CM GEHLOT APPROVES E-VEHICLE POLICY

Addl budget provision of `40 crore for lump sum contribution, SGST rechargeFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: The Rajasthan government has ap-proved the Rajasthan Electric Vehicle Policy (REVP) to encourage the purchase of electric vehicles. The govern-ment has approved an additional budget pro-vision of Rs 40 crore for the State Goods and Ser-vices Tax (SGST) reim-bursement on the pur-chase of such vehicles.

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has ap-

proved this policy and its implementation will reduce the pollution caused by diesel-petrol vehicles in the state, an

official statement said. Gehlot had announced

the introduction of Elec-tric Vehicle Policy in the budget of the year 2019-

20. He had said that the state government was committed to encourage the operation of all types of e-vehicles.

State government had announced to reim-burse Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 SGST amount for two wheelers and Rs 10,000 to 20,000 for pur-chase of three wheelers according to the battery capacity of the vehicle.

E-vehicles have been kept out of the purview of Motor Vehicle Tax in the state.

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot

Navin Sharma

Jaipur: A CA was ar-rested for allegedly ac-cepting bribe of Rs 2 lakh on behalf of I-T

dept offi-cials in Jaipur. DG ACB BL Soni said that the ac-

cused CA Puneet Mohnot had demanded Rs 5 lakh from com-plainant to settle a mat-ter against his firm in I-T dept. The income tax officers involved in the matter will also be in-terrogated, Soni said.

ACB ARRESTS CA TAKING `2L BRIBE ON BEHALF OF I-T DEPT OFFICIALS

Jaipur: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has praised Rajasthan’s Indira Gandhi Shahari Rozgar Yojana and targeted Central govt over unemployment. In a Facebook post, Rahul Gandhi has described Yojana as a big step by the Gehlot govt. He wrote, “Unemployment has bro-ken records in the country and has wreaked havoc in villages and cities. More than 45 crore people have given up hope of getting a job.” Rahul praised the Gehlot govt’s plan while comparing it with MGNRE-

GA and wrote, “In 2005, Cong brought MGNREGA to fi ght unemployment in villages by giving a minimum of 100 days of guaranteed work. In the same way, the Rajasthan govt has brought ‘Indira Gandhi Shahari Rozgar Guarantee Yojana’ to ad-dress increasing unem-ployment in cities. Under this scheme, needy fami-lies of cities will get 100

days of guaranteed employment. We will continue to raise and solve the important is-

sues faced by the people of our country.” —FIB

Rahul lauds Gehlot’s Indira Gandhi Shahari Rozgar Yojana

New Delhi: Steering the party post-Udaipur Chintan Shivir, Con-gress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday named leaders to three crucial panels – the Po-litical Affairs Group, Task Force 2024 to strat-egise for Lok Sabha polls and a planning group for Bharat Jodo Yatra – with the surprise inclu-sion of election strate-gist Sunil Kanugolu.

POLITICAL AFFAIRS GROUPRahul Gandhi, Mallikar-jun Kharge, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ambika Soni, Digvijaya Singh, Anand Sharma, K C Venugopal and Jitendra Singh.

TASK FORCE-2024P Chidambaram, Mukul

Wasnik, Jairam Ramesh, K C Venugo-pal, Ajay Maken, Pri-yanka Gandhi Vadra, Randeep Singh Surjew-ala and Sunil Kanugolu.

CENTRAL PLANNING GROUP FOR ‘BHARAT JODO YATRA’Digvijaya Singh, Sachin Pilot, Shashi Tharoor,

Ravneet Singh Bittu, K J George, Jothi Mani, Pradyut Bordoloi, Jitu Patwari and Saleem Ahmed. All members of the task force and all heads of the Congress’ frontal organisations will be ex officio mem-bers of the central group, the statement said.

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COAL INDIA TO OPEN BIG, NEW MINE THIS YEAR TO FIGHT POWER CRISIS: OUTPUT FROM NEW SIARMAL MINE IN ODISHA WOULD RISE GRADUALLY, REACHING CAPACITY OF 50 MN TONNES IN ABOUT 5-7 YEARS, VINAYAK JAMWAL, SPOKESMAN FOR COAL INDIA UNIT MAHANADI COALFIELDS SAID

BJP’S TOP LEADERS AND MINISTERS WILL MEET TODAY AND PLAN FOR THE EVENTS TO MARK 8 YEARS OF THE NARENDRA MODI-LED CENTRAL GOVT

GETS SACKED, ARRESTED HIS OWN HEALTH MINISTER ON CORRUPTION CHARGES

Vijay Singla sent to police remand till May 27Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhag-want Mann on Tuesday said he has shunted out Health Minister Vijay Singla from the state Cabinet. Singla has been arrested by Anti-Corruption cell of the Punjab Police.

Singla was taken to the Phase VII police sta-tion in Mohali. An FIR number 65 under Sec-tions 7 and 8 of the Pre-vention of Corruption Act has been registered against Vijay Singla. He was later presented be-fore the court of Ravtesh Inderjit Singh, which sent him to a 3-day police remand till May 27.

PROUD OF YOU BHAGWANT

‘AAP HAS ZERO-TOLERANCE AGAINST CORRUPTION’

New Delhi: AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwalon Tuesday said he is proud of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann for sacking Punjab Minister Vijay Singla over corruption allegations. “Proud of you Bhagwant. Ur action has brought tears to my eyes. The whole nation today feels proud of AAP,” Kejriwal tweeted.

Chandigarh: The Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has a zero-tolerance policy against corruption. He said that he has sacked Singla from cabinet and directed Police to register a case against him. According to Punjab CMO, Singla was de-manding 1% commis-sion from offi cials for contracts and he also confessed to it.

Vijay Singla has been arrested by Anti-Corruption cell of the Punjab Police on Tuesday.

CHINA & RUSSIA’S MESSAGE FOR QUAD

TU-95MS & Xian H-6 bombers fly over Japan Sea...as PM Modi, President Biden and other leaders held Quad SummitTokyo: Russian fighter jets carried out joint flights over Sea of Ja-pan and East China Sea on Tuesday. Russia de-fence ministry in its statement claimed that exercise lasted 13 hours over the Japanese and East China seas & in-volved Russian Tu-95, Chinese Xian H-6 stra-tegic bombers. “Aair-craft of both countries acted strictly in accord-ance with provisions of int’l law. No violations of foreign airspace re-ported,” statement said.

(From right) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, US President Joe Biden, & Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, issue a joint statement after convening the Quad Summit in Tokyo on Tuesday. More on P6

3 teams, 1 missionCONGRESS CHIEF SETS SIGHTS ON 2024 LS POLLS

Prashant Kishor’s ex-associate, two G-23 leaders in list

� QUTUB MINAR

Court reserves order on plea to restore templesNew Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday ob-served that the funda-mental question to ask in a plea seeking resto-ration of 27 temples within the Quwwat-Ul-Islam mosque located inside the Qutub Minar complex was ‘what was character of building’.

Additional District Judge Nikhil Chopra reserved his order in a plea which challenged a lower court’s order dis-missing an application filed by Hindu deity Lord Vishnu, Jain deity Tirthankar Rishabh Dev and others seeking restoration of 27 Hindu and Jain temples with respective deities in the Q u w w a t - U l - I s l a m mosque complex at Qu-tub Minar. Court listed the matter for June 9.

District court to decide on maintainability on May 26Lucknow: The Vara-nasi district court, hearing the civil suit on the Gyanvapi mosque-Kashi Viswanath tem-ple complex dispute, will hear on May 26 the Order 7 Rule 11 applica-tion by Muslim side seeking to reject the civil suit of Hindu side seeking claim on Gyan-vapi mosque. Mean-while, judge has sought objections on the advo-cate Commissioner sur-vey report of Gyanvapi mosque from both the Hindu and Muslim side. The court was to deliver the order Tuesday on whether to invite objec-tions on survey or con-duct hearing on Order 7 Rule 11 application of Masjid panel first.

GYANVAPI CASE

AICC General Secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra & KC Venugopal with senior Congress leaders P Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh during the fi rst meeting of Task Force 2024 on Tuesday.

Building collapse kills 11; mayor, others detainedTehran: Rescuers dug through debris on Tuesday of a building collapse in southwestern Iran that killed at least 11 people, fearful that many more could still be trapped beneath the rubble as authori-ties arrested the city’s mayor in a wid-ening probe of the disaster.

The collapse on Monday of an under-construction 10-story tower at the Metropol Building exposed its cement blocks and steel beams while also underscoring an ongoing crisis in Ira-nian construction projects that has seen other disasters in this earthquake-prone nation.

Rescue crews work at the site of a ten-storey building collapse in southwestern Iran.

CRUCIAL READ

J&K COP KILLED, DAUGHTER HURT IN SRINAGARSrinagar: A J&K policeman Saifullah Qadri, died on Tuesday when terrorists opened fi re in Srinagar’s Soura area. His 9-year-old daughter also got injured. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said, ‘I assure that those behind this despicable attack will not go unpunished. I salute martyr Saifullah Qadri, pray for speedy recovery of his daughter.’

PROTEST OVER RENAMING DIST AFTER AMBEDKAR

Patiala: Fierce clashes and arson broke out in Andhra Pradesh’s Amalapuram city on Tuesday as protesters rallied against the government’s move to rename the newly created Konaseema district after Dr B R Ambedkar. The protesters set fi re to the house of ruling YSRCP MLA from Mummidivaram, P Satish, police said. More on P6

MORE ED RAIDS IN IAS POOJA SINGHAL CASE

New Delhi: Days after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Jharkhand IAS offi cer Pooja Singhal for alleged misappropriation of funds, the sleuths on Tuesday conducted fresh searches at 6 locations in Jharkhand & 1 in Bihar. The ED conducted these raids in connection with mining scam case related to suspended IAS offi cer.

The strategic relationship between

India and the US is truly a “partnership of trust” and the friendship will continue to be a “force for good” for global peace and stability.—Narendra Modi,Prime Minister

Committed to making America’s partnership with India among the closest on earth, saying there is so much that the two countries can and will do together.

—Joe Biden,USA President

Japan, the United States, India and Australia plan to invest at least $50 billion into infrastructure projects in the Asia-Pacifi c region—Fumio Kishida, Japanese PM

Our relationship with India is a very important one and it was a great honour to meet with Prime Minister Modi.—Anthony Albanese, Australian PM

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Jaipur: Tourism Cor-poration Chairman Dharmendra Rathore was given a grand wel-come at Tourism Bha-wan on Tuesday. There was tremendous enthu-

siasm among the em-ployees due to the im-plementation of the Seventh Pay Commis-sion, implementation of the RGHS scheme and other employee-centric decisions in-cluding giving compas-

sionate appointments.The employees gave a

rousing welcome to

Rathore and assured him that they would leave no stone unturned

for the upliftment of the tourism corporation.

Delighted Rathore

told employees that the bad days are gone, and good days have come. He said that in the com-ing days, the officers & employees are making efforts to restore old glory of RTDC. Mean-while, staff said Rathore has come to us as Sankat Mochan Ha-numan. RTDC ED Ashok Yogi, Rathore’s OSD Manish Faujdar was also welcomed.

Rathore came as Sankat Mochan Hanuman: RTDC staffWARM WELCOME

REET LEVEL 2 CANDIDATES RAISED SLOGANS IN FAVOUR OF DOTASRA

CHA PERSONNEL CREATE RUCKUS OUTSIDE PCC, RAISED SLOGANYogesh Sharma

Jaipur: During the Congress public hear-ing at the PCC on Tues-day, there was a scuffle between Covid Health Assistant (CHA) em-ployees and the police.CHA employees tried to forcibly enter the PCC headquarters. On the other hand, the REET Level 2 candidates raised slogans in fa-vour of PCC Chief Go-vind Singh Dotasra. Cabinet Minister Lal-chand Kataria and Minister of State Zahi-da Khan were conduct-ing public hearings here.

More than 50 CHA employees broke secu-rity cordon of police and demanded to meet

Dotasra. The CHA women personnel al-leged they were thrashed by police. There was a tussle be-tween the personnel and PCC officials Ram Singh Kaswan, Lalit

Toonwal, Jaswant Gur-jar. The employee re-mained adamant on meeting Dotasra. Later, memorandum of the CHA employees was handed over to Dotasra after which they

calmed down. Besides, REET Level 2 candi-dates demanded an early reply from the government in the court. Dotasra immedi-ately spoke to AAG and the candidates raised

slogans in favour of Congress. During the public hearing, Kataria and Khan heard more than 200 problems. However, the uproar did affect the public hearing.

‘Jaldhara’ to be revived on I-DayAbhishek Srivastava

Jaipur: Much to delight of Pink City residents, JDA has decided to re-vive “Jaldhara” situated near OTS on JLN Marg of city from Independ-ence Day. JDA has taken up its renovation work at an estimated cost of Rs 1.3 crore.

