First India|Rajasthan-English News Paper Today-13 November 2019 edition

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JAIPUR l FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2019 l Pages 14 l 3.00 RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764 l Vol 1 l Issue No. 187

NORTH-EAST WAR ZONE: A woman is assisted after she falls as

police personnel clash with agitators protesting against Citizenship

(Amendment) Bill, in Guwahati, on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI

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Panic spread in Jaipur on Thursday as a panther entered a

residential area on Takht-E-Shahi road. It was last spotted

inside SMS School, which remains shut on Friday. Teams of

Forest department were trying to catch the big cat.

CAB PROTESTS

KILLED IN

2GUWAHATI

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t least two persons died due to bullet injuries on Thursday after police opened fire on protesters in

Guwahati, officials said. An official of the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital told PTI that one

person was “brought dead” and another succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment. The

offi cial, however, could not give their names, saying that “they were brought unidentified”. The violent

protests also spread to Meghalaya’s capital Shillong on Thursday, a day after the Rajya Sabha passed

the contentious bill. The administration has imposed a curfew in the city and has also shut down mobile

internet for 48 hours. In Guwahati, thousands defi ed the curfew and took to the streets, prompting police

to open fi re. Police said they had to open fire in Lalung Gaon area in Guwahati after stones were hurled

by protestors. The agitators said at least four persons were injured in the shooting.

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SC REJECTS ALL 19 AYODHYA VERDICT

REVIEW PLEAS AFTER FINDING NO BASIS

DISMISSED

New Delhi: The Supreme

Court Thursday

HEAR REVIEW TO PROBE HYD

NIRBHAYA: SC TO SC FORMS PANEL

dismissed a batch of petitions

seeking review

PLEA ON DEC 17 ENCOUNTER

The Supreme Court will Supreme Court appointed

of its November 9 Ayodhya

land dispute case

hear on December 17 a three-member inquiry

the review petition filed commission headed by

verdict which cleared

by Akshay Kumar Singh, former apex court judge

the way for construction

of a Ram Temple at

one of the convicts in V S Sirpurkar to inquire

the brutal December 16, into the circumstances

the disputed site.

2012, gang-rape and leading to the encounter

The top court, which

murder case. A threejudge

bench will hear gang-rape accused in

killing of the four

took a total of 19 review

pleas for consideration

the petition. Hyderabad.

in-chamber, rejected

them after finding no

ground to entertain

them.

“Applications for listing

of review petitions

in open court are dismissed.

We have carefully

gone through the

review petitions and

the connected papers

filed therewith. We do

not find any ground,

whatsoever, to entertain

the same. The review

petitions are, accordingly,

dismissed,”

a five-judge bench

headed by Chief Justice

S A Bobde said

while rejecting 10 out

of 19 pleas filed by original

litigants to the title

dispute.

The apex court, which

also considered the nine

petitions filed by “third

parties” who were not

part of the original litigation,

denied them permission

to file review

petition in the matter.

“Applications for permission

to file review

petitions are dismissed.

In view of the denial of

permission to file review

petitions, applications

for listing of review petitions

in open court as

well as review petitions

are rejected,” said the

bench, also comprising

Justices D Y Chandrachud,

Ashok Bhushan, S

A Nazeer and Sanjeev

Khanna, while dismissing

the pleas filed by

“third parties”.

Among the 10 original

litigants, whose review

petitions were dismissed,

eight were filed

by the Muslim parties

which includes those

supported by the All India

Muslim Personal

Law Board.

It is significant that

key Muslim litigant, Uttar

Pradesh Sunni Central

Waqf Board, had

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decided not to seek review

of the unanimous

November 9 verdict.

Nirmohi Akhara and

Akhil Bharat Hindu

Mahasabha were the

two Hindu bodies whose

review pleas were rejected

by the bench.

Among the nine

“third parties” were 40

rights activists who had

jointly moved the top

court seeking review of

its verdict. Turn on P4

Third phase clocks 62%

voting in J’khand polls

Ranchi: In the third of

the five-phase Jharkhand

assembly elections,

an estimated 62.06

per cent of over 56 lakh

eligible voters exercised

their franchise till

5 pm on Thursday. The

polling was held in 17

constituencies across

eight districts, officials

said. Voting began at 7

am amid tight security

on Thursday.

While polling at

Ranchi, Hatia, Kanke,

Barkatha and Ramgarh

seats ended at 5

pm, voters in rest of

the constituencies exercised

their franchise

till 3 pm. The

remaining seats

where polling will be

held are Kodarma,

Barhi, Barkagaon,

Mandu, Hazaribag,

Simaria (SC), Dhanwar,

Gomia, Bermo,

Ichagarh, Silli and

Khijri (ST).

Keeping in mind that

there are LWE (leftwing

extremist) pockets

in this phase,

MS Dhoni along with wife Sakshi leaves after casting their votes

during the third phase of Jharkhand Assembly elections, in

Ranchi on Thursday.

—PHOTO BY PTI

Jharkhand Chief Election

Officer Vinay Kumar

Choubey told PTI

that polling personnel

of ninety-six polling

stations were dropped

by helicopters and ten

polling stations have

been re-located on security

ground. About

40,000 polling personnel

have been deputed to

monitor the situation.

Meanwhile, Congress

leader Rahul Gandhi on

Thursday promised to

waive farm loan up to

Rs 2 lakh and procure

paddy at Rs 2,500 MSP if

the opposition alliance

came to power in

Jharkhand.

If BJP wants Hindu rashtra, let them say so: CM Gehlot

First India News

Jaipur: Unleashing

his scathing attack

against the BJP-led

NDA government at

the Centre, Congress

stalwart and Chief

Minister, Ashok Gehlot

reiterated that

Rahul Gandhi is the

only option available

to the opposition to

counter Narendra

Modi and Amit Shah.

He emphasised that

only the Gandhi scion

can conjure a

frontal attack on the

saffron duo.

“One person who

can tackle and handle

Modi and Shah, is Rahul

Gandhi. During the

elections, he made it

difficult for the BJP in

Modi and Shah’s home

state, Gujarat. The loss

in Lok Sabha election

notwithstanding, it is

Rahul Gandhi who can

be pitched in the

straight fight. It is not

a new thing I have been

saying, rather I have

been repeating this for

past five years,” Gehlot

said. The three-time

Chief Minister of Rajasthan

returned to

Jaipur from Mumbai

on Thursday afternoon

and was addressing the

media at the Jaipur

airport.

Expressing his concern

over the CAB and

the subsequent conflagration

in the northeast,

Gehlot thundered,

“If they want to fulfil

their dream and make

this country a Hindu-

Rashtra, they should

say so. The current

environment in the

nation is not good. We

can’t figure out what

they (BJP) want. Today,

the environment

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot speaking to mediapersons at Jaipur airport after returning

from Mumbai, on Thursday.

—PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO

is of fear and threat

across the nation.

Fire is raging across

the nation over CAB

and an IPS officer has

also resigned over the

same. Is North-East

not a part of this

country? Tripura and

Assam are boiling

and Army had to be

deployed to control

situation.”

Gehlot also cornered

the Central Government

over the issue of

unemployment,

claimed that the youth

are getting restless.

“There are no jobs and

economy is collapsing.

Manmohan Singhji and

Rahul Bajaj have spoken

on the nation’s

economy. Instead of

making amends, the

BJP says they will

counter the situation.

Commodity prices are

increasing and onion

and petrol rates are at a

new high affecting the

common man. The

youth should raise

their voice. If we are

wrong, then raise your

voice against us, but if

they are wrong, then

raise it against them,”

Gehlot said. Turn on P4

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TALKING POINT

JAIPUR | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2019

02

CURFEW

IMPOSED IN

DIBRUGARH

DIBRUGARH

Guwahati Dibrugarh

have been placed under

indefinite curfew till further

orders in the wake

of protests after the

passage of CAB in Rajya

Sabha on Wednesday.

The administration has

also suspended mobile

Internet services for

24 hours from 7 pm

on Wednesday in ten

districts. Indian Army

said that two columns

of Assam Rifles troops

have been deployed in

Tripura and the third

column in Assam is on

standby.

JATIN BORA

RESIGNS

FROM BJP

GUWAHATI

Actor and Assam

Bharatiya Janata Party

(BJP) leader Jatin Bora

on Thursday resigned

from the party. The reason

behind his decision

is yet to be unknown.

Mobile phones and

Internet services have

been suspended for

24 hours from 7 pm

on Wednesday in ten

districts of the state-

Lakhimpur, Tinsukia,

Dhemaji, Dibrugarh,

Charaideo, Sivasagar,

Jorhat, Golaghat,

Kamrup (metro) and

Kamrup.

CLAUSE 6 OF

ASSAM

ACCORD

GUWAHATIThe

Chief Minister

Sarbananda Sonowal

said that Centre is

committed to

implementing Clause

6 of the Assam Accord

to safeguard the

unique identity of

Assam. “I assure that

PM Modi and Home

Minister Shah have

very categorically

stated centre is

committed to

implementing the

Clause 6 of Assam

Accord in letter and

spirit” Sonowal said.

BJP MLA’s

HOUSE

VANDALIZED

DIBRUGARH

Binod Hazarika on

Thursday claimed that

his residence in his

constituency Chabua

was attacked by anti-

Citizenship

Amendment Bill

protestors who also

vandalized his

property. Hazarika

said that around 150

protestors destroyed

household things,

artefacts of his house

and after that, they

set ablaze the

commodities outside

the home.

ARMY

DEPLOYED IN

ASSAM

NEW DELHI

Amid protests in the

northeastern states

over the Citizenship

(Amendment)

Bill, 2019, fi ve Army

columns have been

requisitioned and

deployed in Assam.

According to Indian

Army offi cials, three

Assam Rifl es columns

have also been requisitioned

and deployed

in Tripura, amid curfew.

The strength of

one column is about

70 personnel of all

ranks.

NORTH-EAST

ON THE

BOIL

Bangladesh cancels Foreign Minister’s Delhi visit

B

SINGER PAPON

CANCELS SHOW

Papon on

Thursday pulled

angladesh Foreign

Minister

AK Abdul

Momen has

cancelled his

visit to India. He was

scheduled to visit India

from December 12-14.

This comes amid Bangladesh

raising strong

objections against the

Citizenship (Amendment)

Bill that was

passed by Rajya Sabha

on Wednesday.

Bangladesh Foreign

Minister AK Abdul

Momen has cancelled

his India visit between

December 12 and December

14.

The Bangladeshi

minister was to arrive

in India on Thursday

evening for the Indian

Ocean meet and Delhi

Dialogue.

He said, "I had to cancel

my trip to New Delhi

as I have to participate

in the 'Buddijibi Debosh'

and 'Bijoy Debosh'

and more so as our State

Minister is out of the

country in Madrid and

our Foreign Secretary

is in the Hague."

He added, "Given the

increasing demand at

home, I have decided to

cancel the visit. However,

I am looking forward

to attending the

next meeting in January.

I am sending our

DG to attend the event."

On Wednesday, A K

Abdul Momen said the

Had to cancel my trip

to New Delhi as I have

to participate in

‘Buddijibi Debosh’ and

‘Bijoy Debosh and more

so as our State Minister

is out of the country.

—AK Abdul Momen,

Bangladesh Foreign Minister


Bill could weaken

India's historic character

as a secular nation

and rejected the

allegations that the minorities

are facing religious

persecution in his

country.

According to the legislation,

members of Hindu,

Sikh, Buddhist, Jain,

Parsi and Christian

communities, who have

come from Pakistan,

Bangladesh and Afghanistan,

till December 31,

2014 facing religious persecution

there, will not

be treated as illegal immigrants

but given Indian

citizenship.

"India is historically

a tolerant country

which believes in secularism

(but) their historic

position will be

weakened if they deviate

from that," Momen

told reporters.

ADGP LAW AND ORDER

AGRAWAL TRANSFERRED

Additional Director General of Police

(law and order) Mukesh Agrawal was

transferred and posted as ADGP CID. “In the

interest of public service, Mukesh Agarwal,

IPS (RR-1989), Add Director General of Police

(Law and Order), Assam is transferred and

posted as Add Director-General of Police

(CID), Assam with effect from the date of

taking over charge vice LR Bishnoi, IPS (RR-

1991) transferred,” said an official notification.

Singer out of a music show

in Delhi, saying he

would not be able to

entertain fans when his

home state Assam was

“burning, crying and

under curfew” over the

passage of Citizenship

(Amendment) Bill in

parliament. The singer,

best known for songs

such as “Moh moh ke

dhaage” and “Jiyein

kyun”, was scheduled

to perform in the

capital on Friday. Papon

also apologised to his

fans on Twitter.

The minister also

said that Bangladesh

and India are currently

enjoying close friendly

relations "that is termed

as "golden chapter" of

bilateral ties and "so,

naturally our people

(Bangladeshis) expect

that India won't do anything

that could create

anxiety among them".

Momen termed as

"untrue" the allegations

of minority repression

in Bangladesh by India's

Home Minister

Amit Shah, saying

"whoever gave them the

information, it is not

correct". Momen said

Bangladesh maintains

strong religion harmony

and ensures that followers

of all faiths enjoy

same rights in every

area. —ANI

STONES THROWN AT

POLICE CHIEF’S CONVOY

Stones were thrown at Assam Police

chief Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta’s convoy

on Thursday when he was touring

the city, ravaged by violent protests. The

cavalcade was on the

Guwahati-Shillong

Road near Christian

Basti where it was

attacked. Stones were

thrown at several vehicles

in the convoy that

was on its way from

the Secretariat. The

convoy had to stop several times as the

entire stretch was blocked by protesters.

When the vehicles stopped in the Christian

Basti area and security personnels

were clearing the road, some protesters

threw stones. —ANI

2

3

4

(1) A burnt truck is seen after protest in Guwahati on Thursday.

(2) Indian Army personnel arrive to conduct a fl ag march as

security conditions tighten. (3) Protestors raise slogans in protest

during a strike in Guwahati. (4) Demonstrators stopping the

vehicles during a protest against CAB in Guwahati on Thursday.

ASSAM GUV APPEALS FOR

CALM AMID PROTESTS

Governor Jagdish Mukhi appealed to the

people to maintain peace in Assam, the

hotbed of protests. In a statement, Mukhi

urged them to maintain restraint as they have

always shown patience and political maturity

in the past. “If the student community has

any issues against the government they have

every right to agitate but they should do it in

a democratic and peaceful manner, without

taking the law in their hands,” he said. —ANI

All Guwahati

trains to Upper

Assam cancelled

Guwahati: All trains

from Guwahati towards

upper Assam region

have been cancelled, according

to the Chief

Public Relation Officer

(CPRO), North-East

Frontier Railway, as

anti-Citizenship

Amendment Bill (CAB)

protests continue to

rock the state and other

states in the North-East.

Guwahati and Dibrugarh

have been placed

under indefinite curfew

till further orders in the

wake of protests after

the passage of the Citizenship

Amendment

Bill in Rajya Sabha on

Wednesday. The administration

had suspended

mobile Internet services

for 24 hours from

7 pm on Wednesday in

ten districts of the state

-- Lakhimpur, Tinsukia,

Dhemaji, Dibrugarh,

Charaideo, Sivasagar,

Jorhat, Golaghat, Kamrup

and Kamrup.

In view of the prevailing

situation, several

airlines have announced

that flights to

Guwahati and Dibrugarh

have been cancelled

on Thursday and

Friday and passengers

travelling to these two

cities will be offered a

FLIGHTS TOO

1

fee waiver on cancellation

or rescheduling

fee.

Amid the unrest in

Assam, Prime Minister

Narendra Modi said in

a tweet earlier today assured

the people of the

state that “no one can

take away their rights,

unique identity and

beautiful culture”.

The Citizenship

(Amendment) Bill, 2019

sailed through the Parliament

after Rajya

Sabha passed it on

Wednesday. As many as

125 members of the Upper

House voted in favour

while 105 MPs

voted against the Bill,

which was passed by

Lok Sabha earlier this

week. —ANI


RAJASTHAN


03

STAY INDOORS: PANTHER ON THE PROWL

A search for the big cat was on with drones till the

search operations were called due to bad light

Kartikey Dev Singh

Jaipur: Already terrorised

with the movement

of panthers in the Kulish

Smriti Van located at

the JLN Marg, leading to

a stay on civilian movement

in the park for several

months, Jaipurites

were in for another major

shock on Thursday

evening when a panther,

decided to leave its

“green pastures” and

safe environs of the

Jhalana forest and

strolled to a heavily inhabited

areas of the

Takht-E-Shahi Road.

The development created

a furore amongst the

residents, and forest and

police officials alike who

tried to find the big cat,

in order to tranquillise

it, however failed in

their efforts. The administration

pressed drones

into service to locate the

feline, but in vain.

Pictures and videos

of the feline went viral

on social media as wary

locals shared the “sightings,”

in the urban jungle,

of the feline, jumping

effortlessly from

over the eight feet high

main door of one house,

or from one terrace to

another. The entire area

forming Kanota Bagh,

came under forced lock

down as people feared

moving out of their

houses. Dogs and small

children were forced inside

the security of the

rooms while relatives

were asked not to come

unannounced, since

there was a possibility

of the feline being on

the prowl, why else

would a panther venture

out of forest and

into human habitation.

Panther was first spotted

by a woman named

Jyotsana. “I was leaving

the house when I saw the

feline. At first, I thought

a dog was headed towards

me, but then I realised

it was a panther. I

started perspiring pro-

fusely and was so

stunned that I could not

even move. I remember

my throat suddenly went

dry. However, the feline

abruptly turned away

and I fled inside the

house and locked the

doors,” the woman regaled

her travail. Information

then started

coming as Jyotsana suggested

that the panther

came from the side of

Narayan Niwas hotel.

News of additional

sightings of the panther

were reported by

locals and by this time,

the police and forest officials

were convinced

that if not a panther, at

least a wild animal was

in the residential areas.

As the forest officials

studied the sighting areas,

realisation dawned

on finding pugmarks,

that a panther was actually

afoot. “Immediately

additional officials

and cops were called in

to aid in the search operation

to find the feline.

The pictures were

also being received and

we could trail the feline,

although could not

see it. Then the CCTV

footage were seen by locals

and it was then

learnt that the feline

was moving around in

the houses comfortably,”

said officials.

The exercise that

started at 5 pm on

Thursday, culminated

within a couple of

hours as dusk fell. “It is

not prudent to search

for a feline that dwells

and thrives in the dark.

So, we have called off

the search. Its last location

appears to be in the

SMS School and we

have posted teams in

the area to stop any human

movement while

school administration

has alerted parents that

the school will be closed

for Friday. The search

and rescue of the feline

will begin in the morning,”

officials said.

—PHOTOS BY SANTOSH SHARMA

Clockwise from top: A team of Forest Department with tranquilliser gun on the lookout of the

panther. the big cat seen hiding in a garden of a house; seen moving fearlessly in a CCTV grab at

SMS School; the pug mark (inset); the police on alert at Kanota Bagh area on Thursday.

‘Turbulence’: Airline

goof-up leaves

passengers in fix

First India News

Jaipur: The mismanagement

of airline at

Jaipur Airport caused

problems to air travellers

on Thursday

morning.

Two airline cancelled

flights to two

different cities, citing

operational reasons.

SpiceJet’s SG-58/57

Jaipur-Dubai flight,

which has been running

late for the last 3

days, was cancelled on

Thursday.

Due to this, passengers

coming to Jaipur

from Dubai and going

from Dubai to Jaipur

had to face a lot of

problems.

As per the schedule,

the flight reaches

Jaipur from Dubai at

8.10 am and leaves for

Dubai at 9.40 am. In

the morning, passengers

leaving for Dubai

reached the airport

but were in for a shock.

As most of them were

from the districts of

Sikar, Nagaur, Churu,

Jhunjhunu etc., they

demanded alternative

boarding arrangements,

however, the

airline booked tickets

for some seats

available in the coming

days.

Apart from the

Dubai flight, Air India

also cancelled the

flight 9I-687/688 to

Agra, which leaves at

10.15 am and reaches

Jaipur at 12.35 pm.

Similarly, another

SpiceJet flight SG-1006

could not land due to

fog at Kishangarh Airport

in the morning.

The flight carrying 89

passengers going from

Hyderabad to Kishangarh

was diverted

to Jaipur.

The passengers

were stuck in Jaipur

for one and a half

hours. The Hyderabad-

Kishangarh flight

reaches Kishangarh

at 9 am.

Chacha Chaudhary, Sabu to help

improve city’s swachh ranking!

Mukesh Sharma

Jaipur: Famous cartoon

characters immortalised

by Late Pran, in

the eighties—Chacha

Chaudhary and Sabu—

will now make the children

aware about the

cleanliness and Swachh

Survekshan-2020. Chacha

Chaudhary and

Sabu will tell them how

Jaipur can be made

number one in the survey.

The Jaipur Municipal

Corporation (JMC)

has done this innovation

this time to make

children aware of

cleanliness and has released

the comics of

Chacha Chaudhary and

Sabu for the Survekshan.

These comics

will be distributed to

school children.

Jaipur Greater and

Heritage Municipal

Corporation Administrator

Vijaypal Singh

launched comics on

Thursday with the

name, Chacha Chaudhary

and Swachh Survekshan-2020.

These

comics series will be

distributed to the students

in the schools so

that they get to know

about the Swachh Survekshan-2020

and also

make their parents and

relatives aware. According

to municipal authorities,

children can

play an important role

in the Swachh Survekshan.

If a child is made

aware, then he can

make his parents, family,

relatives and neighbors

aware about cleanliness.

This is the reason,

the idea of comics

has been brought to

make them aware in an

easy way about the survey.

Seven questions

asked under the citizen

feedback prescribed in

the Swachh Survekshan

are presented attractively

in comics.

Chacha Chaudhary

asks the question and

Sabu answers and also

tells how many marks

the question will be carrying.

For example,

Chacha Chaudhary

asks, “Sabu, do you

know that the city of

Jaipur is participating

in the Swachh Survekshan-2020?”

Sabu replies,

“Yes I know and

for this, our city will get

100 marks as well”.

Sabu also asks him

questions on hearing

Chacha’s praise and

Chacha also gives the

exact answer. It is

worth noting that in

Swachh Survekshan,

seven questions will be

asked by the team coming

from the Centre either

directly or through

phone call. The number

is set for each question.

If more than 95%

of the people answer

the question correctly,

then Jaipur will get full

marks on that question.

With this, on the

last cover page of the

comics, Chacha Chaudhary

is seen taking out

the broom and sending

the message that “together

we will make

the city number one in

cleanliness”.

Minor girl’s battered

body recovered

First India News

Jaipur: A happy-golucky

kid, a good student

and her parents’

heartbeat, twelveyear-old

Payal Gurjar

from Badli village in

Chaksu, saw a time no

one would ever wishfor,

let alone a child, to

go through moments

before their death. The

child was beaten with

rods and sticks resulting

in broken ribs and

body injuries, hear

face smashed with

stones and her face

forced into water several

times, before the

child was strangled

till her eyes popped

out and breath left her

body. Cops suspect

that the child was targeted

and brutally

murdered due to some

feud with someone in

the family.

The shocking incident

has left the Badli

villagers and family

members of the deceased,

stunned and

petrified. “The girl

had been missing

since Wednesday after

she returned home

from school. The family

members had initiated

a search but the

girl was not found anywhere.

The police was

informed which initiated

a search after a

missing complaint

was registered,” officials

said.

However, as night

fell on Wednesday and

the girl was still not

found, the family’s

hopes sunk on seeing

their daughter again.

“Early in the morning

a villager saw the dead

body of the girl lying

near the pond outside

the village and raised

an alarm. The family

and villagers rushed

to spot as cops were

also alerted. Police

commissioner Anand

Srivastav, along with

other police and administrative

officials

reached the spot to

take stock of situation.

The child’s face

and legs had injuries

and FSL team and was

called,” officials said.

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MANY TAKERS FOR JMC’S DC

VIGILANCE POST!

The Hindi saying “Ek Anaar, Sau Bimaar”, might

be an apt connotation to what is happening

within the police department over the post of DC

Vigilance in the Jaipur Municipal Corporation. Like

ants are attracted to a lump of sugar, a dozen “bravo

sahabs” of the police department are eyeing to get

deputed to the post which has been lying vacant

since ASC Rajeev Dutta left for Delhi. This position is

considered a “fruitful” posting in police department

and so many offi cials are running from pillar to

post to land up on the coveted position. For the

purpose, they are approaching offi cials, politicians

and “power-brokers” to speak with people right

from DGP to senior politi and bureaucracy in the

state. however, there is just “one little hurdle”. The

post will be handed only after a green signal from

Chief Minister’s Offi ce and it is learnt that the CMO

is looking for an offi cer with clean image, good work

ethics and integrity.

CENTRE MIFFED AS

STATE NOT SENDING

IPS ON DEPUTATION

IPS offi cials from the state might

be headed for “dire straits”. The

reason: the posts of DG, ADG and

IG could be decreased in the state

as the Home department is allegedly

“miffed” over the state not sending

offi cials on central deputation. The

Home department feels that to

promote their chosen offi cials, the

state government fi rst get an increase

in posts sanctioned but later,

offi cials are not sent on deputation

to the centre. Moreover, the Home

department has also decided to put

a cap on the number of offi cials sent

for deputation and Chief Secretaries

of all the states have been informed

abut the same.

A CHEMISTRY THAT

THE PHQ IS

TALKING ABOUT!

The chemistry between a

“Liasioner” and a “bade

sahab” is a hot topic in the PHQ

these days. The liasioner has

been inviting the bade sahab to

inaugurations of buildings. The

bade sahab, who till recently

held an important responsibility

in Jaipur, has been “helping” the

liasioner since his Jaipur days

and prior too. Interestingly, it

is said that Liasioner, aided by

bade sahab, had got several

land-mafi as to cough up money

and moreover, with “helping

hand” provided by bade sahab,

he has even kept several officials

“caught” in his “web”.

BRAVO SAHAB & HIS

FAV BADE SAHAB

One Bravo sahab has become

a “favoured pet” of a “bade

sahab”, and finds it convenient

to get his “work” done by police

stations, as he sits near this

sahab’s offi ce. At the behest of

the “bade sahab” the Bravo has

been making the police stations’

staff run about like puppets

to his tune and through the

Bravo, the Bade sahab has also

started in “settlement” work.

The “sahab” has been a little

careful off late since his earlier

“favoured pet” was not adapt to

‘’covert operations” and thus the

Bravo is now handling sahab’s”

affairs” since he is discreet and

low profi le.


RAJASTHAN


04

On first anniv: People’s CM to

launch public welfare schemes

State government’s flagship scheme Nirogi Rajasthan and Janata Clinic will be started

First India News

Jaipur. State government

headed by Chief

Minister Ashok Gehlot

will complete its oneyear

term on December

17 and on the occasion of

the first anniversary

various programmes

will be organised for

three days. Numerous

public welfare schemes

will also be launched on

this occasion.

Medical And Health

Department will launch

important schemes including

state government’s

flagship scheme

Nirogi Rajasthan and

Janata Clinic.

Health Department

has started preparations

for the first anniversary

celebrations for

which marathon meetings

are going on in department.

Chief Minister Ashok

Gehlot will launch the

“Nirogi Rajasthan” campaign

while on the other

hand, a Janta Clinic will

be started from Valmiki

Nagar in Jagatpura area

of the state capital.

Apart from these two

programmes, responsibility

of the Run for

Healthy Rajasthan also

Principal Secretary, Agriculture and Cooperation Department Naresh Pal Gangwar, reviewed

preparations for ‘Kisan Sammelan’ to be held at Vidyadhar Nagar Stadium on December 17 on

Thursday. He instructed offi cials to ensure all necessary arrangements. Commissioner, Information

and Public Relations Niraj K Pawan, Agriculture Commissioner Omprakash, Horticulture Commissioner

V Saravan Kumar, Agricultural Marketing Board Administrator Tarachand Meena, Board’s MD Kailash

Chand Yadav, Joint Secretary Agriculture SP Singh, and other offi cials were present.

rests with the Medical

and Health Department.

ACS Rohit Kumar

Singh, Director (Public

Health) Dr KK Sharma

are finalising the preparations

for all programmes

under the directions

of Medical and

Health Minister Dr

Raghu Sharma.

Giving information

about the programmes

to be organised to mark

the first anniversary of

the state government,

Director Public Health

Dr KK Sharma said that

the “Nirogi Rajasthan”

campaign is being started

to keep Rajasthan

healthy.

Through the Nirogi

Rajasthan campaign,

several programmes

will be conducted in the

state to make the public

aware about their

health. In this, diseases

related to cancer is

prominent. Apart from

this, the government is

also going to open a Geriatric

Department in

every medical college

across the state where

free health checkup and

screening services will

be made available to the

elderly.

There will be an

MMME Conclave on December

19 which will be

on the theme of industrial

development followed

by a summit at

MNIT, which invites 100

startups for innovations.

An exhibition will

be held on this day at all

district headquarters.

The itinerary

It is worth mentioning

that as part of the

three-day programme

of the state government’s

anniversary,

on December 17, on

the fi rst day, there

will be a Run for

Health from Albert

Hall at 7.30 am. After

that, an exhibition

of one-year achievements

of the 17 government

departments

will be started at

Jawahar Kala Kendra

on 10.30 am. There

will be a Kisan Sammelan

in Vidyadhar

Nagar at 12.30 pm on

the same day.

The Nirogi Rajasthan

campaign will begin

on December 18

along with a pilot

project under the Janata

Clinic Scheme

in Valmiki Nagar,

Jagatpura, Jaipur.

