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Tokyo Olympics: Grappler Sonam Malik bows out after losing to Bolortuya Khurelkhuu

Wins and losses are a part of life, India is proud of our players: PM Modi on men’s hockey team

India men’s hockey team lose semis 2-5 to Belgium, to play for bronze

Javelin thrower Annu Rani fails to qualify for finals

CORONA CATASTROPHERAJASTHANINDIA

42,026new cases

559new fatalities

11 new cases

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SELJA, SHIVAKUMAR MEET GEHLOT, SEEK GUIDANCE FOR RESPECTIVE STATE POLITICS!

Aditi Nagar and Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: Just days after Haryana PCC Chief and Sonia Gandhi’s confidante Kumari Selja made a sudden visit to Jaipur and met Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot at CMR, on Tues-day it was Karnataka Congress president D K

Shivakumar who called on Gehlot and met him for about an hour, in the run-up to an expected reshuffle of the state Cabinet.

The back-to-back vis-its had fuelled specula-tion over possible hic-cups in the plan to ex-pand the Gehlot Cabi-net, in which MLAs loyal to former deputy

chief minister Sachin Pilot want a bigger rep-resentation, however, highly placed sources in the Congress party at New Delhi reveal that there was nothing po-

litical about both the visits rather Selja and Shivakumar came to Gehlot for counsel.

In fact, interacting with First India, Shiva-kumar, who landed at

Jaipur airport at 1.30 PM, also stressed on the same. “I have come on a personal visit and have not brought any mes-sage from anyone.

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CRUCIAL READSENSEX AT NEW PEAK; 872.77 PTS UP ‘BEST EVER’ CLASS 10

BOARD EXAM RESULTSThe Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 10 results declared one of the best ever results as nearly all students have passed the exam. Of the total 21,467 students, as many as 99.04% have passed. This is a jump of over 8 percentage points from last year when 91.46% of students had passed the exams.

Mumbai: Equity benchmark indices scaled record new peaks on Tuesday with heavy buying in IT, FMCG and financial stocks. The market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies jumped to a record high of Rs 240 lakh crore, according to reports. At the closing bell, the BSE S&P Sensex was up by 873 points or 1.65 per cent at 53,823 while the Nifty 50 jumped by 246 points or 1.55 per cent to 16,131.

Gehlot emerging as a guide and mentor for national leaders in the Congress party

Pawar meets Shah, discusses issues faced by sugar co-ops

Indo-Sino troops disengage from Gogra, talks to continue further

New Delhi: NCP chief Sharad Pawar met Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday and discussed issues related to pricing of sugar and ethanol blending in petrol.

Pawar was accompa-nied by National State Cooperative Sugar Fac-tories Federation Chair-man Jayprakash Dan-degaonkar and NCP MP from Raigarh. After meeting Shah, Pawar told reporters that they discussed the current selling price of sugar, which is even lower

than the cost of produc-tion, and he requested the government to look into it.Pawar, a former agriculture minister,

said he also talked about the need to increase the blending of ethanol in petroleum products.

—PTI

New Delhi: In the 12th round of talks between India and China, both countries have agreed to disengage troops from the patrolling point 17A, one of the friction points between the two countries in the eastern Ladakh region.

During the 12th round of talks,

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Plea against Asthana’s appt to be heard on Aug 5New Delhi: Advocate Manohar Lal Sharma on Tuesday filed a con-tempt plea before the Supreme Court against the Prime Minister, Home Minister, and Ministry of Home Af-fairs challenging the ap-pointment of Rakesh Asthana as the Police Commissioner of Del-hi. Sharma requested that the matter be taken next Monday. Supreme

Court had on Monday fixed the matter for hearing on August 05,

i.e. Thursday.Sharma had filed the

petition seeking direc-tion to declare the ap-pointment order of July 14 of Rakesh Asthana as illegal and contrary to the Supreme Court’s 2018 judgment passed in a writ petition. Sharma in his plea argued that Asthana’s appointment is in violation of a July 2018 judgment of the top court, Turn to P6

DELHI HC DISMISSES PLEA SEEKING TO STOP USE OF EVM

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST VIR BHADRA ABATED

New Delhi: The Delhi HC on Tuesday dismissed a petition that sought a direction to stop the use of EVM and pro-posed the use of ballot paper in any forthcoming elections. A Division Bench of Delhi High Court while passing the order observed that nothing concrete has been argued by the petitioner, no research has been done.

New Delhi: A Delhi court has abated the proceedings against former Himachal Pradesh CM Virbhadra Singh in two cases filed by the CBI and the ED respectively, in view of his demise. Special Judge Geetanjli Goel passed the order on August 2 after the counsel for Singh informed the court about politician’s death on July 8.

MAY CONSIDER JOINING UNITED OPPOSITION: HAASANCoimbatore: MNM President Kamal Haasan, on Tuesday, said that the party could join the anti-BJP alliance upon invitation. “Going by the situation and invitation, the party may consider joining it,” Haasan said. To another query on stalling of Parliament for 11th day on Pegasus row, Haasan said, “What is happening in the Parliament itself is the reaction. This cannot be a surveillance gov-ernment. You cannot look into my personal life..” —PTI

RAHUL AGAIN...OPPN LEADERS MEET OVER BREAKFAST TO CHALK OUT JOINT STRATEGY, RAHUL GANDHI CALLS FOR UNITYNew Delhi: By public-ly defying charges lev-elled on him time and again by BJP and other opposition parties of playing ‘On-Off ’ poli-tics, Rahul Gandhi has now emerged as a ma-jor voice, for the sec-ond time in less than 9 days, when he called a breakfast meeting with senior opposition lead-ers wherein the Gan-dhi scion called for unity within the oppo-sition parties. Interest-ingly, following this, Rahul, having played the ‘tractor politics’ card in solidarity with farmers, on Tuesday chose to play the ‘cycle card’ as he rode on a cycle to the Parlia-ment, at the head of several opposition MPs, in protest against rising fuel prices. Some opposition MPs, who could not cycle, walked down to Parliament.

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Opposition insulting Parliament & Constitution by disrupting it: PM ModiNew Delhi: At the Bharatiya Janata Par-ty’s (BJP) parliamenta-ry meeting on Tuesday, Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi took a strong objection to a tweet by Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Derek O’Brien comparing

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PM TO HOST OLYMPIC CONTINGENT ON I-DAYNew Delhi: PM Narendra Modi will invite the entire Indian Olympics contingent to the Red Fort as special guests on Independence Day, August 15. Modi will invite all Olympics participants to his residence for the interaction, in addition to the programme at the Red Fort. —ANI

IN THE HOUSEz Lok Sabha passes

bill to ban strikes in Ordnance factories

z Lok Sabha passes the tribunals reforms bill-2021

z Insolvency and bankruptcy amendment bill, 2021 passed in

rajya sabha amid op-position uproar

z No proposal to bifur-cate Tamil Nadu under consideration: Centre

z Tax evasion detected in GST rose in FY21 to Rs 49K cr but recovery dropped: Govt data

RESOLVE STALEMATE: NAIDU URGES PARTIESNew Delhi: Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday urged both the Central govern-ment and the Opposi-tion leaders to collec-tively resolve the pre-sent stalemate in the Parliament. He held a meeting with Defence Minister Rajnath Sin-gh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Parlia-mentary Affairs Min-

ister Pralhad Joshi, Leader of the House Piyush Goyal on Monday evening, the sources said. Turn to P6

COOL HEADED, SEASONED SPEAKER OM BIRLA WARNS OPPOSITION

Amid pandemonium, Speaker Om Birla conducted the Question Hour for nearly 40 minutes. Birla made repeated requests to the Opposition members to return to their seats. He told the agitating members that more than seven issues related to farmers have been taken up during the Ques-tion Hour, but they (agitating

members) don’t want to discuss issues related to farm-ers. As the Opposition members did not pay heed to Birla’s requests, he adjourned the House till 1200 hrs.

Editors Guild approaches SC, seeks SIT investigation New Delhi: Editors Guild of India (EGI) ap-proached the Supreme Court on Tuesday seek-ing a direction for a Spe-cial Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the al-leged Pegasus snoop-gate case.

There are already five petitions pending in the Apex Court on the same issue. The EGI has filed the petition be-fore the Supreme Court through advocates Ru-pali Samuel, Raghav Tankha, and others.

The petitioner, EGI, sought a direction to constitute an independ-ent SIT to investigate the procurement and use of spyware, hacking or electronic surveillance tools such as ‘Pegasus’ in India. Turn to P6

UNBIASED PROBE WILL CLEAR PEOPLE’S DOUBTS: KC TYAGINew Delhi: Reiterating Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s demand for probe in Pegasus spyware scandal, Janata Dal (United)’s leader KC Tyagi on Tuesday said an unbiased investigation will help in clearing people’s doubts. Tyagi said the unbiased probe will also help in getting the situation in the ruling alliance’s favour. “There are good and bad aspects of new technologies, in which spying is one aspect. According to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, things should be cleared, and all aspects should be brought to light. Turn to P6

Amit Shah and Sharad Pawar in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Ashok Gehlot DK Shivakumar Kumari Selja

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Jaipur: The announce-ment of the remaining Panchayati Raj election programme in 7 dis-tricts may take place after August 15. In the first phase, the commis-sion can conduct elec-tions in 7 districts, for which the commission has discussed with the district collectors.

The State Election Commissioner has in-structed the collectors to keep necessary prep-arations. It is believed that the commission is ready to hold elections

in Bharatpur, Dausa, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Sawai Madhopur, Sirohi and Sri Ganganagar dis-tricts initially. In such a situation, the code of conduct in these areas

may be imposed after August 15.

The commission has to file a reply in the HC on August 13 regarding the reorganisation of some panchayats.

Code of conduct in 7 dists likely from Aug 15PANCHAYATI RAJ ELECTION

SEC TO REPLY ON REORGANISATION OF PANCHAYATS BY AUG 13The commission has to file a reply in the HC on August 13 regard-ing the reorganisation of some panchayats. If the HC does not stay the election, the com-mission can issue the election schedule after August 15. Voters of 4,079 gram panchay-ats of 12 districts will vote. The work of first level checking of EVMs has also been started in the respective areas.

CM concerned about his chair not disaster management, says Poonia

Amnesty Scheme: Ensure disposal of files by Aug 15

Kataria defends his remark on Ram

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Jaipur: After fac-ing a barrage of criticism over his recent statements on Lord Ram, Leader of Opposi-tion Gulab Chand Kataria seems to have gone on the backfoot now. He has alleged that his opponents are twisting his re-marks for political reasons. “Those who raised ques-tions over the very existence of Ram in the court, they have no right to comment on my statements. It is our party which struggled for Ram temple, pulled down Babri mosque and sacri-ficed governments for it,” he asserted.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The commis-sioner of commercial tax department Ravi Jain on Tuesday direct-ed officials to ensure the disposal of willingness applications received during “Amnesty Public Relations Pakhwada” by August 15.

While reviewing the progress of the 15-day campaign with all the zone deputy commis-sioners through video conference, Jain in-

structed them to organ-ise special camps for the disposal of the applica-tions. He said that not a single application should be left undis-posed till August 15.

