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A medic administers first dose of Covishield vaccine on Dr. Bilquees Shah in Srinagar on Saturday.

Dr PC Dandiya the 93-year-old emeritus professor of SMS Medical College, Jaipur was administered the coronavirus vaccine. Dr Dandiya came forward voluntarily for the vaccination and was second in line after college principal Dr Sudhir Bhandari to get vaccinated on the launch of the campaign. P3

PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI AT THE LAUNCH OF THE PAN-INDIA ROLLOUT OF COVID-19 VACCINATION DRIVE, VIA VIDEO CONFERENCING, IN NEW DELHI ON SATURDAY. —PHOTOS BY PTI

CORONA WARRIORS GET VACCINATED

Army’s ‘charismatic work’ during India-China standoff boosted morale: RajnathM Tariq Khan

Lucknow: The “com-mendable” work done by the Indian Army during the India-China standoff raised the mo-rale and pride of the country, said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday.

“During India-China standoff, commendable work of Indian Army has raised the morale of the country, and lift-ed its head with pride,” said the minister while addressing the attend-ees at foundation laying ceremony of a new hos-pital at Headquater Central Command, in Lucknow. Also present on the occasion were UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and chief of the army staff, Gen-eral MM Narvane and GOC-in-C Lieutenant General IS Ghuman.

Singh said the con-struction of the hospi-tal in the New Year gives the hope that it will be a year of the so-

lution and excite met. “The hospital is being

constructed in the new year. This new construc-tion gives us a message that if last year was that of obstacles, this year will be that of solutions. If last year was that of despair, this year will be that of excitement,” he said. He commended the authorities for relocat-ing rather than cutting trees while clearing land for the building.

The minister said that the world never imag-ined it will have to deal

with the pandemic, but in India, under the lead-ership of Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi, pre-cautionary measures started on time.

“Today vaccination drive has started. India has developed its own vaccine, and many oth-ers are in the develop-ment process. We will not only fulfill our own demand for vaccines but also supply it to dif-ferent parts of the world because, for India, the whole world is a family,” he added. Turn to P6

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh along with Chief of Army Staff Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane (left) and Chief Minister Yogi Aditiyanath during the Bhoomi Pujan and foundation laying ceremony of New Command Hospital in Lucknow on Saturday.

In a virtual address, emotional PM Modi paid tribute to scientists and healthcare workers across country

INDIA TAKES ITS SHOT AS PM REFUTES RUMOURS

Mohd Fahad

New Delhi: Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi, launching India’s giant vaccination drive on Saturday, paid tribute to frontline workers and scientists and warned citizens against falling for propaganda or ru-mours over vaccines.

Giving India a new motto - “Dawai bhi, Ka-dai bhi (yes to Vaccine, yes to discipline)” - PM Modi also cautioned that even after vaccina-tion, citizens must stay vigilant and maintain all precautions as 1.91 lakh were administered vaccines on the first day.

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RML DOCTORS RAISE RED FLAG ON COVAXIN New Delhi: The Resi-dent Doctors’ Associa-tion (RDA) of the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Saturday requested the medical superin-tendent to vaccinate them with Covishield. In a letter to the medical superintendent, the as-sociation said the resi-dent doctors were “a bit apprehensive” about Covaxin and might not participate in the immu-nisation drive in large numbers thus defeat-ing the purpose of the exercise which began in the country on Satur-day. “Covaxin is being preferred in our hospital over Covishield, which hasn’t completes trial process,” letter read.

MAHA SUSPENDS VACCINATION OVER ISSUES WITH CoWIN APPMaharashtra suspended COVID-19 vac-cinations till Monday because of technical issues with the centre’s software platform for managing the programme, news agency ANI reported on Saturday. Meanwhile, the state recorded 14 cases of adverse events, none of them fatal, on Day 1 of the vaccination rollout.

BIOTECH TO PAY COMPENSATION IF COVAXIN CAUSES SIDE EFFECTSIn the consent form to be signed by the vaccine recipients, Bharat Biotech said, “In case of any adverse events or serious adverse events, you will be provided medically recognised standard of care in the government designated and authorised centres/hospitals. The compensation for serious adverse event will be paid by sponsor (BBIL) in case if SAE is proven to be causally related to the vaccine.”

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said it

represents the determination of a

self-reliant India and is an important

milestone in the fight against the pandemic

—Amit Shah, Union Home Minister

Today, when we’ve developed our own vaccine, the world is looking at India

with hope —Narendra Modi,

Prime Minister

Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: The world’s largest corona vaccina-tion campaign began across the country on Saturday. In a watershed moment for the desert state, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday launched the first phase of COV-ID-19 vaccination drive

across the state from the Chief Minister’s Resi-dence through a virtual programme which was attended by Medical and Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma, along with Cabinet ministers, senior IAS officers, rep-resentatives of various institutions and BJP state president Satish Poonia.

With the launch of vaccination across the country at 11 am, the vaccination process was started at many centres in Rajasthan. Covid’s first vaccine in Rajasthan was given to Dr Sudhir Bhandari, principal of SMS Medi-cal College.

Gehlot said that even after getting vaccinat-ed, there is need to exer-cise caution to eradi-cate novel coronavirus and even after getting vaccinated, corona pro-tocol has to be followed to break the chain of

the virus. He said there should not be any ap-prehension about the vaccine, people should not worry as the dry runs have been con-ducted and it was de-clared safe. ‘’We all have been waiting for the coronavirus vaccine for long. Since the virus en-tered the district, the state government made all out efforts to contain it. Common man and corona warriors also helped in restricting the spread of the vi-rus,’’ Gehlot said.

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We all were eagerly waiting for this day: CMGEHLOT LAUNCHES VAX DRIVE IN STATE

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot during launch of the covid vaccination drive in Rajasthan.

n We will set an example in vax drive just like we did in Corona management: CM

n CM urges people not to be complacent even as drive begins across state

Jaipur: Chairman of Rajasthan Staff Selection Board Dr. Babu Lal Jatawat (retired IAS) re-signed on Saturday following criticism over paper leaks of JEN exam and postponing the patwari exam. The opposition BJP and RLP leaders have been demanding his removal. The state government has accepted his resignation with immediate ef-fect, said official sources. P2

RAJ SSB chief resigns

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Kashiram Chaudhary

Jaipur: Various aware-ness activities will be conducted under the road safety month which will be inaugu-rated on January 18.Transport minister Pratap Singh Khacha-riyawas will launch the month under which various activities like roadshows etc. will be conducted to spread awareness about road safety.

The inauguration

ceremony will be held at 10.30 am on January 18 at Jawahar circle which will also be at-

tended by the state minister Ashok Chan-dna, transport commis-sioner Ravi Jain and others.

Khachariyawas will also flag-off a cycle ral-ly which will go from Jawahar Circle to Malviya Nagar and will culminate at Jawahar Circle.

Driving schools, NGOs, vehicle dealers will also contribute in the month-long cam-paign, transport minis-ter Ravi Jain said.

Min to launch Road Safety monthAWARENESS ACTIVITIES

AMID PAPER LEAK ROW, RSSB CHAIRMAN RESIGNSBoard faced criticism for JEN paper leak and anomalies in other examsFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Chairman of Rajasthan staff selec-tion board (RSSB) Dr. Babu Lal Jatawat (re-tired IAS) resigned on Saturday following crit-icism over paper leaks of JEN exam leading to cancellation of the exam and postponing the patwari exam. The opposition BJP and RLP leaders have been demanding his remov-al. The state govern-ment has accepted his resignation with imme-diate effect, said official sources.

Jatawat had initially denied paper leak but later cancelled the JEN exam affecting more than 31,000 candidates. Jatawat confirmed his resignation to the media

but did not mention any reason for the move. He is believed to have re-signed due to all-around political pressure. The board had on December 29 last year canceled the JEN recruitment exam-ination held on Decem-ber 6 due to paper leak.

The board also post-poned the Patwari re-cruit.ment exam 2019 which was to be held in three phases in Janu-ary this year. More than 31 thousand students took the JEN exam for 533 posts. About 13 lakh candidates have been

waiting for the Patwari exam also.

Former CM Vasund-hara Raje, state BJP president Satish Poonia had cornered the state government over the paper leak. Rajya Sabha MP Kirodi Lal Meena had taken out a rally re-

garding the JEN exam and demanded that the exam be canceled.

RLP convener and Nagaur MP Hanuman Beniwal on Thursday tweeted to state Chief Minister Ashok Ge-hlot demanding the removal of Jatawat and file a criminal case against him.

Bird flu: Over 5,000 birds died in less than a monthJaipur: A total of 215 birds were found dead within a day in the state, reported the State’s Animal Hus-bandry Department on Saturday. The depart-ment also said around 5,130 birds have died in the state since Decem-ber 25, 2020.

The avian flu has af-fected 17 districts across the state who are strug-gling to contain the spread of influenza. Many states have al-ready banned the entry of poultry from other states, which are on ‘Avian Flu Alert’. This has also led to the loss in poultry business across the country.

As bird flu cases were detected across 10 states in the country, PM Nar-endra Modi said on Jan-uary 11 that the poultry farms, zoos, and water bodies will be continu-ously monitored to con-tain the disease. —ANI

Candidates of JEN and other exams had protested in December last year over various anomalies.

