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MODI’S IMPROMPTU VISIT TO GURUDWARA RAKAB GANJ SAHIB

New Delhi: In an unscheduled visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to Guru Tegh Bahadur at Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Sahib in Delhi on Sunday morning. He paid tribute to the Guru Tegh Bahadur and recalled the Sikh Guru’s vision for a just and inclusive society. While bowing to the Guru Tegh Bahadur, Prime Minister Modi said that the Sikh guru’s life epitomised courage and compassion. “Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji’s life epitomised courage and compassion. On his Shaheedi Diwas, I bow to the great Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji and recall his vision for a just and inclusive society,” Prime Minister Modi had tweeted.

UP-Delhi border partially shut amid farm protests

New Delhi: The Delhi-UP border was partially shut as the agitation in-tensified and entered the 25th day against the Centre’s contentious agricultural laws, amid assurances from the government on the min-imum support price (MSP) for their agricul-tural produce, a con-cern repeatedly raised by the farmers.

The farmers have in-tensified their stir by announcing they will halt toll collection in Haryana from Decem-ber 25 to 27. Before that, the protesters will cele-brate Kisan Diwas on December 23. Turn to P6

Birbhum (West Ben-gal): Union Home Minis-ter Amit Shah on Sunday said that the turnout of a sizeable number of peo-ple in his roadshow at Birbhum indicated that people of West Bengal are “angry” with Chief Minister Mamata Baner-jee and want a change.

“This roadshow shows the anger of Bengal’s public towards Mamata didi. People of West Ben-gal want change. It is not to change just one Chief Minister. The change is for develop-ment and progress and West Bengal,” Shah said at a roadshow here.

“West Bengal has set three dangerous trends in Indian politics - po-liticization of adminis-tration, criminalization of politics and institu-tionalizing corruption.

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SHAH PROMISES Sonar Bangla in 5yrsAngry with Didi, Bengal awaiting change, says Amit Shah during massive road show in Birbhum

Shah says TMC’s main slogan of Ma Mati Manush had given way to corruption, nepotism & appeasement

Gehlot-Dotasra strategy helps Cong sweep polls!Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: In what could be termed as yet an-other blow to the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), the Congress party has managed to uproot its rival from urban local bodies (ULB) by making as many as 36 chairmen among the 50 ULBs. And it would not be wrong to say that this major vcitory of the grand-old party can be attrivuted to two men - Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and

PCC Chief Govind Singh Dotasra - who ensured that not just those in the govern-ment, but also those in the party faction also give their hun-dred percent for the one main cause for their party ie victory in elections.

Highly placed sources in Congress revealed that while mastermind strategist Gehlot chalked out the minute details of the grand strategy, Do-tasra, while also execut-ing Gehlot’s strategy, enusred that the party

workers were at highly motivated to campaign for the party. Interest-

ingly, these elections were given the same treatment like assembly

elections i.e. the main goal was to make the party win and not one

particular individual. Such has been the re-

sult of Gehlot-Dotasra’s

combined force that the saffron party has been totally washed out from Jaipur, Bharatpur and Duasa districts. Interest-ingly, while BJP claimed of giving Congress a ‘red-face’ in the Zila Par-ishad elections and Ge-hlot hitting back at BJP leaders saying that they were concocting data to suit their agenda, Sun-day’s result once again proves that it is Gehlot and Congress that is the political party chosen by the people to represent them in urban local bod-ies as well!

Union Home Minister Amit Shah waves to his supporters at a roadshow in Bolpur on Sunday.

Bengal’s next CM won’t be an ‘outsider’Revealing that BJP’s CM candidate in West Bengal for Assembly election 2021 will be someone from Bengal, not ‘outsider’ like what Mamata Banerjee generally terms BJP’s central leaders when they visit the state, Shah said, “Does she want a country where peo-ple from one state will not visit another? Did she call Indira Gandhi, Pranab Mukherjee, Narasimha Rao outsiders when they used to come to West Bengal? But don’t worry, someone from Bengal will challenge you & be next CM.”

New Delhi: In an effort to improve Congress’ prospects in forthcoming polls, changes are soon likely to be made in sev-eral states in the party’s organisational structure. Telangana, Punjab and Gujarat Pradesh Con-gress Committee (PCC) chief will also be changed in the coming days.

Speaking to ANI, AICC Telangana in-charge, Manickam Tagore said, “We have started the process of changing PCC in Telen-gana because Telanga-na PCC Uttam Kumar Reddy has resigned vol-untarily from his post taking the responsibili-ty of the defeat in the recent GHMC polls.”

Meanwhile, speaking

about the changes in the Punjab state unit, Con-gress in-charge of Pun-jab Harish Rawat said, “The state PCC is in place but there is a prep-aration underway for district committee for-mation. That will be formed as soon as the environment will be conducive. A new dis-trict committee will be formed once the farmers and Centre resolve the issue over farm laws.”

Sources told ANI about the impending change of PCC chief in Gujarat. “We are work-ing on it, at the end of December we will de-cide whether the change of PCC chief in Gujarat will take place,” a source said. —ANI

Org changes likely in Telangana, Punjab & Gujarat PCC soon

NEPAL PM DISSOLVES PARLKathmandu: Nepal’s Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli dissolved the House of Repre-sentatives on Sunday, two years ahead of its normal tenure, amid a power tussle within the ruling Nepal Com-munist Party. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting this morning at his resi-dence after talks with party co-chairman and dissident leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda failed.

MoH calls meet as UK reports mutant strain New Delhi: Health Ministry has called a meeting today with its joint monitoring group on COVID-19 to discuss a mutant coronavirus that has spread rapidly in the UK, government sources have said. Several European nations have banned flights to and from Britain. No policy decision has been taken by India on any flight ban from the UK but the matter will be given a serious consideration.

KISAN DIWAS ON DEC 23, TOLL COLLECTION TO BE HALTED IN HARYANA FROM DEC 25

FURTHER TALKS IN A DAY OR TWO: SHAHBolpur: Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar will likely meet the agitating farmer unions in a day or two, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday. “I am not exactly aware of the timing but Tomar is likely to meet the representatives of farmers tomorrow or the day after to discuss their demands,” Shah told a press conference. —PTI

Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th century. Being called the

great conjunction as the celestial marvel was last observed in 1623 and will again take place in 2080. The two slow-moving planets will be 0.1 degrees apart. They should

be easily visible around the world a little after sunset, weather per-mitting. In India, the conjunction is likely to be visible between 6.30 and 7.30 pm.

JUPITER AND SATURN WILL MERGE IN THE NIGHT SKY ON MONDAY

—PHOTO BY ANI

Yogesh Sharma

Jaipur: In a setback to Opposition BJP, the rul-ing Congress was suc-cessful in making chair-men on 36 out of 50 ur-ban local bodies in 12 districts, the election for which was held on Sunday. BJP could make chairmen only on 12 bodies while Inde-pendents in two bodies. The BJP was complete-ly wiped out in Jaipur, Bharatpur, and Dausa districts. Report on P2

Cong chairmen in 36 out of 50 urban bodies

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot PCC Chief Govind Singh Dotasra

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Nirmal Tiwari

Jaipur: There is good news for wildlife lov-ers from Jhalana Leop-ard safari. Leopard Leela was sighted with her two cubs on Sun-day in the camera. The leopard clan is grow-ing steadily in the area as seven female pan-thers have been sight-ed with cubs in the last 12 months. The female panther Flora first ap-peared with three cubs. This was fol-

lowed by a female pan-ther named LK with three cubs. After this,

Mrs Khan appeared with one of her cubs and a female panther

named Sharmeeli with two cubs.

In the month of May, a female leopard called Jalebi has given birth to a cub. In July, Nath Wali gave birth to a cub. Jhalana Leopard Safari has increased surveillance and moni-toring, as the leopard’s clan grows in the area. The forest department has become cautious about their food and drinking water so that they can have food and water available in

their habitat. Accord-ing to sources, with 20 adults and 10 cubs the Jhalana Leopard Safa-ri has now got about 30 big cats in total.

The Safari Park spread over 23 sq km is also home to other ani-mals such as spotted deer, blue bulls, wild boars and migratory birds. The safari was started in 2016 and the contract for the jeeps in the safari has been given to a private com-pany.

2 more arrivals in leopard clan at JhalanaGOOD NEWS FOR WILDLIFE LOVERS

CONGRESS DECIMATES BJP WITH 36-12On Sunday again, the Congress decimated the saffron brigade by making chairmen on 36 out of 50 urban local bodies in 12 districtsYogesh Sharma

Jaipur: After a setback in Panchayati Raj elec-tions, the ruling Con-gress dealt a blow to the opposition BJP in ur-ban local body elec-tions. On Sunday again, the Congress decimated the saffron brigade by making chairmen on 36 out of 50 urban local bodies in 12 districts. The election for chair-man posts was held on Sunday.

The BJP could make chairmen only on 12 bodies while independ-ents became chairmen in two bodies. Out of 50 bodies, 28 male chair-men and 22 female heads were elected.

The prestige of 16 MLAs and five minis-ters of the Congress was at stake. The BJP was completely wiped out in Jaipur, Bharatpur, and

Dausa districts. In 6 out of the 12 districts, the Congress has managed to make a full board. In-dependents got 1–1 seat in just two places. Of the 6 presidents of Alwar, 4 were from BJP and two from Congress. In Sriganganagar, 4-4 pres-

idents of both BJP and Congress were elected. In Jodhpur, Kota, and Sawai Madhopur, Con-gress and BJP got 1-1 president.

In Baran, the strate-gy of minister Pramod Jain Bhaya was suc-cessful.

Opposition BJP wiped outin 10 Jaipur municipalitiesFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: The opposition BJP has been wiped out in 10 municipalities of Jaipur district as the party could not form board in a single mu-nicipality. Congress has got chairmen in nine municipalities while a Congress rebel Malu-ram was elected as an independent in one Bagru municipality. In the last elections, BJP had formed boards in 9 out of 10 municipalities of Jaipur.

220 elected council-lors in Chomu, Renwal, Jobner, Phulera, Bagru, Chaksu and Sambhar municipalities voted for 17 candidates while 100

councillors voted for Shahpura, Kotputli and Viratnagar municipal board

Congress has cap-tured Chomu and Shah-pura after 10 years. In Shahpura, Banshidhar became chairman by

securing 20 votes out of 35 while Independent councillor Arjun Nith-arwal got 15 votes. In Chomu, Vishnu Saini, son of Bhagwan Sahai Saini, former Congress MLA, became the chair-man by getting 31 votes.

Congress workers celebrate victory of the party candidate at Chomu municipality on Sunday. —PHOTO BY VINOD KUMAR SHARMA

‘YASHASVI BHARAT’: BHAGWAT’S 17 SPEECHES RELEASED IN BOOK FORM

Doctors making mullah through relative chemists, finds team

Man killed at Harmada on Sikar Road

Overburdened babus have Smart city dreams on the table

Aishwary Pradhan

New Delhi : A collec-tion of RSS chief Mo-han Bhagwat’s speeches was unveiled by Junap-eethadhishwar Acharya Mahamandaleshwar Avdheshanand Giri at Ambedkar Internation-al center in the presence of RSS Sah sarkarywah Dr Krishan Gopal.

Former CAG of India Rajiv Mehrishi was also present in the function.

This is the first col-lection of a RSS Sar-sanghchalak after 1960. Earlier, the collection of speeches of former

Sarsanghchalak Ma-dahv Sadashiv Golvalkar ‘Shriguruji’ was published.

The preface of the col-

lection, which is titled as ‘Yashasvi Bharat’ is written by former all In-dia Prachar Pramukh late MG Vaidya.

Avdheshanand Giri said that the situation is changing in the coun-try now. He said that Hindus do not convert others.

Special guest Rajiv Maharishi also spoke on Hinduism and said that the acceptability of RSS is increasing in the world. The book con-tains a compilation of 17 speeches given by Mohan Bhagwat on dif-ferent occasions. The 286-page book pub-lished by Prabhat Prakashan has been ed-ited by Shyam Kishore, editor of Lok Sabha TV.

Vikas Sharma

Jaipur: A team of drug control organisation conducted an inspection in Dausa on direction by Jaipur divisional com-missioner Dr Samit Sharma and found doc-tors acting against the free medicines scheme.

During the inspec-tion, it was found that several shops are owned by relatives of doctors posted in a govt hospital and the doctors are pre-scribing medicines of private companies, which are available in the said medical stores.

The team found that

Anita Medicals in front of government TB hos-pital is being run by Anita Meena, wife of Dr R D Meenaof govern-ment hospital Dausa. Most of the bills from the medical store were issued on the prescrip-tion written by Dr Mee-na. Medicines worth Rs.

60-80,000 are sold to pa-tients every day from this store.

Second shop Kiran Medical, located near the govt hospital Dausa, is run in partnership by Vinod Kumar Soni and Kamlesh Kumar Soni. Third case was of Riya Medicals, in front of government TB hospi-tal, which is owned by Riya Sharma, the daughter of Dr DS Shar-ma, posted in Dausa hos-pital. Similarly, Sogun medical store located in front of the government TB hospital is owned by the aunty of Dr RK Mee-na of the govt hospital.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: A man was killed in Harmada, Jaipur. On Sunday morning, the man’s body was found in an empty plot in New Transport Nagar, Bhai-ron Kheda on Sikar road. Harmada police reached the spot after receiving information from the local people. After a thorough ex-amination of the scene, the body was kept at the mortuary of Kawantia Hospital. The police have regis-tered a case of murder.

Bharat Dixit

Jaipur: Jaipur Greater Municipal corporation mayor is dreaming of making Jaipur a world-class city but the officers in the corporation, from additional commission-er to deputy commis-sioner, are under the ex-tra burden of additional charge. The officers are holding two or more ad-ditional charges, which is putting extra pressure on them.

Deputy Commission-er- Head quarters Abha Beniwal is holding extra charge of Addl Commis-sioner, Greater Munici-pal Corporation, deputy commissioner- Sangan-er Zone and deputy com-missioner- Fire while deputy commissioner- Revenue (I) Naveen Bharadwaj holds the ad-ditional charge of depu-ty commissioner-slums and deputy commission-er- national urban liveli-hood mission.

Similarly, Harshit Verma, deputy commis-sioner- health, holds the additional charge of nodal officer- cleanli-ness survey and deputy commissioner- store.

Additional charge with deputy commis-sioner revenue – II Rashtradeep Yadav is of deputy commission-er planning- I and dep-uty commissioner plan-ning- II whereas Kavita Chaudhary, deputy commissioner- person-nel, is discharging the additional duty of dep-uty director- adminis-trative (DLB) and secre-tary- Raj recruitment commission (DLB).

Mohan Singh, deputy commissioner- livestock management, has the additional charge of deputy commissioner- Mansarover zone, Mam-ta Singh, deputy com-missioner- Jagatpura zone, also holds the ad-ditional charge of Jhot-wara Zone.

Acharya Mahamandaleshwar Avdheshanand Giri, Rajiv Mehrishi, and Dr Krishan Gopal at Ambedkar International center during book launch on Sunday.

Mother leopard with two cubs captured in camera at Jhalana leopard safari in Jaipur.

MINISTERS NOTE PROBLEMS, TAKE FEEDBACK IN DISTRICTS First India Bureau

Jaipur: The ministers kept their tours of the districts for the second consecutive day on the second anniversary of the state government and took feedback about various issues. Taking serious note of water theft from Raslana dis-tributary, BD Kalla, PHED minister and in charge of Hanuman-garh, on Sunday set up a committee to look into the matter. Kalla said that the government

has fulfilled nearly half of the promises made in the election manifesto in the last two years.

In Udaipur, trans-port minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas held a meeting with of-ficers during his visit to Udaipur. Secretary in-charge Aparna Arora, district collector Chetan Deora, SP Kailash Bishnoi, and other district level offic-ers were present during which the minister took feedback from them on the execution of the

scheme and reviewed the implementation. Cooperative minister Udai Lal Anjana, who was scheduled to attend the meeting, could not come to Udaipur due to sickness.

In Jaisalmer, forest minister Sukhram Vishnoi was welcomed by Congress workers. In Jodhpur, minister in-charge Saleh Moham-mad said that the Con-gress government has taken several initia-tives for minority wel-fare.

After the end of the election of Chair-man in Raj’s 50 civic bodies, Cong man-aged to make 36 boards & BJP with 12 boards confi ned to 24%. Thanks to all

Cong workers for this expected result.

—Govind Singh Dotasra, PCC chief

Today Bharatpur has become BJP mukt. The Cong board was formed in 8 bodies. Except the MP, the BJP in the dis-trict is fi nished. The BJP neither has a board, nor a chairman or president.

—Vishvendra Singh, Deeg-Kumher MLA

The Gehlot govt fi erce-ly misused the govt machinery, threatened false cases against our workers. Cong has been successful in saving the honour with help of independents.

—Satish Poonia, BJP state Prez

Minister said it was not possible to save the nine infants

STRATEGY OF VISHVENDRA WORKS IN BHARATPURIn Bharatpur, former minister and sitting MLA Vishvendra Singh and minister of state for health Subhash Garg forgot political ac-rimony and strengthened their hands as the BJP lacked strong leadership. The strategy of projecting independents in Deeg-Kumher remained successful.

‘BJP made issueof JK Lon deathsas a conspiracy’

Bhanwar S. Charan

Kota: UDH minister Shanti Dhariwal on Sunday said that the central team has found that the nine in-fants who have died at JK Lon hospital were in critical conditions and it was not possible to save them. The min-ister accused the BJP of defaming Kota un-der a conspiracy.

“It was made an is-sue unnecessarily in the country. It was done last time also. The state govern-ment is sensitive for medical and health,” Dhariwal told report-ers during his visit to Kota to highlight the achievements of the Congress govern-ment.

He rejected the talks of toppling of Congress govern-ment in Rajasthan as rumours. Without naming anyone, he said that those who hit others have re-ceived a blow.

The UDH minister also held the “weak party organisation” responsible for poor performance in the

recently held pan-chayat elections. “The organisation was weak therefore we were behind in Pan-chayat election re-sults,” Dhariwal told reporters during his visit to Kota to high-light the achieve-ments of the Congress government. The min-ister also expressed satisfaction over the implementation of government schemes and programmes. He claimed that all the de-velopment works be-ing carried out in Kota division will complete in time. Mines minis-ter Pramod Jain Bhaya said that the state government has made a policy for sand which is being implemented. He said that action is being taken against those involved in illegal mining.

Shanti Dhariwal

MINISTERS’ REPORT CARD

—PHOTO BY NIKHIL TIW

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Satyanarayan Sharma

Jaipur: After success-ful experiment of ‘Police Mitra’, the Rajasthan po-lice have made ‘Gram Rakshak’ volunteers in all the districts to in-crease community par-ticipation in policing.

Preeti Jain, SP- com-munity policing PHQ, informed that 34048 peo-ple have been made Gram Rakshak across the state so far.

The Gram Rakshak volunteers have been given the task of report-ing of any crime, suspi-cious activity or law and order situation in the

village to local police sta-tion, maintaining vigi-lance in villages, assist-ing police during actions and preventing other people in creating obsta-cle in police action etc. Apart from it, the Gram Rakshan will help the police in patrolling and will maintain a register

in which problem of vil-lages relate to the polic-ing will be written.

She said that villagers from the age of 40 years to 55 years have been se-lected for the Gram Rak-shan for two years and have been trained on how they will help the police.

Volunteers to help ‘Raj Police’ battle crimeCITIZENS IN POLICING!

Man dies by suicide over wife’s affairSri Ganganagar: A body was found hanging on a roadside pole on Sunday morning in An-upgarh in Sriganganagar district. Police reached the spot and found a sui-cide note from his trou-ser. He had written about giving up his life by get-ting tired with his wife’s infidelity. The deceased is identified as Sukhdev Singh lived in ward num-ber 28 of Anupgarh.

Churu bizman’sdead body foundin car, probe on Churu: Dead body in a car on Rishi Kul road spread sensation in Chu-ru on Sunday morning. The deceased is a busi-nessman Mukesh Harit-war (25), resident of Ward 24 in city. Police reached the spot, sent body for post-mortem. When they looked inside the car, they saw a person’s body lying. FSL team was called from Churu, there is a possibil-ity of murder in prima fa-cie case.

BRIEFinState reports 9 covid deaths,

978 fresh cases on SundayAs per the bulletin, 2,83,957 people have been discharged till nowJaipur: Rajasthan re-corded nine more fa-talities due to Covid-19 on Sunday, taking the death toll in the state to 2,617, according to a health department bulletin.

The state also re-ported 978 new cases. In Jaipur, the death toll from the infection is 490 till now, fol-lowed by 278 in Jodh-pur, 215 in Ajmer, 165 in Bikaner, 162 in Kota, 118 in Bharat-pur, 108 in Udaipur and 105 in Pali. On Sunday, Rajasthan re-corded 978 new cases, including 199 in Jaipur, 110 in Jodhpur, 82 in Kota, 55 in Udaipur, 48 in Bhilwara and 40 each in Ajmer, Alwar. —PTI

Cops attacked by liquor, gravel mafia in Tonk

Three Ghaziabad residents killed in accident in Bikaner

First India Bureau

Bikaner: Three friends were killed in a tragic accident in Bikaner on Sunday morning when they were coming to Bi-kaner from Ghaziabad for solar plant deal.

The accident oc-curred in a head-on col-lision between a car and a mini truck. The colli-sion was so fast that the three friends driving

the car died on the spot. The driver of the mini-truck fled from the spot after the accident.

The mini-truck was going from Bikaner to-wards Jaipur, while the car was coming towards Bikaner. The speed of the car was got uncon-trolled on the slope to hit the oncoming mini truck. 3 friends Akhlaq, Manish Koshi and Dev-endra died on spot.

First India Bureau

Tonk: The police per-sonnel were attacked in Deoli on Sunday when they went to check liq-uor smuggling, The po-lice arrested about 12 people in this regard. The accused pelted stones on the police team which went to crackdown on illegal liq-uor in Deoli in Tonk dis-trict.

In another incident, a team of police was at-tacked by illegal gravel mafia who hit the police

vehicle with tractor trol-ley injuring some police-men.The Deoli police station has registered a case against one and a

half dozen women and men in illegal liquor matter. Deoli police of-ficer Rajuram said that the police had gone to

Raghunathpura village and seized about 100 lit-ers of illegal liquor and liquor making equip-ments and arrested two brothers Manraj and Dhanraj Meena.

When the police left with the accused, the villagers surrounded the police jeep and pelt-ed stones and took the two youths out of the police custody. Later, after calling additional police from Dooni, Ghad and Deoli police sta-tions, the accused were rounded up.

THE GIFT OF KINDNESS!

Sufi ya Khan, an ultra runner from Ajmer, met Governor Kalraj Mishra on Sunday at Raj Bhavan to give information about her race aimed at unity, peace and harmony. Mishra wished her for the goodwill race from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and presented her a medical kit. Khan worked as a duty offi cer in aviation in Delhi and after leaving job she completed 720 km distance of Great Indian Golden Triangle (Delhi, Jaipur, Agra, Delhi) in 16 days.

Fatal head-on car-truck crash on Sunday in Bikaner.

HC seeks reply from Raj Bhawan on plea by terminated VCShubham Jain

Ajmer: Former vice chancellor of MDS University of Ajmer Rampal Singh, who was terminated after he was arrested in case of bribery, has chal-lenged the order of Raj Bhawan and filed a pe-tition in Rajasthan high court.

Hearing the petition, the court has issued a notice and sought re-ply from the Raj Bha-wan.

Singh was terminat-ed from the post of the vice chancellor after

he and his middleman was arrested by the anti-corruption bu-reau for taking a bribe of Rs 2.20 lakh for giv-ing colleges affiliation sometime back.

An aerial view of heavy smog during a cold winter morning in Ajmer on Sunday.

—PHOTO BY HIMANSHU SHARMA

MOUNT ABU SHIVERS AT 1 DEGREE CELSIUS

As temperatures continue to drop in Northern India,

similar was the scene in Rajasthan’s Mount Abu, where mercury plummets to minus one degree Celsius, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), on Sunday. According to the IMD, “The maximum temperature recorded at Mount Abu was 22 degree Celsius and minimum at minus 1 degree Celsius with mainly clear sky .”

Police personnel on duty were attacked in Tonk on Sunday.

SMOG ADDS TO WINTER WOES

“BECAUSE EVERY DROP COUNTS”

Jewellery Show Premiere rescheduled to August 2021

Vimal Kothari

Jaipur: The India Inter-national Jewellery Show Premiere, which was scheduled to be held in

January 2021, has been further postponed till Au-gust due to corona pan-demic. New dates have not been announced. However, a virtual show

will be organised from 8 to 12 January. GJEPC coordinator Shailesh Sangani said that virtual show will be held from 8 to 12 January. The co-

rona pandemic has taken a toll on the gems and jewellery, most of shows which were scheduled to be held in HK, USA have already been cancelled.

Rampal Singh

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Minister of state for health Dr. Sub-hash Garg was injured after he slipped in the bathroom at his resi-dence on Sunday night. The minister sustained head injury after which he was rushed to the SMS hospital for treatment. He received four stitches in the head. He returned home as no major problem was detected in the CT scan report. Garg had returned to Jaipur on Sunday after the elections of civic bodies were held in Bharatpur.

Dr Subhash Garg injured as he slips in the bathroom

THE NUMBER OF GRAM RAKSHAK

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NEITHER SIDE IS READY TO BLINK,

PROTESTS CONTINUEith farmers so far uncompromis-ing on their demand for the repeal of three agriculture reforms Acts passed by the government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a

surprise visit to Delhi’s Gurudwara Rakab-ganj on Sunday to pay tributes to Guru Tegh Bahadur whose death anniversary was ob-served on Saturday. After the visit the prime minister tweeted, “This morning, I prayed at the historic Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Sahib, where the pious body of Sri Guru Tegh Baha-dur ji was cremated. I felt extremely blessed. I, like millions around the world, am deeply inspired by the kindness of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur ji.”

While the prime minister paid obeisance at the gurudwara, farmers at the Singhu bor-der observed “Shraddhanjali Diwas” (day of tribute) for the 20 protesters who died during the 25 days of protests. Farmers were upbeat about the success of their blockage of Delhi-Jaipur Highway. On Saturday they an-nounced blocking the Ghazipur-Delhi border. A relay hunger strike is also planned from Monday. Protesters have also appealed to peo-ple to skip a meal on December 23, which is the Farmers Day.

Their continued agitation is a sign farmers are unmoved by the prime minister’s assur-ance that “…talk about MSP ending after the new laws is the biggest lie ever. I want to as-sure every farmer across India that MSP is here to stay.” While addressing a group of farmers in Madhya Pradesh also said that the government was willing to address their con-cerns and allay all fears “with our heads bowed, our hands folded”. In a strong riposte farmers said they were tired of PM’s Mann ki Baat and that he should now listen to theirs.

The government’s carrot and stick policy of willingness to allay their fears and in-come-tax raids on some commission agents (arhatiyas) in Punjab has not gone down well with the protesters who condemned the action and called it “vendetta”. The raids were conducted with the Central Reserve Police Force personnel in tow. The state po-lice were not taken into confidence. In Uttar Pradesh pro-protesters were fined Rs 50 lakhs each. While ED raids may be justified, the timing and the message it sends is wrong. The fine on UP farmers is draconian as it is an attack on their fundamental right to protest which even the Supreme Court has allowed.

The advantage that governments have is their vast powers. The protesters’ main dis-advantage is that they could not get support from farmers to the extent which they may have expected. If there is no compromise, the government may not allow the protests to continue endlessly. The farmers too will realise the futility of their sit-in and the prolonged stalemate if the government re-mains firm on its stand. Both sides must understand that negotiations are the only way out.

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rowth is vital for any com-pany to flourish. Many com-panies are moving ahead with a good percentage of growth year after year, while few companies are strug-gling to achieve growth. Usually, there are three im-portant factors that lead to a company’s growth: The sale of products and their current availability in the marketplace, the launch of new products, and the indus-try segment’s growth. Out of these three major factors, even if one suffers a nega-tive impact, it directly af-fects the company’s produc-tivity and growth. Achiev-ing an eminent position in the market, every year there has to be positive and con-sistent growth in the com-pany’s valuation. The valua-tion depends primarily on the company’s turnover, profit, and financials.

Every year is not the same and the market changes are most unpredictable, which di-rectly affects the results and performance of the company. For consistent growth, a good alternative is a right acquisi-tion, which means wherever there is the possibility of ac-quiring companies that are witnessing a boom, grab the opportunity and acquire such companies.

By doing so, the company gets an opportunity of growth on parallel grounds, with the other’s company’s turnover merging and mul-tiplying. It is a win-win situ-ation at both ends, which eventually leads to an in-crease in the valuation of the company. The important factor is when the company is financially strong and if you wish to take over anoth-er company, then you need to be careful about certain as-pects. For right acquisition, you should never opt for buying a company with the

intent of investment alone. Your goal should be the com-pany’s growth. Let’s talk about a famous example in this regard.

Henry Kravis, the founder of KKR Company, stands amongst one of the best share broking firms in the world. He is known for acquiring small and big companies. His views on right acquisition are very distinct. He opines, “When I buy a com-pany with millions of dollars, there is no need to congratulate me. When I make the company profitable and sell it at a higher price, then I am truly success-ful.” Task out of the ordinary is the real challenge!

In Kravis’ words, “My Company works on a huge canvas. KKR always hunts for companies that are ideal for acquisition. We don’t get influenced by attractive presentations, instead give more prominence to ground realities and rooted facts. We count on experience, cap-ital, and products that have a bright future, with the right combination of infra-structural facilities and strength to compete with other companies. Whenever there is talk about the acqui-

sition, we keep that compa-ny’s staff and management in confidence. This has played a vital role in our suc-cess story.”

“Recently we have success-fully sized the deals with com-panies from varied fields. Ho-tels, Media, Oil & Gas, Retail, etc. but our goal is clear that it must be the right acquisition. We do not make hasty deci-

sions but are also vigilant of the fact that actions are taken timely and appropriately, wher-ever required. You must pos-sess the skill to identify the right opportunity. Sometimes everything appears perfect on the surface, but you should have a balancing attitude, right aptitude, and sixth sense to as-sess the situation for a perfect deal.”

The gist is that for the company’s growth, the right acquisition is most impor-tant. To invest in the right company is of crucial im-portance. This calls for an in-depth approach. If you have the ability to gauge the market moves, then right ac-quisition wouldn’t be a dif-ficult task for you. The right acquisition is important but if you don’t have knowledge of a particular industry, then you should not venture into it as this will only make matters worse

During the process of acqui-sition, keeping the company’s staff in confidence is crucial. Eventually, these are the people who are going to contribute to your company’s performance.

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RIGHT ACQUISITION IS ESSENTIAL TO INCREASE THE

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GROWTH, THE RIGHT ACQUISITION IS MOST

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BE A DIFFICULT TASK FOR YOU

ince the first A c a d e m y Awards cere-mony in 1929, n o n - E n g l i s h

films from all over the world used to compete for a nomination in one single category, best foreign film, as all the other Oscars tra-ditionally went to Ameri-can and, sometimes, Brit-ish productions. But in 2019, Netflix’s Spanish-lan-guage “Roma” was nomi-nated for best picture. It won for best director and, as predicted, best foreign film. This year, the first non-English feature won best picture, Bong Joon-ho’s Korean film “Para-site.”

The Oscars may be just following a much bigger trend in entertainment in the past few years, with non-English- language shows becoming interna-tional hits even in markets like the US and the UK that don’t consume a lot of dubbed or subtitled con-tent. The American review

website Rotten Tomatoes chose Netflix’s first Ger-man-language show, “Dark,” as the best Netflix Original series among 63 competitors, getting 80% of the 2.5 million votes, against English-language hits like “Mindhunters” and “The Crown.”

BOUND TO LEADLatin and, much later, French, were the interna-tional languages for diplo-macy, the theater and lit-erature. British imperial power put the English lan-guage at the center of world affairs and, right as that empire faded, Ameri-can dominance reinforced its importance. But it was Hollywood’s soft power over the 20th century that made the English language seductive and attractive

the world over.Hollywood shaped the

preferences of a large number of audiences for English-language films and TV shows since the creation of the studios in the 1910s. Other countries took advantage of that.

The British Council, estab-lished in 1934 and current-ly presented in over 100 countries, invests in keep-ing the English language a powerful medium in which the arts, diplomacy, enter-tainment, science and tech-nology are conducted.

LEAVING THE TELENOVELA BEHINDNetflix, which is represent-ed in 190 countries, has be-come one of the main pro-ducers of foreign-language hits, with other shows breaking the English bar-rier, such as the Turkish

“The Protector,” French “Osmosis,” Polish “The Woods” and South Korea’s “Kingdom.” According to Louis Brennan, a professor at Trinity College, Dublin, who researches Netflix’s international expansion, the success of non-English language shows can be ex-plained by the natural ap-peal of local products, to-gether with a tendency to-ward broader and more diverse tastes of consum-ers in the 21st century.

In the US, the viewer-ship of non-English titles on Netflix increased 50% this year compared with 2019 and the consumption of dubbed films and shows is rising 120% every year, according to some of the very few audience statis-tics the company shares.

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INDIAJAIPUR | MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2020


DELHI COLD INTENSIFIES BUT PROTESTING FARMERS UNDETERRED

2 BENGALI FILMS SELECTED FOR INDIAN PANORAMA SECTION OF IFFIKolkata: Two Bengali fea-ture fi lms have been se-lected for the prestigious Indian Panorama section of International Film Festival of India. Director of one of the fi lms Aritra Mukherjee said his fi rst fi lm ‘Brahma Janen Go-pon Kommoti’ has been selected for the Indian Panorama section of IFFI, Goa. The fi lm stars Ritab-

hari Chakraborty, Soham Majumdar, Manasi Sinha & Subhasish Mukherjee among others. Scripted by Zinia Sen fi lm breaks stereotypes about women not made for certain professions like priests. Another fi lm ‘Avijatrik’, which was based on the concluding part of Bibhut-ibhusan Bandyopadhyay’s novel Aparajito.

