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CORONA CATASTROPHE

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CRUCIAL READMUMBAI COURT CANCELS WARRANT AGAINST TOP COP PARAM BIR SINGHMumbai: Mumbai’s Esplanade Court on Tuesday can-celled the non-bailable warrant against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh in connection with the Marine Drive extortion case after he appeared before the court and fi led an application for the same.

CBI COURT SENTENCES 5 YRS IMPRISONMENT

ADMIRAL R HARI KUMAR TAKES OVER AS NEW NAVY CHIEF

Bhopal: CBI special court in Gwalior sentenced a candidate to fi ve years of rigorous imprisonment in a Vyapam scam case. It was alleged that the accused Arvind Agnihotri had taken admission at Medical College in Gwalior using fraudulent means through PMT 2009.

New Delhi: Admiral R Hari Kumar on Tuesday took over as the new chief of Navy as Admiral Karambir Singh, who has been at the helm for two years, Admiral Kumar was the Western Naval Com-mander before taking over as the country’s 25th Chief of Naval Staff.

SECOND CABINET REJIG COULD HAPPEN IN NEXT FEW MONTHS, HINTS GEHLOT

COVID: Random sampling of flyers at JAI

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Jaipur: In what is being termed as an apparent jibe at Pilot camp MLAs, who were instrumental in briniging a political crisis on Rajasthan gov-ernment, Chief Minis-

ter Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday those who helped his government during the ‘crisis’, may be ‘adjusted’ in the com-ing months. Notably,

First India, while re-porting on the cabinet expansion, had hinted that a second cabinet expansion would also happen a few months

down the line.In a meeting at the

state Congress head-quarters regarding the preparations for the Congress rally against inflation, and recalling the revolt of the Pilot camp last year, Gehlot assured that the MLAs who could not become ministers “would not receive any further complaints”. He also in-dicated that the cabinet expansion may happen again in six to eight months if there is a sig-nal from the high com-mand. Turn to P8

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Jaipur: New rules for corona test will be ap-plicable from Wednes-day at Jaipur Airport under which 5 percent of the passengers com-ing from different coun-ties will be randomly sampled. Passengers especially from UK, South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, Bangladesh, China, Mauritius, New Zealand and Zimbabwe will be screened. In ran-dom RT-PCR sampling, a fee of Rs 500 will be charged.

CM Ashok Gehlot

SENSEX DROPS 196 PTS; NIFTY SLIPS BELOW 17,000

Mumbai: Equity bench-mark Sensex dropped 196 points on Tuesday, after rallying over 900 points, the 30-share BSE index surrendered all gains to settle 195.71 points or 0.34 per cent lower at 57,064.87. Similarly, the NSE Nifty declined 70.75 points or 0.41 per cent to close below the 17,000-mark at 16,983.20.

New Delhi: Opposition parties including Con-gress, DMK, RJD, Left and AAP on Tuesday staged a walkout from the Rajya Sabha after their demand to revoke the suspension of 12 MPs was rejected by Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu. Soon after the House assembled for the day, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge read a submission re-questing the Rajya Sab-ha Chairman to revoke the suspension of 12 MPs from the House for the entire winter ses-sion. Kharge also point-ed out that he was not allowed to raise a point of order and it is a gross violation of the rule. However, the Chairman denied revoking the suspension, saying the House named all mem-bers on August 10 and requested them to help in the functioning

Later the Congress, Left, RJD and AAP members stood on their seats and started slo-ganeering against the government.

As the Chairman con-tinued the House pro-ceedings and started Zero Hour, Congress leader Kharge said “we protest and walk out from the House”. Follow-ing this, the Opposition leaders held a protest at the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament. The suspended MPs in-clude six from Congress, two each from TMC and Shiv Sena and one each from CPM and CPI.

PM Modi will inaugurate FinTech leadership forum on Dec 3

New Delhi: Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a lead-ership forum on Finan-cial Technology (Fin-Tech) on Friday, Decem-ber 3. It will bring to-gether business leaders, policymakers and lead-ing minds to find solu-tions in the fintech field for inclusive growth. According to a state-ment by the govern-ment, the Prime Minis-ter will inaugurate the forum at 10am via video conferencing. The agen-da of the forum will fo-cus on the theme of ‘Be-yond’. Representatives of more than 70 coun-tries are expected to take part in the forum.

‘Waited for long’, SC to decide punishment for Vijay Mallya in JanNew Delhi: The Su-preme Court on Tues-day said it has waited for sufficiently long, and the process to award punishment to Vijay Mallya in a contempt of court, in which he was held guilty in July 2017, must get over. The top court has scheduled the matter for disposal in January, where it will decide the quantum of punishment for him. So-licitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the

Centre, submitted a note by the Ministry of External Affairs for the court’s consideration. A bench headed by Justice

U.U. Lalit, citing the note, said that Mallya’s extradition proceedings have attained finality, as he has exhausted all av-enues of appeal in the UK. However, certain confidential proceed-ings are going on and the UK has not disclosed the details of these pro-ceedings. “Matter in terms of directions is-sued by this court in its 2017 order shall now be listed on 18 January 2022,” it said.

Vijay Mallya

Lucknow: Ahead of the Assembly elec-tions in Uttarakhand, the Pushkar Singh Dhami government Tuesday announced the withdrawal of the controversial Char Dham Devasthanam Board Act. The state government had ta-bled the Uttarakhand Char Dham Shrine Management Act, 2019, in the state As-sembly in December

2019 amid protests within and outside the Vidhan Sabha.

CM Dhami tweet-ed. “Considering the sentiments and inter-ests of people, hon-our of priests and stakeholders and oth-ers associated with Char Dham and on the basis of the re-port of a high-level committee constitut-ed under Manohar Kant Dhyani, the gov-ernment has decided to repeal Devasthan-am Board Act.”

Uttarakhand to repeal Char Dham Devasthanam Board Act

Centre issues new guidelines for international passengersNew Delhi: Amid the rising concerns of the new COVID-19 variant ‘Omicron’, India has is-sued new guidelines for the international pas-sengers arriving in In-dia, after some coun-tries reported cases of this variant.

According to an advi-sory issued by the Cen-tre, the self-declaration board form on Air Su-vidha Portal, which has the travel history of the last 14 days of all inter-national passengers ar-riving in India, is filled completely before boarding.

“Separate holding area (while they are waiting for their RT-PCR test results), may-be demarcated for the passengers coming from ‘at-risk’ countries in each airport, with proper amenities for passengers.

NO CASE OF OMICRON REPORTED IN INDIA SO FAR: MANSUKH MANDAVIYA

MHA EXTENDS CONTAINMENT MEASURES

THOSE JABBED MAY HAVE ASYMPTOMATIC COVID INFECTIONS

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, in Rajya Sabha during Question Hour on Tuesday, said that no cases of new COVID-19 variant ‘Omicron’ have been reported in the country, so far. We are immediately checking suspicious cases and conducting genome sequencing. We have

learnt a lot during the COVID crisis. Today, we have a lot of resources and laboratories. We can manage any situa-tion,” the minister said.

New Delhi: MHA ex-tended validity of Covid containment measures till December 31 to curb fur-ther spread of the deadly disease, directing state governments to take pro-active containment meas-ures. The order, directs for rigorous screening and testing of all international arrivals. —ANI

New Delhi: A proportion of the vaccinated individuals may still have mild or asymptomatic infections of COVID-19 deadly virus, Union MoS for Health Bharati Pawar warned on Tuesday. Therefore, it is important to maintain COVID appropriate behaviour at all times, she stressed.

WINTER SESSION

OPPN PROTESTS, STAGES WALKOUT

The kind of indiscipline we saw in last Monsoon session was never seen before. One Opposition MP tried to vandalize an LED screen, few MPs attacked women marshals. It was important to take action to maintain the dignity of the House. —Piyush Goyal

Bitter experience of the last Mon-soon Session still continues to

haunt most of us. I was expecting and waiting for the leading lights of House to take lead in express-

ing outrage over what happened in last Session. Such assurance would have helped me in han-dling the matter but unfortunately it will not be. —Venkaiyah Naidu

We have staged a walkout from Lok Sabha to support the 12

Opposition mem-bers of Rajya Sabha who have been suspended. The action of suspension from

the current winter session points at a ‘retrospective effect’. The government is using suspension as a “threat” to silence the Op-position —Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

Why apologize? To raise people’s issues in Parliament? No, not at all!—Rahul Gandhi

We have boycotted the proceedings for remaining day in protest against suspension.—KC Venugopal

QUOTE UNQUOTE

OPPOSITION HOLDS MEET

BIRLA CALLS MEETING OF FLOOR LEADERS

SUSPENDED MPs WILL WRITE TO RS CHAIRMAN

PM MEETS WITH TOP MINs

New Delhi: Leaders of various Opposi-tion parties will meet on Wednesday at 10 am in the offi ce of Mallikarjun Kharge to chalk out the strategy for the ongoing winter session of the Parlia-ment. The leaders of Opposition met at Kharge’s offi ce twice on Tuesday over the suspension of 12 Rajya Sabha MPs.

New Delhi: In an attempt to end the deadlock between the government and Opposition during the ongoing winter session, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla called a meeting of Floor leaders of all parties on Tuesday, which was at-tended by majority of leaders.

New Delhi: The suspended Opposition MPs are likely to write to Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu and argue against their suspension. Moreover, the suspended leaders will also stage a sit-in protest before the Gandhi statue in Parliament on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with top minis-ters in Parliament to discuss strategy for the ongoing winter session. The meeting was joined by Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Narendra Singh Tomar, Pralhad Joshi, Piyush Goyal, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.

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Jaipur: In a run up to the December 5 visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Jaipur, senior party leaders reached JECC Conven-tion Centre at Sitapura to inspect the arrange-ments and gave direc-tion to the officials and system in-charges re-garding the prepara-tions.

BJP State President Dr. Satish Poonia, Dep-uty Leader of Opposi-tion Rajendra Rathore and former State Presi-dent Arun Chaturvedi reviewed the prepara-tions to make Shah’s visit to Jaipur memo-rable. Shah is sched-uled to address the BJP’s state working committee and public representatives confer-ence. BJP state presi-dent Satish Poonia has been holding mara-thon meetings continu-ously for the last 4-5 days.

“State Working Com-

mittee meeting will start at JECC at around 1 pm. Amit Shah will deliver the address and there will be a review regarding the pro-grammes and organi-zation of the party. Af-ter that there will be a public meeting. In which, apart from MPs, MLAs, about

10,000 people’s repre-sentatives associated with municipal bodies,

panchayati raj and co-operatives will be in-volved,” said Poonia.

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Sri Ganganagar: A 11-year-old girl was raped late on Monday at a village where she had come to attend a wed-ding in Sri Ganganagar. The police registered a case of rape on Tuesday and are investigating the matter.

Police are talking to people who attended the wedding to gather infor-mation but have not got any concrete evidence. The girl’s family had come to attend a wed-ding.

The victim was play-ing with her friends when an unknown per-son came and lured her away. Seeing the girl go-ing away, her friends raised an alarm but could not help her. The girl’s friends then in-formed the family. The family members then started searching for the girl. Late on Monday, the girl was found lying in the field of a farm in the vicinity.

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Jaipur: The state’s sec-ond gas insulated sub-station (GIS) was virtu-ally inaugurated in Jaipur on Tuesday. The 33/11 KV substation has been set up to supply electricity to consumers in Ramganj area.

The unique feature of this project is that around 9,000 houses in the area will be able to get electricity through remote control. Besides, there will be no inter-ruption in power supply or tripping.

Power minister Bhan-war Singh Bhati inau-gurated the substation from Bikaner by press-ing the remote button during a video-confer-ence. Congress MLA from Kishanpol Amin Kaggi and MLA from Adarsh Nagar Rafiq Khan were also present at the event held at Vid-yut Bhawan. Giving more information, dis-com MD Bhaskar A Sawant and JVVNL MD

Naveen Arora said that the project, built at a cost of Rs 7.5 crore, has been part-funded by the Centre’s power finance corporation.

The first GIS in Ra-

jasthan was built at the women’s hospital in Oc-tober. Two more such substations are being built at Meena Ka Nada and Bhagwati Nagar, Mahesh Nagar.

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40,000 BJP WORKERS TO WELCOME AMIT SHAH IN JAIPUR Shah is scheduled to address BJP’s state working committee and public representatives conference at JECC in Sitapura on December 5

Satish Poonia, Arun Chaturvedi, Rajendra Rathore, Neeraj Jain & others inspecting arrangements at JECC Convention Centre, Sitapura in Jaipur on Tuesday.

—PHOTOS BY SUMAN SARKAR

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Jaipur: A man was bru-tally murdered by crushing his head and face with stones and leaving him in a bloody condition among the bushes at a deserted place near the govern-ment school at Chain-pura village in Bassi police station area, po-lice said on Tuesday. ACP Suresh Sankhla reached the spot and the FSL team was called to the spot.

The police have found a diary of the victim in which a love letter has

been written for a girl on the basis of which the police suspect that murder due to a love af-fair. The victim has been identified as Vicky, 28, a resident of Sawai Madhopur. He lived on rent in Harijan Basti near Gadha Park in Na-hargarh police station area.

About 40,000 peo-ple will welcome Shah in a road show from airport to JECC

Shah will be wel-comed on Rangilo Rajasthan theme

5,000 workers of Mahila Morcha will shower lotus, rose and marigold fl owers

Shravan Singh Bagri appointed in-charge of the welcome cam-paign

As Shah leaves the airport, 51 pundits will apply tilak to Shah and recite the Swastik mantra

300 motorcycle-borne Yuva Morcha workers will ride ahead of Shah’s cavalcade

Large billboards, party fl ags and big balloons are being put up along the road

Amit Shah will address and there will be a review regarding the programmes and organisation. After that there will

be a public meeting. In which, apart from MPs, MLAs, about 10,000 people’s representatives will be present. —Satish Poonia, BJP State President

First India Bureau

Kota: A woman lost her life while trying to catch a train at the railway platform in Kota. The woman from Etah in Ut-tar Pradesh succeeded in boarding the train but lost her life due to breath-lessness.

She was gasping for breath and her condition deteriorated. She was rushed to MBS Hospital but died. The deceased, Sunita, 57, was going from Ratlam to Mathura in Gujarat Kranti Ex-press with her husband.

In a similar incident, while boarding a moving

train in Kota, a man died due to slipping. The de-ceased Parveen, 41, was a resident of Pachpadra, Barmer. He was return-ing to Belori after getting his son admitted to coaching. While catch-ing the Jaipur-Mysore train, his foot slipped in haste.

DC, Mayor, Commissioner need to inspect cleanliness system: PSKFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Food & Civil Supplies Minister Pratap Singh Khachari-yawas reached JMC Heritage to take a meet-ing regarding the clean-liness system and the campaign Prashasan Shehron Ke Sangh. The top officials of the cor-poration including Her-itage Mayor Munesh Gurjar were present in the meeting. Pratap Sin-gh gave strict instruc-tions regarding cleanli-ness and asked to take action against those who are negligent.

He said that BVG has crossed all limits. DC, Mayor and Commis-sioner need to visit and inspect the cleanliness

system. He urged the Corporation to take strict action against BVG. Speaking to offic-ers of the corporation,

he said, “You have ex-tended the contract of BVG, why should the public bear the brunt of it?”

Pratap Singh Khachariyawas & Munesh Gurjar at Jaipur Municipal Corporation Heritage. —PHOTO BY NAIM KHAN

Man killed brutally in Bassi, love affair a prima facie cause

Woman & man die while trying to board moving trains in Kota

Ramganj gets state’s 2nd GIS, 9k houses to get quality power

Minor lured from wedding venue, raped

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Police at the crime spot.

You have extended the contract of BVG, why should the public bear the brunt of it? We do not have anything to talk to

you. BVG has no right to go on a strike.— Pratap Singh Khachariyawas, Food & Civil Supplies Minister

Jaipur: In the state, new biomass power pro-jects will be set up at Malasar in Churu district and Nokha in Bikaner district. Additional Chief Secretary Energy Dr. Subodh Agrawal gave this information in the Annual General Meeting of State Energy Development Corporation on Tuesday. He informed that earlier in the month of October itself, approval has been given to set up one biomass power project in Jaipur and Chhatarpur in Bikaner. Dr. Agrawal informed that for regular monitoring of the overall power system in the state, review would be done in the meeting of Energy Effi ciency Committee every month.

BIOMASS POWER PLANTS WILL BE SET UP IN BIKANER AND CHURU

GRAND PREPS FOR SHAH

RAJASTHAN ISSUES ADVISORY AGAINST STARLINK INTERNET SERVICESJaipur: The Department of Telecommunications has advised the public not to subscribe to the Starlink services being advertised by the company, saying that Starlink Internet Services is not licensed to provide satellite-based Internet services to the general public in India. Siddhartha Pokharna, Dy Director General, Rajasthan, said that providing satellite based services in India requires requisite license from the Depart-ment of Telecommunications, GoI, but the said company has not obtained any license/authorization for providing satellite based internet services which are being booked on its website. - PTi

Bharatpur: BSP workers protested by burning an effi gy of Municipal Corpora-tion Mayor Abhijeet Kumar Jatav at the District Collectorate in Bharatpur on Tuesday. The effi gy was burnt under the leadership of BSP district president Anoop Korwal. BSP workers say that Mayor Abhijeet Kumar Jatav has used abusive words against the BSP party in a programme with ministers on Monday and demanded apology.

Jaipur: The Excise team has seized 163 bot-tles of foreign liquor. This action was taken under the leadership of Jaipur City Excise Offi cer Pradyuman Singh Chun-dawat. The action was taken at 200 feet bypass road & two places in Vidhyadhar Nagar. Six bottles of imported liquor were recovered from the possession of accused Pradeep Kumar at 200 feet bypass. 2500 IB brand caps were also recovered from his pos-session.

Ajmer: A woman on Tuesday registered an FIR with the Christian-ganj police here accus-ing the elder brother of her husband of rape in a guest house on false pretext and threaten-ing to kill her.

BSP WORKERS BURN EFFIGY OF ABHIJEET KUMAR

WOMAN RAPED BY BRO-IN-LAW

EXCISE TEAM SEIZES 163 BOTTLES OF FOREIGN LIQUOR

Rajendra Chhabra

Jaipur: The unique manner in which Na-gaur Collector Jitendra Kumar Soni celebrated his birthday has got the entire state bureaucra-cy in a perpetual dis-cussion over the ‘event’, even as the state gov-ernment has received a complaint about the Collector’s ‘actions’.

The birthday was celebrated publically with the ‘coordination’ of an NGO wherein more than one hundred

needy children were distributed free slip-pers.

Those in the know-how of the rules and regulations of state work claim that any civil servant celebrat-ing his or her birthday in such a manner i.e. publically and with a private organization, is completely wrong and this behaviour is ill-suited to any offi-cial seated in a respon-sible position. This is also in violation of the service rules and the

birthday celebration, perhaps organized in extreme enthusiasm, has drawn major criti-cism.

Off late there has been a populist meas-ure wherein even

small-time politicians put up large hoardings of theirs in public plac-es to make themselves appear as a serious and senior politician. How-ever, for public serv-ants, all such ‘pomps’

are restricted.If the Nagaur Collec-

tor Jitendra Kumar Soni felt like distribut-ing slippers to chil-dren, then this event could have been organ-ised on Children’s Day or any national day and not on his birthday.

Now, there is word that the state govern-ment is mulling on is-suing a strict guideline to avert such acts so that an end can be put to the complaints amassed with the state government.

Criticism and a possible ‘WHIP’ from the state govt!NAGAUR COLLECTOR’S BIRTHDAY GIFT

SLIPPERS DISPLAYED

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OMICRON SCARE!O2 READY: 28,000 BEDS, 475 PLANTS

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Jaipur: In order to ap-pease the striking resi-dent doctors, the state government has ap-proved temporary posts of 1,054 junior resident doctors in seven medi-cal colleges of the state.

Students who have passed from current session will be appoint-ed. According to the or-ders by Vaibhav Galriya

Secretary, Health De-partment, the tempo-rary posts have been approved from Dec 1 to Feb 28 or till the comple-tion of NEET-PG coun-selling, whichever ear-lier. Out of total posts, 376 for Jaipur, 133 for Jodhpur, 116 for Ajmer, 112 for Kota, 108 for Udaipur, 128 for Bikan-er and 81 for Jhalawar Medical College have been approved.

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Jaipur: In view of the increasing scare of Omi-cron, new variant of Co-rona, district collectors have been asked to run special campaigns to ad-minister the second dose of vaccine to those who have skipped it, Health Minister Parsadi Lal Meena said on Tuesday.

Meena said that the state government has taken a number of steps in the wake of apprehen-sions about the possible third COVID-19 wave.

“There was a short-age of oxygen during the second wave. To overcome this, more than 475 oxygen plants have been set up. The

target is to produce 1000 metric tonnes of medi-cal oxygen. More than 40,000 oxygen concen-trators have been ar-ranged,” he said.

The health minister said that according to

experts, a possible 3rd wave of coronavirus can have an effect on chil-dren. In such a situation, the basic infrastructure of all children’s hospi-tals in the state is being strengthened, he said.

Resident docs on strike: State govt approves 1,054 temporary posts in 7 medical colleges

COVID-19 UPDATE

ICU BEDS FOR CHILDREN

9,54,785TOTAL CASES

15 IN A DAY

9,45,637TOTAL RECOVERED

8,955TOTAL DEATHS

0 IN A DAY

193ACTIVE CASES

108 IN JAIPUR

Campaign to administer 2nd

vax dose, says Health Minister

l 28,000 beds with oxygen support prepared

l 2600 ICU beds being prepared for children

l Plan to generate 1070 metric tonnes of oxygen daily

l 550 oxygen generation plants being set up.

l 475 oxygen generation plants ready already

l 68,021,768 people have been given corona vaccine

l 43,448,884 have been given the 1st dose

l 24,572, 884 have been given 2nd dose

l 40,000 oxygen concentrators arranged

l Genome sequencing all positive being done at SMS

l Sero surveillance is being used to keep an eye on immunity

There was a shortage of oxygen during the second

wave. To overcome this, more than 475 oxygen plants have been set up. The target is to produce 1000 metric tonnes of medical oxygen. More than 40,000 oxygen concentrators have been arranged.—Parsadi Lal Meena, Health Minister

As resident doctors at SMS hospital are on strike, patients queue up and wait for their turn (inset) A girl gets nasal swab testing at SMS hospital on Tuesday.

—PHOTOS BY SUMAN SARKAR

Patients queuing up at SMS hospital on Tuesday.

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Ajmer: After the resig-nation of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the com-pany has appointed Parag Agarwal as CEO.

Before shifting to Amer-ica, Parag’s father Ram Gopal Agrawal worked in BMRC in Mumbai, but then Parag’s grandparents con-tinued to live in a rented house in Ajmer’s Paddy Mandi area.

On hearing the news of Parag’s appointment, the Agrawal community was

seen exchanging sweets and celebrating his suc-cess in the lanes of Ajmer

on Tuesday. After be-coming the CEO of Twitter, there is happi-

ness among his rela-tives in Ajmer.

His parents will also

reach Ajmer soon and they will be welcomed on December 4.

Before becoming the CEO, Parag was the Chief Technology Of-ficer in Twitter.

He was made the CTO in October 2017, but its official announcement was made in 2018.

While studying at Standford University, he also did internships in Microsoft, Yahoo and AT&T. Parag holds an engineering degree from IIT Mumbai.

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Twitter’s new CEO Parag

Agarwal has a deep Rajasthan

connection as he was born at

JLN, Ajmer. Due to his father’s

job, he shifted to Mumbai.

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Jaipur: Municipal Cor-poration Greater Mayor Sheel Dhabhai on Tues-day went out on a tour with the officials of the corporation and inves-tigated more than half a dozen restaurants and cafes. She noticed gar-bage on the roads and found irregularities in two restaurants run-ning in a building named Floating Walls on Gandhi Path of Vaishali Nagar. She found that hookah and liquor was being served there without valid li-cences. The fire system were also installed in both the restaurants.

VDO RECRUITMENT: BOARD REJECTS 919 APPLICATIONS DUE TO DOUBLE FORMSJaipur: The applications of more than 900 candidates for the Village Development Officer (VDO) recruitment ex-amination, to be held on December 27 and 28, have been cancelled. 919 candidates had filed more than one applica-tion for the exam to be conducted by the Rajasthan Staff Selection Board, said Board Chairman Hariprasad Sharma. The board has accepted application of only one form, cancelling others who have filled it multiple times. On the basis of which the candidates will be able to appear in the recruitment test. Sharma said that even if any candidate has any objection, he or she can contact the board and get name added again before exam.

RAJ HOSTING 75TH EDITION OF SANTOSH TROPHY, MATCHES FROM DECEMBER 1-5

Jaipur: Rajasthan has started hosting the matches of sen-ior men’s national competition Santosh Trophy.The West Zone match of the 75th edition of the Santosh Trophy is being hosted by the Rajasthan Football Association (RFA). Due to which matches will be played from December 1 to 5 at Poornima University here. In this regard, the jersey and team of Rajasthan team were announced on Tues-day. In the midst of continuous 1 month of practice, RFA Secretary Dilip Singh Shekhawat, ROA executive member Mahipal Singh Nimbada, RFA Deputy Secretary Hemant Singh Parihar, Poornima University director Rahul Singhi announced 22 players of the team.

ACB ARRESTS DEPUTY CTI OF AHMEDABAD-DELHI RAJDHANI EXPRESS TAKING BRIBEAbu Road: ACB team arrested Deputy CTI on Monday night while accepting bribe in lieu of providing a seat in Ahmedabad-Delhi Rajdhani Express. According to the information, the team of Ahmedabad and Palanpur ACB carried out the action in the third AC of Rajdhani Express going from Ahmedabad to Delhi. Deputy CTI Kamlesh Sharma was caught taking a bribe of Rs 1,500. Sharma was brought to Palanpur and was later taken to Gandhina-gar. The railway officials refrained from commenting on the issue. Sharma was on the radar of ACB for a long time.

NEWS DIGEST Tenure of acting Mayor Sheel Dhabhai extended for 3rd term

Setback! Curtains down at Nahargarh’s Padao after NGT order

Nirmal Tiwari

Jaipur: Nahargarh’s Padao restaurant, downed its shutters for now on Tuesday. In com-pliance with the orders of the NGT, the district administration on Tuesday closed all the three restaurants on premises of Amer Fort as well as light& sound show at Nahargarh.The tourism corpora-tion has filed a petition

in the SC in this matter, which is to be heard on December 1. Wildlife enthusiast Rajendra Ti-wari had filed a petition in the NGT regarding operation of restaurant and bar here and also operation of a light and sound show and a res-taurant inside the Amer Fort. It was said in the petition that commer-cial activities should not be conducted inside a protected forest.

Mayor Sheel Dhabhai was miffed on seeing piles of garbage in Vaishali Nagar.

PARA TEACHERS PROTEST OUTSIDE CONG OFFICE AS MEETING WITH MAKEN DENIEDJaipur: The agitating para-teachers and Sikshakarmis on Tuesday went to the office of state Congress here to meet Ajay Maken, who is in charge of the party affairs in the state, to submit a memorandum to him demanding regularisation of their jobs. But when police did not allow them to go inside to meet him, they started sloganeering. The cops rounded up four para-teachers, two of whom are women. They are demanding regularisation are taking forward their movement by employing new strategies. It is worth mentioning that Madrasa para teachers, Rajiv Gandhi Pathshala Para Teachers and Shikshakarmis have been agitating continuously.

PARAG’S GRANDFATHER WORKED AS BOOKKEEPERAccording to his landlord and neigh-bours in Ajmer, Parag’s grandfather used to work as a bookkeeper and his family struggled a lot financially. Parag’s father lived with his grand-parents in a rented house for many years. Shailendra Agrawal, president of Agrawal Samaj Ajmer, said that Parag was born on May 21, 1984 in the JLN Hospital.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: UDH & LSG Minister Shanti Dhari-wal has approved the proposal to extend the tenure of Sheel Dhab-hai, the acting Mayor of Jaipur Municipal Corporation Greater, for 60 more days. An order for the same will be issued by the LSG Department for the third time.

Dhabhai’s current term is ending on Dec

ember 5. It is being said that before extending tenure, minister in-quired about the work-ing of Dhabhai, her work related to the ar-eas of BJP and Con-gress MLAs. She was made acting Mayor af-ter Dr Somya was sus-pended.

Deputy Mayor Puneet Karnawat sought termination of BVG’s contract saying “cleanliness system of the city has collapsed.”

OUST BVG: MAYORThe Mayor reprimanded the officials and instructed to take action against both the restaurant operators. After which, Health Officer Rashmi Kankaria started action against both the restaurant operators. Dhabhai said that first notice should be given and when it is not accepted, then sealing action should be taken. Dhabhai wants BVG company out of the city.

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Parag’s grandparents lived in this home.

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WHY ARE INDIANS CHUCKING THEIR NATIONALITY FOR FOREIGN SHORES

nion Minister of State for Home Nity-anand Rai informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that 1,11,287

Indians gave up their citizenship till September 30 this year. Last year 85,248 Indians took the citi-zenship of other countries. The maximum outflow of citizens, I,44,017, was in 2019. The total number of Indians who gave up Indian nationality, the Minister informed the House, during the past five years was over six lakh. These are besides the Indians already living abroad.

This is surprising as the emi-gration is taking place despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal against brain drain as he wants to make India aatmnirbhar (self-reliant). What is particularly significant is that those emigrating are taking the higher education route and bet-ter living conditions abroad mo-tivates them to stay back. There may be many who leave the country with a sense of aliena-tion and their reading of the country’s future. It is time to take corrective steps to stop this feeling of alienation from grow-ing in the youth.

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arliament is grad-ually becoming ir-relevant. Debates are becoming rare as the government

pushes through its agenda sans discussion. It happened when the farm laws were passed and it happened again when the laws were repealed. Suspension is a convenient weapon in the hands of pre-siding officers to deal with Op-position members who want to be heard. The government argued that the Bill repealing the laws was passed with con-sensus whereas the Opposi-tion demanded a discussion on the delay in withdrawal of the laws. Nothing of the sort

happened as the contentious Acts were rolled back.

It is unclear as to what is the way forward---will the mini-mum support price get statu-tory support or will it contin-ue the way it is. Farmers, who sounded firm on a law guaran-teeing the MSP, appear to have

reconciled with what the gov-ernment has offered.

Opposition also became re-dundant after the suspension of 12 Rajya Sabha members for the entire session. The Treasury side wants the sus-pended MPs to apologise for their unruly conduct which

they have refused to do. It led to a boycott of the House on Tuesday and with both sides adamant, the stalemate may continue.

The issue here is not the suspension of MPs or the subsequent boycott, the point to consider is the manner in

which discussion and debates are being done away within both the Houses of Parlia-ment. The Bill to rollback farm laws was passed in 12 minutes! Where is the scope for peaceful and insightful debates if a bill is rushed through in this manner?

OPPOSITION GETTING REDUNDANT The Treasury side wants the suspended MPs to apologise for

their unruly conduct which they have refused

to do. It led to a boycott of the House on Tuesday and with both sides

adamant, the stalemate may continue

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BJP EMERGES MATCHLESS BUT TMC CRIES FOUL

IN TRIPURA CIVIC POLLS,

ven as the civic polls were seen as a precursor to the Big Ticket Assembly polls in Tripura in 2023… and if that is true by any sense… The end result was largely tilted in fa-vour of Biplab and Company.

Ending days of intense speculation and reports of “violence” in the state… re-sults of the civic polls in Tripura showed that BJP was the most mandated party as it bagged a landslide victory winning all 14 urban bodies. The elections were held on No-vember 25. The saffron party made a clean sweep in 11 ur-ban bodies, including Agar-tala Municipal Corporation.

Of the 222 seats in 14 urban bodies that went to the elec-tions, BJP emerged winners in 217. The Left or rather the CPI(M) (to be precise), which won in all the urban bodies in the last civic body polls, man-aged to win in three seats across three urban bodies—Kailashahar and Ambassa

Municipal Councils and Panisagar Nagar panchayat.

TMC which bagged the sec-ond-highest number of votes after the saffron party in the Agartala Municipal Corpora-tion (AMC) managed to win a single seat in the Ambassa Municipal Council while the Tripura royal scion Pradyot Kishore-led TIPRA Motha etched victory in just 1 seat.

Thus… for the first time, there’s “no” opposition in Agartala Municipal Corpora-tion.

Polls were held for 14 of 20 urban local bodies in the state on November 25. Out of 324 municipal seats in the state, the BJP won 112 seats uncon-tested and was well ahead of others even before the contest began. The remaining 222 seats saw a stout 81.54 percent turnout of voters.

Claiming that BJP’s victory in the Tripura civic polls as an endorsement from voters in favor of “good governance”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, “The people of Tripura have given a clear message – that they prefer politics of good governance. I would like to thank them for their unequivocal support to @BJP4Tripura. These bless-ings give us greater strength

to work for the welfare of each and every person in Tripura.”

However, Trinamool was in no mood to be subdued. In-stead, TMC leader Rajib Bh-attacharjee said, “Despite so much rigging, booths being looted, violence, false voting and attack on our supporters, the results show TMC could not be entirely stopped. BJP did scientific rigging during the polls. But even then, Tri-namool got 24 per cent of the votes on an average across all the urban bodies. TMC re-ceived the second highest number of votes.”

Tripura TMC convener Subal Bhowmik said, “This was not an election where the government could change. It had a different dynamic. The results show that a TMC vote bank has been formed in Tripura and this will take us to victory in 2023.”

Soon after winning the cru-cial Assembly elections in May this year, TMC had literally “left home” to “acquire” green-er vistas to add to its already “fertile” arena in Bengal.

And in its bid, the TMC successfully managed to eat into the Congress majorly in Goa and the Meghalaya and brought home the sons of the soil to their fold.

The party (TMC) raked up the violence issue in Tripura to an extent that its delega-tion rushed to the national capital to seek an appoint-ment with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah days be-fore the civic polls in Tripura.

It may be recalled that the matter had reached the Su-preme Court and the apex court had also ordered additional forces to the state to maintain free and fair elections.

However, the Supreme Court on Monday, a day after the Tripura results were an-nounced, sought the response of the Centre and the BJP-ruled Tripura government on a PIL seeking a court-moni-tored probe by a special inves-tigation team (SIT) in the com-munal violence in Tripura.

A Bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and A S Bo-panna posed the query on the PIL alleging that the state was hand-in-glove with the perpetrators.

Appearing for PIL petitioner Ehtesham Hashmi, advocate Prashant Bhushan alleged that the violence that took place in October targeted religious places, business establish-ments and houses belonging to a particular community.

Trinamool, meanwhile got down with the usual business and the party’s supremo, Mamata Banerjee on Tues-day night held a closed-door meeting with her “all-India” strength including leaders inducted from places like Goa, Haryana and Megha-laya and the party main-tained that TMC was the rightful opposition to the BJP-led Union government.

As if Mission Tripura has been accomplished… at least for now. Didi, meanwhile, has grand plans and is all set to visit Mumbai now to meet NCP and Shiv Sena leaders.

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY

THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

ETrinamool, meanwhile got

down with the usual business and the party’s

supremo, Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday night held a

closed-door meeting with her “all-India” strength

including leaders inducted from places like Goa,

Haryana and Meghalaya and the party maintained that TMC was the rightful

opposition to the BJP-led Union government

TMC which bagged the second-highest number of votes after the saffron

party in the Agartala Municipal Corporation(AMC) managed to win a

single seat in the Ambassa Municipal

Council while the Tripura royal scion

Pradyot Kishore-led TIPRA Motha etched victory in just 1 seat

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Free Press Journal, Mumbai and former Managing Editor, First India

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Didi’s poll plan: Include all, trust only Bengalis!Mahesh Sharma

Jaipur: West Bengal Chief Minister and Tri-namool Congress lead-er Mamata Banerjee’s ambition is to hold the reins of pan-India poli-tics. For this, she is re-cruiting exhausted leaders from all across the country and send-ing them to the Rajya Sabha and other places.

The party is also s p e n d i n g its ‘re-s o u r c e s ’ on this w o r k , but it seems that Mamata has no faith in the leader of any other state. Her core politics ap-pears to be reliant on Bengali leaders. Per-haps this is why, in whichever state she is going to contest elec-tions, the charge of that place is being giv-en to a Bengali leader whom Mamata trusts.

Her election strate-gist- Prashant Kishor- may be from Bihar but she has to do all India politics with Bengali identity and Bengali leaders.

When she decided to contest the assembly elections in Goa, she broke Luizinho Flario of Congress into her party and sent him to the Rajya Sabha. But the charge of contesting the elections there was giv-en to TMC MP Mohua Moitra. Just as she chose a Bengali leader to contest elections in Goa. In Haryana

also she has made her

par-

ty’s MP Sukhendu Shek-har Roy in charge. There too, Ashok Tanwar of Congress has been bro-ken and inducted into TMC, but Sukhendu Shekhar Roy of Bengal will remain state in charge. In Tripura, Mamata Banerjee is do-ing politics of Bengali vote, so she has entrust-ed the responsibility to her nephew Abhishek Banerjee. He has re-cruited leaders from states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Assam,

Goa, Haryana etc., but poli-tics will be done only

on the ba-sis of Ben-

gali lead-ers.

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Congress MP K Suresh slips in Parl corridor

New Delhi: Congress Loksabha MP K Suresh slipped in the Parlia-ment corridor while coming out from LoP Mallikarjun Kharge’s office in the Rajya Sab-ha, after the meeting of Opposition parties on Tuesday.

Following the inci-dent, the MP was pro-vided first aid and then taken to Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital for further check-up.

Leaders from various Opposition parties held a meeting at Rajya Sab-ha LoP Mallikarjun Kharge’s office at Par-liament on Tuesday over the suspension of 12 Opposition members of the House.

TMC skips Oppn meet for 2nd consecutive dayNew Delhi: Trinamool Congress on Tuesday skipped the meeting of Leaders of Opposition for the second consecu-tive day during the on-going winter session of the Parliament. The meeting was attended by leaders of 16 parties including Congress, Shiv Sena and Aam Aadmi Party.

Channi fears me, tried to backstab: Amarinder Singh

New Delhi: Punjab’s former Chief Minis-ter Captain Ama-rinder Singh has criticised his succes-sor Charanjit Singh Channi as someone who “tried to back-stab me”.

Amarinder Singh, who broke away from the Congress to form his own party, said Mr Channi is not an efficient leader and “fears me”.

Amarinder Singh resigned as Chief Minister late last month after a tumul-tuous series of events in the Punjab Congress that prompted him to mince no words in criticising party chief Sonia Gandhi.

“Channi can say whatever he likes to, he fears me. He tried to stab me in the back to become the Chief Minister,” Ama-rinder Singh told me-dia today.

“He (Mr Channi) is not doing his job. He is touring the state. I have dealt with at least 14 general sec-retaries. This man (Harish Chaudhary) has been sitting in very meeting where he has no right to be in. He is running the Punjab government, not Channi,” the for-mer chief minister said.

“I am against the very word Dalit Chief Minister. He is a capable boy. Wheth-er he is good admin-istrator or not time will tell. I think India should grow out of this thing if a person is Dalit or Jat, etc,” Amarinder Singh said, referring to the Congress appointing the state’s first Dalit Sikh Chief Minister.

Not an efficient leader, says ex-Punjab CM

YET TO TAKE CALL ON CRYPTO ADS: NIRMALAThe government will soon introduce a Bill in Parliament, says FinMinNew Delhi: Terming cryptocurrency as a “risky area,” Finance Minister Nirmala Si-tharaman on Tuesday in Rajya Sabha said that they are yet to take a call on advertisements around cryptocurrency. The statement comes a day after she was quot-ed as saying in the Lok Sabha that there was no proposal to recognise Bitcoin as a currency in the country.

“This is a risky area and not in a complete regulatory framework. No decision was taken on banning its adver-tisements. Steps are taken to create aware-ness through RBI and SEBI. The government will soon introduce a Bill,” Sitharaman said during the Question Hour in Rajya Sabha.

The Finance Minis-ter also said that regula-tion of Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) is being discussed by the Centre. NFTs can be any digital asset, be it a jpeg file or

GIF or even a digital music file. The hype in cryptocurrency has also resulted in a boom for the NFT market globally.

She also added that the risk that cryptocur-rencies could lead to undesirable activities

is also being closely monitored. When asked by MP Sushil Kumar about the steps taken to

curb advertisements, Sitharaman added that “investors have been cautioned.”

On taxes collected on crypto trades, Sithara-man asserted, “Don’t

have ready informa-tion about the amount of tax col-

lected on crypto-currencies.”

“Keeping the propriety of the

House, any an-swer now will preempt the discussion which will come with Bill. That discussion would be held,” she added.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament.

New Delhi: An extensive operation was conducted in the surrounding areas of Manipur by the Se-curity Forces to nab the insurgents involved in the recent terror attack on the Assam Rifl es convoy on November 13, informed the MHA in a written reply in LS on Tuesday. In a written reply to whether the Govt intelligence re-veals any kind of involve-ment of foreign hand in the insurgent attacks in North-east, the ministry said, “There is no specifi c information indicating any such involvement in the attack.”

New Delhi: Replying to a question, Union MoS for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai on Tuesday said that till now, the government has not taken any decision to prepare the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) at the national level. Rai said as far as Assam is con-cerned, on SC direc-tions, the hard copies of the supplementary list of inclusions and online family-wise list of exclusions in NRC have been published on August 31, 2019.

‘OPS CONDUCTED TO NAB ASSAM INSURGENTS’

‘NO DECISION YET TO PREPARE NRC’

NO CASTE-BASED CENSUS OTHER THAN SCS, STS SINCE INDEPENDENCENew Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday said that it has not enumerated caste-wise popula-tion other than Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the census since inde-pendence. Rai said castes and tribes, which are specifi cally notifi ed as SCs and STs, are enumerated in the decadal Census.

This is a risky area and not in a complete regulatory framework. No decision was

taken on banning its advertisements. —Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister

New Delhi: A bill that seeks to bring clarity concerning date of eli-gibility of additional quantum of pension to a retired judge was in-troduced in Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju introduced the High Court and Su-preme Court Judges (Salaries and Condi-tions of Service) Amendment Bill, 2021. The bill seeks to amend

High Court Judges (Sal-aries and Conditions of Service) Act and The Supreme Court Judges

(Salaries and Condi-tions of Service) Act.

The bill proposes to insert an explanation in section 17B of the High Court Judges Act and in section 16B of the Supreme Court Judges Act to clarify the intention of the government.

The bill was intro-duced amid protest by oppositon members over their various de-mands. —ANI

Bill to amend HC judges Act in LS

SAME SEX COUPLES SEEK PROCEEDINGS’ LIVE STREAMINGNew Delhi: The Delhi High Court Tuesday di-rected the Centre to re-spond to a plea by LG-BTQ couples who are seeking live streaming of proceedings on a batch of petitions to recognise same-sex marriages under the special, Hindu and for-eign marriage laws on the ground that the mat-

ter is of great national and Constitutional im-portance.

The high court also issued notices on three more fresh petitions by same-sex couples seek-ing recognition of their marriages, taking the total number of such pleas to eight.

A bench of Chief Jus-tice DN Patel and Jus-

tice Jyoti Singh granted time to the Centre’s counsel to take instruc-tions on the matter and file replies on the three

fresh petitions and the application for live streaming of proceed-ings. It listed the matter for hearing on Feb 3.

The court was hear-ing a batch of petitions filed by several same-sex couples, seeking a declaration recognising their marriages under the special, Hindu & for-eign marriage laws.

PLEA TO RECOGNISE MARRIAGE

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Jaipur: In the hotly-contested assembly elections of West Ben-gal few months back, bypassing all logic, the Election Commission had conducted the polls in eight phases in the midst of the dreaded second wave of Corona virus.

Many political par-ties kept demanding that in view of the in-creasing number of in-fected, the election

should be ended soon, but the commission did everything according to the schedule. The com-mission has also started preparations for the as-sembly elections of five states to be held next year and has said that everything will be ac-cording to the schedule. Therefore, there should not be any doubt about the election schedule.

But in the meantime, a new variant of the co-rona virus, Omicron, has resurfaced and the

whole world is in panic due to it. It is being said about Omicron that it spreads at six to seven times faster than Delta

and no dose of vaccine is affecting it.

Although more stud-ies are being done about it, but one figure

is that till now the delta variant, which created havoc, took a hundred days to spread, but Omicron spreads in just 15 days. The speed with which it has trave-led from South Africa and Botswana to Hong Kong, Israel and sever-al European countries is certainly a matter of concern.

Meanwhile, the hav-oc of Delta continues and the whole world is in its grip. Many coun-tries across Europe,

America and Asia are also facing the third wave of Corona. Only then there is a fear that the third wave may not start in India as well.

Although the third wave may not be as frightening as the first two, the Election Com-mission should start preparations to avoid it.

Keep in mind that cases have increased af-ter festivals in many states. Right now, cam-paigns and election ral-lies of parties have

started in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa etc. It is true that the Election Commis-sion has not announced the election yet, so it has no legal role to play.

Nevertheless, the Commission should take initiative in coor-dination with the Cen-tral and State Govern-ments and for this some initiative must be taken so that the corona ex-plosion does not hap-pen due to the pre-poll rallies.

WILL ‘OMICRON ECLIPSE’ MAR 5 ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS?RESURGENCE!

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The speed with which it has

traveled from South Africa and

Botswana to Hong Kong,

Israel and several European

countries is certainly a matter

of concern

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Mumbai: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday landed in Mumbai for three days tour. After reaching Mumbai, the TMC Supremo visited Siddhi Vinayak temple and said that earlier she didn’t get time to visit the temple.

“I have prayed for the well being of people. Mumbai is the only place from where we can get good industri-alization,” said Mama-ta Banerjee.

After visiting the temple, Mamata also paid homage to the free-dom fighters those who have died in November 26 terrorist attack.

Ahead of leaving Kol-kata, the West Bengal Chief Minister said that she is visiting Mumbai to invite industrialists in ‘Biswa Bangla Busi-ness Summit’ scheduled in April 2022.

