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UP civic polls: SP gave tickets to those responsible for riots in Kanpur, says Yogi

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Kanpur: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday hit out at the Samajwadi Party, alleging those responsible for riots and curfews in Kanpur were its candidates in the urban local body polls.
On the last day of campaigning for the second phase of the civic polls, Adityanath addressed public meetings in Kanpur, Banda and Chitrakoot and appealed to voters to make the BJP victorious so that funds allocated by the Central and state governments for development and welfare schemes are utilized fully.
At an election rally in Kanpur, the chief minister said this city used to be known as the country’s textile hub and largest industrial city, but its neglect by the previous government was “known to everyone”.

Referring to Kanpur’s once-booming illegal firearms industry, he said ‘kattas’ (countrymade pistols) were manufactured in Kanpur under the SP rule, but a new node of the Defence Corridor is being built here now.
As the country’s centre for defence production, Kanpur is establishing a new identity, Adityanath said.
“Those who were responsible for riots and curfews in Kanpur and played with people’s faith in the past are today the candidates of the Samajwadi Party. The kind of remarks they have made on women and the holy epic ‘Ramayan’ are not hidden from anyone,” the chief minister said.
“The urban local body election is not only (a medium) to elect a mayor but also about making all the BJP candidates victorious in all the wards,” he said.
“This election is not about hatred and personal comments. This election is about making your city a smart city, a safe city and one which has all the basic facilities,” he said at the meeting.

Adityanath also referred to the work done by his government to clean river Ganga under the Namami Gange project.
“Mother Ganga is our faith and our identity. Due to the neglect by the previous governments, 14 crore litres of sewage were discharged into Mother Ganga through the Sisamau drain. Under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the work on the Namami Gange project started.
“At that time, there was a Samajwadi Party government in the state. The SP did not do any work for two years. In March 2017, the double-engine BJP government came to power, and today not even a single drop from the Sisamau drain falls into the Ganga,” he said.
The chief minister also appealed to voters to add “a third engine” to the “double-engine government” and make Kanpur better again with basic facilities.
“Double-engine” is a term often used by BJP leaders to refer to the party ruling at the Centre and in a state.
Addressing another rally at Banda, the CM said that the Bundelkhand region has overcome the problem of barren and rugged terrain and is set to become a heaven on earth.
“In the next four months, the work of providing pure tap water to every house in Bundelkhand is going to be completed,” he said.
Adityanath said the entire Bundelkhand region is writing a “new chapter of development today” and recalled that for years the unveiling of Maharana Pratap’s statue was stalled which he did when he visited Banda last time.
He said that prior to 2017, Bundelkhand faced a lot of problems related to drinking water, agriculture, employment, and security.
Earlier women had to bring water in pitchers from far-off places, but today through the Har Ghar Nal Yojana, tap water is being provided to every house in Bundelkhand and the exercise will be completed in the next four months, he said.
Addressing his last rally of the day at Chitrakoot, the CM said, “Chitrakoot has been freed from dacoits criminals and is being re-established as a holy place of Sanatan Hinduism.”
Taking a jibe at the opposition parties, he added: “Dr. Lohia started the Ramayana fairs, but the Samajwadi Party, which does politics in the name of Dr. Lohia, says that Ram did not exist. Its leaders are making unsavoury comments on Tulsidas’ Ramcharitmanas as well.”
Adityanath also said that the then Samajwadi Party government opened fire on the devotees of Lord Ram in Ayodhya.
Adityanath was referring to police firing on ‘karsevaks’ gathered in Ayodhya on the saffron outfits’ call in 1990 when SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav was the UP chief minister.
“Their thinking is anarchic, opportunistic and dynastic. They can’t befriend a saint, but would readily garland a dacoit and allow them to exploit common people and traders,” he remarked further.
The second and final phase of the urban local body polls in UP will be held on May 11. The counting of votes will take place on May 13.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 9, 2023
Brentford’s Rico Henry: ‘Teams said I was too timid, not big enough. It gave me more fire’

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“It’s heartbreaking,” Rico Henry says as he thinks back to his childhood and remembers trials ending with clubs telling him he was too short to become a footballer. “Especially when you’re young. You can’t do anything about it. But I sort of knew it would work out. I had a lot of pace. I looked up to left-backs like Jordi Alba, who’s short. Marcelo and Ashley Cole weren’t the tallest. I always believed in myself. I knew there were other players in the same position who were a similar height to me.”
Brentford’s 5ft 7in left-back laughs and says being rejected by Aston Villa, Birmingham and West Brom spurred him on. “I was 11, 12 years old but teams were saying I was too timid and not big enough,” Henry says. “It gave me more fire. You’ve got to learn from it. You can’t get too down. You’ve got to keep going. I think maybe the way I played, going into tackles, I was probably not as aggressive as I could have been. I learned as I got older to be more aggressive in certain situations. It was hard but I got through it.”
Henry, who has developed into one of the best left-backs in the Premier League, maintained a good perspective. He points out that his teammate Ethan Pinnock and the Leicester striker Jamie Vardy were late bloomers. Henry had time on his side. He joined Walsall and embraced playing at a lower level. “The right step,” he says. “You see a lot of youths go into top clubs and they can’t progress, they can’t get minutes. When I was 18 I was playing first-team football.”
Dean Smith managed Walsall and gave Henry a chance. “League One was really tough,” he says. “It was physical. I learned a lot. I was playing reserves before. Dean Smith came up to me after a game against West Brom and said: ‘Listen, go home, you’re starting tomorrow.’ I was nervous. Excited. I remember going home and telling my dad. As far as I remember the game went well. I was around the first team after that, so it must have done.
“That’s exactly what I needed at the time – someone who believed in me and trusted me. I knew he [Smith] loved me when he brought me to Brentford. That’s what you need when you’re young – a manager who believes in you.”
Rico Henry in action during Brentford’s win at Chelsea on Wednesday. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP
Henry joined Brentford in 2016. They were a Championship side and he thought they were a stepping-stone club. He soon realised he was wrong. On Wednesday night Brentford went to Chelsea and won 2-0. They are ninth in the Premier League before hosting Nottingham Forest on Saturday and have a chance of qualifying for Europe.
Brentford know how to maximise their resources. They did not panic when Smith went to Villa in 2018. Thomas Frank was an inspired appointment. The Dane led Brentford into the top flight in 2021 and has built a young, hungry side. Brentford flourished after winning promotion and have kept standards high this season. “They say the second season’s the hardest,” Henry says. “But we’ve stayed together. The gaffer said: ‘Don’t take your foot off the pedal.’
“We’ve been amazing against the top six. Against the lower teams we need to do more. We’ve had draws where we could have won. It’s just putting the game to bed sometimes. Maybe it’s game management. The dark arts, maybe a bit of time-wasting. I saw Arsenal the other day. Gabriel [Magalhães] took a shot on the head and just went down. Stuff like that kills a game. It’s smart from him. We’ve got to do what we can to win.”

Henry, who has had to overcome long-term knee and shoulder injuries, describes himself as a bad loser. Frank calls the 25-year-old a defender who would run through a brick wall for the team. Henry is sharp and tenacious but he knows he has room for improvement.
“The manager wants me to get involved more attacking-wise,” he says. “Get crosses in and get goals and assists. I’m trying. There’s times where I could have had an assist if the lads had put it in the back of the net. But I’ve got to put more crosses in. It’s that end product I need.”
More output in the final third would boost Henry’s hopes of an England call-up. He was disappointed not to make the last squad. “I knew I was being talked about in the media,” he says. “It’s going to be tough with Luke Shaw and Ben Chilwell ahead of me. It did hurt in a way because I think I can play at that level. But I’ve got to concentrate on Brentford and keep doing what I can.
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“One of my big dreams is to play international football. To play in a top-six team in the Premier League has always been a dream. I’m not there yet. I want to play in Europe. I want to play in tournaments.”
Henry, who is also eligible for Jamaica, played alongside Mason Mount, Fikayo Tomori and Dominic Solanke at youth level for England. He was gutted when injury stopped him being part of the squad that won the Under-20 World Cup in 2017. He hopes a strong end to the season will give him a shot of making Gareth Southgate’s squad for their Euro 2024 qualifiers in June. He has the skillset to play at international level. The role of full-back has changed since Henry’s youth.
“It’s more up and down, more attacking, and that’s what I want to do,” he says. “We play two formations: sometimes back four, sometimes back five. I try to get forward in both. I like wing-back because I can get in the box more. But I just want to help the team.”
Henry thinks of those shortsighted rejections again. “Back then it was more long ball,” Henry says. “But I don’t mind. Looking back, it’s obviously laughable. But it’s helped me progress.”
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( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )

April 28, 2023
AAP govt gave 28,873 jobs in a year, says Punjab CM Mann

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Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday said his government has given 28,873 jobs to the state’s youths in a year, whereas the previous Congress government only gave around 8,000 jobs in its maiden year.
Speaking at a function organised here to hand over appointment letters to 409 newly recruited sub-divisional officers (SDOs), clerks and others, the chief minister said due to the “callousness” of the previous regimes, getting a government job was a “distant dream” for the youth.
The AAP government, he said, has ensured that the youth get jobs through a merit-based and transparent mechanism.

Mann said the previous government lacked the commitment and zeal to serve the masses in the true sense, according to an official release.
Within a year of coming to power, the AAP government has given 28,873 jobs to the youth entirely on the basis of merit, he said.
The chief minister said it is a matter of immense pride and satisfaction for him that all the youth will become active partners in the state’s social and economic progress.
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April 24, 2023
Both Cong opponent Mamata & supporter Nitish gave Kejriwal’s unity meet a miss

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Kolkata: Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee whose party wants to keep a distance from both BJP and Congress as well as Bihar’s Supremo Nitish Kumar whose party is allied to Congress, seemed to have missed out on a meeting called by their Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal to try form a Third Front ahead of the 2024 general elections.
The invitation of the Aam Aadmi Party chief for the conclave was sent to some eight chief ministers on February 5, a source in the Bengal government said.
“She was invited by Kejriwal for a meeting in Delhi on March 18. a similar invitation was sent to seven other CMs for the meeting. However, the meeting obviously did not take place,” the source told PTI.
The TMC supremo, the source said, is likely to visit the national capital later this month, though as yet no meeting scheduled with Kejriwal.
Last week her party announced that it would go it alone sans the Congress and the BJP after she met Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav in Kolkata.
Incidentally, Yadav after meeting Banerjee had echoed the same thinking after the meeting last Friday.
“In Bengal, we are with Mamata didi (elder sister). Right now, our stand is to maintain equidistance from both the BJP and the Congress. Does Congress have any stake in Uttar Pradesh? We will continue our fight against the BJP,” Yadav had said after the meeting.
Party senior leader and MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay while dismissing talk of a third front, had held out the possibility of “regional players, including former NDA allies,” coming together in a compact ahead of the 2024 general elections.

Similarly, though Nitish had met Arvind Kejriwal during his Delhi trip immediately after joining Mahagathbandhan (Grand alliance), as part of his campaign for opposition unity, he has since been shy of being seen on the same page with AAP.
A case in point is the JD(U) not signing a recent letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, protesting the CBI action against AAP leader Manish Sisodia.
The JD(U) then appeared to have toed the line taken by Congress, its ally in Bihar.
Though another Bihar ally, RJD, had signed that letter.
Though there is no official confirmation of receipt of the Delhi CM’s letter here, so far, analysts believe Nitish Kumar is maintaining his distance from AAP in line with the thinking of its partner, Congress, in the coalition
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 20, 2023
Indian ragas gave birth to the iconic theme tune of James Bond 007 films

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Most of us have watched James Bond films. And we have also heard the iconic theme tune that introduces Bond to the audience. The tune is full of suspense and foreboding. But not many people know that the memorable tune has its origins in a work of fiction connected with Indian culture. The man who first wrote the tune was a British composer, musician and singer named Monty Norman. He wrote the tune for the very first Bond film titled Dr. No and thereafter it was used, sometimes with slight variations, in every James Bond film.
As the Bond films grew in popularity throughout the world, the tune became one of the most recognised themes on the planet. What makes the James Bond theme so appealing is its ability to evoke a sense of excitement and danger. The pounding rhythm and gradually soaring melody create a sense of excitement and anticipation, hinting at the fast paced action sequences that are to follow on the screen.
Monty Norman has said that the James Bond tune was inspired by “Good Sign, Bad Sign”, a song that he himself composed for a musical stage adaptation of V.S. Naipaul’s novel A House For Mr. Biswas. The novel was set among the Indian community in Trinidad. In brief, the story was about a man named Mohun Biswas, an Indian living in Trinidad, who has married into a wealthy family but ends up being dominated by his in-laws.

When Monty Norman was approached to compose a song for the stage show of the novel, the composer decided to rely heavily on an Indian theme and ambience. Since the story was about the Indian community settled in Trinidad, he composed a tune with a very heavy Indian influence and sound complete with sitar and tabla. The song was titled Good Sign, Bad Sign.
Later, when Monty Norman was roped in to compose the theme for the first James Bond film, he suddenly had a bright idea of presenting the same tune with a few minor changes.
But even after the changes, Monty Norman’s tune sounded too Indian and the producers felt that it may not be appreciated by a worldwide audience. So they requested another composer named John Barry Prendergast to rearrange the tune. So John Barry made a few more changes and it clicked. It was then included as the theme in the first Bond film titled Dr.No starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress. The film became a blockbuster and Connery shot to fame as the master spy James Bond, secret agent 007.
After the runaway success of Dr.No, Barry was hired to compose and perform eleven of the next fourteen James Bond films and he did so with great success. So that is how a tune which was originally based on Indian ragas became one of the most popular theme tunes in the Hollywood film industry and was also recognised and welcomed by millions of James Bond fans across the world.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 7, 2023
MC Stan gets platinum bracelet from Salman Khan, check what others gave

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Mumbai: Bigg Boss 16 winner MC Stan, who is also a rapper, enjoys a huge loyal fan base. He has over 9 million followers on Instagram and he has now beaten Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan in terms of popularity on social media. Stan surpassed Shah Rukh Khan’s Instagram live session record of around 255k views and set a new record.
‘Basti Ka Hasti’ fame MC Stan held an Instagram live session recently which was watched by over 541K viewers. So, you might have got an idea how much popularity he has got and no doubt after winning the Bigg Boss title, he has added another feather to his cap.
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MC Stan has received congratulatory messages and expensive gifts from various prominent personalities after winning Bigg Boss16. A video showcasing what the rapper has received from various popular personalities is going viral on Instagram. Check it out below.
1. Badshah
If you are a Badshah or MC Stan fan, then you might be aware that India’s top rappers share a very good bond. Badshah has reportedly gifted his junior an expensive golden necklace worth Rs 50 lakhs. It is reported that Badshah was super excited after MC Stan lifted the Bigg Boss 16 trophy.
2. Buba
MC Stan’s girlfriend Shaikh Anam aka Buba has a reason to celebrate the former’s win. According to various reports, MC Stan has received a sports BMW bike from Buba which is worth Rs 45 lakhs.
3. Rohit Shetty
Rohit Shetty’s love for MC Stan is unlimited and the director too wanted the rapper to be part of the ‘ Khatron Ke Khiladi season 13. Rumours have it that Rohit Shetty gifted an expensive convertible Mini Cooper car to him. The price of the car is reportedly around Rs 45 lakhs.
4. Salman Khan
Superstar Salman Khan who also hosts Bigg Boss has gifted MC Stan a platinum bracelet which is worth Rs 15 lakh. Salman has several times openly praised MC Stan during the show. After receiving a gift from such a prominent personality, MC Stan will be proud of his achievements.
5. Abdu Rozik
The most loving contestant of the Bigg Boss 16 Abdu Rozik has gifted his friend MC Stan a watch from ‘Chopard’. The price of this Chopard watch is said to be Rs 6 lakh.

6. Sajid Khan
The producer Sajid Khan and MC Stan developed a good relationship inside the house. The bond between the two is quite visible and both were seen often together in the house. The producer’s sister Farha Khan also recently held a party for Sajid’s various Bigg Boss friends.
Sajid Khan has offered a diamond chain to the rapper. The chain cost Rs 3 lakh according to the multiple reports furnished on various social media platforms.
7. Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia
TV actress and Bigg Boss 16 contestant Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia has gifted a brand new Rolex watch to MC Stan. The price of the watch is Rs 2.5 lakh.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 20, 2023
High Court Gave A Big Decision Regarding Pension! Government

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Government employees got relief from the court regarding pension. The High Court has ruled in favor of the employees. Pension, which is a great support of old age, pension is of great importance to live the rest of the life with respect. In such a situation, the employees have got good news from the decision of the court.
New Delhi: Government employees got relief from the court regarding pension. The High Court has ruled in favor of the employees. Pension, which is a great support of old age, pension is of great importance to live the rest of the life with respect. In such a situation, the employees have got good news from the decision of the court.
Non-regular service period will also be added to total tenure
According to the report of news agency PTI, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court said on Friday that non-regular service period of government employees will also be added to their total tenure while providing pension. However, the bench has declared the petitioners entitled to the benefits of pension for the last three years only.

This order was passed by a single bench of Justice Vivek Chaudhary while explaining the decision given by the Supreme Court in Prem Singh’s case in 2019 under section two of the Uttar Pradesh Pension for Qualifying Service and Validation Act 2021.
The employee has given his services, whether permanent or temporary
Justice Chowdhary said that eligibility for pension in Section 2 of the Uttar Pradesh Pension for Qualifying Service and Validation Act 2021 implies that the employee has given his services, even if the services are permanent are or temporary.
The court gave its verdict by approving 51 writ petitions together
The court has given this verdict by approving about 51 writ petitions filed separately on behalf of work in-charge employees, daily wage workers, ad hoc employees or seasonal collection amines. In the petitions, those orders of the government were challenged, in which it refused to consider the irregular services of the petitioners as eligible for pension by not adding them to their total service while taking the decision regarding grant of pension.
The court cited this decision of the Supreme Court.
In its decision, the bench, citing the decision given in the case of Prem Singh of the Supreme Court, said that even after working for the same number of years as the regular employees, the government employees of non-regular service Not adding it to the total length of service is discriminatory.
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February 19, 2023
Abrogation Of Article 370 Gave Shape To Ideology Of One-Nation: Rana

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SRINAGAR: Describing abrogation of Article 370 as a landmark and path breaking political initiative in the history of independent India, Senior BJP leader Devender Singh Rana today said the constitutional amendment by Parliament of the world’s largest and greatest democracy on August 5, 2019 was a step towards realization of the concept of ‘one nation, one people’.
“With this temporary provision gone, the citizens of India from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and North East to Kuchh are emotionally and psychologically connected as one people,” Devender Rana said while interacting with student activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) from North Eastern States, currently on National Integration Tour under Students’ Experience in Inter-state Living (SEIL) at the picturesque Surinsar.
Rana added: “Removing the discriminatory special status of Jammu and Kashmir gives a better shape to the ideology of one nation”.
He said the changing scenario across the country is manifestation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s urge to make India a global leader with his mission of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Pryas. This is only possible when Indians, irrespective of region, religion, caste or race mould themselves as ‘one people of one nation’. Much headway has been made in this regard during the past nearly nine years with everyone, especially the youth, working towards the progression of the country, he added.
Rana recalled the scenario in the North East prior to 2014 and said the despair of yesteryears has been overtaken by hope and promise of a better tomorrow. The region has really come out of the era of instability and is fast steering towards stability and peace.
He said the challenges faced to the North East and Jammu and Kashmir were not conducive years ago but the strong leadership at the Centre has made all the difference. While the NE is scripting a new saga of progress and development, J&K is at the threshold of becoming part of the country’s growth story. The nightmarish era of stone pelting and hartal culture in Kashmir is now history and the Valley is humming with economic activity and development like Jammu and any other part of the country, he maintained.
Rana, however, cautioned against the elements inimical to India’s spirit of unity, who are engaged in the sinister machinations of dividing the people on the basis of religion and caste. He exuded confidence that the youth of India will play a decisive role in foiling their game plan by maintaining unity and tranquillity.
Senior BJP leader Rana hoped that the youth exchange under SEIL will provide an opportunity to the youngsters to know their nation better and understand its diverse character and the challenges ahead. The activists of the ABVP will have to play their designated role in bringing youth together under the banner of One India. The youth represent the aspirations of vibrant India, he said, adding that the decisive leadership of the Prime Minister is fully capable of satiating these as per their expectations.

He lauded the initiative of SEIL –founded in 1965 as an initiative of the then members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad under the presidency of Acharya Giriraj Kishore and hoped that such visits will promote the feeling of brotherhood between youths from northeast India and the rest of the nation.
The SEIL comprised the ABVP activists from North East, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Manipur.
Prominent among those present on the occasion included, Akshi Balioria State Secretary ABVP Jammu and Kashmir; Tilak Thakur, State Organising Secretary; Novjot Jasrotia, State SEAL Coordinator J&K, Nirdesh Khajuria, Jammu Mahanagar Organising Secretary; Chahat Anand, State Joint Secretary besides Sarpanch Surinsar Bodh Raj, Sarpanch Chilla, Krishan Singh, Sarpanch Nadore Rajinder Singh, Sarpanch Khanpur Mohd Iqbal, Sarpanch Pounthal Anil, Ex Sarpanch Subash Singh, Pritam Singh, Mohd Amin, Abdul Mehmood, Balbir Singh, Mohd Sadiq, Bhushan Singh and others.

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

February 7, 2023
Railways gave Rs 59,837 crore subsidy on passenger tickets in 2019-20: Minister

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New Delhi: The Indian Railways gave subsidies worth Rs 59,837 crore on passenger tickets in 2019-20, which comes to an average concession of around 53 percent for every person travelling, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told Rajya Sabha on Friday.
The minister said concessions on top of this subsidy are still being provided to many categories such as divyangjans, students and patients, but did not clarify if the government is planning to restore the earlier discount given to those above 60 years of age.
Months after a parliamentary panel recommended that the discount on railway tickets to senior citizens should be restored, the minister was asked in a written question about the government’s position on the concession which was suspended after the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
In a written reply to a question by CPI MP Binoy Viswam on whether the railways has taken cognizance of the parliamentary standing committee’s recommendation to restore concessions in trains for senior citizens, the minister said, “The Standing Committee on Railways has advised to review and consider concession to senior citizens at least in sleeper and 3 AC…”
“Government gave subsidy of Rs 59,837 crore on passenger tickets in 2019-20. This amounts to concession of 53 per cent on an average to every person travelling on Railways. This subsidy is continuing for all passengers. Further concessions beyond this subsidy amount are continuing for many categories like Divyangjans, students and patients on Railways. This subsidy is continuing for all passengers,” Vaishnaw said.
In response to another question by BJP MP Sushil Modi, the minister informed that revenue foregone due to concessions in passenger fare to senior citizens during 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 were approximately Rs 1,491 crore, Rs 1,636 crore and Rs 1,667 crore respectively.
In 2017-18, Rs 670 crore was forgone in subsidy for senior citizens in non-AC classes of trains, while Rs 820 crore was the cost for subsidy in AC classes. In 2018-19, Rs 714 crore was spent on these concessions in non-AC classes, and Rs 921 crore in AC classes. In 2019-20, discount to non-AC classes was Rs 701 crore, while for AC classes it was Rs 965 crore.
At present, concessions in passenger fare are admissible to four categories of persons with disabilities (divyangjans), 11 categories of patients and students, he said.

Between 2019 and 2022, the concession for passengers with physical disabilities cost the railways Rs 209 crore, for patients it was Rs 221 crore and for students it was Rs 60 crore.
In a report submitted in August last year, the Standing Committee on Railways had said senior citizens were earlier granted a concession amounting to 40-50 per cent of their railway fares, but the practice was stopped during the COVID-19 crisis.
The panel in its recommendations said concession to senior citizens which was available in pre-Covid times may be reviewed and considered at least in Sleeper and AC III classes urgently, so that the vulnerable and the genuinely needy senior citizens could avail the facility in these classes.
It also urged the ministry to give wide publicity to the “give up” scheme, which encourages senior citizens to give up their concessions voluntarily.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 3, 2023
Sam Bankman Fried’s co-founder gave GOP govs group $500,000 right before bankruptcy

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The $500,000 donation from Salame was part of a $28.6 million haul that the association brought in over the last three months of 2022, according to filings with the IRS.
That money — coupled with seven-figure donations from GOP mega-donors — fueled its aggressive push to claim the executive branch in a number of states on Nov. 8. Ultimately, however, Democrats flipped three governorships in their favor. And they did so with an atypical cash advantage.
“Democrats were on total defense in 2022 and their incumbents were mired in tough races due to their out-of-touch records,” an RGA spokesperson said, pointing to the defeat of the incumbent Democratic governor in Nevada.
During the fourth quarter of 2022, the Democratic Governors Association raised about $40.2 million, according to filings with the IRS. Veterans of gubernatorial campaigns said it was the rare instance of the party’s donors shifting their focus to the DGA.
“Major donors are very often focused on national issues and presidential politics rather than state issues,” former DGA executive director Colm O’Comartun said of the party’s donor class, adding that gubernatorial races in swing states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania created a persuasive argument for the Democrats’ major donors. “Starry eyed donors have been used to being with Nancy [Pelosi] on Nantucket but are now warming to Democratic governors.”
It could have been even worse for Republicans if not for donors like Salame. Last year, RGA also received $6 million from The Concord Fund, a group associated with the powerful conservative legal activist Leonard Leo. Its project, known as the Judicial Crisis Network, spent millions to support former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominees. In 2022, the Concord Fund also gave $2.15 million to the Republican State Leadership Committee, which supports conservative candidates running for state judiciaries and other state-level campaigns.
The influx of cash suggests a growing effort by the group to focus on the states. A spokesperson for the Concord Fund maintained, though, that the group, primarily through its support for the Judicial Crisis Network, has already been involved in state court issues for over a decade.
RGA is free to accept donations of unlimited size, beyond the limits set for federal and many state-level campaigns. Groups like RGA are also free to accept contributions from corporations, unlike federal campaigns.

RGA’s 2022 fundraising haul also included a number of major conservative donor dynasties. The Las Vegas Sands Corporation — whose majority shareholder is Miriam Adelson — gave $3.79 million. The gift is also the latest indication that Adelson has remained a political force since the death of her husband, Sheldon Adelson, in 2021. Another political dynasty also spent big to support the Republican Governors: Suzanne DeVos gave $300,000, as did Richard DeVos Jr., Doug DeVos, and Daniel DeVos.
DGA’s haul also included some of the party’s mega-donors: Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker gave a total of $27 million to the group in 2022, and billionaire Stephen Mandel gave $1,000,000 as well. A portion of the haul came as a transfer from an affiliated committee, Democratic Action.
DGA did not report any gifts from FTX in 2022.
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

February 3, 2023