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- 1. Supriya Sule and Abhishek Bachhan arrive to attend Mulayam Singh Yadavâs funeral on Tuesday. First India Bureau Mumbai: Chief Minis- ter Eknath Shinde on Tuesday welcomed the decision of the Election Commission of India to grant his faction the âtwo swords and a shieldâ symbol, saying it was associated with Chhatrapati Shivaji Ma- haraj and also the old Shiv Sena. Two swords and a shield was one of the symbols the Shiv Sena, founded by Bal Thack- eray, used in the 1967-68 civic polls in Mumbai and elsewhere. The Shinde faction, now named âBalasahe- banchi Shiv Senaâ will be able to use the new symbolintheNovember 03 Andheri East Assem- bly bypoll if it decides to contest the election. However, its ally BJP is likely to field its own candidate against the Uddhav Thackeray fac- tionâs nominee. âBalasahebanchi Shiv Sena is the Shiv Sena of the common man. We accept this de- cision of the EC. We had given priority to the âsunâ symbol, but it ap- proved the âtwo swords and shieldâ. This is the symbol of the old Shiv Sena...This is a Maha- rashtrian symbol. It is the symbol of Chhatra- pati Shivaji and his ma- valas (soldiers),â he added. The rival Sena faction led by Thackeray has been granted âflaming torchâ as its symbol af- ter the EC held last week that the two groups would not be able to use the Senaâs âbow and ar- rowâ symbol following the split. On Monday, the poll body had recognized the Shinde faction as âBala- sahebanchi Shiv Senaâ (Balasahebâs Shiv Sena) but rejected âtrishulâ, âgadaâ (mace) and âris- ing sunâ as its poll sym- bols. Trishul and gada were rejected as they had religious connota- tions. The Thackeray fac- tion too had given trishul and rising sun as its choices. Rising sun is the sym- bol of the DMK, a recog- nized state party . The EC had then asked the Shinde faction to give fresh alternate symbols by Tuesday morning. TheShindegrouphad proposed âpeepal treeâ, âsword and shieldâ and âsunâ as its choices on Tuesday . Shinde faction spokes- person Sheetal Mhatre said the new symbol was a âblessing of Chhatra- pati Shivajiâ and will defeat âevil powersâ. Election Commission allots âtwo swords and a shieldâ as poll symbol to newly named Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena Two swords and a shield was one of the symbols the Shiv Sena used in the 1967-68 civic polls in Mumbai and elsewhere. Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena is the Shiv Sena of the common man. We accept this decision of the EC. We had given priority to the âsunâ symbol, but it approved the swords and shield. This is the symbol of the old Shiv Sena...This is a Maharashtrian symbol. It is the symbol of Chhatrapati Shivaji and his mavalas (soldiers). âCM Eknath Shinde âPHOTO BY ANI MUMBAI POLICE ARREST 5 LINKED TO DAWOOD GANG Mumbai (PTI): The Mumbai Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested five people linked to fugitive don Dawood Ibrahimâs âDâ company in connection with an extortion case, a police official said. The policeâs anti- extortion cell (AEC) had recently arrested gangster Chhota Shakeelâs brother-in-law Salim Qureshi alias Salim Fruit and businessman Riyaz Bhati in an extortion case and charged them under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, he said. The investigation revealed the role of five more people--Ajay Ganda, Feroz Chamda, Sameer Khan, Papa Pathan and Amjad Redkar--leading to their arrest, the official said. Meanwhile, the Maharashtra Anti- Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra Police has arrested an alleged member of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) from Jalna, taking the number of PFI members arrested in the state to 22. Shaikh Umer Shaikh Habib (30), former Jalna district chief of PFI, was arrested late Monday night under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the ATS official said on Tuesday.He was produced before a court in Aurangabad which remanded him in police custody till Saturday. New symbol is emblem of Chhatrapati Shivaji and old Sena: CM Netaji Amar Rahein! Moni Sharma Saifai: Amid a sea of people, including top politicians, across the country, Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav was cre- mated with state hon- ours in his native vil- lage in Etawah district in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. Mulayam, 82, passed away on Monday at Medanta hospital in Gurugram at 8.16 am after a prolonged ill- ness. People chanted âNetaji amar raheinâ as a vehicle carried the mortal remains of Ya- dav for his last rites. LS Speaker Om Birla, Defence Minister Ra- jnath Singh, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, Chhattisgarh CM Bhu- peshBaghel,Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, ex- AP CM Chandra Babu Naidu, Bihar Dy CM Tejashwi Yadav, Baba Ramdev, Anil Ambani, Actor Abhishek Bach- chan other dignitar- ies paid last respect to the socialist leader. P5 New Delhi: Roger Bin- ny , a member of the 1983 World Cup winning team, on Tuesday filed his nomination for the post of president and is likely to get top job un- opposed, Board VP said. Binny, 67, is so far the only candidate to have filed nomination for the post and if no more can- didate emerges, he will replace as BCCI chief onOctober18.JayShah, son of HM Amit Shah, will continue as BCCI secy for his 2nd consec- utive term. Shah will also replace Ganguly as Indiaâs representative at ICC Board. The only Congressman in BCCI cabinet is Rajeev Shuk- la, who will continue as VP . Sports minister An- urag Thakurâs younger brother Arun will now become IPL chairman. 2023 will feel like recession: IMF warns, cuts India forecast New Delhi: Interna- tional Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut Indiaâs 2022 economic growth forecast to 6.8% - down from a January projec- tion of 8.2% and in July estimate of 7.4%. This comes after the World Bank this month down- graded Indiaâs project- ed GDP for current fis- cal to 6.5%. Last month the Reserve Bank of India said it expected a real GDP of 7 per cent. www.firstindia.co.in I https://firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia MUMBAI lWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 l Pages 12 l 3.00 RNITITLE NO.MAHENG/2022/14652 lVol 1 l Issue No.156 OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, NEW DELHI MUMBAI BIG BLOW TO MAMATA DIDI, TMC MLA MANIK ARRESTED BY ED Kolkata: The ED on Tuesday formally arrested TMC MLA and ex-president of WB Primary Education board Manik Bhattacharya in connection with the teachersâ recruitment scam. Manik was held after questioning him overnight on Monday in connection with the case. CHILD STAR OF INDIAâS OSCAR ENTRY âCHHELLO SHOWâ DIES Ahmedabad: Rahul Koli was very much excited to see âChhello Showâ (The Last Film Show), Indiaâs official entry to Oscars 2023, on screen, but days before its release teenage actor who played role of friend of protagonist in Guj film died of leukemia. INFOSYS PREZ RAVI KUMAR RESIGNS, SAYS COMPANY Mumbai: Infosys in a regulatory filing said that Ravi Kumar S, president has resigned from the company on Tuesday. âThe Board of Directors placed on record deep sense of appreciation for the services rendered by Ravi Kumar S,â the officials said. BSE SENSEX 57,147.32 843.79 | NSE NIFTY 16,983.55 257.45 Binny files nomination for BCCI Prez, Jay to be Secy Roger Binny Jay Shah CJI Lalit recommends Justice Chandrachud as his successor âMAHAKAL LOKâ FOR MAHADEV! New Delhi: Chief Jus- tice of India (CJI) UU Lalit on Tuesday recom- mended the name of DY Chandrachud, the sen- ior-most judge of SC, to Union govt as his suc- cessor. CJI Lalit submit- ted his letter of recom- mendation after Union govt, on October 7. CJI Lalit, who was sworn in on August 27 this year, is set to retire on Nov 8. Thereafter, on Novem- ber 9, Justice Chandra- chud will be sworn-in as Indiaâs 50th CJ. Justice Chandrachud will have a tenure of two years and will demit office on November 10, 2024. Justice DY Chandrachud NEW APPOINTMENTS l Justice Prasann Bhalachandra Varale of the Bombay HC appointed as the CJ of Karnataka High Court l Justice Ali Moham- mad Magrey of JK High Court has been elevated as its CJ l Justice Pankaj Mithal was transferred to Rajasthan HC Former UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav cremated with State honours in the UPâs Saifai Top leaders attend last rites of Samajwadi Party supremo, UP declares 3-day State mourning l MODI INAUGURATES MAHAKALESHWAR TEMPLE CORRIDOR l CORRIDOR HAS SHIVA STATUES WITH QR CODE, 108 PILLARS A LAKE l THE 1ST PHASE OF `856-CRORE TEMPLE CORRIDOR UNVEILED Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla pays last respect to mortal remains of former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav during funeral at his ancestral village Saifai, in Etawah on Tuesday. Rajnath Singh, Akhilesh Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav at the last rites ceremony of Mulayam Singh Yadav. Spirituality is contained in every particle and divine energy is being transmitted in every corner of Ujjain. Ujjain has led Indiaâs prosperity, knowledge, dignity and literature for thou- sands of years. âNarendra Modi, Prime Minister First India Bureau Ujjain: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first phase of the Rs 856-crore Mahakaleshwar Temple corridor in Ujjain city of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday even- ing. MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia accompanied him. The new- ly developed corridor at the temple, which has been named as âMahakal Lokâ, measures over 900 metres in length. The corridor has a colon- nade of 108 ornate pillars made of intricately carved sandstones, gush- ing fountains and a running panel of more than 50 murals depicting stories from âShiv Puranâ. More on P5 MAHAKALESHWAR: THE ONLY SOUTH-FACING JYOTIRLINGA The form of Shiva in Ujjain is that of Mahakal â the Lord of Time and Death. Kaal has two meanings in Sanskrit â âtimeâ and âdeathâ. The Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga is among the most eminent of the 12 Jyotirlingas in India. SEEKING BLESSINGS! (T) Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets the priests present during the dedication of the Phase I of the Mahakal Lok Project to the Nation, at Shri Mahakal Lok, in Ujjain on Tuesday. (L) Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs Darshan and Pooja at Shree Mahakaleshwar Temple, in Ujjain on Tuesday. PM Narendra Modi takes a tour of the corridor with Shivraj Chouhan. Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Mahaka- leshwar Temple, in Ujjain on Tuesday.
