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COVID-19 UPDATE

RAJASTHAN559DEATHS

29,434CONFIRMED CASES

GUJARAT 2,146 DEATHS 48,441 CASES

KARNATAKA1,336 DEATHS 63,772 CASES

New Delhi: Amid ongoing tensions with Chi-na, top Air Force com-manders will meet this week to discuss the situ-ation on the Line of Ac-tual Control with China in Eastern Ladakh and rapid operation-al station of Rafale combat aircraft arriv-ing later this month.

The Indian Air Force could deploy its new Ra-

fale fighter jets in the Ladakh sector

as part of an overarch-ing plan to strengthen India’s military posture

in the region, where In-dian and Chinese forc-

es are locked in a tense border confrontation,

said sources on Sunday, ahead of a

key IAF commanders’ meeting this week.

France is speeding up deliveries of Rafale to In-dia and six jets are likely to land at their home base in Ambala on July 27, said sources. Turn on P6

India likely to deploy Rafale jets in Ladakh amid border tension

Congress bays for Shekhawat’s blood

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First India Bureau

Jaipur: The Congress on Sunday demanded the resignation of Un-ion Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to top-ple the Gehlot govern-ment in Rajasthan.

Citing the two audio clips, in one of which Shekhawat is allegedly heard during a conver-sation on a plot to bring down the state govern-ment, AICC central ob-server for Rajasthan political crisis and sen-ior Congress leader Ajay Maken said the BJP leader should quit on moral grounds.

“If Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shek-

hawat is claiming that it is not his voice and the reference in the au-dio clip is of some other Gajendra Singh, then why is he afraid of giv-ing his voice samples,” Maken asked.

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Kashiram Choudhary

Jaipur: Even as word spread across the state that a special session of the Ra-jasthan Assembly could be called from coming Wednesday, a speculation fueled by the meeting between Governor Kalraj Mishra and Chief Minister Ashok Ge-hlot on Saturday, sources in Raj Bha-wan maintained till Sunday evening that the state government has not forwarded any file to Governor in this regard.

However, there was a strong word on Sunday that Governor has ap-prised the Centre, infor-mally, about the entire matter and of CM Ge-hlot’s ‘designs’ to regis-ter his ‘strength’ during floor test.

Interestingly, the Governor has not been signalled back on the future course of action in the state and there-fore it now remains a ‘wait and watch’ game for the Raj Bhawan.

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Dr. Rituraj Sharma

Jaipur: With the phone tapping issue becoming a bone of contention be-tween the State and Centre, top IAS and IPS officials in state Secre-tariat were on their toes even on a holiday, busy compiling the report the state government has to forward to the

Union Home Ministry. Chief Secretary Ra-

jeeva Swarup, who has been asked to submit the report, chaired a meeting on the issue which lasted more than three hours. According to sources, the high lev-el meeting, attended by ACS (Home) Rohit Ku-mar Singh, senior offi-cials from ACB, SOG

and PHQ, gave final shape to the report to be sent to Centre. However, a top official claimed that all the prescribed procedures for phone tapping were followed and everything is in place.

Interestingly, sources revealed that officials were silent to the ques-tion as to when were the

phone recording initi-ated, before or after July 2? Word in the bureau-cratic circles is that none of the officers were ready to commit any date by which the report will be sent to the Centre. Now, it is being assumed that the final report will be sent to the Union Home Ministry,

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Governor Kalraj Mishra has sought informal advice from Centre while seeking guidance on how to go about in current scenario on Gehlot trust vote issue

PM Modi NOW HAS 6 CR FOLLOWERS ON TWITTER!

New Delhi: The followers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on microblogging site Twitter have risen to six crore. Modi is known for reaching out to the masses through social media. He uses Twitter extensively to share important information with the people. Most of his addresses are beamed live on his personal Twitter handle. Modi, who joined Twitter in January 2009, is following 2,354 accounts, according to his handle @narendramodi. In September 2019, PM Modi had fi ve crore followers. Turn on P6

A dream come true! Ram Temple foundation on Aug 5

New Delhi: Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi will attend the founda-tion laying ceremony for the construction of Ram Temple in Ayod-hya on August 5. Ac-cording to sources, PM will remain in Ayodhya from 11 am to 1.10 pm.

The PM on Sunday finalised August 5 as the date of stone laying ceremony Turn on P6

Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has again written a letter to Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi demand-ing that the state’s am-bitious East Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP) be declared a national project. The project, costing about Rs 37,247 crore, will ensure the availability of drink-ing water in 13 dis-

tricts of the state and water for irrigation in 2.8 lakh hectare area.

Gehlot wrote in the letter that detailed pro-ject report (DPR) of ERCP has been sent to the Central Water Com-mission for necessary approval in November 2017. He urged that the scheme be declared a na-tional project at the ear-liest and even mentioned that in the cabinet meet-ing chaired by the Chief

Minister, the proposal has also been approved to give this ambitious project the status of a national project.

“In the past the Cen-tral Government has accorded national pro-ject status to drinking water and irrigation projects in 16 differ-ent states, but no wa-ter project of Ra-jasthan has this sta-tus. Due to the serious problem of drinking

water in many dis-tricts of the state, it is necessary to give this project the status of national project and ensure its quick im-plementation,” Ge-holot said in the letter.

It is worth mention-ing that the ERCP pro-ject will ensure availa-bility of sufficient water for drinking and irriga-tion by 2051 in 13 dis-tricts including Jhala-war, Baran, Kota, Bundi,

Sawai Madhopur, Ajmer, Tonk, Jaipur, Dausa, Ka-rauli, Alwar, Bharatpur and Dholpur.

According to the de-tailed project report of the ERCP, the project is to carry the surplus wa-ters of the sub-basins of the Kunnu, Kul, Par-vati, Kalisindh and Mej rivers during the mon-soon to the sub-basins of the Banas, Morel, Banganga, Gambhir and Parbati rivers.

Declare ERCP as a national project: Gehlot writes to ModiLIFELINE: EAST RAJASTHAN CANAL PROJECT

CS burns midnight oil, compiles report for MHA

If Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is claiming that it is not his voice and the reference in

the audio clip is of some other Gajendra Singh, then why is he afraid of giving his voice samples —AJAY MAKEN, Cong leader

NEVER DEMANDED FLOOR TEST: BJPJaipur: BJP said it never demanded a fl oor test in Rajasthan Assembly. “The BJP had never demanded the fl oor test, not even now. We are watching their fi ght. As of now, we are being unneces-sarily dragged into this matter,” said LoP in Assembly Gulab Chand Kataria.

Ajay Maken

Kalraj Mishra

GC Kataria

Gajendra SIngh Shekhawat

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ection-124 A i.e. Sedition was

not there in the original In-

dian Penal Code. It was intro-

duced in the year 1870 to curb

nationalist movement in In-

dia by British Government.

It was imported from British

law. In Britain, offence of se-

dition can only be slapped, if

there is armed rebellion to

overthrow the government.

The sedition u/s 124-A has

been defined as under:-

124-A Sedition- Whoever,

by words, either spoken or

written, or by signs, or by vis-

ible representation, or other-

wise, brings or attempts to

bring into hatred or con-

tempt, or excites or attempts

to excite disaffection towards,

the Government established

by law in India, shall be pun-

ished with imprisonment for

life, to which fine maybe add-

ed or with imprisonment

which may extend to three

years, to which fine may be

added, or with fine.

Explanation 1- The ex-

pression “disaffection” in-

cludes disloyalty and all feel-

ings of enmity.

Explanation 2- Com-

ments expressing disappro-

bation of the measures of the

Government with a view to

obtain their alteration by

lawful means, without excit-

ing or attempting to excite

hatred, contempt or disaffec-

tion, do not constitute an of-

fence under this section.

Explanation 3- Com-

ments expressing disappro-

bation of the administrative

or other action of the Gov-

ernment without exciting or

attempting to excite hatred,

contempt or disaffection, do

not constitute an offence un-

der this Section.

Lokmanya Tilak was

charged by the British Gov-

ernment for sedition for his

Article requesting Indians to

overthrow the British Rule.

The same was challenged be-

fore Bombay High Court.

However, the British Judge

was obviously biased and

held that definition of sedi-

tion as applicable in Britain

was not applicable in India.

Obviously because of move-

ment in India to overthrow

the British Rule was peaceful

and this 1908 judgment

seemed to change the course.

After this 1908 judgment till

1947, all congress leaders cat-

egorically took the stand that

after British Rule goes, Sec-

tion 124-A will be removed.

However, the same did not

happen after independence.

In 1962, a famous case ‘Ke-

dar Nath Singh Vs State of

Bihar - AIR 1962 SC 955’- was

there, where the constitu-

tional validity of Section

124-A was challenged, while

holding it valid. The Court

categorically held that it can

only be applicable when

very existence of State will

be in jeopardy because of

the act of the offenders. It

was further held that if of-

fence does not jeopardize the

existence of the State then

Section 124-A i.e. “Sedition”

cannot be slapped. It was

further held that law is sub-

jected to Article-19 (2) of the

Constitution of India. Kedar

Nath Singh’s judgment has

been followed continuously

in a number of judgments

later on and has become ba-

sic law in this context.

In the present Rajasthan

case, the three FIRs lodged by

Special Operation Group

(SOG) only speak about tele-

phone talks made between

few persons that Chief Min-

ister or his Cabinet is to be

replaced by paying some

money to certain elected leg-

islators that means, the at-

tempt is only to replace one

Chief Minister and his Cabi-

net by another Chief Minis-

ter and another Cabinet.

Chief Minister or his Cabi-

net is not the State and are

appointed by the Governor.

The sedition does not even

say that only a person having

majority of legislators will

be appointed as Chief Minis-

ter, but these are only the

constitutional and democrat-

ic customs.If two persons talk only

about bribe to elected mem-

bers of legislation, who are

public servants that means

only offence that they are

committing is an offence un-

der the Prevention of Cor-

ruption Act. By no stretch of

the imagination, it may be

called sedition. In this con-

text, preceding of Section 124

- A, there is 124 section which

reads as under:-

“124. Assaulting Presi-

dent, Governor, etc., with

intent to compel or restrain

the exercise of any lawful

power. - Whoever, with the

intention of inducing or

compelling the President of

India or the Governor of any

State, to exercise or refrain

from exercising in any man-

ner any of the lawful powers

of such President or Gover-

nor, assaults or wrongfully

restrains, or attempts

wrongfully to restrain, or

overawes, by means of crim-

inal force or the show of

criminal force, or attempts

so to overawe, such Presi-

dent or Governor shall be

punished with imprison-

ment of either description

for a term which may extend

to seven years, and shall also

be liable to fine.”

A bare reading of Sec-

tion-124 clearly shows that if

it is a President, Governor or

the State against whom at-

tacks are made, then offence

comes into existence.

