BHUBANESWAR  MONDAY  DECEMBER 16, 2024  `9.00  PAGES 12  LATE CITY EDITION SUBSIDIARIES OF INDIAN PHARMA GIANTS RECALL PRODUCTS IN U.S. Aurobindo Pharma, Glenmark and Zydus are recalling products due to manufacturing issues, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said U.S. REGULATOR FLAGS PURITY CONCERNS Aurobindo Pharma USA Inc is recalling over 1 lakh bottles of Cinacalcet tablets over “presence of N-nitroso Cinacalcet impurity” above prescribed limit, FDA said. Similarly, the US subsidiary of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals is recalling 90,000 bottles of Diltiazem Hydrochloride capsules over “presence of N-nitroso-Desmethyl-Diltiazem impurity” above the US regulator’s limit ■ 20% CLASS II NATIONWIDE RECALL INITIATED ■ Zydus (USA) Inc is recalling 4,404 packs of Esomeprazole Magnesium for Delayed-Release Oral Suspension due to errors in labelling The companies have initiated Class II nationwide recall. According to the US regulator, such an action is taken when products can cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences INDIA’S SHARE IN THE GLOBAL SUPPLY OF GENERIC MEDICINES CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOGGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI Fadnavis expands Maharashtra cabinet with 39 new ministers Focus on young, new faces; 19 berths go to BJP, Shiv Sena gets 11, and NCP 9 ministers S U D H I R S U R YA W A N S H I @ Mumbai MAHARASHTRA Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday effected the first expansion of his ministry with 33 Cabinet ministers and six ministers of state. Gover nor C P Radhakrishnan administered the oath to all 39 ministers, many of them fresh faces, at the Raj Bhavan in Nagpur on the eve of Maharashtra state assembly’s winter session. Portfolios will be allocated in the next two to three days, Fadnavis said. Among the newly sworn-in ministers, 19 are from the BJP (16 cabinet berths and 3 MoS); 11 from the Shiv Sena (9 cabinet and 2 MoS); and 9 from NCP (8 cabinet ministers and 1 MoS). With this, the BJP has 20 ministers including CM Devendra Fadnavis, Shiv Sena has 12 including deputy CM Eknath Shinde, and NCP 11 including deputy CM Ajit Pawar. Notably, 12 ministers from the Shinde-led government were dropped to give representation to young leaders. Those dropped include BJP leaders Sudhir Mungantiwar, Vijay Kumar Gavit, and Ravindra Cha- Ceremony held at Nagpur’s Raj Bhavan The ceremony at the Raj Bhavan in Nagpur was the first to be held in the state’s second capital in 33 years. The last such event was Sudhakarrao Naik cabinet’s expansion in 1991 Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy CMs Ajit Pawar and Eknath Shinde during the swearing-in of cabinet ministers | PTI van; NCP leaders Chhagan Bhujbal, Dilip Walse Patil, Anil Patil, and Dharmaraobaba Atram; and Shiv Sena leaders Tanaji Sawant and Deepak Kesarkar. While focusing on fresh faces, Fadnavis also included some experienced hands in his team. Among the young BJP ministers are Jaykumar Rawal, Pankaja Munde, Ashok Uike, Ashish Shelar, Shivendrasinh Bhosale, Jaykumar Gore, Sanjay Savkare, Nitesh Rane, Akash Fundkar, Madhuri Misal, Pankaj Bhoyar, and Meghna Bordikar Sakore. Meanwhile, Ajit Pawar denied berths to veterans Chhagan Bhujbal and Dilip Walse Patil to accommodate Dhananjay Munde, Dattatray Bharane, Aditi Tatkare, Manikrao Kokate, Narhari Zirwal, Makarand Patil, Babasaheb Patil, and Indranil Naik. As for Eknath Shinde, he had a tough task to keep each one happy with a limited number of berths. Shiv Sena MLA Narendra Bhondekar resigned from all party posts after he was denied a berth in the new cabinet. Shiv Sena ministers include Sanjay Rathod, Uday Samant, Sanjay Shirsat, Pratap Sarnaik, Bharat Gogawale, Prakash Abitkar, Ashish Jaiswal, and Yogesh Kadam. A senior BJP leader said the party has tried to keep the delicate balance of caste and regional representation in the new cabinet. “Each section of the society voted for us. Therefore, we wanted to give representatives to each section even if the faces from these societies were new. This is a new team under new leadership and we are hopeful that they will perform better,” he said. RISING CONFLICT Two sisters among 3 killed in a single night by elephants in Bonai 11.30 pm. Their mother, an@ Rourkela other sibling and grandfather, however, had a narrow TWO minor girls, both sib- escape. lings, were trampled to death Gurundia sarpanch Praby an elephant in a village vakar Munda said a single under Gurundia block tusker was responsible of Sundargarh disfor the incident. The trict when the pachold man who walked yder m razed the with a stick and the poor family’s hut woman with her sevlate on Saturday en-year-old child esnight. caped to safety but In a separate eleher two daughters phant attack around met with a tragic the same time, a end under the feet youth was killed in of the ele phant. The elephant brought down Sol village in the Munda said the famsame forest range of their earthen hut ily lived in abject made of twigs the division, in yet penury and their and polythene another example of makeshift house sheet and escalating man-anicould neither protrampled the two mal conflict in the vide protection from minor girls at region. elephants nor the around 11.30 pm. The sisters were chilling winter Sources three and 12 years night. old and lived with Gurundia police their family in Mundabasti on Sunday sent the bodies for of Kantapali village under postmortem. A local forest Tamra range of Bonai divi- official said the tusker moved sion. Sources said, the ele- from Koida forest range and phant brought down their travelling through the forests earthen hut made of twigs of Rourkela division entered and polythene sheet and Tamra range and caused the CONTINUED ON P5 trampled the two at around havoc. PRASANJEET SARKAR Techie suicide: Wife and family members arrested Haryana. Her mother Nisha and brother Anurag were A week after 34-year-old soft- nabbed from a hotel in Prayaware engineer Atul Subhash graj in Uttar Pradesh. All three ended his life at his resarrests were made on idence in Bengaluru’s Saturday morning, and Marathahalli, his esthe trio has been tranged wife Nikita brought to Bengaluru. Singhania, mother-inShivakumar also said law Nisha Singhania, that Atul’s son is curand brother-in-law Anrently staying with Niurag Singhania have kita’s relative and addNikita been arrested on charged that more es of abetment of information cannot be suicide. shared as he is a minor The trio, during ques(aged 4). tioning, is said to have Stating that Sushil is claimed innocence and absconding, the DCP have been remanded in said efforts are on to judicial custody . trace him. “The investiNisha Nikita’s uncle, Sushil gating teams are also Singhania, who has collecting other evialso been named as an dence,” he added. accused by the MarA senior police officathahalli police, is yet er told this newspaper to be arrested. that the trio, during inSpeaking to the mequiry, defended themdia on Sunday, Deputy selves and claimed that Anurag Commissioner of Police the allegations made by (Whitefield division) Atul in the death note Shivakumar Gunare said that and the video are false. based on a tip-off and other The accused were produced technical clues, Nikita was ar- before a magistrate on Saturday rested from a paying-guest ac- and were shifted to Bengaluru commodation in Gurugram in Central Prison. Rajya Sabha to hold debate on Constitution from today RAJESH KUMAR THAKUR @ New Delhi RAJYA Sabha is expected to witness fiery debates between the government and the opposition on Monday as it begins a two-day debate on the Constitution to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding document’s adoption. It comes as the Lok Sabha, after two days of spirited discussions, wrapped up its debate on the Constitution on Saturday . Rajya Sabha is also likely to see high-octane sessions, especially in the backdrop of a noconfidence motion moved against Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar by the opposition alleging bias. Sources told this newspaper that BJP president JP Nadda will critique the Congress’s historical record in adhering to the Constitution during its tenure in power. Key BJP members scheduled to participate include: Nirmala Sitharaman, Hardeep Puri and Kiren Rijiju. On the opposition side, the Trinamool Congress has tasked 10–11 MPs to speak on the Constitution. MPs from the Congress, RJD and SP will also participate. BRIDGE & ROOF BRIBERY CASE CBI grills six people, gets CCTV footage R A K S H I T H G O W D A @ Bengaluru EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Bhubaneswar SOAKING THE WARMTH A group of youngsters sit around a bonfire as temperature plummets, in Bhubaneswar on Sunday | SHAMIM QURESHY EXPRESS READ Zakir Hussain in ICU; condition critical New Delhi: Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain, who has been undergoing treatment at a US hospital for heart-related problem for the past two weeks, is critical, reports said. US in contact with Syrian rebels: Blinken Aqaba: American officials have been in direct contact with the terrorist-designated rebel group that led the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday. Blinken was the first US official to publicly confirm contacts between the Biden administration and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham | P9 THE Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has grilled over half dozen people in connection with the ‘10 lakh bribery case related to a senior executive of central PSU Bridge and Ro o f C o m p a n y ( I n d i a ) Limited. On Sunday general manag, er of a plush hotel appeared before the CBI to submit CCTV footage of the restaurant where the three accused in the bribery case had reportedly met on December 7 evening. The central agency had ar rested group general manager of Bridge and Roof Company (India) Limited, Chanchal Mukherjee, while allegedly taking the bribe from director of a Bhubaneswar-based company M/s Penta A Studio Private Ltd, Santosh Moharana, and a middle-man identified as De- The five-day remand of Mukherjee, Moharana and Mohapatra will end on Monday. Bishnupada Sethi has also been served notice by the CBI to join the probe Sources badutta Mohapatra. All three were in the restaurant of the star hotel that evening and after they stepped out, they were apprehended by the CBI with the cash in their cars. Sources said the fiveday remand of Mukherjee, Moharana and Mohapatra will end on Monday. Rajesh Mishra, the lawyer representing both Mukherjee and Moharana, said he will file their bail pleas in CBI court on Monday on health grounds. Senior IAS officer of the state government Bishnupada Sethi has also been served notice by the CBI to join the investigation. NFSU campus, CFSL to boost Odisha Police’s crime investigation capabilities Dharavi to WPL riches: Simran bags `1.9 cr WPL MINI AUCTION A S I S H M E H TA @ Bhubaneswar ODISHA Police’s capabilities in criminal investigation is set to take a huge leap with establishment of a campus of National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) and a Central Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL). The state will join a handful of states and Union territories having the state-of-the-art referral laboratory The advanced fa. cility will boost the state’s forensic testing infrastructure and reduce dependence on other centres in the country Current. ly Chandigarh, New Delhi, Bho, pal, Pune, Kolkata, Guwahati and Hyderabad have CFSLs. The government has allotted about 40 acre land at Info Valley to set up the campus of NFSU and the CFSL. The ground breaking ceremony for the two new facilities will be held soon, sources said. Sources said, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and NFSU will jointly set up the CFSL. The laboratory is slated to start functioning from a building of Indian Oil Corporation limited in Mancheswar Industrial Estate soon till it g ets its own building. “The State Forensic Science Laboratory (SFSL) in Bhubaneswar does not have advanced technology and infrastructure for which samples are frequently sent to CFSLs in Kolkata, New Delhi and Hyderabad and SFSL at Gandhinagar for forensic examination. A dedicated CFSL here will fill the vacuum,” DGP YB Khurania tld the newspaper. The NFSU will create skilled professionals in crime investigation as well as train police officers while the CFSL will enhance the testing capabilities. “The establishment of NFSU and CFSL will tremendously benefit Odisha. While NFSU will give an opportunity to students from Odisha and other parts of the country to pursue the courses, CFSL will strengthen and empower criminal investigation. CONTINUED ON P5 K A LYA N I M A N G A L E @ Bengaluru TN girl bags `1.6cr SIMRAN SHAIKH was bought for her base price of `10 lakh by UP Warriorz at the inaugural Women’s Premier League auction. A resident of Mumbai’s Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slums, Simran’s poor returns in the 2023 season meant she was released by the franchise. The right-hand batter didn’t find a team for the second edition held early this year. Her father, Jahid Ali, an electrician, was in disbelief when Simran was bought by UP in February last year. Almost a year and 10 months later, Jahid is over the moon as her daughter has become the costliest buy at the WPL Tamil Nadu’s G Kamilini had one of the best days a player could ask for. Earlier in the day, playing for India for the first time in the U19 Asia Cup, the 16-year-old hit 29-ball 44 to bag player of the match trophy. A few hours later she was bought by Mumbai Indians for `1.60 crore. mini auction held in Bengaluru on Sunday She was bought . by Gujarat Giants for `1.90 crore. “She comes from Dharavi. If you look at it from the financial point of view, it is great for her that she is getting the opportunity once again. She has worked ex- tremely hard for this and the results are there for everyone to see. It is important in terms o f f i n a n c i a l s t a b i l i t y, ” Shaikh’s coach and former India inter national Sunetra Paranjape told this daily . Along with Paranjape, the Giants’ head coach, Michael Klinger praised the journey of his player. “If we can change her life, not just for her, but for her family it’s fan, tastic. Mind you, this is not a charity given to her, she has earned this. She has put on some great performances in recent times. It is great to hear that this can change her life,” he told this daily in an exclusive interview. West Indies superstar Deandra Dottin was among the highest-paid overseas players at `1.70 cr and joined Mumbai girl Shaikh at Giants. Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru persisted with a bid for Uttarakhand’s Prema Rawat as she eventually joined them for `1.20 crore.