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UDH seeks proposals for ‘Prashashan Shahron Ke Sang’ campaign

Cong will face defeat in 90 civic bodies: Poonia

Abhishek Shrivastav

Jaipur: The Urban de-velopment and housing department has sought proposals for 13 types of works from all devel-opment authorities and UITs for the ‘Pra-shashan Shahron Ke Sang’ campaign.

The proposals have been sought regarding regularisation of agri-cultural land, slum ar-eas, land-use change, transfer of unaccount-ed for land, leasing un-der state grant act, per-mission for the build-ing construction, name transfer, Chief Minis-ter Jan Awaas Yojana,

building regulations 2020, township policy 2010, etc.

Under this, the bod-ies will have to send a proposal to the depart-ment regarding chang-

es in the existing rules, bye-laws, laws, orders, and notification to re-move the obstacles coming in these works.

It will also have to be explained in the pro-

posal why the change is required and why should relaxation be given. The department has asked the bodies to send the proposals in a prescribed format.

Aishwary Pradhan

Jaipur: BJP state pres-ident Satish Poonia on Saturday exuded confi-dence in getting a re-sounding victory in the elections of the upcom-ing 90 civic bodies in the state.

He said that the par-ty will organise a big agitation on the issue of complete loan waiv-er of all farmers be-fore the upcoming bye-lections in three as-sembly constituencies in the state.

“Due to anti-people

policies of the Con-gress government, the people of the state have rejected the Con-gress and this reflect-

ed in the results of recently held Pan-chayati raj elections in 21 districts,” he told reporters.

Shanti Dhariwal

MISCREANTS LOOT SIKAR TOLL PLAZAFirst India Bureau

Sikar: The fear of police in Ajitgarh area seems to no more terrorise mis-creants. After looting the toll plaza a day back, the robbers once again loot-ed the toll giving a tough time to the police. The shocking incident is of the Triveni toll block on Shahpura road. The ac-cused took away Rs 2 lakh on Thursday night and on Friday night too they managed to flee with Rs 20,000 cash.

On getting informa-tion late in the night, Deputy Superintendent of Police Girdhari Lal Sharma reached Ajit-garh. According to the police, the general man-ager and owner of Trive-ni toll, Naresh Kumar and Pradeep Kumar were sitting in their vehicle on Triveni toll at 1:00 am on Friday night. Suddenly a Scorpio car coming from

Shahpura stopped half a kilometre away from the toll and a dozen crooks came out and started vandalizing the car of the toll authorities. They somehow managed to save themselves.

The police detained a miscreant from the spot but the others managed to escape. DSP Girdhari Lal Sharma said that the police raided Manohar-pur and other places to arrest the accused but did not find anyone.

Woman SI killed in hit and runFirst India Bureau

Dausa: Sub-inspec-tor Seema Sharma, posted at Dausa Kot-wali police station, was killed in a hit and run incident on Saturday night. Sharma was stand-ing near Dausa po-lice lines when a speeding truck hit her, said ASP Anil Chauhan. She was immediately rushed to Hospital from where she was re-ferred to Jaipur in a critical condition.

1 hurt even as jailbreak bid foiled in Bhinmal

Woman ‘gang-raped’ by husband, his friends

First India Bureau

Jalore: An attempt was made to break into the Bhinmal sub-jail to free some in-mates late at night on Friday. The accused fired at the jail staff who cross fired in which one of the ac-cused was injured.According to the po-lice, three to four ac-cused came to Bhin-mal sub-jail late at night making plans to drive away their gang member, who is lodged in the jail. The miscreants cut-off the electricity supply

from the electric transformers near the jail leading to complete darkness in the jail.

Meanwhile, a per-son from these mis-creants called the constable and pre-tended to be from the electricity de-partment. As soon as the constable went near him, they attacked him and fired gunshots. In the morning, several officers including SP, SDM, and DSP reached the Bhinmal jail and inspected the entire jail.

First India Bureau

Jalore: A woman was allegedly gang-raped by friends of her hus-band in his presence. The incident has been reported from a village under Kotwali police station of the Jalore district. The police have filed a case on the complaint of the vic-tim’s mother and start-ed an investigation.

According to the po-lice, the woman has al-leged in her complaint that the husband of her daughter, who is a mother of three chil-dren, was gang-raped by friends of his son-in-law who were all drunk

at the time of the inci-dent on January 12.

The complaint men-tions that the victim was pushed and er feet were tied with an iron door after which the accused took turns to rape her. The next day, the victim shared her ordeal with her par-ents who took her to the SP office.

On the directions of Jalore Superintendent of Police Shyam Singh, the police have filed a case. DSP Kailash Ku-mar said that the police is investigating the whole matter and a medical team is check-ing the health of the victim.

POONIA WRITES TO CM, JAVADEKAR OVER TWO

LAKH TREE FELLINGJaipur: Raising the is-sue of the axing of two lakh green trees in Al-war, BJP state presi-dent Dr Satish Poonia has written a letter to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Union minister of environ-ment, forest, and cli-mate change Prakash Javadekar seeking ac-

tion in the matter.In his letter, he has

raised the concern of axing of two lakh trees consisting of Rosewood, Neem, Keekar, and Safeda on private land in Ram-garh tehsil of Alwar district. The economic loss is estimated to be around Rs 1.25 crore.

Lunaram Darji

Jalore: Five people were reported to be dead after a bus caught fire in Jalore on Satur-day night. The police confirmed the death of four people while several injured were rushed to a hospital.

As per initial re-ports, the incident happened in Ma-heshapura village as the bus came in con-tact of live electricity wires. There were

more than 40 passen-gers in the bus.

In November last year, three passengers were electrocuted when a private

bus coming from Delhi to Jaipur caught fire after hitting a high voltage electrici-ty transmission tow-er near Achrol.

Dr. Babu Lal Jatawat

A volunteer picks a sick bird in city.

Satish Poonia

Pratap Singh Khachariyawas

2ND LOOT IN 2 DAYS

5 dead as bus comes in contact with live wire

CLARIFICATION

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Vax is safest way to tide over Covid: Dr BhandariPrincipal of SMS medical college Dr Sudhir Bhandari became first person in Rajasthan to be administered a Covid vaccine on SaturdayVikas Sharma

Jaipur: Vaccination is the safest way to tide over the coronavirus pandemic, SMS Medical College principal Dr Su-dhir Bhandari said on Saturday, shortly after he became the first per-son in Rajasthan to be administered a Covid-19 vaccine.

“I am feeling very good. I believe it is the safest way to tide over the coronavirus. The vaccine is safe,” Bhandari told CM Ge-hlot through VC after receiving the shot. Ge-hlot, who inaugurated the inoculation drive in the state, during the VC had asked Bhandari what message he would like to give to those who

are going to be vaccinat-ed. Health minister Raghu Sharma interact-ed with the staff of a hos-pital in Kekri in Ajmer district while Pratap Singh Khachariyawas spoke to the health work-ers in Dholpur.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: A 93-year old emeritus professor of SMS medical college Dr PC Dandiya was also ad-ministered a vaccine for coronavirus on Satur-day. He came forward voluntarily for the vac-cination and was second after the principal of SMS medical college Dr Sudhir Bhandari to get vaccinated on the launch of the campaign.

“I am feeling good and excited,” he told report-ers after the vaccina-tion. On questions about the credibility of the vaccine, he said that the vaccine is safe and he

got vaccinated just to give a positive message to people. He said that people should trust the

scientists of the country.Earlier, he also attended a VC with CM Gehlot. He praised the initiatives of

the state government taken during the pan-demic.

Dandiya is a emeritus professor and he comes everyday to the hospital to assist in research and academic works. Dan-diya also expressed grief over the death of senior surgeon of the hospital Dr Dinesh Jin-dal, Dandiya’s student who died during the pandemic, saying he would be alive if there was a vaccine earlier.

Dandiya said that he informed his son, who lives in the US, that he was going for the vaccination and his son said “Very Good Dad” in reaction.

93-year-old doc gets the second jabJaipur: More than two dozen MLAs includ-ing those defected to Congress from BSP on Saturday called on CM Ashok Gehlot at his residence. The MLAs had also attended the inauguration of vac-cination programme. BJP state president Satish Poonia, MLAs Narpat Singh Rajvi, PR Meena, Indraj Gurjar, Rafi q Khan, Amin Kagzi, Gangadevi, Laxman Meena, Ved Prakash Solanki, Babulal Nagar, Gopal Meena, Alok Beniwal, chief whip Mahesh Joshi, deputy chief whip Mahendra Chaud-hary, Rajendra Gudha,

Joginder Awana, Wajib Ali, Deepchand, Lakhan Meena and Sandeep Yadav met Gehlot. MP Ramcharan Bohra also called on the CM. He held discussions with Deepchand, Lakhan Meena and Sandeep Yadav regarding case in Supreme Court. Dr Ashok Panagariya, Rajababu Panwar, Virendra Poonia, CS Rajan, Siddharth Ma-hajan, Mahendra Soni, Subodh Agarwal, Rohit Singh, Sudhansh Pant, Abhay Kumar, Bhaskar Sawant, DG M L Lather, DG ACB B L Soni and other IPS offi cers also met the chief minister Gehlot.