It is basic law that unless

the information does not dis-

close ingredients of offence

alleged, it cannot be called

FIR. All three FIRs do not dis-

close, even slightly, any of

the ingredients of the offence

of sedition.It is further held by Hon’ble

Apex Court that any act(s)

that brings or attempts to

bring into hatred or con-

tempt, or excites or attempts

to excite disaffection to the

State or Government unless

are together cannot called

sedition. In all three FIRs,

there is neither hatred, nor

contempt, nor disaffection,

towards the Government or

State. The whole conversa-

tion is about bribing the

MLAs.It seems that just to bring

the jurisdiction of routine

police i.e. SOG, which is a po-

licing authority of state gov-

ernment, FIR has been regis-

tered u/s 124-A of IPC. There

is not a single example where

charges of sedition have

been slapped, because some-

one tried to replace Chief

Minister or his Cabinet by

another Chief Minister or

his Cabinet by luring certain

legislators. If it is so, then

there was no need to bring

Anti Defection Law as well as

Prevention of Corruption

Act. It is pertinent to men-

tion here that few Members

of Parliament and their as-

sociates in the past have been

convicted for offence under

the Prevention of Corrup-

tion Act for voting in lieu of

money.AIR 1932 Cal 378, it has

been clearly laid down the

‘word’ Government of India

established by means the ex-

isting political system as dis-

tinguished from any particu-

lar set of Administrators.

This law clearly says that the

Chief Minister and Minis-

ters, who are only the Admin-

istrator in the set, do not ful-

fill the definition of Govern-

ment and an attempt to

change them does not invoke

Section 124-A.

Further even explanation

1 of Section 124-A has clearly

laid down that there should

be creation of feelings of en-

mity. Explanation 2 of Sec-

tion 124-A further clarified

that an act without exciting

or attempting to excite ha-

tred, contempt or disaffec-

tion do not constitute offence

under this section, and then

explanation 3 says that any

act against without exciting

or attempting to excite ha-

tred, contempt or disaffec-

tion, do not constitute an of-

fence under this section.

It is pertinent to mention

here that Section 124-A has

been declared constitutional

subject to the exception pro-

vided under Article-19 (2) of

the Constitution of India,

which reads as under:-

“19(2)._ Nothing in sub-

clause (a) of clause (1) shall

affect the operation of any

existing law, or prevent the

State from making any law,

in so far as such law imposes

reasonable restrictions on

the exercise of the right con-

ferred by the said sub-clause

in the interests of [the sover-

eignty and integrity of India]

the security of the Sate,

friendly relations with for-

eign States, public order, de-

cency or morality, or in rela-

tion to contempt of court,

defamation or incitement to

an offence.”A bare reading of above

clearly says that law sedition

can only be slapped only

when it challenges sover-

eignty and integrity of the

country or endanger security

of State or even destroys pub-

lic order. None of these are

present in FIRs, so FIRs are

parse illegal.

CAN THE SOG FIR STAND ITS

GROUND BEFORE LAW?

S

In the present Rajasthan case, the three FIRs lodged by SOG only speak about

telephone talks made between few persons that

CM or his Cabinet is to be replaced by paying some money to certain

elected legislators that means, the attempt is only to replace one CM and his Cabinet by another CM and

another Cabinet.

Chief Minister or his Cabinet is

not the State and

are appointed by

the Governor

IF TWO PERSONS TALK ONLY ABOUT BRIBE TO

ELECTED MEMBERS OF LEGISLATION, WHO ARE

PUBLIC SERVANTS THAT MEANS ONLY OFFENCE

THAT THEY ARE COMMITTING IS AN OFFENCE

UNDER THE PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION ACT

AK JAIN

Advocate,Rajasthan High Court

CAN THE SOG FIR STAND ITS GROUND BEFORE LAW? P4

SOG PAYS A VISIT TO SHEKHAWAT!Rajasthan Police’s SOG has been trailing rebel Con-gress MLAs and word is that a team reached Gajendra Singh Shekhawat at his Delhi home at around 1 AM on intervening night of Saturday-Sunday, apparently to receive his voice sample. P7

WORLD6,06,779

DEATHS1,45,32,856

CONFIRMED CASES

INDIA11,16,846CONFIRMED CASES

27,502DEATHS

MAHARASHTRA11,854 DEATHS 3,10,455 CASES

DELHI3,628 DEATHS 1,22,793 CASES

TAMIL NADU2,481 DEATHS 1,70,693 CASES

STATE CENTRE

PM Narendra Modi CM Ashok Gehlot

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Jaipur: The operation of the 47-km Ring Road Project proposed to ease heavy traffic on the city streets, remains a dis-tant dream even after one-and-a-half years of its inauguration Minis-ter for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari had dedicated the Rs 810 crore project to the people on March 8, 2019. The traffic from Ajmer road to Tonk road was also opened for the public on a temporary basis. But the whole ring road project be-came hostage to the

monsoon season last year when deadly cracks appeared on the ring road. After several in-dicting reports, the NHAI got the road re-paired but on May 3, 2020, the 32 lane toll plaza on ring road shifted hundreds of me-ters away due to a dust storm. The road was closed for traffic after this incident.

In order to make the ring road motorable three cloverleaf need to be constructed. The first on Ajmer road, second on Tonk road and third

on Agra road. JDA has been able to acquire and transfer the land re-quired for cloverleaf on Ajmer road and Tonk road to the NHAI for which NHAI floated ten-

ders of Rs 153 crore. JDA is yet to acquire the land needed for clover-leaf on Agra road. The bone of contention in the acquisition is 32 sq meters of land owned by

Reliance Petrol Pump. The JDA hasn’t been able to acquire the pet-rol pump land yet. There is some hope now after Reliance agreed to va-cate the required land in

lieu of land allotted to it in the Chitrakoot area in Jaipur.

It is noteworthy when JDA failed to complete the ring road project the erstwhile BJP govt had

knocked the doors of the central govt. Then CM Vasundhara Raje had requested Central Minister Nitin Gadkari to ask NHAI to take over the project. Gad-kari had obliged Raje immediately as the pro-ject was crucial for Jaipur. NHAI complet-ed a 47 km road patch within the stipulated time but has been un-successful in complet-ing the Rs 810 crore pro-ject. Rs 85 crore clover-leaf yet to be construct-ed is holding the Rs 810 crore project. The JDA

is losing the much need-ed and projected reve-nue of Rs 2,500-3,000 crore due to incomplete ring road project.

Now, NHAI has de-cided to go ahead with the construction of two cloverleaf on Ajmer & Tonk road. This will have seamless traffic on these patches but with no connectivity to the Agra road. The road accidents which will occur due to this big bottleneck will be because of tothe leth-argy demonstrated by JDA.

Ring Road: JDA riddles with hurdle, ‘unable’ to meet deadline PROJECT FACES DELAY

MONSOON BRINGS

GREENERY!The scenic view captured

from the iconic Nahar-garh Fort, in Jaipur, pro-

vides a panoramic view of the city during the monsoon. As

we observe Haryali Amavasya today, the greenery around us

forces us to think about the importance of

environmental protection for our future generations.

—PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR

‘Forcefully holding MLAs highlights lawlessness’Poonia also called the present instability, a constitutional crisisJaipur: BJP State Chief, Dr Satish Poonia has played up the state-ment by BSP chief Mayawati calling it an emergency like situa-tion in the state. Poonia said that forcefully holding MLAs and slap-ping sections like 124 (A) only highlights the situation of lawless-ness in the state. He added that there was a limit to holding any-body forcefully and called the present insta-bility, a constitutional crisis. He said BJP will decide on future course after the court verdict on Monday. On the issue of the assembly ses-sion, Poonia said it re-quires a 21 day notice, but it is the prerogative of the Governor.

When asked whether he had discussed the state’s political situa-tion with the central leadership Poonia said that he discusses organ-isational issues with them.

LoP Gulabchand Ka-taria said that the BJP is waiting for the court verdict in the matter. He said if the CM wants a floor test, he could opt for it and approach the Governor for it but the ball is in the Governor’s court and it is he, who will take a final call af-ter the court’s verdict

on Monday. Reacting to the statement by MLA Rajendra Gudha from Gehlot camp that San-jay Jain had asked him to meet Vasundhara Raje 8 months ago, Ka-taria rebuffed the whole episode as ‘absurd.’

He said there are many liaison men who come to meet leaders, get themselves photo-graphed in a crowd so no political leader should be blamed for

that. Such allegations create lack of trust among people.

Deputy LoP Rajen-dra Rathore categori-cally denied meeting any MLA in Manesar. He said dissidents from Congress might be camping in Mane-sar after getting dis-satisfied with their leadership in Ra-jasthan adding that the BJP is focusing on the audio- tapes. He

alleged that the audio tapes were released from the CMR and questioned the law under which the au-dio was recorded and asked about the per-son, who authorised such a recording as it seems to be complete-ly against the Indian Telegraph Act 1885.

He further men-tioned the incident of two police constables seated outside former PM Rajiv Gandhi’s resi-dence, which led to his withdrawing support from the then Chan-drashekhar govt. He said that the present in-cident isn’t a miniscule one and BJP will take the legal course.

BJP State President Satish Poonia distributed tricycles & ration kits to the differently abled at Sarai. Bawdi Government School, Amer on Sunday.

‘Had Raje been heading BJP, results would have been different’

CRPF gives rations, items to the needy

Sibal launches veiled attack on BJP

Jaipur: A statement by an old Vasundhara Raje loyalist, Rohitashva Sharma, has created ripples in the internal politics of the BJP. Roh-itashva Sharma said that had Vasundhara Raje been heading the BJP then the results would have been differ-ent. He said that all frontal organisations were made ineffective gradually, which caused the defeat of BJP in the last assembly elections. He also took a dig at those leaders who sur-rounded Raje earlier, over their silence when she was targeted by Pi-lot and Hanuman Beni-

wal targeted a few days ago. He said Raje is a leader with self -respect and people in the state are agitated that she isn’t being called to handle the affairs dur-ing such a political cri-sis. He called the pre-sent political crisis a result of personal ambi-tions of Sachin Pilot

and internal differenc-es of the Congress. Roh-itashva Sharma said that a five time MP and two time CM Vasund-hara Raje’s experience is not being utilised during present times while lesser known leaders are discussing the matters in the BJP office. On being quizzed over Rajendra Rathore’s statement on the issue, Sharma said that he was the first one to say that Vasundhara Raje is a senior leader and par-ty Vice- President. Only Kailash Meghwal sup-ported his remark, Roh-itashva added.

Jodhpur: CRPF has the distinction of serv-ing the nation both in-side and at the bor-ders. The Paramilitary force was very active during the lockdown period in providing re-lief material to the most affected people. On Sunday CRPF per-sonnel distributed ra-tion kits to 140 rural families in Manaklav and Karvad areas un-der its civic action pro-gramme. IG CRPF Vikram Sehgal said that after executing the civic action pro-gramme in Jaipur and Ajmer now the force is active in Jodhpur.

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Sunday launched a veiled at-tack on BJP by compar-ing the ongoing politi-cal crisis in Rajasthan with the pandemic.

“Need for Vaccine: Virus of corrupt means to topple elected gov-ernments has spread through a Wuhan like facility in Delhi. It’s an-tibodies lie in amend-ing the Tenth Schedule. Ban all defectors from Holding the public of-fice for 5years. Fight-ing the next election,” he tweeted.

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Jaipur: The petition filed by the Sachin Pilot group will be heard in the Rajasthan High Court from 10 am today. Arguments will be pre-sented by the Assembly Speaker, Secretary and others on the petition. The advocates have been working for the last three days to get le-gal support so that the decision of the Speaker can be termed right.

On the other hand, senior advocates Har-ish Salve and Mukul Rohatgi from the Sachin

Pilot group have al-ready given their argu-ments on Friday. Ac-cording to the decision of the court, the Assem-bly Speaker will make a decision after 5:30 pm on July 21.

