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ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY'S NEW FOREST DIVERSION RULES ARE BAD NEWS FOR FOREST RIGHTS

7TH ACCUSED OF UDAIPURTAILOR'S MURDER ARRESTED

New Delhi: The National InvestigationAgency (NIA) has arrested a seventh per-son in connection with the brutal killingof tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Rajasthan'sUdaipur last month, a spokesperson saidon Sunday. The spokesperson saidFarhad Mohammad Sheikh, alias Babla,was arrested on Saturday evening.He wasa "close criminal associate" of RiazAkhtari, one of the two main accused,and took an active part in the conspiracyto kill the tailor, the spokespersonsaid.Kanhaiya Lal was killed with acleaver inside his tailoring shop on June28.The gruesome attack by Riaz Akhtari,who is also referred to as Riyaz Attari, onthe tailor was recorded on a phone byGhouse Mohammad, and the video wasposted online.

They said in a video later that theyhacked Lal to death to avenge an allegedinsult to Islam. The duo were arrestedwithin hours of the killing.

Team Absolute|New Delhi

The 2022 Forest Conservation Rules are to beplaced for approval before the Lok Sabha andthe Rajya Sabha for 30 working days in one or

more sessions. The question then is if lawmakerswill approve this illegal move which seriouslyendangers forests and all its inhabitants, includingforest-dwellers. If they disagree, will they simply clipthe venomous parts of the Rules or will they actuallymodify them to comply fully with the Forest Rights

Act? The latter is what they ought to do.The ForestRights Act - a historic enactment and a flagship lawof the Indian Parliament - was promulgated to undothe historic injustice heaped on the country's forest-dwellers, especially the tribal peoples, for more thana century since 1878. It recognised and vested allforest rights (whether listed in the law or not),except hunting, in forest-dwellers on all forest lands,including "unclassified forests, un-demarcatedforests, existing or deemed forests, protected forests,reserved forests, sanctuaries and national parks".

SAVE NATURE, SAVE EARTHThe Union environment ministry has done it again. This time, it has chosen to uproot whatever is leftof compliance with the Forest Rights Act 2006 (FRA) in forest diversion under the Forest (Conservation)Act 1980. The ministry notified new rules - the '2022 Forest Conservation Rules' - under the ForestConservation Act on June 28. It thus repealed and replaced the earlier 2003 Forest Conservation Rulesand its amendments in 2004, 2014 and 2017.

The Forest (Conservation) Act 1980 creates an institutional mechanism. It prescribes procedures for the orderly approval and handing over of forest land touser agencies for diversion, de-reservation and lease for non-forestry purposes.These possibilities result in deforestation - from "clear felling" to selective fellingas required by the user agency. The Act also introduces a new land-use category that adversely affects all existing residents of a forest, whether wildlife or peo-ple, most often in the form of their complete exclusion.The new 2022 Forest Conservation Rules affirm that "clear felling" is indeed "removal of all natural vege-tation" from land of size 1 ha and above, by felling, burning or uprooting. It excludes selection, or coppice, felling.The new Rules have come a long way fromtheir predecessor - the 2003 Rules - and their amendments. Earlier, either the environment ministry's regional office or the state would process all proposals touse forest land, depending on the extent of forest area to be diverted.In the new Rules, tree plantation - dressed up with the label "surrogate forests" - nowparades prominently under the fancy section of 'compensatory afforestation'. Both the law and the courts have deemed that these tree lots more than sufficient-ly justify the takeover of forest-land - land that is invariably a part of the homes of forest-dwellers - for its wholesome destruction.The blood money to do thiscover-up has been named "net present value" (NPV). It used to be Rs 4 lakh to Rs 10.43 lakh per hectare since 2009. It was hiked marginally in January 2022 toRs.10.69 to 15.95 lakhs per hectare. Though the Supreme Court passed an order in 2008 to revise these figures every three years, the NPV stayed where it was for13 years between 2009 and 2022. This was despite the numerous proddings for a manifold increase in the value by officials and committees. Even the mostrecent revision, in January, was the result of some prodding by the expert committee set up by the Supreme Court. And even this was marginal, relatively speak-ing.This is important because the improved efficiency in processing and fast-tracking together with a virtually frozen NPV rate will greatly contribute to the 'easeof doing business' - the new signature tune for India's progress.Once a proposal becomes eligible, the in-principle approval - a.k.a. stage I approval - is granted,with certain conditions. On fulfilling these conditions, and when the land for the tree lots and the NPV money for them are handed over, the state receives thefinal, or stage II, approval.The state government then hands over the corresponding land to the user agency. Between 2008, when the FRA Rules were notified,and 2019, 253,179 ha of land was diverted for non-forestry purposes; another 47,500 ha or so of degraded forest lands were diverted for afforestation.

Decoding the new rules

The final chopIn the new 2022 Forest Conservation

Rules, rule 6(b)(ii) states unequivocallythat compliance with the Forest Rights Actis not at all required for the final approvalfor forest diversion, given by the environ-ment ministry. This approval is sealedwhen the land for tree-lots (under com-pensatory afforestation) is handed overalong with the NPV money.However, theRules also state in passing that state gov-ernments should check for Forest RightsAct compliance before they notify the useragency for physically taking over the forestland - yet this is land that the environmentministry has already handed over. Somuch for the farce.The Forest Rights Act2006 overrides the Forest (Conservation)Act 1980, and Rules can't override or abro-gate a law. For these reasons, rule 6(b)(ii)falls afoul of the law and needs to be re-moved. Will the Lok Sabha or the RajyaSabha oblige?

Aurangabad|Agencies

Nationalist CongressParty chief SharadPawar on Sunday said

he feels the three Maha VikasAghadi (MVA) allies - ShivSena, NCP, and Congress -should fight the 2024Maharashtra Assembly elec-tions together, but a decisionon it will be taken only afterthe issue is discussed with theleaders of his party as well asthe alliance partners.

On the decision to renameAurangabad and Osmanabaddistricts taken in the last cabi-net meeting of the UddhavThackeray-led government,Pawar said the issue was notpart of the MVA's commonminimum programme, andhe came to know about thedecision only after it wastaken.

Pawar, who is on a two-daytour of Aurangabad, wasspeaking to reporters here.

Responding to a queryabout whether the MVA par-ties should fight the nextassembly elections in thestate together, he said, "It ismy personal wish that the

MVA constituents shouldcontest the future pollstogether...But this is my per-sonal opinion. I will first havea discuss the issue with myparty leaders and talks canthen be held with the alliancepartners." The MVA govern-ment led by UddhavThackeray collapsed on June29, days after his party ShivSena faced a rebellionlaunched by senior leaderEknath Shinde. On June 30,Shinde took oath as the chiefminister, while BJP'sDevendra Fadnavis wassworn in as his deputy.

Shinde enjoys the support of40 rebel Sena MLAs.

Taking a dig at the rebelSena MLAs over the reasonscited by them for their revolt,Mr Pawar said, "The dissidentlegislators don't give any fixedreason. Sometimes they talkabout Hindutva, sometimesabout funds." Following theirrevolt, the rebel MLAs havebeen saying that they wentagainst the Sena leadership asthe party was going awayfrom the cause of Hindutva.Some of them also talkedabout not getting funds fortheir constituencies.

MVA ALLIES SHOULD CONTEST 2024 ASSEMBLYELECTIONS TOGETHER: SHARAD PAWAR


With 18,257 new coronavirus infectionsbeing reported in a day, India's tallyof COVID-19 cases rose to

4,36,22,651, while the active cases increased to1,28,690 according to the Union HealthMinistry data updated on Sunday.

The toll climbed to 5,25,428 with 42 newfatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.

The active cases comprise 0.30 per cent ofthe total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.50 percent, the ministry said. An increase of 3,662cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.The dailypositivity rate was recorded at 4.22 per cent

while the weekly positivity rate was recordedat 4.08 per cent, according to the ministry Thenumber of people who have recuperated fromthe disease surged to 4,29,68,533, while thecase fatality rate was recorded at 1.20 per cent.According to the ministry, 198.76 crore dosesof Covid vaccine have been administered inthe country so far under the nationwideCOVID-19 vaccination drive.

India logs 18,257 new COVID-19cases, 42 deaths in 24 hours

Bengaluru|Agencies

An armyman has stakedclaim for a place in theIndia Book of Records

for the Fastest Cycling Solo(Men) category by covering adistance of 650 km in 36hours.

Rahul Kumar, Craftsmanfrom 515 Army BaseWorkshop, achieved therecord after cycling fromBengaluru to Kanyakumari ina single stretch between July8-9, a Defence official said onSunday.The feat, undertakenas part of the 'Fit India', wasflagged off by Brig. V.M.Panicker VSM, Stn Cdr,,Bangalore, in the presence ofBrig. Alok Jain, SM, Comdtand MD, 515 Army Base

Workshop. Setting off from Bengaluru

at 6 a.m. on July 8, Cfn RahulKumar completed the cyclingfeat at 6 p.m. on July 9 inKanyakumari. The route cov-ered three passes, Hosur,Salem, and Madurai."Although the temperaturewas normal, it was rainingthroughout the journey, andheavy winds proved prob-lematic. But the team sup-ported me very well," Kumarsaid. India Book of Recordsmonitored the feat online.

Army man covers 650 km in36 hrs to set solo cycling


After an entire day of refutingreports of some of its MLAscrossing over to the ruling

BJP in Goa, Congress has sackedMichael Lobo as the Leader ofOpposition. The grand old partyin a press conference said that a"conspiracy" was hatched bysome of its leaders along with theBJP to weaken it and engineerdefections.

"A conspiracy was hatched bysome of our own leaders with theBJP to see that the Congress partyin Goa is weakened and to engi-neer defections. This conspiracywas led by 2 of our own leadersLoP Michael Lobo and DigambarKamat," Congress Goa in-chargeDinesh Gundu Rao said. "Boththese people had been working intotal coordination with BJP. One

person - Digambar Kamat - did itto safeguard his own skin becauseso many cases are against himand the other person - Michael

Lobo - for the sake of power andposition. BJP wants to finish theOpposition," he added. Sourcessay five Congress MLAs -- Michael

Lobo, Delilah Lobo, DigambarKamat, Kedar Naik, and RajeshFaldessai -- are reportedly at theChief Minister's house.

GOA CONGRESS SACKS ITS LEADER IN ASSEMBLY FOR PLANNING DEFECTIONS


The Indian Army hasrecently obtained req-uisite approvals to

induct Mandarin-trainedpersonnel in the TerritorialArmy for which notificationfor inviting applications forMandarin experts into theTerritorial Army has beenissued on Sunday.

With recalibration of theIndian Army's strategic out-look toward Northern bor-ders, the Indian Army hasupscaled its Chinese lan-guage training and has syner-gistically enmeshed appro-priate scaling of Chinese lin-guists within its overall strate-gy. A slew of measures hasbeen undertaken to improveits in-house Mandarinexpertise. The aim is toempower junior and senior

military commanders toengage with PLA personnelas and when the situationarises. With improvedMandarin skills, Indian Armypersonnel will be betterempowered to convey theirpoints in a much morecogent manner.

Chinese language expertsare a functional requirementat tactical level and arerequired for providing analy-sis at the operational andstrategic level while cateringfor futuristic needs andmaintaining adequate redun-dancy at all levels.

Army Gets Approvals To InductMandarin-Trained Personnel


The Directorate of Education is going totake a new initiative for the schools ofDelhi. The objective of this initiative is

to develop the speaking ability of the stu-dents. Giving information in this regard,Directorate of Education (DOE), Delhi saidthat from this month, project 'Voice' is beingstarted in all government schools of Delhi.Project 'Voice' will provide a secure andfriendly platform to the students. So that stu-dents can practice sharing their ideas with-out any hesitation. Under this programme,activities like debate, extremism will beincluded. Students will be divided into threegrade groups - 3 to 5, 6 to 8, and 9 to 12.There will be three phases of competitionsfor activities in the project. The competitionswill be held in both English and Hindi. Phase1 will have intra-school competitions andPhase 2 will have regional competitions, Inwhich every activity and age group from the

school will be the first rank holder. In Phase3, there will be a state level competition withthe first rank holders of each region. At thesame time, another project 'MissionBuniyaad' has played a very important rolein reducing the learning gap in children in

the last 2 years during Corona. This timeMission Buniyaad was implemented in avery good manner in Delhi governmentschools as well as in MCD schools, whichhas shown great results. Instructions havebeen given to conduct the classes of 'Mission

Buniyaad' in the schools of Directorate ofEducation and MCD for two more months.In Delhi, most of the children at the primarylevel are in MCD schools. In the last twoyears of Corona, there was a huge gap in thelearning of children here. Bridging this gapwas a challenge.As per the current data, 88per cent children of classes 3 to 5 inDirectorate of Education schools and 78 percent children in MCD schools, who recog-nize at least a word, will be able to read theirbook after 2 months of effort. On the otherhand, 90 percent of children of classes 6 to 9who can read at least a short paragraph now,will be able to read their books from Voice inthe next two months. In this regard, DelhiDeputy Chief Minister and EducationMinister Manish Sisodia has also held ameeting with MCD Commissioner GyaneshBharti, Education Secretary Ashok Kumarand Education Director Himanshu Guptaand other high officials of the EducationDepartment.

