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ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
DAY, RAHUL ACCUSES MODI GOVT OF
SNATCHING AWAY RIGHTS OF POOR P6P5
DEFENCE MINISTER RAJNATH SINGH
SIGNS THE JOINT DECLARATION BY THE
ASEAN ON STRATEGIC SECURITY VISION
Gorakhpur has the responsibility of five
crore people of UP, Bihar and Nepal
Vishal Srivastav
Gorakhpur: Chief
Minister Yogi Adity-
anath has said that Ut-
tar Pradesh is on the
anvil to post victory af-
ter a decisive battle
against Covid. It could
be made possible due to
effective health man-
agement and exemplary
teamwork.
“We are about a
month away from the
Covid vaccine while the
state has already con-
tained the pandemic,”
he said while speaking
as Chief Guest at the
inaugral ceremony of
the ‘Healthy Eastern
Uttar Pradesh- an initi-
ative’ drive at AIIMS,
Gorakhpur.
Pointing out that the
developed countries
like US have registered
a Covid death rate of 8
percent and even the
devloped states of the
country have seen 3-5
percent of Covid
deaths, the state of UP
saw only 1.04 percent of
Covid deaths, he said
but for the laxity of
some senior faculty, the
figures would have
been below one percent.
Turn to P6
CM Yogi addressing a gathering at MPEC as Speaker HN Dixit,
BJP State President SD Singh, MP Ravi Kishan and others look
on, in Gorakhpur on Thursday.
JEWAR AIRPORT: SWISS DEVELOPER
SELECTS FOUR-COMPANY CONSORTIUM
TO DESIGN PASSENGER TERMINAL
Noida: Swiss developer
Zurich Airport Interna-
tional has selected a
four-company consor-
tium to design the pas-
senger terminal for the
greenfield Noida airport
in Jewar, one of its top
officials said on Thurs-
day. “We conducted
a design competition
where we invited three
international teams
to make proposals on
how they would design
this airport, taking into
account efficiency and
net zero emissions,
digital airport and other
main traits that we want
to see,” Daniel Bircher,
Chairman and Manag-
ing Director, Yamuna
International Airport
Private Limited (YIAPL)
told PTI. YIAPL is a 100
per cent subsidiary of
Zurich Airport Inter-
national and has been
incorporated to develop
the Noida airport in
Jewar. “We have cho-
sen the team compris-
ing Nordic, Grimshaw,
Haptic and STUP - a
team of four companies
from Norway, England
and India,” Bircher said.
Members of this team
have designed the Hy-
derabad airport and the
new Istanbul airport,
he said, adding that
Grimshaw was involved
in designing one of
the terminals at Zurich
airport around 20 years
ago. “They are already
at work. We expect
them to conclude the
key design Turn to P6
n We are about to win the
decisive battle against Covid
n We are about a month away
from Covid vaccine: CM Yogi
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla addresses at the foundation stone laying
ceremony of the New Parliament Building on Thursday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the foundation stone laying
ceremony of New Parliament Building, in New Delhi on Thursday.
ATTACK ON NADDA ‘SPONSORED’,
AMIT SHAH SEEKS WB REPLY
Aditi Nagar
New Delhi/Kolkata:
Home Minister Amit
Shah on Thursday or-
dered an investigation
into an attack on BJP
chief JP Nadda’s con-
voy in West Bengal and
asked the Governor for
a detailed report on law
and order in the state.
The home ministry
called for two reports
from the Bengal admin-
istrationwithin12hours
as the BJP alleged that
thestatehadslippedinto
complete lawlessness
and anarchy.
The BJP chief’s con-
voy came under attack,
allegedly from support-
ers of Bengal’s ruling
Trinamool Congress,
around 60 km from Kol-
kata. Nadda was on his
way to a meeting of
party workers Turn to P6
Chandigarh: Breaking
his silence on the farm-
ers’ protest, Haryana
Deputy Chief Minister
Dushyant Chautala
hoped that they will call
off their stir now that
the Centre has offered
to give written assur-
ances on MSP.
The Jannayak Janta
Party leader said he is
quite hopeful that the
farmers protesting over
the new agri-marketing
laws will understand
that when the Centre is
giving written assur-
ances, it a victory for
their struggle.
Meanwhile, Agricul-
ture Minister Narendra
Singh Tomar on Thurs-
day urged farmer union
leaders to consider pro-
posals sent to them to
break the deadlock over
protests against the
three new Turn to P6
Under pressure from
Oppn,Haryana Dy
CM Chautala hopes
farmers-Centre rift
will end soon
The broken windshield of JP Nadda’s convoy vehicle.
MAA DURGA SAVED ME: NADDA IN
CM MAMATA’S NEPHEW’S CONSTITUENCY
Kolkata: “If I have reached here for the meeting,
it’s due to Maa Durga’s grace,” said Nadda. The
BJP has launched protests across the state. Nadda
said he was unhurt because he was travelling in
a bullet proof car but other BJP leaders, Kailash
Vijayvargiya and Mukul Roy, were injured. Some
journalists were pushed and shoved back, accord-
ing to PTI. Mamata Banerjee claimed the attack
was staged and accused the BJP of resorting
to “drama” to malign her government ahead of
assembly polls next year. “BJP is creating a new
Hindu dharma (religion). It is a hateful dharma.
This is how Hitler became who he was. They are
creating videos of incidents and sharing with me-
dia...Nautanki is going on. They will say Pakistan
is attacking us, Nepal, Israel,” said the Chief Min-
ister. “Just think of the situation. They are roaming
around with the BSF, CRPF, Army, CISF....then why
are you so scared?,” added Mamata.
PM: New Parliament building will
witness ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’
New Delhi: Describing
the laying of founda-
tion stone of the new
Parliament building as
a “milestone in India’s
democratic history”,
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi on Thursday
said if the old Parlia-
ment house gave direc-
tion to the country post-
independence, the new
one would be a witness
to making of a self-reli-
ant India.
Addressing the gath-
ering after laying the
foundation stone of the
new building and per-
forming the ground-
breaking ceremony,
Modi said many new
things were being done
in the new Parliament
House, which will in-
crease the efficiency of
the MPs as modern
methods will be incorpo-
ratedintheworkculture.
“It is a very historic
day. Today is a mile-
stone in India’s demo-
cratic history,” he said.
“We, the people of In-
dia, will together build
thisnewbuildingof Par-
liament. This new build-
ingwillbeaninspiration
when India will cele-
brateits75yearsof inde-
pendence,” Modi said.
“I can never forget the
moment in my life when
I had the opportunity to
come to Parliament
House for the first time
in 2014 as an MP. Before
stepping in, I bowed and
saluted this temple of
democracy,” he said.
If the old Parliament
House gave direction to
India post-independ-
ence, the new building
would be a witness to
the creation of a self-
reliant India, Modi said.
“If work was done to
fulfill the needs of the
countryintheoldParlia-
ment building, Turn to P6
A NEW BEGINNING Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays the foundation stone of New Parliament Building, in New
Delhi on Thursday. —PHOTOS BY PTI
NEW ABODE OF DEMOCRACY
BUILDING YOUR PALACE AS FARMERS
PROTEST: CONG ON PM, NEW PARL
New Delhi: The Congress attacked Prime Minister
Narendra Modi as he participated in the ground-
breaking ceremony
for the new parliament
today, giving a reminder
of the farmers protest
going on outside the
borders of the national
capital for more than two
weeks. “Mr Modi, His-
tory will also record that
when the Annadata was
fighting for their rights for 16 days on the streets,
you were building a palace for yourself in the
name of Central Vista! In democracy, power is not
a means to fulfill whims, it is a medium for public
service and public welfare,” Congress spokes-
person Randeep Surjewala tweeted in Hindi on
Thursday under hashtag “farmers”.
Historical & Proud
Day for India, says
Lok Sabha Speaker
Om Birla after stone
laying ceremony
STONES HURLED AT BJP CHIEF JP NADDA’S CONVOY; VIJAYVARGIYA, ROY HURT
The home ministry
called for two reports
from the Bengal
administration within
12 hours
AMIT SHAH
@AMITSHAH
Bengal has
descended into an era
of tyranny, anarchy
and darkness under
the Trinamool rule.
The manner in which
political violence has
been institutionalized
and brought to the
extreme in West
Bengal under TMC
(Trinamool) rule is
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Man with Midas Touch: CM Yogi all set to
drive BJP’s Bengal chariot home in 2021
The saffron icon gears up to dare ‘Didi’ (Mamata Banerjee), that too on her home-turf
M Tariq Khan
Lucknow: After suc-
cessfully propelling
BJP in Bihar and more
recently in the munici-
pal elections in Hy-
derabad, Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath is all set to
storm West Bengal
where countdown for
assembly elections 2021
has already begun.
From being a monk,
who was propelled by
the BJP’s Ram Temple
movement to assume
the reins of UP CM to
being the firebrand
poster boy of the par-
ty’s political campaign
in all most all elec-
tions, Yogi’s populari-
ty has soared like mer-
cury on a hot summer
afternoon.
And if Yogi man-
agesto upset Trina-
mool Congress’s
(TMC) applecart, it
would be a hat-trick
at the hustings after
Bihar and Hyderabad
for the UP CM, who is
being billed as the
‘Man with the Midas
Touch.’
“Rashtriye Ad-
hyakash (BJP national
president) JP Nadda ji is
scheduled to visit Luc-
know on a two-day visit
on December 28 ad 29.
The top leadership is ex-
pected to discuss and fi-
nalisethecampaignitin-
erary not only for West
Bengalbutalsoensuring
party’s comeback under
Mission 2022,” says an
insider source. An inter-
esting aside here is that
Nadda like Amit Shah
was coronated as party’s
national chief after en-
suring spectacular win
for the party in UP. Shah
in 2014 and Nadda in
2019. Overall, the BJP
national chief’s visit
would be a four-day af-
fair. Two days in Luc-
know and a day each in
East and West UP. Being
the national chief of the
ruling party, Nadda
would also be meeting
party ministers as well
as functionaries to en-
sure smoother coordina-
tion between the two.
With 2022insightplacat-
ing cadres and keeping
the organisation battle-
ready is a priority for
both the UP CM and
party president.
PROVING HIS METTLE: CM Yogi Adityanath has already played a catalytic role in adding to BJP’s
gains in Bihar and in the recently concluded GHMC elections. West Bengal is next.
Vidhan Sabha speaker
releases book based on
Indian culture, values
First India Bureau
Gorakhpur: Vidhan
Sabha Speaker Hriday
Narayan Dixit, along
with CM Yogi Adity-
anath, released a book
titled `Bhartiya San-
skriti Ka Vishwa Mein
Prasar’ in Gorakhpur
on Thursday at the 88th
foundation week pro-
gramme of Maharana
Pradap Education
Council (MPEC) .
“MPEC also imparts
social values along with
education and is an ide-
al for other institutions,
“said Dixit.
“Education solves
every problem and
MPEC has been educat-
ing people since 1932.
The government is de-
veloping the state at a
fast pace,” said Dr. Ma-
hendra Singh, Jal Shak-
ti minister.
BJP state president
Swatantra Dev Singh,
State Disaster Manage-
ment Authority vice
president Lt. General
R.P. Shahi, Digambar
Akhara, Ayodhya, Ma-
hant Suresh Das, Swa-
mi Raghavacharya,
Devipatan Shaktipeeth
Mahant Yogi Mithilesh
Das, Member of Parlia-
ment Ravi Kisan and
Jai Prakash Nishad
MPEC president Prof.
U.P. Singh and others.
‘Give positive atmosphere for
investment, industrial growth’
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Chief Secre-
tary of Uttar Pradesh,
Rajendra Kumar Ti-
wari has given strict
instructions to District
magistrates and all con-
cerned departments to
adopt positive approach
towards promoting and
facilitating the invest-
ment and industries in
the state.
