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RAJASTHAN
680
DEATHS
42,083
CONFIRMED CASES
GUJARAT
2,441 DEATHS 61,438 CASES
KARNATAKA
2,314 DEATHS 1,24,115 CASES
Aditi Nagar
Jaisalmer/Jaipur:
Fearing“horse-trading”
ahead of the Assembly
session, the Rajasthan
Congress on Friday
shifted the party MLAs
to Jaisalmer from
Jaipur where they had
been staying at a hotel
for over a fortnight.
Notably, total 88
MLAs reached Jais-
almer on Friday of
which 48 reached by
three chartered planes
on Friday afternoon
whereas 40 others
reached the Golden
City by two chartered
flights on Friday even-
ing. Although in the
evening flight a total of
40 passengers had trav-
elled, however, seven
of the total 47 individu-
als, were senior Con-
gress leaders and two
family members. Mem-
bers of CM’s staff also
travelled by the even-
ing flight.
Moreover, in all, six
ministers and five
MLAs could not go to
Jaisalmer since the
third plane could not
land after sunset.
Ministers Pratap
Singh, Raghu Sharma,
Ashok Chandana, Lal-
chand Kataria, Sub-
hash Garg, Udailal An-
jana could not go while
MLAs Jagdish Jangid,
Amit Chachan, Paras-
ram Mordia, Babu Lal
Bairwa, Balwan Poonia
also stayed back.
The MLAs who could
not go on Friday are ex-
pected to fly to Jaisalm-
er on Saturday while
ministers will stay in
Jaipur.
CMAshokGehlotand
other senior party lead-
ers,includingAICCgen-
eral secretary Avinash
Pande and spokesper-
sonRandeepSurjewala,
alsomovedtoJaisalmer
along with the MLAs in
five chartered flights.
Gehlot alleged that
the MLAs, their family
members and acquaint-
ances were getting
threatcallsandpressure
wasbeingbuildonthem
after the announcement
of the Assembly session
from August 14.
He said, “The rate for
horse-trading has in-
creased after the gover-
nor announced the as-
semblysessiondate.The
party has undertaken a
campaign to save the de-
mocracyinthecountry.”
Targeting Union
Home Minister, Gehlot
said he took the BJP
leader’s name as he
comes (on the fore-
front) “where the gov-
ernment is toppled”.
“What has happened
to you... day and night
you think how to topple
elected governments.
How the democracy in
the country will be
saved if elected govern-
ments are toppled,” he
asked. Turn on P6
GEHLOT DEMONSTRATES HIS COMPLETE CONTROL OVER 100 MLAs
Desert Fest or 15-day quarantine @ Jaisalmer!
‘Fearing misuse of probe
agencies, Mayawati making
statements at BJP’s behest’
Jaipur: Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot on Friday
alleged that BSP chief
Mayawati is making
statements over her
party MLAs merger
with the Congress at the
behest of BJP and un-
der “compulsion” due
to fear of misuse of
probe agencies.
Gehlot also targeted
BJP whose MLA has
filed a petition in court
against assembly
Speaker’s decision con-
cerning the merger of
six BSP MLAs in the
ruling Congress. In a
series of tweets, Gehlot
said that BJP saw no
problem when MLAs or
MPs of other parties
joined it.
He said BJP justified
its actions saying that
two-thirds of legisla-
tors were joining ac-
cording to provisions of
the anti-defection law.
“In Goa, BJP took 10
of the 15 MLAs of the
Congress on the basis
of two-thirds. Four MPs
of TDP merged with
BJP in Rajya Sabha. In
Rajasthan, all six MLAs
of the BSP have merged
the entire party within
the Congress. When
BJP’s merger is right,
how is this merger
wrong? What would you
call it?” Gehlot said.
“BJP got 4 MPs of
TDP merged inside Ra-
jya Sabha overnight,
that merger is right and
six MLAs merged in
Congress in Rajasthan,
that merger is wrong,
then I want to ask
where did BJP’s chal,
charitra, chehra go? Is
it right to be merged in
Rajya Sabha and is it
wrong to be merged
here?” he added. Gehlot
accused BJP of misus-
ing CBI and Enforce-
ment Directorate.
“Behenji has been
put at the front by BJP
and she is making state-
ments at its (BJP’s) be-
hest. The way the BJP is
misusing CBI and ED
and it is intimidating
andthreatening...every-
one knows what is hap-
pening in Rajasthan.
We have never seen
such a spectacle. She is
afraid of it and is mak-
ing statements out of
compulsion,” he said.
Mayawati had told
ANI earlier that BSP
hadgivenunconditional
supportof allits6MLAs
to Congress in Ra-
jasthan after elections
results. Turn on P6
RAJ POLITICAL CRISIS: BJP
TAKES POTSHOTS AT GEHLOT
Jaipur: State BJP president Dr Satish Poonia took
a pot shot on CM Gehlot asking him if he would
now take the MLAs to Pakistan. “Gehlot has taken
MLAs to Jaisalmer to save them from poaching
but how far the government will run. From where
they have gone the next place is Pakistan,” he said
sarcastically. Meanwhile, Deputy LoP Rajendra
Rathore too condemned Gehlot’s comment
that rebel Congress MLAs are offered unlimited
amount after Assembly session was declared. P8
TWO MLAs STUCK IN JAIPUR WHILE THEIR
LUGGAGE TOURS JAISALMER!
Jaipur: Even as most Congress MLAs left for Jaisalmer on Friday, two
legislators, Amit Chakan and Jagdish Jangid could not go Jaisalmer as both
were first sitting in a big charter plane while Mamta and Sukhram had to sit in
the 7-seater plane. But then both were shifted to the bigger plane thus forcing
both Chakan and Jangid to deplane make place for the two. Similarly Arun
Kumawat and Amit Malik too could not go to Jaisalmer. However, during all
this confusion the bags of these MLAs remained in the plane while they had
to return to the hotel without their luggage. After this the rooms in Fairmont
were reopened for both the Chakan and Jangid. Now both will go to Jaisalmer
on Saturday morning along with Kumawat and Malik.
MLAs DISQUALIFICATION ISSUE:
CONG CHIEF WHIP MOVES SC
New Delhi: After the Assembly Speaker moved
the Supreme Court against the state high
court’s July 24 order, Congress chief whip
Mahesh Joshi has also moved the apex court,
challenging the order staying proceedings on
his petitions seeking disqualification of 19 rebel
MLAs, including dropped Deputy Chief Minister
Sachin Pilot. P8
A confident CM Ashok Gehlot flashes a victory sign outside Jaipur Airport before boarding a chartered flight to Jaisalmer on Friday.
—PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA
CM ENSURES THAT
WORK DOESN’T SUFFER
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has ensured
that even though the MLAs have been kept
under fortification, the government should
continue functioning properly and therefore,
the leaves of Collectors and Divisional
Commissioners have been cancelled.
Moreover, the secretaries in-charge will also
hold two day tour of their respective districts.
Chief Secretary Rajeeva Swarup issued the
orders in this regard. Similarly, at any point in
time, half a dozen ministers will be in Jaipur
even as the ministers will travel to and fro
to Jaisalmer. Moreover, CM Gehlot is also
expected to camp at Jaipur and handle the
affairs of the state.
JINDAL’S
PLANES USED!
KASHIRAM CHOUDHARY
On Friday, Congress MLAs
were shifted from Jaipur to
Jaisalmer on 3 chartered
planes with the capacity of
37, 10 and 7 seats respec-
tively. Congress leader and
industrialist Naveen Jindal
played a major role in the
entire shifting process
as the largest aircraft
used—India FlySafe Avia-
tion Company, Delhi—is
associated with the Jindal
Group.
Behenji has been put at the front by
BJP and she is making statements
at its (BJP’s) behest. The way the
BJP is misusing CBI and ED and it is in-
timidating and threatening...everyone
knows what is happening in Rajasthan.
—Ashok Gehlot, CM
Neighbourhood bond: PM Modi’s
sister from Pak sends rakhi to him
Int’lflightssuspension
extended till Aug 31
Punjab hooch tragedy
toll rises to 38,8 held
New Delhi: Aviation
regulator DGCA on Fri-
day extended the sus-
pension of scheduled
international flights to
and from the country
till August 31. However,
this restriction will not
apply to international
all-cargo operations and
flights specifically ap-
proved by the DGCA.
“Government has de-
cided to extend the sus-
pension on the sched-
uled international com-
mercial passenger ser-
vices to/ from India up
to 2359 hours IST of 31st
August,” DGCA said.
Earlier, DGCA had on
July 3 extended the ban
on international flights
until July 31 after it was
suspended till July 15.
According to senior gov-
ernment officials, the
ban was extended be-
cause it was felt that it
would take some more
time for India to prepare
before it can resume
scheduled international
operations. —Agencies
Chandigarh: Even as
the toll in the hooch
tragedy rose to 38, Pun-
jab Police on Friday ar-
rested seven more boot-
leggers from Amritsar,
Batala, and Tarn Taran
districts in over 40 raids
conducted by five teams
led by senior officers.
With these arrests,
the total number of per-
sons apprehended so
far in the spurious liq-
uor death case has gone
up to eight, including
Balwinder Kaur, who
was arrested on Thurs-
day night from Much-
hal village.
Director-General of
Police (DGP) Dinkar
Gupta said a huge quan-
tity of spurious liquor,
drums, storage cans,
etc. has been recovered
from the accused and
they have been sent for
chemical analysis to
check for constituents
of spurious liquor.
More arrests are likely,
he said, adding that
raids were continuing
and the police teams
would continue to crack
down on all those in-
volved in the case to un-
ravel extent of spurious
liquor mafia. P5
New Delhi: Ahead of
the auspicious occasion
of Raksha Bandhan,
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi’s Pakistani
sister Qamar Mohsin
Sheikh sent a rakhi to
him.
Speaking to ANI,
Qamar said, “In this co-
rona period, I will first
look for the safety of my
brother. We shouldn’t
mind because of the
current situation in the
country. If it had been
possible, he would have
called me definitely. I
have sent my Rakhi to
him by courier along
with a letter. I pray for
long life for him. He
should keep on working
like this only. I pray to
Allah for his good and
healthy life.” Express-
ing her wish, she said,
“I feel he will interact
with me on a video call
on the occasion of Rak-
sha Bandhan.”
She said, “A sister
can only wish for the
good life of his brother
and she can tie Rakhi
by herself but the situ-
ation is changed this
time. I regret that this
will be our 25th Raksha
Bandhan and I couldn’t
tie Rakhi by myself this
year because of the pan-
demic. I pray he keeps
doing good Turn on P6
PM Narendra Modi
However, int’l
cargo operations
will continue
INDIA
16,94,705
CONFIRMED CASES
36,550
DEATHS
MAHARASHTRA
14,994 DEATHS 4,22,118 CASES
DELHI
TAMIL NADU
WORLD
6,79,487
DEATHS
1,76,16,627
CONFIRMED CASES

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Shubham Jain
Ajmer: Shaher Qazi of
Sufi saint Khawaja
Garib Nawaz’s dargah
in Ajmer has appealed
to the Muslim commu-
nity to celebrate Eid at
home. Qazi Taufiq
Ahmed Siddiqui said
that Covid pandemic
has not gone away
therefore people should
follow social distanc-
ing and offer Eid-Ul-
Juha’s namaz at home
only.
Siddiqui said that
coronavirus cases have
been increasing, there-
fore, group namaz
would not be offered at
Khawaja Garib
Nawaz’s dargah as well
as Eidgah in Kesar-
ganj. “Stay at home
and pray and celebrate
Eid with your family,”
he asked them.
Dargah committee’s
Nazim Shakeel Ahmed
also said that as per
central government’s
guidelines religious
places are still not
open, so people should
not come to dargah
sharif and celebrate
Eid and pray with fam-
ily at home.
Ajmer qazi urges people to
offer Eid namaz at home
CONG’S ‘GOLDEN’ ROUTE TO VICTORY!
