CMYK FRIDAY www.thestatesman.com 02 DECEMBER 2022 FIND US ONLINE Scan this with your smartphone twitter.com/TheStatesmanLtd facebook.com/thestatesman1875 Pages 16 |` 5.00|LC KOLKATA | NEW DELHI | SILIGURI | BHUBANESWAR WEATHER Mainly clear sky. Temperature likely to be in the range of 30-18 degrees Celsius. RAINFALL : NIL RELATIVE HUMIDITY Max.92% Min. 50% Max: 30.9 °C (+2) SUN RISES 06:00 hrs MOON RISES 12:33 hrs Min: 19.6 °C (+3) SUN SETS 16:51 hrs MOON SETS ------ hrs TEMPERATURE Full moon on 08 December Modi slams Kharge for Ravan jibe He says there is a competition among Congress leaders as to who will use most abusive words for him STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, 1 DECEMBER rime Minister Narendra Modi today hit back at Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge for calling him Ravan recently, saying top leaders of the Opposition party were vying with each other to use the most abusive language against him. Addressing an election rally at Kalol town in pollbound Gujarat, he said he was not surprised that the Congress leaders were saying bad things about him. “But I am amazed that even after saying so many bad things, neither the P PM Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting for the second phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections, in Kalol on Thursday.  ANI Congress party nor its leaders have ever regretted the words they have used. They feel it is their right to abuse Modi and the PM of this country,” he added. Mr Modi said he respected Kharge but the latter would use the words he has been told to speak. “The Congress party doesn't know that this is the Gujarat of Ram Bhakts. In this land of Rambhakts, he (Kharge) was asked to call me a Ravan with 100 heads.” At an election meeting at Behrampura in Ahmedabad, the Congress chief had described the PM as Ravan, triggering a war of words between the ruling dispensation and the grand old party. “In all these campaigns, he (Modi) only talks about himself... Don't look at anyone else, just look at Modi and vote... how many times do we have to see your face? How many forms do India must become voice of Global South, says EAM Mexico's Kevin Alvarez after the group C soccer match between Saudi Arabia and Mexico. Because of Argentina’s 2-0 victory over Poland in a simultaneous match, Mexico failed to advance out of its group for the first time since 1978. AP Now another World Cup begins...and hopefully we can continue to do what we did today.. Lionel Messi during the WC group C soccer match between Poland & Argentina on 30 November. Union Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the University Connect programme on G20, in New Delhi on Thursday. STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, 1 DECEMBER As India assumed the presidency of G-20, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today underlined that India must become the voice of the Global South expressing their concerns on fuel, food, and fertilisers. He shared the apprehension that issues like sustainable development, climate action, and climate justice could be sidetracked due to more dominant issues. Speaking at the University Connect Programme in New Delhi, Mr Jaishankar said India's G-20 presidency was taking place at a very critical moment in international affairs. It was particularly vital that world leaders focus on the right issues, especially those which affected the more vulnerable sections of the world, he added.During India's G-20 presidency, the spotlight would be on LiFE Facial recognition-based entry in Delhi, B’luru & Varanasi airports STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, 1 DECEMBER For a seamless and hasslefree air travel experience, the Centre on Thursday launched facial recognitionbased entry at 3 selected airports including Delhi, Bengaluru and Varanasi.Air passengers can get paperless entry at three selected airports ~ Delhi, Bengaluru and Varanasi ~ for hassle-free air travel through Digi Yatra launched on Thursday. Digi Yatra was conceived to achieve contactless, seamless processing of passengers at airports based on Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). Officials said that the airport will use facial recognition software termed as "Digi Yatra" for entry.Digi Yatra in the first phase, will be launched at seven airports. However, it has been initially launched at three airports including Delhi, Ben- Chaos in Mumbai Airport as server crashes: Chaos prevailed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMA) in Mumbai following a computer server crash for around 40 minutes that affected check-ins and other operations for all airlines.The operations resumed at the Mumbai International Airport at 6:35 pm, after the server remained disturbed for around 40 minutes. galuru andVaranasi on Thursday to be followed by four airports namely Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, and Vijayawada by March 2023. Later, it would be implemented across various airports in the country. The service is currently being launched for domestic flights passengers only. Digi Yatra App is available on both IoS and Android. Civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday launched Digi Yatra from the Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi for the three airports of Delhi, Varanasi and Bengaluru. Speaking about the Digi Yatra project conceived by Digi Yatra Foundation under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, he said that the project envisages a traveller pass through various checkpoints at the airports through a paperless and contactless processing using facial features to establish her identity which could be linked to the boarding pass. To use this facility, onetime registration on Digi Yatra app is required using Aadhaar-based validation and a self-image capture. About the privacy features of the project, the minister said that keeping in mind privacy, there is no central storage of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). ('Lifestyle for the Environment) with its associated, environmentally sustainable and responsible choices at the level of individual lifestyles as well as national development. He also said that as the mother of democracy, India’s G-20 presidency would be consultative, collaborative, and decisive. On the occasion, India's G-20 Coordinator Harsh Vardhan Shringla said that Indians have a unique opportunity during the G-20 presidency and a profound responsibility to showcase their rich cultural heritage and diversity, tourism potential and development prowess. India's G-20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant said that as the head of G-20, Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be setting the agenda of the world. Make in Odisha conclave begins STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE BHUBANESWAR, 1 DECEMBER The mega Make in Odisha Conclave commenced on Thursday with an overwhelming response from the galaxy of captains of industry committing investments intents to the tune of Rs 585,742.26 crore. Overwhelmed by the response, chief minister Naveen Patnaik promised ‘ better than the best’ policies and said the government has ambitions of becoming a trillion-dollar economy soon . Billed as ‘Come Join the Juggernaut’, 54 industry leaders including L N Mittal, Anil Agrawal, Sajjan Jindal, T V Narendran, Navin Jindal, Karan Adani, Satish Pai showered praise on the state government and CM, describing Odisha as the most financially strong and politically stable state where speed of decision making is unmatched. Global leaders, 54 industry captains, participants from 11 countries were present. CMYK Moderate polling in Guj; PM holds roadshow STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE Low to moderate polling marked the first phase of assembly elections in Gujarat today even as the ruling BJP’s star campaigner Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a 32-kilometre road-show circumnavigating Ahmedabad, the city from where he had launched his political career. As Mr Modi’s cavalcade passed through the main circular road around the sprawling city, hundreds of people lined up along the way threw flower petals at the Prime Minister who continuously waved to the cheering crowd.Covering over 50 km, the PM’s roadshow started from the Naroda Gam and will be ending at Gandhinagar South constituency. Voter turn-out in the 89 constituencies going to polls across 19 districts was only about 34 per cent till 1.00 p.m. in the afternoon but it had crossed 48 per cent at 3.00 p.m. Polling for the remaining 93 assembly constituencies would be held on 5 December. By the time polling ended at 5.30 p.m. in the evening, the poll percentage was expected to have crossed 57 per cent. The final tally is likely to show a moderate polling of around 60 per cent, not an ominous signal for the ruling BJP which is at the helm of state power for last 27 years. you have? Do you have 100 heads like Ravan?” Mr Kharge had said. The PM said the Congress did not accept Lord Ram's existence but they had brought the character of Ravan from the Ramayan to abuse him. AHMEDABAD, 1 DECEMBER Indo-US drills: India rejects China’s dissent NEW DELHI, 1 DECEMBER India today rejected the objection raised by China over the ongoing joint Indo-US military exercises being held in Uttarakhand near the Line of Actual Control (LAC). “India will conduct such exercises with whoever it chooses and it does not give a veto to a third country for holding such exercises,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian had stated yesterday that the joint military exercises by India and the US violated the spirit of relevant agreements signed by China and India in 1993 and 1996 and did not help build bilateral SNS trust.