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7TH EDITION OF GLOBAL INVESTORS’ SUMMIT BEGINS ON A PROMISING NOTE
ADANI TO INVEST `60K-CR, RELIANCE ` 40K-CR
OUR STAFF REPORTER / Indore
Major business houses in-
cluding Adani Group, Re-
liance Group, Adita Birla
Group and JSW Group
pledged investment of sev-
eral thousand crores of ru-
pees at the inaugural ses-
sion of the 7th edition of the
Global Investors Summit
(GIS) organised by the Mad-
hya Pradesh government,
here at Brilliant Convention
Centre on Wednesday.
While Adani Group com-
mitted investment of Rs
60,000 crore, Reliance
Group and Aditya Birla
Group announced plans to
invest Rs 40,000 crore and
Rs 15,000 crore respectively.
JSW Group also pledged Rs
4,500 crore investments in
the state in next two years.
Appealing to the industri-
alists to invest in Madhya
Pradesh, Chief Minister
Shivraj Singh Chouhan
said it is the fastest growing
state in the country with
adequate land and water,
surplus power, skilled man-
power, good infrastructure
and pro-industry policies.
CM said that Madhya
Pradesh's growth rate is
highest in the country at
19.76 per cent, its contribu-
tion to country's GDP now
stands at 4.6 per cent, its
GSDP is 12 lakh crore.
"We have 2 lakh acres of
land bank for industries.
The industrialists who
have come to attend the GIS
can put a finger on the
state's map and we will allo-
cate the land within 24
hours. We have 24x7 power
News Brief
Four hurt in MYH
compressor blast
INDORE: Four people
sustained minor injuries in a
compressor explosion on the
premises of the blood bank of
the Government Maharaja
Yashwantrao Hospital (MYH)
here on Wednesday, a senior
official said.
Protesting farmers
vandalise power plant
BUXAR: Angry farmers in
Buxar district of Bihar on
Wednesday set on fire a
police van and vandalised
government vehicles after a
late-night police crackdown
against a group of protesting
farmers, said agency. The
farmers have been
demanding better rates for
their land which is being
acquired by the state
government for the Chausa
Power Plant. Locals alleged
that police had entered a
farmer’s house on Tuesday
night and thrashed him.
Caste survey: SC to
hear plea on Jan 20
NEW DELHI: The Supreme
Court Wednesday agreed to
hear on January 20 a plea
against the Bihar govt's
decision to conduct a caste
census in the state.A bench
of CJI DY Chandrachud and
Justice P S Narasimha
posted the matter for
hearing after a lawyer
appearing for petitioner
mentioned the matter.
Court sentences Sanjay
Singh to 3-month jail
SULTANPUR: A special
court awarded three-month
imprisonment and a fine of
Rs 1,500 to AAP MP Sanjay
Singh and five others on
Wednesday in a case
registered against them in
2001 over a protest against
frequent power cuts in the
Uttar Pradesh town.
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From left: Suriname President Chandrikapersad Santokhi, Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union minister Prahlad Patel, Birla
Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, MA Yusuf Ali and Force Motors Chairman Abhay Firodia at the inauguration of Global Investors Summit in Indore on Wednesday
Global leader in heart stents to set up unit in Ujjain
TO INVEST ` 200cr
& start production in
two-and-half years
MANISH UPADHYAY / Indore
An Indian company and
global leader in making
heart stents, SMT, plans to
set up a manufacturing
unit in Ujjain with an
investment of Rs 200
crore. If things go
according to plans,
here is immense enthusiasm for investment in MP, not only among domestic but also global investors.
T I feel our efforts will bear fruit. I have to make the state a $ 550 billion economy by 2026 and this
summit will be a milestone in this direction. MP wants to run with the speed of Cheetah...
Industrialists hail CM's economic policies If govt feels victims
CHOUHAN HAS CREATED AN ATMOSPHERE WHICH IS CONDUCIVE TO INVESTMENTS: CHANDRASEKARAN
NITENDRA SHARMA
Indore
All renowned industrialists
from across the country
who have gathered in In-
dore for the Global In-
vestors' Summit appreciat-
ed the policies of Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh
Chouhan and the business
environment he has created
in the state.
Chairman of Tata Group,
N Chandrasekaran, said
CM to be decided only
after Cong wins polls: Nath
OUR STAFF REPORTER
city.bhopal@fpj.co.in
MPCC president Kamal
Nath has said the chief
ministerial candidate will
be decided only after the
Congress wins the elec-
tion.
Nath made the statement
during an interaction with
media persons in Bhopal on
Wednesday. A few days ago,
some Congress leaders put
up hoardings at the PCC of-
fice and at other places, men-
tioning that Nath would be
the next CM. Nevertheless,
according to Nath, he does
not make announcements
as other politicians do.
There is enthusiasm
RRR waltzes into history with Golden Globe for Naatu Naatu Explosion near Afghan
Beat Taylor Swift,
Rihanna and Lady
Gaga to win the
coveted award
AGENCIES
Los Angeles
"Naatu Naatu", the irre-
pressible, fun number from
the blockbuster "RRR",
danced its way to a Golden
Globe as the 'best original
song-motion picture' -- and
to Indian showbiz history --
at a star spangled awards
ceremony here.
The song, which beat the
likes of Taylor Swift, Ri-
hanna and Lady Gaga, to
! Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023;
EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE
JOSHIMATH: CONVINCING LOCALS
FOR DEMOLITION IS THE NEW TASK
SMT is a global medical devices company engaged in
making advanced medical technological equipment,
which is used in 79 countries. Its specialisation is in
the field of cardiovascular healthcare
Dr Rajiv Chhibbar, V-P (External Affairs) of SMT
production of heart stents
will start in the next two
and half years. Dr Rajiv
Chhibbar, vice-president
(External Affairs) of SMT,
who was here to take part
in the GIS, spelt out his
plans in an exclusive chat
with this correspondent.
"We already have a
Chouhan created an envi-
ronment which is apt to in-
vestments. This has attract-
ed industrialists to the
state, so it is developing by
leaps and bounds, he said.
Similarly, director gener-
al of Confederation of Indi-
an Industry (CII), Chandra-
jit Banerjee, said CII had
worked well in Madhya
Pradesh, and it was possi-
ble because of the policies
of the CM. Those policies
Former Chief Minister Kamal Nath addressing Congress workers at
the party office in Bhopal on Wednesday.
among the people as well as
among the party men
about the ensuing assem-
bly election, Nath said,
adding that they are ready
to change the present rul-
ing dispensation. "The
Keeravani poses in the press room with the award for best original
song, motion picture for "Naatu Naatu" at the 80th annual Golden
Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Tuesday
win the coveted award is
the first time that an Indian
production has won a Gold-
-
NATION
presence in Surat,
Mangalore, and in
Hyderabad, we have Asia's
largest stent manufacturing
plant. We plan to set up
our first plant in MP in the
upcoming Medical Devices
Park, in Ujjain, with an
investment of Rs 200 cr.
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" SHIVRAJ SINGH CHOUHAN, CM
have generated positive im-
pact on the investors, be-
sides Chouhan has organ-
ised the summit in a better
way, Banerjee said.
Managing director of
Adani Agro, Pranab Adani,
said the social policies of
the state government led by
Chouhan created a fine im-
pact for which he earned
laurels from everywhere,
but he also did a fine work
in improving the state's fis-
seats, which the Congress
has been losing for many
years, will see a change in
the upcoming elections.
The Congress will get his-
toric mandate," he said.
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en Globe. Organised by the
Hollywood Foreign Press
Association, the presti-
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MISSION ACCEPTED! Pg-16
LEADING INDUSTRIALIST
Among the leading industrialists
participating in GIS include Tata
Group chairman N
Chandrasekaran, Aditya Birla
Group chairman Kumar
Mangalam Birla, CII DG
Chandrajit Banerjee, Godrej
chairman Nadir Godrej, Force
Motors chairman Aditya Firodia,
Accenture India chairperson
Rekha Menon, JSW Cement MD
Parth Jindal, ITC chairman Sanjeev
Puri, Reliance New Energy
executive director Nikhil Meswani,
Bajaj Finserv chairman Sanjeev
Bajaj, Adani Agro chairman
Pranav Adani and Avaada Group
chairman Vineet Mittal,
supply. We have adequate
water for industries as we
have rivers like Narmada
which flow throughout the
year. Madhya Pradesh is a
peaceful state. The law and
order in the state is intact.
cal health. As a result of his
economic policies, many in-
dustrialists have been at-
tracted to the state, he said.
Chairman of Birla Group,
Kumar Mangalam Birla,
said Chouhan's style of
working is inspiring, and
being enthused by it, he
came to attend the summit.
The state has created a
positive environment for
setting up industries, he
said. CONTD. ON P6
Rs 2,600 cr incentive
scheme to promote
RuPay debit card
NEW DELHI
The Cabinet on Wednesday
approved a Rs 2,600 crore
scheme for promoting Ru-
Pay debit cards and low-val-
ue BHIM-UPI transactions.
Under the scheme, banks
will be provided financial
incentives for promoting
Point of Sale (PoS) and e-
commerce transactions us-
ing RuPay and UPI in the
current financial year.
The decision in this re-
gard was taken in the meet-
ing of the CCEA, headed by
PM Modi. "India's strides in
digital payments will be fur-
ther strengthened by today's
Cabinet decision regarding
promotion of RuPay Debit
Cards and BHIM-UPI trans-
actions," Modi said.
WHAT THEY SAY
"A very special accomplishment! Compliments to
@mmkeeravaani, Prem Rakshith, Kaala Bhairava,
Chandrabose, @Rahulsipligunj. I also congratulate
@ssrajamouli, @tarak9999, @AlwaysRamCharan and the
entire team of @RRRMovie . This prestigious honour has
made every Indian very proud," the PM MODI tweeted.
"Congratulations RRR, for winning the Golden Globe
Award .. a most well deserving achievement (sic)."
AMITABH BACHCHAN
"Incredible ..Paradigm shift Congrats Keeravani Garu from
all Indians and your fans! Congrats@ssrajamouli Garu
and the whole RRR team," AR RAHMAN tweeted.
"Overwhelmed by the response from all over for the
Golden Globe. Thank You for all your wishes," composer
MM KEERAVAANI
SPEECHLESS. Music truly knows no boundaries. Director
SS RAJAMOULI
gious awards, which mark
the beginning of the Holly-
wood season that ends with
MASSIVE PARTICIPATION
Over 5000 industrialists,
and 70 big industrial
houses are participating in
the summit. The theme of
summit is "Madhya
Pradesh: The Future Ready
State". Besides, 10 partner
countries,Panama foreign
minister, Mauritius finance
minister, Bangladesh
commerce minister,
Zimbabwe minister for
minerals, ambassadors or
consulate generals from 33
countries, 431 business
delegates from 84 countries
are also participating in the
summit.
We also have skilled man-
power and we are making
global skill park in Bhopal
where manpower will be
trained as per the require-
ments of the industries.
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BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY CASE
are entitled, pay
them: SC to Centre
NEW DELHI
The Supreme Court on
Wednesday told the Central
government it was not pro-
hibited from granting re-
lief to the Bhopal gas
tragedy victims, and it can-
not absolve from itself
from the welfare state prin-
ciple saying that its stand
was that it "take
it from them
(successor firms
of Union Car-
bide Corpora-
tion) (and) "as
and when taken
from them", it
will pay.
A five-judge
constitution bench headed
by Justice Sanjay Kishan
Kaul and comprising Jus-
tices Sanjeev Khanna, Ab-
hay S. Oka, Vikram Nath
and J.K. Maheshwari,
grilled Attorney General R
Venkataramani, represent-
ing the Centre, as to how
could it file a curative peti-
tion without filing the re-
view.
The bench told the AG
that the central govern-
ment was not prohibited
from granting relief to the
Bhopal gas tragedy vic-
tims.
It said: "Their (successor
the Oscars, were presented
here on Tuesday night.
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PM: IMF sees India
as 'bright spot' in
global economy
OUR STAFF REPORTER
city.indore@fpj.co.in
Noting that global institu-
tions and credible voices
have unprecedented confi-
dence in the country, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on
Wednesday said the Inter-
national Monetary Fund
(IMF) sees India as a
"bright spot" in the global
economy.
"And World Bank says In-
dia is in a better position to
deal with the global head-
winds than many other
countries. This is all be-
cause of India's strong
macroeconomic fundamen-
tals," he said while virtual-
ly addressing the inaugural
function of the 7th edition
of Invest Madhya Pradesh-
Global Investors Summit in
Indore.
Quoting Morgan Stanley,
the PM said that India is
moving towards becoming
the world's third-largest
economy in the next four to
five years.
"The CEO of McKinsey
has said that not just the
present decade but the cen-
tury itself belongs to In-
dia," he added.
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firms of Union Carbide
Corporation) argument is
that you are opening the
whole thing. You said we
are not opening the whole
thing... you are saying ac-
cept more liability. If they
are willing, then no prob-
lem, but they are saying
'No you chose to enter into
a settlement, not under any
duress or pressure
that is nobody's
case, can't be'."
The bench fur-
ther added that if
the government
feels victims are
entitled to be paid
more, "please pay
them... the ques-
tion is what we should do
in curative petition... Pay
them, most welcome to do".
The bench told the AG as
a welfare society "if you
are so concerned you want
to pay more; you should
have paid more".
As the AG replied that if
Union of India was delin-
quent, then all these ques-
tions would have been an-
swered, but somebody else
is delinquent, the bench
said: "No, absolutely no...
you as a welfare state adopt
a different principle what-
soever, whether you are li-
able or not."
foreign ministry kills 20
KABUL
An explosion near the For-
eign Ministry in the
Afghan capital on Wednes-
day killed 20 people and
wounded several others, a
Taliban police spokesman
said.
There was no immediate
claim of responsibility for
the attack, but the regional
affiliate of the Islamic State
group — known as the Is-
lamic State in Khorasan
Province — has increased
its assaults since the Tal-
iban takeover of
Afghanistan in 2021. Tar-
gets have included Taliban
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INAUGURATING GIS
VIRTUALLY, PM SAYS...
MP is ajab,
gajab and
sajag
Modi said there is an
important role of Madhya
Pradesh in building a
developed India. "From
faith, spirituality to
tourism, from agriculture
to education and skill
development, Madhya
Pradesh is 'ajab,gajab and
sajag'," he said. "I can say
this with confidence that
Madhya Pradesh has the
potential and resolve and
will go two steps ahead in
your (investors) progress,"
Modi said.
He said the GIS is
organised at a time when
the 'AmritKaal' of India's
independence has started.
Modi said MP has also
joined the national single
window system, started by
the Centre recently. About
50,000 approvals have
been given through it so
far. CONTD. ON P6
Google fails to get
interim relief in
App store case
NEW DELHI
In a setback for Google, an
appellate tribunal on
Wednesday refused an in-
terim stay on the competi-
tion regulator imposing a
Rs 936-crore penalty on the
US tech giant for abusing
its dominant position in the
market.
The NCLAT directed
Google to deposit 10% of
the fine that was slapped by
the CCI in a case related to
its Play Store policies.
A week back, Google failed
to get relief from the NCLAT
on a separate Rs 1,337.76
crore fine imposed by CCI on
alleged abuse of the domi-
nant position that the US tech
giant has in the Android
smartphone operating sys-
tem in the country. It was
asked to deposit 10 per cent of
the fine within four weeks.
Google challenged that or-
der before the SC, which
agreed to hear it on Monday.
While in the first case,
CCI had in October last
year asked Google to allow
smartphone users on the
Android platform to unin-
stall apps and let them se-
lect a search engine of
their choice, the regulator
had stated that the compa-
ny to take corrective steps
on policies that forced de-
velopers to use Google
Play's billing system to list
their apps on its Play Store.
patrols and members of the
country's Shiite minority.
The mid-afternoon explo-
sion was followed by peals
of sirens. Taliban security
forces prevented journal-
ists from getting close to
the site, threatening them
with guns and telling them
to leave.
Kabul police chief
spokesman Khalid Zadran
said security teams have
been deployed to the site.
Later he said that as the re-
sult of the explosion, “20
civilians were killed and a
number of others were
wounded."
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BHOPAL | THURSDAY | JANUARY 12, 2023
Kuno officials rev up cheetah
security, information network
OUR STAFF REPORTER
city.bhopal@fpj.co.in
As the decks are being
cleared to release eight
Namibian Cheetahs into
the wild in February, the of-
ficials of Kuno National
Park are working day and
night on multi-dimensional
strategy for the safety of
the majestic Cheetahs.
To strengthen security
arrangements, Kuno Na-
tional Park authorities
have tried to develop in-
formers in villages situat-
ed outside the park. Apart
from the villagers, they
are also roping in school
children as well in this
work.
Sources said Kuno offi-
cials have interacted with
at least 2k school children
in different villages and
Trilateral agreement signed for GI
tagging in Global Investors’ Summit
OUR STAFF REPORTER
city.bhopal@fpj.co.in
Through the medium of
GI tagging, now the lo-
cal products of Madhya
Pradesh will be known
globally. In this regard,
a trilateral agreement
was signed between
Textile Committee of
Textile Ministry, Mad-
hya Pradesh Sant Ravi-
das Hastshilp Evam
Hatkarga Vikas Nigam
and NABARD during
Global Investors Sum-
mit in Indore.
The MoU was signed
in presence of Minister Minister for Cottage and Village Industries Gopal Bhargava at signing of
for Cottage and Village trilateral agreement in Indore on Wednesday
Industries Gopal Bhargava. market at national and in- publicise them. NABARD
“Through the medium of ternational level,” said will provide financial help
GI tagging, local artisans Bhargava.
and weavers of Madhya
Pradesh will get the new Committee will identify the and Madhya Pradesh Sant
identity. They will also get products for GI tagging and Ravidas Hastshilp Evam
Thieves break 2 ATMs, make
off with lakhs of rupees
FP NEWS SERVICE
Gwalior/Morena
Thieves targeted three
ATMs – two in Gwalior and
one in Morena – in the ear-
ly hours of Wednesday and
made off with lakhs of ru-
pees, the police said.
In the first incident, the
thieves broke open two
ATMs in Gwalior district.
One is near Shabdpratap
Ashram under Bahodapur
police station and another
is at MH Square in Murar
area in Gwalior, the police
said.
The thieves used a gas
cutter to break the ATMS.
According to reports, they
escaped with more than Rs
50 lakh.
In another incident, some
unidentified thieves broke
open an SBI ATM in the Ji-
wajiganj area in Morena
and escaped with Rs 14
lakh, the police said.
A case was registered
against the unidentified
thieves.
The police are leafing
Man held,
sandalwood
seized
Sehore: A man was arrested
for cutting sandalwood trees,
the police said on Wednesday.
Equipment for felling trees
and sandalwood logswere
confiscated from him.
According to reports, on
getting information that a
man was sitting with a plas-
tic bag, containing pieces of
sandalwood, in Imlia vil-
lage, the police rushed to
the spot. As soon as the
man saw the police team, he
was trying to run away, but
the cops caught him. The
police found the pieces san-
dalwood in the plastic bag.
The pieces of sandalwood,
weighing more than 21kg,
were worth Rs 42,000. The
man identified himself as
Sayeed Khan, a resident of
Imlia village. The accused
had cut off the branches of
sandalwood tree near Badli
Patan dam in Manpura vil-
lage. He was going to sell
those logs, the police said.
D istrict forest officer
of Kuno National
Park, Prakash Kumar
Verma told Free Press,
‘Before the release of
cheetahs into the wild,
we are trying to cement
our information network.
Apart from this,
awareness programmes
are also being
conducted in villages.’
asked them to pass the
news related to poaching or
hunting of any wild ani-
mal. They assured that
their names will be kept se-
cret and even they will be
rewarded aptly for passing
information. Awareness
programme has been con-
ducted in at least 80 vil-
lages.
Moreover, drone squad,
As per the MoU, Textile
NO GUARDS, ALARM SYSTEMS
The police held several meetings with the bank officials and
advised them to take measures to protect the ATMs.
Nevertheless, the advice fell on deaf ears. There was neither
any guard nor any alarm system at the ATM.
The police caught Palwal gang from Haryana, which was
involved in breaking ATMs with the help of gas cutters.
Several members of the gang have been arrested. The police
laid their hands on the criminals with the help of CCTV
footage. According to Dandotia, two ATMs have been
broken at two places in Gwalior. It was, however, not
known how much money had been stolen, he said, adding
that there was neither any guard nor any alarm system. The
police are scanning the CCTV footage, he said.
through the CCTV footage
to track down the culprits.
The burglars blackened
all the CCTV cameras with
spray and used a gas cutter
to open the ATM.
According to sources, the
Mewati gang may have
been involved in these inci-
dents.
On getting information,
additional superintendent
of police, Rajesh Dandotia,
rushed to the spot. The
number of the vehicle by
which the thieves reached
Collector inspects retro-fitting project
work of Sagar district hospital
FP NEWS SERVICE
Sagar
Collector and co-chairman of
Sagar Smart city limited,
Deepak Arya inspected the
retro-fitting project works of
Sagar district hospital on
Tuesday. Executive director
and Smart city CEO, Chan-
drashekhar Shukla was also
present alongside Collector
Arya during inspection.
During the inspection, Col-
lector Arya said that a hospi-
tal lodgeS two departments,
an Out Patient Department
TWO-DAY MEET HELD TO MAKE STUDENTS AWARE ABOUT WILDLIFE
C h h atarpur:The forest department is organising a two-day workshop in the Repura for-
est circle to make people aware about the importance of forests and wildlife, official
sources said on Wednesday. The event was named “Anubhuti” (sensitivity). The first day’s
event was held at Bageshwar Dham. More than 130 students from Government Higher
Secondary school in Bagror took part in the workshop. Forest circle officer Rajat Dwive-
di addressed the students. The children were very happy about being close to nature. They
were informed about various medicinal plants that grow in forests. The management of
the school urged the forest department to organise such events once a month, so that the
students can have firsthand knowledge about nature.
Tribal held with horn of spotted deer
With the help of dog
squad, Panna Tiger Re-
serve officials have arrest-
ed a man who possessed a
horn of a spotted deer. Ac-
cused was presented be-
fore the court from where
he was sent on judicial
custody of 15 days.
It was on January 3 that
a tiger and a hyena had
died due to electric wire
trap in Kishangarh buffer’s
beat Vasudha. Dog squad
dog squad and a team of 20
ex-servicemen have been
deployed in patrolling
work. They are moving
along the park border to
ensure water tight securi-
for these products.
Textile Committee of GOI
the ATM was caught in the
CCTV camera. When the
police searched for the ve-
hicle, they came to know
that the car was registered
in the name of Raghvendra
Sharma, a resident in the
Nohri Kalan area of Shiv-
puri.
The thieves used a bogus
number.
On the grounds of CCTV
footage, the police came to
know that the vehicle
passed through the toll
plaza in Morena.
(OPD) and an In patient de-
partment (IPD). He then said
that it is not always neces-
sary to admit those patients
who are arriving in OPD, due
to which the OPD section is
always crowded. On the con-
trary, the IPD department
lodged the patients, to admit
whom is mandatory. Owing
to the same, he directed the
officials concerned to make
separate arrangements for
OPD and IPD sections inside
the hospital, so that a large
number of patients can be
managed there.
was roped in to arrest the
accused. While searching,
dog squad reached the
ty. A thorough search is
also being carried out to
check that no hunter is
able to place any trap. No-
tably, two tigers have lost
their lives due to the trap
Hatkarga Vikas Nigam
signed on the proposal
to provide GI tagging for
Nandna print and Panja
Dari of Jobat (Alira-
jpur).
Retail tea outlet Chai
Sutta Bar and Prajapati
Samaj also signed an
agreement.
On this occasion,
NABARD MD Nirupam
Mehrotra, Additional
Secretary Cottage and
Rural Industries De-
partment Manoj Khatri,
MD Madhya Pradesh
Sant Ravidas Hastshilp
Evam Hatkarga Vikas
Nigam Anubha Shrivas-
tava, Textile Commit-
tee’s Tapan Raut, Principal
Secretary Cottage and Rur-
al Industries Manu Shri-
vastava, Textile Commis-
sioner (GoI) Roop Rashi
were present.
DISTRICT NEWS
Fire breaks out in
Sari shop, destroys
goods worth Rs 60L
FP NEWS SERVICE
Gwalior
A fire broke out in a Sari
showroom at Naya Bazar
area in Gwalior city on
Wednesday, destroying
properties worth Rs 60
lakh, the police said.
When passers-by saw
smoke belching out of the
shop, they informed the
shop owner and the fire
brigade. The fire engines
rushed to the spot and
doused the flames, the police
further said. The fire broke
out in the Sari showroom of
Dinesh Bandil, a resident of
Morena, at 6am. The shop
owner said that he had left
for home at night after clos-
ing the shop. In the morn-
ing, he received a call that a
fire had broken in the shop.
By the time he reached the
shop, goods worth Rs 60 had
been destroyed. As the peo-
ple saw a column of smoke
emanating from the shop,
they raised a hue and cry
and informed the police and
fire brigade.
After this, he strictly em-
phasized that the doctors
who are on duty at the
Sagar district hospital must
also receive outstanding fa-
cilities, so that they can re-
main stress free while con-
ducting the check-up of pa-
tients. He instructed to ramp
up facilities in the Doctors’
chamber and rooms, to fulfil
the objective. Towards the
end of the inspection, Col-
lector Arya said that any
person who damages hospi-
tal property shall be subject
to strict action.
BJP’s media training meet ends
Narmadapuram: A training workshop, jointly organised by the Bhopal and Narmadapuram units of the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP), concluded on Wednesday. It was held in Shagun garden. The media in-charges from Narmadapuram and those
of the cells of various units of the party attended the workshop. In the divisional category inaugural session, Hitanand
Sharma, state media in-charge Lokendra Parashar, health minister Prabhuram Choudhary and others were present.
house of Kanchedi Adi-
vasi in Karri village. A
horn of spotted deer was
found at the house of
Kanchedi. He was arrest-
ed on January 10. He was
presented before the
court in Chhatarpur.
Notably, Panna Tiger
Reserve officials have al-
ready arrested five per-
sons in connection with
the poaching case of tiger
and hyena.
laid by hunters to catch
herbivore animals. More-
over, a close watch is also
being kept on those per-
sons who have a history of
hunting wild animals.
MANIT holds Vivekotsav’23
to mark National Youth Day
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Several events have been
organised under Vivekot-
sav’23 to mark National
Youth Day at the Maulana
Azad National Institute of
Technology (MANIT). The
events, which began on
January 9, will end on
Thursday.
Three held for hacking elderly woman to death
FP NEWS SERVICE
Rehti (Sehore)
Rehti police of Sehore have
arrested three youths in
connection with an elderly
woman’s murder, whose
body was found floating in
Narmada River on January
4, the police said on
Wednesday.
Superintendent of police
(SP) of Sehore, Mayank
Awasthi said that the elder-
ly woman, aged 75 years,
who was murdered has
been identified as
BaliyaYaduwanshi. He said
that Yaduwanshi suddenly
went missing on the inter-
vening night of January 3
Vishwa Hindi Diwas celebrated
FP NEWS SERVICE
Nasrullaganj
A function was held at Sar-
dar Vallabh Bhai Patel Gov-
ernment Degree College on
Tuesday to celebrate Vishwa
Hindi Diwas.
The theme of the event was
to make Hindi a people’s lan-
guage. The purpose of cele-
brating World Hindi Day
was to give official status to
the language at UNO.
Principal of the college
Chandralekha Sankhla
presided over the function
and Bhanwar Sing Palia,
Shimpi Maurya, Rajesh Pa-
tel and Mahesh Malviya
were the special guests.
Morena cops arrest Sahara India
director from Delhi airport
FP NEWS SERVICE
Morena
A director of Sahara India
Karunesh Awasthi, who
took money from people in
the name of doubling it, fell
into police dragnet late
Tuesday night, official
sources said on Wednesday.
The police had to run be-
tween Lucknow and More-
na to arrest Awasthi. After
a medical examination, the
director was presented be-
fore the court.
The superintendent of po-
lice announced a reward
Khelega Madhya
Pradesh from Jan 12
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Bharatiya Janata Yuva
Morcha (BJYM) will or-
ganise sports activities un-
der Khelega Madhya
Pradesh initiative from
January 12-31. “The sports
activities include kho-kho,
kabbadi, cricket, volley-
ball, football, wrestling,
tug of war, cycling,” state
BJYM president Vaibhav
Pawar told media persons
here on Wednesday. He also
unveiled the theme song,
logo, T shirt, cap of the
event.
State BJP president VD
Sharma will inaugurate
Khelega Madhya Pradesh
by showing green flag to
marathon, which will be
held simultaneously at all
mandal centres.
As per schedule, sports
competitions will be held
from mandal to ward level
from January 14 to January
20. The winner teams will
be given e certificates,
track suits, shields etc.
At the programme, a let-
ter-writing competition
has been organised on the
topic Vivekananda’s mes-
sage to youths in making
of modern India. The
winners will get certifi-
cates and the best copy
will be published in the
newspaper.
Similarly, the pro-
gramme Vivek Manthan is
being organised under
Vivekotsav’23 with the aim
to of test knowledge of
youths. Under this, a quiz
based on the life and teach-
ings of Swami Vivekanan-
da has been organised. The
competition will end on
January 11 through an on-
line medium.
Likewise, Surya Na-
maskar programme will be
organised at 8 am on Thurs-
day. Besides, a 24-foot-long
portrait of Vivekananda
will be made. Lamps made
from wheat flour will be lit
on Thursday.
and January 4, after which
a missing person complaint
had been lodged at the Re-
hti police station.
The police sprung into ac-
tion and began investiga-
tions to trace the missing
woman. During investiga-
tions, the police learnt that
Kailash Malviya was the
main speaker.
Palia spoke about the im-
portance of Hindi language
and urged everyone to hon-
our every language along
with Hindi. Malviya, the
main speaker at the func-
tion, highlighted the pur-
pose of the World Hindi Day
(Vishwa Hindi Diwas).
He said that former prime
ministers Indira Gandhi,
for the police team which
arrested Awasthi.
The people hope that they
will get back their money.
Sixteen cases have been
registered against Sahara
India at the police stations
in Porsa, Kailaras, Sabal-
garh and Morena.
Sahara India opened an
office on MS road in More-
na and lured the people by
promising them to double
their income in eight years.
The company made the
FD of the money they re-
ceived from customers, but
they did not return it, the
NATIONAL YOUTH DAY TODAY
More jobs, affordable edu is what
youth expect from State Youth Policy
‘Social justice,
leadership, health,
entrepreneurship
also important’
SMITA
city.bhopal@fpj.co.in
The Youth Policy of the
state government is on the
anvil. The government has
sought suggestions from the
youth on the proposed poli-
cy. On National Youth Day,
Free Press talked to some
youngsters in the city to
know what they expect from
the Youth Policy. Excerpts:
‘Focus on health,
social justice’
The State Youth Policy should
focus on core areas of social
justice, youth
leadership and
development,
health, fitness,
sports and
employment
and
entrepreneurship. NGOs and
educational institutions should
be involved in the
implementation of the policy.
MOHSIN KHAN,
28, social activist
‘Make education
affordable’
The government should
allocate more funds to public
universities of national
importance so
that they can
reduce their
fees, which
have become
unaffordable
for a majority
of the students. Eligibility
criteria for various scholarship
schemes, available for
reserved categories like SC,
ST and OBCs should be
expanded so that general
category students can also
benefit from them. The
government should increase
job opportunities for the
state’s youth.
ANUPAM MISHRA,
23, student, NLIU, Bhopal
Yaduwanshi had gone to
attend a funeral in the Di-
mawar village of Sehore
on January 3. She also met
her sister’s grandson, iden-
tified as Dharmendra Ya-
dav there. Yadav was
tempted by the woman’s
gold ornaments and decid-
Atal Bihari Vajpayee and
Manmohan Singh worked
towards making Hindi an
international language.
As foreign minister of
India, Vajpayee spoke in
Hindi at UNO for the first
time to give global recog-
nition to the language.
To make Hindi an inter-
national language, the
first Vishwa Hindi Diwas
was organised at Nagpur
on January 10, 1975. The
language embodies the
culture and tradition of a
country, so protecting the
language is no less impor-
tant than defending the
borders of one’s country,
he said.
police said, adding that
92,500 people deposited Rs
220 crore in Sahara India.
The police had been
searching for Awasthi for a
long time. Two police
teams were formed to
search for Awasthi. They
raided the office of Sahara
India in Lucknow and the
house of Awasthi.
When Awasthi came to
know that the police from
Morena were searching for
him, he left for Delhi by air.
The Morena police contact-
ed their counterparts in
Delhi and caught him.
‘More opportunities
for rural youths’
The new policy should enable
youth from rural areas to
compete with
others on an
equal footing. I
also want that
necessary
information
and resources
should be available to the
youth of rural areas so that
they can make their future in
academic as well as non-
academic fields.
PRAJWAL PANDEY,
21, Student, MANIT Bhopal
‘Stress on
entrepreneurship’
The Youth Policy should focus
on things like professional
education and
entrepreneurship, which are
included in the
New
Education
Policy. I want
the
government to
identify
unemployed youths and make
some arrangements for them
in the Youth Policy.
ASMA KHAN, 25, student,
MA, Social Work, BU
‘Publicise schemes
for youths’
First of all, provide jobs to
the youth. Youth of the state
should be given preference
in industries
set up as an
outcome of
the MP
Global
Investors’
Summit (GIS).
Job-oriented courses should
be started. The most
important thing is that the
government should launch a
portal on which authentic
and valid information
regarding all old and new
schemes for the youth
should be available as also
about which colleges are
fake so that the youth can
get proper guidance.
SHAILENDRA DUBEY,
30, doctor
ed to carry out a recce of
the area where the woman
used to reside.
A day after conducting
the recce, Yadav and two of
his accomplices, identified
as Dilip Yaduwanshi and
Neelesh Yaduwanshi mur-
dered the woman at her
house on the intervening
night of January 3 and
January 4, and disposed
her body in Narmada Riv-
er. After this, they made
off with the woman’s gold
ornaments and fled the
village.
The police took the ac-
cused trio into custody and
seized all the stolen orna-
ments.
One held
with 1.85
quintals of
marijuana
FP NEWS SERVICE
Jabalpur
The Madhotaal police of
Jabalpur have arrested a
truck driver for illegally
transporting 1.85 quin-
tals of marijuana and 784
units of insecticide on
Tuesday late night, the
police said on Wednesday.
The police added that
they have seized the mar-
ijuana, insecticides, a mo-
bile phone and the truck,
all worth Rs 85.20 lakhs.
Madhotaal police sta-
tion in-charge, Reena
Pandey Sharma said that
the driver of the truck
was arrested following a
tip-off, that the police re-
ceived on Tuesday night.
The police rushed to the
spot, on witnessing
whom, the truck driver
tried to escape, but was
detained.
The police questioned
the driver, who identified
himself as Manoj Lodhi
(32), a native of Panna.
On inspecting the truck,
the police found 1.85
quintals of marijuana
and 784 insecticide units.
The driver, when en-
quired about the license,
failed to produce the doc-
uments, after which he
was taken into custody.
Three held for snatching mobile phone from woman
Bhopal: The Kolar police station staff have arrested three youths for snatching mobile phone from a woman, the police said on Wednesday.
Kolar police station incharge Chandrakant Patel told Free Press that the complainant Preeti Raikwar (31) had approached them recently. In her
complaint, Raikwar had alleged that three unidentified youths came from behind on motorcycle and snatched her mobile phone when she was
talking on the phone. The police registered a complaint and began sifting through the footages of the CCTV cameras installed in the area.
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KARNI SENA ENDS STIR AFTER GOVT Home Minister calls

AGREES TO FORM MINISTERIAL PANEL ex-CM Palat Nath
OUR STAFF REPROTER
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The members of Karni Sena
who laid siege to the Mahat-
ma Gandhi Square in
Bhopal for the past three
days withdrew their agita-
tion on Wednesday evening.
The decision to withdraw
the stir came after the gov-
ernment agreed to set up a
five-member ministerial
committee to settle their is-
sues.
The committee will also in-
clude the members of the
Karni Sena and officers of
various departments to deal
with their 21-point charter
of demands.
Thousands of Karni Sena
members, led by their state
president Jeewan Singh
Sena, Yogendra Singh, told OUR STAFF REPORTER
Free Press that Minister for city.bhopal@gmail.com
Cooperatives, Arvind Singh
Bhadoria, came to the site Home Minister Dr Narot-
where the protest was going tam Mishra has given a
on, and, after a discussion new name to former chief
with the minister, the pro- minister Kamal Nath. He
testers called off the stir. has called him, Palat Nath,
Singh said a committee, for retracting from his pre-
comprising five ministers, vious comment on honey
officials of various depart- trap CD case. He said Nath
ments to which the demands retracted from his state- dearness allowance to gov- who claimed that he was
150 women take out rally to
are related and some Karni ments twice in a week. ernment employees etc. having obscene CD of BJP
support Karni Sena in Bhopal Sena members, would leaf Interacting with the me- It was recently that Nath and Sangh leaders.
Cooperatives minister Arvind Singh Bhadoria ends hunger strike of
on Wednesday morning through their demands and dia persons at his resi- gave statement that it was
at Chetak Bridge and come up with a solution dence on Wednesday, he cops who showed the CD COVID
Karni Sena state president Jeewan Singh Sherpur by offering juice
marched towards MP Nagar. within two months. said all people knew about on laptop to him and he
at Mahatma Gandhi square on Wednesday night When the police came to Before the decision to call Nath who backtracked watched it for about 40 Home Minister Dr
Sherpur, flocked to the state at night, and since then, the know of their plan, they off the strike was taken, from the promises of waiv- minutes. When he was Narottam Mishra said
capital to stage a sit-in at the Sena members were camp- stopped the agitators at the Home Minister Narottam ing farm loans within 10 CM, he would ask police to nine cases of Covid had
Jamboree Maidan on Sun- ing in the city. Mahatma Gandhi Square in Mishra said, “The members days, providing dearness verify the things. Before been found in last 24
day. On Monday, the Karni Bhopal. The protesters then of Karni Sena are not allowance to unemployed this, Nath had backed the hours in the state. There
Hundreds of them, along Sena decided to garland the laid siege to the place. strangers; they are our own youths, reducing rates of claim of Leader of Oppo- are five active cases. Infec-
with Sherpur, observed fast statue of Maharana Pratap District president of Karni people.” petrol and diesel, giving sition Dr Govind Singh tion rate is 0.14 per cent.

BRIEF NEWS
Bravery of Tantya at
Jan Yoddha Samaroh
6 members of family What does the rainbow youth want Truck crushes
child to death in
attempt suicide due to All we want is acceptance, acknowledgement,
support and non-judgemental society, say
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‘Mere legalising LGBTQ+

Shahjahanabad
OUR STAFF REPORTER

financial hardship state’s LGBTQ community members

is not going to help the
community, but what is
needed is a change in peo-
ple’s mindset and making
people aware about differ- do not have. The Indian derstand that it is a person- they’ll read about it it
city.bhopal@fpj.co.in

An 8-year-old girl riding

A solo play ‘Tantya Gatha,’
on tribal freedom fighter
Tantya was held in
Shaheed Bhavan on
Wednesday evening. It
was part of the second
day of the seven-day
national theatre festival
‘Jan Yoddha Samaroh’,
organised by Swaraj
Sansthan Sanchanalaya.
The play introduced the
audience to not only the
personality of Tantya but
also to his bravery. The
director of the play
Praveen Choubey said that
the idea was on his mind
since last seven years. The
play Ramprasad Bismil will
members of family
took poison at 2 am
House of contractor in Bairagarh
Couple has four plete the contracts he had
children to whom
taken from people. He had
taken money from the peo-
ple for the contracts and
insecticide was the latter were pressuris-
ing him to either return
served in milk. All their money.
The couple has four chil-
dren to whom the insecti-
cide was served in milk.
ent sexualities and gen-
ders,’ the rainbow youths
in a talk session based on
What does the rainbow
youth want? on National
Youth Day said.
LGBTQ+ is an acronym
that means, Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgender,
Queer and the ‘+’ signifies
the inclusion of every sexu-
ality and gender that comes
in the rainbow community.
Not acceptance but
acknowledgement
Aditya Tiwari, queer ac-
tivist said, ‘To speak is a
privilege, which many peo-
ple in smaller towns like
Jabalpur even to this day
LGBTQ+ community does
not want ‘acceptance’, we
want ‘acknowledgement’.
Despite the Supreme Court
scrapping down Article
377, the lives of queer peo-
ple in non-metropolitan In-
dia is the same.’
Non-judgemental
society
Prakash Jha (he/him), 28,
identify as gay said that, all
I want is a non-judgemen-
tal acceptance, whenever I
tell someone about my sex-
uality. When I tell people
that I am gay they ask ques-
tions like, ‘When did it hap-
pen?’ or ‘When did you
turn gay’. People don’t un-
al choice and they make
judgements without even
knowing what it is and
what it represents.’
Just listen to us
Shweta Shahi (she/her),
26, identify as queer stated,
‘I think the major issue is
that people don’t know
about sexuality and gen-
der. People are curious
about this topic and all
they want is to question
everything but they don’t
want to listen to what we
have to say. I feel that peo-
ple who are unaware and
unacceptable about
LGBTQ+ should read
about different sexualities
and gender. The more
would make it easier for
them to understand.’
No sympathy,
but empathy
At the end of the talk,
LGBTQ+ community mem-
bers mentioned, we don’t
want people to sympathise
with us but what we want
from them is to understand
us and empathise with us.
We want acceptance, ac-
knowledgement, non-
judgemental society and to
be understood. Everyone in
the society wants us to un-
derstand the norms of soci-
ety, but we want to be un-
derstood too, we want to be
heard too.
pillion on a bike died as a
truck ran over her, after
she fell from the bike in
Shahjahanabad locality
of the city on Wednes-
day, the police said.
Shahjahanabad police
station in-charge,
Saurabh Pandey said
that the minor girl who
died in the accident has
been identified as Sadiya
(8). He said that Sadiya
was a student of Class 3
at a private school in
Bhopal and his uncle
Yasir was dropping her
home on a bike at 11 am
on Wednesday. A mini
truck rammed their bike
from the rear, following
which, Sadiya was flown
away several feet and fell
in front of the truck. As
the truck was cruising at
a great speed, the driver

Crimes declined by 28% in 2022

be staged under the
direction of Yogesh Tiwari All members of the family could not control it and
at Shaheed Bhavan on
Thursday at 6:30 pm.
on Wednesday took poison at 2 am on
Wednesday.
eventually crushed
Sadiya under the truck’s
OUR STAFF REPORTER When Jatav’s condition Abductions, stood at 21,732, which im- vehicles was on Bhopal Awareness spread wheels.
began deteriorating, he in- plies that the crime rate in Municipal Corporation Sadiya died on the spot,
Lecture on Role of city.bhopal@fpj.co.in
formed one of his relatives vehicle lifting the city reduced by 28.56 (BMC) staff.

