Narayan Rane Gets Bail Hours After Arrest Over 'Slap Thackeray'
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RNI NO.: DELENG/2005/15351 MILLENNIUMPOST.IN REGD. NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2018-20 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI | KOLKATA VOL.16, ISSUE 235 | Wednesday, 25 August, 2021 | New Delhi | Pages 12 | Rs 3.00 No Half Truths City: Pg 2 Nation: Pg 6 Film: Pg 12 Ex-Army man kills Top court asks AFT to decide ‘Such a loser. You aren’t daughter-in-law, 3 of family pleas of Navy officers on PC Salman Khan’ Narayan Rane gets bail India logs 25,467 new Covid hours after arrest over infections; 354 fatalities ‘India doesn’t have sufficient data to decide on booster dose’ OUR CORRESPONDENT ducted so far for detection of ‘slap Thackeray’ remark COVID-19 in the country to NEW DELHI: India added 50,93,91,792. UAE temporarily suspends Visa-on- 25,467 new COVID-19 cases, The daily positivity rate was while the active cases declined recorded at 1.94 per cent. It has arrival for passengers from India Union minister had claimed Maha CM forgot year of Independence to 3,19,551, comprising 0.98 been less than three per cent for per cent of the total infec- the last 28 days. NEW DELHI: Passengers headed from India to the during his Aug 15 address & had to check with his aides mid-speech tions, the lowest since March The weekly positivity rate 2020, according to the Union was recorded at 1.90 per cent. UAE, and even those who’ve stayed in India over the OUR CORRESPONDENT Health ministry data updated It has been below three per cent last two weeks, will not be able to access the “visa- on Tuesday. for the last 60 days, according on-arrival” facility. Replying to a query, the Etihad MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The total tally of COVID- to the ministry. Airways, the UAE’s national carrier, said in a tweet: Union minister Narayan Rane, 19 cases has increased to The number of people who “The UAE authorities have decided to temporarily arrested on Tuesday over his 3,24,74,773. have recuperated from the remarks about slapping Maha- The death toll has climbed disease surged to 3,17,20,112, suspend the visa-on-arrival facility for passengers rashtra Chief Minister Uddhav to 4,35,110 with 354 fresh while the case fatality rate who are arriving from or been in India in the past 14 Thackeray for what he called fatalities, according to the data stands at 1.34 per cent, the data days. We’re working to update our website, please the latter’s “ignorance of the updated at 8 am. stated. keep an eye on https://bit.ly/TravelGuideEN for year India won Independence”, The active cases were the Cumulatively, 58.89 crore has been granted bail by a court lowest in 156 days, while the COVID-19 vaccine doses have latest regulations.” Similar rules are applicable for in Maharashtra’s Mahad. national COVID-19 recovery been administered under the passengers arriving from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Rane was taken into cus- rate has increased to 97.68 per nationwide vaccination drive Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Nigeria, South Africa, tody by police in coastal Rat- cent, the highest since March till Tuesday morning. Uganda, and Namibia, among other countries. nagiri district, where he is 2020, the ministry said. Not enough data has been Turn to P4 travelling as part of the Jan A reduction of 14373 cases generated locally to decide on Ashirwad Yatra, an official said. has been recorded in the total the need for a booster dose of Rane, who joined Prime number of active COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccine for those tember and October. COVID-19 can hit the country Minister Narendra Modi’s cases in a span of 24 hours. fully inoculated, say experts An expert panel set up by anytime between September Cabinet in July as Minister Also, 16,47,526 tests were amid the possibility of a third an institute under the Minis- and October and suggested sig- for Micro, Small and Medium conducted on Monday, tak- wave of the viral disease hit- try of Home Affairs (MHA) has nificantly ramping up the vac- Enterprises, is the first Union ing the cumulative tests con- ting the country between Sep- predicted that the third wave of cination pace. Turn to P4 Minister to be arrested in 20 Union minister Narayan Rane with BJP workers during the Konkan tour of ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’, at years. Sangameshwar in Ratnagiri district, on Tuesday PTI CIA DIRECTOR HELD SECRET MEETING WITH TALIBAN LEADER: REPORT He had claimed that Thac- keray forgot the year of Inde- pendence during his August 15 Highlights address and had to check with » Rane, who joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet in July as Minister for Micro, ‘Hope terrorists don’t use PM Modi his aides mid-speech. Small and Medium Enterprises, is the first Union Minister to be arrested in 20 years Earlier, he was produced » His remarks drew sharp reactions from Shiv Sena, whose workers put several posters in speaks to before a court at Mahad in Mumbai and other places, calling him a ‘kombdi chor’ (chicken stealer), a reference to the Raigad district, some 160 km Af soil for fuelling unrest’ from Mumbai, in front of Mag- poultry shop he ran in Mumbai’s Chembur area five decades ago Putin istrate Shaikhbabaso Patil by » Sena activists poured petrol, brought by them in bottles, on the posters installed outside the OUR CORRESPONDENT the Mahad police. office and set them afire around noon. They also hurled stones at the office OUR CORRESPONDENT His lawyer Aniket Nikam NEW DELHI: India on Tues- had said the police had failed » Shiv Sena workers carrying placards and shouting slogans against Rane assembled in the day hoped that the situation NEW DELHI: Prime Minister to follow due process of law Juhu area in Afghanistan does not pose Narendra Modi spoke to Rus- before arresting Rane, a BJP a challenge to its neighbours sian President Vladimir Putin leader. A notice has to be issued Rane faces four FIRs across day afternoon by the Ratnagiri registered against Rane under and the Afghan territory is not on Tuesday, and the two lead- under Section 41A of the CrPC Maharashtra over his remark police and taken to Mahad in IPC Sections 500 (defamation), used by terrorist groups such as ers had a detailed discussion (Code of Criminal Proce- that he would have slapped Raigad district. 505(2) (mischief), 153-B (1)(c) LeT and JeM to threaten other on the evolving situation in dure) before arresting some- Thackeray over the latter’s A complaint was lodged (remarks likely to cause dis- countries, as it pitched for an Afghanistan. one in cases where custodial alleged ignorance of the year by Nashik city Shiv Sena unit harmony, or feeling of enmity inclusive and broad-based Modi tweeted: “Had a interrogation is not required, of India’s Independence. chief at the cyber police station or hatred or ill-will), a police dispensation in Kabul repre- detailed and useful exchange of he said. He was arrested on Tues- there, after which an FIR was official said. Turn to P4 senting all sections of Afghan views with my friend President society. Putin on recent developments in In his address at a special Afghanistan. We also discussed At least 10 evacuees from session of the UN Human issues on the bilateral agenda, Rights Council on the situa- including India-Russia coop- You need to keep ego in pocket tion in Afghanistan, Indian An US soldier plays with recently evacuated Afghan children at the eration against COVID-19. We Afghanistan test Covid +ve ambassador to the UN in Ramstein US Air Base, Germany, on Tuesday AP/PTI agreed to continue close con- while batting in England Geneva Indra Mani Pandey sultations on important issues.” OUR CORRESPONDENT Covid-testing at the IGI airport. Of said a “grave” humanitarian and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), situation in Afghanistan after ANI cited Russian govern- Virat Kohli them, around 10 have tested positive. crisis is unfolding in the coun- to threaten any other country.” Kabul fell to the Taliban. ment officials to report that NEW DELHI: At least 10 evacuees Sobti and Paramjeet Singh Anand try and everyone is concerned There has been increasing Meanwhile, America’s top Modi and Putin expressed their from Afghanistan tested COVID-19 through their Sobti Foundation have about the increasing violations concern in the security estab- spy held a secret meeting with intention to enhance coopera- positive after their arrival at the Indira been making efforts to rehabilitate of fundamental rights of the lishment in India about the the Taliban’s de facto leader tion on countering the spread In today’s Gandhi International airport here on these distressed Afghans in coordi- Afghan people. possible security impact of Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul of terrorist ideology and drug Tuesday, according to people coor- nation with the government of India, He said India hopes that the developments in Afghanistan on Monday in the highest-level racket from the territory of paper dinating evacuation efforts with the Bhalla said. situation stabilises soon, and in Jammu and Kashmir as LeT face-to-face encounter between Afghanistan. The two leaders Indian government. Some people have tested positive the parties concerned address and JeM have close links with the two sides since the mili- reportedly agreed to form a per- ... An Indo-Tibetan Border Police for the infection. However, there is the humanitarian and security the Taliban. tant group seized the Afghan manent bilateral channel for City (ITBP) official said 81 people, who no clarity on their count, said Puneet issues.