Tiwari was presiding
over a high-level inter-
departmental meeting
on investment promo-
tion and problems of
entrepreneurs at his of-
fice at Lok Bhawan to-
day. He directed that
practice of charging
the stamp duty twice,
once on sale-deed and
then on lease-deed, on
the assets purchased
in auction of units set
up in industrial devel-
opment authorities
should be abolished.
Instructions were is-
sued to U.P. State Indus-
trial Development Au-
thority (UPSIDA) in a
case pertaining to
M/s Tribula Exports,
Kanpur regarding pay-
ment of stamp duty in
an auction under SAR-
FAESI Act-2002 (The Se-
curitization and Recon-
struction of Financial
Assets and Enforce-
ment of Security Inter-
est Act).
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Coventional
clay products that used
to be the cynosure of all
eyes, have been losing
the race to plastic prod-
ucts for the last few
years. But not for long,
as Yogi Adityanath led
government in Uttar
Pradesh is taking steps
to safeguard the art and
artisans connected
with the art form.
In order to achieve this
Maati Kalaa Micro Com-
mon Facility Centers
across the state.
The results of the ef-
forts of the UP govern-
ment was also seen this
Deepawali when, on the
appeal of CM Yogi, the
people of the state cele-
brated the festival on the
lines of `Vocal for Local’
andover10Lakhearthen
lamps (Diyas) were sold.
The government also
started some other
schemes to give a new
direction to the crafts-
men associated with
clay crafts trade and a
Maati Kala Board was
constituted.
To promote clay
crafts, training was im-
parted to potters
through Maati Kala
Skill Training Pro-
grammes (MKSTP) and
financial assistance
was also made available
to potters, artisans and
craftsmen to make
them self reliant under
the Mati Kalaa Scheme.
As many as 39,505
craftsmen families were
identified by the gov-
ernment and out of this,
24,000 families were al-
located revenue lease
for making arrange-
ments of raw material.
Along with this, mod-
ern tool kits were also
made available to arti-
sans to help them in cre-
ating designer clay
products.
The government
has also helped the
potters, craftsmen
and artisans in get-
ting financial assis-
tance and under the
Mati Kalaa Scheme,
1,415 potters applied
for loans. The banks
gave loans of Rs 265.93
Lakhs to 142 beneficiar-
ies and besides this,
loans of Rs 98.03 Lakhs
have also been dis-
bursed to 71 units.
As many as 1402 pot-
ters have also been pro-
videdtrainingunderthe
MKSTPandtilldateover
2,000 beneficiaries have
also been given modern
machine and tools oper-
ating training and entre-
preneurship develop-
ment training. provide
quality training for pro-
duction and marketing
of finished goods to pot-
ters, artisans and crafts-
men under one roof,
Mati Kalaa Common Fa-
cility Centers are being
set up across the state.
For this, land has also
been identified in Pilib-
hit, Rampur, Firozabad,
Muzaffarnagar,Kannauj
and Barabanki.
Maati Kala Facility Centres to shape clay artisans’ future
BOOSTER
SON OF SOIL: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been playing an
instrumental part in framing friendly policies for artisans.
SHAAM-E-AWADH
The City of Nawabs is known for its mystical evenings. Our lensman captures one such beautiful sunset at the backdrop of
Bara Imambara on Thursday. —PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR
UPMRC MD bucks up new managers
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Kumar Kes-
hav, Managing Director,
Uttar Pradesh Metro
Rail Corporation (UP-
MRC) on Thursday ad-
dressed the newly-re-
cruited Assistant Man-
agers and Deputy Gen-
eral Managers of UP
Metro at UPMRC’s Cen-
tre of Excellence for
Training (COET) at
Transport Nagar De-
pot, Lucknow.
The main objective of
his lecture is to make
new recruits acquaint-
ed with the organiza-
tion’s vision, structure
and functions besides
equipping the trainees
for taking up higher re-
sponsibilities in the
management.
To make the newly-
hired personnel famil-
iar with the organiza-
tion, Keshav gave a
brief overview of the
company’s vision, mis-
sion, culture & work
ethics and encouraged
them to take up higher
responsibilities.
“The vision of UPM-
RC is to provide a
‘World-class and mod-
ern mass rapid trans-
port system’ to the com-
mon man,” said Keshav.
While addressing the
trainees in an hour-long
session, he emphasized
that there should be
leadership at all levels,
and one must be proac-
tive in identifying key
challenges. He rein-
forced the UPMRC’s
commitment to com-
plete every metro pro-
ject in time.
BSP slams UP government
on Jalaun gang rape case
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Bahujan Sa-
maj Party (BSP) has
slammed the Uttar
Pradesh government on
the Jalaun gang rape
case and said that the
government’s slogan of
‘Beti Bachao, Beti Pad-
hao’ is just a “farce”.
BSPNationalSpokes-
person Sudhindra
Bhadoria said that Yogi
government has failed
to provide protection,
security and dignity to
women.
“The slogan of ‘Beti
Bachao, Beti Padhao’ is
just a farce. I think the
Yogi government has
failed to provide protec-
tion, security and dig-
nity to the women and
girl children of Uttar
Pradesh,” he said.
AIM HIGHER: Keshav Kumar, MD, UPMRC motivated the newly
recruited assistant managers to take up higher responsiblities.
Cop jumps
into canal
to save life
of a woman
First India Bureau
Noida: A police
constable in Uttar
Pradesh’s Greater
Noida on Thursday
jumped into a brim-
ming canal and
saved a drowning
woman, who had
tried to commit sui-
cide over fights
with her husband,
officials said.
Constable Irfan
Ali jumped into
Khareli canal and
swam about 100 me-
tres to save the
30-year-old woman,
a labourer, who had
fallen unconscious,
they said.
Impressed by the
constable’s feat, Po-
lice Commissioner
Alok Singh lauded
Ali’s selfless service
and announced a
monetary reward
for him for saving a
citizen’s life.
“Congratulations
braveheart for put-
ting citizen before
self. He is being im-
mediately rewarded
with Rs 20,000 and
also recommended
for a suitable com-
mendation,” Singh
tweeted.
CULTURE FIRST: LS Speaker
Hriday Nath Dixit.
PRAISED ALL OVER
INDUSTRY FRIENDLY NOTE: Chief Secretary RK Tiwari presiding
over a meeting with officials at his office in Lok Bhawan.
LISTING FAILURES: BSP’s National spokesperson Sudhindra
Bhadoria says that BJP has failed to protect women in the state.

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Private hospital
doctors to go on
strike today
Private hospital doc-
tors will be on a strike
on December 11. Only
emergency and COV-
ID-19 services will be
operational while
OPD and general ser-
vices will be disrupt-
ed. The strike call has
been given by the Indi-
an Medical Associa-
tion, which is oppos-
ing a move that allows
Ayurveda doctors to
become eligible for
conducting operations
after a bridge course.
Three members
of family killed in
Noida car mishap
Three members of a
family died in a car
accident at Sector 49
in Noida on Wednes-
day while two others
suffered injuries and
are undergoing treat-
ment, the police said
Thursday. Five people
were returning from a
function when the
driver lost control and
the car fell into the
drain in Salarpur.
Temple donation
box with Rs 2L
stolen; 2 held
A donation box con-
taining nearly Rs two
lakh cash was stolen
from a temple in
Shamli district alleg-
edly by two people
who worked there as
cleaners, the police
said on Thursday. A
case was registered
after the management
committee of the tem-
ple filed a complaint.
Accused Vishal and
Bablu were arrested
and a part of cash
was recovered.
Vishal Srivastav
Lucknow: In a bid to
motivate youngsters to
build their own identi-
ty, Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath said that
instead of becoming
followers,peopleshould
become leaders and set
examples for others.
The CM, who was
speaking at the 88th
foundation week pro-
gramme of the Maha-
rana Pradap Education
Council (MPEC) on
Thursday, where he
also inaugurated a
3-day national webinar
on Purvanchal’s devel-
opment, said “People
should make them-
selves counted for the
society and this is only
possible when educa-
tionalinstitutionswork
with a team spirit. Peo-
ple associated with
MPECwillhavetowork
continuously for the
betterment of them-
selves, the institution
and the entire state and
set the centenary year
as a target for this.”
He said this had also
been the aim of the na-
tional education policy
andif everyoneworked-
with this aim, the
MPEC would become
thebesteducationinsti-
tution in north India.
“In the testing times
of global corona pan-
demic crisis, the ex-
traordinary work, led
by our PM, was only
possible with the help
of technique and peo-
ple should also get as-
sociated with technolo-
gy and make better use
of it,” said CM Yogi.
He said corona vac-
cine would arrive by
January next year and
until then, everyone
should comply with the
Covid-19 protocols.
The CM said percep-
tionof anareaintherest
of the world, affected its
development.“Todayno-
bodycanquestiondevel-
opment, governance
and law & order situa-
tion in UP. Perception
of Indiachangedforbet-
ter after 2014. Same is
the case with eastern
UP; our thinking has
made it backward. We
are trying to ensure the
shift from this mindset
and have been pretty
successful in it,” said
the CM to a rousing ap-
plause from the crowd.
At Purvanchal webinar, CM bats
for team spirit, greater use of tech
GROWTH ENGINE
CM Yogi has urged education institutes to work with team spirit
No going back without
repeal of three laws:BKU
25 covid deaths in UP
with 1,677 fresh cases
Farm Laws will not be repealed in
any condition: Suresh Khanna
Krishna Janmabhoomi:
Court hearing on Jan 7
First India Bureau
Lucknow: With the
farmers’ protest in and
around Delhi against the
recently enacted farm
laws entering the 15th
day, the Bhartiya Kisan
Union (BKU) on Thurs-
day reiterated the agita-
tion would not be with-
drawn till the three Acts
are repealed.
A day after rejecting
the Centre’s proposal on
changes in the three farm
laws, the BKU also de-
manded a Bill on mini-
mumsupportprice(MSP).
“The proposal has no
mention of the with-
drawal of the laws. They
(central government)
wants amendment in
them but we want these
laws to be repealed. We
don’t want changes. We
will end our protest only
whentheselawsarewith-
drawn,” BKU spokesper-
son Rakesh Tikait said.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: With 1,677
fresh COVID-19 cases
in Uttar Pradesh, the
infection tally rose
to 5,61,161 on Thurs-
day, while 25 more fa-
talities pushed the
death toll to 8,011, an
official said.
The number of active
casesinthestatestoodat
20,801,of which9,516are
in home isolation, Prin-
cipal Secretary, Health,
Alok Kumar said.
A total of 1,495 people
were discharged from
hospitals after recover-
ing from the disease in
thepast24hours,taking
the total number of
cured persons in the
state to 5,32,349.
According to a bulle-
tinbytheHealthDepart-
ment, four deaths were
reported from Varanasi,
threefromLucknowand
two each from Gorakh-
pur, Meerut and Chan-
dauli, among others.
Lucknow reported
250 new cases followed
by Meerut 122, Gautam
Budhnagar 107 and
Kanpur Nagar 103,
among others, the bul-
letin said.
Vishal Srivastav
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh Finance, Par-
liamentary Affairs and
Medical Education Min-
ister Suresh Khanna
has made a big revela-
tion stating that the
Centre will not budge
from its stance on the
farm laws.
The Minister who
wasinAgraonaregular
visit to gauge the Cov-
id-19 situation in the Taj
City, said that Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi’s stance on the
farm laws is very clear.
“The farm laws have no
issues in them. They are
meant for the benefit of
farmers and hence, will
not be repealed in any
condition. It is not the
issue with farmers at
all. It is rather the oppo-
sition parties which
have made a mockery of
our farmers,” Khanna
said on Thursday.
