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AIR FORCE AWES INDIA

AHH! The excitement, the thrill, and of course the noise. That’s what the people of the country

experienced during 88th anniversary celebrations at Hindon Airbase on Thursday. The occasion

honours warriors and veterans of Indian Air Force

The grandeur and might of the various types of aircraft in the IAF were on full display on Thursday

The newly inducted Rafale fi ghter jet displayed its ability to carry out sharp turns during the fl ypast at the IAF base in Ghaziabad on the occasion. The Rafale fl ew in the ‘Vijay’ formation, fl anked by two Jaguars and Mirage 2000 each

IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria assured the nation that the Indian Air Force will evolve and be ever ready to safeguard India’s sovereignty and interests in all and any circumstances

Indian Air Force (IAF) Rafale fi ghter jet carries out a minimum radius turn within an area smaller than a hockey fi eld forming a fi gure of eight. (Inset) IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria inspects a guard of honour during the 88th Air Force Day celebrations at Hindon airbase in Ghaziabad on Thursday. —ANI PHOTO

Mumbai: The Mumbai police on Thursday claimed to have busted a ‘major racket’ which was “fraudulently involved in manipulating Televi-sion Ratings Points (TRP)” of TV channels, including Republic TV. Four persons have been arrested in the case.

Mumbai police com-missioner Param Bir Singh said so far, three channels including Re-public, Fakt Marathi, and Box Cinema were found to be indulging in such malpractices.

Singh said that ba-rometers to measure TRP’s are kept at sev-eral undisclosed houses across the country, based on which the Broadcast Audience Re-search Council (BARC) measures TRPs of channels.

We found that some channels were paying

TRP bombshell:Mum cops bust scam involving Republic TV

Freedom of speech most abused: SC trashes ‘brazen’ affidavitMohd Fahad

New Delhi: The Su-preme Court on Thurs-day pulled up the Cen-tre for its “evasive” and “brazen” affidavit in connection with pleas seeking action against alleged motivated me-dia reporting on the Tablighi Jamaat.

A bench headed by CJI SA Bobde was hear-ing a clutch of petitions filed by Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind and others seek-ing action against me-dia organisation alleg-edly giving communal colour to the Covid-19 outbreak at the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin.

The bench rapped So-licitor General Tushar Mehta after a junior of-ficial at the Information and Broadcasting Min-istry filed the affidavit which contained “un-necessary” and “non-sensical” averments with regard to media reporting on the issue.

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WHAT CENTRE’S AFFIDAVIT SAYS...The Centre had fi led its affi davit on August 7, stating that the spread of Covid-19 among attendees of the Jamaat, attacks on health workers by some sections, etc, were all matters of fact and that “news reports based on facts… cannot be censored”.

The bench rapped Solicitor General Tushar Mehta after a junior offi cial of Information and Broadcasting Ministry fi led affi davit.

The Secretary must tell us what he thinks

of the incidents pointed out by the

petitioner. We fi nd it extremely evasive.

The affi davit does not make any response on the allegations

made by the petitioners on some

TV channels spreading hatred—Justice SA Bobde

Chief Justice of India YOU CAN’T TREAT COURT LIKE THIS: CJI TO CENTRE“You cannot treat the Court how you are treating it. The affi davit is by some junior offi cer. The affi davit is evasive and says the petitioner shows no instance of bad reporting. You may not agree, but how you can say there is no instance of bad reporting shown? Secretary of the department must fi le an affi davit and avoid any unnecessary and nonsensical averments as made now,” said CJI Bobde.

‘MOTIVATED’ MEDIA REPORTING ON TABLIGHI JAMAAT

GLUCK WINS NOBEL FOR LITERATUREThe Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” The prize was announced Thursday in Stockholm by Mats Malm, the per-manent secretary of the Swedish Academy. CM Ashok Gehlot tweeted to congratulate her.

The Supreme Court, while refusing to interfere with a plea to extend the dates for Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota municipal corporation elections, on Thursday directed the Rajasthan Election Commission to notify the election programme within one week. The state government’s had fi led a plea challenging the Rajasthan HC’s decision to hold the elections to the newly created six municipal corporations of Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota by October 31. P7

Issue notificationfor civic polls in aweek: SC to Raj govt

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Big industrial push: Govt policies creating favourable environment for investment in the state: CM Gehlot

Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has said that the landscape of Ra-jasthan is changing as new policies and reforms brought by the state gov-ernment have created an environment conducive to investment in the state, as well as creating confidence among inves-tors. “Employment op-portunities will be cre-ated by setting up new enterprises and new di-

mensions of develop-ment will be estab-lished,” Gehlot said while addressing the foundation stone laying of 17 industrial areas of RIICO and dedication to public of 6 industrial ar-eas through VC from Chief Minister’s resi-dence on Thursday.

“There is a possibility of investment of Rs 4 thousand 22 crore in the state due to the develop-ment of these areas,” Gehlot observed and

hoped that by simultane-ously developing 23 in-dustrial areas, investors would be attracted to in-vest in the desert state.

The Chief Minister

said that RIICO Indus-trial Area should be de-veloped at all subdivi-sion levels of the state so that more entrepreneurs come here Turn on P6

CM Ashok Gehlot along with Parsadi Lal Meena, Sanyam Lodha and Kuldeep Ranka during the launch of RIICO brochure.

Aditi Nagar

New Delhi: According to latest input, on Rahul’s proposed Rajasthan visit to hold a farmers’ rally, now it looks like a remote possibility.

Earlier, on Gehlot’s invitation, Rahul had reportedly given his ‘in-principal’ consent but now looking to his other engagements in New Delhi, there is no certainty of his Rajasthan visit and therefore now Rahul will not be the chief guest at Congress’s Kissan Sammelan at Birla Auditorium on 10th October.

RAHUL UNCERTAIN TO VISIT RAJ!

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VISIONARY RAM VILAS NO MORE

nion Min-ister for Food and P u b l i c Distribu-

tion and Lok Jan-shakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan passed away this evening. He was 74. Paswan underwent heart surgery last week and was due to undergo another one in a few days, his son Chirag had told the media. The Union Minister was in a critical condition with multiple organ complications. A Dalit leader from Bi-har, Paswan served in many cabinets.

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Narendra Modi @narendramodi

I am saddened beyond words. There is a void in

our nation that will perhaps never be fi lled. Shri Ram

Vilas Paswan Ji’s demise is a personal loss. I have lost a friend, valued colleague

and someone who was extremely passionate to

ensure every poor person leads a life of dignity.

Amit Shah @AmitShahThe mind is extremely disturbed by the demise of Ram Vilas Paswan ji, who was always fi ghting for the welfare and rights of the poor and the deprived. In his political life, he always kept na-tional interest and public welfare as paramount. His death has created a void in Indian politics.

Nitish Kumar @NitishKumarI am personally saddened by the death of popular politi-

cian Ram Vilas Paswan ji. His death is an irreparable loss to Indian politics. May his soul rest in peace.

Ashok Gehlot @ashokgehlot51My heartfelt condolences at the passing away of Union Minis-ter & founder of Lok Janshakti Party, Ram Vilas Paswan ji. May God give strength to his family members & supporters

to bear this loss. May his soul rest in

peace.

Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhiThe news of untimely demise of Ram Vilas Paswan ji is sad. The poor-downtrodden lost a strong political voice today. My condolences to his family.

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Suryaveer Singh Tanwar

Jaisalmer: As the na-tion hailed the air pow-er on the 88th IAF Day on Thursday, a fighter plane from the 1971 war kept lying unattended in a corner of the local government museum in want of maintenance.

The Indian Air Force had destroyed 36 Paki-stani tanks using the Hunter Marut fighter aircraft at Longewala during the 1971 Indo-Pak war. The air force had

around 15 years ago gift-ed the plane to the dis-trict administration that placed it at the famous

Hanuman Chauraha for public display but later shifted to a corner of the museum, where visitors

rarely reach. Contribu-tion of the fighter jet in the Longewala battle can be recalled through the scenes of Border movie, which was based on the battle. The fighter jet destroyed the Paki-stani tanks with the break of dawn.

The condition of the war hero plane is getting poorer in the absence of proper maintenance and the possibility of its parts being stolen cannot be ruled out. Col (retd) Bhoj Raj Singh, district

sainik welfare officer, said the war piece and its surrounding area in shambles. “It should be maintained and cared for as a heritage piece. I shall apprise Sainik board chairman of this and ask for some way out to give it a heritage look,” Singh said.During the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war, Pakistani Army came with 59 tanks at night and was confront-ed by Lance Naik Bhai-ron Singh of BSF at the Longewala post.

Indian Air Force warrior in a shambles even todayCELEBRATING 88TH IAF DAY

15 years ago, IAF gifted plane

to administration it placed at ‘Hanuman

Chauraha’, later shifted to a

corner display, where visitors

rarely reach

Father of 2, held for raping minorAccused Gangaram Bheel, 25-year resident of Jaisalmer, was labourer in farm belonging to victim’s family

Durgsingh Rajpurohit

Barmer: The Barmer police arrested an ac-cused of raping a 14-year-old girl in Shiv area of the district within 12-hour of the incident on Wednesday late night. The accused identified as Gangaram Bheel, 25-year-old resi-dent of Jaisalmer dis-trict, was a labourer in the farm belonging to the victim’s family.

He has two children and lives in the vicinity with his family. The in-cident gained promi-nence in the backdrop of uproar over Hathras gang rape. The victim alleged that the accused

and his accomplice for-cibly took her away when she was alone at home on Tuesday as her parents had gone to vote in panchayat elections.

Bheel is accused of raping her while his ac-complice shot the video of the incident on his mobile phone. The vic-tim is admitted at Bar-mer government hospi-

tal where Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson Sangeeta Beniwal and BJP leaders visited her on Thursday.

According to the po-lice, the medical report has ruled out any inju-ries to the victim and the swab samples have been sent to the forensic science laboratory for further testing.

SP Anand Sharma said that investigation so far has revealed that there was only one accused and vic-tim’s statement under 164 of the CrPC would be recorded before a magistrate.

First India Bureau

Bhilwara: PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasra said that the state gov-ernment is serious on the issues of unem-ployed youths and therefore the prepara-tions of recruitment on 31000 posts has been completed.

Dotasra, who is also the education minis-ter, said that employ-ment to 31000 candi-dates will be given through REET.

Dotasra said that de-spite the recommenda-tion of a committee for changing school uni-forms, the state govern-

ment does not want to put burden on people.

Talking to reporters in circuit house of Bhilwara, the minister said that no culprit of the Barmer rape case

will be spared. He said that police took prompt action in the case which, he alleged, was being politicised by the opposition BJP.

Dotasra was in

Bhilwara to pay trib-utes to Kailash Trivedi, who was Sahara MLA and passed away due to chest infection in a Gur-gaon hospital recently.

When asked about

the FIR lodged against journalists in Jaipur, the minister said that the Gehlot govern-ment has always worked in the interests of journalists and no injustice will be done with any journalist in the state.

In respect of the civic body elections, he said that Congress is doing well while BJP is divid-ed in fractions and their MLAs give contradic-tory statements.

Dotasra halted brief-ly at the Bhilwara Cir-cuit House before de-parting to Trivedi’s na-tive village Raipur to pay condolences.

Shubham Jain

Ajmer: A team of the mining department was assaulted on Wednesday night when the officials went to take action against il-legal mining in Kis-hangarh subdivision of Ajmer district. The team was surrounded and stones were pelted on them when the offi-cials stopped a dumper carrying gravel.

All the team mem-bers including junior engineer were injured in stone pelting and

they had to run to save their lives. The drove away the dumper and fled from the spot. The police from Gandhina-gar police station reached the spot on the information and the in-jured were taken to Yag-yanarayana govern-ment hospital.