Jaldhara, one of the main tourist attractions of the city which used to have an average daily footfall of 500 people, was damaged extensive-ly during the heavy downpour on 14 August 2020 due to soil erosion and filling of the ponds with soil there. JDA had constructed the artifi-cial stream in 2010.

Meanwhile, electri-cal, civil and gardening works have already started at the site.

Soil extraction from the ponds, installation of new motor for the

fountain, fencing and railing, installation of art works and planting of attractive trees are some of work going on to give it a fresh look.

CHA employees trying to forcibly enter PCC headquarters on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA

MORE THAN 200 HEARING

GAURAV YATRA DEPARTS TODAY

REET Level 2 can-didates demanded an early reply from govt in the court. Dotasra immedi-ately spoke to AAG and candidates raised slogans in favour of Con-gress. During the public hearing, Kataria and Khan heard more than 200 problems.

Jaipur: Congress’ Gaurav Yatra to de-part from Rajasthan today. This yatra will enter Haryana bor-der in the afternoon. Programme at Shahjahanpur bor-der at 11 am today. On this occasion PCC Chief Govind Singh Dotasra, local people’s representa-tives will be present. Former CM Bhupin-der Singh Hooda will also be present at Haryana border to welcome the yatra.

DoP notice to 15 RAS for not joiningDr Rituraj Sharma

Jaipur: Dept of Personnel has is-sued notices to 15 RAS for not join-ing for a month even after their transfers. They have been directed to join and inform. After their trans-fers on April 25, they haven’t joined. Officers in-clude, Anil Kumar Choudhary, Anu-pama Taylor Dev-endra Jain, Vivek Inderjit Singh, Ka-mal Kumar Mee-na, Kirti Rathore, Laxmi Narayan Bunkar, Meenu Verma, Ramku-mar Tada, Santosh Kumar Goel, Sari-ta Malhotra, Satyanarayana, Sheoram & Sunita Yadav.

UNIQUE EFFORT

MLAs are united under leadership of high command, says DotasraFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Saying party is united & there is no fac-tionalism, PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasra on Tuesday exuded confidence that Con-gress will win 3 out of four seats of RS in state next month.

Elections to four seats of RS will be held on June 10 as BJP’s Omprakash Mathur, K J Alphons, Ramkumar Verma & Harshardhan Singh Dungarpur are going to complete their term on July 4.

“There is no faction-alism in Cong party. All MLAs are united under

leadership of Congress high command and we will win 3 seats in RS elections,” he told re-porters.When asked about resentment of Dungarpur MLA Ganesh Ghoghra, who recently sent his resig-

nation to CM Gehlot after a case was regis-tered against him, Do-tasra said MLA met him yesterday & ex-pressed his grievance.Targeting the BJP, Do-tasra said BJP works to topple elected govt.

At condolence meet, Gurjar put up a show of strength & unityFirst India Bureau

Dausa: Gurjar leader Vijay Singh Bainsla and others paid hom-age to 22 people who were killed in police firing during Gurjar agitation. Meeting was held at Sikandra Chau-raha which was attend-ed by community lead-ers & people. They paid floral tributes to the departed souls.

Vijay Bainsla, Chair-man of Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti, said the Gurjar people who were martyred in the movement will always be remembered.

He said when the sons and daughters of

the hard-working peo-ple of community will sit on those chairs, from where policies of country are imple-mented, only then will martyrs of movement get a true tribute.

Kirori Singh Bain-

sla.Bandikui MLA GR Khatana, Gurjar Ma-hasabha state presi-dent Manphool Singh Tungad, district presi-dent Ramchandra Khuntla, Advocate Jal Singh Kasana & others.

Vijay Bainsla and other Gurjar leaders paid fl oral tributes.

First India Bureau

Jodhpur: After info (mock drill) of a bomb at Jodhpur’s suburban railway station Bhagat Ki Kothi on Tuesday, there was a stir in security agencies & depart-ments re-lated to disaster manage-ment. Most of teams reached spot amid hus-tle and bustle.While some were quick to re-port, others weren’t. Despite bomb being planted, there was no restriction.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Raj Pradesh Congress Committee will hold a 2 day work-shop here on June 1 and 2 to hold discus-sions on the implemen-tation of decisions taken in party’s Nav Sankalp Shivir held re-cently in Udaipur. PCC chief Govind Singh Do-tasra said former PCC chiefs, former leaders of opposition, AICC of-fice bearers, former un-ion mins, PCC office bearers, mins, MLAs, district presidents, leaders of frontal or-ganisations will par-ticipate in workshop.

CM Ashok Gehlot and AICC general sec-retary in-charge for Raj Ajay Maken will also be there. The main agenda of the workshop will be to implement decisions taken in Nav Sankalp shivir held in Udaipur. Nearly 650 leaders will participate in work-shop.

A program of ‘pady-atra’ to be taken out in all the districts on Au-gust 9. There will be a workshop in dists on June 11 and 14 to discuss local issues. Appoint-ments for various posts are to be held in the or-ganisation and a road-map will be prepared in the workshop to fill 50 percent of posts in the organisation with the youths below 50 years of age as per the Udaipur declaration.

Time to fullfil dream of Min Jitmal Khat, says Satish Poonia

Subhash

Banswara: On the oc-casion of first death an-niversary of former minister Jitmal Khat, puja and other reli-gious events were held in Thali Talai village of Garhi assembly con-stituency.

In this program, BJP’s state president Satish Poonia partici-pated on Tuesda.

Earlier, on the ar-rival of BJP state presi-dent Satish Poonia in Banswara district, BJP office-bearers wel-comed him. In the trib-ute meeting organised in Thali Talai village, Poonia met the family members and paid flo-ral tributes on the pic-ture of former minis-ter Jitmal Khat.

During this, BJP Dis-trict President Govind

Singh Rao, Garhi MLA Kailash Meena, Ghatol MLA Harendra Nina-ma and many other of-ficials were present.

They also paid floral tributes. On this occa-sion, Poonia said for-mer minister Jitmal Khat had many dreams for development of the poor, the responsibility to fulfill them is now on our shoulders.

Satish Poonia interacting with tribal women of Hirata village, Dungarpur district on Tuesday.

Satish Poonia@DrSatishPoonia

On fi rst anniversary of late Jitmal Khat, I reached Thalitalai village of Banswara Gadhi & paid hom-age and interacted

with brothers & sisters of tribal

community present.

LAND DISPUTE: 8 ATTACKED & KILLED A YOUTH IN UDAIPURUdaipur: A youth of Kotda in Udaipur district was busy watering his under-constructed home built under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, when he was attacked and killed by eight persons simul-taneously. Accused fi rst slammed him and then attacked, later fl ed from the spot. The police have kept the body in the mor-tuary. The case pertains to Mouchchha village in Kotda. This case seems to be of land dispute. Police said Naresh died on the spot due to more injuries.

Gang war: A miscreant killed, head crushed & 2 bullets foundFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Case of gang war has come to fore again here. A miscre-ant was kidnapped & killed in Jhotwara area late Monday night. 2 bullets were also found in body of deceased.

His head was also crushed. The miscre-ants dumped body of youth in a bloody con-dition in empty plot on 100 feet road in Boyta-wala village in Kard-hani police station.

Local people who went for a walk on Tuesday morning in-formed police after see-ing dead body.

According to Jhot-wara ACP Pramod Swamy, deceased iden-tified as 22-year-old Sunny Soni. Cases are registered against him in Jhotwara West dis-trict &other police sta-tions in Jaipur. There was enmity of deceased with miscreants of an-other gang. kidnapping & later killing hap-pened due to the same.

Govind Singh Dotasra meeting supporters & visitors on Tuesday.

Cong Committee 2-day meet to apply Sankalp Shivir decisions

Tremendous enthusiasm among employees due to implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission

TROUBLESHOOTER

Mock drill at Jodhpur station

First India Bureau

Jaipur: To ease traffic flow, New Sanganer Road will be widened by 200 feet. JDA Secre-tary Ujjwal Rathore took a meeting and told officials the road will be widened from Kisan Dharam Kanta to RII-CO flyover. JDA has marked 615 encroach-ments in road bounda-ry. Out of these, an-swers have been pre-sented in 316 cases. Le-gal tests have been done at zone level and soon work will be done to widen road in these cases.

New Sanganer road to be widen by 200 feet soon

Dharmendra Rathore being welcomed by RTDC offi cials.

Nirmal Tiwari

Jaipur: Tourism and hospitality sector will now have the status of industry. After the ef-forts of the tourism min-ister Vishvendra Singh, the Raj govt on Tuesday issued orders to accord the status of industry to the tourism and hospi-tality sector. The benefi-ciaries will now have to apply for entitlement within 30 days.

The minister in-formed that 21 types of tourism units have been taken under the purview of industry. These in-clude hotels and motels, heritage hotels, restau-

rants, cafeterias, resorts, amusement parks and animal safari parks.Tourism units under the jurisdiction of RTDC and Rajasthan State Ho-

tel Corporation, all state museums operated un-der the central and state govt are also included.

Singh said that to ob-tain the entitlement cer-

tificate for benefits, tour-ism units will have to apply online on the SSO portal. These applica-tions will be disposed of in 30 days.

Vikas Sharma

Jaipur: Health minis-ter Parsadi Lal Meena on Tuesday said that female foeticide is a so-cial evil as well as a hei-nous crime that should be stopped with the sup-port of all.

Addressing a meet-ing of the State Super-vision Board-PCPND here, the minister said that the department is doing a good job to stop the killing of daughters in the womb.

He said that in the last one year, 2200 in-spections of sonogra-

phy centers were con-ducted and in compari-son to this, inspections of about 2500 sonogra-phy centers were con-ducted in the last 4 months.

“This proves that the officers and staff of the medical department are working with full alert-ness,” he said.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: A fire that broke out while cutting the gas cylinder of a scrapped car on Mon-day late evening has taken a life of one. Po-lice said that a fire broke out after a scrap cylin-der in scrap shop of Farid Bhai’s blasted off in Hasnapura.

Six people who were injured in the accident were admitted to SMS Hospital. Two of the in-jured were admitted in critical condition in which Busra (6) daugh-ter Javed died on Tues-day morning during treatment. Additional police force has been de-ployed to maintain peace and order at the spot. Police handed over the body to the relatives after the post-mortem.

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Jaipur: Several flights were diverted from Jaipur International Airport on Monday night owing to bad weather and low visibil-ity. Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Sin-gh Shekhawat reached Jaipur airport at around 9:45 pm to board a flight for Delhi. How-ever, the same flight was diverted to Ahmedabad due to bad

weather. Later, Union Minister Gajendra Sin-gh returned from the airport and took a flight at 6:40 am on Tuesday.

Similarly, Former Deputy Chief Minister

Sachin Pilot too got stuck in a flight while he was on his way to Jaipur from Delhi.

Sources informed that Former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin

Pilot boarded a flight at 9 pm from Delhi to reach Jaipur. However, the plane was not al-lowed to land at Jaipur airport due to bad weather.

Later, the aircraft was diverted to Ahmedabad after hovering in the air for over an hour. The flight reached Jaipur at 2:45 am. Flights from Varanasi and Surat were also diverted to Ahmedabad due to bad weather.

First India Bureau

Bundi: An ASI posted at Police Line Bundi consumed insecticide in his quarters on Monday. He was re-ferred to Kota in criti-cal condition where ASI Rajesh Verma died during treatment.

The relatives allege that the wife of a dis-tant relative first im-plicated him in love, took Rs 2 lakh and a mobile and repeatedly blackmailed him by fil-ing a rape case, trou-bled by the same, Rajesh consumed in-secticide.

Police have handed over the body to family. The deceased ASI Rajesh Verma (42) was originally from Tonk district. Presently liv-ing with family in the Police Quarter of Hous-ing Board in Bundi. The family consists of a wife, a boy and a girl.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: DCP South Mridul Kachhawa and Mansarovar SHO Dilip Soni did an amaz-ing job. The ab-sconding accused for the last 11 years was arrested in just 3 days. For the last 11 years, the police could not arrest the accused Yakub Meo. A notice was sent by the Jaipur Bomb Blast Spe-cial Court to DCP South Mridul Kachhawa and SHO Mansarovar Dilip Soni to nab the accused

Yakub Meo and present-ed him in court. As soon as the task was as-signed, Dilip Soni ar-rested the accused in

just 3 days and on Tuesday, the ac-cused Yakub Meo was presented in the court. Seeing the prompt action of the police, the

court appreciated DCP Mridul Kachhawa and SHO Dilip Soni. The court wrote that court appreciates the devo-tion to duty and prompt-ness of both the offic-ers.

Pilot, Shekhawat stuck at JPR AirportAMID FLIGHT DIVERSIONS

INDUSTRY STATUS ACCORDED TO TOURISM & HOSPITALITY SECTOREfforts of Tourism Min V Singh pays off, 21 tourism units included

These units can apply online on SSO portal to get the certificate

RAJ TRAVEL MART TO BOOST LOCAL TOURISM: SINGH

7 SUB-DIST HOSP PROMOTED TO DIST HOSP

DEPRESSED CONSTABLE ENDS LIFE IN JAIPUR

GOOD ENVIRONMENT FOR INDUSTRIES AHEAD: CS

PALI ATM LOOT: ROBBERS DECAMPED WITH RS 11 LAKH

MOTHER JUMPED IN WELL WITH SON, SON DIED IN BARMER

Tourism Minister Vishvendra Singh

said that the Raj Do-mestic Travel Mart will boost domestic tourism in the state in a planned and proactive man-ner. He said this while interacting with the delegation of Federa-tion of Hospitality and Tourism in Rajasthan (FHTR) at his residence on Tuesday. The delega-tion briefed him about the preparations for the upcoming mart to be held in Jaipur in July.

In a meeting held at Swasthya Bhawan, Jaipur on Tuesday, Minister Parsadi Lal upgraded the 7 Sub-district Hospitals

to District Hospital. sub-district hospitals at Lalsot in Dausa district, Behror of Alwar, Nathdwara of Rajsamand, Didwana of Nagaur, Ratangarh of Churu, Nawalgarh of Jhunjhunu and Nimbaheda of Chittorgarh have been upgraded to District Hospitals. 149 additional posts have also been sanctioned and approval has also been issued in this regard.

Jaipur: A constable posted in Rajasthan Police com-mitted suicide in Jaipur on Monday morning. He was found hanging inside the house. Bhankrota police station gathered evidence by calling the FSL team on the spot. The police handed over the body to the relatives after conducting post-mortem. SI Inspector Saroj Kuntal told that con-stable Kishan Lal Chaudhary, resident of Dhandholi, Dudu has committed suicide. He was posted as a constable in the Legal Cell of the Police Headquarters and he was depressed from long time.

To give a better and more conducive environment to

industries, the Gehlot govt has decided to remove unneces-sary criminal provisions in various depts. The important step is being taken ahead of the Investment Rajasthan Summit. CS Usha took a meet-ing in this regard.

Pali: Robbers decamped with Rs 11 lakh from an SBI Bank ATM situated at Bhadarlau inter-section of Somesar under Rani police station area of Pali on Monday night. They even set the kiosk on fire before fleeing. Passers-by saw the fire the next morning and informed the police. According to police, currency notes worth Rs 11 lakh were deposited in the ATM on Monday evening. The police are now scrutinizing the CCTV footages to identify and nab the culprits.

Barmer: A married woman jumped into a water well with her 2-year-old child in Devarampura village of Bakhasar police station area in Barmer district. While the 2-year-old child Devendra died by drowning in the water, the married woman Garon devi suffered serious injuries. Neighbours reached the spot after hearing the sound of jumping into the water. The child Devendra was found dead whereas the injured Garon Devi was referred to the CHC of Satta.

‘Female foeticide is social evil, needs to be stopped’

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Chief secre-tary Usha Sharma on Tuesday reviewed the progress of PM Gat-ishakti Yojana in the state and discussed pro-ject proposals under the special assistance scheme for capital ex-penditure for the year 2022-23 with officials.

The chief secretary asked the officers that the proposals sent to the central govt should be as per the Gati Shakti Master Plan so that they get priority.

In the meeting, ACS Industries Veenu Gup-ta informed about the progress of the scheme

in the state through a presentation. She said that under the scheme, a state level coordina-tion committee has been constituted in March this year, nodal officers have been ap-pointed in 14 depts and logistics cell has also been constituted.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Taking action against rigging in ex-aminations in Ra-jasthan, the Education Department on Tues-day cancelled the recog-nition of Diwakar Pub-lic School, Jhotwara in connection to the con-stable recruitment exam paper leak case, after which the exam was cancelled. Besides, 14 accused have been arrested in the case.

Police have seized the bank accounts of the accused arrested in the case and a provision of

10 years of imprison-ment has been made against them. May 14 was the second day of the constable recruit-ment examination for 4,588 posts. The paper went viral on social me-dia and when students protested the matter

was probed.The Rajasthan gov-

ernment had recently implemented a law against copying during the Assembly session. Action in the constable recruitment examina-tion was taken under the new law.

Cylinder blast in illegal car scrap shop takes life of one in Hasanpura

Diwakar School in Jhotwara derecognised over paper leak

CONSTABLE EXAM PAPER LEAK Proposals should be as per master plan to get priority, says CS Usha

CS Usha Sharma along with officials during the meeting on Tuesday. Principal Secy finance Akhil Arora also attended the meeting.

The deal was signed between council chairman Naresh Kanojia & municipal commissioner Ranjitsinh Godara and Shree Cement’s Neeraj Sharma, Bharat Sharma and Mukesh Mangal on Tuesday.

ASI commits suicide after being accused of rape; drank poison

Shree Cement to buy 5.5 MLD of treated waterMukesh Sharma

Beawar: The Munici-pal Council here has taken an important step in the direction of in-creasing its revenue. The council decided to sell treated water from its two sewerage water treatment plants (STPs) set up in the city. Ac-cordingly, it signed an

MoU with Shree Ce-ment Company, on Tuesday. According to the MoU, Shree Cement will purchase water treated at the sewage treatment plants of the Municipal Council at the rate of Rs 13 per 1,000 litre while the company will bear the expenditure of laying the necessary pipeline.

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not only in the country but also among the Indians living abroad. Salute to

him on the birth anniversary of such an immortal martyr who laid down his life for the freedom of the motherland

at a young age.

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EVEN AS RUSSIA BATTLES UKRAINE, JOE BIDEN WARNS CHINA OVER TAIWAN

s the 77-year-old American President Joe Biden, described by Barack Obama as a “lion of American

history” bent on changing his country’s nuanced stand on Chi-na vis-à-vis Taiwan? With the next Presidential elections due in 2024, Biden is adopting a more aggressive posture against Chi-na than witnessed earlier. In Ja-pan for the Quad meet, Biden warned China of “militarily” helping Taiwan. He likened Tai-wan with Ukraine to raise the hackles of Beijing which claims Taiwan to be part of its territory.

This was not the first time that Biden vowed to defend Taiwan. The change in his tone has drawn the attention of analysts, al-though the White House denies any departure from Washington’s earlier policy on China. Biden also stated that the US policy to-wards China “has not changed”.

In the long term the US ap-proach will hinge on the out-come of the Russia-Ukraine war. If sanctions have the desired effect on Russia, China may probably stop “flirting with dan-ger” even in the Indo-Pacific.

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upreme Court’s la-ment on judges be-ing subjected to assault should be viewed in conjunc-

tion with Chief Justice of In-dia NV Ramana and Justice Surya Kant’s earlier observa-tion that besides CCTV “there needs to be something effec-tive on ground” to prevent “terrorism and attack on judg-es”. Justice had also observed that in the light of increasing cases on intimidation and at-tacks on members of judiciary a special protection force for judges was required and em-phasised the state’s obligation to protect them. In fact recent-ly the CJI regretted that judges were not a priority for investi-gative authorities who ignore their complaints.

The latest lamentation has come from a Bench headed Justice DY Chandrachud and

Justice Bela Trivedi pointedly mentioned Chennai and Uttar Pradesh where the practice of casting aspersions on judges and making frivolous allega-tions against them was ram-pant. Echoing Justice Rama-na’s observation, the Bench remarked, “Judges are as-saulted. There is no protection of judges across our district judiciary, sometimes not even a lathi-wielding policeman.”

The Bench stated that it has now become fashionable to cast aspersions on judges. “The stronger the judge, the worse

the allegations. It is happening in Bombay, rampant in UP and Madras,” said the judges.

The practice of threatening judges is truly rampant in dis-trict courts but higher court judges also face unsubstanti-ated allegations. While there is “a class of lawyers who are completely incorrigible”, sometimes litigants too resort to threats or question a judge’s integrity. The insecurities of judges should be promptly ad-dressed before an errant law-yer assaults them or a political activist blackens a judge’s face.

THE FASHION OF ATTACKING JUDGES

Echoing Justice Ramana’s observation, Bench remarked, “Judges are assaulted. There is no protection of judges

across our district judiciary, sometimes not even a lathi-wielding policeman.” Bench stated that it has now

become fashionable to cast aspersions on judges. “The stronger the judge, the worse the allegations. It is happening in Bombay,

rampant in UP and Madras,” said the judges

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nother day, another defection. Since May 2021 till date… seven MLAs and two MPs from BJP have defected to TMC bringing the total num-ber of defections to a whop-ping 9 in less than 12 months!

The recent case in hand is that of heavyweight neta Ar-jun Singh who was denied a TMC ticket in 2019 and had switched over to BJP in the same year and in a close con-test, defeated the TMC candi-date from Barrackpore.

But ever since his victory, there were a number of clashes in the region and Ar-jun Singh, of late, had been expressing his unhappiness over not being allowed to work freely in the BJP and was not quite unhappy with the response of Union minis-ter Piyush Goyal when he met him over the imbroglio in the jute industry.

Singh had even expressed his willingness to join an agi-tation to save the jute industry even if a movement was spear-headed and supported by the TMC! Singh had given several hints of his unhappiness dur-ing his stint in the BJP.

Addressing a press confer-ence, Singh also alleged that

the saffron party’s graph was on the decline as it was trying to ‘control Bengal’ through Fa-cebook, instead of getting on the ground. Hours after Singh returned to TMC, the BJP, on Sunday, said that “such people keep coming and going”.

Dilip Ghosh said resigna-tion is a “personal choice” and a single candidate leav-ing “does not have any effect on the party.” What surprised many was when he went on to say, “It is normal in Bengal politics to make bombs.” Lashing out at Singh, Ghosh said, “those who don’t prac-tise politics based on princi-ples” will find it difficult to stay in the BJP.

Reporters were quick to remind him of his allegation in the past that Arjun Singh makes bombs and questioned why he had taken him into the BJP in the first place, if that was true.

“We have inducted a lot of people. In politics, making bombs is a normal thing in Bengal,” Ghosh said.

“Whoever comes from the Trinamool will be like this only. The law is there to deal with it. The place where he is from, either he creates trou-ble or others create trouble to target him. When he came to the BJP, the torture against him increased. This we have seen. I have taken up his complaints in Parliament as well. He could not adjust, that is his problem,” the BJP leader added.

The BJP’s fortunes wit-nessed a massive slide in a few months. After Sukanta Majumdar took over as presi-dent of the West Bengal BJP unit from Dilip Ghosh, he wanted a massive overhaul of the party’s organizational structure. However, this move reportedly ended up angering many MPs and par-ty leaders, who quit the par-ty’s WhatsApp groups and expressed their unhappiness

after they were left out of the state committee. Majumdar took a stern step and dis-solved all departments and cells of the state unit and also expelled some dissenters. But the rebels grew stronger and the voice of protest grew shriller by the day.

Bongaon’s MP Shantanu Thakur, who belongs to the influential Matua communi-ty was among the unhappy lot. It is riding on his political clout that the BJP had gained a foothold in South Bengal. Meanwhile, the Matuas were also upset with the Saffron party for the delay in CAA implementation.

Soon after the TMC’s vic-tory in the assembly elec-tions last year, when there were reports of massive post-poll violence, grassroots cad-res felt that the state top brass needed to do more.

Kailash Vijayvargiya, in-charge of the BJP in Bengal, hasn’t returned to the state since May 2021’s disastrous poll outcome which may have obviously irked grassroots workers.

It is high time for the cen-tral leadership… Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the party’s national president JP Nadda should be doing the needful to boost the morale of the workers who are watch-ing the continuous defections.

The Saffron party at the Centre should realise that with the current state leader-ship not much can be expect-ed. BJP in Bengal is badly in need of an unanimously ac-ceptable face who can stall tall amid the ruins and pick up the party from the ruins like a phoenix.

The party’s occasional de-pendence on central leaders sends out a message to the voters that the party is in dearth of local leaders who would stand by the workers in the hour of crisis.

The central leadership ASAP needs to take a more aggressive step in instilling people’s faith… especially keeping in mind that the Lok Sabha is in 2024 and West Bengal has 42 seats.

In a high during the 2019 Lok Sabha, the BJP managed to bag 18. However, going by the current scenario, the BJP must go back to the drawing board considering the fact that in the entire east and north-east, West Bengal has the high-est number of LS seats and the party can’t take it lightly.

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY

THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

Central leadership must take note of defections in Bengal BJP

WICKET AFTER WICKET

AAddressing a press

conference, Singh also alleged that the saffron

party’s graph was on the decline as it was trying to

‘control Bengal’ through Facebook,

instead of getting on the ground. Hours

after Singh returned to TMC, the BJP, on

Sunday, said that “such people keep coming

and going”The central leadership ASAP

needs to take a more aggressive step in instilling

people’s faith… especially keeping in mind that the Lok

Sabha is in 2024 and West Bengal has 42 seats. In a high

during the 2019 Lok Sabha, the BJP managed to bag 18.

However, going by the current scenario, the BJP must go

back to the drawing board considering the fact that in

the entire east and northeast, West Bengal has the highest number of LS seats and the

party can’t take it lightly

ROBIN ROYThe writer is Senior Associate Editor,

Free Press Journal, Mumbai and former Managing Editor, First India

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Kolkata (Agencies): Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday summoned West Bengal Chief Secretary HK Dwivedi to seek clarifi-cation on the appoint-ment of Kaustav Roy, a local businessman with a debated background, as chairman of the state government’s Pro-gramme Monitoring Committee.

The committee is meant for planning and monitoring of welfare and development

schemes of the state government.

On April 20, a state government notifica-

tion stated that the West Bengal government has formed this committee with Roy as its chair-

man. The appointment was made ignoring the facts that Roy, a Kolkata-based businessman, was involved in multiple sec-tors like computer, soft-ware and media. In March 2018, he, as the director of RP Infosys-tems, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with a Rs 515 crore bank fraud scam involving a consortium of banks, including Punjab National Bank and Canara Bank.

Dhankhar summons CS, seeks clarification TAINTED BIZMAN’S APPOINTMENT TO GOVT PANEL

A In September last year, a

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BJP names candidates for K’taka MLC polls, no ticket to BSY’s sonAfter party denies ticket, BY Vijayendra asks supporters to stay calmBengaluru (Agen-cies): The BJP high command on Tuesday picked three new faces and a former deputy chief minister as its candidates for the June 3 polls for seven seats to the Karnataka legisla-tive council, choosing to ignore the recommen-dation to nominate for-mer Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurap-pa’s son BY Vijayendra.

After delaying the announcement of its candidates until Tues-day morning, the last day for filing nomina-tions, the BJP picked former deputy chief minister Laxman Sa-vadi, a Lingayat, Chala-vadi Narayanswamy, a Scheduled Caste mem-ber, Hemalatha Nayak, a Scheduled Tribe

member, and S Kes-havaprasad, a member of an OBC community.

As anticipated, the BJP ignored Vijayen-dra, the son of Lingay-at strongman Yedi-

yurappa. Vijayendra’s name was among the 15 proposed by a core com-mittee of the state BJP unit earlier this month. The BJP had indicated last week that Vijayen-

dra’s candidature was in conflict with the BJP’s stand against dy-nastic politics and he would not be consid-ered for the MLC polls. The BJP is expected to

consider Vijayendra for a legislative assem-bly ticket next year when the state polls are held and his father is expected to retire from active politics.

Karnataka BJP chief Nalin Kumar Kateel (centre) with BJP candidates for MLC polls in Bengaluru.

SON’S APPEAL

WBSSC RECRUITMENT SCAM

CBI seeks I-T help for details on assets of 2 TMC Ministers

KCR to avoid meeting PM again; Modi in Hyderabad on Thursday

Kolkata (Agencies):Determined to make a watertight case in the probe in the West Ben-gal School Service Com-mission (WBSSC) re-cruitment scam, the Central Bureau of In-vestigation (CBI) has approached the Income Tax department to seek details of the assets and properties held by two ministers, alleged to be involved in the case.

These two ministers are — a former state edu-cation minister and cur-rent state commerce & industries minister, Tri-namool Congress secre-tary general Partha Chatterjee, and West Bengal Minister of state for education Paresh Chandra Adhikari. Both Chatterjee and Adhikari have been grilled by the CBI in the recruitment irregularities scam.

Highly placed sources

said once the details from the Income Tax de-partment are available, the CBI will tally the same with the details of the income tax return files of the two minis-ters as well as the docu-

ments about their asset details that they have submitted to the CBI. The CBI has also sought details of the assets and property details of the family members of the two ministers.

Hyderabad (Agencies): For the second time in less than four months, Telangana Chief Minis-ter K Chandrasekhar Rao will avoid greeting Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi when he ar-rives in Hyderabad on Thursday to attend 20th annual celebrations at the Indian School of Business (ISB).

Eyeing a key role in national politics, Rao is scheduled to be in Ben-galuru on that day to meet former Prime Min-ister and Janata Dal (S) leader H.D. Deve Gowda.

KCR, who returned to Hyderabad on Monday

from Delhi after a four-day visit to the national capital and Chandi-garh, is likely to leave for Bengaluru on Wednesday evening.

As per the schedule

already announced, KCR will reach Bengaluru on May 26. He will call on former Prime Minister Deve Gowda and former Karnataka Chief Minis-ter HD Kumaraswamy.

Telangana CM KCR Prime Minister Narendra Modi

DRONES PROHIBITED AROUND ISB HYDERABADHyderabad: The Telangana police Tuesday banned fl ying remote-controlled drones within a 5 km radius of the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, and also the Gachibowli stadium, from noon on May 25 to 6 pm on May 26, in the wake of Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi’s visit to the business school.

State Education Minister Paresh Chandra Adhikari

Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee

BENGAL EDU MIN’S DAUGHTER SACKED

Gandhinagar (Agen-cies): Patidar leader Hardik Patel, who re-cently quit the Con-gress, on Tuesday hit out at the party leader-ship for their “hatred towards Hindus and Lord Ram”.

Patel took to Twitter to slam a former Guja-rat Congress president who allegedly said dogs had urinated on bricks being used for building the Ram temple in Ayo-dhya. Patel’s attack seemed to be targetted at Bharatsinh Solanki, a former Union min-ister, who reported-ly said at a gather-ing that people had been de-

ceived in the name of Ram and that dogs were urinating on stones col-lected for the contem-ple in Ayodhya.

Patel, who is yet to make his next move of-ficial amid claims of his joining the BJP, wrote in Hindi, “I had said this earlier too that the Congress party works to hurt the senti-ments of the people, always trying to dam-

age the faith of the Hin-du reli-

gion.”

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. —FILE PHOTO

All units of AIMIM in Surat dissolved after Owaisi’s public meet in StateAhmedabad (Agen-cies): In a sudden move, Gujarat president of All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has dissolved all the units of the party in Surat, sourc-es said on Tuesday.

The development came soon after party leader Asaduddin Owai-si addressed a public meeting in the Limbayat area of Surat city in South Gujarat.

Within 24 hours of his visit, the state unit presi-dent dissolved Surat city and district committees,

women committees and youth wing.

According to Wasim Qureshi, Surat city com-mittee president of AIMIM, no reason has been given in the letter

by the state unit presi-dent for dissolving com-mittees. He further said he is taking legal advice on the issue following which, he will come out with his version.

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi. —FILE PHOTO

Guj: Ex-Cong MLA’s son joins BJP along with supporters

Gandhinagar (Agen-cies): Keval, son of former Congress MLA Anil Joshiyara, joined BJP along with around 1,300 supporters in Bhilo-da of Aravalli dis-trict Tuesday in the presence of Gujarat party president C R Paatil.

Joshiyara was a veteran Congress leader who was elected as MLA five times from the trib-al belt in North Gu-jarat. He passed away in March this year at a Chennai hospital while bat-tling with post-Cov-id complications.

Also present on the occasion were BJP general secre-tary Rajni Patel, health minister Ru-shikesh Patel, tribal development minis-

ter Naresh Patel, higher education minister Kuber Din-dor, MP Deepsinh Rathod and former MLA from the Khed-brahma seat Ashwin Kotwal. Kotwal was a Congress MLA and has recently joined BJP after resigning from the Gujarat As-sembly.

Speaking on the oc-casion, Keval said that he joined BJP after being inspired by the leadership of Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi and party chief Paatil. Keval added that he would try to fill the vacuum created by the demise of his father.

He also appealed to the people of Bhil-oda to shower their blessings on him the way they did on his late father.

Kothiyal, AAP’s CM candidate for Uttarakhand, joins BJP, cites ‘feelings of soldiers’ in letter to KejriwalDehradun (PTI): The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) chief ministeri-al candidate for the re-cently concluded As-sembly election in Utta-rakhand, retired colo-nel Ajay Kothiyal joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of CM Pushkar Singh Dhami in Dehradun.

Kothiyal had re-signed from the Arvind Kejriwal-led party last week. The former army officer had announced

his decision to quit the party on Twitter and even posted his resigna-

tion letter on the micro-blogging site.

“I have been a mem-

ber of the Aam Aadmi Party from April 19, 2021, to May 18, 2022. Keeping the feelings of ex-soldiers, ex para-military personnel, the elders, women, youths and the intel-lectuals, I am sending you my resignation on May 18,” Kothiyal wrote to Kejriwal.

In March this year, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) re-turned to power in Ut-tarakhand as it bagged 47 seats.

Hardik says Congress hurts Hindus’ sentiments

Gujarat BJP chief CR Paatil welcomes former Congress MLA Anil Joshiyara’s son Keval to the party.

‘In 15-18 yrs age group, over 80% jabbed with first dose’New Delhi (PTI): Over 80 per cent of people aged between 15 and 18 years have received the first dose of Covid vac-cine, Union Health Min-ister Mansukh Man-daviya said on Tuesday.

The total number of Covid vaccine doses ad-ministered in India ex-ceeded 192.52 crore till Tuesday 7 am, accord-ing to a provisional re-port.

The COVID-19 vacci-nation for the age group 12-14 years was started on March 16 and so far

more than 3.30 crore adolescents in this age group have been admin-istered the first dose. India began inoculating those in the age group of 15-18 years from Janu-ary 3. Till now, 5.92 crore beneficiaries in this age group have been given the first dose.

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New Delhi (Agencies): BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay on Tuesday moved a PIL seeking directions for ‘Vande Mataram’, a poem which had played a historic role in the struggle for India’s free-dom, to be “honoured equally” with ‘Jana Gana Mana’ and be giv-en “equal” status.

The petitioner also sought direction to re-spondents, including the Central government and Delhi government to en-sure that ‘Jana Gana

Mana’ and ‘Vande Mata-ram’ are played and sung in all schools and educational institutions on every working day.

The plea stated that ‘Vande Mataram’ is the symbol of our history, sovereignty, unity and pride. If any citizen by any overt or covert act

shows disrespect to it, it would not only be an anti-social activity but it would also spell doom to all our rights and very existence as a citi-zen of a sovereign na-tion. Every citizen must therefore not only re-frain from any such ac-tivities but also do his

best to prevent if any miscreant tries to show any disrespect to ‘Van-de Mataram’.

“We must be proud of our Nation, our Consti-tution, National An-them and National Flag and put national inter-est above our personal interests and only then will we be able to pro-tect our hard-earned freedom and sovereign-ty. It is the duty of the executive to frame a na-tional policy to promote and propagate ‘Vande Mataram’,” it read.

PIL seeks equal status for ‘Vande Mataram’LIKE ‘JANA-GANA-MANA’

‘INDIA STANDS FOR THE DIPLOMACY PATH’

PM REITERATES INDIA’S STAND ON UKRAINE AT QUAD SUMMITTokyo (Agencies): Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi on Tuesday highlighted India’s consistent and princi-pled position on the need for cessation of hostilities, resumption of dialogue and diplo-macy, at the second in-person Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo.

PM Modi, along with leaders of the Quad na-tions took part in the fourth interaction of the leaders, which saw criticism of Russian military action in Ukraine, from Austral-ia, Japan and the Unit-ed States.

India on several bi-lateral and multiracial forums has said that it stands for the diploma-cy path amid the Ukraine conflict that has led to heavy casual-ties on both sides and largescale humanitari-an crisis in Europe.

During the summit, the leaders reiterated their shared commit-ment to a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pa-cific and the impor-tance of upholding the principles of sover-eignty, territorial in-tegrity and peaceful resolution of disputes.

They exchanged per-spectives on develop-ments in the Indo-Pa-cific and the conflict in Europe.According to the Ministry of Exter-nal Affairs (MEA), the leaders reiterated their desire to combat terrorism, denounced the use of terrorist proxies and empha-sized the importance

of denying any logisti-cal, financial, or mili-tary support to terror-ist groups which could be used to launch or plan terror attacks, in-cluding cross-border attacks. Reviewing Quad’s ongoing efforts to combat the COV-ID-19 pandemic, the

leaders welcomed the enhanced manufactur-ing capacity of the Bi-ological-E facility in India and called for the expeditious grant of EUL approval by the WHO so that delivery of vaccines can com-mence.

“The leaders wel-

comed the gift of 525,000 doses of Made in India vaccines by In-dia to Thailand and Cambodia in April 2022 under the Quad Vac-cine Partnership. They will continue to pursue a holistic approach to pandemic management by addressing last-mile

delivery and distribu-tion challenges, aug-menting regional health security through cooperation in genomic surveillance and clinical trials, and bolstering global health security archi-tecture,” the MEA said in a statement.

Bihar: Suspected hooch claims 8 lives in 4 days

Husband gets 10-yr jail in Kerala dowry death

Patna (Agencies): Eight people have died after consuming sus-pected spurious liquor in Bihar’s Gaya and Aurangabad districts in the past four days.

While three people lost their lives and eight others fell ill af-ter having hooch in Gaya on Tuesday, five others in Aurangbad died of it in the past three days.

The family of the de-ceased in Gaya claimed that they had con-sumed liquor during a wedding function on Monday. The deceased are identified as Amar

Paswan (26), Rahul Ku-mar (27) and Arjun Paswan (43). The vic-tims had gone to Path-ra village under Aamas police station in the district to attend a wed-ding function where they consumed coun-try-made liquor.

The police is tight-lipped on this incident but conducted raids at Pathra village.

Kollam (Agencies): The husband of Visma-ya, a medical student who hanged herself at her home in Kerala’s Kollam district last year, was sentenced to 10 years in jail today for dowry death.

The Kollam court also sentenced Kiran Kumar to six years in jail for abetting Vismaya’s sui-cide, and two years for dowry harassment. Ku-mar was also sentenced to six years for taking dowry, and one year for demanding dowry. “The

sentences would run concurrently,” the court said. The court also im-posed a fine of Rs 12.55 lakh, out of which Rs 2 lakh will be paid to Vis-maya’s parents. Kumar was convicted by the court yesterday for dow-ry death, abetment of suicide, and dowry re-lated harassment.

K’taka accident: 8 killed, 25 hurt, PM condoles loss of livesHubballi (Agencies): Eight people were killed and 25 others in-jured following a head-on collision between a truck and a bus in Kar-nataka’s Hubballi-Dharwad district on Tuesday.

Expressing pain over the loss of lives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the next of kin of those deceased and Rs 50,000 for the in-jured while Chief Min-ister Basavaraj Bom-mai has announced Rs 5 lakh each to the fam-ily of deceased.

OVER RENAMING ANDHRA DIST

Min’s house set ablaze, Section 144 imposedAmravati (Agencies): Section 144 was on Tuesday imposed in Andhra Pradesh’s Amalapuram town af-ter arson broke out when police resorted to a lathi charge at people who were protesting near the district collec-tor’s office against the proposed renaming of the newly-created Ko-naseema district as B R Ambedkar Konaseema district. Over 20 police personnel have sus-tained injuries as the mob pelted stones dur-ing the violence.

A police vehicle and an educational institu-tion’s bus were set on fire. Mob also attacked

the residence of state minister P. Viswaroop and vandalized the property. The minis-ter’s family members escaped unhurt as the police had shifted them to a safe place. Apart from this, the house of an MLA Ponnada Sat-ish was also torched by protestors in Konasee-ma district.

State Home Minister Taneti Vanitha has al-leged that some politi-cal parties and anti-so-cial elements apparent-ly instigated the arson.

On April 4, the new Konaseema district was carved out of the erstwhile East Goda-vari.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Quad Leaders Summit. —PHOTO BY ANI

QUAD LEADERS AGREE TO HOLD NEXT YEAR’S IN-PERSON SUMMIT IN AUS MULTI-COUNTRY MARITIME

TRACKING NETWORK LAUNCHED

PM MODI GIFTS INDIA’S ART, CULTURE TO HIS COUNTERPARTS

PM DEPARTS FOR HOME AFTER ‘FRUITFUL’ QUAD SUMMIT IN JAPAN

Tokyo: Quad member countries have agreed to hold the next in-person summit in 2023 which will be hosted by Australia, said a Joint Quad Leaders’ statement today.The Quad Summit which was held today

was hosted by Japan in Tokyo. The summit was an opportunity for the Leaders to exchange views about develop-ments in the Indo-Pacif-ic region and contem-porary global issues of mutual interest.

New Delhi: The four-nation group Quad on Tuesday launched a new initiative, in which multiple maritime tracking agencies would be integrated to keep an eye on illegal fishing activities and tactical movements in the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean region. The network will allow tracking of “dark shipping” and other tactical-level activities, such as rendezvous at sea, besides improving the partner na-tions’ ability to respond to humanitarian crises.

New Delhi: From Sanjhi art and box with handcarved Rogan painting to Pattamadai silk mats and Gond art painting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a glimpse of India’s rich herit-

age and culture as he presented gifts to his counterparts and dig-nitaries from the four Quad nations. PM Modi arrived in Japan on a two-day visit to attend a summit of the Quad leaders.

Tokyo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday departed for home after attending a productive Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo and having forged stronger partnerships with Australia, Japan, and the U.S. “Leaving Japan after a fruitful visit in which I attended various bilateral and multilateral programmes. Glad to see the Quad emerge as a vibrant forum to further global good. Also had excellent bilateral meetings with all the Quad leaders,” PM Modi tweeted.

J&K: SHEIKH ABDULLAH’S IMAGE REMOVED FROM POLICE MEDALSJammu: Political parties in Jammu & Kashmir on Tuesday expressed outrage over the Lieutenant-Governor-led administration’s decision to replace the image of National Conference (NC) founder and the first elected Prime Minister of the then princely State of J&K, Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, with the national emblem, in police medals from this year. Scores of NC leaders posted with the hashtag “ShereKashmirliveson” on Twitter to protest against the L-G administration’s move to drop senior Abdul-lah’s name and face from the police medals.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana has approved the proposal for the appointment of 10 Additional Judges as Permanent Judges of the Allahabad High Court. The Collegium in a meeting held on May 21 took the decision and the resolution was uploaded on the apex court website on Tuesday. The names recommended for elevation are — Justices Sanjay Kumar Pachori, Subhash Chandra Shar-ma, Subhash Chand (Presently working in Jharkhand High Court on Transfer), Saroj Yadav, Mohd. Aslam, Anil Kumar Ojha, Sadhna Rani (Thakur), Syed Aftab Husain Rizvi, Ajai Tyagi, and Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I. Besides the CJI, Justices U U Lalit and A M Khanwilkar are part of the three-member Collegium which takes decisions with regard to the high court judges.

SC COLLEGIUM OKAY’S 10 JUDGES OF ALLAHABAD HC AS PERMANENT JUDGES

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Quad has gained a sig-nificant

place on the world stage in a short span of time, and it is moving ahead with a constructive agenda for the Indo-Pacific region which will further strengthen its image of a “force for good”. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India

SC: Decide maintainability of PIL for probe against SorenRanchi (Agencies): The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Jharkhand High Court, which is hearing a PIL seeking investigation against Chief Minister Hemant Soren for al-leged irregularities in the grant of mining leas-es and also on transac-tions of some shell com-panies purportedly oper-ated by his family mem-bers and associates, to first hear preliminary objections on the main-tainability of the peti-tion. The Jharkhand government has moved the top court against the orders of the high court.

New Education Policy supplements StartUp ecosystem: Dr JitendraHoshiarpur (Agen-cies): Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Sci-ence and Technology; Minister of State (Inde-pendent Charge) Minis-try of Earth Science; MoS of Prime Minis-ter’s Office and Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Sin-gh today said that the new National Education Policy (NEP-2020) sup-plements StartUp eco-system with the promise to open new career and entrepreneurship op-portunities for students and youth in India.

“North India and par-ticularly Punjab must come forward fast to pro-mote StartUps as alter-nate source of liveli-hood,” the Minister said.

KHALI VISITS MIN JITENDRA SINGH; ‘JOINED BJP DUE TO PM’S IDEOLOGY’

Dalip Singh Rana aka The Great Khali who

joined the BJP three months ago met Union Minister Jitendra Singh and said that he joined the party after being impressed by PM Modi’s ideology. Khali came to meet Union Minister Jitendra Singh, who was also present during Khali’s BJP induction programme. Khali further said that he is proud of

joining the saffron party.“I came to meet Dr Jitendra Singh. Now, I am going back. I came to meet him as he belongs to the hilly region and I too. It was just a regular meeting,” Khali said.

Involvement of ‘deep state’ in India: RahulCambridge (Agen-cies): Congress leader and Waynad MP Rahul Gandhi has alleged that there is a “system-atic attack” on the in-stitutions that allow India to speak and as the conversation is be-ing stamped out, the “deep state” is enter-ing those spaces and redefining the way that conversation is hap-pening in the country.

“As the conversation is being stamped out, the deep state is enter-ing those spaces and redefining the way that conversation is happening,” he said.

ASSAM: 7 KILLED IN 2 ROAD ACCIDENTS

3 KILLED AS RICE MILL SHED COLLAPSES

Guwahati (Agencies): At least seven people were killed and several others injured in two separate road accidents in Assam on Tuesday, officials said. Police said that at least five people were crushed to death while three oth-ers were injured after a speeding truck hit them in Darrang district, while two people were killed and several others were injured at Hatibondha in Kaliabor in Nagaon district. Police said that the Darrang acci-dent took place at Sipajhar College Chowk area on National Highway-15.

Ahmedabad: An iron shed collapsed at a rice mill located on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, killing three labourers and leaving four others injured, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday night when the labourers were erecting the shed at Girdhari Rice Mill.

WITH WORLD CHAMPION

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TWO YOUTHS DIE AS UNIDENTIFIED VEHICLE HITS BIKE ON DAUSA HIGHWAY Dausa : Two bike riders were crushed by an unknown vehicle on Highway 148, leading to the death of bike riders on the spot. While going to Khatu Shyam ji, they became victims of the accident. Senthal police station reached the spot, took both of them by 108 ambulance to Dausa district hospital, where after investigation the doctor declared them dead.

4 die, 5 hurt as bus rams into truck on Kota highwayFirst India Bureau

Kota: Four people were killed and five others were injured after a passenger bus rammed into a trailer on NH–27 in Kota on Tuesday morning. Police in-formed that the inci-dent occurred at the Kota-Baran highway when the bus was head-ing towards Kanpur from Ahmedabad. “The passenger bus lost its balance and rammed into the trailer when the bus driver flung his neck out of the window to spit tobacco,” police added. The bus driver fled from the spot after the accident. Around 45 passengers were travelling in the bus. Police informed that the deceased were identified as Virendra, resident of Jhansi in UP, Narayan of Gwalior in MP, Jitendra Singh of Etawah in UP, while one is yet to be identi-fied.

The loss of life is painful in the road accident in Simaliya area of Kota

parliamentary constituency. Praying to God to give place to the departed souls at his feet. My sympathies are with the families of the victims. I wish the injured a speedy recovery.

Om Birla @ombirlakota

The ill-fated bus which met an accident in Kota.

CRUCIAL READSREET SCAM: SOG ARRESTS ONE MORE FOR HELPING TO CANDIDATES

8 COPS SENT TO POLICE LINES FOR DERELICTION OF DUTY IN BANSWARA

Jaipur: In the REET scam, the Special Operations Group (SOG) on Tuesday arrested a man for provid-ing his house to the candidates to read the question paper before the exams. The accused Ramlal Vish-noi, a resident of Jalore, had provided his own house in Bhinmal to the candidates before the examination to go through the question papers.

Banswara: Eight policemen were sent to police lines for alleged dereliction of duty in Banswara district on Tuesday. The Banswara Superintendent of Police (SP), Rajesh Meena transferred one Sub-Inspector, one Assistant Sub-Inspector, four head-constables and two constables to police lines for not performing their duty efficiently. These policemen were posted in Bhungda, Kalinjara and Khamera police stations.

FOUR ARRESTED FOR CLIMBING ON BJP MP RAJORIA’S CAR IN KARAULIKarauli: The youth state president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Vikram Meena and three oth-

ers were arrested by the Karauli police for allegedly climbing the vehicle of BJP MP Dr Manoj Rajoria during a protest. The gunman of the BJP MP was also manhandled

during the protest. The youths raised slogans with placards in their hands.

MINOR RAPED ON THE PRETEXT OF MARRIAGE IN KOTA; FIR LODGED Kota: A 14-year-old minor girl was raped on the pretext of marriage in. police informed that the family members of the victim had filed an FIR of kidnapping against the accused. “The accused already knew the girl as they belong to the same village. The accused took the girl with him two days ago, after which, the family filed an FIR.

MEET FOR JOB OPPORTUNITY

Minister of State for Skill, Entrepreneurship and Planning Ashok Chandna addressing the ‘CXO Conclave’ organised by Rajasthan Skill and Livelihood Development Corporation (RSLDC) at a hotel in Tonk Road on Tuesday.

Youth goes missing from Intl border area Mukesh Mathrani

Barmer: An unknown person has gone missing from the bordering area of Barmer, close to the Indo-Pak international border. BSF and security agencies are suspecting that the man had crossed the international border and now reached Paki-stan. BSF, however, held a flag meeting with its Pakistani counterpart but they denied any such development.Meanwhile BSF officials have lodged a case with Barmer po-lice about the missing man and suspected his crossing to Pakistan. Deepak Bhargav, super-intendent of police in

Barmer confirmed the report. He said that the BSF official had lodged the case with Gadara po-lice in Barmer. Accord-ing to report on May 21, locals of village, located 12km to the internation-al border, had noticed suspicious movement of an unknown person.

IN THE COURTYARD

HC NOTICE TO RSSB, DIPR OFFICIALS

HC ISSUES NOTICE IN INTERIM MAINTENANCE CASE

Jaipur: Hearing the petition related to the answer key in APRO Recruitment-2021, the HC issued notice to the Chairman and Secretary of Rajasthan Staff Selec-tion Board as well as the Secretary of DIPR. On the case filed by Dhitendra Kumar Sharma, the Bench of Justice Inderjit Singh sought reply from the re-spondents on the matter. The petitioner’s counsel Rampratap Saini said that objection was raised on the first answer key, but it was not accepted.

Jaipur: Justice Uma Shankar Vyas heard the revision petition of Dr Ak-shat Chaturvedi wherein notices were issued and court asked that why not the order of the court wherein interim main-tenance was increased from 10,000 to 25,000 be set aside. Matter was argued by Advocate Sunil Kumar Singh, Rekha Dixit, Saurabh Chatterjee, Keerti Harsha, wherein it was said that Dinesh Sharma RPS is not allowing Dr Akshat to take employ-ment in any hospital.

HIGH COURT NOTICE TO GIRRAJ MALINGA, OTHERS ON BAIL PLEA

ADVOCATE GOVERDHAN SINGH REMANDED TO 5 DAYS POLICE CUSTODY

Jaipur: In the matter of grant of bail to Giriraj Malinga, the High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Congress MLA and others. The Bench of Justice Farzand Ali was hearing the petition of AE challenging bail given by the HC a week ago.

Jaipur: Vaishali police took Adv Govardhan Singh on 5 days’ remand. After being released on bail, the police had arrested him from outside the jail on Monday acting on the complaint filed by Tikam Khandelwal on May 6 for assaulting his brother.

Female cub of tigress T-69 found dead in RanthambhoreNirmal Tiwari

Sawai Madhopur: Three incidents were reported from Ranth-ambhore Tiger Reserve in a single day, which left the wildlife lovers disappointed. First, ti-gress Riddhi was re-ported to be tran-quilised and treated, second it was reported that the thorns of Sihi were found on the face of tiger T 121 and by the end of the evening, the death of female cub of tigress

T-69 was reported. This female cub was found dead in the Jilai Sagar non-tourism zone of Khandar range. There were tiger teeth marks on the body of this fe-male cub, the foot-prints of male tiger T-74 were found nearby along with the Keel of

Sambar lying. DFO Mahendra Sharma, ACF Sanjeev Sharma and a team of other for-est personnel reached the spot after receiving information about the sighting of the dead body of the female cub. Ranthambore field di-rector Seduram Yadav said that the female cub probably died due to the tiger attack, there were also tooth marks on her body. It is likely that this cub had died 7-8 hours before the body was found.

ACB traps Raj Nursing Council clerk, broker with ̀ 1.90L bribeNavin Sharma

Jaipur: The ACB on Tuesday arrested a junior assistant of Ra-jasthan Nursing Coun-cil Jaipur Nandk-ishore Sharma and a broker Bansilal Gurjar for taking a bribe of Rs 1.90 lakh. The bribe amount was being tak-en for showing laxity in the recognition of nursing college, seat allotment and inspec-tion.

The ACB also raided the houses and other places of both the ac-cused. ADG Dinesh MN said that those who took have been arrested. LDC Nandkishore Shar-ma and broker have been arrested for taking the bribe amount.

ACB DG BL Soni said that the information was verified and a trap was laid and the two have been arrested.

Accused Nandkishor in ACB custody.

DAUSA TEHSIL PATWARI ARRESTED FOR TAKING `7000 BRIBE RED-HANDED

Dausa: The ACB has taken major action in Sikandra tehsil of Dausa and arrested patwari Satish Jatav taking a bribe of Rs 7,000. The action led by ACB’s Additional SP Mahendra Sharma caused panic on tehsil premises. The ACB is inter-rogating Jatav. The ACB said that Jatav demanded Rs 10,000 from victim Kamal Singh.

BUNDI CONGRESS COUNCILLOR HELD FOR TAKING `1.5 LAKH BRIBE

ACB FILES CASE AGAINST BUREAU HEAD CONSTABLE FOR GRAFT

Bundi: The special unit of ACB Kota carried out a major action in Bundi and arrested City Coun-cil Bundi councillor Rohit Bairagi taking a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh. Bairagi is a Congress councillor from Ward No 1. He asked money in lieu of not troubling and allowing the house construction work on a strip of land. The councillor is being interrogated. Additional SP ACB Special Unit Vijay Swarnkar said that the victim was building a house in the strip of land in Balchandpada area. Bairagi was harassing him and demanded money. The victim then complained to the Kota ACB Spe-cial Unit. According to sources, the audio of the conversation between the accused councillor and the complainant has also been seized by the ACB.

Jaipur: ACB has filed a case against the head constable of ACB. The case is registered for de-manding a bribe of Rs 5 lakhs. The accused Ramesh Sharma is posted in ACB Udaipur and demanded Rs 5 lakh from the Tehsildar of Gangrar through a broker. A bribe was sought in lieu of help in the trial. However, the accused sensed the trap and was not caught red-handed. Now ASP Pushpendra Singh Rathod has registered a case.

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Jaipur: CM Ashok Ge-hlot on Tuesday, direct-ed officials to develop “Luv-Kush Vatika” in each district to promote eco-tourism in the state.

He said that such models related to for-ests and wildlife should be established in gar-dens so that children can get education about environment protection and wildlife conserva-tion.

Addressing a review

meeting of the Forest Department, Gehlot said that the plan for distributing medicinal plants in the state is a very good initiative and suggested that in the fu-ture, along with medici-nal plants, fruit plants should also be distrib-uted to people.

The CM said that the conservation of wild-life and expansion of forests is most impor-tant to maintain envi-ronmental balance. He directed the forest offic-

ers to make every effort to increase the green-ery in the state.

Gehlot said that the cases of environmental clearance in the State Environment Impact

Assessment Authority (SEIAA) should be dis-posed of in a time-bound and transparent manner so that the ap-plicants do not suffer any kind of loss.

The Chief Minister directed officers to com-plete all the budget an-nouncements related to the department in a time-bound manner. He said that the tourists visiting sanctuaries should also be made aware of the safety of wildlife.

He also reviewed var-ious projects and works of the department, in-cluding the Wildlife Management Training Center in Tal Chhapar Sanctuary of Churu,

the development of Chambal Gharial Sanc-tuary, and ‘Padma Shri Kailash Sankhla Smriti Van’ in Jodhpur, the construction of City Nature Park in Fatehpur-Sikar.

Forest Minister He-maram Choudhary said that continuous efforts are being made by the department to complete the budget announce-ments on time.

Senior officers of the department were also present in the meeting.

Develop ‘Luv-Kush Vatikas’ in each district: CM PROMOTING ECO-TOURISM

FIELDING CANDIDATES IN RS ELECTIONS

CONGRESS HIGH COMMAND MULLS OVER THREE CRITERIA

Party High Command will have the final say on candidature in elections

Ghulam Nabi Azad Randeep Surjewala Rameshwar Dudi Durru Miyan Raghuveer Meena Ashk Ali Tak

Rajendra Rathore

Gulab Chand Kataria

CM discussed about candidates with Dr CP Joshi & GS Dotasra

Aditi Nagar

Jaipur: Congress High Command is mulling over three parameters for fielding candidates for Rajya Sabha elections in Rajasthan. Elections on four seats will be held on June 10 and the ruling party is confident of win-ning three seats.

The party is primarily considering giving tick-ets to the leaders from Rajasthan on all three seats because Dr Man-mohan Singh and KC Venugopal are already RS MPs from the state.

Secondly, the party wants to field one Mus-lim candidate. The third parameter is that no can-didate should be an MLA. However, the final

decision on the candi-date has to be taken by the party high command.

Meanwhile, several leaders from different sections are in the race for tickets for the RS elec-

tions. From the Muslim community, Ashk Ali Tak, Durru Miyan, Zubair Khan and Rafiq Mandelia are lobbying for tickets while tribal leaders Raghuveer Mee-

na and Tarachand Bhag-ora are also seeking RS tickets.

At the same time, Jat leaders Rameshwar Dudi and Jyoti Mirdha and Sanjay Gurjar from

the Gujjar community are also in the race for the ticket. If an outsider is considered in any case, then Ghulam Nabi Azad and Randeep Sur-jewala may get a ticket.

Aishwary Pradhan

Jaipur: Making RS polls interesting, the opposi-tion BJP has decided to field candidates for two seats. LoP GC Kataria said, “We will be fielding two candidates to win polls. This is a democratic fight & it is our right to contest elections,” he said.Kataria said that BJP has 30 surplus votes. Dy LoP Rajendra Rathore said that party’s state core committee has held preliminary discussions on fielding a second candidate. Congress also cannot win the third seat on its own. BJP leaders have started working on a strategy to garner sup-port of independents & MLAs of other parties to win second candidate.

Will field two candidates to win polls: BJP

CHALKING OUT STRATEGY

Opposition BJP is consid-ering giving tickets to a

Brahmin on first priority & a Gurjar on second prior-ity. A strategy for second seat is being chalked out in New Delhi. The party has to arrange 11 votes for the second seat. The Party High Command is consider-ing fielding a candidate for the second seat without a symbol. In last RS polls, Onkar Singh Lakhawat had contested the elections with-out the party symbol.

Jaipur: The nomination process for polls to 4 RS seats in state began on Tuesday. However, none of the candidates filed their nominations on the first day. CEO Praveen Gupta said, “The noti-fication was issued on May 24 & last date of filing nominations is May 31, while scrutiny would be done on June 1. The last date of candidature withdrawal has been fixed to June 3. The polling date is June 10, whereas, the counting will also be held on the same day.

New Delhi: There are reports of a meeting be-tween AICC General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi & former Dy CM Sachin Pilot. The meeting was held in New Delhi on Monday. However, the Pilot camp is silent on the matters, which were discussed in the meeting. —Rakesh Ranjan

Jaipur: RS Sabha ticket distribution issue between Congress leaders has now reached Delhi. Ra-jasthan Youth Congress Chief & Dungarpur MLA Ganesh Ghogra on Tuesday met AICC Gen Secy KC Venugopal in Delhi & complained about Dungarpur Dist Prez Dinesh Khodnia. Ghoghra has made al-legations against Khodnia for weakening the party.

NOMINATION PROCESS FOR 4 RS SEATS BEGINS

PILOT MEETS PRIYANKA IN DELHI!

GHOGRA MEETS VENUGOPAL, COMPLAINS AGAINST KHODNIA

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Former Dy CM Sachin Pilot Pilot dur-ing his visit to his as-sembly constituency, Tonk said, “The Con-gress party has more than enough majority to comfortably win three out of four Rajya Sabha seats.”

Targeting the opposi-tion BJP, the Congress leader said that there is chaos within BJP and irrespective of whatev-er the BJP leaders say, the ruling party will win three seats.

Talking about the the recently held Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir in Udaipur, Pilot said that the party will start ‘Bharat Jodo Abhiyan’ and take out yatras to connect people. On the

other hand, a delega-tion of CHAs, who have been agitating demand-ing re-employment, met Pilot at his residence seeking his interven-tion. Pilot assured them to look into the de-mands.

“There should be no politics on ERCP, which is an important project for 13 Eastern Raj dis-tricts. Centre should declare it as a national project,” he said.

Cong will win three out of four RS seats in upcoming polls: Pilot

Sachin Pilot has been included in the central

planning group formed by the Congress party to co-ordinate Bharat Jodo Yatra. Pilot and other leaders have been included in the group.

PILOT IN CENTRAL PLANNING GROUP OF BHARAT JODO YATRA

Sachin Pilot inaugurates Niramaya Heart Centre & other medical facilities to mark the 15th Foundation Day of Agrawal Hospital in Tonk on Tuesday.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: LS Speaker Om Birla, who will be in city today, is scheduled to address a gathering of young entrepreneurs at Hotel Rambagh Pal-ace at 12:30 pm. He will also interact with them during lunch at the ho-tel. Birla will honour medical workers and ‘Corona Warriors’ dur-ing a ceremony at Ma-

haveer School at C-Scheme at 4 pm. He will then inaugurate Ma-heshwari Samaj’s mul-tipurpose educational institution at Bani Park at 6 pm.

He is also scheduled to participate in a pro-gramme organised by Jaipur Doctor Welfare Authority at 8:30 pm, before leaving for Kota by Hisar-Kota train at one o’clock late in night.

Birla to address young bizmen in city today

Gehlot govt to execute readjustment of land

LS Speaker Om Birla reaches Gwalior Airport on Tuesday to take a flight to Muraina. He was extended a warm welcome by Gwalior MP Vivek Narayan Shejwalkar & other party workers. Birla is accompanied by his OSD Rajeev Dutta.

CM’s DECISIONS FOR STATE’s DEVP

Jaipur: Chief Minis-ter Ashok Gehlot has approved a financial proposal of Rs 11 lakh for the expansion of the area to set up a spice garden. This grant will be made available under ‘Mukhyamantri Krishak Saathi Yojana’ from the current financial year. To encourage cultivation of spice crops in the state, a provision has been made to include at least 50 percent of small and marginal farmers among the beneficiary farmers. Notably, this proposal has been approved under the Agriculture Budget Announcement No. 133 for 2022-23.

Jaipur: CM Gehlot has approved proposed new guidelines for providing grants-in-aid to voluntary organisations. At present, the grants-in-aid for Voluntary Institutions Rules, 1972 is in force. Despite amend-ments, the basic grant rules remained unchanged, due to which it was proposed to simplify them. In the 2021-22 Budget,

the CM had announced construction of two new colleges in Jaipur for specially-abled students. According to provisions of Specially Disabled College Guidelines 2021, grant payment process has been simplified for rehabilitation homes, mentally chal-lenged homes, specially-abled residential/non-residential schools, hostels etc.

Jaipur: CM Ashok Gehlot has approved the proposal to create 41 posts for Civil Defence Training Institute. The institute will be operated at Daulatpura (Jamvaram-garh) in Jaipur. The youth will be trained in disaster management which will strengthen the civil defence team in state. The posts created are one each for Director, Dy Direc-

tor, Medical Officer, Asst Controller, Library Asst, Store Keeper, Addl Administrative Officer, Asst Administrative Officer & Steno. Also, 4 posts of Asst Director, 2 posts of Civil Defence Instructor, 2 posts of Sr Demonstrator, 7 posts of Jr Demonstrator, 2 posts of Paramedical Staff, 2 posts of Sr Asst, 3 of Jr Asst, etc have been created.

Jaipur: Chief Minis-ter Ashok Gehlot has approved a budget of Rs 22.76 crore for the establishment of Institute of Paediatrics and Neona-tology at Ajmer Medical College. In compliance with point number 14 of Gehlot’s budget an-nouncement 2022-23, proposals of Rs 13.13 crore for civil work and Rs 9.63 crore for equip-ment purchase were sent to the Finance Depart-ment for the construction of the institute. The CM had announced to open new medical institutes in Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer and Kota at a cost of Rs 250 crore.

CM APPROVES ` 11LAKH FOR SPICE CULTIVATION

GRANTS-IN-AID TO VOLUNTARY GROUPS SIMPLIFIED CM’S NOD TO CREATE 41 POSTS FOR CDTI

` 22.76CR FOR PAEDIATRICS & NEONATOLOGY INSTITUTE

CM Ashok Gehlot being felicitated by leaders of various working organisations including Gajendra Rathore, Rajesh Pareek, Anand Bhardwaj, Ranjeet Singh, Jai Singh, Devendra Naruka Durg Singh Khinvsar and Mahendra Dhayal during their visit to the CMR on Tuesday to thank the CM for various announcements made by him. Also seen here is Dharmendra Rathore. In the meanwhile, MLA Girraj Singh Malinga also called upon CM Ashok Gehlot at the CMR on Tuesday for the first time after getting the bail. Malinga was accompanied by Minister Rajendra Gudha.

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Abhishek Shrivastava

Jaipur: In a historic move for executing master plan, the Ashok Gehlot government has decided to implement the provision of read-justment of land to im-plement recreational, public, semi-public, tourism facilities, pub-lic amenities and other community facilities etc. as shown in master plan. Activities can be developed according to land uses. Under the provision of readjust-

ment of land, the land owners whose land will come under the ambit of these land uses will be able to get 40 % land out of their total land which they can use for residential & commer-cial purposes. The re-maining 60 % can be used according to the land use shown in the master plan.

After UDH Min Shanti Dhariwal’s nod, UDH Dept has issued a draft of provision seek-ing objections sugges-tions within 15 days.

CM Ashok Gehlot chairs the review meeting of Forest Department at the CMR on Tuesday, wherein Hemaram Choudhary, Usha Sharma, Kuldeep Ranka, Akhil Arora and others were present.

rt is a line around your thoughts and every artist, be-ginner or profes-sional, will need

a little pick-me-up once in a while, to get over a bad piece of work they thought would turn out well or to overcome art-ist’s block. Jy-oti Sharma, an art stu-dent from INIFD gives a sneak peek about her journey as an aspiring artist

Describe yourself, and what would you say are some vital skills or characteristics to have to make it in the model-ling world? I would describe myself as someone who is high-ly motivated and very resourceful at the same time. I am an ambitious

and driven individual who isn’t afraid to face a challenge. I’m always proactive about seeking new opportunities to de-velop and grow in my role. Integrity and au-thenticity are important to me. I absolutely love meeting new people and want to work in a chal-lenging environment.

If you could go in fu-ture and tell yourself one thing about your career what would it be?A Must have the ability to see the world differ-ently like draw whatever they see, think, or imagi-

nes. One more vital skill is to have is

just a willing-ness to try new

things & to try again without any

fear.

To express ideas in unique ways and from diverse perspectives What inspired you to find the Supermodel in you. Share some in-sides of your journey. An Inspiration to be-come an artist comes from the passion and in-terest of that person, my dad has always inspired me to paint more and I love it.

What really inspired me to become an artist was the beauty of the natural world, the fascinating variety of shapes and colours, and the joy I feel when working on some-thing that will end up being much more than the sum of its indi-vidual parts.

When I was 4, really young, my father taught me to draw scenery and after watching my drawing he said he loved it and that made me feel good and inspired me to draw more. In school, I loved art classes. I could sit and draw for hours.

What was the biggest rookie mistake you made when just start-ing out? Procrastination is my biggest rookie mis-take, I didn’t have any complete projects to show my skills, only a folder of endless works in progress & that was my biggest mistake. Plus I used to focus all of my time and energy on subjects and ne-glect the background and fear of making mistakes

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THE PRINCIPLE OF TRUE ART IS NOT TO PORTRAY BUT TO EVOKE, JYOTI SHARMA, A SUPER TALENTED ART STUDENT FROM INIFD, JAIPUR SPOKE CANDIDLY WITH CITY FIRST ABOUT HER INSPIRING CAREER AS AN ARTIST

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e all know what soil is. Soil is the great con-nector of lives, the basis of sur-vival for all hu-

man beings. Soil consists of many

layers, consisting of min-erals, broken rocks, water, and organic matter. Top-soil is the most critical layer of soil where we grow our food.

Do you know there are more living organisms in

one tea-spoon of soil than there are people on Earth?

The living organisms in-side the soil are very help-ful in improving the qual-ity and longevity of the soil. Their physical movement inside the soil helps to keep the soil well aerated. Soil is the basis of life. No living organ-isms on this planet can im-agine survival and life without soil.

IMPORTANCE OF SOILThe soil is essential for healthy plant growth, healthy crop production, and different types of farm-ing, human nutrition, and water filtration. Soil helps to regulate the planet's cli-mate. Soil filters water and regulates the discharge of excess rainwater prevent-ing flooding. It is capable of storing large amounts of organic carbon.

LET’S TALK ABOUT THE SOLUTION Improving the organic content in the soil: By bringing back at least 3% - 6% of the organic content in the soil we can improve soil health.

Policies should be for-mulated in every country to improve soil health. We must speak about soil. Our voice is important in a democratic nation.

SAVE SOIL MOVEMENTBy 2045 we will be produc-ing 40% less food than what we are producing now. With less food, people will fight over food and the situation will be more hor-rific than ever.

We are talking about other ecological problems but we are not talking about soil. Soil is the most important aspect of life for all the life on earth. It is the basis of our survival. The depletion in the organic content of the soil leads to the destruction of this planet. We have only 40 to 50 years of agricultural

soil left. The food shortage may arise sooner than we expect, leading to war across the world. If we re-move all the organic con-tent from the soil, it will become sand. In most countries, more than 50% of the topmost soil has al-ready gone.

Save Soil Movement has been started by Sadhguru, who is the founder of the Isha Foundation. He is 65 years old and he's riding a bike for 30,000 kilometres across 24 nations to acti-vate support to Save Soil from governments of dif-ferent countries.

Soil is a living thing and it is dying. It is our planet. Saving the soil is our re-sponsibility. The good part is, that we can still reverse the damage if timely ac-tion is taken.

All the countries all over the world should come to-gether. Each one of us should understand the im-portance of soil.

Only with the support from each one of us, we can make it happen.

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NANDINI RAMOLA DAS, Blogger

LEOJULY 24 - AUGUST 23

Carelessness at work can get you on the wrong side of a senior. A family gathering is likely to

provide you a chance to meet everyone. Someone is likely to help you in getting a good property deal. Those eligible may take some time to think over a marriage proposal.

LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCT 22

You will need to adhere to strict dietary control to keep good health. On the professional front, you

may fi nd sharing someone’s workload a bit distasteful, but you will keep up the façade of a willing worker. Avoid risks on the road today. Stars are strong for you.

ARIESMAR 21 - APR 20

You are likely to take a break from your hectic work schedule just to get in touch with your inner

self. Your actions may arouse suspicion and get parents on your back. You are likely to benefi t from a property related matter. Pending matters will resolve.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22

Some of you may get a step closer to coming back in shape. Despite your efforts, a decision regarding

property may not go in your favour. Marriage is on the anvil for the eligible. You can have a soft corner for someone you feel attracted to at workplace.

GEMINIMAY 21 - JUNE 21

Suitable accommodation is likely to be taken on rent by those looking for one. Blaming someone else for

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

AQUARIUSJAN 21 - FEB 19

Starting something new on the professional front is likely to have better fi nancial prospects. Encouraging

developments on the career front are foreseen for some. A family issue may require urgent attention. You may remain in celebratory mood on the social front.

TAURUSAPR 21 - MAY 20

Satisfaction on the professional or academic front may elude you, but it will not deter you to

perform well. Disturbances at home will need to be curtailed to retain a peaceful environment. Don’t give any information about a property deal to those you don’t know well.

CAPRICORNDEC 23 - JAN 20

You will be able to effectively curb expenses by taking some drastic measures. You will have to

put your trust in people, if you want to establish yourself on the professional front. Acquiring new property is on the cards. Help in household chores will be needed.

VIRGOAUG 24 - SEP 23

Disinterest will be apparent in a task assigned to you on the professional front. Much caring and sharing at

home is likely to keep you happy and contented. Something that you had wanted to initiate on the home front may face delays, but will ultimately be done.

CANCERJUNE 22 - JULY 23

A chance to become part of a prestigious organiza-tion is on the horizon for some. Some domestic

responsibilities will have to be discharged promptly to keep the domestic boat from rocking! Don’t take decision regarding a property as it can prove unfavourable.

PISCESFEB20 - MARCH 20

Financial position will remain satisfactory, but overspending should be guarded against. A

satisfying day is foreseen for professionals. A marriage proposal for the eligible in the family can be received. Property acquired recently promises to give good returns.

SCORPIOOCT 23 - NOV 22

You will fi nd things moving the way you want them at work today. Your focus can be health at this juncture

and taking up an exercise regimen just to come back in shape cannot be ruled out. Tensions on the family front cannot be ruled out. A property issue is best left untouched today.

YOUR DAY

Horoscope by Saurabbh Sachdeva

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SOIL IS DYING

52% of the agricultural soil is already degraded. The carbon content in the soil is decreasing. Carbon is the main component of soil. It helps the soil in im-proving its water retention capacity and its fertility. Soil with less than 0.5% organic carbon is mostly in desert areas. Carbon also improves soil aeration, oxygen in the soil, water drainage and retention. It also reduces the risk of soil erosion. It helps to retain the nutrients in the soil.

Poor soil health leads to other problems as well: Depleted soil cannot absorb and regulate water

flows leading to drought and floods. There is a constant decrease in the nutritional

value of the food produced. Poor nutritional value in the food produced leads to nutritional deficiencies and diseases.

Thousands of farmers are suffering due to the de-pletion of the soil. Their livelihood is directly de-pendent on the health of the soil. With dying soil, farmers are also committing suicide.

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ver since Alia Bhatt starrer Darlings was an-nounced, fans have been jumping with joy. This is the second time when the actress is collaborating with Shah Rukh Khan but this

time he will be behind the camera as a producer. This film will mark her debut as a producer alongside

SRK’s Red Chillies. The agency had already reported that we will

see a direct digital premiere of this film on Net-flix this summer and now we have an official

announcement of the same. Hold your breath as Darlings will come on your

TV and mobile screens super soon. —Agency 

oja Cat is recovering, but she must cancel all of her sched-uled appearances. The Say So singer, 26, posted on Twit-ter Thursday evening that she underwent surgery that day to remove an abscess

from her left tonsil. Doja Cat recount-ed in a series of blogs how her tonsils were infected before Sunday’s Bill-board Music Awards event.

However, the Kiss Me More singer insisted she was feeling alright after sharing graphic details of her proce-dure. Interestingly, in response to a fan’s question about whether she ex-

pected to continue smok-ing, the rapper said that she was now attempting to kick the habit for good. “Im quitting the vape for a while and hopefully i dont crave it anymore after that”.

Meanwhile, Doja Cat was nominated for 14 awards at the Sunday mu-sic awards ceremony in Las Vegas, where she wore a black, angular, Schiaparelli gown with a transparent beige chest wrap over Agent Provocateur gold metallic pasties. —Agency 

Even a delay couldn’t keep Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) off our screens for long, as an all-new trailer for Mission: Impossible

— Dead Reckoning Part One has just been released, displaying the same

globe-trotting and dramatic stunts audi-ences have come to expect from the genre. After being teased earlier this year at Cin-emaCon, Paramount has officially released the first Mission: Impossible 7 trailer. After confirming Czerny’s return as Kittridge, the

video shifts into traditional Mission: Impossi-ble-style, showcasing a montage of the charac-

ters in action. —Agency

Kate Moss is due to tes-tify in Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s ongoing defamation

suit. Moss, Depp’s ex-girlfriend, was mentioned by Heard, earlier this

month on the stand when addressing an alleged confrontation between Depp and Heard’s sister, However, when Heard re-

vealed Moss’ name during her testimo-ny, Depp’s attorneys were seen fist-

pumping, likely because it provided them with the option to call the mod-el as an impeachment witness to dis-prove the supposed event. According to The New York Post,

Heard first raised the Moss staircase accusation during her evidence at Depp’s defamation trial in the

United Kingdom in 2020. —Agency

In 2013, Deepika appeared on Rajeev Masand’s roundtable interview, where she revealed her 10-year plan and said: “If I was not an actor I don’t know what I would have been doing. But hopefully with

some children around. Three little kids, scuttling about. Hopefully, be working enough to take them to shoots. Have a happy family. And at the same time, still doing what I am doing.”The actress made her Bollywood debut in 2007 and has carved a niche for herself with her outstanding acting prowess. —Agency 

Shruti Haasan is presently in Hyderabad to complete the re-maining work on her action drama, Salaar. In- forming about the same via Instagram, the actress shared a clip from the car and captioned

it, “Work mode #Salaar”. The actress was on her way to the set of the film.

This Prashanth Neel’s directorial has been produced by Vijay Kiragandur under the banner of Hombale Films. For the un-versed, Salaar was previously slated to release in the cinema halls on 14 April. Later, the release was delayed and now re-ports suggest that the makers are plan-ning to release the film in 2023. The Telugu drama will additionally have dubbed ver-sions in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, and Ma-layalam. The music for the film has been provided by Ravi Basrur, while cinema-tography has been handled by Bhuvan Gowda. —Agency

Summer is forever host to the most s t r i k i n g

fashion. As Suhana Khan turned 22 on May 22, here’s what her birthday bash looked like from The Archies set. It was pretty with roses, cakes, and lots of fun with her co-actors. We all know how much the Khan girl is perpetually hooked to body-hugging dresses and did we spot it again? The diva rocked a one-shoulder dress with a very flat-tering silhouette. It had a single strap and cropped above her knees. Suhana Khan styled it with mini drop earrings and kept her glam subtle-ly perfect with glossy pink lips, mini winged eyeliner, and filled-in eye-brows. Oh, she loves a lip gloss, check her social media for proof and you’ll know how the starlet has slayed in each look. —Agency

W hile Harry Styles may like her movie, Olivia Wilde enjoys his music. The director of Don’t Worry, Darling, 38, revealed a

snippet of his new song, Music for a Sushi Restau-rant, on her I n s t a g r a m Story on Fri-day. Styles, 28, sings about a g r e e n - e ye d beauty who’s so hot that he “could cook an egg on her” in the jazzy tune from his third studio album, “Harry’s House.” He continues by saying he loves her “in every way.” However, Harry and Olivia initially confirmed their relationship in January 2021, four months after the Water-melon Sugar singer was cast in her film Don’t Worry Darling. While the pair have kept their relationship pretty discreet since then, they are often seen demonstrating their support for one another. —Agency 

Ellen DeGe-neres may have accidentally re-vealed that Jen-

nifer Lawrence and her husband, Cooke Mar-oney, are the joyful par-ents of a “really cute” baby boy. Jennifer and Cooke have not official-ly revealed the gender of their baby until now, but Ellen seems to have verified that it is a boy. However, Jennifer has been exceedingly discreet about her life with a child since giving birth in February, and she has kept the b a b y out of the pub-lic spot-light

—Agency 

After a couple of years of dating, Taapsee Pannu and boyfriend Mathias Boe were snapped for the first time together, in a long

time, on Tuesday. Taapsee and Mathi-as, who rarely step out or are get

spotted, arrived at the celeb-fa-vourite hotspot for a meal. Mathi-as was the India team’s doubles coach and made the whole coun-try proud. Taapsee was a proud girlfriend, as the actress took to Instagram to share a photo

after the big win. While sharing the post, she wrote,

“Mr Coach, you made us proud. @mathias.boe

#ThomasCupWin-ner.” —Agency

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Shruti’s upcoming project ‘Salaar’

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Moss to testify in Johnny-Amber Trials

Doja Cat Alia Bhatt

Kate Moss

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Ellen DeGeneres

Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles

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CITY BUZZGET VACCINATED

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GREETINGS!The Upanayana ceremony, the sacred thread cer-emony of Ninad, grandson of Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways, was held on Sunday at his residence in Nagpur. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh also reached to bless the young boy. After the Upanayana ceremony, Ninad bowed down to Rajnath Singh and took his bless-ings. Ninad, who was wearing a traditional dress with a tonsured head and the ritualistic ‘shikha’, prostrated to seek blessings. The sanskar of the family and young Ninad has taken social media by storm. A large number of leaders including Hemant Sharma, Director TV 9 among others from Nagpur and around had also reached Nitin Gadkari’s house to bless Ninad.

CITY FIRST

he Olympic Values Educa-tion Pro-g r a m m e (OVEP) was o f f i c i a l l y launched by

the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday in the presence of Naveen Patnaik, the Chief Minister of Odisha, Nita Ambani, the mem-ber of IOC, Mikaela Cojuangco Jaworski, IOC's Education Com-mission chair, Abhinav Bindra, Olympian and member of the IOC Athletes’ Commission and Narinder Batra, President, Indian Olympic Association (IOA). OVEP will be inte-grated into the school education system of Odisha. The programme is be-ing developed in part-nership with the De-partment of School & Mass Education, the Government of Odisha and the Abhinav Bindra Foundation Trust.

A landmark initia-tive in India’s Olympic movement, the launch of OVEP comes as a build-up to the prestig-ious IOC 2023 Session.

Earlier this year, Nita Ambani led a del-

egation for In-dia’s bid to host

the IOC Session in 2023, where India was near-unanimous-ly awarded the rights after a gap of 40 years. It will give a boost to India’s ul-t i m a t e O l y m p i c aspirations by empower-ing the youth

to hone their skills and bring global laurels. Ambani is a part of multiple Olympic

Movement Com-missions and OVEP which fall under the Olympic Edu-cation.

“Under the v i s i o n a r y leadership of the chief minister of O d i s h a ,

through in-creased in-v e s t m e n t s

and dedicated efforts, Odisha has become a hub of India’s sport-ing ambitions. The state is actively creat-ing a holistic ecosys-tem for sport which provides top quality training to our young athletes. The mission of OVEP is to touch all the children through the ideals of Olymp-ism. As we prepare to host the IOC Session 2023 in Mumbai next year, I look forward to further strengthening the Olympic Move-ment in our country,” Nita Ambani said. Re-liance Foundation works closely with the Odisha Government for the Odisha Reli-ance Foundation Ath-letics High-Perfor-mance Center (HPC).

Two Reliance Foun-dation athletes from the HPC namely Jyothi Yarraji and Amlan Bor-gohain broke national records and bagged medals at internation-al athletic events over the past month.

EARLIER THIS YEAR, NITA AMBANI LED A DELEGATION FOR INDIA’S BID TO HOST THE IOC SESSION IN 2023 WHERE INDIA WAS UNANIMOUSLY AWARDED THE RIGHTS AFTER A GAP OF FORTY YEARS.

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DURING THE DAY!

Governor Kalraj Mishra reached Nakki Lake in Mount Abu on Tuesday evening. During this, his family members including the first lady of the state, Satyavati Mishra also did boating in the lake. Governor Mishra enjoyed the picturesque surroundings of Nakki Lake for about an hour from the jetty of Raj Bhavan and said that the natural beauty of the Katoranuma lake amidst the hills laden with greenery is amazing.

The grand reception ceremony of Tayyab Hussain, son of Sabir Hussain Sihag and Sajida with Samreen Bano daughter of Mr and Mrs Mohd Arif Tanwar was organised on Tuesday, May 24 at Hotel Haveli, C Scheme, Jaipur. Jagdeesh Chandra reached to bless the newlyweds and wished them a happy married life. —PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA

Former Governor of Rajasthan and former Chief Justice NL Tibriwal released the poster of the Multinational Book of Records Life Time Award by Disha Care Sanstha, at his residence on Ajmer Road on Tuesday, 24 May. During this, legalist HC Ganeshia, CEO of Multinational Book of Records Krishna Kumar Upadhyay, social worker Gaurav, DWP chairperson Chitra Goyal and Girja Sharma and fashion designer Narishyant were present.

Jaipur Rajasthan's premier Collage of Kilkari Children's Natya Rang Workshop was organised recently. During this virtual integration of this creative children's and teenagers workshop, the Principal Secretary, Gayatri Rathore and Pankaj Ojha, Joint Secretary, Art Culture Department were present.

On Occasion of World Schizophrenia Day, Mental Health Foundation, Gautam Hospital and Research Centre, Young Psychiatric sub-committee & Media and Mental Health sub-committee IPS jointly co-organised awareness camp about schizophrenia in Kachchi Basti Viddyadhar Nagar Jaipur. A short movie ‘Brahm Jaal’ based on the true stories of Schizophrenic patients produced by Rajyashree Gautam, was shown to the people.

HUSTLE FOR MUSCLE

CITY FIRST

FICCI Ladies Organ-isation, Jaipur Chapter, planned a fitness week start-

ing from Monday, April 25 to 29. It was a power-packed amalgamation of online and offline events, keeping FLO Member’s conveni-ence on priority. The fitness week began with a bang of 3hrs the morn-ing and 3hrs the evening regime - with a variation of workout every hour. Members were very ex-cited to receive so many choices of workouts with flexible timings.

Chairperson Mudrika Dhoka strongly shared “ Fitness is not about chal-

lenging yourself for a day, it’s a regime that you take up every day for yourself making you healthy in & out”. Online sessions were conducted by professional instruc-tors of the town, taking

up Yoga by Rashmi, functional training by Arya and Zumba by Shefali. The mind can only

be at peace when the health is treated well and the soul knows the es-sence of self-care. The online session was well attended by 55 members in two slots morning and evening. The fitness week was concluded by a Zumba session offline at 8 step studio, for all the FICCI FLO members.

CITY FIRST

Senior officials of the Indian Foreign Ser-vices includ-

ing Sanjay Rana, Ambassador of India to Bulgaria; Charan-jeet Singh, Joint Sec-retary (G20); Rajesh Vaishnaw, Ambassa-dor of India to the Kingdom of Mo-rocco and Puneet Agarwal, Deputy Permanent Repre-sentative to the Unit-ed Nations in Geneva visited JKK on Mon-day. Along with the Assistant Director (OTS), Ritu Nanda

was also present.Additional Di-

rector General, JKK, Dr Anuradha Gogia and Curator, Abdul Latif Usta gave the of-ficials a tour of JKK. The officials were also

briefed about the ar-chitecture and activi-ties of JKK in detail. On the occasion, IFS officers also watched the documentary made on JKK.

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THE GRAND VISIT!

CITY FIRST

The Minister for Tourism, Vish-vendra Singh said that the

Rajasthan Domestic Travel Mart (RDTM) will give a fillip to do-mestic tourists in the State during the delegation of the Federation of Hospitality and Tourism in Ra-jasthan (FHTR) at his residence on Tuesday.

The delegation had come to brief him about the prepa-rations for the

forthcoming Trav-el Mart scheduled to be held in July.

The Minister also said that efforts are afoot to ensure that the Rajasthan Tour-ism Unit Policy 2022 will be released by the time of RDTM.

DELEGATION MEET

Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and Hemant Sharma with Gadkari family members Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh and Hemant Sharma with a guestNinad bows down to seek blessings from Rajnath Singh on his special day

Nita Ambani

Shiv Shivakumar in conversation with Mudrika Dhoka

Rajesh Vaishnaw, Charanjeet Singh, Anuradha Gogiya, Ritu Nanda, Sanjay Rana, Puneet Agarwal and Abdul Lateef Usta.

(L-R) Randhir Vikram Singh, Bhim singh, Rashmi Sharma, Khalid Khan, Apurv Kumar, Vishvendra Singh and Kuldeep Chandela

Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Aquib, Bilal, Akthar Bano, Samreen Bano, Tayyab Hussain, Sabir Hussain and Mohd Azhar