- 2. NEWS MUMBAI | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 02 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia First India Bureau Mumbai: As part of its ongoing crack- down on illegal sub- stances, the Mumbai zonal unit of the Nar- cotics Control Bureau (NCB) has seized a whopping 11,300kg of drugs from different parts of the country and arrested 58 per- sons in the last nine months, said an offi- cial on Tuesday. The quantity is sig- nificantly higher than the previous year when the Mumbai unit of the federal anti-drug agen- cy had seized 1,780kg of drugs. The agency has also registered 46 cases from January 01 to the first week of October and ar- rested people from Del- hi, Uttar Pradesh, Pun- jab, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Goa among other states, said the NCB official. Seized drugs includ- ed large quantities of cocaine, mephedrone, ganja, heroin and LSD. The official, however, did not specify the col- lective worth of the seized drugs. âBlack cocaineâ is the drug most in demand in the market and sold at Rs20,000 per gram, mak- ing it the most expen- sive narcotic substance, added the official. Mephedrone is sold at Rs3,000 per gram. âBlack cocaine is in highdemandamongpeo- ple in high society . Our focus is on the suppliers and manufacturers of such drugs,â he said. In 2021, the NCB had seized 1,780kg drugs, registered 119 cases and arrested 240 people from different states, he said. Just last week, the NCB arrested six mem- bers of an inter-state drug cartel, including a former Air India pilot as part of an operation led by the Anti Narcot- ics Cell (ANC), which seized 1,200kg of me- phedrone from Thane and Ankleshwar in neighbouring Gujarat. âWith the authentica- tion of the seized sub- stance, this becomes one of the biggest sei- zures of mephedrone in the country this year,â an official had said of the seizure on Friday . Mumbai NCB seizes 11.3kg drugs, arrests 58 people in 9 months WAR ON DRUGS lll Anti-narcotics agency has also registered 46 cases from January 01 to the first week of Oct; nabbed people from Delhi, UP, Punjab, MP, Gujarat Goa Officials found 812kg of powdery white substance during a raid last week. It was later confirmed to be mephedrone. âFILE PHOTO With the authentication of the seized sub- stance, this becomes one of the biggest seizures of mephedrone in the country this year. âAn official HIKE IN QUANTITY Uddhav-led Sena inducts new âmashaalâ poll symbol First India Bureau Mumbai: Workers of the Uddhav Thacker- ay-led Shiv Sena camp on Tuesday visited the memorial of Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray in Mum- bai carrying a flam- ing torch with them, a day after the Elec- tion Commission of India (ECI) allotted âmashaalâ symbol to the party faction. The party workers also visited âMa- toshreeâ, the private residence of former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray in suburban Bandra, with a burning torch in their hands. The Sena chief asked party workers to realize the importance of the new symbol. This is being viewed as the Uddhav Thack- eray campâs efforts to make people aware of the new symbol, ahead of the bypoll to Andheri East Assembly seat in Mumbai scheduled for November 03. The party workers also took out proces- sions with the new sym- bol in different dis- tricts, including Nag- pur and Aurangabad. The apex poll body on Monday allotted âflam- ing torchâ (mashaal) election symbol to the Uddhav Thackeray fac- tion of Shiv Sena, reject- ing their claim to the âtrishulâcitingreligious connotation. In an order on the dis- pute in the Shiv Sena, theCommissionallotted âShivSena - Uddhav Bal- asaheb Thackerayâ as the party name for the Thackeray faction, and âBalasahebanchi Shiv Senaâ (Balasahebâs Shiv Sena) as the name for the Eknath Shinde group of the party . On Tuesday, the Ud- dhav Thackeray faction members, including former Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar, vis- ited Bal Thackerayâs memorial at Shivaji Park in Dadar area and paid respects to the late leader and the partyâs new election symbol. The Uddhav Thacker- ay-led faction will con- test the bypoll to And- heri East seat in Mum- bai on the âflaming torchâ symbol. Theby-election,neces- sitated due to the death of incumbentSenaMLA Ramesh Latke, is expect- ed to be a straight fight between the Thackeray faction and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a first after the vertical split in the Shiv Sena in June this year. NEW BEGINNING Workers visit party founder Bal Thackerayâs memorial at Shivaji Park carrying a flaming torch Workers of âShivSena - Uddhav Balasaheb Thackerayâ faction carry and present a flaming torch at Bal Thackerayâs memorial in Mumbai on Tuesday. It is the groupâs new election symbol. â PHOTOS BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE `30.19L compensation for kin of man killed in crash First India Bureau Thane: The Thane Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has awarded a compensation of Rs 30.19 lakh to par- ents of a 24-year-old man killed in a road accident in 2019. In his order passed on October 07 and made available on Tuesday, MACT mem- ber HM Bhosale di- rected the owner of a generator van and its insurance company to jointly and sever- ally pay the compen- sation to the claim- ants along with an annual interest of 8% from the date of filing of the petition. RS Chahal ap- peared for the peti- tionersâBaldev Sin- gh Gill and Manjit Kaur, the parents of the deceased Krishna Singh Baldev Singh Gillâwho sought a compensation of Rs30.52 lakh. Chahal informed the tribunal that Krishna Gill was travelling with his girlfriend on a scoot- er on the Western Ex- press Highway around 6.30 am on May 19, 2019, when a generator van rammed into the two- wheeler. The couple fell and sustained se- vere injuries, and died while undergo- ing treatment at a hospital, he said. Gill earned Rs2.30 lakh per annum, and the petitioners were totally dependent on him, the tribunal was informed. Counsels Bhupesh Dhumatkar, appear- ing for the owner of the generator van, and HC Thanawala who represented the insurance company, vehemently opposed the claim on various grounds. The compensation awarded by the tribu- nal includes Rs28.98 lakh towards depend- encyloss,Rs16,500each towards loss of estate and funeral expenses and Rs88,000 towards filial consortium. MACT also ordered that the father of the deceased be paid Rs44,000 and the bal- ance amount be paid to hismotherafterinvest- ing Rs15 lakh in a fixed depositforfiveyearsin a nationalized bank. A generator van rammed into a scooter bearing Krishna Singh Baldev Singh Gill and his girlfriend in May 2019; the couple died while undergoing treatment for their serious injuries BJP leader from Beed unit commits suicide First India Bureau Mumbai: Bhagirath Biyani, chief of the Bharatiya Janata Partyâs Beed unit al- legedly committed suicide at his resi- dence on Tuesday. According to a police official, Biyani shot himself in the head with his licensed re- volver at his house in Mira Nagar area which falls under the jurisdic- tion of Peth Beed police station. Biyani,whowasinhis 50s, went to bed on Mon- day night, but did not come out of his room next morning. His fami- ly members broke the door and found him ly- ing lifeless. He was rushed to a hospital, where the doctors de- claredhimbroughtdead. âPrima facie, this seems to be a suicide and police is investing it in every angle,â said Beed Superintendent of Police Nand Kumar Thakur, adding that a bullet wound was found above his ear and fur- ther probe is underway . The BJP leader was suffering from some health issues, said an- other official. Mumbai (PTI): Nearly two-and-a-half years after three people, in- cluding two sadhus (monks), were lynched by a mob in Palghar district near Mumbai, the state Home Department has handed over the investigation of the case to the Central Bureau of Investiga- tion (CBI). Home Minister Dev- endra Fadnavis con- firmed the development to the media on Tuesday . Earlier, the case was being investigated by the state Criminal In- vestigation Department (CID). The incident took place at Gadchinchle village on the night of April 16, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemicwhentwosad- hus were heading to- wards Surat from Mum- bai in a car with a driver to attend a funeral. A mob of villagers stopped them and beat them to death on suspi- cion that they were child-lifters, even as a few police personnel had reached the spot. Biyani shot himself in the head with his licensed revolver at his residence in Mira Nagar area Bhagirath Biyani Police personnel investigate the site of the lyching in Palghar. âFILE PHOTO BMC suggests installation of single body for city road maintenance First India Bureau Mumbai: The Bri- hanmumbai Munici- pal Corporation (BMC), which has been facing criti- cism over potholes on city roads, pro- posed that all infra- structure, including flyovers and bridges should come under its jurisdiction for maintenance. The BMC was mak- ing suggestions dur- ing the hearing of sev- eral public interest litigation (PILs) filed against the pothole menace in the Bombay High Court. The civic body also clarified that not all roads, even in the city limits, come under its jurisdictionâsome, the BMC said, were un- der the management of agencies such as the airport authority, Mumbai Port Trust. It also proposed to have a single planning body which will have an overarching say on the issue of poor roads. During its pres- entation before the High Court, the BMC claimed the agencies didnât give any priori- ty to road repairs that come under their man- agement. The BMC told the court that the âlacka- daisical approachâ of these other agencies put the civic body at in the crosshairs of city residents. The munici- pal body then suggest- ed that to avoid such negligence road infra- structure mainte- nance, including flyo- vers and bridges, should be handed over to the BMC. The civic body told Bombay High Court that all roads are not under its jurisdiction BMC has been promising city residents pothole-free roads for some time. âFILE PHOTO CBI takes over Palghar sadhusâ lynching case
- 3. First India Bureau Mumbai: With the deadline coming to an end for shops and commercial estab- lishments in Mumbai to put up Marathi signboards, the Bri- hanmumbai Munici- pal Corporation (BMC) from Monday started taking action against those who have not yet done. The BMCâs fourth deadline to shops for setting up Marathi signboards expired on September 30. According to Deputy Municipal Commis- sioner (Special) Sanjog Kabre, the BMC has started issuing notices to the commercial es- tablishments. âEvery shop is being given seven days after the date of notice issu- ance for setting up the new signboard. If they fail to do so during that time, we will file a case in the court against the owners of the es- tablishments,â Kabre said. The present provi- sion states a fine of Rs2,000 per staffer will be imposed on shops. If the shop owners choose to pay the fine on their own, then the BMC may not approach the court. âAt present, there are more than five lakh shops and commercial establishments in Mumbai and less than 50% of these have Mar- athi signboards. We will take photographs of the shops as evi- dence as we send them notices,â Kabre said. The BMC appointed 60 inspectors at vari- ous ward and zonal lev- els for inspecting the shops. Each of these officers will inspect around 50 shops and the BMC targets to in- spect 3,000 shops daily. Meanwhile, Federa- tion of Retail Traders and Welfare Associa- tion (FRTWA) has written to Chief Minis- ter Eknath Shinde, urging a temporary stay on the order since the issue is pending at the Supreme Court. The FRTWA had ap- proached the Supreme Court challenging the stateâs mandate on con- stitutional grounds. First India Bureau Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has im- posed a fine of Rs25,000 on an advo- cate for submitting objectionable photo- graphs with a petition seeking to quash a rape case. A division bench comprising Justice Re- vati Mohite Dere and Justice SM Modak in an order observed that âno sense of proportion or discretionâ was exer- cised by the petitionerâs advocate while annex- ing the âhighly objec- tionableâ photographs with the plea. A copy of the October 07 order made available on Tuesday . The bench found the photographswhilehear- ing the petition filed by the accused manâs wife seekingtoquashtheFIR and charge sheet filed against him in a rape case. âAdvocates fail to re- alize that these peti- tions are filed or placed before the Registry and get circulated through various departments, exposing the parties in- volved in the photo- graphs,â said the court. It further noted that annexing such photo- graphs was an invasion of privacy of the parties and directed the advo- cate to remove the same from the petition copy . âWe expect all advo- cates