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Special study of post Covid health issues will be done: CM

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Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has said that the state govern-ment will conduct a thorough study and analysis of the ill ef-fects on health even af-

ter the corona epidemic patients recover. He asked specialist doctors from all over the state to conduct research by forming special teams to prepare effective pro-tocols to prevent the co-rona virus infection. He

directed the officers of the Health Department to carry out a special campaign for aware-ness of ‘post-Covid’

health problems.Gehlot reviewed the

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Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot during the meeting.

CONG LEADER, EX-UNION MIN BUTA SINGH DIES AT 86New Delhi: Senior Con-gress leader and former Union minister Buta Singh died at Delhi’s AIIMS early on Saturday morning. He was 86 years old. He was in a coma since October last year after he suffered a brain haemorrhage. His demise was announced by his son Arvinder Singh Lovely Sidhu on Facebook. “My father, Buta Singh, passed away today morning. May Waheguru bless his soul,” read the post in Hindi. PM Narendra

Modi led the country in condoling the death of Singh, who was a member of the Akali Dal before joining the Congress in the 1960s. Singh was cremated at Lodhi Road crema-torium later during the day. Related report P7

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Ill-effects like lung infection, brain infection, memory loss, heart disease are a cause of concern, Gehlot said Gehlot expressed happiness that the vaccine dry run in state was a success

NIGHT CURFEW EXTENDED, SCHOOLS-COLLEGES TO REMAIN SHUTRajasthan government on Saturday further increased the night curfew in thirteen districts of the state. According to an order of the Home Department, the curfew will come into effect from 8pm to 6am and will be imposed within the urban limits of the district head quarter towns of 13 districts including Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Bikaner, Udaipur, Ajmer, Alwar, Bhilwara, Nagore, Pali, Tonk, Sikar & Ganganagar. Moreover, the schools and colleges will also remain shut till 15th January. As per the order, all offi ces, shops, restaurants and other commercial establishments will remain shut dur-ing the curfew period. However, factories that require night shifts, chemist shops, emergency services, essential services have been exempted in the order. Marriage-related gathering can also take place with strict adherence to the coronavirus protocol mandated by the government. Passengers coming/going to bus stand, railway station and airport are also al-lowed during the curfew period.

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3 crore on frontline to get free vaccine in 1st phase: Vardhan

Melbourne: Cricket Australia confirmed on Saturday that five India players, Test vice-cap-tain Rohit Sharma in-cluded, were placed in isolation after they committed a possible breach in biosecurity protocols by eating at a Melbourne restaurant

earlier this week.Australia and India

are in the middle of a

four-match Test series with both sides current-ly staying in Melbourne before travelling to Syd-ney for the third Test from January 7.

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As Dada admitted to hosp, Didi pays visit, Shah promises help

Kolkata: The Board of Control for Cricket in In-dia (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly success-fully underwent an an-gioplasty and is in stable condition after being hospitalised after suffer-ing “chest discomfort while doing tread mill at his home gym”.

The hospital said that the former India captain

is conscious and his pulse and blood pressure are good. The hospital confirmed he had suf-fered a minor cardiac is-

sue while exercising on the treadmill and noted that the problem was ad-dressed at the right time.

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Rohit, 4 others put in isolation for eating out

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Rohit Sharma was among the fi ve players at the restaurant.

New Delhi: Free coro-navirus vaccines will be given in the first phase to three crore people who have been on the frontline in the fight against the highly contagious disease, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said today. The government will give priority to 1 crore healthcare workers and 2 crore frontline workers when India be-gins the rollout of Cov-id vaccine.

“In 1st phase of #COVID19Vaccination free #vaccine shall be provided across the na-tion to most prioritised beneficiaries that incl 1 crore healthcare & 2 crore frontline work-ers. Details of how fur-ther 27 cr priority ben-eficiaries are to be vac-cinated until July are being finalised (sic),” Dr Harsh Vardhan tweeted this afternoon.

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CHENNAI LUXURY HOTEL TURNS COVID HOTSPOT, 85 TEST POSITIVEAs many as 85 people, including staff of ITC Grand Chola in Chennai, have tested covid positive in the past fortnight. One staff member tested positive on December 15. A total of 609 samples have been collected so far.

There should be no rumours about the vaccine’s safety...

Everything has been checked in detail. Initially when the polio vaccine was

rolled out, even then rumours had fl oated.

—Harsh Vardhan Health Minister

HOW CAN I TRUST BJP’S VACCINE: AKHILESH, PARTY WANTS APOLOGYLucknow: As India zeroes in on the rollout of its fi rst coronavirus vaccine, a bizarre comment by Akhilesh Yadav - the former UP CM said he

couldn’t “trust the BJP’s vaccine” - provoked a sharp response from Union Minster Anurag Thakur and Deputy CM, Keshav Prasad Maurya. The Samajwadi Party chief also appeared to urge people against

seeking protection from an infectious virus that has killed nearly 1.5 lakh people in India alone, declaring: “We cannot get vaccinated by the BJP’s vaccine”. BJP demanded an apology from him.

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan speaks to media during his visit to the health care centre to review the dry run of the COVID-19 vaccination, in New Delhi on Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI

New Delhi: Covaxin, the coronavirus vaccine de-veloped by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, has been r e c o m -mended for “restricted emergency use” by a g o v e r n -m e n t - a p -pointed panel of experts, which submitted its find-ings to the national regu-lator - the Drugs Control-ler General of India - on Saturday evening.

DGCI will take the fi-nal call on approving rollout. The recommen-dation comes a day after the panel sent another drug - Covidshield, de-veloped by AstraZeneca and Oxford, and manu-factured by Serum Insti-tute - for approval.

Bharat Biotech’s vaccine getspanel’s approval

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Wishing a speedy recovery to BCCI

President and former captain of Indian cricket

team Mr. #SouravGanguly from heart attack. May he

gets well soon.

Health Minister said 10 million healthcare workers and 20 million frontline workers would be given free vaccine in first phase of inoculation drive

Ganguly undergoes

angioplasty in Kolkata, stable

They don’t call it “the most wonderful time of the year” for nothing! “To appreciate the beauty of a snowfl ake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold,” said Aristotle. As the winter is at its peak with more snow casting its spell on mountains leaving a white milky sheet everywhere, tourists continue to arrive in large numbers after fresh snowfall at the North Portal of Atal Tunnel Rohtang, in Rohtang Pass on Saturday. (Inset) A man wraps himself with a woolen blanket during fresh snowfall in Srinagar. —PHOTOS BY ANI

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BJP appoints 9 in-charges for by-polls

Jaipur: Rajasthan, reel ing under a cold wave, received a little respite on Saturday from the biting cold when driz-zle in different parts of the state pushed the temperatures up in Jaipur, Kota, Ajmer, Tonk, Bikaner, Ganga-nagar, Jaisalmer and other districts.

The sporadic rains helped the minimum temperatures jump from one degree to 9 de-grees Celsius. The high-est rainfall was record-ed in Tonk which was 3.1 mm, while the sec-ond highest rainfall was recorded in Churu which was 2.2 mm.

Besides these dis-tricts, rainfall was also recorded in Jaipur, Pi-lani, Sikar, Kota, and

other places.IMD has further is-

sued an Orange Alert for east and west Ra-jasthan for January 3 and 4. Several areas of Kota, Jaipur, Bharatpur

and Udaipur divisions have received warnings of hailstorm along with rain. On the other hand, in Ganganagar, Hanu-mangarh, Churu in Bi-kaner division of west-

ern Rajasthan, there have been warnings of rain and hail with thun-derstorms.

The minimum tem-perature on Saturday although shot up a few

degrees, but the chilly winds continued to give shivers to the people.

The MeT department on Saturday warned of thunderstorms with light to moderate rain at isolated places in Jaipur, Dausa, Karauli, Dholpur, Bharatpur, Bundi, Baran, Sawai Madhopur districts and adjoining areas.

Thunderstorm, rains and hailstorm warning has been issued from January 2 to 4. Although there is no warning for January 5, but January 6 will also be a cold day with MeT officials warn-ing of thunderstorm and hailstorm in Alwar, Bharatpur, Sikar, Jhunj-hunu, Bikaner, Churu, Hanumangarh and Gan-ganagar. — Agencies

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The BJP on Saturday finally ap-pointed nine leaders as the election in-charges for the by-elections in Sujangarh, Sahada and Rajsamand.

The party has ap-pointed Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, Kisan Morcha Presi-dent Hariram Ranwan and Phulera MLA Nir-mal Kumawat as in-

charges for Sujangarh. In Sahada, MP CP Joshi, MLA Jogeshwar Garg and Kanhaiya Lal Chaudhary have been given the responsibility while in Rajsamand,

MLAs Madan Dilawar, Vasudev Devnani and Narayan Singh Deol are election in-charges. Apart from these, eight election management in-charges have also been selected. In Sujan-garh, Om Saraswat, Vi-jendra Poonia and Har-lal Saharan, in Sahada, Shravan Bagdi and Harihar Lal Pareek, in Rajsamand, MLAs Dharam Narayan Joshi, Chunnilal Garasia and

Virender Singh Chau-han have been given the responsibility.

After the death of Congress MLA and Cab-inet Minister Bhanwar Lal Meghwal the Sujan-garh seat fell vacant while with death of Kailash Trivedi the Sa-hada seat, and with death of Kiran Mahesh-wari the Rajsamand seat fell vacant. The elections are likely to be held in April.

IMD has further issued an Orange Alert for east and west Rajasthan for Jan 3 & 4

Devi S Bhati in hosp: CM, others wish speedy recoveryFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Former minis-ter Devi Singh Bhati suffered a heart attack and was admitted to EHCC hospital near Jawahar Circle on Sat-urday. He was admitted to Haldiram Heart Hospital in Bikaner on Friday and he was shifted to EHC hospital on Saturday.

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, energy minister BD Kalla, MLA Deep-endra Singh Shekha-wat, former chief min-ister Vasundhara Raje and other leaders en-quired about the veter-an leader’s health.

BJP district presi-dent Ramkishan Acha-rya said that his condi-tion is improving.

4 med staff put on APO as woman dies after Hysterectomy in Baran

Modi, Gehlot condole Jaisalmer royal’s death

Bird flu alert as H5 avian influenza found in dead birds

First India Bureau

Kota: In an unfortu-nate incident, a woman died on her way to Kota for treatment after her Hysterectomy went wrong at Siswali in Anta area of Baran.

Two doctors and two nursing staff were put on APO for the negli-gence after the family protested outside the hospital while accusing the administration of negligence. Besides the family, the villagers too joined and created a ruckus outside the Siswali Hospital and de-manded compensation and appropriate action against the guilty. The villagers blocked the road as the talks failed.

Meanwhile, in view of the ruckus, heavy po-lice force was deployed

outside the hospital. Moreover, under the leadership of veteran BJP leader Prakhar Kaushal, BJP workers also joined the protest outside the hospital and sat on a dharna with the villagers. Matter was resolved when adminis-tration promised Rs2

lakh from govt and Rs3 lakh from CMHO.

Medical In-charge of CHC, Kanhaiyalal Mee-na, Dr Sukhvir Meena and Nursing Staff Asha Verma were put on APO by the District CMHO Dr Sampat Raj Nagar. They will report in CMHO office Baran.

Suryaveer Singh

Jaisalmer: Prime min-ister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot have ex-pressed condolence on the demise of erstwhile royal of Jaisalmer Brij Raj Singh. Singh died at Gurugram’s Medanta hospital on 28 December.

Bhutto family of Pa-kistan has also ex-pressed grief, via Tweet, over the demise of Sin-gh, who was the 42th Maharawal of the erst-while Jaisalmer riyasat. PM Modi wrote a condo-lence letter to Brij Raj Singh’s son Chetanya Raj Singh, which was shared on social media by Raseswari Rajya Laxmi, Singh’s widow. Expressing grief, PM said that late Brij Raj Singh has made his in-

valuable contribution in saving and further-ing the tradition and culture of Jaisalmer and his affable person-ality influenced every-one. Modi also prayed for the peace of the de-parted soul.

CM also wrote a letter to his son saying he was deeply shocked at the sudden demise of Sin-gh. He also prayed for the departed soul. Ear-lier, former CM Vasund-hara Raje also condoled the death of Singh.

Nirmal Tiwari

Jaipur: The wildlife de-partment has sounded a bird flu alert after hun-dreds of crows, pea-cocks, and other birds died in the last one week. Several cases of avian influenza have come to light in Jhal-war, Kota, Baran, Jodh-pur, and many peacocks died due to reported poi-soning in Nagaur.

According to officials, more than 300 crows have died in the last week. Principal Chief Wildlife Conservator ML Meena has issued orders for high alert in National Parks, Tiger Projects, Sanctuaries, and conservation re-serves in the state. Keep in mind that this season is also of migratory birds and avian influ-enza spreads very fast, there is a risk of infec-tion in humans too.

In Jhalawar, Section 144 and zero mobility was enforced after the cases were reported. In the order issued by Mee-na, it is stated that on the basis of lab in Bho-pal, H5 avian influenza has been found in the samples of dead birds in Jhalawar.

It is dangerous as it spreads fast. Meena has written in his order that special monitoring

should be done in the forest protected areas as well as in wetlands. In fact, thousands of birds died in Sambhar last year.

A virus called avian botulism was then found in the investiga-tion. Bird flu is much more dangerous than it. If its transmission started, then more local birds became a carrier than migratory birds.

Some parts of Jaipur witnessed light rains on Saturday.

Villagers protest outside the hospital in Anta.

Wildlife dept has sounded a bird fl u alert after hundreds of crows and other birds were found dead in state.

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Cabinet panel talks about public hearingFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: A Cabinet sub-committee headed En-ergy Minister Dr BD Kalla on Saturday held a meeting to discuss measures for strength-ening public hearing (jansunwai) system in the state.

Detailed discussions were held on how the public hearing mecha-nism can be further strengthen at district,

block and cluster levels.Members of the com-

mittee—Minority Af-fairs Minister Saleh

Mohammad, Education Minister Govind S Do-tasra, women and child development minister

Mamta Bhupesh and technical education minister Subhash Garg —were present in the meeting during which involvement of govern-ment machinery, public representatives and fix-ing responsibilities were discussed.

Mohammad attended the meeting through video conference.

The officers of vari-ous departments were also present.

Subhash Garg, BD Kalla, Govind Singh Dotasra, Mamta Bhupesh during the Cabinet sub-committee meeting on Saturday.

Aditi Nagar

Jaipur: Rajya Sabha MP and senior BJP lead-er Om Mathur’s Birth-day on Saturday saw many leaders wishing him all through the day. However, Mathur did not celebrate his special day due to COVID 19.

All-day long, Ma-thur’s phone kept ring-ing with birthday wish-es pouring in from across the country. The list of well-wishers in-cluded PM Narendra

Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP’s Na-tional President JP Na-dda, Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekha-wat and MLAs from Ra-jasthan. Due to Ma-thur’s affable nature he has friends not only in Rajasthan but even in Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and other states, who all wished him on his special day.

Around 400-500 work-ers went to wish Om Mathur at his Delhi

residence. While most wished him on the phone, Arjun Meghwal, RSS pracharak Pradyu-man Singh and MLA

Sanjay Sharma, Dhar-manarayan Joshi, Ram-het Yadav, Vijay Viplvi, Prem Singh Vanwasa, Sandeep Dayma and

others met Mathur and greeted him.

Born on 2 January 1952 in Bedal village of Falna in Pali Mathur became an RSS pracha-rak in 1971.

He was in-charge of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, and has been Organizational General Secretary of BJP Rajasthan for a long time. He is also a close friend and politi-cal advisor of PM Modi.

Modi, Shah among others greet Om Mathur! HAPPY BIRTHDAY Faith of people of West Bengal

increasing in BJP: ShekhawatFirst India Bureau

Kolkata: Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajen-dra Singh Shekhawat launched door-to-door contact campaign on Sat-urday in Barasat and Howrah Assembly con-stituencies of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal. During this, Shekhawat said that the faith of the peo-ple of Bengal is increas-ing in the BJP, it is clear and this is troubling Mamata Banerjee.

The Union Minister is constantly engaged in the West Bengal elec-tion campaigning and on Saturday, about 200 workers and officials of TMC joined BJP un-

der his supervision. Thousands of people were present at How-rah Station of Howrah constituency over chai pe charcha event with Shekhawat.

Gajendra S Shekhawat during door-to-door contact campaign in West Bengal on Saturday.

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424 covered under anti-Covid vax dry runs in RajHealth Secy Siddharth Mahajan, SMS Med College Principal Dr Sudhir Bhandari kept a close watch on exerciseFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: The Health De-partment on Saturday conducted dry runs for anti-Covid vaccination on a total 424 beneficiar-ies at 19 centres of sev-en districts, an official said.

Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma said that a dry run was start-ed with complete cau-tion. Later, dry run will be conducted in the en-tire state in the phased manner.

During the dry runs, the support staff for the inoculation were given training and the state now is ready for the vac-cination after receiving the vaccine, he said. Health Secy Siddharth Mahajan said Ra-jasthan is fully pre-pared now for the first phase of vaccination. Mahajan and SMS Med-

ical College Principal Dr Sudhir Bhandari kept a close watch on the dry run. Ajmer CMHO Dr K K Soni said in the first phase, vac-cine dose will be given to frontline health workers and about 20,000 health workers in Ajmer will be vaccinat-ed. In Jaipur, the dry

run was held at JK Lon Hospital along with Bani Park Satellite Hos-pital, Achrol Primary Health Centre and Ma-nipal Hospital.

Dry run was also con-ducted at two centres each at Bikaner, Jodh-pur, Bharatpur, Karau-li, Ajmer, and four cen-tres in Banswara.

Health workers during the dry run at Bani Park Satellite Hospital in Jaipur on Saturday. —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR

Health Secy Siddharth Mahajan along with medical task force reviews dry-run drive for Covid vaccine at Manipal Hospital in Jaipur on Saturday. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA

Guv stresses on effective execution of vax campaignFirst India Bureau

Jaipur : District Collec-tor Antar Singh Nehra met Governor Kalraj Mishra at Raj Bhavan on Saturday. The Gover-nor directed to carry out the actual vaccina-

tion campaign on the basis of dry run to pro-tect against corona and to follow proper proce-dures by district admin-istration. Nehra said that through this it would be tested how ef-fective is the vax plan.

JDA sends inspection report of 139 cases to state for considerationAbhishek Srivastava

Jaipur: Jaipur Devel-opment Authority (JDA) has forwarded inspection reports of 139 lands, which have been allotted to vari-ous organisations on concessional rates, to the state government.The JDA officers have also found irregulari-ties and violation of allotment rules in some of the cases.

On direction by the Urban Development and Housing (UDH)minister Shanti Dhari-wal, the UDH depart-ment had asked the authorities and Urban Improvement Trusts in the state to conduct inspection of lands al-lotted to organisations

and submit reports. JDA prepared reports in 139 cases and for-warded to the state government for con-sideration.

In some of the cases, misuse of land was found whereas there was no construction on the land in few oth-er cases.

Some of the lands were allotted on a to-ken money of Rs. 1 while the allotment rate in other cases was 30 percent of reserved price.

The JDA officials found violation of al-lotment rules in a few cases, this includes the use of the land for a

purpose other than the purpose for which the land was allotted.

Violation of allot-ment was found by: Shree Amar Jain Med-ical relief society, Anant shree Sukhram-ji Trust-Jodhpur, In-drawati Devi Bagrodi-ya Seva Kosh, Ra-jasthan Shala Yoga Samiti, Lala Chaman-lal Education society, Lal Bahadur Memori-al Foundation, S S Jain Subodh Shiksha Sami-ti and Research Devel-opment Association, M N Tandon Memorial Trust, CUTS society, Rajasthan state Flying School, Manipal Uni-versal Learning pvt ltd, Babaj ki Kui Bal-ram Ashram Trust and Vikrant Dondiyal.

Women held hostage, raped in three separate cases in RajasthanFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Several cases of rape and crimes against women were re-ported on second day of the New Year.

An 18-year-old Dalit girl from UP was alleg-edly kidnapped from

Holi Tiba area of Neem-rana town by two men in a car. They took her to a room in a Gurugram and raped after giving seda-tives.

The main accused, a UP resident, runs a can-teen in Neemrana indus-trial area. On the com-

plaint by the victim’s father, the police lodged a case of rape, kidnap-ping, and under the SC/ST Act. In Jodhpur, a girl working at a saloon has alleged that one of his colleagues gave her sed-atives, married forcibly in her unconscious

state, and raped her. She went Jodhpur from Bea-war and lodged the case. In Bikaner, there is a re-port of a married wom-an being held hostage and raped at Panchu area. The police arrest-ed two accused in the case.

One charred to death, one injured after power line falls on them in ChittorgarhP K Agarwal

Chittorgarh: Days af-ter a live electricity wire broke and fell on a teacher leaving her dead in Banswara, a similar incident oc-curred in Chittorgarh on Friday when a high tension line fell on two men travelling on a motorcycle in which one person died on the spot, police said on Saturday. Shivlal Saini was electrocuted and died on the spot while Ram Singh was admit-ted to a hospital in

Kota.After the inci-dent, locals started a demonstration against the electricity depart-ment. DSP, Tehsildar and other officials as-sured them action against those respon-

sible for incident, com-pensation of Rs. 5 lakh from electricity de-partment, Rs. 2 lakh from CM’s relief fund to family of deceased following which dhar-na was called off.

Man died on spot when a high-tension line fell on him.

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Jaipur collector Antar Singh Nehra meets Governor Kalraj Mishra on Saturday.

Driver dies of electrocution Bikaner: A dumper driver was elec-trocuted in RIICO industrial area of Sridungargarh town of Bikaner district on Friday. Police rushed to the spot and the fl ames were doused. The driver, Satyaprakash Poonia was rushed to the nearby community health center where doctors declared him dead on arrival.

Elderly woman, two children killed as hut catches fire in BikanerBikaner : An elderly woman and two chil-dren died after a thatched hut caught fire in Bikaner dis-trict, police said on Saturday. The inci-dent took place in Surnana village on Friday, Station House

Officer, Lunkaransar police station, Ishwar Prasad said, adding preliminary investi-gation revealed that the hut caught fire due to a spark from a chullah (fireplace) during cooking.The deceased were identi-

fied as Dhai Devi Jat (75), Anita (10) and Monika (8), Prasad said, adding their family members sleeping in another hut had rushed them to a hospital after the fire incident but they were declared brought

dead there. The bodies were handed over to family members after post-mortem, he said. A case under the Code of Criminal Proce-dure section 174 was registered in this re-gard, the police offic-er said. —PTI

Jaipur: Health minis-ter Dr Raghu Sharma on Saturday approved transfer list of 500 doc-tors and transfers of more than 2500 other cadre medical person-nel including nurses, women health workers, p h a r m a c i s t s ,junior assistant, sen-ior assistant, Class IV staff, and lab techni-cians, said an official.

Transfers in health dept

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger. —Buddha

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TWEETPrakash Javadekar @PrakashJavdekarIn the last 6 years, 45 new top grade educational institutions have come up, which has led to a revolution in the field of education in all sectors from medical to management. This is a result of PM Shri @narendramodi’s efforts to increase the quality of higher education.

K C Venugopal @kcvenugopalmpDeeply disheartened by the sad demise of Sardar Buta Singh ji. A stalwart Congressman and Parliamentarian par distinction, he immensely contributed to nation-building as a Minister of 18 Departments. I offer my condolences to his family, friends & followers.

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resident Donald Trump to the relief of most Americans, but also of a humankind, will va-cate the White House on 20th January. What will history make of him. He will not be for-gotten. He has wantonly dimin-ished the headlights of the American Constitution, one of the greatest in the World. He hired able and competent indi-viduals to his staff, then fired them on the phone or on twit-ter. His sugared charlatanism discredited American politics. Sometime in the future a psy-chologist should study the fur-niture of his mind.

His amazingly thick skin makes him the most insensitive President ever. He is indifferent to what decent, normal people call truth, morality and ethical conduct. He has, before demit-ting office pardoned well known crooks and thugs, even though he is in fact a lame duck Presi-dent. To this day he continues to declare the presidential elec-tions was flawed. Actually he maintains he was the winner.

What is his visions of Amer-ica and the World. Soon after assuming office he had a public swipe at NATO. Then followed his obsession with North Ko-

rea-yes. North Korea of all places in the World. Nothing came of it. In brief he does not perhaps does the meaning of compos mentis. On the contra-ry he is not in control either on his mind or his tongue.

Will he attend the swearing in ceremony of President Joe Biden on 20th January. That one should asks such a ques-tion is a left handed tribute to his unpredictability.

President Trump had little in-terest in South America and none in Africa. One must how-ever concede that he has daringly changed the foreign policies of several Arab countries and be-stowed fresh respectability to that extra ordinary nation Israel.

On the whole his interest in India is not phoney. During his visit to India last February he did not put a foot wrong. He has got on well with Prime Minister. A well known English daily got it spot on. It wrote in its edito-rial, “When Donald Trump vis-ited India….. bilateral ties were elevated to a ‘comprehensive global strategic partnership’. It mainly meant that defence im-ports from the U.S were gallop-ing and that the White House acknowledged India as the most useful regional power. The ever-looming shadow of Pakistan over Indo-U.S ties had finally been overtaken by the realisa-tion in Washington that Islama-bad is important only in the context of Afghanistan but In-dia’s external canvas is expo-

nentially wider.” However there is a serious lacuna. The U.S un-doubtedly recognises our secu-rity needs, but there have been no economic concessions.

How will Mr. Trump act after 20th January. It is not in his na-ture to verbally restrain him-self as past Presidents do. He will not sit still. He will make life difficult for his successor for whom he has no respect. More importantly he will not let the Republican Party slumber. He will make it into a sharp politi-cal weapon to ensure his re-en-try into the White House in 2024.

That Congress is suffering from several maladies. This is a national tragedy. The one per-son who can or could keep it from going to seed is, it seems is seriously unwell. For the first time Sonia Gandhi was not pre-sent at the annual function or-ganised at 24 Akbar Road to observe the one hundred thirty fifth anniversary of the found-ing of the Indian National Con-

gress. Shri Rahul Gandhi was also absent. He is abroad. Spec-ulation is ripe about his where-abouts. I shall give him the ben-efit of doubt. He has gone to It-aly to be with his ailing grand-mother, who is, like me, in her nineties. Had Rahul Gandhi made known the purpose of his tour, mystery would have been avoided. The Gandhis are con-genitally secretive about their foreign jaunts. Why? Their party colleagues and workers are entitled to know how and where their leaders are and how long will they be away.

Now that Sonia Gandhi is more or less non-functional and in semi-purdha, she is tem-porary Congress President. A full time, dedicated president is needed. Apparently Rahul Gan-dhi is not keen to occupy the “Gaddi”, inspite of his mother wanting him to do so. On whose shoulders will the burden fall? No one is in sight. Hence the Gandhi Raj will continue. But sooner rather later, like the later Mughals become a foot-note in history, except for the great Jawaharlal Nehru.

The R.S.S has brought out a one thousand page (this may not be the exact figure) book on Gan-dhiji, depicting him as a good Hindu. I intend reading it to find out how Shri. Mohan Bhagwat and his co-authors have deline-ated the Mahatma’s personality.

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HOW WILL MR TRUMP ACT AFTER JANUARY 20?

PHow will Mr. Trump act after 20th January. It is not in his nature to verbally restrain himself as past Presidents do. He will not sit still. He will make life difficult for his successor for whom he has no respect. He will make it into a sharp political weapon to ensure his re-entry into the White House in 2024.

NOW THAT SONIA GANDHI IS MORE OR

LESS NON-FUNCTIONAL AND IN SEMI-PURDHA,

SHE IS TEMPORARY CONGRESS PRESIDENT.

A FULL TIME, DEDICATED PRESIDENT IS NEEDED.

K NATWAR SINGH

The author is Former Minister of External Affairs of India

INDIA PLAYERS UNDER PROBE FOR EATING OUT

ith the third Test against Australia due to start from January 7, five India play-ers have been put in isolation for a pos-sible breach of the bio-security protocol. The players include vice-captain Rohit

Sharma, wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant, opening batsman Shubman Gill, Prithvi Shaw and medi-um-pacer Navdeep Saini were under joint investi-gation by the BCCI and Cricket Australia for the suspected breach after a video of the five cricket-ers eating in restaurant was put on Twitter by a fan who paid the Aus $ 118.69 bill of his “super-stars”. The probe is to ascertain if the eating out constituted violation of social distancing protocol. The medical teams advised the players to be put under isolation. The players will be segregated from the Indian and Australian squads.

The BCCI has denied that the outdoor eating constituted a breach but till the probe is on the players will have to remain in isolation. The strict protocols are in place in view of Covid-19. In case the charge against these players is proved to be true, sanctions are likely to follow. To get an idea, Jofra Archer was banned for a Test following a breach during the England-West Indies series. In-dian players would therefore be well aware of the consequences of breaking rules. These are proto-cols they followed during Indian Premier League.

Breach of Covid-19 protocol led to Pakistan players in the neighbouring New Zealand being warned by the country’s government and the cricket authority that they will be sent back. Six Pakistani players had tested positive for Covid upon their arrival in New Zealand.

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VACCINE BELONGS TO SCIENTISTS, NOT BJP

n a day when a vaccination mock drill was carried out across states to test the preparedness of a huge army of vacci-nators, doctors, health workers and hos-pitals, the subject expert committee of

the Drugs Controller gave its approval for emer-gency use of Covaxin, a Covid-19 vaccine produced by Bharat Biotech and the Indian Council of Med-ical Research (ICMR). Unlike Serum Institute of India’s Covishield vaccine, Covaxin is indigenous-ly developed. Both the vaccines now await the final nod from the Drugs Controller-General of India (DCGI). The DCGI nod is expected soon. Once cleared, the one crore frontline health workers will be administered the vaccine on priority.

All through Saturday the complete vaccination process was rehearsed before the real vaccine is rolled out to save lives. At the end of the day the dry run was declared successful in terms of logis-tics, cold chain and data monitoring. States said they were ready for the final rollout of the vaccine. Uttar Pradesh, which also tested its preparedness with dry runs at six hospitals in Lucknow, said the exercise was successful.

While the dry run has given hope to millions of Indians, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Ya-dav chose to play politics by refusing to get vacci-nated “for now” as he wasn’t ready to “trust BJP’s vaccine”. That’s sending out a wrong message for the masses who could be harbouring their own doubts about the vaccine. A similar doubt was cre-ated before the launch of the polio vaccine. It took a lot of efforts to remove the unfounded fears before polio eradication became India’s success story.

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INDIAJAIPUR | SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 2021


New Delhi: A day after over 850 academicians came out in support of three agricultural laws, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said that the central govern-ment’s commitment to the welfare of farmers is ‘unparalleled’.

“More than 850 acad-emicians across the country have come out in support of the new farm laws, saying that they will change farm-ers’ fortune and will free farming from all wrong practices. Our govern-ment’s commitment to the welfare of farmers is unparalleled,” Ja-vadekar tweeted. On Fri-day, over 850 academi-cians from different parts of the country came out strongly in sup-port of the agricultural reform laws brought by the government, saying these Acts seek to free farm trade from restric-tions and enable farmers to sell their produce at competitive prices.

In a statement, the academicians who also include a few Vice-Chancellors, said that union government has repeatedly assured the farmers that these three farm laws will not do away with Minimum Support Price (MSP) “but rather free the farm trade from all il-

licit market restrictions, open the market beyond ‘mandis’ and further as-sists the small and mar-ginal farmers to sell their produce at mar-ket/competitive prices”.

“The new laws also provide full autonomy for farmers to sell their produce. We strongly believe in the govern-ment’s assurance to the farmers to protect their

livelihoods. The gov-ernment is still firmly committed to delivering the principle of mini-mum government, max-imum governance,” the statement said. —ANI

75-YR-OLD PROTESTING FARMER FOUND DEAD AT DELHI-GHAZIABAD BORDERNew Delhi: A 75-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh was found dead today at a farmers’ protest site on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border. While the police prob-ing the case, those at the site say a note written by the dead man, Kashmir Singh Ladi, has been found in which he has expressed his frustration over the stalemate in talks with the government over the new agricultural laws that the farmers want repealed. Ladi’s body was found inside the toilet at the site, along with his note in which he has held the central government responsible for his death, according to the Bharatiya Kisan Union. “Till when shall we sit here in the cold? This government isn’t listening at all. Hence, I give up my life so that some solution emerges, Ladi’s note reportedly says. It also wants his grandsons to perform his final rites at the protest site itself. The note is now with the police. —Agencies

Govt’s commitment to welfare of farmers, unparalleled: Javadekar

Farmers sitting at Singhu Border during a protest against farm law, in New Delhi on Saturday.

‘PM Modi rated among top world leaders by US firm’New Delhi: Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi has been rated as the most popular head of Govern-ment by American re-search firm, said BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda on Saturday.

“Our PM Narendra Modi Ji rated highest among world leaders by American research firm Morning Consult. Our PM has yet again emerged the most popu-lar head of Government for his efficient handling of various issues and management of the COVID-19 crisis,” Nadda tweeted. “This rating is testimony of his able

leadership and hard work and is a thing of pride for all Indians,” he added.

“PM Narendra Modi-ji’s popularity not only rises unabated across

all demographic groups and geographic regions of the country and he also gets a thumbs up globally for his dedica-tion to his country,” Na-dda tweeted. —ANI

BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda.

‘Farmers will march to Delhi, if demands remain unmet’New Delhi: The Samyukt Kisan Mor-cha on Saturday, an-nounced that farmers will march into Delhi on January 26 with their tractors, trolleys and other vehicles if their demands are not met and also said that a “farmers’ republic parade” will take place after the official parade.

In its first press con-ference organised by the 7-member Coordi-nation Committee of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha in Delhi, Samyukt Kisan Mor-cha, a joint front of al-most 40 farmer organi-sations, also an-nounced their plan of action till January 26 to intensify and deepen the agitation. A fort-night of a nationwide campaign called “Desh Jagriti Abhiyan” from January 6 to 20 will in-clude rallies, confer-ences and dharnas all over the country.

Lohri/Sankranti will be marked as Kisan Sankalp Diwas by burn-ing the copies of the three laws. —ANI

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Mumbai attack mastermind, LeT cdr, Lakhvi held in PakLahore: Mumbai at-tack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakh-vi was arrested on Sat-urday in Pakistan on terror financing charg-es, an official said.

Lakhvi, who was on bail since 2015 in the Mumbai attack case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism De-partment (CTD) of Punjab province.How-ever, the CTD did not reveal the place of his arrest.

“Following an intel-ligence-based opera-tion conducted by the CTD Punjab, pro-scribed organisation LeT leader Zaki-ur-Re-hman Lakhvi was ar-

rested on charges of terrorism financing,” it said. It further said that Lakhvi, 61, was ar-rested in a case of ter-rorism financing regis-tered in a police station of CTD Lahore.

“Lakhvi is accused

of running a dispensa-ry, using funds collect-ed for terrorism financ-ing. He and others also collected funds from this dispensary and used these funds for further terrorism fi-nancing. —PTI

Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.

J&K grenade attack: eight civilians hurtPulwama: As many as 8 civilians were injured on Saturday after ter-rorists hurled a gre-nade at security forces at the Tral bus stand in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

According to an of-ficial release, the pre-liminary investigation revealed that terror-ists hurled a grenade at the ITBP vehicle, however, it missed the intended target and ex-ploded on road. “In this incident, eight ci-vilians received splin-ter injuries and were evacuated to a nearby hospital for the treat-ment of their inju-ries,” the release said.

—ANI

India-UK flights to resume from January 6, says PuriNew Delhi: Union Civ-il Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri an-nounced that flights be-tween the United King-dom and India will re-start from January 6 with a limit of 30 carri-ers operational be-tween the countries every week.

“Resumption of flights between India & UK: India to the UK from 6 Jan 2021. The UK to India from 8 Jan 2021. 30 flights will operate every week. 15 each by Indian & UK carriers.

This schedule is valid till 23 Jan 2021. The fur-ther frequency will be determined after re-view,” Puri tweeted.

Earlier, he had said there will be a short ex-tension of temporary suspension of flights between the United Kingdom and India. There was already a ban on the operation of flights between the two countries till December 31, 2020. This extended suspension will now re-lax on January 6 and 8.

The suspension of flights was announced after the UK reported the spread of a new strain of COVID-19 in their country. —ANI

Hardeep Singh Puri

GST e-invoice system facilitates smooth transition of tax payersNew Delhi: Goods and Services Tax (GST) e-invoice system has completed journey of three months and has facilitated smooth transition of the tax payers to the new plat-form, according to the Ministry of Electron-ics and Information Technology (IT) on Sat-urday.

It has enabled over 37,000 tax payers to gen-erate more than 1,680 lakh Invoice Reference Numbers (IRNs), dur-ing last three months from the NIC developed e-Invoice system. Start-ing with 495 lakhs dur-

ing October 2020, gen-eration of e-invoice has increased to 589 lakhs in November 2020 and 603 lakhs in December 2020.

Interestingly, the e-way bill generation from the NIC (National Informatics Centre) de-veloped e-way bill sys-

tem is also highest dur-ing September to De-cember 2020 compared to same months of pre-vious years.

The response of the system is good and generation of IRNs is hassle-free during this period.

However, there have been common errors such as repeated re-quests on same docu-ment number, simulta-neous requests on same document num-ber and requests with validation or calcula-tion errors etc. —ANI

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3 crore...His remarks come a day after India moved a step closer to getting a vac-cine for the disease, which has affected over 1 crore people in the country; killed over 1.49 lakh.

Rohit, 4...seen eating at an indoor restaurant in Mel-bourne in a video post-ed on social media. The fan, who was apparent-ly seated close to them, had tweeted about get-ting a hug from Pant but later retracted the claim after it raised se-rious questions on a

breach of protocol.

As Dada...West Bengal C Mamata Banerjee reached the hospital to pay him a visit wishing the sports-man a speedy and full recovery along with ex-tending her prayers to his family.

Special study...and experts of various departments through video conference at the Chief Minister’s resi-dence on Saturday. “In patients recovering from Covid-19 infection, many physical and mental effects like lung

and brain infections, loss of memory, heart disease and diabetes are coming out which is a matter of concern. To ensure that such pa-tients do not face health problems in future, for this special emphasis should be given on post covid treatment and an effective guideline should be prepared for this,” Gehlot said.

The CM said that the State Government has arranged a Post Covid Clinics to save people from the ill effects of Covid, but due to lack of awareness people are not able to take full ad-

vantage of it. He in-structed the authorities that information should be conveyed to all Co-rona patients that they should contact the doc-tor for proper treatment even after recovering. Apart from ensuring the various side effects of Covid and necessary facilities for their treat-ment, the general pub-lic should be made aware by making wide publicity so that neces-sary treatment can be taken in time, he said.

Gehlot said that due to decisions like night curfew and better man-agement, the condition

of Corona in the state is now largely under con-trol. “The death rate is steadily decreasing and the recovery rate is in-creasing. Also, the num-ber of positive cases has reduced considera-bly, Gehlot said and keeping in view the positive results of these decisions, he directed to continue the ban on various activities in-cluding continuing with night curfews for the next few days.

The Chief Minister expressed happiness over the success of ‘Dry Run’ in the state for vac-cination of Covid.

“With the decrease in the number of Covid patients, our fast grow-ing steps in the direc-tion of vaccination are a pleasant sign. Our endeavor is to start vac-cination in the state at the earliest and that more and more people benefit from it,” he said. Along with the transportation of the vaccine, Gehlot laid special emphasis on training and encourag-ing people to get them-selves vaccinated and clearing the misconcep-tions about it.

Gehlot said that the state government has

selected ‘swastha mi-tra’ to help patients suf-fering from various dis-eases get treatment in government hospitals. “For this, doctors and health officers from district hospitals to health sub-centers should be directed to cooperate with swastha mitras,” he said..

Medical and Health Minister Dr. Raghu Sharma said that due to less number of corona positive patients in var-ious hospitals of the state, directions have been issued to notify ESI hospital as non-cov-id, to lower the number

of covid beds from 40 percent to 30 percent in hospitals with more than hundred beds and from thirty to twenty percent in hospitals with less than hundred beds.

In the presentation on the status of Cov-id-19, Secretary - De-partment of Medicine and Health, Siddharth Mahajan said that there are 9,223 active cases of Corona in state which is equal to the number of last week of July. He in-formed that prepara-tions for Covid vaccina-tion are going on at a rapid pace.

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‘Only nation with 4 vaccines ready’6 are undergoing clinical trials, including the frontrunners Covishield & CovaxinNew Delhi: As all states & union territo-ries conducted dry run for vaccines, Union minister Prakash Ja-vadekar on Saturday said India is perhaps the only country which is getting ready with 4 vaccines against Cov-id-19. The United States has approved the emer-gency use of Pfizer. But India, as it already has three applications, is likely to get more than one vaccine for emer-gency use, the minister implied.

At present, six Cov-id-19 vaccines are un-dergoing clinical trials in India, including the frontrunners Cov-ishield and Covaxin. Covishield is the Ox-

ford vaccine developed by Astrazeneca and Pune’s Serum Institute of India. Covaxin is the indigenous one being developed by Bharat Biotech in collabora-tion with the Indian Council of Medical Re-search. —PTI

Scientists outline steps for safely receiving vaccineFollowing ac-

counts of poten-tial allergies to the vaccines produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, scientists have outlined steps on safely receiving the second dose of the therapeutic in indi-viduals who develop a reaction to their first dose. The re-search, published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immu-nology: In Practice, summarised what is currently known about allergic reac-tions to vaccines like

those developed against COVID-19. In the study, a team of experts led by aller-gists at Massachu-setts General Hospi-tal (MGH) in the US, proposed detailed ad-vice so that individu-als with different al-lergy histories can safely receive their vaccine. The US Cent-ers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention advised that all pa-tients be observed for 15 minutes post-vac-cination by staff who can identify and man-age such reactions.

‘Will quit politics if I fail to prove graft charges against TN Min’Cuttack: DMK presi-dent M K Stalin on Sat-urday vowed to quit politics if he failed to prove the corruption charges against Tamil Nadu Municipal Ad-ministration Minister S P Velumani.

Responding to Ve-lumani’s challenge to prove the charges, Sta-lin said, ‘I am ready to quit politics. Are you (Velumani) ready?’

The DMK chief was addressing a gram sab-ha meeting at Devar-ayapuram in Thonda-muthur constituency represented by the Min-ister. Referring to the memorandum submit-ted by the DMK to the

Governor last month listing the charges against the Chief Min-ister E Palaniswami and his colleagues, Ve-lumani had said he would step down from his post if the charges were proved and sought to know whether Stalin

was ready to quit poli-tics if he failed to do so.

‘We will not only prove the charges against the Minister but also drag him to the court of law and get him punished for his corrupt deeds...’ Stalin said. —PTI

COVID-19 vaccine administration dry run is being conducted, at a health care centre at Daryaganj in New Delhi on Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI

DMK president M K Stalin

Kashmir seeks $4 billion in investments, to provide securityNew Delhi: India’s fed-eral territory of Jam-mu and Kashmir plans to attract investments worth up to $4 billion in the next two three years and would provide secu-rity to businesses set-ting up shop in the in-surgency-hit region, its chief said on Saturday.

Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was India’s only Muslim-majority state until August 2019, when Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi carved out a Buddhist-dominated enclave and designated both as federally-ad-ministered territories.

Tens of thousands of

security forces guard the region where India has been fighting an armed-insurgency for decades, especially in the disputed Kashmir valley that is also claimed by Pakistan.

J&K Lieutenant Gov-ernor Manoj Sinha said his administration was identifying 6,000 acres (2,400 hectares) of land for businesses and that they would make com-panies feel secure.

Army sets up helpline in J&KThe Army set up a ‘feedback & grievanc-es’ helpline in Kashmir valley as part of its ef-forts to strengthen the bond with the people.The helpline number 9484101010 has been set up under the aegis of Chinar Corps or 15 Corps responsible for guarding the Line of Control in the valley. A defence spokes-man said it can also established through Telegram application.

Fake GST invoice racket worth `510 crore busted in OdishaCuttack: Odisha Goods and Services Tax (GST) Commissionerate bust-ed tax invoice fraud to the tune of `510 crore and arrested its master-mind, Sandeep Mohan-ty in Cuttack, an official said on Friday.

SK Lohani, Odisha Commissioner, Central Tax (CT) and GST while talking to ANI said that the accused has accept-ed his crimes. “There are people who try to misuse the GST system. After analysis of data, we shortlist doubtful tax returns and do field checks of such filing en-

tities. In this process, we found a tax theft racket where a person named Sandeep Mohanty used fake purchase and sale invoices of ̀ 510 crores,” Lohani said. “Mohanty availed bogus input tax credit and fake purchase invoices on the name of 22 fictitious firms that came to light when the Enforcement Wing con-ducted a statewide search operation,” he added. The official fur-ther said that during interrogation, “Mohan-ty accepted that he mis-used the GST system to do the fraud. —PTI

Shah releases ‘National Police K-9 Journal’New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday re-leased the inaugural is-sue of “National Police K-9 Journal.” The publi-cation of the Police K9 Journal is another step in creating an ecosys-tem in the country to train and learn on aug-menting this vital re-source. The journal comprises different sec-tions in Hindi and Eng-lish, the Home Ministry said in a release. “This is a unique initiative which will further en-rich the subjects related to Police Service Canine (K-9) (PSK) teams in the country,” Shah said. The Union Home Minister

said, “National security is paramount and our government is making sincere efforts to give equal attention to all as-pects related to security. The police dog squad can act as a force multi-plier to ensure the safety of society, much like the way drones or satellites are being used in the country.” The event was attended by Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, Directors Gen-eral of Central Armed Police Forces & senior ranking police officers of the Forces, while CAPF personnel from all over the country at-tended through a virtual conference. —ANI

1,200 migratory birds die at Pong DamNew Delhi: Biologists on Saturday sounded the alarm with over 1,000 migratory birds, largely the endangered bar-headed goose, a highest-altitude mi-grant, were found dead over the past one week or so in Pong wetlands one of the largest in northern India in Himachal Pradesh. Chief Conservator Wild-life (Pong wetlands) Upasna Patyal told the reason for the deaths is still a mystery as their carcasses have been sent to different labora-tories to determine their cause of death, but it could take days or a week to get results.

5 states have highest active Covid-19 cases: Health Ministry5 states have contributed nearly 62% of the country’s active cases of the coronavirus disease which stands at 254,254, the Union ministry of health said on Saturday. Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh, the ministry said, together contributed 157,106 to the country’s current tally of active cases.

Shiva sculpture at Azhimala temple opens for public

Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala): Kerala’s tall-est Shiva sculpture con-structed at Azhimala temple near Kovalam here has been opened for the people.

Construction of the 58-feet tall sculpture in Gangadhareswara fig-ure in the cliff of Azhi-mala beach started six years ago. 29-year-old PS Devadathan is the person behind the sculpture of the temple. He started his work at the age of 23 and kept working on the sculp-ture along with his graduation in fine arts.

“We have to take proper care during con-struction since the sculpture is near the sea. The sculpture should resist the water and salt content. So, we have mixed some chem-icals with cement to re-sist saltwater. I did com-plete research after fin-ishing the drawing and 3D images. It has built-in rock, so we have checked the density of rock, wind load and cal-

culated the weight,” he said. “This place is beautiful and influ-enced me. I thought about how to make it more beautiful. I have visualized it in mind and created the design. As a native of this place, I have an idea about na-ture. I have adjusted my work accordingly,” he said. The 29-year-old said that he had several limitations since it was a religious structure.

“People had an im-agination about Shiva in their mind. A visual impact is more than words. There is a con-nection between visual and emotion. I have tried to feel a mixed emotion in the mind of a visitor and help to feel positive,” he added.

“This picture of Gan-gadhareswara Shiva signifies prosperity. It is a very energetic one. When I made this hair, I felt to do it rhythmical-ly. I tried to bring all emotions in this sculp-ture. Its height is about 58 feet,” he said. —ANI

MHA approves Y+ Security for Bengal MP Sunil Kumar MondalNew Delhi : The Un-ion Home Ministry has approved Y+ cat-egory security for Member of Parlia-ment from West Ben-gal Sunil Kumar Mondal, a senior gov-ernment official con-firmed on Saturday.

The Central Re-serve Police Force has been asked to pro-vide security to him. Under the Y+ securi-ty cover, a person is given protection by 11 security personnel including two gun-

men (plus four on ro-tation) for mobile se-curity, and one (plus four on rotation) for residence security. Mondal who was elected to Lok Sabha from Bardhaman Purba constituency on the ticket of Trina-mool Congress has recently joined BJP.

Last year in De-cember, he was stopped allegedly by TMC workers while he was on his way to the BJP party office at Hastings. —ANI

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Farmers keep themselves warm around a bonfi re during a cold winter evening as they protest against the farm bills, at Singhu Border in New Delhi on Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI

First India Bureau

Kota: Lok Sabha Speak-er Om Birla on Satur-day said that the Minis-try of Home Affairs has authorised the states to open coaching classes by following corona guidelines. In this re-gard, he has also writ-ten a letter to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, urging him to start offline coaching

classes in Kota. He hoped that soon the Ra-jasthan government would take a positive decision on it.

Birla said this while addressing the media persons in Kota on Sat-urday at a private ho-tel. Birla said that the last 16 speakers in the Lok Sabha have en-hanced the dignity of Parliament. He said that 17th Lok Sabha

will be remembered for many big decisions in-cluding the new Parlia-ment building.

On a query about starting air service in Kota, Birla said that discussions are going on with the Civil Avia-tion Department of the state government. In January 2021, there will be a re-survey on the availability of land for the new airport. The

state government was only willing to give 572 hectares of land as against 876.

But in the renewed negotiations, a consen-sus is being formed in between Centre and the state. The Chief Minis-ter is also positive about this issue, he said.

Birla also held a pub-lic hearing in Bundi Circuit House and lis-tened to the public.

Solution will come in next round of talks: KailashREFORMS ARE NECESSARY AS THE PRIME MINISTER WANTS FARMERS TO BECOME ‘ATMA NIRBHAR’

New Delhi: Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Kailash Choudhary on Saturday expressed his confidence citing that the next round of talks with farmers would bring a solution and conclude the impasse.

Speaking to ANI, Choudhary said, "I am confident that in the next round of talks with farmers a solution will be reached and the ongoing protest will come to an end. The Government of India had already agreed their demands of de-criminalising stubble burning, the continu-ance of power subsidies and provisions of civil courts." On the issue of two key demands of farmers including a le-gal guarantee of mini-mum support prices (MSP) and repeal of three new farm laws, he said, "The three farm laws are in favour of

farmers. There should be no confusion on MSP. The prime minister himself said many times that the provision of selling crops at MSP will continue."

He said the reforms are necessary as the prime minister wants farmers to become 'atma nirbhar' (self-reliant). "It was the long-stand-ing demand from farm-ers to do away with the system of middlemen and sell their produce at a price of their choice," added the minister.

Choudhary empha-sised, "In the new law,

there is no provision of penalty and fine to farmers regarding con-tract farming. Whereas, Punjab has its own con-tract farming law, which includes the pro-vision of punishment. "

Farmers have been agitating at the gates of the national capital since November 26 against the recently en-acted three farm laws -- the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facili-tation) Act, 2020; the Farmers (Empower-ment and Protection) Agreement on Price As-

surance and Farm Ser-vices Act, 2020; and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.

The sixth round of talks between the Union government and the farmers' unions took place on Wednesday. While a consensus was reached on issues relat-ed to the environment and Electricity Act, the deadlock continued on the two main demands, legal assurance on MSP and complete rollback of the three farm laws.

The next round of talks will take place on January 4.

THREE FARM LAWS ARE IN FAVOUR OF FARMERS

Ajmer Dairy brings laurels to RajasthanKaushal Jain

Ajmer: North India’s high-tech dairy plant, Ajmer Dairy has brought laurels for the state as its high quality white butter has made Rajasthan number sup-plier in the country. Apart from supply of table butter and other dairy products in open market moves are afoot to supply these items to Indian army.

Talking to newsmen chairman of Ajmer Dairy, Ramchandra Chaudhry said here on Saturday, the plant has materialised long-cher-ished dream of farmers of Ajmer as well as of entire state. The chair-man also expressed his happiness over the visit of former RCDF MD and First India News Rajasthan channel head

Jagdeesh Chandra to the plant recently. Chaudhury said after visiting the plant for-mer IAS officer Chan-dra congratulated him.

The chairman said Ajmer Plant has cleared full dues of Rs 56 crores to all the committees of the district for eight weeks for the period from September 21 to December 10. He said remaining pending amount would be paid with two weeks.

Ajmer Dairy chairman Ramchandra Choudhary and MD UC Vyas address a press conference on Saturday.

Om Birla addresses media persons in Kota.

‘A positive decision on coaching classes soon’

Buta Singh: An adept politicianwho sailed through turbulent yearsLaxman Raghav

Bikaner/New Delhi: With his ear to the ground and eye on the national politics, Con-gress veteran Buta Sin-gh was the quintessen-tial politician who sailed through the most turbulent years of In-dian politics with deft-ness and diligence, and went on to become the virtual No. 2 in the Ra-jiv Gandhi government in the late 1980s.

Former Union home minister Singh, who re-mained in public ser-vice for a long time and served under four prime ministers, died at the AIIMS here on Saturday morning. He was 86.

President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, PM Narendra Modi and for-mer PM Manmohan Singh condoled his de-mise. CM Ashok Gehlot expressed grief at the demise of Singh. “Sad to learn about the de-mise of a former union minister, senior Con-

gress leader and former MP from Rajasthan, Shri Buta Singh ji. My heartfelt condolences to his family members in this time, may God give them strength to bear this loss. May his soul rest in peace,” Gehlot wrote on Twitter.

Former CM Vasunda-ra Raje said Singh, as an

MP from Jalore, had set an example of courtesy in Rajasthan politics. Energy minister BD Kalla also expressed his condolences. In a cheq-uered political career spanning over five dec-ades, Singh often found himself at the centre of major controversies, but he always found a way to bounce back.Born into a humble ‘mazhbi’ Sikh family in Mustafapur in Punjab’s Jalandhar dis-trict on March 21, 1934, Singh was a member of LS for eight terms, held several positions in var-ied ideological dispensa-tions at the Centre and became the Governor of Bihar in 2004.

— With PTI inputs

Buta Singh: Served under four prime ministers.

DUES CLEARED Crossing danger line at Ranthambore!

IAS-IPS reshuffle list likelyto be released any moment!Rajendra Chabra

Jaipur: The exercise of transfer and postings has been initiated once again after chief secre-tary Niranjan Arya re-turned from Delhi and principal secretary to CM Kuldeep Ranka re-sumed work posts his 5-day leave.

Both the officers held discussion on transfers of officers with chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday. Sources said that discussion on

the transfers of district collectors and SP was held today.

The collectors in nearly a dozen districts including the state capi-tal are likely to be trans-ferred. Some of the col-lectors would be given the responsibility of bigger districts as a re-ward to their perfor-mance while 4-5 collec-tors would be dropped due to complaints by lo-cal MLAs to CM against their functioning.

Some of the promotee

IAS officers would be given the appointment as collectors for the first time. In Jaipur, a female IAS officer may be made district collector for the first time as sources said that the chief minister was im-pressed with the work of this IAS officer.

At the same time, SPs in more than a dozen dis-tricts may be reshuffled. The homework on the list of secretaries has also been done and the lists are being finalised.

First India Bureau

Sawai Madhopur: Crossing the danger line at Ranthambore National Park, Gypsy operators recently gave full guarantees to tour-ists for tiger’s sighting. A video of vehicles en-circling the tigers in Ranthambore has cre-ated a stir in the forest department.

In the viral video, ti-gers are surrounded by visitors from both sides on the middle of the road. One of the baffled tigers tried to move to-wards a Gypsy but the driver didn’t move the vehicle an inch.

Wildlife experts say that this kind of behav-

iour will change the na-ture of the tiger making them aggressive. Earli-er too, some videos came to light wherein Gypsy operators who had guaranteed to show the tiger to the tourists, reached very close to the animal.

In the past, a tiger had charged a Gypsy due to the noise of tour-ists and approaching vehicles.

Raise incentive to Aasha Sahyoginis, CM writes to PMFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has writ-ten a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking the Central Government to increase the incentive amount given to Aasha Sahyogi-nis. He said that keeping in view the important role played by ASHAs in accessing health servic-es at the community level, it is absolutely nec-essary to increase their incentive so that their morale remains high and they perform health services with greater ef-

ficiency and zeal. The Chief Minister said in a letter to the Prime Min-ister on Saturday that the state government is sensitive to the afflic-tions of these health workers and stands with them to solve their prob-lems. In order to provide financial support to these health workers, the State Government is also giving additional honorarium at the rate of Rs. 2700 per month from the Integrated Child Development Ser-vices Department, which is given entirely from the state head. ASHA WORKERS: It is absolutely necessary to increase their incentive.

Yogesh Sharma

Jaipur: It will be a different scene on Sunday when Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, PCC Chief Govind Singh Dotasra, Sachin Pilot, Congress min-isters, MLAs and party lead-ers will hold a sit-in protest against centre’s agricultural laws at Jaipur. Moreover, af-ter the sit-in, CM Ashok Ge-hlot has called a meeting of Congress and supported leg-islators follwed by a dinner at CMR. However, the high-light of the day would be the ‘reunion’ of Gehlot and Do-tasra with Sachin Pilot, who, it is believed, will join in the protest and dinner with his supporting legislators.

The State Congress will hold a dharna at the Shaheed Smarak from 12 noon to 4

PM. This protest of Congress will also be given in protest against the state’s agricul-tural bills being stalled at Raj Bhavan. “The state govern-

ment had passed three agri-cultural bills, which the Gov-ernor has not approved. We will pressurise the Governor through this protest and the

sit-in is also in support of the farmers movement,” said PCC Chief Govind Singh Do-tasra. Meanwhile, after the protest, Chief Minister

Ashok Gehlot has called a meeting of MLAs at the Chief Minister’s Residence on Sunday. This meeting of MLAs will also include legis-lators from Congress, Inde-pendents and Congress MLAs who jumped over from BSP.

After the meeting, a din-ner has also been organized from 7 pm. It is said that in the meeting, the future po-litical issues as well as the strategy of campaign against agricultural laws will be discussed. Mean-while, political observers believe that the meeting has also been called to address the displeasures of inde-pendent MLAs since Con-gress’s expansion and politi-cal appointments have not occurred till now.

COVID-19 UPDATE

RAJASTHAN2,705

DEATHS3,09,319

CONFIRMED CASES

GUJARAT 4,314 DEATHS 2,46,513 CASES

DELHI 10,571 DEATHS 6,26,448 CASES

WORLD18,37,660

DEATHS8,44,82,298

CONFIRMED CASES

INDIA1,03,14,850

CONFIRMED CASES1,49,376

DEATHS

MAHARASHTRA49,631 DEATHS 19,38,854 CASES

UTTAR PRADESH8,386 DEATHS 5,87,342 CASES

KARNATAKA12,099 DEATHS 9,21,128 CASES

Walk through the rooms of your life; not to search

for flaws but to see the changes accomplished.

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Abhishek Srivastav

Jaipur: There was a time when the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA), was, in the eyes of the general public, synonymous with stalled works and de-layed response. But it appears those days of the premier develop-ment agency of Jaipur are over. Today, the same authority is acting as a ‘friend’ of the common man and the entire cred-it for this goes to Gaurav

Goyal, who took over as the JDA Commissioner 5 months ago. The entire focus of JDA Commis-sioner Gaurav Goyal remains on the speedy disposal of public-relat-ed matters.

The young bureau-crat holds a review meeting with the Zonal Deputy Commissioners and other officials every Tuesday about the pro-gress of pending cases at the Citizen Service Centre. Each and every pending case is openly

discussed in the meet-ing and the bottlenecks in the disposal of the

case are removed, while special focus is given to the two of the longest

pending cases from each zone. The result of this effective monitoring of Goyal is that where about 800 cases were pending till 2 months back, related to issue of lease, land conversion, restructuring and sub-division, etc. have now reduced to just 30-40.

Not only this, weekly review is also done at the level of JDA Com-missioner for redressal of complaints filed on CM helpline and Sam-park portal. At the time

of public hearing, when people approach the JDA Commissioner with their complaints, Goyal calls the con-cerned officer immedi-ately and directs for speedy disposal of their complaint. This is the reason why people’s trust in the office of JDA Commissioner has increased manifold.

In the direction of providing a roof to the poor person of the state, Goyal has issued ap-proval for Rs 74 crore for

the construction of 1448 flats. On the occasion of completion of 2 years of the government, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot laid the foundation stone for this project of building houses for EWS and LIG. The ap-proval of the Govern-ment of India for this project came only in the year 2017, but the mat-ter remained stuck for the last 3 years, & was finally resolved by a hardworking & able bu-reaucrat - Gaurav Goyal.

From delayed responses & ‘harassment’ to people friendly JDA, courtesy Gaurav GoyalIMAGE MAKEOVER

Goyal holds review meetings

with Zonal Deputy

Commissioners and other

officials every Tuesday about the progress of pending cases

WHEN WILL THE CONGRESS ORGANISE REMEMBRANCE MEET FOR ITS VETERANS?

The departure of three key pillars of

the Congress, Ahmed Patel, Motilal Vora and Tarun Gogoi, is not a mi-nor incident. The year 2020 has left the Con-gress deeply scathed with wounds that will never heal. Interesting-ly, these three leaders, who have spent their en-tire lives for the grand-old party, have not been accorded an official re-memberance or tribute meet till date. Yes, re-cently when the Con-gress Working Commit-tee meeting was called, a condolence meeting was held in memory of Patel and Vora. But there can be no direct access of ordinary Congress lead-ers and workers in CWC meeting! Normally when a condolence meeting is held in memory of big leaders, it also includes a large number of opposition leaders, such as a large number of parties t h a t

assembled in the tribute meeting held by the BJP in memory of the late Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley. However, it seems that after the su-zerainty of a family in the Congress, the entire tradition has been de-cided to waved off. Even after the death of veter-an Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee, there was no such initia-tive from the party.

TROUBLE IN NITISH KUMAR’S HOUSE

Everything is not go-ing well in Nitish

Kumar’s JDU, and it ap-pears that there is an uneasy silence before the storm hits. RCP Sin-gh, a special loyalist of Nitish who ranks among the top leaders of Kur-mis after Nitish, has been made the party’s national president in re-

cent times. It is said that RCP Singh

has deep reach in BJP and for a long time it was

c o n t i n u -ously heard that RCP can join BJP by leaving

Nitish. It is also said that Nitish has given him the responsibility of party president only to con-vince him. Sources re-veal that in the last Bi-har election, RCP did not have a major say in par-ty’s important decisions. RCP wanted to imple-ment Kejriwal formula in JDU and had pre-pared a list of 40 minis-ters and prominent leg-islators with whom the people of the area were quite angry. He asked Ni-tish to cut the tickets of these 40 people and re-place them with new faces, but the anti-RCP Lallan Singh did not let the tickets of these old leaders be culled, as a result most of these leaders had to face de-feat in the election this time. Apart from this, RCP had promised to give tickets to some new

youth leaders, however, Lallan got leaders of RJD from these seats into JDU and also man-age to get them JDU tick-ets, but most of them lost the election. RCP’s resentment was also clearly seen during the elections, and he contin-ued to sit in Delhi dur-ing the Bihar elections. The Forward Lobby of JDU is still opposing RCP in the party con-tinuously, so till now RCP has not been able to make any major organi-zational reshuffle in the party. He wanted to make a leader of the Rajput caste the state president of Bihar JDU, but now there is

pressure on him to hand over this responsibility to Neeraj Kumar of Bhu-mihar caste, and it seems that RCP likes this play, since by for-warding a Bhumihar leader, he will also be able to control the ar-dent ambitions of his strongest opponent Lal-lan Singh.

NITISH HELPLESS BEFORE BJP

B ihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has

never been seen so help-less before the

BJP, otherwise he used to keep a total control on all BJP minis-ters in his government

till now (except one Su-shil Modi). And even Su-shil Modi’s ministry was being run through de-partmental secretaries appointed by Nitish. This time however, the game has changed. In Arunachal Pradesh, when despite giving sup-port to BJP, 6 out of 7 MLAs of Nitish’s party were broken in seven, Nitish is seen without any effective action. This time the meeting of Nitish’s cabinet was also surprising as Deputy Chief Minister Renu Devi openly expressed her feelings for BJP in a full meeting and also ex-pressed unhappiness over the repeated exten-sions given to bureau-crats and said, “even the Chief Secretary is on extension. Why isn’t the government giving chance to capable offi-

cials?” It is also being heard that the BJP wants a home secretary of its choice in the state, and sources even say that the BJP is now eye-ing the Home Ministry for itself. Amidst all this, Nitish’s silence is clear-ly expressing his help-lessness.

HOW LONG WILL THE FARMER AGITATION CONTINUE?

While on one hand, the ministers of

the central government are constantly indicat-ing that they are getting cordial with farmer leaders, the ministers have eaten at the langar of the farmers and the farmer leaders by ac-cepting the ‘tea diplo-macy’ of the govern-ment have hinted that the matter is being tak-en towards a peaceful mission. However, the social media of the farmer movement indicates a different story. If their so-cial and digi-

tal media are to be be-lieved, then the farmers will not accept anything less than the repeal of the new agricultural law. They say that the government had already accepted issues like electricity and stubble. Leaders associated with the farmer movement are also elated that now they are getting support of Indians from abroad, and despite the freezing cold of Delhi, there is no stopping the influx of farmers coming from different states which means that the move-ment will last longer.

...AND FINALLY

Is the BJP planning to remove Nitish Kumar

from active politics? If sources are to be be-lieved, BJP has proposed to Nitish that he can be made the next Vice- President of the country, but sources say that Nit-

ish is not going to settle for anything less than Raisina Bhavan.

The author is a jour-nalist and political

commentator and views expressed are

his personal

FIRST INDIA SUNDAY SPECIALBY TRIDIB RAMAN

GEHLOT-PILOT-DOTASRA TO COME TOGETHER FOR FARMERS TODAY! First India Bureau

Jaipur: 225 IRS officers including nearly half a dozen officers in Ra-jasthan have been pro-moted by the Central government. 107 officers were promoted to the post of Joint Commis-sioner. In Rajasthan, Alok Sharma, BL Mee-na & Nitin Vapa became Additional Commis-sioner from Joint Com-missioner, while Jas-veer Khichar, Dr Poon-am Meena, Neha Lal & Amit Kumar Singh were promoted from Dy Com-missioner to Joint Com-missioner. In a separate order, changes in the pay grade of 118 IRS of-ficers were made. The officers will now get the benefit of pay band-4.

Bhanwar S Charan

Kota: Former Baran District Collector Indras-ingh Rao will have to spend a few more days in jail as the bail plea of for-mer Collector, behind bars in a graft case, was rejected by the ACB court on Saturday. More-over, the ACB Judge Pramod Kumar Malik also made a stark re-mark, while dismissing the bail, when Rao’s counsel claimed he was being falsely implicated. While rejecting all the arguments, the judge, said in a comment that the outgoing collector In-dra Rao has violated the ‘zero tolerance policy’ against the corruption of the state government and through his subordi-nate, was involved in the

game of bribery. The judge also said that in view of the possibility of harassing witnesses and tampering of evidence, it would not be appropriate to give Rao the benefit of bail. The judge also ob-served that the court should not send a wrong message to the public therefore, Rao should not be granted bail.

The bail plea of Rao was presented in the Kota ACB court on Satur-day.

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot

JDA Commissioner Gaurav Goyal

Sachin Pilot

Centre promotes 225 IRS officers, 7 from Rajasthan

Former Baran Collector Rao to stay behind bars

Ahmed Patel Narendra Modi Nitish Kumar

Indrasingh Rao

Mass agitation to be organised at Shaheed Smarak in the noon, followed by Gehlot’s ‘dinner diplomacy’ at CMR

Pilot believed to attend both the programmes

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RESOLUTIONSRESOLUTIONSWith the onset of the New Year, new beginnings beckon and all of us

desire that the coming year be better than the previous one and make resolutions that we hope will make a difference!

nother year has begun and like always New Year Resolutions are the fla-vour of the season. Most of us make resolutions to lose weight, start exercis-ing regularly, be neater & tidier, be minimalist and

all the other things which we feel will im-prove our lives in the coming year. Do these things really

improve the quality of life? The reality is that if we want to

be happier and better human be-ings, we should make resolutions to be more compassionate, to be kinder, to reach out more to help people and not stand on judgment on others. I believe that these are the resolutions that will make the coming New Year happier not only for us but also for the world at large.

In 2021, women need to resolve to be stronger to stand up for what is wrong and that does not mean for ourselves but for others. When I say that women need to be stronger and bolder, I don’t mean just for our rights but even more so for our duties.

As career women, let us resolve to be an equal co-worker and desire no privileges because of our gen-der. Also, commit to self to always stand up and support other wom-en! Let us be women who are strong and empowered and take the stand for others who need us.

We will strive to be role models not for the commercial success we achieve but for being ‘women who stand by other women’.

Let us resolve to be and to not forget the lessons of the pan-demic; learn to find joy in the little things! In 2021, we will cherish our family and friends rather than material things and enjoy simple things like cooking, reading and playing

cards with family! We will be content and strive to learn a new skill this year!

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WEEKLYWEEKLY ARIESMAR 21 - APR 20

Look for any emotional outlet you can fi nd as the week begins. You need to clear the air on Monday, and friends and family will gladly oblige. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, you’ll have a thirst for adventure. Use a burst of bravado to seek out an appropriate challenge -- and aim high! You’ve got the stamina and energy to take on almost anything. On Friday and Saturday, you need to get back to your routine and take care of unfi nished business. You’ll have the time of your life if you work well.

TAURUSAPR 21 - MAY 20

Start your week by taking a risk -- especially a romantic risk, if you’re single. You’ll feel like baring your soul on Monday, and others will respond well to your emotional bravery. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, try to be patient and reasonable. Those are two of your greatest strengths, after all -- and you could use them right now, as others are looking to pick a (pointless) fi ght. On Friday and Saturday, expect to love and be loved. You’re at your fun, fl irtatious best right now, and others can’t resist your casual confi dence.

GEMINI MAY 21 - JUNE 21

Is your mind on your money? As the week begins, you might fi nd yourself obsessed with the material world, but that’s okay -- Monday is an excellent day for reassessing priorities and budgets. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, have fun at one of your favorite sports: verbal jousting and intellectual repartee. Just make sure you keep it light-hearted, you’re a clever enough conversationalist that others might take your witty quips too seriously. Be careful and considerate. On Sunday, you’re a magnet for fun and fl irting.

LEOJULY 24 - AUGUST 23

You might be lost in thought as the week begins, but in a good way! You’ve been doing some deep thinking, and that will be refl ected on Monday in the way you radiate warmth and contentment. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, all eyes are on you. Your reputation (excellent, of course) has been getting around, and others will want to bask in your confi dence and charisma. On Friday and Saturday, that extroversion will get turned inside out -- don’t be surprised to fi nd yourself looking for some plain, old peace and quiet.

VIRGO AUG 24 - SEP 23

Get organized! Start the week by getting your world in order, preferably in the company of like-minded others. Socializing will be energizing on Monday. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, you might feel overwhelmed by too much going on, but don’t despair. You’ve got the smarts to juggle all these details -- and the fl exibility to recover from anything unexpected. On Friday and Saturday, your planning pays off. Expect to fi nish up old projects and start on new ones. This Sunday, resist the temptation to make an impulse buy.

CANCER JUNE 22 - JULY 23

What a great way to start a week! You’re full of enthusiasm and emotional energy on Monday, so don’t be bashful when it comes to going after what you want. Your intuition is spot on, and your assertiveness will be rewarded. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, that same gusto could earn you some welcome applause and attention. Show off with confi dence and make an extravagant splash. On Friday and Saturday, you’ll fi nd you can master all of life’s smaller details, so it’s a good time to make plans.

LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22

Keep your head down as the week begins. You’ll face of fl urry of distractions and demands on Monday, and you’ll need some help from your friends to see you through. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, others will look to you to take the lead, so don’t be bashful about making plans and pointing the way. (And don’t sweat the details.) On Friday and Saturday, get out and get gregarious. Socializing will leave you feeling energized -- and you just might be able to help others out with your sensitive, diplomatic touch. This Sunday, all eyes are on you. Flirt up a storm.

SCORPIOOCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

As the week begins, it’s a great time to go after what you want. Monday fi nds you full of confi dence and charisma, and a deep conversation could lead you where you need to go. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, watch out for a power struggle. Your ego could get you dragged into a confl ict that you weren’t counting on -- and don’t want. On Friday and Saturday, try to do a friend a favor and you might end up learning a juicy secret or two in trade. This Sunday, indulge your imagination in the form of some overdue introversion.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22

Follow your mood as the week begins. You might not be on the same page as everyone else on Monday, but that mix in energies and perspectives could generate some interesting (and challenging!) new ideas. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, take every chance to take a gamble. Luck is on your side right now, and risk-taking is that fastest route to rewards -- whether that’s material gains, intellectual advances or just having some plain, old fun. On Friday and Saturday, show some caution. This Sunday, feel the love.

CAPRICORNDEC 23 - JAN 20

Don’t avoid the issues at hand as the week begins. You need to nip matters in the bud quickly, and Monday should provide the perfect opportunity for fulfi lling your responsibilities. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, things aren’t what they seem. Use your excellent analytical skills to exercise some caution -- you should be able to see what others are really after right now. On Friday and Saturday, make big plans see them come to fruition, thanks to your solid research and follow-through. It’s a great time to get something started.

AQUARIUS JAN 21 - FEB 19

The beginning of this week could be diffi cult if you’re not at your patient and fl exible best. You’ll have nothing to worry about though, if you can stop thinking and just forge ahead on Monday -- even if the task at hand isn’t that exciting. On mid days, expect a sudden surge of creativity. An intellectual insight could lead to a startling discovery, provided you’ve got the courage to experiment. On Friday and Saturday, switch from big-picture creativity to down-in-the-dirt detail herding. This Sunday, seek out something (or someone) new.

PISCES FEB20 - MARCH 20

If only every week could start this way! Expect your Monday to kick off with some fun and fl irtation, and don’t be bashful -- people can’t get enough of your company right now. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, you might feel like you’ve got too much going on, but you just need to take a deep breath and show some patience (and steer clear of other people’s dramas). On Friday and Saturday, be bold. Don’t worry if you don’t have everything all fi gured out, you’re better off jumping in and going for it. On Sunday, throw out the old and welcome in the new.

WEEKLYWEEKLYWEEKLYWEEKLYWEEKLY3 JANUARY– 9 JANUARY

AS THE GORGEOUS ACTRESS BIPASHA BASU TURNS 42 THIS WEEK, HER STARS ALSO SEEM TO SHINE BRIGHTER THAN THE LAST YEAR.

WITH A NEW HOPE OF ENTERING A SECOND PHASE OF HER CAREER, SHE IS POSSIBLY GOING TO ACHIEVE LOADS OF SUCCESS

AND POPULARITY IN THE COMING YEAR. BEING A FITNESS ENTHUSIAST, SHE PLANS TO GIVE HER FANS SOME TIPS TO STAY

HEALTHY AND FIT. LAST SEEN IN ALONE, SHE IS PLANNING TO RETURN TO THE SCREENS WITH HER UPCOMING MOVIE ‘NO ENTRY

MEIN ENTRY’. WE’RE EXCITED TO SEE THIS STUNNING ACTRESS CREATE SENSATION ON THE BIG SCREEN!

Justin Hartley and Sofia Pernas gave the perfect treat to all of their fans this New Year. The adorable couple has made their

relationship official on I n s t a g r a m that has led the netizens go berserk. They made headlines af-ter this an-nouncement on 31 Decem-

ber. They were earlier rumoured to be dating since May last year. However, neither of them confirmed the same un-til New Year’s Eve. Justin Hartley, known for his stint in This is Us shared a picture with the very gorgeous Sofia on his Insta-gram handle and wrote a sweet note.

—Agency

Busy Philipps has re-cently gone public about the sexuality and identity of her

older child Birdie Leigh. She has revealed that the 12-year old is gay. The 41-year old actress who is known for her stint in popular se-ries like Cougar Town has stated that Birdie was 10 years old when they came to

know about the same. Not

only that but she has also said that the latter pre-

fers them as pronouns instead of using

those like that of she/her. This announcement was made by the actress during the latest episode of her pod-cast titled B u s y Philipps Is Doing Her Best that aired on Thursday. She

proclaimed the same in front

of her co-hosts Caissie St. Onge

and Shantira Jackson. —Agency

Busy Philipps REVEALED

Rakul Preet Singh had recently announced that she was tested positive for COVID-19.

After treatment, the actress sucessfully defeated the virus and tested negative.

The actress in a recent in-terview recalled the tough and horrowing journey. In an interview, Rakul Preet said, “When I got my first symp-tom, which was just feeling a lot of fatigue, I dismissed it, assuming that it was because I had pushed myself too much. It just didn’t occur to me that it could be COVID. Besides, the unit undergoes a test eve-ry three-four days, so the thought that I could be infect-ed didn’t cross my mind. How-ever, I realised that something was wrong and underwent a rapid test. When it came posi-tive, I informed everyone and quarantined myself.”

She continued, “The indi-cation that you give your mind that you are healthy and fine plays a key role. I kept telling myself t h a t it’s no big deal and

that I will be up and about in no time. I believe that a positive mind attracts positive energy. I didn’t have to take too many medicines. I made sure that I was eating good, healthy, and n u t r i t i o u s food. I attrib-ute my speedy re-covery to m y healthy lifestyle and posi-tive out-look.”

—Agency

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Former model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen re-cently revealed that

she is 4 weeks sober, after posting a cheerful video on Instagram. In the vid-eo, the author was seen dancing to the song Good Morning, which is when a fan commented saying

“I need whatever drugs you’re on.” Queen of comebacks Chrissy then took to the comments sec-tion and snapped back saying she is “4 weeks so-ber,” along with a burst of heart and prayer emo-jis, after which the au-thor received several con-gratulatory messages

from her fans.This is not the first

time Teigen has discussed her struggles with addic-tion, previously, the star had told Cosmopolitan in 2017 that she was “point blank, just drinking too much” during that time in her career.

—Agency

Nicki Minaj recently opened up about her experience with moth-erhood! Celebrating her son’s 3 month birthday on Friday, the

rapper took to Instagram to share the story on his birth, “I was butt naked,” Nicki said during her In-stagram live. She detailed the in-cident and recalled that she had just gotten out of the shower and asked her husband Kenneth Pet-ty to rub her back. And before she realised, her water had bro-ken, she also stated that she was unexpectedly calm at the time, she just exclaimed “omg, I’m about to be in labour” when she realised. —Agency

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has recorded a song with his grand-daughter Aaradhya Bachchan. The 78-year-old actor took to

Twitter on Wednesday night to share a pic-ture from a recording session at a studio.

“... tomorrow dawns ... and the celebra-tions begin ... but for what ... it’s just an-other day another year ... big deal! Better off making music with the family,” he cap-tioned the photo. Nine-year-old Aaradhya Bachchan’s parents -- actors Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan were also present at the studio. —Agency

Bollywood actor Sushmita Sen, ex-tended New Year wishes to fans on

Saturday with a motiva-tional message.

Looking forward to having love and kind-ness in 2021, the ‘Aarya’ actor instilled the es-sence of ‘Hope’ with her latest Instagram post. The creative post shared by Sen sees the number 2021, recreated in a form that reads ‘HOPE’. With the post, the 45-year-old actor wrote, “I love this!!! #hope & the year #2021. Happy New Year to all of us...May we move forward with gratitude, love, kindness & a deep sense of inclusion!!” —ANI

Miss World 2017 pag-eant win-n e r

Manushi Chillar has been roped in by United Nations Women for a global initiative called #OrangeTheWorld to raise awareness on gen-der-based violence. The 23-year-old model-actor said women are most susceptible to violence in various forms every-where and her heart goes out to them.

“Women across all age groups are at constant risk and it is heart-breaking to feel this as a woman myself,” Chillar said in a state-ment. —Agency

Capturing the panoramic view on his camera lens, Ranveer Singh, on Sat-urday is seen enjoying the nature bliss from his trip to Ranthambore

National Park.The Kapoors,

Bhatts and Singhs are seemed to be en-joying the celebra-tions of New Year at Rajasthan’s national reserve park Ranth-ambore. The ‘Pad-maavat’ actor stopped by one of the lakes and cap-tured the beauty and shared the first pic-ture from his trip by him on his Instagram handle, Singh wrote, “#views” with the post. —ANI

THE GREAT DUO

‘HOPEFUL’

RAISING

SCENIC VIEW

4 weeks of sobriety

Rakul on her COVID Treatment

Nicki Minaj OPENS UP

It’s official now!

Alia Bhatt during the Safari

Chrissy Teigen

Rakul Preet Singh

Nicki Minaj

..their post

Ranveer Singh

Busy Philipps

Manushi Chillar

Sushmita Sen

From the studio

..his post

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CITY BUZZ

INDRAJIT UBANA

Kishangarh: Kis-hangarh, which holds the place as the largest marble market in the northern part of the country, has its special niche in the area of power loom as well. The Marble Association, which is formed by the enterprises associated with marble business, fully supports the ur-ban development, while the social concerns are also well-addressed by the officials of the asso-ciation.

According to Sudhir Jain, the President of the association, till now, the Marble Association has worked shoulder to shoulder with the gov-ernment during the Co-rona period, while the association has dis-charged its responsibil-ity for the problems cre-ated due to stagnant rainwater in lower are-as of the town.

On the demand of the association, the g ove r n m e n t - s a n c -tioned 4 crore rupees for addressing the issue of rainwater and dirty water coming out of the underpass on RK Link Road for years.

On the call of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot of ensuring that no one sleeps hungry and to look after migrant la-bour during Corona period, the association provided food and safe place to labourers. The association has also en-sured its full participa-tion in the successful operation of the airport in Kishangarh.

The Marble association

Jagdeesh Chandra wished Riya Sain, 2nd Runner-up of Elite Miss Rajasthan 2020 on her birthday.

Jagdeesh Chandra with Poonam and Vijendra Solanki at his residence on Friday, when they called on him on the occasion of the New Year.

GREETINGS!

Mahipal Singh, President Pali district Olympic association, executive member-RSOA, greeted, Janardhan Singh Gehlot, Sports Stalwart and President Rajasthan Olympic association and Tejashvi Singh, President Rajasthan Kabaddi association for the new year 2021 in Jaipur on Saturday. A good discussion on the sports calendar 2021 and other sports affair took place in the meeting.

Raj: Government Deputy Chief Whip Mahendra Chaudhary, his wife and former Chief, district Nagaur, Sunita Chaudhary met Neetu Singh, Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone on Saturday in Ranthambhore. They clicked pictures and discussed the new phase after the pandemic.

Guj: Ritesh Thakor shared his son, Vishu’s birthday celebration picture with First India. The celebration took place at home in Navrangpura area of Ahmedabad city on Saturday.

Raj: MLA Rafeek Khan was greeted on the first day of the New year by Raj Congress Parshad Asma Khan, Pushpendra Meena, Akbar Pathan, Naresh Nagar, Shakir Qureshi,Tata Prakash Meena and many others workers.

Guj: Kanika Rana is the name behind the popular jewellery brand, Kanika Rana Fine Jewellery in Surat. She was awarded as the most influential jewellery designer of India, 2020 recently. She also received the Woman leadership 2020, Surat for working as a leader of the Healthism campaign.

EVENTS!

Jagdeesh Chandra with Yogesh Mishra and Aruna Beniwal during a formal meeting at the former’s residence, in order to discuss the Femina Miss India Keto activity that would help the cancer patients.

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TTED

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Bollywood celebrities who were in the desert state to celebrate New Year’s, were spotted at Jaipur International Airport on Saturday, to fly back to Mumbai.

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CITY FIRST

grand book launch was witnessed in Jaipur on Saturday evening, w h e r e

Chef Taruna Birla launched her book ‘Enchanted’. The book is all about her exclu-sive recipes of deli-cious bakery items, and she was in a con-versation with Dr Ani-

ta Hada about the same. The book launch was organised by Youth Icon Rishee Miglani at Taj Jai Ma-hal Palace in the city,

and all the neces-sary precautions were maintained,

keeping in mind the rules and regula-

tions of COVID-19.All the who’s who of

Jaipur were present at the event and added charm to the evening.

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WHAT A BEGINNING!

Trans Welfare Society or-ganised a program, Welcoming 2021, Season 6, New Year of hap-

piness and new steps un-der the joint auspices of Arya Group of Colleges on Friday, taking all the pre-cautions against coronavirus. Meditation Guru and Society’s mentor, . President of program, Komal Chauhan said that this program is very close to her

heart. Co-partner of the program

and Vice President of Arya Group of Colleges, Dr Pooja Agarwal said that needy items were gifted to the children. Sunita Mee-

na, the chief guest at the program, praised the work and efforts of such programs. The program was moderated by anchors Ash and Veer.

—CITY FIRST

RAJASTHAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

CITY FIRST

Founders and Festival Directors of the Ra-jasthan International Film Festival (RIFF)

Somendra Harsh & Anshu Harsh, said that “The 7th edi-tion of the Rajasthan Inter-national Film Festival (RIFF) will be held from 20 to 24 March 2021 in a Hybrid For-

mat i.e. virtually and physi-cally in Jaipur and Jodhpur. The Opening Ceremony of the Rajasthan Interna-tional Film Festival like the previous year will be held at the Open Theater of the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur on 20th March 2021.”

Entries are invited for the Short, Documentary, Anima-

tion, Feature, Regional, Ra-jasthani, and Music Albums for the 7th Edition of the

Rajasthan International Film Festival (RIFF) 2021. The next deadline

to submit the films is 31st January 2021. The first list

of the films of the Rajasthan International Film Festival 2021 has also been released.

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Deepika Padukone and Alia Bhatt Ranveer Singh Ranbir Kapoor Neetu Kapoor Shaheen Bhatt Ayan Mukherjee Soni Razdan

During the program

Anita in conversation with Taruna Taruna with her book

Lokesh Sharma and Rishee Miglani

Sudhir Jain

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