YK MYK CENTRE CHERRY-PICKING NAMES RECOMMENDED FOR HC JUDGES OPINION Rs. 5 RANCHI WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY, 2022 PG-12, YEAR—12, ISSUE—9 (RNI NO: JHAENG / 2012 / 44137) KKR EYE BIG WIN TO KEEP HOPE ALIVE, LSG LOOK TO SEAL PLAY-OFF BERTH SPORTS Morning India Govt orders judicial inquiry in construction of VS, HC buildings SANJAY SAHAY INS Udaygiri (Stealth Frigate) launched by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, in Mumbai on Tuesday. ANI PM Modi inaugurates India’s first 5G testbed NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated the country's first 5G testbed to enable startups and industry players to test and validate their products locally and reduce dependence on foreign facilities. The testbed has been set up at a cost of around Rs 220 crore. Speaking at the silver jubilee celebrations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), the Prime Minister said the 5G testbed is an important step for self-reliance in the direction of critical and modern technologies. "I invite youth friends, researchers and companies to utilise the testing facility for making 5G technology," Modi said. The 5G testbed has been developed as a multi-institute collaborative project by eight institutes led by IIT Madras. In the absence of a 5G test- bed, startups and other industry players were required to go abroad to test and validate their products for installation in a 5G network. The other institutes that participated in the project are IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, IISc Bangalore, Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research (SAMEER) and Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT). 20 pc Twitter accounts fake, deal ‘cannot move forward’ until there’s clarity, says Elon Musk WASHINGTON: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday said that he will proceed with his USD 44 billion take over of Twitter only if the microblogging giant is able to prove that less than 5 per cent of its users are bots. "20 pc fake/spam accounts, while 4 times what Twitter claims, could be *much* higher. My offer was based on Twitter's SEC filings being accurate. Yesterday, Twitter's CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5 pc. This deal cannot move forward until he does," Musk tweeted. His tweet came in response to a Twitter user who wrote that the Billionaire entrepreneur may be looking for a better deal as the previously quoted amount of USD 44 billion seems too high with 20 per cent users being fake or spam accounts. This comes a day after Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal issued a series of tweets amid the debate surrounding the spam controversy between the company and Musk. Agarwal on Monday emphasised that the company strongly incentivized to detect and remove as much spam as we possibly can, every single day. "Next, spam isn't just 'binary' (human/not human). The most advanced spam campaigns use combinations of coordinated humans + automation. They also compromise real accounts, and then use them to advance their campaign. So - they are sophisticated and hard to catch," he tweeted. The Twitter head said the company suspends over half a million spam accounts every day, usually before any of you even see them on Twitter. INDIA AIMS TO ROLL OUT 6G TELECOM NETWORK BY END OF DECADE: PM India is targeting the rollout of 6G telecom network, which will provide ultra high speed internet connectivity, by the end of the decade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. India currently has 3G and 4G telecom networks and companies are gearing up to launch 5G over the next few months. PG 5 RANCHI: The state government has ordered formation of a commission for investigating the alleged irregularities in the construction of the Vidhan Sabha and the Jharkhand High Court building in Ranchi. Notably, the new Vidhan Sabha, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September 2019, has been built at a cost of Rs 465 crore. Questions have been raised WHOLESALE INFLATION SURGES TO 15.08 PER CENT IN APRIL NEW DELHI: Wholesale inflation in India surged to 15.08 per cent in April from 14.55 per cent in the previous month due to a sharp jump in the prices of fuel, metal, food and non-food articles and chemical products, government data showed on Tuesday. The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation has been in the double-digit for the 13 months in a row. The WPI-based inflation stood at 10.74 per cent in April 2021. The high rate of inflation in April 2022 was primarily due to a rise in prices of mineral oils, basic metals, crude petroleum & natural gas, food articles, non-food articles, food products and chemicals. regarding the quality of the materials used in the structure. There was also a PIL regarding the construction of the High Court building. In July 2021 Chief Minister Hemant Soren directed the Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) to inquire into the irregularities in the construction of the buildings. It may be mentioned here that the PIL has sought investigation by Central Bureau of Investigation into the alleged embezzlement of the money in the construction of the new High Court building. The state government had also filed an affidavit in the High Court saying that a high powered committee under the chairmanship of development commissioner with additional chief secretary, planningcum-finance department, principal secretary-cum-legal advisor, secretary, road construction department, secretary building construction department and secretary, information and technology, Government of Jharkhand for the purpose of examining the revised estimates proposed by the building construction department for completing the construction of New High Court Building stated that the revised proposal of Rs.697.32 crores prepared by the department should not be accepted. It recommended for closure of the agreement with the present contractor within the permissible limits of the administrative approval granted for the project. Gyanvapi: Top court asks district magistrate to protect Shivling area Allows unimpeded access to mosque for Namaz NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave directions to the District Magistrate of Varanasi for protection of the Shivling found from the Gyanvapi Mosque complex during a survey by court Commissioner. A bench of Justice DY Chandrachud and PS Narasimha ordered that direction to protect the area where Shivling has been found shall not in any manner restrain or impede access of Muslims to the mosque or use of it for performing prayers and religious observances. It has lifted the prohibition imposed by a Varanasi district court on Muslims from entering Gyanvapi Mosque. The trial court had permitted only 20 people to pray inside the premises. "The area where Shivling as indicated in the impugned order (of Varanasi district court) is found shall be pro- VARANASI COURT REMOVES AJAY MISHRA AS ADVOCATE COMMISSIONER VARANASI: The Varanasi court, hearing the Gyanvapi mosque survey matter, on Tuesday removed Ajay Mishra from the post of Advocate Commissioner, reportedly for leaking information about the video survey to the media. Vishal Singh has been elevated to the post of Advocate Commissioner. Meanwhile, the court has granted two days' time to the advocate commissioner to file the report on the video survey. In a related development, the Hindu petitioners have filed a new petition in a Varanasi court, seeking demolition of a wall located between the 'Nandi' statue and the 'Shivling' that they claim to have found during the video survey. MORE ON PG 7 tected. The above order shall not in any manner restrict or impede the entry of Muslims to mosque for namaz or religious observances," the bench stated in its order. The apex court also issued notice to the Hindu petitioners and Uttar Pradesh government on the plea of Anjuman Intezamia Masajid challenging the Varanasi district court order which directed videographic survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque complex, which is adjacent to the famous Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi. The responses are to be filed by Thursday, May 19, when the matter will be heard next. AT A GLANCE HANGZHOU 2022 ASIAN PARA GAMES POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 IN CHINA HANGZHOU: The Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games organising committee (HAPGOC) and the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) on Tuesday announced the postponement of the 2022 Asian Para Games, originally scheduled to take place from October 9-15. The announcement follows the decision taken by the Olympic Council of Asia and the HAGOC, the games organising committee, to postpone the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games due to the size of the Games and the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. A taskforce comprising of the APC, the Chinese Paralympic Committee and HAPGOC will now work on rescheduling the Games to take place in 2023. APC President Majid Rashed in a statement said: "The Games preparations have been going very well and HAPGOC was ready to deliver an outstanding games.”