility at a young
age and this has become
possible only because of
Modiji’s leadership.
z So Jairam Thakur
and Anurag Thakur,
which Thakur would be
given the reins?
See we are contesting the
election under Jairam
Thakur’s leadership and
the final call is taken by the
Parliamentary Board. But
yes, we are going ahead in
the state keeping Jairam
Thakur as the leader.
TO BE CONTINUED...
BJP CONTESTING UNDER JAIRAM...
PARL BOARD DECIDES ON MATTERS,
BUT WE ARE FORMING GOVT: NADDA
During the show
#JCwithJPNadda
trended top All-India
on Twitter
WHICH THAKUR WILL HOLD HIMACHAL'S REINS: JAIRAM OR ANURAG?
Dr Jagdeesh Chandra in conversation with
JP Nadda during The JC Show in Shimla.
Dr Jagdeesh Chandra
during The JC Show.
BJP’s National President JP
Nadda talks to Dr Jagdeesh
Chandra, CEO and Editor-in-
Chief, Bharat24-Vision of New
India and First India; CMD,
First India News about the
Himachal Pradesh assembly
elections, how PM Narendra Modi
has not transformed his image
but brought out one facet of his
personality through spiritual visits
and how Nadda used to swim
across Ganga as a teenager, with
his father encouraging him to do
so. Excerpts... (Part-1)
40
Balance means adjusting our
priorities based on the need of the
moment- personal v/s professional.
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra,
CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India

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MUMBAI, WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
y favourite artist
once said, “I
dream of
p a i n t i n g
and then I
paint my
dream.” And
now I think
that design-
ers these days
must have
taken inspira-
tion and have started
carving his golden
words on their canvases.
It is believed that fashion
is a form of body art and a
component of visual cul-
ture. Due to this, numer-
ous well-known fashion
designers from over the
world have created stun-
ning collections that are
inspiredbyarttrends.His-
tory has seen a strong re-
lationship between fash-
ion and art. For their col-
lections, several fashion
designers have taken in-
spiration from art move-
ments,allowingustoview
fashion as a kind of art.
The art mostly helps us
convey our thoughts and
visions. Here are a few
pieces of wearable art cre-
ated by 20th-century fash-
ion visionaries as an ele-
gant monument to the his-
tory of art.
MADELEINE VIONNET:
The talented artist Mad-
ame Vionnet commonly
knownas‘Thearchitectof
dressmakers’ was bedaz-
zled by the art and culture
of the Greek and Roman
civilizations and inspired
by ancient goddesses and
statues. Based on these
artworks, she shaped her
style aesthetic and com-
bined elements of Greek
sculpture and architec-
ture to give a new dimen-
sion to the female body
.
With her master skill of
draping and bias-cutting
dresses, she revolution-
ized modern fashion.
VALENTINO AND
HIERONYMUS BOSCH
Pierpaolo Piccioli is the
main designer of Valenti-
no. He wanted to connect
the late ’70s punk culture
withhumanismandmedi-
eval art, so he went back
to his roots and the Re-
naissance, finding inspi-
ration in Hieronymus
Bosch’s painting The Gar-
den of Earthly Delights.
His entire collection is
interpreted as an allego-
ry for sin.
DOLCE GABBANA
AND THE BAROQUE
OF PETER PAUL
RUBENS
Peter Paul Rubens
besmeared women
masterfully
, ‘with love,
scholarship and dili-
gence.’ His art mostly
talks about Venus and
sexual desires, and his
concept of ‘colours are
more important than
lines,” influenced several
fashion designers includ-
ing Dolce Gabbana.
The Baroque style devi-
ated from the spirit of
the Renaissance aban-
doned peacefulness and
smoothness and pur-
sued instead ele-
gance, excite-
ment, and
movement.
M
PERCEPTION OF TRUTH
The pure expressions of human emotions,
creative skills and imaginations in a visual form
such as paintings or sculpture, producing works
to be relished for their beauty or emotional power
is called Art. City First brings to some
flabbergasting works of art!
ART: ONLY
UTTKARSHA SHEKHAR
uttkarsha.shekhar@firstindia.co.in

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