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On PM Modi’s call, entire world adopted Yoga: Thakur
Hamirpur (PTI): Un-
ion Minister Anurag
Thakur on Tuesday said
it was Prime Minister
Narendra Modi who ex-
plained to the United
Nations General As-
sembly the importance
of yoga and appealed to
the world to adopt it.
“On his call, all the
countries of the world
adopted yoga and re-
solved to celebrate the
International Yoga Day
every year on June 21.
This is a big achieve-
ment for India,” the
minister for informa-
tion and broadcasting
said during a yoga prac-
tice session at Katoch
Palace in Sujanpur
here. People are often
seen performing yoga
in corporate houses, of-
fices, shopping malls
and airports, Thakur
said, adding ‘Azadi Ka
Amrit Mahotsav’ is be-
ing celebrated with the
theme “Yoga for Hu-
manity” at 75 famous
historical heritage sites
across the country
.
Thakur, also the min-
ister for youth affairs
and sports, stressed on
the importance of yoga,
saying it is instrumen-
tal in creating a healthy
societyandahealthyna-
tion. Hence, yoga is also
being promoted along
with Fit India Move-
ment and Khelo India
Campaign among other
initiatives, he said.
As the country cele-
brates the 75th year of
Independence, Thakur
called upon the people
to take a pledge to make
India a world guru in
the next 25 years and do
everything possible at
an individual level to
accelerate development
in every sector.
Along with yoga,
Thakur said India is
also the birthplace of
chess and the country
willbehostingtheChess
Olympiad this year. Ath-
letes from around 188
countries will partici-
pate in the event, which
is slated to begin on July
28, he added.
The PM had on Sun-
day flagged off the first-
ever torch relay for the
Chess Olympiad ahead
of the 44th edition of the
event. The torch relay
will begin from India
every year, Thakur said.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur. —FILE PHOTO
On his (PM’s) call,
all countries
adopted yoga and
resolved to cele-
brate the Interna-
tional Yoga Day
every year on June
21. This is a big
achievement for
India.
—Anurag Thakur,
Union Minister
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Senior diplomat Ruchira Kamboj was on Tuesday appointed
India’s Permanent Representative to United Nations in New York.
Kamboj, a 1987-batch IFS officer, is presently serving as India’s
envoy to Bhutan and will take up assignment shortly, MEA said.
QATAR AIRWAYS’ $1 BILLION LAWSUIT OVER PEELING PAINT
Doha: The head of Qatar Airways on Tuesday accused plane-maker Airbus of acting
like a “bully” as their billion-dollar dispute over peeling paint looked no closer to a
resolution. The airline and leading plane-maker have been fighting in British courts
for months over the paint problem that seen Qatar Airways ground 23 A350 jets.
OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, LUCKNOW, NEW DELHI MUMBAI
Twitter’s board has recommended unanimously that shareholders
approve proposed $44 billion sale of company to billionaire and
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
Musk reiterated his desire to move forward with it last week.
Modi holds talks with
three service chiefs
New Delhi: PM Naren-
dra Modi held a meet-
ing with 3 service chiefs
at his residence on
Tuesday in the wake of
widespread protests
overthenewlylaunched
Agnipath scheme.
Army Chief General
Manoj Pande, Air Chief
Marshal VR Chaudhari
and Navy chief Admi-
ral R Hari Kumar re-
portedly met the Prime
Minister separately for
about half an hour
each. There is no word
out yet on what was dis-
cussed at.
AGNIPATH: CENTRE
FILES CAVEAT IN SC
Centre on Tuesday filed
a caveat application in
SC urging it to hear govt
in petitions filed before
it challenging ‘Agnipath’
recruitment scheme for
defence forces. Caveat
application is filed by a
litigant to ensure that no
adverse order is passed
without being heard.
RaGa TAKES A JIBE
AT PM MODI
Rahul hits out at PM Modi
on Tuesday, saying people
of country are suffering due
to his reforms that bring
“benefits with time” and
alleged that whatever the
ruling BJP describes as good
is fatal for the country.
NATIONAL HERALD CASE
ED questions Rahul
till late night on day 5
New Delhi: Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi
was questioned by ED
for over 10 hours on
Tuesday, 5th day of his
deposition in National
Herald money launder-
ing case.
Rahul Gandhi has
spent over 50 hours at
ED office over five sit-
tings with the investiga-
tors questioning him
over multiple sessions.
It is understood that his
questioning will end on
Tuesday night.
‘YOGA FOR HUMANITY’
(Left) President Ram Nath Kovind performs Yoga on the 8th International Day of
Yoga, at Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Top) Meanwhile, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on a 2-day visit to Karnataka performs yoga at a mass
Yoga event at Mysuru Palace grounds, in Mysuru on Tuesday. —PHOTOS BY ANI
DRAUPADI MURMU, EX-JHARKHAND
GUV, IS BJP’S CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT
Murmu (64), a former Jharkhand governor, will be the
first tribal woman to occupy the top constitutional post
if she is elected, a strong possibility as numbers are
stacked in the favour of the BJP-led NDA.
THE NEXT LADY
PRESIDENT!
New Delhi: BJP parlia-
mentary board on Tues-
day named Draupadi
Murmu, a tribal leader
of party from Odisha, as
ruling NDA’s candidate
for presidential elec-
tion. BJP chief JP Na-
dda announced her
nametomediafollowing
meeting of the party top
brass. Speaking on Mur-
mu’s candidature, PM-
Modi said, “Murmu’s
understanding of policy
matters compassion-
ate nature will greatly
benefit our country
.”
YASHWANT SINHA, EX-UNION MINISTER,
IS JOINT OPPOSITION CANDIDATE
After weeks of discussion among themselves, Oppo-
sition parties on Tuesday unanimously decided that
former union minister Yashwant Sinha will be the
common candidate of the Opposition for the upcom-
ing Presidential elections. Sinha’s name came up
after Sharad Pawar, Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Farooq
Abdullah opted out of the race. Sinha also said that
he will “step aside” from TMC Congress to work for
the larger national cause of greater Opposition unity.
Draupadi Murmu
PM Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari,
JP Nadda, Shivraj Chouhan at BJP HQ in Delhi on Tuesday.
MAHARASHTRA POLITICAL CRISIS
I’M WITH HINDUTVA, WILL NOT
RETURN TO SHIV SENA: SHINDE
l Uddhav calls Maha
cabinet meeting today
l Ajay Chaudhary replaces
Shinde as new party leader
l Rebel MLAs likely to be
shifted to Assam from Surat
Moni Sharma
Mumbai: In a startling
turn of events, Maha-
rashtra CM Uddhav
Thackeray has report-
edly offered to step
down and make way for
rebel minister Eknath
Shinde who, along with
close to 2 dozen MLAs,
has moved to a hotel in
Surat, a day after a blow
to the ruling Sena-NCP-
Cong coalition in MLC
elections where BJP
won 5 seats, with Sena
NCP bagging 2 each.
Meanwhile, Shinde
tweeted that he would
never cheat for power.
Nearly an hour after his
tweet, he dropped Shiv
Sena off his Twitter
bio. Tuesday’s political
drama came amid alle-
gations of cross-voting
by some Sena MLAs.
Shinde is reportedly
miffed with top brass
after he was neglected
in functioning of party
govt. Media reports
also said Shinde and his
followers had com-
plained about the step-
motherly treatment
by Deputy Chief
Minister Ajit Pa-
war in alloca-
tion of funds.

IF SENA READY TO ALLY WITH BJP, THERE
WON’T BE SPILT: SHINDE TO CM UDDHAV
CONGRESS DEPUTES KAMAL NATH AS
OBSERVER TO HANDLE MAHA CRISIS
Shiv Sena leader Milind Narvekar met Eknath Shinde and
other rebel party MLAs in Gujarat’s Surat on Tuesday.
During meeting that lasted for 2 hours, Narvekar made
Shinde speak to CM Uddhav, as per sources. Shinde claimed
he has 35 MLAs with him, adding if Uddhav is ready to ally
with BJP, there won’t be a split in party, sources added.
Police security outside CM Uddhav Thackeray residence in
Mumbai in Tuesday. —PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
Congress on Tuesday deputed
senior leader Kamal Nath as
AICC observer to handle
political crisis in Maha.
Congress decision to
rush Nath to Maharashtra is aimed
at defusing crisis currently faced
by the ruling MVA alliance.
FADNAVIS MEETS AMIT SHAH IN DELHI
The crisis in Maharashtra reportedly owes
much to Devendra Fadnavis,ex-CM from the
BJP, who was in Delhi on Tuesday and met
with party boss HM Shah. Fadnavis is seen as
having facilitated Shinde’s relocation to Surat.
‘WAS NOT AWARE OF SHINDE’S AMBITION’
NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Tuesday
that it was never conveyed that Sena leader
Shinde had chief ministerial ambitions,
adding that a solution to ongoing political
crisis in Maha would be found out soon.
SHINDE SACKED, SAYS SANJAY RAUT
Shiv Sena has removed Eknath Shinde
as party’s group leader in Maha
Legislative Assembly, hours after he
went incommunicado and travelled to
Surat with some MLAs of his party.
BJP’S BHUPENDER TO HANDLE IN MAHA
BJP has entrusted Bhupender Yadav
and Mangal Lodha to keep an eye on the
developments in Maharashtra. A political
storm started in Maha after Shinde
revolted against MVA government.
Uddhav Thackeray
Eknath Shinde
CRUCIAL READ
INDIA COURTS SUPPORT ARBITRATION
NEED TO BALANCE GEOGRAPHY, SAYS CJI
New Delhi: CJI NV Ramana in his address
at annual meet of Indo-German Cham-
ber of Commerce on on Tuesday said,
“In recent years, there has been some
apprehension in minds of parties about
increasing interference of domestic courts
in arbitration process. Let me assure you, Indian courts
are known for their pro-arbitration stance.” P7
3 CRPF PERSONNEL
KILLED IN MAOIST
AMBUSH IN ODISHA
Bhubaneswar: 3 CRPF
personnel were killed in a
Maoist attack in Odisha’s
Nuapada dist on Tues-
day, police said. Incident
happened in Patadhara
Reserve Forest in Bheden
block when CRPF person-
nel were going from one
camp to another, they said.
ASSAM CM’S WIFE
FILES DEFAMATION
AGAINST SISODIA
Dispur: Assam CM Him-
anta Biswa Sarma’s wife,
Riniki Bhuyan on Tuesday
filed a defamation suit of
Rs 100 crore against Delhi
Deputy CM Manish Siso-
dia over the PPE kit issue.
The matter is expected to
be listed at Gauhati High
Court on June 22.

CAPITOL
NEW DELHI | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2022
02
BJP filing false
complaints, says
Manish Sisodia
New Delhi (Agencies):
Delhi Deputy Chief Min-
ister Manish Sisodia on
Tuesday accused the
BJP of filing false com-
plaints to stall the work
being done by the ruling
Aam Aadmi Party in the
capital.
Sisodia’s comments
came days after Lt Gov-
ernor V K Saxena gave
his nod to the Anti-Cor-
ruption Branch to probe
allegations of irregulari-
ties in the construction
of seven temporary hos-
pitals in Delhi during the
Covid pandemic.
“We are a hardcore
honest government and
we are not scared of any
investigation. The BJP is
filing such complaints to
stop the work being car-
ried out by the Delhi gov-
ernment in various sec-
tors. “This is an old com-
plaint and former L-G
Anil Baijal had dis-
missed it. However, the
new L-G has given a nod
to probe the matter,” he
claimed during a media
briefing.
Mr Sisodia urged Mr
Saxena not to go by the
BJP’s complaints and
ask for complaints of
corruption from the gen-
eral public. BJP MP from
Northeast Delhi Manoj
Tiwari, who had com-
plained about the matter,
had alleged the Arvind
Kejriwal government
had passed tenders
worth Rs 1,216 crore to
construction seven tem-
porary hospitals, which
was later raised to Rs
1,256 crore.
New Delhi (PTI): Delhi
University Vice-Chancel-
lor Yogesh Singh on
Tuesday said yoga helps
in maintaining the bal-
ance of body and mind.
He was speaking at
the inaugural ceremo-
ny of the yoga week be-
ing organised in the
university to commem-
orate the 8th Interna-
tional Day of Yoga.
The yoga week is be-
ing organised by DU in
coordination with Gan-
dhi Bhavan. At the inau-
gural ceremony
, several
DU officials, including
Singh and Registrar Vi-
kas Gupta performed
asanas. “We decided to
organise this yoga week
as it might motivate
people to adopt it in
their life,” Singh said.
“Yoga and Ayurveda are
preventive in nature.
They help in the preven-
tion of diseases. They
keep the body and mind
in good health.
“Yoga helps in main-
taining the balance of
mind and body. We all
want to stay happy and
positive and yoga
helps us in doing that,”
he added.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
DELHI GOVT TO BEGIN YOGA
DELHI GOVT TO BEGIN YOGA
CLASSES IN SCHOOL: CM
CLASSES IN SCHOOL: CM
New Delhi (PTI): The
Delhi government will
soon roll out yoga
classes in its schools
so that children can
learn and practice it
from an early age,
Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal said
on Tuesday
.
He also said that his
government will con-
tinue to teach yoga to
people for free and
that it was on a mis-
sion to increase the
number of beneficiar-
ies manifold.
On the occasion of
the International
Yoga Day, the chief
minister performed
yoga asanas with hun-
dreds of people at the
Thyagraj Stadium
here. He was joined by
Deputy Chief Minis-
ter Manish Sisodia,
who also holds the
education portfolio,
and members of ‘Dilli
Ki Yogshala’, the ini-
tiative under which
the city government
teaches yoga to citi-
zens for free.
“Everyone in Delhi
should be in good
health. Our goal is
that everyone in every
home should perform
yoga first thing in the
morning. The most
important point is
that yoga should be
taught to children
from an early age. I’ll
also ask the Delhi edu-
cation minister to
launch yoga classes in
schools soon,” he said.
GOVT WILL
CONTINUE TO
TEACH YOGA TO
PEOPLE FOR FREE
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal participates in “Delhi ki Yogshaala” on the occasion of the 8th
International Day of Yoga 2022, at Thyagraj Stadium. —PHOTO BY ANI
Yoga helps
maintain
balance of
mind: DU VC
New Delhi (PTI): Delhi
government is planning
to start a free shuttle
service between the
Secretariat building
and nearby Metro and
bus stations to facili-
tate commute for visi-
tors, officials said on
Monday.
The General Adminis-
trative Department
(GAD) of the Delhi gov-
ernment is carrying out
a survey to assess the
possibility of providing
“free of cost electric
shuttle service” as last
mile connectivity option
to people visiting the
Delhi Secretariat, they
said.
The Delhi government
functions from the Secre-
tariat building near ITO,
where the Chief Minis-
ter and members of his
Cabinet as well as top
bureaucrats have their
offices.
It witnesses a daily
footfall of over 6,000
people, contributed by
government officials,
staff members, police
personnel, citizens, as
well as media persons,
many of whom use pub-
lic transport like Metro
trains and buses to
reach there.
It has been brought
to the notice of this
department(GAD) that
the public, at large, fac-
es “difficulties” as the
Secretariat is “not well
connected” to nearby
major transit hubs,
said an official docu-
ment by GAD.
E-shuttle service from Secretariat to nearby Metro stations soon
BRIDGING THE GAP

It witnesses a
daily footfall of
over 6k people,
contributed by
government
officials, staff
members,
police
personnel
and others
New Delhi (PTI): With
schools set to reopen
from July 1 following
summer vacation, rising
Covid cases in Delhi-
NCR have sparked con-
cerns among parents
even as principals said
there should be no more
disruption in offline
learning and asserted
that all measures are be-
ing taken to get students
accustomed to living
with the pandemic.
According to school
principals, while corona-
virus is posing new
threats, there is a need
for parents to under-
stand that the pandemic
is nearing the endemic
phase and one should get
accustomed to living
with it.
“While the schools are
scheduled to open from
July 1 after the summer
vacations, increasing
Covid cases have become
a major concern for the
parents yet again.
“The state govern-
ment has stated that it is
notinfavourof anymore
disruptions in studies
and aims to continue
education while keeping
the safety of students
and teachers at
prior,” sais Alka Kapur,
Principal, Modern Pub-
lic School, Shalimar
Bagh.
SchoolssettoopenaftervacationamidriseinCovidcases
PRINCIPALS SAY
There is a need for
parents to
understand that the
pandemic is nearing the
endemic phase and one
should get accustomed
to living with it.
Clash breaks out in Noida highrise
after protest over maintenance
New Delhi (PTI): Resi-
dents of a Noida high-
rise were allegedly beat-
en up by goons on Sun-
day after they protested
against the builder’s al-
leged poor upkeep and
refusal to hand over the
maintenance to the resi-
dent welfare association
(RWA).
The police said that
they have arrested sev-
en people in connection
with the incident at
Sunshine Helios in Sec-
tor 78 and registered a
case under Indian Pe-
nal Code (IPC) sections
147 (rioting) and 323
(causing hurt). The po-
lice added that they
were probing allega-
tions that the arrested
individuals were linked
to the builder. Mean-
while, the builder com-
pany, Sunshine In-
frawell denied the alle-
gations and said that it
was the residents who
had hired goons.
No need to panic but exercise caution:
Experts amid rise in Covid cases in city
New Delhi (PTI): Amid
a spike in Covid cases
in Delhi, experts on
Tuesday said there was
no need to panic as the
number of coronavirus
patients getting hospi-
talised was still on the
lower side but asserted
that every individual
should exercise caution
and follow all safety
norms.
Delhi on Monday re-
ported 1,060 new Covid
cases in a day and six
deaths, the highest
in around four
months, and a positivi-
ty rate of 10.09 per cent,
the highest since
January 24 when
the figure was 11.8 per
cent.
The city on Friday
had recorded 1,797 coro-
navirus cases, the high-
est in nearly four
months, along with one
fatality while the posi-
tivity rate was 8.18 per
cent.
Doctors at leading
government and pri-
vate hospitals here con-
curred that though it
wasn’t a “panic situa-
tion” but cautioned
against lowering the
guard, while flagging
that many people had
stopped wearing mask
or stopped putting it on
properly at public plac-
es, either due to a sense
of complacency or fear-
lessness after getting
vaccinated.
Restrictions on vehicular
movement in city
New Delhi (PTI): In
view of rains and an-
ticipating protests by
Congress workers
against the Enforce-
ment Directorate ques-
tioning senior party
leader Rahul Gandhi,
the Delhi Traffic Police
on Tuesday said it has
placed restrictions on
movement of vehicles
on several roads in the
national capital.
An official said diver-
sions have been created
at key points expecting
traffic jams. He said the
rains are unlikely to
cause much disruption
but added protests
could hamper the move-
ment of vehicles.
“If some clashes
break out, temporary
traffic congestions may
occur at some places
but adequate arrange-
ments have been made
keeping all these fac-
tors in mind,” he said.
NCPCR writes to
Delhi CS over denial
of EWS admissions
New Delhi (Agen-
cies): The National
Commission for Pro-
tection of Child
Rights (NCPCR) has
written to the Delhi
chief secretary over
the denial of admis-
sion to children from
the EWS (Economi-
cally Weaker Sec-
tion) category in pri-
vate schools over the
last two years, ask-
ing him to take “le-
gal remedy” in the
matter.
The commission
said prima facie, in
the past two years,
around 18,000 chil-
dren were not pro-
vided admission in
Delhi under the
EWS category even
after allotment by
the directorate of
education.
It also asked the
chief secretary to
intimate it of action
taken within seven
days of the issue of
the letter.
“The Commission
is in receipt of vari-
ous complaints re-
garding denial of
admission to chil-
dren belonging to
EWS category by the
Private Schools of
Delhi even after get-
ting selected in the
lottery under section
12 (1) (c) of RTE Act,
2009.
In this regard after
taking cognizance of
the complaints, con-
cerned Dealing Of-
ficer from Directo-
rate of Education
had been summoned
virtually to seek clar-
ification in the issue
of delay of admis-
sion to children be-
longing to ‘Economi-
cally Weaker Section’
by Private Schools,”
NCPCR chairperson
Priyank Kanoongo
wrote to Chief Secre-
tary Naresh Kumar
Monday
.
Around 18,000
children were
not provided
admission in
Delhi under
the EWS
category
OFFICIAL SAYS
MCD HOLDS
YOGA DAY
EVENTS AT
75 LOCATIONS
GAUTAM GAMBHIR TAKES PART IN YOGA DAY
CELEBRATION AT DELHI’S GANGA RAM HOSPITAL
New Delhi (PTI):
The New Delhi
Municipal Cor-
poraton (NDMC)
organised events
at 75 locations
here on Tuesday
on the occasion of
International Day
of Yoga. The main
event was organ-
ized at Charkha
Park in Connaught
Place where Lieu-
tenant Governor
Vinai Kumar
Saxena along with
NDMC chairperson
Bhupinder Singh
Bhalla and vice
chairperson Satish
Upadhyay per-
formed the com-
mon yoga protocol.
Besides Connaught
place, the NDMC
organised yoga
day events at Lodhi
Garden, Nehru
Park, Talkatora
Garden, Singapore
Park, Sanjay Jheel.
New Delhi (PTI): Lok Sabha MP Gautam Gambhir on Tuesday took part
in an event held at a leading private facility here to mark the International
Day of Yoga. The cricketer-turned-politician performed
various ‘asanas’ along with many doctors, staff and
students at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, officials said.
Gambhir praised the efforts of Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi in making yoga popular all over the world. He
also stressed on increasing research in this field. The celebration was held
by the yoga unit of alternate systems of medicine at the hospital. Many
attendants of patients also voluntarily joined the programme, officials said.

INDIA
03
No rollback of Agnipath; good for Army, youth: NSA Doval
New Delhi (ANI): Amid
protests against the Ag-
nipath defence recruit-
ment scheme, National
Security Adviser (NSA)
Ajit Doval said on Tues-
day that “there is no
question” of a rollback.
“India has among the
youngest populations in
the world; yet it cannot
continue to have an
army with a high aver-
age age,” he told media,
arguing that the new
system will ensure a
more tech-savvy army
.
NSA Doval is the lat-
est among those de-
ployed by the govern-
ment to defend the
scheme for recruiting
‘Agniveer’ soldiers on
four-year contracts
without pension. Only
up to 25 per cent of these
recruits may be given
regular commission of
15 years thereafter. This
has led to violent pro-
tests across India.
On the protests, he
said vandalism is not
justified. “Those doing
this are not the aspir-
ants; the real ones are at
home, preparing.” He
said that while some
veterans had genuine
concerns and were now
changing their minds,
there are people who
“just want conflict in
society to discredit the
government”.
Speaking about the
future of Agniveers let
go after four years, he
asserted that the age
of “settling down” is
around 25-26 now. “Peo-
ple are speaking of one
life-two careers, even
three careers now.
When recruits from
the first batch of Ag-
niveers retire, India
will be 5-trillion-dollar
economy; industry
will need people who
have age on their side.
These men and women
will still be young and
won’t have family com-
pulsions.”