Dharmendra Rathore
Bhanwar Singh BhatiDivya MadernaPramod Jain BhayaMamta Bhupesh Govind Singh Dotasara
Krishna Poonia
Shanti Dhariwal
Rajkumar Sharma shows his sports kit as Parsadilal Meena looks on
Congress leaders coming out of the flight in Jaisalmer on Friday.
Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and Raghu SharmaMahesh Joshi
Prashant Bairwa
Avinash Pande
Mahendra Choudhary Ameen Kagzi
BD Kalla
Alleging mental harassment of Congress MLAs of his camp, CM Ashok Gehlot on Friday led the MLAs,
who were staying at Hotel Fairmont since the political crisis began in the state, to Jaisalmer. The MLAs
are expected to stay there till state assembly convenes on August 14. Meanwhile, 6 ministers and 5
MLAs didn’t go to Jaisalmer including, Pratap Singh Khachariyawas, Raghu Sharma, Ashok Chandana,
Lalchand Kataria, Subhash Garg, Uday Lal Anjana. MLAs Jagdish Jangid, Amit Chakan, Parasram
Moradia, Babu Lal Bairava, Balwan Poonia. Some ministers and MLAs may fly to Jaisalmer today.
Unable to conduct
exams: State govt
97 state administration
officers transferred
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The state gov-
ernment has given its
suggestion in the mat-
ter of promoting the
students due to the co-
rona situation. The gov-
ernment has said that it
is now unable to con-
duct exams. The state
government mentioned
it in the suggestion giv-
en for class promotion
in universities.
The state govern-
ment has given sugges-
tions regarding the re-
maining examinations
of the session 2019-20,
in which the govern-
ment has shown its in-
ability to conduct an-
nual or semester exami-
nations. In addition, the
government has sug-
gested giving 50%
marks on the basis of
previous year or semes-
ter marks and the re-
maining 50% through
the internal assessment
to pass the students.
Apart from this, the
government has ad-
vised considering the
marks of first-year stu-
dents based on the aver-
age marks of 10th and
12th standard. Also, a
suggestion was given to
promote the UG second-
year students as per the
first year marks by pro-
viding them 5% bonus
marks. On the other
hand, for PG students,
the state government
has suggested the dis-
tributionof theirmarks
through a minor re-
search arrangement or
assignment.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Amid the po-
litical turmoil going on
in the state, the Gehlot
government has made a
big change in bureau-
cracy and issued trans-
fer orders of 97 admin-
istrative officers of the
state late on Thursday
night. According to the
transfer list issued by
the Department of Per-
sonnel, more than three
dozen SDMs have been
changed. Apart from
this, two RAS officers
Laxminarayan Bunkar
and Lokesh Kumar
have been turned APO.
The Gehlot govern-
ment has taken care of
the desires of public
representatives in the
transfer list. On the
other hand, 38 officers
promoted from Tehsil-
dar Service have been
given new postings in
the RAS cadre. Along
with this, the APO of-
ficers Seema Kumar
has been posted as
Registrar in Rajasthan
ILD Skill University,
Mahavir Singh as Reg-
istrar in Bikaner Tech-
nical University and
Vinay Kumar Nagay-
ach as DIG Stamp in
Alwar. All three posts
were vacant for some
time.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Chief Secre-
tary Rajeeva Swarup
has issued an order for
all the district in charg-
es and secretaries of the
state regarding Cov-
id-19. In the order, the
CS has directed the dis-
trict officials to review
the implementation of
the public awareness
campaign about corona-
virus in their respective
districts on August 1
and 2. Besides, the offi-
cials are also instructed
to review the preventive
measures for the spread
of corona and the medi-
cal arrangements being
carried out for the Cov-
id affected people, so
that directions can be
provided for improving
the facilities.
The respective dis-
trict officials will also
review and supervise
the regular tasks dur-
ing their visit and will
submit a detailed re-
view report about the
same to the authorities.
Review implementation of public
awareness campaign:CS to officials
38 PROMOTIONS
First India Bureau
Jaipur: In the 884 crore
rupees alleged Sanjiva-
ni scam the victims
have now turned to the
Rajasthan High Court
seeking justice as on
Friday, a whopping 1100
individuals from the
‘Sanjivani Pidit Sangh’
filed an application to
become a party in the
case. The advocate to
the secretary of the as-
sociation filed the appli-
cation and requested
that SOG’s investiga-
tion be continued and
not stayed as requested
in another application.
The applicant has
pleaded that the victims
had invested their life-
time earnings in the so-
ciety and thousands of
people have lost all their
money leading to many
families breaking up.
The SOG is investi-
gating the role of cen-
tral minister Gajendra
Singh Shekhawat and
others in the Sanjivani
Society but one of the
accused has filed in a
petition requesting a
stay on the SOG investi-
gation. The victims
have appealed to the
court not to grant any
stay in the SOG investi-
gation without hearing
them. It is noteworthy
that the single bench
had recently issued no-
tices to the concerned
parties to the case and
fixed August 5 for the
next hearing.
The Additional Dis-
trict & Sessions Judge,
Jaipur-8 had ordered
SOG to investigate the
role of Gajendra Singh
Shekhawat along with
his wife, associate Ra-
jendraBahetiandKeval-
chand Dakalia while ac-
cepting a petition in Rs
884 crore scam by Sanji-
vani Credit Society. The
order by the court was
to investigate in the al-
ready registered case.
Now the victims of the
scam too have joined the
legal battle.
Government gives its suggestion in the matter of
promoting the students due to the corona situation
Victims appeal HC to not
grant stay on SOG probe
—PHOTOS BY SUMAN SARKAR AND SANTOSH SHARMA
Rajeeva Swarup
 Ravindra Kumar Joshi - DJ, Jodh-
pur Metropolitan.
 Devendra Prakash Sharma - DJ,
Bharatpur.
 Gyan Prakash Gupta - DJ, Sikar.
 Baljit Singh - DJ, Churu.
 Chandraprakash Shrimali - DJ,
Bhilwara.
 Harendra Singh - Special Judge,
special court for trial of Jaipur bomb
blast case Jaipur Metropolitan-2.
 Alok Surolia - DJ, Pratapgarh.
 Rajveer Singh - Judge, special
court for POCSO, Alwar.
 Suman Gupta - ADJ-3, Jaipur
Metropolitan-1.
 Yogesh Sharma - Special Judge,
SC-ST cases court, Kota.
 Bal Krishna Goyal - Additional Ses-
sion Court, women atrocity case
no. 2, Kota.
 Ravikant Jindal - ADJ-2, Shahpura.
 Siddhartha - ADJ, Rajsamand.
 Bulaki Das Vyas - ADJ-1, Beawar.
 Vinod Kumar Giri - ADJ-3, Jaipur
District, Jaipur.
 Vinod Kumar Sharma - ADJ, Mal-
pura Tonk.
16 JUDICIAL OFFICERS TRANSFERRED
SANJIVANI SCAM

First India Bureau
Sawai Madhopur: For
effective prevention
from the increasing co-
rona cases in the dis-
trict, strict measures are
being taken by the dis-
trict administration.
Apart from fixing cur-
few for markets, the two
big fairs of the district,
Chauth Mata and Trin-
etra Ganesh Mela, has
also been postponed.
During a press con-
ference held at the dis-
trict Collectorate audi-
torium on Friday, Dis-
trict Collector Nannu
Mal Pahadia said that
despite all efforts put in
by the administration,
police and medical de-
partment in the dis-
trict, the corona infec-
tion is increasing.
In last few days, differ-
ent parts of the district
headquarters have also
been affected by the pan-
demic, due to which the
administration has de-
cided to fix the time of
markets to 10 am to 6 pm
from August 4.
RAJASTHANJAIPUR | SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2020
Vikas Sharma
Jaipur: Notwithstand-
ing the ongoing political
crisis that is occupying
his mind, Chief Minis-
ter Ashok Gehlot has
not forgotten his prima-
ry responsibility of tak-
ing care of people.
Guided by the CM’s
concern for poor, his
government has decid-
ed to provide lifesaving
but expensive Tocili-
zumab-Remdesivir in-
jection free of cost to
Covid patients. Each
injection costs Rs 40,000.
What’s more, the pa-
tients won’t have to run
around to get a shot be-
cause the injections
will be available in dis-
trict hospitals.
The matter of Tocili-
zumab-Remdesivir in-
jection had come up in
core group’s meeting.
The CM had claimed
that money doesn’t mat-
ter to save a patient’s
life, no matter how cost-
ly the injection is; it
should be immediately
procured.
Subsequently, the
health department has
implemented a new sys-
tem to make these life-
saving injections avail-
able in district head-
quarters. Health minis-
ter Dr Raghu Sharma
said that the injections
have been provided to
six medical colleges in
the state who will then
release them as per
needs in the districts at-
tached to them.
According to doctors,
these injections have
given 100% results,
which is why the state
government has made
them available in all
medical colleges de-
spite being costly.
However, the state
level medical experts
group has said that
these injections should
be administered to only
serous patients that too
after adequate testing.
SMS Medical College
Principal Dr Sudhir
Bhandari said that in-
structions have been
given to be cautious and
the injection should be
given only under super-
vision of experts.
The government may
not care for cost of the
injection that is crucial
in fighting corona but
that doesn’t mean it
does not care for mis-
use. Therefore, in bid to
avoid financial irregu-
larity, the health de-
partment has asked
field officers to give
them to a patient only
if absolute necessary
and each case will be
audited by a team of
SMS Medical College.
Meanwhile, the co-
rona patients have
been given another re-
lief as they can now
keep smart phone and
laptop in the ICU to
stay in touch with their
families. However, the
time limit to use them
would be decided by
hospital incharge. The
health department has
issued orders to all
CMHO in this regard.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Jaipur broke
its single day corona
cases record by adding
163 cases on Friday, tak-
ing tally to 42,083. 13
deaths were also report-
ed, 4 each from Bikaner
& Jaipur, 3 from Ajmer
and 1 each from Barmer
& Nagaur taking death
toll to 680.
Jodhpur had 160 new
cases, 122 from Kota, 96
from Pali, 90 each from
Ajmer & Alwar, 88 from
Sikar, 52 from Dholpur,
50 from Udaipur, 42 from
Bikaner, 35 from Jalore,
26 from Banswara, 25
from Bharatpur,16 each
from Karauli & Rajsa-
mand,13fromBhilwara,
10 each from Chittor-
garh & Sirohi, 9 each
from Dungarpur &
Jhunjhunu, 7 from Bun-
di, 5 from Churu, 4 from
Sawai Madhopur, 3 from
Baran, 2 from Tonk,1
from Jalore and 3 from
other states.
Cumulative district
wise tally stands –
Ajmer 1,938, Alwar
3,897, Banswara 207,
Baran 138, Barmer
1,372, Bharatpur 2,571,
Bhilwara 638, Bikaner
1,983, Bundi 136, Chit-
torgarh 273, Churu 670,
Dausa 308, Dholpur
1,227, Dungarpur 598,
Ganganagar 229, Hanu-
mangarh 207, Jaipur
5,418, Jaisalmer 188, Ja-
lore 1,116, Jhalawar 553,
Jhunjhunu 613, Jodh-
pur 6851, Karauli 351,
Kota1,686,Nagaur1,432,
Pali 2,647, Pratapgarh
176, Rajsamand 633,
Sawai Madhopur 197,
Sikar 1,063, Sirohi 879,
Tonk 274 and Udaipur
1,304 along with 188
from other states .
Partial curfew was
imposed in 37 areas of
Jaipur after new cases
came up while curfew
was lifted from 28 are-
as later.
Govt to provide COVID-19 injections
worth `40,000 each free of cost
Dist admn fixes market curfew, postpones fairs
Raj reports 13
deaths, 1,147 new
cases; 163 in city
Theywillbeavailableindistricthospitals,andwouldonlybeadministeredduringcriticalconditions
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Feast of
St Ignatius of Loyola
was celebrated with
great gusto and rever-
ence on 30 July 2020 by
the staff and manage-
ment of St Xavier’s
College, Jaipur in
keeping with the
norms of social dis-
tancing. The pro-
gramme was also tel-
ecasted live on the of-
ficial Facebook page
of the college.
The programme
commenced with the
lighting of the lamp
and garlanding of the
portrait of St. Igna-
tius followed by read-
ings from the sacred
scriptures of different
religions.
Principle Rev Dr A Rex Angelo along with staff of college
during the ceremony.
St Xavier’s celebrates
feast of St Ignatius
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Governor
Kalraj Mishra has
appealed to the coro-
an survivors to do-
nate plasma. He ex-
pressed his gratitude
to the citizens, doc-
tors, nursing staff,
police and adminis-
tration who were put-
ting up a united front
against the pandem-
ic. Governor said
that plasma therapy
is an effective treat-
ment and the plasma
can only be donated
by a person who has
recovered from the
corona infection. He
appealed to all the
2,7000 patients in the
state who had suc-
cessfully from coro-
na to donate their
plasma to save criti-
cal corona patients.
The plasma therapy
is available in SMS
Hospital in Jaipur
along with medical
colleges at the divi-
sional headquarters.
It is noteworthy that
CM Gehlot too has
appealed to take the
plasma donation as a
campaign.
Guv, CM encourge
plasma donation
DISTS ATTACHED WITH MED COLLEGES
SMS MEDICAL COLLEGE
JAIPUR : Jaipur, Alwar,
Dausa, Jhunjhunu, Sikar,
Dholpur, Karauli, Sawai
Madhopur and Bharatpur.
SAMPOORNANAND
MEDICAL COLLEGE
JODHPUR: Jodhpur,
Jaisalmer, Barmer, Ja-
lore, Pali and Sirohi.
SARDAR PATEL MEDI-
CAL COLLEGE BIKANER:
Bikaner, Sriganganagar,
Hanumangarh & Churu.
GOVERNMENT
MEDICAL COLLEGE
KOTA: Kota, Bundi,
Baran and Jhalawar.
JLN MEDICAL COL-
LEGE AJMER: Ajmer,
Tonk, Nagaur and
Bhilwara.
RNT MEDICAL
COLLEGE UDAIPUR:
Udaipur, Rajsamand,
Pratapgarh, Dungar-
pur, Banswara and
Chittorgarh.
Jaipur: Yoga insti-
tutes, gyms and small
places of worship will
be allowed to open in
state under Unlock 3.0
for which the state gov-
ernment issued guide-
lines to ease curbs
amid the COVID-19
pandemic on Friday.
Conditional permis-
sion to reopen small
places of worship (tem-
ple, mosques, gurud-
wara), which used to
have an average daily
visit of up to 50 people
prior to lockdown, was
given under the guide-
lines to be implement-
ed from August 1 to 31.
For these places, en-
try of people will be
staggered in such a
manner that social dis-
tancing of at least six
feet is ensured. Wear-
ing masks is mandato-
ry. All other religious
places will reopen from
September 1.
As per the guide-
lines, Yoga institutes
and gymnasiums will
be allowed to function
from August 5 for
which standard operat-
ing procedures (SOP)
will be issued by the
Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare.
“All religious places
of religious worship --
temple, mosque,
churches, gurdwaras
shall be permitted to
open from September 1
with certain condi-
tions. Separate guide-
lines will be issued for
that, subsequently,”
states the order issued
by the home depart-
ment.
“Independence Day
functions at district,
sub-division, munici-
pal and panchayat lev-
els will be allowed only
by following health pro-
tocols, such as sanitisa-
tion of the public spac-
es to be used for the
function ensuring so-
cial distancing and
wearing of masks,” the
order said.
Marriage-related
gatherings may also be
held with the condi-
tions of giving prior
information to Sub-Di-
visional Magistrate,
social distancing will
be maintained and the
maximum number of
guests allowed shall
not be more than 50.
“Violation of any of
the above conditions is
an offence and punish-
able with a heavy fine,”
the order said.
It states that there
shall be no restriction
on inter-state and with-
in the state movement
of people and goods.
Passengers travelling
in any vehicle (person-
al or commercial) shall
not exceed permitted
seating capacity of the
registered vehicle. —PTI
Unlock 3.0: Yoga institutes,
gyms, small temples to reopen
CM CALLS UP MP BENIWAL
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday ringed
up coronavirus infected MP
Hanuman Beniwal and took
stock of the latter’s health
conditions, and wished for
his recovery soon. The Chief
Minister also sent SMS Medi-
cal College Principal Dr Su-
dhir Bhandari to visit the MP
who was admitted in RUHS
on Thursday evening due to persistent fever.

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hepublic-health
and economic
consequences
of the COVID-19
pandemic have
varied across countries.
This is true even among
emerging-market and de-
veloping economies (EM-
DEs), which, compared to
advanced economies, have
higher poverty rates, poor-
er health care, and a lower
share of jobs that can be
performed remotely.
And yet, surprisingly,
COVID-19 infection and
death rates have so far been
lower in most EMDEs than
in the United States and
Europe, as Pinelopi Gold-
berg and Tristan Reed have
noted (and as Raghuram
Rajan has also pointed out).
But this may partly reflect
massive undercounting,
and in any case the situa-
tion is evolving rapidly.
Latin America’s EMDEs
have been the worst hit,
with those of Southeast
Asia the least affected. Vi-
etnam and Thailand, for
example, have reported re-
markably few cases so far.
Obvious possible reasons
whythecoronavirushashit
Latin America so hard in-
clude the region’s inequali-
ty, large and densely popu-
lated cities, sizeable infor-
mal sectors, inadequate
public-health systems, and
high levels of internal mi-
gration. A less obvious fac-
tor is that Latin America
has less recent experience
of pandemics than East
Asia or Africa, where SARS
andEbolahavemadepeople
more aware of the dangers
of deadly viruses and the
consequent need for social
distancing.
The picture in Sub-Saha-
ran Africa is unclear. Al-
though the numbers of
COVID-19 cases and deaths
to date are relatively low,
owingperhapsinparttothe
region’s young population,
the situation in South Afri-
ca is worsening quickly. Ap-
parentlyCOVID-19hotspots
emerge in major metropo-
lises with busy internation-
alairports–thinkof Milan,
London,NewYork,andnow
Johannesburg – and then
spread to neighboring re-
gions with a lag.
There are also signifi-
cant differences within re-
gions. In Latin America,
Brazil and Mexico are suf-
fering especially badly:
Brazil has reported more
COVID-19 cases and deaths
than any country except
the US. Uruguay seems to
be coping the best – but not
by following US President
Donald Trump’s logic of
conducting fewer tests in
order to report fewer cases.
The country has a lower
rate of positive results,
which is a more meaning-
ful statistic.
Brazil and Mexico are in
deeptroublelargelybecause
of poor leadership. Their
presidents are following the
pandemic-response strate-
gy pioneered by Trump:
deny the seriousness of the
situation, and then under-
mine public-health experts’
recommendations, such as
mask wearing.
Then there is the case of
Peru. It is hard to say what
the country’s government
has done wrong in its pan-
demic response, yet COV-
ID-19 deaths per capita are
higher than in both Brazil
and the US. Equally puz-
zling is why Chile has re-
ported more cases per cap-
ita than almost any other
country.
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mastered, the mind is
unwavering like the flame of
a lamp in a windless place.
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Subramanian Swamy
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Why Mumbai Police not ﬁled a FIR
on Sushant Singh Rajput? Why
post-mortem report been titled
provisional? Both for one reason :
The Hospital doctors are awaiting
SSR’s viscera report from Forensic
Department to know whether he
had been poisoned. His nails have
also been sent.
here is a marvelous story,
as true and historical as
anything in the Chandog-
ya Upanishad, which de-
picts many outstanding
features of good education
that are also being sought
to be fostered through the
National Education Policy
(NEP). As it goes, this
Upanishadic tale talks of a
twelve-year old boy who
seeks admission to the gu-
rukul of the great guru
Gautam Haridrumat. The
manner in which Haridru-
mat assesses the boy is an
exercise in enlightened
testing which should be
made mandatory reading
for all schoolteachers.
Why should that be the
case? Simply for the rea-
son that school and college
examinations in India are
becoming a farce. Fortu-
nately, the NEP recognises
this malaise and sets about
creating the right vision-
ary pathways to set right
the situation. As the story
proceeds in the Chandogya
Upanishad, we find that
Haridrumat, after admit-
ting the child, does not get
him to memorise the Ve-
das. Instead, he is sent off
into the forest with a cer-
tain number of cattle and
instructions on returning
only when the cattle have
multiplied a certain fold in
number. There is much
wisdom in the tale. This is
a marvelous illustration
of experiential or project-
based learning. It does not
talk of rote learning. In-
stead, it talks of learning
by doing. It is also a pro-
ject on wealth manage-
ment, since wealth, in
those days was measured
by the number of heads of
cattle an individual owned.
In other worlds the story
emphasises the necessity
for education to be linked
to the needs and challeng-
es of the real world. All of
these pedagogical princi-
ples are embedded in the
NEP document. It is not
that the document talks of
bringing in the Upani-
shads for study. It does not
even mention anything re-
motely like that. What it
does is, to highlight and
emphasise the right ingre-
dients that make for good
policy. It is just that these
are eternal truths and the
NEP document does well
to once again bring them
to the fore.
One may then be prompted
to ask as to the need for such
a policy. We do not need to
look beyond the state of
school education. One of the
most compelling indicators
of the sorry standards of
school education in India
was brought to the fore when
the PISA test results were an-
nounced in 2012. These tests
are conducted on a regular
basis by the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD). The
PISA tests measure the level
and standards of school edu-
cation across many coun-
tries. For the 2012 results,
more than seventy countries
had participated. India came
in at last but one position. We
were saved the embarrass-
ment of coming last only by
the even poorer standards in
school education of Kyr-
gyzstan. The NEP document
recognizes these issues and
makes very noteworthy rec-
ommendations. It talks about
reducing the enormous load
on school children. It cate-
gorically states that we have
too much needless content. It
talks of not distinguishing
between the so-called regular
disciplines like mathematics
or geography from the extra
curricular and co curricular
or even sporting activities
that a child may undertake at
the school level. After all,
each of these activities leads
to good education. The new
education policy also talks of
creating enlightened means
of testing for our school chil-
dren and goes as far as to say
that they must also be al-
lowed to take their board ex-
aminations more than once
so that they can improve
their scores. The NEP docu-
ment similarly makes many
enlightened recommenda-
tions for higher education. It
calls for trans-disciplinary
learning and it calls for dis-
solving the boundaries be-
tween various disciplines.
This allows a student a great
deal of flexibility in choosing
her subjects. A student shall
also have the freedom to spe-
cialize in a subject known as
her subject major and may, if
she chooses, also have a sub-
ject minor. Thus, if a student
is keen on learning the con-
nections of music with math-
ematics or of Sanskrit with
computer science she will
have the freedom to do so.
There are provisions for mul-
tiple exit options. Thus, a stu-
dent who has had to drop out
after a year or even two years
shall be granted a certificate
or a diploma and she can
come back to complete her
degree. It also calls for reduc-
ing the masters level learn-
ing to a duration of just one
year or even be scrapped if
the fourth year leads to a
good research.
The interesting thing is
that in the context of high-
er education, almost all the
recommendations of the
NEP were part of the Four
Year Undergraduate Pro-
gramme (FYUP) at Delhi
University in 2013. This
was during the time that I
had served there as its Vice
Chancellor. We had enor-
mous success when we im-
plemented the programme.
The Delhi University’s
global rankings shot up
and we were above almost
every IIT and all universi-
ties. Our undergraduates
began to produce research
papers, patents and even
startups. Hence, all the fea-
tures that the NEP calls for
have been tested and tried
at Delhi University and
they work very well. Of
course the features shall
only work if we are able to
motivate and train our
teachers both at the level
of schools and at the level
of colleges. The NEP has
made a provision for im-
proving the training of
schoolteachers and has
even made some sugges-
tions on improving college
teaching. We too had done
that at Delhi University. In
addition we had enabled a
great and holistic learning
environment that went be-
yond just preparing good
learning material. We had
incorporated a very effec-
tive use of technology and
our teachers were more of
mentors than blackboard
teachers. In addition, we
had managed to provide a
great deal of funding for
the needs of the pro-
gramme. In this context,
the commitment of the gov-
ernment seems quite firm
since they have announced
the commitment of 6.1 per-
cent of India’s GDP to-
wards education. This is a
very welcome step indeed.
