National
Vadodara gears up for grand welcome for PM Modi

Vadodara, May 26: Gujarat’s Vadodara is ready to host Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, as he returns to his home state for the first time since the launch of Operation Sindoor.
The visit will see the inauguration and foundation laying of multiple development projects valued at Rs 82,000 crore.
The Prime Minister will receive a grand welcome from more than 25,000 women, who will shower him with flowers in a special ‘Sindoor Samman Yatra’.
The Dawoodi Bohra community is also preparing to greet him with enthusiasm, while various cultural performances are being lined up in honour of the Indian Armed Forces and Operation Sindoor.
Vadodara Municipal Corporation officials have ramped up preparations and security arrangements ahead of the visit.
VMC Commissioner Arun Mahesh Babu told media, “We are happy that PM Modi is coming here. The public has started arriving, and good arrangements have been made by the municipal and police departments. This event is being organised to honour and thank our armed forces and PM Modi for Operation Sindoor. People should participate extensively.”
Speaking to media, BJP Vadodara Metropolitan President Jaiprakash Soni said, “After the success of Operation Sindoor, the Prime Minister is coming here. A grand welcome will be given by Nari Shakti in the form of Sindoor Samman Yatra. 25,000 women will welcome him by showering flowers.”
Mrinali Kulkarni, one of the women participants, told media, “We are very excited and eager to see the Prime Minister. We salute the work he has done. Our army has done a great job under Operation Sindoor. We are proud of them and want to tell PM Modi to keep up the good work.”
A woman from the Dawoodi Bohra community also shared her excitement with media, saying, “We are here to express our gratitude to PM Modi for the successful Operation Sindoor. This is the first time that he is coming to Gujarat since the operation, and we are very excited.”
During his visit, PM Modi will first reach Dahod, where he will inaugurate the Loco Manufacturing Shop-Rolling Stock Workshop and address a public gathering in Kharod. He will also lay the foundation for various government and railway projects worth Rs 24,000 crore.
Two trains will be flagged off via video conferencing from Dahod. The first, the Sabarmati-Veraval Vande Bharat Express, will run six days a week and connect Sabarmati with Veraval, near the Somnath temple. The second, the Valsad-Dahod Express, will operate daily, covering a 346 km distance with 17 coaches.
Additionally, PM Modi will inaugurate a railway production unit in Dahod, built at a cost of over Rs 21,000 crore under the ‘Make in India’ initiative. He will also flag off an electric locomotive from the Dahod manufacturing plant.
The Prime Minister will then travel to Bhuj to launch development projects worth more than Rs 53,400 crore. These include initiatives in Kandla Port, solar energy, power transmission, and road infrastructure.
He will also unveil four drinking water supply schemes costing Rs 181 crore, designed to benefit 4.62 lakh people across 193 villages and one town in the Mahisagar and Dahod districts.
PM Modi is scheduled to lead a three-km-long roadshow from Ahmedabad Airport to Indira Bridge, where over 50,000 BJP workers and citizens are expected to gather. He will spend the night at Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar.
On the morning of May 27, at 10.30 a.m., he will hold another roadshow in Gandhinagar, expected to be joined by over 30,000 BJP workers. Following this, he will inaugurate and lay the foundation for projects worth Rs 5,536 crore at Mahatma Mandir.
Among the key projects, the Prime Minister will inaugurate 22,055 houses built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana for Rs 1,006 crore. He will also lay the foundation for Phase 3 of the Sabarmati Riverfront, estimated to cost Rs 1,000 crore.
In a move to boost urban development, PM Modi will distribute cheques worth Rs 3,300 crore to urban local bodies under the Swarnim Jayanti Mukhyamantri Shaheri Vikas Yojana.
Business
US tariffs to now take effect from August 1 as trade talks intensify

New Delhi/Washington, July 7: US President Donald Trump’s country-specific tariffs are now scheduled to take effect from August 1, offering a temporary reprieve as trade talks intensified with several countries, including India.
Earlier, the US tariffs were set to take effect from July 9.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced the tariff reprieve on Sunday (US time) while speaking to the media. He noted that President Trump was “setting the rates and the deals right now”.
Trump told reporters that “I think we’ll have most countries wrapped up by July 9, either through letters or finalised agreements”, adding that notification letters warning of upcoming tariff hikes would begin going out from Monday (US time), with more expected to follow on Tuesday.
Trump said that sending notices would be much easier than “sitting down and working 15 different things…this is what you have to pay, if you want to do business with the United States.”
In April, Trump announced a base tariff of 10 per cent on most of America’s trading partners and thereafter additional duties ranging up to 50 per cent.
The US has announced trade deals with the United Kingdom and Vietnam so far, with some more trade deals apparently in the pipeline.
“President Trump’s going to be sending letters to some of our trading partners saying that if you don’t move things along, then on August 1 you will boomerang back to your April 2 tariff level. So I think we’re going to see a lot of deals very quickly,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNN.
India’s high-level official delegation led by chief negotiator Rajesh Agrawal has returned from Washington after the trade talks with US officials without reaching a final agreement on the sensitive issue of trade in agricultural and dairy products that the US is pushing for.
Meanwhile, Trump has announced that an additional 10 per cent tariff will be imposed on countries that “align themselves with the anti-American policies of BRICS”.
National
‘Rudali is not voice of Maharashtra, Marathi people’, Uddhav Thackeray’s ‘Saamana’ attacks CM Fadnavis

Mumbai, July 7: Shiv Sena(UBT) on Monday criticised Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ terming party chief Uddhav Thackeray’s speech ‘Rudali (professional mourner)’ in the joint ‘victory rally’ held with Maharashtra Navnirman Sena founder Raj Thackeray.
The rally was held on Saturday here to celebrate what they claim was a victory after the CM revoked two Government Resolutions that had introduced Hindi as a third language in primary schools in the state.
In a blistering attack, the Thackeray camp in the party’s mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ editorial said if CM Devendra Fadnavis thinks that a massive gathering of Marathi people in Mumbai is ‘Rudaali’, then he should continue his ‘Rudaali’. “Fadnavis’ ‘Rudaali’ is not the voice of Maharashtra and Marathi people,” it said.
“There is a type of ‘Rudaali’ in Rajasthan, Haryana, Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh, etc. If there is a tragic event like death in someone’s house, women are invited there (to the rich people’s houses) on rent, that is, to cry, beat their chests and wail. They take cash, cry and leave. It is not a tragedy of the state that Fadnavis should compare the Marathi identity that celebrates the ‘Marathi’ victory to women who take money and cry at the time of death,” read the editorial.
The editorial further said, “Fadnavis and his party have huge wealth. This is loot. Therefore, they can afford to hire people to cry, laugh, and applaud Modi’s meetings. A truly self-respecting Marathi man does not get involved in selling his self-respect but he loves the Marathi language, Marathi literature, Marathi history and the masculine element in it.”
The editorial in detail explained the tradition of Maharashtra. “It is associated with poet Govind, who bared his talent against British slavery, with Lokmanya Tilak who wrote hard-hitting editorials against British Rule in Kesari newspaper, poet Vinayak, Swatantryaveer Savarkar, Shivram Mahadev Paranjpe, Kakasaheb Khadilkar, Annabhau Sathe, Shahir Amarshekh, Acharya Atre, and Balasaheb Thackeray, who wounded the enemies of Maharashtra through cartoons and founded the ‘Shiv Sena’ to fight the injustices against the Marathi people,” said the Saamana.
“Since the BJP and its aides do not fit anywhere in this tradition, they are belittling the masculinity of Maharashtra as ‘Rudaali’. Narendra Modi’s ‘Rudaali’ has been going on in the country for the last ten years. Even after coming to power, there will be no other ‘Rudaali’ except targeting Pandit Nehru and Gandhi to cover up their own failures,” claimed the Thackeray camp.
National
Police in Srinagar attach property worth Rs 1.5 crore under UAPA

Srinagar, July 5: Continuing its drive against terrorism, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Police in Srinagar district on Saturday attached property worth Rs 1.5 crore under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
A police statement said on Saturday, “In a decisive move against the terror ecosystem and to dismantle its supporting infrastructure, Srinagar Police has attached a residential property — comprising 8 marlas and 202 sq. ft. of land along with the building structure— estimated to be worth approximately Rs 1.5 crore.
“The property, located at Mir Masjid Mohalla, Shallabagh Khanyar, and falling under Survey Nos. 3674/1147 and 3677/1148, is recorded in the name of Mohammad Yousuf Shah son of Hafiz Waliuallah Shah.”
The police statement added, “It is currently in the possession of Masood Hussain Shah son of Mohammad Yousuf Shah. The attachment has been carried out under the relevant provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in connection with FIR No. 48/2024 under Sections 109 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 7/27 of the Indian Arms Act, and Sections 16, 18, 19, 20, and 39 of the UAP Act, registered at Police Station Khanyar.
“Investigations have established that the property was acquired through illegal proceeds linked to terrorist activities. Acting under Section 25 of the UAP Act, the immovable property has been formally seized and attached following due legal procedure.
“Through this attachment notice, the owner is prohibited from selling, leasing, or transferring the said property in any manner. This action is part of the sustained campaign of Srinagar Police to dismantle the terror ecosystem in a systematic manner.
“By targeting and crippling the financial networks of terrorist organisations, Jammu & Kashmir Police aims to curb acts detrimental to the security and integrity of the nation. Srinagar Police reiterates its unwavering commitment to eradicating terrorism and safeguarding public peace.”
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