Leaders join Gehlot in the drive

JNU hospital participated actively in the fi rst phase of the campaign by successfully vaccinating over 100 Corona warriors with 'Covaxin'. Dr Sandeep Bakshi (Chancellor- Jaipur National University) appreciated the role of the Government and CM in ensuring a smooth and successful start of the campaign in Rajasthan.

Health workers at Zanana Hosp pose with vaccination record card on Saturday.

A Selfi e Time! An elated health worker after getting fi rst jab in city.Dr Sudhir Bhandari gets vaccinated as wife Rina looks on.

‘My student, Dr Dinesh Jindal would have been alive if there was a vaccine earlier’, Dr PC Dandiya told media on Saturday.

HAPPY FACES! Health workers gesture during the launch of covid-19 vaccine drive, at SMS hospital in Jaipur on Saturday.

The health personnel of the BSF deployed on the Indo-Pak border in Jaisalmer were administered the vaccine on Saturday. The vaccination drive was launched by DIG of North Sector AK Singh of the BSF. Ten health workers from sector 119 of the BSF and 40 personnel from Jaisalmer Air Force Station were vaccinated.

#JNU kicks off vax drive #Jab Jawans!

Vasundhara Raje@VasundharaBJP

Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaha, Sarve

Santu Niramaya! In accordance with the

hopes and aspirations of India, Respected

Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi ji has dedicated the corona

vaccine to the country. For which best wishes to all the countrymen

and thanks to our Corona Warriors.

WISHES BY GUV

Jaipur : Rajasthan BJP leaders claimed that the coronavirus vaccine drive launched on Sat-urday has increased the country’s credibility in the world. “PM Modi has increased India’s credibility by launching the world’s largest vac-cination campaign. It is a matter of pride for all Indians that two indige-nous vaccines were de-veloped in the country,” state BJP president Sat-ish Poonia told report-ers. Leader of Opposi-

tion in the state assem-bly Gulabchand Kataria expressed gratitude to PM Modi. Kataria said that when there was no vaccine for corona, sci-

entists across world got engaged in developing it. Due to encourage-ment of PM, Indian sci-entists developed two vaccines. — PTI

Jaipur: Two more cor-onavirus-related fatali-ties were reported in Rajasthan, taking the death toll to 2,746 on Saturday while 238 fresh cases pushed the infection tally to 3,14,920, officials said. The two deaths were re-ported from Jaipur and Bhilwara, they said. Of the fresh COVID-19 cas-es, a maximum of 56 cases were reported from Jaipur. —PTI

BJP leaders laud vax drive State records 2 Covid-19 deaths, 238 fresh cases

Satish Poonia alongwith (L) Vimal Katiyar, Jitendra Gothwal and Laxmikant Bhardwaj addressing media at BJP HQ on Saturday.

The health of 3 people worsened after vac-cination in Alwar.

Vaccination at 167 places in which 4.80 lakh health workers will be vaccinated in 1st phase.

In 2nd phase, frontline workers, police, defence, paramilitary, revenue department personnel will be covered.

People above 50 years will be vaccinated in the 3rd phase.

Data of more than 6 lakh people has been uploaded in the Covin software.

—PHOTOS BY SUMAN SARKAR & SANTOSH SHARMA

A ‘SHOT’ OF HOPE

CM Ashok Gehlot during state-level inauguration ceremony of corona vaccination through VC at CMR on Saturday where Shanti Dhariwal, Mamta Bhupesh, BD Kalla, Govind S Dotasra, Mahendra

Choudhary, Dr Raghu Sharma, Bhanwar S Bhati, Dr Subhash Garg, Pratap S Khachariyawas & Kuldeep Ranka were present and cheered Dr Sudhir Bhandari as he took the fi rst jab.

DHARMA KARMA!

12,258GET COVID JAB!

PERSPECTIVEJAIPUR | SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2021

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ince hindsight is always 20/20, and now we thankfully have 2020 in hind-

sight, it’s time to celebrate. In particular, to celebrate a commercially irrelevant but wondrous technology that might allow humans to fly through the air under our own power, like birds. This is the stuff of dreams.

One of the few virtues of the “Wonder Woman 1984” film I saw recently is that it shows a woman flying up in the air like a bird or a plane, just like 50 years ago we saw Superman fly through the air. Last month, I saw dozens of real human be-ings fly many stories into the air, lifted aloft from their surfboards by airfoil-kites powered by wind. Amazing to see and, I imag-ine, amazing to experience. But the age-old dream of human flight is simpler:

Can people fly in calm air, using their own power?

LIKE A BIRDThe fact that birds fly shows that we might be able to, too. We’re just heavier, so it’s harder, which is in fact a very gen-eral rule. Insects can fly with wings even tinier than their tiny bodies, but big birds like albatrosses and condors need wings way bigger than their bod-ies. Fortunately, that rela-tion is such a simple, uni-versal concept — weight per unit area — that with a little physics, we can calcu-late how much harder it might be for people to fly than condors. Then maybe, with some clever materials and design, we might bridge the gap. We might redo the Icarus story, using carbon fiber instead of wax and feathers.

Let’s say a condor weighs

roughly 15 kilograms and a human 60, making a nice round ratio of 1:4 in weight. The heavier-is-harder prin-ciple, called wing-loading, is based on body area. It says it will be twice as hard (square root of four) for us to fly, all else remaining equal.

So before getting to new stuff, let’s see what might actually remain equal. Condors and humans are

both warm-blooded verte-brates, so it’s a good guess human muscles can gener-ate as much average power-per-weight as condor mus-cles. And given the aerody-namic elegance that nature has evolved into soaring birds’ wings and feathers, it’s unlikely we humans could do much better than them for either lift or pro-pulsion. So the shape of the

next Icarus will have an aerodynamic efficiency at best as good as that of birds. What might be im-proved by a factor of two?

Birds are made of meat, bones and feathers. Not Kevlar (stronger than ten-don), carbon fiber (stiffer than bone) or plastic like Mylar (smoother and light-er than feathers). And they can’t inflate themselves like a balloon to the size of an airplane. So let’s imagine using our fanciest modern materials to build an ultra-light mechanical “bird.” The size of an airplane, smooth and tightly-inflat-ed, containing an ultra-light lattice woven entirely and seamlessly from car-bon fiber. This wing’s stiff-ness would mostly come from inflating the plastic.

That would leave the carbon-fiber lattice to ac-complish four other goals: deforming in response to

wind, to keep the wing from crinkling when bent; stiffening thin parts of the wing which pressurization can’t stiffen; “flapping” and “banking” the wings using human power; and carrying micro-vibrations from wing surfaces into the fingers and toes of the pilot, who would then “feel” the wings’ airflow much like birds do, using nerves in skin and bone.

Designing and building such an intricate, delicate airfoil would be expensive and unprofitable. Clearly, it would only hold its shape on calm days. But it could be built — and it would work. And when that mystical structure ex-ists and is hooked up just right to a strong person pulling and pushing, it will fly like a bird, not a plane. That person will swim through the air.

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merica is, therefore, the land of the future, where, in ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s his-tory, shall reveal itself ”. This was written by the great German philosopher Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831).

Bertrand Russell, in his “His-tory of Western Philosophy” writes, “Hegel’s philosophy is very difficult- he is, I should say, the hardest to understand of all the great philosophers”.

Before I get the main theme of this article a short note on the life of this, “hardest” of philosophers will not be out of place. I shall quote from, “The Pock-et Oxford Dictionary of Bi-ography”, Hegel’s, “Philoso-phy represents a complex system of thought with far-reaching influences and di-verse applications. Marx based his theory of dialecti-cal materialism on this as-pect of Hegel’s work”

If Hegel was alive today, how could have second thoughts on his fulsome praise of America. In the past four years, America has changed and changed for the worse. A single person, who has been President these four years has done more harm to his country than all the American Presidents of the 20th century.

He has divided America into two, one the America of Donald Trump and the other the America of Abraham Lincoln. Institutions have been all but destroyed, his second rate cronies have been given plum jobs. He is never to be blamed when things go wrong. Truth is a lie, a lie truth.

He has, according to him had nothing to with an attack on the Capitol. But it was a well organised insurrection. Out of the thousands who pillaged Capitol only two hundred have been arrested.

20th January has always been a day of celebratory re-joicing. Today, Washington reassembles an armed for-tress. Twenty thousand

troops are already on twen-ty-four-hour duty. Most are spending the nights sleeping in the corridors of the Capi-tol. A twelve-foot high wall of unbreakable wire has been built around the Capi-tol, with armed personnel guarding the wire wall. A similar exercise is being un-dertaken in the Capitols of forty-nine other states.

How could the World’s great-est, most powerful, richest, technologically most advanced, with the most sophisticated in-dustrial enterprises, with the largest number of Nobel Lau-reates and with some of the very best educational insti-tutes in the world come to such a pass. In the Trump Raj, we witness a dilution of truth, eth-ics, values and quality.

What is incomprehensible is that the Republican Party is fully behind Trump. Will it remain so after the 20th, when he will not be in power. One must not forget that only ten Republicans voted in favour of the Impeach-ment Resolution in the House of Representatives.

What will America do after Trump? The first task of the new President will be to clear the mess Trump will leave be-hind. At the moment he is bra-zenly not given up. His army of lawyers is planning to invoke

the first amendment to protect Trump for inciting an insur-rection. Whether they will suc-ceed or not only the next few weeks will make clear.