CONTROVERSIAL MILITARY RECRUITMENT SCHEME
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Crucial
Crucial
PM TO VIRTUALLY
ATTEND BRICS
SUMMIT ON JUNE 23
New Delhi: On the the
invitation of Chinese
President Xi Jinping,
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi will attend the 14th
BRICS Summit hosted
by China in virtual
format on June 23-24.
This includes a high-
level dialogue on global
development between
the guest countries on
June 24. The Ministry
of External Affairs said
that BRICS has become
a platform for discuss-
ing and deliberating
on issues of common
concern for all the devel-
oping countries.
CONG’S GHULAM
NABI AZAD TESTS
COVID POSITIVE
Srinagar: Former Chief
Minister of Jammu
Kashmir and senior
Congress leader, Ghu-
lam Nabi Azad tested
positive for Covid-19
on Tuesday. In a tweet,
Azad said, “I have tested
Covid positive today and
am under home quaran-
tine.” Of late there has
been an upward trend
in the number of Covid
cases being reported
daily in the country.
There are, however, no
reports of any fatalities
during the recent surge.
EC DELETES 111
‘NON-EXISTENT’
PARTIES FROM LIST
New Delhi: The Election
Commission of India
has ordered the dele-
tion of 111 registered
unrecognised political
parties that it found to
be “non-existent” and
referred three of the par-
ties to the Department of
Revenue for legal action
for “serious financial
impropriety”, an EC
statement said. This was
the second such action
in the recent past against
registered parties that
have been found violat-
ing the Representation
of the People Act, 1951.
GOLD SMUGGLING
ACCUSED SEEKS CBI
INVESTIGATION
Kochi: Swapna Suresh,
the prime accused in
the 2020 Kerala gold
smuggling case, on
Tuesday wrote to Prime
Minister Narendra Modi
seeking a Central Bureau
of Investigation (CBI)
probe into the matter
as she believes to have
been made a scapegoat
by “several influential
people”. In her letter,
Suresh said many other
accused, like former
principal secretary of
Kerala chief minister – M
Sivasankar, was leading
a normal life unlike her.
THANE POLICE
SUMMONS JINDAL
IN PROPHET CASE
New Delhi: Fresh trou-
ble seems to be brewing
for former BJP leader
Naveen Kumar Jindal
as the Thane police on
Tuesday served a notice
to him in connection
with a new case over
the controversial re-
marks he made against
Prophet Muhammad.
Jindal has been asked to
join the probe on June
25. The case has been
lodged against him by
Mumbra Police Station
on the complaint of
one Mohammed Gufran
Akmal Khan.
OVER 50,000 ITBP PERSONNEL
PERFORM YOGA AT 19,000 FEET IN
SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURE LOCATIONS
ITBP ‘Himveers’ participate in a yoga
sessions at an altitude of 19,000 feet in
Uttarakhand to celebrate the 8th International
Day of Yoga on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI
HRY CM: GOVT JOBS
FOR ‘AGNIVEERS’
POST RETIREMENT
Bhiwani (ANI): Amid the
row over the Centre’s
newly launched Agnipath
scheme for recruitment
to Armed Forces, Haryana
CM on Tuesday said the
‘Agniveers’ after their four
years of service will be
provided guaranteed jobs
in the state government.
CM Khattar participated in
the Yoga Day celebrations
here on Tuesday. Khattar
said, “Those (75 per cent
of Agniveers who would
return after four years)
who want to get Haryana
government jobs will be
given guaranteed jobs.”
SC: APPROACH
REGISTRAR FOR
PLEA’S LISTING
New Delhi (ANI): The Su-
preme Court on Tuesday
asked the petitioner to
mention his plea seeking
an urgent hearing on a
petition seeking directions
to set up a Special Inves-
tigation Team to enquire
about the violent protest
that erupted against the
“Agnipath” scheme. A
vacation bench of Jus-
tices CT Ravikumar and
Sudhanshu Dhulia asked
petitioner-in-person and
advocate Vishal Tiwari, to
mention before the regis-
trar plea seeking an urgent
hearing on his petition.
Mysuru (PTI): Yoga no
longer a part of life, but
isbecomingawayof life,
Prime Minister Naren-
draModisaidwhilelead-
ing the country's Yoga
Day celebrations from
Karnataka's Mysuru.
Addressing the event
at the Mysore Palace
grounds, the Prime
Minister said Yoga is a
problem-solver and
brings inner peace.
The peace from yoga is
not merely for individu-
als. Yoga brings peace to
our society
. Yoga brings
peace to our nations and
the world. And, Yoga
brings peace to our uni-
verse, he said.
The Prime Minister
was accompanied at the
event by Union Minis-
ter for AYUSH, Sarba-
nanda Sonowal, Karna-
taka Governor Gover-
nor Thaawarchand Ge-
hlot and Chief Minister
Basavaraj S Bommai.
No matter how
stressful an atmosphere
we are in, meditation
for a few minutes relax-
es us and boosts our
productivity. So we
should not consider
yoga an additional
work. We have to know
yoga and live yoga and
make it our own, the
Prime Minister said.
Yoga is no longer a
part of life, but is be-
coming a way of life,
he added.
This whole universe
starts from our own
body and soul. The uni-
verse starts from us.
And,Yogamakesuscon-
scious of everything
within us and builds a
sense of awareness, the
Prime Minister said.
Since 2015, the Inter-
national Day of Yoga is
celebrated worldwide
on June 21 every year.
The theme for this
year's Yoga day is Yoga
for Humanity.
Yoga no longer just a part of life,
it’s becoming a way of life: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses yoga enthusiasts during celebration of the 8th
International Day of Yoga at Mysuru Palace in Mysuru on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI
Billionaire Gautam Adani performs Yoga to celebrate the 8th
International Yoga Day in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.
PM LEADS YOGA DAY CELEBRATIONS FROM MYSURU
PROTESTERS
ATTACK INDIA
EMBASSY EVENT
IN MALDIVES
Male (Agencies): Police
in the Maldives used tear
gas and pepper spray to
control a crowd of people
who disrupted a yoga
event organised by the
Indian High Commission,
or embassy, in the capital
Male on Tuesday morn-
ing, an organiser said.
The crowd stormed a
stadium where more than
150 people, including
diplomats and govern-
ment officers, were
taking part in an event
celebrating International
Day of Yoga, attacking
participants and vandalis-
ing the property, one of
the organisers, who did
not want to be named
because he was not au-
thorised to speak with the
media, told media. Earlier,
the protesters brandished
placards proclaiming
that yoga was against
the tenets of Islam. Islam
is the state religion in
the Maldives, a group
of islands in the Indian
Ocean with a population
of about half a million.
Police responded with
anti-riot measures and
later used pepper spray
and tear gas to control
the crowd and secure the
area, Superintendent of
Police Fathmath Nashwa
told media.
 Agniveers have secure future, defence
training will ensure high stature in society
 Regimental system to continue
under Agnipath Scheme
 Raising voice is democracy
but vandalism is not
 'Conflict entrepreneurs' with vested
interest behind Agnipath protest, arson
 Battle of future will be fought with tech,
need young, well-trained armed forces
❍ INDIA’S 153RD SEISMIC STATION
Seismological
observatory in
JK’sUdhampur
First India Bureau
Jammu: Union Minis-
ter, Dr. Jitendra Singh,
inaugurated a Seismol-
ogy Observatory at Ud-
hampur in the Jammu
division on Tuesday
.
Speaking on the occa-
sion, he said Udhampur
has now emerged on the
world seismological
map with the installa-
tion of the latest up-
graded Seismological
Observatory by the Min-
istry of Earth Sciences.
Secretary DST, Dr. M
Ravichandran was also
present during the in-
auguration.
Dr. Singh said that
during the last eight
years under Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi’s
leadership, India has
installed more than 70
such observatories
across the country
, com-
pared to just 80 installed
in over six decades.
While dedicating the
observatory to the peo-
ple, the minister said
that PM Narendra Modi
has laid renewed em-
phasis on the scientific
programmes by prior-
itising science and tech-
nology-based develop-
ments and allocating
sufficient budget to the
science departments.
Healsosaidthatinthe
last 7-8 years, the depart-
ments that previously
did not get due impor-
tance are prioritised.
One such department
brought into the fore-
front is the Department
of Earth Sciences which
used to work in anonym-
ity earlier, he added.
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurates Seismological
Observatory in Udhampur on Tuesday.

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SPIRITUAL SPEAK
Endurance is one of the most
difficult disciplines, but it is
to the one who endures that
the final victory comes.
—Buddha
IN-DEPTH
Jagat Prakash Nadda
@JPNadda
I believe in the importance of yoga
and making time for it, as it offers
numerous health benefits. I always
strive towards practicing yoga. On
this #InternationalYogaDay, let us all
be a part of Hon. PM @narendramodi
Ji’s initiative towards a healthy fit
India.#YogaForHumanity
Dharmendra Pradhan
@dpradhanbjp
India Navy is on the path to become
gender-neutral. As a result of the
#AgnipathRecruitmentScheme, @
indiannavy for the first-time will
recruit women as sailors. #Agnipath
is yet another opportunity for
women to break the glass ceiling.
#IndiaWithAgniveer
TOP TWEETS
JOLT TO MACRON
BUT FAR RIGHT’S
MARINE LE PEN
CAUSES TREMORS
n a setback to Emma-
nuel Macron his En-
semblealliancefailed
to win a majority in
the parliamentary
elections. Mr Macron now finds
himself sandwiched between
Marine Le Pen’s far right Nation-
alRallyandJean-LucMelenchon
of the left coalition NUPES jeop-
ardising implementation of his
political agenda. Will Macron
make compromises or will the
Fifth Republic see a government
indeadlockwiththeFrenchPres-
ident’s reform plans in limbo?
Thebiggestsurprisethrownup
by the French electorate is their
supportforMarineLePen’sparty
which jumped from previously
held eight seats to 89 in the
577-member hung parliament. It
was described as a “seismic
event”inFrenchpolitics.TheLeft
partiesalsowon131seatstobethe
principal opposition. The Ensem-
ble alliance won 245 seats but was
well short of majority
, leaving the
parliament fragmented.
The result showed that the
voter did not buy Macron’s sof-
tening stand on pension reforms
and raising of retirement age
which came just before parlia-
mentary elections.
I
entre has cau-
tioned Indian
states which are
equal to the size
of Pakistan and
Sri Lanka to cut down on
their debts to avoid an eco-
nomic crisis being faced by
the two neighbouring coun-
tries. The Union finance min-
istry officials recently ad-
dressed a meeting of state
chief secretaries to flag the
issue of burgeoning fiscal
problems in some of the
stateswhich,if notcontrolled
now, may go out of hand. Un-
controlled debt and capital
expenditure of some of the
states could adversely impact
the performance of the econ-
omy at the national level.
An article by a team of
economists under the super-
vision of Reserve Bank of
India stated that Punjab, Ra-
jasthan, Bihar, West Bengal
and Kerala, the five most in-
debted states, need to cut
down on expenditure as their
debt has become unsustain-
able. Although the RBI arti-
cle does not mention Uttar
Pradesh, the state which is
almost the size of Pakistan
and like Pakistan has a popu-
lation of 200 million, also has
a huge debt burden. As per
2021-22 budget estimates the
state’sliabilitieswerearound
Rs 6.5 lakh crore.
The five debt-ridden states
have questioned the hypoth-
esis of their being in a debt
trap. Kerala has said no to cut-
ting down expenditure. Only
a marginal cut in the revenue
expenditure is possible, said
former finance minister TM
Thomas Isaac. Rajasthan has
blamed “wrong” decisions of
the Centre like demonetiza-
tion and GST for its debt bur-
den and has asked for a stimu-
lus package. In Bengal, wel-
fare schemes were held re-
sponsible for increase in its
borrowings. These counter
arguments, however, do not
address the problem.