Jain asked officers to contact the assessees having outstanding de-mand of Rs 10 lakh to Rs 1 crore, who could not join the scheme during campaign, and associ-ate them with amnesty scheme on priority ba-sis so that outstanding demand can be reduced.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: BJP state presi-dent Dr Satish Poonia on Tuesday took a jibe at the state govt saying that robust disaster management is re-quired in view of the monsoon season but CM Ashok Gehlot is more concerned about saving his chair instead of focusing on disaster management.

He also launched a public participation programme to create awareness about Prad-han Mantri Garib Kaly-an Anna Yojana among

the people of the state.“PM Modi has done a

crucial job of providing free ration to about 80 crore needy people and

supporting them during the pandemic,” he said adding the scheme is crucial in the time of pandemic.

Satish Poonia with Laxmikant Bhardwaj, Rajesh Gurjar, Ashok Saini and other party workers on Tuesday.

Police arrests lawyer for raping 22-year-oldFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: The Shyam Nagar police in Jaipur has arrested a lawyer accused of raping a 22-year-old woman by promising to get her work in a parlour and on the pretext of mar-riage. He kept her in a flat in a live-in rela-tionship for three years but later mar-ried another girl in February.

The victim filed a case on June 22. The accused Manoj Kumar was asked to come to

police station several times for questioning but he did not come even after repeated

calls. After investiga-tion, the police arrest-ed the accused Manoj Kumar Sain, 25, late

Monday night, said ACP Sodala Bhopal Singh Bhati. The ac-cused evicted the vic-

tim from the flat and also kept her scooty, money, and household items.

10 YEARS IMPRISONMENT AWARDED TO MAN FOR RAPING WOMAN IN PALI Pali: A man has been convicted and awarded ten years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a woman in Pali. The Additional District and Sessions Judge Dr Manisha Chaudhary pronounced the judgment on Tuesday. Additional PP Prem Singh Rathore said that the victim had registered an FIR on October 18, 2014 against Ruparam Meghwal saying that she was returning to her village when the accused met her, and took her on his motorcycle on pretext of drop-ping her to the village. However, instead of going to the village, he took her to an isolated area and raped.

RED ALERT IN BHARATPUR OVER PANCHNA DAM

AMBULANCE WASHED AWAY: KID DIES, FATHER MISSING

FIVE DROWN IN KOTA AND SRI GANGANAGAR Karauli: After releasing

17,000 cusecs of water from Panchna Dam of Karauli, the gates were closed on Tuesday as the water level reached 257.50 metres.Meanwhile, released water reached Bayana tehsil of Bharatpur on Tuesday. The distance from Karauli to Bayana tehsil is about 60 kms. Bharatpur administration issued an alert in the areas as water is slowly moving towards the Kondhani dam of Bharatpur.

Tonk: An ambulance was washed away by a strong current of water on Tues-day early morning at Siras village of Niwai tehsil. The ambulance was carrying the body of a woman with her 10-year-old son Ankit Bairwa and her husband Ramjilal Bairwa, 36. The boy died while the father is missing. The ambu-lance driver and a relative came out of the vehicle after breaking its window, the SHO said.

Kota/Sri Ganganagar: Five persons drowned in Kota and Sri Ganganagar. In Sultanpur near Kota, a speeding car fell into into an overflowing pond on Tuesday in whcih two drowned and three were saved on the Kota-Itawa mega highway near Dhanwa village. In Sri Ganganagar, three friends who went to bathe in a pond at Patwa village drowned on Monday, the police said on Tuesday.

Commuters doing a balancing act as they wade through rainwater filled potholes in Jaipur, which is a common site after heavy rains. —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR

INCESSANT RAINS WREAK HAVOC IN RAJ; SEVERAL CASES OF DROWNING REPORTED

AFTER 40 YEARS...BAGRU FLOODED

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Jaipur: The torrential rains on Monday in Bag-ru of Jaipur district and Baran district have brought a flood situa-tion. One-storey houses in several colonies were submerged in water on Monday. Many people remained trapped in the water in Chitrauli vil-lage.

After nearly 40 years a flood-like situation has arisen in Bagru. Simi-larly, in the Phagi town of Jaipur, people were trapped in houses after heavy rains late at night.

In Baran, many areas were flooded due to the incessant rains for the last 5 days. Shahabad block received 246 mm of rainfall in the 24 hours ending at 7 am on Tuesday and a further 60 mm of rain was re-corded till 11 am, inun-dating several colonies in the low-lying areas, Sub-Divisional Magis-trate (SDM) Rahul Mal-hotra said.

SDRF rescues people from low-lying areas of Bagru as heavy rains lashed Jaipur district. Residential areas were inundated, houses collapsed and hundreds of people were evacuated from several villages on Tuesday.

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2 CHILDREN DIE AFTER VEHICLE SWEPT AWAY IN SAWAI MADHOPURFirst India Bureau

Sawai Madhopur: Two children were swept away in the current of flood wa-ter on Monday night near Bhairupura village in Ravanja-na Dungar police station area. The flow of the drain was so fast that the car started to sway. Pap-pu Lal Gurjar along with his two sons and friends was go-ing from Bodal to Chitara village. Gur-jar’s sons Man Singh

Gurjar, 13, and Ron-ak, 9, drowned in the accident. On Tues-day afternoon, the SDRF team took out the car after hours of effort and handed over the bodies to the police.

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Jaipur: The Rajasthan Nurses Recruitment 2018 Sangharsh Samiti protested outside Swasthya Bhawan on Tuesday demanding for

the objectionable appli-cations as well as con-tinuing the posting of the rest of the nurses. The health department banned transfer of 4,770 ANMs and 6,704 GNMs within 3 days.

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Jaipur: JDA has changed the land use category of area near Macheda village on Si-kar Road where Loha Mandi project, which has been lying pending for 21 long years is pro-posed. JDA took the step after taking legal opinion from ASG Anil Mehta. The govt too has given approval to the land use change. Em-powered Committee headed by UDH min Shanti Dhariwal held a meeting on February 14

this year and decided to increase compensation amount. Meanwhile, JDC Gaurav Goyal said under Prashashan Sha-

ron Ke Sang campaign to start from 2 October JDA will issue leases as per master plan for col-onies settled prior to

1999. Out of 207738 plots under JDA schemes, lease deeds of 123874 plots are yet to be is-sued.

ooking at the possibility of third wave of corona infec-tion, health

secretary Siddharth Mahajan has written a letter to all the district collectors to review availability of essential medicines in districts.

MEDS IN STOCKHe said that there should be a stock of medicines for three months in districts. He also sought informa-tion regarding the availability of ventila-tors in the district.

DOOR-TO-DOOR SURVEYSMahajan also asked the officers to conduct door to door surveys for monitoring of seasonal diseases, non-commu-nicable disease and for

the identification of pa-tients with illnesses.

REPORTS SOONMahajan asked the col-lectors to send the re-view report to the head

office so that the gap in demand and supply can be reduced. He referred to his letter dated May 2 in which he had sought same info which has not been provided so far.

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Jaipur: BJP spokesper-son and Chomu MLA Ramlal Sharma has al-leged discrimination and mismanagement in Covid-19 vaccination drive of the state govt. Questioning the role of Congress workers in the drive, Sharma claimed that most vac-cination camps were run either by Congress workers or someone known to them. Shar-ma said the govt must work towards bringing transparency in the on-going drive so that the common man gets its benefits too and “not just the Congress work-ers and people close to them”.

JDA TAKES LOHA MANDI PROJECT TO NEXT STAGE

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Cong workers benefitting from vax drive: Ramlal

NURSES’ BODY PROTEST OVER POSTING DISPUTE

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Jaipur: Health Minis-ter Dr Raghu Sharma launched Preventive Oncology Mobile Van from his official resi-dence on Tuesday. This van costing about Rs 1.25 cr has been re-ceived from the CSR fund of Rajasthan Ra-

jya Vidyut Prasaran Limited. Min said that the van will have fa-cilities for Mammog-raphy Machine, Digi-tal X-ray, Pap smear and Video Endoscopy for Head & Neck ex-amination. He said that till now there was no preventive oncolo-gy unit here.

Dr Raghu sets Cancer detection van rolling

Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma with Kunjilal Meena, Vaibhav Galriya, Dr Rajesh Sharma, Dr RG Sharma, Dr Sandeep Jasuja, Dr Suresh Singh & other health offi cers.

Raj Nurses Recruitment 2018 Sangharsh Samiti demonstrate outside Swasthya Bhawan, Jaipur on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR

`1,180 CR GST FRAUD: ‘Mastermind’ Jangid formed 82 bogus firms Vimal Kothari

Jaipur: The CGST Anti-Evasion Jaipur disclosed that alleged mastermind of misap-propriating ITC of Rs 158.39 crore by issuing fake bills of Rs 1180.32 crore, Praveen Jangid has perpetrated crime through 82 bogus firms across country. Jangid, who was in custody of police in a fraud case, was taken in custody by CGST Anti-Evasion unit & interrogated. Judge Manoj Kumar Nimo-ria remanded him to JC till August 16. The action was taken un-der the direction of CP Goel, Principal Com-missioner, Shashi Pan-war, Joint Commis-

sioner, Dr. Parul Sin-ghal, Deputy Commis-sioner. CGST had on July 10 arrested Ram Chandra Vishnoi, He-mant Tyagi, and Him-mat Singh Bhati in the case. Senior Public Prosecutor of CGST Banwari Lal Takhar said the court that the fraud of fake bills was happening through bo-gus firms on a nominal commission. In Jaipur c o m m i s s i o n e r a t e alone, he issued fake bills of Rs 728.15 crore thereby ding bungling of Rs 78.57 crore.

SARAF INAUGURATES VAX CAMP, 520 GET FREE JABS Jaipur: Malviya Nagar MLA Kalicharan Saraf on Tuesday inaugurated a free vax camp in ward no 133 where 520 people got free jabs. ‘Under lead-ership of PM Narendra Modi, people have shed their hesitancy & are get-ting vaccinated’, he said.

COVID-19 UPDATE

9,53,71511 Cases in a day

TOTAL CASES

8,9540 Death in a day

TOTAL DEATHS

9,44,541TOTAL RECOVERED

22061 cases in Jaipur

ACTIVE CASES

Col Rajyavardhan Rathore@Ra_THORe

After the huge irregu-larities in the purchase of Oxy Concentrators in Raj, equipment worth lakhs has suddenly

disappeared. The con-centrators that people

donated are also missing. Corruption

is fl ourishing at every level under Cong rule.

Kalicharan Saraf at a vax camp in Malviya Nagar on Tuesday.

As per JDA’s Master Plan-2025 the land ear-marked for project was meant for part commer-cial & residential use along with developing a regional park

As per HC order in Gulab Kothari episode, if an area has been marked green zone in a Master Plan, its land

use category cannot be changed in new Plan

ASG Anil Mehta pointed that land use cat-egory assigned to area earmarked for project in Master Plan-2011 was not implemented by JDA

Loha Mandi project aims at easing the pres-sure of traffi c in the city

LAND USE CATEGORY OF THE PROJECT...