Now we come to President-elect Joe Biden and Kamla Harris. The lives in both are not safe. One had to look at the hoodlums who invaded the Capitol on 6th January. Each one is capable of tak-ing a shot at either of the most important persons in the World.

Another complex question to be solved out is that of Presi-dential Pardon. Trump is very

keen to pardon himself and his entire family, not the most at-tractive lot. I doubt if he will succeed in pardoning himself. He will get away with pardon-ing his family and his highly undesirable buddies.

It was an unusual sight to see a huge truck standing in the compound of the White House. The outgoing Presi-dent’s baggage to be taken out of the White House be-fore 20th January. Trump is a wealthy man and has many mansions in New York, Flor-ida and Scotland. But there is an unexpected snag. Ama-zon, Facebook, Twitter, and Deutsche Bank have made his accounts inoperative. Without Twitter, Trump has lost his worldwide reach and influence.

Finally, not once has he con-ceded that he lost the November Presidential Election. It was stolen, he continues to claim. How does one steal an election?

On Friday I lost one of my most intimate friends. Kamal Morarka suddenly passed away on Friday of a heart attack. He was 74.

He leaves a huge void in my life. My heartfelt condolences to his wife Bharatiji and his two daughters.

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY

THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

THE USA HAS CHANGED FOR THE WORSE

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If Hegel was alive today, how could have second thoughts on his fulsome praise of America? In the past four years, America has changed and changed for the worse. A single person, who has been President these four years has done more harm to his country than all the American Presidents of the 20th century

WHAT IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE IS THAT THE REPUBLICAN

PARTY IS FULLY BEHIND TRUMP. WILL IT REMAIN

SO AFTER THE 20TH, WHEN HE WILL NOT BE IN POWER. ONE MUST

NOT FORGET THAT ONLY TEN REPUBLICANS

VOTED IN FAVOUR OF THE IMPEACHMENT

RESOLUTION IN THE HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES

K NATWAR SINGH

The author is Former Minister of External Affairs of India

IN-DEPTH

n January 7, Tesla Inc. and SpaceX’s Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk wrote on Twitter “Use Signal”. The two words cast such a spell that there was a deluge of WhatsApp users to switch to

Signal. WhatsApp began to be shunned after the news spread that it will share user data with Face-book. This led to privacy concerns. Such was the force of Musk’s endorsement of messaging app Signal, which promises end-to-end encryption, that millions signed up for Signal resulting in a mass outage on January 15. “New servers and extra ca-pacity,” Musk said, “were being added at a record pace.” Last week, Signal saw 7.5 million downloads.

Fear of losing large swaths of users to Signal, Telegram, and other messaging platforms appears to have forced WhatsApp to delay its new plan of probable sharing of personal data with Facebook by three months. Users were told to agree or disa-gree to its new terms by February 8. The deadline has been extended to May 15 due to “confusion” and “misinformation”. WhatsApp has been insisting that the new policy “does not expand our ability to share data with Facebook”. It has clarified that “the policy update does not affect the privacy of your messages with friends or family in any way”.

However, there are few takers for WhatsApp’s as-surances especially when it has different policies for Europe, where data privacy laws are harsh, and countries like India which are not signatories to any convention on the protection of personal data. A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court against the new policy of Facebook-owned WhatsApp.

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PRIVACY MATTERS

PAN-INDIA VACCINE ROLLOUT BEGINS

orld’s biggest inoculation drive got un-derway in India with the hope that war against the dreaded novel coronavirus is nearing victory. Launching the drive, Prime Minister Narendra Modi exuded

confidence that the government will ensure a “de-cisive win” over the Covid. An estimated over 1, 65, 740 frontline warriors in 11 states getting a jab of either Covishield or Covaxin on Day One. A to-tal of 3 crore frontline workers are to be vaccinat-ed in the first phase of the drive.

As doubts persisted about the safety and efficacy of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin despite the prime min-ister and Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan’s tried to dispel fears. Bharat Biotech’s Chairman and Managing Director Krishna Ella saying that the vaccine is 200 percent safe also had little effect. Doctors at Delhi’s RML Hospital were apprehen-sive about Covaxin and asked for a jab of SII’s Cov-ishield. Covaxin is yet to submit the efficacy data of its third phase. The vaccine is in trial mode.

In keeping with ethical practices, Bharat Biotech vaccine recipients were asked to sign a consent form which admits that “the clinical efficacy of Covaxin is yet to be established” and in case of “adverse events,” the company has promised “standard care in govern-ment-designated centres/hospitals” and compensa-tion. To convince people about Covaxin, top ministers could have taken the jab first. Like Joe Biden, US President-designate and Kamala Harris did.

It is indeed creditable for the government to pro-vide two affordable vaccines for the protection of all people. If only the war between SII and Bharat Biotech could be avoided.

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New Delhi: Former BARC CEO Partho Das-gupta who was lodged at Taloja prison in the TRP manipulation racket, has been shift-ed to the JJ Hospital after his blood level pressure dropped sig-nificantly.

Doctors at the JJ Hospital confirmed the same and said he is un-der observation. His blood sugar levels have also been affected. Shedding light on the former CEO’s health condition, Mumbai Po-

lice said, “He is not in ICU, not critical. He is stable.” Police claimed Dasgupta hadn’t taken his diabetes medicine to get bail on medical grounds. “When his

sugar spiked last even-ing, went over 500, he was advised by the jail medical staff to be moved to the hospital.” The crime branch of Mumbai Police in De-

cember 2020 arrested the former CEO of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) from Pune dis-trict in the fake TRP scam, an official said.

Partho Dasgupta, the accused, was the fif-teenth person to be ar-rested in the case re-lated to the alleged rig-ging of Television Rat-ing Points (TRP) by some TV channels. He was arrested by Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) from the jurisdiction of Rajgad Police Sta-tion in Pune district. Earlier, the CIU had ar-rested former chief op-erating officer (COO) of BARC Ramil Ram-garhia in the case, among others.

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New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan today slammed Congress Member of Parliament Manish Tewari for rais-ing questions over the safety & efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines be-ing administered as In-dia launched its nation-wide vaccination drive.

Lashing out at the Congress, the Health Minister accused the party of spreading dis-trust and rumors about the vaccine.

Further slamming Congress, Harsh Vard-han even quoted Eng-lish writer Charles Caleb Colton: "So blind-ed are we by our pas-sions that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved."

"Manish Tewari, the science behind COV-ID-19 vaccines is reso-lute. Our scientists have worked at lightning speed to expedite func-tions that contribute to

the development of a vaccine but not a single function has been cir-

cumvented. Safety above all else has been the guiding principle!"

Harsh Vardhan said in a subsequent tweet while responding to the statement made by the Congress leader.

Earlier, AIIMS Direc-tor Dr Randeep Singh Guleria along with NITI Aayog member Dr VK Paul were administered the COVID-19 vaccine shot at AIIMS in Delhi on the inaugural day of the nationwide roll-out of vaccination on Sat-urday. —ANI

Health Minister slams Cong MP for doubting vaccine efficacy, safetyDr Harsh Vardhan accused and lashed out at Congress of spreading distrust & rumors about vaccine

Amarinder seeks free vax for poor people in PunjabChandigarh: Punjab CM Amarinder Singh wrote to PM Narendra Modi, seeking free COV-ID-19 vaccination for the poor in the state.

The CM acknowl-edged the receipt of 2,04,500 doses of Cov-ishield vaccine and also thanked the prime min-ister for making this vaccine available on priority to healthcare workers (HCWs).

In a statement, Mr Singh requested PM Modi to consider pro-viding free vaccine to the poor with a view to lessen the disease bur-den and also ensuring a check on the further spread of transmission, thereby allowing more economic activity.

Referring to some re-ports that apart from HCWs & frontline work-

ers (FLWs), the remain-ing population may not be provided free vac-cine, he pointed out in his letter, "the people of the state have gone through a very difficult times due to COVID-19 wherein economic ac-tivities have nosedived and the economy has still not recovered from this shock".

"It would be difficult for the poorer sections of the society to pay for vaccination," he said.

He said the pandemic has been an unparal-leled disaster and heavy expenditure had to be incurred in the state''s COVID-19 response.

"Ministry of Home Affairs may kindly ap-prove this to allow pending payments to be cleared," he urged the Prime Minister.

New Delhi: The Un-ion Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said the farm laws will strengthen the agri-culture sector & im-prove the economic condition of farmers.

"The new agricul-tural laws have not only strengthened the agriculture sec-tor but has also im-proved the economic condition of the farmers. From 2013-14 to 2019-20 there has been a consider-able increase in pro-curement and pro-duction of wheat," Prasad tweeted.

The minister also attached a graph chart released by Ministry of Agricul-ture on January 15 related to wheat pro-curement and pro-duction from 2013-14 to 2019-20 in his tweet.

The data in the graph implied that

the wheat procure-ment in 2013-14 was 250.92 Lakh Metric Tonne (LMT) while that in 2019-20 was 341.33 LMT. This means that there has been an increase of 90.41 LMT in wheat procurement within six years.