DEBT BURDEN OF
STATES A CONCERN
An article by a team of
economists under supervision
of RBI stated that Punjab,
Rajasthan, Bihar, WB and
Kerala, 5 most indebted
states, need to cut down on
expenditure as their debt has
become unsustainable
C
FINALLY, AFTER MUCH ANXIETY…
OPPN GETS ITS CANDIDATE
ver since Mamata Banerjee
registered that historic vic-
tory in the state Assembly
elections in 2021, her efforts
to unite the Opposition on at
least three occasions have
not turned out to be an easy
task. In March 2021, Mamata
had written to Opposition
honchos, urging them to
unite against the BJP’s al-
leged ‘assaults’ on democra-
cy and the Constitution.
Again in July 2021, Mama-
ta’s visit to Delhi stoked spec-
ulations over the fact if she
was actually pitching herself
as the PM candidate for the
2024 Lok Sabha polls. She
was, however, extremely cau-
tious and categorically ruled
out her (prime ministerial)
ambitions. When asked, she
reiterated that she was only
a “simple worker”.
She, however, was keen to
drive home the message that
her efforts were to unite Oppo-
sitionforcesatleastfortalksso
thattherecouldbeaconsensus
among parties to chalk out a
concreteplantodefeattheNar-
endra Modi-led BJP
. However,
all that is past now. Her recent
bid to bring the Opposition
camp into a huddle over the
crucial presidential polls is
also facing rough weather.
After NCP chief Sharad
Pawar and former Jammu
and Kashmir chief minister
Farooq Abdullah declined
the offer to be the joint Op-
position candidate, the third
jolt came in the form of Go-
palkrishna Gandhi, former
Governor of West Bengal,
who also refused the offer.
The process to elect a presi-
dential candidate began on
June 15 with the last date for
filing of nominations being
June 29. The polls are sched-
uled to be held on July 18.
The NCP veteran’s reluc-
tance pulled the plug on the
Opposition camp’s zeal and
NCP insiders said that Pawar
being a “people’s man” won’t
“restrict himself to Rashtra-
pati Bhavan”. “…don’t think
he is keen on it (contesting
the election). Saheb (Pawar)
is a people’s man who loves
meeting people. He will not
restrict himself to Rashtra-
pati Bhavan,” the party
sources said.
In a quick move, Farooq
Abdullah’s name was circu-
lated. However, unwilling to
contest, he said, “I believe
that JK is passing through
a critical juncture and my ef-
forts are required to help
navigate these uncertain
times. Therefore, I would like
to respectfully withdraw my
name from consideration
and I look forward to sup-
porting the joint opposition
consensus candidate.”
Meanwhile, according to
news reports on Monday
, BSP
supremo Mayawati’s name
was suggested by some Con-
gress leaders in Rajasthan
who backed their theory by
saying that Mayawati, the
face of Dalit politics in the
country, would be a better
choice as the Dalits, in the
larger context in the country,
have faith in the Congress
and in the bigger picture, this
would put the Grand Old Par-
ty in a better frame of things.
However, there was more
bad news for the Opposition
camp on Monday when Go-
palkrishna Gandhi too de-
clined the offer. The former
civil servant said the Opposi-
tion needs a candidate who
will generate a national con-
sensus and ensure unity. “I
am most grateful to them (the
Opposition),” Gandhi said.
The Opposition’s fight
looks stunted before it even
could begin and with the date
for filing the nomination
hardly a week away
, it is time
they zero in on a candidate at
least to reach a stage where
an election for the top post
takes place… or else with the
kind of bonhomie the Opposi-
tion parties are showing in
terms of uniting, with the
Lok Sabha elections just two
years away, one wonders
whether they would be able to
put up a unified fight at all...!
It may be noted that while
Leaders of Congress, Sama-
jwadi Party
, NCP
, DMK, RJD
and the Left parties attended
themeetingcalledbyMamata,
AAP
, TRS and BJD skipped it!
Tuesdaywas,however,agog
withbreakingnewscomingin
that Yashwant Sinha is being
considered as the Opposi-
tion’s joint candidate. On
Tuesday, he announced that
he would be stepping aside
frompartyworkforthelarger
national cause of Opposition
unity
.Thedevelopmentcomes
a day after the TMC chief pro-
posedhisname.“Iamgrateful
to Mamataji for the honour
and prestige she bestowed on
me in the TMC. Now, time has
come when for a larger na-
tional cause I must step aside
from the party to work for
greater opposition unity
. I am
suresheapprovesof thestep,”
Sinha tweeted.
Meanwhile, after much de-
liberation and anxiety sev-
eral major Opposition par-
ties, including the Congress,
the NCP and the TMC, on
Tuesday picked former Un-
ion minister Yashwant Sinha
as their candidate for the
July 18 presidential polls.
Opposition leaders, who
gatheredattheParliamentan-
nexeforthemeetingconvened
byNCPchief SharadPawarto
decide on a common candi-
date for the much-discussed
presidential election, unani-
mously agreed on Sinha’s
name. This, thus… brings to
rest the long-drawn heart-
burn reflux over the Opposi-
tionunityfactorastheparties
havefinallyshownsome“con-
nect” or else it would have
been a cakewalk for the NDA.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
E
Opposition leaders, who
gathered at the Parliament
annexe for the meeting
convened by NCP chief
Sharad Pawar to decide on a
common candidate for the
much-discussed presidential
election, unanimously agreed
on Sinha’s name. This,
thus… brings to rest the long-
drawn heartburn reflux over
the Opposition unity factor
as the parties have finally
shown some “connect” or else
it would have been a
cakewalk for the NDA
On Tuesday, Yashwant
Sinha announced that he
would be stepping aside
from party work for the
larger national cause of
Opposition unity. The
development comes a day
after TMC chief proposed
his name. “I am grateful
to Mamataji for the
honour and prestige
she bestowed on me in
the TMC. Now, time has
come when for a larger
national cause I must
step aside from the
party to work for
greater opposition
unity. I am sure she
approves of the step,”
Sinha tweeted
ROBIN ROY
The writer is Senior Associate Editor,
Free Press Journal, Mumbai and former
Managing Editor, First India
Yashwant Sinha
Farooq Abdullah
Sharad Pawar
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
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INDIA
05
Mahesh Sharma
Ahmedabad: The Patel
chapter of the Congress
party was closed before
the assembly elections
in Gujarat. Congress’s
Decorated Patel leader
Hardik Patel has left the
party and is now root-
ing for Bharatiya Jana-
ta Party and Narendra
Modi. On the other
hand, Naresh Patel has
declared that he will not
enter active politics yet.
Remember, Naresh Pa-
tel is a leader of the in-
fluential Leuva Patel
community and is the
chairman of the Shrik-
hodladham Trust. He
said that senior people
associated with the so-
ciety do not want him to
enter politics. Anyway,
after the failure of the
Congress deal with
Prashant Kishor, it
seemed that Naresh Pa-
tel would stay away
from the Congress.
Keep in mind that
Naresh Patel’s joining
the Congress was dis-
cussed only at the time
of Prashant Kishor
joining the Congress. It
was Prashant Kishor
who had made him meet
the top Congress lead-
ers. Patel also had a con-
dition that if Prashant
Kishor contests the
Congress elections,
then he would join the
Congress. Now since he
has refused to enter ac-
tive politics, there is no
question of joining Con-
gress. In this way the
Congress once again
has kept itself away
from ‘Patel politics’.
Anyway, Congress nev-
er used to do Patel poli-
tics in Gujarat. Patels
have been voting for the
BJP for more than 30
years. Unlike the Patels,
the focus of the Con-
gress is on the weak
equations i.e. Kshatri-
yas, Harijans, Adivasis
and Muslims. This time
also the Congress will
fight the elections on
the same formula.
Turned down by Patels, Cong to focus on
traditional vote bank in poll-bound Guj
Guwahati (Agencies):
A total of 51 persons
have been killed and 139
injuredbytheAssampo-
lice in a number of cir-
cumstances since May
2021, the state govern-
menthastoldtheGauha-
tiHighCourtinresponse
to a plea that demands a
probeandcompensation
for such encounters
that may be fake.
The Home Depart-
ment's affidavit was
filed on Tuesday follow-
ing the court's direc-
tions on a PIL by Delhi-
based lawyer-activist
Arif Jwadder.
Some of these people
were killed in custody
,
such as those trying to
escape after snatching a
policeman's firearm,
while several others
were shot in the leg, as
per the affidavit. The
numbersalsoincludeac-
cused in some cases dy-
ing after being hit by
police vehicles when
going to verify their
statement at the crime
spot. Advocate General
Devajit Saikia appeared
for the government.
Jwadder has sought
the court's intervention
to register a case for
fake encounters and
an inquiry by the CBI,
or by a special team or
police from another
state, under the court's
supervision. He has de-
manded monetary com-
pensation for families
of victims once fake en-
counters are identified.
Above all, he raises
theissueof violationsof
theruleof lawandequal-
ity
... Police do not have a
licence to kill; the whole
idea of the CrPC is to ap-
prehend criminals and
bringthemtojustice,not
to kill them, the activist
said in his PIL, next be
heard on July 29.
PLEA SEEKS PROBE FOR ‘FAKE ENCOUNTERS’
ASSAM POLICE KILLED 51 PEOPLE
SINCE MAY 2021, GOVT TELLS HC Kolkata (Agencies):
West Bengal Police filed
an FIR against several
Central Bureau of In-
vestigation (CBI) offic-
ers on Tuesday, includ-
ing Umesh Kumar, who
is heading the central
agency’s ongoing probe
in the coal smuggling
case in the state.
TheFIRhasbeenfiled
at the Bishnupur Police
Station under Diamond
Harbour sub-division in
South 24 Parganas dis-
trict of West Bengal. A
special team of Dia-
mond Harbour district
police has started probe
in the matter.
Recently
, a resident of
Diamond Harbour filed
a complaint at the local
police station alleging
that he, along with some
other people were
threatened by the CBI
officials in the name of
interrogation pertain-
ing to the coal scam in-
vestigation. The com-
plainant also alleged
that CBI investigators
had been putting pres-
sure on them to give
statements according to
their instructions and
also record those state-
ments.HenamedUmesh
Kumarinthecomplaint.
It is learnt that
Umesh Kumar was a
part of the CBI team
who went to the resi-
dence of Trinamool
Congress’ national
general secretary and
the party MP, Ab-
hishek Banerjee’s resi-
dence in South Kolkata
on June 14 this year to
interrogate his wife
Rujira Narula Baner-
jee in connection with
the coal scam.
Bengal Police book
CBI officials probing
coal smuggling case
New Delhi (Agencies):
Inthelatestdevelopment
in connection with the
CDSCObriberycase,the
CentralBureauof Inves-
tigation on Tuesday ar-
rested all the remaining
accused, who were alleg-
edly involved in waiving
the Phase-3 trial of In-
sulin Aspart Injection
of Biocon Biologics.
The CBI said that
they have arrested
Guljit Sethi, the Direc-
tor of Bioinnovat Re-
search Service Private
Limited; L. Praveen Ku-
mar, the Associate
Voice President and
Head of National Regu-
latory Affairs of Biocon
Biologics Limited; and
Animesh Kumar, the
Assistant Drug Inspec-
tor of CDSCO.
The CBI had on Mon-
day arrested E. Eswara
Reddy, the Joint Drug
Controller (JDC) of CD-
SCO and Dinesh Dua,
the Director of Delhi-
based Synergy Network
India Private Limited.
CBI arrest three
more accused in
Biocon Biologics
bribery case
Srinagar (Agen-
cies): Four militants
were killed in two sep-
arate gunfights in the
Valley on Tuesday.
While two Jaish-e-Mo-
hammad (JeM) mili-
tants were killed in
south Kashmir’s Pul-
wama, two militants
were killed in north
Kashmir’s Sopore.
In less than 48
hours, the Kashmir
Valley has witnessed
five gunfights between
militants and the
armed forces, result-
ing in the deaths of 11
militants. Officials
say that 118 militants
have been killed in the
Valley this year.
On the intervening
night of June 20 and 21,
a joint team of J-K Po-
lice, Army and para-
military forces cor-
doned off the Tulibal
neighbourhood of
Sopore in north Kash-
mir after inputs about
the presence of mili-
tants in the area.
As the joint team of
forces launched search-
es, the militants opened
fire while trying to
break the security cor-
don. The joint team re-
turned the fire, leading
to a gunfight that lasted
several hours.
Police said two mili-
tants have been killed
in the gunfight. “Sopo-
reEncounterUpdate: 01
more terrorist killed
(total 2). Search going
on. Further details
shall follow,” JK Po-
lice tweeted.
Four ultras killed in 2 separate
ops,11 in less than 48 hours
Guwahati (PTI): As-
sam's flood situation
which have claimed 82
lives till now, remained
critical with the River
Brahmaputra and
Barak along with its
tributaries in spate on
Tuesday, affecting some
48 lakh people.
Officials said NDRF
personnel from Bhu-
baneswar have been
rushedtotwodistrictsof
Karimganj and Cachar
in Barak Valley where
situation is grim.
''Four units of the
NDRF from Bhubane-
swar with a total of 105
personnelhavebeensent
to Silchar to carry out
rescue operations in
Barak Valley'', he said,
thankingHomeMinister
for this “prompt help”.
As flood worsens, NDRF
rushed to Assam dists
Gauhati HC had directed Home Dept to file a response after a plea alleged fake encounters
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had announced a crackdown on alleged drug dealers,
smugglers, murderers, cattle lifters and those accused of rape. —FILE PHOTO
Is Haryana’s Lal
ParivarwithBJP?
Sharat K Verma
Chandigarh: There
wasatimewhenHary-
ana was dominated by
the ‘Lal Parivar’ and
the entire politics of
the state used to re-
volve around them.
Butif theireffectisnot
completelyovernow,it
can surely be said that
it has definitely re-
duced a lot. After this
time’s Rajya Sabha
elections,a‘jumla’was
heard about the family
of the three ‘Lals’ of
Haryana, that the
threefamiliesarecom-
pletely in support of
BJP
, although it can
not be said for certain
how true or untrue
this claim is.
Keep in mind that
the family of Chaud-
hary Devi Lal is divid-
ed but in the Rajya
Sabha elections, the
entire family voted for
the BJP
. Dushyant
Chautala is already
with the BJP but his
uncle and the lone
INLD MLA Abhay
Chautalaalsovotedfor
a BJP-backed inde-
pendent candidate.
KuldeepBishnoi,son
of Haryana’s second
Lal - Bhajan Lal- is in
Congress but he voted
for a BJP-backed inde-
pendent on the basis of
conscienceintheRajya
Sabha elections. Now
there is speculation of
him joining the BJP
. In
this way the family of
two Lals - Devi Lal and
Bhajan Lal - is directly
with the BJP
. The third
i.e.Banshilal’sfamilyis
officially with the Con-
gress, but it is being
said that in the RS
polls, Banshilal’s
daughter-in-law Kiran
Choudhary deliberate-
ly made her vote inva-
lid to ensure BJP-
backed Independent’s
victory
.Althoughsheis
denying this, the Con-
gress leaders, on the
otherhand,findithard
to digest her claim.
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in
in
1984 Anti-Sikh
Riots: Two More
Held for Mass
Killings in Kanpur
Kanpur (PTI): A spe-
cial investigation team
(SIT) probing the anti-
Sikh riots in Kanpur in
1984 arrested two more
people for mass killings
and setting a house
ablaze, in which three
people were charred to
death, said a senior offi-
cial on Tuesday
. The ar-
rests were made from
Ghatampur and the
number of those held
by the SIT so far has
reached six. The SIT
was formed by the Ut-
tar Pradesh govern-
ment three years ago to
re-investigate the cases
related to the riots,
which had claimed 127
lives in Kanpur.
RJD MLA Anant
Singh gets 10
years RI in arms
recovery case
Patna (PTI): The RJD
MLA from Mokama,
Anant Singh, who was
found guilty in a case
where the Patna police
recovered an AK-47, gre-
nades, magazines and
other weapons from his
Ladma residence, has
been sentenced to 10
years of rigorous im-
prisonment by a special
court in Patna on Tues-
day
. The MP-MLA court
pronounced the quan-
tum of punishment
against the Mokama
MLA. The court had last
Tuesday held him guilty
under the Arms Act.
Will decide on
‘Chancellor’ Bills
after studying
them: Dhankhar
Kolkata (Agencies):
West Bengal Governor
Jagdeep Dhankhar on
Tuesday gave clear in-
dications that the Bills
to replace the Governor
with the Chief Minis-
ter as Chancellor of
different state universi-
ties, will not get an
easy nod from his end,
even after their passage
by the Assembly. “I will
observe the contents of
the Bills purely from
the legal and constitu-
tional angle and I will
take a decision on them
as per provisions of the
law,” he said.
ED PROTEST: MAHILA CONGRESS
PRESIDENT SPITS AT COPS
New Delhi (Agencies): Mahila Congress president Netta
D'Souza was seen spitting at police officers while having a
scuffle with the cops during protest in Delhi against ques-
tioning of Rahul Gandhi by the ED.
A video has come up that shows
D'Souza spitting at the cops just
before closing the door of the vehi-
cle she was in. BJP spokesperson
Shehzad Ponnawalla shared the
video on Twitter slamming the Con-
gress leader for the act. Shameful
Disgusting After beating up cops in Assam, holding their
collar on Hyderabad now Mahila Congress President Netta
Dsouza spits at cops women security personnel merely
because Rahul is being questioned by ED for corruption Will
Sonia,Priyanka Rahul act on her? (sic), he tweeted.
New Delhi (Agen-
cies): Congress leader
Alka Lamba alleged
that while she was pro-
testing peacefully with
her hands tied, the po-
lice was trying to break
her neck. Alka Lamba
was staging a protest in
Delhi against the ED’s
questioning of Rahul
Gandhi as well as well
as the government’s
Agnipath scheme.
A video of the inci-
dent shows Alka Lam-
ba sitting on the road.
When asked to move,
the Congress leader lay
on the ground and
started chanting
“Bharat mata ki jai, Jai
Jawan, Jai Kisan.”
‘Cops tried to break my neck’, accuses Alka
Congress leader Alka Lamba during protest in Delhi.
Manohar Lal Khattar Dushyant Chautala
‘THE CHARGES’
BILATERAL MEET
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla meets Nguyen Van Nen,
Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of
Vietnam Party Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City in New
Delhi on Tuesday. They also discussed a range of issues
concerning bilateral parliamentary cooperation.

BIZ BUZZ
06
New Delhi (PTI): Del-
hi-NCR has highest va-
cancy of office space at
28.5%, while Pune has
the lowest at 8.5% be-
cause of higher de-
mand of premium
workspace from IT/
ITeS sector, according
to property consultant
Anarock.
As per the data of
Grade-A office build-
ings across seven major
cities of the country,
Chennai has an office
vacancy of 10.35%,
Bengaluru 11.25% and
Hyderabad 15%.
Office vacancies in
NCR are the highest
among the top 7 cities
at 28.5%, followed by
Kolkata at 23.5% and
MMR (Mumbai Metro-
politan Region) about
16%.
IT hubs Pune, Ben-
galuru, Chennai and
Hyderabad have lower
Grade A office vacan-
cies.
“IT/ITeS remained
one of the most buoy-
ant sectors during the
pandemic. This sector
helped India’s top four
IT/ITeS-driven cities to
keep Grade A office va-
cancies firmly in
check,” Anarock said.
In contrast, cities
like NCR, MMR and
Kolkata, with
signifi-
cant of-
f i c e
demand also coming
from non-IT sectors
such as BFSI and man-
ufacturing/industrial,
recorded higher office
vacancies.Anarock
Chairman Anuj Puri
said: “NCR currently
with the highest vacan-
cy levels has approx.
26 million square feet of
planned or under-con-
struction office stock,
while MMR has just 15
million square feet of
such inventory
.”
Kolkata has a mere 2
million square feet of
planned or under-con-
struction office stock.
According to the
data, Bengaluru has the
maximum Grade A of-
fice stock of about 168
million square feet, fol-
lowed by Delhi-NCR at
128 million square feet,
MMR at 108 million
square feet.
DUE TO HIGH DEMAND
Diwali in Oct was set as a timeline for a draft FTA after British PM’s talks with PM Modi
HOPEFUL FOR CONCLUSION OF
INDIA-UK FTA BY DIWALI: GOYAL
New Delhi (PTI): Un-
ion minister Piyush
Goyal has expressed
hope that the free trade
agreement between In-
dia and the United
Kingdom will be con-
cluded by Diwali.
The minister for
commerce and indus-
try and textiles said
that the government is
moving ahead on free
trade pacts with Cana-
da, EU and the UK.
Moreover, Goyal in-
formed that Australia,
Israel and the Gulf Co-
operation Countries
have expressed interest
to forge Free Trade
Agreements (FTAs)
with India, along with
Eurasia and Brazil.
The Gulf Coopera-
tion Council (GCC) is a
political and economic
union of Arab states
bordering the Gulf. It
was established in 1981
and its six members in-
clude the United Arab
Emirates, Saudi Ara-
bia, Qatar, Oman, Ku-
wait and Bahrain.
Diwali in October
was set as a timeline
for a draft FTA after
British PM Boris John-
son’s talks with PM
Narendra Modi during
the former’s visit to the
country last month.
“All countries are ea-
ger to make friendship
with India, as we offer
huge opportunity and
promise. We are mov-
ing ahead on FTA with
Canada, EU, UK. Aus-
tralia, Even GCC and
Israel along with Eura-
sia and Brazil have
shown their interest to
forge FTA with India. I
am hopeful that by Di-
wali, India-UK FTA
will be concluded,”
Goyal said.
He observed that ap-
parel, fashion jewel-
lery and MICE (Meet-
ings, Incentives, Con-
ferences and Exhibi-
tions) are three indus-
tries where India has
to grow.
Total trade between
India and the UK stood
at USD 16 billion in
FY22 (Apr-Feb). The
UK was India’s 17th
largest trading partner
during the period.
A free trade agree-
ment is a trade pact ac-
cording to internation-
al law to form a free
trade area between the
cooperating states.
FTAs with UAE, OZ to boost apparel exports
New Delhi (PTI): Free trade
agreements (FTAs) signed by
India with the UAE and Australia
will boost product and market
diversification of the apparel sec-
tor’s existing basket, AEPC said
on Tuesday. AEPC Chairman
Naren Goenka said the global
apparel market, which was just
under $1.5 trillion in 2013, is
expected to generate revenues to
the tune of $1.8 trillion in 2022
and $1.9 trillion in 2025. He said
India offers the world a complete
value chain solution from farm
to fashion. Talking about the
ongoing 67th India International
Garment Fair (IIGF) at Greater
Noida, he said it provides a direct
marketing platform to MSME
exporters from across the coun-
try, as it has brought together
almost 500 exhibitors and more
than 2,000 overseas buyers and
buying agents. The buyers are
visiting from countries like the
US, Brazil, Japan, UK, Spain,
Australia, Poland, Colombia,
Greece, Italy, and Egypt. “The
council is taking efforts towards
promoting Brand India at various
global platforms, showcasing
its strength on sustainability,
circularity, ethical sourcing and
manufacturing, labour stand-
ards, women employment with
no child labour,” Goenka added.
“I have set a modest target for
the apparel sector, which is to
double the production and triple
the exports. So, this 15 per cent
growth is achievable,” Goyal said
Mkts climb for 2nd day,
Sensex up by nearly 2%
Mumbai (PTI): Bench-
mark indices advanced
for the second straight
session on Tuesday,
with the Sensex and
Nifty jumping nearly
2% each, mirroring a
rally in global equity
markets. Buying in in-
dex majors Reliance In-
dustries and IT stocks
buoyed the bench-
marks. The BSE Sensex
zoomed 934.23 points or
1.81% to settle at
52,532.07. the NSE Nifty
climbed 288.65 points or
1.88% to finish at
15,638.80.
From the Sensex
pack, Titan, SBI, TCS,
HCL Technologies, Dr
Reddy’s, Tata Steel,
Wipro, Infosys, ITC and
Tech Mahindra were
the major gainers. Only
Nestle India ended mar-
ginally lower.
BRIEF
in
in
5G subscriptions in
India seen at 500 mn
by 2027-end: Report
Monthly instalment
scheme to help
discoms in savings
Akasa Air takes
delivery of first
aircraft
New Delhi (PTI):
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-
promoted Akasa Air's
first aircraft Boeing
737 MAX arrived here
on Tuesday, bringing
it closer to securing
the mandatory Air
Operator Permit to
start operations.
` DROPS 12
PAISE TO 78.10
AGAINST US
DOLLAR
Mumbai (PTI):
The rupee declined
12 paise to close
at 78.10 (provi-
sional) against
the US dollar
on Tuesday, as
persistent foreign
fund outflows and
a jump in crude
oil prices weighed
on investor
sentiment. At the
interbank foreign
exchange market,
the local currency
opened at 78.00
and finally ended
at 78.10, down
12 paise over its
previous close. On
Monday, the rupee
had appreciated 7
paise to settle at
77.98.
New Delhi (PTI): The 5G
subscriptions in India
will touch 500 million by
2027-end, accounting for
39% of mobile subscrib-
ers, according to a report
by Swedish telecom gear
maker Ericsson. The com-
mercial launches of 5G
networks are planned for
the second half of 2022 in
India, with enhanced mo-
bile broadband expected
to be the initial main use
case, the Ericsson Mobility
Report said.
New Delhi (PTI): New
equated monthly instal-
ment scheme introduced
by power ministry can
help electricity distribution
companies (discoms) save
a quarter of their additional
payouts and clear around
`20,000 crore payments to
generation firms (gencos)
this fiscal, according to
Crisil Ratings. If discoms
clear the fresh dues and
EMIs on time, going for-
ward, they won’t be billed
for LPS by gencos.
Doha (PTI): It is not
easy for an airline to
operate in India and if
the Tata Group cannot
make Air India work,
no one else in the coun-
try will be able to do so,
Emirates President
Tim Clark has said.
“Air India should be as
big as United Airlines.
It should be as big be-
cause of its domestic
market as well as the
NRIs abroad and the
amount of economic
activity that goes in
and out of India. It is a
goldmine,” Clark said
on Monday
.
While Air India cur-
rently has approxi-
mately 128 planes in its
fleet, Chicago-based
United Airlines has
860-odd aircraft.
“You (India) have got
a billion population
with an NRI diaspora
which is so big and
growing all the time
that for the notion that
Air India would not be
one of the largest in-
ternational carriers in
the world defies all
sense,” Clark said.
The Tata Group took
control of loss-making
and debt-ridden Air In-
dia on January 27 after
successfully winning
the bid for the airline
on October 8 last year.
Clark stated, “I
think the best thing
that could have hap-
pened to Air India was
for Tatas to take it over.
One of the first air-
lines to buy Boeing 707
aircraft in 1959 or
1960.” He said that for
decades, Air India has
continued to be a small
player on the interna-
tional scene.
ONGCseeksminimum
$17priceforBokarogas
New Delhi (PTI):
State-owned Oil and
Natural Gas Corpora-
tion (ONGC) is seeking
a minimum $17 price
for the gas it plans to
produce from coal
seams in its Bokaro
CBM block in
Jharkhand. ONGC in-
vited bids for the sale of
0.20 million standard
cubic metres per day of
gas it plans to produce
from the Bokaro CBM
block by the year-end,
according to a tender
document.
It sought bids on a
formula indexed to the
prevailing Brent crude
oil price. The reserve or
floor price of gas will be
14% of the Dated Brent
crude oil Price plus $1
per million British
thermal unit, ONGC
said in the tender.
Bidders will have to
quote a premium they
are willing to offer over
this reserve price.
The floor price will
be the government-
mandated price for do-
mestic natural gas plus
a $1 per mmBtu mark-
up. The “Contract Gas
price shall be the high-
er of the 14% of Dated
Brent Price plus $1 per
mmBtu plus ‘P’ (the bid-
dable parameter); or the
floor price,” it said.
India ranks
4th in global
gold recycling
MFs can start
investing in int’l
stocks: Sebi
Mumbai (PTI): India
has emerged as the
fourth largest recycler
in the world and the
country has recycled 75
tonnes in 2021, accord-
ing to a World Gold
Council (WGC) report.
According to the WGC
report, China topped
the global gold recy-
cling chart as it recy-
cled 168 tonnes of the
yellow metal, followed
by Italy in the second
position with 80 tonnes
and the US at the third
rank with 78 tonnes in
2021. India was ranked
fourth in the list as the
country recycled 75
tonnes in 2021. Accord-
ing to the WGC report
titled ‘Gold refining and
recycling’ from 300
tonnes in 2013, India’s
gold refining capacity
increased by 1,500
tonnes (500%) in 2021.
New Delhi (PTI): Capi-
tal markets regulator
Sebi has permitted mu-
tual funds to again in-
vest in foreign stocks
within the aggregate
mandated limit of $7
billion for the industry
.
“Mutual fund
schemes may resume
subscriptions and make
investments in overseas
funds/securities up to
the headroom available
without breaching the
overseas investment
limits as of end-of-day
of February 1, 2022, at
the mutual fund level,”
Sebi said in a communi-
cation sent to Amfi.
Also, the regulator
has asked Association
of MFs in India to en-
sure that the total utili-
sation of the overseas
limit by each AMC or
mutual fund remains
capped at the Feb level.
Metro projects to
generate biz opps
domestic metro rail
projects will provide
business opportuni-
ties worth `80,000
crore for construction
companies over the
next five years, ac-
cording to ICRA.
In India, 15 cities
have operational met-
ro networks of about
746 km, the agency
said adding another
seven cities have un-
der-implementation
metro projects of
about 640 km. This is
apart from 1,400 km of
metro rail projects
worth `2 trillion in the
approval/proposal
stages, of which a 352-
km of new metro net-
work has been ap-
proved. Metro rail pro-
jects offer `80,000
crore business oppor-
tunities to construc-
tion firms over the
next five years, it said.
Britannia to
strengthen
cake portfolio
New Delhi (PTI):
Bakery food com-
pany Britannia
Industries will
seek to tap oppor-
tunities in the
cake category
through the
launch of innova-
tive products at
different price
points and expan-
sion in rural mar-
kets.
B r i t a n n i a ’ s
strategy is to
strengthen the
cake portfolio by
launching new
products, premiu-
mising and grow-
ing the base cake
portfolio and cre-
ating new-to-mar-
ket formats at af-
fordable price
points. “This cate-
gory offers vari-
ous opportunities
for launch of inno-
vative products at
different price
points and expan-
sion in rural mar-
kets,” it said.
‘If Tatas can’t make Air India
work,nooneelseinIndiacan’
‘Appreciate Indian govt’s idea
to make AI a strong player’
Doha (PTI): Most
of the growth in the
Indian international
passenger market has
been taken up by the
airlines based out of
the Gulf region and
the Lufthansa Group
appreciates the Indian
government’s idea
to make Air India
a strong player to
regain that market
share, its Chief Ex-
ecutive Officer (CEO)
Carsten Spohr has
said.India’s interna-
tional passenger mar-
ket is dominated by
international airlines,
mainly carriers based
out of the Gulf region
such as Emirates and
Qatar Airways.
Delhi-NCR has highest vacancy of office space

07
NEWS
Gyanendra Kumar Shukla
Lucknow: The by-elec-
tion for the Azamgarh
parliamentary seat has
its own implications
and connotations for
political parties. While
the SP has to prove that
its credibility is fully
intact among Muslim
voters, the Saifai family
is going through a
tough test of its hold in
this bastion.
Whereas, the BJP is
testing the effectiveness
of its organization and
caste-equations, the po-
litically decimated BSP
is eager to gain new
hope through this elec-
toral battle.
Azamgarh seat with
about 19 lakh voters
may have a majority of
Muslim and Yadav vot-
ers, but a significant
number of Dalit, OBC
and Most OBC voters
are also present. Voting
pattern, in the last gen-
eral elections and the
recently concluded as-
sembly elections, shows
that a large majority of
Jatav and Pasi voters
still have affiliations
with the BSP, while Lo-
nia, Chauhan, Kurmi,
Nishad, Mauryas and
Rajbhar voters
strengthened the BJP's
vote base; although the
first choice of Muslim
and Yadav voters has
remained the SP.
Political observers
assert that BSP founder
Kanshi Ram had
strengthened his base
here by integrating sev-
eral backward and Dalit
castes into the party
fold. Because of which
BSP won the Lok Sabha
elections four times
from here.
However, in the year
2019, due to the alliance
with the SP, this mass
base was eroded from
the BSP at a rapid pace.
As a result, for the first
time in the year 2022,
BSP could not win a sin-
gle assembly seat from
the district.
Now in this by-elec-
tion, Mayawati has de-
liberately fielded Shah
Alam aka Guddu Jama-
li in the electoral fray
, if
this experiment is suc-
cessful then it will help
to prove that the major
chunk of Dalit voters is
still fully committed
with the BSP.
At the same time, this
message will be deliv-
ered among the Muslim
community that not the
SP but only the BSP has
the ability to defeat the
BJP with the strength
of its core vote base.
AZAMGARH BY-ELECTION
SP,BJP,BSPhavedifferentstakes
AZAMGARHPARLIAMENTARYSEATHASITS
OWNIMPLICATIONSFORPOLITICALPARTIES
CASTE
EQUATIONS TO
FACE THE TEST
BJP, has suffered a
humiliating defeat
in Azamgarh in the
recent assembly
polls, is now putting
its caste equations
to the test. The BJP
organization has put
all the energy and
resources in support
of the party candi-
date. CM Yogi and
Deputy CM Keshav
Maurya have tried
to woo the voters
in favor of the party
through many public
meetings here.
Lok Sabha by-polls:
Dharm Yuddh’ vs
Battle of Prestige
Indian judiciary treats all parties
includingforeignentitiesequally:CJI
M Tariq Khan
Lucknow: As cam-
paign for the June 23
Lok Sabha bypolls to
Azamgarh and Ram-
pur seats came to an
end on Tuesday once
again it appears to
be a bipolar contest
between the ruling
BJP and principal
challenger Sama-
jwadi Party
.
While the BJP has
termed the elections
‘dharm Yuddh’ (reli-
gious war), winning
the two seats, both
its strongholds, is a
matter of prestige
for the SP.
A loss here would
negate the gains
made in the recent-
ly-held state elec-
tions, and drag its
performance in the
2024 general elec-
tions.
With Mayawati’s
Bahujan Samaj Par-
ty (BSP) being rele-
gated to third posi-
tion and its strength
reduced substantial-
ly — the SP hopes
that it would win the
seats easily
.
Azamgarh, in
eastern UP, has a mi-
nority population of
about 15.58 percent,
Schedule Caste are
about 26 percent,
and it has a sizeable
Yadav population.
In the recently-
held assembly elec-
tions, the SP swept
all the 10 seats of the
district.
The SP’s alliance
with OP Rajbhar’s
SBSP and Apna
Dal(K) worked in its
favour here.
New Delhi (PTI): Chief
Justice NV Ramana on
Tuesday allayed appre-
hension about the in-
creasing interference of
domestic courts in the
arbitration process and
said the Indian judici-
ary treats all parties in-
cluding foreign entities
equally and equitably
.
In recent years, there
has been some appre-
hension in the minds of
partiesaboutincreasing
interference of domes-
tic courts in the arbitra-
tion process. Let me as-
sure you, Indian Courts
are known for their pro-
arbitration stance.
Courts in India assist
and support arbitration
and leave the substan-
tive part of adjudication
to the Arbitral Tribunal
itself.
The Indian judiciary
is recognised for giving
paramount importance
to the rule of law. The
Indian judiciary eter-
nally guards the consti-
tutional rights in the
world’s largest democ-
racy
. You can trust the
Indian judiciary for its
absolute independence
and its inherent consti-
tutional strength to
treat all parties equally
and equitably, Justice
Ramana said.
The CJI was speaking
at the annual meet of
Indo German Chamber
of Commerce on the
theme Arbitration in a
Globalised World - The
Indian Experience at
Dortmund in Germany
.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Chief Justice NV Ramana. —FILE PHOTO
PRESTIGE
Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel keep a vigil during the 8th International Yoga Day, in Srinagar on Tuesday.
—PHOTO BY ANI
SERVICE DELAYED IN DELHI METRO'S
YELLOW LINE DUE TO TECH SNAG
New Delhi: Services were delayed for an hour on
a section of the Delhi Metro’s Yellow Line due to
a technical issue,
officials said. There
was some issue with
the OHE (overhead
equipment), they said.
Yellow Line connects
Samaypur Badli in
Delhi and HUDA City
Centre in Gurugram. The DMRC also tweeted to alert
commuters. “Yellow Line Update Delay in services
between Samaypur Badli and Vishwavidyalaya.
Normal service on all other lines,” it tweeted around
1 PM. Around 2 PM, it again tweeted that normal
services have resumed.
ETHIOPIAN MAN
HELD WITH
COCAINE IN CITY
New Delhi (PTI):
An Ethiopian man
has been arrested
by customs officials
for allegedly trying
to smuggle into the
country cocaine
worth Rs 29 crore
at the Indira Gandhi
International (IGI)
airport here, an offi-
cial statement issued
on Tuesday said. The
accused was inter-
cepted after his arrival
from Addis Ababa on
Saturday. During the
personal and baggage
search of the pas-
senger, around 1.9 kg
cocaine was recov-
ered from a trolley
bag, it said.
CRUCIAL READ
LIGHT RAINS
LASH PARTS OF
DELHI
New Delhi (PTI):
The national capital
received light
rainfall in parts of
the city on Tuesday.
The mercury had
risen slightly early
morning with the
minimum tempera-
ture settling at 24.9
degrees Celsius,
three notches below
the season’s aver-
age. The relative
humidity at 8:30 AM
was 71 per cent, as
per data shared by
the MeT Office. The
maximum tempera-
ture is expected to
rise to 32 degrees
Celsius.
INFRA FACILITIES AT GOVT
SCHOOLS IN GUJ ALMOST AT
PAR WITH PVT INSTITUTIONS: HC
Ahmedabad (PTI):
The Gujarat High
Court on Tuesday ob-
served that steps taken
by the state authori-
ties in improving
school infrastructure
are not only satisfac-
tory, but also almost on
par with private insti-
tutions.
The court of Chief
Justice Aravind Ku-
mar and Justice Ashu-
tosh Shastri made the
observation on the ba-
sis of a government af-
fidavit providing de-
tails of school build-
ings and infrastruc-
ture facilities such as
playgrounds and wash-
rooms in a suo motu
PIL.
The court had taken
suo motu cognisance
of a news article about
the collapse of a school
building at Vagalvada
village in Chhota
Udepur district, and
some parts of a school
building collapsing at
Pratappura in Mahisa-
gar district and some
students getting in-
jured in the incident.
Railway connectivity to
Konark soon: Union Minister
Bhubaneswar (PTI):
Union Minister Ashwi-
niVaishnawonTuesday
said steps are being tak-
en to provide railway
connectivity to Konark
and a full-fledged high-
speed 5G service for
Odisha soon.
Vaishnaw, the Minis-
ter of Railways, Com-
munications and Elec-
tronics and Information
Technology, was speak-
ing on the sideline of a
function marking the
International Yoga Day
at Konark in Puri dis-
trict. Noting that rail
connectivity to Konark
for visiting the famous
Sun Temple will in-
crease the footfall of
tourists from the coun-
try and abroad,
Vaishnaw said a survey
will be conducted soon
to connect Konark with
railway lines. The sur-
vey will be done to deter-
mine whether the rail-
way line to Konark will
be connected through
Puri or any other route.
The minister also said
that the projects worth
Rs 364 crore for the de-
velopment of Puri rail-
way station into a world-
class transit hub would
be completed in two
years.
New Jatri Niwas will
be constructed and it
will be designed in a
way which will have the
ability to withstand
wind speed up to 200-300
kmph, he said. For the
transportation of devo-
tees coming from across
the country during Rath
Jatra to Puri, the Rail-
ways would run 205
trains, minister said.
New Delhi (PTI): Del-
hi Police Commission-
er Rakesh Asthana on
Tuesday said yoga is a
way of life that brings
positive health and
wellbeing.
Asthana joined the
International Day of
Yoga celebrations and
performed asanas with
his fellow officers at
the lawns of Delhi Po-
lice Headquarters here.
All the 15 districts
and other units of the
force also organised
yoga sessions for their
personnel under their
respective jurisdic-
tions, officials said.
“Yoga is a way of life
that brings positive
health and well being,”
Asthana tweeted.
In the East district,
police personnel and
their family members
performed yoga under
the guidance of profes-
sional instructors. Dep-
uty Commissioner of
Police (East) Priyanka
Kashyap stressed on
the importance of yoga
and encouraged all the
participants to include
it in their daily routine
to have healthy body
and sound mind. The
participants also took
an oath that they will
practice yoga daily and
will adopt a healthy
lifestyle and eating
habits, she said.
According to the po-
lice, the Delhi Armed
Police celebrated Inter-
national Day of Yoga at
three locations and ap-
proximately 1,000 per-
sonnel participated in
the function.
“The aim of Interna-
tional Yoga Day is to
spread awareness
about the benefits of
yoga. Seven profession-
al yoga instructors
from one of the pre-
mier agency took part
in the event,” a senior
police officer said.
The Police Families
Welfare Society (PFWS)
also celebrated the In-
ternational Day of
Yoga at the office of the
president and 10 wel-
fare centres.
‘Yoga brings positive health and wellbeing’
DELHI TOP COP BATS FOR YOGA
Delhi Police Commissioner
Rakesh Asthana
ASTHANA JOINED
THE INT’NAL DAY
OF YOGA AND
PERFORMED
ASANAS
Punjab VB
arrests IAS
officer for
bribery
First India Bureau
Chandigarh: The
Punjab Vigilance
Bureau has arrested
IAS officer Sanjay
Popli in a graft case
for allegedly de-
manding bribe in
exchangeof clearing
tenders for laying
seweragepipelinein
Nawanshahr. His al-
leged conduit identi-
fiedasSandeepWats
has also been round-
ed up from Jaland-
har, an official state-
ment said here on
Tuesday
.
ON A VIGIL!

08
2NDFRONT
The language between true
friends is not made of words but
of meanings.
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
Delhi Environment De-
partment will run a
campaign to ensure
compliance with the ban
on 19 identified single-
use plastic (SUP) items
starting July 1 and close
down all manufactur-
ers, suppliers, stockists,
dealers and sellers
found violating the or-
ders, officials have said.
The identified SUP
items include earbuds,
plastic sticks for bal-
loons, flags, candy
sticks, ice-cream sticks,
polystyrene (thermo-
col), plates, cups, glass-
es, forks, spoons, knives,
straws, trays, wrapping
or packaging films
around sweets boxes, in-
vitation cards, cigarette
packets, plastic or PVC
banners less than 100
micron, and stirrers.
“We have issued strict
directions to manufac-
turers, stockists, suppli-
ers and distributors of
single-use plastic items
to ensure zero inventory
of the 19 SUP items.
Within the first week of
July, those who do not
maintain a zero inven-
tory will be shut down,”
a senior government of-
ficial said.
Regular inspections
will be conducted to as-
certain compliance by
manufacturers, brand
owners, suppliers, and
stockists registered
with the Delhi Pollution
Control Committee
(DPCC), he said, adding
the government will en-
sure strict enforcement.
Industrial areas and
redevelopment areas
are being inspected to
identify and shut down
units manufacturing
SUP items illegally, offi-
cial said.
The DPCC has also
asked the Sriram Insti-
tute of Industrial Re-
search to conduct a sur-
vey to identify littering
hotspots and quantify
plastic waste generation
in the city as it inches
close to the June 30
deadline for phasing out
of 19 SUP items.
The survey will cover
all 11 districts in Delhi
and will have to be com-
pleted within four
months, an official said.
The official said the
government will organ-
ise a three-day fair from
July 1 to promote alter-
natives to SUP items.
Delhi to shut down all units dealing in single-use plastic items
POLLUTION CONTROL
REGULAR INSPECTIONS TO BE DONE
Regular inspections will
be conducted to as-
certain compliance by
manufacturers, brand
owners, suppliers, and
stockists registered
with the Delhi Pollu-
tion Control Committee
(DPCC), he said, adding
the govt will ensure
strict enforcement.
Industrial areas and
redevelopment areas
are being inspected to
identify and shut down
units manufacturing
SUP items illegally,
official said. The survey
will cover all 11 dis-
tricts in Delhi and will
have to be completed
within four months
Image for representational purpose only.
Pact for deployment of
retired navy personnel
on merchant ships
New Delhi (PTI): To ben-
efit personnel retiring
from the Indian Navy
and provide them oppor-
tunity to work on mer-
chant ships, a memoran-
dum of understanding
has been signed between
the Directorate General
of Shipping and Indian
Navy, according to an of-
ficial statement.
The statement further
said that the Directorate
General of Shipping un-
der the Ministry of
Ports Shipping and Wa-
terways has issued an
order detailing 16 transi-
tion schemes for Indian
Navy personnel to Mer-
chant Navy. These tran-
sition schemes have
been drawn after a de-
tailed discussion with
Indian Navy, it added.
The announcement
comes amid widespread
protests against the re-
cently unveiled ‘Agnipath’
scheme for recruitment
of soldiers in the armed
forces on a short-term
contractual basis. The sol-
diers recruited under
this scheme will be
called ‘Agniveers’.
“These schemes enable
smooth transition of the
retiring Indian Navy
personnelintoMerchant
Navy by acquiring neces-
sarycertificationtowork
on merchant ships in ac-
cordance with the Stand-
ards of Training Certifi-
cation,” the statement
added.
Vulnerable countries will look to the lessons from non-nuclear Ukraine defending its home against nuclear-powered Russia
NO NUKES? UKRAINE-RUSSIAN WAR
WILL SHAPE WORLD’S ARSENALS
Kyiv (AP): The head-
lines on the newsstands
in Seoul blared fresh
warnings of a possible
nuclear test by North
Korea.
Out on the sidewalks,
28-year-old office work-
er Lee Jae Sang already
had an opinion about
how to respond to North
Korea’s fast-growing ca-
pacity to lob nuclear
bombs across borders
and oceans.
Our country should
also develop a nuclear
programme. And pre-
pare for a possible nu-
clear war,” said Lee,
voicing a desire that a
February poll showed
was shared by 3 out of 4
South Koreans.
It’s a point that people
and politicians of non-
nuclear powers globally
are raising more often,
at what has become a
destabilising moment in
more than a half-centu-
ry of global nuclear
nonproliferation efforts,
one aggravated by the
daily example of nucle-
ar Russia tearing apart
non-nuclear Ukraine.
That reconsideration
by non-nuclear states is
playing out in Asia. The
region is home to an ev-
er-more assertive North
Korea, China, Russia
and Iran three nuclear
powers and one near-
nuclear power but is un-
protected by the kind of
nuclear umbrella and
broad defense alliance
that for decades has
shielded NATO coun-
tries.
Vulnerable countries
will look to the lessons
from Ukraine especially
whether Russia suc-
ceeds in swallowing big
pieces of Ukraine while
brandishing its nuclear
arsenal to hold other na-
tions at bay as they con-
sider keeping or pursu-
ing nuclear weapons,
security experts say
.
As important, they
say, is how well the US
and its allies are per-
suading other partners
in Europe, the Persian
Gulf and Asia to trust in
the shield of US-led nu-
clear and conventional
arsenals and not pursue
their own nuclear
bombs. For leaders wor-
ried about unfriendly,
nuclear-armed neigh-
bours, they will say to
their domestic audienc-
es, Please support our
nuclear armament be-
cause look what hap-
pened to Ukraine,’
right? said Mariana
Budjeryn, a researcher
with the Project on Man-
aging the Atom at Har-
vard’s Kennedy School
of Government.
As a schoolgirl in
1980s Soviet-era
Ukraine, Budjeryn
drilled on how to dress
radiation burns and
other potential injuries
of nuclear war, at a time
that country housed
some 5,000 of the Soviet
Union’s nuclear weap-
ons. Her country re-
nounced nuclear weap-
ons development after
the Soviet Union shat-
tered, opting for eco-
nomic assistance and
integration with the
West and security assur-
ances.
People protest at a rally calling for Russia to stop the war against Ukraine in Seoul, South Korea.
UKRAINE WEATHERS
BOMBARDMENT
Kyiv (AP): Russian
attacks laid down a
curtain of fire Tues-
day across areas of
eastern Ukraine where
pockets of resistance
are denying Moscow
full military control
of the region, almost
four months after the
Kremlin unleashed
an invasion.Today
everything that can
burn is on fire, Serhiy
Haidai, the governor
of Ukraine’s eastern
Luhansk region, told
The Associated Press.
Russia’s war has
caused alarm over
food supplies from
Ukraine to the rest
of the world and gas
supplies from Rus-
sia, as well as rais-
ing questions about
security in Western
Europe.The Russian
military currently con-
trols about 95% of the
Luhansk region. But
Moscow has struggled
for weeks to overrun
it completely, despite
deploying additional
troops and possessing
a massive advantage
in military assets. In
the city of Sieviero-
donetsk, the hot spot
of the fighting, Ukrain-
ian defenders held on
to the Azot chemical
plant in the industrial
outskirts. About 500
civilians are shelter-
ing at the plant, and
Haidai said the Rus-
sian forces are turning
the area into ruins. It
is a sheer catastrophe,
Haidai told the AP in
written comments
about the plant.
BLOCKING
NUCLEAR THREATS
In Europe and in the
Persian Gulf, President
Joe Biden and US
generals, diplomats and
troops are shuttling to
countries neighbour-
ing Russia and to
oil-producing countries
neighbouring Iran. Biden
and his top lieuten-
ants pledge the US is
committed to blocking
nuclear threats from
Iran and North Korea.
The scheme also provides various options to Indian Navy
personnel from NCV Ship to Foreign Going Ships certification.
Kashmiri Pandits
perform unique
yoga in Kashmir
Srinagar (PTI):
Kashmiri Pandit
employees on
Tuesday adopted a
novel way of using
yoga to highlight
their demand for
relocation out of
Kashmir in the
wake of recent at-
tacks on minori-
ties in the valley
.
The Kashmiri
Pandit (KP) em-
ployees, who have
been protesting
since the killing of
Rahul Bhat on
May 12, observed
the International
Day of Yoga at
their camp site at
Sheikhpora Mi-
grant Colony in
Budgam.
The protesting
employees per-
formed various
asanas and raised
slogans like “we
want justice” in-
stead of the vedic
chants associated
with the practice.
While some of
these employees
pasted placards
in support of
their demands on
their torso, sev-
eral others wore
T-shirts bearing
photographs of
Bhat.
“We have been
sitting here in
protest everyday
andtodaythrough
this programme,
we want to convey
our demand to the
state govern-
ment,” one of the
employees said.
On Monday
, the
KP employees had
threatened to ap-
peal to interna-
tional human
rights organisa-
tions for asylum
if the central gov-
ernment failed to
relocate them
from the Valley
.
SyrianplanelandsafterDamascusairportattack
Damascus (AP): A
flight by private Syrian
airline Cham Wings
landed on Tuesday at an
airport used by Russia’s
military in the coastal
province of Latakia in
western Syria.
The flight from Shar-
jah in the UAE was the
first to land in at the
airbase since Damascus
airport was damaged by
an Israeli airstrike ear-
lier this month.
It is also the first Syr-
ian international flight
to land at the facility
since Russia took it
over after joining the
war in Syria in Septem-
ber 2015, helping tip the
balance of power in fa-
vor of Syrian President
Bashar Assad’s forces.
The Bassel al-Assad
International Airport
known by the Russians
as the Hmeimeem base
serves Latakia, Syria’s
key port on the Mediter-
ranean.
India, Nepal
discuss issues
of trans-border
New Delhi (PTI): India
and Nepal discussed is-
sues related to curbing
trans-border criminal
and terror activities and
strengthening border
infrastructure among
others at the 12th meet-
ing of their Joint Work-
ing Group (JWG).
The JWG, which
delved into matters re-
lated to border manage-
ment and security, was
held in New Delhi on
June 15-16, an official
statement said.
The JWG reviewed
the border district coor-
dination committee
meetings held earlier
and the progress made
on the signing of the
mutual legal assistance
treaty, extradition trea-
ty and other outstanding
MoUs to be inked be-
tween the two sides. The
Indian delegation was
led by a joint secretary-
level officer in the MHA
and the Nepali side was
led by his counterpart.
UAE GOLDEN VISA GRANTED
Dr. Jagdeesh Chandra was granted Golden Visa by the UAE (United Arab Emirates) on Tuesday. Dr. Chandra received the 10 year
Golden Visa in person in Dubai. The visa was granted to him for his outstanding work in the field of Journalism and promoting
fashion and talent in Dubai. Dr. Jagdeesh Chandra hosted two seasons of Fashion Connect in Dubai, which were attended by
the members of the Royal Family of Dubai and highly appreciated by everyone.

A
fter the release of Allu Arjun, Rash-
mika Mandanna and Fahadh Faasil
starrer Pushpa: The Rise in Decem-
ber last year, fans are eagerly
waiting for its sequel. And now
even before Pushpa 2 has gone on
the floors, speculations are rife
that Rashmika’s character
Srivalli might get killed in the
sequel. According to the sourc-
es, Pushpa producer Y. Ravi
Shankar clarifies the rumours.
“That’s all trash,” he states, fur-
ther adding, “This is all nonsense.
Until now we didn’t hear the story
to be fair and frank, so it’s not like
that, and all these are speculations.
At this point in time, you write
anything on that film, no one
knows anything about that, so they
believe in it. This is being carried
by other websites and TV
channels also, but it’s
false news.” So
Rashmika’s char-
acter does live in
part 2? “Ya ya,
sure,” confirms
Y. Ravi Shankar.
09
T
o celebrate In-
ter national
Yoga Day, Bol-
lywood cel-
ebs have been taking to
their social media han-
dles to share pictures
and videos of them do-
ing Yoga and motivat-
ing their fans to prac-
tise the same. Alia too
shared a cute video to
wish her fans on this
day and it featured her
furry friend Edward
too. The video begins
with Edward walking away
from the camera toward the
actress who is sitting on her
Yoga mat and is in the middle of
performing Yoga. She has tied her
hair in a bun and can be seen lying
on the floor. As Edward walks to-
ward her, Alia can be seen playing
with it. Sharing this video, Alia
wrote, “Happy Yoga Day from my
Yoga partner and me”.
A
nushka Sharma is
prepping hard for
her return to the
movies. The ac-
tress will be making her
onscreen comeback after
almost 3.5 years with
Chakda Xpress. In the
biopic, Anushka will be
telling Indian cricketer
Jhulan Goswami’s life
story. Anushka began
her prep in February and
has now started shooting
in Mumbai. “A film of this
scale needed tremendous
prep in all departments. It is a
delightful script that intends to
make strong statements,”
Anushka told sources. After she
wraps up the current shoot in
Mumbai, Anushka and the crew
are expected to fly to the UK next
month for an extensive schedule.
An ecstatic Anushka said, “It is a
fact that women have to go that ex-
tra mile to earn their place in this
patriarchal world. Jhulan Goswa-
mi’s life is a testimony to the fact
that she carved her own destiny,
and fought for every inch of the
spotlight and recognition. I hope
that I can do justice to the script.”
T
amannaah Bhatia
made heads turn
with her desi look
asshewaspapped
at the Mumbai airport.
The actress gave out
major goals on how to
keep it simple yet styl-
ish with an ethnic look
and we are stunned. She
opted for a blue floral
Anarkali suit for the air-
port look and looked
beautiful. With silver
jhumkas, she made a state-
ment with her desi look. Ta-
mannaah Bhatia completely
the look with pink eye make-
up and lipstick and also tied
herhairintoasleekponytail.
She also carried a book in
hand and posed for paps with
her bright smile.
A
s we reported earlier that after his
divorce from Samantha Ruth Prab-
hu, Tollywood actor Naga Chaitanya
is dating the Made In Heaven fame
actress Sobhita Dhulipala. According to
sources, the Thank You star was spotted with
his ladylove at his new abode in Hyderabad.
The couple looked extremely comfortable in
each other’s company. The fans claimed
that Samantha is spreading false reports
regarding the actor. Taking to Twitter, the
Yashoda actress reacted to the same, “Ru-
mours on girl – Must be true !! Rumours
on boy – Planted by girl !! Grow up guys
..Parties involved have clearly moved on
.. you should move on too !! Concentrate
on your work … on your fami-
lies .. move on!!”
NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY,
JUNE 22, 2022
3 YEARS OF
KABIR SINGH
hahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani’s
romantic drama film, Kabir Singh
releasedin2019.Thefilmbecameone
of the biggest hits of the year. It was
a remake of Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s
Telugu film Arjun Reddy (2017)
which starred Vijay Deverakonda
and Shalini Pandey in the
lead. This film marked Sha-
hid and Kiara’s first collabo-
ration together and their
camaraderiebecamethetalk
of the town in no time. Their
sizzling on-screen chemistry
also won millions of hearts
of their fans.
Kabir Singh completed 3
years of release on Tuesday
and on this special occasion,
Shahid and Kiara shared a
special video on their social
media handle as they cele-
brated on the sets of Karan
Johar’s chat show, Koffee
With Karan S7.
S
DESI LOOK
Rashmika’s character
killed in Pushpa 2? Dating rumours
ANUSHKA’S
COMEBACK
YOGA WITH
YOGA WITH
ALIA AND
ALIA AND
EDWARD
EDWARD
Kiara Advani
Glimpse from Koffee with karan S7
Tamannaah Bhatia
Spotted
Alia Bhatt
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Anushka Sharma
Rashmika Mandanna
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