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T he RSS affiliated Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) has joined hands with critics of the three farm sector-related Bills that will come up for passage in the Rajya Sabha on Sunday. This could put up added pres- sure on the Government to bring in some changes in the Bills to allay the fear of the farmers about continuation of the minimum support price (MSP) regime in future. The Lok Sabha passed the Bill on Friday. After Akali Deal leader Harsimrat Kaur walked out of the Modi Government to protest against the Bills, the BKS stand shows that the BJP stands completely isolated on introducing these radical mea- sures. Amid rising apprehen- sions that farm sector Bills passed in the Lok Sabha may not protect the interest of the agriculturists, the BKS has demanded that the Bills must be sent to the Standing Committee for wider consul- tations and changes. A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi blamed the Opposition for misleading the farmers, the BKS said the Bill is “tilted heavily towards the corporate” and would not improve the lives of farmers and should be whetted by the Standing Committee on Agriculture headed by BJP’s PC Gaddigoudar for the benefit of small farmers before turning into a law. Opposing the Bills in their current form, the organisation has also written to Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, demanding pro-farmer provisions that do not benefit the big firms and corporates. On Thursday, the Lok Sabha passed two agriculture- related Bills — Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, and Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 — by voice vote. On Tuesday, the House passed the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020, which seeks to deregulate food items, includ- ing cereals, pulses and onions. As famers in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh hit the streets against three farm Bills and Harsimrat quit the Modi Government in protest, the Opposition described the move as “corporatisation” of the agriculture and in favour of big farmers. The Opposition unity will be tested in the Rajya Sabha on Sunday when the Bills come up for passage. As many as 10 MPs have tested positive for Covid-19 and have been isolated at home. Turn to Page 4 T he rising number of Covid- 19 infection among the Members of Parliament has compelled the authorities to cut short the duration of the ongo- ing Monsoon Session. The session is now expect- ed to be terminated on September 23 instead of its scheduled October 1 closure. The decision was taken on Saturday at the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) chaired by Speaker Om Birla, said officials, adding that final decision will be taken by the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs. The meeting was appraised that more than 264 people were found positive in the mandatory test. They included 30 MPs and staffers and media persons. The present RT-PCR Test has to be taken 72 hours before arrival in the House. Already three sitting MPs have suc- cumbed to Covid-19 and cur- rently 30 MPs are found posi- tive in the test. Apart from staffers and media persons, security per- sonnel are also subjected to the mandatory testing. Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Prahlad Patel have tested pos- itive in the tests. Three MPs have already died of Covid-19. Government officials accompanying their respective Ministers during Bill discus- sions also have to show a neg- ative report of RT-PCR test taken within the last 72 hours of their visit to the complex. “Since the commencement of the Session the number of positive cases has gone up, so the Government is thinking of cutting short the session. Next week also many have to under- go mandatory tests and the number of positive cases is ris- ing,” said an official. Before ending the session, the Government wants to get 11 ordinances passed as laws by Parliament, sources said. At Lok Sabha’s business advisory committee meeting several Opposition parties said that they are in the favour of the decision, asserting that conducting the full 18-day ses- sion could be a risky affair. The meeting also appraised that among the 264 total cases including MPs, the majority are from the staffers. T he National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday conducted simultaneous raids at several locations at Ernakulam (Kerala) and Murshidabad (West Bengal) and arrested nine terrorists associated with Pakistan-spon- sored module of the UN- banned global terror outfit al- Qaeda. “The group was planning to undertake terrorist attacks at vital installations in India with an aim to kill innocent people and strike terror in their minds,” the NIA said. The search operation fol- lowed registration of a case (No. RC-31/2020/NIA/DLI) by NIA on September 11 and subsequent investigation into the matter. This led the NIA to learn about an inter-State mod- ule of al-Qaeda operatives at various locations in India, including West Bengal and Kerala. “The NIA has arrested six terrorists from West Bengal and three terrorists from Kerala in the early morning raids. Large quantity of incriminating materials including digital devices, documents, jehadi lit- erature, sharp weapons, coun- try-made firearms, a locally fabricated body armour, articles and literature used for making home-made explosive devices have been seized from their possession,” the agency said. As per preliminary inves- tigation, the arrested accused were radicalised by Pakistan- based al-Qaeda terrorists on social media and were moti- vated to undertake attacks at multiple places, including the National Capital Region. For this purpose, the module was actively indulging in fund rais- ing and a few members of the gang were planning to travel to New Delhi to procure arms and ammunition. These arrests have pre-empted possible ter- rorist attacks in various parts of the country, it said. Turn to Page 4 T he CBI on Saturday filed a supplementary chargesheet in the AgustaWestland chopper scam case against controversial businessman Rajeev Saxena and then Managing Director of AgustaWestland International Ltd Giacomino Saponaro. In its final report filed before Special Judge Arvind Kumar, the CBI has named 15 accused persons, which includes Saponaro and Saxena among others. The court is like- ly to take up the matter for con- sideration of the chargesheet on Monday. The investigation report filed on Friday details the alleged role played by Saponaro and Saxena among others in delivering bribes to politicians, bureaucrats and Indian Air Force (IAF) officials for swing- ing the deal for supply of the VVIP copters. Dubai-based businessman Saxena was the director of Interstellar Technologies Ltd, Mauritius. Turn to Page 4 New Delhi: India’s single-day recovery outstripped the number of new infec- tions as nearly 96,000 people recuper- ated from the novel coronavirus, even as the total number of cases went past 53 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Saturday. New Delhi: “In a landmark global achievement”, India has overtaken the US and become the top country in terms of Covid-19 recoveries, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. The country has reported the highest num- ber of recoveries with 42,08,431 Covid-19 patients hav- ing recovered from the disease so far, pushing the nation- al recovery rate to nearly 80 per cent. A s many as 1,160 more peo- ple tested positive for coro- navirus infection in the state capital which reported nine COVID-19 fatalities on Saturday evening, pushing the death toll to 585. With the fresh cases reported on Saturday, the tally of confirmed cases in the city has shot up to 45,269. However, 1,105 COVID-19 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours. With this, 34,594 affected people have been cured in the city so far and at present 10,090 active cases are undergoing treatment in hos- pitals or in home isolation. The contact surveillance teams collected 8,963 samples in the district on Saturday. Meanwhile, the state’s COVID-19 death toll pushed up to 4,953 with 84 more fatal- ities during the past 24 hours. The state also reported 5,827 new positive cases, tak- ing the tally to 3,48,517. For the second successive day, the number of COVID-19 patients who recovered was more than the fresh cases, as many as 6,596 COVID-19 patients have recovered across the state.

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The RSS affiliated BharatiyaKisan Sangh (BKS) has

joined hands with critics of thethree farm sector-related Billsthat will come up for passage inthe Rajya Sabha on Sunday.This could put up added pres-sure on the Government tobring in some changes in theBills to allay the fear of thefarmers about continuation ofthe minimum support price(MSP) regime in future. TheLok Sabha passed the Bill onFriday.

After Akali Deal leaderHarsimrat Kaur walked out ofthe Modi Government toprotest against the Bills, theBKS stand shows that the BJPstands completely isolated onintroducing these radical mea-sures. Amid rising apprehen-sions that farm sector Billspassed in the Lok Sabha maynot protect the interest of theagriculturists, the BKS hasdemanded that the Bills mustbe sent to the StandingCommittee for wider consul-tations and changes.

A day after Prime MinisterNarendra Modi blamed theOpposition for misleading thefarmers, the BKS said the Billis “tilted heavily towards thecorporate” and would notimprove the lives of farmersand should be whetted by the

Standing Committee onAgriculture headed by BJP’s PCGaddigoudar for the benefit ofsmall farmers before turninginto a law.

Opposing the Bills in theircurrent form, the organisationhas also written to PrimeMinister and AgricultureMinister Narendra SinghTomar, demanding pro-farmerprovisions that do not benefitthe big firms and corporates.

On Thursday, the LokSabha passed two agriculture-

related Bills — Farmers’Produce Trade and Commerce(Promotion and Facilitation)Bill, 2020, and Farmers(Empowerment andProtection) Agreement onPrice Assurance and FarmServices Bill, 2020 — by voicevote. On Tuesday, the Housepassed the EssentialCommodities (Amendment)Bill, 2020, which seeks toderegulate food items, includ-ing cereals, pulses and onions.

As famers in Punjab,

Haryana and Uttar Pradesh hitthe streets against three farmBills and Harsimrat quit theModi Government in protest,the Opposition described themove as “corporatisation” of theagriculture and in favour of bigfarmers. The Opposition unitywill be tested in the RajyaSabha on Sunday when the Billscome up for passage. As manyas 10 MPs have tested positivefor Covid-19 and have beenisolated at home.

Turn to Page 4

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The rising number of Covid-19 infection among the

Members of Parliament hascompelled the authorities to cutshort the duration of the ongo-ing Monsoon Session.

The session is now expect-ed to be terminated onSeptember 23 instead of itsscheduled October 1 closure.

The decision was taken onSaturday at the BusinessAdvisory Committee (BAC)chaired by Speaker Om Birla,said officials, adding that finaldecision will be taken by theCabinet Committee onParliamentary Affairs.

The meeting was appraisedthat more than 264 peoplewere found positive in themandatory test. They included30 MPs and staffers and mediapersons.

The present RT-PCR Testhas to be taken 72 hours beforearrival in the House. Alreadythree sitting MPs have suc-cumbed to Covid-19 and cur-rently 30 MPs are found posi-

tive in the test.Apart from staffers and

media persons, security per-sonnel are also subjected to themandatory testing. UnionMinisters Nitin Gadkari andPrahlad Patel have tested pos-itive in the tests. Three MPshave already died of Covid-19.

Government officialsaccompanying their respectiveMinisters during Bill discus-sions also have to show a neg-ative report of RT-PCR testtaken within the last 72 hoursof their visit to the complex.

“Since the commencementof the Session the number ofpositive cases has gone up, sothe Government is thinking ofcutting short the session. Nextweek also many have to under-go mandatory tests and thenumber of positive cases is ris-ing,” said an official.

Before ending the session,the Government wants to get11 ordinances passed as laws byParliament, sources said.

At Lok Sabha’s businessadvisory committee meetingseveral Opposition parties saidthat they are in the favour ofthe decision, asserting thatconducting the full 18-day ses-sion could be a risky affair.

The meeting also appraisedthat among the 264 total casesincluding MPs, the majority arefrom the staffers.

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The National InvestigationAgency (NIA) on Saturday

conducted simultaneous raidsat several locations atErnakulam (Kerala) andMurshidabad (West Bengal)and arrested nine terroristsassociated with Pakistan-spon-sored module of the UN-banned global terror outfit al-Qaeda.

“The group was planningto undertake terrorist attacks atvital installations in India withan aim to kill innocent peopleand strike terror in theirminds,” the NIA said.

The search operation fol-lowed registration of a case(No. RC-31/2020/NIA/DLI) byNIA on September 11 andsubsequent investigation intothe matter. This led the NIA tolearn about an inter-State mod-ule of al-Qaeda operatives atvarious locations in India,

including West Bengal andKerala.

“The NIA has arrested sixterrorists from West Bengaland three terrorists from Keralain the early morning raids.Large quantity of incriminatingmaterials including digitaldevices, documents, jehadi lit-erature, sharp weapons, coun-try-made firearms, a locallyfabricated body armour, articlesand literature used for makinghome-made explosive deviceshave been seized from theirpossession,” the agency said.

As per preliminary inves-

tigation, the arrested accusedwere radicalised by Pakistan-based al-Qaeda terrorists onsocial media and were moti-vated to undertake attacks atmultiple places, including theNational Capital Region. Forthis purpose, the module wasactively indulging in fund rais-ing and a few members of thegang were planning to travel toNew Delhi to procure arms andammunition. These arrestshave pre-empted possible ter-rorist attacks in various parts ofthe country, it said.

Turn to Page 4

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The CBI on Saturday filed asupplementary chargesheet

in the AgustaWestland chopperscam case against controversialbusinessman Rajeev Saxenaand then Managing Director ofAgustaWestland InternationalLtd Giacomino Saponaro.

In its final report filedbefore Special Judge ArvindKumar, the CBI has named 15accused persons, whichincludes Saponaro and Saxenaamong others. The court is like-ly to take up the matter for con-sideration of the chargesheet onMonday.

The investigation reportfiled on Friday details thealleged role played by Saponaroand Saxena among others indelivering bribes to politicians,bureaucrats and Indian AirForce (IAF) officials for swing-ing the deal for supply of theVVIP copters.

Dubai-based businessmanSaxena was the director ofInterstellar Technologies Ltd,Mauritius.

Turn to Page 4

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New Delhi: India’s single-day recoveryoutstripped the number of new infec-tions as nearly 96,000 people recuper-ated from the novel coronavirus, evenas the total number of cases went past53 lakh, according to the Union HealthMinistry data on Saturday.

New Delhi: “In a landmark global achievement”, Indiahas overtaken the US and become the top country interms of Covid-19 recoveries, the Health Ministry saidon Saturday. The country has reported the highest num-ber of recoveries with 42,08,431 Covid-19 patients hav-ing recovered from the disease so far, pushing the nation-al recovery rate to nearly 80 per cent.

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As many as 1,160 more peo-ple tested positive for coro-

navirus infection in the statecapital which reported nineCOVID-19 fatalities onSaturday evening, pushing thedeath toll to 585. With the freshcases reported on Saturday,the tally of confirmed cases inthe city has shot up to 45,269.

However, 1,105 COVID-19patients have recovered in thelast 24 hours. With this, 34,594affected people have beencured in the city so far and atpresent 10,090 active cases areundergoing treatment in hos-pitals or in home isolation.

The contact surveillanceteams collected 8,963 samplesin the district on Saturday.

Meanwhile, the state’sCOVID-19 death toll pushedup to 4,953 with 84 more fatal-ities during the past 24 hours.

The state also reported5,827 new positive cases, tak-ing the tally to 3,48,517.

For the second successiveday, the number of COVID-19patients who recovered wasmore than the fresh cases, asmany as 6,596 COVID-19patients have recovered acrossthe state.

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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath on Saturday

said that Bahraich, Shravastiand Balrampur had beenincluded in the list of aspira-tional districts as they trulyheld a lot of growth potential.He said the state governmentwas committed to removingthe backwardness of these dis-tricts and would take all mea-sures in this regard.

Yogi said that this regionalso held spiritual importancebeing a part of the BuddhaCircuit.

“There is need to preparean action plan for integratedand inclusive development ofthe region as per six parame-ters of development fixed bythe NITI Aayog,” he said.

Yogi also reviewed theprogress of work of the BuddhaCircuit under SwadeshDarshan Yojana and termed itas an important project whichwould enrich the tourism scenein the state.

The chief minister wasreviewing the developmentprojects of the Devipatan divi-sion comprising Gonda,Balrampur, Shravasti andBahraich districts here onSaturday.

There are 12 ongoing pro-jects in the division worth overRs 50 crore each, out of whichfive are in Gonda, three inBalrampur, two in Shravastiand two in Bahraich. The totalcost of these projects is Rs1,493.20 crore. Of this, a sumof Rs 964.57 crore has beenreleased so far.

Minister for KhadiDevelopment and MSMESidharth Nath Singh, who isalso the incharge of Gonda dis-trict, and Cooperative MinisterMukut Bihari Verma alongwith people’s representatives ofall the districts were present inthe meeting presided over bythe chief minister throughvideo conferencing.

The chief minister askedofficials to guard against anydelay in the development worksas it unnecessarily escalated the

project cost. He said everyproject should be undertakenon a fixed timeline while main-taining quality norms.

He said to achieve timelycompletion of the projects, itwas important to award worksto agencies which had sufficientmanpower and capacity to exe-cute the work on time. He saidthat utilisation certificatesshould also be made availableafter completion of 75 per centof the work so that the remain-ing funds were released.

The chief minister askedofficials to generate jobs underMGNREGA schemes andstrive hard to make all roadspothole-free before the festivalseason.

He said that this area wasalso flood-prone so apart fromrelief work, the estimation ofloss to crop, property andhuman lives should be made atthe earliest to ensure early dis-bursal of financial assistance tothe affected people.

The chief minister stressedon completing the work onShravasti airport and KrishiVigyan Kendra at the earliest tomake them operational.

He asked the officials tomake serious efforts to collectmore revenue. He said the dis-trict magistrates should reviewdepartment-wise goods andservices tax (GST) collectionevery fortnight.

The chief minister urgedthe Members of Parliament tosaturate the adopted villageswith all the welfare schemes ofthe Centre and the state andmake them ‘model village’.

Describing AtmanirbharBharat Yojana as a uniquescheme, the chief minister saidthat there was unlimited scopeto improve the basic infra-structural framework of agri-culture under this scheme.

Reminding that OneDistrict One Product (ODOP)was an ambitious scheme of thegovernment, Yogi stressed onmaking all efforts for improv-ing, showcasing, marketingand branding of the productsof the districts which comeunder the scheme.

The chief minister M saidthat the AMRUT schemeshould be accorded priority asit aimed at providing puredrinking water. “In fact, all the

drinking water schemes shouldbe fast tracked,” he added.

Asserting that an effectivesurveillance system could savemany lives from COVID-19,the chief minister said at least10-15 persons should be con-tacted in the contact tracing ofeach case.

He said that Gonda districthad all sufficient facilities forCovid treatment and it shouldbe used to the fullest. He notedthat there were only 10 patientsin the 300-bed dedicated Covidhospital of Gonda and won-dered if not much interest wasbeing taken to admit thepatients.

The chief minister said theShravasti jail project estimatewould not be revised and itshould be completed in time.He asked the officials toimprove power supply in thedistrict.

The chief minister saidthat all the districts had pock-ets of Tharu and Vantangiatribals and they should bejoined into the mainstream ofsociety with empathy and pro-vided the fruits of welfareschemes.

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Congress MLC Deepak Singh onSaturday said that the party

would take up the issue of unem-ployment and non-recruitment ofcandidates despite clearing exami-nations, from streets to Parliament.

“Priyanka Gandhi spoke to12,460 candidates through video-conference. On humanitariangrounds, she has demanded fillingup of vacancies and if this is notdone the Congress will struggle fromroad to Parliament for the demandsof the candidates,” Deepak Singhsaid.

Meanwhile, Priyanka GandhiVadra on Saturday shot off anotherletter to Chief Minister YogiAdityanath over the problems of theunemployed youth in the state.

“Several people have been forcedto take this matter to the courts.Many amongst these are youthwhose lives are filled with pain withstruggle. Their painful stories sad-

dened me... Some of them are evenon the verge of getting into depres-sion. They have the responsibility ofmanaging their homes too,” the let-ter reads.

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The Uttar PradeshExpressway Industrial

Development Authority(UPEIDA) said the work onBundelkhand Expressway forlinking it with Agra-LucknowExpressway was going on in fullswing and 16 per cent of thephysical work had been com-pleted.

The UPEIDA said all thepending works and other issuesrelating to the construction ofthe main carriageway and theservice road were being expe-dited.

UPEIDA Chief ExecutiveOfficer Awanish Awasthi saidhere on Saturday thatdirectives had been issued tothe contractors to expedite theconstruction of structures andflyovers on the expressway.

Reviewing the progress ofthe expressway project throughvideo conferencing, Awasthialso issued directive toaccelerate the work onshifting utilities like electricpoles, tube well, high tensionpower lines and other utilitiesfalling in the path of theexpressway.

He also directed officials to

ensure prompt disposal of theproblems in completing theearthwork for the expressway.

During the video confer-encing, senior officials of theconstruction companies werealso present.

Asking the contractors toensure quality control, Awasthisaid the work on constructionof bridges over the riversBetwa and Yamuna bestarted. The CEO said hewould soon inspect the worksite.

Awasthi also talked to thedistrict magistrates of the dis-tricts through which theexpressway passes and direct-ed them to expedite the con-struction work in their jurisdic-tion.

The BundelkhandExpressway, originating fromBharatkoop in Chitrakoot, willpass through Banda, Mahoba,Hamirpur, Jalaun and Auraiyaand link with the Agra-Lucknow Expressway nearEtawah at National HighwayNo. 91.

The length of the 4-laneBundelkhand Expressway is296 km and the constructionwork has been divided into sixpackages.

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Within 24 hours of the sensationalkilling of a gram pradhan, Jaunpur

was rocked by yet another sensationalmurder of a youth whose father was alsoinjured in the attack and is battling forhis life in the district hospital.

The incident took place in Bharaulivillage in Shahganj Kotwali police sta-tion area of Jaunpur on Saturday morn-ing.

The video of the incident has goneviral on social media. In the video, threeor four people are seen trying to snatchthe gun from a boy’s hand. In the mean-time, the boy shoots the other boy whois trying to stop him and he dies at thespot. The incident was reported imme-diately at the police station and policeofficers reached the spot and startedinvestigation.

According to the information gath-ered so far, Ishtiaq of the village was hav-ing a dispute with his neighbours overthe passage. Apart from that, some vil-lagers said they had an old rivalry andthey had a fight on Friday as well. Thepolice knew about the fight but did nottake any action against them.

However, the neighbours startedfighting with each other again onSaturday morning. In the firing, Ishtiaqand his son Osama were injured andwere taken to a nearby hospital whereOsama was pronounced dead.

Ishtiaq is in a critical condition ashe was shot in the stomach and throat.He was later shifted to the district hos-pital. A case has been registered andefforts are on to nab the accused.

A heavy police force is alsopatrolling in the village to avert any freshclash. In Hamirpur, an intermediate stu-dent (18), hailing from Dhamna ham-let of Rath, was brutally hacked to deathwith an axe by his neighbour onSaturday morning.

The motive behind the killing is yetnot confirmed and the police claimedto be investigating the matter.

In Lakhimpur Kheri, a youth hail-ing from Nighasan tried to rape his sis-ter-in-law (elder brother’s wife) whenshe was cooking food on Saturdayafternoon. His brother was out forwork. When the victim objected andraised alarm, the accused threw acid onher and went back to his room.

According to Station House Officerof Nighasan, DK Singh, the woman wasadmitted to the community health cen-tre and the family had filed a complaint.However, the accused later went to com-mit suicide by hanging himself from atree near his house. A villager noticedit in time and rescued him. He too wasadmitted to community health centre ina serious condition. Singh said that acase was not registered so far as the fam-ily members were trying to resolve theissue within the family.

Lucknow (PNS):Chief Minister YogiAdityanath has given a support of Rs 10lakh to a research scholar of IIT suffer-ing from blood cancer.

Yogi Adityanath also directed theSanjay Gandhi Post-graduate Institute ofMedical Sciences to provide best treat-ment to the scholar and help him inevery possible way.

The chief minister got informationabout the scholar’s disease and conditionfrom social media.

As per reports, IIT research schol-ar Ashish Dixit is suffering from bloodcancer. While taking the humanitarianinitiative, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathmade a concession to the rules to helpAshish Dixit. As the research scholar’sfather is in government service and he

himself is getting scholarship, there washindrance in getting government help.

On getting information about thescholar’s illness from social media, YogiAdityanath himself contacted the fam-ily and gave them financial help.

Meanwhile, Yogi Adityanath willhold a meeting with industrialists andinvestors on September 21 throughvideo conferencing to listen to theirproblems.

MSME Minister Siddharth NathSingh, Chief Secretary RK Tiwari alongwith all district magistrates and deputycommissioner of District IndustriesCentre will also join the meeting. Therole of Udyog Bandhu in the industrialdevelopment of the state will also be dis-cussed.

Lucknow (PNS): Reiterating hisstrong opposition to the three bills forthe reforms in agriculture sector passedby Parliament, Samajwadi Party pres-ident Akhilesh Yadav said the legisla-tions were a big conspiracy of theBharatiya Janata Party-led Central gov-ernment to destroy the farm sector ofthe country.

Akhilesh Yadav, in a statement hereon Saturday, said the BJP govern-ments in Uttar Pradesh and at theCentre had “religiously” pursued anti-farmers and anti-youth policies.

He said the BJP government wasbenefiting the corporate sector and wasadamant on destroying the agriculturesector. The SP chief said that after a fewyears, the corporate sector would rulethe agriculture sector and farmerswould be reduced to mere tenants ontheir own land.

He said with the implementation ofthese legislations, the system of mini-mum support price ensuring remuner-ative price to the farmers for their agri-culture produce would fade away andthe status of the farmers would bereduced to mere labourers.

Questioning the claims of the BJPthat it was a pro-farmers party, Yadavsaid, “The BJP has created a new cri-sis for the farmers as during the pan-demic, the entire nation is suffering

from economic crisis and inflation isgalloping and there is all-round dis-tress.”

The SP chief said the Central gov-ernment, instead of providing reliefpackage to the farmers facing distress,had brought new laws to destroy themand deprive them of their rights.

Yadav said that ever since the BJPcame to power, it had only added to thewoes of the farmers.

He said that for the kharif crop, thefarmers ran from pillar to post forprocuring urea fertiliser and they gotthe farm input at much higher pricesthan the control rate.

Yadav said there was no let up inthe crisis faced by the sugarcane farm-ers. “Even as the new sugarcane crush-ing season is about to commence, thesugar mills are yet to clear cane arrearsof over Rs 15,000 crore of the last crush-ing season.

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After announcing a majorrecruitment drive on

Friday, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath has directed offi-cials to complete the processfor recruitment of 31,661teachers in the Basic Educationdepartment within a week.

He reiterated his govern-ment’s commitment to provid-ing opportunities for employ-ment, including jobs to youthof the state. A governmentspokesman said that the BasicEducation department hadconducted the TeachersEligibility Test (TET) forrecruitment of 69,000 teacherson January 6, 2019. He said as

per the government orderissued on January 7, 2019, thecut off percentage in this testwas fixed at a minimum 65 percent for general category and60 per cent for backward andother reserved categories.

He said some examineesfiled writ petitions in the High

Court against this GO and thecourt, on March 29, 2020,passed an order in favour ofthe state government on themain petition of Ram SharanMaurya.

In this regard, deciding theSpecial Leave Petition (SLP)No. 11198/2020 Ram SharanMaurya versus State govern-ment and others, the SupremeCourt on May 21, 2020, direct-ed the state government tocomplete the recruitmentprocess on all the posts exceptthe posts of those assistantteachers which were held byShiksha Mitras. Hence, thechief minister had ordered tofill up 31,661 posts in a week’stime, the spokesman added.

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Observing that Uttar Pradesh had quitea low COVID-19 death rate and high

recovery rate, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath on Saturday directed officialsto maintain high standards of Covidtreatment and control.

Presiding over a high-level Unlockreview meeting at his official residence hereon Saturday, the chief minister said that thegovernment and private Covid hospitalsshould have adequate supply of oxygenwith proper back up.

He also asked officials to ensure thatthe oxygen was available at the prescribedrates.

The chief minister especially reviewedthe Covid situation in Lucknow,Kanpur Nagar, Prayagraj, Jhansi, Ayodhya,Meerut and Gorakhpur and directed offi-cials to strengthen health services inthese districts.

Principal Secretary (Health) Alok

Kumar apprised the chief minister of thesituation in Kanpur Nagar. Kumar saidcontact tracing was hundred per cent inKanpur Nagar.

The chief minister said the onlineOPD service eSanjeevani had proved to bequite successful. He said for widerreach of this service, it should be publicisedwell.

Yogi asked the officials to continuemass awareness programmes for protec-tion and treatment of Covid. He said pub-lic address system should be used for mak-ing the people aware of Covid protectionmeasures.

The chief minister stressed on exten-sive contact tracing, testing and door-to-door survey to contain the spread of thenovel coronavirus.

Yogi asked officials to maintain all thehealth services in the Covid hospitals.He also asked them to ensure that the doc-tors and the nursing staff took regularrounds of wards, the paramedics moni-

tored the condition of the patients intense-ly and the ambulance services were runeffectively.

Those present in the meeting includ-ed the Medical Education Minister SureshKhanna, Chief Secretary RK Tiwari,Infrastructure and Industrial DevelopmentCommissioner Alok Tandon, AdditionalChief Secretary (Finance) Sanjeev Mittal,Additional Chief Secretary (Home &Information) Awanish Kumar Awasthi,DGP HC Awasthi, Additional ChiefSecretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad,Additional Chief Secretary (MedicalEducation) Rajneesh Dube, AdditionalChief Secretary to CM SP Goyal,Additional Chief Secretary (MSME)Navneet Sehgal, Additional Chief Secretary(Rural Development and Panchayati Raj)Manoj Kumar Singh, Principal Secretaryto CM Sanjay Prasad, Principal Secretary(Health) Alok Kumar, Secretary to CMAlok Kumar, Director of InformationShishir and other senior officers.

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Nine officials have beendeputed at Level-3 hospi-

tals to streamline facilities forCovid-19 patients regardingthe availability of beds andcoordination with adjoiningdistricts. DivisionalCommissioner Ranjan Kumarsaid they have deputed officersfor 24x7 service at Level-3hospitals to look into the avail-ability of ICU beds.

“It will solve the problem ofambulance coordination andpatients will not have to facethe problem of unnecessarywaiting. We have deputed nineofficials for three Level-3 hos-pitals — RML hospital, KGMUand SGPGI — and they willensure that patients are giventreatment immediately. Wehave made arrangements tohave a contact person and liai-son officer. They will stream-line things regarding whichpatients have to be admittedand whether the beds are avail-able or not,” he said.

Asked about surge in thenumber of cases in areas whichhave been worst-hit(Gomtinagar and Indiranagar),he said rapid response teamshave been strengthened and theresults will show in some time.

“We have reviewed all thethings, increased the man-power and formed new teams.We have analysed everythingand we are closing in on thegaps everywhere. Results willsoon start showing,” he said.

On Saturday, DistrictMagistrate Abhishek Prakashcarried out a sudden inspec-tion of Aliganj CHC to reviewthe facilities being provided

under door-to-door surveil-lance, contact tracing testingand monitoring of cases inhome isolation. He also issueddirections that data should befed the moment a person testspositive for coronavirus.Thereafter, he visited the SilverJubilee CHC where he carriedout an inspection of the rapidresponse teams.

An official at the CMOoffice, while giving detailsregarding age profiles ofpatients, said that 1,712 arebelow 10 years of age, 3,359between 11 & 20 years, 21,079between 21 & 40 years, 13,817between 41 & 60 years and4,357 above 60 till now. Headded that there are 391 ICUbeds, 600 HDU beds, and 3,000

isolation beds in the district.Meanwhile, with the Covid

hospital starting at KGMU, asenior doctor said the existingfacilities would continue. “Wewere planning to keep Covidand non-Covid facilities atseparate points but with theincrease in the number of bedsup to 500, we cannot have thisfacility at the new Covid hos-pital which is not spaciousenough to have 500 beds, hencefacilities will continue at boththe places. Also, the CM hadsaid that both the facilitiesshould continue,” he said.

Regarding the increasingnumber of deaths, the officialsaid it was because the patientswere reaching the hospital late,but on an average they were

having nearly 80 per centrecoveries.

Meanwhile, the VirologyLab of KGMU created a recordof testing 6,740 samples in 24hours. The lab at the depart-ment of Microbiology is con-ducting testing of nasal &throat swab samples sinceFebruary. It is also the first statelab to start Covid testing. Thelab started off with100 tests perday. The team, under thesupervision of Dr Amita Jain,tested 6,740 samples in 24hours, which is also state’shighest test figures in a day.

Meanwhile, the depart-ment of Surgical Oncology atKGMU continues to serve can-cer patients and provide clini-cal services. A doctor said that

even during the initial twomonths of lockdown, the services remained uninterrupted.

“Over the last six months,7,772 cancer patients have beenattended to in OPD and 1,130admitted to the department.During this period, 380 com-plex head and neck cancersurgery, thoracic, colorectal &hepato-biliary procedures and369 minor procedures havebeen carried out in the depart-ment. This is nearly 82% of thelast year’s surgical volume. Dueto strict adherence to screeningprotocol, none of our post-operative patients tested posi-tive for coronavirus duringtheir stay at the hospital andwere discharged safely,” he said.

He added that the depart-ment had also administeredchemotherapy to 2,073 patientsduring this period following allsafety precautions. “Providingcancer care during these tur-bulent times has not been easy.There was manpower shortageresulting from simultaneousCovid care duties at KGMUand the constant challenge ofkeeping the caregivers safe.The department has continuedto serve cancer patients withzeal and enthusiasm,” he said.

Besides, director ofBalrampur Hospital Dr RajeevLochan pointed out that theytested more than 300 samplesfrom Central Drug ResearchInstitute on Saturday and 185from Civil hospital. “Civil hos-pital was earlier sending theirsamples to KGMU but they willbe sending it to us now. Ourcapacity has increased and wecan test more samples,” headded.

����������� ������� ���������������� Lucknow (PNS): To meet theincreasing demand of patientsrequiring intensive care,SGPGI has expanded its ICUservices. Director Dr RKDhiman said that a 36-bedICU is being activated in aphased manner and it will becalled Rajdhani CovidHospital-2. To start with, 18beds have already becomefunctional and 18 more will beavailable soon.

He said the ICU is fullyequipped with all facilities likeventilators, HNFC, BiPAPmachines, multipara monitorsand two dialysis machines.“This is in accordance withdirectives issued from the stategovernment from time to time.Prof Afzal Azim will look afterthis ICU unit,” he said.

He pointed out that theycurrently have 210 beds in theexisting Covid facility.

“The capacity of this hos-pital is 210 beds, including 120ICU beds. We are making 36private rooms in the existing

facility, raising the capacity to246 beds. In the wake of coro-navirus pandemic across thecountry, the number of Covid-19 patients is increasing,” headded. Chief Minister YogiAdityanath had issued direc-tions for the increase in thenumber of critical care beds inRML hospital, KGMU andSGPGI.

Meanwhile, to maintaindiscipline for the sake ofpatient welfare, the KGMU

administration has taken sterndisciplinary action against 68employees of various cadres.KGMU spokesperson DrSudhir Singh said the servicesof two employees services havebeen terminated while fourhave been suspended, twoserved final notice, 34 servedshow-cause notice and 23called for explanation whiledisciplinary proceeding hasbeen initiated against threeemployees.

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Aman was shot dead by hisfriend during a verbal spat at

his medical store in Hasanganj onSaturday night. The victim wasrushed to KGMU Trauma Centre where he was declaredbrought dead.

As per reports, AshutoshTrivedi (36) of Khadra becamejobless due to the coronaviruspandemic and consequent lock-down. On Saturday evening, hewas sitting at the shop of hisfriend Jai Singh when the twolocked horns over some issue.

Later, Jai Singh whipped out a pis-tol tucked in his waist and opened fire.

Initial reports said Ashutosh,along with some of his friends,including Singh, was sitting at the shop when the inci-dent took place. A policespokesman confirmed Ashutosh’sdeath and said his father accusedSingh.

The spokesman said the fam-ily named Singh in the murdercase and a manhunt had beenlaunched for him. He said thepolice had detained some personsin this connection.

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The STF sleuths claimed to have nabbed the leaderof a gang of fraudsters that had duped several to the

tune of crores on the pretext of 60 per cent yearly prof-it on investment in a ponzi scheme. The accused, iden-tified as Hariom Yadav of Gosainganj, was recentlynamed in the case of fraud by Gosainganj police and ateam led by SHO DP Kushwaha had nabbed nine direc-tors of Alaska Real Estate, Alaska Commodities andAlaska Enterprises — all owned by Hariom Yadav.

The team recovered three mobile phones, five chequebooks, one passbook, Aadhaar card, laptop and Rs 700in cash. Before foraying into the crime world, Yadav strug-gled to make ends meet even as he opened a sweet shopand then worked with a pathology firm and as a salesadvisor in a private bank. He then joined a real estatecompany. He started taking commission from farmersto sell their land and later set up his own company inwhich he floated ponzi schemes to lure investors. He wasarrested by Krishna Nagar police in February last yearon the charges of carrying black money (Rs 5 crore) andsent to jail. However, he was released on bail later.

Lucknow (PNS): TheSpecial Task Force claimedto have nabbed the fraudsterwanted in the animal hus-bandry scam in which aMadhya Pradesh business-man, Manjeet SinghBhatiya, was duped of Rs9.72 crore.

The accused, identifiedas Santosh Mishra ofGomtinagar, masqueradedas a journalist to visitSecretariat in 2012. He alsodisclosed his link with afraudster, Hariom Yadav,who ran Alaska Real EstateDevelopers and haddefrauded several people.

Police said they starteda probe into the case whichwas lodged at HazratganjKotwali and in whichSantosh Mishra was alsonamed. During investiga-tion, it surfaced that Mishrawas the UP head of a newschannel and was involved ina case of fraud. The policestarted keeping a tab on

Mishra. On Saturday, aninformer tipped off thepolice about Mishra’s plan toflee the city. A team chasedhis car and nabbed him.Mishra said he first metChandrashekhar Pandey ofPrayagraj and later came incontact with Ashish Rai,who is said to be the leaderof the gang of fraudsters. Hesaid Ashish used to do himfavours in lieu of smallworks (recommendingcases with police andadministration). Ashishlater got Mishra introducedto Anil Rai, who was thenews channel editor.

Mishra confessed tohave recommended AshishRai’s case to different seniorgovernment officials afterlatter’s name surfaced inthe animal husbandry case.He also confessed to havetaken Rs 1.15 crore fromHariom Yadav, who wasnamed in a case of fraudand was arrested later.

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Ayouth was accused of rapinga BSc-III student and threat-

ening her after she lodged a caseagainst him at Sarojininagarpolice station on September 9.The accused, identified as SumitAnand, threatened the girl towithdraw the case even as thepolice had launched manhuntfor him. The victim alleged thatSumit had a criminal bent ofmind and had a good rapportwith low-rung cops.

In the FIR, the girl statedthat Sumit forcibly made her sitinside his car at the gun-point onher way back home from collegein Charbagh. She alleged thatSumit and his friends raped her.

“My father is unwell thesedays and Sumit threatened mewith dire consequences. He alsothreatened to upload the videoof me in a compromising posi-tion on social media. Fearing formy father’s life, I kept mum.Sumit forcibly entered my house,broke the gate, set on fire a por-tion of the house and also threat-ened to kill me and my parents,”

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Three persons, includingtwo women teachers, suf-

fered injuries after a speedingroadways bus ploughed into avan in which they were trav-ell ing, in Malihabad onSaturday morning.

The teachers, identified asManju Mishra of South Cityand Anjum Siddiqui of LDAColony (Kanpur road), weregoing to their respectiveschools in Hardoi for somework. The van was being dri-ven by Rajkumar ofMalihabad.

According to eyewitness-es, a speeding roadways busknocked the van from behindat Garhi Jindaur locality in thearea. Occupants of the van gottrapped inside the mangled vehicle.

Villagers rushed to therescue of the victims whowere pulled out after van’sdoor was dismantled. Thevillagers later rushed the vic-tims to Malihabad communi-ty health centre from wherethey were referred to KGMUTrauma Centre. The condi-tion of van driver was said tobe critical.

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From MSMEs’ perspective, alot of modern electronic gad-

gets like smart TVs, cameras,tracking devices, AI system, firehydrants, medical devices, traf-fic devices and sensors arerequired to be manufacturedand installed and also a trainedworkforce is needed to operatethese gadgets in order to ensuremaximum safety and healthywork environment. These gad-gets are not only going to createa healthy work environmentbut also will assist in boostingtheir manufacturing capacityand improved productivity inthe state which will furtherenhance employment opportu-nities, skilling of staff and gen-

erating more profits. These views were expressed

by director-general of FireServices, UP, RK Vishwakarmain his keynote address at the UPChapter of PHD Chamber ofCommerce and Industry (PHD-CCI) virtual seminar on‘Importance of safety manage-ment practices in MSMEs in UP’on Saturday. The objective wasto deliberate upon the impera-tive importance of safety man-agement practices in MSMEunits besides regular mainte-nance of safety equipment andproper skill training to theworkforce employed in this sec-tor to ensure a healthy, happyand safe work environmentacross the state. The session alsoshed light on latest trends and

technologies in fire and electri-cal safety and control devices intoday’s era. Vishwakarma spokeabout all the activities done byUP Police to ensure safety in thestate. Joint director, UP FireService, JK Singh spoke on theoverall scenario of safety man-agement practices and effortsthat the fire department is ensur-ing across the state. He also sum-marized the basic set of rules andstandards set by the Fire depart-ment for every MSME units ofthe state. He said that onlyinstallation of safety and controldevices in any unit is not thesolution but it’s equally impor-tant for the industry units toensure regular maintenance andproper skill training for all theemployees.

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Uttar Pradesh State EntranceExamination (UPSEE-

2020) for entrance to variousengineering institutes acrossthe state will be conducted byDr APJ Abdul Kalam TechnicalUniversity (AKTU) on Sunday.UPSEE-2020 coordinatorVineet Kansal said that 206exam centres have been set upin and outside the state for suc-cessful conduct of entranceexam.

Of these, 187 examinationcentres have been made in thestate and 19 outside. Outsidethe state, the exam centres are

in Delhi, Chandigarh,Dehradun, Patna, Mumbai,Bhopal, Jaipur, Ranchi,Roorkee and Kolkata. He fur-ther said that arrangementshave been made for propersanitisation and social dis-tancing at all exam centres. Hesaid the exam would be con-ducted in three shifts.

“The first shift will begin at9 am. Candidates will have toreport an hour in advance. Allthe candidates will be subject-ed to thermal scanning at theexam centres. The candidateswhose temperature is found tobe above 99.40F in thermalscanning will be scanned again

after 15 minutes and if the tem-perature remains the same,they will have to write the examin isolation rooms. For this, iso-lation rooms have been madeat all the exam centres,” he said.

He added that WhatsAppchatbots would be coordinatedfrom war rooms at the examcentres.

“Monitoring and coordi-nation will be done throughchatbots at all the exam centres.Information of all the 206exam centres will also be avail-able to nodal officers. All thenodal officers will give infor-mation of exam centres to thewar rooms,” he added.

she alleged. On Friday, theSarojini Nagar police arrest-ed him. Sumit was abscond-ing since he was accused ofrape.

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Body of a missingwoman, who was a resident ofThakurganj, was recoveredfrom Sursa river in Hardoi onSaturday. As per reports, thedeceased was identified asAnjali of Bhunwar inThakurganj. She, along withher husband Subhash ofUnnao, was living at a houseon rent in the locality.Subhash works as a wardboy at a private hospital andhe had lodged a missingreport with the Thakurganjpolice on Friday. He had stat-ed that he, along with hismother, had gone to a hospi-tal to consult a doctor for herand found Anjali missing onreturning home.

On Saturday, Kachaunapolice recovered the body ofa woman and passed theinformation to their counter-parts in neighbouring dis-tricts. Subsequently, theThakurganj police contactedSubhash, who reached Hardoiand identified the body as thatof his wife. The police said thewoman had her stomach ban-daged and it seemed that sheunderwent some surgery.

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Satwik Srivastava, a classVI student of City MontessoriSchool, AliganjCampus II, wonthe first prize ini n t e r - s c h o o ls t o r y - t e l l i n gc o m p e t i t i o n ,organised onlineunder the aegisof educational-literary institu-tion ‘Yogyapeeth’. The compe-tition was organised with aview to developing students’skills of presentation, instill inthem self-confidence and testtheir general knowledge,wherein students of variousknown schools of Lucknowhad participated.

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District Magistrate Abhishek Prakash hasissued directions for handing over Sarojininagarand Amausi industrial area to Nagar Nigam. Ithas been pending for four years. In a meetingheld by district-level Udyog Bandhu, the DMwas apprised of the issue and he immediatelygave directions for a quick resolution of the prob-lem by holding a meeting of the departmentsconcerned such as UPSIDA and Nagar Nigamwith the industrialists. LMC officials askedUPSIDA for payment of Rs 7 crore for the worksof road repair, sewage, water supply. The UPSI-DA officials said they have spent a hugeamount in these areas. It was further discussed

that the area should be handed over to LMC. Theindustrialists said that there was a need toremove encroachments. The DM issued direc-tions for formation of a joint team to removeencroachments.

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under-graduate courses have been announcedfor Lucknow University admissions for 2020-21session. Lucknow University spokesperson saidthe list is available on the website. The tentativedates for PhD interview of session 2019-20 areSeptember 26-30. Subject-wise and batch-wiseschedule will be announced on LU website onSunday.

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A further 15 MPs, including the Congress’sP Chidambaram -- who this morning hit out atthe BJP and Prime Minister Modi over the farmBills -- have expressed their inability to attend.Both these developments should help the BJPsince it brings down the majority mark.

The BJP, on its own, has 86 members, and,with its NDA allies, it can go up to 105 votes.It cannot, however, count on the three Akali DalMPs, who have been given a three-line whip tovote against the Bills.

The BJP, which has issued a three-line whipof its own, will also count on “friendly” region-al parties like Odisha’s BJD and AndhraPradesh’s YSR Congress - to vote in its favour.Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSR Congress has six MPsand Naveen Patnaik’s BJD has nine MPs in theRS. Sources say the Government is confident thataround 135 MPs will vote in support of the farmBills.

The Congress-led Opposition, on the otherhand, which includes the Trinamool Congressand its 13 MPs, will be on the back foot onSunday. The Congress itself has 40 seats and cancount on several regional and smaller parties -- such as the BSP (four seats), the SamajwadiParty (eight seats) and Delhi’s AAP (three seats).

Shiv Sena that has three members in theRajya Sabha with whom the Congress hasformed a tripartite Government in Maharashtrawill decide after a late night meet on Saturday.

The Government has said the Bills will helpsmall and marginal farmers by empoweringthem through written agreements and farmerscan sell their produce at competitive prices any-where in India.

However, farmers fear this means they willno longer be able to sell at an MSP.

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The CBI had earlier this year sought sanc-tion from the Centre to prosecute formerDefence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma but hasnot named him as an accused in the chargesheetfor want of permission from the Government.The agency told the court that it may file anoth-er supplementary chargesheet in the matter later.The first chargesheet in the case was filed inSeptember 2017 naming former IAF Chief SPTyagi and 11 others.

Besides Saxena and Saponaro, those namedin the supplementary chargesheet are SandeepTyagi, Praveen Bakshi, Partap Krishan Aggarwal,then managing director of IDS Infotech Ltd.,

India, Narendra Kumar Jain, Rajesh Kumar Jainof Kolkata, Sunil Kothari, then managing direc-tor of OM Metals Infotech Pvt. Ltd, KVKunhikrishnan, former GM, Westland SupportServices Ltd., New Delhi, an associate ofChristian Michel James, Deepak Goyal, an offi-cial of Gautam Khaitan, IDS Infotech Ltd.,Mohali/Chandigarh, (through its managingdirector P.K. Aggarwal), Aeromatrix InfoSolutions Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (through its direc-tor Gautam Khaitan), Neel Madhav ConsultantsPvt. Ltd., New Delhi (through its directorSandeep Tyagi), Mainak Agency Pvt. Ltd., ear-lier at Kolkata, now New Delhi (through itsdirectors Sandeep Tyagi & Sanjeev Tyagi andInterstellar Technologies Ltd, Mauritius (throughits director Rajiv Saxena).

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The arrested accused are Murshid Hasan,Iyakub Biswas and Mosaraf Hossen, all residentsof Ernakulam, Kerala. Those arrested fromMurshidabad are Najmus Sakib, Abu Sufiyan,Mainul Mondal, Leu Yean Ahmed, Al MamunKamal and Atitur Rehman.

Murshid Hasan is the leader of the gang andthose arrested from Kerala are also originally res-idents of West Bengal, NIA officials said.

Fire crackers were being attempted to beconverted into an Improvised Explosive Device(IED) and the NIA recovered switches and bat-teries from Abu Sufiyan’s house during thesearches, they said.

The group was also planning to go toKashmir for weapons delivery to their cohortsto hit vital installations there. The arrestedaccused will be produced before the relevantcourts in Kerala and West Bengal by the NIAthat will seek police remand to subject them tocustodial interrogation to unravel the larger net-work and the deep-seated conspiracy for cus-tody and further investigation, they further said.

The initial findings suggest the arrestedultras are highly radicalised and were gettinginstructions from foreign handlers, includingPakistan-based al-Qaeda operatives, in cyber-space. Besides targeting vital installations inIndia, the module was also tasked to carry outtargeted killings. For the planned mass killings,the group was in the advanced stage of procur-ing arms, including automatic rifles and pistolsbesides ammunition and explosives.

The module was trying to establish a wellorganised network with separate verticals for dif-ferent tasks in various parts of the country,including the Northeast and Jammu & Kashmir,on the instructions of the Pakistan-based han-dlers, the official said, adding some of its mem-bers were trying to develop expertise in IED-making.

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Rajya Sabha on Saturday passedamendments to the insolvency

law for suspension of fresh insolvencyproceedings for at least six monthsstarting March 25 amid the coron-avirus pandemic, with FinanceMinister Nirmala Sitharaman sayinga decision on extending the suspen-sion of relevant provisions will betaken next week.

In the wake of the COVID-19 sit-uation, the government decided tosuspend the provisions starting fromMarch 25 for six months by pro-mulgating an ordinance in June.

Default on repayments fromMarch 25, the day when the nation-wide lockdown began to curb coro-navirus infections, would not beconsidered for initiating insolvencyproceedings for at least six months.

The six-month period is endingnext week.

The Insolvency and BankruptcyCode (Second Amendment) Bill,2020, seeks to replace the ordinanceissued in June, was passed by a voicevote after a brief discussion.

Replying to the debate, Financeand Corporate Affairs MinisterNirmala Sitharaman said the sus-pension of provisions will end nextweek.

“At the moment, amendment tothe Code gives me a provision to onlyextend till one year. If at all, becauseit is coming to an end on September25 this year, September 24 itself wehave to make an announcementabout what is going to happen. Buteven if I do, it means by March itshould be ending...,” the ministersaid.

The minister also clarified thatinsolvency proceedings against cor-porates defaulting on loans prior toMarch 25 will continue and theamendment will not stall those cases.

A majority of the opposition par-ties also supported the bill but urgedthe government to provide interestwaiver on loans to farmers and poorpeople suffering due to the COVID-19 crisis.

During the debate on the bill,many members expressed fears overits possible misuse by corporates evenas they hoped that it will help inreviving the economy.

On members’ queries regardingliability of personal guarantors in theIBC, Sitharaman said the corporatedebtor often has guarantors.

“So, for comprehensive corporateinsolvency resolution and liquidationwe felt it was necessary that the insol-vency of the corporate debtor as wellas its guarantors are consideredtogether to whatever extent it ispossible,” Sitharaman said.

On queries about the urgency tobring the ordinance in the first place,Sitharaman said that “between ses-

sions if there is a need for ordinancebecause the ground situationdemands it, I would think a respon-sive government’s duty is to at leastuse the ordinance to show that we arethere with the people of India.”

“So to that extent, I am sure theHouse will appreciate that as andwhen the government decides forordinance it is because of that, andwhenever the next session happenswe come back,” she said.

Because of the COVID-19 pan-demic, the minister said, businessesfaced trouble.

So it was decided “that it was bet-ter to suspend Sections 7, 9 and 10of IBC so that we can prevent cor-porate persons, which are experi-encing distress on account of theunprecedented situation, beingpushed into insolvency proceedings”.

Sections 7, 9 and 10 deal with ini-tiation of corporate insolvency reso-

lution process by financial creditor,operational creditor and corporatedebtor, respectively. The ministerfurther said the IBC is a critical partof business now, and cited data toshow how the code had performed.

Citing data for NPAs of com-mercial banks during 2018-19, sheinformed the House that Lok Adalatsrecovered 5.3 per cent, Debt RecoveryTribunals (DRTs) recovered 3.5 percent and SARFAESI recovered 14.5per cent. On the other hand, IBCensured 42.5 per cent of recovery.

Sitharaman further said thatmost of the resolutions are happen-ing to make the company to be agoing concern only.

“Priority is to keep the companyto be a going concern rather than toliquidate them at the earliest,” she saidadding that 258 companies weresaved from going bankrupt throughthe IBC process, while 965 firms wentfor liquidation.

New Delhi: The FinanceMinistr y on Saturdayinformed the Lok Sabha thatno decision has been takento discontinue the printingof �2,000 denomination cur-rency notes.

In a written reply,Minister of State for FinanceAnurag Thakur said print-ing of bank notes of partic-ular denomination is decid-ed by the government inconsultation with the RBI tomaintain desired denomi-nation mix for facilitatingtransactional demand ofpublic.

During the year 2019-20and 2020-21, no indent wasplaced with the presses forprinting of �2,000 denom-ination notes.

“However, there is nodecision to discontinue theprinting of �2,000 denom-

ination bank notes by thegovernment,” the ministersaid. Thakur also informedthat as on March 31, 2020,there were 27,398 lakhpieces of �2,000 notes incirculation compared to32,910 lakh pieces on March31, 2019.

He further said the RBIhas informed that in view ofnation-wide lockdown dueto COVID-19 pandemic,printing of notes stoppedtemporarily.

However, the note print-ing presses resumed pro-duction in a phased manner,as per the guidelines issuedby Centra l/StateGovernment, he added.

The production activi-ties at Bhartiya ReserveBank Note Mudran PrivateLimited (BRBNMPL) press-es were suspended from

March 23, 2020, to May 3,2020. Printing of bank notesat BRBNMPL pressesresumed with effect May 4,2020.

Thakur further saidSecurity Pr int ing andMinting Corporation ofIndia Limited (SPMCIL) hasinformed that printing ofbank notes at their presseswas also affected due toCOVID-19 pandemic.

Both, Bank Note Pressesof SPMCIL -- CurrencyNote Press, Nashik andBank Note Press, Dewaswere closed down fromMarch 23, 2020 due to lock-down.

Currency Note Press,Nashik and Bank NotePress, Dewas resumed full-fledged production activitiesfrom June 8, 2020 and June1, 2020, respectively.

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Maharashtra logged a new high of23,501 recoveries for the second

consecutive day on Saturday, while 400-plus Covid 19-triggered deaths wererecorded for the third consecutive dayand 21,907 more people tested positivefor Coronavirus in various parts of thestate. A day after a record 22,078 recov-ered patients were discharged from var-ious hospitals, Maharashtra bettered itsearlier record daily tally of recoveries onSaturday, as 23,501 were discharged fromhospitals in the state after full recovery.

As a result, the total number ofpatients discharged from various hos-pitals after full recovery since the secondweek of March this year went up to8,57,933.. The recovery rate rose to 72.22per cent. The mortality rate in the state

stood at 2.71 per cent. The state healthauthorities pegged the number of “activecases” in the state at 2,97,480. OnSaturday, as many as 425 more peoplesuccumbed to the pandemic in variousparts of the state. With fresh deaths, thetotal number deaths in the state mount-ed to 32,216. With 21,907 fresh infections– which incidentally lower than the high-est tally of 24,886 recorded on September11, the total number of infected casesin the state jumped from 11,67,496 to11,88,015. Of the 425 deaths, Puneaccounted for a maximum of 55 deaths,while there were 50 deaths in Mumbai,37 in Thane, 36 in Nagpur, 26 each inSatara and Sangli, 25 in Kolhapur, 16each in Raigad and Solapur, 14 inAurangabad, 13 each in Akola andYavatmal, 11 each in Ahmednagar andBhandara, and 10 deaths in Palghar.

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)workers launched a massive

plantation drive on Saturdayunder the ongoing ServiceWeek, being observed on theoccasion of 70th birthday ofPrime Minister NarendraModi, who is also a local par-liamentarian. Senior party lead-ers, ministers and others, alongwith the party workers reacheddifferent places and plantedsaplings. They also highlight-ed the importance of plantationin maintaining the environ-ment. They also appealed to thelocal people to promote plan-tation.

In this direction, stateparty’s co-incharge Sunil Ojhareached Shailputri Mandirpremises and planted a sapling.On the occasion, the partyworkers also planted saplings inthe temple premises and

appealed to the people to keepthe city clean and green.Regional party’s president(Kashi Pranth unit) MaheshChandra Srivastava plantedsapling at Subhash Nagar Parkin front of his residence atParade Kothi.

Besides, UP Minister ofState (Independent Charge)Dr Neelkanth Tiwari planted asapling at Arra Math premisesnear Bhadau Chungi area. Hewas accompanied by severalsenior party leaders. Similarly,another UP Minister of State(Independent Charge)Ravindra Jaiswal reachedSarnath area and plantedsapling in the premises ofWater Treatment Plant. PartyMLA Saurabh Srivastava plant-ed saplings at two places,Cantonment Board JuniorHigh School premises andNavodita Nagar Colony,Mehmoorganj.

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Indian Bank on Saturdayorganised a loan distribution

camp at the zonal office, hereto distribute loans among ben-eficiaries of the Prime MinisterStreet Vendor’s Atma NirbharNidhi (PM SVANidhi) Scheme.

Chief guest and RegionalGeneral Manager of the bankVinay Kumar Singh informed,the aim behind to hold thecamp is to provide loan to thosewho are engaged in their shortenterprises so that they couldincrease their income andimprove their living standard inthe present adverse situation ofCOVID-19. Singh also handedover cheque/pass-book to morethan 70 beneficiaries underthe scheme.

Zonal Head of the bankTG Shashidhar informed, thebank has so far approved/ dis-tributed the total loan of � 92lakh to as many as 921 benefi-ciaries and added, the neces-sary directives have been issuedto the branches for approvingthe loan applications, underthis scheme, on priority basis.