Also, the wheat production in 2013-14 was 26.18 per cent while that in 2019-20 was 31.72 per cent. There has been an increase of 5.54 per cent wheat produc-tion within six years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. —ANI

Farm laws will strengthen agri sector: Prasad

Ex-BARC CEO Dasgupta admitted to hospital

We all...While allaying fears surrounding the COV-ID-19 vaccine, Gehlot said that the entire vac-cination drive would be conducted in a ‘per-fect way.’ Gehlot also revealed that a total of 167 booths had been prepared in the state for the massive inocu-lation drive.

With the collective effort, recovery rate in the state reached 97% and fatality rate less than 1% . He thanked health workers, sanita-tion workers and com-mon man for unitedly fighting the pandemic.

Gehlot said Ra-

jasthan was the first state in the country to impose lockdown to contain the spread of the pandemic. He as-sured people that the state government is ca-pable of tackling each and every situation.

Health and Medical Minister Dr Raghu Sharma said that vac-cination will be done only 4 days a week to ensure that other health services are not affected during the co-rona vaccination drive. “Vaccination will not be done on Thursday, Sunday and state holi-days,” he said. Sharma also gave detailed in-

formation about the work done by the gov-ernment during the corona times and also how the health infra-structure of the state was strengthened by turning this challenge into an opportunity.

During the pro-gramme, various min-isters including CM interacted with the doctors from the seven centers of the state and took information about the preparations for vaccination. Dr Sharma spoke to the doctors at Kekri, Go-vind Singh Dotasara spoke to doctors at Jodhpur, BD Kalla at

Sadulshahar, Pratap Singh at Bari, Subhash Garg at Bagidaura Anandpuri and Shanti Dhariwal spoke to doc-tors at the Kelwara State Hospital in Baran. Interestingly, during this, CMHO of Banswara could not give satisfactory an-swer to the questions of Dr Sharma, follow-ing which a discontent Sharma said that the CMHO has no infor-mation.

Army’s ‘charismatic...Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi on Saturday launched world’s big-

gest vaccination drive in India against the novel coronavirus via video conferencing.

India takes...and other frontline workers to start with. Two shots manufac-tured in India, the Cov-ishield developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, and Cov-axin produced by Bharat Biotech, are be-ing used. The drive was remote launched by the Prime Minister with the chanting of a Sanskrit shloka that meant ‘’let all be hap-py, let all be healthy’’,

“I want to remind

people of the country that two doses of the Corona vaccine are very important. Don’t commit the mistake that you take one dose and forget the second one. As experts have been saying, there will be a gap of about one month between the two doses,” PM Modi said.

The Prime Minister stressed that people should not fall for propaganda over vac-cines, amid controver-sy over Bharat Bio-tech’s Covaxin, which has been cleared for emergency use while still in clinical trial.

“Our scientists and experts were assured about the safety and ef-ficacy of the two Made-in-India vaccines, only then did they allow the emergency use authori-zation. So stay away from propaganda, ru-mours, or misinforma-tion,” PM Modi said.

“Our vaccine devel-opers have global cred-ibility. Every Indian will be proud that life-saving vaccines given to 60 per cent children globally are made in India.”

PM Modi said Indian vaccines were cheaper compared to the other global vaccines, which

required stringent con-ditions for storage.

“India’s vaccines are developed keeping in mind our country. From storage to transporta-tion, these vaccines are made for Indian condi-tions. They will give de-cisive victory to our country,” he said.

Looking back at the time when the pandem-ic broke out early last year, PM Modi spoke of heart-wrenching mo-ments when many could not even perform last rites for their loved ones and virus-infected people were isolated or separated from their families.

FROM PG 1

New Delhi: New Delhi: People in north India will soon get a much-needed respite from the intense cold wave as the minimum tempera-tures are “very likely” to increase by 3-4 de-gree Celsius in the next 48 hours, said the India Meteorological Depart-ment (IMD) on Satur-day. The IMD said, “Minimum tempera-tures over the plains of north India is very like-ly to rise by 3-4 by morn-ing of January 18.”

Respite from cold wave soon, temp to rise by 3-4 degrees in north: IMD

Aurangabad: Two thousands birds will be culled today in two dis-tricts of Maharashtra after samples of dead hens from the state's Parbhani and Beed dis-tricts, both in the Mar-athwada region, have tested positive for bird flu, officials said.

These samples were taken from villages of the Parbhani and Beed districts. "These spots have been declared as a prohibitory area and the culling process has begun there," officials told news agency PTI. Transportation of poul-try products has been stopped in these areas,

they added. Culling is the mass slaughter of domestic poultry birds, such as chickens and ducks, done to contain the spread of bird flu. During the culling pro-cess, all domestic birds in an infected area, where cases of bird flu have been reported, are slaughtered and their remains are buried.

"Earlier, samples of hens found dead in the Kupta and Lokhandi Sawargaon villages of the districts were sent for testing. Their re-sults confirming bird flu were obtained on Friday night," the offi-cials told.

Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Mano-har Lal Khattar has said that the state gov-ernment is formulating a plan to open a film city in the state for which land of 50 to 100 acres has been final-ised. A state-level award will also be given to Haryanvi artists every year to encourage them and all possible help will be rendered for pro-moting the arts, he said.

A delegation of Hary-anvi folk artists met CM in Chandigarh where he discussed with them the steps that can be taken to improve the Haryan-vi folk genre.

He said an artists should work on an ide-ology with regard to the message and teachings that an artists wants to share with the society.

2 Maha districts to cull over 2K birds to stop spread of flu

Film City to be set up soon: Haryana Chief Minister

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday named former Union minister and its na-tional spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain as a candidate for the upcoming MLC elec-tions in Bihar.

Hussain, who lost the Lok Sabha elec-tion from Bhagalpur in Bihar in 2014, did not contest the 2019 polls and his nomi-

nation for the MLC elections is being perceived as his re-turn to electoral politics.

A former civil avi-ation minister, he was recently sent to helm the party’s campaign for the DDC elections in Jammu and Kashmir along with Union Minister of home for finance Anurag Thakur. —PTI

BJP NAMES HUSSAIN FOR BIHAR MLC POLLS

Manish Tewari and Congress are only passionate about spreading distrust and rumors. Open your eyes, sharing photos of eminent

Doctors and govern-ment functionaries getting inoculated

—Harsh Vardhan, Health Minister

TTT‘116 PEOPLE INFECTED WITH UK VARIANT’

Partho Dasgupta

Dr Harsh Vardhan

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Manohar Lal Khattar

Vehicles ply on a road amid heavy fog on a cold morning near NHPC Chowk in Faridabad, on Saturday. —PHOTO BY PTI

FAKE TRP SCAM

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LOYALTY WITH BEHENJI AGAIN

Jaipur: The old loyalty of MLAs, who contested elections on BSP tickets and joined Congress later, to BSP supremo Mayawati has resur-faced again on her birthday. MLAs Rajendra Gudha, who criticised Mayawati in the past along with Lakhan Singh, Deepchand Khairya, Sandeep Yadav congratulated her.

It is also being said that gifts were

also delivered to Lucknow.Rajendra Gudha (Udaipurwa-

ti), Lakhan Singh (Karauli), Deepchand (Kishangarh Bas), Sandeep Yadav (Tijara), Wajib Ali (Nagar) and Jogendra Singh Awa-na (Nadbai) contested 2018 As-sembly elections on BSP tickets but all of them defected to Con-gress in 2019. Gudha has in the past alleged that tickets were sold in the BSP party.

—Yogesh Sharma

SDMs’ arrest: Meena’s remand extendedFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: A local court in Jaipur extended the po-lice custody of Neeraj Meena, who was arrest-ed by the anti-corrup-tion bureau for alleg-edly demanding a bribe of Rs. 38 lakh from a construction company on behalf of former Dausa SP Manish Agrawal, for five days.

The ACB on Satur-day appointed ASP Pushpendra Singh as the new investigating officer in the case. The bureau will give notice to IPS Manish Aggar-wal, named in the case, for questioning. Ag-garwal and middleman

Neeraj Meena will be questioned face to face, said sources.

Public prosecutor Rajpal Singh Rathore said that Meena was arrested in Jaipur and former Dausa SP and IPS officer Manish Agrawal is also posted in Jaipur. He said that the FIR was registered in Jaipur under the ju-risdiction of the court. The ACB filed a pre-liminary enquiry (PE) on the complaint of the construction com-pany and took the mo-bile phone of Meena, who is a resident of Vidhyadhar Nagar in Jaipur, under surveil-lance.

Conserve petro products: Guv to people First India Bureau

Jaipur: Governor Kalraj Mishra on Satur-day urged the public to work with the idea of sustainable develop-ment along with conser-vation of natural re-sources. By ensuring conservation of petro-leum products at all lev-els, development can benefit everyone equal-ly, the Governor said.

Speaking after the virtual inauguration of ‘’Saksham 2021 Cam-paign’’ for the conserva-tion of petroleum prod-ucts, the Governor said

development cannot sustain for a long time on the foundation of

maximum exploitation of natural resources. Therefore, it is impor-

tant for people to con-tribute towards fuel saving.

First India Bureau

Jhalawar: A court in Jhalawar district on Saturday convicted a 40-year-old man of raping a three-and-half-year-old girl and sentenced him to life imprisonment until his natural death.

The POCSO court number-2 also slapped a fine of Rs 20,000 on the convict, Jankilal Lodha, for raping the girl in Oc-tober 2018, said Public Prosecutor (PP) Lalchand Meena. Lodha, resident of a village in Chhipabarod area in Baran dis-trict, had lured the girl to an isolated place while she was playing with other kids outside her house. He raped the mi-nor and left her bleeding, Meena said. A rape case was filed at Manohar Thana police station based on the complaint of the girl’’s father, the PP said. —PTI

Result for CHO posts releasedJaipur: Department of Medical, Health & Fam-ily Welfare, National Health Mission (NHM) released the result for the post of Community Health Officers (CHOs). A merit list containing the roll number of se-lected candidates has been prepared by de-partment. Selected can-didates, whose roll number is in provision-al list, will now appear for document verifica-tion that will be held in Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Udaipur, Bikaner and Kota.

40-year-old jailed till death for raping three-year-old girl

Court again exempts Salman Khan from personal appearanceRajiv Gaur 

Jodhpur: Bollywood actor Sal-man Khan once again skipped the hearing of a petition chal-lenging five year sentence to him in Jodhpur. The hearing was conducted in the district and sessions court of Jodhpur and Khan was exempted from appearance by the court.

The court also gave direction to him to appear before the court in the next hearing on February 6.“We submitted an application seeking exemption from appear-ance considering the pandemic situation and possible risk to his safety during travel,” Salman Khan’s counsel said.

MISHRA HONOURS LAKSHYARAJ MEWAR FOR HIS SERVICES

Aishwary Pradhan 

Kolkata: More than 100 TMC workers joined BJP in the presence of Union Jal Shakti minis-ter Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in West Ben-gal.Shekhawat said that the TMC workers were fed up with nepotism, insult and politics of suppression in the par-ty and hence they joined the BJP. Welcoming them to the saffron par-ty, Shekhawat said that

people have now real-ised the reality of TMC and now they are

coming to the fold of BJP. “TMC leaders and ministers are now fac-

ing resistance from their own workers. By the time of the assem-bly elections, TMC will be empty,” he said.

During his visit to Kol-kata, the minister inter-acted with people includ-ing women and youths and he was given warm welcome at several plac-es. Women said that they are fed up with the Mam-ta Banerjee government as they lack basic ameni-ties and other facilities under her rule.

In West Bengal 100 TMC workers join BJP in presence of Shekhawat

PM LAUNCHES ̀ 1,000 CRORESTARTUP INDIA SEED FUND

New Delhi: Asserting that India is one of the biggest startup ecosys-tems in the world, Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi on Saturday launched a Rs1,000 crore ‘Startup India Seed Fund’ to help new startups in the country.

PM Modi made the announcement about the fund ‘Prarambh: Startup India Interna-tional Summit’ organ-ised by Commerce Min-istry. The two-day sum-mit, which saw partici-pation from BIMSTEC countries, concluded on

Saturday.Addressing the event

through video confer-encing, Prime Minister Modi said several steps have been taken so that startups do not face problems relating to fi-nance.

“To ensure that our

startups do not face a credit crunch, the na-tion has taken many steps. I am making an announcement today. We are launching a Rs 1,000 crore Startup In-dia Seed Fund to help new startups to grow in the country. It will help

in the growth of new startups. We are trying to create a startup sys-tem that is based on the mantra “of the youth, by the youth, for the youth.”

“Through Startup In-dia, our youth have cre-ated a base and now we have to ensure that our startups emerge as global giants and lead in futuristic technology. It should be the motto of all BIMSTEC na-tions,” he added.

PM Modi said that In-dia is one of the biggest startup ecosystems in the world and over 44 per cent of startups have women directors.

He said the country has more than 41,000 startups including nearly 5,700 in IT sector, 3,600 in the health sec-tor and 1,700 in agricul-

ture.“These startups are

changing the demo-graphic character of business. Today, the country says ‘we will do it’ be it digital pay-ments, AI revolution or the solar energy sector, and we can see the re-sults. In India, 80 per cent of the districts are connected to startups.”

He said a booklet on the evolution of start-ups in India has been released to share expe-riences over the past five years. “I want every BIMSTEC country to share their experiences with each other from time to time,” he said.

The summit marked the fifth anniversary of the Startup India initia-tive, launched by the Prime Minister on Jan-uary 16, 2016. —ANI

PM Narendra Modi addresses Prarambh: StartUpIndia International Summit, in New Delhi on Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI

Bhadravathi (Karna-taka): India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has fought the most successful battle against coronavirus in the world, and with the beginning of the vacci-nation drive, the coun-try has taken the fight against the pandemic to a final stage,Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday.

“The whole world for about a year has been fighting against corona, many people have lost lives.This was probably one of the toughest fights that humanity has fought, using knowledge, innovations and mutual coopera-tion,” Shah said.

He was speaking af-ter laying the founda-

tion stone of a new bat-talion campus of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) near Bhadra-vathi in Shivamogga district, in the presence of Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, among others.

Noting that during the initial days of the

outbreak, some experts had expressed worry about a few countries, including India, on how they will manage with a huge population and not so prepared health infrastructure, Shah said there was only one lab in the country that could undertake testing for the infection. —ANI

Under PM Modi, India fought successful battle against Corona: Shah

Home Minister Amit Shah performs rituals during foundation stone laying ceremony of 97th battalion of RAF in Karnataka on Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI

CM Gehlot also joined the VC where Union Min Piyush Goyal was also present

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Kota: Lok Sabha Speak-er Om Birla on Saturday offered floral tributes to former MP Dau Dayal Joshi on his death anni-versary. Speaking after paying tributes, Birla said that Joshi’s life is an example for those working in socio-politi-cal life. He added that Joshi served the society with simplicity and ded-ication. “He was associ-ated with the people for a lifetime and worked to address problems. His vision of development was not limited to just the parliamentary con-

stituency,” he said. Birla will also lay foundation stone of 22 road projects under PM Gram Sadak Yojna virtually on Sun-day. Superintending en-gineer of PWD Rajesh Soni informed that the

foundation stones of 160 km long roads in Kota-Bundi parliamentary constituency will be laid on Sunday. He said that the roads will be con-structed with a cost of Rs88 crore.

Birla pays tributes to Joshi

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla at the blood donation camp held on the occasion of death anniversary of former MP Dau Dayal Joshi on Saturday.

IN THE COURTYARD

GS Shekhawat addressing party workers at Madhyamgram constituency of the Barasat Lok Sabha in WB on Saturday.

CM Gehlot grants `71 crore to Jodhpur for Health projectsRajiv Gaur

Jodhpur: Jodhpur has been sanctioned a grant of Rs71 Crore by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. Out of the total amount, Rs26 Crore will be used for the expansion of Re-gional Cancer Center, while the remaining Rs 45 Crore will be utilised in the extension of the Pavota Satellite Hospi-tal in CM’s home dis-trict Jodhpur.

Lalit Surana, a mem-ber of Rajasthan Medi-cal Relief Society, ex-pressed gratitude and welcomed the grant ap-proved by the Chief Minister.

Expressing his satis-faction he said, under the Mukhyamantri Free Medication Scheme, the gift of pro-viding free medicines to

every person across the state was not only adopted by various states across the coun-try but it has also been followed in many other countries.

And, now under his Nirogi Rajasthan vi-sion, CM is working to-wards the expansion of medical facilities in Jodhpur and other dis-tricts, he added.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Gehlot is ex-pected to be in a tour of Kerala on January 22. Gehlot had been ap-pointed as the observer for Kerala Assembly elections by the Con-gress party.

CM Ashok Gehlot

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work in hand, success will elude you.

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Ahmedabad: Former IAS Arvind Kumar Sharma, who recently took voluntary retire-ment from service and is now contesting the Ut-tar Pradesh MLC elec-tions on BJP’s ticket, is touted to be the man, who will be given ‘pow-erful promotions’, one after the other. However, these ‘promotions’ are to be given so as to ‘fill in the blanks’ left out or rather felt by the Bhu-mihar community in UP, who have a major ef-fect on 120 seats of the UP Assembly.

But what is even more interesting, is the fact that it is not ‘Uttar Pradesh,’ but ‘Gujarat’ that will be at the helm of affairs in the run up to the 2022 Assembly elections

Let us take these

points one by one: Since the time, Sharma has filed his nomination for MLC, word doing the rounds in UP’s political and bureaucratic circles is that Sharma may get Deputy Chief Minister’s position since in his face, BJP will get a chance to woo the com-munities other than ‘Thakurs.’ This ‘hyper-bole’ has emerged since Yogi’s political rivals have been peddling the narrative that it is only ‘Thakurs’ that are being heard in Yogi govern-ment since the Chief Minister himself hails from that community. On the other hand, Sharma, a Bhumihar, belongs to a small vil-lage from Mau in UP and thereby, ticks all the boxes needed to sway the votes back in the fa-vour of the saffron par-ty, that had been eyeing

elsewhere since the nar-rative began.

A close Modi confi-dante, Sharma, in his working and execution, will draw parallels with another bureaucrat, who is extremely close to Modi - K Kailashna-than. As an IAS officer, Kailashnathan in Guja-rat is holding his posi-tion tight even after eight years of his retire-ment, and keeping a close tab on each and every happening in the state. It is very much possible that Sharma will be given the same responsibility in Uttar Pradesh though with a different position and with a higher status.

Sharma will be work-ing as ‘eyes and ears’ of Central Government in UP ,working similar to his counterpart, Kailas-hnathan in Gujarat, watching law and order

situation along with ad-ministration and all im-portant issues, which may also include re-vamping the image of the Yogi government as well and emerge as a likely ‘trouble shooter.’

Kailashnathan since last eight years, is tak-ing care of Gujarat as Chief Secretary in the CMO. An IAS officer of the 1979 batch, Kailasna-than, also addressed to as KK in bureaucratic circles, has been given several extensions after retirement. He worked with Modi when he be-came Chief minister of Gujarat,then he was with the CMO when Anandiben Patel took the reins, and today, when Vijay Rupani is heading the state, Kailashnathan is still holding powerful posi-tion in the CMO. KK proved his worth tack-

ling many tough situa-tion like Patidar agita-tion etc. Incidentally, Anandiben Patel, for-mer Chief Minister of Gujarat, is taking care of UP as Governor and now it’s turn for Gujarat cadre IAS officer, Arvind Sharma. Moreo-ver, even at the organiza-tional level Sunil Oza, a former MLA from Bhavnagar in Gujarat, has been the election ‘commander’ of Modi ‘s election campaign in Varanasi in 2019 Gener-al election. And now it seems that Gujaratis i.e. Anandiben Patel, Sunil Oza and Gujarat cadre officer Sharma, taking their positions in top power circles of Uttar Pradesh, are ready to conquer the heartland of India. According to political observers, in a way, now Gujarat will rule UP by proxy.

In Haldea’s death, India loses upholder of public interest

A MAN OF HIS OWN STYLE !Rajendra Chhabra

Jaipur: CM Ashok Ge-hlot’s blue eyed boy and an exceptional perform-er in the area of urban development, Shanti Dhariwal is a man of his own mood and style. He surprised everyone by declining Congress-men’s request to come and sit on the dais of the Congress Dharma on Friday. He advised

everyone that only farmers should be given a preference to come and speak on the stage.

Dhariwal’s simplicity and his grassroots ap-proach is now being ap-preciated by all.

JAN 29, 1949-JAN 15, 2021

Rajendra Chhabra

Jaipur: Gajendra Hal-dea, the Indian Admin-istrative Services (IAS) officer from Rajasthan, died on Friday, at the age of 71.

He is survived by his wife. He was suffering from Cancer and also had Corona infection. He breathed his last at 10.15 am on Friday. Born on January 29, 1949, Hal-dea was cremated by the hospital staff and serv-ants due to Corona.

Many senior bureau-crats including former CS Rajeev Maharishi have mourned Haldea’s death.

The IAS Association while expressing condo-lences tweeted, “We con-dole the demise of Sh Gajendra Haldea, #IAS RJ:1973 who pioneered introduction of Public-Private Participation in

infrastructure project and played major role in formulation of Electric-ity Act, 2003. A prolific writer and columnist on infra projects.

Haldea was a civil servant, who believed that the private sector and competitive mar-kets could provide pub-lic services—efficiently and affordably.

He was Secretary for the 20 point programme and desert develop-ment in Rajasthan, he was Commissioner

IGNP and also collector of Bharatpur & Pali.

This officer from Ra-jasthan, retired in 2014 as adviser to Deputy Chair of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and was also the Principal Adviser (Infrastruc-ture) in the Planning Commission, where he drafted bills, policies and tender documents to ensure competition in infrastructure ser-vices and to award pro-jects on merit.

Over a generation of country’s administra-tors have taken tips on infrastructure projects from this Rajasthan-cadre IAS officer of the 1973 batch.

Of his many initia-tives, he also authored the Electricity Act 2003 and the Foreign Ex-change Management Act, 1999.

FARMER MOVEMENT BENEFICIAL FOR CAPTAIN

The speed with which the farmers’ move-

ment is gaining momen-tum, has lit new hopes in the heart of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Ama-rinder Singh. Captain had announced during the last Assembly elec-tions in Punjab that this was his last election, so the Congress had also re-ceived sympathy votes in the state. But now, Cap-tain is thinking of trying his luck once again in the upcoming 2022 Assembly elections in Punjab, as the Opposition is feeling weak at the moment. The Akalis bid goodbye to the BJP government after the Agriculture Bill was passed in Parliament and with this move, they seem to be unable to create a favourable environment for themselves in the

state. At the ground level, Punjab’s AAP cadre is not spread in all parts of the state at this time, and where it is placed, it is not looking as strong. There-fore, Amarinder feels that the 2022 polls are going to be easy for him. It is also clear from the intelli-gence received by the Central Government that Captain is helping the farmers movement in every way. Apart from this, in thousands of Gu-rudwaras of the country and abroad, people are donating generously in the name of farmers’ movement. So, the farm-ers are neither short of courage nor wealth, that is when a farmer leader was asked how long his anchor will last? He re-plied saying, “We have been serving people for five and a half centuries, God willing, it will con-tinue further.”

WHERE DID THE GOVERNMENT LOSE OUT?

The Central Govern-ment was left in a

tizzy that they would con-vince the farmers. Repre-sentatives of the govern-ment were in constant touch with both fac-

tions of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, a major section of this move-ment. The Tikait faction was well-informed of the draft agriculture bill, and even the other fac-tion of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) led by Bhanu Pratap Singh, both of them seemed to agree somewhere with the government. The farmers did not want the matter to be taken to court, but the Bhanu Pratap faction of the BKU, took the matter to court, which made the

government’s path a lit-tle easier. But after this, the way the court set up a committee and the agita-tors were not comfortable about the faces in the committee and a member of the committee- Bhupinder Singh Mann, who is also the national president of the Bharati-ya Kisan Union, resigned, now out of necessity, the people from BKU are standing equally strong on the Chilla border.

WHY ARE THE MINISTERS AND LEADERS NOT GETTING VACCINATED?

Even if the total count of MPs of both the

Houses of Parliament, State Legislatures and Members of Legislative

Council are included, the figure does not exceed 5,000. The

government is going to administer Corona vac-cine to 3 crore front line works of the country and other Corona Warriors in the first phase of vac-cination and the govern-ment has also directed agencies to keep 10 per-cent vaccine in reserve, which can go bad due to faulty transportation or up keep. A person needs two doses of vaccine, and according to this, 6 crore 60 lakh doses will be re-quired for the first phase. After this, people with certain diseases and those above 50 years, will be inoculat-ed. There are 27 crore people in t h e a g e

group of over 50 years in the country. When the government first accept-ed the vaccine of Bharat Biotech as a backup vac-cine, Serum and Bharat Biotech waged a fierce battle and the two compa-nies revealed each oth-er’s ‘secrets’ and the gov-ernment then had to bring them into an un-derstanding. Now the government has made it clear that both Cov-ishield and Covaxin will be administered and in the first phase people will not be able to choose any of these particular com-pany vaccines for them-selves. The budget min-ister of Belgium has tweeted that the Euro-pean Union has pur-

chased the se-rum vaccine

at the rate of Rs 159, while the

same vaccine has been sold by the company to the Indian government at Rs 200. The company has informed in its guide-lines that the vaccine also has 20 types of side effects. America’s Presi-dent elect Joe Biden and his wife have gone them-selves vaccinated so that the fear of the vaccine in the common Americans is lowered and trust is built. Putin got his daughter vaccinated in Russia. But why are poli-ticians in India avoiding to get vaccinated? Shivraj Singh Chouhan is calling it a sacrifice for the com-mon people, Akhilesh is trying to avoid it by call-ing it a ‘BJP vaccine.’

...AND FINALLY

The speculation mar-ket is rife with sev-

eral words doing the rounds on who will be the new leader of the Con-gress party in the Ra-jya Sab-ha? Sen-ior lead-er Ghu-lam Nabi

Azad, who belongs to Jammu and Kashmir, is going to retire from Rajya Sabha this February and he is not happy with the Gandhi family these days. Interestingly, in the near future, no RS seat from Jammu & Kashmir is going to be vacated. Anand Sharma is also a strong contender for the post, he has a term in the Rajya Sabha till March 22, if he becomes the lead-er of the Congress in the Upper House, he may get a chance from Rajasthan again. The biggest claim is that of Mallikarjun Kharge, as he has already handled this responsibil-ity in Lok Sabha, and through his elevation, Congress can get the benefit of his Dalit con-nection in UP elections. The most important thing is that he is still as much as loved by the Gandhi family. Jairam Ramesh and Digvijay Singh also have a claim to the position, but at the moment, Kharge seems to have the upper hand.

The author is a journal-ist and political com-

mentator and views expressed are his personal

FIRST INDIA SUNDAY SPECIALBY TRIDIB RAMAN

Captain Amarinder Singh Rakesh Tikait Shivraj Singh Chouhan Ghulam Nabi Azad

Gajendra Haldea

Anandiben Patel Yogi Adityanath AK Sharma Sunil Oza K Kailashnathan

COVID-19 UPDATE

RAJASTHAN2,746

DEATHS3,14,920

CONFIRMED CASES

GUJARAT 4,363 DEATHS 2,55,354 CASES

DELHI 10,738 DEATHS 6,32,183 CASES

WORLD20,24,036

DEATHS9,46,10,484

CONFIRMED CASES

INDIA1,05,56,976CONFIRMED CASES

1,52,283DEATHS

MAHARASHTRA50,388 DEATHS 19,87,678 CASES

UTTAR PRADESH8,558 DEATHS 5,95,614 CASES

KARNATAKA12,158 DEATHS 9,30,668 CASES

Shanti Dhariwal sitting with Cong workers at dharna site.