The Chief Minister

will inaugurate I

am Shakti Yojana in

Durgapura. Rs200

crore will be spent

every year on this

scheme of women

empowerment.

RPSC exam calendar: HC

seeks reply from officials

First India News

Jaipur: The Rajasthan

High Court, on Thursday,

issued notices to

Secretary of Rajasthan

Public Service Commission

(RPSC) and

Principal Secretary of

Personnel Department

and sought reply for

not issuing annual recruitment

examination

calendar of the RPSC.

In an application filed

by one Narpat Singh,

the court was informed

that since 2015, not

even a single examination

calendar has been

issued by the RPSC and

due to this the examinations

could not be

held on time. Moreover,

at times the results of a

few examinations have

not been released due

to which appointments

of vacant posts in the

state have not been

made. After hearing

the arguments, the

bench of Justice Ashok

Kumar Gaur issued a

notice of RPSC Secretary

and Principal Secretary,

Personnel Department

and sought

their reply within two

weeks. Notably, Chief

Minister Ashok Gehlot

has also asked the

RPSC to issue its annual

calendar.

IN THE COURTYARD

HC says no to ban

Mardani-2 movie

Rajasthan High Court

refused to ban screening

of Mardani-2 movie

starring Rani Mukherji.

The bench of Justice

Ashok Gaur observed

that our country is secular

and every other day

some or the other controversy

arises with almost

every film based on

religion, community or

area and if stays are ordered

on every movie,

what will then happen to

the freedom of expression.

The HC has also

sought a reply from the

Central Government

and Censor Board by issuing

a notice and directing

not to take any

action on the applicant’s

plea. In the application it

is said Kota is being depicted

in bad light and

due to movie’s content,

Kota’s image as education

city could be tarnished.

Man gets 5-yr RI for

harassing minor

In a case related to harassment

and misbehaviour

with an eleven

year old girl, a court

sentenced five years’

rigorous imprisonment

to 44-year old Surendra

Singh. Singh, a native

of Jalon in Uttar

Pradesh is currently a

resident of Hassanpura

area of Jaipur and had

committed the act on

March 20, 2019 in Sadar

police station area. He

offered to pay Rs10,000

to the girl to take back

the case. Statements of

eight witnesses were recorded

in the case and

Judge Rajendra Kumar

(I) levied a penalty of

Rs10,000 on the man.

Man gets lifer for

killing daughter’s

father-in-law

A 70-yr-old man was

sentenced to life imprisonment

for murdering

his daughter’s fatherin-law.

Vijay Singh, had

murdered the man on

June 13, 2018 after his

daughter claimed that

her father-in-law wanted

illicit relationship

with her. Although cops

had named Babita as

well in the murder, the

court gave her benefit

of doubt.

‘Believe Cong will take ‘good

decision’ about leadership’

Jaipur: Deputy Chief

Minister Sachin Pilot

on Thursday said he believed

the Congress will

take a “good decision”

on its national leadership,

which will bring it

back to power in

the states and at the

Centre.

Sonia Gandhi was

elected interim president

of the party when

Rahul Gandhi resigned

earlier this year in the

wake of the Lok Sabha

debacle.

“I believe that the

party would take a good

and meaningful decision

on leadership so

that it can make a comeback

with double force

in the states and eventually

at the centre,” Pilot,

who is also the state

Congress chief, said.

Pilot said the state

government has done

good work and the Opposition

is not able to

find faults. We are also

trying to better the law

and order situation.

“Interim is in itself a

Deputy CM Sachin Pilot takes meeting for Dec 14 rally.

self-descriptive word.

This is an interim arrangement

and I believe

that the party would

soon take a decision. It

is the job of the working

committee and the

AICC,” he told reporters

here.

He said Rahul Gandhi

had put forth the party’s

stance in an aggressive

manner, challenging the

Union government.

Pilot said the party

had kept the youth on

the forefront and they

should be empowered.

Targeting the Centre

for the Citizenship Bill,

he said pubic sentiments

were against the

legislation.

The Centre was neglecting

the real issues

connected with people’s

lives and was diverting

public attention, he

claimed. “They are not

bothered about inflation

and the economic

slowdown. Either they

are not capable of taking

effective action or

they do not want to do

it,” he said.

He said the Congress

would hold a massive

rally in Delhi on 14 December.

—PTI

Sunil Bansal

to address

ABVP workers

First India News

Jaipur: Uttar Pradesh

BJP state general secretary

(organisation) and

senior RSS pracharak

Sunil Bansal will be in

Jaipur on Sunday. He

will address a conference

of workers of Akhil

Bhartiya Vidyarthi

Parishad (ABVP) at

Geeta Bajaj Educational

Institute.

He will be the keynote

Speaker of the conference

while BJP state

president Satish Poonia

will be the chief guest.

Significantly, Sunil

Bansal is a resident of

Kotputli in Rajasthan.

Meanwhile, a shivir of

the RSS will conclude at

Shivad on Friday where

All India Pracharak

Pramukh Suresh Chandra

will be present.

Principal held for raping a

teacher working in madarsa

First India News

Jaipur: The Amber police

has arrested a madarsa

principal in connection

with rape of a

teacher working in

there. “A report in this

regard had been registered

by the girl working

in the Jamia Darul

Kirat-wal-Alkam Lilvnat

madarsa saying

that while she was

asleep one night,

around 3 am, the Principal

Mohammad Yahya

entered her room and

raped her. Acting swiftly

on the report, the

cops nabbed Yahya, a

native of Salimpur in

West Bengal. The girl

has been staying here

for a little over one year.

Investigation in the

matter is being conducted,”

said Ashok

Gupta, additional police

commissioner.

CRIME BRANCH

3 held for trapping

unsuspecting people

The Jalupura police arrested

three men on

Thursday in connection

with luring people into

a trap of increasing

their income by using a

mobile app. “The men

have been identified as

Divyanshu Ganguli, Rajendra

Mahindra and

Rashmikant. They had

targeted several people

from across various

states by luring them on

earning lakhs of rupees

by using business and

educational apps,” officials

said.

Two officials in ACB

trap for taking bribe

The Anti-Corruption

Bureau conducted two

traps in Thursday and

nabbed two officials, an

assistant engineer in

Jodhpur and a head

constable at Karauli. In

the first trap, the ACB

sleuths nabbed assistant

engineer Suresh

Kumar Choudhary

posted in the Shergarh

discom office of Jodhpur

district. “A VCR had

been filed of an illegal

connection run at the

complainant’s restaurant

and a penalty of

Rs2 lakh was levied in

which the complainant

struck a deal to give

Rs50,000 as bribe if the

official would write a

penalty of just Rs20,000.

The bribe money was

handed to the accused’s

driver Ganpat and as

soon as the driver handed

over the money, the

bureau team nabbed

Suresh Kumar. Further

action in the matter is

being taken,” officials

said.

In a second trap, the

Karauli unit of ACB

nabbed a head constable

of Boli police station

while accepting a

bribe of Rs3,000. “One

Dharj Raigar had filed

complaint saying that

head constable, Sohan

Lal, had demanded a

bribe to take action in a

case registered by

Dhanraj. When the ACB

team raided the spot to

nab the man red handed,

the constable tried

to flee and jumped over

the police station’s wall,

however, the Bureau

sleuths nabbed him. Interestingly,

this is the

second time in one

month that a trap has

been undertaken in

Boli police station,” officials

said.

FROM PG 1

Dismissed...

With the dismissal of

these review pleas, the

parties to the litigation

are left with legal recourse

of filing curative

petition only.

A curative petition is

the last legal recourse in

the apex court for curing

the defects and is also

heard in-chamber unless

a prima facie case is

made out for reconsideration

of the verdict.

A five-judge bench,

headed by the then

Chief Justice of India

Ranjan Gogoi, had in a

unanimous verdict on

November 9 decreed the

entire 2.77 acre disputed

land in favour of deity

‘Ram Lalla’ and also directed

the Centre to allot

a five-acre plot to Sunni

Waqf Board for building

a mosque in Ayodhya.

On December 2, the

first plea seeking review

of Ayodhya verdict was

filed in the apex court by

Maulana Syed Ashhad

Rashidi, legal heir of

original litigant M Siddiq

and also the Uttar

Pradesh president of the

Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind.

On December 9, two

more review petitions

were filed, one by the

Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha

and the other

by 40 persons, including

rights activists. Later,

Nirmohi Akhara also

filed a review petition.

In its November 9 verdict,

the apex court had

dismissed the appeal of

Nirmohi Akhara

against the 2010 Allahabad

HC judgment, delivered

in four civil

suits, that the 2.77-acre

land in Ayodhya be partitioned

equally among

the three parties -- the

Sunni Waqf Board, the

Nirmohi Akhara and

Ram Lalla. The top

court had directed that

a trust should be formed

within three months for

the construction of

temple at the site many

Hindus believe Lord

Ram was born and

asked the Centre to

grant representation in

the trust to Nirmohi

Akhara.

Maulana Syed Ashhad

Rashidi had sought

review of the verdict on

14 counts and said that

“complete justice”

could only be done by

directing reconstruction

of Babri Masjid.

He had also sought an

interim stay on operation

of the verdict in

which it had directed

the Centre that a trust

be formed within three

months for construction

of the temple at the site.

Akhil Bharat Hindu

Mahasabha moved the

court against the direction

to allot a five-acre

plot to Sunni Waqf

Board for building a

mosque in Ayodhya.

If BJP...

The Congress stalwart

also claimed

that no one is worried

about the basic facilities

in the nation and

the youth of the country

should raise their

voice against it.

“We will give them

(BJP) an answer in our

Bharat Bachao Rally on

December 14 at Delhi,

which has been organised

to save the democracy.

There is no clear

answer by the Central

Government on the issue

of black money. I

raised the issue of black

money in politics. I

have been believing

firmly for nearly two

decades that the money

that parties get to contest

election, that

should be used for

state-funding. They

have brought election

bonds, which is a major

scam. Gehlot said, adding

further on the issue

of ending Bhamashah

Card started by the BJP,

“The BJP does not even

know the issues on

which to stage a sit-in.

They do not have a

knowledge of the problems

of Rajasthan.”

Meanwhile, CM Gehlot

reached Jaipur

Bagh resort for giving

his blessings to Transport

Minister Pratap

Singh Khachariyawas’s

niece Chandresh Chundawat

who was married

to Jaipal Singh.

Though the marriage

was solemnized on

Wednesday, Gehlot

could not attend the

same as he was in Mumbai

and upon his return,

he reached and

blessed the couple.


INDIA


05

Dhanbad: In view of

the protests against the

Citizenship Amendment

Bill, Prime Minister

Narendra Modi on

Thursday assured Eastern

and North-Eastern

states that their culture

and language will not

be affected and urged

people to not be misled

by the Congress.

“I assure every state

of the East and North-

East. The traditions,

culture and language of

Assam and other states

will not be affected at

all. The Central Government

will work with

state governments for

your development. This

is our priority. Don’t be

misled by Congress’

statements,” Modi said

at a rally here. “I assure

the people of Assam, especially

the youth, that

they should not worry.

Nobody can snatch your

rights. Your culture,

language and tradition

will be safeguarded by

Clause 6 (of Assam Accord),”

he added.

“There are attempts

to fuel tensions in the

North-East region.

Most of the region is

out of the ambit of this

Bill but politics of Congress

and its allies depends

on illegal immigrants,”

Modi said.

—ANI

CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT BILL

‘Your culture will not be affected’

Addressing a rally, PM Modi charged the Cong with spreading misinformation in the region over the legislation

MP: Govt takes up

key issues in meet

Anirudh Tiwari

Prime Minister Narendra Modi being garlanded by senior BJP leaders during an election rally in Dhanbad. —PHOTO BY PTI

IUML moves SC

against CAB

New Delhi: Indian Union Muslim

League (IUML) on Thursday filed

a petition in the Supreme Court on

the question of legality of Citizenship

(Amendment) Bill, 2019,

which has been passed by both

houses of Parliament. IUML, in its

petition, requested the apex court

to stay the Bill and its operation. It

also pleaded to declare it “illegal &

void” for violating Article 14, 15

and 21 of the Constitution.

CM SPEAK

Bhopal: Some significant

decisions were taken

in the cabinet meeting

of Madhya Pradesh

government. The State

Government has approved

the Land Pooling

Policy. Under this, the

vacant land under development

authorities will

be returned to the farmers.

With this decision of

the government, vacant

land with 66 projects, out

of 84 projects, will be returned

to the farmers in

the state. Now, such land

disputes will also be resolved

directly from the

High Court or Supreme

Court instead of the Civil

Court.

The Kamal Nath government

has also approved

the proposal to

give a chance of serving

again to the guest scholars

serving in the colleges

of the state after

their limit gets over.

Apart from this, the

government has also decided

to give guest

scholars a rebate of 20

numbers in the PSC examinations.

Retirement age of

Grade III, daily wage

earners and permanent

workers has been increased

from 60 to 62

years. Also, changes are

made in minimum &

maximum age for uniformed

positions. The

decision to implement

the CM’s Horticulture

& Food Processing

scheme has also been

taken in the meeting.

BIRTHDAY

GREETINGS

PM Narendra Modi

extended greetings to

NCP supremo Sharad

Pawar on his 79th

birthday and prayed

for the latter’s “long

and healthy life.”

“Greetings to Shri

Sharad Pawar Ji on

his birthday. Praying

for his long and

healthy life. @Pawar-

Speaks,” he said.

New Delhi: The Enforcement

Directorate

moved the Delhi HC

seeking cancellation of

bail granted to businessman

Ratul Puri in

connection with AgustaWestland

money

laundering case.

A Special CBI court

recently granted bail to

Ratul Puri on a personal

bond of Rs 5 lakh and

As Assam burns

over CAB, PM Modi

appeals for calm

Guwahati/New Delhi:

Two people were shot

dead in police firing as

Assam, the hotbed of

anti-CAB protests,

plunged into chaos on

Thursday with thousands

of agitators descending

on streets defying

curfew, thumbing

their nose at Army contingents

staging flag

marches. Several towns

and cities were placed

under indefinite curfew,

Incidents of police

firing were reported

from several places in

Guwahati.

Prime Minister Modi

appealed for calm &

sought to assuage the

concerns of protesters,

insisting his government

was committed to

safeguarding their

rights. In a series of

tweets, in both Assamese

and English, the

prime minister said he

personally and the Central

government are

“totally committed to

constitutionally safeguard

the political, linguistic,

cultural and

land rights of the Assamese

people as per the

spirit of Clause 6.” —PTI

IN THE COURTYARD

two sureties of like

amount. ED’s plea is

likely to come up for

hearing tomorrow. The

trial court, while granting

bail to Puri, had directed

him to not tamper

with evidence or

contact and influence

any witness. He was

asked to join the investigation

as and when

called by the Investigating

Officer (IO).

