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The effort never goes waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual

awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

—Bhagavad Gita

IN-DEPTH

Piyush Goyal @PiyushGoyal

We are setting up two separate divisions in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry

focused on the services sector. Our effort is to take services export from present level of ~$200 Billion to $1 Trillion by the time we achieve our goods exports target of $1 Trillion.

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and capabilities by highlighting the potential of India’s science,

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ANOTHER HIGH COURT STRIKES AT LOVE JIHAD LAW PROVISIONS

he Gujarat High Court has ordered that inter-faith mar-riages without al-lurement or cheating

“cannot be termed as marriages for unlawful conversion. In an interim order the court said that six sections of the state’s love jihad law “cannot be allowed to stand”. The sections struck down include 6A, which says those accused of forcing a mar-riage for the purpose of conver-sion must prove otherwise. It contravenes the Indian Evidence Act of 1872 which puts the onus of proof on the complainant.

Various other courts, includ-ing the Supreme Court, have ruled against the conspiracy of religious conversions through inter-faith marriages. In the case of Hadiya and Shafin Ja-han the Supreme Court over-turned the Kerala High Court judgment annulling their inter-religious marriage. The Union Home Ministry also reportedly clarified in 2020 that love jihad is not recognized by the Centre and not defined by any law. Yet various BJP-ruled states have passed anti-conversion laws to clamp down on individuals’ free-dom to choose life partners.

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ight years ago, in May 2013, a Su-preme Court Bench called the Central Bureau of

Investigation (CBI) a “caged parrot” which speaks in the voice of its political masters. The top court was not alone in questioning the CBI’s cred-ibility over its investigations into the infamous Coalgate (coal scam) under the UPA government. Samajwadi Par-ty president Mulayam Singh Yadav who is reported to have said, “It’s not easy to fight with the government. It has a thousand hands and can use CBI and put any one in jail.” Late Union minister Arun Jaitley said that the “CBI has lost its credibility”, consider-ing “enormous amounts of

misuse of political clout”.Except for the ruling party,

the CBI’s real masters, noth-ing has changed as far as the agency’s perception goes. Ear-lier it was UPA, now it is the BJP, but many feel that the caged parrot continues to

“speak in its master’s voice”. Quite a few states have begun to withdraw the general con-sent to the CBI to investigate cases. Non-BJP-ruled states of Punjab, Jharkhand Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal were among those withdraw-ing their consent to the agency.

In its order on Tuesday, the Madras High Court gave a slew of directions to the Cen-tral government aimed at freeing the “caged parrot” for its better functioning. The order said that the CBI should be made a statutory body like the Election Commission of India and the CAG.

Is anything likely to change as it may suit the Cen-tral government to keep the CBI under its control.

THE POLITICAL WILL TO FREE CAGED PARROT

Except for the ruling party, the CBI’s real masters,

nothing has changed as far as the agency’s

perception goes. Earlier it was UPA, now it is the

BJP, but many feel that the caged parrot

continues to “speak in its master’s voice”

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he global advertising sector shrank to 583 Billion US$ in 2020, after increasing steadi-ly for 11 years. The industry is on track for a rebound in 2021, and a significant pro-portion of the rebound is ex-pected to be in digital video. This expected growth in digi-tal video advertising contin-ues a longer trend of market-ers diverting investments from their broadcast budgets to their firms’ digital adver-tising initiatives-primarily digital video advertising.

However, this shift of in-vestments from TV to digital video advertising is not with-out its pitfalls. First, the law of diminishing returns is expected to affect marketing investments in the digital video market. Second, while digital video advertisements exhibit a high return on in-vestment (ROI), TV has sig-nificantly higher reach than digital video, and therefore can have a higher impact. In a paper published in Journal of Advertising Research in 2019, I and my co-authors, Nazrul Shaikh and Niva Shreshta, investigate the rel-ative effectiveness of TV and digital video advertisements.

We analyzed a US restau-rant chain, and a US.food and beverage brand’s investments in advertising in TV and on-line media. With a dynamic model, we focused on the effec-tiveness, efficiency, and satura-tion of digital video advertis-

ing compared to television ad-vertising with the same crea-tives deployed across both. To estimate effectiveness of me-dia investments, the model needs to take into account the way advertising affects con-sumers recall and the subse-quent impact on a brand’s sales. This idiosyncratic be-havior of advertising is taken into account by the following parameters in a model:

Retention Rate: The reten-tion rate is a measure of the stickiness of the advertise-ment. It is used to infer how long an advertisement seen today will influence a per-sons’ purchasing decision in the future.

Ad-Stock: The ad-stock or “goodwill” is a latent con-struct that is defined as “the impact advertising has over time on sales and aware-ness”. It links media execu-tion measured in terms of GRPs and the retention rate.

Saturation: The saturation effect is based on the princi-ple of diminishing returns beyond a specific level of ex-posure to an advertisement. The saturation model allows us to capture various non-linear relationships (includ-ing saturation and s-shaped) that are hypothesized be-tween the dependent variable (e.g., product sales) and the ad-stock.

The media investments are linked to the outcome of in-terest such as sales, footfalls, revenue, etc., to estimate how investments in different me-dia’s impact the products’ sales or the footfalls to a res-taurant etc. – this model pro-vides the effectiveness of the investments.

Along with effectiveness, efficiency also needs to be as-

sessed. Efficiency is defined as the incremental sales, foot-falls, or revenue attributable to $ spent on the media. One of the common metrics used to measure efficiency is the return on investment (ROI) - the incremental profit attrib-utable to a media per $ spent on that media. It is important to evaluate both effectiveness and efficiency simultaneous-ly when evaluating and com-paring the performance of across media types. A spe-cific media type could be very effective in driving foot-falls and sales, but a costly media buy can lead to a sup-pressed ROI.

In the current levels of in-vestments (with digital vide-os at 1.5% of television spend), we find that digital video advertising leads to a higher ROI than television, and is more efficient (seven times more) in driving addi-tional footfalls to the restau-rant than television. But to estimate the impact of me-dia, we need to consider how many people a particular me-dia has the potential to reach. We chart this maximum po-tential and saturation of tel-

evision and digital videos in the figure below.

THE FIGURE INDICATES THATz The maximum potential from television is approxi-mately four times higher than that from digital videos. Therefore, in the best case scenario and funds not being a constraint, television can generate 4 times the number of footfalls as compared to digital videos.z The incremental footfalls driven by the digital videos show very early saturation. Therefore, as the funds be-hind digital videos increase, the effectiveness is expected to decrease rapidly.It is likely that the high

ROI and effectiveness of digi-tal videos is due to its higher retention rate, which arises from consumers’ engage-ment in the transaction/con-tent on the internet (looking for, and watching a specific video) and better demo-graphic targeting. The faster saturation (and thus the lim-it of the usefulness of adver-tising using digital videos) arises from the limited reach that advertising using digital videos has because of the chosen media as well as be-cause of niche targeting. As firms widen the target base, reach increases and while saturation would also be lat-er, the effectiveness of digital videos would drop. There-fore, television might still hold the key in todays’ world as it still reaches a much larger audience and has a sig-nificantly higher “maximum potential” as compared to digital video advertisements.

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THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

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MAHIMA HADAThe writer is Associate Professor, Director of Marketing Analytics Programs, Baruch

College, City University of New York

In the current levels of investments (with digital

videos at 1.5% of television spend), we find that digital video advertising leads to a higher ROI than television, and is more efficient (seven

times more) in driving additional footfalls to the

restaurant than television. But to estimate the impact of

media, we need to consider how many people a

particular media has the potential to reach

It is likely that the high ROI and effectiveness of digital videos is due to its higher retention rate, which arises from consumers’ engagement in the transaction/content on the internet (looking

for, and watching a specific video) and better demographic targeting

TV VS. DIGITAL VIDEO ADVERTISING

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A DESPERATE NATIONThe Taliban celebrated Afghanistan’s Independence

Day, declaring it had beaten “the arrogant of power of the world” in the United States

How the Taliban handle the protests could determine

whether people put faith in their assurances that they have changed since their 1996-2001 rule

Several protesters killed as Taliban open fire yet again

I&B minister Anurag Thakur began party’s ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ for Himachal Pradesh from Chandigarh and said the Modi government’s policies will be taken to people. Meanwhile, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan arrived in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, to begin Yatra.

Senior bureaucrat Apurva Chandra has been appointed the Information and Broadcasting Secretary, a Personnel Ministry order said Thursday. Chandra, a 1988-batch Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer of the Maharashtra cadre, is currently the Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

THAKUR BEGINS JAN ASHIRWAD YATRA

FROM CHANDIGARH

APURVA CHANDRA APPOINTED

I&B SECRETARY

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FRENCH NATIONAL WRITES TO GEHLOT SEEKING HELP!The culture and ar-

chitecture of Ra-jasthan has admirers all over the world. In some cases, people from various countries have invested in the de-velopment of tourism in the state, after com-ing across the state’s heritage.

One such individual, identified as Nadine Le Prince has now written a letter to CM Ashok Gehlot seeking help in saving a haveli she in-vested heavily in. The

French national has said that she purchased the haveli in Fatehpur in 1999, and “with con-siderable efforts and expenses running into crores of rupees, re-stored the haveli in these years.”

She further claims that her neighbor is il-legally engrossed in land filling outside the haveli and raising the grand level by up to six feet, due to which the entrance will get blocked and there

would be no ingress or egress into the haveli. “In monsoon time all the water and mud will come inside and will

damage the restored frescos classified as heritage! He is doing il-legal work to depose me from my haveli because he knows that I am in France since the begin-ning of the pandemic and will not be able to come to Fatehpur,” the letter states.

Meanwhile, photos of the ongoing work have also been attached with the letter while request-ing the Chief Minister to take necessary ac-tion.

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot

BHUPENDER YADAV BEGINS HIS JAN ASHIRWAD YATRAJaipur: Union Labour Minister Bhupendra Yadav on Thursday be-gan his Jan Ashirwad Yatra in Rajasthan from Alwar district and targeted the rul-ing Congress, saying there is a “fight for the chair” between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and senior leader Sachin Pilot. The yatra began from Alwar bypass in Bhiwadi. He was received by the party leaders and workers. The yatra then moved to the BJP office in Bhiwadi. P4

Kabul: Several people were killed on Thurs-day in the Afghan city of Asadabad after Tali-ban fighters fired on people waving the na-tional flag at an Inde-pendence Day rally, wit-nesses told Al Jazeera. At least eight people were wounded in the violence.

The Taliban celebrat-ed Afghanistan’s Inde-pendence Day, declar-ing it had beaten “the arrogant of power of the world” in the United States. Afghanistan’s Independence Day com-memorates the 1919 treaty which ended British rule in the cen-tral Asian nation, the AP reported.

GLOBAL MELTDOWN: NATIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES FAST BECOMING COMPLEX: RAJNATH

GHANI PUTS OUT VIDEO, 1ST SINCE FLEEING KABUL

New Delhi: Noting that India’s national secu-rity challenges are increasing and becoming “complex” in view of the changing geopolitical situation globally, Defence Minis-ter Rajnath Singh on Thursday strongly pitched for a strong, capable and completely ‘self-reliant’ defense industry in the country. Singh’s comments came amid growing concerns in India and elsewhere over the Taliban sweeping across Afghanistan this month, seizing control of Afghani-stan following the collapse of the US-backed government.

Dubai: Afghan Presi-dent Ashraf Ghani defended his decision to flee Kabul in the face of the Taliban advance, describing it as the only way to prevent bloodshed. He also denied claims by his country’s ambas-sador to Tajikistan that he had stolen millions of dollars from state funds. Ghani posted a video on his Facebook page late, confirming that he was in the UAE.

Court-monitored CBI probe in cases of rape, murder: HC ordersKolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thurs-day called for a court-monitored Central Bu-reau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the cases of murder and rape that allegedly took place during post-poll violence in West Ben-gal. The other cases will be investigated by a Special Investigation Team (SIT), the court ordered.

“All cases as per re-port of NHRC commit-tee where allegations are about murder of person or crime against women regarding rape or attempt to rape shall be referred to CBI for investigation,” the court said. The court

ordered the state to hand over all records of cases to the CBI so that it can carry out the in-vestigation.

HC: Parts of Guj anti-‘love jihad’ law cannot operate for nowAhmedabad: Hearing two petitions challeng-ing the constitutionali-ty of Freedom of Reli-gion (Amendment) Act, 2021, the Gujarat High Court Thursday as in-terim relief stayed the operation of several sections of the Act, in-cluding the provision that termed interfaith marriage an ingredient of forceful conversions.

The amended act came into force on June 1, and till date, three cases have been filed under it, according to submissions made by advocate general Kamal Trivedi.

Section 4C of the law lays down offences by in-stitution or organisation and stipulates imprison-ment upto 10 years.

‘Delta gives vaccinated same virus amount as unvaccinated’New Delhi: Vaccines against Covid-19 are less effective against the del-ta variant, a large U.K. study showed in results that may fuel a push for booster shots for fully vaccinated people.

Pfizer Inc. and BioN-Tech SE’s messenger RNA vaccine lost effec-tiveness in the first 90 days after full vaccina-tion, though that shot and the one made by AstraZeneca Plc still staved off a majority of Covid infections.

When vaccinated peo-ple did get infected with delta, they had similar levels of virus in their bodies as those who hadn’t had their shots, backing up a recent as-sessment by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

WE MAY HAVE COVID-19 VACCINE FOR KIDS BY SEPT: DIRECTOR, ICMR-NIVPune: Coronavirus vaccine for children might be avail-able for use in September or October this year, Dr Priya Abraham, the Director of Pune’s ICMR-National Institute of Virology (NIV) informed. In an interview with an OTT channel of the Department of Science and Technology, Abraham said, “Phase 2 and 3 trials of Covaxin are underway for children between 2-18 years.

INDIA36,401 new cases

530 new fatalities

RAJASTHAN12

new cases00

new fatalities

CORONA CATASTROPHE

CALCUTTA HC ORDER EXPOSED STATE GOVT: BJPKolkata: Welcoming the Calcutta High Court order on post-poll violence in West Bengal, BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said that the order had exposed the state government. “Post-poll violence in West Bengal took place under the protection of the state government. The order by the Calcutta High Court has exposed it.”

BENGAL POST POLL VIOLENCE

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Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath greets Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the latter’s official residence in New Delhi on Thursday. A crucial meeting between Shah, CM Yogi, BJP chief JP Nadda, UP State Prez Swatantra Dev Singh and State General Secretary Organization Sunil Bansal was held. The meeting assume significance as BJP is yet to announce the names for the four MLCs vacancies and take a call on the much-awaited cabinet expansion of the Yogi government and also finalise the party’s criteria for ticket distribution ahead of UP 2022 assembly elections.

YOGI MEETS SHAH

Taliban fighters pose for a photograph in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Bharatiya Janata Party nation-al in-charge of Ra-jasthan Arun Singh commenting on the farmers’ agitation while attending a programme at Jan Ashirwad Yatra said those sitting on pro-test are not farmers.

Singh went on to say that the protest-ers were sitting at the behest of Chief Minister Ashok Ge-hlot. He said that barring a few states, there were hardly any farmers in the agitations being held in their name.

“As far as Ra-jasthan is con-cerned, some people have joined the farmers’ protest at the behest of the chief minister.”

Singh targeted the Opposition for cre-ating an uproar in

the Parliament over the Pegasus spy-ware case. He said, “The Opposition has done a heinous act by creating a dead-lock in the Parlia-ment.”

Singh said if the protesters are re-moved, the journey to Jaipur by road will become conven-ient for people, in-cluding tourists and businessmen.

He hailed the Jan Ashirwad Yatra for helping people know about the Centre’s schemes.

Tonk: A case of triple talaq has come to light where the victim met SP Om Prakash and has demanded necessary action by giving a mem-orandum. SP Om Prakash has also assured of legal action soon. The victim Afreen told that her maternal home is in Gol Mohalla New Bilal Colony, Tonk. She got married about one and a half years ago to Urooj Irfan. After a few months of marriage, her husband and in-laws started beating her every now and then for dowry. A case is already registered in the Mahila police station for the same.

Jaipur: A case of acid attack on a 15-year-old girl was reported on Thursday in Jaipur. The victim’s brother-in-law threw acid on her. Kardhani police station in-charge Rajesh Bafna is investigating the case. She is admitted at the SMS Hospital. The accused is absconding. According to the victim’s state-ment, the incident happened on August 17 when the victim’s brother-in-law came to her house and asked her to come along with him.

Jaipur:The local self govt depart-ment has removed RUDSICO project director Ashok Chaud-hary and put him under AOP status.The charge of the post was also given to chief engineer Pradeep Garg. Principal secretary UDH Kunji Lal Meena and LSG secretary Bhawani Singh Detha had moved the fi le with recom-mendation to the UDH minister Shanti Dhariwal. He approved the recommendation. Chaudhary may now be given some import-ant responsibility.

MAN THROWS ACID ON MINOR SISTER-IN-LAW

RUSICO PROJECT DIRECTOR PUT UNDER APO

WOMAN SUBMITS LETTER TO SP OVER TRIPLE TALAQ

Dholpur: A man was killed and eight others injured in fi ring during a group clash in Dholpur on Thursday. The incident occurred in Sone ka Gurja village in Badi sadar police station where two rival groups, one led by Deshraj and the other by Banwari, clashed over an old dispute related to Sarpanch elections. During the clash, fi ring took place which left Omveer, who was from Deshraj side, dead. Eight others received injuries and were admitted to the Badi govt hospital. The accused absconded and they are being searched, SHO Yogendra Rajawat said.

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Yadav praises both Raje & team Poonia

Raje should let a new leader step in: Ahuja

Ashvini Yadav

Alwar: On the first day of the Jan Ashirwad Yatra on Thursday, Un-ion Minister Bhupen-dra Yadav pointed to the BJP team sitting on the stage in Kishangarhbas and said that under the leadership of this team, BJP will form govern-

ment in 2023. Notably, senior party leaders like state president Sat-ish Poonia and Rajen-dra Rathore were pre-sent on the stage. More-over, in Bhiwadi, Yadav praised the welfare schemes of Vasundhara Raje’s last tenure.

As soon as he reached Kishangarhbas from

Bhiwadi, Yadav also did the work of balancing the controversy among the top leaders of the party. Interestingly, while Poonia was pre-sent, former CM Vasundhara Raje was not seen. Witnessing the immense crowd at Kis-hangarbas, an elated Yadav said.

Aishwary Pradhan

Jaipur: Union Labor Minister Bhupendra Yadav on Thursday asked the party work-ers to work with a com-mitment to form the BJP government in Ra-jasthan in 2023 with a three-fourth majority.

Bhupendra Yadav, who reached Jaipur on Jan Ashirwad Yatra, attacked the Congress fiercely and said that Congress is no longer a democratic party and it has remained only a family nurturing par-ty.

In Rajasthan, he said that the people are fed up with Congress rule and people are ready to vote out the party.

“We could not form the government in Ra-jasthan. We lost with a narrow margin but it

caused loss to the peo-ple of Rajasthan,” he said.

At the same time, he attacked the Congress party saying it is being collapsed in the coun-try due to its dynasty politics while the BJP is only the party which has an internal democ-

racy.Yadav said that BJP

always worked to de-liver good governance.

He said that PM Modi transformed pol-itics in seven years but the mentality of the Congress party did not change.

On the uproar in the

Parliament and the in-appropriate behavior of the opposition mem-bers on the Pegasus is-sue, Yadav said that democracy cannot be held hostage and mort-gaged.

“If Congress people want to do the right thing then they should

come with logic,” he said.

Yadav said that BJP is the only party in the country which has in-ternal democracy and has huge mass support.

“BJP is not the party of any individual; it is the party of ideology. That ideology is very

strong and our workers are committed to the ideology and work for the nation with passion in their hearts,” Yadav said.

“In the last seven years, the Modi govern-ment has ensured that no section or class is left out and develop-ment reaches all,” he said.

BJP state president Satish Poonia said that the Congress has brought down the coun-try’s credibility.

The BJP appeared united in the program organized at Birla Au-ditorium. Vasundhara Raje’s photo was also there in the poster.

Union minister Ga-jendra Singh Shekha-wat, Leader of Opposi-tion Gulab Chand Ka-taria also addressed the programme.

First India Bureau

Baran: Former BJP MLA Gyandev Ahuja has advised former CM Vasundhara Raje to opt out of the CM race in the state and let a new candidate step in. He said, “Like all other party leaders, I respect the two-term ex-CM and the party’s national vice-president. She should let a new candi-date step in Rajasthan while she should take a ministry in the Union cabinet.”

Ahuja was speaking at an event of Jansankhya Samadhan

Foundation in Baran.Responding to a ques-

tion about leadership in BJP, Ahuja said that the parliamentary leader-ship will decide on whose leadership the BJP will contest the 2022 assembly polls.

Bhupendra Yadav with Satish Poonia and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat during his Jan Aashirwad Yatra in Bhiwadi on Thursday.

Those protesting in state are not farmers: Singh

Vishvendra’s son accuses his ‘core team’ of threatening him

Arun Singh

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The son of Congress MLA Vishv-endra Singh, who was sacked as tourism minister last year due to rebellion against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, has accused the “core team” of his father of threatening him.

“The threats are of extremely serious na-ture… (they are) threat-ening to cause all kinds of physical injuries to me and the people who accompany me,” Anir-udh Singh said in his complaint to Bharat-pur SP Devendra Ku-mar on Thursday. Ku-mar said the matter is being probed.

“The allegations made in the complaint are being probed… a de-cision on registering a case will be taken ac-cordingly,” the SP said.

Vishvendra Singh could not be reached for comments as he did not respond to phone calls. Anirudh Singh had tweeted against his father on an earlier occasion. Vishvendra Singh was among the 19 MLAs who re-belled against the lead-ership of Gehlot in July last year, which had led to a political crisis in the state.

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PRATAP SINGH LABELS BJP’S YATRA AS ‘DHOHKA YATRA’Shivendra Parmar

Jaipur: Trasport Minis-ter Pratap Singh Khachariyawas has at-tacked BJP’s Jan Ashirwad Yatra by call-ing it “dhohka yatra”. He said that the entire country knows that they have not done anything.

He accused the “state leadership of BJP along with the union minister and other ministers of doing drama in the name of Yatra”. Refer-ring to the bodies float-ing on the banks of the Ganges, he said it was because of the mistakes

of the Central govt that the country was in tears.

“Besides, inflation in prices of petrol, diesel and gas cylinders have broken an all-time re-cord. The BJP govt, through this yatra, is trying improve its tar-

nished image,” said Khachariyawas.

Talking about the plight of farmers he said that “Even today the farmers are sitting on the borders. The BJP leaders must meet the farmers first”.

Kota: An 11-year-old interfaith marriage came to a grisly end when a man allegedly attacked his 27-year-old wife with a knife at a public place in Kota, killing her on the spot, police said on Thursday. Imran, a daily wager, was arrested on Thursday morn-ing and the body of his wife has been handed over to family members after a post-mor-tem, police said. Rizwana also known as Antima, a resident of Vigyan Nagar here, was killed on Wednesday evening.

MAN HELD FOR STABBING WIFE TO DEATH IN KOTA

ONE KILLED, EIGHT INJURED DURING GROUP CLASH

People’s ‘Aashirwad’ for ‘Yatra’ till 8, Civil Lines for Bhupendra?

Rajyavardhan Rathore, Alka Gurjar, Ramcharan Bohra, Rajendra Rathore, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Satish Poonia, Diya Kumari, Bhupendra Yadav, Arun Singh, Gulab Chand Kataria, Chandrashekhar, Kailash Choudhary at Jan Ashirwad Yatra in Birla Auditorium, Jaipur on Thursday. —PHOTOS BY SANTOSH SHARMA

Aditi Nagar

New Delhi: Does Bhu-pendra Yadav’s ‘Aa-shirwad Yatra’ carry a deeper political state-ment? While on the surface it does not ap-pear to be so, the politi-cal circles in the desert state have suddenly started resonating with the ‘show of pow-er’ that came out as a result of the Yatra, on its first day and ‘rele-vant sections’ are won-dering if this is the picture of future? While hordes of people gathered to welcome Yadav, even senior and renowned leaders as-sembled and welcomed Yadav. MPs and MLAs

abound, stalwarts like Gajendra Singh Shek-hawat, Satish Poonia, Rajendra Rathore were seen active for the Yatra where Yadav was seen as a very senior leader from the Center. Interestingly, political observers have now claimed that the prime message from the ‘Yatra’ has been that there is one more CM candidate from Ra-jasthan BJP. Notably, Yadav has clearly de-nied being in the race for the CM’s chair. It now remains to be seen if the picture contin-ues till the run up to the election or if there is any major ‘devia-tion’ from it.

Ajay Pal Singh welcoming Bhupendra Yadav.

CONG NEARING ITS END: YADAV

Pratap Singh Khachariyawas addressing press conference. Gyandev Ahuja

—PHOTO BY SATOSH SHARMA

DON’T WANT TO BECOME CHIEF MINISTER OF ANY STATE: BHUPENDRA YADAVAlwar: Union minister Bhupendra Yadav, in a special conversation with First India, stressed that he is out of the race of Chief Minister and said that he wants to work in the organization. He claimed that he does not want to become the Chief Minister of any state. Notably, Yadav, who is considered special to Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, is also a special strategist of the party. Yadav praised the work done in the Vasundhara govern-ment in Bhiwadi, while pointing to the BJP leaders sitting on the stage, that the next government will be formed under them in 2023. —Ashvini Yadav

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JDA enforcement wing razes 6 shops, illegal colony in cityFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Enforcement wing of JDA on Thurs-day demolished 6 shops constructed illegally despite removal of en-croachment from pri-vate land. The JDA also thwarted an attempt to

settle an illegal colony on 4 bigha of land. Chief controller- En-forcement Raghuveer Saini said notice was given to devp for setting new colony on 4 bigha pvt land in Govindpura under zone-10 without approval of JDA.

COVID-19SHACKLES

OFFICIALS CALL FOR EXTRA CAUTION DURING FAIRS & FESTIVALS OVER CONCERN OF PEOPLE’S SAFETY

Devotees in large number congregate every year for Gogaji Fair at Gogamedi in Hanumangarh.

GOGAJI ANNUAL FAIR CALLED OFF OVER CORONA FEARSFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: With fear of the pandemic around and concern of peo-ple’s safety, Gogaji An-nual Fair to be held in Jaipur on August 19 has been postponed.

The Annual Fair is or-ganised by the state government every year.

Devasthan depart-ment commissioner Jitendra Kumar Upad-hyay said that in view of the circumstances

arising out of Covid- 19, the fair has been postponed. Lakhs of devotees congregate every year for Gogaji Fair organised at Go-gamedi (Goga Medi) in Nohar tehsil of Hanu-mangarh district.

MUHARRAM PROCESSION BANNED IN STATE TODAY

Jaipur: The festival of Yaum-e-Ashura is celebrated today which is the 10th day of the 1st Muharram month of the Islamic year. Yesterday’s night was night of martyr-dom. The procession of Tazias is taken out on this day. How-ever, according to the government guideline this time it will not be carried out. The zairins are reaching Karbala Dargah of Jaipur to celebrate the Yaum-e-Ashura.

COPS DISCUSS Under the leadership of ACP Amer Saurabh Tiwari, several meet-ings of police were carried out regarding Muharram. A meet was also held with Hazrat Ali Develop-ment Committee where responsibilities were given to the peo-ple. Besides Tazias, discussions were held on other issues including not playing the drum, not letting the people come to the dargah etc.

Kirodi, pvt school owners call for protest against closure of schools in RajasthanFirst India Bureau

Dausa: RS MP Kiro-di Lal Meena on Thursday announced to hold a demonstra-tion in Jaipur along with the owners of the private schools and parents if the schools from classes 1 to 12 are not reo-pened by August 27.

Anil Sharma, the state head of the School Shiksha Pari-var, also said that if the government does not open the school, then the school op-erators themselves

will start all the classes from Septem-ber 1. He alleged that the government was not opening all schools only to pro-mote the online teaching business.

In a programme of private schools in Dausa, Meena said that the government should reopen all the schools from class 1 to 12 by August 27 other-wise he along with the

private school owners and parents will hold a demonstration in Jaipur’s civil lines. Meanwhile, govt al-ready decided to reo-pen schools for classes 9 to 12.

Dr Kirodi Lal Meena met Mahant Nareshpuri Maharaj, condoles demise of Mahant Kishorepuri Maharaj on Thursday.

TRIBUTE TO MAHANT PURIKirodi Lal Meena reached Mahant niwas at Me-handipur Balaji and paid tribute to Mahant Kishore Puri Maharaj, who passed away recently. On the notice by Devasthan dept for temple acquisition process, Meena said he is with people for the protection of the religion.

HC asks state govt to ensure treatment of rare diseases

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Jaipur: The Division Bench of Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty and Justice Manoj Vyas in Rajasthan High Court on Thursday ordered the state government to provide medical facili-ties to treat the patients of rare diseases like Gaucher in state. The judges also asked com-plainant Jameel Khan to inform them within a week about the patients who have not been pro-vided the facilities even after the order. Earlier, a single-judge Bench had referred case to Divi-sion Bench considering it as a public interest litigation. The com-plainant has claimed that medicines are not available in the govt hosps for such diseases. Gaucher is a genetic dis-order which requires patient to undergo en-zyme replacement ther-apy every fortnight & cost of one time comes to around Rs 30,000.

FORMAL MEETING!The Vice Chancellor of Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bikaner, Dr Satish K Garg called on Governor Kalraj Mishra at Raj Bhavan on Thursday.

PILOT LENDS AN EAR!Sachin Pilot met party workers, common people from different parts of the state at his residence in Jaipur on Thursday. He heard public grievances and assured them to help with their problems.

Joshi becomes RCA committee chairmanNaresh Sharma

Jaipur: Vilas Joshi has once again become chairman of senior se-lection committee for domestic cricket tourna-ments. The RCA an-nounced the formation of various committees ahead of the tourna-

ments in which Gangotri Chauhan was made the chairman of the women selection committee while Devendra Pal Sin-gh was removed from the senior selection commit-tee and appointed as the chairman of the junior selection committee. The announcement was

made in RCA executive meeting chaired by RCA president Vaibhav Ge-

hlot. RCA secy Mahen-dra Sharma said that the BCCI has decided to or-ganise junior domestic tournament prior to sen-ior domestic tourna-ment & therefore RCA will conduct a selection trial for junior tourna-ment in Jaipur this month.

GangotriVilas Joshi

Panchayat polls: Cong MLA alleges scam over ticket issueYogesh Sharma

Jaipur: Scams related to distribution of tick-ets for the panchayat and district council polls scheduled in six districts are surfacing every day.

On Thursday, Con-gress MLA from Ka-man, Zahida Khan ac-cused Congress offi-cials and BSP MLA Wajib Ali of distribut-ing symbols through fraud in Ward 1, 2 and 36 of Bharatpur district council. Khan has writ-ten a letter to Bharat-

pur district in-charge Ved Prakash Solanki, demanding action against culprits. Solan-ki has formed a three-member committee to probe into the fraud. He said FIR will be lodged

against those found guilty. Congress MLA from the city, Wajib Ali, vehemently denied the allegations against him and said that in-charge Jitendra Singh has giv-en the ticket.

Zahida Khan Wajib Ali

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Jaipur: Former Ra-jasthan Ranji trophy team captain Vinod Ma-thur was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Life Time Achievement Award by Rajiv Gandhi Cricket club. Mathur was given award for his works for promotion of cricket in Raj. RCA President Vai-bhav Gehlot, sports min-ister Ashok Chandna, chief whip Dr Mahesh Joshi & RCA secretary Mahendra Sharma gave

the award. He was pre-sented a memento and a cheque of Rs 11,000. The ceremony was organ-ised by former VP RCA Mohammad Iqbal on eve

of birth anniv of for-mer PM Rajiv Gandhi. Awards were also given to winning team of 30th state level cricket com-petition- Minerva Club.

Mathur receives Lifetime Achievement honourREMEMBERING RAJIV GANDHI

OATH OF COMPASSIONJaipur: On the occasion of the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Late Rajiv Gandhi today, the officers and employees in the Secretariat took the oath of compassion on Thursday. The pledge was taken on the occasion of the ‘Rashtriya Sadbhavana Diwas’. In the Secretariat, the officers and employees took a pledge of compassion. Every year August 20 is celebrated as the Sadhbhavana Diwas to commemorate the birth of India’s youngest PM Rajiv Gandhi.

Vinod Mathur (Center) with Mohammad Iqbal, Vaibhav Gehlot, Dr Mahesh Joshi and Mahendra Sharma getting award by Rajiv Gandhi Cricket club on Thursday.

Kagzi holds event for councillors of Kishanpole areaJaipur: Though com-mittees of JMC Heritage are yet to be formed, Kis-hanpole legislator Amin Kagzi or-ganised a p r o g r a m where all Cong coun-cillors, May-or Munesh Gurjar, depu-ty Aslam Faruqi & Com-missioner Avdesh Mee-na were present. There is resentment among coun-cillors over committees not being formed while Kagzi wants independ-ent councillors close to him to get a fair share in these committees. —FIB

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RAJ STATE INDUSTRIES DEPT IS RAJ STATE INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE DEPT NOWJaipur: The Rajasthan State Industries Department shall now be known as the Rajasthan State Indus-tries and Commerce Department. The change in nomenclature has been formally notified following a decision in this regard by the state government ear-lier this year. The change represents the transforma-tion of the state department’s role towards a holistic promotion of trade and industry in the state.

RERC APPOINTS TWO MEMBERS FOR CORP LEVEL CONSUMER GRIEVANCE REDRESSALJaipur: The Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Com-mission has appointed two independent members for the Corporate Level Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum. Additional secretary, Regulatory Commission, H Khurana gave orders for their appointment. Deven-dra Joshi was given the additional charge of Ajmer discom along with Jodhpur while Kailash Chandra Mishra was appointed for Jaipur discom. The ad-ditional secretary said that both the members have been appointed for two years from date of joining.

RAKHI GIFT: FREE TRAVEL FOR WOMEN IN ORDINARY, EXPRESS RSRTC BUSESJaipur: Women will be able to travel free of cost in ordinary and express buses of roadways on the occasion of Rakshabandhan on August 22. The roadways administration has also started pre-booking tickets. Sandeep Varma, CMD- RSRTC said that on the day of Rakshabandhan, women travelling within the border of Rajasthan in all ordinary and express buses of roadways can travel for free. This facility will not be available in Volvo, AC buses and buses with All India Permit.

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N K SINGH ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF THE IEG SOCIETY

2024 POLLS TIE-UP: GHOSH ON DEV’S REMARKS OVER CONG, TMC PLAN

NITISH, TEJASHWI TO MEET PM MODI OVER CASTE-BASED CENSUS

NOW, MUNAWWAR RANA DEFENDS TALIBAN TAKEOVER IN AFGHANISTAN

New Delhi: N K Singh, Chairman of the 15th Finance Commission has been elected as the President of the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) Society, at a meeting of the general body on August 16, the society said on Thursday.Ac-cording to a statement issued by IEG, the name of Singh was suggested for consideration of the General Assembly of the IEG by Dr Manmohan Singh. Manmohan Singh had served as the President of IEG since 1992 and has been closely associated with the institute for several decades.

Kharagpur: West Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh on Thursday dismissed as a pipedream the reported statement of newly-inducted Trinamool Congress leader Sushmita Dev over Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee joining hands for 2024 general polls. “Let her dream. What happened to the party with which she was earlier (Congress)?” he said after meeting party leader in Kharagpur this morning. Dev had resigned on August 15.

Patna: CM Nitish Kumar on Thursday said he along with representatives of all the parties in the state will

meet PM Modi on August 23 to discuss the issue of a caste-based census. Tejashwi Yadav, the leader of opposition in the state assembly, will be part of

the delegation, Kumar said. I had sought an appoint-ment with the PM to meet him along with an all-party delegation from Bihar, including RJD’s Yadav, to discuss the issue of a caste-based census.

Lucknow: After Samajwadi Party MP Shaifur-Rehman Barq, it is now renowned poet, Munawwar

Rana, who has come out in the support of Taliban. Rana said that he believes that Taliban has done no wrong by taking over the control of Afghanistan.

Taliban has actually liberated their country,” he told reporters. The 68-year-old poet further said that India has no reason to worry from Taliban in AFG.

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Vaccines for children may be available by Sept: NIV DirectorCurrently, only those who are 18 or above are eligible for vaccination against CovidNew delhi; Vaccines for children may be available by September and the trials for inocu-lating those between 2 to 18 years are under-way, Priya Abraham, Director of the Nation-al Institute of Virology has said.

In an interview to In-dia Science, an OTT platform of the Depart-ment of Science and Technology, Abraham said that phase 2/3 clin-ical trials are in process for those between 2 to 18 years of age. “Hopefully the results will be avail-able soon and they will be presented to regula-tors. Probably by Sep-tember or just after Sep-

tember, we may have a vaccine for children… this is Covaxin,” she said. The trials for Zy-dus Cadila are on and

the vaccine can be made available for inoculat-ing children. “Even that (Zydus Cadila vaccine) will be available,” she

said.The NIV is a part of

(ICMR), under the Min-istry of Health. Last month, Union Health

Min Mansukh Man-daviya had told the BJP MPs that Covid vacci-nation for children is likely to start soon.

INDIA HITS 50 CR

BJP Prez JP Nadda offers prayers at Jageshwar Temple Almora; During his visit to Uttarakhand, BJP President JP Na-dda offered prayers at Jageshwar Temple in Almora district on Thursday. Nadda is scheduled to meet sen-ior party leaders and elected representatives to finalise the party’s strategy and prepara-tions for the forthcom-ing Assembly polls.The BJP chief will also seek blessings of sadhus and seers in Haridwar on August 20. On August 21, Nadda is scheduled to hold a meeting with ex-servicemen from the state in Raiwala Dehra-dun to seek their sug-gestions and support for the Assembly elec-tions.

The party-state lead-ership has planned elev-en meetings of Nadda.

These would include the BJP chief meeting with block pramukhs, nagar panchayat pra-mukhs, mayors, office-bearers of the party, general secretaries, MLAs, MPs, Cabinet Ministers and the Chief Minister of the state Pushkar Singh Dhami and all former Uttara-khand CMs of the party. Polls for the 70 member

Uttarakhand Assembly are likely to take place in early 2022.

The state witnessed a change of guard repeat-edly with Trivendra Singh Rawat replaced by Tirath Singh Rawat. Interestingly, Tirath Singh Rawat was re-placed as the chief min-ister by Pushkar Singh Dhami in July this year. —ANI

Anurag Thakur begins ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ from ChandigarhChandigarh: Union minister Anurag Thakur Thursday be-gan his party’s ‘’Jan Ashirwad Yatra’’ for Himachal Pradesh from Chandigarh and said the Modi government’s policies will be taken to people. A rousing wel-come was accorded to Thakur upon his arriv-al at the Himachal Bha-wan here. Thakur, who

represents HP Hamir-pur constituency in LS will undertake the five-

day ‘’yatra’’ across four Lok Sabha segments, covering over 600 km.

“The policies of the Modi govt will be taken to the people. And we will seek their bless-ings,” said the Informa-tion & Broadcasting, and Youth Affairs and Sports minister. Thakur posted a video on his Twitter in which he said PM Modi had given him a new responsibil-ity and the opportunity to serve the country.

Rahul Gandhi vows to be the voice of those being silencedNew Delhi: In an insta-gram post, the Congress Lok Sabha MP from Kerala’s Wayanad said, “With your blessings I renew my pledge to fight for our people. To be a voice for those be-ing silenced. To stand up for those who are forced to kneel. To de-fend the rights of those who face grave injus-tice. To hear the cries of those in pain.” Along with the post, Rahul

shared a photograph of a senior citizen taken during his recent Kera-la visit.

Rahul Gandhi has been critical of the Cen-tre and has been raising his voice over several issues.

He has criticised the Modi-led government over the fuel price hike, alleged Pegasus snoop-ing row, three farm laws and several others in recent times.

BANK LOAN FRAUD: ED ARRESTS MD

IN THE COURTYARD

Afg embassy seeks case deferment in SC

72 women officers serve legal notice to Def Ministr

New Delhi: The Af-ghanistan embassy on Thursday sought defer-ment for six weeks in a case involving an IT Company against the Islamic Republic of Af-ghanistan.

A bench of the Apex Court, headed by Jus-tice Vineet Saran and also comprising Justice Dinesh Maheshwari,

questioned and wanted to know from the law-yer of Afghanistan that as you are seeking ad-journment in the case, so do you think that situation (there) will be normal in six weeks.

To this, the lawyer re-plied to the SC t that no, but at least I will be able to get instruction from the new regime.

New Delhi: 72 women officers from Indian Army have issued a le-gal notice to Defence Ministry over strict compliance with SC or-der on granting perma-nent commission to fe-males in the force.

“The notice has been sent on behalf of 72 women officers who are fully entitled to be grant-

ed permanent commis-sion on the basis of a clear and unambiguous order of the Supreme Court on 25 March this year,” counsel of the women officers said Ma-jor Sudhanshu Pandey. Order was clearly ask-ing Ministry not to com-pare the women officers with benchmark of male officers.

SC against dole to boat owner in marine caseNew Delhi: SC on Thursday issued a no-tice to the owner of the Kerala fishing boat and requested the High Court not to disburse any amount to the own-er of the fishing boat till the Italian marines case is being heard, con-sidering modification in July 15 order, that had accepted compen-sation of Rs 10 cr depos-ited by Italian govt.

JP Nadda

Plea seeking removal of disparity in pensionary benefits to paramilitary personnel moved in Delhi HCNew Delhi: An appli-cation has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking to remove the disparity in pension-ary benefit and to ex-tend the same benefit (old Pension Scheme) to the paramilitary per-sonnel under the Min-istry of Home as is given to the Armed

forces personnel under the Ministry of De-

fence.The application has

been filed by a Petition-er Humara Desh Hu-mare Jawan Trust through advocate Ajay Kumar Agarwal.

In his plea, the peti-tioner sought to direct the respondents to re-move the disparity in pensionary benefit and

to extend the same ben-efit (old Pension Scheme) to the person-nel of Armed Forces under the Ministry of Home--BSF, CISF, CRPF, ITBP, NSG, Assam Ri-fles and SSB as is given to the Armed forces personnel under the Ministry of Defence--Army, Navy

Rakesh Ranjan

New Delhi: Senior IRS (Customs and Indirect Taxes) officers under the Central Board of Indirect-taxes and Cus-toms (CBIC) are said to have turned as appre-hensive about career progression as their counterparts in the Central Board of Di-rect Taxes (CBDT). Gone are the days when IRS officers of CBIC considered them-selves luckier than their colleagues in the CBDT in this matter.

CBIC officials’ latest apprehension is said to be rooted in the wide-spread speculation about the supplanting of the linear career progression policy with the current trend in the CBDT whereby board members have been getting post-re-tirement extensions or getting re-appointed on contract as was done in the case of Sushil Chandra, P C Modi, S K Gupta, and others. Sus-picion of IRS (IT&C) cadre officers recently got intensified by the rumour of an outgoing Member meeting some-one at the top via an-other one at the top. While this may be good for retiring officers, it has a negative cascad-ing impact down the line, denying officers their natural career growth presumed on the basis of extant rules and regulations.So far, the new manage-

ment style of reap-pointing retiring offi-cials has been an ex-ception. The fear is ex-ception may become the rule as it did in the CBDT.

It is pointed out that two CBIC Members Sandeep Mohan Bhat-nagar (Member, Cus-toms) and O P Dadhich (Member, Investiga-tion) will retire in the next 10 days.

Bhatnagar will be completing his extend-ed one-year term this month-end whereas Dadhich’s first formal retirement may mate-rialize in ten days in case he is not reap-pointed.

There is persisting speculation about their continuation even though the selec-tion interview against the arising vacancies has already taken place in the mid of July.

Over 15 senior IRS (IT&C) officers were interviewed. Since no announcements have been made about who may fill the arising va-cancies, officials are nervous and have been wondering whether politics will play its role in the due appoint-ments to the board-lev-el positions.

CBIC Board-level position: Claimants nervous about reappointment trend

Constitutional obligations of state don’t get vested in EC during pollsNew Delhi: Calcutta HC on Thursday ordered a court-monitored CBI probe into the incidents of post-poll violence in West Bengal & stated that Constitutional obli-gations of state do not get vested in EC during the process of elections.

“Civil or police ad-ministration is under the control of the Elec-tion Commission during the process of elections

only to ensure free and fair elections. That does not mean that the police stop discharging its nor-mal duties to control law and order,” the High court said about the ECI’s role. HC observed arguments run contrary to stand of State where it claimed that number of FIRs were registered up to May 03, 2021, for post-poll violence and otherwise also for nor-

mal crime in the state the police was duty-bound to maintain law and order and register FIRs and not EC. “State cannot be allowed to blow hot and cold at the same breath. There is nothing placed on re-cord by the state that even normal law and or-der, and registration of criminal cases comes within the purview of EC,” HC ruled.

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Miners told to weigh gravel only at dept-approved weighing stationsNirmal Tiwari

Jaipur: Tightening the curbs on illegal transpor-tation and overloading of gravel, department of mines has issued instruc-tions to weigh the gravel only at department-ap-proved weighing sta-tions. The move will not only help the department curb illegal transporta-tion of gravel but will also plug revenue losses.

ACS (mines) Subodh Agrawal said that many cases have come to fore revealing the modus op-

erandi of unscrupulous elements. He said unap-proved transit passes of gravel by mining lease holders are confirmed

into eRawanna (electron-ic transit passes) by weighing it at any weigh-ing station.

This results in possi-bilities of illegal trans-portation of gravel and

loss of revenue to the state, he added. Agrawal said according to provi-sions of the Rajasthan Minor Mineral Conces-sion Rules 2017, any mineral cannot be trans-ported by the miner without a valid transit pass. For this, it is neces-sary to get an eRawanna (online transit pass) is-sued. However, the pro-cess is subverted when miners get the gravel at a weighing station of their choice and easily have an eRawanna is-sued, he said.

THE ORDER

Woman commits suicide along with 2 kids in BarmerMukesh Mathrani

Barmer: A woman in Barmer committed sui-cide along with her two kids by jumping into a water tank. Incident took place late on Wednesday night under Dhorimanna police sta-tion area in Barmer, po-lice said.

On getting informed police reached the spot and recovered the bod-ies. Deceased family member informed po-lice that the woman was mentally challenged.

According to the in-formation Mohni (30)

was married to Om-prakash around 10 years ago.

Omprakash is a daily wage labourer. Police said that on Wednesday night when family members were sleep-

ing, Mohni left the house along with her two kids Naina, 4, and 3-months-old Govind and a few meters away from the house ended their lives by jumping into a water tank.

RSS district incharge dies by suicide First India Bureau

Sawaimadhopur: RSS leader and district Sang-hchalak Suresh Goyal allegedly died by suicide by jumping before a moving train in Sawai Madhopur district on Thursday, shocking the people.

The incident occurred

in front of Prakash talk-ies near railway station. The body was shifted to the district hospital for post-mortem.

Reasons of the suicide are not yet clear and the matter is being investi-gated. Goyal had been playing an active role in social work in the dis-trict, said the police.

Missing newlywed woman found dead with her lover

2 Khinswar cops suspended over viral bribery audio clip

First India Bureau

Barmer: A newlywed woman who had gone missing on Tuesday was found dead along with her lover. Police said both died by suicide by jump-ing into a water tank. In-cident took place late on Wednesday night under

Dhorimanna police sta-tion area in Barmer. Harchand Ram, SHO Dhorimanna police sta-tion said deceased were identified as Laxmi & Ar-jun Ram. Laxmi got mar-ried 4 months ago & a few days ago she came to her father’s place and then fled with her lover.

First India Bureau

Nagaur: A constable was suspended after an audio surfaced where he is purportedly asking for bribe from a complain-ant. In the audio, police constable Asharam Mee-na can be heard asking about the bribe amount

given in thana in a land dispute case registered by Poosram, the com-plainant. Meena is heard enquiring how much money was given to head constable Ramratan and to the person running a tea stall. Complainant said Ramratan bribed for tea stall owner. The RSS leaders body lying on tracks.

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TRAGIC END

The cops fi shing out the bodies from the well.

Asharam held for furnishing fake docs in SCJodhpur: Asharam, the self-styled god-man who is behind the bars for rape of a minor, is in for more trouble as police ar-rested him in the Central jail here on Thursday for fur-nishing fake docu-ments in Supreme Court while filing a bail application ear-lier.

Ratanada police produced the culprit in a local court, which ordered the cops to register a fresh case in the mat-ter, and later he was taken back to the jail.

Police said Ashar-am had approached SC in 2016 seeking bail on medical grounds. But the doc-uments he had pro-duced there to prove his illness turned out to be false. Court had then ordered for a fresh FIR and im-posed a penalty of Rs 1 lakh on the culprit.

Sarpanch, conductor in ACB net for bribeKarauli / Pali : ACB caught Mandrayal sarpanch Shivcharan Jatav red-handed while taking a bribe of Rs 3,000.

ACB Karauli DSP Amar Singh Meena said sarpanch had taken bribe amount from Moola Sharma in lieu of rectifying the lease documents. The sarpanch asked for a bribe of Rs 8,000. He first took Rs 5,000.

In another ACB ac-tion, a Rajasthan Roadways conductor was arrested for tak-ing a bribe of Rs 2000 in Pali district. The accused Ashok Vish-noi had demanded the bribe from the complainant for clearing bills.

On Sadbhawna Diwas, let us all pledge to rise above religion and join hands in love and peace.

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Jaipur: Despite efforts by MLAs and other leaders, many of the re-bels of Congress party did not withdraw nomi-nation papers on Thurs-day and are in the fray for Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad elec-tions in six districts of Rajasthan.

The rebel candidates are set to contest elec-tions which will be held in Bharatpur, Dausa, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Sawai

Madhopur and Sirohi districts in three phases on August 26, 29 and September 1.

Efforts were made by the party MLAs and other leaders to per-suade the rebel candi-dates to withdraw nom-ination, but the exercise remained futile and now the presence of the rebel candidates will af-fect the party candi-dates.

However, the ruling party is not taking any steps to take action

against the rebel candi-dates.

Many state Congress leaders have also indi-cated that the party will not take any discipli-nary action against the rebel candidates.

