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MONSOON SESSION OF PARLIAMENT BEGINS
PREZ RACE: DRAUPADI MURMU V/S YASHWANT SINHA
BIRLA, MODI, SHAH, SONIA,
TOP LEADERS CAST BALLOTS
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Union Home Minister Amit Shah
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Congress President Sonia Gandhi
Aditi Nagar & Moni Sharma
New Delhi: The voting
process for India’s next
President concluded on
Monday with ballots be-
ing cast by
MPs in the
Parliament
House in
Delhi and
by MLAs
and chief
ministers
in state as-
s e m b l i e s
across the country
.
While PM Narendra
Modi, former PM Man-
mohan Singh, and Con-
gress chief Sonia Gan-
dhi cast their votes at
the Parliament House
in Delhi, several chief
ministers cast their
votes at their respective
state assemblies.
The Monsoon Ses-
sion of the
Parliament
too com-
menced on
M o n d a y
morning to
a chaotic
start with
both the
Lok Sabha
and the RS getting ad-
journed around mid-
day due to protests and
sloganeering by the Op-
position MPs over price
rise and inflation.
l Total turnout at Parliament 99.18%
l Counting will take place on July 21
l Prez Kovind’s term ends on July 24
MONSOON SESSION DAY 1
KAUN BANEGA
RASHTRAPATI!
MANMOHAN ARRIVES
IN WHEELCHAIR, GRABS
SOCIAL MEDIA WATCH
The pictures and videos of
former prime minister and
Congress MP Manmohan
Singh reaching Parliament in a
wheelchair to cast his vote for
the presidential election 2022
on Monday are being widely
shared on social media.
Dhankhar files nomination,
vows to fight for democracy
New Delhi: NDA’s Vice-
Presidential candidate
and former West Bengal
Governor Jagdeep
Dhankhar on Monday
filed his nomination pa-
pers in the presence of
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi and a host of
other senior leaders of
the ruling dispensation.
Dhankhar submitted
his nomination papers
to Secretary General of
Lok Sabha Utpal Kumar
Singh in his office in
Parliament House. Sin-
gh has been named as
the Returning Officer
(RO) for the Vice-Presi-
dential poll by the EC.
NDA Vice Presidential candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar files his nomination papers in the presence of
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders at the parliament house, in New Delhi on Monday.
Amit Shah, JP Nadda, Rajnath Singh and others were also present during the VP nomination.
‘KISAN PUTRA’ DHANKAR WILL BE AN
EXCELLENT AND INSPIRING VP: MODI
Shortly after NDA VP candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar filed
his nomination on Monday, PM Narendra Modi on Monday
expressed confidence
that Dhankar will be an
excellent and inspiring
Vice President. “Minis-
ters, MPs and leaders
from various parties
accompanied Jagdeep
Dhankhar Ji for the
filing of his nomination
papers. I am certain that
he will be an excellent and inspiring Vice President.
@jdhankhar1,” tweeted PM Narendra Modi.
Never even in my dreams thought that a
person with a humble background like
me will get this opportunity.
—Jagdeep Dhankhar, NDA’s VP candidate
The Indian government
is in support of a global
collaboration if there is a
need to prohibit or regulate digital
assets, including cryptocurren-
cies, even as the Reserve Bank of
India has made its stance clear on
these assets.
—Nirmala Sitharaman,
Union Finance Minister
HOUSES ADJOURNED
FOR THE DAY
NEWLY ELECTED
MPs TAKE OATH
The monsoon session of parl
began on a stormy note on
Monday with the opposition
demanding discussion on
issues ranging from price
rise to Agnipath scheme.
Morning session of LS was
adjourned to allow members
to vote in the prez election.
Harbhajan Singh,
Misa Bharti, Rajeev
Shukla among 28
MPs take oath in
RS. ‘India lost a true
friend’: Lok Sabha
pays tributes to
Shinzo Abe, others.
Full report on P6
LA GANESAN TAKES OATH AS BENGAL GOVERNOR
Manipur Governor La Ganesan being administered oath by Calcutta High Court Judge Prakash
Shrivastava during his swearing-in ceremony, after he was given additional charge of West Bengal
governor, in Kolkata on Monday.
13 dead, search ops underway for missing
MAHA ROADWAYS BUS FALLS INTO MP RIVER
Bhopal (ANI): A total
of 13 bodies have been
recovered after a Maha-
rashtra Roadways bus
travellingfromIndoreto
Pune fell of a bridge and
plunged into the Nar-
mada river in Dhar dis-
trict of MP on Monday,
CM Shivraj Chouhan
said. “Till now, 13 bodies
have been recovered. A
rescue operation is un-
derway
. I have spoken
with Mah CM and Dy
CM. Directions have
been given for probe,”
Chouhan told. More on P3
MODI ANNOUNCES EX-
GRATIA OF `2 LAKH
FOR KIN OF DECEASED
4 DECEASED FROM RAJ,
CM GEHLOT ANNOUNCES
`5 LAKH RELIEF TO KIN
PM Modi expressed condo-
lences after a Maharashtra
Roadways bus travelling
from Indore to Pune fell off
the Khalghat Sanjay Setu in
the Dhar district of MP on
Monday. Announces an ex-
gratia of `2 lakh each from
PMNRF would be given to
the next of kin of those who
lost their lives due to the
bus tragedy in Dhar, Madhya
Pradesh. The injured
would be given `50,000.
In bus tragedy, 4 deceased
were from Rajasthan. CM
Ashok Gehlot expressed grief
over the bus accident and
announced a compensation
of Rs 5 lakh each to kin of
deceased under Chiranjeevi
Accident Insurance Scheme.
The deceased are identified
as Chetanram Jangid from
Jaipur, Jagannath Joshi from
Udaipur, Rukmani Joshi
from Udaipur and Raju Mor
from Rawatbhata.
CRUCIAL READ
DGCA: AIRLINES FIX
ISSUES BY JULY 28
2 OFFICERS KILLED IN
ACCIDENTAL BLAST
COURT SUMMONS
4 EX-IAF OFFICERS
TRAGEDY STRIKES,
12 DEAD, 2 MISSING
New Delhi: DGCA on
Monday identified key
causes of tech difficulties
that airlines have been
facing for several weeks.
Regulator directed airlines
to sort out points by July
28, failing which strict
motion can be taken.
Jammu: An Army captain
and a junior commissioned
officer were killed in an
accidental grenade blast
along the Line of Control
in JK’s Poonch, officials
said on Monday. They were
on duty when incident took
place in Mendhar sector.
New Delhi: A Delhi court
has summoned four ex-IAF
officers in Rs 3,600-crore
Agusta Westland scam.
Court has asked the IAF
officers to appear before it
on July 30. CBI informed
the court that the required
sanctions have been taken.
Bhopal/Mumbai: At least
12 people, including
four women and a child,
were killed, and two went
missing after the MSRTC
bus they were travelling
in skidded and fell off the
Khalghat Sanjay Setu in
MP’s Dhar district. P3
Bus fell off into the Narmada
river at Khalghat Sanjay Setu
bridge, in Dhar on Monday.
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2ND MONKEYPOX CASE REPORTED IN KERALA
Kannur: India’s second case of monkeypox has been confirmed
in Kerala’s Kannur district. A 31-year-old Kannur native, who
returned from Dubai, was diagnosed with monkeypox symptoms
on Monday. He is under treatment at a govt medical college.
OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, NEW DELHI MUMBAI
NO ACTION
AGAINST
ZUBAIR TILL
JULY 20: SC
New Delhi: The SC Monday directed that no precipi-
tative steps be taken against Alt News co-founder
Zubair in connection with 5 FIRs lodged against him
in UP. SC observed that it seems to be “vicious cycle”
when Zubair gets bail in a case, there is another FIR.
NUPUR SHARMA
MOVES SC FOR
PROTECTION
FROM ARREST
New Delhi: Nupur Sharma has moved to SC seeking
a stay of her possible arrest in any of the 9 FIRs filed
against her over comments on Prophet Mohammed.
She has also sought clubbing of all cases filed against
her across India. Hearing in the matter likely today.
VETERAN SINGER
BHUPINDER SINGH
PASSES AWAY AT 82
New Delhi: Veteran singer
Bhupinder Singh died
on Monday at a Mumbai
hospital. Bhupinder’s wife
Mitali confirmed his death.
The singer was 82 years old.
Over a decades-long career,
Bhupinder sang many hit
classics such as Do Deewane
Shaher Mein, Hoke Majboor
Mujhe Usne Bulaya Hoga etc.
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283 MAHARASHTRA MLAS TAKE
PART IN VOTING FOR NEXT PREZ
Mumbai (PTI): As many as 283
Members of the Legislative As-
sembly (MLAs) in Maharashtra
took part in voting for the
Presidential poll that concluded
here on Monday, said an offi-
cial. BJP MLA Laxman Jagtap,
who is unwell, Shiv Sena
legislator Mahendra Dalvi, and
jailed NCP lawmakers Nawab
Malik and Anil Deshmukh did
not vote, he said. One seat is
vacant due to the death of Shiv
Sena MLA Ramesh Latke a few
months ago.

z SAD MLA Manpreet
Singh Ayali boycotts
prez poll, says issues
related to Punjab
remain unresolved

z 99 pc of votes
from Punjab going to
Yashwant Sinha, says
Partap Bajwa

z Elect me to save
the democracy, says
Opposition Presidential
candidate Yashwant
Sinha

z NCP MLA from Gu-
jarat, Odisha Congress
MLA say they voted for
Draupadi Murmu
Problem of plenty leads Shinde, Fadnavis to Delhi
Renni Abraham
Mumbai: Chief Minis-
ter Eknath Shinde,
while spoilt for choice,
is under pressure from
the rebel Shiv Sena
ranks, who are itching
for a seat among his
council of ministers.
Now, his problem of
plenty is only set to get
worse, with at least 12
Shiv Sena Members of
Parliament set to enter
his fold.
So, CM Shinde, and
his deputy, Devendra
Fadnavis, on Monday
left for New Delhi to
meet Prime Minister
Narendra Modi over the
triple points of Yojanas
(public schemes), de-
ferred cabinet expan-
sion and prospect of a
split in the Shiv Sena’s
parliamentary party
.
Fadnavis--whose par-
ty faces far fewer dis-
ruptions over Maha-
rashtra’s ministerial
appointments given the
organizational disci-
pline enforced in the
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP)--has donned the
role of mentor to his
leader in the state gov-
ernment.
“The Shinde-Fad-
navis duo has deferred
the cabinet expansion
in Maharashtra until
after July 20, when the
Supreme Court will
hear the twin matters
of disqualification of 16
rebel Sena MLAs and
the no-confidence mo-
tion moved by these
MLAs against Deputy
Speaker of the State
Legislative Council,
Narhari Zirwal. The an-
nouncement of the July
20 hearing, to be led by
Chief Justice NV Ra-
mana, took even the
BJP by surprise. Now,
efforts are on to prepare
for the court date that
has become top priori-
ty,” a senior BJP leader
revealed.
Shinde and Fadnavis
will seek Modi’s advice
on the SC hearing, and
the prospect of at least
12 Sena MPs joining the
Shinde faction, with the
need to accommodate
one or two in the Union
Cabinet. Turn to P6
CM Shinde met PM Modi, in New Delhi on July 09. —PHOTO BY ANI
CM, Dy CM have deferred cabinet
expansion until SC hearing; will seek
PM’s guidance on SC date and
cabinet formation
CM Eknath Shinde