I thus endorse the NEP.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
T
One of the most
compelling
indicators of the
sorry standards
of school
education in
India was
brought to the
fore when the
PISA test results
were announced
in 2012. These
tests are
conducted on a
regular basis by
the Organisation
for Economic
Cooperation and
Development
(OECD)
NEP TALKS OF NOT DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN
THE SO-CALLED REGULAR DISCIPLINES LIKE
MATHEMATICS OR GEOGRAPHY FROM THE
EXTRA CURRICULAR AND CO CURRICULAR OR
EVEN SPORTING ACTIVITIES THAT A CHILD MAY
UNDERTAKE AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL
DINESH
SINGH
Former Vice Chancellor,
University of Delhi
THE NEW
EDUCATION
POLICY

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J&K: SAJAD GANI LONE RELEASED
FROM YEAR-LONG DETENTION
Srinagar: J&K Peoples’
Conference (JKPC)
chairman Sajad Gani Lone
was on Friday released
from nearly a year-long
detention, officials said.
Lone was released days
ahead of the first anniver-
sary of the Centre’s move
to revoke Article 370 of
the Constitution in August
last year. Lone also
confirmed his release by
taking to Twitter. “Finally
five days short of a year
I have been officially
informed that I am a
free man. So much has
changed. So have I. Jail
was not a new experience.
Earlier ones were harsh
with usual doses of phys-
ical torture. But this was
psychologically draining.
Much to share hopefully
soon,” he tweeted.
TWO DEAD IN NOIDA BUILDING
COLLAPSE, RESCUE OPS ON
New Delhi: Two persons have died in a building
collapse in Noida’s sector-11 on Friday evening
and two others are injured. Rescue operations
are underway and an NDRF team has been
rushed to the building collapse site. Noida police
had initially said that three out of the four injured
had received minor injuries while the condition of
the fourth person was serious.“We have rescued
four people. it is difficult to tell their condition
right now, they have been admitted to a hospital,
said Sriparna Ganguly, ACP, Noida.
DOMESTIC FLIGHTS RUNNING
SMOOTHLY: UNION MIN PURI
New Delhi: Sixty-eight days after resuming
domestic flight operations post-COVID-19
lockdown, things are operating smoothly, said
Union Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh
Puri.Taking to Twitter,he said, “Domestic opera-
tions continue smoothly. 30 July 2020 till 2359
hrs was day 68. Departures were 840. 74,451
passengers handled. Arrivals were 837. 72,043
passengers were handled. Total movements were
1,677. Footfalls at airports were 1,46,494. The
total number of flyers was 74,451.”
NEED TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES
AMONG BRICS NATIONS: JAVADEKAR
New Delhi: Union Envi-
ronment Minister Prakash
Javadekar on Thursday
said that the aspirations
of BRICS countries are
similar and called for
sharing of best practic-
es among the nations
towards the attainment of
Sustainable Development
Goals. The Environment
Ministers of the five
BRICS countries (Brazil,
Russia, India, China and
South Africa) participated
in the 6th BRICS Environ-
ment Ministers’ Meeting
on July 30, 2020, via VC
under the presidency of
Russia. The Minister also
offered that India could
provide the platform
wherein all best practices
in environmental manage-
ment in BRICS countries
could be showcased.
38 die after drinking spurious
liquor in Punjab, 8 arrested
The deaths took place in Punjab’s Amritsar, Batala and Tarn Taran districts since Wednesday
Chandigarh: As the
death toll in the hooch
tragedy in Punjab rose
to 38, CM Amarinder
Singh ordered a magis-
terial probe into the
matter, while Punjab
Police arrested seven
more bootleggers from
Amritsar, Batala and
Tarn Taran districts in
over 40 raids conducted
by five teams led by sen-
ior officers.
After at least 38 people
died in Punjab’s three
districts after drinking
spurious liquor. With
seven arrests, the total
number of persons ap-
prehended so far in the
case has gone up to
eight, including Bal-
winder Kaur, who was
arrested from Muchhal
village on Thursday.
The number of people
who died after having
spurious liquor was 21
earlier on Friday, how-
ever, the number in-
creased later in the day.
Punjab DGP Dinkar
Gupta said the first five
fatalities were reported
from Mucchal and Tan-
gra villages in Amrit-
sar’s Tarsikka on July
29 night. —Agencies
SSR death: ED files
money laundering case
New Delhi: Enforce-
ment Directorate has
filed a money launder-
ing case in connection
with the death of Bol-
lywood actor Sushant
Singh Rajput, officials
said on Friday.
The central probe
agency has taken cogni-
sance of a Bihar Police
FIR registered against
actress Rhea
Chakraborty and some
others to slap criminal
charges under the
PMLA in its complaint,
they said.
The officials said an
Enforcement Case In-
formation Report
(ECIR) has been filed in
the case related to the
death of the actor and
alleged financial irreg-
ularities being suspect-
ed to have been done
against the deceased.
The ED had recently
sought the FIR copy
from the Bihar Police.
Rajput’s father Krish-
na Kumar Singh (74)
had on Tuesday lodged
a police complaint
against Chakraborty,
her family members
and six others on charg-
es of alleged abetment
to suicide of his son.
Singh has accused
Chakraborty, a budding
TV and film actress, of
having befriended his
son in May 2019 with
the intention of fur-
thering her own career.
ED will probe allega-
tions of alleged mis-
handling of Rajput’s
money. —PTI
Amarinder Singh has ordered a magisterial inquiry by the Divisional Commissioner in the matter.
10 DIE AFTER
CONSUMING
SANITISER IN
ANDHRA VILLAGE
Amaravati: At least
ten alcohol addicts,
including three
beggars, died after
allegedly consum-
ing sanitiser as an
alternative to liquor
in a village under
COVID-19 lockdown
in Prakasam district
of Andhra Pradesh,
police said on
Friday. The victims
of Kurichedu village
had been drinking
sanitiser for the past
few days, mixing it
with water and soft
drinks, Prakasam dis-
trict Superintendent
of Police Siddharth
Kaushal told PTI over
phone. —PTI
CAPT.AMARINDER SINGH@CAPT_AMARINDER
I have ordered a magisterial enquiry into suspected
spurious liquor deaths in Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Tarn
Taran. Commissioner, Jalandhar Division will conduct
the enquiry and coordinate with concerned SSPs and
other officers. Anyone found guilty will not be spared.
DEVENDRA FADNAVIS
@DEV_FADNAVIS
There is a huge public sentiment about
handing over #SushantSinghRajput
case to CBI but looking at the reluctance of State
Government, atleast @dir_ed ED can register an
ECIR since misappropriation and money laundering
angle has come out.
BJP DEMANDS CBI PROBE
Mumbai: BJP demanded a CBI probe into the
death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
The demand comes despite the Supreme Court
having dismissed a PIL requesting the same,
saying the police must be allowed to do their job.
Putting forward the demand for a CBI probe into
the Sushant Singh Rajput case, BJP Chief Whip in
Maharashtra Ashish Shelar said “innocent” people
are being questioned while the suspects are being
“ignored”. “CBI probe is must.”
BIHAR COPS QUIZ
EX-GF, ACTRESS
ANKITA
LOKHANDE
Mumbai: Bihar Police
recorded statement
of actress Ankita
Lokhande, a former
girlfriend of the late
actor Sushant Singh
Rajput. Earlier, among
other things, she had
claimed that Sushant
informed her of alleged
harassment by Rhea
Chakraborty, his then
companion. The de-
velopments follow an
FIR lodged by the late
actor’s father Krishna
Kumar Singh.
BIHAR MINISTER
CALLS RHEA
CHAKRABORTY A
‘SUPARI KILLER’
Patna: Bihar Minister
Maheshwar Hazari
calling actress Rhea
Chakraborty a contract
killer and a venom-
ous snake woman.
Expressing his doubts
on the suicide theory,
the Minister said that it
seemed to be a “case
of murder, and not
suicide”. He alleged
that Rhea is not only
a ‘supari’ killer but
was like Bollywood’s
version of a ‘vishkanya’
who killed Sushant.
Mufti’s
detention
extended by
three months
Srinagar: The Jammu
and Kashmir adminis-
tration extended the de-
tention of PDP presi-
dent Mehbooba Mufti
by three months under
the Public Safety Act.
Mufti was among
hundreds of people who
were taken into preven-
tive custody hours
ahead of the Centre re-
voking special status of
the J&K and dividing
the state into two union
territories on 5 August
last year.
The current deten-
tion order of the former
CM was expiring on Au-
gust 5 this year. Accord-
ing to an order issued
by the Home Depart-
ment, Mufti will con-
tinue to remain under
detention for another
three months at her of-
ficial residence at Fair-
view Bungalow, which
has been declared a sub-
sidiary jail.
“The law enforcing
agencies have recom-
mended further exten-
sion in period of deten-
tion and on examina-
tion, the same is consid-
ered to be necessary,”
the order reads. —PTI
NURTURING YOUNG TALENT...
President Ram Nath Kovind along with First Lady Savita Kovind, presents a racing bicycle to school student Riyaz, who
aspires to become a cyclist at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI
No controversy on guest list for Ayodhya ‘bhumi pujan’: Cong
New Delhi: The Con-
gress has welcomed the
construction of the
Ram temple and said
that there should be no
controversy on the
guest list for the ‘bhumi
pujan’ and the trust has
the right to invite who-
ever they want to.
Responding to a ques-
tion, party spokesman
Jaiveer Shergill said
that “The Indian Na-
tional Congress wel-
comes the Supreme
Court decision which
has paved way for the
construction of the
Ram temple in Ayod-
hya.”
“The right to invite
people for the founda-
tion laying ceremony
depends on the trust,”
he added.With only five
days left for the ‘Bhumi
pujan’ of the Ram tem-
ple, the Shri Ram Jan-
mabhoomi Teertha
Kshetra Trust has de-
cided to invite more
Ayodhya saints for the
event.
The trust had initial-
ly decided to invite only
200 people for the cere-
mony due to the COV-
ID-19 pandemic, but
now the proposal to put
up an exhibition at Ram
Janmabhoomidetailing
the life journey of Lord
Ram has been shelved
and that space will be
used to make seating ar-
rangements for around
600 more saints.
Chairs will be placed
at the venue in compli-
ance with social dis-
tancing norms.
Various akharas and
mutts of Ayodhya had
expressed their resent-
ment over the issue to
Mahant Nritya Gopal
Das, the Chairman of
the Ram Temple Trust.
—ANI
1,11,000 laddoos being
prepared for the ceremony
Ayodhya: The prepa-
ration of 1,11,000 lad-
doos is underway at
Mani Ram Das
Chhawni in Ayodhya
by the Devraha Hans
Baba Sansthan, ahead
of foundation stone
laying ceremony of
Ram Temple in the
city on August 5. Ac-
cording to a pundit of
the Chhawni, “These
laddoos will be used as
offing to Lord Ram by
PM Narendra Modi on
August 5. After that,
they’ll be distributed
to all the devotees who
will come for the foun-
dation laying ceremo-
ny and also sent to all
major temples around
the country.” —ANI
Beautification work underway ahead of the event. —PHOTO BY ANI
Laddoos being prepared for the Ram Temple ceremony.

INDIAJAIPUR | SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2020
New Delhi: Union
Health Minister Dr
Harsh Vardhan said on
Friday that India’s
COVID-19 recovery rate
now stands at 64.54%.
“In the last 24 hours,
we have crossed the
1-million mark of pa-
tients who have recov-
ered from COVID-19.
Today we have 10, 57,805
who people have now
recovered. The total
number of cases across
the country now stands
at 16,38,870 cases,” Dr
Harsh Vardhan said at
the Group of Ministers
meeting
“Two-third of the
cases have recovered
and have gone home.
