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JUPITER AND SATURN WILL MERGE IN THE NIGHT SKY ON MONDAY OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, AHMEDABAD & LUCKNOW
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Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th century. Being called the
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great conjunction as the celestial marvel was last observed in 1623 and will again take place in 2080. The two slow-moving planets will be 0.1 degrees apart. They should
be easily visible around the world a little after sunset, weather permitting. In India, the conjunction is likely to be visible between 6.30 and 7.30 pm.
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UP-Delhi border partially MODI’S IMPROMPTU VISIT TO GURUDWARA RAKAB GANJ SAHIB shut amid farm protests
KISAN DIWAS ON DEC 23, TOLL COLLECTION TO BE HALTED IN HARYANA FROM DEC 25
New Delhi: In an unscheduled visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to Guru Tegh Bahadur at Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Sahib in Delhi on Sunday morning. He paid tribute to the Guru Tegh Bahadur and recalled the Sikh Guru’s vision for a just and inclusive society. While bowing to the Guru Tegh Bahadur, Prime Minister Modi said that the Sikh guru’s life epitomised courage and compassion. “Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji’s life epitomised courage and compassion. On his Shaheedi Diwas, I bow to the great Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji and recall his vision for a just and inclusive society,” Prime Minister Modi had tweeted.
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Angry with Didi, Bengal awaiting change, says Amit Shah during massive road show in Birbhum
Cong chairmen in 36 out of 50 urban bodies Yogesh Sharma Jaipur: In a setback to Opposition BJP, the ruling Congress was successful in making chairmen on 36 out of 50 urban local bodies in 12 districts, the election for which was held on Sunday. BJP could make chairmen only on 12 bodies while Independents in two bodies. The BJP was completely wiped out in Jaipur, Bharatpur, and Dausa districts. Report on P2
FURTHER TALKS IN A DAY OR TWO: SHAH Bolpur: Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar will likely meet the agitating farmer unions in a day or two, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday. “I am not exactly aware of the timing but Tomar is likely to meet the representatives of farmers tomorrow or the day after to discuss their demands,” Shah told a press conference. —PTI
Org changes likely in Telangana, Punjab & Gujarat PCC soon
Shah says TMC’s main slogan of Ma Mati Manush had given way to corruption, nepotism & appeasement —PHOTO BY ANI
Birbhum (West Bengal): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that the turnout of a sizeable number of people in his roadshow at Birbhum indicated that people of West Bengal are “angry” with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and want a change. “This roadshow shows the anger of Bengal’s public towards Mamata didi. People of West Bengal want change. It is not to change just one Chief Minister. The change is for development and progress and West Bengal,” Shah said at a roadshow here. “West Bengal has set three dangerous trends in Indian politics - politicization of administration, criminalization of politics and institutionalizing corruption. Turn to P6
New Delhi: The DelhiUP border was partially shut as the agitation intensified and entered the 25th day against the Centre’s contentious agricultural laws, amid assurances from the government on the minimum support price (MSP) for their agricultural produce, a concern repeatedly raised by the farmers. The farmers have intensified their stir by announcing they will halt toll collection in Haryana from December 25 to 27. Before that, the protesters will celebrate Kisan Diwas on December 23. Turn to P6
Bengal’s next CM won’t be an ‘outsider’ Revealing that BJP’s CM candidate in West Bengal for Assembly election 2021 will be someone from Bengal, not ‘outsider’ like what Mamata Banerjee generally terms BJP’s central leaders when they visit the state, Shah said, “Does she want a country where people from one state will not visit another? Did she call Indira Gandhi, Pranab Mukherjee, Narasimha Rao outsiders when they used to come to West Bengal? But don’t worry, someone from Bengal will challenge you & be next CM.”
Union Home Minister Amit Shah waves to his supporters at a roadshow in Bolpur on Sunday.
New Delhi: In an effort to improve Congress’ prospects in forthcoming polls, changes are soon likely to be made in several states in the party’s organisational structure. Telangana, Punjab and Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief will also be changed in the coming days. Speaking to ANI, AICC Telangana incharge, Manickam Tagore said, “We have started the process of changing PCC in Telengana because Telangana PCC Uttam Kumar Reddy has resigned voluntarily from his post taking the responsibility of the defeat in the recent GHMC polls.” Meanwhile, speaking
about the changes in the Punjab state unit, Congress in-charge of Punjab Harish Rawat said, “The state PCC is in place but there is a preparation underway for district committee formation. That will be formed as soon as the environment will be conducive. A new district committee will be formed once the farmers and Centre resolve the issue over farm laws.” Sources told ANI about the impending change of PCC chief in Gujarat. “We are working on it, at the end of December we will decide whether the change of PCC chief in Gujarat will take place,” a source said. —ANI
NEPAL PM DISSOLVES PARL Kathmandu: Nepal’s Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli dissolved the House of Representatives on Sunday, two years ahead of its normal tenure, amid a power tussle within the ruling Nepal Communist Party. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting this morning at his residence after talks with party co-chairman and dissident leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda failed.
MoH calls meet as UK reports mutant strain New Delhi: Health Ministry has called a meeting today with its joint monitoring group on COVID-19 to discuss a mutant coronavirus that has spread rapidly in the UK, government sources have said. Several European nations have banned flights to and from Britain. No policy decision has been taken by India on any flight ban from the UK but the matter will be given a serious consideration.
Gehlot-Dotasra strategy helps Cong sweep polls! Naresh Sharma Jaipur: In what could be termed as yet another blow to the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), the Congress party has managed to uproot its rival from urban local bodies (ULB) by making as many as 36 chairmen among the 50 ULBs. And it would not be wrong to say that this major vcitory of the grand-old party can be attrivuted to two men - Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and
PCC Chief Govind Singh Dotasra - who ensured that not just those in the government, but also those in the party faction also give their hundred percent for the one main cause for their party ie victory in elections. Highly placed sources in Congress revealed that while mastermind strategist Gehlot chalked out the minute details of the grand strategy, Dotasra, while also executing Gehlot’s strategy, enusred that the party
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot
workers were at highly motivated to campaign for the party. Interest-
PCC Chief Govind Singh Dotasra
ingly, these elections were given the same treatment like assembly
elections i.e. the main goal was to make the party win and not one
particular individual. Such has been the result of Gehlot-Dotasra’s
combined force that the saffron party has been totally washed out from Jaipur, Bharatpur and Duasa districts. Interestingly, while BJP claimed of giving Congress a ‘red-face’ in the Zila Parishad elections and Gehlot hitting back at BJP leaders saying that they were concocting data to suit their agenda, Sunday’s result once again proves that it is Gehlot and Congress that is the political party chosen by the people to represent them in urban local bodies as well!