First India Bureau
New Delhi: The CBI
has questioned for-
mer Mumbai Police
commissioners San-
jay Pandey and Par-
am Bir Singh in con-
nection with Rs100
crore extortion alle-
gations against for-
mer minister Anil
Deshmukh, officials
said on Monday.
Pandey, who retired
on June 30, is facing two
CBI FIRs—illegal inter-
ception of phones of
NSE employees by iSec
Services Private Ltd, a
company founded by
him, and violation of
SEBI guidelines in con-
ducting NSE’s system
audit.
Deshmukh is cur-
rently in judicial cus-
tody for allegedly de-
manding Rs100 crore
every month from bars
and restaurants in
Mumbai.
In his letter to then-
chief minister Uddhav
Thackeray
, after he was-
removed from the Mum-
bai Police commission-
er’s post, Singh had al-
leged that Deshmukh
asked Mumbai cop
Sachin Waze to alleg-
edly extort over Rs100
crore a month from
Mumbai’s bars and res-
taurants, said officials.
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First India Bureau
Mumbai: Maharash-
tra Chief Minister
Eknath Shinde, Depu-
ty CM Devendra Fad-
navis and other law-
makers from the state
cast their vote to elect
India’s 15th president
on Monday.
Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) MLA Ash-
ish Shelar claimed that
the National Democrat-
ic Alliance’s (NDA)
presidential poll Drou-
padi Murmu will get
“record-breaking”
votes from Maharash-
tra.
Voting started at 10
am in the Vidhan
Bhavan’s central hall in
the city and continued
till 5 pm.
Leader of Opposition
in the Maharashtra As-
sembly Ajit Pawar of
the Nationalist Con-
gress Party (NCP) and
Congress’s Balasaheb
Thorat were among
early voters.
The opposition has
nominated former Un-
ion Minister Yashwant
Sinha against Murmu.
MLAs and MPs form
the electoral college to
elect the President of
India.
The BJP has 106
MLAs in the 288-mem-
ber Maharashtra As-
sembly along with 40
legislators belonging to
the Eknath Shinde fac-
tion of the Shiv Sena,
besides 10 independ-
ents who support the
BJP.
The Uddhav Thacker-
ay-led Shiv Sena with 15
MLAs has announced
support for Murmu.
The NCP and Con-
gress have 53 and 44
MLAs, respectively
.
One seat in the House
is lying vacant due to
the death of a Shiv Sena
MLA.
“She will get votes
across the party lines.
You will see a huge turn-
out in this election. So,
the lead that you see
from Maharashtra will
create a political history
inthepresidentialpolls,”
claimed Shelar, while
talking to reporters.
Taking a dig at the
Maha Vikas Aghadi, a
coalition of the Shiv
Sena, NCP and Con-
gress, Shelar said it
did not seem to have
coordination.
First India Bureau
New Delhi: MLAs of
the Uddhav Thacker-
ay faction of Shiv
Sena have filed a
fresh plea in the Su-
preme Court chal-
lenging the disquali-
fication proceedings
initiated against
them under the con-
stitutional scheme
and on Monday. They
sought its hearing
with other pending
pleas on July 20.
A bench headed by
Chief Justice NV Ra-
mana agreed for a hear-
ing in the case along-
side the other five
pending pleas.
The bench, also com-
prising Justice Krishna
Murari and Justice
Hima Kohli is already
scheduled to hear as
many as five pending
pleas about the recent
political crisis in Maha-
rashtra, on Wednesday
.
The turmoil that be-
gan with a rebellion in
the Shiv Sena followed
the collapse of the
Maha Vikas Aghadi
(MVA) government and
resignation of CM Ud-
dhav Thackeray on
June 29.
A day later, rebel
Sena leader Eknath
Shinde took oath as
chief minister with the
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) supporting his
faction.
The fresh sixth plea
was mentioned before
the bench by senior ad-
vocate Devdatt Kamat.
Maharashtra mat-
ters are listed on
Wednesday. I request
for tagging the same
along with them, Ka-
mat said.
The CJI-led bench,
on July 11, had granted
interim relief to the
Uddhav Thackeray fac-
tion MLAs by asking
Maharashtra Assem-
bly Speaker Rahul Nar-
wekar not to proceed
with the plea seeking
their disqualification
as sought by the Shinde
group on the ground of
defying the party whip
during the trust vote
and the election of the
speaker.
The top court seized
five petitions and the
first one was filed by
the Shinde faction dur-
ing the summer vaca-
tion when some rebel
Sena MLAs moved be-
fore it challenging the
disqualification pro-
ceedings initiated by
the deputy speaker.
Rest four pleas, now
the fifth one, have been
filed by the Thackeray
faction.
Satish Nandgaonkar
Mumbai: The Eknath
Shinde-led govern-
ment on Monday
stayed works sanc-
tioned by the Maha
Vikas Aghadi govern-
ment after April 01,
2021, for which ten-
ders were not issued
for all district-level
schemes of all depart-
ments.
A directive from
Manu Kumar Srivasta-
va, State Chief Secre-
tary, said this applies to
the District Planning
and Development Coun-
cils (DPDC), tribal sub
plan, and special com-
ponent schemes. The
directive came on Mon-
day evening, hours be-
fore Chief Minister
Shinde and Deputy
Chief Minister Deven-
dra Fadnavis were
scheduled to fly to New
Delhi on their second
visit to the capital.
DPDCs are constitut-
ed in every district and
the minister in charge
of the district is the
chairman of this com-
mittee and the district
collector is the member
secretary. The DPDC
prepares the develop-
ment plans and gets it
approved form the gov-
ernment, after which
funds are accordingly
distributed to imple-
menting agencies
through the Collector.
District level depart-
ments implement the
schemes.
In another key direc-
tive,Srivastavaalsogave
orders for the cancella-
tion of appointments of
all non-government
membersonstateunder-
takings, councillors and
committees.
It is the routine norm
of any new government
to stay all allocations
sanctioned by the previ-
ous government as out-
going governments are
known to sanction
funds in a rush of Gov-
ernment Resolutions.
As First India previ-
ously reported, on June
25, Legislative Council
LoP Praveen Darekar ,
had written to Governor
Bhagat Singh Koshyari
seeking his intervention
after the MVA govern-
ment cleared 160 GRs in
48hours,andsanctioned
funds worth crores
while on its way out.
Shinde govt stays MVA projects for which tenders were not issued
HITTING PAUSE
lll
The MVA govt
cleared 160
GRs in 48
hours, and
sanctioned
funds worth
crores on its
way out Eknath Shinde
Uddhav faction files fresh plea in apex court
Uddhav Thackeray
CBI questions former Mumbai
top cops in Deshmukh case
Param Bir Singh
PRESIDENTIAL POLLS
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde arrives at Vidhan Bhavan; Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis casts his vote on Monday. —PHOTOS BY ANI
Maharashtra CM Shinde,
Dy CM Fadnavis cast vote First India bureau
Mumbai: Ailing
Bharatiya Janata
Party MLA from Pune
Mukta Tilak arrived
at Central Hall in Vid-
han Bhavan in a
wheelchair to take
part in the presiden-
tial poll on Monday.
Two MLAs of the Na-
tionalist Congress
Party (NCP)—Anil
Deshmukh and
Nawab Malik—could
not vote because they
are in jail under vari-
ous charges, includ-
ing money launder-
ing.
The 56-year-old Tilak,
a first-time MLA from
the Kasba Peth constit-
uency in Pune city, has
been unwell for a long
time. However, she still
travelled from Pune,
around 200km from
here, and then arrived
in a wheelchair.
Her fellow legislator
from Pimpri-Chinch-
wad township in Pune,
Laxman Jagtap, howev-
er, could not make it as
he is undergoing treat-
ment for a serious ail-
ment and could not miss
his dose of medicines.
Mahendra Dalvi, a
Shiv Sena MLA from
CM Eknath Shinde’s
camp, was not allowed
to cast his vote by the
Election Commission
of India (ECI), said a
Vidhan Bhavan official.
The MLA from Ali-
baug was recently con-
victed in an old case and
although he was grant-
ed bail, a complaint was
filed against him with
the ECI, he said.
BJP MLA Ashish
Shelar claims
NDA nominee
Droupadi Murmu
to receive
‘record-breaking
number of votes’
from legislators
MAHARASHTRA LEGISLATORS
VOTE FOR PRESIDENT
Voting started at 10 am in the Vidhan
Bhavan’s central hall in the city and will
continue till 5 pm. Leader of Opposition in
the Maharashtra Assembly Ajit Pawar of
the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and
Congress’s Balasaheb Thorat were among
early voters. Pune BJP MLA Mukta Tilak,
who is suffering from a serious illness,
also arrived in the Vidhan Bhavan to cast
her vote.
She (Murmu) will
get votes across the
party lines. You
will see a huge turnout in
this election. So, the lead
that you see from Maha-
rashtra will create a polit-
ical history in the presi-
dential polls.
—Ashish Shelar, BJP MLA
BJP MLA OBJECTS TO CONGRESS LEGISLATOR
NOT STANDING IN QUEUE DURING POLLS
Mumbai (PTI): Maharashtra BJP MLA Babanrao Lonikar on Monday ob-
jected to Congress legislator Nitin Raut not standing in a queue to vote in the
presidential election at the Vidhan Bhavan here. He said that Nitin Raut arrived
in the central hall before voting began at 10 am. “Instead of standing in the
queue like us, he directly went inside to cast his vote. This is unacceptable. I
am going to write to the Election Commission of India that his vote should be
considered invalid,” Lonikar said.
Ailing BJP MLA
arrives in
wheelchair, 2
others skip polls
Few Cong MLAs
may follow their
conscience: Patil
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Maharash-
tra Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) President
Chandrakant Patil on
Monday said that
Congress MLAs who
remained absent dur-
ing Shinde govern-
ment’s trust vote will
vote as per their con-
science in favour of
National Democratic
Alliance’s presiden-
tial poll candidate
Droupadi Murmu.
Speaking to reporters
at Vidhan Bhavan
premises, where voting
was underway for the
presidential election,
Patil said the Congress
cannot even guard its
own MLAs.
“I am sure that some
Congress MLAs who re-
mained absent during
the vote of confidence
will apply their con-
science this time as
well,” he quipped.
The NDA has fielded
Droupadi Murmu for
the country’s top consti-
tutional post, while the
opposition has nominat-
ed former Union Minis-
ter Yashwant Sinha.
BJP MLA and former
Maharashtra minister
Ashish Shelar said,
“The opposition parties
should not boast about
their strength. They
have fallen flat on their
face earlier also.”
There were concerns
among the opposition
parties over the possi-
bility of cross-voting
during presidential
polls on Monday
.
The Nationalist Con-
Congress—the two
main opposition parties
in Maharashtra—al-
ready held meetings
with their legislators to
ensure there is no cross-
voting in favour of
Murmu.
However, the opposi-
tion is concerned as CM
Eknath Shinde on Sun-
day claimed that Mur-
mu would get the sup-
port of 200 MLAs from
the state.
“We will manage to
get the votes of 200
MLAs,” he said.
Concern among
opposition invoked
after Shinde’s
assurance of support
from 200 Maha MLAs
BJP Maha chief Chandrakant Patil deboards a bus with other
MLAs at Vidhan Bhavan. —PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
Shiv Sena's Aaditya Thackeray
addresses reporters at Vidhan
Bhavan.
Former Dy CM Ajit Pawar
speaks to the media after
voting. —PHOTOS BY
BHUSHAN KOYANDE
Group has opposed
move to disqualify its
MLAs from the
Maharashtra
Legislative Assembly
Sanjay Pandey

First India Bureau
Bhopal/Mumbai: At
least 12 people, in-
cluding four women
and a child, were
killed, and two went
missing after the Ma-
harashtra State Road
Transport Corpora-
tion (MSRTC) bus
they were travelling
in skidded and fell off
the Khalghat Sanjay
Setu in Madhya
Pradesh’s Dhar dis-
trict on the Agra-
Mumbai Highway
.
The bus that departed
from Indore in MP
around 7.30 am and was
heading to Amalner in
Maharashtra’s Jalgaon
district, located about
260km from Dhar, was
carrying over 50 passen-
gers, officials said. It
crashed into the railing
of a bridge between
Khalghat and Thigari
around 10 am and then
plunged into the Nar-
mada river, the MSRTC
said.
“Twelve bodies have
been retrieved,” Indore
Zone Inspector General
of Police Rakesh Gupta
told reporters, adding
the rescue operation
was on.
MP Minister Kamal
Patel had earlier said
that 11 out of 13 bodies
were recovered from the
bus itself, while two bod-
ies were recovered from
outside, as the bus
struck the railing while
making an attempt to
overtake.
The MSRTC in a re-
lease said so far 13 bod-
ies, including of the bus-
driver Chandrakant
Eknath Patil (45) and
conductor Prakash
Shravan Chaudhary
(40),havebeenretrieved.
Of the 12 deceased,
seven passengers hailed
from Maharashtra, four
from Rajasthan and one
from Indore.
They have been
identified as Nee-
bajiPatil(60),ArvaBora
(27), Kalpana Rao (57),
Vikas Bahre (33), Avi-
nash Pardeshi (30), Raju
Maurya (48), Chetan
Jangid (35), Jagannath
Joshi (70), Rukamani
(age not known), and
Saifuddin (45).
About 15 others have
beenrescuedand
the injured were
being taken to
the nearest hospital for
treatment, an official
said, adding that the riv-
er current was strong
and that the rescue op-
eration was ongoing.
Later, the bus was
pulled out of the river
with the help of a crane
andtrafficmovementon
the highway was re-
stored, officials said.
MAHARASHTRA
03
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Six persons
were killed and one
injured when a sports
utility vehicle (SUV)
hit a two-wheeler and
fell off a bridge into a
nullah in Amravati
district, a police offi-
cial said on Monday.
The incident oc-
curred late Sunday
night near Nimbhora
Phata (diversion) on the
Paratwada-Baitul high-
way, some 675km from
Mumbai, amid heavy
rains and low visibility,
he said.
“The SUV hit the two-
wheeler when the two
vehicles were on their
way from Paratwada to
Bodad village. The
SUV’s driver lost con-
trol over the vehicle
which fell off the
bridge. Four of five oc-
cupants of the SUV
died. The two-wheeler
rider and pillion suc-
cumbed as well,” the of-
ficial said.
A patrol van from
Shirajgaon police sta-
tion saw a seat of the
SUV lying on the road
before spotting both the
vehicles in the nullah
around 11.40 pm,
though the accident
may have taken place at
least two hours earlier,
he said.
The injured and the
bodies of the deceased
were shifted to a hospi-
tal in Achalpur, he
added.
12dead,2missingasMSRTCbusfallsintoNarmada
TRAGEDY STRIKES
First India Bureau
Mumbai: The MSTRC
bus which met with
an accident in Madhya
Pradesh on Monday
was more than 10
years old and its fit-
ness certificate was
valid for one year
and 10 days, RTO offi-
cials said.
Thebusbroketherail-
ing of a bridge on the
National Highway No.3
(Agra-Mumbai road),
situated close to Dhar
and Khargone borders,
and then fell into the
river, he said.
ThebusleftfromMP’s
Indore city in the morn-
ing and was heading to
Jalgaon district in Ma-
harashtra, MSRTC offi-
cials said.
The bus was regis-
tered with the Nagpur
rural Regional Trans-
port Office on June 12,
2012 and its fitness cer-
tificate, which implies
that the vehicle is road-
worthy
,wasvalidforone
year and 10 days, a sen-
ior RTO official said.
Its Pollution Under
Control(PUC)certificate
and insurance were val-
id, he said.
TheMSRTChassetup
a helpline for citizens
and they can dial 022-
23023940 to get informa-
tion about the accident.
Bus skidded
Bus skidded
while trying to
while trying to
overtake,
overtake,
crashed into
crashed into
safety rail, and
safety rail, and
plunged into
plunged into
Narmada river
Narmada river
Expressing grief
over the accident,
Chief Minister Eknath
Shinde directed
the MSRTC to take
immediate action to
pay Rs10 lakh to the
relatives of each of
the deceased pas-
sengers. The MSRTC
later announced a
compensation of
Rs10 lakh to the rela-
tives of each of the
deceased and said it
would bear the entire
cost of treatment cost
of the injured per-
sons. Deputy CM Dev-
endra Fadnavis said
the state government
and the MSRTC were
coordinating with the
MP administration for
the rescue opera-
tion and treatment of
the injured. He also
expressed condo-
lence to the bereaved
families and prayed
for the speedy re-
covery of the injured
passengers.
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
expressed his grief
at the tragedy and
condoled the deaths.
“The bus trag-
edy in Dhar, Madhya
Pradesh is sadden-
ing. My thoughts
are with those who
have lost their loved
ones. Rescue work is
underway and local
authorities are pro-
viding all possible
assistance to those
affected,” he said.
The Prime Minister’s
Office has announced
Rs2 lakh ex-gratia
from Prime Minis-
ter’s National Relief
Fund to the next of
kin of the deceased
and Rs50,000 to
those injured.
Maha to provide
`10 L to kin of
deceased
PM condoles
deaths
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Flood-like
situation prevailed in
at least three districts
of Maharashtra
where rivers are in
spate due to heavy
rains, while the over-
all death toll in relat-
ed incidents since
June 01 rose to 105,
the state government
said on Monday.
Although most parts
of Maharashtra contin-
ued to receive moderate
rains, Ratnagiri, Gad-
chiroli and Wardha dis-
tricts are witnessing
flood-like situations due
to swollen rivers, the
state disaster manage-
ment department said
in a report.
The 105 fatalities, re-
corded between June 01
and July 17, were caused
due to floods, lightning
strikes, landslides, fall-
ing of trees and the col-
lapse of structures.
One person died in
the last 24 hours in the
Solapur district due to
the collapse of a struc-
ture.
In most parts of Ma-
harashtra, moderate
rain continued and a
few districts like Ratna-
giri in the Konkan re-
gion, and Gadchiroli
and Wardha in east Ma-
harashtra witnessed
flood-like situations due
to swollen rivers.
As per the latest data,
two villages were affect-
ed by heavy rains and
one person went miss-
ing, while another one
got injured.
Atotalof 11,836people
have been evacuated so
far in Maharashtra due
to heavy rains and flood-
ing, but no fresh evacua-
tionwascarriedoutany-
where in the state due to
flooding in the last 24
hours, the report said.
A State Disaster Re-
sponse Force (SDRF)
team has been deployed
in the Gadchiroli dis-
trict for a search and
rescue operation. Due
to heavy rainfall, some
people have been stuck
in flood at Hinganghat,
Samudrapur, Selu and
Devali in the Wardha
district and for their
rescue operation, a
team of the National
Disaster Response
Force (NDRF) and two
teams of the SDRF have
been deployed.
Flood-like situation in 3 districts; overall death toll rises to 105
So far, 11,836
people in
Maharashtra
have been
evacuated due
to heavy rains
and flooding
A view of a closed Andheri Subway as it gets heavily waterlogged due to heavy rainfall, in
Mumbai. —FILE PHOTO
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has placed warning
signs on trees that may fall due to heavy rains in South Mumbai
area. —PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
Gadchiroli: The Regional Meteorological Centre
in Mumbai on Monday issued an Orange alert
for Gadchiroli and Gondia districts, predicting a
thunderstorm and lightning with heavy to very
heavy rain at isolated places. Other districts of
the state are on Yellow alert. As the flood situ-
ation continues to prevail in Sironcha town of
Gadchiroli district, the lives of people have been
badly impacted as the large swathes of land
remain inundated in water. Earlier on Sunday,
the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)
personnel carried out relief work in flood-affected
areas in Gadchiroli and distributed various es-
sential items among the people.
ORANGE ALERT IN
GADCHIROLI, GONDIA
FARMER, 3 BUFFALOES
ELECTROCUTED
Thane: A 60-year-old farmer and three of his buf-
faloes were electrocuted when a live wire fell on
them at Sai village in Kalyan taluka of Thane dis-
trict on Monday around 10 am, Kalyan Tehasildar
Jairaj Deshmukh said. Shantaram Kachru Bhopi
went to his farm with his cattle, when a wire from
the overhead line fell on them, he said. The victim
and the three animals died on the spot, he said,
adding that the body of the farmer was sent for
post-mortem and a case of accidental death has
been reported.
MSTRC BUS WAS OVER 10-YRS OLD,
FITNESS CERTIFICATE DUE TO EXPIRE
Six dead as SUV falls off
Amravati bridge into nullah
Amid
heavy
rains and
low visibility, the
SUV driver hit the
two-wheeler, and
then lost control
over the vehicle.
Four of five occu-
pants of the SUV
and the two per-
sons on the
two-wheeler all
died. —Police official
MONSOON MAYHEM
The bus broke the railing of a bridge on the NH No.3 and fell into the river. —PHOTO BY ANI
As many as 30 NDRF personnel, 70 from SDERF, 100 from Home Guard and police have joined
hands in the rescue operation, which continues in full swing. —PHOTO BY PTI
The bus was pulled out of the river with the help of a crane and traffic movement on the Highway was restored. —PHOTO BY ANI

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SPIRITUAL SPEAK
All wrong-doing arises
because of mind. If mind
is transformed can
wrong-doing remain?
—Buddha
IN-DEPTH
Rajnath Singh
@rajnathsingh
Greetings and warm wishes to Union
Minister Shri @AshwiniVaishnaw, on his
birthday. He is making numerous efforts
to strengthen India’s infrastructure in
Railways, Telecommunications and IT
sector. May God bless him with a long
and healthy life.
Piyush Goyal
@PiyushGoyal
Rise in Agri Exports: India’s
agricultural processed food
products witness a 14% increase
in April-June 2022-23 as compared
to same period in 2021-2022. Modi
Govt. is leaving no stone unturned to
increase the income of our farmers.
TOP TWEETS
WHO IS TO BLAME
FOR MOUNTING
PILE OF PENDING
CASES IN COURTS
hose fault is it when
there is a huge pen-
dency of cases in dif-
ferent courts of the
country? Law Minis-
ter Kiren Rijiju blames it on
judges. The Chief Justice of In-
dia NV Ramana disagrees. Riji-
ju stated a few days ago that
nearly five crore cases were
pending in courts. The law min-
ister said, “The pendency of
cases when I took over as law
minister was slightly less than
four crore. Today, it is close to
five crore. It is a matter of great
worry for all of us.” Responding
to Rijiju’s statement the CJI
said, “You all know the reasons
for pendency. I need not elabo-
rate on it.”
Indeed, the time taken by the
Union law ministry in clearing
names for judgeship is, in some
cases, inordinately long. The file
keeps moving back and forth be-
tween the ministry and the Col-
legium over a few names, delay-
ing appointments. Judiciary
taking a stand on appointments
can’t be faulted in the interest of
its independence.
W
he Union govern-
ment has slapped
a Goods and Ser-
vices Tax (GST)
on a whole range
of new commodities, some of
them being new additions.
The GST Council has im-
posed a 5 percent tax on
packed food items like curd,
packaged buttermilk, paneer,
puffed rice, packed fish,
meat, jaggery, honey and
wheat flour, among others.
What prompted the GST
Council to bring these items
under the 5 percent tax re-
gime must have been its in-
nate desire to raise revenue
and add to the financial bur-
den of middle class and the
poor. How even this nominal
tax hurt the consumer and
traders can only be imagined
as prices of these commodi-
ties in their unpacked form
are also likely to go up with
the corner halwai shop decid-
ing to match the prices and
inflation is still hovering
around 7 percent.
Rice and wheat can still be
purchased loose like puffed
rice but none can guarantee
the quality of loose wheat
flour. What can also be not as-
sured is that the government
will not find a way to slap
GST on these edibles in their
loose form. Traders are al-
ready up in arms to protest
against the tax which, they
say, will cause a huge loss in
business.
Political leaders too have
criticised the decision. Varun
Gandhi, the BJP MP and
Shashi Tharoor of the Con-
gress have both spoken
against the decision. The BJP
MP said that the GST on pack-
aged food items will hurt peo-
ple already struggling with
“record-breaking unemploy-
ment”. Shashi Tharoor said
the “Aam Aadmi will bear the
brunt”. The government may
not agree with him.
HOW NOT TO LET
THE POOR EAT
The Union government has
slapped a GST on a whole
range of new commodities,
some of them being new
additions. The GST Council
has imposed a 5 percent
tax on packed food items
like curd, packaged
buttermilk, paneer, puffed
rice, packed fish, meat,
jaggery, honey and wheat
flour, among others
T
Pant-Pandya Heroics seal ODI Series
but Problems Persist for Team India!
rom Rishi Sunak as a front-
runner for PM to soaring tem-
peratures and Rishabh Pant’s
breath-taking brilliance, it’s
been quite an Indian summer
in England this year. While
Sunak’s future still remains
unsure, Pant’s magnificent
century sure took India to a
thrilling five-wicket win over
England in the final match of
the ODI series. The south-
paw’s maiden ODI ton and his
terrific partnership with
Hardik Pandya guided Team
India to an amazing victory
after a shaky start when In-
dia’s Top 3 – Rohit Sharma,
Shikhar Dhawan and Virat
Kohli- fell cheaply
.
PANT-PANDYA HEROICS
The Pant-Pandya heroics in
the ODI grand finale should
not, however, make us over-
look the reality that the trip
to England was not an undi-
luted triumph. While the
tour highlighted several
gains, it also underlined seri-
ous areas of concern that
need urgent corrective atten-
tion. With red and white ball
cricket both being played, we
need to take stock of the ma-
jor gains and grey areas in all
formats of the game as Rohit
Sharma and his team gear up
for the all-important T20
World Cup in Australia in Oc-
tober and the ODI World Cup
in India early next year.
INDIA’S BOWLING
India’s bowling deserves a
special mention as it has
been a big success all through
the tour. Except for their fail-
ure to bowl out England in
the second innings of the
Test Match, the bowlers put
up a stand out show to take
all 10 England Wickets rather
cheaply in all 3 ODIs and
T20s. Both Jasprit Bumrah
and Mohammad Shami fared
excellently and added to their
tag of the most feared pace
combo in world cricket today
.
INDIA’S POSITIVES
One of India’s biggest posi-
tives was the return of Bhu-
vneshwar Kumar in T20
matches. His standout swing
bowling earned him the Man
of The Series award. With
Hardik also back to peak fit-
ness, India’s fast bowling fire
power has added sting to it.
Thereisstillsomeconundrum
in the dressing room with re-
gards to the selection of Ravi
Ashwin in Tests abroad and
dropping him from the final
Test match cost India dearly
.
Hisroleneedstobeclarifiedas
Aswin still remains World’s
leading spinner.
While bowling resources
seem rich and well-stocked,
it’s the batting that seems to
be of grave concern. Though
everyone pointed out bowl-
ers’ inability to take 10 wick-
ets in the final innings of the
test match, it was the poor
batting by top order that actu-
ally cost India the game. With
Rahul unfit, Rohit shaky and
Virat going through a horror
patch, India was saved by
strong middle order. Emer-
gence of Surya Kumar Yadav
gives hope of a bright future
after Rohit-Virat exit. But at
the moment, India needs to
take a hard look at who will
be the Top 4 batters for T20
and ODI World Cups. There is
an urgent need to bolster bat-
ting resources and batting all-
rounders like Venkatesh Iyer
should be given more chanc-
es. He is a good back up to
Hardik as well but was ig-
nored during the entire trip.
KOHLI’S SILENT BAT
Most importantly
, Kohli’s si-
lent bat needs to start talking
again. The sooner he regains
his run-scoring touch, the bet-
ter becomes Team India’s
chancesattheWorldCups.But
beyondKohli’sform,it’stough
torunawayfromthebasicfact
that India is still scuttling to
find their best eleven ahead of
the ICC T20 World Cup later
this year. The fact that India
won both T20 and ODI series
despite largely flop shows by
top order reflects the fighting
spirit of this unit.
INDIA’S WEAKNESSES
One of India’s biggest weak-
nesses have been over experi-
mentingandgivingchancesto
toomanyplayers.Theselected
few need to have many games
under their belt before they
playtheWorldCups.Sincethe
last T20 World Cup in 2021, In-
dia has tried 27 players in 16
T20s and 21 each in 6 ODIs and
8 Tests. Even the Captaincy is
being rotated regularly and
many experts felt that it was a
wrong decision to hand Bum-
rah Test Captaincy
. It certain-
ly wasn’t the best choice to
saddletheyoungfastbowlerto
lead the team so suddenly
.
INDIAN TALENT
It’s only the lessons learnt
fromhistorythatcantakeone
to victory
. Indian cricket has
all the talent and money in
the world but if they keep re-
peating their mistakes from
the previous World Cups,
then it would be a missed op-
portunity once again this Oc-
tober come the T20 World
Cup. They would do well to
not rotate and change too
much. Over resting of players
was a folly that was commit-
ted in Kohli-Shatri era too.
The team could do big favour
to themselves if they stick to
a small pool of players and
play to a template. If they do
that, there is enough firepow-
er in the team to bring back
theWorldCuphomethistime.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
F
It’s only the lessons learnt
from history that can take
one to victory. Indian
cricket has all the talent
and money in the world but
if they keep repeating their
mistakes from the previous
World Cups, then it would
be a missed opportunity
once again this October
come the T20 World Cup.
They would do well to not
rotate and change too
much. Over resting of
players was a folly that was
committed in Kohli-Shatri
era too. The team could do
big favour to themselves if
they stick to a small pool of
players and play to a
template. If they do that,
there is enough firepower in
the team to bring back the
World Cup home this time
From Rishi Sunak as a front-
runner for PM to soaring
temperatures and Rishabh
Pant’s breath-taking
brilliance, it’s been quite
an Indian summer in
England this year. While
Sunak’s future still remains
unsure, Pant’s magnificent
century sure took India to a
thrilling five-wicket win over
England in the final match of
the ODI series
SIDDHAARTH MAHAN
The writer is a specialist on Sports
and Cinema who works as an actor
in the Hindi film industry

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INDIA
Lucknow (ANI): The
Allahabad HC will hear
on August 1 a plea chal-
lenging the acquittal of
all the 32 accused, in-
cluding BJP leader LK
Advani, who were ac-
quitted by the special
CBI court in 2022 in the
Babri Masjid demoli-
tion case. Some of the
high-profile personali-
ties in the case include
senior BJP leaders such
as Lal Krishna Advani,
Murli Manohar Joshi,
Uma Bharati, Kalyan
Singh, among others.
Apart from them,
Mahant Nritya Gopal
Das, Champat Rai, and
others are also accused.
The petition has been
filed by Haji Mehboob,
a resident of Ayodhya
in the Lucknow bench
of the Allahabad High
Court seeking punish-
ment for the acquitted
people. The court will
debate the matter of
its sustainability on
August 1.
CASE HISTORY
Allahabad HC to hear plea against
acquittal of 32 accused on Aug 1
BABRI MASJID CASE
New Delhi (ANI): The
Supreme Court on Mon-
day stayed the Karna-
taka High Court pro-
ceedings against the
state Anti-Corruption
Bureau wherein the
High Court sought ser-
vice records and other
reports of officers.
A bench headed by
Chief Justice of India
NV Ramana said the
proceedings before Kar-
nataka High Court are
not linked to the ac-
cused and stayed and
directed the concerned
High Court to consider
the bail application of
the accused persons
without reference to
these matters.
The court remarked
that the concerned HC
judge, rather than con-
sidering the bail appli-
cation, focused on other
things which may not
be relevant.
SC stays orders by Karnataka HC
against ACB in bail plea hearing
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on Monday
agreed to list for hearing
on July 21 a fresh plea
seekingitspermissionto
worship the Shivling',
which is stated to be
found in the Gyanvapi
mosquepremisesinVar-
anasi during a court-or-
dered survey
.
The court took note of
the submissions of law-
yer Vishnu Shankar
Jain that the plea be
listedforhearingonJuly
21 along with the pend-
ingpetitionof the'Anju-
man Intezemia Masjid
Committee' which man-
ages the affairs of the
Gyanvapi mosque.
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on Monday
asked counsel to bring
on record some concrete
examples of Hindus be-
ing denied minority sta-
tus at the state level.
The top court was
hearing a plea challeng-
ing a provision of the
NCM Act and seeking a
direction to the Centre
to define minority and
lay down guidelines for
the identification of
minorities at the dis-
trict level.
Hindu Minority
status: SC seeks
examples
GYANVAPI PLEA:
SC HEARING
ON JULY 21
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi: Almost all
the words in the Hindi
or English dictionary
used for attacking the
governments or to hold
them accountable, have
been declared unparlia-
mentary
. Then the ques-
tion is with what words
the opposition is now
going to attack the gov-
ernment. If the govern-
ment is to be accused of
corruption, how will
the opposition accuse it
because the word 'cor-
rupt' has become un-
parliamentary?
How will the opposi-
tion level allegations of
spying on Pegasus or
whatever, when the
word 'snoopgate' has be-
come unparliamentary?
The Leader of the Oppo-
sition will not be able to
call the Prime Minister
'Jumlajeevi' as the word
has now become unpar-
liamentary
. The opposi-
tion will also have to
find new words to call
the government a fail-
ure as the word 'incom-
petent' has been made
unparliamentary
.
In the Diary of Parlia-
ment's 2021 unparlia-
mentary words, both the
words 'dictator' and 'dic-
tatorship' have been
made unparliamentary
.
In common parlance,
the name of Jaichand is
used to accuse someone
as a sly and a deceiver,
but 'Shakuni' of Indian
mythology and 'Jai-
chand' of medieval his-
tory have been made
unparliamentary
.
The opposition par-
ties will no longer be
able to call the govern-
ment as Bahri Sarkar,
nor will they be able to
call it a useless govern-
ment because both the
words 'bahri sarkar' and
'non-parliamentary' are
now unparliamentary.
Words like 'beating
drums', 'double charac-
ter', 'nautanki' have also
become unparliamen-
tary. The word Khal-
istani will also not be
used in Parliament. The
words 'embarrassment',
'torture', 'cheating', 'dra-
ma', 'hippocracy' etc.
have also become un-
parliamentary
.
But amidst this, there
is a blessing in disguise
for the Congress since
the BJP leaders, who
used to call former Con-
gress President Rahul
Gandhi as 'Bal Buddhi',
will not be able to say it
because the word 'Bal
Buddhi' has become un-
parliamentary
.
How will the Opposition
attack the government?
UNPARLIAMENTARY LANGUAGE
New Delhi: Union Min-
ister of Tourism, Cul-
ture and DoNER G Kis-
han Reddy on Monday
met Union Home Minis-
ter Amit Shah and ap-
prised him of the Goda-
vari floods that have
caused damage to lives
and livelihoods in the
states of Telangana and
Andhra Pradesh.
After the meeting,
Shah directed the Home
Ministry to extend all
necessary support at
the earliest.
According to a re-
lease issued by the Of-
fice of G Kishan Reddy,
the SDRF allocation
has been made in Tel-
angana but the state
government has so far
not sent a request with
the required certifi-
cates for release of the
first instalment.
“The Government of
India will extend all re-
quired support the mo-
ment this is done,” the
releasesaid.“InAndhra
Pradesh, the first in-
stallment has been re-
leased from the Nation-
al Disaster Response
Fund (NDRF).
The Home Ministry
clarified that the sec-
ond installment will be
sanctioned and money
released once the state
makes such a request,”
the release reads. The
Home Ministry also
stated once the prelim-
inary report is re-
ceived from the states
of Telangana and
Andhra Pradesh, Cen-
tral Assessment teams
will be sent to assess
the situation.
GODAVARI FLOODS GANGOO TERROR ATTACK
Reddy meets Shah, says HM
assuredallnecessarysupport
Officials lay wreath on mortal
remains of Pulwama martyr
Srinagar (ANI): Secu-
rity officials on Mon-
day laid a wreath on
the mortal remains of
Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF) person-
nel Assistant Sub In-
spector (ASI) Vinod
Kumar who lost his life
in a terrorist attack in
the Gangoo area of Pul-
wama on Sunday.
An Assistant Sub In-
spector of the Central
Reserve Police Force
(CRPF) was killed in a
terrorist attack which
targeted a joint check-
point of Jammu and
Kashmir Police and the
CRPF in the Pulwama
district of south Kash-
mir on Sunday.
An Assistant Sub In-
spector of the Central
Reserve Police Force
(CRPF) was killed in a
terrorist attack which
targeted a joint check-
point of Jammu and
Kashmir Police and the
CRPF in the Pulwama
district of south Kash-
mir on Sunday.
He has been identi-
fied as ASI Vinod Ku-
mar of 182 Battalion
and a resident of
Farukkabad in Uttar
Pradesh.
He was rushed to the
hospital for treatment
where he succumbed to
his injuries. The entire
area has been cordoned
off and the search op-
erations are underway,
police said. In view of
this development, Jam-
mu and Kashmir Lieu-
tenant Governor Manoj
Sinha said in a tweet, “I
salute the bravery and
supreme sacrifice of
CRPF’s ASI, Vinod Ku-
mar in the line of duty.
My deepest condolenc-
es to the bereaved fam-
ily. Strongly condemn
heinous terror attack
on a naka party in Pul-
wama. Our security
forces will give a befit-
ting reply to the perpe-
trators.” Meanwhile,
the Jammu and Kash-
mir Police are probing
the matter.
NATIONAL DEFENCE NO LONGER
CONFINED TO BORDERS: MODI
PMhighlightsgovernment’seffortsinmakingthecountryself-reliantineverysector
New Delhi (ANI): Em-
phasizing on national
security and new-age
warfare, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on Mon-
day said national de-
fence is no longer con-
fined to borders but has
expandedtowardsspace,
cyberspace and econom-
ic and social sphere.
Speaking at the Naval
Innovation and Indi-
genisation Organisa-
tion (NIIO) seminar
‘Swavlamban’ at Dr
Ambedkar Internation-
al Centre here Modi
said, “National defence
is no longer limited to
borders, but is much
broader. Therefore it is
equally necessary to
make every citizen
aware of it. Now the
threats to national secu-
rity have also become
widespread. Earlier we
used to imagine our de-
fence only till land, sea
and sky
. Now the area is
moving towards space,
cyberspace and econom-
ic and social space.”
“As India is establish-
ing itself on the global
stage, there are constant
attacks through misin-
formation, disinforma-
tion and false campaign.
We have to thwart every
effort of the forces that
harm India’s interests,”
he said. The PM high-
lighted the govern-
ment’seffortsinmaking
the country self-reliant
in every sector.
“We developed the
habitof beingdependent
on foreign countries for
even the simplest prod-
ucts.Wewereaddictedto
the products imported
from abroad. To change
this mindset, we worked
on mission mode after
2014,”hesaid.Modisaid,
“If you do not give love
and respect to your own
child and expect the
same from your neigh-
bours, can it be done? If
wedonotvalueourprod-
ucts, how can we expect
theworld to invest in us?
When we showed confi-
dence in our indige-
nously developed
BRAHMOS, the world
came forward too.”
New Delhi (ANI): Fully
backing the indigenous
fighter aircraft pro-
grammes, Air Chief Mar-
shal VR Chaudhari on
Monday said the Indian
Air Force has already
given the commitment
to buy six squadrons of
the under development
LCA Mark2 combat
aircraft and would
place more orders for
these planes once their
production begins.
“Indian Air Force has
already given commit-
ment for the induction
of six squadrons of
Light Combat Aircraft
Mark 2 fighter jets. We
will decide on additional
numbers too,” Chaud-
hari said. The IAF has
already placed orders
for four squadrons of
the LCA Mark 1A and
has committed towards
inducting at least seven
squadrons of the fifth
generation Indian fighter
AMCA which is also pro-
gressing very fast.
IAF TO INDUCT
6 LCA MARK2
SQUADRONS
IN THE COURTYARD
PLEA CHALLENGING TALAQ-E-HASAN
Union Minister G Kishan Reddy with Union Home MinisterAmit Shah.
Security officials on Monday laid a wreath on the mortal remains
of CRPF personnel ASI Vinod Kumar. —PHOTO BY ANI
New Delhi (ANI):
The Enforcement
Directorate (ED)
on Monday ques-
tioned Delhi Minis-
ter Satyendar
Jain’s wife
Poonam Jain in
connection with an
alleged money
laundering case.
Poonam Jain de-
posed before the
investigators after
11 am at the ED’s
headquarters here,
a development no-
ticed almost two
months after her
husband, Satyen-
dar Jain was ar-
rested by the agen-
cy in the same
case on May 30.
The federal agency
on July 1, also ar-
rested two associ-
ates of Satyendar
Jain– Ankush Jain
and Vaibhav Jain–
following their
questioning.
Kollam (ANI): In a
shocking incident,
girl students appear-
ing for the National
Eligibility Entrance
Test (NEET) at Mar
Thoma Institute of
Information Tech-
nologywereaskedto
remove their inner-
wearbeforeentering
the exam hall.
Reportedly
, the
parent confirmed
the girls were forced
to appear for the
exam in front of oth-
er boy students and
male invigilators
which made these
girls uncomfortable
and disturbed them
mentally and physi-
cally
. Citing the Na-
tional Testing Agen-
cy’s guidelines, the
parent also high-
lighted that the NTA
‘had not mentioned
any ban on any form
of brassiere(bra)
and hooks’.
ED questions
Delhi Minister
Satyendar
Jain’s wife
Girls forced
to remove
innerwear at
NEET centre
13 NDRF TEAMS DEPLOYED
Already 13 teams from the National Disaster
Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed
in Telangana to carry out rescue and relief opera-
tionsviral, questions were raised over the encoun-
ter and political leaders demanded a CBI probe.
We have to thwart every effort of the
forces that harm India’s interests,
whether in the country or abroad.
—Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
Prime Minister Narendra Modi

06
INDIA
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: There is a
lot of discussion about
shortcut politics these
days. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi men-
tioned this in the BJP’s
national executive and
then in Deoghar,
Jharkhand. He said that
some people engage in
shortcut politics, due to
which there is a danger
of short circuit and the
country may be ruined.
His clear gesture was
towards ‘lucrative poli-
cies’ announced by par-
ties to entice voters. He
also said that today peo-
ple doing politics by
making lucrative an-
nouncements are not
aware of its danger. Ac-
tually this has a deep
meaning. Prime Minis-
ter Modi is trying to
make people under-
stand that he is doing
long term politics, due
to which people may
face some difficulties
now but tomorrow will
be good for them and
golden for the country
as India will become
Vishwa Guru. It means
diverting people’s atten-
tion from their prob-
lems.
But the opposition
leaders linked the word
of their shortcut poli-
tics to politics. When
the Prime Minister crit-
icized the shortcut poli-
tics in Deoghar, the
JMM and Congress
leaders were happy. A
leader took this to mean
that now the BJP will
not form the govern-
ment in the state by
shortcut. Keep in mind
that the BJP had lost the
last election, but since
its defeat, there is talk
that it will form its gov-
ernment by toppling the
JMM-Congress govern-
ment. Similarly
, a leader
from Bihar took a jibe at
the Prime Minister’s
speech and said that the
BJP was defeated in the
2015 elections but it
formed the government
in the middle by joining
JD(U) with itself in a
shortcut way. Now in
Maharashtra and be-
fore that in the states of
Madhya Pradesh, Kar-
nataka, Goa, Manipur
etc. BJP formed the gov-
ernment through short-
cut politics.
HAS MODI HINTED AT ENDING ‘SHORTCUT POLITICS’?
PM Narendra Modi
Scindia tells Indian carriers
to ramp us safety oversight
New Delhi (PTI): Avia-
tion Minister Jyotiradi-
tya Scindia held one-on-
one meetings with
chiefsof Indiancarriers
on Monday
, asking them
to ramp up safety over-
sight, sources said.
There have been multi-
ple technical malfunc-
tion incidents in Indian
carriers’ planes during
the last one month.
Scindia told each air-
line to take all necessary
steps that are needed to
ramp up safety over-
sight, the sources said.
Scindia had on Sun-
day held a meeting on
safety issues with sen-
ior officials of his min-
istry and regulator Di-
rectorate General of
Civil Aviation (DGCA).
During the meeting,
he had taken a detailed
report from officials
about the incidents over
last one month.
New Delhi: The Delhi HC
on Monday dismissed a PIL
that sought direction to the
Centre to stop the operation
of SpiceJet Airlines stating
several incidents of techni-
cal glitches occurred in its
aircraft recently. A bench
of Justice Satish Chan-
der Sharma and Justice
Subramonium Prasad on
Monday remarked, “Should
we start running an Airlines”.
The Court dismissed the
petition after noting that the
DGCA has already issued
show cause notices to the
concerned airlines.
Thiruvananthapuram:
Convener of ruling LDF
in Kerala EP Jayarajan on
Monday said neither he
nor his family would ever
travel by Indigo, irked by the
3-week ban imposed by the
airline. Indigo has taken the
action for his involvement
in an incident onboard an
aircraft that was also carrying
state CM Pinarayi Vijayan
last month. On June 13, two
Youth Congress workers
shouted slogans against the
CM inside the IndiGo aircraft
from Kannur, after it landed at
Thiruvananthapuram airport.
DELHI HC DISMISSES
PIL TO STOP SPICEJET
FROM OPERATING
WILL NEVER FLY
IN INDIGO: LEFT
LEADER JAYARAJAN
Parthasarathi to be back in
UP after 4-year deputation
Ahtesham Siddiqui
Lucknow: IAS Par-
thasarathi Sen Sharma,
an IAS officer who was
‘powerful’ in the Akh-
ilesh Yadav govern-
ment, is about to return
to the UP cadre. After
Yogi Adityanath’s BJP
government came to
power in Uttar Pradesh,
he left for central depu-
tation on 13 September
2018. At the center he
was posted as Joint Sec-
retary in the Depart-
ment of Fertilizers.
The central govern-
ment has relieved him
after which he has tak-
en a leave. However, he
will join the Lok Bha-
wan in the first week of
August. The Center has
issued an order to re-
turn to the his home
cadre -Uttar Pradesh.
Sharma, an IAS of
1994 batch, has been
counted among the
sharp officers of the
state. In Akhilesh Ya-
dav’s government, he
was secretary to CM.
Sharma’s power contin-
ued even after the SP
government went out of
power in 2017 and then
the BJP government
came. In ‘Yogi Raj’, he
was made the Commis-
sioner, Rural Develop-
ment UP and Commis-
sioner of Noida. After
that in 2018 he went for
deputationtothecentral
government.Noworders
for his return to UP have
been issued and in such
a situation, it will be in-
teresting to see which
bureaucratic chair is
given to Sharma.
IAS Leena Johri, wife
of IAS Parth Sarthi Sen
Sharma, is also posted
at the Center as Addl
Secretary in the Minis-
try of Rural Devlop-
ment. Notably, UP bu-
reaucracy has got four
1994 IAS officers posted
in the centre on deputa-
tion. They are IAS Lee-
na Johri, IAS Amit Ku-
mar Ghosh, IAS Partha
Sarathi Sen Sharma
and IAS Katru Ram Mo-
han Rao !!

❍ ‘80% HINDUS’ CLARIFIES LULU
Lko mall rubbishes
Muslim bias charge
Lucknow (Agencies):
Three days after a huge
controversyoveravideo
purportedly showing a
group of people offering
namaz inside the recent-
ly inaugurated Lulu
Mall in Lucknow, the
mall administration has
in a statement said that
80percentof itsemploy-
ees are Hindus. The
clarificationcomesafter
allegations that the mall
was biased in its em-
ployment policy and
gave preferential treat-
ment to Muslims.
The LuLu Group In-
ternational, the parent
company of the mall, is
headquartered in Abu
Dhabi, UAE.
The Lulu Mall Luc-
know administration
rubbished charges of a
Muslim bias, saying it is
a completely profession-
al establishment that
conducts business with-
out any discrimination.
“Our employees are
hired on the basis of
skills and merit, and not
based on caste, class, or
religion,” it said.
FIRST DAY OF PARLIAMENT SESSION
New Delhi (Agencies):
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi on Monday
urged legislators to par-
ticipate in talks on a
variety of topics with
an open mind in order
to make the Monsoon
Session of the Parlia-
ment fruitful and pro-
ductive.
“This period is very
important. It is the pe-
riod of Azadi ka Amrit
Mahotsav. There is a
special significance of
15th August and coming
25 years- when the na-
tion would celebrate 100
years of independence.
It would be the time to
make a resolution to de-
cide our journey, and
the new heights we
scale,” PM Modi said
while talking to the me-
dia ahead of the Mon-
soon Session of the Par-
liament.
“There should be dia-
logue in the Parliament
with an open mind, if
necessary, there should
be a debate. I urge all
MPs to contemplate
deeply and discuss mat-
ters to make this ses-
sion as fruitful and pro-
ductive as possible,” he
added.
The Prime Minister
also briefed about the
Presidential and Vice-
Presidential elections
2022.
“This Session is also
important because elec-
tions for the office of
President and Vice
President are taking
place right now. Voting
(for the Presidential
election) is taking place
today. During this peri-
od, the new President
and Vice President will
begin guiding the na-
tion,” he said.
The Monsoon Ses-
sion of Parliament com-
menced on Monday and
will continue till Au-
gust 12.
The Session will con-
sist of 18 sittings.
PM Narendra Modi with Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, Ministers of State Dr Jitendra
Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal and V. Muraleedharan, addresses the media on the first day of the
Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, on Monday. —PHOTOS BY PTI
BS Yediyurappa with CM B Bommai after their voting in Bengaluru
Pushkar Dhami in Dehradun
Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneswar
Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow
Mohua Moitra votes in Kolkata
Udhayanidhi Stalin in Chennai Hemant Soren votes in Ranchi
Anurag Thakur casting his vote
HIGHLIGHTS
NIRMALA SITHARAMAN, RK SINGH
CAST THEIR VOTES IN PPE KIT

z Cricketer-turned-politician
Harbhajan Singh, Misa
Bharti, daughter of former
Bihar Chief Minister Lalu
Prasad Yadav, and BCCI
vice-president Rajeev Shukla
on Monday took oath along-
with nearly 25 other leaders
as Rajya Sabha members.

z Others included A Rao
Meena, Vijay Sai Reddy,
Kheeru Mahto, Shambhala
Saran Patel, Maharashtra
Majhi, Aditya Prasad, Praful
Patel, Sanjay Raut, Sasmit
Patra, Vikramjeet Sahani.
Randeep Surjewal, P Chid-
ambaram, Kapil Sibal etc.

z As the Monsoon session
of Parliament commenced on
Monday, Lok Sabha Speaker
Om Birla paid tribute to
former Japanese PM Shinzo
Abe.“It is with heartfelt sad-
ness that I wish to inform
former Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe passed
away recently. The House
pays heartfelt condolences
on the same. He passed away
on July 8, 2022. He was
the longest serving PM of
Japan,” Birla said.

z Rajya Sabha proceedings
were adjourned for the day
on Monday amid protests
by Opposition parties over
inflation and GST rate hikes.

z Rajya Sabha Chairman M
Venkaiah Naidu on Monday
appealed to all the members
of the House to give their
best performance to make
this Monsoon Session a
memorable one and to en-
sure to work together for the
next 25 years of ‘Amrit Kaal’
to take India to new heights.
Union Finance Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman on
Monday arrived in Parlia-
ment to cast her vote for the
presidential poll wearing a
full PPE kit as she had Covid,
officials said.
Union minister RK Singh
too wore full protective
overalls to Parliament to
cast his vote. Many MPs
and MLAs were also seen
wearing masks while polling
officers were wearing gloves.
UP MLA CASTS
VOTE IN KERALA
FOR PREZ POLL
Thiruvananthapuram: A
BJP MLA from UP voted
in the Presidential polls
from here on Monday,
giving the NDA candidate
Draupadi Murmu her
only possible saffron
party vote from Kerala.
BJP’s Sevapuri MLA
Neel Ratan Singh Patel
is currently undergoing
an Ayurvedic treatment
at a hospital in northern
Palakkad district.
DEVE GOWDA,
KARNATAKA CM
CAST VOTE
Bengaluru: Former
PM HD Deve Gowda,
Karnataka CM Basavaraj
Bommai and former CMs
on Monday cast their
vote for the Presidential
election in which the
contest is between the
NDA candidate Droupadi
Murmu and joint op-
position pick Yashwant
Sinha. The 89-yr-old
JD(S) supremo, who is
a Rajya Sabha member,
arrived at the Vidhana
Soudha in a wheelchair.
58 OF 60 TRIPURA
MLAs CAST VOTE
FOR PREZ POLLS
Agartala: Of 60 MLAs
of Tripura, 58 cast their
vote here on Mon-
day, Speaker Ratan
Chakraborty said. A
legislator of the Indig-
enous Peoples Front of
Tripura, an ally of the
ruling BJP-led coalition
in the state, and an ailing
CPI(M) MLA did not
exercise their franchise
here, he said. CM Manik
Saha, his deputy Jishnu
Dev Verma, LoP Manik
Sarkar etc cast their vote
123 ASSAM MLAS
CAST VOTES IN
GUWAHATI
Guwahati: Total 123
of 126 Assam MLAs,
including Chief Minister
Himanta Biswa Sarma,
cast their votes for the
presidential election
at Assam Assembly
here on Monday amid
AIUDF’s allegation
of cross-voting by
Congress. Voting has
concluded and the ballot
box will be sealed and
sent to New Delhi amid
tight security aboard a
flight at night.
ALL BUT 3 OF 175
AP MLAS VOTE IN
PREZ POLLS
Amaravati: Three of
the 175 MLAs cast their
votes in the Legisla-
tive Assembly polling
station here on Monday.
Voting that began at 10
am, with Chief Minis-
ter Y S Jagan Mohan
Reddy casting the first
vote, concluded at 3.15
pm when Guntur MLA
Maddali Giridhar (TDP
rebel) cast the last vote.
Telugu Desam MLAs,
Nandamuri Balakrishna
and Gorantla Butchaiah
Chowdary, were among
the notable absentees.
PREZ POLLS
PM Modi urges MPs to hold
‘discussions with open mind’
Problem...
Meanwhile, CM Shinde on
Monday announced the
formation of the National
Executive body of his
political grouping and laid
claim to the Shiv Sena
party itself.
er than a political party
has led to confusion within
the ranks, with individual
demands far exceeding
available cabinet post op-
tions that Shinde may dole
out to aspirant colleagues.
The decision was also
taken to prepare for the
Supreme Court hear-
ing where Shinde--who
faces the daunting task
of accommodating 40
rebel Sena MLAs and 10
independent ones who
ditched the MVA under his
leadership--will formally
lay claim to the Shiv Sena
party and hope it will pass
legal muster.
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BIZ BUZZ
07
She said RBI had registered its concern over adverse effect of crypto on economy
Renni Abraham
Mumbai: The ` held its
own in value terms and
has literally gone glob-
al, despite depreciation
in value when com-
pared to the US dollar,
since the Russia-
Ukraine war began
right until July 13, 2022.
According to indus-
try sources, a false nar-
rative is being created
within India about the
falling rupee, even as
the Indian government
ensured not only that
the ` stayed stronger
than most other cur-
rencies but also em-
barked on a global busi-
ness plan that dis-
lodged the $ as the
mainstay for interna-
tional transactions.
` settlements have
now become the way
ahead and India has
tied up with Russia, In-
donesia, UAE and other
major markets where it
deals oil (imports),
food-grains (exports) to
transact in rupee terms
giving the $ the go bye.
From the beginning
of the war, with result-
ant sanctions imposed
by the European Union
and USA, data reveals
that the rupee has been
the third least affected
emerging market cur-
rency (EMC) across the
world depreciating
from `75.7 rupees to the
$ to `79.7 rupees per $
as on July 13, 2022
which is a 5.3% weak-
ening to the $.
Worse off than
these three curren-
cies, the Euro depreci-
ated by 11.2% in value
compared to the $ slid-
ing from 0.9 euros per
$ to 1.0 euro $ on July
13. The Japanese Yen
slid in value compared
to the $ since the
Ukraine war started
depreciating in value
by 18.8% from 115.3
yen per $ to 137.1 yen
per $. The slide in val-
ue for the British
Pound Sterling saw a
depreciation of 12.2%
from 0.7 pound per $ to
0.8 pounds per $.
The Chinese Yuan
also recorded a 6.2%
loss in value in $ com-
parison during the
same period from 6.3
yuan per $ to 6.7 yuan
per $ by July 13, 2022.
` held stronger than Euro, Pound, Yuan Yen
THROUGH UKRAINE WAR
REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE
Indian currency saw the third least
depreciation in value compared to
the US dollar out of 11 emerging
market currencies (EMC)
WAY AHEAD
OLA ELECTRIC INVESTS $500
MN IN CELL RD FACILITY
New Delhi (PTI): Ola
Electric is investing $500
million (about `4,000
crore) in a cell research
and development facility
in Bengaluru, company
founder and CEO Bhavish
Aggarwal said on
Monday. In a tweet, Ag-
garwal stated: “Sharing
something I’m personally
very passionate about!
Building a state-of-the-art
Battery Innovation Center
(BIC) in Bangalore”. BIC
will be one of the world’s
largest, most advanced
cell RD facilities, he
added. “500+ engi-
neers PhDs, $500mn
investment. Will be up
running next month!”
Aggarwal said.
RELIANCE JIO
SUBMITS EMD
OF `14K CR
FORTUNE OIL
PRICES DOWN
BY `30/LITRE
New Delhi (PTI): In-
dia’s largest telecom
operator Reliance
Jio Infocomm has
submitted earnest
money deposit
(EMD) of `14,000
crore ahead of its
participation in
5G auction, while
Bharti Airtel has
put in `5,500 crore.
According to the
list of pre-qualified
bidders posted on
the telecom depart-
ment’s website,
the EMD amount of
Adani Data Networks
stands at `100
crore. Typically,
EMD amounts give
a broad indication
of players’ appetite,
strategy and plan for
picking up spectrum
in an auction.
New Delhi (PTI): Edible
oil firm Adani Wilmar,
which sells its products
under Fortune brand,
on Monday announced
reduction in cooking oil
prices by up to `30 per
litre amid fall in global
prices. The maximum
reduction has been done
in soyabean oil. The
stocks with new prices
will reach market soon.
On February 7, Mother
Dairy, which sells edible
oils under the Dhara
brand, had cut prices of
soyabean and rice bran
oils by up to `14 per li-
tre. Fortune soyabean oil
price has been revised to
`165 per litre from `195
per litre. The sunflower
oil rate has been revised
to `199 per litre from
`210 per litre in the
recent notification.
BUSINESS BRIEFS
RBI WANTS GOVT TO PROHIBIT
CRYPTOCURRENCIES:FM
New Delhi (PTI): Fi-
nance Minister Nirma-
la Sitharaman on Mon-
day said the RBI has
expressed concerns
over cryptocurrencies
saying that they should
be prohibited as they
can have destabilising
effect on the monetary
and fiscal stability
.
“In view of the con-
cerns expressed by the
RBI on the destabilis-
ing effect of cryptocur-
rencies on the mone-
tary and fiscal stability
of a country, the RBI
has recommended for
framing of legislation
on this sector. The RBI
is of the view that cryp-
tocurrencies should be
prohibited,” she said in
a written reply to the
Lok Sabha.
She said the RBI had
registered its concern
over the adverse effect
of cryptocurrencies on
the Indian economy
.
The RBI mentioned
that cryptocurrencies
are not a currency be-
cause every modern
currency needs to be
issued by the central
bank or the govern-
ment, she said. Fur-
ther, she said, the value
of fiat currencies is
anchored by monetary
policy and their status
as legal tender, howev-
er the value of crypto-
currencies rests solely
on the speculations and
expectations of high
returns that are not
well anchored, so it will
have a destabilising ef-
fect on the monetary
and fiscal stability of a
country
.
Cryptocurrencies
are by definition bor-
derless and require in-
ternational collabora-
tion to prevent regula-
tory arbitrage.
Therefore, she said,
any legislation for reg-
ulation or for banning
such currencies can be
effective only after sig-
nificant international
collaboration.
A few states seek
extension of GST
New Delhi (PTI): Fi-
nance minister Nirma-
la Sitharaman on Mon-
day informed the Lok
Sabha that a few states
including Telangana
have sought a five-year
extension for the com-
pensation paid to them
for revenue shortfall
due to GST implementa-
tion. As per section 18
of the Constitution
(One Hundred and First
Amendment) Act, 2016,
Parliament shall, by
law, on the recommen-
dation of the Goods and
Services Tax (GST)
Council, provide for
compensation to the
states for loss of reve-
nue arising on account
of implementation of
the goods and services
tax for a period of five
years. When a nation-
wide GST subsumed 17
central and state levies
from July 1, 2017, it was
decided that states will
be compensated for any
loss of revenue from the
new tax for five years.
That timeframe has
ended on June 30 this
year.GST Council, in its
42nd meeting.
Retail businesses witness
13% sales growth in June
New Delhi (PTI): Re-
tail businesses across
India witnessed 13%
sales growth in June
compared to the pre-
pandemic levels of the
same month in 2019, Re-
tailers Association of
India said on Monday
.
Although sales last
month were higher
than the pre-pandemic
levels, the second half
of June was not very
encouraging, and the
impact of inflation on
consumer spending is
still a worry, which may
affect the upcoming fes-
tive sales, Retailers As-
sociation of India (RAI)
said in a statement. As
per RAI’s latest busi-
ness survey, retail busi-
nesses in the eastern
region posted the high-
est growth last month.
“While June 2022 has
witnessed growth as
compared to the same
period before the pan-
demic, the rate of
growth has definitely
slowed down. Many re-
tailers have indicated
that the second half of
June was not very en-
couraging as there
weren’t too many cele-
bratory occasions, such
as weddings, to drive
sales.
Sensex, Nifty climb over 1%
Mumbai (PTI): Bench-
mark stock indices
Sensex and Nifty spurt-
ed over 1% at close on
Monday following buy-
ing in IT, oil and gas and
banking shares bol-
stered by firm global
trends. Rising for a sec-
ond straight session,
the30-shareBSESensex
rallied 760.37 points or
1.41% to settle at
54,521.15. During the
day, it jumped 795.88
points or 1.48% to
53,760.78.
The broader NSE Nif-
ty advanced 229.30
points or 1.43% to
16,278.50 as 41 of its con-
stituents advanced.
Among the Sensex con-
stituents, IndusInd
Bank, Infosys, Tech Ma-
hindra, Bajaj Finserv,
Axis Bank, UltraTech
Cement, Kotak Mahin-
dra Bank and ICICI
Bank were the major
gainers. Dr Reddy’s
Lab, HDFC Bank, Maru-
ti, Mahindra Mahin-
dra, Nestle, Hindustan
Unilever and HDFC
were the laggards.
` SETTLES AT 79.98
AGAINST US DOLLAR
Mumbai (PTI): For the
first time, the rupee de-
clined to the low level of
80 against the US dollar
in intra-day spot trad-
ing on Monday before
ending the session 16
paise lower at 79.98 (pro-
visional) amid a surge
in crude oil prices and
unrelenting foreign
fund outflows.
At the interbank fo-
rex market, the local
unit opened at 79.76
against the greenback
but lost ground to touch
the psychological low
mark of 80 against the
American currency
.
The local unit clawed
back some lost ground
and closed at 79.98 (pro-
visional), registering a
fall of 16 paise over its
previous close. On Fri-
day, the rupee rebound-
ed from the near-80 lev-
els to close higher by 17
paise at 79.82 against
the US currency
.
The dollar index was
trading 0.58 per cent
down at 107.43.
Over60%CSR
fundsspenton
edu,healthcare
New Delhi (PTI):
Around 60 per cent of
the total CSR funds
spent by companies in
the last seven financial
years were in the areas
of education, health-
care and rural develop-
ment-related activities,
according to the gov-
ernment.
In a written reply to
the Lok Sabha, the cor-
porate affairs ministry
also informed that dur-
ing the given period,
around 33% of the total
CSR amount spent by
companies were in Ma-
harashtra, Karnataka,
Gujarat, Andhra
Pradesh and Tamil
Nadu.
Bad loans of
over `8.6 lakh
cr recovered
New Delhi (PTI):
Concrete steps
taken by the gov-
ernment and RBI
helped banks re-
cover bad loans
worth over `8.6
lakh crore in the
last eight financial
years, the govern-
ment informed
Parliament on
Monday
.
“Gover nment
and RBI (Reserver
Bank of India)
regularly issue
guidelines and
have taken several
initiatives aimed
at resolution of
l o n g - s t a n d i n g
stressed assets on
the books of banks
as well as timely
identification and
recognition of
stress immediate-
ly upon default
and take correc-
tive action for mit-
igation of the
same,” MoS for
Finance Bhagwat
Karad said.
“As a result of
comprehensive
steps taken by the
government and
RBI to check the
cases of NPAs and
bring them down,
scheduled com-
mercial banks
(SCBs) recovered
`8,60,369 crore
over the last eight
financial years
(provisional data)
from NPAs,”
Karad said.
Hesaidachange
in credit culture
has been effected
with the IBC.
EPFO may hike
investment limit
in equities to 20%
New Delhi (PTI): Re-
tirement fund body
EPFO is likely to ap-
prove this month a
proposal to enhance
its investments in eq-
uites to up to 20% of
the investible deposits
from the current limit
of 15%.
The proposal is ex-
pected to be consid-
ered and approved
during the EPFO trus-
tees’ meeting sched-
uled to be held on July
29 and 30, according to
a source.
At present, EPFO
can investment 5 to
15% of the investible
deposits in equity or
e q u i t y - r e l a t e d
schemes. The proposal
to revise the limit to
20% has been vetted
and approved by the
Employees’ Provident
Fund Organisation’s
(EPFO) advisory body
Finance Audit and In-
vestment Committee.
The recommenda-
tion of FAIC will be
placed before the
EPFO apex decision
making body -- Central
Board of Trustees
(CBT) -- for considera-
tion and approval.
“The Central Board
of Trustees (CBT)
headed by Union La-
bour Minister is likely
to approve the recom-
mendation of the
FAIC for increasing
the investment in eq-
uity and equity related
scheme to 5-20%from
existing 5-15%,” the
source said.
In a written reply to
Lok Sabha on Monday,
MoS for Labour and
Employment Ramesh-
war Teli said, “FIAC, a
sub-committee of
CBT, EPF, has recom-
mended for the pro-
posal to increase in-
vestment in equity
and related invest-
ments in category IV
of the Pattern of In-
vestment from 5-15%
to 5-20%for considera-
tion of CBT, EPF.”
PROPOSAL OKAYED
Touches 80-mark
for first time in
intra-day trade
New Delhi (PTI):
Investors became
richer by over
`4.73 lakh crore in
two days of mar-
ket rally amid an
overall firm trend
in global equi-
ties. The two-day
rally has added
`4,73,814.1 crore
to the market cap-
italisation of BSE-
listed firms, which
now stands at
`2,55,39,794.75
crore.
Equity
investors
richer by
`4.73 lakh cr

08
2NDFRONT
To be truly successful, one should be
motivated by a desire to excel and not
to beat others.
— Dr Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
CRUCIAL READ
RICKSHAW DRIVER HOSPITALIZED
AFTER BEING ATTACKED BY TWO MEN
MAN’S DECOMPOSED BODY FOUND
INSIDE BED, WIFE’S ROLE SUSPECTED
PANDHARPUR: OVER 40 STUDENTS
FALL ILL, FOOD POISONING SUSPECTED
SUB-INSPECTOR ARRESTED FOR
RAPING MINOR GIRL AT HOTEL
Nagpur: Two men allegedly attacked an autorick-
shaw driver with a car jack in Nagpur after his
vehicle “brushed past” their car, police said. The
incident took place in Mankapur area on Saturday
night. The accused were indentified as Sagar
Sunil Kanojia (24) and Kunal Orilala Kanojia (36).
Complainant Pravin Suresh Kolhe (38) said he
driving his autorickshaw when the accused asked
Kolhe why his rickshaw brushed past the vehicle.
“They started arguing with Kolhe and later hit
him with a car jack on his head”, an official said.
Mumbai: The decomposed body of 23-year-old
tailor Naseem Khan was found inside the storage
area of a bed in his rented home in Sakinaka on
Monday and his wife Rubina, a suspect, has been
untraceable for the past two days, a police official
said. “The couple used to fight regularly. On
July 14, when Khan’s father called him, Rubina
answered the call and said her husband was not
keeping well. His father arrived at their home
later and found it locked. Later, police found his
decomposed body after the door was broken
down,” the official said. A case of murder and
disappearance of evidence has been registered.
Pune: Over 40 students have taken ill due to sus-
pected food poisoning in temple town Pandhar-
pur in Solapur, some 250 kilometres from here, a
health official said on Monday. The students, who
are pursuing “warkari” education from the local
mutt and are in the 15-35 age group, complained
of nausea, dysentery and abdominal pain, said
Dr Arvind Giram from the government hospital
where they have been admitted. “On Sunday,
over 40 students took ill due to suspected food
poisoning soon after eating at a nearby mutt,” he
said. Samples are being tested by Food and Drug
Administration and action will be taken based on
reports, a district official said.
Amravati: A 35-year-old police sub-inspector has
been arrested by Sitabuldi police on the charges
of raping a 17-year-old minor acquaintance at
a hotel in Amravati district. The accused sub-
inspector was attached to the DIG Anti-Naxal
Operation unit. The accused and the girl be-
longed to the same village. The girl was living as
a paying guest in Nagpur, informed an official. On
July 13, the accused, took the girl on an outing
in his car and offered her alcohol. After this, the
he booked a room in a hotel and raped her. He
threatened her of gruesome circumstances, if she
told anybody about it. However, the girl informed
her parents about the act, after which a complaint
was lodged under section 363 (kidnapping), 376
(rape), other provisions of IPC and Prevention of
Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO).
22,700 infants
died in Maha
within span
of 17 months
Thane (PTI): More
than 22,700 children
below the age of six
months have died in
Maharashtra be-
tween January 2021
and May-end this
year, the state’s Fam-
ily Welfare Depart-
ment said in reply to
a Right to Informa-
tion query.
The department said
the 22,751 deaths over a
span of 17 months in-
clude 19,673 cases where
the infant was stillborn.
Mumbai recorded
maximum deaths at
1,898, followed by 1,741
in Nagpur, 1,349 in Au-
rangabad, 1,127 in Na-
shik, 1,181 in Pune, 1,049
in Akola, 1,026 in Nan-
durbar and 1,015 in
Thane.
Lowest child deaths
were reported in Sind-
hudurg at 64, Vashim at
89 and Latur at 125.
Two NEET aspirants allegedly
forced to remove burka, hijab
Washim: Two Muslim
girls in Maharashtra
said they were alleg-
edly forced to take off
their burkas and hi-
jabs (face veil) when
they arrived at an
exam center to take
the National Eligibil-
ity Cum Entrance
Test (NEET) in
Washim district, who
reported the event on
Monday.
Some aggrieved par-
ents have complained to
the police and an inves-
tigation was underway,
a police official said,
adding that at least two
Muslim girls have ap-
proached the police.
“The NEET (under-
graduate) examination
was held at six centres
in Washim on Sunday.
This incident of two
girls being asked to re-
move their burka and
hijab allegedly hap-
pened in Matoshree
Shantabai Gote College.
Their application to the
police claims that the
staff involved in check-
ing students made ob-
jectionable remarks
like threatening to cut
the burkha-hijab if they
didn’t remove it volun-
tarily,” he said.
An aggrieved student
claimed that the con-
cerned college authori-
ties first allowed them
on the premises for the
exam and then later
told them to remove
their hijab and burkas
outside, adding that
staff also entered into
arguments with them.
“We asked them to
check us and then allow
us in, but the concerned
staff spoke to us disre-
spectfully and their be-
haviour was not good,”
one of the students
said. The parent of one
of the students, who al-
legedly faced the ordeal,
said they had filed a
complaint with the
Washim City police sta-
tion and wanted action
to be taken to against
the college for acting in
an “arbitrary” manner.
HIJAB ROW SURFACES AGAIN
Aggrieved parents file police
complaint against the ‘objectionable’
act; an investigation is underway
Former Maha min Kadam
resigns as Shiv Sena leader
First India Bureau
Mumbai: In a setback
to the Uddhav Thack-
eray-led Shiv Sena, its
senior leader and ex-
Maharashtra minis-
ter Ramdas Kadam
resigned on Monday
claiming he was con-
sistently “insulted”
while Thackeray al-
ways remained busy
when he was the chief
minister.
Kadam wrote a letter
to Thackeray, who
heads Shiv Sena, ten-
dering his resignation
as “Shiv Sena leader”.
In his letter, Kadam
expressed his anguish
over the 2019 post-poll
alliance between Shiv
Sena, Nationalist Con-
gress Party (NCP), and
Congress, which he said
was a betrayal of Sena
founder the late Bal
Thackeray’s vision.
Kadam, from Ratna-
giri district, became a
Member of the Legisla-
tive Assembly (MLA)
for the first time in 1990
and went on to win
three more terms.
He had served as the
state environment min-
ister in the Devendra
Fadnavis-led Bharatiya
Janata Party-Sena gov-
ernment in 2014-19.
Kadam has been sulk-
ing as he was not given
any ministerial post
when the Thackeray-led
Maha Vikas Aghadi
(MVA) remained in
power.
“My MLA son Yogesh
and I were consistently
insulted and you were
always busy after be-
coming the chief minis-
ter. I was appointed as
Shiv Sena leader by the
late Balasaheb Thack-
eray. However, I real-
ized that there is no
meaning to the post af-
ter his death,” stated
Ramdas Kadam.
“When you were
forming a government
with the NCP and Con-
gress, I requested you
with folded hands not to
do so. You did not listen
to me that time. It hurts
me today as well. Had
Shiv Sena supremo
been around, I would
have not faced this day
in my life,” he added.
Expresses anguish over alliance with NCP, Congress after
2019 polls in a letter addressed to Uddhav Thackeray
Cong to execute 100-day action plan to strengthen party
First India Bureau
Mumbai:The Maha-
rashtra Congress will
implement on the
ground a 100-day ac-
tion plan to strength-
en the organization in
line with resolutions
adopted at the Nav
Sankalp Shivir in
Udaipur and finalized
at the two-day Shirdi
conclave of the party
last month.
Announcing this at
Gandhi Bhavan, State
Congress President
Nana Patole said the
party will focus on six
issues including infla-
tion, rising unemploy-
ment, the state of the
economy, the Agnipath
scheme, and the Cen-
tre’s decision to impose
GST on essential com-
modities. It will organ-
ize “padyatras” in all
districts of the state
August 09-15 to create
awareness about these
issues, and will also flag
off the Bharat Jodo
campaign from October
02, he said.
Patole said, “We aim
to take the ideas of the
Congress party to maxi-
mum people and also
highlight the failure of
the Union govern-
ment.”
Congress Legislature
Party leader Balasaheb
Thorat said over 300
representatives from
across the state partici-
pated in the Shirdi con-
clave for the effective
implementation of this
programme.
“We will take an ag-
gressive stand and pur-
sue all these issues for
the benefit of the pub-
lic. The action plan will
be implemented
through various initia-
tives,” he said.
Senior leader Ashok
Chavan said district-
level review commit-
tees will be set up to al-
low the local leadership
to decide if the party
should stitch an alli-
ance with a like-minded
party or not. The deci-
sions will be considered
while deciding on an
alliance at the state lev-
el. He said along with
an election manage-
ment committee, a com-
mittee will be formed
for dissemination of
the Congress ideology
.
The grand old party of
India has planned
padyatras the week
before I-Day to take
Congress ideology,
Centre’s failures to
people across
Maharashtra
Oppn leaders meet
CM, demand to lift
stay on MVA works
First India Bureau
Mumbai: Leaders of
the Nationalist Con-
the Congress on Mon-
day met Chief Minis-
ter Eknath Shinde
and requested him to
not to put the develop-
mental projects initi-
ated by the Maha Vi-
kas Aghadi (MVA) in
limbo.
The NCP delegation,
led by Leader of Oppo-
sition Ajit Pawar also
laidemphasisonspeedy
disbursal of compensa-
tion and needed assis-
tance to farmers, trad-
ers and the general pub-
lic in view of the losses
suffered due to heavy
rainfall across many
districts of the state.
The meeting took
place in presence of
Deputy CM Devendra
Fadnavis.
Later, a delegation of
Congress party leaders
also met the Chief Min-
ister and asked him to
lift the stay put on vari-
ous development
schemes initiated by
the previous MVA gov-
ernment. They also de-
manded that a compen-
sation of Rs10 lakh per
person should be given
to families who lost
their loved ones in rain-
related incidents in Ma-
harashtra.
NCP leaders Ajit Pawar, Jayant Patil (2L) and Chhagan Bhujbal
(3R) meet with Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis, in Mumbai on Monday.
—PHOTO BY ANI
Sena slams Shinde-Fadnavis
over cabinet expansion row
Mumbai (PTI): The
Shiv Sena on Monday
attacked the Eknath
S h i n d e - D eve n d r a
Fadnavis dispensa-
tion in Maharashtra
saying it was taking
arbitrary decisions
despite being trapped
in a “constitutional
dilemma” without a
cabinet in place.
Shinde and Fadnavis
had taken oath as chief
minister and deputy
chief minister (CM) on
June 30, but there has
been no cabinet expan-
sion. The new govern-
ment has gone about
taking decisions on the
Metro rail carshed in
Aarey, renaming of Au-
rangabad and Os-
manabad as well as the
upcoming Navi Mum-
bai airport, among oth-
ers.
Earlier, the Uddhav
Thackeray faction of
Shiv Sena had also
asked the governor not
to administer oaths to
any minister as a dis-
qualification plea was
yet to be decided by the
apex court.
Dubbing Shinde and
Fadnavis as Vasu and
Sapna , the lead charac-
ters of the blockbuster
film ‘Ek Duje Ke Like’ ,
the party, ‘Saamana’ on
Monday said the two-
member government is
an unusual experiment
and political ‘family
planning’ .
Due to the Supreme
Court resorting to a
forced vasectomy, they
have to face this situa-
tion, the editorial said.
An iconic film of 1981
starring Kamal Hasan
and Rati Agnihotri,
who play Vasu and Sap-
na, are madly in love
with each other but
meet a tragic end.
There has been a
Chief Minister and a
Deputy chief minister
in Maharashtra over
the last 15 days, but one
cannot call this a gov-
ernment, the party
said. It said over 40
MLAs were herded be-
tween Surat, Guwahati
and Goa amid the rebel-
lion, but when they
came back to Mumbai,
only two (Shinde and
Fadnavis) took oath.
CONTROVERSY
CM Eknath Shinde and Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis.—FILE PHOTO
Shiv Sena leader Ramdas Kadam. —FILE PHOTO
Nana Patole

K
ajol is known to have a filmog-
raphy with immortal charac-
ters, and now, she is all set to
embark on a new journey in
showbiz. Kajol will soon be seen in a
new project that will stream exclusive-
ly on Disney+Hotstar. The highly ap-
preciated actor feels ecstatic about her
association with the digital platform
and believes that OTT gives an artist
more room to perform and showcase
their capabilities. Sharing her excite-
ment, Kajol said, “Exploring new for-
mats is always a challenge; but it’s a
great thing as I love to
take challenges head-
on. Being an avid
fan of digital
series, the
concept has
always been
i n t r i g u -
ing.”
RAISING
TEMPERATURE!
K
riti Sanon was photo-
graphed with her
mother yesterday in
Mumbai and looked
adorable together clad in
comfy ensembles. It was an
easy and unfussy day as Kri-
ti chose a pink and white
mini dress that featured oo-
dles of floral prints. It had
a deep V-neckline, puffed
short sleeves which also
had an added smocked de-
tail, and a few fabric but-
tons placed above the
elastic detail.
P
ooja Hegde is in a holiday
mood. The actress who
was recently in Bangkok
jetted off to the United
Kingdom with her family.
She has been sharing pics
and videos from her fun
family vacation on social
media, thereby giving us
major goals. Today, the
actress shared a few pics
flaunting her goofy side
with her dad and prov-
ing they are the best fa-
ther and daughter duo.
Pooja Hegde took to
her Instagram handle
and shared a few pics
with her dad where
the father and
daughter duo can be
seen recreating
Stonehenge.
riyanka Chopra, a
multi-hyphenate ge-
nius! After conquer-
ing Bollywood with
many fabulous per-
formances, PeeCee
is stamping her in-
imitable mark in Hollywood
as well. The actress’ popular-
ity, genuinely, knows no
bounds as she’s dominating
on a global scale. It’s not just
her acting prowess, though,
that has millions and mil-
lions of fans adoring our
desi girl, Priyanka is also
known for her singing skills.
From making her interna-
tional singing debut with In
My City to collaborating
with Pitbull on Exotic, before
making an impact as Alex
Parrish in Quantico, PeeCee
was making Hollywood
dance to her catchy tunes. As
Priyanka Chopra celebrates
her 40th birthday today, i.e
July 18, we take a walk down
memory lane to 2012, when
the Citadel star went to the
sets of The X Factor USA and
mingled with one of the big-
gest boybands of the world at
the time: One Direction!
P
DEEPIKA IN
BRAHMASTRA 2?
A
yan Mukerji is planning to make his
own Brahmastra universe, with
multiple characters getting a spin-
off, the first part fronted by Ranbir
Kapoor and Alia Bhatt succeeds. Ayan re-
cently revealed, Brahmastra 2 will be about
the story of two key charac-
ters - MahaDev and
Parvati. “The mak-
ers have locked
Deepika Padu-
kone to play
the character
of Parvati. In
fact, Deepika
will also
make a cam-
eo towards
the end of
Brahmastra,
which will
eventually take
the film into the
second part.”
B
alki signed Mrunal
Thakur to headline
his portion of the
anthology of Lust
Stories.
“All the formalities have
been locked. It’s a very
unique script, and Mrunal
and Balki are excited to col-
laborate on this one. Mean-
while, they are currently
working on finalising the
shooting schedule of the
film. An official an-
nouncement should be
made soon.”
J
anhvi Kapoor talked about fac-
ing judgments from the people
and said: “We’ve got a lot very
easily so if a few people are
saying things like nepotism and she
doesn’t deserve to be here like you
can deal with that I think. It’s not
like, you’re getting to do what you
love to do so that debate is never-end-
ing.” Further, she revealed being pro-
tective of Khushi Kapoor and her
cousin Shanaya Kapoor. “I think I’m
quite protective of both of them.
Khushi doesn’t ask for advice so
much. She gives me advice. I, in
fact, think sometimes Shanaya
asks me for more advice than
Khushi does but they’re both
smart and confident like I
was in Delhi for Shanaya’s
ramp walk that she did for
Manish Malhotra’s show
and I was in awe of how
confident she was.
NEVER ENDING DEBATE!
HOLIDAY
MOOOD ON!
RETURN OF
LUST STORIES NEW PHASE
OF CAREER!
Priyanka Chopra
Deepika Padukone
Mrunal Thakur
Kriti Sanon with her mom Kajol Devgn
Pooja Hegde
Janhvi Kapoor
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