CMYK JUNE 28 TUESDAY 33 Precipition: 50% Humidity: 74% 33 28 Wind: 18 KM/H Rs. 3 KOLKATA TUESDAY, 28 JUNE, 2022 PG-12, YEAR—8, ISSUE—375 (RNI NO.: WBENG / 2014 / 56803) CBI replaces counsel, IO in Bengal's post poll violence case Discussion on use of metavers technology in field of education at Bhatar Govt ITI College PAGE 3 PAGE 4 Morning India SC declines to pass order on plea for no floor test in Maha till July 11 MI News Service, New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to pass an interim order on the Maharashtra government counsel's submissions that there should not be any floor test in the Assembly till July 11, as it extended, till July 12, the time granted to the 16 dissident MLAs to submit their response to the disqualification notices. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and J.B. Pardiwala said it cannot pass an order, which would create unnecessary complications. It told senior advocate Devdutt Kamat, representing the Maharashtra government, that if anything illegal happens, then he can always come back to the top court. As Kamat said if disqualification proceedings are put in abeyance, then there should not be any floor test in the Assembly, the bench said: "On presumptions, can we pass (an order)...". Then as Kamat urged the court to give his client the liberty to come to the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at a meeting in Burdwan on Monday. Yashwant Sinha files nomination for Presidential election MI News Service, New Delhi: Joint opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha on Monday filed nomination for next month's Presidential election. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury and other opposition leaders were present at the filing of Sinha's nomination. Sinha also paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and Dr B.R. Ambedkar before filing his nomination. Meanwhile, the TRS announced its support to Sinha. "President of @trspartyonline Sri KCR Garu has decided to extend support to the candidature of Sri @YashwantSinha Ji in the election for President of India. Along with our Members of Parliament, I will be representing the TRS at the nomination today," working president of TRS and minister Telangana government K.T. Rama Rao tweeted announcing party's support to Sinha's candidature. The support to Sinha as joint opposition candidate comes days after TRS opted out of the meeting called by West Bengal K Continue PG 5 Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut refuses to appear before ED tomorrow MI News Service, Mumbai: Amid the political crisis in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Monday refused to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday for questioning in a money laundering case in connection with the re-development of Mumbai's Patra Chawl case and said that he would "seek time". He said that he prefers to stay with the party in the time of crisis and will seek time from Enforcement Directorate. "I knew K Continue PG 5 Alia, Ranbir Mukul resigns from Mamata slams Cenexpecting PAC chairman post tre over ED notice to Sanjay Raut first child MI News Service, Kolkata: MI News Service, Kolkata: MI News Service, Mumbai: Bollywood star couple Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor are expecting their first bundle of joy. Alia took to Instagram on Monday morning to share the good news with her fans and friend. She shared a picture, where the actress is seen getting her sonography done while her husband Ranbir is seen looking at the baby on the screen. She captioned the image: "Our baby .Coming soon." K Continue PG 5 Mukul Roy has resigned from the post of PAC chairman. He has sent his resignation letter by mail. He has initially showed his physical ailment as the prime reason for his resignation. Mukul Roy left the BJP and returned to his old bastion TMC soon after the last assembly elections. Eventually he won the 2021 assembly election from Krishnanagar North on a BJP ticket. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed chairman of the Assembly's Public Accounts Committee, or PAC. From the very beginning the saffron camp opposed this issue. Their argument was that the post of PAC in the Legislative Assembly should be given to someone from among the MLAs of the Opposition. While examining the theory of dismissal of Mukul Roy's MLA post, the lawyer of the PAC chairman informed that Mukul is still in the BJP in accordance with the order of Calcutta High Court. Till now, he was holding both the posts. But this time he himself has announced his resignation from the post K Continue PG 5 West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday hit out at the Centre over the Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s summons to Shiv Sena leader, Sanjay Raut over questioning on an alleged money laundering case. "I heard that a Shiv Sena leader in Maharashtra has received summons from ED today. I heard that there is an attempt to attach his property as well. This is the BJP's tactics. Whenever they want to harass any opposition K Continue PG 5 1.8 million tones of wheat been exported by India MI News Service, New Delhi: India has exported 1.8 million tonnes of wheat to many nations including Bangladesh and Afghanistan, since the country banned exports of the grain on May 13, according to Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey. As per sources, about 33,000 tonnes of wheat as humanitarian assistance has already been supplied to Afghanistan against the commitment of 50,000 tonne. As per the Food Ministry, India has always taken the CMYK needs of the world into consideration, even while meeting the onerous obligations of feeding its population of 1.38 billion people. India has nonetheless continued with its commitment to cater for the genuine needs of neighbouring countries and food-deficit nations through Government-to-Government mechanism and also to fulfil supply commitments already made. According sources, after the regulation until June 22nd this fiscal year, 1.8 million tonnes of wheat have been shipped out, almost four times from the previous year to countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Israel, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Qatar, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Switzerland, Thailand, UAE, Vietnam and Yemen. The country has dispatched several shipments of humanitarian assistance to the people of K Continue PG 5 court if there is an attempt to alter the status quo, Justice Surya Kant said: "Do you need our liberty... Let us not create any complications on the basis of apprehensions not founded now." The top court scheduled the matter for further hearing on July 11. Kamat added that no court has ever granted a stay of disqualification process and the proceedings of the House will be interdicted as he questioned the maintainability of the petitions by Shinde and rebel Shiv Sena MLAs. He made these submissions in a last-ditch effort while the bench was wrapping up the hearing of the petitions by Eknath Shinde and other rebel MLAs of Shiv Sena challenging the disqualification notices issued by the Deputy Speaker to them and also the appointment of Ajay Choudhari as Shiv Sena Legislature Party leader. During the hearing, Kamat said to express no-confidence in the Chief Minister, no reason is to be given "but as far as Speaker is concerned, please see Article 179, the word used is 'removal'." "For removal, reasons have to be given. Members can't merely say they have no confidence," he said. The rebel MLAs of Shiv Sena have moved a motion to remove Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal. They claimed this motion was moved before Zirwal issued disqualification notices to them. The top court extended the time given by the Deputy Speaker to the rebel MLAs to file written responses to the disqualification notices, which was to end at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, to 5.30 p.m. on July 12. The top court asked the Maharashtra government to ensure protection of rebel MLAs and the state government undertook that it would take immediate and adequate measures to protect lives, liberty, and properties of 39 rebel MLAs and their family members. Mamata Banerjee digs at Centre for housing project in Bengal MI News Service, Burdwan: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee opened her mouth about the complexity of renaming the 'Bangla Abas Yojana' project. She again pierced the Center from the meeting at Godar ground in Nawabhat, Burdwan. Mamata Banerjee once again complained of being deprived of money for the 100-day project. From the name of Bangla Abas Yojana, 'Bangla' should be omitted and 'Prime Minister' should be installed. Otherwise, not a single penny will be given to the state government for this project. The Union Ministry of K Continue PG 5