to exercise some discretion while annex- ing photographs which are highly objectiona- ble,â said the court. MAHARASHTRA MUMBAI | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 03 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia First India Bureau Mumbai: The Bom- bay High Court has permitted the father of a woman in a veg- etative state after a road accident to with- draw Rs1.15 crore de- posited in court by the Western Railways that owned the errant vehicle. The appeal filed in the case is pending hearing. A division bench comprising Justice Gautam Patel and Jus- tice Gauri Godse in an interim order passed on October 06 observed that it cannot view such matters with the âclini- cal coldnessâ of a civil suit. A copy of the order was made available on Tuesday . The court was hear- ing an appeal filed by the senior section engi- neering, Signal Con- struction of the West- ern Railway that owned the vehicle involved in the accident. It had challenged a February 2021 order passed by the Motor Accidents Claim Tribunal (MACT) 1awarding compensa- tion of Rs69,92,156 to Nidhi Jethmalani. âHere human lives are at stake. Futures are at stake; Nidhiâs future has been completely ex- tinguished. It is for this reason that we believe that an interim order is not only permissible, but is absolutely neces- sary,â said the court. The accident took place on May 28, 2017, when Nidhi (17 years old at the time) was crossing the road near Marine Drive in south Mumbai when a car knocked her down. The victim suffered se- rious injuries and has been in a vegetative state ever since. Advocate Saumen Vidyarthi, appearing for the victimâs father, told the court that the original claim for com- pensation was Rs2.22 crore and the tribunalâs order awarding Rs69,92,156 was on the lower side. Vidyarthi informed the court that apart from the compensation awarded, the Railways had deposited Rs1.50 crore in court, the inter- est of which was used by the victimâs family towards her expenses. He further told the court that as on date, there is about Rs1.15 crore still in court. The court posted the appeal for hearing on October 17. First India Bureau Mumbai: The new diktat to bus conduc- tors by the Brihan- mumbai Electric Sup- ply Transport (BEST), regarding docking of pay if the hand-held ticketing machines are damaged, has not gone down well with its employees. According to a BEST circular, at the end of duty hours when ad- ministration staffers collect the machines, some of them are found damaged. The staffers have observed many in- stances of the plastic flaps over the display to be forced or cut open, affecting its correct storage procedure. âThisâŚalso makes it non-functional in the long run. If machines are found in that condi- tion, the money for re- placing spare parts will be recovered from em- ployees, as per prevail- ing policy and rates,â read the circular. In response, trade un- ions have threatened to take to the streets in protest. âYour office provides you with lap- tops, but do they ask you to reimburse them if some part of it is not functional? The BEST is doing exactly this and has issued a rate card per broken part of ticket machines,â said Shashank Sharad Rao, Convener, BEST Work- ers Joint Action Com- mittee. The BEST listed pric- es of 15 items in the cir- cular, including the LCD and front cover of the ticket dispenser at Rs4,737. The battery, back body, printer bracket and speakers are worth Rs2,214, Rs1,582, Rs 960 and Rs490 respectively . âThe machine may face technical problems and not work properly. In such cases, salaries of employees will get cut. It will be unfair and hence the protest,â he pointed out. BEST to dock pay over broken ticket machines COST OF NEGLIGENCE While bus conductors fume, the transport undertaking says the move is in line with existing policies Trade unions have threatened to go on strike in protest of the new circular. âFILE PHOTO HC nod for father of accident victim to withdraw comp fund With appeal hearing pending, court orders release of pending `1.15 cr redressal amount THE CASE The accident took place on May 28, 2017, when Nidhi (17 years old at the time) was crossing the road near Marine Drive in south Mumbai when a car knocked her down. The victim suffered serious injuries and has been in a vegetative state ever since. The Railways in its appeal claimed that Nidhi was not on the pedestrian crossing and that she was allegedly using her mobile phone while crossing the road. The court in its order said it would get into the factual aspects of the case at a later stage. First India Bureau Mumbai: Police have arrested two peopleandarehunt- ing for seven more who are wanted in connection with raising an inflam- matory slogan dur- ing an Eid-e-Milad procession at Parat- wada village in Am- ravati district, po- lice said on Tuesday . A video of the pro- cession held on Sun- daysurfacedonsocial media, following which a case was reg- istered the next day , an official said. Two of the accused were arrested on Monday , while seven others, who were al- legedly raising the inflammatory slogan âsar tan se judaâ dur- ing the procession, are wanted, he added. A case has been filedundersection505 (statements conduc- ing to public mis- chief), 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riots)andotherprovi- sions of the law. Cops arrest two over inflammatory slogan BMC initiates action against shops for not putting up Marathi signboards The BMCâs fourth deadline to shops for setting up Marathi signboards expired on September 30 Advocate fined `25K for attaching objectionable photos with petition HC slams lawyer: âNo sense of proportionâ while handling plea on quashing rape case CRUCIAL READ ARREST OF THIEVES LEADS COPS TO SOLVE 15 CASES COUPLE HURT BY PLASTER FALLING FROM CEILING Thane: A 43-year-old accountant of the forest department was arrested in Thane for alleg- edly taking a bribe of Rs50,000 for obtaining a no-objection certificate for a land purchase, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said on Tuesday. The accountant initially demanded Rs70,000, but settled on Rs50,000. The buyer, before giving the amount had in- formed the ACB, which nabbed the accountant red-handed. Mumbai: A part of the dilapidated Bandra East skywalk collapsed on Monday while it was being demolished by the Brihanmumbai Munici- pal Corporation. No one was injured. Experts in 2020 recommended that the structure undergo major repairs. But BMC officials decided to reconstruct it, say- ing repairs would cost around Rs7 crore but not increase the lifespan of the skywalk signifi- cantly. FOREST DEPT OFFICIAL CAUGHT ACCEPTING BRIBE PART OF BANDRA (E) SKYWALK FALLS, NO INJURIES REPORTED Mumbai: A man stabbed his estranged wife at the Churchgate railway station in Mumbai on Tuesday. The Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protec- tion Personnel (RPG) men, rushed the injured woman to the nearby GT hospital and saved her life and sent her to JJ hospital, where she was operated. The accused, identified as Roshan Naik was produced before a magistrate and is in police custody. MAN HELD FOR STABBING ESTRANGED WIFE AT CHURCHGATE STATION Palghar: Fifteen cases of house-breaking thefts were resolved in Palghar district with the arrest of two men, police said. Gold ornaments worth Rs15.08 lakh were also recovered from the ac- cused. The thieves had allegedly stolen orna- ments worth Rs64,000 from a house in Kelva area, Superintendent of Police Balasaheb Patil told reporters on Mon- day and were nabbed with the help of CCTV footage. Thane: Akash Karo- tia (26) and his wife Manisha (22) were was injured inside a building when the plaster of the ceiling situated col- lapsed in Thane city on Tuesday, regional dis- aster management cell (RDMC) chief Avinash Sawant said on Tuesday. The incident took place at around 10.30 am in the Chikalwadi area of Kopri. The injured cou- ple was rushed to the hospital. RDMC helped clear the debris. Thane: A case has been lodged against 33 people for cheating a cooperative bank in Kalyan by using forged docu- ments to get loans. As many as 26 home buyers, four builders, a real-estate consultant, a housing loan consultant, and a valuer of flats have been booked in the case registered under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust) and section 420 (cheating) and other relevant Sections of IPC, an offical said. 33 BOOKED FOR CHEATING BANK OF `6.3CR BY SUBMITTING FAKE DOCUMENTS
- 4. PERSPECTIVE MUMBAI | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 04 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia l Vol 1 l Issue No. 156 l RNI TITLE NO. MAHENG/2022/14652 Printed and published by Anita Hada Sangwan on behalf of First Express Publishers. Printed at Dangat Media Pvt Ltd, No.22, Dighe MIDC, Vishnu Nagar, TTC Industrial Area, Dighe, Navi Mumbai-400701. Published at Plot No. 3 Scheme C of Manglorean Garden Home, CHS Limited, Survey No. 5, 6C (Part) Ville Parle East, Mumbai 400057. Phone 022-46031417. Editor-In-Chief: Dr Jagdeesh Chandra Editor: Anita Hada Sangwan responsible for selection of news under the PRB Act SPIRITUAL SPEAK For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. âBible IN-DEPTH Nitin Gadkari @nitin_gadkari Today our dream has come true...! Launched Indiaâs first Flexi-Fuel Strong Hybrid Electric Vehicles (FFV-SHEV) which would run on 100% petrol as well as 20 to 100% blended ethanol and electric powertain. Smriti Z Irani @smritiirani To give a fillip to #BetiBachaoBetiPadhao, a component of Skilling in NTL has been introduced as part of the program. Through this initiative, girls will be given skill training in non-traditional vocations thereby making them torchbearers of Women-Led #AatmaNirbharBharat. TOP TWEETS SPREADING HATE: IS THE LAW UNABLE TO STOP MAKERS OF HATE SPEECHES elhi MP Parvesh Ver- maâs alleged call for the boycott of a com- munity is an attempt to keep the commu- nal pot boiling. At a meeting or- ganised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad at Delhiâs Dilshad Gar- den called for the financial boy- cott of a community. Although the community was not named, the reference was obvious as it was to protest the murder of a Hindu youth in which members of another community have been arrested. A case has been registered against the organiz- ers of the event but those who made hate speeches have not been named. The silence of sen- ior BJP leaders over the provoca- tive speeches and also on the public flogging of Muslims in Gujarat is not just intriguing but is also dangerous as was said by the former Supreme Court judge, Justice Rohinton Mistry . Severalsectionsof theIPCand the CrPC prohibit hate speeches butthelawenforcementagencies have been found wanting when it comes to an unbiased execution of those provisions. D ndiaâs External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has emerged as one of the most outspo- ken foreign ministers India has had. His recent statement defending Indiaâs substantial inventory of Russia-made weapons and pointing out the long-standingrelationshipbe- tweenthetwocountriesisone such brutal truth he has told the West in recent months. On a visit to Australia, Jais- hankar told a journalist that for decades the Western coun- tries did not supply weapons to India and opted for a neigh- bouring dictator instead. It is a fact that the western powers cannot deny no matter how much commonality they see in Indiaâs and their own de- mocracies. The US-Pakistan F-16 refurbishment deal is a recent case in point where Washington has ignored In- diaâs concerns in the hope that Islamabad will distance itself from China. Indiaâs ties with the West are continuously coming un- der strain for one reason or another but mostly because it is holding its ground in buying oil and weaponry from Russia and refusing to toe the western allianceâs line of isolating Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. The West is also not amused with India as it has not criticised Moscow for either attacking Ukraine or for the referen- dum it carried out in three Ukrainian states. Also, New Delhi has justifi- ably issued a demarche to be conveyed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over an up- coming Khalistan referen- dum in Canada and ques- tioned Trudeauâs double standards. Trudeau, who criticised Russia for the refer- endum in Ukraine, has so far not said a word on the Khal- istani move which may pose a threat to Indiaâs integrity . INDIA CANNOT BE PUSHED AROUND Indiaâs External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has emerged as one of the most outspoken foreign ministers India has had. His recent statement defending Indiaâs substantial inventory of Russia-made weapons and pointing out long-standing relationship between 2 countries is one such brutal truth he has told West in recent months I ven as West Bengal was show- casing its Durga Puja Carni- val live to the entire world on