'PROJECT VOICE' TO IMPROVE SPEAKING ABILITY OF STUDENTS

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Amid ongoing political stormover a controversial remarkagainst Goddess Kali, Prime

Minister Narendra Modi on Sundaysaid that Sri RamakrishnaParamhansa, was one such saintwho had a clear vision of Maa Kali.

The Prime Minister was virtuallyaddressing the birth centenary cele-bration of Swami Atmasthananda.

The Prime Minister said, "SwamiRamakrishna Paramhansa, was onesuch saint who had a clear vision ofMaa Kali, who had surrendered hiswhole being at the feet of Maa Kali.This whole world, this variable andconstant, everything is pervaded bythe consciousness of the mother.This consciousness is seen in theKali Puja of Bengal."

The Prime Minister underlinedthat a "beam of this consciousnessand power was illuminated bySwami Ramakrishna Paramahansain the form of Yugpurush like SwamiVivekananda and the spiritual visionthat Swami Vivekananda felt aboutMaa Kali, had infused extraordinaryenergy and power within him".

"A mighty personality like SwamiVivekananda would get excited like asmall child in devotion, in the mem-

ory of Jaganmata Kali," PrimeMinister Modi said.

The Prime Minister remarked thathe could see the same sincerity ofdevotion, and the same power ofShakti Sadhana within SwamiAtmasthanandaji.

The Prime Minister paid his trib-utes to Swami Atmasthananda byreminiscing the time he spent withhim. Addressing the gathering, thePrime Minister said, "This event isfilled with many feelings and memo-ries. I have always been blessed by

him, there was an opportunity to bewith him. It is my good fortune that Ikept in touch with him till the lastmoment."

Prime Minister Modi noted that beit Adi Shankaracharya hundreds ofyears ago or Swami Vivekananda inmodern times, the saint tradition ofIndia has always been proclaiming'Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat' andthe establishment of RamakrishnaMission is also associated with theidea of 'Ek Bharat, Shrestha Bharat'.

While highlighting the contribu-

tions of Swami Vivekananda, thePrime Minister said that he lived thisresolution in the form of a missionand his influence was seen in allparts of the country and his travelsmade the country realise its ancientnational consciousness in the era ofslavery, and also infused new confi-dence in it. "This tradition ofRamakrishna Mission was carriedforward by Swami Atmasthananandji throughout his life," he noted.

While remembering the time hespent with Swami Atmasthananda,Prime Minister Modi said that hewas fortunate to talk to him inGujarati. The Prime Minister alsoremarked on the time during theKutch earthquake when relief workwas carried out under the guidanceof Swami Atmasthananda.

While taking the example ofDigital India, Prime Minister Modistated that India has emerged as aworld leader in the field of digitalpayments.

The Prime Minister also highlight-ed the achievements of giving 200crore vaccine doses to the people ofIndia. "These examples are a symbolof the fact that when the thoughtsare pure, efforts do not take long tocomplete and obstacles show us theway," he added.

RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA WAS ONE SUCH SAINTWHO HAD A CLEAR VISION OF MAA KALI: MODI


As part of her electioncampaign, NDAPresidential candidate

Draupadi Murmu onSunday met BJP MPs andMLAs from the nationalcapital.

Except Lok Sabha mem-ber from North West Delhi,Hansraj Hans all the othersix BJP MPs had attendedthe interaction with NDAPresidential candidateMurmu.

Among eight BJP MLAs,O.P. Sharma was not presentdue to health issues.

Delhi BJP presidentAdesh Gupta and state gen-eral secretary (organisation)Siddharthan were also pres-ent during the interaction.

Lok Sabha MembersParvesh Sahib Singh Verma,Ramesh Bidhuri, GautamGambhir, Dr HarshVardhan, Meenakshi Lekhiand Manoj Tiwari werepresent during interactionwith Murmu.MLAs RamvirSingh Bidhuri, VijenderGupta, Ajay Mahawar, Anil

Bajpai, Abhay Verma,Mohan Singh Bisht andJitender Mahajan were alsopresent.One of the BJP law-makers present during theinteraction said that NDAPresidential candidateMurmu urged the MPs andMLAs to support her. "Shesought our support inPresidential election andtalked about her journeyand struggle of life," he said.

Vijender Gupta tweeted:"Welcomed Presidentialcandidate Smt. DraupadiMurmu ji to Delhi. PM@narendramodi's commit-ment to social justice &women empowerment arereflected in Murmu ji'snomination. Nation wouldfeel proud to see a strongwoman leader from tribalcommunity being elected asthe President."

Draupadi Murmu meetsBJP MPs, MLAs from Delhi

MEHSANA | Agencies

Afarmer committed sui-cide after beingharassed by some

builders, who not onlyduped his Rs 5 lakh but alsoblocked the road to his farm,in Kheralu Taluka of theMehsana district in NorthGujarat.

Jasubhai Chaudhary,deceased farmer Kiran'selder brother, in his com-plaint with the KheraluPolice stated, "My youngerbrother committed suicideon Saturday becausebuilders Keval Chaudharyand four others cheated himand blocked road to hisfarm, though he took up the

matter with builders severaltimes, they did not give pas-sage for farm and so he com-mitted suicide."

In the FIR, Jasubhai saidhis brother used to cultivatein the ancestral agricultureland in the Kheralu, wherehe had constructed a houseand was living with his fami-ly. On road touching thefarm, Vinubhai Chaudharyand Keval Chaudhary havedeveloped a commercialcomplex, which blocked theroad leading to Kiran's farm.So Kiran requested them togive way for his farm, towhich they initially refused.

Later the builders agreedto give passage but on a con-dition that Kiran will have to

buy one shop in the com-plex, to which he agreed andalso made a down paymentof Rs 5 lakh. However, evenafter the partial payment,the builders did not givepassage to his farm and nei-ther allotted a shop in thecommercial complex. Leftwith no option after beingharassed by the bilders, hecommitted suicide by hang-ing himself.

Kheralu Police Inspector,A T Patel said that thebuilders have been bookedunder abatement to suicide."Police will carry out aninvestigation and thebuilders and their associateswill be arrested soon," headded.

Gujarat farmer commits suicideafter being harassed by builders Team Absolute|New Delhi

A45-year-old man was murdered by his twowives in Delhi. Both the wives conspiredjointly for three years and killed their hus-

band with the help of sharpshooter. An official gavethis information on Sunday. The police have so fararrested three accused - 42-year-old Geeta (ex-wifeof deceased husband Sanjeev Kumar), Geeta Devi(28) alias Najma (current wife) and Komal (21),daughter of the ex-wife.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-East)Isha Pandey said that on July 6, information wasreceived from Majidiya Hospital that a personnamed Sanjeev Kumar had been brought deadfrom the accident spot, following which the policeimmediately reached the spot. In the hospital, thepolice found that the deceased was brought thereby his wife Geeta Devi alias Najma.

Geeta Devi told the police that she, along withher husband and son, was on their way back homefrom the vegetable market on a motorcycle. Duringthat time her husband met with an accident. Shehid the fact that her husband had been shot, the

officer said.The DCP said Geeta Devi alias Najma was trying

to divert the investigation in the wrong direction.She said that her deceased husband was threat-ened by the DTC employees of Kalkaji depot. Whenquestioned by the police, his claims turned out tobe fake.During continuous interrogation, GeetaDevi alias Najma revealed that her husband hasbeen married twice and his ex-wife's name is alsoGeeta and she is living separately with her son and2 daughters in Dakshinpuri, Delhi.It is learned thatboth Geeta Devi aka Najma and Geeta were in

touch with each other for the past several years.When the ex-wife came to know about the cruelbehavior of the deceased Sanjeev towards his newwife, Geeta gave a new mobile phone to Geeta Devialias Najma. Her husband was not aware of thismobile phone.

Ex-wife Geeta was aware of the suffering of GeetaDevi aka Najma along with her husband. Hence,both the wives of Sanjeev along with Geeta'sdaughter Komal hatched a criminal conspiracy tokill Sanjeev about 2-3 years ago and divide theirproperty among themselves, the official said.GeetaDevi alias Najma approaches her cousin Iqbal andasks him to arrange a sharp shooter to kill her hus-band. After this Iqbal brought a sharp shooter andthe deal was settled for Rs 15 lakh.The police gotthe clue when it came to know that Geeta Devi aliasNajma had removed the picture of the numberplate of Sanjeev's motorcycle, which added to thepolice's suspicion. It was later revealed that he hadshared that picture with the sharp shooter and thendeleted it. The sharp shooter shot and killedSanjeev near Deepalaya School in the transit camp,the official said.

TWO WIVES KILL HUSBAND AFTER 3 YEARS OF CONSPIRACY

Lucknow|Agencies

The mortal remains ofSadhana Gupta, wifeof Samajwadi patri-

arch Mulayam SinghYadav, were consigned toflames here at Pipra Ghaton Sunday.

Sadhana Gupta, 62,died in a Gurugram hos-pital on Saturday after aprolonged illness. Herbody was flown toLucknow later in theevening.

Mulayam Singh Yadav,Akhilesh Yadav, ShivpalYadav, Prof Ram GopalYadav, Dharmendra Yadav

and other family mem-bers were present.Thepyre was lit by PrateekYadav, Sadhana's onlyson.Earlier, Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath visitedthe residence of MulayamSingh Yadav to offer con-dolences.Deputy ChiefMinister Brajesh Pathakand former deputy ChiefMinister Dinesh Sharmaalso visited his resi-dence.A large number ofSamajwadi leaders andworkers had gathered atMulayam's residencesince morning to pay theirtributes to the departedsoul.

Mortal remains ofMulayam's wife

consigned to flamesTeam Absolute|New Delhi

Last year in June, Twittershowed a distorted map ofIndia, with Jammu and

Kashmir and Ladakh as separatecountries which was laterremoved after a backlash.

As per The Economist, EknathShinde, who represents a part ofThane in the state Assembly andhad himself once driven an autorickshaw for a living, was sworn inas Chief Minister of Maharashtra,of which Mumbai is the capital.

Shinde's ascent capped 10 daysof political turmoil in India's rich-est and second-most populous

state. A longtime member of theShiv Sena, for decadesMaharashtra's dominant politicalforce, Shinde broke away alongwith some 40-odd legislators andtied up with the Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP), which runs thenational government.

"It is a blockbuster surprise,"says Sanjay Jha, a formerspokesman for the Congressparty, which until last weekhelped run the state in a grandcoalition with the Shiv Sena and athird party.

Nobody expected the Sena, as itis often known, to crack up, TheEconomist reported.

The Economist shows distortedmap of India in latest issue

The Economist has published a distorted mapof India in its latest issue with part of Kashmirbeing blacked out as part of an article on BJPwinning control of the richest state ofMaharashtra.

CHENNA | Agencies

After pilots and cabin crew,aircraft maintenance techni-cians of IndiGo Airlines took

mass leave after being dissatisfiedwith their pay hikes. According toreports, the Delhi and Hyderabad-based aircraft maintenance techni-cians of Indigo Airlines have takenleave on the night of July 8.

An Indigo Airlines spokespersoncould not be reached for com-ment.According to the Ministry ofCivil Aviation, Indigo Airlines' on-time performance on July 9 stoodat 75.2 per cent.Some pilots tookleave in April and cabin crew ear-lier this month, affecting opera-tions.

Union Minister Kapil MoriswaPatil was stranded on Saturday

evening as an Indigo Airlines flightfrom Madurai to Chennai got

delayed. He was later taken toMumbai by Indigo Airlines flight.

Indigo Airlines techniciansgo on leave after pilots

Dehradun|Agencies

Rain continues in many districts ofUttarakhand. Bad weather is alsodisrupting the Chardham Yatra.

