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CBI HAS BECOME LIKE A ‘PAN SHOP’ UNDER THE BJP GOVT AT THE CENTRE, SAYS MAHA MINISTER ASLAM SHAIKH

CHHATH DEVOTION DEFIES CORONA CURSE

‘Asthmatic’ Sonia moves out of Delhi to Goa with Rahul to avoid pollutionNew Delhi/Panaji:Congress interim presi-dent Sonia Gandhi on Friday reached Panaji along with his son Rahul Gandhi after doctors ad-vised her to shift out of Delhi for a few days to avoid the heavy pollu-tion in the national capi-tal in view of her chronic chest infection.

Sonia Gandhi has been under heavy medi-cation pursuant to her discharge from hospital in August, and doctors are concerned about her consistent chest infec-tion, which has not gone on account of Delhi’s pol-lution, the sources said.

The air pollution in Delhi has aggravated her asthma and her chest condition, and she has been advised by doc-tors to briefly shift out from here, they said.

She is going at a time when demands for intro-spection over the Bihar election loss are being raised by a section of party leaders, Turn to P6

All eyes on Amit Shah’s visit to Chennai todayAditi Nagar

New Delhi: Union Home Minister and sen-ior BJP leader Amit Shah’s visit to Chennai on Friday is the talk of the town.

With Assembly elec-tions in Tamilnadu round-the-corner, Amit Shah’s visit assumes greater significance.

As per schedule, the Union Minister will de-clare open Thervoy Kandigai reservoir (Chennai’s fifth reser-voir) and also lay the foundation stone for several infrastructure projects.

After his official en-gagements, Amit Shah is expected hold crucial meetings with Tamil-nadu BJP leaders about their preparations for the forthcoming elec-tions and what alliance to be stitched. He may discuss with them about the constituen-cies where the party is confident of winning.

A grand reception is being planned by BJP to welcome Amit Shah to-morrow from Chennai airport. The state BJP unit is looking for high-profile people who can be inducted into the party in his presence.

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AFTER SIBAL’S REMARKS, SONIANAMES 4 ‘DISSENTERS’ TO PANELSNew Delhi: Ward co New Delhi: Days after Kapil Sibal’s comments about the Congress’ decline sparked another bout of infi ghting, party chief Sonia Gandhi has included four members of the dissenting camp in three committees set up to keep her informed on matters relating to national security, foreign affairs and the economy. Announced Friday, just before Ms Gandhi leaves for Goa to escape Delhi pollution, the appoint-ments are being seen as a move to ward off further public embarrassment - such as that caused by Mr Sibal’s interview to the Indian Express or the letter by 23 leaders challenging the Gandhi family’s control. The committee on economic affairs includes former Finance Minister P Chidambaram. The second committee (on foreign affairs) has both Anand Sharma and Shashi Tharoor, and Ghulam Nabi Azad and Veerappa Moily have been named to the third.

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi and party leader Rahul Gandhi arrive at Goa Airport on Friday.

CRUCIAL MEETINGS

Amit Shah is expected hold crucial meetings with Tamilnadu BJP leaders about their preparations for the

forthcoming elections and what alliance to

be stitched

Devotees gather at the bank of Ganga River to perform rituals on the occasion of Chhath Puja, in Patna. (Right) Women offering prayers to the Sun God in Kolkata on Friday. —PHOTOS BY PTI

SEBI PETITIONS SUPREME COURT TO DIRECT SAHARA’S SUBRATA ROY TO PAY `62,600 CR OR CANCEL HIS PAROLE IF HE DOESN’T YIELD

PM REVIEWS SECURITYWITH FORCES’ TOP BRASS

New Delhi: Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi on Friday held a review meeting with top secu-rity brass in the wake of the killing of four JeM terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, and as-serted that security forc-es have thwarted their efforts to wreak “major havoc and destruction”.

Government sources said that the terrorists were planning “some-thing big” on the anni-versary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.

In his tweets following the meeting, Modi said, “Neutralising of 4 terror-ists belonging to Paki-stan-based terrorist or-ganisation Jaish-e-Mo-hammed and the pres-ence of large cache of weapons and explosives with them indicate that their efforts to wreak ma-jor havoc and destruc-tion have once again been thwarted.” Turn to P6

Terrorists were planning “something big” on the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack anniversary, say govt sources

KILLING OF FOUR JeM TERRORISTS

Narendra Modi @narendramodi

Our security forces have once again dis-

played utmost bravery and professional-

ism. Thanks to their alertness, they have defeated a nefarious plot to target grass-

roots level democratic exercises in J&K.

Ambala: Haryana health minister, 67-year-old and a diabetic, Anil Vij was administered a trial dose of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin on Friday. He attended offi ce two hours after vaccina-tion. “It is a matter of pride for every Indian that Bharat Biotech is coming up with an indigenous vaccine for Covid-19. I volunteered to become one of the participants for the third phase trial so that people shed their fears and come forward to volunteer,” said Vij.

Anil Vij gets covaxin shot

‘LOVE JIHAD’ INVENTED BY BJP TO DIVIDE COUNTRY: GEHLOT

Kartikey Dev Singh

Jaipur: Known for his immaculate timing when it comes to open-ing a front against the rival camp, senior Con-gress leader and Ra-jasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday cornered the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), in his now famous style of ver-bal ‘war’, when he al-leged that “Love Jihad” is a word manufactured by the BJP to divide the nation and disturb com-munal harmony.

With BJP govern-ments in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh saying that they are considering en-actment of laws to curb

such marriages, Gehlot hit back strongly at what he considers a “ploy to divide people”.

Gehlot, who often uses social media plat-form to take on the saf-fron party, took to twit-ter and said that mar-riage is a personal deci-sion and the BJP is

putting curbs on it.“Love Jihad is a word

manufactured by the BJP to divide the nation and disturb communal harmony. Marriage is a matter of personal lib-erty, bringing a law to curb it is completely un-constitutional and it will not stand in any

court of law. Jihad has no place in love,” Ge-hlot tweeted.

“They are creating an environment in the nation where consent-ing adults would be at the mercy of state pow-er. Marriage is a per-sonal decision and they are putting curbs on it, which is like snatching away per-sonal liberty,” he said in another tweet.

Gehlot said it seemed to be a “ploy to disrupt communal harmony, fuel social conflict and disregard constitution-al provisions like the state not discriminat-ing against citizens on any ground”. Turn to P6

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Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot

6 CHILDREN AMONG 14 KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENT IN UP’S PRATAPGARHPratapgarh: Fourteen people, including six children, died in a tragic road accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh after their car rammed a truck on the highway late on Thursday night. All the occupants of the SUV died in the crash and several others have been injured. The ac-cident occured around 11.45pm on Thursday on the Prayagraj-Lucknow highway near Deshraj Inara village. Visuals from the accident show a crumpled Mahindra Bolero being pulled out from the back of the truck. Pratapgarh Super-intendent of Police (SP) Anurag Arya said the truck had been parked at the side of the highway

due to a punctured tyre when the SUV rammed it from behind in the dead of the night. Half of the car was pulled out in a mangled state from under the truck later by police offi cials, he said. All victims were return-ing home to their village in Kunda in the district after attending a wedding

in Nawabganj, the police offi cial said, adding that all help has been assured to the families of the victims. Five bodies were recovered soon after the crash whereas the rest of the bodies were pulled out after the crumbled car was retrieved from under the truck, which took almost two hours.

Crumpled SUV being pulled out from back of the truck.

MODI’S VACCINATION STRATEGYNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday chaired a meeting to review India’s strat-egy for Covid-19 vaccination and its subsequent delivery and distribution. Important issues related to the progress of vaccine development, regulatory approvals and procurement were also discussed. Various issues, including the prioritisation of popu-lation groups, reaching out to healthcare workers, cold-chain infrastructure augmentation, adding vac-cinators and tech platform for vaccine roll-out were also discussed in the meeting, PM Modi said.

WORLD CHILDREN’S DAY

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Jaipur: In what could be a severe jolt to the trading class, Chief Commissioner (SGST)Abhishek Bhagotia has decided to start recover-ing approximately Rs1600 crore on account of C form demand of 2014-15. The central gov-ernment had set Sep-tember 30, 2020 as the last date to submit C forms after many exten-sions. The trading com-munity expected anoth-

er extension which has not come their way now.

Bhagotia has decided to himself monitor the recovery of huge pend-ing amount. He said, “People have not sub-mitted their C-forms despite getting suffi-cient time. In fact, in some cases even C- forms for FY 2009-2010 are due.”

It is noteworthy that C form is used for the sales done on conces-sional VAT rates and it is made available to

seller by the purchaser of the goods on conces-sional price.

Bhagotia has in-

structed his depart-ment to start recover-ing difference between normal and concession-

al rates. According to SGST

department right now only cases of FY 2019-10 will be taken for consid-eration and it is not pur-suing cases of FY 2015-16, 2016-17 and the first quarter of 2017-18. It is worth mentioning that according to VAT rule section 12 (7), the de-partment can provide relief to the taxpayer in case of proper reasons for not submitting the C-form within the stipu-lated time.

SGST starts process to recover `1600 crA JOLT TO TRADING CLASS

Draft electoral rolls of all 200 Vidhan Sabha areas publishedVishal

Jaipur: The election de-partment has published the draft electoral rolls of all 200 Assembly con-stituencies in the state and a special drive will be run for summary re-vision of photo electoral rolls.

Chief electoral officer Praveen Gupta in-formed that application can be filed for adding name of eligible voter, who will complete 18 years on January 1, 2021, in form 6 from Novem-ber 21 to December 21 while those seeking cor-rection in name can ap-ply in Form 8.

Final electoral rolls will be published on 18 January. The voter list can be seen on depart-ment’s website https://ceorajasthan.nic.in .

He said that applica-

tion forms can be ob-tained for free from BLOs while it can also be downloaded from the website. All applications can be given to booth level officers or can be filed online at the portal www.voterportal.eci.gov.in or through mobile app.

Gupta said that spe-cial camps will be or-ganised on November 29 and December 6 at all 52,009 booths in the state where BLOs and booth level agents of recog-nised political parties will receive applica-tions. On the other hand, the state government has banned transfers of collectors, SDMs and other officers who are engaged in the revision of voter lists. Ban has been issued on transfers of these officials from Nov 20 to Jan 18.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Energy minis-ter Dr BD Kalla on Thursday launched a mobile app for effective monitoring of electric-ity theft. The vigilance teams of DIMSOMs will now be able make chal-lan and submit data on-line from spot through the app developed by Jaipur DISCOM.

JVVNL MD AK Gup-ta said that the process of preventing power theft will now be com-

pletely transparent and this will not cause trou-ble to consumers.

However, in case of complaints, these will

be resolved through conciliation commit-tees.

Kalla said reduction of 1 percent in trans-

mission and distribu-tion losses saves Rs. 450 crore and the state gov-ernment in the last one and a half years has brought down the t&d losses by more than 2 percent.

He said that the loss-es which were 41% in 2005 are18 percent at present. Appreciating the move, Kalla said it will also be implement-ed in Ajmer and Jodh-pur DISCOMs after its successful implementa-tion.

Yogesh Sharma

Jaipur: Former tour-ism minister and Deeg-Kumher MLA Vishvendra Singh met Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday to de-mand recommendation of the state govern-ment to the Centre to provide OBC reserva-tion to Jat community people of Bharatpur and Dholpur at the Centre too. Interesting-ly, Singh’s meeting with Gehlot is being touted as a ‘change of

heart’ for the former minister who, it is said, will be heading back in the Gehlot Cabinet in next expansion, and since he has realised and lernt that he will have to work under Ge-hlot’s ‘supervision’, Singh preferred to speak to Gehlot. Raising the reservation demand, Singh said that former Vajpayee government granted OBC quota to Jats in 1999 but the people of Bharatpur and Dhol-pur were deprived of it.

“For this, we fought a long battle and agitat-ed. Three years ago, we got success and the sur-vey was done again and quota to Jats of Dhol-pur and Bharatpur was given in state. It is our demand from the state government that a rec-ommendation be sent to Centre to provide OBC quota to Jats of both the districts in centre,” he said.

Singh said he is con-fident of full support from the chief minister regarding this demand.

Bhanwar S Charan

Kota: Under the banner of Kota Bachao Sang-harsh Samiti various organisations demon-strated at the collector-ate demanding the re-sumption of classroom studies in the schools and coaching centres of the city. A delegation of the Kota Bachao Sang-harsh Samiti submitted a memorandum for CM Ashok Gehlot to the dis-trict collector Ujjwal Rathore.

The large number of protestors included hostel/PG and mess owners, various trade associations, auto driv-er’s union and small time traders along with the employees working at various education in-dustry affiliate busi-nesses which included women.

Kota Bachao Sang-harsh Samiti members said that the classroom coaching should be re-sumed in the city as soon as possible as the

whole economy of the city depends on the lakhs of students who come from across the country to the city for various coaching.

It is noteworthy that all the activities of the coaching industry had been shut down more than eight months ago in March when the co-rona pandemic broke out. This forced the af-filiate business like hos-tels, PG, messes to close and even shut the shops of many street vendors.

Bharat Dixit

Jaipur: Jaipur herit-age municipal corpora-tion mayor Munesh Gurjar on Friday con-ducted sudden inspec-tion in several places to check the sanitation system and expressed displeasure after find-ing heaps of garbage at several places.

Gurjar asked the con-cerned officers to im-mediately clear the gar-bage and improve the sanitation system in the

area.During her visit,

some of the ward coun-cilors met her and raised the demand for installing CCTV cam-eras on the main inter-sections of the heritage area.

She assured them that CCTV cameras will be installed in all wards.

Gurjar said that her objective is to make all wards clean and to bring Jaipur heritage municipal corporation on top in cleanliness.

Aishwary Pradhan

Jaipur: State BJP pres-ident Satish Poonia has demanded from the state government to conduct pharmacist re-cruitment exam-2018 which has been can-celled. Poonia wrote a letter to chief minister Ashok Gehlot drawing his attention towards the issue.

He said Rajasthan staff selection board in-vited application for the exam which was pro-

posed to be conducted on 27 December but the recruitment exam was cancelled by the state government. He said there is resentment among candidates who had been preparing for the exam for the last two years.

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Jaipur: The Congress on Friday appointed district election in-charges for 50 city coun-cils of 12 districts. They are Ramlal Jat & Suren-dra Dadri for Jaipur, Mahendrajeet Malviya & Dilip Chaudhary Bharatpur, Mevaram Jain & Bhavi Meena for Dholpur, Amin Kagji & Abhishek Chaudhary Dausa, Krishna Poonia & Hakam Ali for Sri Ganganagar among others.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The state gov-ernment on Friday is-sued an order to imple-ment Model Code of Conduct in the respec-tive constituencies dur-ing the elections of pan-chayati raj institutions in 21 districts of the state to be held in No-vember-December. The elections, to be held in four phases, will be held on November 23, second phase November 27, third phase on Decem-ber 1, and fourth phase on December 5, said a State election commis-sion official.

According to the or-der, the ministers of the state would not go on a government tour till the end of the elections in the constituency relat-

ed to the elections. On deteriorating law and order or due to any emergency, the minis-ters of the concerned department would be able to visit the respec-tive areas only after sending the informa-tion to the State Elec-tion Commission.

During MCC, minis-ters will not be able to use a government vehi-cle if they are on a tour

in the constituency re-lated to the election, and will not use sirens etc. while using a pri-vate vehicle. They will not call officials related to election during the tour in constituency and not use rest houses, dormitory bungalows or other government houses or the premises attached thereto as pub-licity office or any re-lated to the election.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: A commando of Rajasthan armed constabulary (RAC) has been arrested on charges of rape and murder of wife of his friend just a week be-fore marriage of the accused’s daughter, the police said.

The police said on Friday that the ac-cused Mahavir Singh Gurjar had gone to give a marriage card at his friend’s place in Kho Nagorian of Jaipur on November 18 when the incident happened. After the crime, he called his friend that his wife was feeling easy and died so he took her body to their native place in Shahjahan-pur in Alwar for cre-mation. But four-year-

old daughter of the victim revealed to the villagers that “Ma-havir uncle killed the mother and she was lying naked on the floor”. Gurjar’s daugh-ter is scheduled to marry on November 25. Gurjar initially told the police that the gate of his friend’s house was closed and it was broke open with the help of neighbours and his friend’s wife was dead inside.

The villagers had caught Gurjar and

handed over to the po-lice, said ACP Malviya Nagar Mahendra Sharma. The accused is commando in the RAC battalion at Ghat-gate. In another case, the rape accused’s rel-atives and acquaint-ances threatened to kill the rape victim and her family in Murlipura area. The victim’s husband has registered two cases against the main ac-cused, who is already arrested, and his fam-ily members.

Govt imposes model code of conduct in 21 districts of Raj

Spl drive will be run for summary revision of photo electoral rolls

Man held for rape & murder a week before daughter’s marriage

Discom goes hi-tech! Kalla launches app to monitor electricity thefts

Vishvendra meets CM over Central OBC quota for Jats

Resumption of classes: Kota organisations hold demo

Mayor Munesh Gurjar inspects heritage area

Poonia writes to CM on pharmacist exam

The Vidhan Sabha building was illuminated in blue on World Children’s Day on Friday as part of UNICEF’s #GoBlue campaign. This was done at the behest of Assembly Speaker Dr CP Joshi.

Cong appoints district poll incharges

Satish Poonia

BD Kalla taking a meeting, where AK Gupta & Dinesh Kumar were also present, on Friday.

Rajsamand MP Diya Kumari seeking votes for the BJP candidates in Jawaja panchayat samiti.

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Security beefed up at Ajmer dargah after intel inputs

Shubham Jain

Ajmer: After a recent encounter between the army and the Pakistani terrorists in Kashmir it was disclosed that 4 Pa-kistani terrorists were planning to execute a big terrorist attack with a truck full of arms and ammunition at their disposal.

Although this at-tempt by the terrorists was foiled by the Indi-an army, it also sent an alert to the security

agencies across the country. After this alert the ERT under-took a flag march in the area surrounding Khwaja Garib Nawaz dargah in the city.

Although the ERT officials refused to comment on the ac-tion, it also convened a meeting to assess the emergency arrange-ments for the dargah, surrounding areas. Local police have also been sounded to be on alert.

New Jodhpur-Delhi flight from Nov 23First India Bureau

Jodhpur: IndiGo Air-lines will start a new flight from Jodhpur to New Delhi from 23 No-vember. The flight will be operated twice a week on Monday and Wednesday, G K Khare, director of Jodhpur civil airport said.

At present, there are two flights to Delhi which are being oper-

ated by Air India and Vistara airlines.

The fare of Jodhpur-Delhi has been kept at around Rs. 4500. IndiGo has opened booking for the flights.

A total of 24 flights were being operated from Jodhpur in the winter schedule last year which has come down to 12 this year due to the corona pan-demic.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: In view of surg-ing corona numbers, Home secretary LN Meena had written the letter to district collec-tors of the state and po-lice commissioners of Jaipur and Jodhpur on Thursday. The depart-ment has suggested dis-trict collectors and po-lice commissioners to impose section 144 from November 21 and strict-ly implement the Cov-id-19 protocols.

Udaipur district mag-istrate Sanjay Kumar ordered imposition of the section 144 from Fri-day night till January 19, 2021.

Tikam Khanchanda-ni, private secretary of Rajasthan HC Judge, died from corona infec-tion on Friday.

On Thursday, 2549 single day corona posi-tive cases were record-ed while 15 deaths were reported from 15 dis-tricts. These figures state are clearly indicat-ing the arrival of the second wave of corona. The state government has started showing strictness to deal with the corona infection.

The Municipal Cor-poration of Jaipur Greater, Heritage offi-cials took out a rally where masks and pam-phlets were distributed. Officials fined 34 people for violating norms.

With rising Covid cases, police ensure strict implementation of corona guidelines in Jaipur on Friday.

SEC 144 TO BE REIMPOSED IN STATE TODAY

MEHNDIPUR TEMPLE REOPENS FROM NOV 24, PREPS IN FULL SWING TO OPEN SHILPGRAM FROM DECEMBER 1Dausa/Udaipur: The famous Mehndipur Balaji temple will reopen from November 24 but with some restric-tions in wake of the corona spread. The temple trust had sought approval from the district collector who asked the trust to make all arrangements for following corona guidelines and to appoint a nodal officer for the same. Thousands of devotees visited the tem-ples dedicated to Lord Hanuman seeking blessings. Meanwhile, preparations are also on for reopening Udaipur’s famous cultural centre Shilpgram from December 1. The centre has been closed for last more than eight months. West Zone Cultural Center Director Sudhanshu Singh said that Shilpagram was closed since last 23 March due to lockdown. However, pro-grams like the workshop started here after the unlock but the tourists were not being given admitted.

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Home dept advisory has come after Centre rushed high level teams to Rajasthan to monitor districts with highest numbers of Covid cases

SARAF ADMITTED TO RUHS AGAIN, HE WRITES TO CM ON SCARCITY OF

BEDS IN GOVT, PVT HOSPITALSFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Former health minister and Malviya Nagar MLA Kalicharan Saraf was admitted to RUHS on late Thursday once again due to constant fever and declining health. He was admit-ted to RUHS earlier after testing positive for corona.

Saraf reiterated his earlier demand by writing a letter to CM

Gehlot that a portion of SMS hospital should be dedicated as Covid-19 section for treatment of co-rona patients. He said

the private hospitals are charging huge fees from Covid pa-tients. He suggested acquiring 60% beds of private hospitals and to daily publish the data about bed availability.

Saraf said corona has become uncon-trollable in state and the patients is con-tinuously increasing but beds are not avail-able in government, private hospitals.

LEADER DHARMENDRA RATHORE NOW COVID-19 NEGATIVE

INT’L PUSHKAR FAIR CALLED OFF DUE TO CORONA PANDEMICRAJ RECORDS 14 DEATHS,

TOLL RISES TO 2,130

Chittorgarh: Congress leader Dharmendra Rathore, who tested positive for coronavirus on November 8, has now tested negative. Rathore braved the infection and did not change his daily routine. CM Ashok Gehlot congratulated Rathore after his report came negative.

Ajmer: The state government has cancelled the International Pushkar Fair due to Corona pandemic. SDM Dilip Singh Rathore said that in the Pushkar Fair a number of animal competitions, exhibitions and cultural programs are held in which thousands of people visit everyday, it might be difficult to maintain physical distancing and other co-rona guidelines as such the fair has been cancelled. He said despite the cancellation a number of cattle own-ers from Bhilwara, Bundi have been coming to Pushkar but they were stopped and asked to return. He said that orders have been issued to stop movement of livestock, no cat-tle be allowed to come to Pushkar.

Jaipur: Rajasthan recorded 14 more fatalities due to the novel coronavirus on Friday, taking the COVID-19 death toll in the state to 2,130, ac-cording to a health department bulletin. The state also reported 2,762 new cases today. The total number of people infected by COVID-19 now stands at 2,37,699 in Rajasthan and out of these, 20,923 are under treatment, it said. As per the bulletin, 2,14,616 people have been discharged after treatment till now. In Jaipur, the death toll from the coronavirus infection is 404 till now, fol-lowed by 211 in Jodhpur, 161 in Ajmer, 155 in Bi-kaner, 121 in Kota, 99 in Bharatpur, 82 in Udaipur and 81 in Pali. On Friday, 514 fresh cases were recorded in Jaipur, 419 in Jodhpur, 211 in Ajmer, 199 in Alwar, 175 in Kota, 110 in Bhilwara, 109 in Bikaner and 92 in Sriganganagar.

Man killed, son injured over land disputeFirst India Bureau

Hindaun City: An old farmer was beaten to death and his son in-jured in the Mudiya vil-lage under Balghat po-lice station in an at-tempt of land grabbing. Injured son Satveer Jatav said that he and his father Rajan Lal Jatav were working on their farm when Rajpal

and his associates at-tacked them with sticks, stones in an at-tempt to grab land.

The seriously injured father-son duo was tak-en to Hindaun govt hos-pital by family mem-bers where Rajan was declared dead on arriv-al. His body was handed over after the post mor-tem, police have started investigation.

Dept brings relief on pending UD tax paymentAbhishek Srivastava

Jaipur: The depart-ment of local self gov-ernment has provided relief to people by an-nouncing that no inter-est-penalty will be charged on paying lump sum urban develop-ment tax in all local bodies.

Also, a 50 percent re-bate in principal will

also be given.The department is-

sued an order for this saying those who have pending UD tax and want to deposit lump sum amount, then in-terest-penalty will be exempted fully and a 50 per cent rebate in principal will also be given.

The discount can be availed by 31 December.

Avinash Pande @avinashpandeinc

Heartfelt greetings to the #ChhathPuja Ma-haparva of Surya wor-ship and public faith. Chhath Maiya provide happiness, peace and

prosperity to all.

Om Birla @ombirlakota

Heartfelt greetings to all the countrymen of Chhathpuja, the Ma-

haparva worshiping Lord Surya. I wish the Chhath Mata all happiness, good

health and prosperity.

—PHOTO BY SUM

AN SARKAR

ERT undertook a flag march in the area surrounding Khwaja Garib Nawaz dargah in Ajmer on Friday.

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he first drug against HIV brought dying patients back from the brink.

But as excited doctors raced to get the miracle drug to new patients, the miracle melted away. In each and every patient, the drug only worked only for a while.

It turned out the drug was very good at killing the virus, but the virus was even better at evolving re-sistance to the drug. A spontaneous mutation in the virus’ genetic material prevented the drug from doing its work, and so the mutant viruses were able to replicate wildly despite the drug, making the pa-tients sick again. It took another decade before sci-entists found evolution-proof therapies.

Could the same thing happen to a COVID-19 vac-cine? Could a vaccine that is

safe and effective in initial trials go on to fail because the virus evolves its way out of trouble? As evolutionary microbiologists who have studied a poultry virus that has evolved resistance to two different vaccines, we know such an outcome is possible. We also think we know what it takes to stop it. COVID-19 vaccines could fail – but if they have cer-tain properties, they won’t.

HISTORY OF VACCINE RESISTANCEFor the most part, human-ity has been lucky: Most human vaccines have not been undermined by mi-crobial evolution.

For instance, the small-pox virus was eradicated because it never found a way to evolve around the smallpox vaccine, and no strain of the measles virus has ever arisen that can beat the immunity triggered by

the measles vaccine.But there is one excep-

tion. A bacterium that caus-es pneumonia managed to evolve resistance against a vaccine. Developing and re-placing that vaccine with another was expensive and time-consuming, with sev-en years between the initial emergence of resistant strains and the licensing of the new vaccine.

There haven’t been other failures for human vac-

cines yet, but there are hints that viruses, bacteria and parasites can evolve or are evolving in response to vaccination. Escape mu-tants that are able to evade vaccine-induced immunity are regularly seen in the microbes that cause hepa-titis B and pertussis.

For such human diseas-es as malaria, trypanoso-miasis, influenza and AIDS, vaccines have been hard or impossible to de-

velop because the microbes that cause those diseases evolve so fast. In agricul-tural settings, animal vac-cines are frequently under-mined by viral evolution.

Depending on how the COVID-19 virus evolves, the vaccines could become less effective. Volanthe-vist/Getty Images

WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE?If SARS-CoV-2 evolves in response to a COVID vac-cine, there are several di-rections it could take. The most obvious is what hap-pens with the flu virus. Im-munity works when anti-bodies or immune cells bind to molecules on the surface of the virus. If mu-tations in those molecules on the surface of the virus change, antibodies can’t grab on to them as tightly and the virus is able to es-cape. This process explains

why the seasonal flu vac-cine needs updating each year. If this happens, a COVID vaccine would need frequent updating.

But evolution might head off in other direc-tions. It would be better for human health, for exam-ple, if the virus evolves a stealth mode, perhaps by reproducing slowly or hid-ing in organs where immu-nity is less active. Many pathogens that cause bare-ly noticeable chronic infec-tions have taken this tack. They avoid detection be-cause they do not cause acute disease.

A more dangerous ave-nue would be if the virus evolved a way to replicate more quickly than the im-munity generated by the vaccine. Another strategy would be for the virus to target the immune system and dampen vaccine-in-duced immunity.

Virus evolution could undermine a COVID-19 vaccine!

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Valour, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule - these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature.” —Bhagavad Gita

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Prakash Javadekar @PrakashJavdekarA good Shoutout for conservation. We are giving a big push to e-vehicles. The demand for EVs is growing and the prices are being slashed and we are also providing for more battery charging infrastructure. Battery swapping policy has also been adopted.

COVID-19 WORRIES JOLT DELHI INTO ACTION

ven as there are encouraging reports on the development of Covid-19 vaccine, the virus continues to cause concern in India. After a surge in fresh cases, Delhi had to cut down on number of invitees at wed-

dings and other gatherings from 200 to 50, enhance fine for not wearing masks from Rs 500 to Rs 2000 and launch a house-to-house survey for new cases. Peo-ple, especially the elderly, have been advised to stay indoors. These steps have been initiated after the Delhi High Court pulled up the Aam Aadmi Party government for not imposing timely curbs even after seeing the situation turning bad since November 1. Situation in the national capital has also been found worrying by Dr. V.K. Paul of Niti Ayog.

Delhi is not alone in dealing with the Covid cri-sis. Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh re-introduced night curfew in some of the affected cities in view of the rising cases of new infections. After Ahmedabad, night curfew was imposed in Rajkot, Surat and Vadodara. Night curfew will be in force in Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Ratlam and Vidisha cities of Madhya Pradesh.

Under the circumstances, the BJP’s move to po-liticise the Chhath festival against the AAP gov-ernment with an eye on Bihari votes was highly condemnable. The party backed out after the high court dismissed a petition seeking permission for Chhath puja. Now it is the turn of the Congress to be critical of the hefty Rs 2000 fine for not wearing a mask. Neither BJP nor the Congress thought it fit to rise above politics to fight the pandemic.

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BENGAL AND VIOLENCE DIFFICULT TO SEPARATE

iolence has been the hallmark of West Bengal politics from the days of the Naxalite movement, also known as peas-ant revolt of 1967. It only exacerbated under the Communist government of

Jyoti Basu neither doing much for the peasantry, nor for Bengal’s development. Mohalla- level groups of toughies controlled all activity and trade unions made it difficult for industry to survive. The temperamental Mamata Banerjee entered the scene riding on the Ma, Manush and Maati slogan. Nandigram violence, controversy over Singur, al-lotment of land to Tata Motors at Singur, power cuts helped. Killings, both political and communal, continued even after she became chief minister of the state. So much so that the Bharatiya Janata Party is entering the poll fray on the twin planks of political killings under Mamata Banerjee’s gov-ernment and the rise of Islamism in the state.

Six persons dying in a plastic factory blast in Malda, which the BJP claims was a bomb-making unit, gave the party the ammo to enhance its fire-power before the assembly elections. The party is now demanding a probe by the National Investiga-tion Agency while Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar asked Mamata Banerjee to contain illegal bomb-making. Mamata joined the slugfest with the re-mark that the issue should not be politicised. When elections are closed at hand, every death, every blast will get politicized. Even if a BJP hood-lum is involved in violence, the blame will be put at TMC’s door. The effort from all sides should be to eschew violence. With the BJP desperate to win Bengal, and the TMC on the defensive, a bitter tus-sle is on the cards.

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he human mechanism is a composite of the physical body – an accumulation of food consumed, the mental body – the software and memory part that makes in-dividuals function in spe-cific ways, and the energy body – the fundamental upon which these two are housed. What is beyond this is non-physical.