Saturday especially after Bengalâs biggest festival had obtained the UNESCOâs In- ternational Cultural Herit- age tag, a few hours after that yet another unfortunate inci- dent put the police in a spot and was a matter of concern. CONTROVERSY OVER FLAG DISPLAY According to reports, there wascommunaltensioninMo- minpur since late Saturday . A dispute reportedly started over the display of communal flagsontheoccasionof Milad- un-Nabi. Violence erupted on Sunday . Incidents of vandal- ism, stone pelting and bomb throwing were reported. Sev- eral vehicles were damaged. A large number of police personnel were deployed late at night and the Ekbalpur po- licestationareawascordoned off. The Rapid Action Force (RAF) has also been deployed. The proactive Opposition BJP in West Bengal took al- most no time in plunging into the crisis. No sooner did the incident happen than the Leader of Opposition, Suv- endu Adhikari, wrote to Un- ion Home Minister Amit Shah requesting âurgent de- ployment of Central forces in the wake of Mominpur vio- lence and ransacking of Ek- balpur police station to con- tain law and order situation. âI have written to Honâble Union Home Minister Shri @ Amit Shah Ji Honâble Gov- ernor Shri La Ganesan Ji re- questing them to urgently deploy Central Forces in the wake of Mominpur violence ransacking of Ekbalpur Police Station before the Law and Order situation of WB gets out of hand,â tweeted BJP leader. âI am compelled to write this letter to you at this hour because the gravity of the situation has prompted this urgency . The Hindu commu- nity has come under attack in the Khidderpore Momin- pur area of Kolkata on the eve of Lakshmi Puja. Many shops and bikes belonging to Hindus have been vandalised by hooligans and anti socials. The onslaught has similari- ties to the Panchla violence which happened in June in the Uluberia area of the How- rah district. At that time the violence spread across West Bengal, especially in the Na- dia and Murshidabad dis- tricts,â the letter read. Adhikari wrote he appre- hended that as the West Ben- gal Government is reluctant to act against the perpetra- tors this time as well, as be- cause they belong to a certain community , this time too this may flare up and start to spread across the state result- ing in loss of lives and prop- erty; both Public Private. The State Government has already meekly surrendered in front of the wrath of the goons, who have taken over the Ekbalpur Police Station, he added. If morning shows the day, then the day definite- ly is gloomy. Kindly find an- nexed video of the incident as well as some footage of the vandalism, he stated. Meanwhile, a war of words broke out between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the Opposition BJP on Monday over clashes between two groups in the Khidderpore- Mominpur area of Kolkata, thatleftseveralpeopleinjured. The saffron camp claimed that law and order has wors- ened in West Bengal, draw- ing a sharp retort from the ruling TMC which accused the BJP of trying to vitiate the atmosphere of the state. BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar, who tried to visit the area, was stopped and ar- rested on Monday . Police said clashes broke out between two groups in the Khidderpore-Mominpur area on Sunday evening over some local issues, in which several people were injured. The agitators also staged a protest outside the Ekbalpur police station. Personnel of the police in- cluding those of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) were de- ployed in the area. Majumdar, who wanted to visit the area, was stopped at the Chin- grighata area in north Kolka- ta and was asked to go back as Prohibitory Orders under Section 144 of the CrPC had been imposed in the area. âSukanta Majumdar was later arrested and taken to Lalbazar police headquar- ters,â a senior police official said. Hitting out at the saf- fron camp for allegedly try- ing to vitiate the atmosphere of the state, senior TMC lead- er Sougata Roy said the po- lice had taken all the steps needed to bring the situation under control. âThe miscreants have been arrested. What will Sukanta Majumdar do by going there apart from giving hate speeches? The BJP is trying to vitiate the atmosphere of the state. The BJP should stop politicising every inci- dent,â Roy said. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL DurgaPujaCarnivalâsglory eclipsedbyMominpurflashpoint? E The West Bengal government has been targeted by the Opposition party over the violence in the state, especially after the declaration of the 2021 Assembly election results. This year, the theme of a Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata depicted the post-poll violence that claimed at least 16 lives Even as West Bengal was showcasing its Durga Puja Carnival live to the entire world on Saturday especially after Bengalâs biggest festival had obtained the UNESCOâs International Cultural Heritage tag, a few hours after that yet another unfortunate incident put the police in a spot and was a matter of concern ROBIN ROY The writer is Senior Journalist and former Managing Editor, First India YOU READ IT ON OCTOBER 5, 2022
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- 6. MUMBAI | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 05 INDIA www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia New Delhi (ANI): High- lighting the role of tal- ent, PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India is a young nation with a great innovative spirit and its number of uni- cornstartupshasalmost doubled since 2021. While addressing the United Nations World GeospatialInternational Congress virtually , the PM said, âIndia is one of the top startup hubs in the world with the num- ber of unicorn startups having almost doubled since 2021â a testimony to Indiaâs young talent.â The theme of the sec- ond UNWGIC is âGeo Enabling the Global Vil- lageâNo one must be left behind.â Welcoming International delegates, the Prime Minister said, âthe people of In- dia are happy to host you on this historic oc- casion as we build our future together.â Ex- pressing his happiness at the conference hap- pening in Hyderabad, the PM said that the city is known for its culture and cuisine, its hospital- ity and hi-tech vision.â Sharat K Verma New Delhi: When for- mer Congress President Rahul Gandhi held a press conference during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, in response to a ques- tion, he said that both MallikarjunKhargeand Shashi Tharoor are con- testing the Congress Presidentâselection,and are strong leaders and theonewhowinsamong them can not be gov- erned through remote control.Itmaybetruein the case of Shashi Tha- roor that if he wins, he will not be able to use the remote control. But he will not win, because Mallikarjun Kharge is unofficially the official candidate of the Nehru- Gandhi family. So it is certain that Kharge will win the election of the President and Tha- roor will not be able to get even 10 per cent of the votes. Now the question is, will Kharge not be oper- ated with a remote con- trol? The day Rahul GandhisaidthatKharge and Tharoor cannot be controlled with remote control, Kharge said that he is contesting the election of the presi- dent because no one from the Gandhi family is contesting the elec- tion. Think, when he is ready to fight because no one from the Gandhi family is fighting, then what can be expected of him to make his own de- cisions? Kharge is a sen- ior leader who came from the grassroots and has a lot of experience and yet he will run the party the way Rahul Gandhi would like it to be. But it is a good thing that Rahul Gandhi is po- sitioning an âindepend- entâ president for him. Will Kharge be covertly controlled via a remote? CONG PRESIDENTIAL POLL Mallikarjun Kharge addressing a press conference, in Kolkata. IN THE COURTYARD New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued a bailable warrant against one convict in Uphar evi- dence tampering case for his non-appearance. The court on Sep 5 had issued notice to him on petition moved by the Associa- tion of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy against the trial courtâs judgment reducing his sentence in the case. Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has reserved its order on a plea filed by actor Salman Khan against a Mumbai court order refusing to issue him an interim relief in a defamation case filed by him against his Panvel farmhouse neighbour Ketan Kakkar. Sessions Court had earlier refused to pass a restraining order against his neighbourâs post which Sal- man had moved the Bombay High Court. On Tuesday, the High Court, after hearing the matter, reserved its order. New Delhi: BJP legislator Vikram Saini and 11 others were sentenced on Tuesday to two years imprisonment in a Muzaffarnagar riots case by a special MP/MLA court which convicted them of rioting and other offences. The court acquitted 15 other accused in the case for lack of evidence. The BJP MLA and 26 others were facing trial for their al- leged role in the violence at Kawal village when a crowd was returning after the cremation of two Jat youths. New Delhi: Observing that an accused going to court is âfundamental to the criminal systemâ, the Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a plea which said production of undertrial prisoners before court on every date should not be ordered as a âmatter of routineâ, while raising the issue of safety. A bench headed by Chief Justice UU Lalit said as an idea it is good but the practical application would create a lot of difficulty. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday admitted the pleas seeking âTalaq-e- Hasanâ and all other forms of âunilateral extrajudicial divorceâ to be declared unconstitutional. âTalaq-e- Hasanâ is a form of divorce among Muslims by which a man can dissolve marriage by pronouncing the word âtalaqâ once every month over a 3-month period. UPHAAR TRAGEDY: BAILABLE WARRANT FOR A CONVICT MAN HC RESERVES ORDER ON SALMANâS PLEA AGAINST CIVIL COURT IN DEFAMATION CASE MUZAFFARNAGAR RIOTS: BJP LEGISLATOR VIKRAM SAINI SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS SC JUNKS PLEA SEEKING PRODUCTION OF UNDERTRIALS BEFORE COURTS VIRTUALLY APEX COURT ADMITS PLEAS AGAINST TALAQ-E-HASAN KHARGE TO WORK AS RaGa WISHES? âKOI AAYE YA JAAYE HUMKO FARAK NAHI PADTA HAIâ: NITISH KUMAR ON AMIT SHAH CONG HAS OUTSOURCED CONTRACT OF ABUSING ME: MODI When Kharge is contest- ing because no one from the Gandhi family is fighting, then what can be expected of him to make his own deci- sions? Kharge is a senior leader who came from grassroots and has a lot of experience and yet he will run the party the way Rahul would like it to be. Patna (PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Tuesday sought to make light of Union Home Minister Amit Shahâs visit to Sitab Diyara, the village where Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan was born, on his 120th birth an- niversary. âWhoever may come and go, it does not affect me (koi aae ya jaae humko koi fark nahin padta hai),â was Kumarâs curt reply to journalistsâ queries whether he thought that Shahâs visit was an attempt to appropri- ate the legacy of âJPâ. The JD(U) leader also said he will be in Nagaland later in the day to attend a function held there in honour of the legendary socialist leader. Jamkandorna (Gujarat)(PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Congress has outsourced the contract of abusing him. Addressing a rally in Jam- kandorna town of Rajkot district in Gujarat ahead of the state Assembly polls due this year-end, Modi warned BJP workers and supporters to be aware of the Congress which, he said, has stopped abusing him and is âworking silentlyâ to capture rural votes. âIn the last 20 years, those who were against Gujarat left no stone unturned to defame the state. They hurled choicest abuses against me, including calling me maut ka saudagar,â the prime minister said. âIndia a young nation with a great innovative spiritâ âDisciplessacrificedJPâs ideology,sidedwithCongâ Top leaders pay respects at Mulayam Singh Yadavâs cremation Saifai (PTI): Defence Minister Rajnath Sin- gh, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, and NCP chief Sharad Pawar were among those who joined thousands of people at the funeral of Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday . RajasthanCMAshok Gehlot, his Chhattis- garh counterpart Bhu- pesh Baghel, Telanga- na CM K Chandrashek- ar Rao and Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, former Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath, Telugu Desam Party chief N Chan- drababu Naidu, and Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav were among the leaders from various states who paid their tributes to the socialist leader. NCP leader Praful Patel, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Kar- at and the Left partyâs Sitaram Yechury were among the others who paid their respects at theSaifaiMelaGround. UP Deputy CMs Kes- hav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak were seen offering their condolences to Yadavâs son Akhilesh Yadav. Minister Jitin Prasada, too, took part in the funeral rites. Businessman Anil Ambani, Yadavâs broth- er and Pragatisheel Sa- majwadi Party (Lohia) founder Shivpal Yadav, senior UP Congress leader Pramod Tiwari, NCP leader Supriya Sule, RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait, and senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh were pre- sent as Mulayam was to consigned to flames. Al Huda Trust terror funding: NIA raids 18 places in JK,arrests 1 Oh My God! Hanuman told to remove temple in 10 days New Delhi (ANI): The NIA on Tuesday con- ducted searches at 18 locations in JK and ar- rested one person in a case related to suspect funding activities of Al Huda Educational Trust (AHET). The agency carries out searches in Rajouri, Poonch, Jammu, Srina- gar, Bandipora, Shopi- an, Pulwama and Bud- gam districts of Jammu and Kashmir and ar- rested Md. Ameer Shamshi is a resident of the Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir. Shamshi is the Chair- person (Nizam-e-ala) of AHET and acts on the directions of the Chief Patronof theTrust,said the NIA in a statement. Dhanbad (Agencies): Describing a temple as an encroachment, the Railways has sent a no- tice to Lord Hanuman in Dhanbad city of Jharkhand. In the no- tice, Lord Hanuman has been asked to remove the temple within 10 days and hand over the vacated land to the Rail- ways section engineer. This notice has been pasted on the wall of the temple located near the waste dam of the city . Directly addressed to Hanuman ji, the no- tice says that âyou have illegally occupied the railway land. This is a legal offence. If this place is not vacated within 10 days, legal ac- tion will be taken against you.