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53.54% voter turnout in 1st phasePatna: Over 53 per cent voter turnout has been recorded till 5 PM in the first phase of Bihar as-sembly polls on Wednes-day, the Election Com-mission said in its provi-sional data.

Voting ended at 6 PM.A total of 71 assembly

segments of the state’s 243 constituencies voted in the first phase in which nearly 2.15 crore voters were to decide the electoral fate of over 1,000 candidates.

Voter turnout was low in the beginning, but it progressed with the time everywhere notwith-standing raging corona-virus cases in the state.

As per the voter turn-out data updated by the Election Commission at 6 PM, 53.54 per cent of the total electorates have exercised their franchise.

The 71 constituencies are spread across 16 dis-tricts. The maximum 55.95 per cent turnout has been recorded in Kaimur, followed by

55.44 per cent in Lakh-isarai, Buxar (53.84 per cent), Bhagalpur (52.16 per cent) and Patna (51.02 per cent) among others.

Union minister and senior BJP leader Giriraj Singh cast his vote at a polling booth in Lakh-isarai, while former Bi-

har chief minister and HAM president Jitan Ram Manjhi exercised his franchise at a booth in Gaya.

State ministers and also candidates from dif-ferent constituencies- Vi-jay Sinha and Krishnan-dan Verma- and com-monwealth games gold

medal winning shooter Shreyasi Singh, BJP nominee from Jamui seat, cast their vote.

Enthusiasm of voters was seen at many a booth. In Nawada, a physically challenged voter reached booth on his tricycle to cast his vote. In Dinana assembly

constituency, a group of women expressed happi-ness after exercising franchise. Polling time was curtailed in the nax-al-affected areas.

Out of the 71 constitu-encies, 35 are in naxal-hit areas where polling was conducted in a stag-gered manner.

Voters, adhering to social distancing norms, stand in queues outside a polling station to cast their votes for the first phase of Bihar Assembly Elections, at Paliganj constituency in Patna on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY PTI

Darbhanga: In a veiled attack at Congress and other Opposition par-ties, Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi on Wednes-day said that those who used to ask us about the date of Ram temple con-struction are now com-pelled to applaud.

Addressing a poll ral-ly here, the Prime Min-ister said that the peo-ple of Bihar have taken a resolve to again defeat those who brought ‘jun-gle raj’ to the state, those who looted Bihar.

“After years of wait, the construction of Ram temple has start-ed. Those political peo-ple who used to ask us for a date (for temple construction) are now compelled to applaud... It is the identity of BJP and NDA. We do what we promise,” he said.

“People of Bihar have taken a resolve to again defeat those who brought ‘jungle raj’ in the state, those who

looted Bihar. These are the people under whose government crime was rampant in the state. They did corruption in money meant for loan waiver. NDA has taken

a resolve to make Bihar self-reliant, while on the other side are peo-ple who are eyeing mon-ey which will come for development projects in Bihar,” he added.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election meeting in Darbhanga on Wednesday.

PM: Who used to ask date of Ram temple now applauding

MODI’S ‘JUNGLE YUVRAJ’ JIBEPM Modi attacked RJD leader and Mahagathband-han chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav by calling him the “yuvraaj” (crown prince) of “jungle raj”. Asking voters to beware of those responsible for ‘jungle raj’ in the state, PM Modi said.

Mohd Fahad

New Delhi: CEC Sunil Arora chose to share his impromptu thoughts, as to how ECI felt after the completion of the first phase of elections to the state as-sembly of Bihar with the media, before Umesh Sinha Secretary General, Chandra Bhushan and other sen-ior officials had a de-tailed interaction with them.

Sunil Arora started by saying that we al-ways vouch for free, fair, ethical and trans-parent elections but this time we added ‘safe’ elections to our aim, ‘safe’ because of this ongoing pandemic. “At times, the ECI was de-motivated by comments on why are we holding

the elections during COVID19 but ECI was of the view, which I ar-ticulated in the opening press conference of Bi-har Elections at Gyan Bhavan on September 25 and later at Patna on October 1, that for the Election Commission of India the Bihar Elec-tions are a ‘leap of faith’ not a ‘leap into the dark”, added CEC Aro-ra.

Senior officials in the EC, who themselves were taken by surprise, said without being quoted, this prefatory statement of CEC was probably prompted by the peculiar situation of holding elections in a state with 7.29 crore electorate under the shadow of pandemic 19 when there was no dearth of skeptics and

cynics. The Election Commission has been enthused by the mas-sive participation of

the electorate of Bihar who have reaffirmed their faith in electoral process of India, to

whom CEC Arora expressed the grateful-ness of the Commis-sion.

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora speaking during the virtual press conference.

Well done, Mr. Chief Election CommissionerDr Anita

New Delhi/Patna: Conducting world’s biggest election in the times of corona pan-demic is no mean task, as it still isn’t over as two phases of polling in Bihar is left. But go-ing by the way the first phase is conduct-ed not just peacefully, but also in compliance with Covid guidelines, the Election Commis-sion headed by Chief Election Commission-er Sunil Arora cer-tainly needs a pat on

the back.The voter turnout

of around 54 per cent shows not just the peo-ple’s confidence in the democratic frame-work, but also im-mense trust on its torchbearer - EC.

It is the result of tremendous home-work on the ground doubled up with CEC Arora’s multiple vis-its to the poll-bound state that the election has started on a posi-tive note.

Bihar Elections were a ‘leap of faith’ not a ‘leap in the dark’: CEC

No extension to Swarup, search on for next CS!Aditi Nagar

New Delhi: While there is some clarity on the appointment of Di-rector General of Po-lice for Rajasthan, sad-ly suspense looms large on the service exten-sion proposal for Chief Secretary Rajeeva Swarup since till Wednesday night, the Government of India (GoI) did not take any final call on the matter. In fact, according to a highly reliable input, the proposal of the state government was

not even processed and was kept in the prover-bial ‘cold bag’.

On the contrary, Ta-mil Nadu Chief Secre-tary K. Shanmugam, who also belongs to same batch as Rajeeva Swarup (1985), was giv-en extension two weeks back. There are uncon-firmed reports that such ‘favors’ are not be-ing granted to Con-gress ruled states like Rajasthan and Chattis-garh where also the current CS is likely to retire next month but CM Bhupesh Bhagel is

keeping a close watch on Rajasthan ‘develop-ment’ before making any extension request to the GoI.

Even though CS Swarup was in New Delhi on Wednesday to attend a meeting in UPSC, but sources claim that there was no ‘action’ in the DOPT and PMO pertaining to his service extension.

It is learnt that in the last attempt Rajeeva, also met one top official in South block but there were no positive indications. Turn to P8Rajeeva Swarup Veenu GuptaUsha Sharma

SMRITI TESTS POSITIVE

DU V-C SUSPENDED

New Delhi: Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday tested corona positive. “It is rare for me to search for words while making announce-ment; hence keeping it simple - I’ve tested positive for #COVID and request those who came in con-tact with me to get tested,” she wrote.

New Delhi: The Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi has been suspended on President Ram Nath Kovind’s orders on Wednesday, amid a major row over appointments that spawned an ugly power tussle. The President also allowed the inquiry against the V-C.

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First phase of crucialmunicipal polls today

BJP leaders meet Jpr police head, seek fair polls

Cong members join BJP ahead of panchayat pollsBJP also expelled 12 more of its workers for anti-party activities by supporting the rebel candidates. The party expelled them for six years

Shivendra Pramar

Jaipur: The stage is all set for the first phase of Municipal Corporation Elections in Jaipur, Kota, and Jodhpur where the polling will begin at 7.30 am on Thursday amid tight security ar-rangements.

The first phase of polling will be held on October 29 at Jaipur Heritage, Jodhpur North, and Kota North Municipal Corpora-tions where over 16.54 lakh voters will cast their votes to elect 250 ward councilors.

There are 951 candi-dates in the fray in the three municipal cor-porations going to polls in the first phase.

Polling will be held from 7.30 am to 5.30 pm in 100 wards of Jaipur Heritage, 80 wards of Jodhpur north, and 250 wards of Kota north, and counting will take place on 3 November.

A total of 2761 poll-ing booths have been set up in the first phase where polling will take place as per the guideline related to covid-19.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The BJP lead-ers met Jaipur police commissioner Anand Srivastava and ap-pealed to him to ensure free and fair municipal corporation elections. The polling for the first phase of the election would be held on Thurs-day. Former state presi-dent Ashok Parnami, former cabinet minis-ters Arun Chaturvedi, Vasudev Devnani, BJP state secretary Jitendra Gothwal, former MLA Mohan Gupta and Surendra Pareek met

the commissioner at the latter’s office. The lead-ers alleged that the posters and banners of their candidates were being removed while the same was not hap-pening with the Con-

gress candidates.Later in a press confer-ence, Chaturvedi ac-cused the Congress of trying to win the mu-nicipal elections through conspiracy from the day one.

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Jaipur: The State election commission on Wednesday issued notices to Jaipur col-lector and district election officer for ac-tion on a news report that transport minis-ter Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and Rajsamand MP Diya Kumari held crowded poll rallies in viola-tion of the Covid-19 guidelines. The com-mission has sought an action taken re-port from the officer by 3 on October 30. The commission took

cognisance of the news report and pho-tos in a vernacular. Section 144 of the CrPC is enforced in municipal areas in wake of the coronavi-rus protocol and no gatherings or crowd-ed rallies are allowed during this time.

The commission has mentioned in its letter that in Unlock-5 Guidelines, political meetings, rallies, etc. have also been banned. The commis-sion has also mandat-ed that only five peo-ple could go for cam-paigning at a time.

Commission seeks action against leaders for Covid-19 violations

Aishwary Pradhan

Jaipur: More than 35 Congress leaders and workers including PCC secretary Satyanarayan Singhal joined the Bharatiya Janta Party on Wednesday ahead of panchayat polls. BJP state president Satish Poonia said that influ-enced by the idea of na-tionalism and develop-ment of Narendra Modi government, many prominent people of Congress have joined the BJP as it is not a party of a family but of all workers.

“Now Congress party is not the party of Ma-hatma Gandhi. It is now in reality Vadra Con-gress and the public of the country is disen-

chanted with this party,” he said when the Con-gress workers joined the saffron cadres.

Besides Singhal, for-mer pradhan of Bidasar Panchayat samiti of Churu Santosh Meghw-al, vice chairperson of

Deogarh nagar palika of Rajsamand Rekha Soni, senior leader of Deog-arh Ajay Soni, Dinesh Vaishnav, Kailash Garg, Naresh Panreri, Suresh Joshi, Hemraj Singh Sisodia,and Gulshan Negi also joined the BJP.

Poonia welcomed the new members in the presence of leader of opposition Gulab Chand Kataria, deputy leader of opposition Ra-jendra Rathore, Rajsa-mand MP Diya Kumari and others.

Poonia said that the new members would definitely strength the BJP’s political ideology and political activities in the coming times. Poonia said that during the 20 months rule of the Gehlot government, the development works of the panchayats have also come to a stand-still. He said the BJP would issue a Vision Document for panchay-at elections also and urge the public to throw out Congress rule.

The BJP also expelled 12 more of its workers for anti-party activities by supporting the rebel candidates. The party expelled them for six year as it had ealrier ex-pelled more than 35 party members.

Poonia welcomed the new members in the presence of leader of opposition Gulab Chand Kataria, deputy leader of opposition Rajendra Rathore, Rajsamand MP Diya Kumari and others.

BJP leaders Arun Chaturvedi, Ashok Parnami, Vasudev Devnani, Jitendra Gothwal, Mohan Gupta and Surendra Pareek met Jaipur police commissioner Anand Srivastava on Wednesday at his office.

‘No contender from my family for post of Mayor’ Yogesh Sharma

Jaipur: Chief Whip Mahesh Joshi on Wednesday clar-ified there is no contender from his family for the post of Mayor.

He said that elect-ed councillors will elect the Mayor in Jaipur heritage and Jaipur greater mu-nicipal corporations and there is no one from his family who is in the race for the

post of mayor.Joshi alleged that

BJP supported peo-ple who are circulat-ing a morphed video on social media in his name which is mis-leading and people should not pay heed to such attempts.

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Jaipur: Governor Kalraj Mishra called skill development among the youth along with awareness about the Constitution of the country as the big-gest need of the nation today.

Governor Mishra was speaking on the oc-casion of e-foundation laying ceremony of a Constitutional Park

and a Skill Develop-ment Centre at Ra-jasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences in Bikaner.

Mishra appealed to the University manage-ment to keep ‘self-de-pendent youth’ as the core thought behind the courses conducted by it.

Emphasizing upon the importance of the Constitutional Park es-tablished in the Univer-

sity, the Governor said that the Indian consti-tution describes the

democratic values the best in the world.

He expressed the con-

fidence that the Consti-tution Park would play an important role in making the students aware about their fun-damental rights & du-ties, directive princi-ples of State policy along with their duties towards the nation.

Governor also appre-ciated the role played by the University in conservation and de-velopment of indige-nous breeds of bovines.

Honing youth skills need of the hour: GuvALL FOR EDUCATION

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Rajsamand BJP MLA, Kiran Ma-heshwari has tested Co-rona positive. The MLA got herself tested after she experience some COVID-19 symptoms. Maheshwari informed her social circle by tak-ing onto social media and has isolated herself. Chittorgarh MP, Chan-dra Prakash Joshi has also tested corona posi-tive in a test report, which he received late on Tuesday night. All the district party work-ers and office bearers who had been in touch

with Joshi, were seen pensive after the report surfaced. It is being said that MP CP Joshi himself shared the news of his being diag-nosed coronavirus pos-itive on his Facebook page.

Meanwhile, the state government has extend-ed the imposition of section 144 from No-vember1 to November 18. their jurisdiction areas.

Rajasthan recorded 10 more fatalities due to the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, taking the COVID-19 death toll in the state to 1,877, ac-

cording to a health de-partment bulletin.

The state also report-ed 1,785 new cases on Wednesday. The total number of people in-fected by COVID-19 now stands at 1,91,629 in Ra-jasthan and out of these 15,708 are under treat-

ment.As per the bulletin,

1,74,044 people have been discharged after treatment till now.

In Jaipur, the death toll from the coronavi-rus infection is 368 till now, followed by 180 in Jodhpur, 138 each in Bi-

kaner and Ajmer, 116 in Kota, 93 in Bharatpur, 74 in Pali, 69 in Udaipur, 56 in Nagaur, 55 in Sikar and 54 in Alwar, 35 in Barmer and 29 each in Dholpur and Rajsa-mand, 28 in Jhunjhunu and 26 each in Ban-swara and Baran.

On Wednesday, Ra-jasthan recorded 1785 new Corona cases, in-cluding 331 in Jaipur, 280 in Bikaner, 177 in Jodhpur, 154 in Alwar, 113 in Sikar, 98 in Ajmer, 85 in Sriganganagar be-sides cases reported in other districts of the state, according to state govt’s health bulletin.

Satya Narayan Sharma

Jaipur: Forty-year-old, Ramesh Meena shocked the police on Wednesday afternoon, when he reached Muhana police station, wearing blood-stained clothes. He stood before the cops and con-fessed that he had killed a man in a fit of anger and was there to surren-der, the police said.

The police personnel were taken aback by the act but later questioned him and took to the crime spot.

Meena told the police that he lived in a room at Anand Vihar Exten-sion Colony and he killed a man Krishna Gadotia, 37, resident of Jaisinghpur in Shiv-daspura after an alter-cation over money ex-change. Gadotia was engaged in farming while Meena, also a resident of Jaisingh-pur, worked in a private firm.

SHO Hiralal Saini went to the spot and found the dead body ly-

ing in a pool of blood. The accused had ruth-lessly attacked the vic-tim on the neck and face with a sharp weapon. The dead body was kept at the mortuary of Ma-hatma Gandhi Hospital for postmortem.

ACP Mansarovar, Sanjeev Chaudhary said that Meena told the po-lice that he also be-longed to Jaisinghpur and victim Krishna was his neighbor. There have been disputes between them over money ex-change due to which Krishna had come to Meena’s place on Wednesday.

Police are also sus-pecting role of Meena’s

wife, Suman Lata and brother, Ramavatar in the murder. Both of them have escaped af-ter the incident. The police are questioning Meena about murder weapon.

First India Bureau

Shahpura: Outraged over the attack on and loot of Rs 5 lakh from a trader father-son duo on Tuesday night at Devpura Road tiraha in Shahpura town, the lo-cal traders closed the market and staged a sit-in protest at Pipli tira-ha on Wednesday. The protesters were angry as there was no clue of the accused on the sec-ond day.

BJP MP Rajyavard-han Rathore con-demned the incident and spoke to IG Jaipur range over the matter. He also talked to vic-tims’ family and as-sured them of proper action in the case. Con-gress leader Manish Yadav submitted a memorandum to Jaipur Rural SP Shankar Dutt Sharma, demanding ar-

rest of the accused. Three bike-borne uni-dentified miscreants had opened fire at Anil Kumar and his father Om Prakash and snatched a bag contain-ing cash of Rs 5 lakh. Anil sustained bullet injury in his foot while his father was injured when hit on the head, police said. The duo was rushed to a nearby hospital from where

they were referred to SMS hospital in Jaipur. Kotputli Additional SP Ramkumar Kaswan reached the protest site and assured that the ac-cused would be arrest-ed soon.

Police personnel from nearby police sta-tions also pacified the protesters. FSL team also picked up samples from the crime scene for examination.

First India Bureau

Jaipur/Gawalior: For-mer deputy CM of Ra-jasthan and senior Con-gress leader Sachin Pi-lot on Wednesday ap-pealed the voters to vote for Congress in the first phase of the Rajasthan Municipal Corporation scheduled to be held on October 29. “I appeal to all voters to vote in fa-vor of the Congress for the progress of their region and contribute

to the building of a prosperous and strong city,” he tweeted.

Reacting to Congress leaders terming BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia as ‘Gadda’ (trai-tor), Congress leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot on Wednesday said that everyone is free to decide which party they want to be in and the public ultimate-ly decides who is wrong or right.

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Jaipur: Health Minis-ter Dr Raghu Sharma said that the candidates and their supporters in the municipal corpora-tion polls should strict-ly follow the corona re-lated guidelines.

“Each voter should go to vote by wearing a mask in the first phase of election on October 29. He asked the voters to sanitise their hands prior to going to the polling centre and stand in the marked circles for voting or wait for their turn by maintaining so-cial distance,” he said.

He requested the peo-ple to give priority to senior citizens and per-sons with disabilities during voting. Dr Shar-ma said that wearing a mask is more effective than administering vac-cines and it reduces threat of infection up to 90%. He said that this time a law could be made in this regard in the Assembly.

No vaccine has been invented in to prevent corona, so in such a sit-uation mask is the best option, he said.

CP JOSHI, KIRAN MAHESHWARI TEST +VE; RAJASTHAN SEES 10 MORE DEATHS

Man reaches police station in bloodstained clothes after murder

Rambagh Golf Club polls: 39candidates in fray for 11 posts

Shahpura:Traders protestloot, attack on father-son duo

Everyone is free to decide which party they want to join: Sachin Pilot

Follow corona guidelines in MC polls, says Health min

AVINASH PANDE@avinashpandeincFor the development of Bihar, for the safety of Bihar, for the future of Bihar, go and vote. The Mahagathbandhan government will fulfi ll all the promises made to you and take Bihar on the path of pro-

gress. #VoteForCongress#VoteForMahagathbandhan

Sachin Pilot addresses public rally at Gohad in Bhind district.

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Jaipur: The Sangan-er Sadar police ar-rested on Wednesday, three friends on charges of killing an elderly man with an intention of taking his mobile phone to siphon off money from his digital wal-let account. The ac-cused had strangu-lated Ghanshyam Vaishnav on Monday and threw his body wrapped in a sack in the Sitapura Indus-trial area.

DCP South Manoj Chaudhary said that the arrested accused are Tej Singh Gurjar, 21, Aslam Khan, 19, and Abhishek alias Golu Sen, 21. All three are residents of Chandholi village

in Malarna Dungar, Sawai Madhopur dis-trict.

Gurjar is victim’s distant relative. During investiga-tion, the police came to know that on Oc-tober 22, the son and daughter-in-law of the victim had gone to the village. They had asked Gurjar to take care of Vaish-nav. It was during changing the pass-word of Vaishnav’s wallet account Pho-nePe that Gurjar no-ticed Rs 1.91 lakh in his bank account. Gurjar planned to loot the phone and involved his friends in this. When they failed to do so, the accused hatched a plan to kill Vaish-nav.

Man killed for PhonePe money, cops arrest three

Kalraj Mishra virtually inaugurates the Skill Development Centre at University of Veterinary Sciences, Bikaner on Wednesday.

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Jaipur: A total of 39 candidates have filed nominations for the election of the prestig-ious Rambagh Golf Club of Jaipur going to be held on November 7.

The process of filing nomination papers for 11 posts completed on Wednesday. Scrutiny will take place at 11 am on Thursday and nomi-nations can be with-drawn by October 31 .

Dr Ashok Gupta, who lost last elections, has once again filed nomi-

nation for the post of Captain. Rajiv Gandhi, Ajay Kochhar, Dr Ashok Kasliwal and Jaimal Singh have also filed nominations for this post.

Five nominations have been received for the post of Captain and Secretary each while seven people have filed nominations for the post of Treasurer. 9 claimants have filed nominations for two posts of joint secretary, 13 people filed nomina-tions for 6 executive member posts.

KIRAN MAHESHWARICP JOSHI

NOMINATIONS

CRIME SCENE

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Ramesh Meena

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Alwar: Opposition BJP has targeted Con-gress over the issue of alleged conversion of a Hindu man in Alwar saying such incidents

are on the rise but the CM is not bothered.

BJP state president Satish Poonia said that Memchand was forced to convert to Islam and was tortured which hints towards a planned conspiracy for conversion in the state and the country.

He said that a case of Love Jihad has come to light in Hary-ana and now the case

of conversion has come up, which is alarming.

“Crimes against women and girls are increasing in the en-tire state including Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota, incidents of loot, robbery and murder are also increasing continuously which the Chief Minister has failed to stop. It is clear that the state has be-

come a crime capital,” he said.

LoP Gulabchand Ka-taria has said that those who are involved in anti-national works, have been encouraged under Congress gov-ernance in the state. Such elements may further promote un-rest in the coming days, he added.

Deputy Leader of Opposition Rajendra

Rathore, Alwar MP Baba Balaknath, BJP state general secretary Madan Dilwar and other leaders also con-demned the incident and targeted the Con-gress government.

Satish PooniaRajendra Rathore

BJP attacks Cong over Conversion, alleges ‘conspiracy’

As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma. —Bhagavad Gita

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nlike the old su-perpower con-test between the United States and the

Soviet Union, the incipient cold war between China and the US does not reflect a fundamental conflict of unalterably opposed ideol-ogies. Instead, today’s Si-no-American rivalry is popularly portrayed as an epic battle between autoc-racy and democracy.

Moreover, the facts seem to suggest that autocracy has won while democracy has fallen flat on its face. Whereas the US under President Donald Trump has fumbled disastrously during the COVID-19 pan-demic, China has brought the coronavirus under con-trol. In the US, even wear-ing face masks has been politicized. But in Wuhan, China – the pandemic’s original epicenter – the au-

thorities tested the city’s 11 million residents for the virus within ten days, in an astounding display of ca-pacity and order. For many, the verdict seems clear: au-thoritarianism is superior to liberal democracy.