The fatality rate is also
coming down and today
it stands at 2.18 per
cent. The recovery rate
has improved to 64.54
per cent. The doubling
rate is right now stand-
ing at 21 days.” Vard-
han added.
He further said that
the doubling rate now
stands at 21 days.
The Union Health
Minister said that 0.27
per cent patients were
on the ventilator, 1.58
per cent were in ICUs
and 2.28 per cent re-
quired some form of
oxygen support.
Yesterday the Health
Ministry stated that the
number of COVID-19
recoveries has crossed
the 10-lakh mark in the
country.
India has yet again
witnessed the highest
single-day spike of
55,079 COVID-19 cases
in the last 24 hours,
and its tally has
breached the 16 lakh
mark on Friday, in-
formed the Union Min-
istry of Health and
Family Welfare.
With latest spike, the
total cases stand at
16,38,871. Among these
5,45,318 are active. A to-
tal of 10,57,806 patients
have been cured. —ANI
‘INDIA’SRECOVERYRATESTANDSAT64.54%’
With a single day spike of 55,079 cases in last 24 hrs, the country’s tally has breached the 16L markCOVID-19 UPDATE
New Delhi: Delhi LG
Anil Baijal rejected Del-
hi government’s deci-
sion to open hotels and
weekly markets on a
trial basis, as part of
Unlock 3. Baijal, who
represents the central
government and chairs
the Delhi Disaster Man-
agement Authority, has
ruled that these orders
cannot be implemented.
Delhi registered 1,195
new coronavirus cases
on Friday, taking the
capital’stallyto1,35,598.
The number of deaths
has risen to 3,963. As
part of Unlock 3.0, the
Delhi Government has
allowed hotels, hospi-
tality services, street
hawkers to operate. The
government has also de-
cided to do away with
night curfew, which
was earlier applicable
between 10 pm and 5
am. Officials said that
the government will al-
low weekly bazaars to
operate for a week on a
trial basis to check if
social distancing norms
are adhered to.
LG cancels Delhi govt’s
decision to open hotels
COVID-19 provides opportunity
for a new imagination, says RaGa
New Delhi: Former
Congress chief Rahul
Gandhi in his conversa-
tion with 2006 Nobel
Peace Prize winner and
Bangladesh Grameen
Bank founder Muham-
mad Yunus said that the
novel coronavirus pan-
demic has given an op-
portunity to have a
brand new imagination
and emphasised on go-
ing back to the rural
economy as the western
model opted for has
some serious problems.
Rahul Gandhi said
that we need to think
about our traditional
structures. “So I think I
agree with you that the
game needs to be equal-
ized for rural people
and imagination in
Covid-19 gives us an op-
portunity to have a
brand-new imagination
which comes from with-
in us as opposed to from
outside us.”
CORONA EFFECT
ON SOCIETY
I was not at that
meeting. I do not
know what happened
there. But this is not
the matter of Veterans
Vs Youths. If we have
strict leadership, then
whatever leadership
said to party workers
they follow, Therefore,
I think that strict
leadership is needed
and we need to bring
those people who
can transform the
entire organisation
and party.
Ranjeet Ranjan,
Sr Cong leader & former LS MP
A woman talks to a healthcare worker for registration during Indo-Israel Non-Invasive Rapid
COVID-19 test study camp at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in New Delhi. —PHOTO BY ANI
43 deaths, with record
spike of 4,453 cases in UP
Lucknow:UP report-
ed the highest single-
day spike of 4,453
COVID-19casesand43
deaths due to the dis-
ease, taking the infec-
tion tally to more than
85,000 and the death
toll to 1,630 in the
state. “In past 24
hours, 4,453 fresh
COVID-19 cases were
found. There are
34,968 active cases in
the state & 48,663 pa-
tients have been dis-
charged after treat-
ment,”ACSMedical&
Health, Amit Mohan
Prasad said. —ANI
HC declines to pass order
on PIL on naming patients
Mumbai: Bombay
HC refused to pass
any order directing
for disclosure of
names of persons
who tested positive
for COVID-19, noting
there is a Centre’s ad-
visory prohibiting
such disclosure.
A division bench of
CJ Dipankar Datta &
Justice Sarang Kot-
wal disposed as with-
drawn a PIL filed by
two persons seeking
disclosure of names
patientsto enable con-
tact tracing & to save
others infection. —ANI
Neighbourhood
bond...
work for the people and
people bless him.”
Qamar also praised
the way PM Modi han-
dled the pandemic situ-
ation. She said, “He has
handled the situation
very well in the tough
times of corona pan-
demic. If he did not con-
trol the situation on
time, reality would have
been different today.”
She has also sent a book
‘Qamar Jahan’ by Pad-
mashri Garender Patel,
a famous writer. —ANI
Desert Fest...
Talking to reporters at
the Jaipur airport be-
fore leaving for Jaisalm-
er, the chief minister
said there will be no
compromise with the
governanceasheandhis
ministers will remain in
Jaipur most of the time.
“The state government
has performed well in
thecoronavirusmanage-
ment. Our efforts have
been appreciated all
over. We have main-
tained law and order sit-
uation as well but saving
the government is also
important, when the
Government of India
and home ministry is
(running) after. Public is
supporting us,” he said.
AICC general secre-
tary Avinash Pande
said it is the effort to
protect the democracy .
“The victory will be of
the Constitution and de-
mocracy,” he said.
Partyleadersclaimed
over 100 people, includ-
ing party leaders, Con-
gress MLAs and allies,
have gone to Jaisalmer
in five flights. Three
flights took off in the
first round and two in
the second. CM and oth-
er senior leaders went
to Jaisalmer in the sec-
ond round. On reaching
Jaisalmer, the MLAs
were shifted to hotel
Suryagarh amid tight
security arrangements.
”We are going to
Jaisalmerforachange,”
Cong MLA Prashant
Bairwa said at airport.
The decision to move
the MLAs came a day
after Gehlot indicated
he will seek a confi-
dence vote when the As-
sembly convenes on Au-
gust 14 and claimed the
money offered to the
MLAs to switch sides
had increased sharply
ahead of the session.
The Congress and
other supporting MLAs
of the Ashok Gehlot
camp had been staying
at the Jaipur hotel since
July 13 after Sachin Pi-
lot and 18 other Con-
gress legislators re-
belled against the gov-
ernment, triggering a
political crisis.
‘Fearing misuse...
“Unfortunately, Chief
Minister Ashok Gehlot,
out of his malicious in-
tent and to damage BSP,
merged them with Con-
gressunconstitutionally.
He did the same even
during his earlier ten-
ure.BSPcouldhavegone
to the court earlier too
but we were looking for
the time to teach Con-
gress party and CM
Ashok Gehlot a lesson.
Now we have decided to
go to the Court. We will
not let this matter alone.
WewillgoeventotheSu-
preme Court,” she said.
Earlier in the day, Ra-
jasthan Congress MLAs
supporting Gehlot, who
were lodged at Fair-
mont Hotel in Jaipur,
left for Jaisalmer ahead
of the beginning of the
Assembly session from
August 14. The political
crisis in Rajasthan has
been triggered by differ-
ences between Gehlot
and his former deputy
Sachin Pilot, who was
later removed as the
Deputy Chief Minister
and the state unit chief
of Congress. Congress
has accused the BJP of
indulging in horse-trad-
ing to bring down the
Gehlot government.
However, BJP has re-
jected allegations. —ANI
FROM PG 1
New Delhi: Monsoon is
likely to be normal in
the second half of the
four-month rainfall sea-
son, the India Meteoro-
logical Department said
on Friday.
In its Long Range
Forecast for the rainfall
during second half (Au-
gust-September) of the
2020 Southwest Mon-
soon, the IMD said Au-
gust is likely to receive
rainfall that is 97 per
cent of the Long Period
Average.
“Quantitatively, the
rainfall over the coun-
try as a whole during
the second half of the
season is likely to be 104
per cent of LPA with a
model error of plus/
minus 8 per cent,” the
IMD said.
The Long Period Av-
erage (LPA) rainfall
over the country as a
whole for the period
1961-2010 is 88 centime-
tres.
Monsoon in the range
of 96-104 per cent of the
LPA is considered nor-
mal. The official rain-
fall season in the coun-
try is from June 1 to
September 30. —ANI
‘Monsoon likely to be normal
in second half of the season’
Villagers walk on a road damaged due to ﬂoodwater following incessant rain at Baksa district.
BJP MP Shiv Pratap
Shukla is RS ethics
committee chief
New Delhi: BJP MP
Shiv Pratap Shukla
has been appointed
as chairman of the
Ethics Committee of
Rajya Sabha. The
Secretary-General of
Rajya Sabha Desh
Deepak Verma in-
formed about the
move in a parliamen-
tary bulletin.
Rajya Sabha chair-
man M Venkaiah
Naidu recently ap-
pointed three MPs in
the Ethics Committee
apart from Shukla.
They include Tiruchi
Siva of DMk, Dr K Ke-
shava Rao of TRS,
and national general
secretaryof YRSCon-
gressVVijayasaiRed-
dy. Shukla has been
appointed as chair-
man of this commit-
tee. The total strength
of theEthicsCommit-
tee of Rajya Sabha is
11membersincluding
the chairman. Apart
from the four newly
appointed members,
MPAnandSharmaof
Congress, Ram Gopal
Yadav of SP A
Navneet Krishnan of
AIADMK, Derek
O’Brien of All India
TMC, Ram Chandra
of JD (U), & Prasanna
Acharya of BJD are
also part of the com-
mittee. The Ethics
Committee is in
charge of reviewing
complaints against
the behaviour and ac-
tivities of MPs. —ANI
Donate 30 pc salary to CM
Relief Fund: Chouhan to Mins
Bhopal: Madhya
Pradesh Chief Minister
Shivraj Singh Chouhan
appealed to the Minis-
ters and MLAs in the
state to contribute 30
per cent of their sala-
ries to the Chief Minis-
ter’s Relief Fund in the
fight against COVID-19
pandemic.
“If all of you agree
then we will contribute
30 per cent of our sala-
ry towards the CM Re-
lief Fund, to fight COV-
ID-19, until the pandem-
ic doesn’t come under
control - be it July, Au-
gust, September or Oc-
tober,” Chouhan said in
a conversation with
state’s Ministers, via
video conferencing. “I
appeal to all MLAs to
contribute 30 per cent
of their salaries for
three months towards
CM Relief Fund, in the
fight against COVID-19.
I also appeal to the peo-
ple to give their contri-
bution in the Fund,” he
added.
He also said that the
testing campaign will
continue in the first
fortnight of August.
“We had a COVID
campaign from July
1-31 wherein tests were
done extensively. Phase
2 of the campaign will
be from August 1-14
wherein we’ll resolve to
maintain social dis-
tancing and wear
masks to break
the chain of
infection,” he
said. —ANI
Hosp devises
‘Air Bubble’ to
keep corona
warriors safe
Bhopal: A doctor
with a private hos-
pital in Bhopal, Car-
diologist Dr Skand
Trivedi has come
up with a simple yet
ingenious way to
keep doctors, nurs-
es and other health-
care workers safe
from COVID-19 -an
air bubble. The ful-
ly sealed, transpar-
ent, face covering -
like a face suit - has
an independent
supply of virus-free
compressed air so
state’s Corona War-
riors can breathe
safely while treat-
ing patients. This
concept was aimed
at saving lives of
doctors, nurses and
technicians. —ANI
‘Follow Corona norms
amid Eid celebrations’
New Delhi: Vice-Presi-
dent M Venkaiah
Naidu, in his greeting
to the country on the oc-
casion of Eid al-Adha,
urged people to cele-
brate the festival while
following COVID-19
safety protocol, a state-
ment from the Vice-
President’s Secretariat
informed.
“I extend all my
warm greetings and
good wishes to the peo-
ple of our country on
the auspicious occasion
of Id-ul-Zuha. Id-ul-Zu-
ha is a celebration of
unswerving devotion to
God and the boundless
compassion and loves
the Almighty has for
His creation. The festi-
val inspires us to incul-
cate empathy, practice
sacrifice and promote
peace and universal
brotherhood. As India
and the world continue
to fight a relentless bat-
tle against the spread of
COVID-19 pandemic, we
have been forced to cel-
ebrate almost all of our
traditional festivals,
which were otherwise
celebrated with great
splendour, at home,”
Vice-President said.

NEWSJAIPUR | SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2020
Rajendra Chhabra
Jaipur: Prior to the Co-
rona crisis engulfing
Rajasthan, in February
2020, the Anti Corrup-
tion Bureau had con-
ducted a major opera-
tion in the Transport
Department and arrest-
ed 15 DTO and Inspector
level officials. The ac-
tionhadmadeheadlines
across the media. The
major action of ACB
had even resulted in
various theories and
speculations in various
concerned circles.
However, the ACB has
not been able to recover
any evidence or illegal
item against the offi-
cials so far and since the
entire development oc-
curred under corona
period, so the accused
were also given bail.
Now, these officials are
running from pillar to
post to get posting yet
again.
Meanwhile, in the
month of May, the DPC
for promotion from In-
spector to DTO was
held but the promotion
of these officials was
kept in cold storage.
The main point in this
is that the main charac-
ters of the action - Min-
ister, ACS (Transport)
and Transport Com-
missioner - are in dif-
ferent roles now. The
minister is busy in poli-
tics keeping the depart-
ment’s work on the line
while ACS and Com-
missioner have been
transferred.
In the current scheme
of things, no one is able
to shed a light as to what
will be the role of these
fifteen officials or their
future, however, on the
other hand, the absence
of 15 officials from the
posts of Inspectors and
DTOs is hampering the
department’s perfor-
mance.
Moreover, the roster
of the babus which was
to be changed in Decem-
ber, has not been con-
ducted wherein seats of
30 babus have to be
changed. This is done so
that the ‘premium’ and
‘non-premium’ posi-
tions are not occupied
for more than one year.
Due to the tussle be-
tween the ‘high power
men’, the roster change
hasnothappenedforthe
pasteightmonthswhich
has now resulted in dis-
content between babus
while RTO, on their
own, has posted his
choicest person on ‘pre-
mium’ positions.
The new Commis-
sioner-RaviJain-there-
fore has a major task of
keeping the department
in the best shape possi-
ble, but it is a gargantu-
an work since the de-
partment’s image also
needs to be bettered.
‘Modigovtliberated
Muslimwomenfrom
tripletalaqshackles’
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Deputy lead-
er of the opposition
Rajendra Rathore
tweeted on the occa-
sion of ‘Triple Talaq
Bill anniversary’ on
Friday.
Inhistweet,Rathore
mentioned that the ba-
sic mantra of the Modi
government is ‘Sabka
Saath, Sabka Vikas
aur Sabka Vishwas’.
Adopting the same,
the government liberat-
ed Muslim women from
the shackles of the cen-
turies-old triple talaq
practice and gave them
the right to live honour-
ably with equal rights
and justice.
Rathore said that
Congress had commit-
ted the sin of depriv-
ing crores of Muslim
sisters and daughters
of their rights, and
when the Modi gov-
ernment took the lead
in its destruction,
Congress left no stone
unturned to put re-
peated obstacles.
Finally, Muslim wom-
en’s rights were victori-
ous and the credit goes
to BJP.
The Muslim Women
Rights day is historic
for Muslim women.
Rathore added
working towards the
promises made in the
resolution letter a
year ago, the govern-
ment led by Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi took a revolu-
tionary step towards
women empowerment
and got rid of the tri-
ple talaq curse.
Lack of evidence, out
on bail: Now, transport
officials left in a limbo
Rajendra Rathore
Haresh Jhala
Gandhinagar: Thestate
government on Friday
appointed IPS officer
AshishBhatiaasthenew
Director General of Po-
lice, following the retire-
ment of the outgoing
DGPShivanandJha.Due
to the COVID-19 out-
break,Jhahadreceiveda
three-month extension
on his duties by the cen-
tral government after
reaching superannua-
tion on April 30.
Ashish Bhatia is a
1985 batch IPS officer
and his native state is
Haryana. He will be tak-
ing over his duties as
the Director General of
Police for a period of
two years. In his service
as a Gujarat cadre of-
ficer, he has served at
various crucial posts in
the police force.
Bhatia is presently
discharging duty as the
Police Commissioner of
Ahmedabad, a post to
which he was appointed
in November 2019. The
post was vacant for a
while after former Com-
missioner of Police AK
Singh was appointed
the Director General of
the National Security
Guard (NSG).
The incoming DGP
hadinvestigatedthe2008
Ahmedabadserialbomb
blasts case, whose trial
is going on at the city
civil and sessions court.
Another high-pro-
file case attached to
Bhatia’s name is the
2002 riots. When the
Supreme Court had
appointed a Special
Investigation Team
(SIT) to investigate 10
major cases of the
2002 riots, SIT chief
RK Raghvan had se-
lected three IPS offic-
ers to help with the
investigation; Bhatia
was one of them.
In 2016, Bhatia had
servedasthePoliceCom-
missioner of Surat and
then too he was touted to
be a contender for the
post of Police Commis-
sioner of Ahmedabad.
His awards include an
Indian Police Medal
whichhereceivedin2001
and the President’s Po-
lice Medal in 2011.
AshishBhatiaisnewstateDGP, AhmedabadtogetanewCP
Ashish Bhatia
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Amid the on-
going political crisis,
the government elec-
tricity distribution
companies have
sought additional
time from the Ra-
jasthan Electricity
Regulatory Commis-
sion (RERC) to file a
new annual revenue
required (ARR) and
tariff petition for
2020-21.
The Principal Secre-
tary of the Energy De-
partment has written a
letter to the RERC to
grant additional time.
The electricity com-
panies were to file an
ARR petition by June
30, but they were given
extension till July 31 at
the request of discom.
The discom believes
that the figures for the
new petition have not
been prepared due to
the corona period.
In such a situation,
it will take at least a
month more to pre-
pare the petition.
Power cos.seek more time to file ARR
War of recalling past of each other
Yogesh Sharma
I
t appears that the age-
old saying - ‘Kabbadi
mein kaun kaka’ - is
the flavour of the season.
Let’s cite an example:
Only recently, Transport
Minister Pratap Singh
Khachariyawas, who is
‘junior’ to former Deputy
Chief Minister Sachin
Pilot, took a jibe at his
‘senior’ saying that when
Pilot was in his
half pants,
Khachariya-
was was Presi-
dent of Ra-
jasthan Univer-
sity Student Un-
ion. However, a
staunch Pilot
supporter
Muke-
s h
Bha-
kar
came out blasting his
‘senior’ Pratap Singh
and reminded the
transport minister of
his past when he was
moving about between
BJP and Congress and
stressed that his posi-
tion as Jaipur DCC
President and even as
Transport Minister
was due to Sachin Pi-
lot’s support to him.
“His current position is
due to Sachin Pilot. Has
Gehlot sahab pressed a
nerve? It is being said
that ACB’s raid has re-
vealedavideobutIwould
like to say that you
should not use such lan-
guage
which
Gehlot
sahab wants to use but
can not say it and has
made you a front, but you
should refrain on such
antics since Pilot sahab
has made you what you
are today. People of Ra-
jasthan know who is a
servant and who is
fighting for freedom,”
he said. And this video
that Bhakar tweeted,
has, reportedly, miffed
the transport minister
since he did not expect
his junior to say some-
thing in a strong lan-
guage.
First India Bureau
T
he ‘shifting’ of Gehlot
camp legislators from
Fairmont Hotel to
Suryagarh Hotel in Jaisalm-
er has been the cause of
much discussion in politi-
cally charged Ra-
jasthan. Various sections
in the relevant political
quarters were surprised
to learn that the Members
of Legislative Assembly
(MLAs) would be
housed in a ho-
tel in Jaisalm-
er, due to
the fact
that the
hotel is
owned by a person identi-
fied as Meghraj Singh,
who is considered to be
close to former Chief Min-
ister Vasundhara Raje
and deputy LoP Rajendra
Rathore! Meghraj Singh’s
son - Manvendra Singh -
handles the operation and
working of the hotel and
it is believed that after
the recent struggle faced
by the tourism industry,
the fifteen-day ‘camp’ of
Congress MLAs at the
five-star property is going
to be akin to ‘breath of
fresh air’ for the hotel’s
business, the bill for
which could run in crores
of rupees!
TETE
-A-TETE
BJP connection to Jaisalmer hotel
PRECISION ON DISPLAY
A baya weaver bird knits threads as she prepares her nest on a tree in Ajmer. —PHOTO BY PTI
CORONA HOLDS JAIPUR
AIRSPACE AT RANSOM
THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS
NOT ALLOWED FLIGHT OPERATIONS GAIN
MOMENTUM EVEN AFTER TWO MONTHS
l After the flight operations resumed
on May 25, four airlines had started
operations at Jaipur airport and
gave the schedule of 20 flights but
could not operate all the flights
l On an average, 12 flights were
being operated in the first week
and the airlines had tried to
increase the number of flights
l Whereas flights were started for
10 cities in the first phase, efforts
were made to connect more cities
with flights in the second phase
WITHDRAWALS
There are several flights which were withdrawn even
before their operations could be resumed and the
reason was- insufficient passenger load. The flights
were to six cities including Dehradun and Surat
SpiceJet tried to start
flights to Dehradun,
Surat, Jalandhar,
Amritsar, Udaipur
and Jaisalmer from
Jaipur but the same
could not become
operational
Indigo had planned to start
two flights to Bengaluru.
Similarly, AirAsia too made
efforts to start one flight
to Bengaluru but this flight
could not start. Indigo
flight to Ahmedabad is also
not regular
l The number of flights did not
enhance much because two flights
to Bengaluru were discontinued due
to lack of passengers
l Flights to Ahmedabad and Lucknow
commenced in the second phase
WHO FLIES HOW MUCH l INDIGO 8 l SPICEJET 3 l AIR INDIA 2 l AIRASIA 1-2
NUMBER CRUNCH
14
FLIGHTS
being operated
from Jaipur
airport
7
FLIGHTS
are being
cancelled daily
40%
PASSENGER LOAD IN THE FIRST WEEK FROM MAY 25
10%
INCREASE IN NEXT TWO MONTHS
50%
FALL IN AIR PASSENGERS FOR MUMBAI
l INDIGO FLIGHT TO PUNE, 60 TO
70 PASSENGERS TRAVELLING
DAILY. 180-SEATER AIRCRAFTS
BEING USED
l FLIGHT TO AGRA, 5 TO
10 PASSENGERS FLY IN
72-SEATER AIRCRAFT
l TWO FLIGHTS OF AIR INDIA
TO DELHI, 20-30 PASSENGERS
TRAVELLING
Vasundhara RajeMukesh Bhakar & Pratap Singh Khachariyawas

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Your strength and your joys
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New Delhi: After the
Rajasthan Assembly
Speaker moved the Su-
preme Court against
the state high court’s
July 24 order, Congress
chief whip Mahesh
Joshi has also moved
the apex court, chal-
lenging the order stay-
ing proceedings on
his petitions seeking
disqualification of 19
rebel MLAs, including
dropped Deputy Chief
Minister Sachin Pilot.
Joshi contended that
it is beyond any pale of
doubt that the High
Court, by entertaining
the plea of the rebel
MLAs, at the stage
when the Speaker is yet
to decide the disqualifi-
cation petition under
Para 6 of the Tenth
Schedule, has exceeded
its jurisdiction and
therefore the impugned
interim order deserves
to be set aside.
The plea contended
that the High Court di-
recting status quo on
disqualification pro-
ceedings is ex-facie un-
constitutional, illegal
and in the teeth of the
law laid down by the top
court in Kihoto Hollo-
han matter. Joshi insist-
ed the notice issued on
July 14 by the Speaker
calling for comments of
the rebel MLAs on the
disqualification peti-
tions filed against them
under Para 2(1) (a) of
the Tenth Schedule,
was not adverse.
As an interim relief,
Joshi has urged the
apex court to grant stay
on the July 24 order of
the High Court.
