Vol. 65 No. 326 | SATURDAY | MAY 21, 2022 | 17 Pages | CARTELISATION IS GOING TO BE A CHALLENGE: FINANCE MINISTER THE LADY IN WHITE HAS FORGIVEN ALL EDITIONS: MUMBAI*, Pune, Indore, Bhopal, Konkan, E-paper STATE OF THE CLIMATE: IS IT ALREADY TOO LATE? SHERINE RAJ MUMBAI Those days of being hot and drenched with sweat are likely to evaporate sooner than you expected. The monsoon is expected to arrive in Mumbai between the first and second week of next month, the India Meteorological Department has said. Based on the debut of the monsoon in the southwest part of the country, the SANJAY JOG MUMBAI Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, who has been lately hogging the headlines for opposing the use of loudspeakers in mosques and his renewed love for Hindutva, announced on Friday that he was postponing his Ayodhya visit slated for June 5. Tweeting his change in plans, he said would share further details about his visit at a rally in Pune on May 22. The MNS had put up ‘Chalo Ayodhya’ posters in Mumbai, urging the people to join Raj on his trip and made train reservations for the journey of MNS workers and followers to Ayodhya. MNS insiders claim the postponement of the trip has been necessitated by health issues. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE LAST WORD $250K to hush up Elon Musk’s sexual overture IANS SAN FRANCISCO Amid the bitter $44 billion takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk finds himself in another controversy with a media report claiming on Friday that his spacecraft company SpaceX paid a flight attendant $250,000 to make sure she didn't sue the company after Musk allegedly "propositioned her for sex". The alleged victim, working as a crew member on a SpaceX corporate flight, claimed Musk touched her inappropriately and asked for an erotic massage, according to a report in Business Insider. The flight attendant for SpaceX said Musk asked her to "do more" during the massage. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE CHOKSI WRIGGLES OUT YET AGAIN ONLINE REPORT / NEW DELHI Economic fugitive Mehul Choksi has got away with it yet again. Authorities in Dominica have “discontinued the proceedings against Choksi over his illegal entry into the island nation from Antigua and Barbuda, reports India Today’s news portal. It all started when, last May Choksi , went missing from Antigua, where he claimed he had fled to in 2018 to avoid persecution in India. Later, when he was detained in Dominica for illegal entry he had contested the , case, claiming that he was abducted from Antigua and Barbuda and taken to Dominica against his will. He had further claimed he was forcibly brought by RAW agents. Sunrise: 06:02 am Sunset : 07:08 pm forecast for the rest of the country is determined. According to IMD official K S Hosalikar, the IMD has released a four-week monsoon rain arrival chart, according to which the arrival of monsoon in Mumbai and other parts on the west coast of Maharashtra is between June 3 and 9. This estimate is given according to the arrival of the monsoon in Kerala, which has been pre- dicted on May 27 (with a +/four-day margin of error). The four-week monsoon chart shows heavy rain in Kerala and the rest of the southwest, beginning from May 20. This is expected to gradually move upwards to the west coast, dating the arrival of pre-monsoon showers in Mumbai and other western coastal parts to June 3 or thereabouts. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE RAIN HAS ITS HIDEOUTS, TOO SC wants deft handling SIDHU, AT HOME, Transfers Gyanvapi mosque case from trial to district judge granted bail by the Supreme Court on Wednesday with the , top court observing that she had been in custody for 6.5 years, which was ‘too long a time’, and that the trial was not likely to conclude soon even if the prosecution were to give up half of its witnesses. So far, 68 of the 237 witnesses have been examined. The media had been keeping a vigil outside the jail from 11am, as Mukerjea’s lawyer Sana Raees Shaikh had informed the day before that Mukerjea would walk out around 12-12.30pm on Friday . However, the paperwork took CONTD. ON NATION PAGE AI plane engine conks out mid-air FPJ NEWS SERVICE MUMBAI Twenty-seven minutes into flight, an Air India A320 flight headed for Bengaluru had to return to the Mumbai airport, after one of its engines conked out mid-air on Thursday . The Airbus A320neo aircraft has two engines and can fly without hiccups with just one. In keeping with the standard operating instructions, the pilots opted for an emergency landing and the air traffic control – in keeping with the protocol -- alerted ambulances and fire services. The DGCA is now conducting an exhaustive probe and pouring over photographs of the engine that show serious damage, with quite a few compressor blades sheared off, sources told NDTV The air. craft has been grounded, the source added. PIC: GOOGLE BJP outcry: Raj puts off Ayodhya trip 340c. 260c. Monsoon curtain-raiser on its way, soon SHERINE RAJ / AGENCIES MUMBAI It was a lady in white, with jetblack hair and immaculate make-up, who emerged from the women’s jail in Byculla on Friday afternoon, 48 hours after the Supreme Court granted her bail. Former media executive Indrani Mukerjea, arrested in 2015 for the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora, walked out of jail around 5.30pm, smiling widely waving , at mediapersons, saying, “I’m happy to be out.” “I learnt a lot in jail,” she said. “I am going home. I have no plans. Just want to go home,” Mukerjea said. Asked if she blamed anyone for her incarceration, she spoke of empathy and forgiveness. “I have forgiven all the people who have hurt me. That’s all,” she said. Mukerjea, accused of killing her daughter in 2012, was AS AN ACTOR, THERE’S A HUNGER TO DO CHALLENGING ROLES: KIARA ADVANI EDIT OUR BUREAU NEW DELHI The Supreme Court on ordered that the district judge in Varanasi should decide the maintainability of the civil suit in the GyanvapiKashi Vishwanath dispute. The suit’s genesis lies in both Hindus and Muslims staking claim to worship at the disputed mosque. “A slightly more seasoned and mature hand should hear this case. We’re not giving an opinion on the trial judge. But a more seasoned hand should deal with this case and it will benefit all Decks cleared for Nawab Malik’s trial URVI MAHAJANI MUMBAI The pilots had received a warning about high exhaust gas temperatures on one of the engines just minutes after the aircraft's departure from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport at 9.43 AM. With the engine shutting down, the pilot returned to Mumbai airport at 10.10 AM. The passengers were later flown to Bengaluru after a change of aircraft. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE The special court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on Friday took cognisance of the chargesheet filed against the state cabinet minister Nawab Malik in a money laundering case concerning a land in Kurla involving underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, thereby clearing the decks for proceeding with the trial against the minister. After a chargesheet is filed by the investigating agency the court has to take , cognizance of the offence before it can proceed with the conduct of the trial. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE parties,” said the apex court's Bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud. The Bench said it won't comment on the merits of the case and that the interim order (on protecting the 'shivling' in the mosque) can continue for now, stating that this is a complex and sensitive matter and it needs a de- gree of healing touch. The court in its order on Friday also directed the District Magistrate to make appropriate arrangements for Wazu (washing of feet and hands before offering prayers) at the mosque in consultation with parties. The Apex Court has already lifted the embargo on Muslims from entering the mosque and offering namaz. The Varanasi trial court is to resume hearing the case on May 23. A ‘sealed report’ on a survey of the mosque complex, submitted in the Varanasi CONTD. ON NATION PAGE RS SEAT FOR R AUT FOR THE FOURTH TIME A fiery spokesman, a strong critic of estranged ally BJP and a journalist-turned-politician, the Shiv Sena chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut will set a record of sorts, as the party has nominated him for the Rajya Sabha for the fourth time in a row. Raut, whose third term as Rajya Sabha member ends in July, will file his nomination on May 26 at the Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai. The voting is slated for June 10. Raut’s nomination has been cleared by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray who has been showering praise on Raut for being outspoken and projecting party’s viewpoint strongly while countering allegations by the BJP –Sanjay Jog/Mumbai . See Mumbai The Thane skyline on Friday. IN PATIALA JAIL SWORN ENEMIES IN SAME PRISON S RAJESH MOUDGIL CHANDIGARH Former Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu surrendered in a Patiala court on Friday afternoon, a day after he was sentenced to one-year jail in a 34-year-old road rage case. Sidhu, who has his residence in Patiala, reached the district court accompanied by some idhu has been lodged in the same jail, where his enemy number one, Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Majithia, is lodged and facing trial in a drug case; incidentally, it was Sidhu who was instrumental in booking Majithia in the said case ahead of February assembly polls. Even though the two fought against each other in the Amritsar (east) Assembly seat, both were trounced by a first-timer AAP candidate. However, undertrials and convicts have barracks in separate sections on the prison campus. While Majithia is an undertrial, Sidhu is a convict. party leaders; he was then taken to the nearby government hospital for medical check-up before being escorted to the Patiala Central Jail. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE