First India Rajasthan-Rajasthan News In English 07 March 2020 edition

1. JAIPUR l SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 l Pages 14 l 3.00 15°C - 28°C OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR & AHMEDABAD RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764 l Vol 1 l Issue No. 271 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia FLORAL LEELA Artists perform fl oral dance during ‘Faag Utsav’ at Govind Devji Temple. Devotees and tourists fl ocked to the temple premises to enjoy the dance-drama performances and devotional singing related to Radha Krishna followed by playing Holi with fl owers. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA HOW THE ‘YES BANK’ COOKIE CRUMBLED  RBI monitoring Yes Bank since 2017 noticed governance issues, weak compliance: FM Sitharaman Parl to discuss Delhi on Mar 11, Shah will reply Oppn demanded a debate on violence earlier this week, causing a ruckus CRUCIAL READ LAND BUY WON’T LAPSE IF GOVT PAID COMPENSATION: SC T acquisition proceedings would not lapse as long as the government had tendered the compensa- tion. The court said land owners who refuse to accept the compensation cannot press for cancella- tion of acquisition of the land. A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra and comprising of Justices Indira Banerjee, Vineet Saran, M.R. Shah and Ravindra Bhat clarifi ed that acquisition will be deemed to have lapsed only when government authorities fail to take possession and pay compensation. Turn on P4 he Supreme Court on Friday said land  Sitharaman said, RBI advised a change within Bank management after finding risky credit decision New Delhi: Parliament will discuss last week’s Delhi violence March 11, a day after Holi, with Union Home Minister Amit Shah scheduled to reply , it was revealed today. Under pressure this week by the opposi- tion to hold a debate on the sensitive issue, the government had refused to do so till af- ter Holi, with Lok Sab- ha Speaker Om Birla arguing that the time was not right. It has now agreed to a short-duration dis- cussion that will see no voting on the subject. “We hope that the op- position will partici- pate in the debate with- out interrupting the House as it was their demand to hold the dis- cussion. Now the nor- malcy has returned to Delhi, we have no issues New Delhi: Divulging details into the crisis that has engulfed Yes Bank, Finance Minis- ter Nirmala Sithara- man said RBI had been monitoring the beleaguered since 2017 and no- ticed governance is- sues and weak com- pliance besides wrong asset classification. Addressing press, Si- tharaman further stated that the RBI advised a change within the Yes Bank management after finding risky credit deci- sion. “Anil Group, Essel, DHFL, ILFS, Vodafone are some of the very stressed cor- porate whom Yes Bank lent,” she said. Meanwhile, Mumbai House of Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor was searched by ED on Friday night. Turn on P4 on Rahul Gandhi, Gaurav Gogoi and others stage protest at Parliament, against the suspension of party MPs from Lok Sabha, and also demanded resignation of Amit Shah over Delhi violence. bank RAHUL DEMANDS HOME MINISTER’S RESIGNATION OVER DELHI VIOLENCE Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other members of the party on Friday sought Prime Minister Nar- endra Modi’s answers and demanded the resigna- tion of Union home minister Amit Shah over last month’s communal violence in Delhi. Gandhi and a bunch of other Congress leaders shouted slogans near the statue of Mahatma Gandhi demanding justice for the victims of the deadly riots, which have claimed the lives of more than 50 people. NGOs FOR PUBLIC CAUSES CAN’T BE PENALISED: SC N public causes via recog- nised means of protest and dissent cannot be deprived of funds from foreign contributors and sources, the Supreme Court said today in a potentially key verdict. The top court said organisations that did not have a political goal could not be penalised by declar- ing them “an organisation of political nature”. on-governmental or- ganisations supporting Ambani Account holders stand in a queue to withdraw money from Yes Bank in Navi Mumbai on Friday. ‘PM MODI’S IDEAS DESTROYED ECO’ “No Yes Bank,” Rahul Gandhi said, taking a dig at the Centre over morato- rium placed on Yes Bank, and alleged that PM Modi’s “ideas” had destroyed the country’s economy ‘BUYER’ SBI SHOWS INTEREST RBI said SBI has expressed willingness to invest in crisis-ridden Yes Bank.The central bank also said the investor bank shall invest in Yes Bank to the extent that it will hold 49% equity ‘REGULATORY FAILURE CRISIS’ Ex-fi nance minister P Chidambaram termed Yes Bank crisis as a completely “regulatory failure” and said there is no need to panic as RBI placed restric- tions on the bank Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday, comes after seven Congress MPs were suspended, till the end of the budget ses- sion (April 3), for creat- ing a ruckus in the house. in participating in it,” Pralhad Joshi, the Par- liamentary Minister, was quoted by a news agency . Confirmation of the date of discussion, first advanced by Lok Sabha Affairs Turn on P4 CM Gehlot wants cesspool to reduce workers’ ‘labour pain’ First India News prevention of silicosis in labourers engaged in construction, mining and other similar fields. Holding a review meeting of the labour department, the chief minister instructed de- partment officials to register all the workers engaged in construc- tion and other similar works and ensure that the benefits of various schemes reach them. Gehlot also instructed officials to form a ‘working group’ to hold the review of the various programmes being run by the state during the review meeting of schemes related to construction workers, on Friday. over the recent hail- storm, CM Gehlot said that the ernemnt is concerned about the plight of the farmers and instruc- tions to hold girdawari have been issued. On the recent Yes Bank crisis, Gehlot was of the opin- ion that financial and banking institutions have deteriorated under NDA rule due to the gov- ernment’s wrong poli- cies of which this bank is the recent example. “Unwillingness to do anything on crucial is- sues is how BJP is rul- ing,” Gehlot added. working with the owners of mining and construc- tion businesses,” Gehlot instructed officials. The Chief Minister was informed by offi- cials that 25 lakh la- bourers involved in construction and other fields involving man- power, are registered with Shramik Kalyan Board and the board recovers one percent CESS from various construction and min- ing establishments, which could lead to a collection of CESS of over Rs 400 crore. Meanwhile, worried government for benefit of labourers, so that the programmes can be improved and the pro- cesses renewed. “All the beneficiary schemes grammes like compensa- tion given on death of labour should be made practical and easy . It should also be ensured that not even a single la- bourer is bereft of the benefits provided by the state government while maintaining complete transparency in these schemes. A special drive should also be initiated for labourers state gov- Jaipur: sensitivity towards the safety and security of construction labour- ers, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot instruct- ed officials on Friday to collect CESS from builders and develop- ers so that schemes meant for the welfare of labourers can be run effectively , and am- ple funds are available for the beneficiary . The Congress stal- wart also instructed of- ficials to issue guide- lines for the effective Expressing and pro- Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot along with Tikaram Juli, DB Gupta, Kuldeep Ranka and Neeraj K Pawan while

2. NEWS JAIPUR | SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 02 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia 11 vehicles collide at NH, 12 injured First India News 24 kids working at stone factory rescued by cops IN THE COURTYARD RAJ HC GETS SIX NEW JUDGES; CJ MAHANTY ADMINISTERS OATH First India News First India News and sent all the injured to nearby health and Wellness centre. Two severely injured persons were referred to Bundi while the rest were discharged after administrating of first aid. The highway was under construction and due to asphalt be- ing laid down on the road, the tender com- pany working there had the traffic flow one way from both sides, but unfortunately, due to rainfall the roads were slippery, which might have caused the vehicles bumping into each other. Police inspected the spot, immediately filing a case and started an invstigation. Hindoli Bundi: 12 people were injured when 11 vehi- cles bumped into each other late night on Jaipur-Kota National Highway. The accident blocked the road, result- ing in a massive traffic jam. Cops, later, re- moved the vehicles us- ing a crane. The accident hap- pened at Itunanda road intersection near Pech ki bawli town, at around 2:00 AM, when 11 vehi- cles including 3 sleeper buses, a truck, pickup, trailer, a Maruti car and an ambulance collided into each other. A dozen people were injured. Hindoli sta- tion Police reached the spot as soon as they re- ceived the information, ‘Upload CM’s directives on portal’ Jaipur: On Thursday cops freed 24 Child la- borers from a factory, under a campaign by Police Rural Jaipur. It is being told, these chil- dren were forced to do some perilous work like grinding stones in Bal- aji Construction situat- ed at Dudu. A case has been filed against the owners of factory . Rescued were being forced to work 12 hours daily in the factory, for which they were given a fare of around Rs 11,000, per month. The owner of the factory himself used to give them money . Rakesh Bharadwaj and Pradeep Gupta, the owners of the factory are missing. Meratwal is new Registrar Gen of Raj HC Six new Jodhpur: judges of Rajasthan High Court took oath on Friday. The swear- ing-in ceremony of these judges appointed from judicial officers’ quota by Union Law and Justice Ministry was held in the main bench of the High Court in Jodhpur. Chief Justice Indra- jeet Mohanty adminis- tered oath to the newly appointed judges in- cluding Kachchwah, Satish Ku- mar Sharma, Priya Sharma, Manoj Kumar Vyas, Rameshwar Vyas and Chandra Kumar Songara. Supreme Court’s col- legium had sent recom- mendations of six judi- cial officials to be pro- moted as high court judge from judicial of- ficers’ quota on Janu- ary 22. The strength of judges in the High Court has now gone up to 27. However, of the total sanctioned posts of 50 judges, 23 are still vacant. After the swearing- in ceremony, there was a group photo session children Nirmal Singh Meratwal First India News Nirmal Jodhpur: Singh Meratwal, a senior officer of Judi- cial Service, will now be the new Registrar General of Rajasthan High Court. Merat- wal is currently serv- ing as the Registrar of Administration in the main Bench of Rajasthan HC. After HC Registrar Gener- al Satish Sharma took oath as High Court Judge on Friday , the post was vacatedand the HC administration sued an order in this regard. On the other hand Surendra Sin- gh, a senior officer of judicial service, will be filling the seat va- cated by Meratwal. Chief Justice Indrajeet Mohanty with all the newly promoted HC Judges and the Justices who attended the swearing-in ceremony. Devendra 20-yr RI to minor’s rapist, second accused on the run of all the judges fol- lowed by high tea. The ceremony was attend- ed by Justice Sangeet Raj Lodha, Justice Ab- hay Chaturvedi, Jus- tice Sandeep Mehta, Justice Manoj Kumar Garg, Justice Pushpen- dra Singh Bhati, Jus- tice Ajay Vishnoi, dis- trict and session judge Jodhpur metropolitan Narsingh Das Vyas, Rajasthan High Court Bar Association’s Pres- ident Ranjeet Joshi, Additional Advocate Generals, senior law- yers, all judicial offi- cials and family mem- bers of newly appoint- ed judges. First India News Khatupura resident Sa- jid and Gogor resident Abid, took a minor girl from the village to the jungle and raped her. A case was filed by the vic- tim’s father at the Surwal police station, which the police present- ed a challan against the accused in the court. One of the accused Abid fled abroad after the incident, while the court convicted the sec- ond accused Sajid after hearing out all the wit- nesses and parties. Jaipur: The special court of POCSO has sentenced an accused to 20 years of rigorous im- prisonment for raping a minor girl in the jungle. The second accused in the case is absconding. Special Judge Dinesh Gupta has also imposed a fine of Rs 80,000 on the convict. Special Public Prose- cutor Anil Kumar Jain informed that on the night of January 15, 2017, First India News instructions by CM is also uploaded on the CMIS portal within sev- en days. Any non com- pliance will be attrib- uted to the concerned collector, informed the CS. This move could have far reaching and revolutionary effect if implemented in the spirit of the word and could redefine good gov- ernance in the state. Kumar Jaipur: In a very im- portant move CS DB Gupta instructed all the district collectors to no- tify the concerned de- partments CMO, about all the an- nouncements, ances and instructions given by CM Ashok Ge- hlot. CS also instructed all after total is- and the DB Gupta assur- the district collectors to ensure that the execu- tion of all announce- ments, assurances and Corruption starts in Assembly: Gudha First India News sembly . If 200 members here decide that there should be no corruption, then there would be no corruption,” he said. He called the previ- ous BJP government master of corruption, and said, “Every tractor or truck’s money used to reach CM. The whole system was faulty at RU paper leak: Students demand V-C’s resignation First India News OFF THE RECORD Gulab Chand Kataria and Ramesh Meena are honest leaders, but I cannot say the same for Vasudev Devnani. To- day, everyone knows how a beat officer pre- sents a challan and ar- rests the accused and how the names are add- ed and removed” he fur- ther added. finance accounts de- partment. The students also had a scuffle with Chief Proctor of the university . The students are say- ing that mishaps like the paper leak is con- tinuously happening at the university the V-C should resign due to it. Jaipur: During the dis- cussion on police and jail grant demands in the as- sembly , Congress MLA Rajendra Gudha said that everyone is talking like they are honest, when many of them are experts in corruption. “Corruption starts in as- Jaipur: Student leaders of Rajasthan University carried out a protest on various matters, includ- ing the leaking of ques- tion paper, on Friday. During the protest at V-C Secretariat, the an- gry students locked the BABU BOARDS POW IN GARB OF INSPECTION TO MARK ANNIV! Rajendra Gudha T Rajveer Singh boarded the Palace On Wheels (POW) from Durgapura station amid questions being raised from all quarters. On one hand, we have Minister Vishwendra Singh talking of austerity while, on the other hand we have such an expensive journey being undertaken in the name of inspection despite the fact that RPF personnel are on board POW. Rajveer would have better served his duties in Jaipur amid Coronavirus scare. But there is one reason which could beat every other reason for Rajveer to undertake this expensive journey. The day of the travel coincides with Rajveer’s wedding anniversary. ourist Assistance Force (TAF) deputy director is savoring the hospitality of the royal train. that time. Even I am not 100% honest.” “Lalchand Kataria, LSG panel formed to aid land regularisation First India News GUP SHUP FORGOTTEN CORRUPTION CASE, ACCIDENT OR MINISTER’s CALL? T wing seem to have forgotten a case of irregularity in recruitment. The department responsible for keeping the city clean was involved in irregularities in recruitment process. The corruption investigation wing duly registered a complaint when it received the information of it. But all was forgotten after that. Buzz is that a minister’s request slowed down the process so much that the investigation didn’t even take off even after a year of the report. SAHAB’S POLITICAL GAME FIZZLES OUT O posting’ that he has been desiring for long. The ‘sahab’, currently posted on the fourth fl oor of the PHQ, came under ‘limelight’ after the ACB took action against him while he was posted as ‘Tiger’ of a district. However, the ‘sahab’ had taken a ‘keen interest’ in the Lok Sabha election in Rajasthan and even took part in campaigning’ for a candidate. And now, with the ‘campaigning’ as his plank for being on ‘good terms’ with leaders, the cop is burning the midnight oil to fi nd his place in ‘good books’ of those who wield power and get a good posting. The entire PHQ is abuzz with sahab’s activities. ne ‘Sahab’ from the Khakhi is apparently a little disgruntled for the simple reason that he has not been accorded a ‘good mand some laxity in norms. Empowered commit- tee will also consider matters decided under existing complex pro- cedure which is deemed to be reconsidered jus- tifiably. It would also take up intra-depart- mental matters UDH. Goverment, with constitution of this committee, envisages not only clearing the huge pile of such cases pending with it but also meet the immediate de- mands of the urbanisa- tion in the state. Goverment, Jaipur: taking forward its agen- da of easing land regu- larisation, has consti- tuted a LSG Empowered Committee on the lines of similar committee in UDH department. This would bring, to notice of the cabinet, all the matters of agricultur- al lands in which pri- vate or Goverment land is proposed to be regularized which are not covered under ex- isting rules and de- DISTRICT COLLECTORS ON ‘CORONA CONTROL’ DUTY T collectors to be the nodal offi cers of the current crisis management. Collectors have been assigned a bunch of responsibilities which include the Guidelines by the Central Govt, Travel Advisory, Sample Collection & Transportation, Clinical Case Management, Discharge Policy, Containment Plan and the Disinfection Policy. The collectors will also supervise the awareness campaign for dreaded Coronavirus in their districts. he ‘Corona Control’ has been assigned to the district collectors. Health department wants the of committee his is about a district in the city of Lakes range. Responsible offi cers of a corruption investigation TUG OF WAR BETWEEN ‘BIG BOSSES’ T Boss had sent his close bravo to Delhi make some ‘Profi t’. But somehow the news reached the State Boss so immediately he called for the concerned fi le and referred it to the senior offi cer sitting at the Ghatgate offi ce. This really upset the city boss and he reached out to the state boss. Although the state boss recalled the case fi le but gave it to a panther in Jaipur offi ce who seems to have punctured the whole plan by arresting one of the accused. he big plan by the ‘Big Boss’ of Jaipur Police was foiled by the ‘Big Boss’ of Rajasthan Police. Confused ? Actually the Jaipur BSR ENTERPRISES READY WITH NEW PROJECT T in Bhilwara city was presented as Rs 21.14 crore. The deal of this RERA registered project spread across 33 bigha areas was fi nalised. Amit Chordia and Nakul Agarwal are the project directors. DREADED CORONAVIRUS THREATENS VACATIONS C any of the above as you deem fi t. Apart from all the headlines one is coming across, due to the virus threat, here is one which you might have missed. The dreaded virus has eaten into the vacations of the builders. More than a dozen builders have got their bookings of foreign travel cancelled. Now they will plan something within the city. Some will hit up the clubs while some may give time to their, much ignored, fi tness. The builder wives will be seen at the kitty parties. Corona doesn’t let one “Karo Na’ Chutti. CREDAI’S WOMEN WING CREATES BUZZ T extremely active. Under CREDAI President Sunil Jain, the women wing has carved a niche for itself by holding various events one after the other while also working on several social cause. CREDAI’s initiative is being appreciated by the real estate market. he project cost of Anukampa Sky Deck Group Project built by BSR Enterprises oronavirus threat has both direct effects and side effects. Now you may classify it under Realty he CREDAI women wing has off late become Check FIRST INDIA spreads its vistas... we shall now recount bytes and buzz in the real estate sector SUDARSHANAM PROJECT TO COME IN BHILWARA T yards land has been done. Navneet Somani and Savita Somani are the group directors. he project cost of RERA registered Sudarshanam Project constructed by the Shriji Buildmart Group in Bhilwara was presented as Rs 15.5 crore. The deal of 1,413 sq

3. RAJASTHAN 03 J AIPUR | SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia Bhilwara is gaining from Coronavirus outbreak in China, as industries are shut since past two months; countries that used to source material from China are now importing from Bhilwara which is seeing 20% spurt in exports First India News CHINA’S LOSS IS BHILWARA’S GAIN —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR Kota breathes easy as 4 test negative MLA Dilawar tests negative, says Sharma Bhilwara: While world trade is feared to be ad- versely affected due to Coronavirus outbreak, for Bhilwara’s textile in- dustry it is proving to be a blessing in disguise. Known as the textile city of Bhilwara has benefitted from Coronavirus out- break in China, as the industries there are shut since the months. The countries, which used to source material from China have now begun to im- port from Bhilwara. Textile export from Bhilwara has gone up by 20% in last six weeks. Majority of orders are coming from Arab. According to gen- eral secretary of Mewar Chamber and merce RK Jain, export has increased between 15 to 20%. The average monthly export used to be around Rs65 crore but in the last one and half month, it has reached Rs80 crore per month. “This growth is good for our industry ,” he said. The local textile industry hopes to covert this temporary shift by turning it into perma- nent trade relation. Gen- eral Manager of district First India News Kota: Four persons, in- cluding a Sri Lankan tourist who were isolat- ed in Kota over suspi- cion of having coronavi- rus, have tested nega- tive, said medical au- thorities on Friday . Besides the 48-year- old Sri Lankan tourist, three others who tested negatie include a cou- ple, who returned from foreign trips. Dr CP Meena, the in- charge of 16-room isola- tion ward at MBS Hospi- tal, to screen the sus- pected COVID-19-hit cases, said he received telephonically the nega- tive test reports of the four persons. The four, however, are yet to be discharged from the iso- lation ward, he said while adding they would be discharged only after the hard copies of their reports reach the unit. Even after their dis- charge, the Kota resi- dents would be asked to stay in isolation at their homes, said Dr Meena. He however, did not explain what would be the fate of the Lankan national after his dis- CS INSTRUCTS BJP MLA Jaipur: Madan Dilawar has tested negative of coro- navirus, health minis- ter Dr Raghu Sharma informed the media on Friday. The MLA was tested after he com- plained of uneasiness. Sharma said that cor- onavirus situation was completely under con- trol in state while point- ing out that had the Ital- ian tourist group been properly screened at the IGI airport in Delhi on their arrival, the pre- sent situation could be averted. None the less, he said, both the Italian patients were doing fine and one of them, al- though on oxygen, is eating normal food and recovering. warned the people in- volved in black market- ing of masks to stop il- legal practice else they would face action. He informed that so far 26,000 people have been screened at Jaipur Air- port. Sharma appealed people not to fear but be on an alert. Rajasthan, last two A group of tourist wearing masks arrives at Jantar Mantar. per peak. Similarly, job rate of air jet loom was 20 paisa per peak. Gen- eral Secretary of textile trade federation Prem Swaroop Garg said that international events af- fect Bhilwara’s textile market. “We are now getting orders many countries for the first time who earlier never gave us business,” he said. Industry had been fac- ing slowdown just like every other business in post semonization and GST but coronavirus has given it a new hope by opening new destina- tions like Middle East and African countries. industry centre Vipul Jani said that China had dominance in global tex- tile market till coronavi- rus put brakes on its ex- ports. “It is a good oppor- tunity for India and Bhilwara in particular. If the textile manufac- turers here maintain quality and timely sup- ply , they can corner ma- jor chunk of global tex- tile supply ,” he said. The growth in export has also translated into hike in wages. President of the textile trade fed- eration Damodar Agar- wal said that job rate of cloth on double width loom has gone up from 12-13 paisa to 19-20 paisa ‘AVOID BIG HOLI EVENTS’ Jodhpur: The district collector of Jodhpur has issued an advisory to hotels and related institutions to not organise any big get-together or assembly of large number of people to celebrate Holi. The residents have welcomed this advisory in the wake of coronavirus scare. People are of the view that Holi can be celebrated the next year too but fi ghting the current virus menace was a priority. The advisory instructs police department not to allow such events at any place while hotels and restaurants have been asked not to let large number of people assemble at their places. Concerned departments have been advised to check the history of arriving tourists and notify all arrivals from countries like China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Iran, Italy and Nepal. All such arrivals are to be reported to CMHO control room on 0291- 2511085. Saudi Com- from charge. He had been traced to a hotel in city on Thursday and was put in hospital’s isola- tion ward for screening. He had landed in Chen- nai on Feb 23 and reached Kota on Tues- day after visiting Jaipur, where he stayed for a few days at his relative’s house in Ghat Gate area, said hospital’s CMHO BS Tanwar. Sharma —PTI 10 health check points set up in Udaipur No cure of coronavirus in Homeopathy: Doc First India News First India News gested check up of all tourists. He stressed on the cleaning of hotel rooms keeping the threat in view and keep- ing masks and sanitis- ers in the hotel rooms. The health department has set up 10 health check points across the city for the ease of ar- riving tourists. Collec- tor also asked the hotel owners to prominently display the IEC materi- al for awareness of coronavirus. mandatory coronavirus. stressed that homeopa- thy is based on diagno- sis of a disease based on physical verification of symptoms so any medi- cine should be taken only after consulting a qualified doctor. He add- ed that homeopathy did have cure for symptoms like cough & cold and he was sure of finding a cure to coronavirus in near future but as of now there was no guar- anteed cure of the virus in homeopathy . He Udaipur: District col- lector Anandi chaired an important meeting of representatives from health, tourism, rail- ways, airport, forest, police, administration and hospitality indus- try . She gave instruc- tions to thwart the dreaded virus infection possibilities especially in the view of city be- ing a big tourist desti- nation. CMHO Dinesh Kharadi sug- Jaipur: Amid the sacre of spread of coronavi- rus, social media is an- other medium which too is becoming scary . Mil- lions are sharing myths and wrong information regarding the virus. A well known home- opathy physician, top- per of his batch and a gold medalist, Dr Muke- sh Dhadhich has cate- gorically denied that homeopathy has any medicine for cure of virus Dr BJP MLAs create ruckus in House, raise religious issues First India News Jaipur: A couple of BJP leaders, on Friday, went overboard while speaking in the Assem- bly. While discussing demands on grants for police and jail BJP MLA Madan Dilawar and Vasudev Devnani went overboard while raising issues Muslim appeasement and religious conver- sions. Dilawar said that scrumptious ele- ments killed fifty peo- ple in Delhi and Con- gress should stop get- ting people murdered. He demanded that So- nia and Rahul Gandhi should migrate to Italy . This was immediately opposed by the Con- gress MLAs. Choudhary said that Madan Dilawar was frustrated and could the police had lost its authority in last 15 months of Congress rule. Devnani demand- ed a full time Home Minister. He said Dha- riwal should be made the Home Minister to stop the political pa- tronage available to criminals in the pre- sent scenario. The BJP MLAs pursued their Hindu agenda even dur- ing discussion on de- mands for grant despite the speaker interrupt- ing them many times. categorised govt to be anti-dalit saying that the girl child was un- safe even in schools & police stations. He said a dalit girl was victim- ised in Khandar while the Home Minister (re- ferring to Shanti Dhari- wal) was sleeping. Fol- lowing his suite, BJP MLA Vasudev Devnani raising the issue of re- ligious conversions said that the police is abetting the conver- sions by not taking ac- tion. He accused that not see anything be- yond Hindu & Muslim. Dilawar with his tirade by ac- cusing the state govt of not caring about thou- sands of Hindus in Baran who were not being allowed to wor- ship in temples. He charged the govt of be- ing deaf & dumb. He, in a veiled attack, charged the IAS & RAS officers of being guilty of si- phoning off crores of rupees and yet getting declared innocent & like continued Rita

4. RAJASTHAN 04 J AIPUR | SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia in PHAAG UTSAV CM to flag off Metro’s trial run on Sunday BRIEF  Jaipur: In the matter of harassing a 13-year-old girl in Shyam Nagar area, Judge Rajesh Ku- mar I sentenced the Rawatbhata Chittor- garh resident Suresh Kumar Jain to rigor- ous imprisonment of 3 years, along with imposing a penalty of Rs 10,000 on him. Suresh is the cousin of the victim. The incident took place on May 28, 2018. First India News Jaipur: The ‘To be or not to be’ situation for the Metro phase 1B might end sooner than expected. Although the project is running late according to the origi- nal schedule, the com- muters might soon trav- el from Mansarovar to Badi Chaupar within ‘never before duration’ in the recent history due to heavy traffic con- gestion on the route. The Metro Safety Commissioner is likely to inspect the phase 1B on March 16. After the inspection conducted by the Safety Commissioner, the req- uisite NOC will pave way for regular Metro operations on the new track connecting Chan- dpole Metro station to Badi Chaupar Metro station via Choti Chau- par. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot will flag off the trial runs on the track on Sunday .  Jaipur: In a case of illegal recovery in the Transport Department, the bail of mastermind Jaswant Singh Yadav and Vishnu Yadav was also cancelled. Yadav, who is the operator of Gold Line Trans- port Company, was arrested with Rs 1.11 crore and 8 mobiles by the ACB on Febru- ary 17. Artists dressed in traditional attires perform during the ongoing ‘Phaag Utsav’ ahead of Holi at the Govind Devji temple in Jaipur. Devotees throng in large number to celebrate the occasion. Various renowned artists also perform during the cultural extravaganza every year. —PHOTO BY SANTOSH SHARMA Assembly adjourned for an hour within first 17 minutes First India News CM INTERVENES ‘Working’ of police draws ire of Cong MLAs in House First India News  Jaipur: The min- utes of meeting of the Cabinet Committee for revision of decisions taken by the Raj govt in its last six months, have been released by the cabinet secretariat. The minutes state that the pending matters will be decided at the ministerial level as the committee has fi nished its work. The decisions will now be taken at the depart- ment level and sent for ratifi cation of the CM and the cabinet. world was aware of Thanagazi incident ex- cept the SHO & SP. He asked for action in cas- es of atrocities against SC/STs. “We create hue & cry over closure of internet, but we don’ t speak on this issue. If atrocities on minorities are crime in Kashmir, then it is a crime here as well” he said. Meena also ques- tioned police on use of excess force while cit- ing death of 70 Gurjars during reservation agi- tation more than a dec- ade ago. Senior MLA & former Bharat Singh Kundan- pur claimed that cor- ruption cases have in- creased and demanded dismissal trapped by ACB. ers will not be eligible for the claims. This created ruckus in the House, which could not be controlled Speaker despite best efforts and the House had to be adjourned for anhour. The BJP MLAs came to the well alleging that the govt. was fooling the farmers. When the House reas- sembled after one hour, Speaker Dr CP Joshi in- tervened and asked the Agriculture whether there was a cut- off date for the State Gov- ernment. to pay its share, Minister Kataria said that there was no cutoff date for it and the farmers will get the benefit after the premium is paid. Jaipur: The Gehlot gov- ernment continues to face ire of its own legis- lators in the House. Three senior MLAs questioned functioning of dept of police, which comes under CM Ashok Gehlot as he also holds the Home Department. During the debate on grants for police and jail, MLA and former minister Choudhary attacked the government for the sec- ond consecutive day . On Thursday, he was criti- cal about PWD depart- ment held by Dy CM Sachin Pilot, but on Fri- day, he criticised the police. He said that pre- vious government can’t be blamed for dismal Jaipur: The answer to the very first question during the Question Hour, generated so much heat that the Assembly had to be adjourned for one hour after merely be- ing in session for 17 min- utes. The original ques- tion raised by BJP MLA Vasudev Devnani was regarding the status of benefits to farmer accru- ing out of PM Crop In- surance Scheme. Agri- culture Minister Lal- chand Kataria replied that the premium for the year 2018 had been de- posited while it was pending for 2019. He in- formed that the BJP govt had not paid Rs 1,135 by the Harish Chandra Meena law & order. “That gov- ernment is gone. They are now in opposition. It is now our responsibil- ity and we cannot shift it to others,” he said. Choudhary demand- ed withdrawal of cases against SC/STs regis- tered during Bharat bandh on April 2, 2018. Whereas, Congress MLA and former DGP Harish Chandra Mee- na said that the entire pending dues from a loan of Rs 500 crore taken from Agricultural Fund. When LoP Gulab Chand Kataria asked whether the farmers would get their claims in case of pending premium on part of the State Govt, the minister said that un- til and unless, the State Govt paid its share, it didn’t receive the Central Govt’s share so the farm- Rain and hail play spoilsport, crops destroyed First India News —PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO crore which the Con- gress govt had to pay . He briefed the House that farmer contribution for insurance scheme ranges between 2% to 5% & rest was borne by State & Central Govts. It was mandatory for all farm- ers, who availed loans from the government. He said the government was still to pay Rs 399 cr and was trying to pay all Hemaram  Bhilwara: Bhilwara ACB team arrested the Patwari of Halka Hamirgarh Saumitra while taking a bribe of Rs 1.51 lakh. Actu- ally, the Patwari had demanded a bribe of Rs 3.51 lakh in lieu of land conversion of the purchased agricultural land in Khera Tehsil of Hamirgarh. ACB ar- rested the accused on Friday while accepting the fi rst installment of the bribe. Minister minister of those Ops Clean Sweep: Five held with 21 Kg drugs might witness rains to- day as well. At the same time, the weather in the rest of the state is expect- ed to remain dry from March 7 - 9. The sudden change in weather has in- creased the problems of the farmers as the crops were damaged due to the hailstorm. Two women died due on be- ing struck by lightning in Nagaur. The plum- meting mercury has also made way for the spread of seasonal dis- eases and coronavirus. Moisture in Arabian Sea and easterly winds hitting Rajasthan, have jointly caused sudden change in weather. TEMPERATURE  Jaipur: On the occasion of Inter- national Women’s Day on March 8, the Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation has announced to pro- vide free travel facility in the buses operated within Rajasthan. MD Roadways Naveen Jain said that the women of the state travelling in Road- ways buses, would be provided free travel on the occasion. Offi cers in-charge of various Roadways stations have been instructed to make arrangements for the same, he said. Ajmer Bhilwara Vanasthali Alwar Jaipur Pilani Sikar Kota Sawai Madhopur Bundi Chittorgarh Dabok Barmer Erin Road Jaisalmer Churu Ganganagar 14.3 12.8 14.4 13.5 14.4 13.5 13.0 15.6 16.4 15.0 13.5 14.0 14.3 15.0 12.5 13.0 13.7 First India News which they were carry- ing 14 kgs of drugs and intoxicants. Officials of Bagru Police station also arrested a man with 1.2 kgs of Canna- bis and a motorbike. The accused Laksh- man is a resident of Dehmi Kalan, Bagru. Whereas, Javed Khan, a notorious drug smug- gler, who used to supply smack from Kota to Jaipur has also been ar- rested by Police under the operation. Under the NDPS Act, Police have lodged 272 cases and 338 accused have been ar- rested under Operation Clean sweep till now. The rainy Jaipur: weather continued for the fourth consecutive day in the state. After hailstorm and rain ex- perienced in ten dis- tricts on rains and hail stones were seen in Sikar, Ajmer, Sriganganagar and Hanumangarh on Friday as well. Where- as, the Holy city of Pushkar in Ajmer and some places in Sikar district witnessed hail- storm. On the other hand, Pillibanga in Sriganganagar received heavy rains during the morning, which further flooded the streets. Jaipur: The CST team received success in yet another Clean sweep against the increasing drugs mafia in the city . Police arrest- ed a drugs carrier and a receiver along with 5 Inter-state and seized a total of 21 kg of Cannabis, a car and a motorbike. Police have arrested and took action against Suraj Singh, resident of Aandhi, Jaipur and Jitendra Saini aka Jee- tu a resident of Shivaji Nagar, Dudu with a Toyota car, in Operation Thursday, smugglers IMD has predicted rainfall in Jaipur & Bharatpur divisions. Ajmer, Bharatpur and Kota divisions. Accord- ing to IMD, Jaipur and Bharatpur of the state. Light rains coupled with thunder- storms were also report- ed in Bikaner, Jodhpur, About 23mm of rain- fall was witnessed in Rawatsar city situated in Hanumangarh district along divisions FROM PG 1 How the... The Finance Minister also said that the gov- ernment has asked the central bank to look into what went wrong at Yes Bank and fix individual re- sponsibilities. The RBI, on the oth- er hand, stated that the State Bank of India (SBI) has expressed willingness to invest in Yes Bank. In a draft ‘Yes Bank Ltd. Recon- struction 2020’, the RBI also said the strategic investor bank will have to pick up 49 per cent stake and it cannot reduce holding to below 26 per issue and that steps had been taken keeping in mind the interest of depositors, bank and the economy . that their money shall be safe. Their monies are safe,” Sitharaman told reporters here. “RBI governor has assured me that there will be no loss to any depositor,” she said. “Both RBI and govt are looking at the Yes Bank issue in detail, we have taken a course which will be in every- one’s interest.” The immediate pri- ority, Sitharaman said, was to ensure Yes Bank customers were able to withdraw money with- in Rs 50,000 cap. She further said the RBI was working for the early resolution of the ment reconvened for the second half of the budget session. Meanwhile, South India channels were barred transmission for 48 hours for violating provisions of cable TV network during Delhi reporting. cent before three years from the date of capi- tal infusion. Earlier, speaking to reporters, Sitharaman had allayed concerns surrounding the Yes Bank crisis and as- sured that every de- positor’s money was safe. She also insisted that she was in touch with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regard- ing the matter. “I’m in continuous interaction with the RBI. The central bank is fully seized of the matter and has assured they will give a quick resolution. I want to as- sure every depositor demanding a discus- sion on violence over the citizenship law that scarred parts of north- east Delhi for four days. More than 50 people were killed, hundreds injured and scores of homes, shops schools were vandal- ised and set ablaze by armed goons spread terror. As the government declined to hold a dis- cussion on the vio- lence, the opposition’s demand led to a tug-of- war ensuring repeated adjournments in both houses, allowing little time for any other business since parlia- tion 24(2) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilita- tion and Resettlement Act which came into force in 2013. judgement was that the benefit should go to the land owners, agricul- turists and not inter- mediaries. The case pertains to the interpretation of Sec- two from Parl to... One of the Congress MPs who has been sus- pended - Gaurav Gogoi - hit back, saying: “The government is talking about a debate post-Ho- li. But will the families who have lost near and dear ones be able to cel- ebrate Holi? What will happen to the family of the police officer who lost his life?” Opposition MPs had served notices in both houses of parliament and who land buy... The bench held that the compensation need not be essentially deposited in the court and the proceedings would not lapse. Concluding the pro- nouncing of the ver- dict, Justice Mishra said the spirit of the Scheme,

5. INDIA J AIPUR | SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 05 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia Speaker to probe incidents of indiscipline IN PARLIAMENT LS Speaker Om Birla has approved the constitution of a committee that will look into various incidents of misconduct Such behaviour should not be displayed in Parl: Pralhad Joshi ‘Opposition always raises objections in Parliament’ New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has approved the constitu- tion of a committee that will look into various incidents of indisci- pline and misconduct by members in the House between March 2 and March 5. The announcement was made by BJP mem- ber Kirit Premjibhai Solanki, who was in the chair when the House met at 12 noon after its first adjournment dur- ing the question hour. He said the commit- tee will probe “all inci- dents” between March 2 and 5 and give its re- port. “It will be chaired by the Speaker and will have representation from almost all par- ties,” he said. Seven Congress were suspended from Lok Sabha on Thursday for “gross misconduct” after papers snatched Speaker's table. Parliamentary fairs Minister Pralhad Joshi has said that he will seek termination of membership of Con- gress member who had forcibly snatched the papers relating to the business of the House. Suspending 7 MPs for entire session not a minor thing’ New Delhi: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Joshi on Friday said that the behaviour shown by the seven Congress MPs in the Lok Sabha should not be displayed in the House. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, in a reply to Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Joshi said: “Such be- haviour should not be displayed House. Earlier, inap- propriate words were said against the Prime Minister and Amit Shah Ji in the House but we did not do any- thing. The govern- ment doesn’t want to keep any MP outside the Parliament. But, what happened yester- day , never happened in the 70 years of inde- New Delhi: Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary on Friday raised the matter of the suspension of his party's MPs in the Lok Sabha saying, “this is not a minor thing.” “Seven of our MPs were suspended for the entire Budget ses- sion, yesterday. We don't know on what basis was this done? This is not a minor thing. We only want a discussion on the is- sue of Delhi violence,” he said. Congress MPs were on Thursday named by the Chair in Lok Sabha got sus- pended for the remain- ing part of the budget session for “gross mis- conduct” in the House. BJP leader Meenak- shi Lekhi, who was in the Chair, when the House reassembled at New Delhi: Amid pan- demonium journment-hit ongoing Parliament Congress leader Meem Afzal on Friday said that the BJP also used to raise slogans in the House when the party was in the opposition. “Opposition always raises objections in Par- liament. The BJP also used to raise slogans in the House when they were in the opposition,” Afzal told ANI. He also condemned the state- ment made by Rashtri- ya Loktantrik Party MP Hanuman about Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi and sought action against the RLP leader. “The Speaker should have at least expunged the comment,” Afzal said. Beniwal had on Thursday said in LS that Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi must get tested for coronavirus as they have just returned from Italy and may end up spreading it. and ad- Pralhad session, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Budget Session of Parliament. Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Budget Session of Parliament. in the ings when the House met at 2 pm. She named the Con- gress members. Parliamentary Af- fairs Minister Pralhad Joshi had moved a resolution to suspend the members from the remaining period of the budget session, which was adopted by the House. pendent India.” BJP leader Meenak- shi Lekhi, who was in the Chair, when the House reassembled at 3 pm on Thursday, had said the members had behaved in a manner that had never happened before and had snatched pa- pers from the podium during the proceed- ond half of the budget session. The rules of conduct of business in Lok Sabha state that the Speaker, may if deemed name a member “who disregards the author- ity of the Chair or abuses the rules of the House by persistently and wilfully obstruct- ing the business”. 3 pm, said the Con- gress members have behaved in a manner that had never hap- pened before and had snatched papers from the podium during the proceedings. The LS has been wit- nessing continuous protests since it met on Monday at the com- mencement of the sec- Beniwal necessary, members Congress were the from Af- Speaker Om Birla, who had expressed per- sonal pain at the devel- opments, has not been coming to the House since Wednesday . concerning a discus- sion on Delhi violence. The government has said it is prepared for discussion on March 11 after Holi. directions of the Speak- er not to cross to the other side. The House witnessed two adjourn- ments on Thursday over opposition demand mediate discussion on Delhi violence. The House has wit- nessed repeated ad- journments and mem- bers have also flouted My ministers not for sale, Cong believes in politics of principles, service: Kamal Nath part of the budget ses- sion started on Monday . Members of Congress have been coming to the well of the House over their demand for an im- The House has wit- nessed unruly scenes including pushing, tearing of pa- pers and display of ban- ners since the second shoving, COURTESY MEET Bhopal: Amid the on- going political crisis in the state, Pradesh Chief Minis- ter Kamal Nath on Fri- day said that his minis- ters are not for sale and reiterated that the Con- gress believes in the politics of principles and service. “My ministers are not for sale. They be- lieve in the politics of principles and service. We (Congress) create our identity on politics we can be proud of and firmly say that we are from the state of Mad- hya Pradesh,” Nath said in a community programme. “Today, we have to make sure the stand- ards of politics do not drop,” he added. The comments come days after the Con- gress alleged that the BJP was trying to poach legislators in the state. Recently, leader Digvijaya Singh had alleged that BJP leaders Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Narottam Sanjay Pathak says he will not join Congress Madhya Bhopal: In a new twist to Pradesh politics cen- tred on three Rajya Sabha seats, Sanjay Pathak, BJP MLA who reportedly met CM Kamal Nath on Thursday night, said on Friday that he is not going to join the Congress and will re- main with the BJP. Earlier in the day, Congress said Sanjay Pathak was about to join the Congress. “This is a tit-for-tat formula engineered by Digvijaya and Ka- mal nath to counter BJP’’s move to desta- bilise the state gov- ernment,” said a sen- ior leader. sources said the “op- eration” targeted at the BJP has been jointly engineered by Digvijaya and Chief Madhya ‘NO PROBLEM WITHIN THE KAMAL NATH-LED CONGRES GOVT’ Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday again accused the BJP of resorting to horse-trading in order to bring down Kamal Nath govt. “It is not Operation Lotus, but Operation Money bag. Big, big bags (of money). I came here after the chief minis- ter asked me to. Our government is 100 per cent safe.” CONGRESS GOVERNMENT IN MP IS SAFE: KC VENUGOPAL West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar called on Home Minister Amit Shah, at Parliament on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI Minister Kamal Nath as both are camping in the state capital Bhopal and eyeing the disgruntled BJP legislators. Meanwhile, signs of dissensions within the Congress, Mahendra Sisodia, a Minister in the Kamal Nath-led Congress ment, while reaf- firming his loyalty for Jyotiraditya Sin- gh, said: If Scindia ji is overlooked, then a real trouble will start for the government.” LS passes Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill New Delhi: Lok Sabha on Friday passed the In- solvency and Bankrupt- cy Code (Second Amendment) Bill amid noisy protests. The bill seeks to amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) so that successful bidders of insolvent companies are ring- fenced from any risk of criminal proceedings for offences committed was in the chair, amidst AICC General Secre- tary KC Venugopal on Friday assured that the Madhya Pradesh Government headed by the Congress party is safe and will complete its full term. “BJP is trying to topple the elected government in Madhya Pradesh. They are offering big money. But their attempt is not going to be success- ful,” he added. sources in continuous protests by Congress members. The amendments in the law seek to remove bottlenecks streamline the corpo- rate insolvency resolu- tion process, wherein successful bidders will be ring-fenced from any risk of criminal proceedings for offenc- es committed by previ- ous promoters of com- panies concerned. Singh and govern- Party by previous promoters of the companies con- cerned. The Bill was declared passed by Ra- jendra Agarwal, who Congress Mishra were offering bribes of Rs 25-35 crore to Congress MLAs in order to bring down the Kamal Nath govern- ment in the state. DECLARE NIRBHAYA CONVICTS’ DATE AS ‘RAPE PREVENTION DAY’ New Delhi: Women rights activist and founder of People against Rapes in India (PARI), Yogita Bhayana, has written a letter to the United Nations seeking to declare March 20, 2020, the scheduled execution date of Nirbhaya convict, as “Rape Prevention Day”. “Such naming shall help every Indian to under- 1 CIVILIAN KILLED, ANOTHER INJURED IN GRENADE ATTACK Srinagar: A civilian was shot dead by suspected militants in Tral area of South Kashmir Friday evening. In a separate incident, a civilian was killed in a grenade attack in MR Gunj Police Station in Srinagar. Police sources said suspected militants hurled a grenade towards the area near police station MR Gunj this evening. A PM TO PARTICIPATE IN JAN AUSHADHI CELEBRATIONS New Delhi: In a bid to create more awareness about the use of generic medicines, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday will interact with the benefi ciaries of Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana and store owners of Jan Aushadi Kendras, through video conference. He will interact with seven Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana Kendras.The Centre cel- ebrates March 7, 2019, as ‘Jan Aushadhi Diwas’ across India, for creating awareness and provid- ing impetus on the use of generic medicines. PREZ KOVIND ADMINISTERS OATH TO CIC BIMAL JULKA New Delhi: Bimal Julka was appointed as the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) on Friday, said a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of offi ce to Julka as the CIC in the Central Information Commission at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The transparency watchdog has been functioning without a chief after Sudhir Bhargava retired on January 11 and is at a reduced strength of six information commissioners, against the sanctioned strength of 11 (including the CIC). stand what Nirbhaya and her family had endured and reaffi rmed their vow to the vision of a rape free India. Just like Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated in India to not just celebrate Gandhiji’s birthday but to celebrate Gandhi as a person and the ideals that he lived to protect,” Bhayana said in her letter to the UN. senior police offi cial said the grenade exploded on the roadside, injuring two civilians. The injured were taken to the SMHS Hospital, where one of them succumbed during treatment, the offi cial said. Cordon and search oper- ation is currently ongoing in the area, IGP CRPF (Sri- nagar sector) Ravideep Singh Sahi said.

6. PERSPECTIVE WHAT IS THE POINT OF LIBERATION Disappearing into the ‘here and now’ means transcending the limitations of space & time 06 J AIPUR | SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia IN-DEPTH YES BANK TAKES A HIT, DEPOSITORS’ FAITH SHAKEN t is a double whammy which has shaken the faith of inves- tors and depositors in the coun- try’s banking system. People were yet to recover from the shock closure of PMC Bank on Septem- ber 23, 2019 due to gross mismanage- ment. Six months later it is the Yes Bank, which has Holland’s Rabobank as part- ner, which is headed the PMC Bank way. Once again the Reserve Bank has stepped in by superseding the board of directors of the crisis-hit bank due to “serious de- terioration in its financial position” and capping deposit withdrawals at Rs 50000 per depositor. In the case of PMC Bank it was a measly Rs. 1000 per depositor be- fore the RBI raised it to Rs. 50,000. A 30- day moratorium has been placed on Yes Bank’s lending activity. It can neither renew nor grant any loan or advance. It is also barred from investing or incurring any liability. SADHGURU, ISHA FOUNDATION Ranked amongst the fifty most influential people in India, Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic, visionary and a New York Times bestselling author Sadhguru has been conferred the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India in 2017, the highest annual civilian award, accorded for exceptional and distinguished service I S omeone once asked me, “What’s the point of mukti or libera- tion? How is it useful?” I said, “First tell me, does your life have any use? Does it have any value for this exist- ence? If you died right now, actually it would be ecologi- cally very useful. Good ma- nure! Liberation is not about social utility. It is about the life process itself.” If you’d spent years in a five- by-five feet cubicle, and I were to unlock you and put you in a ten-by-ten feet cubicle, it would feel like total liberation. But af- ter three days, again you’d feel stuck. After ten years, if I de- clared you free and put you in a hundred-by-hundred feet cubi- cle, again it would seem like blissful release. But a little lat- er, the same longing would re- turn. So liberation is not my idea. It is the fundamental urge within every human be- ing. There is something within us that dislikes fenc- es. However liberated you are, you are still seeking lib- eration. What does that mean? It means you are seek- ing ultimate liberation, isn’t it? You are seeking mukti. So, how do we attain libera- tion? If you stop putting limita- tions on yourself, you’re liber- ated. It’s as simple as that. The way you think, feel, act, right now is a compulsive process. Because of this compulsive- ness, everything is limited, unconscious and repetitive, and that is imprisonment. Do not think of ‘mukti’ as some grand terminology. Lib- eration, freedom, divinity – these are just words. Belief gives you only two options: either to believe or disbelieve me. If you believe me, you’re not getting any closer to liberation. If you disbelieve me, you’re still no closer. Whether my story is true or not, for you, it’s still entertainment. ing would be compulsive with- in you any longer. And life would be fabulous. So, what is ultimate libera- tion? When there are no more cubicles in your life, when you are here and now, that is libera- tion. Disappearing into the ‘here and now’ means tran- scending the limitations of space and time. So what hap- pens next? Where do you go? Nowhere. All ‘going’ is over. When there is no longer any separation between you and this existence, that is ultimate liberation. The intellectual problem is, how can nothingness and infinity be the same? It is. The most incredible contri- bution to mathematics is the zero. It’s not by accident that it was born in this land. And it’s not just mathematics; it’s a profound insight, born of inner realization. If you want to reach the infinite, adding numbers won’t get you there. Zero means nothingness, but if you want to reach the infinite, nothingness is the only way . Looking up at the sky and thinking ‘freedom’ is no good. If you want to fly, you don’t look at the sky. Just look at what is holding you down, lim- iting you, right now. If you break that, you can move into the next level of limitation, and then see how to break that. Let’s start with a basic ques- tion. How do you know that you’re alive right now? Only because you’re conscious, isn’t it? So, you’re already conscious. It is just that it is happening in a limited way . All you need to do is rev up the voltage, so that consciousness happens in your experience in a much larger way. Consider a light bulb. If you start cranking up its voltage, you see more and more of what was previ- ously not in your vision. You crank up to full voltage and you suddenly see everything. People and objects that previ- ously didn’t exist, are now suddenly in your perception. The basis of the first Isha programme is just that -- to crank up your system in such The bank which started off with an initial public offering of Rs 300 crore in 2005 ran into bad loans of Rs 6,355 crore in 2017, just 12 years later. Its high-profile bank’s promoters unwit- tingly chose clients who turned out to be bad debtors---IL&FS, Anil Ambani Group, CG Power, Cox & Kings, Altico, CCD, Essel Group, Essar Power, Varadaraj Cement, Radius Devel- opers and Mantri Group. One of them has now said that having sold his remaining stakes in the bank in November 2019 he was not in- volved in the bank’s working ever since. The development brought the bank’s stock from tumbling. The shares which were once traded at Rs. 1400 per share closed at Rs. 16.20 per share on Friday. It was a double blow for the stock market too as the market tanked 893 points be- cause of Yes Bank and Coronavirus spread in the US and Europe. The RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das as- sured to protect depositors’ interests and to put in place a “reconstruction or amalgama- tion” before the end of the 30-day moratori- um so that depositors don’t face any diffi- culty. Finance Minister Nirmala Sithara- man also urged depositors’ not to panic. Despite these assurances, there was panic as people rushed to ATMs wondering if this will mark the end of Indian banking sys- tem’s horror story. Belief gives you only two options: either to believe or disbelieve me. If you believe me, you’re not getting any closer to liberation. If you disbelieve me, you’re still no closer As you become more aware, you become less compulsive. As you become less compulsive, you start moving towards liberation. If you became a hundred times more conscious than you are right now, nothing would be compulsive within you any longer a way that you’re far more aware than you are right now. As you become more aware, you become less compulsive. As you become less compul- sive, you start moving towards liberation. If you became a hundred times more conscious than you are right now, noth- How to call out fake news when you see it Y USE BASIC MATH Untrustworthy news and political campaigns often use statistics to make bo- gus claims – rightfully as- suming most won’t take the time to fact- check them. mathematical calcula- tions, which scholars call “Fermi estimates” or rough guesstimates, can help you spot falsi- fied data. For instance, a widely circulated meme falsely claimed 10,150 Americans were “killed by illegal im- migrants” in 2018. On the surface, it’s hard to know how to verify or debunk that, but one way to start is to think about finding out how many total murders there were in the US in 2018. Murder statistics can be found in, among other places, the FBI’s statistics on violent crime. They es- timate that in 2018, there were 16,214 murders in the US. If the meme’s fig- ure were accurate, it would mean that nearly two-thirds of the murders were committed by the “il- legal immigrants”. Next, find out how many people were living in the US. illegally. That group, most news re- ports and estimates suggest, about 11 million men, women and children – which is only 3% of the country’s 330 million people. Just 3% of people com- mitted 60% of US mur- ders? With a tiny bit of research and quick math, you can see these num- bers just don’t add up. 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7. INDIA J AIPUR | SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 07 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia Army directs military hosp to set up OPDs amid corona scare Service hospitals instructed to work in synergy with local civil medical authorities and designated ICMR labs POWERGallery PREMATURE RETIREMENT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST 320 OFFICERS The Government of India has initiated premature retirement proceedings against 320 offi cers including 163 Group ‘A’ and 157 Group ‘B’ during the period July, 2014 to January, 2020 on the ground of lack of integrity. 13 Italian tourists kept in isolation Amritsar: At least 13 Italian nationals have been kept in isolation at a hotel in Amritsar, as a precautionary measure in the wake of coronavi- rus outbreak. SDM Amritsar Vikas Heera said, “None of the 13 people has dis- played symptoms of coronavirus. They are all healthy .” Meanwhile, one more person has tested posi- tive for coronavirus in Delhi, taking the total number of people in- fected with the deadly virus in the country to 31, health ministry an- nounced on Friday . Delhi: Indian New Army on Friday issued detailed instructions about preparations and emergency response to tackle coronavirus, di- recting military hospi- tals to establish isola- tion wards and have separate outpatient de- partments (OPDs) for the screening of symp- tomatic cases to prevent transmission. Army also instructed service hospitals to work in synergy with local civil medical au- thorities and designat- ed ICMR labs. “In consonance with various advisories is- sued by the govt, Indian Army HQ has issued de- tailed instructions with respect to preparations and emergency sponse in tackling COV- ID-19. Military hospitals to establish isolation wards & have separate OPDs for a screening of symptomatic cases to prevent avoidable trans- mission. Service hospi- tals will work in syner- gy with local civil medi- cal authorities and des- ignated ICMR labs,” the army said. “Service personnel to be encouraged to utilize Shopping Complex fa- cilities within the Can- tonment /Military Sta- tions and avoid visits to crowded areas like mov- ie halls/ shopping malls etc,” it added. BSF DG VIVEK JOHRI TO RETURN PARENT CADRE AS DGP, MP A 1984 batch IPS offi cer, Vivek Kumar Johri presently on central deputation as DG, Border Security Force (BSF), is returning to parent cadre as Director General of Police (DGP) (Head of Police Force) in Madhya Pradesh. WILL CHAUBE MOVE TO BSF AS DG ? After the return of Vivek Kumar Johri to his home state MP as DGP, search for new DGP has start- ed. Sources said that KN Chaube is likely to be new DG, BSF. Before returning to Jharkhand, he was Spl DG, BSF. He is a Jharkhand cadre 1986 batch IPS offi cer. The OUTGOING DGP V K SINGH APPOINTED DIRECTOR, SPORTS VK Singh, Director General of Police (Head of Police Force), has been appointed as Director, Sports in Madhya Pradesh. He is a 1984 batch IPS offi cer of MP cadre. Top Prev Next Click here for Your Feedback re- RAJENDRA KUMAR TO LOOK AFTER AS DGP, MP TILL RETURN OF JOHRI Rajendra Kumar, DGP, Cyber Cell, will be looking after an additional charge of Director General of Police (DGP) (Head of Police Force) from March 6 in Madhya Pradesh till the assumption of charge by Vivek Kumar Johri after returning from central deputation. Rajendra Kumar is a 1985 batch IPS offi cer of MP cadre. CISF personnel and passengers wear protective masks, in wake of the deadly novel coronavirus, at the airport in Chennai on Friday. RAHUL GANDHI SCREENED FOR CORONAVIRUS, SAYS CONGRESS WAGAH BORDER CEREMONY SUSPENDED DUE TO COVID-19 thorities till further orders. However, flag hoisting and lower- ing would be carried out as usual. The district au- thorities have asked visitors not to come to Attari for the cer- emony. The ceremo- ny is carried out by the border guards of India and Pakistan - the BSF and Pakistan Rangers. Amritsar: The BSF on Friday decided to temporarily suspend the Retreat ceremo- ny on the interna- tional border with Pakistan at the Wa- gah-Attari checkpost to tackle the spread of the deadly coronavirus, officials said. The ceremony was suspended by local administrative au- dhi, and suggesting they should be wary of spreading the disease. The BJP often tar- gets Gandhi over his foreign trips, especially to Italy . Rahul Gandhi, who had travelled to the Ital- ian city of Milan for two weeks, had been of- fered courtesies due a Lok Sabha MP and a Z- Plus protectee on his return, but declined. New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was screened for coro- navirus infection at Delhi airport on his re- turn from Italy on Feb- ruary 29, the party said today . The confirmation came after three caus- tic digs this week, in- cluding two by the BJP’s Ramesh Bidhuri, targeting Gandhi and his mother, Sonia Gan- RBI DY GOV N S VISHWANATHAN QUITS THREE MONTHS BEFORE RETIREMENT RBI Deputy Governor NS Vishwanathan has re- signed citing health reasons three months before his retirement in June 2020. joint NO EMPANELMENT OF OFFICERS IN DIG GRADE IN RPF FOR LAST 2 YRS? Just a total of 18 offi cers of JAG/RPF were empanelled on DIG grade in RPF during 2016- 17 and 2017-18. The offi cers left out are still awaiting empanelment to DIG grade since last two fi nancial years. Pedestrians wear protective masks, in wake of the deadly novel coronavirus in New Delhi. IN THE COURTYARD IB staffer murder: Tahir Hussain sent to 7-day police custody Mukesh’s counsel seeks CBI probe against amicus curiae NIRBHAYA CASE AJAY SINGH IS NOW VICE CHAIRMAN, STATE PLANNING COMMISSION IN CHHATTISGARH Ajay Singh has, on Thursday, taken over as Vice Chairman State Planning Commission in Chhat- tisgarh. 1983 batch IAS offi cer Singh is former Chief Secretary. Delhi HC lists pleas on northeast Delhi violence, hate speeches on Mar 12 against several politi- cians including that of BJP, Congress, etc for alleged hate speech, re- habilitation of the in- jured victims in the vio- lence, among other re- liefs. A fresh Petition, filed by CPI (M) leader Brin- da Karat was also men- tioned before the court to- day claiming that the police are not following certain sections of Code of Criminal Procedure, therefore, making it dif- ficult for the people to find their loved ones, who were separated during the riot. Under Section 41C of the CrPC, police are re- quired to list the names of the people arrested. New Delhi: A Delhi court Friday sent sus- pended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain to 7-day police custody in con- nection with the alleged killing of IB official An- kit Sharma during the violence in northeast Delhi. Duty Magistrate Rakesh mar the order af- ter Hussain was produced before him by Delhi Police which said that his cus- todial interrogation was required to unearth larger conspiracy. Hus- sain was produced be- fore the duty magistrate amid tight security late in the evening and nei- ther the media nor any lawyer was allowed in- side the courtroom. New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Friday said that it will hear on March 12 a batch of peti- tions seeking registra- tion of FIRs against po- litical leaders over al- leged hate speech, which is claimed to have led to the violence in the na- tional capital last week. A division bench of Justice DN Patel and Justice C hankar asked Central government, Delhi Police, and oth- er respondents in the matter to file their re- sponse before the next date of hearing. A verbal brawl also erupted between Delhi government's standing counsel (criminal) ad- vocate Rahul Mehra and Additional Solici- TRIPURA HC NOW HAS FULL STRENGTH OF JUDGES Tripura High Court will now work with full strength with appointment of Satya Gopal Chatto- padhyay as Judge. New Delhi: A day after the issuance of death warrant against four convicts in Nirbhaya case, one of the con- vict''s defence counsel moved a plea in the Su- preme Court claiming amicus curiae Vrinda Grover, appointed by lower court, had forced his client to sign docu- ments for filing cura- tive petition sought CBI against her for profes- sional misconduct. Advocate M L Shar- ma, representing Mukesh, contended his client is a victim of a criminal conspiracy and fraud played by Grover in collusion with the Delhi govern- ment and the Centre. ANURAG SRIVASTAVA TO BE NEXT MEA SPOKESPERSON Anurag Srivastava will be the new Spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs. Formal orders are to be issued in a day or two. He is a 1999 batch Indian Foreign Service offi cer. SC SEEKS CENTRE'S RESPONSE ON CAA Ku- DELHI VIOLENCE passed T T T Haris- the and probe SC adjourns till April 15 hearing on plea against Harsh Mander’s speech streets and expressed a lack of faith in the judi- ciary . A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde asked Mander to file a reply on the police’s affidavit on the alleged contemp- tuous speech by him. New Delhi: The SC on Friday adjourned till April 15 hearing on a plea relating to the speech given by social activist Harsh Mander, in which he allegedly called the people to tor General Maninder Acharya over who will represent Delhi Police. The court was hear- ing petitions seeking registration of FIR VODAFONE WANTS TO MAKE A NEW BEGINNING IN INDIA: CEO TO GOVT New Delhi: Vodafone Global CEO Nick Read has told the government that the company wants to make a new and good beginning in India, accord- ing to sources. Sources said during his meeting, Prasad made it clear that the government is against a monopoly in the telecom sector, and wants Vodafone Idea to survive EC VISITS ELECTION MUSEUM 33 PER CENT BERTH RESERVES FOR WOMEN IN CONG YOUTH New Delhi: When a reservation for women in legislation is still a discussion and agen- da from many parties, Congress has decided to give 33 per cent quota to women leaders in the national body of its youth wing, said the Indian Youth Congress on Thursday. In a press release, Congress has JUSTICE MURALIDHAR TAKES OATH AS P&H HC JUDGE Chandigarh: Justice S Muralidhar was on Friday administered the oath as Judge of the Punjab and Haryana HC here by its Chief Justice Ravi Shanker Jha in the presence of a large gathering compris- ing jurists and lawyers. Justice Muralidhar, who was transferred here from the Delhi HC, was greet- ed with roses by a number of lawyers in the HC auditorium during the oath-taking ceremony. Most roads leading to the High Court complex were dotted with welcome hoardings, a rare gesture to welcome a Judge, a senior advocate pointed out. and remain invested in India. The sources said the minister conveyed India’s growing economic clout and its attractiveness to foreign investors, as also the enormous size of its market. The minister point- ed out that the company has 30 crore subscribers in India and that the telecom market presents huge opportunities. announced 50 new offi ce-bearers of Indian Youth Congress (IYC), which include national general secretaries, secretaries and joint secretaries. Out of 50 offi ce-bearers, 18 are women including a Dalit MP from Kerala Ramya Haridas, who has been promoted from national coordinator post. Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra visited the Election Museum at Kashmere Gate, in New Delhi on Friday. —Source: Twitter

8. TALKING POINT 08 J AIPUR | SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia A FESTIVAL OF SOUL STIRRING MUSIC About 200 musicians from 10 different countries mesmerised the audience during the thirteenth edition of the World Sacred Spirit Festival, an extravaganza held at the Chokhelao Garden situated at the historic Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur WSSF provided a platform for these youngsters to show- case their newly acquired skills. The legendary Kachra Khan Manganiyar also de- livered his powerful rendi- tion of traditional Rajastha- ni Sufi folk songs as the in- augural event of the festival. The highlight of the pe- nultimate day of the perfor- mances was a musical col- laboration involving the Indian born Tibetan Loten Namling, who is a now set- tled in Switzerland and is an important voice for Ti- bet. He sang Milrepa com- positions while playing the Tibetan lute. Collaborating with him was the Padma Shri awardee Anwar Khan Manganiyar with his Di- vana Ensemble singing Meerabai bhajans Ustad Daud Khan Sadozai from Afghanistan on the sarod. They, and two female dancers with them, trans- ported the audience into a trance-like state, dancing to their music. Earlier that day, there was a fascinating instrumental performance by two Korean female musi- cians who have come to- gether as Duo Bud. One of them played a traditional Korean string instrument and, the other was the per- cussionist with a range of small drums and cymbals. Ustad Bahauddin Dagar in a dhrupad duet with Pel- va Naik, the Hindustani classical singer Kavita Seth, her son Kanishka per- forming as Kanishka Seth Trio and the Areej Sufi En- semble from Oman were the other significant per- formances this year. At the festival was also the Moroc- can poet Walid Ben Salem. With his soulful rendition of Arabic classical Sufi songs, a ghuzhang (tradi- tional Chinese string in- strument) was used, played by the Chinese musician Jiang Nan. Surprisingly, not knowing Arabic was no handicap to the sympathet- ic resonance that his music managed with the appreci- ative audience. Music, per- haps, has its own vocabu- lary that starts where words end. The promise in the festival brochure was to ‘enamour your soul with transcending Sufi perfor- mances’. The overall expe- rience of the WSSF left us nodding in agreement with them and with the Greek philosopher Plato that, “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagina- tion and life to everything.” MAHENDRA SINGH DG INCOME TAX (INVESTIGATION) RAJASTHAN T preserved fifteenth-century Mehrangarh Fort of Jodh- pur in Rajasthan. As we walked in, the sound of the lead qawwali singer’s voice rising above that of the ac- companying tabla and the harmonium, was reverber- ating in the air. The support vocalists would occasional- ly provide a high-pitched counter to the lead singer against the background of rhythmic clapping by their team members. This vibrant and evocative performance by Danish Hussain Bada- yuni of the Sheswan Ghara- na of Rampur reminded us of the essence and the pow- er of devotional qawwali, missing in the insipid Bol- lywood versions. We were at the thirteenth edition of the World Sacred Spirit Festi- val, an extravaganza featur- ing 200 musicians from 10 different countries, held in Jodhpur from February 13- 16, 2020. There is a history to this event that has be- come popular on the global music calendar. The meticulous ongoing restoration of the Ahhi- chatragarh Fort in Nagaur is being carried out by the Mehrangarh Fort Museum Trust with the help of inter- national aid. The fort, to showcase its transforma- tion, was used as the venue for the Nagaur Sufi Festival first held in 2007. That festi- val has since become an an- nual feature, and the perfor- mances now continue at the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodh- pur. The name of this festi- val, featuring Indian and international music performances, was subsequently changed to the World Sacred Spirit Festi- val. For curating the events, the Trust engaged Alain We- ber, the curator of the fa- mous Fez Festival in Mo- rocco. On the criteria for the selection of specific per- formers, Maharaja Gaj Sin- gh II of Jodhpur, the chief patron of the Trust and the Festival elaborates, “those who captivate the live audi- ences and whose perfor- mances are a confluence of different types of Sufi mu- sic, that conveys the feeling of universality in the true spiritual sense, are chosen.” he Chokhelao Garden is located within the imposing and well- and Rakesh Chaurasia and team performing at the backdrop of Jaswant Thada. A nephew of the legendary Hariprasad Chaurasia, he has established a name for himself as an accomplished flautist. Conversation be- tween his flute and the tab- la, as a break from the struc- tured raga, was endearing. Traditional musicians of Western Rajasthan, the Manganiyar and the Langa, earn their livelihood singing on ceremonial occasions for the Rajput and Sindhi land- lords, respectively . The Meh- rangarh Fort Museum Trust has extended patronage to them, for the revival and ad- vancement of their tradi- tional art form. The Trust, through their Rajasthan In- ternational Folk Festival (RIFF) forum, is supporting training programmes for their young artists conduct- ed by accomplished teachers from their own community . It was heartening that the Sufism, an offshoot of Is- lam, originated in the Mid- dle East and reached its cul- tural zenith in South Asia under the rule of the Delhi Sultans. Moving away from the rigid religious dogmas, the Sufi saints emphasised the universality of God. Achieving the divine ecsta- sy of oneness with God through poetry and music became their forte. Central to the evolution of Sufi mu- sic in the Indian subconti- nent was Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), the favourite disciple of the Sufi saint Khwaja Nizamuddin Auli- ya. Inventing the sitar and the tabla, Khusrau was also the originator of the qaw- wali form of singing. Com- bining Persian poetry with imagery borrowed from the Indian nirguna bhakti cult, he composed a treasure of poems in song in the ver- traditional Mesmerised audience during the fest. was common. On the steps below the glorious Jaswant Thada cenotaph construct- ed in 1899 in white marble, we were fortunate to be mesmerised by the floating fluid sounds of the flute played by Rakesh Chaura- sia. It was a beautiful melo- dious combination of notes in the Indian classical form. the sterile atmosphere of large enclosed modern au- ditoriums. Here, artists per- forming on stages set up on the lakeside and in the mag- nificent courtyards in the fort premises itself, attract- ed intimate gatherings of music lovers. Informal in- teractions between the au- dience and the musicians nacular language, success- fully articulating the mysti- cal experience of the Sufis for the spiritual benefit of the audience. The locations selected for the performances in the WSSF provided an authen- ticity to the experience of listening to soul-stirring music that is not possible in Walid Ben Salem Anwar Khan & Loten Namling Duo Bud —PHOTOS BY MAHENDRA SINGH

9. SPORTS J AIPUR | SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 Harika posts 2nd straight win, remains in joint lead Lausanne: Indian Grandmaster Dronaval- li Harika posted a sec- ond straight win, beat- ing Nana Dzagnidze in the fourth round to re- main in joint lead at the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix chess tournament here. Harika, the world no.9, has three points after four rounds and shares the lead with Aleksandra Goryachki- na of Russia, who beat Antoneta Stefanova (Bulgaria). Harika outclassed her Georgian opponent late on Thursday in 27 moves in a queen pawn open- ing capitalising on an Wenjun of China, who 09 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia SANIA, ANKITA guide India to 2-1 win over Korea New Delhi: India defeated Korea 2-1 on Friday in the ongoing Fed Cup Asia/ Oceania Group I tourna- ment and as a result of this win, the side has jumped to the second spot in the league standings. Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina, won the deciding rubber against Korea to lift India to second place in the round-robin league standings at the end of day three. Mirza ranked 222nd in doubles and Raina (119) took the courts as a pair for the first time in the on- going tournament, as the tie was evenly poised at 1-1. India and Korea won a singles rubber each cour- tesy Rutuja Bhosale and Na-Lae Han, respectively . Mirza-Raina used all their experience and managed a comfortable straight-sets win 6-4, 6-4 against Na-Lae Han and Na Ri Kim. Earlier in the match, Indian skipper Vishal Uppal entrusted Rutuja Bhosale and Ankita Raina for the two sin- gles rubbers for the third time in as many outings of the Indian team. 23-year-old Bho- Dronavalli beat Nana Dzagnidze in the fourth round was beaten by Harika in round three, was held to a draw by Anna Muzy- chuk (Ukraine) Thursday . She is in 11th spot with 1.5 points. The strong tourna- ment featuring 12 play- ers, including the world champion Wenjun, is the third in the series of four Grand Prix from which two with the highest points would qualify for the next candidates event. Results: Round 4: Dro- navalli Harika (IND) 3 beat Nana Dzagnidze (GEO) 2; Ju Wenjun (CHN) 1.5 drew with Anna Muzychuk (UKR) 2.5, etc. on sale, playing in India col- ours for the third time in Fed Cup, rose to the occa- sion and won a point for India as she defeated Su Jeong Sang 7-5, 6-4. This win came a day af- ter Bhosale earned the maiden point of the com- petition for India in a three-hour-long battle with Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan on day two. In the second singles rubber, Ahmedabad born Raina suffered her second defeat of the tournament by the hands of Na-Lae Han 4-6, 0-6. Later today, India will face Chi- nese Taipei. —ANI error in the 25th move. She faces the 21-year- old Goryachkina in the fifth round. In a surprise result, Zhanasaya Abdumalik of Kazakshtan (Elo 2471) defeated former world champion and higher- rated Alexandra Kos- teniuk (Russia, Elo 2504) in 37 moves. World champion Ju tally —Agencies Measures will be in place to handle virus threat: Ganguly League is very much on. Everywhere, the tournaments are going on. England are already in Sri Lanka. South Af- rica are here. There are no issues,” Ganguly as- serted. “County teams are travelling all over the world. They are travel- ling to Abu Dhabi, UAE to play. So there is no problem,” he added. Asked about the precau- tionary measures to en- sure that players and fans are not affected, Ganguly said a medical team is thrashing out the specifics. Kolkata: The Indian Premier League (IPL) is ‘very much on sched- ule’, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said on Friday, asserting that all measures will be in place to tackle the rap- idly-spreading coronavirus which has wreaked hav- oc on sporting calen- dars globally . The glitzy T20 event, featuring both Indian and international stars, gets underway March 29 in Mumbai. India’s coronavirus pa- tient count currently stands at 31, including novel threat 16 Italian tourists. In- ternationally, the dead- ly outbreak has so far killed more than 3,300 people and infected nearly 100,000 in about 85 countries. “Indian on Ankita Raina Premier —PTI Gurveer bags gold in squash tourney Rajasthan girls shine in U-19 ODI trophy 2020 Railways continue domination in kabaddi tourney First India News er of Numaligarh refin- ery ltd. played really well and made Singh struggle a bit, he won the match by 3-2 sets. In the veterans cate- gory final match Yo- gesh Chandra of HPCL beat PK Dhodipakar of Indian Oil by 3-0. Chief guest of the ceremony was Arjuna Awardee Archer Rajat Chauhan. First India News tra by 44 runs. Ra- jasthan won the toss and chose to bat first, and set a total of 150 runs by losing 9 wickets in 50 overs. Yashashvi scored 25 runs, Dimple 23, Simran 22, Poonam 18 and Akshita 16 runs for Raj. Aarti of Maha- rashtra took 3 wickets by giving 19 runs. Jaipur: In the final match of PSPB Inter Unit Squash tourna- ment held at Rajasthan Squash Academy, SMS stadium, Gurveer Sin- gh of Indian Oil bagged the gold by giving an impeccable mance. Even though his opponent Ali Haid- Jaipur: Rajasthan U-19 women team is consecu- tively performing well in the U-19 ODI trophy organized by BCCI, played in Guwahati. In Friday’s match jasthan girls showed exemplary class and de- feated team Maharash- Ra- perfor- CORONA IMPACT HS, Chirag among 6 Indians pull out of All Eng Open Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot and officials along with team Rajasthan on Friday. First India News serves as a chance for qualification in the up- coming Tokyo Olym- pics 2020. The competi- tion is scheduled to be- gin from March 11. On the other hand, the novel coronavirus disease was first detect- ed in Wuhan, China’s Hubei province, in late December 2019 and has since spread worldwide. In late January , World Health Organization de- clared a global health emergency in light of the epidemic. struggled in the first half of the game and were 6 points behind. Services won the first set by 17-11, albeit railway turned the end result upside down. Railway wom- en team was no less and also won the women finals against Himachal who were a splendid opponent to them. The scoreline showed 40-34 in the end in rail- way’s favour. New Delhi: Six Indian shuttlers including HS Pronnoy, Chirag Shetty, and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy have pulled out of the All England Open Badminton Cham- pionships as a precau- tionary measure over coronavirus outbreak in many countries. “Chirag Satwiksairaj Rankired- dy , Manu Attri, Sumeeth Reddy, HS Pronnoy, and Sameer Verma have withdrawn from partici- pating in the tourna- lll However, top India shuttlers like PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth, and Sai Praneeth are expected to take part in the upcoming tournament Jaipur: while showing their outstanding perfor- mance has clinched the Senior National Kabbadi Champion- ship Trophy held at Poornima University , Jaipur. Host team Ra- jasthan had to settle with Bronze. In a nail biting men finals Railway beat Services with the final score- line of 29-27. Railway Railway Pradesh Shetty, HS Pronnoy Chirag Shetty the tournament. This is season’s first World Tour Super 1000 tournament which also shuttlers PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth, and Sai Praneeth are ex- pected to take part in ment,” the Badminton Association of India (BAI) sources said. However, top India —ANI

