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New Delhi: RBI Gover-nor Shaktikanta Das said on Friday that the country’s economy is likely to contract 9.5 per cent in the current fi-nancial year, “with risks tilted to the down-side”, while maintain-ing a status quo on pol-icy rates citing high in-flation.

The GDP may break out of the corona-in-duced contraction and turn positive by the fourth quarter of 2020, Governor Das said.

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RBI Predicts -9.5% GDP For 2020-21, says the worst is overSeveral high frequency indicators are pointing to the easing of contractions in various sectors: Shaktikanta Das

POLICY RATES UNCHANGED,VOTES MONETARY POLICY PANELThe monetary policy committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept policy rates

unchanged, and the governor assured that the worst was possibly over for the economy and it can now hope for steady recovery towards pre-pandemic growth rates. The newly-

appointed six member MPC voted unanimously to keep the policy repo rate at 4 per cent, and said the real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate in 2020-21 could be a negative 9.5 per cent, with “risks tilted to the downside.”

1 The Monetary Policy Committee kept the

repo rate - or the key interest rate at which it lends short-term funds to commercial lenders - at 4.0%. Consequently, the reverse repo rate - at which the RBI borrows from lenders - stood at 3.35%

2 That was in line with economists’ expecta-

tions. All 66 respondents in a poll by news agency Reuters had predicted a status quo on the repo rate

3 A large majority in that poll saw no cuts until

the fourth quarter (Jan-Mar) of current fi nancial year

4 The central bank retained its “accomo-

dative” stance on monetary policy to support the coronavirus-hit economy

5 Das said that “a faster and stronger rebound

is eminently feasible” if the current momentum of upturn gains ground

6 He said infl ation is likely to remain at

elevated levels in Septem-ber, and ease in the third

and fourth quarters of current fi nancial year

7 Das said the country is entering into a

decisive phase in the fi ght against the pandemic.

“Relative to pre-COVID levels, several high frequency indicators are pointing to the easing of contractions in various sectors...and the emergence of impulses of growth... By all indications, the deep contractions of Q1 are behind us,” he said

8 On the ongoing coronavirus crisis, Das

said “silver linings are visible in the fl attening of the active caseload curve... Barring the incidence of a second wave, India stands poised to shrug off the deathly grip of the virus”

9 The RBI chief also said that food grain

production was set for record highs, and factories as well as cities were coming back to life. “Against all odds, we shall strive and revive,” Mr Das said, in conclusion

10 The RBI has already slashed the repo rate by

115 basis points (bps) since late March. The latest meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee - which has three new external members who voted in today’s decision - was originally due to conclude on October 1

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OH LORD!Priest burnt alive by land grabbers

Manoj Jain

Karauli: A temple priest died after he was set on fire by five per-sons over a land dispute in Rajasthan’s Karauli district, police said on Friday. Kailash Meena, the main accused in the case, was arrested while a search is underway for the remaining per-sons, officials added.

In a press statement, Karauli police said that the priest, Babu Lal Vaishnav, had earlier complained to the cops that Meena and his fam-ily were trying to grab the 15 bigha land which belongs to Radha Gopal temple in Bukna village. Vaishnav and his family were engaged as priests here and would also till the land concerned, the release added.

“According to the com-plainant, on Wednesday morning, Vaishnav had an argument with Meena

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The fi ve accused allegedly poured petrol on (inset) Babu Lal Vaishnav and set him on fi re in Bukna village on Wednesday.

Hathras crime scene to be reconstructed, victim’s kin to be present

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh police will rec-reate the crime scene in the Hathras gang-rape case to find the “miss-ing links” amid con-trasting statements from the family of the 19-year-old Dalit vic-tim’s family and the versions offered by oth-er villagers, said senior police officials privy to the investigation.

The 19-year-old Dalit victim was injured in the brutal attack after she was allegedly gang-raped by upper caste youths on September 14. She succumbed to her injuries at a Delhi hos-pital on September 29.

A senior police offi-cial said the investiga-tors are trying to collect all possible evidence re-lated to the crime. He further said they (inves-tigators) have decided to recreate the crime scene in different ways as the statements of the family and other witnesses are quite different. Turn to P6

ASHOK GEHLOT @ASHOKGEHLOT51The death of Babu Lal Vaishnav is unfortunate and condemnable. We do not have place for such acts

here. The state government stands by the family of the deceased. The main accused has been arrested and a

case is underway. The accused won’t be spared.

THE BONE OF CONTENTIONThe priest had about thirteen bighas (around 5.2 acres) of land which belonged to the Radha Krishna temple trust in a village in the district. But the land was given to the head priest to till as a source of income. Lands like these, which belong to temple trusts, are generally given to caretaker priests for their use in re-turn for the fact that they perform the pujas and carry out rituals in village temples Such lands are called “Mandir Mafi “ and are a source of income for priests who are caretakers of village temples in Rajasthan. But this land became the source of a dispute.

SHAH BIDS FINAL ADIEU TO PASWAN

Union Home Minister Amit Shah pays tribute to Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Ramvilas Paswan, who passed away Thursday evening, at his Janpath residence in New Delhi. Full coverage on P5 —PHOTO BY PTI

World Food Prog clinches Nobel Peace Prize for combating hunger

Polling in 897 gram panchayats of 32 panchayat committees in the fourth and fi nal phase of Panchayati Raj elections will be held on Saturday from 7.30 am to 5.30 pm at 4,339 polling booths. Over 30 lakh voters will exercise their franchise in the last phase. Election Com-mission has appealed to all voters to wear masks and follow all corona protocols.

Fourth phase of panchayat polls todayStockholm: The Nobel

Peace Prize 2020 on Fri-day was awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe. The an-nouncement was made in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Nobel Committee.

“With this year’s award, the (Committee) wishes to turn the eyes of the world to the mil-lions of people who suf-fer from or face the threat of hunger,” said

Andersen.“The World Food Pro-

gram plays a key role in multilateral coopera-tion in making food se-curity an instrument of

peace. It contributes daily to advancing the fraternity of nations mentioned in Alfred Nobel’s will,” she said.

Reacting to the an-nouncement, a UN WFP spokesperson said that it was a “proud mo-ment” and “nothing short of a feat”.

The World Food Pro-gramme is the food-as-sistance branch of the United Nations and the world’s largest humani-tarian organization ad-dressing hunger

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Main accused in the case held

Aditi Nagar

New Delhi: First India’s one-month-old prediction on the next assignment of retired SC Judge Arun Mishra comes true.

According to sources, Mishra is likely to be appointed as NCLAT Chairman in a day or two. Justice Mishra was also CJ of Rajasthan High Court at one point of time.

Exercise self-discipline this Diwali: CM’s pre-festive message to people

Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has ap-pealed to the people on the basis of the advice of expert doctors that they should celebrate the festival of Diwali this year in perpetual self-discipline and avoid the use of firecrackers in view of the Corona pandemic. Gehlot held a

detailed discussion with expert doctors on the condition of corona infection in the state through video confer-ence from the Chief Minister’s residence on Friday evening.

In the meeting that lasted for about 2 hours, all the experts were of the opinion that the smoke and pollution from firecrackers is

particularly fatal for the common people as well as corona infected patients and people re-

covering from corona. CM said that the Su-preme Court has issued guidelines Turn to P6

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot along with Raghu Sharma, Dr. Subhash Garg, Abhay Kumar, Vaibhav Galaria, Bhavani Singh Detha, Mahendra Soni and Kuldeep Ranka during the review meeting.

Necessary to save corona infected from pollution, Gehlot stresses

MEDICAL EXPERTS ADVICE GOVERNMENT AGAINST USE OF CRACKERS

GOVT GOES INTO HUDDLE BEFORE GURJAR MAHAPANCHAYAT ON OCT 17Ahead of the proposed Gurjar Mahapanchayat being called on October 17, by Colonel Kirori Bainsla at Malarna Dungar, to chalk out a future strategy for the community reservation, the state government went in a huddle, on Friday, to devise its own ‘counter-strategy’. Chief Minister called a high profi le strategic meet in the matter at CMR in the evening which was attended by senior offi cials from administration and police department along with senior leaders. The close door meeting went on for over an hour where fi ner details of the government’s stand and its approach on the issue were discussed in detail.

With CM Ashok Gehlot working in overdrive to bring the state out of the economic slump post Covid-19, there is a ray of hope that a huge investment of over Rs 4,022 crore will be made in the state in the coming days, all thanks to the foundation stone laying of 17 industrial areas in the state along with inauguration of six fully developed industrial areas by the Chief Minister.

A RAY OF HOPE

Rajeev Gaur

Jodhpur: Bharatiya Janta Party state presi-dent Satish Poonia on Friday said that Con-gress party is heading towards a big division in the state and chief minister Ashok Gehlot would turn out to be “Bahadur Shah Jafar ‘’ of the Congress in Ra-jasthan.

Poonia said, in a press conference in Jodhpur, that he was neither an astrologer nor a prophet, but he could say with confi-dence that the Congress party was in Rajasthan now headed towards a very big divide and Ashok Gehlot would prove to be “Bahadur Shah Zafar” of the par-ty. Rebutting the claims of Congress that the party in the state was

united, Poonia said that they were united by hands, not by hearts.

“Congress is united by hands and not by heart. MLAs have con-stantly been blaming the ministers for not listen-ing to them. Entire party is divided and its organi-zational structure has crumbled with no dis-

trict units,” Poonia said.“Congress is head-

ing for an irreparable division, there is a huge gap among lead-ers which cannot be plugged,” he said. Poo-nia was in Jodhpur to pay tribute to Jaswant Singh,held Gehot re-sponsible for spurt in crime in the state.

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Manoj Jain

Jodhpur: The opposi-tion Bharatiya Janta Party leaders on Friday took a dig at the state government over the in-cident of a temple priest being burnt alive in Ka-rauli district and set up a three member inquiry committee.

State BJP President Satish Poonia said the Rajasthan police under Congress rule seemed to be following the slo-gan ‘apradhi mast, jan-ta trast’ (criminals hav-ing fun, public in dis-tress). The committee comprises Ramcharan Bohra, Alka Singh Gur-jar, Jitendra Meena. BJP state chief spokes-person Ramlal Sharma said that the committee would talk to the people present on the occasion, the victim’s family, and the local administra-tion to prepare a factual report and submit it to Poonia.

“Rajasthan police’s slogan seems to have changed to ‘apradhi mast, janta trast’ under CM Ashok Gehlot,” Poonia told the media persons in Jodhpur where he had come to pay tribute to the de-ceased BJP leader Jas-want Singh Jasol.

Terming the incident as “inhuman” and “hor-

rifying”, Poonia held the CM responsible for spurt in crime in the state, especially the crime against females.

“Chief minister Ashok Gehlot com-mented over crime in other states but not about crimes in his state. Crime control is not in the priority of his government,” he said.

He said that the Con-gress party had not been able to find a suit-able person to be a home minister in the last two years. Poonia said that the BJP would ask the government to release a white paper on crimes in the state.

