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JAIPUR l FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2021 l Pages 12 l 3.00 RNI NO. RAJENG/2019/77764 l Vol 2 l Issue No. 350 Mumbai: BSE Sensex gained 98 points or 0.19 per cent to end at 51,115, Sriganganagar: The ever increasing prices of petrol and diesel in the bor- SENSEX TOPS while the broader Nifty 50 index jumped 36 points or 0.24 per cent to set- AT `107, FUEL der district of Sriganganagar of Rajasthan have broken the fi nancial back 51K, NIFTY HOLDS tle at 15,338. State Bank of India (SBI), Kotak Mahindra Bank, Axis Bank, PRICES ON FIRE IN of the common consumers as well as petrol pump dealers. Petrol prices Bajaj-Auto, Tech Mahindra, TCS were among the top Sensex gainers. On in the Sriganganagar district have already crossed the Rs 107 mark! Fuel ABOVE 15,300 the contrary, HDFC, Bajaj Finance and ONGC were top index laggards. SRIGANGANAGAR being sold in the district at the most expensive prices in the country. P7 OUR EDITIONS: JAIPUR, AHMEDABAD & LUCKNOW www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia Twitter flags 3 NEW FACEBOOK FEATURES ‘potential threat THAT FLAG MISINFORMATION 2nd Covid wave on to freedom of CENTRE, TWITTER Facebook has mainly brought in three new changes. downswing: Centre expression’, says Firstly, it will tag a page that has been concerned over repeatedly sharing information fl agged ‘intimidation by fact-checkers. LOCK HORNS Secondly, it is expanding tactics’ penalties for individual Face- book accounts to reduce viral misinformation. And lastly, Stop beating the Facebook has redesigned the notifi cations that people around the get when they share content that has been fl agged by the New Delhi: India is wit- bush, comply fact-checkers. nessing a downswing in ELDERLY, DISABLED TO GET JAB NEARBY with law of The require- the second wave of Cov- ment of moni- id-19 and hopefully it New Delhi: In the ‘Near land: Centre will be sustained even to Home COVID Vaccina- toring and NEWS BROADCASTERS Do not dictate when restrictions are tion Centres’ guidelines, hits back blanket authority to the DEMAND EXEMPTION gently, systematically tHealth Ministry said in- government to seek infor- terms to largest and cautiously relaxed, dividuals above 60 with FROM NEW IT RULES no vaccination or fi rst New Delhi: Twitter on the government said on mation about users repre- dose, and those below Thursday said it was New Delhi: The News Broad- TWITTER FOR Thursday. sented dangerous overreach casters Association urged the democracy: Govt 60 but having disability, very concerned with the CHANGE IN Addressing a press physical or medical, will Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO government to “exempt and “recent events” regard- NEW RULES New Delhi: The government on conference, NITI Aayog be eligible for vaccina- ing its employees in the exclude” the traditional television Thursday said that the social member (Health) V K tion at such centres. country and “the poten- news media and its extended New Delhi: Earlier media site should “stop beating Paul said the country tial threat to freedom of presence on the digital news on Thursday, the around the bush and comply continues to note stabi- platforms from the ambit of expression” for its users. Twitter had said with the laws of the land” in- lisation of second wave ‘NO MAJOR EFFECT the IT Rules 2021, saying it is “We, alongside many it would “strive to stead of “dictating terms” to the in most parts, both by IF JAB DOSES MIXED’ already “suffi ciently regulated” in civil society in India comply with applicable world’s largest democracy. the number of cases New Delhi: Signifi cant by various statutes, laws, and around the world, law” but would ask for “Twitter needs to stop beating and positivity rate, and adverse effects are “un- guidelines, codes and regula- changes to “elements have concerns with re- around the bush and comply despite a sustained and likely” if an individual’s tions. “IT Act, 2000 had not that inhibit free, open second Covid vaccine gards to the use of in- with the laws of the land. Law high overall testing cov- contemplated the regula- conversation”.Rules en- dose is different from timidation tactics by the Law making is making and policy formulations erage which is “reas- tion of digital news media, forced yesterday require the fi rst, the centre said, police in response to en- sole preroga- is the sole prerogative of the sov- suring”. but IT Rules, 2021 does,” social media platforms in response to con- forcement of our global tive of sover- said NBA. P5 to appoint a compliance ereign and Twitter is just a social “We are achieving troversy over a group Terms of Service, as well eign and Twitter has no lo- offi cer in India, set up media platform and it has no lo- this in face of very sig- of UP villagers being as with core elements of cus in dictating what India’s le- nificant restrictions in given mixed doses at a cus in dictating what In- a grievance response government hospital. the new IT Rules. We dia’s legal policy frame- mechanism and take gal policy framework should be,” most states Turn to P6 plan to advocate for the Ministry of Electronics and work should be down content within 36 changes to elements of hours of a legal order. IT said in a detailed takedown, CORONA CATASTROPHE these regulations that Ravi Shankar Prasad, denouncing Twitter’s statement inhibit free, open public Electronics & IT Minister as “totally baseless, false and an INDIA RAJASTHAN conversation,” a Twitter attempt to defame India”. spokesperson said. On Twitter’s comment ex- 2,11,298 3,454 The statement by the pressing worry about its em- new cases new cases social media intermedi- ployees in India after the Delhi ary comes days after the Police visited its offices on 3,847 85 Special Turn to P6 Monday, Turn to P6 new fatalities new fatalities Even docs’ baap can’t Political effort to PM Modi to visit Odisha, West Bengal today, will depict our govt a arrest me, says Ramdev hold Cyclone Yaas review meet with CM Mamata certain way: MEA Dehradun: Roasted for New Delhi: With India his disparaging re- Kolkata: West Bengal grappling with the fero- marks against allopa- Chief Minister Mamata cious second wave of thy and modern medi- Banerjee said on Thurs- Study: India faced 117 cyclones from Covid-19, External Af- cine, yoga guru Ramdev day that she would be fairs Minister S Jais- on Thursday was seen holding a review meet- 1970-2019, over 40,000 lives lost hankar has said that “a in another controver- ing with Prime Minis- New Delhi: As many as political effort” is being sial video on social me- ter Narendra Modi over 117 cyclones hit India in made to depict the pre- dia, challenging calls the cyclone Yaas-led 50 years from 1970-2019 sent Indian government for his arrest, saying Yoga guru Baba Ramdev devastation, during his WB CM Mamata Banerjee claiming over 40,000 lives, “in a certain way” and “even their baap (fa- visit to the state. according to a study on there is a difference be- ther) cannot arrest #Arrest Ramdev trends Banerjee said that ed areas in Odisha. He extreme weather events, tween the “concocted” Swami Ramdev”. on social media. the meeting will be held will reach Kalaikunda which also states the mor- political imagery and tality rate due to tropical “They are just mak- “Arrest to khair unka at Kalaikunda in Pas- via Digha, and take his the actual governance cyclones has come down A bridge at river Kanchi after it collapsed due to heavy rain ing a noise. They keep baap bhi nahin kar sak- chim Medinipur dis- flight to Delhi from signifi cantly over the past triggered by cyclone Yaas in Tamar of Ranchi on Thursday. record. The minister is creating trends like ta Swami Ramdev ko trict on Friday. there. The PM will hold 10 years. A total of 7,063 on a vaccine mission to Thug Ramdev, Ma- (even their father can- “Prime Minister Nar- a review meeting with extreme weather events country, which included (a little over 46 per cent) the United States as In- hathug Ramdev, Giraf- not arrest Swami Ram- endra Modi is coming me at Kalaikunda,” Ba- killed 1,41,308 people 40,358 (or 28 per cent) due to fl oods, the reserch dia fights shortages of tar Ramdev and so on,” dev),” he was heard say- here after conducting a nerjee told reporters at during the period in the due to cyclones and 65,130 paper on cyclones stated. doses amidst a virulent he said responding to ing in the video. survey of cyclone-affect- the secretariat. Turn to P6 second surge. Turn to P6 Amarinder wears THE HUMANE FACE OF THE CHIEF MINISTER... 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