The party leaders be-lieve that if the rebel candidates win, then the party will bring them back to the party’s fold which will help in forming the board.

At the same time, if the party takes action against the rebels at the

moment and if they win, then they will go to the BJP at the time of forming the board.

The rebel candidates may not come to the court of Congress and go to the court of BJP or other parties. That is why the Congress party has made a strat-egy of not taking ac-tion against the rebels and under the new strategy, after the elec-tion results, the exer-cise of forming the board will start.

Cong won't take any action against rebel candidatesPANCHAYAT SAMITI & ZILA PARISHAD POLLS

First India Bureau

Ajmer: The dates of Ra-jasthan State and Sub-ordinate Services Com-bined (RAS) Competi-tive Examination 2021 (Preliminary) has been declared by the RPSC. The exam will be held on October 27 - 28. The Com-mission issued orders in this regard on Thursday. Commission Secretary Shubham Chaudhary said that the stages of examination will be de-cided, depending on the number of applications

received until last date. .In the meanwhile,

RBSE declared dates for exams of classes X & XII as well as for filing ap-plications online. While exams will start from March 3 next year, can-didates can fill applica-tion forms online from Sept 2. Board Secretary Arvind Sengwa in-formed that the last date for filing applications online is September 27 but it can also be done between September 28 and October 5 after pay-ing an additional fee.

RAS 2021 exams to be held on October 27-28

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot will launch the I-Start Vir-tual Incubation Pro-gramme on August 20 on the theme of IT for Good Governance, an official statement said on Tues-day. On this occasion, funds will be distributed to 21 selected start-ups at different places in the state, it said.

According to the statement, a virtual event of the Rajasthan Innovation Vision (Ra-jiv-2021) programme will be organised today on the birth anniversa-ry of former PM Rajiv Gandhi. During this programme, Sam Pitro-da, the Innovation Ad-visor to former PM Manmohan Singh, will deliver the keynote ad-dress and talk about contributions made by Rajiv Gandhi for the country. Discussions will be held about the innovations made in the field of information technology in the state and its benefits to the common man, the state-ment added.

CM to launch I - Start Virtual INCUBATION EVENT TODAYSAM PITRODA, INNOVATION ADVISOR TO FORMER PM MANMOHAN SINGH, WILL DELIVER THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS DURING VIRTUAL EVENT OF RAJASTHAN INNOVATION VISION (RAJIV-2021)

BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF RAJIV GANDHI

First India Bureau

Kota: Lok Sabha Speak-er Om Birla will be on a four-day visit to Kota-Bundi parliamentary constituency from Fri-day during which he will participate in sev-eral programmes.

Birla will reach Kota by Intercity Express to-day morning. He will meet the general public at the camp office from 10 am. On the same day, at 5 pm, he will lay the foundation stone for the construction of CC Road situated in front of Hanging Bridge.

On Saturday, the LS speaker will participate in the senior citizens’ honour ceremony or-ganised by Rotary Club.

Apart from this, Birla will also participate in many other pro-grammes and will also review the work being done by various depart-ments.

Vikas Sharma

Jaipur: They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going. And the Discoms have presented an excellent example of the saying even though they are marred with cost curtailment and other crisis related to electricity. Under the able leadership of Chair-man of Discoms Dinesh Kumar, on Wednesday, a whopping 3,082 lakh units of electricity were supplied across the state, which is the most units supplied in one day across the history of the state. During this time, in most places, no break in electricity sup-ply was also observed.

Notably, on July 8, 2021, almost similar supply of electricity was observed, even though with in-creasing electricity de-mand, there is a ‘power crisis’ in the state, but with Kumar’s ‘manage-ment’ and RVUNL MD Rohit Gupta’s ‘load man-agement mantra’ and regular power purchase from the grid, has en-sured that the crisis is averted to a large extent.

Om Birla to attend several events during visit to his hometown

Cost curtailment will not come in the way of power supply: Dinesh Kumar

WELL DONE TEAM ENERGY!

`50 cr for repair of Kota drainage system: Dhariwal

First India Bureau

Kota: Urban Develop-ment & Housing Minis-ter Shanti Dhariwal on Thursday, toured the sub-merged parts of the Station area in Kota and said that repair work of the drainage system will be taken up soon at the cost of Rs 50 crore.

The minister visited the areas situated on the other side of rail-way tracks which are inundated due to heavy rains in the last few days. He also inspected the condition of the project run by the Mu-nicipal Corporation

and Urban Improve-ment Trust to drain out the excess water from the area.

He assured the resi-dents of Janakpuri, Adarsh Nagar, Mala Phatak and Chandrasal areas that they will not have to face such flood-like situations any more in the future as new pipelines will be constructed there, apart from repairing the ex-isting ones at the earli-est. He also interacted with people of the area who apprised him of the problems & assured them of resolving the issue at the earliest.

Shanti Dhariwal directs officials while inspecting projects run by Municipal Corporation & UIT during his visit to Kota on Thursday.

Rajasthan has immense potential for industrial development, says CS AryaFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Chief Secre-tary Niranjan Arya, while chairing a meet-ing organised by the Industries Department of the proposed Inves-tor Summit- 2022 in the state at the Secretariat here on Thursday, said that Rajasthan has im-mense potential for in-dustrial development.He said both domestic and foreign investors should be invited to en-courage new opportuni-ties for industrial devel-opment and employ-ment tourism.Arya said that accord-ing to the budget an-nouncement (2021-22) of CM Ashok Gehlot, an investor summit will be organised.

Arya suggested taking feedback from investors who did not invest in the state despite an an-nouncement through ‘one-stop solution’. He emphasised on inviting successful local export-ers for the summit.In another meeting of various departments organised by the Gen-

eral Administration De-partment through vid-eo-conferencing, the Chief Secretary said the minister in-charges of different districts must solve problems faced by the locals dur-ing their visit to the dis-tricts. He said the de-partments should en-sure the instructions

are followed even at the ground level.Gayatri Rathore, Prin-cipal Secretary, General Administration, lauded this ‘unique initiative of state government wherein, departments will ensure that instruc-tions of minister in-charges of various dis-tricts are followed.’

‘MUHARRAM GIVES MESSAGE OF HUMANITY’

CM CALLS UP YADAV TO ENQUIRE ABOUT HIS HEALTH

Jaipur: Governor Kalraj Mishra has called upon everyone to follow the path of humanity and truth while remembering the sacrifice of Hazrat Imam Hussain on the occasion of Muharram. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in his message on Muharram has said that the martyrdom of Imam Hussain and his companions in the field of Karbala has become an example for gen-erations to come. His martyrdom inspires our young generation to raise their voice against oppression and injustice & walk on the path of truth. Gehlot said that the month of Muharram spreads the message of humanity & love. On this occa-sion, we should take a pledge to strengthen the society with the spirit of sacrifice & be ready to sacrifice any-thing for the country & the state.

Jaipur: Sensitive even towards the personal problems faced by public representatives, CM Ashok Gehlot, after learn-ing that Bhiwadi MLA Sandeep Yadav has been admitted to hospital, spoke to the legislator on phone and took stock of his health condition. Yadav was admitted to the hospital after he developed infec-tion in the intestines. Meanwhile, concerned about the development of Bhiwadi, Gehlot also asked the MLA to bring forth a plan for the city’s develop-ment while assuring complete support. “Any amount whether that of Rs 100 or 200 crore, we will provide for development. Bring a plan for it,” Gehlot said.

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thurs-day, said the Covid-19 situation is completely under control in the state with the recovery rate of being above 99 per cent. "For the last few weeks, the number of new Covid cases in the state has remained around 20. In the month of August, there has not been a single death due to COVID-19 across the state which is quite satisfactory," Gehlot tweeted. He said at present, there are only 153 active cases in the state and the recov-ery rate is more than 99 per cent. "This shows

the Covid pandemic is completely under control at present in the state. It is in our hands to keep the situation under control," he said. The Chief Minister said it is necessary to follow the Covid protocol so that the third wave of the pandemic does not come. Meanwhile, 12 coronavirus positive cases were reported in the state on Thursday. With new positive cas-es, the number of active cases rose to 153. No death was reported.So far, a total of 9,53,981 persons have tested positive with 9,44,874 getting cured. —PTI

COVID SITUATION UNDER CONTROL IN RAJ: GEHLOT

Ajay Maken @ajaymaken

Legal rights of street vendors

I prepared present form of the Street Live-lihood Protection Act & got it passed by the Cabinet of the Govern-ment of India on May

1, 2013.Under this, 123 lakh in the country & 4,75,000 street vendors in Delhi, who should have got the certificate i.e. the license. But Delhi is

one of the four states, where not even a

single license has been issued. Talking about the entire country, in-stead of 123 lakh, only

22 lakh people have received the license.

By law, no street vendor can be removed until a

survey is completed and a license is issued, but

they are being displaced in every corner of the

country.Today a workshop of

selected Town Vending Committee members under aegis of HJAC

was organised by Dharmendra & Ashwini Bagri. I explained what legal rights street ven-dors have, & how they

can be obtained.Please watch & pro-

mote.

Om BirlaDinesh Kumar

CM Ashok Gehlot

The LS Speaker will also lay foundation stone of CC Road situated in front of Hanging Bridge

CS Niranjan Arya chaired the meeting of various departments of General Administration via video conference on Thursday at the Secretariat, wherein, Gayatri Rathore was present.

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ou come from Agra, a city fa-mous for many things but most of all for the Taj Mahal, when did you first see the Taj and what did you think?I visited the Taj Mahal when I was a kid and to date, it is equal-

ly fascinating. It is so because the monu-ment Taj Mahal in itself is a symbol of love and the history it holds is quite in-spiring. As a kid, little did I know what impact this wonder would leave on my mind and I couldn’t be more grateful to

my father for making me not only visit the monument but shar-

ing its rich history.

You have completed your M.Phil in Sociology, what

do you plan to do next?I did my M.Phil in Sociology and

I have decided to explore more in this subject by doing a PhD. I want to learn more on the topic of women leadership in India. This subject is so close to me and I strongly sup-port women empowerment.

You are a member of ABVP, hav-ing fought elections and won the post of Vice President at Agra University, how was the experi-ence of campaigning and be-ing an office-bearer?I fought the election with the

love and support of the students and it feels great to serve and help the students and society. My cam-paigning experience was quite good yet challenging. I couldn’t keep eve-ryone happy considering the tough

decisions I had to make.

Do you plan on joiningfull-time politics?No, I don’t plan on joining full-time politics, I hold strong leadership skills and will utilise my talent in the field of modelling and acting. My pri-mary focus is modelling. Later in life, I can’t say. I might as per the situations.

Where does modelling fall in between a PhD and politics and also Kabaddi, where you have represented the state?Like I said, modelling is my pri-

mary focus. After I feel I am successful enough in this field, I would join politics full

time. If we talk about my interest in sports and Kabaddi, I have represent-

ed played on the State level and represented

Rajasthan from Bhu-sawar during my

higher schooling at Shree Mahila Vid-

yapeeth school.

City First catches up with Krritika Solanki, a FIFOY’21participant who is much more than just a pretty face!

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LEOJULY 24 - AUGUST 23

Appreciation is in store for some homemakers. A professional victory is yours if you play your cards

well today. Those in business will be able to maintain good earning. You are likely to enjoy good health. Young lovers are likely to enjoy total bliss. A good bargain is foreseen.

LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22

Professionals will be able to give their best in a new situation. Financially, this day may prove lucky for

you, so go ask for the raise that is keeping you on tenterhooks. Don’t take any chances with your health today. You will succeed in putting your love life back on the track.

ARIESMAR 21 - APR 20

Your reputation is likely to boost your image on the social front. On the work front, you will manage to

keep your superiors in good humour. This is an excellent day to spend time with family. Good planning will see you complete a task at work in record time.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22

Some positive changes can be expected on the home front. This seems a good day for job seekers. Good

luck promises to brighten your day. New avenues for earning open up as you get more determined. Getting into a favourable situation on the academic front is possible.

GEMINIMAY 21 - JUNE 21

A celebration can fi nd you in your element today. Praise and honour are likely to greet you in

something that you have managed to achieve. You will be a pillar of strength to a friend or associate. A good day at work is foreseen as you make your mark.

AQUARIUSJAN 21 - FEB 19

Some favourable developments on the social front are foreseen. Good performance on the

academic front will help enhance your reputation at work. Buying new furniture or a major appliance is possible. With good networking, a prized posting can be yours.

TAURUSAPR 21 - MAY 20

You may get busy organising something on the social front. You may need to put your ideas into

action, if you want to prove yourself. A party may be thrown in your honour at work. Your good performance is likely to be noticed by higher ups.

CAPRICORNDEC 23 - JAN 20

Your professionalism in handling problem areas will be appreciated. Tenant troubles are foreseen for

some house owners. You will fi nd family life more than fulfi lling. A senior is likely to put in a good word for you to the higher ups. Financially, you will be able to balance well.

VIRGOAUG 24 - SEP 23

Your strategy to promote yourself on the profes-sional front will bear fruits. You may need to speed up

things on the academic front to remain ahead. On the social front, the day fi nds you in your element. Something special awaits you on the romantic front today.

CANCERJUNE 22 - JULY 23

A change of job is likely to give you better salary and perks. Those in business will soon get a chance to

make profi ts. A new deal is likely to come through and give you a taste of success. Spending time with lover proves most fulfi lling. This is the time when you enjoy yourself.

PISCESFEB20 - MARCH 20

Good tidings of your well wishers will keep you going on the professional front. You are likely to take

up someone’s cause and earn appreciation from all quarters on the social front. Remaining on the good side of those who matter on the academic front will help you achieve.

SCORPIOOCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

Your own happiness is in your hands today. This is a favourable day for completing pending jobs.

Financially, no problems are foreseen. It is best to avoid outside food. Much fun is in store on the social front. Those in love are likely to chase the excitement very soon.

YOUR DAY

Horoscope by Saurabbh Sachdeva

etting your festi-val face on has never been more fun - hello, face gems! Ahead of Rakshabandhan, whether you’re

heading to meet your brother or a festive fam jam, there’s a look to match every vibe!

As festival season comes our way and crochet bags, flower crowns and high waisted shorts fly off local store shelves, it’s time to consider a practical guide to a long-lasting face that won’t let you down.

Beauty Salons are serv-ing the purpose to the full-est. Shades Skin & Hair Care, Jaipur has come up with magical, exciting and affordable prices.

How about taking your sister, friends, bhabhi, or even your brothers for a funky happening hair-cut or spa, facial, massage, hair colour and many more.

With social media pic-tures sharing our faces at a moments notice, I find

myself wanting to look fresh on the festival grounds, especially since the weather can transform from sunny skies to down-pour and mud in a matter of minutes.

Low maintenance is the name of the game when it comes to music festival makeup—there are no mirrors in the porta-potty for touch-ups.

The major theme to fol-low is minimalism with thin, built-up layers to en-sure no smearing or trans-fer in the heat of summer.

Whether you’re the girl

who waits hours in the crowds for their favourite band in the blazing sun or likes to lay back in the shade on a blanket, these three routines will work for almost anyone regard-less of your festival style.

HAIR SPAAn extensive hair spa pro-cess removes all dirt, pol-lutants and contaminants from the pores. Once your scalp is rid of such impu-rities, your hair growth gets a stimulus. Hair spa is a procedure that helps make hair strong, bouncy and shiny, while simulta-neously dealing with dan-druff, damaged hair, and hair fall control.

HAIR CUTHaving a haircut regular-ly will help prevent dam-aged, tired and flat look-ing hair. The longest part of your hair is the oldest, it takes the brunt of any heat or chemical damage and can often leave your

hair looking lifeless. Check out are top reasons for the importance of a regular haircut.

WAXINGWhen waxing, you not only remove unwanted hair—you also wax away

any dry and dead skin cells in the process. No cuts. With waxing, you aren’t at risk to any cuts or nicks that can leave you with scars from shav-ing. Stubble free skin – Waxing removes unwant-ed hair completely, from its roots.

HAIR COLOURAdding a subtle color to your hair can create more varied hues that pick up and reflect light in differ-ent ways, making your hair appear more vibrant and interesting. It can also help tame frizzy hair by conditioning your hair and adding more weight, which helps keep your hair smooth and tame.

MASSAGEMassage used to be avail-able only through luxury spas and upscale health clubs. Today, massage therapy is offered in busi-nesses, clinics, hospitals and even airports. If you’ve never tried mas-sage, learn about its pos-sible health benefits and what to expect during a massage therapy session.

Beyond the benefits for specific conditions or dis-eases, some people enjoy massage because it often produces feelings of car-ing, comfort and connec-tion. Despite its benefits, massage isn’t meant as a replacement for regular medical care. Let your doctor know you’re trying massage and be sure to follow any standard treat-ment plans you have.

FESTIVE GLOW:TIME FOR SOME PAMPERING

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GMassage is generally con-sidered part of integrative medicine. It’s increasingly being offered along with standard treatment for a wide range of medical conditions and situations.

MASSAGE BENEFITS CAN INCLUDE: Reducing stress and

increasing relaxation Reducing pain and mus-

cle soreness and tension Improving circulation,

energy and alertness Lowering heart rate and

blood pressure Improving immune

function

WHILE MORE RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO CONFIRM THE BENEFITS OF MASSAGE, SOME STUDIES HAVE FOUND MASSAGE MAY ALSO BE HELPFUL FOR: Anxiety Digestive disorders Fibromyalgia Headaches Insomnia related to stress Low back pain Myofascial pain syndrome Nerve pain Soft tissue strains or inju-

ries Sports injuries Temporomandibular joint

pain Upper back and neck pain

BENEFITS OF MASSAGE

Thor: Love and Thunder director Taika Waititi re-cently celebrated his 46th birthday and it seems his

girlfriend Rita Ora threw him a major bash for the same. It was a star-studded evening as the likes of Kristen Stewart, Rami Malek, Paris Jackson were among the attendees. In addition, the party also saw other stars such as In addition Joshua Jackson, Jodie Turner-Smith, Evan Ross, Charli XCX in attendance. —Agency

If the industry grapevine is to be believed, Suhana Khan will be launched by Zoya Akhtar. On Wednes-

day, B-Town was buzzing with the news that Shah Rukh Khan’s daughter is under consideration for Akhtar’s teenage ro-mance. It is said that the filmmaker is working on a desi version of the comic book series, Archie, for a digital platform. She will bring alive Archie, Betty,

Veronica, Jughead, Reggie and Moose by casting a bunch

of new faces, including star kids. —Agency

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Bell Bottom is a spy action thrill-er film that is inspired by real-life hijacking events in India during the 1980s.

The hero of the film is Anshul (Ak-shay Kumar, a secret agent codenamed Bell Bottom who is married to an MTNL employee (Vaani Kapoor). An-shul loses his mother in a hijack inci-dent which inspires him to become a RAW agent. During a hijack incident,

Anshul convinces Indira Gandhi (played by Lara Dutta) that she should not allow Pakistan to negotiate with

the hijackers and that the Indian agen-cies will handle the situation. Anshul

leads the team from the front to shatter the motives of the hijack-

ers (backed by ISI) who hijack and take the Indian airlines plane to UAE. As expected from the hero in the film, An-shul completes his mission in UAE and manages to get back the hostages along with the bad men back to the Indian soil fulfilling his mission.

Though the film is made with a patriotic message it seems that the makers were not able to keep the story crisp. The film seems to drag a lot with unnecessary shots and drama. The film does not look intense as it does not keep the viewer engrossed. The entire focus of the film is just on Akshay Kumar. Lara Dutta’s most talked-about makeup leaves her expressionless as Mrs Indira Gandhi. The twist right at the end of the film about Vaani Kapoor’s character may impress the viewer but there is noth-ing much to talk about her acting in the film. Huma Qureshi is a total waste in the film. The only good thing about the film is that it can be watched on the big screen and will help the theatres to bounce back into business during this pandemic.

CITY FIRST

The bond between a brother and a sister always stays tenable.

They can go through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows together and will still have a connection that is unwavering and pi-ous. They are your partner-in-crime, your confidante, and your biggest motivator. Sim-ilarly, Royal Enfield be-

lieves in accentuating your trajectory to suc-cess, smoothing over the path to your destination, and always being by your side. So, this R a k s h a -bandhan, why don’t you celebrate that special con-nection you have with your sibling by gifting them the goods that

symbolize the time you spend together perfect-ly!

With the apparel collection from

Royal Enfield, encapsulate your love for your sibling with a gift that shows how much

you care for them. Reminisc-

es the times you went for a ride on your bike with them.

CITY FIRST

Adani Road Transport Ltd (ARTL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Ltd

(AEL), has entered into a defini-tive agreement to acquire Maha-rashtra Border Check Post Net-work Ltd (MBCPNL), a subsidi-ary of Sadbhav Infrastructure Project Limited (SIPL).

“India has made tremendous progress in building its road network and interlinking the nation, an essential contribut-ing factor in economic develop-

ment,” said Krishna Prakash Mahesh-wari, CEO of ARTL. “As the nation’s larg-est infrastructure player, the Adani Group’s drive to cre-ate a world-class portfolio of road net-works is aligned with our mission to be-

come India’s largest road infra-structure owner and operator. The multibillion-dollar profile of road assets we are executing across India encompasses a va-

riety of business models including Hy-brid Annuity Mode (HAM), Toll-Operate-Transfer (TOT), Build-Operate-Trans-fer (BOT) and a ser-vice fee-based net-work. This acquisi-tion also strategical-ly dovetails with Adani Group.

THE HUGE AGREEMENTTHIS RAKSHABANDHAN CELEBRATE THAT UNBREAKABLE BOND WITH

THE LATEST APPAREL AND ACCESSORIES FROM ROYAL ENFIELDADANI GROUP TO ACQUIRE MBCPNL PORTFOLIO FROM SADBHAV INFRASTRUCTURE AT AN ENTERPRISE VALUE OF RS.1,680 CRORE

It has been a busy time for the Kapoor family as Anil Kapoor’s daughter Rhea Kapoor got married on Saturday to Karan Boolani and on Wednesday night, their relative Antara Marwah had her baby

shower. Shanaya Kapoor also joined Anil Kapoor, Khushi Kapoor, Boney Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor and

other members of the family for celebrations. Sha-naya has shared her stunning ethnic look for

the function and it has managed to wow everyone including Suhana, Khushi, Alanna and others. —Agency

And the Award goes to...

SAD DEMISE

Pankaj Tripathi has given life to iconic char-acters on

screen that will for-ever remain etched in the audience’s mind. Known for his versa-tile and effortless per-formances across various platforms, he has carved a niche for himself in the entertain-ment industry. The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne has al-ways celebrated di-versity through cinema, and it comes as no surprise that this year, they have honoured Pankaj Tripathi with the Di-versity in Cinema award. Some of the previous recipi-ents of this award are Freida Pinto, Fawad Khan, Onir among others. —Agency

Aw a r d - w i n n i n g British comedian Sean Lock, star of ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’,

died from cancer on Wednesday. The TV star, known for his surreal con-tent was 58 years old when he breathed his last. “It is with great sadness that we have to announce the death of Sean Lock. He died at home from cancer, surrounded by his family,” read a statement from Lock’s agency, Off The Kerb Productions. —Agency

ollywood star Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost have welcomed their first baby together. Johansson’s representative Marcel Pariseau confirmed to people.com. The “Black Widow” actress is also mom to daughter Rose Dorothy,

who turns 7-years-old this year. Jost briefly mentioned their pregnancy news during a stand-up performance at The Ridgefield Playhouse in Con-necticut on Sunday, a source con-firmed to people. On Instagram later Wednesday, Jost shared a statement revealing that they welcomed a baby boy named Cosmo. He wrote: “Ok Ok we had a baby. His name is Cosmo. We love him very much. Privacy would be greatly appreciated.” —Agency

It’s a boy!

DIRECTORRanjit M Tewari

CAST & CREWAkshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Huma Qureshi

BELLBOTTOM

RATING:

CELEBRATIONS WITH ROYAL ENFIELD

Low on Entertainment Quotient

Stepping into B-TOWN

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The ethnic look

Happy B’day, WAITITI!

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Late Sean Lock

Pankaj Tripathi

Scarlett Johansson

...Colin Jost’s post

Suhana Khan

Shanaya Kapoor’s post

Rita Ora

Krishna Prakash

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LUXURY RIDES KICKING OFF @ RAMBAGH

The luxury car club, The Ace Club, Jaipur turned 3 on Independence Day’21, the association teamed up with Hotel Rambagh Palace as they added a tinge of class to their rides. GM Ashok Rathore fl agged off the rally on the occasion as the luxurious rides kicked off.

CITY FIRST

Model and now an entrepre-neur, Shashi Bhati has

ventured on a new journey with Jaipur Fit Food (JFF) at Jawahar Nagar. The place is a go-to desti-nation for all the fit-ness freaks as it offers a wide range of healthy and yet fit for a perfect diet. The food venture offers vegetar-ian as well as non-veg-etarian meals. With their main focus on of-

fering quality food for their customers, they also customize food ac-cordingly. The chefs working at JFF are highly experienced in

taking care of calories as they specialize in diet food. JFF offers de-livery all around Jaipur.

Among the growing trend of keeping oneself fit, JFF takes care of all your needs, one doesn’t go back dissat-isfied after consuming

outside food as every-thing concerning from the quality of food to sanitization, a healthy

meal is all taken care of. With afford-able prices offered

at JFF, you may reach your fitness goal as ninety per cent of fitness is build up in the realm of a kitchen.

A HEALTHY DIET

ventured on a new

nation for all the fit-ness freaks as it offers a wide range of healthy and yet fit for a perfect diet. The food venture offers vegetar-ian as well as non-veg-etarian meals. With their main focus on of-

highly experienced in

n the occasion of ‘World Photo-graph Day’, ‘Paja-ro’, a wildlife and mandala art exhi-bition was inaugu-rated on Thursday

morning at Sukriti Gallery JKK, Jaipur. The exhibi-tion will conclude on Mon-day, August 23.

Photographer Dr Shashi Sharma’s artworks are be-ing exhibited beautifully.

The exhibition was inau-gurated by Chief Guest IAS Shreya Guha, Princi-pal Secretary, Forest and Environment Department

while IAS Mugdha Sinha, Secretary, Art and Culture Department and Director General (Jawahar Kala Kendra). In thE exhibition

46 photographs on the sub-ject ‘WILDLIFE’ have been displayed. Photographs of different species of birds are shown beautifully.

Dr Shashi Sharma has also been involved in paint-ing and its parallel arts.

The second main attrac-tion was the handmade

mandala artefacts with 21 frames of Mandala Art displayed during

the exhibition.Dr Sharma on the occa-

sion said, when one does something using reativity and nature is involved, there is no joy gretaer than this.

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SHOWCASING ART & NATURE

Beauties at the Blue Heaven

The Blue City, Jodhpur was abuzz with fash-ion and glamour, where girls who as-

pire to enter the world of modelling and glamour, showcased their talent in front of the judges at the Ra-jasthan’s prestigious and biggest beauty pageant ‘Elite Miss Rajasthan 2021’. The grand audition round was organised at Radisson, Jodh-pur on Thursday where 150 girls participated in the pag-eant.

The finale of this year’s Elite Miss Rajasthan will be held on 23 October in Jaipur. After the announcement of the top 30 contestants before the finale, all the girls will get seven days of special train-ing and grooming from well-known fashion personalities

from across the country. Ra-jasthan director Gaurav Gaur and Maulik Shah, Elite Miss Rajasthan Jodhpur di-rector Raman Kumbhj cu-

rated the event. Supermodel and actress

Akanksha Bhalla, Swati Jan-gid and Riya Sen were among the judging panel during the event. Elite Miss Rajasthan 2020 Jodhpur City finalists

Tanu Choudhary, Sumi-tra Godara, Isha Agar-wal and Juhi Sesani along with guests in-

cluding Harsh Gupta, Styling Partner Manisha Malviya and Gopal Singh Bhati also tested the girls on parameters such as confi-dence, attitude, communica-tion skills, etc. Rashi Gandhi and Shubdha Panwar were declared finalists.

SUSHMITA AINDsushmita.aind@firstindia.co.in

The birthday of IAS Dr Mohan Lal Yadav was on Thursday, August 19. We wish him all the best!

HAPPY B’DAY!Heartiest congratulations to the entire

team of Fashion Connect and First India. Though I don’t belong to the fashion

industry directly but I think what

everyone need is a good

health and fi tness regime.

I am excited to be a part of

Fashion Connect Season 10 and look forward to the mesmerizing evening on September 30. I wish all the readers all

the best. Stay Happy, Stay Healthy!

KNOWLEDGE CONTINUES

CITY FIRST

Children from all across India are sending their en-tries to the Digi-

tal Baal Mela, spon-sored by Future So-ciety and LIC and co-sponsored by IDBI Bank. This campaign ‘Baccho ki Sarkar Kaisi Ho’ has given children an op-portunity to do some-thing new and amazing away from studies and sports. Which children have also adopted with full dedication and as a result of that, children are improving their tal-ent by joining every

state.The debate and quiz

competition of Digital Baal Mela is also wit-nessing tremendous en-thusiasm among the children. Children are

giving their opinion about Modi govern-ment, Gehlot gov-

ernment, Kejriwal government, Shivraj Singh Chouhan govern-ment and the same Yogi government. The ques-tions and suggestions of the children are quite strong. Children can send in the entry by August 30, giving opin-ions on different as-pects.

cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

PANI RE PANI!

Mumbai’s water conservation organisation Jan-Jan Foundation organised a ‘Pani Re Pani’ award ceremony on August 14 at Hotel Ramada Jaipur for the people who made signifi cant contribution to water conservation. Water of India as the chief guest of the event. Rajendra Singh and fashion icon Pratima Totla joined and people were honored for water conservation. The award ceremony has been organised by Dinesh Bawra and Rohit Sharma, India’s eminent comic satire poet and founder of Jan Jan Foundation.

The participants of Elite Miss Rajasthan 2021

(L-R) Akanksha Bhalla, Gaurav Gaur and Swati Jangid

Tripti Arora

IAS Shreya Guha, IAS Mugdha Sinha and Dr Shashi Sharma

—PHOTOS BY SANTOSH SHARMA

Coach Ajay Singh

—PHOTOS BY MUKESH KIRADOO

Priyanshu

Reet Tashvi

Harsh