Apradhi mast, janta trast under Raj cops: Poonia

Congress headed for a division in Raj: Poonia

(From L-R) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Rajendra Gehlot and Satish Poonia addressing press conference in Jodhpur on Friday.

BJP leaders corner Cong over Karauli incidentAishwary Pradhan

Jaipur: Reacting to the burning of a priest in Karauli district, the op-position BJP leaders on Friday said that the crime graph was con-stantly increasing in Rajasthan but the state government failed to contain it.

Gajendra Singh asked whether the state government wanted to convert Rajasthan into Bengal or handover the state to the jihadis.Whereas Om Mathur

said, “The law system in Rajasthan has reached the abyss.”

Rajendra Rathore said “Crime graph is in-creasing but the state government is silent like every time,” he said.

Meanwhile Rajya-vardhan Rathore said, “I urge Rahul Gandhi, to pay attention to Ra-jasthan as criminals are tarnishing state’s pride and dignity.” Roh-itash Sharma said that efforts were being made to capture temple lands.

Naresh Sharma

Jaipur : Launching an app for drinking water connection on Friday, public health and engi-neering department minister BD Kalla said that consumers would now be able to easily get home water connection without having to make rounds of the offices.

Kalla also launched Zone-I plan in Phase-I of a project costing Rs 194.57 crore for supply-ing Bisalpur water to Jagatpura, Pratapnagar and Mahal Road areas in

Jaipur. Kalla said that nearly 40,000 people of 45 colonies would be benefited with the drink-

ing water project in Jag-atpura, Pratapnagar and Mahal road area.

“When the entire pro-

ject is completed, it will benefit a population of about two and a half lakh people,” he said, adding that the depart-ment is trying to provide Bisalpur dam water in the Kho-Nagoriyan area before next summer sea-son. The facility of app would be available to the residents of Jagatpura and Vidyadhar Nagar in the first phase and would be implemented in other areas of Jaipur and across the state in a phased manner, Kalla said while speaking at the occasion.

‘Water connection at home through App’

Barmer rape accused on one-day police remand, victim discharged

Bear killed in road accident in Baran

Durgsingh Rajpurohit

Barmer: The police got statement of the 14-year-old rape victim recorded before a mag-istrate under section 164 of the CrPC on Fri-day. The police remain busy for the third con-secutive day in the case that led to uproar in the Shiv area of Bar-mer district.

The victim was dis-charged from the hos-pital after her state-ment was recorded. The victim told the police that one accused raped her while his ac-complice shot the inci-dent on a mobile phone on October 6. But the police have found the involvement of only one accused Gangaram Bhil, 25, who was ar-rested on Wednesday late night.

The police produced

the accused in a POC-SO court on Friday and sought his police re-mand for three days but the court sanc-tioned only one-day po-lice remand. Jailsamer

resident Bhil, father of two children, was working as labourer in the farms of the vic-tim’s family.

During the remand, the police would ques-

tion the accused about his accomplice who filmed the incident as mentioned by the vic-tim, said District Su-perintendent of Police Anand Sharma.

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Baran: A bear was killed after it was hit by a vehicle on National Highway 27 in Shahabad Val-ley area of Baran district early on Fri-day. The forest de-partment team that reached the spot said that the condi-tion of the animals hinted that it must have collided with a large vehicle. In the past also, many wild animals have died in the same way but fencing has not been done in the area by the highway authority despite frequent accidents. The Shahabad re-gion is densely for-ested and is home to many wild animals including panthers.

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BD Kalla also launched Zone-I plan in Phase-I project costing

Rs 194.57 crore for supplying

Bisalpur water to Jagatpura, Pratapnagar and Mahala

area

Police arrests the main accused, Kailash Meena in the incident where a temple priest was allegedly burnt alive at Sapotra in Karauli district.

VASUNDHARA RAJE @VasundharaBJP

The more the condemnation and sadness over the

incident of killing a temple priest in Sa-potra of Karauli dis-trict by burning him alive, is expressed,

the less it is.

Brahmins irked over Karauli incidentFirst India News

Jaipur: The members of Brahmin communi-ty expressed anguish and protested on Friday over the burning of a temple priest at Sapotra in Karauli.

In Jaipur, Brahmin organizations protest-ed outside SMS hospi-tal mortuary. Rajesh Colonel of Vipra Foun-dation, Suresh Mishra of Sarva Brahmin Ma-hasabha, Anil Chatur-

vedi of Parashuram Sena demanded arrest of the culprits. Vipra

Foundation also sent a memorandum to the CM Ashok Gehlot and

the Chief Whip Ma-hesh Joshi.

In Bharatpur, the members of Vipra Foundation descended on the roads and sub-mitted a memorandum to police, district ad-ministration for the CM, who is also Home Minister.

Memorandum was also submitted by a del-egation led by State President of the foun-dation’s youth cell In-dushekhar Sharma.

Brahmin activists staging a sit-in outside SMS Hospital, Jaipur in protest against burning priest in Karauli.

Beniwal alleges Raje-Gehlot allianceFirst India News

Kota: Rashtriya Lok-tantrik Party leader Hanuman Beniwal on Friday accused Chief minister Ashok Ge-hlot and former Chief minister Vasundhha-ra Raje of an alliance leading to “a game of mixed practice” for the last 20 years in Rajasthan. RLP is an ally of the Bharatiya Janta Party in Ra-jasthan.

Beniwal, MP from

Nagaur, reached Kota on Friday where he said that due to Vasundhara-Gehlot alliance, Rajasthan had reached the brink

of collapse. He said that five consecutive rapes incidents have occurred in Ra-jasthan and the state is also ahead of Uttar Pradesh in female harassment inci-dents. He said the Congress govern-ment was responsible for this.

Beniwal told the gathering that the public must have seen a mixed game in Ra-jasthan and the RLP would end this.

Karauli Case: Joshi seeks action against temple land encroachers Jaipur: Congress lead-er Mahesh Joshi, who is the chief whip of Congress in the state assembly, said on Fri-day that the state gov-ernment would take strict action against land encroachers in the incident where a temple priest was al-legedly burnt alive at Sapotra in Karauli dis-trict of Rajasthan.

Joshi suggested to CM Gehlot and the Devasthan department to make encroachment free all lands of tem-

ples. He said the state government should carry out demarcation of land provided to temples.

Joshi said he had spo-ken to the state to the

DGP and the family would be provided secu-rity. The government would do justice, said Joshi. The temple priest Babulal Vaishnav, 50, succumbed to burn inju-ries on Thursday night at SMS hospital. He was allegedly burnt alive by a few people during a scuffle over encroach-ment of temple land at Bukna village in Sa-potra, Karauli district. The police have arrested the main accused, Kailash Meena in this connection. —Agencies

Mahesh Joshi

BD Kalla provides a water connection certificate issued by the department through the online app to Ramdhani Meena, a resident of Ashish Vihar in Jaipur on Friday. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA

DOUBLE-DECKER TO RESUME OPS

Good news for Jaipur-Delhi passengers as after almost 6 months, the AC double-decker for Delhi will resume journey from Saturday. The reservation will be available till half an hour prior to train’s departure. The staff was seen sanitizing the train ahead of its journey on Friday. In the double-decker train the Railways will charge special fare which will be almost equal to the Tatkal fare. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA

Poonia: Temple priest being burnt alive in Karauli district proves that law & order has collapsed; BJP sets up 3 member probe panel

Hanuman Beniwal

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The state re-ported 2,180 new cases of Covid-19 along with 16 deaths in the past 24 hours according to of-ficial figures released by the health depart-ment.

Two deaths each were reported from Ajmer, Bikaner and Jaipur while one death each was reported from Churu, Hanu-mangarh, Jalore, Jhun-jhunu, Jodhpur, Kota, Pali, Pratapgarh, Sikar and Udaipur.

The death toll now stands at 1,621 as on Friday evening. Jaipur reported a max-imum of 399 new cases of corona on Friday closely followed by 393 from Jodhpur. Bikaner with 301 new cases reported its high-est single day new cas-es so far.

About 113 new cases were reported from Ajmer, 86 each from Al-war & Kota and 80 from Bhilwara, Ganganagar too reported its highest

single day new cases by adding 80 new corona patients; followed by 79 each from Nagaur & Udaipur, 56 from Ja-

lore, 48 from Pali, 42 from Sikar, 41 from Tonk, 40 from Chittor-garh, 38 each from Ch-uru & Hanumangarh,

25 from Bharatpur23 from Barmer, 22 from Rajsamand, 15 each from Jaisalmer & Siro-hi, 14 from Karauli, 13 each from Dholpur & Jhunjhunu, 12 from Banswara, 8 from Bun-di, 5 each from Baran & Jhalawar, 4 from Dausa and 2 from Pratapgarh.

The figures for the total infected so far has reached 1,54,785, ac-cording to the informa-tion provided by the health department sources in the state about the coronavirus.

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16 more corona deaths in Raj, toll @1, 621

Kashiram Chaudhary

Jaipur: The Governor of Rajasthan, Kalraj Mishra has appealed to the people of the state to take a pledge to adopt measures to protect COVID-19.

He has asked people to use face masks, follow social distancing, main-tain hand hygiene. All people have to follow these measures to avoid

the deadly Corona pan-demic. The winter sea-son is about to begin. Many festivals will be celebrated in the coming two months. Avoid visit-ing crowded places dur-ing this time. People will also have to be careful about not crowding.

”Implement the ‘No Mask, No Entry’ slo-gan,” the Governor said. No carelessness till Cov-id-19 medicine is devel-

oped, on the call of the Prime Minister; He said

that a mass movement against Corona has started in the state. Dur-ing this movement, a message is being given to the masses to follow the rule of wearing masks, maintaining a proper distance, and keeping away from the crowd. Public should carry forward this cam-paign and explain it to each other, to make it a success,” Mishra said.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: ‘No Mask, No Entry’ campaign has been initiated in the Psychotherapy Cen-tre in Jaipur, under the supervision of Dr Sanjay Jain. Hoard-ings and banners have been put at all the entry points in the

campus to make visi-tors aware of the pre-cautions of Corona. Dr Ravi Mathur, Dr Rajesh Sharma and organising general secretary of Ra-jasthan Nurses Asso-ciation Sunil Sharma were present during the inauguration of the campaign. The fa-

mous Trinetra Ganesh temple of Ranthambore has been opened for devo-tees after a gap of about six & a half months. Mahant San-jay Dhadeech said that no devotee would be permitted inside the premises without a mask and sanitizer.

‘No Mask, No Entry’ drive @ Psychotherapy Centre in Jaipur

Pledge to adopt measures to avoid Covid-19: Guv Mishra to people

Maximum number of positive cases (399) were reported from Jaipur

Nizam Kantaliya

Jaipur: Rajasthan High Court on Friday, extended the interim relief to parents in the matter related to pri-vate school fees till Oc-tober 12.

A division bench of Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty and justice Satish Kumar had on October 1, stayed the single bench order in which, the private schools were allowed to charge 70 percent of tuition fees. Justice

Sunil Samdadiya & the state government had filed an appeal against the single bench order. The division bench on October 1, stayed the single bench order till October 9 and fixed a hearing on October 5.

However, the hear-ing could not take place and on Friday, the court posted the matter for next hearing on Octo-ber 12, without hearing the case. Till October 12, private school own-ers will not be able to charge the fees.

Vikas Sharma

Jaipur: Health Minis-ter Dr Raghu Sharma on Friday, directed the officers of the depart-ment to check by regu-larly taking the sam-ples to ensure purity of food items, milk and milk products. He di-rected to initiate a campaign ‘Pure for Sure’ (Shuddh ke liye Yuddh) in the entire state looking at the forthcoming festive season.

Dr Sharma directed to take samples of milk and products made up of milk such as paneer, ghee, mawa and sweets etc in the campaign and test them. He said that strict action should be taken on finding adul-teration in the sam-ples. He said all food

safety officers are be-ing provided neces-sary equipment and facilities. Food Testing Laboratory at the divi-sional level will be uti-lised properly in this campaign.

The Health Minister appealed to people to use pure food items and use safe food prod-ucts during the festive season in view of Co-rona infection, so that it can help to stay safe from Corona and other types of diseases.

First India Bureau

Kota: LS speaker Om Birla’s Dada Bari resi-dence continued to be the destination of hun-dreds of people still reaching there to offer their condolences on the demise of his fa-ther, Srikrishna Birla. Late Srikrishna Birla was a known a sensi-tive activist who could never bear to see any needy in grief and this tradition is being car-ried forward by his son was the common senti-

ment conveyed by ma-jority of the visitors to LS speaker’s resi-dence. Dignitaries in-cluding central and state ministers paid their tributes at the Birla residence on Fri-day as well. Central Parliamentary Affairs Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, State Sports Minister Ashok Chan-dna, Pali MP PP Chaudhary, Nagaur MP Hanuman beni-wal, Chittorgarh MP CP Joshi visited Bir-la’s residence.

First India Bureau

Sirohi: The ACB team, on Friday, arrested the Principal of a Govt Middle School of Harji village, Sutesh Kumar Kuthal for accepting Rs 10,000 rupees as bribe. The accused principal had accepted this bribe from the Assistant Ad-ministrative Officer of his school in lieu of passing his pending bills.

ACB ASP, Narayan Singh Rajpurohit said that Principal of mid-dle school in Aahor tehsil had demanded Rs 30,000 from AAO, Dinesh Chandra for re-leasing his pending amount of Rs 3 lakh. ACB, after verifying the complaint, sent the complainant Chandra with Rs 10,000 to the Principal & caught him red- handed.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Rajasthan High Court has issued notices to UDH Secre-tary, UIT-Kota Secre-tary & Jai Kunwar, wife of former MLA Prahlad Gunjal, and sought re-plies in a matter of en-croachment on govern-ment land in Kota.

Hearing a PIL filed by Anil Suwalika, a divi-sion bench of justice Prakash Gupta and jus-tice Mahendra Goyal issued the notices.

A notice has already been issued for reduc-ing width of two roads allegedly for saving the house of BJP leader and former MLA Prahl-ad Gunjal in Kota.

The court has now directed to club both the petitions.

School fee: HC’s relief to parents till Oct 12

‘Initiate pure for sure campaign in state’

Leaders @ Kota to meet, console Birla

ACB nabs principal for taking bribe

HC notice to officers over encroachment

IN THE COURTYARD

Arjun Ram Meghwal PP Chaudhary and Jagdambika Pal visit Om Birla’s residence in Kota to condole his father’s demise.

Pratap Singh Khachariyawas distributes face masks at Shastri Nagar under the Corona Jan Andolan campaign on Friday.

Dr Raghu Sharma

Kalraj Mishra

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Tech companies often enjoy exclusive access to data characterizing online behavior, which is then processed to filter prefer-ences and customize con-tent. Such personalization can save us hours of searching, for instance by presenting us with news in our geographical area and

matching previous brows-ing. However, it can also be used to promote certain content, such as advertis-ing and potential agendas, that prevents us from see-ing the big picture.

SOCIAL OBESITYMany social media plat-forms combine their intel-ligent algorithms with in-fluence elements, bor-rowed from games and psychology, to grab our at-tention and persuade us to stay active online. In addic-tive domains such as gam-bling, total immersion and losing any sense of real-world time and space are common. Indeed, casinos do not have clocks or win-dows. This is not far from software like TikTok, where each spin will pre-

sent you with unpredicta-ble, concentrated content. The immersive design and uncertainty combined with social proof: For in-stance, how many people liked and commented on a sketch are all carefully de-signed influence elements.

The one difference with gambling is probably the lack of warning measures and limit-setting. Taken to-gether, all of the above can

and should make us seri-ously question whether we are indeed as free and con-scious of our own online choices as we think we are.

Human beings are social creatures, and we tend to be influenced by the opinions and actions of others. We seek to belong to groups and are curious to under-stand how others perceive us. It helps us to learn and shapes our behavior and

decisions. At the same time, we desire autonomy, inde-pendence and distinctive-ness. While it is natural that social media is de-signed to host that social interaction, its density, con-tinuity and novel means are different in nature and scale. In a connected online world, it is always possible to socialize, and this argu-ably leads to “social obesi-ty,” leaving us with little time for self-reflection.

The continuous nature of online social spaces may also trigger negative expe-riences such as the “fear of missing out” (FOMO) and lead to frequent checking of social media and seek-ing validation. FOMO leads to distraction, cogni-tive overload and other risks such as accessing so-

cial media during a lecture or even while driving. Some claim to be able to multitask, but this can, in many cases, just be denial, which is one symptom of behavioral addiction.

COUNTERMEASURESBy accepting that observa-tion, we need effective countermeasures and poli-cies to increase the con-scious and informed nature of our digital consumption but, until now, these protec-tive resources remain lack-ing. Education about the persuasive and addictive design elements of these spaces and techniques to combat them would be po-tentially helpful to build resilience to temptation and unconscious usage.

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Dharmendra Pradhan @dpradhanbjpThe fact is that contrary to the crony capitalism of @INCIndia, Modi Government believes in the mantra of “Minimum Government and Maximum Governance”. We believe in having a free, fair, and transparent market that provides meaningful employment to our young population.

Mukul Wasnik @MukulWasnikDeleterious effects of unplanned lockdown couldn’t get more pronounced. “RBI Predicts -9.5% GDP for FY 20-21”. Corroborating with the prediction of international Rating agencies. India’s unmistakable precarious financial state is a cause of serious worry.

n an unprecedented move Chinese embassy in New Del-hi has issued a series of di-rectives to Indian media and media houses regarding cov-erage of impending National Day of Taiwan on 10th Octo-ber. Press release issued by the Press Section of the em-bassy which appears to be more of a diktat to Indian media about reporting of the National Day of Taiwan says, “We will like to remind our media friends that there is only one China in the world, and the government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legitimate govern-ment representing the whole of China. Taiwan is inalien-able part of China’s territo-ry.” It further threatens the media, “Taiwan shall not be referred to as a ‘country’ (‘na-tion’) or “The Republic of China” or the leader of Chi-na’s Taiwan region as “Presi-dent”, so as not to send wrong signals to the general public.”

No such advisory was is-sued by the Embassy in 2019. However, after the event, it issued a statement on “Mis-reporting by Indian Media on Taiwan” seriously objecting to and expressing strong dis-satisfaction at some of the Indian media referring to Taiwan as a “country”. “Tai-wan is an inalienable part of China’s territory. It is an ob-jective fact and a universally recognized norm governing international relations” em-phasized the Chinese envoy.

What is so different this year that the embassy has pre-empted and issued a virtual threat to the Indian media? China is preparing for the cel-ebration of the hundredth year of formation of the Com-munist Party of China (CCP) under the watchful eye of all-powerful Xi Jinping. The cur-rent behaviour of the Chinese diplomatic staff is the mani-festation of its “Wolf Warri-or” diplomacy. Xi wants China not only to be powerful but assertive as well. It is also an application of China’s “3 W Strategy” which includes me-dia warfare. Xi desires that CCP should not only control selected foreign media but also be able to manipulate it to

further its ideology and por-tray its Comprehensive Na-tional Power (CNP).

But why China is so sensi-tive about Taiwan? It is said that Taiwan would be the main trigger of Sino-Ameri-can conflict if it ever mani-fests. Ironically, the USA does not officially recognise the Republic of China or Taiwan. Even India doesn’t. Only 17 countries in the world recog-nise Taiwan. Even the UNO does not recognise the Repub-lic of China which was a sig-natory to its formation. Yet the USA is the biggest arms supplier to Taiwan, it’s 11th largest trading partner and avowed guarantor of its sov-ereignty. The self-ruled is-land’s uncertain future, amid tensions between Washington and a newly powerful Beijing is the greatest unresolved legacy of the Chinese civil war. While China claims Tai-wan to be one of its regions and refers to it as the Taiwan region, the latter is in no mood to alter the status quo and lose its status as an inde-pendent democratic nation. Xi has offered to resolve the matter on the pattern of Hong Kong by advocating “One Na-tion, Two Systems” model which has been rejected by the island nation.

Dwelling into history, the dispute is a legacy of Mao led the Chinese civil war. The is-land formally became a Chi-nese province only in 1887. But China’s faltering Qing impe-

rial government was forced to cede it to Japan in 1895 after a brief war. Japan ran Taiwan as a colony until 1945, when it was effectively handed over to Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist (KMT) government in China.

In 1949 Mao Zedong’s forc-es won the Chinese civil war and the KMT fled to the is-land, ruling it under martial law until democratizing in The 1980s, while the Commu-nists controlled China. It continues to remain a dis-pute to date since no peace treaty has ever been signed. However, China’s official po-sition on Taiwan is unam-biguous. It claims that Tai-wan is, was, and always has been an inseparable part of China and that international law support China’s claim. This is grilled into every mainland Chinese child’s mind as part of the CCP’s ide-ology campaign with no sec-ond thought on the issue and no public discussion of alter-nate views is permitted.

CCP wants outright reunifi-cation, the sooner the better, seeing the recovery of the is-land as the final chapter in the

civil war and end of past hu-miliations when China was forced to cede territory to for-eigners. Xi has succeeded in reasserting party control over the society, which had loos-ened during the era of his im-mediate predecessors who believed in “collective leader-ship.” His clarion call to the nation after assuming its con-trol was “Don’t forget the orig-inal intention. Stick to the mission”. With multifarious threats challenging him the slogan has become more rele-vant in the present days and is emerging as a battle cry for unity and perseverance. With increasing US interference in Taiwan and the non-reconcil-iatory approach of its newly elected hardliner President Iron lady Tsai Ing-wen, China is becoming increasingly sen-sitive and restive about Tai-wan. On the other hand, Tai-wan is becoming more asser-tive and confident. During the ongoing pandemic, the Tai-wanese were denied entry in various countries believing them to be Chinese since their passport is of the Republic of China. The Taiwanese govern-

ment has therefore decided to change the cover of their pass-ports to read “Taiwan Pass-port” while retaining the Re-public of China in Mandarin. It has its own currency New Taiwan dollar controlled by the central bank of the Repub-lic of China. It is increasingly stamping Taiwanese made goods as ‘Made in Taiwan’, all this is not going well with the CCP which is increasingly threatening to punish errant island nation. China is also worried and annoyed with the fact that more and more na-tions are speaking up for Tai-wan and are reluctant to back down under Chinese pressure.

Xi is being labelled as a re-visionist and expansionist and the world is getting unit-ed to counter China’s expan-sionist designs under the banner of democratic forces and supporting the Taiwan-ese cause. There are growing voices in India for recogni-tion of Taiwan though that may not be easy due to pre-vailing agreements and trea-ties with PRC. However, a change in intent and desire to strengthen relations be-tween the two countries has been signalled by the present regime by deputing two of its senior party leaders to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new President.

The CCP is unwilling to set-tle for anything less than re-unification. For Xi Jinping has an additional emotional angle as well related to family

history. China regards Taiwan as an unfinished part of the civil war and Xi is a firm be-liever of this historic mission.

Apart from being an unfin-ished mission of the civil war, it is the geo-strategic location and buzzing high-tech micro-chip industry of Taiwan is a compelling reason for China to claim ownership of the is-land territory. Taiwan is also the world’s 22nd largest econ-omy and an important supply chain link of Silicon Valley. Many high-tech companies from the mainland have changed the base on the island territory with Taiwan emerg-ing as a potential high-tech superpower. It is home to the world’s biggest contract chip-maker, Taiwan Semiconduc-tor Manufacturing Co Ltd.

Taiwan’s location and econ-omy are critical to China in its pursuance of becoming the ‘numero uno’ world power. If Taiwan becomes integral to China, as desired by the later it would become a Pacific Pow-er, strengthen its position in the South China Sea and be in a position to threaten vital US interests in the Pacific, have the leverage to cut off oil sup-plies to Japan and South Ko-rea, important US allies in the region. Economically, it would have control over the world’s major cutting-edge technolo-gies. All this explains China’s sensitivities viz a viz Taiwan and its allergy to other nations calling it a “country” rather than Taiwan region of Peo-ple’s Republic of China. The USA on the other hand does not want to take any chance in the security of the island-na-tion that may help China to fulfill its mission. Stepped-up US support for Taiwan has an-gered China which has often cautioned USA that the same amounts to US support for Tai-wan Independence which is an anathema to China and China may forcibly occupy the island by launching military operations across the strait.

With India and China on the verge of war in Eastern Ladakh and heightened anti-China sentiments across the country, the Chinese are ap-prehensive of the Indian me-dia giving prominence to Taiwan on its National Day. It is to pre-empt the same and gauge India’s concerns to its sensitivities that the adviso-ry has been issued by the Chi-nese Embassy.

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New Delhi: Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi paid last respects to Un-ion Minister and Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) leader Ram Vilas Pas-wan at the latter's resi-dence in New Delhi on Friday.

Defence Minister Ra-jnath Singh, BJP Na-tional President JP Na-dda, Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Giriraj Singh also paid their respects to the departed leader.

Earlier on Friday, the mortal remains of Pas-wan were taken to his residence here from the AIIMS, where he breathed his last on Thursday.

LJP chief and Ram Vilas' son, Chirag Pas-wan, Union Health Min-ister Dr Harsh Vardhan among others were pre-sent at the AIIMS early morning on Friday.

Meanwhile, flags at Rashtrapati Bhavan and Parliament are fly-ing at half-mast to con-dole the demise of Un-ion Minister.

As a mark of respect to Cabinet Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, who passed away on Thurs-day, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced that the Na-tional flag will be flown at half-mast on Friday in the national capital and capitals of all States and Union Ter-ritories (UTs) where it

is regularly flown, and also on the day of the funeral at the place where the funeral will take place.

According to the MHA, it has also been decided that state fu-neral will be accorded to Paswan.

Union Minister and LJP founder Ram Vilas Paswan passed away at the age of 74 on Thurs-day. His Son Chirag Pas-wan broke the news on his Twitter handle. Pas-wan recently under-went heart surgery in Delhi. —ANI

PM Modi, Nadda pay last respects to PaswanMeanwhile, flags at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Parliament are flying at half-mast to condole the demise of the Union Minister

‘Deeply saddened: RaGa’s letter to ChiragNew Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wrote a condolence let-ter to LJP chief Chirag Paswan after the death of his father Ram Vi-las Paswan.

“I am deeply sad-dened by the sudden demise of your father Shri Ram Vilas Pas-wan. We have lost a veteran leader who left a lasting imprint on politics and public service in both Bihar and our nation,” his letter read.

Ram Vilas Paswan died at the age of 74 in a hospital in New Del-hi a few days after un-dergoing a heart sur-

gery. “In an illustri-ous public life span-ning over five dec-ades, he gave voice to the most marginal-ised sections of our

society and defended the rights of the poor and the vulnerable. As MP & Union Min-ister, he voiced their interests and con-

cerns with passion,” Gandhi said in his let-ter.” His unwavering commitment to social justice and equality is particularly relevant

in these times. His en-during legacy will continue to inspire people dedicated to public service,” the letter read. —Agencies.

PM Narendra Modi pays tribute to Union Minister & LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan at the latter’s residence in New Delhi on Friday. President Ram Nath Kovind pays last respects to LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan at latter’s residence.

Rahul Gandhi pays last respects to LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan at the latter’s residence in New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI

Mumbai: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Fri-day said that his party can contest from as many as 50 seats in the forthcoming Bihar As-sembly elections, and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and State Minister Aaditya Thackeray will address virtual rallies there.

"Shiv Sena can con-test from around 50 seats in the upcoming Bihar elections. Maha-rashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and State Minister Aaditya Thackeray will address virtual rallies," he said.

Raut raised ques-tions at the silence of the media and by Oppo-sition leaders over the alleged death by suicide of ex-CBI chief Ashwani Kumar and compared it to the case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death.

"Ashwini Kumar was a former Governor of a State, a former DGP, a former Director of the CBI. He was a serious man. Nobody is ques-tioning his suicide. Where are the people who shouted at Sushant Singh's suicide, Why are these people silent now?" he questioned.

He also talked about Mumbai Police's inves-tigation into the al-leged TRP scam by some news channels and said if police is coming forward with a claim, when would

have gathered evidence to support that.

"If the Mumbai Po-lice is coming forward and saying there was a scam, they will not say anything without any evidence. This is a big TRP scam. Police have estimated the scam of about Rs 30,000 crores in the matter," he said.

Elections to the 243-seat Bihar Assembly will be held in three phases--October 28, No-vember 3, and 7, and the counting of votes will take place on No-vember 10. —ANI

‘Sena can contest 50 seats in upcoming Bihar Polls’

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear a petition for court direc-tions to journalist Arn-ab Goswami and his TV news channel to refrain from broadcasting in-formation or news on investigations into criminal cases.

The matter was listed before a Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Pa-tel and Justice Prateek Jalan, fixed November 27 for further hearing while directing the peti-tioner's counsel to sub-mit a draft of guidelines required to regulate re-porting on trials and investigations in crimi-nal cases.

The plea also sought the court's direction to the central govern-ment, represented by its standing counsel Ajay Digpaul, to frame rules, regulations and guidelines to govern re-porting or broadcasting of news related to crim-

inal investigations by media outlets.

The plea also sought commencement of pro-ceedings under Con-tempt of Courts Act of 1971 against Goswami and his media company.

It also sought court's

direction to Goswami and his media company, which runs Republic TV, to immediately re-frain from broadcasting news related to crimi-nal probe in the name of investigative jour-nalism. —Agencies

HC to hear plea to restrain Goswami, TV channel

New Delhi: Union Min-ister Piyush Goyal has been assigned addition-al charge of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribu-tion, following demise of Ram Vilas Paswan, reports ANI.

Piyush Goyal is cur-rently serving as Minis-ter of Railways and Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Central government.

Union Minister &LJP founder Ram Vilas Pas-wan passed away at the age of 74 on Thursday. His Son Chirag Paswan broke the news on his Twitter handle. —ANI

Piyush Goyal given addl charge of Consumer Affairs ministry

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President Kovind paid his respects to late Shri Ram Vilas Pas-wan, Union Minister of Consumer Affairs,

Food and Public Distribution, at his residence 12, Jan-path, New Delhi.

He was also a leader who was loved and respected by all irrespective of their political leniency. In his death, the country has lost one of its greatest Dalit and socialist lead-ers, who always stood for the cause of poor and downtrodden of the society. —Manmohan Singh, Former PM

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Bhopal: Accusing former Madhya Pradesh Chief Min-ister Kamal Nath of turning the state into a centre for corruption and middlemen, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said noth-ing was being done in the state without bribes.

“He (Kamal Nath) made the en-tire state a centre of corruption and middlemen. No work was being done without brib-ing officials. Farm-ers were cheated on the pretext of loan waivers, Rs 6,000 crores of which were not fully paid to them,” CM of MP, Chou-han said. —ANI

‘Kamal Nath turned MP into centre of corruption’

INDIA SUCCESSFULLY TEST-FIRES DRDO’S ‘RUDRAM’ MISSILENew Delhi: India suc-cessfully test-fi red the ‘Rudram’ Anti-Radiation Missile, developed by Defence Research and Development Organisa-tion (DRDO), from a Suk-hoi-30 fi ghter aircraft off the east coast on Friday.Defence Minister Rajnath Singh took to Twitter to congratulate DRDO and other stakeholders for the

test’s success. “The New Generation Anti-Radiation Missile (Rudram-1) which is India’s fi rst indigenous anti-radiation missile developed by DRDO for Indian Air Force was tested successfully today at ITR, Balasore. Con-gratulations to DRDO & other stakeholders for this remarkable achievement,” Singh tweeted.

BENGAL GOVT MUZZLING OPPOSITION VOICE: PRASADNew Delhi: Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Bengal government is creating an atmosphere of fear & muzzling opposition voice, even as people yearned for a change. "We will bring about a change in Bengal. BJP assures people of Bengal that the party will continue to speak up for citizens' democratic rights peace-fully," he said during a press conference in New Delhi. Prasad strongly condemned the "barbaric treatment by Bengal police" of BJP workers dur-ing "March to Nabanna" the state secretariat.

MAYA REMEMBERS BSP FOUNDER KANSHI RAM ON HIS DEATH ANNIVNew Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati on Friday remembered and paid tribute to BSP founder and former MP late Kanshi Ram on his death anniversary. Mayawati said that Kanshi Ram throughout his political career fought for the upliftment of the mar-ginalized sections of the

society and followed the path shown by Dr Bhim-rao Ambedkar. "The op-position parties, for their own political gains and profi ts, use any atrocity committed on the sisters and daughters of this (marginalized) group and do political drama in its name. Hathras and many other incidents are proof of this," Mayawati said.