PR Meena has filed the petition in the court on behalf of the Sachin

Pilot group. In the peti-tion, demand has been raised to put an interim stay on the notice while challenging the consti-tutionality of the sched-ule in which the notice was issued.

It is believed that the court will pass its deci-sion after today’s hear-ing, after which Assem-bly Speaker CP Joshi will take his decision. This is the reason why the government’s advo-cate, Sachin faction and BJP MLAs, along with the Assembly officials, are eyeing the High Court.

HC to hear Pilot camp’s petition today at 10 am

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Jaipur: The General Assembly meeting of the Rajasthan State Olympic Association was held on Sunday at Shyam Paradise Hotel in Jaipur. The meeting was chaired by Presi-dent of the association Janardan Singh Gehlot, while the Supervisor of the Indian Olympic As-sociation attended the meeting. The minutes and annual accounts of the last meeting were unanimously approved in the meeting. General

Secretary Rajendra K Shekhar presented the annual report.

Rajasthan State Olympic Association Election Officer (for-mer officer of Ra-jasthan Administrative Services) Babulal Gup-ta gave detailed infor-mation about the proce-dure adopted in the election of the associa-tion. He said that all the appointments on all posts have been held un-opposed and Janardan Singh Gehlot has be-come the President, Pramod Jadam the

Chairman, Arun Ku-mar Saraswat the Gen-eral Secretary and Ra-jendra K Shekhar the Treasurer.

President Gehlot put forward a proposal be-fore the present mem-bers that senior mem-ber of the union Dhan-

raj Chaudhary should be made the advisor, which was agreed by all members. Gehlot was also unanimously au-thorised to set up sub-committees and com-missions for running the association.

The President said that according to the in-formation received by the Federation of Games recognized by the Indian Olympic As-sociation, the Rajasthan State Olympic Associa-tion would give recogni-tion to the sports feder-ations under it.

Raj Olympic Assn holds General Assembly meet

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Jaipur: Sunday wit-nessed a whopping 934 new corona positive cases in the state taking the tally to 29434 along with reporting 6 deaths taking the death toll to 559. Two deaths each were reported from Ajmer & Jodhpur while one death each was re-ported from Ngaur & Pratapgarh.

Maximum 126 new cases were reported from Jodhpur followed by 104 from Dholpur, 84 from Ajmer, 72 from Bi-kaner, 71 each Barmer & Pali, 70 from Jalore, 52 from Alwar, 42 from Kota, 40 from Bharat-pur, 38 from Jaipur,24

from Karauli, 21 from Churu, 19 each from Ra-jsamand & Udaipur, 12 from Nagaur, 11 each from Hanumangarh, Jhalawar & Sawai Mad-hopur, 6 from Sikar, 5

from Dugarpur, 3 each from Banswara, Chit-torgarh, Jhunjhunu, 2 each from Bhilwara, Dausa, Pratapgarh, 1 from Baran & Tonk along with 8 patient

from another state.The cumulative dis-

trict wise tally on Sun-day is as follows – Ajmer 1101, Alwar 1702, Ban-swara 114, Baran 79, Barmer 927, Bharatpur

2156, Bhilwara 352, Bi-kaner 1407, Bundi 36, Chittorgarh 219, Churu 520, Dausa 237, Dholpur 1011, Dungarpur 519, Ganganagar 105, Hanu-mangarh 157, Jaipur 4321, Jaisalmer 126, Ja-lore 831, Jhalawar 404, Jhunjhunu 497, Jodh-pur 4654, Karauli 190, Kota 1028, Nagaur 1078, Pali 1914, Pratapgarh 159, Rajsamand 463, Sawai Madhopur 153, Sikar 736, Sirohi 740, Tonk 225 and Udaipur 977 along with 179 from other states & countries.

So far 21730 patients have turned negative after treatment and 20958 have been dis-charged from various hospitals of the state.

Kashiram Choudhary

Jaipur: Governor Kalraj Mishra ad-dressed the World Brah-min Conference from Raj Bhavan on Sunday. He expressed that Brah-min is not a caste, it is contemplation. Those who work for humanity are called Brahmins. Rajasthan is a land of strength, devotion, beauty, art and gods. There are talents in every village here. We

need to discover talents and bring them forward so that the state and country can progress.

Through a video con-ference, he said that in order to increase immu-nity during Covid-19 time, people have to get self-confidence. The in-formation about the program and reception of the conference was done by Pandit Suresh Mishra. Many dignitar-ies from various parts of the world attended it.

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Jaipur: There may be a rethinking on the in-creased electricity tar-iffs in state. DISCOMS are preparing a petition to be presented to RERC. DISCOMS had to file it by June 30 but failed to do so. DIS-COMS ten requested RERC to extend the date and were asked to file it by July 31. Once DIS-COMS finalise their pe-tition it will be sent to the PS (Energy) for fi-nal approval.

First India Bureau

Dausa: A retired teach-er was honey trapped costing him Rs 7 lakh and then got death threats when he tried to contact police. The vic-tim, a retired teacher, registered a complaint against 5 people with Lalsot police alleging duping him of Rs 7 lakh and blackmailing him with a fake video. Lal-sot police arrested four persons on Friday and a woman on Saturday.

Nirmal Tiwari

Jaipur: Soon, the state government is expected to make a big announce-ment regarding the fourth tiger reserve in the state. Kumbhalgarh can be declared the fourth tiger reserve of Rajasthan. After ap-proval at the forest min-isterial level, the file has reached the CMO.

It is expected the ap-proval will be granted after the end of the po-litical turmoil. After getting CM’s nod, the file will be sent to NTCA for final formalities.

Legislative Assembly Speaker Dr CP Joshi has been constantly try-ing for Kumbhalgarh to get this approval. The CMO had directed the forest department to present a report regard-

ing Kumbhalgarh and Ramgarh Vishdhari on Joshi’s proposal. Prin-cipal Secretary Forest Shreya Guha and other officials prepared a re-port keeping in mind the technical aspects.

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Sri Ganganagar: AIS 2016 batch topper and existing Jila p a r i s h a d CEO Tina Dabi has achieved a distinction of global-standards. She has been appointed as the honor-ary advisor to the Indian Chapter for 2020-2023 by the Committee for BRICS CCI Young Lead-ership programme 2020. Dabi wil advise on youth leadership, nation build-ing & thought leader-ship, business possibili-ties and skill develop-ment programmes.

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Sardarshahar: In an inhuman act some peo-ple mutilated a leg of a camel who later died while receiving treat-ment from veterinarian doctors. Local residents are enraged by the inci-dent.

The shameful incident came to light in Sajansar village where people found a camel with a mu-tilated leg. Police reached the spot on receiving the information and rushed the injured camel to the hospital but it couldn’t be saved. Soon the social me-dia witnessed the anger of local people. Accord-ing to the police, Meh-

rasar resident Om Singh Rajput and Noparam were grazing their ani-mals on the grazing ground in Sajansar when a camel came running followed by Pannaram Meghwal, Gopiram and Lichhuram Meghwal on

a bike. They attacked the

camel with an axe and injured the camel. When they tried to save the camel, they were threat-ened with an axe. Police have arrested the three accused in the case.

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Jaisalmer: The three month lockdown and least human interfer-ence in the forest area encouraged wildlife to extend their territory to human settlements.

The poachers saw this as a golden oppor-tunity. While some wild animals were killed in road acci-dents, many hunting incidents also occurred which haven’t been re-ported officially. There is no official data avail-

able of poaching dur-ing lockdown. Forest officials call them nor-mal incidents and cops find it difficult to curb poaching as police sta-tions and outposts are at large distances due to low density of popu-lation.

Even local residents confirm an increase in hunting activity dur-ing lockdown. They de-mand a better coordi-nation between forest and police depart-ments to put a check on poaching.

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Bhilwara: In Kesarpu-ra village of the Sha-kargarh police station area in Jahazpur subdi-vision of Bhilwara, the dead bodies of a couple were found lying on a cot in a field. When the farm owner reached the spot in the morning, he saw the bodies and in-formed the police. Then, the police and the families of the deceased reached the spot.

Shakargarh SHO Vikram Singh identi-fied the deceased and said that the girl Pinku (16) was married while Raju (22) was unmar-ried. A bottle of pesti-cides has been recov-ered from the spot, con-suming which the cou-ple committed suicide.

Sunday brings 934 new cases in Raj, highest so far; 6 deaths

‘Raj land of strength, beauty, art and gods’

DISCOMS to file petition with RERC on hiked tarrifs

Five held for duping man off `7L & extortion

Kumbhalgarh awaits CM’s nod to get tiger reserve tag

Global feat: IAS Dabi joins BRICS CCI

Married minor, paramour kill themselves

Deserted view of holy lake of Pushkar amid coronavirus pandemic in Ajmer on Sunday.

A SPECIAL OCCASION

An example of Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb was seen in Jaipur on Sunday. Neha Anjum and Mohsin’s nikah was attended by BJP state president Dr Satish Poonia. Dr Poonia thanked all social workers, including philanthropist Ravi Nayyar, who shouldered the necessary responsibilities, including financial help, in the marriage. Neha had lost her father Hanif Khan in May 2008 bomb blast.

BONDING TIME AT CONG CAMP

The MLAs housed at Hotel Fairmont spent their Sunday watching Big B’s blockbuster Sholey. While in the afternoon they played antakashari where Avinash Pande, Rafeek Khan, BD Kalla, Saleh Mohammed and Rajendra Pareek participated enthusiastically.

3 held for mutilating camel’s leg and threatening locals

Animal hunters thrive, officials in predicament

The camel’s leg was cut through with an axe.

Janardan Singh Gehlot, Mahipal Singh and others during the Rajasthan State Olympic Association meeting.

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Governor Kalraj Mishra addressing the World Brahmin Conference.

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ow is the world going to go back to the days when we could grab a coffee, see a mov-

ie, or attend a concert or footy game with anyone? Opinion suggests there are two options: an effective vac-cine, or herd immunity via at least 60%-80% of people becoming infected. Either one of these options requires that people become immune to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavi-rus that causes Covid-19.

An important new study released online this week could have a large bearing on how our future looks in 2021 and beyond.

It suggests our immunity to SARS-CoV-2 does not last very long at all – as little as two months for some people. If this is the case, it means a potential vaccine might re-

quire regular boosters, and herd immunity might not be viable at all.

IMMUNITY DWINDLES QUICKLYAntibodies are an impor-tant part of our immune system that mainly work by physically binding to virus particles and stop-ping them infecting cells. They can attach to infected cells to induce cell death in some cases.

We also have T cells, an-other part of the immune system that is much bet-ter at recognising and killing virus-infected cells. But for Covid-19, an-tibodies are important in the lungs because T cells aren’t good at getting to airways where the virus first invades.

The newly-released re-

search, from Katie Doores and her team at Kings Col-lege London, looked at how long the antibody re-sponse lasted in people who had Covid-19. It has been submitted to a jour-nal but hasn’t been peer-reviewed, so it must be treated with some caution.

Of the 65 patients stud-ied, 63 produced antibody responses. The important

measurements in the study relate to how good the response is. This is measured in the lab by putting patients’ blood se-rum together with infec-tious SARS-CoV-2 virus and seeing whether the virus can infect cells in a lab dish. This is called a “neutralisation assay”, and here the results were good. Around 60% of peo-ple produced a very potent neutralisation response that stopped virus grow-ing in the lab cells.