â The last line of the notice says that âconsider it very necessaryâ. Nadda calls for support from all for Himachalâs development Birla on 2-day visit to Surat from today Bilaspur (ANI): BJP National President JP Nadda asked everyone including the Opposi- tion Congress to come forward and extend sup- portforthedevelopment of Himachal Pradesh. Addressing a rally here, Nadda said, âDo not look for BJP, Con- gress (while voting), see who is concerned for you. BJP is concerned for you. I would even ask Congress persons to come and support us. We are given the chance for (stateâs) develop- ment,letusdo,strength- en us. If I make roads, universities -will only people from BJP use them?,â BJP national president said. New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will be on a two-day visit to Surat from Wednesday . During this he will par- ticipate in various pro- grammes in Surat. Ac- cording to the informa- tion received from the Lok Sabha Secretariat, Birla will leave New Del- hi at 5.35 am on Wednes- day and will reach Surat by air at 7.25 am. He will participate in the pro- gramme organized at Bhagwan Mahaveer University at 12 noon. In a veiled attack on Bihar CM, Shah says Nitish switched alliance 5 times to remain in power Sitab Diara (PTI): Un- ionHomeMinisterAmit Shah in an apparent dig at the Mahagathband- han government in Bi- haronTuesdaysaidthat those who claim them- selves to be disciples of Jayaprakash Narayan havesacrificedhisideol- ogy to sit in the âlapâ of Congress for power. At a rally here at the birthplaceof theheroof anti-Emergency move- ment, popularly known as JP, here after unveil- ing a 15-feet high statue of JP , Shah also targeted CM Nitish Kumar. âJP fought for ideolo- gy and no power. But those who do politics in his name have changed sides five times for pow- er and are sitting in the lap of the same Con- gress against which he fought. He (Nitish) is power hungry and for power, he sacrificed JPâs ideologies,â Shah said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi being felicitated by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters during a public rally, at Jamkandorana, in Rajkot on Tuesday. âPHOTO BY ANI Unicorn startups in India almost doubled since 2021: PM Modi Amit Shah unveils the statue of Jayaprakash Narayan on his 120th birth anniversary, as UP CM Yogi Adityanath and others look on, at his ancestral village âSitab Diaraâ, in Saran on Tuesday. BJP president JP Nadda being felicitated in Bilaspur, on Tuesday. âPHOTO BY ANI Police personnel accord gun salute before torching the fire of Mulayam Singh Yadavâs mortal remains at his ancestral village Saifai, in Etawah on Tuesday. âPHOTO BY ANI Kamal Nath Hemant Soren Mallikarjun Kharge Baba Ramdev âFILE PHOTO JK SEPARATIST LEADER ALTAF AHMAD SHAH DIES New Delhi: Jailed Kash- miri separatist leader and son-in-law of late Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, passed away at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. He was shifted to AIIMS from Tihar jail for treatment a few days ago. Altaf Shah, 66, died of cancer in the early hours of Tuesday. In a tweet, Altaf Shahâs daughter said he breathed his last at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi âas a prisonerâ.
- 7. MUMBAI | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 06 INDIA www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia Ahtesham Siddiqui Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Secre- tary Durga Shankar Mishra was greeted by 24 trainee officers of 2021 batch of Indian Ad- ministrative Service and Indian Forest Ser- vice (IFS) 2018 and 2019 batch. On this occasion the Chief Secretary got the introduction of all the trainee officers. Most of the trainee officers were from the engineer- ing stream. The Chief Secretary said that an engineer is a solution finder. In any difficult situation an engineer finds a solution to that situation. Explaining the difference between civil service and engi- neer, he said that an en- gineer is a âmachine based solutionâ and a civil service officer is a âhuman based solu- tionâ. He said that it must be seen in their deci- sions that they will not create any obstacle in the unity and integrity of the country. Apart from this, during the service, efforts should be made to bring change and ease in the life of the common man. It is the responsi- bility of the system to create a positive envi- ronment so that they do not have to struggle for the benefits they get from the government. The 16 trainee IAS that met CS are Jagriti Awasthi, Ankita Jain, Sarthak Agarwal, Shashwat Tripurari, Krishan Kumar Singh, Divya Mishra, Prakhar Kumar Singh, Jagat Sai Rallapalli, Mrinali Avi- nash Joshi, Dr. Pooja Gupta, Dhrav Khadia, Kriti Raj, Shahid Ahmed, Kandarkar Ka- malkishore Deshmukh, Harshita Singh and Himanshu Gupta. Along with this, 8 IFS officers Prakhar Gupta, Sitanshu Pandey, Gau- tam Rai, Vikas Yadav, Vikas Nayak, Jagdish R, Saurish Sahai and Dobriya Chintan Prab- hubhai were present! UP chief secy greeted by 24 trainee IAS officers Cong sheds inertia, eyes pole position in Opposition space Hiriyur/Siddapura (Kâtaka) (PTI): One month into the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Con- gress is looking at some visible gains, with the party donning a re- vived, aggressive look. Currently in power on its own in just two states -- Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan -- the Congress has embarked on the marathon 3,570 km journey eyeing po- litical and electoral re- vival, riding on the en- thusiasm of former party president Rahul Gandhi. Party leaders are up- beat as the yatra has entered its 34th day. They list three clear positive outcomes an activated Congress which has hit the ground running leaving the past inertia behind, an interactive top brass which is directly engag- ing the people, and a mobilised organisation which was dormant. AICC general secre- tary Jairam Ramesh, one of the key drivers of the exercise, sees the yatra as a psychological boost. âI think what the yatra has done is show to the Congress party that we can do it. We are on the roads, on the streets, we are fighting the BJP. We are taking the battle to their c a m p s , â R a m e s h said. Jairam, one of the key drivers of the exercise, sees the yatra as a psychological boost ONE MONTH OF BHARAT JODO YATRA Rahul Gandhi waves to the supporters during the yatra, as Karnataka party chief DK Shivakumar and party leader KC Venugopal look on, at Harthikote, in Chitradurga on Tuesday. âPHOTO BY ANI Digvijaya urges Lalu to participate in Bharat Jodo Yatra New Delhi (PTI): Sen- ior Congress leader Dig- vijaya Singh on Tues- day urged RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav to participate in the Bharat Jodo Yatra for a day for some time, say- ing this would send out a good message. Singh was respond- ing to the former Bihar CMâs remarks at the RJDâs national conven- tion when he had ex- horted all Opposition parties, including âbig partyâ Congress, to cometogethertotakeon the BJP in the 2024 gen- eral elections. Sharing a video of the remarks, Singh said in a tweet in Hindi, âThank you Lalu ji. There is one suggestion. If you join the Bharat Jodo Yatra for a day for s o m e time.â PATEL WAS NOT AVERSE TO JK JOINING PAK: AICC GENERAL SECY CONG ON BACCHE JODO CAMPAIGN... EAM lauds Indo-Australia defence ties Canberra (ANI): Ex- ternal Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tues- day spent an instructive morning with the Aus- tralian Armed Forces as the defense and secu- rity ties contribute sig- nificantly to a free and open Indo-Pacific. âSpent an instructive morning with the Aus- tralian Armed Forces. Our defense and secu- rity collaboration con- tributes significantly to a free and open Indo- Pacific,â Jaishankar said in a tweet. Yester- day, Jaishankar met Australian Deputy PM Richard Marles in Can- berra and gifted a signed bat from Virat Kohli, in a special ges- ture to show the com- mon thread of cricket that binds both coun- tries together. âA pleas- ure to host @DrSJais- hankar here in Canber- ra. There are many things which bind us, including our love of cricket. He surprised me with a signed bat from cricket legend @ imVkohli,â Marles said. EAM S Jaishankar spends time with the Australian Armed Forces as the defense and security ties in Canberra on Tuesday. 3 ARRESTED FOR SUSPECTED HUMAN SACRIFICE MUSLIMS OPPOSE âSHIVLINGâ CARBON DATING PLEA Kochi (PTI): The Two women were allegedly sacrificed as part of black magic to bring prosperity to a village of Pathanamthitta district of Kerala and three people, including a couple, suspected to be involved in the crime, were taken into custody, police said. The two women, who had earned their daily bread selling lottery tickets, were allegedly sacrificed. New Delhi (Agencies): The Gyanvapi Masjid committee opposed the plea filed by the Hindu side demanding carbon dating of the structure they claimed to be a Shivling found inside the Gyanvapi Mosques wazukhana or reservoir. The court will now take the matter for hearing on Oct 14. The petitioners claimed that the âShivlingâ found in the wazookhana or reservoir. Chikkamagaluru (Agencies): Jagadeesha Gowda, a staunch BJP supporter in Karnatakaâs Chikkamaga- luru district, has been ac- cused of keeping 16 Dalit people locked up for days in his coffee plantation. The victims say they were tortured. One of them, a pregnant woman, lost her baby after he assaulted her, the police said. A police case has been registered and the woman is under- going treatment at the district hospital. A case has been registered under the law against atrocities on Dalits naming Jagadeesha Gowda and his son Tilak Gowda, the police said. 16 DALITS TORTURED, LOCKED UP IN KâTAKA, PREGNANT WOMAN LOSES BABY CRUCIAL READ Pakistan minister denies any move to resume rail air link with India Lahore (PTI): Paki- stanâs Railways and Aviation Minister Kha- waja Saad Rafique said on Tuesday that no pro- posal is under consid- eration to resume air and rail link between Pakistan and India. The air and land link between the two coun- tries were suspended following Indiaâs move to revoke the special sta- tusof JammuandKash- mir in 2019. The train â Samjhauta Express â and Lahore-Delhi bus service were also sus- pended. âCurrently, no proposal to resume air and rail traffic between Pakistan and India is under consideration at the moment,â the minis- ter said in a reply to a question during a me- dia talk. Before the rela- tions soared between the two countries, Paki- stan International Air- lines (PIA) had been operating two weekly flights to New Delhi from Lahore. New Delhi (PTI): Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday described health and education as twins and underlined the need to nurture the two for the countryâs present and future well-being. He said healthcare is one of the most impor- tant pillars of nation- building and called for collective effort and greater public- private partnership to ensure its infrastructure