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JAIPUR l WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020 l Pages 14 l 3.00 RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764 l Vol 1 l Issue No. 233 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Deputy CM and PCC Chief Sachin Pilot, AICC Gen Secy Avinash Pande along with NSUI leaders Abhimanyu Poonia , Satveer Chaudhary and Abhishek Chaudhary during the Yuva Aakrosh Rally. —PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA RAHUL 2.0 SARFAROSH SE AAKROSH India is considered ‘rape capital’ of the world, says Gandhi scion DESPITE NATIONWIDE BUZZ AROUND CAA AND NRC, RAHUL CHOSE TO CONCENTRATE ON ECONOMY AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN HIS RALLY office with Sachin Pilot who also recently completed his sixth year PCC tenure. Meanwhile, Rahul also claimed that the country has come to be known as the “rape capital” of the world. “The reputation and image that India had in the world was that it is a country of brotherhood, love and unity, while Pakistan was known for hatred and divisiveness. This image of India has been damaged by Narendra Modi,” Gandhi said while addressing ‘Yuva spoke on the issue of unemployment and slammed the Prime Minister for not addressing the issue. “Prime Minister Naren- dra Modi had promised two crore jobs, but last year our youth lost one crore jobs. Wherever the Prime Minis- ter goes, he talks of the Citizenship Act, National Register of Citizens but the biggest issue of unemployment is not mentioned. The Prime Min- ister does not even speak a word on it.” Aakrosh’ rally in Jaipur and added, “Today, India is considered as the rape capital of the world.” Rahul also launched ‘Na- tional Register for Unemploy- ment’, a joint campaign of Youth Congress and NSUI, asking the Modi government to start a national register for unemployed people. The party has also released a number for people to give a missed call to ask the central government to introduce a national unemployment register. The Congress leader also Ashok Gehlot, PCC chief Sachin Pilot, Health Minis- ter, Dr Raghu Sharma played a crucial role in planning the rally and getting the crowd. It may be noted that this rally might prove to be a launching pad for Rahul, who is likely to take back the reins of the party by the end of next month. Be- fore Jaipur was zeroed in on for the rally , Sonia Gandhi had held a detailed discussions with Ahmed Patel, Avinash Pande, Ashok Gehlot and KC Venugo- pal. Also several consultations were held by Rahul Gandhi’s Aditi Nagar was spearheaded by the Gan- dhi scion Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday targeted the Centre and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of damaging the country’s image and putting off both existing and potential investors. Earlier, on Monday , AICC general secretary and Ra- jasthan incharge, Avinash Pande, Chief Jaipur: On the contrary , the morning didn’t show the day . It was a windy dawn and then the dark clouds hovered over Jaipur sky around 1.30 PM and it even drizzled a few drops. But then, the Sun emerged from the clouds and the day was pleasant. The Yuva Aakrosh Rally which Amendment Minister, Turn on P10

TALKING POINT 02 JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia CHINESE AUTHORITIES HAVE CLOSED OFF ALMOST 20 CITIES IN EFFORTS TO CONTAIN A NEW CORONAVIRUS THAT HAS KILLED AT LEAST 106 PEOPLE IN RECENT WEEKS, WITH CASES CONFIRMED IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES IN ASIA AND BEYOND O Organization (WHO) to several cases of pneu- monia in Wuhan, a port city of 11 million people in the central Hubei province. The virus is unknown. Several of those infected worked at the city’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale which was shut down on January 1. As health experts worked to identify the virus amid growing alarm, the number of infections exceeded 40. On January 5, Chi- nese officials ruled out the possibility that this was a recurrence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus - an illness that originated in China and killed more than 770 people worldwide in 2002-2003. On January 7, they announced that they had identified a new virus, according to the WHO. The novel virus is from the coronavirus family, which includes SARS and the common cold, and is named 2019- nCoV. Coronaviruses are common and spread through sneezing, or touching an infected person. On January 11, Chi- na announced its first death, a 61-year-old man who had purchased goods from the seafood market. Treat- ment did not improve his symptoms after he was admitted to hospital and he died on the evening of January 9 when his heart failed. On January Beijing events for the Lunar New Year starting on January 25, while officials reported the first death outside of Hubei. The WHO said later on January 23 that the outbreak does not yet constitute emergency of international concern and there is “no evidence” at the moment of the virus spreading between humans outside of China. By January 24, the death toll in China stood at 26, with the government reporting more than 830 infections. Shanghai land shut down and some cities announced the closure of entertainment venues. Bei- jing said a section of the Great Wall and other famous landmarks would also be closed. On January 25, travel restrictions were imposed on a further five cities in Hubei province, taking the overall number of people affected to 56 million. On January 26, the death toll rose to 56, with almost 2,000 cases confirmed as travel restrictions creased and Hong Kong closed its Disneyland and Ocean Park theme parks. As of January 27, the death toll in Chi- na had risen to 106, with 100 in Hubei province, authorities reported. 4,515 people in China had been infected. There were 2,714 confirmed cases in Hubei province, 1,423 the day before. cancelled n December 31, alerted World Health China the a public Market, Disney- ONE ‘FLU’ OVER THE... were in- coughing, death toll in China jumped to 17 with more than 550 infections. Many European airports stepped up checks on flights from Wuhan. Wuhan was placed under effective quaran- tine on January 23 as air and rail departures were suspended. Lunar New Year holiday. Asian ramped up measures to block the spread of the virus, introducing mandatory screenings at airports of all arriv- als from high-risk areas of China. On January 22, the jing, Shenzhen. Meanwhile, a Chi- nese expert on infec- tious diseases firmed human-to-human transmission to state broadcaster CCTV, raising fears of a major outbreak of as millions travel for the Shanghai and South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan confirm cases over the following days. On January 20, Chi- na reported a third death and more than 200 infections, with cases also reported outside Hubei province including in the capital, Bei- second death was reported in health authorities in the United States announced that three airports would screening passengers arriving from the city . Authorities in the US, Nepal, France, Austral- ia, Malaysia, Singapore, WHO reported a case in Thailand, the first outside of China, a woman who had arrived from Wuhan. On January 16, Ja- pan’s health ministry reported a confirmed case, a man who had also visited the city . On January 17, as a Wuhan, countries Another con- start up from 13, What are the symptoms of coronavirus? T fatigue, headache, shortness of breath and fever in some cases. How does coronavirus spread? Coronavirus can transmit from an infected person via What is he symptoms of most coronaviruses are similar to any other upper- respiratory infection, including runny nose, coughing, sore throat, CORONAVIRUS? z Close contact like shaking hands, touching or any other personal contact z Touching any surface or object with virus on it; you must wash your hands before touching your mouth, eyes, nose in such a situation z Transmission is also possible through air via coughing or sneezing WHO GUIDELINES THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION HAS ALSO SHARED FEW TIPS TO STAY HEALTHY WHILE TRAVELLING. SOME SAFETY TIPS EXPLAINED WHO INCLUDE: z Avoid travelling if you have a fever or cough; seek medical care as early as possible Stay Protect yourself and others from getting sick W transmission of a range of illnesses are as follows, which include hand and respiratory hygiene, and safe food practices: avoid touching the mask once it’s on healthy while travelling z If you seek any medical help, inform about your travel history to the health care provider HO’s standard recommendations for the general public to reduce exposure to and z Avoid close contact and travel with animals z Immediately discard single-use mask after each use and wash hands after removing mask z If you choose to wear a face mask, be sure to cover mouth and nose; z Frequently clean hands by using alcohol- based hand rub or soap and water; z When coughing and sneezing cover mouth and nose with flexed elbow or tissue - throw tissue away immediately and wash hands; z Avoid close contact with anyone who has fever and cough; z If you have fever, cough and difficulty breathing seek medical care early and share previous travel history with your health care provider; C viruses that cause illness which can range from a common cold to respiratory like Middle East Res- piratory Syndrome and Severe Acute Respira- tory Syndrome (also known as SARS). Ac- cording to the World Health Organisation, coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syn- drome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respira- tory Syndrome (SARS- CoV). A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain that has not been previously identified in humans. oronavirus is an umbrella term for z When visiting live markets in areas currently experiencing cases of novel coronavirus, avoid direct unprotected contact with live animals and surfaces in contact with animals; diseases z The consumption of raw or undercooked animal products should be avoided. Raw meat, milk or animal organs should be handled with care, to avoid cross-contam- ination with uncooked foods, as per good food safety practices. (CoV) Source: Agencies

JAIPUR l WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020 l Pages 14 l 3.00 RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764 l Vol 1 l Issue No. 233 ‘RAHEGA TO THEEK, NAHI RAHEGA TO THEEK’ Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Tuesday all but expelled close aide Prashant Kishor, who has been needling him on the citizenship law and openly targeting ally BJP in tweets. "Rahega to theek, nahi rahega to theek. (If he stays, it's ok. If he goes, it's ok)," Mr Kumar told reporters after a meeting with party leaders and lawmakers on Tuesday afternoon. "Do you know how he joined the party? Amit Shah told me to induct him. He must have something on his mind? Maybe he wants to leave...," Kumar remarked. P8 Sharjeel Imam had been booked for sedition by police of five states — Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, New Delhi, Manipur — for a speech he gave on January 16 at Aligarh Muslim University JNU STUDENT ARRESTED FROM BIHAR BY DELHI POLICE New Delhi: JNU student Sharjeel Imam has been arrested in Bihar’s Jahanabad by the Delhi Police on Tuesday. Imam had been booked for sedition by police of five states — Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, New Delhi, Manipur — for a speech he gave on January 16 at Aligarh Muslim University. Bihar’s Director Gen- eral of Police Guptesh- war Pandey said Imam was arrested from his native Kako village in Jehanabad. He is likely to be produced before a Bihar court where police will seek his remand for questioning. It is not yet clear whether he will be questioned in Bihar or taken to the national capital. In a tweet, Imam said he surrendered to Delhi Police and was willing to cooperate in the investigation. “I Turn on P5 PITCH DARK: Future tense for tournament. —FILE PHOTO ‘India can’t play Asia Cup in Pakistan’ T dia [BCCI] have made it clear to their Pakistani counter- parts [PCB] that it has no issues in Pa- kistan Cricket Board hosting the 2020 edition of the Asia Cup, just that Team India will not travel to Pa- kistan to participate in the tournament. Controver- sy around the venue to host the 202 edition of Asia Cup- which will be played in a T20 format in order to help the teams’ beef up their preparations ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup in Australia- have ga- lore ever since the Chief Executing Officer (CEO) Wasim Khan declared that if India MORE DANGEROUS THAN KANHAIYA, SAYS AMIT SHAH S Imam, arrested on charges of sedition, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said his speech was “more dangerous” than that of former JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar. Speaking at an event here, Shah also said Sharjeel has been arrested by Delhi police and is being brought to Delhi to be put behind bars. WHO IS SHARJEEL IMAM? SHARJEEL IMAM? SHARJEEL IMAM? A 31-year-old student at Jawaharlal Nehru University pursuing his PhD in modern Indian history. He graduated in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. he Board of Control Cricket in In- does not come to Pakistan to play in the Asia Cup then the latter will boy- cott next years T20 World Cup which is scheduled take place in India. “The isn’t about the PCB hosting the tournament. It is about the venue and as things stand now, it is quite clear that we would need a neutral venue. There is no way that an In- dian team can visit Pa- kistan to even participate in a multi-nation event like the Asia Cup.” “If the Asian Crick- et Council (ACC) is ok with an Asia Cup mi- nus India then it is a different ball game. But if India is to participate in the Asia Cup, then the venue cannot be Pakistan,” the official said. for lamming anti-CAA activist Sharjeel to question in the tournament. Controver- sy around the venue to host the 202 edition of Asia Cup- which will be played clear that we would need a neutral venue. There is no way that an In- dian team can visit Pa- kistan to even participate in a Turn on P5 WHAT HE HAD SAID “If we have fi ve lakh people with us, we can cut off the Northeast from India. If not permanently, for one or two months. Put rubble on tracks and roads...Assam aur India katke alag ho jaaye, tabhi ye humari baat sunenge (Once Assam is cut off, then only they will listen to us)…We can do that because the Chicken’s Neck corridor (connecting Northeast to rest of India) is dominated by Muslims.” WHAT HE TWEETED “I have surrendered to the Delhi Police on 28/1 2020 at 3 PM. I am ready and willing to operate with the investigation. I have full faith in due process of law. My safety and security are now in the hand of the Delhi Police. Let peace prevail” FAST FACTS Since January 25, fi ve states have charged Sharjeel Imam, a PhD student at Jawaharlal Nehru University, with sedition and other serious offences. These include offences under the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. have surrendered to the Delhi Police on 28/1 2020 at 3 PM. I am ready and willing to operate with the investigation. I have full faith in due process of law. My safety and security are now in the hand of the Del- hi Police. Let peace prevail,” Imam tweeted. SEDITION CASE In a video recording of the speech, Imam said that India and the North East could be “permanently cut” if “fi ve lakh people can be organised”. DELHI POLICE MODUS OPERANDI On Monday, the Delhi Police deployed at least fi ve teams of the Crime Branch across three cities to look for him. Nothing to panic, coronavirus hasn’t entered India: Dr Harsh New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said there is nothing to panic as novel coronavirus has not come to India and that the government is in continuous talks with the China to bring back about 500 India nation- als to home. This is being done as a preventive measure against the outbreak of deadly novel coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province of China where more than 2,000 cases have We are taking all pre- ‘WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH, BUT SEXUALLY ABUSED IN JAIL’ Now, Dhankar ‘misses’ CU convocation Kolkata: West Bengal Governor Dhankhar was on Tues- day prevented by a section of students from at- tending the Calcutta Uni- versity’s annual convocation at Nazrul Mancha here, following which he left the premises. Dhankhar, who is also the chancellor of the university, said “those that compro- mised culture and de- corum need to be in a reflective mode”. Shortly after the governor arrived at the venue around 12.30 pm, the students, Turn on P5 the bench, which also comprises Ashok Bhushan and AS Bopanna, that the government have placed all the records before the Presi- dent but slipped up on this account. For instance, she said, the records that would indicate a delay in extending legal aid to the convict. Or the records that would indicate that only the DNA of two convicts, Ram Singh and Thakur, was on the rape victim. Turn on P5 ed Mukesh Singh before a three-judge bench led by Justice R Banumathi, has challenged the rejection of his request for a presidential pardon earlier this month. The bench later reserved its verdict to be pronounced on Wednesday . Mukesh Singh and his three other ac- complices, who were convicted gang rape and mur- der of a 23-year-old in 2012, were sentenced to death. Earlier this Jagdeep New Delhi: Mukesh Singh, one of the four men convicted for the 2012 Delhi gang rape, told the Court on Tuesday that the rejection of his mercy petition by the Presi- dent was arbitrary and the decision taken without giving Rashtrapati Bhavan an opportunity to go through the records, including the trial case verdict. Senior lawyer Anjana Prakash, who represent- ventive measures to keep our people safe. Anybody who is showing slight symptoms of flu is being kept under isolation,” Dr Var- dhan told ANI. “This, does not mean that they are a case of coronavirus. These are just suspected ones and should be quar- antined for some time for medical care. We are sending blood samples of all suspected cases to the National Institute of Virology, Pune, justices should Supreme however, NIRBHAYA RAPE CONVICT Health Minister Harsh Vardhan been reported and the virus has claimed over 80 lives so far. “I request to all people of this country not to panic as novel coronavirus has not come to India. Mukesh Singh month, a Delhi court ordered the four of them to be executed on February 1. Anjana Prakash told for the Akshay Turn on P5 Sensitive Gehlot extends palanhar scheme to silicosis patients GOVT EXTENDS LAST DATE FOR 100% REBATE ON INTEREST AMOUNT ON ONE-TIME PAYMENT OF DUE LEASE MONEY OF MUNICIPAL BODIES to pay lease money of municipal UIT, development authorities jasthan Board. Under scheme, 100% rebate was granted for one- time payment of all dues till December 31, 2019. This date has now been extended till March 31, 2020. It will provide relief to property owners, earn revenue income of municipal bodies and the state exchequer will also get a part of this amount. cosis, the child/children aged between 0-18 years of age would receive benefits of Palanhar scheme of social justice and empowerment department. For this, the government will add silicosis affected families in the list of Palan- har scheme eligibility . Gehlot’s sensitive decision would bene- fit 15,828 children that will cost the state exchequer nearly Rs 200 crore. Under the scheme, children up to six years of age get Rs 500 per month and those between 6 and 18 years get Rs 1000 per month. Meanwhile, the state government has extended the last date for 100% rebate on amount on one-time payment of due lease money of municipal bodies. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has approved a proposal of finance department in this regard. The state government had announced an amnesty scheme to encourage defaulters bodies, and Housing Ra- the First India News interest proposal of the finance department as the state government had announced Ra- jasthan silicosis policy 2019 for the welfare of families of silicosis victims. Following this proposal, when a person either the mother or father is affected from sili- Jaipur: concern over the plight of families of silicosis patients, Chief Minis- ter Ashok Gehlot has decided to extend ben- efit of scheme to children of silicosis patients. He has approved a Expressing ‘Palanhar’ —FILE PHOTO CM Ashok Gehlot with BD Kalla and Bhanwar Lal Meghwal.

RAJASTHAN JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020 04 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia CM Ashok Gehlot, Rahul Gandhi, Sachin Pilot, Avinash Pande, Vivek Bansal, Venugopal, Pratap Singh Khachariyawas, Raghu Sharma, Vishvendra SIngh, Pramod Jain Bhaya, Subhash Garg, Udai Lal Anjana, Bhanwar Lal Meghwal Harish Choudhary, Ramesh Meena, Ashok Chandana, Prasadi Lal Meena, Raghuveer Meena, Bhanwar Jitendra Singh, Dheeraj Gurjar, Amin Kagzi, Ruchi Gupta, B Srinivasan, K Raju and other Congress leaders at Yuva Aakrosh Rally. —PHOTOS BY SUMAN SARKAR &SANTOSH SHARMA PINK CITY IN TUNE WITH RAGA Gandhi scion while participating in Yuva Aakrosh Rally at city’s Ram Niwas Bagh launched ‘National Register for Unemployment; accused PM Modi of tarnishing India’s image and putting off investors Randeep Dhankar, Dharmendra Rathore, Vaibhav Gehlot, Pukhraj Parashar & Ganga Devi during Yuva Aakrosh Rally on Tuesday. RINGSIDE VIEW CM Ashok Gehlot receiving Rahul Gandhi at Jaipur Airport upon his arrival on Tuesday. Pramod Jain Bhaya, Raghu Sharma and Bhanwar Lal Meghwal. Sachin Pilot welcoming Rahul Gandhi at Jaipur Airport. WHEN PILOT LEFT RAHUL’S ADDRESS MIDWAY LEAVING ALL GUESSING z The high-point of any rally is always the ‘keynote speaker’ and when he/she addresses the gathering, people stop and listen. But it was strange to notice Sachin Pilot leave the stage when Rahul Gandhi was addressing. Pilot, who was seated on the left side of Gandhi, prior to the address, suddenly stood up from his seat and left the stage. However, after sometime he returned and sat back on his seat. Sachin’s ‘vanishing act’ raised concerns amongst political quarters and it was later found that he had gone to meet Rahul’s aide, Alankar, who is considered close to Rahul and handles his work too. Sources reveal that Pilot spoke on certain ‘grievances’. WHEN DIVYA MADERNA MISSED MEETING RAGA z While ordinary individuals may be running around her when she tours her constituency and seldom get a turn to meet her, it was Osian MLA Divya Maderna’s turn to be a commoner on Tuesday when she wanted to meet former Congress President Rahul Gandhi. Divya crossed the VIP gate and reached back-stage, however, the security detail stopped her from going on stage. The MLA whipped out her phone and called up several influential people to make her pass, but security did not budge and as a result she too stood like dozens of individuals who could only catch a glimpse of Rahul. THE PRIVILEGED SIX WHO GOT TO ADDRESS THE YUVA AAKROSH RALLY z A total of six individuals addressed the rally. While there were CM Ashok Gehlot and his deputy Sachin Pilot and of-course Rahul Gandhi, three other addresses were given by national president of Youth Congress and NSUI while the last one was by sports and youth affairs minister Ashok Chandana. None of the other ministers, national leaders or any other leader from frontal organisation were invited to address the rally. CLAMOUR FOR VIP PASSES AND THE DISAPPOINTMENT THAT FOLLOWED z As with any major ‘event’, here too struggle for VIP passes was evident. Congress post hold- ers and public representatives expressed their discontent on not being provided the passes. In the race to be seen next to Rahul Gandhi on the stage, several junior leaders could get their hands on passes, while senior leaders had to sit elsewhere. Women leaders from PCC expressed their discontent openly on the issue. Anand Srivastav. —PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA A large number of people gathered to hear Rahul Gandhi at the Yuva Aakrosh Rally at Ram Niwas Bagh on Tuesday. Mahesh Joshi. CAN AAKROSH RALLY BE TERMED AS A COME-BACK PLATFORM FOR RAGA? z The ‘Aakrosh’ rally is being again seen as the ‘come- back’ of Rahul Gandhi in main stream politics. The Congress party is abuzz that the ‘seed’ for the ‘crown’ have been sown at Jaipur’s rally and the final call over the same can be taken in March or April while a session of the AICC could be held in Rajasthan in the month of May. YOUTH & NARENDRA MODI TAKE UP RAHUL’S 25-MINUTE SPEECH TIME z In his 25-minute-long speech, Rahul focused on youth as he used the word 29 times. The second word used by him the most was Narendra Modi, which he used eight- een times and the issues like unemployment, GDP and GST were said only 6 and 3 times respectively. Interest- ingly, the main issue on which the rally was called—CAA and NPR—were said just once. COPS ENSURE SMOOTH TRAFFIC, WIN HEARTS FOR THEIR EFFORTS z Traffic management was excellent during Rahul’s rally and for this DCP Traffic Rahul Prakash was praised a lot for successfully managing the parking and diversion plan in the heart of the city. The common man did not face any kind of problem due to efforts of DCP East Rahul Jain. Team Anand Srivastav won praises from DGP Bhupendra Yadav for excellent traffic management. The DGP called and congratulated DCP Traffic Rahul Prakash, DCP East Rahul Jain, additional Commissioner Ajaypal Lamba and at the same time, Police Commis- sioner Anand Srivastava appreciated all the officers. WHEN AN EXCITED YOUTH LEADER FORGOT PARTY’S HIERARCHY z It was probably youth leader Sumit Bhagasara’s ‘photo-opportunity’ with Rahul Gandhi in front of a huge crowd or youths, that he even forgot his ‘rank’ amongst the hierarchy of leadership in the party. During the release of a poster, Bhagasara, who was too excited to share stage with Rahul, forgot that PCC Chief and Deputy CM Sachin Pilot was standing adjacent to him and in his ‘infancy’ Bhagasara pushed aside Pilot. However, AICC General secretary and Rajasthan Incharge Avinash Pande saw this and quickly signalled Bhagsara, following which he rectified his mistake and stood behind Pilot. However, showing his large heartedness, Pilot asked Sumit to stand near Rahul but Bhagasara handed the poster to Pilot and quietly stood behind Pilot. —Compiled by Yogesh Sharma & Naresh Sharma

RAJASTHAN JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020 05 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia in PANCHAYAT POLLS : OVER 60 L TO VOTE IN THIRD PHASE Voting will take place in 17,516 wards of 1,700 gram panchayats of 49 panchayat samitis Discom extends amnesty scheme Vikas Sharma BRIEF Indradhanush workshop today Jaipur: A programme building intensive workshop, Mission Indrad- hanush 2.0, is being organised by the Ministry of Health, Government of India on Wednesday in city . The function is being held through Re- gional Public Aware- ness Bureau by I&B and will be inaugurated by Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma. ries. Jaipur Discom has extended the amnesty scheme for the first time and now all consumers of domestic and non-domestic catego- ries would be able to take advantage of it. It means that now the consumers of all dis- connected connections before March 31, 2019 can get their connections restarted by paying principal amount, without depositing interest and Along with it, the period of the scheme has also been extended for two months and so ben- efit of the scheme would be taken till March 31. Apart from this, du- ration of voluntary load increase declara- tion scheme has also been extended by two months, till March 31. Jaipur: There is news of great relief for the consumers who are suf- feringbecause of elec- tricity connection being cut due to outstand- ing power bills. All such consumers can start get their power connections resumed by paying only the base amount, without depositing interest and penalty. For the same, the Jaipur Discom has extended the scope of the amnesty scheme. Actually, till now the amnesty scheme in- cluded only the discon- nected connections which were cut before April 1, 2007, but now the Discom has also abolished this obliga- tion for domestic and non-domestic catego- First India News chines have been kept on reserve. Mehra said that to resolve technical problems in EVMs engi- neers from Bharat Elec- tronics Limited and Electronics tion of India would be available all the time. They have been camp- ing in the districts since January 10. The state election commissioner said that those who do not pos- sess voter IDs can use 12 alternative photo carry- ing identification documents including driving license, Aadhar card, PAN card, MNREGA job card, passport, pension document, bank or post office passbook. ALL SET Jaipur: More than 60 lakh voters including 31.33 lakh male, 28.90 female and 26 other voters will cast vote in the third phase of panchayat elections on Wednes- day. The state election commission has made all arrangements for peaceful voting. State election commissioner has asked voters to vote for their choice of candidates without any fear or pressure. He also asked them to vote early and not to wait till the last minute of polling time. He ap- pealed to them to maintain peace during vot- 150-yr of Gandhi: Award for depts for excellent works First India News Corpora- BEd college inspection: 2 in jail Jaipur: In the matter related to inspection in BEd colleges in 2008, in- spectors Kaushalendra Yadav and Amrita Ma- heshwari have been jailed for two-and-a-half years. CBI had registered four cases against Reader in AK College Shikohabad Agra Kaushalendra and Sen- ior Lecturer in SRM College Ghaziabad Am- rita, after recovering Rs. 12,000 from Kausha- lendra and Rs96,000 from Amrita. penalty. panch in the third phase. For 31 wards not a single nomination was filed or found invalid. The third phase of voting will take place through EVMs. The state election commission will be using 8,500 EVMs while 30% ma- Kota children deaths: HC notice to govt COURT YARD Nearly, 11,000 candidates are in fray for the post of sarpanch while 17 have been elected un- opposed. Similarly , 6,953 panch have been elected unop- posed so far whereas more than 28,000 are in fray for the post of ward ing, counting and after the results are declared. “Help district adminis- tration in maintaining law and order,” he said. According to PS Meh- ra, voting will take place in 17,516 wards of 1,700 gram panchayats of 49 panchayat samitis. Man gets lifer for raping minor Jaipur: In the case of rape with an 11-year- old girl, Ganesh Bair- wa, 20, has been sentenced to imprison- ment till death. The Ph- agi resident had com- mitted the crime on May 5, 2018 in a rented room in Bhankrota. Judge Dilip Singh also imposed a penalty of Rs3 lakh on Bairwa. HC hears pulses import issue In the case pertaining to the import of pulses worth thousands of crores, the marathon hearing for 2 and a half hours continued in the High Court on Tuesday as well. ASG RD Rastogi and Anand Sharma advocated for the Centre. During the hearing, it was re- vealed that four High C o u r t s — M a d r a s, Bombay, Pradesh and Guja- rat—have dismissed petitions earlier. The advocates accused the petitioner of filing four petitions by forming 4 different firms. The High Court is be- in First India News ing misled to seek relief, the team argued. Jaipur: In the case of consistent deaths of children at the government hospital of Kota, the High Court has issued a notice to the state government. On the PIL filed by Mith- ilesh Kumar Gautam, bench of Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty has sought a response from Chief Secretary, Prin- cipal Health Secretary and others. Raj HC staff to get 10 CLs In big news related to HC, the employees of the Court were given a New Year gift when the High Court administra- tion approved 10 days casual leave (CL) of the employees. Issuing the Standing Order, the High Court administra- tion sanctioned the 10- day casual leave during summer vacation. On this moment, Court Employees Union President Rituraj Shar- ma expressed gratitude towards CJ Indrajit Ma- hanti and Registrar General Satish Sharma. Jaipur: Government departments will be rewarded for excellent work to commemorate the 150th birth anniver- sary of Mahatma Gan- dhi. Chief Secretary DB Gupta announced this during a review meeting to check progress report of departments. He said that art, cultural and literature department has been appointed as the nodal department for activities related to popularise the Mahatma’s ideology and encourage people to follow it in life. present in High Court along with IG Rules VK Singh and ADG Re- cruitment Mathur. Swaroop said that the order of Janu- ary 17 is clear and government’s stand to increase upper age limit is right in every sense. The High Court has reserved the verdict on petitions. The single of bench of Justice Pan- kaj Bhandari reserved the verdict. Cop Recruitment order challenged Jaipur: The division bench of Justice Sang- eet Raj Lodha and Jus- tice Dr PS Bhati, in the main bench of the Ra- jasthan High Court in Jodhpur, challenged the order of the single bench under Police Constable Recruitment 2018 and dismissed the petition filed by the state government. On behalf of state government, AAG Sandeep Shah said that the candidate Suresh has not only concealed the facts, but he has also not been acquitted from the Faujdari Court. Re- sponding to it, Advocate Om Prakash Sangwa said that according to the notification, it is necessary to give information of the case by the applicant once, which was provided by the candidate. DB Gupta Neeraj K Pawan Prakasha tion departments can play a major role to make Gandhiji’s ideology popular among students. DIPR commissioner Neeraj K Pawan informed that important programmes to be organised through Bharat integration mission are lined up till Samrasta Diwas on April 14. He said that government departments should coordinate to or- ganise programmes related to Gandhiji’s prin- cipals and throughout the year. The department with best performance would be rewarded on October 2. According to the CS, school and higher educa- Madhya Govt justifies stand on upper age limit In the case related to the upper age limit in the constable recruitment 2019, ACS Home Rajeeva Swaroop was ideology High Governor inaugurates SBI’s BRIEF First India News e-corner ATM at Raj Bhawan  In a major success, DCP East Jaipur Rahul Jain and his team were able to nab an inter- state gang of mobile thieves. Police arrested 2 members of the gang and recovered 15 stolen mobiles from the accused. During interroga- tion of the two accused a big disclosure came to light. Small children are brought from Jharkhand to Jaipur and put in the business of mobile stealing. This gang used to get the mobiles stolen with the help of these children. major action and were successful in arresting the accused seeking ransom of Rs 70 lakhs. The accused used to chat through WhatsApp and asked for the ransom amount. This time he demanded ransom in the name of the Balaji Temple Mahant Kishorepuri. Pradesh number plate. Both accused were caught during patrol- ling on Monday night. Both accused are the residence of Barsana, Uttar Pradesh. Phulbagh police are investigating the case further. Kota met the Governor and informed about the activities of the university. Assistant General Manager of Railways SK Aggarwal and IAS Sawarmal Verma too met Mishra. Later in the evening birthday celebrations of the Governor’s granddaughter were held at Raj Bhavan on Tuesday. Ashi is the daughter of Mishra’s younger son Amit. For- mer CM Vasundhara Raje and all members of Mishra family cele- brated the birthday . Jaipur: Kalraj Mishra inaugurated the ‘E Corner’ ATM of SBI by cutting the ribbon at Raj Bhavan on Tuesday . He also used his debit card and with- drew cash from the ATM. It was a busy day for the Governor with back to back Suresh Patodiya invited him on the foundation day of Mahadev Temple built on Delhi Road. Neelima Singh, vice- chancellor of Rajasthan Technical University Governor RaGa rally: HC refuses to take up case Questioning Rahul Gandhi’s rally at Al- bert Hall, Advocate Satish Khandelwal mentioned in the High Court before the bench of CJ Indrajit Mahanty that rally at Albert Hall is contempt of Court’s order. The HC refused to take suo motu cognizance in the case and asked the advocate to present the application in writing.  In the Thanagaji town of Alwar, a case of a woman jumping in a well along with her two children has come to light. All three died in the incident on Mon- day night at Nathusar village. Thanagaji police reached the spot and took all three bodies out of the well. SHO Sajjan Singh is investigating the case.  Alwar police were successful in arresting two accused with weap- ons in Bhiwadi, Alwar. The Phulbagh police arrested the two miscre- ants and recovered 6 locally-made pistols and 6 live cartridges. It also managed to recover a bike with Uttar Ashi meetings.  In the news from Mehndipur Balaji, Dausa police took Governor Kalraj Mishra inaugurated the ‘E Corner’ ATM of SBI by cutting the ribbon at Raj Bhavan on Tuesday. FROM PG 1 JNU student... Reacting to his arrest, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said “nobody can talk about country’s disintegration”. “Police must have acted according to law for wrongdoing. Protests are one thing, but nobody can talk about the country’s disintegration,” told reporters. On Mon- day , the Delhi Police deployed at least five teams of the Crime Branch across three cities to look for him. In a video of his Jan- uary 16 speech, Imam gave the example of a Kanhaiya Kumar rally nor had left the venue. Taking to Twitter, Dhankhar later shared pictures of his rendez- vous with the Nobel laureate and said, “The actions of those who created or stage managed unseemly specta- cle would resonate for long in the ears of the cultured people of WB (West Bengal)”. ‘Was sentenced... From tomorrow, it will be expanded to seven more airports. Till now, about 35,000 passengers have been scanned at the airports, he said. in Bihar, where “around five lakh people turned up”, and said, “If we have five lakh people with us, we can cut off the Northeast from In- dia. If not permanently , for one or two months. Put rubble on tracks and roads...Assam aur India katke alag ho jaaye, tabhi ye humari baat sunenge (Once Assam is cut off, then only they will listen to us)…We can do that because the Chicken’s Neck corridor (connecting Northeast to rest of India) is dominated by Muslims.” programme however, another group of students took to the stage and raised slogans against the gover- nor, this time prompt- ing him to leave the venue around 1.30 pm. The claimed that Dhankhar was “the (BJP- led) Cen- tre’s representative, who doesn’t deserve to be on the dais for CU’s convocation ceremony”. Vice-Chancellor Son- ali Chakravarty Band- hopadhyay, on her part, was seen trying to con- vince the students to withdraw their agita- tion. She later announced that the gover- started, government is vigilant. Prime Minister Naren- dra Modi is himself taking regular updates on the situation. All States have been directed to follow the instructions to be prepared. In 2014, we were so strict and focused that our efforts did not let Ebola virus to enter India. I am also in regular touch with the WHO,” he said. He said that the government will expand the thermal screening facil- ity to seven more airports now. Till now, thermal screening of passengers coming from China via Hong Kong was done at 13 airports. miliation that he was subjected to. “Courts only sentenced me to death..was I sentenced to be sexually abused?”, said the lawyer representing Mukesh Singh. Rebecca John, who also repre- sented Mukesh Singh, pointed to the pace at which the President rejected his mercy plea. Tushar Mehta, the Centre’s most-senior law officer, countered Singh’s submissions, arguing that it was strange that questions about sanctity of life are being raised by the convict. statement. Have you seen the video of (the speech of) Sharjeel? It is more dangerous than Kanhaiya statement,” he said. “He (Sharjeel) is talking about cutting off the Chicken’s Neck to disin- tegrate Assam from In- dia. Even seven genera- tions would not be able to do that,” Shah said. Kumar’s Now, Dhankar... with ‘No CAA’ and ‘No NRC’ posters in hand, waved black flags at him and raised ‘go back’ slogans. Dhankhar straight towards the Nazrul Mancha green room, where he met No- bel Laureate Abhijit Ba- nerjee, who was on Tuesday conferred hon- orary D Litt (honoris causa) by the university. Minutes before the protesters he headed Nothing to... for testing. So far all the results have been negative,” added Dr Vard- han. “Three suspected coronavirus cases at RML Hospital been kept in isolation for medical care. Our second Mukesh Singh’s lawyers also complained that he had been sent to solitary confinement even before his mercy plea was which was a violation of norms and the hu- Mukesh have rejected, More dangerous... “See his (Sharjeel’s)

PERSPECTIVE 06 JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia CHALLENGES BEFORE CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF He can send files directly to the defence minister thus circumventing the bureaucracy IN-DEPTH RAHUL’S SILENCE ON CAA AND NRC PERPLEXING T COL DEVANAND LOHAMAROD he only surprise about Rahul Gan- dhi’s ‘Yuva Aakrosh’ rally in Jaipur on Tuesday was his silence on two issues that his party has been very vocal about: the CAA and its ideological cousin, the proposed NRC. The Congress leader has always been a maverick when it comes to issues and even people -- he wants to embrace. But, even by his own standards, his silence on CAA and NRC was a bit perplexing. The rally in Jaipur was held in the backdrop of the Rajasthan government’s decision to steer a resolution against the CAA in the state Assembly. The timing of the rally and the clear stand taken by the Con- gress suggested Rahul may use the occasion to speak unequivocally on the contentious subjects. But then, only Rahul knows when he would resort to a jhappi and when he would roll out a testy ‘Chowkidaar hi...’ slogan against the recipient of his ephemeral affection. Be that as it may, the Congress leader tried to be loyal to the occasion—the script of his speech was in complete sync with the title of the rally . He spoke about the angst amidst the youth because of rising unemployment, the melancholia among traders because of a falling economy and the impact of what he calls Gabbar Singh Tax and the erosion of savings in Indian households, especially in rural areas. He pointed out that the country has lost at least 10 million jobs, a big letdown consider- ing the PM’s promise of generating 20 million additional opportunities. He blasted the Modi govt for bringing down the real GDP growth to “less than 2.5 percent” and wasting the demographic dividend of the country by ruining the economy . Even though this narrative is now being played on the loop, all these are valid criticisms. The Indian government has indeed taken some questionable decisions in the past and many experts now believe the current slowdown in the economy was triggered by the decision to outlaw currency notes of the higher denomi- nation in 2016 and introduce the Goods and Services Tax without adequate homework and planning. It is apparent Rahul is trying to focus on the performance of the Modi government and highlight its failures. By doing this, Rahul believes, the attention would shift from emotive issues like nationalism and the politics of Hindutva. His attempt to mobi- lise the youth (Yuva) points at a strategy to strike at Modi’s loyal base by arguing they have been betrayed by the BJP . But, his silence on NRC-CAA shows Rahul is still wary of raising contentious issues and getting drawn into an ideological debate with the BJP. Right or wrong, it’s a strategy that makes him pragmatic in a milieu of idealism. P M Modi’s 2019 Independence Day assurance followed by cab- inet approval has fulfilled a long-pending demand of nation to have a Chief Of De- fence Staff (CDS) as a single- point military advisor to the government on all matters related to the military with a focus on the synergy between the Army/Air Force / Navy. The security challenges and amidst the threat of Hy- brid wars in future (a blend of psychological, cyber, space, economic and media) the decision to approve CDS is a bold one and is a display of strong and mature democracy disap- proving the apprehensions about CDS becoming an all - too powerful position capable of challenging the government. So far Bharat was the only large democracy that did not have a single point military advisor; with all P 5 members of UNO and 65 other countries already having CDS like posts to deal with threats of modern warfare. In addition to CDS, the defence ministry comprises four arms namely departments of defence, Defence production, Defence research, and Ex-Servicemen welfare all headed by secretary-level officers. The CDS will be the “first among equals” and the three service chiefs retaining the operational command of their respective forces but will be the permanent chairman of the chiefs of staff committee, giving that appointment stability for up to three years against the earlier short tenures based on a rotation system. CDS has a dual-hatted role wherein he will head the newly established Departmen t of Military Affairs (DMA)/ the Sainya Karya Vibhag in the De- fence Ministry and will be permanent Chairman of the Chief of Staff Committee. Works ex- clusively pertaining to military matters will now fall un- Secretary on grounds that their “remit is broader than military matters”. However, three armed services, their respective headquarters, the ter- ritorial army and works relat- ing to the Army, Navy, and Air force have been moved to the direct ambit of CDS. The CDS will have the powers to send files directly to the defence minister thus circumventing the bureaucracy. Contrary to the original recommendations of a five-star rank officer, appointing CDS with only four-star rank may have working problems at exe- cution level since the equiva- lence of rank does not carry the stamp of authority. The CDS will exercise authority over the Andaman & Nico- bar Command (ANC) and the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) and will be the nuclear adviser to the Prime Minis- ter. The responsibility of su- pervising the 15-year Long Term Integrated Perspective Plan and modernisation of defence forces will demand detail understanding and coordination for allocating financial priorities based on the recommendations of the three service headquarters. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL der the preview of DMA while the larger issues pertaining to Defence of the country will continue to remain with the Department of Defence. The important functions of the CDS will be:- @ Will be the Principal Mili- tary Advisor to the Govern- ment on all tri-Services matters. @ Will be the military advisor to the Atomic Command Authority . @ Will be the permanent chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. @ Will be the head of the De- partment of Military Affairs. @ Will be a member of the defence acquisition Council chaired by Defence Minister and the defence planning committee chaired by national security advisor. @ Will have direct command over tri-service organisations related to Special Forces, Space, and Cyber do- mains. The current CDS working system is more evolutionary in nature and will progressively adopt more means of integration and joint functioning until an integrated theatre command system is established. The three-year time frame has been given to the first CDS to bring The current CDS working system is more evolutionary in nature and will progressively adopt more means of integration and joint functioning about synergy in training/op- erations/logistics and support services like communications, repairs, and maintenance of the three services leading to the establishment of theatre commands. Defence Secretary will continue to have primacy on policy matters an d big weap- onry purchase/capital acquisition. National Defence College (NDC) and the Insti- tute of Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA) have been placed under the Defence The CDS will exercise authority over the Andaman & Nicobar Command (ANC) and the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) and will be the nuclear adviser to the Prime Minister Economic slowdown: The other side of growth O often educated abroad, more ambitious, and sav- vier about technology and world markets. Or maybe the accumulation of modest profits eventually made it possible to pay for the shift to bigger and better plants. Or maybe both causes—and played a role. More generally, perhaps the reason why some countries, like Chi- na, can grow so fast for so long is that they start with a lot of poorly used talent and resources that can be harnessed to more valuable activities. But as the economy sheds its worst plants and firms and solves its most dire misallocation issues, the space for further improvement naturally shrinks. communism or India did in its days of extreme di- rigisme, the first benefits of reform may come from moving resources to their best uses. In the case of Indian manufacturing firms, for example, there was a sharp accelera- tion in technological up- grading at the plant level and some reallocation to- ward the best firms within each industry after 2002. This appears to be unre- lated to any changes in economic policy, and has been described as “India’s mys- terious manufacturing miracle.” But it was no miracle, just a modest improvement from a rather dismal starting point. One can imagine various reasons why it happened. Perhaps it re- sulted from a generational shift, as control passed from parents to children, ne of the most worrying news stories of 2019 did not receive the coverage the ment’s chief economic adviser, has argued, based on triangulating evidence on various economic indicators, that growth may sink as low as 3.5 percent. In China, GDP growth has slowed from 14.2 percent in 2007 to 6.6 percent in 2018. The IMF projects that it might fall to 5.5 percent by 2024. Rapid growth there and in India have lifted millions out of poverty, and the slowdown is likely to impede progress on improving the lives of the poor. What should China and India do? Or, rather, what should they not do? When we were writing our book “Good Economics for Hard Times” in 2018, before the bad news about India started coming out, we were already concerned Indian govern- one might expect from media outlets in the United States or Europe. But the economic slowdown in China, and the potential- ly steep deceleration in growth in India, will most likely receive con- siderably more attention in 2020. The International Mon- etary Fund, the Asian De- velopment Bank, and the OECD have downgraded their growth estimates for India in 2019-20 to around 6 percent, which would be the lowest since the beginning of the decade. Others claim that even this is op- timistic and project much more dire narratives. For example, Arvind Subra- manian, until recently others— about a potential down- turn there (the slowdown in China was already known). Anticipating the fall in growth, we warned that “India should fear complacency.” The point we were making is simple: in countries that start from a situation in which resources are being used badly, as in China under India may be caught in the same “middle- income trap” that ensnared Malaysia, Thailand, Egypt, Mexico, and Peru TOP TWEET Dharmendra Pradhan @dpradhanbjp Had a productive meeting with HE Mr. Vincenzo de Luca, Ambassador of Italy @ItalyinIndia, Mr. Ruggero Corrias, Director, International Relations, Mr. Mario Franchin, SVP Commercial Global Solutions along with a high-level delegation from SNAM Global Solutions. FOR FULL REPORT LOG ON TO WWW.PROJECTSYNDICATE.COM G Vol 1 G Issue No. 233 GRNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764. Printed and published by Anita Hada Sangwan on behalf of First Express Publishers. Printed at Bhaskar Printing Press, D.B. Corp Limited, Shivdaspura, Tonk Road, Jaipur. Published at 304, 3rd Floor, City Mall, Bhagwan Das Road, C-Scheme, Jaipur-302001, Rajasthan. 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INDIA JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020 07 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia ‘CENTRE WANTS BETTER COORDINATION WITH STATES’ Centre will extend support for the betterment of all regions, Shah said PM to inaugurate Defence Expo 2020 POWERGallery 19 IPS OFFICERS RETIRING IN JANUARY As many as 19 IPS offi cers of various cadres and batches are retiring in January 2020. They include: Amulya Kumar Patnaik, Shivaji Sinha, Brijesh Kumar Sinha of UT cadre; Md Rahman of Bihar; K C Agrawal, A R Korram of Chhat- tisgarh; MAMH Anarwala of Guj; Arun Kumar Singh of Jharkhand; Neelamani N Raju, Dr Mal- gaveri Narain Reddy, Raghavendra H Auradkar, Rajendra Prasad P of Karnataka; Tomy K M of Kerala; B G Gaikar of Mahrashtra; Akhil Kumar Shukla, Khatra Joy Reang of Tripura and Dr Om Prakash Singh, Mahendra Modi and Sunil Kumar Singh of UP. WILL SEBI HAVE NEW CHIEF? It seems that the Government is in search of a new Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Chairman. The Government has now issued an advertisement for the post putting to rest speculation about the reappointment of Ajay Tyagi as SEBI Chief whose term is coming to an end next month. The chairman will be appointed on the recommendation of FSRAC. S K DASH TO BE MEMBER OF CBDT? S K Dash is likely to be appointed new Member of the CBDT. He is 1983 batch IRS (IT) offi cer. WILL ASHA AGRAWAL MISS THE BUS? Asha Agrawal is likely to miss the bus for the post of Member CBDT. SHARMA STRONG CONTENDER FOR MEMBER, RAILWAY BOARD Suneet Sharma, a 1978 IRSME offi cer, is re- portedly ahead in the race for Member, Rolling Stock, if post continues. He is presently posted as GM, Eastern Railway. DECISION ABOUT CP, DELHI & DGP, UP Long awaited decision about fate of CP, Delhi and DGP, UP will be taken this week. Amulya Patnaik, CP and OP Singh, DGP UP are scheduled to retire on January 31. 3 DEFENCE ADVISERS IN INDIA’S UK MISSION Indian High Commission in UK is one of the few foreign missions of Indian Government which has advisers for all three wings—Brig- adier V M B Krishnan (Military), Commodore Anil Jaggi (Naval), Air Commodore Prashant Mohan (Air Adviser). NEW ORISSA CJ TO BE FROM NE? Orissa High Court will get a new Chief Justice soon. The new Chief Justice is currently holding the offi ce of a north eastern State. AMIT AGRAWAL APPOINTED GOVT NOMINEE ON BOB BOARD The Central Government has nominated Amit Agrawal, Joint Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Financial Services, as Government Nominee Director on the Board of Directors of Bank of Baroda. JUSTICE A B SINGH TO TAKE OVER AS NCLAT JUDICIAL MEMBER Justice Anant Bijay Singh has resigned as Judge of the Jharkhand High Court following his appointment as Judicial Member of Nation- al Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). RAO APPOINTED ADDL SECY, DEFENCE PRODUCTION V L Kantha Rao has been appointed as Ad- ditional Secretary, Department of Defence Production. SANJAY KUMAR SINGH APPOINTED ADDL SECY, AGRICULTURE RESEARCH & EDU Sanjay Kumar Singh has been appointed Ad- ditional Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research & Education and Secretary, Indian Council of Agricultural Research. ONE IPS OFFICER OF 1990 BATCH FROM TAMIL NADU EMPANELLED AS ADG One 1990 batch IPS offi cer, out of total fi ve, from Tamil Nadu cadre has been empanelled for holding ADG and ADG equivalent posts in Government of India. 19 OFFICERS OF UT SEGMENT AWARDED IAS CADRE 19 offi cers of State Civil Service of UT Seg- ment have been awarded Indian Administrative Service (IAS) cadre. The offi cers include: Arun Mishra, Kalyan Sahai Meena, Syed Musaw- wir Ali, Sundaresan S D, Deepak Virman, Indu Shekhar Mishra, Sanjeev Kumar Mittal, Jayanta Kumar Ray, Sunil Kumar Singh, Ajay Kumar Bisht, Ravi Prakash A S P S, Smitha R, Pankaj Kumar Jha, Vinay Kumar, Vallavan E, Anil Kumar Singh, Pooja Joshi, Balwan Singh Jaglan and D Varma. causes harm to the country but also ham- pers its smooth functioning. Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttara- khand are attend the meeting while Chhat- tisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel is present as the vice chairman. The regional councils of states were formed for maintaining better coordination and address various issues between the Centre and states, and of the states among themselves. Shah said the Centre has made efforts to hold such meetings “which would yield better results”. —ANI Raipur: The Centre’s intention is to maintain a “better coordination” with all states, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday while addressing the Central Zonal Council (CZC) meeting here in Chhattisgarh. Shah chaired the 22nd meeting of the CZC, a forum for the Centre and states to exchange ideas on multi- ple issues including security and structure, Raipur. “The Centre intends to maintain a better coordination with all the states,” Shah said in his address. He also said that the Army tanks to be displayed in the upcoming Defence Expo 2020. Transformation of De- fence”. The event is being touted as biggest ever defence exhibition in India in terms of par- ticipation of various stakeholders. DefExpo-2020 aims to bring the leading technologies in the defence sector under one roof and provide a myriad of opportunities for government, manufactures startups. —Agencies Lucknow: With India aiming to evolve into a major indigenous defence manufacturing powerhouse in the years to come, Prime Minister Modi is likely to inaugurate the biggest ever De- fence Expo to be held in Lucknow next month. The biennial event known as DefEx- po would be held from 5-9 February and its lat- est edition will have a theme of Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the 22nd meeting of the Central Zonal Council, in Raipur on Tuesday. and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath said that several issues have led to con- frontation between the Centre and though he avoided any specific mention. He said such con- frontation not only BJP inspects govt schools in Delhi, Shah slams Kejri over poor infra Centre will extend support to states on all the fronts for their betterment. The issue of co- operative federalism is currently debated in certain quarters in the context of CAA. Earlier in the day, senior Congress leader infra- Nava at mega states, regularly, private and “Digital Davinder ’s arrest prompted search for black sheep: CRPF New Delhi: Home Min- ister Amit slammed Arvind Kejriwal, alleging poor infrastructure in state-run schools and said that claims of education revolution have been ‘exposed’ during visits by BJP parliamen- tarians at schools. “Arvind Kejriwal ji, you had called me to visit the schools run by the Delhi government. Yesterday, eight MPs of Delhi had toured different schools and showed the conditions. ground situation has exposed the claims of ‘revolution in education’. Now, you have to give an answer to the public of Delhi,” Shah tweeted. EC ISSUES NOTICE TO THAKUR ‘PEOPLE WANT PEACE, NOT ANARCHY’ Shah CM New Delhi: Hitting out at Kejriwal, Union Minis- ter Dharmendra Pradhan said BJP’s victory in en- suing Delhi polls is ‘certain as people want peace and not anarchy.’ “BJP’s victory is certain. People of Delhi want peace, not anarchy. It is the BJP that promotes brotherhood, unity and peace... People will give a befi tting reply to those who want to create a Shaheen Bagh-like environment in Delhi...Whenever Kejriwal ji wants, the road in Shaheen Bagh will be re-opened.” said Pradhan. New Delhi: Central Re- serve Police Force, the Centre’s lead counter- insurgency force, had carried out a massive internal audit to check if there were any attempts of subversion within the force after the arrest of J&K police officer Davinder Singh, CRPF chief AP Ma- heshwari said. Davinder Singh, the Deputy Superintendent of Police of the J&K Po- lice, was arrested on January 11 on charges of colluding with terrorists. Singh’s arrest had stunned the J&K police force but it had also underscored the Delhi possibility that there might be other officers as well who could col- lude with terrorists. Maheshwari, had recently taken over the CRPF, said “It was a grave incident.... an area of extreme concern”. CRPF has deployed about 70,000 personnel in J&K. —ANI CLEAR VIOLATION OF LAW New Delhi: Just a day after MoS Finance Anurag Thakur raised slogans of ‘Desh Ke Gaddaro Ko, Goli Maaro Saalo Ko’ during an election rally in Delhi, Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Tuesday said that such slogans are clear violation of several sections of IPC. He also claimed that the “BJP started these slogans”. who The IN THE COURTYARD SPECIAL COURT SENDS THAMPI TO JUDICIAL CUSTODY SC TO CONCLUDE HEARING ON WOMEN’S ENTRY TO SABARIMALA TEMPLE, MOSQUES IN 10 DAYS PLEA FOR TIME TO FILE NOMINATION DISMISSED SC ALLOWS BRINGING CHEETAH FROM AFRICA New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking “reasonable time” to file nomination for the upcoming assembly polls alleging they were not able to do the same due to long queue and special treatment given to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. —ANI New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave its nod to a project by the Central government seeking to bring African Cheetah to suitable sites in India. A Bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde allowed bringing Cheetah from Namibia to Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh. —ANI New Delhi: A special court in Delhi on Tues- day sent businessman CC Thampi to judicial custody till February 7 and reserved its order on a bail plea filed by him in tion with a money laun- dering case pertaining to the overseas properties of Robert Vadra. Special Judge Arvind Kumar will pass order on the bail plea. Court refused to extend ED remand of Thampi, which sought by the economic offenses watchdog. —ANI before the top court and said that all the lawyers from various parties in the case sat together and discussed the issue but could not reach a consensus on the matter, which is to be heard by a 9-judge constitution bench. SC had on January 13 said that it will only hear the questions re- ferred to in the review order passed by it in November last year in the Sabarimala temple case, which allowed women and girls of all age groups to visit the shrine in Kerala. —ANI New Delhi: The Su- preme Court on Tues- day fixed a 10-day period for concluding the hearing on the petition seeking women’s entry into Sabarimala temple, mosques, and Par- si Agiyari. A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Jus- tice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde, was hearing the petitions pertaining to the dis- crimination against women at places of worship. General Tushar Mehta mentioned the matter ORDER RESERVED ON CRYPTOCURRENCY BAN JUDGE OFFERS TO RECUSE FROM BHOPAL GAS CASE connec- New Delhi: SC reserved its order on pleas challenging RBI decision, which barred banking services from dealing in any transaction linked with cryptocurrency. A bench headed by Justice RF Nari- man has reserved the order after hearing arguments from all the parties in the matter. —ANI New Delhi: A Supreme Court judge on Tuesday offered to recuse himself from hearing the Central government’s curative plea seeking additional funds of Rs 7,844 crore from successor firms of US- based Union Carbide Corporation for compensation to the victims of 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy . —ANI Solicitor was TARANJIT SINGH SANDHU NEXT INDIAN AMBASSADOR TO US New Delhi: Senior diplomat Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Tuesday was appointed as the next Indian ambassador to the United States. Sandhu is currently serving as the High Commissioner of India in Sri Lanka. He will be replacing Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who has been serving for the post since January 2019. ‘ARREST OF PTM’S PASHTEEN INTERNAL MATTER OF PAKISTAN’ New Delhi: The arrest of PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen is an internal matter of Pakistan, Indian Army’s new Vice Chief, Lieutenant General Satinder Kumar Saini said. Saini’s remarks are in stark contrast with the stance taken by the Paki- stani military which often spews venom against India, mostly over New ‘IMPOSE COW SLAUGHTER BAN THROUGHOUT COUNTRY’ Panjim: Secretary-general of VHP, Milind Parande on Monday said that a ban on cow slaughter should be imposed throughout the country. “ We are not calling for a ban on other non-vegetarian food,” Parande told ANI “There should be a ban. The cow is related to the Hindu faith. We will campaign for this and interact with political parties regarding it,” he said. “We do not believe in violence. We will pursue a ban on cow slaughter in the country. It has been our public stand for the last 50 years, he added. Sandhu will take up the assignment shortly, the MEA said while making the announcement. He served in the former So- viet Union (Russia) from 1990 to 1992 as Third Secretary (Political)/ Sec- ond Secretary (Commer- cial). Following the break up of the Soviet Union, he was sent to open a new Embassy in Ukraine. Delhi’s internal matters. PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen was arrested from Shaheen town in Peshawaron Monday. In Pakistan, where speaking against the military is frowned upon, PTM is known for its strident criti- cism of the country’s powerful military for alleged enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.

INDIA JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020 08 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia ‘AMIT SHAH ASKED ME TO INDUCT KISHOR INTO JDU’ Kumar all but expelled his close aide, who has been needling him on CAA ‘Nation progressing with youthful thinking’ Our govt cleared stalled purchase of Rafale: Modi New Delhi: BJP government cleared work which had been stalled for more than three dec- ades leading to inclu- sion of Rafale aircraft in the fleet of IAF, said PM Narendra Modi. “For over 30 years not a single next-generation fighter plane was added to IAF’s fleet. Our age- ing aircrafts used to meet with accidents, fighter pilots kept getting martyred but the people responsible for getting the new planes had no concern. Should we have let that continue? Should we have allowed the Air Force to get weakened? No. We cleared the work which was stalled for more than 30 years and today I am happy that India has got the next-generation fighter plane Rafale and it will fly in the country’s skies soon,” Modi said. New Delhi: Prime Min- ister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that today there is ‘Yuva Soch’ and the country is progressing with youthful thinking. “That is the reason it does surgical strike, airstrike and teaches a lesson to terrorists after entering their dence,” he said while addressing a function of NCC. “Our government did what your thinking and young heart want. Today there is a National War Memo- rial in Delhi and also a National Police Memo- rial. Youth energy is the biggest strength today . This energy has always handled this country . This energy will also handle this decade,” said Modi. Praising NCC for inculcating discipline and commitment in the youth, Modi Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday said that then BJP president Amit Shah had asked him to induct political strategist Kishor into the Janata Dal-United (JDU). “Someone wrote a letter I replied to it. Some- one is tweeting, let him tweet. What do I’ve to do with it? One can stay in the party (JD-U) till he wants. He can go if he wants...Do you know how did he join the party? Amit Shah asked me to induct him,” said Ku- mar. Kishor has more than once made his dif- ferences with the party known on the issue of the amended citizenship Act. JDU had supported the legislation in both Houses of Parliament. ‘IT’S OK IF HE STAYS OR LEAVES’ Prashant resi- ‘PAK TAKE STEPS AGAINST TERROR’ youthful ance of the party with BJP for Delhi polls. Kumar said: “That is not a letter. If a person is in the party, he writes a letter explain- ing the issue and then a reply is given to that person. Sending an e- mail without even in- forming and straight away going to the press doesn’t make any sense to me. I don’t consider that to be a letter.” —ANI Last month, Kishor had told ANI that it is only Bihar Chief Minis- ter Kumar, who can tell under what circum- stances the party supported the (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. On January 24 this year, Bihar Chief Min- ister had hit out at senior party leader Pavan K Varma about the alli- Citizen devotion, commitment and more such qualities. These are directly associated with the development of the country,” PM said. —ANI said these qualities are directly associated with development country . “NCC instils the youth of the country with energy, discipline, Soren expands J’khand ministry of the CAARNAMA ‘Ready for talks, first withdraw CAA’ ‘CAA protests meant to create 1947- like situation’ and Rajasthan, West Bengal is the fourth state to pass a resolution against the CAA. The state assembly had on September 6 last year, passed a resolution against the NRC. Protests have been going on in different parts of against CAA which grants citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and Christians fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Af- ghanistan, and Bangla- desh if they entered India on or before De- cember 31, 2014. —ANI but NRC,” said the chief minister. Mamata Ba- nerjee was speaking at an event organised to protest against the CAA, through paint- ings. Banerjee further added she will not ac- cept NRC, NPR and CAA. “We want a united India, we want united Bengal. We are not accepting CAA, NRC and NPR,” she said. The West Bengal As- sembly on Monday passed a resolution against the CAA which was moved by TMC government. After Kerala, Punjab first withdraw Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mama- ta Banerjee on Tuesday said that she is ready for talks with Prime Minister Modi but first the PM will have to withdraw the contentious Citizenship Amendment (CAA). “It is good that the Prime Minister ready for talks but first take back CAA. They did not call an all-party meet before taking a decision on Kashmir and CAA. NRC, NPR, and CAA these three are bad for the country . We are ready for talks Act country is power in the state on De- cember 29 last year, oust- ing the BJP- led regime. Soren Champai Soren, Haji Hussain Ansari, Jagar- nath Mahato, Joba Man- jhi, Mithilesh Kumar Thakur (all from JMM), Banna Gupta and Badal Patralekh (both from Congress). Mahato and Thakur are first-time ministers and Manjhi had been a minister in previous NDA governments. The other four had been in the previous UPA governments. —ANI Jharkhand Ranchi: CM Hemant Soren expanded his one-month- old ministry, inducting seven ministers in the Council of Ministers. Governor Droupadi Murmu administered oath of office and secre- cy to the newly inducted ministers in a simple ceremony Bhavan. Five of the new ministers Jharkhand Mukti Mor- cha and two belong to Congress. The JMM- Congress-RJD coalition government assumed New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and Union minister Giriraj Sin- gh claimed that the protests against the CAA are being organised to “create 1947- like conditions” when India was parti- tioned, and alleged that Congress, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and “tukde- tukde gang” are behind the Shaheen Bagh protest. Singh also accused Delhi CM Arvind Ke- jriwal of allegedly backing the “tukde- tukde gang”. “If a state refuses to im- plement a law passed by Parliament, will democracy remain in this country? The Congress Mamata and the tukde-tukde gang have made democracy a joke. They are using Shaheen Bagh as a pawn to further their ambi- tions,” Singh said. inducted West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee draws a painting at anti CAA, NRC and NPR art camp in Kolkata on Tuesday. Follow constitution or tear it off: BJP MLA opposes CAA ‘Shaheen protesters can enter homes’ at Raj are from W anti-CAA and NRC protests at Shaheen Bagh continued, Delhi will face a “Kash- mir-like situation”. Verma also said protesters Shaheen Bagh “can enter homes rape our sisters and daughters”. The protesters at Shaheen Bagh are predomi- nantly women. Ver- to prove their citizenship,” he said. Tripathi, who was previously with the Congress and the Sa- majwadi Party, said an atmosphere of gruh kalah was prevailing in the country. No village, mohalla, or country can enjoy peace if such an atmosphere prevails, he said. Tripathi had voted along with Congress in Madhya Pradesh As- sembly on a bill last year but the BJP did not crack the whip against him. —Agencies ma’s remarks come a day after he had said that no one will be found at the protest site in Shaheen Bagh if BJP is voted to power in Delhi. “People of Delhi know that the incident that had happened in Kashmir, the daughters and sisters of Kashmiri were raped. Similar incidents continued to happen in UP, Hy- derabad, Kerala. est Delhi MP Pravesh Ver- ma said if the Bhopal: Opposing the the new CAA and the proposed NRC, BJP MLA Narayan Trip- athi said the country cannot be along religious lines. “Either you follow the constitution or tear it off because it lays emphasis on secular- ism and the country can’t be divided along religious lines. Yet the country is being divided along lines,” the Maihar leg- islator said adding that Muslims in villages are suspicious and Pak: Protests over Hindu woman’s kidnapping divided ago. The 24-year-old was said to be abducted by residents with help of local police personnel on Saturday . She had already been married off to a Pakistani man by the time her family members managed to lodge a sources said. —Agencies New Delhi: Union government summoned a senior official from Pa- kistan High Commis- sion to register its protest against alleged ab- duction of a Hindu woman midway through her marriage ceremony at Hala city in Pak’s Sindh province two days party, avoid interacting with others. “When getting an Aadhar card made is difficult for people in rural areas and the poor in urban areas where will the people get all the documents at Banerjee and Pandits religious complaint, India’s first underwater metro Kolkata: Kolkata Met- ro Rail Corp. expects to complete its East-West project, which runs partly under Hooghly river, by March 2022 after a delay of several years doubled costs.The authority is awaiting a final installment of 200 million rupees over next two years from Indian Railway Board, said Ma- nas Sarkar, managing director at KMRC. A soft loan of 41.6 billion rupees from Japan Inter- national Cooperation Agency helps 48.5% of the project. BUILDER WHO ROSE TOO HIGH FELL TOO FAST H is being said about a builder from Jaipur, who was in the ‘thick’ of talks centered around new projects as the man launched new projects one after the other wherein several major investors from the Pink City had invested with the builder. Projects were initiated at C-Scheme, Sahkar Marg, Vaishali Nagar, Malviya Nagar and Vidhyadhar Nagar, however, since 2017, his luck seems to have run out as most of his projects have been lying dormant. All his investor ‘friends’ have left him. Interestingly, the man had set foot in the real estate sector from Insurance sector and everyone believes that he will not repeat his ‘mistake’. KAMLA AASHIRWAD PROJECT ON LAND WORTH `19.64 CRORES T 19.64 crore rupees for its new project, Kamla Aashirwad Project. the deal is touted to be one pof the most important which has given a boost to the local real-estate sector as the group has registered its project with RERA. DUBAI INVESTED BUILDER A of many discussions in the real-estate sector. The builder, who got crores of rupees to be invested from Dubai based businessmen, has struck gold! Within a few months, the builder has changed the market and launched several projects while also opening resorts in Goa. Looking at his growth, several builders from Dubai are looking to get themselves on the same ‘line’. However, I-T department has started its ‘vigil’ on the builder and so has ED! he Sunny Real Construction Group at Bharatpur purchased a 9055 square yard piece of land for e came like a storm, went like a blizzard! Something on these lines well known young builder from Jaipur is the focus Realty Check UNIQUE MANTRA REALTY’S MAJOR DEAL IN AJMER T underwent a major land deal in Ajmer city wherein the real-estate fi rm has purchased 98,880 square yard land for 20.41 crore rupees near Hathikhora village. The RERA registered project is much talked about in the Ajmer real estate sector. he Unique Mantra Realty has FIRST INDIA speads its vistas... we shall now recount bytes and buzz in the real estate sector fund

SPORTS JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020 09 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia in SHOWDOWN SET FOR BIG CLASH NOVAK DJOKOVIC AND ROGER FEDERER SET FOR 50TH MEETING IN AUSTRALIAN OPEN SEMI-FINAL BRIEF Advani beat Sourav in final Pune: Ace Indian cue- ist Pankaj Advani on Tuesday claimed yet another Senior National Billiards Championship title with a 5-2 win over Sourav Kothari in a pul- sating final here. After losing the first frame in the best-of-9 150-up tie, Advani bounced back with breaks of 95 and 151 to go 2-1 up. Open semi-final. In the semi-final match, Djoko- vic will compete against Roger Federer, made it to the semi-finals after beating Ten- nys Sandgren of USA by 6-3, 2-6, 2-6, 7-6, 6-3. The world number three, Federer, has now entered his 15th semi-final of the Australian Open. He has also become the oldest player since Aus- tralia’s Ken Rosewall in 1977 to make it to the semi-finals of the tournament. Melbourne: They own a combined 13 Australi- an Open crowns between them and will meet for the 50th time in the Australian Open. The Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic cruised to the semi-finals after securing a win over Canada’s Milos Raonic. Djokovic Raonic in all three sets and secured a 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 win in the match. With this victory , the Serbian player has advanced to his eighth Australian Chess: Anand draws with Duda New Delhi: Five-time winner Viswanthan Anand had to settle for the joint sixth spot after drawing with Jan-Kr- zysztof Duda of Poland in the 13th and final round of Tata Steel Chess tournament that concluded. Fabiano Caruana capped a brilliant performance with another fine victory coming at the expense of Vladislav Artemiev of Russia and won the tournament with a huge two points margin over world champion Mag- nus Carlsen of Norway , who finished second. who dominated HEAD TO HEAD Novak Djokovic 26 Roger Federer 23 WIN Rajasthan women beat Saurashtra Jaipur: Rajasthan women defeated Sau- rashtra on Tuesday in the Under 23 Women’s One Day Trophy in the match being played in Chennai. Playing first, Saurashtra scored 155 runs for 9 wickets. Ra- jasthan bowlers Arpita Chaudhary and Sumi- tra Jat took 2 wickets each. It was Ayushhi Garg’s half-century and brilliant innings from Tanuja Vaishnav that led the team to victory . 49 WIN BARTY REACHES MAIDEN SEMI-FINAL SIMONA HALEP’S QUARTERFINALS CLASH TODAY Ashleigh Barty withstood a fi erce challenge from Petra Kvi- tová to become the fi rst local woman to reach the Australian Open semi-fi nals in 36 years. The steely-eyed world No 1 had to fi ght off eight break points in a tense fi rst set before deny- ing the free-hitting Czech 7-6 (8-6) 6-2 in a rematch of their 2019 quarter-fi nal at Rod Laver Arena. The fi rst Australian to make the Open semi-fi nals since Wendy Turnbull in 1984, Barty will play American 14th seed Sofi a Kenin on Thursday for a spot in Saturday night’s title decider. Barty found herself under pressure from the off. The reigning French Open champion had to fi ght off a break point in the opening game as Kvitová pounced on anything short. When Simona Halep takes to the court in the quarterfi nals on Wednesday, she will do so with long-time coach Darren Cahill back in her box. Over the course of 2019, the pair were offi cially on a break from working together on a full- time basis, though the Australian coach admits that he missed collaborating with the Romanian, a person her considers part of his ‘family’ too much to take a back seat entirely. Cahill says that aside from his physical location by the side of the WTA World No.3, not much has changed. 34 students in scholarship race New Delhi: Spains top division football league held the final phase of selection for its annual LaLiga Football schools scholarship, through which 2-4 students will be selected to visit Spain for an immersive football experience. At the national camp, held in Delhi, 8 trained coaches judged 34 players on various aspects to select the best. The winners of the scholarship will be announced in February 2020. Hyd take convincing lead over Rajasthan in Ranji Squash tournament to be held in Jaipur from Jan 30 Hiralal elected as coach for Ball Badminton Naresh Sharma Jaipur: Hiralal Chaud- hary, a resident of village Sachoti of Pancha- yat Samiti Jhotwara, has been appointed as the coach of ball badminton game of Rajas- than University for All India Inter University Student Ball Badminton Competition to be held in Karnataka from Jan- uary 29 to February 1. Hiralal is a medal winner in National Games and has a good experience in sports field. Jaipur: The biggest prize money Rs 15 lakh ($18,000) squash tournament in the history of Jaipur - HCL SRFI Indi- an Tour: Jaipur Leg 2020 – will be held from Janu- ary 30 to February 2 at the Rajasthan Squash Academy , SMS Stadium. Surbhi Misra, former squash international and the chief organizer of the tournament, said top squash players from 12 countries, including India, will be vying for $12,000 prize money in the women’s section while men’s cash purse is $6,000. Misra said for 1st time players Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, South Korea, Egypt, Iran, Malaysia and Ja- pan will display their talent in the Pink City . The Ranji Jaipur: match between Rajas- than and Hyderabad has reached an exciting turn. In the opening two days, it was fast bowlers who took all the attention. The bowlers stole the show as Hyder- abad bundled out Rajas- than for a below-par 135 in 49.4 overs. This was in reply to Hyderabad’s score of 171. Rajasthan captain Ashok Menaria scored highest 42 runs. Hyderabad bowlers rose to the occasion before the batsmen yet again frittered away the advantage in the second innings to place the four-day Group A & B Ranji Trophy league match against Rajas- Sharjah all set for Arab Women Tour Sharjah: The spotlight is on Sharjah as 78 clubs from 18 Arab countries will compete in nine sports at the fifth edition of the Arab Women Sports Tourna- ment (AWST), organised by Sharjah Wom- en’s Sports (SWS) between February 2 — 12. AWST 2020 will record the largest participa- tion ever in the history of the event. The UAE tops the list with 15 participating clubs, followed by the Saudi Ara- bia with 12. Bahrain has eight clubs compet- ing, Kuwait six, Oman three and Qatar with two teams. Abhishek Pradhan practicing squash. wickets. However, Ra- jasthan struck back with the ball and left Hyderabad reeling at 101/6 before stumps. A spirited performance saw Hyderabad take a 36-run first innings lead over Rajasthan in the seventh round clash in Hyderabad. than delicately poised on the second day at Ra- jiv Gandhi Internation- al stadium on Tuesday . Hyderabad, who were bowled out for 171 against made a solid fightback as they bowled out Ra- jasthan for 135 as Ravi Kiran picked up four recently Games in Nepal. Apart from them, Rounak Ya- dav, Rahul Ritwik Rao, Abhishek Agarwal, Vikas Mehra, Ashwary Singh, Suraj Chand, Yash Fadte, Ravi Dixit will be part of the Indian contingent. held SAF The Indian challenge will be led by Harinder Singh Sandhu and Ab- hishek Pradhan, who have been given first and second seeding. Harinder and Abhishek were part of the Indian squash team, which won silver medal at the Baitha, Rajasthan, Century from Pranjal Yadav of Rajasthan READY TO ROLL Shooting Ball C’ship to be held in Pushkar from Feb 21 Naresh Sharma Naresh Sharma event. Ashok Chandna said that it is a matter of time as the government is trying its best to promote shootingball at district level, state level like other games. In the state, since the shooting ball game is the second popular sport in India after kabaddi. For this, many discussions are being held. Also, officials of Shooting Ball Associa- tion expressed their gratitude to him. ment jobs to senior men and women was the chief guest in the event. On this occasion Su- shil Mahala, Chairman of Rajasthan Shooting Ball Association, OP Machra, President of Shootingball Ball Asso- ciation, General Secre- tary Bhagchand Kumawat, other officials Shakki Mohammed, Indu Raj Sharma, Rajesh Gurjar Advocate met with the Sports Minister Ashok Chandna during the Jaipur: In the 38th Na- tional Shooting Foot- ball Championship, to be held from February 21 to February 23, 2020, the state teams of 25 men and 25 women from Pushkar, Ajmer will be participating. From Rajasthan government, Sports Minis- ter Ashok Chandna who give the new dimen- sions to sports in Ra- jasthan and 2 per cent reservation in govern- Jaipur: Rajasthan’s Pranjal Yadav scored a century in the Under 14 Raj Singh Dungarpur Trophy. In the match hosted Rajasthan Cricket As- sociation in Jaipur, Ra- jasthan scored 321 runs on the loss of 8 wickets against Uttarakhand. In total, Pranjal Yadav scored 125for the team. by Advocate Rajasthan

RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764 l Vol 1 l Issue No. 232 JAIPUR l TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2020 l Pages 14 l 3.00 RAHUL GANDHI’S AKROSH CONGRESS READIES STAGE FOR MEGA SHOW; AT LEAST 1 LAKH TURNOUT EXPECTED May the occasion of Basant Panchami, bring the wealth of knowledge to you, may you be blessed by Goddess Saraswati & all your wishes come true. GOVT TO SELL 100% STAKE IN AI; SETS MARCH 17 AS DEADLINE FOR BIDS HEIR APPARENT FOR AIR INDIA. SEARCH IS ON... New Delhi: The government on Monday announced sale of 100 per cent stake in debt-laden Air India as it issued the preliminary bid document for the strategic disinvestment and has set March 17, as the deadline for sub- mitting expression of interest. As part of the strategic disinvestment, Air India would also sell 100 per cent stake in low-cost airline Air India Express and 50 per cent shareholding in joint venture AISATS, as per bid document issued on Monday. Management control of the airline would also be transferred to the successful bidder. This is the second time in less than two years that the government has come out with proposal for sell- 2NDFRONT RALLY IN JAIPUR TODAY CHANGES IN RAHUL ITINERARY  Will depart from Delhi at 11.10 am  Will arrive at Jaipur Airport at 11.50 am  Will arrive at OTS at 12:40 pm  Will leave OTS at 12:50 pm and reach Albert Hall at 1 pm  Will leave Albert Hall at 2:30 pm and will arrive at Jaipur Airport at 2:50 pm  Will leave for Delhi at 3 pm Aditi Nagar & Agencies Jaipur: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will address ‘Yuva Akrosh Rally’ rally in Jaipur on Tuesday. The mega rally will be held at historic Albert Hall in Ramniwas Bagh. The Congress is ex- pecting one lakh youth to attend the rally and Youth Congress workers and NSUI members have been putting in everything to garner more support for the rally. Rahul Jaipur to launch his nationwide campaign to tap youth anger against the central government in wake of CAA, NRC THE AIR POCKET  The debt left with the company are mainly on account of aircraft purchase, which are against government guarantees but those guarantees will go once the airline is purchased by a new owner  In the current offer, the government is offering 100% and has already reduced the debt liabilities of the airline by `29,400 crore from `62,000 crore and will further reduce over `9,300 crore of the total debt and offer the airline with `23,286 crore debt. Et had reported it fi rst that the debt would be in the range of over `20,000 crore —Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO & Editor, First India 10 POSTAL REG NO. JPC/010/2019-21 It may be recalled that Rajasthan Assembly on Saturday passed a resolution urging the Centre to repeal the Citizenship (Amendment) (CAA), amid opposition by the BJP which accused the ruling Con- gress of pursuing ap- peasement politics. and highhandedness in dealing with student protests in university campuses particularly in JNU, JMI and AMU. Rahul Gandhi’s rally has assumed immense importance as it is also being seen as a catalyst to pitch the young leader of the grand party back in the topmost affairs. JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia RAJ TIGHTENS BELT TO CONTROL CORONAVIRUS First India News The Health Secretary took feedback about a patient admitted in isolation ward of SMS Hospital as he is suspected of being infected by the coronavirus. He also sought information about 17 other persons who have recently returned from China and are currently under observation. Singh asked officials to be alert and sensitive and to follow all the standard parameters while doing tests and treat- turned from China report must be submit- Act chosen has Turn on P8 THE RALLY MAY PROVE TO BE A LAUNCHING PAD FOR RAHUL, WHO IS LIKELY TO TAKE BACK THE REINS OF THE PARTY BY FEBRUARY- END. BEFORE DECIDING ON JAIPUR AS THE RALLY VENUE, SONIA HAD HELD A DETAILED DISCUSSION WITH AHMED PATEL, AVINASH PANDE, ASHOK GEHLOT AND KC VENUGOPAL. AND CONSULTATIONS WERE HELD BY RAHUL GANDHI'S OFFICE WITH PILOT WHO HAS RECENTLY COMPLETED HIS SIXTH YEAR PCC TENURE ing stake in Air India, which has been in the red for long. Turn on P8 ‘Goli Maaro... s***n ko’ on camera at an election rally in Delhi on Monday, chanting the fi rst half of a slogan that concludes with a call to gun down BJP candidate in North West Delhi, can be ko”, to which the crowd enthusiastically replied translates to “shoot down the traitors who betray the country”. P5 nion Minister Anurag Thakur was caught U traitors. Thakur, who was campaigning for the seen and heard chanting “desh ke gaddaron “goli maaro sa***n ko”; the entire chant thermal scanner in the screening of passengers at the airport. Additional director rural health, Dr Ravi Prakash Sharma, state nodal officer IDSP, Dr Pravin Aswal, Dr Ba- nerjee from the medi- cine department of the SMS Medical College, Dr Rambabu Sharma, Dr Ajit Singh & Dr Bharti Malhotra from microbi- ology department were present in the meeting. ted to him by the early hours. He asked additional director rural health, Dr Ravi Prakash Shar- ma and state nodal officer IDSP, Dr Pravin Aswal to go to the airport to ensure adequate arrangements and daily monitoring of screening and publicity of coronavirus and preventive steps. The ACS asked officials to use The president of Ra- jasthan Khadi Gramo- dyog Sanstha Sangh, Ramdas Sharma, told the CM that following ted to him by the early hours. est Bengal Monday became the fourth state Citizenship Amendment Act, with Chief Minister against the law, demanding that it be repealed immedi- passed resolutions against the Citizenship law, which came into effect from January 10. MY KIDS HAVE ONE RELIGION, INDIAN: SRK hah Rukh Khan found a spot on the trends’ list on Monday after in a video that went viral, the Badshah of Bollywood said that the only religion that his children - Suhana, Aryan and AbRam - have been taught to identify themselves with is a religion called ‘Hindustan’. dering Act (PMLA) since 2018. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot, Avinash Pande, Ashk Ali Tak and Raghu Sharma discuss the rally. CRUCIAL READ Coronavirus ‘patient’ in Raj stable: Minister First India News Jaipur: Rajasthan’s social justice and empowerment minister Bhan- war Subhash Garg on Monday informed media that a person suspected of being infected by coronavirus has been admitted to Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur. Giving out more details, the minister said, “The patient has been kept in isolation and is in stable condition.” He also said that the patient’s samples have been sent to Pune and the state government YOU READ IT FIRST IN FIRST INDIA JANUARY 28, 2020 WB BECOMES FOURTH STATE TO PASS RESOLUTION Jaipur: Chief Secretary (Med- ical & Health) Rohit Kumar Singh has in- structed for a regular 28 days screening of those who have recently returned from Chi- na and their family members. Singh chaired a meeting to review steps taken to control coronavirus including tests, treatment and precautionary measures. Additional to pass a resolution against the contentious Mamata Banerjee, who has vociferously protested ately. Kerala, Rajasthan and Punjab have already W Beijing on a hyper mode as toll reads 81 Shanghai: Chinese Pre- mier Li Keqiang will “in- spect and direct” efforts to control a virus outbreak in the central city of Wuhan and promised reinforcements, as pro- vincial authorities faced accusations from the public of a failure to re- spond in time. Li, clad in a blue pro- tective suit and mask, thanked medical workers in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province and director rural health, Dr Ravi Prakash Shar- ma and state nodal officer IDSP, Dr Pravin Aswal to go to the airport to ensure adequate arrangements and daily monitoring of screening and publicity of coronavirus and pre- organisations, weaver and spinners. This historic decision by the CM has infused new life into Khadi and associated organisations. ACS (Industry) Sub- odh Agarwal, director HCMRIPA Ashwi- ni Bhagat, coordinator peace and non-violence cell S S Bissa, CII Rajasthan chairman Anand Mishra, president Gram Bhar- SENSEX CATCHES CHINA FLU T Monday weighed down by weakness in global equities, as rising concerns over fast-spreading coronavirus damp- ened demand for riskier assets. Investors on Dalal Street also chose to stay on the sidelines ahead of Union Budget 2020. BSE benchmark Sensex fell 1.10 pe cent or 458.07 points to 41,155.12, while Nifty ended at 12,119.00, down 129.25 points or 1.06 per cent. is taking all possi pre- cautions. Meanwhile earlier today, a girl from Chapra in Bihar was hospitalised after displaying symptoms similar to those of Coronavirus, which has claimed the lives of 80 people in China. “Accord- ing to the information received, 18 persons in four districts of the state have returned from China. The Chief Medical and Health Officers of the four districts have been instruct- ed to keep all of them under constant monitoring for 28 days,” said health minister Dr Raghu Shar- ma. he domestic stock market tumbled on the epicentre of the outbreak, as the death toll rose on Monday to 81. “Li ... thanked frontline medical workers for their all-out efforts in treating patients and urged them to pay attention to their own protection,” Xinhua news agency said. “He required efforts to guarantee medical resources supply , race against time to treat patients and ensure adequate market supply and stable prices.” Turn on P8 LINKS BETWEEN PFI AND ANTI-CAA PROTESTS: ED he ED has found that the recent violent protests in Uttar Pradesh against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) had a “fi nancial link” with the Kerala-based outfi t PFI, offi - cial sources said on Monday. The agency is probing the PFI under the Prevention of Money Laun- S T CM Ashok Gehlot, former secy Mathew meet creates buzz First India News Jaipur: Chief Minis- ter Ashok Gehlot met former chief secretary which generated a lot of buzz on Monday. Mathew had to go on leave in 2013 Assem- bly election as the BJP had objected on his presence in a programme on food security. When the BJP came to power, it sent Mathew out of the sec- retariat. He was made Roy . Meanwhile, CM Ge- hlot unveiled a poster on ‘international confer- Turn on P8, More on P3 ti Samiti Bhawani Shankar Kusum, Go- pal Gupta, Dharm- veer Katewa and K N Singh were present on this occasion. CM Gehlot also said unemployment was the biggest issue for youth. They have been facing this problem for last five years. Job crisis is increasing and the government should focus on creating new em- ployment. The upcoming budget should focus on new jobs and the government should adopt policies that allow in- dustries to increase employees. the state government’s decision to give 50 per cent rebate, sale of khadi products increased 2.5 times to Rs 75 crore by December 2019. It has strengthened Khadi hlot government could appoint him as vice- president of chief minister’s council. Earlier, Raje government had appointed former CS C S Rajan to this post but the council was dis- solved after Rajan’s resignation. The Ge- hlot government is now contemplating on reconstituting council. CM Gehlot also met senior psephologist and journalist Dr Prannoy advisory Mathew CK (M&H) Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot unveils poster on ‘international conference on globalisation of khadi’ where Subodh Agarwal, Ashwini must be regularly screened for continuous 28 days and the by the state government’s industry de- ment of patients. He said that everyone who has recently re- chairman, RSRTC. He retired from the same post. Now, rumours are rife that the Ge- Bhagat, SS Bissa, Anand Mishra, Shankar Kusum, Gopal Gupta, Dharmveer Katewa, KN Singh and others were present. tional level. the organising committee GS Bapna said the conference will promote khadi by help- ing it gain a distinct identity at interna- partment, CII and khadi institutes. The two-day conference will begin at OTS from January 30. Coordinator of the ence on globalization of khadi’ here on Monday . The conference will be jointly organised A Poster is being placed having the information of coronavirus for the passengers traveling at Sanganer Airport in Jaipur on Tuesday. Turn on P8 No spark in Rahul speech: Raje... Poonia terms it as drama First India News Gandhi scion strikes the right chord with youth; harps on unemployment Jaipur: Former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje responded to the issues discussed by Rahul Gandhi during his Jaipur visit on Tuesday for the Yuva Akrosh Rally. Raje said India is known around the world as a youth superpower and your attempt to confuse the youth is scandalous. youth of the country is sensible and knows everything. Be patient, this youth will give you a suitable response when the time comes. The former CM added that before calling India a rape capital, Ra- hul should have studied the growing against daughters in Rajasthan once because he does not know that crime against women has increased by 50% in Rajasthan in the last one year. Speaking about the rally, Raje comment- ed that everyone was hoping that Rahul would make a big announcement on his promises made to the youth of the state. But, he did not even utter a word on the unemployment allow- ance of Rs 3,500 for the youth and entire The Vasundhara Raje Satish Poonia from where does Ra- hul brings so many political tactics. Ra- hul entertained the public well. The rally was named Yuva Aak- rosh Rally, in which there was neither youth nor akrosh. On the other hand, Deputy Leader of the Opposition Rathore said that the people were paid for taking part in the rally . Poonia further said, “businessmen in Jaipur have told me that their workers have also been asked to come to the rally. Even schools are closed. In Ajmer, students of government colleges have asked to reach the rally,” he added. loan waiver for the farmers. It is ridiculous that Rahul thanked the stage decorators 25-minute speech and even praised the choir for stopping the crowd, but he could not talk about a single achievement of the Rajasthan Congress government. At the same time, BJP State president Satish Poonia termed Rahul’s Yuva Aak- rosh Rally as a comedy and drama. Poonia said Rahul always does something unique, the elections are in Delhi, but he conducted a rally in Jaipur. It is a matter of surprise for the people of the state Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot during the Yuva Aakrosh Rally in Pink City on Tuesday. Rahul Gandhi addresses the gathering during the rally which was held in Jaipur on Tuesday. —PHOTOS BY SANTOSH SHARMA in his crime wards us. Today, you have different parameters to measure GDP and you have 5 per cent rate. If you use old parameters, then India is growing at just 2.5 per cent. The Prime Minister probably has not studied or understood economics,” the Congress leader said. “Prime Minister Modi does not even understand what GST is. A person who can go for demoneti- sation... ask an eight-year- old and he would tell you that notebandi did more harm than good,” Rahul concluded. FROM JACKET Mission accomplished, Pande upbeat After the rally, AICC General Secretary and Incharge of Rajasthan Avinash Pande left with Rahul Gandhi and KC Venugopal in Rahul’s charter plane. On the fl ight, the trio entered in a ‘gupshup’ and probably after a long time Rahul was seen in a ‘right mood’. Pande and Venugopal were seen happy after their discussions with the Gandhi scion. Interest- ingly, at Delhi airport, Pande’s family awaited his arrival as they were to catch another fl ight to Nagpur. Pande is slated to return to Delhi after spending 2-3 days with his family at Nagpur. Despite nationwide buzz around CAA and NRC, Ra- hul chose to concentrate on economy and unemployment in his rally in a bid to connect with youth. “United States has arms and Saudi Arab has oil but India has intelligent youth population,” Rahul said. “They know what’s going on in the country,” he added. “The youth are the biggest asset of the nation, but the Centre’s policies have destroyed their potential,” he added. Rajendra ly accepted indicator of an economy’s performance -- is only growing at 2.5 per cent. “During the UPA, India grew at 9 per cent. The entire world was looking to- He further attacked the Prime Minister over de- monetisation and said the latter had no knowledge of economy, and claimed that the country’s GDP -- a wide- been TETE -A-TETE Aditi Nagar W both were missing almost completely missing from Rahul Gandhi’s address, as he mentioned both only once while keeping his address completely focused on youth. In his twenty five minute long oration, Ra- hul even quipped at PM Narendra Modi several times and also repeated the same lines he said during Lok Sabha elections. In fact there was nothing new or impressive. When the expected number of people didn’t log in Interestingly, PCC and the two ‘youth wings’ of the Congress party had made it their mission to bring in about one lakh people for the rally. The Youth Con- gress had undertaken the onus of bringing 25,000 people and the Jaipur district ‘team’ had taken the responsibility of another 15,000. But the number fell short drasti- cally and now a serious discussion is going on at Jaipur and Delhi, as to who is the person responsible for the ‘failure’ on this part. the songs played, then there were ‘Kalbeliya’ and Kachchi Ghodi danc- ers too. Notably , that is how the rallies are managed, whether of Con- gress of BJP , to keep the crowd glued to the venue. According to sources, on the crowd front Rahul was sounding not very happy and now it will be quiet in- teresting to know who had actually failed? PCC office bearers or NSUI or Youth Con- gress workers (?) because basically these three institutions were responsible for bringing in the crowd. were being entertained through Bhojpuri and Bolly- wood songs. Most of the ‘crowd’ had come from College coaching and could be easily made out from the uni- form they wore. For the four and a half hour long programme the gathering was kept ‘entertained’ for nearly three hours! People had started reaching the venue around 10 AM and the rally ended at 2.30 PM. Interest- ingly , the addresses were carried out for only 40-50 minutes while for the remain- ing time, Bollywood While the Congress party claimed that about fifty thousand youth had gethered for the rally , some media sectors claimed that the crowd was assem- bled with much trou- ble and only a twenty thousand crowd could amassed, owing to the moral in- fluence of the Con- gressman in state, CM Ashok Gehlot. The promises made by MLAs and ministers of bringing a huge crowd, failed. While the name of the programme was ‘ Aak- rosh Rally’ however the youth were kept hile he came for against CAA and rally and institutes NRC, strong be primarily Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with CM Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot and Avinash Pande during the Yuva Aakrosh Rally held in Jaipur on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR

www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia 11 JAIPUR, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29, 2020 Basant Panchami marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring. City First wishes you on this auspicious day. May you be ‘knowledgeable’ and ‘free’ Kareena Kapoor Khan ARCHWAY OF FASHION THE THIRD SERIES OF FASHION COLLOQUIA WAS ORGANISED ON TUESDAY TO CELEBRATE 150 YEARS OF MAHATMA GANDHI AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE GROWTH OF ‘KHADI’ GABA Fashion Show, which previewed the remarkable journey of 20 years of ARCH College of Design & Business in leading design education. The colloquia was launched in two phases, pre-Colloquium at Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) with a GABA fashion show on January 26 by the students of ARCH College at Am- ber Fort, followed by a panel discussion on ‘Textile Herit- age’ at JLF on January 27. The main Colloquia took place at the campus of ARCH on Tues- day with various eminent per- sonalities. Throwing some light on the concept, Archana Surana from ARCH said, “ARCH believes that stories from our heritage and indigenous knowledge systems from across the planet could open new ways of thinking and we bring meaningful conversa- tion and dialogue for transformation.” The idea was to create awareness about sustain- able fashion, it was the cele- bration of the third edition of Fashion Colloquia, and all the panelists shared the thoughts about the responsible future and decolo- nizing of fashion. —PHOTOS BY MUKESH KIRADOO NEHAL NAYAR nehal.nayar@firstindia.co.in C elebrating 150 years of the ‘Father of the Nation’ Gandhi, ARCH Col- lege of Design & Business its third series of Fashion Colloquia. The event also focussed on the importance of a responsible future with ‘Khadi’. The day featured prominent events such as a keynote session which was graced by the eminent speakers, Founder of label Raw M a n g o , S a n j a y Garg, and Founder of label Upasana, Uma Praja- pati, followed by A R C H Mahatma launched GABA Fashion Show during Fashion Colloquia Entire team of Fashion Colloquia at ARCH College of Design & Business on Tuesday

LISTING JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020 12 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia ‘Pamela makes me wild’ FACE OF THE DAY A ctor and model Pamela Anderson, who recently tied the knot with Amer- ican film producer Jon Peters, has posted their first photo together on Twitter since their se- cret wedding. The 52-year-old star shared a caption-less monochromatic pic- ture of the couple on her Insta- gram Story recently. She was seen sporting a white sweater as she leaned her head against Pe- ters who was seen wearing a black puffer vest. Anderson shocked her fans when the news broke that the ‘Home Improvement’ star has married Peters in a private wedding ceremony in Malibu on Jan- uary 20. Peters has stated that “Pamela has never seen her full potential as an artist. She has yet to shine in a real way. There are beautiful girls every- where. 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ETC 13 JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia DEEPIKA, RISHI IN ‘THE INTERN’ REMAKE B shi Kapoor are set to feature in the Indian adaptation of Robert De Niro-Anne Hatha- way starrer 2015 Hol- lywood film ‘The In- tern’. AZURE Enter- tainment and Warner Bros India are jointly @iAmAzure. See you at the movies! @chint- skap.” Excited to be a part of the film, Rishi said: “’The Intern’ is a very relevant film for the present-day Indi- an workplace milieu and it showcases human ships beautifully . I am very excited to be working with Deepika and being a part of this heart-warming story. It is great that Warner Bros. and AZ- URE are officially making this film in India.” Talking more about ‘The Intern’, Deepika shared it is an “intimate, relation- ship-driven film, set in and around the workplace.” “A story that I believe is very relevant to the present-day social and cultural environment. I have been looking for a light, breezy comedy-drama and this story fits in seamlessly. I cannot wait to begin this journey,” she added. The Bollywood remake of ‘The Intern’ will release in 2021. Hope floats on‘Shikara’ producing the project along with Deepika’s Ka Productions. Sharing the news, Deepika “Thrilled to present my next! The Indian adaptation of #TheIn- tern. A 2021 release! Presented by @_Ka- Productions warnerbrosindia and ollywood star Deepika Padu- kone and vet- eran actor Ri- wrote: @ relation- —Agency Deepika Padukone Rishi Kapoor AKSHAY’S LOVE FOR AAMIR Sunny to promote VEGAN FASHION S Ethical Treatment of Animals India (PETA) for a new campaign against use of animal skin. Sunny is set promote vegan fashion, which is free from leather or other animal de- rived materials. “It has been won- derful associating with PETA India, working on so many campaigns - from encouraging the adoption and sterilisation of cats and dogs to speaking about the i m p o r - tance of going vegetarian. I look for- ward to unveiling the next campaign soon, which for now, I’ll say will help a n i m a l s save their skins,” she said. Sunny recently took to social media to an- nounce her newest upcoming PETA In- dia campaign sharing a #PostPack- upShot by photographer Gowariker. In the image she is seen wearing a PETA T-shirt. unny has hands People for the Leone joined with thenticity was the key in order to draw out the correct emotions of a community displaced from their home- land. I wanted it to be real and relevant. On being asked about what ‘Kashmir’ means to him, Vidhu Vinod Chopra replied, “Home.” The film is slated to release on Feb- ruary 7. On January 14, a ‘Behind the Scenes’ video was released, that showed 4000 refugees coming together after 30 years to take part in the production of refugee camp Names of few refugees, home town before fleeing, and their experiences are shown in the video. by KAVITA CHAUHAN cityfirst@firstindia.co.in Avinash D irector Vidhu Vi- nod Chopra was in the Pink City to speak about his film ‘Shikara’, which is set to release next month. The film is based on the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir. In an exclu- sive interview, Vidhu Vinod Chopra shared his experience with City First. —IANS Poster of the film down with a single suitcase to attend the premiere of ‘Parinda’ in 1989 and could not go back. I could see the sorrow in her eyes for all the years she lived with me in Mumbai, hoping and pray- ing that one day she goes back to her home and dies peacefully . Our friends got displaced, we lost our home, our neighbourhood, our culture, our heritage. Just gone. It is too painful an episode to recollect. across the world need to know what led to the Kash- miri Pandit exodus and give their suffering and sheer neglect a platform. scenes. Do you think this film can attract any kind of political controversy? I strongly believe that this movie will help tell a com- pelling story about the Kashmiri Pandit exodus and ask people to sit and take notice at the sheer neglect of the sufferings of this community for over 30 years. I also believe that my movie has a message and it is a healer. Only love can overcome hatred. Akshay’s new look from ‘Bachchan Pandey’ What made you make a film like ‘Shikara’? Shikara is a tribute to my mother. In 1989, she came to Bombay for the premiere of ‘Parinda’, but couldn’t go back to Kashmir. Shikara is about her home, my home and how we lost that home. So it’s a deeply personal story . But despite all that my mother went through, she only had love for the people, for the valley , for our home, and that love truly overpow- ered every other emotion that she may have felt – be it disappointment, anger or loss. And that’s why I made this movie. The other important aspect is that people S credit goes to none other than Akshay Kumar. Earlier, Aamir’s official Hin- di adaptation of Hollywood film ‘Forrest Gump’ was scheduled to hit the big screen along with Akshay’s ‘Bachchan Pan- dey’ on December 25, but now producer Sajid Nadiadwala and Akshay have moved the release date of their movie on Aamir’s request. Akshay, while announcing the new release date of ‘Bach- chan Pandey’, i.e. January 22, 2021, shared his new look from the movie too. uperstar Aamir Khan’s ‘Lal Singh Chaddha’ has secured a solo release this Christmas, and all Why did you choose to take newcomers for this film? Did you approach any established actors for playing the lead in the film? Competence and ability to depict an emotion is more important than stardom. I was looking for intensity and innocence. Both actors, Aadil and Sadia are from Kashmir. Au- Do you have any memory of that period when Kash- miri Pandits were forced to abandon their homes? Deep anguish, helplessness, anger, fear, betrayal- all these emotions were running deep. My mother had come Vidhu Vinod Chopra Sunny Leone —Agency SARA’S VIDEO GOES VIRAL FATWA ON MALALA’S FILM D tion activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is set to release on Janu- ary 31, and the filmmaker has received a fatwa from a Noida-based Muslim cleric for disrespecting the Quran. Khan shared that he has been getting many death threats since he started the film, and now a Noida-based cleric has an issue with his film’s poster. “Ab fatwa lag gaya hai (now a fatwa has been issued) by a person from Noida. There is a poster that has Malala holding a book and standing next to a blast, and he thinks it is the Quran. He thinks we haven’t shown respect to the holy book. He called me a kafir,” said Khan. “I am trying to have a word with him so that I can explain to him that it’s an English book,” Khan added. The film, starring Reem Shaikh, Atul Kulkarni and Divya Dutta. Director Amjad Khan will be in the Pink City today to promote his film ‘Gul Makai’. irector Khan’s film ‘Gul Makai’, based on Pakistani educa- Amjad S tion which has gone viral. She took to Instagram, where she shared a video in which she is seen playing a prank on her friends in an aircraft, way before her weight loss transformation. She captioned the clip: “Presenting Sara ka Sara Sara. Let’s make ï¿½light’ of what it was... Let’s also make it lighter ara Ali Khan shared a video of herself before her transforma- than what it was. Video and transformation credit: @namratapurohit.” In the video, the song ‘Sar jo tera chakraye’ is playing in the background, and Sara is the only one awake during the fl ight as her friends are seen taking a power nap while sitting besides her. The video currently has over 4 million views on In- stagram. Fans praised her hard work in the comment section. Aamir’s look from ‘Lal Singh Chaddha’ Poster of the film —IANS —Agency

CITY BUZZ JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020 14 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia An Independent Soul The lead cast of movie ‘Kaachali’ were in Jaipur, to promote their forthcoming film won’t do justice. This story takes you back in a particu- lar period of our literature and comparing it with what is happening today would be wrong. It has beautifully put down a story of a women who’s trying to be independent.” said the actress. “We don’t aim to de- mean any culture or caste, we just want to put out a story in form of art, so that audience gets to see a part of literature from one of the periods of Rajasthan.” said the director. The film is slated to release on February 7, 2020. makes it unique. I hope this movie reaches to everyone, especially in Rajasthan.” There are a lot of negative comments and hashtags like #BoycottKaanchli on social media, running against this movie because of its theme. On being asked about the impact of those negative hashtags, Sanjay said, ‘’I don’t believe in these things because everyone has their perspective. My work is to give a creative performance and it’s up to the audience how they take it.” “Even Padmavat got negative response from certain groups of people before watch- ing the film but it turned out to be an excellent film, so judg- ing ‘Kaanchli’ from its trailer movie has been great. In last 5-6 years, my image as a comedy actor has changed a bit because I have been playing some serious characters, al- though I have not left comedy genre completely.” said the Best Actor awardee. ‘Kaanchli’ is directed by Dedipya Joshi and produced by Shobha Devi. The film is based on a Rajasthani literature story by Vijaydan Detha, a folk story writer from Ra- jasthan who was also the writer of film ‘Paheli’ starring Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukerji in the lead role. On being asked about the movie, Sanjay said, “Kaanchli is not a big-budget film but its the theme of this movie which KARISHMA GWALANI Cityfirst@firstindia.co.in B ollywood Sanjay Mishra and Shikha Malhotra talked about their journey in the upcoming ‘Kaanchli’ in an ex- clusive interview with City First during their visit to the Pink City on Tuesday . “I tend to learn from new actors and my experience with Shikha in this THE GLAMOUR OF LITERATURE Actors —PHOTOS BY MUKESH KIRADOO film Sanjay Mishra Shikha Malhotra IN THE PINK CITY! Jagdeesh Chandra with Satyajeet Krishnan at Rambagh Palace Jaipur on January 25. Satyajeet is the Area Director North & GM Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi, he was in the city to attend Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF). VANSHIKHA GOUR Vanshikha.gour@firstindia.co.in T tival 2020. The literati of the world over and the glitterati of the city had hardly got over the overwhelming ex- travaganza of the JLF opening dinner that the Writers’ Ball happened on Monday evening at the Taj Rambagh Palace. The theme of the party was based on ‘Blue Pot- tery’, a craft indigenous to Rajasthan. The guests witnessed won- derful performances by the Kaafila band in sync with Ra- jasthani folk artists like Kut- le Khan. The enchanting mu- sic made everyone groove to its folk beats and the effect was absolutely mind-blowing. he Writers’ Ball is the most apt culmination of the high-energy Jaipur Literature Fes- —PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA Jagdeesh Chandra with (from left) Rashmi Dickinson, Rohit Parihar, Nisha Singh and Ritu Singh Jagdeesh Chandra at the launch of ‘Fashion Calendar 2020’ by budding photographer Sheenu Dutta on January 22 at HiLo in the Pink City. Seen here are (from left) Karishma, Vijeta and Sheenu. —PHOTO BY NAIM KHAN From Left: Ashok Rathore, Ankur Bharadwaj, Ingrid Sahu and Sameer Sahu Neeraj K Pawan Sanjoy Roy, Ashok Rathore and Vinod Ajmera A five-day art fest ‘Jaipur International Art & Calligraphy Festival’ was organised on Saturday at Jawahar Kala Kendra, which will remain open until Wednesday. —PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO Kutle Khan performing at the Writers’ Ball Jyotika, Shambhavi and Ram Diggi Ayla and Laura The team members of All About Happiness Foundation, under the guidance of Foundation President Manan Ailani, distributed more than 100 blankets in the slum areas near Vidyadhar Nagar. From Left: Haneet, Indermohan, Aashu, Anjali, Loveleen, Harjyot and Deepak Nawab, Anubha and Sammohan SK Singh and Vikas Sharma

First India Rajasthan-Rajasthan News In English 29 january 2020 edition

First India Rajasthan-Rajasthan News In English 29 january 2020 edition

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