But such a conclusion is simplistic and even danger-ously misleading, for three reasons. First, just as the US under Trump is not repre-sentative of all democracies, China under President Xi Jinping should not be held up as a paragon of autocra-cy. Other democratic socie-ties, such as South Korea and New Zealand, have han-dled the pandemic ably, and political freedom did not hobble their governments’ ability to implement virus-containment measures.

As for examples of autoc-racies that brought catas-trophe upon themselves, look no further than Chi-na’s recent history. No mod-

ern Chinese leader held more personal power than Mao Zedong, yet his abso-lute authority led to a mas-sive famine followed by a de facto civil war during the Cultural Revolution. Chaos is by no means unique to democracy; under Mao, it was insidiously deployed to maintain his power.

Second, there are democ-racies with illiberal fea-tures and autocracies with

liberal ones. America’s cur-rent troubles do not reflect a universal failure of de-mocracy, but rather the fail-ure of a democracy with the illiberal traits that Trump has brought to the presiden-cy. As commander-in-chief, Trump has ignored demo-cratic norms such as bu-reaucratic autonomy, the separation of private inter-ests and public office, and respect for peaceful protest.

If democracies can take an authoritarian turn, the reverse can be true in au-tocracies. Contrary to pop-ular belief, China’s econom-ic ascent after its market opening in 1978 was not the result of dictatorship as usual; if it had been, Mao would have succeeded long before. Instead, the econo-my grew rapidly because Mao’s successor, Deng Xi-aoping, insisted on temper-

ing the perils of dictator-ship by injecting the bu-reaucracy with “democrat-ic characteristics,” includ-ing accountability, competi-tion, and limits on power. He set an example by reject-ing personality cults. (Iron-ically, Chinese banknotes feature Mao, who despised capitalism, rather than Deng, the father of Chinese capitalist prosperity.)

As Carl Minzner points out, Xi, who became the paramount leader in 2012, has ushered in an “authori-tarian revival.” Since then, the official narrative is that because China has succeed-ed under centralized politi-cal control, this system should be maintained. In fact, under Deng, it was a hybrid political system married to a firm commit-ment to markets that moved China from poverty to mid-dle-income status.

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stationary flow of foreign port-folio inflows and a rare current account surplus has led to In-dia’s foreign exchange reserves surging to $555.1 billion.

The significant growth in the reserves has sparked an often-heard debate about its utilization for economic uplift-ment at a time when the gov-ernment is facing a spending challenge due to stiff finances.

Owing to better-than-anticipat-ed quarterly results, the foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have pumped in net Rs 17,749 crores.

THE RISE OF INDIA’S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVESForex reserves of $555.1 billion are enough to cover 12 months of imports and they make for nearly 99% of India’s external debt of $555.8 billion. By most metrics, these reserves are more than ad-equate as the purpose of self-in-surance is fully served with so much accumulation.

PUTTING FOREX RESERVES TO A BETTER USEThe significant growth in the reserves has sparked an often-heard debate about its utiliza-tion for economic upliftment at a time when the government is facing a spending challenge due to stiff finances.

Most of India’s forex reserves have been accumulated on the back of capital flows over the years while the current account has remained in deficit due to large-scale imports. In the Q1 of FY21, India reported a one-off current account surplus due to very low imports as the Covid-19 pandemic had brought the world to a standstill. This surplus is not sustainable and therefore, the utilization of forex reserves (built from capital account sur-plus) for building infrastructure and other allied activities may not be appropriate.

A sustainable boost to ex-ports coupled with a persistent decline in imports can lead to a further rise in forex reserves due to current account surplus

and these can be used for ac-tivities other than maintaining safety and liquidity.

Can these “abundant” forex reserves be channelized for bet-ter returns? While using the reserves for spending activities could be a bad idea and set the wrong precedent, RBI can sure-ly ponder upon better return-generating products in these turbulent times.

A major proportion of foreign exchange reserves are invested by RBI into high-liquid assets such as Euro-dominated bonds and the US treasuries, with a small portion invested into gold. The US and European Countries have their policy rates at near-zero and the sovereign yields of some advanced economics have gone into the negative trajectory as well. Therefore, it makes more sense to consider diversifi-cation of the investable assets. Increasing gold reserves as a percentage of forex reserves can be one such better return-gener-

ating tool for the central bank. India, in particular, has a good scope of increasing gold re-serves as the RBI has followed a more conservative approach while investing forex reserves.

FPIS ON A BUYING SPREE IN OCTOBEROwing to better-than-anticipat-ed quarterly results, the for-eign portfolio investors (FPIs) have pumped in net Rs 17,749 crores in October with a net investment of Rs 15,642 crore in equities and Rs 2,107 crore in the debt segment.

Net buying by FPIs has brought cheer to the market par-ticipants as emerging markets like Thailand, Taiwan, Brazil, and South Africa are witnessing net outflows month-on-month. Apart from the quarterly results, the surplus liquidity in devel-oped markets and full resump-tion of business activities has kept the interest of FPIs intact.

Moreover, the accommoda-tive stance maintained by glob-al central banks could ensure foreign money flowing into the emerging markets.

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a lasting effect on FPI flows in 2020. To add to the un-certainty, state elections in In-dia coupled with the US Presi-dential elections will make mar-kets more volatile, which could affect the FPIs participation.

NEW RECORD CASES FORCING GOVERNMENTS OVER THE GLOBE TO TAKE A STRICTER STANCE

After scheduling several rallies in the worst-hit counties in the US, President Donald Trump blamed the surge in testing for the rise in the number of daily cases to a record high of 83,000. New York and New Jersey have contributed the most to the newly reported cases of the vi-rus. Health emergency, extend-ed for another month, is under-way in New Jersey as the state reported the greatest number of cases since early May. While the fatality rate in the US is on the higher side, the chances of a pre-election stimulus have become increasingly low.

The European countries are expected to implement curfews more widely. France has report-ed record cases for three con-secutive days; the positive rate jumped by a percent to 16 per-cent on Friday. Italian Govern-ment is also deliberating tight-ening the curfew norms, which led to anti-curfew violent pro-tests by the public. The United Kingdom reported the fifth con-secutive day with daily cases exceeding 20,000; schools may be suspended if the cases continue the trend. The Spanish Govern-ment is pondering over declar-ing a national state of emergen-cy that would allow the authori-ties to impose stricter regula-tions over the public. While nearing the first-wave levels, Belgium’s reported cases have prompted the authorities to con-sider widening the curfew hours and closing the public places of utility such as theatres, fitness gyms, and museums.

FOREIGN INVESTORS BET BIG AS INDIA LEADS THE RECOVERY

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Most of India’s forex reserves have been accumulated on the back of capital flows over the years while the current account has remained in deficit due to large-scale imports. In the Q1 of FY21, India reported a one-off current account surplus due to very low imports as the Covid-19 pandemic had brought the world to a standstill

A SUSTAINABLE BOOST TO EXPORTS COUPLED

WITH A PERSISTENT DECLINE IN IMPORTS CAN LEAD TO A FURTHER RISE IN FOREX RESERVES DUE

TO CURRENT ACCOUNT SURPLUS AND THESE

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MEHBOOBA MUFTI’S FLAG REMARK SPARKS OUTRAGE

ost-Gupkar-II declaration and Mehboo-ba Mufti’s remark that she won’t hold the Indian tricolor until the Jammu and Kashmir’s flag was restored the Central government dealt the mainstream po-

litical leaders another blow by omitting the phrase “permanent resident of the state” from Section 17 of Jammu and Kashmir Development Act. The omission means that people from any part of the country can now purchase urban land and enter into contract farming on agricultural land. The law also provides for setting up an industrial de-velopment corporation and removes curbs on the size of the area one wants to buy for constructing a residence or a shop in the Union Territory. Till now only those who were permanent residents could own property there. The Lieutenant-Gover-nor Manoj Sinha clarified that the new law will not apply to agricultural land. This move was expected after the abrogation of Article 370 which granted a special status to the status. The state’s bifurca-tion ended the privilege.

The decision has not gone down well with the top political leaders of the Union Territory who said that Kashmir has been put on sale. Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tweeted, “Even the tokenism of domicile has been done away with… J&K is now up for sale & the poorer, small land-holding owners will suffer.” Another ex-CM Me-hbooba Mufti also condemned the new law.

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INDIA AND US SCRIPT NEW STRATEGIC TIES

ndia and America have come a long way from the era of President Richard Nixon and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi when the US ordered the Seventh Fleet led by nuclear-powered Enterprise towards the

Bay of Bengal to stop Indian troops from liberating Bangladesh. Nixon and his National Security Advisor were known for their antipathy towards the Indian prime minister. Over the years ties between the two great democracies have been on the mend, but main-ly under governments led by the Bharatiya Janata Party because of its predisposition towards America.

India and the US began mutual trust-building ef-forts with the signing of the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) in 2002 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the prime minister. It was the first foundational understanding between the two nations. The signing of the Logistics Ex-change Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) in 2016 and the Communication Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA) in 2018 followed.

Tuesday’s Basic Exchange and Co-operation Agreement (BECA), signed by the defence and for-eign ministers of India and the US marked the fourth foundational understanding which America has with India. The last three agreements demon-strate the importance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi attaches to strategic defence ties with the US.

The strategic significance of BECA can be un-derstood from the fact that India will now get ac-cess to real-time access to precision data and topo-graphical images from US military satellites.

Keeping in mind China’s expansionist policies and the changing global security scenario, India’s defence establishment thought it prudent to deep-en its strategic ties with America for its security interests and peace.

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Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the Opposi-tion and even went ahead to term the Ma-hagathbandan's chief ministerial candidate, Tejashwi Yadav, as "Yu-vraaj of Jungleraj" (Prince of Jungleraj). It is important to note that the era of former CM and RJD founder Lalu Prasad Yadav's rule in the state is often referred to as 'Jungl-reraj' by its opponents.

"I want to know from the people of Patna, I want to know from the people of Bihar, could Bihar dream of becom-ing an IT-hub in Jungle Raj? Whether 'Yuvraj of Jungle Raj', he can take Bihar forward in the field of IT, or in any area of modernity," PM Modi said at the rally held in Patna.

The Prime Minister attacked the RJD and said, "Who can fulfil the

aspirations of the poor of Bihar, this aspiration of the middle class of Bihar? People who made Bihar sick, looted

Bihar, can they do this work? Those who thought only of their family; Only NDA can do it." —ANI

PM Modi tears into Oppn, calls Tejashwi ‘Yuvraj of Jungleraj’I want to know, could Bihar dream of becoming an IT-hub in Jungle Raj? Modi said

Cong compares Munger incident with Jallianwala firingNew Delhi: Hitting out at Bihar government over Munger firing in-cident in which a devo-tee was killed, the Con-gress compared Chief minister Nitish Kumar with General Dyer on Wednesday and de-manded that he should apologise.

Congress spokesper-son Abhishek Singhvi said human beings were treated as ani-mals and worms by the police in Munger, when they beat up dev-otees taking out Durga idols "cruelly and mer-cilessly".

One person was killed and over two doz-en people, including se-curity personnel, were

injured in firing and stone-pelting during the immersion of Dur-ga idols in Bihar''s Munger, police said, a day before the first phase of the Assembly polls in state. "I want to ask, is it a crime in this country to do Durga Pooja with all requisite safeguards and if it is some violation, is this the way to treat human beings like chattels, like animals, I would say like worms? —PTI

Bettiah:Former Con-gress President Rahul Gandhi said on Wednes-day that effigies of Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi were burnt in Punjab on Dussehra, and not that of 'Ravan'. He said that burning the effigy of the Prime Minister was sad, but the youth are angry with him.

Addressing an elec-tion meeting in Val-mikinagar, Rahul praised Rashtriya Ja-nata Dal leader Tejash-wi Yadav, while target-ing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bi-har Chief Minister Nit-ish Kumar.

Rahul said that the goal of lockdown and demonetisation was the same. He said that in demonetisation, Modi took money out of your pocket and gave it to five big indus-trialists of the country and during the lock-down the business of small and medium scale businessmen came to a halt while the debts of the indus-

trialists were waived.Raising the issue of

the new agricultural laws, Rahul said that effigies of 'Ravan' are usually burnt on Dussehra, but this time in Punjab the effi-gies of the Prime Min-ister and industrialists were burnt. He said, "It is sad, but it is happen-

ing because the farmer is upset, the youth is angry."

He blamed Nitish Ku-mar and the Prime Min-ister for unemployment in Bihar and in the country, saying that people of Bihar get jobs in Delhi, Haryana, Pun-jab, Bengaluru but not in Bihar. —Agencies

‘PM Modi’s effigies burnt on Dussehra, not of Ravan’

New Delhi: Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij alleged the girl's par-ents were forced to take back the case registered against the accused due to pressure from Con-gress leaders

Haryana Home Min-ister Anil Vij Wednes-day alleged that the youth who killed his former classmate in Ballabhgarh is a rela-tive of Congress leaders and they were responsi-ble for dropping an FIR against him in 2018.

Tauseef, 21, was ar-rested on Tuesday along with his friend for alleg-edly killing his former classmate Nikita Tomar in broad daylight. Tomar’s family alleged Tauseef had been pres-suring her to marry him and had kidnapped her two years ago. The police said an FIR was registered against Tau-

seef, but was later canceled after Nikita’s father submitted he did not want any further investigation.

However, Vij allegeed that girl’s parents were forced to take back the case registered against the accused due to pres-sure from Congress leaders. “Accused is a relative of Congress leaders. It was under pressure from Congress leaders that girl’s par-ents were forced to take back case registered against accused in 2018: Haryana Home Minis-ter Anil Vij on Ballabh-garh case where a 21-year old woman was shot dead by a man,” news agency ANI quot-ed him as saying.

On Tuesday, the Min-ister Anil Vij had of-fered reassurance of a “quick investigation” into the matter. —ANI

Accused a relative of Congress leaders, alleges Anil Vij

FARIDABAD MURDER

Thiruvananthapuram:M Sivasankar, former principal secretary of the Kerala Chief Minis-ter's Office, was on Wednesday taken into custody by the Enforce-ment Directorate (ED) in connection with the Ker-ala gold smuggling case.

ED officials took him into custody from the

Ayurveda hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, where Sivasankar was admitted. Earlier, the Kerala High Court had refused to grant antici-patory bail to Sivasankar in cases reg-istered by the ED and the Customs depart-ment in connection with the smuggling of

gold into the state through diplomatic channels.

The economic offenc-es watchdog, while op-posing the anticipatory bail plea in the High Court, had submitted that the agency had rea-son to believe that Sivasankar was the real beneficiary and ac-

cused Swapna Suresh was only a pawn for the gold smuggling.

It had also submitted that the investigation in the matter has revealed that Sivasankar was re-ceiving commissions for the gold smuggling and added that custodi-al interrogation is re-quired. —ANI

Gold smuggling: ED takes M Sivasankar into custody

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday cau-tioned Army command-ers to be wary of Chi-nese actions at disputed borders and their intent during military talks.

The minister said this while addressing the 'Army Command-ers Conference,' an apex biannual event that formulates impor-tant policy decisions through collegiate de-liberations.

Border tensions with China at the Line of Ac-tual Control are the main focus of delibera-tions in this year's four-day conference.

Sources privy to the minister's address said Singh pointed out that talks should be held honestly and in an at-mosphere of trust to reach a solution. The

defence minister also hinted that there has been a trust deficit since Chinese intent has been questionable.

In the meantime, Sin-gh said on social media: "Addressed the Army Commanders' Confer-ence in New Delhi. I'm extremely proud of the initiatives undertaken by the Indian Army in the current security en-

vironment."He also said that Min-

istry of Defence is com-mitted to facilitate the Army in their forward movement on reforms and help them in achieving advantages in all areas.

"We will leave no stone unturned to strengthen the arms of our Armed forces,” Sin-gh tweeted. —ANI

Be wary of Chinese actions at borders: Rajnath to Army officers

Rajnath Singh with General Bipin Rawat, Gen MM Naravane pose for group photograph at the Army Commanders’ Conference.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses an election rally during Bihar Polls in Balmiki Nagar on Wednesday. —ANI PHOTO

Kolkata: Amid inci-dences of political vio-lence and killings in West Bengal, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will meet Union Home Min-ister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Thursday.

Dhankhar has been vocal about the politi-cal killings which have taken place in the past few months attracting criticism from the Mamata Banerjee gov-ernment in the state. West Bengal Governor Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar would be on an official visit to Del-hi from Oct 28-30. Gov-ernor Dhankhar leaves for Delhi on the even-ing of Oct 28 and re-turns to Kolkata on Oct 30. His engagements include calling on the Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah on Oct 29, a Raj Bhavan com-

munique said on Wednesday.Following this he will be on a month-long visit to Darjeeling from No-vember 1, the sources said. Dhankhar's scheduled visit to Dar-jeeling will take place at a time when political equations in the hills have changed after the supremo of the undi-vided GJM, Bimal Gu-rung walked out of the BJP-led NDA accusing it of not fulfilling its promises. —PTI

WB Guv to meet Shah in Delhi on October 29

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Anuppur: Madhya Pradesh Chief Min-ister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday said that the state's cof-fers are not Aurang-zeb's treasure which can be emp-tied by spending on development.

"I'm not Kamal Nath, who won't give a penny for de-velopment. I assure you of Anuppur's development. Ka-mal Nath used to say that Mama had emptied state's cof-fers but I said it's not Aurangzeb's treasure which can be emptied," he said while attending a rally in Anuppur district. he criti-cised ex- PMs, say-ing they never re-acted to challenge issued by smaller nations while PM Modi has success-fully handled the neighbours. —ANI

‘MP’s coffers are not Aurangzeb’s treasure’

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RTI BODY PULLS UP GOVT ON CREATION OF AAROGYA SETU APPNew Delhi: The National Informatics Centre, which designs government web-sites, has said that it has no information about who has created the Aarogya Setu app and how it has been created. The Chief Information Commission has pulled up the NIC, which comes under the ministry of electronics, and issued a showcause

notice to various chief public information offi cers asking them to provide a reply to an RTI application which questioned about the Covid-19 contact tracing up. The reply can’t be evasive, the CIC has said.The complaint was fi led by one Saurav Das seeking to know about the creation of the popular application.

SENSEX PLUNGES 600 POINTS; NIFTY CRACKS BELOW 11,750Mumbai : Equity benchmark Sensex plunged 600 points on Wednesday, tracking heavy losses in index majors Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank amid a massive selloff in European markets.After hitting a low of 39,774.60 during the day, the 30-share BSE index ended 599.64 points or 1.48 per cent lower at 39,922.46. Similarly, the broader NSE tanked 159.80 points or 1.34 per cent to close at 11,729.60. IndusInd Bank was the top loser in the Sensex pack, shed-ding over 3%, followed by HDFC, ICICI Bank.

WOMAN THROWS ACID ON ESTRANGED BOYFRIENDGuwahati: A Tripura court has sent a woman under judicial custody for allegedly attacking her estranged boyfriend with acid. The man has been shifted to a hospital in state capital Agartala un-der critical condition. The woman, Binita Santal, was arrested on Tuesday and sent to 14 days judicial custody following a complaint lodged by the brother of the victim, Soumen Santal. The attack, however, took place on October 19, said police. Both the attacker and the victim hail from the same village, Belchara, in Khowai district.

YOGI ADITYANATH FELICITATES UP NEET TOPPER AKANKSHA SINGHLucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath felicitated Akanksha Singh from Kushinagar who bagged the second rank in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) nationally.The felicitation ceremony was organised at the chief minister’s offi cial residence in Lucknow. Speaking at

the ceremony, the Chief Minister called Akanksha the pride of the state and said given opportunity, girls can achieve any-thing.“Akanksha wants to pursue MBBS from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi and the state government is going to bear all the expenses of her tuition and food and lodging,” he said.

PM Modi came here and said that this is a sugarcane area, I will start a sugar mill & will have tea mixing sugar pro-

duced here. Did he have tea with you? Rahul Gandhi, Congress Leader

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday appealed to the voters of Bihar to vote as polling on 71 Assembly constituencies of Bihar in the fi rst phase took place on wednesday. “I appeal to all the voters of Bihar in the fi rst phase to vote in maximum numbers. Your one vote will keep Bihar out of fear and corruption and keep it on the path of development and progress,” Shah tweeted.

HOME MINISTER AMIT SHAH URGES PEOPLE OF BIHAR TO VOTE

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election rally in Patna on Wednesday.

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WILL NEW FINANCE SECRETARY BE FROM THE OPEN MARKET ? Power galleries are abuzz with new rumours related to the Ministry of Finance. They say that one should not be surprised if the new Finance Secretary is appointed from the open market on a two to three years contract. Earlier also Dr. Manmohan Singh and Montek Singh Ahluwalia were during the Congress govt regime appointed as Finance Secretary from outside. Both were econo-mists and non- IAS. Now the question is, who will be that lucky person ? One has to wait till February next year when A B Pandey retires. He is a 1984 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS officer.

EMPANELMENT OF 1994 BATCH IAS DELAYEDIt is said that empanelment of 1994 batch IAS to the rank of Additional Secretary will now take place in early next year.

SUBHASH AGRAWAL TO BE SPECIAL DIRECTOR ED ?Subhash Agrawal is likely to be appointed Special Director ED. He is 1993 batch IRS(C&CE) officer.

GOI YET TO SELECT CANDIDATE FOR VACANT POST OF CMD, HECThe Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises is yet to select the candidate for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Direc-tor, Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited (HEC) lying vacant for more than two years. The Ministry was entrusted with selecting a candidate after the Public Enterprises Se-lection Board (PESB) failed to find a suitable candidate for the second time at a selection meeting held on March 13, 2019. The PESB had also failed to find a suitable candidate at its first meeting held on August 1, 2018. Presently, BHEL CMD Dr Nalin Singhal is holding an additional charge of HEC.

TRAI SEEKS PRINCIPAL ADVISOR ON DEPUTATIONThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has proposed to fill up the post of Principal Advisor on deputation on foreign service terms.

14 IRSME OFFICERS PROMOTED TO JAGAs many as 14 officers of Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) have been promoted to Junior Administra-tive Grade (JAG). They are: Ramendra Pal Singh, Panchanan Behera, Nand Kishore Verma, G Mondal, Ashok Kumar, Brij Mohan, Luskar Boro, VC Majhi, Brajendra Singh Rawat, Debashis Pathak, Arvind Kumar Mishra, PK Pattanayak, GS Manna and Cha-man Singh Chaudhary.

AK RANJAN SHIFTED TO SCRAK Ranjan has been transferred from South Eastern Railway to South Central Railway (SCR) and posted in the cadre. He is a selection grade (SG) officer belonging to Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS).

IPS OFFICER, PURUSHOTTAM SHARMA SUSPENDED IN MP The Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended Purushottam Sharma at the recommenda-tions of Madhya Pradesh government. He is a 1986 batch IPS officer of Madhya Pradesh.

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‘PM MODI DECISIVE & STRONG-WILLED’Scindia reserved his comments on former PM Manmohan Singh in whose Cabinet he has servedNew Delhi: Reserving his comments on for-mer PM Manmohan Singh in whose Cabinet he has served, BJP lead-er Jyotiraditya Scindia chose to rather praise PM Modi for being ‘de-cisive, strong-willed in-defatigable spirit to work for the country’.

The BJP leader has been maintaining si-lence on his former party. He reiterates that he won’t speak on his past and maintain dig-nity by being silent on issues pertaining to his former party.

The drive and will power, pledge towards decisiveness, and to work round the clock - our country will be prosperous under PM Modi.

Scindia criticised Congress for living in denial and refusing to see the writing on the wall. He was speaking

on Congress leader Sachin Pilot’s criticism of BJP during his elec-tion campaign in poll-bound MP.

“The problem with the Congress is the par-ty likes to live in denial and refuses to see the writing on the wall and it is only when you be-lieve in acceptance and reflect on your failures and chart a course to future success that you move forward. BJP un-der the leadership of PM Modi has fulfilled the aspirations of 130 crore Indians which is why once again they re-posed their faith in Modi and in Trimurti (PM Modi, Party chief JP Nadda, Union home Minister Amit Shah) as I would like to call them,” said Scindia.

Scindia also praised CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan for his zeal to work with people. —ANI

Kamal Nath, Digvijay are real ‘Jaichands’, says JyotiradityaNew Delhi: BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia slammed MP’s former CMs Ka-mal Nath and Digvi-jay Singh for run-ning a “corruption-ridden” government and playing the role of “traitor” to the de-mocracy.

“I cannot be a by-stander and neither

can these legislators to people who are a threat to democracy and to these 7.5 crore people,” stated Scin-dia.

Calling 22 MLAs resigning together a first of its kind of ‘historical event’ of independent India, he said no party had in the history. —ANI

SCINDIA QUES SONIA GANDHI’S SILENCE OVER ‘ITEM’ JIBENew Delhi: Jyotiradi-tya Scindia, who has missed no opportunity of slamming the Con-gress since joining the BJP, today criticised party chief Sonia Gan-dhi over her silence on Kamal Nath’s “item” remark that stirred a political row in MP

ahead of the bypolls. Imarti Devi, the wom-an targeted by Mr Nath, had appealed to Sonia Gandhi for ac-tion, questioning if she would have con-doned it had the re-mark been made about her daughter. CM Chouhan had also

written to her on the issue.

Asked whether Mrs Gandhi, being a wom-an, should have pulled up Mr Nath, Mr Scin-da said: “Though it is an internal matter, I certainly think so. 50% of the population comprises women,

every political party must set a standard”.

Kamal Nath, former CM of MP and Mr Scindia’s bitter rival, had stepped into con-troversy while cam-paigning in Dabra, where the BJP is rep-resented by Imarti Devi. —ANI

New Delhi: Seeking to develop further closer ties with India, the USA has offered its F-18 na-val fighter jets for the Indian Navy's require-ments of combat jets for its aircraft carriers.

The Indian Navy had a few years ago ex-pressed interest in the acquisition of 57 naval fighter aircraft for op-erations from its air-craft carriers including the present INS Vikram-aditya and the under-construction Indige-nous Aircraft Carrier.

"The American Gov-ernment has offered to provide their naval fight-er aircraft F-18 for the Indian Navy under a gov-ernment proposal at the

meeting between de-fence delegations of both countries during the 2+2 meetings,” sources told.

The US government has offered to sell F-18 fighters along with the unmanned aircraft Sea Guardian to the IN along with a number of other systems to the Indian armed forces in recent times. IN has moved to-wards American equip-ment in a big way as its long-range surveillance aircraft fleet consists of 12 P-8I aircraft and would have six more soon. —ANI

New Delhi: The con-tinuously rising nation-al recovery rate and progressively falling active cases of corona-virus infection have proven the success of COVID-19 containment strategy, Union Health Minister Harsh Vard-han said on Wednesday. “For the last 10 months, India has been persistently fighting the infectious disease and now the COVID-19 parameters are show-ing encouraging pro-gress. “We have suc-

cessfully ramped up our testing capacity. From a few thousand tests in a day, we now conduct more than a million tests on a daily basis,” Vardhan was quoted as

saying in the statement. CIPLA GETS INTO COVID-19 TESTING : Cipla announced the commercialisation of antibody detection kits for COVID-19 in India.

Mumbai: Shiv Sena has mentioned it earlier as well that Uniform Civil Code should be im-plemented in India, said party leader San-jay Raut on Wednesday while adding that if the Centre brings some-thing like that, then his party will take a deci-sion about it.

"We have said it be-fore also that Uniform Civil Code should be implemented in the country,” said Raut.

"If Mehbooba Mufti, Farooq Abdullah and

others want to re-im-pose Article 370 in Kash-mir with help of China then central govt should take strict steps. If any person who wants to un-furl tri-colour in Kash-mir is stopped, then I consider it as 'Rashtra droh'," said Raut. —ANI

New Delhi: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said that NIA has be-come BJP’s pet agency to intimidate and brow-beat those who refuse to fall in line.

Her remark came af-ter the NIA conducted raids in Srinagar, Bandi-pora and Bengaluru in-cluding residence of Khurram Parvaiz, offic-es of NGO Athrout and Greater Kashmir Trust.

“NIA raids on hu-man rights activist

Khurram Parvez & Greater Kashmir office is yet another example of GOIs vicious crack-down on freedom of ex-pression & dissent. NIA has become BJPs pet agency to browbeat those who refuse to fall in line,” Mufti tweeted.

New Delhi: The repre-sentatives of social me-dia giant Twitter on Wednesday appeared before the Joint Com-mittee Parliamentary panel looking into the Data Protection Bill, 2019, sources said.

According to sourc-es, the representatives of e-commerce giant Amazon would appear before panel later in the day while the represent-atives of Google and some other organisa-tions will appear before the panel today. —ANI

Budgam: Two Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) ter-rorists were killed on Wednesday in an en-counter that started on Tuesday in Aribagh Machama area of Bud-gam in Jammu and Kashmir.

During the opera-tion, when a joint team of Srinagar Police, Budgam Police and Army’s 50 Rashtriya Rifles were approach-ing towards, terrorists fired upon them trig-gering off a gunfight. —ANI

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‘Uniform Civil Code should be implemented’

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In a bid to further cement its ties with India, USA has offered its F-18 jets for Indian Navy aircraft carriers.

An artist paints a wall depicting Covid warriors in Mumbai.

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New Delhi: PM Naren-dra Modi will pay hom-age to Sardar Patel on his 145th birth anni-versary and take part in the Ekta Diwas Pa-rade along with admin-istering the Rashtriya Ekta Pledge at Keva-dia, Gujarat on Octo-ber 31, 2020.

The police forces of Gujarat, Central Re-serve Armed Force, Border Security Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Central Indus-trial Security Forces and National Security Guards will partici-

pate in the Parade, as per a release. The Prime Minister will also witness a Rifle drill by female officers of CRPF. As part of Ekta Diwas celebra-tions, a cultural show

of tribal heritage is also being organized at Kevadia. To mark the solemn occasion, the Indian Air Force will perform a Fly-past.

The PM will then in-teract with and ad-dress 428 Officer Trainees belonging to various Civil Services currently undergoing the 95th Foundation Course at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Acad-emy of Administra-tion, Mussoorie through videoconfer-ence as a culmination of Aarambh 2020. Aar-

ambh is an initiative to bring probationers of All India Service, Group-A Central Ser-vice and Foreign Ser-vice together for a CFC with vision to break the silos of depart-ments from the very beginning of the ca-reer of a civil servant.

Aarambh aims at making civil servants capable of leading transformation and work seamlessly across departments and fields. PM will also in-augurate various pro-jects on this day. —ANI

Mumbai: The CBI, in its reply to a plea filed by the sisters of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput to quash the FIR against them filed by actor Rhea Chakraborty has said, “The very genesis of the FIR is flawed.”

The Central agency filed its reply after a division bench of Jus-tices S.S. Shinde and M.S. Karnik on Tues-day directed it to reply to the petition filed by Priyanka and Meetu Singh.

Referring to the FIR filed by Chakraborty

on September 7, the CBI said, “The allega-tions levelled in FIR are mostly presump-tive and speculative in nature.”

Anil Kumar Yadav, Addl. SP, said, “In view of the present situa-

tion and order passed SC, it was expected from police to forward the complaint received from Rhea to the CBI for necessary action.”

The reply men-tioned, “Registration of another FIR on the facts and cause of ac-tion was neither war-ranted nor allowed un-der law.

It is submitted that it is correct that if al-legations mentioned in FIR, prima facie, do not constitute any of-fence against accused, FIR can be quashed by Constitutional courts.”

PM Modi to partake in Ekta Diwas celebrations, inaugurate dev projects

‘Very genesis of FIR against Sushant’s sisters is flawed’

JEE Exam Scam: Cops arrests doc, son for cheatingGuwahati: Assam Po-lice on Wednesday ar-rested a doctor and his son for allegedly us-ing a proxy candi-date to write JEE (mains) examination held in September in-stead, in which the son achieved the top rank among candi-dates from As-sam with a score of 99.8 percentile with-out sitting for the exam.4 others have also been arrested and all five have been charged with cheating by per-sonation, a police statement said.

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From cigarette factory to mawa, ‘war for purity’ gathers steamBhanwar S Charan

Kota: The food safety and tobacco control teams of the health de-partment in the city, on the second day of Shudh ke liye Yudh campaign, raided a cigarette factory in the Ranpur area of the city.

The teams found wrappers of many cig-arette brands in the factory with a capacity of 60-70000 cigarettes per day. CMHO Dr BS Tanwar told First In-dia that there were no licences taken by the factory owner and the teams have also found many irregularities under the COTPA Act along with presence of child labour in the fac-tory under JJ Act.

The factory in the name of Memorable Manufacturing (P) Ltd. did not have any sign board outside it and also was manufactur-ing cigarette packets with Nagaur address on them.

The health depart-ment later registered a case against the facto-ry owner in the Anant-pur police station of the city.

The health depart-ment teams also col-

lected samples of milk, curd, paneer and ghee from Ranpur based Kota Fresh Dairy plant which have been sent to the laboratory for testing.

Meanwhile in Bikan-er, Chief Medical Health Officer Dr BL Meena on Wednesday faced resistance at Bi-

kaner Namkeen Bhandar where he had gone with his team to collect samples under drive against adultera-tion.

The shop owner re-fused to give samples and called a few politi-cal leaders to pressur-ise the officer for not collecting the sample.

Despite all threats, Dr Meena remained firm and refused to bow to the pressure.

The CMHO said he was following the gov-ernment’s directions and legal action will be taken in case there is adulteration. Dr Mee-na said that such ob-stacles keep coming.

CMHO Dr BL Meena on Wednesday faced resistance at Bikaner Namkeen Bhandar where he had gone with his team to collect samples under drive against adulteration as show owner refused to give samples. (Left) Dholpur administration team seized 210 quintals of spurious mawa from a cold storage. The samples were sent for testing to Alwar laboratory.

ACB nabs junior typist taking bribeRajiv Gaur

Jodhpur: ACB team from Jodhpur arrested a junior typist Rani Chaudhary of Balesar Panchayat Samiti with a cheque of Rs 50,000 taken as bribe through a broker who also was arrested.

The bribe was taken from a contractor in lieu of returning his Rs 1.5 Lakh earnest money deposit with the Pan-chayat Samiti. ACB (Rural) ASP Bhopal Singh Lakhawat said that Jhinjhar Construc-tion Company owner Pokaran resident Karan Singh had regis-tered a complaint with the bureau.

Taking precautions the junior typist, Rani Chaudhary, did not ac-cept the bribe directly but asked the complain-ant to give a cheque of Rs 50,000 to her broker Suresh kachhawa. ACB team after verifying the complaint laid the trap and arrested broker Suresh first and Rani Chaudhary later.

Meanwhile in Makra-na, ACB team caught, City Council Commis-sioner, red handed ac-cepting a bribe of Rs 40,000 on Wednesday. In an operation super-vised by ACB DG BL

Soni and ADG Dinesh MN, DSP Zakir Akhtar first verified the com-plaint by the city coun-cil contractor Sandeep Kumar and found it true when the accused accepted the advance of Rs 10,000.

Accused Sant Lal had demanded Rs 2.5 lakh in lieu of passing a Rs 5 lakh bill raised for the contract for stray ani-mals of the city coun-cil. Commissioner Sant Lal had accepted a bribe of Rs 70000 earli-er as well.

In Banswara. ACB team under ASP Mad-hav Singh Sauda caught the Bhairupachhad po-lice out post incharge under Kushalgarh po-lice station area, Shankarlal Tabiyar, red handed accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000.

Enforcement Directorate frames charges on Sharma and Morani, attaches property worth ̀ 12.60 crore

Vimal Kothari

Jaipur: Enforcement Directorate has taken cognizance and filed charge sheet establish-ing proceeds of crime in one of the most talked about scandal of Jaipur wherein Anti Corrup-tion Bureau had caught member of nursing council Mahesh Chand Sharma red-handed ac-cepting bribe of Rs.5 lakhs, against whom an FIR was registered by ACB. Provisional at-tachment of properties has been made and re-quest has been filed be-fore the special court for

seeking directions for prosecuting the crimi-nals. Sharma who was merely a Nursing Tutor at SMS Medical College have been found illegal-ly possessing assets worth crores which have been held by him in names of various family members.

Sharma and his 13 family members have been taken on radar against whom charges have been framed and case has been filed be-fore the special court of ED. Owner of renowned automobile dealer Mo-rani Motors has also been booked for charges

and case has been filed against him before a special court under the Money Laundering Act who has been found to be involved with Shar-ma in his felony.

ED has framed charg-es against Sharma be-ing involved in crime of accepting bribe and granting illegal licenc-es to the nursing col-leges, proceeds of which have been shown as untainted money by changing the color from black to white. Accord-ing to sources assets worth Rs.14.60 crores of Sharma have been un-earthed and identified

as illegal which are es-timated to be more than 372% of the actual earn-ings shown on record. Out of the same ED has provisionally attached assets worth Rs.12.60 crores. The findings of ED reveal that there have been illegal deal-ings worth 25 crores be-tween Sharma and Mo-rani of which the traces are clearly available on record.

Accused Mahesh Chand Sharma , his wife Meena Devi, son Mohit and Ankit, inlaws Sum-er Chand Sharma, Rad-hey Shyam Sharma, Kishan Lal Saini, Rajen-

dra Prasad Saini and Companies of Sharma M/s Saif Infracon Pvt. Ltd. M/s Saket Health Education Centre, RAG Memorial Trust have been accused of possess-ing assets more than in-come.

It’s worth noting that Mahesh Sharma and his son Mohit are al-ready under the custody of police in Central Jail, Jaipur. The case is be-ing very closely moni-tored by Joint Direct Sumit Yadav who is leaving no stone un-turned in bringing out the facts and punishing the wrongdoers.Mahesh Chand Sharma

Kirodi Meena demands apology from Jaskaur for derogatory remark

Sandeep Goyal

Sawaimadhopur: Ra-jya Sabha MP Dr Kirodi Meena on Wednesday demanded a public apology from Dausa MP Jaskaur Meena for her alleged derogatory re-mark on him.

During his visit to Sawaimadhopur, where he appeared before a lo-cal court in a 10 year old case, Meena said that Jaskaur Meena has made objectionable statement against him and he should tender apology publicly.

Lashing out at the Dausa MP, Dr Kirori said that she has noth-ing to do with any party or ideology and she just cares for the post.

He said that when BJP denied her a ticket in 2013 elections, she ap-proached him for a tick-

et from his party – RJP.Meena said that

Jaskaur Meena believes in politics of comfort and she never did strug-gle. In politics.

On the other hand, Jaskaur Meena reject-ed Dr Meena’s allega-tions that she has made any such statement against him.

She said that Meena is respectable for her. She said that the word which is being quoted is a commonly used word which is meant for those who keep switching sides for po-litical gain but it was beyond understanding why Dr Meena took it for him.

The Dausa MP said her victory in the Lok Sabha elections was the victory of PM Naren-dra Modi and people of the constituency.

Dr Kirori Meena Jaskaur Meena

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Dholpur: The district police which failed in ar-resting dacoit Keshav Gurjar and his gang, a couple of days ago, when it encountered them in a village now hopes to nab the gang with the help from people.

It has announced Rs 5000 reward on dacoit Keshav Gurjar and his 9 gang members. SP Ke-sar Singh Shekhawat said that the district po-lice are serious in their mission eradicating the menace of dacoity & other crimes from the district and therefore is keeping constant vigil on the criminals in the district.

Police now pins hope on locals to nab dacoit Keshav

State government begins working on ‘oxygen therapy’ for Covid patientsVikas Sharma

Jaipur: Looking at the possibility of further rise in the number of corona-virus positive cases dur-ing the winter season, the state government has started working on ‘oxy-gen therapy’ for covid-19 patients in the state.

The state government has started prepara-tions for oxygen man-agement at the grass root level with the train-ing of doctors of PHC, CHC. A special training programme for oxygen therapy has been intro-duced for doctors.

The World Health Or-ganisation has also hint-ed that the cases may increase during the win-ter season and therefore, the state government has started its prepara-tions to deal with the

forthcoming situation.Since covid-19 pat-

ents require oxygen, the focus of experts in the state now is on ar-rangement of oxygen therapy for the patients.

The number of coro-navirus positive cases has come down over the last few days but doc-tors are expecting spurt in cases during winter and in such a situation, oxygen therapy may prove quite helpful.

The experts of SMS Medical College have de-signed an special online

training programme about the oxygen thera-py for doctors posted in rural areas. The anaes-thesia department has been given the responsi-bility of the training pro-gramme.

In Rajasthan, more than 36 lakh tests have been conducted and 1.89 lakh positive cases have been reported.

The positive testing report in the state is 5.19 percent while the rate is 7.57 in the country.

1877 covid-19 patients have died in the state.

MUMBAI SINK BANGALOREAbu Dhabi : Mumbai Indians (MI) defeated Royal Challeng-ers Bangalore (RCB) by five wickets in Match 48 of the IPL 2020 at the Sheikh Zayed Sta-dium in Abu Dhabi. Suryaku-mar Yadav smashed an unbeat-en 79 off 43 deliveries, to help MI get across the line after be-

ing handed a target of 165. Suryakumar’s innings com-prised of ten boundaries and three sixes. Mohammed Siraj and Yuzvendra Chahal ac-counted for two wickets apiece. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) posted a total of 164 runs for the loss of six wickets, after

being sent in to bat. Opener Devdutt Padikkal was the lead-ing run-scorer, accumulating 74 runs off 45 deliveries. Padik-kal’s innings included 12 boundaries and a six. Jasprit Bumrah was the pick of the bowlers, accounting for three dismissals.

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Malik-ana ‘haqq’ for charge-sheeting?Rajendra Chhabra

Jaipur: Charge-sheet-ing of Nagaur munic-ipal commissioner Jodharam, at the hands of Ajmer Divi-sional Commissioner Arushi Malik, has re-sulted in much tur-moil in the bureau-cratic circles. Even Local Self govern-ment minister Shanti Dhariwal objected to the same and ob-served that Division-al commissioner has no right to take ac-tion against any of-ficer of his depart-ment. Dhariwal said, “the divisional com-missioner has crossed all limits and the chief secretary should ensure that she does not do any similar act in the fu-ture.”

But there is other side of the coin as well. When Arushi was on a tour of Nagaur, she re-ceived several com-plaints against Jodhar-am and considering

the need for immediate action, she handed a charge-sheet to Jodhar-am without delay. This occurred after state government, through a special notification on February 18, 2020, gave powers to all divisional commissioners to take action under 17CC against civil servants in the division and therefore, Malik’s charge-sheet was in line with the special powers extended to the DCs.

Interestingly, Jodh-pur divisional com-missioner Samit Sharma has made a record of sorts in this matter as in the past three months, he

has handed not just one or two dozen, rather three thou-sand charge-sheets. Jodhpur is CM’s home division and no one is batting an eye-lid on Sharma’s ‘mar-athon actions’. There-fore, the uproar against Arushi’s single chargesheet has creat-ed divisions within the bureaucracy which is shell shocked.

Meanwhile, it is claimed that February 18 order is unclear and ambiguous. All said and done, as of now, Arushi hasn’t received any ‘message’ from the CS and the chargesheet against Jodharam stand as it is.

Ahtesham Siddiqui

Lucknow: In what could be termed as a shock to BSP supre-mo Mayawati’s Rajya Sabha ‘dreams’, on Wednesday five legis-lators of her party withdrew their sup-port from BSP candi-date, Ramji Gautam, for the upper house of the Indian Parlia-ment. The MLAs claimed that their signatures, as propos-ers for Ramji’s name as party candidate, had been forged. Fol-lowing the jolt, the rebel MLAs once again met Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akh-ilesh Yadav, fueling speculations of them joining the party soon. The MLAs had earlier met the SP chief on Tuesday, a meeting arranged by MLC Udayveer Singh.

It is also being said

that two more BSP leg-islators may follow suit with the rebel MLAs and join the Akhilesh Yadav-led party. However, no of-ficial statement on the matter has been issued from either of the par-ties yet. Rebel MLAs Aslam Chaudhary, Aslam Rainee, Mujta-ba Siddiqui, Hakim Lal Bind and Govind Jatav held a closed-door meeting with the SP supremo on Wednesday to seek tickets from the party.

A day ago, Chaud-hary’s wife had also joined the SP.

The Samajwadi Par-ty had nominated Prakash Bajaj as an independent candi-date, following which voting for one seat was considered fixed, and after the BSP MLAs’ withdrawal of their names as proposers, Bajaj’s victory was considered almost cer-tain. However, late in the evening, a major surprise sprung up when Bajaj’s nomina-

tion was rejected while that of BSP’s Ramji Gautam’s nomi-nation was termed le-gal which has majorly dented SP’s game plan. The returning officer found several discrep-ancies in Bajaj’s nom-ination including wrongly spelt name and therefore his nom-ination was rejected. Interestingly, al-though the proposer’s for BSP candidate Ramji Gautam with-drew their support,BSP surprised the ‘re-bels’ by claiming that while the two sets have withdrawn, its third set is complete! Mean-while, it is believed that Bajaj will move High Court in the mat-ter, and if the court does not entertain his plea, then all the can-didates, including BSP’s Gautam, would be elected without op-position!

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Interestingly there was an apparent dullness in Swarup’s body language as well on Wednesday. Notably, CM Gehlot made two phone calls to the ‘relevant people’ on Wednesday over the mat-ter but to no avail and it is believed that he will initiate the process for appointment of a new CS on Thursday. Probably, for now, Veenu Gupta could be given the addi-tional charge of CS since she, Usha Sharma, and Niranjan Arya are said to be front runner for the position but there is a fair chance of a woman being appointed CS this time. While everyone in-cluding state polity was waiting for a reply from the centre, no one had thought of the next pro-cess but it is believed that principal secretary to CM, Kuldeep Ranka has already done his ‘homework’ in this re-gard to be put up before the CM.

DAY OF ‘RECKONING’ FOR SP AS BSP STILL IN FORAY FOR RSEven as 5 BSP MLAs withdraw support from party’s RS candidate and meet SP’s Akhilesh Yadav, BSP’s Gautam still touted to win election as independent candidate, backed by SP, Prakash Bajaj’s nomination gets rejected

UPSC finalises 3 member panel for DGP, all eyes now on Gehlot!

Dr Rituraj Sharma

New Delhi: One of the most awaited an-nouncement for Ra-jasthan bureaucracy will be made in the next couple of days wherein the final name for the post of Director Gener-al of Police would be announced. The post is currently being held in acting capacity by DG (Crime) ML Lathar, who is touted to be the next DGP of the state, however, till Wednes-day the three member panel finalised by Un-ion Public Service Com-mission (UPSC) had not reached the state govt, although during the day a meeting was held

in UPSC where final panel was approved.

Even though the three names have been short-listed, formal an-nouncements of the names has not been made however, on the basis of seniority, it is safe to deduce, that names of ML Lathar, Rajeev Dasot and AK Mishra will be includ-ed. According to pro-cess, after the approval

of the minutes, the panel is sent to the state government in a sealed envelope. Once the en-velope reaches the state government, the CM is handed the same on the basis of which he gives the final nod to one name, after which final order for appointment of DGP is issued.

Highly placed sourc-es claim that Lathar is the front runner in the

race for the coveted post and since all hints point to the fact that his name would be included in the panel, he would be named as next DGP, a job he is currently car-rying out in acting ca-pacity after Bhupendr Yadav’s voluntary re-tirement and subse-quent appointment to Rajasthan Public Ser-vice Commissioner as its Chairman.

AK Mishra

Arushi Malik Jodharam

Rajeev DasotML Lathar

Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav

No extension to Swarup, search on for next CS!

Speedy Justice being provided due to innovations, says Gehlot Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has said that the Rajasthan Police should prepare itself to curb the crimes commit-ted by misusing social media and cyber technol-ogy. “For the investiga-tion of such crimes, the police should set up a pool of expert police per-sonnel to reach the crim-inals,” Gehlot said while reviewing issues related to law and order and crime control at the Chief Minister’s resi-dence on Wednesday night.

The Chief Minister said that with innova-tions like women help desk, reception hall, stu-

dent self-defense skills scheme, quick disposal of cases, FIR registra-tion in police stations, establishment of RajCop Citizen App, Command and Control Center, Cy-ber Training Lab, the common people are re-

ceiving speedy justice. “In order to enable the

public to go to the police stations without any fear and file an FIR, instruc-tions were issued in May last year that complaints of every complainant should be lodged in the

police stations. The re-sult of this decision is that according to NCRB figures, registration of FIR in the state has in-creased,” he said. It was informed at the meeting that the Cabinet Sub-Committee has sum-moned Colonel Kirodi Singh Bainsla and other members of the Gurjar Reservation Conflict Committee to Jaipur for talks on Thursday.

It was informed at the meeting that 979 master technicians have been prepared and 4 thousand 38 thousand girls and 28 thousand 236 women have been trained for self-defense against in-novations against fe-male crimes.

CM REVIEW OF LAW AND ORDER

Average time of investigation in cases of rape has decreased from 267 to 118

days, the Chief Minister observed

BJP’S DOUBLE AGENTS!

The seriousness of any upcoming politician is

measured by the public by his ability to get works done and more so at the time when the ‘political environment’ is not conducive to the politician. Since politics is all about survival, it would not be wrong in the eyes of many to make friends in the ‘opposite side’ to get some work done and in return provide some information to the rival party. Well, it appears that two

small time politicians of the saffron party have actually realized that ‘information’ is key to survival and the duo are now playing the role of a ‘double agent’. without fail the duo reach the BJP headquarters where they pay their ‘respects’ to senior leaders and generally who ever they come across and after spending some time and gathering the ‘news’ about the party, the duo take leave and head straight to meet a well known Congress leader from Jaipur where they share

the details, talk on various topics in detail and then make their ‘move’ of handing a few works that they want to get done to shine their ‘politics’. the Congress leader, knowing all, obliges a little and gets the work done to keep them in tether hooks so that they bring more news of the rival party! —Aishwary Pradhan

NO ‘SHOK’ BECAUSE OF ASHOK!

The The Rajasthan Government has been

fighting Corona on all fronts in an exemplary manner, something that has been appreciated not just by other state governments and health experts but Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well. Gehlot’s ‘charsimatic’ leadership during

this critical phase has been liked by not just his peers but even the junior politicians as well. During the ‘Sanwad’ program held on Monday, where the chief minister spoke at length with several participants, Dr Poshwal from Jhalwar, while praising Gehlot, said, “Even the God knows that there is Ashok Gehlot in Rajasthan, hence he keeps ‘shok’ (sorrow) away from Rajasthan and that is why the people are assured of Corona treatment too.” —Naresh Sharma

CM Ashok Gehlot

COVID-19 UPDATE

RAJASTHAN1,867

DEATHS1,89,844

CONFIRMED CASES

GUJARAT 3,704 DEATHS 1,70,053 CASES

DELHI 6,396 DEATHS 3,70,014 CASES

WORLD11,76,112

DEATHS4,45,57,331

CONFIRMED CASES

INDIA80,22,264CONFIRMED CASES

1,20,387DEATHS

MAHARASHTRA43,554 DEATHS 16,60,406 CASES

TAMIL NADU10,983 DEATHS 7,14,235 CASES

KARNATAKA11,046 DEATHS 8,12,784 CASES

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any generations, belea-guered by destiny and sad-ness have hummed – “dun-iya banana wale… kaahe ko duniya banayi?” Teesri Kasam flows like a river, softly, gently bubbling over

the stones towards its final desti-nation of the ocean.

Even as we sway with Raj Ka-poor and Waheeda Rehman, get caught up in their love and tender-ness, we know the inevitable loss in which this story will end.

As far as I am concerned this was one of the finest performanc-es by Raj Kapoor and Waheeda, understated, dignified and heart rendingly realistic. Both of them did full justice to their characters, of a rustic bullock cart owner and a nautanki performer.

The film is based on Phanish-war Nath’s short story Mare Gaye Gulfam and surprisingly fared

poorly when released. The film beautifully captures the rural ethos, many shots and the play of light remind me of Bimal Roy. The love story of Hiraman and Hirabai unfolds like a flower in the early

morning as the rays of the sun fall on it. Raj Kapoor as Hiraman won me over with his simple rustic charm and Waheeda as Hirabai, his wistful lover gives a remarka-ble performance bringing a sensi-

tivity to her role and shining it with her amazing dance perfor-mances.

The movies and the songs flow effortlessly together. Sajanre Jhoot Mat Bolo, Sajanwa Bairi Ho Gaye Hamar, Duniya Bananewale and Pan Khaye Saiyan Humaro,each song is a classic.

One of my favourite scenes is when Waheeda cooks for him but he won’t relent enough to eat. She bares her heart to him and he melts, sitting down to pour his heart out when suddenly the nau-tanki music is heard loudly out-side! Oh! The bite of reality on the face of Raj Kapoor! The climax where a beautiful tragic Waheeda says “Main bik chuki hun Hira”, still breaks my heart. And when a heart broken Raj Kapoor comes back to his bullocks and raises a whip to make them move, he hears Waheeda’s voice “maaro mat” and turns to look inside his cart, which shows a receding train carrying her away from him through the open tarpaulin. What a scene! And then he takes the Teesri Kasam!

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This Throwback Thursday, City First undertakes the journey of Teesri Kasam on a bullock cart swayed and soothed by the melodious songs of this poetic film!

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Often chemicals used in hair products have harmful effects on our vision, endo-crine and nervous system, as toxins enter our blood-stream via dermal absorp-tion. That’s a huge price to pay for treatments that can be superficial, inadequate and temporary at best. The Ayurvedic approach on the other hand is fundamen-tally holistic and 100% nat-ural. It aims at identifying the root cause of damage, which is usually far be-neath the surface.

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The primary source of Prana or life force comes from the food we eat; it di-rectly impacts our tissue

growth and cellular quality. Certain nutrient rich foods like organic dairy, carrots, beets, green leafy vegeta-bles, healthy fats like nuts, seeds and Ghee are particu-larly supportive of healthy hair.

2.STRESS MANAGEMENT AND BEAUTY SLEEP

When the body is in a state of chronic stress (like during a pandemic) the de-preciative effect makes bone tissue particularly vulnerable by robing its nu-tritional requirements. Stress becomes a primary cause of hair woes, as bone tissue is unable to spare nu-trition for its by-product in question. Restful sleep and relaxation will reduce stress and promote opti-mum tissue nutrition. Just 15 minutes of regular Pra-nayama practice can radi-cally improve our overall wellbeing.

3.MIRACLE POTIONS OF AYURVEDIC HERBS AND OILS

What we apply on our scalp immediately enters our body through dermal absorption. So while it is a good idea to steer clear of toxic chemicals, it is also important to opt for in-tensely nourishing herbs. The most effective Ayurve-dic herbs for scalp and hair are -

BRAHMI: Perhaps the most important nervine herb used to revitalize brain cells and the nervous system. It balances the right and left hemispheres

of the brain, while improv-ing concentration and of course hair health.

BHRINGRAJ : the “ruler of hair” is naturally rejuve-nating and anti aging which makes it control greying and baldness. When applied as oil on the scalp it calms the mind and promotes sound sleep. In many ways it is similar to Brahmi.

AMLA – an intensely reju-venating Ayurvedic herb that rebuilds and maintains new tissues leading to soft-er, smoother hair.

HIBISCUS FLOWER - It helps purify the blood, promoting skin clarity and hair growth.

FENUGREEK – a good herb-al food to prevent hair fall and thinning.

All of these herbs are now commonly available and can be mixed with warm carrier oils like sesa-me or coconut oil; alter-nately readymade oil decoc-tions can be purchased from reliable and certified brands.

Yogurt deserves special

mention for being a great hair mask. Packed with nu-trients like Riboflavin (re-vives dull hair), Niacin (prevents hair loss), Biotin (restores damaged hair) and Vitamin B12 (boosts hair growth and keeps dan-druff away) yogurt is a great food for hair. Use it as a hair pack, amplify its ben-efits by adding powdered herbs or simply include it in your regular diet for healthy hair and scalp.

The combination of a nu-tritive diet, restful sleep, stress free living, regular oil massages and the strate-gic use of Ayurvedic herbs will support optimal physi-cal and mental health, radi-ant beauty and a vibrant sense of wellness in every aspect of your life.

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LEOJULY 24 - AUGUST 23

You may need to deal with an old problem to get over a hump. You could be craving a connection or

mission through what you do, experience, and learn. You might take the time to feel, learn about, and understand your desires and drives rather than rush to satisfy them.

LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22

You might need to take a look at the hard issues in a partnership so that you can later take action to make

some important changes. Instead, others can stir up strong feelings in you, which can be very revealing, leading to new goals, particularly related to relationships.

ARIESMAR 21 - APR 20

There can be some diffi culty keeping your cool if you feel blocked. You can discover strong feelings

and desires now that almost beg you to make changes, but it may not be clear where to begin. Avoid pushing matters, but pay attention to what emerges.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22

Your emotions and desire nature are playing off one another. Emotions are strong and perhaps

disruptive, but feelings that emerge today can be enlightening. Still, it may be best to take your time before jumping to conclusions. The desire to approach something can be strong.

GEMINIMAY 21 - JUNE 21

Networking or a friendship stimulates all sorts of feelings now. A former friend or simply a strong

memory of a past situation can fi gure strongly. Your feelings about a friendship matter can be more intense than usual, or unrest with friends and lovers may push to the surface.

AQUARIUSJAN 21 - FEB 19

While it can be emotionally charged at times, you may get the chance to deal with a problem area once and for

all. Disorder with communications or transportation can be disruptive now, prompting you to make important changes and improvements. Aim to tame impatience.

TAURUSAPR 21 - MAY 20

Feelings erupting now can be quite revealing. This energy pushes trouble areas to the foreground for

handling. Emotions bubbling up to the surface are strong and perhaps a little surprising since they can be based on previously buried anger or desires.

CAPRICORNDEC 23 - JAN 20

You might learn a lot about something that has been slowing you down or tripping you up. Challeng-

ing family or home life issues could emerge now. Pay close attention to resentment that seems to emerge out of nowhere. Energies run high for home-related activities today.

VIRGOAUG 24 - SEP 23

There can be some animation in your inner world today. You may very well revisit an old topic or

strong memory that’s likely to deepen your mood and perspective. You might tackle tricky power dynamics with someone. A few projects may be put aside today.

CANCERJUNE 22 - JULY 23

You are feeling the need for more inspiration when it comes to your goals. Aim to draw upon the

strength of your feelings to be productive and take the initiative, but it’s not the time to make big decisions. The need or desire to return to an old work is strong today.

PISCESFEB20 - MARCH 20

You’re in good shape for sniffi ng out overlooked assets, attending to fi nancial affairs and

valuables, and discovering ways to boost your comfort. This transit may very well set up the discovery of an untapped resource. Consider that you may be tired of the usual routine.

SCORPIOOCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

Your focus can be on putting the details together, and you can be hellbent on resolving a problem. Going

over old ground may be the key. There can be stronger emotional reactions than usual, which can be very revealing. Somethings can dominate your life.

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An Ayurvedic guide to gorgeous frizz-free hair that is healed from the inside out

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Music icon Jennifer Lopez and Rebbeca star Armie Ham-mer are reportedly

set to star in Lionsgate’s ac-tion-comedy Shotgun Wed-ding. Pitch Perfect‘s Jason

Moore will direct from a screenplay by Mark Hammer and Liz Meriwether.

Erin Westerman, President of Production

for Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group said, “Jen-nifer and Armie’s irresist-ible magnetism, separate-ly and together, make them the perfect pairing for this action-comedy.” “They are

both incredibly funny actors that can also de-liver on the action, but what sets this movie apart is the way their infectious chemistry commands the screen. You can’t

take your eyes off them,” he added.

—Agency

Walking down the memory lane, actor and former Miss Universe Lara Dut-ta Bhupathi on Wednes-

day recalled being crowned as Miss Universe 2000. She to Instagram to

post a collage of three pictures when she returned to Bangalore after winning the Miss Universe pageant. She also added a short note recalling winning the pag-eant 20 years ago. “Year 2000. My home town of Bengaluru came out in full force to give me the biggest, grandest welcome I have ever experienced!!” she wrote in the caption. — ANI

Aditya Roy Kapur has opted out of Ek Villain 2 and signed an-other actioner, to be produced by Ahmed Khan. The big budg-

eted project, has been titled Om. While Adi is already prepping up for the role, and working on getting a particular body prototype to suit the character.

there were several speculations about who the leading lady

would be. A source con-firms the development, “Ahmed was scouting for a young Gen-Y ac-tress who would not only look great opposite Adi but also be a fresh pairing on screen. They have locked Dil Bechara

heroine Sanjana Sanghi for the film.” —Agency

‘NAAGIN’ IN TRILOGY

Bollywood star Shraddha Ka-poor is set to essay the role of a shapeshift ‘naagin’ for the first time for a trilogy

titled ‘Nagin’ to be helmed by Vishal Furia.

Film critic Taran Adarsh con-firmed the same on Twitter on Wednesday.

“IT’S OFFICIAL... #Shrad-dhaKapoor to portray ichhad-haari nagin... The film - ti-tled #Nagin - is designed as

a trilogy, 3-film series... Directed by Vishal Fu-

ria... Produced by Nikhil Dwivedi. In the past, #ReenaRoy, #Rekha, #Sridevi had portrayed ich-hadhaari nagin on big screen,” he

tweeted. —ANI

im Kardashian who turned 40 just last week, recently flew back home to LA with sister Ken-dall Jenner and Scott Disick after celebrating her milestone birth-day with a beach getaway on a pri-

vate island in the Caribbean. The reality star was spotted at an airport in Los Angeles on Monday.

Before her luxe getaway, Kim had quite the week cel-ebrating her big 40.

The reality star and make-up mogul was treated to an equal luxe birthday party in LA before her intimate geta-

way. On her birthday, Kim’s family, including her mother Kris Jenner, husband Kanye West, and sisters: Khloe Kar-dashian, Kourtney Kardashi-an, Kylie Jenner, Kendall Jenner, and many more friends of the Kardashian family threw a lavish sur-prise for the SKIMS founder.

—Agency

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KIM RETURNS!

The hype around Am-azon Prime Video’s ‘Mirzapur 2’ was on an all-time high af-

ter the huge success of the first season, which ended on a cliffhanger. Ardent fans of the action crime drama waited for close to two years to know the fate of the main characters.

After the huge success of Mirzapur 2, In an exclu-sive interview with City First, the actors shared how the second season of ‘Mirzapur’ became heavy for them in certain scenes.

Not just that their char-acters’ arcs are as dramat-

ic but they hold their own in this extremely patriar-chal world. The leading ladies, Rasika Dugal and Harshita Gaur revealed the interesting develop-ments and the transition that their characters – Bee-na Tripathi and Dimpy, undergo, and what attract-ed them to this fictional ‘world of goons’.

While Dugal says she ex-tremely happy with the way Beena “flourishes” in the second instalment. “At the end of season one, you see how my character has been violated and humili-ated. Season two starts at a point where you see her trying to deal with that and finding herself. It’s a beautiful journey. When I saw that in the script I was very happy because I had not expected that they

would spend time on my character,” says the ac-tress.

While Isha Talwar (Mad-huri) expressed her happi-

ness on being called “Na-tional Crush”, she says, “The creators have touched upon how they reach the point of revenge

and that has made Mad-huri’s journey extremely fascinating as she falls for Munna’s character.”

On asking Priyanshu

Painyuli (Robin) about his character, he said, “The love and reaction I received for my character was beyond imagination. Especially my stories of my mom unfold in a humorous way and my takiya kalam, ‘Ye bhi theek hai’ is on everyone’s lips.”

When asked about how the actors relate their reel life character with real

life’s, Dugal said, she is to-tally the opposite and least manipulative while Har-shita told how her reel and real-life character is simi-lar in terms of her equa-tion with her father.

Well, all the actors re-mained silent about the third season, we couldn’t find out who will rule Mir-zapur!.

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hrissy Teigen and John Legend had some heartbreaking news to share with their fans. Due to several compli-cations, Chrissy had a miscarriage

and the couple had to say goodbye to their third child who they had already named Jack. Teigen shared her thoughts on how she has been since the tragic event and what went through her mind during her miscarriage.

“I cannot express how little I care that you hate the photos. How little I care that it’s something you wouldn’t have done. I lived it, I chose to do it, and more than anything, these photos aren’t for anyone but the people who have lived “Teigen stated. —Agency

SHOTGUN Wedding’s star cast

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend

Kim Kardashian

Sanjana Sanghi

Aditya Roy Kapur

Jennifer Lopez

Poster of ‘Mirzapur’

Shraddha Kapoor

Lata Dutta’s post

Still from the series

CITY FIRST

Dinesh Gaur is c o n t e s t i n g elections on the BJP ticket

from Ward No 137 in the Greater Municipal Corporation Jaipur election. He has been active in politics since his stu-dent days and was associated with the Akhil Bharatiya Vid-yarthi Parishad (ABVP) and then joined the BJP.

Gaur has launched a strong public relations campaign in his. They go out every morning and evening for public relations with their

colleagues and ded-icated BJP workers,

seek blessings of the elders and make the youth their friends. The residents under-stand the issues of de-velopment in the ward and also explain to the voters their vision of development of the

ward. Due to the local land holdings, they also know the problems of this area very well.

While interacting, they follow all the guidelines and proto-cols of COVID security so that the ward dwell-ers can remain safe.

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hopping is an essen-tial part of every-one’s lives, especial-ly for the ones who have been at home for the longest time. Since the Coro-

navirus outbreak, most people have not had the chance to step out of the house and shop for themselves. Well, this is where online shopping comes into action. But that’s not it- there are various ques-tions that pop up in one’s mind while shopping online nowadays about the safety

and transfer of the virus.To make it easier and

stress-free for you to shop on-line, reports say that there is a very low risk of the Coro-

navirus spreading through the package that has been shipped over a period of days

or weeks at ambient temperatures.

City First got in touch with a few online shopping enthu-siasts from Rajasthan and Gujarat to find out the pre-cautions they have been tak-ing for the same.

BE PRECAUTIOUSSince digitalization is at its peak at the moment because of the global pandemic, online shopping has taken a great leap. City First gets in touch with a few shopping enthusiasts about the precautions they are taking for the same!

SNEHAL [email protected]

As soon as I receive my order, I make sure to sanitize it. I also

make sure the delivery man is maintain-ing social distanc-ing, and yes most

importantly, I have stopped using the COD option. I now prefer going for pre-paid orders as that is the safest thing to do at the moment.

—- RJ PRATIKSHA DAVE

Online shopping has rap-idly increased in just a few months. It is very easy to

shop online from the comfort of your home from e-com-merce websites these days. But with easy shopping comes with a lot of precautions. Make

sure to sanitize the package and keep it aside for 24 hours to kill all the germs and bacteria. In the case of clothing, make sure to wash them before wearing them.

—ASHLESHA AHLUWALIA

Purchasing products online and getting them delivered at your doorstep

is one of the safest things one can do dur-ing the ongoing pandemic, given that we take necessary precautions.

I always sanitize the packages before opening it and dispose off the empty box immediately, disinfect the surfaces, wash thoroughly my hands and except perishable food items I keep the purchases untouched for a day atleast. —SHIVANGI KANT

Mohan Singh Tada celebrated his birthday on Wednesday, 28 November with family and close friends. He also donated food grains and winter clothing to the needy.

Following Passion

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS!

CITY FIRST

The AAWAJ program started by Rajasthan Police was conduct-ed online with Tagore Interna-tional School from Police

Head Quarter Jaipur on Wednesday. The youth of Tagore International

School from 9th to 12th were strengthened by giving various legal information. The joint aegis program of Rajasthan Police and Tagore Internation-al School focused on giving youth the complete information about all kinds of laws and how to avoid crime and criminals, as well as efforts were made to develop a sense of respect for women so that those who face sexual harassment feel safe.

This program was started by ADG

Civil Rights Ravi Prakash and all le-gal information is continuously be-ing provided to the youth by SP See-ma Hingonia as the keynote speaker.

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AAWAJ program

Actors Himanshi Khurana and Asim Riaz were spotted at Jaipur International Airport on Wednesday afternoon. They are in the Pink City for the shoot of an upcoming project.

—PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO

SPOTTED!

CITY FIRST

Ra j a s t h a n C u l t u r e Heritage’s final pro-

mo shoot took place at Talab-gaon Castle Re-sort in the Pink City on Wednes-day, with utmost precautions. The models were seen wearing the Rajputi outfits by fashion de-signer Hitesh Chatwani, to pro-mote the Ra-jasthani culture. The good thing about the shoot was that fresher models were also encour-

aged and given great exposure, with the profession-

al ones guiding them throughout. The makeup artist

of the final shoot was Seema Saraf.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING!

There is no shortcut to success. To achieve something in life, determination, hard work and will power are the necessary components and those who are never

afraid of any struggle comes on their way al-ways win. This is the story of a Software Engi-neer turned into a successful model, Bidya Shukla.

The sheer determination, hard work and pas-sion for her dream helped her become a success-ful model. Bidya Shukla has also acted in Mul-tiple Ad films. She dreams of being a big star for the country and considers Manushi Chillar as her role model. —City First

ELECTION TIME

HAPPY B’DAY!

IAS (UP) Ashutosh Kumar Dwivedi, IPS (RAJ) Sharad Choudhary and IPS (RAJ) Rajan Dushyant celebrated their birthdays on 28 October, Wednesday. We wish them all the best!

PROMO SHOOT-PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA

RAJ: After a successful ‘Mission30M’ campaign, the Robin Hood Army (RHA) is gearing up for the upcoming festivities and planning to conduct clothes drives, food drives, and activity drives to share the joy of celebration with the less privileged sections of our society.

GUJ: Residence of the Dariyapur area made a replica of the Madina Mosque, for Prophet Mohammad’s Birth Anniversary in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI

RAJ: The Jai Bagh Palace on the outskirts of Pink City has made its place in one of the top hotels in Jaipur, in a very short period of time. The construction of Jai Bagh is full of Rajasthani rich construction culture tradition, known for marriage events and its special services.

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