CAR SINKS IN HOLE IN MUMBAI

Mumbai: In a shocking inci-

dent, a car was seen drowning

in a deep sinkhole beside a parking area

in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar. The incident was shot after

heavy rains lashed Mumbai. The clip of the sinking car was shared on Twitter by IPS offi cer

Rupin Sharma and was widely shared. The clip starts with a shot of the car sinking in the hole. A few seconds into the clip, the car completely disappears inside the sinkhole proving how deep it is. In the end, the car completely sinks in the hole without leaving a trace.

Mumbai: Chandi-vali Shiv Sena MLA

Dilip Lande went viral Saturday

when a video of him forcing a corporator to sit on a water-logged street and asking his supporters to dump garbage on him surfaced on social media. The incident took place after areas in Kurla were fl ooded following heavy rainfall.

SHIV SENA MLA DUMPS GARBAGE ON CONTRACTORNew Delhi: Continuing its rapid pro-

gress since its onset on June 3, the southwest monsoon by Sunday covered nearly 80 per cent of the geographical area of the coun-try within 10 days. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday afternoon said that the monsoon has reached the doorstep of Delhi, where it is most likely to arrive during the next two to three days. The normal dates for the onset of mon-soon over Chandigarh and Delhi are June 26 and June 27. By the mid-dle of the week, mon-soon is expected to cover eastern UP, Delhi, Hary-ana and remaining Madhya Pradesh and Punjab.

Continuing its rapid progress since its onset on June 3, the southwest monsoon on Sunday covered the entire Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, West Bengal, Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad and few parts of Chandigarh Haryana, and Punjab

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GEHLOT CABINETEk Anar, Sau Bimaar!

Aditi Nagar/Naresh Sharma

New Delhi/Jaipur: Politics in Rajasthan has found ‘newer dimen-sions’, figuratively speaking, since perhaps never in the history of the state, has inclusion of ministers in state cabinet been a much tough and painstaking task than it is in today’s day and age. Sample this: there are two camps in the party -Gehlot’s and pilot’s - and the par-

ty high command is ea-ger to keep both ‘bal-anced’ and contend. But the ‘smaller’ yet ‘some-what influential’ Pilot

camp, that was ousted from power, is yet again hinting at a ‘revolt’ al-though in a subtle man-ner, this time around

and wants a ‘better’ share in the power-pie.

But this camp is merely a ‘catalyst’ in the chain of events and the real problem is of gargantuan propor-tions. The Hindi idiom: Ek Anar, Sau Bimaar, fits perfectly to the cur-rent scheme of things.

The problem is of numbers. As of today, there are 9 vacant spots in the state cabinet but the aspirants are twice that figure. Turn to P8

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Today: Delhi to come to life with all shops, eateries open New Delhi: Shops, malls and restaurants in Delhi will open from Monday as Covid num-bers in the national capital drop to a three-month low. Shops will be open seven days a week instead of the cur-rent odd-even system. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, however, said this will be on trial ba-sis for a week and strict action will be taken if the Covid numbers rise.

Shop timings will re-main the same, from 10 am to 8 pm, Kejriwal said. Restaurants -- which were open only for takea-ways and home deliver-ies -- can now have diners but with only 50 per cent of seating capacity.

Weekly markets have also been allowed but with 50 per cent vendors and only one market per day will function in each municipal zone.

Salons can open but spas will remain shut.

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MAHARASHTRA UPDATES COVID NUMBERS WITH DELAYED DATA TO 1.08 L DEATHSMumbai: Over the past few days, Maharashtra has been revising its Covid death numbers to refl ect data that came in with some lapse of time. This exercise over the past 12 days has resulted in the state’s overall pandemic-related mortality zooming by over 8,800 to 1.08 lakh now. This massive data reconciliation exercise since June 1 has seen deaths being reported with a delay, a government statement said.

SPUTNIK V LIKELY AT DELHI’S APOLLO HOSP FROM NEXT WEEK New Delhi: The Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V is expected to be available at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Delhi from next week. The program for Sputnik V roll-out at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital will depend on the consignment received.

PM pitches for TRIPS waiverNew Delhi: Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi led the call for a TRIPS waiver for India and South Africa, a move that was supported by Australia, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Sunday.

India has worked with South Africa and other partners at the World Trade Organiza-tion (WTO) to seek a relaxation in the norms of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement to

ensure quick and af-fordable access to vac-cines and medicines for developing countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

CHINA CAUTIONS G7, SAYS ‘SMALL’ GROUPS DON’T RULE WORLDBeijing: China pointedly cautioned Group of Seven leaders that the days when “small” groups of countries decided the fate of the world was long gone, hitting back at the world’s richest democ-racies which have sought a unifi ed position over Beijing. “The days when global decisions were dictated by a small group of countries are long gone,” a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Lon-don said. The re-emergence of China as super power is defi ning global strategies.

Centre may initiatetalks on Kashmir pollsSrinagar: The Centre is likely to begin dialogue with the political par-ties in Jammu and Kashmir to initiate the political process and restoration of state-hood, sources have said.

While there has been no formal invitation yet, the Gupkar Alli-ance or PAGD, the sev-en-party amalgam formed to help restore the special status of Jammu and Kashmir -- has indicated its will-

ingness to join talks. The National Confer-ence has said it might join the delimitation process. Turn to P6

New Delhi: Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary said on Sun-day that BJP’s apathy towards protesting farmers will hurt and haunt it in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

Love jihad and cow terror are ‘artificial is-sues’, said Chaudhary adding that healthcare, education and balanced development will win.

Speaking on alliance

with Samajwadi Party, Chaudhary said that his party shares a strong rapport and working relationship with the SP Turn to P6

‘Love jihad, cow terror will not work in UP polls; farmers’ issues supreme’

CRUCIAL READ

LEFT PARTIES STIR FROM JUNE 16New Delhi: Left Parties will hold a fortnight na-tionwide protest starting from Wednesday against the rising prices of fuel, essential commodities and medicines.

KARNATAKA SEERS SUPPORT YEDIYUBengaluru: Karna-taka CM BS Yediyurappa received support from union of seers who said that any leadership change would be more dangerous than COVID.

SEEK CUT IN TAXES IN CONG STATES: PRADHANNew Delhi: With fuel prices climbing to record high, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said Rahul Gandhi should seek cut in high sales tax from Congress governments in Rajasthan and Maharashtra if he was so concerned about burden on common man in the country.

KOTKAPURA FIRING: SIT SUMMONS BADAL SENIORSrinagar: A special investigation team (SIT), probing the Kotkapura fi ring case, has summoned former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal. Two people were killed after torn pages of Guru Granth Sahib were found.

INDIA

RAJASTHAN

80,834new cases

3,303new fatalities

308new cases

07new fatalities

CORONA CATASTROPHE

Schools, colleges and educational Institutions will remain shut.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary

Infographic: Uttam Kumar Sain

BAD NEWS FOR RAJASTHAN“Conditions are favour-able for the monsoon to advance further to the remaining parts of the country, except Rajasthan, during the next 48 hours,” the IMD offi cials said.

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& LUCKNOW

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Five MPs rebel against Chirag,may switch to JDUNew Delhi: Five Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MPs have written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla demanding separate recognition from LJP.

As per sources, the MPs, Mehboob Ali, Bina Devi, Bhai Prince and Chandan Singh may leave LJP to join Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) (JDU). The rebellion is led by an-other party MP Pashu-pati Paras.

UP CABINET RESHUFFLE ONLY AFTER JULY 15!

Shashikant Sharma

New Delhi: A much awaited UP cabinet reshuffl e is now likely to take place only after July 15, after the completion of the process of electing District Panchayat Board chairpersons. According to highly placed sources, during his recent visit to New Delhi, CM Yogi Adityanath had advised the central leadership to postpone this exercise till July 15 as during this period, he will be busy in the work related to Panchayat boards. The

Central leadership is be-lieved to have accepted his suggestion or view-point. However, there is one more possibility that UP cabinet reshuffl e may take place only after the Narendra Modi cabinet reshuffl e, which is also on cards.

DJOKOVICSNATCHESVICTORY

UNBEATABLE:Novak Djokovic came all the way back after dropping the fi rst two sets to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-7 (6), 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 in the French Open fi nal at Roland Garros on Sunday for his 19th Grand Slam title.

“Present Congress government taps phones of public representatives il-

legally and uses it as a political weapon. This has been alleged many times. Last year, the CM said that it does not happen in Rajasthan but his

minister admitted in the Assembly that phones were tapped legally. I came to know that some Congress MLAs have complained to the CM that their phones are being tapped illegally. I think the Congress government and its head should clarify this” –Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Union Jal Shakti Minister.

USES AS A POLITICAL WEAPON

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Jaipur: Several parts of the state received rain, leading to a drop in maximum tempera-ture by two to three de-grees Celsius on Sun-day. Rain is likely for the next three to four days in districts under Jaipur, Bikaner, Bharat-pur, Jodhpur, Udaipur and Kota divisions, a met dept official said. Dholpur and Rupbas of Bharatpur recorded 3 cm rainfall each.

Rain plummets mercury, more expectedMONSOON BELLS RING

Lovers hang on tree to deathBikaner: A couple in love committed suicide by hanging from a tree at Sadolai village of Chhatargarh on Sunday. The girl Champa was aged 18 while the man Prabhu was 23. Both be-longed to different castes. Chhatargarh SHO Ratanlal said both the deceased went miss-ing on Sunday morning. The villagers were stunned to see the bod-ies of both of them hanging very close to each other on a Khejri tree. It is believed that there was a love affair going on between the two for a long time.

Two held for loot with couple at Badi Talab area Udaipur: The police have arrested two ac-cused of robbery, which was executed at Badi tal-ab three days ago. ASP Gopal Swaroop Mewada said that the accused Lala Kalbelia and Rahul Meghwal were hiding in forests in Kapasan of Chittorgarh. They were being brought to Udaipur, he said. On Fri-day evening, a man and his female friend went to visit Badi Talab where four miscreants assaulted and robbed them at knife point. However, the girl cap-tured the whole incident in her mobile which went viral.

Jaipur cops hone skills to handle sensitive situationJaipur: Policemen were given special training to deal with emergencies, to control curfew, arson and riots. Arms training was also given. Jalupura police station stood first while Brahmapuri police sta-tion came second. DCP North Paris Deshmukh said objective of the camp was to develop team spirit and leader-ship ability. Knowledge about maintenance and use of shields, sticks, helmets, reflector jack-ets, breathalyzer ma-chines, investigation kits and dragon lights etc. were examined.

BRIEFin

Rape accused stabs widow victim to death

JMC row: Judicial inquiry against Dr Somya likely to start this week

Doc couple murder: Main accused going to meet girlfriend held

First India Bureau

Sirohi: A rape accused, out on bail, stabbed the complainant to death in a village under Anadra police station in Sirohi district on Saturday night. The accused Ne-taram Meghwal, 23, was angered on the rape case and brutally stabbed the complain-ant, a widow anagnawa-di worker, several times with a knife while she was sleeping.

When her sister sleeping nearby came to

save her, the accused also injured her with the knife and fled from the spot. The relatives and villagers staged a sit-in outside Anadra police station demand-ing arrest of the ac-cused. Police is search-ing for the accused.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The state gov-ernment may start a judicial inquiry next week against the sus-pended mayor of JMC Greater Dr Somya.

Last week, the Local Self Gov-e r n m e n t d e p a r t -ment had sent a pro-posal to

UDH Minister Shanti Dhariwal to conduct a judicial inquiry, which has been approved by the minister. It is like-ly that after this pro-posal goes to the Law Department next week, an inquiry can be started through any of the judicial officers included in the depart-ment’s panel.

According to the sources of the LSG de-partment, after the re-ply of the suspended mayor and the three councillors, this propos-al was prepared on Fri-day and sent to the min-

ister. It is being said that if a judicial inquiry is initiated against the mayor, she may also have to resign. It is also being reported that the police in Jyoti Nagar po-lice station has prepared

a chargesheet against the three councillors, which can be presented in the court on Monday. The councillors are ac-cused of assaulting the commissioner, Yagya Mitra Singh Deo.

Dr Somya has chal-lenged her suspension in the Rajasthan High Court, the hearing in which is scheduled to-day and the court is ex-pected to give some de-cision in the matter.

First India Bureau

Bharatpur: The police arrested Anuj Gurjar, the main accused in the Bharatpur doctor couple murder case. On getting information about the accused Anuj going to meet his girl-friend, the police started blockade in Bayana area and ar-rested him. The weap-on used in the murder is yet to be recovered from the accused and the police is interro-gating him.

SP Devendra Kumar said that the police ear-lier arrested 3 accused. The police raided sev-

eral places in Dang area for Anuj and interro-gated his relatives.

During checking of vehicles at Beas Mora area, Anuj was seen go-ing in a vehicle and held. A reward of Rs 5,000 was also an-nounced on him. The entire scene of the mur-der will be recreated now.

Anuj had shot dead Dr Sudeep Gupta and his wife Dr Seema Gupta in their car at Neem Da Gate area on May 28 evening. The doctor couple were arrested on charges of burning to death Anuj’s sister Deepa

Gurjar in 2019.

MVC Brig Raghubir Singh passes awayFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Brigadier (Retd) Raghubir Singh, a Mahavir Vir Chakra recipi-ent, passed away at the age of 99 years on Sunday at his residence. Funeral was conducted at Rajawat farms with military honours wehre his son San-gram Singh lit the funeral pyre.

Lok Sabha Speak-er Om Birla and CM Ashok Gehlot paid tributes to the of-ficer. His exemplary bravery during the Indo-Pak war of 1965 shall always be remembered, Ge-hlot tweeted.

PHONE TAPPING SCARE!T he statement of MLA

Ved Prakash Solanki that phones of some MLAs are being tapped and they are facing threat of action from ACB, the political turmoil has started in the state one again. The leaders of opposition BJP and the ruling Congress exchanged barbs over the matter on Sunday.

“If the state government is tapping phones and spying on MLAs, then

CM Ashok Gehlot should reveal the names of those MLAs whose phones are being tapped. If such an exercise takes

place in any democratic state, then the CM and Home Minister are directly responsible for it and they will have to answer to the public. These apprehensions are because such incident happened a year ago also. This looks like an emergency of sorts. There is censorship and suspicion everywhere.” —Dr Satish Poonia, State BJP president

‘CM & HOME MINISTER ARE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE IT’

“There is no such tradition in Rajasthan and neither the Rajasthan government taps the phones of public representa-tives. The MLA who has made these allegations should reveal names of MLAs whose phones are being tapped and should meet the CM to take the matter

into his cognisance so that proper investigation is done.” —Pratap Singh Khachariyawas, Transport Minister.

“Such allegations are baseless. A public representative should speak thoughtfully. MLA’s post has many responsibilities and statements should be made accord-ing to it. It is not right to speak without facts.” —Dr. Mahesh Joshi, Chief Whip.

NO TRADITION OF PHONE TAPPING IN RAJASTHAN

ALLEGATIONS ARE BASELESS, IRRESPONSIBLE

“Conspiracy of spying is going on in Rajasthan under CM Ashok Gehlot’s leadership. This happened earlier too and he admitted in Assembly that phone tapping took place. Rajasthan is going through an extremely bad phase. There is a confl ict in Congress” —Arun Singh,

BJP national general sec and Rajasthan in-charge.

“For the last 2.5 years, there has been an internal tussle in Congress regarding position, power and money. Sometimes they stay in hotels and sometimes use govt machinery wrongly for phone tap-ping. When there is a weak leadership at the Centre, regional leaders run their

own free will.” —Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, BJP MP.

CONSPIRACY OF SPYING GOING ON UNDER CM

GOVT MACHINERY MISUED FOR PHONE TAPPING

and his wife Dr Seema Gupta in their car at Neem Da Gate area on May 28 evening. The

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Dr Somya

Sky was overcast in Jaipur on Sunday evening as it witnessed dust storm and rain in several parts. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA

Ajay Maken seeks report on Solanki’s phone tapping claim

First India Bureau

Jaipur: A day after Con-gress’ Chaksu MLA Ved Prakash Solanki ac-cused the Ashok Gehlot government of tapping phones, AICC general secretary and Rajasthan in-charge Ajay Maken has sought a report.

The party high com-mand is considering it as indiscipline and is serious and has sought a report.

Solanki, a staunch supporter of former deputy CM Sachin Pilot, had alleged that some legislators had told him that their phones were being tapped. Without naming any MLA who told him about phone tapping, Solanki said that the legislators

fear of being trapped by the agencies.

Meanwhile, BSP MLA Lakhan Singh Meena said the BJP leaders should bring proof of phone tapping. “BJP keeps making such allegations. If any-one feels like this is happening to them then they should at least give proof so that we can do something. They are just making allegations without any evidence,” Meena said.

phone tapping claim

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Anuj Gurjar

Brig Raghubir Singh

Ajay Maken

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Jaipur: The Acting Mayor of the JMC Greater Sheel Dhabai is serious about the cleanliness of the city. On Sunday, she reached wards to take stock of the cleanli-ness of the city de-spite Sunday being a holiday. She looked happy after seeing the cleanliness sys-tem in the city and applauded the efforts. In the meeting, the Mayor gave clear in-structions to the Zone Dy Commissioners

including BVG com-pany that they should come together and

only then the cleanli-ness of the city can be strengthened.

DHABAI TAKES STOCK OF CLEANLINESS IN CITY

Sheel Dhabai talked to sanitation workers on Sunday.

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Vikas Sharma

Jaipur: The main and the biggest cause of Black Fungus (Mucormycosis) is uncontrolled diabetes, use of steroids during Covid treatment as well as treatment from inexpe-rienced doctors. This is revealed in an analysis report of the Mucormy-cosis Board of SMS Med-ical College.

The report of the board stated that the pa-tients who took treat-ment on time recovered. Black Fungus reached the eyes of about 35 per-cent of black fungus patients. The eyes of about 10 patients were saved while the eyes of 20 patients had to be removed, the re-port said.

ANALYSIS REPORT BY MUCORMYCOSIS BOARD OF SMS

400PATIENTS ADMITTED

315PATIENTS UNDERWENT SURGERY

345PATIENTS ARE STILL UNDERGOING THE TREATMENT AT SAWAI MAN SINGH HOSPITAL

Black fungus is less visible in corona patients of government hospitals. The patients included those who received Covid

treatment from private hospitals, other hospitals in the state, or patients from other states. Most outbreaks were seen in patients taking treatment from chemists and doctors without experience.

60%OF PATIENTS DID NOT TAKE

COVID TREATMENT ACCORDING TO THE CORRECT PROTOCOL

STEROIDS ‘SPURT’ BLACK FUNGUS

A CAUSE OF CONCERN! Dr Vijay Gakhar performs extended endoscopic sinus surgery on a person suffering from Black Fungus in Ajmer. —FILE PHOTO

Black fungus occurred in 95% of those patients who were either already suf-fering from uncontrolled diabetes. 70% of black fungus patients were given steroids during Covid. More than half of patients were given steroids for

more than two weeks without protocol and medical guidance. 95% patients who reached SMS hospital had not got corona vaccine. Tissue biopsy is being done for the patients so that the contribution of blood clots in the black fungus can be detected —Dr Sudhir Bhandari, Principal of SMS Medical College

1,100PATIENTS HAVE REACHED THE OPD OF SMS

DEDICATED BLACK FUNGUS UNIT

On birth anniversary of Maharana Pratap, Kekri

MLA & Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma virtually

unveiled a statue and circle from Jaipur. The pro-

gramme was organ-ized in the Panchay-at Samiti premises in Kekri on Sunday. Addressing the

programme, Min said that it was my heartfelt wish that the statue of Maharana Pratap

should be installed in Kekri so that the young generation remembers his valor & sac-rifi ce. In the event, Kshatriya Sabha demanded allotment of land for a girls’ hostel in Kekri for educational development of girls. Kekri administrative offi cers, municipal heads, Rajput society members were present virtually. —M Imran Tak

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Governor Kalraj Mishra on Sunday said that history will never forget the work done by Maharana Pratap to fight for the moth-erland, self-respect and or-ganise people of all classes to make them aware of the

country. Mishra was ad-dressing a virtual national function organised by Mo-han Lal Sukhadia Univer-

sity, Udaipur on the occasion of birth anniversary of Ma-harana Pratap on Sunday.

Assembly Speaker Dr CP Joshi said Maharana Pratap had an amazing leadership quality and he played a key role in bring-ing people of all castes, re-ligions and sectors of the

society together. Joshi called upon the youth to im-bibe the qualities of Maha-rana Pratap in their lives. Minister of State for High-er Education Bhanwar Singh Bhati said Maharana Pratap fought for the com-mon people of Mewar.

CELEBRATING 481ST BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF 'MEWAR RANA'

Maharana Pratap will be remembered for his extraordinary courage: Governor

Governor Kalraj Mishra addressing virtual national function organised by Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur on the occasion of birth anniversary of Maharana Pratap on Sunday.

DR RAGHU VIRTUALLY UNVEILS STATUE OF MAHARANA PRATAP

‘Pratap was a legend’

Mewar Kshatriya Mahasabha and Adaval Sansthan organ-

ised an international virtual event on the occasion of Maharana Pratap Jayanti. As Chief Guest, Punjab Governor VP Singh Badnore stated that Maharana Pratap’s magnifi cent persona is relevant even today.

CM, RAJE, KATARIA AND OTHERS REMEMBER MAHARANA PRATAP

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, former CM Vasund-hara Raje, LoP Gulab Chand Kataria, BJP State

President Dr Satish Poonia and other leaders greeted the people of the state on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Maharana Pratap, the great warrior of Mewar region. Gehlot, while saluting Maharana Pratap in his message, said that the life of Pratap is an example of sacrifi ce, penance, free-dom, valour and struggle. Maharana Pratap’s mes-sage of self-respect, courage and might is inspiring for all. Raje appealed to imbibe his ideals in life and called for taking a pledge to participate in the wel-fare of the nation by following the path of Pratap’s life-ideals. Kataria and Poonia also appealed to the people of state to imbibe the ideals of Pratap.

STATUE FROM JPR TO AYODHYA...

A huge statue of Maharana Pratap was sent to Ayodhya from Jaipur. The statue built by All India Kshatriya Wel-

fare Parishad has been crafted by sculptor Mahavir Bharti of Jaipur. The statue with full armor weigh 1,500 kg is 12 feet in height & took about 6 months to complete. BJP state president Satish Poonia, MP Diya Kumari & other BJP, RSS leaders fl agged off vehicle carrying the statue.

Diya Kumari Satish Poonia

This huge statue is different from the statues of Maharana Pratap sitting on Chetak; his sharp, strong face, wide chest, strong arms, along with the warrior's dress, Chetak has been shown to be very agile. After being installed on the Saryu bank of Ayodhya, statue will be unveiled by UP CM Yogi Adityanath.

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Sensitive: Chief Whip on CM’s package for kidsFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Praising CM Ashok Gehlot, Chief Whip Dr Mahesh Joshi said that the govt led by Gehlot took many deci-sions which turned out to be milestones during the pandemic.

‘The CM made one announcement after an-other; be it free vac-cines to people in the age group of 18-44 or a relief package for help-less children and fami-lies. The decisions of lockdown to break the chain, action against black marketing of meds, increase in MLA LAD Fund, package for children who lost par-ents of corona shows sensitivity of the CM.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Having suf-fered huge losses due to lockdown, the hotel -restaurant association demanded from state govt to remove condi-tion of RT-PCR test re-port for people coming from outside the state.

The association presi-dent Kuldeep Singh, president of the associa-tion, said that the sector used to contribute 30% to GDP prior to corona but due to restrictions. He demanded that like HP govt, state govt should remove condition of re-ports for those coming from outside the state. Jt Secy Rannvijay said sec-tors like gems & jewel-lery are also affected.

Hotel assn urges govt to remove -ve report for tourists

COVID-19 UPDATE

9,49,684308 cases in a day

TOTAL CASES

8,8227 deaths in a day

TOTAL DEATHS

9,33,4211,260 Recovered

in a day

TOTAL RECOVERED

7,4411,534 Max

cases in Jaipur

ACTIVE CASES

KEY-HIGHLIGHTSMukesh Kumar Vijay, senior audit

offi cer of CAG died of corona on Sunday; he was appointed in the CAG offi ce on January 9, 1989 and worked for 32 years

1

Over 33k patients benefi ted from

free treatment under CM Chiranjeevi Health Insurance; so far, 9,000 corona treatment claims have been submitted

2

Bikaner stands 1st in door-to-door jabs

from today: More than 10 people of 45+ can book a slot and a medical team will reach with Covishield or Covaxin as available

3

Govt likely to ease ‘Weekend Curfew’

...PLANS TO UNLOCK MORE

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Rajasthan gov-ernment is considering to further relax the lock-down restrictions, in-cluding the weekend cur-few, in view of the im-proving situation.The situation is in control as active cases have come down to 8,400 and the in-fection rate is also below 3%, which according to the Ministry of Health and WHO is considered a state of control.

SPECIAL CAMP TO VACCINATE BEGGARS

EXPERT ADVICE State govt may lift the

weekend curfew, revised guideline may be issued

Public transport services can also be started for other states

Experts have advised for easing restrictions by taking a gap of two weeks

Along with relaxation, experts have also asked the public to strictly follow the covid guidelines to stay safe

he poll season has begun. In a far-reaching fallout of the three con-tentious farm

laws, the Shiromani Akali Dal has dumped the Bharati-ya Janata Party, its oldest ally in the state, ahead of the 2022 assembly elections. In-stead of the BJP, the Akalis have chosen the Bahujan Sa-maj Party as their poll part-ner. It’s a win-win situation for both. The Akalis have sent a strong pro-farmer message which ought to work to its advantage and the BSP, which has been written off in UP, will get a lifeline in the form of 20 seats in the Dalit dominated areas of the state. These seats earlier formed part of BJP’s share in its alliance

with the Akali Dal.Interestingly, the Akalis

in Punjab have tangoed with the BJP and the BSP is per-ceived as the B-team of BJP in UP. How will the Punjab alliance pan out in Uttar Pradesh where the Sama-

jwadi Party appears to be the lone challenger to the ruling party? Saturday’s an-nouncement by Sukhbir Singh Badal and BSP gener-al-secretary SC Mishra must have caught the BJP’s cen-tral leadership off guard. This is the second jolt to the party in two days after Mukul Roy’s desertion.

The BJP’s position has been considerably weakened in Punjab because of the farm laws and the targeting of Punjab farmers by un-leashing the Enforcement Directorate sleuths on them. It will still be watching Con-gress developments with in-terest for a possible catch to remain an important player in the state where it Hindu card will fail as miserably as it did in West Bengal.

AKALI DAL THROWS A LIFELINE TO BSP

Interestingly, the Akalis in Punjab have

tangoed with the BJP and the BSP is perceived as the B-team of BJP in UP. How will the Punjab

alliance pan out in Uttar Pradesh where the Samajwadi Party appears to be the lone challenger

to the ruling party?

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have just finished reading an extraordinary novel, a unique invention of brilliant chaotic English with deliber-ate disregard for grammar and syntax. The title of the book is “All About H. Hat-terr” a comic farce. The au-thor is GV Desani. How many of you have heard his name? Very few I guess.

The novel was published in 1948 in London. It was criti-cally acclaimed including TS Eliot. It sold out in two weeks. Reissued in 1950. Then it went underground for twen-ty years. GV Desani was born in Kenya in 1909 during the Second World War he lived in London, broadcasting for the BBC. After the war he came to India. For fourteen years he practised meditation and yoga, travelled to Japan to study Japanese Buddhism.

I met him only once in 1961, at a function at Sapru

House. Jawaharlal Nehru was the principal attraction. For a while Desani wrote for “The Illustrated Weekly of India”. For several years he taught (I don’t remember what) at Texas University. He died in 2000 at the age of 91, in Fort Worth, Texas.

The hero of the novel is H. Hatterr. An erratic, well read, almost endearing soul who is constantly getting into hi-larious situations and get-ting out of the mess he has created for himself. He can’t make up his mind whether he is on Eurasian Philoso-pher or a believer in Bud-dhism, Christianity or Hin-duism. Desani has created a character who I am unable to define. He is the ultimate lit-erary original.

Now I come to Desani’s glo-riously English, which leaves the reader breathless. It is impure English, but english it is. I must mention that GV Desani was an awesomely well-read writer. He was flu-ent in many languages.

Let me quote a few pas-sages of his stunning non-English English. In spite of its complexity and peculiar wit it flows like a river.

“As it is lowered, I see the huge nickel name-plate, stud-ded on the teak. The em-bossed Gothic micrography on it reads:

‘Mailed cash on delivery to Westminister Abbey. H. Her-terr, Esqur (Mississipi), D Litt (Oxon and Moskva, Ox-ford, PA), Member Academy (France, Tokyo Royal), Hon. M.D London, Dr (Bulgarian Gramatikata), Dr (Uniwer-sytet Polski), DR. Theologiac (Bagdad, Salerno, Montpelli-er, High A Sophia, Heidelberg stadium), M.S. M.S.C (Can-tab), Hon D.D (Canterbury), Vice-President, Red Cross (Headquarters), PH.D (St. Pe-

tersburg, Rus. Soyuz Sotsial-ist- Icheskikn Sovyetskikn Republik), B.A Eton and Har-row WealdStone). Graduat (Harvard), Fellow of The Royal Geographicol, Hu-mane, automobile, Asiatic, Astronomicol and Microscop-ic societies, M. Inst. Fire E (Manchester), Parliamentary Whip, India, Dental Surgeon (Boston, Mass), Chairman (Br. Pharmacopocia), Direc-tor, Limited, liabilities, for-eign assets (Shanghai, Malay, Glasgow, Port Sunlight……..’

Let me give another inimi-table example of GV Desani’s creative invention ability (this word I have made up).

“O Jewell the soles of her feet are as enticing as mango blossom! As spice from Ma-dras! Her speech is sweet, as the dates of Arbi! Her voice caressing, as the touch of the Chameli flower! A sweet-heart wife, her abodomen endowed her by no other than the god-dess Sachi ! forehead by Shakuntla! Buttocks by Ahilya! Navel by Mandotri! Legs by Kadambari! Belly by Madhavi! Nipples by Rambha! Teeth by Hidama! Chin by Chi-trangda! Nose by Sita! Inside by Urvashi! Veins by Devali! Elbows by Savitri! Tongue by Gargi! Head by Kunti! Bones by Modari! Divine, immortal heroines all ! Mana of Radha, Shakti, Parvati, the Mother of the gods! O the smiter-of-hearts! O the fay! A sweet-heart-wife, a sweetheart-wife, blessed with an angels-envied bosom, as seductive as a lake of honey! Ah. The clinging sweetness of her lips!

Nest. ‘O.K Professor. I give you the word lense (English), it is lente (Spanish), lentil (Romanian), linse (German), Lentille (French), Linte (Ital-ian), lens (Dutch), lins (Swed-ish), linte (Portuguese), linse (Danish), soezewka (Polish), linse (Norwegian), cocke (Czech), sociva (Serbo-Cro-at), lenese (Hungarian), lins-si (Finnish), adese (Turkish), lense (Indonesian), renzu (Japanese), kioo (Swahili), lenso (Esperanto), linsa (Rus-sian), facos (Greek), adascha (Hebrew), lens (Yiddish), adasa (Arabic). In Sanskrit it is Kacha, in Hindi, Sheesha, Urdu, Gujarati also Sheesha. Excuse mistakes”

“Consider the name “Jawa-harlal Nehru”. It is literally, ‘Jewellery, Ruby Canal or River’. His father “Motilal Nehru” would be “Pearl Ruby Canal or River”. “Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gan-dhi is “Great-soul Fascina-tion- Slave Action-moon Gro-cer”, and “Raja Krishna Hutheesing” “Governor or Ruler Dark Obstinate-lion”

I should clarify. Krishan Hutheesing was Nehru’s youngest sister. Her husband was called Raja.

Can you figure out what your essay stands for?

Would you like to read, “All About H. Hatterr”.

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY

THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

IK NATWAR SINGH

The author is Former Minister of External Affairs of India

The hero of the novel is H. Hatterr. An erratic, well

read, almost endearing soul who is constantly getting

into hilarious situations and getting out of the mess he has created for himself. He can’t make up his mind whether

he is on Eurasian Philosopher or a believer in Buddhism, Christianity or

Hinduism. Desani has created a character who I am

unable to define. He is the ultimate literary original

The novel was published in 1948 in London and it

was critically acclaimed including TS Eliot. It

sold out in two weeks. It was reissued in 1950. GV Desani was born in Kenya

in 1909 during the Second World War he

lived in London, broadcasting for the BBC

WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUTH. HATTERR

WHY THIRD WAVE OF COVID-19 COULD HAPPEN

he much-talked about third wave of Covid-19 is keeping the government, the scientists at the In-

dian Council of Medical Re-search and the people on tenter-hooks. Why? Right now every-one is gloating over the weaken-ing of the second wave just as some of our leaders boasted of conquering the first wave even as the virus was snuffing out thousands of lives in Europe and America daily. Some dis-miss the fear as a false alarm. Those who warn about the pos-sibility of another wave hitting us point at the slow progress in vaccination. The herd immuni-ty can be developed only when 90-95 per cent of the population is fully vaccinated. That target looks unachievable because vac-cines are in short supply. Quite a few Indian vaccines are still in various stages of clinical trials and will take a few months to reach the approval and produc-tion stages. The government needs to ask SII and Bharat Bio-tech to ramp up production and get more of Sputnik.

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‘BJP WOULD HAVE SLANDERED EVEN BR AMBEDKAR AS PRO-PAK’Srinagar: BJP would have slandered even B R Ambedkar, the father of Indian Constitution, as pro-Pakistan had he been alive, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said, amidst criticism of Congress leader Digvijaya Singh over his remarks on Article 370. Mehbooba said Article 370 -- which gave special status to the

erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir before its operative provisions were nullifi ed by the Centre in 2019 -- was granted by the Constitution drafted by Ambedkar, but it has been “subverted” by the Centre. The BJP has said that Singh’s remarks were part of a larger pattern of the party being “hand in glove” with Pakistan.

MEMBERS OF CONG TO FIX PUNJAB CRISIS; MEET RAHULNew Delhi: Mallikarjun Kharge, Harish Rawat & JP Agarwal, Members of the Congress panel, which was set up to resolve crisis in its Punjab unit, met former party chief Rahul Gandhi. The meeting went on for around 1 hour. The panel was formed by So-nia Gandhi to resolve the differences between party leaders - CM Captain (retired) Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu. With State Assembly elections due next year, the tussle between Captain and Sidhu has become a big challenge for Congress leadership.