ex- pansion in the country . Addressing an event, he noted that Indian healthcare demands are of a great scale and di- versity. Dhankhar called for greater col- laboration between all stakeholders to achieve the âcollective dream of universal healthcareâ. Referring to the gov- ernmentâs initiative in positioning India as a global hub for medical and wellness tourism through the âHeal in Indiaâ initiative, the vice president called for redoubling efforts to utilise Indiaâs poten- tial to become a prime health tourism desti- nation. RecallingIndiaâsexpe- rience with the Covid pandemic, Dhankhar paid tributes to the healthcare workers and scientists for their con- tributions and said In- dia has not only vacci- nated its citizens in a short period, but also exported vaccines to many nations. Thanks to the tireless efforts of thehealthcaresector,In- dia has registered a sig- nificant decline in health indicators such as the âInfant Mortality Rateâsince1990andison course to achieving the SDGs targets, he said. Chandigarh (PTI): The Haryana govern- ment is working on a plan to buy paddy straw at minimum support price in a bid to find a permanent solution to the issue of stubble burning, Chief MinisterMano- har Lal Khattar said on Tuesday . He was speaking at a meeting chaired by Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on crop residue manage- ment and air pollu- tion control in the Delhi-NCR region. âWorking in the di- rection of finding a permanent solution for stubble manage- ment, the state gov- ernment is also mak- ing a plan to buy pad- dy straw at MSP . This will direct- ly benefit the farmers along with giving them an option of earningadditionalin- come,â Khattar said, asperanofficialstate- ment issued here. ED raids premises of officials, biz men in Câgarh Raipur (PTI): The En- forcement Directorate (ED) raided the premis- es of senior officials, businessmen and politi- cians of the ruling Con- gress at different loca- tionsinChhattisgarhon Tuesday , sources said. Chief Minister Bhu- pesh Baghel termed it as an âact of intimida- tionâ. The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not able to fight directly, hence it is try- ing to fight through the ED, Income Tax (I-T) department and the De- partment of Revenue Intelligence, Baghel told reporters here. According to sources, separate teams of the ED conducted raids in state capital Raipur, Raigarh, Mahasamund, Korba and other dis- tricts. The raids cov- ered premises of a dis- trict collector, some senior officials, busi- nessman and politi- cians, the sources said. Baghel said, âThe BJP is not able to fight di- rectly, so is trying to fight through the ED, IT and DRI. I have already said that they will come again and itâs not the last time.â âHealth and edu are twins, need to nurture themâ VP Jagdeep Dhankhar with Dr Sangeeta Reddy, Joint Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals, at an event in New Delhi on Tuesday. STUBBLE BURNING Haryana govt working on plan to buy paddy straw at MSP: Khattar Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar attends a meeting virtually held by Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav on air pollution in New Delhi. âPHOTO BY ANI MEETING WITH DEF MIN MARLES During his meeting with Marles, who is the Defence Minister of Australia, Jais- hankar exchanged views on regional and global security. Jaishankar reached Canberra on Monday after a successful visit to New Zealand. Trainee IAS officers posing with Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Durga Shankar Mishra. New Delhi (ANI): National Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairper- son Priyank Kanoongo on Tuesday said that Con- gress is making children involved in Bharat Jodo Yatra as it has lost the trust of elders. He alleged that the Jawahar Bal Manch, created in 2021. New Delhi: The Con- gress countered the claims of Prime Minis- ter Narendra Modi that the issue of JK was not resolved by Indiaâs first PM Jawaharlal Nehru. Even though PM Modi did not take the name of Nehru, the Congress said he should check the facts first. The party blamed Maharaja Hari Singh, the then ruler of the JK for not acceding to India soon after Independence, but took the decision only after invaders from Pakistan tried to take over the place. âPHOTO BY ANI VINCOV-19,countryâs first anti dote for COVID,ready for phase 3 Hyderabad (Agencies): University of Hy- derabad and CSIR-Cen- tre for Cellular Mo- lecular Biology in col- laboration with VINS Bioproducts Limited, an immunological com- pany based here, have announced the success- ful completion of phase 2 clinical trials of âVIN- COV-19â, touted to be the countryâs first antidote and a cure against SARS-CoV-2 virus. VIN- COV-19 is now ready for market authorization and for simultaneous phase 3 clinical trials, UoH official said. ASTRAZENECA NASAL SPRAY VACCINE FOR COVID FIZZLES TRIAL New Delhi (Agencies): AstraZeneca Plcâs ambitions for developing an easier formulation of its Covid-19 vaccine one that might help curb suffered a setback as the nasal spray failed in an early test. The spray vaccine didnât elicit a strong immune response in the nasal mu- cosa tissue or in the rest of the body of volunteers.
- 8. MUMBAI | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 07 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia Commodity Price Change % Chg GOLD 51,330.00 110.00 0.02 (Per 10g) SILVER 58,990.00 600.00 0.05 (Per 1kg) COMMODITIES Currency Price Change % Chg USDINR 80.32 0.01 0.01 GBPINR 90.93 0.22 0.1208 CURRENCIES How UPI spelling doom for candy business First India Bureau New Delhi: Remember the time when you used to ask for the remaining change amount from the shopkeep- er and got candies instead at a shop. This gesture by shopkeepers was often frus- trating. But now, this prac- tice of giving away candies instead of the remaining change account became prevalent at all shops. Abhishek Patil, growth leader in Cred and Dunzo and founder at GrowthX, said that with the increas- ing usage of UPI, there is no scope for chuttas. Before UPI, shopkeepers would shamelessly trade toffees for loose cash, a transac- tion that wasnât happening other way round. Patil ex- plains that with UPI this practice stopped as people started paying the exact amount thereby eliminat- ing the need for change. As a result, the daily toffee sales got hit. DRASTIC FALL IN TOFFEE SALES UPIs CROSSED MILESTONE z The payment through UPIs crossed milestone of Rs 11 lakh crore in September, PTI quoted the data released by the National Payments Corporation of India. z A total of 678 crore transactions were done in the previous month on the platform launched in 2016 JSW CEMENT TO INVEST OVER RS 3,200 CRORE IN NEW PLANTS New Delhi: JSW Cement is planning to invest over Rs 3,200 crore to establish an in- tegrated green- field cement manufacturing facility in Mad- hya Pradesh and a split grinding unit in Uttar Pradesh. The combined cement capacity of these units will be 5 million tonnes per annum. The announcement comes a day after the company picked up India Cementsâ Madhya Pradesh unit for Rs 477 crore. INDIA A KEY AVIATION MARKET; AIR TRAVEL DEMAND TO BE ROBUST New Delhi: India is a key avia- tion market for the Asia Pacific region as well as the rest of the world and is expected to see robust air travel demand, global airlinesâ grouping IATA said on Tuesday amid the countryâs domestic air passenger traffic inching to- wards pre-COVID levels. After being hit by the pandemic, the Indian aviation sector is on the recovery path and airlines are also ramping up their staff. OIL FALLS OVER 2% ON GLOBAL RECESSION CHINA COVID FEARS New Delhi (PTI): Oil slid more than 2% on Tuesday, extending losses of nearly 2 per cent in the previous session, as re- cession fears and a flare-up in COVID-19 cases in China raised concern over global demand. World Bank President David Malpass IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned of a growing risk of global reces- sion and said that inflation remains a continuing problem. TELECOM DEPT TO MEET MOBILE HANDSET MAKERS New Delhi: With 5G services having been launched in the country, the government has convened a meeting of handset man- ufacturers and telecom ser- vice providers on Wednesday to ensure a smooth transition towards the new technology. Though 5G has been unveiled, mobile handsets in India are not yet compatible with the new technology and their soft- wares need to be upgraded. NPCI JOINS HANDS WITH WORLDLINE TO FACILITATE UPI PAYMENTS IN EUROPE New Delhi (PTI): Those visiting Europe will be able to make pay- ments through UPI as the NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL) has entered into a partnership with European payment services facilitator Worldline. NIPL is the global arm of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). The partnership between NIPL and Worldline is aimed at ex- panding acceptance of Indian payment means across Europe, as per joint release issued on Tuesday. Under the partnership, Worldlineâs QR code-based mecha- nism will allow merchantsâ Point-of-Sale (PoS) systems in Europe to accept UPI payments from Indians using their mobile phones. OTHER STORIES business BRIEFS New Delhi: JSW Energy on Tuesday said its arm JSW Neo Energy has re- ceived a letter of intent from the Himachal Pradesh government for developing the 126 MW Chhatru hydro power plant. âJSW Neo Energy Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JSW Ener- gy Limited, has received a Letter of Intent (LoI) from the Government of Himachal Pradesh for al- lotment of 126 MW Chhatru Hydro Electric Power Plant (HEP) on BOOT basis, with an op- erational life of 40 years,â the company said in a statement. âPTI Mumbai: Reliance Jio re- corded almost 600 Mbps median download speed on its 5G network in Delhi while Indiaâs overall 5G speed hit 500 Mbps as the country rolled out 5G services, a report showed on Tuesday. According to Ooklaâs âSpeedtest Intelli- genceâ report, telecom operators have been test- ing their networks and they witnessed a wide range of 5G download speeds -- from low dou- ble-digit (16.27 Mbps) to 809.94 Mbps. âPTI RELIANCE JIO TOUCHES 600 MBPS 5G SPEED IN DELHI JSW ENERGY TO DEVELOP HYDEL PROJECT IN HP Moscow: Japanese au- tomaker Nissan will sell its Russian assets -- in- cluding a factory in Saint Petersburg -- to the Rus- sian government, the min- istry of industry and trade in Moscow said on Tues- day. The announcement comes after Nissan sus- pended production at the plant in Russiaâs second city in March, shortly after Moscow sent troops to Ukraine. No financial de- tails of the transaction were provided by either side on Tuesday. âPTI NISSAN TO SELL ITS RUSSIA ASSETS TO RUSSIAN GOVT New Delhi: The rupee consolidated in a narrow range and settled 5 paise higher at 82.35 (provi- sional) against the US dollar on Tuesday. At the interbank forex market, the local unit opened at 82.35 against the green- back. It witnessed an in- tra-day high of 82.32 and a low of 82.41 dur- ing the session. It finally ended at 82.35, up 5 paise from its previous close. On Monday, the rupee slipped 10 paise to finish at a fresh life- time low of 82.40. âPTI RUPEE RISES 5 PAISE TO CLOSE AT 82.35 AGAINST US DOLLAR *Rates till the edition went to print. New Delhi: Toshiba India on Tuesday signed a deal with In- dian EV startup EVage to supply its SCiB rechargeable lithium-ion cells to power the next 10,000 EVage electric commercial vehi- cles. With this agreement, EVage has become the first company in the world to use Toshibaâs SCiB technology for delivery vans. EVage is a key supplier of electric vans to global companies like Amazon and Indiaâs largest logistics company, Delhivery, among others. New Delhi: Warren Buffet- backed Chinese electric carmaker BYD unveiled its first passenger car in India, an elec- tric sport-utility vehicle (SUV), marking its entry into the main- stream market amid a broader global expansion. BYD, which already sells electric buses and electric vehicles (EVs) for corporate fleets in India. Book- ings for the BYD Atto 3 electric SUV are open in the country. Deliveries, the company says, will begin in January 2023. New Delhi (Agencies): The funding in Indian start- ups nosedived a massive 80 per cent (year-on-year) in the third quarter (July-Sep- tember period) this year, with the late-stage funding seeing the biggest fall, a re- port showed on Tuesday . Indian startups raised $3 billion in Q3, which was also 57 per cent lower as compared to the previous quarter (Q2) this year. The average ticket size also witnessed a drop across all funding stages, with the late stage seeing the biggest fall of over 70 per cent, from $142 million in Q3 2021 to $42 million in Q3 2022. This indicated that in- vestors are not willing to make large investments until economic conditions stabilise, reports market intelligence platform Tracxn. âIndia is currently expe- riencing a funding slow- down which is expected to continue for the next 12-18 months and the effects of the funding slowdown are expected to intensify going forward,â said Neha Singh, Co-Founder of Tracxn. Executives across the world anticipate a reces- sion in the near future and are making preparations to cut costs. FUNDING IN INDIAN STARTUPS SHRINKS Startupsectorsees80%dropinQ3funding FUNDING SLOWDOWN z Genomics sector saw maximum investor interest in Q3, receiving over $231 million in funding, which is higher than the total funding received in 2021. z The 5 firms that raised funding rounds of over $100 million in the quarter were EarlySalary, 5ire, InsuranceDekho, OneCard, and BookMyShow, with the most active investors being Better Capital, Venture Catalysts and Surge. z 109 startups closing their first funding round, three startups turning unicorns, 39 getting acquired, and two filing for their IPOs. New Delhi: Indiaâs geospatial economy is expected to cross Rs 63,000 crore by 2025, grow- ing at a rate of 12.8%, and will provide employment to over 10 lakh people mainly through geospatial startups, said Union minister of state for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh on Tuesday. Addressing the second United Nations World Geospatial Information Con- gress, the minister said in the current boom of technology-led startups, there are around 250 geospatial startups in India. To provide a fillip, the Indian government has provisioned for a Geospatial Incubator. Singh added that national organisa- tions like Survey of India, Geo- logical Survey of India, National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and National Informatics Centre implemented several GIS-based pilot projects across a range of domains like waste resource management, forestry, urban planning, etc. to demonstrate the applications of Geospatial Technology. The minister said geospatial technology and Geographic Information System (GIS) is going to make a significant impact in the way India has been adopting this technology moving ahead. GEOSPATIAL ECONOMY TO CROSS `63,000 CROREBY2025:UNIONMINJITENDRASINGH Bengaluru: Indian eq- uity benchmarks crashed over 1.5 per cent on Tues- day, marking the third straight day of losses, tak- ing cues from global stocks heading towards 2-year lows on anxiety over quickly rising interest rates, an escalation in the Ukraine crisis, and China stepping up pandemic preparations weighing on sentiment. The BSE Sensex index tumbled 843.79 points to end at 57,147.32, and the broader NSE Nifty index fell 257.45 points to close at 16,983.55. IndusInd Bank, Nestle India, Tata Steel, Tech Ma- hindra, Infosys, Dr. Red- dyâs, Titan, and Reliance Industries were the major laggards in the 30-share Sensex pack. Axis Bank and Asian Paints, on the other hand, saw gains. Following a fourth con- secutive decrease in US stocks, shares fell in Asia, and the dollar rose sharply amid ongoing worries that rising interest rates and geopolitical threats will hamper global economic growth. Nitin Gadkari launches Toyotaâs pilot project on flex fuel-strong hybrid EV New Delhi: Union minis- ter Nitin Gadkari on Tues- day launched Japanese car maker Toyotaâs first-of-its- kind pilot project on flex fuel-strong hybrid electric vehicle (FFV-SHEV) that can run on 100 per cent ethanol.Duringthelaunch, the Toyota Corolla Altis FFV-SHEV , which has been imported from Toyota Bra- zil for the pilot project, was unveiled. Speaking on the occa- sion, Union Road Trans- port minister Nitin Gad- kari said pollution is a big concern in India and the transport sector is contrib- uting to pollution. âTherefore, there is a need to encourage use of electric vehicles and vehi- cles that run on biofuels like ethanol and metha- nol,â he added. Besides Gadkari, union ministers Mahendra Nath Pandey, Bhupinder Yadav and senior officials of Toy- ota Kirloskar Motor were present at the event. India, UAE offer numerous prospects for investments New Delhi (PTI): Com- merce Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday co- chaired the 10th meeting of the UAE-India joint task force on investments in Mumbai, along with Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, member of the Executive Council of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Discussions took place on ways of enhancing bilat- eral investments in key sec- tors like food security , man- ufacturing, infrastructure, energy technology. The momentum between India and the UAE is exceptional, with numerous prospects for collaboration rising investments in vital fields like technology and infra- structure, Union Minister Goyal has said. The two delegations reviewed the status of the negotiations of the India-UAE Bilateral Investment Treaty . Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari drives Indiaâs first Flexi-Fuel Strong Hybrid Electric Vehicles (FFV-SHEV) during its launch, in New Delhi on Tuesday. âPHOTO BY ANI TOSHIBA TO POWER EVAGE ELECTRIC VANS WITH ITS BATTERIES BYD REVEALS ATTO THREE ELECTRIC SUV Closing Bell: Sensex, Nifty crash 1.5% IT, REALTY, METALS WERE WORST HIT Among individual stocks, Infosys was down 2.5 per cent. Shares of Tata Con- sultancy Services (TCS) declined up to 2 per cent after the company clocked 8 per cent net profit in Q2FY23. Among other IT stocks, Tech Mahindra too shed 2.5 per cent. HCL Technologies and Wipro too declined 2 per cent each ahead of their Q2 re- sults. IndusInd Bank, down 3.7 per cent, was the major per centage loser among the Sensex 30. Nestle India, Tata Steel, Dr.Reddyâs, Titan, Reliance Industries, Maruti, and Hindustan Unilever were the other major losers along with the Consumer durables, realty indices were - down 2-3 per cent each. 3RD STRAIGHT DAY OF LOSSES z The NSE Nifty not only dipped below 17,000-mark, but below its psychological 200- DMA (Daily Moving Average) placed at 16,986, yet again. The Nifty 50 finally settled at 16,984 - down 258 points z The Sensex ended with a heavy loss of 844 points at 57,147. BSE benchmark index has now shed 1,075 points in last 3 straight trading sessions. z Apart from the BSE IT index, which declined 2%, the Consumer Durables, Metal Realty were the major losers
- 9. Mumbai (PTI): The âflaming torchâ (mashaal) and âtwo swords and a shieldâ symbols allotted to the factions led by Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde by the Election Commission were once associated with the parent par- ty- Shiv Sena, at dif- ferent intervals be- fore it got the hal- lowed âbow and ar- rowâ symbol. The Shiv Sena, founded by Bal Thack- eray, had successfully contested an election in 1985 using the âflam- ing torchâ symbol which is now allotted to the Uddhav Thack- eray faction âShiv Sena Uddhav Balasa- heb Thackerayâ, by the EC amid the factional feud that began in June. The Shinde fac- tion was allotted the âtwo swords and a shieldâ symbol. Senior politician Chhagan Bhujbal, who was then in Shiv Sena, had won the election from Mazgaon constit- uency in Mumbai on the âflaming torchâ symbol when the or- ganization did not have a fixed poll sym- bol yet. Bhujbal later re- belled and quit Shiv Sena to join Congress. He is now a prominent leader of the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). The âflaming torchâ symbol was used by the Shiv Sena in the past during civic body and Assembly polls. Shiv Sena MP Ga- janan Kirtikar, who has been with the par- ty since its inception, told PTI that most of the candidates of the party got the âsword and shieldâ symbol in 1968 when they con- tested the maiden civic polls, including Mum- bai. In 1985, many can- didates got âflaming torchâ as the symbol, he recalled. The Shiv Sena was founded in 1966 and it took 23 years for the party to get the dedicated âbow and arrowâ symbol. The Sena was rec- ognized as a state party in 1989, which meant it could use a uniform symbol in the state. But earlier, from 1966 to 1989, it con- tested on different symbols in the Lok Sabha, Assembly and civic polls. MUMBAI | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 08 2NDFRONT www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia First India Bureau Mumbai: The West- ern Railway (WR) added 25 extra seats for women in all non- air conditioned sub- urban local trains. The WR in a release said 25 seats in a sec- ond-class compart- ment have been ear- marked in the 11th coach from the Church- gate end (or second coach from Virar end) by providing a parti- tion. The coach is adja- cent to the existing la- dies compartment i.e. tenth from Churchgate end or third from the Virar end. The facility has been implemented from Oc- tober 08, it was stated. According to rail- way officials, the move is expected to provide women a some relief from overcrowding during peak hours. With this, the seat- ing capacity of a sub- urban local train for women has increased to 25.47% from the ear- lier 23.32%, as a train would previously have 273 seats for women of total 1,170 seats. After the modification, the number has risen to 298, a railway official stated on Tuesday. âNewâ symbols are part of Shiv Senaâs history TALE OF CHANGING SYMBOLS Uddhav Thackeray being handed over a flaming torch (mashaal), the new party symbol allotted to the party by the EC for the upcoming Maharashtra bypolls, at his residence Matoshree, in Mumbai on Tuesday. âPHOTO BY ANI âMashaalâ and âtwo swords and a shieldâ allotted to factions led by Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde by the Election Commission were associated with Bal Thackerayâs Shiv Sena before it got the hallowed âdhanush baanâ ONE PARTY, DIFFERENT SYMBOLS MAKING OF AN ICON Yogendra Thakur, who has authored several books on Shiv Sena and Bal Thackeray, in an article in the July 23 issue of Marmik magazine, said senior party leader Madhukar Sarpotdar contested the 1985 Assembly poll from the Kherwadi seat in northwest Mumbai on the âflaming torchâ symbol. Bal Thackeray had campaigned for him. At that time, a flaming torch was placed on the left side of the stage to convey the message to voters about the party symbol, Thakur said. Marmik, a magazine dedicated to cartoons, was edited by Bal Thac- keray and his brother Shrikant in the 1960s when the Sena founder through his caricatures portrayed what he called âinjusticeâ against the âMarathi manoosâ. In the 1985 Maharashtra Assembly polls, while some candidates con- tested on the âflaming torchâ symbol, the others contested on the âbatâ, âsunâ and âcup and saucerâ symbols, Kirtikar said. Chhagan Bhujbal was one of the candidates elected on the âflaming torchâ sym- bol. In October 1970, during a bypoll in Mum- bai, necessitated due to the death of Communist leader Krishna Desai, Wamanrao Mahadik contested on the ârising sunâ symbol and won, Kirtikar said. Explaining the history behind the Shiv Senaâs symbols, Yogendra Thakur said in 1988, the Election Commis- sion of India decided that all political parties need to be registered. Bal Thackeray then decided the Shiv Sena should also be regis- tered. A panel compris- ing Shiv Sena leader Subhash Desai, advo- cate Balkrishna Joshi and Vijay Nadkarni was formed to prepare a constitution for the par- ty with Manohar Joshiâs guidance. Bal Thac- keray suggested some changes in the draft and after necessary amend- ments, the team went to Delhi to present its case before the election body. They submitted all the necessary doc- uments and the party was registered. This had also helped the Shiv Sena get the âbow and arrowâ symbol on which it contested the subsequent elections, Thakur said. FIVE MEMBERS OF COAL MAFIA EXTERNED FROM NAGPUR DISTRICT 2 HELD WITH `1.63 CR GOLD IN UNDERWEAR AT MUMBAI AIRPORT MAN GETS LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR BEATING MOTHER TO DEATH Nagpur: The rural police in Nagpur on Tuesday externed five members of a gang allegedly involved in smuggling coal from Gondegaon coal mines near Kanhan, and threatening local residents, an official said on Tuesday. To stop these illegal activities, Superintendent of Police (SP) Vijay Kumar Magar externed kingpin Umesh Marotrao Pantawne and his associates Balchandra Hariram Bilone, Kundan Omprakash Tijare, Badal Ashok Chawre and Akash Ashok Chawre from the district under Section 55 of the Maharashtra Police Act for six months, the official said. Mumbai: Customs officials seized 3.07 kg gold worth Rs1.63 crore after arresting two passengers who arrived from Dubai at the Mumbai international airport, an official said on Tuesday. The gold dust in wax form was found concealed in the undergarments of the duoâa man and a womanâwho are of Indian origin. The entire gold was recovered in two packets, said the Mumbai Airport Customs official. The arrested persons were produced before a court which remanded them in judicial custody, the official added. Jalna: A Jalna court on Tuesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to life imprisonment for bludgeoning his mother Vridavani Shinde (60) to death with a stick when she refused to sell the household stock of grain and give him the money to buy alcohol. District and session court judge VM Mohite convicted Sakhram Yadaji Shinde of charges under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced him to life imprisonment, and fined him Rs5,000. CRUCIAL READ EASE OF TRAVEL WR adds 25 seats for women in all its suburban local trains The facility has been implemented from October 08 First India Bureau New Delhi: The Su- preme Court on Tues- day refused to inter- fere with the Bombay High Court order on grant of bail to former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Desh- mukh in a money laundering case. A bench, comprising of Justices DY Chan- drachud and Hima Koh- li, said the observations made by the HC in its order will not affect the trial in the case and dis- missed the appeal filed by the Enforcement Di- rectorate (ED). On October 04, the high court had granted bail to the former min- ister in the case observ- ing two components of credits in the bank ac- count of his family trust were not the pro- ceeds of crime. The HC, however, stayed the implementa- tion of its order till Oc- tober 13 after the ED submitted it will chal- lenge the order in the apex court. Two components of credits (Rs10.42 crore and Rs1.12 crore) in the account of a trust con- trolled by the Desh- mukh family , flagged by the ED, were ânot pro- ceeds of crime,â a sin- gle-judge bench of the HC had said in the order. The HC also said the statements given by for- mer Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh and dis- missed officer Sachin Waze alleging that Deshmukh had taken money from police of- ficers for favourable postings were âprima facie hearsayâ. The Nationalist Con- gress Party leader, ar- rested on November 02, 2021, is also facing a cor- ruption case registered by the CBI. Apex court will not interfere with bail to Anil Deshmukh Anil Deshmukh âFILE PHOTO HC had on Oct 04 granted bail to former minister in a money- laundering case RELIGIOUS FERVOUR Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis perform a âJal Abhishekâ of the shivling while offering prayers at Babulnath temple in Mumbai on Tuesday. They participated in the ritual under Phase- I of the âMahakal Lokâ project initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after its recent inauguration in Ujjain. âPHOTO BY ANI âFILE PHOTO At one stage of personal growth, we must shift from a selfish desire to survive to a heartfelt wish to serve and then we will know true success. âDr Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
- 10. decorative frill of lace or gathered ornamenta- tion of fabric adds the beautiful charm of clothing, often used to trim or beautify the wrist or neck. These beautiful frills of shirts and dresses are commonly called Ruffles, these ruffle fashions are often inspired by vin- tage fashion mostly from the 20âs dressing sense. When Britishers used to carry these frills in full fashion and ele- gance. One such example is Henry VIII, when he wore beautiful lace ruffles with full elegance. In the 15th century, ruffles first seemed at the drawstring neck- lines of full chemis- es. They later ex- panded into the independently built ruff of the 16th cen- tury. Bloat- ed, fluffy ruffles may seem feminine, yet their ori- gins are any- thing from feminine. In reality, the ruf- fleâs his- tory can be traced back to the 15th century, when soldiers in Ger- many would cut the sleeves of their uniforms to create a ruf- fled effect that would later come to repre- sent their re- turn from bat- tle. Later, Kings, indigenous women from Oaxaca, presi- dents, and later fa- mous people like Jerry Seinfeld and Rihanna adopted the detailing of this clothing style and donned the fashion world. Ruf- fles are melodramat- ic, bridging costume design and high fashion to become one of the most historically signifi- cant summer fads. In todayâs fashion world, this beautiful modulation of clothes is called flounce. This specific kind of fabric manipulation produces a comparable appearance while using less volume. The word was first known as fronce or frounce, because of this preparation technique. By cutting a curved ribbon of textile and hooking the inner or shorter edge to the garment, a wavy look can be created without gathers or pleats. These beautiful wave stripes can be deepened by different tech- niques and at different parts of the attire. www.firstindia.co.in I https://firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/ thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia 09 MUMBAI, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 BEYOND THE TREND: RUFFLES RUFFLES ARE IN TREND AGAIN AND THIS SEASON IS ALL ABOUT MAKING A TREND THROUGH RUFFLED TOPS, SKIRTS, OR SHIRTS. CITY FIRST BRINGS TO YOU SOME ASTONISHING COLLECTION OF FLOUNCE FASHION UTTKARSHA SHEKHAR uttkarsha.shekhar@firstindia.co.in A
- 11. F A C E O F T H E D A Y SHREYA GOVANDE, Model LEO JULY 24 - AUGUST 23 You love to live close to your family. Best day to buy gold and silver or any precious metal for investment sake. You are a child at heart and never let this child die. You have a big heart and you always help someone if you can. Video gathering is possible as you miss your circle. LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22 Visit a doctor if you have any doubts about your health. Donât attack stress even if you donât have any. Let go of things that are not in your control. You want to have your own house and you will work hard to make your dream come true. Overall a good day. ARIES MAR 21 - APR 20 You are very generous by nature and also you are the backbone of your family. Today is a favourable day for business. You may postpone your study plans. You are very fortunate to have a great friend circle. Be careful of the words that come out of your mouth. SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22 Your spouse is someone who can do anything for your happiness. You are opportunist and this will make you successful one day. There may be delays in property possession and it wonât effect you. You are happy spending whole day at home. Help your mothers at home today. GEMINI MAY 21 - JUNE 21 Your spouse may make you spend more than you expected. Fantastic day for investing money in stock market as you can make fortune. You need help on academic front and you should not shy away from asking. You miss your parents a lot and somewhere fear to loose them. AQUARIUS JAN 21 - FEB 19 You will feel amorous towards your wife. This is the best time try something new with life give yourself a new purpose. Work on your limitations, there can be no better time than this. You have more opposite sex friends than the same and you may be judged sometimes but donât care. TAURUS APR 21 - MAY 20 You need a break from day to tensions and the way to cope up with stress is to meditate. You must create an environment of understanding at home. You will succeed in any sort of examination if you put your heart and soul to it. Promotion can be expected even if other are not. CAPRICORN DEC 23 - JAN 20 Scrumptious food is what you are craving for today. You always maintain cordial relationship with everyone. You workout daily to keep yourself fit. You may start a side business to earn extra money. You are not a jealous kind and you feel happy for others. VIRGO AUG 24 - SEP 23 You are a pro in your field and none can beat you. You give tough competition to people. Many people get inspired by you. You will get special treatment from your dear ones. Take stand where you need to, donât run in the same direction where everybody else is going. Health remains perfect. CANCER JUNE 22 - JULY 23 You care about you lover but somehow hesitate in expressing that care. Donât make friends for money and status rather make friends who will stick with you forever. On social front, you may have to spend some extra money in buying gifts for someone for some specific occasion. PISCES FEB20 - MARCH 20 Spend time talking with likeminded people as it will make you feel good for now. Boisterous behaviour is what everyone needs right now, do whatever you can do to cheer everyone up. You will feel financially comfortable. Your personality will attract many eligible bachelors. SCORPIO OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22 You make sure to make things work your way. Never demotivate someone even if someone is not capable of doing something. You are most wanted by your friends. You can have romantic affair in office and a serious one. You will invest money in clothes and accessories today. YOUR DAY Horoscope by Saurabbh Sachdeva 10 ETC MUMBAI I | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 www.firstindia.co.in I https://firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia e are told and taught, that there is nothing greater than the power of the Human Spirit. We tend to dismiss this as yet another âlectureâ from the grown-ups. Yet, every now and again, when we encounter an incident that defies all logic, it quells any doubts or questions, that it is indeed, the all-conquering hu- man spirit, that is one of the worldâs great saviours. Only recently, the world was amazed when a group of Thai school students along with their soccer coach were found alive inside a cave inundated by a flood, a full nine days after be- ing trapped within! How did they survive? How did they find the courage and the gumption to defy the odds that were so heavily stacked against them? Was it an indefinable higher power? Was it destiny? Luck? Or their sheer will to live? I sus- pect it was the last option. Not unlike Phoenix who rose from the Ashes, the Human Spirit, self-belief and unwaver- ing faith in oneself, make an individual the best possible ver- sion of himself or herself. In life, countless circumstances from the time we are young stu- dents through to when weâre elderly will test this reserve of the human spirit within us and are the one factor that will sepa- rate us, from the rest of this, there is absolutely no doubt. For it is truly the stuff weâre made of on the inside, that will be our making or our undoing. Let us take a prevalent sce- nario that we face as students â bullying. When that tall, enor- mous, insurmountable lad rags us, pokes fun at us, humiliates us, and reduces us to a tiny in- significant spec; it is the human spirit within us that comes to the fore and makes us stand up to this unsavoury denunciation. It is our absolute sense of self- preservation, our most primal need for respect, that makes us disregard various other seem- ingly overpowering factors and gives us strength, courage, con- viction and the guts to stand our ground. Each time we are in a situa- tion where it seems like failure is inevitable â from a modest lit- tle speech we have to deliver at school to our important exami- nations, to that first splash as a non-swimmer in the apparently oceanic pool, to the first day at college as a âfresherâ; ALL of it, and how we cope, handle, and emerge victorious, comes down to the human spirit that resides within us. So how do we know it's there? Running through our veins. Lurking in our systems. Self- belief. The knowledge that the worst outcome of most situa- tions will be ânoâ, nothing worse. That if we donât believe that it is within our grasp, we would have never tried and live to re- gret it. Faith that at the most unexpected, inopportune, and desperate of times, it is this in- tangible power inside us that will come to our aid. Save us, secure us, resurrect us. Students today are faced with insurmountable challenges. The pressures of incredibly un- realistic marks and grades. The peer expectations of being âcoolâ and relevant. The societal sup- positions of vocational, sexual, and various other âtraditionalâ lines are to be followed. This kind of environment has made it extremely difficult for young students to undertake any kind of truthful self-discovery, and follow through with the conver- sion of those unearthed pas- sions into lifelong pursuits. I would hedge my bets with that same âwillâ human spirit be- ing the only recourse and anti- dote to the myriad of burdens that distract and dissuade young children from finding and following their real calling. In simple terms, when the hu- man spirit manifests in a young- ster as courage, conviction and confidence; only then can that individual combat the barrage of predetermined, forecasted and anticipated choices that are often consciously, and almost regularly unconsciously, thrust upon a young individual. Self- belief and strong will then, are essentials for young students to embody . That is the ONLY thing that the twelve young kids captured in that deadly cave had to hold on to. Else, how do you explain their survival? The Human Spirit The Human Spirit W KARTIK BAJORIA (the author is a Jaipur-based Communication Skills Educator Writer)