West UP seeing development, protection of Hindu faith: Yogi woos estranged constituency

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Lucknow/Saharan-pur: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said in Saha-ranpur that previous regimes had no develop-ment agenda for west-ern UP, which was known only either for distress migration or ri-ots. “The development of a family used to be the only criterion of devel-opment and protection to criminals was the or-der of the day,” he said

while speaking at the foundation stone laying

ceremony of Maa Sha-kumbhari University in

the presence of Union Home Min Amit Shah.

The UP CM minced no words while stating that in the previous gov-ernment, people had to migrate due to frequent riots and anarchical rule. Daughters could not go to school fearing criminals, he said.

Lashing out at Sama-jwadi Party and its lead-er Akhilesh Yadav, CM Yogi said it was for eve-ryone to see how UP had progressed under the leadership of PM Modi.

“Corruption was so ram-pant that the previous governments used to make money in the name of development,” he add-ed. “In the previous gov-ernment, our faith was under attack. In the months of Sawan, the govt said Kanwar Yatra would not be held. The rioters of Muzaffarna-gar were honoured at the Chief Minister’s resi-dence in Lucknow. Sikh shops in Saharanpur were also set on fire,” Yogi said. Turn to P2

MAA SHAKUMBHARI UNIVERSITY

Maurya talks up Krishna temple issue againLucknow: Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday asked the Op-position if they support the construction of a grand Krishna temple in Mathura or not, a day after he stirred a contro-versy by saying that preparations are afoot for it. “The construction of grand temples is on in Ayodhya and Kashi, and preparations are on for one in Mathura (Ayodhya Kashi bhavya mandir nirmaan jaari hai Mathura kee tyaari hai),” Maurya said in a tweet he posted in Hindi on Wednesday.

Talking to newsper-sons on Thursday, Maurya said he want to ask from Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and other Oppo-sition leaders “if they support a grand temple at the actual Krishna janmabhoomi or op-pose it”. Turn to P2

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath speaking at the foundation stone laying ceremony of Maa Shakumbhari University in Saharanpur on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI

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The Sensex ended with a gain of 776 points at 58,461 on Thursday. The BSE index had gained 620 points in trades on Wednesday. The NSE Nifty surged to a high of 17,420, and eventually settled 235 points higher at 17,402. The broader indices also finished with decent gains. The BSE Midcap index was up 1.1 per cent, and the Smallcap index advanced 1.2 per cent.

A Cabinet note circulated by the government on the proposed cryptocurrency bill has suggested regulation of private cryptocurrency rather than banning it. The note also says that crypto will not be recognised as legal currency in India. Further, the legislation describes Cryptocurrency as Cryptoasset, according to the note. The proposed virtual currency by RBI has not been clubbed with the new crypto bill.

SENSEX GALLOPS 776

PTS, NIFTY ENDS ABOVE 17,400

‘ALL PVT CRYPTO CURRENCY WILL BE REGULATED,

NOT BANNED’

INDIA WITNESSED BRUTAL COVID 2ND WAVE AFTER THE VIRUS HAD MADE A COMEBACK IN EUROPE IN LATE 2020. NOW, WITH MORE CONTAGIOUS OMICRON VARIANT FOUND, WORRIES EMERGE YET AGAIN

WAVE 3.0INEVITABLE?

India registers first two Omicron cases in KarnatakaFirst Omicron patient flew to Dubai week after testing +ve

Mohd Fahad

New Delhi: Two COV-ID-19 cases of the Omi-cron variant have been detected in Karnataka - in men aged 46 and 66 - the Health Ministry said on Thursday, calling for calm amid growing con-cern over a strain that has triggered global alarm.

Worryingly, three pri-mary and two second-ary contacts tested posi-tive between November 22 and 25. All five have been isolated but it is not known, so far, if they have the Omicron strain. Overall 13 pri-mary and 205 secondary contacts were tested.

International air-ports across India be-gan intensive screening and testing of all arriv-als. Passengers from na-tions outside the ‘at risk’ list are being test-ed on a random sam-pling basis.

A medic collects swab sample of a com-muter for Covid-19 test, in Bengaluru on Thursday. The Karnataka government has decided to intensify surveillance and increase the RT-PCR Covid tests at the bus stands and railway stations following reports of new COVID-19 variant Omicron in several countries and new clusters of Covid-19 infections in different districts.

11 NATIONS PLACED IN ‘AT-RISK’ CATEGORY: SCINDIA TELLS LOK SABHA

66-YEAR-OLD FIRST OMICRON PATIENT LEFT INDIA FOR UAE ON NOVEMBER 27

INDIA TOUR OF SA MIGHT BE PUSHED BACK BY ONE WEEK

‘NO SEVERE SYMPTOMS OF OMICRON REPORTED SO FAR’

Bengaluru: A 66-year-old man who has become one of India’s first two cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant arrived in the country on November 20 and left for Dubai on a flight seven days later, official records showed on Thursday. He had arrived from South Africa with a negative COVID-19 test report. The second pa-tient is a health worker from Bengaluru who developed symptoms (fever and body ache) on November 21. He tested positive the following day and was admitted to hospital and sample was sent for genome sequencing.

India’s tour of South Africa is likely to be postponed back by one week due to the threat of the COVID-19 Omicron variant as per a report in the ANI. India are scheduled to play three Tests, three ODIs and four T20Is with the tour beginning from December 17. A BCCI official on Thursday confirmed it to ANI that both the cricket boards are in constant touch and the decision will be taken keeping the safety of players in mind. “We are discussing to push back the series by a week due to the threat of Omicron COVID variant and we are awaiting the Indian government nod,” the senior official told ANI.

The centre on Thursday said that no severe symptoms of the Omicron have been reported so far. Addressing a media, Joint Secretary of the Union Health Ministry, Lav Agarwal said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been studying the emerg-ing evidence of Omicron. “All Omicron related cases are found to have mild symptoms so far...In all such cases in the country and across the world so far, no severe symptom has been noted. WHO has said that its emerging evidence is being studied,” the Joint Secretary said.

Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia informed Parliament on Thursday that 11 countries including the UK, South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, China, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore and Israel have been placed in the ‘at-risk’ category amid the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. Briefing Lok Sabha on the Covid situation in the wake of the emer-gence of the newly detected Omicron variant, Scindia said there will be RT-PCR tests for flyers from ‘at-risk’ nations.

CORONA CATASTROPHE

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9,765new cases

477new fatalities

Shah slams previous UP govts, ‘law & order best under Yogi’Lucknow: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday launched a scathing attack on pre-vious governments in Uttar Pradesh saying that the law and order situation in the state is best under Chief Minis-ter Yogi Adityanath’s rule.

Shah laid the founda-tion stone of Maa Sha-kumbhari University at Punwarka village in Saharanpur.

“I was listening to Akhilesh Yadav’s speech on TV, he says that crime has in-creased. Akhilesh Ji,

where did you bring your spectacles from? What spectacles do you use? I have brought a comparison between the five years of Yogi Ji

and you. Dacoity has gone down by 70 per cent in the state under the CM Yogi-led BJP government,” the home minister said.

Home Minister Amit Shah along with UP CM Yogi Adityanath, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and others in Saharanpur.

We’ll appoint someone to run your govt: SC warns Delhi on pollution

Ex-Mumbai top cop Param Bir suspendedMumbai: Former Mumbai police commis-sioner Param Bir Singh has been suspended with immediate effect, the Maharashtra gov-ernment said in order issued on Thursday.

Singh was removed as Mumbai’s top cop and appointed as Direc-tor General (Home Guards) in May this year.

The 59-year-old IPS officer would remain under suspension “un-til further orders”, stat-ed the order issued by the state’s Home De-partment.

The action against

Singh was taken amid charges of extortion levelled against him. Multiple FIRs have been registered against him in Mumbai and neighbouring satellite cities. Notably, Singh has not reported to work since his transfer from the post of Mum-bai police chief.

New Delhi: Making clear its displeasure over the steps being taken to tackle rising air pollution in the na-tional capital, the Su-preme Court on Thurs-day asked the Centre and Delhi government to come up with a con-crete action plan in a day, failing which the court would be forced to intervene.

“We will take (the matter) up tomorrow morning… Please re-spond by then. Other-wise don’t force us… We expect serious ac-tion. If you can’t, we will do it. If you want an order, we will give you an order. We will appoint someone to ad-minister your govern-ment,” Chief Justice of India N V Ramana said while hearing a peti-tion seeking steps to control the pollution.

The bench, also com-prising Justices D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant, said the Aam Aadmi Party gov-ernment had made var-ious assurances, how-ever, despite these as-surances, children were going to school while elders were working from home.

Param Bir Singh

CRUCIAL READMODI, PUTIN TO DISCUSS INDIA-RUSSIA PARTNERSHIP AT DEC 6 SUMMIT: MEANew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin will review the state of bilateral ties and discuss ways to further strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries at their summit talks on December 6, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday. MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the 21st India-Russia summit in Delhi will offer an opportunity to the two leaders to exchange views on regional, multilateral and issues of mutual interests.

AAI’S FACIAL RECOGNITION-BASED PASSENGER BOARDING SYSTEM PLANSNew Delhi: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) was working on the country’s first facial recognition technol-ogy-based biometric boarding system for passengers at Varanasi, Pune, Kolkata and Vijayawada airports, Minister of State for Civil Aviation V K Singh said on Thursday. “This biometric boarding system is part of the first phase of Digi Yatra scheme’s implementation,” he said in a written response to a question in Lok Sabha. It is a biometrics-based digital processing system for passenger entry and related requirements at the airport, according to the government.

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SP had stopped scholarships of SC, ST students: CM Yogi CM directs authorities to complete admission processes by December 30First India Bureau

Lucknow: Chief Minis-ter Yogi Adityanath on Thursday accused the previous Samajwadi Party government of discriminating against students from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and stopping their scholar-ships due to political vendetta.

“The previous gov-ernment used to dis-criminate before pro-viding scholarships to the children. They stopped providing scholarships particu-larly to the children be-longing to SC/ST com-munity,” asserted the Chief Minister while transferring scholar-ships of Rs 458.66 crore to as many as 12,17,631 students online.

During the pro-gramme, CM Yogi thew light on the anti-Dalit mentality of the Sama-jwadi Party. “When we came to power in 2017, we came to know that in 2016-17, only the schol-arship of SC, ST chil-dren was stopped. Our

government immedi-ately restored scholar-ships to the students,” he said.

Attacking the SP Chief, the CM said, “ The previous govern-ments played with the

lives and future of chil-dren to satisfy their po-litical interests. “In the last four and a half

years, our government has added more than 40 lakh children getting scholarships earlier,” .

CM Yogi, while inter-acting with students of different districts, con-gratulated them and said that due to Cov-id-19, a large number of school-colleges, poly-technics could not start their sessions. Due to the late admission of students, the scholar-ship is being sent in dif-ferent instalments. On October 2 also, the state government had sent the instalment of schol-arship to about 57 lakh students.

In addition, to the above, the Chief Minis-ter also directed to com-plete the admission pro-cess in various educa-tional institutions in the state by December 30 and send the scholar-ship amount to the ac-counts of eligible stu-dents. He said that the students should not face any problem in re-imbursement of fees or in purchasing any kind of course material for themselves.

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In the year 2017, as soon as the government was changed, he said, the Kanwar Yatra was tak-en out with great fan-fare and since then, the state has not seen a sin-gle riot. The CM pointed out that Deepawali, Holi and all Hindu festivals were being celebrated without fear.

“Ending the wait of 500 years, the Modi gov-ernment has accelerat-ed construction work of the Shri Ram temple in Ayodhya,” Yogi said.He said that develop-ment had been given impetus in western UP. Before the year 2017, it used to take seven to eight hours to reach Delhi from Saharan-

pur, but now after the construction of high-way, Delhi can be reached in only two hours.

“The payment of sug-arcane to the farmers is being made in a time bound manner. Under our government, pay-ment to the tune of Rs 1.44 lakh crore has al-ready been made to cane farmers,” said the CM.

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Speaking about his tweet, Maurya said, “A grand temple is being con-structed at Ram janmab-hoomi. A grand corridor is being made at Vishwa-nathji in Kanshi and it is the wish of all Krishna devotees that a grand temple be constructed at Krishna Janmabhoomi”.

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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh government will now be fast-tracking the pace of vaccination, this time with a special focus on the rural ar-eas. Vaccination is being undertaken by dividing the entire inoculation drive into three categories.

The UP govern-ment had in the early months of this year proved the doomsday sayers wrong with its sustained, focussed and extensive cam-paign against Covid, when they were pre-dicting that the coun-tryside will be rav-aged by the virus.

In the gram pan-chayats of the state where the first dose would have been completely given to the villagers, the pro-cess of giving the second dose will be started and not to stop at that, along with giving the name of the village “first dose saturated vil-lage”, the village

head will also be fe-licitated for the feat. At the same time, the village which com-pletes both the doses will be called as a ‘Covid-safe village’.Uttar Pradesh has played an important role in the pan-Indi-an vaccination cam-paign with its wide coverage of the popu-lation under the vac-cine umbrella.

From the very be-ginningof the pan-demic, Chief Minis-ter Yogi Adityanath laid special emphasis on the vaccination campaign, underlin-ing it as a strong weapon in dealing with the corona epi-demic.

Yogesh Sharma

Lucknow: Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham, be-lieved to be the favour-ite abode of Lord Shiva with sacred river Ganga flowing by its side, is set to emerge as a symbol of nationality too in near future along with religion. The Uttar Pradesh Government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has an-nounced that it would soon install idols of Bharat Mata, Rani Ahilyabai, Kartikeya and Adi Shankaracha-rya in Kashi. Bharat Mata’s statue will be placed in the middle of Ganga, according to a statement.

Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi will give the gift of Vishwanath Dham to Shiva devotees this month itself. Work on the project, which also includes construc-tion of a corridor from the main temple to the ghat on the bank of

Ganga, apart from beautification and ex-pansion of the temple town, has been going on for the last four years under the direct moni-toring of CM Yogi and is on verge of comple-tion.

It is worth mention-ing here that Prime

Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foun-dation stone of Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham on March 8, 2019. The UP Government is completing the project in record time.

The project aims at facilitating access to the temple premises for

millions of devotees visiting the famous pil-grimmage centre of In-dia since time immemo-rial while beautifying and keeping the city clean in order to attract tourists. Kashi Vishwa-nath temple is getting a facelift for the first time since independence. The entire area around the temple is being ren-ovated and beautified.

It seeks to reunite Baba Vishwanath with Ganga. The idol of Bharat Mata, a symbol of nationality, will be placed between the courtyard of the temple and Ganga.

The idol of Kar-tikeya, Adi Shanka-racharya will be in-stalled in the grand courtyard of Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham. Be-sides, the idol of Queen Ahilyabai, who recon-structed the temple in 1669, will also be in-stalled to remind people of the importance of nationalism.

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Lucknow: Director General of Police, Uttar Pradesh Mukul Goyal held a meeting with Di-rector General of Police (Prisons, Administra-tion and Reform Ser-vices), Additional Di-rector General of Police (Training), Additional Director General of Po-lice (Law and Order), Additional Director General of Police (Pros-ecution), Additional Di-rector General of Police (Crime), Director Gen-eral of Police (GSO), Additional Director General of Police (Traf-

fic), Inspector General of Police (Technical Services), Deputy In-spector General of Po-lice (Public Grievanc-es), Superintendent of Police/Assistant Direc-tor of UP Police (Com-puter Center), Superin-tendent of Police (Law Cell), Additional Direc-tor (Prosecution) and other senior officers to review on important points on software, in-vestigation, criminals released on parole, data-base of prisoners de-tained in jail etc. Other relayed instructions were also issued by DGP Goel in the meet.

‘ABHYUDAYA’ IN ALL UP DISTTS

Yogi virtually interacts with students during the online scholarship distribution programme at his offi cial residence on Thursday.

A health worker administers Covid-19 vaccine to an elderly person in Prayagraj on Thursday.

Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Varanasi. —FILE PHOTO

Lucknow: Talking about the Abhyudaya scheme, CM Yogi said that there is a need to take it forward in all 75 districts. “There is a need to connect edu-cation with technology to prepare the students for competitive examinations of the state.

A large number of children who got trained under Abhyudaya coaching have se-cured places in various competi-tive examina-tions. The govt is working to pro-vide equal and immense oppor-tunities to stu-dents in the state itself, as a result of which several students who got themselves en-rolled for the Ab-hyudaya coach-ing have achieved great results in competitive ex-aminations.Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister

‘DEVELOPMENT WORKS BEING GIVEN IMPETUS IN WEST UP’

DANCE@HANDICRAFT MEGAFEST

A cultural presentation being delivered by dancers at Bharat Hastshilp Mahotsav in Lucknow on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ASHOK DUTTA

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Govt to speed up C-vax cover in rural areas

Varanasi: Kashi Vishwanath Dham to become a symbol of nationalism, too

DGP DIRECTS PREPARATION OF PRISONERS’ DATABASE

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Gorakhpur: A day af-ter metro lite project got the green signal from the Centre, Chief Minister Yogi Aditya-nath’s Gorakhpur is all set create waves yet again on Friday. Union Minister of Informa-tion and Broadcasting and Youth and Sports Affairs Anurag Singh Thakur will inaugurate the newly-built earth station of Doordarshan Kendra in Gorakhpur

in the presence of chief minister Yogi Aditya-nath.

Established at a cost of about Rs 10 crores , this will be the second earth station of the Doordarshan Kendra in the State.

The officials of Doordarshan Kendra have started making preparations for the in-augural run of the transmission.

The earth station was approved by Union Ministry of Informa-

tion and Broadcasting in the 11th Five Year Plan. The construction of Earth Station build-ing was completed in 2013 and technical equipment was in-stalled here in 2019.

This center is con-nected to the whole country through sat-ellite and live pro-grams can be broad-cast from here.

If needed, this center can also be used as a channel frequency on the satellite. If the

Union Minister an-nounces this along with the inauguration, then local artists, littera-teurs and experts will get the direct benefit to showcase their talent across the country.

The local level broad-casts from Earth Sta-tion can be watched di-rectly through DTH (Direct to Home) in the country and the world. The center will have to allot the time of transmission from the central office for this.

Anurag Thakur to launch Gkp’s own DD StationGORAKHPUR SHINING

Live broadcasting facility will also prepare grounds for broadcasting Bhojpuri and regional news

Union Minister Anurag Thakur. —FILE PHOTO

An idol of Bharat Mata along with idols of Kartikeya, Shankaracharya and Queen Ahilyabai-- who constructed the temple, will also be installed.

Yogi Yogi SpeaksSpeaks

C M Yogi has extended warm greetings to

national president of BJP JP Nadda on his birthday on Thursday and wished him long life, good health and prosperity.

DGP Mukul Goel presides over a review meet of police offi cials on Thursday. ADG (L&O) Prashant Kumar and other offi cials were also present.

CM Yogi greets Home Minister Amit Shah with a chariot symbolising Krishna-Arjuna conversation of Bhagwad Gita in Saharanpur on Thursday.

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CRUCIAL READCOMMISSIONARATE POLICE OPENS HORSE RIDING TRAINING FACILITY FOR PUBLIC

Lucknow: To fulfill youngsters’ hobby of horse riding and to make the mounted police hi-tech, the Commis-sionerate Police has formed a Riding Club here. It was inaugurated on Thursday at the Traffic Police Line. Divisional Commissioner Rajshekhar, Commissioner of Police Asim Arun, IG (Range) Prashant Kumar, Chair-man, Cantonment Board Arvind Kumar, Asst Commis-sioner of Police Anand Prakash Tiwari, DCP BBGTS Murthy, DCP (Crime) Salman Taj Patil, DCP Pramod Kumar, ADCP Somendra Meena, ACP (Cantt) Mrigank Shekhar Pathak, etc graced the event. At Horse Riding Club, any person and child of any age could avail train-ing, for which qualified trainers will be appointed.

PRESENTATION ON FILARIASIS ERADICATION PROG

Lucknow: A presenta-tion was made to cor-porators regarding the prevention and control of the disease under Filariasis Eradication Programme in a meet-ing under the chairman-ship of Mayor Sanyukta Bhatia. LMC Commis-sioner AK Diwedi, Addl CMO AK Tripathi, Addll Municipal Commis-sioner AK Pandey etc were present.

DELTA WAS MORE DANGEROUS THAN OMICRON: DR KALA

Kanpur: Dr Sanjay Kala, Principal of GSVM Medical College on Thursday said that the Delta variant of Covid was more dangerous that Omicron, hence there was no need to fear too much over the variant. He said as per the guidelines issued by the government, all the arrangements have been completed in the hospital.

‘Govt for max benefit to employees’First India Bureau

Lucknow: Chief Secre-tary Rajendra Kumar Tiwari on Thursday chaired a meeting with various employees’ or-ganisations to discuss the new pension scheme, cashless treatment, pro-motion, assured career promotion, service plan of deceased dependents, policy transfer etc.

The CS said to provide maximum benefits to the employees under the Na-tional Pension System, a mandate was issued by the government on Feb-ruary 13, 2019, under which the government’s contribution from April

1, 2019 was increased to 14 per cent per month from the earlier 10 per cent. He said when came to compensation of the employees from April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2019, if any amount was deduct-ed from the salary of an

employee and there were any delays in sending the deducted amount along with the govern-ment contribution, then the government will pay interest on the GPF as per applicable interest.

The CS said till March

31, 2019, employer’s con-tribution will be deposit-ed even if there has been no employee contribu-tion till the said period which will also include the interest from the due date of contribution till the date of deposit of contribution.

He said for the imple-mentation of the above decisions, in the budget of 2019-20 and 2020-21, Rs 4,978 cr and Rs 4,578 cr respectively were made available. He directed the Health Department to hold a meeting with employees’ union within a week for speedy dispos-al of their problems re-lated to medical issues.

CS RK Tiwari with ACS Home Awanish Awasthi, ACS Appointments Devesh Chaturvedi, ACS to CM SP Goyal, PS to CM Sanjay Prasad.

After 2 days of lull, leopard spotted again on VSSD campusFirst India Bureau

Lucknow: The general public is constantly liv-ing in fear due to the spotting of the leopard, but amidst such a situa-tion the officers respon-sible for the catching of the leopard are showing no seriousness and could be found sleeping peacefully just after putting nets and cages.

There had been no leopard sighting for two days, but this all changed when it was caught on the camera trap of the Forest De-partment set in VSSD College.

The officers after re-viewing the footage have confirmed that the wild leopard causing havoc in the city is a male one instead of the previously assumed fe-male leopard. A previ-ous report had stated that the leopard had gone towards the Ganga

barrage but the spot-ting of the leopard in VSSD Degree College Nawabganj campus late on Saturday night caused panic.

The officials had in-stalled cameras on the college premises and the guest house located at Ganga Barrage and a cage was also installed to trap the leopard but the wild animal was still not caught which made the officers as-sume that shehad gone back to dense forests in

front of the barrage. All this changed

when the leopard was once again spotted on the VSSD campus which put the officials on their toes.

Since the leopard was not spotted for 2 contin-uous days on the college premises, the college and Pt Deendayal School were opened on Wednesday, but as the leopard was against spotted, it prompted au-thorities to close the campus once again.

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Agra: A 5-yr-old girl was found murdered in Malpura police station area here. The minor had come to attend a wedding ceremony with her family. Someone kid-napped her from the wedding venue and in the morning her body was found naked at a distance of about 300 metres from the venue.

The bride’s cousin had come to attend a wedding ceremony on Wednesday along with her 5-yr-old daughter and family. The girl’s father said she was dancing on DJ till 11 PM but suddenly she disappeared after that. They searched a lot but there was no trace of her anywhere. Finally her family members in-formed the police about the incident.

The police were try-ing to find her when at

around 10 am on Thurs-day, someone from the village told them that the body of a girl was lying in a mustard field.

SSP Sudhir Kumar

reached along with the force on the informa-tion of the murder of the girl. Dog squad and forensic team were also called.

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Agra: The three Kash-miri students of an Agra engineering college, who were arrested on charges of sedition for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slo-gans following Paki-stan’s victory in a T20 World Cup match in Oc-tober, have approached the Allahabad High Court with a bail plea.

Arsheed Yusuf, In-ayat Altaf Sheikh and Showkat Ahmed Ganai were arrested on October 28.

“There are multiple grounds on the basis of which the students de-serve bail. We have also appealed that the juris-diction of the case be shifted to Mathura as well. We hope the court

will consider the given grounds,” said the coun-sel of the three students.

In the bail petition filed on Monday, the three have argued that they were denied the fun-damental rights after the lawyers in Agra refused to represent them.

“In view of the resolu-tion passed by the Agra Bar Association, none of the advocates are ready to handle the case of accused persons and provide them any type of assistance.

The apex court and high court, in their le-gal pronouncements, saved the personal liber-ty of such accused per-sons and held that no one can be deprived of its legal assistance,” said the petition.

Agra: With the city of Taj being an attractive tourist destination for foreigners, the Agra ad-ministration has asked all city hotels to keep it apprised of all their overseas guests amid the worldwide scare of the Omicron variant of coronavirus.

Stepping up its an-ti-Covid vigil amid the Omicron scare, the city administration has also upgraded its anti-Covid

mechanism to subject travellers to RT-PCR tests at bus and railway stations and monu-ments. “We have also ar-ranged facilities for vac-cination at the Taj Mahal and Agra Cantt Railway Station, besides some other places,” said Agra Chief Medical Officer Arun Kumar Srivastava.

“We have asked city hotels to provide details of travellers coming from foreign countries

and alerted local intelli-gence unit to check the travel history of foreign-ers staying in Agra,” Dr Srivastava added.

Besides at the Taj Ma-

hal and various city rail-way stations, foreigners can avail Covid vaccina-tion also at the district’s urban and rural health centres government hospitals, he said.

Agra’s Sarojini Naidu Medical College and Hospital Principal Prashant Gupta too sounded confident of his hospital’s prepared-ness to tackle any Covid wave, including Omicron. —PTI

Kashmiri students seek bail from HC

ADMN ON TOES

(Clockwise from top) In view of the precautionary measures for the new varriant of Covid-19 Omicron, DM Abhishek Prakash conducted a surprise inspection of Charbagh Rly Station in Lucknow on Thursday. Team members of Covid help desk taking a swab of passangers at Platform 1 of Charbagh for their Covid-19 test.

On Thursday, under the pretext of the new variant of Co-rona, protest/demonstrations by organisations have been banned. There is already a huge pressure on the teaching

employees who have been teaching continuously for 600 months since the past year and half, said employees’ union members on Thursday, adding, this would be the first time since independence that ban on protest has been imposed for 18 months and no officer is ready to listen to the problems of the people. There will be no need for strike or chain of movements if the govern-

ment listens to the problems faced by the employees. Lakhs of employees and teachers assembled at Eco Gar-den Lucknow to express their anger over the imposition of this type of emergency in a democratic country and they are completely against such imposition.

EMPLOYEES’ UNION PROTESTS ‘BAN ON DEMONSTRATIONS’

5-yr-old girl kidnapped from marriage venue, murdered

SSP Sudhir Kumar along with police force at the incidsnt site.

The accused students. —FILE PHOTO

Ballia: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by two men of her village in Nagra area here, police said on Thursday. According to the FIR registered under relevant sections of the IPC and POCSO Act on Wednesday, Prince Chauhan and Manish Rajbhar allegedly raped the girl some days ago, a police officer said. The exact date of the incident was not mentioned in the FIR, the officer said.

MINOR GIRL GANGRAPED IN BALLIA

Eye on foreigners in Agra Covid combat

Dy Election Commissioner reviews poll preparationsFirst India Bureau

Lucknow: Deputy Election Commis-sioner, Chandra Bhu-shan Kumar on Thursday reviewed the preparations for the Assembly Elec-tions 2022 and the Special Brief Revi-sion 2022 which will run till December 5 in

the presence of all District Election Offi-cers via video confer-encing.

The official direct-ed the District Elec-tion Officers to pre-pare a complete out-line of the poll work and ensure that the work related to voter registration be done with utmost care.

The leopard as seen on Thursday in the camera installed by the Forest Department on VSSD College campus in Kanpur.

Hari Kishore Tiwari, State Employees’ Union Joint Council President

Dy Election Comm Chandra Bhushan Kumar at the meeting.

—PHOTOS BY SUMIT KUMAR

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Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am

your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will

uphold you with my righteous right hand.

—Bible

IN-DEPTH

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Earlier it used to take 8 hours to travel from Saharanpur to Delhi, now it takes only 3 hours. Due to good roads the distances have been reduced and at

the same time the distances of hearts have also decreased after Mr. Narendra

Modi became the Prime Minister.

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A historic milestone achieved! Congratulations India on administering

over 125 Crore COVID-19 Vaccine Doses. With the collective efforts of

our frontline warriors & citizens, India’s Vaccination programme under the

leadership of PM Narendra Modi ji is the world’s largest.

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PUNJAB POLITICAL SCENE IS RAPIDLY CHANGING AFTER AMARINDER EXIT

unjab’s politics did not appear as compli-cated as it does now. Earlier it was a state where three par-

ties—Congress, Shiromani Aka-li Dal and Aam Aadmi Party—fought for the spoils. Bahujan Samaj Party and the BJP were counted among the also rans.

For the 2022 Assembly elec-tions also the BJP was nowhere in the picture despite the state having a strong Hindu popula-tion. All that has changed ever since Captain Amarinder Singh left Congress to float his own party and join hands with the BJP. The Congress is witnessing a feud between Navjot Singh Sidhu and CM Charanjit Singh and is imploding. Manjinder Singh Sirsa’s (SAD) joining the BJP has improved the latter’s chances. It is expected that the Congress and SAD will both wit-ness defections to the BJP. That, as had happened with the TMC before the West Bengal elec-tions, may not mean a BJP gov-ernment in Punjab but it could prove damaging for the Con-gress in the state.

P

amata Banerjee sounded the death knell of the Con-gress and is be-lieved to be plot-

ting the dismantling of Unit-ed Progressive Alliance with Maharashtra strongman Sharad Pawar.

Goading Mamata on is Prashant Kishor, the politi-cal strategist, who has no love lost with the Gandhis after he was rebuffed by the party. After Kishor criticised Rahul Gandhi for being un-der the “illusion” that it is a matter of time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi los-es power, Mamata Banerjee hit out at the Congress say-ing it was not serious about politics. In her latest jibe she said at a press conference in

Mumbai that “you can’t be abroad most of the time”.

Congress has few friends in states. The Biju Janata Dal of Orissa, YSR Congress Party in Andhra Pradesh and the TRS of Telangana are three strong regional outfits which gave up on Congress long ago.

Kerala, Tamil Nadu,

north-east, UP, the GOP is not in power. All that is need-ed to end the hold of one fam-ily on Opposition unity is a push from Sharad Pawar. Will he drive the proverbial last nail instead of support-ing the party?

The Opposition cannot for-get the Congress support it needed to install HD Deve Gowda as PM in 1996, or the fate of a ramshackle coali-tion government under VP Singh in 1989? Singh was suc-ceeded by Chandra Shekhar as PM in 1990, again with Congress support. Charan Singh also survived for a few months as PM in 1979.

The Opposition parties may be driven by a strong anti-Congress sentiment but they remain as fragmented as ever.

AS MAMATA TARGETS CONG, RECALL 90, 96

All that is needed to end the hold of onefamily on Opposition unity is a push from

Sharad Pawar. Will he drive the proverbial last nail instead of

supporting the party?

M

Old Cold War Rivalries Resurface in East Europe

t is estimated that 100,000 Russian forces may walk in anytime in Ukraine to allow the pro-Russian militants, who had seized a number of government buildings in the eastern and southern parts of Ukraine. In the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, the militants may finally secede from Kiev, but it goes to the credit of the Russians that though did not hide their sympathy and support for separatists, have so far re-frained from either recogniz-ing them or sending the Rus-sian forces to protect them.

The US President, Joe Biden, and Putin, Russian President, summit held in June in Geneva this year might have kicked off a peace process, but the opportunity was lost. They had focused on cyber penetration and other not-so-strong issues. The two leaders also failed to restore the much-needed trust among the two powers. They did not bury the past of the cold war era when the world always faced the threat of a nuclear holocaust.

The worsening situation on the Poland-Belarus border

is alarming, where thou-sands of migrants, mostly from the war-ravaged West Asia, are keen to enter Euro-pean Union countries through Poland and Lithua-nia. This humanitarian cri-sis too could have been avert-ed, if the two world leaders could shed off the past for the sake of humanity. These mi-grants had taken refuge in Belarus with the connivance of mafias having the bless-ings of the government.

The Indian concern is gen-uine. During the Soviet era as well as in later years, India-Eastern Europe has been blossoming. In 2005, India-Ukraine ties became much closer on the advice of the then Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who had evinced a keen interest in strengthening cooperation with Ukraine in the field of space research. The Indo-Ukraine trade ties have in-creased manifold, which was just USD 3,214 million in 2006, the turnover between the two countries now ex-ceeds USD 3.1 billion. In the case of Poland too, India has already signed defence deals to augment the firepower of her artillery.

Much of the present woes of the region could have been averted if the USA and its al-lies in Europe had allowed Russians to have European identity during the immedi-ate years of the end of the

USSR. During the tenure of Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia was keen for setting up a mechanism for a “common European home” and a joint global leadership with the United States. However, it was foiled by Americans, and later, Russia’s first president, Boris Yeltsin, tried to fully integrate the country by join-ing NATO and forging a di-rect alliance with the United States. It was not acceptable to the European Union (EU) under Anglo-American influ-ence. With the decline of American influence in Eu-rope, a new cooperative era might be possible between the European Union and Rus-sia in the coming years.

It goes to the credit of Pu-tin though acquiring powers in 2014 from the Federal Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament, to deploy forces or if need be to

send armies inside Ukraine he did not send troops. Dur-ing the past six years, Russia, though it reacquired Crimea, gifted to Ukraine during the reign of Nikita Khrushev in the USSR, did not accord any diplomatic recognition to the separatists. Donetsk and Lu-hansk held referendums in support of regional sover-eignty. The key cities of Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odessa, and Zaporizhia, however, re-mained under the central government’s control.

Meanwhile, the reports of the International Red Cross give graphic details of the worsening humanitarian cri-sis in the region. It is esti-mated that at least 6,000 peo-ple have so far been killed in the conflict in eastern Ukraine and half the popula-tion of the region, around two million people, have been displaced. During the fight-ing, civilians close to the front line were subjected to heavy rocket fire and artil-lery shelling. Hospitals, schools, water and electricity systems and other essential services were badly dam-aged.

Peace in the region re-mains elusive unless world powers agree to work out an all acceptable solution ac-ceptable solutions from West Asia to the Eurasian regions.

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY

THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

I

The Indian concern is genuine. During the Soviet

era as well as in later years, India-Eastern Europe has been blossoming. In 2005, India-Ukraine ties became

much closer on the advice of the then Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who

had evinced a keen interest in strengthening cooperation

with Ukraine in the field of space research

The worsening situation on the Poland-Belarus

border is alarming, where thousands of

migrants, mostly from the war-ravaged West Asia,

are keen to enter European Union

countries through Poland and Lithuania

MASSIVE FLARE UP MAY ERUPT ON RUSSIAN-UKRAINE

BORDER; POLAND MIGRANT SITUATION WORSENS

GOPAL MISRAThe writer is accredited as a journalist

of long and distinguished service with the Press Information Bureau of the Information

and Broadcasting Ministry

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New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party is in a major hurry to change the names of cities, stations, districts etc. Earlier the names of districts, cities, sta-tions or roads etc. were being changed only with Muslim names, but now preparations are being made to change the names of as-sociated with Hindu re-ligion as well. The rea-son for this is not un-

derstood. A news came recently that the BJP government is consid-ering a proposal to re-name Yamuna Express-way after Atal Bihari Vajpayee and although it is not known for what reason this proposal has been stopped but this proposal is beyond comprehension. After all, Yamuna is a holy river and connects Ut-tar Pradesh with Delhi.

However, there is also talk of a proposal to change the name of In-

dore city in Madhya Pradesh. It is being told that the BJP govern-

ment is trying to name it after Ahilyabai Holkar. Although it is also a fact

that Ahilyabai did not make Indore her capital, but she moved her capi-tal from Indore to Ma-heshwar. Prior to that the name of this city was Indrapuri, where Malharji Rao Holkar had made his capital. It was named after In-dreshwar Mahadev. Tu-kojirao Holkar I, who became the king after Ahilyabai Holkar, again made Indore his capital.

A few days ago, the Madhya Pradesh gov-ernment changed the

name of Habibganj rail-way station in Bhopal after Gond Rani Ka-malapati. Since then, questions are being raised on this move of the government. It is be-ing told that Gond queen Kamalapati had mar-ried a Muslim. The oth-er news is that the Gond tribals are also angry about their claim to be Hindu. They say that they have a different identity, culture and tradition.

WHY IS BJP IN A HURRY TO ALTER NAMES?CHANGING FOR GOOD

A few days ago, the MP

government changed the

name of Habibganj

railway station in Bhopal after

Gond Rani Kamalapati

India slams UN human rights body for baseless comments on J&KNew Delhi: India on Thursday hit out at the UN human rights body OHCHR for its adverse comments on the situa-tion in Jammu and Kashmir, saying it “be-trays” a complete lack of understanding of the security challenges in the region due to cross-border terrorism.

Arindam Bagchi, the spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), said au-thorities in India act against violations of law and not against le-

gitimate exercise of rights.

Bagchi’s comments came in response to a statement made by the spokesperson of the Of-fice of the High Com-missioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on specific incidents in Jammu and Kashmir. He said “baseless and unfounded” allegations were made against law enforcement authori-ties and security forces of India in the statement.

—ANI

It also betrays a complete lack of understanding by OHCHR of security challenges faced by

India from cross-border terrorism & its impact on ‘the right to life’ of our citizens, including in J&K.—Arindam Bagchi, MEA spokesperson

14TH ROUND OF TALKS TO BE HELD IN DECNew Delhi: In a bid to resolve the military standoff in the Eastern Ladakh sector, India and China are likely to hold the 14th round of corps commander talks in the third or fourth week of December. India & China have held 13 rounds of talks on the LoC resolve the standoff. —PTI

ENHANCING CLEAN ENERGY COOPERATION New Delhi: India & EU have agreed on a de-tailed work programme until 2023 to imple-ment 2016 EU-India Clean Energy & Climate Partnership to increase technical cooperation in

energy effi ciency, renewable energy, green hydrogen.

—ANI

Recruited 6.98 L employees since 2014, higher than previous 7 yrs of UPA: MinNew Delhi: Union Min-ister Jitendra Singh on Thursday said the Cen-tre has recruited around 6.98 lakh em-ployees for its various departments since 2014 as against 6.19 lakh in the previous seven years of the UPA gov-ernment.

In response to supple-mentary questions in the RS during the Ques-tion Hour, Singh, the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pen-sion, said the Central government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not only expe-dited the recruitment process but at the same time made efforts to cre-ate new posts.

Between 2007-08 to 2013-14, 6,19,027 posts were filled by three ma-jor recruiting agen-cies, the Staff Selec-tion Commission, UPSC, and the Railway Recruitment Board, he said. —PTI

The recruitment increased to 6,98,011 in the

last seven years of the Modi government. Recruitment against vacant posts is a continuous process. By the

time vacancies reported by a department get filled up, some new vacancies arise.

—Jitendra Singh, Union Minister

PM Modi, Shah greet BJP chief Nadda on B’day!New Delhi: PM Modi & other senior BJP lead-ers on Thursday greet-ed party president J P Nadda on his birthday.“Birthday greetings to @BJP4India Presi-dent Shri @JPNadda Ji. He is providing in-spiring leadership to the Party and is work-ing hard to strengthen our organisation,” Modi tweeted.Home Minister Amit Shah said Nadda’s hardwork, dedication and organisational skills have furthered strengthened the ground for the party which is now scaling new heights. —PTI

‘STATES GIVING SELECTIVE NOD TO CBI FOR POL POINTS NEED TO INTROSPECT’New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh expressed “concern” over at least eight states withdrawing general consent to the CBI as “they didn’t have faith” in it but granting the agency selective consent in cases that suited them politically. Replying to a supplementary question in the Upper House during Question Hour, the MoS for Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions & PMO sought a political and moral introspection on the issue.

CRUCIAL READSHREYASHI SINGH IS WOMEN’S TRAP NATIONAL CHAMPION FOR 2ND TIMEPatiala: Bihar’s Shreyashi Singh won her second at 64th National Shooting Championship Competitions in shotgun events, held at New Moti Bagh Gun Club Ranges in Patiala, Punjab. This was Shreyashi’s fi fth individual career National ti-tle & her second in women’s trap. The reigning Common-wealth Games Champion won with a fi nal score of 34.

CENTRE TO SC: CENTRAL VISTA FOLLOWING NON POLLUTING NORMSNew Delhi: Centre has told SC that construction of new Parliament building & Central Vista avenues is a project of national impor-tance and all measures are being taken to ensure that no pollution is caused. Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs in an affi davit submitted that construction activities in NCR are being undertaken by the Centre in two parts.

UPHOLDING ARBITRAL AWARD: SC JUNKS PIL SEEKING REVIEW OF JUDGMENTNew Delhi: SC has dismissed a plea fi led by DMRC seeking review of its judgement which upheld the 2017 arbitra-tion award of around Rs 4,600 cr in favour of Reliance Infrastructure subsidiary, DAMEPL, enforceable against it. A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao & S Ravindra Bhat said. “We have gone through Review petitions & connected papersfi led herewith. In our opinion, no case for review of order is made out, review petitions are dismissed.

NO REQUEST FROM TN ON CHENNAI AS EMBARKATION POINT FOR HAJ: CENTRENew Delhi: Centre said it had not received any request from Tamil Nadu for inclusion of Chennai airport as an embarkation point for Haj pilgrimage next year. Replying to a question raised by DMK leader T R Baalu in LS, Minor-ity Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said ‘We have to go to Saudi Arabia to perform Haj. We have to follow the Covid protocol set by that government. We have done this keeping in mind the Covid protocol.”

PARLIAMENT WINTER SESSION

PM Modi holds meeting with top ministers to discuss strategy

New Delhi: Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi held a meeting on Thursday with his top ministers in Parliament to discuss strategy for the ongoing winter ses-sion of the House.

The meeting comes at a time when the Op-position leaders wear-ing black bands protest against the suspension

of 12 Opposition mem-bers of the Rajya Sab-ha. The Prime Minister also held a meeting in the Parliament to dis-cuss the strategy on Wednesday.

On the first day of the session, both the Hous-es of Parliament passed the Farm Laws Repeal Bill 2021. However, the Opposition parties cre-ated a ruckus alleging that the government passed the Bill without having a discussion on the floor.

The winter session of the Parliament com-

menced on Novem-ber 29 and will

conclude on December 23. —ANI

Opposition MPs sloganeering in the Well of House during the Winter Session of Parliament, in New Delhi on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI

Rahul Gandhi meets protesting suspended Rajya Sabha MPsNew Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday met the 12 Ra-jya Sabha MPs from the opposition parties who were suspended from the ongoing winter ses-sion of Parliament.

The 12 suspended MPs sat on ‘dharna’ de-manding revocation of their suspension from the House. The Way-anad MP also staged a protest on Wednesday at Gandhi statue inside Parliament premises demanding revocation of the suspension. —ANI

Rahul Gandhi meets suspended RS MPs, protesting against their suspension from the House on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI

MPs SHIFT DHARNA SPOT DUE TO RAINNew Delhi: Delhi witnessed spells of rain on Thursday, the suspended MPs shifted their dharna from Gandhi statue to Gate no 1 of Parliament. All the 12 suspended MPs sat on dharna demanding revocation of their suspension from the House during the Winter session. “Revoke RS MPs’ suspen-sion. Save Democracy,” the suspended MPs demanded. —ANI

CENTRE TRYING TO DIVIDE SUSPENDED MPs: TMCNew Delhi: The government is trying to create a ‘division’ between the sus-pended MPs said TMC RS MP Sougata Roy. “The government has suspended 12 Rajya Sabha MPs and now the rul-ing party is trying to create a division between them. I know two suspended MPs were called separately on behalf of government but they did not give in and I thank them for standing fi rm in their decision.” Roy further said, “The government is asking for an apology, Govt owes an apology to the people of this nation,” he said. —ANI

JOURNOS PROTEST OVER BAN ON ENTRY IN PARLNew Delhi: Journalists on Thursday held a protest against certain restric-tions imposed on the entry of scribes and camera people into Parliament, alleging the move is a precursor to a “complete ban” on spot coverage of parliamentary sessions by the media in the coming days. Several senior editors, journalists and camera persons working with various media organisa-tions joined the protest. Editors Guild of India, Press Association, Indian Women Press Corps, Press Club of Indiaetc extended their support. —ANI

LET HOUSE DO ITS‘MANDATED JOB’: NAIDU

New Delhi: Raising concerns over the con-tinued disruptions in the ongoing winter ses-sion of the Parliament, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday urged both the Opposition and treasury benches to hold discussions and let the House function.

After the commence-ment of Business on the fourth day of the ongoing winter ses-sion, Naidu said the House could not trans-act any business dur-ing last three days. Speaking at the House, the RS Chairman said, “I urge both the sides of this august House to talk it out and let the

House do its mandated job.” “Rules of Proce-dure & Conduct of Business in Council of States clearly pro-vide for suspension of members for disrupt-ing House proceed-ings & for misconduct lowering the dignity of the House, under Rules 255 & 256,” he added. —ANI

It is human to err & make amends. One

can’t refuse to amend & insist on glossing over wrongdoings. Disapproval of undemocratic conduct in House cannot be decried as undemocratic, for sure. —M Venkaiah Naidu,

Rajya Sabha Chairman

RS ADJOURNED AFTER OPPN STAGES WALKOUTNew Delhi: Following Opposition leaders’ pro-test & walkout, RS has been adjourned till 2 pm on Thursday. This is the second instance on the fourth day of the ongo-ing winter session that Upper House has been adjourned. Earlier, the House was adjourned till 12 noon. Opposition parties including Con-gress, RJD, TRS, NCP & Muslim League staged a walkout from RS over infl ation. —ANI

WILL CONTINUE AGITATION SAYS VENUGOPAL New Delhi: Amid the deadlock between the Government and Oppo-sition over the suspen-sion of 12 RS MPs in the Parliament’s winter session, Congress gen-eral secretary (organi-sation) KC Venugopal said the agitation will continue. The RS has been adjourned twice following Opposition’s protest and walkout over several issues including suspension of 12 MPs, infl ation etc. —ANI

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About the booster dose of vaccine, Omicron variant is being carefully examined, will take decisions on the basis of it, it is an ongoing discussion

within our technical & scientific circles. Scientific reasoning for providing boosters at what timing, all that is under examination. Our priority is very clear - complete task of vac-cinating adults with both jabs .

—Dr VK Paul, Member-Health of NITI Aayog

Rise in coverage during door-to-door vaccination drive: Centre

A medic takes a nasal sample of a passenger for Covid-19 testing at Chennai Airport on Thursday.

New Delhi: Pfi zer's chief executive Dr Albert Bourla said he is of the view that annual vaccinations would be needed to maintain a "very high level of protection" against the deadly disease. He said his

company will be able to make 3 billion doses of its vaccine by the end of 2021, and around 4 billion vaccines in 2022.

Srinagar: Congress veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad said he does not see his party winning 300 seats in the Parl polls of 2024. Speaking at a gathering in Poonch of J&K, Azad said that "only the SC can decide on reversing the abro-gation of Article 370" in J&K or Congress "has to come to power with 300-plus seats but he does not see that happening".

"Only the SC can de-cide on Article 370. Be-sides the apex court, only the ruling govt can do it. The current govt has abrogated it, how will they do it? —ANI

‘Can’t see Cong securing 300 seats in 2024’

AMID OMICRON SCARE...

FROM 2022, ARMY TO ADOPT NEW COMBAT UNIFORM

GOLD SLIPS `280 ON MUTED GLOBAL TRENDS IN DELHI

GOA GFP ISSUES SHOW-CAUSE NOTICE TO ITS MLA

CHINA REGULATOR CLEARS BOEING 737 MAX TO FLY AGAIN

New Delhi: The Army is set to introduce a light and more climate-friendly combat uniform for its personnel from next year, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The new camoufl age uniform will be based on a “digital disruptive” pattern and they are expected to be showcased at the Army Day parade on January 15, they said. New com-bat uniform has been fi nalised after wide-ranging discussions.

New Delhi: Gold in Delhi on Thursday declined by Rs 280 to Rs 46,657/10 gram in line with decline in international precious metal prices, according to HDFC Securities. In previous trade, metal had settled at Rs 46,937 per 10 gram. Silver, however, jumped Rs 212 to Rs 61,337/kg from Rs 61,125/kg in previous trade. In international market, gold was trading lower at USD 1,775/ounce and silver was fl at at USD 22.33/ounce.

Panaji: The Goa Forward Party (GFP) on Thursday issued a show-cause notice to its MLA Jayesh Salgaonkar, accusing him of indulging in “anti-party activities” and for “continuously hobnob-bing” with BJP, which rules state. The notice comes amid reports that Salgaonkar is all set to join the BJP on Friday, ending his four-and-a-half-year-long stint with the GFP as a legislator from the Saligao con-stituency in North Goa.

Beijing: China’s avia-tion regulator cleared the Boeing 737 Max on Thursday to return to fl ying with technical upgrades more than two years after plane was grounded worldwide fol-lowing two fatal crashes, a news outlet reported. Chinese pilots will need to complete new train-ing before commercial fl ights can begin, China Aviation Daily said, cit-ing Civil Aviation Admin-istration of China. Phone calls weren’t answered.

CLIMATE CHANGE THREAT IS REAL: AADITYA THACKERAY; CALLS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVP

KANT, CEO, NITI AAYOG LAUNCHES GENESYS INTERNATIONAL’S DIGITAL TWIN PLATFORM

OVER TWO MAJOR ATTACKS: CHHATTISGARH NAXAL COUPLE SURRENDERS IN DANTEWADA

Mumbai: Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray has said that the threat of climate change is a real one and that develop-ment and environment can go hand in hand provided that the devel-opment is sustainable. Referring to the unsea-sonal rains in December in parts of Maharashtra, Aaditya Thackeray said, “Climate change is real and it is important for us to look around and understand that this would not be sustainable for long.”

New Delhi: Genesys International, launched its pan India program to make the Digital Twin of entire Urban India. The launch program was inaugu-rated by Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog, Govern-ment of India. The crea-tion of this very accurate 3D data will mean a host of applications would open up in high-defi nition mapping, which was hitherto not possible, for smart cars, e-commerce, logistics, gaming, utilities planning for next-generation networks in telecom, renewable energy and in disaster management.

Dantewada: A Maoist couple who were allegedly involved in two major attacks on security forces in the last two years sur-rendered in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on Thursday, a police offi cial said. Pojja alias Sanju Madavi (24) and his wife Lakkhe alias Tulsi Madavi (22), who carried a reward of Rs 5 lakh each on their heads, turned themselves in before police here, said district Superintendent of Police Dr Abhishek Pallava.

CRUCIAL READ

New Delhi: The Cen-tre's 'Har Ghar Dastak' campaign for door-to-door Covid vaccination has led to a 5.9% rise in the first dose coverage and an 11.7% hike in the second dose coverage till November 30, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said.

Reviewing the pro-gress made under the campaign with NHM Mission Directors of states and UTs via VC, he appreciated their performance.

It was highlighted that although the cam-paign has increased the pace of vaccination, around 12 crore benefi-ciaries are still due for their 2nd dose, a Health Ministry said. —ANI

HIGHLIGHTS Passengers from

'at risk' countries need to undergo RT-PCR test on arrival in New Delhi

Four Covid-19 pa-tients from 'at-risk' countries admitted to Delhi hospital

FICCI urges Centre to adopt pan-India uniform policy to tackle new variant

Over 138 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses provided to States, UTs so far: Reports Centre

India ready to sup-ply medical equip-ment, assistance to South Africa

First Omicron case detected in Greece, national health service

SII seeks approval for Covishield vaccine dose as booster shot

Third case of Covid-19 Omicron new strain con-fi rmed in Spain

US reports fi rst case of new Omicron strain

PFIZER WORKING ON UPDATED VACCINE IN RESPONSE TO OMICRON, SAYS CEO BOURLA

New Delhi: Over 10,000 disputes were settled, portion much than 29,000 are pend-ing with the commer-cialized courts suc-cessful Delhi, Mum-bai, Kolkata and Ben-galuru, authorities informed Parliament connected Thursday.

In a written reply to RS , Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju besides said nary connection is nether Centre's information to springiness im-moderate peculiar powers to commer-cialized bodies speci-fied arsenic cham-bers of commerce connected settling commercialized dis-putes. —ANI

Govt: Over 10,000 disputes settled in commercial courts

Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju with Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday.

1K PLUS LEGAL PLAINTS IN 5 YRS

We are in constant contact with the state govts and assuring them of providing required NDRF teams. A total of 29 teams have already been deployed at the required places. Now a total of 33 teams are also being deployed to deal with the situation.

All the people have been taken to safer places. — Atul Karwal, DG-NDRF

New Delhi: PM Naren-dra Modi chaired a high-level meeting on Thursday to review the preparedness of States and Central Ministries and concerned agen-cies to deal with the situation arising out of the likely formation of Cyclone Jawad, in-formed PMO.

PM directed officials to take every possible measure to ensure that people are safely evacu-ated and to ensure maintenance of all es-sential services such as Power, Telecommunica-tions, health, drinking water, etc. and that they are restored immedi-ately in the event of any disruption. He further directed them to ensure adequate storage of es-sential medicines and 24x7 functioning of con-trol rooms. —ANI

CYCLONE JAWAD

...TO HIT AP, ODISHA TOMORROWPM directs officials to take necessary measures to ensure safe evacuation of people

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs a meeting with the senior offi cials over cyclone-related situation in the country, in New Delhi on Thursday. (Inset) Cyclone Jawad is likely to make landfall on coastal areas this morning.

WEATHER UPDATEVery light to light intensity rain is also predicted over the adjoining areas of isolated places of Delhi and light intensity rain is predicted over areas of Narwana, Barwala, Hissar, Hansi, Siwani, Meham, Tosham, Rohtak, Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri.

RED, ORANGE ALERT!IMD has issued a red alert in 4 districts, Orange alert in 7 districts of Odisha for heavy to very heavy rainfall. The wind speed in coastal ar-eas would be around 60-80 kmph from December 4 noon, as per IMD scientist.

New Delhi: Asserting that many people of the deprived sections are not aware of their rights & government’s initiatives for their wel-fare, President Ram Nath Kovind on Thurs-day said it is the respon-sibility of the Forum of SC and ST Legislators and Parliamentarians to make them aware about their rights and govt’s initiatives.

As per a commu-nique from the Rashtra-pati Bhavan, the Presi-

dent was also happy to note that this conclave focuses on education, entrepreneurship, in-novation and economic development along with issue of constitu-tional rights.

“Babasaheb used to say that rights cannot be protected only by laws, but it is also neces-sary to have moral and social consciousness in the society. He always emphasised on non-vio-lent and constitutional means,” he said. —ANI

FORUM OF SC, ST LEGISLATORS

New Delhi: After sev-eral Congress leaders expressed their dis-pleasure over Trina-mool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee hint-ing at a united opposi-tion minus Congress, political strategist Prashant Kishor on Thursday said that leadership of the Oppo-sition should be decided democratically.

He added that the Congress’ leadership is not the divine right of an individual. The criti-cism, apparently aimed

at Congress leader Ra-hul Gandhi, follows a similar jibe by West Bengal Chief Minister Banerjee at Mumbai on Wednesday. —ANI

‘Not divine right of an individual’Kishor on Opposition leadership

President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated fi fth International Ambedkar Conclave, being organised by the Forum of SC and ST Legislators.

It is also the re-sponsibility to take forward the people of scheduled castes

and tribes who have been left be-hind in the devel-opmental journey.

By this way we can pay tributes to

Dr Ambedkar.—Ram N Kovind, Prez

Prashant Kishor @PrashantKishor

The IDEA and SPACE that #Congress

represents is vital for a strong opposition. But Congress’ leadership is not the DIVINE RIGHT

of an individual especially, when the

party has lost more than 90% elections in last 10

years. Let opposition leadership be decided

Democratically.

Deprived sections unaware of rights: Prez

Ghulam Nabi Azad

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BOREDOM IN ‘BABUDOM’

Defunct would be a euphemism; the civil servants

association in UP is virtually dead. And the dead stay dumb. Or what else could be the reason behind the association’s ennui which despite having recently elected senior IAS Alok Sinha as chief continues to portray IAS Deepak Trivedi as its chairman almost eight months after the latter’s death in April this year? Is it just an oversight or a deliberate short-shrift from the members to the association’s newly elected chairman? Barring this and a couple of other newspapers, the election of Sinha largely went unreported. Let alone, eliciting

any greetings, the official Twitter handle of the UP IAS association which has more than 12 k followers failed to even acknowledge the election. Apparently, once considered a prestigious assignment, the chairman’s post no longer wields any clout, not to say any charm even among its members. And the office-bearers of the state’s steel frame seem to be too busy doing the bidding of their political masters in poll-bound UP than to be bothered about such trivial issues. —M Tariq Khan

AFTER NAUSHAD ALI’S EXIT FROM BSP, FOUR DALIT LEADERS TAKE CHARGE

Just before the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the way

Muslim leaders of BSP are leaving the party, it is evident that somewhere BSP supremo Mayawati’s hold on Muslim leaders and voters is getting weaker. Mayawati has removed Bahujan Samaj Party Kanpur’s divisional sector in charge

Naushad. After this action of BSP supremo Mayawati, there has been a stir in the party and political corridors. Chief sector in-charge Naushad Ali has been removed from all the responsibilities of BSP’s Kanpur division and in his place, four people will see the responsibility of all the seats of the 27 assemblies. The removal of Naushad has resulted in talks of weakening of the Dalit Muslim alliance. When Naushad Ali was made the sector in charge of

Kanpur division, it was decided that in any case, the candidates for the 27 assembly seats of BSP would be announced at the earliest, but with the same not happening, Mayawati herself took the decision and relieved Naushad Ali from his responsibilities. At present, Naushad Ali has been entrusted with the responsibility of some districts of Purvanchal and in his place, other leaders of the organisation have been given this responsibility. After the removal of Naushad Ali, his responsibility has been given to four Dalit leaders of BSP, that are Bhimrao Ambedkar, Pravesh Kuril, Sangh Priya Gautam, Baudh Priya Gautam. All the four would together handle the responsibility of the organisation in the place of Naushad Ali till 2022. —Ahtesham Siddiqui

GOVT LEFT PEOPLE TO DIE DURING COVID LOCKDOWN: AKHILESH YADAVAkhilesh slams UP govt, alleging that it stopped migrants from entering the state during Covid lockdownLalitpur: Samajwadi Party president Akh-ilesh Yadav on Thurs-day attacked the UP government, alleging that it left people to die and stopped them from entering the state while they were walking back home during the coro-navirus lockdown. The pictures seen during the Covid pandemic “were not even seen during the Partition”, he alleged during a ral-ly at Ginaut Bagh of Lalitpur district.

“Who can forget the pictures when a lock-down was imposed and our labourer brothers had to come from other places,” Yadav said. “The BJP government put up barricades and did not allow them to enter the state,” he al-leged. “The government

left people like orphans to die. Labourer broth-ers put their lives at risk and had to walk hun-dreds of KMs to reach their home on foot,” the former CM added. Ya-

dav claimed had there been his party’s govern-ment, they would have arranged vehicles for them for their journey. “Had there been our government in the state,

not a single labourer would have been al-lowed to walk on foot. They would have been given a vehicle to reach their destination. The BJP government kept

the labourers in cow-shed in the name of iso-lation during the pan-demic,” he alleged. Ya-dav said people have understood the BJP af-ter its rule and the par-

ty’s “tricks” won’t work now. “Now, there will be a change in UP,” he said, apparently referring to the state Assembly elec-tions next year. Akhile-sh also targeted CM Yogi Adityanath, say-ing, “A yogi is the one who understands the pain of others as his own. You tell whether he considers the pain of others as his own.

These ‘chillumjivi’ cannot take the state forward.” Akhilesh said farmers are facing problems in procuring fertiliser. “The farmers will make a queue again to oust the BJP in elec-tions,” he said. The for-mer CM said after the formation of his party’s government in the state, farmers will not have to stand in queue for fertilisers. —PTI

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav addressing a public rally in Lalitpur on Thursday.

SBSP PRESIDENT SLAMS BJP OVER PRICE RISESP ally Suheldev Bhar-tiya Samaj Party presi-dent slammed the BJP over price rise, saying after the ruling party’s defeat in the recent by-polls, it reduced rates of fuel. “You all uproot the BJP government, inflation will automati-cally come down,” he said. He also accused the BJP of depriving backward classes of reservation benefit.

First India Bureau

Lucknow: The AICC general secretary Pri-yanka Gandhi today called upon the youth to dislodge casteist and communal forces in the 2022 assembly elections as they were the main stumbling block in the development and wel-fare of the state.

Addressing “Pratig-ya Rally” in Brass city of Moradabad, which is her “Sasural” Priyanka Gandhi said she had come to her “Sasural” after a long time but now onward she would keep in touch with the city which is close to her heart. She said Mo-radabad because of flourishing brass busi-ness has carved out a prominent place among centres of trade and ex-ports with Rs 8000 crore revenue but apathy and callous attitude of suc-cessive governments after the Congress re-gime, the city had lost all its relevance. She expressed concern over declining brass busi-ness in the city.

The Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel also addressed the rally. She recalled

that the grandfather of her husband Robert Vadra chose Moradabad after migrating from Pa-kistan after partition and then it was a promi-nent city of the state. Priyanka Gandhi said the time had come for change and the Con-gress was the only alter-

native to improve the situation in the state. Accusing the BJP gov-ernment, she said it had been an all-around fail-ure as there had been a massive increase in un-employment, inflation and economic drift. Pri-yanka Gandhi express-ing concern over the

plight of farmers who are still on dharna de-manded the dismissal of the union minister of state for home Ajay Mishra Teni whose SUV had mowed down four farmers in Lakhimpur Khiri on October 3. She said while other parties were also misleading the people, Congress had come out with “Pratigya” on various issues that would fulfil them if voted to power.

It may be mentioned that of the six Assembly seats in the Moradabad district, four are held by the Samajwadi Party and two by the BJP. The Muslim population in this constituency is around 40 per cent. 11.52 per cent of the popula-tion in the constituency belong to the Scheduled Castes category. The Mo-radabad Rural seat has 55 per cent Muslim vot-ers and 45 per cent, non-Muslim voters. Ansari voters are the majority among Muslim voters while Vaishya and Ra-jput voters are in the dominant role among non-Muslim voters. 9.56 per cent of the popula-tion in the constituency belong to the Scheduled Castes category.

Priyanka Gandhi speaking at the Moradabad ‘Pratigya’ rally.

Priyanka calls for dislodging of casteist and communal forces

UP CONGRESS PRESIDENT REVIEWS PREPAREDNESS FOR PRIYANKA GANDHI’S ‘PRATIGYA RALLY’Ghaziabad: Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu was in Ghaziabad on Wednes-day to review the preparedness for party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s proposed ‘Pratigya Rally’, which will be held in Moradabad. Speaking to the media, he said the Congress will contest next year’s Uttar Pradesh assembly elec-tions on its own. “Our coalition is with farmers, the youth and the women,” he said.

Lucknow: BSP supre-mo Mayawati Thursday asked the people to be wary of “Hindu-Mus-lim politics” of the BJP, saying it is the “last tac-tic” of the party to ward of its impending defeat in the forthcoming UP assembly polls, She was reacting to the UP Dep-uty CM Keshav Prasad Maurya’s statement that preparations are on (for a temple) in Ma-thura as construction

of temples in Ayodhya and Kashi is underway.

“The statement given by UP Deputy CM Mau-rya ahead of the upcom-

ing assembly elections that temple construction is going on in Ayodhya and Kashi and now there are preparations for Ma-thura reinforces the gen-eral perception of BJP’s defeat. People should beware of this (Akhiri hatkande) last tactic that is Hindu-Muslim politics,” Maywati said in a tweet in Hindi.

“The construction of grand temples is on in Ayodhya and Kashi, and

preparations are on for one in Mathura (Ayod-hya Kashi bhavya man-dir nirmaan jaari hai Mathura kee tyaari hai),” Maurya said in a tweet on Wednesday he posted in Hindi. Mathu-ra is considered to be the birthplace of Lord Shri Krishna. Samajwa-di Party chief Akhilesh Yadav had also criti-cised Maurya saying the comment shows BJP is sensing defeat. —PTI

BSP chief Mayawati

BJP playing Hindu-Muslim politics ahead of UP polls, says Mayawati

Seven-year-old girl found dead in field in AgraAgra: A seven-year-old girl, who went missing from a wedding in Agra village at night, was found dead in a nearby field on Thursday, po-lice said. The girl, ac-companied by her fam-ily members, had at-tended a wedding in Malpura police station area on Wednesday night. According to her parents, she went miss-ing a few hours later. However, they believed she had been sleeping close by. It was only when they could not find her in the morning did they approach the

police. Police also said the accused may have barged in to the mar-riage venue and lured the girl away. “We have gathered some clues from the spot and we will nab the accused soon,” Singh said. —PTI

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Dev Murari Bapu being taken into police custody on Dec 1 last year. —FILE PHOTO

Seer, facing molestation case, attempts suicide, saved: PoliceMathura: Police on Wednesday foiled an alleged suicide bid by a Vrindavan-based seer and the national president of Sri Krishna Jan-mabhumi Nirman Nyas, who is facing charges of molesta-tion and extortion, officials said. Pained by an FIR filed against him barely 24 hours ago for al-leged molestation, extortion and use of filthy language among others, Dev Murari Bapu tried to kill himself with a knife at his resi-dence, Superinten-dent of Police (city) Martand Prakash Singh said.

The police over-powered the seer when he tried to claim his own life in the presence of few journalists, the SP said. Earlier, the seer told journalists that the allegations against him were false and baseless.

On November 30, a woman had lodged a

complaint against him at the Vrinda-van police station, based on which a case was registered under various sec-tions of the Indian Penal Code, includ-ing sections 354 (criminal intimida-tion) and 506 (as-sault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty).

The SP said the seer was assured of an impartial investi-gation & that police was also stationed outside his residence as a precautionary measure. —PTI

Mathura administration, for its part, has

beefed up the security in the

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First India Bureau

Lucknow: The Union Home Ministry has ap-pointed UP IPS officer Vijay Prakash, as In-spector General of the Central Industrial Se-curity Force (CISF) against existing vacan-cy on deputation basis for a period of five years from the date of

assumption of the charge of the post.

In a letter to chief secretary, RK Tewari, the home ministry has requested to relieve Vi-jay Prakash, an IPS offi-cer of 1996 batch, to en-able him to take up his new assignments at the Centre.

Meanwhile, in a late night development on

Wednesday, the state government appointed Anil Bhushan Chaturve-di as Secretary, Uttar Pradesh Examination Regulatory Authori-ty. He is currently work-ing as Joint Director of Education in the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Lucknow.

It was only after the

transfer of Chaturvedi five months ago that Sanjay Upadhyay was made the secretary of the examination regula-tory authority. He was suspended by the gov-ernment on Tuesday it-self.

It is also a coincidence that Anil Bhushan was entrusted with the re-sponsibility under ad-

verse circumstances even after the suspen-sion of the then secre-tary Sutta Singh for changing the copy in the recruitment of 68 thou-sand, 500 teachers and there was a discrepancy in the evaluation. Now he has been given the responsibility again af-ter the paper leak.

At the same time,

Manoj Kumar Ahirwar has been made Regis-trar Departmental Ex-aminations in the Of-fice of the Examination Regulatory Authority.

He is presently the Deputy Principal of the District Institute of Ed-ucation and Training (DIET), Sitapur. Posting orders have been issued for both the posts.

IPS Vijay Prakash appointed IG of CISF on deputation NEW ROLE

Home Ministry requests CS

Tewari to relieve 1996-batch IPS officer for taking

up his posting at Centre VIJAY PRAKASH

NETAJI IN PARLIAMENT

Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav attends the Winter Session of Parliament in New Delhi on Thursday.

TIE-UP WITH SMALL PARTIES SP’S MANTRA TO CORNER BJPParty chalks out strategy to marginalise Cong, BSP to win UP electionsGyanendra Kumar Shukla

Lucknow: The Akh-ilesh Yadav-led Sama-jwadi Party is toiling hard on multi-dimen-sional fronts to win the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. Along with the alliance with small-er parties, the SP is also carrying out the strategy to marginalize the main players of the opposition camp, BSP and Congress, on the electoral landscape.

From western UP to Purvanchal and Bun-delkhand, the SP is ex-ecuting the mega plan to compete with the BJP. To strengthen its hold in the eastern re-gion, the SP has an al-liance with Om-prakash Rajbhar’s Suheldev Bhartiya Sa-maj Party, Keshav Dev Maurya’s Mahan Dal, Sanjay Chauhan’s Ja-nata Party (Socialist), Gondwana Gantantra Party and Apna Dal Kameravadi.

These small parties, which have a hold on

the sub-castes of OBC, are capable of influenc-ing the electoral equa-tions of many seats in Purvanchal. Through an alliance with the RLD led by Jayant Chaudhary, the SP wants to balance the Jat-Muslim-OBC equa-tion in western UP, which could present a tough challenge in this

stronghold of BJP. Political experts are

of the opinion that Akh-ilesh Yadav is trying to bring the anti-BJP par-ties on one platform. It is believed that Akhile-sh Yadav is in discus-sions to share some seats with TMC as well. AAP MP Sanjay Singh’s proximity to Akhilesh Yadav has been in the

spotlight of political circles. Even though AAP may not have a sig-nificant votebase in UP, Akhilesh, who is en-gaged in mobilizing OBC voters through so-cial engineering, wants to connect with the up-per-caste urban voters through a pact with AAP.

Looking at the 2017 election results, despite getting fewer seats, the BSP came second in many seats and the margin of victory be-tween the BJP and the SP was very small. This time, Akhilesh is pro-jecting his party as the main contender against the BJP. It is considered as the SP chief ’s deft move to prevent the op-position votes from shifting to the BSP or the Congress.

Akhilesh Yadav has also been trying to make inroads among the BSP’s Dalit vote bank, for this he is also exploring the possibili-ty of an alliance with Azad Samaj Party chief Chandrashekhar.

SP president Akhilesh Yadav & SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar greet supporters during ‘Bhagidari Mahapanchayat’ at Haldharpur ground in Mau. —FILE PHOTO

ANTI-BJP PARTIES ON ONE PLATFORM

Varun Gandhi raises questions on govt jobs

IN THE COURTYARD

Bail granted to man who allegedly threatened to kill PM, Yogi Adityanath

First India Bureau

Prayagraj: The Alla-habad High Court re-cently granted bail to a man who allegedly threatened to assassi-nate Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister of UP, Yogi Adityanath.

Single judge Justice Pankaj Bhatia granted bail to Salman consid-ering the fact that the offences against him were bailable and he was languishing in jail since August 31, 2021.“Considering the fact that prima-facie from the FIR in ques-tion, an offence can be said to be made out against the applicant under Sections 506 & 507 IPC, both of them

being bailable in na-ture, coupled with the fact that the applicant is in jail since August 31 and there is nothing on record to demon-strate that the appli-cant, if enlarged on bail, would adversely affect the trial, the ap-plicant is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the appli-cation is allowed,” the Court said.

As per the FIR, a call was received on UP Po-lice emergency servic-es No.112 from appli-cant’s mobile phone threatening to kill the PM and the CM in view of their public state-ments. The caller alleg-edly stated that he would assassinate them and go to jail.

First India Bureau

Bareilly: Bhartiya Ja-nata Party (BJP) MP on Thursday raised ques-tions on his own party’s failure to provide suffi-cient government jobs to youths saying for how long youth of India would show patience.

In a tweet, Varun Gan-dhi said, “First, there is no government job, yet if some chance comes, the paper gets leaked, if you

give the exam, you don’t have the result for years, then the exams get can-celled in some scam. About 1.25 crore youth of Railway Group D are waiting for the results for two years. The same is true of recruitment in the army. For how long the youth of India would show patience?”

This tweet came after his recent tweet in which he had demanded action against ‘political patrons

of the education mafia’ soon after the UPTET pa-per leak incident.

“The avenues of em-ployment for the average young person in rural India are largely restrict-ed to seeking a govern-ment job. With the gov-ernment employing less than before in every sec-tor be it defence, police, railways, education, a sense of frustration is seeping into the youth,” said Gandhi.

He added that 17 pa-pers have been cancelled just in Uttar Pradesh in the last two years as the exam papers have been leaked with no large syndicate being identi-fied till date.

“There is no system where they are linked to private employment. Therefore public em-ployment guidelines and employment schedules must be adhered to,” said Gandhi.

Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court bench, hearing the case of rape and death of a Navodaya Vidyalaya student in Mainpuri, has questioned the role of the school principal and police in the entire case. The court questioned the SIT for not taking any concrete action even after the presence of evidence in the case. It noted that the principal handed over some letters of the student to the SIT after 2 years and yet the evidence was suppressed for so long when the police were in the meantime interrogating the family of the girl on the basis of these letters. The cout hearing the petition of Mahendra Pratap Singh, observed that the photograph fi led at the time of panchnama showed injury marks on the hand of the victim, but the post-mortem report did not have any mention of these injuries.

Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has directed SSP Gautam Buddha Nagar to take action against the police offi cers of Police Station Phase-2 of Noida after it was reported that Lalit Gupta, a resident of Hathras, Sansi police station area, was caught by 4-5 policemen in plain clothes in the night and impli-cated in a fake case of smuggling ganja. The court directed action to be taken against the then SSP for disobeying the order of the HC. The Court said after capturing the victim at night, he was implicated in a fake case and a story too was spun about ganja seizure, but all turned to be case of illegal arrest. The Additional Advocate General has also accepted the police action and loophole following which the petitioner became entitled to be released on bail.

HC QUESTIONS PRINCIPAL’S ROLE IN STUDENT’S DEATH

TAKE ACTION AGAINST COPS: HC DIRECTS SSP

BJP’s Hindu pitch desperate bid before impending loss: Oppn

First India Bureau

Lucknow: As the as-sembly elections in UP are approaching, the BJP is busy preparing its political war cry to further strengthen the electoral ground. At the same time opposi-tion parties have be-gun saying that the BJP has got an idea of what the result of the assembly elections to be held next year which is why it is plan-ning to use the same old ideas just like using Hindutva to its advan-tage in the elections.

Speculations of BJP’s Hindutva issue are getting stronger in political circles as the recent tweet of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Mau-rya’s on Wednesday said “Grand temple construction under-way in Ayodhya and Kashi, Mathura in preparation” which has not only shown that it’s not just Deputy CM Keshav Maurya but also many of the BJP MPs have started mentioning on their

agent after Ayodhya and Varanasi.

BJP MP Harnath Singh, Sadhvi Niran-jan Jyoti and Baba Bal-ak Nath have openly forwarded Maurya’s Mathura statement

and these three MPs have clearly stated that a grand temple will be constructed in Mathu-ra just like the one be-ing built in Ayodhya.

Minister of State, Labour and Employ-

ment, Raghuraj Singh also gave similar statement last week. Raghuraj Singh had said that if God gave him a chance, he would shut down ma-drasas across the country as madrasas have become bases for training terrorists.

The minister, who presented figures to support his claim, said that at one point of time there were just 250 madrasas in Uttar Pradesh but now the number stands at 22,000. He further lev-elled allegations that madrassas are where terror is taught and will only help emer-gence of terrorists.

Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya

NO NEW MANTRA WILL HELP BJP IN POLLS: YADAVLucknow: The parties in Uttar Pradesh have been constantly attacking each other as the assembly elections in the state are set to take place next year. Reacting on Maurya’s tweet SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said that BJP’s agenda is to loot the poor and fi ll the pockets of the rich and no Rath Yatra or new mantra will help BJP in the upcoming elections. Reacting to the statements of Akilesh Yadav, Maurya said that while Akhilesh describes himself as a devotee of Lord Krishna, Lord Ram, Shiva and Ganga, it’s he who should tell whether a temple of Lord Krishna should be built in Mathura or not?.

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Gemini MAY 21 - JUNE 21

Homemakers will get a chance to implement their ideas. You are likely to be recognised for your efforts on the

professional front. Some of you can be invited for guidance or consultancy. Chance of a raise is possible for some. Timely and correct decision will help you in saving a lot of money.

LeoJULY 24 - AUGUST 23

Previous investments are likely to give you good returns. Some of you may decide to follow in the footsteps

of celebrities and visit the very same exotic destination that they had been to.No amount of excuses will dispel lover’s suspicions about your tendency to stray the path.

LibraSEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 22

People falling under this sign will have very refreshing day. Visiting a mall or watching a movie with family is

likely to be the highlight of the day for some. You may enjoy travelling to a tourist destination recommended by your friends. Reignite the fl ickering romance in your life.

SagittariusNOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22

Sticking to workout routine may benefi t you on the health front. Meeting relatives at a marriage or party cannot

be ruled out. Accompanying someone you click with is likely to make your business journey entertaining. Support from the family may seem most encouraging.

AquariusJANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19

Some clarifi cation will need to be sought on a fi nancial issue, before you take the next step. A project left halfway by

someone else may come on your shoulders, but your efforts will be acknowledged. Some of you are all set to enjoy a splendid vacation. Friends and family may give you a surprise.

Taurus APRIL 21 - MAY 20

You may get motivated to shake a leg just to get on the fi tness trail. It will be important to keep a tab of your expenses

today. Some shuffl ing on the work front is likely but will not affect you. Peace and tranquillity prevail on the home front and will help you unwind. Romance seems on the upswing.

CancerJUNE 22 - JULY 23

Your stars favour a bright beautiful day . A setback you have recently experienced can make you come out

stronger. Tax advisor will be a big help in saving taxes, so don’t hesitate to contact one.It is diffi cult for the relationship of friends turned lovers to fall apart, so relax.

Virgo AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23

Continue doing whatever you are doing to remain healthy. Some of you will have to curb your splurging ways.

Family life will cruise along smoothly with much love and bonhomie. Don’t speed up on the road. Chance of moving to a new location on transfer is likely for some.

ScorpioOCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 22

You will succeed and move ahead in your professional life, as the year begins. Be careful, though, as your daily

routine may be affected adversely. Your boss may be the reason for your annoyance. Pressure tactics can infuriate you. Probably, by 5th or 6th, you may think of taking up a new job.

CapricornDECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20

A vacation you only dreamed about is likely to become a reality soon. Healthy eating will help prevent

digestive ailments. Money will be no constraint in buying what you like. Driving down with lover to a happening place is indicated today. Your search for perfect partner may soon be over.

Pisces FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20

Money put together on previous occasions is likely to come in handy now. A family youngster is keen to

learn from you, so don’t disappoint. Settling down in a new house is indicated for s ome.You may have to awaken partner’s interest in you once again.

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nce again, for the 30th time, a UN Sponsored “in-ternational Day of Disabled Per-sons” is spot-lighted as a ritual

for public consumption. Each year a new theme is concocted for pseudo-in-tellectual satisfaction. As-tounding statistics such as “15% of the world pop-ulation is affected by some form of disability” are bandied without action.

Sadly, this most press-ing of problems in society is forgotten the next morning for another wasteful year.

It is heartbreaking to see such callousness in the premier institution of the world, the UN.

Now let’s zoom in to the micro-level. First and foremost we have to stop and understand the pain and helplessness of par-ents of children affected by ‘disability’. If God is the perfect originator of the Universe, then we can safely assume that he has not created anything in imperfection.

Given this to be the Uni-versal truth, I go on to narrate my experiences.

Having spent long years working in the forefront with children in their

fight to overcome the chal-lenges to their minds and bodies, I can vouch for that perfection.

I got the opportunity to peep into the hearts & minds of my wards.

One child, in his teens, does have difficulty in making eye to eye contact

with others and is de-void of all social norms, but give him any date and year, in a flash, he will give the Day of the

week for that date. Give

him a date before his birth year, he can still manage to calculate but takes a few seconds extra. Defi-nitely, this cannot be in-terpreted as an abnormal-ity and left at that. This is a Compass pointing to the reach & unexplored fron-tiers of the human mind. He is capable of doing something that involves an IQ level rarely seen in humans. Presumably, a glance at a calendar or a

diary made him extrapo-late with his unique men-tal power. Just imagine the tremendous intensity of his focus. If further channelized, via proper training and dedicated teachers, such minds can break many a glass ceiling of our thought structure.

But horrifyingly, the very dark, cruel & be-nighted souls treat such people as a stigma. These minds, perhaps pushed

hard towards these fron-tiers of mental capacity by some unknown natural phenomenon, do appear complex to the average hu-man.

Spirited human minds need such a compass to lead them towards those frontiers. Instinctively, and with relentless dog-gedness, they will then pursue those goals.

Our education policy has to break these barri-ers in society at large and academia in particular. These gifted children will have to be accepted in mainstream schools with trained teachers, sensitiv-ity, and the right attitude towards them to create an atmosphere equal to other children. For example, de-spite the Right to Educa-tion Act, we at DISHA have the only center for learning disability, when dozens more are needed just in Rajasthan.

In every human being resides a Compass of dis-covery, provided we put our bigoted prejudices aside and erase the dis-tinctions between the so-called Able and the conde-scendingly termed differ-ently-abled. Peep into any soul, there is a treasure! The core issue is how we perceive such a phenome-non and go on to chan-nelize it. Just as Albert Einstein overcame learn-ing/speaking disability, the likes of George Wash-ington, Abhishek Bach-chan, and Tom Cruise con-quered dyslexia, even as Deepika Padukone and Catherine Zeta-Jones fought off depression and bipolar disorder. Such ex-amples, from hundreds of thousands, are not only to enthuse but to speak of the possibilities for these Compasses to the fron-tiers of the human mind!

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IT’S THE SEASON OF COLD BREEZE, CAKES & SANTA BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, GIFTS! WHO DOESN’T ADORE GIFTS? CITY FIRST BRINGS TO YOU THE PERFECT GIFT WRAPPING

IDEAS TO SURPRISE YOUR LOVED ONES THIS SEASON!

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SOCKSThis one is the kids’ favourite kind. If you know someone whose idea of glad tidings is huge red socks hanging around their walls, this would be an add up as an ad-ditional gift for them. They might

stock up the socks with candies and little tiny gifts and fi nd it useful during the season.

CHRISTMAS BELLSChristmas Bells are defi nitely a go to thing when you’re decorat-ing a Christmas tree but who would have known that it would suit perfectly to the gifts that you have kept ready for your special one. It might add up a little fl air to your Instagram post as well. Adding another suggestion, keep all your gifts in a box and tada, you’re good to go.

WRAPPING PAPERSI am usually not fond of wrapping, but whenever I wrap gifts, I make sure that my wrapping papers are plain so that the ribbons and the extra accessory add to its beauty. Too much of colour in one wrapping paper might look disarming which isn’t bad at all if you like them. But, my suggestion would be to go for one colour and pick the best ribbon and add an extra item such as a small Christmas tree or a feather, let’s be creative.

RIBBONSWe are all fond of gifts that are wrapped around in ribbons, right? You can surprise someone who enjoys a decorative item every once in a while. For this season as you’re wrap-ping your gifts, don’t forget to add a little effect by picking up the perfect ribbon. You may select a regular coloured ribbon or a cloth ribbon that might spruce up the gift.

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once knew a girl who always longed for gifts, especially when Ru-dolph the reindeer was on his way. With the beginning of Christ-mas all she could think

of was how Santa was going to secretly hide a gift under the Christmas tree and what joy this gift would bring to her. No matter the size of the gift, just the idea of something unex-pected bing brought to her be-came her reason for joy. Well, that little girl was of course me. Over the past couple of years, I have met people who have followed the tradition of playing “Secret Santa” where someone would bring them a surprise. Not to mention, I have also come across people who think that the idea of gifts is just too cliche. And yet, they couldn’t disagree but accept that gifts always brought them happiness. This is the season for you to be merry and wrap your gift in the best way pos-sible to make someone’s day. City First brings to you some suggestions that you might in-corporate while you are wrap-ping happiness!

TWINKLING STARSFor the season of Christ-mas, stars were symbolic of leading the way towards the shelter (stable) where Jesus Christ was born. This star can help you add a little Christmas vibe to your gift. Twinkling stars are always a sight to the eyes, their presence have a positivity. Don’t believe me? Checkout Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night and you shall know what I mean.

PERSONALISED PHOTOGRAPHSIf you don’t want to mention their names or yours on the tag of the gift, you might just experiment a little by putting a picture of your-selves or the person that you’re presenting the gift to. It might appear a little odd but trust me, seeing a face on a gift instantly brings a smile on face. So unique and innovative, this gift packing idea is certain to make your loved ones feel extra special.

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he life of an artist starts with a vision to create something innovative, crea-tive and moving. These qualities were eminent at the ongoing Bharat Hast-shilp Mahotsav-2021, a festi-

val to celebrate the craftsmanship of indigenous artists from all over the country.

Bharat Hastshilp Mahotsav is the mecca of the shoppers who live for aesthetic, creative and one of a kind articles. Set up at the Smriti Upvan, Aashiyana, Lucknow, the festival is all set to showcase the finest crafts-manship till December 14, 2021.

City First went to the Mahotsav and scouted the artisans and their stories from different parts of the country exhibiting their hand-crafted art.

Imran Ahmad Abbasi, owner and proprietor of Izharson Perfumers talked about his perfumery stall at the Mahotsav and said, “Our stall has al-ways been a constant at Lucknow Ma-

hotsav every year since 1983 and it's our first year at the Bharat Mahot-sav is great. Since Indian Itr and

Perfume is Lucknow's speciality, we've been re-ceiving a good response. Our fragrances like Blue Sapphire, Shabab and Hardihood are the best-sellers while the tradi-tional Itr is in demand for customisation.”

Anjali Dwivedi of Aar-yash Fashion, Delhi, came to the Bharat Ma-hotsav for the first time

and shared her experience. She said, “Our handcrafted pieces of Sarees, Lehengas and Bedsheets have been a hit which we manufacture in Delhi. I'm glad to be exhibiting here and would like to thank the government for such an opportunity to showcase.

Neetu Godakia from Gujarat was seen selling her extraordinary hand-made jewellery and said, “Our crystal work and mint polish jewellery is the bestseller and while I wasn't sure to be exhibiting here, I'm glad I'm proven otherwise. The bags made from the chain stitch technique (a Rajasthani

trademark) are well appreciated here. I'm thankful to the government for providing such a platform that em-powers women artisans like myself.”

While Amethi hailed leather ar-tisan for the last 50 years, Ram Gopal Yadav showcased his hand-crafted life-size animal statues. He said, “I've been a part of many Mahotsav(s) but Bharat Mahotsav gives a bigger platform and an in-teraction with the audience of many places. It's amazing for small artists like us.”

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T AN ODE TOAN ODE TOART AND ARTISANSART AND ARTISANS

Bharat Hastshilp Mahotsav is the mecca for shoppers who live for aesthetic, creative and one-of-a kind articles

On the second day (December 1) of the ongoing Bharat Hastshilp Mahotsav at the Smriti Upvan, Aashiyana, Lucknow, a mesmerising dance programme was organised in the evening. The cultural programme was headed by Kusum Verma in the form of captivating folk dance. The artistic programme was kickstarted with a lamp lighting ceremony earlier in the day by Chief Guest, Lucknow Mayor Sanyukta Bhatia and Special Guest Malihabad Legislator Jaya Devi Kaushal, wife of MP Kaushal Kishore.

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eyond all kinds of boundaries, a rise in the values of universal

brotherhood was wit-nessed on the virtual dais of Indian Society for the Promotion of English Language and Literature (iSPELL In-dia) in its 63rd Sahityik Satsang where Interna-tional poets Annette Tarpley, Dennis Brown, Jill Sharon Kimmel-man, Zlatan Demirovic from USA, Helen Sarita and Joan Santillan Amurao from Philip-pines, Dimitris P. Kra-niotis from Greece, Sar-fraz Ahmed from UK,

Antje Stehn from Ger-many and Samuel Acos-ta Dominican Republic recited their poetic pieces that were quite humane, compassionate and sensitive spreading peace and harmony at global level. Initiating the tryst, Dr Shalini Ya-dav, Professor, Compu-com Institute of Tech-nology and Manage-ment, Jaipur welcomed the august assembly of literarians and Prof.

Anupama Vohra, President, iSPELL India and Professor, DDE, Uni-versity of Jammu, Jam-mu moderated further. Prof. G A Ghanshyam, Founder and General Secretary of iSPELL In-

dia and Professor of English, Directorate of Higher Education, Raipur, Chhattisgarh honoured the poets with

certificates. Dr Yadav expressed

special thanks towards Pramod Dhengle, IT Co-ordinator, iSPELL India.

POETS & POETRY IN FULL GLORY

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The birthday of IPS Subhash Chandra Dubey was on Thursday, December 2. We wish him all the best!

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Cultural dance performance at the Mahotsav

Guest playing with a handmade sling Lit up ferris wheel at the festival Women checking out Pashmina at Anjali Dwivedi's stall

Neetu Godakia showcasing her handcrafted jewelry

Imran Ahmad Abbasi with his sonshowcasing perfumes to a customer

Wajid Ali from Assam, showcasing his handmade wooden art

During the virtual event

Perfumes at Izharson Perfumers at Bharat Mahotsav

Cultural dance performance based on Ram

leela

Creste is hosting a kids-special 'Christmas Carnival' at Red Hill

School on December 25 and Lucknowites have a chance to put up stalls there. You can book your stall amidst 30 available kiosks. If you deal in any brand or service that deals exclusively in kids' products, this affair is just the place for you to get that Merry Christmas going.

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