With focus on ‘Delta Plus’ variant, Yogi govt gears to tackle 3rd wave

First India Bureau

Lucknow: The Chief Minister Yogi Adity-anath-led government in Uttar Pradesh has further geared up to tackle third wave, if any, particularly amid reports of new Covid variant “Delta Plus” infection.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that ‘Delta Plus’ Coro-navirus variant has ap-peared in many states of the country. “ We have to be very careful and Necessary strategy

should be chalked out in consultation with the state level health expert advisory committee, “ instructed the CM while addressing a high-level meeting here on Thursday.

In view of the confir-mation of the ‘Delta Plus’ variant in the states bordering Uttar Pradesh, genome se-quencing should be done by taking samples from adjacent districts.

The CM also directed to provide necessary facilities at KGMU, Lucknow for Turn to P6

CM Yogi Adityanath greeting Guv Anandiben Patel with a book titled ‘Hatha Yoga-Swaroop Evam Sadhna’, a book penned by him, during a courtesy meet at Raj Bhavan, Lucknow, on Thursday.

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Mumbai: Over 2,000 people received fake Covid-19 vaccines at nine separately held private vaccination camps in Mumbai, the police informed Bombay High Court on Thursday. Four FIRs have been registered.

Kanpur: President Ram Nath Kovind will undertake a train journey on Friday to visit his birthplace near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, where he will interact with his old acquaintances from school days and the early days of his social service. More on P2

Ujjain: Madhya Pradesh reported its first Covid death linked to Delta Plus variant. Genome sequencing of samples taken from deceased patient revealed that she had contracted the Delta Plus variant.

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54,069 new cases

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New Delhi: Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the ongo-ing delimitation exer-cise in Jammu and Kashmir has to happen quickly so that polls can be held to install an elected government that gives strength to its de-velopment trajectory.

In a series of tweets after a three-and-a-half-hour-long meeting with 14 political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir, Modi said the delibera-tions were an impor-tant step in the ongoing efforts towards a devel-oped and progressive Jammu and Kashmir where all-round growth is furthered. Turn to P6

Want To Remove Dilli Ki Duri &

Dil Ki Duri—Narendra Modi, PM

PM BRINGS SRINAGAR CLOSER TO NEW DELHI

Modi, in over three-hour meeting with political

leaders of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, reportedly assured that he was committed to restoring statehood of J&K at the right time

Delimitation has to happen at quick pace so polls can happen,

said Modi. These are first talks since stripping of special status of J&K and its bifurcation into 2 UTs & are a significant step towards normalcy

We’ll restore Article 370 in J&K. We didn’t get it from Pakistan, it was given to us by our country. I told PM that people of J&K don’t accept the manner in which it was abrogated —Mehbooba Mufti, PDP chief

We told PM that we don’t stand with what was done on Aug 5, 2019. We’re not ready to accept it. But we won’t take law into hands. We’ll fight this in court. There’s been breach of trust —Omar Abdullah, VP, NC

We kept 5 demands in meeting: grant statehood soon, conduct polls to restore democracy, re-habilitation of Kashmiri Pandits, all political detainees should be released and on domicile rules—Ghulam Nabi Azad, Cong leader

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi being greeted by Home Minister Amit Shah, J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, President of National Conference Farooq Abdullah, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and other leaders from the Valley, in New Delhi on Thursday.

The all-party meeting with various political leaders from J&K.

Amit Shah @AmitShahWe are commit-ted to ensure all round develop-ment of J&K. The future of

Jammu and Kashmir was discussed and the delimitation exercise and peaceful elec-tions are important milestones in restoring statehood as promised in parliament.

CORONA CATASTROPHE

32new fatalities

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Lucknow: Establish-ing direct communica-tion to ensure local par-ticipation, UP CM Yogi Adityanath has written a personal letter to all the ‘gram pradhans’ (village chiefs) request-ing them to intensify preventive measures in view of a probable third Covid-19 wave.

Yogi made a four-point appeal to new rural officials, say-ing, “We have to save people’s lives as well as their livelihoods.”

Stating that Uttar Pradesh has been able to control the second wave of Cov-id-19, he asked the gram pradhans to en-sure proper surveil-lance through the ‘surveillance commit-tees’ that have played a vital role in timely

identification and iso-lation of Covid pa-tients, curbing fur-ther spread in rural regions. Adityanath also advised the vil-lage heads to engage in mass plantation drives across their re-spective villages to

ensure no land is left vacant.

Concerned about any further Covid-19 spread in rural areas, the CM in his letter appealed to newly elected gram pradhans to generate awareness about the pandemic.

CM Yogi has expressed deep sorrow with regards to casual-

ties caused in Mirzapur due to lightning. He has directed the DM

to provide relief amounts to their families and get them treated

on a priority basis.

Best friend awaits Prez’s arrival, recollects good timesSumit Awasthi

Lucknow : People of Kanpur Dehat district are excited over the up-coming visit of Presi-dent Ram Nath Kovind on June 25.

The fact that the President belongs to Paraunkh village in Kanpur Dehat has sent an electrifying feeling of pride among citi-zens across the district.

One of the most ex-cited persons and his best friend Satish Mishra talked to First India and reminisced the old times spent with Ram Nath Kovind.

Satish Mishra going down the memory lane recollected that he and Kovind met at BNSD College in Kanpur as college mates. The duo also pursued their edu-cation from DAV Col-

lege afterward. Mishra said that the

bond grew stronger when Kovind contested the Lok Sabha seat from Ghatampur in the year 1991. and had a chance to refresh the old times spent togeth-er. It was one of Ko-vind’s friends late Ke-dar Dwivedi, who in-troduced him to one Vireshwar Dwivedi

who was well connect-ed in the Sangh and introduced Mishra to Ashok Singhal.

Satish Mishra was also invited as a special guest during the swear-ing ceremony of Kovind as Governor of Bihar on August 8, 2015 He also attended Kovind’s swearing-in-ceremony as the President of In-dia on July 20, 2017.

Satish Mishra is a regular invitee in all family functions hosted by the President and is likely to meet him during his visit to his ancestral village on June 25.

GRP, UP police officers took a spl train from Lucknow to Kanpur to inspect security arrangements ahead of Prez’s visit on Thursday. —PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR

PREZ VISIT: POLICE PERSONNEL INSTRUCTED TO BE ON THEIR TOESCommissioner Aseem Arun and ACP (Law and Order) Akash Kulhari in a police force briefi ng before the visit of President to Kanpur have instructed personnel to be on their toe. On the day

of the visit of the President, police will cover all places from Central Station to the Circuit House with Commissioner and ACP personally overseeing security of platform. The Presidential convoy

will leave from Central Station to Circuit House 10 minutes after the arrival of Presidential train. Complete details of the arrangements have been shared with Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.

First India Bureau

Lucknow: With an eye on 2022 state assembly and to provide relief to Covid-hit people, the Yogi Adityanath gov-ernment has decided not to increase power tariff in 2021-22.

The government has however decided to meet the short fall of

revenue of UP Power Corporation Limited by doling out Rs 20,600 crore in the current fis-cal year.

While the UP Elec-tricity Regulatory Com-mission (UPERC) has been considering fresh proposal for tariff hike for the current year, which will be an-nounced by June-end,

the government’s move for financial assistance to UPPCL would help avoid burden on people. Cash-strapped corpora-tion is under deep fi-nancial crunch as it is

projected revenue re-quirement of Rs 81, 901 crore.

After the chief minis-ter Yogi Adityanath re-cently announced at a function that there will

be no power tariff hike, the additional chief sec-retary (energy) Alok Sinha wrote to UPERC asking it not to increase tariff rates to bridge corporation’s expendi-ture gap projected in an-nual revenue require-ment (ARR) proposal.

The corporation in its proposal had pro-jected its revenue need of Rs 81,901 crore of which it ex-pected to get Rs 60, 588 crore from cur-rent tariff and an ad-ditional amount of Rs

11, 650 crore as the government subsidy. This will leave a rev-enue gap of 9,663.38 crore.

The corporation said this gap will be in addi-tion to short fall of Rs 11,018 crore that UPERC needs to adjust to the UPPCL as carrying cost for the corporation get-ting less revenue in 2019-20.

Thus, the govern-ment told the UPERC that it will pay entire amount in lieu on no hike in tariff.

No power tariff hike shocks for UP consumers FROM POLE TO POLL

UP govt help cash strapped UPPCL financially, to avoid the burden from being transferred to end users

‘UNIVERSITIES SHOULD COMPLETE MINIMUM UNIFORM COURSES’

CM reviews revised draft of Jail Manual for inmates

First India Bureau

Lucknow: Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Dinesh Sharma on Thursday held a meet-ing with Vice Chancel-lors of Universities to discuss preparations for conduct of examina-tions for the year 2020-21 and other academic related activities.He directed the officials to ensure that the ex-aminations for the aca-

demic session of 2020-21 are conducted by 15th August and the results be declared by the last week of the same month. He further in-

structed that Covid-19 protocols are fol-lowed to the tee dur-ing examinations and that time duration of these exam should not be more than 1:30 hours per subject. Sharma further in-structed that the imple-mentation of minimum uniform courses in state universities for the academic session 2021-22 should be com-pleted on priority.

First India Bureau

Lucknow: The revised draft of Jail Manual was presented before UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at his offi-cial residence on Thurs-day.

The CM said efforts should be made to im-prove behavior of pris-oners in jails besides skill development pro-grams should be con-ducted by connecting prisoners with creative activities so that they could lead normal life with right mindset after being released.

He instructed for bet-ter arrangement of edu-cation for children of women prisoners in jails.

CM said no conces-

sion should be allowed for criminals and they should be dealt strictly after deciding their cat-egory.

The CM asked to en-sure safety of prisoners inside jails . He also in-structed officials to monitor prisoners in-side jails through CCTV cameras.

Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi, during the meet gave a detailed informa-tion about the need/justification of amendments re-quired to be made in the Jail Manual for better administration of jails in UP

Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma presides over the meet on Thursday.

CM Yogi presides over a meet related to drafting of the jail manual for better upkeep of inmates on Thursday. ACS (Home) Awanish Awasthi was also present over there.

CS RK Tiwari presiding over the meet.

CM Yogi Adityanath at Lok Bhawan on Thursday.

Lko cops join hands with PETA for horses

CS reviews development WORKS IN GORAKHPURFirst India Bureau

Lucknow: Develop-ment works of Gorakh-pur district were re-viewed in a meet chaired by Chief Secre-tary Rajendra Kumar Tiwari via video confer-encing.

Progress of impor-tant projects costing more than Rs 10 crores being run in Gorakh-pur district, status of

availability of human resources, equipment and furniture etc for completed projects, ap-proval of new projects etc was discussed there along with a project wise detailed review.In his address, Chief Secretary Rajendra Ku-mar Tiwari said all pro-jects under construc-tion should be complet-ed within the stipulated timelines.

First India Bureau

Lucknow: On Thurs-day, Lucknow police, with help of People for the Ethical Treat-ment of Animals (PETA) India, con-ducted enforcement drives throughout Lucknow against il-legal use of spiked bits, used to control horses used for work, weddings and rides despite weapons be-ing prohibited under Rule 8 of The Pre-vention of Cruelty to Draught and Pack Animals Rules, 1965.The team intervened in cases of more than a hundred horses, re-placing spiked bits with plain ones.

PETA India and Lucknow police dis-

played the confiscat-ed spiked bits at the Hazratganj police station as part of an awareness drive to let public know their use is illegal.

An awareness drive for tonga driv-ers was also organ-ised to encourage them to discontinue cruel practices.

“Police’s stance on enforcing ani-mal protection laws is clear: firm action will be taken against anyone who abuses animal or causes them un-necessary suffer-ing,” says Chiran-jeev Nath Sinha, additional deputy commissioner of police, Central Luc-know.

Providing the much-needed empathic lead-ership, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also called tackling the pandemic as work of a uni-fied ‘team of 24 crore’. “Make people aware so that they get tested and vaccinated and get them registered for vaccinations in order to provide every citizen a safety shield against the virus,” the letter to Pradhans concluded.

IT’S TEAM OF 24 CRORE VS COVID-19

Yogi SpeaksYogi Speaks

Dear Pradhan Ji... with love from CM

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Addl DCP Chiranjeev Nath Sinha with PETA CEO Mannilal Valliyate display spiked bits used for controlling horses.

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• President Kovind will reach his native village on Paraunkh June 25.• Upon reaching there, the President is sched-uled to offer prayers at an ancient temple situ-ated in the village• Kovid will also inspect the Central and Pri-mary School situated in the region.• He will be visiting Paraunkh village in be-tween 10.15 to 11.45 in the morning.• The President will also be attending some programs and events in between 1.15 pm to 2:15 pm in Pukhraya.• Kovind will be heading to Kanpur Nagar in the evening of June 27.• He will proceed from Kanpur Nagar to Luc-know on June 28.• The President will leave for for New Delhi by a helicopter on June 29.

PRESIDENT’S SCHEDULE IN KNP, LKO

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@1 cr, vax figures outrun June targetFirst India Bureau

Lucknow: Elaborating about the ongoing vac-cination drive in the state, ACS Health Amit Mohan Prasad said the target of one crore in-oculations was fixed for the month of June. However, this was achieved even before June was over.

“This target was achieved on Friday and there are still six days left in June. We have so far given 2.8 crore vac-cine doses, including over 2.38 crore people who took first dose and over 41 lakh who both the jabs,” he said.

Meanwhile, the covid death toll in Uttar Pradesh rose to 22,368 on Thursday with 32 more fatalities, while 229 new cases pushed the infec-tion tally to 17,05,012, an official said.

“In the past 24 hours, 229 fresh cases were re-

ported in the state while 308 people recovered from the infection and have been discharged, taking the overall recov-eries to 16,79,092,” ACS, Prasad told reporters.

The count of active cases stands at 3,552, he said, adding the recov-ery rate is 98.5 per cent.

Of the 3,552 active cases, 2,149 are in home isolation, he said.In last 24 hours, over 2.38 lakh samples were tested.

Janardan Misra

Lucknow: After getting the remand of Maulana Mohammad Umar Gau-tam and Mufti Quazi Jahangeer Alam Qasmi, UP ATS has investigated Umar Gautam’s connec-tions in the state capital and other districts.

During investigations it was revealed that Maulana Umar was con-nected with several edu-cation institutes and organisations in the state. In the same se-quence, ATS raided Al-Hasan Institute in Mali-habad area of Lucknow. It was reported that Umar was vice-presi-dent of the institute.

The ATS is also inves-tigating the involve-ment of terrorists in the mass conversion racket. It was speculated that specially-abled chil-dren, who were convert-ed to Islam, could be used in terrorists’ ac-tivities.

Expressing deep con-cerns over the mass con-version CM Yogi Adity-anath had instructed to take stern action against the culprits involved in mass conversions. Yogi had ordered to impose NSA against the perpe-trators and asked to in-volve NIA for detailed investigation.

ATS had recovered documents of 1,000 per-sons who were convert-ed to Islam through the organisation of Moham-mad Umar Gautam and Jahangeer Alam.

It was confirmed that the culprits were target-

ing specially-abled child for conversions and had target of more than 250 conversions per annum.

The investigative agencies have revealed that arrested accused were involved in mass conversions and had connections in other states also. Some young-sters, who were convert-ed to Islam, were shifted to southern states to ex-pand their activities and some girls were married to Muslim men for con-verting their religion.

First India Bureau

Noida: Two officials of the Commercial Tax Department were killed on-duty after a truck allegedly hit their SUV in Mathura district, the police said on Thursday.

Mathura SSP Gaurav Grover said the incident took place around 11.30 pm Wednesday on the Ya-muna Expressway, near Aligarh border.“A seven-member team of the Commercial Tax

department was on in-spection duty on the Yamuna Expressway in Naujheel police sta-tion area when an Eicher Canter on way to Delhi hit the Renault Duster of the officials,” Grover said.

“The officials suf-fered injuries in the crash and were rushed to a hospital where two of them - a Commer-cial Tax officer and a constable succumbed, while others are under treatment at the hospi-tal,” he said.

First India Bureau

Mirzapur: A 70-year-old woman and a three-year-old girl died in a village in Mirzapur after drink-ing water from a hand pump mixed with dirty water from the nearby toilets.

According to Chief Medical Officer PD Gupta, five people are undergoing treatment and many others in Dadra village are suf-fering from bouts of diarrhoea.

Following the

deaths, a health de-partment team reached the village and examined the wa-ter.

“A 70-yr-old old woman and a 3-yr-old child died after drink-ing polluted water from a handpump. Five villagers are in the hospital. After the health department heard about the inci-dent, a team reached the spot and investiga-tion revealed that dirty water from a toi-let near the hand pump was leaking and mixing with the drinking water,” Gup-ta said.

He further assured that the issue is being resolved and proper medicines have been given to the people. “The situation is un-der control,” he said.

First India Bureau

Lucknow: Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma on Thursday held a meeting with Vice Chancellors (VCs) of State Universities to discuss the prepara-tions being made for conduct of examina-tions for the year 2020-21 and other academic related activities.

The Deputy CM in the meeting directed the officials to ensure that the examinations for the academic ses-

sion of 2020-21 are con-ducted by August 15 and the results be de-clared by the last week of the same month. He further instructed that

Covid-19 protocols are followed to the tee dur-ing examinations and that time duration of these exam should not be more than 1:30

hours for each subject. Sharma instructed

that the implementa-tion of minimum uni-form courses in state universities for the ac-ademic session 2021-22 should be completed on priority. He further instructed that, admis-sions for courses of the next academic session should start from 15th August while following transparent policy. The Deputy CM said more effort should be taken to shift the admission process online.

RECOVERY RATE OVER 98%ACS, Health Amit Mohan Prasad said in the last 24 hours, over 2.38 lakh samples were tested, while in total, more than 5.62 crore tests had been conducted so far in the state. The recovery rate in UP stands at 98.5%.

MORE SECRETS UNFOLDAs ATS probes Umar’s role in Al-Hasan Institute in Malihabad in connection with

the mass conversion racket, a family fears ‘missing’ son has been converted to Islam

MAULANA KALBE QUESTIONS ATS WORKING

TWO WOMEN VICTIMS OF CONVERSION RESCUED, ACCUSED AT LARGE

Lucknow: After the arrest of Mufti Qazi Jahang-eer Qasmi and Umar Gautam by UP ATS, renowned Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawad has raised questions over the working of ATS and has sought a fair probe. Maulana Kalbe Jawad said, “Arrests by UP ATS are not correct many times and there should be a fair inves-tigation of this whole matter. Also, it should be kept in mind that no innocent person is pun-ished.” He also said that Waseem Rizvi, former Waqf Board Chairman, was a police agent and no one from the com-munity accepted him.

Muzaffarnagar: The police on Thursday said they have rescued two women from Khatauli town here, who were allegedly lured and converted to Islam by men who then married them. The district police said

they handed over Anjali alias Anjum Khan and Chaya Dixit alias Zoya Khan to police teams in Hamir-pur and Jhansi respectively, where their fam-ily members had lodged complaints of abduction in the two separate

cases. But other versions suggested that the women had eloped with the men that they were in relation-ship with. The two men Monu Khan and Rehman Khan have absconded, the police said, adding some Hindu activists had demanded their arrest. An FIR was registered at Rath police station under Section 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage).

Jahangeer and Umar in ATS custody. —FILE PHOTO

A lady gets the jab at a vaccination centre in Lucknow.

CRUCIAL READSGPGI NURSING STAFF TO BOYCOTT WORK

THREE KIDS DROWN, KIN CRY MURDER

STF NABS AZAMGARH HOOCH ACCUSED

Lucknow: The Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) nursing staff has threatened to boycott work for two hours due to the neglect being shown by the government towards their demands. The demands, the staff alleged, have been pending for long but the authorities had been sitting quiet and doing nothing to resolve their issues.

Jaunpur: The bodies of three children were found fl oating in a village pond here with their families claiming that they had been murdered, the police said. Police said they were wait-ing for the autopsy report to ascertain the exact cause of their death but they suspect that the children might have drowned. The victims were identifi ed as Ranjeet (11), Veeru (12) and Sameer (12), of Jahruddin village.

Azamgarh: Special Task Force (STF) arrested another accused of Azamgarh and Ambedkar Nagar hooch tragedy, carrying reward of Rs 25,000 on his head. STF sources said Kishan Yadav alias Krishna was arrested near Mahul crossing under Phoolpur police station area in Azamgarh district. Kishan was involved in illicit liquor trading and Azamgarh hooch tragedy.

In meeting with VCs, DyCM urges exams by Aug 15, results by month-end

DyCM Dinesh Sharma chairing the meeting on Thursday.

Commercial Tax Officer, cop killed in accident

Dirty water kills 2; several taken ill

Mangled remains of the SUV the offi cials were travelling in

Lucknow: A family alleged religious con-version of son Darsh Saxena, after he went missing since May 2018. “His name on truecaller app comes as Rehaan. Back then, we had fi led missing report to avoid reli-gious disharmony. We want to know about his well being,” said his mother

GONE SINCE 2018...

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burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

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TEAM INDIA IN NEEDS OF AN OVERHAUL

he much-vaunted Team India lost to New Zealand, who played like true champions to lift the

first World Test Championship trophy. The Kiwis outplayed In-dia in every department of the game to expose the chinks in India’s batting and bowling. In fielding too the rivals proved better. In the batting depart-ment, Virat Kohli, the captain, in the first innings and to some extent Rishabh Pant in the sec-ond innings deserve mention. Their performances were not enough to see India emerge vic-torious. The bowlers were disap-pointing too, leading to ques-tions if Bhuvaneshwar Kumar and Siraj Ahmed would have made a difference. If Jasprit Bumrah’s form remains below par, India will have problems against England.

True, the batting conditions favoured the Kiwis more but for a champion side this can’t be touted as the reason for poor showing. Will all this lead to an overhaul of the Test side? If changes do happen, players’ per-formance on green tops should be made a criterion.

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arendra Modi’s first meeting with political leaders from Kashmir af-ter abrogation of

Article 370 turned out to be a success with all the leaders freely airing their views and the prime minister giving them a patient hearing. This was the first such meeting after the abrogation of Arti-cle 370 and a long detention of almost the entire political leadership of Kashmir. The process to restart the demo-cratic process has raised hopes for a new dawn in Kashmir although, as was ex-pected, the demand for state-hood and restoration of Arti-cle 370 was raised. The posi-tive aspect of the meeting was that all the leaders were pleased with New Delhi’s out-

reach effort to decide the fu-ture political course which includes early completion of the delimitation process fol-lowed by Assembly elections.

Before leaving for the meet-ing Mehbooba Mufti, former Chief Minister of Kashmir, cited India’s talks with a Tali-ban faction in Doha for includ-ing Pakistan in any initiative on the State. Fourteen politi-

cal leaders of different parties from Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh participated in Thurs-day’s meeting. Importantly, Mehbooba’s condition on Pa-kistan’s inclusion did not find support from National Con-ference leader Farooq Abdul-lah and others. Pakistan, though, now has no role to play in the northern State In-dia is engaged in backstage talks with the neighbour prob-ably to discuss Afghanistan more than Kashmir.

On Article 270 the Kash-miri leaders have to wait for the Supreme Court’s verdict while ensuring that the chan-nel of talks remains open. They also have to decide whether to participate in the delimitation process to nar-row the distance between Delhi and Kashmir.

J&K STEPS TOWARDS A NEW BEGINNING

The process to restart the democratic

process has raised hopes for a new dawn in Kashmir although, as was expected, the demand for statehood and restoration of Article 370 was raised

N

e often hear ‘first impression is the last impression’ and many swear by it. Though some disagree and so do I. Many do believe life offers ample opportunities to make an impression and name for oneself through repeated it-erations if one fails in one vocation by shifting focus and succeeding in something altogether different. Usually, such possibilities are plenty provided one perseveres.

In the long journey towards ‘success’ people get a helping hand from their personal brand too. The essence of per-sonal branding has been suc-cinctly stated by Jeff Bezos in this quote: “Your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room.”

Metaphorically, the entire personal branding can hence be the duration you spend as you ‘enter the room’ creating a first impression and the moment you ‘leave the room’. It is during this available ‘im-pact slot’ that one leaves a personal aura behind for oth-ers to talk about.

The term Personal Brand-ing first appeared in an article written by Tom Peters in 1997

and can be broadly defined as a continuous process to de-velop and nurture an individ-ual’s name employing multi-ple strategies to keep it aglow.

If we do time travel, we learn that since ages the Japanese have believed in-dividuals own three faces:z The first, is shown to the world.z The second, is shown to close friends and family.z The third, one never shows to the world but usually remains the truest reflection of who one is!The personal brand that

one knowingly builds is usu-ally borrowed from the first and second faces. It rarely touches the third one. There are quite a few famous autobi-ographies that were pub-lished posthumously, aston-ishingly revealing nuances of the third face of those authors that the world never knew during their living days.

Purists have noted that the brand ‘You’ comprises four elements that coalesce seamlessly to give each in-dividual uniqueness that sets one apart from others. These are:z How others see you (Your Reputation)z What sets you apart from others (Your acquired USPs)z What makes you ‘You’ (Your Inherent Qualities)z How you want others to see you (Your target Image)Personal Branding is a con-

tinuous process to achieve a

distinguishing ‘mark’ that is created around your name. You use this ‘mark’ to express and communicate your natu-ral skills (inherent qualities), acquired expertise (USPs), val-ues you bring to the table (rep-utation), and personality thus formed therefrom (image).

Before arriving at a deci-sion to establish a personal brand three pertinent ques-tions need to be convinc-ingly answered. They are:z Why? (The purpose to have a personal brand)z To help one stand out from the crowd.z It could be a door opener leading to future opportuni-ties, often unexpected.z A strong personal brand imparts advanced informa-tion to the audience and their keenness to engage increases.z It helps to build one’s reputation thereby boosting

confidence manifold.z How? (The process to create a personal brand)z Building one’s brand is a continuous Work-In-Pro-gress (WIP). In this VUCA world, to position oneself uniquely vis-à-vis competi-tion, consistent augmenta-tion is needed both on skill sets and image.z Share your expertise gradu-ally. Build the momentum and generate interest amongst your target audi-ence proportionately.z If needed, employ the ‘trial and error’ method. Exhibit different traits of one’s per-sonality. See what clicks and works best but while doing so be true ‘you’.z Keep exploring till one discovers the sweet spot. Don’t hesitate to do course correction, learn and re-align the navigation as needed to ultimately arrive at the ‘final product’.z Make meaningful conversa-tion as you build the brand’s structure. Don’t just add to the noise or repeat what’s been already stated.z What? (The benefits to ac-crue from owning a strong personal brand)z Powerful personal brand helps one to grab larger mindshare resulting in faster recognition amongst peers.z Adds heft.z Helps to turbocharge one’s career and attract opportuni-ties from beyond the visible horizon.z Offers networking opportuni-ties with industry stalwarts.Having established a per-

sonal brand that often takes years to make, just like any other property, one needs to be extremely protective to safe-guard it: a) from rivals who could make sly attempts to tar-nish the brand and b) to protect it from slippages due to indi-vidual oversight or negligence.

Building a personal brand should be of interest to both rookies as well as seasoned professionals. Continuous moulding and adding facets should be an everlasting pas-sion. One should never be-come complacent and stop growing.

At the end let’s recollect a small anecdote: While draw-ing a sketch Michelangelo, considered the greatest Re-naissance artist of his age, scribbled “ancora imparo” meaning “I am still learning” at the age of 87 – buttresses the fact why his name (read personal brand) has re-mained immortal even after 500 odd years.

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY

THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL BRANDING

WSABYASACHI DUTTA

Managing Director Vidatec India

Personal Branding is a continuous process to

achieve a distinguishing ‘mark’ that is created

around your name. You use this ‘mark’ to express and

communicate your natural skills (inherent qualities),

acquired expertise (USPs), values you bring to the table (reputation), and

personality thus formed therefrom (image)

The entire personal branding can hence be the duration you spend as you ‘enter the room’

creating a first impression and the moment you ‘leave the room’. It is during this available ‘impact slot’ that one leaves a personal aura

behind for others to talk about

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AMBANI TO INVEST `75K CR IN CLEAN ENERGY, UNVEILS GOOGLE PHONEMumbai: Billionaire Mukesh Ambani on Thursday announced a Rs 75,000 crore investment in clean energy over three years, pinned hope on conclud-ing a USD 15 billion deal with Saudi Aramco this year and unveiled the much-awaited low-priced JioPhone Next co-developed with Google as he unveiled the growth agenda for Reliance Industries.Reliance will build four ‘Giga factories’ to make solar cells, batteries for energy storage, making fuel cells and producing green hydrogen in Gujarat, Reliance chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani said at the company’s annual general meeting with shareholders. The oil-to-telecom conglomerate, which owns the world’s biggest oil refining com-plex, will also set up 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar power generation capacity by 2030 and invest in setting up a carbon fibre plant. Meanwhile, Saudi Aramco chairman and head of Kingdom’s cash-rich wealth fund PIF Yasir Othman Al-Rumayyan will join the board of RIL as a precursor to a USD 15 billion deal that is now expected to conclude this year. RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani told shareholders that a deal to sell a 20 per cent stake in the company’s oil-to-chemical unit to Saudi Aramco was expected to conclude this year. Harvard educated Al-Rumayyan, 51, will replace Yogendra P Trivedi, 92, who has expressed a desire to retire, Ambani said.

NEPAL HOUSE DISSOLUTION CASE: LAWYERS QUESTION PREZ’S INTENTKathmandu: Questioning impartiality of President Bidya Devi Bhandari in May 22 dissolution of House, lawyers representing petitioners against the move argued that her actions make it clear that she didn’t want anybody except KP Sharma Oli as PM. A five-member Constitutional Bench of SC led by CJ Cholendra Shumsher Rana began the hearing, starting with writ jointly filed by 146 lawmakers backing Nepali Congress Prez Sher Bahadur Deuba’s claim to Prime Ministership.

DELHI GOVT TO HOLD ‘VAN MAHOTSAV’ FROM JUNE 26 - JUL 11New Delhi: With an aim to achieve the target to plant 33 lakh saplings this year, the Delhi govern-ment is all set to hold ‘Van Mahotsav’ from June 26 to July 11. Environment Minister Gopal Rai will launch the mega plantation drive on June 26 from Garhi Mandu at Yamuna Bank. Rai on Thursday said that all the cabinet ministers of Delhi, the Speaker of Delhi Legislative Assembly, all MLAs, NGOs, and RWAs will participate in the mega tree plantation campaign.

‘MILITANCY-RELATED VIOLENCE HAS REDUCED BY 50% IN J&K’

Srinagar: GOC of Srinagar-based 15 Corps Lieutenant General DP Pandey said criminal elements controlled from across the border and by enemies within the coun-try are trying to instill fear among people by

killing unarmed persons.”All the parameters of violence in Kashmir have come down by over 50% and the situation is very good.”

M&M RANKED NO. 2 ON ‘2021 INDIA’S BEST TO WORK FOR’

Mumbai: Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. one of In-dia’s largest automotive company and World’s largest tractor company by volume, announced that it has been Ranked No.2 in “India’s Best Companies To Work For

2021” by the Great Place to Work Institute®. as it delivers a great workplace experience for all the employees.

BE ‘VOCAL FOR LOCAL TOYS’: PM TO PEOPLE

Maha BJP seeks CBI probe against Dy CM in Waze, Singh case

Dust storm, strong wind hit Delhi; IMD predicts rainNew Delhi: Delhi wit-nessed a sudden change in weather on Thursday afternoon as dust storm and strong wind hit parts of the national capital.

According to the In-dian Metrological De-partment (IMD), the thunderstorm with light to moderate inten-sity rain and gusty winds with speed of 30-50 Kilometre per hour would occur over and adjoining areas of en-tire Delhi and its ad-joining regions and some regions of Hary-ana, UP and Rajasthan during the next 2 hours.Meanwhile, PM 10 was predominant pollutant owing to strong surface winds favourable for raising dust concentra-tion locally and trans-port of dust from arid regions, as per the IMD.“The air quality is like-ly to improve margin-ally but remains in Moderate to Satisfacto-ry category on June 26,” it said. —ANI

Mumbai: Maharashtra BJP president Chandra-kant Patil on Thursday demanded a CBI in-quiry against state Dep-uty Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Transport Minister Anil Parab in connection with cases related to senior IPS of-ficer Param Bir Singh and former policeman Sachin Waze.

Patil was speaking at the state party conven-tion held here.

“The state BJP has passed a resolution to demand a CBI inquiry against DyCM Ajit Pa-war and Shiv Sena lead-er and Transport Minis-ter Anil Parab into their alleged involve-ment in cases related to Param Bir Singh and Waze,” Patil said.

Singh was shifted from the post of Mum-bai police commission-er to the Home Guards department in March this year amid the con-troversy over Waze’s al-leged involvement in the case an explosives-

laden SUV found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s house here in February. —ANI

Ajit Pawar

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thurs-day reserved the judge-ment on a plea of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee chal-lenging Nandigram election results.

The Chief Minister also appeared for the hearing virtually. A bench of Justice Kausik Chanda said the petitioner has full right to move for rec-usal and rest assured,

the matter will be de-cided judicially.

Justice Chanda asked Singhvi if he is aware

of BJP’s organizational structure. In reply to Justice Chanda, Singh-vi said, “I have many friends in BJP. I am broadly aware.”

To this, Justice Chanda said, “You law-yers also have political affiliations. You are from Congress and Mookherjee has BJP background. But you are appearing for TMC’s Mamata Baner-jee’s case.” —ANI

New Delhi: The CBI on Thursday carried out searches at six locations after registering a fresh case of fraud of Rs 2,435 crore in YES Bank and other consortium banks against former Cromp-ton Greaves chairman Gautam Thapar who is already under probe in more such cases, offi-cials said.

The searches took place at six locations in Mumbai, Delhi and Gur-gaon. This is a new case

against Thapar, who was booked recently in Rs 466 crore fraud case in Yes Bank, the officials said.

Along with Thapar, several other execu-tives of the company have been booked in the case. —PTI

Calcutta HC reserves judgement on Nandigram election result

YES Bank fraud: CBI books Gautam Thapar, others

IN THE COURTYARD

PM CALLS FOR INNOVATION IN INDIA’S TOY SECTOR DEFAMATION CASE OVER MODI SURNAME REMARK

It was rhetorical, RaGa tells court Surat: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi told a court in Gujarat that his remarks on “Modi sur-name” during an elec-tion rally in 2019 was nothing but a “rhetori-cal” comment. Rahul Gandhi appeared before a magisterial court in Surat to defend himself in a defamation suit that was filed by a Guja-rat BJP MLA.

“I didn’t mean to tar-get any community. I said it in a rhetorical manner during an elec-tion campaign while

talking about corrup-tion. I don’t remember much about this,” Ra-hul Gandhi said.

WHAT IS THE CASE?At an election rally held at Kolar in Karnataka on April 13, 2019, Rahul Gandhi had reportedly asked, “Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi, Narendra Modi... how come they all have Modi as the common surname. How come all the thieves have Modi as the com-mon surname?” —PTI

Toycathon-2021: Modi said 80% toys were being imported; it is very important to change this situation & improve India’s ‘Toyconomy’New Delhi: Calling on people to be “vocal for local toys”, Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi on Thursday said about 80 % of the toys were be-ing imported by India with crores of rupees going abroad and as-serted that it was very important to change this situation.

Noting that India’s share is only about 1.5 billion dollars (over Rs 11,000 crore) in the glob-al toy market of approx-imately 100 billion dol-lars (Rs. 7.5 lakh crore), Modi pitched for im-proving the country’s standing in what he called ‘Toyconomy’ or the economic aspects of the toys and gaming in-dustry.

Prime Minister Modi made the remarks after interacting with par-ticipants of Toyca-thon-2021 via video con-ferencing.

Toycathon-2021 was jointly launched by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Women & Child Development, Ministry of MSMEs, DPIIT, AICTE on Janu-ary 5, 2021 to crowd-

source innovative toys and games ideas.

“Today, we import around 80% of our toys from abroad. Which means crores of rupees of the country are going abroad on them. It is

very important to change this situation,” Modi said.

“In order to take the benefits to these seg-ments, we need to be vo-cal for local toys,” Modi asserted. —PTI

PM MODI PAYS TRIBUTE TO SAINT KABIR

‘MAHARASHTRA GOVT LIES WITH CONFIDENCE’

New Delhi: PM Modi paid tribute to mystic poet and saint Kabir Das on his birth anniversary, and said he not only at-tacked social ills but also gave the message of humanity and love to the world. The path shown by him will continue to inspire every generation to move forward with brotherhood and harmo-ny, Modi said. The prime minister also posted pictures of his visit to the site where Kabir Das is believed to have been buried. —PTI

Mumbai: Maharashtra BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis accused the MVA government say-ing, “It is a wrong thing, but I think we need to learn something from this government. The way it spreads lies with confidence every day, it has baffled me. We should learn to possess this confidence and not the lying trait from this government,” he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Toycathon-2021, through video conferencing. —PHOTO BY PTI

Rahul Gandhi arrives at a magistrate’s court in Surat for criminal defamation case over ‘Modi surname’ remark. —PHOTO BY PTI

Rajnath Singh with Admiral Karambir Singh, during an aerial survey of ‘Project Seabird’ in Karwar. —PHOTO BY PTI

Singh lauds Navy’s commitment towards ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’Bengaluru: Defence Defence Minister Ra-jnath Singh lauded the Indian Navy on Thurs-day on its efforts to boost self-reliance saying more than two-thirds of the Navy’s modernisa-tion budget has been spent on indigenous procurement in the last five financial years. Ra-jnath was reviewing the progress of Phase-II of Karwar also known as Project Seabird. “I want Karwar Naval base to be Asia’s biggest. I will even try to raise the budget for it,” he said while addressing the press.

Lauding the navy’s commitment towards ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’, he stated that out of the 48 ships and subma-rines, 46 are being in-ducted through indige-nous construction.

Singh said, “Commis-sioning of Indigenous Aircraft Carrier Vikrant will be a momentous oc-casion in history of In-dian defence as it is co-inciding with 75th anni-versary of India’s Inde-pendence.” —ANI

NSA DOVAL PITCHES FOR ‘ACTION PLAN’ BY SCO AGAINST LET, JEM

Dushanbe: National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval did some tough talk in Dushanbe at SCO NSA meet and urged SCO to bring action plan against Pakistan based terror outfits Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed as part of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) framework. According to sources, NSA Doval proposed that an action plan against LeT and JeM as part of SCO framework. He emphasised the adoption of international standards to counter terror financing including an MOU between SCO & Financial Action Task Force. —ANI

NADDA SLAMS DIGVIJAY, KAMAL NATH Their main aim is to create

confusion among people: NaddaBhopal: Hitting out at senior Congress leaders Digvijay Sin-gh and Kamal Nath over their recent state-ments on the abroga-tion of Article 370 in J&K and the coronavi-rus situation, respec-tively, BJP president JP Nadda accused them of creating con-fusion in the minds of people.

Addressing a day-long meeting of MP BJP’s executive com-

mittee virtually from New Delhi, he said that these (Congress) leaders forget that they are actually speaking out against

the country. “You have seen

what kind of excellent views he has on the abrogation of Article 370 and 35 A.” “Their main aim is to create confusion in the minds of the people and it is their habit,” Nadda alleged.

He praised Modi’s leadership & said that no stone was left un-turned in saving 130 crore people during the pandemic. —PTI

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With focus...genome sequencing at the earliest to identify the presence of new vari-ants of Coronavirus.

The health dept has also been asked to expe-dite the process of set-ting up PICU/NICU across the state. Availa-bility of all necessary equipment including bi-pap machines, pediatric ICU, mobile X-ray ma-chines should be ensured at the hospitals. There should be direct commu-nication with their man-ufacturing companies to ensure prompt supply.

The CM was apprised that the training of the first phase of the train-

ing of doctors and nurs-ing staff has been com-pleted. The requirement of other health workers, pediatrician, nursing staff and technicians is being assessed at the district-level to arrange for adequate human re-sources in view of the third wave.

It has also been decid-ed that on the advice of health experts, all neces-sary useful medicines should be procured. All these works should be completed within the next fortnight.

PM brings...“Our priority is to strengthen grassroots

democracy in J&K. De-limitation has to hap-pen at a quick pace so that polls can happen and J&K gets an elected Government that gives strength to J&K’s de-velopment trajectory,” he said.

The prime minister said it was the biggest strength of Indian de-mocracy that people can sit across a table and ex-change views.

“I told the leaders of J&K that it is the peo-ple, specially the youth who have to provide po-litical leadership to J&K, and ensure their aspirations are duly ful-filled,” he said.

The prime minister chaired the meeting at his official residence here.

This is the first inter-action between the cen-tral leadership and main-stream parties since Au-gust 5, 2019, when the Centre revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s special status under Article 370 and bifurcated it into un-ion territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

The four former chief ministers of the erst-while state who partici-pated in the discussions were Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdul-lah of the National Con-

ference, Congress’ Ghu-lam Nabi Azad and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti.

Four former deputy chief ministers were in attendance too - Con-gress’ Tara Chand, Peo-ple’s Conference leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig and BJP’s Nirmal Singh and Kavinder Gupta.

CPI-M leader Moham-med Yusuf Tarigami, Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) chief Altaf Bukhari, Sajjad Lone of the People’s Con-ference, J-K Congress head G A Mir, BJP’s Ravinder Raina and Pan-thers Party leader Bhim Singh also formed part of the delegation.

FROM PG 1

New Delhi: Twitter In-dia head Manish Ma-heshwari, who has chal-lenged UP Police sum-mons over the Ghazi-abad assault case, has been given court relief till Monday. The single bench of Justice G Nar-ender said the police can examine Mahesh-wari through virtual mode. “If the police de-sire to examine the peti-tioner (Manish Ma-heshwari), they may do so through virtual mode,” the court said.

“If the matter re-quires consideration, we list it on June 29.In the meanwhile restrain-ing the respondents from initiating any co-ercive action against the petitioner,” the court maintained.

Maheshwari had ap-proached the High Court for transit antici-

patory bail in connec-tion with the FIR filed by police over tweets on the assault of an elderly Abdul Samad a Muslim man in Ghaziabad.

“It is case of petition-er that he has replied to notice under section 160 of CrPC to join through virtual mode. The re-

spondent (Ghaziabad police) taking objection to the request has turned around and issued no-tice under section 41(A) virtually putting him in shoes of accused,” it ob-served. Appearing on behalf of Maheshwari, advocate C V Nagesh said someone had posted

a video on the Twitter platform alleging that a Muslim was forced to chant ‘Jai Sri Ram’ & ‘Vande Mataram’.

When he refused, his beard was cut. Subse-quently a notice under section 161 of the CrPC was issued to Mahesh-wari by email and re-

sponding to it, he said he would be ready to ap-pear virtually.

Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari, who lives in Bengaluru in Karnataka received a notice from the Ghazi-abad police on June 17 and was asked to join the probe. —Agencies

INTERIM COURT RELIEF FORTWITTER INDIA MD TILL MONMaheshwari on Thursday appeared before the Karnataka High Court ‘TO DISRUPT PEACE’

New Delhi: The Del-hi Police special cell have arrested 4 stu-dents from Ladakh in connection with a low-intensity IED blast that took place near the Israel Em-bassy on January 29. Police sources told that students were detained from Kargil & brought to Delhi on Thursday for questioning.

While the case is being probed by the National Investiga-tion Agency (NIA), the Special Cell in Delhi registered a case of “conspiracy” behind the blast and

picked up the 4. The NIA had announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh each for the identification of two people captured on CCTV camera, alleg-edly planting explo-sive material outside the Israeli embassy.

After the incident, Delhi police found footage which shows two men, including a man wearing a jack-et and carrying a bag, walking on the pavement minutes before the blast. CCTV footage shows them walking on the road with their faces covered, police said.

Four Ladakh students held over blast near Delhi’s Israel Embassy

C’garh CM to finalise strategy for top-priority schemes

Security personnel inspect the area after a low intensity blast outside Israeli Embassy on January 29, in New Delhi.

Raipur: After the com-mencement of new de-velopment works worth Rs 7,084 crores in Chhat-tisgarh in the last 15 days, CM Bhupesh Baghel is scheduled to undertake meetings for 15 consecutive days to finalise the speedy-im-plementation strategy for top-priority schemes in the state. As per a re-lease issued by the state government, the depart-ment ministers & sen-ior-most officers along with the subject experts would attend the afore-mentioned meetings. Meanwhile, the CM will also review the progress of major schemes relat-ed to farmers & work-ers, along with the works related to miner-als, energy, health, home, food, drinking water, irrigation.

Meghalaya HC: Vax by force violates fundamental rights

Sensex rallies 393 points amid firm global cues

Twitter India head Manish Maheshwari

New Delhi: The Megha-laya HC held that forced vaccination violates fundamental rights as mandated under Article 19(1)(g) of the Indian Constitution, Bar & Bench reported. The court observed forcing shopkeepers, taxi driv-ers etc. to get vaccinated as a condition for re-suming their business or profession “vitiates the very fundamental purpose of welfare at-

tached to it.” “However, vaccination by force or being made mandatory by adopting coercive methods, vitiates the very fundamental pur-pose of the welfare at-tached to it. It impinges on the fundamental right(s) as such, espe-cially when it affects the right to means of liveli-hood which makes it possible for a person to live,” Bar & Bench quot-ed the HC judgment.

Mumbai: Equity bench-mark Sensex rallied 393 points on Thursday, tracking gains in Info-sys, TCS and HDFC Bank amid a positive trend in global markets.

The 30-share BSE in-dex ended 392.92 points or 0.75 per cent higher at 52,699. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty surged 103.50 points or 0.66 per cent to 15,790.45. Infosys was the top gainer in the Sensex

pack, rising over 3 per cent, followed by TCS, Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech and Asian Paints.On the other hand, Re-liance Industries, Bharti Airtel, Power-Grid and SBI were among the laggards.

According to Binod Modi, Head-Strategy at Reliance Securities, benchmarks recovered sharply mainly led by sharp rebound in fi-nancials and IT.

Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday urged PM Modi to intervene in se-curing WHO approval for the Covaxin corona-virus vaccine. Banerjee flagged concerns of In-dian citizens - students in particular - unable to travel abroad for now because the vaccine had not yet been approved by the World Health Or-ganization.

Banerjee flagged con-cerns of Indian citizens - students in particular - unable to travel abroad for now because the

vaccine had not yet been approved by the World Health Organiza-tion.

“Hence, I request your kind intervention so early approval is re-ceived for Covaxin so students do not face any

problem. This will also benefit people travel-ling for any other pur-poses,” she wrote.

Meanwhile in anoth-er development, in ac-cordance with a Cal-cutta HC order, a 7-member committee of NHRC arrived in West Bengal to probe complaints of post-poll violence in West Ben-gal, sources said. The panel is headed by NHRC member Rajeev Jain. They will hold a meeting before visiting violence-hit areas.

—Agencies

Mamata asks PM Modi to get WHO nod for Covaxin

New Delhi: India on Thursday brushed aside Pakistani leader-ship’s recent assertions about the Kashmir is-sue and India’s role in Afghanistan, and said Islamabad should focus on creating an atmos-phere conducive to nor-mal bilateral relations by taking action against terrorism.

EAM spokesperson Arindam Bagchi was responding to com-ments by Pakistan for-eign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi that India’s presence in Af-

ghanistan is larger than it ought to be, and PM Imran Khan’s conten-tion that both countries wouldn’t need nuclear weapons if they settled the Kashmir issue.

Bagchi also dis-missed the Pakistan prime minister’s com-ments on the Kashmir issue, saying: “Regard-ing developments in Jammu and Kashmir, this is clearly an inter-nal matter for India.”

On bilateral relations with Pakistan, Bagchi said, “We (India) desire normal relations with

all our neighbours in-cluding Pakistan. Paki-stan must work towards creating a conducive atmosphere including by taking credible veri-fiable and irreversible actions to not allow any territory under its con-trol to be used for cross border terrorism against India in any manner.”

The Indian govern-ment made similar re-marks in a debate on the annual report of the UN Security Council to the General Assembly on June 11. —Agencies

India rejects Pak’s remarks onKashmir, Af, says focus on terror

Mamata Banerjee

Nearly 200 terror-ists active in Kash-mir, hope to elimi-nate most by end of 2021: Chinar Corps Commander

J-K’s Army Good-will School renamed after late colonel Ashutosh Sharma

Madras HC seeks DRDO, health ministry response on only 1 lab to produce Covid-19 drug

Work on Central Vista going as per schedule: Puri

Expelled by herd, Jharkhand elephant kills 16 men in 2 mth

HIGHLIGHTS

Being a legislator of the BJP, Mukul

Roy can become a member of the public accounts commit-tee (PAC) of the West Bengal legisla-tive assembly, CM Mamata Banerjee told the media during a press conference on Thursday afternoon, stoking speculations that TMC wants Roy to be the commit-tee’s chairman, a post conventionally enjoyed by the main opposition party.

MUKUL ROY ELIGIBLE FOR ASSEMBLY PANEL AS BJP MLA: DIDI

New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gan-dhi on Thursday said the party must play an active role in ensuring full COVID-19 vaccina-tion coverage and ad-dress vaccine hesitan-cy wherever evident.

She also said that country needs to pre-pare for the possible third wave and take proactive measures so that children are spared this calamity.

Addressing a meet-ing of party general secretaries and in-charges of AICC in various states, she called upon party lead-ers and workers to con-tinue to put pressure on the union govern-ment to ensure that the daily rate of vac-cination trebles so that 75% of the population gets fully vaccinated by end of this year.

Her comments come

in the wake of the BJP accusing the Congress of aiding vaccine hesi-tancy. “On the pandem-ic, let me say that it is absolutely essential that our party plays an

active role in ensuring full vaccination cover-age. No doubt, this is dependent entirely on the adequacy of vac-cine supply,” she said addressing the party leaders virtually. Quot-ing experts, she said they are talking of pos-sible third wave in a few months from now and some have pointed to the vulnerability of children in the coming months. —PTI

Sonia to Congmen: Address vax hesitancy

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SHABANA AZMI FALLS PREY TO ONLINE PAYMENT SCAM

JAISHANKAR TO TRAVEL TO GREECE, ITALY THIS WEEK

CENTRE SIGNS USD 32 MN LOAN WITH WORLD BANK

Mumbai: Veteran actor Shabana Azmi has found herself at the receiving end of online fraud. On Thursday, Shabana took to Twitter to alert social media users about how she has been cheated by one of the Mumbai-based alcohol delivery platforms. “BEWARE... I have been cheated by them. #Living Liquidz I paid upfront and when the ordered item didnt turn up they stopped picking up my calls!

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will embark on a two-day bilateral visit to Greece on Friday to hold talks with his Greek counterpart, according to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). Following Greece, Jaishankar will travel to Italy to attend the G20 Ministerial meeting, MEA spokesperson Arnidam Bagchi said. “EAM Jaishankar will be making a bilateral visit on June 25-26 to hold talks with Greece counterpart along with other engagement,” Bagchi said.

New Delhi: The Centre, Government of Mizoram and the World Bank have signed a USD 32 million Mizoram Health Systems Strengthening Project to improve the management capacity and quality of health services in Mizoram, & particularly for the benefi t of under-served areas, vulnerable groups & to strengthen the coverage of services delivered by the state government health systems.

UP MAN ASSAULT CASE

‘WE ARE NOT FROM AFGHANISTAN, HEAR US’

The protest against the 3-agricultural laws of the

central government by the farmers group has been going on for several months calling for its withdrawal yet there has been no compromise reached between the protesting farmers and the central government. Rakesh Tikait, national spokesperson of Bharatiya Kisan Union said that the farmers have been protesting peacefully on the border of Delhi-NCR for the last 7 months

and yet the government has not come forward to listen to the demands of the farmers, he even questioned if protests is useless in a democratic country. Rakesh Tikait who is leading the protest of the farmers on the Ghazipur border has severely criticized the central government for not coming forward for talks to resolve the issue of the farmers. During a press interaction, he even said that 4 lakh tractors and 25 lakh people were sitting in protest

were Indian nationals and not Afghanistan nationals, yet the Indian government is ignoring the protesters. It is noteworthy that

the farmers have been agitating for almost a year demanding complete repeal of all three agricultural laws. The farmers’ unions are adamant on the demand for repeal of all three agricultural laws, while the government says it is ready to make amendments as needed. The central government has indicated many times that farmers’ organizations should talk on legal points other than just demand the repeal of these laws.

—Frist India Bureau

FROM CAR TO BEKAAR

One rotten apple spoils the whole lot. Such is the

case with Mukhtar Ansari the tainted BSP MLA whose hands are soaked in blood and soul in corrupt practices. While Mukhtar’s involvement in crimes has been proven in the court for which he is serving the sentence in Banda jail these days, his close relatives and friend are bearing the brunt of the Uttar Pradesh police. The police are on a seizure spree of not only Mukhtar’s unlawfully accumulated properties but also of those who are in close contact of him. The UP police

have seized a luxury car of jailed BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari, terming it “benami property”. Ansari’s car was seized from the house of his wife Afshan in Sayyidwada locality of Ghazipur Nagar after completing the legal process. The car is registered in the name of Vikas Constructions, a company in which Afshan holds a 60 per cent stake. Ansari’s brothers-in-law Anwar Shazad and Sharjeel Raza hold a 20 per cent stake each in the company, he said. Ansari, the legislator from Mau in eastern Uttar Pradesh, is facing 52 cases in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere, and 15 of them are in the trial stage.

—Frist India Bureau

Wife of slain journalist Sulabh gets govt job in Nagar Panchayat

Now, helpline to counter rising cases of cyber crime

First India Bureau

Prayagraj: Journalist Sulabh Srivastava’s wife Renuka has got a government job as an office assistant in Na-gar Panchayat Kohador in Pratapgarh. The ex-ecutive officer of Nagar Panchayat Sushil Raghuvanshi has con-firmed the appoint-ment. On June 13, Su-labh died under suspi-cious circumstances and his family members had accused a liquor mafia behind the mur-der.

On the instructions of ADG Prayagraj Zone, an investigation team has been constituted under the leadership of ASP (East). The family members had demand-ed one crore rupees as compensation, a job for

wife Renuka and ar-rangements for educa-tion of children, as a result of which on the initiative of district ad-ministration, wife Re-nuka got a government job on Thursday.

Public anger had erupted on the road over the death of jour-nalist Sulabh Srivasta-va under suspicious circumstances. Not only this, journalists and politicians staged a sit-in in front of ADG,

DM and SP. On the other hand, several politi-cians including MP and MLC besides senior of-ficials including ADG, DM, SP, etc had visited Sulabh’s house to ex-press condolences.

Journalist Sulabh Srivastava had been fac-ing danger to his life for a long time. He felt that someone was always following him. He had also confessed about this to his wife. He had expressed the possibili-

ty of his murder in a letter sent to ADG Pray-agraj on WhatsApp. In the letter, he had said that on June 9, he had run news against the liquor mafia on the in-ternet media. In such a situation, the liquor mafia could harm him and his family.

An array of leaders including MP Sangam-lal Gupta, MLC Akshay Pratap Singh Gopalji, MLA Vinod Saroj, BJP district unit pesident Hari Om Mishra, for-mer MLA Brijesh Mishra Saurabh, Shiv Prakash Mishra Sena-ni, Abhay Singh Pap-pan, Ashwani Soni among others had vis-ited Sulabh ’s house and expressed condo-lences to his wife and assured to provide all possible help.

First India Bureau

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police has started action against increasing incidents of cyber crime in the state. It has issued the hel-pline number-155260 of the cybercrime com-plaint cell. Any person can register his com-plaint by calling this number. A complaint can be made on this number immediately after the amount is withdrawn through on-line fraud. As soon as this is done, the police will start action. Under ye initiative the account in which the amount of cyber fraud has been transferred would be immediately seized. Not only this, if the amount of fraud goes to

any pay-wallet, the same would also be fro-zen.

It may be mentioned that usually the amount is withdrawn from the victim’s account by ask-ing for OTP. To benefit maximum number of people from this hel-pline number, the 155260 number has also been connected with UP 112.

In fact, the national

helpline number 155260 issued under the Cen-tral Government’s scheme Citizen Finan-cial Fraud Reporting System has been linked to 112 in the state. Now if a person is a victim of cyber fraud in UP, then that person can call this number within 24 hours. Incoming calls to this number would be connected to

112. In this, the victim will have to give com-plete information about the fraud after which police would begin its investigation.

As soon as the com-plaint is received, an alert will be sent to the concerned bank, in whose account the amount of fraud has been deposited. Banks will freeze the amount in that account imme-diately after the alert is issued. With this, the fraudster will not be able to withdraw that amount. If the amount has been sent from one bank account to anoth-er bank account, then the concerned bank will take action to freeze the account by sending an alert to the other bank.

KULDEEP SENGAR'S PROXIMITYCOSTS ARUN SINGH DEARLYBJP withdrew the ticket given to Arun Singh for the post of District Panchayat President and has instead given it to Shakun Singh after the victim of the infamous Makhi rape case of Unnao put some serious allegations against Arun Singh and BJP

Before the ticket was cancelled, the victim

has alleged that Arun Singh is close to former MLA Kul-deep Singh Sengar, who is currently serving life sen-tence in the rape case. She alleged that BJP to kill the victim has given the ticket for the District Panchayat President to Arun Singh. The victim said that the acci-dent in which the victim was in-volved was orches-trated by Arun Singh and Arun Singh has previ-ously even threat-ened to kill the vic-tim. She had even letters to the Presi-dent, Prime Minis-ter and Chief Min-ister seeking jus-tice and help.

Arun Singh in answer to the alle-gations said that he is being framed by the opposition and that he has been given a clean chit by CBI in the said allegations. He add-ed that he thinks of the victim as his sister and that he is a disciplined soldier of the party. He also claimed that the video that is being circulated was fake.

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VOTING ON JULY 3According to the notifi ca-tion of the state election, on June 26, nominations for the post of District Panchayat President will be fi led and the Scrutiny of nomination papers will be done on the same day. The last date for withdrawal of nominations is June 29 fol-lowing which voting will held on July 3 from 11 am to 3 pm. The counting for the votes will also take on the same day after 3 PM.

‘THE PARTY LEADERSHIP WILL RECONSIDER’

HOW BJP CHANGED ITS STRATEGY IN UNNAO

ARUN SINGH IS NAMED IN THE ACCIDENT CASE

Deputy Chief Minis-ter Keshav Maurya who was in Mirzapur said that he received

information about the controversy and that due consideration will be done by the party.

Arun Singh is an MLA from Hussain-ganj assembly constit-uency of Fatehpur district and son-in-law of Ranvendra Pratap Singh alias Dhunni Singh, Minis-ter of State for Agri-culture in Uttar Pradesh government. While the BJP had re-fused to give tickets to any office-bearer in the Zilla Panchayat elections, it changed it stance for the dis-trict of Unnao and had given Arun Singh the ticket. The name of Arun Singh was announced by the par-ty on Wednesday. The BJP for the seat of

District Panchayat President had an-nounced the candida-ture of Arun Singh who was elected as the District Panchayat member from Auras II. The party after a lot of consideration had announced the name of Arun Singh at around 11 pm on Wednesday night for the District Panchay-at President. Arun Singh has been previ-ously the Block Chief and BJP District Pres-ident Rajkishore Raw-at even went on to claim that BJP would win the seat of Dis-trict Panchayat Presi-dent in Unnao.

Arun Singh is named in the accident case in-volving the victim of Makhi rape case. The victim was travelling to Rae Bareli Jail to meet her uncle in car on 28 July 2019 during which her car driven by lawyer Mahendra Singh was hit head-on by a truck on NH 32 in

Rae Bareli district. The accident took the life of the victim aunts passed away while the victim, her elder sister and the lawyer were seriously injured. The victim and her lawyer were admitted to AIIMS, where both were treated for a long time and the lawyer

though passed away after 16 months. The victim’s uncle had filed a case against 30 including Kuldeep Sin-gh Sengar, his brother Manoj Singh Sengar and then head of Nawabganj block, Arun Singh under var-ious sections like 302 (murder), 307 (attempt

to murder), 506 (intim-idation) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy). Kuldeep Singh is cur-rently serving life im-prisonment in Tihar Jail following Delhi’s Tis Hazari District Court decision in 2017 rape case against MLA Kuldeep Singh filed by a young woman.

Arun Singh Kuldeep Sengar

Journalist Sulabh’s wife Renuka

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CASTE CONNECT: Parties gear up to woo Brahmins as poll bugle sounds

First India Bureau

Lucknow: As the as-sembly elections in the state are approaching, all the political parties have begun the calcula-tion of vote banks. All the parties are eyeing Brahmin votes. Getting Brahmin votes is the most challenging for all the parties. Though the number of Brahmin voters might not be as high as others, it still plays biggest role in the toppling and forming of a government.

The killing of mafia kingpin Vikas Dubey in an encounter in Kanpur last year grabbed head-lines. The police also showed no restrain in the scandal of Bikru as they killed six associ-

ates of Dubey in en-counters conducted all over the state. Most of these associates along with Vikas Dubey were from the Brahmin com-munity and the killing of Dubey was followed by flooding of posts on social media which hailed the gangster as ‘Brahmin protector’.

Soon after the death of Dubey, the focus sud-denly shifted to the Brahmin community in the politics of UP. BSP chief Mayawati ac-cused the Yogi govern-ment of increasing atrocities on Brahmins.

In August 2020, then senior Congress leader Jitin Prasada started a campaign to connect Brahmins through the organisation ‘Brahmin Chetna Parishad’ formed under his pa-tronage.

During the Corona transition, Jitin was in-volved in campaigns to project the Yogi govern-

ment as anti-Brahmin by communicating with Brahmin families on-line. Jitin even wrote to Chief Minister Yogi de-manding restoration of the holiday of Par-ashuram Jayanti, which was abolished by the BJP government in 2017.

The BJP was also worried about the Brah-

min community’s vot-ers which is why it opened its door to Jitin Prasada who is a known to commend a lot of re-spect in the Brahmin community. The BJP even before the 2017 as-sembly elections knew the importance of the Brahmin votes boosted in prospects by ensur-ing that senior Brah-min leader Brajesh Pathak of the BSP and Rita Bahuguna Joshi, then state president of the Congress joined the party in later half of 2016. Mayawati in order to get Brahmins to align with the party for the upcoming assembly elections has started forming brotherhood committees on the lines of 2005.

The BSP had thought if replicated the same social engineering of forming Dalit, Brahmin and OBC committees at the assembly level it would be able to form government against just like it did in the 2007 elections.

First India Bureau

Lucknow: The BJP is busy persuading its al-lies and fulfilling the promises made to them before the 2022 elections in the state. The party has given two seats to Apna Dal (S) for the up-coming election of the District Panchayat President in UP.

The BJP and central office bearers of Apna Dal(S) have come to a consensus that Apna Dal (S) will field its can-didate from the seats of Jaunpur and Sonbhad-ra. The candidates for these 2 seats will soon be announced by the central leadership of Apna Dal (S).

It is being speculated that for the seat of Dis-trict Panchayat Presi-dent in Jaunpur, Srika-la the wife of Dhanan-jay Singh can be given the candidature from

Apna Dal (S). Apna Dal (S) National President and MP Anupriya Patel has had a lot of meeting with BJP leadership in Delhi and UP for the past one month. She had demanded that her party be given four seats for the district

panchayat president but after negotiations the BJP has given two seats to Apna Dal(S)

The BJP has put an emphasis on keeping OBC vote bank together and as the vote bank of the Kurmi community is considered important among the OBC voters in UP. The BJP in order to appease the growing displeasure of Apna Dal (S) against it has de-cided to give the party 2 seats of District Pan-chayat Presidents

Jitin Prasad Brajesh Pathak Rita Bahuguna Joshi

As BJP fears alienating Brahmins, BSP & Cong too leave no stone unturned to woo community

Apna Dal gets 2 seats for Dist Panchayat president elections

Athawale urges BJP to make his party ally for polls

BRAHMIN CONNECT

Demolish mosque to get piece of land: Hindu outfitFirst India Bureau

Lucknow: A Hindu out-fit Sri Krishna Janmab-humi Mukti Aandolan Samiti has moved an ap-plication before the Ma-thura court offering a piece of land [to the Muslim party/mosque’s management committee which is larger than the one on which the 17th century Shahi Masjid stands allegedly inside the Katra Keshav Dev temple complex.

The offer by the outfit has been made on a con-dition that the mosque’s management committee would have to voluntar-ily demolish the shrine on its own and has fur-ther offered the Com-mittee to resolve the is-sue amicably. Further, the offer refers to the 2019 judgment of the Su-preme Court in the Ram Janmabhoomi case where the court had ruled in favour of the Hindu parties but had asked the government to provide land to the Mus-lims for a mosque, in return.

The Aandolan Sami-ti has averred in its ap-plication, filed through Advocate Mahendra Pratap Singh that in case, the shrine is de-molished by the Mus-lim Party on its own, they would be giving a larger piece of land to the mosque manage-

ment committee out-side the Chaurasi Kos Parikarma circuit of the temple town.“We have decided to

give Intazamia Commit-tee a piece of land if at all they agree to this set-tlement,” said Advocate Singh.

IN THE COURTYARD

HC PASSES 26 ORDERS IN 3 DAYS FOR COUPLES’ PROTECTIONPrayagraj: The Al-lahabad High Court passed twenty six orders over the course of three days, ordering the police to provide protection to couples who raised apprehen-sions about their safety due to the threats from family members. The orders were passed from June 21 to 23 by Justice Siddharth. In a majority of the cases, the petitioners claimed that they were adults and had gotten married against the wishes of their family members.

While disposing of most of the petitions, the Court directed the SSP of various cities to ensure the safety and security of petitioner couples. One of the orders in Rashi (Raviya Bano) and Anr v State of UP states: “This petition is disposed of directing the SSP, Agra, respondent no.2, to ensure safety of the petitioners after production of the copy of this order and presented before him within a period of three days from today.”

SOAKED IN DEVOTION

Hindu devotees take a holy dip in the river Ganga on the occasion of Jyeshtha Purnima festival in Prayagraj on Thursday

Akhilesh accuses BJP of ruining economy

Apna Dal (S) chief Anupriya Patel (R) CM Yogi Adityanath

First India Bureau

Lucknow: Samajwa-di Party chief Akhli-lesh Yadav on Thursday accused the BJP of ruining the economy and said its short-sighted poli-cies were responsible for the rising unem-ployment. Hitting out at CM Yogi Adity-anath, he said despite holding investors’ summit, nothing has happened on the ground.

“The short-sighted policies of the BJP is responsible for the rising unemploy-ment. The CM’s claim to provide lakhs of jobs has come to the fore now,” the SP chief said. The CM used to make tall claims about provid-ing lakhs of jobs to the youths but the re-ality is that there are

hurdles everywhere, be it recruitment of teachers, doctors or in other departments, he said. He said sub-inspectors were re-cruited in 2012 but they could not get their positing and salaries yet.

On Thursday, through Samajwadi Rasoi, SP National Vice President and former Rajya Sabha MP Kiranmoy Nanda distributed food. Food was distributed among the poor and needy at trauma cent-ers and other places.

First India Bureau

New Delhi: Union min-ister Ramdas Athawale has requested the BJP to make his Republican Party of India (Atha-wale) an ally in the up-coming assembly elec-tions in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Manipur, Goa and Uttarakhand.

In a letter to BJP president J P Nadda, Athawale said the BJP should expand the Na-tional Democratic Alli-ance (NDA) to keep smaller parties togeth-er and that the RPI (Athawale) wishes to work as an ally of the

BJP in the Assembly elections scheduled for 2022.Noting that people across the country know that the RPI (Athawale) is an inte-gral part of the NDA, Athawale said in UP

the party can help in cutting votes of the BSP as the two parties share a common Dalit support base.

“My personal request to you is that if RPI (Athawale) is made an ally of BJP in UP, then it will help in cutting the votes of BSP.... If 8-10 seats are given to RPI by BJP, then BJP will get indirect benefit too,” the Union Minister of State of Social Justice & Empowerment said. “Therefore, I request you to give some seats to RPI (Athawale) in the upcoming assembly elections,” he wrote.

The BJP before the 2022 elections does not want to disturb its

relationship with its allies.

First India Bureau

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has transferred four DSPs to other districts and assigned additional charge to five IPS offic-ers of PAC.

These five IPS officers have been given respon-sibility in branches of Special Security Force (SSF). Shankar Prasad has been sent from DSP PAC Headquarters, Lucknow to DSP Secu-rity Headquarters, Luc-know while Balram has been sent Moradabad to Ghazipur. Similarly, Ra-jeev Dwivedi has been

made DSP ATS Luc-know from DSP Ghaz-ipur while Atish Ku-mar Singh has been made Deputy Superin-tendent of Police, ATS Lucknow from DSP Se-curity Headquarters Lucknow.

IPS Jai Prakash has been given additional charge of 1st Corps Special Security Force, Lucknow with 32nd Corps PAC, Lucknow while Kuntal Kishore has been given charge of 26th Corps PAC, Gorakhpur along with 2nd Corps SSF Gorakh-pur. Avinash Pandey has been given charge

of 3rd Corps SSF, Pray-agraj with 4th Corps PAC, Prayagraj.

Sanjay Singh has been given the charge of 4th Corps SSF, Ma-thura along with 45th Corps PAC, Aligarh. At

the same time, Suryakant Tripathi has been given additional charge of Fifth Corps in SSF of Saharanpur with 44th PAC Meerut.

The Yogi government had formed special secu-

rity force in 2020. These five officers have been given additional charge in the branches of this SSF. The force has its own rights and an ADG level officer will lead this force named UP Spe-cial Security Force. It will not require a magis-trate’s warrant to arrest any suspect and will also have the right to search without warrant on the basis of suspicion.

According to ACS (Home) Avnish Awasthi, 9,919 personnel will be appointed in this spe-cial security force, ini-tially there will be five battalions.

5 IPS officers get addl charge, 4 DSPs shiftedRESHUFFLE

ABSCONDING IPS OFFICER’SPETITION ADJOURNEDThe Allahabad High Court has adjourned the hearing on the petition of absconding IPS of-fi cer Manilal Patidar. Patidar’s lawyer had fi led a petition. Now, hearing in the matter will be held on July 5.

GORAKHPUR DM TO GO ON DEPUTATION

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he deepest and truest se-crets of colour effect are invisible even to the eye and are beheld by the heart alone.” -By Jo-hannes Itten

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LEOJULY 24 - AUGUST 23

Getting into a favourable situation on the academic front is possible. Good luck promises to brighten your

day. Some positive changes can be expected on the home front. This seems a good day for job seekers. New avenues for earning open up as you get more determined.

LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22

A family youngster is likely to do you proud. A business trip is indicated and will achieve much.

Your strategy to promote yourself on the professional front will bear fruits. You may need to speed up things on the academic front to remain ahead. Something special awaits you.

ARIESMAR 21 - APR 20

Excellent opportunities may knock at your door. Professionals will be able to give their best in a new

situation. Financially, this day may prove lucky for you, so go ask for the raise that is keeping you on tenterhooks. Don’t take any chances with your health today.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22

Good performance on the academic front will help enhance your reputation. Some favourable

developments on the social front are foreseen. Buying new furniture or a major appliance is possible. With good networking, a posting can be yours. Some may get their money back.

GEMINIMAY 21 - JUNE 21

Your performance at work will be commendable. Your own happiness is in your hands today. Spouse may

need their space, respect that. This is a favourable day for completing pending jobs. Financially, no problems are foreseen. Much fun is in store on the social front.

AQUARIUSJAN 21 - FEB 19

A new deal is likely to come through and give you a taste of success. Those fond of travelling may get their

chance soon. This is the time when you enjoy yourself with a new group of friends or colleagues. A change of job is likely to give you better salary and perks. Romance can be expected.

TAURUSAPR 21 - MAY 20

Success is foretold on the academic front. Your reputation is likely to boost your image on the social

front. On the work front, you will manage to keep your superiors in good humour. This is an excellent day to spend time with family.Good planning will see you complete a task.

CAPRICORNDEC 23 - JAN 20

You are likely to take up someone’s cause and earn appreciation from all quarters on the social

front. Remaining on the good side of those who matter on the academic front will help you achieve much. Good tidings of your well wishers will keep you going well professionally.

VIRGOAUG 24 - SEP 23

You may wait for someone’s invitation for a trip. Your professionalism in handling problem areas

will be appreciated. Tenant troubles are foreseen for some house owners. You will fi nd family life more than fulfi lling. A senior is likely to put in a good word for you to the higher ups.

CANCERJUNE 22 - JULY 23

Your desire for an exciting time on the social front is likely to be fulfi lled today. Those looking for buying a

house can get a good bargain. Appreciation is in store for some homemakers. A professional victory is yours if you play your cards well today. Business will be fruitful.

PISCESFEB20 - MARCH 20

You will have to be more focussed on the academic front. You may get busy organising something on

the social front. You may need to put your ideas into action, if you want to prove yourself. A party may be thrown in your honour at work. Your good performance may be noticed.

SCORPIOOCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

You will manage to achieve what you had aimed for on the academic front. A celebration can fi nd you in

your element today. Praise and honour are likely to greet you in something that you have managed to achieve. You will be a pillar of strength to a friend or associate.

YOUR DAY

Horoscope by Saurabbh Sachdeva

THE CREATININE THE CREATININE TREATMENTTREATMENT

even days of treat-ment if the creati-nine level is in-creased due to co-rona infection. Creatinine is a metabolic sub-

stance that breaks down and turns into creatinine while helping to convert food into energy, although your kidneys filter creati-nine and remove it from the blood, after which this waste substance is re-moved from the urine. It goes out of the body along with it, but some health-related problems hinder this function of the kidney, due to which creatinine is not able to come out and its level starts increasing in the blood. There are many ways in which you can re-duce the increased creati-nine level, for this you will have to make changes in

diet and some changes in lifestyle and take medicine etc.

First, you should get a Creatinine clearance test (a type of test) done, which shows how much creati-nine is in your urine, the amount of creatinine in your blood should be less and more in your urine normal blood creatinine.

WHAT IS RENAL FAILURE OR IMPAIRMENTIf your kidneys are dam-aged, they cannot filter creatinine out of your body by glomerular filtra-tion as they normally do.

FILTRATION

1At present, due to the condition of corona or

other infection, sodium be-ing taken in excess in the body starts accumulating fluid in the body and to the level which is harmful to health, due to which high BP starts happening due to both these reasons. Creati-nine level may increase.

2 Avoid the consumption of all those food items

in which protein is availa-ble in high quantity.

3 The creatinine ob-tained through most

animal products is not so harmful, but those who are

already suffering from this problem should avoid tak-ing it, save yourself from red meat and processed food - your diet Having an excess of cooked meat can also increase the amount of Creatinine in your body.

4 Any type of distur-bance in the thyroid

can affect the function of your kidneys. Hypothy-roidism can reduce your kidney’s ability to filter key-waste substances smoothly.

5 When there is not enough water in your

body, then the production of urine also decreases, be-

cause creatinine comes out of the body along with urine, so it becomes diffi-cult to get out of creatinine when there is a lack of urine.

6 Increasing creatinine is a sign of kidney diseas-

es, if it increases more, regular dialysis of the kid-ney has to be done, if still there is no relief, then it is possible to get a kidney transplant done.What to do? Remedy:Along with micro acupres-sure, take herbal remedies. This use of neem acacia and peepal is very effective in increasing creatinine,

increased creatinine can be correct in a week mate-rials.

Neem tree bark, Peepal tree bark, the bark of aca-cia native tree. Heat 10 grams of neem bark, 10 grams of acacia bark and 10 grams of peepal bark in three glasses of water, boil it till it becomes half and make a decoction, now you divide this decoction into 3-4 parts a day and keep consuming it.

PATIENT’S WORDSMy best friend Santosh

Sharma, his wife Indira Sharma, aged 50, suddenly

had back and stomach pain and urination stopped, vomiting contin-ued, the family members thought it as a heat stroke. It all happened on May 1, 2021. She was taken to hos-pital..where, it was found that creatinine has in-creased, to 4.6. At the same time, he decided to shift the patient to a urology specialist. And did dialy-sis 2-3 times, now creati-nine increased to 6. Sud-denly the oxygen level de-creased, after 4 days again the patient was admitted to another Hospital, made all the efforts for 15 days but after 5-6 dialysis Even this level kept increasing and reached till 9, the pa-tient started to urinate, I advised my friend that there is a solution in Ayur-veda, drink a decoction of neem, peepal and acacia bark twice a day for 2 weeks which worked ..got the report done today 1.6 level has come. All neph-rologists are surprised that there are nectar medi-cines in Ayurveda, I also am happy, on June 22, 2021, I told my staff that the re-port of Santosh’s wife has come right today the cre-atinine level came to 1.6 from 9 and I have also talked to the patient on the phone.

You can also get com-plete information from the patient. Santosh Kumar Sharma, Manager, Shyam Baba Petrol Pump, Gad-hmora, Karauli.

With this experiment, the level of creatinine gets settled in just seven to 15 days or it comes to a suffi-cient level, along with mi-cro acupressure therapy on the navel.

DR PEEYUSH TRIVEDIGovt. Ayurveda Hospital Rajasthan Vidhansabha Jaipur

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CREATININE CLEARANCE TESTMen : 0.6 to 1.2 mg/dL; 53 to 106 mcmol/L

Female: 0.5 to 1.1 mg/dL; 44 to 97 mcmol/L

Teenagers: 0.5 to 1.0 mg/dL

Children: 0.3 to 0.7 mg/dL

NORMAL URINE CREATININE LEVELSMale: 107 to 139 mL/min; 1.8 to 2.3 mL/sec

Female: 87 to 107 mL/min; 1.5 to 1.8 mL/sec

scar-nominated actor Scarlett Johansson will be feted with the 35th American Cinematheque Award during the organisation’s gala at the Beverly Hil-ton on November 18. The honour will put her in esteemed company as she will join a list of prior honourees that includes Spike Lee, George Cloon-ey, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Eddie Murphy, Char-lize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Denzel Washing-

ton, Steve Martin, Samuel L. Jackson and many more. American Cinematheque chair Rick Nic-ita said Johansson’s career embodies the es-sence of the prestigious award. “Her immense talent has shone brightly from her movie debut as a child through her emergence as a megastar of blockbusters,” Nicita said in a state-ment on Tuesday morning.

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Akshay Kumar and Nupur Sa-non’s first look from Filhaal 2 Mohabbat is winning hearts as the team announc-

es the teaser release date. Remem-ber when Akshay Kumar and Nu-pur Sanon took the internet by a storm with their first collabora-tion in 2019? And now, after much anticipation, Akshay has finally shared the first look. —Agency

Filhaal 2 First Look OUT

Actor Arjun Rampal shared a heartfelt note for his younger daughter Myra as she turned 16 on June 24, 2021. The doting dad

took to his Instagram handle and posted a series of pictures with a special note. “Happy happy sweet 16 my little jaan @myra_rampal love you beyond and more can’t wait to have you in my arms again. Happy birthday,” wrote the ‘Rock On’ star. Myra Rampal was quick to notice the special post for her. “Thank you da love you,” wrote Rampal’s youngest daughter. —Agency

The early mentor of acclaimed film cinematog-rapher Santosh

Sivan his father popu-larly known as Sivan passed away here, Thurs-day, according to family sources. The early men-tor of acclaimed film cin-ematographer Santosh Sivan, his father popu-larly known as Sivan passed away here, Thursday, according to family sources. He suf-fered a cardiac arrest and passed away.

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Kirti Kulhari announced to the world that she and Saahil Sehgal have been separated in

April, after almost five years of marriage. The actress spoke about

how she feels regarding marriage and love after splitting ways with her husband. Kirti termed marriage

as an overrated concept. Re-

cently, Kirti spoke to the radio show host Siddharth Kannan on what she feels about marriage. I can be in love with someone, I can have a beautiful relationship with someone and I can still choose to not be married to that person. This idea of marriage that exists in our society, this was my con-ditioning as well.

—Agency

WHY GET MARRIED?

After years and years of anticipation, the Krrish movie franchise that started with Koi Mil Gaya is finally getting its 4th film! The lead of the franchise Hrithik

Roshan recently took to Twitter and con-firmed the news himself ! Sharing a teaser clip of 5 seconds, the video screen read: “15 years of Krrish.” Alongside the video, the actor wrote on Twitter, “Let’s see what the future brings.” —Agency

KRRISH 4 ANNOUNCED

Singer-songwriter Britney Spears has been under conser-vatorship for a lit-

tle over 13 years. Several fans have raised their concerns about the singer’s wellbeing after years of her father hav-ing control over her life and finances. Now, as per the court records obtained by The New York Times, Spears has pleaded with the judge to end her “abu-sive” conservator-ship. In an explosive

testimony, the sing-er voiced her con-

cerns regarding the controver-sial conserva-

torship case. “This conser-vatorship is

doing me way more harm than good,” Spears said. Since 2008, Spears’s fi-nances and personal life decisions have been moni-tored and con-trolled by the conservator-

ship. —Agency

scar-nominated actor Scarlett Johansson will be ton, Steve Martin, Samuel L. Jackson and many

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ControversialConservatorship

Actress Va-n e s s a Hudg ens says she

never fancied finding love on a dating app, and yet ended up meeting the new

man in her life, A m e r i c a n baseball star Cole Tucker. “I still can-not get over the fact that

it happened. I remem-ber dur-

ing quaran-tine I was sin-

gle, and I thought I’ll go on a date. I al-ways said I would never go

on a dating app and then I found myself on the dating app. I was working in New York and my girlfriend would want to help, and they added me to a group text. Everyone’s s e n d i n g gifts of themselves like Joe Jo-nas had a lit-tle herbal

aroma,” she said.

—Agency

Finding LOVE

Sad Demise

Love you beyond

Britney Spears

Scarlett Johansson

Poster of the film

Late Santosh Sivan

Poster of the film

Arjun Rampal’s post

Vanessa HudgensKirti Kulhari

s the clouds turned grey in Southampton, the chances of team India winning the World Test Champi-onship trophy washed away. With Kane Wil-

liamson at the helm, New Zea-land defeated India by eight wickets at The Ageas Bowl in Southampton on June 23, win-ning the inaugural trophy.

Curtailed by the rains, the final WTC match turned out disappointing for India as Kohli and Pujara were caught napping by the Kiwi pacers, the tall order of India’s skill-ful batters fell like nine pins. As bowling all-rounder, Ravi Chandran Ashwin rose to the occasion to save the ship of the Indian team by taking two important wickets, Kane Wil-liamson and Ross Taylor steered the wheel of a win in New Zealand’s favour with

their 93 run partnership.As India gave up a position

of strength on day 6- the re-serve day, setting a low target of 139 runs, City First asked a few cricket players and en-thusiasts how they saw In-dia’s defeat.

Owais Siddiqui, an ex U-16 National and U-19 Lucknow Mandal player, said, “As of 1st

inning intent of winning was clearly showing on India’s side but in the 2nd inning,

there was a lack of inten-tion. 50-70 more runs in the second inning could have

changed the results.” He add-ed, “While playing in England conditions, we needed a pacer all-rounder like Hardik Pan-dya who can bowl and can give runs when needed.”

On the other hand, Rachit Trehan, an actor and cricket enthusiast, said, “Team selec-tion was good, but weather conditions were not in favour of India. But, Virat Kohli is the backbone of the Indian team. He will surely win a WC. It was not their day, but they will be back stronger.”

Another cricket buff, Aaquib Siddiqui, said, “India enjoyed an upper hand until the game pushed to a reserved

day which became futile as the batting lineup fell to its face at a low score, plus, the weather conditions hampered the game. Anyway, the men in blue will outshine in the up-coming ICC T20 World Cup under the leadership of Koh-li.”

Akshdeep Nath, Ex-captain, U.P. Ranji Team and ex-player of Royal Challengers Banga-lore, said, “WTC final match was an unfortunate event, as the top-ranking team, India caught the light of the bitter weather conditions. Although Indian batsman will regret not playing to potential in 2nd innings. India can be proud of the way they played the WTC cycle and prepare to bring home the ICC World T20 cup, later this year under the excel-lent supervision of captain Virat Kohli.”

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CITY BUZZGET VACCINATED

STAY MASKED

Back in the days, where monetary value wasn’t rec-ognised, what fol-

lowed in the exchange of materials was Barter System. With time, the barter system was re-placed with the introduc-tion of Coins, many of which we often see in historical museums. What came next was pa-per-weight currency, well in a brief, although there were and are still many other modes of exchang-ing goods. The recent in-troduction in the medi-um of exchange is Cryp-tocurrency. Defined as the digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange wherein indi-vidual coin ownership records are stored in a ledger existing in a form of a computerized data-base using strong cryp-tography. City First spoke to youngsters fetching their views about the new currency.

“Cryptocurrency is the future of transaction, we are still in the initial phase of it. One will feel FOMO after 5 years if they don’t own any crypto, as in de-veloped nations many big brands have started ac-cepting crypto for their products and services. It is

very much applicable in vastly populated countries like India, but people here have always trust issues regarding any new things, but the newer gen is a risk-taker and the last year hike has raised many eyebrows of youngsters as well as well

established investors, but the government keeps changing its views on crypto in India, that is the reason why many people are hesitating before enter-ing in it, full-fledged.” —Amar Mishra

“There was a time when there used to be real pictures as hard copies rather than just the dig-ital format of the same, I be-lieve the same had happened with the currency. My belief holds very little importance until and unless I am able to use it as much as currency.”

—Ishika Saini

“Digital currency is good. In fact, Google Pay and PayTM were my refuge when Notebandi was intro-duced and especially when the Coronavirus pan-demic began. But, I also feel that there are chances that once an account is hacked all the digital mon-ey will be gone forever!” —Praveen Nirwan

HAPPY B’DAY!

The birthday of PCS Sameer Verma was on Thursday, June 24. We wish him all the best!

SAAVAN AAYO RE!

Rains have a way of cheering up both nature and humans and Lucknowities came out to enjoy the ‘wet’

weather on Thursday!

INDIA’S WTC FINAL NIGHTMARE!

As Kiwis outshine India in the maiden WTC Final under gloomy skies, City First tries to find out from Lucknow’s ardent cricket lovers as to what led to Kohli & Co’s downslide!

What is the real CURRENCY?

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Akshdeep Nath

Aaquib Siddiqui Owais Siddiqui Rachit Trehan

International Badminton aces & power couple Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap, were spotted in Jaipur on Thursday, June 24. The couple came to visit the Pink City and were seen enjoying Jhalana Leopard Safari, Amer Fort, Jantar Mantar, Hawa Mahal, City Palace on Thursday. They will be staying in the city for two more days.

Vivek Bansal, in charge of the Haryana state All India Congress Committee along with Shahzeb Ahmed, former secretary of AMU Student Union were felicitated by Wings Academy with a shawl and memento for their generosity and service towards humanity since the pandemic hit. Salik Ashraf, Director of Wings Academy, and Azam Khan appreciated their work and gave a warm welcome to Vivek Bansal and Shahzeb Ahmed. Vivek Bansal while thanking the organisers of the program said, “My fi rst aim is to serve the public and I am doing my best. I am fulfi lling my purpose, there is no pretence in my work.” Ifaz Ashraf, Shahnawaz Khan, Shadman, Abrid Ashraf, Adil Jawahar, Faheem, Arif, Yusuf, Adil Shariq, Gaurav Sharma were present on the occasion.

SPOTTED!WARRIOR OF HUMANITY! RICKSHAWALA: Pedaling For Bread

Martolia Films launched a soul-stirring film, ‘Rick-

shawala’ recently.The film revolves

around human sensi-bilities and gives an emotional angle to the film. Vijay Singh Mar-tolia, the filmmaker exclusively shared his experiences and the film plot with First In-dia. He said, “Ricksha-wala is a short film which is extremely close to my heart. I am overwhelmed with the

response and love re-ceived from the audi-ence. Director and writer Dheeraj Singh has shown the pain and struggles of Rick-shaw pullers beauti-fully in this 32-minute short film.” He further added, “In our busy lives, we often fail to acknowledge the diffi-culties faced by the poor section of the so-

ciety, be it labourers or Rickshaw pullers. And with the increasing and fast means of road transport, the employ-ment of Rickshaw pullers have gone to-wards termination. We have to connect them with other jobs. This is the core mes-sage of the film.” The film is currently avail-able on MX player.

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