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R eaching out to the protest- ing farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday assured them Minimum Support Price (MSP) will remain in place and reiterated the Government’s willingness to hold talks. Urging them to end their ongoing agitation, he also ques- tioned the Opposition, espe- cially the Congress, for taking a “U-turn” on farm reforms. Making these assertions in the Rajya Sabha, Modi also referred to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s backing to reforms in agriculture sector. Explaining his Government’s stance on the farm laws while replying to a discussion on the President’s address, the Prime Minister also expressed concern over foreign elements trying to foment trouble. He said a new phenome- non has emerged over the past few years wherein “Foreign Destructive Ideology” was evi- dent in the country. He quipped this was the new kind of FDI in obvious reference to singer Rihanna, activist Greta Thunberg and lawyer-author Meena Harris, niece of US Vice President Kamala Harris, backing the farmers’ stir. “The nation is making progress and we are talking about FDI but I see that a new FDI has come to the fore. We have to protect the nation from this new FDI. We need Foreign Direct Investment but the new FDI is ‘Foreign Destructive Ideology’, we have to protect ourselves from it,” the Prime Minister said. He also criticised a section of people seen in every agita- tion in the country and said, “In the last few years, we have witnessed a new category of protesters, “Andolan Jeevi”, who one can witness in every agi- tation. We need to protect this country from these Andolan Jeevi, who are actually “par- jeevi”. They don’t have their own strength, but they join all agitations.” Observing that the farmers’ agitation figured prominently during the 15-hour discussion on the President’s address, Modi said the Opposition, however, did not mention about the basic facts of the laws and roots of the problem. Urging the farmers to end their protest, he said, “We will all sit together and talk. We are ready for talks and I am invit- ing you again for dialogue from this House.” In an effort to allay the apprehension of the farmers about the MSP, Modi said “MSP tha, MSP hai aur MSP rahega. No one should spread misinformation.” Highlighting the need for new farm laws to improve the income and living standard of the farmers, the Prime Minister said he was willing to take the brunt if it meant pushing reforms that were long overdue. He said, “We need to move forwards, not backwards. We need to give these reforms a chance.” Stressing the fact that the number of marginal farmers had increased over the years and the country had a respon- sibility to better their lot, Modi said every Government had spoken in favour of reforms in the agriculture sector. However, they have now taken a “U-turn”, said Modi, apparently referring to the Congress and Sharad Pawar, who was Agriculture Minister during the Congress- led UPA rule. Continued on Page 11 A day after disaster struck at Reni near Joshimath in Chamoli district, the authori- ties have been able to recover 26 bodies while at least 197 people were reported missing till Monday evening. Of the bodies recovered, only two could be identified till the evening. According to the status report of the State Emergency Operations Centre (SEOC), the 197 missing people include 12 people of Reni and three other villages, along with 185 workers of the companies involved in the two hydropow- er projects damaged in the disaster. Further, between 25 and 35 persons — included in the missing persons’ list — are stuck in a tunnel with efforts underway to reach them clear- ing the debris in the tunnel. While six persons are injured, 12 persons were rescued safe- ly from the NTPC project downstream. Personnel of the NDRF, SDRF, ITBP, SSB and armed forces along with State police are undertaking rescue and relief works. Meanwhile, apart from Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, Union Power Minister RK Singh, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Garhwal MP Tirath Singh Rawat and State Minister Dhan Singh Rawat visited the Tapovan and other affected areas where they viewed the efforts underway and interact- ed with the locals. Even as rescue operations continued throughout the day, ration, medical supplies and other daily use items were sup- plied by helicopter to the 13 vil- lages in the Niti valley which have lost road link due to the disaster. Chamoli District Magistrate Swati Bhadauriya informed that supplies will be provided by helicopters in these villages till an alternative arrangement is made. In addition to the disaster affected area, the district administration team is also searching for the missing per- sons along the banks of the Alaknanda river. M aharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh ordered a probe into whether the BJP pressured celebrities, including Bharat Ratna awardees Lata Mangeshkar, Sachin Tendulkar and actor Akshay Kumar into putting out tweets in response to the glob- al criticism of the Government’s handling of the farmers’ ongo- ing agitation. Responding to a demand by Maharashtra Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant and other leaders who urged him to look into the tweets put out by the celebrities, Deshmukh said, “Looking at a host of tweets put out by the celebrities (in response to the global criticism of the Government’s handling of the farmers’ ongoing agitation), the questions that arise about the timing of the tweets and whether pressure was brought to bear on these celebrities to put out near similar tweets. For instance, the tweets put out by Akshay Kumar and Saina Nehwal are identical”. “The media is already under tremendous pressure from the Government. If polit- ical leaders criticise the BJP, the Government lets loose the ED and CBI on them.... We will enquire into the issue raised by you. Our intelligence agencies will enquire into whether the BJP put pressure on the celebri- ties to identical or near identi- cal tweets put by the celebrities at the same time,” Deshmukh said. Deshmukh, who has quar- antined himself after testing positive after testing positive for Covid-19, held a zoom meet- ing with Sawant and other Congress leaders. The Minister said that the State Government will also look into the role of a Mumbai BJP office-bearer who had been tagged by actor Suniel Shetty in his tweet. Continued on Page 11 T here is no clarity so far on the reasons for the glacier burst and the resultant avalanche and flash floods that wreaked havoc in the upper reaches of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand on Sunday, but experts have zeroed in global warming or Western distur- bance as the possible causes for the melting of the snow and breaking of the glacier that could have triggered the inun- dation in Chamoli district. The Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE) of the Defence Research and Development Organisation is investigating the tragedy, but there are no clear answers yet for a glacier to have melted in the winter. It is not clear whether the flood is a typical Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) or some temporary damming due to a landslide and avalanche that might have blocked the mainstream to form a tempo- rary lake which burst, said Ranjit Rath, Director General of the Geological Survey of India (GSI). A GLOF is a type of out- burst flood that occurs when the dam containing a glacial lake fails. “Once the water level recedes a team of experts will assess the damage as well as the triggering factor responsible for the outburst,” Rath told reporters here. As the nightmare envis- aged by numerous environ- mentalists warning against untrammelled development in the mountains came true on Sunday, glaciologist Farooq Azam said a glacial burst is very rare. “We have been trying to understand the event since yesterday. Right now what we can tell is a glacier slipped from around 500-600 metres, which started a landslide with an ice- fall that triggered this disaster,” Azam, Assistant Professor, Glaciology & Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, told a news agency. “For sure there was no glacial lake outburst flood, for sure there is no cloud burst because there is no lake avail- able in the region at this par- ticular time. Even if there are lakes, they are frozen and they don’t have any activity. The dis- aster happened because of an icefall and landslide.” he added. Satellite and Google Earth images, Azam added, do not show a glacial lake near the region, but there’s a possibility there may be a water pocket in the region. “Water pockets are lakes inside the glaciers, which may have erupted leading to this event,” he said. He suggested further analysis of weather reports and data to confirm if this indeed was the case. Climate scientist Roxy Mathew Koll agreed and also said more data are needed. He said the recent climate change assess- ment report for India shows significant melting and decline in glacier mass over the Himalayan region in the recent decades due to warmer tem- peratures. Koll also said it was not clear if an accumulation of glacier melt led to this burst, and noted that Western dis- turbances during last week did bring in a lot of snow over the region, followed by clear sky and warm temperatures. “It is quite possible that cli- mate change and melting of fresh snow led to piling up of water in this area,” Koll, scien- tist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pune said. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) also shows that climate change has altered the frequency and magnitude of natural hazards. “The scientists reported with medium confidence that in some regions snow avalanches involving wet snow have increased while the rain on snow floods have also increased at lower elevations in springs,” Prakash, lead author of the ongoing 6th Assessment report of IPCC, said in a statement. Continued on Page 11 S oon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged agi- tating farmers to end their stir and resume the dialogue, farm- ers’ unions on Monday asked the Government to fix a date for the next round of talks. Farmer leader Shiv Kumar Kakka, who is a senior mem- ber of the Samkyukta Kisan Morcha which is spearheading the ongoing stir, said they are ready for the next round of talks and the Government should tell them the date and time of the meeting. “We have never refused to hold talks with the government. Whenever it has called us for dialogue, we held discussions with Union ministers. We are ready for talks with them (gov- ernment),” Kakka told PTI. To Modi’s address in the Rajya Sabha during which he assured minimum support price (MSP), Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait said there is no law on MSP and the Government should repeal these farms laws. The farmers leaders sitting across the borders of the city also objected to Modi’s remarks that a new “breed” of agitators called “andolan jivi” has emerged in the country, and said agitation has an important role in a democracy. Talking to media person on Monday, Tikait said business over hunger will not be allowed in the country and the laws should be repealed. Continued on Page 11 Lucknow/Ghazipur/Azamgarh : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said the construction of the six- lane Purvanchal Expressway will be completed by March and it will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in April. Adityanath was on a visit to Ghazipur and Azamgarh to inspect the construction work of the expressway. “Once the Purvanchal Expressway is com- plete, people from Ghazipur can reach Lucknow in three hours and Delhi in 10 hours,” Adityanath said at a programme in Ghazipur. “The mafia had obstructed the pace of development in Uttar Pradesh (in the past) and now, the government is seizing their illegal properties,” he added. The campaign initiated against the mafia will continue and they will not be allowed to stay in Uttar Pradesh, the chief minister said. He also appealed to the people’'s representatives to take the welfare programmes of the government to the public. At Azamgarh, Adityanath said, “The construction work of the expressway is moving at a fast pace. By March, the expressway will be completed and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate it in April.” He said the expressway will be built in three years despite COVID-19, adding, “This model of development has become a centre of attraction for the coun- try and the world.” “Azamgarh had a bad repu- tation till four years ago. People from here found it difficult to get rented accommodation in other cities, but the situation has changed in four years and Azamgarh is now becoming a model of development,” Adityanath said. Speaking at Lucknow later, the chief minister rued that ear- lier, even small projects that were supposed to be completed in a year took 10 to 12 years to complete. “When the BJP government came to power in 2017, the Baan Sagar irrigation project was completed and dedicated to the nation. This project was planned in 1973 by the Planning Commission and the foundation was laid in 1978 by the then prime minister Morarji Desai, but it kept lying for almost 40 years,” he said, adding that sev- eral schemes were announced but the works could not be car- ried out in a time-bound man- ner and the estimates were revised with the government not giving funds. “Development used to suf- fer, youngsters were deprived of jobs and we used to lag behind in the country and in the world,” Adityanath said, adding that on the other hand, the Purvanchal Expressway is all set to be ready before time, despite the coron- avirus-triggered lockdown. The 340-kilometre-long, six- lane Purvanchal Expressway will connect Lucknow with the eco- nomically underdeveloped dis- tricts of Uttar Pradesh such as Azamgarh, Mau, Ghazipur, Faizabad, Sultanpur, Ambedkar Nagar and Amethi. The prime minister had laid the foundation stone of the pro- ject at Azamgarh in July 2018. PTI

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    Reaching out to the protest-ing farmers, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Mondayassured them MinimumSupport Price (MSP) willremain in place and reiteratedthe Government’s willingnessto hold talks.

    Urging them to end theirongoing agitation, he also ques-tioned the Opposition, espe-cially the Congress, for takinga “U-turn” on farm reforms.Making these assertions in theRajya Sabha, Modi also referredto former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh’s backing toreforms in agriculture sector.

    Explaining hisGovernment’s stance on thefarm laws while replying to adiscussion on the President’saddress, the Prime Ministeralso expressed concern overforeign elements trying tofoment trouble.

    He said a new phenome-non has emerged over the pastfew years wherein “ForeignDestructive Ideology” was evi-dent in the country. Hequipped this was the new kindof FDI in obvious reference tosinger Rihanna, activist GretaThunberg and lawyer-authorMeena Harris, niece of USVice President Kamala Harris,backing the farmers’ stir.

    “The nation is makingprogress and we are talkingabout FDI but I see that a newFDI has come to the fore. Wehave to protect the nation fromthis new FDI. We need ForeignDirect Investment but the newFDI is ‘Foreign DestructiveIdeology’, we have to protectourselves from it,” the PrimeMinister said.

    He also criticised a sectionof people seen in every agita-tion in the country and said,“In the last few years, we have

    witnessed a new category ofprotesters, “Andolan Jeevi”, whoone can witness in every agi-tation. We need to protect thiscountry from these AndolanJeevi, who are actually “par-jeevi”. They don’t have theirown strength, but they join allagitations.”

    Observing that the farmers’agitation figured prominentlyduring the 15-hour discussionon the President’s address,Modi said the Opposition,however, did not mentionabout the basic facts of the lawsand roots of the problem.

    Urging the farmers to endtheir protest, he said, “We willall sit together and talk. We areready for talks and I am invit-ing you again for dialoguefrom this House.”

    In an effort to allay theapprehension of the farmersabout the MSP, Modi said“MSP tha, MSP hai aur MSPrahega. No one should spreadmisinformation.”

    Highlighting the need fornew farm laws to improve theincome and living standard ofthe farmers, the Prime Ministersaid he was willing to take thebrunt if it meant pushingreforms that were long overdue.

    He said, “We need to moveforwards, not backwards. Weneed to give these reforms achance.”

    Stressing the fact that thenumber of marginal farmershad increased over the yearsand the country had a respon-sibility to better their lot, Modisaid every Government hadspoken in favour of reforms inthe agriculture sector. However,they have now taken a “U-turn”,said Modi, apparently referringto the Congress and SharadPawar, who was AgricultureMinister during the Congress-led UPA rule.

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    Aday after disaster struck atReni near Joshimath inChamoli district, the authori-ties have been able to recover26 bodies while at least 197people were reported missingtill Monday evening. Of thebodies recovered, only twocould be identified till theevening.

    According to the statusreport of the State EmergencyOperations Centre (SEOC),the 197 missing people include12 people of Reni and threeother villages, along with 185workers of the companiesinvolved in the two hydropow-er projects damaged in thedisaster.

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    persons — included in themissing persons’ list — arestuck in a tunnel with effortsunderway to reach them clear-ing the debris in the tunnel.While six persons are injured,12 persons were rescued safe-ly from the NTPC projectdownstream.

    Personnel of the NDRF,SDRF, ITBP, SSB and armedforces along with State policeare undertaking rescue andrelief works.

    Meanwhile, apart fromChief Minister Trivendra SinghRawat, Union Power MinisterRK Singh, Union EducationMinister Ramesh Pokhriyal‘Nishank’, Garhwal MP TirathSingh Rawat and State MinisterDhan Singh Rawat visited theTapovan and other affected

    areas where they viewed theefforts underway and interact-ed with the locals.

    Even as rescue operationscontinued throughout the day,ration, medical supplies andother daily use items were sup-plied by helicopter to the 13 vil-lages in the Niti valley whichhave lost road link due to thedisaster.

    Chamoli DistrictMagistrate Swati Bhadauriyainformed that supplies will beprovided by helicopters in thesevillages till an alternativearrangement is made.

    In addition to the disasteraffected area, the districtadministration team is alsosearching for the missing per-sons along the banks of theAlaknanda river.

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    Maharashtra HomeMinister Anil Deshmukhordered a probe into whetherthe BJP pressured celebrities,including Bharat Ratnaawardees Lata Mangeshkar,Sachin Tendulkar and actorAkshay Kumar into putting outtweets in response to the glob-al criticism of the Government’shandling of the farmers’ ongo-ing agitation.

    Responding to a demandby Maharashtra Congressspokesperson Sachin Sawantand other leaders who urgedhim to look into the tweets putout by the celebrities,Deshmukh said, “Looking at ahost of tweets put out by thecelebrities (in response to theglobal criticism of theGovernment’s handling of the

    farmers’ ongoing agitation),the questions that arise aboutthe timing of the tweets andwhether pressure was broughtto bear on these celebrities toput out near similar tweets. Forinstance, the tweets put out byAkshay Kumar and SainaNehwal are identical”.

    “The media is alreadyunder tremendous pressure

    from the Government. If polit-ical leaders criticise the BJP, theGovernment lets loose the EDand CBI on them.... We willenquire into the issue raised byyou. Our intelligence agencieswill enquire into whether theBJP put pressure on the celebri-ties to identical or near identi-cal tweets put by the celebritiesat the same time,” Deshmukhsaid.

    Deshmukh, who has quar-antined himself after testingpositive after testing positive forCovid-19, held a zoom meet-ing with Sawant and otherCongress leaders.

    The Minister said that theState Government will alsolook into the role of a MumbaiBJP office-bearer who hadbeen tagged by actor SunielShetty in his tweet.

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    There is no clarity so far onthe reasons for the glacierburst and the resultantavalanche and flash floods thatwreaked havoc in the upperreaches of the Himalayas inUttarakhand on Sunday, butexperts have zeroed in globalwarming or Western distur-bance as the possible causes forthe melting of the snow andbreaking of the glacier thatcould have triggered the inun-dation in Chamoli district.

    The Snow and AvalancheStudy Establishment (SASE)of the Defence Research andDevelopment Organisation isinvestigating the tragedy, butthere are no clear answers yetfor a glacier to have melted in

    the winter.It is not clear whether the

    flood is a typical Glacial LakeOutburst Flood (GLOF) orsome temporary damming dueto a landslide and avalanchethat might have blocked themainstream to form a tempo-

    rary lake which burst, saidRanjit Rath, Director Generalof the Geological Survey ofIndia (GSI).

    A GLOF is a type of out-burst flood that occurs whenthe dam containing a glaciallake fails.

    “Once the water levelrecedes a team of experts willassess the damage as well as thetriggering factor responsible forthe outburst,” Rath toldreporters here.

    As the nightmare envis-aged by numerous environ-mentalists warning againstuntrammelled development inthe mountains came true onSunday, glaciologist FarooqAzam said a glacial burst is veryrare.

    “We have been trying tounderstand the event sinceyesterday. Right now what wecan tell is a glacier slipped fromaround 500-600 metres, whichstarted a landslide with an ice-fall that triggered this disaster,”Azam, Assistant Professor,Glaciology & Hydrology,

    Indian Institute of Technology,Indore, told a news agency.

    “For sure there was noglacial lake outburst flood, forsure there is no cloud burstbecause there is no lake avail-able in the region at this par-ticular time. Even if there arelakes, they are frozen and theydon’t have any activity. The dis-aster happened because of anicefall and landslide.” he added.

    Satellite and Google Earthimages, Azam added, do notshow a glacial lake near theregion, but there’s a possibilitythere may be a water pocket inthe region.

    “Water pockets are lakesinside the glaciers, which mayhave erupted leading to thisevent,” he said. He suggestedfurther analysis of weather

    reports and data to confirm ifthis indeed was the case.Climate scientist Roxy MathewKoll agreed and also said moredata are needed. He said therecent climate change assess-ment report for India showssignificant melting and declinein glacier mass over theHimalayan region in the recentdecades due to warmer tem-peratures.

    Koll also said it was notclear if an accumulation ofglacier melt led to this burst,and noted that Western dis-turbances during last week didbring in a lot of snow over theregion, followed by clear skyand warm temperatures.

    “It is quite possible that cli-mate change and melting offresh snow led to piling up of

    water in this area,” Koll, scien-tist at the Indian Institute ofTropical Meteorology (IITM)in Pune said.

    The IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change(IPCC)’s Special Report onOceans and Cryosphere in aChanging Climate (SROCC)also shows that climate changehas altered the frequency andmagnitude of natural hazards.“The scientists reported withmedium confidence that insome regions snow avalanchesinvolving wet snow haveincreased while the rain onsnow floods have also increasedat lower elevations in springs,”Prakash, lead author of theongoing 6th Assessment reportof IPCC, said in a statement.

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    Soon after Prime MinisterNarendra Modi urged agi-tating farmers to end their stirand resume the dialogue, farm-ers’ unions on Monday askedthe Government to fix a datefor the next round of talks.

    Farmer leader Shiv KumarKakka, who is a senior mem-ber of the Samkyukta KisanMorcha which is spearheadingthe ongoing stir, said they areready for the next round of

    talks and the Governmentshould tell them the date andtime of the meeting.

    “We have never refused tohold talks with the government.Whenever it has called us fordialogue, we held discussionswith Union ministers. We areready for talks with them (gov-ernment),” Kakka told PTI.

    To Modi’s address in theRajya Sabha during which heassured minimum supportprice (MSP), Bharatiya KisanUnion (BKU) leader RakeshTikait said there is no law on

    MSP and the Governmentshould repeal these farms laws.

    The farmers leaders sittingacross the borders of the cityalso objected to Modi’s remarksthat a new “breed” of agitatorscalled “andolan jivi” hasemerged in the country, andsaid agitation has an importantrole in a democracy.

    Talking to media person onMonday, Tikait said businessover hunger will not be allowedin the country and the lawsshould be repealed.

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    The process of holding panchayat elections islikely to be expedited as the Allahabad HighCourt has directed the UP government and state’selection commission to conduct the polls by April30. The court said that elections of the districtpanchayat president and the block chief shouldbe conducted by May 15.

    Official sources said that the elections arelikely to be conducted in four phases and theprocess of caste-based reservation of seats isexpected to be completed early next month. Thepoll notification is likely to be issued in the thirdweek of March.The sources said that the electionswill be completed in the next 45 days after the pollnotification is issued. The elections are likely tobe held between April 15 and April 30.

    The state government intends to hold simul-taneous polls for the village pradhan, block pra-mukh, members of block development commit-tee and district panchayat.

    There are a total of 58,194 village panchay-ats. There are 3,051 district panchayat members,75,855 block development committee membersand over 7.31 lakh village panchayat members.For the panchayat election, the number of vot-ers is estimated to be 12 crore.

    Meanwhile, the Panchayat department onMonday said that UP has achieved number oneposition in the implementation of Swachh Bharatmission (rural) by constructing maximum num-ber of toilets in 2017-18, 2018-19, and 2019-20.A total of 2.18 crore toilets have been construct-ed. The Union ministry of drinking water andsanitation declared all the 75 districts open defe-cation-free in 2018, one year ahead of the target-ed date of October 2, 2019.

    Lucknow (PNS): In a bizarreincident in Rampur, a 50-year-oldwoman was assaulted and paradednaked in public after her son elopedwith a neighbour’s daughter onSunday. Elsewhere in Sitapur, aman lynched his wife’s lover aftercatching them in an intimate posi-tion.

    As per reports, a youth fromKarimganj area of Sadar Kotwalieloped with a girl of the same

    locality after an affair on Saturdayevening. On Sunday morning, theangry kin of the girl raided theyouth’s house to get the girl back.But on failing to find her ther, theyhurled expletives at the other fam-ily members. The matter took a turnfor the worse when the girl’s kindragged the youth’s mother out ofthe house, brutally beat her up, toreher clothes and later forced her toparade naked before the public.

    Upon learning of the crime, someof the victim;s kin rushed to her res-cue after which the girl’s family fled.

    The victim later lodged an FIRin this regard with the police and acase was registered. The policehowever denied that the victimhad been paraded naked in the pub-lic and dismissed it as a case of sim-ple assault. Investigations wereunderway. In Sitapur, Rajneesh (40)of Dhakiya locality was having an

    affair with his neighbour Saroj’s wifeYashoda. On Sunday night,Rajneesh met Yashoda but wascaught in a compromising positionby Saroj. The angry husband thenbrutally assaulted Rajneesh with arod. Some locals later rescuedRajneesh and rushed him to a com-munity health centre from where hewas referred to the district hospitalwhere he was pronounced deadupon arrival.

    Family members of Rajneeshlater lodged a case against Saroj butthe cops failed to arrest him as heabsconded. Three months back,Rajneesh and Yashoda had elopedbut Saroj managed to coax Yashodato return to him and to ensure thatshe did not meet her lover, asked herto stay with her parents. However,Yashoda returned home and start-ed meeting Rajneesh which provedfatal for her lover.

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    As many as 6.21 lakh casesrelated to ‘Varasat’ havebeen disposed of during a spe-cial drive, the first of its kind inUttar Pradesh. These land-related cases had been pendingfor years but were disposed ofwithin two months by Revenuedepartment officials. Of the6.66 lakh applications receivedso far, more than 6.21 lakh havealready been settled.

    “In a unique drive toresolve land disputes and pre-vent fraudulent transactionsof lands the CM had plannedthe campaign which has beena huge success. More than9500 matters are being heard invarious Revenue courts whilethe rest are being attended to,”Revenue Secretary, SanjayGoyal said.

    Azamgarh, Prayagraj,Hardoi, Jaunpur and Ghazipurhave been the top five districtsin Uttar Pradesh to have dis-posed of most cases related to‘Varasat’, followed byAmbedkarnagar, Ayodhya,Sultanpur Gonda, Ballia,Gorakhpur, Kaushambi,Pratapgarh Unnao, LakhimpurKheri and Sitapur. The ‘Varasat’campaign is being conducted infive stages.

    “As many as 24,000 lekh-pals and 2,700 revenue inspec-tors have been deployed to visitvillages, gather inputs and dis-pose of the complaints,” Goyalsaid.

    Besides, the government isalso extending the facility topeople to apply from CustomerService Centres. At the end ofthis two-month drive, the dis-trict magistrate will randomlyidentify ten percent of the rev-enue village and check factsgiven in the report of Lekhpalthrough sub-divisional magis-trates, additional DMs andother officers. Launched withthe promise of ‘Aapki Zameen,Aapka Adhikar, Sabko MileApna Uttaradhikar’ and aimedat resolving long-pendingland disputes, especially inrural areas, the drive has alsoput a check on land mafia tar-geting disputed lands in ruralareas.

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    Dishing out a stern warningto the mafia of eastern UP,Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathreiterated that there was noplace for them in the state andthe BJP-led government hadvowed to snuff out such ele-ments.

    “Our government is con-stantly moving towards wipingout the mafia culture whichhindered the development ofestern UP for long,” Yogi saidwhile inspecting the ongoingconstruction of PurvanchalExpressway in Ghazpiur onMonday. The chief ministersaid that previous regimespatronised such mafia andcriminals in the state due towhich development suffered amassive setback. Stating thatUP would now be known fordevelopment,

    Yogi said, “There is noplace for those who patronisethe mafia, criminal and rogueelements in the new UttarPradesh of ‘Ek BharatShreshtha Bharat’. While we areworking towards the welfare ofvillages, farmers, youth, and

    development, it is very impor-tant to destroy the mafia cul-ture that hindered developmentof Purvanchal for so long,” headded.

    In the present regime, amassive anti-mafia campaignwas launched in which govern-ment agencies seized illegalassets worth Rs 1,000 crore ofmore than 40 mobsters likeMukhtar Ansari, Atiq Ahmad,

    Vijay Mishra and Sundar Bhati.Besides, illegal properties of themafia and their close aideshave been demolished.

    The state governmenthas also registered cases against800 gangsters and theirclose aides. Most cases havebeen filed against MokhtarAnsari and Atiq Ahmad,who virtually ‘ruled’ inPurvanchal.

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    Montessori School, GomtiNagar Campus II, has beenselected for admission by threeprestigious universities ofEngland for pursuing highereducation. Gaurav attributedhis achievement to his teachers.He has received admission offersfrom the University of Bristol,Queen’s University Belfast andUniversity of Portsmouth.

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    The SAM branch of Indian Bank in Lucknow and FGM officestarted early morning recovery drive to visit the houses of NPAborrowers and convince them to pay their dues. The door-to-door campaign will continue till February.

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    es IX to XII in the fourth episode of career talk series, organ-ised by LPS director Harshit Singh. She told the students howto join Indian Civil Services. “One must cherish the inclinationfor the same from the very beginning. For this, a strategy has tobe made. In the civil services examination, a vast range of knowl-edge is required, so a selective study is a must. The aspirants mustgo through last ten years’ question papers. Regular studies anddiscipline matter,” she said.

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    Acancer-afflicted person killed his pregnant wifeand three-year-old daughter over a disputebefore surrendering at the local police station onMonday morning.

    As per reports, Gulfam of Gayatri Puram areaused to run a barber shop and was suffering fromcancer. Due to his ailment, his two wives divorcedand left him.

    His second wife Reshma, left their daughter tostay back with Gulfam. Gulfam later marriedMuskan a year back and she was expecting a childsoon. For the last few days, Gulfam had argumentswith Muskan which snowballed on Sunday nightwith the couple trading accusations and expletives.On Monday morning. Gulfam strangled hisdaughter and wife Muskan and later strolled tothe police station and confessed.

    A case was later registered, Gulfam wasarrested and the bodies were sent for

    autopsy.Meanwhile, in the Farah area of Mathura,trader Neeraj Aggarwal (35) ended his life by hang-ing himself after killing his step-son and wife athis Shahi Srai home on Sunday. The bodies weresent for autopsy and a probe was underway.

    On Sunday evening, Agarwal’s neighboursinformed the police that there had been no activ-ity in the household for the last 24 hours. Later apolice team reached there and found the bodiesof a woman and boy lying on the bed. While frothwas oozing from the boy’s mouth, the woman hadinjuries on her neck and Aggarwal (35) of ShahiSarai used to run a grocery shop and got marriedto Reema (35) of Khandari in Agra three yearsback.

    Reema had a 10-year-old son from her firsthusband. Reema’s mother Radha told the policethat there was a fight between the couple four daysago but was later sorted. The police were now inves-tigating all aspects and were waiting for the autop-sy report.

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    Awoman was gangraped, torched andlater abandoned in a gunny bag inAyodhya, while a 10-year-old girl wasfound reportedly abused and later doneto death in Banda. In Ayodhya, residentsof Kumarganj area noticed thick smokeemanating from a gunny bag near DrBadri Prasad Sarvodaya Inter College inRamganj (Rae Bareli-Faizabad Road) onMonday morning.

    On a closer look, they found that thebag contained a girl was huddled insideand torched. They later informed thepolice who rushed there and doused the

    fire. By that time, the victim had beenburnt beyond recognition.Circumstantial evidence pointed towardsthe victim being raped before being bru-tally killed.

    The police suspected that theassailants torched her to conceal heridentity and later abandoned the gunnybag there. The body was sent for autop-sy and efforts were being made toascertain the victim’s identity and trackdown the killers. In another sensation-al incident in Banda, cops at Baberupolice station recovered the body of anunknown 10-year-old girl from thefields on Sunday night.

    Circumstantial evidence suggestedthat the victim was strangled to death.However, the victim’s family claimed thatthe girl was also raped before being mur-dered to conceal the crime. The kinclaimed that the girl had gone to workin the fields on Sunday but when she didnot return till late evening, they lookedfor her and were shocked to find herbody in the fields. The family deniedhaving an enmity which could have ledto the killing of the girl. A case was reg-istered and the body was sent for autop-sy. Some local youths were detained andquizzed by the police but so far no con-crete leads could be obtained.

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    Despite not having much in com-mon with Punjab and Haryanafarmers, squatting and blockingroads leading to respective borderswith Delhi demanding a repeal ofFarm laws, west UP farmers havejoined the protest.

    With sugarcane being the life-line of west UP farmers, issues ofdelayed payments, marginal rise inState Advisory Price (SAP), risinginput costs and stray cattle haveemerged as the main bones of con-tention. This has led to heightenedpoliticisation, with parties makingbeeline to take the grab the oppor-tunity and bare its fangs againstModi-led government’s Farm laws.After a fiasco at Ghazipur border onJanuary 27, the Ghaziabad admin-istration’s move to remove the block-ade by Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU)leader Rakesh Tikait at UP-Delhiborder aty Ghazipur on January 27,ended in a fiasco with a teary-eyedTikait addressing media persons thenext day.

    Hordes of emotional west UPfarmers rushed to the protest sitegiving a new lease of life to the agi-tation. Since then, farmers inMeerut, Bagpat, Muzaffarnagar,Shamli, Amroha and Saharanpurhave organised Kisan Mahapanchyat

    demanding repeal of the three farmlaws.

    “The stakes are not that high forfarmers of UP as compared to thosein Punjab and Haryana. Resentmentprevails among west UP farmersover delay in cane dues by sugar fac-tories and delay in announcementof SAP for 2020-21 cane crushing

    season,” said former Union minis-ter in Atal Bihari Vajpayee govern-ment, Sompal Shastri.

    A former MP from Baghpat,Shashtri said, “The farmers here arefurious as they feel they are beingneglected and getting a step-moth-erly treatment from the Union andUP governments.’’“During poll ral-lies in 2014 and 2019, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi and ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath promisedpayment for cane within 14 days,failing which farmers would getinterest too. However, nothing came

    of it,’’ added Shastri.Muzaffarnagarfarmer Nirankar Singh said, “Forgetabout interest on delayed payment,we got last year’s cane payment lastweek only after farmers stir inten-sified. We are waiting for paymentfor the last four months.” He arguedthat the Khattar government inHaryana across Yamuna was payinga rate of Rs 360 per quintal for canewhile the UP government was giv-ing Rs 325.

    Singh’s anger is resonatingacross the sugarcane belt of west UPdistricts of Baghpat, Shamli,Khatauli, Amroha andMuzaffarnagar even as the farmers’stir around Delhi is fast spreadingto this Jat-dominated region.In sev-eral western UP districts, BKU hasgiven a call for farmers’ panchayatto protest against the laws even asTikait was himself avoiding aligningwith political leaders. But Ajit Singh-led Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) is tak-ing a lead in calling farmers’ pan-chayat, where BKU leaders were alsoparticipating. In one such panchay-at at Shamli on Feburary 5, a JatMuslim dominated constituency,RLD leader Jayant Choudhary,whose caste-based party was deci-mated from western UP in 2017Assembly and 2019 Lok Sabha elec-tions, asked farmers to teach a les-son to the Yogi and Modi govern-ments in next year’s Assembly polls.

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    Targeted sampling of coron-avirus in different categoriesof people will be started onceagain in Lucknow fromFebruary 10, according to asenior health official. The ideais to do an overall assessment ofcoronavirus infection spreadnow when the number of caseshas come down.

    “We have prepared a 15-daycalendar for this exercise and ourtargeted categories are shop-keepers, tempo drivers, markets,malls, private hospitals, slumsand schools. Schools have beenincluded because some of themhave opened while others will befollowing suit. With this exercise,we will have a better idea regard-ing the current situation,” headded. The health official saidthat won’t be scaled down andit would go on in regular man-ner. “Since we are doing well interms of checking the spread ofinfection, our strategy willremain as it is and tests and othercontainment activities will con-tinue as usual,” he added. Thehealth official said that therecovery rate has been high inthe district as people who test-ed positive earlier are recoveringand getting discharged fromhospitals. However, he insistedthat weather has played no rolein the recovery of patients.

    Meanwhile, SGPGI is con-ducting several researches oncoronavirus. Dr Amita Agarwal,who is heading the Clinical

    Immunology andRheumatology department, saidlooking into the fact that dia-betes is a comorbidity which hasthe maximum impact on mor-tality and that diabetics have thedisease in a more severe form,they are looking at the factorswhich increase the severity ofcoronavirus infection amongdiabetics.

    “We are looking at hormon-al factors, immunological factorsand cytokines. We are trying tofind out why they make thecoronavirus infection moresevere,” she said.

    She added that they arealso trying to find out whetherCovid leads to endocrine abnor-malities in the long run. “Thereis a long-term plan to follow upthese patients to see if they con-tinue to have these abnormali-ties. The principal investigatorfor this research is Dr SarojSahu,” she said.

    Dr Agarwal said she is theco-investigator along with oth-ers from the emergency andmicrobiology departments.

    “We are also trying to findout whether such patients haveextra viral load or not. Our planis to take up patients and checkthem for their hormonal levelsand other parameters alongwith the viral load. We will notonly look into these factors butalso follow them up to see if theyhave endocrine dysfunctioneven in a later stage. We are try-ing to have 100 patients and arecurrently carrying out the

    research on 70 patients,” she said,adding that they are putting theirminds together for the project.

    Meanwhile, 11 more peoplehave tested positive for coron-avirus infection in the state cap-ital, according to the figuresreleased on Monday. With 308COVID-19 patients recoveringduring the past 24 hours, 79,975coronavirus infected peoplehave been cured in the city sofar. Lucknow has witnessed1,183 COVID-19 deaths and atpresent 403 active cases areunder treatment in the district.

    A senior official at theCMO office said that amongthose who tested positive dur-ing the past 24 hours, two eachwere from Rae Bareli Road,Indiranagar and Chowk.

    Meanwhile, 70 persons test-ed positive in the state duringthe past 24 hours, including twoin Kanpur Nagar, three inGautam Buddha Nagar, foureach in Ghaziabad andVaranasi, and six in Meerut,taking the tally of confirmedcases to 6,01,455. There werefour Covid-19 deaths in thestate during the past 24 hours— one each in Lucknow,Moradabad, Gonda andFatehpur — taking the deathtoll to 8,691. As many as 504Covid-19 patients recovered inthe state during the past 24hours. With this, 5,89,322Covid-19 patients have recov-ered in the state and at present3,442 active cases are undertreatment.

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    With classes IX to XII set toopen in a regular man-ner on Tuesday, followed byclasses VI to VII onWednesday, Deputy ChiefMinister Dinesh Sharma saidall arrangements like availabil-ity of hand sanitisers, hand-wash and thermal scanner willhave to be in place. The schoolauthorities have been asked toensure sanitisation of the

    premises before reopeningwhile medical facilities andisolation of employees or stu-dents having cough or fever arealso a must.

    “If a student tests positivefor coronavirus, he or sheshould be treated as per theguidelines. School staff mem-bers should necessarily maskup and ensure that studentsalso do the same. The schoolsshould keep the masks in abun-dance,” Sharma said.

    President of UnaidedPrivate Schools’ AssociationAnil Agarwal said the Covidguidelines will be strictlyadhered to. “As regards classesVI to VIII, nearly 60 per centof the parents have consentedto send their wards to schools.The schools will take a call onholding examinations,” he said.

    Principal of Seth MRJaipuria School ProminiChopra said there is no prob-lem for students of classes IX

    to XII as there are already bigrooms for the purpose. “Wehave almost completed the syl-labus of class XII. In case ofclass IX, a lot depends on theparents’ consent. We are callingall those willing to come whilethe others can join online,” sheadded. “We have already sentthe consent forms to parents ofclasses VI to VIII students andare waiting for the response.We will be calling them onalternate days, just as the gov-

    ernment has advised, but it alldepends on the number ofstudents ready to come,” sheadded. The timings will be 9:30am to 1:30 pm so that the stu-dents can have breakfast beforeleaving for the school and havelunch after going back.

    “This is almost the end ofthe session and most of the syl-labus is over. All we will do isrevision. However, the examswill only be held offline,” sheadded.

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    Aman, alleged to be a closeaide of pro-Khalistan ter-rorists Paramjeet SinghPamppa and Multani Singh,was arrested in a joint oper-at ion conducted by theLucknow police commission-erate and Punjab police inVikas Nagar police station area on Monday afternoon.

    The accused was identi-fied as Jagdev Singh aka Jaggaof Jeera police station area inFirozpur district of Punjab.He was on the Punjab policeradar and had been chargedwith sedition. He had alsobeen booked for waging a waragainst the government bywords, either spoken or writ-ten, or by signs, or by visiblerepresentation, bringing orattempting to bring intohatred or contempt, or excit-ing or attempting to excitedisaffection towards the gov-ernment established by law inIndia, abetment of offenceand on other counts in thepast. The police said Jagdevhad taken refuge in Lucknow,but did not divulge moredetails.

    A police spokesman saidJagdev was arrested fromSachivalaya crossing in VikasNagar area around 2 pm onMonday after his locationwas traced. “The judicialmagistrate in Amritsar had

    issued an arrest warrantagainst him,” the spokesmansaid. He added that Jagdevhad links with pro-Khalistanterrorists Paramjeet Singh akaPamppa and Multani Singhand others.

    “Paramjeet is active inEngland at present whileMultani in Germany, andboth were involved in anti-India activities. Both the ter-rorists are promoting anti-national activities and terror-ism in Punjab to disturb peaceand rel igious harmony,sources said.

    The Punjab police hadinputs that Paramjeet andMultani had recruited Jagdevas their agent in India tostrike big, they said.

    “To give shape to theirdiabolic plot, Paramjeet andMultani provided money toJagdev, asking him to pur-chase weapons. Later Jagdevand his aide Jagroop Singhpurchased weapons from anillegal arm dealer in MadhyaPradesh. On these inputs, thePunjab police carried out anoperation and nabbedJagroop from Punjab onSunday. On his revelation,the Punjab police got a leadabout Jagdev and they carriedout a joint operation in VikasNagar and nabbed JagdevSingh. Jagdev has served jailterm in Amritsar andGurdaspur in 2019 and 2020,”they said.

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    Chief Minister YogiAdityanath has instructedthe officials to coordinate withthe Uttarakhand government toensure effective action in con-nection with the search and res-cue of those missing in theChamoli tragedy.

    “In this hour of disaster, theUP government is committed toproviding all possible help to allthe affected people,” said the

    chief minister while reviewingthe situation arising out of thedisaster in Uttarakhand at ahigh-level meeting in Lucknowon Monday. Yogi called hisUttarakhand counterpartTrivendra Singh Rawat andassured all possible assistancefrom the UP government in thishour of crisis. He directed theofficials to set up a control roomin the relief commissioner’soffice to assist the families of thestate affected by the disaster and

    send two government officers toDehradun for coordination withthe Uttarakhand government.

    He said that district-levelcontrol rooms should be set upin the districts whose residentsare missing. Apart from this,helpline numbers should beissued in every district, headded. The chief minister alsodirected the Home departmentto establishing contact with allthe affected families and provideall possible help.

    Lucknow (PNS): TheHazratganj police nabbed afraudster who had duped sev-eral persons by introducinghimself as a minister. His aidewas also arrested. The accused,identified as Abhishek Nigamof Bazaarkhala, was held alongwith his aide Hasib Ahmad ofSitapur. The police arrested theduo during a routine vehiclechecking. The team recovered

    18 live cartridges, a pistol, anairgun and six live cartridgesbesides a car.

    Abhishek was named in asmany as 18 cases of crime inthe past and was released fromjail recently after a court grant-ed him bail. He shot to infamyafter he duped several peopleand amassed huge wealth.

    Meanwhile, the STFsleuths nabbed a drug peddler,

    Abdul Latif Khan of Sitapur,and recovered 3 kg charasworth Rs 15 lakh on a tip-offon Monday. The accused wasarrested near a bus station inVibhuti Khand police stationarea. The accused owned uphis crime and disclosed thathe had been into drug ped-dling for the last one year. Hesaid he got charas from Nepal.

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    Lucknow (PNS): Wife of areader of Sarojininagar tehsil-dar suffered gunshot injuriesunder mysterious circum-stances in her house onMonday afternoon. Thewoman was identified asMadhu Dixit of LDA Colonynear Tikaitrai Talab in

    Bazaarkhala police station area.Her husband Kaushal is thereader of Sarojininagar tehsil-dar. As per reports, Madhuorganised a function on theoccasion of her daughterAdhya’s birthday on Sunday.

    Kaushal’s niece Saumyaand her husband Abhishek

    had also come from Unnao andstayed in the house. OnMonday morning, Madhu wentupstairs and did not comedown. Saumya, who was in thekitchen on the ground floor,went to serve tea to Madhu.When she did not find herthere, she reached the terrace

    and was shocked to see Madhulying in a pool of blood.

    Saumya called neighboursfor help and Madhu was rushedto the KGMU Trauma Centre.The doctors attending to hersaid her condition was critical.

    It surfaced during investi-gation that Madhu was suffer-

    ing from arthritis and wasunder depression for the lastfew months. As per reports,Madhu had told Saumya onMonday morning that she wasnot feeling well. A policespokesman said that a forensicteam visited the house instant-ly after being informed.

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    The teaching carried out atAnganwadi centres isimportant, but it was impactedbecause of the coronavirus pan-demic. However, since schoolshave reopened, the teachingshould be restarted at these centres.

    These views were expressedby Governor Anandiben Patelin a programme organised onMonday under the joint aegis ofDr APJ Abdul Kalam TechnicalUniversity (AKTU) and districtadministration for distributionof necessary materials to 40Anganwadi centres inSarojininagar. The programmewas organised in eight blocks ofthe district — Chinhat, Maal,Malihabad, Bakshi-Ka-Talab,Sarojininagar, Mohanlalganj,

    Gosainganj and Kakori. Thegovernor said that the educa-tional tools attract children tothe Anganwadi centres. Shetold the villagers to show activeparticipation in these centres.She added that it is the respon-sibility of parents to send theirchildren to these Anganwadicentres.

    “One Anganwadi centre in

    each block was made a nodalcentre by AKTU and districtadministration. Necessary mate-rials were distributed at thesenodal Anganwadi centres in thepresence of the governor, pub-lic representative, officials ofAKTU & district administra-tion, and representatives of thetechnical university’s affiliatedinstitutes.

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    In a case of road rage, a pri-mar y school teacheropened fire in Madiaon onMonday afternoon, triggeringpanic among passersby.Police arrested the accusedand registered a case againsthim. He was identified asAnoop Shukla of Madiaon.

    As per reports, a contain-er being driven by GovindSingh of Kanpur from Sitapurbrushed past the car ofAnoop. Eyewitnesses saidAnoop stopped the car mid-

    way and came out. He caughthold of the container driverand asked him to pay for thedamages. Even as Anoop wasyelling, Govind started dri-ving the container.

    In the meantime, Anoopwhipped out a pistol andopened fire. The bullet gotlodged in the tyre of thecontainer. Soon, there was astampede-like situation ascommuters started runninghelter-skelter. A police teamreached the scene and nabbedAnoop, who was taken to thepolice station later. Govind

    lodged a case against Anoop.Meanwhile, a 28-year-old

    man ended his life at hishouse in Neelmatha localityunder Cantonment policestation area on Sunday night.Reports said Amit Rawat wasfound hanging from the ceil-ing with a bedsheet tiedaround his neck on Sundaynight.

    His brother Ajay Rawatsaid Amit returned home ina drunken state the previousnight and went into his room.He was later found hangingfrom the ceiling. Police sent

    the body for autopsy andstarted further probe.

    In another case, a 59-year-old man was killed in aroad mishap in Chinhat onSunday night. The victimwas identified as Raj KumarBhatia of Telibagh. Heworked as a driver with anautomobile company. His sonAyush Bhatia said Raj Kumarwas returning home after hisduty was over on Sundayevening. Around 6:15 pm, aspeeding lorry hit his bikefrom behind and he died onthe spot.

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    Lucknow (PNS): BabasahebBhimrao AmbedkarUniversity will start offlineclasses for the students of finalsemester from February 22. Ameeting of all the heads anddeans was held recently inwhich they were asked to pre-pare a roadmap for havingoffline classes while adheringto Covid guidelines. Anothermeeting was held again onMonday and the proposalfor starting the final semesterclasses offline was given a go-ahead. “After 15 days, areview will be done on thebasis of Covid guidelines anda decision will be takenaccordingly to resume offlineclasses for other semesters.There will be single occupan-cy in the hostel rooms,” anofficial said.

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    Jammu: A Pakistani intruder,believed to be a local guide ofPakistan based terror outfit,was gunned down by the alertjawans of the Border SecurityForce while he was 'aggressive-ly' attempting to breach thebarbed border fence near BoP(border outpost) Chak Faquirain the Samba sector on Monday.

    According to officialsources, the suspicious move-ment of the intruder was spot-ted by the BSF jawans around2.30 a.m and a tight vigil wasmaintained to prevent anyinfiltration bid. After a sevenhour long wait, the intruderemerged from the hiding andstarted approaching the barbedwire fence very aggressively.The BSF sentires present in theborder outpost warned himand also fired warningshots.Instead of retreating theintruder approached thebarbed wire fence very 'aggres-sively' in a bid to breach thesame.

    Briefing media personsabout the incident, IG BSFJammu Frontier, N S Jamwaltold reporters at the border out-post, “at around 9:45 am, alert

    BSF troops saw PakistaniIntruder heading towards bor-der fence near border outpost(BOP) 64 along the interna-tional border in Chak Faquiraarea”.

    “Despite repeated warn-ings, the intruder kept movingunder suspicious circumstancesand approached the borderfence in an aggressive manner.That was the time when BSFpersonnel opened fire, killinghim on the spot,” IG BSF,Jammu frontier said.

    Earlier on November 23,2020 another intruder was shotdead by the BSF in the sameborder belt. Official sourcesclaimed, the Pak intruder mayhave been acting as a guide andwas sent on a recce missionahead of pushing a group ofarmed infiltrators inside theIndian territory to launch a ter-ror strike.

    BSF had also detected across border tunnel in thesame area in the month ofAugust 2020. PNS

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    As she was welcomed bythousands of party workerswho had thronged theBangalore-Chennai highwaysince morning, V K Sasikala, theformer aide to late J Jayalalithaa,gave enough hints to theAIADMK leadership that shewould not be cowed down byrestrictions and suppression.

    “I’ll engage myself in activepolitics in days to come for partyworkers,” Sasikala told mediapersons in a brief interaction atThirupathur where she wasaccorded a rousing reception bythe cadres of AIADMK andAMMK. She said she was notthe type who could be enslavedby the powers that be. This wasin response to the queries byreporters whether she will bevisiting the AIADMK headquarters and the JayalalithaaMemorial at Chennai’s Marina

    Beach. If the crowd which hadgathered to welcome her back toTamil Nadu is any indication,Chief Minister EdappadiPalaniswamy and his deputy OPanneerselvam may have torework their strategies tocounter “Chinnamma”, as she isaddressed even by party leaders.Sasikala (66) was released fromParappana Agrahara CentralJail on January 27 as she com-pleted the four year jail term inconnection with the dispro-portionate asset case.

    “This could not be a mobi-lized crowd as it is difficult tobring this many people byorganisers. I am sure most of theparty cadres came to welcomeher on their own,” said a StateIntelligence Officer who wasmonitoring the journey ofSasikala from Bangalore.

    Veteran scribe Sam Rajappasaid the turn out of the peopleto welcome Sasikala was his-toric. “I don't think any politi-

    cal leaders, both State andNational, were accorded suchwelcome in Tamil Nadu's histo-ry,” said Sam Rajappa.

    Even as Sasikala set on herjourney to Chennai, what stoodout was the wordy duel betweenher nephew TTV Dhinakaranand D Jayakumar, minister offisheries in EdappadiPalaniswamy Government.

    Jayakumar, who had playeda key role in easing out Sasikalaand her family members fromthe AIADMK in September2017, alleged on Sunday thatDhinakaran has taken all moneyowned by Sasikala. “Dhinakaranis afraid that Sasikala would askhim for accounts. Till the otherday he was claiming thatAIADMK was a closed chapter.He had insulted the party sym-bol of Two Leaves by claimingthat with the demise ofJayalalithaa, the party symboltoo has lost relevance,” saidJayakumar.

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    Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said thatVaranasi occupied the leadingposition in the Smart Cityscheme seeing its rapidprogress and the MachhodariSmart School would be built byMarch.

    “Besides maintaining uni-formity, information boardsare being put up at all the 84ghats of the river Ganga toenhance their beauty andinform tourists about themythological and religious sig-nificance of the different ghats,”the chief minister said whilereviewing the progress of devel-opment works and law andorder in a meeting with officersat the Circuit House here onSunday evening.

    “The ongoing beautifica-tion of various ponds, includ-ing Pandepur, Chakra,Sonbhadra, Nadesar andChitaipur, will be completed byJune 2021. Along with this,parks and wards are also beingbeautified and 720 advancedsurveillance cameras are beinginstalled at various crossingsand major sites across the cityto keep a close eye on trafficcontrol, law and order and tomonitor any type of off-the-lawactivity. Redevelopment ofDashashwamedh and Khirkhiaghats are also underway,” Yogisaid.

    According to the chiefminister, 123 major projectsworth Rs 9,175.77 crore havebeen taken up in the district

    and out of them 10 projectsworth Rs 137.87 crore havebeen completed in January lastand 14 projects worth Rs201.69 crore will be completedduring the current month.Besides, 28 projects worth Rs1,166.65 crore will be complet-ed in March and 59 projectsworth Rs 4,470.59 crore byDecember this year and theremaining 12 projects worth Rs3,198.97 crore will be complet-ed next year.

    The ambitious RudrakshaConvention Centre project willbe completed by March whilestudent activity centres in hos-tels, nurses’ hostel, dharamsha-la, women's hostel, the IUCTEbuilding in Banaras HinduUniversity (BHU) will be com-pleted by August-September.

    “Varanasi is becoming the

    hub of transport as the con-struction of Ring Road con-necting other districts is goingon a war footing apart fromwidening of the Jaunpur-Varanasi, Azamgarh-Varanasiand Ghazipur-Varanasi nation-al highways which will be com-pleted by June-July,” he said.

    “Work is progressingrapidly on Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's ambitiousShri Kashi VishwanathCorridor project which is tar-geted to be completed byAugust this year,” the chiefminister said, adding that aplan to supply piped natural gas(PNG) to houses in Varanasiwas being implemented,” hesaid, adding that the parking atGodowlia would be completedby March, the one near theCircuit House by May, at Town

    Hall by September and at BeniaBagh Park by November thisyear.

    Taking a serious note of thekidnapping and murder of aboy in Sarnath area, the chiefminister directed the policeofficers to take stern actionagainst the culprits and alsoagainst the cops having nexuswith criminals or showing lax-ity in dealing with criminals.

    According to him, a lot ofaction was taken under theMission Mafia as propertyworth Rs 30 crore seized inVaranasi.

    Later, the chief ministerinspected the ongoing develop-ment works. He first offeredprayer at Kal Bhairav templeand then visited the KashiVishwanath temple and saw theprogress of the corridor con-

    struction work, directing theofficers concerned to completeit by August. He also walked toManikarnika ghat.

    Yogi also took stock ofcleanliness and constructionwork of Shahi Nala near PiplaniKatra in Kabir Chaura anddirected the officials to launcha drive on war footing to com-plete the work soon.

    UP Ministers Anil Rajbhar,Neelkanth Tiwari, RavindraJaiswal, MLAs SaurabhSrivastava, Awadhesh Singh,Surendra Narayan, ACS(Home) Awanish KumarAwasthi, ADG (Zone) BrijBhushan, DC DeepakAggarwal, IG (Range) VijaySingh Meena, DM Kaushal RajSharma, SSP Amit Pathak andother officials were also pre-sent.

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    Additional Director(Medical Health andFamily Welfare) Dr ShashikantUpadhyaya said the mediaplayed a praiseworthy role inmaking people aware of thesafety measures during theCOVID-19 crisis and it helpedin both prevention and controlof the disease.

    Addressing a media work-shop on ‘Strengthening HealthCommunication – CovidAppropriate Behaviour andVaccination’ and ‘National TBElimination Programme,’ hereon Monday, Dr Upadhyayasaid it was because of the pos-itive role of media that “we arefinally heading towards win-ning the battle against COVID-19”.

    The workshop was organ-ised by the Department ofHealth and Family Welfareand Bill and Melinda GatesF o u n d a t i o n - s u p p o r t e dCentre for Advocacy andResearch.

    Dr Upadhyaya also saidthat communicating abouthealth programmes had result-ed in improved access to ser-vices. “It has especially raisedawareness about the AyushmanBharat scheme and increasednotification of TB patients,” hesaid.

    Over 70 media personsand officers of the Healthdepartment participated in theworkshop.

    Chief Medical Officer DrVB Singh said that theCOVID-19 vaccine roll-outwas a clear indication that thecountry was now moving fromproblem to solution.

    Dr Singh said the vaccinewas completely safe and effec-tive and there was no reason forany doubt. He shared his ownexperience of getting the vac-cine shot and appealed toeveryone to get vaccinated ontheir turn.

    While discussing in detailthe efforts made to controlCOVID-19 in the district, theCMO explained how effortsfrom contact tracing to admit-ting patients in Covid hospitalshelped in effective manage-ment of the pandemic and incontrolling the infection.

    Similarly, he said, with theintroduction of home isolationfacilities, every patient was

    closely monitored by the healthofficials.

    The CMO said that6,27,849 samples had beentested for coronavirus infectionin the city so far out of which21,940 samples tested posi-tive.

    He said 11,327 healthworkers and 716 frontlineworkers had been adminis-tered Covid vaccine in the dis-trict so far.

    He pointed out that thebody develops resistance tocoronavirus in about 42 daysafter the first dose of the vac-cine hence, until then wearingmasks and following socialdistancing should be strictlyfollowed by all.

    Washing hands thorough-ly with soap and water wouldprevent coronavirus infectionas well as other infectious dis-eases, he added.

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    The ninth convocation cer-emony of the IndianInstitute of Technology,Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU) was held at SwatantrataBhawan on BHU campus onMonday.

    With the help of mixedreality technology, CEO andfounder of Cloud BasedInformation SecurityCompany, Zscaler JayChaudhary from the USA, andIIT-BHU Board of GovernorsChairman Padma Shri Dr KotaHarinarayana from Bengaluru,attended the convocation.

    IIT-BHU Director ProfPramod Kumar Jain honouredthe meritorious students by giv-ing degrees, medals andawards.

    Ankan Bohra, a student ofcomputer science engineering,won seven gold and one silvermedals and the Dr AnnieBesant award, including thePresident's Gold Medal.

    Chemical engineering stu-dent Avnish Singh receivedsix gold medals and twoawards. Ananya Gupta of elec-

    trical engineering departmentwas awarded the Director'sGold Medal for outstanding all-round performance and excel-lent organisational abilities andleadership qualities among allBTech graduates.

    The other students whoreceived more than one goldmedal were Aman Shreshtha(electronics engineering: 5 goldmedals, 2 prizes); Shikhar

    Gupta (electrical engineering:4 gold, 2 prizes); PrashantBaghel (mechanical engineer-ing: 4 gold, 1 prize); AnoushkaPal (metallurgical engineer-ing: 4 gold); Ankit Kumar(civil engineering: 2 gold, 3prizes); Parth Ajmera (pharma-ceutical engg & tech: 2 gold, 1prize); Surendra Baniya (civilengineering: 2 gold); VinayKumar Yadav (mechanical

    engineering: 2 gold) andShubham Kumar Mahto (min-ing engineering: 2 gold).

    A total of 52 graduates,who received the highestmarks in various courses, wereawarded 80 gold and silvermedals, and 16 prizes in vari-ous categories in the convoca-tion.

    A total of 1,481 meritoriousstudents from various coursesof the institute were awardeddegrees - 775 BTech/ BPharm,259 IDD/IMD, 294MTech/MPharm and 153 forresearch.

    The award distribution cer-emony was conducted by Dean(Academic Affairs) Prof ShyamBihari Dwivedi. Registrar in-charge Rajan Srivastava wasalso present on the occasion.

    The convocation ceremo-ny began with the Kulgeet andgarlanding of the statue ofMahamana Madan MohanMalviya. The inauguration ofthe convocation wasannounced by Dr KotaHarinarayana while ProfPramod Kumar Jain highlight-ed the achievements of theinstitute.

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    Varanasi (PNS): Four more persons have tested positivefor novel coronavirus infection in the district during the past24 hours, taking the tally of confirmed cases to 21,943 onMonday evening. With no COVID-19 death being reportedin the district in the last 24 hours, the death toll remained at377.

    Four COVID-19 patients, all of them in home isolation,recovered during the past 24 hours. With this, 21,499COVID-19 patients have recovered in the district so far, 18,532in home isolation and 2,967 in Covid hospitals, and at pre-sent 67 active cases are undergoing treatment.

    The present recovery rate is 97.97 per cent and the mor-tality rate is 1.71 per cent.

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    Banaras Hindu University(BHU) student SachinKumar has topped the CentralArmed Police Forces (AssistantCommandants) Examination,2019, conducted by the UnionPublic Service Commission(UPSC).

    Sachin Kumar is a studentof MA (Political Science, 2019-2021 session).

    A total of 264 candidatesfrom across the country havemade it to the final list. As perthe final results declared recent-ly, Sachin Kumar has securedthe first rank in the merit list.

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    Varanasi (PNS): BanarasLocomotive Works (BLW)General Manager Anjali Goyalappreciated the efficiency ofpromotee officers, saying thatthey were the backbone ofevery institution as they playedan important role in helping itmeet its target on time.

    Goyal was addressing theannual meeting of BLWPromotee Officers’ Associationat BLW Officers’ Club here onSunday as the chief guest.

    About 50 per cent of thetotal number of the officers inthe BLW are promotees, whohave been elevated from GroupC to officer cadre.

    Principal Chief ElectricalEngineer (PCEE) RajeshKumar Rai, Principal ChiefMechanical Engineer (PCME)Vineet Kumar Saxena,Principal Chief MaterialsManager DS Jangpangi,Principal Chief FinancialAdvisor Yogesh KumarSrivastava, Principal ChiefPersonnel Officer PradeepKumar Singh, Principal ChiefMedical Officer Dr Sujit Mallik,

    Principal Chief SecurityCommissioner Alok Kumar,apart from Indian RailwayPromotion Officers’ FederationPresident Yashpal Mittal (cen-tral body) were also present inthe meeting.

    The outgoing president ofthe association, Manoj Kumar,gave some suggestions foraddressing problems of thepromotee officers by raisingtheir demands in detail.Outgoing general secretary OPSonkar presented a brief reportwhile outgoing finance secre-tary Amit Sikdar gave thefinancial report.

    In the programme, YashpalMittal answered the questionsasked by the officials one byone and highlighted the func-tions of the central body indetail.

    At the end of the secondsession, the election of thenew executive was held underthe supervision of election offi-cer RA Gupta in the presenceof Yashpal Mittal.

    SK Kundra has been elect-ed unanimously as the newpresident of the association.The other newly-elected office-bearers are RK Gupta, MukeshKaridal (both vice-presidents),Anil Kumar Singh (generalsecretary), Rajeev Ranjan(organising secretary), AmitSikdar (finance secretary),Pradeep Kumar (assistant sec-retary). The new executivebody members are RK Gupta,Suresh Singh (bothMechanical), Shriram Meena,SP Shukla (both Stores),Ghulam Sarwar (Electrical),Krishna Kumar (Finance), MAAnsari (Personnel) and RajeshKumar (Miscellaneous).

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    The Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA)is going to tighten the noose around those foundadulterating milk and oil in the markets fromMonday. It will carry out the drive in the district andsend samples to the labs in different areas for testing.About 20 food safety inspectors have been deployedto collect samples.

    Chief Food Safety Officer KK Tripathi said thatdespite the continuous action and fines, there werecomplaints that adulterated food items were being soldat many places in the city.

    He said from time to time, raids were being con-ducted and samples of milk and sweets were being sentfor testing adulteration and the drive had been extend-ed. It takes three to four months for the reports of thesamples sent for testing to come from the laboratoryand this delays action.

    There is provision for severe punishment againstthe shopkeeper or other merchant concerned if adul-teration in food items is found. This may include finan-cial punishment and imprisonment. However, no onehas been jailed in such cases in Prayagraj in the lasttwo years.

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    The Mela administration has decidedto count the pilgrims who come herefor holy dip with the help of drone cam-eras.

    It may be pointed out here that thereis no exact figure of how many devoteestook bath at Prayagraj Magh Mela. TheMagh Mela administration talks aboutmillions of people bathing every year onthe basis of estimates. Many questionsarise over this. Therefore, the Melaadministration has decided to count thenumber of the pilgrims and devotees com-ing for holy dip in Sangam throughdrone camera.

    The drone camera will also help theadministration to make arrangementswhen counting. Also, if there is any anti-

    social activity in the middle of the fair, itwill also be caught on the camera.

    Mela Officer Vivek Chaturvedi saidthat efforts were on to further organise thebathing festivals, Kumbh Mela and ArdhKumbh with the drone system. A websitewill be made in the coming days on whichall information related to the fair will beuploaded.

    This time Kalpavasis are also beingcounted. This responsibility has beengiven to the city magistrate, who is list-ing the details of each Kalpavasi. So far,50,000 Kalpavasis have been recorded. TheHealth Department is assisting in the

    counting of Kalpavasis and also testingthem for coronavirus infection.

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    coronavirus in Prayagraj during the past24 hours, taking the tally of confirmedcases to 29,412.

    No COVID-19 death was reported inthe city for the fourth consecutive day. Sofar the city has witnessed 393 COVID-19deaths.

    Eight COVID-19 patients have recov-ered during the past 24 hours, two inCovid hospital and six in home isolation.With this, 28,586 COVID-19 patients haverecovered in the city.

    According to Covid Nodal Officer DrRishi Sahay, 6,883 samples were collect-ed for Covid test on Sunday.

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    The Graduation Ceremony of the 27thbatch, and Lamp Lighting- CappingCeremony Celebrations of the 31st batch offresher nursing students of Nazareth HospitalSchool of Nursing were held on Sunday.

    The ceremony was graced and blessedby Dr Prabhakar Rai, Chief Medical Officerof Prayagraj Division, who was the chiefguest. The function was presided over by RevFr Louis Mascarenhas, administrator ofCatholic Diocese of Allahabad. Presentdirector of Nazareth Group of Institution,Rev Fr Reginald D’Souza, Principal St PeterSchool, graced the occasion as guest of hon-our.

    The programme started with a prayerdance by students of Nazareth HospitalSchool of Nursing, this was followed by theformal lamp lighting ceremony by the selectdignitaries, Dr Prabhakar Rai, Rev Fr LouisMascarenhas, Rev Fr Reginald D’Souza, RevFr Vipin D’Souza (Administrator), Rev SrMoncy (Matron) and Rev Sr Eugine(Principal Nazareth Hospital School ofNursing).

    The caps were blessed by Rev Fr LouisMascarenhas and this was followed by dis-tribution of the Caps to the 31st fresher nurs-ing students by Sr Latha CSN. The lamplighting ceremony for the fresher batch ofnursing students was conducted by SrRosini CSN, thereafter pledge was taken bythe graduated students of the 27th batch.This was followed by a group dance of stu-dents. The chief guest in his address spokebriefly on the noble human, divine and holis-tic nature and care of the nursing professionand services.

    The meritorious students were awardedby Rev Fr Reginald D’Souza. The NightingaleAward was given to Jyoti and Jeevan Latha.

    The presidential address was deliveredby Rev Fr Louis Mascarenhas and the voteof thanks was proposed by Jyoti. This wasfollowed by the last cake cutting ceremonyby the passing out graduate students.

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    Around 1,000 primaryhealthcare personnel havebeen administered COVID-19 vaccine in North CentralRailway. A total of 10 railwayhospitals and health units areparticipating in this biggestimmunisation programme ofthe nation.

    The COVID-19 vaccina-tion programme is movingahead steadily over NorthCentral Railway. RailwayHospitals at Prayagraj, Kanpur,Tundla, Jhansi and Agra andhealth units of Gwalior,Lalitpur, Orai, Mahoba andBanda have already undertak-en COVID-19 vaccinationwhile other railway hospitalsand health units have been keptready to start this biggestimmunisation programmewhen required.

    So far 979 primary health-care personnel of NorthCentral Railway, including 109doctors, have been adminis-tered COVID-19 vaccine. Oftotal 979 frontline healthcarepersonnel vaccinated so far, 241were vaccinated at CentralHospital Prayagraj, 204 atRailway Hospital Kanpur, 56 atRailway hospital Tundla 258 atRailway Hospital Jhansi and158 at Railway Hospital Agrawhile rest 62 were vaccinated inhealth units under Jhansi divi-sion.

    Large scale participation ofrailway doctors in the COVID-19 vaccination campaign,accounting for more than 10per cent of total healthcare per-sonnel vaccinated so far, hashelped in confidence buildingand this drive is gainingmomentum over North CentralRailway.

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    The six-day National Science Day-2021 cel-ebrations began at Mahila Mahavidyalaya(MMV), popularly known as Women'sCollege, in Banaras Hindu University (BHU)here on Monday. This programme is beingorganised by BSc (First year) students in whichvarious science-related contests for studentsof Classes VI to XII like model, poster mak-ing, quiz, tackle the situation, lecture onimportant works of scientists, knowing sciencethrough photography and essay will be organ-ised.

    The programme will be online on GoogleMeet.

    MMV BHU Principal Prof Inu Mehtainaugurated the programme by garlandingthe statue of Mahamana MadamMohan Malviya and lighting the lamp in heroffice.

    Prof Mallikarjun Joshi, Dean of ScienceFaculty, BHU, was the chief guest and headdressed the students online. Encouragingthe students, Prof Joshi expressed hope thatthrough the competitions, the students wouldshow their talents and follow the teachings of

    university’s founder Bharat Ratna MahamanaPandit Madan Mohan Malviya and serve thenation.

    He assured that he would invite the win-ners to his office and encourage them to studyscience.

    Prof Inu Mehta said that the college’s stu-dents were very enthusiastic and despite theclosure of the university, they organised pro-grammes on Victory Day, RepublicDay, National Education Day etc. from timeto time.

    She also praised the faculty members,including Prof Bhaskar Bhattacharya, ProfRicha Raghuvanshi, Prof Nishat Afroz, DrPiyush Sonkar, Dr Mansi Ghosh, Dr SwarnaLata Singh, Dr Geeta Gautam and Dr RakhiGarg for supporting the students to organisethe programme.

    Programme advisor Prof NeelamSrivastava said that the award winning stu-dents would be given opportunities to visit var-ious laboratories in the university.

    The awards will be announced on NationalScience Day on February 26 and the award-ed students will be sent their certificates byemail.

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    International Epilepsy Daywas observed on Mondaywith the objective to createawareness among the massesabout this neurological disor-der.

    Epilepsy, which is treatable,is often linked to supernaturalcauses due to lack of knowledgeand awareness among the com-mon people. Rural India is theworst affected where it isbelieved even today that epilep-sy is an unnatural or supernat-ural activity.

    Out of the 70 million peo-ple with epilepsy across theglobe, nearly 12 million are inIndia, which contributes tonearly one-sixth of the globalepilepsy burden. This year theInternational Epilepsy Day wasobserved with the theme‘Friendship and Inclusion’.

    This was stated by notedneurologist of Kanpur, Dr BPRathore, while addressing a ses-sion on International EpilepsyDay at Wellness Hospital onMonday.

    He said there was a differ-ential distribution of epilepsyamong various socio-demo-graphic and economic groupswith higher rates reported forthe male gender, rural popula-tion, and low socio-economicstatus. He said a changing pat-

    tern in the age-specific occur-rence of epilepsy with prepon-derance towards the older agegroup was noticed due tosocio-demographic and epi-demiological transition.

    Dr Rathore said epilepsywas a common neurologicaldisorder in India and its con-sequences were influencedsocially and culturally. He saidepilepsy was known to have anadverse effect on education,employment, marriage, andother essential social opportu-nities in India.

    He said the economic bur-den associated with epilepsywas very high with treatmentand travel costs emerging as animportant contributing factor.He said a vicious cycle betweeneconomic burden and poordisease outcome was clear.

    The neurologist added thatthere was no significant changein the perception, stigma, anddiscrimination of epilepsyacross the country despiteimprovement in educationaland social parameters over thetime. He said the huge treat-ment gap and poor quality oflife was further worsened bythe associated comorbiditiesand conditions.

    Dr Rathore said a multidis-ciplinary response was neededto address the burden andimpact of epilepsy which called

    for an integrated and multipronged approach for epilepsycare, prevention and rehabili-tation. He said service delivery,capacity building, integrationinto the existing programme,mobilising public support, andincreasing public awarenesswould be the hallmarks ofsuch an integrated approach ina public health model.

    He said the disability andpsychosocial impact caused byepilepsy in socio-culturallydetermined traditional soci-eties like India was phenome-nal and imposed a huge eco-nomic burden on the individ-ual and the society.

    Dr Rathore said under-standing the social and eco-nomic impact became critical-ly important for effective con-trol and prevention of epilep-sy in resource-poor settings likeIndia.

    He said in general, epilep-sy and seizures resulted fromabnormal circuit activity inthe brain. He said any eventranging from faulty wiringduring brain development,brain inflammation, physicalinjury or infection could leadto seizure and epilepsy. Hesaid, however, according torecent estimates, in up to 50 percent of patients diagnosed withepilepsy, the cause wasunknown.

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    Additional DistrictMagistrate Atul Kumar,while inaugurating the cochlearimplant camp organised byLions Club of Kanpur Gangeson Monday, said cochlearimplant had proved to be aboon to the hearing impairedchildren.

    He said hearing impair-ment was treatable and parentsof such children should availthemselves of the facility so thatthe kids could be brought intothe mainstream of society.

    He thanked the Lions Clubfor their philanthropy and saidout of the total children select-ed in the camp around 28would be extended the benefitof cochlear implant.

    Noted cochlear implantand ENT surgeon Dr RohitMehrotra said cochlear implantsurgery was usually performedon an outpatient basis once athorough evaluation of a child

    had been completed and thisincluded an examination of theear and its anatomy, the audi-tory system and an overallphysical examination.

    He said a cochlear implantused a sound processor thatone wore behind the ear and atransmitter sent sound signalsto a receiver and stimulatorimplanted under the skin,which stimulated the auditorynerve with electrodes that hadbeen threaded into the cochlea.

    He said children withcochlear implants begin audi-tory rehabilitation (listeningtherapy) and speech and lan-guage therapy soon after thesurgery. He said auditory reha-bilitation helped a child iden-tify sounds and associate mean-ings with those sounds. He saidspeech therapy helped the childto develop and understandspoken language.

    He said cochlear implantswere intended to provideprelingually or postlingually

    deafened children, who obtainlimited functional benefit fromconventional amplification,improved sound and speechdetection and improved audi-tory perception or speech.

    He said children whoreceived cochlear implantsrequired ongoing audiologicalmanagement and otolaryngo-logical follow-up. He saidongoing management by anaudiologist included program-ming the implant parametersand monitoring device perfor-mance from electrical thresh-old and dynamic range data.

    He said follow-up audio-logical evaluations wererequired to assess improve-ment in sound and speechdetection and auditory recep-tion of speech followingimplantation. He said medicalevaluation by an otolaryngol-ogist should be performed asneeded to monitor the post-operative course and medicalstatus of the child.

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    The Central Indian RegionalConference of IndianChartered Accountants of Indiaorganised a virtual seminaron the recent provisions andamendments made in theUnion budget.

    Chartered accountantMukul Tandon, who is also thepresident of the MerchantsChamber, welcomed the guests,especially subject experts SalilKumar from New Delhi andTB Oswal from Mumbai, whoapprised the members of thenew changes and developmentof the Budget 2021.

    Addressing the gatheringSalil Kumar, discussing Clause12 (Limited LiabilityPartnership) said it providedfor exemption with respect tothe accumulated balance dueand becoming payable to anemployee participating in arecognised provident fund, tothe extent provided in Rule 8 ofPart A of the Fourth Schedule.

    He said that it was also pro-posed to insert a proviso tosuch of the aforesaid clauses soas to provide that the provisionsof these clauses shall not applyto the income by way of inter-est accrued during the previousyear in the account of a personto the extent it related to theamount or the aggregate of

    amounts of contribution madeby that person exceeding Rs2.50 lakh in any previous yearin that fund, on or after April1, 2021 and computed in sucha manner as provided by therules.

    He said sub-clause (iiiad)of Clause (23C) of the said sec-tion provided for exemption forthe income received by anyperson on behalf of universityor educational institution asreferred to in that sub-clause.He said the exemptions under

    the clause were available sub-ject to the condition that theannual receipts of such univer-sity or educational institutiondid not exceed the annualreceipts as may be prescribed.

    He added that similarlysub-clause (iiiae) provided forexemption for the incomereceived by any person onbehalf of hospital or institutionas referred to in that sub-clause. He added that theexemptions under the clausewere available subject to the

    condition that the annualreceipts of such hospital orinstitution did not exceed theannual receipts as may be pre-scribed.

    Explaining the third provi-so to the said clause, he said itprovided that income of thefunds or trust or institution orany university or other educa-tional institution or any hospi-tal or other medical institution,shall not include income in theform of voluntary contribu-tions made with a specific

    direction that they shall formpart of the corpus.

    Speaking in the secondsession, TP Oswal while dis-cussing Clause 11 of the Billsaid it sought to amend Section44AB of the Income-tax Actrelating to audit of accounts ofcertain persons carrying onbusiness or profession.

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