PEOPLE NEED GEHLOT AS CM, SAYS BC DASAjmer: AICC general secretary and former union minister Bhakta Charan Das in Pushkar on Tuesday said that CM Ashok Gehlot is in a strong position and people of the state need him as the CM. He said that the Congress govt is working fi rmly under the leadership of Gehlot, and will continue to do so. When asked about change of leadership in state, he said people need Gehlot as CM.

FREE FIRE GAME: TEENS GO ASTRAYJaipur: By joining group of Free Fire games, a teenager’s heart fell on another & both fell in love. With mother’s jewel-lery, `28k from wardrobe, student from Khatushyam ji left for Patna. Girl’s family sent her to Ranchi but the boy followed her there. Boy was caught by family in Patna. In coun-selling of CWC member Gajendra S Charan, boy said story of joining Free Fire game and falling in love with girl from Patna.

CBSE 10th RESULT DECLARED: 99.93% GIRLS AND 99.85% BOYS PASSED IN AJMER REGIONAjmer: The CBSE declared Class 10 result on Tues-day. The result of Rajasthan in Ajmer region was 99.88%. Out of 90,537 students, 108 failed includ-ing 84 boys and 24 girls. The result percentage of girl students was 99.93% while that of boys was 99.85%. According to the CBSE, the examinations of private and correspondence students will be con-ducted from August 16 to September 15. The result of aided and government schools has been the best.

IN WAKE OF 3RD WAVE, HEALTH SECRETARY SIDDHARTH MAHAJAN WRITES TO ALL DISTRICT COLLECTORS TO REVIEW AVAILABILITY OF ESSENTIAL MEDICINES IN DISTS

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Under the visionary leadership of PM @NarendraModi ji, India continues to rise, as he becomes the first Indian

PM to preside over the @UN Security Council Meeting. Great honour for

India & a happy coincidence as this comes just before our 75th Independence Day celebrations!

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BIG HIKE: DELHI LEGISLATORS ARE POOR COUSINS OF MLAS IN OTHER STATES

egislators in Delhi have reason to break into half a smile; the Union Home Minis-try has approved a

salary hike for them. From Rs 53,000 a month, including Rs 12,000 as salary and the remain-ing in allowances, their total sal-ary has been raised to Rs 90,000 a month. Of this the salary com-ponent will be Rs 30,000 and Rs 60,000 in allowances. This is the first salary hike for Delhi legisla-tors in 10 years and doesn’t look decent enough when compared to what their counterparts get in other states. Telangana legisla-tors get a whopping Rs 2.5 lakh a month and those in Uttarakhand are paid a salary of Rs 2.4 lakh. Goa MLAs get Rs 1.99 lakh and Andhra Pradesh pays Rs 1.75 lakh to its legislators.

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RACE TO BE A FACE OF THE OPPOSITION

dialogue from a Hollywood movie based on a fictional character comes to mind which reads, “If you could make God bleed, people would cease to believe in him, there will be blood in the wa-ter, the sharks will come.” We may tend to enjoy the dia-logues for the brief moment, but sometimes they reflect the truth about life.

And this particular dia-logue fits well in the current political scheme of things vis-a-vis Narendra Modi and the Union government. While terming the Prime Minister a ‘God’, may be a tad too much, but you get the idea. So where is the comparison?

Well, winning West Bengal featured majorly in BJP and Narendra Modi’s agenda but when the party lost in the as-sembly election to Mamata Banerjee, it was seen as its most gruesome defeat till date. This has exposed the chinks in BJP’s armour, which is left scarred and bleeding now.

The political plethora real-ising that there is a way by which the political jugger-naut can be hurt, has left no stone unturned to make ad-vances. So there come the ‘sharks’ in the shape of Pegasus snooping case, oppo-sition’s ruckus and govern-ment’s inability to get the ‘House’ (Parliament) in order even as leaders of Opposition are getting bold by the day and mulling on formation of a larger alliance.

And it seems that their idea is working. Why? Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Ku-mar, whose party JDU is a part of the NDA, has yet again opened a front against the union government de-manding a probe in the Pegasus espionage case.

But what could be the rea-son for Nitish’s ‘change of heart’? Amid the sudden friendliness among opposi-tion parties, can Nitish be visualising himself in the chair of the Prime Minister? Let’s find out.

Let us take a stroll back into time. The year was 2015, when after leaving BJP’s fold, Nitish - riding high on his Prime Ministerial dream - had formed a Grand Alliance of various parties from Bihar and had successfully dented BJP’s dream of forming gov-ernment. The entire opposi-tion was looking at him as an alternative to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he was being discussed everywhere from corporate to media sec-tor. However, at the last mo-ment, he left the Mahagath-bandhan and joined the BJP.

Nitish’s JDU had an upper hand in the state then but ta-bles turned after the 2020 election wherein BJP came on top. But Nitish’s ‘dream’ remains as strong as before and to fulfill the same, per-haps, he is not making re-peated remarks against the government, further hitting the morale of NDA leaders.

Even when Nitish had the

upper hand in the state, post 2015 assembly election BJP, Nitish was looking for a larg-er representation. While he swallowed the pill then, when the Modi government was formed again in 2019, then too BJP offered one berth to JDU but Nitish denied. Two years later, again, during the recent shuffle of the Modi cabinet, the same offer was repeated, and this time around Nitish accepted.

Interestingly, even before the Bihar assembly results were announced in 2020, Nit-ish had shown his reluctance, perhaps due to the pressing matters, to continue as Chief Minister of the BJP-JDU alli-ance but BJP leaders insisted to the tune that they denied having anyone else lead the government.

In fact, Nitish Kumar is said to be angry with the BJP due to many things. First, the BJP broke his party in Naga-land and merged his party’s MLAs with the BJP.

So, this can be one reason for Nitish’s ‘resentment’. But being alive in the political arena for too long, Nitish knows how to handle the sit-uation and therefore his re-cent demand for a caste cen-sus, contrary to the opinion of the central government.

It is also to be kept in mind that even though with NDA, Nitish has been ‘lobbying’ to meet other party leaders, to initiate momentum in his fa-vour. There was a time, near-ly six years back, when Nit-ish was in the driving seat, like TMC’s Mamata Banerjee is in right now, but he let go of the ‘opportunity’ then.

His party leader and parlia-mentary board chairman Up-endra Kushwaha, regardless of ally BJP, has said that Nit-ish Kumar is capable of be-coming the prime minister and can run the country very

well if given a chance. After this statement, there was a tremendous political stir in Bihar. In the midst of this stir, Nitish Kumar met former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala on Sunday. Since his release from jail, Chautala has been talking of forming a Third Front and that is why meeting Nitish on ‘Friendship Day’ has more meaning than one.

Furthermore, Nitish has already ‘uprooted’ Chirag Paswan’s LJP in Bihar and made his uncle - Pashupati Paras - the leader. Chirag Pas-wan had fielded his candi-date against every candidate of Janata Dal-U and had an-nounced that JDU would be wiped out and his party would form the government with BJP. Nitish later took revenge and it now seems that Paras would back Nitish for the Union role, since there will be a chance of Pa-ras getting the chair vacated by Nitish in Bihar.

Meanwhile, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has met Nit-ish on the issue of conduct-ing caste census. Both are pressurizing the central gov-

ernment to conduct the caste census.

Seeing the manner in which Nitish is doing pro-active politics after being de-ceived directly from the NDA constituent Lok Janshakti Party and indirectly from the BJP in the assembly elec-tions, it seems that in the coming days, the equations will change. RJD and JDU, both arch rival parties of Bi-har, can grow closer and signs of this have already started to appear. Both the parties can come together on the issue of caste based cen-sus. Tejashwi Yadav went to Chief Minister Nitish Ku-mar’s chamber in the assem-bly and met him. Both Tejashwi and his brother Tej Pratap had gone to meet him on the last day of the assem-bly session.

And to top it all, his equa-tion with a mastermind po-litical strategist Prashant Kishor, who was accorded the rank of a minister by Nitish, is also well known. Prashant is looking for a central role in Congress and he could be an important piece of the puzzle when the ‘Mahagathband-han’ is formed yet again and his equation with Nitish will come in handy for a seamless coalition.

So long story short, it seems that Nitish could actu-ally be a dark horse in the race to the chair of PM, pro-vided he can forge a regional alliance of majority players like RJD, Samajwadi Party and other regional players down south as well, but first he will have to become the face of the opposition alli-ance and with Mamata Ba-nerjee too making her own efforts in the foray, things are surely going to be interesting in the months to come.

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY

THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

AKARTIKEY

DEV SINGH

The political plethora realising that there is a way

by which the political juggernaut can be hurt, has

left no stone unturned to make advances. So there

come the ‘sharks’ in the shape of Pegasus snooping case,

opposition’s ruckus and government’s inability to get

the ‘House’ (Parliament) in order even as leaders of

Opposition are getting bold by the day and mulling on

formation of a larger alliance

So long story short, it seems that Nitish could

actually be a dark horse in the race to the chair of PM, provided he

can forge a regional alliance of majority players like RJD,

Samajwadi Party and other regional players

down south as well, but first he will have to

become the face of the opposition alliance

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NO STUDY TO ASSESS IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SUICIDES: MHA

22,691 ACTIVE ORGANISATIONS PRESENTLY REGISTERED UNDER FCRA

New Delhi: Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said the govt has not conducted any study to assess the impact of the pandem-ic on suicides in the country. Questions were raised in LS, whether the Government has conducted any study or proposes to conduct a study to find out the factors responsible for increase of suicide cases in rural areas after the COVID-19 pandemic in various parts of the country. Rai said the National Crime Records Bureau compiles and publishes information on suicidesis yet to publish.

New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry informed Lok Sabha on Tuesday that there are presently about 22,691 active organisations registered under The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 in India. The ministry further said that these organisations have received or they are receiving foreign funds from abroad during the last three years. Responding to BJP MP Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria’s question regarding the total number of registered and unregistered NGOs, voluntary organizations (VOs), schools, Madarsas who have been receiving funds.

NO ONE ARRESTED IN JNU VIOLENCE: NITYANAND RAI TELLS LOK SABHA

DELHI CABINET NOD TO SALARY HIKE FOR MLAS TO `30,000 PER MONTH

New Delhi: The Delhi Police has not arrested anyone in connection with the 2020 violence at

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) even though several people were examined, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai

said the Delhi Police has reported that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Crime Branch has been constituted to investigate three cases.

New Delhi: The Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday approved salary hike for MLAs as per the Centre’s proposal,

raising the pay to Rs 30,000 from Rs 12,000 per month, a day after the Centre rejected a plan to raise salaries of MLAs at par with other state legis-latures. Chief Minister

Arvind Kejriwal-led cabinet approved the Centre’s proposed salary for MLAs, even as the government said Delhi’s MLAs will continue to be among the lowest-paid MLAs across India.

PORTAL DEVELOPED FOR CAPACITY BUILDING OF POLICE AND JUDICIARY

PIL FILED AGAINST U’KHAND’S DECISION TO RE-OPEN SCHOOLS

New Delhi: A Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) platform, the ‘CyTrain’ portal has been developed for capacity building of the police and judicial officers, said Nityanand Rai Minister of State, Home Affairs in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. The platform has been developed under the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) to provide courses to the officers. This portal will offer online courses on critical aspects of cybercrime investigation, forensics, prosecution and certificates will be provided upon successful completion of the course.

Uttarakhand: The Uttarakhand HC in Naini-tal has asked the petitioner against the state government’s decision to re-open schools from August to make amendments in his PIL. Petitioner Vijay Singh of Dehradun filed a PIL against Cabinet’s decision to re-open schools in Uttarakhand. In his PIL, he challenged the government’s decision to re-open schools for classes 6-12 citing the risk of exposure to Coro-navirus. The PIL is being heard by a division bench of Chief Justice RS Chauhan and Alok Kumar. The judges said that the petition has not been drafted accurately,” media mentioned.

CRUCIAL READPRESIDENT RAM NATH KOVIND ARRIVES IN THE NILGIRIS, GETS WARM WELCOME

PLEA IN SC SEEKS ‘X’ CATEGORY SECURITY FOR ALL JUDICIAL OFFICERS

INDIA NABS OVER 3,000 SMUGGLERS BETWEEN 2018 & 2020 AT BORDERS

Tamil Nadu: President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, arrived in the Nilgiris. The president, who arrived

by helicopter at the helipad in Theetukkal, was welcomed by Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Puro-hit, TN Industries Minister, Thangam Thennarasu, For-

est Minister and Coonoor MLA, K. Ramachandran and Nilgiris Collector J. Innocent Divya. As part of security protocol, roads leading into the town were blocked off for almost 30 minutes.

New Delhi: A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the SC seeking directions to the Centre and all the

State govts to grant ‘X’ category security to all judicial officers. The plea also sought directions to the Centre and State govts to immediately ini-tiate and enforce guide-lines for the protection

of all judicial officers and advocates. In the aftermath of the recent killing of Jharkhand judge Uttam Anand, a plea filed by advocate Vishal Tiwari before the SC stated various incidents across the country pointed towards the threats faced by judges thereby.

New Delhi: India’s Border Guarding Forces have arrest-ed 3,065 smugglers between 2018 and 2020 from bor-

ders with neighbouring Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar.Minister of State of Home Nityanand Rai made the declaration in the Lok Sabha on

Tuesday while mentioning that drugs like charas, ganja, brown sugar, heroin, opium, marijuana, and arms were seized along India-Pakistan, India-Bangladesh, India-Nepal, and Indo-Myanmar Borders by the concerned Border Guarding Forces such as BSF. IN THE COURTYARD

New Delhi: Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed the beneficiaries of Prad-han Mantri Garib Kaly-an Anna Yojana and said this scheme has reduced the worries of the poor and increased their confidence.

“Today, under PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yo-jana, the free ration is being distributed to lakhs of families of Gu-jarat. This free ration reduces the worries of the poor in this time of the global pandemic and increases their con-fidence,” said the Prime Minister.

“After independence, almost every govern-ment had talked about providing reasonably priced food to the poor. The scope and budget of reasonable ration schemes increased year

after year, but the effect it should have had re-mained limited.”

Recalling his past experience, Prime Minister said earlier the country’s food re-serves kept increasing,

but hunger and malnu-trition did not decrease in that proportion. “One major reason for this was the lack of an effective delivery sys-tem. To change this situation fresh work

was started after 2014,” said PM Narendra Modi.

“Today, in addition to the quota of wheat at Rs 2/kg, rice at Rs 3/kg, 5 kg of wheat and rice is being given free to eve-ry beneficiary. That is, almost double the amount of ration is be-ing provided to the ra-tion card holders than before this scheme. This scheme is going to last till Diwali,” said the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister in his address also said that “empowerment of the poor” is being given top priority today. —ANI

During pandemic PMGKAY reduced worries of poor, gave confidence: PMHe said this while interacting with beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana in Gujarat via V-C

Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) is a scheme as part of Atmanirbhar Bharat to supply free food grains to migrants and the poor. The program further promises to provide 5Kg free wheat/rice per per-son/month along with 1 kg free whole chana to each fami-ly per month for more than 81.35 crore people from May to November 2021. Wheat has been allocated to 6 States/UTs.

Mumbai: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has as-sured him that he will visit Maharashtra soon.Raut, whose party shares power with the NCP and Congress in Maharashtra, met Gan-dhi in New Delhi on Monday. He also attend-ed a breakfast meeting of leaders of opposition parties hosted by the former Congress presi-dent at the Constitution Club in the national capital on Tuesday where stress was laid on

opposition unity. Tak-ing to reporters in Del-hi, Raut said, ‘A meeting between us was due since us some time. He (Gandhi) had some doubts which have been addressed now. He has assured to visit Maha-rashtra soon.”

WHAT IS PMGKAY SCHEME?

Rahul Gandhi likely to visit Maharashtra soon: Raut

PM Modi interacts with the beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana —Photo by ANI

Sanjay Raut

INTERACTION WITH BENEFICIARIES OF PM GARIB KALYAN ANNA YOJANANew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with the beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) in Gujarat through video conferencing on Tuesday. During the COVID-19 lockdown last year, under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, the Government provided a free ration to 80 crore beneficiaries for eight months. During the interaction, PM Modi said Gujarat was on a development path for the past years.

New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gan-dhi on Tuesday slammed the govt over the issue of inflation in the country. “Every citi-zen is asking to control the inflation. Stop kill-ing the poor people and start addressing these issues in the Parlia-ment,” Priyanka said in a tweet with a video of her brother and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi riding bicycle to reach the Parliament

highlight rising fuel prices. The issue of price rise has continued to dominate the ongo-ing session of the Par-liament, which began on July 19. Last month, ahead of the monsoon

session of the Parlia-ment, Cong leader Kharge had alleged the Centre of collecting Rs 25 lakh crore through fuel tax and not spend-ing the fund for the wel-fare of people. —ANI

PRIYANKA GANDHI SLAMS GOVT OVER INFLATION, SAYS STOP KILLING POOR

Priyanka Gandhi addresses the party supporters . —FILE PHOTO

The price rise issue has dominated the Parl session

Covid 2nd wave not over yet, ‘R number’ high in 8 states: CentreNew Delhi: Underlin-ing that the second wave of COVID-19 is not over yet, the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday said that the Reproduction (R) num-ber is high in eight states adding that case trajectory needs to be controlled there.

Addressing a press conference over the Covid-19 situation in the country, Joint Secre-tary of Union Health Ministry, Lav Agarwal said whenever R num-ber is above one, it means that the case tra-jectory is increasing and it needs to be con-trolled. These eight states include Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram, Karnataka, Puducher-ry, Kerala, he informed.

“US, Canada, Aus-tralia, and India have 1.2 R number, on aver-

age. This means one in-fected individual is in-fecting more than one person. R number is high in 8 states of India. Growth rate and active cases are also assessed using the Reproduction (R) Number. It is the av-erage number of new infections generated by one infected individual during the entire infec-tious period,” he said.

“Whenever R num-ber is above one, it means that the case tra-jectory is increasing

and it needs to be con-trolled,” the official added.

Agarwal further said that a high number of COVID cases are being reported across the world and the pandemic is far from over.

“As far as India is concerned, the second wave is still not over,” said Agarwal.

Speaking about posi-tivity rate in the coun-try, he said, “There are 44 districts where the rate is over 10 per cent.”

Health workers wearing PPE kit takes swab test. —PHOTO BY ANI

Poll violence: Calcutta HC reserves order after hearing

Honey Singh in legal trouble as wife files case

Kolkata: Calcutta High Court reserved the order after the final hearing in the West Bengal post-poll vio-lence matter that ended on Tuesday.

During the hearing, the Court asked the So-licitor General to pro-vide records of all the suo moto cases on the matter. The court fur-ther told that if any party wants to submit documents, they can do so by 2.30 pm tomorrow (Wednesday).

Advocate Priyanka Tibrewal, one of the pe-titioners in the West Bengal post-poll vio-lence case said the probe in the matter should be handed over to an independent agency.“This should be handed over to an inde-pendent agency,” Tibrewal. —PTI

New Delhi: Tis Hazari Court in Delhi has is-sued notice to singer Honey Singh on a case filed by his wife Shalini Talwar under the Pro-tection of Women from Domestic Violence Act.

Tis Hazari Court’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tania Sin-gh issued notice to Honey Singh and listed the matter for further hearing on August 28. “The Respondents (Honey Singh) also criminally intimidated the applicant, caused her extreme duress and torture. The Applicant has suffered immense pain, hurt throughout the marriage,” read the petition.

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Rahul again...Leaders of several op-position parties attend-ed the breakfast meet-ing hosted by former Congress president Rahul Gandhi at the Constitution Club where stress was laid on opposition unity. Apart from around 100 MPs of the Congress, leaders of several op-position parties includ-ing Trinamool Con-gress, NCP, Shiv Sena, DMK, CPI-M, CPI, RJD, Samajwadi Party, JMM, JKNC, IUML, RSP, KCM, LJD and RSP totalling 17 politi-cal parties attended the

meeting but the Bahu-jan Samaj Party (BSP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) did not attend. — PTI

Editors Guild...The petitioner sought the issuance of guide-lines on surveillance against Indian citizens including, guidelines for the safeguarding of journalists from sur-veillance including elec-tronic surveillance, spy-ing, and hacking.The petitioner further also sought guidelines for safeguarding wom-en who work as journal-ists from gendered

crimes through surveil-lance, including elec-tronic surveillance, spy-ing, and hacking.—ANI

Unbiased probe...For that, a probe is needed...As a friendly party, it’s our advice that there should be a probe to clear things. After the probe, the pro-ceedings of Parliament can also be carried out without hindrance,” he said. Meanwhile, for-mer Bihar chief minis-ter Jitan Ram Manjhi has also backed the de-mand of the opposition parties for investiga-tion in Pegasus snoop-

ing controversy.

Indo-Sino...there was an agreement between both sides to disengage from PP-17A also known as Gogra, sources said.

Plea against...which said the Union Public Service Commis-sion (UPSC) should con-sider those officers for such appointments who have two years of ser-vice left. —ANI

Resolve stalemate...Naidu discussed the stalemate in the House

with Leader of the Op-position at Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge af-ter the first adjourn-ment of the House to-day, the sources added.

Opposition insulting...the passing of legisla-tion to making of a “pa-pri chaat”. Speaking to reporters, Union Parlia-mentary Affairs Minis-ter Pralhad Joshi said that the Prime Minister told the BJP MPs that by using this language TMC has insulted the Parliament and people of the country who have elected MPs. —ANI

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LS, RS adjourned amid Opposition ruckus

MONSOON SESSION

New Delhi : The Lower House of the Parliament has been adjourned for the third time today till 4 PM following the ruckus created by opposi-tion parties on various issues. Rajya Sabha has also been ad-journed till 11 AM on August 4. While Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla asked parliamentar-ians to maintain decorum, op-position MPs continued with repeated sloganeering on various issues. Before the House was adjourned, the Lok Sabha passed The Essen-tial Defence Services Bill, 2021. The Essential Defence Services Bill allows the cen-tral government to prohibit strikes, lock-outs, and lay-offs in units engaged in essential defence services. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh intro-duced this Bill in the Lower House.Meanwhile, in Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister Nir-mala Sitharaman introduced the Insolvency and Bankrupt-cy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2021 which also has been passed.

Earlier, Lok Sabha got ad-journed till 2 PM and 12 noon.Also, earlier today, Congress MP Manickam Tagore has given an adjournment motion notice in Lok Sabha to discuss the 'Pegasus Project' media report.For the last few days, the business of both the Hous-es of the Parliament remained majorly disrupted due to the continuous ruckus created by the Opposition over issues in-cluding farmers' protest, Pegasus spyware, COVID-19 and inflation. The Monsoon Session commenced on July 19, 2021, and will continue till August 13, 2021.

OPPOSITION NOT INTERESTED IN FARMERS’ ISSUES: OM BIRLA

Speaker Om Birla alleged the Opposition was not interested in the issues of farmers. Ad-dressing the protesting Opposi-tion members who huddled in front of the chair with placards, Birla said, “Today, I took up more than seven issues about farmers in the Parliament. I wanted you to question the (ag-riculture) minister about their issues in the Question Hour so that their problems would be

resolved. But you don’t want to debate or question about their issues.” He added that the Opposition also had a responsi-bility to respect the House and maintain decorum. “You have been chosen by the people of this country so that you can voice their issues here in Parlia-ment so that you speak about the issues of farmers. But you (Opposition) are just slogan-eerin This is not right,” he said.

LOK SABHA PASSES BILL TO BAN STRIKES IN ORDNANCE FACTORIES

RAJYA SABHA PASSES INSOLVENCY AND BANKRUPTCY CODE BILL

Amid din over the Pegasus snooping issue, the Lok Sabha Tuesday passed a bill that prohibits employees of ordnance factories to go on strike. The Essential Defence Services Bill, 2021, was passed by a voice vote without any discussion. Minister of State for Defence, Ajay Bhatt, presented the Bill for passage as the House convened at 2 pm even as Opposition leaders shouted slogans and created a ruckus demanding discussion over the Pegasus issue.

The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day on Tuesday amid continuous protest by opposition parties over their demand for a discussion on the use of Pegasus spyware, farmers’ agitation against farm reform laws and other issues.However, the House passed the Insol-vency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2021 with a brief discussion amid the ruckus created by opposition parties.BJP member Bhubaneshwar Kalita in Chair asked Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to move the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amend-ment) Bill, 2021.

TRIBUNALS REFORMS BILL-2021 RATIFYThe govt intends to get the Tribu-nals Reforms Bill, 2021 passed in the lower house despite continu-ous disruptions by the opposi-tion parties. The Bill seeks to further amend the Cinematograph Act, 1952, the Customs Act, 1962, the Airports Authority of India Act, 1994, the Trade Marks Act, 1999 and the certain other Acts.

China releases video of 2020 Galwan clashes

New Delhi: Chinese online handles have released footage of the clashes which took place between Indian and Chinese soldiers in the Gal-wan Valley in Ladakh in June last year. The visuals sur-faced hours after In-dia and China issued a joint statement yes-terday saying they would continue Com-mander-level mili-tary talks to deesca-late tensions in east-ern Ladakh.

The clashes be-

tween Indian and Chinese troops, the worst since the 1962 war, took place on June 15 last year. The footage shows Chi-nese soldiers throw-ing stones at Indian soldiers from heights above the bend of the Galwan river. The clip also shows a few Chinese soldiers adrift in the shallow, fast-flowing river and soldiers of both sides amassed. 20 of-ficers and men were killed in the clashes said indian officers.

New Delhi: The month-ly production capacity of Covishield is project-ed to be increased to more than 120 million doses and of Covaxin to around 58 million doses by December, the gov-ernment told Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. UHM Mansukh Mandaviya was responding to a question on the current capacity to manufac-ture Covaxin and Cov-ishield in the country, and the expected capac-ity going forward from August to Dec 2021. “As communicated by the manufacturers, the monthly vaccine pro-duction capacity of

Covishield is projected to be increased from 110 million doses per month to more than 120 mil-lion doses per month and the production ca-pacity of Covaxin is projected to be in-creased from 25m doses per month to around 58 million doses per month,” the minister said in a written reply.

Production of jabs to increase by Dec: Govt

GST collection touches Rs1 lakh crore mark in JulyNew Delhi: In what can be seen as a sign that economic activity is picking up pace in the country, India’s tax col-lections on goods sold and services rendered returned to over Rs 1 lakh crore in July. The figures are an improve-ment from the previous month when lockdown-like restrictions were imposed in most states to contain the second wave of Covid-19.

Goods and Services Tax (GST) mop-up grew 33 per cent year-on-year

in July to over Rs 1.16 lakh crore, indicating that the economy is re-covering at a fast pace. In July 2020, the collec-tion was Rs 87,422 crore. In a statement, the Un-ion Finance Ministry said robust GST reve-nues are likely to con-tinue even in the coming months.

HIGHLIGHTS

CM SHIVRAJ CHOUHAN REVIEWS FLOOD SITUATION IN MP

ARMY HELICOPTER CRASH: SEARCH OPERATIONS FOR PILOTS HALTED

BENGAL BJP MPS MEET UNION MINISTERS, DISCUSS STATE ISSUES

VHP TO HOLD WEEK-LONG CELEBRATION FOR FOUNDATION DAYNew Delhi: Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) will hold a week-long celebration from August 22 to August 29 to mark the organization’s foundation day.The Joint general secretary of VHP, Surinder Jain said, “Broadly, we will cover three agendas. Firstly, we will create awareness about Coronavirus and will help people in need. Secondly, we will celebrate Raksha Bandhan and Janmashtami and spread awareness about VHP.

LALU PRASAD MEETS SHARAD, BACKS CHIRAG PASWANNew Delhi: RJD president Lalu Prasad Yadav met Sharad Yadav, who is recuperating from a long spell of illness, on Tuesday, and both leaders held talks for over an hour. The RJD leader told report-ers later that the absence of socialists leaders like Sharad Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav and himself had resulted in neglect of people-related issues in Parliament. He also backed LJP leader Chirag Paswan.

New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday held a review meeting with offi cials on the fl ood situation in the state, after which he said that 1,600 people have been rescued till now by National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and their state-level counterparts. PM Modi, assured all possible help to fl ood-hit Madhya Pradesh, CM said. Panic prevailed in rural areas of Datia including Sevdha after a bridge of Ratangarh Mata temple built on Sindh river washed away due to fl ood fury.

Kathua: Search operations for the two Army pilots missing after their ALH Dhruv helicopter crashed in the Ranjit Sagar lake in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua have been halted and will be resumed on Wednesday morning, said Army sources. As per sources, no bodies have been recovered in the search operations as of today. Earlier, the sources said that the initial reports from the ground sug-gested that the missing pilot and co-pilot have been recovered safely from the chopper.

New Delhi: BJP MPs from West Bengal met union ministers, Mansukh Mandaviya and Dharmendra

Pradhan to discuss health and education issues concerning the state. After the meet-ing, Dilip Ghosh told that party MPs raised

concern about irregularities in on-going vaccination drives and teaching in tribal areas of the state.

CRUCIAL READ

Anita Hada

New Delhi: Even with 3 years still to go for the General elections, leaders of Opposition parties have started to play the ‘game of thrones’ and all the leaders are circling around a virtual chair to the tune of their own ‘music’.

Till a few weeks ago, the leader trying to unite the Opposition

was Sharad Pawar. Then election strate-gist Prashant Kishor went to Mumbai and met him and when both of them met in Delhi, it was believed that Pawar is being made the axis of Op-position politics.

Then one day a meeting of Opposition leaders and eminent citizens of the country was called at Pawar’s residence but that day

Pawar backed out and allowed Yashwant Sin-ha to take the credit.

That is, the NCP re-treated and the Rash-tra Manch created by Yashwant Sinha was brought in the light. Yashwant Sinha is also associated with the Trinamool Con-gress.

Now, both these leaders are of the age of 80 years or around and moreover, none of

them has the strength to be the ‘street

fighter’. Therefore, they can

‘work’ i.e. carry out manipulation behind

the scenes, but elec-tion cannot be fought with their face. That is when the third name yet another strong ‘sa-trap’, Mamata Baner-jee came.

She considers her-self a natural fit in na-tional politics after winning in Bengal for the third time and while she can compete on the road, but it’s not like she is the last face available before the

Opposition.One should always

be prepared for any surprise in politics. Akhilesh or Mayawa-ti’s face may emerge after next year’s elec-tions.

If Nitish Kumar changes the alliance again, then he can also be the face and if Con-gress performs well then Rahul Gandhi can also be the face of a United Opposition.

PAWAR, YASHWANT AND NOW MAMATA Who will finally emerge as the face of United Opposition?

Sharad Pawar Yashwant Sinha Mamata Banerjee

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Sikar: In a daring loot, unidentifi ed miscreants cut open an ATM in Laxmangarh town of Sikar district

late on Monday and decamped with Rs 12 lakh. According to police, four to fi ve people used a gas cutter on the SBI ATM near Modi University. Branch manager Ramkumar

Kinkar has submitted a complaint to the local police. The CCTV footage obtained from the ATM shows that the culprits arrived on the spot in a car late on Monday and tried to tamper with the CCTV camera.

ROBBERS CUT OPEN SBI ATM AT LAXMANGARH, DECAMP WITH `12 LAKH

AMAGARH FORT TEMPLE TO OPEN TODAY, GOLMA TO OFFER PRAYERSJaipur: The state government on Tuesday permit-ted visit to the Shiva temple situated in Amagarh Fort under Transport nagar police station area of Jaipur from Wednesday. The devotees will be able to visit the temple from 8 am to 4 pm, Additional commissioner of Jaipur Police Rahul Prakash said. He said that the dispute related to Amagarh has ended. BJP Rajya Sabha MP Kirodi Lal Meena had unfurled a tribal fl ag on the Amagarh fort on Sunday. His wife Golma Devi will worship at the temple on Wednesday.

NEWS DIGEST

Jhalawar: Power generation has been restored at the 2nd unit of Kalisindh thermal power plant on

Tuesday. Working of the unit was stopped last Saturday due to load despatch. Incidentally, the 1st unit too had to be closed on the same day due to boiler leakage. Power supply was completely snapped in the area as both the unit went out

of order. Plant’s chief engineer KL Meena and other technical staff tried to repair the leakage.

POWER GENERATION RESTORED IN 2ND UNIT OF JHALAWAR PLANT

SE in ACB custody after broker held with `28,000First India Bureau

Jodhpur: The Anti-Corruption Bureau, Jodhpur arrested a bro-ker Kantilal for collect-ing bribes from pro-spective consumers in Jalore on the name of Superintendent Engi-neer (SE) Chatar Singh Meena of power distri-bution company (dis-com), who is also in cus-tody for questioning.

ACB DIG Vishnukant said that owners of a ce-ment brick manufactur-ing unit in Jalore had applied for connection for 15 HP power supply for which SE allegedly demanded Rs 30,000.An ACB team, led by ASP Dr Mahavir Singh Ranawat, laid a trap and nabbed Kantilal af-ter he received Rs 28,000 bribe amount. Later, the team went to Meena’s residence and took him into custody. Meena is being interrogated by the team.

Chatar Singh Meena and Kantilal in the custody of the ACB on Tuesday.

Diya takes up infra projects with Gadkari, Vaishnaw

20 lakh players to participate in Raj Rural Games: Chandna

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Rajsamand MP Diya Kumari met Union Road Transport and Highways Minister, Ni-tin Gadkari during the monsoon session of the Parliament and ex-pressed her gratitude for starting the work of JK circle underpass and Beawar-Gomti four lane. She also met Rail-way Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

The MP requested Gadkari for work relat-ed to removal of black spot between Bhatewar and Charbhuja as well

as Gomti and Udaipur to begin soon. Diya also urged for approval of the mega highway from Merta to Jodhpur via Pushkar to Lambia. She urged Vaishnaw to start work of Mavli-Marwar gauge conversion.

Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: Rajasthan is all set to create a record in organising sports com-petition in November by organising the Ra-jasthan Rural Games in which a record 20 lakh players will participate.

The games will be or-ganised at Gram Pan-chayat, Block, District and State level and play-ers of any age can par-ticipate in it, said Sports Minister Ashok Chandna on Tuesday.Chandna held a meet-ing of district sports of-ficers, coaches and offi-

cials at SMS Stadium on Tuesday. He said six sports including Kabad-di, Volleyball, Khokho and Hockey have been included. Games will be held at 11,341 gram pan-chayats and 44,795 rev-enue villages.

Diya Kumari with Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi.Ashok Chandna and Vikas Sitaramji Bhale on Tuesday.

Deposits of cement grade limestone foundNirmal Tiwari

Jaisalmer: Huge depos-its of cement grade lime-stone have been found by Geological Survey of India (GSI) in more than 13 square km area of Jaisalmer. The GSI offi-cials handed over the report to ACS Mines Dr. Subodh Agarwal.

Agarwal said that in the discovery of GSI, 315.235 million tonnes of cement grade lime-stone reserves are like-ly to be there in Jais-almer and now the state government will exam-ine the report. According to the report,

there is a possibility of about 18.012 million tonnes in an area of 4.60 sq km in Lakhman Ki Dhani, 29.82 million tonnes in 3.20 sq km in Kuinyala South, 67.033 million tonnes in 2.50 sq km area of Miyon ki Dhani East Block A and 200.37 million tonnes in Miyon ki dhani north.

The Centre has attained high

levels of success in its work works related to road construction and the public is relieved.

—Diya Kumari, Rajsamand MP

The main motto of these games is

“Fit Rajasthan, Hit Rajasthan”. CM Ashok has provisioned Rs 30 crore for these games.

—Ashok Chandna, Sports Minister

First India Bureau

Jaipur: After defer-ring the dates, Ra-jasthan Cricket Asso-ciation (RCA) has shift-ed the venue of State-level Umpire and Scor-er Refresher Seminar from Mount Abu to Jodhpur now.

Earlier, the three-day seminar was sched-uled to be held on July 17-19 in Mt Abu but due

to unavailability of ho-tel rooms, RCA post-poned it to August 4-6. Now the venue too has been shifted to Jodh-

pur. RCA secretary Ma-hendra Sharma said the seminar aims at updating the certified empires and scorers with the new tech-niques and standards before Board for Con-trol of Cricket in India (BCCI) begins the do-mestic cricket session.

RCA president Vaib-hav Gehlot and other officials will attend the seminar in Jodhpur.

RCA’s three-day Umpire and Scorer Refresher Seminar shifted from Mount Abu to Jodhpur

Vaibhav Gehlot

BCCI AUTHORISED FACULTY Rajasthan Cricket As-sociation has appoint-ed BCCI authorised Umpires and scorers having national and international level experience as faculty in the seminar. The upper age limit for umpires as faculty has been fi xed at 55 while it is 60 for scorers.

DISCOM AEN SENTENCED TO 3-YEAR IN JAILSikar: A local court on Tuesday awarded 3-year impris-onment to the then AEN of Jaipur DISCOM posted in Sikar in a case of bribery. Kuldeep Singh Kulhar was arrested on 20 August 2010 for taking a bribe of Rs 11,000 from a contractor. The magistrate awarded him 3 years of imprisonment and also imposed a penalty of Rs. 40,000, said an offi cial.

ON THE RUN, HEAD CONSTABLE HELDBanswara: A head constable was arrested in a case of graft in Pratapgarh district. The accused head constable Munim Kadli had demanded a bribe of Rs 10,000 to settle a case of scuffl ing which was registered with Dhariyawad police station in 2020. He later agreed to take Rs 6,000. After verifi cation, a trap was laid by the ACB team from Banswara but the head constable managed to escape shortly before the ACB action.

Robert Vadra: ED presents its side in the high court First India Bureau

Jodhpur: Arguments in Skylight Hospitality matter of Robert Vadra, husband of Congress leader Priyanka Gan-dhi, were heard on Tuesday by Justice PS Bhati at Rajasthan High Court, Jodhpur. It was 4th date in the matter. ASG RD Rastogi argued on behalf of Enforce-ment Directorate that precious government land at Kolayat in Bi-kaner was grabbed in connivance with Reve-nue officers, staff and other persons. Argu-ments will continue on Wednesday also.

Recently promoted Director General of Police (Intelligence) Umesh Mishra and Director General of Police (Civil Rights and Anti Human Traffi cking) Nina Singh met Governor Kalraj Mishra at Raj Bhavan on Tuesday. This was their courtesy call on the Governor.

COURTESY MEET!

SANGAM to augment med PG trainingFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: An MoU was signed between Dr Su-dhir Bhandari, Princi-pal SMS Medical Col-lege, Jaipur and Briga-dier YS Sirohi, Com-mandant Military Hospital, Jaipur on

Tuesday to Augment PG training pro-

grammes under SANGAM. Four medi-cal college hospitals ( S i k a n d a r a b a d , Jaipur, Zorhate and Gauhati) are selected for this programme. Colonel AK Singh of Military Hospital was also present.

Dr Sudhir Bhandari, Brig YS Sirohi and Col AK Singh.

Mukesh Mathrani

Barmer: Around 27 lakhs children in the state are at risk of get-ting anaemic. In a bid to help the children fight anaemia, the Un-ion government had launched a program the National Iron Plus Initiative (NIPI) in 2013. Under this pro-gramme the govern-ment is giving IFA (Iron Folic Acid) syrup to the target group. But it is running at snail pace in Ra-jasthan.

Due to official apa-thy, the situation is that around 27 lakhs children in Rajasthan have not got required doses of IFA syrup, helpful in fighting anaemia. Official data

reveals the govern-ment has decided to give 8 doses of IFA

syrup to 54.85 lakh children in the state. But till May 2021, it

could be given only to 26.96 lakh children. Around 27 lakhs chil-

dren did not get the supplement to fight anaemia.

27 lakhs kids in the state are at risk of getting anaemic as doses of IFA syrup not given

There are several reasons behind the programme not running with de-sired targets, main cause being lock-down restrictions. Besides this, lack of reporting and some technical issues are also there. Now, proper attention is being paid and targets will be achieved soon.

—Dr Sataram Bhakar, additional CMHO and nodal offi cer

of NIPI programme in Barmer

Negligence can lead towards the high risk of anaemia: ExpertsThe National Family Health Survey-3 (NFHS-3) data suggests that anaemia is widely prevalent among all age groups, and is particularly high among the most vulnerable – nearly 58 per cent among pregnant women, 50 per cent among non-pregnant non-lactating women, 56 per cent among adolescent girls (15–19 years), 30 per cent among adolescent boys and around 80 per cent among children under 3 years of age and 70% below 5 years of age. They said that in such a situation negligence toward such an important program can lead towards the high risk of anaemia.

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TARGETBENEFITTED

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IFA Pink pill for the girls who are not going to school for 5 to 9 years

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Jaipur: Chief Secre-tary Niranjan Arya on Tuesday, said that all the Collectors should do the work of develop-ing industrial areas at the sub-division level on priority and ensure that its land is allotted at the earliest. Arya was holding a review meeting with all the Divisional Commis-sioners and Collectors on various issues of Environment, Reve-nue, Home and Food Security and Civil Sup-plies Departments through video confer-

encing.Arya said that set-

ting up of industrial area at subdivision level is a budget an-nouncement and fol-lowing the instruc-tions of Chief Minis-ter Ashok Gehlot, all the District Collectors have to do this work on priority. He further added that this year new industrial areas are to be opened in 68 sub-divisions and the Collectors should con-tinuously monitor this work. He said that ad-vance action should be taken in two weeks by allotting land.

Develop industrial areas at sub-division level on priority: CSTAKING STOCK

CS Niranjan Arya chairs meeting of Environment, Revenue, Home and Food and Civil Supplies Departments with Divisional Commissioners and District Collectors at Secretariat on Tuesday. Also seen here are Abhay Kumar, Sreya Guha and Ashutosh Pednekar.

Jaipur: In a setback to Rajasthan government, the Centre has stayed the appointment of sev-en new independent di-rectors in Jaipur, Kota, Udaipur and Ajmer smart city companies.

Following complaints against the appoint-ments, the Union Minis-try of Housing and Ur-ban Affairs has put the appointments on hold

till the inquiry related to these appointments is done.

Sources said that it was complained to the Central government that those who were ap-pointed as independent directors in Smart City did not have any special experience in matters related to town planning or urban development.

On July 15, the Direc-

torate of Local Self Gov-ernment had issued an order for the appoint-ment of Vice Chairman in Jaipur Smart City and Kota Smart City.

In this order, 7 inde-pendent directors were also appointed in the Smart City Jaipur, Udaipur, Ajmer and Kota under companies act.

The independent di-

rectors were Jai Akad (Jaipur) Dr. Poonam Sharma, Ravindra Tya-gi, Rajni Gupta (Kota), Sajjan Katara (Udaipur), Dr. Gopal Baheti and Ra-jkumar Jaipal (Ajmer).

Sajjan Katara and Go-pal Baheti are former MLAs while Rajni Gup-ta is the wife of former CMD of Jaipur DISCOM AK Gupta.

—FIB

COURTESY MEET!

Jagdeesh Chandra extends a floral greeting to Asim Arun, Commissioner of Police, Kanpur at the latter’s office on Tuesday, on his being the first Police Commissioner of Kanpur. Jagdeesh Chandra was on a one day trip to Lucknow and Kanpur.

Schools to be re-opened after seeking expert advice: GehlotIts a sensitive issue and no hasty decision would be taken in the matter, CM saidFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Chief Minis-ter Ashok Gehlot has expressed hope that the Centre may issue guidelines soon in the

m a t -

ter of opening educa-tional institutions. On Monday, Gehlot inter-acted with Dr VK Paul, member of NITI Aay-og and chairman of National Committee on Covid Vaccination on the issue of reopen-ing of educational in-stitutions. After the discussion, Gehlot said that it is expected that the Central Gov-ernment can issue de-tailed guidelines in this matter soon. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot further stressed that opening

of schools is a sen-sitive issue and

no decision

will be made in a hur-ry on the matter. He also said that it is difficult to predict what will be the mood of Corona now. “We will take a decision soon in this matter ac-cording to the opinion

of the experts and the sentiments of the par-ents,” the Chief Minis-ter said.

It is worth noting that with the decrease in the cases of corona in the state, parents and student are hoping

for re-opening of schools, however, there are those too, who are afraid of the third wave & are against opening of schools till the time the situation is under control & time is safe for kids.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Amid specula-tion of cabinet rejig, po-litical and organisation-al appointments in Ra-jasthan, there was a major political stir in Delhi on Tuesday, as Ma-hendra Jeet Singh Malviya, MLA from Bagidaura in Banswara and former Health Min-ister Emaduddin Ahmed Khan alias Dur-ru Mian met AICC Gen-eral Secretary in-charge Ajay Maken. However, both the leaders have called it a general meet-ing.

MLA Mahendra Jeet

Singh Malviya, who is in the race to become a minister, reached Gen-eral Secretary in-charge Maken’s residence on Tuesday afternoon. Malviya, who came out of Maken’s residence after meeting for about ten minutes, was seen to be happy and smiling

after the meeting. Re-garding the meeting, he said, “It was a normal meeting. It is not right to take any political mean-ing out of it.”

Meanwhile, prior to Malviya’s meeting, for-mer Health Minister Durru Mian held a dis-cussion with Maken for

more than half an hour. He later said that he held a detailed discus-sion with Maken re-garding the issues re-lated to the minority community. In fact, this was Durru Mian’s sec-ond meeting with Mak-en in the past three days. Moreover, over the course of these 3 days, he has also met Salman Khurshid, Kumari Selja & Bhanwar Jitendra Singh. It is worth men-tioning that Durru Mi-an’s name is also being floated for political ap-pointment along with a major responsibility in the organisation.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: A major scam has come to light where-in, scores of fake bene-ficiaries are found to be getting Rs 6,000 per year from Centre under PM Kishan Samman Nidhi scheme. Now, Centre has decided to recover all the money from the fake beneficiaries. The probe has unearthed that Centre has dis-bursed a whopping Rs 147 crore to as many as 2,18,934 such people in Rajasthan, who eligible to get Rs 6,000 per an-num under the scheme.

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There is no prior agenda of this visit, neither to Karnataka, nor Ra-jasthan and not of the High Command,” he said. Notably, after tak-ing off from Bengaluru at 10.15 AM, Shivaku-mar’s flight landed first at Hyderabad at 11: 20 AM, from where anoth-er senior Congress lead-er boarded the plane and reached Jaipur af-ter two hours.

In fact, sources reveal that while Selja had come to discuss Hary-ana politics especially the Hudda factor, Shiva-kumar came to apprise Gehlot of what was hap-pening in Karnatana since he is reportedly ‘troubled’ by the ‘Sid-dharamaiya factor’. It is a mere coincidence that both Selja and Shivaku-mar are close to the Gandhi family. Mean-while, a political ob-server, on these two sudden visits, has re-marked that Gehlot is now playing a dual role i.e. of the CM as well as of guiding senior Con-gress leaders which point towards the in-creasing stature of Ge-hlot in internal politics of the party.

Interestingly, al-though Shivakumar’s visit is in no way con-nected with the ongoing issues in Rajasthan, it is reported that it was the High Command who directed him to seek an audience with Gehlot to discuss poli-tics of other states & future polls. Gehlot and Shivakumar discussed various topics concern-ing Karnataka. There is

yet another grapevine that Shivakumar, who is a trusted loyalist of Gandhi family, could be elevated to the mantle left vacant by the de-mise of Ahmed Patel.

Meanwhile, after his meet with Gehlot, Shi-vakumar left by the chartered flight to Del-hi where he is expect-ed to meet party’s cen-tral leadership on Wednesday.

CM’s NOD FOR RE-ORGANISATION OF 3 TEHSILS OF NAGAUR DISTRICTJaipur: CM Ashok Gehlot has approved re-or-ganisation of 3 tehsils of Nagaur district namely Nagaur, Mundwa & Khimsar. He has approved to include Dehru & Jorawarpura Patwar division of Mundwa tehsil in Khinvsar tehsil & Khadkali Patwar division of Khinvsar tehsil in Nagaur tehsil. After re-organisation, there are now 7 land records inspector circles & 26 patwar circles in the work area of Mundwa tehsil.

Dr VK Paul

Ajay Maken Durru Mian

Cabinet rejig: Eyeing plum posts, Durru Mian, Malviya call on Maken

Centre stays appt of 7 new directors in smart city cos

Kisan Nidhi Scheme: Centre to recover `147 crore

DK to step in Patel’s shoes?

Yogesh Sharma

Jaipur: DK Shivakumar had stressed that he had come to Jaipur on a personal visit. It later came to light that he met his astrologer Arun Agarwal with whom he held vari-ous discussions on “griha-gochar.”

Notably, Shivakumar had earlier shown his horoscope to Agar-wal. This development comes after recently ED carried out raids at Shivakumar and his relatives’ premises and perhaps hoping to find some relief in his stars, Shivakumar sought the astrologer’s advice.

Shivakumar looks to astrology for relief!

POLITICAL APPOINTMENT

Arya said that the Collectors and the Pollution Control Board will have to take concrete action to stop pollution

emanating from the industrial area. He said that Collectors should look into the matter personally. Arya also reviewed compliance of NGT’s directions to state in specific matters related to environment. He also directed to allot land to Home Defence Training Centres of Alwar, Bikaner & Jalore & Border Home Defence Team of Bikaner for use of office buildings.

STRONG ACTION

SHOULD BE TAKEN TO

STOP INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION

‘DISPOSE OFF GRIEVANCES ON NFSA PORTAL AT EARLIEST’

CS Arya said that the pending ap-peals on the portal under NFSA

(National Food Security Scheme) should be disposed off at earliest & pending appeals should be disposed off at citizens’ level. He said that before adding names to NFSA in all districts, Collectors should ensure to get the Aadhaar seeding of the entire family registered in the ration card done & also eliminate the multiple- used Aadhaar seeding. In the meet-ing, Principal Secretary Home Abhay Kumar, Principal Secretary Environ-ment Sreya Guha, Principal Secretary Revenue Anand Kumar, Secretary Planning Naveen Jain presented vari-ous issues of their departments.

Arya directed all the Collectors to seriously work towards

disposal of pending revenue cases in the revenue courts. “A proper strategy should be made in this regard and the revenue department needs to monitor it continuously,” CS said. Arya directed that a comparative study of online & offline applications in Jamabandi and Girdawari should be done and its real time analysis should also be conducted. Arya also instructed to marke the rev-enue records of common roads in districts, disposal of pending cases related to allotment.

‘PLAN STRATEGY TO SETTLE REVENUE SUIT’

CM Ashok Gehlot

Arun Agarwal & DK Shivakumar

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Women and weapons is as much a contentious issue as men & weapons and ‘gun control’ – the point is safety

and responsibility have to go hand in hand!

e recently printed an edit in First India on how women in Afghanistan are taking to weapons to protect them-selves against the Taliban and also a point a view about how Taliban had ini-

tially insisted on young girls and widows to pick up guns but later backtracked. A day later, I was in a discussion with some of my friends on feminism (one of my favourite topics by the way!) when one of them commented that we, the women might think that carrying a weapon or knowing how to shoot is ‘self-de-fense’ but the fact is it is very sexy!

I was zapped! Why was a woman with a weapon classified as sexy? If a man with a weapon is considered dangerous then same should apply to women, no? I was further mysti-

fied when this point of view was echoed my most of the men I

asked!I recalled the famous state-

ment by famous French New Wave filmmaker JeanLuc

Godard that “All you need to make a mov-

ie is a girl and

gun!” Though he probably did not mean that she should be holding the gun but over the past decade movies showing women wielding weapons and as killing machines have been huge grossers. Ditto with the video games, it’s fast catching on.

Regardless of the jokes that if women shoot the way they drive, they will shoot themselves first, (I always reply that we learnt from the men how to drive / shoot, can’t help it if we had such poor examples?), gun ownership is fast catching on in single independent women abroad and trickling to Indian metros.

At one time picking up the weap-on and seeking revenge on her own was a sign of putting the essential femininity of women aside and be-coming masculine but in the mod-ern real world weapons are ‘made’ especially for women which she is able to handle, carry and shoot con-fidently on her own though I am not sure having a pink coloured pistol adds anything to this part.

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LeoJULY 24 - AUGUST 23

If health is an issue with you, expect to resolve it soon. Things begin to look up on the fi nancial front as gains accrue.

Blaming someone else for your mistakes on the work front may show you in a bad light. Those staying separated from the family are likely to get a chance to visit home.

LibraSEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 22

Eating right and remain-ing active are the only ways for you to keep good health. Cutting corners and tightening

belts will help you save a lot. Carelessness at work can get you on the wrong side of a senior. A family gathering is likely to provide you a chance to meet everyone.

SagittariusNOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22

You will need to adhere to strict dietary control to keep good health. Previous investments promise to keep some

cozy on the fi nancial front. On the professional front, you may fi nd sharing someone’s workload a bit distasteful, but you will keep up the façade of a willing worker. Avoid risks on the road.

AquariusJANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19

Some of you may get a step closer to coming back in shape. Your professional stars are on the ascendant and

will help make your mark on the career front. Despite your efforts, a decision regarding property may not go in your favour. Marriage is on the anvil for the eligible.

Taurus APRIL 21 - MAY 20

Keeping good health may become your motto soon, as you take positive steps towards a healthy lifestyle.

Financial position will remain satisfac-tory, but overspending should be guarded against. A satisfying day is foreseen for professionals. A marriage proposal can be received.

CancerJUNE 22 - JULY 23

You will remain careful of your health to prevent recurrence of an old ailment. A source of income threatens to

dry up and may require your personal attention. Satisfaction on the professional or academic front may elude you, but it will not deter you to perform well.

Virgo AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23

Health front looks healthy, as you fi nd yourself fi t and energetic today. You will need to do some fi nancial

planning before putting money in your dream project. A chance to become part of a prestigious organization is on the horizon for some. Discharge some domestic responsibilities.

ScorpioOCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 22

You will manage to steer to total fi tness by adhering to your routine. A small fi nancial crisis may

threaten you, but you will steer through it. Disinterest will be apparent in a task assigned to you on the professional front. Much caring and sharing at home is likely to keep you happy.

CapricornDECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20

Your focus can be health at this juncture and taking up an exercise regimen just to come back in shape

cannot be ruled out. You will fi nd things moving the way you want them at work today. Tensions on the family front cannot be ruled out. A property issue is best left untouched today.