He also said the PM
has already stated once
that one cannot build a
new century on old laws
and that says it all. The
three laws we have
brought in will benefit
farmers in the long run
but the opposition
which has no positives
in sight, is trying to de-
rail the country with
their frivolous claims.
On the other hand,
farmers continued their
agitation the three laws.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: A Mathura
court will hear on Janu-
ary 7 a civil suit seeking
ownership of the entire
13.37 acres of Krishna
Janmabhoomi land and
removal of the mosque
situated adjacent to it.
The matter was ad-
journed as District Judge
Sadhna Rani Thakur
was not available.
The court had on Octo-
ber 16 admitted the plea
seeking to remove the
mosque, adjacent to
Krishna Janmabhoomi.
On September 30, a Ma-
thura civil court had re-
fused to admit a suit by
advocate Vishnu Jain to
remove an Idgah “built
on Krishna Janmabhoo-
mi”. It had cited a bar un-
der the Places of Worship
(Special Provisions) Act,
1991. The suit blamed Au-
rangzeb for demolishing
a Krishna temple, built at
the birthplace of Lord
Shree Krishna at Katra
Keshav Dev, Mathura, in
1669-70 AD” and raising
the “Idgah Mosque” in its
place.
ScholarshipboostforfolkartistsUP Lalit Kala Akademi to provide `5,000 each under the Art Teaching Scholarship Scheme
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Chief Minis-
ter Yogi Adityanath is
always active in promot-
ing art and culture in
Uttar Pradesh. Now UP
Lalit Kala Akademi has
launched a scholarship
scheme for painters and
sculptors associated
with folk art, under
which a scholarship of
Rs 5,000 (from January)
will be given every
month to artists associ-
ated with the field of
folk art.
The scholarship will
be given to six folk art-
ists of UP under the Art
Teaching Scholarship
Scheme.
The proposal was
sent by the Lalit Kala
Akademi to the govern-
ment, after which the
rule was amended to in-
clude folk art along with
visual arts. It is to be
mentioned that the
scholarships launched
with the aim of encour-
aging and helping folk
artists who are doing
research at the age of a
maximum of 40 years
willgreatlybebenefited.
Till now only painters
and sculptors of Drishi-
kala used to get scholar-
ship facilities, but now
artists associated with
the folk art of the state
will also be given schol-
arship. Apart from the
scholarship, artists do-
ing research will also get
financial assistance of
Rs10,000forpaintingand
sculpture exhibitions.
Yashwant Singh
Rathore, Secretary, Lalit
KalaAkademisaid,“The
folk art of UP attracts
people towards it. Under
the leadership of the Ut-
tarPradeshgovernment,
not only the artists have
got a proper platform,
but also a boost.”
Till now 5 visual art-
ists of UP used to get
scholarships related to
modern painting and
sculpture, but after
amendment in the man-
ual, now 6 folk artists
will be given scholar-
ships for one year. This
will encourage other
paintingsincludingSan-
jhi and Bundelkhandi.
The Akademi will
hold an art camp in Ayo-
dhya from December 14
to18.Theexhibitionwill
be organised under the
Kala Rang programme
on the theme ‘Kya Kehti
Hai Saryu Ki Dhara’.
For this, online registra-
tion of artists is being
done. The last date is De-
cember 12. So far 100 art-
ists have registered for
this camp.
CM Yogi with Pandavani artist Teejan Bai. Pandavani is a traditional performing
art form in which she enacts tales from Mahabharata. —FILEPHOTO
The Mosque in question.
Purvanchal Expressway: For smooth
run CS RK Tiwari reviews progress
First India Bureau
Lucknow: In a project
monitoring meeting
yesterday, Chief Secre-
tary Rajendra Kumar
Tiwari reviewed the
progress of the con-
struction of Purvan-
chal Expressway.
He said that the ex-
pressway will start from
Chandsaraivillageonthe
Lucknow-Sultanpur road
in Lucknow district and
end at Hydariya village
on NH-31, 18 kms east of
UP-Bihar border.
The length of the ex-
pressway is 340.824 kms.
Itwillbenefitthedistricts
of Lucknow, Barabanki,
Amethi,Ayodhya,Sultan-
pur, Ambedkarnagar,
Azamgarh, Mau and
Ghazipur.
As part of the express-
way, a total of 22 flyovers,
seven railway overbridg-
es,sevenlongbridges,114
small bridges, 265 under-
passes and 507 culverts
are being constructed.
A 3.2-km-long airstrip
in Sultanpur district for
landing and takeoff of
Indian Air Force fighter
aircraft in an emergency
situation is also pro-
posed as part of the ex-
pressway. The project
will cost an estimated Rs
22,494.94 crore.
The project has been
divided into eight seg-
ments on which work is
in progress. Around 68
per cent of the total phys-
ical progress of the pro-
ject has been completed.
CM Yogi Adityanath with ACS Home Awanish Awasthi reviewing the
Purvanchal Expressway work.
UP Finance and Parliamentary
Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna

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PERSPECTIVELUCKNOW | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020
Folly is bound up in the
heart of a child, but the rod
of discipline drives it far
from him. —Proverbs 22:15
Spiritual
SPEAK
n many beaches
around the In-
dian Ocean,
keen observers
may spot bits of
broken pottery. Washed
smooth by the ocean, these
shards are in all likelihood
hundreds of years old, from
centres of ceramic produc-
tion like the Middle East-
ern Abbasid caliphate and
the Chinese Ming dynasty.
Originally destined for
Indian Ocean port cities,
this pottery would have
been purchased by mer-
chant elites accustomed to
eating off fine plates.
These traders formed part
of vast commercial net-
works that crisscrossed the
Indian Ocean arena and
beyond, from East Africa
to Indonesia, the Middle
East and China.
These trade networks
stretched back thousands
of years, powered by the
monsoon winds. Reversing
direction in different sea-
sons, these winds have long
shaped the rhythm of life
around the ocean, bringing
rain to farmers, filling the
sails of dhows and ena-
bling trade between differ-
ent ecological zones.
The monsoon wind pat-
tern makes the Indian
Ocean relatively easy to
cross both ways. In the At-
lantic, by contrast, winds
blow in one direction all
year round. That is why
the Indian Ocean is the
world’s oldest long-dis-
tance trans-oceanic trad-
ing arena and is some-
times known as the cradle
of globalisation.
This cosmopolitan
world has long fascinated
scholars and has become a
vibrant domain of re-
search. Yet this work has
had little to say about the
sea itself. Its focus is on
human movement with
the ocean as a passive
backdrop. In the age of ris-
ing sea levels and climate
change, it is important to
learn more about the sea
from a material and eco-
logical point of view.
Over the past few years,
this situation has started
to shift. In this article, we
survey both the older and
the newer forms of Indian
Ocean studies, of surface
and depth.
SURFACE HISTORIES
OF THE INDIAN OCEAN
Given the long millennia
of trade and exchange, one
key concern of Indian
Ocean studies has been a
focus on cultural interac-
tion. Cities on the shores
have sustained deep forms
of material, intellectual
and cultural exchange so
that the denizens of these
ports had more in common
with each other than with
their fellows inland.
This early cosmopolitan
world has famously been
explored in Amitav
Ghosh’s In an Antique
Land, which traces the
travels of Abram bin Yiju,
a 12th-century Jewish Tu-
nisian merchant based in
Cairo and later in Manga-
lore, India. The book con-
trasts the rigidity of bor-
ders in the 1980s with the
relative ease of movement
in the late medieval Indian
Ocean.
The Swahili coast pro-
vides another famed exam-
ple of Indian Ocean cosmo-
politanism. Stretching a
thousand miles from So-
malia to Mozambique,
Swahili society arose from
centuries of interaction
between Africa, the Middle
East and Asia.
Centred on coastal city
states like Kilwa, Zanzibar
and Lamu, Swahili trade
networks reached far in-
land to present-day Zimba-
bwe and outward to Persia,
India and China. After
reaching their height from
the 12th to the 15th centu-
ries, these city-states were
eventually undone by the
Portuguese, who arrived
from the early 16th century,
seeking to establish a mo-
nopoly of the spice trade.
SOURCE: THE CONVERSATION
The Indian Ocean is a rich historical archive
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TWEET
Dharmendra Pradhan
@dpradhanbjp
As PM Shri @narendramodi ji
rightly said, India is the mother of
democracy. The voice of people
of India will resonate in the new
temple of Indian democracy
where all differences merge
and all disconnects vanish.
#NewParliament4NewIndia
Anand Sharma
@AnandSharmaINC
Yes India needs a new parliament
today but why the tearing hurry
in times of economic distress,
pandemic and despondency all
around, when farmers are ﬁghting
for justice and their rights in
the biting cold. Clearly a case of
misplaced priorities.
he response of the people
across both regions to the on-
going elections for the District
DevelopmentCouncils(DDCs)
is a curt message to the status
quo lobby led by the Peoples’
Alliance for Gupkar Declara-
tion (PAGD) popularly also
known as Gupkar Alliance.
The vast majority of people
standing in long queues out-
side the polling booths in the
bone-chilling cold while re-
spondingtothenewsreporters
do not mince words while stat-
ing that they are voting for de-
velopmentandemployment.It
is their sole agenda since they
have deprived of it for long. It
is, therefore, clear that 60 year
rule under the shelter Article
370 failed to provide the basic
amenities of road, drinking
water and electricity to the
people at large. Connectivity,
education, health, and basic
amenitiesstilleludethepeople
despite the huge amount of
fundsreceivedfromsuccessive
central governments. Where
did all these funds vanish? Re-
ports are surfacing of projects
shown as completed in files
butnotactuallyexistingonthe
ground. Voters are openly ac-
cusing their leaders of having
cheated them time and again
and becoming unreachable
and inapproachable after the
electionsareoverleavingthem
to their plight which has not
changed during the last sev-
enty years.
People have also realised
thattheywereemotionallyex-
ploited with slogans like self-
rule, greater autonomy, Azadi
while enough autonomy was
granted by article 370. Had
theseleadersbeenseriousand
committed to the welfare of
thepeopletheycouldhaveeas-
ily provided them the basic
facilities of road, water, and
electricity but instead they
chose to mislead them with
false slogans and dreams of
greener pasture while lining
their own pockets with the
generous assistance received
from the Central Govern-
ments. This gave rise to a
group of elite and privileged
families who assumed con-
trols of not only the govern-
ment but other organs of ad-
ministration as well. While
thesefamiliesprospered,ordi-
nary people continued to live
a life full of miseries. Gradu-
ally, they grabbed so much
power that they began to con-
siderthemselvesasinvincible
and permanent rulers to the
extent that the people were
scared of questioning them.
GupkarRoad,asignatureelite
landmark residential area be-
camethepowercentreof J&K
favouring their cronies and
relatives while the rest were
left to look up to them as their
My Baap who occasionally
showered their blessings on
them in form of favours like
government jobs or appoint-
ments in local bodies which
largely remained unelected.
As claimed by the leaders of
the Gupkar Alliance, Article
370 was meant for protecting
the Kashmiri identity. Kash-
mir’s identity world over was
recognised as a multilingual,
multi-faith, multi-cultural plu-
ral society famous for peaceful
co-existence. But these very
leaders are responsible for the
murder of the famous Kash-
miri identity. 370 was misused
to promote secessionism, sepa-
ratism, radicalisation leading
to an onslaught on the Kash-
miri Pandit community, the in-
digenous community of the
Valley,forcingthemtofleelead-
ing to large-scale exodus and
ethnic cleansing. Was this the
purposeof insertingArticle370
in the Constitution of India?
Fears expressed by Dr Ambed-
kar about the future of Hindu
and Buddhist minorities in
Kashmir proved true. Taking
shelterof 370,Gupkarisrefused
toincludetheword“secular”in
the preamble of the State Con-
stitution after its inclusion in
the Constitution of India.