Puri is under the

scanner for allegedly receiving

kickbacks in the

3,600 crore VVIP chopper

scam. The agency

had recently filed a supplementary

prosecution

complaint against Puri

and one Jaspreet Ahuja

in the case.

In 2014, India had

scrapped a contract

with Finmeccanica’s

British subsidiary,

AgustaWestland, for

supplying 12 VVIP

India gives Imran

Khan some advice

New Delhi: The Foreign

Ministry on Thursday

lashed out at Pakistan

PM Imran Khan

who has been severely

critical of the change in

the citizenship law to

fast-track citizenship

for religious minorities

from three Muslim-majority

countries in the

neighbourhood.

Imran Khan, foreign

ministry spokesperson

Raveesh Kumar told a

weekly news briefing

on Thursday, had made

a habit out of commenting

on issues relating

to India’s internal

affairs. New Delhi

also told Khan to take

steps to protect the

rights of its religious

minorities rather than

ED moves HC against bail granted to Puri

Don’t put BJP in

reverse gear: Pankaja

Mumbai: In an all

guns blazing address

at her rally in

home turf of Beed,

former BJP minister

Pankaja Munde

gave voice to the internal dissent

and uneasiness in the state party.

“I will not leave the party, why

should I? If the party wants me to

leave, they are free to take such a

decision,” she said.

Defamation case against

Tharoor adjourned till Feb 15

New Delhi: A Delhi

Court adjourned till

February 15 a criminal

defamation case filed

against Congress lawmaker

Shashi Tharoor

in connection with his

alleged “scorpion sitting

on Shivling” remark

against Prime

Minister Narendra

Modi.

The matter was adjourned

as the concerned

judge is currently

on leave. Meanwhile,

Tharoor has

moved an exemption

application for his nonappearance

before the

court in this case as he

is currently busy in

Parliament winter session.

In October 2018,

Tharoor had stoked a

controversy by invoking

a news article

where an unnamed

RSS leader had compared

PM Modi to a

“scorpion sitting on a

Shivling”. —ANI

Satna: Gautam Solanki,

Asst SP, Satna, informed

that a religious

preacher from Bhopal,

who is accused of sexually

assaulting three

minor girls, have been

booked under (POCSO)

Act 2012 and the SC/ST

(Atrocities Protection

Act).

“The religious

preacher has been arrested

by us. He has

choppers to the Indian

Air Force, over alleged

breach of contractual

obligations and charges

of kickbacks worth

Rs 423 crore being paid

to secure the deal.

Puri, who is the

nephew of MP CM Kamal

Nath, is currently

in judicial custody in

Moser Baer bank fraud

case. —ANI

MP: Religious preacher

booked under POCSO Act

been booked under provisions

of Protection of

Children from Sexual

Offences (POCSO) Act

2012 & SC/ST (Atrocities

Protection Act). He

had tried to sexually assault

three young girls,”

the police official said.

The accused, identified

as Narayan Swarup Tripathi,

was arrested in

Maihar Dehat (Nadan)

police station area.—ANI

“compulsively issue

statements”.

Raveesh Kumar also

pointed to Pakistan’s

“draconian blasphemy

laws” & asked Imran

Khan to pay more attention

to this Issue. Imran

Khan had criticised the

Citizenship Amendment

Bill, describing it

as a “complete violation

of the Universal

Declaration of Human

Rights and other international

covenants.”

Khan and other leaders

said the bill contravenes

several bilateral

agreements. He had

scaled up the attack on

India, accusing Indian

govt of moving systematically

with a “Hindu

supremacist agenda.”

ED arrests

Shivinder Singh

in RFL case

New Delhi: The ED arrested

former Fortis

Healthcare promoter

Shivinder Singh in a

money laundering case

related to alleged misappropriation

of funds

at Religare Finvest Ltd

(RFL), officials said.

They said an Enforcement

Directorate team

reached the Tihar jail

and placed Shivinder

Singh under arrest as

per provisions of the

Prevention of Money

Laundering Act. Shivinder

Singh was in judicial

custody after the

Delhi Police’s Economic

Offences Wing had

arrested him and others

recently. —PTI

CONGRESS LEADER SIDDARAMAIAH

UNDERGOES ANGIOPLASTY

Bengaluru: Former Karnataka

Chief Minister

and senior Congress

leader Siddaramaiah was

admitted to a hospital

after he complained of

chest pain. “My father

has a heart problem.

Dr Ramesh looked after

him from the beginning.

Earlier, he had a similar

angioplasty. The doctor

said that blood circulation

to his heart is not

proper. He underwent

angioplasty on doctor’s

advice,” said Yatindra

Siddaramaiah, Congress

MLA and son of Siddaramaiah.

“He was in the

Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

till Thursday morning. He

will be discharged later.

His health is stable,”

Yatindra Siddaramaiah

further added.

STF JAWAN INJURED IN IED

BLAST IN CHHATTISGARH

Sukma: A Special Task Force (STF) jawan

received grievous injuries when an improvised

explosive device (IED) went off in a jungle in

Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Thursday.

The incident occurred in the forests between

Morpalli and Timmapur area under Chintalnar

police station limits of the district, said

Inspector General (IG) P Sundarraj. According

to the police, after the fi rst aid is given to the

injured jawan, he will be airlifted to Raipur for

treatment.

‘GANGA MUCH CLEANER DUE TO

PM’S NAMAMI GANGE PROGRAMME’

Kanpur: Uttar Pradesh a mother in India. I thank

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

visited the Ganga ing this movement in the

Narendra Modiji for start-

Barrage and said that the country which has led to

river was much cleaner a much cleaner river, the

today due to the Namami

Gange programme. found again in the dead

fi sh have started being

“The Namami Gange zones here,” he said. The

program was started and closure of drains, which

given momentum by PM used to add pollutants in

Narendra Modiji to clean rivers, was making a remarkable

difference in the

the river Ganga which is

considered equivalent to water body’s condition.

SCINDIA URGES KAMAL NATH

TO REVIVE SUGAR MILL

Bhopal: Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia

on Thursday wrote a letter to Chief Minister

Kamal Nath, urging him to restart a sugar mill

in Muraina district. In the letter, Scindia asked

the Chief Minister to fulfi l the Congress party’s

election promise of reviving the defunct sugar

mill in Kailaras town in the district. “People of

Muraina blessed us by electing us on all six

seats in the district in the Assembly polls. Now,

it is our duty that we take necessary steps for

reviving the mill,” he wrote.


PERSPECTIVE


06

IN-DEPTH

THE RAPE OF

INDIA’S SOUL

Rather than defend the rights of Kashmiri’s,

the SC has postponed hearings on pleas

I

njustice, discrimination, and violence

are hardly unheard of in India.

But today, they are being normalized,

enabled, and even encouraged

by the state, which is promoting

an aggressive form of Hindu nationalism

that looks increasingly like mob rule. India’s

diversity and complex civilizational legacy

are now under assault, and it is shaking the

very foundations of Indian democracy.

In August, PM Narendra Modi’s government

stripped J&K – India’s only Muslimmajority

territory – of its special status,

which had granted it considerable autonomy,

and split it into two “union territories” over

which the central government now wields

more direct control.

In order to stave off unrest, the government

deployed thousands more troops to

Jammu and Kashmir before announcing the

changes. It then placed prominent local politicians,

including former allies of the ruling

BJP, under house arrest; enforced a curfew

on residents; restricted movement into, out

of, and within the state; and imposed media

and telecoms blackouts.

Months later, most Kashmiris still lack Internet

access. Despite the blackout, sporadic

reports paint a dark picture of repression by

armed forces. Civilians have reportedly sustained

severe injuries from crowd-control tactics,

and thousands of locals – including children

as young as nine – are languishing in jails.

Yet, rather than defend the rights of Kashmiri

citizens, the SC has postponed hearings

on relevant pleas. As for the rest of India’s

population, they have largely ignored, accepted,

or applauded the assault on J&K.

ANOTHER HORROR UNFOLDS

In August, authorities released their jurisdiction’s

NRC, which excluded nearly two million

people who could not provide proof of their

names or parents’ names in the electoral rolls

before March 24, 1971 – an arbitrary date essentially

directed at identifying Muslim immigrants.

Many of these now-stateless people

have been sent to detention camps, where they

live in appalling conditions.

Betraying the project’s xenophobic aims,

its architect, Union Home Minister Amit

Shah, has called these people – many of

whom were born in Assam or whose families

have lived there for decades – “termites,” his

term for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. He

has also promised that the BJP government

“will pick up infiltrators one by one and

throw them into the Bay of Bengal.”

In this case, instead of pushing back, the

SC has actively instigated and aided the process.

It now watches as the BJP government

builds detention camps across the country, in

preparation for the program’s nationwide

implementation – a process that is likely to

be even more aggressively anti-Muslim.

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‘Clear names of High Court

Judges within Six months’

As per the Memorandum of the procedure, an appointment should’ve initiated at-least 6 months in advance

A

This is not to

say that in

other cases the

process should

not be

completed with

in six months.

JUSTICE

SHIV KUMAR SHARMA

Former Judge Rajasthan High

Court and Ex-Member of Law

Commission of India

bench of Supreme Court comprising

Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and

KM Joseph has fixed six months for

the central government to clear 100

odd names sent by the CJI-led collegium

for appointment as High Court

Judges.

The Bench noted that no time

limit has been prescribed for action

by the President and the PM under

the memorandum of procedure for

appointment of Judges in the Supreme

Court and High Courts

though time lines have been fixed by

other authorities involved in the

process.

As per the Memorandum of the

procedure, an appointment should’ve

initiated at least six months in advance

and thereafter six weeks’ time

is specified for the Governor or the

Chief Minister of the State concerned

to send the recommendation

to the Union Law Minister.

After the Supreme Court

Collegium clears the

names, the law ministry

has to put up the

recommendations to the

PM in three weeks who is

to then advise the

President

Thereafter a brief has to be drawn

forthwith and sent to the Supreme

Court Collegium in four weeks.

After the Supreme Court Collegium

clears the names, the law ministry

has to put up the recommendations

to the Prime Minister in three

weeks who is to then advise the

President.

The Bench said appointments

could be delayed if the government

sent back the names or when Supreme

Court and High Court collegium

may not be in agreement but

the names once approved by the collegium

should lead to the government

taking a decision without delay.

In the case where the recommendation

of the High Court collegium

meets the approval of the Supreme

Court collegium and the government,

their appointment at least

must take place within six months.

“This is not to say that in other cases

the process should not be completed

within six months,” the Bench said.

According to all India figures,

against a sanctioned strength of

1079 of the judges in the High Courts,

the working strength is only 669.

There are 410 vacancies and 213

recommendations are in process

with the government or Supreme

Court Collegium while names are

yet to be received from High Court

Collegium for 197 vacancies.

The Bench said it will confine its

proceedings on 213 names and

asked the Attorney General to provide

data as to when the process

was initiated.

Which Way for Europe on China?

R

ecognizing that

the European

Union is facing a

number of vexing

challenges

on the world stage, Ursula

von der Leyen, the new European

Commission president,

has promised to lead a

“geopolitical Commission.”

Echoing this sentiment, Josep

Borrell, the new High

Representative for Foreign

Affairs and Security Policy,

has challenged the EU to decide

whether it wants to be

a global “player,” or just a

“playground” for other powers.

So, which way will Europe

go?

Of all the challenges Europe

faces, few are as important

as forging a strategic

policy for managing its

relationship with China.

The stakes are enormous.

The EU is China’s largest

trade partner, and China is

the EU’s top trade partner

after the United States,

with bilateral trade exceeding

$1.1 billion per day.

Over the past few years,

the US has adopted an increasingly

aggressive approach

to China. In fact,

“confronting” China seems

to be one of the few things

that unite Americans politically

nowadays, even

though no single factor is

driving US policy. President

Donald Trump seems

primarily concerned with

the bilateral trade deficit,

whereas the US security

establishment worries

about China’s ongoing military

and technological development,

which could

eventually position it to

challenge US strategic supremacy.

No one doubts that China’s

rise poses a challenge

to individual countries and

the global balance of power.

A world in which the

The EU is China’s

largest trade

partner, and China

is the top trade

partner after the

US, with bilateral

trade exceeding

$1.1 bn per day

Chinese economy has

grown to twice the size of

the US economy will be a

very different place indeed,

even without accounting

for rising Chinese military

spending. It is understandable

that Americans are

worried about no longer

being the major global

power – a position they

have enjoyed since supplanting

the British Empire

over a century ago.

Nonetheless, how the US

intends to confront this

emerging new reality remains

unclear. Some seem

to believe decoupling with

China, and pressuring other

countries to do the same,

can frustrate the growth of

the Chinese economy, potentially

creating the conditions

for political or even

regime change. Others are

skeptical of this strategy,

and would prefer more narrowly

defined policies

geared toward changing

specific aspects of Chinese

domestic and foreign policy.

This approach is less

glamorous, but it is also

more traditional.

In any case, gut reactions

have so far been winning

out over careful deliberation,

and this will probably

remain true for some

time to come. The US wants

the EU to fall into line with

its position; but, other than

making that demand clear,

it has pursued almost no

strategic dialogue with Europe

on the issue.

Meanwhile, the debate

over China within the EU

has been heating up. China

may no longer have a Marxist

economy, but it certainly

still has a Leninist political

system. For good reason,

many Europeans are sensitive

to issues of human

rights in Hong Kong, Xinjiang,

and elsewhere. Europeans

are also rightly worried

about economic issues. As

the European Commission

warned earlier this year

(under its previous leadership),

China is “an economic

competitor in the pursuit

of technological leadership,

and a systemic rival promoting

alternative models of

governance.”

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The cultural identity, linguistic identity

and societal ambience of the people

of Mizoram will be looked after as

the state is protected with Inner Line

Permit (ILP) System and hence, it

will be exempted from the Citizenship

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INDIA


07

Sena gets Home, NCP Fin, Cong Revenue

Mumbai: Portfolios in

the Maha Vikas Aghadi

government in Maharashtra

were allotted on

Thursday, two weeks

after Uddhav Thackeray

was sworn in as

Chief Minister, with his

party, Shiv Sena, getting

the important

Home ministry.

Thackeray, alongwith

six ministers, two

each from Shiv Sena,

NCP and Congress,

took oath of office on

November 28.

A statement from the

CM’s office said that

Shiv Sena leader

Eknath Shinde has

been given the charge

of Home, Urban Development,

Forest, Environment,

Water Supply,

Water Conservation,

Tourism, Public Undertakings,

Parliamentary

Affairs departments.

The other Sena minister,

Subhash Desai,

has been given the

charge of Industries,

Higher and Technical

Education, Sports and

New Delhi: The Constitution

(Amendment)

Bill got passed in the

Upper House of the Parliament

with opposition

questioning the government’s

agenda of not

continuing the reservation

provision to the

Anglo Indian community.

Earlier on Wednesday,

the contentious


Bill was cleared

by the Rajya Sabha with

a 125-99 margin. The

nearly eight-hour fiery

debate saw the Opposition

opposing the controversial

Bill on several

grounds. The Congress,

which led the

Youth Welfare, Horticulture,

Transport,

Marathi Language and

Cultural Affairs, Ports.

NCP minister Jayant

Patil has been allocated

Finance and Planning,

Housing, Public Health,

Co-operation, Food &

Civil Supplies, Labour

and Minority Welfare.

Chhagan Bhujbal, another

NCP minister, has

been given Irrigation,

Rural Development, Social

Justice, Excise, Skil

Development, Food and

Drug Administration.

Congress minister

Balasaheb Thorat has

been given Revenue, Energy,

Medical& School

Edu, Animal Husbandry

& Dairy Development,

Fisheries. Congress’s

Nitin Raut has

been given PWD, Tribal

Welfare, Women and

Child Welfare, Textile,

Relief and Rehabilitation,

OBC,VJNT, Special

Backward Class

Welfare. Cabinet expansion

is likely to take

place on December 21.

RS passes Constitution

(Amendment) Bill

charge, focused largely

on Constitutional aspects.

The Trinamool

Congress focused more

on West Bengal linking

CAB with the NRC

while the DMK raised

the issue of the exclusion

of Sri Lankan

Tamils from the Bill.

Shiv Sena, which had

supported the Bill in

LS, changed its stance

& its 3 members walked

out before voting.

India, US to sign key defence pact at

2+2 next week: Kasmir could figure

Washington: India and

the United States are

likely to sign a key defence

agreement at the

second edition of the upcoming

2+2 ministerial,

which has become a

“principal mechanism,”

as a senior US diplomat

put it Wednesday, for advancing

growing strategic

convergence between

the two countries.

The Industrial Security

Annex (ISA), the

defence pact the two

countries will sign, according

to people familiar

with the preparatory

discussions, will allow

US companies to

share sensitive, proprietary

defence technology

with Indian private

companies and not just

with Indian stateowned

partners, marking

another major milestone

in the growing

partnership between

the two countries.

Restore Internet & save lives: docs

MADHYA PRADESH : WOMAN GIVEN

TRIPLE TALAQ, RAPED BY TANTRIK

Bhopal: A 21-year-old

woman was allegedly

given triple talaq, and

subsequently raped

by a ‘tantrik’ citing the

custom of “Nikah Halala’’

when her husband

wished to remarry her,

police said. The woman’s

husband & the tantrik

who allegedly raped

her were arrested on

Wednesday, Bhopal

police said. According to

the woman, her husband

divorced her by giving

her triple talaq, which is

now illegal on November

23 after the couple had a

fi ght. The husband later

had a change of heart

and wished to remarry

her, said Jahangirabad

City Superintendent

of Police (CSP) Abdul

Aleem Khan.

MAHA PORTFOLIOS

A fortnight after he took over as Maharashtra CM, Uddhav Thackeray allocated portfolios to his six-member team

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray along with his wife Rashmi Thackeray visited the

birthplace of Maratha warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Pune on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI

‘MAHA AWAITING RS 15,558 CRORE DUES FROM CENTRE’

The Maharashtra government is

awaiting its “legitimate dues” of

Rs 15,558.05 crore including GST

compensation up to November 2019

from the Centre, Chief Minister

Uddhav Thackeray wrote to Finance

Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. In his

letter to Nirmala Sitharaman, the

Chief Minister has sought immediate

Srinagar/New Delhi:

The internet shutdown

in Kashmir may have

led to the loss of several

lives, doctors treating

cardiac patients in

remote villages of the

newly-formed Union

Territory have said.

The #SaveHeart initiative,

a WhatsApp group

that functioned as a

“virtual hospital” and

was used by 1,200 doctors,

has been defunct

since August 5 - the

date the centre suspended

internet services

and detained key

political leaders in an

attempt to quell protests

against its decision

on Article 370.

“We have tried to utilise

WhatsApp to the

maximum... that is saving

a life. WhatsApp

was a life saver for us. It

was an additional shot

in our arms... sort of a

virtual hospital helping

people from the LoC to

north & south of the region,”

Dr Nasir Shamas,

one of the founders

of the group, said.

Doctors have demanded

that internet,

which has been blocked

for more than 120 days,

be restored so the group

can be reactivated.

SCHOOLS IN UTTARKASHI TO BE

CLOSED DUE TO HEAVY SNOWFALL

Uttarkashi: All government, private schools, &

Anganwadi Centres in the Uttarkashi area will

remain closed following heavy snowfall in the

region, said the Uttarkashi District Administration.

DM Ashish Chauhan issued a notice,

which stated that the safety of school children

should be considered as the roads and walkways

might be affected due to the snowfall.

The District Administration issued a notice

stating that all govt & private schools, and Anganwadi

Centres will remain closed on Friday.

release of the amount. “Maharashtra

is waiting for its legitimate dues of

Rs 15558.05 crore from the Government,

it is also suffering due to

shortfall in tax devolution. Timely

release of GST compensation and tax

devolution amount will help my state

to manage the fi nances effi ciently,”

Thackeray wrote.

The agreement “will

allow for new avenues

of collaboration between

our private sectors

on defence research

and co-development”,

said Alice Wells, the top

US state department

diplomat for South &

PM Modi wants a

‘scared’ India: RaGa

Rajmahal: In a scathing

attack, Congress

leader Rahul Gandhi

lashed out at PM

Narendra Modi,

saying the latter

wants to create

an India that is

“scared” where

people are “weak

and divided”.

“Narendra Modi

wants an India that is

scared. He wants the

people of India to be

MAHARASHTRA

TOP COP RESIGNS

OVER CAB

Abdur Rahman,

Special Inspector

General of Police

(IGP), States

Human Rights

Commission,

Maharashtra said he

will not attend office

from Thursday in

“civil disobedience”

against the Citizenship

(Amendment)

Bill 2019, which

according to him

went “against the

basic feature of the

Constitution.” Rahman

on Wednesday

sent his resignation

letter to Chairman

Maharashtra Human

Rights Commission.

The IPS offi cer had

on October 2019

applied for a Voluntary

Retirement

Scheme (VRS) but

his application was

not accepted by the

Ministry of Home

Affairs (MHA).

Central Asia. She was

speaking at an event

hosted by the Atlantic

Council, a leading US

think tank, to commemorate

President Dwight

Eisenhower’s visit to

India in 1959, the first

by a sitting US president.

The annex will allow,

for instance, Boeing

& Lockheed Martin,

the leading US manufacturers

of warplanes,

to seek local partners

among Indian private

players to mount a bid

for the 114 fighter jets

that the IAF is seeking

to order to replace its

aging fleet of Russian

MiG 21s.

weak and divided. He

has become the Prime

Minister only by dividing

people on the

basis of religion,

caste, and region,”

he said at

a public rally. Attacking

the BJPled

Centre over inflation,

Gandhi said

that PM is in “some

other world” when the

common people are suffering

due to price rise.

RS PRASAD WRITES TO CJ OF GUJ

HC OVER WOMEN, KIDS SAFETY

New Delhi: Union Law is now a statutory obligation

under Criminal Law

Min Ravi Shankar Prasad

has written a letter to Act, 2018.” He further

CJ of Gujarat HC Vikram highlighted that to support

the efforts of state

Nath over crimes against

women & children. “Safety

of women& children & Justice has launched

govts, the Ministry of Law

is a matter of national a scheme for ‘Setting up

concern. I hope you will Fast Track Special Courts

appreciate that completion

of trial within two of Rape and POCSO Act

for Expeditious Disposal

months & appeals within Cases’ as a centrally

6 months of cases of rape sponsored scheme.

POWERGallery

WHO WILL BE NUMBER TWO IN ED ?

Who will replace Seemanchal Das in the ED?

Name of Harish Kumar DG Investigations

Income Tax in Delhi is in circulation.

VIKAS SWARUP APPOINTED SECRETARY

WEST, MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

Vikas Swarup has been appointed as Secretary

(West) in the Ministry of External Affairs

(MEA). He is a 1986 batch IFS offi cer.

SANJAY BHATTACHARYYA APPOINTED

SECRETARY CPV & OIA, MEA

Sanjay Bhattacharyya, Ambassador in Turkey,

has been appointed as Secretary (CPV & OIA)

in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). He is

a 1987 batch IFS offi cer.

NAGMA MALLICK PROMOTED TO GRADE

II OF THE INDIAN FOREIGN SERVICE

Nagma M Mallick has been promoted to Grade

II of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in the

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). She is a

`1991 batch IFS officer.

GOVT GETS BIPUL PATHAK ONTO J&K

BANK BOARD; EXERCISING MORE

CONTROL?

Bipul Pathak, Principal Secretary to Lt Governor

of the Union Territory of Jammu and

Kashmir has been inducted as Government

Nominee Director on the Board of Directors of

Jammu and Kashmir Bank presumably to keep

Government informed of the functioning of the

Bank.

WILL VAIDYA BE SELECTED AS

CHAIRMAN IOC?

Shrikant Madhav Vaidya, Director, Refi neries is

likely to be selected for the post of Chairman

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)

IS YADAV OUT OF THE RACE FOR DGP

TRIPURA?

A 1987 batch IPS offi cer V S Yadav, who was

ahead in the race for DGP Tripura, has been

posted as Principal Secretary for OBC Welfare

department an insignifi cant department.

It means chances of VS Yadav for becoming

early next DGP are over. This is the fi rst time in

the history of Tripura Police that an IPS offi cer

has been made Principal Secretary of not so

important department.

WILL EC HAVE REPLACEMENT OF UMESH

SINHA?

Deputy Election Commissioner in the Election

Commission of India Umesh Sinha, in the Secretary

rank, is retiring by the month end. Will

the EC fi nd any replacement of the 1986 batch

IAS offi cer of the UP cadre ?

SHIVA DAS MEENA GETS PROFORMA

PROMOTION TO CHIEF SECRETARY GRADE

IN TAMIL NADU

Shiva Das Meena presently Additional Secretary,

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in

Government of India has been granted proforma

promotion to the grade of Chief Secretary

in Tamil Nadu. He is a 1989 batch IAS offi cer of

Tamil Nadu cadre

K RAJARAMAN GETS PROFORMA

PROMOTION TO CHIEF SECRETARY GRADE

IN TAMIL NADU

K Rajaraman presently Additional Secretary,

Ministry of Finance, in Government of India

has been granted proforma promotion to the

grade of Chief Secretary in Tamil Nadu. He is a

1989 batch IAS offi cer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

RAVI SHANKAR RETURNS TO PARENT

CADRE \

Ravi Shankar, Joint Secretary at Director level,

UPSC, has been given premature repatriation

to his parent cadre to avail the benefi t of promotion.

He is a 1998 batch IDES offi cer.

TWO IAS OFFICERS GET FIELD POSTINGS

IN ANDHRA PRADESH

M Venugopal Reddy and Siva Sankar Lotheti

have been appointed as Joint Collectors, Visakhapatnam

district in Andhra Pradesh.

THREE IPS OFFICERS SHIFTED IN ASSAM

Mukesh Agrawal has been appointed as ADGP,

CID, while G P Singh was made ADGP, Law &

Order and Munna Prasad Gupta is now Guwahati

Police Commissioner in Assam.

T S SONWANI ELEVATED AS SECY TO

CHHATTISGARH CM

Taman Singh Sonwani, Special Secretary to

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel

has been elevated as Secretary to Chhattisgarh

Chief Minister. He is an IAS offi cer of

2004 batch.


NEWS


08

AISAM approves 100 pc

sale of govt stake in Air India

CIVIL AVIATION MIN PURI SAID, AAI

HAS EMBARKED UPON A CAPITAL

INVESTMENT OF OVER `25K CR IN

NEXT 5 YRS FOR DEVELOPMENT

New Delhi: Civil Aviation

Minister Hardeep

Singh Puri on Thursday

said that Air India Specific

Alternative Mechanism

(AISAM) has approved

100 per cent sale

of Centre stake in Air

India for the re-initiated

strategic disinvestment

of the national carrier.

“After the formation of

new Government, Air India

Specific Alternative

Mechanism (AISAM) has

been reconstituted and

the re-initiation of the

strategic disinvestment of

Air India has been approved.

AISAM has approved

the 100 per cent

sale of Government of

India stake in Air India

for the re-initiated Strategic

Disinvestment of Air

India,” Puri informed Lok

Sabha. Puri further stated

that to improve the aviation

sector, the central

government has taken following

measures - In-principle

approval for leasing

of six airports of Airports

Authority of India (AAI)

under Public Private Partnership

(PPP) accorded,

out of which Letter of

Award for leasing the airports

of Ahmedabad, Lucknow

and Mangaluru has

been issued by AAI; Rationalized

taxes on jet fuel

by many states, exempted

customs duty on tools and

toolkits, reduced GST on

various spare parts, accessories

and consumables.

He mentioned that the

government has enabled

the swift transition of aircraft

of Jet Airways to

other airlines. Also, the

contract for e-governance

in DGCA (e-GCA) has

been awarded and fiveyear

restriction on new

airlines for flying on international

routes has

been removed.

Further, Ude Desh ka

Aam Naagrik (UDAN)

scheme has been launched

to enhance regional connectivity.

“AAI has embarked

upon a capital investment

of over Rs 25,000 crore in

next five years for development/

upgradation/

modernization of various

airports and air navigation

infrastructure,” the

Union Minister stated.

—ANI

US pulls up Pakistan for misusing

F-16 jets against India: Report

Washington: The US

reprimanded Pakistan

Air Force chief in August

for misusing F-16

fighter jets by undermining

their shared security

platforms and

infrastructures, a media

report has said,

months after the Indian

Air Force shot down an

F-16 jet of Pakistan Air

Force during an aerial

combat over Kashmir.

Andrea Thompson,

the then-undersecretary

of State for Arms

Control and International

Security Affairs

wrote a letter to Pakistani

Air Force Chief

Air Chief Marshal Mujahid

Anwar Khan in

August over the matter,

US News reported.

While the letter written

did not directly

mention the incidents

in the immediate aftermath

of the February 26

Balakot airstrikes, US

News quoted a source

as saying that the communication

served as a

First India News

New Delhi: President

Ram Nath Kovind, late

on Thursday night gave

assent to the Citizenship

(Amendment) Act,

2019.

The notification

states, “In the Citizenship

Act, 1955 (hereinafter

referred to as the

principal Act), in section

2, in sub-section

(1), in clause (b), the following

provison shall

be inserted, namely:—

“Provided that any person

belonging to Hindu,

Sikh, Buddhist,

Jain, Parsi or Christian

Andrea Thompson, the then-undersecretary of State for Arms

Control and International Security Affairs wrote to Pakistani Air

Force Chief Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan in August over

the matter.

direct response to

America’s concerns

about the F-16 use over

Kashmir in February.

“While we understand

from you that

these aircraft movements

were done in support

of national defense

CAB IS NOW LAW:

PREZ GIVES NOD

community from Afghanistan,

Bangladesh

or Pakistan, who entered

into India on or

before the 31st day of

December, 2014 and

who has been exempted

by the Central Government

by or under

clause (c) of sub-section

(2) of section 3 of

the Passport (Entry

into India) Act, 1920 or

from the application of

the provisions of the

Foreigners Act, 1946 or

any rule or order made

thereunder, shall not be

treated as illegal migrant

for the purposes

of this Act.”

objectives, the US government

considers the

relocation of aircraft to

non-US government authorised

bases concerning

and inconsistent

with the F-16 Letter of

Offer and Acceptance,”

Thompson wrote.

Infosys sued

in US for

fudging data

Los Angeles: The Schall

Law Firm, a shareholder

rights litigation firm

based in Los Angeles has

announced the filing of

a class action lawsuit

against Infosys Limited.

According to the complaint,

Infosys made

false and misleading

statements to the market

and used improper

recognition of revenue

to boost short-term profits.

This comes months

after a whistleblower

complained against Infosys

and its CEO Salil

Parekh on the similar

lines.

—ANI

A suicide bomber of

Pakistan-based Jaish-e-

Mohammed (JeM) terror

group killed 40

CRPF personnel in

Jammu and Kashmir’s

Pulwama district on

February 14.

India launched a

counter-terror operation

against a JeM

training camp in Balakot

on February 26. The

next day, Pakistan Air

Force retaliated and

downed a MiG-21 in an

aerial combat and captured

its pilot Wing

Commander Abhinanadan

Varthaman, who

was later released.

The Indian Air Force

on February 28 displayed

pieces of the

AMRAAM missile,

fired by a Pakistani

F-16, as evidence to

“conclusively” prove

that Pakistan deployed

US-manufactured F-16

fighter jets during an

aerial raid targeting Indian

military installations

in Kashmir. —ANI

Appointment of

Lokpal in RCA

stayed by HC

First India News

Jaipur: Rajasthan

High Court has stayed

appointment of Lokpal

in Rajasthan Cricket

Association. Jodhpur

Cricket Association

had fled a petition to

this effect after appointing

a new lokpal was

included in the RCA’s

scheduled AGM on December

15.

Arguing on behalf of

Jodhpur Cricket Association,

advocate Vikas

Balia said that current

lokpal Gyan Sudha

Mishra’s tenure is till

2020. Therefore, a new

lokpal cannot be appointed

despite this appointment

of new lokpal

has been included in

AGM to be held on December

15.

After hearing the argument,

the high court

stayed appointment of

new lok pal in the RCA.

The court also stayed

disaffiliation of Nagaur

and Sriganganagar district

cricket association.

A busy day for CS Gupta,

holds several meetings

First India News

Jaipur: Chief Secretary

DB Gupta reviewed

preparations of

Census 2021 by holding

a meeting and gave necessary

directions

at the Secretariat

on Thursday.

In the meeting,

all the departments

were directed

to work in

coordination, while stating

the guidelines of the

centre for the census. It

was decided in the meeting

that a complete database

of 7.5 lakh existing

and a total over 8.5 lakh

government employees

will be created from the

data and records available

with the State Insurance

and Provident

Fund. While chairing a

review meeting of the

progress of projects

related to

NHAI, CS DB

Gupta instructed

to overcome the

land degradation

and other obstacles

in a timely manner

through systematic management.

He also met

some dignitaries, including

RHB Commissioner

Pawan Arora, Basant

Birla and Anand Chopra.

Currently chilling: Activist Greta

ridicules Trump’s angry tweets

Washington: IIncensed

perhaps by her

selection – and not his

– as Time magazine’s

person of the year, Donald

Trump opened Twitter

fire Thursday morning

on the climate activist

Greta Thunberg.

Trump, 73, tweeted

that Thunberg, 16, who

has been diagnosed with

Asperger’s syndrome,

had an “anger management

problem” and

should “chill” no pun

apparently intended.

“So ridiculous,” the

president wrote. “Greta

must work on her Anger

Management problem,

then go to a good

old fashioned movie

with a friend! Chill Greta,

Chill!”

Thunberg has caught

the ire of many US conservatives

for helping

to spotlight a climate

emergency which her

critics pretend does not

exist. But Trump’s attack

on her, in personal

terms, from his presidential

bully pulpit

struck many observers

as a marked and hypocritical

escalation.

Trump’s wife and his

eldest son recently reacted

with outrage when

a witness called by Democrats

to testify in the

impeachment hearings

punned on the name of

Trump’s 13-year-old son,

Barron, to make a point

about how presidents

are not kings. Melania

Trump is the nominal

head of an initiative

against online bullying

called “Be Best.”

“A minor child deserves

privacy and

should be kept out of

HAPPY TO HELP

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

So ridiculous. Greta

must work on her Anger

Management problem,

then go to a good old

fashioned movie with a

friend! Chill Greta, Chill!

politics,” Melania

Trump wrote at the

time.

Thunberg swiftly

changed her bio description

on Twitter. “A

teenager working on

her anger management

problem,” it now reads.

“Currently chilling and

watching a good old

fashioned movie with a

friend.” The irony of

Trump’s attack on

Thunberg so soon after

the what-now-lookslike-manufactured

outrage

over the mention

of his son in a congressional

hearing was not

lost on Twitter. —ANI

Governor Kalraj Mishra said, “I was born and brought up in a village. I studied in a

government school, where I had to reach by walking for 7 km and crossing a river on

the way. I used to wake up at 4 in the morning. Also, I never feared anything and faced

challenges.” Mishra was addressing the children who came to meet him at the Raj Bhavan

on Thursday morning. The Governor also presented sweaters and Jaipuri quilts to the

students of Government Sarvodaya Vidyalaya of Delhi.

in

BRIEF

• Sadar of Ajmer Dargah

Committee Ameen Pathan

has asked Muslim community

members to not

be afraid of Union Government’s

passing of CAB.

“This episode is linked with

politics but the Muslims

in this country should not

fear as the Central Government

will keep in mind the

rights of Muslims as well.

,” Pathan said. Meanwhile

speaking on the feud over

construction of toilets he

said, “We will honour the

decision of the court and we

are trying that washrooms

and toilets are constructed

but a few people are opposing

to the development.

Till the decision of court

is received the two floors

will be kept vacant where

the washrooms were to be

constructed.”

• A meeting was held between

farmers and bureaucrats

over land acquisition

in the CMO on Thursday.

Secretary to CM Arti Dogra

along with officials from the

NHAI and PWD were present

to hold talks with the farmers

lead by Himmat Singh. The

group was given assurance

by Arti Dogra that a draft of

their demands will be made

and presented before the

CM. another meeting on the

same issue will be held after

three days.

• An accused of POSCO

case Avinash managed to

escape Pratap Nagar police

station in Jaipur on Thursday,

when Constable Sudarshan

went inside to get warrant

after letting Avinash sit

in the gallery, the accused

fl ed. A case was registered

against Jharkhand Chhattisgarh

resident Avinash under

the POCSO Act in the police

station since 2015.

• The agitation against

Panipat movie refuses to die

down, Gurjar leader Himmat

Singh came out in support

of the Jat community and

said the film needs to be

completely banned. “merely

removing a scene will not

work, the movie needs to be

banned. The Gurjar community

is standing with Jat community

in this fight. History

should not be trifled with for

false popularity,” Singh said.

• DGP Bhupendra Singh

held a coordination meeting

with all the ADGs in the

PHQ wherein discussions

and deliberations were held

on the priorities of the state

police for the year 2020

were discussed.

• Locals from Jaisalmer

town objected to shooting of

dancer Sapna Choudhary’s

album in Kuldhara and

Khamba areas. As the video

went viral, Choudhary left

shooting and rushed away

from the spot. The shoot

had to be shifted to another

spot in Jaisalmer town.

• Rajasthan HC ordered

Bhiwadi SP Amandeep Singh

to appear on January 9 as the

Kotkasim SHO and investigating

officer did not appear

before even after court’s orders.

The HC has ordered the

SP to take disciplinary action

against the duo who failed to

find a missing girl.

• A contempt application

was filed in HC

against MLA Rafiq Khan

for failing to follow the

High Court’s orders. The

application states that the

MLA stopped the JMC

staff from carrying out

their duties of removing

encroachment in Transport

Nagar area.

• Ex-CM of Raj Raje’s trusted

lieutenants are expected

to hold some important

positions in Delhi. Former

agriculture minister Prabhulal

Saini could be made Chairman

of OBC Commission. In

this regard, Saini is in Delhi

for the last few days. The next

in the line to get a post could

be former Transport minister

Yunus Khan.

• A change in the uniform

of Rajasthan Police might be

seen soon and the committee

constituted for the task

has submitted its report to

the DGP.

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CAB Protests: ISL, Ranji games suspended in Guwahati due to curfew

New Delhi/Chennai:

Sporting activities took

a hit in the curfewstruck

city of Guwahati

where an Indian Super

League (ISL) football

game and a Ranji Trophy

cricket match were

suspended on Thursday

owing to the unrest over

the Citizenship (Amendment)

Bill.

Day four proceedings

of the Ranji match between

Assam and the

Services Sports Control

Board (SSCB) along

with the ISL clash between

NorthEast United

FC and Chennaiyin

FC were called off in

the Assamese city.

“The Ranji Trophy

match in Guwahati

stops at where it ended

on Day 3,” BCCI GM

Cricket Operations

Saba Karim told PTI.

“We have been advised

by the state association

not to go ahead

with the game. Players

and match officials

have been advised to remain

in the hotel. At

this stage, the safety of

the players and match

officials is paramount,”

he said.

The ISL game was

slated to be played at the

Indira Gandhi Athletics

Stadium in the city.

“Due to the ongoing

unrest in Guwahati,

match 37 between

NorthEast United FC

and Chennaiyin FC has

been postponed until

further notice,” the ISL

said in a statement on

Thursday.

“The league has been

in consultation with the

—FILE PHOTO

concerned authorities

over the past 48 hours to

determine the best

course of action. The

safety of fans, players

and league staff is of

paramount importance,

which has led to this decision,”

it added.

The Citizenship

(Amendment) Bill seeks

to provide Indian citizenship

to non-Muslim

migrants from Pakistan,

Bangladesh and

Afghanistan. It was

passed by Rajya Sabha

on Wednesday after being

cleared by Lok Sabha

on Monday.

Asked if the Ranji

game will be replayed

or the points will be

shared, Karim said, “As

the curfew has been imposed,

both teams (in

Assam) and match officials

have been advised

not to leave the hotel.

We follow whatever advice

we receive from the

host association.”

The match was headed

for an exciting finish

with Assam needing 168

runs for victory with

five wickets in hand.

Services had bounced

back strongly after being

bundled out for 129

in their first innings.

They dismissed Assam

for 162 in response

and scored 272 runs in

the second innings. In

their second essay, Assam

were 74 for five at

stumps on day three.

Earlier, the two ISL

teams did not train on

Wednesday and their

pre-match media interactions

were also called

off.

Guwahati, the epicentre

of anti-CAB protests,

was placed under

indefinite curfew on

Wednesday night while

the Army was called in

at four places.

—PTI

IPL 2020: Final auction list

cut down to 332 players

Initial number of players were

991, which was later trimmed

down by the management

New Delhi: A total of

332 players have been

shortlisted for the IPL

auction to be held in

Kolkata on Dec 19.

The IPL management

has whittled

down a list of 971 registered

players, and

sent the final list to

the eight franchises

on Wednesday.

One of the franchise

heads confirmed

to Sportstar

that the list features

19 capped Indian

players, along with 24

new entrants -- including

Kesrick Williams,

Mushfiqur Rahim

and Adam Zampa.

Among the Indians,

Robin Uthappa has

the highest base price

of Rs 1.5 crore, while

Jaydev Unadkat --

who was the highest

buy for the last two

seasons -- has set himself

a base price of Rs

1 crore.

This being a relatively

smaller auction,

a total of 73 slots

will be filled by the

eight franchises, of

which 29 have to be

overseas players.

Bidding war

And some experts,

who have been following

the trend for years

now, believe that

Glenn Maxwell -- who

took a break from

cricket due to mental

health issues -- at a

base price of Rs 2

crore, could attract

big bids along with

the likes of Eoin Morgan

and Cummins.

Roy, Lynn and

Finch too could fetch

big money. Lynn, who

had a good run with

KKR in the past, has

proven his mettle in

the shortest format

across the leagues,

and he could find

many takers. —Agencies

Easier to schedule pink-ball Test against India

if they are certain to make WTC final: CA CEO

Melbourne : Cricket

Australia chief executive

Kevin Roberts

feels it will be easier to

convince India to play

a pink-ball match

Down Under next year

if Virat Kohli’s team is

certain to reach the

World Test Championship

final.

India had refused to

play a pink-ball Test

during their last tour

—FILE PHOTO

of Australia but last

month they hosted

their first day-night

Test against Bangladesh

in Kolkata with

Sourav Ganguly taking

the initiative after

becoming the BCCI

president.

“I absolutely believe

we should be playing

one pink-ball Test in

the Indian series next

year,” Roberts was

CA CEO Kevin Roberts

Kohli, Rohit end 2019

as highest run-getters

Mumbai: Virat Kohli

and Rohit Sharma,

two of India’s batting

mainstays, have ended

2019 as the joint highest

run-getters in T20

internationals.

In what was India’s

last T20I of the year on

Wednesday evening,

Virat and Rohit came

out with exceptional

batting performances

as the hosts took the

Windies bowlers to the

cleaners at the

Wankhede and went

on to clinch the

three-match series

2-1. Going

into the series

decider, Virat

was one run

ahead of Rohit.

After West

Indies put

India to bat

first, Rohit

scored

7 1

while

quoted as saying.

“India to their credit

are doing very well in

this World Test Championship,

and it’s highly

likely that they will

make the final in 2021.

“I suspect that will

make it easier to schedule

a day-night Test

next season if India

have relative certainty

of making the WTC final,

then there is less

the Indian captain

scored 70* as a result

of which both are tied

at 2,633 runs each in

T20Is. The Indian

skipper has accumulated

these runs in 75

matches at an average

of 52.66. —Agencies

—FILE PHOTO

reason not to play a

day-night Test and

more reason to play

one.”

The inaugural edition

of the ICC World

Test Championship,

which culminates with

a final in England in

2021, features nine

Test playing nations

with each playing a

home and away bilateral

series. —PTI

Bayern too strong for Spurs

in Champions League

Players in action

during the match.

Berlin: Bayern Munich

completed the UEFA

Champions League

group stage with a perfect

record, beating Tottenham

Hotspur 3-1 to

clinch their sixth win in

as many games and finish

at the top of Group B.

Goals from Kingsley

Coman, Thomas Muller

and Philippe Coutinho

were enough to see off

Spurs, for whom Ryan

Ranji Trophy:

Punjab marks

victory over Raj

Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: Rajasthan’s debut

in the Ranji Trophy

cricket tournament

was extremely poor

and they had to face defeat

in the very first

match of the season. In

the match played at the

SMS Stadium, Punjab

on Thursday registered

a convincing win by 10

wickets. Rajasthan’s

batting failed completely

and the bowlers also

couldn’t perform

effectively.

On the final day of

the match, a 68-run target

for victory in front

of Punjab was

achieved, which they

achieved without loss

in 11.4 overs.

Naresh Sharma

Sessegnon scored what

turned out to be a consolation

goal on Wednesday

evening.

Even though both

sides had already qualified

for the knockout

stage before kick-off,

Bayern looked to seize

control from the start,

but it was Spurs who

had the first chance of

the game as Sessegnon

tested Bayern goalkeeper

Neuer in the third

minute.

It was a wake-up call

for the hosts, as efforts

from Benjamin Pavard

and Thiago Alcantara

forced Tottenham keeper

Paulo Gazzaniga into

action twice, before

Gnabry squared to

Coman, who made no

mistake to slot home

from close range in the

14th minute. —Agencies

Jaipur dist sr handball

competition concludes

Jaipur: Chaugan Club

defeated SMS Club 23-17

(12-05) in men’s category

in the title match played

in the 3-day 43rd Jaipur

District Senior Handball

Competition (Male & Female)

held at SMS Stadium

on Thursday. At

the same time, in the

women’s category, SMS

Club defeated ICG Club

12-04 (08-02).

The winners and runner

up teams were presented

trophies and

medals by Dr Sarvesh

Sharan Joshi, Senior

Vice President of Raj

State Handball Association

and Dr Vikas Jeph,

President of Rajasthan

State Dental Council and

Vice President of State

Handball Association.

Organizing Secretary

Yash Pratap Singh,

Handball Instructor Mohammad

Qasim was also

present on the occasion.

SOUTH ASIAN GAMES 2019

From Left: Sheetal Tomar (Wrestling) and Mamata Kumari

(Kabaddi) with their colleagues celebrating their win in

South Asian Games-2019 at Transport Nagar RSE 5th

Battalion on Thursday.

—PHOTO BY NAIM KHAN

NEW INNINGS

LaLiga names Rohit Sharma as brand ambassador

•••

Rohit Sharma is

the first-ever

non-footballer

brand

ambassador

appointed by

LaLiga globally

and will be the

face of the

league in India

Mumbai: Spain’s football

league LaLiga on

Thursday named Indian

cricketer Rohit Sharma

as its brand ambassador

in India.

The Indian cricketer

is the first-ever nonfootballer

brand ambassador

appointed by La-

Liga globally and will

be the face of the league

in India. “Football in

India is in its global

growth trajectory and it

is heartening to see that

it is no more considered

as the ‘sleeping giant’.

Rohit Sharma interacts with the media after being announced as

LaLiga Indias brand ambassador in Mumbai.

Over the course of the

past five years, we have

witnessed a significant

growth in the interest

for football in India.

Credit must be given to

everyone associated

with it, including the

fans,” said Rohit.

“I am truly delighted

to be associated with

LaLiga. It’s encouraging

to see the Spanish

giant have made inroads

into the Indian

football ecosystem

through their grassroots

programme. Personally,

I see this as an

interesting journey for

me into the beautiful

game with LaLiga. I

look forward eagerly to

connecting with the

football fans in India,”

he added.

LaLiga has made focussed

efforts in India

since 2017 to nurture

the sport and build the

brand in the country. In

the two years since La-

Liga opened its office in

India, the league has

undertaken several key

initiatives like LaLiga

Football Schools, a pioneering

broadcast partnership

with Facebook

to provide all 3000

matches for free for the

Indian audience. —ANI

We are not afraid to love;

we are scared of not being

loved back.

2ND FRONT

—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO & Editor, First India

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Tihar Jail asks UP

for two hangmen

IN THE COURTYARD

SC orders probe

in Hyd encounter

RSS lauds PM Modi

& Shah on CAB, calls

it a courageous step

Lucknow: The Tihar

Jail in Delhi has asked

Uttar Pradesh to provide

two hangmen on

short notice, amid reports

that four men

convicted in the Nirbhaya

rape-and-murder

case may be executed

soon.

Uttar Pradesh’s Additional

Director General

(Prisons) Anand

Kumar told reporters

on Thursday that the

department is ready to

provide the hangmen.

“There are no hangmen

with Tihar Jail

administration for

those who were

awarded capital punishment

and are not

left with any constitutional

and legal remedy,”

Kumar said. “As

they were aware that

we have two hangmen

in UP, they asked us to

provide them whenever

needed on short

notice,” ADG (Prisons)

added.

Prisons department

had received a request in

this regard from Tihar

administration through

fax on December 9. The

letter, however, makes

no mention of the convicts

to be hanged but

states there may be requirements.

The letter

mentioned that some

convicts in the jail were

awarded capital punishment

and their legal and

constitutional remedies

had been exhausted. —PTI

SC to hear review plea

by convict on Dec 17

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on

December 17 the review petition filed by Akshay

Kumar Singh, one of the convicts in the

brutal 2012, gang-rape and murder case.

A three-judge bench will hear the petition,

which was filed by Singh on Tuesday.

The convict, in his review petition, pleaded

and requested the Supreme Court to

consider his prayer and review its earlier

judgement of May 5, 2017, in which the

top court sentenced him to the gallows.

“We are requesting the court to conduct

review petition hearing in an open court,”

Dr AP Singh, the lawyer for the convict, said.

Execute convicts, appeals

Nirbhaya’s mother to SC

New Delhi: Nirbhaya’s mother on Thursday

said that she has appealed to the Supreme

Court and Central government to

execute the convicts immediately.

“It has been two and a half years since the

SC passed order on their conviction and 18

months since their review petitions were

dismissed. I have appealed to court to hang

them immediately,” Asha Devi said. She

said that promises of fast-track courts and

installation of CCTV cameras which were

made in 2012 have not been fulfilled yet.

New Delhi: The Supreme

Court on

Thursday appointed a

three-member inquiry

commission headed

by former apex court

judge V S Sirpurkar to

inquire into the circumstances

leading to

the encounter killing

of the four accused in

the gang-rape and

murder of a veterinarian

in Telangana.

The commission,

which also included former

Bombay High

Court judge Rekha Sondur

Baldota and ex-CBI

director D R Karthikeyan,

will submit its report

to the Supreme

Court in six months.

A bench headed by

Chief Justice S A

Bobde stayed proceedings

pending in

the Telangana High

Court and the National

Human Rights

Commission (NHRC)

in the case and sought

an SIT report into the

case, saying no other

authority shall inquire

into the matter

pending before the

commission of inquiry

till further orders.

The bench, also comprising

Justice S A Nazeer

and Justice Sanjiv

Khanna, ordered that

security to the threemember

commission

shall be provided by the

Central Reserve Police

Force (CRPF). —PTI

T’gana HC adjourns

hearing to Dec 13

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court

on Thursday adjourned to Friday the

public interest litigations (PILs) filed

against the alleged encounter of the four

men accused in the gangrape and murder

of a woman veterinarian near here last

month. The matter came upbefore a Division

Bench headed by Chief Justice RS

Chauhan. The court was initially not inclined

to go ahead with the matter on the

ground that the SC was seized of the issue.

During the hearing, the Telangana advocate-general

informed the Bench that the

Supreme Court had stayed the case pending

before the high court. The Supreme Court

appointed on Thursday a three-member inquiry

commission headed by former apex

court judge VS Sirpurkar to inquire into the

circumstances leading to the encounter killing

of the four.

The commission, which also included

former Bombay HC judge Rekha Sondur

Baldota and ex-CBI director DR Karthikeyan,

would submit its report to the Supreme

Court within six months. With

regard to the bodies of the four accused

who were killed in the alleged encounter,

the high court asked the advocate-general

to get a clarification from the Supreme

Court on the matter by Friday. —PTI

Home Minister Amit Shah arrives at the Parliament on Thursday.

Nagpur: RSS general

secretary Bhaiyyaji

Joshi on Thursday

congratulated Prime

Minister Narendra

Modi and Union Home

Minister Amit Shah

for the passage of the


Bill in Parliament

and described it

as a “courageous step”.

Joshi said all should

rise above their political

compulsions and

welcome the bill. He

said the stand of the

Rashtriya Swayamsevak

Sangh (RSS) has

always been that a

Hindu who comes to

India because of persecution

in another

country cannot be

termed as an intruder,

but a refugee.

The bill, which seeks

to provide Indian citizenship

to non-Muslim

refugees from Pakistan,

Afghanistan and Bangladesh,

was passed by

the Rajya Sabha on

Wednesday. Lok Sabha

passed it on Monday.

Joshi dubbed it as a

“courageous step”

and thanked the BJPled

central government,

the prime minister

and the Home

minister for taking

the initiative.

“When the country

was partitioned, there

was a demand for division

on religious

grounds. However, India

did not have any such

idea of forming a ‘religious

country’. But, the

country was partitioned

over this issue and the

leaders then had accepted

it,” he said. If partition

had not taken

place on religious

grounds, then many

incidents thereafter

would not have happened,

the RSS general

secretary said.

“Subsequently, Pakistan

and Bangladesh

declared themselves as

Islamic states and there

were doubts then about

what place the minorities

residing there will

get...because as per the

agreement, it was said

that the minorities will

not face any injustice,”

said Joshi. —PTI

‘Modi govt dividing nation through CAB’

First India News

WINTER SHOWERS

City received a sudden spell of showers on Thursday night bringing temperature down by

several notches.

—PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA

Avinash Pande

Jaipur: State Congress

is preparing for the proposed

Bharat Bachao

rally in Delhi on December

14 against the

policies of the Union

Government led by

Prime Minister Narendra

Modi. State Congress

Incharge Avinash

Pande, who

came to Jaipur in connection

with the preparations

for the rally,

said that the people

of the country are in

a fierce rage about

the policies of the Union

Government.

Therefore, the Congress

party has organised

this rally to

make people aware of

the failure of the

Modi government on

the issues of the public

interest.

“An atmosphere of

fear was created in the

country due to the

wrong policies of the

Central Government.

Congress will make

public awareness

against these policies,”

he said.

“The situation of

farmers, youth and

women is not good in

the country. There is a

lot of disappointment

due to unemployment

UPCOMING

• Deputy CM

Sachin Pilot will be

visiting Jharkhand

on Friday. He will

leave by helicopter

at 11.30 am and will

reach Jamua assembly

constituency. He

will conduct election

rally in support of

Congress candidate

Dr Manju Kumari.

At 12.20 pm, he will

go to Dhanbad assembly

constituency

to hold a rally in

support of Congress

candidate Mannan

Malik. At 1.10 pm,

he will hold another

rally in Jharia assembly

constituency

to support Congress

candidate Poornima

Neeraj Singh.

among the youth across

the country. Inflation

is skyrocketing, business

is stalled, farmers’

situation is getting

pathetic and

Modi government is

dividing the country

by politics based on

emotional issues. The

BJP government in

dividing the country

in the name religion

through the CAB”,

Pande added.

Answering the question

of speculation of

Rahul Gandhi becoming

as Congress National

president again, Pan-

Lotus on new passports part of

enhanced security features: MEA

New Delhi: A day after

Opposition members in

Lok Sabha raised the issue

of lotus being printed

on new passports, the

Ministry of External

Affairs said it was part

of enhanced security

features to identify

fake passports and involves

using other national

symbols as well

on rotation.

Raising this issue of

lotus being printed on

new passports brought

for distribution in

Kozhikode in Kerala

during the Zero Hour, M

K Raghavan of the

de said, “Rahul Gandhi

is our leader. Rahul

Gandhi’s election

campaign in Haryana,

Maharashtra

has given the party a

lot of benefits and in

Chhattisgarh also.

The CWC and senior

party leader will decide

about this.”

During the day, Former

MPs Raghuveer

Meena, Tarachand

Bhagora, former ministers

Zakia Begum,

Shravan Patel and

many other party

workers arrived to

meet Pande.

First India News

Jodhpur: PCC General

Secretary and RCA

President Vaibhav Gehlot

expressed happiness

regarding the

completion of one

year of the Congress

government led by CM

Ashok Gehlot. Vaibhav

said that as a result of

the unmatched work

been done in a year, there

is an atmosphere of happiness

among the public

and Congressmen.

Vaibhav highlighted

Congress said the

matter has been highlighted

by one of the

newspapers and alleged

that this was

“further saffronisation”

of the government

establishment

with the lotus being

the election symbol of

the BJP. Asked about

the issue, MEA Spokesperson

Raveesh Kumar

said, “This symbol is

the possibilities of

matches after MoU between

Barkatullah

Khan Stadium and

Jodhpur Development

Authority will be signed.

Vaibhav said that he is

very serious about de-

our national flower and

is part of the enhanced

security features to

identify fake passports.”

These security features

have been introduced

as part of International

Civil Aviation

Organization guidelines,

he said. “Apart

from the Lotus, other

national symbols will be

used on rotation. Right

now it is lotus and then

next month there will be

something else. These

are symbols connected

with India such as national

flower or national

animal,” he said. —PTI

RCA chief Vaibhav hails

1st year of Gehlot govt

Vaibhav Gehlot

velopment of the stadium.

As soon as the

MoU is signed, there

will be a possibility of

organising a match at

the Stadium.

Vaibhav met Congress

officials at Hotel Radisson

where he was welcomed

by Congress leaders

Raju Ram Choudhary,

Lalit Surana and

Zafar Khan. Later, he

went to Hyderabad to

attend the wedding of

former Cricket captain

Mohammad

Azharuddin’s son.

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Models of ‘Style Skool’

COLOURFUL

Kitsch-Kitsch

The team from Style Skool decided to experiment with the colours and

shot on the theme to create a look that is inspired by ‘Kitsch Fashion’

ABHIMANYU

SINGH TOMAR

cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

L

adies and gentlemen,

if you think

colours are loud

then attention

please as is getting

back to

trends which are

defined as art, object or design

which is excessively

outlandish, eccentric, even

garish and loud. Some people

who adored the aesthetics

of souvenir culture

thought kitsch was admirable,

while others considered

it as bad in taste. Later on, it

became a fashion trend that

was considered messy yet

fancy looking. Brands like

Moschino, Adidas and Versace

are few ‘Kitsch’

brands. Many times, they

used the trend ‘kitsch’ in

their collection.

We see nowadays,

Ranveer Singh, Miley

Cyrus, Alia Bhatt are

among the few celebrities,

who often

wear pieces that

make you stop and

look it twice with a

completely new expression

on your face. Some people

just fall head over heels with

the look and some people just

hate it, but either way, you can’t

ignore it.

Not many people try out kitsch

fashion, maybe because they

think it’s too risky and they will

make fool out of themselves? Or

just simply because they think it

is too much? Or maybe they

haven’t heard of it. Whatever

the case may be, a team from

Style Skool decided to experiment

with the colours and shot

on the theme to create a look that

is inspired by ‘Kitsch Fashion’.

It’s joyful, effervescent and

exuberant. Photographer Ankur

Nagwan said they have tried to

portray kitsch fashion in a way

that can be worn not only by celebrities

or models on the runway

but also by the masses who

love colours and try to experiment.

Stylist Akshima Singh

said, “We have used bright colours

and

bold

prints,

also

played

around

neon colours

and cheerful

eye makeup. All

the accessories and

footwear are lively as

well as vivid.”

The Style Skool models

Gehna Arora, Nakul

Saini, Riya Marwal, Ashutosh

Rana and Manushree

Sharma loved shooting for

the concept and enjoyed posing

in their colourful garments.

Manushree Sharma

quoted, “The look is supposed

to catch the eye and make

people look at you twice and if

you don’t mind standing out

then you should definitely try

the look.”


LISTING


12

THERE’S NO

GOING BACK

FOR KHLOE

FACE OF THE DAY

D

espite rumors of a reconciliation,

Khloé Kardashian

is not getting

back with Tristan

Thompson anytime soon.

The exes, who share

20-month-old daughter

True, split in February after

Thompson, 28, allegedly cheated

with Kardashian family friend

Jordyn Woods. But while the exes

have seemingly gotten along for

the sake of their child, a source

says that they haven’t rekindled

their romantic relationship.

“Tristan is very charming and

sweet to Khloé,” the source says.

“She always wanted to keep her

family together because of True.

Splitting from Tristan in the past

was extremely difficult for her.

She is flattered that he is trying to

win her back, but not flattered

enough to be in a romantic relationship

with him.”

“Who knows what will happen

in the future though,” the source

adds. “Right now she is focused

on just getting along with him so

they can have the best family time

together with True.”

Fans began to speculate on the

former couple’s possible reconciliation

after she revealed mix

feelings for Thompson when he

surprised her with several lavish

gifts for her 35th birthday on a

recent episode of Keeping Up

with the Kardashians

Ahead of her birthday, Kardashian

admitted that Thompson

had expressed his desire to get

back together.

—Agency

Khloe Kardashian

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YOUR DAY

Horoscope by Saurabbh Sachdeva

IF IT’S

YOUR

BIRTHDAY

TODAY

ARIES

MAR 21 - APR 20

Your manager will

entrust you will

some important

assignment which

will be very challenging and

now this is your moment to

show your true potential.

Family dispute needs to be

resolved and that can only

happen if someone decides

to take an initiative and that

must be you.

GEMINI

MAY 21 - JUNE 21

You will do many

job simultaneously

till the time

your financial

thirst is quenched. You are

satisfied and happy with

your spouse You must think

about the consequences

before you decide to do

things. Those of you who

are working hard will

achieve great results.

Luck favours you this year.

You always take a stand

against wrong. You have

great wealth to fulfil your

desires. Its ok to accept your

mistake if you decide to learn

from them. Have a great day!

TAURUS

APR 21 - MAY 20

You may face

lots of

distraction in

work today but

remember whether openly

or not , your boss has

eyes on everyone. Buying

an apartment is on the

cards for some. Things

will turn in your favour if

you are sure about what

you want.

CANCER

JUNE 22 - JULY 23

You may receive

money in form of

inheritance and it

can change your

life forever. You must not

get bothered from those

who keep taking behind

people’s back. You may just

throw a party to celebrate

your promotion, salary hike

or any other kind of

professional achievement.

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You like to take

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investments and

only the risk takes

becomes wealthy. You know

how to motivate people so

give an encouraging speech

to those who lack zeal in life.

You must handle any

problem with maturity today.

Your dream to own your own

house will soon get fulfilled.

VIRGO

AUG 24 - SEP 23

Your career will

get boosted if

you decide to

use your full

potential. On financial front

you may have to take

decisions on spot as few

things are not foreseen.

Your presence will ease the

tensed atmosphere at

home and there is nothing

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2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05

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Entertainment Paradise: 10:15,

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First Cinema: 9:45, 3:00, 6:30, 9:45

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4:55, 7:55, 10:15

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2:05, 5:10, 8:15, 10:15

Vaibhav: 10:10, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30,

Raj Mandir Cinema: 12:30, 3:30,

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First Cinema: 10:00

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The real wealth

is how much

love and

affection you

have for others. Prepare

in advance if you are

going on a long journey.

Be true to yourself and to

others as relationships are

very fragile, once broken

can never be the same

again.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV 23 - DEC 22

Keep both your

ears and eyes

open before

investing your

money in some scheme.

Your business needs some

creativity or some other

kind of change. You will

shine bright in offi ce

today. Your spouse will

express sincere gratitude

to you in a special way.

AQUARIUS

JAN 21 - FEB 19

You are full of

hight spirit and

ready to conquer

the world, this

shouldn’t be a mere

temporary excitement. You

will undertake the toughest

job at work which other

refuse to take in order to

get your superiors on your

side. On family front, learn

to balance relations.

SCORPIO

OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

Dont trust anyone

blindly when it

comes to taking

business

decisions. Your family is

panning a surprise for you.

Your mother does a lot for

you and you two share a

very special bond. Because

of peer pressure don’t get

pushed to do things which

you don’t want to.

CAPRICORN

DEC 23 - JAN 20

You are regular

with your fi tness

plans. A huge

monetary benefi t

will come to you when you

are not expecting. Keep

making good deeds and a

lot of goodness will come

back to you. Your spouse

may be a little upset with

you but remember a warm

hug can do miracles.

PISCES

FEB20 - MARCH 20

Keep control on

your emotions

and take a stand

against wrong.

You have money to fulfi l

your desires. Its alright to

accept your mistake if

you learn from them. You

are dying to spend time

with your lover as you

have been a bit away

because of work.

ETC

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TV GOSSIP...

RAHUL JAIN SINGS

‘BEYHADH 2’ TRACK

The title track of Jennifer Winget’s ongoing

TV show ‘Beyhadh 2’ is out. It is sung by

Rahul Jain, who

had also crooned the

title song of Jennifer’s

previous show “Bepannah”.

“After the huge

success of ‘Bepannah’,

which too had Jennifer

Winget, the team

approached to create

something which is

different and dark. It

was one of the most

challenging jobs as this

is not a usual title track.

After scrapping almost

6 songs , this is what I

came up with and once everyone heard it all were

super excited and happy. The song has pathos

in it , that’s why the arrangement is minimal

with violin , cello , bass and grand piano . Lyrics

by Vandana played the most crucial role , they

are too deep and goes with the character Maya

(played by Jennifer),” Rahul said. —IANS

WISHES POUR IN FOR

NEW PAPA KAPIL

Wishes poured in for comedian Kapil

Sharma and wife, Ginni Chatrath, on

Tuesday after the news of him being

blessed with a baby

girl was made public.

“Blessed to have a baby

girl. Need your blessings.

Love you all. Jai

Mata Di,” he penned.

The tweet was immediately

fl ooded with love

and blessings from all

over the fi lm industry,

cricketers, politicians

and singers. Arunachal

Pradesh Chief Minister

Pema Khandu congratulated

him, commenting

“Warmest congratulations on the birth

of your sweet baby girl.” Quick to congratulate

was badminton star Saina Nehwal, followed by

Punjabi singer Guru Randhawa writing, “Congrats

my paji. I’m offi cially a Chacha now.” Kapil

got married to his close friend Ginni Chatrath in

December last year.

—IANS

SHIVANGI JOSHI

SHINING IN PINK

Shivangi Joshi of ‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai’

fame is one of the prettiest actors we have on

board. Shivangi, though not extremely active,

manages to keep her

fans updated with all

her latest pictures and

this time is no different.

Shivangi was named the

seventh sexiest Asian

women recently, has

now shared a beautiful

picture of herself in a

pink choli and lehenga

with a sheer dupatta

looking pretty as ever.

Shivangi’s lehenga is

heavily embellished and

accentuates her curves

and beauty perfectly.

Shivangi sure knows how to pull off both traditional

as well as western wear beautiful. The YRKKH

actress has been one of the most sought after and

loved actress on Television.

—Agency

DRAVID KI

FAN

D

eepika Padukone

confesses being a

huge fan of former

Indian international

cricketer

Rahul Dravid.

“My all-time favourite

cricketer is Rahul

Dravid. A lot of my idols

are not what they have

done in the sport and the

game, but how they have

conducted themselves outside.

For me, he is somebody

I have admired and

looked up to, and he is

from Bangalore,” she said.

Deepika also emphasised

on the importance of

sports in life.

“How much we focus on

our physical strength- our

mental strength and mental

endurance- is equally

important if not more. At

times you feel your body is

not keeping up with the

mind. I think sometimes

it’s the mind that takes

over- and nurturing that is

very important. A young

athlete will figure that

along the way, but they

should pay attention to the

grit, courage, determination

and spirit is important,”

said Deepika.

—IANS

Nickyanka to create a

sangeet dance show

Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Priyanka Chopra and her husband Nick

Jonas will create a series inspired by

their own sangeet. Amazon Studios on

Thursday announced that it has greenlit

the Untitled Priyanka Chopra Jonas /

Nick Jonas Sangeet Project, an unscripted

dance competition series executive produced

by the couple.

“We re-watched the video of our sangeet

last week on our first anniversary, and the

togetherness of our family and friends

during this event still sparks

the same warmth and excitement

that it did just

over a year ago at our

wedding,” said Priyanka,

who got married to

Nick last December.

“The sangeet is a

centuries-old Indian

wedding tradition,

that not only

celebrates the union

of two people,

but also signifies

the introduction

and bonding

of two families coming

together in a marriage,”

the actress added.

Looking back at his wedding

functions, Nick said, “The days

leading up to our sangeet were

some of the most special,

memorable moments of the

weekend. Bringing the concept

of this musical celebration

to the mainstream in a

new way, through couples setting

out on one of the most exciting

journeys of their life, is an

idea that we are proud to bring to

life with Amazon.”

—IANS

SPOTTED!

Deepika Padukone

Renowned singers Keerthi Sagathia and Shailey Bidwaikar were spotted in the Pink City on

Wednesday, as they were here to perform at a private function. —PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO

RANI MUKERJI HITS

THE STREETS

Rani Mukerji, fic cops to educate

who is gearing myself on the measures

being taken by

up for the release

of her upcoming

them to prevent

film crime in our city,”

‘Mardaani 2’, took to

the streets of Mumbai

to meet traffic police

officers.

“Traffic cops hold

Rani said.

The actress, who

is reprising her role

as the fierce police

officer Shivani

the key to preventing

Shivaji

a lot of crimes and

they do their jobs diligently

to keep us, our

families and daughters

safe. I met several

traffic cops and especially

Roy in the film,

added that she

wants to bring

out their stories

to the

people of In-

the female trafdia.

—IANS

Rani Mukerji

THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS

Kids with Santa Claus

Children making

cupcakes

CITY FIRST

The Annual

Christmas Tree

Lighting ceremony

of Hotel Hilton

took place on

Wednesday to usher in

the festive and magical

holiday season.

Guests were treated

to delectable Christmas

delights like Belgium

chocolate cupcakes,

wild berry cupcakes,

mac n cheese, smileys,

etc. Various activities

for kids including magic

show, tattoo artist,

face painting and storytelling

by the chief

guest Sonal Gupta

about Christmas as a

part of the event.

Kids had a wonderful

time in ‘make your own

cupcakes’ with Chef ’s

team.

The evening kicked

off with General Manager,

Vishal Gupta welcoming

the guests, followed

by the entry of

Santa with goodies.

Tiny tots were invited

to a treasure hunt to

look for the magic

switch which would

light up and illuminate

the Christmas tree. The

excited bunch of children

ran around trying

to be the first to find the

switch.

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WEDDING BELLS!

Transport Minister Pratap Singh Kachariyawas’ niece Chandresh Chundawat

got married to Jaipal Singh Rathore on Wednesday at Taj Jai Mahal

Palace. Here are some more moments of the high-profile wedding.

—PHOTOS BY NAIM KHAN

CP Joshi, Raghu Sharma and

Pratap Singh Khachariyawas

The lovely venue and

decor was made all

the more beautiful by

the bevy of beauties in

traditional dress and

jewellery. The women

of the family and their

friends were definitely eye

catching in the gorgeous

colours, either the bright

hues or the pastels. It

sure was an

evening to

remember.

Ashok Chandana and Lal Chand Kataria

Jagdeesh Chandra with Bride & Groom, Jaipal and Chandresh

Bhawar Singh Bhati and Rajendra Rathore

Vishvendra Singh and Vivek Bansal

MAKING INDIA PROUD

Yet again, India

catches the eye

on the international

platform

by emerging as a top

team at the 16th International

Junior Science

Olympiad held at

Doha, Qatar from 3rd

to 11th December.

There were 322 students

from all over the

55 contesting countries

and 15 guest teams to

observe the competition

in this edition of

IJSO. The tremendous

performance of Allen

students in the International

Junior Science

Olympiad made

India proud by bagging

six gold medals this

year. India also received

the trophy for

the best team by virtue

of highest aggregate

score. Arnav Aditya

Singh, Atharv Shivram

Mahajan, Krishna

Sharma, Mahit Rajesh

Gadhiwala, Manpreet

Singh and Priyanshu

Yadav are the proud Allenit

who earned the

gold medals for India.

—City First

WHAT’S HAPPENING!

Takht-e-Dilli, a

four-day YPO

South Asia

Conference

2019 was

organized from

Thursday to

Sunday at Taj

Palace, New

Delhi.

Rajiv Arora, Co-founder, Amrapali Jewels was invited by the Museum of Islamic Art to be a part of

a panel discussion on the prestigious event of ‘Qatar-India- year of culture-2019’ to shed lights on

the intricate craftsmanship and traditions that makes Indian jewellery celebrated over the world .


A select meet

& greet was

organized by

Wonder Cement

on Thursday ,

where Sanjay

Joshi, Executive

Director, Wonder

Cement Ltd

addressed the

gathering.


PRECIOUS MOMENTS!

Some memorable moments of the inauguration of the office of First India Ahmedabad Edition.

—PHOTOS BY NANDAN DAVE

1 2

1. Jagdeesh Chandra with team First India Amhedabad. Present here are (from left) Pandit Ji Ashok, Vipul Rajput, Deepak Rajani, Dr Balpreet Arora, Himanshu Goyal, Gargi, Darshan Desai and other team

members. 2. Deepak Rajani (doing aarti) with (from left) Darshan Desai, Jagdeesh Chandra, Shravan Tiwari, Pallavi Jaiswal, Rajiv Gandhi and Anita Hada.

Bollywood actress Vaani Kapoor was spotted at Jaipur

International Airport on Thursday.

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