SC TO HEAR 143 CAA PETITIONS TODAY

The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a clutch

of 143 petitions on the controversial Citizenship
(Amendment) Act, including a plea filed by the Kerala
government seeking to declare the legislation
“unconstitutional.” PAGE
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DESPITE PROTESTS, CAA WILL Airports to lose `650 cr

NOT BE WITHDRAWN: SHAH
Lucknow: Attacking
per yr over cut in duty
free liquor, cigarettes
the opposition for
“misleading” people Private airports are
on the Citizenship up in arms over a
Amendment Act, Un- Commerce Ministry
ion Home Minister proposal to cut back
Amit Shah on Tuesday on duty-free sale, say-
said the law will not ing it would cost
be scrapped despite them Rs 650 crore
the protests over it. per annum in lost
Addressing a rally revenue.
here in support of the Union Minister Mukhtar The ministry is
CAA, Shah also de- Abbas Naqvi shared a proposing to limit
clared that the con- photo on Twitter from his booze purchases at
struction of a Ram visit to J&K. Four Union airport duty-free
Ministers including General
temple touching the VK Singh, Pratap Sarangi, shops from two litres
skies in Ayodhya will Debashree Choudary and to one litre and re-
begin within three RK Singh visited different strict import of ciga-
months. blocks of Jammu Division rettes, presently one
The minister accused on the third day of Special carton of 100 sticks.
the Congress of not im- Public Outreach Programme. The Association
plementing the sugges- Nearly a dozen more Union of Private Airport WHAT WERE THE PROPOSALS
Ministers will visit J&K in

tions that came from its
own leaders in the past
on granting citizenship
to minority Hindus in
Pakistan, Bangladesh
(then East Pakistan)
and Afghanistan after
Partition.
He also targeted
West Bengal chief
minister and Trina-
mool Congress leader
Mamata Banerjee, say-
ing she is now oppos-
ing Indian citizenship
for Dalit Bengalis.
At the same meet-
ing, Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath alleged
that the Congress is
shelling out money
for arson and protests
over the CAA.
Amit Shah said there
is no provision in the
amended law for taking
anyone’s citizenship
away. Turn on P4
AZAD TO VISIT
DELHI
A Delhi court Tuesday
allowed Bhim Army
Chief Chandrashekhar
Azad, accused of incit-
ing people during an
anti-CAA protest at Jama
Masjid here last month,
to visit Delhi for medi-
cal reasons and election
purposes and told him
to inform Delhi Police of
his schedule. Additional
Sessions Judge Kamini
Lau passed the directions
while modifying the bail
order of Azad in a case
related to violent protests
in Daryanganj area on
December 20.
D
Operators (APAO) uty-free liquor purchase limit at an international
order to spread words about
the government’s policies, said in a statement airport may be reduced from a maximum of
particularly those taken in that the move will two litres to just one. Not only that, cigarettes may
the last five months after the have a “disastrous” altogether go off the shelves at airports. These
abrogation of Article 370. effect on the domes- recommendations are a part of the proposal made
tic aviation industry. by the Ministry of Commerce for the forthcoming
The Commerce Budget 2020 to reduce import of non-essential
‘MODI, SHAH ARE A DRAG WHY MAKE AFZAL A Ministry presented goods. Budget 2020 will be unveiled by Finance
ON INDIAN DEMOCRACY’ SCAPEGOAT: SONI RAZDAN its proposal to the Fi- Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1. The
Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Actor Soni Razdan on Tuesday said that nance Ministry commerce ministry has also reportedly made sug-
Tuesday said the nationwide there was need of a “solid enquiry” into ahead of the annual gestions to increase the import duty on as many as
protests against the amended why the 2001 Parliament attack convict budget on February 200 items, including paper, footwear, rubber items
citizenship law reflected that Afzal Guru, who was hanged in 2013, 1, recommending re- and toys to promote ‘Make in India’ and reduce un-
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was made a “scapegoat”.Citing a media stricting purchase of necessary usage
and Union Home Minister Amit report regarding suspended Jammu tax-free Turn on P4
Shah were a “drag on Indian and Kashmir DSP Davinder Singh being
democracy”. Sibal’s comments allegedly named by Afzal Guru in a letter HIC! HIC! NOT HURRAH!
come after IMF had on lowered penned to his lawyer, Razdan tweeted,
 At most Indian air- duty-free shops to cause  ”It is estimated that the
India’s economic growth. “This is a travesty of justice. Turn on P4
ports, duty-free revenues `650 crore loss: Report aero charges will go up
make up 15-20% of the by at least around `200
 The proposal mooted
LEKHI TAKES ON SAIF OVER ‘CONCEPT OF INDIA’ REMARK total non-aero revenues
by the Commerce
crore annually across
Actor Saif Ali Khan, who is in the eye of a storm after his recent remarks on India which will have an
 Sales of liquor and Ministry in its budget
Indian history, faced yet another attack, this time from BJP spokesperson impact on ticket prices
cigarettes together ac- recommendations for
Meenakshi Lekhi who called out the actor for his son’s name. Khan, while re- and may even impact
count for over 75%-80% Union Budget 2020-21
sponding to a question in an interview on his latest movie ‘Tanhaji’ — the story the growth in passenger
of overall duty free sales could also result in loss
of a 17th-century Maharashtrian military leader — had said, “I don’t think this traffic which is already
 Liquor quota at airport of 8,000 to 10,000 jobs extremely subdued”
is history. I don’t think there was a concept of India till the British gave it one.”

MONEY MATTERS Trump Repeats Coronavirus: Thermal screening of 2nd phase of

panchayat
Offer To ‘Help’
Reliance is Govt approves up to 100 Kashmir
flyers from China begins at 7 airports polls today
India’s answer
to Exxon, AT&T pc FDI in Bharti Airtel Davos: US President
Donald Trump again
The Civil Aviation
Ministry has directed
seven airports includ-
Jaipur: The second
phase of polling in 2,312
village panchayats of
New Delhi: Billionaire New Delhi: The Depart- APEX COURT repeated his offer to ing Delhi, Mumbai, Rajasthan will be held
Mukesh Ambani’s Reli- ment of Telecom (DoT) “help” on Chennai and Kolkata on Wednesday and all
ance Industries is In- has approved raising  Kashmir to- to make arrangements preparations have been
dia’s answer to US gi- of foreign direct invest- day, ahead for screening of pas- made for conducting
ants Exxon, AT&T and ment in Bharti Airtel of talks sengers arriving from free, fair and peaceful
Amazon - all rolled into to 100 per cent from 49 with Paki- China in the wake of elections, officials said
one, Bernstein Re- per cent allowed earli- stan Prime outbreak of an infec- on Tuesday.
search said on Tuesday. er, a stock exchange fil- Minister Imran Khan tion caused by a new Polling in 15,127 wards
“Reliance has dis- ing of the company  on the sidelines of the strain of virus there. of 2,312 village panchay-
rupted the energy and said on Tuesday. World Economic Forum Airlines flying in ats of 74 Panchayat
telecoms industry in The company also at Davos, Switzerland. from any airport in Chi- A thermal screeening device checks passengers arriving in India Samitis will be held be-
India and is on the cusp has the approval of the Addressing the me- na including Hong Kong from China including Hong Kong in view of outbreak of Novel tween 8 am and 5 pm,
of doing the same to re- Reserve Bank of India dia with Imran Khan at have been asked to make coronavirus (CoV) in China, at an airport in Kolkata on Tuesday. State Election Commis-
tail, fintech, and me- (RBI) that allowed for- approval from the De- his side, President in-flight announce- sioner PS Mehra said.
dia,” it said in a report eign investors to hold partment of Telecom- Trump said, “We are ments requesting pas- rival in order to facili- sory issued by the Un- A total of 77,56,416
adding the company up to 74 per cent stake munications (DoT) talking about Kashmir sengers with history of tate early isolation, ac- ion Health Ministry people are eligible to ex-
has an enviable track in the company. vide its letter dated and in relation to what fever and cough and cording to an official regarding threat of ercise their franchise.
record of innovation “Bharti Airtel Lim- January 20, 2020, is going on with Paki- travel to Wuhan city in statement on Tuesday. novel coronavirus in Counting for sarpanch
and execution. Turn on P4 ited has received the Turn on P4 stan and India and if we the past 14 days to self- This is in continua- Wuhan, Hubei prov- posts will be done on
can help - Turn on P4 declare at the port of ar- tion to the travel advi- ince of China Turn on P4 Wednesday itself.

Rahul’s coronation CAAfila set to begin from Jaipur

Success of CM’s ‘Peace March’ CONCERN FOR OM MATHUR party’s national
chief, once again,
major reason behind selecting could be from Jaipur
as the party is pre-
Jaipur for Rahul’s mega CAAfila paring to make the
visit a pre-cursor to a
Yogesh Sharma/ issues of unemploy- new beginning to get
Naresh Sharma ment, CAA, slowdown him re-anointed as
on economy and vari- the party president in
Jaipur: Rahul Gandhi ous other issues. February.
who quit as Congress With focus on youth Chief Minister
president after the power, Rahul is going Ashok Gehlot has
party’s defeat in Lok to hold rallies across swung into action to
Sabha election last the country and show- make the rally a suc-
May is, once again ing his trust in Chief cess as the NSUI and
getting active. Sens- Minister Ashok Ge- youth congress have
ing restlessness hlot’s organising capa- campaign, which may party and national poli- been assisting him to
among the youth, Ra- bilities, Rahul has cho- Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot inspecting security arrangements at Albert hall with (from left) eventually work as a tics. Sources reveal gather one lakh
hul is aiming to reach sen Jaipur to be the Dharmendra Rathore, Pratap Singh Khachariyawas, Sachin Pilot, Harish Chaudhary, platform to once again that Rahul’s next youths for the rally.
out to them over the venue to kick start his Jogaram and Raghu Sharma. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA play a pivotal role in the ‘christening’ as the Turn on P4
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Explore magnificent legacy of
these languages and
contemporary trends in writing
Jaipur: This year, the
Festival hosts speakers
from the vast canvas of
Assamese, Bengali, Gu-
jarati, Hindi, Malay-
alam, Marathi, Nag-
amese, Oriya,
P rakrit,R ajas t hani ,
Sanskrit, Santhali, Ta-
mil and Urdu writing.
The programme ex-
plores the magnificent
legacy of these lan-
guages while examin-
ing contemporary
trends in writing.
Conversations span
the length and breadth
of the country and in-
clude voices
known and lesser-
from
known literary treas-
ure troves searched
with meticulous atten-
tion to contemporary
linguistic narratives
especially in the many
regions of India, each
with its own myriad lit-
erary traditions, norms
and quirks. The idea is
to sustain the incompa-
rable vastness of our
national languages
amidst galloping glo-
balisation and draw
succour from an incred-
ible linguistic and liter-
ary legacy.
Rajasthani language
finds voice in its distinc-
tive syntax and variety
of dialects –- the iconic
BOOK ‘WARM’ @
PERFECT WORLD
The 13th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival will be held from January 23
to 27. The speakers include Indian-American Nobel laureate, economist
Abhijit V Banerjee and several Pulitzer prize winners. Non-fiction and poetry
have been given pride of place at JLF where 202 sessions spread over five
days will be held in six venues of Diggi Palace. While you hop from one venue
to the other negotiating the nearly 40 sessions in a day, there are some that
cannot be missed! Divya Hemnani gives a sneak peek of what is in store
Festival to explore science,
AI and cyber future
Rajasthani poet Chan-
dra Prakash Deval, a
pioneer poet of Ra-
jasthani literature Raju
Ram Bijarnian, eminent The festival will be go-
authors Ritupriya and
Madhu Acharyawill
ing high-tech this edi-
tion with plans to ex-
speak of the rich herit- plore ideas such how
age and linguistic tradi- ‘the Internet can end
tions of the state in a poverty’ and ‘the digi-
session titled “Rajastha- tal and virtual futures
ni Binya Kyaro Ra- of mankind’ with au-
jasthan”. In a conversa- thors and thinkers
tion with distinguished
author Vishes Kothari,
such as Payal Arora,
Marcus du Sautoy,
the panel will talk about John Lanchester and
the unique genius of Ra- Sanjoy K Roy.
jasthani literature in its
many manifestations.
Technology and its
constantly evolving
In another conversa-
tion, Vishes Kothari and
aspects, surveillance
capitalism, the issues
Chandra Prakash Deval of privacy on digital
will speak to bilingual platforms, data har-
novelist Anukrti Upad- vesting and the virtu-
hyay on Rajasthani writ- al futures of mankind
er, poet and litterateur are just some of the
Vijaydan Detha’s rich topics that will be cov-
legacy of magical narra- ered on a panel con-
tives. Detha belonged to sisting of globally-re-
a family of bards and nowned personalities
contributed enormous- like Marcus du Sautoy,
ly in bringing folklore John Lanchester and
and oral traditions into Jaspreet Bindra on
the mainstream of In-
dian literature. This ses-
the second day of the
Festival.
sion will feature Vishes While magic is
Kothari’s vivid English something e very-
rendering of the Time- one has believed
less Tales from Marwar, in at some
a handpicked collection point of time
from Detha’s celebrated in their life,
Batan ri Phulwari - liter- science is a
ally “Garden of Tales”. fact of life.
Explaining
the blend
of both
—PHOTOS BY SUNIL SHARMA
TALKING POINT
will be Roger High- ence Museum group,
field, author, science,
journalist and Science
in conversation with
author.
Director of the Sci- There has always
Amalgamate unique tales
about food and the
memories food inspires
The festival will feature in its repertoire
unique tales about food and the memories
food inspires in each of us.Set against the
beautiful backdrop of the Pink City, the
Festival’s cuisine section will be headlined
by acclaimed authors – Madhur Jaffrey and
Asma Khan. Jaffrey’s life has been shaped by
the array of meals she has feasted on during
her childhood in Delhi, her summer travels
in the Himalayan foothills and during her
eventual shift to Britain. Her book – Climbing
the Mango Tree – Food and Memory – will
have listeners traverse through her delightful
childhood experiences of living in the British
Raj and her perspectives on how distinct fla-
vours have the power to bring alive a bygone
era. She will be in conversation with author
Chandrahas Choudhury.
JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020
been a connection be-
tween science and the
arts which has defined
much of the progress
mankind has made. A
history of these vital
connections is what
Tilly Blythe will be
seen discussing at the
session on ‘The Art of
Innovation’ along
with Payal Arora and
Tarun Khanna. An-
other session,‘Tech
Horizons: The Next
Billion Users’,will
have Payal Arora and
Jaspreet Bindra in
conversation with
Vindu Goel discuss-
ing how Artificial In-
telligence (AI) has
been hyped up when
cat videos still tops
the list of most popu-
lar searches!
A riveting session
on AI and Creativity
will seebig names
from both the genres,
Marcus du Sautoy and
Sanjoy K. Roy, come
together for a grip-
ping session on
how Artificial
Intelligence
and creativity
can unite to
create some-
thing imagi-
native and
futuristic.
02
SESSIONS
YOU MUST NOT MISS
The Arts, Sciences and Creativity:
Marcus du Sautoy & Shubha Mudgal
O xford University’s famous mathematics professor
Marcus du Sautoy will team up with musician
Shubha Mudgal. Du Sautoy, the author of The Crea-
tivity Code, will delve into Artificial Intelligence and
present his case about how algorithms are going to
shape creativity. Mudgal’s Looking for Miss Sargam:
Stories of Music and Misadventure, last year, is
certain to have her own words of caution.
January 23, 10 am-11 am Front. Lawn
Jaipur Journals: The Writing Life:
Namita Gokhale and Shashi Tharoor
A uthor Namita Gokhale has just completed her
18th book, which will be released at the festival.
Called Jaipur Journals, it is part satire and part ode
to inspirations and heartbreaks of the writing life.
Set against the backdrop of JLF, Jaipur Journals
is a broad canvas of colourful characters like an
icon of queer literature who receives a malevolent
anonymous letter, a septuagenarian who carries her
unpublished novel in a canvas tote bag.
January 24, 11:15 am to 12:15 pm. Front Lawn
Client Earth: Jairam Ramesh, Martin
Goodman and David Wallace-Wells
C limate change litigation is going to be a much-
talked-about subject in a world that has just seen
devastating fires in the Amazon forests and Australia.
US-based environmental law firm Client Earth has
sued several big polluters across the world. James
Thornton, the founder of Client Earth, co-wrote a
book of the same title with Martin Goodman. The
book cites examples from around the world about cit-
izens using public interest law to protect the planet.
January 24, 3:45 pm to 4:45 pm. Charbagh
Of the People, By the People: Navin
Chawla, Madhav Khosla & Margaret Alva
Tdiscussed
he origins of the Constitution of India, the world’s
longest, and its democratic ethos are going to be
along with the challenges. The backdrop
of abrogation of Article 370 and the new citizenship
law provides the stage for an impassioned debate.
Among the speakers are former Chief Election Com-
missioner Navin Chawla, Madhav Khosla, who is
Ambedkar Visiting Associate Professor at Columbia
Law School, and politician Margaret Alva.
January 25, 11:15 am to 12:15 pm Front. Lawn
Poor Economics: Abhijit V. Banerjee in
conversation with Sreenivasan Jain
EJLFconomist Abhijit V. Banerjee, who won the Nobel
Prize for Economics last year, will be returning to
after eight years. Banerjee will keep his focus on
the world’s poorest, arguing that the economics of
poverty gets mistaken for poor economics. His years
of research through the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty
Action Lab founded by him in 2003 will be heard
through stories and data. And how the world could
defeat poverty.
January 26, 12:30 am to 1:30 pm. Front Lawn
The Five: The Untold Story of the
Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Tin thehevictims
audience will be hearing the moving tales of the
of the mysterious serial killer in London
late 19th century but in an entirely different
way. The victims of Jack the Ripper were all women
and portrayed in the media as sex workers. The Los
Angeles-born British social historian and author
Hallie Rubenhold will retell the real stories of Polly,
Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane, exposing
the misogyny surrounding gruesome murders.
January 27, 3:45 pm to 4:45 pm. Front Lawn.
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BRIEF
DoP relieves
Tanmay Kumar
Jaipur: DoP relieved a
1993 batch IAS officer
of Rajasthan cadre Tan-
may Kumar for Central
deputation. Tanmay has
been appointed as Joint
Secretary in Union
Ministry of Power.
Along with it, Deepak
Yadav has been relieved
for appointment in Un-
ion Cabinet Secretariat.
Death penalty for
dad for killing
daughter
Jaipur: A special court
here awarded death
penalty to a 45-year-old
man for repeatedly rap-
ing and impregnating
his 17-year-old mentally
unsound daughter be-
fore killing her.
Man gets 10-yr-RI
for raping minor
Jaipur: In abduction
and rape of a minor
girl, the victim has been
sentenced to rigorous
imprisonment of 10
years along with a fine
of Rs 35,000.
Don’t take action
against Nandu: HC
Jaipur: Judge SP Shar-
ma’s bench in Raj HC
has issued a notice to
Jyoti Nagar police sta-
tion to not take any ac-
tion against former
RCA officer RS Nandu
on FIR lodged against
him.
Man gets lifer for
raping minor
Jaipur: A POCSO court
sentenced a 24-year-old
man to life imprison-
ment for raping a minor
girl in 2017. The court
also imposed a fine of
Rs 60,000 on the convict,
a public prosecutor
said.
RAJASTHAN JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020
03
VOTING FOR PANCHAYAT
‘In democracy, the elected
representatives are greatest’
ELECTIONS TODAY
First India News er, then he/she should
not do any work with-
Jaipur: Amid the ques- out taking the public
In second phase, polling in 2,312 village panchayats of state will be held tions being raised about
bureaucracy in the
representative in confi-
dence, otherwise the
First India News FINGERS CROSSED state, Transport Min- government will take
ister Pratap Singh strict action.
Jaipur: After success- Khachariyawas gave a He said youth are go-
ful completion of first piece of advice to the of- ing through difficult
phase of polling in 2,312 ficers. Khachariyawas Khachariyawas add- situation, that is why
village panchayats, the held a public hearing at ed that they should let Rahul Gandhi is com-
second phase of polling the PCC on Tuesday and go of the misconception ing to Jaipur on Janu-
would take place on while interacting with that the work of the of- ary 28 to address them.
Wednesday. The voting media later, he said that ficials is only to follow Deputy Whip Mahen-
time is between 8am the person selected by orders of the govern- dra Chaudhary was
and 5pm while the re- the people, in a democ- ment. If there is a plan also present during the
sult will be out later in racy, is the greatest. in the mind of an offic- hearing.
the evening. Polling parties leaving from Bhawani Niketan School.
Polling in 15,127
wards of 2,312 village
panchayats of 74 Pan-
‘PANCHAYAT POLLS SHOULD BE HELD ON TIME’
D GUP
chayat Samitis will be eputy Chief chayat samiti and zila to form government A TIGER WHO TIGER MAM
held between 8 am and Minister and parishad elections are once again,” he said.
IS ‘BLESSED’ WHO SCARES
SHUP
5 pm, State Election PCC Chief not held simultane- “We must accord
Commissioner PS Sachin Pilot once ously with panchayat respect to party work- BY POLITICIAN HER JUNIORS
Mehra said. A total of
77,56,416 people are eli-
gible to exercise their
again reiterated that
panchayat elections
should be held on
elections,” said Pilot
who is also panchayat
raj minister. He said
ers who worked hard
in the field in past six
years,” he added. LOVE IS IN THE
O ne ‘Tiger Sir’ posted
in a district of
Ajmer range is being
T he attitude of a ‘tiger
madam’ is a major
cause of concern for the
franchise. Counting time. Speaking to me- SC never comes in the The PCC chief also AIR FOR TIGER talked about for the officers posted under
for sarpanch posts will dia on completing six way of elections. informed that Rahul AND BRAVO manner he is handling her. The madam, who
be done on Wednesday years as PCC presi- “When I took over, Gandhi would ad- district and police work. sits in her office on the
itself.
21 sarpanches and
dent, Pilot said that
election commission
the party had just 21
MLAs. It was common
dress a rally against
citizenship amend- O ne more ‘love story’
is brewing in khaki
these days as a ‘panther
Although controversial,
Tiger is not being
third floor of PHQ, is
well known for treating
7,466 panches have been is a statutory body belief that Congress ment act (CAA) in questioned! Sources or rather mistreating the
elected unopposed in 25 and requested it to would not be able to Jaipur on January 28. sahab’ is head over heels
for a ‘bravo madam’. reveal that ‘Tiger’ is juniors. Word is that the
districts. Apart from hold polls on time. rise again. But, with The rally is expected
Several ‘stories’ are under ‘protection’ of a madam is agitated to get
these, 15,334 candidates “I am seeing it for hard work of party to take place in Ram-
being spun around this Congress candidate who a field posting and from
are in the fray for sar- the first time that pan- workers we were able niwas Garden.
‘love’ as the Panther although lost recently, the time she has been
panch posts and 43,376
candidates for panch is posted in PHQ and but ‘Tiger’ stood on put on non-field posting,
posts. ficer Dr Jogaram in- To ensure peaceful samiti. Each polling mam is posted in an candidate’s side like a she has been acting
More than 3.61 lakh formed that prepara- voting, the district booth has at least 4 se- investigating agency. solid rock and thus this thus. In order to enforce
voters in Govindgarh tions have been com- election officer said curity personnels. The duo meet ‘under woman candidate, who is her authority, she has
and Sanganer panchay- pleted for polling as that 24 zonal magis- Since polling for cover’ during office time. associated with a major been throwing attitude
at samitis of Jaipur dis- polling parties along trates and 2 area mag- the post of sarpanch Notably, the Panther was political family, is on to her immediate junior
trict will cast their with 85 types of polling istrates in Govindgarh would be done in a major controversy tiger’s side. Interestingly, officers. There are some
votes to elect ward material were dis- samiti and 16 zonal through EVM, there- during his last posting, tiger is also working officers who claim that
panch in 2,333 gram patched for booths magistrates and 2 area fore, result of sar- while the madam was in ‘extra hard’ to gather info attitude will go once she
on his seniors and pass remains off-field for the
panchayat. from Bhawani Niketan magistrates have been panch election would ‘limelight’ for solving an
District election of- School on Tuesday. deployed in Sanganer be declared first. important case. it to the mam. next five years.
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Shocking: Paying power bills Slow
Project irks Dhariwal
not a priority for govt offices
Report from 3 discoms reveals that arrears of many depts has reached Rs1200 crores
Vikas Sharma
Jaipur: If you don’t pay
your home/office elec-
tricity bills for months
your services will be
barred, right? However,
that’s not the case with
government offices. It’s
a well-known fact that
for govt officials’ deposi-
tion of the electricity
bill is their remotest
concern. However, as
soon as any action takes
place from the electrici-
ty department havoc is
created by the govt dept
representatives. On the
other hand, power com-
panies are avoiding ac-
tions on such connec-
tions as they are con-
cerned about issues that
Sinha’s Gandhi Shanti Yatra
opposing CAA reaches Raj
First India News
Chittorgarh: Former
Union Finance Minis-
ter in the Atal Bihari
government Yashwant
Sinha has organised the
Gandhi Shanti Yatra
against CAA. The Gan-
dhi Shanti Yatra, which
started on January 9
from Mumbai, will con-
clude in Delhi on Janu-
ary 30. On Tuesday, the
yatra entered Chittor-
garh in Rajasthan via
Gujarat. While interact-
ing with the media,
Yashwant Sinha spoke
on the NRC and said
that the government
has sown the seeds of
envy in the country by
implementing this law.
Guv plans to tour tribal areas
soon to review development
First India News
Jaipur: To pace up the
development of tribal
regions, Governor
Kalraj Mishra said that
he will be visiting tribal
areas in the future. In
the meeting with the
Tribal Area Develop-
ment board, he said
tourism and sports
should be promoted in
these regions. Tribal
area director Shalabh
Kumar was also present
in the meeting along
with Tribal Regional
FROM PG 1
Despite protests...
A canard is being
spread against the CAA
by the Congress, SP,
BSP, and Trinamool
Congress.
The CAA is a law to
grant citizenship, he
added. I want to say that
irrespective of the pro-
tests it will not be with-
drawn,” he added.
Shah challenged op-
position leaders to hold
a discussion with him
on the CAA at a public
forum. He named Con-
gress leader Rahul
Gandhi, Samajwadi
Party’s Akhilesh Yadav,
Bahujan Samaj Party’s
Mayawati and TMC
chief Mamata Banerjee
pace of Smart City
the public will face after
the barring of connec-
tions in govt offices.
Taking advantage of the
situation, govt officials
are not looking serious
towards the payment of
the electricity bills.
Ex-Union FM Yashwant Sinha in Chittorgarh
‘LAW CAME WITH NO RULES’
Governor Kalraj Mishra with Vice-Chancellor of Matsya University
Professor Jagdish Prasad Yadav at Raj Bhavan on Tuesday.
Development Minister
Arjun Singh Bamania
and Principal Secy
Akhil Arora. For the
overall development of
people living in back-
while throwing the
challenge.
“If any clause of the
CAA takes away the cit-
izenship of anyone, in-
cluding Muslims, they
can tell me.
Why make...
Who is going to bring
back a man from the
dead if he is innocent.
This is why the death
penalty is not to be used
lightly. And this is why
there also needs to be a
solid enquiry into why
Afzal Guru was made
the scapegoat.” Howev-
er, later Razdan clari-
fied in another post
asked why no one took
Afzal Guru’s allega-
DEPARTMENTS WITH THEIR
RESPECTIVE ELECTRICITY BILL DUES
Three discoms have
recently released their
reports, which reveal
that up till November
2019 the arrears of more
than half a dozen de-
partments have reached
Rs1200 crores. In this
ward areas, Guv Mishra
suggested that quality
education, medical fa-
cilities and employment
fairs should be organ-
ised on larger scales.
tions about Davinder
Singh seriously.
Airports to...
alcohol at duty-free
shops to one bottle as
part of steps to reduce
import of non-essential
goods.
Purchase of cigarette
cartons at duty-free
shops is sought to be
prohibited altogether.
APAO says this will
be disastrous for all In-
dian aviation stake-
holders: airports, air-
lines, passengers, du-
ty-free operators.
According to the as-
sociation, the restric-
tions will lead to an in-
crease in passenger
RAJASTHAN JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020
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First India News
Ajmer: Self-Govern-
ment Department Min-
ister Shanti Dhariwal
months of the financial reached Ajmer on Tues-
year remaining, the situ- day to hold a meeting
ation has increased the with officials of Ajmer
concern of power com- at the Collectorate, re-
pany officials. Sighting garding the develop-
which, the chief secre- ment works being done Self-Government Department Minister Shanti Dhariwal along with
tary has taken the entire under the Smart City officials during the review meeting at Collectorate on Tuesday.
matter to the govt. It’s Project. During the
expected that respite can meeting, Dhariwal re- rected the officials to cials to look for another
only be possible with the buked several officials, instantly speed up many place for the second el-
intervention of the Fi- including Municipal public utility works and evated road to be built
nance Dept. Corp Commissioner stop the useless tasks. in Ajmer. Dhariwal said
This is not the first Chinmayee Gopal, about After the meeting, that the pace of work is
time the matter of ar- the pace of work and Dhariwal went out on a also very slow.
rears of electricity bills asked why they did not visit to project sites, in- Under the project,
of government offices identify the issues be- cluding elevated road, there will be 8 smart
huge figure, Rs 500 has come to light. Earli- fore starting the project. JLN Hospital, Subhash parking, 3 developed
crores alone is lying out- er, as a permanent solu- Dhariwal said, when Udyan, treatment plant parks, urban forest,
standing on various tion, the issue was seri- you knew the project to and bird park, and gave beautification of all en-
UITs. This has drawn ously taken and under be worth in crores, then necessary instructions try roads in Ajmer and
massive trouble for pow- Uday Yojana installation why were the tenders to the officials. Dhari- solid waste manage-
er companies that are of prepaid meters in not made immediately wal was also not satis- ment along with the
currently struggling government offices were after making the DPR. fied with the elevated correct utilisation of
with insolvency. With 2 commenced. The minister also di- work and ordered offi- the public money.
IAS Mehra gets
relief from HC
A sensitive Speaker Birla shows Fake ADC was
troubling Raj
First India News concern for the homeless in cold Bhavan staff
Jaipur: IAS Lalit Meh- late night and will try to
ra finally gets relief
READY FOR NEEDY distribute blankets
from the High Court in along with providing
the 7-year old contempt shelter to the homeless.
case. HC had taken su- Today, Om Birla will
perannuation in the be on a 1-day visit to
case related to the ra- Haryana. After leaving
tion shop. On Feb 15 from his Delhi resi-
2013, the single bench of dence by road at 8 am,
Justice Mohd Rafiq had Birla would reach Ku-
taken up the processing. rukshetra at 10:30 am to
HC had given instruc- attend the 32nd convoca-
tions for personal ap- tion ceremony of Ku- Kashiram Choudhary
pearance on every date rukshetra University.
to Mehra. He was the First India News From Kurukshetra, the Jaipur: It has been re-
then Principal Secre- LS Speaker will leave vealed that the officials
tary in the Dept of Food Kota: During the home- for Chandigarh at 12:30 of the Raj Bhavan were
and Civil Supplies. Oth- town visit of Lok Sabha Tuesday, Birla also held pm and will address the also having problems
er people freed from the Speaker Om Birla, he a public hearing at his enlightenment program due to a fake IAS officer
contempt case include has expressed concern residence situated at organised for the newly Neeraj Vaishnav, who
the then DSO Om for the homeless, who Shakti Nagar and heard elected MLAs there. Af- was arrested by the
Prakash Pandey of are forced to spend the the issues of the people. ter the program, Birla Ashok Nagar police on
Jaipur and legal adviser night in the open, during Later, Birla informed will leave for Delhi by Monday. Neeraj, who
Ramnivas Sharma. the coldwave in Kota. On that I will be in Kota till air at 6:50 pm. did a fraud of Rs 6 lakh
in the name of provid-
in ing employment, not
only used to meet people
as an IAS officer, but he
BRIEF also met people as the
 Chief On the occasion of the
foundation day of Rajasthan Net-
raheen Kalyan Sangh, Chief Whip
 Tonk Dist Education Officer
Shivram Singh Yadav issued a cir-
cular ordering the employees of the
the waiting list, the bench of Judge
Sabina and Judge Narendra Singh
in the Rajasthan High Court upheld
ADC of former Gover-
nor Kalyan Singh.
When the officials of
Dr. Mahesh Joshi motivated the govt schools of the district to wear the order of the single bench, reject- Raj Bhavan got informa-
blind children through his address. a decent dress on duty. The circular ing the appeal of the state govern- tion about it, they regis-
Joshi said that there is no one in stated that wearing jeans t-shirt or ment yet again. Earlier, HC’s single tered a complaint.
the world who is perfect. Even a other casual dresses is contrary to bench had asked to fill the vacant Neeraj had entered the
person with healthy eyes cannot dignity. The employees must wear posts of recruitment from the wait- Raj Bhavan on multiple
see every part of an atom. If God formal pant shirt on duty. Also, Edu ing list on Jan 14 2016. occasions in the past
gives a deficiency, then it also Minister Govind Singh Dotasara did and also took photo-
provides a quality as well. I salute not term the order as incorrect.  In the case of abduction and graphs with the officials
your struggle. rape, Suresh Meena has been including former Gov-
 BJP National General Secretary sentenced to 10 years of rigorous ernor Kalyan Singh’s
 A matter of selling blood was Kailash Vijayvargiya reached Baran imprisonment. He is the resident of assistant or ADC Major
revealed in the blood bank of SMS on Tuesday to offer prayers to his Phagi area, Jaipur. The crime was Abhimanyu Singh. Lat-
Hospital in Jaipur on Tuesday. totem. Vijayvargiya also met BJP done on 9th August 2018 in the er, people found some-
On the complaint of a patient, 2 workers during the day, before leav- Phulera region. On the next day – thing suspicious about
people were caught, who were later ing for Indore. 10th August – the bike met with an him and informed the
arrested by the police. Both the accident in Sikar which led to the Raj Bhavan and former
accused were said to be addicted to  In the case of filling the vacant death of the rape victim who was ADC Abhimanyu filed a
intoxication. posts of PTI Recruitment-2011 from sitting on the bike. complaint to the police.
charges and may en- Tata Teleservices). Coronavirus: rally is considered to be ish Choudhary and se-
courage smuggling, be- Thermal... a challenge. nior party leader Dhar-
sides a revenue loss to Reliance is... asking citizens to fol- Gehlot visited Vidy- mendra Rathore. Ge-
airports of about Rs 650 For the oil-to-telecom low certain precau- adhar Nagar stadium hlot said the central
crore per annum. conglomerate, energy tionary measures and Albert Hall to de- government has been
remains core business while visiting the cide on the venue after making laws to divert
Govt approves... and is expected to fur- country. which it was decided people’s attention from
for increasing the limit ther expand as India is that since the rally is real issues. It is neces-
of foreign investment up forecast to be the fast- Rahul’s an important one and sary that people should
to 100 per cent of the est-growing market for coronation... accordingly to send a be told about its inten-
paid-up capital of the fuel and chemical prod- It is believed that suc- big message, the venue tions.
company,” the filing said. ucts over the next de- cess of chief minister’s must be in the heart of Meanwhile, ahead
The approval comes cade, it said adding the ‘Peace March’ last the city rather than of Rahul Gandhi’s
few days before the company’s partnership month was a major rea- outside. Hence, Albert visit, a meeting over
company has to clear with BP of the UK and son behind selecting hall was selected as the the same will be held
statutory liabilities of Saudi Aramco will sup- Jaipur for the inaugu- venue. in the PCC on Janu-
up to nearly Rs 35,586 port this. ral rally for Rahul’s na- The CM was accom- ary 23 wherein CM
crore, of which Rs tionwide campaign panied by deputy CM Ashok Gehlot, PCC
21,682 crore is licence Trump Repeats... against the CAA. Sachin Pilot along with Chief Sachin Pilot,
fee and another Rs we certainly will be Though, there is ex- other ministers, in- entire cabinet and
13,904.01 crore is spec- helping. We’ve been fol- citement in the party cluding Raghu Shar- MLAs will be present
trum dues (excluding lowing that and watch- about Rahul’s rally but ma, Pratap Singh to talk on the prepa-
the dues of Telenor and ing it very very closely”. bringing youths to the Khachariyawas, Har- rations.
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JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020
05

CAA ROW

SHAH CALLS RAGA, DIDI FOR CAA DEBATE

“The bill proposes to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities of three neighbouring countries,”Home Minister said at a Jan Jagran Abhiyan
Lucknow: Union Home
Minister Amit Shah
challenged Rahul Gan-
‘MODI, SHAH DRAG ON DEMOCRACY’ ‘Opposition
dhi, Mamata Banerjee
and Akhilesh Yadav for
New Delhi: Congress
leader Kapil Sibal said
clothes they wear) Re-
flect that the duo Modiji doing false
a debate on the newly
enacted Citizenship
the nationwide protests
against CAA reflected
and Amit Shah are a
drag on Indian Democ- propaganda
Amendment Act (CAA).
“I have come to you
that PM Modi & Home
Minister Amit Shah
racy,” the Congress
leader added. on CAA’
for a Jan Jagaran Abhi- were a “drag on Indian Ahead of the start of
yan in Lucknow. Our democracy.” Sibal’s the World Economic Fo-
government is hardly 8 comments come after rum annual summit in
months old but we are the IMF had lowered In- Davos, Switzerland, In-
conducting this cam- dia’s economic growth “IMF lowers India’s dia-born IMF chief
paign to dispell the fal- estimate for the current GDP for 2019 to 4.8%. economist Gita Gopi-
sities being spread by fiscal to 4.8 per cent and Calls it a drag on the nath had said growth in
the opposition against listed the country’s world economy,” Sibal the country slowed
CAA. I challenge Rahul much-lower-than-ex- tweeted. “Protests of sharply owing to stress
Gandhi, Mamata Ba- pected GDP numbers as people, young and old, in the non-bank finan- Lucknow: Uttar
nerjee and Akhilesh Ya- Union Home Minister Amit Shah & Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath being garlanded by the single-biggest drag across India (who can’t cial sector and weak Pradesh Chief Min-
dav to engage in a de- senior party leaders during a rally under Jan Jagran Abhiyan in support of CAA & NRC in Lucknow. on its global growth. be recognised by the rural incomegrowth. ister Yogi Adity-
bate on CAA,” Shah anath on Tuesday
said. “Unrest is being
caused in country by
opposition. CAA is not
Akhilesh’s girl joins protest ‘States needn’t
object to NPR’
5 days at clock tower said that the opposi-
tion parties have
been doing false
intended to take away Lucknow: Tina Yadav, Lucknow: Women at propaganda on the
the citizenship of any- the 14-year-old daugh- New Delhi: Union Min- Lucknow’s clock tower Citizenship Amend-
one. The bill proposes to ter of Samajwadi Party ister of State for Home continue to brave Jan- ment Act (CAA).
grant citizenship to per- chief Akhilesh Yadav, Affairs, G Kishan Red- uary’s cold weather as Speaking at sup-
secuted minorities of was seen participating dy said that National their protest entered port rally for CAA,
three neighbouring in an anti-CAA rally Population Register is a the fifth day on Tues- Adityanath said,
countries,” he ex- few days back. constitutional obliga- day against CAA, NRC “CAA is the law to
plained. CAA grants citi- Tina reached the Clock tion on states and they and NPR. give citizenship to
zenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Tower on Sunday, where cannot refuse to partici- Meanwhile, police those who faced re-
Jains Parsis, Buddhists & hundreds of women pate in the process. have registered three ligious persecution
Christians fleeing reli- were sitting on protest “It (NPR) is a consti- FIRs in connection with coming to Lucknow to- in Pakistan, Af-
gious persecution from against the citizenship tutional obligation on the ongoing protest, day. He is saying people ghanistan and
Pakistan, Afghanistan, & laws, and spent time no one noticed her pres- since some of Tina’s states, states should not which began on Janu- are misled. He should Bangladesh, but the
Bangladesh and came to talking to the women. ence. It is only when her friends were a part of object to this, we will ary 17. “We are on in- speak on it. It is our Opposition is doing
India on or before Decem- She was accompanied photo went viral on the protests, she had continue to sensitize definite protest until Constitutional right to false propaganda
ber 31, 2014. —ANI by her friends. Tuesday that the matter gone to meet them and them, disclosing infor- anyone from the gov- protest. There are FIRs regarding it.”
Since she is still not a came to light. even sat with them for mation to NPR is volun- ernment comes and against 150 people,” “They are speaking
TECH SAVVY well known celebrity, Sources said that some time. tary,” Reddy said. talks to us. Amit Shah is said a protestor. —ANI the language of the
country’s enemy. So

TMC to bring Anti-CAA MASSIVE PROTEST

‘Radical Muslims behind protests’ we cannot remain
silent on this. Peo-

resolution on Jan 27 New Delhi: CAA is just

an “excuse” and the
target is Ram Temple,
ple have been ma-
nipulated on this
incident but lies
Kolkata: A day after ary 27. The develop- said BJP spokesperson cannot stay forev-
West Bengal Chief Min- ment comes at a time GVL Narasimha Rao er,” he said.
ister Mamata Banerjee when the ruling Trina- regarding protests Welcoming n
announced that her mool Congress (TMC) is against the new law. Home Minister
government will table a being targeted by the She was accompanied Amit Shah on the
resolution against the Left Front & Congress by her friends. “CAA stage and praising
Citizenship (Amend- for not passing a resolu- protests which have PM Modi, Adity-
ment) Act (CAA) in the tion against CAA in the been going on at sever- anath said, “We all
state Assembly, Parlia- Assembly.The Left and al places over the past know that many im-
mentary Affairs Minis- Congress had also ques- month are being car- is not going to take citi- ing the protest? These portant issues have
ter Partha Chatterjee tioned the authenticity ried out by some funda- zenship of people pro- protests are the handi- been solved in the
said that the resolution of CM’s opposition to mentalists from Mus- testing in Shaheen work of radical Mus- last 6 months. —ANI
will be tabled on Janu- CAA in this regard. lim community... CAA Bagh. Who is sponsor- lims,” Rao said. —ANI

Kejriwal files nomination after waiting for over 6 hours AMAZON MEETS TAJ
Amazon CEO
New Delhi: Delhi Chief roadshow which de- Hitting out at BJP,
Jeff Bezos
Minister Arvind Kejri- layed his reaching the AAP MLA Saurabh (L) and his
wal filed his nomina- election office. He later Bharadwaj said, girlfriend
tion after waiting for said that he will file his Around 35 candidates Lauren
over six hours, the Aam nomination today are sitting at RO office Sanchez
Aadmi Party said. Ke- (Tuesday).Arvind Ke- without proper nomina- (R) pose for
jriwal was 45th in queue jriwal is seeking a con- tion papers, even with- photographs
to file his nomination secutive third term as out names of 10 propos- in the
backdrop of
from the New Delhi con- CM.His first stint as ers. They are insisting
the historic
stituency from where Chief Minister lasted unless their papers are Taj Mahal,
he had registered a for only 49 days after he complete & file nomina- in Agra on
landslide victory in resigned from the post tion. They won’t allow Tuesday,
2015. AAP spokesper- of Chief Ministercit- CM Kejriwal to file Jan. 21,
son Saurabh Bhardwaj ing issues in the alli- nomination. BJP is be- 2020.
said Kejriwal has filed ance with the Congress hind these people.” Vot- —PHOTO
his nomination at (INC) party. ing for 70-member Delhi BY PTI
around 6.30 pm. ‘35 candidates sitting Assembly will be held
Arvind Kejriwal at RO office without on Feb 8. The counting
couldn’t file his nomi- proper nomination pa- Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate from New Delhi seat, Arvind Kejriwal at of votes will take place
nation yesterday to his pers’ the Returning Officer’s office to file his nomination in New Delhi on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI on Feb 11. —PTI

JP NADDA MEETS BJP GENERAL DAVINDER SINGH’S DGP

SECRETARIES AT PARTY HEADQUARTERS
New Delhi: A day after
being elected as party
chief, JP Nadda y met
party general secretaries
at the BJP headquarters.
Nadda on Monday said
it is only possible in BJP
that a worker like him,
coming from a village in
HP, is given the respon-
sibility of the party chief.
In his speech at the BJP
headquarters here after
taking over as the national
president, Nadda also
expressed gratitude to
the party’s senior leaders
for reposing faith in him.
“I thank State units for
electing me unopposed
and for giving me this
opportunity. I will move
forward with strength as I
have received the full sup-
port of the party’s central
leadership,” he added.
‘12,000 YOUNGSTERS TRAINED COMMENDATION MEDAL FORFEITED
UNDER ‘HIMAYAT’ PROGRAMME’ Srinagar: The DGP com-
Srinagar: Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi mendation medal along
said that Rs 16 crore has been granted to J&K with a certificate that was
under the ‘Himayat’ program under which awarded to suspended
12,000 young people have been trained. “Under DSP Davinder Singh has
‘Himayat’ programme, Rs 16 crore has been been forfeited after his
granted for Jammu and Kashmir and 12,000 arrest. Davinder Singh
young people have been trained. AIIMS is being was arrested on charges
established in Samba and Awantipora,” Naqvi of trying to assist ter-
said. Naqvi is in Srinagar as part of a massive rorists to travel outside
outreach by Central government, two months J&K. Director General of
after J&K formally became a Union territory. Police (DGP), Jammu and
Kashmir, Dilbag Singh
had on Monday said that
the Bangladesh visits
of Davinder Singh, who
was arrested with Hizbul
Mujahideen terrorists a
few days back, are being
investigated. “It has come
to our knowledge that his
(Davinder’s) daughters
studied in Bangladesh. It
is being investigated if his
visits were only restricted
to that angle,” Singh said.
‘JJP NOT TO CONTEST DELHI
POLLS, TO CAMPAIGN FOR BJP’
Chandigarh: Haryana Dy CM and Jannayak
Janata Party chief Dushyant Chautala said that
his party will not contest the Delhi assembly polls
and efforts will be made to strengthen the party
in Delhi. Chautala said the party will try over the
next one month to boost party’s membership in
the national capital. He added that the party will
hold joint campaign with BJP wherever needed.
Chautala said the party had requested EC before
the code of conduct came into force to allot ‘key’
as poll symbol it had been been reserved.
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06

WHO CALLS
IN-DEPTH
KASHMIRI PANDITS
FOR PUBLIC AWAITING JUSTICE
HEALTH There has been not been a single conviction against perpetrators of genocide & ethnic cleansing

EMERGENCY COL DEVANAND

G
lobal health emergency is on the LOHAMAROD
horizon with the rapid spread of a
new virus that originated in the
Wuhan province of China. The vi-

J
rus—from the Corona family of anuary 19 has come and gone
viruses has jumped borders, spread to at least but still, Kashmiri Pandits have
four countries and is confirmed to be spreading not returned to their rightful
from human-to-human. home. It marked the beginning
Just a few weeks ago, the outbreak ap- of the seventh mass exodus of
peared localised in the Central Chinese Pandits from Kashmir in last
province and appeared innocuous. But, 800 years of history virtually
over the past few days, it has turned into a turning them refugees in their
threat, infecting at least 300 persons in own country amidst the slogan-
China and claiming six lives. Beyond Chi- eering of “Ralive, Tsalive ya
na, the outbreak has been reported in Thai- Galive (convert to Islam, leave
land, Japan, and South Korea. the place or perish)” reverber-
The history of viruses—especially that of ated from the mosques and
the recent H1N1 outbreak—shows they streets in the valley.
spread through the world within no time. If 1947 onwards Kashmir
countries affected by them do not share infor- was under threat of fanati-
mation, take emergency measures to contain cal Islamic forces leading to Nabi Azad and Saifudeen and crime at earliest.
the spread, localized diseases often turn into full Islamisation process many such other incidents (b) Rehabilitation: effective,
global pandemics. when 2500 villages were re- leading to the genocide of 5 transparent and workable re-
There are already fears that China has named to new Islamic names lakh Hindus. habilitation plan should be put
reacted to the outbreak very late. Though in 1980 by Abdullah govern- Of those who mustered in place for the safe return of
it announced a series of measures on Tues- ment and Sheikh Abdullah courage to continue staying, the displaced people.
day, including the cancellation of upcom- started delivering commu- 219 of them were killed in in- (c) Land & House Property:
ing Lunar New Year celebrations, expected nal speeches from mosques humane manner in between Amit Shah had stated The land & house property of
to attract hundreds of thousands of peo- with Pandits referred as 1989 and 2004 but none there- all the displaced people occu-
last year in Rajya pied by local people or govern-
ple, health experts suspect dozens of peo- “Mukhbirbur” but 1990 was after. In one of the innumer-
ple have already taken the virus to new culmination of well-orches- able horrifying incidents, BK Sabha that their ment should be returned to
areas. Also, in the coming days, hundreds of trated genocidal plot to dis- Ganjoo who was hiding in the government is owners as on 19 Jan 90 status.
millions of Chinese are expected to travel with- lodge Kashmiri Hindus rice container was shot committed to bringing (d) Composite housing : Panun
in their country and overseas as the annual launched by ISIS with support through on information pro- Kashmir bats for composite
Kashmiri Pandits
Lunar New Year holiday begins. of terrorist and some Kashmi- vided by the neighbour and township /separate territory to
Global health organizations fear the Chi- ri politicians/people in spite of thereafter his wife was forced back to the Valley be carved out for the displaced
nese bureaucracy may have moved too them living as neighbours to to eat the blood-soaked rice. pundits in valley but there may
slowly and may have actually under-re- the very Pandits for years. The advocates of human be serious security and social
ported the threat of the new virus, with The worst of all was that rights / champions of secular- challenges and may prove
some studies suggesting the number of the state government of the ism were neither seen on the counter-productive as in case
patients in Wuhan alone maybe around day was moot spectator even night of January 19, 1990, nor of Palestine -Israel.
2000. Though infections were first detected in The advocates while on 4 January 90, Aft- thereafter, when there were Amit Shah had stated last
Wuhan in mid-December, infrared temperature of human ab, a local newspaper car- voices blaring from all year in Rajya Sabha that their
screening areas were not installed in the city’s rights / ried warnings by Hizbul Mu- mosques in Kashmir that they government is committed to
airports and stations until January 14, accord- jahedeen to Pundits to leave wanted Kashmir with Hindu dit families, comprising 3,445 bringing Kashmiri Pandits
ing to state media. The Chinese authorities
champions of valley and open military- women but without Hindu people, were left. back to the Valley and assured
also failed to realize that the virus can secularism were type marches on streets by men? Where was the saviour 30th anniversary of the that soon they will be able to
spread between humans. They are now say- neither seen on masked jihadis. The central of humanity then? mass exodus of Kashmiri offer prayers at the famous
ing it definitely gets transmitted from hu- the night of government too are equally re- As per one of jailed terror- Pundits from the Valley in Kheer Bhawani temple. Time is
man-to-human after one patient infected as January 19, sponsible for the carnage as ist serving term, the geno- the backdrop of historical running out and the govern-
many as 14 medical staff in one hospital. 1990, nor they too did not act. The admin- cide was well planned and defanging 370, has been ment should take immediate
India has announced it will screen pas- istration appeared in league orchestrated with the sup- marked with “Hum Aay- concrete steps.
thereafter, when Booking of Yasin Malik Ma-
sengers coming from China at its major with the anti-Bharat forces port of local neighbours enge Apne Watan” dialogue
airports. The Civil Aviation Ministry had there were since it failed to take counter wherein the strategy to instill from an upcoming movie lik and few others nearly after
received an advisory from the govern- voices blaring measures even after the killing fear in Pundits to leave valley ‘Shikara’, with the hope 30 years for murdering Indian
ment, saying that health screening of from all Tika Lal Taploo on 14 Septem- by way of offensive slogan- that they would return to Air Force officials is a welcome
passengers coming from China to Kolka- mosques in ber 1989, setting of police car eering from mosques to avoid their homeland one day. step but nation has a far greater
ta, Delhi, and Mumbai has to be under- Kashmir that on fire at Navakadal in same stress of pulling trigger lakhs Safety /security and reha- responsibility to instill confi-
taken at pre-immigration counters in- they wanted month, judge NK Ganjoo mur- of times, which as last resort bilitation are the two biggest dence, rebuild a sense of secu-
stalled with thermal cameras. China has der on 4 Nov , the terrorist ex- would have been executed hurdle in the return. Important rity /pride and create a condu-
exported many viruses to the world—includ-
Kashmir with change drama for release of had pundits not left valley. considerations are:- cive environment for displaced
ing the SARS virus that killed more than 6000 Hindu women Rubaiya sayeed, daughter of While in 1990 there were 75 (a) Justice: The guilty of Pundits to return soonest.
people in 2002-2003. It is time to be prepared but without Union home minister / rela- thousand families housed in genocide be identified, booked THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
for the worst. Hindu men? tives of Congress leader Gulam valley but In 2010 only 808 Pan- and punished for the heinous THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

Surfing web at work might make you productive

I
f you’re like ployees surf the web as a and shopping, ranking
most workers, response to boredom and them from “never” to “con-
you don’t spend unclear instructions. stantly.” We also asked par-
100% of your ticipants to rank job satis-
time at the of- IMPACT ON STRESS faction, their desire to quit
fice doing what you’re sup- But is cyberloafing actual- and how often they’ve expe-
posed to be doing. ly effective at reducing em- rienced mistreatment at
In fact, on average, US ployee stress levels? That’s work.
workers spend about 10% the question Stacey Kes- As you might expect, we
of their work day surfing sler, Shani Pindek, Gary found that participants who
the internet, emailing Kleinman, Paul Spector reported more workplace
friends or shopping on- and I wanted to answer in mistreatment had lower lev-
line. This so-called cyber- our new study. Our hypoth- els of job satisfaction and
loafing costs employers esis was that cyberloafing were more likely to want to
up to US$85 billion a year. may serve as a mini break leave their companies.
But it turns out, these during the workday, giving More interestingly, we
behaviors may not be a employees an opportunity found that cyberloafing
sign a worker is lazy or just in 2002 by researchers from er use policies. to recover from stressful effectively buffered this
wasting time. New re- the National University of However, more recent re- work situations. connection. That is, mis-
search I conducted with Singapore, typically as- Social media use search has found that using To test this, we recruited treated workers who
several colleagues suggests sumes that this behavior is the internet at work for per- 258 university students who spent more time surfing
TOP TWEET
cyberloafing can help problematic and counter-
at work has been sonal purposes may also also worked at least 20 hours the web and checking Dharmendra Pradhan
workers cope with an ex- productive. Therefore, the linked to higher have some positive out- per week to complete an on- emails reported higher @dpradhanbjp
ceptionally stressful work majority of cyberloafing levels of comes. And other studies line survey about their ex- job satisfaction and were Welcomed HE Mr. Satoshi Suzuki,
Japanese Ambassador to India
environment. research focuses on ways employee indicate that cyberloaf- periences on the job. Spe- less likely to want to quit
@EOJinIndia, who assumed charge
to deter employees from ing may provide a way cifically, we asked them to than similar participants
CYBERLOAFING engaging in this behav-
engagement and for employees to manage rank how much time they who didn’t cyberloaf as
recently. Discussed about the
ongoing cooperation in steel and oil
AND STRESS ior through interven- job satisfaction workplace stress. For in- spent doing a variety of cy- much. & gas sectors and identified areas
Existing research on cyber- tions such as internet stance, empirical re- berloafing behaviors such FOR FULL REPORT LOG ON TO for further enhancing India-Japan
loafing, a term first coined monitoring and comput- search suggest that em- as checking non-work email WWW.THECONVERSATION.COM strategic partnership.

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POWER Gallery
IN THE COURTYARD
TAX EVASION CASE

MADRAS HC ORDERS INTERIM STAY

VIJAYENDRA KUMAR PROMOTED TO
PRINCIPAL SECRETARY GRADE IN HARYANA
Vijayendra Kumar has been promoted to the
Higher Administrative Grade (Principal Secretary
level)in Haryana. He is a 1995 batch IAS officer of
THE MATTER RELATES TO ALLEGED NON-DISCLOSURE OF `1.35 CR RECEIVED BY KARTI Haryana cadre.

CHIDAMBARAM, SON OF FORMER UNION MINISTER P CHIDAMBARAM, AND HIS WIFE D SURESH PROMOTED TO PRINCIPAL
SECRETARY GRADE IN HARYANA
Chennai: The Madras
High Court today grant- HC stays order to quash D Suresh has been promoted to the Higher
Administrative Grade (Principal Secretary level)

DGP’s appointment
ed an interim stay till in Haryana. He is a 1995 batch IAS officer of
January 27, on the pro- Haryana cadre.
ceedings against Con-
gress Lok Sabha MP Chandigarh: The Pun- 26,” Punjab Advocate HARSH VARDHAN AGRAWAL APPOINTED
Karti Chidambaram jab and Haryana High General Atul Nanda AS ADC TO RAJASTHAN GOVERNOR
and his wife Srinidi in Court stayed a Central said. Chandigarh bench Harsh Vardhan Agrawal has been appointed as
connection with a case Administrative Tribu- of CAT had quashed his aide-de-camp (ADC) to Governor of Rajasthan.
of alleged income tax nal (CAT) order quash- appointment. He is a 2016 batch IPS officer.
evasion, pending before ing the appointment of Officers Mohammad
a lower court. Punjab DGP Dinkar Mustafa & Siddharth TANMAY KUMAR RELIEVED TO JOIN
Justice M Sundar, be- Gupta. With this devel- Chattopadhyaya had AS JOINT SECRETARY, POWER
fore whom the petition opment, Gupta will now challenged the appoint- The Government of Rajasthan has relieved
by Karti Chidambaram continue as Punjab ment of Gupta as DGP Tanmay Kumar of cadre responsibility enabling
and his wife, seeking to DGP. “The honourable in the tribunal after him to join central deputation as Joint Secretary
stall the proceedings be- court has stayed the they were ignored by Ministry of Power. He is a 1993 batch IAS officer.
fore the special court CAT order. The matter (UPSC) panel for the ap-
DEEPAK YADAV RELIEVED TO JOIN
constituted to hear cases will now come up for pointment despite ful-
related to MPs and MLAs hearing on February filling criteria. —ANI
CENTRAL DEPUTATION
came up for hearing,
The Government of Rajasthan has relieved
granted an interim in-
junction till January 27.
SC agrees to hear telecom Supreme Court to hear 143 petitions Deepak Yadav of cadre responsibility enabling
him to join central deputation as Under Secre-
tary, Cabinet Secretariat. He is a 2015 batch IPS
The matter relates to
the alleged non-disclo-
companies’ petition challenging Citizenship Amendment Act today officer.
sure of Rs 1.35 crore re- New Delhi: The Su- lowing which the court New Delhi: The SC on AJAY SHANKAR SINGH APPOINTED
ceived by Karti Chid- preme Court on Tues- listed the matter for Wednesday will hear a AS CCA, LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT
ambaram, son of for- day agreed to hear next next week. The top clutch of 143 petitions Ajay Shankar Singh has been appointed as Chief
mer union minister P week applications filed court said the same on controversial Citi- Controller of Accounts, Ministry of Labour &
Chidambaram, and his by telecom companies Bench which had dis- zenship (Amendment) Employment, New Delhi. He is an ICAS officer.
wife Srinidhi in cash Vodafone Idea, Tata Tel- missed their review pe- Act, including a plea
for sale of land at Mut- eservices and Bharti tition will hear their filed by the Kerala gov- ATANU KUMAR DAS APPOINTED
tukadu near Chennai. Airtel seeking modifi- application. ernment seeking to de- AS MD & CEO, BANK OF INDIA
The lower court, cation of the court’s or- On their request for clare the legislation Atanu Kumar Das, ED, Bank of India, has been
which is proposed to der to permit them to an open-court hearing, “unconstitutional.” appointed as Managing Director and Chief
frame charges is re- negotiate a payment Chief Justice Bobde A bench of CJI SA Bob- lence in Delhi’s Jamia Petitioners include Executive Officer, Bank of India for a period of
strained from doing schedule with the De- said the concerned de & Justice S Abdul Milia University over Congress leader Jairam three years.
so because of the in- partment of Telecom- Bench will take a deci- Nazeer & Justice Sanjiv the contentious law, the Ramesh, the Indian Un-
terim stay. munications (DoT). sion on the same. Khanna would also top court decided to ion Muslim League and LINGAM VENKATA PRABHAKAR APPOINTED
The petitioners have Senior advocate Ab- Singhvi told the hear the Centre’s plea hear petitions challeng- its MPs, Lok Sabha MP AS MD & CEO, CANARA BANK
submitted that the trans- hishek Manu Singhvi, court that his clients seeking transfer of peti- ing the Act and issued and AIMIM president Lingam Venkata Prabhakar, ED, PNB, has been
action was completed appearing for the tele- are not contesting the tions pending before notices to the Centre. Asaduddin Owaisi, appointed as Managing Director and Chief Execu-
and returns of income com companies, men- payment but want to various high courts to However, the court re- TMC MP Mahua Moi- tive Officer, Canara Bank.
were filed in 2015 when tioned the matter before work out a schedule. the apex court in con- fused to stay operation tra, All Assam Stu-
Karti Chidambaram a bench headed by “Companies cannot pay nection with the issue. of Act as sought by the dents’ Union and Tripu-
SANJIV CHADHA APPOINTED AS
was not a member of Chief Justice S A Bobde all dues by January 23”, Last year, on December petitions & set Jan 22 as ra royal scion Pradyot MD & CEO, BANK OF BARODA
Parliament. —PTI for urgent listing fol- he said. —ANI 18, shortly after the vio- the hearing date. Kishore Deb Barman. Sanjiv Chadha, DMD, SBI, has been appointed as
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer,
Bank of Baroda for a period of three years.
PEACE PARTY FILES CURATIVE SC SEEKS STATUS REPORT IN ED ATTACHES RS 107-CRORE AJL CASE
PLEA IN AYODHYA DISPUTE CASE RAJIV GANDHI ASSASSINATION ASSETS OF KOLKOTA-BASED FIRM CHALLA SREENIVASULU SETTY
New Delhi: The Peace Party of India filed New Delhi: The SC asked the Tamil New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate
BS Hooda APPOINTED AS MD, SBI
Challa Sreenivasulu Setty, DMD, SBI, has been
a curative petition in SC against its Nov 09
verdict in Ayodhya
Nadu Govt to file a detailed status report
within two weeks on the release of those
has attached assets totaling Rs 107.73
crores of Directors
appears appointed as Managing Director (MD) in State
Bank of India for a period of three years.
title dispute case. “As
govt’s application for
convicted for Rajiv Gandhi’s assassina-
tion. Gandhi was assassinated by a LTTE
of Fair Deal Supplies
Ltd, under PMLA, before court AGRAWAL LATERALLY SHIFTED
modification is really suicide bomber during an election rally in 2002 in a bank fraud Panchkula: Former FROM DEFENCE TO CVC
an application for Re- Sriperumpudur in May 1991. A two-judge case. The attached CM of Haryana, Shiv Ratan Agrawal (IDSE:1988) was on Mon-
view under disguise, bench headed by Justice L Nageshwar assets include land & Bhupinder Singh Hoo- day, laterally shifted as Director in the Central
it would be appropriate to treat it as such, Rao was hearing the matter pertaining to building of SIV Industries, Coimbatore, an da, ap- Vigilance Commission (CVC) for a period upto
and a hearing in open court should be belt bomb investigation in the case which office building, a farmhouse and a bunga- peared 01.06.2022 (7 years on both CSS and non-CSS
provided to both sides,” the petition stated. involved a convict named A G Perariva- low in Ahmedabad & seven fixed deposits. before an posts put together). Presently, he is working as
The top court had unanimously handed lan. The bench also comprising Justice According to ED, a charge-sheet was filed ED court Director, Defence (CSS post).
over the disputed land, where Babri Masjid Deepak Gupta posted the matter for by CBI before a special court in Kolkata in Hary-
once stood, to a trust. It is now tasked with further hearing after two weeks. Besides against the Fair Deal Supplies Ltd and its a n a ’ s SREEKANTH APPOINTED AS PS
monitoring the construction of a temple Perarivalan, Ravichandran, S Nalini Sri- directors and others for defrauding UCO Panchkula city in con- TO MOS HOME
at the site. Calling the demolition of Babri haran, Murugan, Santhan, Robert Pious Bank, Kolkata. “It was revealed that the The NaMo administration on Monday, appointed
nection with Associat-
Masjid an “egregious violation of rule of & Jayakumar were also convicted in case. company and its directors availed credit fa- T Sreekanth (IAS 2004:AGMUT) as Private Sec-
ed Journal Limited
law”, the court also gave alternative five The Centre had, on January 14, filed a cilities and Foreign Letters of Credit (FLCs) retary to G Kishan Reddy, Minister of State for
(AJL) case.
acres of land for constructing a mosque at status report regarding the belt bomb from UCO Bank, fraudulently by submitting Home Affairs for a period upto 25.06.2023.
The matter will be
a prominent location in the same city. —ANI investigation in the case. —ANI fabricated stock statement.” —ANI
heard on Feb 25. CBI
ED CUSTODY OF NRI BIZMAN GANGSTER EJAZ LAKDAWALA CBI BOOKS DIRECTORS OF FROST had filed a case against
him citing alleged ir- SONIA DISSOLVES PUNJAB CONG
LINKED TO VADRA EXTENDED SENT TO JUDICIAL CUSTODY INT’L LTD IN BANK FRAUD CASE regularities in acquisi-
tion of land in Haryana COMMITTEE, JAKHAR STAYS CHIEF
New Delhi: A special court in Delhi extend- Mumbai: Mumbai’s Esplanade Court sent New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Inves-
ed the ED custody of CC Thampi, NRI busi- fugitive gangster Ejaz Lakdawala to judicial tigation (CBI) on Tuesday booked Frost when he was the CM. . New Delhi: Congress up an 11-member com-
nessman & a close aide of Robert Vadra, custody till January 27. Lak- International Limited and its directors Uday According to ED, Hoo- president Sonia Gandhi mittee for ensuring bet-
for three-day in connection with a money dawala was produced before Desai and Sujay Desai for allegedly cheat- da allegedly misused has dissolved Punjab ter coordination be-
laundering case. Thampi was arrested in the court at the end of his ing 14 banks. The duo had cheated the his official position and Pradesh Congress Com- tween party & Punjab
New Delhi. The agency had said that the police remand. He was arrested banks to the tune of Rs 4,061.95 crore. The allotted a plot in the mittee & all district govt, with Asha Kumari
arrest of Thampi comes in the wake of the from Patna by Mumbai Police’s Look Out Circulars (LoC) was earlier issued guise of re-allotment at committees in state as its chairperson. It
investigation involving Vadra, who is being Anti Extortion Cell earlier this month. The against the accused, including the Directors an under-valued price with immediate effect, will have CM Amarinder
probed in a money laundering case involv- gangster will be produced before the court and Guarantors, to prevent them from leav- to AJL, a group that while retaining Sunil Singh & Sunil Jakhar as
ing foreign assets in the UK. —ANI tomorrow in another extortion case. —ANI ing the country. —ANI runs the National Her- Jakhar as state unit members, besides AICC
ald newspaper —ANI chief. Congress also set gen secy Ambika Soni.

U’KHAND 1ST STATE TO IMPLEMENT DAC APPROVES PROCUREMENT FOR

AGRI LAND LEASING POLICY
Dehradun: Uttarakhand
has become first state in
country where govt has
made a policy to lease
agricultural land. In lieu of
giving land on a 30-year
lease, the concerned
farmer will get rent for
the land. In hilly areas,
the obstacles of leasing
land for farming, agricul-
ture, horticulture, herbs,
off-season vegetables,
milk production, tea plan-
tation, fruit hybridization
has been removed with
this step. After getting ap-
proval from Raj Bhavan,
the state government has
issued its notification.
Now any institution, firm
or NGO can take farm
land on lease in villages,
leasing a maximum of 30
acres of land on lease for
30 years.
SURENDER SINGH QUITS AAP, ARMED FORCES OF OVER RS 5100 CR BJP’s SUNIL YADAV FILES
TO CONTEST ON NCP’S TICKET New Delhi: The Defence approval for the purchase PAPERS AGAINST KEJRIWAL
New Delhi: After being denied a ticket by his Acquisition Council of sophisticated Elec- New Delhi: Contesting against Delhi CM Arvind
party to contest the ensuing polls, AAP leader (DAC) approved pro- tronic Warfare Systems Kejriwal, BJP candidate Sunil Yadav filed his
Surender Singh said he has resigned from party curement of equipment for the Army designed by nomination papers from the New Delhi Assembly
and will now contest Delhi assembly elections for armed forces worth Defence Research and constituency. Both Yadav and Kejriwal, who are
on Nationalist Congress Party’s ticket. Taking over Rs 5100 crores from Development Organisa- in the fray from New Delhi constituency, filed
to Twitter, Singh shared his resignation letter & indigenous sources to tion (DRDO) and man- their nomination papers at the office of Returning
said, “Today, I am sad and I am giving my resig- boost ‘Make in India’. ufactured locally by the Officer. Yadav was cheered by his party workers,
nation from Aam Aadmi Party.” Former National CDS General Bipin Rawat Indian industry. “These who raised slogans to boost his confidence.
Security Guard Commando said: “I am fighting was also present at the systems will be used in Before filing his nomination, Yadav alleged that
elections on NCP ticket. I got an offer to fight DAC meeting chaired by deserts and plains and Kejriwal has not addressed the local problems of
elections from all parties but I chose NCP.” Defence Minister Rajnath will provide comprehen- people in his constituency.
Singh. DAC has accorded sive electronic support.
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JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020
08

It’s prophets of doom: OFFERING CONDOLENCES

Trump decries climate

Davos: US President mism, not pessimism,
Donald Trump has in a speech that touted
climate “prophets of his administration’s
doom” in a speech at economic achieve-
the World Economic ments and America’s
Forum in Davos, energy boom. Delhi LG Anil Baijal, CEC Sunil Arora, Jagdeesh Chandra and Navika Kumar
where sustainability Speaking of climate attended the funeral of Jagdish Prakash Gupta, father of Shishir Gupta, who
is the main theme. activists, he said: is the Executive Editor of Hindustan Times, at Lodhi Electric Crematorium on
He called for a rejec- “These alarmists al- Tuesday afternoon.
tion of “predictions of ways demand the same
the apocalypse” and thing - absolute power
said America would to dominate, trans-
defend its economy. form and control eve-
Trump did not di- ry aspect of our lives.” US-CHINA TRADE DEAL
rectly name the teen- They were, he said,
age climate activist “the heirs of yester-
Greta Thunberg, who day’s foolish fortune
was in the audience. tellers”.
Later, she excoriat- He was speaking
ed political leaders, hours before his im-
saying the world “in peachment trial gets
case you hadn’t no- under way in the US
ticed, is currently on Senate.
fire”. Meanwhile, US
Environmental de- President Donald
struction is at the top Trump during his
of the agenda at the meet with Pakistan
annual summit of the PM Imran Khan in
world’s decision-mak- Davos. “We’re doing Clockwise from above: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi and husband Robert Vadra, BJP MPs Manoj
ers, which takes place more trade as it turns Tiwari and Hans Raj Hans, Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev and veteran cricketer Kapil Dev attended the memorial service
at a Swiss ski resort. and we’re working to- about Kashmir in rela- dia.We’ve been watch- of late Ashwini Kumar of Punjab Kesari held at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. (See also P10)
Trump said that it gether on some bor- tion to what is going on ing that and following —PHOTOS BY NAIM KHAN
was a time for opti- ders.We are talking with Pakistan and In- it closely. —Agencies

World Wilderness Congress Pande conveys

to be held from March 19 gratitude
‘Bodies of 8 Indians to be Quit NDA Alliance:
First India News brought back from Nepal’ Punjab CM to SAD
Jaipur: AICC Gen Secy Trivandrum: Kerala dran said. Chandigarh: Punjab Centre to prove their
The Indian Ambassa-
CM SEEKS HELP sincerity with regard to
Avinash Pande ex- Tourism Minister Chief Minister Ama-
pressed gratitude to Kadakampally Suren- dor to Nepal and a doc- rinder Singh dared SAD the unconstitutional
Cong’s interim prez So- dran on Tuesday said tor from India had been to quit NDA alliance at legislation which they
nia Gandhi on appoint- that the bodies of eight to the hospital in Kath- the Centre, a day after were party to passing in
First India News the current situation ing him Chairman of tourists who were found mandu. the party decided not to both house of Parlia-
of the world is far coordination commit- dead in Nepal are ex- Surendran said he contest the Delhi as- ment,” a statement
Jaipur: The 11th World worse than what was tee. “The committee has pected to be brought had spoken with Union sembly polls on being said. He also asserted
Wilderness Congress predicted 10 years ago. been formed for coordi- back on Wednesday. Minister of State for told by BJP to change that the SAD’s claim
(WWC) will be held from The need of the hour is nation between power “As soon as the shock- External Affairs V Mu- its stance over CAA. that they had decided
19 to 26 March at Birla effective policies. The and organization. I ing news of the death of raleedharan over the He said Delhi was the against contesting the
Auditorium in Jaipur. event is being co-or- thank the top leadership eight tourists from Ker- telephone and was as- second state after Hary- Delhi polls on account
The Congress will pre- ganized by Govern- for appointing me as the ala in a hotel room in sured of necessary in- ana where the Shiroma- of differences over the
sent solutions to the ac- ment of Rajasthan, Chairman of Congress’s Nepal’s Daman reached terventions. ni Akali Dal (SAD) had CAA was “preposterous
celerating and existen- Department of Tour- Coordination Commit- us, the state police chief He expressed condo- decided not to contest and unacceptable”.He
tial threats of climate ism, Department of tee for Rajasthan. I here- was instructed to con- lences to the families of the assembly elections said the decision was
breakdown and species Forest, Wilderness by congratulate Chair- tact the Nepal police the deceased. in alliance with the BJP. “motivated by political
extinction, informed by Foundation Global, men and members of and take necessary ac- The eight tourists “Punjab Chief Minis- compulsions” as the
Global President, WWC, WILD Foundation and coordination commit- tion. The bodies are ex- died on Tuesday in a ho- ter on Tuesday chal- SAD had realised that it
Vance Martin. Sanctuary Nature tees of other states as pected to be brought tel room of a resort in lenged the Akalis to could not win even a
He further said that Foundation. well,” Pande tweeted. back tomorrow,” Suren- Daman in Nepal. —ANI quit the alliance at the single seat. —PTI

in PM to chair PRAGATI meeting on Friday

 Initiative ‘swagat’ room
in every police station has
kick-started in the state.
Now in every police station
of the district, the police
will deal with the complain-
ants in a more welcoming
manner. On Tuesday, the
Dausa Sadar police station
became the first police
station of the state to have
the special room. IGP S
Segathir got the ribbon cut
from the senior policeman
Kailash Head. During the
ceremony, SP Prahlada
Krishnaiah and Ad SP
Anil Singh Chauhan were
present.
BRIEF
 Supreme Court will be
hearing the Panchayati Raj
elections case on Friday
24th January. The hearing
is being conducted first as
the state government had
filed an application for early
hearing of the matter. IThe
matter would be heard by
the bench of Chief Justice
of India, Justice SA Bobde.
 A teacher close to Rajpal
Shekhawat, 3 BJP leaders
will meet the Governor
and demand his dismissal.
The case is use of abusive
language by Prof Kausha-
lendra Das alias Mahesh
Sharma of Sanskrit Univer-
sity. The three BJP leaders
will meet Governor Kalraj
Mishra which includes
former Assembly Deputy
Speaker Rao Rajendra
Singh, former MLA Phool
Chand Bhinda and MLA
Ramlal Sharma.
 Central Minister Arjun
Meghwal came heavily on
Manishankar Iyer’s remark
on their ministers' visit to
Jammu and Kashmir that
‘Coward government, 4
ministers went to Srina-
gar, 32 ministers went to
Jammu’. Reacting to the
remark he said Manis-
hankar Iyer echoes the
language of Pakistan.
 Headed by ACS Veenu
Gupta, the review meeting
of the National Highway
project has ended. Meet-
ing was conducted in the
presence of Chief Secretary
Shreya Guha along with
NHAI CGM MK Jain, Forest
Secretary DN Pandey.
 XEN Mahendra Prasad
Verma was summoned
by the minister. Both
came face to face in front
of the minister and there
were some hot words
exchanged between them.
The minister expressed his
displeasure.
New Delhi: Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi
will chair 32nd interac-
tion through PRAGATI
- the ICT-based, multi-
modal platform for pro-
active governance and
timely implementation,
on Wednesday.
In the previous 31 in-
teractions of PRAGATI,
projects worth over Rs
12 lakh crore have been
reviewed by the Prime
Minister. In the last
meeting of the year
2019, nine projects
worth over Rs 61,000
crore related to 16 States
and the Union Territo-
ry of J&K were taken
up for discussion, read
a statement. There were
also discussions on var-
ious topics like griev-
ances of Indian citizens
working abroad, Na-
tional Agriculture Mar-
ket, Aspirational Dis-
trict Programme and
infrastructure develop-
ment programmes and
initiatives. CHECK POST INAUGURATION
PRAGATI, launched
by PM Modi on March
25, 2015, is an integrat-
ing and interactive plat-
form, aimed at address-
ing the common man’s
grievances. —ANI

RPF busts
TOO LATE TO REGRET MARKET EXCITED FOR ‘CORAL FRIENDS FROM DUBAI e-ticket racket
TY
LAVISH EXPENSES SHUBH NIWAS’ IN A `500 CRORE TRAP

OPER
New Delhi: RPF busted

PR A T T
change of fortune could happen he Coral Infra group has wo friends from Dubai, who
overnight or it could take years undergone a major land came to Jaipur to start a venture, an e-ticketing racket
to build an empire. However, one and arrested a self-
deal at Udaipur and presented have been ‘dried out’ by the nexus

BAZAR
taught software devel-
who gets all the moolahs in a jiffy a project cost of 20cr for 5264 of builders and loan mafia. A major
oper, Ghulam Mustafa
has a chance of going wayward. square foot piece of land upon investor and a renowned diamond
from Jharkhand sus-
This is exactly what happened which its new undertaking - jeweler invested a whopping
pected to have money
to a well renowned builder from Coral Shubh Niwas is being constructed. The RERA 500crore rupees, however, it was
laundering and terror
Tilak nagar area, who had reached registered project has resulted in a huge excitement after they made all the investment
financing links. “We
the ‘stars’ few years back. But as in the real estate market. that they realized they have have unearthed an or-
soon as he handed the reins to his been ‘trapped’. One of the friend ganised gang. Its king-
son, the entire business crumbled GALAXY REALMART GROUP’S immediately left for Dubai while pin is probably sitting in
as the heir was involved in the other stayed to recover the
indiscriminate expenses on foreign
TALKED ABOUT PIECE OF LAND Dubai. We are probing
lost moolah without losing hope, the members of the
tours, expensive cars, liquor and
‘glamour’. Now that the business is Tbought
he Galaxy Realmart group, which has recently
constructed the Galaxy Enclave Project, have
an eight bigha piece of land costing 14.40
trying to recover as much with the
help of police and liaison. But the
gang, the manner in
which the money is go-
in a slump, they have realized the strategy isn’t working out and it is ing to banks and some
wrongs. But ‘ab pachtaye kya ho, crore rupees. The land, located in Sanganer tehsil is believed that the investor will leave companies,” said Arun
jab chidiya chug gayi khet’. much talked about in the Jaipur real estate circle. for Dubai. Kumar, DG, RPF. —ANI
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09
in
BRIEF
CAB to organise
Rajasthan’s Apurvi Chandela wins gold in Meyton Cup
school meet Innsbruck: Indian Ashok Gehlot @ashokgehlot51 when the former won
Kolkata: The Cricket shooters Apurvi Chan- Congratulations to @apurvichandela for win- silver and the latter fin-
Association of Bengal dela and Divyansh Sin- ning #Gold in women’s 10m air rifle at the ished fourth at the 2018
(CAB) will begin a gh Panwar clinched Meyton Cup in Austria. Superb performance! It Shooting World Cham-
school-level tourna- gold at the ongoing pionships held in South
ment for girls, aimed at
is a very proud moment for #Rajasthan and entire Nation.
Meyton Cup interna- Korea. Anjum & Apurvi
creating a talent pool
for the state. CAB has tional shooting champi- had won Olympic quo-
decided to invite the onship in Austria. a final score of 229. score of 228. All the four tas for Tokyo 2020 when
schools with girls crick- Apurvi won the gold in In men’s 10m air rifle, Indian shooters have the former won silver
et team to enrol for a womens 10m air rifle Divyansh bagged the already earned Olym- and the latter finished
tournament from which with a final score of top honours with a final pic quotas for Tokyo fourth at the 2018 Shoot-
talented players will be
scouted at various age
251.4. Anjum Moudgil score of 249.7 while Games. Anjum and ing World Champion-
groups. had to settle for bronze Deepak Kumar had to Apurvi won Olympic ships held in Chang-
in the same event with settle for bronze with a quotas for Tokyo 2020 won, South Korea.
East Bengal
coach steps down
Kolkata: East Bengal

Ravi’s lethal spells

UNMISTAKABLE
head coach Alejandro
Menendez on Tuesday
stepped down from his

guides India to win

post citing “personal
reasons” less than 48

RAFAEL NADAL
hours after his team
lost the I-League derby
1-2 to arch-rivals Mo-
hun Bagan. The Span-
In just 4.5 overs, Japan faced defeat by
iard faced a lot of criti- 10 wickets in U19 World Cup match
cism after East Bengal
had a hattrick of de-
feats but the one Dominates Hugo Dellien to New Delhi:
Ravi Bish-
cessive win. Opting to
bowl, India Under 19
against Mohun Bagan
was the final nail in reach 2nd round in Aus Open noi and
Kartik
bowled out Japan Un-
der 19 for 41 in 22.5 overs
Alejandro’s coffin.
Melbourne: The top Bidding for his second T ya g i as Bishnoi picked up
Tai Tzu scores seed Rafael Nadal hit title at Melbourne shared four wickets while Tya-
easy win the ground running at Park, and 20th Grand the spoils gi got three wickets.
Chennai: World num- the Australian Open on Slam trophy to match as India Tyagi set the ball roll-
ber two Tai Tzu Ying Tuesday by hammer- his great rival Roger Under 19 ing for India Under 19
easily deflated the chal- Federer, Nadal was bro- as he struck twice in the
ing unseeded Bolivian beat Japan Under 19 by
lenge of Ashmita Chali-
ha as defending cham-
Hugo Dellien 6-2 6-3 6-0 ken twice by the hard- ten wickets at the Man- fifth over, dismissing
pions Bengaluru Rap- to reach the second working Dellien. But gaung Oval in Bloem- Marcus Thurgate and
tors took a 3-1 lead round. The top-seeded the 33-year-old Mallor- fontein in the Under 19 Neel Date. India Under
against North Eastern Spaniard has never lost can was virtually flaw- World Cup 2020 on 19 will next face New
Warriors in the Pro to a player ranked as less in the final set and Tuesday. This was India Zealand Under 19 on
Badminton League.
low as world number 72 sealed the match with a Under 19’s second suc- Friday.
Tai-Tzu proved too good
for the South Asian Dellien at the year’s crushing forehand win-
Games gold medallist as first Grand Slam and ner to set up a second-
she won 15-7 15-5 in the was never in danger on round clash with either
women’s singles after a sunbathed afternoon Federico Delbonis or
the holders were al-
at Rod Laver Arena. Joao Sousa.
ready leading 2-1.

Bangladesh
defeat Scotland
New Delhi: Bangladesh
secured a seven-wicket
victory over Scotland at
Witrand Cricket Field
in the ongoing ICC U19
World Cup on Tuesday.
Chasing 90, Bangladesh India registers their 2nd successive win in U19 World Cup.
suffered an early blow
as Tanzid Hasan (0) got

No hope in badminton & Rajasthan

Rajnigandha Achievers
out in the first over of
the innings.

Sachin challenges Royals secure

Kambli to rap
New Delhi: Sachin
Tendulkar challenged
former Indian cricketer
Vinod Kambli to rap
‘Cricket Wali Beat’
song. The Master Blast-
er was seen in the video
giving a deadline of one
week to Kambli to exe-
cute the Challenge.
‘Cricket Wali Beat’ rap
is a unique collabora-
tion by an iconic bats-
man with music rock-
star Sonu Nigam.
Sana Mir posts
sarcastic tweet
New Delhi: Pakistan’s
2nd most successful
WT20I bowler Sana Mir,
was left out of team’s
15-member squad for
ICC Women’s T20 World
Cup 2020. Later, Mir
took to Twitter to fire a
salvo at her non-selec-
tion. “Don’t blame a
clown for acting like a
clown. Ask yourself
why you keep going to
the circus”: Sana wrote.
polo ground’s contruction Expo Dubai defeat Cavalry by 7-6
New Delhi: Indian Pre-
mier League team Ra-
jasthan Royals an-
nounced their sponsor-
ship with Expo 2020
Dubai for the upcoming
edition of the T20 tour-
nament. The one-year
deal will see next world
expo appear on the front
of the Rajasthan Royals’
jersey as principal spon-
sor. Expo 2020 will take
Badminton Complex in SMS Stadium. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA place from October 20,
2020, to April 10, 2021,
Naresh Sharma ment couldn’t do much projects of SMS Stadi- and it will be the first
for these projects. The um. The same situation world expo to be staged
Jaipur: Even though Sports Minister will try can be witnessed of bad- in the Middle East.
Sports Minister Ashok to complete these pro- minton complex. The
Chandana earned jects under Smart City, plan of creating a hand-
praise from the players but due to the rules and ball ground was de- Naresh Sharma Singh Polo Cup on Angad Kalan scored 2.
of 3 days in the State regulations, it might get stroyed and later bad- Tuesday where both Sameer & Shamshir
Games but still one hampered. 15 years ago, minton complex was Jaipur: In this time of won by foreign players. scored 2-2 goals each for
crore rupees projects condition of the Polo constructed but the cur- Jaipur Polo season, for- On Cavalry ground, Equisport. Rajnigand-
have been halted even Arena of the Jagatpura rent situation is that eign players are in a Garcha team beat Eq- ha Achievers defeated
after 1 year has passed. shooting range is simi- only the structure is good form. 2 matches uisport 8-4. Manuel Cavalry 7-6 in the match
The previous govern- lar to the unfinished constructed so far. were played of Bhavani Laurente scored 5 and held at RPC Ground.

KHELO INDIA YOUTH GAMES

Bhilwara’s Firdaus Kayamkhani wins third gold in swimming

lll Naresh Sharma Mir Tasnim Irfan Ali
(Gujarat) beat Unnati
Bhilwara’s Jaipur: Bhilwara’s Bist (Uttarakhand) 15-
national swimmer Fir- 21, 21-10, 21-14 and
national daus Kayamkhani won Sakshi Phogat (Ra-
swimmer the gold medal in the
ongoing Khelo India
jasthan) pipped Riya
Habbu (Maharashtra)
Firdaus Youth Games held in 21-16, 23-21 for girls’
Kayamkhani Guwahati in 200m But-
terfly on Tuesday.
under-21 and under-17
crowns respectively.
shines in the This is her third Kunwar Vishwajeet
medal in badminton, Singh of Madhya
ongoing Khelo Rajasthan’s star shut- Pradesh won the gold
India Youth tler Sakshi Phogat
also won a gold medal,
and R. Rajkumar from
Tamil Nadu and Yuva
Games in while Shubham Patel Shankar S. from Pu-
Guwahati in Badminton and
Harcharan Singh won
silver medals
weightlifting.
in
Ra-
jasthan players con-
tinue to perform well
in Khelo India. Prior
to this, he made 400 m.
Individual medal and
in 200 m won silver
medals in individual
medal.
ducherry won the
bronze.
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headed in the wrong direction,
take a ‘U’ turn. Life begins now!
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep... &

I-T honcho Singh snaps up his passion too
DG (I-T) MAHENDRA SINGH HAS A “NATURAL SIDE”, FINDS FIRST INDIA
Kavita Chauhan banks of the mighty tion from Madras his passion fade out due Valley and Ladhak, de- at work he is living his
Sarayu. It was here, that Christian College and to his busy work sched- scribing the beauty of passion through writ-

T
he experiences the first seeds of love for his post-graduation ule but worked around "the most beautiful place ing, travelling and
one gathers dur- wild animals and nature from the Hindu Col- his time to let his passion in the world", as per him. capturing beautiful
ing childhood in general, were planted lege, New Delhi, Sin- for photography grow. His work mainly con- nature in his camera.
echo with them through- in him finally blossom- gh’s passion drove him Making it a point to sists of creative- non fic- For last 15 years, he
out life. This would spe- ing into a passion for to work for National travel every 2-3 months tion, where stories are creates a calendar every
cially stand true for photography and wild- Geographic, where he for a week to ten days, weaved around incidents year which comprises
Mahendra Singh, Di- life that made him an did all the research he devotes his entire and facts, explained photographs taken by
rector General of In- artist and an author. and ground work for time to photography, through photo essays. him, and gives away to
come-Tax (Investiga- As a child, his life re- shoots. It was when his which includes, wild- His better half - friends and family mem-
tions), Rajasthan, who volved around the parents asked him to do life, landscape, herit- Shrey Shree Singh - bers. He strongly be-
was born in a village - Gangetic dolphins something more substan- age or anything which has also simultane- lieves that a healthy na-
Semri, approximately playing in the Saryu tial, he went on to appear looks appealing ously developed the tion needs to preserve its
50 km from Ayodhya - river to wolves, jackals for UPSC exams and through his lenses. passion for travel and natural resources as this
boasting of woods and hyenas in the near- joined Indian Revenue But that's not all, the wildlife along with is our real wealth and
with wild animals lin- by woods. After finish- Services. Director General is also him. There is never a legacy that need to be
gering around the vil- ing schooling from Even though pounded an author having writ- dull moment in his life passed on to our future
lage; all these and the Lucknow, his gradua- by work, Singh did not let ten two books on Spiti as when he is not busy generations.

FILL UP VACANT POSTS —PHOTOS BY NAIM KHAN

IN REMEMBRANCE

SOON, DIRECTS CM
Vaibhav Gehlot interacts with Rajeev Shukla at memorial Sunil Arora and Jagdeesh Chandra pay homage to late Ashwini
service of late Ashwini Kumar of Punjab Kesari media group Kumar. A large number VIPs and common people turned up to
held at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. pay tribute.

CM Ashok Gehlot during a meeting with Kuldeep Ranka, DB Gupta and Niranjan Arya.
Tata Power wants CONGRATS SIR!

—PHOTO BY NAIM KHAN

hike in power tarriff
Yogesh Sharma/ departments and said chief secretary on 28,601 posts have been
Naresh Sharma that the concerned de- the recruitment mat- released. “The recruit-
partments -- depart- ters that are pending ment process of those
Jaipur: Stressing the ment of personnel, Ra- before the court. The who passed the exami- First India News to run the plant at
fact that providing job jasthan Public Service officials should sub- nation and fit the crite- prevailing rate. In
opportunities to the Commission and Em- mit a report on the ria should be complet- Jaipur: Chief Secre- such a situation, sev-
youth was top on his ployee selection Board delay in court cases ed soon,” Gehlot said. tary DB Gupta chaired eral states are re-
agenda, Chief Minis- should coordinate so related to various re- The Chief Minister a meeting on Tuesday thinking on rate per
ter Ashok Gehlot di- that the process is com- cruitments so that was also apprised by on the demand unit. However,
rected the officials on pleted soon. The Chief the state government officials that adver- of Tata Power. no decision
Tuesday to complete Minister also direct- can take proper steps tisements for recruit- A total of 380 was taken in
the recruitment pro- ed to speed up the which does not lead ment on 37,503 posts MW power is the meeting
cess on vacant posts process of verifica- to court cases,” Ge- have been released supplied to Ra- regarding
in all the depart- tion documents of hlot instructed the while advertisements jasthan from rates. CM Ge-
ments soon. For the applicants while also officials. for another 22,840 this project and hlot will chair
purpose, CM Gehlot directing the DOIT to Meanwhile, during posts will be released also to Gujarat, a meeting on
will hold monthly re- find out ways through the meeting, Principal soon. Moreover, the di- Maharashtra, Haryana the law and order
view of recruitments which the verifica- secretary (Personnel) rections and policies and Punjab. This pro- situation on Wednes-
in various depart- tion could be done Roli Singh informed for the holding REET ject provides electricity day for which ACS
ments. through online me- that the state govern- examination for re- at the rate of Rs 2.77 per Home Rajeeva Newly-appointed BJP’s National President JP Nadda being
Gehlot chaired a re- dium. ment has given ap- cruitment of 33000 unit. Swarup met the CS at greeted by Jagdeesh Chandra in New Delhi on Tuesday.
view meeting on re- “Review should be pointments on 31,513 teachers are also being Tata Power ex- Secretariat on Tues- Nadda took over as the party chief on Monday.
cruitments in various done at the level of posts and results for prepared. pressed its inability day afternoon.

In Babudom, tread cautiously...!

TETE This Malinga is a speedster too!
Shivendra Parmar retariat on time due to
other engagement he
-A- TETE ister in particular was
trying hard to gather

I
t appears that the had called up Swarup Malinga’s problem
‘tussle’ between to direct him to chair Naresh Sharma which he was regaling
ACS Rajeeva the meeting, however, and he even asked him

T
Swarup and Princi- Swarup had then cold- he dialects spo- a couple of times to
pal Secretary Sreya ly informed his supe- ken within Ra- state his matter clearly
Guha will witness rior that he was al- jasthan are so and simply. However,
more twists and turns ready done with the many that when Malinga did not
as it unfolds. However meeting and a decision change occurs every 50 Raghu Sharma Jogendra Awana Giriraj S Malinga understand where he
for now, Swarup’s jun- had been made. Now it km. While it is unique went ‘wrong’, MLA
ior Sreya Guha has remains to be seen if to the state, it has, from Jogendra Awana. Few a confusion. During the Awana jumped in and
‘struck back’ at her Rajeeva Swarup will time to time, posed days back, Malinga had meet, the Bari MLA literally stopped Mal-
senior, a few days after chair any meeting in problem for people in- met the minister with started speaking in inga from speaking an-
Swarup had thrown at- Rajeeva Swaroop Sreya Guha absence of the Chief teracting with individ- the Nadbai MLA. Now Dholpuri dialect and at other word. Awana
titude at Guha in a full Secretary? Moreover, uals from different part since Malinga hails a great speed. While then asked Malinga to
meeting over NGT is- Principal Secretary. chaired the meeting in the bureaucracy will of the state as them. An from Dholpur region, Malinga certainly speak albeit slowly and
sues. Swarup had then However, now Sreya absence of the Chief wait for Swarup’s next interesting incident oc- his way of speaking knew what he was say- it was then that the two
objected to the way presented her case be- Secretary and it is said move i.e., will he raise curred recently involv- and the dialect from ing little did he realize politicians could gather
Sreya presented her fore the Chief Secre- in the bureaucratic cir- objection on the change ing health minister Dr southern district is that two men present what the problem was,
point and thus gave a tary and has got the cles that on that day of decision? What will Raghu Sharma, Bari such that it cannot be were trying hard to de- after which a smart and
decision contrary to decision changed! No- when the CS could not be Swarup’s next step MLA Giriraj Singh Ma- understood in the first code Malinga’s com- seasoned Raghu sorted
the point made by the tably, Rajeeva had reach back to the Sec- to save his pride? linga and Nadbai MLA go. And this resulted in ments. The health min- the issue.

JAIPUR, WEDNESDAY
JANUARY 22, 2020
Nick gushes over
DESI GIRL
A
merican pop star Nick
Jonas is floored by his
better half, Bollywood
star Priyanka Chopra’s
look in saree. Nick’s reaction
came after Priyanka shared a
photo on Instagram where she is
seen wearing a blue saree, from
an event she recently attended in
Mumbai. Commenting on his
wife’s post, Nick gushed, “Stun-
ning”.
In the photo, Priyanka teams her
blue saree with matching sleeve-
less blouse, blue Bangles and
Kundan danglers. A bindi com-
pletes her desi look. Priyanka’s
look also impressed actress Ur-
vashi Rautela, who had a similar
view as Nick. “Stunnnnningggg,”
wrote Urvashi.
Fans also loved Priyanka’s eth-
nic statement. One fan comment-
ed, “Gorgeousness is here!” An-
other wrote, “Saree makes you
more attractive”. Using a line
from Priyanka’s famous song
‘Desi Girl’ in ‘Dostana’, another
fan commented: “Who’s the hot-
test girl in the world? #desigirl”.
On the work front, Priyanka
ON A SUCESS
SPREE!
A B
ctress Bhumi Pednekar, who has had
a successful run in 2019, feels fortu-
nate to get films that celebrate the
actor she is. Even though Bhumi has
back-to-back hits like ‘Dum Laga Ke Hai-
sha’, ‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’, ‘Shubh Man-
gal Savdhaan’, ‘Bala’ and ‘Pati Patni Aur
Woh’, she doesn’t like to tag herself as a
star.
“I don’t think I can ever call myself a star
because I am too shy to do that. But I can
definitely say that I am fortunate to get
films that celebrate the actor that I am. I
am fortunate to have a choice as to what
film I want to do and I am getting a lot of
love. So, I think I am successful to an ex-
tent,” Bhumi told.
Bhumi will now be
seen as a leading
lady in ‘Durga-
vati’ and ‘Dol-
ly Kitty Aur
Woh Cham-
akte
Sitaare’.
—IANS
Bhumi Pednekar
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...her Instagram post
Chopra will be seen alongside
Richard Madden in the upcom-
ing Amazon Prime series ‘Cit-
adel’, by Russo brothers of
‘The Avengers’ fame.
The actress recently
wrapped up the shoot for
‘The White Tiger’.
—IANS
Priyanka Chopra Jonas
NEHAL NAYAR
nehal.nayar@firstindia.co.in
STEPPING STONES
Swati Ratan shares with City First her dreams of becoming a supermodel, step-by-step
eing one of the top
contestants of ‘Mrs. ways wanted. I’m happy that
Rajasthan 2020’, Swa- my parents also support me
ti Ratan from Pink now, looking at the confidence
City shares her jour- everyone else has on me.”
ney towards achiev- Swati would want to be a
ing her dreams of supermodel in the future,
becoming a supermodel. and represent the country
Opening up about her journey, when she is fully prepared.
Swati stated, “I got married “I’m grooming myself to be a
when I was just 23 years old, so better person for this field
I didn’t really get enough time every single day and taking
to fulfil my dreams that I had out time for myself side-by-
since I was in school. Once I side while handling my fam-
got selected among the top 20 ily too,” she Swati. Asking if
finalists of Mrs. Rajasthan she has a message to moti-
2020, it was truly an amazing vate the married ladies who
feeling, as I could see my want to fulfil their dream,
dreams come true.” It has she mentioned, “If you want
been Swati’s dream to be a to fulfil something, you must
part of this field since child- go for it; it doesn’t matter if
hood, but her parents weren’t you are married or
really in favour of it. not. If I can be a part
Talking about how things of a beauty pag-
changed after marriage, she eant after 9 years
said, “My in-laws have been of marriage and
really supportive, and more a son, then you
than me, they were happy can do anything
hearing about my selection. if you have the
They wanted me to take up right guid-
this opportunity because they Swati Ratan ance.”
knew it was something I al-
Ayushmann to break taboos!
N
ational Award-win- Zyada Saavdhan’ is out, na Gupta and Gajraj Rao
ning actor Ayush- and it has received a big will also be seen in the film.
mann Khurrana, thumbs up from fans. Sharing the trailer’s
who is fast emerg- In the trailer, Ayush- link, Ayushmann tweeted,
ing as Bollywood’s poster mann is seen playing a gay “Jeetega pyaar, maanega
boy of new-age content- man in love with his neigh- pura parivaar.”
driven cinema, is all bour, played by Jitendra The trailer also gives
set to return with Kumar. The film revolves people a dose of nostalgia,
another film that around the two, and how as the makers have recre-
defies formula. they confront their family ated the old hit songs ‘Ga-
The trailer and deal with stereotypes bru’ and ‘Yaar bina chain
of his next and taboos associated with kahaan re’. ‘Shubh Man-
f i l m homosexuality. gal Zyada Saavdhan’ is
‘Shubh Ayushmann’s on screen scheduled to release on
Mangal ‘Badhaai Ho’ parents Nee- February 21. —IANS Ayushmann Khurrana
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ing the award

Deepika receiv

Deepika Padukone

DEEPIKA FETED D
eepika Padu- While accepting the ney to recovery from me to go public tives include nation-
kone was fe- award, Deepika depression, I began to with my illness and wide public aware-
licitated opened up about her understand the stig- set up the Live Love ness and destigmati- And it is this very
need that motivat-

WITH GLOBAL
with the own experience with ma and lack of aware- Laugh foundation,” sation campaigns,
C r y s t a l mental illness and ness associated with she added. adolescent mental ed me to go public
Award at the how it drove her to mental illness, I felt a Deepika has been health programmes, with my illness
World Eco- start The Live Love deep need to save at running the founda- funding support for and set up the

HONOUR
nomic Forum for her Laugh Foundation. least one life.” tion since June 2015. treatment in rural Live Love Laugh
contribution to men- The actress shared, “And it is this very The foundation’s pro- communities and foundation.
tal health awareness. “Through my jour- need that motivated grammes and initia- more. —IANS

DISHA’S Sara greets Salman HINA GOT

SUGAR with ‘AADAAB’ TREMENDOUS
CRUSH
S LOVE IN A DAY
ara Ali Khan displayed a whiff of
Nawaabi Tehzeeb when she met

F T
Salman Khan recently. Unlike
itness freak Disha Pa- most youngsters, who prefer to he trailer of with houseful book-
tani admits she loves wish people with a ‘hi’ or a ‘hello’, Sara Vikram Bhatt’s ings. I truly feel grate-
sugar. She has revealed was spotted giving Salman the claasic ‘Hacked’, which ful.”
the one snack that fills ‘aadaab’. will launch ‘Bigg The stalker thriller is
her up and also ‘destroys my The young actress, along with her Boss’ star Hina Khan in helmed by Vikram
sugar craving’. “As an artiste, I ‘Love Aaj Kal’ co-star Kartik Aaryan, was Bollywood, has got Bhatt. “’Hacked’ is a
really believe in fitness, not at the Bigg Boss 13 set to promote the up- more than four million story of real life horror.
just because I have to look a coming film. views in just over a day. The kind that we are all
certain way, but as a person I They bumped into Salman outside the “You are being victims of. It’s relevant
really enjoy a lot of physical studio and, after exchanging smiles, it watched. If you lose and current. I am glad
activities. I always look for op- was the turn to exchange greetings. control, you lose every- that we have been able
tions and stuff that I can eat that Sara also posted a video of the meeting thing. #Hacked trailer to connect to the fre-
will help me and my health,” Disha on her Instagram page. “Adaab @being- out now,” reads the cap- quency of the viewers,”
said. She added, “I love sugar. I love salmankhan sir And namaste darshako, tion of the trailer that he said. —IANS
chocolates. I have my cheat days. Thank you for inviting Veer and Zoe to was published on Janu-
But when I am not cheating, I am the #BiggBoss13 house. Tune into @ ary 19.
always looking for some sort of a colorstv tonight at 9pm #LoveAajKal,” Hina said, “The love
snack that will fill me up and will also announced Sara at the end of the video, we have received has
kind of destroy my sugar craving. I which ends with Sara and Kartik engage been tremendous
love apples. It is such a wholesome in playful banter before they go into their Sara Ali Khan and I hope we
fruit.” —IANS respective vanity vans. —IANS receive the
Disha Patani same kind of
support
once the
film re-

THE IRREVERSIBLE CHANGE!

leases in
theatres

—PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA

“I chose Karan Johar be-
cause he is the renais-
sance man of Indian
cinema and a top
KARISHMA director who wants
GWALANI to be much more,”
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
said the nominee

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of renowned Author “Only 10 years
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EKISH: THE DREAM

IN THE PINK CITY!

SWATI JANGID
swati.jangid@firstindia.co.in

A
high end fashion
brand for women
and men, EKISH,
with collection of
fine jewellery and
handbags was
launched on Janu-
ary 16, by designer Ekta
Soni. The brand is basically
focusing more on customi-
sation and uniqueness of
the couture designs.
While having a conversa-
tion Ekta, she stated, “I
have been a shopaholic and
I love travel for bringing
liveliness in my designs”.
She has travelled around
India looking for things
that can be used for her de-
signs and bring a different
kind of styling and taste
for EKISH. Fashion styling
is her passion, as she start-
ed designing outfits for
family, friends and herself
for the weddings and func-
tions. She has also done
Jagdeesh Chandra congratulating the newlyweds Yatharth and Neha, in the presence of
Vinod Gera at Jaipur Bagh on Monday. Yatharth is the son of Vinod and Sangeeta Gera while
Neha is the daughter of Nirmala and RK Sharma. —PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA
View of the store
fashion styling for shoots was her dream. Eventually,
and brands, and has par- the dream became true
ticipated in the fashion when she launched her
runways as designer with brand, named EKISH as the
super models, with the word means supreme pow-
showstopper being the re- er and it also has her
nowned model and actor, name embedded to it.
Charvi Dutta. The brand has online
The ladies of her house, presence on Instagram
her grand mom has been a and Facebook @labele-
huge inspiration for her as kish and soon will be
she taught her the creativi- launching its website.
ty, sketching and how to Ekta Soni is an inspi- An exhibition ‘Fashion Colloquia’ was inaugurated at the ARCH Academy on Tuesday by Ian
play with the fabrics while ration for people who King, Eija Salmi and Archana Surana. During the event, a talk show was also organised on
designing. Soni has love for wanted to establish the topic ‘Design in Education & Education in design’. —PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO
brands, so she wanted to themselves in fash-
have one for her own and it ion industry. Charvi Tanya Dutta for EKISHA

First Meeting of newly constituted Marudhar Mathur Samaj Women’s Club was held on
Sunday at MMS premises in Mansarovar, Jaipur.

The team of Inaya Foundation and Govind Dev Ji Trust met Governor
Kalraj Mishra on Monday, and briefed him about Good Touch Bad Touch ‘Write a Story Contest’ was organised by House of Books and Tales on Sunday at
(GTBT) workshops, ‘Samajh sparsh ki chuppi todoh’. The workshops’ Vini’s Academy where the participants were motivated to unblock their minds and
started under Dr. Jitendra Kumar Soni.  enhance their creative writing skills. —PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO

COLOURS OF LIFE! The second day of the ongoing 10-day Pink City Festival witnessed a melange of colourful
and cultural folk dances, drama and music performances at Shilpgram, JKK. The evening
also witnessed the charm of old folk art of ‘Rammat’ Bikaner’. —PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA

RIFF 2020!

Day 4 of the 6th Rajasthan International Film Festival kickstarted with a talk session about
‘Film, Television and Cinema’ with a screenwriter, actor and director of Hindi and Marathi
The 9th Annual Day programme, ‘Colours of Life’, of Podar World School, was organised on Sunday at Maharana Pratap Auditorium. The event was graced by SC films, Ananth Mahadevan in a conversation with Festival Director Anshu Harsh on Tuesday
Pareek as the chief guest and Poonam Chand Bhandari as the guest of honour. —PHOTOS BY SUNIL SHARMA at Cinepolis, World Trade Park. —PHOTO BY MUKESH

The artistic CREATIONS

CITY FIRST

T
he Department of
Fashion and Tex-
tiles of the IIS
(deemed to be Uni-
versity), Jaipur is organ-
ising its 11th Annual
Fashion Show ‘CREA-
TIONS 2020’ on Wednes-
day evening at the IISU
Campus.
During the event, elev-
en collections on differ-
ent themes, which are
designed and prepared
by 33 young designers
from the department will
be presented.
The students are all set —PICTURES FOR REPRESENTATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY
to present fun, colourful ern, ready to wear casual The Designs have ples of Jagannath, trends. For modelling,
and sharp creations in- and streetwear, and for- sought inspiration from Odhisa, the Phulkari of students from the insti-
corporating styles and mal western outfits for Rajasthan and its tradi- Punjab and some con- tute undergo a training
culture of our country, independent and trendy tional art of dying in dif- temporary art ideas of session to get them ready
comprise of Indo-West- youth. ferent techniques, Tem- Mosaic and fluorescent for the ramp for show.