Article 370 was used by the
Gupkaris to institutionalise
corruption in J&K since
none of the progressive anti-
corruption laws passed by
the Parliament was made ap-
plicable in the state. This en-
couraged the Gupkaris and
their cronies to resort to un-
bridled corruption without
fear of being held accounta-
ble or questioned. Rules were
not only ignored but blatant-
ly bypassed with impunity.
Theskeletonswhichemerged
in the cupboard of Jammu &
Kashmir Bank Ltd post revo-
cation of 370 and the Roshni
Scam dubbed as the biggest
land scam of the country are
just a few examples of insti-
tutionalised corruption un-
leashed by them.
370 was also used by the
Gupkaris to deny the devolu-
tion of powers to the grass-
roots level by preventing the
application of 73rd and 74th
Amendments and not holding
electionstothePanchayatiRaj
Institutions (PRIs) and Urban
Local Bodies. They were loath
to centre of power shifting
from Gupkar Road to the
townsandvillagestakingshel-
ter under 370. It was also used
to promote regional and reli-
gious discrimination. 370 was
used as a bargaining tool with
the central governments
which usually succumbed to
their pressure tactics in order
to appease them. Successive
central governments pre-
ferred to rule J&K through
themratherthanreachingout
directly to the people and un-
derstanding their problems.
Thus, the decision was
taken by the Government of
India to revoke Article 370
was welcomed by the vast
majority. The process to undo
the ills and woes of 70 years
of misrule was set in motion
with all sincerity. It certainly
was not to the liking of the
Gupkaris and their cronies.
The subdued response of the
people much against their
hopes of bloodshed and huge
protests came as a rude shock
to them. The government
was falsely accused of the
use of force and suppression.
The government took pre-
cautionary measures to pre-
vent divisive elements from
creating law and order prob-
lems causing inconvenience
to common men. These meas-
ures proved successful.
A slew of measures were
taken by the government
thereafter to undo the ill-ef-
fects of 370 as enumerated
above. These included elec-
tions to the second and third
tiers of PRI by holding elec-
tions for Block Development
Councils (BDCs) and District
Development Councils
(DDCs). Urban Local Bodies
(ULBs) elections were also
held. Ongoing DDC elections
are unique in the sense that
certain deprived sections
(West Pakistan Refugees, Val-
mikis and Gorkhas) are vot-
ing for the first time. (Earlier
they could vote only for Par-
liamentary elections). 73rd
and 74th amendments have
been made fully applicable
fulfilling the long pending de-
mand of the people. There are
reserved seats for the women
and Scheduled Tribes (STs)
for the first time. A new crop
of grassroots level leadership
is emerging which augurs
well for the future.
Unhappy with the tremen-
dous response to the revoca-
tion of 370, the status quo lob-
by joined hands to form the
PAGD with avowed aim of
strugglingforthereturnof 370
and statehood. They also an-
nounced that they do not rec-
ognise the J&K Reorganisa-
tion Act 2019, whereby the
state was divided into two un-
ion territories (UTs) and all
central laws made applicable,
and any decision taken there-
of. However, DDC elections be-
ing conducted under a notifi-
cation using same Act, forced
them to make a U-turn. Ini-
tially, lofty claims were made
of elections only as a measure
to stop the growth of the BJP
but soon they began to pro-
nounce it as a referendum for
therestorationof 370.Appeals
are being made to vote for the
candidates of PAGD so that
theycanbringback370.There
can be nothing more farther
from the truth than this since
DDCsarenowhereempowered
for lawmaking? Yet they are
resorting to their old trick of
falsepromisestopeople.Going
by the demand of the people
for development and employ-
ment, it appears they may not
succeed this time and restora-
tion of 370 will remain an un-
fulfilled distant dream like
greater autonomy or self-rule.
Gupkaris and their sympa-
thisers are trying to win over
the people by creating a fear
psychosis among them. They
oppose each and every action
of the government on the
plea that it is meant to kill
their identity and change de-
mography. Baseless accusa-
tions to emotionally exploit
the populace. One of the lin-
gering fears created among
the youth that their jobs will
be snatched. The reality is to
the contrary. J&K now has
100% reservation for locals in
all jobs including gazetted
and non-gazetted. No other
state/UT in the country en-
joys this unique privilege.
The amended land laws
were also used to create fear
among the people claiming
that their lands would be
snatched and forcibly pur-
chased by outsiders. People
arebeingconfusedbyquoting
protection enjoyed by a few
statesunderArticle371.There
is no comparison between 370
and 371 since 371 is a perma-
nent provision and does not
promote secession and sepa-
ratism. Often people are mis-
led by drawing comparison
with neighbouring Himachal
Pradesh stating that the state
hasspecialprovisionsprotect-
ing their land rights. Again
the fact is to the contrary. Sec-
tion 118 in Himachal is re-
strictive and does not put an
absolute ban on the sale and
purchase of land and proper-
ty in Himachal. It has provi-
sionsthroughwhich,withthe
approval of government, any-
onecanbuylandandproperty
in the state. While the new
land law of J&K totally bans
thesaleof agriculturallandto
other than the existing agri-
culturists of J&K. People will
soon realise that these lies are
being told just to discredit the
new laws and create a pitch
for restoration of 370.
It is the fear of being ques-
tioned and held accountable
for their misdeeds including
unbridled corruption that is
haunting the Gupkaris. That
is the main reason for their
demand of restoration of 370.
But the common man has un-
derstood how 370 was mis-
used by these leaders to de-
prive them of basic amenities
while filling their own cof-
fers. They are happy with the
much-awaited change they
were yearning for and are
hopeful that the representa-
tive they choose for the DDC
will meet their much wanted
basic needs. With this hope
and visualisation of brighter
future 370 has become an ir-
relevant issue for them.
With each passing day, the
Gupkaris are getting disap-
pointedbecauseof theobvious
writing on the wall. Gupkar
Road will no more enjoy the
status it once did. 370 is gone
forgood.Bye-bye370,welcome
Naya Jammu Kashmir.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
370 IS GONE FOR GOOD
T
370 was also
used by the
Gupkaris to deny
the devolution of
powers to the
grassroots level
by preventing the
application of
73rd and 74th
Amendments
and not holding
elections to the
Panchayati Raj
Institutions
(PRIs) and
Urban Local
Bodies. They were
loath to centre of
power shifting
from Gupkar
Road to the towns
and villages
taking shelter
under 370. It was
also used to
promote regional
and religious
discrimination
UNHAPPY WITH THE TREMENDOUS RESPONSE TO THE
REVOCATION OF 370, THE STATUS QUO LOBBY JOINED HANDS
TO FORM THE PAGD WITH AVOWED AIM OF STRUGGLING FOR
THE RETURN OF 370 AND STATEHOOD. THEY ALSO ANNOUNCED
THAT THEY DO NOT RECOGNISE THE J&K REORGANISATION ACT
2019, WHEREBY THE STATE WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO UNION
TERRITORIES (UTS) AND ALL CENTRAL LAWS MADE
APPLICABLE, AND ANY DECISION TAKEN THEREOF. HOWEVER,
DDC ELECTIONS BEING CONDUCTED UNDER A NOTIFICATION
USING SAME ACT, FORCED THEM TO MAKE A U-TURN
BRIG VETERAN
ANIL GUPTA
The author is a Jammu
based veteran, political
commentator, columnist, security
and strategic analyst

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INDIALUCKNOW | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020
Karnal: The number
of farmers at Delhi-
Haryana borders is in-
creasing with each
passing day with more
from across Punjab and
Haryana making a bee-
line to join the protest
in the national capital
against the three farm
laws that they deem to
be detrimental to their
livelihood.
The agitation entered
the 14th day on Wednes-
day with a constant flow
of farmers carrying
black flags on their ac-
tor-trailers, SUVs, cars,
trucks and canters,
marching forward on
NH 44----- Delhi-Chandi-
garh national highway--
towards the national
capital.
With talks with Un-
ion government re-
maining inconclusive,
the farmer leaders are
requesting more and
more followers to join
the protests to increase
the pressure on govern-
ment for withdrawal of
three laws. Farmers in
villages along the high-
ways and Gurdwaras
are serving langar for
travelling farmers.
New Delhi: Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi on
Thursday, urged the
citizens to take the
pledge of “India first”
and said national inter-
est should be supreme
in our decisions.
Speaking at the foun-
dation-laying ceremony
of new Parliament
building, PM Modi: “We
will have to take the
pledge of ‘India first’.
Our decisions should
make the nation strong-
er and be measured on
the same scale - that na-
tion’s welfare comes
first. Our efforts in next
25-26 years should be to-
wards how do we want
to see India in 2047, in
our 100 years of Inde-
pendence.” “We, the
people of India, take
this pledge - there will
be no greater interest
for us than national in-
terest. We, the people of
India, take this pledge -
The country’s concern
for us will be more than
our own concern. We,
the people of India, take
this pledge - nothing
will be more important
to us than the unity and
integrity of the coun-
try,” he added.
“We, the people of In-
dia, take this pledge - for
us the dignity and ful-
fillment of the Constitu-
tion of the country will
be the biggest goal of
life,” PM Modi added.
The Prime Minister
said that democracy in
India has always been a
means of resolving dif-
ferences along with
governance. “Different
views, different per-
spectives, they empow-
er a vibrant democracy.
There is always room
for differences but nev-
er disconnected, our
democracy has moved
ahead with this goal,”
he said.
“There can be differ-
ences over policies and
politics. But we are for
the service of the pub-
lic, there should be no
differences in this ulti-
mate goal,” he added.
Earlier in the day, PM
Modi laid the founda-
tion stone of the new
Parliament building at
the Parliament House
Complex. ThenewParlia-
ment building will be
modern, state-of-the-art,
energy-efficient, with
highly non-obtrusive se-
curityfacilitiestobebuilt
as a triangular-shaped
building, adjacent to pre-
sent Parliament. LS will
be three times of existing
size. —ANI
JEM TERRORIST HELD FOR
SUPPORTING OTHER TERRORISTS
Awantipora: Jammu and
Kashmir police on Thurs-
day arrested a Jaish-
e-Mohammed (JeM)
terrorist in the Awantipora
area for providing shelter
and logistics to JeM ter-
rorists and transporting
ammunition and explosive
material for terrorists in
Tral and Awantipora areas
of Jammu and Kashmir.
The arrested man has
been identified as Irshad
Ahmad Reshi, informed
the police officials of the
district. Five kilogram
cannabis powder, 10
detonators, one wireless
set without battery, two
wireless antenna and
one IED remote powder
has been recovered from
him. A case has been
registered at Tral police
station.
3 DIE, 2 INJURED IN CAR
ACCIDENT IN NOIDA
Noida: Three members of a family died in a car
accident at sector 49 in Noida on Wednesday
while two others suffered injuries and are under-
going treatment. The incident occurred when five
people were returning from a function and the
driver lost control and the car fell into the drain in
Salarpur area of Noida. “After the accident, all 5
members were admitted to a private hospital by
locals where two of them were declared brought
dead and one succumbed to injury during treat-
ment on Thursday morning,” DCP Rajesh S said.
WOMAN GANG-RAPED BY 17 IN
DUMKA, NCW EXPRESSES CONCERN
Jharkhand: The National
Commission for Women
on Thursday, expressing
serious concern over an
alleged rape of a woman
by 17 men in Jharkhand’s
Dumka district, sent a
letter to the state police
and asked it to com-
plete its probe within
two months. According
to a police official, the
survivor in her complaint
said that she was raped
while her husband was
held hostage by 17 men,
when they were returning
home on Tuesday night.
The matter came to fore
on Wednesday after the
victim lodged a complaint
in Mufassil police station
in Dumka, a Jharkhand
Mukti Morcha (JMM)’s
stronghold, further in-
formed the police official.
INDIA-NEPAL VIRTUAL MEET ON
POWER SECTOR HELD
Kathmandu: The eighth India-Nepal joint work-
ing group meeting on power sector cooperation
at the level of joint secretaries was held on
Thursday via video-conferencing. According to
officials, the key agenda for both the countries
is to access the market for hydro and solar
sectors. “The 8th meeting of India-Nepal Joint
Working Group on Power Sector Cooperation at
the level of Joint Secretaries has commenced
through video conference,” India in Nepal wrote
in a tweet.
KEEP NATIONAL INTEREST SUPREME,
PLEDGE ‘INDIA FIRST’: MODITHE PRIME MINISTER SAID THAT DEMOCRACY IN INDIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MEANS OF
RESOLVING DIFFERENCES ALONG WITH GOVERNANCE
Rajnath signs ASEAN
Defence Ministers’
Meeting joint declaration
IN THE COURTYARD
SC asks J&K HC to decide on Dec
21 PILs seeking review of verdict
Court denies bail to 2 ex-
officers of Cox & Kings
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on Thurs-
day asked the Jammu
and Kashmir High
Court to decide on De-
cember 21 the pleas
seeking review of its
verdict scrapping the
Roshni Act which con-
ferred proprietary
rights to occupants of
State land.
A bench headed by
Justice N V Ramana
considered the oral as-
surance of Solicitor
General Tushar Mehta,
who appeared for the
Jammu and Kashmir
administration, that no
coercive action will be
taken against those pe-
titioners who have ap-
proached the top court
in the matter as they are
not “land grabbers or
unauthorised people”.
The bench, also com-
prising justices Surya
Kant and Aniruddha
Bose, said that it will
hear in January last
week the appeals filed
before it challenging
the October 9 verdict of
the high court.
Mehta apprised the
apex court that J&K has
already filed a review
petition in the high
court and said that the
authority is “not
against bonafide & com-
mon people who are not
land grabbers.” —PTI
Mumbai: A special Pre-
vention of Money Laun-
dering Act or PMLA
court in Mumbai on
Wednesday rejected bail
pleas of a former Chief
Financial Officer and
an ex-internal auditor
of CoxandKingsGroup,
who were arrested by
the Enforcement Direc-
torate in connection
with its probe in the Yes
Bank alleged loan de-
fault case.
Special judge PP Raj-
vaidya rejected the bail
applications of former
CFO Anil Khandelwal
and former internal au-
ditor Naresh Jain.
They were arrested
under the provisions of
thePreventionof Money
Laundering Act (PMLA)
in October this year.
According to the En-
forcement Directorate,
its probe found that Yes
Bank had a total out-
standing of 3,642 crore
inrespectof Cox&Kings
Group of Companies.
Yes Bank co-promoter
Rana Kapoor and DHFL
promoters Kapil Wadha-
wanandDheerajWadha-
wanwerearrestedbythe
Enforcement Directo-
rate early this year. —PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the foundation laying of the New Parliament
Building in New Delhi on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI
There can be
differences over
policies and
politics. But we
are for the service
of the public, there
should be no
differences in this
ultimate goal.
—Narendra Modi,
Prime Minister
New Delhi: Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh
on Thursday signed the
joint declaration by the
ASEAN Defence Minis-
ters’ Meeting-Plus (AD-
MM-Plus) on strategic
security vision.
“Delighted to address
the ASEAN Defence
Ministers’ Meeting-Plus
on the 10th anniversary
of its foundation. We ap-
preciate the central role
of ASEAN-led forums,
including ADMM Plus
in promoting dialogue
and engagement to-
wards a pluralistic, co-
operative security order
in Asia,” Singh said in a
tweet. He added that the
ADMM Plus has grown
to become the fulcrum
of peace, stability and
rules based order in this
region.
“The concepts of ‘vas-
udhaive kutumbakam’
‘the whole world is one
family & ‘sarve bhavan-
tu sukhinah’ - ‘all be at
peace’ are the core of
the Indian civilization,”
he said further. —ANI
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh addressing, via video conference,
the 10th Anniversary of the founding of the ASEAN Defence Minister
Meeting Plus (ADMM Plus) at Hanoi, from New Delhi on Thursday.
INDIA AND JAPAN DISCUSS
STRONGER MILITARY TIES
New Delhi: Amid an ongoing row with China,
the Air Forces of India and Japan discussed
further strengthening their ties through joint
exercises and training. The two sides held
wide-ranging discussions during the visit of
General Izutsu Shunji, Chief of Staff, Japan Air
Self Defense Force (CoS-JASDF) who arrived on
Wednesday and met his Indian counterpart Air
Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria. The visit by the
Japanese Air chief comes soon after the navies
of the two countries held the Malabar maritime
exercise with all four Quad members in it along
with the US and Australia.—ANI
With no end to deadlock on 3
laws, farmers pile up pressure
Farmers sitting at Singhu border during a protest against the newly passed farm law, in New Delhi on
Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI
ANNA HAZARE
WARNS OF ‘JAN
ANDOLAN’
WILL END STIR
AFTER LAWS ARE
REPEALED: BKU
Ahmednagar: Octoge-
narian social activist
Anna Hazare came out
in support of farmer
protests and warned
the Central government
that he would begin a
‘Jan Andolan’ if farmers’
demands remain unad-
dressed. “ “If the govern-
ment does not accept the
demands of the farmers,
I will once again sit for
a ‘Jan Andolan’ that will
be similar to the Lokpal
agitation,” he warned.
Ghaziabad: With the
farmers’ protest in and
around Delhi against the
recently enacted farm
laws entering 15th day,
the Bhartiya Kisan Union
(BKU) on Thursday reit-
erated that the agitation
would not be withdrawn
till the three Acts are
repealed. A day after
rejecting the Centre’s
proposal on changes in
the three farm laws, the
BKU also demanded a
Bill on MSP.
ROSHNI ACT YES BANK CASE
Mumbai:Bollywood makeup artist held with Cocaine
Mumbai: The (NCB)
arrested a Bollywood
makeup artiste and
hairstylist, along with
an autorickshaw driver,
for possessing 11 grams
of cocaine and Rs 56,000
in cash, said to be the
proceeds of the drug’s
sales.
The NCB’s Mumbai
Zonal Unit, in a state-
ment, said that the
agency had rounded up
the two persons from
the city’s Oshiwara lo-
cality. “Initial investiga-
tion revealed that one
of the arrested persons,
Suraj Godambe, is a
hair stylist by profes-
sion,” according to a
statement issued today
by NCB Zonal Head Sa-
meer Wankhede. Goda-
mbe, a popular makeup
artist and hair stylist,
has worked with some
big production houses,
an NCB official said. He
was allegedly the re-
ceiver of consignment.
Yadav, the supplier, is
an autorickshaw driver
and works on behalf of
a Nigerian Syndicate.
The agency seized 11
grams of cocaine in 16
packets during the raid,
along with an autorick-
shaw, from near Oshi-
wara’s Meera Tower.
This being of ‘interme-
diate quantity’ both ac-
cused were put under
arrest. They will be un-
der NCB custody till
December 16. —PTI

NEWSLUCKNOW | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020
Sponsored
violence...
in Diamond Harbour,
which is the parliamen-
tary constituency of
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee’s nephew Ab-
hishek Banerjee.
Dramatic videos on-
line showed rocks
smashing windscreens
and windows as cars
made their way through
a violent crowd. The at-
tackers thumped the
cars and used sticks
and rods, according to
the BJP.
Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee said
there would be a police
probe but questioned if
there was a provocation
or a conspiracy. She
also said the BJP had
not asked for security
for Nadda.
Her nephew and Tri-
namool MP Abhishek
Banerjee told a rally:
“If the people don’t like
the BJP, what can we
do?”
The attack comes a
day after Bengal BJP
chief Dilip Ghosh wrote
to the Home Minister
raising concerns about
Nadda’s security after
he was shown black
flags in Kolkata.
Several union minis-
ters and West Bengal
Governor Jagdeep
Dhankhar condemned
the incident.
“Bengal has descend-
ed into an era of tyran-
ny, anarchy and dark-
ness under the Trina-
mool rule. The manner
in which political vio-
lence has been institu-
tionalized and brought
to the extreme in West
Bengal under TMC (Tri-
namool) rule is sad and
worrying,” Amit Shah
tweeted.
Under pressure...
farm laws and said the
government is ready for
further discussions
with them any time.
In Chandigarh, hop-
ing that the farmers
will arrive at a settle-
ment with the Centre,
Chautala told report-
ers, When a written as-
surance is being given,
I don’t think the issue
now needs to be taken
further.
PM: New...
then the aspirations of
21st century India will
be fulfilled in the new
building,” the prime
minister said.
Priests from the
Sringeri Math Karna-
taka did the rituals for
the ‘bhoomi pujan’ at
the new Parliament
building site and it was
followed by a ‘sarva
dharma prarthana’ (in-
ter-faith prayer).
Lok Sabha Speaker
Om Birla, Parliamenta-
ry Affairs Minister
Pralhad Joshi, Urban
Development Minister
Hardeep Singh Puri
and Rajya Sabha Depu-
ty Chairman Harivansh
also offered prayers
during the ceremony.
Jewar airport...
activities by next June
or July so that we are in
a position to contract
our construction part-
ner to build the air-
port,” Bircher said.
Officials of the Uttar
Pradesh government
and Zurich Airport In-
ternational signed a
concession agreement
on October 7 to begin
the construction of the
Noida airport, estimat-
ed to cost Rs 29,560
crore.
Bircher said six de-
sign parameters were
given to the architect
teams during the com-
petition.
“First one was sim-
plicity and clarity, sec-
ond was context and lo-
cal culture, third ele-
ment was operational
efficiency, fourth ele-
ment was comfort and
convenience, fifth ele-
ment was short walking
distances and sixth ele-
ment was flexibility and
modularity,” he said.
When it won the bid
on November 29, 2019, to
build and operate the
Noida airport, the Swiss
developer had said the
airport will be able to
handle 12 million pas-
sengers per year after
the first phase of con-
struction.
Gorakhpur has...
The CM said that justi-
fiably, the Covid man-
agement has come in for
huge praise from World
Health Organisation
and there should be a
research paper on this.
The UP CM was of
the view that the team-
work always pays rich
dividends and the medi-
calinstituteslikeAIIMS
should also realise their
role in this regard. Ad-
vising to make more
and more field research-
es, he said the research
work in field is alway
better than what is done
in the labs.
CM Yogi said treat-
ment is always the last
resort and success lies
in the prevention of the
disease.
“If we could contain
the deadly Japanese En-
cephalitis after four dec-
ades of its menace, it
was due to some effec-
tive preventive meas-
ures,” CM stated while
adding he said “ same
applies to Covid and
that there is no scope for
carelessness.”
FROM PG 1
Kolkata: Expressing
concern over the at-
tack on BJP president
J P Nadda''s convoy,
when it was on its way
to Diamond Harbour
for a public meeting on
Thursday, West Bengal
Governor Jagdeep
Dhankhar accused the
state administration
of failing to act despite
his warnings.
In a tweet, the gover-
nor wrote that he had
alerted the chief secre-
tary and the director
general of police of the
possibility of the col-
lapse of law and order
during the BJP meet-
ing at Diamond Har-
bour in South 24 Parga-
nas district.
The chief secretary
had informed him that
the DGP has been alert-
ed and sensitised ac-
cordingly, Dhankhar
wrote on the micro-
blogging site.
"Events indicate to-
tal abdication of lawful
authority," Dhankhar
wrote in a series of
tweets on the attack.
"As constitutional
head I share my shame
with you as it is on ac-
count of your acts of
omission and commis-
sion," the governor
wrote. The BJP presi-
dent’’s convoy came
under attack when he
was on way to Diamond
Harbour, about 40 km
from here, to address a
meeting of party work-
ers, resulting in injury
to several leaders in-
cluding saffron party
general secretary
Kailash Vijayvargiya,
party sources and eye-
witnesses said.
The area where the
incident took place is
within the Lok Sabha
constituency of Trina-
mool Congress youth
wing president Ab-
hishek Banerjee, neph-
ew of Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee.
The BJP president is
on a two-day visit to
the state since Wednes-
day to attend various
programmes aimed at
strengthening the par-
ty organisation ahead
of the Assembly elec-
tions due in April-May
next year.
It is reported that
The attack on Mr Na-
dda’s convoy -- alleg-
edly by supporters of
Ms Banerjee’s Trina-
mool Congress -- took
place around noon to-
day when he was on his
way to Diamond Har-
bour, the constituency
of Trinamool MP and
Ms Banerjee’s nephew
Abhishek Banerjee.
However, The Bengal
government has said
that it has received no
request to provide se-
curity to Mr Nadda.
The point was empha-
sised by Mamata Ba-
nerjee. “You don’t in-
form the state, but
when there is a prob-
lem, you blame the
state,” she said. —PTI
GovernorexpressesconcernoverattackonNadda
Kolkata: West Bengal
Chief Minister Mama-
ta Banerjee on Thurs-
day claimed that de-
mocracy was being
bulldozed and voices
muzzled in the country,
and vowed that her gov-
ernment was commit-
ted to upholding hu-
man rights. Taking to
Twitter, the CM, on the
occasion of Human
Rights Day, said her
government has set up
19 human rights courts
over the last nine-and-
a-half years. "Today is
H u m a n R i g h t s D ay.
Nowadays, there is a
big trend to bulldoze de-
mocracy, crush funda-
mental rights, and muz-
zle the voice of the peo-
ple. Our government is
committed to uphold-
ing human rights," she
tweeted. "The GoWB
has set up 19 human
rights courts in the last
nine and half years. It
was after repeated pro-
tests and movements by
me that the West Ben-
gal Human Rights Com-
mission was set up in
1995. My best wishes to
all," Banerjee said.
Human Rights Day is
celebrated every year
on December 10 to hon-
our the United Nations
General Assembly's
adoption and proclama-
tion of the Universal
Declaration of Human
Rights (UDHR) on this
day in 1948. —PTI
TMC govt committed to upholding
human rights: Mamata Banerjee
New Delhi: India's
largest hospital chain
Apollo Hospitals has
said that it is ready to
administer 1 million
coronavirus vaccines
every day. The hospital
chain has trained 6,000
staff across 71 hospi-
tals, hundreds of clin-
ics and thousands of
pharmacies to adminis-
ter the shots. However,
the government is yet to
make it clear on how
the distribution would
take place and whether
private healthcare ser-
vices would be involved.
Managing Director
Suneeta Reddy said that
the company's talks
with officials in New
Delhi is yet to provide
any firm guidance. Red-
dy said that they want
to know if the govern-
ment will handle the
entire thing alone or
would involve the pri-
vate sector, according to
the reports. The ques-
tion, she said, is how to
double the amount of
people who can be vac-
cinatea. Moreover,
Apollo believes that a
vaccine shot will be
available in the next 60-
120 days. Krishna Ella,
Chairman of Bharat
Biotech believes that
there will be a flood of
vaccines in the next five
to six months. However,
companies have raised
questions about India's
capacity to inoculate its
130 crore people. Une-
qual access between the
wealthy and the poor
also remains a cause for
concern. Apollo has al-
ready held talks with
the Serum Institute but
is awaiting the nod
from New Delhi.
Apollo ready to vaccinate
one million people daily New Delhi: In the defa-
mation case filed by for-
mer union minister MJ
Akbar, the advocate for
journalist Priya Rama-
ni told a Delhi court that
nobody can present call
details from 1993 & even
MTNL won’t have it.
She was replying to
Akbar’s submission
that no call records
were presented to sup-
port Ramani’s claim
that she had called her
friend, Nilofer, on the
night of the incident.
“In this country, no-
body can produce call
records from 1993. Even
MTNL won’t have it,”
said Senior Advocate
Rebecca John, who was
representing Ramani in
the matter.
New Delhi: Farmers
agitating for the past
two weeks against the
new agri laws on Thurs-
day announced that
they will block railway
tracks if their demands
are not met by the gov-
ernment.
Farmer unions,
which held a meeting
on Thursday, said they
will soon announce a
date for blocking tracks
across the country.
Addressing reporters
at the Singhu border
where they have been
protesting for almost
two weeks to demand a
rollback of the laws, the
farmer unions also reit-
erated that they will in-
tensify their agitation
and start blocking all
highways leading to the
national capital.
“We will block rail-
way tracks if our de-
mands are not met. We
will decide on the date
and announce it soon.
The blocking of tracks
will not be limited to
Haryana and Punjab
but it will be done
across the country,”
farmer leader Boota
Singh said at the press
conference.
The announcement
by farmers came on a
day Union Agriculture
Minister Narendra Sin-
gh Tomar said it was
not proper to announce
the next stage of agita-
tion when talks were
continuing and urged
the unions to return to
the discussion table.
Tomar also urged
farmer union leaders to
consider proposals sent
to them to break the
deadlock over protests
and said the govern-
ment is ready for fur-
ther discussions with
them any time.
“Centre has admitted
that laws have been
made for traders. If ag-
riculture is a state sub-
ject, the central govern-
ment does not have
right to make laws on
it,” said Balbir Singh
Rajewal, another lead-
er.
The government had
on Wednesday proposed
to give a “written assur-
ance” that the existing
MSP regime for pro-
curement will continue.
New Delhi: The India
Meteorological Depart-
ment (IMD) has issued
a 'yellow alert' for Utta-
rakhand for the next
five days, warning that
many districts in the
state are likely to re-
ceive snowfall and rain.
The IMD has said by
December 13, different
parts of the state are
expected to receive
snow, rain and hail-
storm. On December 12
and 13, the Garhwal di-
vision is likely to get
snowfall, the IMD said.
‘Nobody can present
callDetailsFrom1993’
Protesting farmers
threaten to block
railway tracks
Snowfall, heavy
rain expected
in Uttarakhand
New delhi: Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi ac-
cused the Modi govern-
ment of snatching away
the fundamental rights
of the poor and said do-
ing so was a crime
against humanity. The
rights of every class of
peoplemustberespected
for the country’s future,
Gandhi added. “The
Modi government is
snatching the funda-
mental rights of the
poor. It is a crime
against humanity. For
the better future of the
country, we have to re-
spect the rights of eve-
ry class,” he said in a
tweet in Hindi. The
Congress has been at-
tacking the government
over alleged atrocities
on the poor & vulnera-
ble sections of society,
including the Dalits.
Rahul accuses BJP of snatching
fundamental rights of poor
DILIP GHOSH WRITES TO AMIT SHAH OVER ‘SECURITY LAPSES’
Indian Pharma scaling up
for local & global needs
New Delhi: India,
the world’s biggest
vaccine maker, is get-
ting set for the mas-
sive global blitz to
contain the coronavi-
rus pandemic with
its pharmaceutical
industry and part-
ners freeing up ca-
pacity and accelerat-
ing investments even
without firm pur-
chase orders. India
manufactures more
than 60% of all vac-
cines sold across the
globe, and while its
$40 billion pharma-
ceutical sector is not
yet involved in the
production of the ex-
pensive Pfizer Inc
and Moderna shots,
the nation will play a
pivotal role in immu-
nizing much of the
world.
The Modi govern-
ment is snatching
the fundamental
rights of the poor. It is a
crime against humanity.
—Rahul Gandhi, Congress leader
Jagdeep Dhankhar
Mamata Banerjee
Priya Ramani
TMC REPORT CARD
OF 10-YEAR-RULE
With an eye on 2021
Assembly polls, the
ruling TMC in West
Bengal released a
report card highlight-
ing its government’s
welfare policies and
development projects
over the last 10 years.
The TMC, after com-
ing to power in 2011,
has raised allocation
for the education sec-
tor to Rs 37,069 crore
from Rs 13,872 crore,
State Education min-
ister Partha Chatterjee
said. “As part of the
‘Sabujsathi’ scheme,
84 lakh cycles were
distributed. Thirty
new universities have
come up in the state
since 2010. We could
not work at the ex-
pected pace this year
due to the COVID-19
pandemic. —PTI

NEWSLUCKNOW | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath will in-
augurate the ‘Kailash
Mansarovar Bhawan’
in Ghaziabad district
on Saturday, officials
said.
The inauguration of
the building, construct-
ed in Shakti Khand-4 in
Indirapuram, was pre-
viously scheduled on
December 13.
However, on Wednes-
day night, it was decid-
ed that the event will
now be held around 5
pm on December 12,
District Magistrate
Ajay Shankar Pandey
told PTI.
Ghaziabad MP Gen
(retd) V K Singh, Uttar
Pradesh Health Minis-
ter Atul Garg and dis-
trict officials took stock
of the preparedness
on Thursday, the DM
said.
Built over 9,000
square meters and cost-
ing around Rs 70 crore,
the ‘Bhawan’ can ac-
commodate 300 Kailash
Mansarovar pilgrims.
The foundation stone
for the building was
laid by Adityanath in
August last year.
The chief minister
had expressed the hope
that the building would
be a major tourist at-
traction centre. —PTI
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Nandgopal
Gupta Nandi, the Civil
Aviation Minister in Ut-
tar Pradesh govern-
ment, held a review
meeting with higher of-
ficials of the Civil Avia-
tion Department in his
legislative assembly of-
fice on Thursday.
In the meeting, the
minister directed that
flights to other cities
should be started under
the Regional Connectiv-
ity Scheme, in view of
the increasing trend of
people opting for air
travel.
In the meeting, it was
decided to start an air
service from Lucknow
to Bareilly, Varanasi,
Hindon and Prayagraj.
Special Secretary
and Director Civil Avia-
tion Department Suren-
dra Singh gave detailed
information about the
progress and plans for
Lucknow, Varanasi,
Gorakhpur, Kanpur,
Prayagraj, Agra and
Hindon as well as other
airports.
Nandi said in the
meeting that if air ser-
vice starts from Hindon
Airport to Prayagraj
and Lucknow then it
will prove to be very
useful for the people
and a milestone for the
entire state in terms of
development.
Talks will be held
with airlines and DGCA
for the air service from
Hindon to Prayagraj
and Lucknow.
Apart from Varanasi,
development of tour-
ism in nearby cities was
also discussed in the
meeting. It was decided
to connect Varanasi
Airport with the Re-
gional Connectivity
Scheme to promote
tourism.
There is not a single
flight service from Vara-
nasiairporttotheregion-
al level yet. Under which
it was decided to start air
service from Varanasi to
Lucknow,Bareillyaswell
as other cities.
The minister said
that Lucknow Airport
has been given to Ada-
ni Enterprises on a
lease of 50 years by
the Central Govern-
ment.
Come Republic Day next year, Ram Temple
model on tableau will roll down Rajpath
First India Bureau
Lucknow: A model of
Ayodhya’s Ram Temple
will be displayed on tab-
leau of Uttar Pradesh at
the Rajpath in New Del-
hi on January 26, 2021.
Besides the temple,
the tableau, titled ‘Ayod-
hya: Cultural Heritage
of Uttar Pradesh’, will
also depict the culture,
tradition, art and depic-
tion of Ayodhya and
Lord Ram in different
countries.
Ever since the start
of the construction of
the long-awaited temple
on the birthplace of
Lord Ram started, Ayo-
dhya is increasingly be-
coming a major centre
of religious tourism.
The Yogi government
of Uttar Pradesh is aim-
ing to turn Ayodhya
into global centre of re-
ligious tourism. The
decision to highlight
the temple in the tab-
leau for the Republic
Day parade is part of
that goal.
The proposal sent
from Uttar Pradesh was
approved during the
meeting held in Delhi
regarding the tableaus
for the Republic Day pa-
rade.
State Information Di-
rector Shishir attended
the meeting which was
held recently.
Representation of
Uttar Pradesh’s Cul-
tural Heritage:
Each year on Repub-
lic Day, a parade at Raj-
path in Delhi is held to
highlight the unique-
ness and diversity of
India’s various states.
Uttar Pradesh, which
is rich in religious and
cultural heritage, also
participates in it.
This time the Infor-
mation Department
will decorate the tab-
leau of Ayodhya in the
Republic Day parade,
which is soon to become
a major attraction of
the country and will
also represent the cul-
tural heritage of UP.
Gorgeous Deepot-
sav in Ayodhya:
Uttar Pradesh Chief
anath has started a
mammoth campaign
for the restoration of
culture. Ayodhya is be-
ing rejuvenated under
this campaign. For the
first time in history, a
grand festival called
Deepotsav was started
in Ayodhya in the year
2018. During this year’s
Deepotsav, some world
records were also made.
This time a glimpse
of Deepotsav will also
be shown at the Repub-
lic Day parade in New
Delhi.
Social Harmony:
Maryada Purushot-
tam Lord Ram present-
ed a unique example of
social harmony during
the Vanagman. He em-
braced Nishadraj,
blessed Kewat and ate
the offerings by Shabri.
During his exile, Lord
Ram initiated the aboli-
tion of the caste system.
These scenes will also
be seen in the Republic
Day parade.
Staging of Uninter-
rupted Ramlila:
Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanathhasresumed
the staging of a continu-
ous Ramlila in Ayodhya.
It has also provided em-
ployment to about 600
artists. To keep Ramlila
staged throughout the
year, the Uttar Pradesh
government has invited
committees associated
with the staging of Ram-
lila from all over the
country and has given
them an opportunity to
connect with Ayodhya.
CM Adityanath condemns attack
on Nadda’s convoy in West Bengal
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minis-
ter Yogi Adityanath
condemned the attack
on the convoy of
Bharatiya Janata Par-
ty (BJP) national presi-
dent JP Nadda in West
Bengal.
Describing it as a
symbol of frustration
stemming from the
Trinamool Congress’
likely defeat in the up-
coming elections, he
said that immediate
action should be taken
against the perpetra-
tors.
On Thursday, Adity-
anath tweeted that at-
tack on Nadda’s con-
voy is unforgivable
and condemnable.
Nadda’s convoy was
pelted with stones
when he was on his
way to Diamond Har-
bour. BJP leader
Kailash Vijayvargiya’s
car was also pelted, but
he escaped narrowly.
TMC activists have
been accused of as-
saulting the convoy
with sticks and sticks.
Nadda is in Kolkata
on a two-day visit as
the state heads to as-
sembly elections.
The Bengal BJP also
wrote a letter to Union
Home Minister Amit
Shah expressing con-
cern over Nadda’s safe-
ty. The party accused
the West Bengal Police
of being negligent in
protecting their na-
tional president.
Yogi to inaugurate
‘Kailash Mansarovar
Bhawan’ on Saturday
Air services from Lucknow
to Prayagraj, Bareilly,
Varanasi, Ghaziabad soon
Nandgopal Gupta Nandi
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
GHAZIABAD DATE WITH CM
GANGA PUJAN
Priests perform Ganga Pujan ahead of the Magh Mela festival, at Sangam in Prayagraj on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI
Besides the temple, the tableau, titled ‘Ayodhya:
Cultural Heritage of Uttar Pradesh’, will also
depict the culture, tradition, art and depiction of
Ayodhya and Lord Ram in different countries
PANCHATANTRA
VAN TO DELIGHT
KIDS AT RAJ
BHAVAN!
The lush green
gubernatorial precincts
of the Raj Bhavan would
soon have a visual delight
for visitors especially
children in the form of the
fabled ‘Panchatantra Van’
(garden). Taking a leaf from
the iconic anthology of
time immemorial children’s
storybook, the Yogi
Adityanath Government
has decided to recreate the
aura on 2.5 hectares of land
inside the Raj Bhavan. Work
on the project is expected
to commence from
December 15, according
to divisional forest officer
Ravi Kumar and would
be completed by 2021. A
presentation of what all
the garden will have was
done in the Raj Bhavan and
the garden will have rare
3D models of flora and
fauna and animals. The
Panchatantra translates
into ‘Five Treatises” and
is said to have been
authored by scholar Vishnu
Sharma. “The Panchatantra
stories were the taste of
our childhood. They were
simple and conveyed
human values and teach-
ings like kindness, fairness
and honesty etc, which we
easily imbibed,” said Kumar
adding that the theme
inside the garden would
depict these traditional
values and culture to
children. —M Tariq Khan
PRIYANKA IN
SAFFRON SAREE!
Uttar Pradesh politics is
much more unpredictable
than any Bollywood potboiler.
Congress party which was
virtually on silent mode for
quite some time now, all of
a sudden not only vibrated
but in one move got phones
of many influential buzzing.
The political corridors are
abuzz with discussions about
a cut out of Priyanka Gandhi
Vadra who holds the reins of
party affairs in UP. The cut
out placed at UPCC office has
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra draped
in a saffron saree. Now saffron
clothes are the trademark
of UP CM Adityanath so
the cut out is becoming the
source of many political
theories and prophecies. All
political pundits are trying
to brainstorm the political
equations for 2022 from
the saffron saree image.
Is Congress trying to cut
diamond with a diamond? Will
the strategy of using saffron
as a weapon against ultimate
saffron brand ambassador
work?
—Vishal Srivastav
CANACCOMMODATE
300 PILGRIMS
z Ghaziabad MP
Gen (retd) V K Singh,
Uttar Pradesh Health
Minister Atul Garg and
district officials took
stock of the prepared-
ness on Thursday, the
DM said.
z Built over 9,000
square metres and
costing around Rs 70
crore, the ‘Bhawan’
can accommodate 300
Kailash Mansarovar
pilgrims.

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First India Bureau
Prayagraj: The Alla-
habad High Court has
said that under no cir-
cumstances can an em-
ployee’s gratuity be
stopped. Even if the de-
cree passed by the Court
or in any other way
provestheliabilityof the
employee, gratuity can-
not be attached to his re-
imbursement.
Theorderwasgivenby
adivisionbenchof Chief
Justice Govind Mathur
and Justice Piyush Ag-
garwal on the petition of
bank employee Bhudev
Trivedi on Wednesday.
The Court directed the
bank to make the pay-
ment within 15 days,
terming it illegal to stop
the payment of gratuity
to bank employees, who
becameguarantorswhen
the company’s account
was NPA (Non Perform-
ing Asset).
Thepetitionerwasthe
guarantor for the Jai Go-
palInterPrize.Whenthe
company’s account be-
came NPA, the bank
withheld the gratuity of
the petitioner on retire-
ment on the basis that
the guarantor also has
the responsibility. The
bench said that there is a
provision in the service
manual of the petitioner
onthebasisof whichgra-
tuity cannot be stopped.
There is no provision to
stop gratuity even in the
Paymentof GratuityAct.
Further, gratuity cannot
be attached under sub-
section (1) clause (g) of
section 60 of the Code of
Civil Procedure.
First India Bureau
New Delhi: As many
as 22 IRS officers from
2012 to 2014 batches
have been appointed as
Deputy Directors in
Enforcement Directo-
rate (ED).
The officers are:
Vikrant Bangotra, Ri-
cha Jaiswal, Amit Ku-
mar, Yogesh Kumar,
Mallikarjun V Mamani,
Manish Kumar Yadav,
Prakash Chaudhary,
Bhanu Priya Meena,
Manoj Mittal, Abhijit
Kumar Gautam, Divya
Vashishtha, Sudhakar
Verma, Pugalia Chan-
dan Rajendra, Vikas K,
Arjun Singh, Chandra
Mohan Singh, Kamal
Deep, Money Jain, Pan-
kaj Jha, Ajit Kumar
Nirala, Avinash Par-
ashar and Purna Kam
Singh.
The official said due
to the new faceless
manner of tax calcula-
tion and collection,
role of tax assessors
has lost its appeal for
many IRS officers. To-
day, face to face inter-
action with taxpayers
happens only in units
like Transfer Pricing,
International Taxation
and Central Circle.
Thus, IRS officers are
seeking deputation in
more challenging agen-
cies such as the ED.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Kaushal
Kishore, the MP from
Mohanlalganj, has
written a letter to Chief
anath alleging corrup-
tion in the cooperative
department of the
state.
In his letter, Kishore
has accused Additional
Chief Secretary, Coop-
eratives, M.V.S. Rami
Reddy and all the man-
aging directors and of-
ficers of the depart-
ment of indulging in
large-scale irregulari-
ties of government
funds.
He has made 15 alle-
gations in his letter to
the chief minister.
Talking to the media,
Kishore said that he has
complained to the CM
about the alleged cor-
ruption.
Additional Chief Sec-
retary Reddy called the
allegations baseless
and said that it is a con-
spiracy against him. He
alleged that Under Sec-
retary Ashok Kumar
and other people of the
department want to tar-
nish his image.
Ahtesham Siddiqui
Lucknow: TwoIPSoffic-
ers of the Uttar Pradesh
cadre have themselves
become “wanted” in
their state for corrup-
tion-related cases.
Both the officers have
now been declared ab-
sconding and non-baila-
ble warrants against
them have been issued
now. On Thursday, the
Lucknow court
issued a non-bailable
warrantagainstthedep-
uty inspector general
(DIG) of PAC, Agra,
Arvind Sen (2013 batch)
who is wanted in a cor-
ruption case.
The warrant was is-
sued after the Alla-
habad HC rejected his
plea to quash FIR
against him. He is ac-
cused of calling a com-
plainant to his office
and threatening him at
the behest of the mas-
termind of the Animal
Husbandry scam. Sen
was suspended in Au-
gust on charges of
cheating and forgery.
Sen hails from Faizabad
and is the son of former
MP, late Mitrasen Ya-
dav.
Another suspended
IPS officer, Mahoba SP
Mani Lal Patidar, was
declared as proclaimed
offender by the Luc-
know court as he has
been absconding in the
death case of 44-year-old
businessman Indra
Kant Tripathi in Sep-
tember. The govern-
ment had initially an-
nounced a reward of Rs
25,000 on Patidar, which
was later increased to
Rs 50,000.
Sources in the Home
Department claim that
this is the first time in
the history of the state
when strict action is be-
ing taken against senior
police officials on the
instructions of the CM.
Not thieves, this time cops on the run in UP
GOVT’S BLAZING GUNS
Arvind Sen, Mani Lal Patidar ‘wanted’
in corruption and criminal cases
Suspended IPS officers Arvind Sen and Mani Lal Patidar
BRUMAL CHARM
While the evenings remained clear and pleasant in Lucknow, dense fog reduced visibility during the
night. In the pic, the Ambedkar Park looks hazy during a shot taken by our lensman Sumit Kumar.
First India Bureau
PRAYAGRAJ: The Al-
lahabad High Court
has asked the Election
Commission of India
(ECI) to reply to a pe-
tition on alleged mis-
use of election sym-
bols by political par-
ties as their logo and
for freezing or with-
drawal of lotus as the
BJP logo since it is
the national flower.
The bench compris-
ing Chief Justice Go-
vind Mathur and Jus-
tice Piyush Agrawal
passed the order on
Wednesday on a PIL
filed by Gorakhpur resi-
dent Kali Shankar.
Counsel for petitioner
said lotus is the national
flower and is also visible
in various government
websites. Therefore, no
political party can be al-
lowedtouseitasitssym-
bolasitinfluencesvoters
and gives the party un-
due advantage, he said.
According to the
counsel, the life of elec-
tion symbols is only for
a specific election and a
political party cannot
use the same as its logo.
According to petitioner,
if the parties were per-
mitted to use election
symbols perpetually,
and for purposes other
than elections, that
would be unjust to Inde-
pendent candidates or
those who are not affili-
ated with recognised
parties as they get fresh
symbols before each
election.
The PIL asserts that
under the Representa-
tion of People Act as
well as under the Elec-
tion Symbols (Reserva-
tion & Allotment) Order,
1968 (Order of 1968), the
concept of election sym-
bols is applicable only
for the purpose of elec-
tions and such symbols
cannot be used as a logo
of any party.
The counsel appear-
ing for ECI sought some
time to examine the en-
tireissueandfileareply.
The court also direct-
ed the counsel for the
petitioner to implead
other national political
parties as a respondents
in the petition.
On April 4, 2019, ECI
had rejected an appli-
cation by the petitioner
that sought freezing or
withdrawal of the lo-
tus as the election sym-
bol of the BJP. The pe-
titioner has now moved
the high court, seeking
quashing of the rejec-
tion order and direc-
tions to the ECI to is-
sue fresh guidelines for
use of political sym-
bols in accordance
with the law.
The court fixed Janu-
ary 12 as the next date of
hearing in the case.
Chief Election Commissioner of India Sunil Arora. (R) Allahabad High Court —FILE PHOTO
High Court —FILE PHOTO
MP Kaushal Kishore
HC seeks reply from EC on PIL
allegingmisuse of poll symbols
Petition urges withdrawal of Lotus as the BJP logo since it is the national flower
Contact campaign: Priyanka
to criss cross state in January
HC directs bank to pay
employee’s gratuity
22 IRS officers appointed
as deputy directors in ED
MP accuses ACS
Reddy of corruption
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Congress
General Secretary Pri-
yanka Gandhi Vadra
could launch a large
scale contact campaign
for the people before the
Panchayat elections in
Uttar Pradesh.
Party sources on
Thursday said that Pri-
yanka could camp in UP
in the second fortnight
of January. She will
tour the areas division-
wise under her contact
campaign and apart
from conducting a
meeting with the work-
ers and office-bearers
of that areas from 10
AM to 5 PM to ascertain
the grievances of the
rurals.
She will also review
the party’s situation in
the area.
Sources said that the
Congress General Sec-
retary will communi-
cate with the villagers
at a ‘chaupal’ in the des-
ignated area between 6
PM to 10 PM while she
will have dinner at the
house of any common
worker or an ordinary
villager.
Sources said the re-
sults of the recently
concluded Assembly by-
elections have been en-
couraging for the party.
Even though the party
could not register vic-
tory at any seat but
while it finished second
at Bangarmau and-
Ghatampur Assembly
seats, there was an in-
crease in the vote per-
centage in all seven
seats.
Sources said that the
national and state-level
leaders and office-bear-
ers of the party are
regularly touring the
rural areas and are in-
forming the villagers
about the party’s poli-
cies through communi-
cation.
This campaign will
continue till the
Panchayat polls and
Assembly polls to be
held in the year 2022.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra with President of the Uttar Pradesh Congress
Committee Ajay Kumar Lallu —FILE PHOTO

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The Anchors are the stars of
the channel and it is a highly
sought after designation,
Syed Umar, Senior Editor
First India News shares
some tips on what is needed
to become a news anchor!
s a child which one of us hasn’t
lookedinthemirrorandpractised
speaking like a news anchor?
The anchors are the face of the
channel and it is the most sought
aftercareerintheworldof media.
When we look at what are the
basic requirements for being a news an-
chorthengoodlooksandaphotogenicface
tops the list.
Anchors are supposed to be
well-groomed overall
and ensure this 24×7.
The second most
important part is
the voice and good
command over the
language. An anchor should have a pleas-
ant voice along with 100% correct pro-
nunciation.
Nowcomesthemostimportantpartand
that is awareness of current affairs, espe-
ciallypolitics.Getintothehabitof reading
newspapersregularlyandIdomeannews-
papers in the plural. An anchor must ab-
sorb different points of view and be totally
neutral.
Another key factor is good communica-
tion skills, news anchors handle debates
and guests during the bulletins too so they
must possess good communication skills
which include non-verbal communica-
tion skills expressions, tone and pitch.
Remember this is not a one-time effort.
News has to be the lifeline of the anchors
and one also needs to be a good listener.
Another very important factor is the
presenceof mind,ananchorhastobealert
as they are expected to take up the news
without any pre-information at times. A
seasoned anchor assesses the news and is
immediately able to sift through and start
relaying the key information to the view-
ers within seconds. With a high level of
newsworthyawareness,goodanchorscues
in with the correct questions bringing out
all aspects of the news. At the same time,
they make sure that their own team mem-
ber the reporter who is on the ground he is
comfortable with the questions.
One also needs to be physically fit to be
an anchor, not just slim but also fit to han-
dle the long bulletins, be confident and
speakforhoursatastretchwithoutfatigue
settling in and have a healthy lifestyle
which ensures that one looks radiant on
screen.
SYED UMAR
syed.umar@firstindianews.com
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LEO
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
Your bargaining skills will
come in handy for
negotiating a lucrative deal
on the business front. You
will manage to complete a project left
halfway by someone else. You will
need to be punctual in an exercise
routine that you have adopted. Your
near and dear ones may visit you.
LIBRA
SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22
You will manage to curtail
expenditure by instituting
some austerity measures.
Burden of work at the
office is likely to be shared. Health of
those ailing improves. Someone on
the family front may need your
support, but may be reluctant to
approach you, so remain available.
ARIES
MAR 21 - APR 20
Good rent can be expected
from a property you own.
Avoid taking things lightly
on the work front. Taking
up a fitness regimen will help keep
you fit and energetic. You may be
organising a family gathering just to
be able to meet your near and dear
ones. A fun trip is in the offing.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV 23 - DEC 22
Retailers and service
providers will find their cash
registers ringing. An
excellent phase starts for
you both personally and professionally.
A new exercise regimen may be taken
up by some. Family interest comes first
for you, and you will not hesitate to
relegate other issues.
GEMINI
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
Financially, you will be able
to secure your position by
curbing wasteful expendi-
ture. You can expect appre-
ciation from least expected quarters
on the work front. Keeping health-
conscious people around you will
prove a good idea, as it will automati-
cally help you maintain health.
AQUARIUS
JAN 21 - FEB 19
Taking up a fitness regimen
will help keep you fit and
energetic. You manage to tie
up all the loose ends at work
and retain your peace of mind. You will
succeed in stemming wasteful
expenditure by tightening your purse
strings. A family member may become
too demanding.
TAURUS
APR 21 - MAY 20
You are likely to up your
earning and strengthen
your financial front. A
break from a tedious job
will be most welcome. Some of you
may make a few changes in your
lifestyle just to retain good health.
Spending more time is likely to have
a favourable effect on your family.
CAPRICORN
DEC 23 - JAN 20
A donation can be
expected by those running
an organisation. A change
of priorities on the
professional front may find
unfinished work piling up. Bringing
health into focus is possible for some
and will benefit immensely. A leisure
drive will work wonders.
VIRGO
AUG 24 - SEP 23
Money will not be a
problem anymore as you
start to earn well. You will
make the correct decision
of hiring someone for work. Health
remains excellent, as you become a
fitness buff. A family youngster may
rebel and upset you. Singles are
likely to mingle and enjoy.
CANCER
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
Keeping home expenses to
a minimum may prove to
be an uphill task. A tactful
approach may be required
to get through some work at the
office front. An old ailment shows all
signs of disappearing for good.
Meeting your near and dear ones is
likely to give you happiness.
PISCES
FEB20 - MARCH 20
Salary and perks curtailed
previously are likely to be
restored. You will be more
than willing to improve
your performance today. Efforts on
the fitness front will bear fruit. A
suitable matrimonial match for
someone eligible in the family can be
expected.
SCORPIO
OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22
Businesspersons are likely
to do good business today
and earn well. A worrisome
phase on the health front is
all but over, so enjoy this new lease
of healthy life! Professional front
may seem a bit hectic today for
some. You may feel fatigued and
tired.
YOUR
DAYHoroscope by
Saurabbh Sachdeva
Holistic Healing with
Aromatherapy
he smell of night Jas-
mine makes me nos-
talgic as the heady
fragrance reminds me
of the many summer
evenings spent play-
ing in the yard. The
comforting smell of my moth-
ers perfume makes me happy
and brings a smile to my face.
The smell of my fathers cook-
ing not only makes me hungry
but also makes me salivate.
Thus it must be noted that the
nose and sense of smell can
trigger an emotional as well as
a motor response.
Odors take a direct route to
the limbic system, which oper-
ates by influencing the endo-
crine system and the autonom-
ic nervous system. The prima-
ry structures within the limbic
system include the Amygdala
- the emotion center of the
brain, and the Hippocampus,
which plays an essential role in
the formation of new memo-
ries about past experiences. It
is on this scientific code that
Aromatherapy operates. Aro-
matherapy is a holistic healing
system using essential oils.
It is believed that essential
oils can heal almost all physi-
cal as well as mental ailments.
Humans have used aromather-
apy for thousands of years. An-
cient cultures in China, India,
Egypt, and elsewhere incorpo-
rated aromatic plant compo-
nents in resins, balms, and oils.
Studies show promising re-
sults in emotional relief, beau-
ty and environmental cleans-
i n g
with the use of essential oils.
Essential oils can be consumed
via smell or skin absorption.
They have a very fine molecu-
lar structure that allows deep
absorption right to the fatty
layer of the skin through
which it is circulated. These
oils must always be used on the
skin along with carrier oils,
usually cold pressed vegetable
oils to form a barrier on the
skin and provide lubrication
for the essential oil applica-
tion.
A good carrier oil for the
body is Almond oil, for the hair
is a combination of 1 table-
spoon Olive oil along with 1
teaspoon Castor oil and for the
face Grape seed oil or Jojoba
oil (specially the local variety
of Jojoba oil growing in Ra-
jasthan). Castor in particular
has the great ability of rejuve-
nation and cell regeneration.
Essential oils can be used
with the help of diffusers, aro-
matic spritzers, inhalers, bath-
ing salts, body oils, creams, or
lotions for massage or topical
application, facial steamers,
hot and cold compresses or
clay masks. It has an array of
benefits as well including pain
management, improved sleep
quality, reduce stress, agita-
tion, and anxiety, alleviate side
effects of chemotherapy, ease
discomforts of labor, fight bac-
teria, virus, or fungus and im-
prove digestion.
A few recipes to use essen-
tial oils and aromatherapy
As a mosquito repellent –
Mineral oil (100ml) + Citron-
ella / Geranium / Lemongrass
10 drops + lavender 5 drops
Can be applied directly onto
the skin after a patch test
To unwind at the end of a
long day – 5 drops Neroli + 5
drops Sandalwood in a diffuser
Relaxation and anti fatigue
(as a massage oil) – 2 drops
Rosemary + 1 drop peppermint
+ 2 drops Neroli or Orange
blossom + 100ml of carrier oil
(Almond oil, Grape seed oil or
Apricot oil in the winter)
For migraine relief – 1 drop
Basil + 1 drop clary sage + 1
drop peppermint (if it is trig-
gered due to sinus then add 1
drop Eucalyptus oil Mixed
with a carrier oil of choice.
General guidelines while us-
ing essential oil –
I Do not use while pregnant
with the exception of Flow-
er oils
I Do not use while taking Ho-
meopathy as it reduces the
potency
I If used directly onto the
skin without carrier oils it
can cause burning of the
skin. Always do a patch test
before application
I Test for purity – apply a lit-
tle on a piece of paper and
dry it, the oil should not
leave a stain on the paper.
DEVYANI SINGH
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
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