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Nagpur painters painting depicting PM Modi at railway station fetches Rs 5 lakh
Nagpur painter Bijay Biswaals painting depicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a railway station was sold for Rs 5 lakh at a two-day physical auction of the gifts received by PM Modi. The painting was sold at the auction, which started at National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi on Sunday.
Biswaal, who is a retired Indian Railways employee and a self-taught painter, had gifted the painting to PM Modi in November 2016 in New Delhi during a function organised by Indian Railways. PM Modi had praised Biswaal for his paintings during his radio programme Mann Ki Baat? in July 2015.
Along with the painting, a wooden bike received by PM Modi was also sold for Rs 5 lakh. While the painting had a base price of Rs 50,000, the bike had a base price of Rs 40,000. A memento of the Golden Temple with a base price of Rs 10,000 was sold for Rs 3.5 lakh. Some other items, which were sold included: A photo frame of Ashtamangalam (Base price: Rs 1,500, Sold for: Rs 28,000), a metallic sword (Base price: Rs 5,000, Sold for: Rs 1 lakh) and a statue of Mahatma Basaveshwara (Base price: Rs 10,000, Sold for: Rs 70,000).
The last day of the physical auction was on Monday. During the two-day auction 270 items out of 1,900 items were sold. While the physical auction has ended, the remaining gifts will be e-auctioned till January 31 on the website: www.pmmementos.gov.in
After the e-auction, the amount raised through the physical and online auction will be used for Namani Gange, which is a central government project to clean river Ganga.
An elated Bijay Biswaal, while speaking to Nation Next said, I got to know a month back that my painting, which I had gifted to our honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be auctioned soon. I’m very happy and on the top of the world to realise that the proceeds will be used for such a good purpose.
Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) added 25 additional beds in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital Kalwa apart from arranging a special ward dedicated to COVID-19 patients. The total number of active patients in the city stood at 252 while five succumbed to the virus. Meanwhile, TMC Commissioner Abhijit Bangar said a ‘death audit’ of patients who died of COVID would be conducted. The TMC has ensured it has additional stock of oxygen concentrators, testing kits, medicines, to name a few. Bangar told HT, “Due to the increasing number of Covid patients, it is necessary for everyone to be alert.”
He added, The number of Covid tests should be increased to stay one step ahead of the disease. As a result, the number of patients is likely to increase due to increased testing. However, as per the ‘test, isolate, treat’ protocol for Covid, it becomes necessary to isolate and treat more and more patients. The testing centres will not remain closed even for a single day. At the same time, more arrangements for testing will be made immediately in public places, markets, railway stations, malls.”
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Rahul Gandhi
An independent candidate for Lok Sabha elections named Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from contesting polls for failing to lodge account of election expenses. Gandhi, who’s name figures as ‘Rahul Gandhi K E S/o Valsamma’ in an Election Commission list of persons, had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an Independent and had received 2196 votes from the Wayanad seat in Kerala – a constituency from where ex-Congress MP Rahul Rajiv Gandhi had won with over seven lakh votes.
However, since it is mandatory for all contestants to submit their account of election expenses among other mandatory requirements under EC rules and the Representation of the People Act.
Rahul Gandhi K E S/o Valsamma stood disqualified to contest polls from September 13, 2021 till September 13, 2024. According to Section 10A, the Election Commission can disqualify a contestant for a period of three years from the date of the order if he/she has failed to lodge an account of election expenses within the time and in the manner required by law and has no good reason or justification for the failure.
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At present, there are 72 active patients in the city. Three new cases of the new XBB.1.16 variant of COVID-19 were detected that took the total tally to five in the district.
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