Notably, Maharash-tra Chief Minister Ud-dhav Thackaray who had undergone a sur-

gery could not meet Mamata but his son Aditya Thackaray

along with Sanjay Raut visited Mamata Baner-jee in her hotel.

Mamata is also sched-uled to hold a meeting with Sharad Pawar on

Wednesday.Notably, the All India

Trinamool Congress is

leaving no stones un-turned to build an ‘an-ti-Modi’ front ahead of

the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

Claiming that she had visited Mumbai earlier on business summits, Mamata said that the situation is conducive to start new industries in West Bengal.

“As everyone knows that my aim is to bring industry to West Bengal as the situation is fa-vourable here. Will work on this aim in Mumbai,” mentioned the TMC Supremo.

—Agencies

Didi meets Sanjay Raut, Aaditya Thackeray in MumbaiPOLITICAL SOJOURN

New Delhi: Parag Agrawal, who has tak-en over the reins of Twitter after resigna-tion of Jack Dorsey, is being trolled over one his old tweets, which the users claim portrays him as a racist. But Agrawal has shut those targeting him, includ-ing some Republicans in the United States.

The tweet at the cen-

tre of the controversy was posted by Agrawal in 2010, when he was not even an employee of Twitter. It quoted a co-median mocking rac-

ism and Islamophobia in America.

As news of Agrawal’s appointment as new CEO of Twitter broke out, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted,“USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!”

. Meanwhile, Agraw-al stated that he hopes to extend the social net-working site’s reach un-der his tenure. —PTI

‘OMICRON’STIRS THE NATION...New Delhi: Union Health Secretary, Rajesh Bhushan chaired a high-level meeting on Tues-day with officials from States and Union Terri-tories to review Covid public health response measures and prepared-ness amid reports of Omicron variant of Covid in various coun-tries.

Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 does not escape the RTPCR test and Rapid Antigen Test, the government said on Tuesday while urging states and union terri-tories to ramp up test-ing and surveillance of international passen-gers. —PTI

Centre reviews preparedness to deal with new variant

Centre advises States to ramp up testing for early detection

New Delhi: Pune-based Serum Institute of In-dia (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla said his company has spent over Rs 10,000 crore on the production and distri-bution of Covishield vaccine and added that handling public scruti-ny and accountability was one of the biggest challenges for him. He also said Covovax, an-other Covid-19 vaccine being manufactured by his company, was cho-sen for multiple reasons for children and is like-ly to be approved by February next year.

He further said, “We bet on the partnership we had with AstraZen-

eca. We had absolutely no idea which vaccine would work. We have seen scale-up issues

with other manufactur-ers. It has worked out well for us with Astra-Zeneca-Oxford. We are

talking to a few compa-nies for fill and finish. Fill-finish can be done with several partners.

Covovax could be filled at Biocon or our facili-ty.” He added, “The gov-ernment has placed or-ders for 200 million doses per month till De-cember for Covishield. By October-end, we should be able to see some exports to resume. We are waiting for di-rections from the gov-ernment in light of ex-isting stocks.

Union Health Minis-ter Mansukh Mandavi-ya said India will re-sume export of sur-plus vaccines next month under ‘Vaccine Maitri’ program, but vaccinating its own citizens remains govt’s top priority. —Agencies

CRUCIAL READS

HEAVY RAIN LIKELY IN MUMBAI TODAY CYCLONIC STORM IN ODISHA, ANDHRA

PAK MODEL APOLOGISES AFTER ROW OVER PHOTOSHOOT AT KARTARPUR SAHIB

New Delhi: The weather office has forecast heavy rain in northern Gujarat and north and north-west Maharashtra today. Palghar, Thane and Mumbai could be the worst hit, according to the forecast. A cyclonic storm may also hit Andhra and Odisha coasts on Saturday morning. A low-pressure area over the Andaman Sea may develop in next 12 hours & intensify into a cyclonic storm over central Bay of Bengal around Friday, the IMD said. A low-pressure area is likely to form over east central Arabian sea off Maharashtra coast during the next 24 hours. The cyclonic storm that may hit Andhra coast and Odisha is likely to move west-northwest by Thursday. —ANI

New Delhi: A Pak model, Sauleha, has apologised after furore over her pictures at the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur. Some netizens had pointed to her

“bareheaded” pictures & said the religious place is not a picnic spot. She later deleted the photos after facing backlash online and issued an apology. “Re-cently I posted a picture on Instagram that was not even a part of a shoot or anything. I just went to kartarpur to learn about the history & know about Sikh community. It wasn’t done

to hurt anyone’s sentiments. However, if I have hurt anyone or they think that I dont respect their culture. I’m sorry,” she wrote on Instagram. —Agencies

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya informed Parliament on Tuesday, that a local company has devel-oped a vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) and currently results of its Phase 3 clinical trials are being studied. Madaviya, during the Question Hour in Rajya Sabha, said. “We are working on both TB & dengue vaccines. When experts say we can go ahead with vaccination, then we will definitely go(ahead with the process),” the Minister further said. —ANI

New Delhi: The BSF will not act as parallel police in states where its jurisdiction has been extended from 15 to 50 Km by Centre, said Pankaj Kumar Singh, DG BSF. “I would like to make clear that in case of any operations conducted by BSF in extended jurisdic-tion area, the FIR will be registered in local police station & it will be probed by them. We are not going to act as parallel police or doing an investigation, it is a misleading fact spread,” he said. —ANI

New Delhi: Delhi HC is-sued notice to Facebook and others on a petition filed by Bhojpuri Actor Neha Shree seeking to restore access to her Fa-cebook page and account immediately and delete all obscene, immoral and illegal content from her page and account. Justice

Rajnish Bhatnagar asked Facebook Inc, Delhi Gov-ernment & City Police to file a reply on the petition filed by Neha Shree. The court has listed the matter for March 28 for further hear-ing. —ANI

New Delhi: Delhi HC refused to entertain a plea seeking direction to the Centre and Delhi govern-ment to ban the sale and

publication of Congress leader Salman Khurshid’s book Sunrise

Over Ayodhya: Nation-hood In Our Times. A bench of CJ D.N. Patel & Justice Jyoti Singh pulled up the petitioner for not impleading the author of the book or publication house as a party to plea, saying he was a chance taking petitioner who filed the plea for publicity. —PTI

New Delhi: Union Road Transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari said that his ministry is going to issue an order directing carmakers to introduce flex-fuel engines. Flex-fuel, or flexible fuel, is an alternative fuel made of a combination of gasoline and methanol or ethanol. “To reduce import of fossil fuels, I am going to sign a file in the next 2-3 days, in which carmakers will be asked to make flex-fuel engines vehicles (that can run on more than one fuel),” the minister said. —ANI

New Delhi: India’s Gross Domestic Prod-uct (GDP) has grown by 8.4% in the second quarter of the financial year, as per the data re-leased on Tuesday, 30 November. This, as per PTI, is mainly due to waning low base effect. India’s GDP had seen a record rise of 20.1 percent in April-June quarter. The present (July-September quarter) is the fourth straight quarter of expansion. Meanwhile, Gross Value Added in economy recorded an 8.5% growth. —ANI

EXAMINING PHASE 3 STUDY OF TB VAX: GOVT

BSF WILL NEVER ACT AS PARALLEL POLICE, SAYS DG

HC SEEKS FACEBOOK’S RESPONSE OVER HACKING OF ACTRESS’ PAGE

DELHI HC REFUSES TO ENTERTAIN PLEA SEEKING BAN ON KHURSHID’S BOOK

WILL MANDATE USE OF FLEX-FUEL ENGINES: GADKARI

INDIA GDP GROWS BY 8.4% IN Q2 ON LOW BASE

States were advised to ramp up test-

ing for prompt and early identification of any cases and target/prioritized testing of passengers from countries not “at-risk”, as part of the ramped-up testing by the states. Continued need for further vacci-nation coverage, ad-herence to Covid ap-propriate behaviour and need to avoid mass gatherings was stressed upon.—Balram Bhargava, ICMR, DG

Covovax jab for kids by Feb 2022: Poonawalla

Old Tweet: Netizens slam new Twitter CEO

“We have submitted data to the WHO for Covovax. We chose Covovax for multiple reasons as the vaccine for children. Vac-

cine stocks are no more a hindrance. We have over a month’s stock. By February, we should have approval for Covovax for children as young as 2-3 years. The execution was the hard-est part from Capex to retail. We have spent more than 10,000 crores on the production and dis-tribution of Covishield. We had to return about $200 million to countries who we couldn’t supply due to export restrictions have been taking to some funds off the record.”

—Adar Poonawalla, SII CEO

PUNE SCHOOLS TO REMAIN SHUT TILL DEC 15

‘HAR GHAR DASTAK’ VAX DRIVE TILL DEC 31

Pune: Reopening of schools for Standard 1 to 7 has been post-poned till December 15 in view of Omicron vari-ant of COVID-19 spread in parts of the world, according to the Pune Municipal Corporation. In an official order, the corporation informed that further decisions in matter will be taken after reviewing the situ-ation after December 15. Earlier state govern-ment had announced to reopen schools from December 1. —ANI

New Delhi: The ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ or door-to-door vaccination campaign against coronavirus disease launched by the central government earlier this month, will be continued till December 31, news agency ANI reported.The drive has been extended with a focus on achieving 100 per cent first-dose Covid-19 vaccination coverage, and also completing the backlog of the second dose, it further said. —ANI

STALWARTS MEET

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met the former Prime Minister of India and Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), H D Deve Gowda in the Parliament. “Had a great meeting with our former PM Shri @H_D_Devegowda Ji in Parliament today,” PM Modi tweeted. —PHOTO BY ANI

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Parag Agrawal@paraga

“Deep gratitude for @jack and our entire team, and so much excitement for the future. Here’s the note I sent to the com-pany. Thank you all for your trust and support.

And I’m grateful for your continued mentorship.”

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Maharashtra Minister and Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray and party leader Sanjay Raut meets West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee during a meeting, in Mumbai on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI

New Delhi: BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh on Tuesday said”These dramas are very old... Every party wants to be the leader (of Opposition parties). Mamata Banerjee wants to be the leader. Now the days of Sonia Gandhi are over,” said Ghosh. —PTI

MAMATA WANTS TO LEAD OPPN, SONIA GANDHI’S DAYS ARE OVER: GHOSH TMC SUPREMO TO

MEET PAWAR TODAYMaharashtra Minister for Minority Affairs & Senior NCP leader Nawab Malik said, “Mamata Didi is on a Maharashtra tour and she will meet Pawar sahab to-day at 3 pm. It’s a goodwill visit, following which she will address the press and inform the public about the discussions.”

As everyone knows that my aim is to bring industry to WB as the situation is favorable here. Will work on this aim in Mumbai.

—Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Congress lead-er Sachin Pilot, who is in Colombo, while talk-ing to a private channel said that it was wrong not to discuss the with-drawal of the three con-troversial farm laws in a democracy. He said that the Central govern-ment must discuss the Opposition’s demand.

Reacting on the sus-pension of 12 MPs from Rajya Sabha, Pilot said that the government was serving its politi-cal interests through this. Regarding the cabinet re-shuffle in Ra-jasthan, he said a balanced reshuffle has been done.

Pilot said that all would work hard to win the assembly elections in 2023. Responding to

what fate would the state meet if a

Punjab like for-mula was im-p l e m e n t e d here, Pilot said that the high

command will decide on

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...farm laws withdrawal sans discussionPILOT SLAMS

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All would work hard to win the Raj assembly elections

in 2023. The Centre was serving

its political interests through

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NITI AAYOG’S NOD FOR PLAN TO BOOST TOURISM ON INDO-PAK BORDER Jaisalmer: The initiative taken by Collector Ashish Modi to boost tourism on Indo-Pak border has finally paid off with the NITI Aayog approving the project. Apart from encour-

aging border tourism, the project also aims at making the tourists aware of the modus operandi of the BSF. The visitors will also come to know about the kind of life the BSF jawans spend there. Under the project, the

Tanot-Longewala-Bablian circuit will be developed. Jaisalmer is listed among the “aspirational districts” under which col-lector has envisaged the project. The news of NITI Aayog’s approval has brought cheers among the residents here.

LOVELORN COUPLE DIE BY SUICIDE AFTER FAMILIES OPPOSE RELATIONSHIPBarmer: A young couple allegedly died by suicide by jumping into a water tank in Barmer district after their families objected to their relationship as they belonged to different castes, police

said. Pawan (22) and Mamta (19) were missing from their houses since Sunday and their bodies were found in a water tank on Monday even-ing, said Buta Ram, Station House Officer of Chohtan Po-lice Station area. The bodies

were taken out late Monday evening and were handed over to family members on Tuesday after post-mortem, the SHO said. The family members were not agree for the marriage because the couple belonged to different castes, the SHO added.

TEMPLE PRIEST BEATEN TO DEATH BY SUSPECTED THIEVES IN JALOREJalore: A 70-year-old priest was beaten to death inside a temple by suspected thieves in Rajasthan’s Jalore district, police said on Tuesday. The priest, living in a small temple

in Dhumandiya village, was killed when he was sleeping inside the temple premises on late Monday night, Bagora police station’s SHO Sadar Singh said. Singh said the initial probe into the murder indicated that some unidenti-

fied accused had entered the temple premises with an inten-tion of theft and they thrashed the priest Nandu Ram to death after he woke up after hearing some noise, the SHO said. Singh said the cause of death will clear after the post-mortem.

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READY TO POUR ANYTIME IN RAJ!

The rainfall is likely to occur in Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur divisions in south and south east Rajasthan on December 1 whereas the light to moderate rainfall may occur on December 2 in Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur and Ajmer divisions, a MeT official said. However, Churu was recorded as the coldest place in the state with a minimum of 6 degrees Celsius last night. Sangariya in Hanumangarh recorded 7.1 degrees while the night temperature at other places was between 7.6 and 16.4 degrees Celsius. People enjoying a breathtaking view at the iconic Albert Hall, Jaipur on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA

Roadways suffered due to transport dept policies: CMDShivendra Parmar

Jaipur: The deterio-rating condition of Ra-jasthan Roadways is causing losses to it. Roadways CMD Sand-eep Verma has held its administrative divi-sion – the Transport Department -- responsi-ble for the sad state of the Roadways. He has questioned the wrong policies of the trans-port department be-cause of which the roadways can neither buy new buses nor is able to pay the seventh pay commission to its employees.

A few days ago, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot

took a review meeting of the Roadways offi-cials and the Transport Department but no questions were raised by the Roadways CMD on the policies of the Transport Department.

Verma has written a letter to the Principal Secretary Transport

questioning his poli-cies, in which he men-tioned how the Trans-port Department was ignoring the interests of the Roadways. The CMD has also put the Transport Department in the dock for illegal cargo carriage on the roofs in private buses.

Because of the wrong policies of the transport

department roadways can neither buy new buses nor is able to pay the seventh pay commission to its employees.

—Sandeep Verma, CMD Roadways

`2,000 cr: Mines ACS sets fresh revenue target for deptNirmal Tiwari 

Jaipur: Additional Chief Secretary Mines, Petroleum and Energy, Dr Subodh Agrawal has given a target of earn-ing Rs 2,000 crore more revenue from the mines than the last financial year.

Agrawal said that this target would be eas-ily achieved by taking effective action against illegal mining and pre-venting wastage of rev-enue. Agrawal was tak-ing a review meeting of the departmental offic-ers through video con-ference on Tuesday.

He said that this year a new record will be set by the Mines Depart-ment in earning reve-nue.

He directed for e-auc-tion of pending con-tracts of RCC and ERCC. He has appoint-ed SME Jaipur Pratap

Meena as the State Co-ordinator. Similarly, as per the orders of the Supreme Court, Addi-tional Director BS Sod-ha was directed to make Coordinator to coordi-nate the problem pro-ceedings related to Ba-jri and M-sand.

Illegal mining has been dereasing due

to effective action, but the officers will have to continue field visits and patrols so that illegal mining can be stopped.

—Dr Subodh AgarwalACS Mining Department

Three nephews arrested for shooting man dead in BundiFirst India Bureau

Bundi: Police on Tues-day claimed to have solved the murder of a 40-year-old farmer in Nanakpuria village of Bundi district and ar-rested three of his nephews.

Superintendent of police Jai Yadav said that two of the de-ceased’s nephews were having a land dispute

with Banta Singh. Fol-lowing this, the ac-cused gave a Rs 5 lakh contract to two of his other cousins, Gurprit Singh and Sukhvind alias Sonu, to kill Ban-ta Singh.

According to police, the accused reached Banta Singh’s house past midnight and pumped five bullets into Singh who was sleeping in his verandah.

The murder acccused in police custody in Bundi.

Head-on collision between trailer- car claims three lives in RajsamandFirst India Bureau

Rajsamand: The head-on collision between a trailer and car in Darada Valley under Dewair po-lice station area on Tues-day morning claimed lives of three people on the spot while seven oth-ers people were injured.

With the help of vil-lagers, the dead bodies and the injured were taken out and all the in-jured were referred to the district RK hospital in Rajsamand.

After the incident, long queues of vehicles on both sides of the Darada valley blocked the traffic. After the ef-fort, the trailer and car were removed and traf-fic started.

All the injured were sent to the district hos-pital from where three have been referred to Udaipur when their condition is deteriorat-ed critical. While all the three bodies have been kept in the mortuary of Deogarh CSC.

At present, the trailer driver is absconding from the spot and police have started searching for the accused by seiz-ing the trailer. Accord-ing to the information, all the people in the car were going from Jaipur to Udaipur.

The ill-fated car after the incident in which three people were killed in Rajsamand district on Tuesday.

Judge, son injured in road accidentin Chittorgarh First India Bureau

Chittorgarh: A judge and his son were in-jured in a road accident in Parsoli police sta-tion area of the district when the car in which they travelling over-turned after its tyre got punctured. SHO Ram-dev Singh Vidhuri said that SC/ST court Judge Rakesh Gupta and his son Dishank were com-ing from Kota. Both had gone to their home for a holiday. The tyre of the car detached from the vehicle after it got punctured.

Harnek gets relief in Jr. Mirdha kidnapping case

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Serving the life sentence for the abduc-tion case of former Un-ion Minister Ram Niwas Mirdha’s son Rajendra Mirdha on February 17, 1995, Harnek Singh was given relief by a divi-sion bench of Justice Prakash Gupta and Jus-tice Umashankar Vyas in the Rajasthan High Court. Court has orders to release him on per-manent parole. At the same time, the High

Court has set aside the July 14 order of the com-mittee refusing to re-lease Harnek Singh on parole. During the per-manent parole, if the petitioner indulges in any unwanted activity, the remaining sentence can be completed by withdrawing the perma-nent parole.

High Court has released him on permanent parole

8 ACCUSED IN AJIT BENIWAL MURDER CASE GET LIFE TERM Jaipur: A local court on Tuesday sentenced all the 8 convicts in the Ajit Beniwal murder case to life imprison-ment. Concluding hearing in the 6-year-old case, Additional Sessions judge Kamal Lohiya pronounced all the accused guilty of murdering student leader and awarded sentence. The de-ceased was 18-yr-old and studying in Maha-raja Agrasen College in Bhadara when he was beaten to death.

Adarsh Co-op scam: HC relief to investors First India Bureau

Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court has provided relief to hundreds of in-vestors who have lost their deposits in the Adarsh Credit Co-Opera-tive Society and they are now hopeful of getting their money back.

The High Court, while disposing of probably the biggest ever petition of 1573 investors, or-dered the liquidator ap-pointed in this case to settle the matter of these

investors in 90 days. A few days back, the

High Court had pro-vided similar relief to the investors of Sanjee-vani Credit Co-opera-tive Society.

Harnek Singh

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OM MATHUR MEETS WEST BENGAL GUVRajya Sabha MP Om Mathur with West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar in Kolkata on Tuesday.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Chief Secre-tary Niranjan Arya on Tuesday reviews prepa-rations for summit with District Secretaries and concerned departmen-tal officials through video conference. Dur-ing the day, Arya also took meetings on few other issues in state.

Biosphere reserveCS directed officials to mark new wetlands in their respective dis-tricts as per the rules laid down for inclusion in Ramsar list. He also took information about level of pollu-tion.

Eng medium schoolsArya said that Mahat-ma Gandhi State Eng Med School is flagship scheme of state govern-ment.

Issues of telecom companies in RajCS asked District Col-lectors to ask telecom companies to apply on-line only for approval under Right of Way. He said all matters of sanc-tions to be settled soon.

Aishwary Pradhan

Jaipur: CM Ashok Ge-hlot, Congress national general secretary and in-charge of party af-fairs in the state Ajay Maken and PCC Chief Govind Singh Dotasra held a preparatory meeting on Tuesday at its state headquarters here regarding the na-tionwide ‘Mehangai Hatao’ protest to be held on coming December 12 against the Centre’s failure in checking in-flation.

All party MPs, MP as-pirants, state ministers, legislators, MLA candi-dates, AICC office-bear-

ers from Raj, state party office-bearers and sen-ior party leaders par-ticipated in the meet-ing.

Gehlot said that par-ty workers must com-plete whatever work is assigned to them by the AICC. Petrol prices are skyrocketing but due to upcoming polls in some states, it is put under check, he stated, adding that it is time for the Centre to grant the oil companies subsidies so that prices can be brought down.Ajay Maken exhorted the party workers to bring the party back to power in 2023.

Shivendra Parmar/Dimple Sharma

Jaipur: With the cur-rent Chairman of RPSC, ex-IPS Bhupen-dra Singh, about to re-tire and CM Gehlot con-gratulating him on an eventful and good ten-ure, the search for the new RPSC Chairman has been initiated and while many names were being thrown in the ‘arena’, the word in the political and bureau-cratic circles, till Tues-day, was that yet anoth-er IPS, DGP ML Lather, would take on the man-tle. ‘Lather will not go to Ajmer, he has already told his mind to govt a week ago,’ a highly placed source close to Lather told First India. According to highly

placed sources, after Lather’s ‘unwilling-ness’, the top leadership has virtually dropped his candidature for RPSC because keeping in mind 2023, the leader-ship would not like to annoy the powerful Jat community to which an honest and transparent Lather belongs.

Thus, possibility of Lather becoming next RPSC Chief is now zero and now after unwill-ingness of the present DGP to move to Ajmer,

search for a new person has been reinitiated and someone may be ap-pointed in next day or two as it might take some time to find Lath-er’s alternative. Now after this new devp, some political figures may also emerge on the scene. However, a lobby of IPS officers is ‘circu-lating and suggesting’ name of DG ACB BL Soni for post. In case of Lather would have gone to Ajmer, next choice for PHQ was certainly Soni.

There is much to understand in this world, one individual cannot do it - but together

humanity can - for the best of humankind.

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GEHLOT, DOTASRA, MAKEN EXHORT CONG WORKERS TO MAKE ‘MEHANGAI HATAO’ RALLY A GRAND SUCCESS!n Centre to grant oil firms subsidies

so that prices can be down: CM

n Ajay Maken asked party workers to participate in good numbers in rally

n Dotasra said petrol prices have gone up due to wrong policies of Centre

Promoted by Pacific Medical University

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot with Ajay Maken, Govind S Dotasra & Raghuveer Meena at PCC headquarters in Jaipur on Tuesday.

CS Niranjan Arya with Ashutosh AT Pednekar and Sreya Guha addresses review meeting for the summit through VC on Tuesday.

The Invest Rajasthan 2022 Summit is the manifestation of our commitment to building enduring partnerships with

pvt enterprises for development of Rajasthan. I invite you to experience and benefit from the bouquet of exciting opportunities Rajasthan has to offer and to join us in building a promis-ing future for all of us. —Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister

In the New Year, Udaipur, will have a sum-mit of immigrant Rajasthani and Udaipur

residents living abroad. Rajasthan Founda-tion commissioner Dhiraj Srivastava on Tuesday met Udaipur DC Rajendra Bhatt, Collector Chetan Deora, ADC OP Bunkar, to review preps & investment opportunities for district level summit to be held in January.

MoUs will be signed at district level in the Summit, says Arya

Not Lather, someone else to head RPSC after Singh’s retirement!

DHIRAJ TAKES STOCK OF DIST LEVEL PREPS

MISSION ‘INVEST RAJASTHAN-2022’ SUMMIT

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Jaipur: First India News channel celebrat-ed its 8th anniversary on Tuesday. With con-sistent hardwork by the entire team under the charismatic vision and guidance of CMD Jagdeesh Chandra, First India News is the most-watched channel in Rajasthan. Today, First India is the byword in credible and breaking news, the digital plat-forms of the channel rule the world of social media also. Jagdeesh Chandra congratulated the team members on this momentous day and said that it is with the

love and support of the crores of viewers that it has become No.1 chan-nel! He assured that the channel will continue to

fulfill the expectations of the viewers in the fu-ture also, credible news will continue to break in the First India channel

as always! “The channel has seen lots of ups and downs in its 8-year journey but today we can confident-

ly say that the dream seen by Dr Sahdev Choudhary and my sen-ior colleague Virendra Choudhary has come

true today as the chan-nel becomes the top channel today, it is the voice of farmers, poor, needy, common man, the

minorities and the wom-en. Today, I congratu-late each team member- our reporters, editors, anchors and each staff

member who have all been instrumental in making channel No 1 to-day,” Jagdeesh Chandra said. Director Virendra Choudhary said that af-ter usual ups and downs in its 8-year journey channel has emerged as No 1 channel and real-ized dream seen by Dr Sahdev Choudhary. He said, “I convey my grati-tude to viewers and to team and leader of team, our CMD Jagdeesh Chandra for making the channel no 1 in state”. He also assured that First India will continue to work as voice of peo-ple, villagers and thanked everyone for their love and support.

Love, support of crores of viewers has made it No. 1 channel: JCFIRST INDIA NEWS CELEBRATES 8-YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

First India News Channel Head Jagdeesh Chandra with First India News Director Virendra Choudhary.

First India News Channel Head Jagdeesh Chandra being welcomed by various organisations at Jodhpur Airport on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a cake was also cut at the airport by the team members of the Satyamev Jayate Society on the occasion of the completion of 8 years of First India News.

VASUNDHARA RAJE CALLS ONGUV MISHRA, JAIN SADHVI!

Former Chief Minister of Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje met Governor Kalraj Mishra at Raj Bhawan on Tuesday. During the day, Raje visited Eternal Multispeciality Hospital (EHCC) and met Sadhvi Kanak Prabha Ji and inquired about her health from the doctors. She also inquired about the well-being of senior journalist Purushottam Vaishnav and wished him a speedy recovery. The BJP National Vice-President also visited the residence of Prem Poddar and inquired about his health and also met his family members.

Arya said that railway stations like Jpr, Jodh, Kota, Udaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner and Jaisalmer should be developed in such a way that tourists can get a glimpse of Raj.

Archeology, Arts, Literature, Culture

Dhiraj Srivastava

Bhupendra Singh ML Lather BL Soni

‘Back To Work’ for women, `8,947.48 crore for JJMJaipur: Rajasthan government has intro-duced a ‘Back To Work’ scheme for women who have had to quit their jobs due to family reasons. Gehlot also okays financial sanc-tion of Rs 8,461.76 crore for 27 water sup-ply projects under the JJM scheme. A revised sum of Rs 485.72 crore for two other water supply projects was also alloted.

Ministers should work properly, says CM GehlotFrom Pg1

In the meeting of MLAs and office bearers, Ge-hlot issued a warning that the high command can crack its whip if their performance is not to the required standards. CM told ministers that those who have become min-isters should also work properly. If report of ministers is bad, then action will be taken.

DOTASRA ASKS CABINET TO CONNECT WITH PEOPLEJaipur: The newly appointed ministers in Gehlot govt have a major task at hand. They have been given task of connecting with people and listening to their problems. The ministers will have to inform local Cong or-ganization 2 days in advance before they plan a trip to districts. Dotasra said that ministers will have to report to PCC office from Dec 15 and listen to people’s problems. Ministers will hold public hearings 3 days a week.

15 OR MORE PARL SECYS, CM’S ADVISORS TO RETAIN POST SANS MoS STATUS!New Delhi: Now that Gehlot has hinted that a possible cabinet rejig could happen after a few months, there is a major speculation on the number of parliamentary secretaries that will be appointed in the days to come. Highly placed sources in the high command reveal that either 15 or more than that could be appointed, but high command will take a final call only after discus-sion with Gehlot. Moreover, the recently appointed advisors to CM Gehlot will remain on their positions without being accorded the MoS status but will con-tinue to work from a government office. —Aditi Nagar

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Both Gehlot and Pilot camps have conveyed to the relevant quarters that now no more serving or retired bureaucrats to be appointed on various positions in the government

stunning model, dex-terous software engi-neer and on her way to becoming the rag-ing queen of pageant-ry, Divisha, with her candid avatar and

stride of pride, won a lot of hearts at the First Miss India 2021 held on October 30 in No-votel Dona Sylvia Resort, Goa. From talent rounds to work-shops, grooming sessions to ramp walks, she stole the show at every occasion. Beau-tiful in and out, Paliwal swore by grace and gratitude on eve-ry occasion. With striking poses and a walk of flair, she truly owned the ramp. In an exclusive interview with City First, Divisha Paliwal reveals all about her journey, aspira-tions and vision board.

Q: Tell us something about yourself.A: I’m Divisha, 22 years old, from the very beautiful city of lakes. I’m a software engineer by profession and I’m also pur-suing modeling and pageant-ry. I feel it’s very essential for our mind and body to be calm. So, I love to practice Yoga and meditation. I feel like once we set our heart onto something, hard work, discipline and the ‘never give up’ attitude will get us whatever we want.

Q: When did you decide that you will take up modelingA: I decided to start modeling in 2018. When I went for the Miss Udaipur auditions, my friends’ motivation played a huge part. I got selected and won the title of Runners up. That’s how I started.

Q: Where do you see your-self in the coming years?A: My future plan is to become a supermodel and also, a phi-lanthropist. I see myself hap-py and contented.

Q: If not a model, what would you be?A: A software engineer.

Q: your greatest inspi-ration?A: My parents are my greatest source of inspi-ration. I follow the prin-ciples taught to me by them. In terms of work, I’m my own in-spiration. I may not be the best but, I try to be better than my previous self.

Q: Is there anything you’d like to share with the readers?A: Be nice to people. It may be unappreci-ated but, al-ways spread love as we rise by lift-ing oth-ers.

JAIPUR, WEDNESDAYDECEMBER 1, 2021

A woman of prismatic shades, Divisha Paliwal from Udaipur, 22, charmed the audience of First Miss India 2021 held in Goa with her unparalleled panache!

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tudents lead fast-paced lives that are crammed full of ac-tivities. There are the regular academics through the bulk of the day, and for most students, after-school

time means a slew of extra-curric-ular pursuits that usually entails going from one class to another. The result – no free time. No time to wander, reflect, take it easy, re-lax, and just be.

Most psychologists and think-ers on child development, parent-ing and education, will speak to the absolutely vital importance of ‘free time’. That child must be, need to be, left alone. To be with themselves, without any agenda. Because it is in this free time that they build their self-concepts, ex-plore, and grow. In today’s scenar-io, the opposite is true. Parents and schools alike, don’t want a child to be idle, even for a second. So how then is a student to reflect?

One potential solution could be writing. I suggest this solution specifically because these days, anything that a student does must have a direct benefit to his or her curricula. Hence, writing pre-sents those obvious benefits. Im-proving language, polishing one’s creative writing skills, honing one’s self-expression. While these overt benefits will appease most parents and teachers – the child is not wasting time; writing will also inadvertently perform the func-tion of free-time reflection. How?

FORCED OPINION-BUILDINGIf a student works on certain non-fiction writing assign-ments, be it an essay or a written speech, he or she will be com-pelled to do some research on the topic, and more importantly, based on those findings, criti-cally analyze the topic in order to reach his/her own opinion on it. For instance, a broad topic such as Social Media will acquaint the learner/writer with several positive and negative aspects of the sphere of social media, basis on which, he/she will be able to decide if they feel it is a ‘good’ or a ‘bad’ thing. In doing so, the learner will ultimately get to know himself/herself better. After all, we are, what we think right?

GET TO KNOW THE ‘SELF’Even if it is fiction writing and students embark on writing stories, short or long – it is a well-known fact that stories are derived from, and therefore deeply connected with, the self. Usually, in a story, the protago-nist is a reflection, in varying de-grees, of the writer. In doing so, as was the case with non-fiction writing, learners are reacquaint-ing themselves, with themselves. Because it is the writer’s hopes, fears, desires, that find their way into their lead story characters; writing them is helping a student to look inward and reflect. It can be therapeutic, and at the very least, introspective.

TRACKING INTERESTS, PASSIONS, DEVELOPMENTA form of regular writing I always recommend to my stu-dents is Journaling – in simple words, keeping a diary. Even a short diary entry each day will ensure that a student, over time, ends up with a rich repository of his or her daily activities and feelings. Going through this diary at regular intervals of time can serve as a telling and insightful tool of self-reflection. A student will be able to note changes in interests, passions, relationships, and also from those, track how he or she has changed, developed, evolved. In terms of direct self-reflection, this is arguably the most tar-geted writing method.

LIFE SKILLUltimately, embracing writing will serve as a vital skill in stu-dents’ lives. It will be invaluable at school, in order to solicit ad-mission into college, for college assignments and projects, and subsequently throughout that individual’s working/profession-al life! Knowing how to write effectively will always provide an individual a definite edge over their peers and contemporaries and ensure that they are heard, noticed, and acknowledged amongst a slew of highly ac-complished associates.

It is imperative for young students to know and understand WHY they are pursuing the multi-ple activities they are engaged in. It is also crucial that they KNOW their own minds, and aren’t blindly leading the lives that oth-ers – be it family or peers, have dictated for/to them. This can only be done through self-reflection. And in order for that to take place, writing is an invaluable tool!

KARTIK BAJORIAThe author is a Jaipur-based Communication

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he Indian startup eco-system is the third-larg-est in the world, and while it may not have a majority of women leading startups, the number of female-led

companies is growing at a fast pace. The women who lead many of India’s successful startups are role models to many. City First brings to you some of the less known female-led ventures in the fields of apparel, accessories, art, events and many more!

Each voice and tribe have a platform to be heard in the form of social media. Fashion as a cat-egory is one we consume every day and is intimately linked to our emotional core of how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen by others. Fashion can no longer just be about ‘looking pretty’ and “attracting the oppo-site sex”, brands that want a long-term, meaningful relation-ship with their consumers have to be able to forge a bond based on shared ideologies.

Women are climbing that lad-der of success, development, and dynamism with full force in this complex and competition-driven world. Women are flexible. They are found working everywhere nowadays whether it’s a bank, a male-driven office place, or say driving a metro!

Women are moving with such unstoppable speed that it’s great to see them working. Just like all across the world, women in Jaipur city are hell inspiring.

CHANGING MINDSETS,RAISING BARS

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The ‘Wedding Closet’ is our brainchild that became a reality after fi ve years of being in the

make-up and beauty indus-try as a freelance make-up artist. Being a make-up artist we came across many last-minute hiccups that a bride goes through like not fi nding the right accessories or shoes and it used to cause hassle and anxiety to our brides, thus,

we came up with Wedding Closet- Lucknow’s fi rst bridal styling store and a one-stop destination for brides and bridesmaids to shop from. Everything from bridal outfi ts to accessories that match the make-up. It’s been a year since we started and while the Covid-19 pandemic did slow us down initially, but now the business is booming and we’re swamped with many hap-py brides.—SAUMYA AND KRITIKA SINGH, FOUNDER, THE

WEDDING CLOS-ET STUDIO

AND MAKEUP ARTISTS

In a world of changing fashions, I wanted to create something

that would remain forever as a statement. I was always fond of block

printing and patterns. I developed them on kaftans, t-shirts and so

much more. Especially during the pademic when the world almost

stopped, I found my way of focus-ing my energy, ideas and creativity

with which Papaya Whims was born. Just like this fruit our prod-ucts ensure a happy feeling and our customers advocate the

same message. —VRATIKA TIJARIA, FOUNDER, PAPAYA

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Sahaj, a brainchild of Malvika Bhati who worked with Indigo for 6 years as a Senior executive in the customers’ service department. Malvika shared, “I always wanted to

go for fashion and traditional clothing. Women usually strug-gle with fi nding comfortable clothes, ethnic wear for different occasions, it’s when I fi nally launched my brand. I wish to reach out to the maximum number of people, not only in our country but across the globe and take the rich tradition of India ahead. We majorly aim at Sanganeri prints, hand block printing, tissue material, etc and soon I’m planning to come up with various new trending styles. —-MALVIKA BHATI, FOUNDER, SAHAJ

WHILE A LOT OF US HAVE BEEN LOOKING TO SOLVE OUR BEAUTY NEEDS OR CLOTHING, RESOLVING HOW TO SET UP DECOR, THESE YOUNG WOMEN FROM JAIPUR, LUCKNOW, DELHI, AND GUJARAT HAVE BEEN WORKING HARD BEHIND THE SCENES TO CATER TO THE GROWING DEMAND IN THIS EVOLVING SPACE!

Orahana is not just a brand, it’s

my soul as an art-ist where I love to marry my artworks from paper to fab-rics. Bringing the designs which are hand-curated just for your paradise. By keeping the exquisiteness alive and alluring your spaces.”- These are the words of the founder of Orahana, Ruchi Pathak. An artist, a changemaker, and a NIFT Hyderabad alumnus, Ruchi’s mission and vision with Orahana is to bring changes in the market where sustainability and originality of the artist is pursued. By work-ing together with artisans throughout India, as she believes in growing together, her niche is typical fl oral styles with translucent colors, i.e. watercolors. She wants to bring contemporary designs to art and textiles. The brand strictly deals in only natural fi bers such as duck, cotton, etc. trying to keep it sustainable as much as pos-sible. Ruchi said, “Our packaging is 90% sustain-able. Orahana is a soft furnishing textile luxurious brand.” She further added, “Along with the above range of products we also make giftings for wedding and festive purposes. Handblock, Bagru, and Ajrakh are our expertise for exports.”

—- RUCHI PATHAK, FOUNDER, ORAHANA

I am a ‘one-woman army’ Artist who creates hand-made products which are

mostly eco-friendly. Each product I make is personalised with a heart that believes in the magic of the universe. ‘Tobu Tori’ is a Japanese word that means fl ying birds, the reason why I named my brand with this name is that I feel all the beings on this earth have a mission to fulfi ll and everyone shall keep fl ying high like a bird to pursue their unique mission. Ambika always wanted to do something related to handmade art and craft. Years ago when there was no culture of handmade gifting in Jaipur, she started her business which includes amazing gifts, magnets, lanterns, paintings, sketches, etc and the business fl ourished like a raging fi re. She looks forward to establishing her one-stop gift shop. The young woman said, “From just a thought, today my busi-ness has allowed me to call myself a proud artist and entre-preneur. But, the struggles and achievements are always on the go…I believe it is the beginning now and no matter what, THE SHOW MUST GO ON!!”

—AMBIKA RANAWAT, FOUNDER, TOBU TORI

CITY FIRST

Rajasthan has started hosting the matches of senior men’s na-tional competition

Santosh Trophy from Joro-shoro. The West Zone match of the 75th edi-tion of the Santosh Trophy is being host-ed by the Rajasthan Football Association (RFA). Due to which matches will be played from December 1 to 5 at Purnima University, Jaipur. In this regard, the

jersey and team of the Ra-jasthan team were an-nounced on Tuesday.

Amid continuous one month of practice, RFA Sec-retary Dilip Singh Shekha-wat, Rajasthan Olympic As-

sociation executive mem-ber Mahipal Singh Nim-bada, RFA Deputy Secre-tary Hemant Singh Pari-

har, Purnima University director Rahul Singhi an-nounced 22 players of the team. Rajasthan team coach Tarun Roy, assistant coach Satish Jangid, team man-

ager Sunil Rao and physio Dr Vishal Saxena were pre-sent during the jersey and team announcement.

During this, Mahipal Sin-gh Nimbada of Rajasthan Olympic Association said that by organising this na-tional football competition, the level of sports and play-ers of Rajasthan will be like national and international competition and in the com-ing time, high-quality play-ers will be established from revenue.

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orever star In-dia awards will be organising a four-day nation-al level and In-dia’s biggest beauty pageant

‘Forever Miss and Mrs In-dia’ from December 17 to

20 at Hotel Marriott, Jaipur. More than 300

finalists of city, state, and national winners will be crowned day by day.

More than 250 awardees from across the country will be honored on the last day.

In this sequence, the ex-clusive look of the trophy, crown and sash of this national-level beauty pag-eant was revealed by show organiser Rajesh Agarwal and the pageant’s team at

Hotel Marriott on Tues-day. Along with this, the official poster of this pag-eant was also launched.

Rajesh Agarwal said, “He further added that in the grand finale of Forev-er Miss and Mrs India and Forever Fashion Week, more than 150 fashion de-signers will showcase their beautiful designer collections, while more than 150 makeup artists will represent their latest makeup trends through models.”

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SBI observed November 30 as ‘Computer Security Day’. On this occasion, Jaipur Circle organised Information Security awareness programs for their staff and

customers. IT teams visited branch to branch and sensitized the customers about cyber security. On November 27, they had also organised Walkathon at Jal Mahal and Ram Niwas Bagh displaying various awareness tips against cyber frauds. On this occasion, a pledge for observing Computer Security Day was taken by Chief General man-ager, Rajesh Kumar Mishra and all employees at the Local head office. cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

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Jaipur Foot USA Chairman, Prem Bhandari met the founder and Chief Patron, Padma Bhushan DR Mehta, Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayta Samiti, the parent organisation of Jaipur Foot USA and sought his blessings before heading to New York on Tuesday. Bhandari requested him to send Mobile Van to Bhavnagar, Gujrat where JFU already announced 8 days Divyang Yagya, from December 12 to December 20, under the program Jaipur Foot USA at the doorstep of differently-abled people. This van will provide 100-150 artificial limbs to the needy. Bhandari further discussed the mega camp coming in Trivendram soon in 2022, had discussed the Patna and Siliguri camp in near future. Bhandari said the second mobile van, already inaugurated recently in Nakoda Bheru Temple in Barmer Dist will also provide artificial limbs for people of western Rajasthan. This Van is donated by Rajasthan Foundation US chapter President and founder and former president of Rajasthan Association of North America RANA and his wife Chandra Mehta in d memory of kk Mehta’s parents Dr Babhoot Chand and Chandra Kunwar Mehta through their family Trust for which Prem Bhandari is the Chairman. This trust still has d balance of 1 million USD 7.5 crore that need to be spent on Jodhpur for Charitable purpose.

Silver Jubilee ReunionCITY FIRST

The first batch of IIHMR University, Jaipur (1996-98), celebrated their Sil-ver Jubilee by reuniting

at the IIHMR University cam-pus, Jaipur on Monday. A total of 12 Alumni - Man-vir Singh, Administrative Director at Thumbay Group, Dubai, Shibu John, Dean, school of management and business studies, Aarti Gupta, Business Development and Credit, Self-Company, Himanshu Bansal, Consultant,

and many more attended the alumni meet who are now at successful positions in reputed organisations and some even owning their own entrepre-neurial ventures.

The reunion of the batch of 1996 was planned to cele-

brate the success stories of the former students of the prestigious institution II-

HMR University. Dr PR Sodani, President, IIHMR Uni-versity, said “I feel elated to have this first set of IIHMR participants join us on this special day of Silver Jubilee.”

CITY FIRST

On the occasion of Interna-tional World Disability Day on December 3, under the joint aegis

of Expression Welfare Soci-ety, Hahnemann Charitable Mission Society and Rajkiya Seth Anandi Lal Poddar Senior Higher Secondary Mook Baghir School, Jaipur, the program ‘Ek Shaam Humanity Ke Naam 2021’ will be organised in which children with

special needs will be seen show-casing their talent. In this con-text, a press conference was or-

ganised at Hotel Grand Safari in Gopalpura on Tuesday. During this, President of Ex-pression Welfare Society

Sangeeta Gaur, Dr Atul Gupta and Monika Gupta, Fashion De-signer Amika Haldia, Hotelier Pawan Goyal, Dr Arvind Agarwal and Fashion Photographer Ramesh Kumar reviewed the preparations related to the show.

Serving Humanity

Agarwal Samaj Samiti Jaipur organised a play that showcased the story of Agrasen on Saturday at Birla Auditorium. Rishabh Shukla, Gufi Paintal among other television artists were seen playing characters in the play. —PHOTO BY NAIM KHAN

Kalaneri Art Gallery hosted a musical eve, Batiyan Ki Gali, a sip of art with special performances by Dr Raagini Eshwar and Dharamveer Bhatia among other artists.

—PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO

MEET AND DISCUSSION!

CITY FIRST

The Queen of Rajasthan auditions were held at Ashoka Green Hotel in Udaipur

on Tuesday. Director Monu Verma told that in the finale of this beauty pag-eant of Miss and Mrs catego-ry, the judge will be Kanta Laga fame Shefali Jariwala. Various activities during the auditions will be organised

in Kota, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Ajmer, Rajasthan. Monu Ver-ma and Ravikant Sharma

will also be present as the jury.

About 100 girls show-cased their talent in

Udaipur auditions. Meenakshi, Kunal, Deepak, Girish Sharma, Priyanka, Ravikant, Yogendra, Annu were present as special guests on the occasion.

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Queen of Rajasthan

(L-R) Anita, Parul, Anshul, Rajesh, Kirti, Jaya, Herry, Khushi and Prachi

Kirti ChoudharyHerry Khosa

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UKESH KIRADOO

Mahipal Singh with the team during the tournament

During the Udaipur auditions

Pawan Goyal, Dr Atul Gupta, Sangeeta Gaur, Monika Gupta and Dr Arvind Agarwal

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KHAN

During the ceremony

During the program

Prem Bhandari in conversation with DR Mehta

On the stage of lessons, a program was organised under the joint aegis of Gulzar Violin Academy and Net Theat, on Tuesday in which artist Jap Naam Singh played the bandish of Punjabi in Raga Yemen on the rare instrument Dilruba. He played the lessons learned from his guru Mohammad Umar. In the program, Siddharth Aggarwal also presented the bandish of three rhythms in raga Bhupali on Mandolin. On this occasion, Siddharth Agarwal and Jap Naam Singh were honoured with the Emerging Sadhak titles by the lesson.

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