Bali: As PM Narendra Modi arrived in Bali, Indonesia on Monday to attend the G20 Summit of the world’s major economies, he received a grand welcome from the Indian diaspora.
The Indian community seemed extremely ex cited about PM Modi’s two-day summit that will begin on Tuesday morning.
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Mumbai: Singer Adnan Sami has writte note sharply attacking Pak administration and criticised establishment of his ex-country. Adnan, who is now an Indian citizen, in latest attack, has promised to ‘expose reality’ of how administration treated him.
Gurugram: Mahender Singh, 35, allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a train along with his twoyear-old son Punit, railway police said on Monday. The deceased were residents of Bajghera village. Police said that Singh took the extreme step after he discovered that his wife Pooja eloped with another man six days ago.
New Delhi: The Su preme Court on Mon day observed that forced conversion is a “very serious issue”, directed Centre to take a stand on the matter. A bench of Justices MR Shah and Hima Kohli passed order on a PIL filed by Delhi BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay seeking an offence on forced con versions to be inserted in Indian Penal Code.
The order was passed on a PIL filed by Delhi BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay seeking an offence on forced conversions to be inserted in the Indian Penal Code. The court will examine the matter again on November 28.
Aizwal: In Mizoram, 15 people were trapped in a landslide, feared to be killed at a stone quarry nearby Maudarh vil lage in Hnahthial dis trict on Monday.
Police sources said the accident occurred when a stone quarry collapsed on the work ers who were working under a brick company undertaking the con struction of the widen ing of NH 54. They said at least 15 workers were feared trapped in the debris. The landslip also buried five excava tors, a big stone crusher and a drilling machine.
Police along with the company workers and volunteers have jointly started rescue opera tions. Also, the district administration has put in place arrangements to evacuate the bodies and injured persons from the debris of a look-alike hill and to the district hospital.
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Mumbai: The ATS of Maharashtra police arrested a former member of the PFI, a banned outfit, from Malegaon on Sunday.
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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday denied bail to a Nepalese national accused of being codirector of a Chinese firm through whom sensitive information was being passed on to Chinese intelligence officers. The accused claimed he was illiterate and was working as a peon-cum-driver.
New Delhi (PTI): Re sentment over ticket distribution for MCD polls forced the Delhi BJP to change candi dates in seven wards while two others were changed due to techni cal reasons on Monday.
Gajendra Daral, whom the BJP had ini tially fielded from Mundka ward, was re placed by Arun Daral, while Mukul Agarwal was replaced by Inder jeet Kaur Lovely in Fatehnagar (W) and Akriti Kaur replaced Veena Rani Garg in
Janakpuri South ward, party leaders said.
Shailendri Pradhan, who was the party can
didate in Madhu Vihar ward, was replaced by Sushma Rathi, while Arti Yadav from Meh
rauli was replaced by Indu Sharma. Said ul Ajab candi date Rampal Yadav was
replaced by Kamal Ya dav and Neeraj Gupta replaced Savita Devi in Sangam Vihar.
Lakshmi Mahor, can didate from Harsh Vi har, could not file his nomination due to in complete documents. Instead, sitting party councilor Vijendri filed her papers.
Bhumika Singh was the official candidate from Sundar Nagari re served seat, but she was not a resident of the ward and was replaced by a candidate named Renu, a BJP leader said.
New Delhi: A preda tor who, believe it or balk, was also a lover to a 27-year-old woman, killed her, chopped in 35 pieces. 28-year-old Aftab Amin Poonawal la and Shraddha Walkar had been in a live-in relationship, they fell in love while working at a call centre in Mumbai. But fami lies objected to it as they were from differ ent faiths, prompting couple to move to Meh rauli earlier this year, police said, added ac cused said that woman was pressuring him for marriage. Victim’s father had lodged an FIR for kidnapping of his daughter in Delhi on Nov 8. P3
l Following an argu ment on May, Poona walla strangled his partner 6 month ago
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Around mid-May, the couple had an argument over marriage, which escalated and Poonawala killed her. —Ankit Chauhan, ADCP-I, Delhi South
ATS ARRESTS MAHA IMAM COUNCIL CHIEF OVER PFI LINKS Irfan Daulat Nadvi, president of Imam council in Maharashtra, was brought to Nashik by ATS. BJP candidates after filing their nomination for the MCD elections, in New Delhi on Monday. —PHOTO BY PTI’
Top Court says forced religious conversion is a “very serious issue” which can affect national safety and seeks Centre’s reply on their steps takenFirst India Bureau
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi High Court di rected the CBI and the ED on Monday to place before it all the press communications and releases put out by the agencies in relation to a probe into the Delhi ex cise policy "scam" case, in which Deputy Chief Minister Manish Siso dia and businessman Vijay Nair have been named as accused.
The court said it will consider the official communications issued by the federal agencies and see if the reports carried by television channels on the issue were based on it or were a "figment of their im agination".
The court's order came on a plea moved by Nair, claiming that sensitive information in relation to the case is being leaked to the me dia by the investigating agencies, which is ham pering his right as an accused.
"The court, before proceeding further, re quests respondent nos. 1 (CBI) and 2 (ED) to place all the press com munications and press releases put out by them in connection with the investigation of the criminal case," Justice Yashwant Varma said
Appearing for Nair, senior advocate Dayan Krishnan argued that if a news organisation carries reports based on imagination, it is dan gerous. To this, the judge said, "Then that is an alarm for us." Krishnan said the trial is at a critical stage and when the details of it are published in the media, the rights of his client are harmed. He contended that all the information is reaching the media through the investigating agencies and said the court should examine whether the televi sion channels broadcast something beyond the information supplied to them. "We do not know if these channels imagined the information," he said, adding that the statement of an approver is being recorded in the case before a trial court and if that too is reported by the media, it would seriously prejudice the accused's case. To this, the judge said if a statement under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), which is recorded in camera, can be leaked, it is a serious issue.
and listed the plea for further hearing on No vember 21.
The court also ob served that "disclosure is happening in real time, prime time, day in and day out".
New Delhi (PTI): Delhi Police told the High Court on Mon day that it has traced an Indian man and his 3-year-old Ukrain ian son, whose moth er has claimed the child was illegally brought to India dur ing the ongoing Rus sia-Ukraine war.
While the man was present before the court, the judges asked the police about the whereabouts of the boy.
The court was told that the boy was not brought before it as he was unwell. A bench of justices Sid dharth Mridul and Amit Sharma noted that the man has un
The woman had said the boy's custody was given to her in Ukraine
dertaken to bring the boy to the court on November 16.
The court listed the matter for further hearing on November 16 as the main coun sel for the woman was not available on Mon day. The Centre's standing counsel Ajay Digpaul, repre senting the minis tries of home and ex ternal affairs, told the court that the man and his son entered India on March 28.
Nair is a former chief executive officer (CEO) of an event manage ment company and the communication incharge of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi.
New Delhi (ANI): The Rouse Avenue Court on Monday reserved order on a plea moved by busi nessman Dinesh Arora, an alleged aide of Depu ty Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia, seeking to turn approv er in the alleged excise policy case. The pro ceedings in this regard were conducted in-cam era, Dinesh Arora's law yer confirmed.
The Special Judge MK Nagpal, after noting down the submissions
made by both sides, re served the order for No vember 16, 2022. Accord ing to the lawyer who appeared for the matter, the Court raised several queries to the CBI in re gard to the progress of the ongoing investiga tion and how was Dinesh Arora's disclo sure helping the agency in the investigation.
Businessman Dinesh Arora is an accused in the Delhi excise policy case, who last week sub mitted that he was ready
New Delhi (PTI): A Delhi court on Monday sent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) communication in-charge Vijay Nair and businessman Ab hishek Boinpally to five days' ED custody in a money laundering case related to the excise scam but granted them bail in a linked corrup tion case being probed by the CBI.
Special Judge MK Nagpal allowed the En forcement Directorate's (ED) application seek ing remand of the two accused after the agency said they needed to be interrogated to unearth the larger conspiracy
and the money trail. The anti-money laun dering agency also said the accused were re quired to be confronted with witnesses and doc uments.
In the CBI case relat ed to alleged irregulari ties in the Delhi govern ment's now scrapped excise policy, the court granted bail to the duo
on personal bonds of Rs 2 lakh each and one surety of the like amount.
While Nair was ar rested by the CBI in Sep tember, Boinpally was apprehended last month.
An FIR was lodged in the matter after Delhi LG VK Saxena recom mended a CBI probe.
to make true disclosure voluntarily about the case and wanted to be an approver in the case.
He said, "I am ready to make a voluntary and true disclosure with re spect to my role in the commission of the al leged offences. I have also cooperated in the investigation of the case by CBI and have made true statements before the Investigation officer.
I have also made a con fessional statement be fore the Additional
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) re garding facts and events pertaining to the com mission of alleged of fences".
Arora further said, "the application to turn approver in the case has been filed with the re quest of the grant of pardon to me as I am ready to voluntarily make a true and full dis closure of all the facts pertaining to this case as the same are within my knowledge."
New Delhi (PTI): A Tihar jail superinten dent has been suspend ed for alleged involve ment in providing spe cial treatment to AAP minister Satyendar Jain, lodged in the pris on in a money launder ing case, sources said Monday.
Last week, the En forcement Directorate (ED) claimed in a court here that Jain was get ting special treatment inside the Tihar Jail.
"Jail Superintendent of Tihar Jail no. 7, Ajit Kumar, DANICS, has been suspended. He has prima facie been found to have committed ir
regularities that war rant inquiry," a source said, adding that the matter was connected to Jain getting special treatment in the jail. ED had made the sub mission before Special Judge Vikas Dhull while concluding its argu ments opposing Jain's plea against the money laundering case.
New Delhi (PTI): A court here, while hear ing a case related to the communal violence that shook northeast Delhi in 2020, has acquitted four accused of the charges of rioting and vandalism, saying the prosecution was unable to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
The court was hearing the case against Shah rukh, Ashu, Zuber and Ashwani, who were ac cused of being a part of a riotous mob that set ablaze tractors and hand carts and ransacked school buses at a parking lot at Kardam Puri here on February 25, 2020.
"Prosecution has not been able to prove its case against the ac cused persons beyond reasonable doubt, which is the touchstone
of criminal law. Hence, all four accused persons are acquitted of all the offences," Additional Sessions Judge Am itabh Rawat said in a recent order. The court noted that according to the prosecution, two witnesses had identi fied the accused.
However, in their ex amination-in-chief, the said witnesses deposed
that they had never identified any rioters or told the investigating officer about the iden tity of the accused, the court pointed out.
Both witnesses cate gorically denied that the four accused were involved in the present case of rioting and in stead, said they did not know them, the court said.
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Mon day refused to stay pro ceedings against former Aam Aadmi Party coun cillor Tahir Hussain in FIRs registered against him in connection with the 2020 northeast Delhi riots.
A bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and CT Ravi Kumar said it is not inclined to interfere with the September 16 order of Delhi HC as it is an interim order.
Senior advocate Maneka Guruswamy, appearing for Hussain, said it is a settled law that there cannot be two FIRs for same incident.
She said it has put
Hussain in a peculiar situation that charges are framed against him for identical offences arising out of the same incident, and the same prosecution witnesses are relied upon by the investigating agency.
Hussain has moved the top court challeng ing the Delhi High Court's September 16 order.
The bench said it is not inclined to interfere with HC order and all remedies are open to the petitioner. It said the high court had issued notices on the applica tions moved by Hussain for quashing the FIR against him for rioting and under sections of Arms Act at the Khajuri Khas police station, and the proceedings emanat ing from the FIR.
The court said the HC has posted the matter for January 25 while re fusing to stay proceed ings on a separate appli cation moved by Hus sain saying multiple FIRs have been lodged for the same.
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New Delhi (PTI): A Delhi court has convict ed the husband and par ents-in-law of a woman, who died by suicide within 23 days of mar riage in 2015, of subject ing her to cruelty and causing her death for dowry.
The court was hear ing a case against Mo hammed Imran and his parents, Mohammed Zuber Ansari and Shahnaz, who were ac cused of cruelty and
harassment which al legedly drove Sabina to end her life by hanging on November 3, 2015.
“This court is of the view that the prosecu tion has successfully proved the case and es tablished the offence un der sections 498 A (hus band or relative of hus band of a woman sub jecting her to cruelty), 304 B (dowry death) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against the ac
cused persons by lead ing cogent evidence on record,” Additional Ses
sions Judge Vishal Pa huja said in a recent or der.
“Accordingly, the ac cused persons stand convicted,” the judge added.
The court directed the convicts to file an affida vit regarding their as sets and income on No vember 21. Arguments on the quantum of sen tence to be awarded will be heard after the sub mission of the requisite documents.
The court noted the prosecution had exam ined four witnesses who
were the family mem bers of the deceased and the case of the prosecu tion rested on their tes timonies.
Also, Seema, the elder sister of the deceased, was a crucial witness to whom Sabina revealed the conduct of the ac cused and how she was subjected to harassment and cruelty.
“Testimony of prose cution witness 4 (See ma) is very convincing, reliable and inspires
confidence ruling out the possibility of false implication of accused persons,” the court said. Noting the deposition of the family members of the deceased, the court said the accused demanded Rs 80,000 cash of which Rs 50,000 was paid before the mar riage as dowry.
After marriage, there was a demand for a smartphone and almi rah as well, the court said.
New Delhi: In what can be called one of the most gruesome murders ever reported in the city, a 28-year-old man alleg edly strangled his 27-year-old live-in part ner, chopped her body into 35 pieces and dumped them in differ ent parts of the city af ter keeping the pieces inside a refrigerator for nearly 20 days.
The man, identified as Aftab Amin Poonawalla, was arrested on Mon day, almost five months after the incident.
Shraddha Walkar, the victim, had a live-in re lationship with Poona walla in Mumbai. But their families objected to the relationship as they were from different faiths, prompting the couple to move to South Delhi’s Mehrauli earlier this year, the police said.
During questioning, Poonawalla revealed that Shraddha had been pressuring him to get married. They would
frequently quarrel. The victim’s father, Vikas Madan, had lodged an FIR at Mehrauli police station on November 8.
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New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi BJP on Monday said an FIR should be registered against Chief Minis ter Arvind Kejriwal in the alleged Rs 20 crore scam in the Del hi Jal Board.
Addressing a press meet here, Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said the alleged scam was exposed in 2018 when Kejriwal was the chairman of the DJB.
"I believe this is a much bigger scam of Rs 200 crore. Even af ter it was exposed in 2018, when Kejriwal was DJB chairman, instead of taking ac tion, the commission of the accused was raised," Bidhuri said.
The Anti-Corrup tion Bureau (ACB) on Saturday filed a case in connection with the embezzlement of DJB funds worth Rs 20 crore.
New Delhi: Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has recommended the home ministry to initiate disciplinary proceedings against IAS officer and former Delhi Waqf Board CEO SM Ali for allowing "illegal" resolutions of the board, sources said Monday. He, during his stint as the board's CEO, is "accused" by CBI of indulging in acts of "omission and commission", including
his non-opposition to "illegal" resolutions for appointment of CEO and several other contrac tual staff, they said. The LG has recommended disciplinary proceedings under Rule 16 of the CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965.
and its grisly aftermath came to light months later with the arrest of Poonawala, officials said. Some chopped body parts of the wom
New Delhi (PTI): Ahead of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections, several local BJP leaders joined the Aam Aadmi party here on Monday.
"Eleven BJP leaders from Rohini's ward 53 have joined the AAP to day because their hard work was never ac knowledged in the BJP.”
“They have been working hard for 15 years but every time they raised any issue re lated to garbage mis management, authori ties neglected them,” said senior AAP leader Durgesh Pathak.
The leaders include former ward vice-presi
Joined AAP as their hard work was never acknowledged by BJP, says party leader
dent Pooja Arora, for mer VPs, Mahila Mor cha Chitra Lamba and
"This team of leaders and workers have been working relentlessly in the Rohini area and I'm glad that they decided to join the AAP.
“Every worker wants to get ticket and work for the development of the state but unfortunately we can give opportunity to only 250,” he said.
an have been found and police are looking for the murder weapon, they said.
Police said the ac cused bought a 300-litre
fridge to keep the sev ered body parts and used incense sticks and room freshners to sup press the foul smell ema nating from the corpse.
Bidhuri questioned why the Delhi CM did not take any action in the matter when the alleged scam was ex posed.
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi government has decided not to extend the curbs on plying of BS-III petrol and BS-IV diesel vehicles in the capital in view of the improvement in air quality, according to officials.
The restrictions on plying of these vehicles was in place till Novem ber 13 as part of the curbs under Stage 3 of the Graded Response
Action Plan (GRAP).
The Delhi govern ment's Transport de partment reviewed the situation on Monday and decided that the curbs will not be ex tended, sources said.
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi High Court Monday said it cannot close its eyes to the fact that the air quality in the national capi tal was oscillating between very poor’ and severe’. The high court said, for the last few weeks, the air quality was severe’ and now it has marginally improved to very poor’ category which is because of generous winds and not due to any planta tion of trees. A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad asked senior advocate Kailash Vasdev, who has been assisting the court as an amicus curiae in the air pollution matter, to file within four weeks a report on the issue along with suggestions to deal with defor estation and measures for tree plantation in the city. “For the last few weeks, we have been oscillating between severe’ and very poor’ categories of air quality we can’t close our eyes to the fact,” Justice Prasad said.
It is alleged that Rs 20 crore collected in water bills from con sumers was not depos ited in the bank ac counts of the DJB by the accused.
LG VK Saxena in
September directed the chief secretary to lodge an FIR in the matter against DJB and bank officials af ter identifying them, as well as any private entity involved.
New Delhi (PTI): The recent rules of the Noi da Authority on pets and community animals are neither in accord ance with Animal Wel fare Board of India guidelines nor in con formity with central laws, prominent animal rights activist Ambika Shukla said on Monday.
The authority has an nounced a pet policy that had a steep increase in the registration fee for pets, a fine of Rs 10,000 in case a pet at tacks someone and cre ating of shelters for ag gressive dogs by resi dent welfare associa tions, among others.
The rules were draft ed “in a hurry” as a
`10k fine for pet attack is a “shocking ignorance of the law”, the activist said.
“knee-jerk reaction” to the prevailing “hype and hysteria” rather than an informed, ra tional policy guided by scientific study, sound judgement, legal clarity and expert input, she said in a statement. Calling the policy a “doomed experiment” Shukla said the rules as sign only responsibili ties to pet owners with out assuring them any rights to shared usage of standard facilities.
The gang members asked victims to pay ` 60k for insurance, transportation charges
New Delhi (ANI): Del hi cyber crime police busted a gang involved in online pan-India Ola electric scooty scam with the arrest of its 20 members from various parts of the country in cluding Karnataka’s Bengaluru, Haryana’s Gurugram and Bihar’s Patna, Deputy Commis sioner of Police (Outer North) Devesh Mahla
said on Monday.
The DCP said that the gang duped online over 1,000 persons of crores of rupees in the name of selling them electric scooty.
The gang bust during a thorough investiga tion after registration of a first information report (FIR) on October 8 of cheating in this re gard under section 420 of IPC on the basis of a complaint received by the cyber police station on October 7, he added.
About their modus operandi, the police
said that two persons in Bengaluru designed a fake website of Ola scooter.
The gang used to tar get those gullible per sons who searched about Ola scooter and
wanted to know about it on the website, the po lice added.
As soon as they up load their details on the website, both the Ben galuru men shared their mobile numbers and other details with their gang members in the other states, they added.
Subsequently, the gang members from Bi har and Telangana call ed the victims and asked them to online transfer Rs. 499 in the name of booking Ola scooter, they added.
concerned are met.
According to an offi cial document, eateries in the city with terraces and open dining spaces will also not require any additional fire safety certificate from the Del hi Fire Service as long as certain conditions laid by the authority
“The MCD has ap proved the grant of li cence for use of open space and terrace for dining purpose. In su persession of all earlier orders, servicing of food is now allowed in open space and terraces,” said an official order.
“In case of open space
on the ground floor, no additional fire NOC will be required. In the case of open space on upper floors, no additional fire NOC is required for the eating establishment having an area of 90 square metres and al ready in possession of fire NOC.
In the case of open space on upper floors, fire NOC is required if the establishment is less than 90 sq. metres but with the addition of open space, total area becomes 90 sq. m or more, it added. PTI
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While the existing system is flawed, at least it was systematic, somewhat transparent, and with the trappings of accountability. It was also revisable in the face of public criticism. On the other hand, Musk’s policy approach is tyrannical and opaque. Having abolished the board of directors, the “Chief Twit” has all the power and almost no accountability. We are left with a harrowing vision of a fragile and flawed online public square: in a world where everyone is verified, no one is verified
Following Elon Musk’s acqui sition of Twitter on October 27, the world’s richest man proposed a range of contro versial changes to the plat form. With mounting evi dence that he is making it up as he goes along, these pro posals are tweeted out in a stream-of-consciousness manner from Musk’s Twitter account.
Primarily to raise revenue, one of the ideas was to charge US$8 a month to obtain a verified status – that is, the coveted blue tick badge next to the account handle. Within the space of a few days, the paid verification change has already been rolled out in several countries, including Australia, under the Twitter Blue subscription service.
According to Twitter, the blue tick lets people know an account of interest is authen tic. Currently, there are seven categories of “public interest accounts”, such as govern ment office accounts, news organisations and journal ists, and influencers. Yet this seemingly innocuous little blue icon is far from a simple verification tool in Twitter’s fight against impersonation and fraud.
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Following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter on October 27, once world’s richest man proposed a range of controversial changes to the platform. With mounting evidence that he is making it up as he goes along, these proposals are tweeted out in a stream-ofconsciousness manner from Musk’s Twitter account
importance. It is a coveted status symbol to which users aspire, in large part because Twitter’s approval process has made it difficult to ob tain. That’s partly because the blue tick has a controver sial history. After receiving widespread condemnation for verifying white suprema cists in 2017, Twitter halted its verification process for more than three years. But they didn’t resolve it. When Twitter resumed veri fying accounts systematically in 2021, it wasn’t long until the
process began to fail again, with blue ticks being handed out to bots and fake accounts. Moreover, the public is still confused about what the blue tick signifies, and views it as a status symbol.
There’s a fundamental mismatch between what Twitter wants the blue tick to mean versus how the public perceives it, something the Twitter Safety team itself ac knowledged in 2017.
Musk’s stream-of-conscious ness policy proposals may re flect his own preference for interacting with verified ac counts. Despite his repeated claims of “power to the peo ple” and breaking the “lords and peasants” system of veri fied versus non-verified ac counts, I ran a data analysis of 1,493 of Musk’s tweets during 2022, and found that more than half (57%) of his interactions were with verified accounts.
Although Twitter’s verifica tion system is by no means perfect and is far from trans parent, it did at least aspire to the kinds of verification practices journalists and re searchers use to distinguish fact from fiction, and authen ticity from fraud. It takes time and effort. You can’t just buy it.
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Party is going about denial of tickets to its sit ting legislators in Gujarat with an authority which characterises Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Both the leaders know that they can toy with their MLAs aspirations and yet none will question their deci sion. Such is their hold over the party and popularity among the people. And carry ing out the name-chopping exercise just before the As sembly elections requires confidence which both the leaders have aplenty.
Five Ministers, including Brijesh Merja who is an MLA from Morbi where 135 people died in a bridge collapse last
BJP is going about denial of tickets to its sitting legislators in Gujarat with an authority which characterises Modi and Shah. Both leaders know that they can toy with their MLAs aspirations & yet none will question their decision
month, have been dropped from the first list of 160 can didates along with 33 other legislators. Former CM Vijay Rupani and seven legislators who were part of his cabinet from 2017 to 2021 also faced chopping block apparently because of their seniority.
The problem is even worse at larger scales. It is hard enough to detect and prevent bot and troll networks from poisoning the information landscape with disinforma tion and spam.
Now, for the low cost of US$800, foreign adversaries can launch a network of 100 verified bot accounts. The more you can pay, the more legitimacy you can purchase in the public sphere.
Musk’s ideas are already causing a cascading series of unintended consequences on the platform. Accounts with blue ticks began changing their profile handle to “Elon Musk” and profile picture to parody him. In response, Musk tweeted a new policy proposal that Twitter handles engaging in impersonation would be suspended unless they specify being a “parody”.
Users will not even receive a warning, as comedian Kathy Griffin and her 2 mil lion followers discovered when her account was sus pended for parodying Musk. Musk’s vision for user verifi cation does not square up with that of Twitter or the internet research community.
SOURCE: THE CONVERSATIONTremors of this drastic ac tion have reached Karnataka where BJP ministers and MLAs fear a similar exercise to be undertaken before the Assembly elections due early next year. What triggered this fear in Karnataka was an appeal by senior BJP member of RS, Lahar Singh Siroya, who asked senior MLAs to follow Gujarat mod el and retire from politics just as Vijay Rupani and oth ers have done. Their response is still awaited as age does not prompt politicians to gradually retreat into sunset.
The consequences of over haul in Gujarat remain to be seen. There is murmur of rebellion but BJP is capable of handling that as it is fo cused on giving young aspir ants a chance.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his army to be prepared for war. Xi, who re cently secured a third term as Communist Party leader, said his country was in an “unstable and uncertain” se curity situation. Although Xi said this in the context of Tai wan, India cannot afford not to take notice of the statement.
Army Chief General Manoj Pan de underscored this point. In a statement General Pande said the situation on the Line of Ac tual Control (LAC) was “stable but unpredictable”. Two months after disengagement of troops by both sides at eastern Ladakh’s Patrolling Point 15 in the GograHot Springs area, there was no let-up in infrastructure develop ment by the Chinese on the LAC. There has also been no reduc tion in PLA force level.
The ongoing border talks helped resolve the PP 15 dead lock after two years of confron tation. The 17th round of talks are expected to resolve Chard ing Nala in Demchok and Dep sang plains friction points where China has blocked sever al access points.
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New Delhi (ANI): De fence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday while underlining the need to expand the defence budget to over Rs 6 lakh crore said that it is nec essary to spend the fund allocated in the present budget “timely” to achieve country’s com bat readiness.
Addressing a Confer ence organised by De fence Accounts Depart ment (DAD) in New Delhi, Singh said stressed on the “ration al usage” of resources. “It is very important that there should be a rational usage of the resources. When I say this, I mean two things. First, the resources should be used in the
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday hit back at Union minister Rajnath Singh for defending the presence of a lotus image on the G20 logo, saying the hand remains a “deep cultural symbol” in rural and tribal India but it would not justify the use of this symbol for government events if it was in power. Hand is the Congress’ party symbol. Defence Minister Singh on Sunday had slammed those creating a row over the presence of flower’s image on the G20 logo and said the lotus is not just a party symbol but connected to India’s cultural identity.
We’re aware that for the combat readi ness of the country, not only the availability of adequate financial re sources but also quick & transparent deci sion-making for it is essential.
Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister
New Delhi: India will kick-start on Tuesday a two-day multi-agency military exercise covering country’s 7,516 km-long coastline and exclusive economic zone with the twin aim of checking preparedness of various agencies to deal with any eventualities and bolster overall maritime security. The scale and conceptual expanse of the ‘Sea Vigil’ exercise is “unprecedented” in terms of the geographical extent, the number of stakeholders involved, the number of units participating and the objectives to be met. It will be the third edition of the exercise that was conceptualised in 2018 to validate various measures that have been instituted towards enhancing maritime security following the Mumbai terror attack in 2008.
right place. Second, there should not be any wastage in any form. A
penny saved is a penny earned. This applies to the resources as well,”
Ahmedabad (PTI):
AAP’s national conven er Arvind Kejriwal on Monday appealed to the people of poll-bound Gu jarat "not to waste their votes" on the Congress and instead vote for the AAP, claiming his party was in a direct contest with the ruling BJP.
Talking to reporters here, Kejriwal claimed the Congress will get just four-five seats in polls to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly to be held on Dec 1 and 5.
The BJP has been in power in Gujarat for 27 years.
This time, the Kejri wal-led AAP has been engaged in a high-deci bel campaign to project itself as the BJP's main challenger by repeatedly stressing that the Con gress is losing ground.
The AAP has already announced the names of its candidates on 178 seats.
“It is my estimate that the vote share of the Congress will fall below 13 per cent and it will get 4-5 seats. This is a direct contest between the AAP and the BJP,” Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal told reporters after land ing in Ahmedabad. He appealed to the Con gress’s “hardcore vot ers”, who still plan to vote for it, to "not waste their votes” by doing so.
Ahmedabad: Several Congress workers stormed into the Gujarat party head quarters here on Monday and burnt posters of senior leader Bharatsinh Solanki to protest against the party’s decision to give ticket to sit ting MLA Imran Khedawala from his Jamalpur-Khadia seat in the city.
Bharuch: Jhagadia constitu ency here is all set to witness a straight fight between BTP founder and his son Mahesh Vasava in next month’s Assembly polls. While son Mahesh filed his nomination as BTP candidate from here, his father and BTP founder Chhotu Vasava will be con testing as an independent.
Jamnagar:
from Jamnagar (North) seat in the state assembly elections wanted to follow the path of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to work for the people. Ravindra Jadeja attended an event on Monday where he said that Rivaba would learn a lot from her first-time candidature in the assembly elections.
Kolkata: A division bench of Calcutta High Court on Monday imposed a penalty on an advocate for filing a groundless PIL challenging the removal of former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly from the chair of the BCCI president. Advocate Ramaprasad Sarkar, who filed the PIL, was initially slapped by a penalty of Rs 1,00,000 but later penalty was reduced to Rs 25,000.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the striking members of the bar associations in several districts of Odisha to resume work by November 16, saying their failure to do so may result in contempt proceedings or suspension of licences.
Fatehabad: A local court has acquitted a rape ac cused while extending the benefit of doubt to him, and ruled that there was a delay of around two-and-half months in lodging FIR. The court held that the prosecu tion has failed to prove the case against the accused.
Singh said. He said that trans parent decision-mak
ing is necessary for the combat readiness of the country.
“We’re aware that for the combat readiness of the country, not only the availability of ade quate financial resourc es but also quick & transparent decisionmaking for it is essen tial. It also adversely affects the country’s combat readiness. The Defence Accounts De partment plays a very important role towards ensuring this. Rs 5.25 lakh crore has been al lotted in the Defence budget this time,” he said adding that it is the responsibility of the Defence Accounts De partment to ensure its “apt expenditure”.
New Delhi (Agencies):
The Congress Task Force meeting for the 2024 General election took place for the first time under newly ap pointed Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge. The meeting happened at 15 GRG Congress War Room in New Delhi. This is the first Con gress Task Force meet ing that has taken place ever since Mallikarjun Kharge took charge as the Congress president.
The “Task Force 2024” was constituted for the general election sched uled for next year. Mem bers of the task force that include P Chidam
baram, Mukul Wasnik, Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal, Ajay Maken, Randeep Surjewala, Pri yanka Gandhi Vadra, and Sunil Kanugolu ar rived at 15 GRG Con gress War Room for the meeting chaired by Mal
likarjun Kharge. Each member of the task force shall be as signed specific tasks related to organisation, communications and media, outreach, fi nance, and election management. They
shall have designated teams that will be noti fied subsequently.
Prime Minister Nar endra Modi and his rul ing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept back to power in the 2019 gen eral elections. The par ty won 303 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parlia ment, bettering the 282 seats they won in 2014.
In 2014, Congress and its allies, that only won 44 seats, had put up a stronger fight in 2019 with 53 seats. Several leaders had also attempt ed to unite the Opposi tion against the BJP but it didn’t bear any fruits.
Bhubaneswar (PTI):
The ruling BJD on Mon day named late MLA Bijay Ranjan Singh Bar iha’s elder daughter Barsha Singh Bariha, who is also daughter-inlaw of a senior BJP leader, as the party’s candidate for December 5 by-poll to Padmapur assembly segment in Odisha’s Bargarh dis trict. A release the BJD and signed by party president and CM Naveen Patnaik said: “Smt. Barsha Singh Bariha, W/O Shri Sm ruti Sourav Baliarsingh is Biju Janata Dal candi date for by-elections to 01-Padmapur Assembly Constituency.”
Hyderabad: Suspended BJP MLA Raja Singh has voiced his anger af ter his bul letproof ve hicle broke down here on Monday.
He slammed the Telangana govt for providing a ve hicle which is in poor condition despite the fact that he faces threat from terrorists.
Raja Singh, who was released from jail last week, had to call his personal vehicle after the one provided by the state police broke down in Afzal Gunj area.
home of AO Hume where he spent many years and the process of birth of Congress also started from here.
Shimla: The Rothney Castle in Shimla, which is now known as “Sheeshe Wali Kothi”, is the place where the foundation of the Con gress Party was laid.
AO Hume founded the Congress on 28 Decem ber 1885. The Rothney Castle, built in the 19th century, used to be the
Coincidentally, Con gress leader Sonia Gan dhi’s new house is also built near this Rothney Castle.
Hume was an ICS of ficer and he was trans ferred to Shimla from Etawah. He formed the Congress with an aim of raising the voice of poor in the country. After Inde pendence, the existence of Congress remained but Mahatma Gandhi wanted to close the Con
gress
mukt Bharat and if this is realised, the histori cal value of the Rothney Castle will also be lost.
Sonia Gandhi had once wanted to buy the Rothney Castle, which is now in private hands, and develop it as a me morial of national im portance but the deal could not materialise due to certain reasons.
If the Congress govern ment is formed in Himachal, this building may regain the focus and it would be seen whether Congress may gain much needed re vival from Shimla.
New Delhi: Karnataka Congress chief DK Shi vakumar on Monday appeared before the ED in Delhi for a fresh round of questioning in the National Herald money laundering case. This is the second time that the federal agency is recording his state ment in the case that has been registered un der the criminal sec tions of the PMLA.
AO Hume had formed Congress here with an aim of raising the voice of poor in the country
Jashpur (PTI): Rash triya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mo han Bhagwat on Mon day said the pride of tribals is India’s pride and appealed to people to protect it for the country, religion and culture.
He unveiled a statue of former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and Union minister
late Dilip Singh Judev, hailed by right-wing or ganisations for his ‘Ghar Wapsi’ campaign to reconvert tribals from Christianity in the Jashpur region of Chhattisgarh.
Addressing a func tion to mark ‘Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas’ in Jashpur district, Bhagwat appealed to tribals to stay strong against those who try to dupe them by taking advantage of their in nocence.
The event which was held at Ranjeeta Stadi um by Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram was attended
by a large number of people belonging to tribal communities.
“The pride of tribals
is the pride of India. Tribals’ pride is the core of our pride and our way of living. Peo
Kolkata (Agencies): Si multaneous Coordinat ed Patrols both during the day and night will help curb cross-border crime, senior Border Se curity Force (BSF) offi cials told their counter parts from Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) dur ing the ongoing Inspec tors General BSF-Region Commanders BGB Level Border Co-ordination Conference in Kolkata.
The BSF has also tak en up issues such as at tacks on its personnel by Bangladeshi smug glers, particularly those involved in the smug gling of cattle.
“We had suggested coordinated patrolling by
the two forces during our past meetings. Now, we are looking forward to simultaneous patrolling. Such patrolling will not allow border criminals to flee back into their own country once chal lenged by border guard ing troops of the neigh bouring one. This is a
regular occurrence now adays. Whenever crimi nals from Bangladesh are challenged at the In ternational Boundary (IB), they flee back to their own side. They could be nabbed if there is a BGB patrol across the IB at that time,” a BSF official said.
Guwahati (Agencies):
Unidentified militants at tacked an army convoy in Assam’s Tinsukia district on Monday, officials said. The defence PRO in Guwahati, Lt Col Mahen dra Rawat informed that an army area domination party was moving in the Digboi-Pengri area and at around 9.20 a.m., shots were fired at their vehicle from a nearby forest.
“After firing a single burst and swift retaliation from our troops, terrorists ran away from the adjoining areas,” he added. There was no casualty.
ple should understand this and stand with tribals to protect their pride for the country,
Panaji (Agencies): Congress leaders in Goa on Monday said that disqualification pe tition against the par ty’s 8 rebel leaders who have switched to the BJP is being prepared, and will be filed this week.
“Disqualification pe tition is getting ready. We will file it this week,” Goa Pradesh Congress president Amit Patkar told media.
Congress MLA Car los Ferreira, also an ad vocate, said “we were looking for certain ele ments and material, which is why filing of petition is delayed”.
“The Congress will fight to make sure that such kind of unprinci pled defections dont take place,” Ferreira said.
religion, and culture,” he said.
“The birthday of Bhagwan Birsa Munda (on November 15 which is observed as Janjati ya Gaurav Diwas) and the unveiling of the statue of Dilip Singh Judev are linked or co incidentally linked. Judev was brave. De spite having a name, fame, assets and power, he remained humble. He always stood for the pride of tribals,” Bhag wat said.
He said Judev had immense love for the country, religion and culture.
“Bhagwan Birsa Munda was also in spired by the same love and fought for all of us. What is this tribal pride? Our ancestors’ tradition is our pride which teaches us how to lead life. It gives us a legacy of bravery and sanctity. It gives the courage to take on challenges of life,” he added.
The RSS chief said in the context of religion, “janjatiya gaurav” (tribal pride) is a “dharm gaurav” (reli gious pride) of India.
“We don’t have to think about what we are
and how we are. We don’t need to fear any one. We have our pride. We have our religion. We have our self-respect and we also have fear lessness like Judeo. We have ideals like Dilip Singh ji and Birsa Mun da ji. They taught us how to live and we will find our place in the world while living like that,” he added.
“One should not get separated from its coun try, culture and religion. Some people try to dupe us by taking advantage of our innocence but we have to stay strong,” Bhagwat said.
First India Bureau
Rohtas: Union Minis ter for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated 1.5 km long 2-lane ele vated RCC bridge near Panduka on Son river in Rohtas, Bihar built at a cost of Rs 210 crore.
The foundation stone for the construction of the bridge was laid on Monday in the presence of Deputy Chief Minis ter Tejashwi Yadav, Bi har BJP President San jay Jaiswal, MP Chhedi Paswan, Vishnu Dayal Ram, Ministers of Bihar Government and MPs, MLAs and officers.
Speaking on the occa sion Gadkari said with the construction of this bridge, NH-19 and NH39 will be directly con nected, which will fa
cilitate traffic between Bihar, Jharkhand, Ut tar Pradesh and Chhat tisgarh. He said at pre sent, a distance of 150 km has to be covered to reach Srinagar from Panduka in Rohtas dis trict and Garhwa dis trict of Jharkhand, with the construction of this bridge, four hours will be saved in this journey. The traffic pressure on Dehri
bridge will also reduce and Aurangabad, Sasar am cities will be able to get rid of the problem of jam, he added.
He said with the con struction of this bridge in the Panduka area, it will be easy to reach the market for industrial and agricultural and dairy products of near by areas and states. This will also save time and fuel, he added.
Unnao: A college student here died due to exces sive bleeding after she was raped repeatedly by a 25-year-old man. The accused, who has now been arrested, had taken a performance enhancing pill before the act. Police said the man, Raj Gautam, raped her when she was alone at home. Despite the victim’s protest, he con tinued to rape her till she fainted and started bleed ing from her private parts. Seeing this, Gautam got scared and fled leaving the victim bleeding profusely.
Chakradharpur: Shops were shut and vehicles remained off the roads in Jharkhand’s West Singh bhum district on Monday as Bajrang Dal protested the murder of its activ ist. The dawn-two-dusk bandh called by several right-wing organisations to protest the murder of Kamaldev Giri, 35, was peaceful with no untoward incidents reported, police said. Bombs were hurled at Giri in Chakradhapur town on Saturday evening, following which he died, they said.
Lucknow: 41 Trainee Officers (PCS Officers) of Provincial Civil Ser vices (Executive Branch) 2020 batch met UP Governor Anandi ben Patel at Raj Bhavan here. Addressing the of ficers on the occasion, the Governor asked them to work for the poor people on priority.
She said in the inter est of public, applica tions and files received should be disposed of in the least time, so that the applicant can get the solution and benefit in the least time.
The Governor also
shared her experiences about the problems and complexities of rural life with the PCS offic ers. She inspired the PCS trainee officers to work responsibly dur ing their tenure to take
the benefits of govern ment schemes to the remote rural areas. She specially encouraged the PCS officers to work with integrity.
Principal Secretary to the Governor Kalpa
Ghaziabad: In a shocking in cident, a dog was hanged to death by two youths in Gha ziabd. A video of the incident went viral on social media on Monday. In the video, two men are seen hanging a dog with the noose. Along with this, they are also holding one end of the rope in their hands, which both are pulling towards them with full force, so that the dog suffocates. After the incident came to light, the police called the youths seen in the video to the police station for questioning.
Bhubaneswar: A labourer from Odisha’s Kalahandi sold his wife to a man in Delhi and returned home after conducting their mar riage. Later, police arrested him. Kheera Beruk, of Muskaguda village of Narla block had married Purnami last year. Kheera, with his wife Purnami, left for New Delhi to work as labourer on Oct 30. But, Kheera alone returned home after a few days. On Nov 5, Purnami called her father Kulamani and informed him about the incident.
Dehradun (PTI): Chief Minister Push kar Singh Dhami on Monday said his gov ernment is fulfilling its commitments, in cluding setting up a committee to draft the Uniform Civil Code and eliminating cor ruption, made to the people of Uttarakhand.
Dhami was speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony of a nursing college in Kothgi in Rudraprayag district.
“Uttarakhand was the first to take steps towards setting up a panel to draft a Uni form Civil Code and other states like Guja rat and Himachal
Pradesh have followed suit,” Dhami said at the He said there were irregularities in job re cruitment exams since 2014-15 but when it was brought to his notice, he got the Special Task Force (STF) to investi gate the matter.
Srinagar (PTI): Srina gar’s Dal Lake has been drawing a large number of tourists in the past few weeks for shikara rides while the lights on ornately carved house boats are shimmering again as the Kashmir Valley has witnessed a huge tourism influx in recent months.
Hotels dotting the historic Boulevard Road skirting Dal Lake, and those situated at other prime locations, are seeing nearly full
occupancy with travel lers coming from across the country.
Uncertainties emerg ing post abrogation of
Article 370 in 2019 that ended the special status of the erstwhile state of J&K, and two most dif ficult years of the coro
navirus pandemic that followed, had broken the back of tourism in J&K, but amid a recov ery in the sector along with the COVID-19 vac cination exercise, Kash mir is welcoming visi tors again with open arms. Flights landing at the Srinagar interna tional airport have been bringing tourists from all parts of country, and hoteliers, houseboat owners, taxi and shika ra operators, and res tauranteurs are pleased.
Srinagar: PDP presi dent Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said if the people of Jammu and Kashmir unite like India did against the British, then getting back its special status will not be a huge task.
“In fact, we can achieve more than that and God willing, we will,” she said.
She was speaking at a function at the
Two sides thrash out border management issues at Kolkata conference BSF personnel keep a vigil on the border. —FILE PHOTO A shikara passes by a row of illuminated houseboats in the picturesque Dal Lake in Srinagar. —PHOTO BY PTI Union Minister Nitin Gadkari at the inauguration. UP: ODISHA LABOURER HELD FOR SELLING WIFE TO DELHI MANNew Delhi (PTI): India’s edible oil import bill rose 34.18% to `1.57 lakh crore in the oil year end ing October 2022, while in volume terms it rose 6.85% to 140.3 lakh tonnes, industry body SEA said on Monday. In dia’s import gradually in creased during the first two quarters and it slowed down in the third quarter. However, it again increased in the fourth quarter due to the lifting of a ban on palm oil by Indonesia and a sharp decline in international prices which boosted buying from India, it said on Monday.
New Delhi (FIB): Retail inflation dropped to 6.77% in October from 7.41% in the preceding month, mainly due to easing pric es in the food basket, though it remained above Reserve Bank’s comfort level for the 10th month in a row, according to the gov ernment data released on Monday.
The Consumer Price In dex (CPI) based retail in flation has remained above the 6% target since Janu ary this year.
As per the latest data re leased by the National Sta tistical Office (NSO), the inflation in the food basket was 7.01% in October as against 8.6% in September.
The retail inflation,
which the RBI factors in while deciding its periodic monetary policy, was 4.48% in October 2021.
As the RBI failed to en sure inflation remains at 4% with a margin of 2% on
either side for three con secutive quarters, it has sent a report to the govern ment detailing the reasons for the failure and steps it is taking to bring CPI in the target range.
New Delhi (Agencies):
New Delhi (PTI): Reserve Bank on Monday imposed a collective fine of nearly `12 lakh on several cooperative and other banks for violating various bank ing norms. Penalties amounting to `11.60 lakh have been imposed on nine entities, including six co-operative banks and three Sahakari banks.
Berhampur Cooperative Urban Bank has been fined `3.10 lakh; Os manabad Janata Sahakari Bank, Osmanabad `2.5 lakh. RBI said its actions are based on deficiencies in regulatory compliance and is not intended to pronounce upon the va lidity of any transaction or agreement entered into by the bank with customers.
Billionaire Gautam Ada ni’s conglomerate received the regulatory nod to float an open offer for a further 26% stake in New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV).
The Securities & Ex change Board of India (SEBI) approved Adani Group’s open offer, accord ing to a statement on the regulator’s website.
Adani’s initial plan was to launch its open offer last month, but was delayed as it awaited Sebi’s approval. The billionaire’s ports-to-
power conglomerate trig gered a hostile takeover bid for the broadcaster after it acquired an indirect 29.18% stake in August.
NDTV’s founders Prannoy
Roy and Radhika Roy have opposed the bid, amid con cerns that the transaction will erode press freedom, given Adani’s close rela tionship with PM Modi.
New Delhi (PTI): The whole sale price index (WPI)-based inflation dipped to a 19-month low of 8.39% in October on easing prices of food, fuel and manufactured items. Declining for the fifth consecutive month, the WPI inflation cooled to single digit after a gap of oneand-a-half years, giving some comfort to the RBI which has been struggling to rein in price rise.Releasing the October WPI inflation data on Monday, the commerce and industry ministry said: “The decline in October inflation is primarily contributed by fall in the price of mineral oils, basic metals, fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment; textiles; other non-metallic mineral products; minerals etc.” Since April 2021, WPI inflation remained in double digits for 18 months.
New Delhi (PTI): Crypto currency markets world wide have been battered with billions of dollars be ing wiped out but India managed to stay relatively unscathed thanks to a cau tious approach of the gov ernment and the RBI.
While the RBI has re fused to recognise crypto currencies and repeatedly issued warnings against trading in them, the gov ernment fired the tax bul let to wean off demand.
Net result - Indian inves tors have been largely spared from the crypto meltdown that has taken the total market value of cryptocurrencies below $1 trillion in just a year from $3 trillion in 2021 and sent Bahamas-based crypto ex change FTX into bankrupt
New Delhi (PTI): The RBI along with other regulators has prepared a financial literacy programme for school education boards and all states except for three have agreed to in clude it in their curricu lums, an official said on Monday.
“If we could inculcate basic financial literacy in school education, then that would be much better to expand financial literacy in the country,” Executive Director RBI said.
All the state school education boards ex
cept for three have agreed to include it in their cur riculums, he said.
“And as and when the curriculum is going for re vision, the school boards will include it. So going for ward, we will have this cur riculum especially for classes 6-10,” Sharma said.
cy after a rush of customer withdrawals. The collapse of FTX empire, which has wiped out the entire $16 bil lion fortune of co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, has shaken confidence in the already troubled industry that was struggling to gain mainstream credibility.
In India, RBI has been resolutely opposing vir tual currency from day one while the government initially was toying with the idea of regulating such instruments by bringing a law.
New Delhi (PTI): Hero MotoCorp on Monday said it has opened its first experience centre in Ben galuru for its electric twowheeler brand VIDA. The country’s largest twowheeler maker said it has also commenced custom er test-rides of the VIDA V1 electric scooter from Monday. VIDA plans to open experience centres next in Jaipur and then Delhi with customer deliv eries of the V1 scooter expected to commence from the second week of December, it added.
GOLD GAINS `255; SILVER RATES ALSO
A RISE OF `561
New Delhi (PTI): More than 400 cooperative societies have regis tered on the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) portal in last three months, Union Minister B L Verma said on Monday. On June 1, the Union Cabinet had given its approval for expanding the mandate of GeM to allow procurement by cooperatives as buyers on GeM. “So far, more than 400 cooperatives have registered on the GeM portal and begun the trade,” the Minister said.
Kolkata (PTI): Revival of closed Mining and Allied Machinery Corporation Ltd (MAMC) by a consor tium of three state-run companies seems to have run into trouble, officials indicated on Monday. “BEML has expressed its desire to opt out of the consortium due to the strategic disinvest ment proposal of the PSU by the government. However, no formal decision has been taken yet,” an official of a consortium partner said.
New Delhi: Smartphone shipment in India declined by 10% to hit a three-year low of 43 million shipment in the July-Sept 2022 period, market research firm Inter national Data Corporation said on Monday. The 5G smartphone share reached 36% of total smartphones during the reported quarter with 16 million units at a slightly higher average selling price of $393, about `32,000, apiece compared to $377, about Rs 30,600, in the previous quarter. The annual shipment of 2022 is likely to decline by 8-9% to around 150 million units. —PTI
New Delhi (PTI): Gold price in the national capi tal rose `255 to `52,850 per 10 grams on Monday, according to HDFC Secu rities. In the previous trade, the precious metal had settled at `52,595 per 10 grams. Silver also climbed `561 to `62,440 per kilogram. In the inter national market, gold was trading in red at US Dol lar1,763 per ounce while silver was flat at US Dollar 21.69 per ounce.
New Delhi (FIB): India’s national grid operator ‘Power System Operation Corpora tion Ltd (POSOCO)’ on Monday (November 14) has an nounced that it has changed its name to ‘Grid Controller of India Ltd’. The name has been changed to reflect the critical role of grid operators in ensuring integrity, reliabil ity, economy, resilience and sustainable operation of the Indian electricity grid, a state ment said.
Mumbai (PTI): Auto compo nent suppliers are expected to log an 8-10% growth in revenue this fiscal driven by healthy demand from domestic orig inal equipment manufacturers and pent-up demand from the aftermarket, according to a re port. However, rating agency ICRA in the report said head winds persist on the exports front for the auto component suppliers. The export orders have slowed down in the last few months.
Mumbai (PTI): In a vola tile trade, benchmark indi ces ended lower on Monday dragged down by index heavyweights ICICI Bank, ITC and Reliance Indus tries amid largely weak Asian markets.
The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 170.89 points or 0.28% to settle at 61,624.15. During the day, it hit a low of 61,572.03 and a high of 61,916.24.
The broader NSE Nifty dipped 20.55 points or 0.11% to finish at 18,329.15.
From the Sensex pack, Dr Reddy’s, ITC, Hindustan Unilever, State Bank of In dia, ICICI Bank, Nestle, Ti tan, Mahindra & Mahin dra, Larsen & Toubro, and RIL were among the big gest laggards.
Mumbai (PTI): The rupee depreciated by 50 paise to close at 81.28 against the US currency on Monday due to strong dollar demand from corporates and oil compa nies and a firm dollar in the overseas markets. At the interbank foreign exchange
market, the local unit opened on a strong note at 80.53, but pared gains and finally settled at 81.28 against the American currency, registering a fall of 50 paise over its last close.
On Friday, the rupee appreci ated by 62 paise to close at 80.78 against the dollar.
Srinagar (PTI): The Cen tre is ready for bringing petrol and diesel under the GST regime but it is un likely that the states will agree to such a move, Pe troleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Monday.
“For bringing the petrol and diesel under the GST, the states have to agree. If the states make the move, we are ready. We have been ready all along. That’s my understanding. It is anoth er issue how to implement it. That question should be addressed to the finance minister,” Puri told report ers here.
The minister, however, pointed out that it is un likely that the states will agree to such a move as liquor and energy are rev enue generating items for them.
“It is not difficult to un derstand, they (states) get revenue out of this. One who is getting revenue, why would he leave it? Liq uor and energy are two things that generate reve nue. It is only the Central government which is wor ried about inflation and other things,” he added.
New Delhi (PTI):
“One year ago, we made our way to the public mar kets. We are aware of the expectations that Paytm carries, and I assure you that we are on the right path to profitability and
free cash flows. Our jour ney to build a scalable and profitable financial servic es business has just start
ed,” Sharma said. He said that the govern ment incentives to UPI pay ments and merchants’
z Sharma said that the company is scaling up lending business which has huge demand in India.
z Govt incentives to UPI payments and merchants’ adoption of Paytm devices and subscription products is making payments increasingly monetisable and profitable.
adoption of Paytm devices is making payments in creasingly monetisable and profitable.
New Delhi (PTI): Pres ident Droupadi Murmu on Monday asked chil dren to dream big and dream for a new and de veloped India. Address ing students from vari ous schools, who met her at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre (RBCC), the president urged them to stay con nected with India’s cul ture and always respect their parents, and love the motherland.
President said child hood is the most beauti ful phase of life. “Chil dren are accepted as they are. This is what makes them so alive. To day we are celebrating this innocence & purity of children,” she said.
“This is a new era of technological and in formation revolution. Children are now aware of various domestic, so cial, and environmen tal issues. With the ad vent of technology, knowledge and infor mation are now at their fingertips,” she said.
“So, it is all the more important that we make more efforts to teach them the right values and involve them in var ious activities. We can also learn a lot from children,” Murmu said.
New Delhi (ANI): Un ion Minister Kiren Rijiju raked up the issue of “Nehru’s five blunders” on the former PM’s birth anniversary and alleged that “Friend First, India Second” defined India’s first PM’s initial Kash mir policy leading to “tragic consequences”.
“What really hap pened? Why did Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru de lay the accession of Kashmir into India and thereby give Pak an op portunity to invade it?, the min said in a tweet on Monday. “Nehru re
jected Maharaja Hari Singh’s plea to accede to India not just once but thrice. “Friend First, India Second” is what defined Nehru’s initial Kashmir policy. It led to tragic consequences for which India paid a price for seven decades,” Riji ju tweeted.
Srinagar (PTI): Un ion minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday targeted Jawaharlal Nehru over Kashmir, saying the decision of the country’s first prime minister to take the issue to a multilat eral forum was a “mon umental blunder”.
“Why was the (Kash mir) issue taken to in ternational or multi national fora? My in formation has been
Noida (PTI): Police on Monday said a Delhibased gangster has been arrested in con nection with the attack on a BJP worker and close aide of Gautam Buddh Nagar MP Ma hesh Sharma.
The police also claimed the attack was planned by gangster Randeep Bhati, who is currently lodged in Del hi’s Mandoli jail, over a personal enmity and carried out by hired criminals. BJP worker Sanchit Sharma alias Singga Pandit was as saulted by around half a dozen unidentified as sailants in Greater Noi da in a sensational at tack on the night of November 3.
“Accused Ashwani alias Rinku, a resident of Najafgarh in Delhi, has been arrested from Pari Chowk. An illegal pistol along with some ammunition was seized from him. He is an active member of the Randeep Bhati gang and was in volved in the attack on Sanchit Sharma,” a po lice spokesperson said.
“At present he is work ing as a hired shooter for the Randeep Bhati gang. He specialises in carry ing out such attacks on contract,” the police spokesperson added. Ashwani’s arrest comes close on the heels of three other shooters of the gang getting caught
on Satur day night when they reached Dehradun alleg edly with a plan to com mit a major loot, accord ing to the STF. The Gautam Buddh Na gar police spokesperson said a team from Greater Noida had gone to ques tion Harpal, who is sus pected to be involved in the attack on Sharma, after his arrest. During the probe, Har pal spilled beans over the planning and execu tion of the attack on the BJP worker.
“Harpal told the po lice that the attack was planned by Randeep Bhati, who is currently lodged in Madoli jail, Delhi. “Harpal had agreed to carry out the attack on Sanchit Shar ma for Rs 5 lakh and had roped in four more persons for the job. Af ter his release from jail, he had further planned the attack at a farm house in Greater Noi da,” the official said.
that then Maharaja Hari Singh was happy to sign the instrument of accession. That’s what I have read as a student of history.
“But the political leadership in Delhi was saying they want ed it (accession) to be more broad-based and therefore they wanted a plebiscite. So they wanted to take it to a multilateral forum. You cannot have a
higher folly than that. I am using the word folly very mildly,” Puri
told reporters here. The Union Minister was responding when asked if he agreed with the views of his cabi net colleague Kiren Ri jiju on Nehru’s han dling of Kashmir that the Union law minister had expressed in an ar ticle. “Was it an error of judgment? You can say the man made a mistake but you cannot justify it. The histori cal facts are staring
you in the face that making the reference (to multinational fora) and calling for a plebi scite is not a folly, I think it is a monumen tal blunder. So I agree with my dear friend and colleague Kiren Ri jiju entirely,” Puri said. The minister said it was because of the mis take made by Nehru that Pakistan was able to foment trouble in Jammu and Kashmir.
New Delhi (PTI): The Congress on Monday paid rich tributes to the coun try’s first prime min ister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary, saying 21st century India cannot be imagined without his tremen dous contribution and that his rele vance has increased after 2014.
Congress presi dent Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chief Sonia Gandhi and AICC general secretary in-charge organisation K C Venugopal, among others, offered floral tributes at Nehru’s memorial Shanti Van in New Delhi.
In a tweet in Hindi, former party chief Rahul Gandhi quot ed Nehru’s lines --
“Who is Bharat Mata? The people of India spread across its vast land matter the most. Mother In dia is this crores and crores of people.”
“With these demo cratic, progressive, and secular values of Pandit Nehru in my heart, I am walking to protect ‘Mother In dia’ of ‘Hind Ke Jawahar’,” Gandhi said referring to his Kanyakumari to Kashmir ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi also paid tributes to Nehru and posted a quote of the former prime minis ter on Twitter in which he said, “We have to build such a free great India where all her chil dren can live.”
GANG-RAPE CASE
Port Blair (PTI): The Andaman and Nicobar Police arrested a Port Blair-based business man, carrying a reward of Rs one lakh, from Haryana in connection with a gang rape case, an officer said on Monday.
Sandeep Singh alias Rinku, who was ab sconding, was appre hended on Sunday night and on Monday brought to Port Blair on transit remand, police said.
“The police got a tipoff about Sandeep through his bank trans actions which he made from Haryana. The An daman and Nicobar Po lice alerted its Haryana and Delhi counterparts and managed to arrest
him. He was brought here on transit remand on Monday. Before his interrogation, he was taken to GB Pant Hospi tal for a medical check up,” the officer said.
The Andaman and Nicobar Police had on November 2 announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh each for Sandeep Singh alias Rinku and Labour Commissioner R L Rishi in connection with the rape of a 21-year-old woman involving Jiten dra Narain, the former chief secretary of Anda man & Nicobar Islands.
So far, 2 accused, Narain and Singh, have been held, while Rishi is still absconding, the officer said.
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea by senior advo cate Sanjay Hegde seeking transfer of his case, challenging the permanent suspension of his Twitter account for allegedly re-tweet ing two posts, from the Delhi High Court to the top court.
A bench of Justices M R Shah and Hima Kohli also declined to interfere with his sec ond plea against Kar nataka High Court dis
missing his plea seek ing intervention in the petition filed by Twit ter Inc challenging a series of blocking or
court so that in future, this court would have the advantage of at least one HC judg ment,” the bench said.
ders issued by the Cen tre. “No case for trans fer of cases is made out...The transfer peti tion stands dismissed.
We are of the opinion that let there be one de cision by one high
The senior lawyer had approached the Del hi High Court in 2019 seeking directions to the Centre to lay down guidelines under the In formation Technology (IT) Act to ensure that censorship on social media is carried out as per the Constitution.
He had filed the plea as his account on Twit ter was permanently
suspended by the social media company on No vember 5, 2019, alleged ly in connection with two re-tweets by him, and sought restoration of his Twitter account.
The petition had said that before coming to court Hegde had fol lowed the internal ap peals procedure of Twitter, but his appeal was rejected.
He had also served a legal notice on the social media platform, but no response was received to the same, it said.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. And this was prov en by ravishing beauty Rukaiya Kalyan wala, although supermodels and glam our industry artists may have been re vered for their enviable style and pen chant for luxury, they also grappled with trou bled upbringings and challenges throughout their lifetimes. This 24-year-old diva writes her own rule when asked about her early life, the ravishing beauty said, “I have completed my graduation with BMS, specialised in finance by profession and a model by passion.
It is hard work, dedication and discipline, that have always driven me to stay inspired in what I pursue. As I grew up I realised that stepping out of my comfort zone will help me to live the life of my dreams and be fearless. I believe in the power of my dreams, and I am a woman, who is not scared to try anything in my life.” Kalyan wala aspires to earn a huge name and fame and leave her footprints wherever she goes. The diva also paid gratitude to her sister for always uplifting and igniting a spark in her soul. When asked what mes sage she’d like to give to young girls of her age, she said, “I was 13 years old when I saw my sister getting selected in the top 30 contestants and I believe that every girl should follow her dream.” While talking about the biggest rookie mistake, the beau ty said “I made was a lack of knowledge about the career and lack of communica tion skills, but then slowly I looked up to my mentors and learned a lot in my life.”
When asked about the most memorable or rewarding moment in your, the diva said “When I met Lara Dutta in miss diva. As she is one of my inspirations. I was in awe the moment I saw her and her aura.”
Gorgeous beauty Rukaiya Kalyanwala, who hails from Mumbai, opens up to City First about her life as a model and her down-to-earth approach to beauty!UTTKARSHA SHEKHAR uttkarsha.shekhar@firstindia.co.in
Want healthy hair?
Then, eat a nutri tious and well-bal anced diet to get stunning hair this festive season. Hur ry up, and fill your plate with healthy foods that will make your hair grow faster.
MARCH 21 - APRIL 20
People falling under this sign will have refreshing day.
Watching a movie with family is likely to be the highlight of the day for some. You may enjoy travelling to a tourist destination recommended by your friends.
Reignite the flickering romance in your life by spending more time together.
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
Something you have implemented at work is likely to profit the company. You are likely to celebrate the achievement of a family youngster. Shifting into your own house may soon become a reality. An exotic island destination beckons, for which you may already be making plans!
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
You are likely to find the day most auspicious. Your knowledge about your line of work will be roundly appreciated and get you the thumbs up from higher ups. Friends and family may get together to give you a surprise. Business travel may leave little time for romance.
SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 22
Your financial situation is set to improve, as earning opportunities come to you. Help from co-workers in a time consuming task will be forthcoming on the work front.
Support of family will encourage you to take up a challenge. Socially, your presence will be looked forward to.
NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22
You will derive great benefit from an exercise routine that you keenly follow. Extra workload is foreseen at work, but nothing that you cannot handle within office hours. Taking the family on a trip seems impossible today due to your professional commitments, so postpone it for some other day.
JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19
Previous investments are likely to give you good returns. Some of you may decide to follow in the footsteps of celebrities and visit the very same exotic destination that they had been to.No amount of excuses will dispel lover’s suspicions about your tendency to stray the path.
APRIL 21 - MAY 20
Money put together on previous occasions is likely to come in handy now. A family youngster is keen to learn from you, so don’t disappoint. Settling down in a new house is indi cated for some.You may have to awaken partner’s interest in you once again.
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
Money coming from various streams will keep you in an elated state of mind. A new fitness regime that you have adopted promises to keep you in the pink of health. Getting an old furniture upholstered may be at the top of the mind of some homemakers.
AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23
A vacation you only dreamed about is likely to become a reality soon. Healthy eating will help prevent digestive ailments. Money will be no constraint in buying what you like. Driving down with lover to a happening place is indicated today.
OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 22
Some clarification will need to be sought on a financial issue, before you take the next step. A project left halfway by someone else may come on your shoulders, but your efforts will be acknowledged. Some of you are all set to enjoy a splendid vacation.
DECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20
Your stars favour a bright beautiful day . A setback you have recently experienced can make you come out stronger. Tax advisor will be a big help in saving taxes, so don’t hesitate to contact one.It is difficult for the relationship of friends turned lovers to fall apart, so relax.
FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20
Continue doing whatever you are doing to remain healthy. Some of you will have to curb your splurging ways. Family life will cruise along smoothly with much love and bonhomie. Don’t speed up on the road. Chance of moving to a new location on transfer is likely for some.
Hair care is the prior ity of most of us, we spend so much on getting the right hair products, spa visits, and hair care treatments to main tain our mane.
But many times, we do not get the desired results no matter how many treat ments we get done, we might blame it on the salon but the real reason is you can’t have healthy hair until you take the right nourishment.
Although you can’t change some factors like age and genetics, one factor you likely have more control over is your diet. Including Vitamins, minerals, iron, proteins, omega-3 fatty ac ids, and Zinc in our diet can have great results. So let us look at the foods which we should include in our diets to make our locks lustrous and healthy.
Eating adequate protein is important for hair growth because hair follicles are mostly made of protein, so it becomes imperative that we increase the intake of protein to make hair strong. If you are not con suming the right amount of protein then you might experience hair fall and dry, and brittle hair.
SOURCES OF IRON lentils, spinach, red meat, chicken, fish, broccoli, and salad greens.
GROW YOUR HAIR FASTER WITH GREEK YOGURT
It’s packed with protein, the building block of your locks. Greek yoghurt also has an ingredient that helps with blood flow to your scalp and hair growth. It’s called Vitamin B5 (known as pan tothenic acid) and may even help against hair thinning and loss. You may recog nize pantothenic acid as an ingredient on your hair and skincare product labels.
SALMON FOR SHINY HAIR
Fish like salmon, sardines, and mackerel are packed with healthy omega-3 fatty acids. Your body cannot make these healthy fats, so you have to get them from food or supplements. They help protect you from disease, but your body also needs them to grow hair and keep it shiny and full.
VITAMIN C TO STRENGTHEN HAIR
Vitamin C aids the absorption of iron so foods high in Vitamin C are good to eat in conjunc tion with iron-rich foods. Vitamin C is also an antioxidant so is used read ily by the body.
Vitamin C helps in the production of collagen which strengthens the capillaries that sup ply the hair shafts.
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Getting too little iron can lead to hair loss, it is the most important mineral for hair. When iron levels (serum ferritin) fall below a certain point, you may experience anaemia. This disrupts the nutri ent supply to the follicle, affecting the hair growth cycle and may result in shedding. So, you must include iron or iron supplements in your diet.
blackcurrants, blueberries, broccoli, guava, kiwi fruits, oranges, papaya, strawberries, and sweet potatoes.
Avocados are delicious, nutritious, and a great source of healthy fats. They are also an excel lent source of Vitamin E, which may support hair growth. One medium avocado (about 200 grams) provides 28 per cent of your daily Vitamin E needs.
Like Vitamin C, Vitamin E is an antioxidant that helps prevent oxidative stress by neutralizing free radicals. Vitamin E also protects areas of the skin, like the scalp, from oxidative stress and damage. Damaged skin on the scalp can re sult in poor hair quality and fewer hair follicles
Beans including soybeans are great plant-based sources of protein, which is es sential to hair growth. Beans are a good source of Zinc, which aids the hair growth and repair cycle, whereas soy beans have spermidine which also promotes hair growth.
Time and again Rakul Preet Sin gh has proved her fashion sen sibilities are only getting better and better. This time she turned enough heads wearing an over sized striped pantsuit which may not be everyone’s cup of tea. She has clearly aced the art of power dressing and how!
One can see in the photos, Rakul wore an oversized wool coat with embellished cascading crystals by Kanika Goal label. She teamed her denim, hand-embel lished crystals coat with low-waist straight wool trousers. The mega cuff, the detailing at the back of the coat and Jimmy Choo formal shoes added inter esting elements to the suit. All meant to be uplifting a sexy work-wear vibe.
She accessorised her look with a pair of statement-making earrings and cuffed rings by Misho Designs that add ed the right glam to her ultra-stylish look. Styled by Ami Patel, this stunning look of Rakul is worth your attention! Hair and makeup are by Aliya Shaikh and Salim Sayyed.
Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor and her husband Anand Ahu ja welcomed their baby boy Vayu in August this year. The new parents have been over the moon since then. Recently, Sonam Kapoor gave fans a sneak peek inside baby Vayu’s jungle-themed nursery. Now, the new mom has also opened up about her pre-natal journey and much more in a series of Instagram stories.
In her stories, she shared, “My pre-natal journey was quite different. I was sure I wanted to have a natural journey that would lead to a natural delivery with as little intervention as possible. For that, I de cided to take the help of the ‘gentle birth meth od’ with Dr Gowra Motha. She had written a lovely book called Gentle Birth Method that ex plains how to deal with the prenatal journey." She further added “I’ve followed her blind ly. I’ve had a natural quick birth thanks to all her teachings and I’m breastfeeding pretty easily."
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of her BTS prep. She is happiest as her trainer is im pressed with her ac tion avatar in the film. The actress also penned a note for her trainer and friend, which reads, "@ju naid.shaikh88 has never thought I did enough to deserve my favourite Jalebi But today he did, to cele brate Yashoda’s suc cess and especially the action scenes. You didn’t let me give up.. and I know you won’t let me ever give up. Thank you."
Kriti Sanon is em bracing shine lately and the aesthetic of her latest look was too disco ball-like. Her looks for Bhediya promotions are punctuated with steamy energy needed a
ones that looked like a fashion paradise. Al though certain looks are pretty debatable, her latest look is the real winner. She donned a trendy set with a sil ver-hued and studded chain-link necklace which she stacked up to other chain that came with a pendant, mini hoop earrings, and rings. Her Sophia
strapped stilettos were in their glitzy element and her nails were bright and blue with the
day celebration was such a big thing in our school while growing up and be fore we know it we’ve all grown up so much so fast.. and all these years what I’ve learned is life is too short so LIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST...So firstly… Happy Children’s Day to you Aura, Snow, and @sitara_ayanna... Shimmu I am missing you in this picture.. but to you too my lil love...And hap py children’s day every one.. let there be kind ness, happiness, hope,
Rahul and Ishi ta, the power couple of del hishare their inspiring jour ney with city first.
Where are you from?
We stay in Gurgaon, and originally belong to Ambala.
Tell us something about yourself.
We are couple content creators who create content about fashion, travel, food, lifestyle and fun moments. We are couple who loves to travel and explore new things and places. Its our curiosity to try out new things that has brought us to this ven ture ‘The Street Stalk ers’ wherein we share our experiences with the world.
Where do you see yourself after the next 20 years?
Probably having our own talk show wherein we travel the world in
our little caravan with our little family and ex ploring the world one day at a time, and soak ing in all the beauty nature has to offer.
How did your journey begin? So our journey into this content creation began very random ly, and then turned into a hobby and then a part time income source. Both of us just enjoyed exploring new places in Delhi and hence started doc umenting and sharing those on instagram,
which started picking up.
What were some of the battles you fought and are still fighting in your jour ney?
Having full time jobs otherwise, hence the time crunch is the big gest battle we’ve fought and still at it. Imagine us working on the day of our wedding as well. We literally have not taken a day off in the past few years, i think is the rea son we have been able to keep up.
Talk to us about your achieve ments?
Well these have been quite a few. We featured in a show on amazon prime and discov ery plus. We were once featured on a billboard at the center of gur gaon, cybercity.
What inspired you to create content together? We were a couple be
Recently was the clos ing ceremony of 2 days of art residen cy curated by Jiten dra Padam Jain under Gal lery Sree Arts. It was held at the Embassy of the Re public of Slovenia where 11 artists painted live to cele brate 30 glorious years of diplomatic relations be tween India and Slovenia. A special vote of thanks has been given to her Excel lency Ambassador of Slove nia to India Mateja Vodeb Ghosh, Ljuba Pevec Daru walla, Blossom Kochhar, Aditya Kaushik and Deepa Devarajan. Many wellknown names from art and culture were present at the do were Lata and Srinivas Kotni, Annkush B. Sharma, Prerna Sharma, Madhuri Verma, Tirthankar Biswas, Seema Pandey, Uma, Sawan Taank, to name a few.
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fore we started our creator journey, and hence when we ven tured into content crea tion, back in 2017, when instagram was more about nice clicks and cap tions, we started it together. Rahul was great at photography and Ishita was good at writing, hence the amalgamation led to the beginning of TheS treetStalkers.
each other’s company. And that adds to the fun of creating content to gether and helps us bond even more with other. Even though at times there are alot of creative dif ferences, but then that helps the other person with a new perspective, which is in itself a great aspect while creating content.
Lalitha Raghuram, Country Director, MOHAN Founda tion, was awarded the ‘Inspirational Lead ers’ Award at the Inter national Conference for Initiatives for Organ Do nation and Transplanta tion, November 7-9, Abu Dhabi.
His Excellency Abdul lah Bin Mohammed Al Hamed , Chairman of Abu Dhabi’s De partment of Health, who awarded Lali tha for her inspira tional work for the cause of Organ donation also launched the initiativeHayat, which means life, by becoming the first to register. A new drive hopes to boost the number of people signing up to become a donor in UAE un der the National Pro gramme for Organ Donation and Trans plantation or Hayat, which means life.
Last year, 39 do
nors in the UAE helped to save the lives of 147 individuals. So far this year, there have been 47 donors who saved the lives of 167. Abdullah Al Hamed also motivated everyone to save lives, “I invite everyone to con tribute to instilling hope in the lives of many around us by registering for the Hayat pro gramme,” he said.
The initiative was launched during the two-day Internation al Conference for Initiatives on Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation in Abu Dhabi from Novem ber 7 and 9.
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The inauguration of the art exhibition ‘A Journey Through the Shades’ and the book launch of the book ‘Through The Shades’ is be ing organised on Thursday, November 17 at Museo Cam era, DLF Phase IV, Gurgaon. Renowned photographer, Nitin Rai and Ex-Joint Sec
retary, Govt of India Dr Kiran Chadha will grace the event as the chief guests whereas Golfer Neelam Pratap Rudy will be the guest of honour. Several eminent personalities will also grace the event with their pres ence including actors Nasir Abdullah & Yuri Suri, choreographer Liza Varma, MC & Singer Vandana Vad hera and artists Rashmi Khurana, Bipasha Sengup ta and Sukanya Garg.
The artworks of Shikha are characterized by the ‘sense of being.’ And of con tentment. She has been writing since childhood and has been an editor in her formative years.
“Through the Shades” is a work of contempo rary fiction. It is based on the journey of the photogra pher through continents, inner growth, creative ex penditure of learning and of relationships with people and their traits.
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most immersive movie experience” is what IMAX claims to be, and these ultra-luxurious theatres, with their leather seats and top-notch equipment, will give you a 3D experience like no other. Here you’ll find a 9.1-meter-high screen with an IMAX proprietary sound system that offers one of the greatest movieviewing experiences ever!
We can’t wait to see the first-ever virtual reality theatre in India, which PVR and HP India jointly unveiled. This new feature, which was introduced at PVR ECX in Noida, will enable users to view a vast array of immersive and interactive content curated from genres such as drama, fiction, science fiction, horror, and action.
There is no need to get a ticket for this; all you have to do is pay the entrance fee of 100 rupees (ONLY) to play the video games. There are four VR pods with Head Mounted Displays and high-resolution screens that are linked to HP’s top-tier OMEN laptops. Sweet!