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The Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, is not conducting any probes in India, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said in a statement, categorically denying the Congress’ claims. On Friday, a Congress MLA from Karnataka alleged that the US’ FBI is investigating a “billion dollar Bitcoin scam” in India. “This is to inform you that FBI has not sent any team to conduct a probe in the matter,” the CBI said.

FBI NOT PROBING BITCOIN SCAM IN INDIA: CBI JUNKS CONGRESS CLAIM

A 26-year-old spectator Dashrath Jadhav, who jumped the barriers and ran into the field and gave fist bumps to Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma during match no. 18 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 between Mumbai Indians (MI) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune was arrested by police on Sunday for invading the pitch and stopping the play.

PITCH INVADER GIVES FIST BUMPS TO KOHLI, ROHIT AT

IPL, ARRESTED

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CM: Itni Hi Uski Aukaat Nahi Hai. What a minister he is that he cannot convince PM!

Laxman Raghav

Bikaner: With elections in Rajasthan slated to be held next year, politics has come alive in the de-sert state as Chief Min-ister Ashok Gehlot has

drawn the battle arena around the ERCP which will affect 13 districts. These districts hold a great number of voters and therefore, if Con-gress can make inroads in the 2023 assembly elections, in these dis-

tricts, it would have a major advantage over arch-rival BJP.

Therefore, making fresh attacks on Union Jal Shakti minister on Sunday, CM Gehlot said, “Rajasthan has given 25 MPs to the BJP. Turn to P8

Islamabad: The oppo-sition parties in Paki-stan on Sunday nomi-nated Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz as their joint candidate for PM polls. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party also nominated 65-year-old former for-eign minister Shah Me-hmood Qureshi as its candidate.

Pakistan Peoples Par-ty chief Bilawal Bhutto is likely to be appointed as next foreign minister.

Meanwhile, after Pa-kistan’s National Assem-bly voted out PM Imran Khan during no-confi-dence motion, Khan took to Twitter and said, “The freedom struggle begins again today after 1947”.

Kyiv: A new grave with dozens of civilian Ukrainians was found on Saturday in Buzova, a liberated village near the capital Kyiv that for weeks was occupied by Russian forces, a local official said.

Taras Didych, head of the Dmytrivka commu-nity that includes Buzo-va and several other nearby villages, told Ukrainian television that the bodies were found in a ditch near a petrol station.

The number of dead is yet to be confirmed, reported news agency.

“Now, we are return-ing to life, but during the occupation we had our ‘hotspots’, many civil-ians died,” Didych said.

ERCP ROW: GEHLOT FIRES SALVO AT SHEKHAWAT Jairam Thakur won’t be replaced, will lead Himachal polls: Nadda

Northeast groups oppose Central govt’s Hindi move

New Delhi: In a sur-prising and daring state-ment, BJP National President JP Nadda, by virtually exercising this authority as the party chief, has surprised every-one in Shimla and New Delhi by say-ing that the next assembly polls in Himachal Pradesh, scheduled to be held later this year, will be held only under the leadership of the state’s present Chief Minister Jairam Thakur, whose

removal was being spec-ulated in media for last couple of months. Ac-cording to political ob-servers, normally such

major policy deci-sions and an-n o u n c e m e n t s have been in the past made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi

and Amit Shah, but this time Nadda has availed his ‘opportunity’ to con-vey BJP high com-mand’s decision about the political future of Jairam Thakur.

Several Northeast-based organisations,

including Assam’s apex literary body, the Asom Sahitya Sabha, have urged the Centre to roll back its decision to make Hindi compulsory till Class X in the region.

In a statement on Sat-urday, the Sabha said that it opposed the move. The statement said, “The Union Home min-ister should have in-stead taken steps to de-velop Assamese and other indigenous lan-

guages. Such steps spell a bleak future for Assa-mese and all indigenous languages in the North-east. The Sabha de-mands that the decision be revoked.”

Meanwhile, Tamil na-du’s ruling DMK on Sun-day ‘warned’ the Centre against imposing Hindi saying the Tamil people still remembered the anti-Hindi agitation by late party patriarch M Karunanidhi, implying that they would not al-low it to happen.

STAGE SET FOR NEW PM SHEHBAZPTI’s Qureshi also throws in hat, Bilawal next foreign minister likelyFreedom struggle begins again: Imran’s 1st words after losing dramatic midnight vote

Pak immigration authorities on alert; Imran’s PTI warns to withdraw lawmakers, launches stir against new govt

ACB NABS TI, 10 OTHERS; RECOVERS `12 LAKH CASH FROM ALWAR DTO OFFICEAshvini Yadav

Alwar: Close on the heels of a major raid by the Anti Corruption Bureau on CEO of Biofuel Authority in Jaipur, the bureau sleuths con-ducted yet another raid on Sunday, this time on the DTO office and check post at Shahjahanpur of Alwar located on National Highway 48. Interesting-ly, the raid was carried out in the wee hours on Sunday at around 4.45 am when the accused least expected. 11 men including inspector Ravindra Singh Bhati,

officials and broker of DTO office have been arrested. About Rs 12 lakh, amassed through illegal recoveries, have also been seized and it is believed that involvement of other officers of the Alwar DTO office may come to light. Sources have revealed that ACB officials are trying to find out as to at whose behest the said recover-ies were being made. P7

Imran Khan @ImranKhanPTI

Pakistan became an independent state in

1947; but the freedom struggle begins again

today against a foreign conspiracy of regime

change. It is always the people of the country

who defend their sover-eignty & democracy.

Ashok Gehlot @ashokgehlot51

Threat of arrest by Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to IAS-IPS officers of Rajasthan shows he is

flabbergasted. To create an image, he first claimed to re-tire from politics but when his lie was caught, he started talking like this for damage control. He should not forget that his real face has been unmasked before the people long back hence he is hesitant to give voice samples

Dozens of Ukrainians found in grave near Kyiv

In this image provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, and Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, center left, walk in downtown Kyiv.

RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS DESTROY UKRAINIAN MILITARY CONVOY

AFTER EID, WILL NAWAZ RETURN?

COMING HOME OF THE SHARIF

OPENING WITH INDIA POSSIBLE?

SHEKHAWAT’S JIBE AT OFFICERS INDECENT, UNDEMOCRATIC: DR. JOSHI

T’GANA CABINET’S DHARNA IN DELHI

PM MODI, BIDEN’S VIRTUAL MEET TODAY

UKRAINE: DNIPRO AIRPORT ‘COMPLETELY DESTROYED’ BY RUSSIAN SHELLING

Russian attack helicopters have destroyed a convoy of Ukraine’s armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft warfare, the news agency Interfax reported on Sunday, citing Russia’s defence ministry. “Attack helicopters KA-52 ... destroyed weapons and military equipment of the armed forces of Ukraine,” the agency cited the ministry as saying in a statement. Ukrainian military officials were not immediately available for comment. Reuters was not immediately able to verify the report.

With brother Shehbaz at helm and not without nod from Army, it won’t be wrong to guess that ex-PM Nawaz Sharif will be packing his bags in London for a homecom-ing, provided authorities let go of his cases as part of some ‘behind close-door deal’. Let’s wait and watch!

By ousting Imran Khan, Nawaz Sharif’s brother Shehbaz Sharif has shown that he still holds the cards to be back in the game. He has worked his way into get-ting the support of the Pakistan Army.

Imran Khan attacked PM Narendra Modi and the RSS in last two-and-half years of him heading the country. His ouster makes it relatively easier for New Delhi and Islamabad to start diplo-matic conversations.

Jaipur: With CM Ashok Gehlot opening a front against Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekha-wat over ERCP, and days after his verbal tussle with the union minister, now Gehlot’s ‘lieutenant’ and cabinet minister Dr. Mahesh Joshi has fired volleys upon Shekhawat objecting to Shekhawat’s open threat of sending the state’s bureaucracy to jail. On Sunday, Joshi said, Turn to P8

The entire Telangana Cabinet and its 107 TRS MLAs will hold a protest at Telangana Bhawan in Delhi on Monday, on the ‘dis-criminating’ issue of the central’ government’s decision to not procure paddy from the State of Telangana. P5

Amid hectic diplomatic activity with growing pressure from the West on India’s oil deals with Russia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually meet with US President Joe Biden on Monday. The Ukraine situation expected to come up in meet. P6

The airport in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro has been completely destroyed in fresh Russian shelling, a local official said Sunday. “There has been another attack on Dnipro airport. There is nothing left of it. The airport itself and the infra-structure around it has been destroyed. Rockets keep flying and flying. We are seeking to clarify information about victims.,” the head of the city’s military administration, Valentin Reznichenko said.

Congress can’t set own house in order: Maya hits back at Rahul

New Delhi: Responding to Rahul Gandhi’s “Mayawati didn’t fight for Dalits retort” Bahu-jan Samajwadi Party (BSP) supremo Mayawa-ti on Sunday said that Congress must get their own house in order rath-er than intruding into her party affairs.

“Congress can’t mend its own way and can’t set its own house in or-der but is intruding into

our matters. Congress and Rahul Gandhi should think 100 times before commenting on the BSP,” said Mayawati while addressing a press conference.

BSP president’s re-sponse comes after Ra-

hul Gandhi on Saturday while addressing a gath-ering at a book launch event said that BSP su-premo Mayawati did not put in her full efforts in the 2022 assembly elec-tion due to political pressure by the BJP.

19 Lankans reach TN on boat, seek asylum as crisis spiralsChennai: As many as 19 Sri Lankan Tamils from Jaffna and Mannar reached Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu on boat. These people, seeking refuge in India, said that living in Sri Lanka has become very difficult due to the severe eco-nomic crisis. The prices of essential commodi-ties there have increased tremendously.

Till now, a total of 39 people, including wom-en and children have

reached the Indian coast to seek asylum.

Neighbouring Sri

Lanka is currently fac-ing its worst economic crisis in recent history.

POWER INCOMING: Shehbaz Sharif

BSP Supremo Mayawati Congress leader Rahul Gandhi

POWER OUTGOING: Imran Khan

We don’t hug PM forcefully: Maya

...call it ‘imposition’; DMK too hits out at Centre

Sri Lankan refugees

PM addresses their CM as ‘our famous CM’, at least give her time to meet you. Now they have six chief ministerial candidates,” CM jibes at BJP

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Jaipur: The hard work of the ‘Top Three’ offic-ers finally paid off in removing the atmos-phere of despair over the excise settlement.

The trio of Finance Department Principal Secretary Akhil Arora, FSR Suresh Gupta and Excise Commissioner Chetan Deora success-fully implemented the guarantee reduction formula in second phase of e-auction and

auctioned 918 shops in a single day.

It is expected that in the next phase of April 11 and 12, up to 90 per-

cent of the liquor shops will be up for auction.

There was dissatis-faction among the liq-uor traders regarding

excise policy from the very beginning.

In such a situation, liquor traders did not show interest in both

options like renewal of liquor shops & e-auc-tion. Out of 7665 shops only 2501 shops could be refurbished.

The Excise Depart-ment had to suffer a loss of more than Rs 200 crore in a week.

Angered by the fail-ure of settlement, Akhil Arora, Suresh Gupta and Chetan Deora not only reprimanded the non-performing offic-ers of dept but also made 7 officers APO.

In order to make the settlement a success, Deora made provisions of policy simple and practical by doing dia-logue with officers.

‘Top trio’ of Excise dept fetch results amid despairHARD WORK PAYS OFF

FIRING IN FOOD COURT 5 held, more on radarAn employee at food court asked accused to smoke outsideSatyanarayan Sharma

Jaipur: Five miscre-ants have been caught for opening fire at a food court near Riddhi-Siddhi intersection here late on Saturday after an employee at the food court had asked some youths to go out and smoke cigarettes.

Shopkeepers, however, managed to escape and saved themselves. On get-ting information, police rushed to the spot and caught five miscreants.

ACP (Mansarovar) Harishankar said food court has around 20 shops. “Around 11 o’clock three or four boys started smoking cigarettes. Since many

families were sitting there, shopkeepers asked them to go out & smoke. This led to an argument & boys left threatening.”About

half-an-hour later, when two-three shopkeepers were closing shutters, 12-15 miscreants opened fire, shopkeepers had narrow escape.

In the food court near Riddhi Siddhi intersection, a shop was ransacked and a bullet pierced in the shutter of the nearby shop during the firing.

ACP Harishankar says that the miscreants fired two rounds in the food court. A round is placed in shutter of shop. There is panic among shopkeepers due to firing, there are almost 20 shops in food court. The police nabbed the five mis-creants who opened fire late in the night. The search for the ab-sconding miscreants is on. The arrested miscreants are resi-dents of Bharatpur & been staying in Jaipur for long.

MISCREANTS ARE FROM BHARATPUR

CM levelling false charges against PM, others: Poonia

Massive fire engulfs paper mill, huge losses

First India Bureau

Jaipur: BJP State Pres-ident Dr. Satish Poonia on Sunday said CM Ge-hlot has been levelling false allegations against PM Modi, Home Minis-ter Amit Shah & Nation-al President JP Nadda to divert attention from Karauli violence.

“It seems CM has lost mental balance & is do-ing unrestrained bab-bles against central govt & BJP leaders. People of state & majority of Hin-dus, will give answer to all lies in 2023.”

He said the law and

order deteriorated un-der Cong rule, increas-ing atrocities on dalits, tribal & women, con-tinuously leaking pa-pers, pending recruit-ments, malpractices with farmers in name

of farmer loan waiver. Poonia participated as chief guest in mass marriage organized by Yadav Samaj at Bichpudi village here in which 78 couples tied the knot.

Anil Kumar Sharma

Kotputli (Jaipur): Massive fire in yard of Shri Krishna Paper Meal located in Keswa-na Industries area on Saturday morning & continued till Sunday.

The yard was stocked with paper rolls, raw materials & machinery. On information about the fire, Paniala police reached spot and fire brigade were called from Kotputli, Neem-

rana, Behror, Sota Nala Industries area. The fire was so strong that flames were visible far and wide, factory in-cluding yard was cov-ered with smoke, due to which fire brigade and factory administration had to face a lot of trou-ble, about half a dozen fire tenders made 10 rounds and fire was un-der control but by the evening, due to the wind, the pile of papers caught fire again.

Dr. Satish Poonia attends mass marriage organized by Yadav Samaj at Bichpudi village in Tonk on Sunday.

Massive fire at Shri Krishna Paper Mill, flames visible far & wide as paper rolls, raw materials and machinery continue to burn.

CISF jawan found hanging at home

3rd front gears up to fight assembly polls

Govt teacher booked on rape charges

First India Bureau

Tonk: The 35-year-old, Dilshad Khan, band

p l a y e r commit -ted sui-cide by hanging at CISF training center at

Deoli, here. Wave of mourning spread in CISF premises. De-ceased jawan had gone to home on Saturday af-ter duty. Late in evening, his wife along with son had gone to RTC prem-ises. Meanwhile, he committed suicide. Po-lice did not find any sui-cide note. CISF adminis-tration is investigating the cause of death. Due to the suicide, CISF has postponed band playing program to be held un-der the Amrit Mahotsav of Azadi on Sunday.

Bhanwar S Charan

Kota: As assembly elec-tions are due next year, alternative to BJP-Con-gress is being mulled. The democratic front, a joint organization of six parties, including CPI-JD(S)-SP, has an-nounced plans to con-test all the 200 assembly seats in the state. Arjun Detha, the state presi-dent of Janata Dal Sec-ular, one of founding organizers of Demo-cratic Front, made many big announce-ments while talking to reporters during his Hadoti stay on Sunday. Detha claimed an-nouncements like loan waiver were incom-plete, asked state gov-ernment repeat the practice of talking to entral banks.

First India Bureau

Jalore: A woman has lodged an FIR against a government teacher alleging rape at Rani-wada police station.

Raniwada DSP Shankarlal said that at night the victim wom-an was waiting for the train to go to her brother at the railway station when the gov-ernment teacher saw her alone and asked her to stay at his house. She stayed with him but he raped her in the night. Police got the victim’s medical done in Jalore and investi-gating the matter.

EXAM TIMINGS MAY CHANGE DUE TO TEMP RISE

RAJYAVARDHAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO COL BAINSLA

Jaipur: The education department is going to start the 8th board exams from April 16 and 5th board exams from April 19. But in this period of scorch-ing heat, opposition to the decision to conduct exam in the afternoon has started. Teachers along with parents have started demanding change of time. Educa-tion Minister Dr BD Kalla has also started brainstorming about the change in the tim-ing of the examination.

Karauli: Jaipur Rural MP Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore reached Mundia village and paid tributes to Gurjar leader late Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla. He laid flowers on the photo of Colonel Bainsla and consoled his son Vijay Bainsla and other family members.

Jaipur: Rajasthan Assembly Speaker Dr. CP Joshi reached Assam and met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.

Joshi will attend the 8th Re-gional Conference of the United Nations Parliamentary Board in Guwahati. His wife Hemlata Joshi is also accompanying him. Assembly Secretary Ma-havir Prasad Sharma, Special

Officer Manish Joshi also accompanied him.

RAJASTHAN SPEAKER DR CP JOSHI MEETS LS SPEAKER OM BIRLA IN ASSAM

Jaipur: A drive titled ‘Pinkcity E-Waste Collection Drive’ was launched at the headquarters of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board on Saturday. State Board President Vinu Gupta flagged off the vehicles for E-Waste Collection Drive. Anand Mohan, Member Secretary, Pollution Board informed that in this campaign, “E-Waste Collection Drive” will run till May 7, e-waste will be collected from the indus-trial units of Jaipur by the authorized dismantlers, and recyclers of e-waste. Regional officers KC Gupta and Vijay Sharma appealed residents that e-waste should not be disposed of by any unauthorized org.

E-WASTE COLLECTION DRIVE FLAGGED OFF IN CITY, WILL CONTINUE TILL MAY 7

NEWS DIGEST

TJAIPUR CITY’S POOR SHOW CONTINUES

Use tech to conquer world: BhupenderAshvini Yadav

Alwar: Union Minister for Environment, For-est and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav vis-ited here on Sunday during which he stressed climate change is the biggest issue be-fore humanity.

“Now it is very hot in April, moving ahead, it is going to get elevated. Shramdaan has to be done in May & June. There are johads in vil-lages from which soil has to be removed and water collected in these johads should remains with villages,” he said.

“PM has started work of skill develop-ment. Use technology to conquer new worlds.

We have started e-li-brary in the village, you should also start,” he said. Meanwhile, he

reached Bhiteda and inaugurated a hostel at Baba Khetanath Mahi-la Vidyapeeth.

Bhupender Yadav addressing the audience while inaugurating a hostel at Baba Khetanath Girls College in Milakpur, Alwar.

Man rapes woman in the absence of husband

First India Bureau

Jaipur: In the ab-sence of husband, a case of raping a woman by a famil-iar youth has come to the fore. On the complaint of the three-month-old pregnant victim, the Murlipura po-lice station has reg-istered a report and investigation is on.

SHO Devendra Kumar said that a 25-year-old woman resident of Neenda Mor Harmada has filed a report. Ac-cording to the re-port, accused Ajay is her acquaint-ance. She lived with her husband in Murlipura. About 3 years ago, accused Ajay came to her house raped her in a state of intoxica-tion. When she re-gained conscious-ness, he threatened to tell anyone. Po-lice have registered a case and started an investigation.

HEATWAVE: RED ALERT IN WESTERN RAJ

As heatwave is sweeping across the state, Sri Ganganagar recorded the highest 45.4 degrees Celsius temperature on Sunday. Jaipur recorded 42.2 degree Celsius. Heatwave alert has been issued in 10 districts of Jodhpur and Bikaner divisions with temp soaring to 44 to 45 degree Celsius. Anticipating a strong heat wave till April 11, a red alert has been issued in Sri Ganganagar, Bikaner, Barmer, Jaisalmer and Jalore. Girls seen shielding themselves against scorching Sun on Sunday in Jaipur. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA

ISSUE OF SILICOSIS

People queuing at liquor shops. —FILE PHOTO

Mukesh Mathrani

Barmer/Jhalawar : Amid the communal tensions in some part of the state, the Ram Nava-mi celebrations in Bar-mer turned into symbol of religious harmony. Here, people of Muslim community have not only welcomed the Ram Navami shobhayatra but also made arrange-ments for it. Muslim community members have garlanded hindus and also showered flow-ers on the Ram Navami shobhayatra. The high-lighted part of the pro-gram was that a one month old muslim kid ‘Adnan Khan’ played the role of lord Rama.

A similar sight was also seen in Jhalrapa-tan, when the proces-sion of Ram Navami started from the potter locality and reached the main market and

reached the banks of the Gomti Sagar pond, on the way, the proces-sion was given a grand

welcome by the Anju-man Islamia Committee who showered flowers on the procession.

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Udaipur: SBI Manager Tapan Sharma of Udaipur has become an umpire for the second consecutive time in IPL. He will participate in six matches in the ongoing IPL-2022.

Rajasthan Royals will play two matches. Ta-pan will be seen as a third-fourth umpire. He did on-field umpiring in the match between Luc-

know-Delhi on April 7.Tapan did engineer-

ing from MBM College, Jodhpur. It was during his studies that he got selected in Neyveli Lig-nite Chennai. As he lost connection with cricket during this time, he quit his job and passed the officer’s exam in SBI in 2002. He had passed the state level umpire panel exam in 1993.

Till now, Tapan has

officiated in the match-es between Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi

Capitals. Yesterday he officiated the Match be-tween Rajasthan Royals and Lucknow Super Gi-ants.

He will be seen in Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings on 21st April, Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings on 25th April, Lucknow Super Giants vs Rajasthan Royals on 15th May and Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capi-tals on 21st May.

Udaipur’s SBI Bank manager Tapan Sharma is now officiating in IPL

FROM BANKING TO UMPIRING

Satyanarayan Sharma

Jaipur: The arrange-ments of Jaipur Police on Ram Navami on Sun-day were very tight be-cause of which the pro-cession of Ram Navami happened in a calm way in Jaipur city. Police Commissioner Anand Srivastava took care from the front since Sat-urday night.

Additional Commis-sioners of Police Ajayp-al Lamba and Haider Ali Zaidi took care of every situation. DCP North Paris Deshmukh also appeared in a different style. Sitting next to the driver in his car, he con-tinued to monitor the route of the procession.

At the same time, af-ter a long time, two friends together gave their best performance.

ADCP Crime and Vig-ilance Karan Sharma and Sameer Dubey gave their best performance.

Due to long experience, ADCP Karan Sharma was posted at Ramganj Chaupar whereas Sa-

meer Dubey was posted on the Phute Khurre as both the places are con-sidered very sensitive.

On the other hand, ADCP North Dharmen-dra Sagar was seen keeping a close eye on the high buildings on both sides. Ramganj SHO Bhuri Singh’s hard work for a month was visible on Sunday.

Police Commissioner Anand Srivastava hailed his team on the completion of Ram Na-vami saying “WELL DONE Jaipur Police”.

WELL DONE POLICE! HAILS COMMISSIONERHINDU ORG BLOCKS ROAD AS COPS TURN SPEAKER OFF

Ram Navami celebrations turn into symbol of communal harmony in Raj

Police Commissioner Anand Srivastava hails his team for security arrangements on Ram Navami

Bharatpur: Mem-bers of Shri Ram Janmotsav Samiti raised slogans against the police and admin and jammed the road for about half-an-hour in Bharatpur on Sunday after po-lice switched off the speaker as some people alleged that they were playing provocative hymns during the proces-sion on Ram Nava-mi. Action followed after some person objected to the loud-speaker installed in front of a religious place. This angered the people of Hindu organizations and they started shout-ing slogans and blocked the road. After persuading the people, the po-lice cleared the jam.

Union Min Kailash Choudhary during the Ram Navami procession in Barmer on Sunday. (Inset) TKF was also enacted during the event.

Ram Navami procession being carried out in Walled City amid tight security on Sunday. (Inset) CP Anand Srivastav keeping eagle’s eye in the field. —PHOTOS BY SANTOSH SHARMA

23 girls being trafficked for labour rescued by govt teacher

Cong leader threatens officials over water

Runaway Maha minors apprehended in Kota

PSK corners BJP, RSS on Karauli violence

Record `50K crore revenue through commercial tax

First India Bureau

Udaipur: In Jhadol, a govt teacher, Durgram saved 23 girls by stop-ping a jeep. The teacher had received informa-tion from the villagers that the minor girls were being trafficked to Rajkot in Gujarat for labour. They were being sent through an agent for the work of Doda sawdust cultivation. As soon as the teacher reached the spot, an agent sitting in the jeep ran away from the spot.

Durgram is known for raising awareness about child trafficking

in the area did the brave act and reached the spot along with villagers.

He stopped the jeep at Nainbara, from where driver fled away. While talking, some girls also ran away in panic. Dur-

garam reached the po-lice station with the jeep and gave a report of child trafficking. Af-ter interrogating the girls police called the family members to the police station.

Bhanwar S Charan

Kota: In Kota, Congress district president Ravin-dra Tyagi has issued a threat to officials of the water supply depart-ment stressing that their clothes will be turned off. Moreover, one of the new councillors even said that if they get an exemption, they will beat the officials. The matter is related to low pressure water supply in Ramchandrapura Can-tonment area.

When the problem was not resolved even after contacting the con-cerned officials, all the councillors of Canton-

ment Ramchandrapura reached the Collectorate along with Congress City District Prez Ravin-dra Tyagi where a pro-

gram of UDH Minister Shanti Dhariwal had been organized.

However, before that, the councillors and Tya-gi were talking among themselves wherein the councillors, expressing displeasure, stressed none of the officers of the said department lis-ten to their issues. On this Ravindra Tyagi called the water supply department officer and said threatened that the councillors will tear your clothes.

First India Bureau

Kota: Two runaway stu-dents from Maharash-tra studying in Class 11th were caught travel-ling in train without ticket to New Delhi by the GRP and were pre-sented before the Child Welfare Committee members, who coun-selled them and then called their family to Kota to hand over the students.

The two students are residents of Badala po-lice station area in Ma-harashtra. CWC mem-ber Arun Bhargava said that the boy and girl left

their house on April 7 for New Delhi in a train. On April 9, the GRP handed them over to the CWC. During counsel-ling, the children said that they were friends but did not give any rea-son for leaving their houses. The CWC mem-bers called the family members to Kota. The girl’s father and the boy’s mother reached Kota. The girl’s father is a transport business-man. The committee members handed over the two children to the families on a guarantee that they would not leave the house.

Jaipur: Cabinet Minis-ter Pratap S Khachariya-was on Sunday said that Karauli violence has been spread by BJP and RSS. “By taking out a procession, BJP got the riots done. The riots have been controlled by the Cong govt,” he said.

He said if anyone is at fault in Karauli vio-lence, he will not be spared. “I have also seen the video. The rioters ran away after rioting. After that people are standing. The police is also standing there. Why would the cops just beat them?,” he said. —FIB

First India Bureau

Nagaur: CM Ashok Ge-hlot, while participating in the mass marriage program of 141 couples in Nagaur district, bless-ed the brides and grooms and praised this event of social unity. RS member Rajendra Gehlot was also present as the spe-cial guest.

CM Gehlot, on Sunday, participated in the third mass marriage ceremo-ny of Saini Kshatriya Mali Samaj wherein the President of Saini

Kshatriya Mali Sansthan Ramswaroop Panwar and Secy Ramballabh Bhati apprised the CM

about the mass marriage program and other ac-tivities of the institute. Addressing on this occa-

sion, CM Gehlot said that it is a good tradition to organize mass mar-riages. There is equality and social unity in the society, he said. Refer-ring to Veer Teja ji to Meera and Likhmi Das Maharaj, Gehlot said, “if people of all caste and fraternity stay together, then the region, state and country will pro-gress.” Expressing hap-piness over the inaugu-ration of the hostel of Mali Samaj, he also men-tioned the contribution of Jyoti Ba Phule.

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Jaipur: Commercial Tax Department has created history in reve-nue collection by re-cording revenue of Rs 50,883.48 crore with a growth of 25.91% in the FY 2021-22.

According to the rev-enue data, dept has earned Rs 4574.17 crore in the month of March itself and Rs 48,111.51 crore in the year through VAT and GST.

Commissioner of Com-mercial Taxes Ravi Jain informed that, more revenue of Rs 10,469 crore 46 lakh has been collected as compared to the previous year. He said that the dept has also got significant suc-cesses in preventing wastage of revenue.

Taking action in tax evasion, the department has recovered Rs 674 crore in the FY 2021-22 as against Rs 533 crore in the previous year.

Govt teacher Durgram driving to the Police Station with 23 rescued girls on Sunday.

CM Ashok Gehlot addressing the gathering during the 3rd Mass Marriage Ceremony organised by Mali Community at Chenar in Nagaur on Sunday. Shakuntala Rawat, GS Dotasra, RS Yadav, Mahendra Chaudhary, Dr Manju Meghwal, Chetan Dudi, Habibur Rahman and others are also seen.

Ravindra Tyagi seen with other councillors on Sunday.

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Till Sunday evening, more than 5,000 people visited the four day long CREDAI expo. PHED Min Dr

Mahesh Joshi and JMCH mayor Munesh Gurjar also visited the expo on Sunday. On the occasion Joshi said that a policy for water connection for the people living in the flats and high rise building, so that drinking water can be accessible to all. Director of RIICO and Treasurer of Rajasthan PCCC Sitaram Agarwal, Rajiv Arora and Vinay Kumar also attended day 3 of the expo.

Jaipur: Heavy traffic jam is being witnessed at the porch of Jaipur airport after the Adani Group opened a restaurant and cafe in govt parking. Two food trucks — Saunf and Nick Nac can be seen parked here. The truckers have also put up chairs and tables eating into the parking space. The porch of Jaipur airport has four lanes. The first lane in front of the arrival-de-parture gate remains reserved. This causes jam in the remaining two lanes. —Kashiram Choudhary

Jaipur: The timings of the Raj Hc and the Lower Court of the state will change into summer schedule from Monday to June 26. The courts will open from 8 am to 1 pm and during this there will be lunch time from 10.30 am to 11 am. The office hours will be from 7.30 am to 1 pm. At the same time, the timing of the Lower Court will also be from 8 am to 12.30 pm and lunch time from 10 am to 10.15 am. The office hours in the Lower Court will be from 7.30 am to 1 pm. Offices to re-main open on Saturdays.

DECISION ON WATER CONNECTION POLICY FOR HIGH RISE BUILDINGS SOON: JOSHI

FOOD TRUCKS AT AIRPORT PARKING CAUSE JAM

COURT TIMINGS IN RAJ TO BE CHANGED FROM TODAY

Organising mass marriage programmes by society is a good tradition: CM Gehlot

z Procession was taken out from Surajpol (4PM) to Chandpol Gate.

z It reached Chand-pole via Ramganj, Badi Chaupar, Choti Chaupar and Chaura Rasta.

z 7 companies of RAC, 250 officers and more than 500 personnel, and drones were deployed.

z 250 volunteers were also made, who helped in the arrangements.

POLICE, PUBLIC AND DRONES @ SECURITY Ashok Gehlot@ashokgehlot51 Today, people of other religions including Muslims, Sikhs welcomed the processions on Ram Navami at many places. This brotherhood is the identity of our state and it is a symbol of our culture. It is my hum-ble request to be alert to the rumors being spread on social media. If any person tries to spoil the atmos-

phere, then definitely inform the police. Our vigilance will keep the state safe.

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breaking $50 billion exports in 2021-22.

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I was brought up to believe that piety & prayer were private, emotions were to be expressed behind closed doors, “grace under pressure” was the ideal,

& you worked hard to make your successes look effortless. None of

those values or standards of behaviour are upheld any longer.

SPIRITUAL SPEAK

The power of God is with you at all times; through the

activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions;

and is constantly doing all the work using you as a

mere instrument.—The Bhagvad Gita

IN-DEPTH

EVEN ATHEISM CAN HURT SENTIMENTS OF THE MAJORITY COMMUNITY

his conference had nothing to do with Islam or Christianity. Nor had it anything to do with Hindu

bashing. Yet it was not allowed to be held by the Pune Police as Sunday was Ram Navmi day and the event may have caused law and order problem. The event was the seventh edition of the Atheist conference organised by the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Vi-char Manch, Pune. Incidentally, Bhagat Singh believed in Athe-ism. The police told the organ-izers that certain groups felt that the Atheist conference on Ram-navmi was meant to hurt the sentiments of believers. This is strange logic which does not al-low room for lack of one’s belief in god. The event could have been allowed out of deference to Bhagat Singh.

India has a miniscule number of atheists---33,000 according to the 2011 census, who can hardly hurt a religious majority’s senti-ments. Atheism was propagated in ancient India by the philoso-pher Charvaka’s who rejected the notion of karma, afterlife and supernaturalism.

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n a historic first Imran Khan Niazi was ousted from power after a post midnight vote on

a no-confidence motion moved by the opposition par-ties went against him. One must appreciate the Pakistan Supreme Court which did not succumb to any pressure and ensured that the due demo-cratic process was followed. Helped by the National As-sembly speaker Prime Minis-ter Imran Khan tried every trick to have the no-trust shelved so that he could re-main in power but it wasn’t his day. Now former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sha-rif ’s younger brother She-hbaz Sharif is likely to be elected the next prime minis-ter. He’ll be heading a dispa-

rate group and may find the task of leading the country very challenging. Unlike the ace cricketer who has a spot-less image barring a few per-sonal weaknesses, Sharif is on bail in a money launder-ing case in a multi-billion

rupee sugar scam. He was also lodged in Lahore jail in another money laundering case and was released only last year.

With such baggage, he may not be an ideal choice for the prime minister’s post but he’s a product of democra-cy’s strange ways. Not only will Shehbaz have to keep an eye on the criminal cases against him, but he also has the daunting task of pulling Pakistan’s economy out of the quagmire as Imran’s beg-ging trips abroad were of no help. Inflationary woes were exacerbated by Imran’s in-sensitive remark that he was not in politics to check prices of “aloo and tamatar”. De-spite that he retains some of his popularity and can’t be written off just yet.

IMRAN KHAN CANNOT BE WRITTEN OFF

Not only will Shehbaz have to keep an eye on the criminal cases

against Imran Khan, but he also has

the daunting task of pulling Pakistan’s

economy out of the quagmire as Imran’s begging trips abroad

were of no help

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he Maharashtra government is attempting, to eliminate Chandrapur’s dubious title as the state’s most polluted city and district, located at the eastern edge of Maha-rashtra’s Vidarbha district.

The Chandrapur adminis-tration has set up a body called the District Level Pol-lution Control Agricultural Compensation Committee to look into the effects of coal pollution and fly ash on the district’s food and other rev-enue-generating crops. The committee will be chaired by the District Collector, with members including the Dis-trict Superintendent of Ag-riculture and the Chan-drapur Zilla Parishad CEO, as well as the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). According to dis-trict administration, the ag-ricultural department will evaluate crop health throughout a two-year evalu-ation that will begin this Kharif season (beginning June 2022) with help from lo-cal academic institutions.

Farmlands within a 500 m to 1 km radius of coal-fired industries, including the

Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station, will be exam-ined as part of this. The ef-fects of coal pollution in the form of fly ash on food crops in these farmlands will be compared to those in areas where industries are not pre-sent. If the evaluation re-veals a drop in crop yield or blackening of crops near in-dustries, the coal-fired com-panies will be responsible for compensating farmers for the revenue lost in terms of the crop area. The crops fo-cussed in this analysis will include - cotton, soybean, tur pulses and paddy. The same exercise will be conducted during the Rabi season (Octo-ber onwards).

Following an investigation by the MPCB into each indus-try failing to meet standards under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 and The Water (Pre-vention and Control of Pollu-tion) Act, a separate commit-tee - Taluka Level Pollution Control Agricultural Com-pensation Commitee - headed by the Tehsildar, BDO, Talu-ka agriculture officer, among others, will design a compen-sation framework for farm-ers. The action comes after Maharashtra Cabinet Minis-ter Aaditya Thackeray filed a written response to BJP MLC Chandrasekhar Bavankule’s query in Maharashtra legis-lature on March 24, 2022. The event in issue, according to

Bavankule, occurred in Jan-uary 2022, when cotton fields in an area near coal enter-prises were blackened owing to pollution from coal trans-portation. Bavankule ques-tioned if it was true that pol-lution had harmed the envi-ronment and was impacting not only cotton and soybeans but also other crops, citing industry non-compliance.

Thackeray responded by confirming that the impact of coal pollution on crops near industries was indeed true, as evidenced by a letter from the District Superintendent of Agriculture, Chandrapur, dat-ed February 25, 2022, stating that pollution was affecting the growth of cotton and soy-bean crops, and production was declining. The Minister

went on to say that the State Environment Department had requested a thorough report from District Collector’s office and that the MPCB had issued a spate of notifications and had also terminated the bank guarantee for enterprises that did not follow the Pollution Control Rules.

The impact of fly ash on crops in Chandrapur is a double whammy, as the dis-trict is already grappling with the effects of climate change on agriculture, with research indicating reduced crop growth and production, water scarcity, soil fertility reduction, poor quality yield, and late or no seed germina-tion as a result of changes in rainfall and temperature pat-terns, as well as crop residue burning. Over the last six years, the Maharashtra gov-ernment has paid out Rs. 171.37 crore in compensation to residents of Chandrapur who have sustained losses as a result of climate-related ca-lamities such as floods, droughts, and excessive rain.

Apart from being a key ti-ger destination in the country (Tadoba Wildlife Sanctuary), Chandrapur district is known for its huge coal mines. The district’s mineral-based in-dustrial expansion and fast urbanisation have inevitably resulted in pollution and envi-ronmental deterioration, with wide-ranging consequences. According to the State’s Eco-nomic Survey report issued last month, Chandrapur dis-trict has 1,751 industries, with 272 (16%) of them being red category industries, predomi-nantly coal-fired. Action tak-en by MPCB over the past year for violations at Chan-drapur included issuing 5 closure notices to coal fired industries, 85 show cause no-tices including those to the CSTPS, and bank guarantee forfeited to the tune of Rs. 47 lakh across energy and ce-ment industries.

Chandrapur has the dis-tinction of being Maharash-tra’s most polluted city and the only city in state where pollution levels didn’t de-crease during the Covid-19 pandemic-induced lock-downs. the MPCB plans to open two additional Continu-ous Air Quality Monitoring Stations in Chandrapur next month, as well as expand its Online Continuous Emis-sions Monitoring System to include all red-category sec-tors by the end of the year.

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BADRI CHATTERJEEThe writer is a Contributing Author to

First India as well as Communications & Engagement Strategist with Asar, which is a

research and communications startup that seeks to address the big environmental and

social challenges facing India

If the evaluation reveals a drop in crop yield or

blackening of crops near industries, the coal-fired

companies will be responsible for

compensating farmers for the revenue lost in terms of

the crop area. The crops focussed in this analysis

will include - cotton, soybean, tur pulses and

paddy

Maha commissions coal pollution study to assess impact on crop yield...to issue compensation to farmers facing revenue loss

— PHOTO BY YOGESH DUDHPACHARE

The impact of fly ash on crops in Chandrapur is a double whammy, as

the district is already grappling with the effects of climate change on agriculture, with research indicating reduced crop growth and production, water scarcity, soil fertility

reduction, poor quality yield, and late or no seed germination as a result of

changes in rainfall

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New Delhi (PTI): India has 103 active or de-funct spacecraft and 114 objects categorised as ‘space debris’ in orbit and it has embarked on a research to reduce such fragments from outer space. “Presently, the Indian Space Re-search Organisation (ISRO) has taken up re-search activities to study the feasibility and technologies re-quired to undertake ac-tive debris removal (ADR),” Minister of

State in PMO Jitendra Singh told parliament.

According to Orbital Debris Quarterly News issued in March by NASA, India had 103 spacecraft, including active and defunct satel-lites, and 114 space de-bris objects, including spent rocket bodies or-biting the earth. So, the country has a total of 217 space objects orbit-ing the earth.

Singh said Active De-bris Removal (ADR) was one of the active

methods suggested by the Space Debris Re-search Community to contain the growth of

space debris objects. “ADR is a very complex technology and in-volves policy and legal

issues. Technology demonstration studies have been taken up by many countries, includ-

ing India. Developmen-tal studies for finalising necessary technologies are initiated,” he said.

A top ISRO official had told a technology conclave last year that the space agency was working on futuristic technologies such as self-eating rockets and vanishing satellites.

According to the Or-bital Debris Quarterly News, the US has 4,144 spacecraft, and 5,126 ob-jects that can be catego-rised as space debris.

India has 217 space objects orbiting earth: ReportREDUCING SPACE DEBRIS?

New Delhi (PTI): Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi will hold a vir-tual meeting with US President Joe Biden on Monday to review bilat-eral cooperation and exchange views on re-cent developments in South Asia and the In-do-Pacific and global is-sues of mutual interest, the MEA amd US an-nounced on Sunday.

The Ministry of Ex-ternal Affairs made an announcement on Sun-day about the virtual meeting.

“The two leaders will review ongoing bilater-al cooperation and ex-change views on recent developments in South Asia, the Indo-Pacific region and global issues of mutual interest,” the MEA said.

PM Modi, Biden to hold virtual meeting ahead of 2+2 dialogueMeeting aimed at further strengthening bilateral comprehensive global strategic ties

Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting US President Joe Biden at the White House in US. —FILE PHOTO

Ahmedabad (PTI): Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi on Sunday said the coronavirus has not gone away and keeps resurfacing, and cautioned people not to let their guard down in the battle against the pandemic.

Nobody knows when the ‘bahurupiya’ (one that changes form) Cov-id-19 will resurface, PM Modi said, adding that administering nearly 185 crore doses of vaccines to control its spread was made possible due to public support.

He was addressing via video conferencing the Mahapatotsav pro-gramme of Maa Umiya Dham at Vanthali in Gujarat’s Junagadh dis-trict, as part of the 14th foundation day celebra-tion of the temple of Maa Umiya, considered as the deity of Kadva Patidar community.

The PM urged devo-tees of Maa Umiya to turn to natural farming with the aim to save Mother Earth from the scourge of chemical fertilisers.

He also asked people to a pledge to partici-pate in creating 75 ‘Am-rit Sarovars’ (lakes) in each district as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Ma-hotsav, being organised to mark 75 years of In-dia’s Independence.

“Covid-19 was a big crisis, and we are not saying that the crisis is over. It may have taken a pause, but we never know when it will resur-face. To stop this, nearly

185 crore doses of vac-cines were adminis-tered, which surprised the world,” he said.

The PM also said the devotees of Maa Umiya should undertake a pro-ject to take care of the health of malnourished

children and anemic mothers at the village level. The ‘Maa Umiya Trust,’ which manages the temple, should or-ganise competitions at the village level promot-ing good health of chil-dren, he said.

Covid not over, is changing forms and resurfacing: PM

‘DON’T LET YOUR GUARD DOWN’

New Delhi (PTI): The stronger the farmers be-come, the more prosper-ous New India would be, Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi said on Sunday and asserted that the ‘PM Kisan Samman Ni-dhi’ giving new strength to crores of tillers.

Taking to Twitter, the Prime Minister shared a graphic which stated that Rs 1.82 lakh crore have directly been trans-ferred to the bank ac-counts of 11.3 crore farmers. The graphic

stated the benefits farm-ers received under the 'PM Kisan Samman Ni-dhi' and other agricul-ture-related schemes.

"The country is proud of our farmer brothers and sisters. The strong-er they become, the

more prosperous the New India will be. I am happy that PM Kisan Samman Nidhi and oth-er schemes related to agriculture are giving new strength to crores of farmers in the coun-try,” Modi said.

Stronger farmers become, more prosperous India would be: PM

Banaskantha (ANI): Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday inaugurated the Indo-Pak border viewing point in Nadabet in Gu-jarat’s Banaskantha district.

Nadabet, as per the Gujarat Tourism web-site, is a small slice of land jutting into a sprawling lake, where the “Seema Darshan (border viewing) for tourists is organised.

“It offers an opportu-nity for travellers to see the workings of an army post. Some of the activities and sights that will interest the traveller include the re-treat ceremony against

the backdrop of a glori-ous orange sunset where the BSF jawans put up a gallant show of marching with pride to end another day of guarding the borders,” the website stated.

It further added that a weapon display and photo gallery at Nada-bet includes guns, tanks and other sophisticated devices that help in keeping the border and inland places secure.

Amit Shah inaugurates Indo-Pak Seema Darshan project at Gujarat’s Nadabet

Colombo: Former Prime minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickrem-esinghe on Sunday ac-cused the incumbent government of plunging the country into a deep economic and political crisis with its "incompe-tence in dealing with the financial challenges" while also stating that the utter failure has led to a situation where the people are standing in long queues.

"It never happened in our time...when our gov-ernment was here there were no queues of the people to buy the basic necessities. But it's all happening because of the incompetence of the

Gotabaya Rajapaksa government in the coun-try," former PM said.

Wickremesinghe also stated that when he was the PM in 2019 the coun-try's economy was in healthy status with cap-ital surplus but the in-competency of the cur-rent government has brought the people on the streets.

Ex-Lanka PM thanks India amid eco unrest

Bilaspur (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party chief Jagat Prakash Nadda on Sunday said that apart from BJP, there is no political par-ty in the country that runs without promot-ing familism and added that, because of this reason many of the op-position parties have limited themselves to mere regional parties.

Nadda was address-ing a roadshow in Bilas-pur on Sunday. Ad-dressing a gathering

today, Mr Nadda said, “In the recently con-cluded Assembly elec-tions, we all witnessed that Yogi Adityanath became the Chief Min-ister of UP for the sec-ond time in a row.”

All parties, except BJP, promote familism: Nadda

CATTLE SMUGGLER KILLED IN ASSAM

ADVANCED LIGHT COPTER MK III COMMISSIONED

Guwahati: A cattle smuggler was killed in a gunfight with the police in Assam’s Dhubri district, officials said on Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, police tried to intercept a vehicle in Sapatgram area on Sat-urday night, they said. “The car was signalled to stop, but it sped away. Our team started chasing it,” a police officer said. Those inside the car fired at the police vehicle, which was retaliated in self-defence, he said.

Bhubaneswar: The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) on Sunday com-missioned a squadron of Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) MK III, which will strengthen maritime security. ALH MK III choppers are fitted with modern sur-veillance radar and elec-tro-optical equipment which enables them to undertake the role of long-range maritime, an ICG statement said. These helicopters also feature an array of state of the art sensors.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Assam Agricultural Minister Atul Bora enjoying a Jeep Safari during their visit to Kaziranga National Park, in Nagaon on Sunday. —PHOTO BY ANI

Narmadapuram: A British-era bridge on the dry Suk-thwa river in Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram col-lapsed while a trailer-truck was crossing on Sunday, leading to traffic disruption on the Bhopal-Nagpur national highway, a senior police official said. The in-cident took place when a 138-wheel trailer-truck was crossing the narrow bridge, leading to the vehicle falling on the dry river bed, ASP Awadhesh Pratap Singh told news agency PTI over phone.

Washington: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar have arrived in the US capital to attend the India-US ‘2+2’ ministerial dialogue in Washington on Monday — the first under the Biden administration. To be held under the shadow of the Ukrainian crisis, the ‘2+2’ ministerial is reflec-tive of the significance the two governments attach to this bilateral relationship, which former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee described as natural allies.

BRITISH-ERA BRIDGE COLLAPSES IN MP, TRAILER-TRUCK FALLS ON DRY RIVER BED

DEFENCE MIN RAJNATH SINGH, EAM JAISHANKAR IN US FOR ‘2+2’ TALKS

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New Delhi (ANI): Amid a strong push by Central government for ‘Make in India’ in defence sector, the Defence Ministry has formed a committee under a three star-rank officer to decide on the curtailed deal for buying predator drones from the US. As per the plans, India was earlier planning to acquire 30 of these high-altitude long-endurance drones equipped with strike capability, including missiles, which were to be equally distrib-uted among the three

services. “A commit-tee has been formed under a Lieutenant General-rank officer to decide on the number of predator drones that the three services should buy to meet their requirements till the time indigenous development of similar equipment can be done,” Government sources said.

PANEL TO DECIDE ON CURTAILED PREDATOR DRONE DEAL WITH US

Precaution dose of vax rolled out at pvt centres

A healthcare worker inoculates a beneficiary with a precautionary dose in New Delhi on Sunday.

New Delhi (ANI): India on Sunday be-gan administering precaution dose of Covid-19 vaccines to all aged above 18 years, who have com-pleted nine months since the administra-tion of their second dose, at private vac-cination centres.

The Centre has told all States and UTs that the precau-tion dose will be of the same Covid-19 vaccine which has been used for ad-ministration of the first and second dose and that pri-vate vaccination centres can charge up to a maximum of Rs 150 per dose as service charge over and above the cost

of the vaccine.Union health sec-

retary Rajesh Bhushan, also in-formed that no fresh registrations would be required for pre-caution dose as all due beneficiaries are already regis-tered on CoWIN.

HIGHLIGHTSl Shanghai residents

question human cost of China's Covid quarantines

l India records 1,054 fresh Covid cases, 29 more deaths

l Over 17.47 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses available with States, UTs: Centre

Union Home Minister Amit Shah with Gujarat CM Bhupendrabhai Patel salutes in Banaskantha on Sunday. —PHOTO BY ANI

Satellite orbiting the earth. —FILE PHOTO

BJP chief JP Nadda

517 FROM CHINA

GTA POLLS: WB BJP SEEKS SHAH’S ADVICEKolkata, (Agencies): West Bengal unit of the BJP, during Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s two-day visit to the state on April 16-17, will seek his advice on contest-ing the forthcom-ing elections for Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) in Darjeeling. On April 16, Shah will be in north Bengal, wherein the hill leaders of the party will meet him and seek his sugges-tions on GTA polls.

ENJOYING SAFARI!

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Udaipur: A leopard has been found trapped in the jungles of Udaipur. The leopard was hanging upside down in a noose made of wire between the bushes. According to Regional Forest Officer Dilip Gurjar pather died during treatment on Sunday evening.

According to reports, villagers reached the spot after hearing the roar in the morning. The forest department

team rescued him after about an hour’s effort. The incident is of Mata-ji ka mandir behind

Rama Phosphate near Baghdara Nature Park. Hearing the roar of a leopard, the people who

came to the temple did not dare to go near.

Rescue in-charge Lal Singh told that someone had made a noose of the clutch of the motorcycle to hunt. Actually, the leopard was moving from the forest to the Rama Phosphate area at night. Meanwhile, the clutch wire of the mo-torcycle was kept in the bushes. The front leg of the panther got stuck in it and he kept groaning in the thorns and bush-es all night long.

Panther rescued by forest team in Udaipur, dies laterOPERATION IN VAIN

RECOVERY RACKET: MORE DTO OFFICIALS ON THE RADAR OF ACB1llegal recovery was done from trucks, ACB conducted surprise raid at 4.45 amAshvini Yadav

Alwar: In the case of arrest of 11 persons, in-cluding inspector Ravindra Singh Bhati, the bureau sleuths re-vealed that more offi-cials are on the radar. “Surveillance records may also reveal names of few more officials or civilians involved in the recovery game,” said an official.

Ravi Chauhan, a resi-dent of Dalal Chaubara, works as recovery agent for Inspector Bhati. ACB officials have re-covered total Rs 12 lakh of which more than Rs 8 lakh from Ravi Chau-

han’s residence. Addi-tional recoveries have been made from the guards as well.

Interestingly, when they realised that ACB had conducted a raid, the guards tried to wash their hands off the cash and threw money around the check post.

ASP Chandrashil in-formed that illegal re-covery is done from trucks on DTO toll and recently the bureau re-ceived a complaint in this regard. The other accused have been iden-tified as Leela Ram, Ga-jendra, Vikram, Lokesh and Kailash.

Accused DTO toll employees and brokers in ACB custody.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE DEMANDS PROBE INTO SARISKA TIGER POACHING

RATHORE’S ARREST STIRS POLICITAL CIRCLE IN RAJNavin Sharma

Jaipur: The arrest of CEO of Biofuel Author-ity Surendra Singh Rathore by ACB has now created a stir in the political fields too. The reason for this is simple; the ACB had kept Surendra Singh’s phone on surveillance and many shocking names came out dur-ing that time as many politicians, specially, two Rajput leaders of BJP and Congress, used to frequently

contact Surendra. According to sources, now the ACB is in a di-lemma regarding these VVIPs and possibly, a decision will be taken only after discussion at the higher level. Panchayati Raj and Rural Development dept formed a panel to probe CEO case. Long deployment of officers will be inves-tigated. The merger and amalgamation of services of officers in Bio-fuel Authority will also be examined.

Alwar: Before the major incident of fire in the Sariska forest, signs of hunting of Tiger ST-13 are becoming evident. Three members of the Advisory Committee of the Tiger Reserve Forest Sariska said that Tiger ST-13 has been poached. SIT should be formed to probe the matter. Demand has been made to the government. So far, the MLA of Rajgarh Laxmangarh, Johri Lal Meena has raised his voice alone. He has said earlier that the truth about Sariska’s negligence and guilty officials will be told to the Chief Minister. Meanwhile, many environmental lovers including historian and advocate Harishankar Goyal and Vivek were present.

ACS: Govt earned `384-cr revenue from natural gasNirmal Tiwari

Jaipur: The production of natural gas in the state has increased sev-en times in the last 13 years, resulting in an increase of more than 113 times in revenue re-ceipt. ACS Mines Dr Subodh Agarwal in-formed that a record 1570 MCM of natural gas has been produced in the recently conclud-ed financial year, while making a new record of revenue earning, the state government has received revenue of Rs 384 crore 54 lakh.

ACS Mines Dr Agar-wal informed that natu-ral gas is being pro-

duced in the state by Cairn Vedanta, Focus Energy and Oil India.

Natural gas is be-ing produced in

the state by Cairn Vedanta, Focus Energy and Oil

India.—Subodh Agarwal,

ACS Mines

GIRL DIES AFTER STRAY DOGS ATTACK IN TONK, POLICE REGISTERS FIRTonk: A dozen stray dogs attacked the girl go-ing to get milk. The girl died on the spot itself. Police reached the spot on information and got the dead body kept in the mortuary of Niwai CHC. Police handed over the dead body to the relatives after conducting a post-mortem. The incident of Lalwadi village of Dattawas police station area. After the incident, residents of the area expressed their resentment and demanded fro the civic authorities to control the increas-ing population of dogs.

Jaipur: The High Court on Saturday put a stay on the suspension of the Village Development Officer (VDO) of Todaraisingh for not giving the plaintiff a fair chance of hearing. The Bench of Justice Indrajit Singh issued notices to Pachayati Raj department, District Collector of Tonk and others, seeking their explanation on the matter. The aggrieved VDO Mo-han Lal has pleaded in his petition that the Commis-sioner of the concerned Zilla Parishad has misused his powers in suspending him on 7 March on the pretext of an ongoing departmental inquiry against him whereas no such probe is pending against him.

RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT STAYS VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER’S SUSPENSION

NEWS DIGEST

Take action against guilty, Min tells officials

Manoj Jain 

Karauli: Rural Devel-opment and Panchaya-ti Raj Minister Ramesh Meena visited Karauli and held a meeting with IG, District Col-lector and SP where he instructed the officials to take action against the guilty and not to harass the innocents. Besides, curfew will be relaxed from 9 am to 5 pm from today.

“All shops will re-

main open during this time but two-wheelers and four-wheelers will not be allowed to ply

on roads,” said Collec-tor Rajendra Singh Shekhawat.

Meena has accused

the BJP of provoking violence by instigating people as elections ap-proaching. He held a

meeting of both the communities on Sun-day to know their views on ending curfew.

MAN HELD FOR OBJECTIONABLE POST ON KARAULI INCIDENTSawai Madhopur: Malarna Dungar police sta-tion arrested a youth for making objectionable remarks on Facebook regarding the disturbance in Karauli. SHO Bharat Singh said that in view of the communal riots in Karauli and the festival of Ram Navami, special precautions are being taken against those who post provocative posts on Facebook. Chakeri resident, Pankaj (21) son Kajodmal Meena was reported to have made objectionable remarks on Facebook regard-ing the communal riots in Karauli, on which ASI Roop Singh was sent to Chakeri village to investigate the matter. Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Ramesh Meena

held a meeting with distrcit officials in Karauli on Sunday.

A team of forest employees rescuing trapped panther.

Seven die in five separate road accidents across stateFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: An 8-year-old child Kunal died in a road accident on Satur-day night in the Kotwali police station area of Dholpur. The child was returning with a flag to the Durga Mata temple along with the people of the village. During this, a speeding bike coming from behind hit the child, due to which he died on the spot. After the accident, the youth fled away leaving the bike on the spot. Police reached the spot and kept the body in the mortuary of hospital. The police handed over the dead body to the relatives after conduct-ing a post-mortem on Sunday morning and

on the basis of the num-ber of the bike, looking for the accused.

In Jodhpur, two youths died in a road ac-cident on Phalodi’s NH-11 Khara village. Asho-ka and Tetaram Vish-noi, resident Dayasagar Khara died their Scor-pio car in which they travelling, met an acci-dent. Both were brought to the district hospital

in Phalodi and doctors declared them dead.

In Pratapgarh, a two-year-old girl play-ing outside the house was trampled by a trac-tor. The family filed a murder case against the driver.

In Dholpur, two peo-ple died when a car was collided with a truck near Krishi Upaj Mandi Gate near NH 3.

In Pratapgarh, a two-year-old girl play-ing outside her house in Gajpura village of Chandoli gram pan-chayat of Chhotisadi sub-division area of Pratapgarh was crushed by a speeding tractor, killing the girl on the spot. Tractor driver fled from the spot.

Criminal dies in celebratory firing, groom injured Ramesh Sharma

Sikar: A case of firing has come to the fore in the marriage ceremony in the Nechhwa police station area of Sikar. A day before the wedding, three people were shot in the firing by the dancing youths. In the incident, the groom’s friend, a history sheeter, died due to bullet inju-ries and the groom and his aunt’s son were also injured. Nechhwa po-lice station officer Vi-mala Budhania said that there was an inci-dent of fire during the marriage ceremony in the Kirdoli village. The marriage of Sangram Singh is on April 10. A day before the wedding, a get together was goinig on in the house.

GS Shekhawat targets state govt for ‘slack approach’ towards water crisisFirst India Bureau

Jodhpur/Pali: Union Minister Gajendra Sin-gh Shekhawat targeted the state government for slack attitude in solving the problem of water crisis despite the massive budget from the Centre. He said, “We know that water issue is a state subject under the system provided by the Constitution.”

He said Centre has provided a budget of Rs 12,500 cr to the state since 2019 but the pace of work in my own state

is very slow. In Pali, Shekhawat, said that the Central Govern-ment is working on pri-ority to make every per-son self-reliant as en-visaged by PM Naren-

dra Modi. Congress leader Yashpal Kump-awat met Shekhawat and demanded a perma-nent solution to the drinking water prob-lem in Pali district.

‘Reopen cancelled lease applications under PSKS’

Vikas Prajapat murder: Accused spill the beans

First India Bureau

Jaipur: As the Pra-shasan Shehron ke Sang campaign starts from May 1, the govern-ment has instructed that the files of the 30,000 lease applica-tions that were can-celled by the civic bod-ies must be reopened. More than 27,000 of these are from the Au-tonomous Government Department. The gov-ernment has given in-

structions to get the documents related to all such applications. Be-sides, information about the disposal of pending cases has also been sought. The urban bodies have rejected 46,000 applications re-lated to other works, including leases. A tar-get has been set to issue 10 lakh leases under the campaign. So far, 25,1712 applications have been approved against 29,737 applications.

Lalit Kumar Joshi

Pratapgarh: The ac-cused arrested in con-nection with the Vikas Prajapat murder case in Chhoti Sadri, Pratap-garh have revealed that the murder was done due to uploading of a video of the beating on the WhatsApp status. SP Dr Amrita Duhan said that on April 6, in-formation was received at the Chhoti Sadri PS, an injured person came to the police station, who told that he was

beaten up. He was ad-mitted to a hospital where he died. There were three named and one unknown accused in the FIR. All four were detained by the police within 3 hours. During interrogation, it was found that the deceased Vikas and the accused Arvind Anjana, Jaspal Anjana, Shivlal were having a rivalry be-tween them for 5-6 months. Bunty Anjana had thrashed Arvind Anjana, whose video was made by Vikas.

Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat along with Union Minister of State for Textiles Darshana Jardosh participated in the convocation ceremony of NIFT in Jodhpur on Sunday.

Pratapgarh: A 13-year-old girl be-came a mother after which a case under POCSO has been filed and a minor was held. After having abdominal pain, the relatives showed the girl to doctors and after examination she was found pregnant. After the operation, the victim gave birth to a still born. On the persuasion of SP Amrita Duhan, the victim’s family got the case filed. The DNA test of the dead child and the minor accused will be done. Further action will be taken after the arrival of the DNA report.

MINOR HELD FOR IMPREGNATING 13-YR-OLD GIRL

Karauli curfew ralaxed from 9 am to 5 pm

Kunal —FILE PHOTO

Accept the change with positivity and you will see a dramatic change in its face.

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Jaipur: Those in the know-how of the devel-opments and whispers of the Secretariat stress that perhaps the state government is not too happy with the working style of Principal Secre-tary of Administrative Reforms Ashwini Bha-gat. And more so, Bhagat does not feature too good in Usha Sharma’s books and perhaps that is why, Bhagat has been stripped of much of his responsi-bilities and work and given roles in the Plan-ning Department.

The work of organis-ing, monitoring and fol-

low-up of marathon meetings of Chief Secre-tary to be handled by AR department, is now be-ing done by Planning department.

CS Usha Sharma had asked all 33 collectors of Rajasthan to take up the new innovative scheme in their respective dis-tricts and thereafter she chaired marathon meet-ings for five days straight wherein she observed the presentations of these schemes, but no-where was AR involved in the process. In fact, Ashwini Bhagat was not even called to the meet-ings for presentation.

The state government

is going to hold a Collec-tors’ conference in the ongoing month and it will be after a long time that all collectors will as-semble in Jaipur, togeth-er. Till now the AR de-partment has organized such conferences, but

this time around, the re-sponsibility has been given to the Planning Department.

As such, other works in the AR department have come to a complete halt. Such is the situa-tion that the Sampark helpline, which was started by CM Ashok Ge-hlot right after coming to power so that the general public can register their complaints and griev-ances, has almost stopped. Moreover, work related to attendance checking, by sending teams to departments, has also ended.

Senior IAS of 1995 batch Ashwini Bhagat

was handed over the re-sponsibility of ARD in July 2020, but since day one, the man did not show any interest in the department’s work. Word is that he does not come to the office for the entire duration of work-ing hours too! Nearly a fortnight back, CS Usha Sharma gave him a dressing down and or-dered him that even if he comes one hour late to office, he should inform CS about it.

Knowledgeable sourc-es claim that in his 28-year long service, he has never been given any im-portant posting by any government. When in

2004, he was appointed as Collector of Ajmer, soon after he was removed too for an obscene dance at Pushkar Fair. Thereafter, when in 2008 he was ap-pointed as Collector of Kota, his own Collector-ate employees rebelled against him and DoP was forced to call him back within three months.

In the past decade, successive govern-ments have posted him in Higher Edu, Sanskrit Edu, Animal Husband-ry, Jaipur Metro, Elec-tion, & Ayurveda De-partments due to which Bhagat’s image has been of a ‘non-perform-er and average officer.’

WILL BHAGAT EVER COME OUT OF HIS ‘NON-PERFORMER & AVERAGE OFFICER’ IMAGE?

Laxman Raghav

Bikaner: CM Ashok Gehlot addressed a press conference in Bi-kaner on Sunday and addressed the issue surrounding Karauli violence wherein he said, “Strict action will be taken against those who engage in vio-lence. Only rule of law will prevail in state. PM and Home Minister should give a statement on violence.”

Targeting the Cen-tre, he said that a dan-gerous environment has been created in country. “Politics of po-larization is happening and BJP government is ruining democracy on money power. We have no quarrel with BJP, but our fight is against ideology.” Gehlot, re-sponding to a question of Union Min threaten-ing to send officers to jail said, “Isn’t he leav-ing politics? He was the main character to con-spire & topple the man from Jodhpur from CM’s role. What was his role in Sanjivani, he should tell govt? Money of the poor should be given to them.”

CM Gehlot listened

to the problems of the common man at Bikan-er Circuit House.

During the public hearing, a large num-ber of employees and various employee or-ganisations expressed

their gratitude to the Chief Minister for im-plementing the Old Pension Scheme for the various government employees appointed on and after January 1, 2004.

GEHLOT LISTENS TO PROBLEMS OF MASSES IN BIKANER

ISN’T HE LEAVING POLITICS?, CM TAKES A JIBE AT MIN SHEKHAWAT

CM’s JOVIAL TAKE ON SACHIN PILOT SURPRISES MEDIA!

CM TO VISIT DUNGARPUR ON APRIL 15 & 24

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IS RUINING DEMOCRACY ON MONEY POWER, THE CM SAID

CM Ashok Gehlot Addresses the concerns of people during a public hearing conducted at the Circuit House in Bikaner on Sunday.

CM Ashok Gehlot on Sunday addressed the Murti Prana Pratishtha ceremony at the Banke Bihari Temple of Shri Balaji Seva Dham in Nagaur district. He said there should be respect for every religion and God does not forgive those who do violence. He said serving cows is a very pious act. For the first time in the country, a department has been created for the protection and promotion of cattle in Rajasthan and the government has increased the grant for Gaushalas.

FLORAL TRIBUTES

Meanwhile, the Chief Minister visited the

stone plaques based on the life philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Park. Later, Gehlot reached the residence of former MP Jamna Barupal at Rathkhana Colony and offered his condo-lences on the demise of the former MP. Barupal passed away on January 20. Gehlot offered floral tributes to Jamna Barupal and Pannalal Barupal.

Bikaner: In an interesting development, CM Gehlot, displaying his carefree and cheerful style, replied to a media question related to Sachin Pilot. Since Pilot met Rahul & Priyanka Gandhi recently in Delhi, Gehlot was ques-tioned about what tran-spired in meet in Delhi? CM Gehlot replied with a smile, “Brother, I didn’t put cameras there so that I know what happened?” Reply of ‘know all’ leader of Congress, took the journo by surprise & while Gehlot smiled, journo was speechless & smiled back at the CM.

CM Gehlot will visit Dungarpur on April 15 & 24 wherein Congress state president Govind Singh Do-

tasra will also accompany CM. Gehlot will reach Ratan-pur border with Dandi Yatra on April 15 after which, he will address the rally at Bichhiwada. Meanwhile, Gehlot and Dotasra will visit Gyanpur village on April 24 and attend the convention of Gujarati Patidar society.

Bhanwar S Charan

Kota: UDH Minister Shanti Dhariwal lashed out at RD Meena, his closest re-tired officer, and UIT OSD and asked him to keep his officers under control. He said that his engi-neers were ignoring his orders. A temple and a house built by Birdhilal Bagri near River Front in the Kunhadi area were demolished by Urban Development Trust for construction. A family living near Chambal River Front also reached out to the Minister during

the public hearing with their complaint after which Dhari-wal reacted.

Dhariwal said that UIT engineer Kamal Meena wasn’t listen-ing to him. Dhariwal took serious note of the demand for a makeover of Kota’s court complex and inspected it on Sun-day & directed offic-ers to repair the au-ditorium. He also in-structed officials to develop a better drainage system.

The Advocate Council Kota thanked Dhariwal for immediate action on their demands.

UDH Minister Shanti Dhariwal inspects Kota Court Complex during his visit to the city on Sunday. Also seen here are Anoop Bartariya, RD Meena, Rajesh Joshi & OP Verma.

Dhariwal raps UIT OSD over razing villager’s house

When I had already given clear instructions not to break the house situated in the locality, then why

did Meena visit the family?—Shanti Dhariwal, UDH Minister

First India Bureau

New Delhi: After the party’s drubbing in recent assembly polls in five states, top Congress leaders will soon meet at a ‘Chin-tan Shivir’ to deliber-ate on measures for reviving the organi-sation at the grass-roots level and ad-dress fresh challeng-es. Sources said the party has convened a meeting of its gener-al secretaries and in-charges on Tuesday to work out modali-ties for the conclave, which is likely to be held in Rajasthan.

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and his Chhattisgarh coun-terpart Bhupesh Baghel have already offered to host the Shivir in their re-spective states, and the party leadership may settle for Jaipur in Rajasthan, owing to its proximity to the national capital.

During the last CWC meeting, when party leadership faced fresh demands for organisational overhaul in wake of defeat in five states, it was decided that the party will hold an-other CWC meet af-

ter the Parliament session & finalise de-tails of Chintan Shi-vir.

The major brain-storming session will chalk out a strat-egy for course cor-rection to reverse the trend of electoral de-feats as party is now in power in only Ra-jasthan & Chhattis-garh. Congress lead-ership wants every Congress leader to openly discuss short-comings & corrective measures to be taken to help spread its ide-ology & make it fight-ing fit electorally in next poll season, sources said. The continous tussle be-tween the old guard & younger lot has also taken a toll and the issue is likely to be discussed. Word is that party has al-ready accepted that it could not effectively “expose the misrule” of BJP state govern-ments in 4 states of UP, U’khand, Goa & Manipur, due to flaws in its strategy.

COURTESY VISIT

Jagdeesh Chandra called on West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at the Raj Bhavan, Jaipur on Sunday evening. During the courtesy visit, Jagdeesh Chandra presented the Governor with a copy of The Untold Stories - The making of PM Modi: A compilation of First India edits on the man who has re-written the history of modern India. Governor Dhankhar appreciated the initiative and said that this collection is indeed an inspiring one.

Cong leaders to meet to prep for Chintan Shivir, Raj may host

What have you done for Raj in 5 yrs?: CM

Ashwini Bhagat

From P1…

Our own MP has be-come Minister of Water Resources. Get at least one project declared as a national project. Itni Hi Uski Aukaat Nahi Hai. What a minister he is that he can not con-vince the PM.” On granting national pro-ject status to ERCP, now bitterness has started increasing be-tween GS Shekhawat & CM Ashok Gehlot. Ge-hlot said, “PM has spo-ken about ERCP. Even if we do not consider that, the minister should have such a sta-

tus that he should get declared a national project by telling the PM that it is the issue pertaining to Ra-jasthan and PM, this has to be done. Take a look at the history of 40 years, I myself have been an MP, today the map of Rajasthan has changed, we got the work done. Ask them what they have done for Rajasthan in 5 years? ERCP is made by their government. PM says our famous CM; at least give her time to meet you. Now they have 6 CMcandi-dates.”

SHEKHAWAT’S JIBE...“Union Min’s remark against bureaucracy is not only inde-cent, but also undemocratic. The capable bureaucrats are doing a great job and acting on complaints. Shekhawat’s remark has also caused huge resentment in state bureaucracy.” Meanwhile, Joshi asked Shekhawat, “When are you getting the foundation stone of ERCP laid as a national project? It is necessary to solve the acute drinking water problem of residents of 13 districts of East Rajasthan. PM Modi himself has spoke about its importance in 2018 poll meets. Raj govt is ready to help as a provision of Rs 9,600 crore has been made in the state budget.”

ashion modelling is more than a profes-sion, it is a way for the model to express herself through a certain line of cloth-ing and makeup.

Modelling is undoubtedly the most popular modern goal among young women of all backgrounds. It is the most difficult occupation, which requires passion and patience, this is not unques-tionably limited to the world of fashion, but also encom-passes other well-known vo-cations. The gorgeous beauty Amrita gives a sneak peek about her journey as a model in a conversation with City First.

When asked about her journey the ravishing beauty said,” I’m a 22-year-old girl from Panipat who is current-ly residing in Delhi to pursue my goal and build a career out of it. My bachelor’s de-gree was in computer sci-ence. My modelling career began in 2018 when I entered a contest and afterwards be-gan working as an Instagram influencer. As a model, I’ve worked with several well-known brands. I’ve also worked with several well-known designers and celeb-rity makeup artists.”

When asked about the hardships faced during her remarkable journey, Amrita said, “Because of my job, I have to live away from my

parents, which is difficult for me because I am a family-oriented girl. My family has always been supportive, but due to society’s preconceived beliefs about models and their careers, they occasion-ally try to persuade me to stop modelling and find a good partner. I persuaded my parents to let me pursue modelling.”

She also added “I re-ally enjoyed and also learnt quite a bit from the Queen of cos-mos event held at Fair-m o u n t Jaipur and I am really grateful to J a g d e e s h C h a n d r a Sir and First India team for this won-derful op-portunity”

We asked her about her future a s p i r a t i o n s and she told us “After 20 years, I want to see myself in a position where I am an example to many other young women from small towns, and they as-pire to be like me. I want to start a grooming school for everyone interested in working in this field and provide them with free training. I want to reach new heights in this indus-try, but I also want my parents to be right beside me, supporting me at all times.”

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here are dozens of spells that are used by the char-acters in Harry Potter’s fictional world of wizard-ry. From Expecto

Patronum to Avada Ke-davra each spell has a unique story but to know the darkest secrets behind these magical quotes we have to dig into the histo-ry of Hogwarts.

Ever since becoming popular, the Harry Potter series has been among the most frequently chal-lenged books, as meas-ured by the American Li-brary Association. While the series was welcomed by many parents and teachers for getting chil-dren interested in read-ing, not to mention being a good story, others feel that the series presents dangerous ideas and atti-tudes that are bad for readers.

In some parts of the United States and the United Kingdom, Potter books have been banned from being read in school, taken out of libraries, and even burned in pub-lic. Omg, why on earth such a masterpiece is banned? To my surprise, I discovered that some spells used in Harry Pot-ter were actually real. Even the decision to re-move Harry Potter books from the St. Edward’s li-brary was widely mocked on social media by fans of the popular series.

The names of many of the spells are indeed de-rived from other languag-es, especially Latin. How-ever, for the most part, they aren’t proper words.

Author J.K. Rowling created words that resem-ble other words with real meanings.

A CLOSER LOOK AT A FEW SPELLS …Here’s a closer look at some of them: The spell Alohomora is used to open and unlock doors. The word is supposedly from the West African Sidiki dialect and means “friendly to thieves.”

Need to make invisible

ink appear? Try the spell Aparecium, which supposedly derives from the Latin appareo, mean-ing “to become visible or to appear.”

Here’s a fun one: Conf-ringo. It causes something to explode in flames. The spell is likely derived from Latin and means “to break in pieces, to bring to nought.”Densuageo is derived from two Latin words: dens, which means “tooth,” and augeo, which means “to enlarge.” The spell causes the victim’s teeth to grow quickly.

The spell Episkey is de-rived from the Greek episkeu, which means “repair, restora-tion.” It’s used to heal mi-nor injuries, such as Har-ry Potter’s broken nose in Half-Blood Prince. Pro-tego Horribilis is also used in Deathly Hallows. It provides protection against Dark Magic and comes from the Latin pro-

tego, meaning “to protect,”and horribilis, meaning “horrible.” Scourgify, which is a spell used to get something clean, such as Hedwig’s cage, is likely a play on the word scour.

The spell Taranta-llegra makes a victim’s legs dance uncontrolla-bly. It’s likely that it com-bines the Italian allegra, which means “joyful,” and tarantella, which is a Southern Italian folk dance with rapid move-ments.

Even Harry Potter bans have a long history: As the Daily Telegraph notes, the books were repeatedly banned by schools and targeted by church-spon-sored book burnings between 1 9 9 7 a n d 2007,

when the seven volumes in the series were pub-lished. Author J.K. Rowl-ing was frequently ac-cused of promoting Sa-tanism and glorifying the occult, and the American Library Association found that between 2000 and 2009, the books were among the most likely to be challenged by parents objecting to their inclusion in school libraries. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI even weighed in on the contro-versy when he was a car-dinal, writing in 2003 that the books “deeply distort Christianity in the soul before it can grow prop-erly.”

All the above informa-tion has proved that cer-tain types of magic are possible outside the school as else or are y’all still waiting for your Hog-warts letter?

HOGWARTS AND ITS BANNED HISTORY!Are you too riddikulusly obsessed with Harry Potter? And have you ever wondered how the names for Hogwarts’ spells were created?

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TOGETHER FOR ETERNITY!

Brooklyn Beck-ham and Nico-la Peltz are of-ficially mar-

ried. As confirmed by People, the couple tied the knot on Sat-urday in a lavish ceremony held at Pelz’s family es-tate in Palm Beach, Florida. The duo said “I do” in presence of their close family and friends, including celebrity guests like Serena Williams,

—Agency

Tamanna Bhatia lives by the rule ‘no pain, no gain’. The Baahubali star has shared anoth-

er inspiring update from her daily routine. Recently, she posted a workout video from her gym session on Insta-gram. She was seen indulging in some intense weight training to maintain her toned physique. The F3 star opted for a grey co-ord athleisure for her day at the gym. This lat-est clip was captioned, “You have it, don’t hide it”. — Agency

Motherhood is agreeing with Shriya Saran. Whenever the

Drishyam actress gets a breather from work, she likes to spend her time with hubby Andrei Ko-

scheev and her daugh-ter Radha. Shriya

Saran started her Sunday with some playtime with the 1-year-old. In the pics, the Awarapan actress posed with Radha’s toys and in others, she is seen capturing the adorable movements of her little bundle of joy. —Agency

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Deepika Padukone took her fans back in time on Sunday afternoon as she dished out an

extremely special piece of work from the archives. Turns out, the actress gave a shot at writing po-etry when she was only 12-years-old. Taking to Instagram, Deepika shared a photo of the poem she wrote when she was 12 and hilari-ously called it her first and last attempt. The actress wrote a rather lengthy poem of at least 3 stanzas. —Agency

IT’S A GOOD NEWS!

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck left fans sur-prised with their en-gagement news over

the weekend. After rekindling their romance last year, the couple took a big step into their relationship as they got engaged again after two dec-ades since their first engage-ment. Affleck proposed to JLo with a green ring that holds a special meaning for her.

The singer’s massive spar-kler is reportedly an 8.5-carat green diamond stone that could range between 8 to 10 USD million. —Agency WISHES- FULL

OF LOVE!

Kristen Stewart is a year older and a year ‘flyer.’ On Saturday, the Academy Award nominee celebrated

her 32nd birthday with her fian-cée Dylan Meyer, who posted

a shot of them leaning in for a kiss over a birthday cake. Captioning it “Another one around the sun and you’re out here getting flyer every year,” The cou-

ple recently walked the red carpet together at the 94th Academy Awards

where Stewart received her first-ever nom-ination for best actress af-ter portray-ing Princess Diana in Spen-cer. —Agency

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nal two films and after addi-

tions such as that of Cardi B in F9, its sequel is

looking even brighter with the addition of MCU star Brie Larson. The Cap-tain Marvel star is joining the Fast and Furious fran-chise and an announce-ment for the same was made by Vin Diesel on Instagram. Describing

the Oscar-winning actress as a “profound soul”, Diesel wrote, “Yeah yeah yeah… you see this angel over my shoulder cracking me up, you say to your self that’s Captain Marvel”.

—Agency

riyanka Chopra is the newest mum on the block as she welcomed her first child via sur-rogacy in January this year. However, the ac-tress has also kept up

with her work commitments. Looks like the weekend was an-other project on the cards for Priyanka Chopra as the actress headed out to Los Angeles where she is currently based. Delighting her fans, Priyanka dropped a selfie, or rather a carfie, as she snapped a picture while in her car. —Agency

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LADY IN BLACK!

All eyes are on Ranbir Ka-poor and Alia Bhatt ever since the news of their wedding has come out.

Well, the lovebirds have recently wrapped up the shoot of their much-awaited film Brahmastra. We have all seen the first look of Ranbir and Alia respectively and on Sunday, just a few days ahead of their wedding, Ayan Mukerji dropped a poster featuring the two together and called it the love poster of Brahmastra. Along with it the filmmaker also hinted at some ‘extra love in the air these days’. —Agency

Shruti Haasan does not shy away from sharing up-dates from her personal and professional life on

social me-dia. The Premam ac-tress is in Guwahati at the mo-ment for the Rongali Bihu cele-brations in Assam with her boy-friend San-tanu Haz-arika for an event. She recently dropped some stunning pictures from her visit. The star looked pretty as a picture in a black saree with golden embellish. The look was enhanced multi-fold with tra-ditional jhumkas and bangles.

—Agency

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CITY FIRST

On the concluding day of the cele-bration of 29th Foundation

Day of Jawahar Kala Kendra (JKK), re-nowned singer Ravindra Upadhyay gave a fusion performance on the theme ‘Rangeelo Ra-jasthan’ on Sunday even-ing. The fusion of hip-hop along with Rajastha-ni folk enthralled the audience at the event. Upadhyay performed in the program along with

his co-stars Rapperriya Balam and Shalini Adhi-kari. During this, Upad-hyay performed many Bollywood songs includ-ing ‘Jiya Lage Na’ from film Talaash, ‘Aankho Mein Sapna’ from film

Iqbal, among others. Along with this, the pres-entation of ‘Hariyala Bana’, ‘Des Padharo Sa’ and ‘Jai Jai Rajasthan’ in Rajasthani songs also won the hearts of the au-dience.

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Jagdeesh Chandra launched the poster of 101 Senior Citizen’s Felicitation and Lifetime Achievement Award, being organised by Deya Drishti Foundation on April 16 at EHCC Hospital Auditorium from 11 am onwards. The event is being organised to pay gratitude to the senior citizens who are the architects of our society. On the occasion, the directors of the foundation, Shikha Sharma, Alka Choudhary and Poonam Khangarot were present. They also invited Jagdeesh Chandra to be the Chief Guest for the ceremony.

THE ENGAGEMENT BELLS!CITY FIRST

he engagement ceremony of Mohit Balwa-da, son of Praveen Bal-wada with B h a w n a ,

daughter of Harphool Choudhary was organ-ised on Sunday, April 10

at Hotel Jai Mahal Pal-ace, Jaipur.

Jagdeep Dhankhar, Governor of West Ben-gal reached to bless the couple for their new phase of life. Mohit is the nephew of state ad-vocate Sanjeev Mahla. Many dignitaries in-cluding Lalchand Ka-

taria, Minister of Ra-jasthan Government, Dr Virendra Singh, Randeep Dhankhar were also present.

Several dignitaries met Jagdeep Dhankhar during his stay in Jaipur on Sunday. Lalchand Kataria, Minister of Ag-

riculture, Animal Hus-bandry & Fishries De-

partment, Advocate Hemant Nahata, Sanjeev Mahla,

Sheetal Dhankhar, Shubhakaran Choud-hary, Information Com-missioner, Dr Virendra Singh, Randeep

Dhankhar, former Advo-cate General Dharam-veer Tholiya, and RSS’ Bhanu Pratap also met him.

Jagdeep Dhankhar stayed at Raj Bhavan. He left for Kolkata along with his wife Dr Sudesh Dhankhar on Sunday.

The grand roka ceremony of Arun Sharma, son of Harish Sharma and Pushpa Sharma, with Anjali Jethanandani, daughter of Murli Jethanandani and Gopi Jethanandani was held on Sunday, April 10 at Hotel Grand Safari, Jaipur. Jagdeesh Chandra reached to bless the soon to be married couple and wished them all the best for their future.

—PHOTOS BY MUKESH KIRADOO

PRE- WEDDING CELEBRATIONS!

CELEBRATIONS & GREETINGS!

POSTER LAUNCH!

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The last day of JECRC University’s Annual Fest JU Rhythm was held on Saturday. During the three-day annual fest, the students witnessed a tremendous craze for Blockchain technology including Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. In the exhibition organised by Makerspace of the University, the students displayed devices based on advanced technology.

MILITARIA 2022!CITY FIRST

Militaria 2022 was formally inaugurated at Castle Kanota,

Jaipur on Sunday. The evening commenced with a welcome address by Maroof Raza, de-fence expert, former Indian Army Officer and founder of ‘Mili-taria’. The keynote speaker for this il-lustrious event was renowned archaeolo-gist and historian, Dr Rima Hooja who elabo-rated on the illustrious military traditions of

Rajasthan. The evening paid a tribute to Late General Amar Singh of

Kanota with a pres-entation by Vidushi Pal Singh on his life

and writings. This was followed by a visit to a beautifully kept li-brary cum museum, with his meticulously kept war diaries, and a

museum of the arms used by soldiers of his generation.

Several eminent per-sonalities from the armed forces, the gov-ernment authorities and other defence com-panies from across In-dia were in attendance at the Legacy Event.

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A MOVIE FOR EVERY MONTH!CITY FIRST

Tapesh Kotia, a p a s s i o n a t e f i l m m a k e r from Jaipur

has come up with a first of its kind and unique concept “Twelve Months Twelve Films” in a press conference held at Coffee House in JKK on Sunday. During the press con-ference, he informed that each month of the Hindu calendar has a special signifi-cance and also gives a special message, under this scheme, starting from the Hindu New Year, a short film will be produced every month, in which the

story will be written keeping in mind the importance of that particular month.

The first film of this scheme “Chhutte” is based on Chaitra, the first month of the Hindu New Year month. The film, directed by Gajendra S Kshotri-ya, depicts the Gan-ga-Jamuni culture. The story of “Chhutte” is written by senior journalist Tribhuvan. The post-er of the short film “Chhutte” produced for the month of Chaitra was also re-leased on Sunday. The film stars Sha-naya Rao, Jaya Pan-dey, Raman Atre and Tapan Bhatt.

FOUNDATION DAY @ JKK

Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Sanjay Garg, Suman Garg, Sanket Garg, Surya Mittal and Kriti Garg Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Kriti Garg, Sanket Garg and Sanjay Garg

(L-R) Suman Garg, Aruna Garg, Surya Mittal and Kriti GargJagdeesh Chandra with Kriti Garg

Jagdeep Dhankhar with (L-R) Shubhkaran Choudhary, Dr Sudesh Dhankhar, Mohit Balwada,Bhavna Choudhary, Lalchand Kataria, Praveen Balwada and Harphool Singh Chaudhary

Jagdeep Dhankhar with Dr Virendra Singh and Lalchand Kataria

Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Murli Jethanandani, Gopi Jethanandani, Pooja Gurnanani, Jitesh Jethanandani, Anjali Jethanandani, Arun Sharma, Rajkumar Jethanandani, Harish Sharma, Pushpa Sharma and Kaviraj Sethi

Anjali Jethanandi and Arun Sharma

Tapesh Kotiya with Banaj Kumar

Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Alka Choudhary, Poonam Khangarot and Shikha Sharma

Rima Hooja Maroof Raza

During the event

The beautiful roka ceremony of Sanket Garg, son of Sanjay Garg and Suman Garg with Surya Mittal, daughter of Nathmal Mittal and Meena Mittal was held at Gulabi Nagri on Sunday, April 10, Jaipur. Jagdeesh Chandra reached to bless the soon to be married couple and wished them all the best for their future. Sanket is the brother of Kriti Garg, a Jaipur based supermodel and an Indian film actress, who has worked predominantly in the Telugu movie industry. Kriti’s previous film to hit the theatres was Raahu in the year 2020.

—PHOTOS BY SANTOSH SHARMAThe groom and bride to be Sanket Sharma and Surya Mittal

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