SENSEX RISES OVER 100 POINTS AHEAD OF RBI POLICY OUTCOMEMumbai: Equity benchmark Sensex jumped over 100 points in opening trade on Friday ahead of Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy decision. The 30-share index was trading 103.44 points or 0.26% higher at 40,286.11, and the NSE Nifty rose 34.85 points or 0.29% to 11,869.45.Tata Steel was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rising around 3%, followed by Bharti Airtel, L&T, M&M, Bajaj Finance & HDFC. On the other hand, HUL, Reliance Industries, TCS, Nestle India and Tech Mahindra were among the laggards.

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Exercise self-discipline...to control the pollution caused by fireworks many times. “There is already a ban on the use of firecrackers in the districts of the state in-cluded in the National Capital Region. The Ra-jasthan State Human Rights Commission has given guidelines to ban the use of firecrackers. Also, specialist physi-cians are constantly warning to avoid the use of firecrackers in the event of corona infec-tion. In such a situation, to protect the health of all, it is necessary to cel-ebrate Diwali in self-discipline,” he said.

Gehlot instructed the doctors to study the

changes in the pattern of coronavirus and de-termine their medical protocol. “It is seen that even after the infected patients are negative, the effect of the virus on them remains intact. Share the information of this pattern with the doctors treating Corona patients in various dis-tricts and keep giving them appropriate ad-vice from time to time for better treatment,” he stressed.

In the meeting, Prin-cipal Secretary, Medical and Health Depart-ment, Akhil Arora said that the growth rate of positive patients has stabilized in the state for the last few days and the number of patients

requiring oxygen, ven-tilator and ICU has de-creased. “On 30 Septem-ber, where the number of patients requiring oxygen beds, ICU and ventilator was more than 2800, it has come down to around 2100 on 8 October,” he said.

The Chief Minister told the officials of the Department of Medical and Health not to have any lacunae in prepara-tions to take on Corona, in view of the possibil-ity of acceleration of corona infection in the coming winter season. He expressed satisfac-tion over the positive impact of the mass movement against Co-rona among the com-mon people and in-

structed to strive to maintain its momen-tum.

Gehlot approves crea-tion of 51 new posts in different courts

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has ap-proved the creation of a total of 51 new posts for different types of courts, including seven new posts in two courts of Jaipur. On Friday, Gehlot approved crea-tion of four posts of clerical grade-I in the newly created Court District and Sessions Judge Jaipur Metropol-itan II.

With this, he has also approved to create two new posts of clerical grade-II and class IV employee in the court

Senior Civil Judge and Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jaipur-II. As per the proposals of the Finance Department, 34 posts of clerical grade-I, 6 posts of clerical grade-II and 4 new posts of class IV employees have been created for new courts in different dis-tricts of the state.

These include specif-ic courts like Preven-tion of corruption cases and additional District and Sessions Courts, Additional Civil Judges and Judicial Magis-trates etc in the dis-tricts of Udaipur, Sikar, Bhilwara, Jaipur, Ajmer, Alwar, Bikaner, Jodhpur Metropolitan, Barmer, Jhalawar, Pali, Karauli etc.

RBI Predicts...whose three new exter-nal members voted in today’s policy action - unanimously favoured holding the repo rate at the existing 4 per cent, while retaining an “ac-commodative” stance - which rules out any hikes for the time being.

oh LORD!...and his associates over some construction that the latter was carrying out near a hill. Later, the accused allegedly set the 60-year-old on fire,” informed Prakash Chand, Additional Su-perintendent of Police, Karauli. He added that the priest was shifted to SMS hospital in Jaipur where he succumbed to

injuries on Thursday.“Preliminary investi-

gation suggests that the land where the dispute took place belongs to the goovernment. A case has been registered five persons, including Mee-na,” Chand said.

Karauli superinten-dent of police Mridul Kachawa said efforts are underway to nab the remaining accused.

“Vaishnav suc-cumbed to injuries at the SMS hospital in Jaipur. On the basis of his statement before his death, a case under Sec-tion 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered. The main accused in the case has also been ar-rested,” he said.

World Food...and promoting food se-curity.

According to its web-site, WFP’s efforts focus on emergency assis-tance, relief and reha-bilitation, development aid, and special opera-tions.

Hathras crime...Another official, re-questing anonymity, said the investigators have found four sickles and a slipper from the crime scene in a ‘bajra’ field near the victim’s house. He said it sug-gests that there were at least four people who were cutting crops and may have been eyewit-ness to the entire epi-sode.

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1988 BATCH IPS OFFICER TO BE DELHI POLICE COMMISSIONER Grapevine has it that 1988 batch IPS offi cer of the AGMUT cadre is going to be next Police Commis-sioner of Delhi in a couple of months. Guessing game has already started.

TWO ASSTT COMMISSIONERS TAKE VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT Two Asstt Commissioners of Custom have taken Voluntary Retirement w.e.f. Oct 6, 2020. They are Sudhir Bhimpao Mane and R C Sharma. Both were IRS(C&CE) offi cers.

FIVE IAS OFFICERS LIKELY TO JOIN J&K ADMNFive IAS offi cers are likely to join J&K adminis-tration as Directors. Among them, two each are from Telangana and UP and one is from Rajas-than cadre. It is said that their names were sent by the LG offi ce.

SAHAI’S TENURE LIKELY TO BE EXTENDEDS M Sahai, a 1987 batch J&K cadre IPS offi cer, is likely to get one year extension. On central deputa-tion, he is presently posted as Additional Secretary, National Security Council in New Delhi.

SHYAM BHAGAT NEGI LIKELY TO JOIN CENTRAL DEPUTATION AT ADG LEVEL A 1990 batch IPS offi cer of Himachal Pradesh cadre, Shyam Bhagat Negi is expected to join central deputation at Additional Director General (ADG) level.

ICAS OFFICER DR. SANJEEV MISHRA TO RETURN TO PARENT CADRE IN OCTDr. Sanjeev Mishra, Director (Finance) NSG-cum-Fi-nancial Adviser in CRPF (JS level) under the Ministry of Home Affairs, will be returning to parent cadre on October 10, 2020. He is a 1988 batch ICAS offi cer.

SEVEN-YEAR DEPUTATION TENURE OF JITENDRA AROA ENDING SOON Seven-year deputation tenure of Jitendra Arora presently working as Director in the Department of Health & Family Welfare is coming to an end soon. He is a 1992 batch IBS offi cer of Engineering cadre.

K M MAHESH RETURNS TO PARENT CADRE K M Mahesh, Private Secretary to Prakash Ja-vadekar, Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change (EF&CC), has been given premature repatri-ation to his parent cadre. He is an IRS-IT offi cer.

MS SHERPA APPOINTED AS MEMBER SECRETARY, SCHOOL EDUCATIONMs Kesang Yangzom Sherpa has been appointed as Member Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy, Delhi. She is an IRS-IT offi cer.

AMAL GARG RELIEVED TO JOIN AS CVO, AAIThe Cadre Controlling Authority (CCA) has relieved Amal Garg of cadre responsibility in order to join central deputation as Chief Vigilance Offi cer, Airports Authority of India (AAI). He is a 1995 batch IRS-IT offi cer.

AMIT BANERJEE JOINS AS DIRECTOR (R&MB), BEML LTD Amit Banerjee has been appointed as Director (Rail & Metro Business) and Member on the Board of BEML Limited. He is a graduate in Mechanical Engi-neering from IIT (BHU), Varanasi and joined BEML as Assistant Engineer in the year 1984.

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The total number of recoveries has been exceeding the number of new active cases (70,496)

Cases in India dip below 9 lakh markNew Delhi: For the first time after a month, the total number of ac-tive COVID-19 cases in India dipped below the 9 lakh mark with 8.93 active cases reported on Thursday, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in-formed.

The last time the number of active cases was reported below 9 lakh was September 9 with 8.97 lakh cases. The number of active cases in the country now stands at 8,93,592, about 12.94 per cent of the total active cases, ac-cording to the Ministry.

The total number of recoveries stands at 59,06,069, taking the gap between recovered cas-es and active cases to 50,12,477.

The recovery rate fur-ther improved to 85.52 per cent with 78,365 re-coveries and discharges reported in the last 24 hours. The total num-ber of recoveries has been exceeding the number of new active cases (70,496) for three consecutive weeks.

About 75 per cent of the new recovered cases

are largely concentrat-ed in 10 states and un-ion territories (UTs) including Maharash-tra, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal, Delhi, and Madhya Pradesh.

Maharashtra alone has contributed the maximum with more than 15,000 single day recovery. Maharashtra and Karnataka contin-ued to be the worst af-fected states with over 13,000 and 10,000 daily new cases.

Health worker collects a nasal sample from Police personnel.

Delhi may record 15k covid cases per day in wintersNew Delhi: A report prepared by the Nation-al Control for Disease Control (NCDC) has cautioned that the na-tional Capital needs to gear up to tackle the surge of 15,000 COV-ID-19 cases per day in upcoming winters and festivals. The report has highlighted three reasons to worry that may cause excessive pressure on healthcare

services. (i) winter months that make res-piratory illnesses se-verer; (ii) patients may come from outside Del-hi in large numbers; (iii) patients coming from distant areas are likely to be more seri-ous. The report has been drafted by the NCDC under the super-vision of Dr VK Paul, Chairman of NITI Aay-og Member (Health).

New Delhi: Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mo-tilal Vora, 92, on Fri-day informed that he was feeling com-pletely healthy and was recovering from COVID-19 at AIIMS, Delhi.

He also thanked his well-wishers and supporters for their prayers. This comes amid the fake reports concerning Vora’s demise being circulated on social media, leading to Rajya Sabha MP KTS Tulsi convey-ing his condolences. Tulsi, however, later apologised for the tweet, stating he had become a “victim of fake news.”

Feeling completely healthy now: Vora

Kerala’s Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple to remain closed till Oct 15Thiruvananthapuram : The Sree Padmanab-haswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram has been closed for dev-otees till October 15, after several temple staff including two priests tested positive for COVID-19.

According to the tem-ple authorities, daily poojas will be held by Tantris but devotees will not be allowed in-

side the temple till Oc-tober 15. “35 persons will be allowed inside

the temple at a time and a total number of devo-tees will be restricted to 665 in a day,” the author-ities said previously when the temple was reopened for visitors from August 27.

But after several staff members tested positive for COVID-19, the temple authority had decided to close the temple for a few more days. —ANI

PM Modi to launch property cards under SVAMITVA scheme New Delhi: Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi will on Sunday launch the physical distribu-tion of property cards under the SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages And Mapping With Impro-vised Technology In Village Areas) scheme that enables rural mass-es to use property as a financial asset, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Friday.

The launch event will begin at 11am on Sun-day where PM Modi will also interact with some of the beneficiar-ies. Union minister for panchayati raj Naren-dra Singh Tomar will also join the pro-gramme. The property cards being rolled out under the SVAMITVA scheme launched by the Prime Minister in April are physical copies of property titles of the

villagers’ homes and the surrounding areas they own (as opposed to the cultivated land), which will be handed over to around 132,000 landowners during the event. Post the launch, the state governments will physically distrib-ute the cards to people from more than 750 vil-lages across six states. “The historic move set to transform rural In-dia” will enable around 100,000 property hold-ers to download their property cards through an SMS link delivered on their mobile phones.

Fodder scam: J’khand HC grants bail to Lalu YadavRanchi (Jharkhand) : Former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav was on Friday granted bail by the Jharkhand High Court in connection with the Chaibasa Treasury case related to the fodder scam.

However, Yadav will remain in jail since Dumka treasury case is still pending. Yadav was earlier shifted to the residence of the direc-tor of the RIMS hospi-tal, where he had been admitted for months owing to poor health, to prevent exposure to the COVID-19 virus.

Yadav, who has been in prison since Decem-ber 2017, was sentenced to seven years of im-prisonment in 2018 un-der IPC and seven years under the Prevention of Corruption Act in con-nection with fodder scam case.—ANI

NIA files chargesheet against eight peopleMumbai: The NIA on Friday filed a charge-sheet against eight peo-ple, including activists Gautam Navlakha and 82-year-old Father Stan Swamy, for their alleged involvement in inciting a mob to violence in Bhima Koregaon near Pune on January 1, 2018, officials said.

Swamy, who said he has never been to Bhima Koregaon, was arrested from his home in Ranchi on Thursday evening and brought to Mumbai where he was produced before a court on Friday and remanded to judi-cial custody till October 23. NIA spokesperson and Deputy Inspector General of Police in the agency Sonia Narang said the charge-sheet was submitted before a designated court here. Besides Navlakha and Swamy, the others

named in the charge-sheet are Delhi Univer-sity associate professor Hany Babu, Goa Insti-tute of Management professor Anand Tel-tumbde, and Jyoti Jag-tap, Sagar Gorkhe and

Ramesh Gaichor, activ-ists of the Bhima Kore-gaon Shaurya Din Pre-rna Abhiyaan group.

They were arrested during the course of the investigation into the violence on Jan 1, 2018.

OTHERS NAMED IN THE CHARGE-SHEET

BHIMA KOREGAON CASE

COPS MAKE A BEELINE FOR LATHAR’S ‘AASHIRWAAD’!

One interesting aspect of the bureaucracy, be it from

any state of the country, is that when it senses that ‘winds of change’ have started blowing, it models itself according to the new trend. It is thus little surprise then that police offi cials have been making a beeline for the Rajasthan Police Head Quarters. Simply put, the DGP of Rajasthan police is set to change and in all probability ML Lathar will become the new DGP an therefore, the third fl oor of the PHQ and

particularly Lathar’s offi ce has suddenly become the most sought after place in the seven storey PHQ. Currently, serving as DG (Crime), Lathar sits in his plush third fl oor offi ce where junior offi cials, and in particular those that are posted in fi eld, are turning up in huge numbers every day to pay ‘obeisance’ to the soon to be declared ‘chief’ of the khaki force. All this, so that those who are facing the ‘brunt’ of current dispensation, may be provided some ‘relief’ while those who are already in crucial positions, are trying to ‘save’ themselves from any possible ‘strike-off’ and thus everyone is seeking Lathar’s ‘Aashirwaad’.

While, the entire khaki team in Rajasthan is upbeat with the changing dynamics of the state force in the next few days, another question that has raised curiosity in the police circles is the appoint-ment of new DG (Crime). As of now, Lathar holds the posi-tion but with him being touted as the new DGP, word is that Saurabh Srivastava or Ravi Prakash Meharda may be the front runners for the position of DG Crime.

—SHIVENDRA PARMAR

LAST LAUGH! WHO IS THIS MLA?

It is a known fact that the legislative and executive are always in perpetual

tussle with each other with each side displaying its ‘power’ in more than one way. And several times it happens that the executive ‘acts’ while being completely under the ambit of its ‘rules and regulations’ and legislative becomes troubled on its own. One such incident occurred during the complete lockdown phase in Dholpur when a ‘honourable MLA’ hailing from Bharatpur-Dholpur area was stopped by a constable. A ‘mere’ constable stopping a sitting ‘young’ MLA irked the hot blood who wasn’t even wearing the mask and was roaming without permission! In his anger, the MLA not only bad mouthed

the constable, but also misbehaved with him and thinking that he had taught the khakhi clad man a lesson the young MLA left. But the episode was the perfect platform for the khakhi man to actually exercise his powers without the fear of infl uence of senior offi cials and he did just that. The constable mentioned the entire episode in the police station’s ‘Roznamcha’ or daily report, and since then till now and God knows how many times more, the MLA is running from pillar to post to get the ‘details’ removed. The legislator even met DGP in the matter and is even requesting senior politicians to use their infl uence and provide him relief. However, it appears that the last laugh, in the matter, is certainly of the constable! —KARTIKEY DEV SINGH

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1.9 L MADRASA STUDENTS TO GET ACCIDENT PROTECTION INSURANCE

First India Bureau

Jaipur: In accordance with the budget an-nouncement made by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot earlier this year, Minority and Waqf Matters Minister

Saleh Mohammad an-nounced that all the students of registered madrasa will be in-sured from now on-wards on the lines of the other govern-ment schools. The minister said that 1.9 lakh students study-

ing in 3,248 madrasas across the state will be insured under Group Insurance Scheme for which the state govern-ment will spend Rs19.21 lakh. This will help the parents get fi-nancial aid in case any students meets with any accident.

Minister informed that last year no help could be provided to the parents of two stu-dents of Hindoli who

had met with an ac-

cident because at that time there was no such scheme for the madra-sas in state. Moham-mad added that he then took initiative and moved the file which was approved by CM Gehlot and in-cluded in his budget provisions. The minis-ter said that the terms and conditions for the Group Insurance Scheme for the madra-sa students will be ex-actly the same as edu-cation department’s scheme in accordance with State Insurance and Provident Fund department policy. The sanction from the fi-nance department has been received for the scheme, informed the minister. 1.9 lakh students are studying in 3,248 madrasas across the state. —Pic for representational purpose only

THE BENEFIT

Kagiso Rabada of Delhi Capitals during match 23 of IPL 2020 were Rajasthan Royals collapsed in chase and lost by 46 runs at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, in Sharjah on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI

DELHI WINS BY 46 RUNS

Home Guards hail CM’s order to hike allowanceSatyanarayan Sharma

Jaipur: Home Guards in Rajasthan have wel-comed the state govern-ment’s decision to dou-ble their training allow-ance from Rs100 to 200 per day. The home de-partment had issued the order to enhance the al-lowance on Wednesday. It will benefit nearly 30,000 home guards.

In a seminar held dur-ing Assembly session, then DG-Home Guards Rajeev Dasot had ap-prised CM of the situa-tion on which CM asked MoS home guards Bhajan Lal Jatav to look into the matter follow-ing which minister in-crease the allowance. Dasot on Friday thanked CM and minister for doubling the training al-lowance of home guards.

Out of turn appointments: CM likely to give appointment to sportspersons by DiwaliNaresh Sharma

Jaipur: Rajasthan gov-ernment is going to give gift of ‘out of turn’ gov-ernment jobs to 30 sportspersons of ‘A’ and ‘B’ category in the state. Under this there will be no written exam or in-terview.

Sports minister Ashok Chandna has for-warded the list of the sportsperson to chief secretary. A committee headed by CS will meet soon on the matter.

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is likely to hand over the appointment

letters to the sportsper-sons around Diwali.

International archer Rajat Chauhan and kabaddi player Raju Lal will get appointment on the posts of Dy SP while Paralympic javelin throwers Devendra Jhajharia and Sundar Singh Gurjar, will be given the government job in ‘A’ grade.

A total of 11 players including six para play-ers, have been selected in the ‘A’ category while ‘B’ category has 19 names, including that of international volley-ball player Lavmeet Ka-

taria and kabaddi play-er Sumitra Sharma.

Five players includ-ing Rajat Chauhan will become Deputy SP while Sundar Singh Gurjar and Nisha Tan-war will become assis-tant excise officers, De-vendra, Krishna and

Sandeep will get the ap-pointment as assistant conservator of forest.

Om Prakash, Jitendra Singh, Shalini Pathak, Rajulal, Omprakash Ni-tharwal, Devendra Jhajharia, Sundar Singh,Sumitra Sharma, Mahendra Singh, Arjun Jat, Mamta Dhaka, Manoharlal, Prachi Gur-jar, Anil Gujral, Sachin, Darshana Rathore, Shy-am Sundar Swamy, Bhavesh Shekhawat, Ma-hipal Singh, Karan Sin-gh, Ajay Singh and Uma are also in the list of the sportspersons who will get the appointment.

CORRIGENDUMWe regret to have missed on some facts in the story titled ‘Odd one out! IAS offi cer Artika Shukla fails to get a confi rmation,’ published on October 9. Ms Shukla belongs to AGMUT cadre and hence her confi rmation was to come from her parent cadre and not Rajasthan.

—NEWS EDITOR

JDC: Enforcement Branch has a big role in planned developmentFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: JDC Gaurav Goyal, on Friday, while chairing a review meet-ing of the vigilance wing of JDA asked the officers to play their im-portant role of stopping illegal constructions in the city effectively.

Goyal asked them to bifurcate the illegal constructions and en-croachments in three categories while acting on them. The first cate-gory should be of the

encroachment on govt land where zero-toler-ance attitude should be displayed. In the second category illegal con-structions like adequate parking in the commer-

cial complexes should be taken up. Goyal asked the officers to check compliance of 60:40 ratio rule, fire fighting systems, light-ning arrester etc while checking construction of any building.

JDC stressed on strict implementation of all rules so that public is not harassed in anyway. Speaking about the third category Goyal said it should include illegal construction on private properties of

individuals where counselling should be done initially. JDC also asked officers to deal cautiously with habitu-al complainants.

On illegal colonies plotted on agricultural lands the JDC told offic-ers to ask concerned sub division officer to use Section 175 of Ra-jasthan Tenancy Act. He also asked the vigi-lance wing to work in coordination with all zone officers to reduce delay in works.

Gaurav Goyal

Corona patients can cast votes during municipal elections, says SECFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: After the Su-preme Court order to hold municipal elections by October 31, the State Election Commission (SEC) can announce dates for polls to 6 mu-nicipal corporations in 3 cities anytime now.

SEC preparations al-most done for these polls. Elections to other local bodies can also be held simultaneously with these elections. On the lines of Panchayat polls, Corona patients will not be denied their

voting rights even in upcoming municipal elections. Detailed guidelines for this have been prepared and re-leased under personal guidance of Commis-sioner PS Mehra.

According to guide-lines, concerned CMHO

will make available a coronavirus positive re-port to Returning Of-ficer and Nodal Health Officer a day before vot-ing in the area. This in-formation will be passed on to officers of polling parties on duty.

Meanwhile, DEO (Mu-nicipal Committee) and District Collector Antar Singh Nehra informed that the process of class wise reservation of wards and women reser-vation for municipali-ties will be held on Octo-ber 13 at 11 am through lottery as per rules.

PS Mehra

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Cong with farmers, 3 laws will weaken them: DotasraYogesh Sharma

Jaipur: Congress will hold a Kisan Sammelan (meeting of farmers) on Satur-day in Jaipur, against the farm laws enacted by the central govern-ment.

PCC president Go-vind Singh Do-tasara, on Friday, said that the farm-ers across the coun-try are resented over the farm laws which, he claimed, are anti-farmers.

“The Congress par-ty is standing with the farmers in this time of crisis. The three laws brought in haste will weaken the farmers,” he said.

Dotasra told re-porters that a farm-ers meeting will take place in Birla audito-rium, in Jaipur on Saturday, in which the party and farmers

will discuss the laws.He said that the

programme will be attended by the Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, min-isters, legislators and senior leaders of the party.

Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the laws, Do-tasra said that Modi, before becoming the PM, used to talk of doubling farmers in-come; and making

MSP mandatory but he changed as these laws were brought that conspire to end MSP and Mandi sys-tem; and to encour-age big industrialists.

On Supreme court’s direction to the Rajasthan State Election Commis-sion (SEC) to notify the election pro-gramme within one week for municipal corporations, the PCC president said

that the directions will be followed.

He said that look-ing at the Corona pan-demic, everyone wanted to get the polls postponed.

However, since there was no relief from the SC, the gov-ernment will follow the directions.

Hitting at BJP, Do-tasra said the party has failed as an oppo-sition in the state.

“They get direc-tion to topple the d e m o c r a t i c a l l y elected govern-ment. Through Hathras incident, a horrifying face of CM Yogi Govern-ment came up and to divert peoples’ attention from it, they intentionally magnified small in-cidents of Ra-jasthan but people understand all this,” he said.

Vimal Kothari

Jaipur: The anti-eva-sion teams of the commercial taxes de-partment targeted the Oswal soap group on Friday by raiding its various offices & premises.

The SGST zone-3 an-ti-evasion team took the initiative due to the group not paying GST commensurate with the increased soap sales during the corona cri-sis along with some tips it had received from its sources. The operation

began at 11 am on Fri-day with raids on one location each of Oswal group in Malviya Na-gar, Mansarovar, Bassi & Brahmapuri while 2 premises in Kanota in-dustrial area were also raided. The teams start-ed with raiding 5 loca-tions initially, later one more was added.

During the course of the raids the SGST officers have said to have seized a pile of documents and elec-tronic gadgets all of which will be scruti-nized in detail now.

The officers involved in the raids, which continued late in the evening, expect to dis-cover evasion of crores of rupees of GST.

As soon as the news of these raids went pub-lic other soap manufac-turers and C&Fs in the city were seen shifting documents from their premises. It is notewor-thy that the soap indus-try, as an exception, saw a boom due to much publicised Covid guide-lines during last 6 months.

Dr Rituraj Sharma

Jaipur: State Election Commissioner (SEC) PS Mehra has appealed to 30 lakh voters of fourth & last phase of 897 Gram Panchayats of 32 Panchayat Sami-ties to wear masks and follow all corona proto-cols while voting today.

The SEC said that 4629 and 11373 persons are in fray for the posts of Sarpanch and Panch respectively while 26 and 3714 individuals respectively have been elected unopposed. The

voting hours will be from 7.30 am to 5.30 pm

Mehra appreciated the cautiousness and alertness exhibited by the voters, in the three

phases held until now, while exercising their voting rights. He hailed the participation of the voters in the democrat-ic festival which was evident from 83.5%, 84.67% and 83.69% poll-ing percentages in first, second and third phases respectively.

SEC said that the counting of votes will be done at Panchayat HQs and elections to the post of deputy Sar-panch will be held on 11 October. He said 19 IAS and RAS ranked officers have been de-

puted as observers who will monitor the elec-tions spread over 16 districts. SEC said 4339 EVMs will be used for voting for the Sar-panch post while 30% have been kept re-served.

Mehra said that qualified engineers have been deputed at every Gram Panchayat to handle any technical snag on the EVMs while a dedicated call centre will attend to any complaint made from any polling booth on the election day.

CM Ashok Gehlot, ministers, legislators & senior leaders of the party to attend the programme, Ajay Maken to miss due to health reasons

SEC appeals voters to follow corona norms, hails public support thus far

Aditi Nagar

New Delhi: The issue of a criminal FIR in phone taping case against Pilot’s media advisor Lokendra Sin-gh and a senior jour-nalist and Rajasthan editor of leading na-tional news channel ‘Aaj Tak’ Sharat Ku-mar, has taken a new turn, and virtually opened a pandora’s box in an already ‘dis-turbed’ relationship between Chief Minis-ter Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot.

The issue was raised by Pilot to a Sonia ap-pointed three member committee and there is a general feeling among the members of the com-mittee that such ‘ac-tions’ should be avoided in the larger interest of the unity of the party.

But by making Gehlot government’s stand very clear on this sensi-tive issue, a Gehlot

trusted PCC Chief Go-vind Singh Dotasara formally made a men-tion of this issue in his Friday press con-ference at Jaipur by saying that “There are no two camps in Con-gress. No illegal ac-

tion will be taken against any journo or anyone else in Ra-jasthan. The party is one united unit and no action out of enmity, or against the law of the land, will ever be taken against any-

one.”Dotasara’s comments

have raised suspense over the future of this FIR but he has smartly kept both the options open. One option is to put a closure report or FR on political grounds and the second option is to let allow the law of the land to take its course against the accused. Knowing well Gehlot’s secret and unpredicta-ble moves, no one is cer-tain that what will be the ultimate fate of this FIR?”

Meanwhile Pilot’s media advisor Loken-dra has sought two week’s time from the police to present his version and the police is likely to accede the request.

Moreover, Sharat Ku-mar released a video on Friday and said that he was ready to face any in-vestigation of the police in the phone tapping case investigation.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Two days after taking over as the new DG ACB, BL Soni issued an appeal to public ask-ing them to come for-ward in fight against corruption. “If any pub-lic servant of the gov-ernment of Rajasthan or the government of India is asking for ille-gal gratification from you for your official work, please contact us, we will ensure that your genuine work is done properly. Please come forward,” he appealed.“

Challan or Closure report in phone taping FIR, only God knows?

Soni: Come forward against corruption

Oswal’s GST non-payment gets sleuths acting!

PANCHAYAT POLLS

CONGRESS’S FARMER MEET AT BIRLA AUDITORIUM TODAY

PS Mehra

Govind Singh Dotasra

Sachin Pilot

COVID-19 UPDATE

RAJASTHAN1,621

DEATHS1,54,785

CONFIRMED CASES

GUJARAT 3,550 DEATHS 1,49,193 CASES

DELHI 5,692 DEATHS 3,03,693 CASES

WORLD10,69,611

DEATHS3,69,54,994

CONFIRMED CASES

INDIA69,64,041CONFIRMED CASES

1,07,140DEATHS

MAHARASHTRA39,430 DEATHS 14,93,884 CASES

TAMIL NADU10,120 DEATHS 6,46,128 CASES

KARNATAKA9,789 DEATHS 6,90,269 CASES

No illegal action will be taken against any journo or anyone else in Rajasthan, said PCC Chief Dotasra

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and received many acco-lades for his performanc-es in the series.

Following the success

of the Harry Potter films, Radcliffe portrayed lawyer Arthur Kipps in the horror film The Woman in Black (2012); the poet Allen Gins-berg in the film Kill Your Dar-lings (2013); Victor Frankenstein’s as-sistant, Igor, in the science fiction fan-tasy Victor Frankenstein (2015); Man-ny, a sentient corpse in the comedy-drama Swiss Army Man (2016); tech-nological prodigy Walter Mabry in the heist thriller film Now You See Me 2 (2016); and FBI agent Nate Foster in the critically acclaimed thriller Impe-rium (2016). Radcliffe began to branch out to stage acting in 2007, starring in the London and New York productions of Equus and in the 2011 Broadway revival of the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Since 2018, Radcliffe has starred in the TBS anthology television se-ries Miracle Workers.

Radcliffe has contributed to many charities, Demelza Hospice Care for Children and The Trevor Project; the latter charity gave him its Hero Award in 2011. In 2008, he was among several celebrities who donated their old glass-es to an exhibit honoring victims of the Holocaust. During the Broadway run of Equus he auctioned off a pair of jeans and other items worn in the show, for New-York-based Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. He has also donated money to Get Connected UK, a London-based free confidential national helpline for troubled youth.

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Second Child

Mindy Kaling has revealed that she welcomed her sec-ond child, a baby boy, last month. “I got something I

rarely get these days, which is good news, so if you wouldn’t mind shar-ing with our audience, I think they’d be thrilled to find out some-thing extraordinary that nobody knows up until this moment,” she said in an interview.

Kaling added, “I’m telling it for the first time now, it feels so strange.” —ANI

English actor Kate Winslet re-cently dished on her time on late-night comedy showcase ‘Saturday Night Live’ just days

after the infamous Ashley Simpson lip-sync error in 2004.

According to sources, the 45-year-old actor recalled in an interview for the Hamptons International Film Festival’s ‘A Conversation with...’ se-ries. Winslet’s latest film, ‘Ammo-nite,’ will premiere at the festival as a drive-in screening, reported People Magazine. She said, “When I did

‘SNL’ I was on the week after Ash-lee Simpson. I was the next show

after.” “Let me tell you, that stu-dio was just a hotbed of anxie-ty,” she continued. “There’s this thing of the opening monologue and they kept saying to me, ‘Kate

we’re so sorry, we just don’t have it yet ... give us a moment.’” —ANI

Today, popular actress Rakul Preet Singh turns 30. It’s no secret that the lovely Rakul

is one of the most popular and talented stars in the Ta-mil, Telugu and Hindi in-dustries.

As a good performer, she enjoys a massive fan follow-ing, thanks to her charming screen presence, good looks,

limitless talent and friendly na-ture. She has her reasonably eventful and successful career so far. The gorgeous actress has starred in quite a few popular films and appeared alongside sev-eral big stars that helped her be-come a force to be reckoned with. An actress and the winner of five pageant titles including People’s Choice Miss India times, Panta-loons Femina Miss Fresh Face,

Femina Miss Talented, Femina Miss beautiful smile and Femina Miss beautiful eyes.

On this special occa-sion, fans, friends and colleagues from the film industry have flooded social media with tweets, pictures and videos of Rakul Preet Singh. —City First

Bollywood diva turns 30

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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson achieved a remarkable milestone on Thursday (local time), one he

said, that makes him the fi rst man in America to cross 200 million followers on Instagram. “The life lesson I want to share with you guys is to always speak your truth,” Johnson said in the post he uploaded on Friday. “Always

speak your truth and do your best to speak your truth with compas-sion, with a little bit of poise, with a lit-tle bit of dignity,” he

continued. —ANI

SS RAJAMOULIHAPPY BIRTHDAY

f cinema is a di-rector’s medium, then SS Rajamouli is its amulet. In a span of 18 years, the 47-year-old filmmaker carved

a niche for himself by helming 11 back-to-back successful films. Right from his directorial debut ‘Student No. 1’ in 2001, the Baahubali director has al-ways tried to transcend cinematic boundaries with his incredible imagina-tion, arresting screenplay, and terrific action blocks.

