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Weather WatchRainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday

Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs)

Forecast for Monday: Cold wave conditions very likely in isolatedplaces over Jharkhand, Odisha.

city rain max min city rain max min

Agartala................—....27.7....16.4 Kozhikode....................—....35.4....22.8

Ahmedabad...........—....26.8....12.4 Kurnool .......................—....32.7....22.8

Aizawl...................—....18.6....08.1 Lucknow......................—....24.2....08.6

Allahabad..............—....25.4....07.8 Madurai .......................—....34.2....22.6

Bengaluru .............—....00.0....00.0 Mangaluru ...................—....32.7....19.3

Bhopal ..................—....31.6....18.2 Mumbai .......................—....32.9....19.6

Bhubaneswar.... 04.4....20.6....15.0 Mysuru ........................—....32.4....18.4

Chandigarh ...........—....19.8....06.0 New Delhi ...................—....21.4....07.4

Chennai ................—....31.5....23.2 Patna ..........................—....23.3....08.4

Coimbatore ...........—....32.6....21.8 Port Blair.....................—....30.6....22.9

Dehradun ..............—....23.0....04.9 Puducherry ..................—....31.6....23.2

Gangtok................—....13.2....04.9 Pune............................—....28.2....16.6

Goa.......................—....30.4....18.1 Raipur .................... 00.6....23.6....13.5

Guwahati ..............—....27.8....13.0 Ranchi .........................—....23.2....07.0

Hubballi ................—....31.0....14.0 Shillong.......................—....14.7....06.6

Hyderabad ....... 04.1....23.4....19.0 Shimla.........................—....15.2....01.0

Imphal ..................—....16.0....11.6 Srinagar.......................—....00.0....00.0

Jaipur ...................—....23.0....07.8 Thiruvananthapuram.... 00.0....12.4.. -04.2

Kochi ....................—....32.8....24.4 Tiruchi.........................—....33.7....21.9

Kohima .................—....13.8....06.0 Vijayawada ............. 00.1....27.8....22.4

Kolkata ............ 00.1....26.3....15.6 Visakhapatnam ........ 00.4....28.0....21.0

(Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius)

Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday

CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE

In observation made at 4.00p.m., Kanpur, Uttar Pradeshrecorded an overall airquality index (AQI) score of306indicating a hazardous levelof pollution. In contrast,Mysuru, Karnatakarecorded a healthy AQI scoreof 34

Ahmedabad..... 42 .52 29 ..... — .114 ....*

Bengaluru ....... ..— .45 99 ..176 .192 ....*

Chennai .......... 27 .18 65 ....46 ...18 ....*

Delhi .............. 05 .34 30 ..361 .251 ....*

Hyderabad ...... 02 .59 43 ..113 ...95 ....*

Kolkata........... 17 .43 25 ..292 .194 ....*

Lucknow ......... 07 164 48 ..316 .....— ....*

Mumbai .......... 16 .84 22 ....76 .158 ....*

Pune............... 72 .21 70 ....90 ...87 ....*

Visakhapatnam 10 .23 42 ....48 ...52 ....*

Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI)

SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system,

making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air

particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues

and monuments.

NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by

reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters.

CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to

critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause

dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death.

PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes,

nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced

lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature

death in people with heart or lung disease

Gandhiji’s statuedesecrated in Jharkhand HAZARIBAG

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi,

erected here in 1948, has

been desecrated by

miscreants, officials said on

Sunday. The statue was built

at the Gandhi Ghat by the

bank of the Konar river where

ashes of Gandhiji were

immersed. “The statue at

Kumhartoli locality has been

damaged in the night of

February 8. A new statue will

be erected there soon,”

Hazaribag Deputy

Commissioner Bhuvanesh

Pratap Singh said. PTI

IN BRIEF

A record  number  of  Hindustudents are among the near­ly 70,000 expected to sit forthe school­leaving examina­tion of the West Bengal Ma­drasah Board from Monday. 

Nearly 18% of the studentsregistered  for  the  High  Ma­drasah examination, or Stan­dard X examination, are Hin­dus.  In  2019,  12.77%  of  thestudents  who  appeared  forthe  examination  were  non­Muslim,  said  Abu  TaherKamruddin, president of theWest Bengal Madrasah Edu­cation Board. 

“In  the  past  couple  ofyears,  we  are  witnessing  a2%­3% rise in the number ofstudents  appearing  for  theexamination,”  he  said.  Butthe  fi��gure  usually  comes

down “a  little” because notall  the  registered  studentswill sit for the examination,he told The Hindu.

“Even  then,  the  fi��nal  fi��­gure  is expected to be 2­3%

more than last year’s,” he ad­ded. 

A large  number  of  stu­dents  have  enrolled  them­selves  in  madrasahs  up  toClass X, challenging the mis­

conception that only Muslimstudents study in these insti­tutions. 

“In Purulia, Birbhum andBankura  districts,  we  havefour  big  madrasahs,  wherenon­Muslim  students  out­number  the  Muslim  stu­dents,” Mr. Kamruddin said.

The madrasahs follow theSecondary  EducationBoard’s  syllabus  “almostentirely”.

Streams of educationThe school education underthe Madrasah Board has twostreams: the High Madrasah,where  Arabic  is  optional,and Senior Madrasah, whichteaches theology. 

“The non­Muslims mainlyenrol themselves in High Ma­drasah  as  it  follows  the  Se­condary  Board’s  syllabus,”

Mr. Kamruddin said. An  observer  of  primary

education  said  the  numberof students under the Secon­dary Board is huge, a reasonenough for parents to admittheir children to schools un­der the Madrasah Board, es­pecially in rural areas.

There  are  over  600  go­vernment­funded Madrasahsin the State. They were stu­died  in  the  past  by  expertsfrom  across  the  world  fortheir unique characteristics.One of them is to admit girls.

“Last year, a little less than60% students, both Muslimsand  non­Muslims,  who  ap­peared for the examination,were  girls,”  Mr.  Kamruddinsaid. 

Experts  say  the  drop­outrate among the boys, howev­er, remains very high. 

A record in West Bengal madrasah exam Close to 18% of the 70,000 students expected to take the school-leaving exam are Hindus

Suvojit Bagchi

Kolkata

More takers: The Madrasah education follows the SecondaryEducation Board’s syllabus almost entirely.  * R.V. MOORTHY

The Punjab government onSunday  ordered  a  ban  onPunjabi  movie  Shooter,which  is  based  on  the  lifeand  crimes  of  notoriousgangster Sukha Kahlwan onthe ground that it promotesviolence,  heinous  crimes,extortion, threats and crimi­nal intimidation.

In a statement, DGP Din­kar Gupta said the matter ofbanning  the  controversialmovie  was  discussed  withChief  Minister  AmarinderSingh on Friday, along witha proposal from ADGP Intel­ligence  Varinder  Kumar.The movie’s trailer, releasedon  January  18,  suggestedthat  the  fi��lm  was  highly

radical.The DGP had been asked

to  look  into  the role of  thepromoters,  directors  andactors.

Punjab bans Shooterfor ‘promoting violence’Film based on life of gangster Kahlwan

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

CHANDIGARH

The movie’s trailer wasreleased on January 18.

M.P. villagers set ablazebus involved in accidentKHANDWA

Villagers in Khandwa in

Madhya Pradesh on Sunday

set ablaze a bus after it hit a

motorcycle killing two people

and injuring one, the police

said. The incident took place

near Dodwada village on

Khandwa­Indore Road, said

sub­divisional officer of

police K.P. David. Mayabai

and her nephew Shriram were

killed, while her husband

Akhilesh was injured when

the bus hit their vehicle from

the rear. PTI

Air  India  might  be  on  theblock, but the rich history itcarries  will  be  the  focus  ofMaharaja  of  the  Skies  —  AnIndian  Heritage,  a  pictorialexhibition on the journey ofIndia’s national carrier.

Organised  by  the  Societyfor  Culture  and  Environ­ment,  the  three­day  exhibi­tion will be held at the NehruCentre in Worli between Fe­bruary 13 and 16. The eventwill be inaugurated by Air In­dia Chairman and ManagingDirector Ashwani Lohani.

Meera  Das,  secretary  ofthe  Society  for  Culture  andEnvironment, who has curat­ed the exhibition, said there

would be 2,200 photographsand eight posters on display.These  include  the  Air  Indiacalendar being created. 

The  exhibition  will  have10 sections, namely The Be­ginning, JRD, Art Collection,

Fleet  and  Engineering,  Ser­vice  Mission,  Maharajah,Booking Offi��ces, Advertisingand Promotion, Infl��ight Ser­vices, and Cargo. There willbe 125 panels displaying AirIndia archived photographs. 

Among  the  photographson display will be those froma wedding that took place onan aircraft. 

In­fl��ight wedding“Visuals  from  an  in­fl��ightwedding arranged by jewell­er Laxman Popley in 1994 asa gift to his son and daught­er­in­law will be on display.The  aircraft  was  beautifullydecorated  and  the  guestswere  given  specially­de­signed  tickets and boardingpasses. All this will be therefor visitors to see,” said Utta­ra Parikh, a former manage­ment trainee who went on toretire as deputy commercialdirector  of  advertising  andpromotions and product de­

velopment, Air India. Ms. Pa­rikh  is  helping  in  bringingout the national carrier’s his­tory through this exhibition. 

Post the wedding, the air­line presented free tickets tothe  newly­weds  to  Switzer­land. Also on display will bephotos  of  dresses  designedby the late Roshan Kalapesi,who  designed  crew  outfi��tswith a pink theme to repre­sent Jaipur. For her work, Ka­lapesi  was  gifted  a  ticket  toLondon  and  back.  Ms.  Pa­rikh said artist B. Prabha haddone a series of paintings onIndian Women as a theme in1956.  The  airline  boughtthese  paintings  for  ₹��87.50with  an  idea  to  promotethem on the menu cards. 

Photographs of the national carrier through the years will be on display from February 13 to 16

Jhelum Bhattacharya

Mumbai

Glimpse of the past: There will be125 panels displaying AirIndia’s archived photographs.  * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Mumbai exhibition to trace history of Air India

Odisha’s Forest Departmentpersonnel  have  arrested  apoacher  who  reportedlyconfessed to having killed 20elephants, mostly tuskers, inhis lifetime.

Babuli Mahalik, a shooterin a wildlife smuggling gang,was  caught  based  on  a  tip­off��. “After receiving informa­tion  about  the  smugglinggang,  we  had  constituted  ateam  which  was  tasked  tofollow  its  members  in  dis­guise.  He  [Mahalik]  was  fi��­

nally  picked  up  from  hishome in Durgaprasad villagenear  Narsinghpur  in  Cut­tack,”  said  Sasmita  Lenka,Divisional  Forest  Offi��cer,Athagarh.

Antlers, guns seizedDeer  skins,  antlers  and  acountry­made  guns  wereseized  from  his  possession.The gang used to follow ele­phant  herds  before  zeroingin on one tusker. 

“They  generally  set  upcamp deep inside the forestor  atop  a  hillock  to  keep  a

tab on  the herd. They  thenseparate  a  tusker  from  itsherd  and  shoot  down  theanimal at an  isolated  spot,”Ms. Lenka said.

The  poacher  charged₹��30,000 for every bullet heshot.  Mahalik  was  arrestedfrom Boudh district for a wil­dlife crime in 2019. “Duringthe  interrogation,  he  con­fessed  to  having  killed  20elephants  in  the  past.  In2018, he and his accompliceswere responsible for the be­heading of two elephants inour  division,”  Ms.  Lenka

said.  The  crime  branch  ofthe Odisha police were alsoinvestigating the poaching oftwo elephants in Athagarh.

The gang is known to selltusks  in  the  neighbouringNayagarh district. Forest De­partment  offi��cials  have  ex­panded  their  probe  to  fi��ndout how the gang operates.

In another case, two per­sons  were  arrested  by  theForest  Department  offi��cialsfor their alleged involvementin an elephant poaching casein Subarnapur district on Sa­turday. 

Staff Reporter

BHUBANESWAR

Poacher held, confesses to killing 20 tuskers

wellery.  Also  known  as  Manjhacity, Bareilly has been manufactur­ing kite­strings for over a century,but  the  jhumka  has  carved  out  a

Jhumka and Bareilly became syn­onymous after a 1966 chart­busteron  the  jewellery  in  which  actorSadhana gave a  feisty dance per­formance. The city has fi��nally got afanciful  14­ft  ‘jhumka’,  embel­lished  with  colourful  stones  andthe  city’s  famous  ‘zari’  embroid­ery, installed and is expected to bea major attraction for visitors.

The  Asha  Bhosle  song  Jhumkagira re, Bareilly ki bazaar mein im­mortalised  the  connection  bet­ween the city and the piece of je­

niche, prompting the Bareilly De­velopment  Authority  to  conceivethe project.

Unveiling  the  structure,  UnionMinister and Bareilly MP SantoshGangwar said visitors would fi��nallybe able to associate the landmark‘jhumka’ in the city with the ever­green song. 

“I  had  never  been  here  in  thepast.  But  I  have  defi��nitely  heardJhumka gira rey,” he said. He re­called another Bhosle song ‘Surmabareilly waala [kohl manufacturedin  Bareilly],  ankhiyon mein aisadaala’ from fi��lm Kismat. 

Bareilly gets back its ‘jhumka’ at last PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Bareilly

A view of the 20ft high dangler,‘Bareilly ka Jhumka.’  * PTI

Ten  persons,  including  fi��vewomen,  were  electrocutedto  death  and  more  than  25were  injured  when  the  busin which they were travellingin  came  in  contact  with  alow­hanging  11KV  powertransmission  cable  at  Men­darajpur  under  the  Golan­thara  police  station  area  ofOdisha’s Ganjam district onSunday.

Around 45 passengers  inthe bus were travelling fromDankalpadu village to Chika­rada to attend a pre­weddingfunction. The groom was tra­velling  in  a  car.  While  pro­ceeding  on  the  Golanthara­Tulu road,  the metal goods

carriage on the top of the ACsleeper  bus  came  into  con­tact with the cable hangingon a side of the narrow vil­lage road near Mendarajpur.According to Chief Fire Offi��c­er,  southern  range,  SukantSethi,  the  passengers  re­ceived high voltage shock.

Till Sunday evening, ninepatients  were  under  treat­ment in hospital, while nineothers injuries were shiftedto SCB Medical College andHospital  in  Cuttack.  A  11­year­old boy died on the wayto  Berhampur,  increasingthe death toll to 10. 

Many passengers sustained high voltage shocks

Staff Reporter

BERHAMPUR

Fatal shock: The bus which caught fi��re after coming intocontact with a power cable in Ganjam district on Sunday.  * PTI

Bus touches low-hangingpower cable in Odisha, 10 killed

A constable with the Govern­ment  Railway  Police  (GRP)saved the life of a Mumbai re­sident by hoisting him on hisshoulder and carrying him tothe ambulance without wait­ing for a stretcher. 

According to GRP offi��cials,Prakash Gachhe,45, got off�� atrain  at  Ghatkopar  stationaround 9 a.m. on Friday. Hefelt  a  pain  in  his  chest  andstarted calling for help. Con­stable  Dhananjay  Gawli,posted  with  the  Kurla  GRP,was on duty at the time andrushed to his assistance. 

“An  announcement  wasmade for a stretcher to pickup Mr. Gacche, but I realisedthat  none  of  the  stretcher

bearers were around and hewas  in  too  much  pain.  Ipicked him up on my shoul­ders and took him to the am­bulance, which was standingoutside  the  railway  station.He  was  rushed  to  RajawadiHospital,” Mr. Gawli said. 

Mr. Gachhe was admittedto the medical intensive careunit, where doctors said hewould be kept under obser­vation for a few days.

“When  Mr.  Gachhe  wasbrought  in,  his  blood  pres­sure was normal and no un­toward  symptoms  wereseen. The patient is stable,” adoctor said.

GRP constable carries man to ambulance on shoulderPoliceman realises stretcher would take time to arrive

Dhairya Gajara

Mumbai

Constable Dhananjay Gawlicarrying passenger PrakashGachhe to the ambulance.

Ahmedabad factory firetoll rises to 7, say policeAHMEDABAD

The death toll in the

Saturday’s cloth factory fire

here in Gujarat mounted to

seven on Sunday with the

recovery of two more charred

bodies, police said. The

police also booked six

officials of the factory, under

the Section 304 (culpable

homicide not amounting to

murder) and other sections of

the IPC, and arrested three of

them on Sunday. A huge fire

erupted at the Nadan denim

factory in Narol on Saturday.PTI