Sub-Zonal Manager KNSingh and many others were

present on the occasion.DIRECTIVE: Aiming at

facilitating the street vendorswho have suffered a lot duringthe lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic, the DistrictMagistrate Kaushal Raj Sharmaon Saturday directed zonalofficers of Varanasi MunicipalCorporation (VMC) to ensuretheir registration under thePrime Minister Street Vendor’sAtma Nirbhar Nidhi (PMSVANidhi) Scheme within fourdays so that loan could be dis-tributed among them by getting

their application approvedfrom the banks.

It may be said here theMinistry of Housing and UrbanAffairs had on June 1 lastlaunched the PM SVANidhiScheme with an aim to provideaffordable working capitalloans to street vendors toresume their livelihoods thathave been affected due toCOVID-19 lockdown. Therewill be no penalty on earlyrepayment of the loan underthe scheme. Chairing ameeting at camp office here, the

DM reviewed the progressunder scheme and asked thezonal officers of five zones ofVMC to search remainingstreet vendors against the tar-get and ensure that their appli-cation forms are filled up andregistration within four days sothat they could be providedloan by getting approved fromthe banks. Against the total2,936 applications under thescheme, a total of SurveyReference Number (SRN) hasbeen generated and as many as1,491 applications have beencompleted in Amadpur Zone,while as many as 4,746 SRN hasbeen generated and 2,451 appli-cations have completed inBhelupur Zone, informed theProject Officer of DUDA to theDM. Similarly, out of 5,622, atotal of 2,498 applications havebeen filled and as many as 5018SRN has been generated inDashaswamedh Zone ,whileas many as 1082 applicationshave been filled and a total of2,226 SRN has been generatedin Kotwali Zone. Out of 9,953,a total of 4,668 applicationshave been filled and as many as8,765 SRN has been generatedin the trans-Varuna Zone.

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In the case of coronavirus, thenumber of cured people was

more than those who gotinfected on Friday. A total of411 people were cured of theinfection in a single day, whichis a record so far. OnWednesday, 406 patients werefree of infection. The NodalOfficer for Corona, Dr RishiSahai said that the total num-ber increased to 12,247 with411 patients becoming infec-tion free. At the same time thetotal number of infected peo-ple in the district has increasedto 16,107 with 366 new infect-ed being detected late on Fridaynight. In addition, home isola-tion of 350 people has beencompleted. The number ofactive cases in the district hasincreased to 3,634.

Dr Sahai said that 330patients are admitted to dif-ferent hospitals. Most patientsare in Swaroop Rani NehruHospital. According to thereport, there are 154 infectedfrom Prayagraj admitted to theCovid Hospitals here. Ofthem, 50 patients are admittedin Railway Hospital, 28 inCovid Care CentreKalindipuram, eight in UnaniMedical College, 63 in two pri-vate hospitals, 35 in Beli. Theremaining 3,331 people are inhome isolation. Apart fromthis, 61 people have been dis-charged from hospitals.

Of the total 10 personswere discharged from CovidCare Centre Kalindipuram,

11 from Railway Hospital, twofrom Unani Medical College,nine from Beli, 11 from twoprivate hospitals and 18 fromSRN Hospital. Apart fromthis, samples have been takenfor testing of 2,796 suspectsand reports of 2,356 peoplehave come negative.

Dr Rishi said that 214people have been found infect-ed with antigen test, 122 fromRTPCR and 30 in Trunotamong those coming positiveon Friday. At RTPCR, 63 peo-ple were tested in a private lab.He said that more than 50 peo-ple have been tested positive inprivate hospitals.

Corona on Friday tookmany officers and employees,including the Sister Inchargeof SRN Hospital, a High CourtOfficer, advocate in its grip.The nodal officer for coronaconfirmed this. Among thosebeing tested positive includedsenior traffic officer of the rail-way, advocate of the HighCourt, Deputy Director ofAgriculture, assistant manag-er of PNB based in Civil Lines,assistant account manager ofCDA pension, health visitor ofSaidabad CHC, primaryschool teacher at Kaurihar,AO of LIC , one officer of HighCourt, SDM Sadar’s ‘ardali’, AGoffice Senior Record Officer,RAF’s Sub Inspector, AssistantProfessor of AllahabadUniversity, Registrar of SadarTehsil, Manager of UnionBank based at Handia, SisterIncharge of SRN Hospital,Additional Personal Secretary

of High Court, Branch man-ager of HDFC based in CivilLines. Families, relatives,acquaintances coming in con-tact with all of them will bescreened and tested forCOVID-19. People are beingcontacted for this purpose.

Meanwhile, four peopledied on Friday due to a dead-ly virus. All of them were res-idents of the city. After death,the last rites were performedat the ghat at Phaphamau.The treatment of all four wasgoing on in Swaroop RaniNehru Hospital. According tothe Health department report,a 57-year-old man fromGeorgetown who tested posi-tive succumbed to coronabesides, a 73-year-old elderlyperson from Thatheri Bazaar,a 56-year-old man fromJagmal Ka Haata and a 60-year-old man from Daraganjdied due to coronavirus.

PLASMA THERAPYSTARTED: Plasma therapyfor treatment of Covid patientshas kick-started in the BloodBank of Allahabad MedicalAssociation (AMA) fromSaturday. It was inauguratedaround 4 in the evening.According to AMA officials,the blood bank also receivedthe first plasma donor.

AMA office-bearer DrAnoop Chauhan said thatplasma therapy has been inef-fective in the trial of ICMR,but this therapy is not forbid-den. Its positive results havealso been seen on some peo-ple. At the same time, former

office-bearer Dr AshokAgarwal said that AMA hasbeen approved by the DrugController of India to start thetherapy. It will be started com-mercially.

It may be pointed out herethat after studying this on464 patients in 39 hospitals ofthe country, it was declaredineffective by ICMR. The sci-entist Dr Arpana Mukherjee ofthe ICMR had said that ther-apy does not affect the patient’sdeath. Also, it is unsuccessfulin protecting the patient fromgoing into critical condition.Prior to this, Delhi AIIMS hadalready said it was ineffectiveafter studying 30 patients.Local Assistant DrugCommissioner UdaybhanSingh said that the DrugController of India hasapproved, but on what basisthey are not aware of it.

The Pathology departmentof Moti Lal Nehru MedicalCollege is going to start plas-ma therapy as research. Headof Department Prof VatsalaMishra said that it will bestarted as a research fromnext week.

Preparations are underwayfor this move. Some peoplewho have recovered after get-ting corona infected have beenapproached to donate plasma.Seven to eight people havebeen marked. The EthicalCommittee of the college hasapproved the research. It willbe tried only after acceptanceof the infected patient andcured patient.

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In Puramufti under the neigh-bouring Kaushsmbi district,

a building of Atique Ahmedwas demolished by the districtadministration on Saturday.This building was raised on aGram Panchayat land justbehind Sallahpur police out-post on Kanpur Road.

The Yogi Government haslaunched a crusade againstmafia dons in the state, andunder this action AtiqueAhmed of Prayagraj is a big tar-get. This Sallahpur land wasillegally grabbed by the gang-men of Atique and a building

was raised there on a plintharea of 600 sq metres, besidesboundary wall to claim pos-session on a bigger area.

On Saturday morning offi-cials reached there with JCBmachines and heavy policeforce to demolish the unau-thorised construction.

It may be mentioned herethat properties of AtiqueAhmed and his near and dearones worth crores of rupeeswere either razed to ground orthe officials put a seal on themin Prayagraj during the pastcouple of weeks.

This Sallahpur propertywas owned by the inlaws of

Mohammad Ashraf, youngerbrother of Atique and also theprime accused of BSP MLARaju Pal murder case.

However, the brother inlawof Ashraf said that their con-struction was authorised andlegal, and they will move thecourt against this action of theadministration.

Their house was builtbefore the marriage of their sis-ter with Ashraf, so it was nothaving any connection withAtique gang.

RLY LAND FREEDFROM ENCROACHMENTS:In Kydganj Naibasti areaRailway land was freed from

encroachments on Saturday.Houses raised on Railway landby the side of railway trackswere demolished with bull-dozers.

Railways had given noticeto the encroachers six monthsin advance, but they did notremove their illegal construc-tions.

Ultimately the Railwayauthorities had to resort todemolition of the illegally builthouses on Railway land.

Now those who havereceived notices from the rail-ways in other areas have start-ed shifting to safe places withtheir belongings.

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Five-year contract inGovernment services and

retirement at the age of 50 is afalse propaganda by the spineless opposition, said the DeputyChief Minister Keshav PrasadMaurya here on Saturday.

There is no such plan ofthe government, but theSamajwadi Party, Congress,Bahujan Samaj Party, andthe leftists are out to misguidethe youth and propagatingfalsely that the UPGovernment was bringing onesuch bill.

The Central and the StateGovernment of UP are gain-ing popularity by their initia-

tives in public interest, but theopposition parties are out topoliticise these steps with falsepropaganda.

He also referred to the agi-tation of the misguidedfarmers and said that fearingtheir elimination from themarket, the middlemen arespreading rumours and toprotect their interest theCongress and other opposi-tion parties are fanning dis-turbance.

The Prime Minister hadcome out with a clarificationthat the government will servethe interest of the farmers whoare being misguided by themiddlemen and the opposi-tion.

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Hectic efforts are going onto replace Manduadih as

Banaras railway station and inthis direction, work to paintnew station nomenclature atsign boards and other placeshas already been started hereon Saturday. Just a day ago, theGovernor Anandiben Patel hadgiven her ‘no objection certifi-cate’ (NOC) to the proposal ofUnion Home Ministry andwith the completion of all theofficial formalities, now effortshave been started to change thename of sign and displayboards, coaches of trains orig-inating/ terminating atManduadih, offices and otherplaces.

In this direction, theDivisional Railway Manager(DRM) Vijay Kumar Panjiar,along with other senior officersof Varanasi Division of North-Eastern Railway (NER), visit-ed Manduadih railway stationto see the progress being doneto display new nomenclature byremoving old name. Thisancient holy city is known bythree popular names apartfrom others and they are Kashi,Banaras and Varanasi. The cityhas a Kashi station and two sta-tions with the name of Varanasi(Varanasi Junction and

Varanasi City) but it has no sta-tion with its most commonlyused name Banaras. Earlier,Varanasi Junction (Cantt.) wasknown as Banaras but with theefforts of the then ChiefMinister Sampurnanand, itsname was changed intoVaranasi Junction. However, atthat time its station coderemained the same as BSB. Thechange of Manduadih’s nomen-clature was made with theefforts of former MOSR ManojSinha (now Lt. Governor ofJ&K). After getting NOC fromUP Governor in this direction,Railway Minister Piyush Goelalso expressed his happiness in

one of his tweets.Now with the replacement

of Manduadih (code-MUV)as Banaras its new station codewould be BSBS. Since cominginto the power of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi, whois also a local parliamentarian,in 2014, the Railway had givena major thrust to developManduadih railway stationwhen it saw a remarkablegrowth in all the fields includ-ing increase in number of plat-forms from three to eight,introduction of several impor-tant trains and development ofits second entry side as aninternational standard station.

Today, the station gives a lookas an airport.

According to information,by Monday the painting orreplacement of new name inthe station premises would bedone and within a week, thenew station code would also beseen in Railway’s and IRCTCwebsites.

Besides, the names of allthe coaches and trains origi-nating or terminating fromthe station would be changedsoon. Some of the populartrains like Shivganga (NewDelhi), Gyan Ganga (Pune),Janshatabdi (Patna) and manyothers originate/ terminatefrom this station. In the recentyears, the BJP-led NDAGovernment had changed thenames of several stations.Sometime back, the name ofMughalsarai station waschanged as Pt Deen DayalUpadhyay Junction whileAllahabad City as PrayagrajRambaug in this region apartfrom some others in the coun-try.

During the NDA regime,while changing the nomencla-ture, the Railways has alsogiven new station codes tonew names as MGS has beenchanged into DDU and ALYinto PRRB as now MUV hasbeen replaced as BSBS.

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Working Group ofAIKSCC has bitterly crit-

icised the Prime Minister fordiverting attention of thenation from the promises hemade to the farmers of thecountry of securing theirincome and openly invitingMNCs and corporate to freelyloot the labour of Indian farm-ers. He is trying an old trick oflinking the farmers’ anger toopposition parties, instead ofcoming clean and answeringfor his own politicking andbetrayal of interest of farmersand agricultural workers.Debate is not Opposition ver-sus Government, but Farmersversus Government Policy.Farmers continue to sufferhigh indebtedness, uprooting,displacement and are beingforced to commit suicides with-out unnerving rulers.

AIKSCC has stood on itsown firm ground to fight for‘Karja Mukti, Poora Daam’'ever since the BJP governmentof MP ruthlessly fired uponand killed peacefully demon-strating farmers in Mandsaur

in 2017.The Prime Minister is

throwing sawdust in thenation’s eyes when he is claim-ing that despite the three billsthe ‘appropriate’ (uchit) MSPand procurement will contin-ue, ‘as it was’ earlier. ‘Earlier’, theMSP was only for 23 crops, itwas never ‘uchit’ and procure-ment benefit accrued to only 6per cent farmers as per govt’sShanta Kumar Commissionconfessed. It wanted to stopprocurement by FCI andNafed, storage and supply offoodgrain in PDS. AIKSCCstruggle is for procurement ofall crops, on MSP at C2+50%.

The Prime Minister shouldpass a law to guarantee MSPand procurement of all cropsand not one to permit MNCs/ corporate to do contractfarming and purchase cropsoutside of Mandis. To cover uphis government's withdrawalfrom its responsibility, the PMhas called these agro giants asmore options and a ‘SurakhsaKavach’ for farmers. Stoppinggovernment procurement willend options for farmers.

Farmers all over the world

are protected by their govern-ments from companies. Afterharvest the crop has to besold, or else it will perish andlose value. It is sold in nearbymandis and can’t be cartedwithout a heavy cost. ‘Freedom’to sell anywhere and get thebest price is a hoax call.Government procurement andprice assurance are the onlychecks on unscrupulous cor-porate who monopolise andsqueeze the peasant.

The Bills provide for con-tract farming which will enablecorporate to pool land of smallfarmers, contract it, force themto buy costly inputs and selltheir crop at predeterminedprices. Contracts bind farmers,deny them profitable openmarket sale – exposes anotherfalsehood propagated by thegovernment. The producerpeasant will be saddled withlosses due to price crash andcrop loss and more debts, theprofit will be pocketed by thecompany.

There is apprehension thatcontrol over crops sownthrough input controls andthe free import/ export by

companies in the absence ofGovernment Controls, will leadto glut in the market due tocheap imports of wheat, rice,oilseeds, pulses, soya, milk andmilk products and others. Thatwill further undermine ‘aat-manirbharta’ of the Indianpeasants and ultimately evictthem from agriculture.

No country has grown byhanding over its food control toforeign exploiters. The ModiGovernment is doing just that.

AIKSCC is determined tosafeguard the interest of thefarmers and fight to the finishfor its twin objective of ‘KarjaMukti, Poora Daam’. It ispreparing for a series of protestsas outlined above.

AIKSCC calls upon allfarmers, peasants, agricultureworkers, tribals, fishermen,rural traders all over the coun-try and trade unions, parties,democratic forces to join themovement. This movement isalso against the New Power Bill,2020 which ends all subsidiesfor the farming communityand the weaker sections andagainst the massive hike indiesel and petrol prices.

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As many as 162 newCOVID-19 cases have

been detected here on Saturday,increasing the total number ofcases to 11,459. Besides, thedistrict also saw three moredeaths, increasing the toll to188. During the day, the follow-up negative reports included207 patients. Out of them, 197patients recovered from homeisolation and the total numberof patients cured at home hasincreased to 7,031. Besides, 10recovered from the hospitaland the number of patientswho have been discharged

from the hospitals has reached2,605. The total number ofcured patients is now 9,636,leaving 1,635 active patients.The recovery rate has improvedto 84.09 per cent but mortali-ty rate increased to 1.64 percent.

Chief Medical Officer(CMO) Dr VB Singh has alsoinformed that in the first reportof the day by11 am, 95 positivepatients were detected out of1,573 reports received. Tillthen, the total test reportsreceived were 1,63,925 and theresults of 4,585 are awaited. Outof them, 1,52,533 were nega-tive, while 11,392 positive. The

total number of samples col-lected was 1,78,774. Earlier, amale aged 62 from Madhauli(Bhullanpur) succumbed toCOVID-19 at SSH BHU whilea male aged 80 from KaliMahal and a male (55) fromDharshauna (Cholapur) died atApex and Meridian Hospitalsrespectively. Besides, with theaddition of 17 new red zones,the total number of hotspotshas increased to 1,880 includ-ing 379 red zones. Four greenzones have been convertedinto red zones again. There are1,501 green zones including 22new ones.

Meanwhile, Medical

Superintendent (MS) of SirSundarlal Hospital (SSH),Banaras Hindu University(BHU) has issued three noticesin which it is said that thecharges of dialysis, processingof convalescent plasma andCT Scan and MRI investigationfrom the COVID-19 positivepatients admitted to the hos-pital have been waived off withimmediate effect till furthernotices.

In this direction, thepatients should fill the formsand claim back for reimburse-ment of concerned chargesfrom the concerned depart-ments.

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ducted an inspection of theproject works being done atManduadih coaching depot onFriday. He directed the agencyto properly manage the place-ment of sick coaches and repairof sick line floor repair workscheduled to be started nextweek and to carefully deter-mine the rail level in view oflow elevation of lifting tackleduring the work. He also

instructed to relocate washingpit No 1 in 40 metres emptyspace towards VaranasiJunction (Cantt.) railway sta-tion to increase the 30 metresproposed straight line forACWP and remove unusablecoaching depot from engine

testing line of DLW from west-ern corner. He instructed theagency concerned that the pro-posed work on washing pits 3and 4 should be done on timeand maintain quality of workby dismantling old RPF bar-racks creating hurdles. He alsogave several other instructions.He was accompanied by SDE(Coordination) Rajiv Agarwal,SDME (Carriage & Wagon)Satyaprakash Srivastava, AENK Pathak and coaching depotofficer (Manduadih) ShaileshKumar Singh.

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CGM (O&M) of RihandSuper Thermal Power

Project (RSTPP), a leading unitof NTPC Limited, Anant CharanSahu flagged off the goods trainloaded with conditioned fly ashto ACC Cement, Ropar (Punjab)recently. The conditioned fly ashwas sent through tarpaulin cov-ered BOXN wagons of IndianRailways. Rihand is a dedicatedproject for 100 per cent ash util-ity and environmental protec-tion and in this context the pro-ject is always striving to find andestablish new areas and disci-plines to increase ash utility

progressively. The project hadcreated a history on August 10last when it became the firstthermal power plant of the statewhich sent conditioned fly ash toa cement plant. With the intro-duction of ash transportationthrough Railways it has beenpossible to send extracted ashfrom thermal power plants toremotely-located cement plantseasily and cheaply. Rihand is

also exploring the possibility ofsending ash to Dalmia cementby sending the ash throughRailways to Guwahati. The pro-gramme was also attended byGM (ADM) KN Reddy, GM(Maintenance) S Srikrishna,GM (Operations) Asesh KumarChattopadhyay, GM (fuel man-agement) M Ramesh, GM (MTP)KC Tripathi, GM (technical ser-vices) AK Papaneja, Mukul Rai,Vijay Kumar Atri, Dilip Caborta,KC Singharaya, Hareram Singh,Mohit Agrawal, Sanjeev Kasumra,Anil Kumar Singh, AmitDhiman, Raghavendra Narayan,Ashish Kumar, Hemant Masihand Ramji Dwivedi.

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NCL CMD Prabhat KumarSinha met CM UP Yogi

Adityanath on Friday and hand-ed over a cheque of �5 crore forprocurement of 50 ambulancesunder CSR. This initiative willhelp them to strengthen the fightagainst Covid-19. Director(Personnel), NCL BimlenduKumar was also present on theoccasion. CMD Sinha briefedabout NCL’s coal operations in UPand MP. He assured adequateamount of coal dispatch to ther-mal power plants of UP takingcoal from NCL. He also briefedabout CSR activities inSonbhadra, Varanasi and otherdistricts of UP. CMD alsoapprised about the measurestaken by NCL in Sonbhadra tofight Covid-19. CM Yogi

Adityanath appreciated thecontribution of NCL in theenergy security of the nation. Healso praised NCL’s effort in fight-ing Covid pandemic. He alsoassured the state’s support toNCL. During his visit CMDalso met UP Chief SecretaryRajendra Kumar Tiwari and dis-cussed mining, CSR and otherissues of the company. Earlier anMoU was signed between theCSR wing of NCL and UP StateDisaster Management Authorityto give Rs 5 Crore to UP gov-

ernment for the procurement of50 ambulances under its CSRinitiatives. During the past fiveyears NCL has undertakendevelopment works of about�80 crore under CSR in UP. Theprojects include solar powerelectrification of 80 PHCs, finan-cial aid for solid waste manage-ment in 13 panchayats ofVaranasi, construction of ecopark near Banaras railway sta-tion, around 15,000 furniture in1,800 government schools, smartclassrooms in schools, con-struction of roads, developingskills of youth etc. NCL is a mini-ratna company based out ofSingrauli (MP) and Sonbhadra(UP) with four mines in UP pro-ducing more than 20 per cent to22 per cent of its coal produc-tion annually and supplies it tothe major TPP of UPRVUNL.

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Akavi sammelan was organ-ised in a virtual form under

the presidentship of ChiefRajbhasha Officer Arvind KumarPandey on the last day of theRajbhasha Week celebration-2020on Friday, CPROPKSingh said. TheRajbhasha Week celebrations wereorganised at headquarters,Gorakhpur, under the aegis ofNERRajbhasha department fromSeptember 14 to 18. The kavisammelan was started by NishaRai with a Saraswati Vandana. In

his presidential address ChiefRajbhasha Officer Pandey saidthat the kavi sammelan was veryinteresting. Poetry is an effectiveweapon that can change thethinking of society in a moment,said Pandey. He expressed hap-piness over the successful organ-isation of the Rajbhasha Week.Poets invited to the kavi samme-lan mesmerised the audiencewith their compositions. Theywere Dr Charushila Singh fromGorakhpur, Rajesh, BhushanTyagi, Nisha Rai, PrabhakarMishra, humorous poet PK

Deewana, Bareilly etc.Devendra Natkhat through hispiece paid respect to the officiallanguage, Hindi in this way,“aabhooshanon mein keematjyaada bindee ki hogi...” The wel-come address was delviered byDeputy Chief Rajbhasha OfficerOmkar Nath Singh. The kavisammelan was conducted byRajbhasha Officer Dhruv KumarSrivastava. Rajbhasha OfficerMohammad Arshad Mirza pro-posed the vote of thanks. Seniortranslator Anamika Singh wasalso present on the occasion.

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A renowned thinker, KNGovindacharya, said that

any development at the cost ofnature was detrimental in thelong run so it should be donekeeping the ecological balancein mind. While interactingwith media on Friday, he saidGanga was the lifeline of thenation and indigenous cowwas the way to enhance percapita income. He said that inBritish era the ratio between aperson and livestock was 1:10 andat that time the country was rich-est in the world. After indepen-dence it came down to 1:1 whichmade the nation poorer, he said.Expressing his anguish over theinterference of technology incommon life, he said that itshould be regulated by law. It wasnot only influencing common lifebut market and even world pol-itics, he added. He said that hisstudy trip was taken out fromDevprayag and was to culminate

at Gangasagar on October 2whose purpose was to highlightthe strength of our nation. Hesaid that environment andindigenous technology were

enough to make the nationpowerful. While interacting withthe intellectuals of the society hediscussed issues related to prevail-ing scenario. Among those whoattended the meeting were RakeshShukla, Gangasagar Dubey,Rajpati Ojha, BalendumaniTripathi, Manoj Jaiswal, DevPrakash Pathak, Vishnu Sonkar. Itwas convened by Sushil Dubey.

MEETING: DivisionalCommissioner Preeti Shuklawhile addressing a meeting at L-2 hospital directed the adminis-tration to continue the precau-tionary measures against Covid-

19. She was apprised by the DM26 patients were admitted in L-1hospital and 16 in L-2. The DMgave details about the treatment,diet and facilities available forpatients and said that the recoveryrate was satisfactory. The DCdirected ACMO to remain intouch with the patients in homeisolation and updated with theircondition.

NABBED: Kachhawaanpolice have arrested twowomen and recovered 14 stolensarees from them. Amit Gupta, aresident of Kachhawaan marketlodged an FIR that two uniden-tified women entered his shopfor purchasing sarees but insteadtook away 14 of them from there.Police during patrolling inter-cepted two suspects atKachhawaan road railway crossing.On seeing them the women tried tododge them but were caught.They were identified as Geeta andPuneeta, residentsof Mahmoorganj,Varanasi. Police recovered sevensarees each from them.

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As per the decision taken by the RailwayBoard the movement of 09065/09066 Surat-

Chhapra-Surat Superfast weekly clone specialtrain will be done from September 21 from Suratevery Monday and from September 23 fromChhapra every Thursday. Clone special trains willbe fully reserved. The fare of these trains will be likeHumsafar Express, said CPRO PK Singh. The09065 Surat-Chhapra superfast weekly clone specialtrain from September 21 till further orders will departfrom Surat at 08.30 hours on every Monday, fromBhusawal at 13.30 hrs, from Itarsi at 17:50 hrs, fromJabalpur at 21.30 hrs, the second day from PrayagrajChheoki at 03.10 hrs, from Varanasi at 07.00 hoursand from Shahganj at 09.40 hours and reach Chhapraat 14:30 hours. The 09066 Chhapra-Surat superfastweekly clone special train from September 23 tillfurther notice on every Wednesday will leaveChhapra at 08.30 hrs, from Shahganj at 14.00 hrs,from Varanasi at 16.10 hrs, from PrayagrajChheoki at 19.25 hrs, the second day fromJabalpur at 01:05 hours, from Itarsi at 04.45 hours,

from Bhusaval at 09.25 hours and will reach Suratat 14.45 hrs. The train will have 18 coaches, includ-ing two of of generator-cum-luggage, 12 of third AC,and four of sleeper class. Meanwhile the movementof 09465/09466 Ahmedabad-Darbhanga-Ahmedabad weekly clone special will be done fromSeptember 25 from Ahmedabad every Friday andfrom Darbhanga from September 28 everyMonday. The 09465 Ahmedabad-Darbhangaweekly special will leave Ahmedabad fromSeptember 25 at 20:40 hrs on every Friday tillfurther notice, the next day from Ratlam at 01:30hours, from Ujjain at 03:10 hours, from Gunaat 08.00 hrs, from Bina at 10:30 hours, fromJhansi at 12:40 hours, from Kanpur Central at16.45 hours, from Lucknow at 18:30 hours, fromFaizabad at 20:35 hours, from Shahganj at 22.55hours, on third day from Chhapra at 04.00 hrs, fromSamastipur at 08.30 hrs and reach Darbanga at 09.30hrs. The 09466 Darbhanga-Ahmedabad weeklyspecial train from September 28 every Monday willleave Darbhanga at 04.00 hrs and after stopping atSamastipur, Chhapra, Shahganj, Faizabad,Lucknow etc reach Ahmedabad at 16:20 hours.

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Dozens of auto-rickshawdrivers went berserk and

blocked the road nearRamasrey Park at BaraChauraha on Saturday after-noon.

Circle Officer (Traffic)reached the spot and pacifiedthe protesters.

According to reports, whenauto driver Sitanshu Sonkar ofColonelganj was picking uppassengers near RamasreyPark, a traffic craneworker tried to take out theignition key from his auto-rick-shaw. On protest, the workerbeat up the auto driver, injur-ing him.

Meanwhile, workers of twoother cranes also reached thereand tried to lift the auto.

This led to heated argu-ments with other auto driverspresent on the spot and theywent berserk and scuffled withthe crane operators and clean-ers. They accused the craneworkers of extortion andblocked the road with aroundfour dozen auto-rickshaws.

CO (Traffic) TripurariPandey and Kotwali policereached the spot and pacified

the auto drivers.The CO (Traffic) said after

investigation, the guilty wouldbe punished.

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Principal Secretary (MedicalHealth) Alok Kumar said

the government had decided tocarry out an audit of all theCOVID-19 deaths in the city.

Addressing a high levelmeeting, Kumar said the objec-tive of the audit was to identi-fy if there was any human errorbehind these deaths, especial-ly whether the rapid responseteam (RRT) delayed the admis-sion of the patient or there wasdelay in starting the treatment.

The principal secretary,however, claimed a decline in

the deaths of COVID-19patients, while admitting thatthe deaths had peaked inAugust when 238 patients haddied in 30 days. Kumar said inthe first 20 days of September,Kanpur Nagar had witnessedaround 130 COVID-19 deathsbut what was a greater cause ofconcern was that over 400fresh coronavirus positive caseswere being detected almostevery day. He said to check theCOVID-19 deaths, cooperationand coordination from everysection was essential.

The principal secretarysaid at present the priority was

on tracing the persons whocame in contact with the affect-ed person as now there wasmore movement as comparedto the past when lockdown wasimposed.

He said there were manyreasons for deaths and one wasthat even the coronavirusaffected people were takingmedicines on their own forcold and fever due to which theinfection spread to the lungsand by the time he/she reachedhospital for test and treatment,the infection had alreadyspread dangerously in the lungscausing many problems.

Kumar said there was nocrisis of oxygen as being pro-jected by the media, addingthat all efforts were being madeto ensure easy and quick avail-ability of oxygen at the pre-scribed rates.

He said the governmentwas keeping a strict vigil on thecompanies manufacturing oxy-gen and said if there was anyreport of hoarding and black-marketing, strict action wouldbe taken against the person,hospital or medical store.

All top officials of the dis-trict administration were pre-sent in the meeting.

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Kanpur DivisionalCommissioner Dr Raj

Shekhar, while expressing con-cern over the spurt in thenumber of coronavirus positivecases in the district, said thatsurveillance and contact trac-ing had to be stepped up in theright earnest.

He said Kanpur Nagarwas a city with a large popu-lation and on account of thisthere was a vast spread of thenovel coronavirus.

The divisional commis-sioner said that people shouldto understand the importanceof social distancing and use offace masks as they protectedone from contracting theinfection. He said to fight theCOVID-19, the district ,police, medical personnel andthe people would have to joinhands.

Shekhar said all the divi-sional officials would not leave

headquarters without priorsanction and review meet-ings would be held regularlyin every department. He saidstrict monitoring would alsobe done of all the works,including the implementationof government schemes, and

delays would not be tolerated.The divisional commis-

sioner said if the officialsfaced any problem, they coulddirectly apprise him throughSMS. He said a specialWhatsApp group of all theofficials would be created so

that they could apprise theauthorities of the detailssought.

Shekhar said the imple-mentation of governmentschemes was being monitoredby the chief minister and thechief secretary and laxitywould certainly not be toler-ated.

Later, Shekhar visitedKanpur Nagar Nigam andinspected the COVID-19Control and CommandCentre. He said the duty of thecontrol room was to keep astrict vigil and remain watch-ful so that prompt actioncould be taken at the earliest.He interacted with the districtadministration and healthofficials and said unitedly onecan fight the pandemic.

He said people shouldalso ensure that they main-tained social distancing, usedmasks, washed hands fre-quently and refrained frommoving out unnecessarily.

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Kanpur Nagar reported 343fresh cases of coronavirus

infection till Saturday evening.Chief Medical Officer Dr

AK Mishra said 343 more peo-ple had tested positive forcoronavirus infection betweenFriday evening and Saturdayevening, taking the count ofconfirmed cases to 22,532. Hesaid a total of 56 cases were dis-charged and 5892 COVID-19patients had been cured in thecity so far, and at present 4882active coronavirus cases wereundergoing treatment.

The CMO said 13COVID-19 deaths were report-ed in the city till Saturdayevening taking the toll to 587.He said a total of 6222 sampleswere sent for testing in the dis-trict.

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Central Indian RegionalCouncil member Prakash

Kabra, while addressing awebinar on ‘Standards ofAuditing’ on Saturday, saidauditing standards providedminimum guidance for theauditor that helped in deter-mining the extent of auditsteps and procedures thatshould be applied to fulfil theaudit objective.

He said these were in factthe yardsticks against whichthe quality of the audit resultswere evaluated. He added thatto ensure that informationprovided in the financial state-ments were of high qualityand were acceptable globally,the chartered accountants hadformulated these standards.

Kabra said audit docu-mentation was an importantstandard which laid down thebasic principles of audit doc-umentation. He said theseprinciples need to be kept inmind by auditors while com-plying with the requirements

of SA 230 and specif icdocumentation requirementsof other Standards onAuditing.

He said SA 230 was animportant standard which laiddown the basic principles ofaudit documentation. He saidthese principles needed to bekept in mind by auditors whilecomplying with the require-ments of SA 230 and specificdocumentation requirementsof other Standards onAuditing.

Kabra said it couldalso save one from majorproblems when an audit per-formed became the subjectmatter of litigation and inves-tigation.

He said the objective wasto prepare documentation thatprovided sufficient and appro-priate record of the basis forthe auditor’s report and evi-dence that the audit wasplanned and performed inaccordance with the SAs andapplicable legal and regulato-ry requirements.

Discussing documenta-

tion, Kabra said it was con-sidered the backbone of anaudit and the work that theauditor performed, the expla-nations given to the auditor,the conclusions arrived at,were all evidenced by docu-mentation.

He said poor documenta-tion may depict poor perfor-mance in an audit.

He said it supported theauditor’s basis for a conclusionabout achieving the auditor’sobjectives and provided evi-dence that audit was plannedand performed.

Discussing SA 580, Kabrasaid that when managementrefused to provide necessaryrepresentations, the auditorshould qualify or disclaim hisor her opinion. He said therefusal to provide written rep-resentations implied manage-ment’s unwillingness to acceptresponsibility and account-ability for the financial state-ments.

He said the SA 580 dealtwith the auditors’ responsi-bilities in obtaining written

representations from man-agement on matters whichwere material to the financialstatements when other suffi-cient appropriate audit evi-dence could not reasonably beexpected to exist.

He SA 315 dealt withidentifying and assessing therisks of material mis-state-ment through understandingthe entity and its environment.He said the InternationalAuditing and AssuranceStandards Board (IAASB) hadissued International Standardon Auditing (ISA) for inter-national use.

Kabra added that one ofthe key changes to theInternational Standard onAuditing (ISA) 315 had beento tighten up the auditrequirements to clarify themethodology for identifyingand assessing risk to improveaudit quality.

He said the revision alsoemphasised the importance ofidentifying potential fraudand thus it required strictcontrols.

KANPUR (PNS): Additional Director Health Dr RP Yadav hasbeen shifted as Additional Director (Operations) at the HealthDirectorate.

He has been replaced by Dr SN Bajpai of Ursula Hospital.In another reshuffle, District TB Officer Dr GK Mishra has

been made the Mukhya Nagar Swasthya Adhikari and Dr JyotiSaxena the chief medical officer of KPM Hospital.

Similarly CMS of Kanshiram Hospital, Dr SK Pandey, hadbeen posted as Additional Director (Health) at HealthDirectorate.

Dr RC Bhatt has been made medical superintendent whileDr Neeta Rani and Dr Kiran Sachan have been made chief con-sultants.

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Kanpur DevelopmentAuthority Vice Chairman

Rakesh Kumar Singh hassought the files of city petrolrefuelling stations and sealedbuildings from the engineersof the enforcement squad.

As most of the petrolpumps have carried out illegalconstruction on their premis-es during the past few months,the KDA would recover com-pounding charges from them.

The KDA vice chairmansaid under the CompoundingScheme of 2021, illegal con-struction could be regularisedtill January 20 next.

He said with the con-nivance of KDA engineers,owners of many petrol pumpsand buildings had made ille-gal construction. With thefiles of these petrol pumps andbuildings, spot inspectionwould be carried out to ascer-tain facts, he added.

Sources said that aftercompleting the constructionin many sealed buildings inAshok Nagar, Arya Nagar,Jawahar Nagar, Kidwai Nagar,Brahma Nagar, P Road,Nawabganj and Jajmau, peo-ple had started living there.

This has deprived theKDA from recovering com-pounding charges from themdue to “suvidha sulk” alreadyreceived by some KDA engi-neers.

Besides, as against theinstallation of rainwater har-vesting system in 212 build-ings during the current finan-cial year, the work was done inonly 81 premises so far. TheKDA vice chairman hassought report of action initi-ated against the guiltybuilders.

The target to set up 40megawatt solar energy plant isalso yet to be completed.

Singh said the beautifica-tion of pond constructedunder Jawaharpuram Schemeinvolving an expenditure ofRs.6 lakh and many otherponds, including the one sit-uated at Jhakarkati BusTerminal, would be taken upsoon.

He said as against the tar-get of planting 80,000 saplings,66,000 had already been plant-ed. A drive is on to plant theremaining 14,000 saplings, headded.

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Ayouth drowned in the riverGanga at Shuklaganj ghat

on Saturday morning. Divers recovered his body

which was sent for autopsy. According to reports,

Ankit Sahu of Yashoda Nagarand his friends AbhishekGautam, Saurabh Verma andAnuj Pandey left their houseson pretext of studying withother friends.

From there, they decidedto go for bathing in Ganga andmoved towards Shuklaganjghat.

Under the old Gangaghatbridge, when all the fourentered the water, Ankit sud-denly slipped into deep waterand started drowning.

Seeing him drowning, hisfriends came out of water andraised an alarm.

Hearing noise, divers pre-sent there jumped into theriver and recovered the body ofAnkit.

The kin of the deceasedalso reached the spot.

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India has overtaken the US toregister the highest number

of Covid-19 recoveries in theworld.

It has reported the highestnumber of recoveries with42,08,431 infected patientsrecuperating from the viraldisease. About 60 per cent ofthe new recoveries werereported from five States —Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu,Andhra Pradesh, Karnatakaand Uttar Pradesh.Incidentally, these are theStates that have reported highcaseload also.

R e c o v e r y - w i s e ,Maharashtra accounted forover 22,000 (23 per cent), fol-lowed by Andhra Pradeshwith more than 11,000 (12.3per cent) of the new recover-ies.

“The country has reportedthe highest number of recov-eries with 42,08,431 COVID-19 patients having recoveredfrom the disease so far, push-ing the national recovery rateto nearly 80 per cent, while thecase fatality rate has furtherdropped to 1.61 per cent, “ theUnion Health Ministry said onSaturday.

“India now accounts forclose to 19 per cent of the totalglobal recoveries. This hasstrongly pushed the nationalrecovery rate to 79.28 percent,” it underlined.

The Centre-led focussed,calibrated, responsive andeffective measures of earlyidentification through highand aggressive testing, aprompt surveillance and track-ing, coupled with standardisedhigh-quality clinical care, havetogether resulted in this glob-

al achievement, the ministrysaid.

A record 95,880 patientsrecuperated from COVID-19in a span of 24 hours, with 90per cent of the new recoveriesreported from 16 States andUnion territories, the min-istry’s data said.

According to the ministry,90 per cent of the recoverieswere reported from 15 Statesand Union territories.

The five states with themaximum caseload —Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu,Andhra Pradesh, Karnatakaand Uttar Pradesh — have alsoaccounted for a majority of therecoveries, the ministry high-lighted.

“India has maintained asustained path of reporting avery high number of recover-ies. This is the result offocussed strategies leading tocoordinated effective actions inthe states and Union territo-ries,” it said.

India’s COVID-19 tallymounted to 53,08,014 onSaturday with 93,337 cases

reported in a day, while thedeath toll due to the diseaseclimbed to 85,619 with 1,247more people succumbing to itin a span of 24 hours, the min-istry said.

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Homemade masks help infighting the spread of

viruses like Covid-19 whencombined with frequent hand-washing and physical distanc-ing, researchers have said aftertesting the breathability anddroplet-blocking ability of 11common household fabrics,using a medical mask as abenchmark. The study hasbeen published in the journalExtreme Mechanics Letters.

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The Rajya Sabha on Saturdaypassed two legislations, The

Insolvency and BankruptcyCode (Second Amendment)Bill 2020 and The EpidemicDiseases (Amendment) Bill,2020.

The Epidemic Diseases(Amendment) Bill provides forup to five years in jail for thoseattacking doctors and health-care workers fighting theCOVID-19 outbreak or duringany situation akin to the currentpandemic.

Speaking on the Bill in theRajya Sabha, Union HealthMinister Dr Harsh Vardhansaid that the bill was requiredto prevent offences againsthealthcare professionals.

“Many healthcare workersincluding doctors, paramedicswere insulted in some form orthe other, due to stigmaattached to COVID-19. Centregovernment acted on this situ-ation found that there was aneed for a law, a prohibitorymechanism against such inci-dents,” Dr Harsh Vardhan said.

However, TrinamoolCongress (TMC) MP DerekO’Brien termed the Bill anattempt to encroach states’ con-stitutionally assigned func-tioning.

Speaking while the dis-cussions on the bill were under-way, the TMC MP said that

Bengal already had laws todeal with prevention of vio-lence against doctors andhealthcare workers.

“You thought of healthcareworkers now? Bengal hasMedicare Service Prevention ofViolence and Damage toProperty Act 2009. What hap-pens to it? Bill is an attempt toencroach states’ constitutionallyassigned functioning,” O’Briensaid.

The Upper House had ear-lier passed the Insolvency andBankruptcy Code, 2016(Second Amendment) Bill.

Moving the IBC Bill inRajya Sabha Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharaman said, “IBCis such a critical part of businessnow. On the NPAs of scheduledcommercial banks, I just wantto highlight how IBC is actual-ly serving the purpose. The pri-ority is to keep companies to bea going concern rather than liq-uidate them.”

The Bill mandates that adefault on repayments fromMarch 25, the day when anationwide lockdown began tocurb the spread of coronavirus,would not be considered for ini-tiating insolvency proceedingsfor at least six months.

The upper house whichsaw minimal disruptions dur-ing the last two days passed fourBills together with the contro-versial Farmers bill andHomeopathy bill in Friday.

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President Ram Nath Kovindon Saturday said the new

National Education Policy(NEP) aims to reorient the edu-cation system towards meetingthe needs of the 21st century byachieving the twin objectives ofinclusion and excellence andwill also restore India’s glory asa learning centre.

Speaking at the inauguraladdress of Visitors’ Conferenceon ‘Implementation of NEP inHigher Education’, Kovind saidthe policy sets the vision ofdeveloping an equitable andvibrant knowledge society byproviding quality education toall.

Vice Chancellors of all

Central Universities andDirectors of IITs, NITs, SPAsetc were present on the occa-sion besides the UnionEducation Minister RameshPokhriyal Nishank and topMinistry officials.

He drew inspiration fromBhagvad Gita and theKrishna-Arjun dialogue whilereiterating the concept of freecommunication and discus-sion between the teacher andthe student. “Effective imple-mentation of the NEP 2020 islikely to restore India’s glory asa great centre of learning asduring the times ofTakshashila and Nalanda,”Kovind added.

The President said accord-ing to the All India Survey of

Higher Education for 2018-19,GER for females is slightlyhigher than that for males.However, the share of femalestudents is extremely low inInstitutions of NationalImportance and particularlylow in technical education.Emphasising that NEP hasfocus on equity and inclusion,he said that such gender dis-parity in higher educationshould be corrected.

Union Education ministerRamesh Pokhriyal Nishanksaid the NEP has given accessto foreign universities to opencampuses in India and vice-versa which will be instru-mental in the process of mak-ing India a soft power, theMinister added.

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Former Jammu and KashmirChief Minister and

National Conference presi-dent Farooq Abdullah onSaturday sought talks withPakistan, saying if India cantalk to China to defuse theirborder row, it can also speakto its other neighbour to dealwith the situation at the UnionTerritory’s borders. He also

demanded a restoration of 4-G internet services in the UT.

“Border skirmishes havebeen rising and people aredying… A way has to be foundto deal with this. Except fortalks… As you are talking toChina to attempt that it with-draws (from Ladakh border),we should also talk to our(other) neighbour to find away to get out of this situa-tion,” he said in Lok Sabhaduring the Zero Hour amidshouting from treasury bench-

es.Abulllah was speaking in

the Parliament for the firsttime after his release from thedetention following the changein the Union Territory statusand bifurcation of the erst-while state in the wake of abro-gation of article 370, last year.He was released in March thisyear.

The MP expressed hishappiness at the findings of anArmy inquiry into the killingsof three men in Shopian in anencounter.

“I am happy that the Armyhas admitted that threeShopian men were killed mis-takenly. I hope the govern-ment gives a hefty compensa-tion,” he said.

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E-commerce portals likeAmazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal

and others have been forced toremove over 160 web links sell-ing products in the brand nameof “Khadi” after the Khadi andVillage IndustriesCommission’s (KVIC) servedlegal notices on over 1000firms for misusing its brandname to sell their products.

After KVIC served legalnotice, Khadi Global has alsodiscontinued using its websitewww.khadiglobalstore.com andalso removed its social mediapages on Twitter, Facebookand Instagram. It has sought10-day time to remove all suchcontents and product using thebrand name “Khadi”. KVICaction has also resulted in shut-ting down of a number ofstores across the country thatwere selling fake Khadi prod-ucts.

These e-commerce portalswere selling products like Khadimasks, herbals soaps, sham-poos, cosmetics, herbal mehan-di, jackets, kurta and many suchproducts through different sell-ers using the brand name“Khadi”. This created a falseimpression among online buy-ers that these commoditieswere genuine “Khadi” products.A majority of the products thathave been removed were beingsold by one Ayush E-Traders.This firm has confirmed toKVIC that it has removed 140

links for various products thatwere being sold as “Vagad’sKhadi Products”.

There has been a steep risein violation of Khadi trademarkas the popularity of Khadi grewmanifold in recent years afterthe Hon’ble Prime Minister’sappeal to buy Khadi products.Exploiting this opportunity, anumber of online sellers beganselling random products in thename of Khadi.

Also hundreds of storesmushroomed in different citiesthat were selling fake Khadiproducts. In recent months,particularly during the Covid-19 lockdown, there was a hugeproliferation of such fraudulentonline sellers. However, toenable online customers to buygenuine Khadi products, KVIChas launched its e-portal sellinga range of 300 products onlinea twww.kviconline.gov.in/khadi-mask.

KVIC Chairman Shri VinaiKumar Saxena said the KVIChas given violators the option ofeither stop selling products inthe name of Khadi or legalaction will be initiated forrecovery of heavy damages.“Legal notices have been issuedto various firms essentially tosafeguard the interest of Khadiartisans.

This trademark violationhas a direct bearing on thelivelihood of our artisans whoare making genuine handcraft-ed products,” Saxena said.

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Taking note of the delay ingiving compensation, the

Election commission (EC) isplanning to set up a database totrack the status of ex-gratiapayments to those who gotinjured or lost their lives whilepolling or poll-related duty. Ina letter to chief electoral officersof all states and union territo-ries, the EC has asked to trackall such claims. At present, thepoll watchdog pays �10 lakh tothe next of kin of those whodied in poll duties throughcheques.

“A stern view has beentaken of the institutional fail-ure and lack of sensitivity, bor-dering on apathy, on part of theadministrative machinery,which failed to respect thememory of the departed,” ECsaid in the letter. The letterasked CEOs to create a digitaldatabase to track the settlementof such legacy claims and all

future claims. A national leveldatabase will also be created bythe commission.

EC is also working out themodalities of how paymentswill be expedited to reduce anykind of inconvenience to thefamilies.

Last month, Pramila Devi,the wife of late Central ReservePolice Force (CRPF) jawanRamesh Kumar, 31, wrote tochief election commissioner(CEC) Sunil Arora, highlight-ing the delay in such pay-ments. Kumar died in agrenade attack during the 2002Jammu and Kashmir elections.In her letter dated August 10,Devi said she had not receivedthe payment; she was entitledto �5 lakh as per the allotment18 years ago. Following her let-ter, the Commission actedimmediately to get the sumremitted to her without anyfurther delay and later alsotransferred �15 lakhs to heraccount.

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Following reports of short-age of oxygen in some

States threatening the man-agement of patients sufferingfrom Covid-19, the Centrehas asked the States to focuson analysing district level andhealth facility level status andeffectively plan and managelogistical issues related withoxygen availability.

The suggestion came inthe wake of an increasingnumber of cases across thecountry which is likely topush up the demand for oxy-gen as well.

At a high-level meetingheld here under the chair-manship of the CabinetSecretary, Rajiv Gauba , specialinstructions were issued foroxygen availability to the 12

States/UT includingMaharashtra, Karnataka,Andhra Pradesh, UttarPradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha,Chandigarh, Telangana,Kerala, Delhi, Punjab andWest Bengal where about 80per cent of the Covid caseloadin the country is concentrat-ed.

The Cabinet Secretarywhile complementing theStates for significantly ramp-ing up testing, expressed con-cern that the case fatality ratesof several States are still high-er than that of the nationalaverage.

He urged the States toanalyse mortalities districtand hospital wise for identifi-cation of critical areas of inter-vention.

A day ago, Union homesecretary Ajay Bhalla had

asked all the States to ensurefree movement of vehiclescarrying oxygen “as it is anessential public health com-

modity and an important pre-requisite for managing mod-erate and severe Covid-19cases.”

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Pune-based SerumInstitute of India

(SII) is likely to startfrom Monday the finalstage of the clinical trialof University of Oxfordand AstraZeneca Plc.’sexperimental vaccine. The late-stage trial will take place at theSassoon General Hospital inPune.

In the third phase of theclinical trial, around 150-200volunteers will administer adose of Covishield. “Some vol-unteers have already comeforward for the trial,” a seniorofficial from the company said.The Sassoon General Hospitalin Pune has started enrollingvolunteers from Saturday.“Those who are willing to vol-unteer for the vaccinationshould contact the hospital,” hesaid.

The phase II trial ofCovishield was conducted atBharti Vidyapeeth MedicalCollege and King EdwardMemorial (KEM) Hospital inPune.

SII has inked a pact with

British-Swedish companyAstraZeneca to manufactureCOVID-19 vaccine candidate,developed by the University ofOxford.

The vaccine maker earli-er shortlisted 17 sites in Indiafor the Phase II clinical trial ofCovid-19 vaccine. At least1,600 candidates aged between18 to 55, participated in thePhase II clinical trial.

On September 10, thedrug maker had paused theclinical trials of the OxfordCOVID-19 vaccine candidatein India in the wake ofAstraZeneca suspending theclinical trials in other coun-tries. On September 15 theDCGI granted permission toSII to resume trial, whilerevoking its earlier order ofsuspending any new recruit-ment for phase II and III trial.

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Amid ongoing blame-gamebetween the developed and

developing nations on whoshould pay for increasing car-bon footprints, a study haspointed out that a fifth of car-bon dioxide emissions comefrom multinational companies’global supply chains which ineffect outsourced to poorerparts of the world.

The study, which is pub-lished in Nature ClimateChange, mapped the emissionsgenerated by multinationals’assets and suppliers abroadand found that the flow ofinvestment is typically fromdeveloped countries to devel-oping ones . “Hence emissionsbe assigned to countries wherethe investment comes from,rather than countries where theemissions are generated,” said

the study.Mapping the global flow of

investment, researchers fromUCL and Tianjin Universityfound steady increases ininvestment from developed todeveloping countries. Forinstance, between 2011 and2016 emissions generatedthrough investment from theUS to India increased by near-ly half (from 48.3 million tonsto 70.7 million tons), while inthe same years emissions gen-erated through investment fromChina to south-east Asiaincreased tenfold (from 0.7million tons to 8.2 milliontons).

In contrast, the study foundthat carbon emissions frommultinationals’ foreign invest-ment fell from a peak of 22 percent of all emissions in 2011 to18.7 per cent in 2016.Researchers said this was a

result of a trend of “de-global-isation”, with the volume of for-eign direct investment shrink-ing, as well as new technologiesand processes making indus-tries more carbon efficient.

The findings by UCL andTianjin University holdsimmense importance amid theongoing blamegame betweenthe developed and developingnations on the increasing cli-mate change threat owing to thegreen house gas emission.

T h eresearch showsthe impact thatmultinationalscan have byencouraginggreater energye f f i c i e n c yamong suppli-ers or by choos-ing suppliersthat are more

carbon efficient.Professor Dabo Guan

(UCL Bartlett School ofConstruction & ProjectManagement) said:“Multinational companies haveenormous influence stretchingfar beyond national borders. Ifthe world’s leading companiesexercised leadership on climatechange - for instance, by requir-ing energy efficiency in theirsupply chains - they could havea transformative effect on glob-

al efforts to reduce emissions.“However, companies’ cli-

mate change policies often havelittle effect when it comes to biginvestment decisions such aswhere to build supply chains.

“Assigning emissions to theinvestor country means multi-nationals are more accountablefor the emissions they generateas a result of these decisions.”

Lead author Dr ZengkaiZhang, of Tianjin University,said: “Multinationals areincreasingly transferring invest-ment from developed to devel-oping countries.

This has the effect of reduc-ing developed countries’ emis-sions while placing a greateremissions burden on poorercountries. At the same time itis likely to create higher emis-sions overall, as investment ismoved to more ‘carbon intense’regions.”

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The Centre on Saturday saida Cabinet note has been

formulated for the vehiclescrapping policy.

In reply to a question,Minister of State for RoadTransport and Highways(MoRTH) VK Singh informedthe Rajya Sabha that theGovernment has formulated aCabinet note on creation of anecosystem for voluntary andenvironment friendly phasingout of unfit and old pollutingvehicles.

The proposed policy, onceapproved, will be applicable onall vehicles, the governmenthad said earlier.

A MoRTH official said

that cabinet note on VehicleScrapping Policy- is preparingto implement the vehicle scrappolicy for the old four wheel-ers (car) and two wheelers(scooter bike) from nextmonth.

The policy was sent for afresh round of consultationwith stakeholders on the direc-tion of the PMO.

Road Transport andHighways Minister NitinGadakri had earlier this yearsaid once the policy isapproved, India could emergeas a hub for automobile man-ufacturing as key raw materi-al available from scrappingsteel, aluminium and plasticare bound to be recycled,bringing down automobileprices by “20-30%t”.

On July 26, 2019, theGovernment had proposedamendments to motor vehiclerules to allow scrapping ofvehicles older than 15 years ina bid to spur adoption of elec-trical vehicles.

In a draft notification, thegovernment proposed renew-al of fitness certificates forvehicles older than 15 yearsevery six months instead of thecurrent time-frame of oneyear.

When come into force,the automobile sector will gainmomentum as demand fornew vehicles increases. As pera report in the MoRTH, cus-tomers will get new vehicles upto 30 percent cheaper whileolder vehicles will reduce airpollution by 25 percent.

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Fulfilling his commitmentmade with the business

community, Lt GovernorManoj Kumar Sinha onSaturday announced a megarelief and revival package of�1,350 crore to help the J&Kbusiness sector to tide overtheir problems.

Addressing a press confer-ence in the Raj Bhawan audi-torium in Srinagar Lt Governorannounced a package of mea-sures, both financial and non-financial, aimed at helpingbusiness and entrepreneurs.

In his opening remarks LtGovernor also stated that thefirst part of overall economicpackage came fromGovernment of India in termsof Atma Nirbhar BharatAbhiyan.

Elaborating on the details,he said that so far �1,400 crorehas already been providedthrough JK Bank and otherbanks under this Abhiyan. Headded that it has many com-ponents which seek to helpbusiness entities in multipleways such as provision of liq-uidity and other financial sup-ports. He said that many wel-fare measures such as free

rations and support to themost needy were also beingprovided.

The Lt Governor said thatthe main component of today’spackage is 5 % interest sub-vention to all borrowers irre-spective of their sizes, whichwould cost about �950 crore.The interest subvention will beavailable for six months in thecurrent financial year and it willbe a huge relief in the currentscenario.

Lt Governor went on tosay that government has alsodecided to provide 50 %waiver of fixed charges forone year with respect to elec-

tricity and water which wouldcost �105 crore. He said thatthey have also decided toassist bus drivers/conduc-tors, auto/taxi drivers etcwho may have lost their liveli-hood by providing for anappropriate mechanism.

Further 50% or �5.00lakh subsidy whichever islower shall provided to thetransporters for replacementof old buses and the insur-ance premium shall be borneby the Government subject tomaximum of �5,000 per vehi-cle for Buses/Mini Buses,�3,000 for taxes/sumos and�2,000 for three wheelers.

For Tourism Sector, sub-sidy for installation of Bio-digesters in the houseboatshas been announced.

Assistance shall also beextended out of ‘JK ReliefFund’ to some 19914Shikara/House Boat own-ers/Tourist Guides/Pithuwalas/Dandiwalas/Sledge Walas/Pony/Camel Ridersand cash assistance of �1,000to all of them given from last3 months shall be extendedfor further 06 months ending31st December, 2020.

There are more than 3100artists who have lost theirlivelihood during the pan-

demic. The artists associatedwith the cultural academyshall be paid Rs 1000 permonth out of ‘JK Relief Fund’for a period of 09 monthsw.e.f 1st April, 2020.

For agriculture sector,district level bankers com-mittee shall be constituted toensure loan coverage for agri-culture and allied non-farmactivities under Mudra loans.Meetings will be organisedevery month to overcomedifficulties faced by the bor-rowers. Moreover J&K Bankshall frame customised “HelpTourism” scheme for finan-cial assistance to persons

associated with the TourismSector with attractive pricingand repayment features. Allstake holders shall be takenon board for any modifica-tions.

As far as tax concessionsare concerned, the filing ofthe GST reimbursementclaims has also been extend-ed till 31st December, 2020.

Handholding to removedifficulties in filing returnsand mechanism to avoiddelays in reimbursementclaims shall be instituted.

The accumulated interestshall be converted into fund-ed interest term loan.

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Giving a scare to the entire pop-ulation of the State, 4,644 new

patients were diagnosed with Covid-19 in Kerala on Saturday.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayansaid in his media briefing that 18persons succumbed to the pan-demic during the last 24 hours andthis took the death tally in the statetill date to 519.

Except in Wayanadu (95) andIdukki (47), the remaining 12 dis-tricts diagnosed more than 200patients each. Thiruvananthapuramhad the highest number of newcases on Saturday (824).

3,781 persons contracted thepandemic through social contactswhile 498 persons could not find outthe source from where they wereinfected. The State also detected onSaturday 86 health workers who gotinfected through social contact/

local transmission.There are 37,488 active cases

admitted to hospitals in Kerala. TheState administration found itself inan awkward position as it wasreported widely that the an exclu-sive Covid hospital built by the TataGroup in Kasaragod district was yetto commence its operations as theGovernment of Kerala failed toappoint even a single doctor in this550-bed hospital built by the busi-ness conglomerate at a cost of Rs 60crore. Though the keys of the hos-pital were handed over to the Stateadministration on September 9,the Covid-19 hospital remainsclosed.

Kasaragod district diagnosed191 new patients with Covid-19 .Though there is a medical college inthe district head quarters, it alsoremains without adequate staff,said a senior doctor in the generalhospital.

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Ajoint team of security forces havearrested three Lashkar-e- Tayyeba

(LeT) terrorists from the forest area ofGurdan in Rajouri. These three ter-rorists were spotted in the area by thesecurity personnel during a cordon andsearch operations.

Director General of Police, DilbaghSingh while sharing details of the oper-ation told reporters on saturday,“Rajouri Police along with Army’s 38RR had launched a cordon and searchoperation in the general area of Gurdanwhere three suspected persons carry-ing a bag each were spotted”.

Dilbagh Singh said, “The trioattempted to flee after throwing agrenade on the search party but thegrenade did not explode and the bravepersonnel of police and army managedto nab all of them along with huge

cache of arms/ammunition whichwere dropped by drone from Pakistan”.

He said the arrested terroristshave been identified and all hail fromSouth Kashmir. The DGP said thatdrones are being used by the Pakistaniagencies and its sponsored terror out-fits to supply arms/ammunition anddrugs inside our territory.

The DGP said that few days backPoonch police along with army arrest-ed two terrorist operatives and seizedarms & ammunition from them.

He also said that Rajouri Policewith the assistance of Poonch policebusted a narco-terrorism module byrecovering 11Kg of heroin during thepast few days. “

This is a huge catch cost of whichruns into crores of rupees and the saleproceeds of this were to be used byHizbul Mujahideen outfit to financeterrorist activities in J&K”,DGP added.

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Veteran communistleader and former

Lok Sabha member RozaDeshpande died of oldage and prolongedchronic illness at her res-idence here on Saturdayafternoon.

She was 91 and issurvived by a son, daugh-ter and grandchildren.She was the daughter ofone of founders of theCommunist Party ofIndia Shripad AmritDange.

Roza, who was borna month after her fatherDange was arrested inthe Meerut conspiracycase and sentenced to lifeimprisonment, enteredpolitical movementsthrough the All India

Students’ Federation(AISF) and TradeUnions. She also tookpart in the SamyuktaMaharashtra movement(for the creation of thestate of Maharashtra) andthe Goa liberation strug-gle as an AISF member.

In 1964, she organ-ised a massive demon-stration of women fromwalks of life and submit-ted a charter of demandsto the government. Itwas the first demonstra-tion of its kind in the his-tory of Bombay's labourmovement, which forcedthe private firms to with-draw an objectionableclause of forcing womenworkers to resign aftermarriage.

Having organisedthe workers in drug,chemicals and pharma-

ceutical industry into onetrade union, Roza wentonto form an All IndiaP h a r m a c e u t i c a lEmployees’ Union andgot it affiliated to theChemical and OilInternational of theWorld Federation ofTrade Unions at Praha.

In 1974, Roza waselected to Lok Sabhafrom Bombay South-Central Constituency asa candidate of theCommunity Party ofIndia. As an MP, sheworked on the variouscommittees associatedwith labour problemsand women issues.

She was subsequent-ly elected to the NationalCouncil of CommunistParty of India.

During theEmergency, her father

Dange and Roza stoodfirmly by late PrimeMinister Indira Gandhi,for which she was andher group was expelledfrom the CPI. Dange wasalso subsequentlyexpelled from the CPI.This led to the formationof All India CommunistParty of India, of whichshe was the general sec-retary. She was associat-ed with the All IndiaCommunist Party ofIndia from 1980 to 1987.

Ahead of the 1980Lok Sabha polls, late MrsGandhi wanted her toexplain her stand on cer-tain issues to Mr Breznev,the then President of theerstwhile USSR. She spe-cially sent Roza carryingher letter and had deliv-ered it to Mr Breznevpersonally.

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Amid spike in the Covid-19 cases espe-cially across Jammu region, the Ministry

of Health and Family Welfare on Saturdayrushed a high level central team headed byDirector National Centre for DiseaseControl (NCDC), Dr SK Singh to Jammu totake stock of the ground situation and sug-gest measures to contain the spread of thevirus and improve health care facilities.

In the last one week, Jammu region hasrecorded 80 Covid-19 deaths and over5000 residents have tested positive for coro-navirus. The total number of active positivecases in Jammu and Kashmir Saturday stoodat 21281. Out of these, Jammu has so farrecorded 12318 active positive cases whileKashmir valley has reported 8963 activecases. The death toll has reached 987 in J&k.

For almost two weeks the health careinfrastructure was struggling to cope withthe huge rush of patients leading to chaot-ic situation in the dedicated Covid hospitals

and isolated wards across other health cen-tres.

According to the official sources, soonafter their arrival here in Jammu a team ofdoctors headed by Dr Vijay Hadda, AssociateProfessor, Department of Pulmonary Criticalcare, AIIMS, New Delhi visited GovernmentMedical college hospital, Jammu and inter-acted with the senior faculty along withPrincipal of the college Dr Nisab ChandDigra. He was accompanied by a senior epi-demiologist.

The team members took comprehensivefeedback on reasons behind sudden spike incases of coronavirus, total number of deaths,treatment facilities, challenges and shortageof trained manpower and infrastructurefacilities.

The team members also visited few otherplaces where patients were admitted inJammu. Another team headed by Dr. S.KSingh, Director NCDC New Delhi alongwith Dr Tanzin Joint Director NCDC NewDelhi visited Udhampur and took feedbackfrom the ground zero.

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who was also forced to sexuallyassault her in Rajasthan's Alwar dis-trict, police said on Saturday. The accused also shot a video of theincident and circulated it followingwhich an FIR was registered, theysaid.

Of the six people named in theFIR, the police have caught fiveincluding two minors and efforts areon to nab the sixth accused, deputySuperintendent of Police KushalSingh said.

Those arrested have been iden-tified as Aasam alias Ghunta (35) -- the main accused, Sahud (19) andWaris (25). Two minors have beenapprehended while the search for thesixth accused -- Imran is on, police

said. SP Bhiwadi Ram Moortyinspected the spot of the allegedcrime on Saturday and interrogatedthe accused.

The incident occurred in a hillyarea close to the border under TijaraPolice Station in Bhiwadi onSeptember 14 when the womanalong with her 25-year-old nephewwas returning home after givingsome money to her relative in a near-by village

The accused caught hold ofthem near the hills and while one ofthem, identified as Aasam, raped thewoman, others molested her. Theaccused also tied the hands of hernephew and later forced him to sex-ually assault the woman.

“They also shot a video clip ofthe incident and threatened to cir-culate if they informed anyone aboutthe incident, “ the deputy SP said.

Bengaluru: Karnataka is notfacing shortage of medical oxy-gen for COVID-19 patients,state Medical EducationMinister K Sudhakar said onSaturday. To ensure that thestate does not run out of sup-plies, the government is sourc-ing oxygen tanks from Gujarat,the Minister said.

Oxygen would be suppliedto not only government hospi-tals but also private hospitals, anofficial press release quoted himas saying after inauguratingCOVID Molecular Lab atSiddhartha Medical College andResearch Centre in Tumakuru,nearly 70 km from here.

The lab can conduct2,000 coronavirus tests per day,the release said. Recently, a fewhospitals faced a shortage of oxy-gen but the demand was

addressed with cooperationfrom industrial zones at respec-tive districts, he said.

The government is takingmeasures to make sure therewont be shortage in the future.With surge in demand for oxy-gen, the state government hadlast month directed all the man-ufacturers of medical oxygen toaugment production and supplyit without interruption. It askedhospitals and medical institu-tions also to contact the

Assistant Drugs Controllersof the respective areas to resolveany issue relating to the short-age. Sudhakar said a cost hasbeen fixed by the government toprevent private hospitals fromovercharging, and he requestedthe public to file complaints ifthey were being charged exor-bitantly. PTI

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Three and a half years after itwas decommissioned, the

much-celebrated Indian Navy’saircraft carrier and the longestserving warship of the world“INS Viraat” on Saturdayembarked on its swan songjourney to Alang Port in Gujarat,the country’s biggest graveyardfor all such condemned ships.

Accompanied by two othertowing vessels, “INS Viraat” setsail for her final voyage. She willreach Alang Port in little overthree days after which the con-

demned ship will come underthe hammer, thus marking theend of a glorious era of a leg-endary ship. “INS Viraat wasbought by Shri Ram Green ShipRecycling Industries Ltd.,Gujarat, for Rs.38.50 crore in anauction conducted by MSTCLtd.

INS Viraat had beendecommissioned on March 6,2017 by the Indian Navy in asombre yet grand ceremony atMumbai's Naval Dockyard inthe presence of more than 1300personnel who have served onboard the iconic warship.

At the time of its de-com-missioning, a Special Postal

Cover was released by the ChiefGuest Admiral Sunil Lanba,

PVSM, AVSM, ADC, Chief ofthe Naval Staff, to commemorate“30 years of Glorious Service toThe Nation” by INS Viraat

The aircraft carrier wascommissioned into the IndianNavy on May 12. 1987. The shipheld the Guinness Books ofrecord for being the longest serv-ing warship of the world. Theship which was the centerpieceof the Navy, housed the fightersSea Harriers of INAS 300 pop-ularly called “White Tigers”,Anti Submarine aircraft Seaking Mk 42B, Sea King Mk 42C known as “Harpoons” and the

SAR helicopter Chetak as anintegral flight. The ingenious AirLight Helicopter Dhruv' andthe Russian twin rotor Kamov-31 also operated onboard theship. The Sea Harriers fleet wasdecommissioned at Goa on May11, 2016. Under the Indian Flag,the ship has clocked more than22,622 flying hours by variousaircraft in the past three decadesand has spent nearly 2252 daysat sea sailing and 5,88,287 NM(10,94,215 KM).

In essence, INS Viraat spentseven years at sea, covering theentire globe 27 times. Since her

inception she had a total of80,715 hours of boiler running.She played a major role in theOperation Jupiter in 1989 in SriLankan Peace Keeping opera-tion, after which she was affili-ated with Garhwal Rifles andScouts of the Indian Army in1990.

Her major participation wasseen during Op Parakram in2001-2002 where India andPakistan were engaged in astandoff post terrorist attack onthe Parliament. The ship wasinstrumental in honing the artof flying operations from a car-

rier deck in the Navy, which alsoresulted in seamless induction ofINS Vikramaditya and its inte-gration with the fleet. The shipparticipated in various interna-tional joint exercises likeExercise Malabar (USA), exer-cise Varuna (French), Naseem-Al-Bahar (Oman Navy). She wasalso an integral element of all theannual theater level exercise(TROPEX). The last operationaldeployment of Viraat was forparticipation in InternationalFleet Review (IFR 2016) offVishakhapatnam in February2016.

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Ahead of the crop burning sea-son, a high-level task force led

by the Prime Minister's Office(PMO) on Saturday held a reviewmeeting in advance before theonset of harvesting and winter sea-son to ensure proper precaution-ary and preventive measures tocombat the causes of air pollutionare taken well in time for the man-agement of air pollution in theNational Capital Region (NCR).

During the meeting, it wasobserved that stubble burningwere high in Punjab, Haryana andUttar Pradesh last year. A meetingwas chaired by PK Mishra,Principal Secretary to PrimeMinister, involving all stakeholders,reviewed the main sources of airpollution, measures taken and theprogress made by the State

Governments and variousMinistries was carried out. It wasnoted that the incidence of stubbleburning has reduced by more than50% in last two years and the num-ber of Good AQI days have goneup.

To control stubble burning, itwas stressed that adequate numberof teams should be deployed atground level and they shouldensure that no stubble burningtakes place especially in the Stateof Punjab, Haryana and UP. TheseStates need to put extra efforts andappropriate incentives especially inthe relevant districts.

“Delhi government wasrequested to ensure measures tocontrol local sources of pollution.Principal Secretary mentioned thatspecial emphasis should be laid ondeployment of teams for control ofopen burning of waste, IT-enabled

monitoring of mechanical roadsweepers, improvement in utiliza-tion of construction and demoli-tion waste and site specific imple-mentation of action plan for iden-tified hot spots. It was decided thatHaryana and Uttar Pradesh wouldprepare and implement similar sitespecific action plans in their areafalling under NCR,” PMO state-ment said.

At the meeting, Mishraemphasized that the envisagedmeasures should be implementedwell before the onset of severe con-ditions, and focus should also belaid on compliance of emissionnorms by industry in satelliteindustrial area.According to satel-lite data, there were 61,332instances of stubble-burning inPunjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradeshbetween October and November,2019.

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Hyderabad: The Covid-19 scare has reached the officeof Telangana Health Minister Eatala Rajander asseven staff have tested positive for the virus.

Two drivers, three gunmen and two personal assis-tants of the minister have been found infected by coro-navirus, sources in the minister's office said onSaturday.Rajender also underwent Covid test but itturned out to be negative.

As a precautionary measure, the minister did notattend office and operated from his residence. Someother employees in the office also stayed away.

Health and municipal personnel took upsanitiSation of the minister's office at BRK Bhavan,which is serving as the temporary state secretariat.

This is the first time that staff members in the HealthMinister's office have tested positive for Covid-19.Earlier, employees in various departments in the BRKBhavan were found infected.During the recent state leg-islature session, members cutting across party lines hadpraised the Health Minister for his hard work and bestefforts to tackle the pandemic. IANS

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In a crucial arrest and conse-quent seizure of drugs that

may help break celebrity-drugnexus in Mumbai and thenational capital, the NarcoticsControl Bureau (NCB) arrest-ed a man linked to a networkof DJs and drug party organis-ers from neighbouring Palghardistrict, and seized 670 gramsof Cocaine sourced fromEthiopia, at a location in NewDelhi.

Close on the heels of thearrest of six more alleged drugpeddlers and seized 1.433 kg. ofCharas and Ganja in connec-tion with the ongoing SushantSingh Rajput death-relateddrug case, the NCB arrested aman Vasai, who is linked to anetwork of DJs and party orga-nizers and supply of cocaine tothem.

The NCB seized 670 gramsof Cocaine from New Delhi,sourced from Ethiopia. As partof ‘Controlled delivery opera-tion launched by it, the NCBarrested the man linked to anetwork of DJs and drug partyorganizers.

Identifying the arrestedman as S. Ghangale, the NCBofficials said that he would beproduced before a Delhi court.

“The seizure took place inDelhi and the arrest of theaccused person was carriedout from Mumbai. The con-traband was sourced fromAddis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Washington: US President DonaldTrump has said that the protesters, whowent violent in the aftermath of thedeath of African-American GeorgeFloyd, did not even spare the statue ofMahatma Gandhi in Washington DC,describing the demonstrators as a“bunch of thugs”.

George Floyd died in Minneapolison May 25 after white police officerDerek Chauvin handcuffed and pinnedhim to the ground, and knelt on his neckfor more than eight minutes while the46-year-old from Houston gasped forbreath.

The footage, which went viral,showed Floyd pleading with the officer,saying he can’t breathe. His deathsparked nationwide violent protestswith some protesters resorting to van-dalism, looting and rioting across thecountry, leaving behind a trail of destruc-tion.

“You know, they started rippingdown Abraham Lincoln. When they hit

Lincoln, I said wait a minute. This is theman and you can do - then they hitGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson.They had everybody,” Trump said at awell-attended election rally inMinnesota, a State that he lost by a lit-tle over 44,000 votes in 2016, on Friday.

He also mentioned about the stat-ue of Mahatma Gandhi in WashingtonDC that was vandalised by unknownprotesters at the peak of the nationwideprotests.

“They even had (Mahatma) Gandhi.All Gandhi wanted was one thing,peace. Right? We have peace. Rip downhis statue. We don’t like him. I don’t thinkthey have any idea what they’re doing,”President Trump said.

“I think they’re just a bunch of thugs,okay, you want to know the truth. I thinkthey’re a bunch of thugs,” he added.

The US President told his cheeringaudience that he had signed an execu-tive order that would put such vandalsin jail for 10 years. AFP

Washington: TikTok asked afederal judge in Washington toblock the Trump administrationfrom enacting a ban on the fast-growing social-media network.

TikTok and its parent com-pany, ByteDance Ltd., filed acomplaint late Friday night chal-lenging the Trump administra-tion’s recent moves to preventthe app from operating in theU.S. The lawsuit marks the sec-ond time TikTok has challengedPresident Donald Trump’sactions in court, bringing ahigh-stakes geopolitical fightover technology and trade intothe U.S. legal system.

Trump exceeded his author-ity, the company said, and did sofor political reasons rather thanto stop an “unusual and extra-ordinary threat” to the U.S., asthe law requires. TikTok alsosaid the ban violates its FirstAmendment free-speech rights.

The White House didn’timmediately respond to arequest for comment.

Trump’s actions would“destroy an online communitywhere millions of Americanshave come together to expressthemselves,” according to thecomplaint. The company

claimed that the U.S. govern-ment has “ignored evidence”showing TikTok’s commitmentto the privacy and security of itsAmerican users.

On August 6, Trump issuedan executive order saying hewould ban transactions with theapp within 45 days, arguing thatthe social network’s Chineseownership made it a nationalsecurity threat. TikTok sued toblock that order in federal courtin Californa in August. But onFriday, the Commerce Dept,moving to implement Trump’sorder, said TikTok would bebanned in the U.S. starting onNov. 12 unless it could completea takeover deal that assuages thegovernment’s concerns.

Trump’s order followed aninvestigation by the Committeeon Foreign Investment in theU.S., which reviews proposedacquisitions of domestic busi-nesses by overseas investors fornational security concerns. Andit set off a flurry of attempteddeal-making, pushingByteDance to seek a sale ofTikTok’s American operations toa U.S. company. TikTok is cur-rently in talks with Oracle Corp.about a possible deal. AFP

Tehran: The chief of Iran’sparamilitary RevolutionaryGuard threatened on Saturdayto go after everyone who hada role in a top general’s Januarykilling during a US drone strikein Iraq.

The guard’s website quot-ed Gen. Hossein Salami assaying, “Mr. Trump! Ourrevenge for martyrdom of ourgreat general is obvious, seriousand real.”

US President DonaldTrump warned this week thatWashington would harshlyrespond to any Iranianattempts to take revenge for thedeath of Gen. QassemSoleimani, tweeting that “ifthey hit us in any way, anyform, written instructionsalready done we’re going to hitthem 1000 times harder.”

The president’s warningcame in response to a reportthat Iran was plotting to assas-sinate the US ambassador toSouth Africa in retaliation forSoleimani’s killing at Baghdad’sairport at the beginning of theyear.

“We took out the world’snumber one terrorist and themass murderer of Americantroops and many, many troopsand many people all over theworld,” Trump said. “QasemSoleimani is dead. He’s dead.Bad guy. Bad guy. Very bad guy.”

Salami rejected the reportof an Iranian plot to assassinateAmbassador Lana Marks, butmade clear that Iran intends toavenge the general’s death.

“Do you think we hit afemale ambassador in return toour martyred brother?’ the

general said. “We will hit thosewho had direct and indirectroles. You should know thateverybody who had role in theevent will be hit, and this is aserious message. We do proveeverything in practice.”

In January, Iran launched aballistic missile attack targetingUS soldiers in Iraq in responseto the fatal drone strike.

Trump has stepped upeconomic pressure on Iranwith sanctions since he pulledthe United States out of Iran’snuclear deal with world pow-ers in 2018.

Tehran has continued toexpand its stockpile of enricheduranium and pressured othernations to offset the harm of USsanctions, while insisting itdoes not want to develop anuclear weapon. AP

Rabat: Despite a governmentban on large gatherings to pre-vent the spread of the coron-avirus, scores of demonstratorsprotested outside the MoroccanParliament to denounce Arabcountries agreeing to normaliseties with Israel.

Israel on Tuesday signedhistoric diplomatic pacts withthe United Arab Emirates andBahrain in a U.S.-brokered deal.Morocco was reported to beamong other Arab countriesconsidering a similar move,though the prime ministerrejected the idea last month.

Protesters in Morocco’s cap-ital of Rabat Friday wavedPalestinian flags, decrying thedeals as “treason” and chanting“Palestine is not for sale.” ThePalestinians view the pacts as astab in the back from their fel-low Arabs in the Gulf and abetrayal of their cause for aPalestinian state. Israel and

Bahrain’s agreements have beencondemned by many acrossthe Arab world.

The protesters in Rabat alsoburned a mock Israeli flag.Dozens of police officerswatched the scene from a dis-tance.

Organisers interrupted thechanting occasionally to urgeparticipants to wear masks andto respect social distancing rules.“The normalisation deals are anattack on the Palestinian peopleand their cause,” human rightsactivist Abdelhamid Amine toldThe Associated Press.

“We are calling on theMoroccan government not tofollow suit and we urge it not tosurrender to the Zionist andimperialist pressure like otherArab countries,” said Amine,former president of theMoroccan Association ofHuman Rights and one of therally organisers. AP

Islamabad: Pakistan’s deposedpremier Nawaz Sharif is set tomake a comeback in active pol-itics following a year-longabsence after PPP chairmanBilawal Bhutto Zardari invitedhim to virtually attend theOpposition-led multiparty con-ference aimed at launching aprotest movement against theImran Khan-led governmenton Sunday.

Sharif, 70, the PakistanMuslim League Nawaz (PML-N) supremo, has been living inLondon since November lastyear after the Lahore HighCourt granted him permission

to go abroad for four weeks fortreatment.

The three-time premier, hisdaughter Maryam and son-in-law Muhammad Safdar wereconvicted in the Avenfield prop-erties case on July 6, 2018.

Sharif, who was deposed in2017, was also sentenced toseven years in the Al-Azizia SteelMills case in December 2018.But, he was bailed out in bothcases and also allowed to go toLondon for medical treatment.

He was given eight weeks toreturn but failed to come backdue to health complications,according to his lawyer. PTI

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ond day on Saturday as theisland’s leader, seniorGovernment officials and ahigh-level US envoy paid trib-ute to the man who led Taiwan’stransition to democracy, for-mer President Lee Teng-hui.

Keith Krach, the US under-secretary for state, kept a lowprofile at the service.

His presence at the eventand on the island has drawn astrong rebuke from China,which sent 18 warplanes acrossthe midline of the Taiwan StraitFriday in an unusually largedisplay of force.

On Saturday, Beijing dis-patched 19 more warplanes,two of which were bombers,according to Taiwan’s DefenseMinistry. The island’s air forcescrambled their own anddeployed an air defense missilesystem to monitor China’sactivities, according to a state-ment.

The service was held at the

Aletheia University in Taipei ona balmy Saturday morning,with President Tsai Ing-wenhonouring Lee for bringing apeaceful political transition tothe island democracy.

Lee had built a separateTaiwanese political identity,distinct from mainland China,which claims Taiwan as part ofits own territory to be reunit-ed by force if necessary.

Lee’s carving out of a non-Chinese identity and insis-tence that the island be treat-ed as an equal country broughthim into direct conflict withBeijing. He died on July 30 atage 97.

“We have a responsibilityto continue his endeavours,allowing the will of the peopleto reshape Taiwan, furtherdefining Taiwan’s identity anddeepening and bolsteringdemocracy and freedom,” Tsaisaid.

Former Japanese PrimeMinister Shinzo Abe and theDalai Lama also paid tributefrom afar.

“We Buddhists believe in

life after life, so most probablyhe will be reborn in Taiwan,”the Dalai Lama said in a videomessage.

“His rebirth will carry hisspirit continuously.” The guestsincluded another formerJapanese prime minister,Yoshiro Mori. They woremasks and sat spaced out inpews.

Lee, an agricultural econ-omist and politician, devotedhis career toward buildingdemocracy on the islandthrough direct elections andother changes.

He was the first govern-ment official to speak out andformally apologise for the so-called 228 incident, namedafter February 28, 1947, whensoldiers under theKuomingtang, or the sole rul-ing Nationalist Party, shot andkilled thousands of civilians inan anti-government uprising.

The bloodshed marked thebeginning of a decades-longperiod known as the WhiteTerror in which the island wasruled by martial law.

Washington: US SupremeCourt Justice Ruth BaderGinsburg, the history-mak-ing jurist, feminist icon and achampion of women’s rightsand social justice, has died ofcancer at the age of 87.

Ginsburg became only thesecond woman ever to serve asa justice on the nation’s high-est court. A lifelong advocateof gender equality, sheacquired the reputation of acautious or moderate judgeand will be remembered as alegal colossus.

“Our nation has lost a jus-tice of historic stature. We atthe Supreme Court have losta cherished colleague. Todaywe mourn but with confi-dence that future generationswill remember Ruth BaderGinsburg as we knew her —a tried and resolute champi-on of justice,” Supreme CourtChief Justice John Robertssaid in a statement. Ginsburg’sdeath on Friday could openup another battlefrontbetween President DonaldTrump and his Democraticrival and former vice presi-dent Joe Biden. AFP

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Organisers predicted that asmany as 50,000 will march overtwo days in an area of the cap-ital historically associated withpolitical protests, after an esti-mated 10,000 people turnedout for the last major rally onAug. 16. But the early turnoutwas modest Saturday as a steadylight rain fell.

Demonstrators wore facemasks, but ignored a Thursdaynight plea from Prime MinisterPrayuth Chan-ocha to cancelthe event, which he said riskedspreading the coronavirus andderailing recovery of Thailand’sbattered economy.

The core demands declaredby the protesters in July were thedissolution of parliament withfresh elections, a new constitu-tion and an end to intimidationof political activists. AP

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Friday accused U.S. Secretary ofState Mike Pompeo of “spread-ing rumors” and “smearing”Beijing, after Washington’s topdiplomat criticized Chinesecompanies during a four-stopSouth America tour.

In a joint appearance withnewly elected SurinamesePresident Chan Santokhi onThursday, Pompeo saidChinese companies often donot compete on a “fair andequitable basis.”

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Washington: The US military said that it hasdeployed additional assets, including radar sys-tems and armoured vehicles, to northeasternSyria, weeks after a collision incident between theAmerican and Russian army vehicles in theregion.

“The US has deployed Sentinel radar,increased the frequency of US fighter patrols overUS forces, and deployed Bradley FightingVehicles to augment US forces in the EasternSyria Security Area (ESSA),” US CentralCommand Spokesman Bill Urban said in astatement on Friday.

“These actions are a clear demonstration ofUS resolve to defend Coalition forces in the ESSA,and to ensure that they are able to continue theirDefeat-ISIS mission without interference,” Xinhuanews agency quoted Urban as saying.

US media reported that the latest deploymentincluded six Bradley vehicles and fewer than 100troops.

The deployment was believed as a responseto the collision between the vehicles thatoccurred in northern Syria in late August.

The US and Russia blamed each other for theincident, which left seven American soldiersinjured.

Kenneth Ekman, deputy commander ofCombined Joint Task Force Operation InherentResolve, said in July that US troops in Syria inter-act with Russians almost daily.

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But across America,Democrats, independents and evensome Republicans do not trust hisadministration to produce a safeand effective vaccine on such anaggressive timeline.

Such hesitancy threatens toexacerbate the public health risk formillions of Americans whenever avaccine is released.

With the November 3 electionfast approaching, Democratic offi-cials face a delicate political chal-lenge.

Should they attack Trump’svaccine claims too aggressively,Democrats risk further undermin-ing public confidence in a possiblelifesaving medicine while lookingas though they are rooting againsta potential cure.

But if they don’t push back, itmakes it easier for Trump to use thereal or imagined prospect of a vac-cine to boost his reelection cam-paign.

Washington Gov. Jay Insleedemonstrated the Democrats' bal-ancing act on Friday when askedwhether he would be willing to takea vaccine released by the adminis-tration before the election.

If all the protocols had been fol-lowed and the evidence is in, ofcourse, I'd follow science. It does-n't matter when it happens, Insleetold The Associated Press. “But Iwould have to look at the science,not Donald Trump. There isn't onesingle thing I would ever trust fromDonald Trump to be true.

The focus on a speedy vaccinecould be overshadowed by a sud-den fight over the future of theSupreme Court in the wake ofJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death

on Friday.But Inslee’s comments are in

line with a growing consensus ofDemocrats in leadership positions,including the party's presidentialnominee, Joe Biden.

They have repeatedly castdoubt on Trump's promises butpledged to follow the guidance ofscientists and health care expertssuch as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the gov-ernment's top infectious diseasespecialist.

Trump restates his promise ofan imminent vaccine almost daily.

Trump on Friday promisedthat 100 million doses of a still-unknown vaccine would be pro-duced by the end of the year andthere would be enough vaccines forall Americans by April.

Three vaccines are already inthe final stage, Trump said at abriefing.

Joe Biden's anti-vaccine theo-

ries are putting a lot of lives at stake,and they're only doing it for polit-ical reasons," the president saidfrom a White House podium.

“It's part of their war to dis-credit the vaccine now that theyknow we essentially have it. We'll beannouncing it fairly soon.

The first case of COVID-19was reported in the United Statesjust eight months ago. Healthexperts, including the administra-tion's own Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention chief,believe a vaccine will require at least12 months to 18 months to createbecause of the extensive testingrequired to ensure it's safe andeffective.

The politics of the coronavirusvaccine are complicated.

Trump has suffered politicallyfrom the pandemic, which hasdevastated the global economy andkilled nearly 200,000 Americans,

.�� �������(�8��#���������@������ ���������������Washington President DonaldTrump on Saturday urged theRepublican-run Senate to consid-er without delay his upcomingnomination to fill the SupremeCourt seat vacated by the death ofJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just sixweeks before the election.

The White House was makingpreparations to select a nominee forthe seat held by Ginsburg, whospent her final years on the benchas the unquestioned leader of thecourt's liberal wing.

Senate Majority Leader MitchMcConnell, R-Ky., vowed on Fridaynight, hours after Ginsburg's death,to call a vote for whomever Trumpnominated.

Democrats said Republicansshould follow the precedent they setin 2016 by not considering aSupreme Court choice in the run-up to an election.

Trump made his view clear ina tweet Saturday: We were put inthis position of power and impor-tance to make decisions for the peo-ple who so proudly elected us, themost important of which has longbeen considered to be the selectionof United States Supreme Court

Justices. We have this obligation,without delay! Democratic presi-dential nominee Joe Biden said anyvote should come after the Nov. 3election.

“Voters should pick the presi-dent and the president should pickthe justice to consider, Biden said.

The impending clash over thevacant seat when to fill it and withwhom is sure to significantly affectthe stretch run of the presidentialrace, further stirring passions in anation already reeling from thepandemic that has killed nearly200,000 people, left millions unem-ployed and heightened partisantensions and anger.

McConnell, who sets the cal-endar in the Senate and has madejudicial appointments his priority,declared unequivocally in a state-ment that Trump's nominee wouldreceive a confirmation vote in thechamber.

In 2016, McConnell refused toconsider President Barack Obama'schoice for the high court monthsahead of the election, eventuallypreventing a vote.

As the nation learned ofGinsburg's death, Trump was

unaware, speaking for more than anhour and a half at a Minnesota rallywithout mentioning it. He huddledwith aides after stepping off stagebut acted surprised when he spokewith reporters moments later, say-ing he did not know she had died.

The president told reportersthat Ginsburg was an amazingwoman who led an amazing life.Aides had worried how theMinnesota crowd would react ifTrump mentioned her death fromthe stage, according to a WhiteHouse official not authorized topublicly discuss private delibera-tions and spoke on condition ofanonymity.

But Trump had noted in hisrally speech that the next presi-dential term could offer him asmany as four appointments to thenine-member court, whose mem-bers are confirmed for life.

This is going to be the mostimportant election in the history ofour country and we have to get itright, he added.

A confirmation vote in theSenate is not guaranteed, evenwith a Republican majority.McConnell has not indicated if he

bring a vote before the election.Typically it takes several

months to vet and hold hearings ona Supreme Court nominee, andtime is short ahead of the election.Key senators may be reluctant tocast votes so close to the election.With a slim GOP majority, 53 seatsin the 100-member chamber,Trump's choice could afford to loseonly a few.

McConnell did not specify thetiming, but trying for confirmationin a post-election lame-duck ses-sion if Trump had lost to Biden orRepublicans had lost the Senatewould carry further political com-plications.

Democrats immediatedenounced McConnell's move ashypocritical, pointing out that herefused to call hearings for MerrickGarland, Obama's pick, 237 daysbefore the 2016 election. The 2020election is 46 days away.

Senate Democratic leaderCharles Schumer, in a tweet, echoedword for word what McConnellsaid in 2016 about the Garlandnomination: The American peopleshould have a voice in the selectionof their next Supreme Court Justice.

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Reza Khandan said thathealthcare professionals decid-ed to hospitalize his wife,Nasrin Sotoudeh, because ofheart and respiratory problemsas well as low blood pressure.

Khandan said Sotoudehwas transferred to a hospital innorth Tehran from the notori-ous Evin Prison earlier onSaturday.

Sotoudeh began her hungerstrike in mid-August from herprison cell. She was arrested in2018 on charges of collusionand propaganda against Iran'srulers and eventually was sen-tenced to 38 years in prison and148 lashes. Under the law shemust serve at least 12 years.

During her prison term,Sotoudeh occasionally visitedclinics as she suffered chronicgastrointestinal and foot prob-lems.

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Season 3 takes off with theImpeachment sham that Trumpsurvived with flying colours. Ashe puts it: “I can do anything andget away with it as I have beenchosen by the people ofAmerica.”

The self-deprecatinghumour, the audacity ofimpunity that Trump wearsbrings in a lot of laughter intothis very American series muchlike The Simpsons. It will appealto the people who are in theknowledge of America’sdomestic politics, policyblunders and the demeanourthat the President sports.

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clown so situations around himare insanely funny and thescriptwriter has done well tocatch all the nuances to presentTrump roasting himself, morespecifically roasting the citizensof America for voting him in.

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Entirely up to you whetheryou are in a mood to connect tothis sort of very Americancomedy. One thing is therethough, Season 3 shows nofatigue whatsoever in pressingthe funny bone button.

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tops in that segment. A thoughtless, disastrouscomedy-drama propelling sexual adventurism tosave a sagging marriage where sex has becomeboring and a tool to somehow have babies, it is aromp in the bed by a committed couple and the wife’slesbian girlfriend who stops over for a night after12 years of a breakup.

Other than the protagonists being extremelypretty, the house where the action takes place beingsexy, the neighbours having their own between thesheets issues with yucky outcomes, there is nothingin the movie that will keep you interested, or let mesay not get you irritated.

Holly (girlfriend) breezes into the couple’s homewith not even a blink, sleeps straight seven hours,gets up all decked up and her friend’s husbandproposing a threesome! They agree and do it withoutwasting any time or sparing a thought to even their

viewers. And then it is all over, Holly leaves, thecouple rocks and the neighbours too learn to live,well, between the sheets once in a while.

Who, how, what, why? Don’t look for answersin this one which much too casually degrades theentire institution of marriage, fidelity and the works.

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the hero and do a song and dance. Not thatthere is anything wrong with such films, theonly problem is that few realise that what theysee on the screen is a make-belief world andthere is more to life, especially for women —they have aspirations, ambitions and needs.

Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare bydirector Alankrita Shrivastava and producedby Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor undertheir banner Balaji Telefilms is one such film.Shrivastava is known to make films thatexplore gender roles and the judgement onhow women in our society should behave

without questioning the moral values of themen. The film tries to bring out complexitiesof relationships, questions what is right andwrong as the story progresses.

The good part is that it doesn’t pass anyjudgement on the choices the women make.In fact, it goes on as far as saying that it wasthe choice that they made because there ismore to them that needs to be explored. Thetwo-hour running time may appear to be abit longer than what we are used to, but thestory keeps the viewer engrossed.

Konkana Sen as Radha aka Dolly givesa great performance as she explores herrelationship — with her husband, with heryounger son, with her sister, with her adelivery boy and her mother. BhumiPednekar as Kaajal aka Kitty too gives abrilliant performance. Amol Parashar,Vikrant Massey and Aamir Bashir do justiceto their performances.

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role — definitely not the fault of the actor. But thetruth is that the characters that they have playedleave such an impact that it becomes impossibleto break the mould in which we are used to seeingthem. This probably makes the task of the directorand the actor tough but the end result is worth itand The Devil All The Time is a prime example howactors step out of the mould that viewers put themin and show that at the end of the day, it is job anda role that they stepped into even if it was for a fewyears.

The psychological thriller based on the novelof the same name by Donald Ray Pollock is directedand co-written by Antonio Campos and producedby Jake Gyllenhaal and Randall Poster. The storyis simple enough. But there are many characters

and while it does, at times, become difficult tofollow the thread of each character’s journey, theytend to collide with each other from time to time.The way it all comes together is interesting.

What is even more brilliant about this movieis the performance that Tom Holland and RobertPattinson have given. Holland as a young mantrying to protect his family from all the evil givesa stellar performance. However, it is Pattinson whostands out here even though he doesn’t have asmeaty a role as Holland. He may have a total screenpresence of 30-35 minutes but the way he managesto break away from Edward Cullen is stunning. Asthe preacher in this one and a high-pitchedSouthern drawl, he is a surprise.

A report says that the actor had crafted theaccent in his room for days and didn’t let anyonehear it — not even Campos. It is riveting to watchhim deliver the dialogues in this accent, sodifferent from the extremely polished Cullen.

While the movie itself doesn’t have much tosay apart from the good versus evil, God versus thedevil, what makes this 138-minute film worth awatch are Holland and Pattinson’s acting.

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A15-year-old student has alleged-ly died by suicide because shecould not cope with online class-es. The Class X student,Subiksha, from Sivaganga dis-

trict, Tamil Nadu allegedly ended her life onSeptember 15, 2020 since she couldn’tunderstand the lessons taught through theonline sessions. Subiksha was depressed asshe was not able to follow the lessons andfeared that she would not be able to scorehigh marks in her exams if she was to studyvia online classes.

On August 14, 2020, a decomposingbody of a 40-year-old doctor working atAIIMS was recovered from his residence inSouth Delhi. Mohit Singhla was foundhanging in a room on the second floor, whichwas locked from inside. The doctor workedwith Department of Paediatrics at AIIMS. Asuicide note was recovered that said: ‘It washis life, his choice and he didn't want to livetill 60-70 years. The letter also said he could-n’t hide his mental state anymore’.

On August 10 2020, a 22-year-old med-ical student, Vikas, had allegedly committedsuicide at AIIMS. He was a second-year MBBSstudent from Bengaluru, and had been seek-ing treatment at the institute for depression.

On July 11, 2020 Dr Anurag Kumar (25),a junior resident with the psychiatry depart-ment, allegedly committed suicide at AIIMS.

Depression is a term we often throwaround without realising the depth of the dis-ease. “It is a mental health condition thataffects people of all ages in the form of oneor recurrent major depressive episodes thatcan be mild, moderate, or severe. There isno single cause of depression; it is a disor-der of the brain that occurs due to a combi-nation of genetic and environmental factorsworking together. It is a frequent mood dis-order that is severely disabling and has a sig-nificant impact on everyday life of an indi-vidual as well as society at large, includinga substantial economic burden on society,”Dr Prakriti Poddar, director Poddar WellnessLtd explains.

According to The Lancet, mental disor-ders are among the leading causes of non-fatal disease burden in India and 197.3 mil-lion people had mental disorders in India in2017, which includes 45.7 million peoplewith depressive disorders and 44.9 millionpeople with anxiety disorders. It goes ontostate that mental disorders comprised 2.5 percent of the total disability-adjusted life-yearsin 1990 that increased to 4.7 per centin2017. Among non-communicable dis-eases mental health is the largest contribu-tor to economic loss in India.

“It is time we shun this one at a timeapproach towards depression and other men-tal health conditions and take up the cudgelsto support them. Depression is a risk factorfor suicidal thinking and good mental healthcare can reduce the risk, there are several waysto ensure the affected person can access these.Suicide prevention programmes and hotlinescan provide support and can withhold the ten-dency for some time. However, the focus andits prevention draws attention away from thefact that in worst case situations depression andresultant suicidal thinking/suicideattempts/suicide can be compelling,” DrPoddar says.

The COVID-19 pandemic has added tothe stress and disrupted not only just busi-nesses but also our consumption patterns andthe way we live. The pandemic inducedforced work from home and online educa-tion has become the new normal. Screen timehas gone up exponentially and a lack of phys-ical activity has significantly impacted men-tal and physical health. Established routinesare completely unsettled. Within a week ofthe lockdown, reported cases of mentalhealth went up 20 per cent.

A Tata Salt Lite survey has indicated thatfor Delhiites, work related issues and tech-nology related issues were the top reasons

forgetting angry and stressed. Every three outof five (61%) respondents admitted that theywould feel extremely angry, make errors oreven argue with their boss if they wereassigned work on their holidays or if theywere asked to work longer on Fridays forsome urgent work.

According to Dr Raj Kumar Shrivastava,senior consultant and head, Department ofMental Health and Behavioral Science, MaxSuper Speciality Hospital, Patparganj, depres-sion is the most common form of psychiatricproblem. “It has always been there. Today,people have started talking about it more.People are more open and reporting is on therise. The role of social media and thecelebrities also talking about their mentalhealth, people have become courageous. Thepandemic has not helped matters. Fear ofinfection, losing jobs and negativity aroundthe Coronavirus has added to the burden.There is a change in the lifestyle of peopleas well. The uncertainty has made peopleanxious. Glorifying suicide of a celebrity bythe media is to be blamed.One has tounderstand that the person who commitssuicide, that person is not mentally strong.Even the smallest things in one’s life can bea trigger leading to mental illness,”Shrivastava says.

The good is that stigma around mentalillness is getting diluted, people are willingto talk about their problems. “However, insmaller towns the problem still continues. Inthe metros the situation is much better.Whatis more important is to look for signs. Thereis a term, intent to suicide in psychiatry. Itmay be a casual phrase which can be a phasethat a person is going through. But if thephrase becomes repetitive, that is a red flag,”Dr Shrivastava tells you.

Pallavi Joshi, clinical psychologist at SriBalaji Action Medical Institute, tells you thatpeople are more aware today and open totalking about mental illnesses. “But there isa need to go through psychometric tests andthen diagnose. There are a series of tests thatthe person is put through. Clinically diag-nosed depression is a serious problem. Thepresent generation, if denied certain comfortsfeels they are depressed; this is not true. Thecoping mechanism is low for Gen Z now fora few reasons. Lack of physical exercise is onereason. It makes some changes in the brain.Second, the older generation was asked to docertain things like help the mother in thekitchen or offer water to the guest. Kids hadhousehold chores to do. They felt needed andhad a role to play. Today, they don’t have thisand are unable to tackle the pressure.Contributing to the life of others has its ben-efits, it prevents mood swings, getting boredand falling into depression,” Joshi explains.

Natasha Sharma, counselor, psychother-apist and clinical hypnotherapist opinesthat the younger generation has lost the artof communication because they have beenliving in the virtual world of social media andreality is so different.

“Therefore, the lockdown has been sodevastating. Humans are social animals. Weare meant to be in community. We shrivelup when there is no touch. Isolation is theseverest of punishment in jails, there is soli-tary confinement. This is psychologicallythe worst thing that one can do, to a humanbeing. Then there is an illusion of being con-nected due to social media. We don’t pickup our phones anymore. There was a timewhen one had to wait one's turn to speakover the one phone in the house. Today,even with each one having a phone, we sendmessages. There is no face-to-face conver-sation. There is no touch which is a formof communication; there are verbal andnon-verbal modes of communication whenyou are in the same room or in a relation-ship. What we are seeing is the dark side oftechnology,” Natasha says.

For a person to commit suicide, researchsuggests that 90 per cent people who com-

mit suicide have undiagnosed mental disor-der. That is not to say that because you havemental disorder, one will commit suicide.There is impulsive suicide as well whichdoesn’t follow any steps. But suicide doesinvolve a lot of steps and interventiontherefore is required which has lot of steps.Skipping a step can result in a loss of life.Essentially, there is no one cause but a bunchof precipitating factors that come together ata particular time or stage.

Pulkit Sharma, Puducherry-based clin-ical psychologist, says what has changedbetween then and now is that on an exter-nal level. Back then there was a good sup-port system. “People were well-connected. Ifsomething bad would happen, society wouldrally around the person. Face-to-face com-munication helped and the relationships weredeep and meaningful and not superficial liketoday. Earlier, life was less complicated.Today, the work culture is such that the mindnever gets a break. We are doing a lot andhave no space to just be yourself. Socialmedia, the virtual world, has added to theproblem. One might have 500 friends online,but none whom they can really connect withemotionally,” Sharma tells you.

Though people today may be doing wellfinancially, there is a feeling of lack of accom-plishment. “Beyond money, life is emptytoday. People are working like machinesespecially for those in the corporate sector.The sources on which one’s self-esteem wasbased earlier, were deeper and were aboutvalue, ethics and work performance. Today,it is superficial; it is all about material things— it is about how much you earn, how youlook and what you own. This superficial lifecan ditch you fast and can lead to depres-sion.‘I have lost my charm’ and I don’t looklike I used to’ are common and become trig-gers,” Sharma explains.

Since there is no or little Governmenthelp in order to reach out to people withmental illness, Natasha tells you that it is thepeople around, the society that needs to stepin and lend a hand.

“There are rumblings that there may besomething happening at the Governmentlevel. We, as a nation,we are under-equipped.We have not Centre of State level policy forsuicide prevention. We have no nationalhelpline for suicide prevention, whatever ishappening it is due to certain people. Thereare not enough mental health professionalsper capita; there are not enough mentalhealth clinics or hospitals given the popula-tion. So, the Government should take upsteps. While some head way has been made,a lot more needs to be done,” Natasha says.

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Kolkata Knight Riders headcoach Brendon McCullum on

Saturday made it clear thatShubman Gill will open for themthroughout the IPL to give theteam some solidity at the top intricky UAE conditions.

The rising top-order batsmanwas tried out at different positionslast season without the desiredresult and it was considered to beone of the reasons why KKRmissed out on a play-off berth.

“They’re (wickets) gonna bequite fresh, I think they could bequite helpful for seam bowling. Ifthe wickets are going to be a lit-tle bit tricky early on against fastbowling, I think you want yourplayers who have the best tech-niques and the best batsmanshipand craft,” said McCullum.

“... He’s (Shubman) certainlyone of those guys... I see him bat-

ting at the top of the orderthroughout the campaign,” addedthe newly-appointed KKR coachin a media interaction.

Impressed with the way, the21-year-old Shubman carrieshimself, the Kiwi great said hewants to give the Indian young-ster his own space and groom theother junior members in theteam.

“I think he’s got a bit of a pres-ence about him, even at thisyoung age, very respectful aswell. I know DK (captain DineshKarthik) really respects him as aperson as a cricket brain as well.And I think he’s going to beanother wonderful resource forDK both on and off the field,”McCullum said.

“I want to see the most out ofhim is just to grow on his owntime, his own space but also takethose around him, who are stillreasonably inexperienced and

grow at the same rate that he’sgrowing in his own career.

“If we can do that, then theexperience we can get into theseguys at a young age, and pressuremoments is going to be a very,very good thing for KKR this sea-son. He’s got a very big role.”

KKR started off well winningfour of their first five matches, butthey lost six matches on the trotin the business end to miss thequalifiers by a whisker.

The team looked reallydependent on Andre Russell, butthis time reigning World Cupwinning captain Eoin Morganwill lend solidity in the middle-order.

Hailing the Englishman asthe best middle-over batsman inlimited overs cricket, McCullumsaid: “He’s probably the best mid-dle-order batsman in the short-er version, over the last couple ofyears. So we’re very lucky to

have him. His relationship withDK throughout this campaignwill give us a good opportunity.”

The England limited-oversskipper, who had a stint with KKRfrom 2011-2013, was bought atthe auction for �5.25 crore.

The 34-year-old Morgan willbe joining the side after leadingEngland to their maiden WorldCup glory in 2019.

“He was a guy who we weredesperate to get batting (at theauction) in the middle orderaround Russell and Karthik... Heprovides us with a really, reallystrong middle-order.”

KKR chief mentor DavidHussey had earlier said Russell isbest suited at No 3 but McCullumwas of the opinion that the starJamaican is an ideal finisher in theT20 format and the team willhave a ‘horses-for-courses’approach.

“I think his game is definite-

ly suited to probably the last 10overs of a T20 game. But theremay be times where the matchupsare right we can get in Andre a lit-tle bit earlier, up the order.

“That will be a horses forcourses type approach but thegood thing is we’ve got lots ofresources to be able to choosefrom.”

Clearly indicating thatRussell, Morgan, Sunil Narine andPat Cummins will be the fouroverseas players that he willmainly depend on during thetournament, McCullum said theteam can really shock the oppo-sitions if the wickets aid seamersin the initial few matches.

“Cummins has the ability totake early wickets and if we cando that, we know we’ve got somequality spinners. When you cou-ple them all together, I’m reallycontent with the unit that we’vegot, particularly on these wickets

because they might have a little bitmore in them than what mostpeople are anticipating,” he said.

“If the wickets play as weexpect, then I think we couldshock a few really with the paceand speeds with which ourbowlers can operate,” he said.

With the overseas combina-tion already set for KKR, TomBanton may have to wait for hischances.

“He probably won’t start forus in this campaign because wewill go with a slightly differentbalance but what he gives you somany different options. He hasalready made a bit of a splash inInternational cricket,” he said.

“He’s a guy who even againstvarious bowling attacks of theworld, can still shock them, anddominate them. And when hegets his opportunity, I’m sure hewill entertain the fans all aroundthe world.”

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Staying in self isolation for the firstsix days after spending five months

with family was the hardest phase,according to Mahendra Singh Dhoni,who spoke for the first time inmonths ahead of the IPL openeragainst Mumbai Indians.

In the run-up to 13th IPL,Chennai Super Kings were rockedby 13 Covid-19 cases, includingtwo players, and pullouts by thesenior duo of Suresh Raina andHarbhajan Singh due to per-sonal reasons.

As per the protocols,teams had to quarantinefor six days in Dubai and14-days in Abu Dhabi.

However, CSK hadto stretch their self-isola-tion period to September1 due to positive cases inthe camp includingplayers Deepak Chaharand Ruturaj Gaikwad.

“First six days in quaran-tine is very difficult. You arewith your family and sud-denly you have to stay in a

separate room... Felt each individualused that time well and nobody wasdisappointed or frustrated,” the formerIndia skipper said after winning thetoss.

“After the first 14 days it was niceto get out. The practice facilities werevery good.”

Back in action after a long gap,Dhoni, who had retired frominternational cricket a little overa month ago, said he worked onhis fitness during the coron-avirus-induced lockdown in

India.His bulging biceps

were there for everyoneto see.

“Have the liber-ty during lockdown

to spend time onyourself to keep fit. Haveto applaud every mem-ber of the squad forutilising the time well.”

Chennai had lostthe finals to MumbaiIndians in the last edi-tion.

Asked if revenge ison his mind, Dhoni said:

“Being a gentleman’s game you don’tthink about revenge (against MI). Youthink about the mistakes you made.”

Four-time champions MumbaiIndians skipper Rohit Sharma saidadapting to the conditions in UAE willbe the key.

“We have been here for fewweeks, so understand conditions bet-ter. Before coming here, we had acamp in Mumbai. Also had qualitypractice out here in Abu Dhabi. Keyhere will be to understand conditions,”he said.

“Pitches for the practice matcheswill be similar to what we’ll get here.So ready to go.”

The last time the IPL washeld in UAE, Mumbai Indianshad returned home emptyhanded. Asked if it plays onthe mind in any way, Rohitsaid: “We just have twomembers from that squad,so it is a new set up now.The way we’ve been playingcricket for the last couple ofyears, it has been good. Allin all we’ve had good prepa-ration. Now all about exe-cution.”

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Kings XI Punjab skipper KLRahul on Saturday said the

side is motivated to making thisIPL season a memorable one byplaying a good brand of crick-et.

“The team has been fantas-tic, we’ve been getting alonggreat and are looking forward toplaying a good brand of cricketand making this season a mem-orable one,” Rahul said.

“We’re confident, we’remotivated and we are reallyexcited to be a part of this edi-tion of the Indian PremierLeague,” he added.

Rahul, who has been hand-ed the Kings XI Punjab captain-cy after two stellar seasons withthe bat at the top of the order,said it will be a challenging expe-rience playing in the UAE with-out the fans but the team is readyfor it.

“It is going to be a differentexperience this year, but we asa team are up to the challengeand are playing for all the fanswho continue to support us,”Rahul said.

KXIP, who have never wonthe IPL, are aiming to go all the

way this time with a strongsquad at their disposal with thelikes of Rahul, Mayank Agarwal,Mohammad Shami and overseasrecruits Chris Gayle, GlennMaxwell, Sheldon Cottrell,Jimmy Neesham, the in-formNicholas Pooran and MujeebZadran.

“The team looks great andwe have a top-notch line up this

season. The boys have beenworking really hard and wehave a nice balance of youth andexperience in our squad,” headCoach Anil Kumble said.

“We are all looking for-ward to having a good seasonthis year. I truly believe thatKings XI Punjab have the nec-essary squad to go all the way inthis IPL,” he added.

Dubai: Captain Steve Smith along with star play-ers Jofra Archer and Jos Buttler have cleared themandatory Covid-19 test on arrival and are avail-able to play Rajasthan Royal’s IPL openeragainst Chennai Super Kings at the SharjahCricket ground on September 22.

The trio were part of the 21-strong contin-gent of Australia and England players, whoarrived in the UAE from UK by a special char-tered flight on September 17.

“Smith, Buttler and Archer underwentCovid-19 tests on Friday and results are nega-tive. So they are available for selection with quar-antine duration being reduced to 36 hours,” an

IPL source said.Former Australia skipper Smith

has had concussion problems andmissed all three ODIs againstEngland and his participation in theopening game is subject to clearance

from both franchise andCricket Australia’s medicalteam.

If Smith misses the firstgame, Buttler could leadthe side as he is one of theseniormost players in theteam.

As of now, the fran-chise is hopeful thatSmith will clear themandatory concussiontests and be available from

the first game itself. PTI

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Delhi Capitals coach RickyPonting believes that

senior batsman AjinkyaRahane’s inclusionadds “more depth” tothe side but there willbe a healthy competi-tion for middle-orderslots during this IPLseason.

The Capitals,which finished third lastyear, will start their cam-paign against Kings XIPunjab on Sunday and bothPonting and skipperShreyas Iyer agreed that RAshwin and Rahane have beengreat additions to the youngside with their experience theybrought in.

While the coach didn’t giveaway much but there is a pos-sibility that India’s Test vice-captain may have to wait for hischance in the playing XI con-sidering the explosive top five(Shikhar Dhawan, PrithviShaw, Shreyas Iyer, RishabhPant, Shimron Hetmyer) thatDC possesses. There is in-form Alex Carey also in themix.

“We really have a bal-anced side. There is a lot ofcompetition for middle-order slots. Rahane gives usmore depth to our bat-ting,” the Australianlegend said onSaturday duringhis team’s pre-season virtualmedia confer-ence sitting,a l o n g s i d eskipper Iyer.

“Shikharhad as good alast season as any-body. Prithvi hasbeen training verywell. Shreyas has

had his best 12 months for theIndian team. We have Pant,Hetmyer and Alex Carey (bothleft-handers), which gives us agood mix of left-right combi-nation. We have our bases cov-ered,” Ponting said, giving asubtle hint about Rahane’simmediate future.

Iyer, on his part, said thatAshwin and Rahanehave mixed well with-in the group andnever gave a sensethat they are seniorplayers.

“They give thatextra sense of confi-

dence. You don’t feel thatthey are seniors and arewilling to help every indi-vidual,” said Iyer, whobelieves that Ashwin will

be beneficial for the team,given his idea of the KXIP coreteam (Chris Gayle, KL Rahuland Mayank Agarwal) and theslowish nature of the Dubaitrack.

Ponting also felt that wick-etkeeper batsman Rishabh Panthas been shaping up well sincelast week and he is expectinganother good season from theburly southpaw.

“Pant, duringthe last week, hasreally turned thecorner well and Iwould expect himto perform as well ashe did last year.

“In DC, we as acoaching group don’tput added pressure

on the players. Welike to take as

much as possi-ble pressure

off them. Wen e v e rexpect any

such thingfrom themwhich they

don’t expectfrom them-

selves,” the coachsaid.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni hasn’tlost an ounce of his leader-

ship acumen even after a 437-dayhiatus as his battle-hardenedChennai Super Kings outfit beatMumbai Indians in the 13thIndian Premier League openeron Saturday.

Ambati Rayudu (71 off 48balls) blazed his way and Faf duPlessis (55 not out off 44 balls)more than made up for SureshRaina's absence at No. 3, helpingCSK chase down a tricky 163-runtarget in 19.2 overs overs and withfive wickets to spare.

It wasn’t a jam-packedWankhede rooting for theMumbai Indians nor was it thepassionate Chepauk stands with itsYellow Army in full fervour. It wasa near empty Sheikh ZayedStadium in the Arabian desertwhere Bryan Adams’ Summer of69 or Rocky's theme music Eye ofa Tiger blared from the sound sys-tems along with artificial crowdcheers.

In this eerie set-up, CaptainCool’s brain kept ticking as hisnew recruits -- leg-spinner PiyushChawla (1/21 in 4 overs) andleft-arm seamer Sam Curran (1/28in 4 overs) -- made fantastic firstimpressions while the new ballpair of Lungi Ngidi (3/38 in 4overs) and Deepak Chahar (2/32in 4 overs) came back brilliantly atthe death overs.

The skipper also sent match-fit Sam Curran at No. 6 and his 18off 6 balls ended any anti-climaxthat Rohit Sharma's men wouldhave anticipated.

Giving less than 80 runs in theback-10 was the turning point and

then the manner in which Rayuduand Du Plessis chased it after ascratchy start as MI maintained

their record of not winning an IPLopening game since 2013.

Trent Boult, with an in-dipper

and James Pattinson, with a slight-ly dodgy decision going his way,removed Shane Watson and

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Abu Dhabi: The IPL is back but theatmosphere isn’t.

The 20,000-seater Sheikh ZayedStadium was nearly empty, apart fromthe 22 men in the middle, officials, staff,security and a smattering of others, asthe IPL unlike any other began here onSaturday.

But, contrary to the expectations,it was not too quiet and not too placid,either. The pre-recorded cheers by thefranchises ensured the stadium was notenveloped in eerie silence.

Organised amid the Covid-19 pan-demic after several twists and turns,delays and discussions, the start of the13th Indian Premier League was stilldefinitely out of the ordinary, slightlyodd and even a bit weird.

It was different in many ways.Inaudible under normal circum-

stances because of the roaring cheersand chants raining down from thestands packed to the rafters with pas-

sionate fans, the thud of Rohit Sharmaand Quinton de Kock’s bats hitting theball could be heard across the world,breaking through the TV sets of mil-lions of viewers.

In this case, the pre-recordedcheers could quite swallow up thesounds of the bat hitting the ball, likeit would happen in the pre-COVID

world.In the VIP box, top officials of the

BCCI, including president SouravGanguly and secretary Jay Shah, as wellas the office-bearers of the EmiratesCricket Board, were spaced several seatsapart to maintain social distancing.

The celebration was far from beingover the top after Chennai Super Kings

made it 48 for two with the dismissalof De Kock in the sixth over of theinnings. And it was the same after theysent back the dangerous Rohit, whostarted the proceedings with a crackingdrive through the offside in the very firstball of the tournament off DeepakChahar, who recovered in time for thegame after contracting the dreadedvirus.

Rohit did not look like he was com-ing off a long break from the sport.Though the Mumbai Indians captainand every other player have beentraining for days, it is the first matchthey were playing in months, somethingthey have never experienced in the lastmany years.

Truly in sync with the extraordi-nary times, CSK’s talismanic skipperMahendra Singh Dhoni, in a lightervein, asked at the toss if he could “havea slip” in place owing to the social dis-tancing guidelines. PTI

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Murali Vijay respectively, making it 6 for 2before Rayudu, in the company of du Plessis,launched a furious counter attack.

One of the major aspects was how cluelessJasprit Bumrah (1/43 in 4 overs) looked dur-ing the day and it cost his team dearly.

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Leroy Sane said all-conqueringBayern Munich crave even

more silverware after theGermany winger scored on hisdebut in Friday’s historic 8-0thrashing of Schalke in the opening game of the newBundesliga season.

“We’re still hungry, even though we won the tre-ble last season,” said Sane after creating two goalsfor Serge Gnabry, who claimed a hat-trick in thegoalfest at the Allianz Arena.

“Winning our first game at home 8-0 is obvi-ously super. It felt really, really good finally to be ableto play with the lads,” said Sane, who spent most oflast season sidelined at former club Manchester Cityafter tearing knee ligaments at the very start of lastseason.

“It’s been a very good day with lots of goals.”Just 26 days after winning the Champions

League final, Bayern picked up where they left offlast season with their 22nd-straight win.

Gnabry opened the scoring with just four min-utes gone with a great piece of finishing which gaveSchalke goalkeeper Ralf Faehrmann no chance.

Burly central midfielder Goretzka grabbed thesecond against his former club when he hit the bot-tom corner from the edge of the box on 19 minutes.

Lewandowski, the Bundesliga’s top scorer lastseason with 34 goals, opened his account for 2020/21with half an hour gone.

He netted a penalty after being brought downin the area by Schalke defender Ozan Kabak, whohas been linked to a move to Liverpool.

It was 3-0 at half-time, but Gnabry grabbed hissecond two minutes after the break when he firedinto an empty net after a sprint by Sane pulledFaehrmann out of position.

The pair combined again when Sane chested theball down after getting in behind the defence androlled the ball off to the waiting Gnabry to claim hishat-trick just before the hour mark.

Mueller added the sixth on 69 minutes afterLewandowski had again cut Schalke’s defence toshreds.

The records were sent tumbling as Sane markedhis debut with the seventh on 71 minutes when hesprinted onto Joshua Kimmich’s superb pass andfired home with Lewandowski unmarked outsidehim.

Musiala, who only turned 17 in February,became the club’s youngest scorer in the Bundesligawhen he darted in from the left wing to add theeighth on 81 minutes.

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DWilfried Zaha returned tohaunt Manchester Unitedwith a deadly double as

Crystal Palace landed a dramatic3-1 win to leave Ole GunnarSolskjaer reeling.

Just as they did in the earlyweeks of last season, Palace tookall three points from their trip toOld Trafford, as a brittle Unitedteam were picked apart.

Andros Townsend hit a sev-enth-minute opener but the matchwas still in the balance witharound 20 minutes to play whenPalace were awarded a penalty,after Jordan Ayew’s flick struck thehand of Victor Lindelof.

Goalkeeper David de Gealooked to have made himself ahero when he saved the softlystruck penalty from Ayew, only fora re-take to be ordered, and thistime former United winger Zahastepped up to smash the ball highinto the net.

United new boy Donny van deBeek pulled one back, but Zahaadded a third Palace goal in the85th minute, holding off weak linkLindelof and drilling beyond DeGea from the edge of the penaltyarea.

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hat-trick and James Rodriguezbagged his first Premier Leaguegoal as Everton crushed 10-manWest Bromwich Albion 5-2 toextend their perfect start to theseason.

Carlo Ancelotti’s side fellbehind to Grady Diangana’s earlygoal at Goodison Park.

But Calvert-Lewin equalisedand James put them ahead beforeWest Brom imploded.

Kieran Gibbs was dismissedfor pushing James in the face infirst half stoppage-time.

Then Albion boss Slaven Bilicwas sent to the stands after storm-ing onto the pitch for a furious rantat referee Mike Dean.

Matheus Pereira equalised forAlbion after the interval, butMichael Keane restored Everton’slead and Calvert-Lewin sealedthe points with his second andthird goals.

At 23, Calvert-Lewin is theyoungest Englishman to score aPremier League hat-trick forEverton.

After a summer spendingspree, Ancelotti is under pressureto deliver a big improvement on

last season’s 12th place finish andthe early signs are promising.

Having beaten Tottenham intheir opening game last weekend,Everton have started a PremierLeague season with consecutivevictories for the first time since2012-13.

Calvert-Lewin already hasfour goals and Colombia midfield-er James, making his first homeappearance since his £12 millionfrom Real Madrid, looks a quali-ty addition.

If West Brom are to avoid animmediate return to the

Championship, they will have toimprove their defence rapidlyafter shipping eight goals in suc-cessive defeats.

Diangana put West Bromahead in the 10th minute when headvanced from inside his own halfbefore drilling a long-range drivepast Jordan Pickford.

Calvert-Lewin equalised inthe 31st minute with a back-heelfrom virtually on the goallineafter Albion defender DarnellFurlong inadvertently headedSeamus Coleman’s cross into hispath.

The goal was initially disal-lowed for offside before a VARreview changed the decision inEverton’s favour.

James put Everton in front inthe 45th minute when he tookRicharlison’s pass and lashed a finelow finish into the far corner from20 yards.

Gibbs added to West Brom’swoes when he was sent off for lash-ing out at James in retaliation fora challenge by the Colombian.

Bilic lost his cool as wellmoments later, angrily tellingDean that his decisions could

“kill” his team.Now watching from

the stands after his dis-missal, Bilic saw Pereiraequalise with a superbfree-kick in the 47thminute.

But Keane pokedEverton back in front afterRicharlison’s header was pushedout by Sam Johnstone in the 54thminute.

Calvert-Lewin struck again inthe 62nd minute, the striker slid-ing in to meet Richarlison's crosswith a close-range finish.

And Calvert-Lewin’s red-hotstart to the season continued fourminutes later when he completedhis hat-trick as the ball bouncedoff his back into the net.

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right end of a 4-3 thriller in thePremier League.

A week after losing at cham-pion Liverpool by the same scoreline on the opening day of the sea-son, Leeds was involved in anoth-er wild contest in its first homegame back in the division andcame out on top against fellowpromoted team Fulham.

Helder Costa scored in eachhalf for Leeds, the second goalproving to be the winner at anempty Elland Road for MarceloBielsa’s attack-minded side.

Fulham, which had two goalsfrom striker Aleksandar Mitrovic,has now lost back-to-back games

to open the season, havingalready been beaten 3-0 byArsenal.

Between them, Leedsand Fulham have conced-ed 14 goals in four gamesso far. West BromwichAlbion, the other side pro-moted from the second-

tier Championship for this season,has conceded eight.

Costa gave Leeds a fifth-minute lead by slamming a shot inoff the bar from an acute angleafter Fulham midfielder HarrisonReed inadvertently flicked on acorner by the hosts.

Penalties have been a featureof the first two rounds of theleague and there were two in sixminutes here.

In the 35th, Mitrovic convert-ed a spot kick after Robin Kochtripped Joe Bryan, despite tryingto pull out of his attempted tack-le. Koch also gave away a penaltyat Anfield last weekend.

Mateusz Klich replied withone of his own for Leeds in the 41stafter Bryan pushed PatrickBamford in the back.

Bamford then scored for thesecond straight match by strokinghome a finish following a passfrom Klich, before providing thecross that Costa swept in in the57th for 4-1.

Fulham fought back throughgoals by Bobby Reid in the 62nd— four minutes after coming onas a substitute — and Mitrovic inthe 67th but Leeds held on.

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Less than two weeks after gettingdefaulted from the US Open,

Novak Djokovic lost his cool againmidway through a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 winover German qualifier DominikKoepfer in the Italian Open quarter-finals on Saturday.

When Djokovic was broken atlove to even the second set at 3-3, heslammed his racket to the red clayin anger.

With the frame broken and thestrings all mangled, Djokovic wasforced to get a new racket andreceived a warning from the chairumpire.

Djokovic had already appearedfrustrated the previous game, whenhe glared toward the umpire follow-ing a couple of overrules and a pointthat was ordered to be replayed.

The top-ranked Djokovic hadsaid on Monday that he learned “abig lesson” after he was thrown outof the US Open for unintentionallyhitting a line judge in the throat with

a ball in a fit of anger.Djokovic also acknowledged

then “that I have outbursts and thisis kind of the personality and theplayer that I have always been.”

The 97th-ranked Koepfer, whoscreamed at himself in frustrationthroughout the match, was alsowarned for misbehavior early in thethird set.

Aiming for his fifth title in

Rome, Djokovic’s semifinal oppo-nent will be Casper Ruud, who elim-inated local favorite MatteoBerrettini 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5) in a matchthat lasted 2 hours, 57 minutes.

Ruud is the first Norwegian toreach the semifinals of a Masters1000 tournament. His father,Christian Ruud, got as far as thequarterfinals of the Monte CarloMasters in 1997.

In the women’s tournament,top-seeded Simona Halep reachedthe last four when Kazakh opponentYulia Putintseva retired midwaythrough their match due to a lowerback injury.

Halep, who lost two straightfinals in Rome to Elina Svitolina in2017 and 2018, will need to beat two-time Grand Slam winner GarbiñeMuguruza.

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approved former world No 1Kidambi Srikanth’s request toallow his coach and physiother-apist to accompany him for theDenmark Open badmintontournament scheduled to beheld in Odense from October13 to 18.

The 27-year-old is part ofthe Target Olympic PodiumScheme (TOPS) and thus willreceive support by SAI. He hasalso sought permission to reachthe tournament early.

“The proposal to partici-pate in the competition camefrom Srikanth, who has alsorequested that he be allowed toreach the venue early and that

his coach and physio be allowedto accompany him for the tour-nament,” a SAI release stated.

“However, their names arestill to be decided,” it added.

SAI will also bear the costfor Srikanth’s Covid-19 testingthat is required to be donebefore he takes part in thecompetition.

The Denmark Open willmark the resumption of inter-national badminton after itcame to a halt in March becauseof the dreaded virus.

Besides Srikanth, formerworld No 1 Saina Nehwal andLakshya Sen will be participat-ing in the event. The trio werepart of the six-member teamselected for the event byBadminton Association ofIndia.

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Harikrishna defeated world

number one Carlsen in roundthree of Blitz 1 in 63 moves withwhite pieces. He also beat lower-rated American Jeffrey Xiong butsave for the two wins, he had aforgettable day as he suffered four

defeats, apart from three draws.His losses were against

Americans Leinier Dominiguezand Wesley, Alexander Grischukof Russia and Iranian prodigyAlireza Firouzja.

Harikrishna shares the sixthplace with Armenian GM LevonAronian with 3.5 points after thenine rounds of Blitz 1.

Carlsen, who had dropped tosecond place behind So at the endof the Rapid event, leapt to thetop spot in the standings with18.5 points. PTI

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Liverpool sealed the signing ofPortugal forward Diogo Jota from

Wolves for a reported £41 million($54 million) on Saturday.

Jota has signed a “long-term”contract with the Premier Leaguechampions, which is believed to be afive-year agreement.

The 23-year-old joins Liverpooljust 24 hours after they signed BayernMunich midfielder Thiago Alcantarafor an initial £20 million.

Jota will provide attacking depthfor Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp,competing with Mohamed Salahand Sadio Mane for playing time inthe wide positions in the team’sthree-man forward line.

“It’s just a really exciting momentfor me and my family,” Jota toldLiverpool’s website.

“All of my path since I was a kidand now, to join a club like Liverpool— the world champions — is justunbelievable. I just want to get start-ed.”

Jota claimed the move to Anfieldwas too good an opportunity to turndown.

“When you look at the PremierLeague, you always see Liverpool asone of the biggest teams in thecountry, so it’s impossible to say no,”he said.

“So we just want to come (to theclub), to give our best and hopeful-ly I can become a good option forLiverpool in the future.”

Earlier on Saturday, Wolvesboss Nuno Espirito Santo had con-firmed Jota would be moving toMerseyside.

“Diogo is amazing and every-body knows the relationship webuilt. What Diogo did for us isabsolutely fantastic,” he said.

“I think Diogo is going to theright place and we wish him all thebest, knowing that it will never beforgotten, especially by our fans, allthe memorable moments that Diogoprovided.”

Former Atletico Madrid for-ward Jota joined Wolves on loan intheir 2017-18 Championship-win-ning campaign before making a per-manent switch in 2018.

While Jota’s departure is a blowfor Wolves, they can look forwardto the arrival of 18-year-old Dutchdefender Ki-Jana Hoever fromLiverpool as part of the Jota deal.

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pair fought hard before goingdown 6-4, 5-7, 7-10 to the Frenchcombination in the tie-breaker.

Bopanna and Shapovalov hadstunned top seeds Juan SebastianCabal and Robert Farah ofColombia in the second round ofthe ATP Masters 1000 event. PTI

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the series — Flesh?The casting directorof the seriesapproached me; he is afriend of mine. Thecharacter I play here is

very different fromwhat I have done in thepast.

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ate me with those type of easy-going characters. I wanted to

show I could do other roles.I also wanted to experi-ment.�You have done filmsand TV shows —Bollywood andGujarati, what madeyou say yes to a webseries?

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the role that was offered tome. I had been offered other

web series before as well, butthey were similar to what I had

done in the past. There was no role thatexcited me. But the role in Flesh excitedme�What is Scam 1992 about and yourrole in it?

The series is directed by HansalMehta; it is based on the scam byHarshad Mehta back in 1992. The seriesis all set to release on SonyLiv. I mayhave a small part here, but the roleexcited me because it is based on thereal-life character. The role was reallychallenging since it is based on real per-son.�How did you get into acting?

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I think so. I am only half way there. Istill have a long way to go.�Is there a role that you loved beingpart of?

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Comedy comes naturally to me. It ismy first love. When I was younger, I didFilmi Chakkar. I have learnt from thegreats like Satish Shah, Ratna PathakShah and Rajesh Bedi. As a kid I used toobserve them; I owe my comic timing tothem.�What next?

There were a few things that had beenplanned but the pandemic has pushedthose projects. But Scam 1992 is set torelease. There is another film, I have justfinished dubbing for it and is in the post-production stage.

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I would not call having a production house a transition fromacting; it is a diversification. I am very much still an actor and Istill love acting. One thing just led to another. Sargun (wife) andI have been lucky that we have been able to forge good relationsand people trust us. It is an organic diversification.� Are there any particular kind of projects your production housewould like to promote?

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I have been lucky. God is kind. The industry has embraced me,honour, taught me so much, been kind to me and showered mewith love. I am grateful that I am here more than anywhere else.This is where I love to be, this is what I enjoy. I am fortunate to bepart of this industry.� What is the best part of owning a production house?

You can tell stories you believe in; you push forward ideas andstories that you want and closet to your heart. It is an opportuni-ty where one doesn’t have to necessarily rely on others to tell a story.One doesn’t have to convince people that a project is good becauseyou think it is. Having your own resources makes it possible. Weare lucky we could start this and put forward ideas we believe in.� Does that mean that the kind of content in the industry is notsomething that works for you?

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Who would have thought thatploughing our fields meantdenuding the soil, triggering

desertification and leading to unprece-dented water crisis, famine, starvationand global crises of unimaginableproportions? Who would have thoughtthat years of fertilisers and pesticidesbeing used in fields worldwide camefrom the residues of what an evilGerman scientist evolved in a lab to gasthe unsuspecting Jews in millions?Who would have thought that anarrived nation like the US would actu-ally transport this poison and insert itinto its soil to botox unscrupulous farmproduction and, in turn, bring in can-cer, heart, kidney and other fatal dis-eases in the form of global epidemics?

Not many of us would thinkdeeply about this agriculture revolu-tion, Monsanto and other prime sus-pects that are slowly killing the plan-et and its human population, not tomention the millions and millions ofsoil organisms that take in CO2 andturn it into natural manure for theplants to grow organically. We still arenot thinking about it even if brilliantdocumentaries like this one makes the

issue clear and obvious.Call it the curse of meddling with

God and his creation, but the wayhumanity has evolved leaves a lot to bequestioned as we tussle with the incon-clusive talks on climate change at thehighest international level.

Kudos to the husband-wife duoJosh and Rebecca Tickell, full timeenvironment activists and filmmakers,to have put up such a well-researched,convincing and alarming state ofaffairs about the killing of our soil. Thedocumentary is a stunning mount onthe soil-conscious farming practicesthat need to be implemented if climatechange has to be curbed.

The interesting one hour, 24-minute documentary, is the strongestever defence of organic way of life.Some parts of the documentary are sowell put out in the segment of story-telling that it almost comes out as athriller.

Such is the story of the soil that isput to you that you don’t mind thepreachiness that accompanies it.

A worthwhile watch not just forenjoyment but to face the soil crisiswith some viable alternatives.

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Covid-19 has taken the country off-guard and is seen impacting theIndian economy. As per theMoody’s report published in June2020, India’s GDP is expected to

shrink by 3.1%. Going one step further, theDun and Bradstreet Report released in August2020 predicted that the GDP would contractby 4.5% this fiscal year. Amidst these dauntingnumbers, one industry that is still reflecting aray of hope while showing unprecedentedgrowth in India is the Education Technology,that is, the Ed-Tech sector. RS Components,analysing the Crunchbase data, observes thatother than the USA, India is the second coun-try that hosts the most number of Ed-Techcompanies in the world.

In 2020, Ed-Tech stands as the most fund-ed business sector in India. Only betweenJanuary and July $998 Mn has been investedacross 31 deals. Furthermore, the ed-tech sec-tor, according to the Omidyar, Redseer report,2020, is expected to touch a size of $3.5 Bn by2022.

To understand the inner working of thissector and map its growth, let us delve deeperand analyse the current scenario along withthe latest trends, impact, opportunities, possi-ble pitfalls and the way ahead for the Ed-Techindustry.

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The umbrella term of ‘Ed-Tech’ largelyconsists of five segments, which includeOnline Teaching and Test Preparation;Assessment, Guidance and Mentoring; SkillDevelopment and Certification; ProfessionalDevelopment Programmes, Infrastructuraland Administrative Solutions. Amongst thesesegments, Online Teaching and TestPreparation leads the market with a 64% shareand further anticipating size of $515 Mn by2021. The sector is lately experiencing a boomas it alchemises with artificial intelligence andneuroscience

The growth of Ed-Tech in India startedaround 2004-05 when ventures such asEveronn, NIIT and Educomp made theirmark through digital course content, smartclassrooms and skill development programs.The industry has been reaching new heightswith 3000 companies, including Byju’s,Unacademy etc. along with various investorslike Tiger Global, General Atlantic, SteadviewCapital, GGV Capital, Foundation Holding,Aarin Capital, Simplilearn and BlumeVentures venturing into this landscape.

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going through three major push backs includ-ing resistance from schools, the lack of truston online education and the reach of internetand communication devices such as comput-ers, tablets and mobile phones. Covid-19served as a catalyst in resolving these con-cerns. The outbreak encouraged schools andother educational institutions to embrace

technological solutions. In addition to this, italso influenced offline institutions to collabo-rate with companies such as Embibe andSimplilearn.

Not just this, parents are also trying toadapt to the new normal and subscribing toeducational help platforms such as Byjus orToppr or Global Shiksha, Khan Academy andothers. People are going an extra mile to adaptto the Ed-Tech culture and connecting inter-net, mobile phones, TV, computers and tabletsmore to learning.

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The growth of technology in the educa-tion sector is, in fact, impacting lives of mil-lions majorly in five different ways:● Many of the top-notch teachers, courses andinstitutions were only accessible for peoplewho live in the city. But technology dilutes thegeographical borders. Today, a person sitting200 kilometres away from a city likeBangalore or Mumbai orThiruvananthapuram or Lucknow would geteasy access to high-class lectures and tutorials. ● Platforms such as Unacademy and Upgradare helping people to learn/get certified/pro-fessionally qualified even along with the jobthey do. This helps more people to up-skillthem without moving out of jobs. ● Technology in the coming years shall makeeducation accessible for more people who arenot able to afford fees at schools or colleges.This would also help the government to pro-vide education to children and adults withoutmuch capital investment in high rise buildingsand infrastructure, leading to the real democ-ratisation of education in India. ● Assessments, guidance and mentoring aresome of the areas that have to consider multi-ple data points at the same point. Most of thetime these aspects go wrong in education as itis humanly impossible to consider multiplevariables together. High profile technology is,in fact, solving this problem to a large extent.This would make assessments, guidance andmentoring people easier and more accurate,thus the right people would reach the rightplaces in life. ● Another major impact of Ed-Tech in the lifeof common people is that education becomesmore effective through visual aids, augmentedreality, virtual reality and videos with mean-ingful graphics. This will help children andadults to comprehend the conceptual level ofknowledge rather than mugging up as used tohappen during the early days.

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try in Indian can be presented through thefollowing four points: ● The growth of Ed-Tech in India is not a lin-ear or organised graph. It becomes extremelydynamic in nature. Thus only companies whoare really agile, open to change and vibrantcan sustain in the market. ● Early entrants to the market who could

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raise considerable capital, such as Byjus,increased the quality of content, visualtreatment and sophistication of tech-nology to a very high level. Thisdemands any new entrant to match thehigh standards of their products, inorder to satisfy the customers.● Ed-Tech being a very large and broadindustry with too many areas toaddress, a collaboration between non-competing players is becoming a newnorm. Assessment companies joininghands with content providers or infra-structure agencies partnering with skilldevelopment companies are a fewendeavours taking place all across theglobe. Organisations have understoodthe power of co-creation of success. ● The New Education Policy (NEP-2020) sets the tone perfectly for theintervention of technology in educa-tion. This would enable the Ed-Techindustry to make India globally com-petitive.

������������ ����� ����� �The significant areas where new

startups can work on and create newhorizons of growth will include the fol-lowing:● Vernacular Languages: 80% of Indiaspeaks vernacular languages. The NewEducation Policy, 2020 (NEP), alsoemphasises on education throughregional languages. In every vertical,ranging right from online tutoring toskills development to assessments, ver-nacular content is yet to be welladdressed. To understand its nature, itis important to note that even a unicornsuch as Byjus has not started venturinginto the vernacular market yet.Addressing the education requirementsthrough all 22 officials in India wouldbe a great space for start-ups to play. ● Technological reforms of the 21stcentury: Even though many companiesclaim that they use the technologies ofthe 4th industrial revolution such asartificial intelligence, augmented reality,big data analytics etc., very few compa-nies use them productively, that too ona very small scale. Majority of thebrands attempting to amalgamate artifi-cial intelligence in their modules/approach are yet to tap into its truepotential. On the other hand, somecompanies use augmented and virtualrealities mostly to enhance marketabili-ty than to manifest its real power. Thisis where the start-ups can work on anddevelop cutting edge technology solu-tions that can power any or all of the 5segments in the ed-tech industry. ● Research to blend Technology andBehavior Science: This is an areawhere research-based startups can pitchtheir ideas. Currently, a gap that the

Ed-Tech industry is coming acrossincludes not having alchemists who canblend technology and behavioural sci-ences seamlessly. Insightful research isone factor that could help in bridgingthis gap. Multifunctional teams consist-ing of technologists, psychologists, soci-ologists and neurobiologists can identi-fy hundreds of areas that require in-depth attention in the ed-tech domain. ● Assessments, Guidance andMentoring: Right people reaching thewrong places causes huge loss. In addi-tion to this, financial loss, lack of happi-ness, fulfilment, purpose are some vitalelements that people largely lack. Thiscan be resolved through addressingassessment, guidance and mentoringtechniques in the most appropriatemanner. Startups who tap this nerve ofthe market can become the gamechangers of the sector while rightlyusing the modern-day technology andimmersive solutions to one’s benefit.● Skill Development: National SkillDevelopment Council (NSDC), variousSector Skill Councils (SSCs) and differ-ent State Skill Development Missions(SSDMs) are on a mission to bridgeIndia’s skill gap. The speed of change intechnology is expected to make morethan 48% of jobs obsolete in the nextten years, as observed by the OxfordMartin School study. This makes itinevitable to train every student withthe best skillset, thus requiring moreplayers to step forward and up-skill alarge proportion of our workforce.

�� ����������� ����� ���� Considering that the Ed-Tech

industry is hardly 14 to 15 years old inIndia, its infancy stage does not enablethe newcomers to learn from a plethoraof successful cases. Thus, there are a lotof chances that lack of understanding ofthe market or misjudgment mightmake startups err. Some of the possiblemistakes are listed below. ● Online tutoring and test preparationthrough video content would be a busi-ness with fewer obstacles here andthere. Thus many people may just take adeep dive, considering the growth of ed-tech experiences. It is a fact that themarket still has space for newcomers.But the incumbents have raised the barof quality very high. Therefore any per-son who gets into the market with acouple of lakhs investment on a camera,microphone, a bunch of amateur teach-ers and a website created out of a tem-plate in Envato would not be growingfurther. If the newcomers overcome thecurrent quality players in the market, itwill get easier for the sector to grow.● Many of the start-ups see a captivemarket inside schools and with gov-

ernments. Even though the cost ofacquiring customers would be lesser,compared with the direct to customerstrategy, time to close a deal would bevery long in the B2B or B2G segment.Time and money would be lost if thenewcomers wait to close large busi-nesses with governments or largeschool chains. Thus it is ideal to startwith direct access to students andkeep B2B or B2G as a parallel track. ● Education is a vertical where humanbehaviour and mindset carries a lot ofsignificance. Only if technology solu-tions can consider the behaviouralaspects as well, companies can sustainthe market. Many players only developa team consisting of technical expertsor some content developers, but missout on collaborating with behaviourexperts. This could serve as one of thecommon mistakes and should beavoided.● The pandemic might be serving as acatalyst but it is imperative for us toremember that this scenario would lastforever. Education will not travel back-wards from the current affinity that it’sbuilt with technology. It’s essential forone to have a plan when thinking aboutthe road ahead for their venture.

���������������In India, the education sector is

considered as one of the most stable,robust fields with low-income elasticity.According to the Economic Survey(2018), the income elasticity towardsthe healthcare sector was 1.95, whereasit was 0.93 for products in the educa-tion sector.

This scenario, along with thewide acceptance of ed-tech duringCovid-19 would certainly lure moreinvestments in this industry. In thiscase, the intervention of policymak-ers, influencers, launchpads andmentoring bodies should be focusingon channelising this growth to theright direction by ensuring entry ofcompanies to the appropriate areas,channelising investment to theorganisations attending the rightrequirement and helping ventureswith proper hand-holding. We shouldaim at making India the hub ofEducation Technology, with the mostnumber of companies, maximuminvestment and high market size.This not only enhances business inthe country but also takes India tothe next trajectory of growth. Thiswould be the right time to develop‘Make in India’ as the most powerfulbrand in the global ed-tech space.

The writer is CEO, Lifology. Lifology isIndia’s first career eco-system for parents

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It was on a Friday (to be precise, onNovember 13, 2015) that I metManohar Parrikar, the country’sdefence minister for the first andlast time. He flew into the Indian

Naval Station Rajali, around 80 kmsouth of Chennai by a Boeing Poseidon-8 India (Boeing P-80I) the country’snewly acquired Long Range MaritimePatrol Aircraft, described as the coun-try’s eyes and ears up in the air.

As he strode into the auditorium, Icould feel the powerful aura of eleganceassociated with him. It was for theinduction into service of the eight air-craft, each procured at a cost of �1,500crore he flew down to Rajali despite theheavy rains and winds that tormentednorthern Tamil Nadu on that Friday.

The induction ceremony was as sim-ple as the chief guest. There was no bigspeech or show. The minister unveiled aplaque installed on the side of the 4.9km long runway and he was presentedwith a memento by Admiral Dhowan,the then chief of naval staff.

Before embarking the aircraft for hisonward journey to New Delhi, the min-ister was surrounded by journalists forsome possible ‘bytes’. All were askinghim about the One Rank One Pensioncontroversy generated by a section of ex-servicemen who had accused the gov-ernment with going back on thepromise. Some of them had threatenedto return the medals they received fromthe Government for their meritoriousservices to the nation. And some hadeven burnt the medals and ribbons!

“Returning the medals and burningthe medals are like insulting the nation.Medals are a recognition of bravery, forthe service to the nation. It has nothingto do with service conditions whereasOROP is with service conditions. It doesnot say you are entitled for medals,”Parrikar replied. He declined to com-ment when asked whether the continu-ing agitation has some political motives.“It is for those who are agitating to provethat it is not politically motivated. Letthem prove it themselves,” said the min-ister. When he was about to leave, Iasked him about his two hour long jour-ney in the Poseidon 80-I fromAndamans to Arkkonam and also aboutthe possibilities of the revival of DurandCup Football Championship hosted bythe Indian Army .

The word football literally ‘threwhim out of balance’. “Well, I’ll answeryour question on football first. I’ll defi-nitely and seriously look into how to

promote Durand Cup Football tourna-ment. It is Asia’s oldest and world’s thirdoldest championship and it is ourresponsibility to revive it,” he said.

To convince me about his serious-ness, Parrikar told me that he was pas-sionate about football. “Do you knowthat I myself was a football player andhave played in all levels of the games.Goans are passionate about the game. Itwas during my first tenure as chief min-ister I declared football as Goa’s officialgame. We have village level tournamentsas well as league matches featuring bigtime clubs. I had played the game evenwhile I was pursing my studies in IITBombay. It was because of an injury, Ihad to hang my boots so early,” heopened up. The enthusiasm and energywhen he spoke of football had to be seento believe. And that too from the coun-try’s defence minister.

It was another thing that politicstook the front seat as he had to return toPanaji as chief minister of Goa. Manohar

Parrikar looked so healthy and energeticon that Friday in 2015 and nobodywould have imagined even in theirwildest dreams he had some medicalissues which would snuff out that life sosoon.

Manohar Parrikar was the first BJPchief minister of Goa and also the tenthchief minister of the State. PramodSawant, the present Chief Minister is the13th to occupy the gaddi. Nobody hasbothered to write the biographies of theother 12 chief ministers while two youngjournalists, Sadguru Patil andMayabhushan Nagvenkar selectedManohar Parrikar as their subject speaksvolumes about the greatness and unique-ness of the man.

For people from Goa, Parrikar is aswayamsevak (volunteer) of the RSS, a BTech graduate from IIT Bombay in met-allurgical engineering (an important andtough branch of technology) and a BJPworker. The authors, who have inter-viewed or interacted with Parrikar more

than 20 times during his tenure as leaderof the opposition and chief minister, hadto walk a tight rope to convince theworld about their neutrality and impar-tiality while writing about the life andtimes of a Sangh Parivar man. They havesucceeded in it because they have left nostones unturned while writing aboutParrikar.

The authors while introducingParrikar to the readers said that he hadto settle for metallurgy engineering inIIT, ‘ranked low in the elite institution’sflaunting order compared to otherbranches of engineering’. Metallurgyengineering was a topic very much indemand in those days because the coun-try’s nuclear and space programmes andthe flourishing metal industries were onthe prowl for graduates in metallurgy.

How Parrikar single-handedly builtthe BJP into a powerful force in Goapolitics is interesting. A small state dom-inated by the MaharashtravadiGomantak Party and the Congress had

to yield space to the Hindutwa politicsonly because of the kind of work doneby Parrikar and associates. In a democ-racy, all political parties should havespace to grow, grow fairly. Parrikar hassucceeded in developing his politicalparty into a major entity like the manag-er/coach a soccer team builds a teamfrom scratch to that of a winning combi-nation.

Parrikar as leader of opposition andthen as Chief Minister were two differ-ent personalities, charge the authors.Since I am not familiar with Goan poli-tics, let me stay away from that contro-versy. But how many politicians are therein India who fight corruption with thesame dedication with which they fightthe system while in the Opposition?What happened to the 2G Spectrum,Coal Gate, Commonwealth Gamesscam, National Herald scam, Boforsscam and a host of other such cases? Theprime suspects are still seen in TV chan-nels and parliamentary debates cocking

a snook at the millions. This is India thatis Bharat.

But why didn’t Goans take up viola-tion of court orders, if any, in the mininglicence and casino issues have been leftuntold. It definitely would have added tothe value of the book. These instancesare also parts of the folklore associatedwith Goa and Parrikar. Similarly, theauthors’ criticism in Parrikar surround-ing himself with persons from the GSBcommunity to which he belongedsounded out of place. I have seen howministers belonging to the Dravidianparties appoint only members from theircaste in their personal staff. Same is thecase with Muslim League, KeralaCongress leaders in my home state! Theonly difference is that casteism in Keralais not severe as it is in TN!

“An Extraordinary Life” stands outonly because of the main protagonist,Manohar Parrikar. He reminds the read-ers about characters in Hindi movies,who succumb to fate which claims theirlives in the form of cancer or villains’gun shots. This Parrikar was a Manoharperson.

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In the evolution of humansociety and community liv-ing, religion, howeverprimitive, elemental orminimalistic, has always

had a place in some form ormanner. Even aboriginal andtribal denominations had pseu-do-religious totemic faiths, whichmany of them still carry withstaunch fervour. Religion, forthem, had a different meaningand purpose in life. It was morerelevant to mundane things inlife like warding off adversity, ill-luck, illness, etc. For some, reli-gion was a shield against naturalcalamities like droughts andfloods, earthquakes or volcaniceruptions. Religion, to this effect,treated everything incomprehen-sible as a god and worshipped itto propitiate for benevolence.Later, religion came to be soughtand followed for higher virtues,spiritual values, after-life treat-ment and salvation from rebirth.

Religion has evolved withtime as few spiritually enlight-ened beings were blessed withunique reverential experiencesand divine revelations, whichwere interpreted differently bydifferent groups of people, withshifting of emphasis on tradition-al tenets and prevalent rituals. Asa result, small groups tended tobranch off as separate religioussects with differential beliefs andvaried pronouncements on atten-dant rituals. Gradually, thesebreak-away branches developedtheir own tenets and conspicuousidentities with separate prayersystems and anomalized ritualis-tic practices that came to be rec-ognized as distinct from the

main religion, acquiring a differ-ent name and calling.

The same happened forSadasuhags. This sect, thoughoriginally part of mainstreamHinduism, leaned in a differentdirection, highlighting a promi-nent belief that all living personsare the brides of the Eternal God,irrespective of their gender. Thus,they remain brides forever andnever get widowed because Godis immortal and eternal. Withthis cognition and motivation,they dress as women, embellishthemselves in feminine ways andmentally pray to please God,imagining him as the groom.With passage of time and grow-ing disapprobation of cross-dressing by the prudish society,this sect went into hiding and hasgradually disappeared. Thesedays, few Sadasuhags are seen,

either near temples or seekingalms.

Besides, social customs, attimes, acquire oddities andunusual practices and turn intosuperstitions that defy commonlogic, where optical physicalitytends to be illusory or remainsunexplained in rational terms; forexample, the Koovagam festivalof transgenders, the weeping stat-ue, prejudice against the numberthirteen or the Spanish festival ofDevil's Jump. While some oddi-ties may be backed by reason likeexaltation of pigs for economicnecessity or the seasonal factsrelated to the Lenten Moon orMontanna for social justice. […]

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Koovagam is the time andplace, when and where transgen-

ders flaunt their uniqueness andsexuality in style without any fearof prejudice or stigma.Koovagam, a little-known villagein Villupuram district of TamilNadu, hosts the biggest festivalfor the third gender or eunuchs,called Aravanis in Tamil. Thisfestival lasts for one week and iscelebrated with big rallies, beautypageants, sports events, galafeasts and other festivities. Peoplefrom the transgender communityalso tie nuptial knots with a deityat the local Koothandavar templeand freely consummate theirmarriage in the open fields undera full moon sky. The final day ofthe week-long celebrations fallson a full moon night in April,every year.

Legend has it that LordKrishna turned into Mohini, abeautiful woman, to marry a

local boy, Aravan, for a night.This was because Aravan was tobe sacrificed the next morningduring the Kurukshetra war andno woman had come forward totie the knot. Lord Krishnablessed him with this bliss ofmarital pleasure. The eunuchs,called Aravanis in Tamil Nadu,assume the role of Mohini everyyear and marry the legendaryAravan at the Koothandavar tem-ple in a hallowed tradition.

The euphoric celebration hasbeen accepted so far as an age-old practice, but has been con-demned in the recent times, sincethe morning after the consum-mation of ritualistic marriage, thefields look like dump yard ofcondoms, which are often, inamusement, picked up by youngchildren to the embarrassment ofthe parents and possibly consti-

tute a bad influence on them. Ithas been seen lately that sexworkers, homosexuals, bi-sexu-als, bi-curious and even cross-dressers enter the fest and boldlymingle with their cognate peers.

Besides, many seem inunusual hurry to have multiplesex escapades during this licen-tious time. This has vitiated thesolemn environment and localresistance to the festivities isgrowing. In any case, the presentmessage being propagated is 'Nosex around the temple'. This ishow traditions are debased toattract a stigma.

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about the wishful shiftingof power from the West to theEast. The rise of China, alongwith India and Japan, wasshowcased as a precursor thatthe 21st Century is destined tobe an Asian century. But there’smany a slip ‘twixt cup and lip.The moot point is whetherChina can become a super-power like the erstwhileColonial Britain and the pre-sent day America to control theinternational system. And ifBeijing can’t, who can be.According to Richard Haass,one of the thinkers of worldpolitics, a superpower needs tohave, besides economic andmilitary prowess, an ability tointervene politically in anypart of the world and prove itsunparalleled strength. Anotherqualification is to use nuclearweapons and its access to anyentity across the globe. Chinaflatly fails on both the para-meters to become a super-power. The second problem forthe rising China theory is thatthere are more than two pow-ers emerging on the landscapeof international system. Themiddle powers like India,Germany, Japan, South Africaare inching up to shape theworld system together. Chineseaggressions in many parts ofAsia have exposed Beijing’sdesperation to become theunparalleled power in theregion.

In these situation if there isa world order which could bedeveloped beyond the con-ventional theory of world sys-tem, it can be a Green WorldOrder that creates a pitch fornon-fossil free energy systemwhich can preclude cata-strophic situations. This looksmore promising for a sustain-able world order. The world issitting on the brink of cata-strophe. Neither the US norChina is keen to safeguard theworld through its roadmap forthe Green World Order.

We have heard of aPanchtantra story: In the

extreme exigencies of flood, atree becomes a shelter for atiger, a human, a serpent and apeacock. None of them harmeach other; they hang on calm-ly. The reason for this unthink-able habitation in the peculiarcondition is the existentialthreat for each. The disruptionsin climate have pushed coun-tries in the same situation: toshelter on the same tree. Thecorona pandemic is a harshreminder of the undergoingchange. The beginning ofindustrial revolutions in theearly nineteenth century inEurope, along with the politi-cal ideology of an unchal-lenged charter of individualism,created a world order whichwas based on more consump-tion, better development andhighly racial and geographicalsuperiority. One after anothergeopolitical theorists fromHenry Mackinder to THMahan, Heartland theory toRim Land postulated to justi-fy the western interventionsand shaping the world systemthat keeps the western interestsintact. This is how the two hun-dred years of history of theworld is with us which has cre-ated a threat of existence notmerely for Asians and Africansbut for Europeans andAmericans as well.

Now the larger question iswhich country has the ability toshelter like a tree in the uni-versal f lood. America isabsolutely odd man out. It hasbeen the biggest disrupter ofthe Green World. It did notsign the Kyoto Protocol andwithdrew from the ParisClimate. China is developinghuge infrastructure of greenenergy, especially wind andsolar. China produced almost170 GW of solar energy in2018, but China has a dubiouscharacter. Dragon wants tokeep its house clean but littersother parts of the world withfossil fuels. The Chinese systemdoes not think magnanimous-ly to safeguard the planet withan inclusive approach.

The Covid-19 pandemichas completely eclipsed theChinese credentials in theinternational system. The wayChina manipulated the WorldHealth Organization which ledto an exponential spread ofpandemic in the globe, its anti-green and anti-humanitarianface has been unmasked. TheClimate Action Tracker givesChina a very poor gradebecause of its continuedreliance on coal. China hasfailed to stop the building of thenew coal-based plants. China isfinancing coal-fired powerplants outside the country, andincreasing emissions elsewhere.China remains the world’slargest producer of carbonemissions. It is planning tofinance and build roads, rail-ways, bridges, ports, and indus-trial parks abroad, beginningwith China’s neighbours inCentral, South, and SoutheastAsia and eventually reachingWestern Europe and acrossthe Pacific to Latin America.While China has imposed a cap

on coal consumption at home,its coal and energy companiesare on a building spree over-seas. Chinese companies areinvolved in at least 240 coalprojects in 25 of the Belt andRoad countries, includingBangladesh, Pakistan, Serbia,Kenya, Ghana, Malawi, andZimbabwe. It has a particulareye on the coal resources ofSouth Asia, Southeast Asia,Central and Eastern Europe,the West Asia, and the RussianFar East. Secondly, Chinesepolitical system is not trans-parent. Its next move is unpre-dictable. Third, China is verykeen to settle the historicalscores after becoming thelargest economy. Therefore, itsintentions are based on self-interests which would generatemore conflicts in the interna-tional system.

So far world politics wasdriven by the greed for oil andgas. Churchill after the end ofthe First World War venturedto use imported oil in place ofcoal for British fleets, since then

the oil became the drivingforce of world politics.Geopolitics of oil embargos arecommon. Oil and gas have notonly been used as sticks to hurtor deter foes, but also as carrotsto reward allies and ensuretheir allegiance. The climateconferences of the UN havebeen consistently remindingthe world to switch over fromfossil fuels to renewable sourcesof energy. But things are notmoving. American PresidentDonald Trump, in meetingwith CEOs of the companiesduring the pandemic, assuredthem of carbon-led economicdevelopment in future. Theimpact of fossil-fuel economyis visible. The trade warbetween America and China ispitching for carbon-led energysystem. The climate disruptionhas reached the tipping point.The whole world is severelyunder its grip. But certain partsof the world are more prone toclimatic change. Like SoutheastAsia and South Asia will facemore severe consequences of

climate change than other partsof the world.

The only country whichshines out in the crisis is India.It will have the largest worldpopulation of the world by2024. It has tested democraticcredentials and strong consti-tutional framework. Theancient Indian wisdom is basedon “Vashudhaiv Kutumbakam”which encapsulates each coun-try in its fold. India has dis-played its commitment for theresolutions of ParisCommitment. The 8 foldsjump in solar energy in the lastsix years proved a point. Indiais going to generate more than450 GW of energy throughrenewable sources by 2030.Prime Minister Narendra Modiwas awarded the “Champion ofEarth” by the UN SecretaryGeneral in 2018. He started tolead the International SolarAlliance. India has madeimportant progress towardsmeeting the United NationsSustainable DevelopmentalGoals, notably Goal-7 on deliv-

ering energy access. India’s percapita emissions today are 1.6tonnes of CO2, well below theglobal average of 4.4 tonnes.

Inequality and climatechange are parts of the samecoin. Therefore, climate changeis also related to lifestyle.Western economist ThoresteinVeblen, who coined the terms“invidious consumption” point-ed out how individuals useluxury goods to show off theirstatus. The US top ten per centemits six times more than 50per cent of the bottom at thehousehold level. Adam Smith,the father of economics,explained in his path-breakingbook “the Wealth of Nations”:It is the industry which is goingto make the country rich. Butancient Indian wisdom is con-trary to the views of AdamSmith. Mahatma Gandhi oncesaid that India cannot afford tofollow the British economicpolicy of greed. If two-thirds ofplanet failed to satisfy the greedof Britain, India had four timesthe population of Britain, so itwould need four planets likeearth to fulfil the greed.Unfortunately during the earlydecades after Independence,India became a copy cat ofwestern pattern of develop-ment. That is why the ModiGovernment is working on toreintroduce the ancient wis-dom. External Affairs MinisterS Jaishankar has also said thatClimate Change is not merelya fuel issue but it has a largercontext. Unsustainable con-sumption is the fundamentalcause of pollution and ecolog-ical destruction. India hasincreased its solar-energycapacity more than twelve foldsince 2014. The Indian stand isnot contradictory. It says whatit does. The democratic cre-dentials are well respected. ThisGovernment has prepared ablue print of Green WorldOrder. According to PM Modiit is secure, sure and pure.

(The writer is a professor ofpolitical science)

In Pakistan, the majoritycommunity has licence to kill

anyone, particularly personsfrom minority communities, inthe name of blasphemy withoutwaiting for court trials. Theugliest part is that the murdereris hailed as a “ghazi” or “mar-tyr” to the nation.

It’s time the world wakes upto the medieval treatment ofreligious minorities in Pakistan.The blasphemy law was firstintroduced in 1860 by thecolonial administration. Thelaw stipulated ten years ofimprisonment or fine or both.Later the law was amended in1927. In 1953, when anti-Ahmadiyya riots erupted,Jamaat-e-Islami demandedamendments to the law but theGovernment of Pakistan didnot entertain its requests.However, when anti-Ahmadiyya riots erupted againin 1974, the secondAmendment was introduced inthe Constitution of Pakistanand all Islamist parties cametogether under the banner ofTehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatam-e-Nabuwwat (movement forthe protection of the finality ofthe Prophethood). Later in1984, the Zia-Ul-Haq regimepassed an anti-Ahmadiyyaordinance, which decreed that“Ahmadis cannot call them-selves Muslims” or “pose asMuslim”, and those who defied the law faced three yearsin prison.

Cases of extortion fromminorities in Pakistan are fre-quent but rarely reported toauthorities for the fear ofreprisals. Victims pay hugeransoms as protection moneyto mosques and madrassas tosave their lives. Otherwise theyhave to leave their business andproperties.

A Hindu friend of minenarrated one such incident tome: “Due to coronavirus, our

temple is closed so I am per-forming my early morningprayers (bhajans) at home only.One day my neighbourknocked at my door and threat-ened our family. ‘You Hindusshould go to India and singyour bhajans there. If you wantto live in Pakistan, live quietly,don’t chant Krishna nonsenseearly morning’.”

He added, “Believe me Iwas not chanting loudly. Myneighbour always look for anopportunity to browbeat us sothat under pressure we shouldsell our apartment to them andleave this place, while theyalways listen Indian musicloudly all the time. Even thereis a mosque-madrasa in ourapartments where loudspeak-ers keep on blaring out.”

In 2009, Aasya Noreen,better known as Asia Bibi, aPakistani Christian, wasaccused of blasphemy. “Whyyou used my cup for drinkingwater? You are non-Muslim, a‘kafir’.” Argument over this ledto Noreen’s arrest in 2010. Shewas convicted of blasphemy bya Pakistani court and sen-tenced to death. MinoritiesMinister Shahbaz Bhatti andPunjab Governor SalmanTaseer both were assassinatedfor advocating on behalf of AsiaBibi and opposing the blas-phemy laws.

Under global pressure, in2018, the Supreme Court ofPakistan acquitted Asia Bibi ongrounds that there was insuf-ficient evidence. But she wasnot released from custodybecause of safety concerns. AMuslim cleric Maulana YousafQureshi announced a bountyof 500,000 Pakistani Rupees toanyone who would kill AsiaBibi. In 2019, she finally got asafe passage and arrived inCanada, but she continues toreceive threat to her life.

Mishal Khan, a student of

mass communication of AbdulWali Khan University, waskilled in 2017 on the premisesof the university by a mob onallegation of posting blasphe-mous content online. He was inthe hostel of the universitywhen he was stripped nakedand severely beaten up by agroup of students and thenshot. He succumbed to hisinjuries. The mob was kickinghis lifeless body and beating itwith wooden planks. His bodywas then thrown from the sec-ond floor of the building. Themob even tried to burn hisbody while chanting “Allah-o-Akbar”. At least 25 law enforce-ment officers were present

there, but no action was taken.Later investigations found thatthe content Mishal posted hadonly secular views and refer-ences to books on democracyand equality of humanity. Butbefore this realisation cameout, Pakistan had already losta beautiful soul.

Recently, on July 29, TahirNaseem, an American, wasshot dead inside a Pakistanicourtroom where he had gonefor a trial for alleged blasphe-my. He was an Ahmadiyyabut one of my sources told methat he was having mentalissues. His murderer justifiedthe killing, “A light appeared inmy dream last night and

ordered me to kill this enemyof Allah so that I can be award-ed with gift of heaven.”

The murderer was praisedby a majority of people inPakistan and even Governmentofficials and politicians used hispicture as their display picture (DP) on their socialmedia profiles.

When I reported this caseand announced a campaign onsocial media against the blas-phemy laws, forced conver-sions and enforced disappear-ances in Pakistan and organiseda protest at the ConsulateGeneral of Pakistan in Houston,I received many life threats andwas targeted by unknown pro-

files on the social media.Blasphemy Law (Clause ,

295C) of Pakistan panel courtreads: “Whoever by words,either spoken or written or byvisible representation or byany imputation, innuendo orinsinuation, directly or indi-rectly, defiles the sacred nameof the Holy prophetMuhammad (PBUH) shall bepunished with death or impris-onment for life and shall alsobe liable to fine.”

The law prescribes thedeath penalty for those who arefound guilty of blasphemy. Theoption of life imprisonment hasbeen defunct since a 1991Federal Shariat Court judg-

ment.Blasphemy laws in Pakistan

are derived from the HolyQuran and Hadiths, but thereare differences between differ-ent Islamic schools of jurispru-dence in this regard. SeveralIslamic scholars believe thatQuranic verses are misinter-preted by dominant Muslimgroups in Pakistan with thesupport of establishment thatallows them to use blasphemylaws as a tool to achieve theirnarrow sectarian interests andagendas. A Quranic verse,which directly mentions blas-phemy, calls on Muslims to notblaspheme deities of other reli-gions, lest people of those reli-gions retaliate by blasphemingagainst Allah.

“And do not insult (wa latasubbu) those they invokeother than Allah, lest theyinsult (fa-yasubbu) Allah inenmity without knowledge.Thus, we have made pleasing toevery community their deeds.Then to their Lord is theirreturn and He will informthem about what they used todo.” — Qur’an, 6:108

However, a few Hadithsjustify severe punishments forblasphemy. But not everyoneagrees. Secular Muslims inPakistan have always demand-ed abolition of the blasphemylaws but didn’t succeed becauseof the interest groups.Whipping up religious senti-ments is a powerful tool inPakistan that has always beenused by rulers to control peo-ple, and create pressure groupsof religious parties to perpetu-ate fear. Minorities, especiallywealthy Hindus, are easy preyin Pakistan.

(The writer, an exiled polit-ical leader from Sindh, is vicepresident of Jeay Sindh ThinkersForum. He is currently living inthe US)

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One day, sense of reasons dawnedupon a feuding couple, when theycame together seeking guidance

on how to improve their relationship.Their common urge was: “Suggest somepuja or such remedial measure as wouldhelp improve our relationship.”

Well, caught up on the plane wherethe problem exists — both of you stuck toown perceptions — you can’t find a wayout. Unless you change your perception,things won’t improve. No belief drivenpuja can invade your mind space to makenecessary correction. You need to firstexplore the premise on which the institu-tion of marriage stands. You may then beable to understand where you are goingwrong. Following which, you maybecome keen to redo your perceptions.

Both of them then countered in cho-rus: “Sir our expectations from each otherare not being met, which remains thebone of contention. Is it not natural tocarry expectations?” Well, there is noth-ing wrong in having expectations. Butbefore that you need to appreciate thatevery being is born unique. Each wouldthus, reflect varying desire and mind-trends, coming as they may as Karmiccarryover from the past. So, differences of

opinion is natural. C oming to maritalrelationship, it is not simply meeting oftwo unique characters, but sporting dif-ferent psyche as well. And it needs noelaboration that convergence of two cor-responding opposites prove productiveand fulfilling. When there is discord, itbecomes painful. The choice is yours.Now, how to go about? It simply calls fora lesson in the art of living, which mayhelp you be in accord, overriding individ-ual limitations. Here, exposure to somefundamental truths of life becomesimperative.

All existences in the cosmos — plan-ets, stars and other astral bodies — havebeen serving the larger existence in a giv-ing mode, not expecting anything inreturn thereof. Such a humongous crowdof cosmic bodies are in perfect harmonyand balance, because they are bound bythe design underlying them, with noscope for making any exception. Look atthe beauty of cosmic design. All planetsin the immediate galaxy, while goinground the Sun, traverse their exclusivepath, each respectively moving at theirown speed. Each, thus, enjoys its ownindependent space, simultaneously main-taining relativity amongst them. It is, as if

a family discharging their individual andcollective obligations in service of thelarger existence. Even on earth plane,trees, plants, animals, birds and micro-organism are bound by their predefinednature, and therefore, continue servingthe larger existence in a giving mode.They are not bothered who benefits, nordo they have any expectation from us. Ifwe attend to them, it is to serve our owninterest. Trivial looking termites forexample, feed themselves by creating holedeep inside the soil structure. That facili-tate entry of oxygen to augments earth-mass’s dynamic potential. They have to,however, meet their end before the cropcomes up, but not before servicing thecause of larger existence.

Human beings enjoy the exclusiveprivilege to guide their actions by choiceand discrimination. This, coupled withthe sense of ego, make them live in ademanding mode. What we forget thatbeing an inseparable part of a unifiedorganism, necessarily framed into aninterdependent setup, we all have ashared destiny. No individual is capableof meeting one’s bare existential needs allby oneself. That makes complementingand supplementing each other’s effortsimperative, to carry on the cycle of life.

The problem with the two is that,bound by individualistic whims and fan-cies, the two are living in a demandingmode, trying to impose one’s will on theother, which creates conflict. Look atyour astrological pointers. Whereas one isborn in Sagittarius laguna, with Moonthere itself and placed adverse to Uranus,which implies being tactless, undiplomat-ic, and erratic. Mars placed adverse toJupiter is indicative of inflated ego. Moonagain ill-disposed to Neptune, impliesbeing stuck to one’s own delusional per-ceptions not open to look beyond for areality check. In the other case, the lagunaand Moon both, occupy fixed sign, whichindicates fixated one track mind. Sunplaced adverse to Jupiter speaks of swag-gering ego. Moon placed adverse toNeptune is indicative of being stuck toone’s own delusional perception. Theresult is there to see. Once, you start liv-ing in a giving mode, you will care foreach other’s concerns and sensibilities. Inthe process, you will be particular aboutservicing each other’s expectations. Yourlife will turn into a beautiful experience.

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