10. Sometimes, the best thing to do is to start over, remember you are not starting from scratch but from experience. —Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO & Editor, First India 2ND FRONT 10 POSTAL REG NO. JPC/010/2019-21 J AIPUR | SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia Gumptious CM trumps up Raj’s template for investments Aditi Nagar state government has brought the RIPS, MSME Act, Solar and Wind Hy- brid Policy and a new industrial policy. Ra- jasthan is the only state in the country to have such a large and compre- hensive policy initiative as a package for entre- preneurs. In such a situ- ation, the Dept of Indus- tries should work with the pro-active approach so that more investment can be made in the state and more people can get more employment.” Stressing that Ra- jasthan is emerging as the state with the most potential for investment especially for tourism, solar, mining, jewelery and service sectors, Ge- hlot said that “there is immense potential here” and that the “policies and innovations of the government promoting the industry should be widely publicized and disseminated so that in- vestors can take advan- tage of them and estab- lish enterprises.” Jaipur:Providing a fine example on how to multitask, Ashok Gehlot on Fri- day held various re- view meetings not at his usual offices at CMO or CMR, rather at his chambers in the state assembly. Hold- ing an important re- view meeting of the Industries ment, days after pre- senting the budget, Gehlot in- structed the officials to attract investors with a pro-active ap- proach towards bet- ter policies brought by the government for industries. Industries Minister Parsadi Lal Meena, CS DB Gupta, Addl CS Fi- nance Niranjan Arya, Industries Commission- er Muktanand Aggarwal and other officials were present in the meeting. During the meeting Ge- hlot said, “In this era of economic recession, the CM depart- state CM Ashok Gehlot with Parsadi Lal Meena, DB Gupta, Kuldeep Ranka and Muktanand Agarwal during a meeting on Friday. Speed up expressway project: CM tells babus CM TO MIN: VISIT HAIL STRUCK AREAS On the instructions of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, the Minister in- charge of the districts affected by hailstorm will take stock of the damage caused to the crops due to hailstorm on March 8 in different parts of the state and will meet the affected farmers. Farmers suffering from crop damage will be provided assis- tance under Disaster Relief Rules at the earliest. Gehlot said that the minister in- charge of the affected districts will meet farmers suffering from hailstorm as well as meet the district collector and other officials and assess the status of crop problem. First India News state. About 636 km of this 1100 km expressway be- tween Amritsar to Jam- nagar will pass through Rajasthan. Similarly, about 373 km of Delhi & Vadodara Expressway will also pass through the state, in such a way that both these projects are important for the state,” Gehlot said. to remove the obstacles coming from Amritsar to Jamnagar Express- way in Jalore.Gehlot was reviewing the work of both these projects under the Bharatmala Project on Friday . “Both these projects of national importance are also very important from the point of view of development of the er’s issues with utmost sensitivity and provide proper solution should be found with sensitiv- ity to other hurdles in- cluding land reclama- tion. The Chief Minister also directed that the Divisional sioner should commu- nicate with the farmers in a cordial atmosphere Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday instructed officials to speed up the work of expressway Amritsar to Jamnagar and Delhi to Vadodara under Bharatmala pro- ject in the state. He also asked offi- cials to hear the farm- between Commis- Two teens held guilty in Pehlu case STAR-STUDDED RECEPTION PEOPLE THANK CM FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS Hundreds of people from Bamanwas constituency led by MLA Indra Meena reached CMR on Friday morning to thank CM Ashok Gehlot for making Bamanwas a municipal council. CM said it is the responsibility of citizens to share the information on campaigns like Nirogi Rajasthan, Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao, save water-save electricity-plant trees etc. Meanwhile, Jaipur Vyapar Mandal also met CM and thanked him for budget announcements. A delegation led by Kuldeep Verma also met CM following which CM unveiled a poster of cricket tourney being organised by Verma. Representatives of Hotel Association also met CM. First India News Jaipur: Two teenagers accused of being part of the mob that lynched dairy farmer Pehlu Khan in 2017 have been held guilty by Alwar’s Juvenile Justice Board, defence lawyer Adarsh Yadav said on Friday . Pehlu was merciless- ly beaten up by suspect- ed cow vigilantes in 2017 who thought he was smuggling cattle. Six men who were ac- cused of having led the attack on Pehlu were acquitted in August last year. Udpr seeks its maiden pound of flesh from Pande The wedding reception of Girish and Prachi was held in New Delhi on Friday. Girish is the son of BJP National President JP Nadda. The function was was attended by President Ram Nath Kovind, PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and many senior BJP leaders including Nitin Gadkari, Vasundhara Raje, Arun Chaturvedi, Rajendra Rathore, Hanuman Beniwal, Kailash Choudhary, Satish Poonia, Dushyant Singh, Yogi Adityanath, Baba Balaknath among others. —PHOTOS BY SUMAN SARKAR Aditi Nagar Surendra Jadawat, who was part of the delega- tion, said, “Since Inde- pendence, the Congress has not sent anyone to Upper House Udaipur region but this time we have demanded that for the first time a general caste member be sent to the Rajya Sab- ha from the division.” tion and heard Khod- niya’s claims. “We have taken the claims of all leaders with utmost sin- cerity and their emo- tions will be conveyed to Congress President Sonia Gandhi,” Pande said, adding, “Names of RS candidates will be announced by Sonia Gandhi.” Senior leader tary and Rajasthan In- charge Avinash Pande. The delegation that included MLAs from Udaipur division in- cluding Mahendrjeet Singh Malviya, former MLAs Prakash Choud- hary and others de- manded that Khodniya be sent to RS from state. Pande met the delega- is a slight elation among the Congress leaders since they are in power in Rajasthan. In order to hone their chances of being chosen for the up- per house, a delegation of 50 individuals head- ed by DCC President of Dungarpur Khodniya called on AICC General Secre- Jaipur: With the bugle for Rajya Sabha elec- tion being sounded, party leaders are mak- ing a beeline for Delhi. While both BJP and Congress leaders are hoping to be their re- spective party’s nomi- nated contestant, there from Dinesh TETE -A-TETE Young Turk Sharma BJP’S beacon of hope Waning Cong ‘biggies’ desperate for comeback Cong to press for Muslim candidate for RS T has won thrice consecu- tively . After the veteran Rajendra Rathore, he has topped the MLAs in the performance in the house. First, he had a lighthouse in the form of Late Bhairon Singh Shekhawat for guid- ance and then now its Rathore showing the path. Following the footsteps of Rathore, Ramlal Sharma is rep- resenting BJP for the third time. He was T warts. The people who use to sit in the first two rows of the treasury benches in the house dur- ing the last Congress re- gime can now be seen in the third row. With the lost sheen, these were the ‘biggies’ of the house once. One of them even sat on the decorated chair. Deependra Singh Shekha- wat, Rajendra Pareek, Bharat Singh Kundanpur, Dr Jitendra Singh, Ram- narayan Meena, Mahend- praised by the LOP Gu- lab Chand Kataria in the legislative meeting while Vasundhara Raje and Satish Punia were present. Kataria had lauded both the quanti- ty and the quality of is- sues raised by Sharma in the house. It was Ramlal who brought the issue of in- creased fees for the ‘Bhandaras’ en route KhatuShyam temple in the house. The Govt. had to announce a roll- back on the fees. here is this young MLA in BJP who ime spars nobody, not even political stal- C ing Rajya Sabha elec- tions. Rajasthan legisla- tors will vote for three Rajya Sabha seats. Buzz has it that one of the Congress could be a Muslim. Names of Masih and Nadeem Javed are being put for- ward. Masih is Vice president of the party but is from the Chris- tian community. Na- deem is president of the ongressmen are dis- cussing the upcom- candidates remain silent. One of these ‘biggies’ could not hold his pain and whis- pered to one his col- leagues that he was ea- gerly awaiting for the ex- pansion of the ministry to put an end to his agony of sitting in the third row. rajeet Singh Malviya, Ramlal Jat, Bharosilal Jatav, Ashok Bairwa, He- maram Ameen Khan and Rajen- dra Singh Gudha form the galaxy of those stars who either idle away their time or choose to had Mumtaj All India Minority Cell of the party . Sources say that Nadeem is quite ea- ger to go to the upper house and this is being supported by the Mus- lim community as well. Choudhary, Ramlal Sharma

11. www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia 11 JAIPUR, SATURDAY MARCH 7, 2020 —PHOTO CREDIT: SABYASACHI DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU WEAR IT, A NOSE RING CAN BE SEEN AS A BEAUTIFUL ACCESSORY, A SYMBOL OF STATUS, WEALTH OR PRESTIGE OR EVEN AS AN ACT OF REBELLION ductive organs. The exact place for the traditional conservative nose piercing is just above the crease where the nos- tril curves gently away from the cheek and usually consists of a single hole and can be done on either side of the nose. Septum and Bridge piercing have been done for centuries and are still popular. There are many types of jewellery to choose from to adorn your nose, you can go in for a stud or a ring with the complete range of pearls, diamonds meenakari. Just remember to keep it clean and com- fortable. For special occa- sions splurge for a bigger nose ring and make a strong style statement. The nose ring is a piece of jewel- lery which is totally dy- namic and has changed, grown with the changing times, fashion and style. ANITA HADA anita.hada@firstindianews.com B ack in 2012 when Miley Cyrus re- vealed her nose piercing, she gen- erated a lot of pub- licity, with her cooler and edgier look. Well, that’s Holly- wood for you, while we in India take nose piercing without batting an eyelid or rather I should say with- out a twitch of the nose! The custom of nose rings has been around for thousands of years and is actually the sec- ond most popular type of body piercing, the first being ear piercing. Nose piercing can be traced back to 44,000 BC in Australia but the modern nose ring tradition began in the Mid- dle East over 4000 years ago which then came to India and became a local way of life. The hippies who visit- ed India in the 60s found it exotic and took it up though it was frowned upon in the Western World and was viewed as an act of rebel- lion till the recent past and is still considered unpro- fessional by some. Piercing the nose is also co-related to sexual health, fertility childbirth in some cul- tures, including India. It is believed that having the left nostril pierced would result in easing the pain of the menstru- al cycle, increasing sexu- al pleasure and assist with easier childbirth. The Ayurvedic reason- ing behind this is that a woman’s left nostril is connected to her repro- and and I saw my mother make a nose ring for a bride and then I asked her if I could have it to wear at Cannes. She told me that people will laugh at me but then they laugh at me for a lot of other stupid things and I wanted to wear it. —SONAM KAPOOR

12. HOLLYWOOD 12 JAIPUR | SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia SWIFT HELP BY TAYLOR S Swift also responded quickly to Nashville’s flooding drama a decade ago 2010, founding the Taylor Swift Charitable Fund. More than 20 people lost their lives as two tor- nados ripped through Nashville. Buildings in the eastern part of the city sustained significant property damage. Emergency Fund. “Nashville home... and the fact that so many people have lost their homes and so much more in Middle Tennes- see is devastating to me,” Swift wrote in a state- ment on her Instagram story . She included a link to the Response Fund and encouraged fans to do- nate to the cause. Response inger Swift has donat- ed a whopping $1 million to aid Nashville, Ten- nessee tornado relief efforts. The ‘Blank Space’ hit- maker’s publicist, Tree Paine, confirmed to The Tennessean that the long- time Nashville resident has handed over the cash to the Middle Tennessee Taylor is my —IANS Taylor Swift GHOST HOUSE? OVERDOSE ABANDONMENT BLACK WIDOW IS BACK S tal after overdosing in 2018. On Ellen DeGeneres’ chat show, Lovato spoke about her struggles and how she felt abandoned by her people several times. “My core issues are abandonment as a child from my birth father. He was an addict, alcoholic. We had to leave him and I had vivid memories of him leaving. It played on that fear and I felt aban- doned so I drank. That night I went to a party, there was other stuff there and it was only three months before I ended up in the hospital with an over dose,” she shared. Lovato recalled how she reached out to her team, and was left stunned when they branded her selfish, trigger- ing her issues of abandon- ment. She continued: “I sent a message out and reached out to my team and they respond- ed with ‘You’re being very selfish, this would ruin things not just for you but for us as well’.” The ‘I Love Me’ singer also urged people to “take respon- sibility” for themselves. inger Demi Lovato re- cently recounted her hard time when she was rushed to hospi- M has some kind of ghost or evil spirit as she keeps suffering from night ter- rors. Teigen took to Twitter on 4th March where she said the disturbances have led her to sleep in a differ- ent room. “I know this sounds insane but I think I have some kind of ghost or evil spirit and I have the worst night- mares,” Teigen told her fol- lowers on her Instagram Story . She added: “I will go to bed super early and I will sleep so long and I will wake up soaking wet because I have just the most terrible nightmare. It’s always the same nightmare.” She didn’t explain what the nightmare was, Teigen, who is married to musician John Leg- end, said: “I’m tired of it and it’s ruining my life, so I’m sleeping in a different room tonight. We’ll see if this makes a difference.” She went on to seemingly cut off critics before they had a chance to complain, adding: “I understand it’s very privileged to have an extra room, but I do... I need the energy, I need to feel good. I can’t live this way anymore. It’s driving me in- M has some kind of ghost or evil spirit as she keeps suffering from night ter- rors. Teigen took to Twitter on 4th March where she said the disturbances have led her to sleep in a differ- ent room. “I know this sounds insane but I think I have some kind of ghost or evil spirit and I have the worst night- mares,” Teigen told her fol- lowers on her Instagram Story . She added: “I will go to bed super early and I will sleep so long and I will wake up soaking wet because I have just the most terrible nightmare. It’s always the same nightmare.” She didn’t explain what the nightmare was, Teigen, who is married to musician John Leg- end, said: “I’m tired of it and it’s ruining my life, so I’m sleeping in a different room tonight. We’ll see if this makes a difference.” She went on to seemingly cut off critics before they had a chance to complain, adding: “I understand it’s very privileged to have an extra room, but I do... I need the energy, I need to feel good. I can’t live this way anymore. It’s driving me in- sane. I have to stop, it has to stop.” sane. I have to stop, it has to stop.” I starts with Scarlett Johansson back on the big screen as deadly spy Natasha Romanoff in ‘Black Widow’ this April. After a blockbuster end to the last phase in 2019 with ‘Aveng- ers: Endgame’, Mar- vel will be starting off its most anticipated phase four by redefin- ing the superhero universe with women power in focus. Recently, the stu- dio released a poster announcing the dates of release in India for its upcoming films. Johansson’s ‘Black Widow’ will release on April 30. The film is set after the events of ‘Captain America: Civil War’ but before the events of ‘Aveng- ers: Infinity War’. The film will trace the story of Ro- manoff, who will con- front her past. odel Chris- sy Teigen suspects her house ts going to be a marvellous time for Marvel fans. The new phase coming —IANS Demi Lovato —IANS Scarlett Johansson —IANS Chrissy Teigen FACE OF THE DAY YOUR DAY Horoscope by Saurabbh Sachdeva ARIES MAR 21 - APR 20 TAURUS APR 21 - MA Y 20 GEMINI MA Y 21 - JUNE 21 CANCER JUNE 22 - JUL Y 23 Your family will appear most responsive to your needs today. Your understanding nature towards someone’s suffering will be highly appreciated. You must consider taking your friend’s advice in the matter of love. You can expect a visible raise in salary. Carefully read your work documents and specially those which involve your signatures. At workplace not everyone like us no matter how good we are so that should never bother you. Academically, help others to an extent you don’t anduo creating trouble for yourself. Today no matter how much you spend on what, luckily all the money will fl ow back to your life as today you are blessed with money. Never let someone’s words defi ne who you are, people often get jealous from someone having true potential. Industrialists and entrepreneurs will make a huge profi t. Do not leave any stone unturned when it comes to excelling in studies. Focus on improving your concentration power if you are feeling distracted lately. You will feel like fi nishing all the pending work at home. There will be positive changes in your environment. LEO JUL Y 24 - AUGUST 23 You seem to always solve problems for others and help them out. You have started working in the direction of achieving your targets. Your planning for building a house will turn out to be good. You will relive your childhood days by having a reunion with all your cousins. VIRGO AUG 24 - SEP 23 LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22 Avoid taking any loan rather believe in yourself and you will fi nd a way to deal with things. Your spouse may be a bit stubborn about some idea and sometimes you should give in. You will change your accommodation to gain more security. SCORPIO OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22 If you looking for monetary help then the help shall be provided. Today you will work really hard in whatever you will do with hundred percent dedication. Sometimes you agree with family and sometimes you don’t but remember that doesn’t make anyone bad, take things easy. You can expect a fi nancial boost in form of salary increment or getting money back from the borrower. Keep following the path you have chosen to have a good health. Your ability to handle issues at hand will get you recognised professionally. You will see a remarkable change in your health. SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 22 Social gathering will lighten up your mood today. Sometime you becomes a shopaholic and once you start you don’t pay attention to what is important and what not, luckily for you today you are blessed with money as well as sensibility to judiciously use your dough. CAPRICORN DEC 23 - JAN 20 You may spend all your time running behind money but it will come to you only when you stop running after it and invest more time in doing what you like. If you have a spoilt kid then its time to mend there ways by doing counselling. You may have to take a loan to buy your dream house. AQUARIUS JAN 21 - FEB 19 PISCES FEB20 - MARCH 20 You must take responsibility of things rather than relying on others as sometimes others can take advantage of it. You may have opinion difference with your parents but take it lightly. You are a go getter and this traits will take help you a very successful person. You recently have controlled your hunger to shop and these days you have limited yourself to only buying the bare essentials. You will help your spouse on the home front to take some burden off his/her shoulders. You will spend a very satisfying day at home today, a day full of fun and laughter. AINDRILA ROY, Digital Infl uencer

13. ETC JAIPUR | SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 13 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia SPREADING AWARENESS T aapsee Pannu star- rer ‘Thappad’ has been receiving rave reviews from fans and film critics alike. The impressive star cast and the effective story line has left a deep im- pact on everyone’s minds. Af- ter having shown her acting prowess in films like ‘Mulk’ and ‘Pink’, Taapsee has given a stellar performance again in the Anubhav Sinha direc- torial. Moreover, its hard- hitting plot has surely im- pressed everyone. In the midst of all this, Rajasthan police took to their official social media handle in order to create awareness among people. The tweet says in Hin- di that the word ‘thappad’ is all about domestic violence and mental abuse. They have urged people to call the hel- pline or inform the nearest police station regarding such cases. Tweet by Rajasthan Police herself has shared this tweet on her social media handle thereby providing further as- sistance in spreading social awareness. A picture of Taapsee Pan- nu from Thappad has also been added along with a tweet that reads, ‘just a slap par nahi mar sakta.’ The actress —Agency Taapsee Pannu BEBO SAYS ‘HELLO’! SARA TROLLED! Birthday-Bae! B tress surprised her fans by making her debut on Insta- gram. The recent post she uploaded on the social media application is a picture of herself in all- black and golden tracksuit. “The cat’s out of the bag. #HelloInstagram,” she cap- tioned the image. Her Ins- tagram account has al- ready got a blue tick, and has a profile picture of a very young Bebo. Welcoming Kareena on Instagram, her sister and actress Karisma Kapoor posted a cute post for the ollywood diva Kareena Kapoor Khan is finally on social media. On Fri- day, the ‘Jab We Met’ ac- Kareena Kapoor Khan J 2020 poured in for the ac- tress from friends, fans and fol- lowers. Janhvi was to shoot on her birthday , but at the last minute, her shoot got can- celled, therefore, she decided to spend the time with family at Anshula Kapoor’s res- idence in Mumbai. Her sister Anshula Kapoor shared the video of Janhvi Ka- poor blowing the can- dles on four cakes of different shapes and siz- es. “birthday baby girl. I love you!” wrote Anshula Ka- poor shar- ing the video of Janhvi cutting the cake. Now we all know that Janhvi Ka- poor is extremely at- tached to her parents Boney Kapoor and late Sridevi, and when Janhvi was asked about her memories of birthday mom, she said that Sridevi and Boney Ka- poor used to decorate her room and make everything “Be it the conversa- tions on couch or the cake cutting, mom would make me feel pampered.” Janhvi. anhvi celebrated her 23rd birthday on 6th March, and Kapoor wishes family, ...her instagram post with former. “Brace yourselves @insta- gram She’s here !@kareenaka- poorkhan. Welcome to the gram bebo,” Karisma wrote. Kareena’s Instagram handle goes by the username of “KareenaKa- poorKhan”. Earlier, she had re- vealed that she had a secret Insta- gram account, just to stalk people. special. ...her instagram post S impressed. Most fans on social media who have raised objection over the photograph don’t seem to have a problem with her beach- wear, but they appear confused about the pose that the actress has struck with her brother. In the snapshot, Sara clasps onto Ibrahim who, most neti- zens feel, is quite uncomforta- ble with the pose. They note his body language in the picture, particularly the posture of his hand that, they feel, reveals the teenager’s discomfort, as well as his expression. “Her brother is not comfortable... look at his hand... ara Ali Khan has posted a new bikini picture with her brother Ibrahim, and netizens are not exactly shared —IANS —Agency ‘Hunger and curiosity kept me going’ L she won the title of Miss Universe in 2000. “I think it’s just hunger and curiosi- ty. I don’t feel like I want to be limited to any one thing. I never said, I am just a beauty queen or just an ac- tress. When that’s done, I am always wondering what’s next can I do so, yeah, that keeps me going,” said Lara, while interaction at global tech-hospitality plat- form Airbnb celebrated spirit of women entrepre- neurship at their promo- tional event ahead of In- ternational Women’s Day in Mumbai. Lara won Miss Uni- verse 2000 pageant before entering to Bollywood. Apart from acting, she is a hands-on mother and wife, and has also ven- tured into film production. —IANS ara Dutta says her hunger and curiosity about things have kept her going since time not fair Sara... not expecting from you...,” wrote user. O t h e r s i m p l i e d stardom has start- ed affect- ing Sara, a b l a m e d inadequate parenting. “If the children don’t know the elder at least should w h a t ’ s wrong and w h a t ’ s r i g h t , ” wrote user. now one n d tell a Lara Dutta —IANS Sara Ali Khan Janhvi Kapoor

14. CITY BUZZ JAIPUR | SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 GEETANJALI GET SET & GO 14 www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia Celebrity Hair Stylist Sumit Israni brings the legacy of Geetanjali Salon in the Pink City WHAT’S HAPPENING! —PHOTOS BY MUKESH KIRADOO KIRTI CHAUHAN kirti.chauhan@firstindia.co.in W ith more than 30 years of experi- ence in the beauty and wellness indus- try , the Salon brand ‘Geetanjali Salon and Studio’ launched their first outlet in the Pink City on Friday . In an exclusive conversa- tion with City First, Celebri- ty Hair Stylist and Creative Director of Geetanjali Salon and Studio, Sumit Israni, shared his happiness of launching the first branch in the city by saying that “this is just the beginning, many more to come.” Hemant Bishnoi, co-part- ner at the salon, said that looking at the growing party and social get-together cul- ture in the Pink City, the team is very excited to give an excit- ing look to the Jaipurites. The journey of Sumit as a Hair Stylist began at the age of 16 when he carried the legacy of Geetanjali Salon, which was founded in 1989 by his parents Prem Israni and Neetu Israni. In the world of glamour, Sumit has given the desired looks to celebrities like Hillary Clinton, Mi- chelle Obama, Deepika Padu- kone, Lisa Haydon, Twinkle Khanna, Huma Qureshi, Sha- hid Kapoor, Vaani Kapoor and more. While talking about their USP to stand out in the city, Sumit said that their focus would be to personalize inter- national trends on an indi- vidual as per their complex- ion and hair type. Looking at the sudden changes in climate, Sumit suggested using Paraben and Sulphate free products for hairs, as they get hampered the most due to these climatic factors. Governor of West Bengal, Jagdeep Dhankhar, met First India Consultant Kritika Kanodia at his residence for a one to one interaction on Friday. Avinash Pande launched the poster of the blood donation camp, organised by Shashi Khandelwal Memorial Trust on Thursday. The camp is on 8 March and is an annual feature by Sharad and Jyoti Khandelwal in the memory of Shashi Khandelwal, this is the 20th year of the camp. Aditi Arya Models posing during the launch ceremony, dolled up at the Salon Avinash Pande with Jyoti and Sharad Khandelwal Sagar Sharma inaugurated Sand art created by the local artists in Pushkar for awareness to prevent Coronavirus on Friday. Sumit Israni, Hemant Bishnoi, Dr Rimi Shekhawat and Vijaylaxmi Bishnoi The ‘Phag Mahotsav’, organised by Johri Bazaar BJP Leader Ajay Yadav and his wife Councillor Kusum Yadav, was celebrated on Friday at Ghat Gate. Aditi Arya getting ready at Salon for the event Vinnie Kakkar Vijaylaxmi Bishnoi and Jayshree Periwal Many Faces of WOMEN T This includes a major photo exhibition entitled ‘Many Faces of Women’. Dr Rashmi Dickinson will be showing two natural portraits of local women (as shown here) in this Exhibition which are drawn from her latest book ‘Secrets of Amber’. Rashmi took many photos of people as she researched the 12 walks in the new book but these two shots are amongst her favourites. “I was lucky to see these two women at each end of the age spectrum and click them in lovely lighting as they went about their daily work” said Rashmi. “I am delighted that they will feature in the Exhibition. These are the sort of people who will benefi t from my campaign for Responsible & Sustainable Tourism for Amber.” The festival also includes a Mandana art camp, Mehendi Competition, Paint- ing on Natural Fibre Workshop, an International Women’s Art Camp, talks, dance, phulon ki holi, tilak holi, and so on. his year JKK is celebrating International Women’s Day with ‘The Women’s Festi- val – Samarth’ between 8 to 13 March. —PHOTO BY SUNIL SHARMA Dr Rashmi Dickinson A two-day lifestyle exhibition ‘Jhalak’ kick-started on Friday at Hotel Marriott. The two-day event ‘All India Central Revenue Cultural Meet 2020’ kick-started on Friday at Birla Auditorium with a soulful performance by Hussain brothers, Ahmad and Mohd. Hussain. Dr John Joseph, Member CBIC, New Delhi, graced the event as the chief guest. Many dignitaries from CGST, Income Tax Dept. and Revenue Dept. were also present at the occasion. During the event, cultural performances were held. CELEBRATIONS! —PHOTOS BY MUKESH KIRADOO Ahmed and Mohamed Hussain along with Chief Commissioner IT Jaipur Sunita Baisla, Commissioner CGST Jaipur Mahendra Pal, Additional Director General NASIN Jaipur Simmi Jain inaugurating the event