RAGHAV CHADHA IS NEW CO-INCHARGE OF AAP’S PB UNITNew Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday congratulated Raghav Chadha on being appointed as co-incharge of party’s Punjab unit. “Congratu-lations and best wishes to Raghav Chadha for being appointed as seh-prabhari of Punjab,” the CM tweeted. Earlier in the day, party’s Punjab unit tweeted, “AAP MLA from Rajinder Nagar and vice-chairman of Delhi Jal Board Raghav Chadha has been appointed as co-incharge of Aam Aadmi Party, Punjab.”

‘1st FLIGHT FROM NOIDA AIRPORT LIKELY BY DEC 2023 OR JAN 2024’Noida: Work on the upcoming Noida Interna-tional Airport is progress-ing as scheduled and the fi rst fl ight is expected to take off by Dec 2023 or Jan 2024, a senior gov-ernment executive said on Sunday. Also, the reset-tlement and rehabilitation of over three thousand families who are getting displaced due to the mega

greenfi eld project is likely to be completed by May 2021, Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL) CEO Arun Vir Singh said. UP CM Yogi Adityanath had on December 18 ap-proved the name, design and the logo of the airport being built in Jewar area along the Yamuna Ex-pressway in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district.

MUMBAI: DRUGS WORTH RS 33 LAKH SEIZED, 2 ARRESTEDMumbai: The Ghatkopar Unit of Anti-Narcotics Cell of Mumbai Police seized 66,000 drug pills worth Rs 33 lakh from the possession of two persons on Saturday. Police arrested the ac-cused Shah Rukh Rashid Sheikh and Abdullah Moin Sheikh from Shivaji Nagar. DCP (ANC) Datta Nalavde said, “66,000 tablets of the brand Nitravet 10 has been recovered from two per-sons. The tablet contains Nitrazepamare which is mainly prescribed for the treatment of sleep disorder and anxiety.

ENJOYING THE CHILL...

Tourists visit Rohtang Pass as winter cold sets in near Manali on Sunday. —PHOTO BY PTI

New Delhi: Thousands of farmers protesting at Delhi borders against the Centre’s new agri laws remained firm in their demands of re-pealing the legislations, even as the city recorded its coldest morning this season, with the mercu-ry dipping to 3.4 degrees Celsius on Sunday.

According to IMD, a cold wave swept Delhi on Sunday. The Safdar-jung Observatory, which provides representative data for the city, record-ed a minimum of 3.4 de-grees Celsius, five notches below the nor-mal, on Sunday morn-ing, an IMD official said. The maximum tempera-ture is likely to settled around 22 degrees Cel-sius, the official said. The farmers’ agitation, which has entered its fourth week, has also led to traffic diversions at various border points causing inconvenience to commuters. —PTI

Farmers gather at Singhu border during their sit-in protest against Centre’s farm reform laws in New Delhi.

Pradhan dedicates WB’s 1ST oil, gas reserve to nation

Ashoknagar: West Bengal found a place in the oil map of India as Union Minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan on Sunday dedicated an oil and gas producing field in North 24 Parganas district to the nation.

He said production from the petroleum re-serve here, about 47 km from Kolkata, has start-ed with extracted oil be-ing sent to Haldia refin-ery of Indian Oil Corpo-ration (IOC).

“With the commence-ment of production from the Ashoknagar oil and gas reserve, West Bengal finds a place in the oil map,” he said after inau-gurating the project.

The first proven re-serve of oil and gas in

the state was discov-ered in 2018.

The Ashoknagar field, which falls under the Mahanadi- Bengal-An-daman (MBA) basin, has been proved to be com-mercially viable, he said.

PSU major ONGC had spent Rs 3,381 crore for discovery of the Ashoknagar oilfield, he said, adding that two more wells will be ex-plored by the company under OLAP. Crude oil discovered at Ashokna-gar reserve is of high quality, he added.

He said commercial production from oil-field will increase West Bengal’’s revenue and create job opportuni-ties. The petroleum & natural gas minister said this would be the eighth hydrocarbon producing basin of In-dia, & ONGC took “a step by commencing oil production under the early monetisation plan of government.” —PTI

Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurates the Oil & Gas project at Ashok Nagar on Sunday.

Revamp forest dept in Delhi, says NGT

Nirav Modi’s brother Nehal charged for $2.6 mn fraud

New York: Nehal Modi, the younger brother of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi, has been indicted here for fraud-ulently obtaining dia-monds worth over USD 2.6 million from one of the world’s biggest dia-mond companies in Manhattan.

Nehal, 41, is charged in a New York Supreme Court indictment with Grand Larceny in the First Degree, Manhat-tan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. said.

“While diamonds maybe forever, this flawed scheme was not, and now Modi will face the clarity of a New York Supreme Court in-dictment. My Office will not allow individu-als who have the privi-lege of soliciting busi-ness in Manhattan’s iconic diamond indus-try to defraud our busi-nesses or consumers,” Vance said in a state-ment on Friday. —PTI

New Delhi: The Nation-al Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the authori-ties concerned to re-vamp the forest depart-ment in Delhi appropri-ately for the protection of environment and a meaningful enforce-ment of the rule of law.

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Jus-tice Adarsh Kumar Goel took note of a re-port filed by the Princi-pal Chief Conservator of Forests, Department

of Forests on the issue of filling of posts.

According to the re-port, the sanctioned posts were taken out of

the purview of the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB) and the Depart-ment of Forest and

Wildlife, Government of NCT of Delhi undertook the process of recruit-ment of a total of 226 vacant sanctioned posts of four forest rangers, 211 forest guards and 11 wildlife guards.

“The online testing & assessment services were outsourced to Ed-CIL India Limited, a Mini-Ratna Public Sec-tor Enterprise under Ministry of Human Re-source Development, on Nov 14, 2019. —PTI

DHARMENDRA PRADHAN

@DPRADHANBJPFlagged-off seismic data acquisition operation in Block WB- ONN- 2005/4 for further appraisal and

location of oil & gas resources at Ashoknagar.

We are committed to usher in unprecedented development in Bengal

and also make India self-reliant in energy.

CENTRE TO TELL BENEFITS OF NEW FARM LAWS IN LOCAL LINGO

PARL SESSION CANCELLED TO AVOID DEBATE ON FARMERS’ STIR: RAUT

SEEING NO HEADWAY IN TALKS WITH GOVT: FARMERS’ UNION

New Delhi: Modi government is reaching out to farmers, with Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar’s eight-page letter to protestors being translated into various vernacular languages. Letter which was written primarily for Hindi speaking states will now be circulated among farming community in an effort to garner their support for Central farm laws explain issues in detail in a language familiar to them.

Mumbai: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut claimed the winter ses-sion of Parliament was cancelled to avoid a debate on the ongoing farmers’ protest against the Centre’s new farm laws. In his weekly column ‘Rokhthok’ in the Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, Raut also questioned the need for spending “Rs 1,000 crore” on Central Vista project when the Narendra Modi govern-ment was not interested in holding debates & Parliament session. Thousands of farmers have been protesting at Delhi borders since Nov 26 against Centre’s new agri laws.

New Delhi: Manjit Singh Rai, President of Bharatiya Kisan Union at Singhu border told, “The government is delaying our matter unnecessarily. They should have repealed laws by now & send farmers back to their homes. Although the government has stated that before the new year begins there would be a solution, however pragmatically speaking, we are not seeing anything hopeful or even close to that.”

FARMERS PAY TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO DIED DURING STIR

New Delhi: Farmers protesting at the borders of the national capital on Sunday observed Shradhanjali Diwas to pay tributes to those who lost their lives during the protest against the Centre’s farm laws. Farmer Union lead-ers have claimed that over 20 of their fellow agitators have lost their lives in the duration of the protest, and continued to demand that the three ‘black laws’ be taken back. “Twenty-two people have lost their lives while protesting at the borders, and about ten have died at pro-tests back home. They have given their lives for this cause. We have taken an oath to not stop the protest till the three farm laws are taken back,” a farmer at the Nirankari Samagam ground in Burari told ANI. —ANI

PUNJAB FARMER COMMITS SUICIDEChandigarh: A 22-year-old Punjab farmer, who returned from a protest site near Delhi border, has allegedly committed suicide after consuming some poisonous substance, police said. Gurlabh Singh, a resident of Dayalpura Mirza village of Bathinda district, had been part of protest near Delhi border. He had returned to his village on Friday.

INDIAJAIPUR | MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2020


New Delhi: The Coro-navirus (COVID-19) ac-tive caseload in India has dropped to 3.05 lakh, comprising just 3.04 per cent of the total infections as on date, the Union Health Min-istry said on Sunday.

The new recoveries of 29,690 in a span of 24 hours have led to a net decline of 3,407 in the total active cases, it said.

The ministry said that ten states and UTs including Maharash-tra, Kerala, West Ben-gal, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Kar-nataka account for 66 per cent of the total active cases in the country.

Indian states of Ma-harashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala continued to remain at top with the highest number of coronavirus (Covid-19) cases record-ed till date, while the country’s infection tal-ly crossed the 10 million mark on Saturday, ac-cording to the health

ministry. A total of 26,624 cases

and 341 deaths were re-ported in India in 24 hours, according to the health ministry dash-board on Sunday morn-ing. As many as 95,804,02 people have recovered and 145,477 have died due to the vi-rus in the country. —PTI

COVID-19 CONTINUES TO RAVAGE FIVE STATESMaharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu & Kerala continued to remain at top with the highest number of cases recorded till date

A health worker collects a nasal swab sample from a man to conduct his Rapid Antigen test for Covid-19, in Srinagar on Sunday.

Sabarimala opens for 5000 pilgrims from December 26Kerala: Post December 26, devotees will be al-lowed to visit Sabarimala hill shrine only after pro-ducing a COVID-negative certifi cate following an RT-PCR test, the Travan-core Devaswom Board (TDB) said, even as the Kerala High Court granted permission to allow 5,000 pilgrims to visit the temple from Sunday. TDB president N Vasu said devotees must carry a COVID-19-negative certifi -cate after conducting an RT-PCR test not more than 48 hours prior to their visit to the temple. “In view of the Makaravilakku festival season from December 31 to January 19, 2021, devotees who do not have an RT-PCR-negative certifi cate will not be allowed to climb the hill,” the board president said. Earlier, negative certifi cate from antigen test was enough for the devotees to visit the shrine. —ANI

New Delhi: In a bid to boost tourism at cen-trally protected monu-ments and sites, the Archaeological Survey of India, under the Ministry of Culture, has decided to remove the cap on the number of visitors. However, the total number of visitors to be allowed inside the sites will be decided by the con-cerned Superintending Archaeologist.

ASI to remove cap on number of visitors

New Delhi: The Law Ministry has asked states to set up special courts to settle disputes related to infrastruc-ture project contracts under a law which was amended twpo years ago, saying it is very im-portant in improving the ‘Ease of Doing Busi-ness’ ranking of both India and states.

Citing the examples of the high courts of Al-lahabad, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh, it has suggested other high courts to allocate a special day to make al-

ready functioning des-ignated special courts for dealing with infra-structure project litiga-tion as dedicated courts.

Section 20 B of Spe-cific Relief Act, 2018, provides for designated courts. But the Law Ministry wants a desig-nated court to function as a dedicated court on special days. The high courts have dedicated special days every week to enable exclusive han-dling of Specific Relief matters pertaining to infrastructure project contracts. —PTI

Centre asks states to set up special courts

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee extended her gratitude to leaders for "showing solidarity to the people of Bengal and reaffirming their commitment to federal-ism" over the central government asking for transferring Indian Po-lice Service officers, days after the attack on BJP president JP Na-dda's convoy.

In a tweet, she thanked Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, Delhi CM Arvind Kejri-wal, Rajasthan CM

Ashok Gehlot, & Tamil Nadu Leader of Opposi-tion MK Stalin for showing solidarity.

Earlier, these leaders had criticised the cen-tral government for asking for the transfer-ring of IPS officers.—ANI

Mamata thanks leaders for showing solidarity with Bengal

New Delhi: A gradual rise in minimum and maximum tempera-tures by 2 degrees Cel-sius to 3 degrees Celsiu-sis likely over plains of northwest and adjoin-ing central India in the 48 hours, bringing re-lief to residents in the region, who have en-dured biting cold waves for the last few days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) pre-dicted on Sunday.

Cold Day conditions, however, are likely to

prevail over the North-west and adjoining Cen-tral India during the

next three days except East Uttar Pradesh.

The current spell of

cold wave/severe cold wave conditions over Northwest and adjoin-ing Central India are likely to abate from De-cember 21.

"The current spell of Cold Wave/Cold Day conditions and Dense to very dense fog likely to continue at a few places over East Uttar Pradesh on December 20 to 21 and at isolated places over the same area from December 21 to 23," the IMD said in a statement. —ANI

Temp to rise in next 48 hours: IMD

Icicles hang from a tree in the outskirts of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. —PHOTO BY ANI

BJP GEARS UP

MEN HAVE 30% HIGHER RISK OF DYING FROM COVID-19: STUDY

—PHOTO BY ANI

Mamata Banerjee

New Delhi: The ED on Sunday conducted mul-tiple searches in Delhi-NCR in connection with its probe into two mon-ey laundering cases and arrested a person in the Noida ‘Bike Bot’ ponzi scheme, officials said.

The raids were car-ried out at six locations in Delhi, Noida, Ghazi-abad and Hapur by offi-cials from Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) Luc-know zone.

ED Joint Director (Lucknow zone) Rajesh-war Singh confirmed the search action in the two cases -- ‘Bike Bot’ case and the money laundering investiga-tion against real estate major Amrapali Group.

In the first case, the agency said it searched four premises and ar-rested former director of F7 Broadcast Pvt Ltd, Manoj Tyagi, under the provisions of the Pre-vention of Money Laun-dering Act. His role is under scanner in the ‘Bike Bot’ case linked to its promoter company Garvit Innovative Pro-moters Ltd. The agency

also searched the prem-ises linked to Anil Ku-mar Saha, promoter and director of Saha Infratech Pvt Ltd, in the same case. “The two companies have been found to have received crores of rupees from the funds collected from Bike Bot investors to-wards investment in real estate and other-wise, without any prop-er agreement or docu-mentation. “Several in-criminating docu-ments, electronic de-vices and Rs 9.5 lakh cash have been seized during the raids,” the ED said. Tyagi will be produced before a spe-cial PMLA court in Luc-know on Monday by the ED for seeking his cus-

tody, the officials said.“Tyagi is a close as-

sociate of one of the main accused in the case, Vijender Singh Hooda, and has been ar-rested for facilitating financial transactions running into several crores of rupees and concealing material facts related to the case and misleading the agency,” the ED alleged.

The agency claimed that a sum of about Rs 13.41 crore “has been transferred to F7 Broad-cast from various com-panies related to Bike Bot”. “In addition, around Rs 2.63 crore have been transferred to this company from vari-ous educational institu-tions and trusts. —PTI

ED conducts multiple raids in Delhi-NCR, nabs one in ‘Bike Bot’ scam

MAHARASHTRA GOVT MAKES MASKS MANDATORY FOR NEXT 6 MONTHSMumbai: Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray said wearing masks will be mandatory for the next 6 months in the state.Addressing people on social media, Thackeray said experts are in favour of imposing night curfew or another lockdown, but he is not in favour of these steps. The situation in the state is under control, through not completely, he said. "Prevention is better than cure. Wearing of mask at public places should be made a habit for another six months at least," Thackeray said. —PTI

New Delhi: Stressing on the need for an ex-peditious vaccination drive to cover all the target population esti-mated to be around 30 crore, Union Health Minister Harsh Vard-han said the country is on the verge of author-ising the 1st set of vac-cines. During a meet-ing, the Union minis-ter also underlined that pandemic growth in India has dropped to 2% while the case

fatality rate due to the coronavirus is at 1.45 per cent, which is among the lowest in the world. Stressing that despite festivals in the months of Oc-tober & November, no new surge of cases was observed due to comprehensive test-ing, tracking & treat-ment policy, Vardhan appealed to the public to diligently maintain “Covid-appropriate behaviour”. —PTI

On verge of authorising 1st set of vaccine: Vardhan

UP-Delhi border...The farmers have urged people to skip cooking their lunch to show their solidarity with the movement, said Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait.

The protesters have partially blocked the Delhi-Meerut highway and warned the govern-ment to allow free pas-sage to the farmers com-ing to join them from other states. They said they will block the high-way completely in the next 24 hours if their demands are not met. The protesting farmers will organise a day-long relay hunger strike Mon-

day and block all toll col-lection on the national highways in Haryana from December 25-27. Union Minister VK Sin-gh on Sunday said the on going protests by farmers against the three Central farm laws was “more political” in nature and underlined the NDA government’s intent to ensure the wel-fare of the ryots. Speak-ing to reporters in Than-javur ahead of his inter-action with farmers, the Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways claimed that “actual farmers are very happy with what has been done in last six

months.” Medical staff of different hospitals in Punjab have reached Singhu border (Delhi-Haryana border). “We’re here to support agitating farmers but we all are ready to serve if anyone falls ill,” said Harshdeep Kaur, who is working as a staff nurse at a hospi-tal in Ludhiana.

Shah promises...

All these three trends are dangerous for de-mocracy and people of the state,” Shah said while urging the people to join the BJP jugger-naut so that there could be change.

“I have not seen a

roadshow like this in my life. This roadshow shows love and trust of people of Bengal to-wards Prime Minister Narendra Modi. People of Bengal want change. Give one chance to Nar-endra Modi. We will make ‘Sonar Bangla’ in five years,” he added. He added,that the state’s ruling Trinamool Con-gress had turned into a family-party.

He was on a two-day visit to West Bengal to bolster the BJP’s cam-paign in poll-bound Ben-gal. Shah has set a target of winning more than 200 out of the 294 seats in the state assembly.

Accompanying Shah at the roadshow here was state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh and other party leaders. Shah further said, “This change is to stop the infiltration from Bangladesh. This change is to stop the violence in the state. It is to stop the toll taxes. The change is to end the nephew’s dadagiri (in an apparent reference to Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP and Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Ba-nerjee).”

“We will take Bengal on an onward path. We will make a Bengal of Subhash Babu’s dreams. Wherever BJP has got

an opportunity the states have developed,” he added.

Earlier, Amit Shah visited Visva-Bharati University in Santini-ketan and paid floral tribute to Rabindranath Tagore at Rabindra Bhavan. He also visited the residence of a ‘Baul’ (Bengali folk) singer in Bolpur & was treated to a traditional Bengali lunch. He listened with rapt attention as Bas-udeb Das Baul and his family performed a pop-ular folk song ‘Tomay Hrid Majhare Rakhbo’ with ‘ektara’ (single-stringed folk instru-ment).—ANI

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Khandwa: A 26-year-old software engineer alleg-edly married two wom-en in five days in Mad-hya Pradesh and then fled, police said on Sun-day. Based on a cheating complaint filed by a woman’s family here on Saturday, the police are conducting a probe into the matter, Khandwa’s Kotwali police station inspector B L Mandloi said. The accused, resi-dent of Musakhedi area in Indore, allegedly mar-ried a woman in Khand-wa on December 2 and another woman at Mhow

in Indore on December 7, the official said quot-ing the complaint. Ac-cording to the com-plaint, one of the Khand-wa victim’s relative who had gone to a wedding dinner in Mhow tehsil of Indore sent photo-graphs to her family through mobile phone on December 7 of the ac-cused’s second marriage in five days, the police officer said. The Khand-wa woman’s family lodged a police com-plaint here, seeking reg-istration of an FIR against the accused. —PTI

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Ensure prisoners are not forced to do menial jobs: HCJodhpur: The Ra-jasthan High Court has asked the state govern-ment to ensure that prisoners are not forced to do “menial jobs” like cleaning toilets on the basis of caste.It further said undertri-als should not be as-signed such jobs. The court gave the directions after taking a suo motto notice of a research paper by a vol-untary organisation, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI).Expressing dis-pleasure over the prac-tice, a division bench of

Justices Sandeep Me-hta and Devendra Kachhawaha said it is shocking that the pris-on manual, which was a “gift” of the British Rule, is still being fol-lowed.Fixing the next hearing for February 4, the court has asked the state government to ex-plain the steps needed to be taken for the over-hauling of the prison manual.The court also wished that the state government consider the installation of auto-mated cleaning facili-ties in all prisons. Earlier, the report by

the voluntary organisa-tion had highlighted that every person who enters a prison is asked about his caste and once identified, “meni-al jobs” like cleaning toilets and sweeping are assigned to those from lowest echelons of soci-ety, irrespective of the nature of the offence committed.The arrangement was clear – those at the bot-tom of the caste pyra-mid did the cleaning work; those high above handled the kitchen or the legal documenta-tion department. —PTI

DGGI detects misuse of ITC worth Rs 63L; one arrestedVimal Kothari

Jaipur: A team of Di-rectorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) Jaipur regional office has detected mis-use of Input Tax Credit (ITC) worth Rs 63.23 lakh by a firm and ar-rested a man in this connection.

The team arrested Saurabh Kumar Jain, who runs Shyam Trad-ers, from Pratap Nagar and produced before a court where the magis-trate remanded him to judicial custody.

SSP of DGGI Sunil Sharma informed the court that Jain formed several bogus firms in the name of different and misused nput Tax Credit.

Initially, the DGGI has detected misuse of Rs. 63.23 lakh which is likely to go up to Rs. 100 crore in further investi-gation.

Input Tax Credit (ITC) is the tax that a business pays on a pur-chase and that it can use to reduce its tax li-ability when it makes a sale. In other words, businesses can reduce their tax liability by claiming credit to the extent of GST paid on purchases.

Next hearing in the misuse of ITC is on Monday.

Forest Dept lacks concrete plan for tigers’ protection at RNPNirmal Tiwari

Jaipur: Despite the fact that big cats in famous Ranthambore National Park (RNP), where the tourism is tiger centric, are earning the depart-ment huge revenue eve-ry year, the spending on their well being, strengthening of infra-structure and on their monitoring is quite less.

On an average, the contribution of each ti-ger in the forest depart-ment’s revenue is nearly 60 lakh but still they are neglected by the depart-

ment and cases of poach-ing are increasing.

Wild life activist Bab-ulal Jaju, the state pres-ident of People for Ani-mals, has revealed sur-

prising facts on the ba-sis of information ob-tained through RTI.

He said that in the year 2019-20, revenue collection of the RNP

was Rs 29.95 crore while Sariska tiger re-serve collected revenue of Rs. 1.54 crore. He said that if the revenue is divided by the num-ber of tigers, then per tiger income in RNP stands at around Rs. 60 lakh every year.

Jaju alleged that the information gathering system of the RNP has weakened due to negli-gence of officers and there is no proper mon-itoring of the big cats, which is leading to inci-dents of poaching of ti-gers and other animals.

Waqf Board plans welfare projects on land freed from mafiosi in stateRajiv Gaur

Jodhpur: Rajasthan Waqf Board Chairman Khanu Khan said here on Sunday that hospi-tals and education in-stitutions will be con-structed on the proper-ties freed from the land mafiosi. Khanu Khan was here to in-spected the encroach-ments on the Waqf Board’s properties.

During his visit, he was welcomed by the leaders of the Con-gress Party. Members of the Muslim commu-nity also met him and

demanded to remove the encroachment from the Waqf Board properties.

Prominent among those who welcomed Waqf Board chairman

are Congress leaders Rajesh Saraswat, Mo-hammad Sabir and Ru-bina Khan. During his visit, Khan inspected the school and Khadija Hospital and hostel,

ITI, Takiya Chand Shah Jodhpur. He also inspected the en-croachments on sever-al properties in Jodh-pur and also discussed the issue with the peo-ple. Board CEO Syed Mukarram Ali Shah and director minority department and Board member Jamil Qureshi Sahab were also also present on the occa-sion. Talking to First India, he said that the construction of hostels including education in-stitutions and hospi-tals on freed land is the top priority.

WANT TO LEARN HOW TO HANDLE INTERNAL STRIFE? LEARN IT FROM GEHLOT!

Could there be an internal ‘tussle’ or competition

between two leaders of the same political party, specially when both the leaders, hail from the same region and hold a similar position in the government? Political pandits would claim that there would be an inherent struggle between two forces from the same region and to an extent this would be right. However, to subdue the tussle before it becomes an eye-sore for the party is the tact that the top leader will have to look out for. And perhaps this is why, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot formed a team of UDH minister Shanti Dhariwal with mining minister Pramod Jain Bhaya. Gehlot, through this action, has given a silent message that the duo should not consider

Hadoti, the region from hih they hail, to be a battleground for their self worth, rather to work together for the larger interest of the party. It is an unsaid fact that the two ministers have had a formal relation, but Gehlot’s tactful handling of the matter has broken the ice and brought them closer. As a result of this, the senior leader - Shanti Dhariwal - gave the perfect example of maturity when on

Saturday he acompanied Bhaya to where ever he took Dhariwal in Jhalawar. Dhariwal, with his simple demeanour, went everywhere Bhaya took him for various meets and on Sunday the duo visited Dhariwal’s ‘fort’ ie Kota region where Bhaya also cordially followed Dhariwal as a junior leader to perhaps the second most powerful politician in Congress after CM Ashok Gehlot. —Nirmal Tiwari

Ashok Gehlot Shanti Dhariwal Pramod Jain Bhaya

Traffic hit partially at Jaipur-Delhi highwayFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Traffic move-ment on the Jaipur-Delhi highway re-mained partially af-fected for the eighth consecutive day on Sunday due to an agi-tation by farmers against the Centre’s three farm laws.

Braving intense cold, the farmers have been sitting on a carriage-way of the highway in Shahjahanpur near the Rajasthan-Haryana border.

The carriageway has

been blocked for traffic and Delhi-bound vehi-cles are being diverted through other routes, a police officer said.

The carriageway for Jaipur-bound traffic is open, the police officer added.

The protest is being led by Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav, former CPI(M) MLA Amra Ram and other farmer leaders.At the protest site, the farmers observed ‘Shradhanjali Diwas’

on Sunday to pay hom-age to their brethren who died during the on-going agitation.

Amra Ram said hun-dreds of people, many of them led by Jat Ma-hasabha president Ra-jaram Meel, joined the protest in Shahjahan-pur and extended their support to movement.

Amra Ram said the movement will contin-ue till the government accepts their demand long pending for repeal of the three agriculture laws by the Central Gov-ernment.

FARMERS’ PROTEST: BRAVING BITING COLD FARMERS SITTING ON A CARRIAGEWAY

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Farmers play volley ball during their protest against the Centre’s farm reform laws on Sunday.

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I t has barely been twenty days since IAS Samit Sharma

took over the role of Jaipur Divisional Com-missioner, however, in this short time, Shar-ma has become ex-tremely active and his staff has termed Shar-ma’s activity level to be akin to ‘action mode’. Not just his office, but the entire bureaucracy is abuzz with his new found working style.

The manner he has suddenly started sur-prise inspection of various offices in the division, it has surely created a ‘ripple- effect’ in the government of-fices.

For a long time, Shar-ma has had his own style of functioning whether be it office or in the field.

He is known to be vo-cal about transparency in working and there-fore, he has got glasses installed on the doors

of his office so that peo-ple can see what is hap-pening inside the office. While most of the bu-reaucrats shy away from meeting the gen-eral public, Samit Shar-ma ensures that he is available for both the general public and im-portant individuals alike.

Interestingly, on a plaque outside his room he has got the word written, “meeting time, anytime during office hours.”

The meetings that have not been under-taken for the past sev-

eral years on the level of Divisional Commis-sioner, Samit has imme-

diately started chairing these meetings and in just twenty days, he has chaired meetings of more than thirty de-partments and taken feedback of ground sit-uation of these depart-ments. Apart from con-ducting surprise in-spections in Jaipur dis-trict, he has conducted similar inspections in Dausa, Alwar, Sikar and Jhunjhunu dis-tricts as well.

He has a firm stand on reaching the office

on time and does not shy away from giving charge-sheet to those of-ficials, who are irre-sponsible.

He has also made it mandatory for employ-ees to come in a uni-form and wear their ID badges. One of his pri-ority has been inspec-tion of schools. Inter-estingly, during these inspections, he keeps candies in hand, which he distributes to chil-dren.

However, his style of

functioning is full of risk as well. As of now, the Teacher and Em-ployee Unions have raised voice against his correctional and disci-plinary working style, but it will not be a sur-prise, if some politi-cians also raise their voice, on the same line as happened when he was the Jodhpur Divi-sional Commissioner. Since Jaipur is the epi-centre of state politics, there is more chance of this being repeated.

SAMIT SHARMA: NEW AGE REFORMER OR CONTROVERSY’S CHILD?TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF

The newly appointed Divisional Commissioner Samit Sharma has chaired meetings of thirty departments in just twenty days.

Dotasra meets Maken,discusses reorganisationYogesh Sharma

New Delhi: A day after CM Ashok Gehlot met AICC Chief Sonia Gandhi and other senior leaders, state party chief Govind Singh Dotasra met AICC General Secretary in-charge Ajay Maken and held detailed discussions on pending appointments.

Dotasra tweeted that had a detailed discus-sion with Maken on state executive and or-ganisation. Notably, af-ter the two hour long meeting with Maken, Dotasra highlighted that

even MLAs, both seniors and young, will be given responsibility in the or-ganisation. “Soon the state level committee

will be formed wherein, senior and young MLAs will be accommodated on the deputy president and general secretary

positions. As of now, the committee will be kept small and a proposal in this regard will be sent to the High Command. The appointment of dis-trict presidents will be conducted later,” Dotas-ra said, further adding, “State incharge Ajay Maken will reach Jaipur on December 25th and he is proposed to tour Kota division from De-cember 26th. He will take part in a pro-gramme of the Youth Congress on December 27th.” Notably, Dotasra has already held meet-

ings with Sachin Pilot at his residence in Jaipur for his feedback and sug-gestions and now final touches are being given to the desired commit-tee. The party High Command has given free hand to Ashok Gehlot for all state decisions. But Gehlot has asked state chief to take every-one along, which is also desired by the High Command. It is learnt that state executive will be announced in a week or two, followed by ma-jor political announce-ments by next month.

Govind Singh Dotasra called upon Ajay Maken in New Delhi on Sunday.

Freedom fighter Hariram Dhaka cremated with state honoursBikaner: Hariram Dha-ka, a 105-year-old free-dom fighter from Churu district, passed away and his mortal remains were cremated with state honours at his na-tive village, Naurangsar. on Sunday. CM Ashok Gehlot & his predeces-sor Vasundhara Raje expressed their condo-lences on Dhaka’s de-mise. Dhaka died on Saturday, his grandson Baldev Dhaka said. His eldest son Bhanwarlal Dhaka performed the last rites. CM Gehlot tweeted, “My deepest condolences on the death of freedom fighter Hariram Dhaka, resi-dent of Naurangasar vil-lage of Churu. His con-tribution to the country’s freedom movement will always be remembered. May God give strength to the grieving family and peace to the departed soul.”

Former CM Raje said, “I convey condolences on the demise of freedom fighter Hariram Dhaka ji. His contribution to India’s freedom struggle is unfor-gettable. I pray to God to give peace to the departed soul and strength to the grieving family.”—PTI

LS Speaker Birla lends a patient ear to public during his visit to Kota

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Kota: Lok Sabha Speak-er Om Birla met the general public for sev-eral hours at his camp office located at Shakti Nagar and heard their grievances during a public meeting on Sun-day. He will visit Kesho-raipatan on Monday.

Birla, who is on a five-day visit to his constitu-ency, Kota-Bundi, will meet the general public on Monday from 9.30 am to 1 pm at Shakti Nagar camp office in Kota. Af-ter this, Birla will leave for Keshoraipatan.

After reaching there at 1.35 pm, he will meet

intellectuals and hold discussions with them at the Chamunda Mata temple.

He is scheduled to meet the newly elected members of Panchayat samiti- Patan at 2 pm.

He will also pay floral tributes to late Paras Jain, former deputy chairman of Patan Na-gar Palika, at his resi-dence in Patan at 2.30 pm. After this, he will reach the residence of former Panchayat sami-ti member late Dhanraj Meena to pay tributes to him as well.

Later, he will hold a meeting with a group of people in Kapren.

Om Birla listens to peoples’ grievances during a public meeting at Kota on Sunday.

Bharat Dixit

Jaipur: Chief Secre-tary Niranjan Arya was honoured by Raigar Hostel Management Committee and Raigar Mahasangh during a function held at Jaipur on Sunday.

Addressing the function, Niranjan Arya said that it is very important for the society to be united. He also laid emphasis on education while highlighting the value of education.

Arya said that if the lands allotted to back-ward societies are uti-

lised properly, then it will benefit the society. He said that merit and hard work lead to suc-cess and caste and reli-gion does not matter. The CS said that if some-one is determined

enough, then no one can distract him from achieving the goal.

Jagdeesh Chandra, the CMD of First India News, was also present during the programme, which began with the lighting

of the lamp. CS Arya and Jagdeesh Chandra were extended a warm wel-come in the function wherein, the officers from the Raigar commu-nity, working on various posts across the country, were felicitated.

Appreciating the soli-darity witnessed in the function, Chandra said that this kind of har-mony and unity are rare to find in society in today’s time.

However, he added saying that it might not hold true after witness-ing the solidarity dur-ing the event.

Chandra urged the

Chief Secretary to ex-tend more and more help to members of the community. Jagdeesh Chandra thanked CM Ashok Gehlot for giving a chance to a Dalit of-ficer, a brilliant Niran-jan Arya, to be the first Dalit Chief Secretary of the state.

Raigar Hostel Man-agement Committee and Raigar Mahasangh of-fice bearers, RAS asso-ciation president Shaheen Ali also felici-tated the Chief Secre-tary. The members of the community from dif-ferent districts were also present in the function.

Merit and hardwork lead to success: CS AryaJagdeesh Chandra congratulates Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot for appointing a dalit as the Chief Secretary of Rajasthan

(From Left) TR Verma, Niranjan Arya & Jagdeesh Chandra during the event on Sunday.

(From Left) TR Verma, SK Mohanpuria and Niranjan Arya.

Rahul’s verbal barbs at party meet raise eyebrows!Aditi Nagar

New Delhi: It was an interesting day for Con-gress on Saturday when amidst all the ‘vo-cal protests’ by dis-gruntled senior party leaders, interim presi-dent Sonia Gandhi called a meeting for fu-ture course of action and to emphasise that the party is still strong. However, what made the day interesting was not the meeting but how Rahul conducted himself in the meeting.

Highly placed sourc-es reveal that it was per-haps the most straight faced, plain talk mode that the Gandhi scion had ever been in. Knowl-edgeable insiders claim that Rahul, who has fi-nally given his nod at becoming the party president again, made a surprising remark on the 2018 election of Ra-jasthan, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. A few leaders, during the meeting, reminded of the ‘splendid perfor-mance’ of Congress

party during the assem-bly elections, however, before these leaders could even complete their sentence, Rahul cut them short and said, “Congress did not win in Rajasthan and Mad-

hya Pradesh. It was merely BJP’s defeat. It was only in Chattisgarh where Congress actual-ly managed a victory.” While the senior leaders were left surprised at Rahul’s remark, it is now believed that the soon-to-be President made the remark on the basis of feedback given by Sachin Pilot. Inter-estingly, during the meeting, Rahul once again said that when Kamal Nath was CM of Madhya Pradesh, RSS and BJP were still so

involved in the govern-ance, that they were able to run the govern-ment and therefore Ka-mal Nath could never run the government as a CM. A few minutes passed in the meeting when senior leader P Chidambaram said that the party will do good in Tamil Nadu election, however here too, Rahul cut him short said, “The party should not live in dream world. DMK is contesting the election in Tamil Nadu, Con-gress is merely an ally.”

Rahul Gandhi

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RAJASTHAN2,617

DEATHS2,98,996

CONFIRMED CASES

GUJARAT 4,234 DEATHS 2,35,299 CASES

DELHI 10,277 DEATHS 6,17,005 CASES

WORLD16,96,440

DEATHS7,69,06,823

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INDIA1,00,54,946CONFIRMED CASES

1,45,804DEATHS

MAHARASHTRA48,746 DEATHS 18,96,518 CASES

UTTAR PRADESH8,177 DEATHS 5,73,401 CASES

KARNATAKA12,009 DEATHS 9,09,469 CASES

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AND THE WINNER IS...Isha Agarwal was crowned as Elite Miss Rajasthan 2020, while Divija Gambhir and Riya Sain were announced as the first and second Runner-ups on Sunday evening!

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he grand finale of Elite Miss Rajasthan 2020 was held on Sunday evening at Samskara Resort Jaipur, where Isha Agarwal bagged the title of the win-ner, and Divija Gambhir

and Riya Sain were declared to be the runner-ups.

Jagdeesh Chandra was the chief guest of the event and encouraged all the finalists to be focused on their dreams and goals in life, irre-spective of the results.

The winners were selected on the basis of their talents, communication skills, and graceful walks- something that is looked upon, in a winner.

The finalists were chosen from four major cities of the state- Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur and Kota.

In the first of the four designer sequence rounds, Jaipur’s well-known designer Harshad Pahuja showcased his collection of Indo-Western garments, while in the sec-

ond round, designer Varsha Jangid showcased her range of couture.

The third round stood out as a multi-designer round where 15

famous fashion designers presented their collection, like Himmat Singh, Moni-ka Bohra, Aashna Vas-wani, Mohit Falod, and Karan Vig among oth-ers.

In the last round of the show, 15 girls were chosen to be the finalists, who walked the ramp in designer couture by Heena Belani.

Keeping the COV-ID pandemic in mind,

only the families of the participants, guests and

teams were invited. Alongside this, proper safety measures like

social distancing, masks and sanitiza-tion were also taken care of.

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Jagdeesh Chandra crowned the winner of Elite Miss Rajasthan, Isha Agarwal on Sunday evening. Seen with them are (from left)

Akanksha Bhalla, Deepali Naruka and Charvi Tanya Dutta.

Charvi Tanya Dutta re-crowned Sharon Alexander, the winner of Elite Miss Rajasthan 2014

Riya Sain, Isha Agarwal and Divija Gambhir

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LEOJULY 24 - AUGUST 23

Financial gains appear on the horizon for some. Someone may give you tips regarding your health.

Marketing personnel may need to rethink strategy. You are likely to infuse confi dence in a family member in a not so good mood. Avoid travelling long distance.

LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22

Spending on friends will get you the recognition you seek, but don’t overdo it. A task entrusted to you at

work will be successfully completed. A family member can make you mentally upset over an issue that had been simmering for long. You may have to serve a property battle.

ARIESMAR 21 - APR 20

Efforts for improving your fi nancial condition will show positive signs. Those in uniformed services can

crave for a better posting. Weather changes can affect health if not careful. You seem to be extra effi cient today and will be able to wind up a lot of work.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22

You may choose to invest in a scheme you have been contemplating for long. You can expect a productive day

at work. You will need to be careful about your food habits, as it can affect health otherwise. Those wanting peace and quiet at home will have to ensure the same.

GEMINIMAY 21 - JUNE 21

This is the time to plan your fi nances for the future. Doctors and engineers can expect a

satisfying day both professionally and monetarily. A family member may not agree to with your thoughts. A small party with friends will be very exciting and rejuvenating for you.

AQUARIUSJAN 21 - FEB 19

Paying off creditors can appear diffi cult, but you will manage somehow. Freelancers will be in great

demand and will earn well. A marriage or birth is likely to bring happiness on the domestic front. An inheritance or property comes your way most unexpectedly.

TAURUSAPR 21 - MAY 20

A good break on the business front is foreseen for some. Some of you can pass through a tight

fi nancial situation. Those suffering from an ailment are likely to show improvement. Socially, this seems to be an excellent day when whatever you do is likely to be followed.

CAPRICORNDEC 23 - JAN 20

A soft approach in handling a subordinate will go a long way in encourag-ing a positive relationship.

A family function is on the anvil and will give you an opportunity to showcase your talents. Those going for a long drive are in for an enjoyable time.

VIRGOAUG 24 - SEP 23

You earn well and will also manage to open more avenues of earning. Health needs care. Things may

not go right on the professional front today. An excellent time with family and friends is indicated in a get-together. An exciting time lies ahead like travelling with friends.

CANCERJUNE 22 - JULY 23

You may look for good investment options as money comes to you. Your advice on a professional

matter will come in handy. Age-related ailments cannot be ruled out for some oldsters. Those living in a joint family are likely to feel cornered due to lack of support.

PISCESFEB20 - MARCH 20

Discussing investment options with a fi nancial expert will help you take the correct decision.

Raising capital for a business project will require some hard thinking. Some misunderstanding over a trivial issue with spouse can fl are up on the domestic front.

SCORPIOOCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

If there are any differences with spouse over some issue, this is the day to resolve them. A trip with

family is likely to prove most enjoyable. Take steps to resolve a property matter amicably. This is an excellent day that makes you lucky in every sphere.

YOUR DAY

Horoscope by Saurabbh Sachdeva

he tradition of gifting on Christmas may not be such a big thing in India, but we can’t deny the fas-cination for Santa Claus, Christmas parties, and Christmas sales. Every-

one loves a present, even your furry companions.

This year has been different, Slightly grim, and yet garnished with a hint of hope. So let’s do something different to ensure it ends better than it started. How about we extend the Christ-mas spirit to gifting? And the type of gifting that will be extremely gratifying and ensure that the end is brighter for at least those re-ceiving your thoughtful gifts.

You might think I am referring to gifting to human charities. While I ain’t opposed to helping humans, I feel it is the animals that need more of the Christmas cheer. They too have had a tough year, with a large number of dog owners abandoning them, and many of them finding their way into poorly funded and staffed shelters that are overcrowded be-cause of the rising number of ac-cidents, cruelty, and infections.

And let’s face it, charities working for animals are not on the top of everyone’s donation list. So I say, give to an organiza-tion dedicated to animals for a change. They need your support the most as they rely entirely on private donations. The govern-ment for the most part has no provision to support an animal charity.

So here are some great ways for you to play Santa for your city’s street and ownerless animals.

All they want for Christmas is ‘love’

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1Contact your local Shelter or NGO and inquire about their needs. You can always gift them items from their wish-list. Most shelters need funding to purchase items like food, medicine, blankets and mattresses, hot water

bottles, disinfectants, under sheets for paralyzed and young animals, gloves, and toys. It is always better to ask rather than donate something they don’t need.

4Go on a feeding spree. Feed as many animals on the street as you can. Treats would be nice too. It is cold this time of the year so it would also be nice for you to arrange for some blankets and gunny bags for them

doggies. You can place them in a cozy corner under a tree or where the animal is frequently spotted.

2Donate or sponsor food for a day at a local shelter. Many shelters have a system where residents

can sponsor a day’s meal. Check with them and decide if you want to sponsor the entire meal or pitch in for part of it. You might want to be mindful and ask them what they recommend for the animals. You cannot feed sick animals something their tummy won’t be able to digest.

5Pledge to sponsor an animal or a program at your

local shelter. Pledging ensures a consistent fl ow of funds so they have at least that to rely on. Many shelters have a sponsorship program. Check with your local NGO to see if they have any infrastructural or equipment purchase planned so your donation can help them with some bigger projects.

For recommendations on NGOs in your city feel free to reach out to me. Naughty or nice, the animals deserve some Christmas cheer.

6Adopt an animal: There are many abandoned animals in shelters. If you can take responsibility

of a new family member, it is a great idea to gift your children a furry sibling. Compassion is something children learn early on. And imagine you make two or more living beings happy. By taking an animal from a shelter and not from a breeder, you give it a chance at life as most animals that stay at a shelter for an extended period develop either some infection or mental trauma. Many die as they cannot be given the attention they deserve due to overcrowding.

3Spend Christmas with them. No better way than to volunteer.

Puppies, kittens, and paralyzed animals need individual attention. Let’s bring them some happy cheer. Take your friends and family. Bring along some toys and treats. Make it a Santa’s day out!

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Katy Perry is surprising fans with a new EP! The 36-year-old singer and American Idol judge dropped her EP

titled Cosmic Energy on Thursday night (December 17) in honour of Monday night’s Great Conjunc-tion. Katy‘s Cosmic Energy doesn’t feature any new songs, but it does feature some of her most enlightening and out of this world songs, in-cluding “E.T.,” “Wide Awake,”

and “Not the End of the World.”If you missed it, back in August,

she got candid about her most per-sonal album Smile and also re-vealed Bloom’s reaction to the al-bum in an exclusive chat.

—Agency

Ananya Panday, who made an impressive Bolly-wood debut with Stu-dent of the Year 2, is one

of the most popular star kids. Despite being a few films old, the gorgeous star has managed to carve a niche for herself. Be-sides her acting, the Khaali Peeli star is also known for her impeccable fashion sense in the

film industry. From nail-ing a casual outfit to rocking a stylish dress, Ananya never fails to im-press the fashion police. The star kid was seen flashing a big smile as she happily posed for the shut-terbugs. She looked lovely in red and pink stripes sweat-er with grey pants. —Agency

Late music director Wajid Khan of Sajid-Wajid fame died earlier this year in May but in the

last few months his wife Kamal-rukh has opened up on their family life. Earlier, Kamarukh had revealed how she was forced by the family to convert. Kamalrukh has now revealed that the couple were staying separately for many years and that the late music director also had threatened to divorce her. Opening up on the difficult phase

of her life, she said, “He used to leave and stay at his

mother’s house, some-times for months on

end. When he threat-ened to divorce me,

I said ‘fine, let’s go ahead’. Even in court, I made my case

about being under pres-sure to con-vert.”

—Agency

Salman’s youngest broth-er, actor Sohail Khan turned a year older on Sunday. He celebrated

his 50th birthday. Sohail is the younger son of well-known screenwriter Salim Khan. The actor-director produces several films under his banner – Sohail Khan Productions.

In 2002, he wrote, directed, produced and also made his act-ing debut with the film Maine Dil Tujhko Diya, which had not done well at the box office. Lat-er, he featured in several other films and most of them done average business at the box of-fice. However, with Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya starring his elder brother Salman Khan, Sohail has his first hit film, which he produced. In 2017, Sohail pro-duced another hit film titled Partner starring Salman Khan, Govinda, Katrina Kaif and Lara Dutta in lead roles. —Agency

Kareena Kapoor Khan celebrated her son Taimur Ali Khan’s 4th

birthday on Sunday and the doting mum shared a truckload worth of memories on social me-dia. Kareena also penned a heartfelt note for her son as she called him a ‘hardworking’ boy and a reminder to chase his dreams.

Kareena’s note read, “My child... I’m happy at four you have such determination, dedi-cation and focus on what you want to do... which is now pick-ing up the haystack and feeding the cow... God bless you my hardworking boy... but on the way, don’t forget to taste the snow, pluck flowers, jump up and down, climb trees and of course eat all your cake...”

She added, “Chase your dreams and keep your chin up my boy... but above all else... do everything in your life that makes you smile. No one can or ever will love you more than your Amma Happy Birthday Son... My Tim.” —Agency

Actress Millie Bobby Brown has been roped in to star in the science-fiction film, The Elec-

tric State. The film is produced and directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, and based on the Si-mon Stalenhag illustrated novel of the same name. Set in an al-ternative future, the story re-volves around a teenage girl (played by Brown) who realises that a strange and sweet robot, who comes to her, has been sent by her missing brother. They then set out to find her brother in an imaginative world of hu-mans and robots. —Agency

Selena Gomez is looking back on the success of her latest album! During a new interview with

Billboard, the 28-year-old sing-er/actress chatted about her successful year, which in-cluded landing her first Hot 100 No. 1 at the end of 2019 with her song “Lose You to Love Me” along with her album Rare earning 703,000 equivalent album units to date and becoming her third No. 1 album.

“There’s this bit-tersweet feeling, of course,” Selena shared. “I would much rather the world be in a bet-ter place. Yet at the same time, it was so beau-tiful to see that my music could hopeful-ly bring some people some sort of joy in the midst of it,” she said. —Agency

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ngelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are still embroiled in the custody battle of their six children. The ex-couple are parents to Maddox, Pax, Zaha-ra, Shiloh and twins

Knox and Vivienne. While a number of developments took

place this year on the legal battlefront, a new re-

port claims that An-gelina could be

pulling out the big guns to

leverage

the case on her side. We’d sug-gest you take this report with a pinch of salt as reports claim that Angelina is digging out a few old secret tapes.

Sources allege the actress is “prolonging” the legal process for she has “revenge” on her mind. The tabloid claims the Eternals star seeks to take re-venge from her ex-husband after Brad took German model Nicole

Poturalski to their chateau. Appar-

ently, Angelina is “humiliat-ed” by the turn of events and is leaving no stone unturned in the battle. The outlet claims she has “secret” tapes that could tar-nish Brad’s image. —Agency

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TO SUCCESS...

DIVORCE THREAT!

COSMIC ENERGY

Malaika Arora is all about staying fit and glamorous and the diva often makes

heads turn with her avatar. While we often spot Malaika out and about in the city in her gym wear or casual wear, she changed things up a bit on Sunday. The fitness diva ditched her Sunday pyjamas ahead of Christmas festivi-ties at home and shared a stunning photo for the gram. Rocking a white and gold look, Malaika posed for the camera.

In the photo, Malaika wore a white co-ord set with chunky gold earrings. As she left her tresses flowing, she complet-ed her look with a dark red lip and added a pop of colour to her outfit. —Agency

MALAIKA’S GORGEOUS SUNDAYAnanya PandayKaty Perry

Sohail Khan

Wajid Khan

Millie Bobby Brown

Selena Gomez...her post Malaika Arora

Kareena Kapoor Khan’s post

Paparazzi MOMENT

Happy Birthday

SOHAIL

Angelina Jolie

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CITY BUZZ

RAJ: Pink City Runners Annual Award Ceremony was organised by Pink City Runners in Birla Auditorium on Sunday, in which 11 categories were awarded. Vishnu Tak from Jaipur was awarded the ‘Transformation Award’ and along with him, Jagjit Singh, Dinesh Bhavnani, Sunil Gaur, Nitika, Manoj Soni, Abhilasha Hawar were awarded in the category of Ultra Runner, Outstanding Runner and Fitness Guru.

GUJ: Shefali Rufas with Drashti Harshil from Ahmedabad based Christian family decorated Christmas trees in their house to celebrate the festival of Christmas at Raikhad area in the old city of Ahmedabad on Sunday.

GUJ: Kite makers were seen making kites for the upcoming festival (Uttrayan) Makarsankranti at Jamalpur old city of Ahmedabad on Sunday.

—PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI

—PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI

EVENTS!

LETTERS FROM YOUNG

MINDS

CITY FIRST

Chief Ministers from the country’s larg-est state Uttar Pradesh to the

country’s smallest state of Goa are receiving letters from children of Digital

Baal Mela, which is being organised for the first time in the country, has started a campaign to install necessary sewage plants in every city for water treatment.

14-year-old Chandar-am Suthar, who lives in a

small village in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan, has written a letter to Chief

Minister Ashok Gehlot and appealed to set up a sewage plant in his city. Chandraram, the

youngest child, has ap-pealed to the Chief Minis-

ter to pay attention to this. Children from small rural areas are also joining and witnessing their first Digi-tal Baal Mela. Nine-year-old Lubna living in Jodh-pur district has also writ-ten a letter to Chief Minis-ter Ashok Gehlot describ-

ing clean water as the greatest need. 10-year-old Kavya Gadiya of Ban-swara, Urmila Prajapat and Lubna of Jodhpur, and Manav Singh of Jaipur also became a part of this campaign.

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THE SHOW ISN’T OVER YETCITY FIRST

ccording to w o r l d - r e -nowned astrol-oger Mahesh Bang’s out-standing re-search on Sat-

urn and Jupiter align-ment for the last 100-year cycle, which was exclusively shared on 21 June 2020 on First In-dia, would cause new amendments in astrol-ogy as now everyone has become aware.

After approximately every 20 years Saturn and Jupiter come to-gether in one zodiac sign and are closely as-sociated in less than 15 degrees to each other. Without the influence of the two largest plan-

ets of our solar sys-tem i.e. Saturn and Jupiter, no significant event would take place in our life span. Their gravitational pull is so strong because of their large masses and slow-est revolving speeds

around the Sun. These factors make

this event felt with sig-nificant effects on Earth. But today, on 21 December, Saturn and Jupiter conjunction will be the closest to each other. These plan-

ets would be less than 1 degree apart from each other in the Capricorn sign- an occurrence that is now taking place after 800 years. This kind of proximity will surely af-fect us in many ways.

As these planets edge

closer, causing a ripple effect for the next few weeks to months, there would be a greater in-crease in COVID-19 cas-es around the globe and the world will start getting forced into the grips of partial lock-

down and restrictions all round. We will be witness to the weirdest weather patterns. The northern hemisphere would experience the coldest winter and ex-perience heavy snow-fall as both these plan-ets are cold, so their characteristics would be visible on Earth. Suddenly, the result will also make many feel more depressed, dull and cause a change in behavior for a few weeks.

Especially in India aside from the above, we will experience one of the coldest winters, the current farmer’s protest will increase and stagnate for a long-er duration.

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THE BIG E-LAUNCH

CITY FIRST

Union Minister, Nitin Gadkari, f o r m a l l y launched Prab-

ha Khaitan Founda-tion’s website in a vir-tual function attend-ed by which guests across India and abroad on Sunday. Prabha Khaitan Foundation (PKF), a Kolkata-based registered public charitable trust, was set up by Late Dr Prabha Khaitan - a litterateur, entrepre-neur and social work-er – who worked re-lentlessly for the emancipation of women.

Commending the legacy of Late Dr Prabha Khaitan, Gad-

kari said, “Karm hi Jeevan (work is life) was the mission of Late Dr Prabha Khaitan who showed social sensitivity and responsibility to-wards the poor and disadvantaged and es-poused the cause of women empowerment in the spheres of art, literature, culture,

education and so-cial work by help-ing them hone up their hidden tal-

ents.She instilled in

them confidence and self-reliance. I am glad that Prabha Khaitan Foundation is carrying forward the good work and legacy of Late Dr Prabha Khaitan.”

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IPS C Santoshkumar Tukaram celebrated his birthday on Sunday, 20 December. We wish him all the best!

HAPPY B’DAY! SHOWCASING DESIGNER CLOTHESCITY FIRST

Rajasthani Heritage and Culture and Bollywood Fashion have always been complemen-

tary to each other. This is the reason why big-budget films may not have come on screen because of Corona but fashion designers have shown the new collection. The young girls in the post COVID wed-ding season admired the new

designer clothes”, says Bolly-wood celebrity fashion design-er, Gagan Kumar.

He says that new experi-ments are always pre-ferred, so designers should also keep doing something innovative. He

interacted with anchors, Models of Rajasthan at Studio Gagan Kumar, Ganpati Plaza on Sunday. He also showcased his new collection on the occa-sion. [email protected]

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PROTECTING OUR WARRIORSCITY FIRST

Ripples of Change Foun-dation (ROCF), a non-profit or-

ganization, has rolled out the ‘Breathe Safe’ campaign to highlight the importance of the continued safety precau-tions to be taken to contain/reduce the spread of COVID-19 infections. The initiative is specially designed for the protection of front-line warriors across various sectors such as healthcare, emergency responders, etc.

Overall 7000 masks were handed over to the Police Commissioner, Anand Srivastava and Senior BJP leader Gajen-dra Singh Khimsar in Jaipur on Saturday. These masks were handed over to Superintendent of Po-

lice – Nagaur for dis-tribution to the frontline health workers. Comment-

ing on the occasion, Arvind Misra, Sri Ram Chandra Mission (SRCM) said, “The ‘Breathe Safe’ campaign is specifically designed to support the frontline COVID-19 warriors.”

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SUPPORTING THROUGH ARTT

o empow-er the acid attack sur-v i v o r s ,

Non-profit or-ganization, The Laxmi Founda-tion introduced Mitti Hand-prints, an exhibi-tion where vari-ous artistic works by the acid attack survivors will be displayed from 19th-31st, December 2020. The 13-day exhi-bition on Saturday was inaugurated by MLA Ab-hay Kumar Verma at the foundation’s shelter in Laxmi Nagar, Delhi.

“Mitti Handprints” is curated with the idea of empowering the survivors by giving them a plat-form to display their creativity. Speaking on the occasion, Laxmi Agarwal said, “Many survivors are facing financial problems for their survival. They are struggling to get back on their feet. There are no rehabilitation programs for the survivors in our country. With this new project, our NGO aims to rehabilitate and help them financially, mentally, and psychologically” —City First

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(L-R) Laxmi Agarwal, Manishaand Dr Navpreet Kaur

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