CMYK Women wearing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's mask and hold Drug Tablet, Injection Syringe,Capsule to arranged "Awareness Rally" on the occasion of International Day against Drug Abuse And Illicit Trafficking from Airport 1no gate to Kaikhali organised by West Bengal Police and NGO on Sunday. JUNE 27 MONDAY 33 33 27 Precipition: 20% Wind: 18 KM/H Humidity: 71% PAGE 3 Rs. 3 KOLKATA MONDAY, 27 JUNE, 2022 PG-12, YEAR—8, ISSUE—393 (RNI NO.: WBENG / 2014 / 56803) India can't lag behind as youth is ready to touch the sky: PM Modi RAINS IN THE CITY... MI News Service, New Delhi : Highlight- ing the strides made by Indian startups in the space sector, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his monthly radio broadcast 'Mann Ki Baat' on Sunday said the country cannot lag behind as youth is ready to touch the sky. In the 90th episode of his monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat', Prime Minister Modi said, "During one's childhood, stories of the moon and stars in the sky attract everyone. For the youth, touching the sky is synonymous with making dreams come true. Today, when our India is touching the sky of success in so many fields, how can the skies, or space, remain untouched by it! In the past few years, many big feats related to the space sector have been accomplished in our country." "One of these achievements of the country has been the creation of an agency named In-Space, an agency that is promoting new opportunities in the space sector for the private sector of India," he stated. He said until a few years ago hardly people thought of startups in the space sector in India. But today the number of such startups has crossed 100. Prime Minister mentioned about two start-ups - Agnikul and Skyroot from Chennai and Hyderabad which are developing launch vehicles that will take small payloads into space. Through this, the cost of space launching is estimated to come down significantly. He further mentioned Hyderabad-based startup Dhruva Space which is working on high-technology solar panels for satellite deployers and satellites. PM Modi talked about Tanveer Ahmed of Digantara, another space startup that is trying to map waste in space. Both Digantara and Dhruva ❑ Continue PG 2 Narendra Modi to attend G 7 summit in Munich MI News Service, Munich: Cloud looms large on city hub on Sunday afternoon. Bird hits Yogis copter, opts for emergency landing MI News Lucknow: A Service, helicopter carrying Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had to make an emergency landing at the police lines here, minutes after take-off. According to the sources, the chopper was brought back to the base as a precautionary measure after a reported bird hit. The government sources say, the Chief Minister, who is in Varanasi, is now going to the airport by road and will return to Lucknow by a state aircraft. Oppn leaders to meet on Monday ahead of Sinha's nomination MI News New Delhi: Service, Ahead of nomination of Yashwant Sinha, the opposition presidential candidate, the leaders of the Opposition parties will be meeting on Monday in Parliament. NCP supremo Sharad Pawar who is firefighting the Maharashtra crisis has landed in Delhi for the meet. The opposition has been put to test since the NDA announced its candidate. The big question is who all from the opposition will be present in Monday's meeting as Congress MLAs and MP are busy signing the nomination papers. Sinha will address a press conference on Monday at 4 p.m. and will then begin his campaign. Sinha on Wednesday had said that the Constitution is being throttled. Maha stunner: Thackeray offered CM post to Shinde on May 20, claims Aditya MI News Service, Mumbai: In a major revelation, Maharashtra Minister Aditya Thackeray on Sunday claimed that Maha Vikas Aghadi's Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had offered the CM's post on a platter to his cabinet colleague Eknath Shinde on May 20. "However, at that time, Shinde had dilly-dallied, was evasive and did not give a proper response... I had heard of some murky goings-on... Exactly a month later on June 20, Shinde and his group started the rebellion in the party," said Thackeray Jr. He termed as "good riddance" that all the 'muck' has gone out of the party on its own, now leaving it clean, amid a thun- derous round of applause. Thackeray added that the group of MLAs - currently camping in a fivestar hotel in Guwahati are 'traitors' who will not be taken back into the Shiv Sena. He also harked on ❑ Continue PG 2 Impressive performance by BJP in by polls MI News Service, New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday bagged one Lok Sabha and three assembly seats, while the Aam Aadmi Party suffered a setback in Punjab's Sangrur as results came in for the by polls to three Lok Sabha and seven assembly seats spread across five states and Delhi. However, there was something to cheer about for the AAP as it won the by poll to the Rajinder Nagar seat in the national capital. In the by polls for the two Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP won the Rampur seat and appeared set to wrest Azamgarh. The BJP consolidated its position in Tripura winning three of the four assembly seats. Chief Minister Manik Saha secured 17,181 votes, which is 51.63 per cent of the total votes polled. Ecstatic Manik Saha said,"The people who voted for me, I thank them. This is the victory of BJP workers. I expected the margin to be a bit more. However, the results prove the understanding between the CPI(M) and Congress. We will work accordingly in the future, but people did not take this understanding in a good way," Congress candidate Sudip Roy Barman won the Agartala seat by a margin of 3,163 votes. He secured 17,241 votes, which is 43.46 per cent of the total votes polled. With this victory, Roy Barman became the only Congress MLA in the assembly after the party's complete rout in the 2018 assembly elections. The CPI(M) lost its citadel of Jubarajnagar to the BJP by a margin of 4,572 votes. BJP candidate Malina Debnath got 18,769 votes (51.83 per cent), while CPI(M)'s Shailendra Chandra Nath secured 14,197 votes (39.2 per cent). Ahmedhabad Crime Branch takes charge of Teesta from ATS MI News Service, Ahmedabad: A day after detaining social activist Teesta Setalvad in Mumbai, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) handed her over to the Ahmedabad crime branch in connection with a fresh case of forgery, criminal conspiracy and insulting criminal proceedings to cause injury registered against her. After her detention on Saturday, she had been taken to the Santacruz police station in Mumbai for informing the local police about her detention. From there, the Gujarat police squad brought her to Ahmedabad by road, where they reached in the early hours. The action against Setalvad had come a day after the CMYK his father and Chief Minister Thackeray's statement that the party's doors are always open for those who desire to leave or for those wanting to return to the party fold. Aditya's speech is significant as certain re- ports emerged from Guwahati that the rebels group now wants Shinde to be made the CM, and the Bharatiya Janata Party's central minister Raosaheb Danve-Patil claiming the will form a new government in the state within next 2-3 days. Issuing a veiled warning to the revolters, Thackeray Jr. also said that the route from Mumbai Airport (Santacruz) to the state Legislature (Nariman Point) goes via Worli. A traditional Sena bastion in south-central Mumbai, Worli is also the constituency which elected Aditya for the first time in 2019 and thousands had gathered there with tears in their eyes when Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to former Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and others in the 2002 post-Godhra riots cases. Setalvad, who is the secretary of NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace, is also accused of conspiring to fabricate facts and documents, tutor witnesses and abuse the process of law by fabricating false evidence to frame people, on the basis of submissions made before the SIT formed by the Supreme Court to investigate the 2002 Gujarat riots cases and before the Justice Nanavati-Shah Commission of Inquiry. In Surma, BJP's Swapna Das won by a margin of 4,583 votes, securing a total of 16,677 votes (42.34 per cent). Her nearest rival Baburam Satnami of TIPRA Motha got 12,094 votes (30.7 per cent). The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) conceded defeat in the Sangrur Lok Sabha bypoll, saying it respects the mandate of the voters. In Delhi's Rajinder Nagar, AAP's Durgesh Pathak defeated BJP candidate Rajesh Bhatia by a margin of over 11,000 votes in Rajinder Nagar assembly by poll. The ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh also made its mark with its candidate Ghanshyam Lodhi winning from the Rampur parliamentary seat by margin of over 42,000 votes. Lodhi defeated SP's Mohd Asim Raja, considered close to SP leader Mohd Azam Khan, who held this seat in 2019. Mamata arrives at Burdwan for 3 days tour MI News Service, Kolkata: The Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee comes to a three-day district tour of Burdwan. Today Banerjee will address the farmers at Mati Tirtha in East Burdwan. She will handover financial benefits to the holders of the Kishan Credit Card. The TMC supremo will also address party workers at Spandan ground. On June 28, Banerjee will address the party workers at the Asansol Polo Ground in West Burdwan. On June 29 the Chief Minister will hold an administrative review meeting in Durgapur before leaving for Kolkata. Banerjee's meeting in Asansol is important as, since the inception of Trinamool Congress, the party has won the Lok Sabha seat for the first time in the by polls held earlier this year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Munich on Sunday to attend the G7 summit in Germany where he will hold meetings with G7 and partner countries and will hold discussions on issues ranging from environment, energy, to counter-terrorism. The meeting is scheduled from June 26-27 during which PM Modi will see interaction with the Indian diaspora and hold a meeting with world leaders. Taking to Twitter, the offi- cial spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, Arindam Bagchi tweeted, "At the invitation of @Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz, PM @narendramodi arrives in Germany for the G7 Summit." On the sidelines of the Summit, PM Modi will hold bilateral meetings with leaders of some of the participating countries. He was welcomed by a Bavarian band on his arrival in Munich. "Besides participating in @G7 discussions on climate, energy, food se- curity, health, gender equality and more, PM will also hold several bilateral meetings on the sidelines," MEA added. The G7 Summit invitation is in keeping with the tradition of strong and close partnership and high-level political contacts between India and Germany. Meanwhile, the Indian community in Germany is already preparing to welcome PM Modi to Munich. It will be the largest gathering of the Indian ❑ Continue PG 2