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Four terrorists were gunneddown by the joint team ofsecurity forces in two separateencounters in Pulwama andShopian on Tuesday, takingthe total tally of terrorists killedthis year so far to 187.

According to the groundreports, “Three LeT terroristswere eliminated in a joint oper-ation in Hakripora area ofPulwama while one terroristwas neutralised by the securi-ty forces after the gunfightresumed at the encounter sitein Melhoora area of Shopian inthe wee hours of Tuesday”.

“Both terrorists killed werecadre of Hizbul Mujahideenand have been identified asTowseef Ahmad Khanday ofKulgam and Umar Thoker res-ident of Shganpora, Kulgam,” apolice spokesman said addingthey were involved in the recentterror attacks in Kulgam-Shopian areas.

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Punjab on Tuesday becamethe first State to formally“reject” and “counter” the BJP-led Central Government’s threecontroversial farm laws withthe Vidhan Sabha “unani-mously” passing three Bills ina matter of minutes.

Apart from this, “TheCode of Civil Procedure(Punjab Amendment) Bill,2020”, to provide relief to thefarmers against attachment ofland up to 2.5 acres, was alsopassed by the House.

With the BJP deciding tostay away from the “special”session, all the political parties— the ruling Congress, theAAP, the SAD, and the LokInsaaf Party (LIP) — come

together to ensure the passageof the four Bills.

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Aday after its soldier wasapprehended by the IndianArmy in eastern Ladakh, Chinaon Tuesday appealed for hisearly release. The two sides areengaged in a face-off for thepast five months in Ladakh.The Indian agencies interro-gated the Chinese corporaland have not found anythingsuspicious so far. He is likelyto be handed over to theChinese in a few days afterthorough questioning.

Giving this informationhere on Tuesday, sources saidCorporal Wang Ya was lookedafter well by the Indian Armyafter he was caught on Mondaymorning in Demchok area.He was provided medical aid

and warm clothes to protecthim from extreme altitude andharsh climatic conditions. TheCorporal is an armourer in thePeople’s Liberation Army(PLA) and hails fromShangxizhen town of centralZhejiang province, China. Hewas carrying his identity cardat the time of his capture, theyadded.

Taking up his case, ChineseForeign Ministry spokespersonZhao Lijian said in Beijing onTuesday, “We hope Indian sidewill keep its promise and return

the missing soldier as soon aspossible, and work with Chinato promote the consensusreached at 7th round of India-China commander-level talks.”

Similar appeal was madeby the Chinese Army onMonday evening. It said theChinese military hopes Indiawill make good on its pledge toswiftly return a Chinese soldierfound lost along their moun-tainous border where the sideshave been locked in a tensestandoff.

The Chinese DefenseMinistry said the soldier hadbeen helping herders round upyaks when he lost his way onSunday evening. The Chineseside informed the Indian coun-terparts about the missing indi-vidual and was informed short-ly afterward that he had beenfound and would be returnedafter undergoing a medicalcheckup, a spokesperson for theWestern Theater Command,Zhang Shuili, was quoted assaying.

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Putting the party in a fix at atime when it is under severeattack from all quarters on theissue, veteran Congress leaderKamal Nath on Tuesdayrefused to apologise forterming Madhya PradeshMinister Imarti Devi an “item”even though former Congresspresident Rahul Gandhi dis-approved of his language andtermed the incident as “unfor-tunate”.

In fact, Nath brazened itout saying what Rahul said washis own opinion, but as for him,he has already clarified the con-text and had nothing to apol-ogise for when he didn’t intendto insult anyone.

Madhya Pradesh ChiefMinister Shivraj SinghChouhan said it showed KamalNath’s arrogance and by tryinghard to justify and defend hisremarks he is “committinganother crime”.

National Commission forWomen chief Rekha Sharmacame down hard on Nath say-ing he is giving “useless expla-nation” instead of saying sorryand it only showed his charac-ter.

On Nath’s remarks, Rahultold reporters, “I think one can-not treat women with disre-spect. Kamal Nath ji is from myparty but personally, I don’t likethe type of language that heused...I don’t appreciate it,regardless of who he is. It isunfortunate.”

His remark came a dayafter Union Minister SmritiIrani questioned the Gandhifamily’s “silence” on the matterand alleged that they will nottake action against Nath for hisderogatory comment, sincepeople like Nath and DigvijaySingh “keep the fire burning inthe Congress family’s kitchen”.

However, reacting toRahul’s comments, Nath retort-ed: “It is Rahul Gandhi’s opin-ion. I have already clarified thecontext in which I made thatstatement... Why should I apol-ogise when I did not intend toinsult anyone? If anyone feltinsulted, I have alreadyexpressed regret.”

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In one of the lowest spikes inthe last three months, Indiaon Tuesday recorded less than50,000 new cases. The declineis significant considering thenumber of total tests on the daywas in excess of 10 lakh, whichhas been the daily average forsome time now, except onSunday when it was belownine lakh.

46,790 new coronaviruscases are less than what wereregistered on July 28 when fortwo consecutive days the tallyof fresh cases was 47,703 and48,513, before it shot up to analarming high of 97,894 onSeptember 17.

While the number of testsstood at 10.32 lakh, up fromMonday’s 8.60 lakh, the recov-ery rate stands at 88.26 per centand the fatality rate at 1.52 percent, Union Health SecretaryRajesh Bhushan said at a pressbriefing here.

The total case load isexpected to breach the 76-lakh mark shortly even as thedeath toll stands at 1.15 lakh.

The number of active casesin the country has dippedbelow 7.5 lakh as recoveriescontinued to outpace the rise indaily new cases. In past 24hours, 69,720 patients weredeclared cured of Covid, takingthe total recoveries to 67.33lakh, said the official. During

the same period, 587 Covid-related deaths were reported.

Around 78 per cent of thenew recovered cases areobserved to be concentrated in10 States/UTs and 75 per centof the new confirmed cases arefrom 10 States and UTs.Maharashtra, Karnataka andKerala each are contributingmore than 5,000 new con-firmed cases.

With health experts fearinga rise in Covid-19 cases duringthe upcoming festivals and thewinter season, Bhushan assert-ed that the Government is in a“comfortable position” as far asavailability of oxygen is con-sidered to meet any medicalemergency for serious patients.

“There has been no scarci-ty in oxygen supply in the last10 months with the daily pro-duction capacity enhanced to

6,862 metric tonnes bySeptember and projected tofurther increase to 7,191 met-ric tonnes by the end ofOctober,” he said.

Giving the details of the

preparations, he said, theCentre has initiated the processof installing 246 oxygen gen-eration plants in 18 States andUTs in the first phase.

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Maintaining that the “lock-down is gone but not thevirus”, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Tuesdaycautioned citizens ahead ofthe festival season to not lettheir guard down in the fightagainst Covid-19 and allowthings to deteriorate. “Jab takdawai nahi, tab tak dhilayinahi (no laxity until there is avaccine for cure),” he reiterat-ed and cited how after wit-nessing a decline there was aspurt in the caseload in manycountries.

In his special address to thenation, his seventh since theCovid-19 outbreak, the PrimeMinister said though the hus-tle-bustle is back in the market,the economy is picking up andpeople have put their livesback on track, the virus has notgone and the battle against itwould continue unless it is fin-ished to the last.

He said many countries,including India, are working oncredible vaccine and theGovernment is readying itselfto ensure its speedy delivery toevery one in the country.

Modi’s address this timeround came in view of the fes-tival season which could dis-rupt the coronavirus code ofconduct, particularly that ofsocial distancing and wearingof masks, thus potentially spik-ing up the cases manifold. Theongoing campaign for Biharelections and bypolls to the 28-odd Assembly seats across the

country, especially in MadhyaPradesh, also has the potentialto contribute to the increase inthe virus infections throughpublic meeting, rallies or one-to-one contact.

“India is succeeding in sav-ing more and more lives of itscitizens and fares better thandeveloped nations in combat-ing the virus but we need tocontinue the fight against the

virus till the vaccine comes. Asagainst 25,000 persons in apopulation of 10 lakh gettinginfected in the US and Brazil,only 5,500 persons in a similarsize here were infected in India.As against over 600 deaths per10 lakh population in countrieslike the US, Spain, Britain andBrazil, India registered 83deaths for a similar size group,”he outlined.

He also cited the expansionof the large network and activ-ities in the last few months tocombat coronavirus. He said 90lakh beds have been put inplace for coronavirus patients,12,000 quarantine centres havebeen installed, 2,000 testinglabs established and “soon ourtesting will be crossing the 10crore mark”.

But at the same time, hepointed out, pictures andvideos have, of late, emergedshowing that many people have

either stopped following pre-cautions like wearing masks orhave become negligent. “Thisis absolutely not right. Thosewho have become negligentand are moving around with-out masks are putting them-selves and their families,including children and elderly,at risk. Ye bilkul theek nahin hai(This attitude is absolutelywrong),” he said, adding in thelast eight-month selfless healthworkers and many others havestabilised the situation in thecountry which should not beallowed to deteriorate.

Citing couplets of saintKabir and from“Ramcharitmanas”, Modi saidone should not rest or feel toohappy unless the last mile ofsuccess is reached as herequested people to “wearmask, keep distance and washhands with soap”.

He asked all sections of thesociety and sectors, particularlymedia, to create awarenessabout the need to fight thecoronavirus pandemic till thelast.

Modi signed off his addressby wishing all good health andextending greetings for ‘navra-tra’, ‘Id’, ‘Chhath puja’,‘Gurunanak Parv’ and otherfestivals in the coming months.

According to theGovernment, in the last 30 dayssince Covid-19 cases peaked inIndia, the growth rate of infec-tions has more than halved-from 92 per cent in the monthprior to September 18 to 42 percent since then.

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New Delhi: Amid a politicalfurore over the three newfarm laws, a Gaon Connectionsurvey has found that about52 per cent of the country’speasantry oppose these, butone-third of them did notknow details of the legisla-tions. Of the 35 per cent sup-porting the agri laws, almost18 per cent were not informedabout them. PTI

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Lucknow (PNS): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over thecontroversial case related to TRP manipulation. The CBI has taken over the caseon an FIR registered in Lucknow, sources here said on Tuesday. The Uttar Pradeshgovernment had recommended a CBI probe into the case as the issue was linkedwith several states, sources claimed. The FIR was registered at the Hazratganj policestation, reportedly on the complaint of an advertising company promoter. Later ,the UP government recommended the transfer of the case to the CBI. As per thesources, the complainant has alleged that TRPs are manipulated in lieu of payment.The FIR was registered at the Hazratganj police station by one Kamal Sharma ofIndira Nagar three days back under sections 468, 465, 463, 420, 409, 406 and 120Bof the Indian Penal Code.

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Aiming to provide cheapfinance to the micro, smalland medium enterprises(MSME) sector, the state gov-ernment is mulling to set upasset-based lending to mitigatethe financial crunch faced bythem due to the COVID-19pandemic.

The new financial armwill be a joint venture (JV)between UP IndustrialConsultants Limited (UPICO)and UP Laghu Udyog NigamLimited. The new entity, tobe supported by the NationalSmall Industries Corporation(NSIC), will offer loans atattractive rates to small andmedium enterprises.

The ABL or asset-basedfinancing, is the business ofoffering credit, secured by col-lateral by way of inventory,receivables, equipment or otherproperty owned by the borrow-er.

“We are working with theNSIC for a proposed asset-based lending entity. A conceptpaper is being prepared in thisregard. The Board of UP LaghuUdyog Nigam Limited has alsocleared the proposal for settingup the ABL for the benefit ofthe MSME sector,” AdditionalChief Secretary (MSME andExport Promotion) NavneetSehgal said in Lucknow onTuesday.

Further, the governmenthas decided to push for devel-oping industrial enclaves span-ning 5-50 acres under publicprivate partnership (PPP)model to boost local economy

in UP.Following the lockdown,

the state’s MSME sector cameto a virtual standstill, barringthose engaged in producingand supplying essential com-modities viz. food, medicinesetc.

The government has beentaking measures to facilitatespeedy revival of economicactivities.

During lockdown, the stategovernment, through variousmeasures, arranged workingcapital credit of more than Rs26,000 crore to about 10 lakhMSME units.

The beneficiariescomprised nearly 4.35 lakhexisting and 5.4 lakh newunits across different seg-ments.

Meanwhile, UP LaghuUdyog Nigam’s Board alsoapproved the proposal for set-

ting up of flatted or vertical fac-tory complexes in four districtsat an investment of Rs 345crore.

The flatted factory conceptis about an industrial buildingof more than one storey. Thecomplex is subdivided intoseparately occupied units usedfor manufacturing, assemblyand associated storage func-tions.

Flatted factory complexeswill be set up in Gorakhpur,Ghaziabad, Agra and Lucknowfor non-polluting industrialunits. It is expected to over-come the scarcity of space fornew industries and to pro-mote start-ups.

The blueprint for Agraflatted factory complex hasalready been drawn and it willentail investment of Rs 185crore and accommodate 245units.

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Aseven-year-old boy, who went miss-ing since Monday morning, waskidnapped and murdered in Banda. Hisbody was recovered on Tuesday after-noon. As per reports, Prince (7) ofChaisand hamlet of Bisanda (Banda) wasplaying outside his house on Mondaymorning when he disappeared. Hisfather Rajesh Kushwaha and other kinsearched for him but failed to get any clue.His uncle Rakesh Kushwaha later sealedall roads exiting the village and the localsalso searched in the fields but to no avail.Later they informed the local police sta-tion about the boy’s disappearance.

Surprisingly, the cops came to makeenquiries seven hours after the incidentwas reported. They also returned with-out making any in-depth inquiry thoughthe family members expressed theirapprehension that someone kidnappedthe boy. On Tuesday afternoon, a localwoman spotted the slippers of a boy lyingon the fringes of the village and informed

the family about it. The family membersrushed to the scene and were shocked tofind the boy’s body lying under a heap ofstraw. He had been put there to concealthe crime. Upon learning about therecovery of the body, senior district andpolice officials reached the spot andsupervised investigation. The body wassent for autopsy and a case was registeredin this connection.

Meanwhile, in Shahganj area ofJaunpur, a couple torched themselves overa dispute leading to the death of thewoman and serious burn injuries to thehusband on Tuesday. As per reports,Ashok Kumar (50) and his wife Suman(48) of Bharauli village in ShahganjKotwali area, had an altercation onMonday night. Things got out of handsand the couple doused themselves withkerosene and set themselves afire, suffer-ing serious burns. Hearing their screams,their neighbours rushed in and took themto a hospital where Suman succumbed toher injuries while a critical Ashok wasundergoing treatment.

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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath will also be presentduring the virtual programme.

As per a government offi-cial, loans will also be disbursedamong three lakh street ven-dors and three lakh small shop-keepers of 651 municipal cor-porations under the PradhanMantri Swanidhi Yojana, acomponent of AtmanirbharBharat Abhiyan.

The PM SVANidhi waslaunched by the Ministry ofHousing and Urban Affairs onJune 01, 2020 for providingaffordable working capitalloans to street vendors toresume their livelihood thatwas adversely affected due tothe COVID-19 lockdown.

The duration of the schemeis until March 2022.

As per the scheme guide-lines, a vendor is a personengaged in selling articles, goods,wares, food items or merchan-dise of daily use or offering ser-vices to the public in a street,footpath, pavement etc. from atemporary structure or by mov-ing from place to place.

The goods supplied bythem include vegetables, fruits,ready-to-eat street food, tea,pakodas, breads, eggs, textile,apparel, artisan products,books/stationery etc. and theservices include barber shops,cobblers, pan shops, laundryservices etc.

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L u c k n o w(PNS): UnionTextiles Ministerand Member ofParliament fromAmethi, P SmritiIrani, hit out at theCongress, sayingthat a family headdid politics there butit was the BharatiyaJanata Party whichtook up develop-ment work in thearea.

“I am happy that the BJP is fulfilling the aspi-rations of the people of Amethi and adjoining areas,”she said during her day-long visit to Amethi parlia-mentary constituency on Tuesday.

Without taking names, Irani said that it was sat-isfying for her that the BJP was living up to the expec-tations of the people by ensuring development works.

The Union minister, who visited Salon town ofadjoining Rae Bareli falling in the Amethi constituen-cy, also inaugurated 12 Anganwadi centres and saidthat such developments were required at this junc-ture. Irani also met with officials at Salon tehsil officeand prayed at Hanuman temple in the tehsilpremises.

During her visit, Irani also accepted letters fromher voters demanding welfare works in their areaswhile some lawyers complained about the function-ing of lekhpals.

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The Uttar Pradesh governmentclaimed the success of therecently-launched Mission Shaktiwith 23 offenders of crime againstwomen and girls getting life termin the last 24 hours, bails beingcancelled in 49 cases and 28 perpe-trators being externed out of their dis-tricts.

On Tuesday, the state governmentalso launched a website of theProsecution department and alsoposted videos of the Prosecutiondepartment on Youtube.

ADG (Prosecution) AshutoshPandey said in Lucknow on Tuesdaythat between October 19 and 20, 23accused involved in crime againstfairer sex got life terms and 31 werepunished with cash fine for thecrime.

Earlier on Monday, the ADGhad said that the government’sefforts in this direction ensured deathpenalty for 14 accused in 11 cases ofcrime against women in the last oneyear.

“Death penalty is a rarity.However, prompt prosecution result-

ed in a large number of convictionsalong with death sentences. Efforts ofChief Minister Yogi Adityanath haveled us to improve and strengthen oursystem, ensuring speedy justice tofemale victims,” he said.

Pandey further said that due togovernment efforts, 14 sexual offend-ers were served death sentences, 11got life imprisonment and eight wereserved with imprisonment and fines.“Similarly, in 88 cases, bails of 117accused were cancelled due to effec-tive perusal by the Prosecutiondepartment and 41 offenders wereexterned from their home districts forsix months,” he said.

Pandey clarified that the trial ofcases in which death penalty wasserved was completed along withother cases. He said the state toppedin uploading details of prosecution one-prosecution portal of theGovernment of India.

“We have been able to performwell because of real-time monitoringwork of all 2,000 prosecutorsthrough e-prosecution sites inthe state and continuous video-con-ferencing,” the ADG (Prosecution)said.

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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said that hisgovernment was committedto procuring all paddyproduce from the farmers onminimum support price(MSP).

He directed all the districtmagistrates to carry out theprocess smoothly and ensurethat the farmers did not faceproblems at the purchase cen-tres.

“The district magistrateswill be held responsible if anylaxity is found in the procure-ment process,” the chief minis-ter said in a statement issued inLucknow on Tuesday.

So far, the state govern-ment has procured more thanone lakh tons of paddy in2020 as compared to 10,000metric tons of paddy pur-chased in the correspondingperiod last year.

To ensure that the purchaseprocess is carried out smooth-ly, the government hasincreased the number of pur-chase centres to 4,000 from theearlier 3,000.

The chief minister alsoasked the officials to ensurethat payment for paddywas transferred in the accountsof the farmers within 72hours.

Paddy purchase in the statestarted from October 1 and thesupport price for common(variety) of paddy was fixed atRs 1,868 per quintal and Rs1,888 per quintal for Grade-Apaddy.

Meanwhile, to help thefarmers sell paddy at theminimum support price,the government has approveda proposal to provideadvance loans to purchasingagencies.

Uttar Pradesh State Foodand Essential CommoditiesCorporation will avail loans upto Rs 3,000 crore from thenationalised banks for pur-chase of paddy.

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The second Covid-19 wavemay hit after 2-3 months,albeit with less intensity, thanksto a large number of cases wit-nessed so far. A senior healthofficial said looking into theEuropean countries where thesecond wave has struck after 2-3 months, the story could besimilar here. However, he saidunlike European countries, thesecond wave would be lessintense in UP.

“This is because theEuropean countries have notbeen able to contain the infec-tion the manner in which wehave. However, we need towatch out as the situationunfolds. Lucknow has wit-nessed a large number of casesand the immunity levels will behigh due to which the secondwave would be less intense,” hepointed out.

On Tuesday, 250 new casesemerged in the state capitalwhile 2,351 across the state. Asmany as 462 patients recov-ered, taking the total recovery

figures in Lucknow to 56,302 while the death tollreached 831.

The new patients included25 from Gomtinagar, 22 fromIndiranagar, 19 from Ashiyana,17 from Rae Bareli road, 15from Hazratganj, 12 fromMahanagar 13 from Chinhat,11 from Talkatora, and 10each from Madiaon,Alambagh, Cantt & Chowk.Six patients died in the city,including two from Lucknowitself while others from Sitapur,Barabanki, Siddharthnagar andAyodhya.

There were 30 deathsacross the state, taking thedeath toll to 6,714 cases evenas 3,339 patients recovered,taking the recoveries to4,22,024.

The official said in thewake of the downward trend,they were now focusing on re-training the medical officers,specialist doctors and fine-tun-ing the strategy and guide-lines. “In the state, the numberof active cases is 30,000 whichwill come down to 20,000 in a

month’s time. The second wavewill not come immediately. Wewant to use this time to prepareafresh,” he said. He added thatthe orientation of training ofdoctors would be handling ofthe ICUs, revised guidelines fortreatment of Covid-19.Regarding schools re-opening,he said they were not appre-hensive because they had giventhe parents choice.Commenting on the current sit-uation, he said the coronavirusgraph was going down and waslikely to stabilise after sometime.

Meanwhile, DistrictMagistrate Abhishek Prakashcarried out an inspection atAmiruddaulah Islamia InterCollege on Tuesday. On find-ing that it did not have a writ-ten consent of parents, hedirected the DIOS to issue ashow-cause notice to the col-lege. He directions collegeauthorities to follow Covid-19guidelines and said calling thestudents without parental con-sent was against protocols.The DM also interacted with

students present at the college.Besides, the Health depart-

ment has started dismantlingLevel-1 and Level-2 Covidfacilities with less number ofpatients there. A senior officialat the CMO office said thoughthe hospitals would remainnotified, they would no longerbe providing Covid facilitieshenceforth, and would be usedonly if there was a spike incases. “We have removed fourLevel-1 and two Level-2 hos-pitals from our list. We wereinformed that the ventilatorswere not working in one hos-pitals while there was shortageof staff in the other,” he said.

Health officials also visit-ed Chandernagar CHC wherethey inspected the work doneby rapid response teams.Currently, the strategy is toincrease RT-PCR tests in thedistrict by 3,600 per day.

Meanwhile, director ofNational Botanical ResearchInstitute (NBRI) SK Barik saidthey were doing nearly 800tests per day and had com-pleted 38,326 tests.

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Superspeciality CancerInstitute and Hospital atChak Ganjaria, which wasinaugurated by DefenceMinister Rajnath Singh andChief Minister YogiAdityanath on Tuesday, willprovide treatment customisedto the needs of patients.

Director Dr ShaleenKumar said the patients wouldbe seen by at least a surgeon,medical oncologist and radia-

tion oncologist. “Treatmentwill not be based on who seesthe patient first, but on a con-sensus view. It is always pos-sible to treat a disease with anumber of combinations,some of which may be relevantto an individual but not toanother, and for which a dif-ferent strategy could be adopt-ed,” he said.

He said the vision of thehospital was to instil a cultureamongst the workforce andparamedical staff that it was

not a place to mint money butgive some pragmatic medicaladvice to patients and theirkin. Dr Kumar said they werebeginning with 50 beds. Hepointed at the outset, theywere starting with basicsurgery. “Surgeries whichrequire ICU-like set up willnot be performed to beginwith because the infrastructureis not there yet. The basic out-patient chemotherapy is onand we will tailor our choiceof patients accordingly,” he

said. He added that if a patientcomes for treatment with anattendant, it would be difficultto find a place to stay becausethe area is barren. “We havepaid facilities like SGPGI andwhatever we are offering is atpar,” he added.

Dr Kumar has done MBBSand MD from KGMU, servedat SGPGI for 22 years and ison deputation from SGPGI.He has worked at TataMemorial Hospital and alsoserved in the UK for a year.

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In another incident, thievesmade off with cash and orna-ments from the house ofMohammed Shabaan of IndaneEnclave in Gudamba. Shabaan,along with his family, had goneto his in-laws’ house onSaturday and found the houseburgled when he returned. Thethieves decamped with Rs50,000 in cash and ornamentsworth Rs 3 lakh.

Meanwhile, thieves stole Rs12,000 in cash, a laptop andcharger from the room of aBCA-II student of BBDU inChinhat. Reports said the stu-dent, identified as SuryaPrakash Verma of Basti, staysat GR Enclave in the area. Heleft the room in the afternoonon October 15 and found thearticles missing when hereturned in the evening.

In another incident, thievesmade off with cigarettes worthRs 4.5 lakh from the car of asalesman in PGI police stationarea. Salesman Mukesh KumarRai of Haivatmau had gone tosupply the goods to differentshops by a car. He took a haltnear Kalindi Park in Vrindavan(Sector-4). He parked the car tosupply goods to a shop. Later,he found a sack filled with cig-arettes missing.

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5,000 by cyber thugs inGudamba on Tuesday. Themiscreants fraudulently with-drew Rs 5,000 from the bankaccount of Dr Rajat KumarSingh of Jankipuram (Sector-G), who is an assistant profes-sor at Barabanki MedicalCollege. The victim received amessage regarding deduction ofcash from his account onOctober 14 and he lodged acomplaint later.

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Agroup of youths blud-geoned to death theirrival in PGI police station areaon Monday night. The victimwas identified as Arjun Rawat(26) of Haivatmau locality inthe area. He worked at SGPGIon contract basis.

As per reports, Arjun hada rivalry with his cousinsSikander, Pitamber and Dilip

(all of the same locality). OnMonday, Arjun was going forsome work when the above-named accused stopped himand started beating him up.As Arjun fell unconscious, theattackers f led the scene.Arjun’s family called thepolice to inform them aboutthe incident and rushed himto a hospital where he suc-cumbed to injuries. The fam-ily later lodged a case against

Sikander, Pitamber and theiraide Dilip.

The police said Arjun hada brawl with the accusedwhen all of them were in adrunken state, and he sufferedinjuries. The police said thedeceased’s family and theaccused had a long-standingproperty dispute. Dilip wasdetained while policelaunched a manhunt for otheraccused.

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Campaigning for the bypollsto seven UP Assembly con-stituencies has picked up. Thebypolls are perceived as a semi-final before the 2022 Assemblyelections in the state.

The polling will be held onNovember 3 and the countingof votes will be taken up onNovember 10. The ruling BJP,which has a higher stake in thebypolls, has deployed its mightby holding several virtual andphysical rallies with ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath lead-ing from the front.

Central BJP leaders,including Union ministers, arenot expected to campaign inthe bypolls due to their preoc-cupation in the Bihar Assemblyelections. The BJP state lead-ership, with Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath in the lead, issteering the campaign andministers have also been askedto camp in the seven poll-bound constituencies.

Chief Minister YogiAdityanath had virtuallyaddressed the booth-level partyworkers in all seven assemblyconstituencies, while BJP statepresident Swatantra Dev Singhhas been physically attendingthe election meetings.

On the other hand,Samajwadi Party, Congress and

Bahujan Samaj Party are rely-ing on their local and stateleaders to campaign in thebypolls.

Meanwhile, UP BJP vice-president Vijay Bahadur Pathakclaimed that the party candi-dates would win all the sevenseats.

“The BJP is running awell-organised campaign underthe leadership of Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath, and the partycandidates will get landslidesupport from the masses,”Pathak said here on Tuesday.

He said that the oppositioncandidates were nowhere nearthe BJP nominees in the by-elections and the result wouldshow the popularity of the BJPand its policies in the state.However, the opposition hascontradicted the claims of theBJP and is projecting poor lawand order and rampant cor-ruption as the failures of theYogi Adityanath government.

SP spokesperson RajendraChaudhary said that the peo-ple were fed up with the mis-rule of the BJP government andthe bypolls result would show-case it. UP Congress presidentAjay Kumar Lallu said thatCongress candidates wouldlead the opposition camp andin several constituencies, theparty candidates would be theultimate winners.

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Uttar Pradesh Congresschief Ajay Kumar Lallusaid that his party wouldstage demonstrations at dis-trict headquarters to protestirregularities and corruptionin paddy procurement onThursday.

On Tuesday, Lallu toldnewspersons that farmerswere running from pillar topost to sell their producewhile the government wassitt ing with its eyes closed. “Despite tall govern-ment claims, paddy purchasecentres have not been opened.On the other hand, farmersare being exploited throughhuge cuts in the name ofmoisture and are being forcedto sel l their produce at lower cost to middlemen insome centres,” he alleged.

The Congress leaderaverred that the BJP regimewhich had announced aMinimum Support Price of Rs1,886 per quintal, was makingpurchases from farmers at Rs1100-1200 per quintal.

“Due to anti-farmer poli-cies of the BJP, the financialsituat ion of farmers is deteriorating,” he added.

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After being accused of bankloan fraud in an FIR lodgedby the CBI and subsequentraids at his premises, BahujanSamaj Party MLA VinayShankar Tiwari claimed thathe was ‘paying the price forbeing a Brahmin’ and the actwas ‘politically motivated’.

On Monday, several teamsof the CBI conducted raids onthe residential and officepremises of firms owned byTiwari, his wife and associates inconnection with the fraud.

On Tuesday, Tiwari postedon Facebook that he was payingthe price of being a Brahminand earlier too, the govern-ment had raided their house‘Tiwari Hata’ in Gorakhpur.

The MLA admitted that heowed ‘around Rs 600 crore to thebank, but the government alsoowed him Rs 700-800 crores.“The government is using theCBI to victimise me and Centralagencies are being used to muz-zle the voice of the Opposition,”he claimed.

Presently a BSP MLA fromChillupar segment ofGorakhpur, Vinay Tiwari is theson of erstwhile mafiosi-turned-politico Hari Shankar Tiwari,who wields a considerable cloutin eastern UP.

The CBI has booked Tiwariand his wife Rita Tiwari in con-nection with an alleged bankfraud to the tune of Rs 754.25crore done by a company inwhich they are directors.

The case was registered on

a complaint by Bank of Indiaagainst two private companies -Gangotri Enterprises and RoyalMarketing Pvt Ltd based inLucknow and Noida, its direc-tors and other unknown personsfor committing misappropria-tion, cheating and causing a lossof Rs 754.24 crore to a consor-tium of banks. The MLA and hiswife are the second-largestshareholders of the company.

The complainant allegedthat directors of GangotriEnterprises misappropriatedbank funds and diverted themfor purposes other than forwhich the loan was taken. Thecompany with its corporateoffice in Mahanagar area ofLucknow is engaged in con-struction of roads, bridges, fly-overs, etc.

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An eight-year-old boy wasbooked for allegedly sexu-ally assaulting a six-year-oldgirl in his neighbourhood inAligarh and booked under sec-tions of Protection of Childrenfrom Sexual Offences(POCSO) Act on Tuesday.

As per reports, the girl’sparents alleged in an FIR thatwhile their daughter was play-ing outside their home onOctober 12, the boy entered thepremises on the pretext of get-ting a ball and later sexuallyassaulted her. The police saidthat both the minors are fromthe same community and arefinancially weak.

SP (Aligarh City) Abhisheksaid, “We are not yet sureabout the actual age of the boy,but we can confirm he is below10 years. For now, we have lefthim with his parents and willpresent him before a juvenilecourt and do whatever thecourt directs us. The case issensitive and everything will bedone as per juvenile justice law.”

As per law, rape has a verycomplex definition and anysexual activity can come underthe section of rape.

Meanwhile in Amethi, an11-year-old girl was raped by

two persons, one of the accusedbeing her uncle, at a village inMusafirkhana police stationarea on Friday. The girl wasreturning from tuitions in theafternoon when she wasdragged to a thicket andassaulted. The accused laterthreatened the victim’s familynot to complain to the police.But the family finally musteredcourage and lodged an FIR,three days later, on Monday.Both accused were later arrest-ed.

Elsewhere in Chitrakoot,four persons, including awoman, were arrested in con-nection with the gang rape ofa 35-year-old woman onTuesday. Based on the woman'scomplaint, a case was registeredagainst two men for gang rapeand three others for criminalconspiracy.

As per the complaint filedon October 18, the woman wastaken by the two men to anaide’s house in Karwi police sta-tion area of Chitrakoot onSeptember 28 and raped. Later,the two men took her toPrayagraj and raped her beforefleeing. Four persons werearrested so far. The arrestedwoman was booked for crim-inal conspiracy and effortswere on to arrest the remain-

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Lalit Bhati faced 56 caseslinked to the scam at a police sta-tion in Greater Noida. ED sleuthshad also registered a case in thematter and raided the premisesand business establishment of theaccused. Bhati was arrested byNoida unit of the STF and officialsof Economic Offences Wing(EOW) of Meerut police onMonday night. The accused waslodged at Dadri police station,where FIRs in connection withBike Bot case were registered.

On October 7, the STF hadarrested three men, including aretired Army personnel and abrother of scam mastermindSanjay Bhati. In 2018, GarvitInnovative Promoters Limited(GIPL), a company registered inNoida, had came out with a multi-level marketing scheme ‘Bike Bot’and lured investors promising todouble returns in a year. Theysought Rs 62,100 as investment fora motorcycle taxi and assuredmonthly returns besides doublingthe amount in just a year but failedto deliver on the promise.

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Thousands of devoteesthronged famous DurgaMandir at Durga Kund to offerprayer at Maa KushmandaDevi temple on the fourth dayof Shardiya Navratra here onTuesday, maintaining COVID-19 guidelines. It is a famoustemple which sees rush ofdevotees throughout the yearand the same increases duringboth Shardiya and VasantikNavtaras. As the idol is dedicat-ed to Kushmanda Devi incar-nation of Goddess Durga, itsaw heavy rush during theday. Right from the morninghours, the devotees startedreaching there and long queuesof devotees were seen. Rushwas also seen at the nearbydozens of shops selling chu-naris, coconut and otherpuja articles. Elaborate securi-ty arrangements were madethere.

Meanwhile, Chief MedicalOfficer (CMO) Dr VB Singh

has appealed to the people tomaintain full caution whilecelebrating festivals and notignore the continuous threatsof coronavirus. ‘Ever since thiscoronavirus has come, it is theeffort of the Health departmentto mobilise the people to savethemselves from coronavirus

by wearing masks, maintainingtwo yards distance and wash-ing hands,’ he said, appealing tothe people to remain morecautious while purchasing arti-cles and offering prayers dur-ing festivals of Durga Puja,Dussehra and Deepawali.

Earlier, as a part of the

Mission Shakti Abhiyan, ashort play was presented onMonday by the Kishori Poshanworkers in the market places inwhich one worker Ambikatook the form of Maa Durga tosave a child from cruelty ofevils while it was also partici-pated by Pragya, Damini, Neha,Manisha, Mantasha, Riya andKhushi, along with Anganwadiworker Seema Vishwakarmaand supervisor (Sewapuri)Lalima Pandey.

Besides, MangaldeepAgarbatti will perform the‘Mrityunjaya Homam’ in thecity under its pan India initia-tive ‘Loka Kshema Puja’ topray for the prosperity andwellbeing of the nation.‘Mrityunjaya Homam’ will beperformed by 25 priests here onWednesday.

Priests will perform thepuja rituals spread overfour hours while followingall the social distancing normsrelevant for a religious occa-sion.

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Unhappy with the govern-ment for not makingannouncement of ‘Diwalibonus’ yet, the railway employ-ees on Tuesday staged a protestat Varanasi Cantonment rail-way station and DRM office inLahartara, here.

The railway employeesgathered at the director’s officeof Varanasi Cantonment rail-way station and staged ademonstration blaming thegovernment for not making an

announcement of Diwali bonustill now. They work hard for theentire year to celebrate the fes-tival of lights with the bonuswhat they get before this aus-picious occasion, but the gov-ernment has hurt them by notannouncing the bonus yet, theagitated employees said.

Declaring Tuesday asBonus Day, the railway employ-ees remained absent from theoffices and staged a protest atthe office of Divisional RailManager, Varanasi Division,NER in Lahartara under thebanner of NE Railway

Mazdoor Union (NERMU).They get Diwali bonus eachyear before the beginning ofauspicious occasion of ShardiyaNavratra but the governmenthas not announced the sameeven till now, the employeessaid. They demanded the gov-ernment to make an announce-ment of Diwali bonus givingmuch relief to the employeesand threatened to launch anagitation if the governmentfailed in meeting the demandat the earliest.

The employees also raisedtheir voice against the govern-

ment initiative to hand over therailway into private hands. Inthe name of making improve-ment in the railway, the govern-ment is making its privatisationto benefit the capitalists, theysaid and demanded, the gov-ernment should roll back itsprivatisation policy in the larg-er interest of employees.

The annoyed employeesalso submitted a memorandumof their demand to the con-cerned authority. The officersassured the employees toapprise the senior officers oftheir demands.

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ABanaras Hindu University(BHU) team led by theHead of Molecular BiologyUnit (MBU), Institute ofMedical Sciences (IMS), ProfSunit Kumar Singh has report-ed that Japanese Encephalitis(JE) Virus suppresses the hostimmune response and repli-cates inside the microglial cells.The study has been publishedin an International ScientificJournal ‘BBA - GeneRegulatory Mechanisms’ in itsrecent edition. JE is one of theleading causes of viralencephalitis i.e. it causes severeinflammation in the brain bykilling the neurons and activat-ing the microglial cells.

The Japanese EncephalitisVirus (JEV) is spread by theCulex mosquitoes. Symptomsof JEV infection range from

mild-to severe like fever,headache, nausea. In severeconditions, it may lead toencephalitis, coma, tremors orconvulsions and often lead todeath. Children and old agepeople are more prone to JEVinfection. In India, Assam,Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh,Bihar and Jharkhand are the

endemic regions.The pro-inflammatory

responses help in clearing theinfection from the body, alert-ing the other immune-relatedcells to protect and warn fromthe invading pathogens. ProfSingh reported that a smallmolecule, microRNA-155 sup-press the pellino 1 (PELI1) pro-tein and inhibits the pro-inflammatory responses whichhelps in JEV immune evasionand viral replication. Theyhave also demonstrated that byusing the inhibitors againstmicoRNA-155, the hostimmune response can berestored to normal and JEVreplication is suppressed.Therefore, this mechanism canbe exploited for the develop-ment of microRNA-baseddrugs against JEV infection.

Earlier, Prof Singh has beenelected as Fellow of the Indian

Academy of Neurosciences(IAN). This prestigious fel-lowship has been awarded tohim for his research contribu-tion in understanding the mol-ecular pathogenesis of virusesinfecting the brain. Prof Singh’sfindings have helped immense-ly in understanding the mole-cular mechanism of many neu-roviral infection caused byZika Virus, JapaneseEncephalitis Virus, ChandipuraVirus and Chikungunya Virus.This prestigious fellowship willbe awarded to him next year ina formal function of the annu-al conference of IAN, sched-uled to be held at IndianInstitute of Science Educationand Research, Kolkata. Vice-Chancellor of BHU ProfRakesh Bhatnagar, Rector ProfVK Shukla and others congrat-ulated Prof Singh for this pres-tigious fellowship.

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Nidhi Singh, a researchscholar of Institute ofEnvironment and SustainableDevelopment (IESD), BanarasHindu University (BHU), isamong the 25 winners of thisyear’s Green TalentsCompetition and she has beenselected to attend the premiereof a Virtual Science Forum fortalented junior researchers inthe field of sustainability sci-ence. The winners are engagedin topics ranging from climatechange to energy systems. Forthe first time ever, the winnersinclude researchers from India,Benin, Japan and Malawi.

PhD student Nidhi’sresearch focus areas are climatevariability, human health,extreme temperature and airpollution. The jury was con-vinced by Nidhi’s empirical

approach that links the aspectsof air pollution and health,which, taken together in thisway, have not been adequatelyresearched yet. She is amongthe two winners from India andthe other one is Parmita Ghosh,Remote Sensing Data Scientist,Corteva Agriscience and herfocus areas are satellite remotesensing and data science, agri-

culture, and environmentaland soil science. The jury wasimpressed by her passion inworking interdisciplinary con-necting her knowledge inremote sensing and agricultur-al engineering to help theworld fight food scarcity.

The winners are set on avirtual tour in Germany andthese outstanding green vision-aries from all over the worldwill meet Germany’s sustain-ability research elite duringthe first virtual science tour. Atthe end of the Virtual ScienceForum, the 25 Green Talentswill be honoured by DrMichael Meister, ParliamentaryState Secretary to the FederalMinister of Education andResearch, during a virtualaward ceremony on October26.

The Green Talents pro-gramme is conducted under

the patronage of the FederalMinister of Education andResearch, Anja Karliczek. Theaward has been honouring tal-ented researchers since 2009and provides young scientistswith a platform for sharingtheir views on green conceptsto make our world a betterplace. This year, a high-rankingjury of German experts select-ed 25 up-and-comingresearchers among 589 appli-cants from 87 countries as thewinners.

Each award comprises oneof the coveted tickets to the‘Green Talents InternationalForum for High Potentials inSustainable Development’. Dueto the unprecedented chal-lenges posed by the COVID-19pandemic, this year’s GreenTalents Science Forum will forthe first time take place in afully online format.

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In Prayagraj district, the eve-teasers will not be spared atany cost if they are caught teas-ing with girls especially duringthe pious festival ShardiyaNarvratra. If someone will becaught while molesting or hisname has come up in the caseof indecent act, then the picturewill be posted in his police sta-tion concerned.

Not only this, the police

will also take action and pastehis picture in the locality.This is so that the girls livingin the locality or village canknow about the activities ofthat young man. For this, thepolice are going to run a‘wicked marking campaign’across the district. Villagersand local people will also behelped in this campaign.

At the same time, thepolice of the district are run-ning a nine-day separate cam-paign in Navaratra for the

safety, honour and indepen-dence of women. The casesagainst women will be settledwithin a month. This cam-paign is named ‘PowerVivechana’. E-Jagran Abhiyanwill be run to make womenaware of cyber bullyingcrimes. Under this, a pam-phlet of guidelines regardingwhat to do and what not to dowill be distributed. Youthswho are molested will beinstructed through ChetnaJagran who will also advise the

police to be sensitive towardswomen.

SSP Sarvashresth Tripathisaid that under MissionShakti, Navratra has a cam-paign under a different sched-ule according to the ninedays. The Shakti Vahini ser-vice has already started.Counselling will be conduct-ed with the help of FamilyCounselling Centre by settingup a women’s help desk andrunning a women’s honourcampaign.

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The rate of infected personshas reduced considerably asagainst the screening of Covidinfection in the district. OnMonday, a total of 4,915 sam-ples were collected for theCovid test and of them, 148infected persons were detected.

200 people beat corona inthe last 24 hours. Two coronainfected also died during treat-ment. According to CMO DrGS Bajpai, 200 people got ridof Covid infection in 24 hours.Out of these, 33 patients weredischarged from various Covidhospitals. Home isolation of167 infected was completed.The number of active patientsin the district was 1,565.

On Monday, 218 patientswere admitted to Covid hospi-tals and Covid care centres.Maximum 85 of them areundergoing treatment at theCorona-infected SRN Hospital.24 patients are being treated atRailway Hospital, 58 patients atTej Bahadur Sapru Hospital, 27at United Medicity, 24 infect-ed at Sainath AMA Hospital.

At the same time, thesequence of health workersturning into Covid positivesfrom corona warriors has beenaccelerated. Lab technician,pharmacist, SRN staff nurse,railway hospital nursing super-intendent, IFFCO chief manag-er and two bank officers amongothers have been corona posi-

tive on Monday. The report ofCPRO of Railways has alsocome positive.

According to Nodal Officerfor Corona Dr Rishi Sahai,manager of SBI Nari Baribranch, manager of SBI Trivenibranch, teacher of conventschool near Rasulabad, alawyer, senior pharmacy officerof CGS and senior branchmanager of Union Bank CivilLines were infected.

A corona positive residentof Shankargarh NagarPanchayat died in Noida.

Resident of ShankargarhGudiay Talab, the infected hadtrouble in breathing. He wasadmitted to a private hospital.His Covid report came on thethird day. Earlier, the patient’scondition became critical, thenfamily members took him fromhere to Noida and admittedhim to a private hospital.

He died there during treat-ment. CMO Noida hasinformed this to the Healthdepartment. Local CMO hasalso been apprised. The localsare in awe due to the increas-

ing number and death of Covidinfected in Shankargarh area.

SDM Koraon SandeepKumar Verma was found coro-na positive again on Mondayevening. He was admitted tothe district hospital late onMonday night due to suddendecrease in oxygen level. SDMwas previously found to becorona positive on September4. Tehsildar Anita Shekhar saidthat the entire tehsil premiseshas been sealed and sanitised.Work will be completely closedin the tehsil for two days.

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In a shocking incident a manwho took his teennagedbeloved living in trans-Yamunaof Meja area to Gujarat onsome pretext killed her thereand then after dumping thebody in the bushes thereescaped here in Prayagraj city.

On receiving the informa-tion from the Gujarat policeabout the murder, the Mejapolice interrogated the accusedwho confessed to the crime.After which he was arrestedand sent to jail.

Mausam (17), daughter ofRamdas, a resident of Khurma

village in Manda, came to hermaternal grandmother inNeveria village of Meja. On theevening of September 27, shewent missing in the mysteriouscircumstances. The familylodged a report againstVijayshankar from the village,accusing him of taking theteenager to somewhere afteralluring her. It was alleged thatthe accused working in a pri-vate company in Gujarat usedto have a bad intention on hisdaughter. According to offi-cials, the police, who were insearch, received informationabout the body of the missingteenager on October 15 in

Vapi in Valsad, Gujarat.When the team reached

there along with the family, itwas found that the body wasthrown into the bushes afterstrangling her to death. On theother hand, the investigationrevealed that the accused hasbeen missing from the Gujarat-based company for a long time.Police said that on the basis ofinformation received from theinformer on Tuesday, accusedVijayshankar was arrested fromMeja area only when he wastrying to escape somewhere.During interrogation, he con-fessed that he killed the teenag-er and then ran away by throw-

ing the body into the bushes.According to police offi-

cials, during interrogation, theaccused has stated that he wentto Gujarat with the teenager butcould not find a place to staydue to lack of ID. During this,he was shocked at the informa-tion about the FIR lodgedagainst him. He asked theteenager to return home toescape but she was not ready toleave him. At this point, ascuffle ensued between theman taking advantage of theopportunity and smotheredher to death. SP trans YamaunaChakresh Mishra said that theaccused has been sent to jail.

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Owners of about 13 lakhvehicles running on theroads of the district will nowhave to install high securityplates on their vehicles. Thesenumber plates will be levied onagencies of vehicle companies.People will also have to pay afee for the number plate.

Divisional TransportOfficer RK Singh said thatthere are about 13 lakh vehiclesin the district, in which high

security number plates are to beinstalled. These number plateswill be levied on agencies ofvehicle companies. For this,agencies along with vehiclecompanies have also beendirected by the government.

He said that when the vehi-cle owner goes to the agency toinstall a high security plate, thedetails of the same will bemade available to the onlineTransport department. It isnecessary to provide completedetails online to the agency

operator. With this, the depart-ment will continue to know thedaily details of how many peo-ple finally got number plates.

The Transport departmenthas also fixed the fee and timefor installation of high securi-ty number plates. Only after thenumber plate is installed will allthe work be done in the RTOoffice. For installing a highsecurity number plate, a fee of� 500 to Rs 1000 has been fixedfor a four-wheeler and � 200 to�500 for a two-wheeler.

Vehicles that preceded April 1,2005 will have to replace thenumber plate in four months.For vehicles which are betweenApril 1, 2005 and March 31,2010, a period of six monthshas been prescribed.

Similarly, vehicles that arefrom the period of April 1, 2010to March 31, 2015, will have toinstall a high security numberplate in eight months and thosefrom April 1, 2015 to March 31,2019 have been given the pre-scribed time in 10 months.

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!�� �����������#-����������������ALLAHABAD (PNS): NorthCentral Railway is all set to load25 per cent more freight inOctober 2020. General MangerRajiv Chaudhry reviewed posi-tion of safety, 160 Kmph speedraising, freight loading andother important works overNorth Central Railway throughvideo conferencing withPHODs of North CentralRailway and Divisional RailwayManagers Prayagraj, Jhansi andAgra. First of all, safety intrain operation was reviewed.GM laid stress on alertness atall levels in safety related mat-ters. He said that frontlinestaff like trackman, stationstaff, running staff and otherofficials going on line mustkeep a close vigil on trespass-ing locations and such cases bereported promptly for immedi-ate measures to stop unautho-rised crossing of railwaytracks.Reviewing 160 kmph

speed raising works in NewDelhi-Howrah includingKanpur-Lucknow section andNew Delhi-Mumbai section;Chaudhry instructed that ade-quate availability of materialrequired for upgradation worksshall be critical for timely com-pletion of this important workand advised PHODs of con-cerned branches to monitoravailability of high value andcritical items at their level. Toenhance safety and speed oftrains over point and crossingzone at higher speed, existingtrack fitting in point and cross-ing zone is being replaced withthick web switches. Expeditingthis important track relatedwork for speed raising, NCRhas started provision of thickweb switches at 04-05 locationssimultaneously as compared toexisting average of three permonth. Later in the video con-ference freight loading perfor-

mance of North CentralRailway was reviewed. Withcontinuous efforts of businessdevelopment units, efficienttrain operations and customercentric marketing approach;freight loading on NCR is onupswing for the last fourmonths. As on October 19,2020, North Central Railwayhas loaded 8.9 lakh tonnesfreight in this month register-ing record improvement of 27per cent over loading of sevenlakh tonnes freight in the sameperiod of October last year.With rigorous marketingefforts, North Central Railwayhas already finalised nineStation to Station (STS) conces-sional rate proposals for newand incremental traffic andwith three under process STSproposals NCR is leading rail-way among all zones in final-ising STS proposals. NorthCentral Railway is also work-

ing for STS proposal for load-ing of ballast from Kabrai toPrayagraj which will improveloading substantially by trans-portation of ballast for dedicat-ed freight corridor work. As onOctober 19, 2020, averagespeed of goods train on NCRwas 45.02 kmph registeringgrowth of 82.5 per cent overlast year average speed of 24.69Kmph for the period of Aprilto October. In an importantstep towards ease of doingbusiness a Freight BusinessDevelopment (FBD) portal isalso operationalised by railwaysince September 30, 2020.Freight customers can accessthis portal through linkhttp://fois.indianrail.gov.in/FOISWebPortal/index.jsp and getall information related to dif-ferent freight policy matters,incentives and concessionsgiven by railways in freighttransportation.

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The district has inched closeto the 16K-mark as 71 newCOVID-19 patients have beendetected here on Tuesday,increasing the total number ofcases to 15,958. The day alsosaw one more death, increasingthe toll to 255. During the day,the follow-up negative reportsincluded 140 patients. Out ofthem, 131 have been recoveredfrom home isolation, whilenine patients discharged fromthe hospitals, increasing thenumber to 12,029 and 2,790respectively. The total numberof patients who have been

recovered so far is 14,819, leav-ing 884 active cases. The recov-ery rate has improved slightlyto 92.86 per cent but the mor-tality rate remained at 1.59 percent.

Earlier, Chief MedicalOfficer (CMO) Dr VB Singhhas informed that in the firstreport of the day, 42 positivepatients were found out of3,912 reports received. Tillthen, the total test reportsreceived were 2,87,526 and theresults of 2,035 are awaited. Outof them, 2,71,597 were nega-tive, while 15,929 positive. Thetotal number of samples col-lected was 3,03,966. With the

addition of five new red zones,the total number of hotspotshas increased to 2,246 includ-ing 259 red zones. As many as12 green zones have been con-verted into red zones again.There are 1,987 green zoneswith 23 new ones.

Under ongoing mass/group antigen tests, two per-sons out of 515 tests was detect-ed positive at Shree Shiv PrasadGupta (SSPG) Hospital,Kabirchaura, while all the 343tests at adjacent GovernmentWomen’s Hospital, 190 atShivpur CHC and 537 at SSHBHU were found negative.However, one out of 118 tests

at Swami VivekanandGovernment Hospital,Bhelupur, and six out of 224 atLBS Hospital, Ramnagar weredetected positive.

Besides, the Health depart-ment has distributed 4,392Ivermectin tablets to 549 per-sons.

So far, 10.91 lakh tabletswere distributed to 1.36 lakhpersons and out of them, 9.01lakh tablets to 1.12 lakh per-sons were distributed only bythe Health department, whilerest of tablets by other depart-ments including Supply andEducation departments andCivil Defence so far.

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On the directive of SP YashveerSingh and ASP Dr AwadheshSingh police apprehended fiveaccused involved in betting. Theywere identified as Krishna KumarRajput alias Kiran Kumar, Mahendra PratapSingh alias Seepu, Chandra Pratap Singh aliasChhotu, Sandeep Singh alias Golu and KaranSingh Chauhan from Ramnagar. Police confis-cated �1,30,000, one LED TV (80 cm), sevenmobile phones, one set-top box with a remote andone dairy carrying betting details. ASP DrAwadhesh Singh said that on being tipped off byan informer the team comprising of SOG and

Kotwali Orai police under theguidance of CO Santosh Kumarimmediately reached the spotand arrested the accused. Heappreciated SOG incharge S-IPraveen Yadav and inspectorSudhakar Mishra, Kotwali Orai

incharge for their efforts. The team which madethe arrest comprised S-Is Ajay Kumar, ChandanPandey and Ramveer Singh besides AshutoshKumar, Ashutosh Gautam, Archana, RohitRawat, Shailendra Chauhan, Karamveer, GauravBajpai, Jagdish Chandra, Bhupendra Singh,Ashwini Pratap, Vinay Pratap Singh, NeetuKumar, Shri Ram Prajapati, Puneet Kumar,Surjeet Kumar and Mukesh Purohit.

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The railway administrationkeeping the convenience ofpassengers in mind in view ofthe forthcoming festivals will inaddition to 04092/04091 NewDelhi-Jaynagar-New Delhi(biweekly), 04030/04029 Delhi-Muzaffarpur-Delhi (biweekly),04624/04623 Amritsar-Saharsa-Amritsar (biweekly) puja specialtrains run 84412/84411 Delhi-Saharsa-Delhi biweekly SuvidhaSuperfast between October 20and December 2. All coaches inthese trains will be of reservedcategory and passengers travel-ing in them will have to followthe Covid-19 norms, CPRO PKSingh said.

NEW DELHI-JAYNAGARPUJA SPL: The 04092 NewDelhi-Jaynagar biweekly pujaspecial from October 21 toNovember 28 every Wednesdayand Saturday will leave NewDelhi at 09:20 hrs, Moradabadat 12.33 hrs, Bareilly at 14:12 hrs,Lucknow at 18:30 hrs, Gonda at20:45 hrs, Basti at 22:04 hrs,Gorakhpur at 23.30 hrs,Narkatiaganj to 03:22 hrs,Raxaul at 04.47 hrs, Sitamarhi at06:25 hrs, Darbhanga at 08:25hrs, Madhubani at 09:37 hrs andreach Jaynagar at 11:15 hrs.During the return journey the04091 Jaynagar-New Delhibiweekly puja special will fromOctober 22 to November 29every Thursday and Sundayleave Jaynagar at 15:30 hrs,Madhubani at 16.07 hrs,Darbhanga at 17:25 hrs,Sitamarhi at 19.00 hrs, Raxaulat 21.00, Narkatiaganj at 22:40hrs, the second day Gorakhpurat 04.15 hrs, Basti at 05.20 hrs,Gonda at 06.45 hrs, Lucknowat 09.00 hrs, Bareilly at 13.42hrs, Moradabad at 15:40 hrsand reach New Delhi at 19.30hrs. A total of 20 coaches,including two of generator-

cum-luggage van, five of gen-eral second class, seven ofsleeper class, four of AC thirdand two of AC second class willbe attached in the special train.

DELHI-MUZAFFARPURPUJA SPL: The 04030 Delhi-Muzaffarpur biweekly superfastpuja special from October 21 toNovember 28 every Wednesdayand Saturday leave Delhi at13:45 hrs, Ghaziabad at 14.27hrs, Moradabad at 16.25 hrs,Bareilly at 17.55 hrs, Lucknow(NR) at 21.45 hrs, the secondday Gorakhpur at 02.50 hrs,Siwan at 04.27 hrs, Chhapra at05.45 hrs, Hajipur at 06.52 hrsand reach Muzaffarpur at 08.00hrs. During the return journeythe 04029 Muzaffarpur-Delhibiweekly superfast puja specialwill from October 22 toNovember 29 every Thursdayand Sunday leave Muzaffarpurat 16.15 hrs, Hajipur at 17.15hrs, Chhapra at 18:25 hrs, Siwanat 19:15 hrs, Gorakhpur at 21.00hrs, on the second day, Lucknow(NR) at 01.55 hrs, Bareilly at05.45 hrs, Moradabad at 07.10hrs, Ghaziabad at 09.32 hrsand reach Delhi at 10.30 hrs. Atotal of 20 coaches, includingtwo of generator-cum-luggagevan, five of general second class,seven of sleeper class, four of ACthird and two of AC second willbe attached in this special train.

AMRITSAR-SAHARSAPUJA SPL: The 04624Amritsar-Saharsa biweeklysuperfast puja special fromOctober 21 to November 28every Wednesday and Saturdaywill leave Amritsar at 05.45 hrs,Jalandhar City at 07.00 hrs,Ludhiana City at 08:05 hrs,Ambala Cantt at 09:35 hrs,Saharanpur at 10:50 hrs,Moradabad at 13:55 hrs,Bareilly at 15.20 hrs, Lucknowat 18:52 hrs, on the second dayGorakhpur at 00:15 hrs,Chhapra at 03.27 hrs, Hajipur

at 04.30 hrs, Muzaffarpur at05:35 hrs, Samastipur at 06:30hrs, Barauni at 07.40 hrs andreach Saharsa at 10.30 hrs.During the return journey04623 Saharsa-Amritsar biweek-ly superfast puja special willfrom October 22 to November29 every Thursday and Sundayleave Saharsa at 14.30 hrs,Barauni at 17.00 hrs, Samastipurat 18:05 hrs Muzaffarpur at19.00 hrs, Hajipur at 19.55 hrs,Chhapra at 21.20 hrs, on secondday Gorakhpur at 00.40 hrs,Lucknow at 06.10 hrs, Bareilly at09.35 hrs, Moradabad at 11:10hrs, Saharanpur at 14:15 hrs,Ambala Cantt at 15:45 hrs,Ludhiana at 17.40 hrs, JalandharCity at 18.32 hrs and reachAmritsar at 19:45 hrs. A total of22 coaches will be attached in thetrain.

D E L H I - S A H A R S ASUVIDHA SPL: The 84412Delhi-Saharsa Suvidha SF pujaspecial will from October 21 toNovember 29 everyWednesday and Sunday leaveat Delhi at 23:00 hrs, Ghaziabadat 23.47 hrs, on the second dayMoradabad at 02.03 hrs,Bareilly at 03.23 hrs, Sitapur at06:35 hrs, Gorakhpur at 11.35hrs, Chhapra at 14.35 hrs,Hajipur at 15.42 hrs, Barauni at17.30 hrs, Khagaria at 18.32 hrsand reach Saharsa at 19.45hrs. During the return journey,the 84411 Saharsa-Delhibiweekly Suvidha SF puja spe-cial from October 22 toNovember 29 every Thursdayand Monday leave Saharsa at22.15 hrs and after stopping atKhagaria, Barauni, fromHajipur, Chhapra, Gorakhpur,Sitapur, Bareilly, Moradabad,Ghaziabad and reach Delhi at19:20 hrs. A total of 20 coach-es, including two of generator-cum-luggage van, five of gen-eral second class and seven ofsleeper class will be attached.

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Under the Mission Shakti drive launched bythe state government for safety, honour andself-reliance of women, Mirzapur police set upa Mahila help desk at each police station of the dis-trict on Monday. The desks were inaugurated by offi-cers above the rank of SHOs by organising brief func-

tions and for eachdesk a woman con-stable was deployed.Women who camefor the redressal oftheir grievances at

the police stations were offered refreshments too andcomplaints were disposed of with sincerity.Addressing a gathering at Madihan police stationCO (Operation) Subhash Rai said that being the asthe area was a Naxal-infested one the role of womenwas very important and their cooperation mighthelp in eradicating the menace. He directed the

cops to create an atmosphere through their work-ing that women could help them which mightpave the way for effective policing.

INSPECTION: NPP Chairman ManojJaiswal directed the palika staff that no laxitywould be tolerated on the issue of sanitation andlighting in Vindhyachal Temple area. During hisinspection on Monday, hevisited Ganga ghats, streets,temple premises along withcamps of different depart-ments apart from palika anddirected the officials con-cerned to ensure lighting aswell as sanitation in the area.Interacting with people he told them to feel free toinform him about any lapse on the part of Nagar Palika.He appealed to workers deployed in the area to workwith a spirit of service to give a positive message tothe devotees. After the inspecting the amenities heheld a meeting with the staff to get a feedback.

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UP Minister of State for Science and Technology andHigher Education Neelima Katiyar said doctors are the realheroes. While attending a seminar on Rani Lakshmibai inGovernment Medical College, Jalaun, she thanked the doctors fortheir efforts during the Covid-19 crisis and also appreciated GMCprincipal Dr Dwijendra Nath for his management skills and for tak-ing care of corona patients. The event started with the candle light-

ing ceremony and wel-come speech by DrDwijendra Nath. Hethat total 60 deliveriesof Covid-19 postivepatients were done. In40 cases both baby andthe mother had recov-

ered from Covid-19. In remaining 20 cases the babies werefound negative and their mothers positive. However, due toefforts of the medical team staff the mothers recovered fromCovid, he said. More than 2,300 patients had recovered fromCovid-19, he added. Dr Dwijendra Nath handed over amemento to minister Neelima Katiyar, MLA Gauri ShankarVerma, Kalpi MLA Narendra Jadaun and BJP district presi-dent Ramendra Singh. Among those present were state secre-tary BJP Yuva Morcha, Prashant Dwivedi , regional general secretary,BJP, Anil Yadav, Dr Manoj Verma and Dr Jitendra Mishra.

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In response to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’sJan Andalon Abhibyan forCovid-19 appropriate behav-iour the campaign was alsolaunched in Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW).The aim of the campaign was to motivate its offi-cers and personnel to wear masks for preven-tion of Covid, maintain social distancing and

take care of hand hygiene.The slogan of this cam-paign is ‘Jab tak dawai nahitab tak dhilai nahi.’ (Nocarelessness till a medicineis found). In the samesequence in the Block

Division of the DLW the Safety Department,DLW, Varanasi, under the Jan Andolan Abhiyanfor prevention of Covid a pledge was adminis-tered to a large number officers and employees.

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The Ramgarh Tal police arrest-ed two accused in connectionwith a loot case and recovered apistol, a cartridge, a knife, a pass-book and �800 from them. Thepolice on being tipped off by aninformer arrested the duo fromRampur Tiraha, Hanuman tem-ple, late on Sunday night.Theywere later identified as VishalNishad, a resident of Mohaddipurunder the Cantt police station andKrishna Mohan, a resident of anarea under the Pipraich police sta-tion. According to a reportreceived here, that the twoaccused had looted one person atAlinagar Chauraha under theKotwali police station. Seven caseswere registered against Vishal atseparate police stations and fiveagainst Krishna Mohan, of SHORamgarh Tal said. Police pro-duced both the accused in thecourt from they were sent to jail.

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Director, MSMEDevelopment Institute,Kanpur, LBS Yadav, whileaddressing a webinar held inassociation with MahilaManch, said in the times ofCOVID-19 when lakhs of peo-ple were affected economical-ly, a platform was needed toprovide emancipation to thewomen who were the worst hit.

He said women hadimmense talent but in theadverse situation it was diffi-cult for them to hunt for aplatform so that they couldeke out their livelihood. Hesaid the MSME Ministry hadmany initiatives meant exclu-sively for talented women.

He said gender equalitybecoming more and morevital, the MSME Ministry haddecided to empower womenand more than 1.38 lakh pro-jects had been set up by thewomen entrepreneursunder Prime Minister’sEmployment GenerationProgramme (PMEGP) sinceits inception.

He said in the presenttimes there was need to givefurther momentum to this

scheme for the uplift of thewomen.

He said it was true thatonly 13.76 per cent of the totalentrepreneurs in India werewomen which was close tomerely eight mill ion asopposed to male entrepre-neurs who just crossed awhopping 60 million mark,these f inancial schemeslaunched at the state andCentral level could do a greatdeal in boosting women entre-preneurship.

Yadav said it was quiteunfortunate that most of thetalented women entrepreneurshad little idea about theschemes and there were a fewwomen who stepped out oftheir homes and chose tomake the most out of theseschemes and become eco-nomically independent. Hesaid there was one MudraRozgar Yojana and a fewmore.

He said to run any busi-ness successfully, one neededcertain amount of expertisewhich would further help inbuilding the enterprise in abetter way to compete in themarket.

He said for this thePMEGP initiated a scheme

called TREAD, which aimedat empowering women byproviding credit to projects,conducting specific trainingand counselling, and dissem-inate knowledge for their busi-ness.

He said the scheme pro-vided for a government grantof up to 30 percent of the totalproject cost as appraised bylending institutions.

Discussing the MahilaUdyam Nidhi Scheme, he saidit was initiated primarily tooffer financial assistance up to� 10 lakh, to small-scale busi-ness models and this schemeaimed to help women set upnew projects and promotedupgrading and modernisa-tion of existing projects.

He said the other wereAnnapurna scheme, StreeShakti Package for WomenEntrepreneurs, BharatiyaMahila Business Bank Loan,Dena Shakti Scheme, CentKalyani Scheme, UdyogiScheme and many more andadvised them to avail them-selves of the facilities provid-ed by the government.

The vote of thankswas proposed by MahilaManch secretary NeelamChaturvedi.

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Chief Medical Officer DrAnil Mishra said it wasvery encouraging that theCOVID-19 recovery rate inKanpur Nagar had crossed the91 per cent-mark.

He said it appeared that thenovel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was weakening grad-ually as was evident from thefast rising recovery rate. Hesaid home isolation had alsoproved highly successful.

The CMO, however, addedthat this was not the time to

lower ones guard as utmostcare was needed at this junc-ture to avert a second wave ofnovel coronavirus infection inthe city that would be moreharsh.

He said the district admin-istration had been apprised ofthe depletion of medicine stockin LLR Hospital due to therush in the non-Covid OPD.

Dr Mishra said that earli-er non-Covid patients wereavoiding to visit the LLRHospital OPD for treatment inview of the COVID-19 patientsadmitted there but with theimprovement in the situation,

the OPDs were once again wit-nessing a huge rush, leading toshortage of medicines.

He said with the districtadministration aware of themedicine stock, very soonsome alternative arrangementswould be made.

The CMO said a specialcampaign was being launchedto prevent the spread of dengueand curb the death rate.

He said the district admin-istration, with the support ofKanpur Nagar Nigam, hadlaunched a drive to spray anti-larva chemicals all over the city.He said several fogging vehicles

had been deployed by theKNN and they would contin-ue constant spraying of anti-larval chemicals all over thecity.

Dr Mishra appealed to thepeople to remain aware andensure there was no stagnantwater around them. He saiddengue mosquitoes bred inclean water and thus everyhousehold should ensure thatthere was no stagnant cleanwater in the surrounding.

He said people need towear full sleeved clothes, usemosquito repellent or mos-quito nets.

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Kanpur DivisionalCommissioner RajShekhar, while reviewing theSmart City work in KanpurNagar on Tuesday directed themunicipal commissioner toprepare a feasibility plan forstarting a heritage son etlumiere within the next 15days at The Memorial Well,currently more popular asNana Rao Park.

He said the conservationand protection work had to becarried out at the earliest,especially for The MemorialWell which had witnessedsacrifices during the freedomstruggle.

Shekhar directed theKanpur municipal commis-sioner to get the place exam-

ined by the ArchaeologicalSurvey of India (ASI), INTACand son et lumiere organisingcompanies for putting up thefinest proposal.

The divisional commis-sioner said during his visit heobserved that the Smart CityAuthority was carrying outfive projects in this park thatincluded laying of a cycletrack, synthetic walking track,parking area, landscape worksand beautification of the her-itage monuments in the park.

He said the project wasdelayed by six months becauseof the COVID-19 inducedlockdown and some othertechnical issues .

Divisional commissionerRaj Shekhar directed themunicipal commissioner toensure completion of all pend-

ing works of cycle track (500metre), synthetic walkingtrack and landscape work inthe next two months.

The municipal commis-sioner assured the divisionalcommissioner that al lthese works would be com-pleted before December 31,2020.

Divisional commissionerShekhar also directed themunicipal commissioner torepair and restore the smallcourt room with the help ofASI/INTAC as it was also apart of the freedom struggleevents. He then visited theswimming pool site anddirected major repairs andrenovation.

Divisional commissionersaid the Taran Tal had a greatpotential to become a state

level swimming pool . He directed the proper

renovation be carried out inthe next six months so that amodern swimming pool couldbe made available for the peo-ple of Kanpur