- RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015 #$ #!%&'() & .#/0 !121 23 " 24567 .(/1!(1'/ )(*/,*)6 1& (),(*/!/)( !(,-,.)/+ &-/ ,&-.&)(+1 1)-1 .1 -)!61- 1((5(('/5-1 !($/17 $= ( -/)( ( !(-1!.) -7!(1&!*07+! 01 28## 9:9 ; ( # * )*+,&-.&+/ !"#$%&# '( )' && ( )(+!(,- coastal belt of the State. Several Fani, AIIMS Delhi is cancelling trees were uprooted and the exam centre in yclone Fani (also known as thatched structures destroyed Bhubaneswar. Another exam CPhani, meaning “hood of at some places, including will be conducted for students the snake” in Bengali) rolled Bhubaneswar. All flights from affected by this cancellation as through Odisha’s Puri on Bhubaneswar have been can- soon as normalcy returns (sic),” Friday, bringing rain and celled since Thursday mid- Union Health Secretary Preeti windstorm that gusted up to night, and Kolkata airport is Sudan tweeted. 175 kmph, leaving at least 8 shut from 3 pm on Friday till KJ Ramesh, Director people dead, and blowing 8 am on Saturday. 140 trains, General of the India away thatched houses, uproot- including 83 passenger trains, Meteorological Department ing trees, electricity polls, cut- have been cancelled so far. (IMD), predicted light to mod- ting off power supply, and In Bhubaneswar, people erate rain in northeastern States swamping towns and villages took shelter under shades as the — Arunachal Pradesh, Assam in the State. heavy rain lashed the city. They & Meghalaya and Nagaland, The strongest cyclone in said their “homes were shak- Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura India in 20 years made landfall ing”. After crossing Odisha, due to cyclone while heavy to around 8 am in Puri, with roar- cyclone Fani is likely to move very heavy rain predicted over ing winds flattening huts, towards West Bengal before Arunachal Pradesh and Assam enveloping the pilgrim town in tapering off. Cyclone Fani also on May 4 and 5. sheets of rain, and submerging triggered heavy rain in parts of “After making landfall this homes in residential areas. north coastal Andhra Pradesh, morning, cyclone Fani has The extremely severe where gusty winds with speed started weakening and it’s like- cyclone Fani, a name given by reaching up to 140 kmph ly to enter Bangladesh by Bangladesh, weakened from uprooted trees and electricity Saturday evening,” he said. an “extremely severe” to “very poles, officials said. No cyclone ever had such severe”, and is predicted to The Odisha Government a long duration in April. The further weaken to a “severe has evacuated over 11 lakh Home Ministry said an eye of cyclone” before moving to West people, including at least 600 cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ “com- Bengal. pregnant women, to camps on pletely moved into land” by 10 In several videos doing higher grounds. am on Friday weakening its rounds on social media showed “I assure the affected peo- fury, but heavy rainfall is still the impact of the powerful gale ple that the nation and the cen- predicted in Odisha, and heavy rain. In videos post- tre are with them,” Prime Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal ed by Sitangshu Kar, the Minister Narendra Modi said at and parts of the northeastern Director General of the Press a rally in Rajasthan. He said States. Information Bureau, the roof of over 1,000 crore had been The system is likely to an undergraduate hostel in the released in advance for the weaken gradually and emerge Bhubaneswar AIIMS was seen states affected by Fani. into Gangetic West Bengal as a being blown off. Later the The Union Health “severe cyclonic storm” by the wind speed of Fani came down Ministry has announced can- early morning of May 4. to around 140-165 kmph. cellation of Bhubaneswar as a Thereafter, it is expected to According to officials, large centre for the AIIMS PG 2019 move further north-north- areas in Puri and other places examination due to Fani. eastwards and emerge into were submerged with water as “AIIMS PG exam is sched- Bangladesh by May 4 evening heavy rain battered the entire uled on May 5. Due to cyclone as a cyclonic storm. ' " " "# ' " ( $ ) $ !"# &' R * $! Q(R) *, Q R + ,.)/+ )(+!(,- )/! he Congress candidate 0$$. Tfrom Lucknow on Friday am Aadmi Party (AAP) wo sewer cleaners — resi- took strong exception to party AMLA from Gandhi Nagar Tdents of Janakpuri in West joint team of security ! leader Shatrughan Sinha can- Anil Bajpai quit his party and Delhi and engaged by the Aforces early on Friday ! vassing for his wife, who is the joined the BJP on Friday. Noida Authority via a con- morning dealt a body blow to #$ Samajwadi Party candidate in “I worked with the AAP for tractor — died in a sewer tank top Hizbul Muhajideen (HM) % the constituency. many years. I was hurt by the in Salarpur in Noida on Friday, commanders active in Kashmir # Shatrughan was present lack of respect and the peculiar officials said. Valley by neutralising Lateef # during the filing of nomination functioning of the party. AAP Though police are ascer- Ahmad Dar, alias Tiger of papers by his wife, Poonam has deviated from its original taining the cause of the death Dogripora Pulwama, the lone Sinha. He attended an election path,” Bajpai said. of Hamid and Aslam late on surviving member of Burhan meeting on Thursday with The move comes at a time Thursday, preliminary investi- Wani group, along with two Samajwadi Party president when AAP leaders, including gation suggests that they suf- other local terrorists in a fierce " Akhilesh Yadav. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind focated to death inside the firefight in South Kashmir’s “From the behaviour of Kejriwal, have accused sewer tank. Shopian district. ! Shatrughan Sinha, it appears !"# $ the BJP of indulging in horse Police, the Fire Timing of the clinical oper- & that although he has joined the trading. Department, and the National ation is set to boost the morale # Congress, but has not yet )(+!(,- In a tweet on Thursday, Bajpai joined the BJP in the Disaster Response Force of the security forces deployed resigned from the RSS,” Kejriwal had claimed that Hans presence of party national vice- (NDRF) were called in for res- in the area to ensure peaceful ## Acharya Pramod, the Congress’ day after the Aam Aadmi would be declared ineligible to president and Delhi BJP in- cue, officials said. The bodies The Noida Authority has polling in the final phase in Lucknow candidate, tweeted. AParty (AAP) claimed BJP contest the election for fighting charge Shyam Jaju and Union of the workers were retrieved dismissed a contractual Junior Shopian and Pulwama districts Shatrughan Sinha quit the candidate from North West on a reserved seat. Minister Vijay Goel at the after nearly four-hour rescue Engineer (JE) from job and on May 6. BJP recently and is the Delhi Hans Raj Hans convert- Rejecting Kejriwal’s allega- Delhi unit office here. operation by a team of the proposed police action against After the killing of HM’s ! '( Congress candidate from the ed to Islam in 2014 and there- tion as canard, Hans asked at a Earlier Kejriwal had hit NDRF, said an official of the the contractor. “The JE has poster boy Burhan Wani in July $ Patna Sahib constituency in fore can’t fight from a Lok Press conference, “I am used to out at Vijay Goel for saying that disaster response force. been dismissed and a com- 2016, several other top com- ) $ Bihar. Poonam is the SP-BSP- Sabha seat reserved for the speaking Urdu but that does 14 AAP lawmakers were in “We reached the spot at plaint is being made against the manders were neutralised by RLD alliance candidate from Scheduled Caste, Hans on not mean I am a Muslim. Does touch with the BJP and ready 3.15 am and began operations contractor with police to reg- the security forces. # Lucknow, who is contesting Friday said he would file a a Muslim speaking Hindi to switch loyalty. On at 3.20 am. The first body was ister an FIR over the lapses that Lateef Ahmad Dar, killed * + ( against Union Home Minister defamation case against Delhi becomes a Hindu? I was born Wednesday, Manish Sisodia recovered at 6.25 am and the led to the death of the two in Shopian, was lone surviving # Rajnath Singh and Pramod. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a Valmiki family had claimed seven AAP MLAs second at 7.20 am,” said workers,” Noida Authority’s member of the group who was $ Polling will be held in and other AAP leaders for and my mother worships had been offered 10 crore Jeetender Yadav, who led the Officer on Special Duty Rajesh still active in the area. Lucknow on Monday. “maligning” his image. Valmiki.” each to join the BJP. nine-member NDRF team. Kumar Singh said. Detailed report on P9 QR over three lakh votes. But in the 0 .121.1,34&-1' .1 November 2018 Assembly elec- tions for the eight Assembly he Jaipur Rural Lok Sabha seats in this Lok Sabha con- Tseat is all set to witness a stituency, four were bagged by very interesting contest the Congress, three by the BJP between two Olympians — and one by an Independent. sitting BJP MP Union Minister Punia has been working on Given the caste equation of Suraj Jatav. The Congress is Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore a successful caste equation by Bharatpur Lok Sabha seat, working hard to end the enmi- and Congress’ Krishna Poonia. banking on the support of Jats, Congress candidate Abhijit ty between Jatavs and the Jats An equally keen contest is on and a combination of Ahirs Kumar Jatav, a retired bureau- arisen in the 1992 Kumher the cards in the neighbouring (Yadavs), Dalit and Muslim. crat, seems to have an edge over massacre when Jats set ablaze Bharatpur, a stronghold of Jats, Faced with such challenging BJP’s Ranjeeta Koli.