YK MYK CHINESE YUAN STEADILY IMPROVING ITS POSITION IN GLOBAL MARKET OPINION Rs. 5 RANCHI MONDAY, 9 MAY, 2022 PG-12, YEAR—11, ISSUE—355 (RNI NO: JHAENG / 2012 / 44137) ELON MUSK PLEDGES TO SCALE UP WORK STANDARDS IN TWITTER WORLD Morning India AT A GLANCE BPSC PT CANCELLED AFTER PAPER GETS LEAKED, PROBE ORDERED RAJASTHAN MINISTER'S SON BOOKED IN RAPE CASE IN DELHI NEW DELHI: A Zero FIR of rape has been lodged with the Delhi Police against the son of a Rajasthan Minister for allegedly raping a 24year-old woman of a different religion. According to the information, the FIR was lodged against one Rohit, whose father Mahesh Joshi is a politician and a minister in the Rajasthan government. The victim has alleged that Rohit has her obscene photos and videos which he recorded while she was unconscious. TWO SC JUDGES TO TAKE OATH OF OFFICE TODAY NEW DELHI: Gauhati High Court's Chief Justice, Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Gujarat High Court judge, Justice Jamshed B. Pardiwala, who have been elevated to the Supreme Court, will be sworn in by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Monday. On Saturday, the Central government notified their appointment as judges to the apex court - two days after the Supreme Court Collegium recommended their elevation. Devotees come in large numbers as the doors of Badrinath Dham open, in Chamoli on Sunday. ANI Cyclone Asani may intensify: IMD BHUBANESWAR: India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday said that the cyclonic storm named 'Asani' is expected to further intensify in the next 24 hours. Earlier on Saturday, the department had predicted that a depression has formed over the southeast Bay of Bengal about 170km west of Car Nicobar and is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by May 8. Speaking to ANI, Senior Scientist, Umashankar Das said, "The deep depression has intensified into a cyclonic storm named 'Asani'. It's moving at 16 kmph in a northwest direction. It is at 970 km in the southeast direction from Vishakapatnam and 1,020 km in the southeast direction from Puri." "We are expecting it'll move in northwest direction till May 10 evening. Possibility, it'll further intensify into a severe cyclonic storm in the next 24 hours," he added. However, the scientist denied the possibility of landfall and said that it will recurve and move parallel to the Odisha coast. Das predicted rainfall by the evening of May 10 and said that yellow warning has been issued for three districts of Odisha. "Rainfall will commence on 10th May evening, a yel- Need for nationwide awareness campaign to tackle thalassemia: Munda SHAH TO EMBARK ON 2-DAY ASSAM VISIT NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will embark on a two-day visit to Assam on Monday. On Monday morning, he will visit the Mankachar Border Outpost where he will have discussions with BSF officials and also review the security situation. All the three students had come down to take a bath in the pond to get relief from the heat. 3 engg students drown in Ramgarh pond MANOJ SINHA CORONA METER INDIA TOTAL CASES: 43,102,508 TOTAL DEATHS: 524,064 WORLD TOTAL CASES: 517,126,859 TOTAL DEATHS: 6,276,169 low warning for rainfall issued has been for three districts -- Gajpati, Ganjam, and Puri. On May 11, heavy rainfall warning has been issued for five districts -Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khurda, Cuttack and Ganjam," he said. On the contrary weather condition in some parts of the country, the IMD predicted heat wave conditions in the isolated pockets likely over Vidarbha during May 8 to 12, West Rajasthan during May 8 to 12, South Haryana and East Rajasthan during May 9 to 12, West Madhya Pradesh on May 8 and 9, South Punjab and Jammu division during May 10 to 12. ARRAH: Bihar Lok Seva Aayog on Sunday announced that the 67th Combined (Preliminary) Competitive Examination of Bihar Public Service Commission will be cancelled in view of the 'question paper leak' and the matter is under investigation. "Exam to be cancelled after a 3-member committee submitted a report in connection with 67th Combined Competition Exam. DGP Bihar has been requested to get the 'question paper leak' matter probed by Cyber Cell", Bihar Lok Seva Aayog. An investigation has been ordered by the Bihar Public Service Commission after reports that question papers were being sent via messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram and later came out on social media platforms. According to the commission, questions were leaked from an examination centre just before the exam was scheduled to start at 12 noon. RAMGARH: Three students of Ramgarh engineering college died due to drowning in a pond while taking bath near Bokaro main road in Ramgarh district on Sunday morning. Police sources said," All the three students had come down to take a bath in the pond to get relief from the heat. All three students could not swim. Because of this, students drowned in the pond." On the information of the local people, the Rajarappa police inspector Bipin Kumar reached the spot, with the help of the people, the dead bodies were fished out from the pond. Police have sent the bodies to Sadar Hospital Ramgarh for post-mortem. All the deceased has been identified as Rohan Malakar Katras, Ankit Kumar Bokaro and Abhishek Kumar Giridih. As soon as the news of three students drowning, reached, surrounding villagers ran towards the pond. The locals tried their best to get the three students out, but it was too late. All three had died. During this, people gathered near the pond to see due to this traffic on the NH came to a standstill for about half an hour. There was a long queue of vehicles. As soon as the information was received, Rajrappa station incharge Vipin Kumar reached the spot along with the police force. The body was taken to Sadar Hospital. NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda on Sunday said that there is a need for a nationwide awareness campaign through combined efforts of various government stakeholders to tackle thalassemia. Addressing a webinar on the occasion of 'World Thalassemia Day' here, Munda said, "We celebrate Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, it is Prime Minister's vision that we make new resolves which will propel India towards Atmanirbhar Bharat during the period of Amrit Kaal. In this direction, we should also make a new resolve for tackling the problem of thalassemia." "There is a need to have a nationwide awareness campaign through the stakeholders of various ministries and state governments such as teachers-students, Anganwadi and ASHA workers, which is essential for mounting an attack on the problem of thalassemia. A teacher should give five minutes extra to create awareness among students and similarly Anganwadi workers should inform the villagers about the disease and its prevention," Munda said. The webinar was jointly organised by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs along with various ministries and the tha- lassemia association. Experts from India and various parts of the world took part in the conference. Munda also suggested that there should be common literature in simple and local language to guide the local level workers and help them in creating awareness. "Apart from awareness and counselling, cheap medicines availability and community blood donation in rural areas should be promoted," the minister said. In his address, Anil Kumar Jha, Secretary in Ministry of Tribal affairs, said that through awareness, effective participation and the whole of the government approach India can control, prevent and treat the disease. "The Ministry will provide support to all private and public institutions working in the field of controlling thalassemia," Jha added. Petition in HC to open 20 rooms in Taj Mahal LUCKNOW: A petition has been filed in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court seeking directives to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to open 20 rooms inside the Taj Mahal in Agra to ascertain whether the Hindu idols and inscriptions are hidden there. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) media in-charge of Ayodhya district, Dr Rajneesh Singh has filed the petition which is yet to come up for hearing. Advocate Rudra Vikram Singh is representing the petitioner in court. "There is an old controversy related to the Taj Mahal. Around 20 rooms in Taj Mahal are locked and no one is allowed to enter. It is believed that in these rooms there are idols of Hindu gods and scriptures," said Dr Rajneesh Singh. "I have filed a petition in the high court seeking directives to ASI to open these rooms to ascertain facts. There is no harm in opening these rooms and setting to rest all controversies," said Singh on Sunday. In the plea, the petitioner has sought directives from the court to the state government to constitute a committee that would examine these rooms and look for any evi- dence related with the Hindu idols or scriptures there. Rajneesh Singh said he has been trying to ascertain facts about the 20 locked rooms of Taj Mahal since 2020 through the Right to Information Act (RTI). Singh had filed an RTI in 2020 with the Union ministry of Culture seeking information about the rooms. "Since 2020, I have been trying to ascertain facts about the locked rooms of Taj Mahal. I had filed an RTI. Replying to the RTI, the Union ministry of Culture informed the Central Information Commission (in Delhi) that these rooms were locked due to security rea- sons and no detail was provided about these rooms," he added. "In the RTI, I had sought details about the locked rooms (what is inside them) and directives to open them," Singh said. "When all my efforts failed then I have approached the Lucknow high court seeking directives to the government to open these rooms and constitute a fact-finding committee to find out whether Hindu gods and scriptures are inside them," he added. It may be pointed out that several right-wing organisations claim Taj Mahal to be Tejo Mahalaya, a Hindu temple. ED questions Pooja’s husband, CA in MGNREGA scam SANJAY SAHAY RANCHI: Enforcement directorate (ED) teams on Sunday interrogated mining secretary Pooja Singhal's husband Abhishek Jha and chartered accountant (CA) Suman Kumar Singh regarding the recovery of cash amounting to Rs 19.31 crore and incriminating documents in searches carried out in connection with MGNREGA scam. The ED interrogated Jha for 12 hours at its office in Hinoo. Jha came out of the office at around 9 pm and boarded his car while avoiding the media person's questions. It may be mentioned here that ED has been allowed five day custody of Singh by the court for the interrogation. The ED had produced the CA before the court on Saturday evening and sought 10 day custody. The ED had carried out raids at 23 places in Jharkhand and other states on Friday and Saturday in connection with the multicrore Mnrega scam in Khunti district. Meanwhile, in an affidavit filed before the Jharkhand High Court on Friday, Chief Minister Hemant Soren explained his stand on mining lease controversy. Soren said that the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed to destabilise the government. "I say and submit that the present writ petition has been filed out of personal animosity and at the behest of my political rivals with the ulterior motive and malafide intent maligning me and destabilizing the government of which I am the Chief Minister," stated the preliminary affidavit submitted by him. Hemant Soren is the respondent number seven in the petition. A petition was filed in February by Shiv Shankar Sharma on granting of stone chips mining lease to Soren in Ranchi. The petitioner had approached the High Court for an appropriate direction to prosecute the Chief Minister saying Soren had misused his office in getting the mining lease in his own name. Soren holds the mining and environment portfolio. "I am advised to state that my act of obtaining a mining lease does not entail my disqualification as a member of the Legislative Assembly under any law and I reserve my rights to make further submissions in law on this aspect at the time of hearing through counsel, if necessary," added CM through affidavit. In the same matter, Soren has been issued a notice from Election Commission of India seeking his reply that why he should not be disqualified. Soren has to send his reply by May 10. Soren has given the full detail of the said lease. (With agency inputs)