The compulsive and cyclical nature of the body and mind render themselves a barrier for higher possibilities. Tantra is to go beyond, so that compul-siveness of the body and mind does not keep us trapped in our limitations. Tantra essentially means “technique” or “tech-nology.” Tantra is about learn-ing to use the body, not as one-self, but as a stepping-stone to deliver this Being to the high-est possible dimension.

BLOWING FROM THE TOPTantra is not about unbri-dled sexuality, as assumed by many. Sexuality is a fun-damental instinct instilled in our bodies to ensure the species perpetuates itself. This is a basic requirement. At the same time, one must know the limitations beyond which it will not carry us. It is only on recognising the limitations and the longing to touch other dimensions enters, that Yoga and Tantra become relevant.

Unlike sexuality, which tends to find release at the low-er level of the energy system, Tantra is about building our energies to the fountain-head of the uppermost dimension of the energy system, so that one’s energies spill from the top. Of the different energy manifesta-tions in the body – referred to as the 114 chakras – spilling from the top three is consid-ered the highest. If you have to build up to this, every basic in-stinct, including the sexual in-

stinct, emotions, intellect, and survival process must be used to build and hype the energy system. The intention is to de-ploy all instincts for which a certain amount of energy is dedicated in the body. If one goes into an actual sexual act, the build-up and the purpose of it will be lost.

Sexual needs can be ful-filled by forming relation-ships for that purpose, ei-ther within or outside the fold. But using the spiritual process to fulfill sexual com-pulsions is reprehensible and irresponsible. It can lead to various levels of loss because the tantric process is not only used for the indi-vidual’s spiritual growth, but also to create an ener-getic space to support other possibilities that bring well-being to many.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO HUFF AND PUFFThe Guru-shishya relation-ship is to deliver the shishya to a higher dimension of consciousness, not trap one into the compulsive nature of sexuality. Above all, this sacred relationship is defi-

nitely orgasmic, but not sex-ual. I am talking about up-grading your technology. You don’t have to huff and puff to get into an orgasmic state. If you sit with your eyes closed, you can drip with orgasms in every cell of your body. Those who have failed to achieve an orgasmic state of existence will associ-ate an ecstatic state with sexuality because that’s probably the highest level of experience they have known.

People always try to take recourse in the Krishna-Gopi relationship. As the legend goes, Krishna gave an orgas-mic experience to 16,000 wom-en simultaneously. This can-not happen with sexual un-ion. A shishya can establish a very intimate relationship with a Guru. Intimacy is gen-erally understood only as two bodies touching. The body is not intimate enough for one who is on the spiritual path. The physical body is an accu-mulation from outside, so in the Tantric and Yogic sys-tems, the body is never con-sidered an intimate part of you. Only when energies meet and mingle and a Guru’s ener-gies overwhelm and override the shishya’s energies, it leads to an orgasmic experi-ence – a union, but not of the sexual kind.

If all you want is to do a meditation or spiritual prac-tice, you don’t really need a Guru. The Guru is here es-sentially to overwhelm you with nameless ecstasies.

Tantra is a technology of lib-eration, not enslavement.

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DEFINITELY ORGASMIC, BUT NOT SEXUAL

Tantra is not about unbridled sexuality, as assumed by many. Sexuality is a fundamental instinct instilled in our bodies to ensure the species perpetuates itself. This is a basic requirement. At the same time, one must know the limitations beyond which it will not carry us. It is only on recognising the limitations and the longing to touch other dimensions enters, that Yoga and Tantra become relevant

SEXUAL NEEDS CAN BE FULFILLED BY FORMING

RELATIONSHIPS FOR THAT PURPOSE, EITHER

WITHIN OR OUTSIDE THE FOLD. BUT USING THE

SPIRITUAL PROCESS TO FULFILL SEXUAL

COMPULSIONS IS REPREHENSIBLE AND

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New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday constituted three internal commit-tees to “consider and discuss issues and poli-cies related to Econom-ic Affairs, Foreign Af-fairs and National Secu-rity”. Former PM Dr Manmohan Singh will head all the three com-mittees.

“Congress President has constituted three committees to consider and discuss issues and policies related to the stated subjects and keep her informed,” AICC stated in a press release.

The Committee on Economic Affairs con-sists of, Dr Manmohan Singh, former finance minister P Chidambar-am, former leader of opposition in Lok Sab-ha Mallikarjun Kharge, Rajya Sabha member Digvijaya Singh and former union minister Jairam Ramesh in the capacity of Convenor.

The Committee on Foreign Affairs con-sists of, Dr Manmohan Singh, former union ministers Anand Shar-

ma, Shashi Tharoor, Dr Salman Khurshid in the capacity of Convenor

and Saptagiri Ulka. The Committee on National Security consists of - Dr

Manmohan Singh, for-mer union minister Veerappa Moily, Leader of Opposition in RS Ghulam Nabi, V Vaith-ilingam and Vincent H Pala in the capacity of Convenor.

It is worth mention-ing that 23 Congress leaders wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi in August this year demanding sweeping changes in the party. They had said that reluctance to ad-dress issues was be-cause the Congress Working Committee was “a nominated body”. —ANI

Dr Manmohan Singh will head all the 3 committeesSonia Gandhi sets up panel on Economic, Foreign Affairs, Security

Congress president Sonia Gandhi, leader Rahul Gandhi and Dr Manmohan Singh. —FILE PHOTO

PM reviews...Hailing the security forces, he said they have once again displayed utmost bravery and pro-fessionalism.

“Thanks to their alertness, they have de-feated a nefarious plot to target grassroots lev-el democratic exercises in Jammu and Kash-mir,” the prime minis-ter added.

In the review meet-ing, Home Minister Amit Shah, NSA Ajit Doval, foreign secre-tary and top intelli-gence officials were present as Modi took stock of the situation.

Four suspected

Jaish-e -Mohammad terrorists were killed and two policemen in-jured in a gunbattle in Nagrota on Thursday after a truck carrying newly infiltrated mili-tants was intercepted, police had said.

Inspector General of Police (IGP), Jammu, Mukesh Singh, had said after the encoun-ter that the terrorists had come to execute a “big plan” which has now been foiled.

All eyes...Ahead of Amit Shah’s arrival, the AIADMK convened a meeting of its senior leaders to dis-

cuss poll-related issues today.

Buzz is that the AIADMK and the BJP are to hold preliminary alliance talks and dis-cuss seat-sharing and hence the visit of Shah is crucial for NDA alli-ance in Tamilnadu.

‘Asthmatic’ Sonia...including some of those who had written a letter to her seeking an organisational over-haul.

Sonia Gandhi was admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi on July 30 eve-ning. Later on Septem-ber 12, she went abroad

for a few days for her routine medical check-up, and Rahul Gandhi had accompanied her during the visit.

The two leaders had also missed the Mon-soon session of Par-liament which was held under special conditions during the pandemic from Sep-tember 14 to 23. The Congress president had shifted to Goa for some time in January last year where her pictures of cycling had gone viral on so-cial media.

‘Love Jihad’...However, the tweets by

Gehlot were quick to attract responses from the leaders of the saf-fron party. Union min-ister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat gave a sharp response to Ge-hlot’s tweets saying, “Dear Ashok ji, Love Jihad is a trap that has thousands of young women believing the marriage is a personal affair, where later it turns out it isn’t. Also, if it is a matter of per-sonal liberty, then why are the women not free to keep their maiden name or religion?” Other party leaders also joined in on the masquerade.

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New Delhi: As some of the coronavirus vac-cine trials across the world are in their final stages, Indian airports and airlines have geared up to to handle the distribution of tem-perature-sensitive vac-cines in the country.

Delhi’s IGIA, GMR Hyderabad airport’s cargo are set to play a pivotal role in the dis-tribution of Covid-19 vaccines as they are equipped with the state-of-the-art time and tem-perature-sensitive dis-tribution system.

The emphasis has been laid on quick and efficient transportation and delivery of vac-cines whenever they

are available. GMR Hyderabad air-

port said the terminal is equipped with vari-ous temperatures rang-

ing from -20 to +25 de-gree Celsius with state-of-the-art equipment and cool containers to cater to product-specif-ic requirements. An of-ficial of SpiceJet said the airline is fully pre-pared and ready to han-dle the Covid vaccine.

The airline spokes-person said the airline has extensive experi-ence in the past and al-ready carries blood samples, which require temperature-controlled environment.

“The service is suit-able for sensitive drugs, vaccines and blood sam-ples in world-class ac-tive RKN, RAP contain-ers.” Spice jet official said. —ANI

Airlines, airports gearing up to distribute Covid vaccines

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice to CBI on BJP leader Maneka Gandhi’s plea, chal-lenging a trial court order rejecting closure report and directing the investigating agen-cy to further probe a corruption case against her.

Justice Yogesh Khanna asked the CBI to file a reply on the plea and listed the mat-

ter for further hearing on February 8, 2021. Gandhi, in her plea, said that the trial court’s order, dated February 4, directed

the CBI to again con-duct further investiga-tion despite further investigation already having been conducted and completed, with-out indicating pointers for investigation.

The court further il-legally directed the CBI to place the matter before the sanctioning authority for the pur-pose of grant of sanc-tion against her, she stated.

Delhi HC notice to CBI on Maneka’s plea challenging trial court’s order

Mumbai: Maharashtra Fisheries and Textiles Minister, Aslam Sheikh, today wel-comed the Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this week on the Cen-tral Bureau of Investi-gation’s (CBI) jurisdic-tion, saying the probe agency had become like a “pan shop” under the BJP government at the Centre.

“Under the BJP gov-ernment, the CBI has become like a ‘paan patti ki dukaan’. It goes anywhere and books anyone, particularly in non-BJP ruled states. It

took action against chief ministers and ministers. We welcome the court’s ruling,” Mr Sheikh.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the CBI cannot step into an investigation with-

out the consent of state governments and the Centre cannot extend the agency’s jurisdic-tion to any state with-out permission either. Justices AM Khan-wilkar and BR Gavai referred to the Delhi Special Police Estab-lishment Act that regu-lates India’s premier investigative agency.

“As per law, state con-sent is a must and Cen-tre cannot extend CBI jurisdiction without the state’s consent. The law is in tune with federal structure of the consti-tution,” bench said.

CBI has become ‘pan shop’ under BJP government: Maha Minister

Aslam Sheikh

Mumbai: Equity benchmark Sensex surged 282 points on Friday, tracking gains in HDFC Bank, Kotak Bank and Bajaj Finance amid positive cues from global markets and sus-tained foreign fund in-flows.

After a highly vola-tile session, the 30-share BSE index ended 282.29 points or 0.65 per cent higher at 43,882.25. Sim-ilarly, the broader NSE Nifty rose 87.35 points or 0.68 per cent to 12,859.05.

Bajaj Finserv was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rallying over 9 per cent, followed by Titan, Bajaj Finance, Kotak Bank, Bharti Airtel, Nestle India and NTPC.

On the other hand, Reliance Industries, In-dusInd, Sun Pharma, Axis Bank, ONGC and HUL were among lag-gards. “The BSE Sensex is closing higher by about 1 per cent in Di-wali week,” said San-jeev Zarbade, VP PCG Research, Kotak Securi-ties. “With the end of earnings season, focus will shift to economic recovery, market valua-tions,” he added.

Sensex jumps 282 pts, Nifty ends above 12,850

MALABAR EXERCISE 2020

Advance air operations with MiG 29Ks from Vikramaditya of IN with navies of Australia, Japan and US in Arabian Sea as part of phase 2. —PHOTO BY ANI

‘BJP’S PERFORMANCE DECLINING’

IN THE COURTYARD

HARYANA SCHOOLS SHUT TILL NOV 30

New Delhi: The SC on Friday allowed journalist Siddique Kappan’s lawyer to meet him in the jail to ensure his signature on the ‘vakalatnama’ to facilitate his bail in the case. A bench of the Apex Court, head-

ed by CJI Sharad Arvind Bobde, allowed Kapil Sibal, to meet the accused Kappan, who arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police.

The CJI, leading the bench of the Apex Court, said, as there is no objection

to advocate, ap-proaching the ac-cused in question for his alleged offence, for getting his signa-ture in the ‘vakalat-nama’ in the case, so the court allows the lawyer to meet ac-cused in jail. —ANI

Chennai: The DMK youth wing secretary Udhayanidhi Stalin was arrested for a brief pe-riod after he launched his party’s poll cam-paign ‘Vidiyalai Noki Stalin Kural’ ahead of next year’s Assembly

election in TN. He was released an hour after his arrest. Police said Udhayani-dhi, son of DMK chief MK Stalin, did not seek permission to hold the meeting and hence he was arrested alongside

other DMK cadres for violating Covid-19 norms. Udhyanidhi was in Thirukkuvalai, the birthplace of the former chief minister and DMK patriarch M Karunani-dhi, to launch the poll campaign.

New Delhi: Asser-tion came after a 21-year-old man moved the HC against state of Pun-jab seeking bail in a case of the IPC at po-lice station Khanna City-2 in Ludhiana district on August 18.

SC allows journalist Siddique Kappan’s Adv to meet him in jail

DMK chief MK Stalin’s son arrested

MARRIAGE BETWEEN FIRST COUSINS ILLEGAL

New Delhi: A Delhi Court on Friday ex-tended the judicial custody of JNU scholar Umar Khalid and research scholar Sharjeel Imam, ac-cused in the Delhi riots case, till No-vember 23. Both the accused, arrested un-der the stringent Un-lawful Activities Act, were produced be-fore Additional Ses-sions Judge Amitabh Rawat through video conferencing at the end of their judicial remand.

The case against the duo pertains to a ‘conspiracy’ to incite the riots, which had left 53 people dead and 748 injured. In the case filed against Khalid, the police had claimed that the communal violence was a premeditated conspiracy allegedly hatched by Khalid.

Mumbai: ED has filed a money laundering complaint in the alleged TRP rigging scam that is being investigated by Mumbai police, official sources said on Friday.

They said the central probe agency has filed the enforcement case information report (ECIR) that is equiva-lent to a police FIR. The ED complaint was filed after studying a Mum-bai Police FIR that was registered in October.

Officials of the news channels and others named in the police FIR will soon be summoned by the ED for questioning and recording of their statements, they said.

The fake TRP scam came to light when rat-ings BARC filed a com-plaint through Hansa Research Group. Police had alleged that some channels were paying bribes to boost TRP fraudulently to in-crease advertising rev-enue. —PTI

Court extendsjudicial custodyof Sharjeel,Khalid till Nov 23

ED files ECIR in fake TRP scam, police probe will be under scrutiny

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Remember the 90’s movie ‘Chamatkar’ starring actors

Nasserudding Shah and Shahrukh Khan, where Shah plays a ghost who goes about getting his revenge with the help of mortal Shahrukh Khan. It appears the Income Tax Department has ‘learnt’ a thing or two from the movie and highly motivated thus,

it has taken the reel life to be, quite literally, real life! While, a thousand and one employees of income tax department were transferred in Rajasthan on Thursday and most of them would soon be joining on their ‘new postings’, however there is a trio who has also been transferred but for their ‘joining’ they will have to take a special ‘pardon’. This pardon would be not from the head of their department, or the ministry, or the minister or the Prime Minister or the President, rat her from God almighty himself! Why? Well, these trio have passed on to the heavenly abode long back and yet their name features prominently

in the list! Sources reveal that two notice servers and one multi task staff member, who are long dead, have been transferred in the list. In the forty page transfer list, the ‘departed’ notice servers are mentioned on numbers 9 and 47 whiole the multi tasking staff member is mentioned on number 76. It now remains to be seen how the IT officials handle the matter, and specially who put the names of the deceased individuals in the list. —Vimal Kothari

VIJAYI BHAVA?

For almost a fortnight, several districts of the state were be-

ing ‘held’ at ‘ransom’ when one faction of the Gurjar community decided to be adamant on agita-tion. Like always, Colonel Kirori Bainsla, the man heading the Gurjar Reservation agitation since its initiation, was at it this time around as well but there was a slight change. Owing to Kirori’s health issues, he gave the reins to his son - Vijay Bainsla - who

till the last days of the agitation was adamant that th state govern-ment wasnt doing enough and agitation was imminent. There were times when it appears that the Bainsla senior-Junior duo were deliberately stretching the matter, however, now there is an interesting word going around in political circles, which clarifies why the duo were being steadfast in holding the agitation. It is said that Bainsla junior is searching for a political spot for himself in the eastern districts of the state and in the coming days he will make an announcement. Word is that junior has been in touch with senior BJP leaders in New Delhi, one of whom

is in regular contact with the ‘hopeful netaji’. Only time will tell if Gurjar leader Vijay, can convert his ‘short-lived netahood’ from the agitation days, into his electoral ‘vijay’! —Yogesh Sharma

RCA Prez Vaibhav Gehlot bats to adopt multiple resolutions at AGMShiv Kirti Singh and RS Jhala have been re-appointed as the Ombudsman and Ethics OfficerNaresh Sharma

Jaipur: The much-awaited Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) was chaired by its president Vaibhav Gehlot on Fri-day and culminated within 10 minutes after adopting some very im-portant resolutions.

During the AGM, the district cricket associa-tions not only unani-mously passed all the resolutions but also au-thorised President Vai-bhav Gehlot and Secre-tary Mahendra Sharma

to constitute various committees of RCA.

Shiv Kirti Singh and RS Jhala have been re-appointed as the Om-budsman and Ethics Officer respectively. Former RCA President

and Vidhan Sabha speaker Dr CP Joshi has been re-nominated as the Chief Patron of RCA. In an important move, RCA AGM also endorsed the changes in its constitution.

According to an im-portant decision taken in the AGM, the RCA of-fice bearers will have to resign from the district associations but rather than holding fresh elec-tions for the posts va-

cated by them, some other district associa-tion office bearer will be given the additional charge of the same. This will keep the window for movement to the district association open for the

RCA office bearers.The terms for being a

selector have been re-laxed by reducing it to the experience of 15 matches instead of ex-isting 25 for the senior committee and to 10 matches from existing 15 matches experience for the junior selection committee. Resolution to increase the number of members in the RCA executive council from existing 9 to13 was also adopted. Now all eyes will be on the BCCI for approval of all the reso-lutions adopted in RCA AGM on Friday.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Ajmer: Health and directorate of pub-lic relations minister Dr. Raghu Sharma on Friday said that only the Congress thought of overall development of the state as such the people should vote for the party candidates in the forthcoming zila parishad and panchay-at elections.

He visited several ar-eas of his Kekri con-stituency and met the villagers to listen to their problems. He ap-pealed to the people to support the Congress candidates for a land-

slide victory in the Panchayat Raj elec-tions.

Kekri Block Con-gress president Shailendra Singh

Shaktawat said that the minister along with his son Sagar Sharma started campaigning from Kohada followed by Para, Meena’s Naya

Gaon, Gulgaon, Sadari and Mehru Kala.

In the afternoon, the minister visited Gha-tiali, Kalera Kanwar ji, Napakheda, Chitiwas, Kushayata, Ghorda and Piplaj. The enthusias-tic villagers welcomed the minister with gar-lands safas.

Dr. Sharma heard the problems of villagers at new village of Mali and showed seriousness to the treatment of many sick villagers and asked for consultation with doctors regarding the treatment of an el-derly rural woman suf-fering from incurable diseases.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The Meteoro-logical Department has warned of a cold wave in Churu, Hanu-mangarh, Jhunjhunu and Sikar districts of the state in the next 48 hours. The minimum temperature in these districts is estimated to be 5 to 6 degrees Cel-sius, which is 3 to 4 de-grees below normal, said a statement from the department.

The mercury plunged to 2 degree Celsius on Thursday night at Mount Abu, the only hill tourist destination in the state.

Meanwhile, in the

plains on Friday, Churu recorded the lowest of 5.7 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature 6 degrees Celsius was recorded in Sikar, 7.1 in Pilani and 9.8 degree Celsius in Sri Gangana-gar, and Bikaner record-ed a low of 10 degrees Celsius, mentioned the

figures released by the department.

The maximum tem-peratures recorded in most of the cities were 30 degrees Celsius or lower, said a met offi-cial. The forecast is that the night temperatures are likely to fall further in the next 24 hours.

Bharat Dixit

Jaipur. In a fight to fin-ish, the United Parents Association (UPA) is knocking on every pos-sible door to resolve the school fees imbroglio in their favour. UPA sub-mitted a memorandum for CM Ashok Gehlot to ADM (I) Iqbal Khan as the collector was on leave.

Since UPA delegation could not reach Educa-tion Minister Govind Singh Dotasra at his residence, the memo was submitted to his staff. Similarly, memo-randums were also sub-

mitted to AICC member Sanjay Bapna and PS (School Education) Aparna Arora. UPA del-egation included its president Ar vind Agrawal, general secre-tary Sanjay Goyal, secre-taries Yuvraj Hasija and Manoj Jaswani, legal

cell head advocate Amit Chhangani and spokes-person Abhishek Jain Bittu. The spokesperson told FI that memo to the President, Prime Minis-ter and Central Educa-tion Minister will be sent through registered post on Saturday.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: The Rajasthan Renewable Energy Cor-poration Limited has ap-proved a proposal to equip stand-alone mini-drinking water supply systems to 200 villages with solar power.

The decision is in ac-cordance with the Ra-jasthan Solar Energy Policy, 2019 and Ra-jasthan’s 2020-21 Budget announcement, mandat-ing RRECL to run 200 water supply systems with solar energy on a pilot basis, an official statement said on Friday.

The pilot project will

reduce the dependence of rural areas. They will be relieved of energy cost for drinking water and worries of power outages. The solarisa-tion of water pumps will also help the govern-ment in saving electric-ity, money and environ-ment, RRECL Chairman Subodh Agarwal said.

As per the statement, the locations have been identified from a list of 248 areas specified by the Public Health and Engineering Depart-ment (PHED).

The pilot project is es-timated to cost Rs 8 crore, it added. —PTI

Rajeev Gaur

Jodhpur: Rajasthan high court on Friday gave huge relief to state employees by passing an order that no part of sal-ary of the state employ-ees will be deducted.

Justice Dinesh Mehta passed the order while hearing a petition. Ad-vocate Gopal Sandu represented employees in the court.

The petition was filed by the employee federa-tion against the state government’s decision to deduct salaries say-ing there is provision for salary cut neither in

service rules nor in epi-demic diseases act.

On the other hand, the accused in the mines scam of 2015 have sought time for ar-gument on charge.

Hearing the case, Jus-tice Arun Agrawal gave them time till 29 Janu-ary. Six of the eight ac-cused including former IAS officer Ashok Sing-hvi, CA Shyam Sundar, Rashid Shekh, Tamanna Begum, Dhirendra Sin-gh and Pankaj Gehlot appeared in the court. The Enforcement Direc-torate also filed a supple-mentary chargesheet in the case today.

First India Bureau

Jaipur: Rajasthan high court on Friday sought a reply from principal secretary education and director of second-ary education Bikaner in a petition filed by SMS school.

Justice A K Gaur is-sued the notice while hearing the petition which has challenged the state government’s order for deciding pri-vate schools fees.

The counsel for the petitioner Anurup Sin-ghi said that the state government has no right to decide fees. He

said that school owners decide the fees as per the fees act.

He said that the SMS school management is neither a party in any other petition nor the school has discontinued online classes.

The counsel demand-ed stay on the execution of the state govern-ment’s order regarding the school fees.

Aamin Pathan, RCA President Vaibhav Gehlot, Mahendra Sharma in RCA Annual General Meeting held on Friday.

Raghu Sharma and his son Sagar Sharma during election campaign on Friday.

Only Congress does development works in the state: Dr Sharma

Cold wave conditions likely to prevail over Churu, Jhunjhunu

Parents’ body submits memo against school fees

HC grants huge relief to state employees

Raj HC seeks reply in petition by SMS school

IN THE COURTYARD

Prayers held for Ahmed Patel’s speedy recoveryFirst India Bureau

Jaipur: Friday prayers were organ-ised in masjids across the state to pray for a speedy re-covery of senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel. It is noteworthy that All India Qazi Board General Secretary Maulana Fazle Haq had appealed for the prayers to be organ-ised in the state. Of-ten referred as the Chanakya of Con-gress, Patel has been receiving treatment for corona infection at the Medanta hos-pital in Gurugram since October. Re-

cently, Mumtaz, the daughter of ailing Ahmed Patel had called his father’s condition signifi-cantly better but had also cautioned of a long drawn treat-ment while appeal-ing to the people to keep praying for her father’s speedy re-covery.

Raj to run 200 rural water supply systems on solar power

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Jaipur: Nodal officers have been activated for coordination and coop-eration between pa-tients, hospitals and state government for proper treatment ar-rangements of corona patients in private hos-pitals across the state. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has appealed to these officers to fulfill their important role with full sensitivity in order to save the lives of the people. These of-ficers will ensure that

the patients do not have problems during treatment in private hospitals.

Gehlot held a detailed discussion on the role of officers of all levels through video confer-ence with the divisional commissioners, district collectors, chief medi-cal and health officers and nodal officers from the Chief Minister’s residence on Friday evening. He said that all the nodal officers should closely study the guidelines issued by the state government, the

central government and the Supreme Court from time to time and work as a bridge between the

patients of Corona and private hospitals. Ge-hlot stressed that the Nodal Officer will assist

Corona infected and their families in giving accurate information of bed availability in pri-

vate hospitals and en-suring availability of all necessary resources. “Officials will also en-

sure that patients are treated at the rates pre-scribed by the state gov-ernment. Also, they will coordinate with the physicians and manage-ment of private hospi-tals and inform the dis-trict administration and the state govern-ment about their urgent issues, medicines, equipment etc. require-ments,” he said, adding further, “the presence of the Government Nod-al Officer in helping pa-tients will increase the confidence of the com-mon man. The condi-

tion of corona infection is expected to become more serious in the coming days. In such a situation, if the fight with Corona continues for a long time, we will be able to win it with the trust of the public and with the cooperation of all officers and private-government hospitals and health personnel.”

Meanwhile, Chief Secretary Niranjan Arya said that serious efforts are being made at the state level to control the Covid-19 pandemic.

Fulfill responsibility of saving people’s lives with sensitivity: Gehlot

CHIEF MINISTER INTERACTS WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF PRIVATE HOSPITALS

TREAT PATIENTS WITH UTMOST CARE: GEHLOTKartikey Dev Singh

Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has said that all the hospitals and medical personnel of the state should pro-vide treatment with ut-most care keeping the goal of saving life in this era of Covid-19 pan-demic.

“Private hospitals should fulfill their so-cial, moral and profes-sional obligations and provide health services at prescribed rates as per the directions of the

Supreme Court and the guidelines of the gov-ernment,” Gehlot said during a video confer-ence with representa-tives of private hospi-tals on Covid-19 at CMR on Friday.

All Divisional Com-missioners, District Collectors, Principals of Medical Colleges, Chief Medical and Health Officers and Chief Medical Officers also joined the VC. During the two-and-a -half-hour long VC, the Chief Minister said that

it is easier to face any challenge due to better coordination between private and public sec-tor. “With the help of private sector, so far Covid-19 has been well managed in the state and patients have been able to get timely treat-ment. Due to other rea-sons including cold weather and festive sea-son, positive cases are increasing and serious patients are also coming forward. In view of this, it is necessary to in-crease the number of

oxygen and ICU beds,” he said.

Gehlot said that it has been the tradition of Rajasthan to work to-gether in disaster. “Leg-islation enacted for masks and steps such as

prohibition of fire-works have yielded pos-itive results. This has increased awareness among people. In view of this, people should be vigilant and observe health protocol and if

needed, get timely ex-amination and treat-ment done,” he said.

“State government has appointed nodal of-ficers for coordination with private hospitals so that Covid patients do not have any incon-venience in treatment. Representatives of pri-vate hospitals can also coordinate with these nodal officers and make them aware of the prob-lems being faced in the hospital. Based on their feedback, treatment sys-tems can be further im-

proved,” Gehlot said. Chief Secretary

Niranjan Arya said that there is no shortage of medical facilities in the state. “The medical in-frastructure has been continuously strength-ened. Two thousand doctors have been se-lected, who will start providing services soon,” he said.

Secretary Medical and Health Siddharth Mahajan said more than 12,000 Oxygen beds and 26,000 Oxygen cylinders are available daily for

treatment in state, while currently about 12,000 cylinders are required.

Rajasthan Health Sci-ences University, VC Dr. Raja Babu Panwar said private hospitals should increase their capaci-ties while Principal SMS Medical College, Dr Sudhir Bhandari said that even if RTPCR test is negative, if there is a lung infection in CT scan or there are other symptoms of corona, then such patient should be treated on basis of Covid Protocol.

CM Ashok Gehlot and Niranjan Arya during the VC.

Raj BJP slams Gehlot on love jihad CS approves 37 projects worth `127 crore under PMKSY

Disproportionate assets: ACB searches babus booked in cases

Aishwary Pradhan

Jaipur: Accusing BJP of dividing the nation and disturbing commu-nal harmony on the is-sue of ‘Love Jihad’, Ra-jasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said that marriage is a matter of personal lib-erty and bringing a leg-islation to curb it is un-constitutional.

CM’s views and com-ments invited sharp re-actions from BJP lead-ers including union minister Gajendra Sin-gh Shekhawat. Shekha-wat questioned will not the deception in the name of love, changing name and conversion be called Love Jihad?

He tweeted asking

CM and said that if marriage is a matter of personal freedom then why are women not free to retain their maiden name and religion.

BJP state president Satish Poonia too hit out at Gehlot’s remarks, saying that it reflects his petty vote bank men-tality. “It is hard to be-lieve that CM will get so rattled by the plight of the Congress nation-

wide. We all know that marriage in the tradi-tion of India is a reli-gious and socially rec-ognised rites and is not limited only to the free-dom of the individual,” Poonia said.

Deputy leader of op-position Rajendra Rathore said that Con-gress has always fol-lowed the policy of ap-peasement and there-fore it is being sidelined.

Rathore questioned whether it is justifiable to forcefully convert the religion of a woman. “Forcing a young wom-an to convert to mar-riage .. Isn’t it like snatching personal free-dom?” he questioned, while alleging that forced conversions hap-pen in the name of love and marriage.

Terming the remarks as irresponsible, senior party leader Vasudev Denwani said instead of providing justice to the girls suffering from love jihad in the state, Gehlot was running away from his respon-sibility. He said state government should bring legislation on the lines of MP.

Dr Rituraj Sharma

Jaipur: Chief Secre-tary Niranjan Arya, on Friday, while chairing the state level standing committee meeting ap-proved 37 projects worth Rs 127 crore un-der Prime Minmister Agriculture Irrigation Scheme (Pradhan Man-tri Krishi Sinchai Yoj-na-PMKSY).

With a demarcated 60/40 ratio, the state government will con-tribute Rs75 crore while the Central govern-ment will pitch in Rs 52 crore for the develop-ment of irrigation fa-cilities in the desert areas of the state.

The project also in-cludes conservation, repair and renovation of water bodies. Now

the complete proposal will be sent to the cen-tral government for its approval on the complete scheme and its share.

The scheme has pro-vision of a two day training session for the farmers to learn about the use of latest irriga-tion equipment which will not only enable them to save 40 to 50% water but also increase the crop production by 35 to 40%.

Naveen Sharma

Jaipur: ACB sleuths have also launched search operations at 10 different locations in connection with the ar-rest of three govern-ment officials for alleg-edly possessing assets disproportionate to their incomes, officials said on Friday. The three officials were booked by ACB’s Udaipur and Kota units.

The search opera-tions are going on at 10 different locations, ACB DGP BL Soni said.

In Udaipur, searches are being conducted at four locations belong-ing to Girish Kumar Joshi, superintendent engineer of a power distribution company. Prima facie, over Rs 8 crore disproportionate assets against his in-come has been estab-lished, he said.

In Bundi district, searches are being con-ducted at 4 locations of assistant development officer of Keshoraipa-tan Chiranji Lal for al-legedly having Rs 2.68 crore disproportionate assets against his in-come, Soni said.

Two locations of sen-

ior deputy general man-ager of RIICO Satish Kumar Gupta are being searched for allegedly having Rs4.13 crore dis-proportionate assets against his income, Soni said.

An excise inspector and two others were ar-rested in two separate cases of graft in Bundi and Jaipur’s Chomu. The excise inspector Shiv Pratap Singh Rana and constable of Kesho-raipatan police station Ramnivas were arrest-ed in Bundi by the Anti Corruption Bureau in a bribery case involving Rs. 10,000. Meanwhile in Chomu, a patwari Rajendra Meena posted in Nangar Bharda was arrested for taking a bribe of Rs. 11,000 for demarcation of a land. He had initially de-manded Rs. 22000 but the matter settled at Rs. 11,000. The accused was trapped in his quarter. —With PTI inputs

IAS couple Dabi, Athar file for divorceNizam Kantaliya

Jaipur: IAS officer Tina Dabi, who topped UPSC civil services- 2015, and her IAS hus-band Akhtar Aamir Khan have filed for di-vorce in a family court of Jaipur.

While Dabi was the topper, Akhtar, a Kashmiri, had se-cured second rank in the same exam and they are believed to

have come close dur-ing training. They got married in 2018 and now filed for divorce with mutual consent.

Dabi is presently

posted as joint secre-tary (taxation) in the finance department while Khan is also posted in Jaipur.

She had dropped

‘Khan’ from her sur-name sometime back which she had started using after the mar-riage.

The officer had also removed Kashmiri Bahu from the bio of her Instagram ac-count which was no-ticed by her followers on social media. She unfollowed her hus-band on Twitter while Khan also unfollowed her on Instagram.

Tina Dabi and Akhtar Aamir Khan

CM Ashok Gehlot, Niranjan Arya, ML Lathar, Vaibhav Galriya, Siddharth Mahajan, NL Meena, Mahendra Soni and others during the VC on Friday.

Niranjan Arya

BL soni

The scheme has provision of a two day

training session for the farmers to learn

about the use of latest irrigation equipment

COVID-19 UPDATE

RAJASTHAN2,130

DEATHS2,37,669

CONFIRMED CASES

GUJARAT 3,837 DEATHS 1,94,402 CASES

DELHI 8,159 DEATHS 5,17,238 CASES

WORLD1,371,243

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INDIA90,47,058CONFIRMED CASES

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MAHARASHTRA46,511 DEATHS 17,68,695 CASES

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enowned fashion shows India Fash-ion Week London decided to go virtual this year, and it was extra-ordinary. It is one of its kind in-

ternational fashion events, and this year it was concep-tualized and executed in New Delhi, India, and went live a few days back. It was organised by Platinum Group of Companies, an event company, and the vir-tual edition was conceptual-ized and executed by Fash-Mob and Show Director Lokesh Sharma. The show-casing designer was Bani Pasaricha, where she show-cased her recent collection ‘The Pharaoh’s ‘.

“I have been regularly showcasing at India Fashion Week London and this year also we wanted to continue the trend. That’s when Loke-sh, Manny and I decided we

will go virtual this season and have an exclusive showcase. The collection is an amalgamation of fab-ric’s that gives royal, larger than life looks but yet it’s easy to wear and com-fortable,” said Bani.

She added, “The col-lection is named as ‘Pharaoh’s’, and is re-ally close to my heart as it inspires women in general and shows how since ancient era Egyp-tian empresses handled power au-thority in a graceful way. The ensembles have lots of hand-painted designs along with exquisite embroi-dery and we have used

different lighter fabrics such as Dutch & hammered satin.”

While talking about the new step, Manny Singh said, “We received great response previously and we wanted to keep our community here updated with new Trends and collections.”

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KRITIKA GOEL, YOUTUBER

LEOJULY 24 - AUGUST 23

Excellent opportunities may knock at your door. 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. Don’t take any chances with your health today.

LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22

You may wait for someone’s invitation for a trip. Your professionalism in handling problem areas

will be appreciated. Tenant troubles are foreseen for some house owners. You will fi nd family life more than fulfi lling. A senior is likely to put in a good word for you to the higher ups.

ARIESMAR 21 - APR 20

Your desire for an exciting time on the social front is likely to be fulfi lled today. Those looking for buying a

house can get a good bargain. Appreciation is in store for some homemakers. A professional victory is yours if you play your cards well. You are likely to enjoy good health.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22

You will have to be more focussed on the academic front. You may get busy organising something on the

social front. You may need to put your ideas into action, if you want to prove yourself. A party may be thrown in your honour at work. Your good performance is likely to be noticed.

GEMINIMAY 21 - JUNE 21

Excess in food and drinks can get you out of action. A new deal is likely to come through and give you

a taste of success. Those fond of travelling may get their chance soon. This is the time when you enjoy yourself with a new group of friends or colleagues.

AQUARIUSJAN 21 - FEB 19

Good performance on the academic front will help enhance your reputation at work. Some favourable

developments on the social front are foreseen. Buying new furniture or a major appliance is possible. With good networking, a prized posting can be yours A healthy phase of life begins.

TAURUSAPR 21 - MAY 20

Getting into a favourable situation on the academic front is possible. Good luck promises to brighten your

day. Some positive changes can be expected on the home front. This seems a good day for job seekers. New avenues for earning open up as you get more determined.

CAPRICORNDEC 23 - JAN 20

You will manage to achieve what you had aimed for on the academic front. A celebration can fi nd you in

your element today. Praise and honour are likely to greet you in something that you have managed to achieve. You will be a pillar of strength to a friend or associate.

VIRGOAUG 24 - SEP 23

Your performance at work will be commendable. Your own happiness is in your hands today. Spouse may

need her space, respect that. This is a favourable day for completing pending jobs. Financially, no problems are foreseen. It is best to avoid outside food.

CANCERJUNE 22 - JULY 23

A family youngster is likely to do you proud. A business trip is indicated and will achieve much.

Your strategy to promote yourself on the professional front will bear fruits. You may need to speed up things on the academic front to remain ahead. Something special awaits you.

PISCESFEB20 - MARCH 20

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

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

SCORPIOOCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22

Success is foretold on the academic front. Your reputation is likely to boost your image on the social

front. On the work front, you will manage to keep your superiors in good humour. This is an excellent day to spend time with family. Good planning will see you complete task.

YOUR DAY

Horoscope by Saurabbh Sachdeva

gor Malev’s wife Ewa, leaves him for another man. He cannot accept it. Never recovers. ‘The Winner Stands Alone’ is a remarkable story by the Brazilian

writer Paulo Coelho. It was first published in 2008 under the Portuguese title ‘O Vencedor Esta So’. The novel is based on the Cannes Film Festival. He explores the completely shal-low lifestyle of the ‘Superclass’, the dwindling, botox-fed, rich people who are sucked into the unending vortex of glitz, glam-our and extravaganza. Truth can be so hollow and distorted. Amidst the chaotic events at the world’s largest film festival, Coelho lays bare the fallacies of the human soul and shows how downright materialistic our generation has become.

The story revolves around Igor, a psychopathic Russian executive, who comes to Cannes in search of his wife Ewa and her new husband, Ha-mid. Igor messages Ewa that he will simply go on killing in-nocent people unless she de-cides to meet him. And kill, he does. He has rare intensity and cold intelligence. He uses the

skills he learnt as a young sol-dier fighting wars for his coun-try. With his unlimited wealth and precision skills, he kills one young girl, a Braron, an aspiring actress and a Director. Each and every character has been worked upon diligently and made into something more than just a name to be oblivi-ated from memory. Jasmine, Gabriela, Savoy, even the pa-thologist are all such ordinary people stuck in something ex-traordinary and out of their own reach. The tale narrates the tension within and be-tween the characters in a 24-hour period.

Ironically, the insanity of all the senseless killings makes Igor realise that, after all, he doesn’t want his wife back. The plot exemplifies the dishonesty and false ideals by killing for the non-existent passion. His love is nothing but an expression of his ego-mania. In a high profile party, he finally meets Ewa and Ha-mid and kills them both. As he is walking out, he ‘saves’ an aspiring young model by giv-

ing her lift and dropping her back safely to her apartment- back to her lady love! This young raw model of 19 years is mature enough to understand and reject the hollow world of glamour. She tells her partner- “The person who made me re-alise this was a man, a foreign-er, whom I met tonight at the party, when I was lost in the crowd. He said, ‘We’re sur-rounded by people who are full of certainties, glories and conquests. But they cannot en-joy. They’re all at the peak of their careers and the inevita-ble descent frightens them.

They’ve conquered worlds and now fear of change terrifies them. They are caught in the vicious cyclic trap of same parties, same people, same talks. Insecuri-ties have replaced passion’.”

Paulo Coelho’s, ‘The Win-ner Stands Alone’, is the most graphic and revealing portrait of our era’s pa-thology. All are infected in some way, by the ‘rich and famous’ syndrome. Exhila-rating & titillating, this book achieves so much in limit-ed time and words. It leaves us thinking a n d ques-tion-i n g t h e v a l u e s of the world that we are ac-tually liv-ing in.

THE WINNER STANDS ALONE: Paulo Coelho

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Amidst the chaotic events at Cannes, the world’s largest film festival, Paulo Coelho lays bare the fallacies of the human soul and shows how downright materialistic our generation has become!

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Men of popstars S h a w n Mendes and Justin Bieber

have just witnessed something great! The two Canadian singers, who probably featured last on any collabora-tion list, have finally made it happen and fans are going gaga. Shawn and Justin have come

together for ‘Mon-ster’ and the duo

have belted out a track

that is quite en-

joyable. Given their his-tory, since Shawn once dated Justin’s wife Hai-

ley Bieber, many doubt-ed if they would ever collaborate. —Agency

REHEARSING FOR ‘DHAAKAD’

‘Monster’ collaboration

Kangana Ranaut on Friday shared with her fans a glimpse

of her action rehears-als for her upcoming film ‘Dhaakad’, and also revealed that she was multi-tasking as she was also shooting for ‘Thalaivi’, side by side. She took to Insta-gram to share pictures

from her action rehears-als for her film ‘Dhaakad’

with her action directors Ja-son Ng and Brett Chan.

“Don’t like to multitask, but in these times one needs to go back to the beginning in those days I worked like a horse, so along with filming Thalaivi I started action re-hearsals with @jasonngs-tunts / @bchanworld for Dhakaad as well, also lovely to see my charming director @razylivingtheblues,” she wrote in the caption. —ANI

Will Smith and Janet Hurb-ert have rec-onciled differ-

ences after their longstanding fight! The two re-united during HBO Max’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion special for the first time in 27

years after Janet left her role as

Aunt Viv on the hit sitcom. If you didn’t know, Janet played Aunt Viv during the first three seasons of Fresh Prince. She left the show in 1993 citing “crea-tive differences” and was replaced by Daphne Maxwell Reid. —Agency

Months after the de-mise of late actor Ri-shi Kapoor, senior actor Anupam Kher on Friday

remembered him with thorwback pictures.

He wrote, “Dearest @neetu54!! Meeting you last night in Chandigarh without #RishiJi triggered off so many memories of us together in New York. Our shared tears made the bond of those moments stronger. These pics are a reminder of how #ChintuJi had a larger than life per-sona. I am so happy that you are working. You have made him the happiest person by doing so. We, your friends are always there for you. Remember “There are some relationships which are like a pause button on a tape recorder. They always start from where

you left them!” Love and prayers . #Memories #Pics #ChintuJi @riteishd @geneliad.” —ANI

Helen Anne Rich-ardson Khan, popularly known as Helen cele-

brates her 82nd birthday today, 21 November. She is an Indian film actress and dancer who is best

known for her work in Bollywood films. She has received two Film-fare awards and has ap-peared in over 700 films- a legend for sure.

City First wishes her a very happy birthday!

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illboard re-cently an-n o u n c e d that they will be hon-o u r i n g some major

women this year! It was announced that Cardi B has been named Wom-an of the Year at the 2020 Bill-board’s Women in Music event, which will take place on Thursday, Decem-ber 10th. After the news went live, the WAP singer re-ceived a lot of back-lash on social me-dia, as she’s only released one song in 2020 –WAP alongside Megan Thee Stallion. Soon after, clap back q u e e n Cardi B took to s o c i a l m e d i a

to shut down those who criticised her recent win of Bill-board’s Woman Of The Year award.

In a video posted to Instagram, Car-di listed the impact the song has had since its release back in August. “For you crybabies, that’s like ‘what? she only got one song’ – yeah I got that song, bitch,” she said. “You know? The one that sold the most, the one that streamed the most. The one that had republi-cans on Fox News crying about it.” she said. —Agency

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22 YEARS DOWNP

reity Zinta on Friday marked 22 years of her su-perhit flick ‘Sol-

dier’, by sharing a video of the title track of the song featuring her and co-star Bobby Deol.

She wrote, “Remem-bering Soldier my su-per Hot & super Cool movie. So many things

to be grateful for. My warm clothes for start-ers. It was freezing cold & so windy when we were shooting. On the other side poor Bobby was feeling so cold and shivering I’m also grate-ful that my first feature as a lead had an unbe-lievable soundtrack Thank you @Ramesh-

Taurani #Abbas-Mustan and the entire cast and crew for the fun we had in Australia, New Zealand & Ra-jasthan. I love you @iambobbydeol. You are the bestest @tips #Sol-dier #Memories #Mu-sic #Fun #Frozen #Fab-ulous #Ting #22year-sofSoldier” —ANI

Honest version

DOWNmemory lane

Back Together

Se l e n a Gomez has been a big a d v o c a t e

for mental health as she’s been through her rough patches from time to time. Moreover, for the 28-year-old artist, her music has always been extremely person-al and unabashed, as evidenced by her 2020 album, Rare. Specifically, it was her Bill-board Hot 100 No. 1 single Lose You To Love, in which Selenators were treated with a raw, honest version of Selena’s like nev-er before.

While being in-terviewed by her mother Mandy Teefey, Selena con-fessed that none of what she’s do-ing now would have stemmed from her prior mindset and that her best stuff is happening right now. —Agency

Helen

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CITY BUZZ

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Kota is all set to add another fly-ing feather to its culturally beau-

tiful cap when the girls from all over the city come and strive to be the best in glamour and beauty. Elite Miss Ra-jasthan 2020, a re-

nowned beauty pag-eant of Rajasthan is currently hosting its seventh sea-son, and the Kota auditions will be-gin today. Previ-ously, this hunt for tal-ent had visited Udaipur, Jodhpur, and Jaipur to look for the ideal contestants for

the pageant.Elite Miss Ra-jasthan 2020 Kota Director, Ayush Vijay mentioned, “As the pageant

has begun battling with a global pandem-ic, we are focusing greatly on safety and sanitation. Complying with the government

orders, we have placed a bio-secure bubble at the audition location and taken complete care of sanitation and ‘no mask no entry’ pol-icy. All the contestants will only be allowed in the audition hall when they carry masks and sanitizers.”

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The second-phase auditions of Ra-jasthan’s oldest beauty pageant,

Miss Rajasthan 2020 took place at Hotel Grand Uniara on Fri-day. The interview round of the beauty

pageant included 60 girls, who came in from various parts of the state.

The pageant that is organised every year by Yogesh and Ni-misha Mishra from Fu-sion Group, followed all the necessary safety

protocols, keeping in mind the safety of each and eve-ryone present there. Talking about

the event, Yogesh Mishra stated, “This season is going to be bigger and better than the rest, following all

the safety measures, of course. It is going to be the first time when a beauty pageant is go-ing to be presented as a reality show. A total of 28 contestants will be selected, and all of them are going to get great exposure.

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DURING THE DAY!

DIGITAL BAAL MELA

enior BJP leader and former Education Minister Vasudev Devnani expressed happiness over the ‘Digital Baal Mela’ initiative by LIC and

said that it is a big opportu-nity for the children of Ra-jasthan. He stated, “I am

happy to see the innovation like state-run Digital Baal Mela, in difficult times like Corona. This will be very beneficial for the talent of children.” He also appealed to children from across the state to participate in large numbers in the online fair. —City First

Gauri Maheshwari, the youngest online cal-ligraphy coach and motivator of Jaipur,

has recently enrolled herself in the India Book of Records as the ‘Youngest Online Cal-ligraphy Coach’. Talking about ‘Digital Baal Mela’, she

feels that it is very important for the children to participate in this event, so as to bring out their creative side. She feels that if the children are getting such a big platform just by sitting at home, they should not let go of it.

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Jagdeesh Chandra launched the poster of ‘The Vartika Show’ with Vartika Jain at his residence on Friday. It is an online cooking event, where the participants have to send videos of their recipes, for the respective categories.

RAJ: Jaipur Municipal Corporation Heritage Mayor Munesh Gurjar and Councilor Uttam Sharma of Ward No. 49, met the residents of the area. During their visit, the issues like cleaning, lighting systems among others were discussed.

RAJ: Rotary club Jaipur citizen is going to organise ‘Kavi sammelan’ on 22 November, Sunday from 8.30 to 10 pm on the Facebook page of Rotary club Jaipur citizen.

UP: Devotees were seen performing rituals of Chhath puja festival at Laxman Mela ground on the bank of river Gomti in Lucknow on Friday.

GUJ: Vendors near Bhadra Fort closed shops for the weekend after a complete curfew was imposed in Ahmedabad by local authorities.  —PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI

BUZZ

Just like the leap of the players in the game, the sport of Kabaddi has transformed into the second-most-watched sporting league in India.

Known to regale viewers with sporting documentaries of leading sporting teams around the world, Amazon Prime Video unveiled the teaser of their upcoming Am-azon Original show Sons of the Soil: Jaipur Pink Panthers. The show is set to stream this December 4, the original series offers a fascinating insight and awe-inspiring journey of the Pro Kabaddi League team, owned by Abhishek Bachchan in the tour-nament’s seventh season. —City First

Manoj Edwin Uncle Nibolson’s

When I was a kid my Father showed me how to select

the ingredients for a good and healthy meal, espe-cially for the non-vegetar-ian cuisines. I started cooking at a very early age. During my school days, I loved to cook for my family. Now, I practice new reci-pes and taste the prepared food. Dif-ferent curries are my speciality. So somehow it was clear from the mo-ment I learned to cook that I will always continue experimenting with it.

I especially love to cook Kebabs, Biryanis and Cur-

ries and that too on a wood fire or a Sigri. I don’t prefer cook-ing on the Gas.

Cooking is fun, you can do it with friends

and it’s like a project with-out pressure. I am not a chef but I am confident to serve any authentic prepa-ration.

Seeing how different veggies, meat and spices combine to give that gor-geous flavour, makes you happy. You will enjoy eve-ry bit of the cooking pro-cess, starting from chop-ping to garnishing in the end.

When others enjoy what you have cooked and given your comments about the food, you feel overjoyed, proud and accomplished.

Not everyone in this world loves to cook. How-ever, those who love cook-ing are truly lucky, as well as their families. It is a great experience that makes you happy and makes others happy as well.

WHY I LOVE COOKING

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Owing to the pandem-ic, Theatre Festival Jai Rangam is going to take place online

this year. This is the ninth year of Jai Rangam Festival but the event has been ham-pered due to the pandemic. However, the organisers of Jai Rangam aspired to con-tinue the festival and decid-ed to make it happen virtu-ally this year. Festival Founder Deepak Gera in-formed that during the Fes-tival, a variety of online ac-

tivities would be organised from morning to evening on every Sunday from 5 to 27 December. These activities can be watched on the offi-cial website of Jai Rangam.

More than 40 Work-shops and Master Classes would be or-ganised as a part of the festival, where big Theatre Artists like Makarand Desh-pande, Sunil Shan Bagh, Atul Satya Kaushik, Atul Kumar, Rajit Kapoor, Ran-jeet Kapoor, Fajah Jalali and Anuroopa would be provid-

ing tips for art of Theatre. One needs to get registered online with a fee of 300 ru-pees to participate in each of the workshops.

Jai Rangam has also initiated its virtual opening with the yearly photo contest Khushbu - E - Ra-

jasthan, which is being organised with the support of Jaipur photography Club. Entries to participate in the contest are started on the of-ficial website of Jai Rangam. The exhibition would be or-ganised in December.

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Sons of the Soil

VIRTUAL JAIRANGAM

Vasudev DevnaniGauri Maheshwari

Manoj Edwin

Yogesh and Nimisha Mishra with Mansi, Simran, Kanchan and the participants of the pageant

Surbhi, Aashi, Almas, Tashu, Jaya, Shaivya, Gaurav, Ayush, Deepa, Neelima, Sonaxi and Daisy