Badrinath Highway remained closed onSunday morning due to heavy rains. Dueto which about 4000 passengers havebeen stopped at Joshimath, Govindghat,Pandukeshwar and 2500 passengers atBadrinath.

The same, 100 passengers left forKedarnath from Sonprayag till 8 am, butthey were stopped due to rain. At thesame time, due to heavy rains inJoshimath on Friday night, pedestrianpaths have been damaged at manyplaces. On Saturday, no tourist wasallowed to enter the valley by the NandaDevi National Park administration.

Meteorological Center Dehradunissued a yellow alert of rain in five dis-tricts of the state. According to theMeteorological Center, there is a possibil-ity of rain with heavy showers at isolatedplaces in the mountainous areas of thestate on Sunday. Similarly, light to mod-erate rain and thundershowers may occur

at many places from plains to hilly dis-tricts.

Due to heavy rains on Friday night, thefoot track Dwaripera and Glacier Pointhave been damaged. Forest OfficerChetna Kandpal said that the road lead-ing to the valley has been broken due toheavy rains. Tourists are currently notbeing allowed to enter the valley.Improvement work will be done on theroad after the weather becomes normal.Only then the movement of tourists willbe smooth.

The water level of many rivers hasincreased due to the two days of rain in

the state. 225 roads including threenational highways were closed due todebris and boulders falling from the hills.Out of these, only 46 roads have beenopened. The work of opening the roads isalso going on very slow due to the rain.

People have been advised by the StateEmergency Operation Center to stay awayfrom the river banks. At the same time,the maximum water level of Tehri Damlake is at 760.20 meters as against 830meters. 6.020 cusecs of water has beenreleased from the dam lake.

Weather of Uttarakhand becomes disaster, 6500passengers stranded in Badrinath and Sonprayag

Bad weather suspends Amarnath yatraJammu: The Amarnath Yatra has been suspended from Jammu due to inclement weather conditions and no fresh batch was allowed to proceed

from Jammu to the base camps of the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said. "Amarnath Yatra has been suspendedfrom Jammu to twin base camps in Kashmir due to inclement weather. No fresh batch was allowed to move towards Amarnath" .

The annual 43-day pilgrimage commenced from the twin base camps -- Nunwan-Pahalgam in south Kashmir's Anantnag and Baltal in centralKashmir's Ganderbal -- on June 30. Over one lakh pilgrims have offered prayers at the cave shrine, housing the naturally formed ice 'Shivling', theofficials said. A total of 69,535 pilgrims have left in 10 batches from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu for the Valley since June 29, the day thefirst batch of pilgrims was flagged off by Lt Governor Manoj Sinha.The yatra is scheduled to end on August 11 on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.

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Team Absolute|Bhopal

Atiny arm sticking out of one cor-ner of a white cloth covering asmall body, its head resting on

the lap of a dazed young boy, back tothe wall and bundled on the side of adirty road, told a story of unspeakablehelplessness and apathy.

In visuals shot by a local journalistin Morena town on Saturday, 8-year-old Gulshan was seen sitting with thebody of his 2-year-old brother Rajawhile their father PoojaramJatav des-perately looked for a vehicle to takethem home.

A resident of Badfra village ofAmbah, Poojaram had brought his 2-year-old son to the Morena DistrictHospital - around 450 km north ofBhopal - after being referred there bya local hospital in an ambulance.

Suffering from anaemia and ascites- abdominal swelling caused by theaccumulation of fluid, most oftenrelated to liver disease - Raja diedduring treatment. But the ambulancethat had brought them had already

returned.Poojaram, a man of limited means,

pleaded with the doctors and staff ofthe hospital for a vehicle to take thebody back to his village, around 30km away. He said he was turned

down and told the hospital did nothave a vehicle at hand, and he wouldhave to pay for one outside.

An ambulance operator parked onthe hospital premises asked for Rs1,500 - much more than what the sin-gle father of four could afford.

A helpless Poojaram left the hospi-tal with the body of his son Raja,Gulshan in tow. He could not findany vehicle.

It was then that he decided to leaveGulshan in front of Morena's NehruPark as he went to look for a ride backhome that he could afford.

For half an hour, Gulshan sat there,his dead brother's head on his lap,eyes gazing out for his father's return.

Caressing the body, swatting awayflies, a tear or two would roll down hischeek. A crowd gathered and some-one alerted the authorities.

Finally, a police officer YogendraSingh picked up the body and ledGulshan back to the district hospitalwhere Poojaram and his sons weregiven an ambulance, at last, to maketheir way home - a difficult ride forany family, now made more harrowing.


Apaper slip with writtenthreat to blow up twocoaches of Jaipur

Sikandrabad express at Itarsijunction of state turned out tobe a hoax, said the railwayofficials.

The GRP, RPF and local dis-trict police reached the spotand made an intense searchof the bogies, said Hitesh

Choudhary, SP.Gurkaran Singh, SP of

Narmadapuram also reachedthe railway station with thebomb deduction and disposalsquad and sniffer dogs andsearched the area. The Jaipur-Secunderabad Express wassearched thoroughly by policeand RPF personnel at Itarsistation on Sunday afterauthorities received a callinforming about a bombonboard, which turned out tobe a hoax, an official said.

Following the bomb threatcall, teams from the railwaypolice, Railway ProtectionForce and the district policecarried out a search of thetrain after sending its passen-gers to platform number oneand evacuating platforms twoand four as a precautionarymeasure, NarmadapuramSuperintendent of PoliceGurkaran Singh said.

All the passengers travelingin coach B-3 and B-4 wereasked to get off the train withtheir luggage as police startedsearching the train for theexplosives.

"The train had reachedItarsi station at 1:10pm. Thebomb detection and disposalsquad also took part in the

operation. No suspiciousobject was found after a three-hour search. However, a slipwas found in the coach whichsaid there was a bomb in theAC coach. The train left on itsonward journey at 4pm," theSP informed.

The train was headed greentowards Sikandrabad ataround 4 pm after an intenseinspection, added the SP.Superintendent of police rail,Hitesh Choudhary while talk-ing to Absolute India overphone said that the train washeading towardsSikandrabad. CrossingNarmadapuram station a pas-senger found a hand-writtennote in the bathroom ataround 1 pm on Sunday.

"The note said that a bombwas placed in two bogies tokill my family, please help.The slip was handed to ticketcollector and the TTE furtherinformed about it to the con-trol room. The GRP, RPF andlocal district police reachedthe spot and made an intensesearch of the bogies", the SPadded. The incident createdpanic among the passengers.Several confused passengersshared their experience onsocial media.

BOMB HOAX IN JAIPUR-SIKANDRABAD EXPRESS WITH BODY OF 2-YEAR-OLD BROTHER,8 YEAR OLD BOY SAT BY THE ROAD

IN MORENA TOWN, 8-YEAR-OLD GULSHAN WASSEEN SITTING WITH THEBODY OF HIS 2-YEAR-OLDBROTHER RAJA.

It is being told thatTTE has got a slipinside the train, inwhich it is writtento blow up S-4 andS-6 of the train.After this the trainhas been evacuat-ed. Along with this,the team of otherGRP, RPF has alsoreached. After 3hour search, bombthreat call forJaipur-SecunderabadExpress turns outto be hoax


Social activist and founder of the'Narmada Bachao' movementMedha Patkar, book under section

420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) forallegedly misusing the funds collected inthe name of education of the tribal chil-dren. The latest development came afteran FIR was filed in Madhya Pradesh'sBarwani against 12 persons, includingthe activist, for the misuse of the funds.

In the FIR filed by plaintiff Pritam Raj,

he accused Patkar, the trustee of theNarmada Navnirmaan Abhiyan, ofallegedly obtaining over Rs 13 crore inthe name of education of tribal childrenbetween the years 2007 to 2022. It is alsoreported that she used the funds againstthe government.

The other accused in the FIR has beenidentified as Praveen Rumi Jahangir,

Kailash Avashya, Mohan Patidar, VijayChauhan, Ashish Mandaloyi, Sanjay Josiand others.

Medha Patkar is famous for herhunger strike in protest of the decision ofthe authorities to increase the height ofthe Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmadariver. It is expected that the project dis-placed about 200,000 people fromGujarat, Madhya Pradesh andMaharashtra. It is reported that the foun-dation stone of the project was laid byformer Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehruin 1961. The work on the project beganin 1987.The work on the dam wasstopped in May 1995 after Medha Patkarstarted Narmada BachaoAndolan (NBA),which made her popular across theworld.

However, the Supreme Court of Indiagave the approval to ramp up the heightof the dam to 138 metres in June 2014. InFebruary 2017, the apex court directedthe government to provide a compensa-tion of Rs 60 lakh for each of the 700 fam-ilies expected to be displaced.

Medha Patkar booked for misuse of fundstaken in name of tribal children education

Medha Patkar, social activistand founder of the'Narmada Bachao' move-ment, book under section420 of the Indian PenalCode (IPC) for allegedly mis-using the funds collected inthe name of education ofthe tribal children.

Team Absolute|Panna

A55-year-old elephant isheld captive in chainsand shackels in the

Panna Tiger Reserve after theelephant brutally killed itsmahout BudhramRotiya onMonday, said an official.

Ever since its arrival at thePanna Tiger Reserve in 1993,'Rambahadur', a wild ele-phant, was trained andlooked after by mahoutBudhramRoutia. In the twodecades, 57-year-old Routialed the elephant on umpteen

campaigns which involvedformidable tasks like tran-quilising tigers and maintain-ing a vigil in the forests.

"The elephant has becomeaggressive and dangerous. Itescaped into the forest afterkilling the mahout and wascaught after tranquilizing. Wehave put everyone on highalert, said Uttam KumarSharma, Field director.

"A team of forest workersand mahouts kept trackingRambahadur throughout thenight to prevent him frommoving around the populat-ed area. He has become soaggressive that the mahoutsare being chased from 150 to200 meters away. Despite it,the team kept chasing himand after a struggle of hours,he was caught near HinautaHathi Camp after tranquiliz-ing, said the field director.

According to UttamSharma, elephant RamBahadur was brought to thereserve in 1993 from the for-est of Chhattisgarh, agingapproximately 26 years.Deceased mahout Budhramwas taking care of the ele-phant since then. This ele-phant has also twice fatallyattacked the world's oldestelephant, Vatsala.

Elephant held captive in chains after killingits mahout at Panna Tiger Reserve

"THE ELEPHANTHAS BECOMEAGGRESSIVE ANDDANGEROUS. ITESCAPED INTO THEFOREST AFTERKILLING THEMAHOUT AND WASCAUGHT AFTERTRANQUILIZING. WEHAVE PUT EVERY-ONE ON HIGHALERT, SAID UTTAMKUMAR SHARMA,FIELD DIRECTOR.


Agang of thievesallegedly robbed anATM in Madhya

Pradesh's Chhatarpur anddecamped with over Rs 17lakh. This is not the first timethat a kiosk of the nation-alised bank has been target-ed. The incident took placeat SBI's kiosk located nearPanna Naka in Chhatarpur.

No alert was received bythe nationalised bank and

the heist came to light onJuly 9 morning. In anattempt to protect theiridentity, the thieves hadsprayed black paint onCCTV cameras.

Bank staff who spotted theATM theft immediatelyinformed the police aboutthe incident. On learningabout the theft, DIG(Chhatarpur range) alongwith staff and forensicexperts, sniffer dogs reachedthe spot and examined thekiosk.

Police officials asserted

that the amount of cashrobbed from the ATM isaround Rs 17 lakh. Thethieves had cut the ATMmachine with a gas cutterand committed the theft.

Recently, in a similar case,thieves robbed three ATMsand decamped with over Rs.42 lakh after breaking themachines with gas cuttersand spraying black paint onCCTV cameras in MadhyaPradesh's Shivpuri district.

The incident took place atthree different ATM kiosks inShivpuri city. The thievesallegedly used gas cutters tobreak the machines andsprayed black paint on theCCTVs. According to police,at least Rs. 19.26 lakh wasstolen from a State Bank ofIndia (SBI) ATM at Gwaliorbypass, while the accusedstole Rs. 22.89 lakh fromanother SBI ATM half a kilo-metre away.

Rs. 17 lakh looted from ATMkiosk using gas cutter

A gang of thievesallegedly robbed anATM in Chhatarpurand decampedwith over Rs 17lakh. The incidenttook place at SBI'skiosk located nearPanna Naka inChhatarpur.

CM PLANTS SAPLINGS OFBANYAN, NEEM AND CASSIA

Bhopal:ChiefMinister ShivrajSingh Chouhanplanted Cassia,Banyan and Neemsaplings in SmartCity Park located inShyamala Hills.Along with plantingsaplings, everyonealso did shramdaan.

Along with ChiefMinister Chouhan,members ofGulmohar G- VanBhagini Mandal Sanstha, Indrakshi Amar, Seema Singh,Neeta Thakur, Smita Nandi and Geeta Rawat also plantedsaplings. Senior journalists Ravindra Jain, Mamta Jain,Avichal Jain, Himani Jain, Dinesh Jain and Amit Jain alsoplanted saplings. Family members also brought little babyVibhan along with them and gave the message of environ-mental protection. Chief Minister Chouhan blessedVibhan. Banyan has religious medicinal importance.According to Ayurveda, the treatment of many diseases ispossible with the help of Banyan leaves, bark etc. Immunityincreases by drinking its decoction. Similarly, neem rich inantibiotic elements is known as a medicine. The bark andleaves of Cassia Javanica are used in the preparation ofAyurvedic medicines.


Alarge number of devo-tees visited differentmosques in the city to

offer Namaz on Sundaymorning to mark Eid-ul-Azha.

The devotees includedmen and children wearingKurta-Pyjamas, sherwanis,jackets,coats and caps in var-ious colours. Bhopal ShaharQazi, Syed Mushtaq AliNadwi conducted the Namazat Idgah at 7am. It was fol-lowed by Jama Masjid, Taj-ul-Masajid and Moti Masjid.After prayer, peopleexchanged greetings by hug-ging each other. After theprayers, the devoteesreached their homes and cel-ebrated the festival by offer-ing sacrifice. During theprayers offered at Idgah,Bhopal CommissionerMakrandDeouskar, collectorAvinashLavania along with

police, administration andBhopal MunicipalCorporation team were pres-ent.For the past two years,the celebrations were severe-ly hit due to Covid pandem-ic. There was a ban on massgatherings and so Eidprayers had to be offered athome. Markets were shut,guests were not welcomedand greeting others with ahug was ruled out. Now, allthe restrictions have beenlifted, joy and bonhomie are

in the air on Sunday. ChiefMinister Shivraj SinghChouhan felicitated andextended his good wishes tothe people of the state onEid-ul-Azha. He said that thisfestival gives a message ofsacrifice, devotion andmutual trust and inspires tostrengthen humanity andbrotherhood. Chouhan hasappealed to celebrate thefestival with peace, harmonyand accord as per the glori-ous tradition of India.

Devotees offer Namaz at city'smosques on Eid-ul-Azha


In May 2014, three minor girls belonging to two families were reportedlyabducted from outside their houses in Mundladangi village of MadhyaPradesh's Dewas district. Despite months of searching, the police could

not make any headway.More than seven years later, the Dewas police res-cued the three girls from flesh trade in Rajasthan and Maharashtra. Thesame year in 2021, a special team of the district police had saved a studentof a premier school from being pushed into sex trade in Nepal.

The teenage girl, who lived in Dewas city's industrial area was lured into alove trap over social media by a youngster operating from Ludhiana(Punjab). She was brainwashed to leave her home state and landed up ineast UP's Gorakhpur. Before she could be trafficked into sex trade in Nepal,the Dewas police team, tracking her movements through electronic surveil-lance traced her and also busted the alleged girl trafficking racket with thearrest of two men. These cases are among hundreds of success stories of thedistrict police tracking the missing children, mostly girls. Their meticulousplanning has given the entire exercise a new name: 'Dewas Model.'Thetracking procedure involves a combination of electronic surveillance and anauthentic information network on the ground. It has helped in trackingnearly 100% cases of missing minors in 2020-21. In figures, it means trackingand rescuing of 203 minors who went missing from various parts of the westMP district in 2020. In 2021, 264 out of 267 minors missing from the district

were recovered.The success doesn't end there: 64 missing girls in abduction cases

between 2014 and 2019 were tracked and rescued in 2020, while 41 othergirls who too went missing during the same six years span, were rescuedsuccessfully in 2021. This takes the success rate of the Dewas police's modelof tracking children to 132% in 2020 and 114% in 2021.

More than 70% abducted minors have been tracked and rescued fromadjoining states, including Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and UttarPradesh. Maximum 55% tracing and rescue has happened in Gujarat, wherethe girls from poor families, have either been lured in the name of jobs or

have been married there after being taken there on the pretext of someother promise.According to Dewas district police superintendent Shiv DayalSingh, who assumed the charge of district police chief in June 2020, thetrack-and-rescue of children varied between 50% and 60% before 2020. "Wefocused on the minors, starting with detailed analyses of cases of kidnap-ping in the previous five years to locate the hotspots from where these chil-dren were abducted," he said. "A more focussed and organised system ofprobing the old and new cases was developed, with the cyber cell in the piv-otal role. Bounties were declared on unidentified accused in old as well asnew cases followed by constitution of dedicated teams," said Singh.Thepolice identified top kidnapping destinations - Surat, Ahmadabad, Rajkotand Morbi (Gujarat), Jaipur, Udaipur, Ajmer and Kota (Rajasthan), Mumbaiand Nagpur (Maharashtra), Gorakhpur (UP) and New Delhi. "A compre-hensive data base of reliable local informants was developed in all these kid-napping destinations and all of them linked to WhatsApp groups, whichalso has cops. A dependable network of informants. This helped in swifttracing and rescue of kidnapped minors," said the SP Dewas."Tracing thekidnapped girls and reuniting them with their parents is like winning anaward," says inspector Amit Jadaun, head of the team that traced the threelittle girls from sex rackets in Rajasthan and Maharashtra in 2021. All threehave been rehabilitated and enrolled in schools. Tracking procedureinvolves a combina-tion of e-surveillance and an authentic information net-work on the ground.

Dewas police: Messiah for missing minorsThe meticulously planned tracking system devised by Dewas police saves hundreds of girls from flesh trade.

SEC EXPRESSES GRIEF

OVER DEATH OF TWO

PRESIDING OFFICERS

Bhopal:State ElectionCommissioner BasantPratap Singh has expressedgrief over the death of twopresiding officers inShahdol district in the thirdphase of the three-tierPanchayat General Election2022. Shri Singh has prayedfor the peace of the depart-ed soul.In Shahdol district'sJanpad Panchayat Gohparuand Budhar, two presidingofficers died on the spotafter their vehicle collidedwith a tree nearJaisinghnagar while goinghome on their own vehicleafter conducting panchayatelections and depositingelection materials. Also, twopolling officers were seri-ously injured. The injuredwere immediately rushed tothe district hospital wherethey are undergoing treat-ment.

In the latest United Nations Global FoodSecurity Report, the situation of hungerin the world is more dire than before, a

stigma on the picture of all development.The increase in the number of hungry peo-ple among the emerging economic super-powers, systems and development in theworld is a serious question on the develop-ment of the world and the structure of abalanced society. Somewhere there is a flawin the development model of the world orthere is a difference between the words anddeeds of the present governments. It seemsthat the tempting nature of development isbeing considered as success, but keeping itsbasic aspects at the centre, necessary stepshave not been taken or they have not beenimplemented, only then the ironic condi-tions of hunger and hungry people areincreasing like never before.

What an insensitivity and neglectfulmentality it is that no new report on thetragic and horrifying issue of hunger doesnot come as a surprise, but it certainlyshows that there is no balanced approach tothe formulation and implementation ofpolicies around the world. This only showsthe flaw in the policy and intention of thegovernance systems.

About two billion and thirty crore peoplein the world are facing hunger and scarcity.The difficulties, crises and tragic situationsthat this population is facing in order to col-lect food for two times, proves the state-ments of the development of the govern-ments and systems of the world to bemeaningless. According to this UN report,the Corona epidemic and the subsequentRusso-Ukraine war have played an impor-tant role in worsening hunger. The report,published jointly by several UN agencies,says that the world is moving away from itsgoal of eliminating hunger, food insecurity,health and malnutrition in all forms by2030.

In the latest report of the United Nations,even though the causes of starvation, coro-na epidemic, war, conflict, violence, climatechange, natural disaster etc. have beentalked about, for this, on big reasons likeneo-imperialism, neoliberalism, free econo-my and market structure. No attention ispaid, the growing gap between rich andpoor, etc. is not discussed. One of the majordiscrepancies in the economies of the worldhas been that on one side it is poor and onthe other hand it is super-rich. There is abig gap between these two. If there is notmuch noise on this growing gap, one reason

for this is also that it is assumed that thegoal of poverty alleviation will automaticallybe achieved through the rise of prosperityof the upper classes or through high growthrate. This expectation is completely mis-leading and does not seem to be fulfilled.

On the contrary, the World FoodProgram report states that due to high foodprices set by the governments, 75 millionpeople in the world have fallen into the gripof starvation which was earlier than it. Inthis increase in the population going hun-gry or undernourished, 30 million peoplebelong to India only. Add to this the lack ofdrinking water, education at least up to sec-ondary level and basic medical facilities,then we can see that India is really a worldof the underprivileged even after sevendecades of independence. A large section oftoday's world, riding on development, sci-ence and achievements, still lives a suffo-cating life in poverty, deprivation, hunger,which does not struggle with the circum-stances, but makes compromises. Feelsinsecure all the time. In which lack of self-confidence teaches to live in darkness. Forwhich justice and authority become mean-ingless. How much the measures adopted

in order to cope with the corona epidemichelped in the prevention of the spread ofthe virus, is yet to be assessed, but as to itspractical effect, if people are faced with acrisis of filling their stomachs, then why thiscondition persists, we need to think again.

The big question is that when the figuresof hunger can be exposed with the help ofmodern technology and science in theworld, then why such systems are not devel-oped which can stop hunger. What is need-ed is that there are a large number of high-level systems, including institutions,experts, techniques, which are deeply mon-itoring the issue at the international level,so why are concrete policies not preparedfor its far-reaching solution! Why is hungernot controlled? On the contrary, this prob-lem has become more and more serious. Infact, if balanced and sensitive systems-poli-cies are made and serious efforts are madeto make better use of the resources on theearth, then ways can be found to deal withthe situation of food insecurity and starva-tion. But due to the spendingof all the money on war andother meaningless mattersand also the destruction of

existing resources, starvation is not shownseriously by the world community, thenwhose interest is behind it? Concerns havebeen raised about providing nutritionallybalanced meals to the deprivation-strickenpopulation, but the reality is that many peo-ple are not getting even the minimumamount of food they need to survive.

Our world is full of contradictions andironies. Hunger on the one hand, and theabundance of expensive feasts and luxuriesof the rich class, abundance of junk in bigfeasts is a stigma on humanity. In this way,food wastage should be curbed, advertise-ment companies should also be givenguidelines, food should not be wasted inhotels and educational institutions, offices,canteens, meetings, weddings and otherfunctions and other institutions. We can usethis food to get rid of poverty, hunger andmalnutrition in our society. Such an envi-ronment should be created not only by rely-ing on governments, but through publicawareness. Finally, we must ask ourselveswhether we want or want to change a dis-turbed, unstable, violent and unhealthysociety. Do we want to be citizens of a worldof hunger and hungry people or citizens ofa world of happy and resourceful citizens?

Is this problem stable over a long periodof time because the victims of starvationbelong to the very poor and vulnerablecommunities, which governments do notconsider it necessary to care?

Why is it that between the inventions ofscience and the new dimensions of itsprogress, there is talk of settling the world ofspace and life on new planets and on theother hand arrangements are not beingmade to feed the population present on theearth itself! The reason for this is irregulari-ties, corruption and neglect in these povertyalleviation policies, hunger eradication pro-grammes, services and schemes which dealwith the weaker sections of the society. Abig demand is to curb this corruption.Secondly, at the policy level also, theworld's rulers will have to think afresh.Hunger and poverty alleviation programsshould not be carried out like distributionof philanthropy, but should be directed insuch a way that people living below thepoverty line can come above it permanent-ly. This can happen only when these plansare combined with such economic anddevelopment plans which emphasize oninvolving more and more people in thedevelopment process.

absolute edit04Bhopal, Monday, July 11, 2022

EDITOR’S SPECS

China employed its devious 'DebtTrap Diplomacy' to gain a strategicedge over Sri Lanka, an independ-

ent foreign policy think tank said onSaturday after Lankan Prime MinisterRanil Wickremesinghe resigned makingway for an all-party cabinet to assumecontrol of the country. "In response to SriLanka's financial crisis, China employedits devious 'Debt Trap Diplomacy' to gaina strategic edge over the nation and holdits economy hostage. The port cities ofHambantota and Colombo have beenleased to China for 100 years. China isnow the second largest lender to SriLanka, holding more than 10 per cent ofSri Lanka's outstanding foreign debt in2019," Red Lantern Analytica said in astatement. It added that Sri Lanka hasfallen apart as a country because of theeconomic disaster caused by the poorgovernance, lack of transparency, theChinese debt trap, and corruption. SriLanka's GDP-to-Debt ratio has been con-tinuously increasing since 2010, when theisland nation's financial downward spi-ral began, the statement said, addingthat an increase in the current accountdeficit and a steep decline in exports pre-cipitated a full-blown economic crisis in2019. However, when China took advan-tage of the situation to increase SriLanka's debt burden, India gave a help-ing hand by offering financial packagesconsisting of a $500 million credit facilityfor gasoline imports and a $1 billioncredit facility for imports of critical prod-ucts from India, the think tank asserted.Additionally, India has sent $2.4 billionthrough currency swaps, loan deferrals,and other credit lines. However, it wasunable to save Sri Lanka, which wasentirely enslaved by Chinese debt andultimately succumbed to it. China's eco-nomic help to Sri Lanka was mostly aplan to get political and security leverageagainst India, and move forward with itsexpansionist goals along the IndianOcean Rim.

Situation of Sri Lanka

international

RISING HUNGER & THOUGHTLESS GOVERNANCE POLICIESLalit Garg

Colambo|Agencies

Sri Lankan President GotabayaRajapaksa's palace has become a newtourist spot in Colombo after angry pro-

testers took over the residence yesterday. OnSaturday, videos emerged of the protesterstaking a dip in the swimming pool, dining inthe kitchen, and relaxing in bedrooms at thepresident's home. Today, a sea of people wereseen working out at the gym in the palace.

Dramatic visuals show several protestersrunning on the treadmills in the gym. Theprotesters also use the cardio and weightequipment in the facility.

President Rajapaksa has fled and is current-ly on a Sri Lankan Navy ship, governmentsources said. On Saturday, the Sri Lanka gov-ernment said that President Rajapaksa wouldresign on July 13.

But the protesters say they will not budgefrom Rajapaksa's residence till he resigns."Our struggle is not over. We won't give upthis struggle until he actually leaves," studentleader Lahiru Weerasekara told reporters.

The dramatic events were the culminationof months of protests by people angry withthe unprecedented economic crisis in SriLanka and the Rajapaksa family's incompe-tence and corruption. Sri Lanka is reelingunder a severe foreign exchange shortagewhich has resulted in the worst financial crisisin almost seven decades. The country hasbeen hit by severe food and fuel shortagesalong with prolonged blackouts.

LANKA PROTESTERS EAT LUNCH;HIT GYM AT PRESIDENT'S HOME Beijing|Agencies

Hundreds marched Sunday inprotest against alleged cor-ruption by local officials in

the central Chinese city ofZhengzhou, multiple participantstold AFP, in a rare public demon-stration in the tightly-controlledcountry.

Hit hard by the country's eco-nomic slowdown, four banks inHenan province have since mid-April frozen all cash withdrawals,leaving thousands of small saverswithout funds and sparking spo-radic demonstrations.

Sunday saw some of the largestprotests yet, with several hundredpeople rallying in front of a branchof the People's Bank of China in theHenan capital Zhengzhou, accord-ing to multiple witnesses whodeclined to be named.

Images circulating on socialmedia showed banners denouncing"the corruption and violence of theHenan authorities".

Protesters were "hit, woundedand were bleeding from the head.Disabled people were also violentlybeaten," one participant told AFP,estimating the number of demon-strators to have been "several thou-sand".

Local authorities in Henan did

not immediately comment on theprotests.

Some demonstrators accuse offi-cials of colluding with local banks tosuppress protests, with authoritieslast month accused of exploiting theCovid health pass to quell newprotests, turning protesters passes

red to effectively bar them frompublic spaces.

The health pass has become aubiquitous part of life in Chinaunder Beijing's strict Covid-zerostrategy, and is required to accessthe vast majority of buildings, shop-ping centres, public places and alsocertain public transport.

While most accept use of thetechnology for public health pur-poses, some have voiced concernthat it could also be used for sur-veillance of the population --already widespread in China.

Demonstrations are relativelyrare in tightly-controlled China,where social stability is an officialobsession and where opposition isswiftly repressed.

But desperate citizens do some-times take to the streets, despite therisk of arrest and prosecution.

Analysts say that some localbanks across China have foundtheir already-precarious financialsituations exacerbated by corrup-tion.

HUNDREDS MARCH IN PROTESTS AGAINST CORRUPTION IN CHINA

15 KILLED IN BARSHOOTING IN SOUTHAFRICA'SJOHANNESBURG

Johannesburg: Gunmen armed withrifles and pistols opened fire at peoplesitting in a tavern in the South Africantownship of Soweto in the early hours ofSunday, killing 15 and wounding nine,police said.The carnage took place short-ly after midnight, according to policewho said the group of men entered theOrlando East tavern before "shootingrandomly at the patrons". The unknowngunmen fled the scene and are now onthe run, said police, adding that wasn'tnot clear how many were involved in theattack. South Africa is one of the world'smost violent countries with 20,000 peo-ple murdered every year, one of thehighest per-capita murder rates globally.Soweto, near Johannesburg, is thelargest of the country's Black townships.They were the creations of white minori-ty rule, which ended in 1994 but whoselegacy of widespread poverty and youthunemployment persist nearly threedecades later.Local media reported thatanother shooting in a tavern inPietermaritzburg, about 500 km south-east of Soweto, had killed four peopleovernight. A police spokesman did notimmediately respond to a request forconfirmation.

IRAN TIGHTENS ENTRYRULES AMID INCREASINGCOVID-19 CASES

Tehran: IranianPresident EbrahimRaisi has said thatpassengers canonly gain entry toIran upon submis-sion of negativeCovid-19 testresults and fullcompliance withIranian health pro-tocols, citing the recent increase in infec-tions.

In his address to a meeting of the nationalanti-coronavirus task force on Saturday,Raisi called for stricter compliance with thehealth regulations and instructions at allland, air and sea entries to Iran, Xinhuanews agency reported, citing the Iranianpresidency's website.

He highlighted the necessity of receiving abooster dose of Covid-19 vaccines, notingthose with underlying medical conditionsshould particularly take precautions.

Iran's daily cases on Monday surpassed1,000 for the first time since April 27, accord-ing to the Iranian Health Ministry's website.

Iranian experts warn that two fast-spread-ing sub-variants of Omicron will become theprevailing strains in the country in the com-ing weeks.

London|Agencies

New cars in theEuropean Union(EU) are now

required to be equippedwith anti-speeding tech-nology, called IntelligentSpeed Assistance, or ISA.As CNET reports, underthe regulation, automanufacturers will haveto implement one of sev-eral ISA technicaloptions that will kick intogear when the driverexceeds the speed limit.

The car may alert thedriver with a visiblewarning followed by anacoustic or vibrationalert. The gas pedal maybe gently pushed backon the driver's foot or thecar may reduce speedautomatically.

The driver can over-ride the latter two func-tions, the EU said, byslightly pushing on thegas pedal, the reportsaid.

The European

Commission is quoted assaying, "It aims to pro-tect Europeans from traf-fic accidents, poor airquality and climatechange, empoweringthem with new mobilitysolutions that matchtheir changing needsand the competitivenessof European industry."protect."

Some vehicles alreadyinclude warnings forover speeding, but thedriver must set themmanually. EU regulationrequires the technologyto work automatically.

The non-profit

European TransportSafety Council, whichadvocates for road safetymeasures in the EU, saidit welcomes the new reg-ulation, but that the min-imum standard of beep-ing sound bothers driv-ers and is insufficient forsafety.

In addition, ETSCsaid, cars can collectinaccurate speed infor-mation if they areequipped with systemsthat set speed limits byusing cameras to analyzesignage only and lack adigital map of the speedlimit.

Anti-speeding technology introducedto new cars in the EU

Seoul|Agencies

South Korea's new coronaviruscases stayed above 20,000 for thesecond consecutive day on

Sunday amid growing concernsabout a resurgence in infectionsnationwide.

The country added 20,410 newCovid-19 infections, including 250from overseas, bringing the totalcaseload to 18,511,845, the KoreaDisease Control and PreventionAgency (KDCA) said.

The KDCA reported 19 moredeaths from the virus, putting thedeath toll at 24,643. The fatality ratestood at 0.13 per cent, Yonhap newsagency reported.

The number of critically-illpatients came to 67, up fromSaturday's 61.

As of 9 p.m. Sunday, local govern-ments had reported 12,213 additionalcases, down 7,629 from the sametime on Saturday. The figure, howev-er, more than doubled from 5,880posted at the same time the previousweek.

Daily cases are counted until mid-night and announced the followingmorning.

South Korea has seen a markeddrop in infection numbers from thepeak of more than 620,000 in mid-March, with the daily counts stayingmostly in four digits in June.

But the numbers began to riseagain, hitting more than 10,000 onJune 29 and over 20,000 on Saturday.

Health authorities confirmed thatthe country has entered a new waveof Covid-19, citing the fast spread ofthe highly contagious mutation of theOmicron strains.

The government is reportedly con-sidering a new set of anti-virus meas-ures.

New Covid-19 cases above20,000 for 2nd day in S.Korea

05maharashtraBhopal, Monday, July 11, 2022

Team Absolute|Mumbai

There is "no better way to reward defectionthan offering its leader the post of ChiefMinister," Maharashtra Deputy Speaker

Narhari Zirwal has told the Supreme Court aheadof today's big hearing over the political crisis in thestate. The rebel MLAs should be disqualified andshould be suspended until disqualification pro-ceedings are complete, Zirwal wrote.

On June 27, the Supreme Court had issuednotice to the Deputy Speaker seeking his reply onthe plea filed by Eknath Shinde camp against hisdisqualification notices. The court will hear a clutchof petitions from both sides tomorrow.

"The MLAs have engaged in anti-party activitiesand deserve to be disqualified as Members of theMaharashtra Assembly," Zirwal wrote today inresponse to Eknath Shinde's appeal.

The rebels have committed the "constitutionalsin of defection". Eknath Shinde -- who is now theChief Minister -- was "hand-in-glove with the BJPall along," read Zirwal's response to the court.

The MLAs of Maharashtra were passing 'resolu-tions' sitting in Assam, which had the effect ofdestabilising their own government. Their conductis "egregious and palpable" and their membershipin the party should be terminated, the DeputySpeaker added.

Zirwal has also asked the top court that therebels be stopped from entering the assembly orparticipating in any House proceedings until dis-qualification proceedings are complete. The rebels

last attended the two-day special session of theassembly where they voted in favour of the govern-ment led by Eknath Shinde.

Zirwal had issued notices to 16 rebels last monthwgo followed Ekath Shinde to Surat, then Guwahatiand later Goa. Shinde's name is on the list too. Thenotices were sent following a request for disqualifi-cation from the faction led by former Chief MinisterUddhav Thackeray before he stepped down fromthe top post. But the rebels had challenged it incourt, claiming they had two-thirds majority there-fore they are the real Shiv Sena and have the powerto ally with the BJP.

Team Thackeray contended their stance is illegaland under the anti-defection law, they can be dis-qualified as they have not merged with the BJP.

The Tenth Schedule of the Constitution disquali-fies defectors from the membership of legislativebodies, but some exemptions have been granted inits Paragraph 4, which reads: "Disqualification onground of defection not to apply in case of merger.(1) A member of a House shall not be disqualified…where his original political party merges withanother political party and he claims that he andany other members of his original political party:(a) have become members of such other politicalparty or, as the case may be, of a new political partyformed by such merger; or (b) have not acceptedthe merger and opted to function as a separategroup….

"(2)… The merger of the original political party ofa member of a House shall be deemed to havetaken place if, and only if, not less than two-thirdsof the members of the legislature party concernedhave agreed to such merger."

The sub-section (2) has often been interpreted as- in case two-thirds among a party's lawmakersdefect and join another party, they would escapedisqualification. This has been upheld by the HighCourt in Goa.Critics say the whole of paragraph 4has been badly drafted and leaves loopholes forhorse-trading -- which is just what the law intendedto stop.Despite the rebellion carried out by theEknath Shinde faction, the original Shiv Senaremains under the leadership of UddhavThackeray, Zirwal wrote.

"REWARDING DEFECTION": DEPUTY SPEAKERTO SUPREME COURT ON EKNATH SHINDE


On July 8, AssistantCommissioner ofPolice Shriniwas

Panhale received a tip offabout a sex racket at ThaiSpa. A team under InspectorMD Dorkar was formed toraid the premises. "On reach-ing the spa, the policerushed into cabin number 4,

where they found a womenand man without clotheson," said an officer from NMJoshi Police station. "Fourmore rooms were raided inwhich girls and customerswere found in compromisingpositions," the official added.

The police arrested MilanJain, 35, Sunil Morkar, 52,Sadansingh Anand, 49, andNavin Bhasin, 49, and a

female manager AlwynRodriquez. All were bookedunder IPC Sections 370 (1),370 (3), 294, 114, 34 and rele-vant sections of the ImmoralTrafficking (Prevention) Act1956. The accused were pro-duced before a holiday court,which sent them to policecustody. The women weresent to a rehabilitationhome.

Sex racket busted atLower Parel; 5 held


Rain-related incidentshave claimed the livesof 76 people in

Maharashtra during theongoing monsoon season sofar, a report by the state dis-aster management authori-ties said on Sunday.

Of the total number ofdeceased, nine persons diedon Saturday -- four inWardha district, three inGadchiroli and one each inNanded and the coastalSindhudurg district, it said.

As many as 125 animalshave perished since June 1with rains lashing parts of thestate. The India meteorologi-cal department has forecastheavy rainfall in the coastalKonkan region of the state tillJuly 13. Rainfall of 64 mm to200 mm is expected in theregion, the report said.

In view of the Met depart-ment's prediction, teams ofthe National DisasterResponse Force have beenstationed in the costal dis-tricts, including state capitalMumbai, it added.

In landslide and flood-prone areas of Raigad andRatnagiri districts, peoplefrom vulnerable areas havebeen shifted to safer loca-tions, the report said.

Last year, Chiplun town inRatnagiri and Mahad inRaigad were among theplaces worst-hit by extremelyheavy rains.

Between July 23 and 25 lastyear, more than 110 peoplehad died in Raigad, Ratnagiri,Satara and Kolhapur districtsof Maharashtra in rain-relat-ed incidents.

76 people died in Maharashtraso far this monsoon


Shiv Sena leader AadityaThackeray on Sundaysaid he has requested

the Maharashtra governmentto construct a veterinary hos-pital at the construction siteof the Aarey metro car shed.

"Whatever anger they(Maharashtra government)have against us should not betaken out on the city. Junglesand the environment need tobe protected, climate changeis upon us," the leader said.

He further said, "We hadproposed construction to beturned into a veterinary hos-pital for jungle".

Earlier, Aaditya Thackerayon Sunday urged the newEknath Shinde governmentto scrap the Aarey metroproject.Mumbai Metro RailCorporation announced itsplan to cut down over 2,700trees from the Aarey colonyto build a car shed for the

Metro. The colony, spreadover 13,000 hectares, is hometo over 27 Adivasi villagesand has various animalspecies.The Bombay HighCourt in September 2019,verbally directed the MumbaiMetro Rail CorporationLimited (MMRCL) and thestate government not to cutany trees in the Aarey forestarea for the construction of ametro car shed, to which theyagreed. Later in October2019, the High Court dis-missed all petitions againstthe proposed cutting down of

over 2,500 trees in AareyColony of Mumbai to makeway for a Metro car shed.

However, the Maharashtragovernment had stayed theorder for the Aarey metro carshed project following mas-sive public agitation in thecity.In 2020, the thenMaharashtra Chief MinisterUddhav Thackerayannounced that the stategovernment had withdrawncases registered against peo-ple who were protestingagainst the proposed metrocar shed in Aarey.

Anger against us should not be taken

out on the city: Aaditya ThackerayYOUTH KILLED MOTHER,ATTEMPTED SUICIDE,SAVED BY COP

Mumbai: Depressed over a property issue,a 21-year-old man allegedly killed his 46-year-old mother by slitting her throat with asharp weapon at their flat in suburbanMulund on Saturday, police said.

The accused, Jayesh Panchal, later tried tokill himself by jumping in front of a localtrain at Mulund railway station but was savedby an alert Government Railway Police(GRP) official.The incident came to lightwhen neighbours of the Panchals in a hous-ing society in Vardhaman Nagar saw bloodstains outside their flat and alerted thepolice.When police personnel entered theflat, they found a woman, later identified asChhaya Panchal, lying in a pool of blood, apolice official said.

Police also found a note written in Gujaratilanguage and a knife.

"Police then called up the husband of thedeceased woman. He translated the note andsaid his son had committed the crime as hewas depressed over some property issue," theofficial said. The accused was admitted to ahospital and booked under section 302(Punishment for murder) of the Indian PenalCode (IPC), he added.


Maharashtra legislaturesecretary has issuedshowcause notices to 53

out of the total 55 Shiv Sena MLAsin the state - 39 of the faction ledby Eknath Shinde and 14 of theUddhav Thackeray group.

One of the 14 MLAs from theThackeray side, Santosh Bangar,joined the Shinde camp on theday of the floor test of the latter'sgovernment on July 4. MLAs fromboth the sides confirmed havingreceived the showcase notice.Both the sides have accused eachother of defying the party whipduring the Speaker's election andthe trust vote on July 3 and 4,respectively, seeking disqualifica-tion of the legislators from boththe sides.

The Shinde faction has notincluded the name of Aaditya

Thackeray, son of former chiefminister Uddhav Thackeray, inthe list of MLAs against whomthey have sought disqualification.The notices have been issuedunder the Members ofMaharashtra LegislativeAssembly (disqualification ongrounds of defection) rules. Thelegislators have been asked toexplain their stand within sevendays, sources said. The Shiv Senahas 55 MLAs in the 288-memberAssembly, whose currentstrength is 287 due to the death of

a Sena legislator. In the trust vote,164 MLAs voted for the motion ofconfidence, while 99 votedagainst it.After winning the trustvote in the state Assembly on July4, the Eknath Shinde faction ofthe Shiv Sena had issued a noticeto 14 legislators from the UddhavThackeray camp for violating awhip issued by the Sena whipand Shinde loyalist BharatGogawale. A day before the floortest, Maharashtra AssemblySpeaker Rahul Narvekar hadrecognised Gogawale as the ShivSena's chief whip, removing SunilPrabhu, who belongs to theThackeray faction. On July 3,Rahul Narvekar of the BJP waselected Speaker of theMaharashtra Assembly. He hadpolled 164 votes, and he defeatedUddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Senacandidate Rajan Salvi, who got107 votes.

Notices to Fifty three SenaMLAs of both factions

The NM Joshi Police have arrested five persons and rescuedsix women, all Thailand nationals, from a spa located at apopular, high-end mall in Lower Parel. The police raidedthe spa, after receiving a tip off about a prostitution rackettaking place on the premises.


Avideo of two police officialsbraving strong currents to res-cue a man in Maharashtra has

gone viral on social media.Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)

leader and Member of ParliamentSupriya Sule shared the clip onTwitter on Saturday.

The video shows two police offi-cials, Constables Saddam Shaikh andAjit Pokare, from Dattawadi in Pune,jumping into a stream near BagulUdyan in Shivane village to rescue aman being swept away by strong cur-rents.

"Dattawadi,Pune Police ConstableSaddam Shaikh and Ajit Pokare res-cued a man who was being sweptaway in a stream near Bagul Udyan inShivane.Risking their own lives,the

courage shown by the two is com-mendable!We are proud of theMaharashtra Police!" Sule wrote onTwitter.

The courage of the two officials waslauded by thousands on social media.

Maharashtra has been in the gripsof an intense monsoon, with floodsbeing reported in several districts ofthe state.

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde hasput all the districts on high alert andis monitoring the situation. The chiefminister directed the officials to makeall arrangements, including the shift-ing of people living in vulnerableareas.

Taking precaution, the NationalDisaster Response Force (NDRF) hasdeployed 17 teams in areas ofMaharashtra that have reportedheavy to very heavy rainfall.

COPS BRAVE STRONG CURRENTS TO RESCUE MAN IN PUNE

Quaid Najmi |Mumbai

At the special session of the Maharashtra LegislativeAssembly on July 3-4, during the voting the Oppositionbenches of the Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-

Congress reverberated with catcalls of 'ED', 'ED' to at leastone MLA in the House.

The jeering and taunts were directed at the Shiv SenaMLAs group which had revolted on June 20, leading to thecollapse of the 3-party 31-month-old MVA alliance -- headedby ex-Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray -- on June 29.

Ten days later on June 30, a new Bharatiya Janata Party-supported government headed by Chief Minister EknathShinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis wassworn-in, making it one of the swiftest state political coups inrecent decades, and the first of its kind in Maharashtra.

Sensing the sour mood' of the Opposition, the Deputy CMlater concurred' with them, in a lighter vein stating that now,indeed - an E'-D' government - comprising E'knath Shindeand D'evendra Fadnavis was in power here.

A harbinger of things to come in the future?, as many legis-lators on both sides were left wondering with central investi-gation agencies like the Income Tax Department,Enforcement Directorate, Central Bureau of Investigation,Narcotics Control Bureau, et al -- once invisible lurkingghosts, but now common household names and the butt ofmany a joke and memes.

Back in September 2019, the ED had dropped its own IEDby issuing a statement naming - of all persons, NationalistCongress Party president Sharad Pawar in an alleged money-

laundering scam cooked up in the Maharashtra StateCooperative Bank Ltd.

Unfazed, Pawar took what he termed the ED's love-mes-sage' in his stride, and self-summoned' himself, dressing upto report suo-moto at the ED office, and perhaps, give theinvestigators a sharp love-bite', too!

Aware of a possible law-and-order situation as thousandsof NCP workers prepared to join Pawar's ED yatra', the thenBJP-led government of CM Fadnavis panicked.

He immediately deputed the then Police Commissioner tomeet and cajole the irked Pawar to abandon his plans - andsince that masterstroke', the 81-year-old Maratha has notheard from the ED, but recently, the IT department has senthim a notice.

After the BJP-led NDA government took over at the Centre,the non-BJP ruled states, including Maharashtra post-Nevember 2019, are feeling the heat as many of their promi-nent leaders are being fried on the griddle of one or multiplecentral agencies.

In fact, Maharashtra had become a favourite huntingground of the central snoops during the MVA governmentand the three alliance partners screamed from the rooftops athow the BJP has let loose the ED, IT, CBI, NCB to terroriseand silence them.However, concealing a smile on a straightface, the BJP leaders airily dismissed all allegations and thecentral agencies remain freely on the prowl.

The past few years have seen over a dozen Sena-NCP-Congress leaders under microscopic scrutiny, playing havocwith the politicians, their political careers and parties, andlately, even an entire state government.

The long hand of ED and the rise of Maha's ED

06Bhopal, Monday, July 11, 2022

hollywood

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Los angeles: Cardi Bstole the show at theWireless Festival inBirmingham on Saturdayevening as the singerpulled out all the stopswith her sheer mesh outfit.

The hitmaker put on asizzling display in a sheermesh sequinned stockingwith teats pasties as shetook to the stage to put onanother show-stoppingperformance.

The sheer ensembleclung to her incredible

curves as the bodysuit'sperfectly placed embellish-ment maintained herdecency.

Her brunette bob wasstyled in a straight hairdoand she enhanced herflawless complexion withfull coverage make-up.

The outfit's metallicembellishments glistenedunder the stage lights a sheshowed off an impressiverange of dance moves.

Cardi's racy red ensem-ble just about covered hermodesty as the carefully

placed sequins protectedher from suffering awardrobe malfunction.

Wowing in the daringgarment which was almostcompletely see-through,she also decided to goshoeless with the ensem-ble as she stormed thestage during a stellar set,reports;dailymail.co.uk.The Grammy winnertwerked up a storm onstage before strutting fromside to side as she whippedthe audience into a frenzy.

CARDI B SIZZLES IN ASHEER CATSUITWIRELESS FESTIVAL

AMERICA HAS DONE A WON-DERFUL JOB AT HUMILIATINGME,BRITNEY SPEARS

Los Angeles |Agencies

Peter Andrehas sharedthat he

fears his daugh-ter Princessgrowing up too

fast, admittingthat: 'You don't

want to let them gotoo much

too quick'.Chatting as he

took to the redcarpet duringThursday night'sCaudwellChildren ButterflyBall with hisdaughter, wifeEmily and sonJunior - singerand TV personali-ty also explainedthat he is startingto 'loosen thereigns' as she getsolder.'I don't evenknow the wordsLove Island.Those two wordsdon't go togetherin my house,' hejested.Going on to

say: 'Listen I can say what Iwant now as she's only 15.When she gets to 18 I mightnot have a say.'reports;daily-mail.co.uk.

Peter's comments comeafter Princess took toInstagram on Tuesday toshare a snap of herself beforeheading out to a wedding,sporting a glammed up look.

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Actress Idina Menzel suffersregular nightmares includinga terrifying dream about all

her teeth falling out.Opening up about sleeping

habits, the actress revealed thatshe often has vivid dreams whichleave her terrified, including oneabout failing to graduate from col-lege and another in which sheloses all her teeth, reportsaceshowbiz.com.

"I have recurring nightmaresthat I haven't graduated from col-lege and that me teeth are fallingout," she told Us Weekly.

However, despite suffering baddreams, Menzel said she never hasany trouble falling asleep. Sheadded, "I can fall asleep any-where."The actress-singer recentlyopened up about battling her

"neuroses" and admitted she hadparticularly struggled with turning50 last year. However, she creditedher 12-year-old son Walker, whoshe has with husband ex-husbandTaye Diggs, with helping her con-quer her fears.

She said of reaching the mile-stone age: "I am ashamed to say it,but I was having a hard time withit. I think it was subconsciouslybothering me more than I led on,in regards to my relevance as aperformer and actress. I'm feelinglike the old lady sometimes, andthat's not who I am. I feel veryyoung at heart."

"I'm very vibrant, and the musicI sing is for lots of young people. Soit's silly for me to play into that. ButI will be honest and say I have tocombat a lot of my own neuroses,"she added.

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Hollywood star ArmieHammer whoreached the very top

of the world with many dif-ferent films but fell fromgrace after accusations ofsexual assault, sexual mis-conduct and fetichizing can-nibalism,is now working asa timeshare salesman in theCaribbean - despite previ-ously denying claims he'dtaken up a new career, TMZreported. To everybody'sknowledge, Armie Hammerwas living in the CaymanIslands since the global pan-demic started.

The actor was spotted atthe Morritt's resort office lastmonth, wearing a blue poloshirt and going over pricingfor a unit with a couple ofpotential buyers.During the

pitch he reportedly offeredthe potential buyers a time-share for $2,020 per weekor, 'only about $21,000 forten years of vacations.'Yesterday photos ofHammer - snapped onJune 29 - walking into theoffice while sporting aclean-shaven look and ablue polo shirt with match-ing navy pants merged.Thegetup was similar to theone other hotel staffers hadbeen seen wearing, but theSocial Network star's attor-ney denied that he wasworking for the establish-ment.It is unclear whetherArmie has chosen to leaveHollywood permanentlyand embark on a new careerin property sales, or whetherhe's doing research for a roleahead of a possible actingcomeback.


Britney Spears released asince-deleted Instagramstatement on Saturday hit-

ting out against the TV specialsand documentaries made abouther life.

The pop singer expressed heranger in length and stated that noother stars would have receivedthe amount of harsh press thatshe did without their permission.

The artist also blamed Americafor bullying her over the years,saying, 'I feel like America hasdone a wonderful job at humiliat-ing me.'reports;dailymail.co.uk.

Britney explained thatthroughout her life, she had

always walked to her car whenarriving at the airport. However,after recently arriving back in LosAngeles after spending a roman-tic honeymoon with husband,Sam Asghari, she was picked upin a golf cart.

The star stated that the onlyreason a cart was brought aroundfor her was because, 'they knewthey were gonna take my pic sothey so lovingly brought it for thefirst time in 20 years.'

However, Britney expressedthat her anger wasn't due to the'whole embarrassing ugly pic sell'of her. Documentaries and spe-cials have been made about thesinger without any permissionfrom her.


And now, followingher exit, JazmineNichol has

slammed show bossesfor failing to 'show her onscreen' with viewers evenjoking that they 'filed amissing persons report'following her scarcescenes.

The stunning brunettetook to Instagram tothank fans for the 'loveand support' and addedthat it was 'only the start.'

In the caption, shebegan: 'Hi guys, it's Jaz,I'm back. Just want to saya huge thank you for allof the love and support

I've seen so far.'I'm so overwhelmed

with all the lovely mes-sages I've seen and thefunny memes!'

She continued: 'I'mexcited for all of you tosee my personality thatwas not shown on screenand the Jaz that the villasaw, this is only thestart.'reports;dailymail.co.uk.Jazmine's disappear-ance from the Villa didnot go unnoticed by fansof the show who said thatshe deserved better. Onewrote: 'MISSING PER-SON disappeared after 6seconds of air time.'alongside a photo of heron the show.

Jaz slams the show for 'notshowing her on screen'

Jazmine entered the Love Islandvilla to challenge the contestantsduring the ultimate relationshiptest, Casa Amor.

Armie isworkingas atime-sharesalesman


Thiruvananthapuram|Agencies

CPI-M leader and for-mer Kerala MLA, M.J.Jacob has won two

bronze medals in the WorldMasters Athletic meet inFinland, his office said.

The 82-year-old politicianwon the medals in the 80 mand 200 m hurdles competi-tion in the M80 categorywhich is for men agedbetween 80 and 84 years.

He had won gold medalsin 80 m hurdles and 200 mhurdles in Kerala Mastersathletics held earlier this year.Jacob had also won goldmedal in the Asian Mastersathletics championship pre-viously.Jacob had won thePirvarom assembly seat forthe CPI-M in 2006, defeating

sitting MLA and former min-ister T.M. Jacob. Piravom is aCongress bastion and his vic-tory was rated as a surprise.

He was also the formerPresident of Tirumarady pan-chayat and served asErnakulam district panchayat

member.The World Masters Athletic

Tampere, held from June 29to July 10, is a world champi-onship event for athletics(track and field) for male andfemale athletes aged 35 andabove.

82-YEAR-OLD KERALA EX-MLA WINS TWOBRONZES IN WORLD MASTERS ATHLETICS

Galle|Agencies

An unbeaten 118 from DineshChandimal and half-centuriesfrom Angelo Mathews (52) and

Kamindu Mendis (61) propelled SriLanka to take a crucial 67-run lead inthe second Test against Australia atthe Galle International Stadium onSunday.

At stumps, Sri Lanka ended daythree's play at 431/6 in 149 overs,making it a day thoroughly dominatedby the hosts.

Sri Lanka may have lost KusalMendis early in day three, trappedlbw by off-spinner Nathan Lyon. Butthat did not deter the hosts' veteranbatters, Mathews and Chandimalfrustrated the visiting bowlers andconfidently notched up an 83-runpartnership.Chandimal was refresh-ing in his counter-attack against Lyon,hitting him for a four and six off suc-cessive deliveries. When Chandimal

was on eleven, he had a huge reprievewhen Alex Carey missed a toughstumping chance off Lyon. Australiathen burnt their remaining reviews inthe space of nine balls as Sri Lankaowned the first session. Post lunch,left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc got rid ofMathews and had Chandimal caught

behind for 30 in his next over. But withno reviews left with Australia, theywere unable to challenge the on-fieldverdict as ultra-edge showed a biginside edge. Chandimal then broughtup his 22nd Test fifty by sweepingthrough fine leg and despite a briefdelay with tea being forced early due

to rain, Sri Lanka continued to gaincontrol of the match. Chandimal con-verted that fifty into his 13th Test hun-dred, also helping Sri Lanka get intothe lead.He also built a 133-run leadwith Mendis as Australia struggled toget a breakthrough. As soon as finalsession came, Australia got somewickets as Mendis tried to go for awild slog, but was castled by Lyon.Three overs later, Niroshan Dickwellawent for a big shot off Lyon and wascaught at mid-on. Chandimal andRamesh Mendis ensured that SriLanka didn't lose another wicket tillstumps arrived.

2nd Test, day three

Chandimal's unbeaten century puts SriLanka in control against Australia

Brief scores :Australia 364 in 110 overs (Steve Smith145 not out; Prabath Jayasuriya 6-118) trail Sri Lanka 431/6 in 149 overs(Dinesh Chandimal 118 not out,Dimuth Karunaratne 86; MitchellStarc 2-47, Mitchell Swepson 2-90)by 67 runs


Two Indian shootersArjun Babuta andPartha Makhija have

qualified for the top eight ofthe 10m air rifle event at theISSF World Cup Rifles inChangwon, Korea. Arjun fin-ished second in the 53-strong field in the 60-shotqualification stage with ascore of 630.5. Parth, on theother hand, finished fifthwith a score of 628.4. Thefinal is to be held onMonday.

Shahu Tushar Mane, thethird Indian shooter in themix, finished 30th with ascore of 624.4. Sergei Richterof the Israeli Air Riflestopped the field with 631.6.

Shooters from Australia,Austria, Korea, Thailand andthe United States claimed theother five qualifying spots,leading among them Tokyo

Olympic silver medalistLukas Kozeniski of the US.

Indian shooters faced dis-appointment in the women's10m air rifle, but none couldadvance. Mehuli Ghosh wasthe closest, losing just 0.1points from the qualifying

spot. He scored 628.7 to fin-ish 11th in the field. Indiahas fielded a 32 strong teamin the Changwon World Cup,with over 430 athletes com-peting from 44 countries.The World Cup will end onJuly 21.

Changwon Shooting World Cup

Arjun Babuta, Parth Makhijareach top eight in 10m Air Rifle

Chennai|Agencies

Eleven women boxers fromHaryana and 11 men fromServices Sports Control Board

(SSCB) advanced to the finals of thefifth Youth Men's and Women'sNational Boxing Championshipshere. Reigning Asian YouthChampion Tamannaah (50kg) fromHaryana put on a stellar game as shedefeated Simran Verma ofMaharashtra in a unanimous deci-sion. She will face Kusum of UttarPradesh in the semi-finals.

Asian Youth Championship silvermedalist Keerthy (81 plus kg) domi-nated her bout against Kerala'sAshwin Biju from the start, forcing thereferee to stop the competition in thefirst round. She will face Mohini Ranaof Uttarakhand in the last-4 leg.

Other nine boxers from Haryanawho have made it to the semi-finalsinclude Bhawna Sharma (48kg),Anjali (52kg), Neeru Khatri (54kg),Prachi (60kg), Raveena (63kg),Priyanka (66kg). , Lashu Yadav (70kg),

Muskan (75kg) and Pranjal Yadav(81kg).In the men's section, 2022Asian Youth Champions Vishwanath

Suresh (48kg) registered a 5-0 winover Rahul Kumar of Bihar.Viswanath remained in control from

the start and maintained his momen-tum throughout the match. He willface Achutha Rao of Andhra Pradeshin the semi-finals. In the 86kg weightcategory, Mohit defeated AdityaJunghu of Haryana 5-0. He will nextface Dileshwar Gandham of AndhraPradesh. The remaining nine boxersof Services to reach the semi-finalsare Jadumani Mandengbam (51kg),Ashish (54kg), Nikhil Kumar (57kg),Harsh (60kg), Preet Malik (63.5kg),Ankush Panghal (67kg), AnjaniKumar (71kg), Deepak (75kg) andRaitham (92+kg).

Chandigarh's Parineeta Sheoran(48kg) and Lovleen Kaur (66kg)entered the semi-finals by winningtheir quarterfinal matches. Parineetadefeated Yamini Kanwar of Rajasthan3-2 in a close contest and Lovleendefeated Srinidhi of Tamil Nadu inthe third round of RSC.

Meanwhile, defending Asian YouthChampion Rohit Chamoli (51kg)from Chandigarh suffered a 0-5 lossagainst Anurag Kumar of MadhyaPradesh.

Youth National Boxing Championship

Haryana, SSCB continue to dominateAlabama (USA)|Agencies

Indian pair of AbhishekVerma and Jyothi SurekhaVennam won a bronze

medal in the mixed teamarchery event at the WorldGames 2022 here. The Indianarchery pair defeated AndreaBecerra and Miguel Becerraof Mexico 157-156 in thebronze medal play-off to giveIndia their first medal of theseason.

Abhishek and Jyoti took a40-39 lead at the end of thefirst set. However, WorldChampionship bronzemedalists Andrea and Miguelbounced back in the secondset to level the match 78-78.The Indian pair took the leadonce again in the third setand scored four 10s in thefinal set to register a closewin on Saturday.

Archery Association ofIndia said in a tweet,"Compound mixed pairAbhishek and Surekha win

medals for the first time inWorld Games 2022, held inUSA from 07 to 09 July 2022."

Earlier, Abhishek and Jyotihad defeated New Zealand156-155 in the quarterfinals,but lost to the Colombianpair of Danielle Munoz andwomen's world No. 1 SaraLopez 157-159. This is India'sfirst medal in archery at theWorld Games and fifth over-

all medal in all disciplinessince the event's inception in1981. India's previous medalshad come in snooker, power-lifting and badminton.

However, Verma's individ-ual campaign, the AsianGames gold medalist, endedwithout a medal. He lost 145-148 to Christopher of Canadain the bronze medal play-off.

WorldGamesArchery

Abhishek Verma and Jyoti Surekhawin bronze medal for India

London|Agencies

Kazakhstan's 17th seed Tunisia andworld number 2 Jabur in theWimbledon women's singles final said

she would return to the Grand Slam to winthe title. The final slam of the season is the USOpen, hoping for a better performance.Jaboor lost to Rybakina 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 onSaturday but earned the distinction of becom-ing the first Tunisian, Arab or African womanto make a slam singles final in the Open Era.

Jaboor, 27, said, "I know of course I amgoing to win the US Grand Slam. This is ten-nis and winning and losing is part of it. I willdefinitely learn from it. But I am very positiveabout it." "

She added, "It's a good experience for me. Iam looking forward to my next final. I am sureI will learn a lot from it. But two weeks arepositive for me. I am only thinking aboutdoing my best." I have been."

Before coming to Wimbledon, Jabur hadnot progressed beyond the quarterfinal stage.Although she finished third in Berlin chasingher second title of the season, she lost in thefirst round of the French Open after a similar-ly strong run-up.The Tunisian attributed thewin to Rybakina's quick serve.

She further added, "It's frustrating to play

someone who serves really well and doesn'tgive you a chance to take that break some-times. I was just saying to myself, I trust you." Ieven said 'I love you' to myself during thematch." Poland's No. 1 Inga Swietek Jaburbecame the strong favorite for the title with athird-round loss, noting that she hadn't lost iton the grass court in more than a year beforelosing to Rybakina on Saturday.

He added, "I am very happy with myresults. I do not regret anything. I gave my 100per cent today."

Hope to do better in USOpen: Ons Jaboor

VIDEO OF CAPTAIN ROHIT ANDPANT'S CONVERSATION GOESVIRAL ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Edgbaston: A video of a funny conversationbetween wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pantand captain Rohit Sharma during the secondT20 match of the three-match series onSaturday has gone viral on social media. Afterwinning the first T20 quite comfortably, Indiasurprised the hosts in the second match as Pantopened for the team along with Rohit.

During their opening partnership, a funnyincident happened during the very first over ofthe Indian innings. Pant took a risky single toopen his account in the game, however, he wassaved from colliding with bowler David Willey.

After completing the run, Pant was caught onthe stump mic asking his captain if ye came out,takkar maar do kya?"

Rohit replied, "maar de aur kya."The whole funny conversation between the

two Indian players has gone viral on socialmedia and users are constantly sharing videoson the platform.Notably, this was not the firsttime that Rohit was involved in such an inci-dent. In a T20 match against Bangladeshrecently, the star opener was infuriated afterleft-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman came for-ward and expressed his displeasure.

Earlier, when MS Dhoni was the captain ofthe team, he took a single off Rahman to oneside, which led to Dhoni being fined 75 per centof his match fee, while the bowler was fined 50per cent.

Sydney|Agencies

The International CricketCouncil (ICC) has namedRishabh Pant a 'place of

pride' in a promotional video forthe ICC T20 World Cup postedon social media. The ICC onSunday posted the video onInstagram and captioned it as,"Welcome to the T20 World Cupproms." The video has garneredmillions of views with fansappreciating the promo, whilesome are apprehensive of thecricketer retaining his place inthe T20 squad. One fan also said,'Imagine he hasn't been selectedfor the World Cup squad.'

Pant has been in fine form inEngland, where he scored a scin-tillating century and half-centuryin the rescheduled fifth Testagainst the hosts and scored 26off 15 balls in the second T20I atEdgbaston with Rohit Sharma atthe helm on Saturday, but herecently returned to the south.Didn't make much impact in thefive-match T20I series against

Africa that ended at home.However, India head coach

Rahul Dravid backed Pant, say-ing that he is an integral part ofthe team despite scoring just 58runs at a strike rate of 105.45 inthe series against South Africa.Pant's performance in IPL 2022was also poor, with the Delhi

Capitals captain scoring 340 runsat an average of 30.90.

Pant, however, is a popular fig-ure where, during the 2020-21Test tour, he hit a historicunbeaten 89 in the final Test atthe Gabba, which the visitorswon by three wickets to win thefour-Test series 2-1.

ICC places Pant in its promotionalvideo for T20 World Cup

Nottingham|Agencies

Suryakumar Yadav played a bril-liant game in the third T20Iagainst England at Trent Bridge

on Sunday, scoring 117 runs in 55balls, despite losing the team by 17runs. England reached 215/7 thanksto David Malan's 77 and LiamLivingstone's unbeaten 42. On theother hand, Suryakumar Yadav madeshots around the field for India butdue to lack of support from otherbatsmen, India were reduced to 198/9in 20 overs. Although India hasalready won this series.

Rishabh Pant and Virat Kohli andRohit Sharma could not show moreamazing. Rohit Sharma hit two fours

off Topley's ball. But on the last ball ofthe fifth over, Topli bowled a slowdelivery, which Sharma was caughtstraight at deep midwicket.

After the power-play, Suryakumarhit a four and a six off Willie in succes-sive deliveries. After this, he wel-comed Liam Livingstone with three

fours in four balls. After an exception-al lofted shot at long-off for a bound-ary off a yorker from Jordan,Suryakumar completed his fifth T20Ififty off 32 balls off Topley. After this,Suryakumar kept on hitting the shotsand scored his century in 48 balls.Jordan dismissed Harshal Patel andRavi Bishnoi in the last three balls ofthe innings for England's victory.

India vs England 3rd T20

Suryakumar Yadav's 117 runs invain, India lost match by 17 runs

Brief scores :England 215/7 in 20 overs (DawoodMalan 77, Liam Livingstone 42 notout; Ravi Bishnoi 2/30, Harshal Patel2/35). India-198/9 (Suryakumar Yadav117, Shreyas Iyer 28; Reece Topley 3/22,Chris Jordan 2/37.


Being part of a realityshow and showing thereal side is often loved

by many TV actors and thesame goes for Sehban Azim.

Azim is playing the leadrole of 'Yohan' in the TV show'Spy Bahu'. The actor sharedwhy despite being keen ondoing reality shows, he could-n't be part of them till now.

He said: "I always find real-ity shows very interesting, butsomehow I have never beenpart of any of them as everytime I get an offer, I'm alwaysshooting for fiction shows

and it seems difficult for meto manage time."

He added: "I enjoy photog-raphy. But as currently I'mshooting for my show, I havenot been able to find time foranything, even for photogra-phy. As our show 'Spy Bahu'is not a usual 'Saas-Bahu'drama and we tend to have alot of outdoor shoots, it hasbeen a hectic schedule to findtime for anything else."

Sehban, who is popular forhis roles in shows like 'TujhseHai Raabta' and 'Dill MillGayye', elaborated that he isquite happy with his currentproject.

Shachi Chaturvedi |Mumbai

Taapsee Pannu is set toplay Mithali Raj in hernext sports drama.

While talking about the sameshe mentioned how she hasnever played cricket in herlife even though she hasplayed other sports. "I'venever played cricket before.Learning the body posture,the game, and everythingelse was quite challenging forme. It took me months toperfect the shorts I had to doon film. I'm still unaware ofhow to play the game.Basically, I have learned the

answer to the questions thatwere asked in the questionpaper. " Said Taapsee.

Later talking about the choic-es of film and taking up prep-heavy film Taapsee said "Moviesfeaturing famous actors do notcome to me. I haven't made adecision yet, but I don't havemany alternatives. Only filmsthat no one wants to make cometo me. It's either too risky to takethose films or too out of the boxonly" The actor continues "now,I'm putting a halt to any prep-heavy films since they're taking amental toll on me. I don't mindseeing a health professional if Ifeel the necessity"

Aakruti Bagla|Mumbai

As a part of the promotion, a video was shared by themakers in which the actor was seen in double roles,just like his upcoming period drama. Titled The

Other Kapur Show, it saw Ranbir Kapoor in a conversationwith Ranbir Kapur. Overall, the video featured the Sanjuactor roasting himself, his career and even his marriageceremony with actress Alia Bhatt.During a media interac-tion, when Absolute India News exclusively quizzed hisinitial reaction when the idea was presented to him andhis inputs in this process.

Talking about it, the actor quipped, "I genuinelybelieved in whatever I said. I participated and collaboratedwith writers on that script for a week so that we could givethe audience an entertaining video. Since I am playing adouble role in the film, we had the idea that lets subcon-sciously do something where Ranbir interviews Ranbir. Soit wasn't just some words that were given to me and I justread it. I am aware of my faults, my own disadvantages andthe things that are said about me. Also, I like self-deprecat-ing humour and poking fun at myself. That was the overallidea and it was a lot of fun."

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RANBIR ON TAKING ADIG AT HIS FLOP FILMS


Riteish Deshmukhrevealed in 2021 that hewill make his directori-

al debut with the Marathifilm Ved. In addition toRiteish, Ved will star his wife,actress Genelia Deshmukh,Jiya Shankar, Ashok Saraf,and Shubhankar Tawde.Now, Riteish has revealedthat Salman Khan wouldappear in his film as a cameo.Deshmukh conveyed histhanks to Salman anduploaded photos of them

from the set of his directorialdebut on his social mediaprofile.

Riteish thanked the actorfor his support and captionedthe photos: "As we celebrateAshadi Ekadashi, I wish youall a life filled happiness, loveand prosperity. On this aus-picious day it thrills me to saythat with your kind blessingsI have completed filming myfirst directorial Marathimovie '???' (Madness, Crazy,Passion). This road had itsown challenges but whenyou are surrounded with

people that have your back,forward is the only way youcan go." Further, he added:"One such person is my dear-est 'Salman Bhau'@beingsalmankhan, I haveno words to express my grati-tude for the grace and kind-ness he has shown towardsGenelia and me. He was partof my debut marathi film 'LaiBhaari' and now he is a partof my debut directorial film???. Love you Bhau. ?????????? ???? !!! ????? ??????????????????. Riteish VilasraoDeshmukh."

Riteish extended histhanks to Salman Khan

Taapsee: I'm putting a halt to any

prep-heavy films

Sehban Azimshares his interest

in doing realityshows

Heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor is return-ing to the big screens after a hiatusof four years. The actor was last seenin 2018 in Sanju. Currently, the actoris vehemently promoting his upcom-ing period drama Shamshera.


Alia Bhatt recently took the internetby storm after she announced thenews of her pregnancy. Shortly after

her wedding in April, the actress jetted offto shoot for her Hollywood debut inLondon.

On 9th July, the actress informed herfans and followers that she has wrappedup shooting for the film and is returning tothe bay. On 10th June the mommy-to-bewas clicked at the airport. To surprise her,

Ranbir Kapoor also came to the airport topick her up. The two shared a super sweethug as they met each other.

To note, Alia Bhatt's baby bump wasevident in the pictures. The actress optedfor a comfy black and white outfit as shearrived.On the work front, Alia Bhatt isgearing up for Brahmastra alongside AyanMukerji. Apart from this, she has Rockyaur Rani ki Prem Kahani in her pipeline.The diva is also going to mark her debutas a producer with her maiden ventureDarlings.

Aliareturns to the bay after

wrapping up the shoot of her

HW debut


After dating each other for a longtime, actor Payal Rohatgi andwrestler Sangram Singh have

finally embarked on a new chapter oftheir lives. The much-loved pair tied theknot with each other on July 9 in Agra.Post the couple's dreamy wedding, theytreated fans with a glimpse of their bigday. Sharing the pictures, she captioned

"??yal ke Sang???".For her wedding, Payal donned a

beautiful red bridal lehenga, which shepaired with heavy jewellery. She com-pleted her look with choodas, lookingpicture-perfect as ever. While the bridelooked elegant in her traditional avatar,her groom complemented her in a whitesherwani. For the unversed, the much-in-love couple took nuptial vows in thepresence of their family members and

close friends. The couple started datingin 2011 and got engaged in 2014.However, their wedding got delayedmultiple times due to various reasons.Their pre-wedding festivities for the twobegan on 6th July, with Payal hosting anintimate Mehendi ceremony at her resi-dence in Ahmedabad.

The two met while shooting for thereality show, Survivor India, in 2011,where their love blossomed.

Payal -Sangramtie the knot

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