Finally, the researchers measured how long the an-tibody response lasted. This is the most important data. Unfortunately, anti-bodies levels began falling after day 20 and only 17% of patients retained a po-tent level at day 57. Some patients completely lost

their antibodies after two months.

This suggests our im-mune response to SARS-CoV-2 may be lost much faster than we might have hoped, and people might thereafter be susceptible to reinfection with the vi-rus.

So herd immunity may not be the solution some think. This is because if immunity is short-lived, we will be in an ongoing cycle of endless reinfec-tion. For herd immunity to be effective we need a high percentage – perhaps more than 60% – of people to be immune at any one time to disrupt chains of trans-mission. This can’t hap-pen if a lot of reinfection is occurring.

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ection-124 A i.e. Sedition was not there in the origi-nal Indian Penal Code. It was introduced in the year 1870 to curb nationalist movement in India by Brit-ish Government. It was imported from British law. In Britain, offence of sedi-tion can only be slapped, if there is armed rebellion to overthrow the govern-ment. The sedition u/s 124-A has been defined as under:-

124-A Sedition- Whoever, by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by vis-ible representation, or other-wise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or con-tempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards, the Government established by law in India, shall be pun-ished with imprisonment for life, to which fine maybe add-ed or with imprisonment which may extend to three years, to which fine may be added, or with fine.

Explanation 1- The ex-pression “disaffection” in-cludes disloyalty and all feel-ings of enmity.

Explanation 2- Com-ments expressing disappro-bation of the measures of the Government with a view to obtain their alteration by lawful means, without excit-ing or attempting to excite hatred, contempt or disaffec-tion, do not constitute an of-fence under this section.

Explanation 3- Com-ments expressing disappro-bation of the administrative or other action of the Gov-ernment without exciting or attempting to excite hatred, contempt or disaffection, do not constitute an offence un-der this Section.

Lokmanya Tilak was charged by the British Government for sedition for his Article requesting Indians to overthrow the British Rule. The same was challenged before Bombay High Court. How-ever, the British Judge was obviously biased and held that definition of sedition as applicable in Britain

was not applicable in In-dia. Obviously because of movement in India to over-throw the British Rule was peaceful and this 1908 judg-ment seemed to change the course. After this 1908 judg-ment till 1947, all congress leaders categorically took the stand that after British Rule goes, Section 124-A will be removed. However, the same did not happen after in-dependence.

In 1962, a famous case ‘Ke-dar Nath Singh Vs State of Bihar - AIR 1962 SC 955’- was there, where the constitu-tional validity of Section 124-A was challenged, while holding it valid. The Court categorically held that it can only be applicable when very existence of State will be in jeopardy because of the act of the offenders. It was further held that if of-fence does not jeopardize the existence of the State then Section 124-A i.e. “Sedition” cannot be slapped. It was further held that law is sub-jected to Article-19 (2) of the Constitution of India. Kedar Nath Singh’s judgment has been followed continuously in a number of judgments later on and has become ba-sic law in this context.

In the present Rajasthan case, the three FIRs lodged by Special Operation Group

(SOG) only speak about tele-phone talks made between few persons that Chief Min-ister or his Cabinet is to be replaced by paying some money to certain elected leg-islators that means, the at-tempt is only to replace one Chief Minister and his Cabi-net by another Chief Minis-ter and another Cabinet. Chief Minister or his Cabi-net is not the State and are appointed by the Governor. The sedition does not even say that only a person having majority of legislators will be appointed as Chief Minis-ter, but these are only the constitutional and democrat-ic customs.

If two persons talk only about bribe to elected mem-bers of legislation, who are public servants that means only offence that they are committing is an offence un-der the Prevention of Cor-ruption Act. By no stretch of the imagination, it may be called sedition. In this con-

text, preceding of Section 124 - A, there is 124 section which reads as under:-

“124. Assaulting President, Governor, etc., with intent to compel or restrain the exer-cise of any lawful power. - Whoever, with the intention of inducing or compelling the President of India or the Gov-ernor of any State, to exer-cise or refrain from exercis-ing in any manner any of the lawful powers of such Presi-dent or Governor, assaults or wrongfully restrains, or at-tempts wrongfully to re-strain, or overawes, by means of criminal force or the show of criminal force, or attempts so to overawe, such President or Governor shall be pun-ished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.”

A bare reading of Sec-tion-124 clearly shows that if it is a President, Governor or the State against whom at-

tacks are made, then offence comes into existence.

It is basic law that unless the information does not dis-close ingredients of offence alleged, it cannot be called FIR. All three FIRs do not dis-close, even slightly, any of the ingredients of the offence of sedition.

It is further held by Hon’ble Apex Court that any act(s) that brings or at-tempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffec-tion to the State or Govern-ment unless are together cannot called sedition. In all three FIRs, there is nei-ther hatred, nor contempt, nor disaffection, towards the Government or State. The whole conversation is about bribing the MLAs.

It seems that just to bring the jurisdiction of routine police i.e. SOG, which is a po-licing authority of state gov-ernment, FIR has been regis-tered u/s 124-A of IPC. There is not a single example where charges of sedition have been slapped, because someone tried to replace Chief Minis-ter or his Cabinet by another Chief Minister or his Cabinet by luring certain legislators. If it is so, then there was no need to bring Anti Defection Law as well as Prevention of Corruption Act. It is perti-

nent to mention here that few Members of Parliament and their associates in the past have been convicted for of-fence under the Prevention of Corruption Act for voting in lieu of money.

AIR 1932 Cal 378, it has been clearly laid down the ‘word’ Government of India established by means the ex-isting political system as dis-tinguished from any particu-lar set of Administrators. This law clearly says that the Chief Minister and Minis-ters, who are only the Admin-istrator in the set, do not ful-fill the definition of Govern-ment and an attempt to change them does not invoke Section 124-A.

Further even explanation 1 of Section 124-A has clearly laid down that there should be creation of feelings of en-mity. Explanation 2 of Sec-tion 124-A further clarified that an act without exciting or attempting to excite ha-tred, contempt or disaffec-tion do not constitute offence under this section, and then explanation 3 says that any act against without exciting or attempting to excite ha-tred, contempt or disaffec-tion, do not constitute an of-fence under this section.

It is pertinent to mention here that Section 124-A has been declared constitutional subject to the exception pro-vided under Article-19 (2) of the Constitution of India, which reads as under:-

“19(2)._ Nothing in sub-clause (a) of clause (1) shall affect the operation of any existing law, or prevent the State from making any law, in so far as such law imposes rea-sonable restrictions on the exercise of the right conferred by the said sub-clause in the interests of [the sovereignty and integrity of India]the se-curity of the Sate, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or mo-rality, or in relation to con-tempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence.”

A bare reading of above clearly says that law sedition can only be slapped only when it challenges sover-eignty and integrity of the country or endanger security of State or even destroys pub-lic order. None of these are present in FIRs, so FIRs are parse illegal.

CAN THE SOG FIR STAND ITS GROUND BEFORE LAW?

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In the present Rajasthan case, the three FIRs lodged by SOG only speak about telephone talks made between few persons that CM or his Cabinet is to be replaced by paying some money to certain elected legislators that means, the attempt is only to replace one CM and his Cabinet by another CM and another Cabinet. Chief Minister or his Cabinet is not the State and are appointed by the Governor

IF TWO PERSONS TALK ONLY ABOUT BRIBE TO ELECTED MEMBERS OF LEGISLATION, WHO ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS THAT MEANS ONLY OFFENCE

THAT THEY ARE COMMITTING IS AN OFFENCE UNDER THE PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION ACT

AK JAIN

Advocate,Rajasthan High Court

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New Delhi: The in-come-tax department, which implemented faceless tax assessment from October 7 last year, has randomly selected 58,319 cases for scrutiny in the first phase and already resolved 7,116 of those, two finance ministry officials said.

The objective of the faceless assessment is to completely eliminate physical contact be-tween the taxpayer and the taxman to make tax administration objec-

tive, transparent and corruption free, they said requesting ano-nymity.

“The faceless assess-ment system has been a

game changer in the arena of direct taxa-tion. It has empowered the taxpayers and has, as a foremost mecha-nism, altered the facets

and perception of over-all tax administration in India,” one official, who holds a senior posi-tion, said. The official said this is the future of

direct tax administra-tion in India with auto-mated and random al-location of income tax assessment cases with-out human interface at any stage.

The faceless system was first proposed by PM Narendra Modi in 2017. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced it in her first budget speech on July 5, 2019 & subse-quently launched the system on October 7, 2019. —Agencies

Thiruvananthapuram:At least 230 kg of gold was smuggled into the country by using some employees of the Unit-ed Arab Emirates diplo-matic mission since July 2019, said a senior officer familiar with the probe led by the Na-tional Investigation Agency (NIA) into the seizure of 30 kg of the yellow metal from the Thiruvananthapuram airport on July 5.

“At least 13 such con-signments came to the

country in one year and they all passed without any check due to diplo-matic immunity. Some of them were heavier than the latest consign-

ment which weighed 70 kg. We are also probing some events organised by state government de-partments,” the official said on?Sunday.

All these consign-ments landed in Thiru-vananthapuram.

The NIA has arrested four persons while the Customs have nabbed

13 people so far in con-nection with the gold smuggling case.

The official also said that people whose names have cropped up during the questioning of the accused will be summoned.

This includes CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s for-mer secretary M Sivasankar and the gov-ernment’s former IT Fel-low Arun Balachandran. The Customs department had grilled Sivasankar for nine hours.

IT dept randomly picks up cases to remove bias

FM Nirmala Sitharaman

‘230 kg gold landed in 13 batches in one yr’

FACELESS TAX ASSESSMENT

Solapur : Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday, said that some people think that the coronavirus would be eradicated by building a temple.

The NCP leader’s comment comes a day after the Shri Ram Jan-mabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust pro-posed two dates in Au-gust for laying the foundation stone of a Ram Temple in Ayod-hya. Addressing a press conference here,

he said, “We are all thinking of how to fight the battle against coronavirus but some people think that coro-navirus will be miti-gated by building a temple. But our priori-ty is to see how to im-prove the economy which has been affect-ed due to lockdown.”

“The lockdown has created an economic crisis & we want to re-quest the State and Cen-tral government to pay attention to the issue,” added Pawar. —ANI

‘Priority to boost economy, not building temples’

New Delhi: OP Dhankar, who was a cabinet minister in the BJP government in Har-yana, was on Sunday ap-pointed the president of the party’s state unit.

By appointing Dhankar, the BJP has continued with a Jat face, the most domi-nant caste in the state. The BJP, in a state-ment, said party chief JP Nadda appointed Dhankar the Haryana unit head.

The appointment is also seen as an attempt to balance the caste equations in the state, where politics re-volves around Jats and non-Jats.

Haryana chief minis-ter Manohar Lal Khat-tar is also a non-Jat.

Dhankar will replace incumbent Subhash Barala, who was also a Jat.

Both Dhankar and Barala had lost the Harayana Assembly elections held in Octo-ber last year. Dhankar was a cabinet minister in the BJP government in Haryana. —PTI

OP Dhankar is president of BJP’s Haryana unit

New Delhi:Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met soldiers from the 16th battalion of Bihar regiment who fought off numerically superior Chinese troops in Gal-wan Valley on June 15, and acknowledged their bravery in the presence of military’s top brass.

