2 3 ;" 6 !< !< < /01/23456 .788.9 4./#56 7.+5( . :*?:9 * -+9=> "9#"9># +-"?9#9#" 69*-$+4 : 2* 2*$249#:> 269#"9#" >4+*->-$> +*46-7>* 49966" -4+-"-47? $"*+>-9 69*>6$4 *?69>26B-%?:6 + ,-./0//! '@( A# 9 & ' + * 73')839: & 35) P +,-./#-+#01 !" ! R !" ! # 49:69*- $ " %& elhi is experiencing the Dcoldest winter in over a century. The India '() % & Meteorological Department *+ (IMD) declared Monday as a coldest day in the national - Capital in 119 years with max- '' ! imum temperature dipping to 9.4 degrees Celsius at " Safdarjung (official) observa- tory. The Regional Weather #$%# . Forecast Centre (RWFC) has predicted no relief from cold /01 wave on Tuesday. Sixteen flights were divert- $ ed and four cancelled at the " Delhi airport on Monday due % & ! to heavy fog, an official said. Many trains were running late. P& Citing 24 hours tempera- ' ( ture trend, the IMD said the Aya Nagar observatory record- 2 ed day temperature at 7.8 3 degrees Celsius, followed by 4 O#67- - Ridge 8.4 degrees Celsius, 8)/ Palam 9 and Lodi Road 9.2 49:69*- around 11.30 pm on # $" degrees Celsius. Sunday. Forecasting weekly weath- s the fog engulfed Delhi- The deceased have been er for the national Capital, the ANCR on Sunday night identified as Mahesh (35), ! RWFC has predicted rain on dropping the visibility to zero, Kishan Lal (50), Neeresh (17), January 1, 2 and 3 while degrees Celsius January 1 mal for this day of the year. was recorded 9.4 degrees ing 9.4 degrees Celsius and six people, including two Ram Khiladi (75), Mallu (12) ) & December 31 is still tagged as onwards. “Today was the coldest day Celsius. “Delhi is likely to Palam 9.0 degrees Celsius,” minors, were killed when their and Netrapal (40), all residents P * “cold wave” day. There will be Low visibility in Delhi and recorded for the December,” record the coldest day today in IMD tweeted. Maruti Etriga car skidded off of Sambhal district in Uttar no respite before January 3 as National Capital Region (NCR) Kuldeep said. last 119 years for December On Monday, a thick blan- the road and fell into a canal Pradesh. Police said there was minimum temperature will delayed thirty trains. Kuldeep Around 3.30 pm, the IMD month as day temperature till ket of fog engulfed in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater one more car accompanying + fluctuate around 3-4 degrees Srivastava, head RWFC, said announced that Delhi is likely 14.30 IST of today has been Delhi and the minimum tem- Noida. Five other occupants of them and they all were going + Celsius, while maximum tem- the day temperature was almost to break previous records of unusually following a coldest perature settled at 2.6 degrees the car suffered injuries in the to Delhi when the unfortunate ! perature will be around 16 half of what is considered nor- cold as maximum temperature trend with Safdarjung record- Celsius. accident that took place incident occurred. R % # $ 49:69*- # R lose on the heels of an espi- 49:69*- Conage racket busted with- in its ranks and the arrest of s expected Army Chief seven sailors, the Indian Navy AGeneral Bipin Rawat was ! has banned the use of smart on Monday night appointed the phones and Facebook by its first ever Chief of Defence personnel within naval estab- Staff (CDS). He will assume lishments and on warships. charge on December 31 when The arrested sailors were he retires as the Army Chief. &+ $2- honey-trapped and allegedly Vice Chief of Army Manoj blackmailed through social Mukund Naravane aharashtra Chief Minister media to pass on sensitive will take over as the next Army MUddhav Thackeray on information. Chief. Monday sprang a surprise by “Directive on use of smart The CDS will have a tenure including his son Aditya phones and social media for of three years or will serve till Thackeray in his team and naval personnel were always the age of 65. Rawat will com- carried out his first full-fledged there. The new instructions on plete 62 years when he retires expansion of his Ministry by smart phones are that these as the Army Chief. The Union inducting Ajit Pawar as Deputy cannot be used within naval comfort, however, the decision the Eastern Naval command submarines after they fell into Cabinet on Tuesday last week Chief Minister and 35 new establishments and naval plat- is in the larger national inter- headquarters besides the sen- a honey-trap through social had approved the creation of Ministers in his Cabinet. forms. Social media, use of est, they added. sitive submarine building cen- media in 2018. the CDS. He will function as With the expansion, the Facebook, is banned for all The latest order comes tre where the nuclear sub- Incidentally, a similar case the Principal Military Adviser Cabinet size has gone up to 43, naval personnel,” Navy sources days after the Andhra Pradesh marines Arihant are under involving at least two soldiers to the Defence Minister and the maximum for 288-member said here on Monday. For mes- Police along with the Navy construction, the Western leaking information through head the new department of Maharashtra Assembly. !! " # $ % saging apps, instructions are intelligence unit and Central Naval command is based in social media came to light two military affairs in the Defence Ajit Pawar, who returned as & # $ ' ( $ expected to be issued shortly, intelligence agencies arrested Mumbai. The lone aircraft car- months back in Rajasthan Ministry. the Deputy Chief Minister of ! % * ' #+ they added. seven sailors, besides a hawala rier INS Vikramaditya’s base is despite the armed forces regu- Since Rawat is the senior the State for a record fourth The latest orders are in line operator. The sailors were in Karwar, Karnataka. larly cautioning its personnel to most Service Chief, as the CDS time, and 35 other Ministers, Mumbai. number of Ministers in the with ensuring the security of arrested from Visakhapatnam, The spy racket was busted be careful on social media. he will first among equals including Aditya Thackeray Of the Ministers who were Uddhav Thackeray Cabinet information, officials said stat- Mumbai and Karwar naval on December 19 by the Andhra The Army recently warned among service chiefs. The and former Chief Minister administered oath by the has risen to 43, ing the recent incident involv- establishments. They report- Pradesh Intelligence its personnel against 150 fake CDS, who will draw salary Ashok Chavan, were sworn Governor, 25 are of the Cabinet including that of the Chief ing the seven sailors in edly passed on unauthorised Department in a joint opera- social media profiles, including equivalent to the Services into office by Maharashtra rank, while the remaining 10 Minister. Visakhapatnam has also been information about movement tion with the Navy code named of phoney spiritual gurus and Chiefs, will be responsible for Governor Bhagat Singh are Ministers of State. Sena spokesperson Sanjay taken into consideration while of warships and other opera- “Dolphin’s Nose.” The police babas, being used by Pakistan’s rationalising weapons pro- Koshyari at an oath-taking cer- With the induction of 36 Raut’s MLA-brother Sunil Raut arriving at this decision. “We tional details through social claimed the sailors, recruited in Intelligence officers to honey- curement procedures, besides emony held on the Vidhan new Ministers, including the couldn’t find a place in the do understand that this may media to a Pakistan handler. 2017, passed information like trap officials for extracting integrating the operation of the Bhavan premises in south Deputy Chief Minister, the Cabinet expansion. come at the cost of some dis- While Visakhapatnam has locations of naval ships and sensitive military information. armed forces. R ' + +*944- the anti-CAA demonstrators. A ingenious style of protest to day in the life of an ordinary express their resentment. () * ) gitations by political parties Hindu family begins in Tamil Women activists belonging Ausually bring anxious Nadu with the lady of the house to the DMK and the CPI(M) 49:69*- area (1,483 sq km), the report moments in the minds of ordi- cleaning the courtyard or the assembled at Besant Nagar, a said. nary people for fear of violence. entrance and decorating the high-end residential area and he forest-and-tree cover in The tree cover, which refers The opposition against the area with Kolams made of white started drawing Kolams with Tthe country has increased to small patches of less than 1 Citizenship Amendment Act rice powder. anti-CAA messages and slo- by 5,188 square kilometres in hectare outside forests, is esti- 2019 drawing thousands of They draw Kolams in dif- gans inscribed in them. Taken the last two years, but in the mated at 95,027 sqkm, which is people to rallies across Tamil ferent sizes, shapes and mod- aback by the intruders who North-East it is on the decline. 2.89 percent of the geographi- Nadu is no exception as there els. “It is a way to welcome drew a kind of “surrealistic” India is also on track to achieve cal area. is apprehension that the law gods, prosperity and happiness. Kolams in front of their hous- its goal of creating an additional The top five States in terms and order may go haywire. The expertise with which the es, the residents opposed the art carbon sink of 2.5-3 billion & , of increase in forest cover are But the last two days saw Kolams are drawn is a measure work because the tonnes under the Paris - Karnataka (1,025 sqkm), the anti-CAA demonstrations in of the devotion and dedication contents were not in tune with Agreement, Environment + ! ./01 Andhra Pradesh (990 sqkm), Tamil Nadu taking a new turn.