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New Delhi (PTI): "New
fountains have been in-
stalled, the area looks
brand new and under-
passes have been built,"
54-year-old Anita told
her daughter over a vid-
eo call while taking a
stroll in the lawns of the
newly christened Kar-
tavya Path on Friday
.
After clicking pic-
tures and taking a stroll
on Kartavya Path,
which was earlier
known as Rajpath, the
family of five sat down
under the shade of a
tree in the lawn to es-
cape the heat.
"We have visited In-
dia Gate several times.
This year, my daughter
is in another city so I
was showing her what
all has changed. It is
very beautiful. The
work done is great. I am
very impressed," Anita
said. "New pedestrian
underpasses have been
built and parking spac-
es have been improved.
There are lawns with
walkways, added green
spaces and refurbished
canals," she added.
Most of the visitors
appeared impressed
with the refurbishing.
Aquil Ansari (24) from
Kerela said, "It is look-
ing very nice. I had
come here a few months
ago but it was closed for
construction then. I had
also visited India Gate a
few years back... So
many new things have
been added." Asked
about the government
spending Rs 477 crore
on the revamped
stretch, another tourist,
Saurabh, said, "It is not
like the money was
spent in vain. This will
boost tourism and it is
looking so beautiful. So,
I don't think anyone
should have a problem.”
Visitors throng Kartavya Path, impressed
Crowds at Kartavya Path near India Gate on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI
New Delhi: The Delhi
University will begin
the admission process
for undergraduate
courses with the launch
of a Common Seat Al-
location System (CSAS)
portal on Monday, offi-
cials have said.
Admission through
the CSAS will be con-
ducted in 3 phases --
submissionof theCSAS
2022 application form,
selection of pro-
grammes and prefer-
ences, and seat alloca-
tion and admission.
The CUET score will be
required in the second
phase, but CUET results
are yet to be announced.
DU to begin
UG admissions
on Monday
New Delhi (PTI): We
don't want the Supreme
Court to be 'tareekh pe
tareekh' court, Justice
DY Chandrachud said
on Friday, trenchantly
deprecating the prac-
tice of lawyers seeking
repeatedadjournments.
A bench of Justice
ChandrachudandHima
Kohli got annoyed when
a lawyer sought time to
argue a matter.
We will not adjourn
the matter. At most, we
can pass over the mat-
ter to be taken at the
end of the board but
you have to argue the
matter. We don't want
the Supreme Court to
be 'tareekh pe tareekh'
court. We want to
change this perception.
This is the highest
court of the land and we
want certain dignity to
be attached to this
court, he told the law-
yer, who was appearing
for a Hindu priest.
SC judge denounces
‘Tareekh pe Tareekh’
Justice DY Chandrachud
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New Delhi: Ahead of India’s upcoming G20 presidency, International
Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on
Thursday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a great meeting and
congratulated on India’s strong economic recovery from COVID-19 pandemic.
Zurich: Javelin throw athlete Neeraj Chopra made
history on Thursday, becoming the first-Indian to win
the prestigious Diamond League trophy, a top-tier
athletics competition, achieving best throw of 88.44
m to clinch one of the biggest wins of his career.
N KOREA SAYS IT
WILL NEVER GIVE
UP NUKES TO
COUNTER US
Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stressed his
country will never abandon the nuclear weapons it
needs to counter the United States, which he accused of
pushing to weaken the North’s defences and eventually
collapse his government, state media said on Friday.
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CUET-UG RESULTS
TO BE ANNOUNCED
BY SEPTEMBER 15
New Delhi: The results of
the Common University
Entrance Test (CUET)-
UG will be announced
by September 15, UGC
Chairman Jagadesh
Kumar said on Friday.
The debut edition of the
CUET-UG, a gateway
for undergraduate
admissions, began in
July and concluded on
August 30.
`100 CR BLACK
INCOME DETECTED
DURING I-T RAIDS
New Delhi: The Income
Tax Dept detected
unaccounted income
of over Rs 100 crore
in a search and seizure
operation on two business
groups in Maharashtra.
While one of the group’s
is engaged in the business
of sand mining, sugar
manufacturing and road
construction the other is
in the healthcare sector.
SC GRANTS BAIL TO
KERALA JOURNALIST
SIDDIQUE KAPPAN
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court on Friday granted
bail to Kerala journalist
Siddique Kappan who
was booked by the Uttar
Pradesh government
under the Unlawful
Activities Prevention Act
(UAPA) in 2020 while he
was on his way to reach
Hathras for covering the
alleged gang-rape and
murder of a 19-year-old
Dalit girl.
READ
Crucial
Crucial PADHARO MHARE DES!
HOME MINISTER SHAH
LANDS IN JAISALMER
Not totally out of picture
for party prez post: Rahul
Shivendra Parmar,
Dimple Sharma and
Suryaveer S Tanwar
Jaisalmer: Union
Home Minister Amit
Shah reached Jaisalm-
er in a special aircraft
on Friday. From here
he reached Dabla
South Sector of the
Border Security Force
(BSF). He will spend
the night at the BSF Of-
ficers’ Institute.
Shah will leave for
Tanot Mata temple at 9
on Saturday morning.
After offering prayers,
he will perform Bhoo-
mi Pujan of the Tour-
ism Development Cen-
tre on the temple prem-
ises. He will then reach
the Air Force Station
Jaisalmer by helicop-
ter at 10:35 am and
then reach Jodhpur at
11:10 AM.
The NITI Aayog has
approved Rs 17.67 crore
for the Tanot Mata tem-
ple on the Indo-Pak bor-
der in Jaisalmer. Docu-
mentary, weapon exhi-
bition and photo gallery
etc. will be set up by
BSF for the tourists.
Amit Mishra
Kanyakumari: On the
third day of the Bharat
JodoYatra,CongressMP
Rahul Gandhi said that
he is not totally out of
the picture for the post
of the party president.
“Whether I become
presidentof Congressor
not will become clear
when the elections for
the president post take
place. But, I have clearly
decided what I will do
and there is no confu-
sion in my mind,” Gan-
dhi said on the party
chief matter during the
Congress’s Bharat Jodo
Yatra with an eye on the
nationalelectionin2024.
“Bharat Jodo Yatra is an
attempt to understand
what’s happening on the
ground,” he added. The
Congress MP from Way-
anad also attacked the
BJP for “taking control
of all institutions”.
“Frankly, the battle
has been going on be-
tween two different vi-
sions for a couple of
thousand years now,
and it will continue.
There are two different
visions of India, one vi-
sion is rigid and con-
trolling while another
is plural and open-
minded. The battle will
continue,” he added.
T-SHIRT WAR BETWEEN BJP, CONGRESS:
DOES RAHUL GANDHI’S SHIRT COST `41K?
New Delhi: There was a
face-off between the BJP
and the Congress over
Rahul Gandhi’s T-shirt. The
BJP attacked the Congress
on social media, claiming
that Rahul Gandhi was
wearing a T-shirt worth
`41,257 on Friday.
BJP appoints
in-charges for
various states
New Delhi: BJP chief
JP Nadda on Friday ap-
p o i n t e d
in-charge
of vari-
ous states
and union
t e r r i t o -
ries in-
cluding poll-bound
states like Tripura and
Telangana. Vinod
Tawde has been ap-
pointed as General Sec-
retary in Bihar, while
Harish Dwivedi contin-
ues to be the co-in-
charge. Om Mathur has
been made in charge of
Chhattisgarh.More on P6
Queen Elizabeth II death: India declares
one-day mourning on September 11
New Delhi (ANI): India
on Friday declared one-
day mourning on Sep-
tember 11 on the passing
away of Britain’s Queen
ElizabethII.QueenEliza-
beth II, United Kingdom
of Great Britain and
NorthernIreland,passed
away on Thursday
.
“As a mark of respect
to the departed digni-
tary
, the Government of
India has decided that
there will be one day of
State Mourning on Sep-
tember 11th throughout
India,” an MHA state-
ment said.
MONDAY DEADLINE
FOR INDIA, CHINA TO
MOVE TROOPS BACK
New Delhi: India and China
have agreed to dismantle
and verify the temporary
structures and other allied
infrastructure created in the
Gogra-Hot Springs (PP-15)
area of the LAC in Ladakh,
the MEA said on Friday.
The disengagement of
Indian and Chinese troops
from Gogra-Hot Springs in
Ladakh will be completed
by Monday, an MEA
spokesperson said. P5
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is received and welcomed by Union Minister of State Kailash
Choudhary and BSF Director General PK Singh at Jaisalmer Airport on Friday evening.
Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference at a church during
the padayatra on the third day of party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, as
party leaders KC Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, and other party
leaders look on, in Kanniyakumari on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI
CONG BROKE INDIA,
BJP UNIFYING IT: N
BIREN SINGH
AMIT SHAH FLAGS OFF FREEDOM
RIDER BIKER RALLIES FROM DELHI THAKUR GRILLS
CONG OVER BHARAT
JODO YATRA
SHAH TO ADDRESS
BJP OBC NATIONAL
EXEC MEET TODAY
CHARLES TO BE
PROCLAIMED AS KING
New Delhi: Manipur Chief
Minister N Biren Singh
has also taken a swipe at
Congress over its ongoing
Bharat Jodo Yatra that
started from Tamil Nadu
and said that their motive
of “unification of India”
would have been believed
in if the party had abro-
gated Article 370 from
Jammu and Kashmir.
New Delhi (Agencies): Union Home Minister Amit Shah
flagged off the ‘Freedom Rider Biker Rallies’ from Major
Dhyan Chand National
Stadium in the national
capital on Friday. Union
Ministers Meenakashi
Lekhi and Nisith
Pramanik were also
present there. The
aforesaid is the Fit India
Freedom Moto Ride
which is a pan-India
Bike Ride by 75 bikers
to 75 iconic locations to commemorate the Azadi ka Amrit
Mahotsav after 75 years of India’s independence.
Hamirpur: Taking a pot shot
at Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat
Jodo Yatra, Union Minister
Anurag Thakur on Friday
said that India is already
united under the leader-
ship of PM Narendra Modi.
“Rahul Gandhi is going on
Bharat Jodo yatra nowa-
days. But India is already
united under the leadership
of PM Modi,” Thakur said.
Jodhpur: Amit Shah will
reach Jodhpur on Saturday
to attend party’s OBC
National Working Commit-
tee meeting and address
the workers at Ravana ka
Chabutra ground here. He
will also give mantra to OBC
office bearers and the entire
team on a strategy to win
the assembly polls. The BJP
has prepared a mega plan
to garner votes ahead of as-
sembly elections next year.
London: After the passing
away of Queen Elizabeth,
King Charles will be officially
proclaimed as Britain’s new
monarch at a meeting of
the Accession Council at St
James’s Palace on Saturday.
Narendra Modi @narendramodi
I had memorable meetings with Her Maj-
esty Queen Elizabeth II during my UK visits
in 2015 and 2018. I will never forget her warmth and
kindness. During one of the meetings she showed me
the handkerchief Mahatma Gandhi gifted her on her
wedding. I will always cherish that gesture.
GANESH VISARJAN!
Devotees carry an idol of Lord Ganesh during its immersion
procession on the last day of ‘Ganesh Chaturthi’ festival, in East
Delhi, on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI
BHARAT JODO YATRA
l Union Home Minister arrives in
Jaisalmer in a special aircraft
l Shah will pay obeisance at Tanot
Mata temple on Saturday morning

Diptiman Chakraborty
New Delhi: CM Arvind
Kejriwal may be carry-
ing high the flag of his
achievements in Delhi
as a pan-India template
for ‘making India num-
berone’,butbetweenthe
lines it is clear that si-
multaneously
, he is also
trying to establish his
political heft far beyond
the confines of Delhi.
Boosted by AAP’s suc-
cess in Punjab and some
substantial foray in
parts of Gujarat, along
with positive trends in
Himachal and Haryana,
Kejriwal is clearly see-
ing a possibility of a
greater national role for
himself after the 2024
polls. The Opposition is
still disunited and Kejri-
wal might fill in the gap
of a leader who can pull
up a coup de grâce to of-
fer an alternative at the
Centre as a non-BJP-
non-Congress force.
Kejriwal’s fame has
rested largely on chang-
ing the face of govern-
ment school education
inDelhi.Heisnowlever-
aging this to extend his
influence in other parts
of India. He may yet be
subtleinhismoves,cam-
ouflaging his political
ambitions with his
Make India Number
One campaign, yet if
one keeps track of the
run-up to the 2024 gen-
eralelections,Kejriwal’s
actions show a pattern
and a plan in not only
their timeliness but also
in their impeccable PR
projections.
In his seemingly in-
nocuous emphasis on
spreading the light of
education, Kejriwal is
only building his egali-
tarian image for larger
acceptance across re-
gional trappings, an im-
portantcoginprojecting
himself as the future
PM. His Make India
Number One campaign
may have failed, but it
has given him greater
maneuvering space and
operational legitimacy
in people’s psyche. He
not only poked Assam
CM by tactfully playing
up his education model
as a recipe for improv-
ing Assam’s scenario
and attracted much so-
cial media currency
, Ke-
jriwalalsowarmedupto
CM Stalin in Tamil
Nadu and successfully
foisted upon him his re-
formatory image. These
are all efforts in same
direction— an image-
building exercise.
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RESCUE OP
Rescue operation underway after a four-storey under-construction building collapsed in
the Azad Market area in Delhi on Friday. At least four people were injured in the mishap,
according to officials. —PHOTO BY PTI
First India Bureau
New Delhi: Row over
alleged liquor scam
continues as the BJP
on Friday held a protest
near the residences
of Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal and
his ministers.
Various cells of the
BJP’s Delhi unit, in-
cluding those repre-
senting slum-dwellers,
auto rickshaw drivers,
senior citizens, apart
from party workers
from Uttarakhand,
Himachal Pradesh and
the southern states,
protested outside the
residences of AAP min-
isters.
They were demand-
ing the dismissal of
Deputy CM Manish
Sisodia’s. Leader of Op-
position Ramvir Singh
Bidhuri and BJP Delhi
unit general secretary
Dinesh Pratap Singh led
the protest outside the
residence of Chief Min-
ister Arvind Kejriwal.
Adesh Gupta, president
of the BJP’s Delhi unit,
said people were with
the party as the “excise
scam” that benefitted
the liquor mafia at the
cost of public money
had been exposed. Gup-
ta led the protest near
Sisodia’s Mathura Road
residence.
He added that the Ke-
jriwal government was
trying to evade an-
swers, but the BJP
would not rest till Siso-
dia was removed.
Liquor scam: BJPholdsprotests
outside AAP leaders’ homes
TheKejriwalmodelofpoliticaloverreach
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal eyeing bigger role after 2024.
New Delhi: The major hurdle before Kejriwal,
however, is not beating the BJP
, which is still a
nebulous premise, but managing the Opposi-
tion quagmire, which is more real and in-the-
face. His abhorrence for the BJP and vice-versa
may be well publisised but that doesn’t endear
him any more to the myriad regional factions
often working at cross-purposes.
Mamata Banerjee may have her own po-
litical ambitions and her coming together
with Kejriwal seems far-fetched. Nitish may
have downplayed his chances of being the
future PM but how much space his party as
well as ally RJD will allow Kejriwal is uncer-
tain. Naveen Patnaik’s BJD, once understood
to be on the Opposition side, may side with
the BJP, more so after Modi placated him by
making Droupadi Murmu President. Given
the mood of the people in Odisha, it might be
prudent for Patnaik to obliquely endorse BJP
to retain power.
Down south, KCR, though a staunch anti-
BJP force, has his own calculations and may
not unite with Kejriwal. Going alone may not
work for AAP yet and it will need partners to
break through the regional barriers. Who all
will partner Kejriwal? And what will be the
role of the Congress? Congress is still the
most formidable opposition hook but it is still
not clear how many parties will ally with the
‘sinking ship’. Kejriwal may not, but some
others may and this will divide the Opposi-
tion. It also depends on how far Congress al-
lows itself to play the second fiddle for larger
interest of forging an alliance to defeat the
BJP and how far Kejriwal tones down his la-
ger than life image.
Opposition disunity
is major challenge
His Make India Number One campaign may have
failed, but it has given him greater maneuvering
space operational legitimacy in people’s psyche
New Delhi (ANI): The
Supreme Court on Fri-
day asked the Gujarat
government to file the
entire record of the pro-
ceedings in the Bilkis
Bano case, including
the remission order
given to the 11 convicts
who had gang-raped
Bano and murdered her
family members during
the 2002 Godhra riots.
A bench of Justices
Ajay Rastogi and BV
Nagarathna granted
two weeks to the Guja-
rat government to pro-
duce all relevant re-
cords in the case. The
bench also issued no-
tice to the Gujarat gov-
ernment and convicts
on a plea filed by TMC
MP Mahua Moitra
against the release of
the convicts.
Earlier, the apex
court had issued notice
to the Gujarat govern-
ment on the plea filed
by Communist Party of
India (Marxist) mem-
ber Subhashini Ali,
journalist Revati Laul,
and social activist and
professor Roop Rekha
Verma. It asked the pe-
titioner to impede con-
victs in the petition.
The plea has sought
setting aside of order
granting remission to
11 convicts and direct-
ing their immediate re-
arrest.
It is submitted that
it would appear that the
constitution of mem-
bers of the competent
authority of the Guja-
rat government also
bore allegiance to a po-
litical party and sitting
MLAs. As such, it would
appear that the compe-
tent authority was not
an authority that was
entirely independent,
and one that could inde-
pendently apply its
mind to the facts at
hand, the plea stated.
The plea filed by the
three women said they
had challenged the or-
der of competent au-
thority of the govern-
ment of Gujarat by way
of which 11 persons
who were accused in a
set of heinous offences
committed in Gujarat
were allowed to walk
free on August 15, 2022,
pursuant to remission
being extended to them.
The 11 persons were
sentenced to life im-
prisonment for com-
mission of the offences
of, among other things,
gang-rape and murder
of multiple people dur-
ing the large-scale
communal riots in Gu-
jarat in 2002 on Janu-
ary 18, 2008, passed by
the Sessions Court in
Greater Mumbai and
the conviction was up-
held by way of Judg-
ment dated May 4, 2017,
passed by High Court
of Mumbai, the peti-
tion stated. The peti-
tion said the case
which led to the convic-
tion of the 11 convicts
was investigated by the
CBI, accordingly, the
grant of remission
solely by the Gujarat
government without
any consulta-
tion with the
Central gov-
ernment is
impermis-
sible.
Bilkis case: SC seeks entire
record from Gujarat govt
First India Bureau
New Delhi: Journalist
Siddique Kappan’s
wife, Raihana Sid-
dique, on Friday said
that her husband was
innocent of the charg-
es he was accused of,
and the Supreme
Court’s bail to him has
vindicated that.
“Despite the strug-
gles, I was able to run
behind this, and I was
able to do it because I
had the truth on my
side. I know Kappan is
innocent,” she told re-
porters.
“I am happy that he
has got bail. We have
been running behind
this for two years. It is
not a small matter that
thegovernmentandthe
UP police kept him be-
hind bars for two years.
It’s a big deal. Our life,
Kappan’s difficulties…
this not something that
we can forget quickly.
Even then, I am happy
that the Supreme Court
has granted bail in the
UAPA case,” she said.
“We have not got an or-
der so far; we are wait-
ing for one. In the ED
money laundering
case, we have applied
for bail. That’s in the
Lucknow court. We are
hoping that he will be
free of this soon.”
“Kappan has strug-
gled a lot, something
that we cannot under-
stand from the outside.
Like Kappan, there are
many other innocent
people in jail. Only
talking about my
struggle will be self-
ish,” she said. Express-
ing her happiness over
the verdict, Raihana
said the top court has
realised the hollow-
nessof thecaseagainst
Kappan. “I express my
gratitude towards the
SC. He is innocent and
had been lodged in jail
for the last two years.
Now the SC has real-
ised the hollowness of
the case against him.”
Kappan and others
were arrested on Octo-
ber 5, 2020 from Ma-
thura on their way to
Hathras, where a Dalit
girl had been raped
and murdered.
Siddique Kappan’s wife says, ‘Had truth on my side’
New Delhi (PTI):
The Supreme Court
on Friday granted
two weeks’ time to
the Centre to file its
reply on pleas chal-
lenging the validity
of certain provisions
of a 1991 law, which
prohibit the filing of
a lawsuit to reclaim a
place of worship or
seek a change in its
character from what
prevailed on August
15, 1947.
A three-judge
bench headed by
Chief justice Uday
Umesh Lalit permit-
ted all the applica-
tions, including the
plea filed by Jamiat
Ulama-i-Hind, to in-
terveneinthehearing
of the pleas on the va-
lidity of the Places of
Worship (Special Pro-
visions)Act,1991.The
court also ordered
that the matters be
heardbyathree-judge
bench on October 11.
3 weeks to Centre for reply
on Places of Worship Act
New Delhi (PTI): The
Supreme Court on Fri-
day said it would hear
on September 16 the
pleas arising out of
the Delhi High Court’s
split verdict on the is-
sue of criminalisation
of marital rape.
The high court on
May 11 delivered a
verdict with one of
the judges favouring
striking down the ex-
ception in the law that
grants protection to
husbands from being
prosecuted for non-
consensual sexual in-
tercourse with their
wives, the other re-
fused to hold it uncon-
stitutional.
However, both the
judges had concurred
with each other for
granting the certifi-
cate of leave to appeal
to the Supreme Court
in the matter as it in-
volves substantial
questions of law that
requires a decision
from the apex court.
Two petitions aris-
ing out of the high
court’s May 11 verdict
came up for hearing
before a bench com-
prising Justices Ajay
Rastogi and B V Naga-
rathna on Friday
.
The counsel ap-
pearing for one of the
appellants said they
are seeking that the
apex court decides
the substantial ques-
tion of law involved
in the matter. The
counsel said both the
judges of the division
bench of the high
court had granted the
certificate of leave to
appeal to the apex
court.
“Otherwise also,
this matter has to be
heard,” the bench ob-
served, adding one
more plea on the issue
that was earlier men-
tioned before it. “Let
the other matter come,
we will tag all of
them,” the bench said.
SC to hear pleas arising out of Delhi
HC’s split verdict on marital rape
Two petitions
arising out of the
Delhi High
Court’s May 11
verdict came up
for hearing
before the
Supreme Court
Raihana Siddique, journalist Siddique Kappan’s wife.
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—Subhashini Ali,
Revati Laul, and Prof
Roop Rekha Verma
Petitioners

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New Delhi (Agencies):
The management of a
bar in Gurgaon has de-
cided to cancel stand-up
comedian Kunal Kam-
ra’s show, scheduled
next weekend, after
members of Bajrang
Dal and Vishwa Hindu
Parishad (VHP) threat-
ened to disrupt the show
if it was not cancelled.
Kamra was sched-
uled to perform at Stu-
dio Xo bar in Sec 29 on
September 17 and 18. In
an Instagram post on
August 29, the bar had
released a poster, ‘Ku-
nal Kamra Live’, with
the show timings and
ticket details.
Members of Bajrang
Dal and VHP Gurgaon
submitted a memoran-
dum, addressed to the
deputy commissioner,
requesting that the
show be cancelled as
Kamra “mocks and
makes fun of Hindu
deities in his show”,
and that could lead to
tensions.
“One artist by the
name of Kunal Kamra
is organising a show at
Studio Xo Bar in sector
29 Gurgaon on Septem-
ber 17. Yeh vyakti apne
show mein Hindu devi
va devtaon ka mazak
udata hai (This person
mocks Hindu deities in
his show). An FIR has
also been filed against
him earlier in this re-
gard. Iss show ke karan
Gurgaon mein tanav
utpan ho sakta hai (A
tense situation may
arise due to this show).
It is requested that the
show be cancelled with
immediate effect, other-
wise Bajrang Dal and
VHP workers will pro-
test against it,” read a
memorandum
Sources said 6-7 mem-
bers of the two outfits
went to the bar in sector
29 on Wednesday and
asked the management
to cancel the show.
Praveen Saini alias
Praveen Hindustani,
district coordinator of
Bajrang Dal, said, “We
met the management
of the bar and told
them to cancel the
show. This comedian
has repeatedly insulted
Hindu gods and god-
desses in his shows and
videos. We showed the
organisers the videos
of his acts on YouTube.
Such artistes will not
be allowed to perform
in Gurgaon and any
such insults will not be
tolerated. We handed
over a memo to a mag-
istrate and requested to
cancel the show as it
could disturb commu-
nal harmony and cre-
ate a potential law and
order situation.”
Kunal Dutt
New Delhi: Some of the
toll plaza gates on high-
ways had to be tempo-
rarily dismantled to
allow passage to a 100-ft-
long truck carrying the
monolithic block of
granite for the statue of
Netaji Subhas Chandra
Bose from Telangana to
Delhi.
Rajat Mehta, director
of Delhi-based Granite
Studio India, which sup-
plied the telephone
black stone sourced
from a quarry in Kham-
mam in Telangana, said
a‘makeshiftroad’hadto
be built to move it from
the quarry to a highway
for transportation.
It was a mammoth
block of stone, weighing
280 metric tonnes (MT)
and 32-ft-long. It was
11-ft-high and 8.5-ft-wide
fromwhichtheimageof
Netaji was carved out.
But getting it to Delhi
entailed a whole host of
challenges, he said.
The granite monolith
was chiselled to produce
a statue of Bose which
weighed 65 MT. PM
Modi unveiled the stat-
ue of Bose, that sits in
historic canopy in front
of the India Gate here,
on Thursday evening.
The massive truck
was specially designed
to carry the granite
block to the National
Gallery of Modern Art
(NGMA) here -- a dis-
tance of 1,665 kilome-
tres, the Culture Minis-
try earlier said.
The stretch from the
quarry to the national
highway was 'kuccha'
and a makeshift road
had to be built in a short
period of time to move
the stone to the high-
way, he said. As many
as 42 tyres of the 100-ft-
long truck burst on the
way and 72 hours were
lost due to this. The
truck passed through
five states to reach Del-
hi, Mehta said.
A team of sculptors
spent 26,000 man hours
of intense artistic en-
deavour to carve the
28-ft-tall statue of Bose,
according to the Minis-
try of Culture.
While the statue's
carving was a labour of
love, bringing it here
was no easy feat. The
truck was so huge that,
at a couple of places,
some toll plaza gates on
highways had to be tem-
porarily dismantled,
whereturnsweresharp,
so that itcould negotiate
it without the risk of
hitting anything or any-
one,” Mehta said. —PTI
Tollgateswidenedtotransportmegastoneblock
Abhilasha Saksena
New Delhi: Monsoon,
as we all know, is the
mainstay of the Indian
economy and cropping
patterns in the country
largely depend on the
time and intensity of
rains, majorly through
the months of July and
August.
For Delhi, the annual
rain bounty may not be
directly related to crop
production but it has
other benefits like help-
ing the dust of the city
settle down and lower
its high temperatures.
This year, however,
monsoon has largely
eluded Delhi and this
has pushed up tempera-
tures and dust alike.
The Safdarjung Obser-
vatory has logged just
8.8mm of rainfall
against a normal of
52.5mm in September
so far - a deficit of 83
per cent.
It recorded just 41.6
mm rain in August, the
lowest in 14 years. Over-
all, only 361.2mm of
rainfall has been re-
corded against a nor-
mal of 569.4mm this
monsoon (since June
1),clocking a deficit of
37 per cent.
Though experts at-
tributed the lag to the
development of three
low-pressure areas over
northwest Bay of Ben-
gal which pulled the
monsoon trough over
Central India, the fact
is, erratic rainfall has
troubled Delhi for long.
There has been very lit-
tle pre-monsoon activi-
ty in June and delayed
onset of monsoon in the
region is being seen for
the last two decades.
Prof Steven Clemens
at Brown University
(US), analysing mon-
soon pattern of the past
900,000 years, found
whenever CO2 levels
have gone up, monsoon
precipitation has be-
come both more intense
and unpredictable. Oth-
er studies also say mon-
soon is getting wildly
unpredictable as green-
house gas emissions
increase.
Short spells of rain
have become common,
but they neither reduce
temperatures nor re-
charge groundwater.
Dwindling monsoon in Delhi is the new normal we must brace for
GLOBAL WARMING
lll
Water scarcity
is a perennial
problem power
consumption
due to heat and
humidity grows
by 25% due to
prolonged dry
spell in monsoon
months
CALL FOR ACTION
KunalKamra’sshowcancelled
after Hindu outfits’ objection
Bajrang Dal and VHP members said
artists who insult Hindu deities won’t
be allowed to perform in Gurugram
‘DON’T WANT ANY TROUBLE’
HERCULEAN FEAT
ONLINE DEGREES
ARE ON PAR WITH
REGULAR, SAYS UGC
New Delhi: Degrees
obtained through distance
and online learning from
recognised institutions will
be treated on a par with
those offered through
conventional mode,
according to the Univer-
sity Grants Commission
(UGC). “Degrees at under-
graduate and postgrad-
uate level in conformity
with UGC notification on
Specification of Degrees,
2014 and, post graduate
diplomas awarded through
Open and Distance learn-
ing or Online mode by
Higher Educational Institu-
tions, shall be treated as
equivalent to the corre-
sponding degrees and
post graduate diploma
offered through conven-
tional mode,” UGC Secre-
tary Rajnish Jain said.
The decision has been
taken as per Regulation
22 of the UGC (Open
and Distance learning
Programmes and Online
Programmes) Regulations.
GOPAL RAI SEEKS
JOINT PLAN TO
FIGHT POLLUTION
New Delhi: Environment
Minister Gopal Rai on Friday
wrote to Union Minister
Bhupender Yadav, seeking
time to discuss and prepare
a joint action plan to fight
air pollution in the national
capital in winter. The Delhi
government is committed to
providing clean air to people
and is working on short-
term and long-term mea-
sures. These measures are
being implemented through
action plans for summers
and winters, he said. Rai
said Delhi government’s ef-
forts have led to an increase
in number of “satisfactory”
(AQ1 51 to 100) and “mod-
erate” (AQI 101 to 200) air
quality days. He said like last
two years, the government
has prepared a winter action
plan to fight air pollution.
“We request you to give us
time to prepare a plan to
save Delhi from the possible
danger of air pollution in the
coming months,” he wrote
in the letter to Yadav, who is
Union environment minister.
CRYPTO FRAUD: MAN HELD FOR DUPING
MEERUT BIZMAN OF `1.84 CRORE
Noida:The Cyber Crime wing of Uttar Pradesh Police
on Friday said it has arrested one person in connection
with a Rs 1.84-crore
cryptocurrency fraud. The
Mumbai-based accused
was arrested by offi-
cers of the Cyber Crime
police station, Noida, for
allegedly duping a Meerut-
based businessman on the pretext of investment in
cryptocurrency. During the probe, it was found that the
accused allegedly misled people across the country on
the pretext of cryptocurrency trading through a fake
website and cheated them of crores of rupees.
CRUCIAL READ
The granite monolith was chiselled to produce a statue of Netaji Bose, weighing 65 MT. PM Modi unveiled the statue, which sits in the historic canopy in front of India Gate.
As visitors flock to Kartavya Path,
photographers see rise in income
Vishu Adhana
New Delhi: Put on
your glasses and look
towards the camera,
now make a pose and
don’t squint That’s
perfect, Hardiyal, a
photographer at the
newly inaugurated
Kartavya Path, tells a
customer as he takes a
shot of him with the
India Gate at the back.
The 41-year-old is
among the 130-odd
photographers who
earn their livelihood
by creating memories
for visitors through
their lens at India Gate
with some of them
clicking pictures for
the last 25 years.
While the Covid
lockdowns had severe-
ly impacted their in-
come, people throng-
ing to Kartavya Path
on the first day of its
opening on Friday has
rekindled hope of a
steady income for the
shutterbugs. Kartavya
Path -- from Rashtra-
pati Bhavan to India
Gate as part of the
Central Vista Avenue
was inaugurated by
PM Modi on Thurs-
day
. —PTI
Photographers had a busy day on Friday as hundreds of
tourists thronged Kartavya Path and got themselves clicked.
First India Bureau
New Delhi: Five peo-
ple accused of ravag-
ing a motorcycle show-
room and setting two-
wheelers on fire during
the riots in north east
Delhi in 2020, were ac-
quitted by a court here
on Friday.
The court observed
that the alleged act of
the accused did not at-
tract Section 436 of the
IPC, which was the only
offence triable by a ses-
sions court. Additional
Sessions Judge Pu-
lastya Pramachala
transferred the case
back to the magisterial
court concerned.
The section deals
with the offence of mis-
chief by fire or explo-
sive substance with in-
tent to destroy house
etc. It is punishable
with imprisonment for
life or with imprison-
ment of either descrip-
tion for a term which
may extend to 10 years,
and shall also be liable
to fine. The court was
hearing a case where
the accused had alleg-
edly taken out several
two-wheelers from a
motorcycle showroom,
and set them on fire on
February 25, 2020. The
court, however, said the
accused will now face
trial for rioting.
Delhi riots: 5 accused
of burning motorcycle
showroom acquitted
Earlier, FIR was
registered
against Irshad,
Ujer, Tasin,
Gulfam
Sameer at
Bhajanpura PS
wealth of a plant protec-
tion officer facing graft
probe by the CBI had al-
legedly shot from `23
lakh to `2 crore in a span
of 18 months resulting
in a new FIR against
him for amassing dis-
proportionate assets, of-
ficials said.
The CBI sleuths
checked the assets of
Padam Singh, a plant
protection officer at
Plant Quarantine sta-
tion, Visakhapatnam,
booked for allegedly de-
manding `6,000 in bribe,
after receiving inputs
he had received cash de-
posit and bank transfer
in the accounts of his
family members and
relatives.
The probe into his as-
sets allegedly amassed
between December 2020
and July 2022 showed
his wealth had spiralled
from `23.29 lakh to ` 2.12
crore in the period.
Officer’s wealth
jumps from
`23L to `2cr

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PERSPECTIVE
04
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
Death is as sure for that
which is born, as birth is
for that which is dead.
Therefore grieve not for
what is inevitable.
—Bhagavad Gita
IN-DEPTH
Narendra Modi
@narendramodi
Congratulations to @Neeraj_chopra1
for scripting history yet again by
becoming the first Indian to win the
prestigious Diamond League Trophy.
He has demonstrated great dedication
and consistency. His repeated
successes show the great strides
Indian athletics is making.
Rajnath Singh
@rajnathsingh
India’s Champion athlete, Subedar @
Neeraj_chopra1 once again excels
on the world stage and wins the
prestigious Diamond League Trophy for
the first time in our sporting history.
We are proud of his achievement.
Congratulations to him and best wishes
for his future endeavours.
TOP TWEETS
INDIA SLIPS IN
GLOBAL HDI BUT
IS IN STEP WITH
GLOBAL TREND
midst celebratory
talk of India knock-
ing off the UK as the
fifth largest economy
in the world, comes a
slight dampener. The country
has slipped from 131st to 132nd
spot among 191 countries in the
world in the human develop-
ment index. Health and longev-
ity, access to education and a
decent standard of living, or per
capita Gross National Income.
This downward slide, as per the
UNDP report, is in keeping with
the global trend. Still, the life
span coming down from 69.7
years to 67.2 years is reason for
some concern. On this parame-
ter, too, India is not alone. Glob-
ally, life expectancy dropped
from 72.8 years in 2019 to 71.4
years in 2021.
When one looks at the report
and finds that 90 percent of the
countries have registered a de-
cline over the 2020 or 2021 HDI
values, then the gloom some-
what dissipates. The report
states that India’s pace of hu-
man development is fast catch-
ing up with the global rate.
A
enaming of Raj-
path as Kartavya-
path is not as sig-
nificant as the in-
stallation of Ne-
taji Subhash Chandra Bose’s
28-foot-high statue of India’s
sidelinedfreedomfighterwho
envisioned India as a secular
and gender-equal country
. Ne-
taji’s statue at Rajpath, where
King George V’s statue once
stood, removes what Prime
Minister Narendra Modi said
wasthelastsymbolof slavery
.
Paying tributes to the “Rash-
tra Nayak’’, the prime minis-
ter said that India would have
been better placed if his ideas
were followed. He regretted
that “the great hero was for-
gotten”.
There’s no doubt that the
Congress leaders were per-
functory in their acknowl-
edgement of Netaji’s contri-
bution and sacrifices in the
freedom struggle. His belief
in armed struggle as means
to overthrow the British was
juxtaposed with Mahatma
Gandhi’s pacifist, non-vio-
lent approach and relegated
to the background. But the
legend of Netaji and his In-
dian National Army lived on.
Modi had been working tire-
lessly to hijack Netaji from
Bengal and he has finally
succeeded in doing that. In
the process he has hit the
Congress even harder. Call-
ing Netaji a ‘Rashtra Nayak’
would place him on a higher
pedestal than Nehru.
However, following Neta-
ji’s ideas in their true spirit
will be difficult for the BJP.
Netaji was of the view that
Muslims had played an equal
role in the freedom move-
ment and needed a position
of equality in society. The
charge against the BJP is
that it has tried to usurp Ne-
taji minus his secular ideas.
Subramaniam Swamy’s peti-
tion in the Supreme Court
seeking removal of the words
“socialist” and “secular”
from the Constitution but-
tresses the charge.
AT LAST, A PLACE OF
PRIDE FOR NETAJI
R
Netaji was of the view that
Muslims had played an
equal role in the freedom
movement and needed a
position of equality in
society. The charge against
the BJP is that it has tried to
usurp Netaji minus his
secular ideas
hen Queen Elizabeth II came
to the throne in 1952, Britain
was just seven years out of
the second world war. Re-
building work was still ongo-
ing, and rationing key prod-
ucts such as sugar, eggs,
cheese and meat would con-
tinue for another year or so.
But the austerity and re-
straint of the 1940s was giv-
ing way to a more prosperous
1950s. It is perhaps no won-
der, then, that the Queen’s
succession was hailed as the
“new Elizabethan age”. Soci-
ety was changing, and here
was a young, beautiful queen
to sit at its helm.
Seventy years later, Brit-
ain looks very different. Eliz-
abeth II ruled over perhaps
the most rapid technological
expansion and sociopolitical
change of any monarch in
recent history
.
GLOBAL BRITAIN
If Elizabeth I’s reign was a
period of colonial expansion,
conquest and domination,
then the “new Elizabethan
age” was marked by decoloni-
sation and the loss of Empire.
When Elizabeth II succeed-
ed the throne, the last ves-
tiges of the British Empire
were still intact. India had
been granted independence
in 1947, and other countries
soon followed throughout the
1950s and 1960s. Although it
existed from 1926, the cur-
rent Commonwealth was
constituted in the London
Declaration 1949, making
member states “free and
equal.” The Commonwealth
has a veneer of colonial pow-
er given that it shares a his-
tory with Empire, and con-
tinues to invest the British
monarch with symbolic pow-
er. The Commonwealth fea-
tured heavily in the 1953
coronation ceremony, from
television programmes
showing Commonwealth cel-
ebrations. She continued to
celebrate the Commonwealth
throughout her reign.
THE MEDIA AND
THE MONARCHY
At the coronation, the Brit-
ish prime minister, Winston
Churchill, allegedly respond-
ed to proposals to broadcast
the ceremony on live televi-
sion that “modern mechani-
cal arrangements” would
damage the coronation’s
magic, and “religious and
spiritual aspects should [not]
be presented as if it were a
theatrical performance”.
Television was a new tech-
nology at the time, and it was
feared that televising the cer-
emony would be too intimate.
Despite these concerns, tele-
vising the coronation was a
big success. The research
project “Media and Memory
in Wales” found that the coro-
nation played a formative
role in people’s first memo-
ries of television. Even non-
ardent monarchists could
give an intimate account of
their experiences. Social me-
dia has given the monarchy
access to new audiences: a
younger generation who are
more likely to scroll royal
photographs on phone apps
than read newspapers.
POLITICAL FIGURES
The Queen succeeded to the
throne during a period of
radical political transforma-
tion. The Labour Party’s
Clement Atlee had won office
in 1945 in a sensational, land-
slide election which seemed
to signal voters desire for
change. The establishment
of the NHS in 1948 as a cen-
tral policy of the postwar
welfare state, promised sup-
port from cradle to grave.
Winston Churchill’s Con-
servative party retook parlia-
ment in 1952. Churchill spoke
to a different version of Brit-
ain: more traditional, imperi-
alist, and staunchly monar-
chist. Such contrasting ide-
ologies were visible in re-
sponses to the Queen’s coro-
nation in June 1953.
FINAL YEARS
As she approached her tenth
decade, she finally began to
slow down, delegating more
of her official duties to other
members of the royal family
– even the annual laying of
her wreath at the cenotaph on
Remembrance Sunday
, while
in May 2022 she delegated her
most important ceremonial
duty, the reading of the
Speech from the Throne at
the State Opening of Parlia-
ment, to Prince Charles.
WHAT NEXT?
This is the image of the
Queen that many will re-
member: an older woman,
dressed pristinely, clutching
her iconic, familiar handbag.
While she was head of state
throughout many of the seis-
mic political, social and cul-
tural changes of the 20th and
21st centuries, the fact that
she rarely gave a political
opinion means she success-
fully navigated the mon-
arch’s constitutional politi-
cal neutrality
.
The Queen remained an
image: indeed, she is the
most represented person in
British history. The Queen’s
death is bound to prompt
Britain’s reflection on its
past, its present and its fu-
ture. Time will tell what the
reign of Charles III will look
like, but one thing is for sure:
the “new Elizabethan age” is
long gone. Britain is now re-
covering from recent rup-
tures in its status quo, from
Brexit, to the COVID-19 pan-
demic. Charles III inherits a
very different country than
that of his mother. What pur-
pose, if any, will the next
monarchy have for Britain’s
future?
SOURCE: THE CONVERSATION
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
THE END OF THE ‘NEW
ELIZABETHAN AGE’
W
The Commonwealth has a
veneer of colonial power
given that it shares a
history with Empire, and
continues to invest the
British monarch with
symbolic power. The
Commonwealth featured
heavily in the 1953
coronation ceremony.
She continued to celebrate
the Commonwealth
throughout her reign
The Queen is the most
represented person in
British history. Her death is
bound to prompt Britain’s
reflection on its past,
present future. Time
will tell what the reign of
Charles III will look like,
but one thing is for sure:
the “new Elizabethan
age” is long gone

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Tokyo: Defence Minis-
ter Rajnath Singh and
External Affairs Minis-
ter (EAM) S Jaishankar
called on Japanese
Prime Minister Fumio
Kishida on Friday at the
conclusion of the 2+2
meeting between the
two countries.
Jaishnakar said that
he expressed confidence
that the vision articu-
lated by PM Kishida and
PM Modi, will be real-
ised soon.
“Pleased to call on PM
Fumio Kishida at the
conclusion of our 2+2
meeting. Underlined the
importance of closer co-
ordination of policies
and interests of India
and Japan at this time,”
Jaishankar tweeted.
“Expressed confi-
dence that the vision
which he and PM @nar-
endramodi have articu-
lated will be realised
early
,” he added.
On Thursday, the De-
fence and Foreign min-
isters of India and Ja-
pan held the second 2+2
ministerial. They dis-
cussed regional and
global issues of mutual
interests and concerns,
particularly those in the
Indo-Pacific and
Ukraine. Singh and
Jaishankar held meet-
ings with their counter-
part from Japan, For-
eign Affairs Minister
Hayashi Yoshimasa and
Defence Minister Ham-
ada Yasukazu.
According to the
MEA, the meeting fea-
tured a discussion on
the progress in defence
cooperation as the two
sides reaffirmed their
commitment to a rules-
based global order that
respects the sovereignty
.
New Delhi: Gujarat
Mineral Development
Corporation Limited
has opened its regional
officeinNewDelhi. Arti
Kanwar, Resident Com-
missioner, govt of Guja-
rat inaugurated the of-
fice. The initiative to
open regional office in
Delhi was taken by its
Managing Director,
Roopwant Singh, IAS.
GMDCisaGovtof Gu-
jaratownedminingcom-
pany engaged in mining
and mineral processing
for over six decades of
varieties of high-utility
minerals and also into
power generation that
comprises of Thermal,
Wind and Solar. A zero-
debt company
, it was
ranked 132nd among In-
dia’sFortune500Compa-
nies (2017) and among
the Top-5 organizations
by market capitalization
in the mining sector.
New Delhi (ANI):
President Droupadi
Murmu through a vir-
tual event on Septem-
ber 9, launched ‘Prad-
han Mantri TB Mukt
Bharat Abhiyaan’ to
eliminate TB by 2025.
President Droupadi
Murmu urged citizens
to work collectively to-
wards TB elimination
in the spirit of Jan
Bhaagidari on a war
footing.
The National Tuber-
culosis Elimination
Programme (NTEP),
previously known as
the Revised National
Tuberculosis Control
Programme (RNTCP),
aims to strategically
reduce the TB burden
in India by 2025, five
years ahead of the Sus-
tainable Development
Goals. In 2020, the RN-
TCP has renamed the
National TB Elimina-
tion Program (NTEP)
to emphasize the aim
of the Government of
India to eliminate TB
in India by 2025.
Union Health and
Family Welfare Minis-
ter, Dr. Mansukh Man-
daviya, Minister of
State for Health and
Family Welfare, Dr.
Bharati Pravin Pawar
were present at the
launch event along
with Union Ministers,
Governors and Lt. Gov-
ernors, State Health
Ministers, and other
dignitaries.
The virtual event
was also attended by
state and district
health administra-
tions, representatives
from corporates, in-
dustries, civil society,
NGOs, and TB Cham-
pions. Speaking on the
occasion, Union
Health Minister Dr.
Mansukh Mandaviya
stated that “the Prad-
han Mantri TB Mukt
Bharat Abhiyan is an
extension of Hon’ble
Prime Minister’s citi-
zen-centric policies”.
He attributed the suc-
cess of the TB pro-
gram to key indicators
such as TB case notifi-
cations and consistent
efforts that led to
monthly notification
reporting to reach pre-
pandemic levels by
end of 2021.
The Union Health
Minister emphasized
that a 360-degree ap-
proach is the corner-
stone of TB elimina-
tion in India and ob-
served that a societal
approach that brings
together people from
all backgrounds into a
Jan Andolan is needed
to achieve the ambi-
tious target of elimi-
nating TB by 2025.
The President also
launched the Ni-kshay
Mitra initiative to en-
sure additional diag-
nostic, nutritional, and
vocational support to
those on TB treatment,
and encouraged elect-
ed representatives,
corporates, NGOs, and
individuals to come
forward as donors to
help the patients com-
plete their journey to-
ward recovery
.
The Ni-kshay 2.0
portal will facilitate in
providing additional
patient support to im-
prove treatment out-
comes of TB patients,
augmenting commu-
nity involvement in
meeting India’s com-
mitment to end TB by
2025 and leveraging
Corporate Social Re-
sponsibility (CSR) op-
portunities.
President Murmu virtually launches the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt
Bharat Abhiyaan, in New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Prez Murmu launches campaign to eradicate TB by 2025
India, China agree for Gogra-Hot
Springs disengagement: MEA
New Delhi (ANI): In-
dia and China have
agreed to dismantle and
verify the temporary
structures and other al-
lied infrastructure cre-
ated in the Gogra-Hot
Springs (PP-15) area of
the LAC in Ladakh, the
MEA said on Friday
.
Thiscomesadayafter
Indian and Chinese
troops in the Gogra-Hot
Springs area started to
disengage in a coordi-
nated and planned way
.
In response to a media
query, MEA Spokesper-
son Arindam Bagchi
said the disengagement
process in the area will
becompletedbySeptem-
ber 12. This disengage-
mentprocessfollowsthe
sixteenth round of talks
between the Corps Com-
manders of India and
China that was held at
Chushul Moldo Meeting
Point on July 17, 2022.
Since then, the two
sides had maintained
regular contact to build
ontheprogressachieved
during the talks to re-
solve the relevant issues
along the LAC in the
Western Sector of the
India-China border are-
as. “As a result, both
sides have now agreed
ondisengagementinthe
area of Gogra-Hot
Springs (PP-15). As per
the agreement, the dis-
engagement process in
this area started on Sep-
tember 8 at 0830 hrs and
will be completed by 12
Sept 2022,” Bagchi said.
Bagchi continued
that the two sides have
agreed to cease forward
deployments in this
area in a phased, coordi-
nated and verified man-
ner, resulting in the re-
turn of the troops of
both sides to their re-
spective areas.
The two sides have been locked in a standoff in this area for over two years
With the
resolution
of the
stand-off at PP-15,
both sides mutually
agreed to take the
talks forward and
resolve the remain-
ing issues along
LAC and restore
peace and tranquil-
lity in India-China
border areas.
—Arindam Bagchi,
MEA Spokesperson
—IMAGE FOR REPRESENTATIONAL PURPOSE
‘IPEF policy to
be presented
in Parliament’
Los Angeles: Union
Minister for Commerce
and Industry Piyush
Goyal on Friday said
that a robust Indo-Pa-
cific Economic Frame-
work for Prosperity
(IPEF) is being pro-
posed to be presented
soon in the Parliament.
Goyal said that India
is a big provider of
technology services to
US companies and a
robust framework is
being proposed to be
presented to Parlia-
ment soon. “India is
looking to have con-
temporary and mod-
ern laws in the digital
world while maintain-
ing high levels of data
privacy,” he added.
NMNH organises awareness programme for children
New Delhi (ANI): To
create awareness
among children, the
National Museum of
Natural History
(NMNH) and its region-
al centres are organiz-
ing an offline pro-
gramme on the “Rein-
troduction of Cheetah
in India” through ex-
tensive physical inter-
action with students in
different parts of the
country during the
campaign from Sep-
tember 9 to 12.
As per sources of the
Ministry of Environ-
ment and Climate
Change, the purpose of
the introduction is to
create curiosity and
awareness among the
children about this im-
portant extinct species
which will be reintro-
duced in India.
“During this week, a
long campaign will be
organised where the re-
source persons from
the museum will inter-
act with more than
15,000 students across
the country,” an official
in the Ministry told
ANI. Meanwhile, Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi will inaugurate
the “Reintroduction of
the Cheetah” project at
the Kuno National Park
in the Sheopur district
of Madhya Pradesh on
September 17.
PM Modi will also re-
lease cheetahs being
brought from Africa
into the state’s forests.
The big cat species will
be reintroduced in In-
dia after 70 years since
being declared extinct
in 1952.
National Museum of
Natural History is a
subordinate office of
the Ministry of Envi-
ronment, Forest and
Climate Change with
its headquarters at
New Delhi and its re-
gional centres at
Mysore, Bhubaneswar,
Bhopal and Sawai Mad-
hopur in Rajasthan.
Under the ambitious
project of the Indian
government – Project
Cheetah – the reintro-
duction of wild species
particularly cheetah is
being undertaken as
per the International
Union for Conserva-
tion of Nature (IUCN)
guidelines.
REINTRODUCTION OF CHEETAH
—IMAGE FOR REPRESENTATIONAL PURPOSE
S Jaishankar, Rajnath Singh call on
Japan PM to discuss bilateral relations
Rajnath Singh (2nd R) and S Jaishankar (R) with Japan PM Fumio
Kishida (C), in Tokyo on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI
GMDC Ltd opens its
regional office in Delhi
IN THE COURTYARD
SC SEEKS RESPONSE FROM UP ON MINOR’S
PLEA FOR PERMISSION TO DONATE LIVER
SC SEEKS CENTRE’S REPLY ON PLEA AGAINST
INTERNET SHUTDOWN DURING EXAMS
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued a
notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on a plea of a
17-year-old boy who sought permission
to donate a part of his liver to his father.A
bench headed by Chief Justice of India
UU Lalit has sought a response from
the Uttar Pradesh government’s health
department on the plea and asked its
Registry to communicate the court’s order to State’s
standing counsel and Health Secretary, Lucknow.
According to the plea, the boy’s father is in critical
condition and needed his liver transplanted, for which
he sought permission from the top court.
New Delhi: The SC on Friday issued notice to the MEITY
on a plea filed by the Software Freedom Law Centre seek-
ing direction to the States to not suspend
Internet services on the grounds of prevent-
ing cheating in competitive examinations
and for other such routine administrative
reasons. The bench headed by Chief Justice
of India UU Lalit sought a response from
the MEITY asking it to file an affidavit indicating whether
there is any standard protocol with respect to the grievance
raised by the petitioner. Advocate Vrinda Grover appeared
for the petitioner, which is a legal services organisation and
works for the promotion digital rights.
HC NOTICE TO CBI
ON GAUTAM
KHAITAN'S PLEA
New Delhi: The Delhi HC
on Friday sought respons-
es of the Central govt and
three medical colleges
of Haryana on a petition
moved by five specially
abled MBBS students
challenging regulations of
the NMC. The plea stated
that the petitioners who
were admitted to various
medical colleges in the
academic year 2019-20
have challenged the
amendment to Regula-
tions of Graduate Medical
Examination 1997.
New Delhi: The Delhi HC
on Friday issued notice
to the CBI on a bail plea
of Delhi-based lawyer
Gautam Khaitan, recently
arrested in connection
with a case of alleged kick-
back paid by a Brazilian
aircraft manufacturer to a
middleman. His bail plea
was dismissed by the trial
court on Sept 3, 2022. The
bench of Justice Jasmeet
Singh sought a response
from the CBI a status
report within one week
listed matter for Sept 16.
HC SEEKS CENTRE’S
RESPONSE ON PLEA
CHALLENGING NMC
Resident Commissioner Arti
Kanwar inaugurating the new
GMDC office in New Delhi.
INDIA
05
SC REJECTS PLEA
ON ‘AGNIPATH’
VIOLENT PROTESTS
New Delhi: The Delhi High
Court on Friday reserved
verdict on the bail plea of
Umar Khalid in the north-
east Delhi violence case.
Justices Sidharth Mridul
and Rajanish Bhatnagar
after hearing rebuttal argu-
ments by senior advocate
Tridip Pais for Umar Khalid
reserved the verdict. The
bench granted Pais two
days’ time to file written
submissions. The bench
will hear the bail plea of
Sharjeel Imam from Sep-
tember 23 onwards.
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat
High Court has rejected
the PIL filed by the great
grandson of Mahatma
Gandhi, challenging the
proposed redevelopment
of Sabarmati Ashram.
Submissions in the case
were made by the Advo-
cate General (AG) Kamal
Trivedi on which the court
based its order and said
that the existing Gandhi
Ashram would not be
disturbed or be altered.
The plea was disposed
of then.
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court on Friday rejected
the plea seeking directions
to set up a Special Inves-
tigation Team to enquire
about the violent protest
that erupted against the
“Agnipath” scheme. A
bench headed by Justice
DY Chandrachud said that
matters are being heard
by Delhi High Court and
so do not re-agitate issues
now. The court dismissed
the petition filed by
petitioner-in-person and
advocate Vishal Tiwari.
DELHI HC RESERVES
ORDER ON UMAR
KHALID’S BAIL PLEA
GUJARAT HC
REJECTS TUSHAR
GANDHI PETITION
SC REJECTS PLEA
SEEKING NUPUR
SHARMA’S ARREST
New Delhi: The SC on
Friday refused to entertain
a plea seeking directions
to the authorities to act
and arrest former BJP
Spokesperson Nupur
Sharma for her alleged
hate statement against
Prophet Mohammad and
hurting sentiments of
the Muslim community.
A bench headed by CJI
UU Lalit told petitioner
Advocate Abu Sohel said
that his plea looked innoc-
uous but had far-reaching
consequences.
IN THE COURTYARD

INDIA
06
New Delhi (ANI): BJP
national president JP
Nadda on Friday ap-
pointed in charge of
various states and un-
ion territories includ-
ing poll-bound states
like Tripura and Telan-
gana. Vinod Tawde has
been appointed as Gen-
eral Secretary in Bihar,
while Harish Dwivedi
continues to be the co-
incharge. Om Mathur
who had been recently
appointed to the Parlia-
mentary board has
been made in charge of
Chhattisgarh.
Former Tripura
Chief Minister Biplab
Deb has been given an
organisational respon-
sibility and made in-
charge of Haryana.
Vinod Sonkar who
was in charge of Tripu-
ra, which goes into elec-
tion next year, has been
replaced by former un-
ion minister and Noida
MPDrMaheshSharma.
Former Gujarat
Chief Minister Vijay
Rupani has also been
given organisational re-
sponsibilities in Punjab
and Chandigarh.
National General
Secretary Tarun Chugh
continues to be in
charge of Telangana.
Bengal has found a
new in charge in the
form of Bihar MLC
Mangal Pandey where-
as Amit Malviya con-
tinues to be the co-in
charge.
PRESENTING REPORT!
President Droupadi Murmu being presented the 11th Volume of the Report of the
Parliamentary Committee on Official Language by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and
Parliamentary Committee on Official Language Chairman Amit Shah and members, in
New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI
Raipur (PTI): BJP
president JP Nadda on
Friday dubbed regional
outfits as “family par-
ties” and said his party
will fight against dynas-
tic politics in the coun-
try with its ideology
.
Addressing a conven-
tion of booth level party
workers at Science Col-
lege ground in Chhat-
tisgarh’s capital Raipur,
Nadda also accused
Chief Minister Bhu-
pesh Baghel of looting
people of the state and
making it an “ATM of
the Congress party”.
Nadda, who is on his
maiden visit to the Con-
gress-ruled state after
assuming charge as
BJP national president,
asked party workers to
take the messages of
PM Narendra Modi to
the booth level and ap-
prise people with works
being done under the
latter’s leadership.
He said, “Our fight is
against the politics of
‘vanshwad’ (dynasty).
Right from Jammu and
Kashmir to Tamil
Nadu, we are battling
against it.” Referring to
the political develop-
ments in neighbouring
Maha that started with
the rebellion in the
Shiv Sena in June, Na-
dda said Thackeray’s
party broke up because
of family
.
New Delhi (ANI):
Slamming West Bengal
CM Mamata Banerjee
over her “Khela Hobe
in 2024” remark, Union
Minister Shantanu
Thakur on Thursday
said that removing the
BJP from power will
“not happen even in
dreams”.
Earlier in the day, Ba-
nerjee said that TMC
and other Opposition
parties will come to-
gether ahead of the 2024
general elections to re-
move the Modi govern-
ment from power at the
Centre and there will be
“Khela Hobe”, a slogan
that she had given
ahead of the Assembly
elections in West Ben-
gal in 2021. Speaking to
ANI, Thakur said, “Re-
moving the BJP party
in 2024, will not happen
even in the dream.”
“She should not talk
like this, because every
politician is a public
representative who
goes to the Parliament
or Assembly after win-
ning and that should be
respected, but she takes
it as a game,” he added.
The Minister also hit
out at the West Bengal
CM over her remarks
against the action on
arrested TMC president
of the Birbhum district
Anubrata Mondal.
Mumbai (ANI): Maha-
rashtra CM Eknath
Shinde said that 1993
Mumbai blast convict
Yakub Memon is an ac-
cused in the Bombay
Blast and cannot be glo-
rified after the row per-
taining to the latter’s
grave beautification
emerged. While talking
to the mediapersons in
Mumbai, Maharashtra,
Memon said, “Yakub
Memon is an accused in
Bombay Blast, cannot
be glorified. We won’t
accept this or let it hap-
pen. I have informed
BMC Mumbai Police
about it, the Home Min-
istry will take appropri-
ate action.” He said that
an investigation has
been initiated after the
order of an inquiry into
the matter.
New Delhi (ANI):
Amid a political tussle
between BJP and TMC
in West Bengal, Union
Minister Shantanu
Thakur on Friday said
that the Matua sect of
the state has the power
to change the political
scenario and will play a
key role in the 2024 Lok
Sabha elections.
The Matua commu-
nity is believed to be
the second largest part
of SC population in
Bengal. Matua voters
dominate at least 30 as-
sembly seats in Bengal,
while they have a sig-
nificant population in
70 seats. After the parti-
tion of India, a large
number of people be-
longing to the Matua
community came to
Bengal from East Paki-
stan which is now
Bangladesh.
New Delhi: Ahead of
India’s upcoming G20
presidency, IMF Man-
aging Director Kristali-
na Georgieva on Thurs-
day thanked PM Nar-
endra Modi for a great
meeting and congratu-
lated on India’s strong
economic recovery
from the COVID-19
pandemic.
Taking to Twitter,
Ms Georgieva wrote
“Thank you @PMOIn-
dia @narendramodi
for a great meeting.
Congratulations on In-
dia’s strong economic
recovery from the pan-
demic and its remark-
able advances, espe-
cially the incredible
success in digitaliza-
tion,” and congratu-
lated India’s robust
economic recovery
from the pandemic.
The IMF chief also
applauded the incredi-
ble success of the digi-
talization of India dur-
ing the talks with
Prime Minister Modi
and assured full sup-
port for India to protect
macroeconomic and
financial stability.
“As India takes the
helm of G20, you can
count on @IMFNews
full support to protect
macroeconomic amd
financial stability, ad-
vance cooperation on
debt resolution and
promote financial in-
clusion,” the IMF Chief
tweeted. Georgieva
also counted on India’s
strong leadership to
further strengthen a
strong multilateral sys-
tem and advance IMF
reforms.
The Managing Direc-
tor of IMF, Kristalina
Georgieva also met Un-
ion Finance Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman to
discuss India’s upcom-
ing G20 presidency and
IMF’s support for it.
IMF MD praises PM on India’s economic recovery
RECOVERY FROM COVID PANDEMIC
KAPPAN TO BE
RELEASED NEXT
WEEK: OFFICIAL
Lucknow: Imprisoned
journalist Siddique Kappan
will be released from the
Lucknow jail next week,
an official said on Friday,
hours after he was granted
bail by the Supreme Court.
“Siddique Kappan is lodged
in the Lucknow jail for the
past few months. He will be
released from jail once his
bail order is submitted here
and a release order is issued
as per the Supreme Court’s
order,” said Santosh Kumar
Verma, PRO at the office of
the DGP (Prisons).
‘STIR INTENSIFIED
AFTER VISIT BY
BRITISH OFFICIAL’
Prayagraj: The Allahabad
University has taken
exception to the reported
meeting of two British High
Commission officials with
students protesting fee
hike, saying they “violated
protocol”. According to
spokesperson, Jaya Kapoor,
the two officials of the
British High Commission
met students on August
29 without informing the
university administration,
and urged them to avail
the facilities offered by the
British government.
CRUCIAL READ
INDIAN ARMY IN DODA DISTRICT OF JK
CONDUCTED GUJJAR BAKKARWAL MEALS
GUV KOSHYARI VISITS DY CM FADNAVIS’
RESIDENCE, WORSHIPS LORD GANESHA
Jammu and Kashmir: The Indian Army in the Doda district
of JK, conducted Gujjar and Bakkarwal meals on Thurs-
day. As part of a continued drive to ameliorate the lives of
locals and to outreach the population in remote areas, the
Indian Army, Doda organised Gujjar and Bakkarwal Mela,
Horse Race, Medical and Veterinary Camp on Sep 8. With
the onset of summers, every year thousands of Gujjar and
Bakkarwals from regions as far as Udhampur, Reasi, Anant-
nag Jammu, and Rajouri flock to the green pastures of Lal
Draman and the areas around it.
Mumbai: Maharashtra Gov-
ernor Bhagat Singh Koshyari
visited ‘Sagar’, the official
residence of Deputy Chief
Minister Devendra Fadnavis
on Friday and had the darshan
of Lord Ganesha. Earlier on
Monday, Amit Shah made
the first visit to the state after
Eknath Shinde took oath as
the Chief Minister. He offered
prayers at the famous Mumbai
Lalbaugcha Raja along with
CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy
CM Devendra Fadnavis.
BJP appoints state in charges,
Tawde in Bihar Pandey in WB
Focus of these leaders will be to expand party’s base in different states
PM MODI TO
INAUGURATE
SCIENCE
CONCLAVE TODAY
New Delhi: PM
Narendra Modi
will inaugurate the
Centre- State Science
Conclave on Saturday
via video conferenc-
ing. His office said
the programme is in
line with the prime
minister’s relentless
efforts to facilitate
innovation and en-
trepreneurship in the
country, and the first
of its kind conclave
will strengthen the
Centre-state coordi-
nation and collabo-
ration mechanism in
the spirit of coopera-
tive federalism.
Raipur (PTI): The three-day 'Akhil Bharatiya Samanvay Baithak' or annual national
coordination meet of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will be held from
Saturday in Raipur in Chhattisgarh, a functionary of the outfit said. The meeting, to
be held in Jainam Manas Bhavan near the airport here, would be attended by 36 out-
fits inspired by the RSS, among them the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Vishwa Hindu
Parishad, Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, he
said. The 'Akhil Bharatiya Samanvay Baithak' will be attended by RSS chief Mohan
Bhagwat, its 'sarkaryawah' (general secretary) Dattatreya Hosbole and office-bearers
of these 36 outfits, said Sunil Ambekar, the RSS' 'Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh'.
THREE-DAY RSS COORDINATION MEET TO START IN
CHHATTISGARH TODAY; BJP'S NADDA TO ATTEND
‘Cong fired missiles at me,
I destroyed them with rifle’
AZAD ATTACKS CONGRESS
Bhaderwah: Former
Union Minister Ghu-
lam Nabi Azad, who re-
cently ended his five-
decade-long association
with the Congress, said
he only retaliated with
a rifle when the leaders
from his former party
fired missiles at him.
Addressing a public
rally in Jammu and
Kashmir’s Bhaderwah
on Thursday, Azad said,
“They (Congress) fired
missiles on me, I only
retaliated with a 303 ri-
fle and they were de-
stroyed. What would
have happened had I
used a ballistic missile?
they must disappear.”
However, he avoided
commenting on the late
Indira Gandhi and Ra-
jeev Gandhi.
“Since I have been a
member of the party for
52 years and consider
Rajeev Gandhi to be my
brother and Indira Gan-
dhi to be my mother, I
have no desire to even
use words against
them,” he said.
In his first public
meeting in Jammu after
quitting the Congress,
Azad announced that
he will launch his own
political outfit that
would focus on the res-
toration of full state-
hood.
“I’ve not decided
upon a name for my
party yet. The people of
Jammu and Kashmir
will decide the name
and the flag for the par-
ty
. I’ll give a Hindustani
name to my party that
everyone can under-
stand,” he said.
On August 26, in a let-
ter to Congress Presi-
dent Sonia Gandhi, he
resigned from all posi-
tions of Congress in-
cluding its primary
membership.
Ghulam Nabi Azad
Shinde:Yakub Memon cannot
be glorified, assures strict action
‘Bengal’s Matua sect to
play key role in LS polls’
‘BJP to fight dynastic politics with ideology’
Eknath Shinde
Didi says ‘Khela Hobey’, BJP
says ‘Not even in your dreams’
AZAD SET TO LAUNCH HIS POLITICAL OUTFIT
Nadda also accused CM Bhupesh Baghel of looting people of the state
JP Nadda being garlanded during a karyakarta sammelan, in
Raipur on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva met PM Modi on Thursday.
Shantanu Thakur

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CURRENCIES
Industry pitches for sustainable E-Vehicle ecosystem
New Delhi (PTI):Strength-
eningof localsupplychains
is important to create a sus-
tainable electric vehicle
ecosystem in the country,
the Society of Manufactur-
ers of Electric Vehicles
(SMEV) said on Friday
.
The SMEV urged people
to advocate the cause of
green mobility among
their family and friends
to become a part of the
revolution.
“As we move forward
with the aim of making In-
dia an EV hub, it’s impera-
tive that all stakeholders
are in harmony so a solid
logistical foundation can
be built for the industry,”
SMEV Director General
Sohinder Gill said.
SMEV invites all the in-
dustry players to come to-
gether and work towards
strengthening the local
supply chain market so
that a sustainable EV eco-
system can be created in
the country, he added.
Tata Power official not-
ed that development of an
easy, accessible charging
infrastructure is absolute-
ly essential for large-scale
adoption of EVs in the
country.
ON WORLD ELECTRIC VEHICLE DAY
‘COME WORK
TOGETHER’

z On the occasion of World
EV Day, SMEV invites all
the industry players to
come together and work
towards strengthening the
local supply chain market
so that a sustainable EV
ecosystem can be created
in the country
business
BRIEFS
New Delhi: Multiplex op-
erator PVR has called a
meeting of its sharehold-
ers and creditors on Oc-
tober 11 to seek their ap-
proval for the scheme of
merger with rival Inox
Leisure. This comes after
the Mumbai bench of the
NCLT directed PVR to
call a meeting. “We wish
to inform you that pursu-
ant to the order pro-
nounced on August 22,
2022 and received on
September 5, 2022,
meetings of equity share-
holders will be held
through video conferenc-
ing or other audio visual
means on Tuesday, Oct
11, 2022, at 11:30 AM,”
PVR informed. —PTI
New Delhi: The commerce
and industry ministry’s ini-
tiative to help small retail-
ers and reduce the domi-
nance of e-commerce gi-
ants, ONDC, is likely to be
opened to the public soon,
an official said on Friday.
The ministry in April
launched the pilot phase
of the open network for
digital commerce, a UPI-
type protocol, in five cities
- Delhi NCR, Bengaluru,
Bhopal, Shillong and Co-
imbatore. People were al-
lowed to do transactions
in these cities. —PTI
OFFICIAL SAYS ONDC
MAY BE OPENED TO
THE PUBLIC SOON
PVR SHAREHOLDERS,
CREDITORS TO TALK
ABOUT INOX MERGER
Mumbai: Budget carrier
SpiceJet on Friday said it
has appointed Ashish Ku-
mar as its Chief Financial
Officer. Kumar’s appoint-
ment for the post is effec-
tive from September 9.
Kumar succeeds Sanjeev
Taneja, who quit the
struggling carrier on Au-
gust 31. Before joining
the Gurugram-based low-
cost airline, Kumar was
serving as vice president
for corporate finance at
Interglobe Enterprises
since January 2019,
SpiceJet said. —PTI
ASHISH KUMAR IS
NEW CFO OF BUDGET
CARRIER SPICEJET
New Delhi: CreditSights
has dialed back on its lan-
guage on debt levels at
richest Indian Gautam
Adani’s group but has
maintained that the
group’s leverage is elevat-
ed. In a new note, Credit-
Sights, said it “has dis-
covered calculation er-
rors” in its recent debt re-
port on two Adani Group
companies but these did
not change its investment
recommendations. On
August 23, it stated that
the Adani group was
“deeply over-leveraged”
and may “in the worst-
case scenario”. —PTI
CREDITSIGHTS DIALS
DOWN ON ADANI
GROUP’S ‘LEVERAGE’
*Rates till the edition went to print.
TATA MOTORS TO
ROLL OUT ELECTRIC
VERSION OF TIAGO
New Delhi (PTI): Tata Motors
on Friday said it will roll out the
electric version of its entry-level
model Tiago later this month, in
a step towards making envi-
ronmentally friendly vehicles
more accessible to customers.
The Tiago EV would be the
company’s third product in the
electric space. Tata Motors has
set a target of introducing 10
electric models over the next five
years. “Today, is a momentous
occasion for us, as we announce
the expansion of our EV portfolio
further with a new mainstream
intervention from the stable of
Tata Motors, the Tiago EV,” Tata
Motors PV MD said.
32 BENEFICIARIES OKAYED
UNDER PLI FOR LARGE
SCALE ELECTRONICS MFG
New Delhi: An empowered com-
mittee headed by NITI Aayog
CEO on Friday approved 32 ben-
eficiaries under
the production
linked incen-
tive scheme for
large scale elec-
tronics manufacturing, including
10 for mobile manufacturing,
the Aayog said. The Aayog in a
tweet said the Parameswaran
Iyer-headed committee approved
the first incentive for mobile
manufacturing under the PLI
scheme for large scale electron-
ics manufacturing. —PTI
AIR INDIA STARTS
VACATING OFFICES
FROM GOVT PROPERTIES
Mumbai: Air India has decided
to vacate its offices in govern-
ment-owned properties, and
will house
them jointly
with other
Tata group
airlines, in-
cluding Vistara, in a modern
campus in the national capital
region by March next year. Air
India continued with offices in
government buildings including
Airlines House near Parliament
House in the national capital,
a company statement said on
Friday. —PTI
OTHER STORIES
PASSENGER VEHICLE DISPATCHES RISE 21 PER CENT
IN AUGUST 2022 AS CHIP SUPPLY IMPROVES
Hyderabad: Passenger vehicle wholesales in India witnessed a 21%
annual growth in August, riding on improved supplies of semi-
conductors and festive demand, according to the Society of Indian
Automobile Manufacturers. As per the
latest data released by industry body
Society of Indian Automobile Manufac-
turers (SIAM), passenger vehicle (PV)
dispatches to dealers stood at 2,81,210
units last month, against 2,32,224 units
in August 2021. Sales across segments
rose by 18% to 18,77,072 units in August
this year, from 15,94,573 units in the same month last year, Society
of Indian Automobile Manufacturers said. —PTI
Mumbai (PTI): The rupee appreciated 12 paise to close at 79.57
(provisional) against the US dollar on
Friday, tracking positive domestic equities
and foreign fund inflows. At the interbank
forex market, the local unit opened at 79.66
against the greenback. It witnessed an intra-
day high of 79.47 and a low of 79.66 during
the session. It finally ended at 79.57, up 12
paise from its previous close of 79.69.
INDIAN RUPEE RISES 12 PAISE TO CLOSE
AT 79.57 AGAINST US DOLLAR ON FRIDAY
Kharif rice production
may fall by 10-12 MT
SOWING ACREAGE DOWN
New Delhi (PTI): India’s
rice production could fall
by 10-12 million tonnes dur-
ing the Kharif season this
year due to a fall in paddy
sowing area, the govern-
ment said on Friday, but
asserted that it would still
have surplus output.
On Thursday, the gov-
ernment imposed ban on
exports of broken rice and
also slapped an export duty
of 20% on non-basmati
rice, except for parboiled
rice, as its seeks to boost
domestic supply and curb
rising prices that have
gone up by 8% in wholesale
market and 6% in retail.
At a press conference to
explain rationale behind
the imposition of ban on
exports of broken rice,
Food Secretary Sudhanshu
Pandey pointed out that
the paddy acreage is lower
by 38 lakh hectare so far
this Kharif season because
of lessrainsinmanystates.
The Kharif season con-
tributes about 80% of In-
dia’s total rice production.
“Loss of production of
rice may be 10 million
tonnes and in the worst
case it can be 12 million
tonnes this year,” he told
reporters here.
India’s total rice produc-
tion during 2021-22 crop
year (July-June) is estimat-
ed at a record 130.29 mil-
lion tonnes as against
124.37 million tonnes in the
previous year.
Out of total rice produc-
tion in 2021-22, 111.76
million tonnes were in
Kharif season and 18.53
million tonnes in Rabi
(winter-sown) season. The
country exported 21.2 mil-
lion tonnes of rice in 2021-
22 fiscal year, of which
3.94 million tonnes were
basmati rice.
The secretary, however,
said that this is an initial
estimate based on drop in
paddy acreage in Kharif
(summer-sown) and aver-
age yield and actual fall in
production could be less as
yield might improve in
states where rains have
been good. Paddy was sown
in 406.89 lakh hectares in
the year-ago period, the
data showed.
NUMBERS IN
2021-22 CROP YR

z According to the data,
India’s total rice production
during 2021-22 crop year
(July-June) is estimated at a
record 130.29 million tonnes
as against 124.37 million
tonnes in the previous year

z Out of total rice production
in 2021-22, 111.76 million
tonnes were in Kharif season
and 18.53 million tonnes in
Rabi (winter-sown) season

z The country exported 21.2
million tonnes of rice in 2021-
22 FY of which 3.94 million
tonnes were basmati rice
Mumbai (PTI): Bench-
mark indices ended on a
firm note on Friday, ex-
tending their previous
day’s gain, amid continu-
ous foreign fund inflows
and a positive trend in the
global markets.
The 30-share BSE Sensex
climbed 104.92 points or
0.18% to settle at 59,793.14.
During the day, it jumped
431.58 points or 0.72% to
60,119.80. On similar lines,
the broader NSE Nifty end-
ed higher by 34.60 points or
0.19% to 17,833.35.
From the Sensex pack of
firms, Tech Mahindra, In-
dusInd Bank, Infosys, HCL
Technologies, Maruti, Tata
Consultancy Services,
State Bank of India, Wipro
and Axis Bank emerged as
the biggest gainers.
UltraTech Cement, Ma-
hindra Mahindra, Lars-
en Toubro and Bajaj
Finance were among the
laggards.
Los Angeles (PTI): India
and the US will “very soon”
hold the next ministerial-
level meeting of the Trade
Policy Forum (TPF) in
America to discuss ways
for promoting trade and
investment between the
countries.
India and the US held the
12th TPF in New Delhi on
November 23 last year. The
forum is an inter-agency
collaboration led by the US
Trade Representative
(USTR). It is the principal
trade dialogue between the
two countries. It has five
focus groups: Agriculture,
Investment, Innovation
and Creativity (intellectual
property rights), Services,
and Tariff and Non-Tariff
Barriers.
“We will be having the
next trade policy forum
very soon in the US and in
the TPF we are hoping to
add further deliverables
and newer areas of engage-
ment being discussed, for
which both teams have
been tasked to start engag-
ing with each other,” Goyal
told reporters here.
The minister held a bi-
lateral meeting here with
USTR Katherine Tai and
US Commerce Secretary
Gina Raimondo.
When asked about re-
storing the trade benefits
under GSP programme of
the US, the Indian minister
said :”I don’t think that’s
an issue anymore. None of
our exports have been af-
fected by the GSP. So I
think that’s not an issue;
that we have even dis-
cussed in recent times,
including today”.
Markets maintain
winning run for 2nd
day; post weekly gains
Union Minister Piyush Goyal with US Trade Representative Ambassador
Katherine Tai during a meeting on November 23, 2021. —FILE PHOTO
New Delhi (PTI): Finance
Minister Nirmala Sithara-
man has discussed various
issues related to illegal loan
apps in a meeting and de-
cided to take a host of meas-
ures to check operations of
such apps, amid rising in-
stances of digital fraud.
Most of the digital lend-
ing apps are not registered
with the central bank and
operate by themselves.
There have been increas-
ing cases of alleged sui-
cides of borrowers due to
harassment by a few of the
operators of digital lend-
ing apps.
The meeting, chaired by
the minister, was held on
Thursday and it was de-
cided that RBI will prepare
a whitelist of all the legal
apps and MeitY will ensure
that only these are hosted
on app stores.
The RBI will monitor the
‘mule/rented’ accounts
that may be used for money
laundering and to review/
cancel dormant NBFCs to
avoid their misuse.
FM outlines
steps to avert
illegal loan apps
BSE SENSEX
ON FRIDAY

z The 30-share BSE Sensex
climbed 104.92 points or
0.18% to settle at 59,793.14

z From the Sensex pack
of firms, Tech Mahindra,
IndusInd Bank, Infosys, HCL
Technologies, Maruti, Tata
Consultancy Services, State
Bank of India, Wipro and
Axis Bank emerged as the
biggest gainers
Inflows in equity
MFs hit 10-month
low of `6,120
crore in August
India, US to soon hold trade
policy forum meet: Goyal
New Delhi (PTI): Inflows
in equity mutual funds
dropped to a 10-month low
level at `6,120 crore in Au-
gust on account of inves-
tors taking cautious ap-
proach and temporarily
shifting of money from
equity to debt due the ris-
ing interest rate scenario.
This was the 18th
straight month of inflows
in equity mutual funds
(MFs) but the pace of in-
flow has been declining
over the past few months.
ThenetinflowsinAugust
were lower compared to
`8,898 crore in July, `15,495
crore seen in June, `18,529
crore in May and `15,890
crore in April, according to
data released by Associa-
tion of Mutual Funds in
India (Amfi) on Friday
.
The month of August
saw the lowest level of in-
flow since October 2021,
when equity mutual funds
had attracted `5,215 crore.
Equity schemes have
been witnessing net inflow
since March 2021. These
schemes had witnessed
outflows for eight months
from July 2020 to February
2021, losing `46,791 crore.
The monthly SIP contri-
bution touched an all-time
high of `12,693 crore in Au-
gust and the number of SIP
accounts too rose to an all-
time high at 5.71 crore.

08
2NDFRONT
A man will learn a hundred new
skills in the path of love rather than
even one as a duty!
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra,
CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
TIMELINE REMEMBERING THE BELOVED QUEEN
ELIZABETH II VISITED INDIA THRICE
Queen
Elizabeth
II during her visit to
Kochi in 1997. During
her stay, she visited
the Jewish Street
and also the Paradesi
Synagogue situated
in Mattancherry
1997
In this file
photo dated
October 13, 1997,
Queen Elizabeth II
with former President
KR Narayan during
her ceremonial recep-
tion in New Delhi
Mother
Teresa re-
ceives the Insignia of
the Honorary Order
of Merit from Queen
Elizabeth II at the
Rashtrapati Bhavan
The queen
with veteran
actor Kamal Haasan
—PHOTOS BY PTI
1997
1983
1997
Kunal Dutt
New Delhi: Queen Eliz-
abeth II was accorded a
rousing reception in
1961 at Delhi’s Ramlila
Maidan where she ad-
dressed a massive gath-
ering in presence of the
then prime minister
Jawaharlal Nehru dur-
ing one of her three
State visits to India and
had also formally inau-
gurated the institute
buildings of AIIMS.
The 96-year-old queen
died on Thursday at Bal-
moralCastleinScotland
after remaining the
UK’s longest-serving
monarch for 70 years.
She was the first British
monarch to celebrate a
platinum jubilee earlier
this year. Her husband
Prince Philip prede-
ceased her last year just
a couple of months shy
of turning 100.
Elizabeth II’s grand-
father King George V
and royal consort
Queen Mary visited In-
dia to attend the histor-
ic Delhi Durbar in De-
cember 1911 to mark his
coronation, and 50
years later, Queen Eliz-
abeth II became the
serving British mon-
arch to visit India.
Seven years after her
coronation in June
1953, she undertook her
first royal visit to India,
along with Prince Phil-
ip, the Duke of Edin-
burgh, in January 1961.
The royal couple toured
Mumbai, Chennai and
Kolkata. They also vis-
ited the Taj Mahal in
Agra and paid tributes
to Mahatma Gandhi at
Rajghat in New Delhi.
In Delhi, the queen
was given a rousing re-
ception at the Ramlila
Maidan, where she ad-
dressed a massive gath-
ering of people, with
NehruandPrincePhilip
also present on the dais.
Several thousands of
citizens cheered and
waved small flags of
both countries, as the
royal couple were felici-
tated by the then mayor
of Delhi Sham Nath, on
a huge elevated orien-
tal-style rostrum, with
ceremonial Indian
‘hars’ (garlands).
The queen was gifted
an artistic model of
12th-century minaret
Qutub Minar, while the
duke of Edinburgh re-
ceived a silver candela-
bra, as per rare archival
footage of the royal
tour. The platform,
which now wears a rath-
er faded look, and the
Ramlila Maidan, locat-
ed between New Delhi
and Old Delhi, have wit-
nessed some of the his-
toric events that unfold-
ed in the seven decades
since Independence.
The queen, during
the Delhi leg of her
tour, had also attended
the Republic Day cele-
brations at Rajpath
(now renamed Kar-
tavya Path). —PTI
7 years after her coronation in 1953,
she undertook her first royal visit to
India, along with Prince Philip in 1961
In 1961, the Queen during the Delhi
leg of her tour, attended Republic
Day celebrations as a Guest of Honour
In this file photo dated Oct 15, 1961, Queen Elizabeth II during Indo-British exhibition at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.—PHOTO BY PTI
Queen Elizabeth II with veteran actor Kamal Haasan during
her visit to the sets of his unfinished venture Marudhanayagam
in 1997.
Queen Elizabeth II being greeted by father of Kaushik Basu, who
went on to become chief economist of the World Bank, during
her visit to Kolkata in 1961. —PHOTOS BY PTI
Queen Elizabeth II had formally
inaugurated the institute buildings
of AIIMS in New Delhi on her 1961 visit
‘MORE THAN AN APOLOGY’
JALLIANWALA
TRUST SECY ON
QUEEN’S VISIT TO
MASSACRE SITE
Amritsar (PTI): Sukumar Mukherjee, secretary of the trust
that takes care of Jallianwala Bagh Memorial, remembers
when the queen visited the scene of the 1919 massacre, pay-
ing tribute to the dead but stopping short of offering an apol-
ogy. The British monarch visited Jallianwala Bagh in 1997 to
pay homage to those killed in firing ordered by British Army
officer. Many expected her to offer an apology then on behalf
of her country. That didn’t happen. Instead, an insensitive
remark reportedly made by Prince Philip, who accompanied
her to the memorial, upset many Indians. But Mukherjee
said the visit itself was significant.“I think when she came to
the Jallianwala Bagh, she paid respect to the martyrs also
observed a minute of silence. It is not a minor thing that the
Queen of a country does that I think it was more than an
apology,” he said on Friday. During the royal couple’s 1997
visit to Jallianwala Bagh, Prince Philip is reported to have
tactlessly questioned the extent of the casualties.
NCP to present blueprint for opposition unity
Sharad Pawar-led Na-
tionalist Congress Par-
ty (NCP) is holding its
eighth national con-
vention here on Sun-
day to send a message
of opposition unity
ahead of the 2024 Lok
Sabha elections.
Pawar, who had sur-
prised the BJP by forg-
ing an unlikely alliance
of Congress-Shiv Sena-
NCP to form govern-
ment in Maharashtra
after the 2019 assembly
elections, has already
appealed to opposition
parties to keep aside
differences and join
hands to challenge the
Modi juggernaut.
The Extended Work-
ing Committee of the
NCP, which is meeting
here on Saturday even-
ing, is set to adopt a set
of resolutions calling
for opposition unity, as-
sessmentof theeconom-
ic scenario, farmers’ is-
sues, women’s empow-
erment, which will be a
critique of the Modi
government’s perfor-
mance on these counts.
These resolutions
can be the blueprint for
opposition unity, a sen-
ior NCP leader said. Pa-
war and top NCP lead-
ers are scheduled to
address the party’s
eighth National Con-
vention at the Talkatora
Stadium on Sunday
.
TRINAMOOL, AAP,
CONG AT ODDS
A senior NCP leader said Bi-
har Chief Minister Nitish Ku-
mar, Samajwadi Party chief
Akhilesh Yadav, West Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee, the Congress were
agreeable to issues raised
by the NCP. However, the
challenge before the opposi-
tion was to bring competing
parties such as the AAP
and Congress, Trinamool
Congress and Left parties on
the same table, he said.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met NCP chief Sharad Pawar
in New Delhi on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Media foundation denies
any funds from abroad
Bengaluru (PTI): The
IndependentandPublic-
Spirited Media Founda-
tion(IPSMF),whichwas
raided by Income-Tax
officials recently, has
said that its functioning
is in order and media
reports of it having re-
ceived foreign funds are
false. IPSMF chairman
T S Ninan said in a
statement that the I-T
officials came for a sur-
vey to the Bengaluru
office of the Foundation
on September 7 and re-
mained there till this
morning. “Some media-
houses reporting on the
I-T survey linked it to
foreign funding and the
funding of political par-
ties. We wish to make it
clear that the Founda-
tion has received no for-
eign funds at any stage,
and has funded only
media entities,” Ninan
said. “The Foundation
believes in its mission
of supporting inde-
pendent and public-
spirited media, and in-
tends to continue its
work,” he added.
According to the IP-
SMF chairman, the I-T
officials went through
the papers and records
of the Foundation and
asked questions.
New Delhi (ANI): The
awaited train ‘Vande
Bharat’ got a green sig-
nal from Railway Safety
Commissioner, Minis-
terof RailwaysAshwini
Vaishnaw on Friday in-
formed the media.
Vaishnaw said that the
trial run of the third
rake of the Vande
Bharat train has been
completed and it is a
very proud moment for
Indian Railways.
Talking about train
and track management,
hesaid,“Ourfocusisnot
only to make trains. We
arealsoworkinghardon
a track management
system to run semi-high
or high-speed trains.”
Vande Bharat train
gets the green signal
Lucknow (PTI): Bahu-
jan Samaj Party (BSP)
chief Mayawati on Fri-
dayaccusedtheBJPgov-
ernment of interfering
in the running of pri-
vate madrassas in Uttar
Pradesh on the pretext
of conducting surveys
and “terrorising” the
Muslim community
.
In a tweet in Hindi,
Mayawati said, “The
complaints of the Mus-
lim community being
exploited, neglected and
being affected by riots
havebeencommonsince
the time of Congress,
and now they are being
oppressed and terror-
ised by the BJP who
came to power by doing
narrow politics in the
name of appeasement.
This is sad and con-
demnable. “The BJP has
an evil intent on mad-
rassas in UP. The at-
tempts to interfere in
the private madrassas,
which run on donations
bythecommunity
,inthe
name of survey is inap-
propriate,” she said.
BJP govt is
‘terrorising’
Muslims: BSP
chief Mayawati
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Born on Sep-
tember 13, 1960, Ra-
jasthan’s very own ‘Son
of theSoil’andajudicial
‘powerhouse’,Chief Jus-
tice of Madras High
Court Justice MN
Bhandari, will be don-
ning a new hat in the
next few days. Justice
MN Bhandari has been
accorded a major re-
sponsibility as he has
beenappointedasChair-
man of SAFMA. Justice
Bhandari is set to retire
as CJ of Madras High
Court on September 12,
2022 and post retire-
ment, Justice Bhandari
will join the new post
where as Chairman of
SAFMA, his tenure will
be of 4 years. SAFMA
includes NDPS, smug-
gling and Money Laun-
dering Appellate Court.
Notably, Justice MN
Bhandari, who complet-
ed his B.Com and LLB
started practising as an
advocate. In Supreme
Court, he handled cases
ranging on issues from
Constitutional, Civil,
Service and Labour to
criminal mediation.
Apart from practising
as a lawyer in High
Court at Jodhpur and its
bench in Jaipur, he also
practised in Central Ad-
ministrative Tribunal.
Justice Bhandari is for-
mer judge of Rajasthan
High Court and was ap-
pointed as the High
Court Judge on July 5,
2007, where he was a
Judge of Rajasthan
High Court for 12 years
and was transferred to
Allahabad High Court
in March 2019. He was
thereafter, appointed as
acting CJ of Allahabad
High Court on June 26,
2021 and was later ap-
pointed as acting CJ of
Madras High Court on
November 22, 2021. Few
months later, on Febru-
ary 14, 2022, Justice
Bhandariwasappointed
as Chief Justice of Ma-
dras High Court.
Although Rajasthan
has had a long history
in the judicial field, yet
Justice Bhandari’s ap-
pointment will turn a
new page in the judicial
history. It is believed
that much like his fair
decisions over the
years, he will carry out
the new responsibility
with the same approach
and tenacity
.
RAJ’s ‘SON OF THE SOIL’ JUSTICE
MN BHANDARI TO HEAD SAFMA!
Justice MN Bhandari

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
GLIMMERS OF
INSPIRATION
t is rightly said that
standing up for Na-
tional Anthem doesn’t
make you India but
standing for the coun-
try and representing it
in the entire world, is
what we called as the gem of
India! And Shrishti Khatri,
the diva from Jaipur will
represent India at the up-
coming edition of the Su-
permodel International
competition. The world
finale of this prestig-
ious international
modelling competi-
tion will take place
on September 15,
2022, in Chiang
Mai, Thailand.
S h r i s h t i
Khatri, a multi-
talented sports
lover has sto-
len the stage
with her
beauty and
passion,
w h e n
a s k e d
a b o u t
her future planning and prepa-
rations, the ravishing beauty
said, “The modelling niche is
very dynamic, but it has anoth-
er serious drawback. The life of
a model is not easy
. We need to
work hard days and nights that
too in extreme conditions, have
a strict diet, and suffer from
muscle pain. In fact, there is
nothing new that our passion
forced us to walk long distances
in high heels. Sometimes we
suffer from severe back and feet
pain because of such extreme
pressure.”
It is truly said, you may en-
counter many defeats, but you
must not be defeated. In fact, it
may be necessary to encounter
the defeats, so you can know
who you are, what you can rise
from, and how you can still
come out of it and Shrishti
proved it right when asked
about her current schedule she
informed “I am on a strict diet
and robust work out routine, I
usually start my day with high
in protein and fats and work in-
credibly hard to stay in shape. I
am a patient of PCOD, so it is
very difficult for me to manage
weight due to illness, still, the
fighter in me motivates me to
work harder for my dreams, I
keep changing my training
based on my body and routine.
It’s good to change since our
body gets habitual if we do the
same workout for a long.”
Shrishti paid gratitude to
Gaurav Gaur, the Director of
Elite Miss Rajasthan for sup-
porting her and providing plat-
forms for her dreams.
She also paid appreciation to
her parents for always uplift-
ing her during the hard times.
When asked what message
she’d like to give to young girls
of her age, she said, “I keep
changing my training based on
my body and routine. It’s good
to change since our body gets
habitual if we do the same
workout for a long, its a matter
of pride that I will get this op-
portunity to represent my
country globally and I am very
grateful and excited for this
moment.
UTTKARSHA SHEKHAR
uttkarsha.shekhar@firstindia.co.in
I
Supermodel Shrishti Khatri, who hails from Rajasthan, will represent
India at the upcoming edition of the Supermodel International
competition. City First brings to you an inspiring journey as a model
Shrishti Khatri with
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