On the report of JEN, police registered a case against the attackers and started investiga-tion. The mining de-partment’s team be-came active after the media news about ille-gal mining in the area.

First India Bureau

Jodhpur: Union Minis-ter Gajendra Singh Shekhawat met BJP workers at Circuit House during his stay in Jodhpur. Talking to reporters, he attacked the state government fiercely, and at the same time, appreciated the steps taken by the cen-tral government for eco-nomic reforms. Refer-ring to various inci-dents, Shekhawat said that instead of catching the culprits, the state government is engaged in fulfilling its political ambitions.

Shekhawat appreci-ated the steps taken by the Central Government to provide financial re-lief to entrepreneurs, small entrepreneurs and people during the Corona period. He said that the decisions tak-en by central govern-ment have been adopt-ed by governments of world. Shekhawat claimed BJP’s board in both municipal corpo-rations of Jodhpur.

Ramesh

Sikar: A regular phone call of the bank man-ager saved about Rs 1.5 crore cash and about 20 kg gold in a branch of Canara Bank in the Ricco area on Sikar-Jaipur Road of the dis-trict and landed the ac-cused in the police net.

An armed robber en-tered the bank branch and took the staff hos-

tage at gunpoint on Thursday. The accused identified as Kishore Kumar Saini, a resident of Maruti Nagar Cir-

cuit House, locked all the bank employees in a room and went to the manager’s room.

He asked the bank manager Suman to lie on the ground. Accord-ing to the police, the manager was on a call with her relative who heard everything and informed the police at Udyog Nagar police sta-tion about suspicious activities in the bank.

First India Bureau

Barmer: The Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson San-geeta Beniwal was per-turbed over admission of the 14-year-old rape victim in the general ward of the Barmer dis-trict hospital among other patients.

Beniwal, who met the victim and her family on Thursday in Shiv area, said she would send a report to CMO in this regard and write against the careless of-ficials. She also inquired about the case from the

police officials.Beniwal met Princi-

pal Medical Officer Dr. BL Mansuria and as-sured the family of strict action against the ac-cused. State revenue minister Harish Chaud-hary said “Women do not tolerate atrocities”. Chaudhary said, that they were in constant touch with the authori-ties in this case. BJP state president Satish Poonia also met the rape victim, he said, “I urge the government to provide financial and judicial support to vic-tim and take prompt ac-tion against accused”.

First India Bureau

Ajmer: A case of rape and blackmail has been reported in Kishangarh area of Ajmer district. The victim has alleged that the accused rape her around 20-25 days ago and took objection-able photos for black-mailing her later.

The victim told the police that the accused called her again and when she refused, he sent a pornographic photo of the girl to her father on WhatsApp. The father and daugh-ter duo filed a police complaint against the accused. Acting on the report, the Kishangarh police station team ar-rested the accused with-in a few hours. The po-lice report mentioned that the accused identi-fied as Rajendra lured victim to his house few days back. He raped vic-tim in house.

‘State govt should take action against accused’

After 25 days, victim reports a case of rape and blackmail

‘Prep for recruitment on 31k posts completed’Mining dept team officials attacked in Kishangarh subdiv

Shekhawat lauds Centre’s steps for the eco reforms

Call saves crores from a bank

Govind S Dotasra alongwith Rampal Sharma, Mahesh Soni and Chetan Didwania expressed condolences to the late MLA Kailash Trivedi’s brother Rajendra Trivedi in his native village Raipur.

Sangeeta Beniwal met the victim and her family in Barmer district hospital on Thursday.

‘Instead of nabbing criminals, govt targeting media’

Satish Poonia paid fl oral tributes to Jaswant Singh Jasol.

Satish Poonia addressing media after meeting rape victim and her family in Barmer district hospital on Thursday.

Rajeev Gaur

Jodhpur: State pres-ident Satish Poonia was on a day-long visit to Jodhpur on Thursday. He paid tribute to former Un-ion Minister Jaswant Singh Jasol at his residence. He met Singh’s son and for-mer MP Manvendra Singh and consoled him. BJP state vice-president KK Bish-noi, Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, BJP city district president De-vendra Joshi and lo-cal organization offi-cials were present along with Poonia.

Satish Poonia told reporters, “More than 4 lakh 35,000 cases have been registered in the last 20 months, out of which 11,000 cases are related to the oppression of Dal-its and women.” In-stead of nabbing criminals, the gov-ernment is targeting media personnel.

He accused the state government of adopting a repressive policy. The govern-ment was shying away from the truth which is why the BJP had to protest on the streets even during the transition period of Corona, he stated.

Yogesh Sharma

Jaipur: Congress leaders on Thursday paid homage to for-mer union minister and former PCC president Pandit Nawal Kishore Sharma at the PCC office here.

Chief whip Ma-hesh Joshi, former MP Ashk Ali Tak and other leaders includ-ing Rupesh Kant Vyas, Satyendra Bhardwaj and others offered floral trib-utes to Sharma.

CM Ashok Gehlot,

Govind S Dotasra, Sachin Pilot, Raghu Sharma and other leaders remembered Sharma for his con-tribution to politics and social welfare and offered tributes on social media.

“My humble trib-utes to veteran Con-gress leader & for-mer President #Ra-jasthan PCC Pt. Naw-al Kishore Sharma ji on his death anniver-sary,” Gehlot tweet-ed. Pilot said, he held several posts includ-ing Gujarat Gover-nor and others.

CM and other Congleaders pay homageto Pt Nawal Kishore

Mahesh Joshi, Ashk Ali Tak, Sushil Sharma, Giriraj Garg and others paid fl oral tributes to Former Chairman of PCC Nawal Kishore Sharma on his death anniversary at PCC Bhawan.

Canara Bank, Sikar

VICTIM CLAIMS

Fighter aircraft Hunter Marut of Longewala fame placed in a corner of the Jaisalmer government museum.

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15 more deaths, 2,138 new Corona cases in Raj

CM Gehlot launches new system for effective monitoring of Covid-19

Corona testing reports delivered via messages

Covid +ve refrained from boarding flight at Jodhpur

First India Bureau

Jaipur: 15 deaths and 2,138 coronavirus cases were reported in Ra-jasthan on Thursday, taking the total number of deaths and positive cases to 1,605 and 1,52,605 respectively.

Two deaths were re-ported from Hanuman-garh and Jaipur each; whereas, Ajmer, Bikan-er, Jalore, Jhunjhunu, Jodhpur, Pali, Pratap-garh, Sawaimadhopur, Sikar, Sirhori and Udaipur reported one death each, according to an official report of the department of health.

Maximum of 423 fresh positive cases were reported from Jaipur, followed by

Jodhpur where 387 per-sons tested positive for COVID-19 infection.

Other cases were re-ported from Ajmer (94), Alwar (122), Banswara (12), Baran (15), Barmer

(10), Bharatpur (19), Bhilwara (125), Bikaner (279), Bundi (7), Chittor-garh (16), Churu (39), Dholpur (24), Dungar-pur (25), Ganganagar (56), Hanumangarh (17),

Jaisalmer (8), Jalore (21), Jhalawar (17), Jhunjhunu (35), Kota (73), Nagaur (18), Sirohi (5), Tonk (16) and Udaipur (123).

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Bikaner: Bikaner Technical University’s “Self-reliant India Week” was inaugurated by the Governor, Kalraj Mishra. Highlighting the slogan for the local goods, he said that the country can be elevated as a super power only by strengthening the micro, small and medi-um scale industries and by making them self-sufficient. VK Jatley, CEO, DCM Shriram In-dustries and NK Jain Chairman Rajasthan Employers’ Association were also invited for the

inaugural function. The topic related to

making agriculture self-reliant was dis-cussed in the second day of the programme. During this, former Chief General Manag-

er of NABARD Arjun-rathanu and Dr Ramesh Mital, Direc-tor of National Insti-tute of Agri Business, joined as experts. The Vice- Chancellor of Bi-kaner Technological

University, Prof HD Charan told that the teachers and students will have to join the mission of self-reli-ance in India and work on solving the prob-lems of the society around them so that both the students and the society become self-reliant.

Experts inspired the students to transform traditional knowledge and local intelligence with technology to con-tribute to a self-reliant India. Governor Kalraj Mishra on Thursday greeted the country on Air Force Day.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The elections on 14 various posts at Pink City Press Club, took place on Thurs-day and the result will be announced on Fri-day.

565 out of 913 mem-

bers voted for 14 posts from 8 am to 6 pm as per the corona guide-lines, including wear-ing facemasks, main-taining social distanc-ing etc.

The Counting of votes will begin at 8 am on Friday.

Mukesh Meena has already been elected unopposed to the post of President

While the result of polling on posts of vice- president, gener-al secretary, treasurer and executive will be declared on Friday.

Jaipur: The Rajasthan government will start the process of merging ‘Tilam Sangh’ into the Rajasthan State Co-Op-erative Marketing Fed-eration Ltd (RAJFED) to strengthen the coop-erative structure in the state.

Cooperative Minister Udai Lal Anjana said that Tilam Sangh is cur-rently in a loss of about Rs 167 crores and has liabilities of about Rs 151 crores and the step is being taken towards strengthening the coop-erative structure, a re-

lease said.Anjana said that be-

fore 1991, ‘Tilam Sangh’ was part of RAJFED , but on the terms of the World Bank, it was sep-arated. He said that three production plants of the Tilam Sangh in Kota, Sriganganagar and Fatehnagar are closed and the machin-ery s is also outdated.

“The merger of Ti-lam Sangh into the RA-JFED would also bene-fit the RAJFED and the vacant posts of officers and employees would also be filled.

Puneet Chaturvedi

Jaipur: Properties worth Rs. 6.60 crore were damaged in recent violence in Dungarpur, where the candidates of teachers’ recruitment 2018 blocked a highway and indulged in vio-lence.

District administra-tion has forwarded a survey report with esti-mated loss of Rs. 6.60 crore to properties dur-ing the violence.

After 18 days of sit in, the candidates turned violent on September 24 and blocked Udaipur-

Ahmedabad Highway and damaged several properties.

After the law and or-der situation in the area normalised, a team of PWD, transport and revenue departments conducted a survey of moveable and immova-ble properties and esti-

mated a loss of Rs 6.60 crore.

Damage to vehicles, properties were includ-ed in the survey. Vehi-cles worth Rs. 1.62 crore and properties worth Rs. 4.98 crore were dam-aged in the violence.

The protesters van-dalised hotel Atithi pal-ace, Neelgagan hotel, a liquor shop, hotel Reeti Riwaz, Vaishnavi petrol pump, hotel green land and a reliance petrol pump.

Hotel Atithi palace suffered maximum damage and loss of Rs. 2.37 crore.

Nirmal Tiwari

Bikaner: ONGC will explore oil and natural gas in an area of 2,118.83 sq km in Bikaner dis-trict of Rajasthan for which the company has been allocated a block recently for three years.

Additional Chief Sec-retary, Mines and Petro-leum, Subodh Agarwal informed that license has been issued on the recommendation of the Union Ministry of Petro-leum and Natural Gas.

He informed that ONGC will invest about Rs 74 crores in phased

manner on the discov-ery of crude oil and natural gas in this area, which will provide di-rect employment to 150 to 200 people and indi-rect employment to 500 to 700 people.

The officer informed that the state will get revenue at the rate of 12.5 percent on the pro-duction of crude oil and 10 percent on the pro-duction of natural gas.

He said that ONGC is already exploring and mining in the Jaisalmer Basin.

Agarwal held a re-view meeting with

ONGC officials at the Secretariat and dis-cussed the matters re-lated with exploration and production on Thursday.

ONGC Group Gener-al Manager Rajat Basu said that ONGC has been engaged in explo-ration work in Ra-jasthan for the last 65 years and working on 5 mining leases.

He said that ONGC has excavated 87 wells in Jaisalmer, of which 32 wells have gas. Cur-rently, the production work is interrupted due to technical reasons.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The reports of corona testing are now being delivered through messages.

In the last 20 days, nearly 5.5 lakh people have been forwarded the report through mes-sages in the state.

The centre had cre-ated RTPCR app for on-line monitoring of co-rona but the option for online report was not functional for long time.

After this, the state medical and health de-partment launched Ra-jasthan COVID-19 por-tal and started its trial run from 16 September which has delivered en-

couraging results.Now, people are get-

ting reports through messages on their mo-bile phone through the online system and peo-ple need to go anywhere for their test reports.

Along with the RTP-CR app, the data of pa-tients is being uploaded on the Rajasthan COV-ID-19 portal and through the portal, a message of the report is sent to the concerned person automatically.

Jodhpur: A corona positive patient en-tered Jodhpur airport, but was stopped be-fore boarding the Ben-galuru bound flight. The infected man en-tered the flight but, on information by district administration, he was traced by the airport administration before he could board the flight. A rapid re-sponse team of the medical department reached the airport with police and shifted him to a Covid Care Centre in Boranada in an ambulance.

MSMEs need to be strengthened: Guv

Polls for 14 posts held @ Pink City Press Club, results to be out today

Govt to merge Tilam Sangh with RAJFED

Dungarpur violence: Properties worth ` 6.60 Crore damaged

ONGC to discover oil in Bikaner, gets land from Petroleum Ministry

In remembrance of former Union Min Jaswant Singh

AVINASH PANDE @avinashpandeinc

Greetings to all the Air Warriors, Veterans & their families on the

occasion of 88th #Air-ForceDay @IAF_MCC

Jaipur: The Depart-ment of Local Bodies (DLB) has implemented a new system for effec-tive monitoring of the mass movement launched by CM Ashok Gehlot against Corona. In this campaign, 1 crore (10 million) face masks will be distrib-uted across the state.To make the movement successful and its effi-cient implementation, the DLB has entrusted division-wise responsi-bility to the officers of the Directorate.Additional Director Praveen Kumar will handle Jaipur, Assis-

tant Director Vigilance Raksha Pareek - Ajmer, Chief Engineer Bhu-pendra Mathur - Kota, Chief Engineer Elec-tricity Mahendra Ku-mar Bairwa - Udaipur, Senior Joint Law Con-sultant Sanjay Mathur - Jodhpur, Project Direc-tor Suresh Chand Gup-ta - Bharatpur & Addi-tional Chief Engineerwater supply Lalit Karol will look after Bi-kaner division respec-tively. These officerswill monitor the workin their respective divi-sions & submit reportsto the Director of LocalBodies.

Sachin Pilot pays floral tributes to Union Minister Late Jaswant Singh at Jodhpur on Thursday.

No, Mask No Entry’ @ Collectorate

Tripura girl to appear in HC on Nov 3

Kalraj Mishra@KalrajMishraReceived the sad news of the sudden demise

of Union Minister Shri Ram Vilas Paswan. He will always be remembered for his social and

public welfare works. May his soul rest in peace and may God provide strength to the be-

reaved family to bear this loss. Om Shanti

Vasundhara Raje@VasundharaBJPI am hurt by the demise of LJP leader and

Union Minister Shri #RamVilasPaswan ji. In his political career spanning 32 years, he

served the nation as a true public leader. His death is an irreparable loss to the country. May

his soul rest in peace and may God provide strength to the bereaved family. Om Shanti!

Sachin Pilot@SachinPilotI am extremely saddened to learn about the

demise of political stalwart Shri Ram Vilas Paswan ji. His contribution towards the uplift-

ment of the downtrodden will always be re-membered. May his soul find eternal peace. My condolences to his family and followers.

Om Shanti

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat pays tributes to the former Union Minister, Jaswant Singh.

Jaipur: Rajasthan High Court has directed the state government to re-cover a girl of Tripura, who is fearing honour killing, in three weeks.The court instructed the government to produce the girl on November 3. The order was passed by the division bench of jus-tice Prakash Gupta and justice Mahendra Goyal on petition by a Kota resident Rupesh Chetia. The girl from Tripura has written a letter to the Chief Justice of the Ra-jasthan High Court fear-ing honor killing.

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Jaipur: People with-out a face mask, will not be given entry to Jaipur Collectorate, where the ‘No Mask No Entry’ campaign has started.Guards have been deployed at all the four gates of the Collectorate to stop people without masks from entering the premises.

Jaipur Collector, Antar Singh Nehra launched the cam-paign by placing a poster on all entrance gates. He said that breaking the chain of infection and keeping people safe from coro-na infection is the ob-jective of the aware-ness campaignlaunched by the state government.

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ith the COV-ID-19 pandemic r e i n f o r c i n g concerns about economic ine-

quality, left-behind com-munities, discrimination, and climate change, there is increasing pressure on corporations to do more than sell a good widget at an affordable price. Re-sponding to the changing public mood, the US Busi-ness Roundtable declared last year that, “Each of our stakeholders is essen-tial. We commit to deliver value to all of them, for the future success of our companies, our communi-ties, and our country.”

But this way of framing the issue is unhelpful. A corporation’s stated ob-jectives should help guide its choices. If all stake-holders are essential, then none are. In an at-tempt to please everyone,

the Business Roundtable will probably end up pleasing no one. Recent evidence even suggests that the corporations that signed on to the group’s “stakeholder capitalism” statement have been more likely to lay off workers in response to the pan-demic, and less likely to donate to relief efforts.

Nevertheless, is the shareholder-centric view propounded by Nobel lau-reate economist Milton Friedman wrong? Fried-man’s rationale was that because managers are em-ployed by shareholders, their duty is to maximize profits – and thus the share price – over time. While this approach was widely embraced by cor-porate executives in the United States and the United Kingdom over the past 50 years, its basic logic was misunderstood.

To many observers, the idea that businesses should favor millionaire investors at the expense of long-term workers is appalling.2

Yet there is a deeper ar-gument for Friedman’s view, based on the recog-nition that managers will not necessarily squeeze everyone else to favor shareholders. Because shareholders get whatev-

er is left over after debt holders are paid their in-terest and workers their wages, management can maximize shareholders’ “residual claim” only if it expands the size of the corporate pie relative to these prior fixed claims on it. To the extent that management must satisfy everyone else before look-ing to shareholder inter-ests, it already does maxi-

mize value for all those who contribute to the firm.

True, some would coun-ter that the imperative to boost quarterly profits leads to cost cutting in ar-eas like worker training. But if companies want to maximize their shares’ value over the long term, they will train workers where needed, encourage sustainable practices from their suppliers when it reduces costs, and fos-ter lasting relationships with customers instead of ripping them off. Put an-other way, even if CEOs do focus primarily on share prices, that doesn’t mean the stock market only rewards actions that boost this quarter’s earn-ings. Amazon showed lit-tle profit for years, but is thriving now precisely because it invested so much in its business.1

Moreover, when quar-terly results do affect share prices, it is often because the short term has been interpreted as a credible reflection of the long term. By the same token, instead of trying to boost short-term profits by sacrificing the long term, corporate managers would do better to explain their strategy and encour-age investor patience. And if market analysts do not buy their argument, perhaps they have a point, and new management may be in order. It is up to good corporate boards to decide, without being swayed by meaningless short-term results. They can certainly encourage managers to take a longer-term view. Vacuous state-ments about serving all stakeholders need never be issued.

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Like someone pointing to treasure is the wise person who sees your faults and points them out. Associate with such a sage. —Buddha

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Jagat Prakash Nadda @JPNaddaBJP’s struggle to save the rich glory of Bengal will continue. We stand with the people of Bengal despite the brazen misuse of state power by Mamata didi. Our brave @BJYM karyakartas compelled her to close the Secretariat. This is an admission that she has lost public confidence.

KC Venugopal @kcvenugopalmpThe real conspirators in the Hathras horror are none other than Yogi & the BJP. From hiding & twisting the facts of the case & lying under oath to the Supreme Court to now imposing UAPA on media personnel, they have gone to great lengths to shield the culprits & strangle justice.

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RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH UNDER SC SCRUTINY

entre’s undeclared protection to some of its favourite channels dishing out fake news and irresponsible reporting of some events has invited the Supreme Court’s annoyance. The manner in

which some news channels spread hatred with their fake stories about Muslims being super spreaders of Covid-19 after the Tablighi Jamaat incident in Delhi and the Centre’s response has not gone down well with the apex court.

A bench comprising Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, Justice AS Bopanna and Justice V. Ramasu-bramanian upbraided the Centre for its affidavit denying any instance of “bad reporting” with regard to the communalization of Tablighi Jamaat which held a congregation at its Nizamuddin markaz in Delhi in March. The mosque had become a Covid hotspot and members of the Tabligh were hounded all over the country. Some news channels persistent-ly telecast anti-Muslim propaganda which led to the detention of foreigners who had been allowed valid visas to participate in the congregation while the government winked at the channels’ fake content.

A similar stand was taken by the Centre when a pro-BJP channel began airing its malicious “UPSC Jihad” programme against Muslims qualifying the civil services. The programme was put on hold after the matter was brought to the Supreme Court’s attention.

In the Tablighi case, the Chief Justice warned the Centre against treating the court lightly for its “brazen and evasive” reply. “How can you say there is no instance of bad reporting in the petition,” the Bench asked as it pointed out that freedom of speech was “one of the most abused right”.

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BENGAL KEEPS UP ITS TRADITION OF VIOLENCE

ith elections approaching, West Bengal is witnessing a return to its politics of agitation and violence. Earlier, the pro-tests were by the CPI-M against the Con-gress, then Trinamool Congress (TMC)

and Congress against the CPI-M and now it is the TMC which is bearing the brunt of agitation poli-tics mainly by the BJP but also the CPI-M and the Congress. Mamata Banerjee drove out Tata’s small car project from Singur alleging an unfair deal to farmers whose land was acquired for the project.

On Thursday, the BJP planned a march to the state secretariat, more to demonstrate its strength than to protest against the deteriorating law and order, inept handling of the pandemic, and other issues. As more such protests are planned, the Mamata government has closed down the secre-tariat for two days for sanitization.

With the newly appointed BJP Yuva Morcha pres-ident Tejasvi Surya present at the protest venue along with senior party leaders Kailash Vijayvargiya and Mukul Roy, the protesters allegedly hurled bricks and bombs at the police who lobbed teargas shells and used water cannon to disperse the mob. The clash left several injured. The BJP is unlikely to release the pressure on the TMC government and more such protests are likely in the future. They have been pro-testing ever since losing out to Mamata in the assem-bly election. In 2017 also they had turned Kolkata into a war zone and the violence had leftover 70 injured. The idea is to grab eyeballs and headlines for a sus-tained impact before West Bengal goes to the polls.

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he societal expectations and traditional gender roles play a big part in why men do not talk about their mental health. This factor is a dam-aging stigma around mental health problems in men.

The notion of ‘manliness’ and the burden of toxic masculinity, where a man is supposed to be tough and in control, for that reason asking for help or reach-ing out when faced with emo-tional difficulties can mean it is seen as a weakness. If men feel pressure to appear strong, this can stop them from opening up about their mental health issues. This can both cause and aggra-vate mental health problems.

Masculinity norms can govern the way men seek help. They can govern the kinds of disclosures men make when they are feeling distressed or they are exposed to stressful events. – there are described as the rules of mas-culinity and may include spe-cific ways men are told they should act – you know, be tough, stay in control, be a provider, etc. When men ad-here rigidly to the kinds of norms that encourage them to not share their emotions, to be sort of relentlessly self-reliant without seeking the help or support of others, they can have poorer mental health outcomes, particular-ly more depressive symptom-atology because doing so cuts them off I think from the so-cial networks and social sup-ports that might help them get through a difficult time.

Hence, males who endorse more traditional norms (such as self-reliance i.e. prefer to solve problems themselves and not to ask others for help and the im-portance of emotional control) maybe less willing to discuss their health concerns. In rela-tion to mental health, it may be the case that men with mental health problems experience considerable shame and stigma and thus feel like they are not able to openly discuss their

problems with mental health care professionals.

However, this does not mean that men are invulner-able to mental illnesses. De-pression, anxiety, eating dis-orders, stress, and low self-esteem, as well as conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, are all expe-rienced by men too and are significantly more at risk of attempting suicide than women. Men and women can develop most of the same mental disorders and condi-tions but may experience dif-ferent symptoms. Some symptoms include:

z Anger, irritability, or aggressivenessz Visible changes in mood, energy level, or appetitez Increased or reduced sleep patternsz Issues with concentration or feeling restlessz Increased levels of worry or stressz Misuse of alcohol and/or drugsz Prolonged periods of sadness or hopelessnessz Suicidal thoughtsz Engaging in high-risk activitiesz Aches, headaches, digestive problems without a clear medical causez Impairment in social, occupational, and other important areas of functioning.

The offensive image of a man being a “sissy” or “femi-

nine” if they are emotional or talk about their feelings can be seriously devastating and further discourages many men from expressing themselves emotionally due to their fear of being judged. Suppressing emotions and masking distress, are often start early in life and have been linked to less willing-ness by boys and men to seek help which results in more risk-taking and aggression — possibly harming them-selves and those with whom they interact.

The pressure of being over-ambitious for a man and danger-ously affect their mental health to the point where stress leads to a number of mental issues such as anxiety and depression.

The stereotypes that men should struggle for ultimate financial victory and work around-the-clock to get it is completely bru-tal for their well-being and re-grettably, high rates of mental health issues come from middle-aged working men, who have been overworked for most of their lives.

There are a number of so-lutions to challenge and shat-ter the beliefs of toxic mascu-linity factor in to break men-tal health stigmas for men. Firstly, the obstacle that is created for venting emotion-al needs to be smashed straightaway. The best way to do this is to become the change-maker by expressing yourself and how you feel in your friend groups and cir-cles. Crying should never be assigned to a gender, that is an outstandingly false no-tion. We must also bring vul-nerability, as a basic princi-ple of emotional strength, into the structure of mascu-linity. In fact, it is progressive for men to see each other’s resilience, as it will sanction them to relieve stress and negative feelings, rather than accumulating them up. It is also crucial to motivate them to share their feelings and emotions with you, and when they do, provide the moral support that they need in-stead of patronizing them.

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THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

HOW TOXIC MASCULINITY CAN HURT MEN’S MENTAL HEALTH

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Masculinity norms can govern the way men seek help. They can govern the kinds of disclosures men make when they are feeling distressed or they are exposed to stressful events. – there are described as the rules of masculinity and may include specific ways men are told they should act – you know, be tough, stay in control, be a provider, etc

THE OFFENSIVE IMAGE OF A MAN BEING A “SISSY” OR “FEMININE” IF THEY

ARE EMOTIONAL OR TALK ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS

CAN BE SERIOUSLY DEVASTATING AND

FURTHER DISCOURAGES MANY MEN FROM

EXPRESSING THEMSELVES EMOTIONALLY DUE TO THEIR FEAR OF

BEING JUDGED

NOREEN CHOUDHRI

The writer is a Clinical Psychologist, Founder of Made in Mind, Jaipur. Licensed by Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) M.Sc., M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology

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Hathras: The accused in the Hathras incident have written to the Su-perintendent of Police alleging they have been framed in the case and have urged for an inves-tigation for justice to be delivered in the matter. The letter, written on October 7, in Hindi, states that the four ac-cused had been framed on the basis of “false claims” of indulging in sexual acts and then manhandling the girl, leading to her death.

Sandeep, an accused, further stated that he was friends with the vic-tim, and the two also used to talk with the girl over the phone. “On the day of the incident I met her in the fields, she was accompanied by her mother and brother. Upon her telling me I re-turned to my house and started giving water to the animals along with my father. Later on, I got to know from the villag-ers that her mother and brother have beaten her up due to her friendship with me, due to which

she received serious in-juries,” the letter read.

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Big industrial push:.. for investment. He also stressed on the devel-opment of facilities in backward areas. “Pos-sibilities of developing a separate industrial area for the migrant Rajasthanis should be explored so that the mi-grants whose indus-tries are affected dur-ing this period of Coro-na pandemic, can be re-lieved. Migrant Ra-jasthanis have an un-breakable relationship with the state. In such a situation, it is the re-sponsibility of the state government to understand their prob-lems and try to over-come them,” Gehlot stressed.

The Chief Minister said that a new MSME Act has been intro-duced in the state to fa-cilitate entrepreneurs

and make the way for investment easier. “In this, entrepreneurs do not need any approval for 3 years and this has made it easier to start an enterprise. In the new industrial policy, many types of dis-counts have been given to entrepreneurs so that investment can be increased in the state. Along with improve-ment in One Stop Shop Scheme, Single Win-dow Act, other steps and policies taken by the state government will make the road of investment easy in the state, the economy will gain momentum and at the same time youth will get employment, he said.

Meanwhile, Indus-tries Minister Parsadi Lal Meena said that the development of 23 new industrial areas is

a major achievement of the state govern-ment. He said that in 2019-20, a revenue of Rs 1400 crore has been earned by RIICO from the sale of more than 1200 plots. “Entrepre-neurs are showing in-terest in buying plots of RIICO industrial ar-eas even in this phase of Corona pandemic. e-auction system im-plemented by the pre-sent government has brought transparency and has made the en-trepreneurs quite com-fortable.,” he said.

Chairman of RIICO, Kuldeep Ranka said that a policy frame-work has been pre-pared to provide a con-ducive investment cli-mate to small and me-dium entrepreneurs in the state. “At present, there are 349 industri-al areas, with the addi-

tion of 23 new indus-trial areas, their num-ber will now become 372. New industrial clusters are being de-veloped according to DMIC and Gas Grid,” he said.

MPs, MLAs and oth-er people’s representa-tives were also present during the foundation stone laying ceremony, through VC.

Freedom of... The court also sought affidavit from a secre-tary-level officer with details of steps taken in past to stop moti-vated media reporting in such cases.

Senior advocate Du-shyant Dave, appear-ing for the Jamaat, told the court that the Centre in its affidavit has stated petitioners were trying to muzzle freedom of speech and

expression.“Freedom of speech

and expression is the most abused right in recent times,” the bench, also compris-ing Justices A S Bo-panna and V Ramasu-bramanian, said.

“They are free to make any averment in their affidavit, like you are free to make any argument you want,” it added.

The petitions will be taken up after two weeks.

The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind had moved the apex court on April 6 seeking directions to prevent what it claimed was the com-munalisation of the Nizamuddin Markaz issue by certain sec-tions of the print and electronic media.

The Centre had filed its affidavit in

the matter on August 7, stating that the spread of Covid-19 among attendees of the Jamaat, attacks on health workers by some sections, etc, were all matters of fact and that “news reports based on facts… cannot be cen-sored”.

It also said that the plea raised grievances against “certain sec-tion of media” with-out naming any and “certain news re-ports” without pro-ducing these reports. Instead, it “merely re-lied upon ‘certain fact check news reports’ to contend that entire media is perpetrating communal disharmo-ny and hatred towards Muslims, and is there-fore required to be censured/gagged”, the government said.

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New Delhi : The Delhi High Court will on No-vember 2 hear a peti-tion filed by CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat challenging a trial court order which had dismissed her plea seeking registration of FIR against BJP leaders Anurag Thakur and Ka-pil Mishra over their alleged hate speech dur-ing the riots that broke out in the national capi-tal earlier this year. The plea, filed through advo-cates Tara Narula, Adit S Pujari and Aparajita Sinha, was listed before a single judge bench of Justice Yogesh Khanna who asked both parties to file the set of judg-ments they would rely on and posted the mat-ters for further hearing

on November 2.“The Complainant is

effectively being asked to step into the shoes of the investigating agen-cy and make a case for prosecution before the Sanctioning Agency. Furthermore, any Ap-plication for Sanction by the complainant at this stage would be without the benefit of materials and evidence obtained during investi-gation,” the plea said further.

HC to hear left plea on FIR against Thakur & Mishra

AMIT SHAH SHARES PM MODI’S 3 ‘MANTRAS’ FOR COVID CAUTIONNew Delhi: As Cov-id-19 tally went past the 68 lakh-mark in the country, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday shared Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi’s three ‘man-tras’ for precaution and safety.

Taking to Twitter to share his thoughts, the Minister urged people to “wear a mask, keep two yards distance and wash hands frequently” as ad-vised by the Prime Min-ister earlier in the day.

Terming Modi’s call as a safety ‘mantra’, Shah stressed the need to follow the Covid mes-sage delivered by him at a time when India’s Covid-19 tally has reached 68,35,655 and 1,05,526 fatalities have occurred on Thursday with a fresh spike of 78,524 cases in the last 24 hours.

“Only three mantras for safety against Co-rona: wear a mask, keep a two-yard dis-tance and wash hands frequently. My appeal to all is to consider this call of @narendramodi

ji as a safety mantra to not only protect your-self but also your fam-ily, friends and col-leagues,” Shah tweeted in Hindi.

Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister emphasised on people driven to fight against Covid-19, and appealed to people to unite to

fight the disease. “Let us Unite to fight Co-rona! Let us always remember: Wear a mask, wash hands, fol-low social distancing, practice ‘Do Gaj Ki Doori’. Together, we will succeed and to-gether, we will win against COVID-19,” Modi tweeted. —Agencies

New Delhi: At least 22 states including union territories (UTs) have a Covid-19 positivity rate less than the national average which is at 8.19 per cent, informed the Union Health Ministry on Thursday.

These states include--Bihar (2.61), Gujarat (3.30), Jharkhand (3.82), Uttar Pradesh (3.92), Himachal Pradesh (4.93), Rajasthan (5.11), Madhya Pradesh (5.98), Punjab (5.99), Haryana (6.65), Odisha (6.71), Ut-tarakhand (7.13), Jam-mu and Kashmir (7.24), Telangana (7.38) and West Bengal (8.15).

While India is fulfill-ing the World Health Or-ganisation’s (WHO) ad-vise of 140 tests per day per million population, the country is testing more than 15 lakh Cov-id-19 samples every day, said the health ministry.

Nearly 12 lakh tests were conducted in the last 24 hours in the

country. With 11,94,321 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, the cumu-lative tests have crossed 8.34 crores (8,34,65,975), it said.

In another row of achievements, 35 states/UTs have exceed-ed the advised number of tests. The national average of tests per day per million population stands at 865.

About 83,011 single day Covid-19 recoveries were registered in last 24 hours as against 78,524 new confirmed cases. The total recov-ered cases stand at 58,27,704. The gap be-tween the total number

of recoveries and active cases has crossed 49 lakh (49,25,279).

22 states/UTs report positivity rateless than national average: Ministry

Hathras accused allege they were framed, urge probe

INDIA’S TALLY CROSSES 68L

‘Induction of Rafale, Apache, Chinook will transform IAF’New Delhi: On the oc-casion of 88th Air Force Day, President Ram Nath Kovind honoured air warriors, veterans and the families of IAF, saying that the nation remains indebted to the contribution of the IAF in securing the skies.

“On Air Force Day, we proudly honour our air warriors, veterans, and families of the In-dian Air Force. The na-tion remains indebted to the contribution of the IAF in securing our skies and assisting civil authorities in Humani-tarian Assistance and Disaster Relief,” Presi-dent Kovind tweeted. “The ongoing process of modernisation with induction of Rafale, Apache and Chinook will transform the IAF into an even more for-midable strategic force.

Confident that in the years to come, the Indi-an Air Force will con-tinue to maintain its high standards of com-mitment and compe-tence,” he said in an-other tweet.

Meanwhile, Defence Minister Rajnath Sin-gh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah also extended their greetings to the IAF on the occasion.

“My felicitations and

best wishes to the air warriors and their fam-ilies on the occasion of Air Force Day-2020. Eighty-eight years of dedication, sacrifice and excellence mark the journey of the IAF which is today a lethal and formidable force to reckon with,” Singh tweeted. The IAF was established on October 8, 1932, in undivided In-dia which was under colonial rule.

NIA arrests two from TN, KarnatakaBengaluru: The Na-tional Investigation Agency has arrested two suspected mem-bers of the city-based ISIS module, which was allegedly involved in radicalisation of youth and funding their trip to Syria to join the terror outfit.

Ahamed Abdul Cad-er (40), hailing from Ra-manathapuram district in Tamil Nadu and Ir-fan Nasir (33) from Frazer Town here were arrested by the NIA sleuths on Wednesday.

The NIA action comes weeks after the agency busted the ter-ror module with the ar-rest of a doctor here.

In continuing with the investigation, the sleuths conducted searches on the prem-ises of Cader and Nasir in Gurappana Palya

and Frazer Town and recovered incriminat-ing material and elec-tronic devices from their possession.

While Cader is a business analyst in a bank in Chennai, Nasir is a rice merchant here, the NIA said in a state-ment.

The duo was pro-duced before Special NIA Court here, which granted 10 days custo-dy to the agency for in-terrogation.

Let us Unite to fight Corona! Let us always remember: Wear a mask, wash hands, follow social distancing,

practice ‘Do Gaj Ki Doori’. Together, we will succeed and together, we will win against COVID-19. —Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

NARENDRA MODI @narendramodi

Many congratulations to all the brave warriors of the Indian Air Force on Air Force Day. You not only keep the skies of the country safe but also play a leading role in the service of humanity in times of

disaster. Your courage, valour and dedication to protect Maa Bharti inspire everyone.”

Amit Shah Creating a narra-tive that defames a woman’s character

and holding her somehow responsi-ble for crimes com-mitted against her is revolting and re-gressive. A heinous

crime has been committed at

Hathras. SHE DE-SERVES JUSTICE NOT SLANDER. #BesharmBJP.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress leader

RaGa flays PM over VVIP planeNew Delhi: Con-gress leader Ra-hul Gandhi again attacked Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi on Thursday over the acquisition of VVIP aircraft and wondered how many things could have been bought for the soldiers stationed in Siachen-Ladakh border in the amount spent.

During his cam-paign in Punjab against the farm reform laws, the Congress leader on Tuesday had accused the prime minister of “wast-ing” thousands of crores of rupees on the aircraft.

Kulbhushan case:India slams Pak New Delhi: India on Thursday once again hit out at Pakistan for failing to provide unim-peded, unconditional access to Kulbhushan Jadhav saying that Pa-kistan has failed to ad-dress the core issues in the case.

Earlier, Pakistan re-jected India’s demand that an Indian lawyer or a Queen’s counsel be ap-pointed for Jadhav to ensure a free and fair trial, whereas the Inter-national Court of Jus-tice (ICJ) had in July 2019 ruled that Pakistan must undertake an “ef-fective review and re-consideration” in the Jadhav case and also grant consular access to India Ministry of Ex-ternal Affairs spokes-

person Anurag Shrivas-tava in his weekly me-dia briefing today said “Pakistan has failed to respond on the core is-sues pertaining to the (Kulbhushan Jadhav) case. The core issues are the provision of all documents related to this case and providing unimpeded, uncondi-tional and unhindered counselor access to Kulbhushan Jadhav”

Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson further added “These issues have to be ad-dressed if we have to have an effective review & reconsideration, as ordered by the Interna-tional Court of Justice. Pakistan must show its intention to deliver on these issues”. —ANI

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New Delhi/Jaipur: The Supreme Court, while refusing to inter-fere with a plea to ex-tend the dates for Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota municipal corpo-ration elections, on Thursday directed the Rajasthan Election Commission to notify the election programme within one week.

The state govern-ment’s plea (SLP) chal-lenging the Rajasthan High Court’s decision to hold the elections to the newly created six municipal corpora-tions of Jaipur, Jodh-pur and Kota by 31 Oc-tober, was heard in the Supreme Court on

Thursday. The Supreme Court

while refusing to stay the High Court verdict also refused to postpone the election dates.

A bench headed by Justice AM Khanwilkar asked the Rajasthan government to file an application for extend-ing the date of munici-pal polls.

The state govern-ment had moved the apex court challenging the Rajasthan High Court order dismissing its application for ex-tending the poll dates from October 31, 2020, to March 20, 2021, for Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota municipal corpo-rations.

During the hearing,

the bench observed that it will not interfere with the High Court order but asked the govern-ment to approach the High Court and con-vince it.

“No further indul-gence is required from this court. Go and con-vince the High Court to give you further time. First, notify the elec-

tion and then go to the High Court. Explain to the High Court why the election in October is not possible,” the bench noted.

The top court also took into the submis-sion of the State Elec-tion Commission that it is already in the pro-cess of conducting the Panchayat elections.

Recently, the High Court while rejecting the application moved by the state government had directed that the elections should be completed by October 31.

The civil polls in the three municipal corpo-rations were due in No-vember 2019 but were first postponed for de-limitation of wards, following the govern-ment decision to bifur-cate the corporations in the three and then again due to the COV-ID-19 pandemic.

The government had then assured the court that the elections would be held within six months.

—With inputs from ANI

JAIPUR, JODHPUR, KOTA MUNICIPAL POLLS BY OCT 31 SC ASKS GOVT TO ISSUE NOTIFICATIONS IN A WEEK

TAREEKH PE TAREEKH! Rajasthan High Court has extended the time of Corpo-ration elections thrice till now. HC had issued an order on March 18 and postponed the polls for the next six weeks from April 17. After that on April 28 this period was once again extended to 31 August. The High Court had once again extended the date of elections on July 31 for the third time on the application of the state government till October 31. The civil polls in the three municipal corporations were due in November 2019, but were first postponed for delimitation of wards, and then again due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

When Assembly elections can be held in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, why not Corporation elections in Rajasthan, asks Supreme Court

Joshi: Ready for polls, will act after seeing orderFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: After Supreme Court refused to give re-lief to the state govern-ment on municipal elec-tions, Chief Whip Ma-hesh Joshi said that the government and party are prepared for the elec-tions and appropriate ac-tion will be taken after examining the order. He said that we were expect-ing apex court will give relief to the state govern-ment. He said that when a candidate contests mu-nicipal elections, his team plays an important role. Talking to reporters

at PCC, Joshi said ensur-ing social distancing in urban areas will be a challenge during the elections. Three cities—Jaipur, Kota and Jodh-pur—where the local bodies elections are to be held have high number of corona positive cases and government is con-cerned about the spread.

ODD ONE OUT! IAS OFFICER ARTIKA SHUKLA FAILS TO GET A CONFIRMATION

30 sportsperson to get out of turn appointment soon: Chandna

Justice Mohammad Rafiq can be made CJ of MP HC

Rajendra Chhabra

Jaipur: It is first of its kind matter in state’s IAS history when a new IAS has not been given confirmation in service.

The current matter pertains to 2016 batch officer Artika Shukla and even though the Un-ion Government has is-sued confirmation for all remaining 109 IAS officials of 2016 batch, only Shukla has been left out which means 8 out of 9 IAS candidates from Rajasthan have been confirmed.

The remaining eight individuals are—Tina

Dabi, A Shafi Khan, JS Sandhu, Pratap Singh, Amit Yadav, Dr Manju, Ravindra Goswami and Rohitashva Singh.

Meanwhile Artika Shukla is serving cur-rently as additional commissioner Commer-cial Taxes.

K n o w l e d g e a b l e

sources claim that a po-lice investigation is on-going against Artika in a criminal FIR after a woman doctor from Ajmer—Jyotsana Ran-ga—registered FIR claiming that Shukla beat her up and misbe-haved with her while causing disruption in

state work. The incident alleged-

ly occurred on April 22 when Artika was serv-ing as SDM Ajmer. Gov-ernment doctor Jyot-sana was taking sam-ples from an area of the city along with her team and the duo entered in a dispute over sampling.

The dispute turned into a brawl and later the doctor, through an istagasa in CJM Court, registered FIR against Artika.

Jyotsana was sup-ported by all the doctors in Ajmer but on Arti-ka’s appeal, the ADJ Court put a stay on the

FIR. However, Jyotsana then approached the High Court which stayed the ADJ court’s orders and directed the police to register FIR.

Now on the HC’s or-der, an investigation has been initiated against Artika and although she has been trans-ferred from Ajmer to Jaipur, she will not be given the benefit of pro-motion till the time she is accorded the confir-mation. Artika is an IAS of AGMUT cadre and after her marriage she has come to Ra-jasthan on inter-cadre deputation.

Naresh Sharma

Jaipur: Sports minister Ashok Chandna said that the state govern-ment will give appoint-ment to 30 sportsper-sons under ‘out of turn’ policy under ‘A’ and ‘B’ category in coming days. In a review meet-ing of the Sports Coun-cil, the minister said chief secretary has been asked to conduct a meeting of the commit-tee chaired by him.

In category ‘A’, there are eight kind of posts including that of Depu-ty SP while in category ‘B’, there are 14 differ-ent posts like Police sub inspector and others.

The minister said that scrutiny of appli-cants under category ‘C’ is being conducted.

Before the meeting, he also released a souve-nir of the State Games 2020, organized for the first time on lines of Na-tional Games.

Chandna, also re-viewed the progress of construction works of

various stadiums and other sports grounds and took updates about various sports projects from engineers and of-ficials of RSRDC.

Principal Secretary- Youth Affairs and Sports and chairman Rajasthan State Sports Council Bhaskar A. Sawant and others were present in the meeting.

Jaipur: Odisha High Court Chief Justice, Justice Mohammad Rafiq might be the new Chief Justice of Mad-hya Pradesh High Court if the whispers in the power corridors are to be believed.

Justice Rafiq hails from Sujangarh in Chu-ru district of Rajasthan. He was administered the oath of office of the Chief Justice of Orissa High Court on April 27 this year after his trans-fer from the Meghalaya High Court. He was the

Chief Justice of Megha-laya HC from November 13, 2019 to April 26, 2020. Prior to that, he served as a Judge of Rajasthan High Court where he was elevated as Judge on May 15, 2006.

SRH BEAT KXIP BY 69 RUNS

Rashid Khan of SRH celebrates a dismissal during the match 22 of IPL 2020 at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on Thursday. —Photo By ANI

Politicians throng Birla’s home to offer condolencesGul Mohammed

Kota: Condolences con-tinue to pour in for Lok Sabha speaker Om Bir-la, whose father Shrikrishna Birla passed away recently. On Thursday as well politicians and people from all walks of life reached Birla’s Dada Bari residence in Kota and offered tributes to late Birla. Gadhwal MP Tirath Singh, RS mem-ber Prabhat Jha, BJP National Secretary Vi-

nod Sonkar, former BJP ministers Kiran Maheshwari & Anita Bhadel, Rajkumari Gurjar, Pabbaram Vish-noi, Pratap Singh Sing-hvi, Ashok Parnami,

Rajpal Singh Shekha-wat, Home Guard DG Rajiv Dasaut were among some prominent people who reached LS Speaker’s residence to offer their condolences.

Aditi Nagar

New Delhi: They say politics is the art of sending subtle message or hints to your oppo-nent without it ever be-ing made obvious to the people while keeping it too ‘crisp’ so that the op-ponent realises the ac-tual meaning of the ‘hints’. It is believed that a good politician is one who keeps an open eye for these messages so that he knows the min-ute details of what the opponent is thinking and planning. By that standard, Sachin Pilot’s

‘visit’ to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s home town has sent an array of mixed messages for ‘relevant’ political cir-cles in state.

The manner in which Pilot reached Jodhpur on Thursday was noth-ing short of ‘victory parade’ since the former deputy CM reached at the head of not one or two vehicles, or a dozen vehicles rather a hun-dred vehicles and al-most thrice the number of individuals as that of the vehicles!

Pilot had gone to Jodhpur to express his

condolences to the fam-ily of BJP stalwart late Jaswant Singh Jasol. And in fact Pilot wasn’t ‘alone’ too as senior and renowned leaders from the state’s polity, like

Rameshwar Dudi, Deep-endra Singh Shekhawat, Ved Prakash Solanki, Mukesh Bhakar and others too accompanied him and the entire en-tourage was accorded

grand welcomes all along the way especially at Dudu, Kishangarh, Ajmer, Beawar and oth-er spots.

Upon reaching ‘Jasol House’, Pilot supporters

started raising slogans in favor of their leader and at one point it ap-peared as if the ‘leader’ had come to address a public rally leading to election! While Pilot and his ‘entourage’ ex-pressed their condolenc-es over passing away of Jaswant Singh, a few senior Congress leaders from Jodhpur and in fact those from across state, upon knowing of the ‘developments’ in Jodhpur, expressed their displeasure over the entire episode ob-serving that it was not right to ‘showcase’ pow-

er at a time when he has gone to express grief on the passing of a national leader. This is not the tradition of Marwar to make any pomp & show or garland the leader at the time of condolences.

“It wasn’t an election meeting, rather a prayer meet for Singh, what then as the use and pur-pose of this extravagant show of strength?” par-ty members questioned. Interestingly, another curious aspect was that even BJP leaders like Gajendra Singh Shekha-wat and Satish Poonia, also travelled to Jodh-

pur the very same day as Pilot and this situation, is also being seen with much interest by politi-cal observers.

But it wasn’t that Pi-lot made his ‘presence’ felt for just one purpose, however, he made sure that he sends a positive message to his support-ers too and therefore he made a beeline for a supporter’s home where he had lunch and later pushed off to Delhi by flight from Jodhpur air-port, where once again the entourage followed him to see off the ‘be-loved’ leader!

Pilot’s Jodhpur pomp during condolence draws ire from Congmen!

Sachin Pilot being welcomed by his supporters on way to Jodhpur on Thursday.

Ashok Chandna releasing souvenir of State Games 2020 in presence of Bhaskar A Sawant, Mahendra Meena, Jayveer Singh and Prahlad Yadav.

Ashok Parnami paying tributes to Late Shrikrishna Birla

Artika Shukla Jyotsana Ranga

Justice Mohammad Rafiq

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Restart social forestry project for forest expansion: CM

Maken’s health improves, Congmen hopeful of new developments

Laxmi Vilas Palace Hotel case: Guha, Suri, Karamsey furnish bonds in CBI court

Sachin’s PR, journo matter to be closed?

FOREST DEPARTMENT REVIEW MEETING : Form ‘Rajasthan State Forest Development Corporation within 3 months, Gehlot instructsNaresh Sharma

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has said that conservation of wildlife and expansion of forests is very impor-tant for the balance of environment. “The so-cial forestry scheme launched during the time of former PM In-dira Gandhi, to expand the forest area in the state, should be revived, as the plantation cam-paign can be made suc-cessful only with maxi-mum public participa-

tion. Moreover, a new forest policy should also be formed within three months time,” Gehlot directed while holding a review meeting of For-est Department at the Chief Minister’s resi-dence on Thursday.

“If the general public understands impor-tance of forests and their participation in plantation will be en-sured, then we will be able to achieve the goal of expansion of forests. For this, the Forest De-partment officials

should coordinate with the district administra-tion to create an envi-ronment to plant and take care of maximum number of trees up to village-dhani. For the

purpose the coopera-tion of Rural Develop-ment and Panchayati Raj Department, Educa-tion Department and NGOs etc. can be tak-en,” Gehlot said.

The Chief Minister said that special empha-sis should be given on nursery development to make plantation pro-gram effective. He said that people should be

encouraged to prepare nurseries at local level. “This will allow plants to be available as per requirement for planta-tion. Also, employment opportunities will be available to people. Plants with medicinal properties should be planted in coordination with Ayurveda depart-ment. This will also pro-vide additional income to department,” he said.

Moreover, Gehlot di-rected that the work of planting local species of plants should be sped

up by removing the Ju-liflora and for this, “a plan should be prepared by meeting with the De-partment of Rural De-velopment and Pan-chayati Raj,” he said.

The CM said that in order to increase pro-ductivity of forests, in-crease in production of timber, bamboo and small forest produce, it was announced to con-stitute the ‘Rajasthan State Forest Develop-ment Corporation’ in this year’s budget. The Forest Department

should constitute this corporation within three months. He said that the department should also ensure re-munerative price of small forest produce.

Reviewing Rantham-bore, Sariska and Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve, he said that state government is very serious about con-servation of tigers. Forest department should not observe any lacunae in conserva-tion of wildlife includ-ing tigers.

Aditi Nagar

New Delhi: There is a good news for Congress men in Rajasthan. Newly appointed state incharge Ajay Maken’s health has improved over the past few days after he went into self quarantine, effectively putting on hold several important issues that needed to be addressed. As Maken went into quarantine, he put on hold his meeting with leaders and legisla-tors. Moreover, neither did he take part in the AICC meetings, nor did he tour Rajasthan and in fact had to can-cel his visits.

Party workers from Rajasthan are eagerly awaiting Maken’s ‘return’ since after Rajya Sab-ha election and po-litical turmoil, min-ister incharge of dis-tricts have been as-suring workers that appointments would be done soon. But with each passing day, the discontent in party’s work force is increasing. Such is the situation that even eighteen MLAs

are also awaiting Maken’s ‘revival’ in the hope that they will also be accorded some position in po-litical appointments of cabinet reshuffle.

Maken is the mem-ber of the three mem-ber committee on Ra-jasthan issues and al-though he has been continuously in touch with leaders in Ra-jasthan through calls, the work has not gath-ered momentum. In fact CM Ashok Ge-hlot was scheduled to travel to New Delhi on 26th September where he would have met the three mem-ber committee and held discussions on various issues, how-ever with Ahmed Pa-tel also falling ill, Ge-hlot changes his plan.

Rajeev Gaur

Udaipur: Three ac-cused of a scam involv-ing the sale of the five star Laxmi Vilas Palace hotel, Udaipur ap-peared in CBI court to furnish bonds as di-rected by high court.

Ashish Guha, MD of Lazard India Limited, Jyotsna Suri, MD of Bharat Hotels Limit-ed, and Kantilal Kar-amsey appeared before the court and fur-nished the bonds.

The high court had on 22 September stayed their arrest issued by the CBI court and asked them to appear before the CBI court to furnish the bonds.

Another accused and former union minister Arun Shourie has the time to furnish bond till October 15, whereas the Supreme Court has given a relief to Pradeep Baijal, on the ground of health and stayed the high court order to appear before

the CBI court to fur-nish bond.

The case pertains to the sale of public sec-tor Indian Tourism De-velopment Corpora-tion’s Laxmi Vilas Pal-ace Hotel to a private firm around two dec-ades ago.

The property was

sold to Bharat Hotels Ltd for Rs 7.52 crore when Shourie was the minister in charge of divestment in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre.

During a prelimi-nary investigation by

the CBI, the property was valued at Rs 252 crore, suggesting a loss of Rs 244 crore to the exchequer.

A special CBI court ordered the registra-tion of an FIR against former Union disin-vestment minister Arun Shourie, the de-partment’s former sec-retary Pradip Baijal, Lazard India Ltd man-aging director Ashish Guha, valuer Kantilal Karamsey and Bharat Hotels director Jyot-sana Suri over the sale.

The accused ap-proached the high court after arrest war-rants were issued against them by the lower court last month.

Rajendra Chhabra

Jaipur: While the Jaipur police has regis-tered FIR against Sachin Pilot’s PR manager and a senior journalist from Rajasthan, the state-ments of the duo could not be registered on Thursday, as perhaps the Jaipur police deemed it fit to first issue notices to both the individuals un-der section 41(a), after which the formal legal proceedings will be car-ried out. Meanwhile, sources in Pilot camp have hinted that in the next 3-4 days, a FR or clo-sure report in the matter will be filed. However, there was no official con-firmation on the same.

Ashish Guha Jyotsna Suri Kantilal Karamsey

62 ITOs transferred in state, to join new posts by Oct 20Vimal Jain

Jaipur: In a major reshuffle in income tax department, 62 In-come tax officers (ITOs) including 27 ITO in Jaipur were transferred. 19 ITOs were transferred to other cities.

However, despite being under the crite-ria for transfer, 12 ITOs were exempted from transfer due to different reasons. Those who have been transferred will have to be relieved from their current posting by October 16 and join at new posting by Oc-tober 20.

Sumant Sinha, PC-CIT- Jaipur, issued the transfer orders.

Amrit Lal Meena was transferred from Jaipur to Sirohi while Anupam Malhotra was transferred from Alwar to Jaipur while Ashok Verma trans-ferred to Jaipur from Kishangarh. Gajne-dra Singh Parihar,

Nihar Singh Poonia, Satya Pakash Bavta and Laxman Singh were transferred from Jaipur to Jodh-pur. Balbir Singh Tan-war, Dhanna Lal Bair-wa, Umesh Chandra Kachhawa, all from Jaipur, were trans-ferred to Kishangarh, Bikaner and Nokha respectively, while Ashok Verma (Sawaimadhopur), Duli Chand Bairwa (Alwar), Manohar Lal Gupta (Sawaimad-hopur), Ram Kishan Bairwa (Sikar), Ram Kishan Maurya (Siro-hi), Satyanarayan Sharma (Alwar), See-ma Khatri (Nokha), Shiv Dayal Bairwa (Behror), Vijay Dam-bla (Beawar) were transferred to Jaipur.

Besides, seats of Om Prakash Saini, Radhehsyam Verma, Sanjay Chhabra, Shailesh Katiyal, Vivek Singh, Praveen Sethiya and Kailash Chand Meena were changed in Jaipur.

AHMED PATEL@ahmedpatel

Chirag, shocked to hear about the demise of your father ! Ram Vilas Paswan ji was a champion of the downtrodden and had immense faith in India’s pluralism

& diversity. It’s a big loss for the nation. My condolences to you,

your family and all his supporters

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot during review meeting of Forest Department at CMR on Thursday.

Ajay Maken

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employees of agency Hansa Research Group- contracted by BARC to carry out the research. They in turn were paying certain households selected as barometers for calcu-lating TRPs to keep certain channels like Republic switched on to show higher TRPs,” Singh said.

Republic TV soon put out a statement denying the allegations, saying it will file criminal defa-mation case against the

Mumbai Police Com-missioner. “Republic will fight back, Repub-lic will continue its in-vestigation into the Su-shant Singh Rajput case, the Palghar case and any other case,” the statement read.

Republic TV also aired another FIR with the portion of the state-ment of the employee (Relationship Manager) of the Hansa Research Group, where he says that he used to insti-gate and offer money to panel homes, with Bar-o-Meter, in order

to increase the TRP of India Today and other channels.

Meanwhile, Singh further said some households were being paid as much as Rs 500 per day to keep particu-lar channels on.

“In some cases, peo-

ple who did not under-stand English were keeping English chan-nels like Republic on through the day. We have recorded their statements,” the Com-missioner said.

As per police, it was Hansa and BARC that

first spotted “unusual trends” in TRPs follow-ing which they ap-proached the police. The crime branch then registered an FIR at Kandivali police station on charges of cheating and criminal breach of trust, following which they arrested a former employee of Hansa and his associate.

The Commissioner said that by manipulat-ing TRPs, the accused caused losses to adver-tisers and other news channels who would suffer from lower TRPs

as compared to these channels. “The TV ad-vertisement industry is worth Rs 30,000 – 40,000 crores,” he said.

BARC, that functions under the Ministry of Information and Broad-casting and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), has in-stalled approximately 30,000 barometers in various parts of the country based on which it awards ratings to var-ious TV channels. Based on these ratings, advertisers pay for their advertisement.

Mum cops bust scam involving Republic TV

NO MASK-NO ENTRY

RHB Commissioner Pawan Arora on Thursday released the poster of “No Mask - No Entry” prepared by Lions Club Malviya Nagar. RHB and Lions Club will post ten thousand posters at all major places in city to make people aware. On the occasion, members of Lions Club Arvind Khurana, Gaurav Dhamani, Mahesh Arora and Bharat Gupta were present.

Raghu’s cousin passes awayShubham Jain

Ajmer: Rajasthan Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma’s cousin Rameshwar Prasad passed away after a heart attack.

He was cremated in his ancestral village, Savar. The funeral cer-emony was performed in the presence of a lim-ited number of people following the Covid guidelines.

COVID-19 UPDATE

RAJASTHAN1,605

DEATHS1,52,605

CONFIRMED CASES

GUJARAT 3,541 DEATHS 1,47,950 CASES

DELHI 5,653 DEATHS 3,00,833 CASES

WORLD10,63,793

DEATHS3,66,26,346

CONFIRMED CASES

INDIA69,02,875CONFIRMED CASES

1,06,534DEATHS

MAHARASHTRA39,430 DEATHS 14,93,884 CASES

TAMIL NADU10,052 DEATHS 6,40,943 CASES

KARNATAKA9,675 DEATHS 6,79,356 CASES

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BLACK AND WHITEWHITEhe elegance and charm that black and white photography brings to a photograph, coloured photographs cannot re-ally deliver the same thing. If you ever no-

tice, most of the intense photo-graphs will be in a black and white format- this helps in cap-turing and conveying the emo-tions to-the-point, and a colour-ful photo distracts the eye to focus on everything else, except the message that the photo is trying to convey.

Portraits, landscapes and any abstract photo can be a great idea for black and white conversions. For all the bud-ding photographers out there, there are a few tips and tricks to attain that best shot, if you are opting for black and white photography.

Texture, shape and con-trast: Keep looking for these three things everywhere you go, since they would be the point of focus in this type of photography. Since the colours are not involved, the contrast, shape and texture of the image is what going to make it look unique.

Always shoot in RAW + JPEG: This is something that helps in getting out the right tone of the image. The best thing is, it can be adjusted ac-cording to your wish, so you can set the mood according to what you want.

Capture uniqueness: If you want to be an expert in what you do, you have to think out of the box; in this case, click out of the box. Open the creative eye of your mind and start search-ing for angles and shots which others cannot think of easily.

Now that we are already talk-ing about black and white pho-tos, do you remember the ‘Black and White Challenge’ that went

viral on social media dur-ing the lockdown period? Yes, we’re talking about the one that went extremely vi-ral. Women all across the glove posted monochrome pictures of themselves on their social media handles to promote women empower-ment, accompanied by the hashtags- #ChallengeAccept-ed and #WomenSupporting-

Women. The main purpose of this challenge was to show solidarity and sup-port to other women across the world. Why black and white? Well, be-cause the emotions cannot be ex-pressed as well in

other formats, as they can be

portrayed in black and white!

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LEOJULY 24 - AUGUST 23

You are going to get in touch with someone you ignite fi re inside you to follow your passion and to

chase your dreams. To move mountains in your career all you need is dedication and lots of hard work and it all start with the willingness to do something in life.

LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22

In business it’s very important to choose the right people to work with, study people thoroughly

before getting into deals with them. Your paternal family is going to help you big time as far as your career is concerned right now. Keep smiling as everything will just turn fi ne.

ARIESMAR 21 - APR 20

No matter how diffi cult the situation is outside but life don’t stop, today your childhood memories will

come live as you may fi nally decide to step out of home and spend quality time with your close relative or bes friend whom you have not seen in a long time.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22

To take guidance from someone will not make you week or any less intelligent rather it will refl ect as in

how mature you are. Dedication is what you need to take your career on the next level. You may fi nd yourself being tempted to buy a lot of stuff but resist the fancy desires for a while.

GEMINIMAY 21 - JUNE 21

You must sit and write your dreams and goal and in every once in a while when your spirit goes

down, you should open your diary and remind yourself of the vision you have. Don’t mind those who are insensitive to you because they don’t deserve your attention.

AQUARIUSJAN 21 - FEB 19

You have accepted with ease that not everyone will like you and that it shouldn’t even matter. Shun all the

negative thoughts today and embrace life open heartedly. You will be in the saving mode and therefore you will spend each penny judiciously. You will realise your true potential.

TAURUSAPR 21 - MAY 20

Not always you like intervention of your elders in your life, sometimes you like to handle your

problems on your own. Being a supporting hand for your spouse will bring lot of happiness to them and they will feel grateful. You can expect a fi nancial boost in salary.

CAPRICORNDEC 23 - JAN 20

You are very desperate to start your own business and all you need is some funding. You are a brave

soul and you say what you have to on people’s faces and never say a word behind their back. You need to personally supervise your business to make sure there is no loophole.

VIRGOAUG 24 - SEP 23

Money isn’t everything for everyone, some people value emotions, love and family beyond anything

else and you are one of them. Help yourself get adjusted if you need to, when accomplishing your target is your priority. Do not leave any stone unturned when it comes to studies.

CANCERJUNE 22 - JULY 23

Live life everyday like you have no tomorrow only then you will make the most of the present (

which is the most precious moment). You must set a goal and then work hard in the direction of achieving it. Carefully read your work documents and decide before signatures.

PISCESFEB20 - MARCH 20

You are giving one thousand percent to your offi ce work and your karma will pay back at the right

time. You are very active these days and nothing can slow down your spirit. You must have faith in some people in life because not everyone can deceive the way others do.

SCORPIOOCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

What you need right now is someone holding your tight and telling you that everything will be alright.

All your stress will disappear if you indulge yourself in yoga. You can expect a big break in your career. You will attract money in bulk. You are quite satisfi ed with your life.

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tions as the situation kept unfolding rapidly. It start-ed with the lead inform-ing me that the lady on seat 1C, is an expectant mother feeling a little restless and that she had not eaten anything since morning.

She was comforted and was given fluids and some-thing to eat. A while later her anxiety and restless-ness increased. She also started complaining of stomach pain. As the situ-ation was developing, I asked the lead to a page for a doctor.

By sheer Providence and divine destiny of this would be newborn, there were two very accom-plished doctors on board. One of them Dr Nagaraj is a plastic surgeon who works in King Fahd hospi-tal in Riyadh and the oth-er Dr Shailaja a Gynae-cologist and an Obstetrics surgeon, heading the fetal medicine department in Cloud Nine hospital.

We were near Jaipur, cruising at FL 390.

She was initially diag-nosed with Gastric pain or just Constipation and the doctors felt that she would be fine. However, her discomfort and rest-lessness kept getting worse. Both doctors were in constant attendance. I spoke to the lady doctor who assured me that she

is watching her carefully.A little later North of

Bhopal, came to know that she has started bleeding followed by the shattering news that she has suffered an abortion.

Forward galley and the Lav were swiftly and effi-ciently converted into a makeshift ward/ labour room taking all precau-tions by an excellent team of cabin crew who rose to the requirements of the occasion.

They were very bril-liantly supported by sev-eral Captains and Crew travelling ACM and Dead Head. I was waiting for one final update from the doctors to decide on my next course of action.

As I was mulling over this disheartening piece of news, heard and no-

ticed a sudden increase in the activity levels in the cabin- screaming, shouting, clapping, and a faint cry of what sound-ed like a newborn- it was a baby boy!

From a feeling of deep sadness, it turned to a feeling of intense joy- nev-er witnessed fortunes turning so swiftly and so miraculously!

Don’t think there was a single soul on board who didn’t have goosebumps on him or her at this mo-ment. So the youngster was born on Cloud Nine with the help of a doctor from Cloud Nine! The baby was premature and there was not much clari-ty on how many months pregnant she was- could have been anything- she had earlier mentioned 5

months?My decision-making

skills were getting tested with rapidly unfolding situations! Although the doctors confirmed to me that the mother and child are doing well, things could again worsen any moment!

Nagpur was 500m in TS, .Indore had a closure, Hy-derabad was the best op-tion to divert in case of any new contingency. At the bottom of my heart, I was hoping and praying that the youngster holds on for another hour and a bit, he did well, much bet-ter than expected at his ripe old age of 5 mins!

I didn’t want her to land up in Hyderabad in this COVID times and with a premature baby- she was travelling alone.

In my address to the pas-sengers, I informed them that, “We have an extra passenger on board.” POB was also revised. plenty of congratulatory calls on air on Nagpur, Chennai and Bangalore frequencies. Nagpur gave me direct BL552 for Ban-galore 27L from just south of Bhopal- enjoyed the uninterrupted high-speed run.

Post landing Birth on Board form was filled, don’t think it has ever been filled in a domestic flight in India ever- and it is most appropriately ti-tled FFS 007.

On the ground amidst all the frenzy, I could sense a genuine sense of happi-ness and joy amongst all present, KIAL staff, Aster Clinic staff, in all the

gloom surrounding us, people were looking for a reason to celebrate and they got one.

There were banners, chocolates, gifts- and the brave mother was given a rousing reception!

Met 007! Had a look at

his face, of course, he was unaffected by all the com-motion around him, by now he was an hour and a half old.

As for me, I couldn’t have asked for a happier Air Force Day eve!

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THE MIRACLE THE MIRACLE BABYBABYCaptain Sanjay Misra ofIndigo, who has served as the Wing Commander at the Air Force Station, Hakimpet, explains his experience of a lifetime that he witnessed on Wednesday on flight 6E 122- Delhi to Bangalore that he was in command of!

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Kristen Stewart, who is current-ly in a relationship with Dylan Meyer, spoke candidly about the pressure of dating in the

public eye during her interview.”The first time I ever dated a girl, I was immediately being asked if I was a lesbian. And it’s like, ‘God, I’m 21

years old,” Stewart revealed while adding she felt like maybe there were things that have hurt peo-ple she’s been with.

Kristen immediately clari-fied that it’s not because she felt ashamed of being “open-ly gay” but because she didn’t like giving herself to

the public, in a way. For the 30-year-old actress, it felt like

such “thievery” while she termed that particular period of time as being “sort of cagey.” —Agency

Blessings of Goddess LakshmiH

ollywood star Salma Hayek has shared a picture of Goddess Lakshmi on her so-

cial media handle. The ac-tress has mentioned in her post that whenever she wants to connect with her inner beauty she seeks the bless-ings of Goddess Lakshmi. Along with the picture of the goddess, Salma has also shared a small note explain-ing what Lakshmi means to her. She said that the im-age of Lakshmi makes her joyful and that she even med-i t a t e s w h i l e focus-

ing on the goddess. Her caption read as,

“When I want to connect with my inner beauty, I start my meditation focusing on the goddess Lakshmi, who in Hinduism represents wealth, fortune, love, beauty, Maya (literally meaning ‘illu-

sion’ or ‘magic’), joy and prosperity. Somehow her image makes me feel joyful, and joy is the greatest door for your inner beauty.” —Agency

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BACK TO WORK!s shootings for en-tertainment pro-grams are back on the track after the coronavirus in-duced hiatus, actor Katrina Kaif on

Thursday resumed work.The ‘Bang Bang’ actor

took to Instagram to share a polaroid picture of herself from the sets. The picture sees her seated in a black col-oured T-shirt along with a yellow coloured shorts.

Two PPE-clad people from her team are also seen stand-ing behind her in the picture.

Without revealing much about her project, Kaif chose to only put a smiley and an alien emoji in the caption.

The 37-year-old actor will be seen in ‘Phone Booth,’ with Ishaan Khatter and Sid-dhant Chaturvedi. —ANI

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Kangana Ranaut, who is all set to essay the role of an air force pilot in her upcoming

fi lm ‘Tejas,’ extended greetings to the country on the occasion of the Indian Air Force Day. The ‘Queen’ actor took to Twitter to extend the greetings on behalf of the entire team of ‘Tejas’ and also shared a poster of the upcoming fi lm. “Team #Tejas wishing everyone #India-nAirforceDay, our fi lm is an ode to our Air Force’s greatness, bravery and sacrifi ce..... Jai Hind @Ron-nieScrewvala @sarveshmewara1,” Kangana tweeted. —ANI

Dropping a short teaser of his upcoming fl ick ‘Laxmmi Bomb,’ actor Akshay Kumar on

Thursday revealed that the trailer of the fi lm will be released on Friday. The 53-year-old actor took to Instagram to share a short video that features a bomb that is about to explode. “Hassoge, darroge aur apne ghar valo ke sath milkar kal sab se bada dhamaka dekhoge,” he wrote in the caption. “Watch #LaxmmiBomb Trailer, coming out tomorrow! #YeDiwaliLaxmmiBomb-Wali! #FoxStarStudios #Disney-PlusHotstarMultiplex,” he added. Earlier, Akshay dropped a spooky glimpse from ‘Laxxmi Bomb’ and announced the release date of the fi lm on social media. —ANI

Kangana Ranaut’s post

Poster of the film

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AIR FORCE DAY GREETINGS

SUPPORTING PM MODI

Megastar Salman Khan on Thurs-day supported Prime Minister

Narendra Modi’s cam-paign ‘Unite2FightCo-rona’ and urged coun-trymen to follow three mantras to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Khan took to Twitter to support the campaign and asked his fans to maintain social distanc-ing, wear masks to keep their hands sanitised. “Bhaiyo, beheno aur mitron In difficult times mein, only do three things: 6ft ka distance, mask peheno & wash & sanitise ur hands,” tweeted Khan.

“Let’s implement PM Modi’s - Jan andolan against covid Come on buck up india! Jai hind!! @narendramodi @pmoindia @MIB_india #UniteToFightCorona,” his tweet further read.

—ANI

PRESSURE OF DATING

Love is LoveD

an Levy is calling out Comedy Central India. The 37-year-old Schitt’s Creek actor spoke out after the network’s social media account removed a scene that included

two men kissing. “You showed the kiss between two women, you showed the kiss between a wom-an and a man, then removed the kiss between two men? This is a show about the power of in-clusivity. The censorship of gay intimacy is making a harmful statement against that message #loveislove,” he wrote in re-sponse. In the clip, his character David plays spin the bottle alongside Dustin Milligan‘s Ted, as well as Emily Hampshire‘s Stevie, An-nie Murphy‘s Alexis and Noah Reid‘s char-acter Patrick. A kiss between Stevie and Alexis is shown, but when Ted’s spin lands on David, the actual kiss is cut from the clip. —Agency

Congrats to Meghan Trainor and Daryl Sabara as they’re expect-ing a baby! “We’re pregnant!” the 26-year-old singer said dur-

ing her appearance on the ‘Today Show’. “I’m very good as you can tell — it’s all Christmas here,” the mom-to-be teased, adding, “But there’s other news that I’m dying to tell you and my heart’s pound-ing out of my chest.” As Trainor says, “Hit it, Daryl,” her husband proudly reveals, “We’re pregnant!” —Agency

PARENTS-TO-BE

Katrina Kaif

...her post

Meghan Trainor & Daryl Sabara

Salman Khan

Kristen Stewart Dan Levy

Salma Hayek

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CITY BUZZ

mid the pandemic, World Post Office Day is a great oppor-tunity to pay tribute to the postal opera-tors, postal workers and everyone else

involved in delivering mails.World Post Day is observed

every year on 9 October. Be-fore the digital communica-tion came into our lives, sending letters by post was the only option and if it was an urgent message - it was the telegraph, which revolu-tionized long-distance com-munication. World Post Day was declared by the 1969 Uni-versal Postal Congress in To-kyo to mark the anniversary of the Universal Postal Un-ion’s (UPU) creation in 1874.

The day is being celebrated to bring awareness about the role of people engaged in postal services. Historically posts have a big contribution to the development of busi-nesses and economic activi-ties globally. Universal Postal Union (UPU) paved the way

for efficient postal services and it became an agency of the United Nations in 1948.

Director-General of the Univer-sal Postal

Union, Bishar Hussein said that we all need to recognize the incredible

sacrifices made by postal opera-

tors and

their staff during the global COVID-19 pan-

demic. Some workers trag-ically lost their lives; others confronted life-changing damage to their health. He also added, “since our earli-est beginnings, we have over-come wars, natural disasters and pestilence. We have al-ways delivered. The year 2020, however, was the year that the postal industry showed the world its resil-ience, its determination, and the invaluable role it plays in every society. We showed we are more than a mail.”

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COLLABORATIONS TO PROMOTE TOURISMCITY FIRST

Former Deputy Chief Minis-ter, Sachin Pilot met with the Editor, Autocar India, Hormazd Sorabjee and

Executive Editor, Autocar In-dia, Renuka Kriplani in Jaipur on Wednesday even-ing. The meeting was held to discuss the shooting of a promo-tional film across various locations in the State and future collabora-tions to promote tourism in eastern Rajasthan. They were accompanied by the former Tourism Minister of Rajasthan, Vishvendra Singh and

his son, Anirudh Bharatpur. The collaboration was proposed by the former Tourism Minister during his tenure.

Autocar India is the country’s leading automobile publication known for providing its readers with the latest automotive news. It also provides all domes-

tic and international automotive and motor-sport scoops, engaging stories and features, detailed and comprehensive reviews and video reviews. Over the years ‘Autocar In-dia’ has expanded from being a car magazine to a car-expert brand.

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GUJARAT: Prakash Kanaiyalal Soni showcased his 30 years of collection of different Indian Post tickets, a day before World post day celebration in Ahmedabad on Thursday. —PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI

JAIPUR’S EMERGING STARCITY FIRST

Emerging artist Yash Agarwal of Jaipur city will be seen in the up-

coming cover song ‘Taaron Ka Shehar’. The first poster of the soon-to-be-released upcoming cover song ‘Taaron Ka Shehar’ was launched online by Our Minute Productions in the capi-tal Jaipur, where the song’s star cast and oth-ers participated virtu-ally. Yash Agarwal and Nupur Sharma will be seen showcasing their acting skills in the lead artist of the song.

Yash Agarwal said,” we have completed this project by following all the shooting guidelines issued by the govern-ment along with limited resources due to Covid.” The shooting of Song has been completed at

Gulabgarh Resort and other beautiful loca-tions located in Mansa-rovar in Jaipur. The song is directed by Lav-ish Rawat, Assistant Di-rectors Shubham Gupta and Ashish Singh Chau-han, Singer Sagar Lal-

wani, and Himani Bair-wa, Lyricist Jani, Editor Shubham Gupta, DOP Akshay Rajotia, and Supporting Artist Pink-esh Meena and will be released soon on their Youtube channel.

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CITY FIRST

The most elegant outfit is the one that lets you express yourself. If you’ve been plan-

ning to upgrade your ward-robe with breezy Indian wear pieces, you’re in for a treat. Haneet Singh’s Grace Studio has dropped its Prêt Wear Collection, ‘Chevron Collection 2020’. A contem-porary image of the modern silhouettes, this is the first line of prints by Haneet Sin-gh.

The pieces come in a range of beautiful pastel colours like rose pink, mint green, aqua, champagne, whites and ivory. The line up fea-tures traditional and fusion outfits with modern aesthet-

ics. The collection focuses on light comfort dressing, subtle details and prints.

Given that masks are an essential part of our lives, the collection whipped up beautiful masks in unex-pected matching styles. Cou-ples diversely combining their outfits have been in

vogue for quite a while and that is the USP of this collection.

From colour coordi-nating to colour con-

trasting to matching prints and fabrics, this one outfit trend is to completely obsess over. Whether you’re looking to attend an intimate wedding affair or small func-tions, Haneet Singh’s latest drop makes for a stellar deal.

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DURING THE DAY!

Chief Secretary Rajeeva Swarup’s 60th birthday was on Thursday, 8 October. He did not celebrate it as such due to the Corona pandemic, though he did prioritize spending it with his beautiful wife Isha and his family. He attended office for a couple of hours eschewing any celebration before going home.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

GUJARAT: Members of Blind People Association (BPA) distributed smart phones to specially-abled students, under Daan Utsav, in association with International Council for Education of Visually impaired (ICEVI), along with the support of Individual donors at Vastrapur area in Ahmedabad on Thursday. —PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI

UTTAR PRADESH: Congressmen, led by National Secretary, AICC, Vivek Bansal reached Khair grain market, Aligarh on Thursday, to talk to the farmers regarding their difficulties in selling the crops. The farmers expressed their pain and Vivek Bansal assured them that the Congress Party is aware of the problems of the farmers and will work together side by side to protect the interests of the farmers.

Sachin Pilot with (from left) Vishvendra Singh,Hormazd Sorabjee, Renuka Kriplani and Anirudh

COMPLEX SURGERY treated wellCITY FIRST

A 36-year-old father of 2 young kids, was brought to Mahatma Gandhi Hospital Heart

Centre, Jaipur on 8 October 2020, in critical condition to the trained eye Dr MA Chishti, Di-rector Heart Surgery Depart-ment. On diagnose, it was appar-ent that he had Marfan’s Syn-drome. It is a defect in connec-tive tissue that holds the tissues of the body together like cement does a wall. Dr Chishti said that aorta is the biggest artery in the body that arises from the heart. It is a rare and life-threatening disease. Surgery is challenging and complex. Aortic dissection occurs in 1-3 patients per lac population in a year.

The operation aimed to re-place, repair and restore circu-lation to all parts of the body including the heart. The opera-tion took about 8 hours to com-plete and was done bloodlessly. The patient made a quick re-covery. It cost the patient a quarter of what it would cost in Delhi NCR. cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

Dr MA Chishti

EXPRESS YOURSELF

Chevron Collection 2020by Haneet Singh

Haneet Singh