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New Delhi (PTI): Amid
allegations against the
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) of toppling gov-
ernments to gain power,
Maharashtra Chief
Minister Eknath Shinde
lavished praise on his
new-found ally on Satur-
day for giving the top
post in the state to a
“small worker” like him.
“The BJP has 115
MLAs and people had
expected a BJP chief
minister in Maharash-
tra. People used to say
that the BJP breaks oth-
er parties to come into
power. I have 50 MLAs.
Can people now say the
same thing about the
BJP? They cannot. A
small worker like me
has got a chance to be
the chief minister,”
Shinde told reporters in
New Delhi.
The BJP has often
been under attack from
its opponents for alleg-
edly toppling govern-
ments in states in its un-
bridledpursuitof power,
particularly after the
post-election regime
changes Turn to P6
CM SHINDE TO PERFORM PUJA AT
PANDHARPUR TEMPLE AFTER SEC NOD
Mumbai (PTI): The newly installed Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde will be performing the customary puja
at the Vitthal-Rukmini temple at Pandharpur on Sun-
day, with the state election commission (SEC) giving
its nod. Traditionally, the chief minister performs puja
at the temple located in Solapur district on ‘Ashadhi
Ekadashi’. But there was uncertainty as to whether
Shinde, who took over as CM on June 30, would be
able to attend, as the model Code of Conduct for mu-
nicipal elections has come into force. Sanjeev Jadhav,
Additional District Collector of Solapur, said, “As per
the SEC’s instructions, CM Shinde can perform the
puja without making any official announcements.”
Praises ‘natural
ally’ BJP for
giving a ‘small
worker’ like him
the opportunity
to become CM
How can people say BJP is after power: Shinde
Eknath Shinde
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SHINDE-FADNAVIS
MEET TOP BRASS!
Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde along with state Deputy
CM Devendra Fadnavis called on President Ram Nath
Kovind, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on Saturday.
Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde along with state Deputy
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis gave a courtesy visit to
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on Saturday.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde along with state
Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis meets BJP National President
JP Nadda, in New Delhi on Saturday.
SRI LANKA BREAK’S DOWN!
PEOPLE’S POWER! Protesters holding flags gather on the street decrying the nation’s worst
economic crisis in recent memory and leading to presidents residence in Colombo on Saturday.
“GOTA GO HOME”
Colombo: Thousands
of protesters had en-
tered the capital, Co-
lombo, from the sub-
urbs earlier on Satur-
day after police lifted an
overnight curfew. The
agitators were demon-
strating in the capital
against the island na-
tion’s worst economic
crisis in recent memory
.
Footage shot on phones
showed a large number
of people inside well-
fortified house of Prez.
l Protesters posted video on social media chanting “Gota go home” occupied
President’s office and residence l SL President’s whereabouts remain uknown
SRI LANKA PREZ RAJAPAKSA FLED?
It was reported that Sri Lanka President
Gotabaya Rajapaksa has reportedly fled
after protesters stormed into his resi-
dence. However, a government spokes-
man, Mohana Samaranayake, said
he had no information about whether
Rajapaksa had left the residence.
SL PM RANIL ‘READY TO RESIGN’
The PMO says that PM Ranil Wick-
remesinghe has announced to party
leaders that he is ready to resign from
post of PM and hand over power to an
all-party govt. It has been decided in
the party leaders’ meeting that Presi-
dent and PM should resign.
Corruption case
against DJB and
NBCC officials;
many officials held
CBI CONDUCTS
SEARCHES AT KARTI’S
CHENNAI HOME
The CBI on Saturday
conducted searches at
the residence of Congress
MP Karti
Chidambaram
in Chennai in
connection with
the Chinese visa
case, officials
said. They said
during searches on May
17 after filing of the FIR, a
portion of Karti’s home was
sealed because keys of that
portion were not available.
New Delhi (Agencies):
The CBI has registered
a case of corruption
against officials of Del-
hi Jal Board and NBCC
for allegedly favouring
an ineligible private
company in a contract
worth Rs 38 crore for
SITC of electromagnet-
ic flow meters, officials
said Saturday
.
CBI had conducted
searches in connection
with case at 10 locations
in Delhi/NCR on prem-
ises of accused which
led to recovery of Rs.1.5
crore in cash, jewellery
worth over Rs 1.2 crore,
fixed deposits worth Rs
69 lakh, they said.
CBI has booked for-
mer DJB officials CE
Jagdish Kumar Arora,
SE PK Gupta, EE Sushil
Kumar Goel, AE Ashok
Sharma, AAO Ranjit
Kumar, DK Mittal and
PE Sadhan Kumar.
READ
Crucial
Crucial
INDIA MOURNS
SHINZO ABE’S
ASSASSINATION
New Delhi: The national
tricolour at Red Fort,
Rashtrapati Bhavan
Parl House flew at half-
mast on Saturday to ob-
serve the day-long state
mourning announced
in country as a mark of
respect for ex-Japanese
PM Shinzo who was
assassinated on July 8.
Abe was shot in Nara
city, Japan on Friday.
MULAYAM SINGH’S
WIFE SUCCUMBS TO
PROLONGED ILLNESS
Lucknow: SP founder
Mulayam Singh Yadav’s
wife Sadhana Gupta
passed away at a pvt
hospital in Gurugram on
Saturday after a prolonged
illness. She was suffering
from a lung infection and
other ailments for the past
three months. She was
undergoing treatment at
Medanta Hospital, where
she breathed her last.
JAGAN ELECTED
LIFETIME PREZ OF
YSR CONGRESS
Amaravati: AP CM YS
Jagan Mohan Reddy has
been elected the lifetime
president of the ruling
YSRCP on Saturday.
There were 22 sets of
nominations filed on be-
half of YS Jagan Mohan
Reddy for post of nat’l
prez and as there were
no other nominations,
he was elected unani-
mously by the party.
TWITTER VOWS
LEGAL FIGHT, MUSK
PULLS OUT DEAL
San Francisco: Elon Musk
announced on Friday
that he will abandon
his tumultuous $44 bn
offer to buy Twitter after
company failed to provide
enough info about number
of fake accounts. Twitter’s
chairman, Bret Taylor on
Saturday said that board
planned to pursue legal
action against Musk to en-
force merger agreement.
WARRANT ISSUED
AGAINST ALT NEWS
CO-FOUNDER ZUBAIR
New Delhi: A day after
the SC granted interim
bail to Alt News co-
founder Mohammed
Zubair in a case filed in
the Sitapur district of
UP, an arrest warrant
has been issued against
him in Lakhimpur Kheri
district of the State.
Warrant is issued based
on a complaint filed
by Sudarshan news
journo.
ZELENSKYY SACKS UKRAINE’S ENVOY TO INDIA
Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Kyiv’s
ambassador to Germany on Saturday as well as other foreign envoys.
In a decree that gave no reason for move, he announced sacking of
ambassadors to Germany, India, Czech Republic, Norway and Hungary.
GREETINGS ON
THE HOLY
OCCASION OF
EID-UL-ADHA
Also known as Bakrid, Bakra Eid and Eid ul-Zuha, Eid
al-Adha is celebrated by the Muslim community across
the globe. As per Islamic belief, the auspicious day is
celebrated in remembrance of the sacrifice that Prophet
Ibrahim made out of his strong faith in God.
INFLATION
MAY EASE IN
2ND HALF OF
FISCAL: GUV
New Delhi: Inflation, which has been above the central
bank’s tolerance limit since the beginning of 2022, is
likely to ease gradually in the second half of the current
financial year, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor
Shaktikanta Das said on Saturday.
OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, NEW DELHI MUMBAI
AMIT SHAH CHAIRS NORTHERN ZONAL COUNCIL MEETING
Tackle cybercrime, extremist
outfits with coordination: Shah
A committee headed by union home secretary to be formed to handle financial and cyber crimes
Union Home Minister Amit Shah with (From left) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot,
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jairam Thakur during the meeting of the Northern Zonal Council in Jaipur on Saturday.
Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: In view of the
growing threat of cy-
bercrime, a strategy to
prevent financial fraud
and cyber crimes will
be formulated by a com-
mittee headed by union
home secretary. Union
home minister Amit
Shah directed to consti-
tute the committee in
the meeting of the
Northern Zonal Coun-
cil held at Hotel Ram-
bagh in Jaipur on Sat-
urday
. The stakeholders
expressed concern on
the cyber crime and em-
phasized on making an
effective strategy to
deal with it.
Shah said that organ-
ised and coordinated
cyber attacks have a
profound impact on na-
tional security, public
system and economic
activities, and in view
of this, there is a need
for all to work together
to ensure security of na-
tional cyberspace and
overall civil security
.
“The Northern Zon-
al Council discussed
the growing threat of
cybercrime and held
discussion on strate-
gies for its prevention.
Gehlot again
demands
national project
status to ERCP
First India Bureau
Jaipur: CM Ashok Ge-
hlot on Saturday once
again raised demand of
grant of national pro-
ject status to state’s am-
bitious ERCP. He raised
issue in meet chaired by
Shah. He also demand-
ed Centre to create an
additional post of full-
time member for state
in Bhakra Beas Mgmt
Board. CM said that it is
an ambitious project of
Rs 37,247 cr which will
benefit 13 dists of Raj.
He said that Modi in his
rallies held in Jaipur
and Ajmer in 2018 had
promised to declare the
ERCP as a nat’l project.
l Also demands additional
post of full-time member
for Raj on Bhakra Beas
Management Board
l Informs about initiatives
like free treatment and
OPS in State
l Demands to release
`5,000 crore arrear of
GST compensation
GEHLOT PROPOSES, SHAH AGREES FOR
STRINGENT LAWS ON CO-OP SOCIETIES
Jaipur: On a demand raised by Raj CM Gehlot over
multi-state credit cooperative society scams, HM Shah on
Saturday announced to call a big meeting in next 3 weeks
with heads of ED, CBI and IT to make strict rules against
such societies. Gehlot raised issue in front of
Shah and demanded action against socie-
ties involved in fraud and to make Act more
stringent in the interest of investors. In Raj
too, there are allegations of fraud in socie-
ties like Adarsh Credit and Sanjeevani.
Gehlot’s raising issue Shah’s making
the announcement for resolving it
received praise from everyone.
—Aditi Nagar
ISSUES
DISCUSSED
l Police modernization
l Cyber crime
l Prevention of
organized crimes
l Threats of cross-
border terrorism
l Internal security
l Law and order
l Border disputes
l States’ water issues
Adani to join Jio, Airtel
in 5G spectrum hot race
New Delhi: Billionaire
Gautam Adani’s group
is said to be planning a
surprise entry into the
race to acquire telecom
spectrum, which will
pitch it directly against
Mukesh Ambani’s Reli-
ance Jio and telecom
czar Sunil Bharti Mit-
tal’sAirtel,sourcessaid.
Applications for par-
ticipating in the July 26
auction of airwaves
closed on Friday with at
least 4 applications. Jio,
Airtel and Vodafone
Idea — 3 private players
in telecom sector — ap-
plied. The fourth appli-
cant is Adani Group,
one of the sources said.
Gautam Adani Mukesh Ambani Sunil Bharti Mittal

NEWS
MUMBAI | SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2022
02
First India Bureau
Pune: Pramod Bhan-
gire, former Shiv
Sena councillor from
Pune along with his
supporters, has ex-
tended his support to
the ruling faction of
Shiv Sena led by
Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde.
Ward number 46,
(Mohammadwadi-Ha-
daspar) was represent-
ed by Bhangire, who is
the first councillor of
the city to extend his
support to the Shinde-
led faction.
It is to be noted that
Shiv Sena had 10 corpo-
rators in the Pune Mu-
nicipal Corporation
(PMC). Their term end-
ed recently and the
PMC right now is work-
ing under an adminis-
trator.
“After consulting my
supporters, I have de-
cided to support Shinde
Saheb, who motivated
and gave all assistance
in development of my
ward”, the three-time
councillor said.
Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde is slated
to travel from Pandhar-
pur in Solapur district
via Pune on Saturday
evening and will be
greeted by the corpora-
tor and hundreds of his
supporters at Hadas-
par.
According to sourc-
es, many Shiv Sena
functionaries, office-
bearers and workers
are in touch with the
Chief Minister and are
ready to join him.
when Shinde along
with MLAs was camp-
ing in Guwahati, Shiv
Sena workers had
vandalised the office
of MLA Tanaji
Sawant, who repre-
sents Paranda seat in
Osmanabad.
First India Bureau
Mumbai. An FIR has
been registered
against former Shiv
Sena councillor
Sheetal Mhatre and
six others by the po-
lice for abducting
and assaulting a
22-year-old man.
An FIR under section
363 (kidnapping) and
other relevant sections
of Indian Penal Code
(IPC) has been lodged
against Mhatre and six
others, an official at the
MHB police station in-
formed.
Complainant Rahul
Dhanuka, on Friday
said that a SUV, in
which the councillor
was seated dashed
against his car after
which, four to five peo-
ple came out of the ve-
hicle and started accus-
ing him verbally. He
also accused them of
assaulting him.
The complainant
was allegedly assaulted
for the second time
when he stepped out-
side his house to lodge
a complaint with re-
gards to the same. This
time, the assaulters
came in another SUV,
the official informed.
Rahul also claimed
that the accused kid-
napped him and took
him inside the car
and kept beating him
while the vehicle was
on move. He also said
that one of the ac-
cused kept taking
Mhatre’s name.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Bharati-
ya Janata Party (BJP)
believes that having
an Other Backward
Class (OBC) leader as
chief will balance out
the fact that Shinde is
a Maratha. The party
also expects it to give
it an advantage given
that the Maha Vikas
Aghadi (MVA) govern-
ment is on the defen-
sive over OBC reserva-
tion in local bodies.
The BJP is expected
to elect a new president
in Maharashtra, with
current chief Chandra-
kant Patil reportedly
eager to join the newly
formed government of
the BJP and Eknath
Shinde's Shiv Sena.
According to sources,
Patil may not serve his
full term until Febru-
ary 2023 if he is ap-
pointed to the Cabinet.
Earlier, Devendra
Fadnavis was eager to
succeed Patil. After it
was decided that Shin-
de would lead the coali-
tion government, Fad-
navis publicly stated
his desire to not join
the ministry but in-
stead support it from
outside. However, after
the BJP leadership in-
tervened, he was forced
to change his mind and
accept the position of
Deputy CM.
Patil served as PWD
minister in Fadnavis
government, which was
led by a BJP-Shiv Sena
coalition between 2014
and 2019. He was elected
president of the BJP
Maharashtra ahead of
the 2019 Assembly elec-
tions.
According to sources,
the BJP's next president
will be an OBC leader
with a focus on social
engineering and ex-
panding its base in ru-
ral Maharashtra. The
central leadership may
also entrust the job to
one of its former senior
ministers.
While several names
are being floated, Ram
Shinde and Chan-
drashekhar Bawankule
are the frontrunners.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP)
leader Kirit Somaiya,
who has been relent-
lessly targeting Ud-
dhav Thackeray over
alleged corruption is-
sues when the latter
was chief minister,
including labelling
the previous Maha Vi-
kas Aghadi (MVA)
dispensation “mafia
raj,” said on Friday
that he was simply ex-
pressing popular sen-
timent.
Several Sena leaders
retaliated against So-
maiya at the time, many
of whom are now part
of the faction led by
Eknath Shinde, who
has formed the state
government with BJP's
Devendra Fadnavis as
his deputy
.
Among them was
Deepak Kesarkar, MLA
and spokesperson for
the Shinde faction, who
had, on Thursday, ex-
pressed disappoint-
ment at Somaiya's re-
marks.
Speaking to the me-
dia, Somaiya said, “All I
can say is the mafia gov-
ernment in Maharash-
tra has ended. It was the
feeling of many people
from Maharashtra and
I merely expressed it.”
He also demanded
that a closure report
filed by the previous
Thackeray govern-
ment in a case related
to a Bengaluru-based
IT company sending
82,000 objections to the
construction of a Met-
ro carshed in Mum-
bai's green lung Aarey
must be withdrawn
and probe allowed to
continue.
The Thackeray gov-
ernment was vehe-
mently opposed to the
carshed at Aarey, and
had shifted its location
to Kanjurmarg in the
metropolis' central
suburbs, while the
Shinde government, in
one of its first an-
nouncements, said
Aarey had been
brought back as the
preferred site.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: BJP had
promised not to train
guns on Shiv Sena
President Uddhav
Thackeray and his
family, said party’s
spokesperson Deepak
Kesarkar on Saturday
.
BJP leader Kirit So-
maiya, who often ac-
cused the Uddhav-led
MVA government of
being involved in cor-
rupt practices, in-
formed me that he was
unaware of any such
“understanding” be-
tween BJP and the Shiv
Sena, Kesarkar in-
formed reporters in
Mumbai.
the Somaiya’s contin-
ued tirade against Ud-
dhav Thackeray has
not gone well with
some of the rebel Shiv
Sena MLAs.
“DuringtheGuwahati
camp, we (rebel MLAs)
held a meeting with the
BJP leaders and we told
them that we have hurt
our head of the family
(Thackeray) and will not
allow any critical com-
ments against the lead-
er”, he said.
Deputy CM and
BJP’s face in the coali-
tion, Devendra Fad-
navis agreed to this.
When Somaiya contin-
ued criticising Thack-
eray, the Deputy CM
called the leader and
told him about the un-
derstanding, Kesarkar
informed reporters.
On Friday, Thacker-
ay had alleged that the
rebel Sena legislators
had kept mum when
the BJP was levelling
allegations against
him and his family.
“Like us, Fadnavis
also respects Uddhav-
ji,” Kesarkar said. Sen-
ior Sena leader Eknath
Shinde became CM last
month after rebelling
against Thackeray and
toppling his govern-
ment.
BJP will not train guns on Uddhav, his fam, says Kesarkar
NO PUSHBACK
lll
Spokesperson
from the rebel
Sena faction
said there was
an ‘accord’
between
Fadnavis and
Shiv Sena Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray. —FILE PHOTO
FIR against ex-Shiv Sena
councillor, six others for
assaulting a 22-yr-old man
Former Pune councillor
extends support to CM
Shinde-led rebel faction
Pramod Bhangire
Sheetal Mhatre
Chandrakant Patil keen
on joining new Maha govt
Somaiya says‘mafia raj’
comment was sentiment
Chandrakant Patil Kirit Somaiya speaking to reporters.
BJP is likely to have
a new Maha
president; Patil may
not serve his full
term till Feb 2023
The BJP leader also
demanded withdrawal
of closure report filed
by the MVA govt
regarding carshed
‘WANT MAHA LOCAL BODY
POLLS HELD WITH OBC QUOTA’
Satish Nandgaonkar
Mumbai: A day after
the state election
commission (SEC)
announced elections
to 92 municipal
councils and four
nagar panchayats
for mid-August, po-
litical parties on
Saturday almost
unanimously de-
manded that polls be
postponed until Oth-
er Backward Classes
(OBC) reservation is
allowed by the Su-
preme Court.
The first to oppose
polls set for August 18
and 19 was Congress
Maharashtra Presi-
dent Nana Patole. “In
Madhya Pradesh, lo-
cal body polls are be-
ing held with OBC res-
ervation. The quota is
less than 14%, but lo-
cal body polls should
be held in Maharash-
tra with full quota
(27%),” he said.
Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde, who is
in New Delhi, also sup-
ported postponement
of elections and said
that the state govern-
ment will hold discus-
sions with the State
Election Commission-
er UPS Madan.
Meanwhile, Nation-
alist Congress Party
(NCP) state President
Jayant Patil said, “To
hold elections exclud-
ing OBC reservation
will be a grave injus-
tice to the OBC com-
munity. The Maha Vi-
kas Aghadi (MVA)
was trying to ensure
that the OBC commu-
nity gets reservation.
An MVA-appointed
Banthia Committee
has even collected em-
pirical data and pre-
pared a report. The
battle to get OBC res-
ervation is in the final
lap, and the SEC
should not insist on
elections to be con-
ducted next month.”
Addressing report-
ers in Baramati on
Saturday, Maharash-
tra Legislative Assem-
bly Leader of Opposi-
tion Ajit Pawar, said,
“Now, there is no op-
tion but to face elec-
tions. We did not want
polls (to be held) when
Maharashtra is on red
and orange alert for
heavy rainfall. The
SEC has the right to
announce elections,
and the Code of Con-
duct has come into ef-
fect, where elections
have been announced.
I don’t think any
amount of discussion
will help change that
now.”
BJP’s MP in-charge
and OBC face of the
party, Pankaja Munde,
tweeted, “Elections to
municipal councils
have been announced
at some places. I hope
the newly appointed
Chief Minister and
Deputy CM take no-
tice of this, and en-
sure that elections are
held with the OBC res-
ervations. I am confi-
dent that the govern-
ment will do justice.”
OBC IS KEY
Postponement of elections will give the new
Shinde-Fadnavis dispensation more time to
settle down, and go to voters claiming credit
for OBC reservation. In the past, Fadnavis had
played an instrumental role in Shivraj Chauhan
government’s empirical data collection, as a
result of which, the Supreme Court recently al-
lowed Madhya Pradesh 14 % OBC reservation.
Political parties demand postponement of elections announced for August by SEC
Nana Patole
Jayant Patil

First India Bureau
Aurangabad/Mum-
bai: Residents of
three villages in Hin-
goli and Nanded dis-
tricts of Maharashtra
are being shifted
to safety after
heavy rainfall in
the region caused
flooding in Asana riv-
er on Saturday
.
Vasmat taluka in the
Hingolidistrictrecorded
150 mm of rainfall in the
last 24 hours ending at
8.30 am on Saturday
.
Some people from
Hadgaon village located
downstream of the
Asana river in Nanded
district neighbouring
Hingoli were also
evacuated.
So far, at least 200 peo-
ple have been moved to
safety
, confirmed a top
district official.
Parts of the Hingoli
district, located in the
Marathwada region
around 200km from
Mumbai, have been re-
ceiving heavy showers
over the past couple of
days.
“Due to the down-
pour, the Asana river in
the Hingoli district
flooded on Friday night.
The low-lying areas
in Kurunda and Kinho-
la villages in Vasmat
tehsil were badly
affected,” added the
official.
Although the water
level is receding, the dis-
trict administration has
been shifting the resi-
dents of these villages to
a Zilla Parishad school
nearby
, said Hingoli dis-
trict Collector Jitendra
Papalkar.
“We have made all the
necessaryarrangements
(foraccommodatingpeo-
ple) at the Zilla Parishad
school. Tankers of clean
drinkingwaterarebeing
madeavailablefromVas-
mat. Food is also pre-
paredfortheflood-affect-
ed people,” he said.
MAHARASHTRA
03
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The inten-
sity of rains in Kon-
kan, ghat areas of
Central Maharashtra
and parts of Marath-
wada will increase
over the next four to
five days, said the In-
dia Meteorological
Department (IMD) on
Saturday. Heavy
showers will lash
these parts due to a
low pressure area
over Odisha and a cy-
clonic circulation
spread over 7.6km.
In an official state-
ment, the IMD said,
“Konkan, ghat areas
of Madhya Maharash-
tra and Marathwada
will receive heavy
rainfall in next four to
five days. It would
be triggered by a low-
pressure area over Odi-
sha as well as a cyclon-
ic circulation spread
over 7.6 km.”
“The off-shore
trough is spread
from Gujarat coast
to Karnataka coast.
There is an east-west
shear zone, which is
contributing to the in-
creasing intensity of
the showers,” added
the weather agency.
In the last 24 hours,
Konkan, the ghat areas
of Madhya Maharash-
tra and Marathwada
have received light
showers as well as
heavy rainfall, in-
formed the IMD.
According to the
forecast till July 13,
widespread rainfall is
expected to occur in
North, South, Central
Maharashtra. Marath-
wada and Vidarbha re-
gions are also likely to
experience rains dur-
ing this period.
Officials issued
warnings of heavy
rainfall in Marathwada
for the next four days
till July 12. They also
warned of heavy show-
ers along with thunder-
storms and lightning in
Vidarbha region till
July 13.
Meanwhile, the IMD
reported moderate
rain in the city and sub-
urbs of Mumbai on
Saturday, and sounded
an orange alert till
Sunday. It forecast the
possibility of heavy to
very heavy rainfall
at isolated places in
the financial capital
of India.
Officials have also
predicted occasional
gusty winds reaching
40-50 kmph in the coast-
al city. The weather
agency had issued a red
alert in Mumbai from 1
pm on Friday for the
next 24 hours.
Mumbai (PTI): Chief
Minister Eknath
Shinde on Saturday
phoned the Hingoli
Collector Jitendra
Papalkar, which has
received heavy rains
in the last 48 hours.
He issued instruc-
tions on evacuation
of people and providing other forms of relief.
Heavy rains had caused the Asana river in Hingoli,
located around 570 kilometres from Mumbai, to
swell, with water entering villages and damaging
crops. “You should ensure safe evacuation of the
villagers and shift them to temporary shelters.
Make provision for food and drinking water for
them,” Shinde, who is currently in Delhi to meet
BJP leaders, told the collector. In a clip that was
released for the media, Shinde can be heard tell-
ing the collector to deploy more National Disaster
Response Force teams, if required.
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The Brihan-
mumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC) on
Saturday claimed that
it has filled more than
7,211 potholes in the
city between April 01
and July 07 this year.
It also stated that the
number of potholes
seen on city roads this
year was lower as com-
pared to 2021.
Officials confirmed
thatthecivicbodyhadto
pour cold mix to fill over
10,191 potholes during
thesameperiodlastyear.
And this year, there has
been a marked decrease
in the number of pot-
holes on Mumbai roads.
As heavy rainfall con-
tinues to lash Mumbai,
the civic body has speed-
ed up its campaign to fill
potholes ahead of the
festivalseasonwhichbe-
gins with Bakri Eid and
Ashadhi Ekadashi on
Sunday
. It will end with
the Ganesh Chaturthi
festival in early Septem-
ber followed by Navratri
and Diwali.
The corporation has
invited citizens to alert
the civic body about any
grievances regarding
potholes. It has opened
its website and social
media to citizen com-
plaints, and even de-
ployed a mobile app,
‘MyBMCpotholefixit’.
The civic body has
formedmultipleteams—
whichwillbesupervised
byAdditionalMunicipal
Commissioner P Velar-
asu—to deal with pot-
hole complaints within
24 hours. The corpora-
tion’s asphalt plant in
Worli supplies cold mix
to all 24 wards, as per re-
quirement.
“So far, over 2,422 met-
rictonneof coldmixhas
been supplied to 24
wards,” said an official.
Mumbai city has
2,055km long roads, out
of which 1,255km are as-
phalt roads and 800km
have been made from
concrete.
“Due to properties of
bitumen in asphalt
roads, potholes are a
regular sight during
monsoon season, after
contact with water. The
local administration
takes measures to coun-
ter this occurrence each
year and it has done so
this year as well,” said
an official.
After CM Eknath
ShindeaskedtheBMCto
ensure potholes are
filled with immediate ef-
fect, the monsoon
claimed its first victim.
A motorbike rider was
runoverbyastatetrans-
port bus on Thane’s
Ghodbunder Road earli-
er this week.
Over 7,211 potholes filled in Mumbai so far, claims BMC
QUICK REMEDY
lll
Civic body
also stated
that the
number of
pits it has
poured cold
mix in this
year is
less as
compared to
last year
BMC workers fixing a pothole on a road.
Amravati: Two
farm labourers died
after being struck
by lightning while
they were working
at a farm in Amra-
vati district of the
state, said police of-
ficials on Saturday
.
The incident oc-
curred on Friday af-
ternoon when the vic-
tims were spraying
insecticide on the
crop near Jaamdol
under Mahuli police
station limits.
The deceased have
been identified as
KishorBhagwanPatil
(42) and Avinash Shy-
amrav Nimbhorkar
(35), both residents of
Karajgaon village.
Thane (PTI): Two
men were washed
away in the rain-
swollen water bod-
ies in separate inci-
dents that occurred
in Bhiwandi taluka
of Thane district,
on Saturday
.
The first incident
took place on Thurs-
day night, when
35-year-old Pintya
Pandarinath Jadhav,
resident of Padgha in
the taluka, had gone
fishing near a flooded
stream. During the
activity, he fell into
the water and got
washed away
. A
search was carried
out for him, but he
could not be traced, a
fire brigade official
said.
In another inci-
dent, 19-year-old Asif
Ansari,whohadgone
swimming in the
Kamvari river on Fri-
day
, got washed away
.
Despiteefforts,hehas
not been found so far.
Two farm labourers
die after being
struck by lightning
2 washed away in
separate incidents
in Bhiwandi taluka
Swelling of Kamvari river due to heavy rains has caused
flooding in Bhiwandi.
Rain intensity to rise over
next 4-5 days in Maha: IMD
Konkan, Madhya
Maharashtra and
Marathwada
likely to be
affected; orange
alert in Mumbai
till Sunday
RAINY FORECAST
FloodinginHingolivillages,residentsbeingshifted
Waterlogging had occurred in Palghar after heavy
downpour on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI
MAHA CM CALLS HINGOLI COLLECTOR;
TALKS EVACUATION AND RELIEF
Eknath Shinde
Kids hold hands as they make their way to school through a heavily waterlogged road in Mumbai. Commuters move through a heavily waterlogged road in Mumbai. Vehicles wade through flooded streets after Mumbai rains lead to waterlogging.
—PHOTOS
BY
BHUSHAN
KOYANDE
Commuters holding umbrellas walk amid heavy rainfall in Mumbai.
UNDER SUPERVISION
RAINS IN ‘MAHA’ FORM

PERSPECTIVE
04
uess who all at-
tended the din-
ner hosted by
Chief Minister
YogiAdityanath
for presidential candidate
Draupadi Murmu in Luc-
know?Amongthosepresent
were Akhilesh Yadav’s un-
cle Shivpal Singh Yadav, his
political ally Om Prakash
Rajbhar, Jansatta Dal Lok-
tantrik chief Raja Bhaiya
and Bahujan Samaj Party’s
only MLA Uma Shankar
Singh. Presence of Raja
Bhaiya and Uma Shankar
Singh at the dinner to gar-
ner support for the first
tribal candidate was unsur-
prising, but that of Shivpal
and Rajbhar affirmed the
continued discord in the
family and between allies.
Akhilesh Yadav and his es-
tranged uncle sunk their
differences for the state As-
sembly elections to avoid
losing Yadav votes. While
Shivpal won from Jaswant-
nagar, Akhilesh led his par-
ty so immaturely that he
was restricted to 111 seats.
He was earlier expected to
cause an upset.
In the case of Rajbhar,
the flip-flop leader of
Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj
Party which has six legisla-
tors, it was due to political
expediency that he allied
with the Samajwadi Party
.
With Akhilesh distancing
from Rajbhar, he is cosying
up with the BJP
, which was
not ready to accept Rajb-
har’s pre-poll conditions.
Rajbhar, who was a minis-
terinthepreviousYogigov-
ernment, resigned a few
months before elections.
It is too early to say that
new political equations are
in the making. They are op-
portunistic politicians who
would first see which side
of the bread is buttered.
The overall impression
that one forms is of Akh-
ilesh as a leader lacking in
political maturity. He has
been giving a cold-shoulder
to Shivpal and Rajbhar
who were not invited for
Yashwant Sinha’s dinner.
BEFORE LS POLLS,
SP STARTS
UNRAVELLING
Among those present
were Akhilesh Yadav’s
uncle Shivpal Singh
Yadav, his political ally
Om Prakash Rajbhar,
Jansatta Dal Loktantrik
chief Raja Bhaiya and
Bahujan Samaj Party’s
only MLA Uma
Shankar Singh
G
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
The Lord is my strength and my shield. My
heart trusts him. I was helped, my heart
rejoiced, and I thank him with my song.
—Bible
Rajnath Singh @rajnathsingh
The Indian Armed Forces are working
in tandem with the civil agencies and
carrying out rescue operations to help
those who are affected by the tragedy.
I am deeply anguished by the loss of
precious lives due to cloud burst near
Shri Amarnath Cave. May the injured
recover soon.
TOP TWEETS
Anurag Thakur @ianuragthakur
Happy 74th Foundation Day of Akhil
Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, a
disciplined unique student organization
that awakens national consciousness
among young students and upholds the
spirit of Indianness with the motto of
‘Gyan-Shil-Ekta’.
“Let the reader however not
imagine that I read all these
books by choice. Some of
them were useless and out-
side the jail would not have
read them. Some of them
were sent by friends known
andunknownandIfeltIwas
boundfortheirsakesatleast
to go through them. The Ye-
ravda Jail has what may be
callednotabadcollectionof
English books. Some of
themwerereallygoodbooks.
Many Christian friends
were most attentive to me. I
received books from them
from America, England and
India. I must confess that
whilst I recognized their
kind motive, I could not ap-
preciate the majority of
books they sent. I wish I
couldsaysomethingof their
giftsthatwouldpleasethem.
But that would not be fair or
truthful if I could not mean
it. The orthodox books on
Christianity do not give me
any satisfaction. My regard
for the life of Jesus is indeed
verygreat.Hisethicalteach-
ing, his common sense, his
sacrifice command my rev-
erence. But I do not accept
the orthodox teaching that
Jesus was or is God incar-
nateintheacceptedsenseor
thathewasoristheonlyson
of God.Idonotbelieveinthe
doctrineof appropriationof
another’smerit.Hissacrifice
is a type and an example for
us. Every one of us has to be
‘crucified’ for salvation. I do
not take the words ‘Son’ ‘Fa-
ther’ and ‘the Holy Ghost’
literally
. They are all figura-
tive expressions. Nor do I ac-
cept the limitations that are
sought to be put upon the
teaching of The Sermon on
the Mount. I can discover no
justification in the New Tes-
tament for wars. I regard Je-
sus as one among the most
illustrious teachers and
prophets the world has seen.
Needless to say I do not re-
gardtheBibleasaninfallible
record of the life and teach-
ings of Jesus. Nor do I con-
sider every word in the New
Testament as God’s own
word. Between the Old and
theNewthereisafundamen-
taldifference.WhilsttheOld
contains some very deep
truths, I am unable to pay it
the same honours I pay the
NewTestament.Iregardthe
latter as an extension of the
teaching of the Old and in
some matters rejection of
the Old. Nor do I regard the
New as the last word of God.
Only God is changeless and
as His message is received
through the imperfect hu-
man medium, it is always li-
able to suffer distortion in
proportion as the medium is
pure or otherwise. I would
therefore respectfully urge
my Christian friends and
well-wishers to take me as I
am. I respect and appreciate
theirwishthatIshouldthink
and be as they are even I re-
spect and appreciate a simi-
lar wish on the part of my
Mussalmanfriends.Iregard
both the religious as equally
true with my own. But my
own gives me full satisfac-
tion. It contains all that I
needformygrowth.Itteach-
es me to pray not that others
may believe as I believe but
that they may grow to their
full height in their own reli-
gion. My constant prayer
thereforeisforaChristianor
a Mussalman to be a better
Christian and a better Ma-
homedan. With Him deed is
everything, belief without
deed is nothing. With Him
doing is believing. The read-
er will pardon me for this
digression. But it was neces-
sary for me to deliver my
soul over the Christian lit-
erature with which the
Christianfriendsfloodedme
inthejail,if onlytoshowmy
appreciation of their inter-
est in my spiritual welfare.
The Mahabharata is not
to me a historical record. It
is hopeless as a history
. But
itdealswitheternalverities
in an allegorical fashion. It
takes up historical person-
age and events and trans-
form them into angels and
devilsasitsuitsthepurpose
of the poet whose theme is
the eternal duel between
good and evil, spirit and
matter, God and Satan. It is
like a mighty river which in
its progress absorbs many
streams, some even muddy
.
It is the conception of one
brain. But it has undergone
ravages and received accre-
tions in process of time till
it has become difficult al-
ways to say which is the
original and which is apoc-
ryphal. The ending of it is
magnificent. It demon-
strates the utter nothing-
ness of earthly power. The
great scarifies of the heart
by a Brahmin who gave his
littleall,thelastmorsel,toa
needy beggar. What is left to
the virtuous Pandavas is
poignant grief. The mighty
Krishnadieshelplessly
.The
numerous and powerful Ya-
davas because of their cor-
ruption die an inglorious
death fighting amongst one
another. Arjuna the uncon-
querable is conquered by a
bandof robbers,hisGandiv
notwithstanding. The Pan-
davas retire leaving the
throne to an infant. All but
one die on the journey to
heaven. And even Yu-
dhishthira,theveryembod-
iment of dharma, has to
taste the foetid smell of hell
fortheliehepermittedhim-
self to utter under stress.”
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
roadly speaking
most people as-
sume that Gandhi-
ji did not read
books. When he
was in a jocular mood he
would agree with this ob-
servation.
The fact is that he was a
voraciousreader.From1922
to1924hewasinjail.During
these years he read nearly
200 books. The list of books
is given in volume one of
Raghavan Iyer’s, “The Mor-
al and Political writings of
Mahatma Gandhi.” After
reading Das Kapital by
Marx, the Mahatma said, “I
could write it better.”
GANDHIJI READ 200
BOOKS WHEN HE
WAS IN JAIL FROM
YEAR 1922 TO 1924
From 1922 to 1924 he was
in jail. During these years
he read nearly 200 books.
The list of books is given
in volume one of Raghavan
Iyer’s, “The Moral and
Political writings of Mahatma
Gandhi.” After reading Das
Kapital by Marx, the Mahatma
said, “I could write it better.”
The mighty Krishna dies
helplessly. The numerous and
powerful Yadavas because of
their corruption die an
inglorious death fighting
amongst one another. Arjuna
the unconquerable is conquered
by a band of robbers, his
Gandiv notwithstanding. The
Pandavas retire leaving the
throne to an infant. All but one
die on the journey to heaven.
And even Yudhishthira, the very
embodiment of dharma, has to
taste the foetid smell of hell for
the lie he permitted himself to
utter under stress.
K NATWAR
SINGH
The author is Former
Minister of External
Affairs of India
B
MAHATMA
GANDHI WAS A
VORACIOUS
READER
‘MAHABHARATA
DEALS WITH
ETERNAL VERITIES’
The Mahabharata is not to
me a historical record. It
is hopeless as a history. But
it deals with eternal verities
in an allegorical fashion. It
takes up historical person-
age and events and trans-
form them into angels and
devils as it suits the purpose
of the poet whose theme
is the eternal duel between
good and evil, spirit and
matter, God and Satan. It is
like a mighty river which in
its progress absorbs many
streams, some even muddy.
LET ME QUOTE
GANDHI ON HIS
BOOK READING AND
HIS STARTLING
VIEWS ON THE
MAHABHARAT
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INDIA
First India Bureau
Moradabad: Describ-
ing the Panchayati Raj
Institutions (PRIs) and
their representatives as
the essential messen-
gers of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s wel-
fare schemes, Union
Minister Dr Jitendra
Singh said on Saturday
.
Panches, Sarpances
as well as the elected
representativesinBlock
and Disctrict Councils
have an opportunity to
play a distinct role in
reaching out to the last
man in the last queue, at
the grossroot level, and
ensuring for providing
him the benefit of each
of the pro-poor and wel-
fare schemes intro-
duced by Modi during
the last 8 years.
Addressing a gather-
ing of the representa-
tives of Panchayati Raj
Institutions(PRIs) in
the presence of Uttar
Pradesh State Minister
for Panchayati Raj,
Choudhary Bhupendra
Singh and others, Dr Ji-
tendra Singh observed
that right from begin-
ning, PM Narendra
Modi has given priority
to the empowerment of
PRIs and to strengthen
them to empowering
the man standing at the
last end of the shore. He
recalled how Modi has
ensured elections of
District Councils in
Jammu Kashmir for
the first time after sev-
en decades and had also
gone ahead with Pan-
chayat elections in spite
of resistance from cer-
tain opposition parties
in the State.
He also asked each
beneficiary of the
scheme to add at least
two more deserving
persons to help achieve
the saturation target.
‘PRIs are essential messengers of Modi’s welfare sch’
SABKA SAATH SABKA VIKAS
lll
The Minister
interacts
with PRI
representatives
beneficiaries
of the
Central
Schemes in
Moradabad
15K pilgrims rescued from
Amarnath; 40 still missing
Rescue dogs have also been deployed in the search of the missing persons
Jammu (ANI): The
death toll in the flash
flood triggered by a
cloudburst near the
Amarnath cave shrine
rose to 16 on Saturday
while 15,000 stranded
pilgrims were shifted to
the lower base camp of
Panjtarni, officials said
on Saturday
.
Over 40 people were
still missing, reported
and searches for the
missing continued
without break after
flash flood and land-
slides rummaged
through tents and com-
munity kitchens on Fri-
day afternoon. Senior
officials said 25 injured
people have been shift-
ed to hospitals while
many people are be-
lieved to be still trapped
under the debris.Ac-
cording to an Army of-
ficial, mountain rescue
teams and lookout pa-
trols and sniffer dogs
have been pressed into
the search and rescue
operation. “Air rescue
operations started Sat-
urday morning and six
pilgrims were evacuat-
ed by Army helicop-
ters’’.The military med-
ical teams are receiving
patients and casualties
at the Nilagrar helipad.
Bengaluru: An earthquake of 4.4 magnitude
on the Richter scale struck Vijayapura dis-
trict on Saturday morning, July 9 Karnataka
State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre
(KSNDMC) said. “The earthquake occurred
at 06:22:14 AM, with its epicentre at “2.3
kms NW of Kannur GP, Vijayapura Taluk,
Vijayapura district (Bordering Vijayapu-
ra and Maharashtra region)”, it said in a
statement.
EARTHQUAKE OF 4.4 MAGNITUDE
JOLTS KARNATAKA’S DISTRICT
Patna: Keeping in view the 2024 Lok Sabha
election, BJP national president J.P. Nadda
will visit Patna on July 31 for an important
meeting with officials of the party’s Bihar
wing to strengthen its organisational struc-
ture. Sanjay Jaiswal, the BJP state president
said”We will organise a three-day training
programme on July 14, 15 and 16 for every
worker, presidents of different wings, district
presidents and other officials of the state.
J P NADDA TO VISIT PATNA ON JULY
31 TO FIRM UP PARTY FUNCTIONS
Guwahati: Five children belonging to Rohingya
refugees have reportedly fled from an observation
home at Silchar in south
Assam’s Cachar dis-
trict. The five Rohingya
children along with two
local kids escaped from
the observation home
located at Meherpur
in Silchar by breaking a wall of the centre. The
incident took place on July 1 and it came to light
only on Friday, sources said.
Srinagar: A hybrid terrorist of proscribed ter-
ror outfit LeT was arrested by a joint security
team from Jammu and
Kashmir’s Baramulla on
Saturday and arms and
ammunition recovered
from his possession,
police said. “On specific
information regarding
movement of terrorists in Kreeri area, police, along
with army’ 29RR established a joint checkpoint in
the said area. LeT, was arrested,” police said.
ASSAM: 5 ROHINGYA CHILDREN FLEE
FROM OBSERVATION HOME
LeT HYBRID TERRORIST ARRESTED
FROM BARAMULLA ALONG WITH ARMS
Army soldiers shift an injured pilgrim evacuated by a helicopter from cloudburst areas near the Amarnath cave shrine, at Baltal in
Ganderbal district on Saturday. —PHOTO BY PTI
AMARNATH YATRA TRAGEDY
‘NO REPORT OF
KANNADIGAS
AFFECTED SO FAR’
FUNCTIONAL
‘DOPPLER’ COULD
HAVE SAVED LIVES
Kerela: Karnataka chief
minister Basavaraj
Bommai on Saturday
said there has been
no report of any
untoward incidents
related to Kannadigas
so far, following the
flashflood triggered by
a cloudburst. He said
the Karnataka govt has
taken steps to rescue
people from the State
stranded in Amarnath.
Jammu: More than
two years after the
announcement, Dop-
pler radar at Banihal in
Union Territory (UT)
of Jammu andKashmir
is still not functional.
It is a crucial missing
link that could have
helped avert the tragic
deaths of over a dozen
people atAmarnath-
Shrine in the UT on
Friday.
CONTROL ROOM OPENED, ASSISTANCE
ASSURED: MAMATA ON AMARNATH
ARMY CARRIES OUT RESCUE OPS FOR
AMARNATH YATRIS AT BALTAL
Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee expressed condo-
lences on Saturday to the families of those who
died in the Amarnath flash floods, assuring all
forms of assistance to the affected. Banerjee added
that a control room had been opened at state.
Jammu: The Indian Army is continously carry-
ing out rescue operation for theAmarnathYatris
injured in the cloudburst at Baltal in Kashmir.The
Army in a statement on Saturday said the rescue
team immediately rushed to the site after getting
information about the casualties.
Idgah Maidan row, Hindu
activists to protest on 12th
Bengaluru (ANI):
Hindu activists have de-
cided to go ahead with
the bandh plan demand-
ing celebration of Hin-
du festivals at Idgah
Maidan in Chamarajpet
area of Bengaluru. The
decision was taken even
as Congress MLA Za-
meer Ahmad Khan has
assured that the the
Maidan will be pre-
served as a playground.
The convener of the
Citizen’s Forum Ruk-
mangada at a press con-
ference reiterated the
earlier stand of observ-
ing bandh on July 12.
“MLA Zameer Ahmad
Khan seems to have lost
his mind.
He earlier claimed
that if B.S. Yediyurap-
pa became the Chief
Minister, he would turn
into a watchman. He
never kept his word.
There is no question of
withdrawing the
bandh,” he said. “None
from our organization
attended the meeting
where MLA Zameer Ah-
mad Khan said that Id-
gah Maidan will be
used as a playground,”
he said.
Nadda,Thakur greet on
74th fndn day of ABVP
First India Bureau
NewDelhi: While con-
gratulating the Akhil
Bharatiya Vidyarthi
Parishad on its 74th
foundation day, BJP-
President JP Nadda
said that council has
played an important
role in the reconstruc-
tion of the nation by
contributing to the ser-
vice of the nation.
ABVP was founded by
Balraj Madhok on 9 July
1951.
Congratulating BJP
President, he tweeted
that Hearty congratula-
tions on the foundation
day of the world’s larg-
est student organization
@ABVPVoice, imbibing
the mantra of knowl-
edge-pity-unity, giving
the youth the rites of
service to nation. Mean-
whil, Union IB Minis-
ter Anurag Thakur also
extended his best wish-
es To awaken national
consciousness among
young students.
YouTuber held
for celebrating
b’day with fans
New Delhi (ANI): You-
Tuber and social media
influencer Gaurav
Taneja was arrested by
the Police after his fol-
lowers gathered in huge
numbers at a metro sta-
tion in Noida. Gaurav
had asked his followers
through Instagram to
gather for his birthday
celebration. Following
this, a huge crowd as-
sembled at Noida Sector
51 metro station which
created trouble for the
metro authorities and
the general public. This
sudden gathering of
crowd and the commo-
tion that followed.
Assam: Eight deaths due
to Japanese Encephalitis
Guwahati: With some
eight fresh cases re-
corded on Saturday, the
total cases of Japanese
Encephalitis (JE) infec-
tion in the state shot up
to 82 since July start. At
least eight people have
already lost their lives
sue to JE infection. On
Saturday too, one per-
son from Dibrugarh
died of JE. Amongst the
eight new cases record-
ed, three were from Bar-
peta, two from Dibru-
grarh, one each from
Nagaon, Sivasagar and
Kamrup (metro). On
Saturday, the health de-
partment has directed
all districts to form a
District Rapid Response
Team on JE, by July 11
to July 16, 2022 under
the guidance of their
respective Deputy Com-
missioners.
25 watches of `1 cr seized
from scam-hit DHFL accused
New Delhi: Twenty-
five luxury watches
worth over ₹ 1 crore
have been seized by the
CBI from the properties
of Kapil Wadhawan,
Dheeraj Wadhawan and
others linked to scam-
hit Dewan Housing Fi-
nance Ltd, or DHFL.
Fifty-six paintings
worth ₹ 38 crore were
also seized. The Central
Bureau of Investiga-
tion, or CBI, on Friday
had carried out search-
es at the flats of Rebec-
ca Dewan and Ajay
Ramesh Nawandar in
Mumbai too. “During
investigation, it was
found that the (DHFL)
promoters diverted
funds and made invest-
ments in various enti-
ties. It was also alleged
that the promoters had
acquired expensive
paintings and sculp-
tures worth about ₹ 55
crore (approximately)
using the diverted
funds,” the CBI.
Sidhu murder:
Nephew of SAD
leader held
Ludhiana ( ANI): The
nephew of former
speaker of Punjab as-
sembly Nirmal Singh
Kahlon, a leader of Shi-
romaniAkaliDal(SAD),
has been arrested by the
Ludhiana police in con-
nection with the killing
of Punjabi singer Sidhu
Moose Wala on Satur-
day
. Sandeep also gave a
.315 bore pistol to Satbir
for his safety .
Dr Jitendra Singh addressing a congregation of PRI
representatives at Moradabad in the presence of UP State
Panchayati Raj Minister Choudhary Bhupinder Singh on Saturday.
—FILE PHOTO
‘Implementation of NEP focuses
on curriculum, capable faculty’
New Delhi (ANI): As
the three-day Akhil
Bhartiya Shiksha Sa-
magam continues in
Varanasi, Higher Edu-
cation Secretary K
Sanjay Murthy said
the implementation of
the National Educa-
tion Policy (NEP) fo-
cuses on three pillars.
First, a curriculum
which meets the indus-
try’s requirements;
second, a capable and
competent faculty to
deliver content; and
third, to leverage tech-
nology to deliver it at
the least cost.
Addressing the event
in Varanasi on Friday,
Higher Education Sec-
retary said the second
of its three-day pro-
gramme has witnessed
intense deliberations on
future education in the
country
. The intense ex-
ercise of consultations
with over 300 state Uni-
versities, 300 Central
Universities, and pri-
vate universities was
consulted on the vari-
ous aspects of the im-
plementation of NEP.
“We got the consensus
of all the state govern-
ments towards imple-
menting the 16-point
agenda plan of action’’.
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan at the Akhil Bharatiya
Shiksha Samagam in Varanasi on Saturday.
16- POINT AGENDA
CRUCIAL READ

06
INDIA
New Delhi (ANI): As
per the PMO, the Prime
Minister will inaugu-
rate and lay the founda-
tion stone of various
developmental projects
worth more than Rs
16,000 cr in Deoghar.
“In a step towards
boosting infrastructure
development, enhanc-
ing connectivity and
giving an impetus to
ease of living in the re-
gion, Prime Minister
will dedicate to the na-
tion and lay the founda-
tion stone of various
projects worth over Rs
16,000 crore in Deoghar.
These projects will help
in significantly improv-
ing socio-economic
prosperity in the re-
gion,” the PMO said in
a statement.
As a key step to pro-
vide direct connectivity
to Baba Baidyanath
Dham, which is an im-
portant religious desti-
nation for devotees
from all over the coun-
try, PM will inaugurate
the Deoghar Airport.
It has been construct-
ed at an estimated cost
of around Rs 400 crore.
“Services at AIIMS
Deoghar will get a fur-
ther boost as PM will
dedicate to the nation
IPD Operation Thea-
tre services,” it said.
PM Modi to launch devp projects worth `16,000 cr in Jharkhand
SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
lll
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
will visit
Jharkhand’s
Deoghar and
Bihar’s Patna on
July 12,
informed the
PMO on
Saturday
‘Rare’ goats take high spot
in Old Delhi’s Meena Bazar
Three goats stood out drew attention with price tags bearing six-figure sum
New Delhi (PTI):
Among hundreds of
goats up for sale ahead
of Eid al-Adha in the
famous Meena Bazar
here, three stood out
with price tags bearing
a six-figure sum. Their
owners claim that the
goats have inscribed on
their coats ‘Muham-
mad’ and ‘Allah’- the
two most venerated
words in the Muslim
community. Adorned
with anklets made of
jasmine and roses, and
robed in expensive
cloth, the three goats
drew everyone’s atten-
tion the moment they
entered the market.
Two of them are a
year old each, and the
third one is two years
old. Guddu Khan, 35,
the proud owner said,
“They are rare goats.
Nowhere to be seen.
They are priceless.
These goats have ‘Mu-
hammad’ and ‘Allah’
inscribed on them”.
Goats are being sold at a livestock market on the eve of the Eid al-Adha outside Jama Masjid.
Shortage of
goats in
Indore due to
high demand
Indore: Ahead of
Eid-ul-Azha, In-
dore has been wit-
nessing shortages
of goats for Eid
due to high de-
mand from parts
of country includ-
ing south India.
As demand for
goats has been in-
creasing, prices
have also hiked.
Speaking to me-
dia, President of
MP Sheep Goat
Traders Associa-
tion Haji Nawab
Qureshi said 10
days before mar-
ket was down, now
as Eid is closer, de-
mand for goats has
increased.
ALIGARH POLICE RELEASE
SPECIAL TRAFFIC PLAN
Jaipur: The Aligarh police on Satur-
day released a special traffic plan to
ensure smooth conduct of Eid-ul-
Azha celebrations in the city on
Sunday. “The special traffic plan will
remain in effect from 5 am to 11 am
on Sunday. Both heavy and light ve-
hicles will have limited access in the
city area during this period,” a press
statement by Aligarh police said.
PRESIDENT KOVIND GREETS
CITIZENS ON EID-UL-ADHA
New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind
on Saturday greeted citizens on Eid-
ul-Azha, which he said is a “symbol
of sacrifice service to humanity.”
Extending his greetings to all fellow
citizens, especially Muslim brothers
sisters on occasion, he said: “Festival of
Eid-ul-adha is a symbol of sacrifice and
service to humanity,” he said, as per
Rashtrapati Bhavan communique.
EID AL-ADHA MUBARAK
‘Futureofcountrydepends
ondeterminationofyouth’
New Delhi (ANI):
President Ram Nath
Kovind on Saturday
said that the future of
the country depends
on the enterprise and
determination of the
youth adding that
their talent and abili-
ty play a special role
in making a country
proud.
The President made
this remake while ad-
dressing a Yuva Sam-
melan organized by
‘My Home India’ in
New Delhi. Speaking
on the occasion, the
President said that
youth are both the
present and the future
of any country
. “Their
talent and ability play
a special role in mak-
ing a country proud.
Therefore, it would be
fair to say that today’s
youth is the history
creator of tomorrow,”
he said.
“We know that In-
dia has the largest
population of adoles-
cents and youth in the
world. This is called
the ‘Demographic
Dividend’ which is an
opportunity for our
country. We should
take all necessary
steps to take advan-
tage of this opportu-
nity. It should be our
aim that our youth
contribute to the max-
imum in the develop-
ment and progress of
the country. The fu-
ture of our country
depends on enterprise
and determination of
the youth,” said Presi-
dent.
President said it is
matter of great pride
for all of us that Indi-
an youth have laid the
foundation of many
start-ups by their tal-
ent hard work.
“Today’s youth is
on the path of becom-
ing a job creator,” he
said.
President Ram Nath Kovind. —FILE PHOTO
The land of India has always
been adorning various civiliza-
tions and traditions. He was
happy to note that ‘My Home India’ is
spreading the spirit of national unity
and integrity through its various
initiatives. —Ram Nath Kovind, President
IN THE COURTYARD
COURT DISMISSES BAIL OF DELHI COP
ARRESTED IN KIDNAPPING CASE
New Delhi (ANI): A Delhi Court recently dis-
missed the bail application of a Delhi cop ar-
rested in a kidnapping for ransom case. A youth
was kidnapped and a Rs 2 lakh ransom was
demanded by the accused persons. A case was
registered in Chandni Mahal police station in this
matter. Additional Sessions Judge Vijay Shankar
of Tees Hazari court dismissed the bail plea of
Samay Singh in view of the serious nature of the
allegations and the gravity of the offence.
‘JAMIA CAN’T TAKE COURT’S
SHIELD TO GET MONEY FROM UGC’
New Delhi (ANI): Jamia Millia Islamia can-
not take shield of the court to get money
from the University Grants Commission
(UGC), the Delhi High Court has observed
while rejecting a plea by the varsity to direct
the commission to release funds for the Sa-
rojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies. The
court’s oral observation came while hearing
an application filed by the university in a
pending plea by a professor working as the
director of the centre, seeking payment of
her salary. HC, however, said when all other
officers, including the vice chancellor, are
getting salaries, why not concerned teacher.
NATURAL FARMING CONCLAVE,
PM TO ADDRESS VIRTUALLY
PM MODI PENS TRIBUTE IN
MEMORY OF SHINZO ABE
New Delhi (ANI): PM Modi will ad-
dress a Natural Farming Conclave to
be held in Gujarat’s Surat on Sunday
via video conferencing, PMO said in
a statement. Conclave will also be
attended by Gujarat Governor Acha-
rya Devvratand and CM Bhupendra
Patel. As part of Azadi ka Amrit
Mahotsav, PM in his address at
Gujarat Panchayat Mahasammelan
in March, 2022 had exhorted at least
75 farmers in each village to adopt
natural way of farming.
New Delhi (ANI):
PM Modi on
Friday paid a
heartful tribute to
his “dear friend”
late ex-Japanese PM Shinzo Abe
who was shot on Friday during an
election campaign in the Western
Japanese city of Nara. PM Modi in a
blog “My Friend, Abe San” said, “In
the passing away of Abe, Japan and
the world have lost a great vision-
ary. And, I have lost a dear friend.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresing audiences in Varanasi.
Uncle Shivpal ditches Akhilesh
Yadav on President Poll
Lucknow(ANI): Sama-
jwadi Party chief Akh-
ilesh Yadav’s uncle
Shivpal Singh Yadav on
Saturday announced
his support for BJP-led
NDA presidential can-
didate Droupadi Mur-
mu.
The decision came
after Shivpal Singh Ya-
dav and Suheldev
Bharatiya Samaj Party
(SBSP) chief Om
Prakash Rajbhar, a key
ally of the Samajwadi
Party
, attended a dinner
hosted by Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath for Drou-
padi Murmu last night.
“Neither Samajwadi
Party called me, nor
asked for my vote. CM
Yogi Adityanath invited
me yesterday where I
met NDA’s Presidential
candidate Droupadi
Murmu and decided to
vote for her,” Shivpal
Yadav said media. Ya-
dav alleged that it’s be-
cause of Akhilesh’s im-
maturity that several
alliances broke ties
with the party
.
Shivpal Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav. —FILE PHOTO
BJP leaders
discuss
strategy for
upcoming polls
Ahmedabad(PTI):
BJP leaders on Satur-
day discussed the strat-
egy to win upcoming
Gujarat elections and
various ways to
strengthen saffron par-
ty’s mass outreach dur-
ing a meeting of state
executive here.
Union Minister and
BJP’s Gujarat in-charge
Bhupender Yadav spoke
about ensuring a grand
victory for BJP in elec-
tions, due in December
this year, which coin-
cide with the “Azadi Ka
Amrit Mahotsav.”
State BJP president C
R Paatil, Chief Minister
Bhupendra Patel and
state General Secretary
Ratnakar were among
party leaders and office-
bearers who attended
the meet organised in
Surat after a gap of
nearly 25 years, the par-
ty said. Speaking about
the BJP’s organisation-
al strategy, Paatil the
Gujarat BJP’s ‘one day
one district’ initiative is
the first experiment in
the country, which was
appreciated by the
Prime Minister.
Rahul slams PM Modi over lack of jobs,fuel prices
New Delhi: Taking a
dig at Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, Con-
gress leader Rahul Gan-
dhi on Saturday said
people are now telling
the prime minister that
the obstacles “created
by him” such as the
LPG price hikes, fuel
prices breaking all re-
cords, the “Gabbar Tax
loot” and the “tsunami
of unemployment”
have exhausted them
and he must stop now.
Gandhi’s dig came
over Modi’s recent re-
marks at a large public
meeting in Andhra
Pradesh’s Bhimavaram
after he unveiled a 30-
foot bronze statue of
legendary freedom
fighter Alluri Sitarama
Raju on his 125th birth
anniversary
.
Recalling Alluri’s
war cry to the British,
“Dum hai to mujhe rok
lo” (stop me if you have
the guts), prime minis-
ter had said people of
country are now using
a similar slogan, “Dum
hai to humein rok lo”,
as they are bravely con-
fronting challenges and
difficulties.
Under the BJP rule,
the prices of domestic
LPG cylinders went up
by 157%, he alleged.
FUEL PRICES BREAK ALL RECORDS
—PHOTO
BY
ANI
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in Karnataka and Mad-
hya Pradesh.
Shinde, who raised a
banner of revolt against
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav
Thackeray
, was a minis-
ter in the Maharashtra
Vikas Aghadi (MVA)
governmentfortwo-and-
a-half years, with the
Congress and the Na-
tionalist Congress Party
(NCP) as other coalition
partners. Shinde was
all praise for the BJP
after his meetings with
Union Home Minister
Amit Shah, Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh
and the president of the
saffron party
, JP Nadda,
shortly before calling
on Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi.
He accused Uddhav
Thackeray of deviating
from the ideals of Shiv
Sena founder late Bala-
saheb Thackeray
.
Shinde said he tried
to reach out to Thack-
eray on at least three or
four occasions with a
request to join hands
with the BJP, the “natu-
ral ally” of the Shiv
Sena, but was unsuc-
cessful in convincing
him.
Thackeray had to
step down as the chief
minister of Maharash-
tra after 40 of the 55
Shiv Sena MLAs, as
well as, 10 Independent
legislators joined the
Shinde-led rebel camp.
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BIZ BUZZ
07
Green fuel will
end need for
petrol: Gadkari
Nagpur (Agencies):
Union minister
Nitin Gadkari has
expressed confidence
that green fuel will
end the need for the
use of petrol in ve-
hicles in the country
after five years. He
made the statement in
Maharashtra’s Akola
on Thursday, where
he was conferred an
honorary degree of
Doctor of Science
by Dr Panjabrao
Deshmukh Krishi
Vidyapeeth. During
his speech, the Union
Minister for Road
Transport and High-
ways made a strong
pitch for the use of
green hydrogen,
ethonal and other
green fuels.
LPG prices
rise 30% in
one year
New Delhi (PTI):
Already battered by
rising prices
of essentials ranging
from fruits and
vegetables to edible
oil and electricity,
record high rates
of cooking gas LPG
have added to the
woes of the common
man. LPG rates
this week were hiked
by Rs 50 per 14.2-kg
cylinder. Non-subsi-
dised LPG -- the
price that all
households except
the poor women
beneficiaries of the
Ujjwala scheme pay,
is now at Rs 1,053
per 14.2 kg cylinder.
Tata Motors
hikes PV prices
by 0.55%
New Delhi (PTI): Tata
Motors on Saturday
said it has increased
prices of its passen-
ger vehicle range with
immediate effect to
partially offset the
impact of rising input
costs. A weighted
average increase
in price of 0.55 pc
will come into effect
starting Saturday
across the range,
depending upon the
variant and model,
the homegrown auto
majo. The company
has taken extensive
measures to absorb
a significant portion
of the increased input
costs, it said.
‘Organisations
should focus
on up-skilling
employees’
Chennai (PTI):
Organisations
should focus heavily
on up-skilling and
re-skilling their
employees and hire
people for attitude
over skills, noted
industrialist CK Ran-
ganathan said. At the
20th Madras Man-
agement Association
Award and Manageri-
al Excellence function
held here recently,
he said the changing
consumer behaviour
and adaption to
digitisation should be
the top priorities for
organisations.
INFLATION EXPECTED TO COOL
FROM OCTOBER: RBI GOVERNOR
New Delhi (PTI): Exud-
ing confidence that the
price situation will grad-
ually improve in the sec-
ond half of the current
fiscal, RBI Governor
Shaktikanta Das on Sat-
urday said the central
bank would continue to
take monetary measures
to anchor inflation with
a view to achieving
strong and sustainable
growth.
Inflation is a measure
of the trust and confi-
dence that the public re-
poses in the economic
institutions of the coun-
try, Das said while speak-
ing at the inaugural Kau-
tilya Economic Con-
clave.
“Overall, at this point
of time, with the supply
outlook appearing fa-
vourable and several
high frequency indica-
tors pointing to resil-
ience of the recovery in
the first quarter (April-
June) of 2022-23, our cur-
rent assessment is that
inflation may ease grad-
ually in the second half
of 2022-23, precluding
the chances of a hard
landing in India,” the
Governor said.
Noting that price sta-
bility is key to maintain-
ing macroeconomic and
financial stability, he
said the central bank
will undertake measures
for preserving and fos-
tering macroeconomic
stability.
“While factors beyond
our control may affect
inflation in the short
run, its trajectory over
the medium-term is de-
termined by monetary
policy. Therefore, mone-
tary policy must take
timely actions to anchor
inflation and inflation
expectations so as to
place the economy on a
strong and sustainable
growth pedestal.
“We will continue to
calibrate our policies
with the overarching
goal of preserving and
fostering macroeconom-
ic stability,” he said. Das
noted that the Monetary
Policy Committee (MPC)
in its April and June
meetings revised the
projection of inflation
for 2022-23 in two stages
to 6.7 per cent, taking
stock of the evolving de-
velopments and with in-
flation pressures getting
generalised. About
three-fourths of the revi-
sion in June was on ac-
count of geopolitical
spillovers to food prices,
he said, adding the MPC
also decided to increase
the policy repo rate by 40
bps and 50 bps in May
and June, respectively.
In fact, Das said, recent developments call for great-
er recognition of global factors in domestic inflation
dynamics and macroeconomic developments which
underscore the need for enhanced policy coordina-
tion and dialogue among countries to achieve better
outcomes.
DEVELOPMENTS CALL FOR RECOGNITION
Talking about prospects for
global growth, Das said the
sharply tightening financial
conditions due to the ongoing
monetary policy normalisation
on the one hand and the per-
sisting geopolitical tensions
on the other pose significant
downside risks to near-term.
FINANCIAL CONDITION
SHARPLY TIGHTEN at this point of time, with
the supply outlook appear-
ing favourable and several
high frequency indicators
pointing to resilience of
the recovery in the first
quarter, our current as-
sessment is that inflation
may ease gradually in the
second half of 2022-23.
CURRENT ASSESSMENT
n RBI will
preserve, foster
macroeconomic
stability
n We will keep
calibrating our
policies: Das
CONCLAVE
States to get
incentives for auction
of mineral blocks
New Delhi (PTI):
State governments
will be incentivised
for successful auction
and identification of
minerals blocks dur-
ing the National Con-
clave on Mines and
Minerals to be held in
the national capital
next week, an official
statement said on
Saturday.
The day-long con-
clave on July 12 will be
inaugurated by Coal
and Mines Minister
Pralhad Joshi.
“As part of the after-
noon session, the
award function in-
cludes presenting new
mine blocks to state
governments and the
Ministry of Coal and
providing incentive to
state governments for
successful auction and
identification of
blocks,”theminesmin-
istry statement said.
CEOs of various
mining companies
will be brainstorming
on important issues
pertaining to the coun-
try’s mining sector
during the round table
discussions. Union
Home Minister Amit
Shah will be the chief
guest of the conclave.
Some of the high-
lights of the conclave
are conferring of
Rashtriya Khanij Vi-
kas Puraskar to the
best performing states
in the field of mining,
launch of three mod-
ules of Mining Tene-
ment System (MTS),
awards for 5-Star rated
mines for 2020-21 and
National Geo Science
Awards-2019.
Technical session
by National Mineral
Exploration Trust
(NMET) and session
on automation in min-
ing will be held as part
of the inaugural ses-
sion of the conclave.
The mines ministry
introduced the con-
cept of the national
mining conclave in
2016 with an aim to
provide a platform for
interaction among dif-
ferent stakeholders
like the central gov-
ernment officers who
are policy makers,
state government of-
ficers, the real execu-
tors in the auction re-
gime, industry and the
industry associations.
NEW MINE BLOCKS
TO STATE
As part of the
afternoon session,
the award function in-
cludes presenting new
mine blocks to state
governments and the
Ministry of Coal and
providing incentive to
state governments for
successful auction and
identification of blocks
New Delhi( Agencies):
Elon Musk, the chief
executive officer of Te-
sla and the world’s rich-
est person, said on Fri-
day he was terminating
his $44 billion deal to
buy Twitter because the
social media company
had breached multiple
provisions of the merg-
er agreement.
Twitter’s chairman,
Bret Taylor said on the
micro-blogging plat-
form that the board
planned to pursue legal
action to enforce the
merger agreement.
“The Twitter Board
is committed to closing
the transaction on the
price and terms agreed
upon with Mr. Musk…,”
he wrote.
In a filing, Musk’s
lawyers said Twitter
had failed or refused to
respond to multiple re-
quests for information
on fake or spam ac-
counts on the platform,
which is fundamental
to the company’s busi-
ness performance.
“Twitter is in mate-
rial breach of multiple
provisions of that
Agreement, appears to
have made false and
misleading representa-
tions upon which Mr.
Musk relied when en-
tering into the Merger
Agreement,” the filing
said.
Musk also said he
was walking away be-
cause Twitter fired
high-ranking execu-
tives and one-third of
the talent acquisition
team, breaching Twit-
ter’s obligation to “pre-
serve substantially in-
tact the material com-
ponents of its current
business organization.”
Twitter vows legal fight after
Musk pulls out of $44 bn deal
FEUD
The Twitter Board is
committed to closing
the transaction on the
price and terms agreed upon
with Mr. Musk.
—Bret Taylor, Twitter’s chairman

Disputed mergers and
acquisitions that land
in Delaware courts
more often than not
end up with the com-
panies re-negotiating
deals or the acquirer
paying the target a set-
tlement to walk away,
rather than a judge
ordering that a transac-
tion be completed.
That is because target
companies are often
keen to resolve the un-
certainty around their
future and move on.
DIGITAL AD WOES
Musk’s abandonment and Twitter’s promise to fight to
complete it casts a pall of uncertainty over the company’s
future and its stock price during a time when worries
about rising interest rates and a potential recession have
hammered Wall Street. Shares of rivals Alphabet, Meta
Platforms, Snap and Pinterest have tumble 45% on aver-
age in 2022, while Twitter’s stock has declined just 15%
in that time, buoyed in recent months by the Musk deal.
Chennai (PTI): A sig-
nificant employment
growth and an average
growth in employee
numbers was witness-
ing a 108 per cent in-
crease in the last two
years in the electric
vehicle space, a study
by CIEL Human Re-
sources services said
on Saturday
.
Engineering depart-
ment has dominated
the EV sector, followed
by operation and sales,
quality assurance,
business development,
information technolo-
gy, human resources
and marketing among
others.
The survey ‘Latest
Employment Trends in
EV sector 2022’ was
conducted among
15,200 employees
over 52 companies by
city-based CIEL HR
services Ltd.
Bengaluru topped
the list accounting for
62 per cent of electric
vehicle talent, followed
by New Delhi 12 per
cent, 9 per cent Pune,
Coimbatore 6 per cent
and Chennai 3 per cent,
the study said.
Electric vehicle play-
ers have hired 2,236 em-
ployees in the last six
months and women es-
tablished their pres-
ence in almost all sec-
tors in the segment.
Quite a few companies
like Kinetic Green, Ma-
hindra Electric, Con-
vergence Energy Ser-
vices, OBEN Electric,
Ampere Vehicles have
women in top manage-
ment positions, it said.
The e-scooter facto-
ry of Ola at Ranipet in
Tamil Nadu was en-
tirely run by women, it
pointed out.
“India is investing
highly in the electric
mobility shift. If India
sustains this green
momentum, the Indian
EV segment will be a
USD 206 billion oppor-
tunity by 2030”, CIEL
HR Services, CEO, Adi-
tya Narayan Mishra
said.
EV sector witnessing significant employment growth, says Report
CIEL HUMAN RESOURCES SERVICES
lll
The survey
‘Latest
Employment
Trends in EV
sector 2022’
was conducted
among 15,200
employees over
52 companies
NEPAL STARTS EXPORTING
CEMENT TO INDIA FOR FIRST TIME
Kathmandu (PTI): For the
first time, Nepal has started
exporting cement to India,
with the initial consignment
of 3,000 bags entering
the neighbouring country
through a check post bor-
dering Uttar Pradesh. The
Palpa Cement Industries
in Nawalparasi district on
Friday dispatched the first
consignment of cement to
India for the first time in
history through the Sunauli
border. The industrialists in
Nepal are excited about ex-
porting cement to India after
the government provided
an eight per cent subsidy
for cement export in the
budget. The Nawalparasi
plant has a capacity of pro-
ducing 1,800 metric tonnes
of clinker and 3,000 metric
tonnes of cement every day,
according to
Jeevan Niraula, public
relations manager of Palpa
Industries. Palpa, which
produces Tansen brand
cement under the banner
of Palpa Cement Industries
Limited, began exporting
cement to India after
completing all the
government procedures,
including quality standards
check.
CCPA: 85 complaints received after
new guidelines on service charge
New Delhi (PTI): As
many as 85 complaints
have been registered
on the National Con-
sumer Helpline (NCH)
after new guidelines
were issued on July 4
barring hotels and res-
taurants from levying
service charge by de-
fault, the Central Con-
sumer Protection Au-
thority (CCPA) said on
Saturday and directed
all district collectors to
take strict action
against the violators.
The top five cities in
terms of service
charge complaints reg-
istered between July
5-8 are -- New Delhi,
Bengaluru, Mumbai,
Pune and Ghaziabad.
Consumer protec-
tion regulator CCPA
has written to chief
secretaries and dis-
trict collectors of
states and union terri-
tories to ensure wide
publicity of the new
guidelines and take ap-
propriate action
against violators for
protection of consum-
er interest, it added.
On July 4, the CCPA
came out with the new
guidelines barring ho-
tels and restaurants
from levying service
chargeautomaticallyor
by default in food bills.
It also clearly stated
what steps consumers
can take in case of vio-
lationof theguidelines.
“From July 5 to July 8,
2022i.E.Aftertheguide-
lines were issued by
CCPA, 85 complaints
havebeenregisteredon
NCH,”theCCPAsaidin
a statement.
HIGHLIGHTS
About 18 complaints were
received in New Delhi, 15 in
Bengaluru, 11 in Mumbai, 4 in
Pune and 3 in Ghaziabad.
The top five cities in terms
of service charge complaints
registered between July 5-8
are — New Delhi, Bengaluru,
Mumbai, Pune, Ghaziabad.
LEGAL BATTLE
Musk’s decision is
likely to result in
a protracted legal
tussle between the
billionaire and the
16-year-old San
Francisco-based
company.
Twitter, however, is
hoping that court
proceedings will start
in a few weeks and
be resolved in a few
months, according to
a person familiar with
the matter.

08
2NDFRONT
A successful businessman is one, who
has the ability to sell his vision to
others.
— Dr Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
Renni Abraham
Mumbai: Maharash-
tra’s Deputy CM Dev-
endra Fadnavis on
Saturday requested
PM Narendra Modi to
relieve senior IAS of-
ficer, Praveen Pard-
eshi, as he wants him
back in Mumbai. He is
currently serving as
member of adminis-
tration at the Capaci-
ty Building Commis-
sion, Government of
India, in New Delhi.
Nicknamed ‘The Dis-
ruptor’, bureaucrats at
the Maharashtra man-
tralaya and even a few
deputy municipal com-
missioners posted in the
Brihanmumbai Munici-
pal Corporation (BMC)
are aghast that Pardeshi
may soon be deputed
back to the state.
A source of the
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) said, “Bureau-
crats share common
angst against Pardeshi.
His style of disruptive
decision-making chal-
lenges the existing sta-
tus quo. One deputy mu-
nicipal commissioner
actually asked me to
prevent Pardeshi’s re-
turn to Mumbai.”
Without a doubt,
Pardeshi has earned his
nickname of ‘The Dis-
ruptor’. During Kerala
floods of 2018, he headed
the War Room in the
Chief Minister’s Office
(CMO)underthenChief
Minister Devendra Fad-
navis. The CM deployed
himtoKeralainorderto
ensure delivery of medi-
cal and essential sup-
plies to flood victims.
A KPMG associate,
who worked with Pard-
eshi at the time, told
First India, “Our team
was tasked by sir (Pard-
eshi) to bring down the
total time taken by Cor-
porate Social Responsi-
bility (CSR) sanction of
funds through corpo-
rates for relief material.
It was 72 hours as per
convention. After ‘dis-
ruption’, this timeline
was brought down to 24
hours. It was a disrup-
tion we are proud of.”
During his tenure as
BMC chief, Pardeshi’s
initiatives including fire
brigadeefficiency
,reduc-
ing BEST basic bus fares
to five rupees, succeeded
in increasing revenues
for the civic body, sur-
prising everyone.
He was transferred
out of BMC and even
overlooked for promo-
tion to the post of chief
secretary of Maharash-
tra under the previous
Maha Vikas Aghadi
(MVA) regime.
It was Fadnavis then
who requested PM Modi
to accommodate Pard-
eshi, who was then de-
puted to the Ministry of
Personnel and from
where he is likely to be
transferred back to Ma-
harashtra.
IAS Pardeshi to be deputed back to Maha?
Request reportedly put forth to
PM Modi by Dy CM Fadnavis
Three die, 47 fall ill after
drinking polluted well
water in Amravati dist
Mumbai: Three peo-
ple died and 47 fell ill
after drinking pol-
luted water from
open wells in two vil-
lages of Amravati dis-
trict.
A statement issued
by the Chief Minister’s
Office (CMO) stated, the
affected people be-
longed to Paach Dongri
and Koylari villages of
Melaghat in Amravati.
Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde has an-
nounced ex-gratia of Rs
5 lakh each to the kin of
the deceased.
Earlier in the day,
Shinde, who is current-
ly in Delhi, phoned the
collector of Amravati
and directed that medi-
cal treatment be pro-
vided to the affected
persons at the earliest
and if needed, they be
admitted to a private
hospital, the statement
said.
At least 50 people fell
ill after consuming pol-
luted water from open
wells, and of these three
have died. The victims
suffered from diar-
rhoea.
The district collector
informed the chief min-
ister that condition of
some patients was criti-
cal. To which, Shinde
asked him to make eve-
ry effort to ensure that
no more lives are lost.
Paddy procurement raises eyebrows
in Gondia; investigation ordered
First India Bureau
Gondia: An inquiry
has been ordered af-
ter some public rep-
resentatives in
Gondia complained
of alleged irregulari-
ties in the procure-
ment of paddy from
farmers, claiming
that the target of
4.51 lakh quintals set
before the District
Marketing Federa-
tion (DMF) was met
soon after the pro-
cess began, officials
said on Saturday.
Sunil Mendhe, the
BJP MP representing
Bhandara Gondiya Lok
Sabha constituency,
and local Independent
MLA Vinod Agrawal
both objected to the
procurement process,
which began on July 7.
“At several DMF cen-
tres, the paddy pro-
curement process end-
ed within hours of the
commencement. How-
ever, the same activity
that started the same
day at the Tribal Devel-
opment Corporation
(TDC), the revised tar-
get of which is 3.28
lakh quintals, is still
on and is expected to
continue for a week,”
Mendhe said.
Farmers claimed
that after the procure-
ment process began,
107 DMF-approved cen-
tres met their target
within a few hours and
the portal was shut
down. They ap-
proached Mendhe and
Agrawal, who brought
the matter to the atten-
tion of the authorities.
Taking cognisance
of the complaints by
farmers and the public
representatives, an in-
quiry has been ordered
and a report is likely to
be submitted within
next few days, officials
said.
An inquiry was or-
dered by Collector
Rajesh Khawale, who
directed the concerned
tehsilders to submit
reports by Tuesday.
District Marketing
Officer Manoj Bajpay-
ee said they will go
through the documents
of farmers to authenti-
cate the allegations
and if any irregularity
was found, then action
would be taken against
those responsible.
107 DMF centres achieved their set
targets within a few hours following
which the portal was closed down
17-YEAR-OLD BOY DROWNS WHILE
SWIMMING INSIDE A WELL IN KALWA
110KG CANNABIS WORTH `11 LAKH
CONFISCATED; ONE ARRESTED
TWO CONVICTS BOOKED FOR VIOLATING
PAROLE NORMS IN THANE DISTRICT
MAN BOOKED FOR STORING, TRYING TO
SELL EXPIRED PESTICIDES, HELD
Thane: A 17-year-old boy drowned while swim-
ming in a well in Thane district. Sumit Manoj Mali’s
body was recovered from a well in Kargil Hill area
of Waghoba Nagar in Kalwa on Saturday, said chief
of the regional disaster management cell Avinash
Sawant. A resident of Navi Mumbai, the boy had
gone to the hillock with friends around 7 pm on
Friday and went for a swim in the well. Unable
to gauge the depth of the well, he drowned. Fire
services could not conduct the search operation
due to poor light at night. The body was fished out
and sent for post-mortem and a case of accidental
death was registered.
Mumbai: Thane Police seized 110kg of cannabis
and arrested one person for allegedly smuggling
the contraband. The total value of the seized can-
nabis is estimated to be Rs11 lakh. According to
senior inspector Vikas Ghodke, crime unit V (Wagle
Estate) set up a trap near Kapurbawdi fire station
and intercepted an autorickshaw after receiving
a tip. Later, police surrounded an autorickshaw,
apprehended the driver, and searched the vehicle.
The police team found as many as 10 gunny sacks
containing the contraband.
CRUCIAL READ
Thane: Police have registered offence against two
convicts for violating their parole. The offences
were registered at separate police stations in this
connection. Mohammad Saddam Safique Sheikh,
alias Lassiwalla, of Bhiwandi in Thane district had
been convicted in 2017 and sentenced to prison.
He was granted parole and was expected to return
to the jail on or before June 8 this year. However,
he did not do so. In the second case, Vijay Yadav
of Srinagar Colony in Thane city was convicted in
2019. Lodged at Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai, he was
released on parole and was expected to return to
the jail on of before June 2, which he did not do.
Thane: Police have registered a case against a cloth
agent at Bhiwandi in Thane district for allegedly
storing and attempting to sell pesticides that had
expired. Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided
two godowns in Narpoli on Friday night, seized the
stock, and later arrested the accused, Sharad Nala-
vade. The stock comprised 26,880 kg of pesticides,
worth Rs74,19,000. An offence under Indian Penal
Code (IPC) section 420 (cheating) and others was
registered against him at the police station.
IAS Praveen Pardeshi
WHY GOING IS NOT
EASY FOR SHINDE!
Eknath Shinde’s has
justbeencrownedas
the head of the state, yet
what is the matter that
the whispers in the si-
lence are bothering him
to such an extent. After
all, why does he want to
postpone the expansion
of his cabinet till the
BMC elections? Why is
he afraid of his loved
ones’ displeasure from
now on? Sources reveal
that under the agree-
ment reached between
the BJP and Shinde, a
total of 45 ministers can
be included in the Shin-
de cabinet, out of which
25ministerswillbefrom
BJP
, 13 from Shinde’s
quotaand7independent
MLAs. But what will
happen to those 10 inde-
pendent MLAs who
will not be able to be-
come ministers? Will
they still continue their
support to the Shinde
govt? At the same time, 8
ministers who broke
away from the Uddhav
govt would also like to
remain ministers again.
Recently
,ShindemetPM
Modi and Amit Shah in
Delhi and he has report-
edly been asked to first
prove his worth. That is
to make BMC Shiv Sena
free,. Right now the fight
between Shinde and
Thackeray factions has
deepened over the par-
ty’s election symbol ar-
row and bow and the
matter is with the Elec-
tion Commission. This
might be a big setback
for the Uddhav camp.
That is, the political cir-
cus continues in Maha-
rashtra.
WHY DID SHETTAR
MEET THE PM?
Recently
, BJP organi-
zation general secy
BL Santhosh accompa-
nied a prominent Lin-
gayat leader from
K’taka, Jagadish Shet-
tar, to meet the PM.
T h e
agenda of
this meet-
ing was kept completely
secret,neithertherewas
any mention of this
news on social media
nor was there any tweet
about it from the PMO
itself. But if sources are
to be believed, Santhosh
wants that the VP’s
chair, to be vacated by
Venkaiah Naidu, should
be occupied by a South
Indian. It should be not-
ed that Jagadish Shettar
is the one who cam-
paigned to remove Nitin
Gadkarifromthepostof
BJP Prez in 2012. Later
Gadkari had to leave his
postandwasreplacedby
Rajnath Singh. At the
same time, Kerala Guv
Arif Mohammad Khan
hasalsonotlostcourage.
He has been asking for
anappointmentwiththe
PM for the last 10 days.
Jammu and Kashmir’s
Lieutenant Governor
Manoj Sinha has also
circumambulated Delhi
thrice in the last few
days. At the same time,
63-year-old Mukhtar Ab-
bas Naqvi, the biggest
contender for this post,
has already declared
thathispoliticalinnings
should not be consid-
ered over yet.
SOREN GOVT TILL
WHEN?
Jharkhand CM He-
mant Soren’s MLA
representative Pankaj
Mishraandadozenclose
people and businessmen
of Soren are being con-
tinuously raided by the
ED, money is being
seized, important docu-
mentsarebeinggrabbed,
so how long will he be
spared. If sources are to
be believed, the Soren
government has got life-
line till August 15. Apart
from the continuous
raids of ED-CBI on He-
mant’s close friends, the
sword of the Election
Commission is also
hanging on Hemant. It is
a case of misuse of pub-
lic office as CM. Hemant
is accused of forming a
construction company
in his name as CM and
govtcontractsandleases
wereallottedtothiscom-
pany
. So far, Soren’s law-
yers have responded to
the summons of Elec-
tion Commission, but
now the Commission
wants Soren’s personal
appearance. So far, two-
three summons have
beensenttoSorenbythe
EC in this regard, but
Soren has been avoiding
it till now on the pretext
of hisbusyschedule.But
the ECwants the CM
himself tocomeandpre-
sent his side. Even so far
BJP has not been able to
topple the Soren govt de-
spite its many efforts,
nor has it been able to
break 11 out of 17 Cong
MLAs. The MLAs of
JMM are also not break-
ing away
. But if Hemant
is disqualified by EC,
then to whom will he
handoverhischair?Can
he recommend to the
Governor to dissolve the
Assembly?
WHY DID MOTHER
AND SISTER
SEPARATE FROM
JAGAN?
For the past some,
speculations were
rife in Andhra that all is
not well in Jagan Mohan
Reddy’s family
. With re-
ports of estrange-
mentbetweenJagan
and his sister
Sharmila Reddy
frequently doing
theroundsonso-
cial media
t o o .
HismotherYSVijayalak-
shmi and sister Sharmi-
la played an important
role in the formation of
Jagan’s party YSR Con-
gress. When Jagan was
in jail, it was the mother
and daughter who had
laid the foundation of
the party organization.
WhenSharmilasawthat
therewasnothingleftfor
her to do in Andhra poli-
tics before her brother’s
tall stature, she formed
her own new party
, the
YSRCP
, in Telangana,
where assembly elec-
tions are due next year.
At the same time, Jag-
an’s mother YSR Vijay-
alakshmi has also re-
signed from the post of
honorary president of
the party and shifted to
Telangana with her
daughter. After mother’s
resignation, Jagan has
completecontroloverhis
party
. In the two-day
meeting of the party in
Gunturlastweek,adraft
was prepared under
which Jagan can
continue as
the party’s
life presi-
dent.
DISCORD
IN
K’TAKA CONGRESS
All is not well in Kar-
nataka between
Congress state president
DK Shivakumar and for-
mer CM Siddaramaiah,
who is adamant that
‘Congressshoulddeclare
himthecandidateforthe
postof CM’.Shivakumar
argues that ‘the party
highcommandhasgiven
a lot of opportunities to
Siddaramaiah, this time
bet has been placed on
him.Inviewof thetussle
in K’taka, Rahul Gandhi
had summoned all the
prominent Cong leaders
to Delhi in past and he
had advocated a collec-
tive leadership in the im-
pendingelections.Rahul
used to say that ‘after the
election, elected MLAs
should decide who will
be their CM.’ But this
opinion of Rahul is not
acceptable by Siddara-
maiah. He is preparing
to celebrate his 75th
birthday with great fan-
fare in Davangere on
August 3 and wants to
show his strength. Sid-
daramaiah openly says
that ‘he is not a sanyasi
to give up his claim on
thepostof CM’.Siddara-
maiah has invited lead-
ers like Rahul Gandhi,
M Kharge, BK Haripras-
ad, KH Muniyappa and
DK Shivakumar to this
apolitical programme
on his birthday
.
FIRST INDIA SUNDAY SPECIAL
BY TRIDIB
RAMAN
The author is a journalist
and political commentator
and views expressed are
his personal
EKNATH SHINDE
JAGADISH SHETTAR HEMANT SOREN
JAGAN MOHAN REDDY

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MUMBAI, SUNDAY,
JULY 10, 2022
ctress Pooja Hegde is one of the
most talented and popular per-
sonalities in the entertainment
industry
.Shehasmadeamarkfor
herself in the industry with her
talent. She has worked in movies
such as Radhe Shyam, Beast,
Housefull 4, and others. Pooja enjoys a
massivefanfollowingandherfanswaitfor
her photographs to come out in the public
domain. She often treats her fans with a
glimpse of her everyday routine on social
media. Apart from being a talented actor,
Pooja also loves travelling a lot.
Speaking of which, just a while back,
Pooja Hegde shared a photo on Insta-
gram as she headed to Bangkok to enjoy
a vacation. In the photo, the actress can
be seen wearing comfy clothes and smil-
ing. While sharing the photo, she wrote,
“1 month. 3 continents. 4 cities. Let’s go.
#gypsiegirl”. As soon as she posted the
photos, her fans rushed to drop sweet
comments in the comment section.
A
Pooja Hegde
Her post...
R
anbir Kapoor and Vaani Kapoor are cur-
rently gearing up for the release of their
upcoming period-drama film, Sham-
shera, which also stars Sanjay Dutt in
the lead role alongside Ronit Roy, Saurabh
Shukla, and Ashutosh Rana. The trailer of
Shamshera, which was released a few weeks
back and netizens have been swooning over
Vaani and Ranbir’s sizzling on-screen chem-
istry
. It marks the duo’s first collaboration
and they did a sizzling photoshoot for its
promotions which is too hot to handle.
D
ia Mirza Rekhi is a popular celebrity in
the industry. She is in headlines
these days for her upcoming
project Dhak Dhak. Dia
gave a glimpse
of the night
shift schedule
of her shooting
of Dhak Dhak.
She shared her
picture in the
stories section of
Instagram in
which she could
be seen visibly
sleepy
.
S
ara Ali Khan is one of the most talented actress-
es in the industry today and despite the fact that
the actress has only
a few films under
her belt. Currently holi-
daying in London and she
is having the time of her
life. Sara took to her
Instagram stories
and shared yet
another photo
as she shared a
sneak peek of
her workout with her fans. In the photo,
the actress is seen holding a dumbbell in
her hand, while she wore a sports bra
and gym pants. In another photo, Sara
was seen chilling with her friend as
they spent their time at a park.
P
riya Anand,
who made her
Hindi debut in
English Ving-
lish also appeared in
the film Fukrey, is
currently in news for
her sensational com-
ments towards Nithy-
ananda, a Saint guru
and self-proclaimed
‘godman.’
Priya opened up
about Nithyanand
and revealed that she
wants to marry Nity-
ananda Swami. If
asked why, no matter
whatkindof propagan-
da is being done about
him, he is still loved
and worshipped by
thousands of devotees.
She added that if she
marrieshimthenthere
is no need of changing
the last name because
it’s quite similar. While
Priya’s comments have
taken the internet by
storm, it is believed
thatshesaiditinjest
and was joking
about it. Howev-
er, a clarifica-
tion from
the ac-
tress is
await-
ed.
Torchbearerof
ACTION
S
anjana Sanghi
has been grab-
bing a lot of
eyeballs of
late post her perfor-
mance in Aditya Roy
Kapur’s Rashtra Ka-
vach Om. Recently,
the Dil Bechara ac-
tress got candid
about her prepara-
tion for the movie
and called Katrina
Kaif her role model
for action films in In-
dia. Sanjana heaped
praises on the ac-
tress and said that
there have been only
a few actresses who
have done full-
fledged action roles.
Talking about it,
Sanjana said, “When
I was building and
working on Kavya’s
character I tried to
see which women in
Hindi cinema have
done this before. Un-
fortunately
, the refer-
ence points are fewer
because very few
women have done
full-fledged action
parts. But of course,
Katrina Kaif has
been the torchbearer
when it comes to ac-
tion. So in our indus-
try, it would be her”.
She also emphasised
that it was because
of actresses like
Deepika Padukone,
Taapsee Pannu and
Vidya Balan that the
writing of female
characters has gone
a notch higher and
the actresses are also
considered banka-
ble stars.
Heart of Stone
A
lia Bhatt has
wrapped up
the shoot for
her debut Hol-
lywood film, Heart of
Stone where she will
share screen space
with Gal Gadot and
Jamie Dornan.
A few moments
back, she took to her
Instagram space and
shared a slew of pho-
tos as she revealed her
look from the film.
Moreover, she posed
with her co-actor Gal,
and other crew mem-
bers as well. Sharing
the post, she wrote a
sweet note thanking
everyone for the expe-
rience. Sharing these
photos, Alia also
penned a sweet note as
she expressed grati-
tude to the entire team
for the experience. Her
caption read, “Heart
of Stone - you have my
wholeeeeeee heart
(red heart emojis)
Thank you to the beau-
tiful @gal_gadot .. my
director Tom Harper
… @jamiedornan
missed you today .. and
WHOLE team for the
unforgettable experi-
ence. I will be forever
grateful for the love
and care I received and
I can’t wait for you all
to see the film!!!!!.”
‘I WANT TO MARRY HIM’
FLAUNTING ABS
Dhak Dhak
Too hot to handle
Priya Anand
Alia Bhatt and Gal Gadot
Sara Ali Khan
Her post...
Her post...
Katrina Kaif
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ndians have long held
the monsoon in high
regard. Some enjoy it
because it offers cool-
er temperatures that
counterbalance the
summer heat, others
enjoy the scent of the
first rain that falls on the
ground, and yet others enjoy
sipping hot coffee while read-
ing a book on a rainy day
.
In several aspects, the mon-
soon brings delight to the com-
mon people, but it also brings
with it a number of difficulties,
suchasmuddyroads,slickside-
walks,andcloggeddrains.How-
ever, in the long term, it is a
modest price we are all willing
to pay because the advantages
greatly exceed the disadvantag-
es. Monsoon season makes us
feel like little, carefree toddlers.
Thearomaof fresh,moistearth
fillstheairatthisverymoment,
and a soft wind touches our
skin. It makes us feel as though
thereissomesortof hiddenand
unspoken delight.
When the monsoon is ap-
proaching, it causes a kind of
windy breeze, a cloudy mist,
and a happy feeling in
the stomach as it
brings out a fan-
tastic view in
front of our
eyes moving
clouds, splat-
tering rain showers, thunder
strikes,treesandleavesmaking
a humble vow, the joy of seeing
tinyinsects,thedimlightgiving
peace to eyes and most impor-
tantly
, a feeling of relief from
the burning heat of the sun.
Perhaps the most romantic
time of year is during the mon-
soon since it is when hearts
first connect. Even the grief
we feel in our hearts may be
washed away by the rain, in ad-
ditiontothemudonthestreets.
The most affordable yet price-
less date you can have with
your partner or someone you
adore is a stroll in the evening
during a downpour.
While travelling hasn’t tra-
ditionally been connected with
the monsoon, it’s really ideal
for a short vacation outside of
the city while enjoying your
favourite music and the
weather.
Pakoras are similarly
necessary to Monsoon.
Some people may choose
the traditional onion Pakoras
or the aloo ones, or they may
enjoy indulging in the meat
and other non-vegetarian al-
ternatives or even something
fancier like the seafood varie-
ties. With just a dish of pako-
ras, whose flavours are signifi-
cantly enhanced by the little
chilly, wet weather and some
all-time favourite classic songs.
The monsoon provides us
with life as well as water. In ad-
dition to relieving the oppres-
sive summer heat, monsoons
also warm our spirits and sur-
roundings, bringing about a
greater sense of tranquillity in
our lives. The monsoon pro-
vides sufficient fulfilment,
which not only makes humans
happy but also all other living
things and plants.
SHUBHANSHI PATHAK
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
BARISH
BARISH
I
MUMBAI | SUNDAY, JULY 10 , 2022
Yeh Mausam
Yeh Mausam
KI

ccentuate the
Positive, Elimi-
nate the Nega-
tive and latch
onto the affirm-
ative. Akanksha
is a positive and
adaptive person who be-
lieves adaptability is not
imitation. It means the
power of resistance and
assimilation. When
askedaboutherpersonal-
ity, she shared “My life
revolves around my
work, family
, friends and
mydog.Dogshavebound-
less enthusiasm and life
is too short to just have
one dog, I’m a keen dog
lover with a vision of
keeping a house some-
day where I can bring
as many dogs as I can.
Besides being a loving
dog mom I’ve been work-
ing as a model and actor
for the last 6-7 years. My
recent song ‘Aag Laga
made 70 lakhs + views on
YouTube”.
The secret to model-
ling is not being perfect
but about challenging
the odds and wearing
your flaws with confi-
dence.
Becoming a model is a
life full of expenses, diet,
fitness, experience, and
hard work. I too faced ob-
stacles and decided to
fight like a queen, I want-
ed to become not just a
model but a Role model
and set an example in the
modelling world, so that
I can inspire others. Got
full support from my
family and mentor
Gaurav Gaur who along
with my parents taught
me to fly high.
When asked about her
struggles and mistakes
and rewarding moment
of life, the gorgeous diva
said “I wanted to start
from a journey with
Elite Miss Rajasthan,
which actually gives
wings to a dreamer but
now when I am connect-
ed to EMR, every mo-
ment I spend with them
is worth remembering.
Also whenever I bring a
smile to my parents’
faces I feel happy and
that is most rewarding
for me.
UTTKARSHA SHEKHAR
uttkarsha.shekhar@firstindia.co.in
A
WORLD IS HER
OYSTER, SHE IS THE
ETC
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