UNION MINISTER PIYUSH GOEL VISITS TIRUMALA TEMPLESaudi Tirumala (Andhra Pradesh): Union Railway Minister Piyush Goel on Sunday visited Tirumala temple and offered prayers to Lord Balaji. After darshan, he was given blessings with vedic chants. Goel said that he has prayed to the almighty to protect the world from the Corona pandemic. Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister Buggaa Rajendranath, Tirupati MP M Gurumurthy and others accompanied him. The minister offered prayers maintaining temple protocols amidst COVID-19. —ANI

HYD BOY RECEIVES WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE MEDICINEHyderabad: Three-year old Ayaansh from Hyderabad, suffering from a rare disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), has been administered the world’s costliest medicine Zolgensma. To buy the medicine, his parents mobilised Rs 16 crore through crowd-funding in a span of three-and-a-half months from 65,000

donors. The medicine, imported from Novartis, USA, landed in Hyderabad after the Centre waived the import duty and even exempted Goods and GST, both to the extent of Rs 6 crore. The doctor who administered the medicine could not be reached for a comment, as it was a gene therapy done through a single-dose injection.

INDIA NEEDS A RESURGENT CONGRESS: KAPIL SIBAL

New Delhi: The Con-gress must bring wide-spread reforms across all levels of the organi-sation to show it is no longer in a state of iner-tia and to present itself as a viable political al-ternative to the BJP, party veteran Kapil Sibal said on Sunday.

India needs a resur-gent Congress. But for that, the party needs to show that it is active, present, aware and is in the mood to engage meaningfully,” the for-mer union minister said in an exclusive in-terview to PTI.

“For this to happen, we will need to have widespread reforms at the organisational hi-erarchy both at the central and state levels to show that the party is still a force to reck-on with and is no long-er in a state of inertia, he said.

Sibal, who was among the G-23 leaders whose letter to Con-gress President Sonia Gandhi last year de-

manding a meaningful overhaul of the party had triggered a storm, acknowledged that at present there is no strong political alter-native to the BJP but

said that Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi has lost the moral authori-ty to rule and the Con-gress can gain from the current mood in the country. The former

union minister voiced hope that organisation-al elections, recently postponed in the wake of the COVID-19 pan-demic, will happen sooner than later . He

also noted that while forming committees to review election losses is good, it will have no impact unless reme-dies suggested are im-plemented.

Ravi Shankar asks Cong to make its stand clear on Article 370New Delhi: Senior BJP leader & Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asked Congress leader-ship to make its stand clear on the purported remarks of Digvijaya Singh that his party will have a “relook” at Arti-cle 370 revocation if it returns to power, saying “time of silence is over”.

A row erupted on Sat-urday over Congress leader Digvijaya Singh’s comments in an audio chat on social media that his party will have a “re-look” at Article 370 revo-cation and Jammu & Kashmir’s lost statehood if it returns to power, with BJP accusing him of spewing venom against India in “collab-oration” with Pakistan.

Mr Singh had said: “The decision of revok-ing Article 370 and re-ducing the statehood of J&K is extremely, I would say, sad decision,

and the Congress party would certainly have a relook on the issue.”

Mr Singh was re-sponding to a question about the “way for-ward” on the issue “once the (PM) Modi government is gone.”

Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad)

It is now more than a day when the central leadership of Con-

gress is maintaining a conspicuous silence on its stand about Article 370. Does

the Congress want restoration of Article 370 as Digvijay Singh has indicated? Time

of silence is over. Please explain your

clear stand.

CM’s post will remain with Shiv Sena for 5 years, says RautMumbai: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday denied reports that Maharashtra chief minister’s post will not remain with his party. The Member of Parlia-ment said that the Ma-harashtra Vikas Agha-di is an alliance of 3 parties which decided that Uddhav Thackeray will be chief minister.

“It’s a rumour that Shiv Sena CM will be

replaced after 2.5 years. When 3 parties formed the government, they committed and decided that CM will be Uddhav Thackeray for 5 years. If someone talks about this, then it is nothing but a lie and rumour,” Raut said. Raut had criticised BJP at a gath-ering on Saturday. Raut alleged in Jalgaon that attempts were made to finish off the party.

New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Education has released Rs 7,622 crore so far in 2021-22 to the States and (UTs) un-der the Samagra Shik-sha scheme, said Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal. This amount has been released for the smooth continuity of free books, uniforms, running of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas, education, vocational education, in-formation and commu-nication technology and digital initiatives. Nis-

hank said the priority of the present government is to promote ‘ease of gov-ernance’ and ‘ease of do-ing business’. For this we had launched a PRA-

BANDH system last year to help conduct ‘Padho and Badho’ meetings to approve the annual plans of the states under Sama-gra Shiksha scheme.

‘PM’s Aspirational Dist Programme improved lives of many Indians’

New Delhi: NITI Aay-og CEO Amitabh Kant said that Centre’s Aspi-rational Districts Pro-gramme -- in line with the vision of PM Nar-endra Modi -- has im-proved lives of over one fifth of India’s popula-tion, adding that a UN development body has lauded Indian govern-ment’s effort that made a difference in the life of 21 per cent of coun-try’s population.

Kant said that India has come a long way as it has achieved substan-tial difference in making a qualitative difference in the lives of the citi-zens of India. So if you are able to make a differ-

ence to 21 per cent of India’s population and in sectors like educa-tion, health, nutrition. It gives me a great amount of satisfaction that we’ve been able to fulfill what we set out to do in a very big way,” he said.

‘SHIV SENA WAS TREATED AS SLAVES IN ERSTWHILE BJP GOVT IN MAHARASHTRA’The Shiv Sena was virtually treated as “slaves” & attempts were made to fi nish off the party politically when it was in power with the BJP in Maharashtra from 2014 to 2019, Sanjay Raut has alleged. While addressing in Jalgaon, Raut said, “The Shiv Sena had a secondary status in the previous government and was (treated) like slaves. Attempts were also made to fi nish off our party by misusing the very power which was enjoyed because of our support”. Raut’s remarks came days after Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray met PM Modi in Delhi separately, setting off political speculations in the state.

DEFECTIONS BY SEVERAL YOUNG LEADERSThe party has also seen defections by several young leaders to the BJP. On June 9, two-term Lok Sabha MP and former Union minister Jitin Prasada joined the BJP, more than a year after Jy-otiraditya Scindia switched sides, triggering a col-

lapse of the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh. In other states too, where the Con-gress is in power, there are rumblings which could bring trouble for the party. Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot,

who nearly walked out last year, is currently in Delhi, & is likely to meet Congress general secre-tary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. In Punjab, there is in-fi ghting between chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh and former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu. Punjab is likely to go to polls early next year. In 2017, the Congress, under Singh, won a comfort-able majority, displacing the BJP-Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) government in the process.

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on crisis in party, also called upon the party to show it is ‘active and in mood to engage meaningfully

Congress failed to drive home the point that minority & majority communalism were

equally dangerous for the country. It has to take it upon itself to provide an alternative

roadmap in the nation’s interest & I am sure, we will emerge victorious in this enterprise.

—Kapil Sibal, Senior Congress leader

‘If you stay in the BJP, you have to sacrifice’

Kolkata: With sev-eral TMC turncoats making a beeline to return to the party, post BJP’s drub-bing in the assem-bly polls, state unit chief of the saffron camp, Dilip Ghosh, said that the ones who wish to enjoy power without mak-ing sacrifices would be asked to leave.

Ghosh, who had said on Friday that party national vice president Mukul Roy’s departure won’t make much of a difference, wrote on Twitter “some people are in the habit of switch-ing parties. If one has to stay in BJP, he/she will have to make sacrifices. Those who only wish to enjoy power cannot stay in the BJP. We won’t keep them,” he tweeted.

UNDP REPORT

VIA REMOTE

Rs 7,622 cr released to States for Samagra Shiksha scheme

PM MODI CONDOLES DEMISE OF CONG LEADER

INDIRA HRIDAYESHP rime Minister Naren-

dra Modi on Sunday condoled the demise of Congress leader Indira Hridayesh. “Dr. In-dira Hridayesh Ji was at the forefront of several community service efforts. She made a mark as an effective legislator and also had rich ad-ministrative experience. Saddened by her demise. Condolences to her

family and supporters. Om Shanti: PM Narendra Modi,” a tweet from the handle of the Prime Min-

ister’s offi ce read. Hridayesh,

who was a Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Uttarakhand

Assembly, passed away at

Uttarakhand Sadan in Delhi. According to the state party in charge, De-vender Yadav, she died of suffering a heart attack.

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NATION REPORTS LOWESTCOVID-19 CASES IN 71 DAYS

80,834 FRESH COVID CASES IN INDIA, LOWEST AFTER 71 DAYS; VACCINATION TALLY CROSSES 25 CRORE MARK

New Delhi: India re-ported 80,834 fresh COVID-19 cases, the lowest after 71 days, while the daily positiv-ity rate further dropped to 4.25 per cent, accord-ing to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday.

With the fresh cases, the country’s tally of cases has climbed to 2,94,39,989. The COV-ID-19 death toll climbed to 3,70,384 with 3,303 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.

The active cases fur-ther declined to 10,26,159 comprising 3.49 per cent of the total infections, while the na-tional COVID-19 recov-ery rate has improved to 95.26 per cent.

A net decline of 54,531 cases has been recorded in the COV-ID-19 caseload in a span

of 24 hours.Also 19,20,477 tests

were conducted on Sat-urday taking the total cumulative tests con-ducted so far for detec-tion of COVID-19 in the country to 37,62,32,162 while the daily positiv-ity rate has further

dropped to 4.25 per cent.It has been less than

10 per cent for 20 con-secutive days, the min-istry said, adding the weekly positivity rate fell below 5 per cent and was recorded 4.74 per cent. Recoveries con-tinue to outnumber

daily new cases for the 31st consecutive day.

The number of peo-ple who have recuper-ated from the disease surged to 2,80,43,446, while the case fatality rate has increased to 1.26 per cent, the data stated.

Today: Delhi...Government offices can open with full capacity, private offices with 50 per cent capacity. Delhi Metro and buses will run at 50 per cent capac-ity. Schools, colleges and educational Institu-tions will remain shut.

Centre may...Jammu and Kashmir was placed under Presi-dent’s Rule after the BJP ended its alliance with Mehbooba Mufti in June 2018. There has been no political process since. In August 2019, the Cen-tre ended the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir

and bifurcated it into two Union territories. There was an expecta-tion that the state elec-tions would be held in tandem with the nation-al elections in 2019, but the Election Commis-sion negated it, citing an administration report that said there was a se-curity risk. The govern-ment “may initiate en-gagement process with the political parties and may discuss statehood and elections”.

National Conference patriarch and Gupkar Alliance chief Farooq Abdullah said they are not averse to dialogue. The Alliance, formed in

August last year, has been inactive for over six months over internal differences. But on Wednesday last Farooq Abdullah visited Peo-ple’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti at her home and had a discussion with her and other Gupkar alliance members. Indication of a possible dialogue with Kashmiri leadership has come in the wake of US Congressional hearing in which a top Biden ad-ministration official said that the US is en-couraging the Indian Government to take elec-toral steps in Kashmir.

“Kashmir is one area

where we have urged them to return to nor-malcy as quickly as pos-sible, including we’ve seen some steps taken: The release of prison-ers, the restoration of 4G access, things of that nature. There are other electoral steps we’d like to see them take and that we have encouraged them to do and will continue to do so,” Dean Thompson, Acting Assistant of State for South and Cen-tral Asia said during a Congressional hearing, reports PTI.

‘Love jihad...and details need to be

worked out for a formal alliance for the polls.

In an interview with PTI, the RLD chief said that his party will not al-low a communally po-larised campaign to ruin the Hindi heart-land state. The RLD chief was tight-lipped on a possible grand alli-ance in Uttar Pradesh to tackle the BJP and said that for him issues come first. “Who can be ac-commodated depends on who is honestly open to working together on the common frame-work,” PTI quoted the 42-year-old leader as say-ing. On political rum-blings in UP over UP

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s political future as CM and re-ports about Cabinet re-shuffle, Chaudhary said the saffron party is try-ing to divert attention by creating an illusion of dialogue to manage the disgruntled leaders.

He also attacked the UP government over the COVID-19 response call-ing it “atrocious” saying no one can forget the pic-tures of dead bodies in the Ganga. Speaking on farmers’ protest and if it would be a key issue in the polls, the RLD chief said that farmers will and should be the big-gest poll issue in India.

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HIGHLIGHTS

26 CR VACCINE DOSES TO STATES/UTS

BLURU’S HOSP COMPLETES 300 DELIVERIES

STATES/UTS TO GET 4L DOSES IN 3 DAYS

Centre has provided over 26 crore COVID vaccine doses to States & Union Territories UTs so far, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. More than 26 crore (26,64,84,350) vaccine doses have been provided to States/UTs so far, through the Government of India (free of cost channel) and through the direct state procurement category. Of this, the total consumption, including wastages is 25,12,66,637 doses,” as per offi cial statement.

The HSIS Go-sha Government

Hospital in Bengaluru completed 300 de-liveries of COVID-19 positive pregnant women, informed hospital’s Director Dr Tulasidevi. “We got an order from the state government to start an exclusive mater-nity COVID-19 centre on March 27 this year.

More than 4 lakh vaccine doses

are in the pipeline and will be received by the States & Union Territories within the next 3 days. Health Ministry said & also clarifi ed that more than 1.53 crore Cov-id-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs to be administered.

Mumbai: A doctor was allegedly attacked by four persons after the father of their friend died while undergoing treatment against coro-navirus at a govern-ment hospital in Latur city of Maharashtra, police said on Sunday.

The incident oc-curred at Vilasrao Deshmukh Govern-ment Medical Sciences Institute during the in-tervening night of Sat-urday and Sunday, they said. The four accused, are Shubham Dilip Na-kade, Shriniwas Govin-drao Dhobe, Akash Pramod Shete , Namdev Hanumant Shinde, have been arrested, police sub-inspector Kiran Pa-

thare said.“The accused used

abusive language against Dr Amit Varma (24) and thrashed him alleging that he didn’t treat their friend’s fa-ther properly,” he said, adding that the doctor did not suffer any seri-ous injury in the inci-dent. Based on the com-plaint lodged by the doc-tor, a case was regis-tered against the four accused at Gandhi Chowk police station under IPC sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 332 (volun-tarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult), and arrested them.

Doctor beaten up after COVID-19 patient’s death in Maha, 4 held

New Delhi: Health experts dealing with COVID-19 believe that a nationwide coronavirus serolog-ical survey will be beneficial as it will help in bringing out exact viral load and thus help in building up strategies.

Sero surveys esti-mate as well as moni-tor infection trends in the population which is specifically location-based to un-derstand the current

course of the virus. The Centre recently announced that it would commence a nationwide sero sur-veillance project and has asked the States to participate for fact-based monitor-ing of the situation.

As per experts, se-rological surveil-lance specific strate-gies of particular areas can be built up and following them can further lower the positivity rate.

Janardan Misra

Ayodhya: Corruption allegations on Sri Ram Janmbhumi Tirth Trust land purchasing has stirred political row. Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Tej Narayan Pandey Pawan who lev-ied allegations demand-ed CBI inquiry into the matter.

SP leader Pawan Pan-dey said that about 12080 square metre land was purchased for Rs 2 core and later regis-tered agreement of land was done for Rs 18.50 crore within 10

minutes. He said that sale deed of the land was done at the name of Ravi Mohan Tiwari and Sultan Ansari for which registered agree-ment was done for trust general secretary Champat Rai on March 18, 2021. It was alleged

that trust member Anil Mishra and mayor Ri-shikesh Upadhyay were witness of the regis-tered agreement. SP leader demanded to trace out money trans-fer and actions should be taken against cul-prits.

Indore: About 5,000 Pa-kistani refugees from the Hindu Sindhi com-munity living in Mad-hya Pradesh’s Indore will be administered COVID-19 vaccines, an official said on Sunday.

The representatives of the Pakistani refu-gees from the Hindu Sindhi community had recently requested the administration for anti- coronavirus inocula-tion, District Immuni-zation Officer Dr Praveen Jadia told PTI.

“This demand has been accepted following the state government’s approval. These Paki-

stani refugees will now be able to receive anti-coronavirus jabs at the city’s vaccination cen-tres by showing their passport as the identity card,” he said. Mr Jadia estimated that about 5,000 Pakistani refugees are living in Indore and most of them are settled in the city’s Sindhi Col-ony area.

“We are administer-ing anti-COVID 19 doses to all adults on humani-tarian grounds. Last month, we had vacci-nated a Dutch citizen who had come to Indore for some work,” he re-called.

New Delhi: There has been no cyber breach into the email system of the government, main-tained by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), an official re-lease said on Sunday.

The email system is “totally safe and se-cure”, the Ministry of Electronics and IT said while dismissing a re-port claiming that data breaches in organisa-tions such as Air India,

Big Basket and Domi-no’s had exposed email accounts and pass-words of National In-formatics Centre (NIC) emails to hackers. “In view of this, it is impor-tant to clarify that...there has been no cyber breach into the email system of the Govern-ment of India main-tained by the NIC. The email system is totally safe and secure,” the release said.

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved budgetary support of nearly Rs 499 crore for research and innovation in the de-fence sector for the next five years. The Defence Ministry said the funds will be used to provide financial support to nearly 300 start-ups, MSMEs and individual innovators with a larger goal of ensuring self-reliance in the defence sector. The scheme is in sync with the govern-ment’s push to cut im-ports of military hard-

ware and weapons and make India a hub for defence manufacturing. In the last couple of years, the government has unveiled a series of reform measures and initiatives to make In-dia a hub of defence manufacturing. “De-fence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved the budgetary support of Rs. 498.8 crore to Inno-vations for Defence Ex-cellence (iDEX)-Defence Innovation Organisa-tion (DIO) for the next five years,” the ministry said in a statement.

‘Sero survey will help in vax & lockdown’

Corruption allegations on Ram temple trust members spark row

5,000 Pakistani refugees to get COVID-19 jabs in Indore

No cyber breach into NIC email system: Govt

` 499 crore budget for defence innovations

BIOMEDICAL WASTE TSUNAMI IN 2ND WAVE, MOST IN KERALA & GUJARAT

New Delhi: The second wave of the pandemic has left another big challenge of handling biomedical waste (BMW) generated. There was nearly 50 per cent jump in Covid-related biomedical waste in just April-May this year and some of the high burden states are strug-gling to treat it. The fi ve states that generated about 50 per cent of this waste include Kerala, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Delhi and Karnataka.

Jharkhand Reports Zero Daily Covid Deaths For First Time Amid Second Wave

Chennai records negative case growth of 7.6 per cent since June 7, shows rapid decline in daily infections

COVID-19 vaccina-tion drive reaches tribal population of J-K’s Rajouri

Haryana Extends Lockdown Till June 21, Shops Can Stay Open For Longer Hours

New Delhi: Petrole-um minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan on Sunday inaugurated a medical oxygen gener-ating plant at Maha-raja Agrasen Hospital in New Delhi, the first of 7 such units being set up by state-run oil companies in the na-tional capital ahead of the possible 3rd wave

of the Covid-19 pan-demic.

The medical oxygen generating plant and booster unit at Maharaja Agrasen Hospi-tal in Punjabi Bagh has been set up by In-draprastha Gas Ltd, w h i c h

can also be used to fill oxygen cylinders, a

statement said. “This is part

of an overall strategy to be ready for any possibil-ity of 3rd

wave of

pandemic in the coun-try,” Pradhan said. The plant at Maharaja Agrasen Hospital will be operated and main-tained by the IGL for one year. The plant at Maharaja Agrasen Hospital has a capaci-ty of 60 NM3/hour, which can give oxygen with purity of upto 96%.

Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurates oxy plant at Maharaja Agrasen Hospital

People throng at the Sarojini Nagar market during the unlocking process in New Delhi on Sunday.

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Sirohi: Independent MLA Sanyam Lodha has raised questions over the action taken by a special team of Excise department that had seized illegal liquor worth Rs 2 cr in Bhujela of Sirohi. The local po-lice and excise depart-ment officials were kept away from entire action as there was suspicion of their complicity.

Now, independent MLA Sanyam Lodha has raised questions on the excise officials who took action. Targeting

the officials in a poetic way, Lodha wrote on so-cial media that those who had come to close the illegal dens, but be-came a part of the show after listening to sound of coins. “When will the real kingpin and gov-ernment servants in-volvement in liquor sei-zure worth crores from Bhujela Sirohi be caught?,” he wrote.

Lodha said that Ex-cise Department should bring the real people to the fore. The drivers and the helpers are caught but liquor does not belong to them.

Sandeep Goyal

Sawai Madhopur: The forest department has started in inquiry into a viral video, which shows a tiger from Pha-lodi range of Ranth-ambhore Tiger Reserve eating dead chickens on road near zone 10 of the park.

According to the in-formation, a tiger came out of the forest late on Friday night near zone ten in Phalo-di range on Khandar Road. The tiger report-edly ate dead chicken and stayed put for nearly an hour.

The tiger is believed to be T-34. According to veterinary doctors, eating meat from a pile of dead chickens can have an adverse effect on the health of the ti-ger and lead to food poisioning as many cases of bird flu were also reported in the district earlier.

In such a situation, if all chickens had died due to some disease, then it can be fatal for the tiger. Earlier, a vid-eo of a Sambhar deer eating garbage in Ran-thambore’s Jhumar Bawdi forest area had gone viral.

Kavita Chauhan

Jaipur: An online trib-ute was paid to Late Dr. Ashok Panagariya on Sunday. Padma Shri Dr. Panagariya, who was suffering from post Covid complications, left for heavenly abode on June 11. Dr. Panagariya is survived by his wife Meena Pa-nagariya, son Arihant and two daughters

Aditi and Aarushi.During the virtual

prayer meet a musi-cal tribute was given to Dr. Panagariya by Rajendra Jadeja. Tri-sha, the granddaugh-ter of Dr. Panagariya chanted the Navkar Mantra whereas Pro-fessor Arvind Pana-gariya joined the meet from USA and shared beautiful memories of his late

brother. An emotion-al message to Dr. Pa-nagariya by his daughter Aarushi

left every one numb. Dr. Panagariya’s granddaughter Tan-vi also remembered

her grandfather dur-ing the meeting.

The online tribute was attended by Dr. Pa-

nagariya’s family members, friends, members of the health fraternity and his well

wishers. About 1000 plus people paid trib-ute from across the world.

From Prime Minis-ters to Chief Ministers, jurists and justices, bu-reaucrats & journalists, the high and the mighty had great admiration for him. Dr. Ashok Pa-nagariya was not just an exceptional neurolo-gist but a human with a golden heart. His con-

tribution to the world of medical science will always be respected and he will live on in the hearts of not only his family and friends but also in the hearts of all those innumerable people he gave life to.

Dr. Panagariya will be greatly missed but his warmth, kind-ness, and gentle spirit will be remembered forever.

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Tiger eating dead chicken: Forest dept to investigate viral video

‘I’m alive’: MLA Kharadi dismisses report of his death

Dr. Ashok Panagariya, Your legacy will live on forever!

FROM RAJASTHAN TO AYODHYA, SOON...

Nirmal Tiwari

Sand stone for Ram temple in Ayodhya will be

available soon through legal mining as the Union Ministry of For-est, Environment and Climate Change on June 11 issued the fi rst level approval for diversion of forest land for min-ing of sand stone at Bansi

Paharpur in Bharatpur. Additional Chief Secre-tary Mines Dr. Subodh Agrawal said that with the approval, the way has been paved for auc-tion of mining blocks in Bansi Paharpur. Agrawal said that due to the tireless efforts of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Bansi Paharpur mining area was taken out of Wildlife Sanctuary area in March last year.

1st level permis-sion for diversion of 398 hectare area of Bansi Paharpur on June 11

Mines department will do delimitation work and prepare blocks for e-auction

About 70 blocks are likely to be developed in this area

Thousands of people to get direct and indirect employment

State government likely to get revenue of about Rs 500 crore from e-auction

E-AUCTION SOONGOVT WAS SENSITIVE ABOUT IT

Mines Minister Pramod Jain Bhaya has also been continuously

monitoring the efforts being made for valid mining in Bansi Paharpur. Agarwal said that in view of the demand of Bansi Paharpur stone for the construction of Ram temple, it has been a sensitive matter for the state government.

ILLEGAL STATUS HINDERED SUPPLY

The stone costs around Rs 800 per cubic feet. Bharatpur administration

had clamped down on illegal mining in September 2020. The Ram temple

trust was about to place an or-der for a fresh stock 4.5 lakh

cubic feet stone worth Rs 36 crore.

During the virtual prayer meet, family and friends paid heartfelt tributes & a musical salute was given by Rajendra Jadeja.

First India Bureau

Udaipur: The infor-mation about the death of Jhadol MLA Babu-lal Kharadi on social media led to confusion among his family members and known people in Udaipur on Sunday. After this, the supporters of Kharadi also started paying tributes to him. As the information reached MLA Babulal, he de-nied the rumours and said that he is alive and well.

He also shared some of his pictures to rub-

bish the rumours. Kharadi said he had gone to Kota to attend the program of Van-vasi Parishad when information of his

death spread. His fam-ily called but due to low network, the phone was not reachable that led to hue and cry in the family.

Babulal Kharadi (on cot) released his photos to show he is alive.

MLA Om Hudla gets Y category security

BIRLA HELPS CHILDREN ORPHANED BY CORONA

SOG arrests 2 from MP, ammo seized

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Independent MLA Om Prakash Hudla was on Sunday given Y category se-curity. Six days ago there was stone pelt-ing on Hudla’s hotel in Dausa.

This decision of the Gehlot govern-ment is being consid-ered important in the context of ongoing political tussle with Pilot faction. Mahwa MLA Hudla had also left the state last year after rebellion of the Pilot faction follow-

ing which it was speculated that he may support Pilot. Huda wrote to CM Ashok Gehlot citing threat to his life. He contested 2018-as-sembly election as an independent against BJP candidate after a rift with Kirodi Lal Meena.

First India Bureau

Kota: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birlaon Sunday an-nounced financial as-sistance of Rs 3.05 lakh to children who lost their parents due to Corona. He also talked about making proper arrange-ments for their edu-cation. The first and second wave of Co-rona left many chil-dren in Kota without their parents. Birla urged the school op-

erators to take up the responsibility of their education which the school op-erators unanimously accepted. Some schools have even sent letters of free education to such children.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: A team of Special Operations Group (SOG) of Ra-jasthan police arrest-ed two arms smug-glers with the help of Indore police in Mad-hya Pradesh on Sun-day.

The team recov-ered 1 revolver, 2 pis-tols, four magazines and 308 cartridges. Of them, 199 car-tridges are of 9 mm, said an official. The 5-member team led

by SOG inspector Vi-jay Kumar Roy reached Indore on Saturday evening on information about the arms smugglers. The action was taken at a house in Gau-tampura area in the city of Indore.

First India Bureau

Ajmer: The elections for the posts of Sadar and Naib Sadar of the Dargah Committee, managing the dargah of Sufi Saint Hazrat Kh-waja Moinuddin Hasan Chishti will be held in New Delhi on June 15 and 16.

It is believed that there is a possibility of Amin Pathan becom-ing the Sadar of the committee yet again. The meeting will be held in the presence of

Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.Sadar Amin Pathan, Naib Sadar Syed Babar Ashraf, Former Naib Sadar Syed Shahid

Hussain Rizvi, Dargah Nazim Ashfaq Hus-sain, Munawwar Khan, Sapat Khan, Farooq Azam and Wasim Ra-hat Ali Khan among

others are likely to reach Delhi by tonight to attend this meeting.

The meeting will be-gin at 1.30 pm on Tues-day. Elections will be held for the post of Sa-dar and Naib Sadar on the first day of the two-day meeting. Amin Pa-than has been the Sadar of Dargah Committee for three consecutive years. If he becomes Sa-dar for the fourth time, which is likely as he is the strongest contender for this post, he will set a new record.

Ajmer Dargah Committee to get new Sadar, Amin Pathan likely to continue

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Rajendra Chhabra

T o revive the lost honour of Board of Revenue, it is

imperative that the judi-cial system and judicial management at the Board is updated. Even the ACB has found short-falls in the judicial work-ing during its ‘surgical strike’ on the Board. But in spite of working on this front, the state gov-ernment is employing a somewhat controversial ploy of breaking the Board of Revenue.

The plan is to divide the judicial and admin-istrative works of the Board as preparations are being made for the formation of a Revenue

Commissionerate for administrative works. The Chief Secretary, in a high level meeting on June 9, has already held the first round of talks with officers in this re-gard. Apart from CS Niranjan Arya, Chair-man - Board of Revenue - R Venkateshwaran and Principal Secretary (Revenue) Anand Ku-mar were also present.

According to the cur-rent working of the Board, there is Chair-man and a dozen mem-bers for the judicial work. But the state gov-ernment wants to bring the administrative work under a Commis-sionerate by dividing the Board into two.

Similarly, nearly 3,000 officials - right from the tehsildar cad-re, to sub-registrar, land records inspector and patwari - will then fall under the Revenue Commissioner and not the Chairman. There-fore, like other depart-ments of the govern-ment, this newly formed Commissioner-ate will also fall under the control of the min-ister and the power of transfer-posting and enquiry regarding the strong force of 3,000 looking after Revenue Administration will also fall within the min-ister’s jurisdiction.

However, the division of Board is not a new

thought, rather the pro-cess has been ongoing for nearly a year. But as soon as the word spread in the corridors of Sec-retariat, it brought with it a ‘rupture’ in the bu-reaucratic and political world because for Ra-jasthan, it will be a dif-ficult path to tread on. It

would be akin to open-ing a pandora’s box.

A retired IAS, who has served as the Chair-man of the Board, be-lieves, “Judicial and Administrative func-tioning in the board goes hand in hand and it is impossible to differ-entiate one from the

other. A judicial body without administrative powers is as useless as a fish without water. The current malady is due to wrong placement policy, non-updation of revenue laws, and too much intervention by Government. Also due to non-accountability of judicial functions and its monitoring. The corruption was in judi-cial work and not ad-ministrative work. The current situation of Board is not due to com-bination of administra-tion and judicial work. This is nothing, but a move by the govern-ment to grab power.”

This plan of the gov-ernment does not seem

to be logical from an ad-ministrative point of view. If the judicial and administrative works of one organisation are done at two places, it will lead to immense confusion.

The division of work between a Chairman and a Commissioner, both chiefs of their re-spective wings, will lead to a clash of au-thority. The bureaucra-cy feels that it could lead to discrepancies in working. If the offices are in Ajmer and Jaipur, it would lead to routine practical prob-lems. Apart from this establishing the senior-ity of Commissioner will also be a tough

task. This plan has all the ingredients of a po-litical tussle as well since political leaders of Ajmer would never want that the Board’s administrative work is shifted to Jaipur which would lead to decreas-ing the importance of Ajmer since after Ra-jasthan was formed, post Independence, Revenue Board had fall-en in Ajmer’s kitty.

Although it is impos-sible to say as to when and how the state gov-ernment will go ahead with their plan, but the mere mention of it has created a whirlwind, of sorts, in the administra-tive and political circles of the state.

Dividing Board of Revenue akin to opening a Pandora’s box!

Lunaram Darji

Barmer: Revenue Min-ister Harish Chaudhary appears to be much wor-ried after his alleged phone recording sent by Punjab CM to Congress High Command, result-ed into a 'miffed' party leadership and Ra-jasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot demand-ing his resignation. However, on Sunday, Chaudhary refuted the various allegations lev-elled against him, refut-ing the same, while warning of a legal ac-tion against the newspa-per that broke the news.

In an exclusive inter-view with First India, Revenue Minister Har-ish Chaudhary, said that he has no connection in the 'Punjab Phone Case'. "I haven't spoken to leaders from Punjab. People in power and power- brokers are try-ing to control politics at other people's expense whereas I have never talked to any leader whether from Punjab, Delhi or Rajasthan or

even High Command. All this is a conspiracy, which is being created to fulfil ulterior mo-tives," Chaudhary said.

On the question of the Chief Minister de-manding his resigna-tion, the Revenue Minis-ter said, "I did not hold any discussion with the Chief Minister regard-ing the resignation and he hasn't asked me for the same. In fact, some people are spreading ru-mours about seeking resignation. There are those who are trying to defame me, as I have reached this stage with-out any political back-

ground purely on the basis of faith and hard work. The decision to make me a minister was that taken by the CM and only he can ask me to resign, but the ru-mours of seeking my resignation are com-pletely wrong."

Chaudhary was also open about Kamlesh Prajapat encounter. "The family was con-tinuously demanding a CBI inquiry regarding Kamlesh encounter, about which CM Gehlot had also asked me for an opinion. I was of the opinion since the begin-ning that the CBI probe

should be conducted so that the truth can be re-vealed. The allegations that are being made about trying to stop the CBI probe are wrong. I keep travelling to Delhi to meet my old friends, colleagues or family members. In the com-ing days also I will be travelling to Delhi. It is not a crime to go to Del-hi and if someone is al-leging about me trying to stall the CBI investi-gation, then they are completely wrong. They should show evidence as to which politician did I talk to about the matter," he stressed.

‘Entire episode is a conspiracy created to fulfill ulterior motives’

REVENUE MINISTER DISMISSES ALLEGATIONS IN PUNJAB PHONE CASE

Gehlot to chalk out a suitable formula for cabinet expansion

Cabinet expansion, a work in Progress: Maken

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On one side the Pilot camp is looking for 6-5 of its legislators being provided the ministe-rial berths, on the oth-er hand, the 6 former BSP MLAs are also eye-ing their position, after all they joined the gov-ernment at a critical time. Then there are 13 independent MLAs ea-gerly waiting to be ad-dressed as ‘mantriji’ and those too who have won multiple times and are thus ‘seniors’. But

over and above all

of them are Ge-h l o t ’ s staunch support-

e r s ,

who rallied with the Chief Minister during the tough times of Pi-lot’s rebellion, when it seemed that the gov-ernment may lose its majority, and kept the government ‘alive.’

Therefore, the chal-lenge before Congress, is to find out how & whom to include so that all aspirants are happy & content. It is this chal-lenge that is perhaps posing a huge ‘unscala-ble’ shadow of the par-ty’s efforts to find a suit-able match for the cabi-net. However, now that the buck has stopped with Gehlot, it appears that only he can bring out the suitable ‘formu-la’ so that “Saanp bhi mar jaye, aur Lathi Bhi Na Toote”.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: With tensions in the Rajasthan Con-gress rising and the Pi-lot camp becoming edgy, the Congress has stepped up internal de-liberations with all sec-tions and a rejig of the state cabinet is likely soon. Sources said dis-cussions are underway for filling up the nine vacancies in the state cabinet to adjust all sec-tions.

Senior Congress lead-ers, including general secretary in-charge of Congress in Rajasthan Ajay Maken, are hold-ing discussions with leaders of various camps to resolve their grievances. Maken is learnt to have held dis-cussions with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot

and former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot.

“It is a work in pro-gress. We are talking to all sections and leaders. We hope to take care of the hopes and aspira-tions of all sections and regions. We are in con-stant touch with all leaders, including Ashok Gehlot and

Sachin Pilot,” Maken told PTI. “We hope to resolve the issue soon,” he added.

Pilot has been camp-ing in Delhi for the last two days and he has held discussions with senior party leaders, in-cluding Maken. He has openly criticised the three-member panel that was formed 10 months ago to resolve differences of party leaders, after he re-belled against Gehlot. Pilot, however, stayed back with an agreement that his people would be adjusted in the state cabinet. Even though many in Pilot’’s camp have been adjusted in the Rajasthan PCC, most of his confidants are eyeing a ministerial berth in the cabinet. —(With Agency inputs)

MAKING A REMARK

Develop local schools in Nathdwara as English Medium schools: Dr Joshi

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Assembly Speaker Dr CP Joshi on Saturday, stressed the need to develop lo-cal schools in Nath-dwara as English Me-dium Modern Schools and he requested Edu-cation Minister Go-vind Singh Dotasra to look into the matter.

Joshi said this while speaking at the virtual foundation stone laying ceremo-ny organised by Man-dir Mandal for two school buildings in

Nathdwara city. Speaking on the occa-sion, Vishal Bawa Sa-heb said that it will be necessary to teach children through Eng-lish medium in times to come and he also urged the government to take steps in this regard.

Minister in-charge of the district, Udailal Anjana also joined the programme through video conference. Mandir Mandal tem-ple officer Sudhakar Shastri, veteran free-dom fighter Narendra

Pal Somtia, Munici-pality chairman Man-ish Rathi, Municipal Vice- Chairman Shy-am Lal Gurjar, and District Congress President Devkinan-dan Gurjar were also present.

Board member MS Singhvi also joined the foundation stone laying ceremony of school buildings vir-tually. The pro-gramme was conduct-ed by the Chief Exe-cuting Officer of the Mandir Mandal, Ji-tendra Ojha.

Assembly Speaker Dr CP Joshi virtually addressed the foundation stone laying ceremony of two school buildings in Nathdwara on Saturday.

Gehlot saysAmoment of great

pride as #Rajas-than’s Lt Mukesh Kumar bagged the coveted Sword of Honour & also received the silver medal at the IMA. Congratulations to him & all cadets, who passed out of IMA and were commis-sioned into the Indian Army as Lieutenants.

My deepest condo-lences on demise

of Tonk, Rajasthan’s, Maha Vir Chakra awardee, Brigadier Ra-ghuveer Singh (retd). His exemplary bravery during the Indo-Pak war of 1965 shall al-ways be remembered. May God give strength to his family to bear this loss and may the departed soul RIP.

Deeply saddened at untimely demise of senior Congress leader & Leader of

Opposition in Uttarakhand Indira Hridayesh ji. Her contribution to the party will always be remembered. My heartfelt condolences to her family, may they remain strong in this diffi cult time.May her soul RIP.

Jaipur: Even as certain media sections report-ed that former Ra-jasthan Deputy Chief

Minister Sachin P i l o thas been o f f e r e d the posi-tion of A I C C

General Secretary, highly placed sources in the Congress party at New Delhi, have re-vealed it has never been the tradition in Congress to deny. "There is no historic record or any tradition where if a position is offerred by the AICC to any leader, the same is declined. It is not so in this case too. Therefore, such stories are devoid of facts and mislead-ing," the source said.

Pilot denying AICC berth misleading, claim party sources

Board of Revenue, Ajmer

Ajay Maken

CM Ashok Gehlot

Harish Chaudhary distributes Covid-19 testing kits to PEEO &ANM at Baytu Block of Barmer district on Sunday.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Brijendra Ola targetting the govern-ment on Sunday, said that the promises made to party workers, who were instrumental in bringing Congress to power after a struggle of 5 years should be ful-filled. “For five years, we fought with Sachin Pilot. We went to farm-ers and common people & promised them that if the Congress govern-ment is formed, they will also have a share in the power,” he said add-ing that the government was formed, but the works are not being done & what should be done about the common workers now? “We can-not remain silent spec-tators in current politi-cal situation. Promises made to workers should be fulfilled soon.”

Promises made by govt need to be fulfilled: Ola

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action, if you want to prove yourself. A party may be thrown in your honour at work.

TAURUSAPR 21 - MAY 20

A family youngster is likely to do you proud. A business trip is indicated and will achieve much. Your strategy to promote yourself on the professional front

will bear fruits. You may need to speed up things on the academic front to remain ahead.

SCORPIOOCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

Excellent op-portunities may knock at your door. Profession-als will be able to give their best in a new situation. Financially, this day may prove lucky for you, so

go ask for the raise that is keeping you on tenterhooks. Don’t take any chances with your health today.

GEMINIMAY 21 - JUNE 21

You will man-age to achieve what you had aimed for on the academic front. A celebration can fi nd you in your element today. Praise and honour are likely

to greet you in something that you have managed to achieve. You will be a pillar of strength to a friend or associate.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22

Success is foretold on the academic front. Your reputation is likely to boost your image on the social front. On the work front, you will manage to keep

your superiors in good humour. This is an excellent day to spend time with family.Good planning will see you complete a task.

CANCERJUNE 22 - JULY 23

Good perfor-mance on the academic front will help enhance your reputation at work. Some favourable devel-opments on the social front are foreseen. Buying

new furniture or a major appliance is possible. With good networking, a prized posting can be yours.

CAPRICORNDEC 23 - JAN 20

Your performance at work will be commendable. Your own hap-piness is in your hands today. Spouse may need her space, re-spect that. This is a favourable day

for completing pending jobs. Financially, no problems are foreseen. It is best to avoid outside food.

LEOJULY 24 - AUGUST 23

You are likely to take up someone’s cause and earn appreciation from all quarters on the social front. Remaining on the good side of those who

matter on the academic front will help you achieve much. Good tidings of your well wishers will keep you going.

AQUARIUSJAN 21 - FEB 19

Your desire for an exciting time on the social front is likely to be fulfi lled today. Those looking for buying a house can get a good bargain. Appreciation

is in store for some homemakers. A professional victory is yours if you play your cards well today.

VIRGOAUG 24 - SEP 23

A new deal is likely to come through and give you a taste of success. Those fond of travelling may get their chance soon. This is the time when you enjoy

yourself with a new group of friends or colleagues. A change of job is likely to give you better salary and perks.

PISCESFEB20 - MARCH 20

Getting into a favourable situation on the academic front is possible. Good luck promises to brighten your day. Some positive changes can be expected

on the home front. This seems a good day for job seekers. New avenues for earning open up.

YOUR DAY

Horoscope by Saurabbh Sachdeva

here is one thing we take for granted and no it isn’t the prob-lem created by the poor or the home-less alone. It exists in posh colonies as

much as it does in slums. And this menace starts at home- from every room of your house.

I am referring to the issue of waste segregation and while much of it is your do-ing, I also hold our heritage brands responsible. After all, if the educated know how to dispose of their garbage, and the heritage brand set exam-ples, the rest of the nation will follow.

Garbage disposal has be-come a real menace, but it’s not that only India produces such massive amounts of waste. Why is it then that we have not been able to nip this in the bud? Corruption, you would say, and I agree. But what corruption is there in your home? Perhaps you would place the blame on your laziness or your “I don’t care” mentality. But I am here to tell you that you should care and you should quit being lazy when it comes to your home.

Ever heard of what goes around comes around? Well, it about time you understood how your actions are detri-mental to your and your fu-ture generations. And no it just isn’t about the risk to marine life or global warm-ing. The problem is much closer to home. Imagine the impact on your health when you drink milk sourced from a cow that is feeding off your

plastic garbage? How would you like your home to be within miles of a landfill? And imagine the nuisance of clogged drains and the stench from a filthy canal that flows by your neighbourhood.

The readers of this article are privileged and educated, but yet you choose to be com-placent. You choose to be the problem when you should in-deed be the torch bearers and be part of the solution. Yes, I am pointing fingers. You must be shown the mirror.

If you decide to change how you impact your life, here are some tips that can help you live a better tomorrow.

AT HOMEThe Bathroom: Please dis-pose of bathroom trash sepa-rately from the kitchen trash. Do not flush sanitary nap-kins down the toilet. Wrap them instead and dispose of them in your bathroom trash. The Kitchen: Separate bio-degradable waste and non-biodegradable waste. You can also place a container outside

your house with food items you no longer need of vegeta-ble and fruit peels for the bo-vines that frequent your col-ony. Broken glasses and bulbs should be wrapped and dis-posed of separately so the people handling your garage do not sustain any injuries. Let’s think of others for good-ness sake. Sell your non-bio-degradable waste to the kab-adiwala. Make sure you clean and dry the used plastic and glass containers before you hand them to him. It is always nice to be thoughtful. You could also convert your bio-degradable waste to compost.

Bottom line: Hand segre-gated waste to the trash col-lector.

It all starts @ HOME

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I am hoping someone from Amul, Maggi, Uni-lever, Coca Cola, Nestle

and others will be reading this. As significant con-tributors to the plastic menace, and as heritage brands, they should also be more responsible.

We all love them and there is a reason they con-tinue to be in our kitchens and our hearts. But I fail to understand why they feed into the problem of plastic pollution? They have it within their powers to pick more eco-friendly packaging and also help recycle their packaging. Instead of the tiny icon for recycling on their packag-es, why not make it their main message and educate the public on what those symbols mean if they can-not indeed replace plastic with paper.

Maggi would be no less desirable if wrapped in biodegradable packaging.

And I would desire more Coca Cola beverages if I know that I can give them up for recycling at the store.

I think we all know the problems but I’d like to be-lieve that you don’t act fa-vourably because you are ignorant of the solutions. But with information at your fingertips, can you claim ignorance as an ex-cuse? And being less aware and conscious about the environment should put you to shame. Being rich should no longer mean you can turn a blind eye. I lay the burden on your wealthy shoulders.

And for those who truly want to get involved and help turn this problem around, reach out to the Plastic Cow Campaign. Write to me and we would love to have you become empowered as a responsi-ble member of your house-hold.

HERITAGE BRANDS

The world of entertainment was left shocked when ac-tor Sushant Singh Rajput was found hanging at his

Mumbai residence on June 14, 2020. Known for balancing films with content-driven cinema, Su-shant was one of the most ad-mired actors of recent times. He left his family, his fans and well-wishers, both in India and over-seas, in a lull on June 14, 2020, in what the police initially said ap-peared to be a case of suicide. The ongoing probe into Sushant’s death also highlighted the alleged drug nexus in Bollywood which is

currently being investigated.Seeking apex level probe, fans

of Sushant, some politicians and prominent associations claimed that Sushant’s death was not a suicide and alleged the murder’ was pre-mediated by the Bolly-wood gangs that allegedly func-tion at the underworld’s mercy. Subsequently, Sushant’s family filed a complaint with police ac-cusing his former live-in partner actor Rhea Chakraborty of abet-ment of suicide and cheating among other charges. A lot hap-

pened in this Covid-year post the demise of the Kedarnath actor and three central agencies–CBI, NCB, ED–got involved and are still working on the SSR death case. Except that no angle had been ruled out, the CBI is yet to come out with any major update in the case. There you have the story. I believe it, despite all my efforts, I have been obliged to be-lieve it. It is not within any per-son’s power to erase what is done but it is possible to check the fur-ther progress of injustice. Bit

shocking, regrettable item of news, but still, after all, Sush-ant is not the only one, that’s the way things are — and in any case did not the authorities come to action. There is noth-ing to talk or write about. In these times, that sort of things goes on all the time. Perfectly normal. No, let us speak soberly, plainly — justice is on the move, usual prac-tice, too.

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Remembering SSR“Suicide isn’t cowardly. I’ll tell you what is cowardly,

treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.”

JAIPUR | MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2021

Birthday girl Disha Patani is an ani-me lover and there are no two ways about it! The actress who turned 29 on Sunday celebrated her spe-

cial day from the confines of her home but that does not make it any less special. Being the anime lover that she is, Disha received two separate tees. While one tee features characters Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuga from the super hit anime Naruto, the second tee features Gojo Sa-toru from the popular anime show Ju-jutsu Kaisen. The stunning print on both the tees definitely makes it worth for every anime lover to have in their collec-tion. —Agency

Anime Lover

Sach Kahun Toh

The Indian audi-ences have loved Neena Gupta when she rose to

fame once again with her conven-tional role in ‘Badhaai Ho’.

Looking at her past journey, she has been considered as a strong and de-termined wom-an, who didn’t

let anyone else take her decisions, even when she fell into the trap of

‘Lallu Ladki’, which she talks

about in her autobiogra-phy, ‘Sach Kahun Toh’

releasing today.

Pan-demic h a s

given us time to reflect, Neena Gupta reflected on her journey and this book is an example of her taking a stand for herself, sharing her thoughts with the reader, telling her how her journey began in Delhi with parents and a sibling who loved her endlessly. Neena accepts her faults and blemishes, and, displays endless courage of not giving up at any juncture. Her autobiography is a refreshing conversation about her life with Shakuntala & Roop Narain Gupta (parents), Pan-kaj Gupta (brother), Vivian, Masaba and Vivek Mehra. She also sheds light on her journey of studying at NSD and meet-ing artists who have always stood as a pillar of support.

Aparshakti Khurana features in the music video of Asees Kaur’s new song ‘Aaya jado da’ along with Parul Gulati. Apar-

shakti released the song on Instagram on Friday. The song written and com-posed by Nirmaan was launched by Aparshakti on Instagram. Without saying much, he simply wrote as cap-tion: “ #Ayajadoda”. On the work front, the actor will be seen in the film ‘Helmet’ alongside Pranutan and the series ‘Stardust’. —Agency

DREAMY ROMANCEK

angana Ranaut has returned to Mumbai and is making the most

of it. After being snapped at her office and the gym, the actress headed out to the race-course in the city on Sunday morning. Kan-gana started her day on an extremely fit note as she went horseback rid-ing in South Mumbai. Thanks to her social media presence, Kan-gana shared a video from the racecourse for her fans. —Agency

The new adventure

Chris Evans celebrates his birthday on June 13 and the actor is all set to turn 40 this year. The actor who is better

known for his portrayal of Captain America in the Avengers films has one of the biggest fan base and net-izens have been ringing his birth-day by celebrating some of his most amazing traits including his ador-ably pet-friendly nature. The actor is known to be a dog parent to Dodg-er, who often makes appearances on his social media profiles.

—Agency

Actor Manoj Bajpayee has returned as Shrikant Ti-wari on ‘The Family Man 2’, and he is getting a good

response for the role again. The se-ries faced however, faced allega-tions that it depicted Tamils in an ‘objectionable manner’. The actor feels that the story isn’t about hurt-ing sentiments. He shared, “We as a team, our directors, writers are very sentimental to each and every person and state. We are sensitive to the culture.”

—Agency

Happy birthday CHRIS EVANS

The ongoing CONTROVERSY

Nicole Kidman and Melis-sa McCarthy team up for the first time in the new web series “Nine

Perfect Strangers” based on The New York Times bestsell-ing book of the same name from Australian author Liane Moriarty. The trailer and first look images of the eight-part drama series dropped on Satur-day, and the show is scheduled to premiere on August 20 world-wide including India, but not in the US and China. —Agency

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are certainly one of Hollywood’s cool-est couples and even

cooler parents. Taking to Insta-gram, Kristen shared a series of snaps showing her youngest daughter Delta’s writings on what looked like little notes that she left around the house. Referring to Delta’s writings as “threatening notes”, Kristen said she is grateful that her kid can “speak her mind.”

—Agency

Nine Perfect STRANGERS

Threatening NOTES

SUSHMITA AINDcityfirst@firstindia.co.in

Late Sushant Singh Rajput

Manoj Bajpayee

Kristen BellNicole Kidman

Chris Evans

...her post

Disha Patani...Kangana Ranaut’s post

ASHOK SHARMAcityfirst@firstindia.co.in

BY DONATING BLOOD YOU CAN SAVE SOMEONE’S LIFE. CITY FIRST SPOKE TO A FEW PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR RECENT BLOOD DONATION EXPERIENCE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES!

ANITA HADA

Veteran Jour-nalist and for-mer Editor of R a j a s t h a n

Patrika, Vijay Bhandari celebrates his 90th birthday today on June 14. Bhandari has closely followed the political develop-ments in the Rajasthan state for more than six decades. City First commemorates his birthday by appreciat-ing his contribution to the news industry!

Bhandari is known for his dedication to Journalism. He worked tirelessly to bring au-thenticity to the news industry and promoted

the culture of ‘factual news’ – to present the news as it is. He under-stood the value of facts displayed on paper and their impact on the

readers. He is known for his exclusive and well-researched arti-cles. His news sense and unbiasedness to-wards the subject was

well-respected in the media fraternity. For such a man of honour, it was always about the credibility of news, ir-respective of the rul-ing government. Bhandari remains an icon in the world of print media and young-sters are forever striv-ing to reach even a lit-tle of his ideals.

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STAY MASKED

lood donation is a major concern to society as donated blood is lifesaving for individuals who need it. Blood is scarce. There is

a shortage of active blood donors to meet the need for increased blood de-mand. Blood donation as a therapeutic exercise. Glob-ally, approximately 80 mil-lion units of blood are do-nated each year. One of the biggest challenges to blood safety particularly is accessing safe and ad-equate quantities of blood and blood prod-ucts.

Every year, the World Blood Donor is celebrated on June 14, all around the world. This day was first ob-served in 2005 and serves to elevate the recognition of the need for safe blood and blood products. World Blood Donor Day is also cel-ebrated to appreciate the blood donors for their vol-untary, life-saving gifts of blood. This year, the theme of World Blood Donor Day 2021 is ‘Give blood and keep the world beating’. This theme highlights the impor-tance of donating blood and how it can save people’s

lives around the world. This message is especially im-portant at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a huge loss of hu-man lives across the planet. People can do their part by donating blood at their nearest blood banks if they are fit to do so, or create

awareness about the issue to encourage others to donate blood. India is one of those countries

that experience the high-est shortage of blood in the world. Unavailability of blood on time is what leads to the death of various pa-tients every year. To save those lives, blood donation needs to be encouraged.

Sukhmani Sahib Path

CITY FIRST

On the occasion of the Martyr-dom Day of Guru Arjan Dev, the members of Sukhmani Sewa Society, Bani Park did a

40-day continual online ‘Sukhmani Sa-hib Path’. The ‘Path’ began on May 5 and ended on Sunday. It was done on-line owing to the pandemic and the lockdown. Pinky Singh of the Sukhmani Sewa Society informed that it was very heartening that devotees from other cities also joined the daily ‘Path’. For instance, there was Simran Kaur from Chandigarh, Preet-am Kaur from Ahmedabad, Taranjeet Singh from Kota, Kuldeep Kaur from Alwar, Anupreet Kaur from Gangana-gar, and Ramindar Kaur from Satna. For 40 days they did the ‘Path’ together.

Following the ‘Path’ there was ‘Kir-tan’ and the ‘Ardas’ was done by Surya Udai Singh. Later, as per the tradition, the ‘Prasad’ of black gram (Kala Cha-na) and ‘sharbat’ were made by each member. During these 40 days, the So-ciety also distributed masks and sa-chets of ‘Kadha’.

Bollywood Actor Govinda was spotted at the Jaipur Airport on Sunday morning. He went to Ajmer by car to attend a private event.

-PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO

The birthday of IAS Shelly Kishnani and IPS Dr Raviprakash Meharda was on Sunday, June 13. We wish them all the best!

IN THE PINK CITY!

WATCH OUT!

Vadodara District Ayurveda Officer Dr Sudhir Joshi was awarded the Commitment Award by the World Book of Records UK (London) for taking an action to raise awareness about Corona among the citizens.

Ajmer based Varsha Kumawat, 22, shaved and donated her hairs for cancer patients. She said it would be her privilege if this act of hers can bring a smile to the face of cancer patients.

Anekant Foundation recognized the tremendous work of Regen Hospital, Sanganer as a dedicated Covid centre. The foundation honoured the corona warriors which included their staff, doctors and nurses. Dr Manish Munjal (Critical care expert), Huzefa Wahid (Administrator), Rakesh Choudhary (ICU Incharge) were among the few members who were awarded during the ceremony.

Members of Rah Foundation and society for Bride future arranged a blood donation camp for thalassemia patients in Ahmedabad on Sunday, where Mayor Kirit Parmar, AMC Dinesh Sharma, Ikbal Shaikh, Zulfi Khan, Dinesh Kushwah, Police inspector J V Rathod, Shakil Rajput, Ikram Beg, and others took part in the camp to mark the International Blood Donor Day. —PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI

HAPPY B’DAY!

THE SERENE EVE!

The days seem unbearable as it is getting warmer day by day. But, with the Monsoon season soon coming in, the evenings have become serene as well as mesmerizing, as, during the sunset, perfect pink hues dominate the sky welcoming the night. Hanif Sindhi has captured this perfect moment in the city of Ahmedabad.

The latest billboards of First India fea-turing model Karishma Tak are attracting a lot of eye-balls and ap-p r e c i a t i o n across. The billboard have been put up at the premises of Jaipur Inter-national Air-port.

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Safe blood saves lives

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“A single pint can save three lives, a single gesture can create a mil-lion smiles. Donate blood because

you never know how helpful it might be to someone. Heroes come in all types and sizes. So please donate your blood for a

reason and let the reason be life!”

The excitement level was high for me because I always wanted

to donate blood. And when I was in the bed the nurse tried to fi nd a vein, she couldn’t do so in one go. I was a little nervous but eventually felt proud as I could contribute to saving someone’s life.—NITU KHANCHANDANI

We can never be too prepared for a crisis such as the pandemic which oc-curred. What we may rather

focus upon is how we may contribute. Blood donation is a very simple step in helping those in need, even a stranger for that matter. There are no side effects for this good deed done. Reach out, help people. —DR ABHISHEK SAINI

Unavailability of blood on time is what leads to the death of various patients every year. People who have recovered from COVID-19 may be able to help others with the disease

by donating blood plasma. Sometimes, a person can experience side effects after donating blood but it is all temporary. I was beyond happy to share play the role of a responsible citizen. —JAI SINGH

—PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI