Vol. 33 No. 58 | SUNDAY | JUNE 12, 2022 | 18 Pages | ` 5 Reg. No. MCS/048/2021-23; RNI No. 46955/1988 M.p.c.s. office Mumbai-400001 EDITIONS: MUMBAI*, Pune, Indore, Bhopal, Konkan, E-paper Inspired by wars & tragedies Aliona van der Horst, who won the Golden Conch award for the Best Documentary Film at MIFF, talks about how wars inspired her CAVE IN LIKE A PACK OF CARDS One killed after ceiling slabs of six flats in 8-storied building collapse in Nerul AMIT SRIVASTAVA NERUL A 29-year-old man died while seven others were severely injured after the ceiling slabs of multiple flats collapsed in an eight-storied building in Nerul, Navi Mumbai, on Saturday. The injured have been admitted to Dr D Y Patil Hospital in Nerul and their condition is said to be stable. The deceased has been identified as Venkatesh Nadar while those injured are Nisha Dharmani, 48, Riya Dharmani, 20, Sonali Godbole, 29, Adityaraj Godbole, 15, Soumitra Godbole, 50, Lalita Tyagarajan, 80 and Subramanyam Tyagarajan, 84. The incident took place around 12.30pm at Jimmy Park 1 Society, Sector 17, in the Nerul node of Navi Mumbai. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE Close shave for 7th-floor residents V imal Gupta, who lives on the seventh floor in the A-wing of Jimmy Park, said that she was shocked to see all the floors cave in. The day before, she was in Mumbai, seeing off her son and daughter-in-law, who were going abroad for work. She was accompanied by her elder sister who was visiting from Lucknow. “We were visiting places in Mumbai and on Saturday, we returned to our Nerul home around 11am and the incident happened around 12.30pm. It was a narrow escape for us,” said Gupta. Bishnoi expelled from Cong posts RAJESH MOUDGIL CHANDIGARH Apparently livid at the crossvoting by senior Haryana leader Kuldeep Bishnoi in the June 10 Rajya Sabha election, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday expelled him from all party posts and scrapped his status as special invitee to the Congress working committee. Bishnoi, a four-time MLA and two-time MP, is the younger son of the former chief minister late Bhajan Lal. Bishnoi was annoyed with the party high command for neglecting him and was sulking for some time. In all fairness, he had tried in vain to meet Rahul Gandhi after the party’s state body was constituted a few weeks ago. Then, the appointment of Udai Bhan, a confidante of former chief minister CONTD. 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Elaborating further, the IMD said the southwest monsoon had further advanced into the remaining parts of the central Arabian Sea, most parts of Konkan, Mumbai, including some parts of central Maharashtra and by the start of the next week, and was expected to cover most of this region and had made further inroads in Kar. nataka on Saturday For the next 24 hours, in Mumbai, generally cloudy skies with light to moderate rain, with isolated thunderstorms in the city and suburbs can be expected, the IMD said. Mumbai maximum recorded day temperatures of 30°C and high humidity, at 87 per cent, with intermittent showers and thunderstorms on . Saturday CONTD. ON NATION PAGE Eventually, Team BJP’s magic worked in the State Rajya Sabha elections and it managed to snatch a third seat much to the embarrassment of the MVA which, despite being in power, failed to make the right moves in the high-stake battle. Team BJP, led by Devendra Fadnavis, despite the apparent lack of requisite numbers, successfully played mind games with the MVA, which was unable to hold its Top fashion designer is found dead ANI / HYDERABAD Celebrity fashion designer Prathyusha Garimella was found dead on Saturday in suspicious circumstances at her Banjara Hills residence in Hyderabad, Telangana. Prathyusha, who was the founder of her own label named Prathyusha Garimella, used to run a fashion studio in Banjara Hills and had top clients from Tollywood, Bollywood and also from other sectors. The Circle Inspector of Banjara Hills has stated that she was found lying in the bathroom and that her dead body has been shifted to Osmania hospital for postmortem examination. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE Educated woman can’t be forced to work: HC URVI MAHAJANI MUMBAI Merely because a woman is educated, she cannot be compelled to work to earn a living, observed the Bombay High Court while hearing a man’s plea challenging lower court’s order directing him to pay maintenance to his estranged wife. Justice Bharti Dangre, on Friday, emphasised on the importance of the choice of a woman to either work or stay at home even if she is qualified and educated to work, while hearing a revision application filed by the man challenging an order of the family court in Pune. “Our society has not yet Bulldozers out in UP RASHMI SHARMA LUCKNOW A day after the violent protests over remarks on the Prophet Muhammad, the UP police and municipal teams were out in Saharanpur with bulldozers, razing parts of homes of two of the accused arrested for disturbing the peace and social harmony. The civic teams claimed the homes were illegal constructions. In Kanpur, too, a multi-storied building, allegedly owned by a close aide of the main accused in the Friday violence, was de- molished. An officer said there were reasons to believe that the investment in the building had been made by the prime accused of the violence case. According to the ADG (Law & Order), 237 people have been arrested so far in the state and 17 FIRs have been lodged. RANCHI COVER: The city of Ranchi, meanwhile, is under a protective police wrap. Around 2,500 police personnel, besides two Rapid Action Force battalions, have been deployed in the sensitive areas of the city. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE accepted that the woman of the household should contribute (financially). It is a woman’s choice to work. She cannot be compelled to go to work. Just because she is a graduate, does not mean she cannot sit at home,” said Justice Dangre. Justice Dangre further added: “Today I am a judge of this court. Tomorrow, suppose I sit at home. Will you then say I am qualified to be a judge and shouldn’t sit at home?” CONTD. ON NATION PAGE BETWEEN THE LINES NUPUR VIDEO: JK YOUTUBER HELD A YouTuber from Kashmir has been arrested for posting a video that showed him beheading an effigy of Nupur Sharma, the suspended BJP spokesperson. The police said that the video had caused fear and alarm among the public. “Kashmir-based YouTuber Faisal Wani has been arrested. He had uploaded an incriminating video on YouTube which is against public tranquillity and has caused fear and alarm to the public in general," Jammu and Kashmir police said in a statement. 90% Covid cases in 10 days of June AS AGAINST THE OVERALL TALLY IN MAY SWAPNIL MISHRA MUMBAI Over 90 per cent of the Covid-19 cases have been reported in the first 10 days of June, as against the overall tally in May Accord. ing to the data, between June 1 and 10, the city reported 11,397 COVID-19 cases, as against a cumulative 5980 cases in May . Moreover the city also reported four deaths in the first 10 days of June, as against three deaths in May . Officials have attributed this recent surge to both ramped up Covid testing and disregard of Covid-appropriate behaviour. A senior doctor from the civic health de- Seven decades of fashion How BJP made a Maha point keeps date Drilling work was on to lay new tiles on the sixth floor when the ceiling collapsed, setting off a chain reaction and causing the ceilings of the lower floors to collapse in succession, until the ground floor The pangs of missing someone, who we may have been in a longterm relationship with, can be intensely painful Mourning lost love partment said they have speeded up Covid19 testing in the last four days, compared to that in the first week of June, following which there is a surge in daily cases. Between June 7 and June 10, they have conducted 69,324 Covid tests, with an average 17,331 tests being done on a daily basis, with a test positivity rate hovering between 8 and 13 per cent daily . “The numbers are rising because of the enhanced tests. We are awaiting a detailed report from the National Institute of Virology to understand if there is a new sub-lin, eage of the virus. Because, thus far, most of the infections have stemmed from the Omicron variant,” she said. Dr Sanjeev Kumar, additional municipal commissioner and in charge of public health in BMC, said that the situation is under control and there is no need for panic. “Unless the State government imposes fresh curbs in Mumbai, the city will continue to function as it is doing now.” CONTD. ON NATION PAGE nerve. By deftly marshalling the resources at its disposal, Fadnavis successfully lured at least 10 independents and members of smaller parties, paving the way for the victory of its three candidates. Despites 113 votes, BJP secured 123, which helped the party’s third nominee to cruise through. On the other hand, despite support of 166 legislators, independents and legislators of smaller parties, Shiv Sena’s second nominee, Sanjay Pawar, had to bite the dust. The BJP won 3 seats and one each went to the NCP and the Congress; the Shiv Sena, on the other hand, faced a humiliating defeat of its second nominee and had to be smug in the victory of its firebrand spokesman Sanjay Raut. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE Two army jawans go missing FPJ NEWS SERVICE DEHRA DUN WERE POSTED ON CHINA BORDER Two Army jawans of 7th Garhwal Rifles, deployed on the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh, have been missing for the past 14 days, which is causing great anxiety to their family members. The missing soldiers were identified as Harendra Negi and Prakash Singh Rana. Speaking to a news portal, Rana’s wife Mamta said that the army officials called her on May 29 and informed her that her husband had gone missing on May 28. A second phone call came on June 9 and they told her that both the soldiers were believed to have drowned in the river. According to India Today’s news portal, Negi’s wife Poonam said that she finds it difficult to believe that both soldiers went near the river and no one knew why. She further demanded that the army explain what had happened. The Negis have a one-year-old child and have only been married for three years. Rana and Mamta have two children – both not even in their teens. 30 soldiers are chargesheeted FPJ NEWS DESK DIMAPUR The Nagaland Police has charge-sheeted at least 30 members of the 21 Para Special Force, including an officer of the rank of a Major, in the December 4, 2021, botched army MASSACRE OF NAGA CIVILIANS operations in Oting-Tiru area of Mon district which resulted in the death of at least 13 civilians. The probe, which preceded the charge sheet, has found that the Special Force Opera- tion team had not followed the Standard Operating Procedure and the Rules of Engagement and resorted to indiscriminate and disproportionate firing, leading to immediate killing of six civilians and inflicting grievous injury on two more. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is a fashion icon for many. Here’s deciphering Her Majesty’s timeless style FADNAVIS IS MAN OF THE MATCH SANJAY JOG MUMBAI Leader of the Opposition Devendra Fadnavis, who is regarded as the blue-eyed boy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is currently flush with victory. Not only has he outsmarted stalwarts of the Maha Vikas Aghadi such as Sharad Pawar, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Balasaheb Thorat but also tightened his grip over the BJP in Maharashtra, as three of his party’s nominees emerged triumphant in the keenly fought election to the six seats of the Rajya Sabha. He has emerged the ‘man of the match’, stumping his rivals with his powerful knock. Fadnavis hooked all the bouncers bowled at him, hitting out, instead of being hit, exploiting to the fullest the internal contradictions and growing tension among the MVA partners, Independents and smaller parties and thereby mobilizing necessary votes for the victory of the BJP’s third nominee, Dhananjay Mahadik. Like his mentor PM Modi, the former CM is a 24x7 politician, who crafted the party’s winning strategy and worked on it by taking senior leaders and legislators into confidence. Unfazed by his second bout with Covid, Fadnavis fine-tuned the party’s strategy by participating in online meetings and assigning responsibilities only to a trusted few. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE