A DOMINANT, DEFIANT AND OVERCONFIDENT YOGILAYS ...

Born In 18th Century, India’s Oldest Man Gets Vaccinated @125 in Varanasi

Vishal Srivastav

Varanasi: As the state government officials are seen running be-hind the irate villagers to vaccinate them, here’s a man who is shutting them up with a swag of his own and

that too at the age of 125 years (precisely).

Certainly India’s old-est and probably world’s oldest as well, a 125-year-old seer from Varanasi is giving the young and old a run for their mon-ey as he recently got vac-cinated against Covid-19

at a city hospital here.Swami Sivananda, a

Yoga Ratna award win-ner, who despite being

well past the twilight of his life, walked into the Urban Community Health Centre and got a Covidshield dosage on his left arm which wasn’t that muscular anymore but grit surely holds a lot of meat! The disciples of Swami Si-vananda arrived at the Urban Community Health Center in the dis-trict and requested Dr Sarika Rai, the medical officer in charge, to im-munize Baba. Turn to P6

Swami Shivanand getting vaccinated at Urban Community Health Centre in Varanasi.

Swami Sivananda, who holds a Yoga Ratna Award and follows rigorous discipline, is giving vax escapees a run for their money

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The next solar eclipse of the year 2021 will appear on December 4.

Sun rises to the left of the US Capitol in Wash-ington. The celestial phenomenon on Thursday be-gan its progression across northeastern US as well as parts of Canada, Greenland, Europe and Asia.

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New Delhi/ Lucknow:A dominant, defiant and over-confident UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who air-

dashed from Lucknow to New Delhi on Thurs-day morning, even after meeting a ‘powerful’ Amit Shah for an hour and a half, still kept eve-ryone guessing in pow-er corridors of New

Delhi. Most of the rele-vant people in BJP and RSS are clueless as to what has been exactly ‘discussed’ between Shah and Yogi but sources close to Yogi in-dicated that the Chief Minister had a ‘plain talk’ with the Union

Home Minister, who had played a vital role in bringing the saffron party to power in Uttar Pradesh in 2017 and also had a key role in nomi-nating Yogi as the Chief Minister in place of Manoj Sinha at the elev-enth hour. During Shah-Yogi meeting, Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal leader) was also summoned by

Amit Shah for ‘consul-tations’ as she is also being considered for a cabinet berth in Modi cabinet or some power-ful ministry in Yogi gov-ernment at Lucknow. However, after meeting Shah, Yogi tweeted and displayed his gratitude to the Union Home Min-

ister for giving time and guidance.

Yogi’s main bone of contention is to stop or dilute any likely cabi-net reshuffle including the nomination of AK Sharma (Home and DOP) and Brijesh Pathak (Health) as the two new deputy chief

ministers and also any other likely major change in party organi-zation in Uttar Pradesh.

The second point which Yogi reportedly raised before Amit Shah and will further raise before Narendra Modi and JP Nadda on Friday, relates to induction of a

UP Congress leader JI-tin Prasada into BJP ap-parently without any prior consultation with the Chief Minister. Dur-ing the last four years, Jitin Prasada, who pro-jects himself as a power-ful Brahmin leader, had always raised his ‘voice’ against Yogi saying that a ‘tough’ Yogi had been targeting only Brahmin mafias and not taking any action against Thakur mafia in the field. Jitin’s reference was to a police encoun-ter of a Brahmin gang-ster Vikas Dubey.

Keeping in mind Yo-gi’s strong protest on this issue, under advice from top leadership and specially Amit Shah, Ji-tin Prasada rushed to UP Bhawan to make a ‘cour-

tesy call’ on Yogi but the meeting between the two was reportedly ‘luke-warm’. Another leader - Satyapal Singh - was also present at UP Bhawan.

Meanwhile, a ‘con-cerned’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi sum-moned BJP President JP Nadda to exactly know and assess Yogi’s mind for today’s meet-ing with Yogi, who has already sent a proper agenda or talking points with Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and JP Na-dda. Modi feels that a soft spoken and grass-root worker Nadda has a good equation with the monk turned CM - Yogi - and therefore the meeting was held at the initiative of the Prime Minister. Turn to P2

Patna: The Bihar health department, which Wednesday add-ed 3,951 uncounted cor-onavirus-related deaths to the state’s overall tally, said it had to re-vise the data as the number of deaths caused due to the infec-tion in private hospitals and clinics until June 7 were still not accounted for. The addition saw India reporting the highest number of Cov-id-19 deaths – 6,148 – on any day since the begin-ning of the pandemic last year.

The state depart-ment had set up two health committees to audit the Covid death toll after facing flak over reports of discrep-ancy between govern-ment and municipal corporations’ data.

According to the re-vised death toll, Bihar has so far reported 9,429 Covid deaths, including about 1,500 in the first wave. Patna alone ac-counted for 2,303 Covid deaths – an addition of 1,070 to the earlier fig-ure of 1,229.

Leading government hospitals AIIMS, Patna and Patna Medical Col-lege Turn to P6

A DOMINANT, DEFIANT AND OVERCONFIDENTYOGI LAYS DOWN HIS AGENDA BEFORE SHAH!

‘NO RIVER IN MUMBAI TO DUMP BODIES’Mumbai: Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar retali-ated today over opposi-tion BJP’s allegations of under-reporting in Covid deaths, remarking that there are no rivers in the city where bodies can be dumped. “Data of Covid deaths are not being hid-den,” said Pednekar.

BIHAR RECOUNTS DEADThe COVID-19 death toll in Bihar jumped by a whopping 72.84% after a recount by the government as RJD accused Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of fudging data

Bihar sends water samples for Covid contamination testingPatna: Days after bod-ies were found floating in Ganga in the state, samples collected from the river have been sent for testing to check for COVID-19 contamina-tion in the water, in-formed Bihar State Pol-lution Control Board Scientist, Navin Kumar.

“The sampling of Ganga river is a routine thing which we carry out on a regular basis. The pollution board keeps on investigating the quality of water of the Ganga river. But as you know that there were reports of bodies of COVID-19 victims dis-posed of in the river, so,

Turn to P6

INVESTIGATION ON THE MIXING JABS OF COVID VACCINES SOONNew Delhi: India plans to embark soon on an exercise to investigate if it can immunise people using a “mix and match” of different Covid-19 vaccines. This would mean following up one dose of a particular vaccine with a second dose of a different vaccine. In scientifi c terms, this is called “heterologous” immunisation. In India, whose vaccination programme currently uses Covishield, Covaxin and Sputnik V, this practice has not been approved yet. Other countries have already been testing this out. Some scientists believe that using a different vaccine for the second dose could potentially boost the immune response against the virus. This may especially be true for viral vector vaccines like Covishield.

AIIMS: VACCINE BOOSTER CAN HIKE IMMUNITY, HELP COMBAT VARIANTS

RIGHT TO LIFE: GIVE WALK-IN VACCINES FOR ALL, SAYS RAHUL

New Delhi: Dr Sanjeev Sinha of AIIMS said that booster dose of the covid vaccine can increase immunity and also help in combating a variant of concern. “People who took vaccine in January didn’t get any serious side effect during second wave” Dr Sinha said.

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said those who do not have access to internet also have the right to life and every-one should be able to enter a vaccine centre and get jab with online registration.

Change of heart? Modi is topleader of country, BJP: RautMumbai: Days after the one-on-one meeting be-tween Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi, Shiv Sena lead-er Sanjay Raut on Thurs-day said Modi is the top leader of the country and the BJP. He made the statement in response to a question on whether he felt that Modi’s popular-ity is on a downslide as

media reports suggested that RSS is contemplat-ing to project state lead-ers as the face in the state elections. Turn to P6

MAHA GOVT WILL LAST FULL TERM: PAWARMumbai: NCP president Sharad Pawar on June 10 said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maha-rashtra will complete its full term and praised ally Shiv Sena, saying it is party which one can trust. The remarks came against the backdrop of the one-on-one meeting between Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on June 8.

11 dead after building collapses on another

Mumbai: At least 11 people, out of which eight were children, were killed and seven injured after a double-storey structure col-lapsed on another in a slum at Malwani, Malad (West), late on Wednes-day night. The incident took place after the city witnessed heavy rain-

fall throughout the day. Search and rescue op-erations are underway.

According to the BMC disaster manage-ment cell, the incident was reported around 11.10 pm from the New Collector compound slum on Abdul Hamid road in Malvani gate no 8 area. Turn to P6

BOXER DINGKO SINGH NO MORE

DIR. BUDDHADEB DASGUPTA GONE!

New Delhi: Asian Games gold medal-win-ning former boxer Dingko Singh (42), who inspired a generation of Indian pugilists with his swashbuckling ring craft and fl amboyant personality, died on Thursday after a long battle with liver cancer.

Kolkata: Eminent fi lm director Buddhadeb Dasgupta died in Kolkata on Thursday due to kidney related ailments, family members said. He was 77. The national award-winning director was under dialysis.

FLOATING BODIES IN GANGA

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut

Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray visits people injured in house collapsed at Shatabdi Hospital in Mumbai on Thursday.

After 90-minute long meeting with Amit Shah, Yogi slated to meet Modi and Nadda today Yogi still reluctant on likely cabinet reshuffl e, opposes AK Sharma and Jitin Prasada’s entry in his cabinet Prasada calls on Yogi, only to get a ‘lukewarm’ response Modi takes brief from Nadda to know and assess Yogi’s ‘mind’ BJP mulling of giving tickets to Muslims to counter SP

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath meets Home Minister Amit Shah, in New Delhi on Thursday.

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Luckno: Uttar Pradesh is in favour of reducing taxes on Covid relief items such as ventila-tors, oxygen concentra-tors, PPE kits etc to im-prove their cheaper ac-cess to the masses and help the nation to be better prepared for any possible wave of Cov-id-19, according to state finance minister Suresh Khanna.

Khanna, who is part of the Group of Minis-

ters (GoM) set up by the GST Council, said that the state has conveyed its views and sugges-tions to the council and was confident that the same would be accepted soon.

“We have offered re-lief to people in the worst of times during the build up of the pan-demic last year by keep-ing our own VAT rates unchanged on key fuel items such as petrol and diesel,” the minis-ter pointed out.

He indicated that the current rate of VAT of Rs 26.80 per litre on pet-

rol and 17.48 per litre on diesel may not increase during the second wave

of the pandemic as well and resources needed for meeting growing ex-penditure would be met from other sources like promotion of indus-tries, infrastructure development and gen-eration of non-tax rev-enue across Uttar Pradesh.

“We want to main-tain complete fiscal discipline even in these difficult times. This would not mean that state would cut expenditure and re-

duce funding for wel-fare schemes. Re-sources would be mo-bilised through other measures that also promotes industriali-sation and generated growth,” the Finance Minister told select journalists.

Khanna also said that things on fiscal front for the state were much better compared to last year when lock-downs and Covid pan-demic impacted eco-nomic activities badly.

UP for GST cut on C-relief items in public interestWELFARE ORIENTED

Finance Minister Suresh Khanna

ALL EYES ON MODI-YOGI MEET TODAYFrom Page 1

Lucknow: According to sources, Nadda as-sured Modi that he will suitably handle the UP Chief Minister, who is a hardcore BJP-RSS worker and will never create a situation in which the party ulti-mately suffers in the upcoming 2022 assem-bly polls. It is believed that under Mohan Bhagwat’s advice, the request for time from UP CM’s office to Home Minister’s office was made on June 9 morn-ing, after which the ap-pointments were expe-dited and Yogi was called by the top BJP leadership to amicably sort out the issues, spe-cially the upcoming cabinet reshuffle and other organizational changes. At this junc-ture someone has also suggested to Modi-Shah-Nadda to promote a young Brahmin lead-er Jitin Prasada as the deputy chief minister (via MLC route) in place of AK Sharma who, in spite of being a nomi-nee of the Prime Minis-ter, has unfortunately become a centre of con-troversy. Sharma’s de-tractors say ‘bhumi-hars’, the caste from which he (Sharma) hails constitute just a miniscule 1.5 per cent of the State’s popula-tion and are already well-represented in the Yogi cabinet by two ministers - Surya Pratap Shahi and Upen-dra Tiwari. But Prasa-da’s likely entry in Yogi cabinet is being strong-ly protested by Yogi himself. In this context, Yogi also reportedly re-

jected the theory of Brahmins being ne-glected and side lined during his 4.5 year long rule and said that it is only a propaganda against him by the Con-gress.

In one more major de-velopment, BJP and RSS top leadership is slowly getting comfortable with the idea of giving tickets to Muslims also to stop or pre-empt Sa-majwadi party’s move to

consolidate Muslim votes in 2022 elections.

Yogi’s meetings with PM Modi and party President Nadda this morning is also being considered as ‘impor-tant events’ which will

give a final shape to the party’s UP agenda but the announcement of final package will also require a prior consulta-tion with Amit Shah.

However, the curious

part of the entire story revolves around AK Sharma’s likely induc-tion as Dy CM and also some powerful position-ing of Jitin Prasada in Lucknow.

CS boosts setting up of CBG plants

First India Bureau

Lucknow:Chief Secre-tary Rajendra Kumar Tiwari on Thursday headed a meeting to en-courage establishment of Compressed Biogas (CBG) plants across the state.

In his address at the meeting, the Chief Secretary en-couraged the develop-ers/FPOs and other businessmen of CBG plants for collection, storage and transpor-tation of biogas and said that pricing of biomass will be based on the availability of agricultural waste in Gram Panchayat/Tehsil.

He added that in ad-dition to the land of Gram Panchayat, for the storage of stubble, instructions were also given to use the land of sugar mills/animal shelter/horticulture department for the pur-pose.

Chief Secretary Ra-

jendra Kumar Tiwari further said that in or-der to encourage set-ting up of Sugarcane press mud based CBG plants, government and private sector sugar mills as well as munici-pal corporation will as-sess the availability of agriculture waste and

encourage developers to set up CBG plants to utilise the waste pro-duced. The meeting that took place via vid-eo conferencing was at-tended by Additional Chief Secretary Ener-gy Alok Sinha, Special Secretary Energy Bha-wani Singh Khagrawat and senior administra-tive officers of related departments.

DM ‘zooms’ in to talk with newly elected Gram Pradhans on covidFirst India Bureau

L u c k n ow : D i s t r i c t Magistrate of Lucknow, Abhishek Prakash on Thursday spoke to the newly elected Gram Pradhans of Lucknow in a zoom meeting to take stock of the prepa-rations to combat Covid 19 and the ongoing vac-cination process. He also emphasised on in-tegrated development of rural areas.

The DM in the meet said that development works across all villag-es should be done by fol-lowing Covid 19 proto-

cols. As per instruc-tions of CM Yogi Adity-anath, rate of Covid infection was con-trolled by working in solidarity and unity, which brought down active cases count in district to less than 600

and and has resulted in withdrawal of Corona curfew. He said Gram Pradhans have an im-portant role to play as everyone has high ex-pectations from them. The DM said said cent percent mask should be

used in social gather-ing and asked Pradhans to make sure that all the Covid protocols are being followed.

The Pradhans should also make people aware that they should not go out in vain, he added.

‘83 colleges in UP to get new Principals’First India Bureau

Lucknow: Deputy CM Dr. Dinesh Sharma, t informed that 83 new principals will be ap-pointed soon in many inter-colleges of the state. He added that the candidates have been selected by direct re-cruitment through the Combined State Senior Subordinate Services Examination-2018, .

Sharma said that out of the 83 candidates se-lected by the Public Ser-vice Commission, the department has re-ceived recommenda-

tion of 61 candidates while the recommenda-tion of the remaining 22 is currently under process. He added that the appointment letters will be issued to these 61 candidates only after the submission of veri-fication letter and self-declaration letter by the candidates.

The CS said that pricing of biomass will

be based on the availability of agri

waste in respective Gram Panchayats/

Tehsils.

C-PROTOCOL MUST

CM Yogi has con-veyed his greetings

and best wishes to all the people of the state on the occasion of Shani Jayanti on Thursday.

Chief Minister Yogi has expressed grief

on the death of people when a wall collapsed due to heavy rains in Jagdishpur Village in Sitapur District and asked offi cials to provide prescribed relief and compensation to the kins of deceased.

CM Yogi has asked officials to im-

mediately undertake relief and rescue op-erations with the help of NDRF and SDRF teams in a drowning incident of some women in Ganga river in Mirzapur district.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has

asked officials to take feedbacks on ration distribution, sanitisa-tion and vaccination in rural regions of Uttar Pradesh

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath gifts a book on migrant crisis to Home Minister Amit Shah during his meeting in New Delhi on Thursday. He is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP’s party chief JP Nadda today.

Dr Dinesh Sharma

CS RK Tiwari presiding over the meet on CBG plants.DM during the zoom meet with village pradhans.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath leaves after meeting Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday.

Amit Shah with Anupriya Patel on Thursday.

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Narendra Modi

Mohan Bhagwat JP Nadda

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First India Bureau

Lucknow: Bringing down the mercury to keep at bay the extreme hot and humid condi-tions, Lucknow and ad-joining areas witnessed a consistent spell of rain on Thursday morning. The build up to the heavy rains began late from Wednesday night when dark clouds hov-

ered over the Lucknow skyline. The rain lashed the capital city of Luc-know causing waterlog-ging in parts of the city.

The India Meteoro-logical Department (IMD) had predicted thunderstorms with light to moderate inten-sity rain in parts of UP on Thursday.

“Thunderstorm with light to moderate inten-

sity rain would occur over and adjoining are-

as of Milak, Billari, Badaun, Ganjdund-

wara, Chandausi, Baha-joi, Sahaswan, Kasganj during next 2 hours,” IMD tweeted at 10:20 am.

“Thunderstorm with light to moderate inten-sity rain would occur over and adjoining are-as of Chandpur, Ram-pur, Moradabad, Billari, Amroha, Garhmuktesh-war, Siyana (UP) during next 2 hours,” it said in another tweet at 9:25.

In its daily bulletin, IMD predicted lightning and gusty winds (speed reaching 30-40 kmph) at isolated places over U’Khand, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, UP, and West MP for the day.

Meanwhile, IMD says, Kanpur will experience a “generally cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain or thundershow-ers” today.

ANIMALS & HUMANS ALIKE IN LKOANIMALS & HUMANS ALIKE IN LKORAIN QUENCHES

The India Meteorological

Department had predicted

thunderstorms with light to

moderate rain in parts of UP

Clouds started building up from

Wednesday night & heavy rains led to

water logging in many parts of the capital city

COVID-19 UPDATEDECLINE CONTINUES

17,01,072TOTAL CASES

642 CASES IN A DAY

21,597TOTAL DEATHS82 DEATHS IN A DAY

16,67,232TOTAL RECOVERED1,231 RECOVERED IN A DAY

12,243ACTIVE CASES

38 MAX CASES IN VARANASI

KEY-HIGHLIGHTSThe maximum 38 cases

surfaced in Varanasi, 37 in Lucknow, 30 in

Gorakhpur, 24 each in Azamgarh, Gautam

Buddh Nagar and Agra and 23 each in

Ghaziabad and Meerut.

In the past 24 hours, 1,231 patients have

recovered, taking the number of cured people to 16,67,232.

Of the fresh 82 deaths, 15 were reported from Kanpur Nagar, eight from Gorakhpur, fi ve from Bareilly, four each from Saharanpur, Agra, Deoria, Jhansi, Gonda, three each from Ghaziabad, Meerut, Lakhimpur Kheri and two each from Rae Bareli, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Hapur and Balrampur.

Lucknow: The founda-tion stone for repair work of Kanchana Bi-hari Marg (Ring Marg to Macaulay tempo stand) in Lucknow was jointly laid by Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Mau-rya and Minister of Urban Development, Urban Employment and Poverty Allevia-tion Ashutosh Tandon

on Thursday. A total of Rs 151.43 lakh would be spent on this road of Kan-chana Bihari Marg be-ing constructed/reno-vated by Public Works Department. This route is the main road of Shankarpurwa-I and Shankarpurwa-II area, which connects a large population to the city. Road construction will be of great convenience to the people of the area.

First India Bureau

Lucknow: As the covid situation continues to get better across the country, Uttar Pradesh recorded yet another low in terms of fresh cases the number of deaths continue to re-main on the higher side.

Eighty-two more peo-ple died in UP on Thurs-day as 642 fresh cases surfaced, taking the state’s infection number to 17,01,072, according to a Health Department bulletin.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic last year, the virus has claimed 21,597 lives in the state.

Of the fresh 82 deaths, 15 were reported from Kanpur Nagar, eight from Gorakhpur, five from Bareilly, four each from Saharanpur, Agra, Deoria, Jhansi, Gonda, three each from Ghazi-abad, Meerut, Lakhim-pur Kheri and two each from Rae Bareli, Pilib-hit, Shahjahanpur, Hapur and Balrampur.

One death each was reported from Varana-

si, Allahabad, Buland-shahr, Ayodhya, Mathu-ra, Siddharthnagar, Maharajganj, Amroha, Unnao, Bijnor, Mir-zapur, Auraiya, Chan-dauli, Hathras and Kan-nauj, the bulletin said.

The maximum 38 cases surfaced in Vara-nasi, 37 in Lucknow, 30 in Gorakhpur, 24 each in Azamgarh, Gautam Buddh Nagar and Agra and 23 each in Ghazi-abad and Meerut.

In last 24 hours, 1,231 patients have recovered from the disease.

New C cases drop to 642, but deaths continue to be on the higher side

WHAT COVID PROTOCOL? Reckless public behaviour like this is the reason why covid gets out of our hands.

UP SCRAPS GLOBAL VAX TENDER

QUICK READSMAN ARRESTED FOR FRAUD

FAKE TTE GANG OPERATING OUT OF KANPUR CENTRAL BUSTED

OPEN PLACES OF WORSHIP IN THE STATE: FIRANGI MAHALI TO GOVT

Noida: A 26-year-old man was arrested in Noida on Thursday for allegedly duping people with counterfeit Indian currency notes, according to the police. The ac-cused, held by Sector 58 police station cops, is part of a larger network that cons people using fake notes, a police spokes-person said. An FIR was lodged in the case on June 6 after which in-vestigation was taken up and one accused Aman, was arrested earlier, the spokesperson said.

Kanpur: A joint team of RPF and GRP nabbed more than a dozen fake TTEs and the fraudsters who trained them. Initial investigation has revealed that a criminal gang was training some people in the name of getting jobs in the railways by giving them fake ID cards, appointment letters. The GRP has registered a case against one of the agents of the gang.

Lucknow: Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahali has demanded from the government to open places of worship in the state. He said that places of worship should be al-lowed to open with 50 per cent capacity along with implementation of Cov-id-19 guidelines. Firangi Mahali said “People are in despair and depression for a long time due to not being able to visit places of woship. Both prayer and medicine are necessary to end Corona.”

First India Bureau

Lucknow: A 2-day meeting of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple Construction Commit-tee will be held on June 13 and 14 at Circuit House, Faizabad from 3 pm onwards.

Committee chairman Nripendra Mishra would chair the meeting. He will inspect the con-struction work and re-flect on the future plans. He will remain in Ayod-

hya on June 13 and 14.According to trust

sources, the members who would not be able to attend the meeting

due to some reason could participate in the meeting from their own place through virtual medium.

2-day meeting on construction of Ram Temple to be held from June 13

Agra: At least four people were killed and 11 others injured when a bus rammed a station-

ary truck on National Highway-2 at Chhalesar flyover here on Thursday morning, the police said.

The incident took place around 4:30 am under Et-madpur police station. The UP roadways bus was going to Agra bus station from Kanpur, they said.The bus climbed onto a

road divider after it rammed ithe truck, Sub-Inspector Udaiveer Singh said. The deceased have been identified as Mani (60), Resham (65), Mandleshwar (28) and Narendra Chauhan (52).

4 killed as roadways bus rams truck on Agra-Knp highway

The proposed temple design

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First India Bureau

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh crossed the significant landmark with over 50- lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccines administered to those between the age groups of 18 and 44. UP be-comes the first state to inoculate the maxi-mum number of youth

The state under CM Yogi was the first in the country to start the free vaccination drive to in-oculate people above 18 years of age.

“Right now we are ad-ministering around 4 lakh doses every day, it

should be increased to around 5 to 6 lakhs with-in the next two-three days. The target is to ex-pand the daily dose ca-pacity to 10-12 lakh by July. To meet the new target, intensify the number of vaccinators by giving training to the nursing students amongst others,” said a senior CMO official.

He said instructions have been issued by CM to ramp up the vaccina-tion drive by inoculat-ing 10 lakh doses a day and cover at least 10 crore people in the next 3 months as soon as the ‘Mission June’ ends.

First India Bureau

Mirzapur: A woman and a girl got drowned while bathing in Ganga in Mirzapur district on Thursday morning.

As per reports, six women and a girl, who had come to attend a wedding in Gopalpur Madguda village of Vin-dhyachal police station area of Mirzapur dis-trict, had gone to the Mallhiya Ghat on Thursday to take bath. Six women and a teen-ager started to drown in the river. On seeing this the other women saved five of them by throw-ing a sari while a wom-an and a teenager drowned in deep water. SHO Sheshdhar Pandey, Ashtabhuja outpost in-charge Navneet Chaura-sia launched a search for both through divers, but failed to succeed.

UP first to cross the 50Ljabs mark in 18+ category

2 drown in Ganges while taking bath

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IT KUMAR

REPAIR AT LAST?

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BIHAR AUDIT REVEALS A DEADLY TRUTH

ntil now Bihar, like many of its neigh-bouring states, was under-reporting Cov-id-19 deaths. In a dra-

matic turnaround on June 8 the state officials revised the num-ber of deaths from 5,424 to 9,375, with 3,951 more deaths which were not recorded. This came to be revealed after an audit of deaths by health experts at the district level. The audit itself was carried out on the direc-tions of the Patna High Court which took note of the bodies floating in the Ganga in Buxar.

Some of Bihar’s neighbours have suppressed not only the real numbers of positive cases but also of deaths. The claim that there have been fewer deaths in India compared to some other countries is some-thing which the world is not ready to buy. Some governments may pat their backs after hiding the real numbers from people at large but the families which have lost their loved ones to the virus know the truth even with-out an audit.

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n the post Cov-id-19 world na-tions have become extra cautious about ensuring

that the viral disease does not flare up again. They have banned flights from countries where the positivity rate is still high to prevent possible carriers of the coronavirus. After all, the deadly virus has killed millions besides leav-ing people traumatized across the globe. Economies have been adversely affected. Even as nations are limping back to normal, there’s talk of a third wave in the UK and of cases rising again in the US. The only advantage these two countries, and those in the European Union have is that their vaccination drive is moving at a very fast pace.

That is why there’s a new travel vocabulary being ban-died about--- vaccine pass-port. Countries allowing en-try to travellers want them to mandatorily carry vaccina-tion certificates. Nine coun-tries including Denmark are ready with digital certifi-

cates and other countries in the European Union are working on the feasibility of digital passports for travel-lers to show that they have been fully vaccinated. Efforts are on to make a digital pass-port or app acceptable to all. India is also working on link-ing Co-WIN vaccine certifi-cates to passports of those going abroad for studies, jobs or for the Tokyo Olympics.

The problem arises with countries like India where there are not enough vaccines. The facility of digital certifi-cate extended will act as a fa-cilitator, but only for those who have got Covishield, which is the same as Astrazen-eca, shots. Covishield will also be acceptable globally. This puts those who get Covaxin or Sputnik-V at a disadvantage.

VACCINE PASSPORT FOR TRAVELLERS

The problem arises with countries like India where there are not enough vaccines. The facility of

digital certificate extended will act as a facilitator, but only for

those who have got Covishield, which is the

same as Astrazeneca, shots

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IF YOU NEED AUTHORITY, SHOW ACCOUNTABILITY FIRST

t’s a common process. The team completes a strategic meeting. There are several initiatives which everyone agrees are important to com-plete by the end of the quar-ter. Everyone at the table says they will contribute to get it all done, but when the end of the quarter arrives, very lit-tle of the list actually got ac-complished. It’s not that these were bad people or that they didn’t work hard. In fact, they were likely all re-sponsible members of the team with full authority to take required decisions. The problem was that no one was actually accountable for making sure the initiatives were complete. Many people can be responsible for help-ing out on a task or initiative. But accountability belongs to a person who will be judged on completion of the project.

Let’s take an example of Henry Ford who was the own-

er of the famous Ford motors. Once while addressing the company employees, he said, “Life is an ocean of experi-ence! Every experience teach-es us new things”. He said, “There are employees who do not work with heart. This is not good. The smallest work assigned to each employee is also important in the compa-ny. If you believe that the own-ership is yours in the real sense, it will take the company to the 7th sky. Every employee should work with great owner-ship and I don’t think that an accountable employee needs any monitoring.” He advised the employees to split their work into smaller sections, which also makes the work of each unit easy. This technique not only worked miracles on their productivity but also el-evated the company’s value in the eyes of the employees.

Truly accountable people are very hard to find. Ac-countability comes from within, it is not something you are given, you have to choose it to own it. When re-sponsibility is forced upon people, they are often resist-ant or even resentful. Highly accountable people willingly take on responsibility and

actively manage it so it gets done. They make sure once the initiative has their name on it, no one else needs to worry about its completion.

Moreover, highly account-able people don’t throw oth-ers under the bus for their own missteps or inaction. They don’t blame others for their mistakes. Rather, they own their mistakes, admit it and try to take corrective ac-

tions on time. They also don’t excuse themselves based upon outside influences. They do good analysis and solve problems as they arise.

Part of what makes them trustworthy is their efficien-cy and dependability to not waste a minute of other peo-ple’s time or their own. They understand that every as-signment has a time value and that punctuality serves a purpose. They do not wait to be checked or monitored by others but work proactively and diligently with the team to finish the job. When some-thing gets in the way, they as-sess it, resolve it and commu-nicate proactively to make sure everyone is on board with the adjusted result.

Accountable people own the task from within, they don’t expect praise from out-side. They get their satisfac-tion from delivering quality products on time with a team that feels great about the ac-complishment.

No Excuses, I am myself responsible for my assign-ments, my duties, my actions, that’s what Accountable peo-ple exemplify.

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY

THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

IBHAVESH UPADHYAY

Business/ HR Expert

Truly accountable people are very hard to find.

Accountability comes from within, it is not something you are given, you have to

choose it to own it. When responsibility is forced

upon people, they are often resistant or even resentful. Highly accountable people

willingly take on responsibility and actively

manage it so it gets done

Part of what makes them trustworthy is their

efficiency and dependability to not

waste a minute of other people’s time or their

own. They understand that every assignment has a time value and

that punctuality serves a purpose. They do not wait to be checked or

monitored by others but work proactively and

diligently with the team to finish the job

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Born In 18th Century...At first unable to un-derstand what was to come, Dr Rai said that they could come at 12 noon. However, when the disciple reached the vaccination center with the Baba and his Aadhar card for regis-tration was checked, the staff was shocked to see his date of birth mentioned as August 8, 1896.

As soon as the news about his age spread, the health workers sit-ting in their respective chambers came to see

him. Post registration, Baba was vaccinated with Covishield vac-cine after which he blessed the health workers and said that he would be saved from Corona.

Sivanand Baba said that no one should be afraid of the vaccina-tion and there was no problem getting vacci-nated as he was feeling fine and more energet-ic than before.

Sivanand Baba does not like milk and fruits in food, but eats only boiled food, that too until only he is half

full. He was born on August 8, 1896 in Sri-hatt district of Bangla-desh.

His parents were very poor and made a living through beg-ging. After his parents died of hunger, the Baba took a vow to eat only half the food he requires for his body. He took holy vows at the ashram and then moved to Vrindavan in 1977. After living in Vrindavan for two years, he came to Kashi in 1979 and has been living there since thereafter.

Bihar recounts...and Hospital (PMCH) reported 376 and 396 deaths, respectively, Nalanda Medical Col-lege and Hospital and Indira Gandhi Insti-tute of Medical Sci-ences reported 483 and 265 deaths, respective-ly, only in the months of April and May this year.

Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Pratyaya Amrit told reporters on Wednes-day: “We had set up two committees, who reassessed Covid death toll, taking into

account unaccounted deaths in private hos-pitals and other plac-es… We are issuing showcause notices to some officials for laxi-ty on this count.”

Bihar sends...we are conducting tests to check wheth-er the river has been contaminated with coronavirus or not,” Kumar told ANI.

He mentioned that the initiative of con-ducting such an in-vestigation of the river water was taken through the National

Mission for Ganga under the Jal Shakti Ministry, in collabo-ration with the Indi-an Institute for Toxi-cological Research (IITR), Lucknow, which is a laboratory of the Council of Sci-entific and Industrial Research (CSIR), state pollution con-trol board, and the district administra-tion.

Kumar said that the team collected sam-ples from river Ganga on June 1 in Buxar and on June 5 in Pat-na, Bhojpur and Sa-

ran, adding that the samples have been sent to Lucknow for testing the reports of which are awaited.

11 dead...The slum pocket has come up on Collector’s land. The local Mal-wani police and fire brigade officials are at the spot, carrying out rescue operations. The BMC has also evacu-ated people from a nearby ground-plus-three structure, as it was in a highly dilapi-dated condition.

Deputy Municipal

Commissioner Prab-hat Rahangdale of BMC said, “Three per-sons are still suspect-ed to be trapped and the search operation is on to find them.”

Change of...“I don’t want to com-ment on this I don’t go by the media reports. There is no official statement about this. The BJP owes its suc-cess to Narendra Modi in the last seven years and currently he is the top leader of the coun-try and his party,” Raut said.

FROM PG 1

New Delhi: The Con-gress panel constituted to resolve factionalism in the party in Punjab, submitted its report to party interim President Sonia Gandhi on Thurs-day. Sources said the panel has not recom-mended the removal of the Punjab Chief Minis-ter & Captain Ama-rinder Singh is likely to lead the party in next elections.

Instead, a slew of re-forms has been suggest-ed in party state unit. While the fate of Navjot Singh Sidhu is still not

clear but sources said panel wants his reha-bilitation in the Punjab cabinet. Amarimder Singh is averse to Sidhu being elevated to the post of Deputy CM but is ready to accommo-date him in the cabinet, sources said. Last week,

panel headed by senior Congress leader & Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mall-ikarjun Kharge, Con-gress’ Punjab in-charge Harish Rawat & former MP J.P. Aggarwal met all stakeholders in par-ty. Amarinder Singh

also met 3-member Con-gress panel.

The rift in the Punjab Congress had surfaced after the former state Cabinet minister Nav-jot Singh Sidhu along with Pargat Singh opened a front against Chief Minister.

Those with small mindset, remain small: Prasada on garbage remark

New Delhi: Comment-ing on Madhya Pradesh Congress unit’s now-deleted tweet calling him “garbage”, newly inducted BJP leader Ji-tin Prasada on Thurs-day said those who have a small mindset, remain small. Prasada said the decision was not easy for him but he reached it after talking to people and listening to his con-science. “I have a three-generation long connec-tion with Congress. So, this was not an easy decision. With a lot of thinking, conversations with people & listening to the voice of my con-science, I did this,” he said. The BJP leader said that in the current situation BJP & PM Modi’s leadership is the most capable, & added, “For the future genera-tion too, this party will prove to be useful”.

Jitin Prasada

Govt should tell when they want to conducttalks: Rakesh TikaitGhaziabad (UP): Tak-ing a jibe at the Bharati-ya Janata Party (BJP) - led Central government, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Ti-kait on Thursday said that the BJP leaders have been trained not to talk in a straightfor-ward manner and not to listen to anyone.

“BJP leaders never talk in a straightfor-ward manner. They are being trained by Rash-triya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) not to listen to anyone but to keep on speaking about them-selves. The government should tell us when they want to conduct a round of talks because talk is the only way to the solu-tion, Tikait said.

“It has only been sev-en months while farm-ers are protesting. We had to fight for around 90 years to gain inde-pendence,” the farmers’ leader said. Regarding the announcement of the Central govern-ment’s announcement to increase the Mini-mum Support Prices

(MSPs) for all mandated Kharif crops for mar-keting season 2021-22, the BKU leader said that the government has an-nounced the increase in the MSPs but the prob-lem lies in the procure-ment of crops. —ANI

Rakesh Tikait

AICC panel submits report to Sonia Gandhi; Amarinder Singh to stay

Sonia Gandhi Amarinder Singh

Father of rape survivor moves SC, opposes bail plea of BapuNew Delhi: Appre-hending threat to the life of family mem-bers, father of the child rape-victim has moved to the Supreme Court on Thursday op-posing the bail plea of Asharam Bapu. The application for inter-vention has been filed in the pending peti-tion of Asharam in which he has sought suspension of his sen-tence and interim bail to undergo treatment for various ailments at an ayurvedic centre

near Haridwar in Utt-arakhand. A Jodhpur court, in 2018, had sen-tenced Asharam to life in prison after finding him guilty of raping a teenage girl in his ash-ram in 2013. Asharam is serving varying jail terms including life sentences in two sexu-al assault cases.

IN THE COURTYARD

Delhi High Court dismisses SSR’s father’s plea New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thurs-day dismissed the late actor Sushant Singh Ra-jput’s father’s petition against the proposed movies being made about actor’s life. Sush-ant’s father had filed the plea restraining anyone from using his son’s name or likeness. A bench of Justice San-jeev Narula dismissed Sushant’s father’s plea seeking an injunction against movies being made on his life.

Woman, her five children end lifein ChhattisgarhRaipur: A woman and her five children ended their lives on the rail-way tracks in Mahasa-mund district, about 130 km from the state capital, on Thursday. The eyewitnesses, who saw their mangled bod-ies, immediately in-formed the police. “The six members of a family seem to have committed suicide. The reason be-hind this extreme step is yet to be ascertained. We are investigating. The bodies have been sent for a postmortem.,” said Prafulla Thakur, Mahasmund superin-tendent of police.

The deceased, resi-dents of Bemcha in Ma-hasmund, were identi-fied as Uma Sahu (45), Annapurna (18), Yashoda (16), Bhumika (14), Kumkum (12) and Tulsi (10).

Dominica govt declares Mehul Choksi as prohibited immigrant

CBI books former Arunachal CM Nabam Tuki in corruption case

New Delhi: The Domin-ican government has declared Mehul Choksi as a “prohibited immi-grant”. The fugitive businessman, is wanted in India in Rs 13,500 crore PNB NSE 4.68 % fraud case, is lodged in Dominican jail for ille-gal entry into the coun-try. An order issued by Dominican Ministry of National Security & Home Affairs on May 25

said, “in accordance to section 5(1)(f) of Immi-gration and Passport Act Chapter 18:01 of the 2017 Revised laws of the Commonwealth of

Dominica, you, Mehul Chinubhai Choksi, hereby declared a pro-hibited immigrant.” “I further direct that the necessary action be tak-en to have the said pro-hibited immigrant re-moved from Common-wealth of Dominica in keeping with the proce-dure laid out in the said Act,” added order, signed by Dominican minister Blackmoore.

New Delhi: In a major development, the Cen-tral Bureau of Investiga-tion (CBI) on Thursday filed another case for al-leged corruption against the former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki.

“CBI filed a case against Tuki and others for irregularities in con-struction work in the state in 2005-06, when he was Minister for PWD and urban develop-

ment,” said CBI offi-cials. Earlier in July 2019, CBI had filed a case against Nabam Tuki and his brother Nabam Tagam on the al-

legations that Tuki awarded a government project worth Rs 3.20 crore to his brother in 2003 for wrongful gain without following the norms and inviting ten-ders. In 2017, CBI had initiated a preliminary inquiry to look into al-legations against Tuki, who was then PWD min-ister for awarding 11 government contracts to his kith and kin in 2005 for personal gains.

GST Council to meet on June 12 to discuss tax cutNew Delhi: The all-powerful GST Council, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Si-tharaman, will meet on June 12 to decide on GST rate cut for COVID essentials & black fun-gus medicine. In the previous meeting, the Council, which has state ministers as mem-bers, a Group of Minis-ters was set up to rec-ommend tax relief on COVID essentials.

Mehul Choksi

Navjot Singh Sidhu

DON’T WAIT FOR CULTURE RESULTS TO INITIATE THERAPY, SAYS DGHCCentre issues guidelines for management of black fungus disease in childrenNew Delhi: Center has released new guidelines for treating Mucormy-cosis or black fungus disease in children be-low the age of 18 years.

As per Ministry of Health & Family Wel-fare, Mucormycosis is a serious fungal disease seen in patients with un-derlying/predisposing factors such as immuno-suppression, poorly con-trolled diabetes melli-tus, misuse/overuse of steroids, cancer, organ/stem cell transplanta-tion, & those under pro-longed ICU treatment.

“Do not wait for cul-ture results to initiate therapy as mucormyco-sis is an emergency. Early complete surgical debridement is the cor-nerstone of treatment, and maybe repeated as required,” DGHC said.

According to the guidelines, “Conven-tional Amphotericin B as a prolonged IV infu-sion through a central venous catheter or

PICC; closely monitor kidney function and electrolytes during treatment. Reconsti-tute in water for injec-tion, and dilute in 5 per cent dextrose (do not use normal saline/Ringer’s lactate, start with test dose: 1 mg IV infusion over 20-30 minute. Loading dose: 0.25-0.5 mg/kg IV in-fused over 2-6 hours; gradually increase by 0.25 mg-increments/day to reach mainte-nance dose: 1-1.5 mg/kg/day.”

‘Black fungus’ is the new scare of Covid second wave in India.

DR HARSH VARDHAN ADDRESSES WHO HIGH-LEVEL COALITION New Delhi: The COVID-19 pandemic has reiter-ated a massive interdependence among various sectors while underlining the need to ensure inter-connectedness across the sectors is refl ected in policies for effective and sustainable service delivery, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said. Vardhan made the remarks while addressing the fi rst meeting of the World Health Organization High-Level Coalition on Health and Energy Plat-form of Action on Wednesday night through video-conference, a Health Ministry statement said.

Nation will have 200 cr vax doses

by Dec: Nadda

Obtain permission before sharing data: CentreNew Delhi: Health min-istry issued a clarifica-tion on its letter to the states & union territories regarding eVIN invento-ry & temperature data of Covid-19 vaccine. The let-ter was intended to pre-vent the use of sensitive data for unauthorised commercial purposes, ministry said. “Sharing of sensitive E-VIN data on stocks and storage, temperature requires the Health Ministry’s prior consent,” it said.

New Delhi: BJP presi-dent JP Nadda lauded

the preparations of the Central government to

combat the COVID-19 pandemic and said that by December, 19 compa-

nies in India will be manufacturing vaccines

and the country will have 200 crore COVID

vaccine doses.Nadda through video

conference, said, “Last year we had one testing

lab and our testing ca-pacity was at 1500.

HIGHLIGHTS UK, Indian scien-

tists develop sen-sor to detect Covid in wastewater

Centre issues guidelines for COVID manage-ment in children, discourages use of Remdesivir

Expedite second vax jab to health-care workers: Centre to states

‘OPPN IS WEAK’

Nabam Tuki

NEWSLUCKNOW | FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2021


PLAYED INTO THE HANDS OF BJP!

DID CONSTITUENCY CHANGE IRK JITIN?

I met a CM , not President of Afghanistan,annoyed BKU’s Rakesh Tikait blasts critics

Min: Speedy redressal of electricity issues neededFirst India Bureau

Lucknow: Taking seri-ous note of the frequent complaints of power cuts, Power minister Shrikant Sharma has directed the officers to ensure speedy redressal of power supply related problems. He said for providing accurate in-formation to the con-sumers the department should the help of in-ternet media. The min-ister has also directed the Chairman of Power Corporation to ensure that electricity supply was maintained in the villages from sunset to sunrise.

While reviewing the departmental activities at Shakti Bhawan on Wednesday, the Power minister said that all activities will start gradually with the par-

tial lifting of the Coro-na Curfew. Even in such a situation, we have to keep working with dedi-cation so that the people of the state continue to get uninterrupted elec-tricity. He said that farmers should not have problem of power supply for irrigation. Where there are com-plaints of transformer

failure, the supply should be restored by replacing it on priority.

The minister direct-ed that all the consum-ers got the right bills on time besides fixing the accountability of the discoms who were neg-ligent in this. All the of-ficers should also expe-dite the complaints re-ceived on the Internet media, 1912 and the complaints received on phone. Sharma said that in this time of cri-sis, everyone should also take special care of their safety. He directed the Chairman to regu-larly monitor the man-agement of safety standards by inspecting the substations and bill-ing counters himself. If there is any problem, then contact the senior officers and get it re-solved.

First India Bureau

Lucknow: Jitin Prasa-da’s decision to quit Con-gress and join archrival BJP would not have been an easy on, as Jitin Pras-ada has been associated with Congress for close to 3 decades. The crack in the relationship between Congress and Jitin arose when during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, there were discussions going on to change his Lok Sabha Constituency.

The party’s state in-charge Priyanka Vadra had proposed to field him from Lucknow Lok Sabha seat instead of Dhaurahara and the central leadership was also not against the thought. This discussion of changing his constit-uency didn’t go down well with Jitin, who has been contesting from Dhaurahara for some time now and his opposi-tion to change was not heard by the party’s de-cision makers.

The party had wanted to field a strong candi-date in Lucknow to fight against Rajnath Singh of BJP, but Jitin was appre-hensive of this but buck-led under pressure and like a disgruntled soldier decided to contest from Lucknow. The news of Jitin agreeing to contest

from Lucknow caused uproar from his support-ers which ultimately forced the party to re-verse the decision and allowed Jitin to contest from Dhaurahara. This episode though only caused cracks in the re-lationship between him and Priyanka Vadra and even though Priyanka Gandhi did road shows for Jitin during the elec-tions, but it didn’t help much as Jitin lost the election.

The defeat meant that Jitin lost even more cred-ibility in the party but in due to his name once again started doing rounds for the position of the party’s State Pres-ident. It was believed that being a Brahmin, he would undoubtedly be-come the party’s state President but then it went to Ajay Kumar La-llu, considered close to Priyanka Gandhi. Jitin though on his part never considered himself to be

in the race for the covet-ed seat as he was not holding any important position in the party and had lost 2 consecutive Lok Sabha elections.

At the same time, naming of Ajay Lallu as state President when he was holding the post as leader of the Congress Legislature Party caused a lot of outrage at the party leadership.

Jitin after all these snubs began mobilizing the Brahmins and was

seen making statement in incidents involving Brahmins in the state. He also started having meeting with various representatives of the Brahmin community.

All these incidents caused commotion in the party and after Jyoti-raditya Scindia left the party discussions were rife that he would also follow suit and join BJP though he vehemently denied the speculations.

Jitin though had nev-er made any statement against the party in open but there was some hos-tility brewing and after he was made election in-charge of Bengal and Andaman just poured oil in the fire. His support-ers were angry at this decision as the Congress had nothing special to do in both the states and many believed that this decision was taken to keep Jitin away from the state.

All these played into the hands of BJP who have now gained a per-son who could gain a lot from his influence in the Brahmins community. The exit of Jitin has de-railed the Congress’s campaign of projecting BJP as an anti-Brah-min party. BJP had made it clear that it in-tends to strengthen its

position in areas which are considered weak for the party. The entry of former Union Minis-ter Jitin Prasada’s en-try in BJP will now strengthen its hold on

Brahmins while it re-duces the hold of Con-gress in the regions Bahraich to Lakhim-pur Kheri, Shahjahan-pur and Pilibhit to Ba-reilly. Congress had in

the 2009 Lok Sabha elections performed exceptionally well but the recent devel-opments seem to put question mark in the region.

UP IN SEARCH FOR ITS ‘METRO MAN’

Having helmed the prestigious Lucknow Metro Rail Project for

close to seven years, incumbent Managing Director of UP Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC) Kumar Keshav is due to complete his innings in mid-August this year. He was given a two-year extension in service in 2019.Consequently, a hunt has begun to choose his successor by a three-member panel headed by chief secretary, Chairman Railway Board and the original Metro Man E Sreedharan. Last heard, more than a dozen top technocrats have thrown their hat in the ring for the

plum job. Except a cap on age which should not be less than 45 years and maximum 58, there is no for others including IAS officers to apply. In fact, before he decided to take a bow from the civil services, the LMRCs first driver in the hot seat was none than IAS officer Rajiv Aggarwal.The change at the helm comes at a time when UP government wants its Agra and Kanpur Metro Rail to start operations before assembly elections 2022. July 15 is the deadline for applying and the state

government intends to pick the best man suited to deliver the two projects by July-end. —M Tariq Khan

DEMANDING AADHAAR FROM GOD’

A few days ago in Banda district of UP, wheat grown on 40 bighas of

land of Ramjanki temple could not be sold as the officials sought such impossible things from caretaker of

the temple which had become a topic of discussion not only in the village but also in the entire district. Actually the incident was that when the people of the temple committee talked to the SDM for selling the wheat grown on the temple land, the SDM asked the people of the temple committee to bring the Aadhar card of God as the land was registered in the name of the temple. After the matter escalated, the officers took a U turn on the matter and said that God’s Aadhar card had not been

sought, but according to the rules, it will be mandatory to bring the Aadhar card of the one who on whose name the land was registered.There is a temple of Ramjanki in Khurhand village of Atarra Tehsil area whose priest Mahant Ramkumar Das told that 40 bighas of land was on the name of Ramjanki temple. The sale of produce of the land was used for maintenance of the temple and Puja proceedings.The Mahant said that in the month of April, online registration was done for the sale of produce at the Khurhand Purchase Center in the name of Ramjanaki by the patron of the temple Ramkumar Das after which the lekhpal was directed for verification. Due to corona infection and panchayat elections, the information about verification

of registration could not be done in the month of April. In May, the Lekhpal told that verification had been done on his behalf but on getting information about cancellation of online process by SDM Atarra, temple committee members approached the official on phone who said that according to rules of the government, Aadhar Card was mandatory of the person, in whose name the land was registered from which the agricultural produce was obtained. The official also apprised that sale of crops could not be done with the Aadhar card of the temple caretaker. However, the request of temple committee members to the official that it was impossible to bring the Aadhar card of God failed to bear fruit. —First India Bureau

M Tariq Khan

Lucknow: Barely had

the speculation over

much-hyped cabinet ex-

pansion subsided than

the meeting of UP BJP

chief Swatantra Dev

Singh and general sec-

retary (organisation)

Sunil Bansal with Chief

Minister Yogi Adity-

anath on Wednesday

once again sent rumour

mills in overdrive.

But contrary to the

buzz, the meeting, ac-

cording to reliable party

sources, was about fine-

tuning the party’s nomi-

nees for the upcoming

district panchayat chief

polls rather than any-

thing else. “Bansal ji

was in Varanasi and

was to return to the

State capital today. He

returned by a chopper

which was used by dep-

uty chief minister Kes-

hav Prasad Maurya dur-

ing his visit to

Prayagraj,”said a senior

party leader adding that

the meeting with the

CM was pre-scheduled.

Stung by the poor per-

formance in the recent

rural polls, the party is

now pulling out all stops

to present a united front

and quell murmurs. Ac-

cording to sources, of

the 75 seats of chairman

zila panchayats, the BJP

has set a target of win-

ning at least 60. “This

was the second meeting

on deciding the candi-

dates with the UP CM,

we had already short-

listed 45 and wanted to

finalise the remaining,”

said the party function-

ary requesting anonym-

ity. Party’s rural focus

was underlined by na-

tional general secretary

BL Santhosh also dur-

ing his recent visit to

the State capital. First

before the panchayat

polls when he ordered

holding of “gram chau-

pals” in Uttar Pradesh

and again underscored

after his review and

feedback meetings last

week State BJP chief

Swatantra Dev Singh

said that the party

workers Turn to P6

BJP sets its eye on winning at least 60 seats DISTRICT PANCHAYAT CHIEF POLLS

CRUCIAL READ

CBI RAIDS IN 14

LOCATIONS IN NCR

CONSTABLE SHOOTS

DEAD SON OF ACCUSED

Lucknow: The CBI car-

ried out searches at 14

locations in Delhi-NCR

and three other cities

after registering an FIR

against Oyster Buildwell

Private Ltd, Avantha

group promoter Gautam

Thapar and others. P8

Lucknow : Police con-

stable Ashish Mishra,

who was deployed in

security duty of murder

convict, shot dead his

son Praveen (38) in Ram

Manohar Lohiya hospital

premises on Wednesday

evening. P8

UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh and party general secretary

(organisation) Sunil Bansal met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

at his offi cial residence in Lucknow on Wednesday to discuss

party’s strategy and candidates for the upcoming elections to the

chairman of district panchayats.

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OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, AHMEDABAD & LUCKNOW

Mumbai: Heavy rains lashed Mumbai and its

suburbs on Wednesday, causing fl ooding on

roads and rail tracks and disrupting suburban

train services as the southwest monsoon ar-

rived in the city two days ahead of schedule.

New Delhi: The Sensex closed at 51,941.64, down

333.93 points while the Nifty was at 15,635.35 down

104.75 points, or 0.67%. All sectors were in red at

market close. On the 30-share Sensex, Power Grid,

NTPC, Titan, and fi ve other stocks closed in green.

Lucknow: Petrol Prices in Lucknow

have been turning more volatile, as

prices of crude oil have been showing

a fi rm trend. Petrol is at `92.58 and

diesel is at `86.61.

MONSOON ARRIVES

IN MUMBAI

SENSEX DIPS

334 PTS, NIFTY

DOWN AT 15K

PETROL, DIESEL

PRICES HIKED YET AGAIN

ANUP CHANDRA

PANDEY TAKES

CHARGE AS ECNew Delhi: Former Uttar

Pradesh chief secretary

Anup Chandra Pandey assumed charge as an election

commis-sioner on Wednes-day.

Pandey joins the Election

Commission (EC) as

the second election

commissioner. The

three-member body is

headed by Chief Election

Commissioner Sushil

Chandra and Rajiv Kumar

is the other election com-

missioner. Mr Pandey

was appointed as EC

on Tuesday.

Appointed nodal

person, grievance

officer: Twitter

New Delhi: Twitter has

written to the govern-

ment that it is making

every effort to comply

with new guidelines

concerning social media

companies and has ap-

pointed a nodal contrac-

tual person and Resident

Grievance Officer (RGO)

on contractual basis and

was in advanced stages

of “finalising the ap-

pointment to the role of

chief compliance offic-

er,” sources said.

Twitter wrote that

the guidelines were no-

tified on February 25

but COVID made it dif-

ficult” to comply.

Govt hikes paddy

MSP by `72 per

quintal to `1,940

New Delhi: The govern-

ment on Wednesday

raised the minimum

support price (MSP) of

paddy marginally by Rs

72 per quintal to Rs 1,940

per quintal for the 2021-

22 crop year, while the

rates of other kharif

crops were also hiked.

Paddy is the main

kharif crop, the sowing

of which has begun with

the onset of the South-

west monsoon. The Met

Department has project-

ed a normal monsoon

for the June-September

period. The decision

taken by the Cabinet

headed by PM Modi.

‘MARRIAGE INVALID

...SO NO QUESTION OF DIVORCE’

SEPARATED LONG BACKTMC MP Nusrat

Jahan said she

does not need to

get divorced as her

marriage with Nikhil

Jain was never valid

under Indian law.

Since it was an

interfaith wedding

solemnised on

foreign land as per

Turkish Marriage

Regulation, it was

invalid under the

Special Marriage Act

in India, she said.

Didi’s new proposal to counter

Centre is union of state govts

Kolkata: West Bengal

chief minister Mamata

Banerjee on Wednesday

said that in a federal

set-up there should be a

union of state govern-

ments, which would

unanimously take on

the Centre if any state

was harassed.

“In a federal struc-

ture, there should be a

union of state govern-

ments. If any state is

harassed then other

states would fight for it.

Every chief minister (of

non-NDA ruled states)

should stick together. I

would urge every oppo-

sition party Turn to P6

SUVENDU ADHIKARI MEETS PM MODI IN

DELHI, SAYS DISCUSSION LASTED 45 MINS

New Delhi: BJP MLA from West Bengal Suvendu Adhi-

kari met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on

Wednesday. Named the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in

the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari said

his meeting with PM Modi lasted 45 minutes during

which they had “detailed discussion” on several “politi-

cal issues”.

Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait meets West Bengal

chief minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on Wednesday.

Jaane wale jaate rehte

hain, we can’t stop

them. It was his

decision, he also had a

future here (Congress

Party). However, it is

unfortunate

Mallikarjun Kharge,

Cong leader & LoP Rajya Sabha

He (Jitin Prasada) is

like my younger brother

and I welcome him to

Bharatiya Janata

Party (BJP). I

congratulate him

Jyotiraditya Scindia,

BJP Rajya Sabha member

Jitin Prasada joining

BJP is like a big slap on

our face. It is sad and

disheartening. I’m

surprised that he called

Congress a regional

party and joined the

party against which his

family fought

Harish Rawat,

Congress leader

A FRESH JOLT TO CONGRESS

Jitin joins BJP ahead of UP pollsPRASADA’S ENTRY IS A SIGNAL TO THE POLITICALLY SIGNIFICANT BRAHMIN COMMUNITY IN UP

GIVEN THERE IS A PERCEPTION THAT THAKURS DOMINATE THE STATE’S POWER CORRIDORS

Jitin Prasada meets Home Minister Amit Shah before joining BJP on Wednesday. BJP National President JP Nadda (2L) with Union Minister Piyush Goyal (L), BJP spokesperson Anil Baluni (R) and newly joined BJP leader Jitin Prasada (2R).

Mohd Fahad/Aditi Nagar

New Delhi: Jitin Prasada’s

exit from the Congress on

Wednesday is a setback for

the Grand Old Party in terms

of optics and perception.

While he is not a huge elec-

toral asset for the Congress

in Uttar Pradesh, where it

has been down and out for

years, his joining the BJP

will reinforce the belief that

even young leaders are now

increasingly feeling suffo-

cated since they see no future

for themselves in the party.

Prasada is not a pan-Uttar

Pradesh leader. For that mat-

ter, neither does he hold sig-

nificant influence in western

Uttar Pradesh from where he

hails. The Congress is al-

ready at its lowest ebb in the

key heartland state. Prasada

himself had lost the last two

Lok Sabha elections and the

2017 Assembly elections. So,

the setback is minimal in

electoral terms. However, his

exit signals that there is huge

disenchantment among lead-

ers over the party’s reluc-

tance to even make an at-

tempt at reinvention — po-

litically and organisationally.

A year ago, another young

leader, Jyotiraditya Scindia

had left the Congress and

joined the BJP.

His exit will roil the Con-

gress internal politics in the

context of the G 23. The Gan-

dhi family loyalists will use

his exit to question the other

22 pointing fingers at their loy-

alty. The others could well ar-

gue the issues they had flagged

are real, there is massive dis-

enchantment in the party, and

Prasada’s exit is, in fact, a

pointer that the party needs to

spring into action. As for the

BJP, his entry is a signal to

the politically significant

Brahmin community ahead

of the Assembly elections

next Turn to P6/ Details on p8

But reports from the state

suggest that the community

has been deeply upset since

selection of Yogi -belonging

to the Rajput community -

for the top post

The resentment fl ared

up after last year’s Vikas

Dubey encounter - even

though many from the

community have indicated

that they had no personal

sympathy with the gangster

Jitin Prasada -- once

among Rahul Gandhi’s

inner circle and a two-time

minister in the Manmohan

Singh-led government -- has

had a career going downhill

Jitin was also one of the

signatories of the explosive

letter to Sonia Gandhi from

the Congress rebels

Jitin Prasada, the BJP’s

latest acquisition from the

Congress, is expected to

restore the support of

a core constituency in

Uttar Pradesh said to be

upset with the party in

the recent days

The Brahmins, who

comprise around 10% of

UP’s population, have been

ardent BJP supporters

since the early ‘90s, when

the Dalit votebank gained

ascendancy with the BSP’s

“Tilak, Tarazu aur Talwar”

slogan, directed against the

three upper castes

CALCULATED

MOVESince Wednesday morning, national media was very

curious to know BJP’s ‘big catch’ from Congress, which

was to be announced by a powerful Anil Baluni at 1 PM in

his press conference but everyone in media and political

circles was disappointed to learn that only a ‘small timer’

UP Congress leader Jitin Prasada is joining BJP. It is largely

believed in BJP circles that being a young Brahmin, he will

be able to ‘balance’ Thakur factor in UP but it is yet to be

seen that whether Jitin really has some clout and infl uence

over Brahmin voters in UP?

DISAPPOINTED!

I have taken this

decision with a

lot of deliberation

keeping in view all the

aspects, in interests of my

district, state, and the

country and to safeguard

interests of the people

JITIN PRASADA,

after joining BJP

YOU READ IT FIRST IN FIRST INDIAJUNE 10, 2021

Will Jitin get Prasada from BJP: Kapil Sibal

First India Bureau

New Delhi: A day af-ter Jitin Prasada quit the Congress, senior party leader Kapil Sibal asked if he would get “prasada” from the BJP or is he merely a “catch” for the Uttar Pradesh elec-tions. Another party colleague Shashi Tha-roor also asked if poli-tics can be a career devoid of principles. “Jitin Prasada joins BJP. The question is will he get ‘prasada’ from BJP or is he just a ‘catch’ for UP elec-tions,” Sibal asked on Twitter. “In such deals if ‘ideology’ doesn’t matter changeover is easy,” the former un-ion minister also said. In a tweet, Tharoor

asked, “Can politics be a career devoid of principle? Politics has to be about ideas, or it’s nothing. Can a per-son of conviction change political par-ties the way a cricket-er changes IPL teams.”

In an article on the larger issues in Prasa-da’s defection to the BJP, Tharoor said his decision a year after his “older brother” Jy-otiraditya Scindia did the same thing, is

“deeply dismaying”.“I say this without

any personal bitter-ness,” he said. “Both Scindia and Prasada were amongst the most eloquent voices against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the dangers its communal bigotry posed to the India they cherished. Today, they are both happily sport-ing the colours of the party they once re-viled more than any other.

“The obvious ques-tion this provokes is: what do they really stand for? What be-liefs and values ani-mate their politics? Or are they in politics only for self-advance-ment and power? Can politics be a career .

Congress leader Kapil Sibal

First India Bureau

New Delhi/Ghazi-abad: The farmers’ protest continues even after six months, de-manding the with-drawal of the three Central laws. Mean-while, Rakesh Tikait, national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), met West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on Wednesday on which questions were bound to arise about the meet-ing. Responding to the questions pertaining to his meeting with West Bengal CM Mamta Ba-nerjee, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait ex-pressed annoyance and said that he had met the CM and not the party chief. He said in an angry man-

ner that did he meet the President of Af-ghanistan, for which he had to take the per-mission of the Gov-ernment of India?

On the questions raised about meeting CM Mamta Banerjee,

Tikait asked whether a visa was required to meet the CM? He said that he would meet the Chief Ministers of all the states regarding the policies. There is a BJP government in Ut-tarakhand and a Con-

gress government in Punjab, we will meet them too.

It is worth noting that on Wednesday, Rakesh Tikait, leader of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, met West Ben-gal Chief Minister

Mamata Banerjee. During this, on behalf of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, he demanded all the state govern-ments to support his movement.

After the meeting, Rakesh Tikait said that I congratulate the peo-ple of Bengal for such a big victory. I thank CM Mamta Banerjee here. We need to strengthen the opposition besides a better coordination was needed for the on-going farmer move-ment in Delhi. The BKU leader further said that Mamta Baner-jee had assured us of support as we had come to request Mamta didi that as she had defeated the big enemy, now she should prepare such a model which everyone could follow.

Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait met West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY PTI

Uttar Pradesh Power minister Shrikant Sharma

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Lucknow: The corona pandemic has now been going on for over a year and in just about nine months from now, the Assembly elections are to be held in UP.

The BJP is trying to use the corona epidemic to its best advantage. The party has decided to launch five major pro-

grammes with the help of service organisation and the responsibility for these have been giv-en to the ministers.

The first programme is to adopt a primary health centre each and the responsibility for this has been given to General Secretary Pri-yanka Rawat along with State Minister Tryam-bak Tripathi. In this

programme, all Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha MPs will adopt a prima-ry health centre in their constituency to im-prove its quality.

The second pro-gramme is about the Post Covid Centre, through which BJP workers will be able to serve the people. The re-sponsibility for this has been given to General

Secretary Anoop Gupta and Minister Ramchan-dra Kanojia. Under this programme, medical as-sistance to the needy will be provided.

The third big pro-gramme is to raise awareness about vacci-nation and the responsi-bility for this has been given to Govind Naray-an Shukla and Minister Sanjay Rai. Through

this, the workers of BJP’s IT cell and Yuva Morcha will go from vil-lage to village spreading awareness.

The fourth pro-gramme is UP Scheme, which will be taken care of by Amarpal Maurya and Minister Subhash Yaduvansh. Under this, the benefits of govern-ment schemes will be spread among the public.

The fifth programme is about Panchayat elections and the agen-da for this will be pre-pared by General Secre-tary JPS Rathore and Minister Shankar Lo-dhi. Under this the pri-ority of the workers will be to ensure the benefits of different schemes run by the gov-ernment reach people in their area.

Sumit Awasthi

Kanpur: After the Sachendi incident, the Police Commissioner-ate is making efforts to prevent accidents on highway. Cameras are being installed on highway and online challans will be issued to vehicles coming from wrong sides. Cheking of buses would be done with the help of RTO, traffic and outer police.

Till now there is no such system on the highway across the country, which is being started in Kanpur. In the meeting, the Com-missioner of Police, NHI Project Director Pankaj Singh said that many people parked their vehicles wrongly on highway. On this, the Commissioner of Police said that the traffic police will issue non-contract challan in any dispute without informing the police.

In fact, many times accidents happen due to the trucks and buses

parked on the side of the highway. Not only this, if there is an on-line challan, any per-son will be able to get the solution done by sending digital photos directly to the Addi-tional Traffic SP on his official number 9454401077.

In the meeting with the Commissioner of Police, RTO, Traffic, Sale Tax and trans-porter it was decided that work should be taken only from those having the permit or else action would be initiated against the erring.

First India Bureau

Lucknow: “President of India has appointed Sanjay Yadav, Judge of the Allahabad High Court, to be the Chief Justice of the Alla-habad High Court with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office.Shri Justice Sanjay Yadav, M.A., LL.B, was enrolled as an Advocate on 25. 08. 1986.

He practiced at Ja-balpur for 20 years in Civil, Constitutional, Labour and Service matters and has spe-

cialized in Labour and Service matters. He worked as Government

Advocate from March 1999 to October 2005.

He was Deputy Ad-vocate General with effect from October 2005.

He was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on March 2, 2007 and as Perma-nent Judge on January 15, 2010. Later, he was transferred to Alla-habad High Court.

He was appointed as Acting Chief Justice ofAllahabad High Court w.e.f. 14.4.2021.Click Here To Down-load Notification

First India Bureau

Allahabad: The Alla-habad High Court has given a big relief to the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission. The Court has stayed the recovery order issued by the Chief Information Commissioner, Lucknow against the commission.

A Single Bench of Justice Salil Kumar Rai passed this order while hearing a petition filed by UPPublic Service Commission and Anoth-er. The Court Issued no-tice to respondents through registered post

with acknowledgement due for which steps shall be taken by counsel for the petitioner within 10 days. “If, steps are taken, office shall proceed to is-sue notice fixing any date after eight weeks by which date, the respond-ents may file their coun-ter affidavit. The peti-tioner shall have four weeks thereafter to file his rejoinder affidavit”, the Court said.

First India Bureau

Lucknow: In a shock-ing statement, a mem-ber of the UP State Women’s Commission has said that girls should not be given mo-bile phones as it encour-ages rape. “Girls talk on phones and later run away with boys,” Meena Kumari said during a Mahila Jansunwai in Aligarh and appealed to parents to keep the phones away from their daughters.

Meena Kumari also added that parents, es-pecially mothers, should monitor their daughters as crime against women was a result of “their care-lessness”.

The State Women’s Commission has dis-tanced itself from Mee-na Kumari’s statement.Anju Chaudhary, vice-chairperson of the com-mission, said the state-ment was uncalled for. Kumari told reporters that she meant that mi-nors and girls from vil-lages do not know how to use phones.

Shishir Awasthi

Lucknow: After Jitin Prasada’s joining BJP, party’s Chanakya Amit Shah is now eyeing the angry leaders of Sama-jwadi Party and Bahu-jan Samaj Party. Dis-cussion are on that the BJP wants to break the leaders considered as caste pillar in every party before the assem-bly elections.

This has created pan-ic among SP, BSP and Congress. Mayawati is getting lonely anyway with only seven MLAs left while Congress has been confined to Rae Bareli. SP President Akhilesh Yadav is working towards form-ing a grand alliance of small parties to save his fort in these situa-tions and prevent the division of votes in

elections. Akhilesh has held talks with Rash-triya Lok Dal chief Jay-ant Chaudhary and Azad Samaj Party’s Chandrashekhar Ra-vana in several phases.

Akhilesh’s bitter-ness towards the angry uncle Shivpal Singh Ya-dav has also reduced. Anupriya Patel of the Apna Dal in eastern UP

and Omprakash Rajb-har of the Bharatiya

Suheldev Rajbhar Par-ty have also been invit-ed by the SP. In a way, the foundation of a grand alliance has been laid.

Akhilesh knows that to defeat the BJP riding on the chariot of Hin-dutva nationalism, it is very important to stop the division of votes. This is possible only

when all the regional parties are united so to form such a strong alli-ance which could as-sure the public that this alliance could de-feat the BJP.

SP chief has taken the initiative to form a grand alliance from western UP. There is resentment among the people towards the BJP because of the farmers’ movement. In such a situation, once again the inclination of the public towards RLD has increased.

Taking advantage of this, Akhilesh extend-ed his hand of friend-ship towards RLD pres-ident Jayant Chaud-hary and announced support to RLD candi-dates in some districts in the election of Dis-trict Panchayat presi-dent.

Akhilesh Yadav, Amit Shah and Mayawati —FILE PHOTO

SHAHNEETI: AFTER CONG, BJP’S CHANAKYA EYES SP LEADERS

Party wants to woo leaders considered as caste pillars of their respective parties

SP chief trying to form grand alliance of smaller parties to prevent division of votes

Election for 403 seats next yearThere are 403 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022. 202 MLAs are needed for majority. Election will be held in March 2022

Steps taken to stop mishaps on highway

Justice Sanjay Yadav appointed Chief Justice of Allahabad HC

HC relief to UPPSC, stays CIC’s recovery order

Mobile reason for rape, says SWC member

HIGH-LEVEL MEET

ON THE WRONG FOOT

Devendra Bhuranda, self-described Divisional Minster in BJP has put up hoarding all over Meerut which reads, “if you are healthy then there is no need to wear a mask.” These were put up to spread awareness among people about corona but looking at the posters, it seems the leader doesn’t know much about corona and is misleading people. These posters have images of PM, CM and a huge image of Bhuranda himself.

First India Bureau

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday transferred 10 IPS including officers of DG, ADG and DIG level who have been waiting deployment or-ders for a long time.

Vaibhav Krishna, who was in the eye of controversy following a pornographic video go-ing viral in Noida has been posted as SP

Training and Security Branch, Lucknow while Mohammad Imran who was attached to Police Headquarters has been named as the SP, Rail-way, Jhansi.

Akhilesh Chaurasia, who was in the waiting ever since a complaint against him was raised by his wife, has been named as the General of 11th Corps PAC and Alankrita Singh, who was attached to DGP

Headquarters, has been named as the SP, Wom-en’s Security, Lucknow.

In the similar lines,

Sunil Kumar Gupta has been named as the DIG (Security Branch), Luc-know while Dharmen-

dra Singh has been named as the DIG (Traf-fic), Lucknow.

Apart from this, Sat-

ish Chandra Mathur has been named as the ADG (Law and Order), Uttar Pradesh and Di-

rector General of Po-lice Bishwajit Mohapa-tra has been moved to Civil Defense.

As per sources, more transfers can take place in the coming days as the Home Department is busy churning out plans for the same.

It is expected that Captains of more than half a dozen districts can be removed and will be replaced by officers of DIG level.

Prepoll Move? UP clears decks for transfer of ten IPS officersRESHUFFLE

lll

Vaibhav Krishna appointed as

SP Training and Security

Branch, Lucknow; more transfers likely

in coming days ahead of polls

Sunil Kumar Gupta Bishwajit MohapatraVaibhav Krishna Dharmendra Singh

Asim Arun

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AriesMARCH 21 - APRIL 20

You are likely to have fun at work today. A changed lifestyle promises good health. You may not be in the

best of fi nancial situations, but things are likely to improve. Much excitement is foreseen on the family front. There is some scope of improving your scores on the academic front.

Gemini MAY 21 - JUNE 21

You may get motivated to shake a leg just to get on the fi tness trail. It will be important to keep a tab of your expenses

today. Some shuffl ing on the work front is likely but will not affect you. Peace and tranquillity prevail on the home front and will help you unwind. Romance seems on the upswing.

LeoJULY 24 - AUGUST 23

Job prospects for those freshly out of profes-sional institutes are set to brighten up soon. A positive outlook will

help you throw out the negativity within. You will manage to ignore distractions and interruptions at work to complete a pending task in time. is so miffed.

LibraSEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 22

This is the day to play your winning card on the professional front. A lot of time may be wasted in socialising,

but you will love every moment of it! Time is ripe for investing in a scheme you have been considering for long. Your upbeat mood and a happy demeanour will brighten atmosphere.

SagittariusNOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 22

Sticking to workout routine may benefi t you on the health front. Meeting relatives at a marriage or party cannot

be ruled out. Accompanying someone you click with is likely to make your business journey entertaining. Support from the family may seem most encouraging.

AquariusJANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19

Balancing act between home and offi ce will remain most smooth for working women. You succeed in putting

an ambitious project on the tracks and cross all hurdles in making it a success. Love beckons and promises to give immense joy and fulfi llment. Homemakers can exceed budget.

Taurus APRIL 21 - MAY 20

A major purchase may make a dent in your savings, but will help in keeping up with the jonesses. Speculation

may not be profi table and you can very well burn your fi ngers. Some of you may get hard pressed to fi nd a good match for someone eligible in the family down, Saturn will save you.

CancerJUNE 22 - JULY 23

Homemakers will get a chance to implement their ideas. You are likely to be recognised for your efforts on the

professional front. Some of you can be invited for guidance or consultancy. Chance of a raise is possible for some. Timely and correct decision will help you in saving a lot of money.

Virgo AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23

Satisfaction is foreseen for the image conscious people trying to achieve perfect fi gure and physique. You will

succeed in surmounting the odds to get a stalled job back on the tracks. Your efforts on the academic front will keep you in contention. You are likely to spend an enjoyable time.

ScorpioOCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 22

You will succeed and move ahead in your professional life, as the year begins. Be careful, though, as your daily

routine may be affected adversely. Your boss may be the reason for your annoyance. Pressure tactics can infuriate you. Probably, by 5th or 6th, you may think of taking up a new job.

CapricornDECEMBER 23 - JANUARY 20

Focussing on your career graph at this juncture will be a step that will take you far. A rethink is in order for

those going in for a heavy investment. Recovering a loaned amount from someone will not pose much diffi culty. You will manage to defuse tensions prevailing at home.

Pisces FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20

Financial condition of those down in the dumps is set to improve. Your effi ciency at work is

likely to impress those who matter at work. Your biggest asset is your sense of humor try to use it to cure your not so good health. Spending time with family.

he Covid-19 pan-demic has put an end to plans for overseas travels in 2020 and now again in 2021. Once-

bustling tourist destina-tions are now deserted, with hotels vacant and no tourists in sight. The numbers are self-evident. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that international traffic had “almost vanished,” with carriers transporting just around 10% of stand-ard levels. According to IATA, Covid-19 caused interruptions have placed more than 41 mil-lion jobs in the travel and tourism sector at risk.

Now the major chal-lenge is how to revive the worst-hit tourism and travel industry across the globe and especially for countries whose economy majorly de-pends on this sector like Italy, Dubai, India, the Philippines, Greece, and many more after the pan-demic is over.

So, when the wheels and propellers start going again and people will start travelling again and it’s per-fectly possi-ble that the industry w i l l g row i n

response to the lock-down restriction but it’s worth considering where we will people like to go and why because safety will still be the top priority.

After a year marred by the pandemic, and with the industry’s prospects dimming, tourism busi-ness owners should con-sider new kinds of con-tact for visitors that may also benefit the people and economies that rely on tourism. The pan-demic of COVID-19 has accelerated the testing and deployment of for-ward-thinking technolo-gy. Not only has technol-ogy allowed people all over the world to com-municate with their loved ones, but it has also made it possible for businesses like health-care, information tech-nology, education, and many others to operate remotely.

The pandemic has had a tremendous impact on visitor’s sentiments. Per-sonal hygiene and sani-tation are now given top attention. Tourists are increasingly avoiding busy areas in favour of visiting more remote locations. The way people travel has a l s o changed. Some of t h e n e w

trends in the industry include the importance of local cuisine, proxim-ity to nearby destina-tions, and quick travel.

VIRTUAL TOURISM IN ‘NEW’ NORMALIn the absence of tour-ists, tourism boards, ho-tels, and locations have resorted to virtual real-ity (VR), a relatively new technology, to keep potential visitors en-gaged and prepare for the long road ahead. What began as a tempo-rary stopgap measure for many may now be a long-term solution. Travel will not restore to pre-pandemic levels un-til 2024, according to IATA. The longer this virus lasts, the more likely it is that Virtual reality will become a vi-able form of alternative

travel as customers grow more accustomed to it. In the present cir-cumstances, several na-tions have increased their virtual reality marketing efforts to pre-pare for the slow revival of their tourism sectors.

Germany is one of the most notable, having re-leased a variety of im-mersive initiatives to pro-mote the country’s tour-ism potential. In the Mal-dives, virtual reality has been utilized to highlight a variety of island activi-ties, including morning yoga on the beach, snor-kelling, and cookery in-struction. With technolo-gy improving people’s lives all around the

world, virtual tourism has the potential to

revive the tourist sector and its peo-

ple, as well as contribute to

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able economic model. But it may take its course of time as some believe digi-tal apps cannot replace the experience of real-world travel.

VACCINATION TOURISM With the second wave hitting even harder, in India, the concept of vac-cination tourism is gain-ing popularity, as a Dubai-based travel op-erator has begun selling a 24-day package vaca-tion from Delhi to Mos-cow.

The travellers will be brought to Russia and given two Sputnik V vac-cination injections, as well as certificates, as part of the package which costs Rs 1.29 lakh would cover the cost of immunization also.

It is expected that many more offers like this may come in near future to boost the hard-est hit tourism sector.

Tourism is at a cross-roads, and the policies put in place now will af-fect tourism in the future. The COVID-19 crisis is a watershed moment in the travel and tourism indus-

try. Now the onus will be on the aviation and

tourism industry to create safer infra-

structure and policies that

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REMOVING VIRUS FROM TOURISM INDUSTRY

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Actor Elizabeth Ols-en just shared a major update in her relationship

like it was no big deal. The star casually announced that she has tied the knot, leaving everyone stunned. As per People magazine, Olsen sparked marriage speculation after casually referring to her longtime partner Robbie Arnett as her “husband” in a new interview. —Agency

MAJOR UPDATE

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he CMT Awards 2021 were held re-cently and the star-studded evening saw performances

by Carrie Underwood, Thomas Rhett, Miran-da Lambert and more country music A-lis-ters. The awards hon-ouring the best of Country Music were hosted by Kelsea Baller-ini and Kane Brown. Among the big winners of the night included Taylor Swift for her video of The Best Day (Taylor’s Version) for the Best Family Fea-ture Award. The Video of the Year honour was bagged by Carrie Un-derwood with John Legend for their song Hallelujah. Check out the full winner’s list of CMT Awards 2021:-

Video of the Year: Carrie Underwood with John Legend, “Hallelujah”

Female Video of the Year: Gabby Barrett, “The Good Ones”

Male Video of the Year: Kane Brown, “Worship You”

Duo/Group Video of the Year: Little Big Town, “Wine, Beer, Whiskey”

Breakthrough Video of the Year:Dylan Scott, “Nobody”

Collaborative Video of the Year:Chris Young and Kane Brown, “Fa-mous Friends”

CMT Performance of the Year: From the 2020 CMT Music Awards - Kel-sea Ballerini and Halsey, “The Other Girl”

Best Family Feature: Dylan Scott, “Nobody”

Collaborative Video of the Year:Chris Young and Kane Brown, “Fa-mous Friends”

CMT Performance of the Year: From the 2020 CMT Music Awards - Kel-sea Ballerini and Halsey, “The Other Girl”

Best Family Feature: Taylor Swift, “The Best Day (Taylor’s Version)”

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THE WARM REACTIONI

n a recent ‘Ask Me’ session on Instagram, a fan asked actress Parineeti Chopra to say some-thing about her ‘lady crush’ Anushka. As she replied to a fan, Parineeti wrote, “I went from

handling her interviews for ‘Band, Baaja, Baaraat’ to becoming her co-star in ‘Ladies vs Ricky Bahl’ within 3 months. So cool na? Have al-

ways looked up to her since that time.” This managed to evoke a sweet response from Anushka as well. Anushka went on to repost Parineeti’s story and sent her ‘big

hugs.’ —Agency

Sara Ali Khan took to so-cial media to share a be-

hind-the-scenes video with fans from a recent

video shoot with her mother Amrita Singh. The

cute video gives us a sneak peek of their cute banter. Ac-tress Sara Ali Khan recently

was in the headlines as she col-laborated with her mom Amrita Singh for the first time on a pro-ject. The details of the project were kept under wraps for now, but, we enjoy the little snippets shared by Sara.

—Agency

If you were a fan of CW’s Gossip Girl se-ries that aired between 2007 to 2012, you are in

for a treat as the show’s reboot version now re-turns to HBO Max. Taking us back to the Upper East Side and the lives of su-per-rich teenagers who reside there, the show will

tackle Gossip Girl in the time of social me-dia as she upgrades from a blog to an Instagram account. The reboot’s trailer was recently released and it’s getting some amazing reactions from fans.

—Agency

The return of GOSSIP GIRL

Love is in the air

Anniversary Post

Rollercoaster Ride

Sonam Kapoor celebrated her birthday on Wednesday in London with her husband and was wished by every fam-

ily member. Anand Ahuja shared a picture of him and Sonam hugging each other and wrote, “Happy birth-day; you are my #everydayphenom-enal.” Fans also poured out wishes for the actress. —Agency

Hollywood actor Chris Patt is setting major husband goals through his anniver-sary post for his wife Kath-

erine Schwarzenegger. On Wednes-day, Chris took to his Instagram account and wished Katherine a happy wedding anniversary and dedicated the post to ‘ my dearest love’ —Agency

Actor Prateik Babbar has been in the Hindi film indus-try for over a decade. Com-pleting 13 years, he calls it

an eventful journey with lots of ups and downs. Prateik made his Bolly-wood debut in 2008 with the coming of age romantic film “Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na”. —Agency

Sad Demise A great loss The New Cast B’Day Wishes!

Ernie Lively, father of actress Blake Lively passed away aged 74 in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 3. Ernie was also known to

have starred alongside Blake in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants franchise. Ernie’s passed away follow-ing cardiac complications.

—Agency

Thursday began with a huge shocker for the Indian Film fra-ternity as noted Bengali film-maker and poet, Buddhadeb

Dasgupta died in Kolkata at the age of 77. Reportedly, he was suffering from kidney disease. The demise of the noted filmmaker has come as a shock-er for everyone. —Agency

Netflix’s insanely popular series ‘Stranger Things’ is beefing up its cast as it heads into season four. The show has recently

added four new recurring stars. The series has cast Amybeth McNulty, Myles Truitt, Regina Ting Chen and Grace Van Dien. The new season is currently in production. —ANI

Just like many other things, one essential in the party starter pack has to be a Mika Singh playlist. And in case you are a

90s kid, you know what importance the man had and still very much has in our parties. Mika has defined the upbeat numbers for our generation. Happy birthday Mika! —Agency

Who’s a Who’s a pretty girl?’pretty girl?’

Dylan Scott John Legend

Taylor Swift Kane BrownCarrie Underwood

Kelsea Ballerini

Mika SinghThe poster of Stranger Things 4Late Buddhadeb DasguptaLate Ernie Lively and Blake LivelyPrateik Babbar

...Chris Patt’s post

...Anand Ahuja’s post

The cast of Gossip Girl

Parineeti Chopra Sara Ali Khan

Robbie Arnett and Elizabeth Olsen

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STAY MASKED

fter a long halt of 39 days of complete lock-down, things are looking bet-ter again. The joy of stepping

out of homes to meet a friend for a cup of coffee or running to your fa-vourite cafe to get the much-needed solace amid the city, all is pos-sible after 39 long days.

Although the situa-tion isn’t completely fine to dine in but with proper precautions, a moment of perfect com-fort can be found in the quaint cafes of Luc-know. City First skimmed through the long list of terrific cafés in Lucknow and hand-picked five cafes that’ll soon reopen to serve the Lucknowites, pursuing proper precautions and Covid-19 guidelines.

The birthday of (from top) IAS Bhuvnesh Kumar, IAS Neeraj Shukla, IAS Narendra Shankar Pandey, IAS Avinash Singh, IPS Anil Kumar Singh and IPS Rohit Singh Sajwan was on Thursday, June 10. We wish them all the best!

HAPPY B’DAY!

COSY CAFÉS CARVING CONVERSATIONSCity First skimmed through the long list of terrific cafes in Lucknow and handpicked five that’ll soon reopen to serve the Lucknowites, taking proper precautions and adhering to Covid-19 guidelines!

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THE PEDDLERS

Situated right in the heart of Lucknow is Peddlers cafe which is compact and convenient, like the ones that remind you of hilltop restaurants but, this one comes with a view of the city. It’s the hangout niche for anyone that loves a good chai pe char-cha session or a coveted coffee conversation. It’s almost recharged with local artists playing music or a group of friends enjoying hours of a board game. It’s home, away from home.

CAFE REPHERTWAHR

THE CHERRY TREE CAFE

A local hub of theatre artists and fanatics of art, cafe Rephertwahr is the place to be if you enjoy the company of books, open-air combined with live music/drama performances. Cafe Repher-twahr comes as a breath of fresh air, especially if you enjoy petrichor in the monsoon season clubbed with excellent Italian and Mexican food.

Mocha is what you call a crowd-pleaser which appeals to the lovers of rustic ambience and Ital-ian cuisines. It’s perfect for a first date or even a solo date to enjoy the terrific blends of slowly brewed coffee. Positioned at the market hub of Patrakar Puram, Gomti Nagar, this is the place where you can’t decide to eat first or click first.

The Vintage Machine is synonymous with the best coffee in town situated in the capacious lanes of Patrakarpuram, Lucknow. The hot brews from latte to mocha to plain cap-puccino, the cafe bleeds excellent brewed coffee.

Positioned in the lanes of Habibullah estate, the cherry tree cafe needs no introduction but a worthy mention. This place is home to children, teenag-ers, adults and even seniors. This bakery turned café serves coffee and a mix of multi cuisines amidst the lush green foliage, the blooming bou-gainvillaea and the chirping birds.

MOCHA CAFE & BAR

VINTAGE MACHINE

FESTIVE VIBES!

GREETINGS!

EMPOWERMENT!

Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Dinesh Sharma and his wife Dr Jayshree Sharma prayed for the prosperity of the family by worshipping the Bada tree on the Bad Pujan Amavasya on Thursday in Lucknow. Women wear ornaments made from the leaves of the Bada tree on the occasion. Considering the ongoing pandemic, the couple worshipped the Bada tree in their home only.

Managing Worker and Chairman of Sahara India Pariwar, Subrata Roy’s birthday was on Thursday, June 10. He did not celebrate it keeping in mind the Covid-19 pandemic, instead spent it working round the clock as usual. His large circle of friends and associates sent him virtual wishes.

To ensure that the children from underprivileged backgrounds are empowered through education, Aaghaz Foundation was established in 2004. Empowering girls and boys with their best capabilities through scholarships and other educational initiatives, this Lucknow-based non-profit organisation has helped over 16,000 needy children. Currently, applications for their Aisha Begum Memorial Scholarship and other endowments are open.

To instil self-confidence in children during the Coronavirus, the social and cultural organisation Udaan has organised Udaan Summer Vacation Festival running on the online zoom app. On the fifth day of the online vacation, children showed various dance styles with enthusiasm.

Padma Shri Malini Awasthi prayed for the prosperity of the family by worshipping the Bada tree on the Bad Pujan Amavasya on Thursday in Lucknow. Women perform a ritual around the banyan tree with wrapped threads around the tree for protection and wear ornaments made from the leaves of the Bada tree on the occasion. As per religious belief, this Amavasya is considered a highly auspicious day.

With the removal of lockdown restrictions in Uttar Pradesh, markets across Lucknow resumed post a halt of 51 days. Nearly 1,275 small and large establishments including the famous Indira Nagar and Aminabad markets revived operation and crowds thronged out on the roads, in small numbers. All the shopping centres will be functional till 7 PM on the weekdays and a 12 hour night curfew shall be observed thereafter.

MARKETS IN SWING AGAIN!

BOOSTING MORALE! RITUALS AND PRAYERS!

Bhootnath market, Indira NagarAminabad

CONGRATULATIONS!

The marriage anniversary of Veena and Hemant Sharma, News Director, TV9 was on Wednesday. They celebrated it with simplicity and a feeling of togetherness with their beloved daughter Ishanee and son-in-law Sachin Sharma at their residence at NOIDA. Hemant Sharma made the special day all the more special by preparing ‘gol gappas’ at home from scratch for his beloved wife and all

family members. Veena vouched that they were the best she had ever tasted, which is proof that ‘love’ is the best ingredient- whatever be the dish!

(File Photo) Hemant and Veena Sharma with Ishanee and Sachin from at their engagement ceremony

(File Photo: Holi)Hemant and Veena

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