Singh returned to Delhi on Saturday after a two-day tour of Ladakh & J&K. A new video from Lukung on the western bank on Ladakh’s Pangong Tso, which has been at the

centre of current border tensions with China, showed the minister having tea with soldiers from 16 Bihar. In the clip, he is seen mingling with

soldiers. Lt Gen Harinder Singh who can be heard telling minister that commanding offic-er killed in the skirmish was from their unit.

Galwan braves get a pat on the back from Rajnath in Ladakh’s Lukung

Rajnath Singh exchanges sweets while interacting with Indian soldiers as he visits the forward posts near LoC in Kashmir.

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SWAPNA SURESH IS SECOND ACCUSED

Agra: Six people died on the spot and another 20 were in-jured in an accident early on Sunday on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Kan-nauj district. Most of the passengers were migrant workers from Bihar return-ing to their work places in Delhi.

Police said a pas-senger bus coming from Madhubani in Bihar rammed into a stationary SUV on the side of the road

near Saurikh. Both the vehicles fell 20 feet below.

Four persons died on the spot, two on the way to the hospi-tal. The injured were shifted to Saifai and Tirwa hospitals, the police said.

Cops said SUV driv-er headed for Ludhi-ana, had stopped to take a nap, on the road-side. The speeding bus rammed into the car with such a force that both came rolling down 20 feet.—PTI

6 killed in Agra-Lko E-way accident

HEAVY RAINS BRING DELHI TO A HALT

NDRF personnel near the site of a collapsed house in the slum area of Anna Nagar, following rains in New Delhi.

A DTC bus stuck at waterlogged Zakhira underpass as children play after rains in New Delhi on Sunday.

New Delhi: The na-tional capital re-ceived its first spell of heavy rains on Sunday morning which led to water-logging in low-lying areas and brought traffic to a standstill at key stretches in the city.

According to the Delhi Traffic Police, jams were reported in various areas. due to heavy waterlog-ging. A house in the slum area of Anna Nagar near ITO in Delhi collapsed fol-lowing heavy rain-fall, but no one was present in it at the time of the mishap.

Centralised Accident and Trauma Services (CATS) and fire en-gines were deployed at the spot. The IMD said the Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representa-tive figures for the city, recorded 74.8 mm rainfall till 8:30 am.

A 56-year-old man drowned while trying to manoeuvre his tem-po through the water-logged underpass at Minto Road.Residents shared on social me-dia videos& pictures of rainwater gushing into their houses & ve-hicles navigating wa-terlogged roads.—PTI

Rescue works underway at the site of accident after a private bus fell off the Lucknow-Agra Expressway following a collision with another vehicle in Kannauj dist on Sunday.

Guwahati: Five more people died in fl ood-related incidents in Assam where the deluge has hit over 25 lakh people in 24 of the 33 districts of the state, according to an offi cial bulletin issued on Sunday. One death each was reported from Baghbar in Barpeta district, Baganpara in Baksa district, Bilasipara in Dhubri district, Mayong in Morigaon district and Kaliabor in Nagaon district.

5 DIE, OVER 25L HIT BY ASSAM FLOODS

New Delhi: The Con-gress used Defence Minister Rajnath Sin-gh’s recent statement that he cannot guaran-tee to what extent the border standoff with China in Ladakh would be resolved, to launch another attack on the government.

“What does this state-ment of the country’s Defense Minister mean that there is no guar-antee of a solution through talks with China? Has the Modi

government accepted the Chinese occupa-tion that they cannot solve it?” Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala asked at a briefing.

Rajnath Singh had made the comment in Lukung near Pangong Tso lake on Friday while addressing troops. “China isn’t ready to restore the sta-tus quo ante & to return to the pre-May 2020 po-sition. China has con-verted Ngari Gunsa civil airstrip on our bor-der into military air-strip causing threat to our territorial integrity & placed over 20,000 Chinese soldiers on our border,” Surjewala said.

‘Has Modi government accepted Chinese occupation in Ladakh?’

Randeep Singh Surjewala

INDIAJAIPUR | MONDAY, JULY 20, 2020


New Delhi: India saw a record single- day jump of 38,902 COVID-19 cas-es pushing its tally to 10,77,618 on Sunday, while the total number of recoveries increased to 6,77,422, according to the Union Health Min-istry data.

The death toll due to the disease rose to 26,816 with new 543 fa-talities even as 23,672 patients have recuper-ated in the past 24 hours, the highest so far in a day, the data updat-ed at 8 am showed.

The Ministry of Health said the 11 most COVID-19 affected countries in the world --the US, Brazil, Russia, Peru, Chile, Mexico, South Africa, the UK, Iran, Pakistan, Spain --together reported 8 times more cases and 14 times more deaths than India. There are 3,73,379

active cases presently in the country.

The total number of confirmed cases in-cludes foreigners. This is the fourth consecu-tive day that COVID-19

cases have increased by more than 30,000.

According to the ICMR, a cumulative to-tal of 1,37,91,869 sam-ples have been tested up to July 18 with 3,58,127

samples being tested on Saturday.

Of the 543 deaths re-ported in the last 24 hours, 144 are from Ma-harashtra, 93 from Kar-nataka, 88 from Tamil

Nadu, 52 from Andhra Pradesh, 27 from West Bengal, 26 from Delhi, 24 from Uttar Pradesh, 17 from Haryana, 16 from Gujarat and nine from Madhya Pradesh.

Bihar, Punjab and Ra-jasthan have reported seven fatalities each fol-lowed by Telangana with six deaths, Jammu and Kashmir five, Odi-sha and Puducherry three each, Assam, Tripura and Kerala two each, while Chandi-garh, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand have reg-istered a fatality each.

Of the total 26,816 deaths reported so far, Maharashtra accounted for the highest 11,596 fa-talities followed by Del-hi with 3,597 deaths, Ta-mil Nadu 2,403, Gujarat 2,122, Karnataka 1,240, Uttar Pradesh 1,108, West Bengal 1,076, Mad-hya Pradesh 706 and

Andhra Pradesh 586.So far, 553 people have

died of COVID-19 in Ra-jasthan, 409 in Telanga-na, 344 in Haryana, 246 in Punjab, 236 in Jam-mu and Kashmir, 208 in Bihar, 86 in Odisha, 53 in Assam, 52 in Uttara-khand, 46 in Jharkhand and 40 in Kerala.

Puducherry has reg-istered 28 deaths, Chhat-tisgarh 24, Goa 21, Chan-digarh 12, Himachal Pradesh 11, Tripura 5, Arunachal Pradesh 3, Meghalaya and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu two each, while Ladakh has reported one fatality. More than 70% of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.

Maharashtra has re-ported the highest num-ber of cases at 3,00,937 followed by Tamil Nadu at 1,65,714, Delhi at 1,21,582. —Agencies

Bengaluru: There was no question of extending the ongoing week-long lockdown here set to end on July 22, newly ap-pointed commissioner of the city civic body N Manjunatha Prasad said on Sunday, amid specula-tions it may be contin-ued for another fortnight in view of rising cases.

“The Chief Minister has made it clear that the lockdown will not be extended for any rea-son, after Tuesday there will not be any lock-down. We will follow the government's or-ders,” he said. —PTI

‘No extension of lockdown in Bengaluru’

New Delhi: At least seven Indian pharma companies are working to develop a vaccine against coronavirus as they join global efforts to find a preventive to check the spread of deadly virus that has already infected more than 14 million globally.

Bharat Biotech, Serum Institute, Zydus Cadila, Panacea Biotec, Indian Immunologicals, Myn-vax and Biological E are among the domestic pharma firms working on vaccines in India. sci-entists are hoping to de-velop a vaccine in months because of the pandemic.

7 Indian pharmas in race to develop vaccine

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that “BJP has institutionalised lies” and stated that the par-ty is fudging data on coronavirus and relat-ed deaths, Gross Do-mestic Product figures and the recent standoff with China.

Taking to Twitter, he-said, “BJP has institu-tionalised lies. 1. Cov-id19 by restricting the testing and misreport-ing deaths. 2. GDP by using a new calculation method. 3. Chinese ag-

gression by frightening the media. The illusion will break soon and In-dia will pay the price.” An article by an inter-national publication was also attached along

with his tweet.On Friday, Gandhi

had targeted the Cen-tre over the India-Chi-na standoff in a few minutes long video stating since 2014 PM Modi’s ‘constant blun-ders and indiscretions’ have fundamentally weakened the country. The Gandhi scion has been attacking Centre over various issues in-cluding COVID-19, Ladakh stand-off, mi-grant labourers and the state of the nation’s economy. —PTI

‘BJP has lied on COVID-19, GDP & Chinese aggression’

Congress bays...He said Shekhawat has no moral authority to continue as a Union minister and should re-sign so that the investi-gation is not influenced.

Maken also alleged that the police in Hary-ana and Delhi are giv-ing protection to the rebel Congress MLAs from Rajasthan.

He said the Centre is threatening in the name of the CBI because it wants to stop the probe into the conspiracy.

The former Union minister also asked why a team of the Ra-jasthan Police was stopped by Haryana Po-

lice to carry out its in-vestigation and take voice samples of MLAs Bhanwarlal Sharma and Vishvendra Singh.

If the BJP has no role in it, then why the MLAs took shelter in the party-ruled Hary-ana, he asked in a ap-parent reference to the 19 Congress MLAs’ stay at a hotel in Gurgaon.

Ajay Maken alleged that the latest reports suggest that Delhi po-lice under HM Amit Shah’s direct control is now providing security cover to Rajasthan dis-sident MLAs in Delhi and is shifting them from one hotel to anoth-

er which is another proof of BJP led central govt’s involvement in the conspiracy. He also mentioned various re-ports of Congress MLAs being taken to BJP ruled states like MP and Karnataka. Maken also criticized the misuse of IT and ED in harassing Congress supporters.

What next?...Notably, future of Rajas-than politics depends on Governor’s stance on the entire episode. If he calls a session of the state Assembly where Gehlot government aims to prove its major-

ity, it will cast serious questions on the future of Pilot camp leaders and specially Pilot.

A dream...for Ram Temple. Gov-ind Giri Maharaj, mem-ber of Sri Ram Janmab-hoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust on Saturday said the Trust had suggest-ed two dates for PM Mo-di’s visit. The sources added that the prayers and other rituals relat-ed to ‘bhoomi poojan’ ceremony of Ram tem-ple will begin at 8 am on August 5. —ANI

CS burns...only after CM Gehlot’s

approval. Moreover, MHA had asked CS on Saturday evening the basis of the phone tap-ping and the authoriz-ing person. It is as-sumed that the report was prepared by the SOG & senior police of-ficers and the CS has given it a final shape af-ter discussions with the ACS (Home) and other senior officers.

The report, as per sources, mentions the ‘basis and reasons’ of the phone tapping along with the person, who authorized the record-ing after considering the available evidence. Sources say that the re-

port also mentions the reasons for suspecting sedition against the state. Once the report is finalised it will be to the state home department, which will furnish the report to CS who will then forward it to MHA.

Never demanded...He added, when the time is right and we have to do something, then only we will dis-cuss and move in that direction.

Hitting back at the Congress on alleged phone tapping, he add-ed, “The state govern-ment has right to tap phone but only after

bringing it into the knowledge of and ap-proval from the home department. No pri-vate person is author-ised to do it. Some Lokesh Sharma, who is said to be OSD to the Chief Minister, had done it. He is not au-thorised, he violated the law.”

PM Modi...The Twitter handle of the Prime Minister’s Office has 3.7 crore fol-lowers. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, has over 1.5 crore followers. Gan-dhi follows 267 accounts on Twitter, according to his handle. —ANI

India likely...Meanwhile, top com-manders will meet this week for the two-days commanders’ confer-ence starting from July 22 where they will de-liberate on a range of security issues. One of the main agenda during the conference headed by Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria and at-tended by all seven of his command-ers-in-chief would be about the situation on the borders with China and the forward deploy-ments done by the force in the Eastern Ladakh and northern borders, sources said. —ANI

FROM PG 1

Record 38,902 new cases in 24 hours 543 deaths linked to the highly contagious illness were reported on Sunday, taking the COVID-19 toll to 26,816, said Health Ministry

A medic collects a sample from a child for COVID-19 test in New Delhi.

India’s case fatality rate ‘progressively falling’, lowest in world: GovtNew Delhi: India’s Covid-19 case fatality rate is ‘progressively falling’ and is current-ly at 2.49%, which is one of the lowest in the world, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday, crediting ef-ficient clinical man-agement of hospital-ised cases for it.

There are 29 states & UTs with a case fatality rate (CFR) lower than India’s average, with five of them having a CFR of zero and 14 hav-ing fatality rate of less than 1%.

The focused efforts of the Centre and state and UT governments on

efficient clinical man-agement of hospital-ised cases have ensured that India’s case fatality rate has fallen below 2.5 per cent, the ministry said.

With effective con-tainment strategy, ag-gressive testing and standardized clinical management protocols based on holistic stand-ard of care approach, the CFR has significant-ly dipped, it said.

“The CFR is progres-sively falling and cur-rently, it is 2.49 per cent. India has one of the lowest fatality rates in the world,” the minis-try said. —PTI

Bhubaneswar: A study conducted jointly by re-searchers at IIT-Bhu-baneswar and the AIIMS here has shown that the spread of COV-ID-19 may pick up pace during peak monsoon and winter with a fall in the mercury.

The rainfall, de-crease in temperatures and cooling of the at-mosphere coupled with progression towards winter may environ-mentally favour the spread of COVID-19 in the country, according to the study led by V Vi-noj, Assistant Profes-sor of the School of Earth, Ocean and Cli-matic Sciences at IIT-Bhubaneswar.

The report titled “COVID-19 spread in In-dia and its dependence

on temperature and relative humidity” took into account the pat-tern of the coronavirus outbreak and the num-ber of such cases in 28 states between April and June.

The study revealed

that rise in tempera-tures leads to a decline in transmission of the virus, Vinoj said. The study, which is in its pre-print stage, shows that temperature and relative humidity have a significant impact on

the disease. “It suggests that a one-degree-Celsi-us rise in temperature leads to a 0.99% de-crease in cases & in-creases doubling time by 1.13 days, implying a slowdown of the virus spread,” he said. —PTI

Corona spread may spike during monsoon, winter: IIT-AIIMS study

A worker paints graffiti on a wall during the lockdown imposed by the state government due to surge in COVID-19 cases in Prayagraj.

‘FOLLOW HEALTH NORMS TO CONTAIN SPREAD’

I n the wake of the rising cases of coronavirus in the state, West Ben-

gal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar urged people to abide by social distancing norms & take all precautionary measures to contain its spread. “PAN-DEMIC Covid-19 challenge is on rise. As figures of Covid-19 +ve and Deaths @MamataOfficial rise I appeal CALM and URGE to give 100% in observing:- *SOCIAL DISTANCING *WEARING MASK

*REGULAR HAND WASH ...TIME TO HAND HOLD NEEDY. No scope for complacency at any level,” he tweeted.

He also tagged CM Mamata Banerjee in the tweet. According to the Health Min-istry, West Bengal so far has recorded as many as 40,209 cases of coronavirus. Out of the total,15,594 are active cases, 23,539 have been migrated/cured/discharged.

Around 1,076 have died in the state after contracting the infection.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday had a telephonic conversation with the chief ministers of Bihar, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh and Uttara-khand to discuss the COVID-19 situa-tion in the respec-tive states.

With the highest single-day spike of 38,902 cases report-ed in the last 24 hours, India’s COV-ID-19 tally on Sun-day reached 10,77,618, informed Health Ministry on Sunday. The Health Ministry said the total number of cases includes 3,73,379 active cases and 6,77,423 pa-tients have been cured/discharged/migrated. —ANI

PM speaks to CMs of seven states

NEWSJAIPUR | MONDAY, JULY 20, 2020


GUDHA’S DILEMMA, RESOLVED?

The current political scenario in Rajasthan is a melting point of

various speculations and rumours. And much like anywhere else, when there is no clarity on which way the ‘winds’ are blowing and a lot is at stake, there is bound to be confusion. It appears that if not all, but at least one MLA from the desert state has been in state of confusion. Udaipurwati MLA

Rajendra Gudha recently found himself being stretched between state and Centre. Well, word is that recently, the former BSP

MLA who switched party and jumped into Congress at insistence of CM Ashok Gehlot, was much discussed in Delhi political circles. Although Gudha is known to be a staunch Gehlot camp member, but he was discussed before an extremely powerful

BJP leader in New Delhi. This ‘discussion’ was initiated by a

Union Minister from Rajasthan who claimed that when the time comes, Gudha’s ‘allegiance’ will shift towards Pilot camp. While all this was going on for a few days, Gehlot’s sources caught wind of the ‘Delhi discussion’ and its ‘connection’ with Gudha and without losing time, Gudha held a press conference and reiterated his loyalty and allegiance with the three time Chief Minister - Ashok Gehlot. —Yogesh Sharma

TOGETHER IN CRISIS, AND MINISTERSHIP?

While there are ample indications that in all

probability BJP will not go for cabinet reshuffle before Bihar elections, but it appears that ‘something’ has given Hanuman Beniwal and Kirori Lal Meena a reason to cheer! Well, both the camps are highly elated these days and a political observer has commented that “the duo

should thank Sachin Pilot for their elation!” Surprised at the comment? Well, truth be told, the entire political situation in Rajasthan brought about by Pilot’s stance has brought to the fore the importance and usability of Beniwal and Meena in front of the BJP high command in New Delhi. And thus, the duo are waiting for an invitation from the Rashtrapati Bhawan in the near future. As such the duo have had close links in the past

when they both stood against Raje government and were often seen together. —Aishwary Pradhan

Jaipur: Rajasthan cabi-net minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas on Sunday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for allegedly poaching MLAs and making attempts to top-ple Ashok Gehlot gov-ernment and ques-tioned as to why Sachin Pilot has made a differ-ent camp.

"What BJP has done in Madhya Pradesh eve-ryone knows. They are still doing horse-trading there. They have been doing the same in Ra-jasthan and are lying about it. Our Chief Min-ister has announced that he will step down if the audio tapes are proven fake. In fact, Gu-lab Chand Kataria has also said that he will re-sign if proven wrong. No one can trust Ka-taria now. Before the investigation, he has declared the audio clips fake," he said.

"If Sachin Pilot had a problem, he should have first discussed with the party mem-bers. To put his side for-ward, he made a differ-ent camp. This is not right," he added.

The Transport Minis-ter also said that those who cheat their party can never do good for their voters. Khachari-ywas said that on the symbol, in the name of the party, on its ideolo-gy, we contested, today it becomes our respon-sibility not to cheat with that party and the symbol. —ANI

Bharat Dixit

Jaipur: The Rajasthan Police SOG has been trailing rebel Congress MLAs and word is that a team reached Gajendra Singh Shekhawat’s home in Delhi at around 1 am on intervening night of Saturday-Sunday, appar-ently to get his voice sam-ple. Sources close to cen-tral minister have termed the ‘exercise’ as derogatory terming that ‘approaching a union minister without prior information is question-able’. It is said that due to the presence of patint of-ficials, a direct confron-tation between Delhi po-lice and Rajasthan police was averted and now the power centres are mull-ing over SOG’s ‘late night move’.

The SOG was again at

loggerheads with Hary-ana Police at Manesar on Sunday when the SOG sleuths, who are camped in Delhi, reached the Western Country Inn Hotel, in search of MLA Bhanwarlal Sharma as they learnt of his loca-tion. A team of Haryana Police did not let the ho-tel guards open the main gate for their counter-parts from Rajasthan. It was after much commo-tion that SP Vikas Shar-ma, heading the SOG team, called up the hotel

GM who met the SP on the gate and after a con-versation between SP and GM for about 10 min-utes, the team left from the spot.

Meanwhile, on the other hand, notices have been pasted at Sharma’s residences at Jaipur and Churu. Moreover, SOG claimed to have received important information from Sanjay Jain, based on which it has intensi-fied its investigation and verification of in-formation.

New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) na-tional spokesperson Su-dhindra Bhadoria has slammed Ashok Gehlot government for alleged phone tapping and said that such surveillance is anti-democratic and anti-constitution.

Bhadoria said, “I think the issue of phone tapping is a very serious. It is against spirit of con-stitution and democratic norms. It encroaches into the life of the indi-viduals and therefore do-ing this kind of practice is against the democrat-ic norms and constitu-tion. All those who were involved in phone tap-

ping need to be probed. And the issue should be taken seriously.”

“As far as Gehlot gov-ernment is concerned, they have been in prac-tice of breaking MLAs from different parties. The BSP MLAs in past also have been taken away by the Congress,” Bhadoria said. —ANI

New Delhi: During the coronavirus crisis at a time when people are facing problems, the Congress party is busy trying to save its govern-ment in Rajasthan, which will eventually fall, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Kailash Choudhary said.

“People are suffering and MLAs are enjoying in hotels. This govern-ment will fall eventually. Citizens heaped hopes of good governance on this government, but they failed. They did not help people and they are busy saving the govern-ment,” he said. —ANI

Khachariyawas quizzes Pilot for making different camp

Raj SOG revisits Manesar, returns empty handed

‘Phone-tapping is anti-democratic’

‘Rajasthan govt will fall eventually’

Also slams BJP for allegedly poaching MLAs & making attempts to topple govt

Bhopal: Blaming the BJP for the political drama in Rajasthan, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday asked Sachin Pilot not to leave the grand old party.

In an interview, the former MP CM said Pi-lot should not follow Jyotiraditya Scindia into the BJP, as he has bright future in Con-gress. His remarks fol-low Pilot's open rebel-lion against the Ashok Gehlot government, which has been on shaky ground with at least 18 legislators back-ing the rebel leader.

Pilot was sacked as Rajasthan deputy chief minister and the state Congress chief recently and the Con-

gress has accused the BJP of making efforts to topple the Gehlot-led government by indulg-ing in horse-trading.

"The BJP is behind the crisis in Rajasthan," Singh said. The Con-gress veteran said he tried to call Pilot but his calls and text messages went unanswered.

"Age is on your side. Ashok (Gehlot) may have offended you, but all such issues are best

resolved amicably. Dont make the mistake that Scindia made. BJP is unreliable. Nobody who joined it from any other party has succeeded there," Singh said.

He said this is the first time that Pilot hasn't responded to him. "Sachin is like my son. He respects me and I also like him. I called him three-four times and also texted him. He didn't revert. He used to respond immediately earlier," he said. "It is good to be ambitious. How can one move for-ward without having ambitions, but along with ambition, one must also have commit-ment to organisation, ideology and the na-tion," Singh said. —PTI

New Delhi: Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Sun-day said that the BJP has de-manded a Central Bu-reau of In-vestigation (CBI) in-quiry into the matter of phone tap-ping in connection with the Rajasthan political crisis to “give clean chit” and “thwart truth”.

“Serious allegations of horse trading &top-pling re various #Raj MLAs incl Central Min-ister. Police inquiry, FIR & Crl process on. To avoid completion of Crl process, #BJP conveni-ently demands #CBI. #MHA immly steps in. Wl hand over 2CBI to give clean chit & thwart truth!”, Singhvi tweet-ed. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sought a report from the Chief Secre-tary of Rajasthan over the phone-tapping issue in the state, sources in-formed on Saturday.

Earlier on Saturday, BJP had demanded a CBI probe into the mat-ter of phone tapping in connection with the Ra-jasthan political crisis and raised several ques-tions over whether the Congress indulged in phone tapping. —ANI

‘CBI inquiry will give clean chit’

‘Pilot shouldn’t go Scindia way, he has future in Cong’

First India Bureau

Jaipur: They say, truth is stranger than fiction. Top

BJP leaders from Rajasthan – Satish Poonia

and Rajendra Rathore – are no strangers to the say-

ing primarily be-cause they tried to

engage a ploy to ‘save’ their at-tendance be-fore the ‘Delhi Dur-bar’ on Sat-

urday, from the media and political circles of Rajasthan.

Amid the entire po-litical gaffe in the state, with the rebel Congress MLAs being ‘housed’ in Manesar and Guru-gram hotels, Poonia and Rathore tried to leave secretly for the national capital on Saturday and paint an ‘eye-wash’ that they were holding fort in Jaipur itself. But as the media got whiff of their travel de-tails, news were flashed

across the panels.But why did it take

them so long for refut-ing these comments. Highly placed sources reveal that the duo had traveled by a white Mercedes Benz car to Delhi, and Rathore was spotted crossing Gurugram around 5 pm. The duo had dashed to Delhi to attend a ‘high level’ meeting. But their hopes of hearing some-thing good or motiva-tional about themselves from the Delhi based

leaders were rup-tured when a good ‘mouthful’ was hand-ed to them. The duo were first shown dis-appointment that they could not keep their travel details a secret, when secrecy was the need of the hour. Moreover, they were then informed of their poor perfor-mance on political front. Interestingly during this time, two MPs from Rajasthan Kirori Lal Meena and Hanuman Beniwal

and most probably Union Minister Ga-jendra Singh Shekha-wat were also pre-sent, in presence of whom, a Rajasthan-cen-tric meeting was con-vened.

Meanwhile, early in the morning, the duo returned and tried to deny travelling to Del-hi, even on camera to almost all the news channels. However, by Sunday, Satish Poonia accepted that he had travelled to Delhi, but claimed that it was

not for party work but for personal rea-sons and not to meet Congress rebels. Rathore, on the other hand, still remains confused to accept the ‘hard truth’ like a gentleman Poonia, who sub-sequently earned Kudos from the local media on his off late plain speak.

TRAVEL ‘TRAVAILS’ HIT POONIA, RATHORE!

Satish Poonia Rajendra Rathore

Digvijaya Singh

Rajendra Gudha

Hanuman Beniwal and Kirori Lal Meena

Sudhindra Bhadoria

Pratap Singh Khachariyawas

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take one step at a time. You won’t take any tension today and people around you will be surprise by the change. Some of you may spend a lot of time wooing your partner today.

LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22

Premarital bonding is one thing but things get very real once you are married as there are not only

shared responsibilities but also a sudden demand of standing on your own feet and getting independent. You like to help poor and you always do whatever best you can do.

ARIESMAR 21 - APR 20

Undying spirit and hard work will surely make your dreams come true. Its just a matter of time when you

get in your life for which you have worked so hard forever. Its high time you understand the importance of caring for family and create an environment for love.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22

Hallowed traditions are your utmost priority and you respect them with all sincerity. Its ok to make

mistake as long as we are learning from them. You cannot be fooled by anybody unless you are willing to get fooled. Sometime in love you make mistakes, so choose your love wisely.

GEMINIMAY 21 - JUNE 21

Ceaselessly you work hard and give your best in your work. Nothing has come easy to you, you have

struggled and moved mountains to be where you are today. You deserve all the love that people shower on you. You can expect someone calling you for a favour today.

AQUARIUSJAN 21 - FEB 19

Pecuniary benefi ts are indicated as per your star movements. With control on your tongue, you can do a

lot better than you believe you can. Jealous people are always jealous and you can do nothing about it so stop bothering and start living. You are free to choose whatever you want to do.

TAURUSAPR 21 - MAY 20

Meritorious performance on academic front will take your life to the next level. There is always a new diet

plan in the market, kindly refrain from any fancy ad and try to live a healthy life. People look upto you when they see how far you have made in life. You are an artist.

CAPRICORNDEC 23 - JAN 20

Futurity is controlled by no one nor anyone can predict but surely you can guess the outcomes based on

your currents deeds. A timely action has to be taken to correct the behavioural issues of your child. You really love your spouse and he/she is very lucky to have you.

VIRGOAUG 24 - SEP 23

Its gratifying for you to see your children all grow up and each one of them doing well in life.

Sometimes we misunderstand someone just because we are not ready to listen, develop a habit of listening to other. Practice content-ment in life and things will get better.

CANCERJUNE 22 - JULY 23

Merchantable items must be put up for sale on business front. On job front, if there is any money

being withhold in offi ce then you must know its cause to be very temporary and the situation may seem tough but the very next moment every thing will be fi ne.

PISCESFEB20 - MARCH 20

Hounding someone unnecessarily with diffi cult question isn’t a good thing to do so avoid doing that.

You sometimes make resolution but you fail to follow but that doesn’t mean you are a looser, we fall we get up and if we fall again so we try to get up again simple.

SCORPIOOCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

Harmony, happiness and hospitality are the three H’s you practice in life. You are a wonderful person and

don’t let anyone tell you anything otherwise. You parents will sanction you a budget to sponsor your dream and make sure to live upto their expectation by working hard.

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Saurabbh Sachdeva

f you’ve ever visited or lived in Mumbai, chances are you’ve found yourself seat-ed on an old, import-ed wooden chair — sometimes intact,

other times held together by tape and glue — with 100 rupees in your dwindling pocket while dipping an of-fering of bun maska in a steaming glass of Irani chai. The experience is as old as the memory itself, with Irani cafes peddling nostalgia for generations, even as the world outside and the people within its walls continue to change.

Such is one Irani cafe run by Diana (Manisha Koirala) and her 19-year-old son Rumi (Prit Kama-ni) in the Netflix movie Maska. Three generations of the family have baked buns and churned butter in its kitchen and Diana is gearing towards a hando-ver to the next, harboring a dream of restoring Rus-tom Cafe (Since 1920, a humble board outside re-minds us) to its former glory. But aspiring actor Rumi has other plans.

Armed with a degree in acting and a fevered deter-mination to forge his own identity, Rumi is itching to be rid of his late father’s legacy. ‘Main aapka jeeta jaagta museum hoon (I am a living museum of you,)’ he says to the friendly ghost of Rustom (Javed Jaffrey) who once pro-claimed his son would “be-come a world-famous mas-ka walo.’ To prove his dedi-cation, Rumi even moves to Andheri to live on rent with fellow actor and girl-friend Mallika Chopra (Ni-kita Dutta) — which you know for a Colaba boy is indicative of some major commitment to the craft — while his mother, like eve-ry disapproving parent, declares, ‘Agar tereko film line mein lukkha banne ka hai (If you want to be a loafer in the film line), I will not give you a single penny.’ Inciting both anxi-ety and intrigue, Rumi puts everything on the line even as an old friend and blogger Persis Mistry (Shirley Setia) sets out to document the city’s few re-maining Irani cafes.

What writer-director Neeraj Udhwani does par-ticularly well in Maska is pace the film’s drama. Set to a neutral tow, the movie indulges in all the stereo-typical idiosyncrasies — think hand-me-down reci-pes, a Bihari Romeo & Ju-

liet remake, a neighbor-hood pageant and more — that are part and parcel of a story hinging on a moth-er, lover and friend’s ap-proval but does so with nu-anced earnestness and humorous ease. Udhwani also nails the highs and lows of Rumi’s journey, painting a picture of a boy stuck between dream and legacy, that in its many splatters and splodges nev-er fails to evoke laughter and even empathy. Pulled in different directions by the relationships that mean most to him, Rumi eventfully discovers throughout the two-hour

film that some connections can be passed on from gen-eration to generation and when particularly lucky, even shared.

An ikigai reference or two might make you cringe but Ishita Moitra’s dia-logue packs a punch, par-ticularly entertaining and enlightening whenever Diana and Rustom occupy the screen and Udhwani’s writing while simplistic is laced with a sincerity that makes even Rumi practic-ing an awards speech in front of a mirror the far-thest scene from cheesy. Rumi’s drive and naivete seldom come across as con-

trived and Kamani wears the character’s heart on his sleeve in this portrayal.

All is not breezy with Maska and the story suf-fers in how it poses its fe-male characters as plot devices. Diana is the ob-struction to Rumi’s dream, Chopra is the partner in ‘crime’ and Mistry is the voice that makes Rumi question his path. This nags as the actors leave a mark in all their scenes. Diana grows on you — even the at first unnerving accent — and Koirala brings an endearing rage and passion to a character who doesn’t want to lose what she loves. Dutta is as much of an acting fire-brand as she was in Gold (2018), infusing performer on the rise Chopra with quiet confidence and vocal resilience and Setia brings an innocent intelligence to her portrayal of a woman in the inquiry of history. Their characterization feels especially stunted as their agency, ambition, and accounts while pre-sented are never fully real-ized, and these arcs frus-tratingly play second fid-dle to Rumi’s aspiration in Maska.

In Maska, Persis says, ‘Mumbai is a story,’ and the film pays homage to the few Irani establish-ments still raising their shutters every morning — Jimmy Boy, B. Merwan, Kyani & Co., Britannia & Co., Koolar & Co. (if you haven’t been, you know what to do post lockdown) — through nostalgic city-scape glimpses and a mon-tage of what these cafes mean to visitors (these sto-ries — of the steward from Unnao, the couple who met in the cafe, the railway em-ployee who escapes the noisy tracks for the Irani eatery’s quiet — are the stories within the story and I wonder if they could be an anthology of their own. Hello, Modern Love: Irani Cafe edition!) While the intent seems earnest, Maska only toes the drawn line, glossing over the his-tory of the Irani commu-nity in India as well as the intergenerational nuances that inform their cultural footprint, reducing Diana and Rumi’s socio-econom-ic motivations and con-straints to merely legacy and it feels like a lost op-portunity in a storyline budding with potential for complexity.

In the end, Maska still has a lot of heart.

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Months after making headlines for their mar-riage being on the rocks, Justin Timber-

lake and Jessica Biel have wel-comed their second child after a top-secret pregnancy. According to reports, the couple, who are al-ready parents to five-year-old son Silas, have become parents for the second time after Jessica gave birth to a boy earlier this week. The report further revealed that Biel’s mother Kimberly Conroe Biel, 65, was with her daughter and her grand-child when he was born. While Justin and Jessica are yet to comment and make it official, the cou-ple was last seen in public in March. As per re-ports, Justin and Jessi-ca spent their lock-down in US’ Montana state and are cur-rently holed up there with son Si-las and Kimberly Conroe. The couple tied the knot back in 2012 after having first met in 2007. While their son is already five, the par-ents are fiercely pro-tective about reveal-ing his identity. —Agency

Priyanka Chopra Jonas ringed in her 38th birth-day amid the coronavirus pandemic but looks like

husband Nick Jonas made sure to make it an extremely special one. Taking to Instagram, Nick gave a glimpse of the birthday celebration as he shared a loved-up photo with PeeCee and had all their fans swooning over it. In the picture, Priyanka can be seen sitting on Nick Jonas’ lap as he adorably looks at her.

Dressed in a stunning soft yel-low outfit and sporting a dark lip, Priyanka’s chunky earrings are unimissable. As for Nick, the floral shirt gives the perfect relaxed yet celebratory vibes. Wishing Priyanka, Nick wrote how grateful he was to have met a ‘thoughtful’ person like her.

The birthday message read, “I could stare into your eyes for-ever. I love you baby. You are the most thoughtful, caring and wonderful person I have ever met. I am so grateful we

found one another. Happy birthday beautiful.”

—Agency

SCREEN SHARINGndian film industry’s two biggest actors, Prab-has and Deepika Padu-kone will be sharing the screen space for the first time in Nag Ashwin’s up-coming untitled film,

Prabhas 21. The film has been the talk of the town for a very long time and finally, the makers of Prabhas star-rer have made a huge an-nouncement. From Alia Bhatt to Keerthy Suresh, a lot of names were speculated to play the female lead opposite Prabhas. Eventually, Deepika Padukone grabbed this big deal, and well, fans can’t wait to see them together on the big screen. The makers of Prabhas starrer uniquely made this announcement through YouTube Live. A sneak peek was shared ahead of the big surprise.

The official twitter handle

of Vyjayanthi Movies wrote, “Deepika Padukone, wel-come on board! Thrilled to have you be a part of this in-credible adventure.” Fans can’t keep calm and are show-

ering the actress with con-gratulatory messages on Twitter. There was also a huge buzz that Deepika agreed to be a part of the film but has also demanded a huge remuneration. Meanwhile ,

the Mahanati director has already kick-started the pre-production works and the shooting will go on floors in April next year.

—Agency

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The newly released song, ‘Khulke Jeene Ka’ from the movie ‘Dil Bechara’ star-ring late actor Sushant Singh Rajput and co-star Sanjana Sanghi, is all

about the joy of living the life.The mood uplifting song, which was re-

leased on Sunday, is from the legendary com-poser AR Rahman and is sung by Arijit Singh and Shashaa Tirupati. The official music video which is shot in the ‘love capital of the world’ - Paris, sees the actors, who are playing the role of Manny (Sushant Singh Rajput) and Kizie (Sanjana Sanghi), enjoying their time and sharing some adorable moments.

The backdrop of the beautifully shot music video can be understood from Sanghi’s tweet, that she posted earlier today while sharing the link to the official music video on Twitter.

The 23-year-old star tweeted, “You’re final-ly going to be a part of witnessing Manny turning Kizie’s cant’s into cans; and her dreams, into plans.” —ANI

Karisma Kapoor seemed to be in the mood for some major throwback on Sunday as she took to Instagram to share a

photo of her grandfather Raj Kapoor. Revealing a stunning black and white photo from the archives, the picture shows the legendary Raj Kapoor suited up in a fine outfit. Against the backdrop

of ‘Stratford Court’, Raj Kapoor can be seen striking a fun pose for the camera

with a cigarette in his mouth. That’s not all, next to Raj Kapoor is the

beautiful Nargis, as she looks at him and the actors can be seen sharing a laugh. While Raj Kapoor is suited up, Nargis can be seen don-ning a trench coat and flowers pinned to her. The retro look will take you back in time.

Recently, it was reported that Raj Kapoor’s ancestral home in Pakistan was about to be demolished. Known as the Kapoor Haveli, Raj Kapoor was born in Peshawar and fam-ily moved Mumbai after partition. —Agency

BABY CRYING!

BIRTHDAY-POST!

‘KHULKE JEENE KA’

Filmmaker Rajat Mukherjee passed away due to kidney ailments in the early hours of Sunday. He was in his late 50s. Producer Anish Ranjan, a

close friend of Mukher-jee’s, said the director took his last breath in Jaipur, where he had gone to be with his family for Holi but got

stuck when the coro-navirus-induced

nationwide lock-down was announced. Ranjan said

the director had developed breath-ing issues over a month ago and

had gone to get a COVID-19 test done when the doc-

tors realised that his ‘sodium-potassium levels’ were imbal-

anced. —Agency

KIDNEY AILMENTS TOOK A LIFE

ANCESTRAL THROWBACK!

Deepika Padukone

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas

Karisma Kapoor

...her post

...his post

Justin Timberlake andJessica Biel

...her post

Poster of the song

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fter 20 years, Somvati Amavasya (no moon) will fall on 20 July, today, during the month of Sawan. Astrologically, the Moon, Mercury, Jupi-ter, Venus and Saturn

planets will be in their respec-tive zodiac signs. Despite all that we have faced recently, this is a very unique & ben-eficial situation to please Lord Shiva more easily. So, I urge all to make the most of this opportunity to indulge in prayer that is appearing after decades in astrological calculations and chant the following powerful man-tra for enhancing our immunity. The “Mahamritunjaya” mantra: “Om Tryambakam Yajamahe Sungandhim Pustivardhanam Ur-varukamiva Bandhanan Mrityor Muskshiya Maamritat”, this man-tra if chanted with dedication will create a protective shield around your aura which is so needed dur-ing this time.

The night of Amavasya gradu-ally changes into a pleasant bright morning. Similarly, the dark phase or struggles of your life will result in a bright and happy future. This day signifies that after every dark phase comes to the ray of light. And so All the pain and grief one goes through will also come to an end.

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1. Observe Maun (silence) or speak as little as possible on this day.

2. The Peepal tree is revered as a sacred tree. People should tie a sacred thread around the tree’s trunk for 108 times.

3. An offering of little bit milk is good to do on this day at the base of the Peepal tree.

4. Devote maximum time in Japa and meditation. Chant powerful mantra Om Namah Shivaya 1 hour at least.

5. Fasting is recommended for the whole day.

6. It is considered auspicious to donate things on this day. Astrologically any object of white colour or white food such as rice, curd, sugar, milk, etc. can be donated to the poor.

7. Any unfulfilled or outstanding ances-tors prayer can be fulfilled.

8. Start planting any kind of plant on the day.

Things to do today- try as much as you can if your circumstances permit:

Robert Vadra on Sunday morn-ing took to Fa-cebook to share

an image of him work-ing out. Motivating the

viewers to be fit, he wrote, “When you feel low or lost in difficult times... you got to go to your reserve energy, and be harder and

stronger. Push your limits and mind, if you have good health you have everything. Stay safe, stay healthy, stay happy.” —Vaishali

FACEBOOK POST!

The Right Motivation

WHAT’S HAPPENING!

RAJASTHAN: Acoustic Affair released the cover song ‘Ladki Kyu’ on its official YouTube channel, giving a platform to 32 singers from different states of India, which has got a very good response. The special thing about this song is that it is full of young talent. In this song, the city’s young Guitarist Vikram Kamad has also made a mark of his talent and mixed the tone with everyone.

UTTAR PRADESH: Congressmen led by National Secretary, AICC, Vivek Bansal staged a protest at the Congress office Ayodhya Kuti Maris Road, Aligarh on Saturday, to express their anger against the BJP government of Madhya Pradesh by chanting slogans. All the rules of social distancing were followed during the protest. While giving his statement from Jaipur, Vivek Bansal shared that the Guna has proved that the BJP government is treating the Dalits, poor people and farmers with great cruelty.

INTERACTIVE SESSIONCITY FIRST

Everyone’s lives have many twists and turns, no matter at what

stage or stature they are. To dis-cuss the same, Vatsalya Legacy had a LIVE Face-Book Session with people from different stratas and different in-dustries. The founder of Vatsalya Legacy, Nisha Jain Grover was in con-versation with Sharang Rathore (Country Man-

ager- BMW), Kalpesh Jain (MD & CFO- Multi-ples Equity), Dr Rashmi Singh Dickinson (Ex British Bureaucrat) and Shanaya Piramal (Head Girl- Dhirubhai Ambani

International School) to discuss various aspects of life and work on the very relevant topic in today’s times- People, Purpose and Passion.

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CITY FIRST

A 16-year-old Anvita Mahesh-wary along with her team created an app named Swachh India App which en-

sures a basic hygiene check for the user, giving the user time-to-time measures that should be taken in this current pandemic situation. Sanita-tion is one of the most important aspects of one’s life, especially during the current pandemic. Repeatedly reminding yourself about something often becomes a tedious task - hence the app SIA (Swachh India App), will make it eas-ier for you. SIA is equipped to provide its users with essential reminders throughout the day. These are time and location-based notifications that will remind you of wearing a mask,

maintaining social distancing, washing hands, etc. The app also provides complete custom-

ization in its notifications so that your reminders are tailored just for

you. The content features information regarding immunity-boosting meas-ures, preventive measures and simple do’s and don’ts. This app is available in English and Hindi on Android OS.

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SANITATION APP

RAJASTHAN: On behalf of the Rajasthan Progressive Writers Association demanding the immediate release of revolutionary poet Varvara Rao, various poets, writers, journalists and intellectuals demonstrated protest in front of the Pinkcity Press Club on Sunday. Adhering to social distancing, they all held placards in their hands, with slogans demanding release and freedom of expression.

RAJASTHAN: The ongoing ‘Fiesta Online’ workshop, organised by Rajasthan Studios, concluded on Sunday with a masterclass by TV and Bollywood actor Narendra Gupta. During the session, he gave acting tips to emerging artists along with sharing his experiences of the field.

RAJASTHAN: The Rajasthan State Olympic Association elections took place on Sunday, where Janardhan Singh was elected as President, Arun Saraswat bagged the position of Secretary-General, Mahipal Singh was appointed as the President of District Olympic Association from Pali and LN Jalani was elected as the President of District Olympic Association from Jodhpur.

CITY FIRST

Enjoy fresh, homemade and good quality desserts from

Olive & Cocoa, one of the premium gour-met food specialists of Jaipur. They are sure to satisfy your sweet cravings be it night or day. With a combined experi-ence of 50 years in culinary capitals like Paris, Rome, New York, Tel Aviv, and Toronto, their food interpreta-tions are authentic but with a twist.

Owners, Shishir Mehta and Preeti Me-hta say that “At Olive & Cocoa, we believe in serving every-thing super fresh and made to order so you can be assured of its quality. We source the finest ingredi-ents we can get our

hands-on. All our products have no pre-

servatives, sub-stitutes nor do we

use any shortcuts in preparing them.”

Bringing a fun ex-perience, Olive & Co-coa’s menu has something for every-one for all times of the day be it break-fast, weekday lunch, weekend brunch, af-ternoon tea or lots of snacks and they are open for deliveries!

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