The plea contended
that the Speaker has
vast jurisdiction to de-
cide whether a person
stands disqualified un-
der the Tenth Schedule
and he may arrive at
such a conclusion by
taking the aid of con-
temporaneousevidence.
Joshi insisted that to in-
terdict the Speaker at
this stage effaces the
very purpose and intent
of the Tenth Schedule.
Cong chief whip moves Supreme Court
‘CM behind internal conflict in Cong’
As an interim relief, Joshi has
urged the apex court to grant a stay
on the July 24 order of the HC
Congress chief whip Mahesh Joshi interacting with media at Jaipur
Airport in Jaipur on Friday. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Deputy leader
of opposition Rajendra
Rathore has con-
demned Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot’s com-
ment that rebel Con-
gress MLAs are offered
an unlimited amount
after assembly session
was declared.
Rathore said that it
was an insult of pub-
lic representatives,
legislative assembly,
and democracy. He
blamed Gehlot for
the vitiated political
atmosphere in the
state for the last one
month. “The credit
for the internal con-
flict in congress goes
to the CM. He couldn’t
keep his flock togeth-
er. And, now to save
his government, he
has been keeping
them under police se-
curity in five-star ho-
tels and entertaining
them with luxuries
of five-star hotels to
quash the rebellion,”
he alleged.
The senior BJP
leader said that Ge-
hlot is going to set a
record for keeping
MLAs locked in a ho-
tel for a month – after
12 days in Jaipur an-
other 14 days in Jais-
almer. Millions spent
on chartered flights
to shift the MLAs to
Jaisalmer, which is a
clear display of po-
litical corruption.
On the other hand,
the government has
burdened people with
28 paise per unit hike
in fuel surcharge and
12 and 10 percent
hike, respectively on
petrol and diesel.
Meanwhile, state
BJP president Dr.
Satish Poonia took a
pot shot on chief
minister Ashok Ge-
hlot asking him if he
would take MLAs
now to Pakistan.
“Gehlot has taken
MLAs to Jaisalmer to
save them from
poaching but how far
the government will
run. From where
they have gone the
next place is Paki-
stan,” he said in a
sarcastic way.
“When the CM is
claiming that congress
MLAs are united.
There is no threat then
why are they kept
locked in the hotel,” he
said while asking for
disclosure of those sus-
ceptible to inducement.
The state BJP pres-
ident said that the
government would
not be able to face the
opposition in the up-
coming session. “We
are ready to corner
the government on
common man’s prob-
lem,” he added.
According to Dr
Poonia, the present
situation is self-in-
flicted damage for
the CM and his party.
Jaipur: A PIL has been
filed in state HC seek-
ing to stop salary,
monthly allowances
and other benefits of
those at hotels for last
two weeks amid the po-
litical crisis in the state.
The petition has been
filed by one Vivek Singh
Jadaun through advo-
cate Gajendra Singh
Rathore. “Those MLAs
who are staying in the
Fairmont Hotel and 19
other MLA, who are
staying in the other un-
known hotel for last two
weeks and they are not
in touch with the public
and are getting for their
salary, monthly allow-
ances and other bene-
fits is not justified,
hence their monthly al-
lowance and others ben-
efits should be stopped
and not to be given to
them as it is the sheer
wastage of public mon-
ey,” read the petition.
“Rajasthan Legisla-
tive Assembly is not in
session. MLAs are stay-
ing in the hotels having
no connection with the
public in their constitu-
encies & are not dis-
charging their duty as
per their oath/affirma-
tion to discharge duty as
elected member of the
legislative assembly.
Therefore they should
not be given any salary,
allowance & other ben-
efit or any kind of allow-
ances,” it added. —ANI
Shivendra Parmar
Jaipur: The bureau-
cratic circles of Ra-
jasthan were upended
on Thursday, when sev-
eral top bureaucrats
came across a social
media post that went
viral in various bureau-
cratic groups on such
platforms. The surprise
came at not what the
post held, rather who
had shared the said
post. Apparently, DGP
Bhupendra Singh Ya-
dav had shared a post
by one, Ravindra Nath
Jha wherein, an old pic-
ture of the then ‘aggres-
sive young man ‘ & now
Rajasthan Governor
Kalraj Mishra is seen
making the ‘V’ - victory
sign. But what is inter-
esting in this post that
it is claimed the picture
was taken at UP Raj
Bhawan all those years
back! A few lines were
also shared with the
original post raising
question on the Gover-
nor’s stand in relation
to ongoing Rajasthan
politics, where he has
conveyed his strong dis-
pleasure on the CM and
congress MLAs’ ‘pro-
testing mood’ at Raj
Bhawan. In this way, the
same person (Gover-
nor) was acting in 2 dif-
ferent modes at two dif-
ferent times! Though
after coming to public
domain, the controver-
sialpostwaswithdrawn
by DGP himself.
GOVT UNSAFE IN ITS OWN STATE
Rajendra Rathore.
PIL seeks stopping
salary, allowances of
MLAs staying at hotels
What is this Mr DGP?MLAs DISQUALIFICATION ISSUE
BJP won’t succeed in its
conspiracy: Avinash Pande Jaipur: A team of Ra-
jasthan police’s ACB
was on Friday not al-
lowed to enter three ho-
tels in Haryana’s Gur-
gaon and Manesar
when they went there to
serve notices to two Ra-
jasthan Congress MLAs
in a corruption case, a
senior official said.
The ACB had issued
notices to MLAs Bhan-
warlal Sharma and
Vishvendra Singh, who
have been suspended
from the party for al-
leged involvement in a
conspiracy to topple the
Ashok Gehlot-led gov-
ernment, to appear for
investigation, but they
failed to do so.
An ACB team, headed
by Deputy SP Saleh Mo-
hammad, then went to
deliver them the notices
at the three hotels in
Gurgaon and Manesar
where they are said to
be staying along with
other dissidents includ-
ing former Rajasthan
deputy chief minister
Sachin Pilot.
We reached the hotels
in search of the MLAs
so that the notices is-
sued by the investigat-
ing officer be delivered.
Authorities in two ho-
tels gave us in writing
that they were not stay-
ing there, while author-
ities at another hotel
said it is closed, Mo-
hammad said.
The ACB team was
not allowed to go inside
the hotels, he said.
The ACB had regis-
tered a case under the
Prevention of Corrup-
tion Act on complaint
by chief whip Mahesh
Joshi on July 17 after
three audio clips con-
taining conversation
with regards to the al-
leged conspiracy to top-
ple the Gehlot govern-
ment surfaced.
The ACB had issued
the notices to the MLAs
in the case. —PTI
SOG TO MOVE HC FOR JAIN’S VOICE SAMPLE
Raj police not allowed to enter Haryana hotels
Sanjay Jain
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Jaipur airport
had more than its share
of hustle bustle due to
the ongoing corona cri-
sis. The Congress MLAs
were at the airport for
their journey to Jais-
almer. AICC state in-
charge Avinash Pande
was at the airport and
looked more like a
guardian taking care of
the family members.
Pande while speaking
on the occasion was full
of confidence and en-
ergy. He said that the
conspiracy by BJP will
not be successful under
any circumstances. “No
matter the way they try
to lure our MLAs but
our MLAs will not be
trapped by their sweet
talk” added Pande. Ran-
deep Surjewala too
charged the BJP of con-
tinually conspiring
against the Gehlot govt
in the state. He said that
the BJP can’t even
shake a single Congress
MLA and it should re-
member that the people
of Rajasthan will never
forgive for its conspira-
cies. He hailed the Con-
gress MLAs from the
state and said that Ra-
jasthan can never be
defeated as it’s the land
of victorious warriors.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Rajasthan
government has decid-
ed to greet the 29 surviv-
ing freedom fighters
from the state by visit-
ing their residences on
the occasion of the an-
niversary of the Quit
India Movement on Au-
gust 9.
Chief MinisterAshok
Gehlot has taken this
decision as a part of re-
membering the contri-
bution of freedom fight-
ers in liberating the
country from British
rule, an official state-
ment said on Friday.
Gehlot has said in
view of the coronavirus
pandemic and the age
of the freedom fighters,
the district magistrate,
additional district mag-
istrate, or sub-division-
al magistrate of the re-
spective districts
should greet
them by visit-
ing their resi-
dences.
A message
on behalf of
the chief minister
and a shawl will be
presented to the free-
dom fighters, the
statement said.
“Today, we are able to
breathe the fresh air
only because of these
freedom fighters,” Ge-
hlot was quoted in the
statement as saying.
“We are grateful
for their sacrifice,
dedication, and pas-
sion. Due to them, de-
mocracy could be
established in our
country,” he added.
The Quit India
Movement was
launched by Mahat-
ma Gandhi at the
Bombay session of
the All-India Con-
gress Committee on
August 8, 1942, de-
manding an end to the
British rule in India.
Rajasthan government to greet freedom fighters on August 9
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Ra-
jasthan government
has decided to declare
August 9 as a public
holiday throughout
the state on the occa-
sion of World Tribal
Day.
According to an
official statement
released on Friday,
Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot has
decided to declare a
public holiday on
the long-standing
demand of the peo-
ple’s representa-
tives of the tribal
society.
On World Tribal
Day, the tribal people
living in different ar-
eas of Rajasthan or-
ganise religious, so-
cial and cultural pro-
grammes.
So far, the state
government has de-
clared a voluntary
holiday on the occa-
sion of Tribal Day.
Many legislators
and other public
representatives had
repeatedly demand-
ed the government
to declare this day a
public holiday in
the state.
TRIBAL DAY TO BE A PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN RAJ
Today, we are able to breathe the
fresh air only because of these
freedom fighters. —Ashok Gehlot
AVINASH PANDE@avinashpandeinc
I appreciate @RahulGandhi ji’s
willingness to listen, engage and learn
from domain experts on tackling the
COVID-19 crisis. His dialogue today
with Prof. Mhd Yunus calls for a vision
that leverages on the strength of our
rural economy and the informal sector.
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id al-Adha also known
as Bakr-Id is celebrat-
ed with traditional
fervour and gaiety
across the world with
special prayers, greet-
ings and gifts. Mus-
lims around the world be-
lieve that Allah (God) com-
manded Ibrahim (Abra-
ham) to sacrifice his son,
Ishmael. Ibrahim kept
dreaming that he was
slaughtering his son Is-
mael as per the will of
Allah. One day, he told
his son about his
dream and asked him
to be prepared for the
supreme sacrifice.
On the day when
Ibrahim began prep-
arations for the
slaughter, Eventu-
ally, after seeing
Ibrahim’s unshakable faith
and devotion, Allah was
pleased. Allah granted Is-
mael to Ibrahim, and sent
a sheep through Jibreel as
a replacement for the
slaughter.
Eid al-Adha commemo-
rates the devotion and love
Ibrahim had for Allah. It
symbolises the act of giv-
ing away what is dearest
or most loved. On this
day, Muslims sacri-
fice a goat/sheep
and divide the
meat into three
equal parts- one portion is
kept for the family, the sec-
ond is given to the rela-
tives, and the third is for
the poor/needy.
City First got in touch
with a few of its readers
about how they are cele-
brating Eid this time. Chef
Mohammed Alam Qureshi
from Gujarat stated, “I will
be celebrating Eid this
year with my work
family at the
Courtyard by
M a r r i o t t ,
Surat. The
hotel has organised a
Namaz prayer session for
us followed by a mouth-
watering feast for all asso-
ciates which will include
dishes like Chicken Biry-
ani and Sheer Korma. I
will miss my family back
in Lucknow this year but
no matter, Eid will be a joy-
ous occasion.”
“Things are definitely a
bit different this year due
to the Corona Virus lock-
down, but since safety is
the number one priority,
we’re looking forward to
celebrating the festival
with worshiping in our
homes, with only our fami-
lies close to us. This year
Eid might be getting cele-
brated far away from some
closed one but definitely
the energy and enthusiasm
would never be less,” said
Aqsa Ali from Rajasthan.
On the occasion of Eid-al-Adha we wish you Eid Mubarak and we bring you
some information about the festival and also how our readers are celebrating it this time!
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ARCHANA LODHA, Model
LEO
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
Being Putative in your field
is a remarkable thing and
you should be proud of
yourself. Discussing
personal matters with outsiders is not
your cup of tea and thats the reason
people call you secretive. You
sometimes get obsessive with house
related matters, just calm down.
LIBRA
SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22
A mariner’s life fascinates
many of you so what are
you waiting for, just go for
it. Try different treatment if
one doesn’t work for you. Adopting
new methods to reach the solution is
all that is needed right now. Some
things are better hidden in heart then
spoken out loud.
ARIES
MAR 21 - APR 20
Ostentation is becoming a
must thing in many
businesses so why hesitate
in doing what is necessary.
Your contribution in your field will be
major. You have never troubled
anyone really and you are very calm
inside. All your worries disappear
when you are are with your family.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV 23 - DEC 22
An immature Jape can
trigger someone’s
sentiments for no reason so
avoid that. Growth is very
important in life and if you are not
growing in one field then you need to
change your field, remember only the
highest risk takers become the most
successful ones.
GEMINI
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
A Knack in some field will
make you a famous
personality in future. You
never get effected by what
people think as you don’t really care.
You love your spouse but sometimes
get way too irritated, create some
balance. Fun is in store if you are
planning to lighten up mood.
AQUARIUS
JAN 21 - FEB 19
A Gripping program or novel
can trigger your sentiments,
so carefully choose the
subject. Stop complaining
and start counting your blessings,
these are not the times to complain. No
matter how much you get tempted, do
not eat outside. Your management
skills will come to test at home.
TAURUS
APR 21 - MAY 20
Liberalise your children at
the correct time is a very
important step otherwise
they tend to start hiding
and doing things behind your back
so this is a very important step in
parenting. Taking shortcuts in life
doesn’t always go well. Stop crying
over petty issues & look around you.
CAPRICORN
DEC 23 - JAN 20
Jovial nature is a pleasant
part of your personality
because its not that easy to
make people smile or
laugh out loud. You some times
takes things very lightly. It may take
a lot of efforts to change some karma
of the past. You are very persuasive
when you want something.
VIRGO
AUG 24 - SEP 23
Likelihood of changing
your job is high and don’t
worry it the new one will
not only pay you more but
will give you higher designation. Your
sole competition is you yourself and
thats just wow. You are reason
behind many people’s smile because
of your socially active gestures.
CANCER
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
A hotheaded personality is
liked by no one, so refrain
from turning into the one.
You sometimes get tired
from your responsibilities but still
you never complain. You are a gem
person and your spouse knows that
and he/she stays with you always
inspite of minor behavioural issues.
PISCES
FEB20 - MARCH 20
Futile attempts in business
won’t fetch any results you
need to take a resolve &
die trying. Professionally
you don’t get effected by too much
appreciation / someone trying to pull
you down, just do what you have to
do. Mood swings are possible today
or spend more time with yourself.
SCORPIO
OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22
Pre-eminent personality,
loyal nature makes you so
so different from all others.
Take financial advice from
someone who is an expert in the
field. You respect self made people
and you have many ideals. You have
a tendency of not forgetting what
wrong someone did in the past.
YOUR
DAYHoroscope by
Saurabbh Sachdeva
CHALTE CHALTE YUN HI KOI...
orn Mahjabeen
Bano, the great
actress Meena
Kumari, de-
scribed her life
thus: “Tum kya
karoge sun kar
mujh se meri kahani, be-
luft zindagi ke kissey
hain feekey feekey”
{What would you do by
listening to my story
from me, It’s just a slew
of colorless episodes in a
joyless life} Queerly
though, before being con-
sumed by depressive
drinking at age 39, she
requested the following
epitaph on her grave:”
She ended her life with a
broken fiddle, with a bro-
ken song and with
a broken heart
but without
any regret.”
Meena Ku-
mari’s tragedy,
therefore, was
her foible !!
The rocky
marriage with
Kamal Amrohi
was cut short
by her the mo-
ment there was physical
abuse. She was her fami-
ly’s breadwinner but re-
belled frequently against
her overbearing father
and when it came to the
GreekGod-like Dharmen-
dra, she relished his com-
pany and made him her
protégé. Younger to her,
he was that rare man who
was good to her from the
heart and always high-
lighted the debt he owed
to her for giving him the
breaks for his meteoric
career. She daringly ex-
posed his chiseled body
in her film, yet never did
they reveal a word ex-
changed between them
in private, though often
expressing their rag-
ing desire to be with
each other. Having said
that, Meena Kumari
flashed her brilliant his-
trionics so convincingly
on-screen that few
couldn’t believe it was
just an act. Her screen
persona of a Tragedienne
was so strong that the
world believed on-screen
Meena is the real-life
Meena, and she made the
audience cry their hearts
out for her. Not surpris-
ing that this nonpareil
star won 4 Filmfare
Awards for Best Actress.
At the 10th Filmfare
Awards (1963) she re-
ceived all the three nomi-
nations in the Best Ac-
tress category and creat-
ed cinematic history.
This prodigious talent
acted in 92 films from the
age of 5 to 39.
She also dazzled the
world by her fine singing
and poetry. Writing un-
der the pseudonym
“Naaz”, she once mused,
“Aagaaz to hota hai, An-
jaam nahin hota .”
(There is always a be-
ginning, but no after-
math.) Kamal Amrohi,
the famous Director,
Screenwriter, and poet,
gave Meena Kumari her
first break in Cinema at
age of 5 in 1938. Years
later, when Meena was 18,
he met her again on the
sets, fell in love, and mar-
ried her. Art was perhaps
in her DNA, her grand-
mother being the daugh-
ter of Rabindranath
Tagore’s brother. Indian
Cinema still longs for an-
other Meena Kumari to
see tears running down
the audience’s cheeks.
RAINU SINGH
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
B

DIRECTOR
Anu Menon
CAST
Vidya Balan, Sanya Malhotra,
Jisshu Sengupta
SHAKUNTALADEVI
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K
iara Ad-
vani cele-
brated her
28th birth-
day on Friday,
fans of the Ka-
bir Singh ac-
tress took to
social media
to trend #Hap-
pyBirthdayKi-
araAdvani on
Twitter. From Bol-
lywood stars, co-stars,
to family and friends, a
host of people wished the
actress on her birthday.
Well, we are sure that this
birthday is going to be extra
special and memorable for
Kiara as she will be celebrat-
ing the day at home and will
possibly have a quiet celebra-
tion with family due to the
Coronavirus pandemic.
Amid the pandemic, Kiara
Advani has turned into a
home baker as she has been
baking cookies for her family,
and although we miss pap-
ping Kiara in the city, how-
ever, thanks to social media,
Kiara has been making sure
to update her fans with her
latest photos and videos.
On the work front, Kiara
Advani was last seen in Good
Newwz co-starring Kareena
Kapoor Khan, Akshay Ku-
mar, and Diljit Dosanjh, and
the film was a massive box
office success. Next, Kiara
will be seen in Laxmi Bomb
and the film will witness a
digital release. Also, the mak-
ers of Bhool Bhuliayaa 2 have
reportedly said that they will
not continue with the shoot-
ing due to the pandemic and
will wait for the situation to
settle down. —Agency
BIRTHDAY @ HOME
haring a poster of her
upcoming film ‘Gunjan
Saxena:TheKargilGirl,’
actor Janhvi Kapoor on
Friday shared that the
trailer of the film will
drop today at 10 am.
She took to Instagram to
share the update and termed
the film as the “most special
experience” of her profes-
sional life. “It’s been the
most special experience and
I couldn’t possibly be
more honored and excited
to bring to you the trailer of
GunjanSaxena: The Kargil
Girl tomorrow at 10 am,” she
wrote in the caption.
The film chronicles the
journey of the first Indian wom-
an Air Force officer -- Gunjan
Saxena -- to enter a war zone,
which will be portrayed by Jan-
hvi in the film.
Saxena, who is one of the first
female pilots to fly in combat,
played an important role in res-
cuing injured soldiers during
the Kargil War in 1999 and was
awarded the gallantry Shaurya
Vir Award for displaying
courage during the war.
Directed by Sharan
Sharma, ‘Gunjan Saxe-
na: The Kargil Girl’ also
stars Pankaj Tripathi,
Vineet Kumar Singh,
Angad Bedi and
Manav Vij in piv-
otal roles.
The upcom-
ing biopic is being
produced by Dhar-
ma Productions and
Zee Studios and will
release on Amazon
Prime Video on
August 12.
I
n the film, Vidya Balan
dons the character of
Shakuntala Devi who
is a world-renowned
name in the field of Mathe-
matics and was known as” Hu-
man-Computer”.
The film states up front,
“based on a true story seen
through the eyes of a daugh-
ter”. It depicts the making
of the legendary math-
ematician, writer and
astrologer in an era
when a woman in a sa-
ree and pigtails was not
expected to ‘perform’
miracles of arithmetic
on the stage across the
world.
The story is about this inspir-
ing woman who lived life on her
terms, often came close to paying a
price for it but never allowed her-
self to wonder if the choices she
made in life were erroneous.
Apart from the number game,
the film showcases the conflict
Shakuntala faces and the anguish
sheenduresintheprocessof trying
to balance her relationship with
her parents, husband, only daugh-
ter and son-in-law along with her
ambition.
Sanya Malhotra conveys to per-
fection the vacillating emotions of
a girl at odds with her mother’s
global fame. And Jisshu Sengupta
andAmitSadhasmendealingwith
two strong-willed women go along
for the ride, their feet firmly and
believably on the ground.
Overall the film is a one time
watch only for the woman who
could make the numbers dance.
A
ctor Bobby Deol is all set to
make his digital debut with
Prakash Jha’s upcoming
MX Player-based series
‘Aashram.’ Deol shared the first look
of the series on Instagram
with a motion poster of
the show featuring him in
a fierce role. “Here is the first look
of Aashram, I am looking forward to
seeing it together with you all on Au-
gust 28, 2020, only on MX Player,”
he wrote in the caption. —ANI
V
eteran singer Lata Man-
geshkar and senior actor
Dharmendra Deol remem-
bered legendary playback
singer Mohammed Rafi on his 40th
death anniversary. Mohammed Rafi
also received Padma Shri award by the
government of India. A noted playback
singer, he was known for his versatility
and range; his songs were varied from
fast peppy numbers to patriotic songs,
sad numbers to highly romantic songs,
qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans to
classical songs. —ANI
DIGITAL DEBUT
REMEMBERING
MD. RAFIS
enior actor
Shatrughan
Sinha on Friday
extended birthday
wishes to actor Mumtaz
who rang in her 73rd
birthday.
The 74-year-old took
to Twitter and extended
birthday wishes to one
of the most popular and
sought-after actors of
her time--Mumtaz. Sinha
wrote, “Warm & loving
birthday wishes for a very
dear friend, elegant, gra-
cious, favourite heroine/
star #Mumtaz. She is a
wonderful & great lady,
who has been very helpful
& supportive in my initial
years.” —ANI
Birthday Wish
KAVITA CHAUHAN
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
One Woman
ARMY S
inger Rihanna just
teased fans about
her new music that
she’s been working
on. “I am always working
on music,” Rihanna
shared. “And when I am
ready to put it out in the
way that I feel fit, it’s gon-
na come out. And you’re
not going to be disappoint-
ed when it happens. It’s go-
ing to be worth it.
She also added that “I’m
not just gonna put it out
just because people are
waiting. It’s taken this
long, I’m gonna make it
worth it.” Rihanna also
said that she’s grateful to
still be working on music
for fans and even more
grateful for her new ven-
tures. “I’m 10 years older,
I’m 15 years older. I thought
that was just a few years
ago, now it’s like a decade-
plus,” she reflected. “THAT
is what I think about! But
I’m also really grateful to
still be here and being able
to expand into other ven-
tures. I’m grateful. It’s
been fun and I can’t even
complain.”
—Agency
TEASING FANS
Trailer Out Today
S
—ANI
Mumtaz
Poster of the series
Late Mohammed Rafi
Janhvi Kapoor
Poster of the film
Kiara Advani
Rihanna

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