Museums at IGRMS
The Indira Gandhi
Rashtriya Manav
Sangrahalaya (IGRMS),
Bhopal, organised a
lecture under the Museum
Popular Lecture Series on
Wednesday. Former
director of the Indian
Museum, Kolkata and
NMNH, New Delhi B
Venugopal delivered a
lecture on the Role of
Museums in Heritage
(Intangible) online through
Google Meet and
Facebook Live. He said
that the intangible
Heritage is the mantra for
success for museums to
survive in the future. The
definitions of museums
and heritage are the same
and that museology is part
of culturally movable
heritage, he added. Surya
Kumar Pandey from the
museum said that
Venugopal has worked in
the museum sector for 32
years and in the university
sector for 5 years. The
programme was
conducted by Ashok
Vardhan and a vote of
thanks was proposed by
museum associate Garima
Anand Dubey.
Skill-oriented
demonstration
class at MLB
A skill-oriented
demonstration class on
earning by packing was
held at Govt Maharani
Laxmi Bai Girls PG
Autonomous College
recently. The event was
organised by the
department of Home
Science and by Saleha
Zameen, an entrepreneur.
A lecture was delivered by
dietitian Nidhi Karoliya.
Six members of a family,
residing in Bairagarh, at-
tempted suicide by con-
suming poison at their
house at about 2 am on
Wednesday, the police said.
The police added that all
of them were saved, as
they were taken to the hos-
pital on time.
According to Assistant
Commissioner of Police
(ACP) of Bairagarh Anti-
ma Samadhiya, head of
the family Kishore Jatav is
a contractor. Jatav and his
wife took the extreme step
as Jatav for failing to com-
Cancer patients not alone, Utkarsh School to
we are with them: Governor come up at Sapre
OUR STAFF REPORTER
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Governor Mangubhai Pa-
tel has said that patients
suffering from cancer
should be made to realise
that even though they bat-
tle with the disease alone,
we stand with them men-
tally.
He said that along with
medicines, they should
also be given nutritious
diet. He was addressing
the Foundation Day pro-
gramme of Jawaharlal
Nehru Cancer Hospital
and Research Centre here
on Wednesday.
“It is generally possible
to cure cancer through ad-
vanced medical methods,
but we should not let those
suffering from incurable
cancer feel helpless,” Patel
Road Safety Week begins in city
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With the objective of
spreading awareness
among the general public
of Bhopal in regard to
road safety and traffic-ap-
propriate behaviour, the
Bhopal traffic police be-
gan the Road Safety Week
in the city on Wednesday.
The Road safety week
shall be observed till
Tuesday.
Commissioner of police
of Bhopal, Makrand De-
oskar flagged off the ral-
ly at the inaugural cere-
mony of the Road Safety
Week, during which
who then contacted Dial-
100 police. The police
rushed to the couple’s
house and referred them to
Hamidia hospital in
Bhopal.
When Jatav regained
consciousness, he gave the
statements to Bairagarh
police, in which he said
that he took the extreme
step owing to immense
work pressure. The treat-
ment of all family mem-
bers is underway, after
which probe will advance
in the case, ACP Samad-
hiya said.
Governor Mangubhai Patel addresses programme on 28th
anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru Cancer Hospital and Research
Centre in Bhopal on Wednesday
said. It is often seen that
people take medicines for
treatment of disease but
do not make required
changes in diet. Cancer
can be prevented by nutri-
tious diet and regular ex-
ercises.
He said that the hospi-
tal's contribution in cur-
ing patients of cancer by
performing special sur-
deputy commissioner of
police (DCP, Headquar-
ters), Vineet Kapoor and
DCP (Traffic), Hansraj
Singh were also present.
Keeping in view the ob-
jective of the Road Safety
Week, posters, calendars,
audio and video mes-
sages were released at
surpassed 2021
figures
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The year 2022 recorded a
significant reduction in
crime rate in Bhopal, as
compared to figures of
2021. The data issued by
Bhopal police commission-
erate revealed that a total
of 15, 525 crime incidents
took place in Bhopal dis-
trict in 2022, which are
6,207 less than the figures
of 2021. The count for 2021
geries for breast, uterus
and lung cancer was com-
mendable.
Bhopal divisional com-
missioner Maal Singh,
Bhopal municipal com-
missioner KVS Chowd-
hary and Managing Direc-
tor of Jawaharlal Nehru
Cancer Hospital Divya
Parashar were present at
the programme.
the inaugural ceremony.
Police commissioner
(CP) Deoskar said in his
welcome address that the
objective of the Road
Safety Week is to save
people from falling vic-
tims to road accidents
and ensure smooth traf-
fic flow.
A
dditional Commis- while Yasir sustained mi-
per cent by the end of 2022. The parking was made sioner of Police of nor injuries. The truck
Bhopal police commis- free by BMC on May 1, Bhopal Sachin At- driver left the vehicle on
sionerate curbed 11 out of 2022, after which vehicle ulkar stated that after the the spot and fled. After
16 serious crimes listed un- lifting incidents rose with implementation of police getting information of
der IPC. However, five of at least four such crimes commissionerate in the the incident police
them, namely vehicle lift- reported daily. As for ab- city in 2021, criminal activ- rushed to the spot and
ing incidents, robberies, ductions, children, mostly ities decreased. Commis- seized the truck. A probe
abductions, thefts and below 10 years of age were sionerate spread aware- is on to nab the accused
rapes increased and sur- targeted, which pushed the ness among masses. As a truck driver, station in-
passed the figures record- tally to 584 in 2022 from 561 reesult, grave incidents did charge Pandey said.
ed in 2021. in 2021. not go unreported.
About 1,306 cases of vehi-
cle thefts were registered
2021. Senior police officials
attributed it to non-super-
vised parking spots. Offi-
cials said that earlier the
onus to supervise parked
Sangrahalaya
Former CEC to
inaugurate on Jan 14
OUR STAFF REPORTER
BHOPAL
Madhavrao Sapre Sangrahalaya
is going to start a school named
'Utkarsh' for personality develop-
ment of students, budding jour-
nalists and research scholars
from January 14 at 11pm. Former
chief election commissioner
(CEC) of India Om Prakash
Rawat will inaugurate the school.
Vice chancellor of Makhanlal
Chaturvedi National Journalism
and Communication University
Prof KG Suresh will preside over
the event. The founder of the mu-
seum Vijaydutt Shridhar said
that more than 1200 researchers
from the institution have com-
pleted D.Litt, Ph.D and MPhil in
the past years. Their thesis has
been completed. About 1500
teachers have taken training in
mass communication and public
relations. More than 10k students
have gained direct knowledge by
going on study tours.
He further said that the aim of
the initiative is to provide all-
round development of students,
including personality, interview,
dialogue and communication
skills, language and word ability,
elegance and public manners. It
will also enhance understanding
of general knowledge, civic con-
sciousness, art and culture, geog-
raphy and history, etc. Students of
journalism, mass communica-
tion, public relations and human-
ities will be able to join the
school. The conditions are very
simple – punctuality, regularity
and discipline, Shridhar added.
DISTRICT INDORE / BHOPAL | THURSDAY | JANUARY 12, 2023

News in Brief
TEACHER HELD FOR HARASSING GIRL ON
PRETEXT OF GIVING MUSIC LESSONS
Booked under Goja, under the Protection of Chil-
dren from the Sexual Offences
her after music classes in the
school. Whenever she resisted his
Even on January 7, the teacher
called the girl to his house. On the
POCSO Act (POCSO) Act 2012. move, the teacher used to threaten pretext of giving her music lesson,
A resident of Mandsaur, Goja is to kill her, the complainant said. the teacher held her hand and
FP NEWS SERVICE currently staying in Meghnagar The teacher had even called the mi- made physical advances. When the
Meghnagar town of Jhabua district. He has nor to his house and molested her girl resisted, the teacher tore her

A music teacher of a private school

been booked under Section 354
(criminal force with the intention
on the pretext of teaching her mu-
sic.
clothes and threatened to kill her if
she revealed the incident to any-
Two killed, 11
NRIs celebrate World Hindi
Diwas in Sardarpur
has been arrested for sexually ha-
rassing a minor girl student on the
to outrage modesty), 506 (criminal
intimidation), and the relevant sec-
According to the police, the ac-
cused teacher made the girl lie to
one.
The girl later confided in her fam-
injured as truck
SARDARPUR: A programme to celebrate World Hindi
Divas was organised in the Government School of
pretext of giving her music les-
sons.
tions of POCSO Act.
The minor girl in her complaint
her parents that she was visiting
her friend’s place and instead she
ily and narrated her ordeal. The
parents approached the Meghna-
collides with
Sardarpur. NRI from Mauritius Gyan Dhanuk Chand and
his wife Meera also participated in it. President of
Police have booked the school
teacher, identified as Shailendra
to police said the music teacher
used to make sexual advances on
would go to the teacher’s house to
get music lessons.
gar police on Wednesday and filed
a complaint.
stationary bus
Literary Cultural Research Institute, Mumbai Banwarilal FP NEWS SERVICE
Jajodia and Hindi professor Pushpasih of Assam Guna
participated as a special guest. BEO Pramo Kumar
highlighted the importance of Hindi language in day to
day to life. Dr Shireen Qureshi, teacher Rajni Malviya,
Cong running A rare case of conjoined twins Two persons were killed
and 11 injured after the

Monu Shivhare and others were also present.
Lions Club distributes woollens to students
JAORA: The sarpanch of Bhuteda, Pinky Dharmendra
distributed stationeries and woollens, donated by Jaora
Lions Club among the students of the local government
school. In this regards a programme was organised on the
school premises. Club chairman Anil Dhariwal encouraged
all the students to study hard. Vijay Pamecha, secretary
Sharad Dungarwal, co-secretary Rajat Soni and others were
also present.
Lions Club holds eye check-up camp
SANAWAD: Lions Club
organised an eye-check
up camp for elderly
people by. After the
examination,
ophthalmologist Dr
Shailendra Chokde
distributed spectacles to
the patients. The elderlies expressed their gratitude towards
the club and the doctors. On this occasion, club president
Mamta Anil Chowdhary, secretary Shreya Kamlesh
Chowdhary and other members were also present.
Collector reviews preparations
for Youth Day
GUNA: A meeting regarding Youth Day celebration was
chaired by collector Noble Frank A at the collectorate. He
gave necessary instructions regarding the Surya Namaskar
programme to be conducted in the Government School
Guna. Students of classes 6th-12th will participate in it.
District education officer CS Sisodia, Rishi Kumar Sharma
and others were also present.
out of leadership
in MP: PHE min
FP NEWS SERVICE
Guna
With less than a year left for the state as-
sembly elections, both BJP and Con-
gress leaders are not leaving any oppor-
tunity to attack their political oppo-
nents
Countering the claim of the former
minister Jaivardhan Singh that Con-
gress will win 150 seats in the upcoming
assembly polls, the state public health
engineering minister Brajendra Singh
Yadav Yadav said the BJP is all set to
cross 200 mark in the elections.
Launching a sharp attack on the Con-
gress and its senior leaders, the minis-
ter said that the grand old party was
running short of leaders and leadership
in the state.
Without naming anyone, Yadav went
on to say that two senior Congress lead-
ers in the state were busy settling their
sons. Both the leaders are trying to make
their sons the Chief Minister and as a
result of the tussle between the two lead-
ers, the presence of Congress in the
state is fading away, said Yadav, adding
that Congress workers too have under-
stood this well. Ever since Jyotiraditya
Scindia left the Congress, the bad days of
the party started, said the PHE minister.
FIGHTING FOR PROTECTION OF MEN AGAINST FALSE ALLEGATIONS
Kantu to participate in yatra for
fellow men victims in Delhi
reported in Barwani district
NEWBORNS REFERRED TO INDORE OVER RESPIRATORY ISSUE
FP NEWS SERVICE
Barwani
In a first in the district, a woman
delivered conjoined twins – both
girls- at the district hospital on
Monday night. The newborns,
who are connected physically at
the chest only, were referred to
Indore after they were found hav-
ing difficulty in breathing.
The doctor who performed the
C-Section said that it was the
first case of birth of Conjoined
twins (two babies who are born
physically connected to each oth-
er) in the district . TThe doctor
said that he saw Conjoined twins
for the first time in his career.
Anita, wife of Ashu, a resident
of Rehgun village, about seven
kilometres away from the dis-
trict headquarters delivered the
babies at 12.09 midnight on Mon-
day. The couple used to work in
Gujarat and had come to their
native village for delivery.
Anita's relatives brought her to
primary health centre late
evening, as the matter was seri-
truck collided with a sta-
tionary passenger bus from
the rear end on Wednesday.
The bus driver and the
conductor were busy
changing the flat tyre
when a truck crashed into
the bus from the rear end
GIRLS WEIGH 3.6 KG killing the conductor and a
According to district hospital civil surgeon Dr Manoj Khanna, it was the passenger. Eleven passen-
first case of birth of conjoined twins in Barwani district. The twin-girls gers who sustained injuries
are joined together at the chest, while their arms, legs and head are were admitted to the dis-
separated. According to the doctors, the weight of both the twin girls at trict hospital.
the time of birth was around 3.6 kg. They were referred to Indore after The accident took place
they had difficulty in breathing. on National Highway-46
near Barkheda village falls
SEPARATION OF CONJOINED TWINS POSSIBLE under the Chanchoda po-
Dr Roop Singh Bhadale of Special Newborn Care Units (SNCU) said lice station area around 4
that this is one of the very rare cases. Conjoined twins are often am. The bus heading from
attached at the chest, pelvis or buttocks. The twins may share organs. Ahmedabad was enroute to
Surviving twins may be separated surgically. Success depends on where Kanpur.
they're joined and which organs they share. Police said the driver had
parked the bus on the right-
hand side of the road in-
BETUL HAD CONJOINED TWINS IN 2011 stead of left after the tire of
On July 1, 2011, one Maya, wife of Hariram Yadav of Chudia village in the bus got punctured.
Betul district, had delivered Conjoined twin girls. The poor parents While the driver and the
handed over the newborn to the hospital after filing an affidavit on a Rs conductor were busy
100 stamp. Later the baby girls were named Stuti and Aradhana. The changing flat tyre, the
two girls were separated after a complicated operation on June 21, truck crashed into the bus
2012. A team of about 15 doctors from Australia and India had from the rear end. On re-
operated upon the girls at Padhar Hospital in Betul district. The Chief ceiving the information,
Minister had announced to bear the cost of the surgery. On July 6, same the police force reached the
year, one of the girls had died of cardiac arrest. accident site and sent the
injured passengers in the
ous, the doctor had referred her tor performed caesarean sections bus to Binaganj Communi-
to Barwani district. Here the doc- (C-Section) to deliver the babies. ty Health Center.
Dhar players dominate
pickleball league, bag 20 medals
FP NEWS SERVICE
Dhar

Mangal Diwas celebrates at The tribal was falsely tra being taken out by Jai Kuldevi Singh Yadav in the district court. Two-day pickleball
Foundation from January 28. Which has been admitted and the league organised at
Sunderabad Anganwadi implicated in gang Kantu, has sought compensation next hearing has been fixed for the Rising Tennis Club
BARANAGAR: A rape case from the government citing ‘suffer- January 15. of Dhar Public School
programme to celebrate ing and mental agony’ caused to Asked about the whopping rec- concluded on Tuesday.
Mangal Diwas was FP NEWS SERVICE him as his incarceration sent his ompense, Yadav said Rs 10,000 Players of Dhar domi-
organised at Sunderabad Ratlam family to the brink of starvation. crore has been sought because ‘hu- nated the competition
Anganwadi in Barnagar. He also sought Rs 2 lakh towards man life is precious’, while the re- by securing first position, al- ners and participants.
On this occasion, sarpanch Making headlines after being ac- the ‘loss of God's gift to human’s maining Rs 6.02 crore is for various most in every category includ- Dhar entrepreneur Santosh
Jyoti Pandya performed a quitted of gang rape charges and e.g. sexual pleasure’, as per his pe- reasons, including legal expenses ing under 12, 14, 19, 35+ and Devnani, national table tennis
ritual of annaprashan with infants. Activist Rekha Bhatt said seeking compensation of more tition. of Rs 2 lakh, mental agony and suf- 50+. Overall Dhar players won player Avinash Verma and
that under the scheme of government, auspicious work than Rs 10,000 crore from the state Fighting for protection of men fering by his family. four gold medals, nine silver Sukhdev Tipper from Pickle-
related to pregnant women like baby showers or infants like government for the ordeal he faced, against false allegations, Kantu In his petition, Kantu said he was and seven bronze. ball Organising Committee
annaprashan is performed on Tuesdays. Anita Bairagi, a tribal is all set to leave for Delhi to said that he wants to meet the Pres- the sole breadwinner for his family Tournament was concluded were present as the special
Ghanshyam Singh Pandya and others were also present. participate in an anti-male-harass- ident and the Prime Minister and when the police arrested him in the with a prize distribution cere- guests. Vote of thanks was pro-
ment yatra beginning from Janu- hand them memorandum regard- gang rape case on December 23, mony. Madhya Pradesh Pick- posed by Rahul Agarwal.
Congress holds meeting ary 28. ing the false cases being registered 2020. Yadav said Bheel supported leball Association’s Arun Bhat- Players of Dhar including Ro-
Kantu, alias Kantilal Bheel (35), against the men across the country. his ageing mother, wife and their nagar, secretary Balwant hit Devnani, Shubhi Vyas, Meet
on Tiranga Yatra who was in jail for almost two years It may be noted that a compensa- three children. In his absence, Kan- Salunke and journalist Renu Durgani, Deepa Vyas, Jay
BAROD: A meeting of on false charges of gang rape, is tion claim of Rs 1006 crore was tu’s family was on the verge of star- Aggarwal distributed certifi- Agarwal and others played ex-
Congress workers was also going to participate in the ya- filed by Kantu's advocate Vijay vation, he said. cates and medals to the win- cellently.
held at Hanumangarhi
regarding the Tiranga
Yatra from January 25.
A framework for the
Yatra was prepared
‘Educate Girls’ celebrates NHDC authorities inform delegation
under the chairmanship
of MLA Vipin
15th Foundation day from Arunachal about projects
Wankhede. On this occasion, Barod party block president FP NEWS SERVICE FP NEWS SERVICE project Prasanna Dixit, Indi-
Prem Singh Tawar, Mahendra Singh Solanki, Irshad Alirajpur Mundi rasagar head of the project
Mansoori, Shyam Singh and others were also present. AK Singh, general manager
NGO ‘Educate Girls’ cele- A team of Narmada Hydro- Ajit Kumar ,Dhirendra
Financial assistance provided brated 15 years of its estab- electric Development Corpo- Dwivedi, Ashishkumar
lishment on Wednesday. ration (NHDC), informed a Jaykar and Prabhakar Rao,
for last rites Founded by Safina Hus- delegation from Arunachal Ajit Kumar Jain from
PIPLARAWAN: City council president Kavita Devnarayan sain, the non-governmental Pradesh about the projects Bhopal were present in the
Sharma distributed Rs 5,000 each to two kid of two organisation has been including power generation, program organised at Indi-
deceaseds to perform their last rites. The amount was working in the field of pro- irrigation, fisheries and em- rasagar Power Station. The
distributed under Mukhya Mantri Sambal Yojana. On this viding higher education to ployment being generated program was coordinated by
occasion, vice president Rajendra Nahar, senior councillor girls for the past several for the hundreds of villagers projects. Arunachal Pradesh and a Pankaj Pandey (DGM).
Devnarayan Sharma, councillor representative Jitendra years in the district. of the adjoining area. The officer informed delegation of the villagers The delegation also in-
Kushwaha and others were also present. District joint collector In a programme organised them about the cost of land living in the area coming un- spected canals. After canals,
Janki Yadav, who was chief ucation of thousands of at Indirasagar Power Sta- acquisition work in these der the project are visiting Punasa Lift Irrigation
Self-help group holds meeting in guest on the occasion, girls and helped in fulfilling tion, the authorities of dams, the backwater area, dams and the projects in Scheme, rehabilitation site
said Alirajpur comes in the their dreams. She ex- NHDC also answered to the rehabilitation sites and the Madhya Pradesh and Ut- Mohana Bijoramafi, Hanu-
council office 10 aspirational districts of pressed gratitude towards queries of the visiting dele- work being done under the tarakhand. The delegation, mantiya Island, Singaji
PIPLARAWAN: A meeting of the women's self-help group the country and the admin- all the teammates who took gation. CSR scheme. which included 27 villagers, Thermal Power and Singaji
was organised at municipal council office under the chief istration was seeing a posi- education from posh to trib- NHDC Chief Executive Di- These villagers were ac- visited Indira Sagar Dam, Singaji Samadhi Temple
hospitality of city president Kavita Devnarayan Sharma. tive change in the educa- al areas of the district. rector VK Sinha, leading the companied by the represen- rehabilitation sites and in- were shown.
While addressing the meeting, Sharma said that the Madhya tion of girls. She also ap- More than 800 girl volun- team of specialists of Indira tatives of the Arunachal spected canals, Sinha pre- The delegation will also
Pradesh government has many schemes for self-help preciated the NGO for con- teers, staffers, government Sagar and Omkareshwar Pradesh government Ne- sented mementos to the del- visit Rishikesh and Tehri
groups. She added the council is also committed to helping necting younger girls with officials and board mem- dam projects, informed the nang AE, Onil BEO and egation members. The project of Uttarakhand.
them. CMO Narmada Shankar Pandey, vice president education. bers from Alirajpur partici- delegation that National Hy- NHPC's Gaurav Kumar. queries of the villagers were
Rajendra Nahar, senior councillor Devnarayan Sharma and Safina said that Educate pated in the district-level dro Power Corporation NHPC is building the resolved by the authorities. PANCHANG 12.1.2023
others were also present. Girls has facilitated the ed- function. (NHPC) was working on 22 Siang project in rural Onkareshwar head of the (UTTARAYAN)
Saka 1944 Samvat 2079

Congress leader & advocate fights case behind bars

Month : Magha Krishna 5 Thursday 4.38 P.M.
Nakshatra : Purva 2.24 P.M. then Uttara
Yoga : Soubhagya 12.32 P.M. then Shobhan
Karan : Garaj 5.31 A.M. then Vishti
Moon : Simh 9.00 P.M. then Kanya

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11 9 7

Manages to get
NEP, SUN, KETU
Jadoun, a co-accused in Alot on November 12 from where he Ratlam district. rected the authorities to send and Vakil alias Shakeel. MER

Urea Loot case, could not get
acquittal of five
himself out as his bail pleas
was sent to Indore Cen- The date of final ar- the case diary to him and also Jaora court’s additional public
6
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tral Jail. His lawyer guments, in this case, wrote to the Central Jail admin- prosecutor Praveen Singh JUP

murder accused were rejected twice.

Jadoun, a senior Congress
had applied for bail
twice, but the court re-
was scheduled for Jan-
uary 3. As Jadoun, who
istration to make required
arrangements for video confer-
Solanki said that there is a pro-
vision in the law that if the ad-
1
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leader and advocate by profes- jected his plea since was in jail, had to ap- encing. vocate of any accused or party 2 MOON
FP NEWS SERVICE sion, has been housed in Indore the key accused in the pear in court on behalf Jadoun had then participated is in jail and the conviction has MARS 4

Alot
Despite being behind the bars,
Congress leader and advocate
Yogendra Singh Jadoun, housed
in Indore jail, has managed to
get his five clients involved in
the 2018 Amjaz Qureshi murder
case acquitted. Interestingly,
Central Jail since November 11.
The key accused of the case,
Alot MLA Manoj Chawla, who
was on the run for almost two
months, had surrendered before
a court in Indore on Monday.
Police had arrested Jadoun
from Indore on November 11 and
produced him before the court
case MLA Chawla was
on the run then.
Even as he could get
himself bailed out, Jadoun, de-
spite being in jail, was handling
many crucial cases in different
courts including defending six
persons in the Amjad Qureshi
murder case in Jaora village of
of his clients, the
Jaora Court had
asked the jailed advo-
cate through Indore Central Jail
if he was interested in repre-
senting his clients in this case.
Jadoun had responded in affir-
mative.
The Jaora court thereafter di-
in the final argument through
video conferencing and repre-
sented six of his clients accused
in the murder case. After a final
argument, the court had re-
served its verdict. On January 9,
the court acquitted five out of
six clients of Jadoun including
Afroz, Mehfoos, Jarrar, Mujju
not been proved, then he can
plead from jail with the permis- FREE PRESS CLASSIFIED
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16-year-old girl injured in road accident
Morena: A 16-year-old girl student sustained severe injuries on Ambah road in the city on Tuesday, the police said. People’s
representative Sajjan Singh Tomar rushed the injured girl to a local hospital from where the doctors referred her to Morena. The
accident occurred when the girl, after attending the coaching, was returning home. A luxury car which was at a high speed hit the girl.
MADHYA PRADESH BHOPAL | THURSDAY | JANUARY 12, 2023

Gwalior’s Usha Kiran

38th Senior National
Taekwondo Championship
7 selected to WCD project officer kills self, 2 held
OUR STAFF REPORTER Betul district and Brijesh Vishakar-

Hotel to be run by women

MPTB signs MoU
with Taj Group
OUR STAFF REPORTER
city.bhopal@fpj.co.in
The Madhya Pradesh
Tourism Board (MPTB) has
signed an MoU with Indian
Hotel Company Limited
(IHCL), The Taj Group and
their associate organisa-
tion Tata Strive will train
local youths especially
women in hospitality-relat-
ed fields to provide better
employment.
After skill training,
women will be given place-
ments in hotels of Taj
Group. Taj Group's Her-
itage Hotel Usha Kiran
Palace, Gwalior will be the
first hotel not only in the
state but in the country,
where from security, guard
to manager all will be
women. All the arrange-
ments will be operated by
women and will get the sta-
tus of the first hotel operat-
ed by women.
Principal secretary
tourism and culture Sheo
Sekhar Shukla said that due
to greater participation of
women in the hospitality sec-
tor, not only will women be-
come financially self-reliant
but also women tourists com-
ing from the country and
abroad will feel more secure
at tourist places.
A special initiative is be-
ing started for skill train-
ing and employment of
women/girls under the Re-
sponsible Tourism Mission
of the Tourism Board. In
the initial phase of this ini-
tiative, women/girls from
Gwalior and surrounding
areas will be offered vari-
ous jobs in the field of hos-
pitality and tourism, room
attendant, food and bever-
age services, cook, front of-
fice assistant, housekeep-
ing, security guard, etc. as
per market demand. A
short term training of 3 to 5
months along with job
training will be imparted.
fight for MP
Bhopal: Seven Taekwondoins of
Madhya Pradesh State Martial Arts
Academy (Taekwondo) have been
selected to participate in 38th senior
National Taekwondo Champi-
onship to be held in Pondicherry
from February 10-12. They will rep-
resent Madhya Pradesh in different
weight categories. In boys’ category,
Shard Bhargav will compete in 63kg
weight category, Deepesh Pandey
will take part in 74kg weight catego-
ry and Aftab Iqbal will take part in
80kg weight category. In senior
girls’ category, Dolly will compete in
46kg weight category, Lakshya will
take part in 54kg weight category,
Shivani will participate in 57kg
weight category and Madhu will
fight in 67kg weight category.
city.bhopal@fpj.co.in
A women and child welfare depart-
ment (WCD) project officer was forced
to commit suicide by his two friends.
The two accused invested in crypto
currency on the assurance of the vic-
tim. But when they did not get the de-
sired returns, they forced the victim
to commit suicide. The Chhindwara
police have arrested the two accused
for abetment to suicide, said the offi-
cials on Wednesday.
Chhindwara Kotwali police station
in-charge Sumer Singh told Free
Press that on December 29 last year,
the WDC project officer Manoj
Wankhede had committed suicide. He
left a suicide note and also a video
message. In the message, the victim
had blamed his two friends Nirmal
Singh Thakur posted in Chicholi of
ma, resident of Indore.
The deceased used to invest money
in crypto currency. He suggested his
friends to invest in the currency
market and said that they will make
huge profits from it. Both the ac-
cused invested Rs 58k and they were
supposed to get around Rs 38 lakh af-
ter 20 months.
But after the time period, the value
of the currency fell and the two did
not make profit as promised. The
two started to mount pressure on
Wankhede. On this he paid around
Rs 2.50 lakh to them, but they did
not agree to it and filed a complaint
on CM Helpline. The officer commit-
ted suicide. The police registered a
case and after probe the police ar-
rested the two and presented them
in court. The court sent them to jail,
the police said.

Retired discom Lifter machine used by

clerk found dead at
his house in Piplani
OUR STAFF REPORTER
city.bhopal@fpj.co.in
Piplani police station
staff have registered a
case against unidenti-
fied men for hacking a
retired MPEB clerk to
death at his house in Pi-
plani on Tuesday late
night.
Piplani police station
incharge Ajay Nair said
that the victim Dilip
Mohadkar (65), a resi-
dent of BHEL Nagar,
was a clerk at central
discom.
Station incharge Nair
said that the matter
came to light when Mo-
hadkar’s daughter, who
lives in Pune, called
him on Tuesday night.
When she realised that
her father’s phone was
miners destroyed
R ew a: A team comprising the
officials of the police and those
of the mining department con-
fiscated a lifter machine and
drowned it in the Tamas river
in the Teonthar area of Rewa
switched off, she con- district on Wednesday, official
tacted his father’s sources said. The lifter machine
neighbour and told him was being used to do illegal min-
to inquire. ing. The administration has
When his neighbour launched a drive against the
entered his father’s sand mafia following instruc-
house, he found that tions of the collector. Mining of-
television was ficer Ratnesh Dikshit said that
switched on while Mo- sand kept in 20 trolleys was de-
hadkar’s body smeared stroyed by mixing with mud.
with blood was lying The officials took action on the
on the floor.
His legs were fas-
spot, he said.
Sand collected by locals, liv-
tened with rope. The
neighbour informed
ing near Gangteera, Lawarpur-
wa, Jhodia, Tok, Barua and
the police immediately
who rushed to the spot
and began investiga-
Amlinkoni Ghats of the Tamas
river, was also thrown into the
water body. When the home
tion.
The police also seized
guards were patrolling the riv-
er by a steamer, they came
screwdrivers, wrenches across the lifter machine
and pliers from the spot. which the policemen de-
Further investigations stroyed. Sub-divisional officer
are underway in the
case, station incharge
of police Samarjeet Singh,
mining officer Ratnesh and
Nair said. others were part of the team.
Thieves break into Jain temple, decamp with idols and silver umbrellas
FP NEWS SERVICE
Shivpuri
Unidentified men broke
into the Chhatri Jain tem-
ple of Shivpuri on the in-
tervening night of Tues-
day-Wednesday and de-
camped with idols and sil-
ver umbrellas, the police
said on Wednesday.
The police added that two
thieves were caught on
camera.
Shivpuri police officials
Another Covid patient found
positive after seven days
62-year-old
woman with
no travel history
under home
isolation with
mild symptoms
said that the thieves
broke the shutter of the
temple to enter the prem-
ises and stole the idols of
Lord Adinath and Shanti-
nath. Official sources
said that the idols were
lustrous in appearance,
due to which, it appeared
to be made of gold to the
thieves and thus, the
thieves stole them to flee
the spot.
The thievery came to
light when the care-taker
after 7 days. The last posi-
tive case was found on
January 2.
"The patient is in home
isolation and doesn't have
major symptoms except
cold and fever. We have
also gone through the con-
tact tracing of the patient
and she didn't have any
travel history and have
of the temple went there
in the early hours of
Wednesday, and saw that
Health condition of
71-yr-old NRI improves
Mauritian NRI
would be discharged
soon from
Bhandari Hospital
OUR STAFF REPORTER
city.indore@fpj.co.in
The health condition of the
71-year-old NRI from Mauri-
tius, who was admitted to
Bhandari Hospital and Re-
search Centre, is improving
the shutter of the temple
was broken. When he went
inside the sanctum sancto-
was rushed to the hospital af-
ter we received information
from the officials of the Min-
istry of External Affairs. He
was having cardiovascular
attack but the team of doc-
tors at Bhandari Hospital
and Research Centre man-
aged him well as he has been
shifted to observation from
the ventilator."
Another patient, 58-year-
old year Rajan Ramdawon,
rum of the temple, he re-
alised that the idols were
missing from there.
Apart from the idols, the
thieves also stole cash
money kept inside the do-
nation boxes and two silver
umbrellas. The locals are
suspecting that the thieves
belong to Shivpuri itself, as
they appeared to be well-
versed with the entry
points as well as exit points
of the temple, as evident in
the CCTV footage.
YOUTH FALLS FROM
5TH FLOOR OF HOTEL,
INJURED CRITICALLY
Indore: A youth got criti-
cally injured after he fell
from the fifth floor of a hotel
in Vijay Nagar area late
Tuesday. The police are try-
ing to take his statement to
know the exact circum-
stances behind the incident.
According to Vijay Nagar
police station in-charge
Ravindra Singh Gurjar, one
Rohit, who was employed in

Seminar on entrepreneurship held OUR STAFF REPORTER

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Amid sporadic cases of

FP NEWS SERVICE
Narmadapuram
A seminar centred on en-
trepreneurship and self-
employment was organ-
ised in the Narmadapuram
town on Wednesday. Young
entrepreneurs, who are
lending contribution in
providing jobs to the peo-
ple were also felicitated in
the seminar.
National co-organizer of
Swadeshi Jagran manch,
Satish Kumar, president of
MP State skill development
and employment genera-
tion board, Shailendra
Sharma and president of
organising committee, Dr
Rajesh Sharma were invit-
ed as the Chief guests on
the occasion.
Satish Kumar was the
presiding speaker on the
occasion, who addressed
the seminar and highlight-
ed three misconceptions,
the first one being working
only as a government or
private employee, second
one being holding the gov-
ernment responsible for
the provision of jobs and
the third one being work-
ing as an entrepreneur
only after the age of 25
years.
He tried to influence the
attendees of the seminar
and draw their interest to-
wards entrepreneurship.
Dr Rajesh Sharma said
on the occasion that
through the seminar, peo-
ple have begun marching
towards introducing de-
velopment in Narmadapu-
ram. As many as 24 entre-
preneurs of the town
were felicitated in the
seminar. Former member
of legislative assembly
(MLA), Harishankar
Jaiswal, state president of
Mahilamorcha, Maya
Naroliya, Vice president
of Narmadapuram mu-
nicipality, Nirmal Rajput
and other dignitaries
were also present in the
seminar.
Covid-19, another posi-
tive patient was found in
the city on Tuesday, i.e.
the concluding day of
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
convention.
According to Health De-
partment officials, a 62-
year-old, resident of Rani
Bagh, was found Covid
positive on Monday night
and it is the only active
case in the city and the
first case found positive
taken four samples of her
family members," health
officials said.
The officials also said
that the sample will be
sent for genome sequenc-
ing.
As many as 157 samples
were tested on Monday
out of which only one pa-
tient was found positive
with which the total num-
ber of patients found pos-
itive in the city since the
outbreak of the disease
reached 2,12,527. The city
has also reported 1,470
deaths so far.
as his BiPAP support has
been removed and he has
been shifted to the observa-
tion ward. According to doc-
tors, the patient would be
discharged in a day or two.
"71-year-old NRI Jaiyan-
dutt Sadasingh was rushed
to the hospital on January 8
after his condition deterio-
rated. He was treated under
the supervision of Dr Ma-
hak Bhandari. We would
discharge him soon," the
hospital staff said.
Meanwhile, district sur-
veillance officer Dr Amit
Malakar said, "The patient
had also complained of
shortness of breath on Janu-
ary 8 and was rushed to Life
Care Hospital. He was dis-
charged in a couple of hours.
"Another NRI was also
shifted to Kokilaben Dhirub-
hai Ambani Hospital due to
fever but he was also dis-
charged in an hour after pri-
mary medication," Dr
Malakar said.
a hotel, was rushed to the
hospital after he fell from
the fifth floor of the hotel.
Preliminary investigation
revealed that he was sleep-
ing in a hotel room. He woke
up and was going to the
washroom when he lost con-
trol and fell from the height.
He got critically injured and
is undergoing treatment in
a city hospital.

PIOs’ body holds

dialogue with India
OUR STAFF REPORTER
city.indore@fpj.co.in
The 17th PIO's Dialogue
with India was held on
Wednesday at a city hotel
which was organised by
Global Organisation of
People of Indian Origin in
partnership with Global In-
dian Organisation.
In the programme, MP
Shankar Lalwani was the
chief guest while the wel-
come speech was given by A
Ravendiran Arjunan, secre-
tary general GOPIO Inter-
national.
"I welcome you all to land
of Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar,
Indore which is also the
cleanest city of India. As
our PM Narendra Modi
said that all NRIs are Rash-
tradoots who will deliver
the message of India on the
global level. You all will car-
ry forward our message
and will convey it globally.
You are the real ambassa-
dors of the country and it is
a great responsibility. You
all will play a great role
when India will complete
its 100 years of Indepen-
dence in 2047," said MP
Shankar Lalwani.
A tribute was paid also to
the late Selvarajoo Sun-
dram, co-founder of GOPIO
who passed away in 2022.
"We have contributed a lot
to the nation where we live
and are also connected with
India. I have communicated
with Minister of State for
External Affairs of India V
Muraleedharan for issues
concerning us and he has
assured to hear us out," said
Arjunan. Remembering
Sundram he said that Selva
was very close to me and
sacrificed a lot, he added.
Dr Ponnusamy Muthayah,
co-founder GOPIO said, "I
knew Selva from 1980. He
was pilar of the organisa-
tion. He was a great man. He
spread the organisation to
other countries Canada,
Singapore, France, etc."

Stepfather booked for

raping minor daughter
OUR STAFF REPORTER
city.indore@fpj.co.in
A 50-year-old man was
booked for allegedly rap-
ing his minor stepdaugh-
ter in Azad Nagar area,
police said Wednesday.
The accused could not be
arrested till the filing of
the report.
According to the police,
the 15-year-old girl has
lodged a complaint that
she stays with her stepfa-
ther and finding her
alone, the stepfather
locked her in the kitchen
and raped her. The ac-
cused later threatened her
of dire consequences and
fled the scene.
The girl informed the
other family members
and she reached the police
station to lodge a com-
plaint. The police have
registered a case against
the accused under various
sections including the
POCSO act and started a
search for him.
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DAHOD: A bootlegger in Gujarat's Dahod district opened seven rounds of fire on a
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four rounds at the bootlegger and his associates. The police seized a huge stock of
IMFL even as the culprits managed to escape.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 AIR INDIA PEEING INCIDENT

Adanis to invest...
Above all, we have ease of doing business policy. In the
recent rankings, MP was adjudged No 1 in good gover-
nance," he said. The CM stated that the infrastructure
of MP has also improved in last two decades. Indian di-
No bail for Shankar Mishra
Delhi court says the act was utterly disgusting & repulsive lodged in jail.
aspora from London told us during the PBD convention The judge noted that as
that Indore roads are better than that those in London. per the record, the accused
Pointing out that MP is an industry-friendly state, the AGENCIES had failed to join the inves-
CM stated that he is a CEO of MP who meets industri- New Delhi tigation even after a notice
alists every Monday. Chouhan said the state is rich in was issued to him under
mineral resources. "There are diamonds, coal, A Delhi court on Wednes- section 41A CrPC and his Congress leader Rahul Gandhi walks with Jain monks during party’s
dolomite, limestone, manganese etc. The state also pro- day denied bail to presence could be secured
Bharat Jodo Yatra, in Fatehgarh Sahib on Wednesday
duces strategic raw materials which are required for Shankar Mishra, accused only upon the execution of
making defence and aircraft equipment," he said. Cit-
ing achievements made by the state in agriculture sec-
tor, the CM said that MP is foodgrain capital of the
country. We are encouraging contract farming and in-
of urinating on an elderly
woman co-passenger on
an Air India flight, calling
the act "utterly disgusting
the non-bailable warrant.
"Therefore, the conduct
of the accused does not
inspire confidence. It has
Cong invites like-minded parties
dustrialists can get the farmers to produce whatever
crop they want I have special interest in textile and
readymade garments industries because it gives maxi-
and repulsive".
Metropolitan Magistrate
Komal Garg said the act
also come on record that
accused has tried contact-
ing the victim and the
to conclude Yatra in Srinagar
AGENCIES
mum jobs. We currently stands at fourth positing in has shocked the civic con- possibility of accused in- New Delhi like-minded party and on
readymade garments industries and working to secure sciousness of people and fluencing the witnesses the invitation of Rahul
No 1 position. We have an exclusive readymade gar- needed to be deprecated. cannot be ruled out," the Congress president Gandhi, MPs of several
ments policy. Chouhan said that Madhya Pradesh is go- "The alleged act of ac-
Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on a woman passenger, judge noted. Mallikarjun Kharge has political parties joined it
ing to be the next destination of IT companies. "The cused of relieving himself being taken away by the police from the DCP office at IGI Airport Further, as per the report invited leaders of 21 like- at different stages.
state has everything that IT companies want - cleanli- upon the complainant is woman. Egregious conduct The alleged act in itself of the investigating officer, minded parties to join the "I now invite you to per-
ness, greenery, safety, security and peace," he said. Suri- utterly disgusting and re- of the accused has shocked prima facie reflects the in- other witnesses are yet to concluding function of the sonally join the conclud-
name President Chandrikapersad Santokhi, Guyana pulsive. The alleged act in the civic consciousness tention of the accused, she be examined and the probe Bharat Jodo Yatra in Sri- ing function of the Bharat
President Mohamed Irfaan Ali also attended the inau- itself is sufficient to out- and needs to be deprecat- said, while declining the is at a very initial stage, nagar on January 30, say- Jodo Yatra to be held in
gural session and addressed the summit. rage the modesty of any ed," the judge said. relief to Mishra, who is the judge noted. ing their presence would Srinagar on January 30 at
strengthen the march's noon. The function is ded-
Global leader in... message of truth, compas- icated to the memory of
Dr Chhibbar also visited the Medical Devices Park in sion and non-violence. Mahatma Gandhi, who
Ujjain where they plan to set up the plant, accompanied
by MP Industrial Development Corporation officials.
HUMAN SACRIFICE: Minor In a letter to the heads of
the parties, he said from
lost his life on this day in
his tireless struggle
Asked why SMT had chosen to invest in MP, Dr
Chhibbar said that industrial infrastructure in the state
had improved tremendously. Also, we would get devel-
beheaded during ritual the beginning of the yatra,
the Congress has sought
the participation of every
against the ideology of ha-
tred and violence," Kharge
wrote.
oped land in the industrial park and MP is centrally lo- AGENCIES Haveli (DNH) district of the
cated and this would help our supply chain. Union Territory on Decem-
PM Modi to flag off world's
Silvassa
SMT is a global medical devices company engaged in ber 29, following which a
making advanced medical technological equipment, A nine-year-old boy was kid- case of kidnapping was reg-
which is used in 79 countries. Its specialisation is in the
field of cardiovascular healthcare.
napped and decapitated as
part of a "human sacrifice"
istered at the Silvassa police
station on December 30, po-
longest river cruise on Friday
ritual for getting money and lice said in a release. NEW DELHI: Prime Minis-
PM: IMF sees... later his body was chopped While multiple teams ter Narendra Modi will flag
"The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and De- into pieces, Dadra and Na- were found to trace the boy, off the world's longest river
velopment (OECD) has said India will be among the gar Haveli police said on a headless body matching cruise, MV Ganga Vilas, and
fastest growing economies in the G20 group this year," Wednesday and added 100 his description was found at inaugurate a 'Tent City' on
he went on to add. The premier said that the govern- personnel were involved in Vapi, located around 30 km the banks of the Ganga river
ment has increased the speed of reforms and removed connecting the dots to crack away from Silvassa, the in Varanasi on January 13
many hurdles in the way of investments in the past the brutal crime. headquarters of the DNH via video conferencing.
eight years. "Today's new India is moving ahead relying Police arrested two men district, police said. His office said in a state-
on the strength of its private sector", he said. India has and detained a teenage boy While the body was found ment that he will also inau-
been on the path of "reform, transform and perform" last week after the headless in a canal in Vapi, parts of gurate and lay the founda-
since 2014, the PM said. The Atmanirbhar Bharat Ab- body was found dumped the body, suspected to be of tion stones for several other
Inner view of Luxury Cruise
hiyan has imparted greater momentum to it. As a re- near a canal at Vapi in Val- the victim, were found in inland waterways projects MV Ganga Vilas
sult, India has become an attractive destination for in- sad district in neighbouring Sayli village where the ritu- worth more than Rs 1,000
vestment, he said. Modi said dedicated freight corri- A labourer sips tea while sitting on a boundary wall in the Gujarat. al was performed, an offi- crore during the event.
dors, industrial corridors, expressways and logistic backdrop of the Akshardham Temple engulfed by dense winter The nine-year-old boy cial said. The body parts MV Ganga Vilas will begin
parks are becoming the identity of new India. For the morning fog, in New Delhi went missing from Sayli vil- have been sent for forensic its journey from Varanasi
first time, there is a national platform for building in- lage in the Dadra and Nagar examination, he added. and sail around 3,200 km in
frastructure in India in the form of the Gatishakti Na- 51 days to reach Dibrugarh
tional Master Plan, he said. India's modern infrastruc- in Assam via Bangladesh,
ture and multi-model infrastructure are also giving a
boost to investment possibilities, he said. All these ef-
Oz woman loses jewellery, money during airport security check traversing across 27 river
systems in the two countries,
forts are giving new strength to Make In India and the NEW DELHI: An FIR has X-ray check when she was to Hyderabad on August 11 advantage of my vulnera- it said. Modi said the 51-day
manufacturing sector of the country is growing at a fast been registered against transferring from the inter- when she met with this un- bility of knowing a mother river cruise is a unique op-
pace. "Be it health, agriculture, nutrition, skill, innova- unidentified CISF personnel national to the domestic sec- toward incident. She trav- travelling alone with two portunity to connect with the country's cultural roots and
tion, new possibilities are waiting for you (investors) in after an Australian woman tion at Delhi airport. Akesh- elled to India to attend her very little children (aged 3 discover beautiful aspects of its diversity. The cruiser has
India," he said and added it is time to build a new glob- alleged that her jewellery ni Singh Gour, 40, flew from father-in-law's funeral. and 7) who were both ex- three decks, 18 suites on board with a capacity of carrying
al supply chain along with India. and foreign currencies Sydney to Delhi on an Air In- "The whole thing was an hausted from a 15-hour 36 tourists and having all luxury amenities. The maiden
worth Rs 50,000 were stolen dia flight and took a con- act that involved a number flight," reads the FIR, regis- voyage has 32 tourists from Switzerland signing up for the
MP is ajab... from her handbag during an necting flight of the airline of officials and they took tered on January 4. entire length of the journey, it noted.
An incentive of more than Rs 2.5 lakh has been an-
nounced under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI)
Scheme, the PM said urging the investors coming to MP DUMPED AT K’KATA AIRPORT FOR DECADES GANGASAGAR MELA
to take maximum advantage of the PLI scheme. Invest-
ments worth hundreds of crores have come in Madhya
Pradesh because of this scheme, he said, adding the
scheme has been important in making MP a big pharma
and textile hub.
Biju Patnaik’s dilapidated Hindi, English & Bengali to rule signposts & banners
Industrialists hail CM's...
In the same way, Chairman of Forbes Motors, Abhay
aircraft to reach Odisha soon AGENCIES
Kolkata
and direction boards written in Hindi
apart from English and Bengali to
help the pilgrims understand the di-
Firodia, said Madhya Pradesh has changed in the past AGENCIES / Bhubaneswar The former chief Keeping in mind the large number of rections and how to reach Sagar Is-
20 years, and now, one can think about investment in Hindi-speaking pilgrims visiting the land in South 24 Parganas district,
this state. In fact, the state has progressed so much so The Dakota aircraft used by minister had Gangasagar Mela, the West Bengal the official said.
that Indore, which was considered a dull city, has Biju Patnaik, which had government has made special "We get several lakhs of Hindi
earned the tag of the cleanest in the country for several been lying in a dilapidated used this plane to arrangements to have all signposts, speaking pilgrims visiting West Ben-
times, he said. Chairperson of Accenture of India, condition for decades at the rescue the then banners and hoardings written in gal during the Gangasagar Mela. To
Rekha Menon, said the MP government's IT policies airport in Kolkata, is likely Hindi also so that they do not face any ensure that they do not face any in-
have worked wonders and generated an environment to reach here on January prime minister of inconvenience during their stay here, convenience, we will have all ban-
which is conducive to creating more IT hubs. About the 16, officials said. Pilgrims show their tickets while a senior official said. ners, hoardings and direction-boards
industrial environment in MP, managing director of The former chief minis- Indonesia Sutan boarding a bus on the way to Gangasagar The state government has decided to on the way to the Island also in Hin-
JSW Cement, Parth Jindal, said he has a fine relation ter had used this plane to Sjahrir in 1947 Mela 2023, in Kolkata have signposts, banners, hoardings di," the official told PTI.
with Chouhan whose way of working and policies in rescue the then prime min-
various sectors have always brought him closer to the ister of Indonesia Sutan ANKITA BHANDARI MURDER CASE
Chief Minister. Likewise, executive director of Re-
liance Energy, Nikhil Meswani, said the GDP of Mad-
Sjahrir in 1947, historian
Anil Dhir said.
viewing.
Officials at Odisha's com- Posters targeting Cong Court gives consent for narco,
hya Pradesh shot up three times under the leadership of A technical team will merce and transport de-
Chouhan. The state is touching new heights daily, which
is highly stimulating, he said.
start dismantling the air-
craft at the Netaji Subhas
partment said that a four-
member team has been as-
pops up on Congress polygraph test of main accused
Chandra Bose Internation- signed to dismantle the
CM to be decided...
According to Nath, the ticket distribution formula for
al (NSCBI) Airport in
Kolkata on Wednesday and
Dakota (DC-3) VT-AUI air-
craft, which is about 64 feet
Bhavan walls KOTDWAR: A court here gave
its consent on Wednesday for
to conduct narcoanalysis and
polygraph tests of all the three
the upcoming assembly election is that priority will be it will be transported to 8 inches long with its wings AGENCIES / Ludhiana conducting the narcoanalysis accused, he added.
given to local candidates, besides those who are doing a Odisha by road. stretching to 95 feet. and polygraph test of Pulkit The tests will soon be con-
good work at the grass-roots will get tickets. The plane will be posi- The team will restore, re- Some posters targeting the Congress over the Arya, the main accused in the ducted on Arya following the
He made it clear that there is no internal squabbling tioned at a designated place assemble and do the reno- 1984 anti-Sikh riots were found pasted on the Ankita Bhandari murder case. court's consent, Rawat said.
in the party, but there is nothing wrong if someone is at the international airport vation work at the airport walls of the Congress Bhavan here on Wednes- Judicial Magistrate Bhavana Arya, who is lodged in a jail
close to some leaders. The former chief minister held a here named after Biju Pat- here, the officials said. day, a day before the Bharat Jodo Yatra is sched- Pandey granted permission to here, had filed an affidavit in
meeting with the retired government officials at office naik, the father of Odisha Efforts to transport the uled to pass through Ludhiana. the special investigation team the court, requesting that he
of the Pradesh Congress Committee. In the meeting, Chief Minister Naveen Pat- aircraft to Odisha were Some people, who noticed the posters, in- (SIT) probing the case for should be enquired about the
Nath urged the officials to point out the mistakes of the naik. made in the last two years, formed the police which later removed and took Arya's narcoanalysis and poly- entire truth during these tests.
present BJP government. "Make a list of those mistakes The Airports Authority of and tender was also floated them into its possession. graph test, but rejected its plea The SIT filed a chargesheet
and send them to public. The Congress leaders will India (AAI) has already al- for the initiative, but the The police is examining the CCTV footage of to subject the two other accused running into 500 pages in the
share it with other," he said. He also appealed to them lotted 1.1 acres of land COVID-19 pandemic had the area to trace those who pasted the posters, in the case to these tests, prose- case on December 19, based on
to keep an eye on the election procedures, since they where the Dakota plane stalled the plan, a senior of- officials said. The Punjab leg of Rahul Gandhi- cution lawyer Jitendra Rawat the statements of 97 witnesses,
know the standard operating procedure (SOP) will be will be displayed for public ficial said. led yatra on Wednesday morning commenced said. post-mortem reports and elec-
helpful for the Congress. from Sirhind in Fatehgarh Sahib and will pass The SIT had filed a petition in tronic evidence collected from
through Ludhiana on Thursday. the court, seeking permission the scene of the crime.
RRR waltzes into...
"RRR" had also been nominated in the 'best picture- CBI conducts searches at
non English' category and lost out to Argentina's his-
torical drama "Argentina, 1985".
But there was compensation aplenty. "And the Globe
50 locations across 3 states ‘Parliamentary sovereignty quintessential to survival of democracy’
goes to 'Naatu Naatu' 'RRR'," actor Jenna Ortega an- NEW DELHI: The CBI on cate of officials, rice mill FP BUREAU / Jaipur Vice President Dhankhar strongly objected to the Parliament with respect
nounced on stage to loud cheers from the 'RRR' team. Wednesday launched 'Op- owners and middlemen, to the NJAC. There was com-
The track has been composed by veteran music direc- eration Kanak' on alleged among others who were The All India Presiding Offi-
the right of the courts to strike down plete unanimity in the Lok
tor MM Keeravaani and voiced by singers Kala Bhaira- corruption in the Food allegedly indulging in cor- cers Conference in Jaipur constitutional amendments that violated the Sabha... The House of the
va and Rahul Sipligunj. Keeravaani thanked director S Corporation of India, con- rupt practices. begins with the concerns of "Basic Structure", or the fundamental People voted in unison in fa-
S Rajamouli for his "vision" as he accepted the award. ducting searches at 50 lo- Deputy general manager lack of decorum and disci- vor of this Constitutional
"It has been an age-old practice to say that this award cations in Punjab, (DGM) of FCI Rajiv Ku- pline of legislative houses architecture of the Constitution Amendment. In Rajya Sab-
actually belongs to someone else. So I was planning to Haryana mar and the unwanted incursion ha, there was unanimity but
not say those words when I get an award like this, but and Del- FCI CORRUPTION Mishra of the judiciary in the work- there was one abstention.
I'm sorry to say that I'm going to repeat the tradition be- hi after was ar- ing of the legislature. Vice same and said "the judiciary the "Basic Structure", or the Sixteen State Legislatures
cause I mean my words. arresting a DGM-rank of- rested for allegedly receiv- President and chairman of should also adhere to the fundamental architecture of ratified it. This exercise
"This award belongs to, in order of priority, my broth- ficer from Chandigarh, of- ing a bribe of Rs 50,000 Rajya Sabha Jagdeep limits and be expected to use the Constitution. crystallized into constitu-
er and the director of the movie, SS Rajamouli for his vi- ficials said. from one Ravinder Singh Dhankhar raised serious ob- the powers constitutionally Citing the judgment of the tional prescription with the
sion. I thank him for this constant trust in my work and The CBI booked a total of Khera, the CBI said, jections to this and said given to it. Supreme Court on the 99th Hon'ble President's assent
support," Keeravaani said. 74 accused in the FIR, in- adding the role of senior "Parliamentary sovereignty Inaugurating the confer- Constitution Amendment under Article 111 of the Con-
As Indian cinema fans woke up on Monday to the cluding FCI Executive Di- officers of Punjab govern- cannot be permitted to be di- ence Vice President Act, 2014, and the National stitution. But this was un-
news, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the rector Sudeep Singh after ment are also under scan- luted or compromised by the Dhankhar strongly objected Judicial Appointments done by the Judiciary. Such
"RRR" team and said it was a very special accomplish- a six-month-long under- ner for running 'benami' Executive or the Judiciary." to the right of the courts to Commission (NJAC) Act, a scenario is perhaps unpar-
ment. cover operation to identi- godowns outsourced to The Speaker of Lok Sabha strike down constitutional 2014, Dhankhar said 'Histo- alleled in the democratic
fy suspects in the syndi- the FCI. Om Birla also echoed the amendments that violated ry of sorts was created in history of the world.'

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Even enemy can't ignore Tripura development: Mithun
AGARTALA: Noting that Tripura is on the path of development under the BJP-led
government, actor-turned-politician of the saffron party, Mithun Chakraborty, on
Wednesday asserted that even the "enemy can't ignore" the growth the north-eastern
state has witnessed in the last five years.
NATION
INDORE / BHOPAL | THURSDAY | JANUARY 12, 2023

SPEED NEWS MONEY LAUNDERING CASE

Joshimath: Convincing locals Maha NCP

MLA Mushrif
for demolition is the new task faces ED raids
The chief secretary also announced that Rs 1.5 lakh is being given as
interim assistance to the affected families Panic in Aligarh Mushrif, 68, is a Nationalist Congress

AGENCIES that the residential

building could collapse
over cracks in Party (NCP) MLA from the Kagal seat
in Kolhapur. He is also the vice

Joshimath
Renewed efforts were
made by the administra-
tion on Wednesday to
persuade hoteliers and
Students partcipate in an anti-drug rally in Srinagar locals refusing to allow
the demolition of two
U’khand guv approves 30% precariously standing
hotels in subsidence-hit
women's reservation in gvt jobs Joshimath in Uttarak-
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Governor Lt Gen hand.
Gurmit Singh (retd) has given his consent to a Bill A fresh round of talks
providing 30 per cent horizontal reservation to was held between Secre-
domiciled women of the state in government jobs. tary to the Chief Minis-
Uttarakhand Public Services (Horizontal ter, Meenakshi Sun-
Reservation for Women) Bill, 2022 was passed by daram and the protesters
the state assembly on November 29 last year. who have been demand-
With the governor's consent to the Bill, it has ing compensation on the
become an Act, an official said here on lines of Badrinath before
Wednesday. the demolition exercise
is undertaken.
Man, woman's body found in Meanwhile, according
to NDTV reports, the
Delhi hotel
NEW DELHI: Bodies of two persons have been
found at a hotel in northwest Delhi's Bawana area
with police suspecting that the man killed the Assembly
A resident shows the damaged portion of a building at the
land subsidence affected area in Joshimath
cracks in the walls of a
badminton court were so
wide that a human hand
can slip in. The floors
were sagging, and the
windows were askew in
the complex, according
AGENCIES
Chennai
to online reports
The entire complex has
been declared a "red
zone" - which indicates
most dangerous - and it
is widely believed by lo-
cals as well as experts
police constable by two
DMK men and Chief
houses
president of the political party, headed
any minute.
Talking to reporters,
by former CM and Union minister
the senior official clari- ALIGARH: Several houses in Sharad Pawar, in Maharashtra
fied that only two hotels Aligarh have also started de-
in Joshimath have to be veloping cracks.
dismantled and not the Coming after buildings de- AGENCIES
houses demarcated as veloping cracks in Joshi- New Delhi
unfit for living. math in Uttarakhand, it has
"I want to clarify one created panic among the lo- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on
thing. Only two hotels cal residents. Wednesday conducted searches at multiple
are to be dismantled. Rakesh Kumar Yadav, Addi- premises in Maharashtra as part of a mon-
Demolition, though be- tional Commissioner of the ey laundering investigation against NCP
ing used widely, is not Aligarh Municipal Corpora- MLA Hasan Mushrif and others, officials
the precise word in this tion, said, "We will send our said. The raids are understood to be linked
context. Houses in the team and a probe will be con- to a probe related to alleged irregularities in
danger zone are not go- ducted into why this has hap- the operations of some sugar mills based in
ing to be demolished. pened." According to the lo- the state that are linked to Mushrif.
The red cross marks put cals, a pipeline was laid by Premises located in Mumbai, Pune and
on them is only to have the government under the Kolhapur are being covered by the ED offi-
them vacated," Sun- Smart City scheme, which is cials since around 6:30 am, they said.
daram, who is also the now reportedly leaking, lead- Mushrif, 68, is a Nationalist Congress Par-
nodal officer for the land ing to the development of ty (NCP) MLA from the Kagal seat in Kolha-
subsidence-hit town, cracks. pur. He is also the vice president of the po-
litical party, headed by former CM and
Union minister Sharad Pawar, in Maha-
issues when the party
was in power for a
ing DMK related event
here, Speaker M Ap-
rashtra.
Mushrif posted an Instagram video mes-

ruckus in TN: Minister M K Stalin decade. pavu said they were ar- sage asking his supporters not to obstruct
woman before ending his life by consuming
sulphas tablets. According to police, the hotel The AIADMK on said swift action was When Leader of Oppo- rested and the matter the action that he said are being carried out
owner informed police about the two bodies in Wednesday staged a taken in the matter. sition, K Palaniswami was in court. at the premises of his relatives, daughter
one of the rooms. The woman had an injury on
the neck while foam marks and a foul smell were
New day, walkout from the Tamil
Nadu Assembly after
Stalin hit back at the
principal Opposition
tried to raise an issue
concerning two men
It may be recalled that
the DMK workers were
and some cooperative sugar mills.
The politician said he was not aware about
noticed in the mouth of the man.
new walkout raising the issue of mo-
lestation of a woman
party over a string of
serious law and order
molesting a woman po-
lice constable in a rul-
immediately suspended
from the party.
the case for which the ED action was being
undertaken.
Man, daughter shot dead
in Haryana village
CHANDIGARH: A 44-year-old man and his 14-
Fog related accidents on rise in UP Clash over MASS CASUAL LEAVE PROTEST
year-old daughter were shot dead by unidentified
assailants at their house in Bohar village in Rohtak
district of Haryana on Wednesday, police said.
dog barking Suspend all who do not join
Urban Estate Police Station SHO Dilbagh Singh
said the man's 85-year-old mother was also at kills 1 in UP duty by 2 pm: CM Mann
home during the incident. Surender and his 14- AGENCIES / Ballia

Okay sir....
year-old daughter died on the spot after being
shot by the assailants, he said. "We have A 50-year-old woman died AGENCIES / Chandigarh leave beginning Monday to
registered a murder case and further investigation and five of her family mem- protest the arrest of PCS of-
is underway," he said. bers were injured following Chief Minister Bhagwant ficer Narinder Singh Dhali- PCS officers
a clash with another family Mann on Wednesday warned wal in Ludhiana by the state
Ex-gratia of Rs 1 crore for over barking of a stray dog, Punjab Civil Service (PCS) vigilance bureau. withdraw protest
police said on Wednesday. officers, who are on mass Mann wrote to the chief
family of ASI killed by snatcher "The two groups clashed leave to protest the "illegal" secretary to take action
CHANDIGARH: Punjab
Civil Services officers
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on with each other following arrest of their colleague, to against PCS officers who are Wednesday decided to
Wednesday announced an ex-gratia of Rs one arguments over barking of join duty by 2 pm, failing on mass casual leave. withdraw their call for mass
crore for the family of Delhi Police assistant sub a dog in a village under which they will be suspend- In the letter, Mann said, it casual leave following a
inspector Shambhu Dayal, who died after being Bairiya police station area. ed. Such a strike amounts to has been brought to my no- meeting with Chief Minister
stabbed by a snatcher in Mayapuri area here. Fifty-year-old Lal Muni blackmailing and arm-twist- tice that some officers are Bhagwant Mann's additional
The entire country is proud of him, he noted. and five others were in- ing, he asserted. not attending duty in the chief secretary.
"Defending the people ASI Shambhu Dayal did not jured in the incident on The tough stand of Mann garb of some strike. "They A Venuprasad, the additional
care for his own life. He martyred. We are proud Passengers wearing warm clothes wait at Charbagh railway station, in Lucknow Tuesday night," Additional came after services at ad- are protesting against strong chief secretary to the chief
of him. There is no price for his life still we will Superintendent of Police ministrative offices in the action taken by the govern- minister, said PCS officers
provide Rs one crore ex gratia to his family in his Truck mows down Car with students Durga Prasad Tiwari said state were hit as the officers ment against corrupt offi- will join their duties
on Wednesday. went on five-day mass casual cers".
honour," Kejriwal tweeted.
6 people at tea stall hits stationary truck immediately.
JALAUN (UP): A car carrying
Three soldiers die after slipping BARELI (UP): A truck mowed
down six people, aged between 33 students to Hamirpur for an exam
into gorge along LoC in Kashmir and 74, standing at a roadside tea hit a stationary truck due to poor
SRINAGAR: Three soldiers, including a junior stall in Rae Bareli district in Uttar visibility caused by fog killing the
commissioned officer (JCO), died after they Pradesh Wednesday morning amid driver and injuring seven students,
slipped into a deep gorge during patrolling along dense fog, police said. Four more police said Wednesday. Additional
Superintendent of Police Aseem
the Line of Control in Kupwara district of Jammu people were injured in the accident Chowdhary said the incident
and Kashmir, the Army said on Wednesday. on the Banda-Bahraich highway. occurred around 6 am. Asif Khan
An Army official said the JCO and two other rank According to the police, the truck (35) was taking seven students for an
soldiers were on a routine patrol in Macchil sector ran over the villagers gathered at examination when his SUV dashed
when the trio slipped into the gorge on Tuesday. the tea stall and fell into a ditch. into a truck due to dense fog.

LAKHIMPUR KHERI CASE

May take 5 yrs to conclude
trial, sessions judge tells SC
NEW DELHI: It might take
at least five years in the
normal course to conclude
the trial in the Lakhimpur
Kheri violence case, a ses-
sions judge conducting the
trial in the case in which
Union minister Ajay Ku-
mar Mishra's son is one of
the accused, informed the
Supreme Court on Wednes-
day.
In a report submitted to
the apex court, the addi-
tional sessions judge said
there are 208 witnesses, 171
documents and 27 forensic
science laboratory (FSL)
reports in the case.
The top court had last
month asked the sessions
court how much time in
normal course was it likely
to take to conclude the trial,
without compromising
with the schedule of other
pending or prioritised mat-
ters. "The report says it will
take at least five years. It
says there are 208 witness-
es, 171 documents and 27
FSL reports," said a bench
of Justices Surya Kant and
V Ramasubramanian
while referring to the re-
port received from the trial
court judge.
"He (sessions judge) says
in normal course, it may
take five years," observed
the bench, which is hearing
a plea by Ashish Mishra
seeking bail in the case of
mowing down of protest-
ing farmers in October 2021
in Lakhimpur Kheri.

Man held for

peeing at airport
departure gate
AGENCIES
New Delhi

A 39-year-old drunken man

was arrested for allegedly
urinating at a gate in the
departure area of termi-
nal-3 at the IGI Airport
here, police said on
Wednesday.
Jauhar Ali Khan, a resi-
dent of Bihar who was ar-
rested after the Sunday
evening incident, was later
released the same day on a
bail bond, they said.
He was scheduled to de-
part to Dammam in Saudi
Arabia, they said.

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Government myopia has hurt the economy
Economy returning Policy
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to growth path !R N Bhaskar
T
he World Bank on Tuesday said that the Indian
T
he first week of the new year
economy would grow at 6.6% in the coming finan- had two bits of bad news for
cial year. Due to the adverse impact of the global India. First, the country wit-
slowdown the projected growth rate for India was revised nessed data from the CMIE which
down from the earlier 6.9%. In its Global Economic showed that unemployment rate in
India had risen to 8.3% in Decem-
Prospects, the bank said global growth in 2023 might be the ber 2022, the highest in 16 months.
third weakest in nearly three decades. The world economy The second was that the rupee had
was “perilously close” to falling into recession. “Further slumped to an all-time low of Rs.83
negative shocks — such as higher inflation, even tighter to a US dollar.
It is possible that both develop-
policy, financial stress, deeper weaknesses in major ments have a common link – poor
economies, or rising geopolitical tensions — could push governance.
the global economy into recession. This would mark the
first time in more than 80 years that two global recessions Unemployment and
have occurred within the same decade.” taxation policies
Instead of focusing on labour in-
Global growth is projected to grow by 1.7% while the tensive jobs, the government has
Euro area and the US are expected to grow at 0% and 0.5% poured more money on capital in-
respectively. China’s growth before the current wave of tensive sectors. Agriculture has
Covid deaths and disruptions was expected to be 4.3%. It the potential for the highest in-
crease in employment opportuni-
could be lower than the projected estimate now because ties. But it has not been given the
the impact of the pandemic. In the case of India the Bank importance it deserves. Ditto for
noted that it had registered a robust 9.7% growth in the textiles and leather too. This is de-
first half of the current financial year. Consumer inflation spite these industries having the
was above the Reserve Bank’s upper tolerance limit of 6%, highest ICOR or Incremental Capi-
tal Output Ratio.
leading the central bank to raise the policy rate by 2.25%
between May and December. Trade deficit had more than There are other issues which
doubled since 2019. It was a record $24 billion in November. are also flashing red.
Government spending and a pick-up in private sector in- First, there is no denying that
much of India’s workforce is em-
vestment coupled with a healthy credit growth will help ployed in the unorganised sector.
expand economic activity in the coming year, despite the There are mostly engaged with
global slowdown. Last week the National Statistical Office MSMEs (Micro, Small & Medium
projected the GDP growth at 7% as against the RBI’s esti-
mate of 6.8% and the World Bank’s 6.6%. Of course, all
three are only estimates based on the data available. How-
ever, it will be safe to say that the economy will grow in
2023-24 at anything above 6%. Which under the prevailing
Bharat Jodo Yatra and the remaking of Rahul Gandhi
circumstances, both domestic and global, is not bad. It is
notable that the overall tax collections in the first nine
months of the current year have exceeded the budget esti-
mates. Only partly it may be due to conservative projec- Comment
tions in the annual budget while the growth in revenues
could be ascribed to both better tax compliance by indi-
! A L I Chougule
viduals and corporates as well as a genuine spurt in eco-
nomic activity in the aftermath of the general slowdown
I
t’s more than four months
induced by the Covid pandemic. that Rahul Gandhi has been
One sector for worry is exports which, as the NSO data on a marathon foot journey
from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.
showed, have actually slowed down in the first nine The 3,570-km long Bharat Jodo
months of 2022-23. The recession-like conditions in the US Yatra or ‘unite India march’ has
and the EU will make it harder for exports to register a tan- been much more than just a long
gible growth in the last quarter of the current financial walk. It has been a journey of in-
year. Happily for the common man, consumer inflation has teractions and conversations, of
spreading the message of love
come down in recent weeks. This may persuade the central and unity and of raising issues
bank to go easy on a further rate hike. that concern the common man.
The indication is that the yatra
Aping Trump in Brazil has got overwhelming response
from people, enthused the
Congress workers and worked to
F
ormer US President Donald Trump is yet to be
galvanise pro-Congress senti-
made accountable for his egregious instigation of ment.
the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. This may In an environment of polarising
have encouraged Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, sectarian rhetoric that has be-
who considers Mr Trump his role model, to direct his fol- come the easiest route to political
power, the yatra is an audacious
lowers to follow suit on Sunday. About 5,000 Bolsonaro sup- attempt to reimagine India’s poli-
porters ransacked the presidential palace, the Supreme tics. Mr Gandhi’s message of so-
Court and the Congress in the nation’s capital Brasilia, cial and religious harmony and
when President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was away on a peaceful co-existence is inspiring
and a notable contrast to the
foreign visit. Since his return over 1,500 insurrectionists,
BJP’s divisive politics. Through
seeking to reverse the democratic verdict by force, have his speeches and interactions, Mr
been arrested. A provincial Governor in cahoots with Mr Gandhi has tried to convey the
Bolsonaro was sacked and the police and armed forces or- message of peace and brother-
dered to deal sternly with the law-breakers. hood. Through his unwavering af-
firmation of secular, pluralistic
Not unlike Mr Trump, Mr Bolsonaro has not conceded democracy, Mr Gandhi has tried
defeat in last year’s election. The far-right populist leader
had lost by a thin margin to the left-leaning Lula. But so
sharp is the polarisation that even the police and the Realisation that can
armed forces have not remained unaffected. How the heav-
ily-guarded presidential palace could be stormed by a cou- end corruption
ple of hundred frenzied zealots without police complicity — Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj Ji
is hard to fathom. Ideally, Mr Bolsonaro and his role mod-
I
el Mr Trump should be tried for treason so that other pop- n recent months there has
ulists elsewhere can draw a salutary lesson. Sadly, we see
no sign of such firmness.
been one topic that has
consistently grabbed head-
lines in Indian media and that
is ‘Corruption’. So, what is it
INDIA 75 YEARS AGO that makes man corrupt? Is it
FPJ Archives
JANUARY 12, 1948 power, status, wealth or lack of
these that makes him so? The
genesis of corruption is not to
be found in any external cir-
cumstance, it actually lies in
the psyche or the character of
the human soul. It begins with
a desire that tempts one to
have more, acquire more and
grab more money, assets,
power and fame in or-
der to gain happiness.
Once it starts, it cre-
ates a chain of vi-
cious circles that
keeps feeding
itself by more
GUIDING LIGHT
desire and indulgence.
This blind chase is then sup-
ported by the temporary feel-
ing of being high and powerful
which is followed by empti-
ness, insecurity and despair
that further drives a person to
commit such acts of corrup-
tion. All this begins from the
fundamental ignorance about
the true identity of self.
From a spiritual perspective,
it is said that vices like greed,
ego, lust, anger and attach-
PERSIAN MUSLIMS CURSE INDIANS ment are all born out of body
consciousness i.e the false
DEMONSTRATIONS IN TEHERAN identification of the self with
Teheran, Jan. 11. As the Persian capital was today swept by one's physical image, role and
Muslim demonstrations, Seyd Abolghassem Kashani, a prominent assets. It is this ignorance and
Muslim leader who claims descent from the Prophet, issued a vices that begin to corrupt the
manifesto attacking "Jewish atrocities" and called for a Holy War. soul and everything that
Agitation here, in which other Muslim leaders took part with Seyd
Kashani, who was imprisoned during the war for alleged Nazi comes from a corrupt soul will
sympathies, was directed against Indians as well as Jews. be tainted i.e it’s thoughts, feel-
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: There is much pleasure to be
gained from useless knowledge.
— BERTRAND RUSSELL
Enterprises). Yet the manner in tional crops. Look at sugarcane. The
which GST has been structured, farmers are not allowed to discover
helps large units more than
MSMEs.
Then take the issue of contract
market prices for this crop in either
Uttar Pradesh or Maharashtra, the
two largest sugarcane growing
workers. The government has of-
ten voiced views that are against
contract workers, especially by the
states. In Uttar Pradesh, the govern-
ment decides the price that must be
paid to the farmers by sugar mills,
private sector. The truth is that the even if they are not viable for the lat-
government itself promotes more ter. In Maharashtra, the government
contract workers than does the pri- recommends sugarcane prices, but
vate sector subsidises this for sugar coopera-
tives through grants or subsidies. Ei-
Blighted education ther way, the heavy hand of the gov-
Another area where the lack of vi- ernment is visible. That is why sug-
sion can be seen is in the field of ed- arcane may appear profitable, but is
ucation. On 7 February 2022, the gov- extremely expensive, concealed by
ernment, through the minister of subsidies and grants.
state for labour and employment, Ditto with milk even though this
Rameshwar Teli tabled data before industry accounts for the largest
the Lok Sabha (in reply to unstarred share of over around 5% of the
question No 694). The data showed country’s GDP (larger than rice and
quite clearly that unemployment wheat put together). This was made
levels were the lowest (4.1%) in re- possible because Verghese Kurien
spect of students who had studied ensured that the milk industry re-
only up to the secondary level. Un- mained profitable without govern-
employment percentages kept on ment grants or subsidies. Now the
rising as the students studied at government (along with some state
higher levels. It climbed to 7.9% for governments) has begun giving
students who had studied up to the grants to select milk cooperatives,
higher secondary level; to 14.2% for have done anything to ameliorate ning to be seen now. which suggests political quid pro
students who had completed diplo- the situation, considering that ed- quo. The government is actually in-
ma or certificate courses. They ucation is a state subject as well? Harming agriculture troducing policies that will make
climbed even further to 17.2% in re- Yes, it could, if it had both the vi- But the major cause of a weak econ- this industry sick. If India has to be-
spect of graduates. Unemployment sion and the political determina- omy is the terrible lack of vision and come vibrant, more attention needs
levels dropped marginally to 12.9% tion. It could have used the focus on agriculture. to be given to both labour and agri-
for those who had completed post- finance ministry to issue In India, agriculture accounts for culture. It also means not hurting in-
graduation. guidelines for allowing tax free more than 50% of employment. And dustries like sugarcane and milk
One probable cause could be the exemptions to only those educa- yet the farmer remains poor because which are crucial for wealth genera-
terrible standards in schools (espe- tional trusts that met quality of policies that have not allowed tion at the farm level. But more on
cially those run by the government standards them to discover higher prices. The this later.
or quasi government bodies. Poor Without good education, you can government’s minimum support
quality education has made stu- be sure that a country will do bad- prices (MSP) with guaranteed off- The author is consulting editor with
dents unemployable. ly. The signs of mismanagement of take is applicable to only rice and FPJ. You can read the online version of
Could the central government education and health are begin- wheat and occasionally a few addi- this article at https://bit.ly/3WiD2o9
to frame a new charter for politi- divisive and destructive right- created by the saffron party and Rahul Gandhi as a politician or
cal action that is disassociated wing forces will be a delusion, it featured endlessly on TV, social his record as Congress president,
from immediate political calcula- would also be wrong to underrate media and in the print medium. it is hard to deny that his Bharat
tions. He has also tried to find a Mr Gandhi’s attempt to reconfig- What the yatra has brought to Jodo Yatra is a huge success. And
middle ground between status ure politics from a secular point the fore is Mr Gandhi’s true self: the Rahul Gandhi that people
quo politics and radicalism. Over of view. In his intent and resolve one who is prepared to work hard, have seen through the yatra is the
the march since September 7, Mr to fight his formidable opponent, to slog it out, who is sensitive, Rahul Gandhi India can relate to.
Gandhi has emerged as the both ideologically and politically, warm, likeable, intelligent, well- Nearly everywhere he has gone,
staunchest opponent of Hindut- Mr Gandhi seems prepared for a read and who believes in values he has attracted huge crowds. His
va. long haul. that the idea of India was found- speeches have been appreciated.
Rahul Gandhi of Bharat Jodo The aim of the yatra has been ed on. At a time when India is di- He has spoken from the heart and
Yatra has done away with the soft ‘to address rampant unemploy- vided by so much hatred and the his speeches have been devoid of
Hindutva that has been apparent ment and inflation, the politics of BJP’s divisive ideological agenda, any agenda. But the yatra has its
in recent years with the Congress hate and division and the over- it’s not easy to create an alterna- origin in the arena of electoral
party’s ambivalence on issues centralisation of our political tive narrative of love and unity to politics, given the fact that it is or-
concerning minorities. He has system’. Mr Gandhi’s foot march bind India together. But in an en- ganised by a political party.
spoken about the rights of the mi- has succeeded in drawing atten- vironment of hate, bigotry and Therefore, it is natural to expect
norities, backward and oppressed Mr Gandhi and his party to try
communities. With his affirma- What should one expect next? Mr Gandhi and the much harder to put more spine
tion of multi-religion and multi- into secular politics to counter
cultural democracy and unity in Congress should build on the spirit of the yatra and the BJP’s communal agenda.
diversity, Mr Gandhi seems to So, what should one expect
keep the goodwill going to resurrect the electoral
have come in his own as a politi-
cal leader who is mounting a chal- prospects of the Congress
next? Mr Gandhi and the Con-
gress should build on the spirit of
lenge to the rabidly communal the yatra and keep the goodwill
forces of Hindutva. By affirming going to resurrect the electoral
his commitment to an idea of In- tion of his admirers, critics, col- intolerance, Mr Gandhi’s yatra prospects of the Congress. The
dia based on peace, love and leagues, rivals and opponents as has reemphasised that for India’s real electoral impact of the yatra,
equality, Mr Gandhi has succeed- well as common people to these is- progress, development, job cre- or lack of it, may be visible this
ed in reinstating the identifica- sues that he has constantly raised ation, economic upliftment of the year in the Assembly elections in
tion of the Congress with secular, through the yatra. Political ana- poor, better living standards, good Karnataka, Rajasthan, Madhya
Constitutional democracy. lysts are of the view that the ya- education and improved health- Pradesh and Telangana – states
But all this may not add up to tra is a big mass outreach pro- care system, we need to follow the that were extensively covered in
his capacity to confront the poli- gramme of the Congress in at path of love, unity and peaceful the yatra. Then of course there
tics of hate and Hindutva at this least three decades, which has un- coexistence within the frame- are the 2024 general elections for
point of time. It also may not help nerved the BJP to a great extent. work of the Constitution. While which the Congress must strive
establish him as the fulcrum of Having revelled in running him the remaking of Mr Gandhi has hard to bring together the Oppo-
politics opposed to it, given that down to the extent of ridiculing many hurdles to overcome and sition parties on a common plat-
the network of hate and divisive him over the last eight year, the many battles for the Congress to form to fight the BJP.
politics is so strong that it is not makeover of the Gandhi scion is fight, the shift in political narra-
easy to expect the immediate col- disconcerting for the BJP, as peo- tive is evident. The writer is a senior independent
lapse of that edifice. Thus, while ple are getting to see the real Credit must be given where it is Mumbai-based journalist. He tweets at
to underestimate the hold of the Rahul Gandhi, not the caricature due. No matter what you think of @ali_chougule
LETTERS contrabands in the said news item was not
from Mumbai Docks. It is gathered from the
religious freedom and conversion are
absolute and personal rights which, if
TO THE EDITOR NCTC that no such statement has been
made by any of their officials. Further,
curtailed in any way, will affect the secular
nature of the Indian Constitution. People
Customs clarification on before publishing the said news item, the have the right to practice and propagate a
facts could have been well verified by religion of their choice; hence, anti-
containers report formally approaching the proper conversion laws are illegal and communal
ings, actions and habits.
Hence, we must understand
that corruption is a soul-deep
malady and it can be remedied
A ttention is drawn to the news item
‘Mumbai: Suspect containers cleared
mysteriously at Mumbai Docks’ (Jan 2). The
authority/office.
Therefore, drawing of sweeping
conclusions by the said news item based
and must be challenged in a court of law.
Care should also be taken to ensure that
they are not then re-enacted as ordinances.
only by spiritual awareness news item alleged that 85 containers were on the unverified facts is highly erroneous. Peter Castellino
and empowerment. We must cleared in violation of rules from the The Mumbai Customs officials are fully
awaken to our true self and
live by our original values of
Mumbai docks despite a hold being placed
by the National Customs Targeting Centre
committed towards guarding the economic
frontiers of the nation along with trade
Bengaluru baptism by fire
peace, purity, love and joy.
Today we do not experience
these qualities of the soul all
(NCTC). Further, it was also alleged that the
containers flagged by the NCTC left the
docks without a full physical examination
facilitation and ease of doing business.
Deputy Commissioner of Customs,
Import Docks / Import - 1
Bvehicular
engaluru has become a place of
immense concern for the movement of
traffic. With the construction of
the time because we are al- for contraband. flyovers, bridges and metro lines
ways looking outside for these It is to clarify that the news item is Dharmesh Thakkar responds: I stand by simultaneously it has become a paradise of
things. When we look inwards completely devoid of truth and is my report which was based on information chaos and confusion all round. New
and become aware of our true misconceived. It is categorically stated that and documents shared by sources I trust. I construction works are commenced in the
identity and innate qual- no consignment at Mumbai Docks under had also reached out to two senior new year, making it more of a mess.
ities, we begin to express NCTC alert has been given out of charge Customs officers for their version but Tragedies such as the metro pillar
and experience them without the prescribed examination of the neither responded to my calls and collapsing and killing two people are
in our lives naturally. goods as per established procedure/law. messages. bound to happen in such circumstances.
Remember! when we Further, the time taken for clearance of any CK Subramaniam
are disconnected from
our innate self,
given container/goods de[ends on various
factors such as filing bill of entry,
Religious freedom, an Dear reader,
we feel empty assessment, payment of duty, examination absolute right We are eager to know your opinions, comments
and suggestions. Write to editor.indore@fpj.co.in
inside and get attracted to ex-
ternal things for feeling happy
or worthy. In the soul con-
etc. The claim of the said news item about
giving priority to certain containers is
incorrect. Also, the quoted seizure of
W ith reference to the report 'don't
politicise conversion: SC' (Jan 10), the
non-negotiable fundamental rights to
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Free Press House, 3/54, Press Complex, AB Road,
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sciousness stage, we are natu-
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we also understand the law of
cause and effect — the law of
karma.
A soul that is aware of its
spiritual identity will never in-
dulge in corrupt act as it
knows they will lead to suffer-
ing and degradation. This re-
alisation and experience will
free us from corruption.
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On Africa visit, China’s minister sidesteps call for UN council seat
Nairobi: China’s new foreign minister, Qin Gang, has
sidestepped a new call by the African Union for permanent
representation on the United Nations Security Council
during his visit to Ethiopia. Speaking at the opening of the
GLOBAL
BULLETIN
Biden surprised at
‘office classifieds’
Washington: US President
Joe Biden has said he was
surprised to learn that some
classified documents were
found at a private office he
once used at a Washington
think tank, asserting he is
unaware of what is in those
papers and is “cooperating
fully” with their review. Mr
Biden said on Tuesday he did
not know the government
records from his time as Vice-
President had been taken to
his think tank office.
Father of Lebanon
peace deal dies
Beirut: Hussein el-Husseini,
Lebanon’s former parliament
speaker and the father of the
1989 Taif Agreement that
ended the country’s 15-year
civil war, died on Wednesday
after days of illness. He was
85. Husseini was admitted to
Beirut’s American University
Medical Centre on Jan 3,
after suffering from a strong
flu, the National News
Agency said.
UK to investigate
‘uranium cargo’
London: British counterterror-
ism police are investigating
after border officers seized
cargo contaminated with
uranium at London’s Heath-
row Airport. The Metropolitan
Police force said “a very small
amount of contaminated
material was identified after
routine screening within a
package incoming to the
U.K.” on Dec 29.
Greece’s ex-king’s
common burial
Athens: Constantine, the
former and last king of
Greece, will be buried as a
private citizen in Tatoi, the
former summer residence of
Greece’s royals and where his
parents and ancestors are
buried, the government said
on Wednesday. A controver-
sial figure in Greek history,
Constantine died in hospital
late on Tuesday night at the
age of 82.
Indian-American
doctor to pay up
New York: An Indian-Ameri-
can doctor has agreed to pay
$1,850,000 for allegedly
billing the government for
cataract surgeries and
diagnostic tests that were not
medically required. Aarti D
Pandya and her Pandya
Practice Group violated the
False Claims Act by also
performing and billing for
tests that were incomplete or
of worthless value, and office
visits that did not provide the
level of service claimed.
Lanka summons
Canadian envoy
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Foreign
Ministry on Wednesday
summoned Canada’s top
diplomat in Colombo and
expressed its displeasure over
his country’s decision to
impose “unilateral sanctions”
on its four citizens, including
two former presidents.
Canada on Tuesday imposed
sanctions on four Sri Lankans,
including former presidents
Gotabaya Rajapaksa and
Mahinda Rajapaksa, for
committing what it called
“gross and systematic
violations of human rights”
during the country’s civil war.
RESCUE MISSION
Russia to launch new capsule
to return space station crew
AP / Moscow
Russian space corporation
Roscosmos said on Wednes-
day it would launch a new
spacecraft to take some of the
International Space Station’s
crew back to Earth after their
capsule was damaged and
leaked coolant.
Russian cosmonauts
Sergey Prokopyev and
Dmitri Petelin and NASA as-
tronaut Frank Rubio arrived
at the station in September
on board a Soyuz MS-22 and
planned to use the capsule to
return to Earth. But it leaked
coolant last month, resulting
in higher cabin tempera-
tures. After analysing the sit-
uation and discussing it with
NASA, Roscosmos decided to
launch a new Soyuz MS-23
capsule in crewless automat-
ic mode on February 20 that
the trio will use to come back,
Roscosmos chief Yuri
Chinese-built headquarters of the Africa Centres for
Disease Control and Prevention in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis
Ababa, Qin instead emphasised China’s partnership with
Africa in security and economic development.
Storm-struck California
scrambles to clean up
More than half of 58 counties declared disaster areas; toll 17 so far
AP / Los Angeles
Storm-ravaged California
scrambled to clean up and re-
pair widespread damage on
Wednesday as the lashing
rain eased in many areas, al-
though the north could see
thundershowers on Wednes-
day and another powerful
weather front was expected
to hit the state Friday.
At least 17 people have died
in the storms battering the
state. The figure is likely to
rise, Governor Gavin New-
som said on Tuesday during
a visit to the scenic town of
Capitola on the Santa Cruz
coast that was hard hit by
high surf and flooding creek
waters last week. A pickup
truck driver and a motorcy-
clist were killed on Tuesday
in the San Joaquin Valley
when a tree that had been
struck by lightning fell on
them, authorities said. More
than half of California’s 58
counties were declared disas-
ter areas, the governor said.
The latest storm on Mon-
day was one in a series that
began late last month and re-
pairing the damage may cost
more than $1 billion, said Mr
Adam Smith, a disaster ex-
Brazil orders arrest of top Mining town holding out against
officials over capital riots Russian assault, says Ukraine
IANS / Brasilia
Authorities in Brazil have or-
dered the arrest of top public
officials over the riots staged
by supporters of former
President Jair Bolsonaro,
storming the Supreme Court,
Congress and the presiden-
tial palace in the capital city.
In a statement on Tuesday,
the Attorney General's office
said the officials include
Brasalia's former public se-
curity chief Anderson Tor-
res and others “responsible
for acts and omissions” lead-
ing to Sunday's riots, reports
the BBC.
As a result of the violence,
police commander Colonel
Fabio Augusto was dis-
missed from his role, while
the capital city's Governor
China renews threat against
Taiwan as island holds drills
AP / Beijing
China renewed its threats on
Wednesday to attack Taiwan
and warned that foreign
politicians who interact with
the self-governing island are
“playing with fire”.
A spokesperson for Chi-
na's Taiwan Affairs Office
said the country was recom-
mitted in the new year to
“safeguarding sovereignty
and territorial integrity” and
“smashing plots for Taiwan
independence” on the self-
governing democracy that
separated from mainland
China in 1949.
“The malicious support
for Taiwan independence
among anti-China elements
in a few foreign countries are
a deliberate provocation,”
Borisov told reporters.
The mission of Prokopyev,
Petelin and Rubio will be ex-
tended, Borisov said without
specifying for how long. He
emphasised that Roscosmos
had discussed the move with
NASA, which agreed with
the plan.
The Soyuz MS-23 was ini-
tially scheduled to be
launched in March to carry
Two cars sit in a large sinkhole that opened during a day of
relentless rain in Los Angeles, California on Tuesday
pert with the National Ocean-
ic and Atmospheric Admin-
istration, the Los Angeles
Times reported.
They included Montecito,
a wealthy Santa Barbara
County community that is
home to Prince Harry and
other celebrities where 23
people died and more than
100 homes were destroyed in
a mudslide five years ago.
Yet thousands of people
living near rain-swollen cre-
eks and rivers remained un-
A cop moves vandalised
sculptures at the Supreme
Court building in Brasilia —AFP
Ibaneis Rocha has been re-
moved for a period of 90 days
by the Supreme Court.
Earlier on Tuesday, Ricar-
do Cappelli, who has been ap-
pointed to run security in
Brasilia, accused Torres of
“a structured sabotage opera-
tion”.
Cappelli told CNN there
was a “lack of command”
Ma Xiaoguang said at a bi-
weekly news conference.
“The most important
thing is to maintain the safe-
ty of our airspace and na-
tional security,” air force Lt.
Col. Wu Bong-yeng told re-
porters at Hsinchu Air Base
just south of the capital,
Taipei.
The drills coincide with a
visit from German and
Lithuanian lawmakers - the
latter Baltic state being a par-
ticular target of Chinese ire
for upgrading its ties with
Taiwan.
“We call on the relevant
countries to cease sending
the wrong signals to Taiwan
independence separatist
forces and cease playing with
fire on the question of Tai-
wan,” Ma said.
two Russian cosmonauts and
a US astronaut into orbit.
Borisov said Russian space
officials had explored the op-
tion of launching the new
Soyuz with one crewmember
but decided against it be-
cause it would require longer
preparations. He added that
the Soyuz MS-23 will also fer-
ry some supplies to the Inter-
national Space Station.
—AFP
der evacuation orders. In the
San Joaquin Valley, raging
waters from Bear Creek
flooded the city of Merced
and Planada, a small agricul-
tural community along a
highway leading to Yosemite
National Park.
All 4,000 residents of
Planada were ordered to
leave on Tuesday morning.
Neighbourhoods were under-
water with cars submerged
up to their roofs. Residents
ordered to evacuate carried
from Torres before govern-
ment
stormed.
buildings were
Lula's inauguration on
January 1 was “an extremely
successful security opera-
tion” but on January 2 “An-
derson Torres took over as
Secretary of Security, dis-
missed the entire command
and travelled”, he said.
“If this isn't sabotage, I
don't know what is,” Cappelli
told CNN.
In response, Torres said
he deeply regretted the “ab-
surd hypotheses” that he
played any part in the riots,
adding the riots, which oc-
curred during his family
holiday, were lamentable
and that it was “the most bit-
ter day” of his personal and
professional life.
Covid spat: Japan,
Korea protest
China visa halt
AP / Tokyo
Japan and South Korea de-
fended public health restric-
tions on travellers from Chi-
na on Wednesday, a day after
China stopped issuing new
visas in both countries in ap-
parent retaliation.
South Korean Foreign
Minister Park Jin said on
Wednesday he finds it “sig-
nificantly regrettable” that
China stopped issuing short-
term visas to South Koreans
and called for China to align
its pandemic steps with “sci-
entific and objective facts”.
According to South Ko-
rea's Disease Control and
Prevention Agency, about
17% of the 2,550 short-term
travellers from China from
January 2 to Tuesday have
tested positive.
South Korea has stopped
issuing most short-term vi-
sas at its consulates in China
through the end of January
while also requiring all pas-
sengers from China, Hong
Kong and Macau to submit
proofs of negative tests taken
within 48 hours of their ar-
rival in addition to Covid
tests at the airport. Japanese
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hi-
rokazu Matsuno criticised
China for “one-sidedly” re-
stricting visa issuances to
Japanese nationals “because
of a reason that is not related
to Covid measures”.
Thousands seek restoration of monarchy
NEPAL
AP / Kathmandu
Thousands of supporters of
Nepal’s former royal family
held a rally on Wednesday de-
manding the restoration of
monarchy in the Himalayan
nation. They gathered
around the statue of King
Prithvi Narayan Shah, who
started the Shah dynasty in
the 18th century. The last
whatever they could salvage
on their backs as they left in
the rain. Other evacuations
were ordered because of lev-
ee breaches in parts of Mon-
terey County.
The most recent atmos-
pheric river — a long plume
of moisture stretching into
the Pacific that can drop stag-
gering amounts of rain and
snow — has eased in some ar-
eas. Light to moderate rain
with some thundershowers
was forecast to arrive on
Wednesday in Northern Cali-
fornia. A longer storm sys-
tem was predicted to last
from Friday until January 17.
Despite the rain, the state
remained in extreme or se-
vere drought, according to
the US Drought Monitor.
Damage from the storm in-
cluded washed-out roads and
seaside businesses flooded by
20-foot surf that pounded
Santa Cruz County. Many ar-
eas saw unprecedented rain
coupled with furious winds
and hail and lightning that
knocked down trees and
damaged electrical lines.
More than 75,000 homes and
businesses around the state
were without power as of
Tuesday night.
AP / Kyiv
The fate of a devastated salt-
mining town in eastern
Ukraine hung in the balance
on Wednesday as Ukraine
said its forces were holding
out against a furious Russian
onslaught in what has be-
come one of the fiercest and
most costly battles in the al-
most 11-month war.
Though unlikely to pro-
vide a turning point in the
war, Soledar's fall to Russian
forces after months of
Ukrainian defence would be
a prize for the Kremlin,
which has been starved of
good news from the battle-
field amid Ukraine's coun-
teroffensive in recent
months.
It would also offer Russian
troops a strategic spring-
board for their efforts to en-
circle the nearby city of
Bakhmut.
The spokesman for
Ukraine's Eastern Group of
Forces, Serhiy Cherevaty,
said on Wednesday Russian
claims it had conquered
Soledar were “untrue”,
Ukrainian news outlet Sus-
pilne reported. Cherevaty of-
fered no further details.
The General Staff in its
Wednesday morning update
only listed Soledar among
cities and towns that contin-
ue to be shelled by Russian
forces. Late on Tuesday,
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head
‘Suicide’ blast outside
foreign ministry in Kabul
KABUL
A suspected suicide bomber
detonated himself outside
the foreign ministry in
Afghanistan’s capital Kabul,
with a police official saying
the blast caused casualties.
The blast hit about 4pm lo-
cal time on Wednesday, police
spokesman Khalid Zadran
said, adding “security teams
have reached the area.”
The blast reportedly hap-
pened when a Chinese dele-
gation was meeting the Tal-
iban at the foreign ministry.
“There was supposed to be
a Chinese delegation at the
foreign ministry today, but
we don’t know if they were
present at the time of the
Shah king, Gyanendra, was
forced to step down and the
monarchy abolished in 2008,
making Nepal a republic.
There are still many sup-
porters who seek to bring the
monarchy back and rally
every year on the birth an-
niversary of Prithvi Nara-
yan. Some previous rallies
have turned violent with
clashes between demonstra-
tors and police. Wednesday’s
rally was peaceful and police
BHOPAL I THURSDAY | JANUARY 12, 2023
2022 New
Zealand’s
hottest year
AP / Wellington
New Zealand had its hottest
year on record in 2022, beat-
ing a mark set just a year ear-
lier thanks to a combination
of natural weather cycles
and manmade global warm-
ing, the agency that monitors
temperatures said
Wednesday. The nation’s top
four hottest years have all
on
been recorded since 2016, and
scientists don’t see the trend
reversing. Records are being
broken around the globe,
with Spain and Britain
among other nations to also
hit new highs in 2022.
And as well as being
warm, 2022 was also one of
New Zealand’s wettest years.
August storms flooded
rivers, triggered landslides
and forced hundreds of resi-
dents to evacuate. In October,
two of the country’s largest
ski areas were placed into a
type of bankruptcy proceed-
ing following a disastrous
winter season with barely
any snow.
The National Institute of
Water and Atmospheric Re-
search, which has been
recording temperatures sin-
ce 1909, said the average tem-
perature across the country
in 2022 was 13.8°C. That was
more than 1.2°C above the
long-term average and beat
the previous record by 0.2°C.
There will be no Third World War,
Zelensky says at Golden Globes
ANI / Kyiv
Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky on Tuesday appeared
virtually at the annual Golden
Globe Awards ceremony to
say “there will be no third
World War” as the tide is
changing in Ukraine's ongoing
conflict with Russia.
At Hollywood's 80th Golden
Globe Awards, which was
telecast live, Mr Zelensky said,
“The first World
War claimed
millions of lives.
The second World
War claimed tens
of millions of them.
There will be no
third World War, it is not a
trilogy.” “Ukraine will stop the
Russian aggression on our
land” with the help of the free
world, he said.
“It is now 2023; the war in
Ukraine is not over yet, but
the tide is turning,” Zelensky
said. “And it is already clear
who will win,” said the
Ukrainian President.
At the beginning of his
address Zelensky pointed out
of the Wagner Group — a
Russian private military con-
tractor — claimed in audio
reports posted on his Russian
social media platform that
blast,” deputy minister of in-
formation and culture Muha-
jer Farahi said. A driver with
the AFP team waiting out-
side the information min-
istry next door saw a man
with a backpack and rifle
slung over his shoulder walk
past before the man blew
himself up.
in riot gear kept a watch on
the event that included par-
ticipants waving flags, play-
ing music and chanting slo-
gans to praise the monarchy.
Nepal’s new government
led by Prime Minister Push-
pa Kamal Dahal declared on
Wednesday a public holiday
to mark Prithvi Narayan’s
birthday. Dahal-led Maoist
communist rebels between
1996-2006 seeking to abolish
the monarchy in Nepal.
WORLD
‘Extreme weather events
caused $270 billion loss’
IANS / Berlin
Hurricanes, floods and other
natural disasters inflicted
$270 billion in damage world-
wide in 2022, less than the
“extremely costly 2021” with
$320 billion, a German rein-
sure said in a report.
“2022 joins the recent run
of years with high losses,”
the report by Munich Re said.
The costliest natural disas-
ter in 2022 was Hurricane Ian
in the US, which caused loss-
es of around $100 billion, Xin-
hua said. “Climate change is
taking an increasing toll,”
Thomas Blunck, member of
the Board of Management of
Munich Re, said.
The second costliest and
greatest humanitarian disas-
ter in 2022, with at least 1,700
deaths, was the severe flood-
ing in Pakistan resulting
from “record-breaking mon-
soon rainfall”. Rainfall there
in August was five to seven
times heavier than usual,
that the award show
originated in 1943 when the
World War II was nearing its
end and it was clear who
would win but there were still
some battles to be fought.
“The awards were born at a
special time. The second
World War wasn't over yet,
but the tide was turned all
knew who would win. There
were still battles and tears
ahead. It was then when the
Golden Globe Awa-
rds appeared to ho-
nour the best perfo-
rmers of 1943.”
He thanked those
who supported the
freedom of Ukraine,
saying “our common struggle
for freedom, democracy, for
the right to live, for the right
to love” is unifying. The
audience cheered when
President Zelensky announced
his projected victory. He
concluded, “We will make it
together with a whole, free
world, and I hope all of you
will be with us on the
victorious day — the day of
our victory. Slava Ukraini.”
his forces had seized control
of Soledar, though he also
said battles were continuing
in a “cauldron” in the city’s
centre.
“He passed by my car and
after a few seconds there was
a loud blast,” Jamshed Kari-
mi said. “I saw the man blow-
ing himself up.” Then, bodies
lay strewn on the road out-
side the compound of the
ministry, marked with the
Taliban flag, a video verified
by AFP showed.
Davos report: Cost-of-living
crisis overshadows climate
AP / London
Climate change is the global eco-
nomy’s biggest long-term challen-
ge but one the world is least
prepared to tackle because of
short-term problems led by a
cost-of-living crisis, the World
Economic Forum said Wednesday.
The group’s Global Risks Report,
released ahead of its gathering
next week in the Swiss Alpine
AT A GLANCE
! The costliest natural
disaster in 2022 was
Hurricane Ian in the U.S.,
which caused losses of
around $100 billion.
! The second costliest and
greatest humanitarian
disaster in 2022, with over
1,700 deaths, was the
severe flooding in Pakistan.
and accelerated glacier melt
due to high temperatures
“significantly increased the
flooding”. the report said.
In Europe, the summer
was marked by extreme heat
and drought followed by se-
vere thunderstorms. In
France and Spain, heavy
storms brought “hailstones
the size of tennis balls” that
caused losses in the billions.
Germany logged one of the
two warmest years on
record.
French Police stand guard in a
hall of Paris’ Gare du Nord
train station —AFP
6 stabbed at
Paris station,
attacker shot
AP / Paris
An attacker wounded six pe-
ople in an unprovoked blade
attack in Paris’ busy Gare du
Nord train station on Wedne-
sday morning before being
shot at and wounded by po-
lice, France's interior minis-
ter said, praising the swift in-
tervention of police for help-
ing prevent any fatalities.
The suspect attacked sev-
eral people, including a po-
lice officer, with a “bladed
weapon” during the morn-
ing rush hour, Interior Min-
ister Gerald Darmanin told
reporters at the scene,
flanked by Paris Mayor Anne
Hidalgo. He said the un-
named assailant was cur-
rently “between life and
death” in hospital after being
shot in the chest, according
to French media. Darmanin
thanked the police “for their
effective and courageous re-
action”.
“Without the extremely
rapid intervention, there
would surely be deaths,” he
said.
First lady to have
surgery to remove
lesion above eye
AP / Washington
US first lady Jill Biden was
scheduled to undergo sur-
gery on Wednesday to re-
move a potentially cancerous
lesion above her right eye.
The first lady’s office an-
nounced a week ago doctors
had discovered the lesion
during a recent routine skin
cancer screening.
President Joe Biden was
accompanying his wife to
Walter Reed National Mili-
tary Medical Centre in Beth-
esda, Maryland, where she
was to undergo a “common
outpatient procedure, Mohs
surgery, to remove and defin-
itively examine the tissue,”
said Dr Kevin O’Connor, the
President’s physician.
resort of Davos, offers a bleak
outlook. Based on a survey of
1,200 risk experts, industry
bosses and policymakers, it says
the biggest challenges over the
next decade involve the environ-
ment, yet more immediate
challenges are distracting world
leaders, some will be in Davos for
discussions and schmoozing at an
event that has faced criticism for
not producing concrete action.
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manufacturing hub after the conglomerate succeeded in
its efforts to take over an iPhone assembly plant in
Bengaluru, according to reports. Reports quoting N.
from an interview, said that the move by the group
should be really good for India as it would create an
opportunity in the country to manufacture electronics.
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`122.47 cr as dividend
State-owned HLL Lifecare Limited has
paid a dividend of Rs 122.47 crore to
the health ministry for financial year
2021-22, an official statement said. The
cheque was presented to Union Minister
of Health Mansukh Mandaviya by Beji
George, Chairman and Managing
Director, HLL at an event on Wednesday.
Exim Bank raises $1bn
via sustainability bonds
The Export Import Bank of India (Exim
Bank) has raised $1 billion issuing 10-
year Sustainability Bond under its
Environmental Social Governance (ESG)
Framework, the bank said. According to
the Exim Bank, the net proceeds of
Sustainability Bond will be used towards
eligible projects under the Bank's ESG
Framework, including renewable energy;
clean transportation; access to essential
services and basic infrastructure;
affordable housing; and sustainable
water and wastewater management.
Govt extends tenure of
SBI MD Setty by 2 years
The government has extended the term
of State Bank of India Managing Director
WORLD BANK SEES INDIA’S ECONOMIC
GROWTH SLOWING TO 6.6% NEXT FISCAL
Says the slowdown in the global economy and rising uncertainty will weigh on export and investment growth
PTI / New Delhi
India's economic growth rate will slow to 6.6 per cent in
next financial year from an expected 6.9 per cent in 2022-
23, the World Bank said in its latest economic update.
India however is expected to be the fastest growing
economy of the seven largest emerging-market and de-
veloping economies (EMDEs), it said.
The growth rate of 6.9 per cent in current fiscal year
(April 2022 to March 2023) compares with 8.7 per cent in
the previous year. For 2024-25, the growth rate is project-
ed at 6.1 per cent. "The slowdown in the global economy
and rising uncertainty will weigh on export and invest-
ment growth," it said. The government has increased in-
frastructure spending and various business facilitation
measures. However, it will crowd-in private investment
and support the expansion of manufacturing capacity.
"Growth is projected to slow, to 6.6 per cent in
FY2023/24 before falling back toward its potential rate of
Markets end on flat Cabinet okays incentives for RuPay debit
just above 6 per cent," it said.
The GDP expanded by 9.7 per cent on an annual basis
in the first half of fiscal year 2022-23, reflecting strong
private consumption and fixed investment growth.
Consumer inflation in most of the last year was above
collections
rise 24% to
the Reserve Bank's upper tolerance limit of 6 per cent,
`14.71L crore
prompting the policy rate to be raised by 2.25 percentage
points between May and December.
India's goods trade deficit has more than doubled since
2019, and was USD 24 billion in November, with deficits
for crude petroleum and petroleum products (USD 7.6
billion) and other commodities (for example, ores and
minerals at USD 4.2 billion) accounting for the widening.
The World Bank said India used its international re-
serves to curb excess exchange rate volatility helping to PTI / New Delhi
limit the rupee depreciation, and its sovereign spread
has remained broadly stable at 1.4 per cent in December, The country's gross direct tax collec-
similar to average levels in the five years before the pan- tion rose 24.58 per cent to Rs 14.71
demic. lakh crore till January 10 this fiscal,
"Monetary and fiscal tightening over the forecast hori- buoyed by an upsurge in personal in-
zon is expected to be less pronounced than in much of come tax mop-up, the government
the rest of the region, as adequate policy buffers have data showed on Wednesday.
provided breathing room to support the ongoing recov- After adjusting refunds, net direct
ery and boost public investment," it said. tax collection stood at Rs 12.31 lakh
crore, 19.55 per cent higher than the
net collections for the corresponding
period of last year. The net collec-
tion is 86.68 per cent of the total
budget estimates of direct taxes for

note in choppy trade cards, low-value BHIM-UPI transactions

Challa Sreenivasulu Setty by two years
with effect from January 20. In a
regulatory filing, SBI said the
government issued a notification to this
effect on January 10. "... the central
government hereby extends the term of
office of Shri Challa Sreenivasulu Setty,
Managing Director, State Bank of India
for a period of two years with effect
from January 20, 2023...," the filing said.
Societe buys ICICI Bk's
shares worth `173 crore
Financial services company Societe
Generale on Wednesday bought ICICI
Bank's shares worth over Rs 173 crore
through an open market transaction.
According to the block deal data
available with the BSE, Societe Generale
acquired 20,00,000 shares of the
company. The shares were purchased at
an average price of Rs 867 per share,
taking the aggregate value to Rs 173.40
crore.
PTI / Mumbai
In a highly volatile trade, equity
benchmarks Sensex and Nifty
ended on a flat note on Wednes-
day amid unabated foreign fund
outflows and a weak trend in in-
dex heavyweight Reliance Indus-
tries.
Continuing its previous day's
decline, the 30-share BSE Sensex
dipped 9.98 points or 0.02 per cent
to settle at 60,105.50. During the
day, it fell 309.7 points or 0.51 per
cent to 59,805.78.
The broader NSE Nifty skid-
ded 18.45 points or 0.10 per cent to
end at 17,895.70.
From the Sensex pack, Bharti
Airtel, Hindustan Unilever, Ti-
tan, Reliance Industries, Nestle,
IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finserv
and NTPC were the major lag-
gards.
Sun Pharma, UltraTech Ce-
ment, Tata Motors, Larsen &
Toubro, Tata Consultancy Serv-
ices, HDFC Bank and Tata Mo-
tors were among the winners.
"The biggest drag on the mar-
ket in the near-term is the sus-
tained selling by FIIs for 13 con-
tinuous sessions, which has tak-
en the cumulative cash market
selling to Rs 16,587 crore," said V
K Vijayakumar, Chief Invest-
ment Strategist at Geojit Finan-
cial Services.
PTI / New Delhi
The Cabinet on Wednesday ap-
proved a Rs 2,600 crore scheme
for promoting RuPay debit
cards and low-value BHIM-UPI
transactions.
Under the scheme, banks will
be provided financial incentives
for promoting Point of Sale
(PoS) and e-commerce transac-
tions using RuPay and UPI in
the current financial year.
The decision in this regard
was taken in the meeting of the
Union Cabinet, headed by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"India's strides in digital pay-
ments will be further strength-
ened by today's Cabinet decision
regarding promotion of RuPay
Debit Cards and BHIM-UPI
transactions," Modi said in a
tweet. The scheme would help in
building a robust digital pay-
ment ecosystem. It would also
promote UPI Lite and
UPI123PAY as economical and
user-friendly digital payments.
In December alone, UPI
achieved a record of 782.9 crore
digital payment transactions
with a value of Rs 12.82 lakh
crore. "The approved incentive
scheme for promotion of RuPay
Debit Cards and low-value
BHIM-UPI transactions (P2M)
in FY 2022-23 has a financial out-
lay of Rs 2,600 crore," an official
statement said.
Briefing reporters after the
Cabinet meeting, Union Minis-
ter Bhupender Yadav said this
will help in taking the digital
payment system to MSMEs, the
unorganised sector and farm-
ers.
In 2021-22, the government ap-
proved an incentive scheme in
compliance with the budget an-
nouncement of 2021-22 to give a
boost to digital transactions.
the current fiscal. The Budget had
estimated direct tax collection at Rs
14.20 lakh crore this fiscal. On gross
basis, collections from corporate in-
come tax (CIT) grew 19.72 per cent,
while that for personal income tax
(PIT) increased 30.46 per cent.
"The provisional figures of direct
tax collections up to 10th January,
2023 continue to register steady
growth. Direct tax collections up to
10th January, 2023 show that gross
collections are at Rs 14.71 lakh crore
which is 24.58 per cent higher than
the gross collections for the corre-
sponding period of last year," the
Central Board of Direct Taxes
(CBDT) said in a statement.
After adjusting refunds, the net
growth in CIT collections is 18.33 per
cent and that in PIT (including se-
curities transaction tax) is 20.97 per
cent.

Rekha Jhunjhunwala cuts ‘Securitisation Financial bids for IDBI Bk expected Centre to invite EoIs for
stake in Bilcare to 0.1%
Rekha Jhunjhunwala has cut her stake in
Bilcare Ltd to 0.1% from 6.3% between
volume to touch to come in by Sep: DIPAM Secy Concor privatisation this mth
Tuesday and on Wednesday, through
open market transactions. Rekha
Jhunjhunwala has sold 1.47 mln shares
`1.7 tn in FY23’ PTI / New Delhi

The government is expecting to

Talking about the way for-
ward in the strategic sale,
Pandey said the work on two set
PTI / New Delhi

The government will this month

representing 6.2% stake in Bilcare Ltd,
and now holds 25,000 shares in the
company.
TPREL to set up 3 MW
solar plant in Maha
Tata Power Renewables Limited (TPREL)
on Wednesday said it will set up a 3.125
MW solar plant at Himayatnagar in
Maharashtra. The plant is expected to
generate about 7.5 million units (MU) of
clean energy annually and offset 6.15
metric tonnes of CO2 emissions. The
project will be commissioned by October
2023, it said.
GetInData joins Xebia to
expand global footprint
Xebia, the company at the forefront of
digital transformation, on Wednesday
announced a partnership with
GetInData, a group of more than 120
experienced data engineers and
consultants. The companies joined forces
to expand their global market reach,
with a shared vision of empowering
clients to unlock the full business
potential of their data.
AGENCIES / Mumbai
ICRA expects securitisation volume
to reach 1.70 trln rupees in the cur-
rent financial year ending March, if
there are no further pandemic relat-
ed issues.
Securitisation means conversion
of an asset, especially a loan, into
marketable securities to raise mon-
ey by selling them to other investors.
In the Apr-Dec period, securitisa-
tion volumes rose 58% on year to
around 1.17 trln rupees, surpassing
the entire securitisation of around
1.12 trln rupees in 2021-22 (Apr-Mar),
the rating agency said in a report on
Wednesday. The growth in securiti-
sation volume originated mainly
from non-banking financial compa-
nies and housing finance compa-
nies, owing to strong growth in cred-
get financial bids for IDBI
Bank's strategic sale by Sep-
tember, DIPAM Secretary
Tuhin Kanta Pandey said.
Several global and domestic
institutions have expressed in-
terest in buying about 61 per
cent of the government and
Life Insurance Corporation's
(LIC) stake in IDBI Bank and
had put in preliminary bids, the
last date of which was January
7.
"Overall, we are looking at fi-
nancial bids at least before sec-
ond half (October-March) of
next fiscal year," Pandey told
PTI in an interview.
The Department of Invest-
Ten NBFCs, one ARC SBI may tap debt mkt with
surrender certificates 10-yr infra bonds next week
of registration to RBI
ment and Public Asset Manage-
ment (DIPAM), which manages
government holding in state-
owned enterprises, had in Octo-
ber invited bids for selling 30.48
per cent stake in IDBI Bank,
along with 30.24 per cent stake
of LIC.
The government and LIC to-
gether hold 94.72 per cent stake
in IDBI Bank, which will come
down to 34 per cent after the
strategic sale.
of clearances - security clear-
ance from government and Fit
and Proper clearance from the
RBI - would go on parallelly.
"Once it (security clearance
and Fit and Proper clearance) is
cleared we qualify them ( bid-
ders). Then we take them to the
virtual data room on signing of
non-disclosure undertaking.
Then they can do due diligence
and draft agreements will be
shared," Pandey said.
The respective agencies will
have "intensive work" before
the bidders can be qualified for
the second round, the Secretary
said, without disclosing the
timeline for the clearances.
AGENCIES / Mumbai
strategic sale of a 30.8 per cent
stake, along with management
control, in Concor out of the gov-
invite Expression of Interest or ernment equity of 54.80 per cent.
preliminary bids for privatising The government will retain 24
Container Corporation of India per cent stake post sell-off but
(Concor), an official said on without any veto powers.
Wednesday.
The official said the bid docu-
However, the stake sale was
hanging fire as investors awaited
ment for Concor is almost ready clarity on the rail land lease poli-
and has to get approval from 'Al- cy and licensing fees. The Union
ternative Mechanism' which is Cabinet in September approved a
essentially a group of key Cabi- revised policy which provides for
net ministers. long-term leasing of railway land
"We are trying hard to issue the for cargo related activities for a
Preliminary Information Memo- period of up to 35 years at 1.5 per
randum inviting Expression of cent of market value of land per
Interest (EoI) for Concor as quick- annum. The completion of Con-
ly as possible. It should be issued cor strategic sale would spill over
this month, subject to approval," to next financial year when fi-
the official told PTI. The Cabinet,
in November 2019, had approved
nancial bids would come in from
potential investors.
Gilts rise as US
yields fall, Dec
CPI seen benign

State Bank of India, the country's

Jio launches 5G services
in Uttarakhand
Reliance Jio on Wednesday announced
the launch of its True 5G services in
Uttarakhand from Dehradun. On the
occasion, Uttarakhand Chief Minister
Pushkar Singh Dhami in a video
message congratulated Jio, the people of
Uttarakhand and the people of
Dehradun in particular, at the launch of
Jio True 5G services. Apart from the
existing investment of Rs 4,950 crore, a
company's spokesperson said Jio would
additionally invest over Rs 650 crore on
the deployment of standalone 5G
network in Uttarakhand.
Bharti Airtel launches
5G services in Kochi
Bharti Airtel Ltd launched its fifth-generation
wireless services in Kochi, Kerala, the
company said on Wednesday. The company's
5G service will be initially available in certain
areas within the city and will be rolled out in
other areas in a phased manner. Reliance Jio
Infocomm Ltd had rolled out its 5G services
in Kochi last month.
it. The volume grew slightly by 3%
on quarter as on Dec 31, it said.
"Securitisation volumes have long
been dominated by mortgage-backed
loans, followed by vehicle loans, but
the trend reversed in Oct-Dec when
vehicle loans inched slightly ahead
of mortgage-backed loans by around
33% of the total volumes," the rating
agency said. Microfinance loans also
saw an increased share of around
18% in Oct-Dec against a growth of
around 15% in the Apr-Sep period.
"The Reserve Bank of India's restric-
tions on securitisation of loans with
residual maturity of less than 365
days introduced in December 2022,
have not dented the overall volumes
materially," said Sachin Joglekar, as-
sistant vice president and sector
head at ICRA.
"The revision in the guidelines
would largely impact new-age digi-
tal lenders that provide short-tenure
loans, though they form less than
5% of the overall securitisation vol-
umes."
PWC INDIA REPORT
AGENCIES / Mumbai
Ten non-banking financial
companies and an asset recon-
struction company have sur-
rendered their certificates of
registration to the Reserve
Bank of India, the regulator
said in a release on Wednes-
day.
Seven NBFCs have surren-
dered their certificates due to
exit from the non-banking fi-
nancial institution business.
These are Parkin Marketing
Pvt Ltd, Bansal Fintrade Pvt
Ltd, O3 Finance Pvt Ltd, Jacob
Ballas Capital India Pvt Ltd,
India Silica Magnesite Works
Ltd, Cougar Vyapaar Pvt Ltd,
and Srinivasa Finance Corp
Pvt Ltd.
Telecom Investments India
Pvt Ltd, Jaykay Finholding
Pvt Ltd, and UMT Invest-
ments Pvt Ltd have surren-
dered their certificates as they
ceased to be legal entities due
to amalgamation/
merger/dissolution/ volun-
tary strike-off, etc.
Lone Star India Asset Re-
construction Pvt Ltd was the
lone asset reconstruction
company to have surrendered
its certificate of registration
to the RBI due to exit from the
securitisation/ asset recon-
struction business.
The RBI has cancelled the
certificates of registration of
all these companies.
largest lender, plans to hit the
debt market next week with in-
frastructure bonds maturing in
10 years, sources told Informist.
The state-owned bank plans to
raise up to Rs 100 billion a base is-
sue of 50 bln rupees and a green-
shoe option of another Rs 50 bln.
"The issue is most likely to
be launched on January 16 or
January 17 and accordingly, bid-
ding for this issuance might be on
Jan 18 or Jan 19," a source aware
of the development told In-
formist.
The bonds are rated 'AAA' by
India Ratings.
Earlier this month, the bank
had sought board approval for
the sale of infrastructure bonds
up to Rs 100 bln this financial
year.
Market participants expect the
coupon on SBI's infrastructure
bonds to be in the range of 7.55-
7.65%.
"It's difficult to get the levels
that SBI got last time on its
infrastructure bonds, but it's
likely to be 10-15 basis points
higher than last time's issue," the
source said.
Last month, the public sector
bank had raised 100 bln rupees
through 10-year infrastructure
bonds at a coupon of 7.51%,
payable annually. The issue was
fully subscribed.
According to merchant
bankers, the state-owned bank is
likely to issue another batch of
tier-I bonds by next month. So far,
SBI has raised Rs 68.72 bln
through Basel III-compliant tier-I
bonds.
On Dec 14, the board of the
bank had approved raising up to
Rs 100 bln through Basel-III com-
pliant additional tier-I bonds by
2023-24 (Apr-Mar).
The bank had also raised 40 bln
rupees through Basel-III-compli-
ant tier-II bonds maturing in 15
years this financial year.
On Wednesday, shares of SBI
closed 0.3% higher at Rs 596.70 on
the National Stock Exchange.
AGENCIES / Mumbai
Government bond prices were up
as US Treasury yields fell looking
ahead to a benign CPI inflation
print in the US for December, deal-
ers said. Moreover, market expects
domestic consumer inflation to re-
main under the key 6% mark in De-
cember.
The 10-year benchmark 7.26%,
2032 bond ended at 99.78 rupees, or
7.29% yield, against 99.63 rupees, or
7.32% yield on Tuesday.
"The overall sentiment is quite
positive from yesterday after the
rupee appreciated," a dealer at a
primary dealership said. "Even
both (US and India) expected CPI
print added to it." The rupee surged
against the dollar as foreign banks
persistently sold dollars for foreign
portfolio investors, dealers said. To-
day, the Indian currency settled at

MG Motor announces
Next-Gen Hector
MG Motor India on Wednesday announced
the next generation Hector SUV,
available in five, six, and seven-seater
configurations along with safety features
such as six airbags and a 360-degree HD
camera at the Auto Expo 2023.
EV startup Matter unveils
two concept bikes
Electric vehicle and energy storage
technology startup Matter on Wednesday
unveiled two concept bikes , which will
be launched in the next 12-18 months.
Matter Group Founder and CEO Mohal
Lalbhai said that demand is growing for
EV bikes in the country. —Agencies
Startup funding in India drops 33% to $24 bn in 2022
PTI / New Delhi
Funding for Indian startups
dropped by 33 per cent to USD 24 bil-
lion in 2022 as compared to the pre-
vious year though it was nearly dou-
ble the amount recorded in 2019 or
2020, said a PwC India report on
Wednesday.
Global investors were still posi-
tive about the Indian startup ecosys-
tem despite the global slowdown, as
per the report titled 'Startup Track-
er-CY 22'.
"Funding for Indian startups in
CY22 was nearly USD 24 billion, a
drop of 33 per cent in comparison to
CY21 but was still more than twice
the funds raised in CY20 and CY19
each", it said.
The startups received total fund-
ing of USD 13.2 billion in 2019, USD
10.9 billion in 2020 and USD 35.2 bil-
lion in 2021.
Despite the funding slowdown,
Amit Nawka, Partner - Deals & In-
dia Startups Leader, PwC India,
said, "some areas like SaaS (Soft-
ware as a service) and early-stage
funding have remained upbeat.
With significant dry powder waiting
to be invested, it seems likely that
the funding scenario will begin to
normalise after 2-3 quarters." Mean-
while, he added, many startups were
using the current situation to tight-
en operating models and optimise
cash runway by deferring discre-
tionary spends and investments.
The report said the early-stage
deals accounted for 60-62 per cent of
the total funding in 2021 and 2022 in
volume terms and average ticket
size per deal was USD 4 million per
deal.
In value terms, it added, early-
stage deals contributed to approxi-
mately 12 per cent of the total fund-
ing in 2022 compared to nearly 7 per
cent in 2021. Growth and late-stage
funding deals accounted for 88 per
cent of the funding activity in 2022
in value terms, representing 38 per
cent of the total count of deals.
According to the report, average
ticket size in growth-stage deals was
USD 43 million and late-stage deal
was USD 94 million during 2022.
As regards the city-wise startup
funding, the report said, Bengaluru,
NCR and Mumbai accounted for
nearly 82 per cent of total Indian
startups as of December 2022. As
many as 28 per cent of startups in
the top three cities have raised in ex-
cess of USD 20 million.
Bengaluru witnessed the highest
number of unicorns, followed by
NCR and Mumbai. Similar trends
have been noted for other compa-
nies that have raised more than USD
50-100 million, the report said.
81.5750 a dollar, against 81.7850 a
dollar on Tuesday.
The yield on the benchmark 10-
year US Treasury note fell by 3 ba-
sis points, after settling at 3.61% on
Tuesday. On the US front, CPI infla-
tion in December is seen at 6.5%
compared with 7.1% in November,
according to Reuters. Latest data
also shows a slowing economy,
making the case for the US Federal
Reserve to slow rate hikes further,
dealers said.
Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank of
India had advised bidders to use the
'price/yield range setting' facility
provided on the e-Kuber platform
before placing bids at primary mar-
ket auctions of government bonds,
the central bank said in a notifica-
tion on Wednesday.
 MONEY BHOPAL I THURSDAY | JANUARY 12, 2023

BIZ BULLETIN
Adani Group plans to EVs STEAL THE LIMELIGHT OF Fear of Covid lingers
invest `60K crore in MP
Ports-to-energy conglomerate Adani
above travel industry
Group on Wednesday said that it has
plans to invest Rs 60,000 crore in
mineral exploration, energy, agriculture,
renewable energy and coal sectors. The
group, however, did not give timelines
FIRST DAY OF AUTO EXPO 2023
PTI / Greater Noida Khan. The model is based on the company's
dedicated battery electric vehicle platform E- W
BY TEJI MANDI

e all know what hap-

for the investment. "During one-to-one
interaction with Madhya Pradesh chief
minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on the
sidelines of the two-day Global Investors
Summit (GIS) here, Pranav Adani,
managing director (Agro, Oil & Gas), and
director of Adani Enterprises, said that
his group has plans to invest Rs 60,000
crore in the areas of mineral, energy,
agriculture, renewable energy and coal,"
an official release said.
HUL completes purchase
of 51% stake in Zywie
FMCG major Hindustan Unilever Ltd on
Wednesday said it has completed the
acquisition of a 51 per cent stake in
Zywie Ventures for a consideration of Rs
264.28 crore. Now, Zywie Ventures, a
wellness company, has become a
subsidiary of HUL. "HUL has completed
the acquisition of 51 per cent
shareholding of Zywie for a total
consideration of Rs 264.28 crore for the
first tranche, in accordance with the
terms and conditions of the definitive
agreements dated 8th December 2022,"
according to a regulatory filing.
Electric vehicles hogged the limelight on the
first day of India's flagship motor show Auto
Expo 2023 with the likes of Maruti Suzuki,
Hyundai, Kia, Tata Motors and MG Motor
showcasing their futuristic products, while
also committing to invest in sustainable mo-
bility.
The show, returning after three years hav-
ing been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic,
opened with the global premiere of Suzuki
Motor Corporation's concept electric SUV
'eVX' which is slated to hit the market by 2025.
The company's Indian arm Maruti Suzuki
India is among the major manufacturers par-
ticipating at the expo, in which some major
manufacturers such as Mahindra & Mahin-
dra, Skoda, Volkswagen and Nissan along
with luxury car makers like Mercedes-Benz,
BMW and Audi are not participating.
The Concept eVX is a mid-size electric SUV
concept designed and developed by Suzuki
Motor Corporation (SMC), Japan. It will be
powered by a 60 kWh battery pack offering up
‘Tata Group to
make significant
to 550 km of driving range on single charge.
"We plan to bring it to market by 2025. At
the Suzuki Group, addressing global warm-
ing is a priority," SMC Representative Direc-
tor and President Toshihiro Suzuki said here
at the expo while unveiling the product.
On the other hand, Hyundai Motor India
launched its all-electric model Ioniq 5 at an in-
troductory price of Rs 44.95 lakh (ex-show-
room) for the first 500 customers in the pres-
ence of Bollywood superstar Shahrukh
Kia India to pump in `2,000 crore
pened to the travel in-
dustry during the
GMP. COVID-19 pandemic, right? But
"Ioniq 5 represents our shift towards future with time, everything started
mobility with tenets that encapsulate intelli- coming back on track. By the
gent technology, innovation and sustainabili- end of 2022, we saw a tremen-
ty," Hyundai Motor India MD and CEO Unsoo dous increase in people travel-
Kim said. Hyundai already sells one EV mod- ling worldwide.
el, Kona Electric, in the country. But with the start of 2023, an-
Another carmaker Kia India, which un- other variant of COVID-19 has
veiled an all-electric SUV Concept Kia Con- been spotted walking through
cept EV9, said it plans to invest Rs 2,000 crore the streets of China. Does that
over the next four years to scale up its pres- mean the travel industry is
ence in the electric vehicle segment. again in danger?
Kia India Vice-President and Head - Sales &
Marketing - Hardeep Singh Brar said the com-
Let’s explore.
pany's Andhra Pradesh-based manufacturing
What’s Happening?
plant is ready to roll out EVs. "This Rs 2,000 2022 was a good year for the
crore we are talking about will go into R&D, travel industry. According to
manufacturing and infrastructure develop- the tourism boards of various
ment," he told PTI. countries, Indian tourists have
Keeping with the trend of electric and sus- visited various countries till
tainable mobility, Tata Motors showcased December 2022. According to
over 20 products across its passenger and travel companies, packages for
commercial vehicles portfolio. New Year celebrations in
Bangkok, Dubai, Paris, and
Maldives were best sellers. At
the same time, the demand for
domestic air travel and hotel
booking has exceeded the pre-
COVID times.
tries. Union Health Minister
Mansukh Mandaviya said that
a negative COVID test report
would be mandatory for pas-
sengers coming to India from
China, Hong Kong, Japan,
South Korea, Singapore and
Thailand.
According to the Ministry of
Civil Aviation, the current sys-
tem of random COVID-19 tests
of 2% of passengers arriving
by international flight will go
on. At the same time, India has
tightened COVID-19 guidelines.
What Would Happen to
the Travel Industry?
India is a huge market for travel
and tourism. It is a centre for ad-
venture, ayurveda, wellness,
sports, eco-tourism, film, and re-
ligious places. India is consid-
ered an essential destination for
spiritual tourism for both do-

Peepul Tree raises $6 mn
from Elevar Equity, others
Live commerce platform Peepul Tree on
Wednesday said it has raised USD 6
electric mobility’
investments in to bolster presence in EV space Meanwhile, the increasing
cases of COVID-19 and its vari-
ants in China have increased
mestic and international
tourists.
India's constantly increasing
PTI / Greater Noida

Kia India plans to invest Rs

million, about Rs 49 crore, in an
investment round led by Elevar Equity.
The company plans to utilise the fund to
onboard content creators, digitise the
artisan supply chain and build
technology to bring together artisans,
content creators and customers on a
single platform.
SEBI fines BRH Wealth,
BRH for defrauding clients
The Securities and Exchange Board of
India has levied a penalty of 50 mln
rupees each on BRH Wealth Kreators
and BRH Commodities for serious breach
of regulatory norms. The brokerage
firms are alleged to have illegally
PTI / New Delhi
Transition to electric mobility in India
will happen much faster and the Tata
Group will make significant invest-
ments in the sector to develop a range
of products, Group Chairman N Chan-
drasekaran said on Wednesday.
As part of its sustainability drive,
2,000 crore over the next four
years to scale up its presence
in the electric vehicle segment,
a senior company official said
on Wednesday.
The South Korean firm
plans to invest the capital on
various elements like manu-
facturing and infrastructure
development for EVs over the
UP govt signs 79 MoUs Rolls-Royce sells record 6,021 cars in 2022
worth Rs 76,000 crore
next few years. It currently
sells a single battery electric
model in the country and has
plans to introduce a locally
manufactured product in 2025.
Globally, Kia has already an-
nounced plans to drive in 14
battery electric models by 2027.
In an interaction with PTI,
on the sidelines of the Auto
Expo, Kia India VP and Head-
Sales & Marketing Hardeep
Singh Brar said the company's
Andhra Pradesh-based manu-
facturing plant is ready to roll
out EVs.
"This Rs 2,000 crore we are
talking about will go into R&D,
manufacturing and infrastruc-
ture development," he noted.
The planned investment is
close to one third of the total
capital (over USD 1 billion) the
South Korean automaker has
deployed on its manufacturing
set up in the country, he added.
FPJ BUREAU / Mumbai
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Luxury car maker Rolls-Royce

diverted securities of clients and
borrowed funds for own use by
pledging the securities. SEBI also fined
six other entities in the same matter
with penalties of varying amounts
aggregating to 15 mln rupees.
Goyal: Huge investment
opportunities in MP
Commerce and industry minister Piyush
Goyal on Wednesday said that huge
investment opportunities are there in
Madhya Pradesh in sectors such as
tourism, green hydrogen and pharma. "It
has emerged as the ideal investment
destination. It has ample land,
infrastructure, skilled resources and
offers massive opportunities in
agriculture, food processing,
pharmaceuticals, automobiles, tourism,
textiles, renewable energy," he said.
Tata Motors aims to become net zero
between 2040 and 2045 across its pas-
senger and commercial vehicle busi-
nesses.
With focus on green mobility, the
Mumbai-based auto major unveiled a
range of electric products and tech-
nologies in the Auto Expo here.
"We believe that the transition to
electric mobility in India will happen
much faster than what we are imagin-
ing," he stated.
He added that Tata Motors has a
number of products lined up in order
to cater to the evolving customer
needs.
"It is my commitment to you that our
investments in this space will be sig-
nificant so that we can accelerate not
only the transition to electric mobility,
but give consumers absolutely world
class products," Chandra said.
PTI / Lucknow
The Uttar Pradesh govern-
ment on Wednesday held a
roadshow here in which 79
memorandums of under-
standing (MoU) worth Rs
76,000 crore were signed, an of-
ficial release said.
Industrial Development De-
partment Minister Nand
Gopal Gupta Nandi addressed
eminent industrialists in the
roadshow and discussed the
changes that have taken place
in the state in the last five
years and the investment-
friendly policies of the Yogi
Adityanath government
while inviting them to invest
in the state, as per the release.
The investors who came to
participate in the event appre-
ciated the wind of change in
the new Uttar Pradesh, it
added. Kamlesh Jain, Execu-
tive Director and COO of
Varun Beverages, said: "We
have 7 plants in UP. The envi-
ronment of UP is better than
anywhere else. We had to set
up a plant in Gorakhpur. The
allotment letter for the land
arrived within two and a half
months. The Uttar Pradesh
government is doing great
work. We will invest Rs 3,400
crore in Uttar Pradesh".
Haldiram Group's Manager
Commerce Sanjay Singhania
said that after coming to Uttar
Pradesh, he saw good gover-
nance, good policy and good
law and order.
Motor Cars has exceeded annual
sales of more than 6,000 cars for
the first time in its 118-year histo-
ry, Bloomberg reported.
The company said it achieved
“particularly strong year-on-year
growth” during 2022 in the West
Asia, Asia-Pacific, the USA and
Europe.
A ‘single-digit’ drop in sales
was recorded in China — which
includes Hong Kong — due to ‘on-
going headwinds’ but this was
“successfully counterbalanced
by increased sales in other mar-
kets”, the company said in a note.
According to Bloomberg, some
6,021 cars were delivered to cus-
tomers last year, a rise of 8 per
cent compared with 2021.
The value of bespoke commis-
sions also reached record levels
in 2022, with clients “willing to
pay around half a million euros
(£440,000) for their unique Rolls-
Royce motor car”, according to
the BMW-owned company.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars chief
executive Torsten Muller-Otvos
described 2022 as a ‘momentous
year’ for the company. He said,
“Not only did we reveal Rolls-
Royce Spectre, our marque’s first
ever fully-electric series model to
the world, it was also the first
year we ever delivered more than
6,000 cars in a single 12-month pe-
riod, with strong demand across
our entire product portfolio.”
“But as a true house of luxury,
sales are not our sole measure of
success: we are not and never will
be a volume manufacturer”. “Be-
spoke is Rolls-Royce, and com-
missions were also at record lev-
els last year, with our clients’ re-
quests becoming ever more imag-
inative and technically demand-
ing — a challenge we enthusiasti-
cally embrace.”
“In 2023, we mark the 20th an-
niversary of the home of Rolls-
Royce at Goodwood, during
which time we’ve transformed
our business through a long-term
strategy based on continuous
and sustainable growth.”
More than 150 new jobs were
created at the company’s head-
quarters in 2022, bringing the
site’s total workforce to 2,500.

Trafigura exits Nayara Energy; sells stake to Mareterra Group
PTI / New Delhi
Global commodity trader Trafigu-
ra on Wednesday announced its
exit from Nayara Energy after it
sold its 24.5 per cent stake to Italy's
Mareterra Group Holding for an
undisclosed sum of money.
Mareterra, formerly known as
Genera Group Holding, acquired
the stake through a special-pur-
pose vehicle, Hara Capital Sarl, in-
corporated in Luxembourg.
Mareterra is an energy invest-
ment group with a focus on energy
and carbon efficiency infrastruc-
ture. Trafigura had in its Annual
Report for the year ended Septem-
ber 2021, indicated its intent to di-
vest its indirect shareholding in
Sterlite Power secures `305 crore funds
PTI / New Delhi
Nayara. In a statement, Trafigura
said it has completed the sale of its
24.5 per cent indirect minority in-
terest in Nayara Energy Limited
to Hara Capital Sarl.
"This follows receipt of all ap-
plicable bank and regulatory ap-
provals," it said without giving fi-
nancial details. Nayara, formerly
Essar Oil, was acquired by a con-
sortium led by Russian oil major
Rosneft in August 2017.
An investment consortium SPV,
Kesani Enterprises Company
Limited, comprising Geneva-
based Trafigura and Russian in-
vestment group United Capital
Partners (UCP) acquired a 49.13
per cent stake.
Nayara Energy operates the sec-
ond largest single-site refinery at
Vadinar in Gujarat with a current
capacity of 20 million tonnes per
annum and over 6,500 petrol
pumps across the country.
"Over the past five years, Na-
yara Energy's shareholders have
supported the world-class Vadinar
oil refinery to stabilise its opera-
tions following a period of under-
investment.
"This has included raising in-
ternational bank financing and de-
veloping a 450,000 tonnes per an-
num polypropylene plant which
has received environmental clear-
ance and which marks the first
phase of Nayara Energy's entry
into petrochemicals," the state-
ment said. As the new sharehold-
er, said.
er, Mareterra Group will bring
new expertise aligned with Na-
yara Energy's current focus and
future growth, it said.
Headquartered in Rome,
Mareterra Group Holding is pre-
dominantly active in Italy, Luxem-
bourg, France, and Spain and is
expanding its reach to include re-
gions outside of Europe.
"As a new shareholder in Na-
yara Energy, it will bring its strong
experience in reducing the carbon
footprint of fuel stations, installing
electric charging stations and im-
proving energy efficiency at indus-
trial assets. The Group will also
support Nayara Energy's strategy
to become a major petrochemical
producer," the statement said.
EnKash gets RBI
nod for payment
Medplus Health
board approves
merger of co
with subsidiary
AGENCIES / Mumbai
The board of Medplus Health
Services Ltd has approved the
merger of the company with its
wholly-owned subsidiary MHS
Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd.
Both the companies are inter-alia
engaged in manufacturing, buying,
selling, importing, exporting,
distributing or dealing in medical
and pharmaceutical products, and
in all kinds of drugs, intermediaries,
disinfectants, tinctures, colloidal
products, injectables and all
pharmaceuticals and medicinal
preparations.
There is no cash consideration
involved in the merger. Upon the
scheme of amalgamation becoming
effective, all the shares of the
Piramal Capital aims to
increase retail loan book
to more than `1 lakh crore
PTI / New Delhi
Piramal Capital & Housing Fi-
nance expects to grow its retail
loan book to more than Rs 1 lakh
crore over the next three years
from around Rs 25,000 crore now.
The company, part of Piramal
Enterprises, has been rebranded
as Piramal Finance.
It is into housing finance,
SME lending, retail finance
along with wholesale lending,
which is the mainstay with over
Rs 42,000 crore in developer fi-
nancing. Its retail book stood at
Rs 24,872 crore at the end of the
September quarter. Out of the
retail book, as much as 63 per
cent is affordable housing loans
and most of it came from the
tal finance, 2.6 per cent is unse-
cured MSME book and 1.3 per
cent is used car loans.
The microfinance book which
the company started last Sep-
tember forms 3 per cent of the
loan book and the recently
launched personal loans is
about 0.2 per cent, the compa-
ny's Managing Director Jairam
Sridharan told PTI on Wednes-
day.
Sridharan expects to bring
down the quantum of the hous-
ing loans to the total loan book to
around 50 per cent over the next
two-three years.
"We closed Q2 with a loan
book of Rs 24,872 crore on com-
pletion of one year of merger
with DHFL. We want to grow

Sterlite Power on Wednesday said

it has received funds worth Rs 305
crore from Aseem Infrastructure
Finance to set up the Kishtwar
Transmission Ltd (KTL) project
in Jammu.
The project involves construc-
tion of a transmission system
comprising a 400/132kV GIS sub-
station at Kishtwar and a 400 kV
transmission line from Kishenpur
to Dulhasti, the company said in a
statement.
"Sterlite Power secures Rs 305
crore funding from Aseem Infra-
structure Finance for Kishtwar
Transmission project," it said.
The transmission system will
aid evacuation of 1,000 MW of
power from Pakaldul Hydro Elec-
tric Project to the Kishtwar sub-
station.
"This will be our second project
in the region after delivering the
mega NRSS Kashmir project
ahead of schedule," Akshay Hi-
ranandani, Executive Director -
Corporate Finance at Sterlite Pow-
In December 2022, Sterlite Pow-
er acquired the KTL Special Pur-
pose Vehicle.
Aseem Infrastructure Finance
Ltd is a Non Banking Financial
Company (NBFC) promoted by
the Strategic Opportunity Fund
(SOF) of National Investment and
Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), with
anchor investments from the Indi-
an government and Japan's Sum-
itomo Mitsui Banking Corpora-
tion (SMBC).
Sterlite Power is a leading pri-
vate sector power transmission in-
frastructure developer and solu-
tions provider with projects cov-
ering approximately 13,700 circuit
kilometres of transmission lines
across India and Brazil.
aggregator
New Delhi: EnKash has got in-
principle approval from RBI for
payment aggregator's licence, the
company said on Wednesday. The
licence will enable EnKash to
broaden its product offerings. "RBI's
in-principle approval to EnKash
reiterates the need for digital
solutions to manage business cash
flows in an efficient way to sustain
growth and profitability. This will
help us streamline the cash flow
process for businesses where they
will be able to seamlessly
consolidate their all payable and
receivable and make necessary
actions around payments," EnKash
co-founder Yadvendra Tyagi said.
subsidiary held by the company and
its nominee(s) as on the effective
date will stand cancelled, without
any further act or deed.
Govt approves `155 cr for mineral exploration
PTI / New Delhi
The government on Wednesday
said it has sanctioned Rs 154.84
crore to National Mineral Explo-
ration Trust for mineral explo-
ration and boosting capabilities.
The financial help to the ex-
ploration agencies will provide
auctionable mineral blocks to
the nation and will aid in realis-
takeover of DHFL in September
2021.
Around 26 per cent is secured
MSME loans, 4.2 per cent is digi-
ing self reliance in the mining
sector.
"The executive committee
meeting of National Mineral Ex-
ploration Trust (NMET), Min-
istry of Mines, was held... Proj-
ects of mineral exploration and
enhancing institutional capabili-
ties in exploration worth Rs
154.84 crore were approved," the
mines ministry said in a state-
this to over Rs 1 lakh crore over
the next three years, two-third of
which should be retail book,"
Sridharan said.
ment.
The projects include explo-
ration of minerals like graphite,
iron, coal, zinc and bauxite.
Financial help for enhancing
mineral exploration and institu-
tional capabilities of Geological
Survey of India and Indian Bu-
reau of Mines among others was
also approved, the statement
added.

FRP INSTITUTE REPORT

Domestic consumption of composite materials to touch 7.68 LT by 2027

PTI / New Delhi
The consumption of composite ma-
terials in India is expected to wit-
ness a sharp uptick and touch 7.68
lakh tonne (LT) by 2027, led by de-
mand from sectors like renewable
energy, electric vehicles, defence,
among others, according to a report.
Composite materials or fibre-re-
inforced plastics help in circular
economy as these are manufactured
by combining multiple materials
with different properties.
Examples of composite materials
are polymer matrix, metal matrix,
ceramic matrix composites and car-
bon matrix etc.
"The Indian composites material
industry is taking the consumption
from 5,11,900 tonnes of composites
materials in 2021 to 7,68,200 tonnes
in 2027," FRP Institute said in its lat-
est research.
The composites materials market
is also expected to grow at a CAGR of
6.9 per cent over the next five years
to reach USD 2.01-billion in 2027
from USD 1.26 billion last year, the
Chennai-based body said.
The major growth drivers for the
industry will be increasing demand
from sectors like electrical vehicles
(EVs), renewable energy, trans-
portation and construction indus-
tries, consumer and white goods,
and defence.
Government projects
like smart cities, hydrocarbon,
freshwater transportation, sewage
treatment system, rehabilitation of
water and sewage pipelines will also
aid the growth of composites mate-
rials consumption.
FRP Institute along with industry
stakeholders will discuss the ways
and opportunities to increase the
consumption of the materials in In-
dia at the upcoming 'The Interna-
tional Conference and Exhibition on
Reinforced Plastics (ICERP 2023)
scheduled for January 18-20, 2023 in
Mumbai.
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GROUP A
3m India Ltd 22670.15, 22760.2, 22019,
22181.45
Aarti Drugs 448, 453.5, 446.6, 449.5
Aarti Indust 597.7, 603.45, 590.3, 591.8
Aavas 1828.8, 1868, 1828.8, 1857.55
Abb Ltd. 2850.15, 2905.7, 2823.6, 2900.3
Abbott (i) 22149.95, 22368.35, 22087.2,
22214.75
Abcapital 143.65, 147.8, 142.75, 147
Abfrl 267.55, 270, 264.3, 267
Abslamc 455.7, 459, 455.05, 458
Acc Ltd 2430.1, 2440.8, 2387.65, 2392.85
Action Const 311.85, 316.5, 309.2, 310.05
Adani Enter 3660, 3663.55, 3558, 3635.2
Adani Ports 800, 803.35, 789.15, 796.25
Adani Power 282, 283.65, 272.05, 276.3
Adanigreen 1899, 1907.3, 1865, 1883.75
Adanitrans 2637.05, 2650, 2557, 2582.3
Advenzymes 280, 281, 274.25, 275.85
Aegis Logis 359.95, 359.95, 351.35, 356.95
Affle 1024.45, 1038, 1021.25, 1025.4
Agi 315.1, 330, 315.1, 327.95
Aiaengineer 2530, 2551.65, 2511.75, 2535
Airtelpp 409.1, 419.9, 384, 395.25
Ajanta Pharm 1172.55, 1190.2, 1165,
1169.05
Akzoindia 2150.85, 2172.55, 2120, 2125.6
Alem Pharma 560.9, 560.95, 552.85, 559.1
Alkem 3060.05, 3091.9, 3023.75, 3043.75
Alkyl Amines 2729.05, 2760, 2705, 2729.85
Allcargo 389, 402, 386.7, 395.3
Amar Raja Ba 579.05, 588.4, 579, 586.65
Amber 1900, 1905, 1870, 1876.45
Ambuja Ceme 515.1, 515.8, 505.85, 508.1
Amiorg 924.7, 934, 917.45, 920
Anandrathi 748, 751.75, 738.85, 739.9
Anantraj 111.05, 114.2, 111.05, 112.25
Angelone 1289.55, 1297, 1280.2, 1282.75
Anuras 680.8, 687.25, 680.2, 684
Apar Indus. 1819.05, 1833.55, 1805, 1820.3
Apcotex Ind 452.6, 459.9, 449.8, 451.8
Apl Apollo 1116.95, 1122, 1097.55, 1118.4
Apollo Hosp. 4468.05, 4475.55, 4337.2,
4360.35
Apollo Tyres 327.95, 327.95, 318, 319.3
Aptus 306.8, 306.8, 297.4, 298.1
Arvind Ltd 88.55, 91.2, 88, 89.9
Arvindfasn 335.05, 343.65, 335.05, 337.35
Asahi In.Gla 514.8, 518.35, 504.05, 505.9
Ashok Leyl. 151.7, 152.2, 148.65, 149.4
Ashoka 92, 92.05, 88.75, 89.25
Asian Paints 2975.15, 2975.15, 2936.3,
2940.15
Astec Life 1703, 1709.55, 1647.55, 1684.1
Asterdm 225.1, 230.05, 224.15, 225
Astra Micro 291.15, 298.95, 287, 287.3
Astral 2077.25, 2110.6, 2056.5, 2065.4
Astrazen.Ph. 3373.55, 3375.4, 3350, 3360.7
Atgl 3663.9, 3663.95, 3570.9, 3620.05
Atul Ltd. 7690.05, 7740.15, 7666, 7698
Aubank 625.5, 626.1, 615.05, 622.15
Aurob.Pharma 455.55, 455.55, 446, 447.7
Avanti Feeds 382.65, 389.25, 382.65, 388.95
Awl 584, 596, 578.1, 580.4
Axis Bank 950.25, 955.75, 942.9, 950
Baj Hold Inv 5832.1, 5861.35, 5737.15,
5774.15
Bajaj Auto 3584.3, 3584.3, 3530.5, 3537.05
Bajaj Elect. 1173.05, 1183.65, 1162.55,
1169.95
Bajaj Finse 1415.05, 1423.05, 1397.45,
1400.1
Bajajcon 171.1, 174.75, 171.1, 174.25
Bajajhind 15.6, 16.4, 15.6, 16.4
Bajfinance 5930, 5959.05, 5865.95, 5894.2
Balaji Amine 2617.55, 2621, 2572.3, 2592.65
Balkrish Ind 2188, 2210, 2182.25, 2192.2
Balram.Chini 382.05, 397.9, 382.05, 390.45
Bandhanbnk 245.05, 246.6, 242.55, 244.45
Bank Maha 30, 31.1, 29.05, 30.65
Bankbaroda 181, 182.3, 177.15, 181.4
Barbeque 934.95, 934.95, 918.9, 924
Basf India 2739.35, 2775.5, 2739.35,
2759.05
Bata India 1620.1, 1641, 1619.4, 1635.55
Bayer Crop 4719.9, 4719.9, 4674, 4681.85
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Bdl 929.95, 948.3, 922, 926.4
Beml Ltd 1516.9, 1529, 1490.85, 1495.95
Bengla& Asm 4397.05, 4397.05, 4301,
4326.5
Berge Paint 565.75, 569.8, 558.3, 561.25
Bestagro 1430, 1444.35, 1400.45, 1412.5
Bhansali Eng 123.5, 123.5, 117.25, 118.1
Bharat Elect 100.2, 100.75, 99.6, 100.25
Bharat Forge 882.05, 890.45, 860.3, 865.2
Bharat Pet. 348, 357.95, 346.25, 352.65
Bharti Artl 778.95, 778.95, 752, 765.4
Bhel 80, 81.45, 79.05, 81
Biocon Ltd. 257.4, 258.6, 251, 251.5
Birla Corpn. 955.55, 964.45, 940, 958.7
Bls 172.6, 175.1, 170.15, 170.85
Blue Dart Ex 7417.6, 7440.25, 7309.6,
7344.1
Blue Star 1220, 1270.9, 1212.95, 1249.1
Bnk Of India 91.9, 95.3, 89.9, 94.85
Bom.Burmah 930.05, 941, 925.95, 935.15
Boroltd 365.75, 366.7, 361.3, 362.9
Bororenew 495.05, 503, 494.75, 495.9
Bosch Ltd 17473.8, 17500, 17246.35,
17351.4
Brigade 457.3, 457.3, 444.8, 447.55
Britania Ind 4335.15, 4357, 4298.85, 4312.95
Bslsenetfg 58.11, 58.11, 58, 58.06
Bsoft 290.05, 297.9, 290.05, 294.25
Cams 2222.65, 2245, 2217.05, 2226.7
Canara Bank 318.1, 319.7, 312.25, 317.8
Canfin Homes 547.25, 552, 540, 550.05
Caplin Point 729.75, 733.4, 724.5, 726.55
Carborundum 937.75, 959.15, 915, 921.1
Cartrade 473, 477.3, 467.5, 468.65
Carysil 465, 465, 445.05, 445.9
Castrol 126, 126.2, 124.55, 125.45
Ccl Products 512.05, 529, 512.05, 524.9
Ceat Limited 1628.3, 1669.15, 1622.3,
1644.65
Central Bk 30.35, 31.4, 29.7, 30.75
Century Text 691.1, 710.6, 691.1, 698
Centuryply 527.95, 527.95, 510.65, 514.9
Cera Sanitar 5376.9, 5405, 5335.5, 5365.2
Cesc Ltd. 75, 75.4, 74.6, 75.1
Cgcl 750.1, 759.25, 747.75, 752.7
Cgpower 290.15, 300, 288, 299.15
Chalet 339.4, 342.6, 333.5, 337.3
Chambal Fert 308.95, 310.8, 307, 308.55
Chemplasts 434, 435.5, 428.05, 430.4
Chennai Pet. 219.5, 236.9, 218.85, 228.3
Cholafin 678.95, 678.95, 659.1, 666.35
Cholahldng 575.5, 575.5, 566.8, 570.2
Cipla Ltd. 1076.1, 1079.35, 1043, 1047.75
City Union 167.15, 167.35, 163.95, 166.2
Clean 1456.05, 1469.55, 1450.2, 1457.65
Cmsinfo 305, 306.75, 303.65, 305.5
Coal India 216.8, 218.5, 212.25, 213.3
Cochinship 491.3, 493, 474.5, 478.7
Coffeeday 47.8, 47.8, 47.05, 47.15
Coforge 3980.05, 4056.25, 3915, 3937
Colgate Palm 1500.2, 1502.45, 1484, 1489.8
Contain.Corp 720, 726.3, 714.4, 721
Corom Inter 907.95, 907.95, 885.1, 890
Cosmofirst 736.75, 743.85, 731.9, 742.35
Cpse Etf 37.92, 37.92, 37.51, 37.59
Craftsman 3599, 3600, 3493.45, 3535.7
Creditacc 883.3, 883.3, 866.15, 872.9
Crisil Ltd 3018.3, 3050.9, 2990.4, 3006.6
Crompton 336.4, 338.2, 333, 336.5
Csbbank 252.9, 253.9, 248.75, 252.25
Cummins (i) 1454.7, 1460.45, 1442.35,
1448.45
Cyient 841, 855.9, 841, 847.9
D B Realty 89.45, 89.45, 84.75, 85.25
Daawat 116.75, 117.45, 115.35, 115.8
Dabur (i) 554.45, 554.45, 545.35, 548.4
Dalbharat 1876.15, 1881.1, 1859.35, 1874.65
Dalmiasug 367, 384.8, 367, 373.3
Datapattns 1170, 1187, 1161.25, 1171.95
Dbl 217.95, 223, 217.95, 219.8
Dcal 90, 91.55, 90, 90.6
Dcbbank 126.25, 128.3, 124.95, 127
Dcmshriram 885.35, 894.9, 875.55, 887
Deepak Fert. 686.4, 693.8, 675.05, 684.25
Deepak Nitr. 1936.05, 1953.55, 1921, 1929.2
Delhivery 323.2, 325.9, 319.05, 321.2
Delta Corp 208.55, 211, 208, 209.85
Devyani 172.55, 172.65, 169.1, 169.6
Dhampur Suga 235.45, 242.05, 232.5,
235.45
Dhani 37.95, 38.55, 37.75, 38.1
Dish Tv 18, 18.3, 17.85, 17.95
Divi’s Lab. 3500, 3500, 3405.3, 3413.25
Dixon 3728.95, 3757.55, 3699.6, 3704.1
Dlf Limited 371.05, 375.7, 371.05, 372.05
Dmart 3896.9, 3909.95, 3860, 3873.35
Dodla 501.45, 504.45, 496.1, 501.95
Dollar 414.2, 416, 412, 413.1
Dr.Reddy’s 4294.55, 4319, 4244.85, 4263.3
Dwar Sugar 100.4, 104.65, 99.45, 99.85
E.I.D.Par 551.1, 558.15, 543.5, 546.45
Easemytrip 52.8, 53.5, 52.35, 52.55
Eclerx 1330.05, 1422.15, 1320, 1395.55
Edelweiss 64.2, 69.35, 64.2, 67.7
Eicher Motor 3167, 3167.4, 3097.15,
3136.15
Eih Ltd. 177.7, 178.2, 174.4, 174.95
Eki 1235, 1242, 1219.3, 1222.1
Elecon Eng 370, 379, 370, 375.3
Elgi Equip 415.1, 423.45, 399.65, 401.85
Emami Ltd. 420.7, 430.4, 420.7, 429.15
Endurance 1387.3, 1396.9, 1373, 1375.15
Enginrs.(i) 83.4, 84.75, 82.95, 83.45
Epl 165.15, 169, 165.15, 168.3
Equitas 126.5, 128.95, 123.05, 126.3
Equitasbnk 56.2, 56.2, 54.8, 55.7
Eris 646, 648.45, 635.45, 638.45
Esab India 3953.5, 3961.85, 3891.6, 3943.15
Escorts 2180.05, 2182.5, 2114.15, 2131.9
Eurekaforbe 490, 524.9, 481, 500.65
Eveready (i) 363.85, 373.15, 363.85, 371.7
Everest Kant 95.45, 96.2, 94.25, 95.85
Exide Ind. 180.8, 184.2, 180.8, 182.95
Fdc Limited 278, 280, 272.9, 274.45
Federal Bank 136.15, 136.15, 133.35, 134.6
Filatex Indi 47.9, 48.05, 47, 47.2
Fineorg 5690.05, 5760, 5643, 5670.95
Fineotex Ch 248, 254.2, 248, 249
Finol. Cable 529.95, 541.95, 525.9, 536.5
Finolex Ind. 174.05, 177.05, 172.55, 173.3
Fluorochem 2919.95, 2919.95, 2818, 2833.5
Fortis 287.6, 289.3, 282, 283.5
Fsl 104.85, 104.85, 102.6, 103.15
Gail (i) Ltd 97.9, 98.5, 97, 97.3
Galaxysurf 2382, 2382.2, 2350, 2357.25
Garfibres 3074.95, 3074.95, 3010, 3026.7
Gateway 68.95, 68.95, 67, 67.25
Gati Ltd. 152.95, 152.95, 149.4, 150.85
Genus Power 90.5, 90.5, 86.3, 86.75
Ghcl Ltd 527.95, 527.95, 518.3, 518.9
Gicre 179.75, 184.95, 178.6, 182.75
Gillette (i) 4968.15, 4994.9, 4940.1, 4991
Gland 1548, 1598.45, 1540.45, 1592.8
Glaxosmith 1300.05, 1306, 1294.95, 1300
Glenmark Pha 431.85, 433, 422.85, 424.55
Globus Spr 826.55, 847.2, 822.1, 841.85
Gls 423, 425, 416.45, 419.55
Gmm Pfaudler 1608.1, 1618.45, 1577.6,
1583.2
Gmrinfra 40.25, 40.75, 40.1, 40.35
Gocolors 1182.85, 1209, 1178.5, 1207.15
Godawari Pow 402, 413.45, 402, 405.25
Godfrey Ph 2103, 2107.35, 2026.85, 2041.25
Godrej Cons 908.05, 913.7, 894.25, 900.25
Godrej Ind 452.05, 455.65, 444, 445.35
Godrej Prop 1223.2, 1227.2, 1208, 1224.2
Godrejagro 460, 467.95, 460, 462.25
Gokaldas 365.6, 383.35, 365.6, 380.5
Gppl 94, 95.6, 93, 95.05
Granules (i) 330.75, 335, 327.65, 331.25
Graphite In. 379.8, 379.8, 374.7, 375.8
Grasim Ind. 1655, 1655.55, 1625.8, 1633.2
Gravita 422.75, 430, 419.5, 421.35
Great Easte 669.35, 669.35, 640, 650.75
Greaves Cott 134.75, 144, 133.8, 142.75
Greenpanel 321, 330.7, 320.5, 324.1
Grind Norton 1943.45, 1978.6, 1928.4,
1941.05
Grinfra 1193.35, 1240, 1193.35, 1234.45
Grm Overseas 388.05, 394.05, 381.5, 382.35
Grse 465, 474.75, 463.3, 465.4
Gtl Infrast 1.18, 1.19, 1.17, 1.18
Guj Amb Exp 240.05, 249.55, 240, 242.1
Guj Petronet 281.9, 284.05, 274.1, 275.9
Guj.Alkali 733, 742.75, 730.4, 734.4
Guj.Mineral 156, 160.75, 154.95, 155.65
Guj.Narmada 577.6, 585.4, 577.6, 581.6
Guj.St.Fert 141.65, 144, 140.2, 142.8
Gujgas 482.95, 482.95, 468.7, 471
Hal 2486, 2510.05, 2455.4, 2467.15
Happstmnds 881.5, 891.65, 875.1, 879.35
Hathway Cab 16.85, 17.2, 16.85, 16.95
Hatsun Agro 893, 893, 883, 885.65
Havellsindia 1175.05, 1196.05, 1175.05,
1188.2
Hawkins Cook 6263.25, 6268.9, 6174,
6177.95
Hbl P Sys 100.95, 101.8, 99.5, 99.75
Hcg 289, 290.8, 285.5, 288.1
Hcl Techno 1066.25, 1079.7, 1050.6, 1054.8
Hdfc 2571.25, 2604.85, 2547.2, 2593.5
Hdfc Bank 1570.6, 1598, 1560.05, 1590.8
Hdfcamc 2140.2, 2159.75, 2130.9, 2142.25
Hdfclife 597.15, 605.4, 594.4, 599.65
Heg Limited 1060.15, 1069, 1055.4, 1059.85
Heidel Cem 186.5, 188.2, 185.6, 185.95
Hemiprop 106.4, 107.5, 105.45, 105.9
Heromotoco 2715.45, 2717.15, 2685,
2692.55
Hfcl 72.7, 73.65, 72.2, 73.1
Hginfra 672, 686.45, 667.2, 679.85
Hgsl 1314.95, 1328.35, 1307, 1311.45
Hikal Ltd. 389.9, 403.9, 387.55, 398.95
Hil 2602.1, 2716.3, 2593.05, 2699.25
Hind Uni Lt 2643.75, 2646.8, 2588.45,
2593.85
Hind.Constn. 20, 20.35, 19.75, 19.95
Hind.Copper 124.5, 125.9, 123.5, 125.45
Hind.Oil Exp 138.4, 138.4, 135.05, 136.45
Hind.Petro 250, 260.9, 247.85, 256.35
Hindalco 480.5, 493.4, 480.5, 491.35
Hindus.Zi 343, 347, 337.3, 339.15
Hleglas 635, 640.25, 622.5, 630.05
Homefirst 721.6, 726.4, 718.7, 721.8
Honeywell 40131.65, 40200.45, 39730,
39988.15
Hscl 95, 96.45, 94.4, 95.1
Hudco 51.4, 51.55, 50.3, 51.15
Ibul Hsg Fin 138.5, 140.85, 135.5, 140.15
Icici Bank 863.4, 877.5, 854.65, 867.85
Icici500 25.86, 25.9, 25.37, 25.68
Icicib22 57.61, 57.9, 57.11, 57.51
Icicigi 1242.45, 1248, 1236.05, 1242.55
Icicipruli 463.85, 466.3, 460.4, 461.85
Icicisensx 661.1, 664.24, 660.26, 663.54
Idbi Bank L 55.8, 56.1, 54.6, 55.5
Idea 7.29, 7.55, 7.15, 7.46
Idfc 83.55, 84.95, 83.05, 84.6
Idfcfirstb 58.95, 60, 58.15, 59.8
Idfsensexe 634.1, 634.1, 632.85, 632.85
Iex 142.9, 143, 140.5, 141.75
Ifb Ind.Ltd. 916.6, 925.5, 906.55, 911.35
Ifci Ltd 13.84, 14.09, 13.71, 13.83
Iifl 464.85, 474, 463, 465.4
Iiflwam 1786.5, 1793.65, 1753.1, 1760.25
Ind.Glycols 744.65, 751, 738.3, 740.8
Indbul Real 76.95, 77.6, 76.25, 76.85
India Cem. 215.05, 216.85, 214.2, 215.6
Indiamart 4360.05, 4430, 4360.05, 4405.05
Indian Bank 289, 291.9, 283.3, 288.15
Indian Hotel 310.35, 314.15, 308.7, 310.3
Indian Oil 80.7, 84.1, 80.6, 83.45
Indian Over. 29.7, 30.7, 28.8, 30.1
Indigo 2032.4, 2117.65, 2032.4, 2107
Indigopnts 1265.45, 1282.1, 1262.75, 1273.7
Indo Count 134.4, 135.45, 133, 133.5
Indusind Bnk 1239.95, 1239.95, 1208,
1213.25
Industower 182.85, 184.25, 182, 183.6
Infibeam 16.25, 17.1, 16.2, 16.9
Info Edge 3701, 3701, 3617.4, 3654.9
Infosys Ltd 1470, 1494, 1463.4, 1471.45
Ingersoll 1981.05, 2010.15, 1977, 1996.3
Inox Leisure 492.75, 504, 491.8, 502.25
Intellect 426.95, 434.8, 424.05, 427.15
Iol Chem Ph 362.3, 362.3, 350, 350.65
Ion Exchange 2751.1, 2752.95, 2675, 2684.5
Ipca Lab Ltd 871.85, 871.85, 852.4, 855.55
Ipl 243, 246, 241.5, 242.7
Irb Infra 302.75, 304.85, 298.6, 300.25
Ircon 60.35, 60.35, 58.55, 58.85
Irctc 635.15, 643.9, 635.15, 641.05
Irfc 32.3, 32.6, 31.7, 32.2
Isec 502.75, 503.7, 498.6, 498.95
Isgec 457.05, 462.7, 457.05, 460.5
Itc Ltd. 333.3, 335.45, 331.35, 331.75
Iti Ltd. 104.35, 105.25, 103, 103.95
J & K Bank 54.55, 55.4, 53, 55.25
J.B.Chemical 1909, 1931.2, 1902.8, 1922.45
Jai Corp Ltd 143.5, 144.65, 142.1, 142.8
Jain Irrig 32.9, 35.25, 32.45, 34.4
Jaipra 9.76, 10.17, 9.76, 9.96
Jamna Auto 106.05, 107.3, 105.2, 106
Jbm Auto 530.05, 540, 527.45, 532.3
Jchac 1131.6, 1174.75, 1129.35, 1161.95
Jindal Polyf 760, 772.8, 753.95, 755.6
Jindal Saw 110.8, 116.75, 110.8, 115.3
Jindal Ste 603.95, 610.25, 600.9, 604.35
Jindal World 458, 458.9, 448.05, 451.75
Jk Cement 2865, 2888.6, 2847.1, 2874.7
Jk Lakshmi 739.05, 771.3, 735.9, 764.2
Jk Paper 420.5, 422.95, 414.35, 416.85
Jk Tyre Ind 186.2, 188.55, 183.65, 186.6
Jm Financial 71.15, 71.35, 70.1, 70.4
Jppower 7.22, 7.37, 7.22, 7.29
Jsl 235.35, 238.8, 232, 234.45
Jslhisar 442.65, 444.45, 425, 427.3
Jsw Energy 280.8, 283.35, 278.3, 279.8
Jswsl 752.75, 758, 748.55, 754.1
Jubl Food 492.2, 497.75, 490.25, 491.3
Jublingrea 527.05, 535, 521, 522.55
Jublpharma 359.2, 364.2, 358.45, 359.15
Justdial 601.2, 601.2, 582.4, 583.5
Jyothylab 204.7, 208.15, 202.65, 204.8
K.P.R. Mill 530, 530, 518, 520.45
Kajaria Cer. 1184.25, 1184.25, 1133.5,
1139.05
Kalpa.Power 510, 532.65, 510, 523.35
Kalyankjil 121.3, 123, 116.15, 118.3
Kamaholding 12689, 12714.9, 12353,
12536.25
Kansai Nero 413.4, 420.3, 407.7, 412
Karnataka Bk 148.5, 150.4, 144.05, 146.9
Kaveri Seed 507.05, 517.15, 507.05, 510.8
Kec Intern 505.5, 506.7, 493.55, 498.1
Kei Indust. 1450.05, 1460.5, 1412, 1428.35
Kennametal 2290.05, 2347.15, 2285.1,
2325.35
Kims 1508.7, 1517.9, 1497, 1499.6
Kiocl 216.75, 216.95, 214.35, 215.05
Kiri Dyes 461, 461.4, 455, 457.05
Kirl.Ferrous 354.35, 354.4, 347.6, 349.9
Kirloil Eng 310.85, 317.25, 308.7, 311.8
Kirlosar Pn 539, 541.9, 531, 535.6
Kitex Garmen 188, 190.1, 187.6, 188.45
Knr Const 258.05, 260.2, 256.9, 257.6
Koltepatil 261.25, 262.75, 257.65, 259.3
Kotak Mah.Bk 1796, 1804.55, 1784.05,
1802.35
Kotak Sensex 63.12, 64.5, 63.12, 63.74
Kpittech 724.95, 724.95, 700.65, 703.1
Krbl Ltd. 387.75, 397.15, 386.8, 395.4
Ksb 1881.55, 1893.85, 1844.1, 1870.9
L.G.Balkrish 717.9, 717.9, 682.95, 690.2
Lalpathlab 2249.95, 2249.95, 2176, 2181.25
La-opala Rg 385.1, 392.1, 385.1, 387.95
Larsen & Tou 2107, 2139.75, 2098.85,
2124.85
Latentview 370.1, 373.8, 367.6, 368.5
Lauruslabs 378.7, 379.6, 365.5, 366.4
Laxmimach 11995.95, 12042.7, 11725,
11752.7
Lemontree 77.05, 78.3, 75.7, 77.05
Lic Hous.Fin 396.05, 404.1, 392.15, 402.55
Lici 714.9, 723.25, 710.45, 714.75
Licnetfsen 664.25, 664.25, 648.79, 648.79
Lindeindia 3362.25, 3478, 3362.25, 3416.45
Lloyds Met E 249.1, 259.25, 247.35, 259.25
Lloydsteel 16.1, 16.7, 15.9, 16.2
Lnt Fh 92.35, 93.3, 90.9, 92.4
Lodha 1025, 1044.75, 1021, 1035.5
Ltim 4240, 4298.7, 4212.5, 4225.05
Ltts 3649.8, 3719.9, 3615.15, 3631.1
Lupin Ltd. 755.05, 758.85, 746.55, 753.8
Lxchem 290.05, 293, 288.5, 289.1
M&m Finanser 235.5, 237.35, 234.2, 236.45
Mah & Mah 1314.8, 1320, 1301.25, 1312.6
Mah Holiday 266.6, 266.6, 261.95, 263.5
Mah.Scooter 4444.65, 4504, 4430.1, 4473.2
Mah.Seamless 338.75, 343, 330.8, 338.6
Mahindcie 343.35, 353, 343.35, 350.7
Mahindralife 362.7, 364.35, 358.4, 360.8
Mahlog 486.95, 491.35, 479.75, 482.6
Man Infra 73.35, 74.5, 72.7, 73.8
Manali Petro 80.15, 81.95, 80.15, 80.95
Manap Fin 120.9, 123.3, 120, 121.75
Manyavar 1324.15, 1339.05, 1309.75,
1314.1
Mapmyindia 1066.95, 1069, 1050.05,
1066.35
Maricoltd 510.85, 512, 494.75, 500.2
Marksans 62.3, 67.4, 61.5, 66.4
Marutisuzuk 8349.95, 8349.95, 8251.1,
8284.7
Masfin 809.7, 824.2, 802.1, 803.55
Mastek Ltd 1683.05, 1701.05, 1682.1,
1686.55
Maxhealth 456.8, 459.4, 445.4, 448.75
Mazdock 793, 803.75, 777.95, 787.25
Mcx Ltd 1465.5, 1485.55, 1455.15, 1481.55
Medplus 619.85, 625.8, 599.1, 610.95
Metrobrand 854.05, 857.95, 831.4, 832
Metropolis 1358.25, 1389, 1355.5, 1375.3
Mfl 1220.05, 1225.2, 1190.2, 1200.3
Mfsl 768, 808, 764.1, 798.6
Mgl 861.05, 871.75, 861.05, 867.35
Midhani 224, 226.6, 221.9, 223.35
Mindacorp 219.55, 222.5, 216.55, 217.75
Mineral&metl 36.1, 36.2, 35.65, 35.95
Mirza Inter 225.9, 227.8, 219.15, 219.7
Moil Ltd 173.05, 175.15, 171.5, 172.3
Mol 109.25, 109.75, 108, 108.15
Moldtkpack 990.05, 995.5, 976.85, 987.05
Morepen Lab. 33.45, 34.25, 33.05, 33.95
Motherson 78.85, 79.25, 76.45, 77.1
Motilalofs 711.2, 716.2, 707.45, 711.8
Mphasis Ltd 1994.95, 2052, 1975.6, 2030.25
Mrf Ltd. 94398, 94398, 90855.05, 91188.25
Mrpl 56.9, 59.8, 56.35, 58.9
Mstc 295.65, 299.5, 293.4, 294.45
Msumi 55.2, 55.45, 53.5, 53.9
Mtartech 1627.95, 1634.15, 1609.8, 1623.85
Muthoot Fin 1075, 1080.4, 1062.05, 1067.1
Nam-india 251.5, 252.75, 249.5, 251.05
Nat.Alum 84.15, 85.45, 83.7, 84.75
Natco Pharm 550.7, 553.5, 546.4, 547.2
National Fer 71.8, 73.2, 70.3, 70.7
National Std 3970.1, 4094, 3970.1, 3975
Nava 245.95, 250.4, 241.45, 244.9
Navin Fluori 3950, 4016.35, 3880.55,
3905.65
Nazara 576.95, 618.9, 574.35, 610.25
Nbcc 38.6, 39.3, 38.6, 39.05
Ncc 92.8, 96.4, 92.1, 94.35
Neogen 1252.2, 1254, 1239.8, 1247.15
Nesco Ltd 600, 608.45, 595.8, 604.6
Nestle (i) 20138.3, 20138.3, 19730,
19763.45
Newgen 365.5, 367.75, 362.15, 362.85
Nh 726, 735.4, 720.9, 724.7
Nhpc 39.1, 39.4, 38.75, 39.2
Niacl 125.95, 129.8, 125.95, 128.35
Niit Ltd. 309, 315, 308.75, 310.3
Nlcindia 81.95, 82.3, 80.65, 81.15
Nmdc Ltd 123.2, 128.95, 123.2, 128.45
Nocil Ltd 230, 232.9, 227.95, 229.05
Ntpc Ltd 168.2, 168.8, 165.55, 166
Ntwk Med Inv 63.75, 65.15, 62.95, 63.7
Nuvoco 368.65, 376.4, 368.65, 375.35
Nykaa 151, 156, 150.75, 155.1
Oberoi Real 851.55, 858.6, 844.5, 850.45
Oil India 214.9, 224.9, 214.9, 222.8
Olectra 497.55, 500.95, 490.45, 493.35
Ongc Corpn 149.2, 150, 146.3, 146.75
Onmobile 95.55, 97.95, 94.8, 95.95
Optiemus 295, 300, 292.3, 299.2
Oracle Fin 3033.6, 3061.7, 3013.45, 3050
Orient Cem 130, 132.7, 130, 130.55
Orientelec 270.2, 270.5, 263.9, 268.95
Page Industr 41000, 41163.95, 40732.75,
41024.85
Paras 594, 596, 580.65, 584.25
Paushakltd 7863.8, 7899.95, 7734, 7863.6
Paytm 574.8, 583.95, 571.9, 579.5
Pcbl 125.75, 126.4, 124, 124.6
Pel 817.75, 842.2, 810.35, 830.85
Persistent 3965.2, 4032.85, 3906, 3927.25
Petronet Lng 221, 223.4, 219.45, 220.4
Pfizer Ltd. 4317.45, 4320.85, 4275.4, 4285.3
Pg Electro 1168.3, 1175.8, 1156.65, 1167.15
Pghl 4017.7, 4037.7, 4009, 4031.6
Phoenix Mill 1425, 1441, 1414.25, 1427.95
Pi Indus.Ltd 3290.85, 3302, 3243.2, 3270.15
Pidilite 2533.95, 2537.05, 2476, 2480.45
Pnbhousing 559.75, 574.3, 550, 567.7
Pncinfra 310.25, 318.9, 310.25, 315.25
Policybzr 464, 476.15, 462.4, 467.9
Poly Medicur 917.9, 917.9, 900, 900.95
Polycab 2680.05, 2707.35, 2661.65, 2669.95
Polyplex 1559.95, 1563.55, 1549, 1555.25
Poonawalla 290.05, 296.25, 287.75, 295.1
Power Finan 155.05, 155.2, 150.2, 151.75
Power Grid 212, 213, 210.15, 212.2
Powerindia 3340, 3370, 3332, 3337.85
Praj Ind.Ltd 359.95, 361.9, 356.95, 358.3
Prestige 452, 453.55, 445.35, 446.25
Pricolltd 195.75, 195.75, 189.4, 193.15
Princepipe 590, 593.4, 580, 582.8
Priviscl 1111.05, 1148.2, 1097.3, 1137.9
Procter &gam 13910, 13958.8, 13875.75,
13932.05
Prsmjohnsn 103.8, 106, 103.1, 103.8
Pspproject 736.55, 745.45, 712.2, 714.35
Ptcil 2551.05, 2628.9, 2551.05, 2584.4
Pun.Alkali 80.5, 80.5, 78, 78.95
Punjab Natio 55.45, 56.6, 54.55, 56.4
Pvr Ltd 1672.9, 1713.75, 1662, 1704.3
Quess 402.7, 402.7, 393.5, 394.9
Radicokhait 1072.85, 1079.35, 1066, 1072.1
Railtel 123.05, 125.8, 121.85, 124.2
Rain 177.85, 178.15, 176.3, 177.35
Raj Glo Wir 860.25, 874.75, 845, 848.85
Rajesh Expo. 810, 829.95, 796.5, 821.15
Rallis India 239.1, 247, 238.75, 242.6
Ramcocem 691.05, 707.15, 691.05, 704.2
Rashtr.Chem. 125, 128.25, 123.05, 124.25
Rategain 319.9, 341.9, 317.4, 333.85
Ratnamni Met 2055, 2055.05, 1960.25,
1967.55
Raymond 1436.6, 1453.4, 1426, 1435.2
Rba 110.25, 111.95, 110, 110.25
Rblbank 181.1, 182.3, 178.35, 181.05
Recltd 123.95, 123.95, 121, 121.75
Redington 179.1, 183.3, 179.1, 180.9
Rel Indl Inf 921.7, 927.45, 912.6, 915.85
Rel Infra 134.3, 135.25, 132.9, 134.2
Relaxo Foot. 889.25, 899.75, 889, 891.85
Reliance 2555.2, 2558.2, 2522, 2525.5
Religare Ent 175, 180.25, 175, 177.05
Renuka Sugar 53.15, 55.45, 53.1, 54.6
Rhim 835.95, 850, 817, 845.55
Rites 331.1, 331.2, 317, 328.55
Rk Forgings 258.2, 272.2, 258.2, 271.1
Rolexrings 1821.9, 1832.55, 1804, 1811.2
Rossari 723.55, 732, 718.2, 722.35
Route 1194, 1194.7, 1182.4, 1187.55
Rpower 14.3, 14.45, 14.2, 14.26
Rtnindia 42.4, 42.4, 41.05, 41.65
Rtnpower 3.83, 3.9, 3.83, 3.87
Rupa & Co 280.4, 282.45, 278.5, 279.7
Rvnl 70.7, 72.7, 70.3, 72.2
Sanduma 829, 852.05, 829, 838.6
Sanofi 5674.75, 5680.25, 5628.05, 5633.95
Sansera 758.45, 758.45, 742, 745.15
Sapphire 1305.05, 1330.55, 1305.05, 1323.3
Sarda Enmin 1085.7, 1102, 1082.25, 1090.1
Saregama (i) 365, 372.35, 359.45, 360.45
Sbicard 779.05, 784.15, 776, 779.15
Sbilife 1303.05, 1306.8, 1287.95, 1298.3
Sbisensex 645.9, 647.9, 638.2, 642.75
Schaeffler 2626.05, 2718.9, 2623.2, 2688.2
Schneider 201.55, 209, 197, 206.35
Sensexbees 662, 665.1, 659.54, 663.7
Sequent 86.6, 87.15, 85.55, 85.75
Setfbse100 194.05, 195.11, 194, 194.4
Setfsn50 509, 510.1, 507, 507
Sfl 1252.15, 1254.05, 1211.55, 1219.8
Shardacrop 488.1, 495.95, 477.25, 481.15
Shilpa Medic 274, 279.7, 274, 276.45
Shipp.Corpn 142, 142.1, 139.7, 140.7
Shopper Stop 691, 715.75, 691, 694.35
Shree Cement 23450.2, 23631.05, 23268,
23492.9
Shriram Tran 1320.05, 1342.65, 1319.55,
1334.95
Shyammetl 305, 305, 298.1, 299.9
Siemens Ltd. 2902.25, 2945, 2856.4, 2939.4
Sindhu Trade 24, 24, 20.1, 21.5
Sis 379.9, 382.6, 379, 381.9
Sisl 1200.5, 1220.1, 1173.5, 1209.6
Siyaram Silk 519.8, 531, 513.5, 525.7
Sjvn 33.8, 34, 33.6, 33.8
Skf India 4770.6, 4807.05, 4700.25, 4732.8
Snxt50bees 49.9, 50.02, 49.57, 49.59
Sobha 590, 590, 582.95, 587.65
Solar Ind 4310.05, 4356.85, 4310.05, 4333.4
Solara 428, 432.15, 423.95, 426.1
Sonacoms 452, 452, 425.05, 427.15
Sonata Soft. 582, 585.15, 579.05, 580.75
South Ind.Bk 18.8, 18.8, 18.25, 18.55
Spandana 545, 578.95, 545, 562.25
Spicejet Ltd 37.9, 37.9, 36.95, 37.65
Sportking 690, 705, 684.85, 688.65
Srf Limited 2283.95, 2283.95, 2186.05,
2196.7
St.Str.Wheel 158.25, 161.45, 156.35, 156.55
Star 352.35, 353.9, 341.8, 343.6
Starcement 115.6, 116, 113.75, 114
Starhealth 583.4, 596.65, 583.4, 591.05
State Bank 596, 599.4, 592.35, 596.55
Steel Auth. 88.2, 89.5, 87.85, 88.9
Steel Exch 15.4, 15.54, 14.45, 14.62
Ster Tech 168.1, 173.9, 167.55, 170.25
Stovekraft 529.3, 529.7, 514.9, 527.25
Subex Ltx 35.8, 36.35, 35.5, 35.95
Sudarsh.Chem 404, 404, 374.3, 377.8
Sumichem 482.5, 491, 481.55, 488
Sun Pharma. 1011.1, 1032.85, 1008.05,
1028.25
Sun Tvnet 470.1, 474.15, 466, 468.55
Sundar.Clay 4911.1, 4979.65, 4911.1,
4979.65
Sundaram Fas 992.5, 1001.95, 979.1, 981.7
Sunpha Adv 210.8, 211.7, 209, 209.7
Sunteck Real 353.05, 358.15, 353.05, 355.95
Suprajit Eng 339.95, 339.95, 332.8, 335.7
Suprem Ind 2465.1, 2482.15, 2395, 2417.45
Supreme Pet 399, 399, 383.05, 386
Supriya 239.35, 243.85, 235, 237.2
Surya Roshni 564.15, 581.3, 553.55, 577.7
Suvenphar 490.4, 493.1, 487.8, 491.35
Suzlonenergy 10.12, 10.3, 10.05, 10.12
Suzlonpp 7.4, 7.65, 7.38, 7.42
Swan Eng 322, 328.2, 316.4, 320.55
Swsolar 271.25, 271.25, 268.1, 268.85
Sxetf 661, 661, 651.95, 654
Symphony 993.85, 1004.95, 983, 1002.7
Syngene 615, 626.4, 612.1, 620.85
Tanla 725.3, 744.05, 722, 727.9
Tarsons 700.9, 700.9, 679.8, 681.4
Tata Chem. 974, 974.85, 962.15, 967.25
Tata Coffee 220.95, 222.3, 218.85, 219.8
Tata Comm 1369.95, 1423, 1363.75, 1417.95
Tata Elxsi 6206, 6288, 6202.1, 6221.65
Tata Invest. 2190, 2337.2, 2190, 2287.2
Tata Metalik 827.55, 847.15, 827.55, 838.7
Tata Motors 415.55, 419.95, 413.55, 418.05
Tata Power 206.4, 207.35, 205.15, 205.85
Tata Steel 119.3, 120.35, 118, 118.8
Tata Teleser 85.9, 87.85, 85.25, 85.55
Tataconsum 775, 775, 755.7, 759.25
Tatamtrtdvr 217.35, 221.45, 217.35, 219.8
Tatastllp 708.2, 720, 705.7, 711.85
Tatva 2135.6, 2148.85, 2095.65, 2132.15
Tciexp 1839.5, 1839.5, 1781, 1787.2
Tcnsbrands 512, 517.3, 498.6, 509.3
Tcs Ltd. 3289, 3349, 3272, 3328.85
Teamlease 2495.55, 2500.15, 2479.3,
2490.25
Tech Mah 1006.05, 1016.5, 1003.7, 1006.35
Technoe 369.9, 372.9, 352.7, 356.2
Tega 563.15, 571.9, 563.15, 565.2
Tejasnet 600.35, 609, 568, 572.75
Texmaco Rail 56.7, 57.6, 56.55, 57.05
Thermax 1972.7, 1979.95, 1932.1, 1937.1
Thirumalai 204.5, 205.15, 201.75, 202.4
Thomas Cook 73.5, 74.35, 73.2, 73.55
Thyrocare 580.2, 582.85, 575, 576.15
Tiindia 2671.5, 2672.3, 2596.1, 2639.2
Time Techno 91, 92.35, 89.6, 90.25
Timken (i) 3020, 3131.75, 3008, 3108.6
Tinplate 346.3, 353.75, 346.3, 349.2
Titan 2467.35, 2488.8, 2431.1, 2437.6
Tornt Power 487.35, 489.7, 482.8, 488.35
Torrent Phar 1551.1, 1567.65, 1547.55,
1553.15
Transport Co 617.95, 617.95, 604.85, 607.5
Trent Ltd. 1226.05, 1235, 1205.7, 1211.55
Trident 33.75, 34.1, 33.65, 33.8
Triveni Engg 282.55, 285.05, 278.75, 279.8
Triveniturb 256.05, 265.55, 256.05, 264.65
Ttk Prestige 794.95, 797, 792, 793.05
Tv18brdcst 36.6, 37.1, 36.45, 36.8
Tvs Motor L 1022, 1026.85, 1011.6, 1014.8
Ucobank 29.8, 30.9, 29.15, 30.15
Uflex Ltd 563.8, 564.85, 557.65, 562.7
Ujjivan 280.4, 280.4, 269.5, 271.75
Ujjivansfb 29.4, 29.45, 28.8, 29.05
Ultratech Cm 6925.05, 7037.9, 6921.25,
7023.55
Union Bank L 79.3, 79.7, 77.35, 78.4
Unitd Spr 860.05, 871.5, 860, 869
United Brewa 1666.2, 1679.3, 1664.3,
1673.35
Unominda 541, 541.9, 528.05, 530.65
Upl 727.75, 727.75, 715.6, 718
Usha Mart.Lt 182.55, 194.95, 181.65, 185.7
Utiamc 821.55, 826.15, 815.3, 817.9
Utisensetf 638.1, 643, 635.48, 637.92
Utisxn50 50.75, 50.75, 50.5, 50.5
V Guard Ind 257.4, 258, 252, 252.75
Vaibhavgbl 302, 302.05, 298, 298.3
Vakrangee 27.45, 27.45, 26.95, 27.15
Valiantorg 559.35, 560, 549.05, 550.05
Vardh Text 321.35, 325.35, 316.45, 322.15
Varroc 288.05, 293.05, 287, 288.05
Vbl 1290.05, 1294.6, 1215.05, 1225.1
Vedl 316.6, 320.1, 316.5, 318.1
Venkey’s (i) 1879.95, 1882.95, 1870,
1876.05
Vijaya 415.15, 415.15, 392.9, 397
Vinati Org. 2068.35, 2068.35, 2000, 2004.3
Vip Indus. 685.05, 695, 683.3, 686.9
Vmart 2899.05, 2899.05, 2837.95, 2854.4
Voltas Ltd 818.05, 833.9, 818.05, 830.6
Vrllog 545, 553.25, 538.8, 549.5
Vst Indus. 3209.1, 3209.65, 3192.7, 3193.6
Wardinmobi 62, 62.4, 60.4, 61.15
Welcorp 220.8, 222, 212.55, 216.35
Welspun (i) 73.25, 73.85, 72.9, 73.1
West Coas Pa 528.05, 531.05, 523.35, 524.9
Westlife 746.05, 767.9, 740, 749.75
Whirlpool 1480.05, 1489, 1475, 1485
Wipro Ltd. 392.5, 396, 391.35, 393.95
Wockhardt 227.05, 228.15, 224.7, 226.6
Yasho 1627.95, 1745, 1603, 1667.4
Yes Bank 20.6, 20.65, 20, 20.05
Zee Enter 233.45, 233.45, 227.95, 228.8
Zensar Tech. 206.1, 214.6, 205.55, 213.6
Zfcvindia 9238.25, 9238.25, 9109, 9134.85
Zomato 55.05, 56.15, 54.15, 54.35
Zydus Well 1522, 1522, 1495, 1507.95
Zyduslife 458.15, 458.4, 447.4, 452.15
OTHER GROUPS
20 Microns 92, 93.1, 90.1, 92
21st Cen.Mgm 23.15, 23.15, 22.45, 22.7
3i Infotech 40.75, 41.35, 40.55, 40.75
3pland 32.25, 33.45, 32.25, 33.45
5paisa 319.9, 328.3, 298.75, 313.15
63moons 166.55, 168.7, 162.1, 163.75
7nr 0.91, 0.92, 0.87, 0.89
7seas 18.2, 18.2, 17.5, 17.95
A Banas Fin. 16.25, 16.25, 15.85, 16.1
A.K.Capital 521, 538.95, 499, 505.3
A.Sarabhai 26.5, 27.2, 26.5, 26.65
A2zinfra 9.89, 10, 9.66, 9.76
Aaatech 61.95, 64.35, 61.95, 63
Aadi Indus L 3.8, 3.88, 3.74, 3.88
Aail 69.2, 70.85, 68.15, 70.85
Aal 317.5, 317.5, 316.35, 316.8
Aanandalak 10.11, 10.87, 9.21, 9.33
Aanchalisp 18.2, 18.2, 17.25, 17.85
Aarey Drugs 38.65, 38.65, 38.05, 38.1
Aarnav 43.25, 44.1, 42.8, 43.25
Aartech 81.45, 81.45, 77.05, 81.45
Aartisurf 650.2, 650.2, 630.05, 638.3
Aarvee Denim 26.2, 26.2, 24.45, 24.65
Aashka 70, 71.5, 68.25, 71
Aastafin 18.8, 19.25, 18.5, 19.25
Aayush 29.35, 29.35, 29.35, 29.35
Aban Offsho 47.05, 48.1, 47.05, 47.7
Abansent 145, 152.25, 137.75, 152.25
Abc Gas Int 56.9, 60.8, 56.9, 58.25
Abc India 86, 86, 82.65, 83
Abhifin 36, 36, 36, 36
Abhiinfra 5.89, 5.89, 5.89, 5.89
Abhinav Cap 87.55, 89, 84.1, 84.55
Abirami Fin. 21.7, 21.7, 21.7, 21.7
Abm Knowledg 106, 109.95, 104.3, 106.85
Abml 61.8, 64, 61.5, 61.8
Abslbanetf 42.01, 42.41, 42, 42.36
Abslnn50et 43.01, 43.27, 42.82, 43.04
Abvl 95.05, 103.85, 95.05, 103.75
Accel 15.1, 16, 15.1, 15.85
Accelya 1434.1, 1493, 1434.1, 1456.25
Ace Software 18.05, 18.2, 17.4, 18.2
Aceengitec 15.3, 15.3, 15.3, 15.3
Acemen 69.5, 73.4, 69.5, 70.55
Aci 564.85, 573.9, 554.45, 570.15
Aci Infocom 0.96, 0.99, 0.92, 0.96
Acknit Ind 156.4, 158.45, 154.05, 157
Acme 18.6, 20.35, 18.6, 19.15
Acml 66.7, 66.7, 64.45, 64.45
Acrow India 791.05, 801, 780, 800
Active 38.25, 40.3, 38.25, 39.45
Adarsh Plant 17.95, 18, 17.5, 17.55
Adcindia 524.95, 525, 505, 505.6
Adcon 3.96, 3.96, 3.96, 3.96
Adconpp 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5
Addi Ind. 37.3, 39.4, 37.3, 38.5
Adf Foods Lt 758, 758, 738.05, 743.7
Adhinath Tex 29.25, 30.3, 29.25, 29.6
Adinath Exim 18, 18.55, 18, 18
Aditya Ispat 9.7, 10.65, 9.7, 10.11
Aditya Spin. 22.6, 22.6, 21.65, 21.9
Ador Fontech 82, 82, 80, 80.5
Ador Multi. 65, 68.95, 63.2, 65
Adorwelding 838.65, 839.95, 814.4, 817.75
Adroitinfo 23.95, 23.95, 22.8, 23.2
Adv Lifesty 66.3, 66.3, 66.3, 66.3
Advait 425, 431.8, 408.05, 428
Advani Hotel 79, 81.5, 79, 80.5
Advikca 3.75, 3.9, 3.48, 3.81
Ael 47.9, 47.9, 45, 46.55
Aepl 76.9, 88.9, 72.25, 85.85
Aether 865.05, 882.95, 864.35, 866.5
Afel 18.35, 18.4, 17.55, 17.8
Affordable 286.65, 286.65, 278, 286.65
Agar Ind Cor 581.1, 612.95, 579.05, 605.05
Agiil 488.15, 495.6, 477.15, 489.65
Agio Paper 5.5, 5.56, 5.35, 5.56
Agol 52.05, 53.95, 52, 53.65
Agri Tech 110, 110, 102, 102.95
Agro Tech Fo 808.05, 828, 804.35, 817.45
Agstra 68.05, 68.6, 66.9, 67.25
Ahl 199, 234, 199, 227.2
Ahluwalia Co 510.95, 543.8, 510.95, 529.05
Ahmed.Steel 17.4, 17.4, 17.4, 17.4
Ai Champdny 23, 24, 22.9, 22.95
Aiil 208.1, 214.75, 206.55, 207.35
Aimco Pesti. 163, 163.7, 157.5, 159.1
Aiml 36.6, 36.6, 34, 34.6
Ainfra 23.4, 24.5, 22.05, 22.4
Ajanta Soya 36.25, 36.25, 35, 35.6
Ajcon Global 33, 33, 33, 33
Ajel 8.99, 8.99, 8.81, 8.99
Ajmera 313.4, 320.5, 312.05, 312.35
Ajrinfra 1.35, 1.4, 1.35, 1.37
Akashdeep 89.9, 90, 87.2, 88.75
Aki 107.5, 107.5, 107.5, 107.5
Aksh Optifib 10.74, 10.98, 10.45, 10.55
Akshar 51.45, 51.45, 51.45, 51.45
Aksharchem I 270.05, 270.4, 264.2, 265.85
Akspintex 84.45, 87, 82.35, 85.7
Alan Scott 53, 53.45, 50.6, 51
Alankit 10.4, 10.69, 10.4, 10.62
Albert David 572, 572.15, 563.8, 565.1
Alembic Ltd. 70.95, 71.1, 70.15, 70.6
Alexander 17.95, 17.95, 17.05, 17.45
Alfa Transfo 14.5, 14.93, 13.67, 14.93
Alfavison.Ov 13.18, 13.18, 12.47, 12.65
Alfl 1.98, 2.12, 1.98, 2
Alfred Herb 727.15, 727.15, 699.45, 700
Alicon 947.75, 985, 947.75, 975.2
Alkali 152.85, 163, 152.75, 155
Allied Digit 92.2, 93.45, 90.75, 91.15
Allsec Tech 520.15, 520.15, 515.5, 516.4
Almondz Glo 70, 71.75, 69.65, 70.5
Alok Inds. 15.05, 15.45, 15.05, 15.25
Alpa Lab 60.5, 60.6, 59.45, 60.05
Alphageo (i) 281, 281, 270.65, 272.75
Alphalogic 39.65, 39.85, 37.15, 37.65
Alpine Hsg. 108.9, 120, 105.1, 114.6
Alps Inds. 2.19, 2.19, 2.01, 2.1
Alstone 2.21, 2.21, 2.21, 2.21
Alu Fluoride 299.4, 301.8, 292.2, 299.6
Amal Product 307.95, 307.95, 293, 295.2
Amarjothi Sp 177.6, 182.35, 176.35, 178.5
Amarsec 23.6, 23.6, 23.6, 23.6
Ambarpil 488, 505, 470.05, 482.55
Ambica Agar. 26.1, 26.1, 25.5, 25.7
Ambika Cotto 1517.9, 1554.2, 1517.9,
1546.8
Ambition 5.5, 5.52, 5.05, 5.05
Ambitious Pl 4.58, 4.58, 4.58, 4.58
Amboagri 36, 37.4, 35.55, 36.75
Amco India L 73.5, 73.5, 70.1, 70.3
Amd Indus 57.8, 57.9, 56.5, 56.75
Amerise 0.93, 0.95, 0.9, 0.91
Amforge Ind. 5.81, 6.03, 5.81, 5.95
Amines&plast 102.2, 102.2, 94, 95.2
Amintan 2.44, 2.44, 2.24, 2.28
Amit Intnl. 3.9, 3.96, 3.6, 3.6
Amjland 30.55, 30.6, 29.9, 30.2
Aml 19.3, 19.3, 18.37, 18.37
Amrapali Ind 13.9, 14.19, 13.58, 13.58
Amrawor Agri 0.93, 0.94, 0.9, 0.91
Amrutanjan 740.7, 746, 723.15, 727.7
Amtl 19.1, 19.1, 18.2, 18.8
Andhra Cemen 6.89, 6.89, 6.7, 6.89
Andhra Petro 74.8, 75.8, 74.8, 75.65
Andhra Sugar 128.9, 131.9, 128.9, 130.05
Andpaper 410.3, 419.4, 409, 418.25
Andrew Yule 26.5, 27.3, 26.4, 26.75
Aneri 4.34, 4.77, 4.34, 4.77
Ang 116, 121, 111.3, 119.3
Anik Inds 41.4, 43.7, 40.95, 42.05
Anjani Finl 6.3, 6.45, 5.85, 6.45
Anjani Portl 204.1, 204.4, 202.9, 203.95
Anjani Synt. 28.9, 29.1, 27.65, 27.9
Anjanifoods 30.35, 30.9, 29, 30.9
Anka India 25.4, 25.4, 24.6, 24.7
Ankit Metal 6.2, 6.2, 5.7, 5.79
Anmol 138.3, 140.4, 137.95, 140.4
Anna Infra 6.57, 6.57, 6.57, 6.57
Ansal Build. 85.9, 85.9, 80.75, 83.95
Ansalhsg 4.27, 4.27, 4.1, 4.2
Anubhav 12.56, 12.64, 11.44, 11.45
Anuh Pharma 91.75, 94.4, 89.05, 90.8
Anup 926.65, 937.5, 912.35, 917.5
Anupam 1.97, 2.06, 1.97, 1.99
Anuroop 41.25, 44.1, 41.25, 44
Apcl-re 4.01, 5.39, 4.01, 4.3
Apex 247.6, 248.45, 245.15, 246
Apil 33.4, 35, 31.75, 34.6
Aplab Ltd. 19.75, 20.5, 19.65, 20.3
Apm Indus. 58, 58.65, 56.15, 57.65
Apollo 313.8, 324, 311.4, 324
Apollo Fin I 516.9, 516.9, 500, 501
Apollopipes 523.3, 535.55, 520.95, 525.25
Apoorva 39.7, 42.25, 39.7, 39.95
Apt Pack 41.05, 45.3, 41.05, 42.95
Aptech Ltd 360.15, 384.35, 360.15, 375.4
Aqfintech 500.55, 503, 479.75, 493.75
Aravali Sec. 4.9, 5.15, 4.9, 5.15
Arcee Indust 7.86, 7.86, 7.15, 7.83
Arcfin 0.83, 0.86, 0.83, 0.83
Archana Soft 3.85, 3.85, 3.85, 3.85
Archidply In 69.65, 70.75, 68.65, 69.4
Archies Ltd 24.5, 24.75, 23.5, 23.95
Architorg 94.9, 95.95, 92, 92.45
Arex Ind. 111, 111, 111, 111
Arfin 24.1, 25.75, 24.1, 24.85
Aries Agro 204.95, 212.75, 196.55, 200.15
Arih Super 221, 222.6, 217.65, 219.4
Arihant Cap. 67.45, 67.45, 63.35, 64.35
Arihant Foun 38.35, 38.35, 36, 36.9
Arihant Sec. 10.8, 11.3, 10.26, 10.65
Arl 58.45, 60.45, 56.95, 57.65
Arman Fin 1448.5, 1461.55, 1447.15, 1460.8
Arnold Hold 21.6, 21.7, 20.3, 21.7
Aro Granite 49.45, 51.55, 49.45, 50.7
Arrowgreen 170, 170.4, 167, 169.7
Arshiya 8.4, 8.4, 8.13, 8.21
Arss Infra 25, 25.15, 23.6, 24.35
Artefact Pr 44.9, 46.75, 44.9, 46.35
Artemismed 74.95, 74.95, 71.4, 72.3
Artson Eng 80.85, 81, 79.55, 80.6
Arunahtel 14.43, 14.43, 13.52, 13.99
Arvsmart 309.05, 318.35, 307.8, 311.7
Aryaman Fin. 82, 82, 78.3, 81.75
Aryavan 17.08, 17.08, 17.08, 17.08
Asahi Song 255.8, 260.9, 255.5, 259.95
Ascensive 28, 30, 28, 30
Ashapura Ltd 93.5, 93.85, 91.7, 92.7
Ashiana Agro 8.1, 8.1, 7.4, 8.08
Ashiana Hou 139.3, 147.4, 139.05, 144.15
Ashiana Isp. 39.1, 39.9, 39.1, 39.1
Ashikacr 32.5, 35.8, 32.5, 34
Ashima Ltd. 17.45, 18, 17.15, 17.15
Ashirwad Cap 5.95, 5.95, 5.71, 5.81
Ashirwad Stl 24, 24, 23, 23.8
Ashish Poly. 21.35, 23.15, 21.35, 23.15
Ashni 19.05, 19.05, 17.6, 18.8
Ashnoor Tex. 41.2, 42.6, 41.2, 41.65
Ashok-alco 76.7, 76.7, 72.7, 75.5
Ashram Onlin 4.8, 5, 4.65, 4.65
Asia Pack 34.75, 34.75, 34.75, 34.75
Asian Granit 49.7, 49.7, 48.1, 48.7
Asian Htl E 115.4, 117.95, 115.25, 116.8
Asian Petro 21.05, 22.95, 21, 21.95
Asian Tea 13.65, 14.85, 13.25, 14.06
Asianene 70.8, 71.7, 70.8, 71
Asianhotnr 79.25, 80.75, 79, 79.05
Asiil 12.5, 12.5, 11.76, 11.84
Asit C Fin 119.5, 119.95, 118.75, 118.75
Asm Technolo 468, 468, 450, 454.7
Asmtecpp 388, 388, 388, 388
Aspira 44.4, 44.4, 41.5, 42.25
Asrl 54.4, 55.45, 54.05, 55
Asso.Alcohol 419.45, 426.8, 419.45, 426
Astron 31.95, 32.4, 31.65, 32.25
Asyl 11.86, 12.24, 11.86, 12
Atam 150, 152, 150, 152
Atharv Ent 2.4, 2.63, 2.4, 2.63
Atishay 31.5, 38.85, 31.5, 33.85
Atlanta 20.8, 20.85, 20.1, 20.85
Atul Auto 284.8, 284.8, 274.05, 275.55
Atv Projects 9.8, 10.2, 9.5, 9.95
Aurionpro So 365.05, 370.7, 359.45, 366.55
Auro Lab. 76.8, 76.8, 73.25, 75.55
Aurum 116.5, 120.55, 116.5, 119.9
Aurumpp 58, 59.5, 58, 59.5
Ausom Ent 72.35, 72.4, 67.6, 71.7
Austin Engg. 117.65, 117.65, 111.45, 116.65
Auto Axles 2107.55, 2130, 2080, 2106.2
Auto Cor.Goa 890, 900, 876.3, 892.05
Autoind 78.75, 78.75, 76.85, 77.45
Automotive S 360, 361.8, 338, 355.9
Avadhsugar 507.55, 522.45, 507.05, 514.7
Available Fi 154.85, 161, 152, 155.05
Avantel Ltd 430, 432, 414, 418.15
Aveer 190.65, 190.65, 190.65, 190.65
Avi 18.8, 19, 18.55, 18.9
Aviva Inds 28.5, 28.5, 28.5, 28.5
Avl 1509.95, 1525, 1476, 1520
Avonmore 70.5, 72.3, 70.5, 71.55
Avroind 138.9, 149.5, 137.05, 141.85
Avt Natural 106.95, 107.15, 105.65, 106
Awhcl 310, 310, 303.15, 304
Axel Polymer 41.5, 43, 41.5, 43
Axiscades 305, 317.55, 304.1, 310.65
Axisccgpg 18.15, 18.15, 18.15, 18.15
Axiscetf 75.8, 75.8, 75.06, 75.07
Axisgold 47.97, 48.17, 47.81, 47.91
Axishetf 81.95, 82, 80.66, 81.84
Axistecetf 297, 299, 294.9, 294.91
Axita 47.95, 49.5, 46.65, 48.7
Axtel Indus. 235, 235, 229, 232.8
Aymsyntex 75.3, 77.9, 73.25, 73.45
B D B Corp 130.4, 135.7, 130.4, 135.1
B.N.Rathi Se 39.5, 39.5, 37.8, 38.3
B2b Soft. 27, 27.9, 26.9, 26.95
Ba Pack 201.55, 209.95, 201.55, 204.65
Baba Arts 16.85, 16.95, 16.4, 16.4
Bafna Pharma 101.7, 105, 101.7, 101.7
Bag Fil Med 4.94, 4.94, 4.8, 4.93
Baidfin 19.35, 20, 19.3, 19.8
Bajaj Steel 880, 886.9, 865, 865.5
Bajajhcare 425.7, 431.95, 424.6, 426.75
Bal Pharma 88.85, 91.5, 88.85, 90.4
Balaji Tele. 44.3, 45, 44.3, 44.5
Balarpur Ind 1.08, 1.13, 1.07, 1.1
Balgopal 28.75, 31.1, 28.2, 28.75
Balkrishna 35.5, 35.8, 34.5, 35.1
Balmer La.In 372.25, 372.9, 368.25, 369.05
Balmer Lawri 127.7, 128.8, 125.95, 127.05
Baluforge 64.3, 66, 63, 64
Balurghat Te 14.15, 14.75, 13.5, 14.18
Bambino Agro 366.05, 379, 360, 363.2
Bampsl Secur 9, 9, 8.03, 8.47
Banaras Bead 81.7, 82.5, 81.25, 81.85
Banco Prod. 201.85, 206, 200.8, 201.4
Bang 48.15, 49, 47.85, 47.85
Bankbees 426.9, 429, 423.5, 428.45
Bannari Aman 2770.1, 2804.45, 2770.1,
2788.75
Bannari Amma 53.2, 53.85, 52.4, 52.45
Bansal Roof 68, 68.7, 66.85, 68.4
Bansw.Syntex 123.1, 123.9, 121.4, 122.2
Barak Vall 24.55, 25.75, 24.55, 25.4
Baroda Extr. 3.18, 3.21, 3.01, 3.02
Baroda Rayon 289, 299.7, 282, 288.85
Basant Agro 21.6, 21.85, 20.9, 21.15
Batliboi Ltd 58, 58, 54.05, 56.8
Bazelinter 37.2, 37.2, 35.55, 35.55
Bbox 131.95, 135.4, 131.95, 132.65
Bbtcl 244.6, 253.5, 244.35, 250.85
Bcc Fuba 27.3, 27.3, 24.9, 25
Bccl 41.05, 41.05, 40.9, 41
Bclenterpr 1.37, 1.38, 1.34, 1.36
Bclil 400, 408.3, 387.5, 401
Bconcepts 262.7, 275.75, 262.7, 270
Bcp Ltd 4.66, 4.9, 4.66, 4.8
Bcpl 44.6, 46.4, 44.1, 45.25
Bdh Indus. 153, 153, 148.5, 150.45
Beardsell 24.9, 25.6, 24.55, 24.65
Bectorfood 440.5, 444.7, 436.8, 440.35
Bedmutha In 74.9, 76.85, 63.1, 64.65
Beekay 438.4, 444, 430.25, 438.25
Beeyu Overse 2.68, 2.68, 2.67, 2.68
Bellacasa 140.9, 146, 138.05, 144.8
Bemco Hydrau 737.95, 737.95, 734.8,
737.95
Benares Hot 2930, 2930, 2867.25, 2867.6
Bengal Tea & 82.7, 82.7, 80, 81.45
Bervin Inv. 36.1, 39.5, 36.1, 38.35
Beryl Drugs 17.98, 17.98, 16.5, 16.7
Beryl Secur. 10.79, 11.32, 10.79, 11.32
Best E.Hotel 49.85, 51.35, 46.6, 50.2
Betex India 67.8, 67.8, 67.8, 67.8
Bf Invest 365, 372.8, 363, 363.95
Bf Utili 394.05, 396.15, 387.75, 390.35
Bffl 18.5, 18.55, 18.5, 18.55
Bflafl 19.95, 19.95, 19, 19.3
Bflygandhi 1540.1, 1561.15, 1533.3, 1558.9
Bgjl 16.65, 16.65, 15.9, 16.1
Bgr Energy 58.4, 60.3, 58.4, 59.45
Bh.Immun&bio 32.4, 32.6, 31.65, 32.3
Bhagil 158, 159.9, 158, 159.85
Bhagira.Chem 1298.6, 1298.6, 1277.05,
1283.4
Bhagwati Oxy 63.95, 63.95, 63.95, 63.95
Bhagya Inl 46.4, 51, 46.4, 49.05
Bhandari Hos 5.7, 5.7, 5.56, 5.65
Bharat Bhush 28.95, 28.95, 25.25, 26.65
Bharat Bijle 2433.6, 2433.6, 2369.75, 2379.4
Bharat Gears 145.6, 149.55, 143.85, 145.4
Bharat Ra(ps 9445.25, 9531.05, 9440,
9498.8
Bharat Seats 100.5, 102.25, 99.3, 100.8
Bharatagri 1086, 1093.95, 1069, 1072.3
Bharatwire 103.6, 105.35, 102.5, 103.5
Bhartiya Int 219.6, 219.6, 208, 212.95
Bhaskar Agro 82, 82.1, 79.8, 82.1
Bhatia 27.55, 29.65, 27.55, 27.55
Bheema Cem 154.75, 154.75, 145.15, 147.9
Bhilwara Sp. 44.9, 44.9, 41.75, 42.1
Bhilwra Tec 14.95, 17.4, 14.95, 15.75
Bigbloc 133.1, 136.55, 132.65, 135.4
Bihar Sponge 11.07, 11.07, 10.3, 10.59
Bikaji 397.25, 412.95, 395.05, 403.35
Bilcare Ltd. 48.5, 50.6, 47.2, 50.6
Bimetal Bear 467.15, 476, 460, 476
Bindalagro 24.8, 25.55, 24.35, 24.65
Binny Ltd. 309, 309, 300, 302.25
Biofil Chem 51.25, 56.35, 51.25, 54.05
Biogen 0.81, 0.82, 0.8, 0.81
Biret 295.2, 298.27, 292.25, 295.94
Birla Pretec 42.25, 43, 41.55, 41.9
Birlacable 147.95, 151.7, 147, 150
Bkmindst 1.17, 1.24, 1.17, 1.19
Bkv Industrs 9.75, 9.75, 9.75, 9.75
Bl Kashyap 32.15, 33.55, 32.05, 33.25
Bl.Chip Tex 132, 132, 130, 131.35
Blackrose 166, 167.9, 164.6, 165.1
Blb Ltd. 29.2, 30.6, 28.3, 30.3
Blissgvs Ph 71.4, 71.9, 71.35, 71.9
Bloom Dekor 15.24, 15.3, 14.51, 15.27
Bloom Indust 26, 26, 23.75, 25.25
Bls Infote 3.03, 3.03, 2.95, 3.01
Blueclouds 12.5, 12.96, 12.5, 12.95
Bmw 35.85, 35.85, 34.2, 34.85
Bnaltd 309.8, 317.65, 306, 315
Bnl 76, 76.5, 72.2, 75.45
Bnr Udyog 37.5, 37.5, 34.05, 36.15
Bodal Chem 79.9, 79.9, 76.3, 76.5
Bodhtree 15.55, 15.9, 14, 14.4
Bom Dyeing 80.15, 80.6, 79, 79.35
Bom.Cycle 744.95, 744.95, 706, 713.15
Bom.Wire Rop 32.5, 34, 30.15, 31.15
Bomoxy-b1 12004, 12004, 12004, 12004
Bonlon 77.15, 80, 75.85, 77.85
Bothra Met 2.9, 2.9, 2.75, 2.75
Bp Capital 5.45, 5.45, 5.45, 5.45
Bpl Ltd. 62.8, 74.45, 62.4, 74.45
Bplpharma 345, 345, 326, 341
Brady Morris 222, 227, 222, 223.15
Brahm Infra 29.85, 31, 27.25, 31
Brandbuckt 33.5, 33.5, 32.5, 32.5
Brawn Bio 18.85, 19, 18, 19
Bridge Secur 7.95, 7.99, 7.76, 7.8
Bright Bros. 164.95, 164.95, 160.5, 160.85
Brijlaxmi Le 3.77, 4.13, 3.76, 3.9
Brnl 37.15, 39.1, 37.15, 38.7
Brooks Labs 106.95, 106.95, 101.65, 101.65
Bse Infra 4.65, 4.65, 4.5, 4.58
Bsl Ltd. 193.45, 193.45, 184.55, 187.6
Bslgoldetf 50.25, 50.79, 50.15, 50.48
Bslnifty 20.25, 20.41, 20.05, 20.1
Burnpur 5, 5.55, 5, 5.38
Byke Hosp 48.5, 50.8, 46.9, 47.25
C Elpro Inter 69.6, 69.8, 67.6, 69
Calcom Visio 147, 151.8, 143.4, 147.9
Californ.Sof 20.1, 20.75, 19.85, 20.15
Cambridge 55.55, 55.55, 55.15, 55.4
Camex Ltd 29.3, 30.6, 28.85, 30.6
Camlinfine 158.3, 159.9, 155.4, 156.1
Campus 383.95, 385, 374.7, 380.35
Candour 48.25, 50.65, 47.1, 47.15
Canopyfin 59, 59.25, 56.45, 59.25
Cantabil 1215.85, 1225, 1191.6, 1211.45
Capacite 159.35, 161.8, 157.5, 158.1
Capfin 13.35, 13.35, 13.35, 13.35
Capital Trus 79.7, 80.25, 77, 77
Cappipes 545, 548, 525, 548
Caprihans 128, 128.8, 125.1, 125.15
Caprola.Chem 70.55, 77, 70.4, 70.7
Captain Poly 17.05, 17.5, 17, 17.15
Careerp 135.2, 137.3, 133.6, 134.45
Carerating 624.75, 635.35, 621.35, 633.1
Cargosol 64, 66, 63.5, 63.5
Carnation In 4.65, 4.65, 4.65, 4.65
Caspian 19.22, 19.22, 19.22, 19.22
Catvision 12.82, 12.82, 12.79, 12.79
Cchhl 7.65, 7.65, 7.33, 7.59
Ccl Inter 17, 17.2, 17, 17.2
Cdg 15.8, 15.8, 15.8, 15.8
Ceejay Finan 120, 128.9, 112.15, 117.8
Ceeta Ind. 28.8, 28.8, 26.2, 26.5
Ceinsystech 161.9, 169.9, 149.6, 150.6
Celebrityfas 17.15, 17.6, 16.85, 17.2
Cella 9.8, 10.3, 9.8, 9.8
Cenlub Indus 134.7, 134.7, 132, 132.75
Centenial Su 62.05, 62.05, 62.05, 62.05
Centrum Cap 24, 24.25, 23.75, 23.85
Centum Elec 706.75, 712.85, 682.2, 691.25
Century Enka 414.55, 418.1, 413, 413.45
Century Ext 9.99, 10.02, 9.66, 9.8
Cerebra Inte 13.35, 13.35, 12.43, 12.6
Cfel 265, 274.95, 257, 260.85
Cfl 7.88, 7.88, 7.88, 7.88
Cg-vak Softw 359.95, 361, 346.1, 348.05
Chamanlal Se 130.6, 134.55, 130.15, 132.3
Chambal Brew 3.41, 3.41, 3.23, 3.23
Chandnimach 23.6, 23.6, 20.1, 20.1
Chandra Prab 33.5, 33.8, 31.1, 31.5
Chandrima 6.45, 6.86, 6.45, 6.86
Charterlogis 5.12, 5.19, 5.05, 5.07
Chcl 16.35, 16.35, 16.35, 16.35
Chdchem 6.15, 7.55, 6.15, 6.57
Chembond Chm 255.55, 260.5, 250.85,
251.7
Chemcon 289.9, 291.55, 287.6, 289.65
Chemcrux 365, 372.5, 362.15, 363.7
Chemfabalka 280.1, 280.1, 274.3, 276.4
Chemo Pharma 37, 38.85, 35.2, 35.35
Chemtech Ind 15.55, 17, 15.55, 16.8
Chenferro 176, 179.65, 171.1, 173.2
Cheviot Co. 1159.3, 1183.3, 1157.05,
1159.05
Chl Ltd 16.55, 16.55, 16.55, 16.55
Choice Int. 255.35, 268.25, 253.45, 263.7
Choksi Imag 44.7, 46.1, 44.5, 44.65
Choksi Labor 37.95, 39, 36.4, 38.95
Chordia Food 71, 71, 68, 68.3
Chowgule St 13.08, 13.08, 12.26, 12.75
Cianagro 51, 51, 50.95, 50.95
Cifl 100.85, 100.85, 97.05, 97.9
Cigniti Tech 560.6, 580, 559.05, 569.25
Cil Nova 23.35, 25.2, 23.35, 24.65
Cil Securits 30.85, 30.85, 28.5, 29.25
Cindrella Fi 12.48, 12.48, 12.45, 12.45
Cindrella Ht 37.7, 37.7, 34.25, 34.25
Cineline 108.25, 108.5, 107.4, 108.4
Cinevista 11.74, 12.1, 11.6, 12.07
Cistro Tele. 0.51, 0.51, 0.51, 0.51
Citadel 22.55, 24.65, 22.55, 24.35
Citi Port Fn 13.45, 14.7, 13.45, 14.65
Cityonline 6.39, 6.39, 6.1, 6.39
Cj Gelatin 31.9, 32.1, 29.55, 32
Clara 245, 251.65, 232.9, 249.05
Clari Chem 358, 359.95, 354.9, 357.05
Cleducate 65.15, 68.5, 65.1, 65.7
Clio Infotec 7.79, 7.79, 7.79, 7.79
Cmi Ltd. 21.05, 21.5, 19.5, 19.9
Cmm Hospital 22.75, 23, 22.5, 22.6
Cncrd 226.85, 228, 226.85, 228
Cni Res Ltd 2.7, 2.82, 2.7, 2.78
Coast Corp 237.85, 237.85, 232.9, 234.9
Coastal Road 37.65, 37.65, 34.4, 35.25
Coastpp 70, 75.05, 65.25, 66.15
Cochin Mala 126.95, 126.95, 115.5, 115.5
Cochin Min. 301.5, 301.5, 290.05, 301.5
Cockerill 1396.45, 1420, 1366.2, 1402.3
Colabcloud 60, 60.05, 59.9, 60.05
Colinz Labor 47, 47, 42.8, 44.95
Colorchips 8.59, 8.59, 8.12, 8.29
Com Fincap 97, 100.95, 95.85, 99.25
Comfort Com 19.1, 20.35, 19, 19.5
Comfort Inte 28.45, 28.45, 26.9, 27.9
Competent Au 233, 237.8, 227.55, 230.3
Compuage Inf 20.4, 20.4, 20, 20.15
Compucom Sof 19.5, 23.2, 19.5, 21.7
Computer Pnt 2.33, 2.43, 2.28, 2.43
Comsyn 112, 112, 106, 107
Conart Eng. 39.85, 40.5, 39.85, 40.4
Concord 32.25, 32.9, 31.55, 31.85
Confi Petro 77.85, 80.6, 77.8, 79.55
Confint 11.66, 11.66, 11.66, 11.66
Consol Const 1.43, 1.54, 1.43, 1.44
Cont.Chem 89, 89, 87, 87
Cont.Petro 43.8, 44.4, 43.4, 43.4
Containe 83.8, 83.8, 83.8, 83.8
Container 4.75, 4.9, 4.75, 4.77
Conti.Contrl 5.4, 5.4, 5.13, 5.38
Contil I Ltd 76, 78, 75, 75
Control Prnt 391, 395.4, 390.5, 393.15
Coral (i)fin 36.5, 36.55, 36, 36.55
Coral Lab. 325.95, 325.95, 319.15, 319.5
Coral Newspr 10.45, 10.45, 9.5, 10.25
Cords Cable 80, 82.45, 78.5, 80.7
Coro Engg 41.6, 41.9, 40.5, 41.55
Corpor Cour 6.65, 6.65, 6.4, 6.4
Cosco India 171.25, 178.25, 171.25, 171.55
Cosmo Ferr. 260, 260, 251.2, 253.05
Cosyn 19.9, 20.45, 19.55, 20.25
Country Cond 4.9, 5.09, 4.8, 4.82
Cpml 60, 63.4, 60, 63.4
Crane Infra 9.99, 9.99, 9.17, 9.59
Cranes Softw 3.5, 3.62, 3.36, 3.6
Cranex Ltd. 25.75, 27, 25.75, 25.75
Creative 490, 508.7, 488.55, 503.2
Creative Eye 4.3, 4.84, 4.3, 4.84
Cressanda So 28, 28.2, 27.4, 27.6
Crest 189.4, 189.95, 187.95, 189.65
Crestchem Lt 64.75, 68, 62.55, 63.25
Croissance 9.39, 9.39, 8.96, 9.09
Csl 43, 45, 42.75, 43.8
Cslfinance 242.5, 247, 236.65, 239.1
Ctl 22.3, 23.2, 21.15, 22.65
Cubex Tubing 35.95, 36.7, 35.65, 36.7
Cubical Fin. 1.82, 1.82, 1.75, 1.8
Cupid Ltd 279.4, 283.85, 272, 274.4
Cwd 1600, 1600, 1565, 1565
Cybele Ind 20.35, 20.35, 20.35, 20.35
Cyber Media 17.4, 17.55, 16.8, 17
Cybertech 129, 130.75, 125.2, 129.95
D
Dai-ichi Kar 399, 399, 390.95, 395.05
Daikaffil Ch 27.5, 28.3, 27.1, 28.25
Damoindus 56.5, 57.2, 55.05, 55.25
Danlaw Tech. 232, 236.75, 232, 233.1
Danube 16.25, 16.25, 15.95, 15.95
Daps 35, 37, 35, 37
Darshanorna 3.98, 3.98, 3.66, 3.82
Datam Glob 281.55, 283, 279.1, 280.1
Daulat Sec. 25.05, 26.7, 23.25, 23.75
Davangere 78.3, 81.2, 75, 81.1
Db Int.St.Br 24.25, 24.25, 23.95, 24.15
Dbol 187.55, 194.7, 186.5, 189.9
Dci 135, 135, 127.05, 132.15
Dcm Financia 5.36, 5.36, 5.21, 5.29
Dcm Ltd. 82.85, 83.55, 81.5, 81.75
Dcm Shr.Ind 78.25, 78.25, 74.85, 75.15
Dcmnvl 170, 179.3, 170, 174.85
Dcw Ltd. 49.05, 49.95, 48.2, 49.75
Dcxindia 210.25, 218.25, 208.2, 217.1
Ddevplastik 93.85, 93.85, 89.85, 89.85
Ddil 139, 149, 136.1, 146
De Nora 832.15, 864.8, 832.15, 837.35
Decan Cement 494.7, 496.6, 490.7, 490.75
Deccan Bear. 44.5, 45.75, 44.5, 45.75
Deccangold 43.9, 43.9, 42.05, 42.25
Decipher 30.95, 30.95, 29.25, 29.45
Deco-mica 44.1, 44.1, 44.1, 44.1
Deep 157, 162.35, 154.85, 158.1
Deepak Spinn 250, 251, 241.2, 243.65
Deepenr 123.2, 132.1, 123.2, 131.3
Deepind 300, 300, 282, 284.1
Del 24.25, 24.25, 23, 23
Delphifx 398, 398, 384.55, 384.55
Deltamagnt 75.5, 76, 75.4, 75.65
Delton Cable 84.25, 88, 82.1, 84.85
Den Network 34.7, 35.35, 34.7, 34.9
Denis Chem 98.7, 98.7, 93, 93.9
Devine Impe 6.67, 6.67, 6.34, 6.36
Devit 127, 127, 118.5, 120.25
Dfl 78.1, 78.3, 78.1, 78.3
Dfm Foods 459.15, 461, 457.6, 458.1
Dgcontent 17.9, 17.9, 16.1, 16.4
Dgl 2.85, 2.85, 2.82, 2.82
Dhabriya 132, 134, 127.6, 130.25
Dhampure Sgr 29.95, 30.9, 29.4, 30.5
Dhan Agri 721.45, 735.5, 721.45, 729.75
Dhan Jeevan 13.21, 13.21, 13.21, 13.21
Dhan Roto Sp 75.5, 78.85, 72.3, 74
Dhanadacol 2.95, 3.1, 2.95, 3.1
Dhanal.Cotex 56.95, 56.95, 56.95, 56.95
Dhanalak.Bnk 20.2, 20.4, 19.6, 20.05
Dhanlxmi Fab 52.5, 52.5, 48.5, 49.8
Dharani Fin. 7.29, 7.29, 7.29, 7.29
Dharani Sug 12, 12, 11.64, 11.64
Dharmaj 193.1, 200.5, 193.1, 197.1
Dhindia 62.6, 65.7, 62.6, 65.7
Dhoot I.Fin. 79.35, 79.35, 79.35, 79.35
Dhp India Lt 1055, 1062, 1041, 1047.6
Dhruv 57.95, 59.85, 56.75, 58.15
Dhruva Cap. 34.35, 34.35, 34.35, 34.35
Dhun Teaind 229.6, 235.4, 224.05, 234.35
Dhuninv 665.05, 689.05, 665.05, 674.25
Dhyaani 73.5, 83.75, 73.5, 83.75
Diamines&chm 437, 453, 422.1, 428.1
Diamondyd 845, 868.55, 841.8, 845.7
Diana Tea Co 29.65, 32.5, 28.35, 31.7
Dic India 384.6, 384.6, 378, 381.5
Digispice 26.35, 27.15, 26.35, 26.85
Digjamltd 119, 119, 115, 117.95
Diligent 9.94, 10.08, 9.57, 9.66
Disa India 8240.6, 8298.95, 8175, 8175
Ditco 17.6, 17.6, 17.55, 17.55
Divshkt 86.8, 87, 84, 85.1
Djml 151.3, 151.3, 146.75, 147.55
Dlcl 28.8, 28.8, 28.8, 28.8
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 Shagun is early leader in first leg of Hero WPGT
PUNE: Shagun Narain, who is looking for her maiden professional title on the Hero Women's Pro
Golf Tour, took the opening day's honours in the first leg of WPG Tour 2023 at the Poona Club
Golf Course on Wednesday. The course, which is hosting an event for the first time since 2021,
did not yield low scores with Shagun's even par 71 being the best card of the day.
Odisha CM inaugurates FIH World Cup 2023
HOCKEY CARNIVAL BEGINS
CUTTACK
Odisha Chief Minister
Naveen Patnaik on
Wednesday inaugurated
the FIH Hockey World Cup
at Barabati Stadium here
in presence of Union
Sports Minister Anurag
Thakur.
Odisha Sports minister
Tusharkanti Behera, sen-
ior officials of the state as
well as FIH (International
Hockey Federation) and
Hockey India along with a
50,000 strong crowd attend-
ed the mega event.
Patnaik led the inaugural
address of this global sporting
Hockey carnival which is be-
ing held for the second succes-
sive time in Odisha by the
Odisha government. He
thanked Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and the union
government for their all sup-
port in hosting the mega
sporting event in the state.
Anurag Thakur said it is a
FIH Men's World Cup Mehuli wins women's rifle trial
facts and trivia
BHUBANESWAR/ROURKELA,
With the FIH Men's Hock-
ey World Cup beginning
on Friday, PTI takes a look
at some facts and trivia
about the tournament
from its previous editions.
*605 matches have been
played so far in the 14 edi-
tions of the tournament
from 1971 onwards.
*2433 goals have been
scored from the 605 match-
es at an average of four
goals per match.*26 differ-
ent countries have taken
part in all the World Cups
till now. Chile and Wales
will take the number to 28
as they make their debut
in this edition in
Bhubaneswar-Rourkela.
*India, Netherlands and
Spain are the only teams
to have appeared in all the
Sindhu loses to Marin, Prannoy trumps Sen in opening round
KUALA LUMPUR
Double Olympic medallist
PV Sindhu faltered on her
return to action after a
long injury lay-off but in-
form HS Prannoy contin-
ued his sensational run to
progress to the second
round of the Malaysia
Open Super 1000 bad-
minton tournament here
on Wednesday.
Sixth seed Sindhu, who
was playing her first
match since she sustained
a stress fracture on her left
ankle en route her Com-
monwealth Games gold in
August, lost 12-21, 10-21, 15-
21 to Rio Olympics champi-
on Carolina Marin of
Spain in 59 minutes.Earli-
er, world No. 8 Prannoy
lived up to his new status
of being India's best-
Sreeja, Sharath Kamal, Manika qualify for WTTC Finals
LUSAIL (QATAR)
Birmingham Common-
wealth Games mixed dou-
bles gold medallist Sreeja
Akula, table tennis stal-
wart Achanta Sharath Ka-
mal and Manika Batra
qualified for the singles
events of the Durban
World Table Tennis Cham-
pionships (WTTC) Finals
in May, overcoming strong
challenges in the Round-of-
16 matches of the Asian
WTTC Continental Stage
2023 tournament here on
Tuesday.
Sreeja defeated world No.
21 Chen Szu-Yu of Chinese
Taipei 4-3 (11-2, 5-11, 2-11, 5-
11, 13-11, 11-9, 11-8) to quali-
fy for the WTTC Finals,
great moment for India to
host the FIH Hockey World
Cup. He thanked the Odisha
CM and the state govern-
ment for organising such a
beautiful inaugural event
and said, "This shows how
India and Odisha have love
for hockey."
He highlighted the great
history of hockey in India
during pre-and post-inde-
pendence era and said Covid
pandemic was a challenging
14 editions so far, and all
three of them will also ap-
pear at this World Cup too,
making it 15 appearances
in a row. Argentina, Aus-
tralia, England and Pak-
istan have appeared in 13
editions so far. *Argenti-
na, Australia and England
are also taking part this
time while Pakistan failed
to qualify for this edition
as well as the previous
one.*India will become the
first country to host back-
to-back FIH Men's World
Cup as the 2018 edition
was also hosted at the
Kalinga Stadium in
Bhubaneswar.
*Kalinga Stadium in
Bhubaneswar thus be-
comes the first venue to
host back-to-back FIH
Men's Hockey World Cup.
The brand new Birsa Mun-
da Stadium in Rourkela,
Odisha, is the co-host.*The
Odisha government
claimed the 21000 capacity
Birsa Munda Stadium to
be the largest hockey sta-
dium in the world.*Six-
teen participating teams
will play 44 matches at this
edition with Kalinga stadi-
um hosting 24 of them, in-
cluding the semifinals and
the final (on January 29)
while the Birsa Munda
Stadium will host the re-
maining 20 games.
ranked men's singles play-
er with a come-from-be-
scheduled to commence on
May 20, while world No. 47
Sharath Kamal overcame
Iran's Ahmadian Amin 13-
11, 11-3, 10-12, 11-7, 11-6 to
book a place in the show-
piece event.Manika Batra,
the top-ranked Indian in
the world at 35, thumped
Zhu Chengzhu of Hong
Kong 13-11, 11-9, 11-6, 11-8
in the pre-quarterfinals to
seal her spot.
Manika and G. Sathiyan
also sealed their place in
the mixed doubles event of
the WTTC Finals with the
No. 5 ranked pair in the
world beating Hiroto Shi-
nozuka and Miyuu of
Japan 11-9, 12-10, 11-7, 5-11,
11-7 in the pre-
quarters.The pair of
time for all.
However, the Government
of India during this difficult
period had ensured good
training and facilities to the
Indian hockey men's team.
After a gap of 40 years, the
Indian Men's team won a
Bronze medal in the Tokyo
Olympics, he pointed out.
Meanwhile, in a tweet,
Prime Minister Modi ex-
tended his best wishes to all
participating hockey teams
ANKUR TOPS MEN'S RAPID FIRE COMPETITION
NEW DELHI
Mehuli Ghosh of West Ben-
gal and Uttarakhand's
Ankur Goel won the nation-
al shooting women's 10m air
rifle trial one and men's 25m
rapid fire pistol trial two in
Group A here on Wednesday.
Mehuli emerged a domi-
nant 17-9 winner over Tamil
Nadu's R. Narmada Nithin
in the gold medal round
while Ankur edged out Ra-
jasthan's Bhavesh
Shekhawat with 29 hits to
the latter's 25.Narmada had
topped qualification with a
MALAYSIA OPEN
hind 22-24, 21-12, 21-18 vic-
tory over Lakshya Sen,
Sathiyan and Sharath Ka-
mal also made the WTTC
Finals grade beating
Qatar's Mohammed Abdul-
wahab and Khalil Al-Mo-
hannandi 11-5, 11-0, 11-9, 11-
8 in the men's doubles posi-
tions matches.
The Indian duo had earli-
er played a marathon
match against the top Chi-
nese pair of Ma Long and
Yuan Licen before squan-
dering a 3-1 lead to lose 11-
4, 12-10, 5-11, 15-13, 7-11, 2-
11, 5-11 in the Round of 16
on Monday night. However,
they sealed their qualifica-
tion spot on Tuesday fol-
lowing their win against
the Qatari pair.
Sreeja, ranked 72 in the
world, seemed down and
for the tournament.
"As the 2023 Hockey World
Cup commences in Odisha,
my best wishes to all the par-
ticipating teams. May this
tournament further
strengthen the spirit of
sportsmanship and may it
further popularise the beau-
tiful game of Hockey. India
is proud to be hosting this
tournament," tweeted Modi.
During the inaugural
event, as a tribute to Late
Biju Patnaik, an Augmented
Reality experience was per-
formed which told of the sto-
ry of his life and the incred-
ible things he has done as
the modern architect of the
state of Odisha. Bollywood
actors Ranveer Singh and
Disha Patani wowed the
crowd with their wonderful
performances while the
BLACKSWAN, a global girl
music group performed to
the delight of the 50,000 au-
dience. Their spectacular
performance captured the
quality 633.5 after 60 shots
while Mehuli had logged
631.2. Olympian Elaveni
Valarivan, who won bronze,
was fifth in qualifying with
629.3.
In the top eights, both Nar-
mada and Mehuli finished
with the same scores of 264.2
to finish on top of the pile
and set up the gold medal
clash.
In the men's 25m rapid fire
pistol trial 2, Ankur took a
similar path to gold when he
finished fourth in qualifying
with a score of 580. Here too,
eventual silver medallist
ranked 10th, in an edgy
opening-round contest that
hearts of all members of the
audience at the celebrations.
A Youth Concert was per-
formed by the famous Bolly-
wood music director Pritam
who has also created the
Hockey World Cup anthem.
In this Youth concert were
many noted musicians and
famed singers like Benny
Dayal, Neeti Mohan along
with a Drone Show.
As the fireworks of this in-
augural event of this sport-
ing extravaganza lit up the
night sky in Cuttack, it put a
sparkle in the eyes of every
member of the audience.
The incredible show was a
dazzling sight to see, and
will be a sight to remember.
An incredible showcase of
technology elevated the sta-
dium to new heights with
xylobands glittering all
across the audience and
pulsing to the music, an awe-
inspiring show that is sure
to live on in people's hearts
forever.
Bhavesh topped
585.Bronze medallist Vi-
jayveer was also fifth in
with
qualifying with 580, but with
lesser inner 10s than
Bhavesh.
Bhavesh and Vijayveer
then finished 1-2 in the first
semi-finals to join Ankur
and Anhad Jawanda who
were the 1-2 in the second
semifinals.Among the jun-
iors, Delhi's Agneya
Kaushik and Madhya
Pradesh's Gautami Bhanot
won the men's rapid-fire pis-
tol trial two and women's air
rifle trial one respectively.
went for little over an hour.
The 30-year-old from Ker-
ala will next face Indone-
sia's Chico Aura Dwi War-
doyo.Satwiksairaj
Rankireddy and Chirag
Shetty also advanced to the
pre-quarterfinals with a 21-
16, 21-13 win over the Kore-
an pair of Choi Sol Gyu
and Kim Won Ho.The
world No. 5 pair will meet
the Indonesian combina-
tion of Muhammad
Shohibul Fikri and Bagas
Maulana.Malvika Bansod,
however, failed to cross the
opening hurdle, losing 9-21,
13-21 to second seed Korean
An Se Young.The women's
doubles pair of Ashwini
Bhat and Shikha Gautam
lost 10-21, 12-21 to Thai-
land's Supissara Paewsam-
pran and Puttita Supaji-
rakul.
BHOPAL | THURSDAY | JANUARY 12, 2023
INDIAN HOCKEY COACH REID SAYS
There is definitely pressure
on Harmanpreet
NEW DELHI
India captain Harman-
preet Singh is one of the
star attractions of the
men's hockey World Cup
starting Friday because of
his sheer calibre of penal-
ty-corner conversions, but
the team's chief coach Gra-
ham Reid has worked upon
plans to divert the attention
from his key player.
Harmanpreet is currently
regarded as one of the
world's finest penalty-cor-
ner exponents but Reid
wants his other dragflick-
ers -- vice-captain Amit Ro-
hidas, Varun Kumar and
Nilam Sanjeep Xess -- to
share the responsibility
with their skipper.
"I would be lying if I say
that there isn't pressure on
him (Harmanpreet). We
have been spending a lot of
time on our variations and
making sure that we can de-
flect some of the pressure
from Harman," Reid said in
an interview ahead of their
tournament opener against
Spain in Rourkela on Fri-
day. "There are other
Man United, Newcastle advance
to League Cup semifinals
LONDON
Manchester United cannot
stop winning. Marcus
Rashford cannot stop scor-
ing.
Make that eight straight
wins in all competitions
for United after a 3-0 victo-
ry over third-tier Charlton
Athletic secured a place in
the English League Cup
semifinals on
Tuesday.Rashford came on
as a 60th-minute substitute
and had enough time to
grab two goals, scoring for
the sixth game in a row.
While United is looking
to end what will be a six-
year trophy drought, New-
castle has a shot at a first
piece of silverware since
1955.
The Saudi-controlled
SPORTS
PAKISTAN'S MASTER CENTRE
FORWARD HASAN SARDAR SAYS
Current Indian hockey team is way
more matured than teams of past
H e used to be a resident threat to In-
dian hockey teams of late '70s and
early '80s but Hassan Sardar, Pak-
istan's master centre forward of yes-
teryears is amazed to see the maturity
shown by the national team from the
neighbouring nation in recent
years.In his opinion Australia, Bel-
gium and Netherlands are other
strong contenders apart from India.
Olympic gold medallist Sardar, who mesmerized the
Indian hockey loving public with 11 goals during the
1982 World Cup in Mumbai, feels that there is not
much difference between Harmanpreet Singh led team
and other top nations."I had said before the Tokyo
Olympics that this Indian team is capable of winning
medals at the highest level. They won bronze but there
is hardly any major difference in top 4 teams in world
hockey now," Sardar said. in an exclusive interview
from Pakistan.
dragflickers in the squad in 41 years and the expecta-
the form of Amit, Varun tions are high from the
and Nilam and they have to home team to return to the
share the burden." Eight- podium in the World Cup
time gold medallists India since 1975, when they won
grabbed an Olympic medal their maiden yellow metal
-- a bronze in Tokyo -- after in the event.
RELENTLESS RASHFORD
D rawn against the lowest-ranked team left in the com-
petition, Man United manager Erik ten Hag was able
to field a weakened lineup against Charlton - perhaps in
view of a derby match against Man City in the league on
Saturday - and still come through fine."I said before the
game, No ifs, buts or maybes, we have to be in that semi-
final' and we did the job," Ten Hag said. Brazil winger
Antony collected the ball on the right and curled a shot
into the far corner from just outside the area to put the
hosts ahead in the 21st minute at Old Trafford.Rashford
was one of three substitutes to enter on the hour mark
and poked home a finish in the 90th at the culmination of
a counterattack to end Charlton's hopes.
club from northeast Eng- ceeding expectations after
land dispatched Leicester rapidly becoming a force in
2-0 thanks to goals by Dan English soccer.It is the lat-
Burn and Joelinton and ad- est positive step in encour-
vanced to the last four of aging seasons for two
the League Cup for the first teams who have also estab-
time since 1976. Not even lished themselves in the
18 months into its new era, top four of the Premier
Newcastle is perhaps ex- League.
out when she trailed 1-3 11-6, 12-10, 13-11, 11-7 to se-
against Chen Szu-Yu, but cure one of the last-four
the Indian's confidence slots in the category for the
soared after she won the WTTC Finals. However,
fifth game 13-11. It was a Reeth's place is still doubt-
tricky game, and the Hy- ful as she has failed to seal
derabad player fought in- a singles spot.Manika and
tensely to take a big step Archana Kamath have a
before shutting out her better chance of making
Chinese-Taipei opponent the cut due to their world
in the last two games.G. rankings.
Sathiyan failed to make the As per the WTTC Finals
grade in singles for the format, the Asian WTTC
WTTC Finals but he can Continental Stage 2023
still qualify based on his tournament offers 25 slots
world ranking. The world in men's singles, 28 in
No. 39 Indian will have to women's singles, 14 berths
wait for the announce- in men's doubles, 12 in
ment. women's doubles, and eight
The women's doubles in mixed doubles. However,
pair of Reeth Rishya and only four men and women
Sreeja beat Singapore's Goi entries per country are al-
Rui Xuan and Wong Xin Ru lowed in the WTTC Finals.
 Jofra fighting mental as well as physical battle: Zaheer
NEW DELHI: Jofra Archer is fighting a physical as well as a mental battle, said Zaheer Khan after the
SPORTS INDORE / BHOPAL | THURSDAY | JANUARY 12, 2023
England pacer made a promising return to competitive cricket after a 541-day absence due to
multiple injuries.Archer took three wickets in his four overs in his comeback game on Tuesday night,
helping MI Cape Town beat Paarl Royals in the opening game of the inaugural SA20.

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top three batters, a clinical ruary 9 and is likely to join adapt depending on the
India will look to take an Uncapped off-spinner Todd his pace colleagues — cap- conditions we may en-
unassailable 2-0 lead when Murphy, with all of seven tain Pat Cummins, Josh Ha- counter,” former skipper
they face Sri Lanka in the match first-class experi- zlewood, Scott Boland and and current chief selector
second ODI here on Thurs- ence, received his maiden Lance Morris later for rest George Bailey said in a
day. Test call-up as Australia on of the series. statement.
Having ended his century announced a spin-heavy All-rounder Cameron Australia squad: Pat Cum-
drought for nearly three squad for their upcoming Green will also be part of mins (C), Ashton Agar,
years in a T20I against four-Test series in India the contingent as he races Scott Boland, Alex Carey,
Afghanistan in the Asia starting February 9. against time to re- Cameron Green, Josh Ha-
Cup in September, Virat Looking for their first cover from a fin- zlewood, Peter Hand-
Kohli has not looked back Test series win in India ger fracture. scomb, Travis Head, Us-
since then especially in the since 2004, Australia will “We have se- man Khawaja, Marnus
white ball format and play Test matches in Nag- lected a squad Labuschagne, Nathan
brought up his 73rd Inter- pur (February 9-13), New that provides Lyon, Lance Morris,
national century in their Delhi (February 17-21), the depth Todd Murphy,
67-run win in Guwahati on Dharamsala (March 1-5) Matthew Ren-
Tuesday. and Ahmedabad (March 9- shaw, Steve
He looked in supreme con- 13).The 22-year-old from Smith,
trol in the first ODI in Victoria will join fellow Mitchell
Guwahati on Tuesday and spinners Ashton Agar, Starc,
made Sri Lanka pay the Mitchell Swepson and Mitchell
price for two dropped Nathan Lyon in the 18- Swepson,
chances to slam a back-to- member squad which also David
back ODI hundreds that includes Peter Hand- Warner.
formed the backbone of In- scomb and Matthew
dia’s massive 373 for seven. Renshaw as batting
It was like the Kohli of the back-ups.
Owing to a fin-
added motivation. ger injury,
SAYS KOHLI ON MEETING EXPECTATIONS Add young opener Shub-
man Gill’s splendid ODI
Kishan’s time will Mitchell Starc
will miss the
‘To keep up with that is run to Indian top three and
Indian top-order looks
come: Ganguly
a very intense process’ sorted and would once
again look to dominate the
pinions may have been
AHEAD OF ILT20 SEASON OPENER

V
irat Kohli has said that it was
an intense process to keep up
with people’s expectations and
pedestrian Lankan at-
tack.With Shreyas Iyer
also coming back from a
O divided over Ishan Kishan
sitting out of Indian ODI set
up after his world record double
century but former India captain
Root talks about his
idol Sachin Tendulkar
dream ODI run last year
added that “frustration started Sourav Ganguly believes the
and occupying the no 4
creeping in” when he was going swashbuckling keeper-batter has to
spot with his flair for tack-
through a rough patch. wait for his “time” as Shubman Gill
ling spin and rotating
In my case, frustration started has done no wrong.
strike in the middle overs, DUBAI the longevity, the abil-
creeping in. Because I wanted to play “I’m sure he (Kishan) will get his
the only spot that may ity to be such a high-
in the same fashion and people have chance. His time will come,” the
open up in the batting or- One of the best batters performing player at
this expectation, so I play like this, I former BCCI president said, as India
der is that of KL Rahul. currently in action, for- such a young age, and
should play like this, I will have to have a packed ODI calendar in the
Rahul, who also doubles mer England captain Joe then to be able to sus-
play like this.” build-up to the World Cup in
up as a wicketkeeper, has Root has revealed why he tain and to keep devel-
“But cricket didn’t allow me to play October-November.
been in wretched form of thinks so highly of his oping and moving for-
in that fashion. It was a different
late but may get a longer idol, legendary India bat- ward in the game,”
time for me. And because of that,
run especially in the series overs till Dasun Shanaka batters to give India any ter Sachin Tendulkar. Root told, speaking
where my game was, it was very far away. Because my
to prolong Kishan’s wait. took on him en route to a fight. Root, who will repre- exclusively to the Zee
desires and attachments had totally taken over.
Mohammed Siraj contin- fine century. Skipper Da- With opener Pathum Nis- sent Dubai Capitals in Network, the official
ued to raise his stakes and sun Shanaka has been the sanka also in good form, the inaugural DP World broadcasters of
old as he looked unclut- dens. The last time the two looked terrific with the only silver-lining for Sri the Lankans would look to ILT20 against Abu Dhabi ILT20.
tered and no Sri Lankan teams met in an ODI here, new ball in an opening Lanka in a lopsided con- put up a strong show with Knight Riders on Friday, “There have been
bowler troubled him. Rohit struck that world spell of 5-1-15-2, laced with test in Guwahati. From be- the batting. said he is impressed by times when he’s car-
Returning from an injury, record 264 eight years 25 dot balls on a flat deck at ing 179/7, the premier But the biggest letdown the manner in which ried the weight of the
Indian skipper Rohit Shar- back. Now here in his Barsapara Stadium.On Lankan all-rounder gave for the Sri Lankans was Tendulkar handled the pressure on his shoul-
ma too allayed any con- favourite venue as the In- Eden’s fast deck, Siraj will the visitors some hope their fielding as they tremendous pressure ders, and he did it for
cerns whatsoever of being dian skipper, Rohit would relish the challenge bowl- with a valiant 108 not out dropped Kohli twice. They that he faced during his over 20 years. He
short on match-fitness as be definitely keen to get to ing with old warhorse Mo- as he would look to contin- would also hope for an im- playing days. made his debut before
he took on the Lankan at- a big score.That an ODI hammed Shami as it re- ue his fine form. proved show from their “I mean obviously I was born and played
tack in a 67-ball 83 to set the century is also eluding mains to be seen whether Taking full advantage of bowlers especially in the there are some wonder- in my debut, and it
foundation for a mammoth him since a long time — the team think tank opts the dew, Shanaka took In- powerplay where they ful players currently just shows how and
total. He seemed to be in his his last ODI hundred came for an extra seamer.Umran dian bowling to cleaners gave a lot of width to Indi- playing but look at what what he was for Indi-
zone before coming to his against Australia in Janu- Malik played the role of but they would need a col- an batters. Sachin has achieved, it’s an Cricket for such a
favourite venue Eden Gar- ary 2020 would also be an the enforcer in the middle lective effort from their Match starts: 1.30pm IST. just remarkable really, long period,” he said.

RANJI TROPHY Sehwag to join ILT20

Prithvi registers Happy birth day Dravid, who turns 50 commentary panel
second-highest NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket fra-
ternity took to social media to extend
birthday wishes to the legendary bat-
(IPL) franchise Rahul was associated
with during the early years of the
league, also extended wishes to “one
DUBAI: Former India opener
Virender Sehwag will join the
stellar commentary panel of the
individual score ter and current head coach of the na-
tional team, Rahul Dravid, who
of the greatest torchbearers of the
game”.”Here’s wishing one of the
inaugural ILT20, which is set to be
held across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and
Sharjah from January 13 to
turned 50 on Wednesday. greatest torchbearers of the game,
Moreover, Shaw became the ninth Indian batter to score 350 plus score in the Ranji Board of the first Royal February 12. The ILT20 announced
Control for Challenger the illustrious commentary panel
inning after Swapnil Gugale (351*), Cheteshwar Pujara (352), VVS Laxman (353), Samit in December and has made one
Cricket in In- and the cur-
Gohel (359*), Vijay Merchant (359*), MV Sridhar (366) and Sanjay Manjrekar (377) dia (BCCI), the rent head more big addition to the list in
governing coach of #Tea- Sehwag, just before the
GUWAHATI scored in December 1948, continues to be body of the mIndia, Rahul competition. “I am really excited to be part of the DP World
the highest Ranji Trophy score and the sport in India, Dravid, a very ILT20 commentary team. The teams in the tournament are
Prithvi Shaw on Wednesday scored the highest first-class score by an Indian bat- tweeted, “509 Happy Birth- evenly matched and each of the franchises have many
Ranji Trophycs second-highest individ- ter. intl. matches day! #Play- exciting players. I am certain that it will be a magnificent
ual score with his maiden triple hundred However, the opener missed out on 24,208 intl. Bold,” tweeted tournament and I feel very privileged to have a chance to
against Assam in Mumbai’s Group B reaching the 400-run mark as he fell lbw runs 48 intl. RCB. call the action,” said Sehwag in a media release.
match here at Amingaon Cricket Ground. to the leg-spinner Riyan Parag in the last centuries In 344 ODIs,
Resuming from the overnight score of
240, Shaw smashed 379 off 383 deliveries
over before lunch.
Batting with skipper Ajinkya Rahane,
Here’s wishing
Rahul Dravid -
Dravid scored
10,889 runs at
Arthur rejects offer to
in a marathon knock decorated with 49
fours and six maximums. Bhausaheb
Shaw scored 262 out of the 401-run part-
nership for the third wicket, taking his
former #Tea-
mIndia cap-
an average of
39.16. He has return as Pakistan coach
Nimbalkar’s unbeaten 443, which he team’s innings score close to 500. tain and pres- 12 centuries KARACHI: Mickey Arthur has spurned an offer from the PCB
ent Head and 83 fifties to return as the head coach of the national team, forcing
AGAINST MP Coach of India in the format, the board to continue its search to
(Men’s team) - with the best find a replacement for incumbent
a very Happy score of

Gujarat skipper Panchal shines

Saqlain Mushtaq.
Birthday.” Star Indian batter Virat 153.He scored 31 runs in the only T20I The Pakistan Cricket Board on
Kohli took to Instagram to share a he played for India.Rahul has also Tuesday said it was in discussions
story wishing Dravid a very happy represented RCB (2008-2010) and Ra- with Arthur for a new stint as head

after Gaja’s 6/49 against MP

birthday.”Happy birthday Rahul jasthan Royals (2011-13) in IPL. In 89 coach but the South African won’t be
bhai. Best wishes,” said Virat in his IPL matches, he scored 2,174 runs at able to take up the role right away as he has a long-term
story. an average of 28.23. He has 11 fifties contract with Derbyshire.
Royal Challengers Bangalore under his belt in IPL and has scored “Owing to his long-term contract with Derbyshire, we have
INDORE in front of the wicket.The the conclusion of MP’s first (RCB), an Indian Premier League his runs at a strike rate of 115.52. also discussed a proposal to act as a consultant to the PCB
next man in the middle, innings even as Mantri on a time-sharing basis with Derbyshire,” PCB said in a
Skipper Priyank Panchal Harsh Gawli (19) too per- waged a lone battle to make statement.
remained not out on 71 af- ished after getting a start, 159 off 349 balls. Mantri’s
ter seamer Chintan Gaja’s with Gaja being the suc- innings was studded with AZHARUDDIN’S VIEW
excellent 6/49 helped Gu- cessful bowler again.Gaja 20 boundaries and a six.
jarat cut short reigning
champions
Madhya
Pradesh’s first
was on a hat-trick when he This was Mantri’s, who also
doubles up as
the team’s wick-
etkeeper, sec-
KL has found ways to get out, coaches should work on his flaws
innings at 312 ond century in NEW DELHI Azharuddin told PTI in an rounder and we can’t afford
in their Ranji first-class crick- exclusive interaction. to risk injuries. Hardik has
Trophy Group et. Medium pac- KL Rahul needs to be way Rahul, who has had a got a young team and that’s
D match here er Shen Patel more consistent and work string of poor scores since the way forward. To forge a
at Holkar Sta- was the second on his technical flaws with his international come- winning combination, it
dium on most successful national team coaches, feels back, was bowled round his will need strong co-ordina-
Wednesday. bowler for Gu- former India captain Mo- legs for a sedate 39 in the tion for the upcoming T20
Gujarat were jarat, returning hammed Azharuddin. opening ODI against Sri series.” Indian selectors
159 for four at figures of 3/89 The 57-year-old Azhar, Lanka in Guwahati on have copped a lot of flak of
stumps on the in 22.4 overs. whose elegant wrist work Tuesday. late and Azhar would ideal-
second day, Gujarat trailed made him a cynosure of “I think Rahul is getting ly like his former teammate
with Manan Hingrajia giv- had Saransh Jain caught by by 153 runs at the close of cricket fans, is a bit disap- out in a lot of manners. Pri- and chairman of selectors
ing Panchal company on Saurav Chauhan for a first- play. pointed that a player of marily, it is not the good Chetan Sharma to clear the
43.Resuming their innings ball duck, leaving MP in a Brief scores: Madhya Rahul’s talent isn’t realis- balls that are getting him air about certain selections
at a solid 232 for three with spot of bother at 281 for six, Pradesh 312 all out 115.4 ing his full potential.”I out. It is poor shot selection so that there is no ambigui-
overnight centurion Hi- a far cry from the position overs (Himanshu Mantri think consistency is the first up that is causing prob- close to a decade between has looked good as a leader ty.”Definitely, Chetan is sup-
manshu Mantri going they were in when they 159, Shubham Sharma 72; problem in KL Rahul’s case. lems,” said Azhar, who be- 1990 to 1999, Azharuddin and seems that he can carry posed to be doing at least
strong on 115, MP suffered ended the proceedings on Chintan Gaja 6/49) vs Gu- But I think there are coach- lieves that all senior players has a fair idea about people the team along. But he one or two press confer-
the day’s first blow for the the opening day. jarat 159/4 in 55 overs es who should rectify his should take out time and with leadership acumen. needs to be careful about ences and should tell that
addition of just seven runs, The lower-order batters (Priyank Panchal 71 bat- flaws. In my opinion, he is a play domestic cricket. Hardik Pandya, the new T20 his back as he had been out what is the way forward for
as Gaja trapped rival skip- failed to make worthwhile ting, Manan Hingrajia 43 good player but consistency Having captained the Indi- skipper is one such player for a long time. “India the current Indian team,”
per Aditya Shrivastava (15) contributions, leading to batting). is missing in his game,” an team in two phases and according to him.”Hardik would need Hardik, the all- he was forthright.
BHOPAL | THURSDAY | JANUARY 12, 2023
 Assam to The Assam government will carry out
'Gunotsav 2023', a state-wide exercise to
assess evaluate the performance of nearly 43 lakh
students studying in over 44,500 schools,
students in from January 18 to February 18, Education
Minister Ranoj Pegu said on Wednesday.
BHOPAL I THURSDAY | JANUARY 12, 2023 drive Mr Pegu said, "Gunotsav 2023 will identify
the learning gaps of each child and ensure
quality education with grade-specific
outcomes."
The exercise will see the participation of all
stakeholders starting from teachers, students,
administrators and local communities, and
will enhance accountability among them for
quality education, the minister said.
This year's exercise will be carried out in
three phases with 11 districts included in the
first phase from January 18 to 21, 12 districts
from February 1 to 4 and the remaining eight
districts in the last leg from February 15 to
18. - PTI

Mumbai Police, IMC shed BSF sends

spotlight on cyber crime Sitharaman’s Sunday Kashmiri
among school students students on
STAFF REPORTER . MUMBAI ber Mumbai said that Aware- advice not realistic, tour to Mumbai
ness is the key to prevention ANI / NEW DELHI

W
ith children getting of the cybercrime if some-
into the habit of
constantly
online for education, re-
being

search, social interaction, en-

tertainment and gaming,
they are very vulnerable to
cyber crime which is now
rampant. To mitigate these
risks, Mumbai Police Cyber
Branch and IMC Ladies’
Wing under its initiative -
one falls prey to cybercrime
then Immediate reporting to
1930
www.cybercrime.gov.in
and
say students The Finance Minister exhorted students to
T
he Border Security
Force (BSF) on
Wednesday sent a con-
tingent of 29 Kashmiri stu-
which will help to investigate dents from different schools
well and recover the money. not study on Sunday, during a visit to Kota of Kashmir Valley for an ed-
Speaking about the project ucational-cum-motivational
Mrs. Roma Singhania — Bharat Darshan Tour. The
President of IMC Ladies’ STAFF REPORTE / MUMBAI “Weekends are meant for daily candidates who comprise the major- never a break,” stated Tanishka Ya- seven girls and 22 boys have
Wing stated," Every child is problem practice (DPP) in Kota. ity of the Kota population believe dav, NEET UG 2022 topper who is been sent to Mumbai by air.
unique. They all want differ-

Aamchi Mumbai, Safe Mum-
bai with Responsible Netism,
and Kokuyo Camlin Ltd have
initiated Project Cyber Safe
Mumbai. The project aims to
create awareness of Cyber
Safety through a Poster Com-
petition.
The poster competitions
on the theme of online safety
would be divided into a set of
two groups — students of
grades 5 to 7 and students of
grades 8 to 10. It will be im-
plemented within all schools
across Mumbai by January
2023 and will culminate with
an exhibition to display the
best posters created by chil-
dren and displayed across
platforms to create aware-
ness about online safety with
the objective to make Mum-
bai cyber-safe.
Explaining the #cyber-
safemumbai project DCP Cy-
F
inance Minister Nirmala Since you have classes for long resting up on Sundays was and are currently enrolled at AIIMS Delhi. During the seven-day tour,
ent things from their online Sitharaman’s exhortation to hours in Kota during the week- impossible as it’s contradictory to With the onus being on teachers the group will visit all the
experience, and they all deal students not to study on Sun- days, you usually do DPP during their goals. to prepare and help students in their major tourist attractions in
with danger in different days is unrealistic, feel students. Ms the weekend. If you are not able to “I can't imagine taking Sundays journey, their opinions on Sundays and around Mumbai, like
ways. Since the internet is an Sitharaman visited the city, which is do it by then, it adds up week on off while studying for JEE. I used to are a mixed bag of sorts. the Gateway of India, Nehru
inseparable part of child- India’s premier coaching hub, and week,” stated Harshit Singh, a wake up at 4 am, exercise, eat and “You should study on Sunday but Science Centre, Marine
hood, it is better to take in- interacted with students at the Yuva JEE Advanced aspirant who study by myself for a while. By 8 am not for the entire day. You can plan a Drive, Jahangir Art Gallery,
ternet safety as an important Shakti Samvad. added that there’s no scope of a I headed toward my coaching class- timetable, wherein most of your Haji Ali Dargah, Bhabha
consideration. It is impera- One statement from Ms Sithara- ‘break’ in the Kota or entrance es where I spent the next twelve schedule is covered up between Atomic Research Centre etc
tive that we make children man, “Do not study on Sundays,” exam lifestyle. hours. On Sundays we either had a Monday to Saturday with a focus on spreading the message of
armed with information on elicited laughs from the JEE and Toppers across JEE, ICAI, NEET, practice test or an off, that's when I anything that was missed being love and peace. The groups
how to protect themselves in NEET hopefuls. etc, who studied day and night to get got much more time to study by my- pushed to Sundays,” said Sunanda are provided with free lodg-
cyberspace." While the minister’s comment the coveted positions of being num- self,” stated Sneha Pareek, Assam Nair, a Science and English teacher ing, boarding, clothing and
Elaborating on the Aam- symbolises a growing culture of eas- ber one in the country, believe topper who secured AIR 2 in JEE at a Dombivli school. transportation.
chi Mumbai, Safe Mumbai ing pressure on students, the ones Sithraman’s statement is something Mains examination and is studying Ms Sithraman’s visit to Kota gave The move was taken by
project, Mrs. Bharti Gandhi, who have been or are going through they can’t or will not resonate with- at IIT Delhi, who added that when her an opportunity to have a ques- the BSF as part of the Civic
Chairperson of the Commit- the process of pursuing engineering in the near future. preparing for a national entrance tion-and-answer session with young Action Programme of the
tee, said, "Safety of children and medicine don’t see it being ap- “I do not agree with this (Ms test, offs are taken when a student is minds on ease of doing business, In- government of India and in
is a must for any progressive plicable in the real world. Sitharaman’s comment). The truth exhausted. dia’s growth, and much more. continuation of its commit-
society be it online or in Kota’s notoriety for student sui- is I would've never cracked the ICAI “Sundays were reserved to go “It is so invigorating. I am so ment to the people of Kash-
physical. To make our maxi- cides each year has shocked the exams if I took the liberty of a day through everything that was taught touched by the presence of such mir valley, a statement is-
mum city maximum safe the city that thrives on competition, off each week. I had to dedicate 13-14 to me throughout the week. I cannot young brains. It does give a lot of sued by the BSF mentioned.
entire city needs to come to- not only among students but hours each day to get through my ex- remember resting for a single day in motivation when you have such en- BSF Inspector General
gether. Let us join hands and coaching classes. Such a scenario ams, there's no other option,” stated 12th grade. Whenever things get ergy. It is that energy that keeps In- (Kashmir Frontier) Ashok
resolve to make a better place doesn’t reflect Ms Sitharaman’s Harsh Choudhary, ICAI CA Finals overwhelming, I would talk to my dia going forward," she said during Yadav flagged off the contin-
for our children and grand- thinking, according to Kota’s stu- AIR 1. parents, and mentors, or have some the event while wishing the students gent from the force Frontier
children." dent residents. India’s engineering and medical laughs with my school friends. But on their upcoming entrance tests. Headquarters in Srinagar.

Healthy dose of millet Magadh Uni Centre to revamp

trivia for Mumbai students
students at conference
block agricultural education
lowed, but which have faded away
Governor IANS / KOCHI be incomplete without proper data
analysis.

I
STAFF REPORTER / MUMBAI IANS / PATNA n line with the National Educa- "It is essential to have a solid un-
over time. Eventually, millets tion Policy, the agricultural edu- derstanding of modern statistical,

I
n response to India's proposal, might even make an appearance in

Schoolchildren who took part in the poster competition
Crossword # 657
Across
4 An ornate or florid
style of architecture
(6)
7 SE Asian country (8)
8 Derides, disdains
(6)
10 African river (5)
13 Agile (4)
14 Italian island (4)
15 "Orinoco Flow"
singer (4)
16 Debussy sea (3)
17 U2 frontman (4)
19 Fake (4)
21 It does not ___
___ : it does not
sound or appear to
be convincing ?
(4,5)
23 Peel (4)
24 ___ a call: visits ?
(4)
26 Provided with food
(3)
27 Boot part (4)
29 Approximately (2,2)
32 Molten rock (4)
33 Catches
sight of (5)
S
tudents of Magadh Uni- cation in the country will be re- econometric and time series meth-
the United Nations Develop- our college canteens,” said Prof versity, protesting vamped by laying emphasis on skill ods to make proper inferences in so-
ment Program has declared Anushree Lokur, Principal of Ruia against the academic development, Dr Seema Jaggi, Addi- cial sciences research", she added.
2023 the 'International Millet Year’, College. sessions being late and it being tional Director General (HRD) of the Sponsored by the Agricultural Ed-
after which the central govern- The importance of nutrients in unable to hold examinations, Indian Council of Agricultural Edu- ucation Division of the Indian Coun-
ment pushed to promote the pro- these cereals, opportunities, and tried to stop the convoy of Bi- cation (ICAR) said here on Wednes- cil of Agricultural Research (ICAR),
duction and consumption of these challenges in the millet industry, har Governor Phagu Chauhan day. the Winter School is aimed at pro-
grains rapidly. To aid the efforts of current status, and pace of change in Gandhi Maidan area here Jaggi was speak-
the centre, Ramnarain Ruia Au- in laws related to millet grain pro- on Wednesday. ing after inaugurat-
tonomous College in Matunga is to duction, sale, and trade, and dis- The incident occurred out- ing 21-day Winter
hold a conference on ‘Millets - 2023: cussion of the historical, social, side Bapu Sabhagar, where the School, a training
A Transdisciplinary Approach to and cultural contexts of millets are Governor came to attend the programme for re-
its Resurgence & Sustainability’ on to be explored in this conference. convocation ceremony of Na- searchers and acad-
Jan 30 and 31. Nearly 100 academicians will landa Open University there. emicians, at the
“The purpose of this conference present their research at this con- While he was returning, the ICAR-Central Ma-
is to educate students about nutri- ference organised by the Universi- students who were waiting rine Fisheries Re-
tion and sustainability. We should ty of Mumbai, the Institute of outside, ran towards his con- search Institute
teach the next generation about the Chemical Technology, and Ruia voy and tried to stop it. (CMFRI).
agricultural practices we once fol- College. Police personnel present at She added that
The renowned the place immediately ran to- the course curricu-
‘Millet Man’, Dr wards the students and over- lum will be restruc-
Khader Valli, will powered them. The students tured in a way that
present his views at claimed that they want to meet helps open a wide array of opportu- viding an opportunity to update the
the conference the Governor to request him nities in the agriculture sector. analytical skills of social science re-
35 Backpack (8) 15 Finish (3) alongside several to regularise the academic ses- "With this, education and research searchers and make them more fa-
36 Just copes (4,2) 16 Austrian river (3) international schol- sions as he is the Chancellor of in agriculture and allied areas will miliar with advanced analytical
Down 18 Dated (3,3) ars from countries all state universities. The stu- have greater opportunities in the tools and software.
1 Liturgical vestment 20 Fable writer (5) like Israel, Iran, dents further claimed that country in the future", she said, A total of 25 participants from Ra-
(5) 21 Concealed oneself Canada, and Ameri- they had met Education Min- adding that setting up of initiatives jasthan, New Delhi, Madhya
2 Alternative strategy (3) ca. Nutritionist Ru- ister Chandrashekher Yadav, like incubation centres would great- Pradesh, Gujarat, Assam, Arunachal
(4,1) 22 East Indian shrub juta Diwekar will Deputy Chief Minister Tejash- ly support rural development. Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra,
3 Misprint (4) (3) be the brand ambas- wi Yadav and other ministers Stressing the importance of ana- Telangana, Bihar, Karnataka, Tamil
4 Irritable (5) 23 Purify (6) sador for the confer- but with no result. lytical tools in social science re- Nadu and Kerala are attending the
5 Make sick with too 25 Superlative suffix (3) ence. search, she said that research would Winter School.
much sweetness (4) 28 Each (5)
6 Curving outwards 30 Regal (5)
(6)
9 Cunning (6)
11 Ancient (3)
12 West African
31 City in Japan (5)
32 Circuits of a course
(4)
33 Japanese rice drink
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YOUR DAY By Vinayak Vishwas Karandikar

ARIES: It's a day for studying. Expect expenditure on
beauty products and luxury items. People in event
management and art classes will get success. A
family outing is indicated. Diabetic people should
avoid eating sweets.
TAURUS: Today is a day for entertainment. Expect
expenditure on luxurious items. People in fields like
advertising will be benefited. Dispute with a
younger sibling is indicated. Married people may
have family issues. Some of you may suffer from skin problems.
GEMINI: Today is a day to enjoy and travel. Expect
to spend on luxury items. People in arts and sports
may get a new opportunity. Your kids and family
will help in your work. Some may have eye
problems.
CANCER: A good day for students and teachers.
New opportunities at work are indicated. Architects
and artists will do well. You may buy a vehicle, and
enjoy decorating your house. Today is a healthy
day, but don’t overlook your diet.
LEO: Today is a day for travel and enjoyment.
Expect expenditure for business growth. People in
fields like tourism will be benefited. You may spend
a good time with children or sibling. You may suffer
from knee or shoulder pain.
VIRGO: Today is a day to enjoy and be entertained.
Expect expenditure for education. People in fields
like entertainment and tourism will be benefited.
Happy family life is indicated. Some may suffer from
eye problems or toothache.
LIBRA: Pay attention to your physical fitness. Expect
expenditure for business growth. Take expert advice
in business. You may experience ups and downs in
your relationship. Physical stress, mental stress, or
injury is indicated.
SCORPIO: It’s a day to earn, travel, romance and
entertain. Expect expenditure for luxury products.
You may get a job transfer. People in art and
entertainment will be benefited. Married life will be
happy. Some people may suffer from a kidney or eye problem. overlook your diet.
SAGITTARIUS: You may get your stuck money
back. Expect expenditure for medical treatment.
Interior decorators and automobile dealers will get
success. Relationships may see some twists and
turns. Some of you may have stomach or kidney problems.
CAPRICORN: You will balance family and work
time today. Expect to spend on business. People in
arts and entertainment will get success. Love life will
be romantic. Overall health will be good, but don’t
AQUARIUS: A good day for students and teachers.
Expect expenditure for interior decoration. People in
fields like art classes and interior decoration will do
well. A party is expected in the house. Some of you
may suffer from indigestion.
PISCES: Some enjoyment or a party is indicated
today. Expect expenditure for family needs. Bars and
pubs will be benefited today. Sportsmen should take
care. Romance will be at its peak today. Eye
problems and back pain are indicated today.
 BHOPAL | THURSDAY | JANUARY 12, 2023
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OVERWHELMING

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TRAVEL RESPONSE Director Siddharth Anand talks about the
reaction that Pathaan trailer is receiving

THERAPY
Bhumi
Pednekar
T
CJ DESK

he trailer of Pathaan
was unveiled on Janu-
ary 10 and since then
has been causing the
teaser and the two songs Be-
sharam Rang and Jhoome Jo
Pathaan have taken the expecta-
tions of the film sky high. We
were clear that we would make a
trailer that would only add to the
talks about storm on the social media.
Pathaan is a part of Aditya
buzz and the hype that the film
currently has,” he shares.
how Chopra’s ambitious spy uni- He further adds, “We have care-
verse, starring superstars fully and strategically arrived at
travelling Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika a trailer that teases some of the
helps her Padukone, and John Abra-
ham. The movie is helmed by di-
best moments of Pathaan for au-
diences to enjoy and yet holds
rejuvenate rector Siddharth Anand. back the majority of the screen-
Siddharth is thrilled about the stealing situations that will make
reaction the trailer has been re- Pathaan a big-screen action
ceiving without giving out the movie. I’m glad that without giv-
CJ DESK best moments from the film. “It ing much a lot from the film, we
was a huge task to arrive at the have made a trailer that has re-
ollywood star Bhu- trailer of Pathaan because the ceived unanimous appreciation.”
B mi Pednekar, who
has become a force to
reckon with in Indian cin-
On a parting note, while gush-
ing about the trailer, Siddharth
says, “As the saying goes, this is
ema with her performances, al- just the trailer, you have to watch
ways takes a break to travel and rejuvenate be- the film to understand the scale
tween her film shoots. She finds it extremely ‘thera- at which Pathaan has been made.
peutic’ and mentions that she likes the idea of trav- We hope that we entertain Indi-
elling among people because it can do wonders ans across the globe and make
for one’s mental well-being. them proud that we have made a
When quizzed about what travel means to her, film that can match the visual
she says, “For me, travel is extremely therapeu- spectacle of any interna-
tic. I make it a point to take a break after my hec- tional action enter-
tic work schedule and travel to someplace new be- tainer.”
cause I love to make new memories with my loved Pathaan is set to
ones and also learn about the culture, traditions, and release on Jan-
food of these places. I feel I have grown as a human uary 25 in
being because of my travels. These trips have enriched Hindi,
me, satiated my heart, rejuvenated my mind, and an- Tamil,
chored me.” and Tel-
Recently, she travelled to Mexico to recharge her bat- ugu.
teries. This year, she has six films releases in a row. She
gushes, “I have six back-to-back releases plus new
shoots. So, this trip was essential for me because I know
I won’t get the time this year to do a big trip that will
inspire and fascinate me. But I’m not complaining.”
She further adds, “I love to work, and I’m fortunate
that I have a packed year of releases. This is exactly
how I want my years in cinema to be: choosing and
being a part of our country’s best cinema.”
On the work front, Bhumi will be seen in
films like Anubhav Sinha’s Bheed, Ajay
Bahl’s The Ladykiller, Sudhir Mishra’s
Afwaah, Gauri Khan’s Bhakshak, Mu-
dassar Aziz’s Mere Husband Ki Biwi,
and a couple of other
unannounced projects.
A still from Pathaan
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Surprise, Rakhi secretly ties the knot?

CJ DESK media in May 2022.
She had earlier said that though Adil is
ctress Rakhi Sawant seems to six years younger to her, the age differ-

surprise A have secretly tied the knot

with boyfriend Adil Durrani,
days after walking out of the
ence does not bother them. The two are
often spotted hanging out together and
Adil had even gifted Rakhi a car worth
Bigg Boss Marathi house. Rs 40 lakh a few months ago.
CJ DESK Photos of the two with a marriage Meanwhile, a couple of days
certificate have gone viral on the in- ago, Rakhi revealed that her
ans are in for a ternet, leaving fans confused. In one of mother has been diag-

F treat as Thalapa-
thy Vijay’s Varisu
released on Janu-
the photos, Rakhi can be seen dressed
in a simple salwar suit while Adil
wore a black shirt. Both of them can
nosed with brain tumour
and cancer, and that
she is curently undergo-
ary 11 in theatres. be seen with garlands around their neck. ing treatment at Mumbai
The film is all set to re- They posed with what seemed like their hospital.
lease in Hindi on Janu- marriage certificate which they received post She also asked her fans to
ary 13. The mass enter- their secret court marriage. A picture of Rakhi sign- pray for her mother’s
tainer is filled with ing on the marriage certificate is also doing the health and was seen
high-octane action se- rounds on the internet. breaking down on cam-
quences as well as However, neither Rakhi nor Adil have confirmed era. Adil was also spotted
emotions. the wedding yet. Rakhi, who is known for grabbing in the video alongside
Rashmika Man- eyeballs for her controversial statements and rela- the actress, along with
danna, who often in- tionships, introduced Adil as her boyfriend to the her brother Rakesh.
teracts with her fans
on social media, con-
ducted an Ask Me Any-
thing session and gave inter-
esting replies.
A fan asked Rashmika what her CLASH OF
THE TITANS
reaction was to seeing Thalapathy Vi-
jay for the first time. In response, Rash-
mika shared a photo in which the she is
seen warding off the evil eye and smiling
at the superstar at the pooja of the film. CJ DESK
Sharing the photo, she said, “This,” with
heart-eye and heart emojis. ans of south superstars Vijay and Ajith
In no-time, the picture went viral on social
media and fans expressed how they can’t con-
trol their eagerness to watch the fresh pairing
F violently clashed outside a theatre in
Chennai in the wee hours of Wednes-
day as their respective films Varisu
on the big screen. and Thunivu hit the theatres on the same
Varisu is helmed by ace director Vamshi. It is day.
produced by Raju, Shirish, and Manish Shah. Videos of the incident have gone vi-
ral on the internet in which fans of
both the actors can be seen tearing
down posters of the opponent’s
films and creating a major ruckus
outside the theatre.
As per reports, the crowd went
out of control as they gathered
outside the Chennai theatre and
the local cops had to intervene to
bring the situation under control.
The police also had to resort to
lathi-charge and they even took a
few unruly people into custody for
hampering the peace in the region.
The Tamil Nadu government has
issued an order strictly banning any
kind of milk shower over mammoth
cut-outs of Vijay and Ajith. The gov-
ernment has also asked cops to be on
their toes and be ready to avoid any
kind of untoward incident. The offi-
cials have also cancelled all 4 am and 5
am releases of the films until the Pongal
festivities get over.
Vijay and Ajith are clashing on the silver
screens after eight long years. It was back in
2014 when Vijay’s Jilla released on the same
day as Ajith’s Veeram.
The clash between the two superstars has
always been a topic of interest among their
fans.
 en Affleck has landed the job of serving customers at a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-through in
Ben Affleck B Boston. The Oscar-winning actor was snapped taking orders and serving up coffee at a
drive-through window, with his wife Jennifer Lopez pulling up in a white SUV to order her
serves coffee at own takeaway, reports The Mirror. But things weren’t as they seemed, as 50-year-old Ben
was actually shooting a commercial for his beloved Dunkin’ Donuts, with JLo acting alongside
doughnut joint him. According to Mirror, it’s the first time the pair have acted together since their 2003 film Gigli.
Ben seemed to be in good spirits as he wore an official Dunkin’ Donuts cap and T-shirt during the
commercial. —IANS
BHOPAL | THURSDAY | JANUARY 12, 2023

Music that binds

MISSION
Sidharth Malhotra talks
ACCEPTED! Gulzar performs live at Kuttey movie’s
grand event, Mehfil-E-Khaas
ROHIT BHATNAGAR

hile Aasmaan Bharadwaj is gearing up for his directo-

about his upcoming film

How was it working with Rashmika?
This is her first Hindi film and she was on the sets
with an open mind. She didn’t have any precon-
W rial debut, Kuttey, slated to release on January 13, the
makers of the film hosted a grand music launch event,
Mehfil-E-Khaas, in Mumbai on Tuesday evening. The
Mission Majnu and ceived notions. When you work with a new person event was organised and hosted by lyricist-writer Varun
and if they are not rigid, your work becomes easy. Grover. The cast of the film Arjun Kapoor, Tabu, Radhi-
working with Rashmika We didn’t need to mould her; we only ka Madan, Shardul Bhardwaj, producers Vishal Bhard-
did a few rehearsals. It’s an inno- waj, Rekha Bhardwaj, Luv Ranjan, Ankur Garg,
Mandanna cent love story and we tried to Bhushan Kumar, and other team members were
keep it simple. present.
The musical extrava-
During your leisure hours or ganza saw live per-
LIPIKA VARMA breaks on the sets, what would formances from Vishal
you guys talk about? Bhardwaj, singer
idharth Malhotra won We had a non-stop schedule. Rekha Bhardwaj, and

S hearts with his turn

as Captain Vikram
Batra in Shershaah.
But we would talk about
our dedication to fitness
during lunch breaks while
the legendary lyricist
Gulzar. Rekha per-
formed a beautiful
He is now back with an- relishing food. There were rendition of Namak
other film, Mission Majnu, mosquitoes and all of Ishq Ka from the
which too has patriotic them were moving movie Omkara. She
flavour. The spy thriller sees around Rashmika. also sang the titular
Sidharth play an Indian intel- After the cut, we would song of Kuttey along
ligence agent Amandeep Ajit- sit down with a with other songs like
pal Singh. The movie, which mosquito bat and shoo Paani Paani Re from
releases digitally on January them off. These Maachis and Ek Wo Din

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20, is a roller-coaster ride mosquitoes were after from Chachi 420. Vishal
filled with emotion and ro- her blood (laughs)! dedicated Dil Toh Bacha
mance. It marks South sensa- Hai Ji from the film
tion Rashmika Mandanna’s Since the movie is set in the Ishqiya to Arjun.
Bollywood debut. Here the ac- 1970s, what do you like Radhika and
tor talks about the movie, his about that era? Shardul request-
co-star, and more. Excerpts: That generation was inno- ed Vishal and Rekha to sing their all-time
cent and had little informa- favourite song Pehli Baar Mohabbat Ki Hai
What was the most challenging tion. Today, we have become version from the movie Kaminey.
part of the role? clever and knowledgeable because we Elated Tabu shares, “I worked with
It is set in the 1970s. For my char- have a lot of information. The com- Gulzar saab’s daughter Meghna in her
acter, we made subtle changes to my munication was done differently. first film. Now, I am working with
hairstyle. I wore a taweez and applied soor- There were few telephones. The Vishalji’s son in his first film. I worked
ma (kohl). There are many layers to the people of that era were simple- with the son of my career’s first produc-
film. To get the real tonality and not overdo tons, according to me. Socialis- er, Arjun in Kuttey. It’s a big responsibil-
it, was interesting. I had to be pretentious ing, too, was different. I love the ity that someone entrusts you with. I
and engage in nautanki because I was try- 70s style. I have experienced don’t think there’s any bigger achieve-
ing to get information. We did a lot of re- this era through films. ment and endorsement than this. I am
hearsals and put in hard work in charac- lucky to have worked in an era of
ter-building. Hopefully, people will like Mission Majnu releases on an Gulzar saab and then Vishalji. Today, I
the film. OTT platform. What is your take am working with Aasmaan and I hope I
on box office numbers? will work with his children too.”
Good content, on any platform, An emotional Arjun says, “I
gets recognition. Every actor would like to extend my thank
wants his film to be watched you for making Kuttey. When I
by a maximum number of peo- was a kid, my late mother used to
ple. Good films do get their love to attend such events. She
due. On OTT, we have to work knew Vishal sir and Rekha
hard to engage the audience. ma’am. I used to wonder, what
This is because they have the mom used to like in such events
remote in their hands and can but today while attending this
change channels. Unlike a the- event, I remembered my mother a
atre, where you pay for tickets lot and felt as if I am watching
and hence watch the entire this with her. Thank you for giving
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film... This is more me this amazing feeling.”

challenging. Actress Radhika concludes, “In a
film by Vishalji or Aasmaan, I
How is the year 2023 looking would have gotten an opportunity to
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for you? even do a passing shot, I would have

Mission Majnu is releasing agreed to do it. They are like my fam-
soon. Then I have Yodha. So, pro- ily. When I saw Vishalji’s films, it
fessionally, I have a busy year. I am triggered me to become an actor. I
excited about the films. feel so fortunate to play a part in
A still from the film Kuttey. It was a wonderful experi-
ence and I learned a lot.”

Caught on Camera!
Back with a The team of RRR at the Golden Globes
SS
Rajamouli

bang!
red carpet.
Ram Charan

A still from the film

Rajkumar Santoshi, who returns to the big screen after nine years, MM
talks about his movie, Gandhi Godse Ek Yudh Keeravaani
Jr NTR
ROHIT BHATNAGAR was a setback for me. I am not saying that a star isn’t
important to a film but if he/she would work in sync
he much-awaited trailer of Rajkumar San- that a good product will come out,” he adds.

T
toshi’s Gandhi Godse Ek Yudh was fi-
nally unveiled on Wednesday. The
movie marks his daughter Tan-
Sharing his take on the historical significance,
he says, “My take is, I might dislike the person
but I will fight for that person. It has been
isha’s done in a democratic setup. I feel Godse’s
acting debut alongside newcomer Anuj voice was suppressed back then. People
Saini. have to understand and think about what
Santoshi, who is returning to the big happened. It might look like a religiously-
screen after a gap of nine years shares, “I motivated film but whatever is said in the
felt the market was dictating the creativity. film is said by Godse and Mahatma Gandhi.
The star system isn’t good, they want We have cut the teaser and trailer in such a
scripts to be written around them. If a way that people will be curious to see the
film becomes a blockbuster, it’s a collec- film in theatres. Let them see and then
tive effort. All the stars are briefed decide if they agree or disagree. No
on what to do, what to say, what one has attempted this ever be-
to wear, etc. There was a time fore in para history. From this
when there were Raj Kapoor, film, people will know Godse.”
Shammi Kapoor, Dev “I haven’t taken sides in the
Anand, and Dilip Kumar, film, if I would have done
who had their own that then I would have not
style, and you couldn’t done justice to my film. I
tell them how to act. am prepared for the
They were ahead of consequences and con-
the director, they troversies but I’ll
had their charisma. move on to make An-
The whole film in daaz Apna Apna 2,”
today’s time is
about a hero walk-
he adds.
On a concluding note,
TWITTER TREND OF THE DAY
ing at high speed, Santoshi feels that the cur-

S
S Rajamouli’s magnum opus RRR struck @HIROMUNIERU1: “Congratulations on
where are the plot rent generation only both- gold at the 2023 Golden Globe Awards. winning the Golden Globes. I was also
and dialogues? I feel ers about International The movie bagged the awards for the moved by MM Keeravani is speech.”
that when high-speed craft. “The current gener- best original song — motion picture for the @Pun_Starr: “Congratulations to the
cameras are banned, ation only enjoys it when hit track Naatu Naatu. Veteran music director makers of RRR on winning the Golden Globe
filmmakers will start a foreign singer comes MM Keeravaani has composed the track. The award for best original song Naatu Naatu.”
making good films.” and they hoot and clap movie’s stars, Ram Charan and Jr NTR, along
A few years ago, San- in the concert. I remem- with Rajamouli and Keeravaani were present @Music_Melodiez: “This is incredible.
toshi was in the news ber when the committee at for the ceremony. As soon as the news was Congratulations to M.M. Keeravani!
for a historical movie, the Censor board saw the announced, social media was abuzz with Congratulations team... Making India Proud,
which didn’t materi- film, they had moist eyes. congratulatory messages for the team. Here Naatu Naatu.”
alise. “I was planning to
make Battle of Saragarhi
There were women too.
They gave me a U/A certifi- RRR bags Golden are some of them.
@mukesh1yadav87: “Congratulations
@Sirisha98993: “INDIANS making noise
with Naatu in a Western Ball Room. Oora
with Randeep Hooda but
no one cared to check
cate and told me that this
film should be shown in Globe for best song team of RRR movie Golden Globe Award for
best original song goes to Naatu Naatu best
mass song resounding from Patha Basthi
Hyderabad to Beverly Hills California. Music
with me and no one in every school and college,” he original song of the year.” is beyond boundaries.” —CJ Desk
Bollywood is a family. It signs off.
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