Rajamouli is celebrating his 47th birthday and sev-eral celebrities took to so-cial media and wished this legend of Indian cinema. SS Rajamouli is fabulous at what he does and it’s no ex-aggeration that he’s con-sidered one of the best commercial cinema direc-tors of the country. Be it Baahubali or Eega (Mak-khi), he has managed to impress and make an im-pact irrespective of the scale of his film and has pushed the envelope with each film.

In a hero-worshipping film industry like Tolly-wood, only a few filmmak-

ers hold the power to over-shadow the charisma of their leading men among the viewers and take them all into their world. SS Ra-jamouli is one amongst them and without a doubt; he is perhaps the best sto-ryteller that we have today in India. At present, the ace director is hands full with the fictional action-drama RRR starring Junior NTR, Ram Charan, Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn in lead roles.

Also, while the number of corona-infected patients is increasing, the number of those who beat it is not less. ‘Bahubali’ director SS Rajamouli also got corona infected. His family, along with him, had also been hit by the infection two weeks ago, but have now recov-ered. —City First

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ALL IN ONE

After the direct-to-digital re-lease of films like ‘Gulabo

Sitabo’, ‘Shakuntala Devi’, Amazon Prime Video on Friday an-nounced that it will be premiering nine more titles over the next few months.

Film critic and movie trade analyst Taran Adarsh con-firmed the news on Twitter. He tweeted,

“BIGGG NEWS... #Amazon to premiere *9* films in coming days... Includes *3* #Hindi films: # C o o l i e N o 1 [ # Va r u n D h aw a n , #SaraAliKhan]: Ar-rives on 25 Dec 2020 # C h r i s t m a s 2 0 2 0 #Chhalaang [#Raj-kummarRao, #Nush-rattBharuccha]: 13 Nov 2020 #Durgavati [#BhumiPednekar]: 11 Dec 2020.” —ANI

Big B for ‘Prabhas’

Megastar Am-itabh Bach-chan on Fri-day con-

firmed the news of him teaming up with ‘Baahubali’ actor Prabhas and D e e p i k a P a d u k o n e for an up-c o m i n g

project. He shared a poster of the pro-duction house that marks the collabo-ration with the ‘Don’ actor as they complete their 50 years in the journey of moviemaking.

He tweeted, “An honour and a privilege to be a part of this momentous & most ambitious venture .. and my greetings for the com-pletion of 50 years for@VyjayanthiFilms.. may you celebrate another 50 .. and on !!” —ANI

Manushi’s experience watching ‘Baahubali’P

raising ‘Baahu-bali’ filmmaker SS Rajamouli, for-mer Miss World

and actor Manushi Chhillar on Friday said the experience of watch-ing movies like ‘Baahu-bali’ has made her par-take in grand projects.

The 23-year-old actor, who is debuting in Yash Raj Film’s maiden his-torical ‘Prithviraj’, fur-ther credited the film-maker for fuelling her dream to become an ac-tor. In the hope to be no-ticed by a visionary film-maker in the near future, the actor said, “Watch-

ing Baahubali was an experience that made me want to be a part of these big, grand, fantastical projects that entertain the nation. I can only wish and hope that I work really hard consist-ently to be able to be a part of such projects in the future.”

When asked about her debut in Bollywood, Chhillar revealed, “My dream to become an ac-tress was fuelled by the film-maker SS Ra-jamouli’s grand films that portray women characters incredibly beautifully.” —ANI

NEW MILESTONE

‘HOTBED OF ANXIETY’

Rakul Preet Singh

Manushi Chhillar

Still from ‘Baahubali

SS Rajamouli

Dwayne Johnson

Kate Winslet

Mindy Kaling

Amitabh Bachchan;(inset) Announcement poster

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WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAYCITY FIRST

Under the mental health campaign, a webinar on the mental health of

adolescents during the transition period of Co-rona was organized on Friday, under joint aus-pices of Gautam Hospi-tal Research Center, Mental Health Founda-tion and Jayashree Periwal High School

At the begin-ning of the pro-gram, Principal, Madhu Maini welcomed and said that children need to enhance their

life skills and manage well, which is possible

only with good mental health.

Senior psychiatrist, Dr Manaswi Gautam talked about mental

problems in adoles-cence and gave informa-tion about anxiety, de-pression, irritability, intoxication and drug side effects and other mental problems.

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Jaipur’s daughter Monila Khatri left for France on Friday to contribute to the field of education, and MLA Kali Charan Saraf stated that it is a matter of pride for the state. Monila, a resident of Jaipur will teach English in government schools and colleges of France. She has been selected for the English Assistantship Program organized by the France Embassy, and has been awarded a scholarship by the Government of France. She said that the credit for her success goes to parents Jagdish Khatri and Kiran Khatri, Professor Pankaj Khandelwal and Ashish Soni. —City First

BIG CONTRIBUTION!

CITY FIRST

BNI, the world’s largest entrepre-neur’s network or-ganization, has

merged with the North and South chapters of Jaipur. The US-based organization is associated with young entrepreneurs and is recognized world-wide for its business net-working.

According to informa-tion received from BNI Jaipur, in 2017, young en-trepreneurs Akshay Goy-

al, Prateek Aggarwal and Rajat Bohra played a key role in bringing BNI to the Pink City. According to Rajat Bohra, the young en-trepreneur who played a

key role in establishing BNI Jaipur in the city, they have brought the BNI or-ganization to a spe-

cial place in a short span of three years. BNI has emerged as the strong-est and most trusted busi-ness group of Jaipur city in terms of a large number of young industrialists.

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The Great MergeCITY FIRST

The Novel Corona Virus has made the clients scepti-cal about their PR

partnerships leading them to put on hold their services until the lockdown is called off and situations get back to normal. The Webinar Series of Jaipur Based Media Quarterly Jour-nal Communication To-day in Collaboration with Public Relations Society of India (Raipur Chapter) organised The 3rd National webinar on ‘COVID-19: Challenges Before Public Relations’ to analyze the impact of outbreak of COVID vi-rus on Public Relations industry and its signifi-cance post COVID era.

Prof. Baldev Bhai Sharma, Vice Chancel-lor, Kushabhau Thakre University of Journal-

ism & Mass Communica-tion, Raipur was the Chief Guest. The webi-nar was attended by Prof Sanjeev Bhanawat, Edi-tor Communication To-day, Dr Ajit Pathak, Na-tional President, PRSI, New Delhi, Rajendra Bhanawat, Former IAS, Dr Shahid Ali, Chair-man, PRSI, Jaipur. Webi-nar was conducted by Dr. Usha Sawhney, Deputy Editor, Communication Today, Assistant Profes-sor, department of Eng-lish SMP Govt. Girls PG College the webinar is attended by Nitin Jagad, Branch Head, ADFAC-TORS PR and attendant by 140 Participants from 17 states.

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Challenges Before PUBLIC RELATIONS

HAPPY B’DAY!

IAS Gajanand Sharma and IPS Vishal Bansal celebrated their birthdays on Friday, 9 October. We wish them all the best!

EPITOME OF ROYALTY

NIRMAL TIWARI

Rajasthan’s luxu-ry tourist train, Palace on Wheels (PoW),

has been selected as the second-best luxury tourist train in the world under the Conde Nast Traveler’s Read-ers’ Choice Award-2020. Britain’s ‘Belmond British Pullman’ tops the list of top-10 lux-ury trains across the world, fol-lowed by Ra-jasthan’s PoW.

While the Bel-mond British Pullman scored 96.95, PoW scored 96.89. Maharaja Express of IRCTC stands at 8th position.

PoW was started in 1982 when the wooden saloon of erstwhile royals was put togeth-

er on tracks. Initially, it was on the meter

gauge line and later converted to the broad gauge line. In the

last four-five years, the fame of the Palace on Wheels has increased greatly in the country and for-eign and several tour-ists have repeated their journey in the luxury train which re-flects its popularity

and liking.Pradeep Bohra, GM

of PoW for the past five years, said that there are only a few luxury tourist trains in the world in which tourists repeat their journey.

RTDC Chairman Alok Gupta said that the POW will once again start its journey, which has been delayed this time due to the co-rona pandemic.

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DURING THE DAY!GUJARAT: Sainik School Balachadi, Jamnagar celebrated the 88th anniversary of Air Force Day on Thursday. On this occasion, a bicycle rally was organized in which Officers, staff and family members successfully completed a distance of 14 kms.

RAJASTHAN: FICCI Flo will be organising a literary session today, for understanding the literary journey of the great author and an American Journalist, Elizabeth M Gilbert, in order to fill the members with positivity, creative thinking and resilience.

GUJARAT: Hiral Shailesh Baravadiya, one of the biggest cricket fans from Rajkot, Gujarat showcased her collection of 1350 newspaper cuttings and photos of the famous Indian cricket, Captain Virat Kohli, and set a new world record. —PHOTO BY CHIRAG CHOTALIYA

CITY FIRST

amendra Solanki has been elected as the General Secre-tary of the Pink City Press Club. Polling in the Press Club was held on

Thursday and counting of the votes took place on Fri-day, in which Solanki was declared the winner on the post of General Secretary.

Rajkumar Sharma and Mukesh Pareek were elect-ed as Vice Presidents, while DC Jain won on the post of treasurer. Mukesh Meena has already been elected un-opposed as the president of

the Press Club.Girraj Gurjar, Bharat

Bhushan Dixit, Pushpendra Singh Rajawat, Namonaray-an Awasthi, Mangi Lal Pa-reek, Rahul Bharadwaj, Anita Sharma, Nikhilesh Sharma, Omveer Bhargava and Wasim Akram Qureshi were elected as the executive members.

The newly elected execu-tive thanked the voters

and said efforts will be resumed to bring the Press Club back on

track. President Muke-sh Meena said that the dig-

nity of the press club will be restored with collective ef-forts.

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President Mukesh Meena with General Secretary Ramendra Solanki, Vice Presidents Rajkumar Sharma and Mukesh Pareek, and Treasurer DC Jain, along with Giriraj Gurjar, Bharat Dixit, Pushpendra Singh, Namonarayan Awasthi, Mangilal Pareek, Rahul Bhardwaj, Anita Sharma, Nikhilesh Sharma, Omveer Bhargava and Wasim Akram.

Election Officer Sangeeta Pranvendra hands over the ‘Unopposed Winning letter’ to Mukesh Meena. Seen here with them are Vikas sharma, Brahspati Sharma and Harish Gupta.

Palace on Wheels

During the seminar

Monila Khatri MLA Kali Charan Saraf congratulating Monila

Prateek Agarwal, Akshay Goyal, Rajat Bohra

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