Pisces FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20

You are likely to enjoy good health as you resolve to take up some physical activity seriously. You will be

able to effectively curb expenses by taking some drastic measures. You will have to put your trust in people, if you want to establish yourself on the professional front.

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otham Week is an annual event that brings togeth-er storytellers from films, television, and au-

dio and is sponsored by Netflix, Amazon Studios, Audible, SAG-indie and WarnerMedia. It will be held virtually this year be-tween September 19-24. ‘Girls will be Girls’ is an Indo-French co-production between Pushing Burtons Studio (Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal), Crawling Angel Films (Sanjay Gulati and Pooja Chauhan), and Dolce Vita Films (Claire Chassagne). Richa said: “We hope to be able to find like-minded investors and collabora-tors at Gotham Week to join us in making this exciting film. It is a fresh and feminist story, and I believe Shuchi is a new voice in Indian cinema.” The team re-cently wrapped up a shoot for a pitch video/teaser. —Agency

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Mandira Bedi is slowly and steadily is developing a new normal herself after the tragic demise of her husband Raj

Kaushal. The actress and host, who is a doting mum to a daughter and a son, lost her husband almost a month ago. Man-dira Bedi began the week on a happy note as she shared a heartwarming photo on the gram. The fitness enthusi-ast revealed that it was her adorable lit-tle daughter behind the camera and hence couldn’t help but smile. Sharing the photo, Mandira Bedi aptly wrote ‘Be-gin Again’ on the post. —Agency

Neha Dhupia has been grabbing all the headlines ever since she announced that she is expect-ing her second child with her

husband, Angad Bedi. The actress took all her fans by a pleasant surprise when she took to her social media and put up a perfect family portrait show-ing off her baby bump. Well, the ac-tress has been posting cute videos and pictures ever since and continues to enjoy the limelight. Her recent Insta-gram post sees their daughter Mehr Dhupia Bedi stepping in the shoes of her makeup artist. —Agency

Childhood is one of the best pe-riods of our life where we not just had some of the most amazing moments but had dif-

ferent dreams about our future. Dur-ing our childhood, we all must have dreamt of taking up a particular pro-fession in the future. Things were no different for Nikkiey Chawla. Nikkiey said, “I also wanted to become a doctor once but I guess showbiz was my true calling since the very beginning”.

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Begin Again

Mom’s Footsteps

Childhood Days

Unveiling the most antici-pated photo from his an-

nual calendar shoot, fashion photographer Ratnani took to his Instagram handle and shared the photo along with the cap-tion, “Once You Be-come Fearless, Life Becomes Limitless. Invincible and Char-ismatic Shah Rukh Khan For #dabboorat-nanicalendar @iam-srk.” —Agency

Shirtless and Limitless

Acase of domestic violence has been filed against Bollywood rapper, Yo Yo Honey Singh. The musi-cian’s wife, Shalini Talwar reportedly filed the case under the ‘Protection of Women from Do-

mestic Violence Act’ in Delhi’s Tis Hazari Court. The court has issued notice to the singer and given Singh time until August 28 to file his response. Talwar, in her application, has alleged that she has been subjected to numerous incidents of physical, verbal, and mental abuse at the hands of her husband. —Agency

Jenna Dewan in a recent i n t e r v i ew with the

Dear Gabby pod-cast discussed what it was like to become a mother and the challenges she experienced as a working parent. The 40-year-old ac-tress, who gave birth to Everly in London while Channing Tatum was shooting, re-vealed that she con-tinued to work while travelling with the couple’s newborn baby. Jen-na, who started shooting on Witches of East End in Can-ada only weeks after giving birth to her firstborn, said Chan-ning “wasn’t acces-sible” to be with them soon after Ev-erly’s birth owing to his own work sched-

ule. —Agency

Meghan Markle is all set to celebrate her 40th birth-day on August 4 and plans for her upcoming

bash have now been revealed. Re-ports suggest that the Duchess of

Sussex will host a “small gathering” for the same. According to The Mirror,

Markle has hired Oprah Winfrey’s party planner for it. The intimate soiree will

reportedly host approximately 65 people along with husband Prince Harry and their kids, son Archie, and daughter Lilibet Di-ana at their California home. —Agency

ames Gunn’s The Suicide Squad held a star-studded premiere as the film’s lead cast including Margot Robbie, John Cena, Tai-ka Waititi walked the red carpet as they turned up looking their best for the event. It seemed to be

a special moment for Waititi, who debut-ed on the red carpet with Rita Ora after the duo made their relationship official at a fourth of July weekend. Waititi and Ora were seen making a hand-in-hand appearance for the event. The upcom-ing release of James Gunn’s Sui-cide Squad film has drummed up old feelings that Ayer needs to get off his chest officially. Fans now know a bit more about his experience working on the movie. —Agency

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The Faces of the Month hoarding for August displayed at First India Channel Office are Simran, Kajol, Chanchal, Navya, Chahak, Kirrtika and Upadhi; these unseen beauties are a few of the selected participants from the All India Beauty Pageant, First India Face of the Year 2021 (FIFOY’21) for which registrations are open on www.firstindiafaceoftheyear.com

FIFOY’21 FACES

CELEBRATIONS!

GM Ashok Rathore with his team of Taj Rambagh on his birthday celebrations on Tuesday, his birthday was on Aug 2 but he was travelling on that day. Team Rambagh went all out on his return to celebrate the special occassion of their popular GM. Ashok thanked everyone for their wishes and said that the staff of Rambagh was his family.

MEET & GREET!

Jagdeesh Chandra was on a one day visit to Lucknow and Kanpur on Tuesday, he held a host of meetings with various eminent people.

WOMEN Empowerment

CITY FIRST

igital Baal Mela Sea-son-2 being organised by Future Society, LIC and IDBI Bank, wit-nessed the presence of Rukshmani Ku-mari, State Presi-

dent of All India Profes-sional Congress on Tues-day. While addressing the children during the session ti-tled ‘Why Few Women Leaders in Indian Politics’, she said, “Now women in the country will have to show their strength

and enthusiasm. They will now have to take command in the front line by coming into politics.” During this, when Mahi of Kushalgarh ques-tioned the atrocities being committed on women, Ruk-

shmani Kumari assured the children that she would write a letter to Ra-jasthan Chief Minister

Ashok Gehlot in this context and get their answers resolved. The government should take some strong steps to end the atrocities against women seri-ously. cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

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DISCUSSION!

Almond Board of California hosted a virtual panel discussion around the topic ‘Challenges in ensuring optimal family health, amidst fast-changing lifestyles in the post-pandemic world’ featuring eminent personalities from India and the USA on Monday. Stressing on the need to undertake serious dietary and lifestyle interventions, the panel featured prominent Bollywood actor and Author, Soha Ali Khan, Regional Head – Dietetics, Max Healthcare – Delhi, Ritika Samaddar, Nutrition and Wellness Consultant, Sheela Krishnaswamy and Emily Fleischmann, VP – Global Market Development, Almond Board of California. The panel was moderated by RJ Shezzi.

FASHION CONNECT SEASON 10!

Fashion Connect Season 10’s Production partner Vineet Jain and Set Designer, Gunjan Singhal are all pumped up for the grand event to be held in September this year!

“Fashion Connect season 10 will be grand, beautiful and magical because of Micheal Cin-co’s presence and the combination of traditional and modern aesthetic at an exotic venue of Hotel Fairmont, the untouched areas will be given a new design and look.” —VINEET JAIN

“This year we are using Mughal and Indian archi-tecture on the set for fashion con-nect. It will look fabulous and we’re hopeful that the fashion connect season 10 will rock!”

—GUNJANSINGHAL

The birthday of IAS T Ravikant and IPS Haider Ali Zaidi was on Tuesday, August 3. We wish them all the best!

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On behalf of Rajasthan Urdu Academy, in collaboration with the Department of Art and Culture and Department of Archeology, a book and rare picture exhibition will be

organised in the heritage museum located in Kishanpol Bazar from Wednesday. Divisional Commissioner and Academy Administrator Dinesh Kumar Yadav will inaugurate this exhi-bition at 4 pm. Prakash Sharma, director of the Department of Archeology, will preside over the program. —CITY FIRST

Benefits of YogaCITY FIRST

Viewers learned to tap into their creative and im-aginative energy

through empowering yoga practices in an on-line session ‘Yoga for Artist’ (A Classical Ap-proach) by yoga profes-sional, Divya Sharma on Tuesday. The session was organ-ised by Jawahar Kala Kendra (JKK) on Zoom and broadcast-ed live on their Face-book page. It focused on various yoga asanas, pranayama, benefits of yoga, and a brief intro-

duction to yoga. The session began with the ‘Shanti

Path’ prayer per-formed by the instruc-tor and the partici-pants. The various asanas are beneficial for both mental and physical health. cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

BONE DEATH: CAUSE OF CONCERNCITY FIRST

India is still slowly recovering from the aftermath of the havoc created by

covid. Covid relat-ed complications like Mucormyco-sis, new-onset diabe-tes, clotting disorders, stroke and debilitating long COVID syndrome

have become a cause of concern across the world. The newer com-plication Avascular Necrosis (AVN) of hip

or bone death is a matter of concern said Dr Anchin Kalia, the senior

Physician at MGH Jaipur. The reason for bone death like in Black fungus can be at-

tributed to the use of steroids, various co-

morbid illnesses and genetic factors.

Mahatma Gandhi hospital, Jaipur has seen 3 cases of AVN of the Hip Joint in the last few months, said Dr Sandeep Yadav, Senior orthopedician and Joint replacement sur-geon at MGH. All these patients had covid and had received steroids as per treatment proto-col. cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

WHAT’S HAPPENING!The Rajasthani track Chamke Chudiyan shot at different locations in Jaipur, will soon be released on YouTube channel GRP Records. JP Choudhary, who has made his mark as a director and choreographer in the Rajasthan music industry and Nikita Kumawat will be seen as protagonists.

Gurgaon actor Vipin Kaushik will be seen in the lead role in the Bollywood Hindi film LAC (LAC): Live the Battle in Kargil, about the clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers in the Galwan Valley during the global pandemic Corona period. Actor Vipin Kaushik, who is debuting with this film, playing the role of a soldier.

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3 41. Jagdeesh Chandra in conversation with Kanpur

Police Commissioner Asim Arun.

2. Jagdeesh Chandra in discussion with senior Congress leader and Gen Sec AICC Ajay Kapoor and Industry Chairman Vijay Kapoor at their residence in Kanpur, also seen is Yakub Khan.

3. Jagdeesh Chandra with Shishir Awasthi, Yakub Khan, Narayan Sharma, Founder Shatabdi Travels, Krishna Arora, Sumit Awasthi and Nikhil Gupta at Hotel Landsend in Kanpur.

4. Former MP Anil Shukla Varsi and BJP MLA Kanpur Rural Pratibha Shukla greet Jagdeesh Chandra on his visit to Kanpur, also seen is Durgesh Mishra, Kanpur Correspondent First India.