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ave you ever ruined one of your favorite handbags? Devasta-tion! It doesn’t mat-ter how much you paid for your hand-bag, the bottom line

is you love it and want to keep it in mint condition! De-signer handbags and shoes especially heels are in fash-ion and the upper price has no limit.

WIPE DOWN THE PURSE AFTER EVERY USE:One of the best tips for main-tenance and cleaning of your handbag is to wipe it down with a cloth after eve-ry usage. If the material, al-lows, you can even dampen the cloth a little bit and gen-tly wipe the entire bag. Do not rub but make sure you let the bag dry later on.

MAINTAIN THE SHAPE BY STUFFING PAPER:Another fabulous tip to maintain your expensive handbag is to

stuff newspaper or original filling in it after every use so that the shape doesn’t get altered. This is especially important for leather bags as they can easily get crum-pled.

Soles are no different than souls and the better you care for them, the better they will stay by your side as the roads get harder. Even though you might have different shoes for different days and occasions, you should never let beautiful soles (shoes) sit un-moved in one place.

SHOES HATE MOISTURE:Keep your shoes away from moisture as moisture can result in the growth of bac-teria which can cause the shoe material to break down easily when you finally wear them. Use desiccants like silica pouches or gels to keep the moisture and bac-teria-free.

KEEP THEM AWAY FROM DUST:It is never advisable to wear the same pair of shoes regu-larly but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be cleaned and kept dust-free. Exces-

sive dust can lead to the loss of the natural shoe colour and make them look old.

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Guests watching the video of ‘THE MAKING OF THE CALENDER’

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Jagdeesh Chandra with Ayushi Vijavergia, Megha Kaushik,Syed Umar and Hemant Sharma

Jagdeesh Chandra welcomed by Akanksha, seen here with Anita, Shaan and Gaurav

Jagdeesh Chandra unveils the calendar with Nischal Bhandari

Jyoti Singh

Pawan Tank with Rishika Mudgal, Nilopher and Jyoti Singh

A guest explains a point to Rishi Latta, owner of D Three

MD D Three Parthpratim Chakravarty Akshita on the floor with other gorgeous models

Arpita with her stunning dancing moves

Isha Agarwal and Mousha Khatri

During the Launch

Karan Vig with Mousha, Moon and Himanshi

Shashi Meena, Sumitra Godara, Ankur Sihag and Swami Vishal Gaurav Gaur and Riya SainJagdeesh Chandra sets the lantern afloat

Tanu on the dance floor

Shaan, Syed Umar and Anita Hada with the Fashion Calender 2021Girls Gaurav Gaur with the Fashion Calender 2021 Girls

Jagdeesh Chandra with Riya, Swati, Khushboo, Akanksha and Megha

Soni on the dance floor

Ayushi on the dance floor

Riya, Divija and Khushboo watchingthe launch video

Nischal Bhandari and the team of Siddharth Buildcom

Its groove timeOn the dance floor Karan on the floor Hiphop music

Jagdeesh Chandra felicitates Moon Bohra, Tanu Choudhary, Deepika Kanwar, Himakshi Choudhry, Arpita Singhania, Jyoti Singh. (From top to bottom)

Jagdeesh Chandra felicitates Riya Sain, Soni Kumari, Akanksha Bhalla, Khushboo Dahiyaa, Akshita Dutta and Karishma Tak. (From top to bottom)

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Chief Minister of Gujarat, Vijay Ru-pani inaugurated Akshaya Patra’s

new kitchen sponsored by the Reliance Founda-tion and Jamnagar Mu-nicipal Corporation on Saturday through a vir-tual event organised to launch a series of public welfare pro-jects in the state. The kitchen will enable Akshaya Patra to serve freshly cooked, hygienic, nutri-tious and tasty mid-day meals to 50,000 beneficiar-ies. cityfirstgujarat@gmail.com

RAJ: The second day of the online workshop on ‘Art of Embroidery’ organized by Department of Art & Culture, Government of Rajasthan

and Jawahar Kala Kendra (JKK) was held on the Facebook page of JKK. The workshop was conducted by Dr Meena Jhala. Viewers got a thorough demonstration into the various combinations and manipulations that can be done to basic embroidery stitches.

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he Population Foun-dation of India and Jaipur Literature Festival held a ses-sion on ‘Cyber Bul-lies: Anonymity and Accountability’ with

Director and Producer, Zoya Akhtar in conversation with author Mihir Sharma a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation underscored the dangers of cyberbullying. Zoya has delivered an ample number of critically acclaimed films

such as ‘Gully Boy’ and Zind-agi Na Milegi Dobara’. How-ever, her success has not pro-tected her from intense cyber-bullying and trolling. Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director, Population Foundation of In-dia, in her introduction to the session, added, “It is impor-tant to highlight abuse and the abusers who threaten women. cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

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Renowned makeup artist and MD of Shades skin and hair care, Jassi Chhabra congratulated Akshita Ajmera for losing 90 kgs in less than one year and as a kind gesture, Jassi treated her with a complimentary makeover.

RAJ: Pahal Design, well-known across the country for its design education, organised a National Education Seminar with a panel discussion on ‘COVID VS. DESIGN’ at the Jaipur Center on Saturday. This panel discussion was all about exploring the new changes and advancements coming in the designing sector for students. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA)

The State President of the Joint Lawyers Association, Sushma Pareek submitted the memorandum to the acting President of the State Human Rights Commission, Mahesh Chandra Sharma. The other officials including Gajendra Singh Rathore and Hitesh Bagdi attended the event.

MLA Ramesh Meena celebrated his birthday on Saturday. Seen here at the blood donation camp organised at Karoli, on the occasion are Collector Siddharth Sihag and SP Mridul Kacchava.

WHAT’S HAPPENING!Successful TREATMENT

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A team of doctors at Mahatma Gandhi Hospital (MGH), Sitapura has completed a task which almost seemed

impossible. Pappu Singh, a resident of Laxmangarh, Sikar complained of a decreased vision of his left eyes, he consulted a countless number of doc-tors for 8 months and yet the problem could not be diagnosed. The patient ap-proached Dr Pankaj Gupta, Senior Neurosurgeon and Unit Head at MGH who diagnosed the mass lesion as a pi-tuitary tumour. Given the condition and age of the patient Endo-nasal ap-proach was performed by Dr Pankaj Gupta and his team which went suc-cessfully. The surgery was performed under Ayushman Bharat (Bhamashah) Yojna at no cost. cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

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IAS Association, Rajasthan or-ganised ‘Filmy Baatein’ with

journalist turned filmmaker, Divya Unny on their Facebook page on Saturday. The session focused on the filmmaker’s life, her ca-reer as a journalist, her transition to acting and filmmaking as well as the

various societal taboos plaguing the nation. She was in conversation with IAS Literary Secretary, IAS Association, Ra-

jasthan, Mugdha Sinha. The talk was followed by the screening of the short film, ‘Her First Time’ di-rected by Unny.

FILMY BAATEIN

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Jaipur Interna-tional Film Fes-tival (JIFF) has bridged the gap

between cinema-lov-ers and films. JIFF’s Founder and Director Hanu Rose introduced the platform: Plexigo App for the viewers to enjoy their favourite films. According to the report of Plexigo team of (UFO), about 38,000 viewers watched the films online on the first day, Friday. The highlights of the festival are 10

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RAJ: The Support and Shelter Welfare Foundation celebrated Army Day with the children at a slum situated near the Khadi settlements of Gurjar. The Foundation has been visiting the slums and educating children since lockdown and doing education-related activities.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

IPS Rajesh Kumar Arya celebrated his birthday on Saturday, 16 January. We wish him all the best!

Singer Hariharan was spotted enjoying his holidays in the greens of Ranthambore on Friday evening. He took to Instagram and posted a picture with the caption, “All geared up for the chilly ride in the jungles of Ranthambor.

CITY FIRST

MLA Malviya Nagar and former Health Minis-ter Kalich-

aran Sarraf honoured sanitation workers by presenting blankets, sa-rees and photographs of God-dess Lakshmi at an event or-ganised at Shiv Niwas Mar-riage Garden, on Saturday, in

collaboration with Usha Tati-wal, to celebrate Makar Sank-ranti. Saraf in his address

said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had started the cleanliness drive in the country, to

make it successful, our sanitation workers are

making a significant contri-bution, therefore, it is promi-nent to appreciate their ef-forts. cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

HONOURING sanitation workers

Public welfare PROJECT

SPOTTED!

Jagdeesh Chandra with Dr Mahadeo Sharma CMD FB Tech and Dr Sandeep Sharma Director FB Tech at Bikaner during the Corona Awards event on 9 January.

Jagdeesh Chandra declared the winners of ‘The Vrtika Show Event’ on Saturday, in the presence of the Founder of ‘The Vrtika Show’, Vrtika Jain and Director of New Creations, Parul Bhargav.

WINNERS DECLARED!

MEET & GREET!

HAPPY B’DAY!

Poonam Muttreja

Zoya Akhtar

Kalicharan Sarraf during the occasion

CM Vijay Rupani during the event

Jassi Chhabra Akshita AjmeraThe team of Doctors

—PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI