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AND COUNTING...India, Under Vax Man Modi!

Kavita Pant and Kartikey Dev Singh

he world said it wont be possible. Agencies like the WHO also cast asper-sion on India’s ability to vaccinate its people. Even people in India claimed that adminis-

trating over 1 billion doses will not be possible and would take years. But as they say, where there is a will, there is a way. Headed by a strong willed leader in Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi, the Union gov-ernment showed immense faith and trust in ‘Swadeshi’ vaccines and supported them to the hilt, even when foreign health agencies and many nations did not give this achievement a ‘warm welcome’.

And 278 days after vaccination was started, the nation has wit-nessed its billionth jab and experts believe that by the end of 2021, all of the adult population would have been vaccinated. Starting from Jan-

uary 16, the vaccination process took some time to gain

momentum but

when the pace picked up, the num-ber crunch happened almost too quickly.

In fact, during the course of the 278 days, on average, 3.6 million doses have been administered daily with the real pace coming in the month of August when on 27 Au-gust, for the first time India crossed the 1 crore doses mark followed yet again on August 31 and then a third time on September 6.

But a gargantuan number of jabs were administered on PM Narendra Modi’s birthday when a whopping 2.26 crore doses were given in a sin-gle day! And yet the Modi govern-ment aims to initiate yet another vaccination festival, on the likes seen during the height of second wave, to give a ‘shot in the arm’ to the drive. And, it would be worth mentioning here that the Modi gov-ernment did not let vaccine hesi-tancy come in the way of India’s health as the government an-nounced free vaccines for all to keep public morale high!

Truth be told, India has given two times the doses administered by the USA, five times of Japan, nine times of Germany and ten times the doses administered by France, in as much the same time scale, which is no mean feat!

Even though fully vaccinating a billion people is still an uphill task as 707 million people have been ad-ministered one dose while about 291 million have been adminis-tered both, but everyone is assured that India will reach the ‘finish-

ing line’, on a high note!

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t is said that tough situations make tough leaders and for any politician the more they witness turmoil in their public life, the more is their ability to take difficult decisions and see them through. While there may be several leaders in India, none can come close to the te-nacity and fervour that is dis-played in the politics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s—‘New Sardar Patel’—Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

Be it the Triple Talaq Bill or Abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, Shah has led from the front in both the Houses of Parliament to get the Bills passed. In fact, a major part of Shah’s ‘fighting spirit’ can be attributed to PM Naren-dra Modi’s guidance and Shah’s never ending will to excel.

His association with Modi started when he was in his teens. It was during one RSS Shakha in 1982 when the 17-year-old Shah, then a mem-ber of the BJP’s student wing ABVP came in contact with 14

year elder Narendra Modi and from there on began a partner-ship that has known no bounds for over 4 decades.

With each passing year their fondness for each other increased and Modi groomed Shah, further enhancing his political prowess and under-standing of the ‘game’.

In fact, such has been Shah’s attention to political details that he has been Modi’s right hand man since the time Modi entered the electoral politics.

But the real ‘making of Amit Shah’ started when he left Gujarat amid a great adver-sity as the UPA govt banned his entry in Gujarat. During that time he stayed in Gujarat Bha-wan’s Room no 1. But he did not waste the time in dismay rather engrossed himself in ‘Purusharth’, a concept dear to his mentor Narendra Modi. Turning adversity into oppor-tunity is forte of Modi and that is emulated by Shah too.

While UPA thought it was punishing Shah by keeping him away from Gujarat but the tenacious Amit Shah was silently digging UPA’s grave in Uttar Pradesh as he toured every nook and corner of UP and it was these years spent in UP that finally helped him win a whopping 72 seats in the 2014 General Elections that

broke Congress’ backbone! Amit Shah is a consummate

politician, and he looks like one, but he loves cricket and has a good knowledge of the game. He loves to visit temples and religious places, as he is a man of faith. He believes that to understand a person and a place you have to understand the religion and culture of that place which is why he vis-its temples, attends weddings and gatherings! He has a ‘peo-ple connect’ which is why he has been able to make BJP the largest party, of 11 crore party workers, in the world.

Shah believes Party should not prepare for election rath-er it should always be pre-pared for elections that is, be in WAR MODE!

On the day he turns 57, First India wishes the ‘Shah of Politics’ many happy re-turns of the day with the be-lief that the Herculean task of ‘re-integration’ of India that he is undertaking will be suc-cessful!

Happy Birthday Mr Home Minister!

His association with Modi started when he was in his teens. It was during a RSS Shakha in 1982 when the 17-year-old Shah, then a member of the BJP’s student wing ABVP came in contact with 14 year elder Narendra Modi and from there on began a partnership that has known no bounds for over 4 decades.

MODI’S PRINCIPAL TROUBLESHOOTER AMIT SHAH TURNS 57 TODAY

SHAH, A POTENT WEAPON IN MODI’SARSENAL THAT ALTERED INDIA’S FUTURE!

IADITI NAGAR

The writer is Editor (News), Delhi Bureau, First India News

Amit Shah is a consummate

politician, and he looks like one but he loves cricket and has a good knowledge of the game. He loves to

visit temples and religious places, as he

is a man of faith

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The clip from new DC animated film ‘Injustice’, that went viral on social media, had the iconic superhero making short work of an aircraft, with a voice-over saying he along with Wonder Woman destroyed “every piece of military equipment”, and declared Kashmir an “arms-free” zone.

Sensex fell 336.46 points (0.55 per cent) to end below the 61,000-mark at 60,923.50 while the Nifty 50 declined 88.50 points (0.48 per cent) to settle at 18,178.10. Both the indices had begun in the green but gave up their gains within an hour into the trade and remained in the red.

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HC to take up Aryan’s bail plea on Oct 26, Shah Rukh meets son in jail

Diwali gift: Govt hikes DA by 3% for central employees, pensioners

Farmers have right to protest but can’t block roads indefinitely: SC

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday ap-proved a hike of 3 per cent in dearness allow-ance (DA) for central gov-ernment employees and dearness relief (DR) for pensioners over the ex-isting rate of 28 per cent of the basic pay/pension. The decision was taken in the meeting of the Un-ion Cabinet, chaired by PM Narendra Modi.

Briefing reporters, Union I&B Minister

Anurag Singh Thakur said decision will bene-fit 47.14 lakh central government employees and 68.62 lakh pension-ers. This increase is in accordance with the ac-cepted formula, which is based on the recom-mendations of 7th Cen-tral Pay Commission. Combined impact on exchequer on account of both DA & Dearness Relief would be Rs 9,488.70 cr per annum.

New Delhi: The Su-preme Court on Thurs-day said that while farm-ers do have a right to protest, they cannot block roads indefinitely.

The apex court grant-ed three weeks’ time to farmer unions — lead-ing the nearly year-long agitation along the bor-ders of Delhi and else-where against the three central farm laws — to file their response on a petition seeking removal of the protesters from the roads.

The court posted the matter for further hear-

ing on December 7.Court was hearing a

petition filed by a resi-dent of Noida, urging that the protesters be re-moved from the roads around the national capi-tal region. Earlier as well, taking grim view of the

continuing blockade of highways connecting the national capital to neigh-bouring states by farm-ers protesting against the farm laws, the apex court had said that the roads cannot be blocked per-petually. More on P6

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday said it would hear on Oc-tober 26 the bail applica-tion of Aryan Khan, who was arrested after a seizure of drugs on a cruise ship off the Mum-bai coast following a raid by NCB.

Khan approached the High Court after a spe-cial NDPS court rejected his bail plea on Wednes-day. Meanwhile, actor

Shah Rukh Khan reached the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai to meet his son Aryan. The

actor reached the prison at around 9 am and met his son for about 10 minutes.

NCB raids Ananya’s house in drug caseA team of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) conducted a raid at Bollywood actress Ananya Panday’s house on Thursday in the drugs-on-cruise case. It is learnt that the raids were conducted after Ananya’s name appeared in the WhatsApp chats of Aryan Khan. Later, Ananya also visited NCB office for questioning. Some phones, laptops and other electronic devices were seized from Ananya’s residence.

Singhu lynching victim faces ‘desecration’ FIRGurgaon: The Hary-ana police have regis-tered an FIR against Lakhbir Singh, who was lynched and strung up to a barricade and his hand chopped off at the Singhu border last week, for alleged dese-cration of the Sikh holy book. Singh has been booked under section 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts, intend-ed to outrage religious feelings of any class).

Monitoring of PSKS campaign should be done daily by the District Collector, instructs GehlotNaresh Sharma

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has said that with the aim of giv-ing relief to the poor by giving them pattas of houses, the state govern-ment has started the Pra-shasan Shehro Ke Sang (PSKS) and Prashasan gaon Ke Sang (PGKS) campaigns from October 2. He said that the pur-pose of organizing the camps is to solve the problems on the spot as far as possible.

“In such a situation,

the officers of various departments involved in the campaign should work with sensitivity and promptness to make it a

success. District Collec-tors and the officers of the local bodies should do adequate monitoring of the campaign and take

the progress report of the disposal of the applica-tions received every day,” Gehlot said while review-ing the progress of the PSKS campaign so far through video confer-ence from the Chief Min-ister’s residence on Thursday. He said that under PSKS, camps should be organized at the ward level in the ur-ban areas so that more and more people can take advantage of them.

Gehlot inquired from the collectors of different districts about the pro-

gress made in their dis-tricts and asked about the difficulties being faced in distribution of leases.

“During the campaign, the problems being faced in the distribution of leases and the applica-tion approval of Indira Gandhi Urban Credit Card Scheme should be solved,” he said and di-rected to issue appropri-ate guidelines to all the bodies and authorities by holding a meeting at the Chief Secretary level re-garding the problems.

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Ultimately some solution has to be found.

We are not averse to their right to protest even when a legal chal-lenge is pending, but roads cannot be blocked

—Supreme Court

NCB team visited Shah Rukh Khan’s house on Thursday.

Three-quarters of adults in the country of 1.3 billion people have had one shot and around 30 percent are fully vaccinated: Govt

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited the RML hospital in Delhi to mark the milestone, congratulated the country

and called it “the triumph of Indian science, enterprise and collective spirit of 130 crore Indians”

In terms of absolute numbers, only India and China occupy the billion-doses club and this

won’t change as no other country has a population of similar size

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New Delhi: India achieved a major mile-stone in its vaccination programme against COVID-19 as the cumu-lative vaccine doses ad-ministered in the coun-try surpassed the 100-crore mark on Thursday. In a tweet, Mandaviya congratu-lated the country on achieving the feat, and said it was the result of the able leadership of Prime Minister Modi, whom he described as a visionary.

WHO Director-Gen-eral Dr Tedros Adha-nom Ghebreyesus con-gratulated Modi, scien-tists, health workers and citizens of India for equitable vaccine dis-tribution.

A series of events were held to mark the milestone including launch of a song by singer Kailash Kher and an audio-visual film at the Red Fort, while the largest khadi tricolour in the country, weighing around 1,400 kg, was displayed at the iconic Red Fort on Thursday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives thumbs up to health workers at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi on Thursday. An elected woman after receiving covid vaccine dose on Thursday.

JUSTICE CHANDRACHUD, WHO FORCED CHANGE IN VAX POLICY

HISTORY SCRIPTED: MODI VISITS HOSP

COVID BOOSTER SHOT MAY BE IN A YEAR: POONAWALLA

The Supreme Court bench comprising of Justice DY Chandrachud had in May this year asked the Centre to review vaccine poli-cy and even went on to demand every paper and signature related to the policy. Centre then in June changed the policy and took up the task to supply vaccines to states. The Supreme Court intervention not only ended the vaccine shortage but also smoothen the entire process of supply chain for future.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the landmark reached in little over nine months time since the countrywide vaccination drive was launched on January 16 as a triumph of Indian science, enterprise and collective spirit of 130 crore. Modi also visited the vaccination centre at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital after the achievement and interacted with hospital staff.

Serum Institute of India’s chief Adar Poonawalla said the country may explore the possibility of giving booster doses, especially for the elderly in a year. “Yes, India may look at a booster shot, but ethically and humanely, our outlook will be to vaccinate the world, especially Africa with both doses of the vaccine first,” Poonawalla said.

VACCINE AWARENESS WARRIORS

INDIA V/S WORLD IN VACCINATION

Braving harsh weather, knee-deep water to sometimes walking for hours in remote areas, thousands of health workers, especially ANM (Auxiliary Nurse Midwife) would make people aware and con-vince them to get vac-cinated against corona. While the landmark of one billion doses is achieved, there is a lot more to be done on ground to make whole population secure.

It took India just 281 days to administer 100 crore Covid vaccine doses. The pace at which the vaccinations were administered is unparalleled as it took India 32 years and 20 years to hit the 100-crore milestone for TB and polio immuni-sations, respectively. India is at number two when it comes to the number of doses given. It is followed by the United States, Brazil, Japan, Indonesia, Tur-key, Mexico, Germany, France, Russia, UK. In-dia has administered 5 times more doses than Japan and nine times more than Germany.

CM’S GIFT FOR RAJ EMPLOYEESJaipur: On the ocassion of Diwali, CM Ashok Gehlot has announced a ‘double gift’ to state employees in form of 3% increase in DA and ad-hoc bonus. CM has announced increment in line with similar move made by Centre as 3% increase in rate of allowances and dearness relief payable to pensioners has been approved. Now from July 1, 2021, 31% DA & pension of state staff & pensioners will be payable.

CM Ashok Gehlot

RAJ GOVT TO MOVE SCRajasthan government will file a petition in SC against Rajasthan HC decision of staying regularisation of colonies without implementing zonal development plan. UDH Minister Shanti Dha-riwal gave green signal to the decision on Thursday.

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Udaipur: Ahead of by-polls in Dhariyawad constituency, Rajsa-mand MP and state Gen-

eral Secre-tary Diya Kumari at-tended a w o m e n ’ s conference

organised in Rajsamand on Thursday. Address-ing the conference, the MP said that “lotus must bloom to remove filth from Rajasthan”.

She said that the common man is unhap-py with the Congress government and ap-pealed for votes in sup-port of BJP candidate

Khet Singh Meena in Dhariyawad bypolls. She further said that the election is for the prestige of women.

After the conference, the MP held a roadshow to seek votes for the BJP where over a 1,000 wom-en accompanied her.

She also inaugurated

the election office in Lunda Gram Panchayat of Vallabhnagar con-stituency and appealed for votes in support of BJP candidate Himmat Singh Jhala. She said that BJP is the only par-ty which gives opportu-nity even to an ordinary party worker.

Diya Kumari inaugurating offi ce of Himmat Singh Jhala.

WOMEN SHOULD GIVE CONG BEFITTING REPLY: RATHOREUdaipur: Deputy Leader of Opposition Rajendra Rathore on Thursday claimed that 15 rape cases are happening daily in Rajasthan and asked women to give the Con-gress government a befi t-ting reply in the bypolls. Addressing a Mahila Sammelan in Dhariyawad assembly constituency, Rathore said that women and girls are not safe in Rajasthan. He said that PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasra gave an anti-women statement while the post of chairperson in the state commission for women is lying vacant under the Congress rule.

BYPOLLS2021

DGP, cops pay tributes to martyrs on Shaheed Diwas First India Bureau

Jaipur: On Police Shaheed Diwas tributes were paid to the mar-tyred police personnel at Rajasthan Police Acad-emy on Thursday. Po-licemen and retired po-lice officers of the de-partment including DGP ML Lather paid tribute to the martyrs by paying homage to the martyred policemen.

Lather honoured all the state and union ter-ritories and paramili-tary forces of the coun-try by mentioning the designation and names of the police officers and employees who were martyred.

Later, DGP ML Lather, retired DGP OP Gal-hotra, Police Commis-sioner Anand Srivastava and police officers paid tribute to the martyrs by laying wreaths. The po-lice band involved in the parade played the tunes of Last Post and Rouse/Riveli. Police personnel involved in the Martyrs’

Day parade fired three rounds each.

On 21 October 1959, a police force of 20 sol-diers led by CRPF police officer Karam Singh

was ambushed by the Chinese army while pa-trolling under extreme conditions at an altitude of 16,000 feet at Hot Springs, Ladakh.

DGP ML Lather paying tributes to martyrs. —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR

Poonia slams Cong for not cancelling REET, praises PM for jab milestoneFirst India Bureau

Jhunjhunu: BJP state president Satish Poon-ia, who was in Jhunj-hunu on Thursday, con-gratulated the Central govt for achieving 100 crore vaccination in the country and took a jibe at the state government for not cancelling the REET-2021.

“The government is doing the work of push-ing the state to the abyss,” he said.

BJP district presi-

dent Pawan Mawandia and other office bearers welcomed him at the Circuit House.

On not setting up pat-

wari recruitment cen-tres in 12 districts, in-cluding Jhunjhunu, Poonia said this shows failure of the state govt.

Satish Poonia welcomed by Pawan Mawandia in Jhunjhunu.

Notice over death of student: SHRCJaipur: The SHRC on Thursday took suo motu cognisance of the death of a student in Churu after being thrashed by his teacher and issued notices to the author-ities seeking a report. Commission chair-person Justice Gopal Krishna Vyas issued the notices to the Ch-uru collector and SP. RSCPCR Sangeeta Beniwal says that it is a very painful and condemnable act. —PTI

‘Congress didn’t promote vaccines’Jaipur: BJP national spokesperson and Jaipur Rural MP Ra-jyavardhan Rathore on Thursday alleged that the Congress gov-ernment has not pro-moted coronavirus vaccination in the state and has instead politicised the inocu-lation drive. He claimed that there was discrimination in the vaccination campaign in the state due to which people had to wait in long lines to get their jabs.

“Congress workers used the government machinery in their fa-

vour due to which the public had to wait in long lines for vaccina-

tion,” he told report-ers. He said there was a war-like situation during the pandemic and even at that time the Congress did not do any work in the in-terest of the people and made allegations against the central government.

He said the figures of vaccination were low initially because leaders of the opposi-tion parties did not promote the vaccines which was very sad.

—PTI

Rajyavardhan Rathore & Chandrakanta Meghwal at NAMO stall outside BJP headquarters. —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR

Inflation has become global issue: KailashRajiv Gaur

Jodhpur: BJP Nation-al General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya during his visit to Jodhpur said no coun-try can control infla-tion. It has now be-come a global issue. I have full hope that the government will con-trol inflation.

On the statement of Congress leader Nawab Ali favouring Aryan Khan, he said that some foreign forces are misleading the youth of the country. Action should be taken against whoever is guilty in such cases. If we sup-port such people, it will harm society.

On the statement given by Congress about giving 40% reser-vation to women in UP, Vijayvargiya said that in the whole country, BJP has given maxi-mum opportunities to women. When Priyan-ka Gandhi was asked whether this formula would be adopted in other states too, she didn’t have any answer. Hence, Priyanka Gan-dhi’s statement should not be taken seriously.

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नगर िणड शीगगानगर

Jaipur: Chief Electoral Offi cer Praveen Gupta on Thursday directed nodal offi cers of vari-ous departments to keep tab on the move-ment of cash and liquor in Vallabhnagar and Dhariyawad as-sembly constituencies in view of high pos-sibility of their misuse in the bypolls. Gupta said that Excise, Police, Income Tax, Narcotics and other departments should work in coordination during the bypolls to prevent any suspi-cious activity.

TRACK MOVEMENT OF CASH: SCE

BAGHEL & RATHORE SHOULD APOLOGISE, SAYS CONGRESS First India Bureau

Jaipur: Congress lead-er and former Deputy CM Sachin Pilot during a public hearing at his residence on Thursday strongly criticised BJP leaders for using “cheap and below-standard” language for Congress leaders and called it in-decent and deplorable.

Pilot said that the statements made by Un-ion Minister of State SP Singh Baghel against the Congress leaders are indecent. He said that in politics ideological dif-ferences are acceptable but use of such words sends a negative mes-sage among the people.

Pilot said that the BJP leaders are using such language as they fear defeat in bypolls.

Health minister Dr-Raghu Sharma targeted Baghel saying his state-ment is below dignity. “Criticism is common

in politics but use of lan-guage should be digni-fied,” he said.

PCC Chief Govind Singh Dotasra tweeted, “In clean politics, re-stricted language should be used for criticism but

the Central govt seems to have forgotten this.”

Transport Minister Pratap Singh Khachari-yawas and CM Ashok Gehlot’s OSD Lokesh also criticised BJP lead-ers for their language.

Youth Congress workers buring effi gy of SP Singh Baghel at Badi Chaupar on Thursday. —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR

Statement made by SP Singh Baghel against Cong leaders are indecent & words used by

Rajendra Rathore against Cong leader Rafique Mandelia were also indecent.

—Sachin Pilot, Congress leader

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Jodhpur: Former CM Vasundara Raje on Thursday paid homage to the mother of Union Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shek-hawat who passed away recently. Raje paid floral tributes to Mohan Kanwar.

Former BJP state president Ashok Par-nami, former ministers

Kalicharan Saraf, Push-pendra Singh & Yunus Khan also paid tribute.

On the other hand, Shekhawat reached Chadi village in Osian and condoled the death of former minister Ma-hipal Maderna .

Recently, Maderna’s wife Leela Maderna had visited Shekhawat to express condolences on the demise of his mother.

Vikas Sharma

Jaipur: Health Minis-ter Dr Raghu Sharma said that 6 crore 10 lakh 93 thousand 738 people in the State have been administered the dose of corona vaccine.

He said that 4 crore 21 lakh 52 thousand 775 people have been ad-ministered the first dose and 1 crore 89 lakh 40 thousand 963 people have been administered both doses. He said that the vaccination drive will be given further pace for cent percent inoculation of the tar-geted group.

He said that the de-partment is fully pre-pared for the vaccina-tion of people aged less than 17 years.

Sharma said that re-cently CM Gehlot through video confer-ence had directed the medical department of-ficers to speed up the vaccination drive.

He said that the State is also on the top in the country in vaccination after the corona man-agement. “It would be our effort that vaccina-

tion is done in a time-bound manner and at a fast pace so that we can easily cover the target-ed group,” he added. State is ready for vacci-

nation of children aged less than 17 years.The Health Minister said that the targeted group of children up to 17 years in the State is

around 1 cr 10 lakh. “With getting the vac-cine doses for children, IEC activities will be carried out and public-ity will be done.”

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Jaipur: Chairman of Renewable Energy Cor-poration Subodh Agrawal said that the power plants would be installed through pri-vate company M/s SAEL Limited in Jas-rasar North of Nokha tehsil in Bikaner and Malsar village of Sard-arshahr tehsil, Churu.

The company would use waste crop residues like mustard seeds and cotton waste as raw ma-

terial to generate power. Both the plants will start generating elec-tricity in the next 36 months and supply it to

the state government.Agrawal said that

M/s SAEL Limited is setting up six biomass plants of 14.9-14.9 MW

capacity in the state, out of which permis-sion for setting up one plant at Chhatargarh in Bikaner was granted in June. Besides, permis-sion has been granted to other companies to set up 22 MW capacity plants at Fagi (Jaipur), Deoli (Tonk) and Bagi-daura (Banswara).

Notably, 120 MW ca-pacity has been created to generate electricity from biomass due to the efforts of Renewable Energy Corporation.

Arya approves 2 biomass power plantsRENEWABLE ENERGY

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CS Arya approved setting up of 2 biomass power plants in

Bikaner & Churu districts during

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STATE READY TO VACCINATE ADOLESCENTS: DR RAGHUAfter getting vaccines for children, IEC activities will be carried out soon, min says

Med workshop would help students shape their careers: Health MinisterFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Health minis-ter Dr Raghu Sharma while formally con-cluding the ‘Life of a Doctor’ workshop on Thursday, that was be-ing conducted in vari-ous schools here, praised the Rajasthan Foundation for its good job. The minister said that the foundation did a marvellous job dur-ing the second wave of Covid 19 by providing over 3,000 oxygen concentrators to medi-cal institutions.

Sharma praised the foundation’s efforts, “This would not only increase the interest of the students in shap-ing career in medical field,” said Sharma.

Commissioner of Ra-jasthan Foundation Dheeraj Srivastava said that students at the workshop are guid-ed in preparing for NEET & scholarships.

Make RUHS Dengu dedicated hospital: SarafFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Dengue is spreading rapidly in the state, due to lack of proper treatment, den-gue patients are dying at various places said BJP MLA and former Health minister Kalich-aran Saraf while ex-pressing concern over the spread of dengue epidemic in the state.

Saraf spoke to the secretary of the Medi-cal and Health govern-ment, Akhil Arora and the Principal of Sawai Mansingh Hospital, Dr Sudhir Bhandari and suggested that the RUHS Hospital, here, should be dedicated for the treatment of den-gue, and for the treat-ment of dengue.

Specialist doctors should be appointed there, so that patients of the state can be prop-erly treated there, and the state government should issue helpline numbers so that people can contact. He further added that proper road map should be made to treat patients.

Governor Kalraj Mishra on Thursday congratulated the country and the peo-ple of the state as the number of doses administered under the corona vacci-nation programme crossed 100 crores. Mishra thanked all people including health workers and administrative offi-cers, who have con-tributed significantly in this achievement of 100 crore. He said that this is a big success of the vax campaign.

GUV WISHES ON 100 CR VAX MARK

Dr Raghu Sharma with Deeraj Srivastav addressing media at the concluding day of workshop.

Dhariwal urges JDA officials to work hardFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: UDH minister Shanti Dhariwal ad-ministered the oath to the newly-elected office bearers of JDA officers and employees’ council. He appealed to the em-ployees to actively par-ticipate in the Par-shasan Shehron ke Sang campaign.

Dhariwal adminis-tered the oath to presi-dent Babulal Meena, general secretary Raj-kumar Mamodia & treasurer Pappu Ram Sharma. Dhariwal said

that the previous Par-shasan Shehron ke Sang campaign was held in 2012. “Now that the second campaign is being launched after nine years, there has been a change in the mindset of the civic body employees.

If JDA employees work well, it will bring repute,” said Dhariwal.He also said that the JDA will distribute one lakh leases. JDA Commissioner Gaurav Goyal said elections of JDA had postponed due to Covid.

GOVERNOR AT SAMBHAR LAKE ...Governor Kalraj Mishra on Thursday visited Ramsar Site near Sambhar Salt Lake on board a tourist train. Describing the lake and its natural environment as “very important”, he emphasised on promoting this place from tourism point of view. He termed the journey of the train to Sambhar Lake unforgettable and said that the picturesque lake spread far and wide and the view of the sunset was amazing. The governor, who was accompanied by his wife Satyawati Mishra, also spent some time at Gudha Jhapok dam of the lake. He emphasised on the promotion of the lake.

Inspector & clerk caught taking bribe First India Bureau

Jaipur: A Rajasthan police inspector was ar-rested by the ACB for taking a bribe of Rs 10,000 here.

The accused inspec-tor Ratan Lal, posted as the SHO of Bagru po-lice station, had de-manded a bribe of Rs 25000 from the com-plainant to not take ac-tion against him in a case registered against him in police station.

He had already taken Rs 15000, DG ACB B L

Soni said. In another action, the

ACB caught a clerk of Raj Pharmacy Council while taking a bribe of Rs 10,000 from the com-plainant. The accused Vishnudutt Sharma was arrested.

Raje relishes rabri offered by Bhils!

Raje & Shekhawat condole death of MadernaCONDOLENCE MEET

Vasundara Raje, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Saudan Singh, and Kailash Vijayvargiya.

GS Shekhawat condoling Leela, Divya & Rubal Maderna on Mahipal Maderna’s demise.

Woman raped by 2 brothers & friend

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Jodhpur: Former CM and National VP of BJP Vasundhara Raje was here on Thursday to pay tribute to the moth-er of Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shek-hawat. Later, she left for Chadi village to condole the death of Mahipal Maderna. On the way, the women of a Bhil family stopped her in Pandit ji ki Dhani vil-lage and pleaded with her to come to their hut. Raje agreed to it. The women offered Raje a cot to sit and rabri made of millet and cumin, that she relished.

One of the family

members, Heera Bhil, “They do not have leas-es for their houses and it would be good if they got it.” Raje spoke to Jodhpur Collector In-

derjit Singh in this re-gard and instructed to take action as per rules on the demand. While leaving she expressed gratitude.

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Nagaur: A 35-year-old woman has ac-cused three per-sons including two elderly brothers of raping and tortur-ing her in Nagaur district of Ra-jasthan.

The accused also cut the hair of the woman, police said.The woman’s broth-er lodged a case against Sheraram (55), his elder broth-er Udaram (65) and Sheraram’s young son Ganesharam al-leging that his sis-ter was taken to a farm where they gang raped and thrashed her.

He said that the FIR was registered on Wednesday un-der sections includ-ing 376-D of IPC. and one of the ac-cused, Udaram, has been arrested.

Vasundhara Raje offered condolences to Leela, Divya & Rubal Maderna. (inset) Raje enjoys rabri from an earthen pot.

Berozgar Mahasangh meets top officials with demandsFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: The first round of talks between the ‘Berojgar Mahasangh’ delegation and Princi-pal Secretary to CM Kuldeep Ranka, Spe-cial Secretary Arti Dogra and Joint Secre-tary Lalit Kumar to dis-cuss various demands ended on Thursday.

The state president of the Mahasangh, Upen Yadav, said in the first round of talks, de-mands like REET 2018, lab assistants, teachers’ recruitment 2012, pan-chayat raj, LDC recruit-ment and amendments to the new law were dis-cussed. Yadav said that Ranka will talk to the PS of Government.

CS Niranjan Arya with Subodh Aragwal in a meeting.

LDC Vishnu Dutt Sharma

MOCK DRILL

National Security Guard (NSG) commandos on Thursday night conducted a drill in Moti Doongri Ganesh temple here. It was a familiarisation drill of the NSG under which various counter-terrorism activities were performed, a senior Jaipur police official said. —PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO

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Panipat: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla inau-gurated the new build-ing of Ved Vidyalaya and Shri Dayaneshwar Mandir at Panipat, Har-yana on Thursday.

Bandaru Dattatreya, Governor of Haryana, Yoga Guru Baba Ram-dev; Swami Gyananand Maharaj and other dig-nitaries were present on the occasion.

On this occasion, Bir-la said that spirituality,

faith and reverence are pervasive in the blood of the people in India. He said that if the cred-

it for making us self-identified goes to any-one, then it goes to the saints and sages of In-

dia, who are the embod-iments of renunciation.He expressed the view that Vedic education has an important place in our spiritual and cul-tural life as well as in day-to-day life. He said that the Vedas are those divine words which were not created, not written by anyone, which have been re-ceived by our sages from the very begin-ning of creation. He said that our Vedas are the inexhaustible store-

house of knowledge and science.

He lamented the fact that during foreign rule, the centres of knowledge and spiritu-al texts were destroyed, due to which the rich Vedic knowledge was taken away from us. He hoped that the con-struction of these Ve-dashalas, the study and research on Vedas would definitely restore Ved Vidya in the coun-try and would restore our lost identity.

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that Vedic education has an important place in our spiritual and

cultural life as well as in

day-to-day life.

Hawala operator Alpesh Patel arrested from Gujarat

Adopt social pledges, says Prez KovindGauri Lankesh murder case: SC restores

organised crime charges against accusedM u m b a i : M u m b a i Crime Branch on Wednesday night ar-rested hawala operator Alpesh Patel from Mehsana railway sta-tion in Gujarat, in con-nection with its probe in the extortion case registered against for-mer police commission-er Param Bir Singh and others. Alpesh Patel

had allegedly collected money from complain-ant Bimal Agarwal, on behalf of Param Bir Singh, Crime Branch said. A few months ago, Mumbai businessman Bimal Agarwal had registered a case against Parambir Sin-gh, dismissed police of-ficial Sachin Waze and many others. —PTI

Patna: President Ram Nath Kovind exhorted the legislators and pub-lic representatives to imbibe social pledges adopted on the occasio of centenary celebra-tion of Assembly for inculcating 5 social val-ue and to free the state from social curses for transfpoprming Bihar into a respectable state and live up to aspira-tions of people. —PTI

New Delhi: The Su-preme Court on Thursday set aside a High Court order quashing the Karna-taka Control of Or-ganised Crimes Act charges against one of the accused person in the murder case of journalist Gauri

Lankesh, report-ed Live Law.Lankesh, a journalist known

for her strident views against Hindutva pol-itics, was shot dead at her home in Bengalu-ru on September 5, 2017. At least 12 peo-ple have been arrest-ed in the case. Her killing had sparked protests around the country. —ANINew Delhi: Zydus Cadila’s vaccine, ZyCoV-D, is the

country’s fi rst needle-free Covid-19 vaccine, which is approved for children over the age of 12 for emer-gency usage. The Subject Experts Committee (SEC) had previously recommended Covaxin, a vaccine developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, for emergency use in children. He went on to say that the ZyCoV-D vaccination is a little different in that it isn’t given using a syringe or needle. In an exclusive interview with ANI, Dr VK Paul, Member (Health), Niti Aayog said the ZyCoV-D vaccine administration requires special training. —PTI

ADMINISTRATION OF ZYCOV-D VACCINE REQUIRES SPECIAL TRAINING: DR PAUL

CBDT ISSUES RS 92,961 CRORE REFUNDS TO 63.23 LAKH TAXPAYERSNew Delhi: The Income Tax Department has refund-ed more than Rs 92,961 crore to more than 63.23

lakh taxpayers till October 18 in the current fi nancial year (2021-22). While IT refunds worth Rs 23,026 crore have been issued in 61.53 lakh cases, corporate tax

refunds worth Rs 69, 934 crores have been issued in 1.69 lakh cases. . “CBDT issues refunds of over Rs 92,961 crore to more than 63.23 lakh taxpayers from April 1, 2021”, tax dept said. —PTI

BJP’S POLICIES HAVE TAKEN J&K BACK BY DECADES: MEHBOOBA MUFTISrinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti alleged that the BJP government’s policies on Jammu and Kashmir

have taken the union terri-tory “back by decades”. The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister maade the remarks in response to photographs and videos on

social media in which security forces are seen frisking women and minors during surprise checking in Lal Chowk and other commercial areas. —ANI

CHAR DHAM YATRA RESUMES AFTER WEATHER CLEARS IN UTTARAKHANDNew Delhi: The Char Dham Yatra, which was briefl y suspended on account of incessant rains in Uttara-

khand, resumed in Kedar-nath, Gangotri and Yamu-notri after the rains stopped on Thursday. However, roadways in Badrinath are nonetheless blocked and will

likely be reopened after the climate clears. At least 54 folks have died in rain-related incidents in the state.Also Read – 11 Trekkers Missing At Lamkhaga Pass Between Uttarakhand to Himachal.

New Delhi: A Mirage 2000 fi ghter jet of the Indian Air Force crashed this morning near Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind district, offi cials said. The pilot ejected safely, the Indian Air Force or IAF tweeted.Visuals show the debris scattered on an empty fi eld in Mankabad, some 6 km from Bhind. A team of policemen has formed a cordon around the crash site, where the smouldering tail section of the trainer jet is seen half buried in the fi eld. —ANI

IAF AIRCRAFT MIRAGE 2000 CRASHES IN MP’S BHIND, PILOT INJURED

IN THE COURTYARD

Om Birla, Bandaru Dattatreya, Baba Ramdev, Swami Gyananand Maharaj and others perform puja at temple.

Centre fully with people of U’khandin hour of crisis, says Amit ShahAs incessant rains continued to batter Uttarakhand, 64 people have been reported dead & over 11 missingDehradun: Union Home Minister Amit Shah conducted an aer-ial survey of rain-af-fected areas of Uttara-khand on Thursday and said effective coordina-tion between various agencies and timely warnings had helped contain the loss to life and property in the state.

He said 17 teams of National Disaster Re-sponse Force (NDRF), 60 of State Disaster Re-sponse Force (SDRF) and 15 teams of Provin-cial Armed Constabu-lary (PAC) and more than 5,000 security per-sonnel continue to be engaged in the relief operations in the state to help people.

“I assure the people of Uttarakhand that in this hour of crisis, Nar-endra Modi govern-ment stands completely with you,” the Home Minister said in a tweet.

Amit Shah said he conducted an aerial survey of the areas af-fected by the natural calamity and assessed the damage and re-viewed the relief work.

“Under the leader-ship of Modiji, we were able to reduce the loss of life and property to a great extent due to the

coordination between central and state gov-ernment and rescue agencies and timely warnings,” he said.

Shah also addressed the media after his aer-ial survey.

“I held a high-level review meeting with of-ficials of the state and Centre over the natural

calamity in Uttara-khand. Due to timely rainfall alerts, the ex-tent of damage could be controlled. Now, the Char Dham Yatra has resumed,” he said.

He said that more than 3,500 people were rescued and over 16,000 precautionary evacua-tions were done so far.

Shah arrived in Deh-radun earlier today to take stock of the situa-tion arising out of in-cessant rains.

He said that the death toll in the rain-battered Uttarakhand has gone up to 64 and more than 11 people have been re-ported missing so far.

The minister said

normalcy is returning in the state gradually. “Roads have been cleared in Nainital, Al-mora and Haldwani. Power stations will also resume operations soon. Mobile network has been restored in 80 per cent of areas of the state,” he said.

—ANI

Amit Shah conducts survey of rain-hit Uttarakhand on Thursday.

EC to candidates: Don’t hold political activities in bypolls constituenciesNew Delhi: The Elec-tion Commission of In-dia (ECI) on Thursday advised political parties and candidates not to hold any political activi-ties directly related to the bypolls even in the areas adjoining the dis-t r i c t / c o n s t i t u e n cy where the by-election is being held.

“It has been brought to the notice of the Com-mission that certain po-litical parties/candi-dates are organizing electioneering activities in the areas adjoining the district/constituen-cy where the by-election is being conducted. In this regard, all political parties/candidates are advised not to organize any political activities directly related to the bye-elections even in the areas adjoining the dis-t r i c t / c o n s t i t u e n cy where the by-election is being held,” read the ECI notification. The Commission ordered the District Election Of-ficers concerned to en-

sure that the MCC in-structions and COVID guidelines relating to the norms of social dis-tancing are followed in the districts adjoining to the poll going district/constituency. —ANI

SHAH TO ARRIVE IN KASHMIR FOR 3-DAY VISIT TODAYNew Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah will arrive in Srinagar on Saturday for a three-day visit to J&K and chair security review meetings, address panchayat members as well as political workers amid a wave of targeted attacks that have left 11 civilians dead in the region this month. This will be Shah’s fi rst visit to J&K since nullifi cation of Constitution’s Article 370 in August 2019. It comes against the backdrop of the killings including of fi ve migrant workers. The violence has forced many migrant workers to leave Kashmir Valley. Security arrangements have been tightened across the Valley as security forces have enhanced check-ing and frisking, especially in Srinagar. J&K Police said forces have “neutralised” 17 terrorists in 10 gunbattles in Valley amid latest phase of violence.

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CRUCIAL READ Delhi Police, not farmers, have placed barricades at Ghazipur border: BKUNew Delhi: After the Supreme Court on Thursday observed that farmers can’t block roads indefinitely, the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) said it was not protesters but police who have placed barri-cades at Ghazipur bor-der on NH 9.

Led by BKU leader Rakesh Tikait, a group of farmers protested against the police and said they are ready to make way for the public. In the afternoon they removed a tent, trac-tors, and other closures from their side of NH-9.

Following the Repub-lic Day violence, the Delhi Police had stepped up security at all three farmer protest site – at Ghazipur, there are more than 12 layers of temporary barricades

with concertina wires and cement slabs on the highway while the lane that connects Ghazi-abad’s Khora to Delhi has also been heavily barricaded.

Farmers said apart

from the public, they too are affected by the bar-ricading as they are forced to take a longer route to go to Delhi to get basic amenities like vegetables and milk.

Meanwhile, Delhi Po-lice said the barricad-ing was done only to stop farmers from en-tering Delhi. DCP (East) Priyanka Kashyap said, “We have created diver-sions on National High-way 9 for both public and protesters. All bar-ricades can’t be re-moved. They (farmers) are sitting on the UP side.” —Agencies

Capt to Cong: Stop secularism talkNew Delhi: Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, on brink of an alliance with the BJP and break-away Akali groups, on Thursday, ripped into Congress, his party of more than 40 years. The Congress, he said, is no one to talk of secular-ism, pointing to the alli-ance with Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, and in-duction of multiple leaders from the BJP and its mentor Rashtri-ya Swayamsevak Sangh, including the current state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.

Most of his outburst was directed at Harish Rawat—the Congress in-charge of Punjab, who called Singh’s an-nouncement of Tuesday shocking and said it ap-peared that he had “killed the secular Ama-rinder within him”.

Reminding Congress of his poll winning streak since 2017, Singh claimed he was “humili-ated” by party and said it damaged its own inter-ests in state by putting itself in the hands of “an unstable person like Sid-hu who is only loyal to himself”. —Agencies

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ndia completed vaccination of 100 crore doses on 21st October 2021, in just about 9 months since starting vac-cination. This has been a tremendous journey in dealing with Covid-19, espe-cially when we recall how things stood in early 2020. Humanity was dealing with such a pandemic after 100 years and no-one knew much about the virus. We remember how unpredicta-ble the situation appeared then, as we were faced by an unknown and invisible en-emy mutating rapidly.

The journey from anxiety to assurance has happened and our nation has emerged stronger, thanks to the world’s largest vaccination drive.

It has been a truly bhagi-rath effort involving multi-

ple sections of society. To get a sense of the scale, assume that each vaccination took just 2 minutes for a health-care worker. At this rate, it took around 41 lakh man days or approximately 11 thousand man years of ef-fort to reach this landmark.

For any effort to attain and sustain speed and scale, trust of all stakeholders is crucial. One of the reasons for the success of the cam-

paign was the trust that peo-ple developed in the vaccine and the process followed, despite various efforts to create mistrust and panic.

There are some among us who only trust foreign brands, even for simply eve-ryday necessities. However, when it came to something as crucial as the Covid-19 vaccine, the people of India unanimously trusted ‘Made in India’ vaccines. This is a significant paradigm shift.

India’s vaccine drive is an example of what India can achieve if the citizens and the government come to-gether with a common goal in the spirit of Jan Bhagidari. When India started its vaccination pro-gram, there were many peo-ple who doubted the capa-bilities of 130 crore Indians. Some said India would take 3-4 years. Some others said people will not come for-ward to get vaccinated. There were those who said there will be gross misman-agement and chaos in the vaccination process. Some even said that India will not be able to manage supply chains. But just like the Jan-ta Curfew and subsequent lockdowns, the people of In-dia showed how spectacular the results can be, if they are made trusted partners.

When everyone takes ownership, nothing is im-possible. Our healthcare workers traversed hills and crossed rivers across diffi-cult geographies to vacci-nate people. Our youth, so-cial workers, healthcare workers, social and reli-gious leaders, all deserve credit for the fact that India faces minimal vaccine hesi-tancy when compared to even developed nations.

There was a lot of pressure from differ-

ent interest groups to give preferen-tial treatment

to them in v a c c i n a -tion. But the

Government ensured that,

like our other schemes, there is

no VIP culture in the vacci-nation drive either.

In early 2020, when Cov-id-19 was rampaging across the world, it was clear to us that this pandemic will have to be eventually fought with the help of vaccines. We started preparing early. We constituted expert groups and started preparing a road-map right from April 2020.

Till today, only a handful of countries have developed their own vaccines. More than 180 countries are de-pendent on an extremely limited pool of producers and dozens of nations are still waiting for the supply of vaccines, even as India has crossed 100 crore doses! Imagine the situation if In-dia did not have its own vac-cine. How would have India secured enough vaccines for such a large population and how many years would that have taken? It is here that credit should be given to In-dian scientists and entre-preneurs for rising to the occasion. It is due to their talent and hard-work that India is truly Aatmanirbhar when it comes to vaccines. Our vaccine manufacturers, by scaling up to meet the de-mands of such a large popu-lation, have shown that they are second to none.

In a nation where govern-ments used to be known as a roadblock impeding forward movement, our government has instead been an accel-erator and enabler of pro-gress. The government part-nered with the vaccine mak-ers right from day one and gave them support in the

form of institutional assis-tance, scientific research, funding, as well as acceler-ated regulatory processes. All ministries of the govern-ment came together to fa-cilitate the vaccine makers and remove any bottlenecks as a result of our ‘whole of Government’ approach.

In a country of the scale of India, it is not enough to just produce. Focus has to be on last mile delivery and seam-less logistics. To understand the challenges involved, im-agine the journey taken by one vial of vaccines. From a plant in Pune or Hyderabad, the vial is sent to a hub in any of the states, from where it is transported to the dis-trict hub. From there, it reaches a vaccination centre. This entails the deployment of thousands of trips taken by flights and trains. During this entire journey, the tem-perature has to be main-tained in a particular range which is centrally monitored. For this, over 1 lakh cold-chain equipment were uti-lized. States were given ad-vance notice of the delivery schedule of the vaccines so that they could plan their drives better and vaccines reached them on the pre-de-cided days. This has been an unprecedented effort in the history of independent India.

All these efforts were com-plemented by a robust tech platform in CoWIN. It en-sured that the vaccine drive was equitable, scalable, trackable, and transparent. This ensured that there was no scope for favouritism or jumping the queue. It also ensured that a poor worker could take first dose in his village and the second dose of the same vaccine in the city where he works, after the required time interval. In addition to a real-time dashboard to boost transpar-ency, the QR-coded certifi-cates ensured verifiability. There are hardly any exam-ples of such efforts not only in India but also the world.

In my Independence Day Address in 2015, I had said that our country is moving ahead because of ‘Team In-dia’ and this ‘Team India’ is a big team of our 130 crore peo-ple. People’s participation is the biggest strength of de-mocracy. If we run the coun-try through the participation of 130 crore Indians, our country will be moving ahead 130 crore steps every mo-ment. Our vaccination drive has yet again showed the power of this ‘Team India’. India’s success in its vaccina-tion drive has also demon-strated to the whole world that ‘democracy can deliver’.

I am optimistic that the success achieved in the world’s largest vaccination drive will further spur our youth, our innovators and all levels of government to set new benchmarks of pub-lic service delivery which will be a model not only for our country, but also for the world.

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WITH ACHIEVEMENT

NARENDRA MODI

PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA

Life can be a celebration or a burden, to a large extent it is our thinking which decides it

so… our choice.—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, First India

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First India Bureau

Jaipur: The politics has heated up in the custodial death of Arun Valmiki in Agra. Pri-

y a n k a Gandhialle ged t h a t some of the fam-ily mem-bers of Valmiki

were picked up by Agra police from Rajasthan’s Bharatpur and were put in lock up. Gandhi said that she will speak to Raj CM Ashok Gehlot and will get the family compensation.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: After notice is-sued by Delhi Police to CM Gehlot’s OSD Loke-sh Sharma in state’s

i n f a -m o u s p h o n e tapping c a s e , Lokesh reached D e l h i for ques-

tioning on Thursday and will appear before Crime Branch today. It is believed that Delhi CB will interrogate Lokesh face to face on more than 10 points in the case.

Valmiki Case: PGV assures aid from Raj govt

Lokesh to appear before Crime Branch

Minister Siddharth Nath SinghNavneet Sehgal, ACS Information &

Khadi & Village Industries

Lucknow: The First India Lucknow Khadi fashion show, an initiative by Jagdeesh Chandra, was organised on Thursday evening at the Indira Gandhi Pratishthan in Lucknow. The event was graced by Cabinet Minister Siddharth Nath Singh as the Chief Guest, and Gopal Anjan, Vice Presi-dent Khadi & Gramodyog Board, Chief Secretary RK Tiwari, ACS Information & Khadi & Village Industries Navneet Sehgal as the Guests of Honour. Renowned designers Ritu Beri, Asma Hussain, Aditi Jaggi, Himmat Singh, Rina Dhaka & Farha Ansari showcased their collection. The show was directed by Gaurav Gaur and produced by Dr Maulik Shah and Ashok Singh.

KHADI STEALS THE SHOW IN LUCKNOW(From Left) Gopal Anjan, Vice President, Khadi & Gramodyog Board, Chief Secretary RK Tiwari, Jagdeesh Chandra, Anita Tiwari, Navneet Sehgal, ACS Information and Khadi & Village Industries & Dr Vandana Sehgal during the lamp lighting.

MORE ON CITY FIRST

CM INSTRUCTS DEPT TO EXPEDITE CAMPAIGN, FILL POSTS BY OCT 30 From Page 1

Jaipur: CM also direct-ed to increase speed of campaign. “Perfor-mance of the officers would be assessed on the basis of the success of the campaign in differ-ent districts of the state. Strict action should be taken against the offic-ers and employees who are negligent in timely disposal of the applica-tions received in the camps,” he said and di-rected that for success of campaign, cooperation of chairman, president, councilors of local bod-ies should also be sought.

Notably, CM is not sat-isfied with the pace of the campaign. However, officials have claimed that vacant posts, rules and government holi-days are the reason be-hind the slow pace. Now Gehlot has instructed officers to expedite the campaign and instruct-ed to fill up the vacant posts by Oct 30. Gehlot described the ‘Indira Gandhi Urban Credit Card Scheme’ as an am-bitious scheme of the state government to pro-vide interest-free loans up to Rs. 50,000.

BLOCK OFFICES, 285 POSTS APPROVED IN PANCHAYAT SAMITIS Jaipur: CM Ashok Gehlot has given approval for formation of block statistical offices in newly created 57 Panchayat Samitis and also ap-proved creation of 285 posts in various cadres. With this decision of Gehlot, the collection of statistical information necessary for social and economic development, and the work of analysis and publication will be done effectively.

CM Ashok Gehlot conducts review meet of PSKS campaign with Shanti Dhariwal, Kunjilal Meena, Govind S Dotasra, Niranjan Arya, Kuldeep Ranka, Anand Kumar, Dr Samit Sharma, Arti Dogra and other officials.

PSKS: GEHLOT TO VISIT NAGAUR, JOBNER CAMPS

`5 CR FOR FREE SERVICES OF e-MITRA KIOSKS

Jaipur: Chief Min-ister Ashok Gehlot will take stock of the campaign camps in Nagaur and Jobner town today. During this, State in-charge Ajay Maken and PCC Chief Govind Singh Dotasra will also accom-pany Gehlot. Ajay Maken reached Jaipur on Thursday night fromDelhi.

Jaipur: Chief Min-ister Ashok Gehlot has approved an additional provision of Rs 5 crore to pro-vide free services of e-Mitra kiosks in the ongoing PGKS campaign. It is noteworthy that to solve the problems of the villagers on the spot, from Octo-ber 2, a campaign is being conducted in the state.

Jaipur: CM Ashok Gehlot has attracted attention of the CM of Punjab Charanjit S Channi by writing a letter about polluted water of the Harike Barrage being dis-charged in Sutlej river and this affecting health of people of Raj, Punjab states. Gehlot has sought personal inter-vention with CM of Punjab in case to address problem of industrial waste & sewage effluents discharged in Sutlej while also requesting to direct concerned officers for solution. Gehlot has written that on July 25, 2019, this problem was discussed with the then CM of Punjab.

GEHLOT WRITES TO CHANNI, TAKES UP HARIKE BARRAGE WATER ISSUE

In a rare show of ‘displeasure’ Gehlot lambasts 2 senior IAS!Rajendra Chhabra/ Abhishek Srivastava

Jaipur: In what could be termed as a rare case of ‘heightened displeas-ure’ from an otherwise calm and collected lead-er, CM Ashok Gehlot gave a ‘dressing down’ to two senior IAS - Prin-cipal Secretary UDH Kunjilal Meena and LSG Secretary Bha-wani Singh Detha - for their ‘inability’ to give speed to the PSKS cam-paign. According to sources, Gehlot was an-gry with these officers

throughout the meeting and the ‘angry’ Gehlot immediately gave in-structions to CS Niran-jan Arya to remove the obstacles coming in the progress of the cam-paign. Therefore, CS Niranjan Arya will

chair an emergency meeting at 11 am today. GS Sandhu & others were responsible for preparations for the campaign, who were working day and night, and were engrossed in policy making.

Guj Talks! Dr Raghu to meet RaGa today

Gehlot, Maken, Dotasra to visit Maderna’s house

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Congress in charge for Gujarat and Rajasthan health minis-ter Dr Raghu Sharma and the Gujarat Con-gress leaders will meet the party leader Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Friday. Sharma said that discussion on the new face for the state’s PCC will be held. He said that a new execu-tive in Gujarat Con-gress will be formed. “Gujarat Congress lead-ers will meet Rahul

Gandhi in Delhi. I am also going to Delhi in this connection,” he said. Sharma said that a new leadership in the state unit of the party will come up and organ-isation will be strength-ened at booth level.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: CM Ashok Ge-hlot, State in-charge Ajay Maken, PCC Chief Govind S Dotasra will go to Jodh today to offer condolences on death of ex-cabinet min and Jat leader Mahipal Mader-na. It is being said that they can also go to resi-dence of Union Min Ga-jendra Shekhawat to offer condolences as Shekhawat’s mother re-cently passed away due to prolonged illness.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Rajasthan As-sembly building on Thursday got the solar power plant of 560 capac-ity and an expenditure of Rs 70 lakh will be saved every year. The Assem-bly Speaker Dr CP Joshi dedicated the grid con-nected solar power plant in the assembly building. It was a dream project of Joshi which was started in March 2021.

Speaker unveils Solar Power Plant @ Assembly`346.80 lakh is cost of the plant set up by REIL

8.25 lakh units of elec-tricity will be generated through plant every year

814 tonnes of annual carbon emissions will be saved from the plant

1,700 plates have been used in plant which has been set up in Assembly

SALIENT FEATURE OF SOLAR PLANT

Dr CP Joshi, Rajendra Pareek, Dr Mahesh Joshi, Pramil Mathur, Dr Subodh Agarwal, Deependra Shekhawat, Narendra Budhania and others during the event at Vidhan Sabha.

DR JOSHI HOLDS MEETING OF VARIOUS COMMITTEESJaipur: Speaker of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly Dr CP Joshi held a meeting with the chairpersons of various committees in the Vidhan Sabha on Thursday. In the meeting, Dr Joshi said that the committees of Assembly are important and should effectively deal with problems of common people. “The results, for the purposes for which these committees of Vidhan Sabha were formed, are not yielding their expected results. Therefore, a new concept has to be developed for the working of committees. Committees of Legislative Assembly can play an important role in improving the system in a democracy as the suggestions given by them create an effective environment in a democracy. Therefore, to make committees effective, changes can be brought in methodology if needed at Assembly Secretariat level,” he said. In the meeting, LoP Gulab Chand Kataria said that there is need to activate com-mittees. “The work which cannot be done in assembly can be easily done through committees,” he said.

Solar energy is important in today’s world. It is a partner in power generation and saves electricity. Raj should make maximum use of solar energy. Source of solar energy here is impressive, which state should take advantage of. — Dr CP Joshi, State Assembly Speaker

560 KW CAPACITY PLANT WILL GENERATE 8.25 L UNIT POWER

The water from Rajasthan feeder is used for irrigation and drinking wa-ter in 10 districts of western Ra-jasthan, wherein about two and a half

crore people are provided this water. —Ashok Gehlot, CM, Rajasthan

You guys have made the cam-paign a joke. You didn’t contribute what you should have contributed to the campaign. That’s why the

campaign didn’t pick up the pace as expect-ed. Complete information was not given to the public at the right time. —Ashok Gehlot, CM

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JAIPUR, FRIDAYOCTOBER 22, 2021

hadi, in all its grandeur, was up for a mag-nificent show at the Indira Gandhi Prat-ishthan, Luc-

know on Thurs-day evening dur-ing a gala event

hosted by the First India Group. Khadi, the weave of new India, has gradually taken over as the fabric for the new generation. The First India Lucknow Khadi Fashion Show took this spirit in its stride showcas-ing some of the finest work from leading designers.

The event was graced by Cabinet Minister Sidharth Nath Singh as the Chief Guest, Vice Chairman Kha-di and Gram Udyog Gopal Anjan, Chief Secretary RK Tiwari and Anita Tiwari, ACS (Information & Khadi & Village Industries) Navneet Sehgal, Dr Van-dana Sehgal, and Jyotsna Verma as Guests of Honour among other dignitaries. A beautiful evening that cali-brated with the ethos and

culture of India. Jagdeesh Chandra

welcomed all the guests and conveyed

gratitude to Chief Minister Yogi

A d i t y a n a t h , Minister Sid-dharth Nath

Singh and the

Khadi Ministry & Board for the opportunity to First In-dia to showcase the best of this amazing weave in this ethnic fashion show. The strikingly rich, contempo-rary and traditional designs weaved out of the khadi cloth provided by the Uttar Pradesh Khadi Board to the renowned designers, left the audiences in awe as loud cheers filled the auditori-um.

Minister Siddharth Nath Singh appreciated the ef-forts of First India team and said that they have perfectly presented the idea and the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to make India ‘Aatmnirbhar’ in everything and to ensure the promotion and popular-ity of khadi across age groups. Chief Secretary RK Tiwari too lauded the ef-fort by the First India Group and said that the Lucknow Khadi Fashion Show would bring Khadi further up. ACS Navneet Se-hgal thanked all the de-

signers, models and First India for their efforts in making the event a huge success.

The Khadi F a s h i o n show start-ed with the Contempo-rary collec-tion by the re-nowned khadi designer Farah An-sari, followed by se-quences by Asma Hus-sain, Aditi Jaggi, Rina D h a k a , H i m m a t Singh and Ritu Beri.

SINCE AGES, FOR AGESThe Lucknow Khadi Fashion Show, an initiative by Jagdeesh Chandra, was held at

Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, Lucknow on Thursday evening. City First brings to you exclusive details from the extravagant evening!

ANITA HADAanita.hada@firstindianews.com

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LEOJULY 24 - AUGUST 23

Don’t take chances with your health. Professionals will be able to give their best in a new situation.

Financially, this day may prove lucky for you, so go ask for the raise that is keeping you on tenterhooks. You will succeed in putting your stagnant love life back on the track.

LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22

This seems a good day for job seekers. Some positive changes can be expected on the home front. Good

luck promises to brighten your day. New avenues for earning open up as you get more determined. Getting into a favourable situation on the academic front is possible.

ARIESMAR 21 - APR 20

You will be a pillar of strength to a friend or associate. A celebration can fi nd you today. Praise

and honour are likely to greet you in something that you have managed to achieve. A good day at work is foreseen as you make your mark in front of those who matter.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22

Those trying to get back their money will succeed. Some favourable developments on the social

front are foreseen. Good performance on the academic front will help enhance your reputation at work. Buying new furniture or a major appliance is possible.

GEMINIMAY 21 - JUNE 21

You are likely to enjoy good health. Appreciation is in store for some homemakers. A profes-

sional victory is yours if you play your cards well today. Those in business will be able to maintain good earning. Young lovers are likely to enjoy total bliss.

AQUARIUSJAN 21 - FEB 19

Your reputation is likely to boost your image on the social front. This is an excellent day to spend time

with family. On the work front, you will manage to keep your superiors in good humour.Good planning will see you complete a task at work in record time. Monetary front grows strong for some.

TAURUSAPR 21 - MAY 20

Those in business will get a chance to make profi ts. A change of job may give you better salary and perks. A

new deal may come through and give you a taste of success. Spending time with lover proves most fulfi lling. This is the time when you enjoy yourself with a new group of friends.

CAPRICORNDEC 23 - JAN 20

You are likely to take up someone’s cause and earn appreciation from all quarters on the social

front. Good tidings of your well wishers will keep you going on the professional front. Remaining on the good side of those who matter on the academic front will help you achieve.

VIRGOAUG 24 - SEP 23

It’s a favourable day for completing pending jobs. Your happiness is in your hands. Financially, no

problems are foreseen. It is best to avoid outside food. Much fun is in store on the social front. Those who like adventures may chase excite-ment very soon.

CANCERJUNE 22 - JULY 23

Your strategy to promote yourself on the profes-sional front will bear fruits. You may need to speed up

things on the academic front to remain ahead. On the social front, the day fi nds you in your element. Something special awaits you on the romantic front today.

PISCESFEB20 - MARCH 20

You may need to put your ideas into action to prove yourself. You may get busy organising something on

the social front. A party may be thrown in your honour at work. Your good performance may be noticed by higher ups. You will have to be more focussed on the academic front.

SCORPIOOCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

You will fi nd family life fulfi lling. Your profession-alism in handling problem areas will be appreciated.

Tenant troubles are foreseen for some house owners. A senior is likely to put in a good word for you to the higher ups. Financially, you will be able to consolidate your position.

YOUR DAY

Horoscope by Saurabbh Sachdeva

y first memory of my Dada Ji is of a worried middle-aged man franti-cally running from here to there asking people if

they had seen a 3-year old boy who was lost. This was around 1960/1961 when he, along with my Dadi Ji - a short-statured but large-hearted simple lady, had come to Agra where my father was posted as a clerk in the Civil Surgeon’s of-fice. I think two of my (yet single) uncles were also there as it was a large fam-ily picnic to the tomb of Aitmad-ud-Daulah, the po-litically influential father of Mumtaz Mahal.

The images of a 6-8 box tiffin in which my mother must have packed pooris, aloo (or maybe gobhi) and achar are still vivid in my mind. The next frame is from Kandhla where he was posted as the Head-master of the Government Primary School when he organised the mundane ceremony for my younger brother and me. It was a big family gathering as I can make out from the black-and-white pictures in our family album where I see not only all my uncles and aunts but even some of my parents’ cousins. Move to 1965/1966, Jharipani (near Mussoorie) where four of us and families of my masis and mamas spent the holidays in the palatial bungalow allotted to him as the Principal of the Government College. During 1968-71, I studied at the Rajghat Besant School, a residential school in Var-anasi, on a government scholarship. During the vacations, however, in-stead of going to my par-ents’ home in Dehradun I would go to Saharanpur to take personal tuitions in English from him to at least keep pace, and maybe even move ahead, of my convent-educated class-mates from rich business

families of Bihar, Bengal and north-east. My batch-mate and hostel mate at AIIMS, (Late) Rajeev Jain, called me out of the class and, with trembling hands, handed over the telegram, which he had obviously opened and read, to me. ‘He’ was being taken out of the home by my uncles (my father in Varanasi could not reach Saharanpur in time in spite of having taken a flight to Delhi) on their shoulders when I last saw ‘him’ on the 31st of July 1977.

Life moved, as if in fast forward, from 1977 to 2020. I finished my MBBS and MS from AIIMS, married, had two sons, moved to SGPGIMS in Lucknow, and our sons grew and finished their studies. Our elder one, Abhimanyu, moved to the USA and got married.

The 1st of January 2020. The best new year day in our lives - our daughter-in-law, Lavanya, gave us the best gift ever in the form of Nyra. While the Dadi rushed to the USA soon af-ter receiving the news so that she could see, touch, feel and kiss the tiny bun-dle of joy, professional commitments forced me to wait for a few months be-fore I could plan a visit to the USA; in the meantime, I had to be satisfied look-ing at her in pictures and videos only.

The 8th of March 2020. As I look at her for the first time (in person), the future starts unfolding before my eyes - will I ‘lose’ (and then quickly find) her on a fam-ily picnic, will she have her first haircut at a salon in Orlando itself or will we be organizing a big

family bash for her mun-dane in India, will she choose to spend her holi-days with her friends at a happening destination or will she come with her par-ents (and aunts and un-cles) to our government allotted house, when she joins a medical school (as they call it in USA) will she come to me during the semes-ter breaks to learn s o m e tips and

tricks in surgery, and last-ly, when it comes to that will she just send a condo-lence message with a few sad emojis on WhatsApp to her Dadi or will she be able to make it there to place a log of wood on ‘me’.

I wonder whether I will remain just a grandfather

for her or will I be able to become,

just as he was for me, her

Dada Ji.

DR VK KAPOORSenior Professor, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology

QUALITY TIME WITH GRANDPARENTS

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Cardi B and You star Penn Badg-ley are new internet besties and we bet you won’t be able to get enough of their sweet exchang-

es. It all started with Cardi B showing everyone how big a fan of the Netflix series You, she is as she retweeted a fan tweet where Badgley spoke about his relationship with social media and how he appreciates how Cardi B han-dles it. Reacting to the same, Cardi wrote, “OOOOMMFFFGGGGGG HE KNOWS ME !!!OMMMGGGG!!!!!! Yoooo like I’m famous.” After seeing Cardi B’s response, Penn further retweeted the WAP singer’s tweet and wrote, “I-” as he expressed his shock. The interac-

tion between the duo further continued as Cardi B tagged Badgley in a video where a little boy gets up close to the camera and asks, “Is that you? Is that me?” He adds, “No that’s not!”

—Agency

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Kriti Sanon has been juggling with five pro-jects, Hum Do

Hamare Do, Bach-chan Pandey, Bhedi-ya, Adipurush and Jan-path. According to the sources, she said, “Apart from the one-two months break we had because of the lock-down, I don’t know where this year went.” She added, “Raj-kummar Rao is one person she is fond of, while her equation with Akshay Kumar is unique and inter-esting.” —Agency

Mrunal Thakur has been creating a massive buzz in the town with her acting progress. The actress has given several impressive movies

and is coming up with equally interesting projects. And while she is enjoying her time working on these projects, Mrunal made her way to headlines as her song Aise Na Chhora with Guru Randhawa was re-leased recently. The track, which marked Mrunal’s first collaboration with Guru, was shot in Kashmir, has been creating buzz for the lead pair’s sizzling chem-istry. —Agency

CREATING BUZZ!

CITY FIRST

After launching the action-packed trailer of the highly-anticipated hostage drama, ‘Sanak – Hope Under Siege’,

the makers have unveiled the first ro-mantic track ‘O Yaara Dil Lagana’ from the movie featuring Vidyut Jam-mwal and Rukmini Maitra.

‘O Yaara Dil Lagana’ is going to be a visual treat for all the music buffs, es-pecially the one who likes listening to 90’s songs, as it’s a reprised version of the original song from the movie ‘Agni-sakshi’ (1996) featuring Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala and Nana Patekar.

The new version of ‘O Yaara Dil La-gana’ from ‘Sanak’ has been shot at the cool backdrop of a club featuring Vid-yut and Rukmini as they beautifully express their love for each other. While the original song was composed by the legendary musical duo Nadeem-Shra-van, the new version has been created by Chirantan Bhatt. Sung by Stebin Ben and Deeksha Toor, the song has lyrics by Manoj Yadav and the original song lyricist Sameer Anjaan.

Melodies of Sanak!

Courteneybeing Monica!

Co u r t e n e y Cox seems to be too possessive about her apart-

ment from Friends, as she wouldn’t let her new Scream co-star Melissa Barre-ra call apartment num-ber 20 her “home.” Cox, who played Monica Gel-ler in the iconic televi-sion show created a per-fect promotional video with Barrera for their upcoming 2022 movie Scream which has a ma-jor Friends reference. Cox, 57, and Barrera, 31, engage in banter while the latter tries to “go home” to Monica’s old Friends apartment.

—Agency

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TRAILER BUZZ!

ajid Nadiadwala’s ‘Ta-dap - An Incredible Love Story’ starring Ahan Shetty and Tara Sutaria is ready for the release on December 3. A wave of intrigue fol-

lowed the release date an-nouncement as Shetty is all set to make his debut with Sajid Nadiadwala opposite Tara Su-taria. Nadiadwala is all set to unravel the trailer of Tadap on October 27. The film is a love story and the remake of the South hit RX100. Sutaria is currently in two very dark worlds of ‘Tadap’ and ‘Ek Vil-lain 2.’ One is a remake and the other a sequel. The former opens in cinemas on Decem-ber 3 and marks the debut of Suniel Shetty’s son Ahan Shet-ty. The other also stars John Abraham, Arjun Kapoor, and Disha Patani. Ever since the makers of ‘Ek Villain Returns’ have announced the film, there has been a lot of excitement amongst the fans for the same.

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ADORABLE PICTURES!

MAKING A BANG ON OTT!

F or a generation that has grown up watching the ageless American sitcom ‘I Love Lucy’ in black-and-white on Doordarshan, there’s an opportunity coming to relive those days of in-

nocent laughter. Nicole Kidman will play the comedi-enne Lucille Ball and Javier Bardem will reprise her husband and co-star Desi Arnez in Aaron Sorkin’s Amazon Studios movie ‘Being the Ricardos’. On Tuesday, the production house dropped the movie’s trailer, which pans through a week in the life of the couple who kept audiences, both live in the studio and in their living rooms, in splits in 180 episodes aired on the American network, CBS, between 1951 and 1957. —Agency

S tar couple Sanjay Dutt and Maanayata Dutt’s twins Iqra and Shahraan have turned a year older on Thursday. Marking the special occasion, Sanjay took to Instagram and

penned a sweet wish for his kids. “Happy birthday to my precious children! May love and happiness follow you wherever you go,” he wrote. Alongside the sweet birthday note, Sanjay posted a collage featuring images of him spending quality time with Iqra and Shahraan. —Agency

A ctor Rajkum-mar Rao will soon

be seen in fl im Hum Do Hamare Do opposite Kriti Sanon. The actor is juggling multiple projects along with the promotion for this fi lm releasing on October 29. In an interview, Rajkummar opened up and told about the OTT boom and, upcoming projects and Diwali memories from previous years. While the actor says he is excited about theatres reopening, he is happy with his fi lm releasing on OTT as well. —Agency

O n Wednesday, Grande, 28, spoke with Eric Vetro on his new podcast ‘Backstage Pass with

Eric Vetro’ on the journey from being a Nickelodeon star on Victorious and Sam & Cat — to developing into a recording artist with her own fl air. “In

the way beginning, putting out ‘The Way’ was very freeing and terrifying for me because I was so convinced that I had to be one thing — because people knew me from my show that I was doing from Nickelodeon and I was playing a character that a lot of people knew me as.” the “34+35” singer explained as per PEO-PLE. She continued, “I was kinda terrifi ed to do what I actually wanted and make the music that I actually wanted to make — and have my brown hair, wear thigh high boots [and be] what I wanted to be.”

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CITY FIRST

The online grooming and training ses-sions of First Miss India and First

Miss India Teen 2021 start-ed on Monday. The fourth day witnessed sessions by Neeleshwari Basak on the topic, ‘Camera Posing and Projections’. Organisers and chief mentors Gaurav Gaur and Dr Maulik Shah also joined the sessions and encour-aged all the finalists. The online sessions on differ-

ent topics by prominent experts will be conduct-

ed while there will also be 3 days of on-location train-ing in Goa before the grand

finale on October 30. All the participants joined in and were enthused by the experts’ advice.

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wedish luxury car maker Volvo Car In-dia opened a new dealership in Jaipur, named as Rajasthan Volvo, under the own-ership of Saisha Auto

Pvt Ltd at Tonk Road on Thurs-day. The new dealership re-flects the importance of Jaipur as a market for luxury mobili-ty and the significance the city holds for the affluent and aspi-rational customers of Ra-jasthan. The dealership was inaugurated by Jyoti Mal-hotra. The showroom incorpo-rates state-of-the-art facilities and is designed as Volvo Retail Experience (VRE) concept.

The state-of-the-art workshop is fully equipped with the latest technologies to serve Volvo customers. Jyoti Malhotra shared, “Jaipur is a very important market in In-dia as it is among the fastest-growing cities and home to

aspiring and affluent families as is the state of Rajasthan. Our new dealership will help us in reaching out to the

growing market for luxury cars in Rajasthan and achiev-ing our goal of providing safe and sustainable luxury mobil-

ity to our customers in India.” Sai Giridhar, Jyoti Mal-

hotra, Prakash Mishra, Rajeev Chauhan, Raj Ahlowalia and Sonali Ahluwalia were present during the event among other dignitaries.

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The music a l b u m , ‘ S u p n a ’ was re-

leased on Thurs-day at Hotel Polo Inn and Suits. The songs of the al-bum are written by the renowned comedian Balraj Syal, sung by Deepti Tuli and produced by Sankalp Vidhani, also featuring Mayur Mehta. The album has been extensively shot in and around Pink City. During the event, the trio present, Balraj, Deepti and Sankalp shared their insights about how the album came into production. The team also celebrated the success of their song, Bekadra. The team plans to further collaborate on more projects.

A proud moment for India and Indian Magic Fraternity as Anchal will be taking part in the renowned International show ‘Penn and Teller Fool Us’. Magician Kudroli Ganesh congratulated Anchal on the occasion.

On the occasion of Global Handwashing Day, Basant Goel, the owner of Goel Medicos organised a physical campaign on October 15 to create awareness around the adoption of hygienic habits amidst the prevailing condition of novel coronavirus. The campaign also encouraged people and distributed free hand wash and sanitisers were in the area of Shahadra.

Reel War 2021 was organised on Instagram by Jaipur Model, a professional modeling agency of Rajasthan, in which 52 girls from across the state participated. The winner was selected on the basis of likes, comments, and shares on the Instagram reel in which Rashmi Jangid of Sardarshahr was the winner and Bharti Meena of Jaipur was the first runner up. For the past many years, many social activities along with ad shoots and fashion shows are done by the ‘Jaipur Model’ for the youth of Rajasthan.

Fitline adds milestones by showcasing a massive 20000 sq ft company-owned experience centre in the city of Jaipur, in collaboration with Raj Kumar Jainani, Manoj Jainani, MD – Harish Stores. Pawan Goyal, Vice President, District Congress Committee was present as the Chief Guest.

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(L-R) Jyoti Malhotra, Prakash Mishra, Sai Giridhar, Rajeev Chauhan and Sonali Ahluwalia

(L-R) Raj Ahlowalia, Jyoti Malhotra, Prakash Mishra and Sai Giridhar

During the lamp lighting ceremony

During the session

Neeleshwari Basak

HAPPY B’DAY!

The birthday of IAS Nareshpal Gangwar and IAS Ankit Kumar Singh was on Thursday, October 21. We wish them all the best!

FOUNDATION DAYCITY FIRST

The Pink City Press Club cele-brated its 30th Foundation Day

on Thursday. On the oc-casion, Jaipur Munici-pal Corporation Greater Mayor Sheel Dhabai, Rajasthan Housing Board Commissioner Pawan Arora, DPR Di-rector Purushottam Sharma and Narayan Bareth inaugurated the celebration. The cam-pus was beautifully dec-orated marking the oc-casion. Cultural perfor-mances were being held during the programme.

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(L-R) Sankalp Vidhani, Deepti Tuliand Balraj Syal

Gulabo Sapera and her troop during the Kalbelia performance

Narayan Bareth, Mangilal Pareek, Ramendra Solanki, Pawan Arora, Mukesh Meena, Sheel Dhabai, Anita Sharma, DC Jain and other members

Aman Verma, Ankkitha Maithy and Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya were spotted at Jaipur Airport on Thursday.

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