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T he Supreme Court made clear to the Centre on Friday that it would not pass any order on the plea seeking closure of cases against two Italian marines, accused of killing two Indian fishermen, without hearing the victims’ families who should be given adequate compensation. A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde allowed the Centre to file within a week an application making the victims’ family members as parties to its plea seeking closure of Italian Marines case. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed the bench, also comprising Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, that Italy has assured the Indian Government that it would prosecute the Marines there as per law. When the bench insisted that adequate compensation should be paid to the kin of vic- tims, Mehta said Centre will ensure that maximum com- pensation is given to them. The bench said it appreci- ates the steps taken by Italy to prosecute these marines but the court is on the issue of adequate compensation. “We want that adequate compensation be paid to the victims’ family”. The SC referred to the case against the marines pend- ing before the special court and said that without applying for withdrawal of prosecution of case how the Centre can come and seek its closure. Mehta replied that the top court had earlier said that pro- ceedings on the special court be kept in abeyance. The bench said, “You can apply for withdrawal of prose- cution. The victims’ families will have the right to oppose it. The victims’ families are not even a party here. We will not pass any order without the victims’ family being heard”, and allowed the Solicitor General to implead family members of the victims as party in its closure application. Continued on Page 6 T orrential downpour and landslides across the hilly regions of Kerala early Friday claimed 16 lives while 52 per- sons were washed away by the fury of the nature. The mishap occurred at Munnar in Idukki district on the slopes of the Kerala side of the Western Ghats. All 16 who died in the landslide were workers of tea plantation in Munnar of Idukki district and were sleeping in their company quarters (known in local parlance as laayam) when the mishap hap- pened. Though the landslide and the disaster occurred early morning, the outside world came to know about the mishap after five hours. The NDRF from Tamil Nadu reached the site by 4.30 pm and was engaged in rescue opera- tions when reports last came. Cooking utensils buried in mud, asbestos and tin sheets strewn around were all there to be seen at the area, which was the habitation of around 80 odd workers near a tea plantation, about 30 km from the tourist town of Munnar. Continued on Page 6 F ive people, including the priest at Talacauvery, the origin of river Cauvery, have gone missing due to massive landslide at Bramhagiri hills triggered by heavy rain in Kodagu district. According to Kodagu dis- trict administration officials, heavy rain at Talacauvery in Bhagamandala late Thursday night led to landslips at Bramhagiri hills, in which two houses of the temple priests were buried. Continued on Page 6 U S President Donald Trump, citing India’s recent ban on Chinese social media apps, has signed execu- tive orders that would prevent TikTok and WeChat from operating in the US as they threatened America’s national security and economy. The ban comes into effect in 45 days, Trump said in two separate executive orders signed on Thursday. India was the first country to ban TikTok and WeChat, cit- ing national security concerns. India has banned 106 Chinese apps, a move welcomed by both the Trump administration and US lawmakers. “The United States must take aggressive action against the owners of TikTok to protect our national security,” Trump said in his executive order. In his next executive order he said the country must take “aggres- sive action” against WeChat to protect America’s national security. In a communique to the Congress, Trump said the spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned by companies in China continues to threaten the national security, foreign pol- icy, and economy of the coun- try. Trump noted that these risks have led other countries, including Australia and India, to begin restricting or banning the use of TikTok and WeChat. I n a major development, Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by vol- ume, has entered into a part- nership with Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to accelerate the manufacture and delivery of up to 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine for India and low-and middle- income countries (LMICs) by as early as 2021. Created in 2000, Gavi is an international organisation, a global Vaccine Alliance, bring- ing together public and private sectors with the shared goal to improve access to new and underused vaccines for chil- dren living in the world’s poor- est countries. As per pact, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide $150 million in at-risk funds towards helping the Serum Institute to develop the candidate vaccines, including those from AstraZeneca and Novavax, to be priced at USD 3 per dose (around 225). It will be made available in 92 countries in GAVI’s COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC), the company said in a statement. The collaboration, which involves GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance, will provide SII with “upfront capital” through the Foundation’s Strategic Investment Funds. This is expected to help the vaccine maker increase its manufacturing capacity to pro- duce either or both vaccines “at scale” for distribution. “Once they receive regula- tory approvals and WHO pre- qualification, the doses are expected to be produced “as early as the first half of 2021”, according to the SII. The distribution will be done through the COVAX mechanism. COVAX, co-led by GAVI, as well as the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and WHO, aims to discourage bilat- eral agreements for Covid-19 vaccines and instead aims to improve equitable access. This is done by pooling funds from donor countries to purchase vaccines mainly for lower-and middle-income countries, including GAVI nations like India. Continued on Page 6 T he Government’s Covid- 19 fight has hit a major hur- dle with around six lakh ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activists) workers going on a two-day strike from Friday, protesting late and paltry pay- ment besides lack of protection equipment from infection. There are around ten lakh ASHA workers across the coun- try who have been playing a key role in contact-tracing, con- ducting surveys, and organising of awareness schemes for the pandemic. They have also been involved in screening inter- state passengers, migrant work- ers, and others in the commu- nity for symptoms of the virus in their respective States. While the Central Government has been hailing ASHAs as a crucial pillar in the State Governments’ success in combating the virus, these workers claim they have remained a neglected lot both during pre-Covid era as well in the current scenario. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been sporadic protests and strikes by ASHA workers. For instance, in July, around 40,000 ASHA workers went on strike in Karnataka to demand better safety equipment and a hike in fixed salary to Rs 12,000. However, this is for the first time that the ASHA workers have gone on strike in such a large number and stopped Continued on Page 6 New Delhi: The Indian men’s hockey team captain Manpreet Singh and three other players have tested positive for Covid- 19 ahead of the national camp’s resumption in Bengaluru, the Sports Authority of India (SAI) said on Friday. Besides Manpreet, defend- er Surender Kumar, Jaskaran Singh and drag-flicker Varun Kumar have also tested positive for the deadly virus. PTI New Delhi: Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card holders from the US, UK, German and France, with whom India has signed “air bubble” arrange- ments, will be allowed to visit the country, the Home Ministry announced on Friday. Other foreigners from these countries have also been allowed to avail Indian visa facility for business, medical and employment purposes. “Ministry of Home Affairs has permitted to enter India OCI card holders who belong to countries with which ‘air bubble’ arrangements have been finalised by Ministry of Civil Aviation,” a Home min- istry spokesperson said. S ixteen people — pilot, co- pilot and 14 passengers — were killed and several others injured when a Dubai-Calicut Air India Express flight with 191 passengers and crew on board overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport and fell into a valley, breaking into two portions, on Friday around 7.41pm, police sources said. There were 184 passengers, including 10 Infants, and five- member cabin crew when the flight approached the airport. The Civil Aviation Ministry said the flight IX 1344 operated by B737 aircraft from Dubai overshot runway at Kozhikode at 7.41 PM on Friday. “No fire reported at the time of landing,” it noted. “As per the initial reports rescue operations are on and passengers are being taken to hospital for medical care. We will soon share the update in this regard,” the it stated. While the aircraft broke into two, nearly 50 ambulances were seen coming out of the airport with the injured per- sons. Kozhikode airport is des- ignated as a table top aircraft (airport atop a hill). Capt Sathe was a wing commander in the Indian Air Force before he switched over to Air India. “AI Exp flight overshot Kozhikode runway in rainy conditions, went down 35 ft into slope, split into 2... Formal enquiry will be conducted by Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau,” said Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. The injured include one of the cabin crew members. Sources in Kozhikode airport said at least 40 passengers have been admitted to various hos- pitals in and around Kozhikode. The front portion of the aircraft had to be cut open to take the body of the pilot from the cockpit. According to information coming out of the airport, the aircraft crash landed on the runway from where it skidded off. The first visuals shown by local TV channels were that of a totally damaged aircraft, the front side of which has been damaged totally. It was raining heavily when the aircraft touched the ground. Most of the passengers were heard cry- ing in pain. The co-pilot has been injured seriously while some of the passengers in the aircraft suffered injuries. The flight was part of the Vande Bharat Repatriation Mission operated by the Government of India. B ollywood actor Rhea Chakraborty was on Friday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Mumbai in connection with a money laun- dering case relating to film star Sushant Singh Rajput’s alleged suicide. Her request to put it off the interrogation was rejected by the agency. Chakraborty arrived at the agency’s office minutes after the 11.30 am deadline. Rhea Chakraborty left the ED office after 8 hours of interrogation. Her father Indrajit Chakraborty and brother Showik, both accused in the abetment to suicide case lodged by Patna Police, were also seen with her. Chakraborty’s statement was recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Rajput’s father Krishna Kumar Singh had in his com- plaint before Patna Police alleged financial irregularities in the late actor’s bank accounts. In the complaint, Singh alleged 15 crore was siphoned off from Rajput’s bank account in one year to accounts of per- sons not known or connected to the late film star. Two companies linked to Rajput and some financial deals involving Chakraborty, her father and Showik who are stat- ed to be directors in these com- panies, are under the scanner of the ED, officials said. Continued on Page 6 New Delhi : The Bihar Government on Friday sought in the Supreme Court dis- missal of Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty’s plea for transfer of the Patna FIR against her to Mumbai in actor Sushant Singh Rajput death case, terming it “premature, misconceived and non-main- tainable”. The 28-page affidavit of Patna SSP Upendra Sharma, filed through Bihar’s advocate Keshav Mohan, said the state police has the jurisdiction in the case as the consequences of the offence are in Patna as well where the old father of the deceased actor resides. PTI C oming ahead of and dur- ing her questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) team in the Sushant Singh Rajput suicide case in Mumbai, Rhea Chakraborty’s call record details — with the late actor, Bollywood person- alities, a senior Mumbai police official and her own family members — on Friday sparked a new debate in the media in connection with the probe into Rajput’s death. She spoke 287 times with the late actor’s domestic help Samuel Miranda during a year time. Continued on Page 6 S even hundred and seven persons tested positive for coronavirus in the city and there were 9 deaths in the city on Friday. The death toll in city has now touched 138 and there are 5,284 active cases in the district presently. Among those who tested positive on Friday were 27 people from Alambagh, 21 from Hazratganj, 18 from Mahanagar, 15 each from Rae Bareli road and Thakurganj, 14 each from Naka and Gomtinagar Extention, 13 each from Ashiyana, Mandiyaon, and Indiranagar, 10 each from Chinhat, Gomtinagar and Kaiserbagh, 8 from Talkatora, 7 each from Vikasnagar and Krishnanagar, 6 each from Cantt, Hussainganj, Gudamba, and Sarojininagar, 5 each from Jankipuram, Aminabad, Bazarkhala and Sahadatganj, 4 from Gosainganj, 3 each from Kakori and Suhant Golf city Meanwhile, the death toll due in Uttar Pradesh reached 1,981 on Friday after a record 63 people succumbed to the disease, while 4,404 fresh cases pushed the infection tally to 1,13,378, an official said.
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The Supreme Court madeclear to the Centre on
Friday that it would not passany order on the plea seekingclosure of cases against twoItalian marines, accused ofkilling two Indian fishermen,without hearing the victims’families who should be givenadequate compensation.
A bench headed by ChiefJustice SA Bobde allowed theCentre to file within a week anapplication making the victims’family members as parties to itsplea seeking closure of ItalianMarines case. Solicitor GeneralTushar Mehta informed thebench, also comprising JusticesAS Bopanna and VRamasubramanian, that Italyhas assured the IndianGovernment that it wouldprosecute the Marines there asper law.
When the bench insistedthat adequate compensation
should be paid to the kin of vic-tims, Mehta said Centre willensure that maximum com-pensation is given to them.
The bench said it appreci-ates the steps taken by Italy toprosecute these marines but thecourt is on the issue of adequatecompensation. “We want thatadequate compensation be paidto the victims’ family”.
The SC referred to thecase against the marines pend-ing before the special court andsaid that without applying forwithdrawal of prosecution ofcase how the Centre can comeand seek its closure.
Mehta replied that the topcourt had earlier said that pro-ceedings on the special court bekept in abeyance.
The bench said, “You canapply for withdrawal of prose-cution. The victims’ familieswill have the right to oppose it.The victims’ families are noteven a party here. We will notpass any order without thevictims’ family being heard”,and allowed the SolicitorGeneral to implead familymembers of the victims asparty in its closure application.
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Torrential downpour andlandslides across the hilly
regions of Kerala early Fridayclaimed 16 lives while 52 per-sons were washed away by thefury of the nature. The mishapoccurred at Munnar in Idukkidistrict on the slopes of theKerala side of the WesternGhats.
All 16 who died in thelandslide were workers of teaplantation in Munnar of Idukkidistrict and were sleeping intheir company quarters(known in local parlance aslaayam) when the mishap hap-pened. Though the landslideand the disaster occurred earlymorning, the outside worldcame to know about themishap after five hours. TheNDRF from Tamil Nadureached the site by 4.30 pm andwas engaged in rescue opera-tions when reports last came.
Cooking utensils buriedin mud, asbestos and tin sheetsstrewn around were all there tobe seen at the area, which wasthe habitation of around 80 oddworkers near a tea plantation,about 30 km from the touristtown of Munnar.
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origin of river Cauvery, havegone missing due to massivelandslide at Bramhagiri hillstriggered by heavy rain inKodagu district.
According to Kodagu dis-trict administration officials,heavy rain at Talacauvery inBhagamandala late Thursdaynight led to landslips atBramhagiri hills, in which twohouses of the temple priestswere buried.
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US President DonaldTrump, citing India’s
recent ban on Chinese socialmedia apps, has signed execu-tive orders that would preventTikTok and WeChat fromoperating in the US as theythreatened America’s nationalsecurity and economy.
The ban comes into effectin 45 days, Trump said in twoseparate executive orderssigned on Thursday.
India was the first countryto ban TikTok and WeChat, cit-ing national security concerns.India has banned 106 Chineseapps, a move welcomed byboth the Trump administrationand US lawmakers.
“The United States must
take aggressive action againstthe owners of TikTok to protectour national security,” Trumpsaid in his executive order. Inhis next executive order he saidthe country must take “aggres-sive action” against WeChat toprotect America’s nationalsecurity.
In a communique to theCongress, Trump said thespread in the United States ofmobile applications developedand owned by companies inChina continues to threaten thenational security, foreign pol-icy, and economy of the coun-try.
Trump noted that theserisks have led other countries,including Australia and India,to begin restricting or banningthe use of TikTok and WeChat.
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In a major development,Pune-based Serum Institute
of India (SII), the world’s largestvaccine manufacturer by vol-ume, has entered into a part-nership with Gavi, The VaccineAlliance, and the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation, toaccelerate the manufacture anddelivery of up to 100 milliondoses of Covid-19 vaccine forIndia and low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) byas early as 2021.
Created in 2000, Gavi is aninternational organisation, aglobal Vaccine Alliance, bring-ing together public and privatesectors with the shared goal toimprove access to new andunderused vaccines for chil-dren living in the world’s poor-est countries.
As per pact, the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation willprovide $150 million in at-riskfunds towards helping theSerum Institute to develop thecandidate vaccines, includingthose from AstraZeneca andNovavax, to be priced at USD3 per dose (around �225). Itwill be made available in 92countries in GAVI’s COVAXAdvance Market Commitment
(AMC), the company said in astatement.
The collaboration, whichinvolves GAVI, The VaccineAlliance, will provide SII with“upfront capital” through theFoundation’s StrategicInvestment Funds.
This is expected to help thevaccine maker increase itsmanufacturing capacity to pro-duce either or both vaccines “atscale” for distribution.
“Once they receive regula-tory approvals and WHO pre-qualification, the doses areexpected to be produced “asearly as the first half of 2021”,according to the SII.
The distribution will bedone through the COVAXmechanism.
COVAX, co-led by GAVI,as well as the Coalition forEpidemic PreparednessInnovations (CEPI), andWHO, aims to discourage bilat-eral agreements for Covid-19vaccines and instead aims toimprove equitable access. Thisis done by pooling funds fromdonor countries to purchasevaccines mainly for lower-andmiddle-income countries,including GAVI nations likeIndia.
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The Government’s Covid-19 fight has hit a major hur-
dle with around six lakh ASHA(Accredited Social HealthActivists) workers going on atwo-day strike from Friday,protesting late and paltry pay-ment besides lack of protectionequipment from infection.
There are around ten lakhASHA workers across the coun-try who have been playing a keyrole in contact-tracing, con-ducting surveys, and organisingof awareness schemes for thepandemic. They have also beeninvolved in screening inter-state passengers, migrant work-ers, and others in the commu-nity for symptoms of the virusin their respective States.
While the CentralGovernment has been hailingASHAs as a crucial pillar in theState Governments’ success incombating the virus, theseworkers claim they haveremained a neglected lot bothduring pre-Covid era as well inthe current scenario.
Since the beginning of theCovid-19 pandemic, there havebeen sporadic protests andstrikes by ASHA workers. Forinstance, in July, around 40,000ASHA workers went on strikein Karnataka to demand bettersafety equipment and a hike infixed salary to Rs 12,000.
However, this is for the firsttime that the ASHA workershave gone on strike in such alarge number and stopped
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New Delhi: The Indian men’shockey team captain ManpreetSingh and three other playershave tested positive for Covid-19 ahead of the national camp’s
resumption in Bengaluru, theSports Authority of India (SAI)said on Friday.
Besides Manpreet, defend-
er Surender Kumar, JaskaranSingh and drag-flicker VarunKumar have also tested positivefor the deadly virus. PTI
New Delhi: Overseas Citizen ofIndia (OCI) card holders fromthe US, UK, German andFrance, with whom India hassigned “air bubble” arrange-ments, will be allowed to visitthe country, the HomeMinistry announced on Friday.
Other foreigners fromthese countries have also beenallowed to avail Indian visafacility for business, medicaland employment purposes.
“Ministry of Home Affairshas permitted to enter IndiaOCI card holders who belongto countries with which ‘airbubble’ arrangements havebeen finalised by Ministry ofCivil Aviation,” a Home min-istry spokesperson said.
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Sixteen people — pilot, co-pilot and 14 passengers —
were killed and several othersinjured when a Dubai-CalicutAir India Express flight with191 passengers and crew onboard overshot the runway atKozhikode airport and fell intoa valley, breaking into twoportions, on Friday around7.41pm, police sources said.There were 184 passengers,including 10 Infants, and five-member cabin crew when theflight approached the airport.
The Civil AviationMinistry said the flight IX1344 operated by B737 aircraftfrom Dubai overshot runway atKozhikode at 7.41 PM onFriday. “No fire reported at thetime of landing,” it noted.
“As per the initial reportsrescue operations are on andpassengers are being taken tohospital for medical care. Wewill soon share the update inthis regard,” the it stated.
While the aircraft brokeinto two, nearly 50 ambulanceswere seen coming out of theairport with the injured per-sons. Kozhikode airport is des-ignated as a table top aircraft(airport atop a hill). Capt Sathewas a wing commander in theIndian Air Force before heswitched over to Air India.
“AI Exp flight overshotKozhikode runway in rainyconditions, went down 35 ftinto slope, split into 2... Formalenquiry will be conducted byAircraft Accident Investigation
Bureau,” said Aviation MinisterHardeep Singh Puri.
The injured include one ofthe cabin crew members.Sources in Kozhikode airportsaid at least 40 passengers havebeen admitted to various hos-pitals in and around
Kozhikode. The front portionof the aircraft had to be cutopen to take the body of thepilot from the cockpit.
According to informationcoming out of the airport, theaircraft crash landed on therunway from where it skidded
off. The first visuals shown bylocal TV channels were that ofa totally damaged aircraft, thefront side of which has beendamaged totally. It was rainingheavily when the aircrafttouched the ground. Most ofthe passengers were heard cry-
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injured seriously while some ofthe passengers in the aircraftsuffered injuries. The flightwas part of the Vande BharatRepatriation Mission operatedby the Government of India.
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questioned by the EnforcementDirectorate (ED) in Mumbai inconnection with a money laun-dering case relating to film starSushant Singh Rajput’s allegedsuicide. Her request to put it offthe interrogation was rejectedby the agency.
Chakraborty arrived at theagency’s office minutes after the11.30 am deadline. RheaChakraborty left the ED officeafter 8 hours of interrogation.
Her father IndrajitChakraborty and brotherShowik, both accused in theabetment to suicide case lodgedby Patna Police, were also seenwith her.
Chakraborty’s statementwas recorded under thePrevention of MoneyLaundering Act.
Rajput’s father KrishnaKumar Singh had in his com-plaint before Patna Policealleged financial irregularitiesin the late actor’s bankaccounts.
In the complaint, Singhalleged �15 crore was siphonedoff from Rajput’s bank accountin one year to accounts of per-sons not known or connectedto the late film star.
Two companies linked toRajput and some financial dealsinvolving Chakraborty, herfather and Showik who are stat-ed to be directors in these com-panies, are under the scannerof the ED, officials said.
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New Delhi : The BiharGovernment on Friday soughtin the Supreme Court dis-missal of Bollywood actressRhea Chakraborty’s plea fortransfer of the Patna FIRagainst her to Mumbai in actorSushant Singh Rajput deathcase, terming it “premature,misconceived and non-main-tainable”. The 28-page affidavitof Patna SSP Upendra Sharma,filed through Bihar’s advocateKeshav Mohan, said the statepolice has the jurisdiction inthe case as the consequences ofthe offence are in Patna as wellwhere the old father of thedeceased actor resides. PTI
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Seven hundred and sevenpersons tested positive for
coronavirus in the city andthere were 9 deaths in the cityon Friday.
The death toll in city hasnow touched 138 and there are5,284 active cases in the districtpresently.
Among those who testedpositive on Friday were 27people from Alambagh, 21from Hazratganj, 18 fromMahanagar, 15 each from RaeBareli road and Thakurganj, 14each from Naka andGomtinagar Extention, 13each from Ashiyana,Mandiyaon, and Indiranagar,10 each from Chinhat,Gomtinagar and Kaiserbagh,8 from Talkatora, 7 each fromVikasnagar and Krishnanagar,6 each from Cantt,Hussainganj, Gudamba, andSarojininagar, 5 each fromJankipuram, Aminabad,Bazarkhala and Sahadatganj, 4from Gosainganj, 3 each fromKakori and Suhant Golf city
Meanwhile, the death tolldue in Uttar Pradesh reached1,981 on Friday after a record63 people succumbed to thedisease, while 4,404 freshcases pushed the infectiontally to 1,13,378, an officialsaid.
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All India Muslim PersonalLaw Board (AIMPLB) has
withdrawn its controversialstatement over bhoomi pujanfor construction of Ram tem-ple in Ayodhya.
Earlier, in a statement post-ed on Twitter, the AIMPLB,while slamming the SupremeCourt verdict in RamJanmabhoomi land disputecase, had referred to HagiaSofia in Turkey
The tweet was deleted afternation-wide uproar and back-lash from people cutting acrosscaste and religion and alsounhappiness expressed bysenior AIMPLB member andprominent lawyer ZafaryabJilani. The AIMPLB has nowissued a fresh response torecent developments withexclusion of its earlier compar-ison. On Thursday, the AIM-PLB issued a statement throughtweets saying, “The BabriMasjid was a mosque and willalways be a mosque. Aggressiveoccupation does not end real-ity, the Supreme Court hasruled, but it has embarrassedjustice.”
AIMPLB secretaryZafaryab Jilani said that theearlier statement was postedwithout approval of the Board’sgeneral secretary and it hadnow been deleted.
“Some words in the state-ment may have been writtenirresponsibly but I have noth-ing to do with it. I would not
like to comment about thetweet,” he said.
Jilani added, “We respectthe SC verdict but our reviewpetition challenging the deci-sion was not heard which isunfortunate. However, we willcontinue to raise the issue. Wecondemn the statement madeby Prime Minister NarendraModi and Chief minister YogiAdityanath that the templeexisted at the site for cen-turies.”
Earlier, Samajwadi PartyMP from Sambhal ShafiqurRahman Burq had also stressedthat Babri Masjid was andwould remain a mosque. TheSP MP alleged that the BJP gov-ernment had allegedly pres-sured the court and laid thefoundation stone.
“This is not justice, a hugeinjustice has been done to us,”the SP MP from Sambhal said.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) con-venor and Lok Sabha MP fromHyderabad, Asaduddin Owaisi,had also criticised the primeminister for attending thebhoomi pujan for Ram templein Ayodhya.
In a tweet, Owaisi hadsaid, “#BabriMasjid thi, haiaur rahegi inshallah#BabriZindaHai”.
A complaint against theAIMPLB and AIMIM con-venor Asaduddin Owaisi ,whomade similar statements onTwitter, was sent to Delhi PoliceCommissioner SN Shrivastavaby the Hindu Sena.
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Lucknow (PNS): TheSamajwadi Party is set to losetwo more Rajya Sabha seatsfrom Uttar Pradesh to the rul-ing Bharatiya Janata Part.
The elections to these seatswere necessitated due to thesudden demise of two SP mem-bers.
One vacancy was createddue to the death of sitting SPmember Beni Prasad Vermawhile the other was due to SPleader Amar Singh’s recentdeath.
The term of both theseseats ends on July 4, 2022.
The Election Commissionhas announced the by-electionto the vacant seat of BeniPrasad Verma on August 24.
A total of 31 members areelected to Rajya Sabha fromUttar Pradesh. While two seatsare vacant, out of the remain-ing 29, Bharatiya Janata Partyhas 15, Samajwadi Party has 8,Bahujan Samaj Party has 4and the Congress has 2.
The tenure of nine mem-bers ( SP 4, BJP 2, BSP 2 andCongress 1) is ending onNovember 25.
With only 45 MLAs inVidhan Sabha, the SP can getonly one of its candidates elect-ed on the basis of first prefer-ence votes. The SP could winone more seat with the help ofCongress and Bahujan SamajParty votes, if they decide tovote for the SP candidate. Onthe other hand, the BJP can win7-8 seats.
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The UP Congress on Fridaydemanded immediate relief
for middle-income group fam-ilies reeling under pandemic-induced financial problems forthe past four months.
In Lucknow, Congressworkers led by Congress cityunit chief Mukesh SinghChauhan and district chief,Ved Prakash Tripathi handedover a memorandum to theGovernor through the districtmagistrate of Lucknow.
Later on Friday evening,UP Congress chief Ajay KumarLallu said in a statement thatthe global pandemic hadadversely affected lakhs of mid-dle-class families financially.
“They are constantly facingdifficulties and in such a situ-ation, the Yogi Adityanath gov-ernment should immediatelyannounce an economic reliefpackage for these families. The
fees of four months of all boardstudents should be waived. Atthe same time, financial assis-tance should be given to allemployees, including educa-tional staff, of private schools.”
Lallu further said that theYogi government should ensurethat there was no alteration inthe school textbooks nor schooluniforms were changed fre-quently.
The Congress leaderdemanded an economic pack-age for all advocates of the state,saying that due to closure of allcourts, the income of lawyershad been adversely affected andthe government should pay amonthly honorarium of Rs10,000 to them.
Lallu said that those withannual income less than Rs 2lakh who had neither benefit-ed from PM Kisan SammanNidhi Yojana or other govern-ment pension schemes shouldalso be helped.
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Tragedy struck a Sitapur family whena snake slithered into their house and
bit their three minor sons. The victimswere rushed to a community healthcentre where they were not providedtreatment and referred to a hospitalwhere they died.
Senior officers later visited the placeof occurrence and the district magistrateassured the bereaved family of all assis-tance. As per reports, daily wager Sunil’swife Rinki was sleeping with their threeminor sons on the floor of their home atPipri Majra village in Sadar area onThursday night.
Sometime in the night, a venomoussnake slithered into that room and bitShalu (12), Pawan (10) and Ansh (7) intheir sleep. The victims raised an alarmafter which their mother woke up. Shelater called her husband and rushed thechildren to a local community health cen-tre (CHC). The doctors there, withouttreating the children, asked the couple to
take the victims to district hospital. Theharried parents decided to take the chil-dren at a nearby private hospital wheredoctors pronounced all three dead uponarrival. The news of the kids’ death sentshock waves in the village. After visitingtheir home, the district magistrate saidthat he had forwarded a recommendationto the government for financial assistanceto the family.
Meanwhile in Azamgarh, a coupledied after an old dilapidated house col-lapsed due to incessant rains on Thursdaynight. As per reports, Jhinka Ram (55)used to live with his wife Kalawati (51)in an old house in Musriyapur hamlet ofRaunapar. While they were asleep onThursday night, the house suddenly col-lapsed due to heavy rains. Their neigh-bours rushed to their rescue and extricat-ed them from the rubble but the couplehad died by then.
Despite being informed, the policereached the scene only on Friday morn-ing to complete the formality of autop-sy.
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister YogiAdityanath on Friday distributed
online loans amounting to �2,447 croreto over 98,000 new units in the micro,small and medium enterprise (MSME)sector.
He said in order to make India self-reliant, the UP government had accord-ed top priority to the MSME sector andwas relentlessly working for creatingmore avenues of employment.
The chief minister on this occasionalso inaugurated the One District OneProduct (ODOP) online marketingscheme.
A MoU was signed between the AKTechnical University and MSMEdepartment of UP for the exchange of
knowledge and technology. For bringing maximum number of
MSME units on online platform, the
MSME department also signed a MoUwith e-commerce company ebay. Thechief minister also inaugurated
13 common facility centres forODOP scheme and six common facil-ity centres for export promotion.
The chief minister also distributedcheques to the beneficiaries of the PMSelf-Employment Creation Programme,ODOP scheme Yuva Swarojgar Yojanaand PM Mudra Yojana.
He said when the entire economywas under lockdown due to COVID-19;Prime Minister Narendra Modi hadannounced packages for different sec-tors of economy. He said the MSME sec-tor had made best utilisation of thepackage announced by the prime min-ister.
Yogi said the UP government, by
promoting the MSME sector, was mak-ing its efforts to bring positive changein the lives of the common man.
He said the ODOP scheme wasbeing vigorously implemented in thestate and clusters of small and tradition-al industries were being developed. Hesaid the common facility centres hadbeen developed for the purpose ofassisting the small and traditionalindustries covered under ODOP.
The UP government on May 14 hadmade online distribution of loansamounting to over �2,000 crore to57,000 new units under MSME sector.Later on June 26., loans of �45,000 crorewere sanctioned to 1.35 lakh new unitsunder MSME sector. So far loans of�8,949 crore have been disbursed toover 2.71 lakh new MSME units
Ayodhya (PTI): A member of the trust overseeing the con-struction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Friday said its struc-ture will be earthquake resistant and withstand natural calamitiesfor a thousand years. Addressing reporters at Ayodhya’sKarswakpuram, Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra generalsecretary Champat Rai said the foundation of its pillars will be deepas the bridges built on rivers, making the temple earthquake resis-tant. The temple will be strong enough to withstand nature calami-ties for a thousand years, he added.
Rai said Larson and Turbo, the company tasked with construc-tion of the temple, has told him that the plan of its foundation willbe ready soon as it is in its final phase.
“We will get the plan passed by the Ayodhya DevelopmentAuthority after paying the due fee. We don’t want any exemption,”he said. Champat Rai said the sculptures found during the dig-ging and levelling of the land will be put on display at the temple.He also said the trust has so far around Rs 42 crore in its bankaccount and people are donating from Re 1 to Rs 1 crore. He alsopraised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for visiting Ayodhya forthe “bhoomi pujan” of the temple on August 5. “In this time ofcrisis and amid criticism, the PM decided to visit Ayodhya and paiddue respect to Ram Lalla by offering a ‘saashtang pranaam,” he said.
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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath has asked offi-
cials to make IntegratedCommand and ControlSystems (ICCS) at districtheadquarters operational, fail-ing which action would betaken against the district mag-istrate concerned.
This directive was issuedduring the high level Team-11meeting held here on Friday.He said effective steps shouldbe taken to break the chain ofcoronavirus infection.
“The ICCS is the key tobreaking this chain. A bettermonitoring will ensure betterresponse which in turn willhelp in controlling COVID-19spread. It is the responsibilityof district magistrates to ensureeffective monitoring. Theyshould hold meetings twice aday – morning and evening –to ensure better supervision,”he said and added that the dis-trict magistrates should involvethemselves in strengtheningcontact tracing and door-to-door surveillance in their area.
“The ICCS should takereports of patients in home iso-lation on a regular basis. Itshould provide counselling tothe home isolation patients ifrequired,” he said.
The chief minister saidthat all hospitals, both state-runand private, should take effec-tive steps to control the spreadof coronavirus infection intheir institutions. He said theparamedics and the doctorsshould be protected from theinfection as they were the war-riors who were waging a relent-less fight against the coron-avirus. Yogi also asked officialsto take special care of districtslike Lucknow, Kanpur Nagar,Prayagraj, Gorakhpur andBareilly where the number ofcoronavirus cases had goneup.
The chief minister direct-
ed the director general of fireservices to check fire-fightingsystems in all Covid hospitalsin the next three days.
This direction came aftereight COVID-19 patients diedin a fire in a hospital inAhmedabad on Thursday.
He said that the hospitalemployees should be giventraining to operate the fire-fighting systems too.
In a review meeting held inBareilly, the chief minister saidthat the 300-bed hospitalshould be transformed into adedicated Covid hospital andcontrol rooms should be set upin other districts of the Bareillydivision as in the district head-
quarters. Yogi also stressed oncontact tracing and said thatthose suspected of having comein contact with COVID-19patients should be traced andmade to take antigen test. Hevoiced satisfaction over thework being done in the Bareillydistrict.
During the meeting, pre-sentations were made regard-ing Covid preparedness inBareilly, Shahajahanpur,Budaun and Pilibhit.
After the presentation, thechief minister said that para-medics and doctors should begiven training and providedpersonal protective equipmentand other kits.
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Lucknow (PNS): Despitethe spike in coronavirus cases,over one-third of active casesin Uttar Pradesh are either inhome isolation or in hotels asthey have mild symptoms,thereby easing the immensepressure from Covid hospitals.
Additional ChiefSecretary (Home) AwanishAwasthi said on Friday thatthere were 44,563 active casesacross the state while thenumber of recovered patientsstood at 66,834 and 3,432COVID-19 patients were dis-charged from hospitals today.
“Of the active cases, one-third are recuperating either intheir homes or in hotels. Thereare 15,035 asymptomaticpatients in home isolationand 170 in semi-paid hotelsand the rest are in govern-ment-run or private Covidhospitals,” Awasthi said.
With the increase in coro-navirus positive cases, thestate government has allowedhome isolation of patientswith mild symptoms. Theguidelines say that only those
with mild symptoms – lowgrade fever, sore throat,headache — and no comorbidconditions like diabetes,hypertension, heart and kid-ney disease will be allowed toremain in home isolation.
Awasthi said the numberof coronavirus positive caseswitnessed a spike in recentweeks as more tests were beingdone but the encouraging partwas that these patients eitherhad mild symptoms or wereasymptomatic. “With theirisolation at home, the pressureon Covid hospitals is now lessand therefore they can nowconcentrate on non-Covidpatients,” he said. The addi-tional chief secretary said that95,737 tests were done onThursday and the total Covidtests in the state had reached28 lakh so far. Of these tests34,188 were rapid antigentests. He said 2.24 lakh surveil-lance teams visited 47,724areas in the state and visited1.59 crore houses to medical-ly screen over 8.05 crore peo-ple.
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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Friday addressed a
conclave aimed at discussing thetransformational reforms underthe National Education Policyvia video-conferencing. Theconclave was attended by vice-chancellors, educationists, schol-ars and other eminent person-alities from around the country.
LU was represented by Vice-Chancellor AK Rai. Shortly afterthe Prime Minister’s address, Raiwas invited to address the con-clave with his observations onthe NEP. He summarised thepolicy in a succinct acronym‘LIFES’. “New Education Policystands for the development of ‘L-life coaching’, ‘I-internationali-sation of Indian education’, ‘F-flexibility’, ‘E-employability gen-eration’, and ‘S-structural changein the existing education system’,”he explained. Rai welcomed thestudent-centric approach of theNEP and expressed his belief ineverlasting change in the Indianeducation system via its imple-mentation.
HRD Minister RameshPokhariyal ‘Nishank’ openedthe conclave with his remarksabout how the NEP is the‘amrut’ (nectar) that has beenproduced after much delibera-tion and rumination with rep-resentatives from all stakehold-er groups. The PM thenaddressed the conclave andspoke of how the NEP incor-
porates our existing, tradition-al and cultural value system intothe modern mental and techni-cal infrastructure, and createsconduits between 'human andhumanity, and the past and thefuture'.
Meanwhile, as per the deci-sion taken in the admissioncommittee meeting, admissionsto the UG and UG managementprogrammes for the session2020-21 will be done throughthe merit list which will be cre-ated on the basis of marksobtained in class XII. LUspokesperson said the candi-dates had to upload their docu-ments so that the merit list couldbe generated. “Scanned copies ofself-attested documents willhave to be uploaded. Candidateswho do not upload these docu-ments will not be considered inthe merit list. If candidates donot have the original mark-sheets, they can upload theinternet copy for now.Verification from original will bedone at the time of reporting,”he said.
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Army Chief Gen MMNaravane visited the
Central CommandHeadquarters in LucknowCantonment on Friday andreviewed operational pre-paredness of the troops. TheArmy chief, during his visit tothe state capital, also met UttarPradesh Governor AnandibenPatel and Chief Minister YogiAdityanath.
Gen Naravane was briefedby General OfficerCommanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) Central CommandLieutenant General IS Ghumanon both operational andadministrative aspects, an offi-cial release issued by a DefencePRO said. The Army chief metChief Minister Yogi Adityanathat his official residence. “Itwas a courtesy meetingbetween the two. The ChiefMinister presented a memen-to to the Army chief during themeeting,” a state governmentofficial said. During his visit tothe Central CommandHeadquarters, Gen Naravaneexpressed satisfaction on theefforts being made to ensurecapability enhancement andoperational effectiveness of theforces and development ofinfrastructure in the centralsector, the release said.
He conveyed his apprecia-
tion to the Central Commandfor achieving a high degree ofoperational preparedness.
The Army chief was appre-ciative of the efforts being putin by the soldiers in the forwardareas operating in very difficultweather conditions in high-alti-tude areas. Before departingfrom Lucknow, Gen Naravanealso met the Governor at RajBhavan.
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The death audits are beingproperly monitored to check
if there was any lacunae in shift-ing of the Covid-19 patients tohospitals from their homes byambulances, a senior districtadministration official said onFriday. He said they were also inthe process of purchasing fivemore ambulances with the helpof MP and MLA funds to addon to the existing fleet.
The official said there weretwo types of death audits inLucknow — one in whichdeaths have taken place at hos-pitals and the other in whichdeaths have taken place inambulances. “If death audits aretaking place in the hospitals, ithas to be done by the hospitalsconcerned. The district admin-istration is looking into thedeaths which are taking placein the ambulances,” he added.
Citing the reason of deathsin ambulances, he stated:“There are reasons why deathsare taking place in ambulances.We have a lot of such patientswho test positive and sincehome isolation is allowed,
based on their symptoms ourdoctors allot them facilitiesand allow them home isolationas per protocol or as per gov-ernment notification,” he said.He added that there were somepatients who forcefully wantedto stay home.
“For example, if someonehas slight fever or slight symp-toms as per government order,our doctors do not allow themto stay at home and though ourambulances reach their hous-es, they do not pick up the calls,hence the ambulances areforced to return. It is then thatinformation is passed on topolice and IntegratedCommand Centre. When thecondition of patients deterio-rates and they again call us, wesend the ambulance and some-times it is too late,” heexplained.
CMO Dr Rajendra PrasadSingh said efforts were beingmade to see that the ambulanceresponse time was quick.
“There have been sugges-tions by minister SureshKhanna, who visited theIntegrated Control andCommand Centre on Thursday
and said we should make use ofambulance for one patient onlyat a time. Normally, an ambu-lance would pick up one patientand then go to pick another.Suggestions are being taken sothat the ambulance picks upone patient and then drops himto the hospital first beforegoing to pick another,” theCMO said.
He said efforts were alsobeing made to prioritise thepatients as per their symptomsand that the ambulances shouldbe sent first to those patientswho have severe symptoms incomparison to those who havemild symptoms.
Meanwhile, SGPGI ICU-1Covid Hospital incharge Dr ZiaHashim said that in general,recovery of patients is between7 and 10 days, which is good.“Currently, we have threepatients only in ICU-1 and theyare on a high oxygen require-ment,” he said. He added thatevery single patient dischargedfrom the ICU was a bigachievement for them.
Dr Hashim said that overthe months, they had under-stood the approach which
should be used for treatment ofthe patients. “Earlier, we wouldgive certain medication onlyafter the patient’s health dete-riorated, but now we know thatthe earlier we give them themedication, the better,” he said.
He pointed out that 90per cent of the patients in theICU were men, with lessernumber of women havingsevere form of Covid-19.
Meanwhile, spokespersonof Ram Manohar LohiaHospital Dr Srikesh Singh saidthey had started shortlisting thepatients who had recoveredand those who could be calledfor plasma donation.
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Samajwadi supremoMulayam Singh Yadav wasadmitted to Medanta Hospitalon Friday. Medanta Hospitaldirector Dr Rakesh Kapoorsaid he had come with com-plaints of stomachache, whichwas later diagnosed as urinarytract infection. Dr Kapoor said that Mulayam Singh Yadavhad tested negative for coronavirus.
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In the Krishna Nagar incidentin which bodies of a youth
and a girl were recovered froma hotel room on Wednesday, theautopsy report revealed that theyouth choked the girl to deathand attacked her with a fork-like object before ending his life.
ACP (Krishna Nagar)Deepak Kumar said the girl’sbody had six wounds, appar-ently inflicted with a fork. “Theautopsy report revealed that thegirl was stabbed six times andwas later choked to death.Rahul died of asphyxia as acause of death as per the autop-sy report,” he said.
He said the police suspect-ed that Rahul stabbed the girlwith a fork and later strangledher to death during a heatedargument. He denied reportsthat the girl was brought to thehotel forcibly and said nothingof that sort was found duringthe scanning of CCTV footage.
He also denied reports thatthe girl had as many as 60-70wounds caused by a fork-likeobject. “The girl had only sixstab wounds on her body,” heinsisted. He said the viscera hadbeen preserved for furtherinvestigation. The youth wasfound hanging from the ceilingwhile the girl found lying deadwhen police team reached thescene. Earlier, the police had
rubbished reports on foul playand said the couple had endedtheir own lives.
Meanwhile, the Chinhatpolice on Friday arrested ayouth, who was accused ofraping a 17-year-old girl afterluring her into running awayfrom her house. Police hadregistered a case in this con-nection on July 23 on a com-plaint of the girl’s family andalso booked the accused underPOCSO Act. The accused wasidentified as Surendra KumarGautam (22) of Barabanki.Gautam had gone into a hidingafter his name surfaced in thecase. Gautam worked inChinhat locality and he became
friends with the girl. He laterlured her into eloping withhim and then raped her. Afterthe girl’s parents lodged a case,the police started searching forthe girl and traced her. She waslater sent for a medical test andher statement was recorded.
Meanwhile, a youth wasaccused of stealing goods andcash from the houses of hisneighbours in Para on Friday.As per reports, Ajay KumarGupta of Rangrez Market local-ity in the area woke up around2.50 am on Friday after heheard a commotion in hishouse. He was sleeping on theterrace and saw his neighbor’sson Ansu Mehta running onthe terrace of their neighborShivdeep’s house.
Gupta raised an alarm butAnsu fled the scene. Guptalater checked the articles in therooms and found Rs 7,000 incash, documents like Aadhaarand PAN missing. While he wassharing the details related to theincident to his neighbours,another neighbour Aneeta Palreached Gupta’s house. Shelater complained that somethieves had stolen Rs 6000 incash and a mobile phone fromher house. “I had a hunch thatAnsu burgled both the houses,”Gupta stated in the FIR.
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With bhoomi pujan forconstruction of a Ram
temple completed onWednesday, some miscreantsare on the prowl, disturbingcommunal harmony by postingobjectionable messages andcelebrating to instigate angryreaction. In this regard, thepolice arrested half-a-dozenpersons from across differentcommunities.
In Lucknow, Popular Frontof India (PFI) media in-chargeAbdul Majid was arrested fortrying to spread communaldisturbance by putting upprovocative posts on bhoomipujan in Ayodhya on Friday.The arrest was made fromIslamnagar area of Kakori.
A native of Delhi, Majidwas accused of putting upprovocative messages on socialmedia over bhoomi pujan andone on Kashmir. He was work-ing under a dummy outfit, AllIndia Imam Council, andclaimed himself to be its UPhead. He was also running acampaign with the hashtagReturn Babri land to Muslimand Restore Article 370.
The police also arrested adoctor and his two aides forinciting sentiments from Jarwalarea of Bahraich on Thursday.Identified as Dr Aleem Ahmed,Sahibe Alam and Kamruddin,the trio was found uploadingobjectionable content on
WhatsApp from a clinic atJarwal Road in Bahraich whenthe police dropped the net onthem. Their mobile phoneswere also seized.
On December 31, the UPPolice had sought a ban on PFI,days after its complicity wasfound in the state-wide violentprotests against amended citi-zenship law. The then DGP, OPSingh, had said that they hadwritten to the Centre seeking aban on the PFI after its UPhead, Wasim and 16 otheractivists were arrested for mas-terminding the anti-CAA vio-lence in Lucknow.
Meanwhile in Meerut,Bajrang Dal activists tried todisturb communal peace byuploading objectionable videoof a saffron flag flying atop amosque in Rajban area of SadarBazaar. They also gathered and
chanted `Jai Shree Ram’ infront of a mosque after whichsome Muslims objected. Later,the police swung into actionand registered a case againstAnkit Tripathi, Arun Thakur,Abhi Patel and Gautam andnabbed Ankit and Arun.
Interestingly, soon aftertheir arrests, a senior VishwaHindu Parishad leader ofMeerut denied that theseaccused were members ofBajrang Dal.
Elsewhere in Auraiya, acase was registered against BJPdistrict vice-president,Rajneesh Pandey at Ajeetmalpolice station after he fired inthe air with his licensed gun tocelebrate bhoomi pujan inAyodhya.
In Lakhimpur Kheri, sev-eral members of Hindu outfitsstaged a demonstration andblocked Lucknow-Delhi high-way for several hours on Friday,demanding the arrest of someMuslim youths for postingobjectionable messages onbhoomi pujan ceremony.
The tension was defusedafter local BJP MLA, LokendraPratap Singh asked the pro-testers to allow time for thepolice to take action in the mat-ter. A case was registeredagainst Mohammed FaiyazMansoori, Mohammed Arif,Mohammed Shadab and othersfor trying to hurt sentiments ofHindus through objectionablesocial media content.
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Raghvendra Kumar from 1999batch of IRSEE has assumed
charge as ADRM (Administration),Lucknow division of North-EasternRailway (NER). Previously, he workedas senior divisional electrical engineerin the same division. Kumar is agraduate (Electrical Engineering)
from Roorkee University. He joinedthe railways in 2002 as assistant elec-trical engineer at New BongaigaonWorkshop/North Frontier Railway.
He has served in different capac-ities. Also, Dhananjay Mishra from2012 batch of IRSEE has taken chargeas senior divisional electrical engineer of Lucknow divi-sion of North-Eastern Railway.
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�)0�����,#�-"����Lucknow (PNS): TheLucknow University will beusing artificial intelligence toensure no substitute candidateappears for BEd- JEE onAugust 9. Lucknow UniversityVice-Chancellor AK Rai saidsome innovative arrange-ments had been made thistime using latest technology.“An innovative face detectionsystem is being used by usingSir-in-Azure, which is the useof artificial intelligence thatwill be converting the infor-mation of a total of 27 pointsof the candidate’s face into dig-ital data. It will be examinedin all four directions and willtest each candidate by includ-ing 13 distinct and personalcharacteristics, such as hair,glasses, age, gender, etc. In thisprocess, no wrong person willbe able to appear for theexam in place of the actualcandidate,” he said.
As many as 14 nodal cen-tres and four sub-nodal cen-tres have been set up acrossthe state. A total of 4,31,904candidates at 1,089 centres in73 districts of the state willappear for the exam. The LUVice-Chancellor said all thearrangements for conduct-ing the entrance exam hadbeen made properly.
“In keeping with the gov-ernment and district admin-istration directives and for theconvenience of candidates,all the protocols and instruc-tions for the safety of candi-dates are being fully imple-mented. The entrance exam
will be in two shifts — from 9am to 12 pm and from 2 pm to5 pm. Candidates have beenadvised to reach the exam cen-tre, at least one hour before thecommencement of the exam,”he said. CCTV cameras havebeen arranged at each examcentre, which will also recordaudio. A router has also beeninstalled with the help of whichthe entire examination will be
web-cast. For this, a controlroom with 100 laptops hasbeen set up at LucknowUniversity, from where everycandidate will be closely mon-itored. With this arrangement,marks of each candidate will betaken for the identity of the can-didates at the time of examina-tion and they will be matchedwith the fingerprints given bythem.
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The spike in finding of newCOVID-19 cases continued
in Purvanchal (eastern UP).The district has inched furtherclose to touch 4K-mark as byFriday morning the total num-ber of cases reached 3,924 withthe detection of 171 new cases.It is the biggest number of casesfound in the first morningreports so far. The same is thesituation in this region ofPurvanchal as a day ago, thetotal number of cases hascrossed 15K-mark. With thefinding of 624 new cases onThursday, the total number ofcorona positive cases hasincreased to 15,425 in 10 dis-tricts of three divisions ofVaranasi, Azamgarh andVindhyachal (Mirzapur).Seeing the sharp rise in cases,the Chief Minister YogiAdityanath had already alertedthe district administration of all
three big cities of the areasincluding Varanasi, Prayagrajand Gorakhpur.
With the introduction ofrapid antigen testing, the caseshave seen a sharp rise as thenumber of testing has increasedsharply. Till a day ago, over 2.71lakh tests were done in thisregion and out of these tests,5.68 per cent suspects werefound positive.
The maximum number oftests (50,934) was done inVaranasi, the only districtwhich had already crossed3900-mark whereas the mini-mum tests were made inChandauli. However,Chandauli has become thesixth district of the regionwhere the cases have crossedthe four-figure mark.
Earlier, apart fromVaranasi, the other districtswhere the cases are in four fig-ures are Jaunpur (2563), Ballia(2100), Azamgarh (1443),
Ghazipur (1418). In the recenttime, Ballia and Chandaulihave seen rise with the fastestspike as they were among threedistricts which remained ingreen zones till the very end oflockdown period. The othersuch district was Sonbhadra(766 cases). Among the otherdistricts, Mirzapur (978) hasinched close to the four-figuremark, while there were 733cases in Bhadohi and 629 inMau till a day ago.
Earlier, the maximumnumber of 218 cases was foundin Varanasi on Thursday, fol-lowed by 114 in Azamgarh, 101in Ballia, 63 in Jaunpur, 50 inMirzapur, 35 in Ghazipur, 27 inSonbhadra, 24 in Mau, 22 inChandauli, and eight inBhadohi.
During this period, theregion has seen eight deathsincluding four in Ballia, two inVaranasi and one each inAzamgarh and Mau. Till then,
the region had seen 216 deaths.However, in comparison toother regions of the state as wellas the country, the mortalityrate in this region is compara-tively good as it is 1.40 per cent.However, the region where therecovery rate was good till thestart of unlock period has seenworsening conditions whenthe testing was increased withthe introduction of a rapidantigen testing system. In thebeginning of this month, therecovery rate was slipped to47.67 per cent when out of12,362 patients, only 5,893were discharged from the hos-pitals but now the same hasstarted seeing improvement,thanks to the permission ofhome isolation to asympto-matic patients as a day ago ithas increased to 51.66 per centwith 7,969 were cured fromhome isolation as well as hos-pitals out of the total numberof 15,425 patients.
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After a long wait of 141 daysdue to worldwide coron-
avirus pandemic, the famousKal Bhairav temple, known as‘Kashi Ke Kotwal’, has beenreopened on the auspiciousoccasion of Bahula GaneshChaturthi here on Friday. Afterthe opening of the temple, thedevotees were seen in line out-side the temple premises tooffer prayer, maintaining socialdistancing.
After the start of Unlock1.0 on June 8, various places ofworship including DwadasJyotilinga Kashi Vishwanathtemple were reopened on June10 here but many templesremained closed as the man-agement of these temples didnot seek permissions for thesame. Later, one by one, manyother famous temples werealso reopened but Kal Bhairavand some others remainedclosed as the temple manage-ment found themselves not inposition to maintain social dis-tancing when a rush of devo-tees would throng there.
There was pressure on KalBhaiarv temple managementbecause as per tradition many
outsiders first visit this templeand after seeking the permis-sions from Lord Kal Bhairavthey go to Kashi Vishwanathtemple. As Kal Bhairavremained closed, many reachedthere and offered prayers fromoutside of the closed doors ofthe temple. Meanwhile, some
famous programmes could notbe organised as the templeremained closed.
Meanwhile, scores of devo-tees reached Bada Ganesh andother temples of Lord Ganeshon the auspicious occasion ofBahula Ganesh Chaturthi. Thedevotees observed fast on the
occasion and offered prayer toLord Krishna and listened tothe Katha of Bahula cow. At thetemple, the devotees main-tained social distance and fromtime to time, the premiseswere sanitised in view ofspreading of coronavirus in thecity areas.
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Concerned with the adverseimpact particularly on
middle class because ofCOVID-19 pandemic, theCongressmen on Friday sub-mitted a memorandum to thedistrict magistrate’s office to beforwarded to the Governordemanding for giving instruc-tion to the management ofprivate schools to waive offschool fees in view of the pre-sent crisis.
Following the directiveissued by the party state unit,a joint delegation of district
and city units of the CongressParty submitted a memoran-dum to the ACM-IV in theabsence of the DM addressedto the Governor.
The corona pandemic hasbadly affected the income ofthe middle class and the advo-cates are also suffering a lotbecause of no work in courts,the delegation stated in thememorandum adding, thefarmers have also not got thepayment of their foodgrainpurchased by the Agriculturedepartment from purchasingcentres.
In such a situation, the
parents are facing problems inpaying the school fees oftheir wards and loanseekers are facing problemsin clearing their homeloan while the farmers arefacing in clearing their agri-cultural loan, the delegationstated adding, moreover, thestaff of various schools arealso facing acute financialcrunch.
Thus, the delegationdemanded the Governor toissue a directive to the man-agements of private schools towaive off school fees and alsodirect the state government to
sort out the problem beingfaced by farmers, advocatesand persons belonging to themiddle class so that they couldface the present crisis. Thedelegation also demanded theGovernor to ask the schoolmanagement not to changethe school dress time andagain.
The delegation comprisedthe ex-MP Dr Rajesh Mishra,former state minister AjayRai, DCC chief RajeshwarSingh Patel, CCC RaghvendraChaubey, Prajanath Sharma,Dr Jitendra Seth and AjaySingh Shivji.
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With the arrest of sixaccused persons involved
in the theft of � 1 crore in thehouse of a businessman inAshok Nagar area, theCantonment police onThursday night worked outthe case. The cops had alsorecovered stolen money andjewellery from their possession.
During the interrogationwith the accused, the thefttook place in the doctor's housein Dhumanganj was alsoexposed. The doctor's dia-mond ring has been recoveredby the police. During interro-gation, they told that they usedto recce the closed houses forseveral days and target them.
It may be pointed out herethat, the accused persons haddecamped with �5.30 lakh cashand jewellery worth � 1 crorefrom Arvind's house, a reput-ed businessman. On Thursdaynight, the SOG team caughttwo bike riders near theCircular Road intersection.When questioned at the policestation, they were identified as
Hamza residents of Manoradaska Bagh Kareli and KashishSrivastava alias Vedanta aliasMannu resident of Babaji kaBagh, Daryabad. Kashish livesin a rented house inRajrooppur.
SSP Abhishek Dixit saidthat both of them confessed tothe theft that took place in abusinessman Arvind's house.On their confession, the copsalso recovered money andsome jewellery from theirhouse. The rest of the jewellerywas given to the jewellery busi-nessman Wasim alias Raju,resident of Manohardas kaBagh Akbarpur. Some jewelswere recovered after Wasimwas nabbed.
He told the police that hehad handed over the jewelleryto Akram Ali resident ofHajinagar Sultanpur BhavaKhuldabad (original addressAjbanagar Masat police stationChanditali Hooghly WestBengal) and Etala Bharte resi-dent of Kalyani Devi temple(original addressMadanmoothi talukaKhanapur police station
Veerashahar SangliMaharashtra).
The two told the police thatthe jewellery was given to thetrafficker Rajesh Kumar, a res-ident of Gujarati Mohallaunder Attarsuiya police stationto sell them off. The police alsoarrested Rajesh. The money hehad with him after selling jew-ellery was recovered from himby the cops.
The SHO said that a dia-mond ring which was stolenfrom Dr. Bindu Prakash'shouse in Dhumanganj was alsorecovered from him. Thesepeople used to fulfill theirneeds. The bike that was recov-ered was also purchased withstolen money.
The cops had recoveredmore than one kilogram of goldjewellery, more than one-and-a-half kilograms of silver andcoins, �13.24 lakh cash and thebike purchased with stolenrupees from their possession,the SSP added..
SEX RACKET BUSTED:The Daraganj police onThursday night arrested fivegirls and three youths for being
involved in a sex racket. Theyhave been arrested after theraid was conducted in threehouses of Daraganj and Nainiarea. The girls are from Kareli,Khuldabad and Naini areas.Police are inquiring and collect-ing information about otherpeople related to the racket.Legal action will be takenagainst those arrested.
On Thursday night, theDaraganj police was tipped offabout some girls and youthbeing present in a house in thearea and a flesh trade is goingon there. On getting the news,the police raided the saidhouse, then two young girlswere found here. A youth wasalso arrested here. After inter-rogating them, a woman and ayouth were arrested by raidinganother house.
The police then raided ahouse near Phoolmandi nearthe old Yamuna bridge. Twoyoung girls and a young manwere arrested from here. Whenthey were interrogated at thepolice station, it was learnt thatthey were involved in the busi-ness of flesh trade.
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Two students of IndianInstitute of Information
Technology, Allahabad--Pawan Kumar and ShefaliVinod Ramteke, have won theprestigious award in CISCOGlobal Problem SolverChallenge 2020. Both havesecured IIIrd position inCISCO’s India Impact Categoryin CISCO Global ProblemSolver Challenge. They willreceive 10,000 US Dollar tosupport their team and furtherdevelop the technology.
CISCO Global ProblemSolver Challenge is a globalcompetition where studentsand entrepreneurs participatefrom all over the world that hasdeveloped a solution that dri-ves economic development orsolves a social or environmen-tal problem. The result wasdeclared on August 5. CISCOwill provide them with furthersupport and mentorship for a
period of three years foradvancement in their technol-ogy and solution to help themaccelerate their breakthroughtechnology. Over 500 partici-pants took part in the globalchallenge from over 12 coun-tries including Kenya, USA,Indonesia, Mexico, UK, Poland,
Cameroon, Tunisia, and theteam went through rigorousscreening rounds for 6-8months. They received feed-back, mentorship, and sup-port throughout the challengeduration from CISCO.
Both IIIT-A student havedeveloped an agriculture drone
that is supported by the DesignInnovation Centre IIIT-Allahabad. The proposeddrone decreases the amount ofprolonged pesticide exposureto those who manually spraypesticides. It is an AI systemthat can cover almost ten timesthe amount of land in an hourthat someone can manually doon their own in a day, decreas-ing the harmful effects of pes-ticides and increasing the over-all output of crops for farmers.The team has been working ondrones for the past 3-4 yearsand now are looking forward tocreating revolutionising tech-nology for the agriculture sec-tor in India through theirdrone solution. Both PhD.scholars are working underthe supervision of Dr SuneelYadav and Dr Pritish Varadwajat IIIT-Allahabad respectively.
Prof P Nagabhushan ,Director , IIIT-A has congrat-ulated both for bringing laurelsto the nation as well as IIIT-A
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The coronavirus is now turn-ing into an epidemic in the
Prayagraj district as well. It isbecause four patients infectedin the last 24 hours died dur-ing treatment at Swaroop RaniNehru COVID Hospital. Italso includes a 60-year-oldcorona-infected patient resi-dent of Kydganj, who struggledbetween life and death for ninedays. He was admitted to SRN'sICU and breathed his last there.
The other deceased alsohail from different parts of thecity. So far 66 corona patientshave died in the district, out ofwhich only one patient died inRailway COVID Hospital andall other deaths have takenplace in SRN Hospital itself.However, as many as 180 peo-ple tested positive for COVID-19 late on Thursday night.
Nodal officer Dr. SujitVerma of SRN COVIDHospital said that the 45-year-old woman resident ofDaraganj was admitted onAugust 5 after being coronapositive. He further said thatshe had arrived at the hospitallate, so it was difficult to save
her. She was also afflicted withpneumonia. Another womanhailing from Khuldabadreached the hospital on August4 and died on Thursday morn-ing. She had a lung infectiondue to respiratory disease. Awoman hailing from RajarupurKalindipuram also died onThursday from corona. Herreport came positive on July31, so she was brought to theSRN itself. She was sufferingfrom diabetes and kidney dis-ease.
As of late Thursday night,180 positive cases of coron-
avirus have been reported.These days, the number ofcorona patients is continuous-ly crossing 100. Corona's grow-ing case has added to theHealth department's problems.The number of corona patientsin the district has increased to3,399. Many policemen, healthworkers and bankers are alsoamong those who are affectedby corona.
Five policemen have comeunder the grip of corona atDhumanganj police station,including the Inspector of thepolice station itself and four
constables. Two policemen ofKareli police station are alsoinfected. The peshkar of ACM-4, the staff nurse of BeliCOVID Hospital and the labtechnician of the same hospi-tal are also tested positive.Swaroop Rani Nehru COVIDHospital's ANM and the man-ager of the city's big mall havealso become infected. A coro-na infection was also found ina CRPF jawan and an employ-ee of the Irrigation department.
Meanwhile, a total of 152corona patients have been dis-charged from all COVID hos-pitals on Thursday. So far, atotal of 1,554 corona patientshave become completelyhealthy and have gone home.The remaining 1,613 activecases are under treatment. And66 corona patients have beenkilled. Dr. Rishi Sahai said thatsamples of 1,473 suspectedpatients have also been takenfrom different places. The test-ing of corona samples has alsogained momentum these days.On Thursday, more than 5,300samples were tested in a singleday till date. These samplingwas conducted by RTPCR,trunate and antigen.
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The district has seen thebiggest spike here on Friday
when as many as 312 COVID-19 patients have been detected.For the first time, more than300 patients were found duringa day. With the finding of sucha large number of patients,Varanasi has crossed 4K-markas the total number of patientshas increased to 4,065. Earlier,the district had seen morethan 200 cases on two occa-sions including 218 and 210found on July 5 and 6 respec-tively.
Besides, the district hadalso seen two more deathsincreasing the toll to 77. Duringthe day, the follow-up reportsincluded 119 patients recoveredfrom home isolation and thetotal number of patients curedat home has increased to 841while just 18 recovered fromthe hospitals. With this, thetotal number of patients dis-charged from the hospitals hasreached 1,364 while the totalnumber of cured patients is2,205, leaving 1,783 activepatients. However, the onlyrelief is that with the cure of agood number of patients at
home isolation, the recoveryrate has improved further to54.24 per cent.
According to the ChiefMedical Officer (CMO) DrVB Singh, in the first reportreceived by 11am during theday, as many as 171 new coro-na patients were found out of1,954 reports received fromMicrobiology department ofBanaras Hindu University(BHU). Till then, the total test
reports received were 52,888and the results of 6,897 exclud-ing 937 RTPCR samples col-lected a day ago are awaited.Out of these, 48,964 were neg-ative reports while 3,924 pos-itive. The total number of sam-ples collected was 60,722.Earlier, a senior local journal-ist aged 58 from ChupperpurPartrakarpuram Colony(Shivpur) died at Sir SundarlalHospital (SSH) in BHU. With
the addition of 25 red zones,the total number of hotspotshas increased to 1,024 includ-ing 387 red zones including fivegreen zones converted into redzones again. Besides, there are637 green zones including 21new ones.
Meanwhile, in view of thedeath of a corona positive jour-nalist, an antigen COVID-19test camp was organised atPatrakarpuram Colony inwhich the tests of about 100persons were done and out ofthem, three including two of afamily related as mother anddaughter were found positive.On the occasion, office-bearersof Kashi Patrakar Sangh (KPS)were present and the camp wasalso attended by CMO.Meanwhile, KPS demandedinquiry into the death of asenior journalist and demand-ed compensation of � 50 lakhto the bereaved family of thedeceased journalist. Besides,rapid antigen testing continuedgoing on at NER DivisionalHospital and ACMO of thehospital Dr RR Singh said thaton Friday, the tests of 42Railway employees were doneand all of them were foundnegative.
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The Allahabad High Courton Friday rapped the Chief
Medical Officer (CMO),Prayagraj for not bringing onrecord, despite court’s previousorder, the facts as to how test-ing of COVID-19 was beingdone and how reports werebeing given to persons whowere tested without unduedelay.
While directing to file anaffidavit afresh on the next datewith all details of testing andtheir results, a division benchcomprising Justice SiddharthaVarma and Justice Ajit Kumarobserved, ‘To our utter dismaythe affidavit presented todaywas absolutely silent on theissues we had asked to be clar-ified. We must record thatsilence in the affidavit qua the
queries made, reflects thatoffice of the Chief MedicalOfficer, Prayagraj is not func-tioning in the way it shouldactually be functioning, consid-ering the manner COVID-19pandemic has affected the dis-trict. What is required is a meremaintenance of record and inthis 21st century we fail tounderstand, when everything isgetting digitalised and everystatistics of impact of COVID-19 is generated and declaredeveryday, how records havenot been maintained’.
Hearing a PIL seeking bet-ter facilities at quarantine cen-tres, the court also expectedthat the police would fulfiltheir assurance that they wouldensure that the rule of "DOGAZ KI DOORI, MASK BHIJAROORI" would be imple-mented in letter and spirit.
Earlier, on August 5, 2020,the court while expressing dis-satisfaction with the imple-mentation of physical distanc-ing in the state had directed theDMs and SSPs of all the dis-tricts of the state to take nec-essary steps and ensure physi-cal distancing in their dis-tricts.
Today (on August 7), inpursuance of the order datedAugust 5,2020, an affidavit wasfiled on behalf of the state gov-ernment stating that all effortshad been made to implementthe rule of "DO GAZ KIDOORI, MASK BHIJAROORI".
While taking affidavit onrecord, the court observed,‘From what we have heardtoday and from what we havegathered from the documents,submitted before us, we find
that the state is now making aconsistent effort to have a 24hours vigil of the police in notonly Prayagraj but also in allthe other 74 districts of UttarPradesh to see that people inUttar Pradesh maintain phys-ical distancing and that theywould see that one personremains at least two yards awayfrom the other’. While fixingAugust 17, 2020 as the nextdate for hearing, the court fur-ther directed the state author-ities to bring on record, bymeans of affidavits of someresponsible officer of everydistrict of Uttar Pradesh to elu-cidate the method by whichthey were implementing thecircular of the Additional ChiefSecretary dated August 6, 2020in all the districts of UttarPradesh to check the spread ofcoronavirus in the state.
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The students of ChaudharyCharan Singh University
(CCSU) and its affiliated col-leges will be promoted withoutexamination as per the gov-ernment guidelines. However,the UG, PG final year andsemester system final yearexaminations will be complet-ed by September 30 and theresults will be declared byOctober 15.
The said decisions weretaken in the online meeting ofthe university’s ExecutiveCouncil held on Thursday. Inthe meeting which waspresided over by Vice-Chancellor Professor NarendraKumar Taneja many otherimportant decisions too weretaken. The Executive Councilapproved most of the decisionsof the ‘Pronnat Samiti’ (pro-motion committee) of the uni-versity. In the university and itsaffiliated colleges about fourlakh students are to be pro-moted under the semester andannual systems. Under theannual system the examina-tions of many subjects wereheld. About eight lakh copieshave also been evaluated. It wasalso decided to make theirmarks the basis of promotion.Those students who failed inthe above examination con-ducted earlier will be consid-ered as fail. However, theoption of giving back paper infront of such students is keptopen. All students of differentclasses of all faculties who have
passed in each subject of theirclass on the basis of evaluationof papers of the examinationsconducted by the universitybefore the lockdown/March18, 2020, or are eligible for theback paper will be promoted inthe next year/semester andtheir remaining examinationswill remain postponed.
Apart from it the finalsemester/final year examina-tions will be conducted bySeptember 30 following theprescribed protocol and guide-lines of the government. If forsome reason a student is notable to appear in the finalsemester/final year universityexaminations, then in this caseher or she will be given anopportunity to appear in thespecial examination of thatcourse/question paper. It will,however, be conducted later asper the convenience of theuniversity so that the studentsdid not have to face any kindof inconvenience or suffer anyloss. This arrangement, how-ever, will be applicable onlyonce for the current academic
session i.e. 2019-20. Meanwhile in connection
with the case in which exami-nation results of MBBS stu-dents were declared againstthe rules during the meeting afour-member committee wasconstituted. The ExecutiveCouncil has now recommend-ed the designation of assistantprofessor to the teachers work-ing at Sir Chhotu Ram Instituteof Engineering and Technology(SCRIET).
Besides a letter will be sentto the government regardingthe affiliation of about 280colleges and institutes.Prominent among those pre-sent during the meeting werePro-Vice-Chancellor Prof YVimala, Registrar DhirendraKumar Verma, Finance OfficerSushil Gupta, Controller ofExaminations Prof RoopNarayan, Dr Darshan LalArora, Prof Beerpal Singh, ProfAlok Kumar, Prof AV Kaur, DrIshwar, Dr Seema Jain, DrRekha Tiwari, Dr SS Bedar, DrSudhir Kumar, Dr ChamanLal and Dr HP Singh.
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The Adalhat police policehave nabbed one and
recovered 15 gms of heroin onThursday. The Adalhat policewas patroling on Thursdaythat they spotted one suspious-looking person at Biksi market.During interrogation he con-fessed about his involvement indrug trafficking. After the frisk-ing him the police recovered 15gms of heroin from his pos-session. After lodging the FIRunder relevant sections thepolice sent the accused, iden-tified as Harishankar aliasBabbal, son of Ayodhya, a res-ident of Durvasha Ka Puraunder Adalhat police station, tojail. Meanwhile the Jigna policenabbed one person who wasaccused of murdering hisgrandfather and recovered theweapon which was used forcommitting the crime. SHOJigna Chhotak Yadav the sincethe case lodged the police wasactive and trying to arrest theaccused. He said that on beingtipped off by an informer thatone accused was standing atRampur Ghat, the police raid-ed the place and arrested RaviShyam Dubey, one of theaccused. On clues provided bythe accused recovered thehatchet too which was used forcommitting the crime.
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Superintendent of Police (SP)Dr Dharmveer Singh distrib-uted kits to police stations,police outposts, police lines andthe other branches of Policedepartment to protect the stafffrom Covid-19. Addressing thepolice personnel the SP saidthat the safety from Corona
should be their priority whileserving the people. He said staffshould take the precautionarymeasures not only at workplace but at home too. He saidthat the kit was being given tonot only to keep themselvessafe but to make others awaretoo. He directed the staff tosanitise the barracks, mess,office and premises daily andremain alert while dealing withvisitors in view of the pan-demic. The kits comprisingspray, sanitising machine,gloves, sanitiser and maskswere distributed to the 16police stations, 47 police out-posts along with the all branch-
es of the police. FOUNDATION STONE
LAID: UP Minister State forEnergy Rama Shankar Patelsaid that by 2022 the statewould be able to provide ade-quate energy to people. Theseviews were expressed by him ata function organised atGolhanpur village on the occa-sion of laying of foundationstone of a 33/11 KV power sub-station of cost Rs. 383.56 lakhrecently. He said that throughit more than two dozen villageswould get rid of problem of lowvoltage and fault in supply. Hesaid that the sub-station wouldpave way for the developmentof the area. He said that theconstruction of 132 KVApower house was in thepipeline for which land hadbeen finalised. Proposing voteof thanks chief engineer, PowerCorporation, RK Srivastava,thanked the minister for donat-ing more than one bigha landfor the construction of thesub-station. The minister inau-gurated the boundary wall ofprimary school Koondi and theconnecting road of cost �8.65lakh in the village. Prominentamong those present wereRajya Sabha member RamShakal, DM Sushil Kumar PatelSP, Dr Dharmveer Singh, andveteran BJP leaders LalBahadur Singh and HariCharan Singh.
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Even in this difficult time ofcorona infection many
development works are beingcompleted by North EasternRailway (NER). In thissequence on Varanasi divi-sion’s Bhatni-Aunrihar railsection the challenging task ofelectrification of 125 routekilometers has been complet-ed. This electrified sectionwill be inspected by theCommissioner of RailwaySafety (CRS) on August 10,said Chief Public RelationsOff icer (CPRO) PankajKumar Singh. With the elec-trification of this section, alarge part between Gorakhpurand Varanasi will be connect-ed with electrified rail section
which will also enable themovement of electric trains onGorakhpur-Varanasi route. Inaddition to other benefitsthere will also be an expectedimprovement in the punctu-ality of trains. Railway admin-istration is very consciousabout energy conservation.In the same sequence the NERhad completed the electrifica-tion work of 540 route km rail-way track last year. In the lastfew years the electrification inNER has gained considerablemomentum. In the year 2016-17 —159.20 route km, in 2017-18 — 167.14 route km and in2018-19 – 431.23 route km railsection’s electrification workwas completed. It may be point-ed out here that electrificationbenefits the environment.
Besides one will get freedomfrom noise pollution and at thesame time dependence ondiesel will end which willreduce fuel expenditure andincrease self-sufficiency. Inaddition to this section theelectrification work of Kasganj-Bareilly section (108 route km)on Izzatnagar division has alsobeen completed. This sectionwill be inspected by theCommissioner for RailwaySafety on August 11.Meanwhile the Gonda-Subhagpur division (11 routekm) of Lucknow division hasbeen inspected by theCommissioner for RailwaySafety on July 23. After the elec-trification of these three sec-tions total 1,967 route km trackon NER will be electrified.
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A14-year-old student,Ujjwal, died under suspi-
cious circumstances in Pundavillage under Sahajanwa policestation. He was found in anunconscious condition by hisfamily on the second floor ofthe house who took him to ahospital where the doctorsdeclared him dead. Whatcaused his death would becomeclear after only after getting thepost-mortem examinationreport, police said. Accordingto information, the family of
Vikas Matt, a resident of Pundavillage, was currently living inLuchui. His son, Ujjwal Bhatt,was on the swing on the secondfloor of the house around 12:30pm on Thursday. While search-ing for him when his motherreached there she found him inan unconscious state and histhroat was stuck in the swingrope. His family membersimmediately took theSahajanwa community healthcentre (CHC) where the doc-tors declared him dead. Ujjwalwas a student of VIII and theeldest of three brothers.
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During a drive a team con-stituted by inspector
incharge Panvadi AshokKumar Singh apprehended twoaccused from the Nagaraghatcanal bridge on Thursday andrecovered 30 litres of illicitliquor from their possession.The accused were later identi-fied as Mangal Singh (45), sonof Motilal Rajput andChhatrapal Rajput (40), son ofSummilal, residents ofNagaraghat village under thePanvadi police station.
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Cash and jewellery worthover Rs 1 crore were stolen
from the house of a dairyproducts trader in RatanlalNagar under Govind Nagarpolice station late Thursdaynight.
According to reports, theburglars broke into the houseof Shyam Narain Tewarithrough the window afterclimbing on neighbour’srooftop.
Before to committing theft,the miscreants locked the maingate and all other rooms of thehouse from outside.
The theft came to lightwhen the family memberswoke up on Friday morning.
The CCTV footagesscanned by the police showedtwo thieves committing thetheft.
Tewari said the thievestook away Rs 5 lakh cash andjewellery and other valuablesworth around Rs 1 crorefrom the almirah. He suspect-ed the involvement of one oftheir employees who was ter-minated from service onThursday.
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Bobde has directed the healthauthorities to identify seniorcitizens with uncontrolled dia-betes and carry out COVID-19test on them so that preventiveand curative steps could betaken.
He said critical coronaviruspositive patients should begiven top priority and properand timely treatment to checkthe increasing death rate andrising number of coronaviruspositive cases.
Dr Bobde said the healthdepartment needs to work inperfect coordination andensure that detailed record areput up in every meeting,
The divisional commis-sioner said in view of the everrising number of COVID-19deaths, it had been decided touse the expertise of four criti-
cal care specialists. He said over 90 per cent of
deaths which had occurredwere at the LLR Hospital’sLevel-3 Covid care ICU. Hesaid the expert would person-ally supervise the working inthe ICU and monitor the crit-ical patients.
Dr Bobde said the expertshad been directed to identifythe reason for the high deathrate at LLR Hospital and, if nec-essary, change the line of treat-ment so that the death rate
could be brought down. He said directives had also
come from the government tomonitor the Level-1 and Level-3 Covid care hospitals.
The divisional commis-sioner said that in view of theacute crisis of bed for COVID-19 patients, additional 15 bedshad been set up at the 7 AirForce Hospital and thus thehospital would now function asLevel-3 Covid hospital till fur-ther orders.
He said it had also been
decided to refer all the criticalpatients to the hospital inadvanced life support ambu-lances.
A special requisition hasbeen made for two moreadvanced life support ambu-lances to carry the patients tothe hospital.
The divisional commis-sioner said a a team of two doc-tors had been sent by the gov-ernment to find ways to con-trol COVID-19 deaths and risein the number of positive casesin the city.
Dr Bobde said one of thetwo doctors who had arrivedhere from KGMU Lucknowwas critical care expert DrSuhail Siddiqui and the secondwas respiratory and pul-monary expert, Dr MansiGupta. Both the doctors admit-ted that the pressure was toomuch on the hospital and thusthere should be more Level-3Covid care hospitals in the city
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Congressmen led by party’scity president Har Prakash
Agnihotri met DistrictMagistrate BR Tiwari on Fridayand handed over a six-pointcharter of demands addressedto the Governor.
The member demandedthat the Governor should dis-miss the state government onaccount of rampant corruptionand unabated crime.
The Congressmen said incase the government remainedapathetic to the problems theywill be forced to take to agita-tional means.
They demanded that fourmonths’ fees be waived and thelawyers be given Rs 10,000 permonth as honorarium till thecourts open normally.
Later, addressing the dele-gation outside the Collectorate,Agnihotri lashed out at ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath andsaid from the time he had takeover the reins of the state therehad been a sharp rise corrup-tion and crime.
He said murder, loot, rapeand kidnapping had becomethe order of the day and parents
and the common man wastoday caught between unem-ployment and starvation andthe UP government had failedto do anything in this direction.
He said under the NewEducation Policy, there was amove to allow schools tochange books as per new syl-labus and even uniforms. Hesaid the Governor should usehis good offices to ensure that
this change in schools was notallowed.
He said parents had notbeen paid salaries for the pastfour months and they were notable to pay fees. He said thegovernment need to pay Rs8,000 to all the teachers ofrecognised and unrecognisedschools.
He said the EMIs of peoplewhose income was below Rs 2
lakh per annum be waived forfour months if they had takenany loan. He said corruption inappointment of 69,000 teach-ers and then animal husbandryscandal had brought to fore thecorruption rampant in the BJPrule. Prominent among thosein the delegation were RR Pal,SD Mishra, Ikhlaq Ahmed,Ashok Dhanvik and ZafarShaquir.
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With cured COVID-19patients returning to hos-
pital after testing positive againa month after their dischargefrom hospital, doubts are beingraised on the testing of samplesat the Covid laboratory.
A patient from Ratanpurin Panki has tested positiveagain in a span of one month.
The head of orthopaedicsdepartment, Prof SanjaiKumar, said the case had beenreferred to the microbiologydepartment and once hisreport came negative then
only his surgery will be per-formed.
He said a 45-year-old manwho, was a case of trauma, wasbrought to the hospital with afracture in his leg and hisreport came positive on July 5.
He said the COVID-19patient was admitted to thehospital for 12 days and wasdischarged only after his testreport came negative.
He said the youthremained quarantined at hishome for one week and thenwas re-admitted to the hospi-tal for surgery on August 3.
He said as it was manda-
tory for every patient under-going surgery to go in forCovid test, he was tested onceagain and was reported to bepositive.
It may be mentioned herethat last week, a CCTVfootage was shown to thechief secretary of UP govern-ment, in which a ward boywas seen carrying out theCOVID-19 test.
The ward boys and safaikarmacharis had alleged thatthe senior doctors asked themto perform the test and neverentered the laboratory.
CMS Dr Richa Giri
claimed that the ward boy andsafai karmacharis had madethe video in mischief for fun.The issue had been sweptbeneath the carpet.
If the ward boys can playmischief in a time of pan-demic that too inside theCovid laboratory then onecan very well imagine themockery of the whole medicalprocess. The head oforthopaedics department saidthat he was shocked to findthat the trauma patient hadtested positive twice in a peri-od of one month and that tooin the same laboratory.
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Aloan mela was organised atNIC auditorium of the
Collectorate in which loansunder Pradhan Mantri RozgarSrijan Yojana, MukhyamantriYuva Swarozgar Yojana andAtmanirbhar Bharat Yojanawere distributed.
District Magistrate BRTiwari handed over thecheques to the beneficiaries.
He said the Central andstate governments were makingevery effort to provide loans todeserving people so that theycould become self-dependentand help the country inimproving economy and alsoproviding employment to theyouths.
Deputy Commissioner,Industry, Ashok Kumar saidthe scheme was implementedby Khadi and Village IndustriesCommission (KVIC) as thenodal agency at the nationallevel.
He said at the state level,the scheme was implementedthrough state KVIC direc-torates, state Khadi and VillageIndustries Boards (KVIBs) andDistrict Industries Centres(DICs) and banks.
He said the governmentsubsidy under the scheme wasrouted by KVIC through theidentified banks for eventualdistribution to the beneficiariesand entrepreneurs into theirbank accounts.
He added that MSMEscould upgrade their compe-tence in terms of business andtechnologies by getting ratedthrough independent,renowned and professional rat-ing agencies empanelled withNSIC.
He added that the maxi-mum cost of the project or unitadmissible in manufacturingsector was Rs 25 lakh and inbusiness or service sector it wasRs 10 lakh.
Under the PMEG plan, aloan of Rs 10 lakh was given toRamu Jaiswal for ready-madegarments. Abhinendra Pal wasextended a loan of Rs 8 lakh.for setting up a washing pow-der unit while Sanjay KumarJain was given a loan cheque ofRs 25 lakh for hosiery goods.
Naved Ali was given Rs 2lakh for ready-made garments,Mr BL Sahu a sum of Rs 5 lakh,Mr Biplab Gupta Rs 3 lakh foropening a medical store.
A total of Rs 423 lakh wasdistributed to 26 beneficiarieswhile for six beneficiaries loanamounting to Rs 86.70 lakhwere distributed.
Similarly, under the ChiefMinister Plan, 16 beneficiarieswere sanctioned Rs 248 lakhwhile for three beneficiarieswere sanctioned a sum of Rs 43lakh.
Under One District OneProduct scheme, eight benefi-ciaries were given Rs 17 lakhloan while for two beneficiariesa sum of Rs 20 lakh was given.
Under the PMEGProgramme, 11,101 beneficia-ries were given a sum of Rs139.32 crore as loans. Similarly,under Atmanirbhar BharatYojana, a total of Rs 63,243 wassanctioned while for 7,757beneficiaries a sum of Rs 25397lakh was distributed as loans.
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Chief Medical Officer Dr Anil K Mishra said that 364 morepeople tested positive for coronavirus infection betweenThursday evening and Friday evening, taking the tally to 7,811.
He said with 47 COVID-19 patients being discharged fromhospitals, 2,450 infected persons had been cured and there were4,508 active cases in the city. The CMO said with five more deathsin the city, the death toll stood at 256 on Friday. He said 2,984samples were taken for testing.
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In her complaint to DGPHC Awasthi with a copy toAdditional Chief Secretary(Home) Awanish Awasthi,Nutan said in the phone con-versation with his senior offi-cer, slain CO Devendra Misraand mentions about SOChaubepur taking Rs 1.50 lakhper month for allowing gam-bling in his area and the formerSSP allegedly having taken Rs5 lakh from Vinay Tiwari forletting him off on the com-plaint filed by the deceased CO.
Nutan said these acts ofVinay Tiwari and Anant Deowere clearly cognisable underthe Prevention of CorruptionAct, 1988. She said as AnantDeo was an IPS officer, an FIRcould be registered against himonly on the direction of theDGP.
Calling it an extremelyserious matter, Nutan soughtimmediate registration of theFIR.
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With the Assembly elec-tions less than a year
away the BJP on Friday mount-ed fresh attacks on the MamataBanerjee Government hold-ing it responsible for all rounddeterioration of socio-politicaland economic situation inBengal and asked the people tojoin the saffron outfit in hordesto effect a second Parivartan(change) in the State.
Firing salvos at the rulingTrinamool Congress party BJPpresident JP Nadda said“Bengal has gone into an
eclipse … today there is an allround deterioration in law andorder situation, the students donot get jobs , the farmers do notget right prices for their pro-duce.”
Calling the people to “jointhe BJP parivar” he said “todaycut money and corruptionsreigns supreme in Bengal andwhoever wants to protest iseither silenced by the goons orthe police. This situation can-not run for long and the peo-ple of the State have to comeforward to change the situationby allowing the BJP to take thelead in doing so.”
Nadda was speaking aheadof the beginning of a mem-bership drive by the saffronoutfit. The party on Fridaylaunched a massive member-ship drive keeling in view thenext year’s Assembly elections.
Speaking on the occasionBengal BJP president MP DilipGhosh said, “we (BJP arereferred to as a non-Bengaliparty … but they forget thatour main ideologue ShyamaPrasad Mukherjee was fromBengal … As the ViceChancellor of the CalcuttaUniversity he requested
Rabindranath Tagore to give alecture in Bengali … and todaythey say we are a party of non-Bengalis.”
Saying how “thousands ofpeople are joining the BJP notjust in Bengal but across thecountry” he accused the TMCof running a goonda raj sayinghow the TMC government wasindulging in vendetta politics.Ghosh said, “'Our supportersare not safe. Either BJP work-ers are homeless or in jails infalse cases. They are ruiningBengali traditions, culture andeducation system.”
Appealing to the TMC
supporters to join the BJP inhordes he said “you had oncedreamt of bringing a change inBengal not only by removingthe Marxist Government butalso by doing social work butyour dreams were shattered bythe present Government. Butwe want to assure you that yourdreams will come alive onceagain when you join the BJP …because after coming to powerwe will unleash a massivedevelopment drive in the State.”
The BJP has plans torecruit more than 3 crore mem-bers in the State in the comingone year or so.
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The ED has also summoned Chakraborty’sCA Ritesh Shah for questioning.
The ED has also summoned Shruti Modi,another accused in the case and Chakraborty’sbusiness manager besides Rajput’s friend androommate Siddharth Pithani for questioning inconnection with the money laundering probe,officials said. The duo’s statement will also berecorded under PMLA once they appear ontheir scheduled dates for Friday and Saturdayrespectively.
Pithani is said to be out of Mumbai at pre-sent and he has claimed in television news chan-nel interviews that he was present in the Bandraflat on June 14 when Rajput (34) was foundhanging from the ceiling.
Pithani, an IT professional, was reported-ly living with Rajput for about a year. His state-ment was also recorded by the Mumbai Policeas part of their accidental death probe in thecase. The agency has already questionedRajput’s Chartered Accountant (CA) SandeepShridhar and his business manager and stafferSamuel Miranda twice in the case.
The ED questioning revolved aroundChakraborty’s investments, business and pro-fessional deals and links. A property located inthe Khar area of Mumbai, linked toChakraborty, is also being probed by the EDfor the source of its purchase and ownership,sources said.
Sources said Rhea submitted her income taxreturn and related papers to show that sheacquired the properties from her own money.
Meanwhile, the CBI that has taken over thePatna police FIR in Rajput’s death case hasbegun analysing the documents in the case andis awaiting the case diary from the Bihar police.The agency is also taking legal opinions on var-ious issues before a team will be sent to Mumbaifor investigation. The CBI has also soughtdetails of the case being probed by the Mumbaipolice under CrPC section relating to accidentaldeath.
Interestingly, the CBI has entrusted the caseto the Anti-Corruption Unit instead of theSpecial Crimes Unit that usually probes suchsensational death cases. The CBI team com-prises two IPS officers from Gujarat cadre JointDirector Manoj Sasidhar and DIG GagandeepGambhir and the Investigating OfficerAdditional Superintendant of Police AnilKumar Yadav has in the past probed the HarenPandya murder case. Another team member SSRathi was an IO in the Israt Jehan encountercase probe.
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On a day when she, her brother ShowikChakraborty and ex-manager Shruti Modi werequestioned by the ED officials in Mumbai, hercall records apparently leaked to the media bythe investigating agencies sparked all kinds ofspeculation in the electronic media.
Among other things, she had made 25 callsto Sushant between January 20 and January 24,2020 when the actor was with his sister Raniin Chandigarh. Rhea spoke to her mentor andfilmmaker Mahesh Bhatt 16 times in a year overthe phone, while she conversed with Uday SinghGauri for 22 times and Bollywood actor AdityaRoy Kapur 23 times.
Over a period of one year, Rhea had spo-ken to her father Indrajeet Chakraborty at least1,192 times, her brother 1,069 times but only145 times with late Sushant and 4 times withhis sister Rani. However, she spoke to 287 timeswith the late actor’s domestic help SamuelMiranda. She spoke to several others, includ-ing Modi, 791 times, with Sushant’s friends likeSiddharth Pithani 100 times and DeepeshSawant 41 times.
She also talked on the phone with DreamHome Real Estate firm 23 times in the past year.
She made four calls and sent a message inJune-July to Mumbai Deputy Commissioner ofPolice Abhishek Trimukhe, who is investigat-ing the case. While it is too early to contextu-alise Rhea call data records and their impor-tance in the ongoing investigations into theRajput suicide case, the electronic media hada field day dissecting the call data records toadd sensation to the ongoing media blitzkriegover the investigations into the actor’s death.
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Big boulders are also scattered around thesite. Idukki District Collector H Dinesh said thatthe bodies of the victims had been retrieved and12 have been rescued with injuries and shift-ed to hospital. “Most of the people are planta-tion workers and from neighbouring TamilNadu”, he said. The tragedy came to light aftera forest watchman informed authorities aboutthe landslide. The communication lines havebeen down in the area since the past three days.The injured have been rushed to Tata GeneralHospital. Police and fire force personnel andlocal people first took up the rescue operationsamid the rains while the NDRF teams weredeployed soon.
According to local residents who were thefirst to reach the site, 58 persons have beenwashed away by the flood waters and thechances of finding them are remote.
Elsewhere in Kerala, heavy rains lashedacross the State, uprooting trees and electrici-ty poles resulting in power supply failure andcommunication breakdown. Transport networkin the State, especially in the districts ofIdukki, Kottayam, Pathanamthitta, Wayanadu,Thrissur and Palakkadu have been affected.Besides Munnar, towns of Pala, Ranni and
Erumeli have been flooded. The Indian Meteorological Departtment
(IMD) has forecast extremely heavy rainfall forthe next two days in the State. Chances are thatthe State would receive rainfall in excess of 204.5mm in 24 hours and this could result in flood,said the IMD. Red alert has been declared inthe districts of Idukki, Thrissur, Palakkad andWayandu for Saturday.
Munnar MLA S Rajendran told the mediaearlier in the day that it was difficult to reachthe spot as a bridge which provided access tothe area was washed away in the rain.
“At least 200-300 people live there. Thereare many lanes and a canteen at the location.Since one of the bridges to that area wasdestroyed last night, it has become difficult toaccess the region,” he said.
The State health department has dis-patched 15 ambulances and a special medicalteam to provide medical assistance to the vic-tims of the landslide. The office of ChiefMinister Pinarayi Vijayan said it has contact-ed the Indian Air Force seeking its helicopterfor the rescue mission.
“NDRF has been deployed for the rescueoperations in Idukki. The team was already sta-tioned at the district. Another NDRF team isalso being moved to Idukki,” Vijayan said in aFacebook post.
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out search and rescue operations, but heavyrains and local conditions are hampering it.
As per the information provided by the res-cue teams, one priest had vacated the house andshifted to Bhagamandala, while another wasresiding near the hills with his family, a releasefrom the Kodagu Deputy Commissioner said.“The information received is that five peopleresiding in one house are missing, they are priestNarayana Achar (about 80), his wife Shanta(about 70), his elder brother AnandateerthaSwami (about 86 years) and two assistant priestsPavan and Ravi Kiran,” it said
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At the outset, Mehta referred to the “unfor-tunate incident” of killing of two Indian fish-ermen and said earlier there were two issues –one was whether Indian Government have theright to prosecute these marines and the otherregarding compensation to kin of victims.
He referred to the recent ruling of thePermanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at theHague which held that India is entitled to getcompensation in the case but can’t prosecutethe marines due to official immunity enjoyedby them. “You are here after the tribunal’s award.You have accepted it and you are not ques-tioning it anywhere,” the bench observed.
It said there is “legal difficult” as this doesnot take care of the adequate compensationwhich is required to be paid to the family mem-bers of victims. “I can bring the family mem-bers here,” Mehta told the bench, adding thatthe government will ensure that maximumcompensation is paid to them.
“That (payment of adequate compensation)must happen before we pass order,” the benchsaid, adding, “You will have to bring the chequehere in this court and close the matter”.
The top court has listed the matter for hear-ing after four weeks. On July 3, the Centremoved the top court seeking closure of judi-cial proceedings here against the two Italianmarines accused of killing Indian fishermen,off the Kerala coast.
In February 2012, India had accused twoItalian marines, Salvatore Girone andMassimiliano Latorre, on board the MV EnricaLexie — an Italian flagged oil tanker — of killingtwo Indian fishermen who were on a fishingvessel in India’s Exclusive Economic Zone(EEZ). The Centre said the arbitration underUnited Nation Convention on the Law of Sea(UNCLOS), which was instituted on a requestfrom Italy, has delivered its Award on May 21,2020.
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Under the COVAX umbrella, Gavi is lead-ing a COVAX Facility, which is expected to pro-vide Governments with the opportunity to ben-efit from a “large” portfolio of Covid-19 can-didate vaccines developed using a range of tech-nology platforms. Under the new collaboration,AstraZeneca’s candidate vaccine, if successful,will be available to 57 Gavi-eligible countries.Novavax’s candidate, if successful, will beavailable to all 92 countries supported by theAMC, according to SII.
Novavax late on Wednesday announced anagreement with SII. The tie-up allows the Indianfirm exclusive rights to supply the vaccine inIndia and non-exclusive rights “during the pan-demic period” to supply to countries that arenot designated “upper-middle or high-income”by the World Bank.
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Government to their demand.The workers under the banner of ten trade
unions including INTUC, AITUC, HMS,CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF,UTUC are protesting inadequate assistancefrom the government in the fight against Covid-19, including lack of safety equipment, paymentof salary and even risk allowance. The work-ers are also opposing moves to privatise basicservices at government hospitals and in nutri-tion schemes.
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The Tinamool Congress on Fridayrejected claims made by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi that the Stateor its Government was consulted beforebringing about the new education pol-icy (NEP).
Speaking about the issue, BengalEducation Minister Partha Chatterjeesaid that “no one from Bengal was con-sulted on the New Educational Policy”and added whether anyone was pri-vately consulted was beyond his knowl-
edge. "Insofar as the new education pol-icy is concerned … to my knowledge,nothing has happened no one was con-sulted … not even a single time … withrespect to our honourable PrimeMinister (Narendra Modi) I can saywith my full voice that none fromBengal was included.”
Regarding the draft resolution ofthe NEP he said it is being said that “dis-cussions were held with states for 3 to4 years but no such discussion tookplace” and added “may be discussionwas held with someone but not with us."
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Reaching out to the common people ofJammu & Kashmir the newly appoint-
ed Lieutenant Governor of Jammu &Kashmir Manoj Sinha on Friday clearlyspelt out his mission in the UT will be tobring peace, end militancy and to ensuredevelopment by all means. Sinha alsoemphasised his priority would be zero tol-erance for corruption besides establish-ing dialogue with the people of Jammuand Kashmir.
Interacting with the media personssoon after he was administered the oathof office by the Chief Justice of Jammu andKashmir High Court Gita Mittal, Sinhasaid, “J&K is India’s heaven and crown. Ihave been given a chance to play a rolehere. August 5 is a historic day and willbe remembered in history". Referring tohis brief interaction with the section ofsenior officers, Sinha said, "I met someofficers and they told me that in the pastone year, there has been a lot of develop-ment in all sectors. I will take forward the
same process of development with a speedand vigor". Interestingly, the oath cere-mony was attended by only BJP andJammu and Kashmir Apni party leaders.None of the representatives of theNational Conference, Peoples DemocraticParty and Congress attended the oath cer-emony. Listing out his priority areas, Sinhasaid, “I have no specific agenda and therewill be no disparity. There will be equaltreatment to all. And we will work for thewelfare of people of J&K. I will try on thatfront and I have spoken to some officersin that regard already". "I will be in touchwith the media too besides common peo-ple of J&K,” he added. The Lt Governorfurther said that he would like to seeJammu & Kashmir free from militancyand isolation. “We will work within theframework of the Constitution of India totake J&K towards inclusive developmentand peace. We will also initiate dialoguewith the masses to have a better under-standing of their problems and issues, andwill try to address the same”, he said in areply to one of the questions.
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For the first time since the goldsmuggling scam hit the head-
lines, Kerala Chief MinisterPinarayi Vijayan lost his cool ina Press briefing on Friday andissued a stern warning to jour-nalists ‘who were out to discredithim in public life’.
“There is a media syndicateworking in the State with anintention to tarnish my image.The people in the State knowabout me. However hard youtry, you will not succeed in yourattempts,” said a visibly upsetVijayan when he was askedabout reports attributing to theNational Investigation Agencythat appeared in a section of themedia.
Some media houses hadreported quoting a statementmade by the NIA to the SpecialCourt that Swapna Suresh, thekingpin in the smuggling rack-et, was known to Vijayan andshe had wielded influence in theChief Minister’s Office. TheChief Minister who was takenaback by the question gave thereporter a piece of his mind inharshest terms. He warned thejournalist not to attempt to getan answer from him to suit theformer’s convenience.
The press briefing, con-vened to inform the mediaabout the Covid-19 updateended in a not so pleasant noteas a section of the media personsexpressed their displeasure inprivate over the ire of the ChiefMinister when faced with incon-venient questions.
Jammu: A civilian was killed and 5 othersreceived injuries during ‘unprovoked’ ceasefireviolation by the Pakistan Army along the lineof control in Tangdhar sector of NorthKashmir's Kupwara district on Friday. Pakistanarmy also resorted to ceasefire violations in theBalakote and Krishna Ghati sectors of Poonchat different intervals during the day.
According to ground reports, Pakistan
Army targeted several civilian pockets and hitresidential structures using long range mortarsand other weapons. Hitting back, the Indianarmy gave them a befitting reply.
Srinagar based Defence PRO, Col RajeshKalia said, "Pakistan initiated an UnprovokedCeasefire Violation (CFV) Friday morningalong the LoC in Tangdhar Sector of Kupwaraby firing mortars & other weapons".
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The Congress and the BJPon Friday continued to
spar publicly levelling ‘youlove China’ allegations againsteach other.
The Congress on Fridaymaintained its pressure onPrime Minister NarendraModi over the “Chinese incur-sion” by directly attacking himbesides the BJP for just craft-ing an image and spendingmillions of rupees to win elec-tions. The party also ques-tioned the influence Chinawields on Indian establish-ments and why the BJP tookBeijing’s help in the Lok Sabhaelections by sharing vital dataof Indian citizens with it.
The Congress said Modi’slove for China is now visible tothe world and this dates backto his tenure as the GujaratChief Minister in Gujarat. Theparty also quipped that foreignpolicy does not mean that thePrime Minister is constantly onaeroplane mode.
Why did you compromisethe data security and privacy ofcrores of Indians by involvingChinese companies linked tothe PLA,” Congress spokesper-son Pawan Khera said at theAICC press conference.
The party shared docu-ments about BJP having part-nered with those Chinese com-
panies who have now beenbanned by the Government fortheir links with the Chineseestablishment.
“UC Web Mobile gotbanned in July this year. In2019, according to the expen-diture report submitted by theBJP to the ElectionCommission, they hired thisvery company to run theircampaign. It is the sameAlibaba-owned company –UC Web Browser – which wasalso red- flagged by the Modigovt in 2017 for sending cru-cial data of Indians to China.What was the compulsion ofinvolving the same companyfor elections which you had redflagged two years ago,” Kheraquestioned.
There is another companycalled Gamma Gaana Limited(Tencent of China). Po ShuYueng, one of the directors ofthis company is also the direc-tor in 10c India pvt ltd.Gamma Gaana Ltd is fundedby Tencent. Last month, thegovernment banned it sayingthe company was directly con-nected with the PLA. Thiscompany too was used by theBJP in the 2019 Lok Sabhaelections, the Congress alleged.
According to the Congress,the third company calledShareIT Technology has an appcalled ShareIT. It was bannedby the Government last month
for being a threat to the ‘sov-ereignty and integrity of India’but it was also hired by the BJPin elections last year, the
Congress charged.“Our Prime Minister craft-
ed an image for himself – animage of a leader who before
2014, roared on issues of bor-der security. Several companieswere roped in, spending croresof rupees to create this image
of Modi. The investment paidoff and Modi and his party gotsubstantial electoral gains too.But today, we see the same
man running for cover when itcomes to the issue of Chineseincursions into Indian territo-ry,” the party said in a state-
ment a day after formerCongress chief Rahul Gandhiaccused the PM of lying on theissue.
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With the Congress attack-ing the Prime Minister,
BJP president J P Nadda onFriday took to the field againto direct his volleys at hisCongress counterpart SoniaGandhi and her predecessorRahul Gandhi. Nadda soughtan explanation from themabout their party’sMemorandum ofUnderstanding (MOU) withChina in 2008 saying even theSupreme Court has expressedsurprise on it.
The BJP’s attacks on theCongress have heightened withRahul’s continued questioningof Chinese “incursions” on
the Line of Actual Control inEast Ladakh.
Nadda in a tweet cited theobservations of the SupremeCourt on a Public InterestLitigation (PIL) and sought anexplanation from Sonia andRahul.
“Even the SC is surprisedat the MoU signed by theCongress party with theChinese Gov… Mrs Gandhi &her son, who led the signing,must explain. Does this explaindonations to RGF and openingIndian market for the Chinesein return, which affectedIndian businesses?” he tweet-ed.
Nadda’s remark came afterthe Supreme Court refused toentertain a PIL seeking NIAprobe into the alleged 2008agreement between theCongress and the CommunistParty of China.
The apex court asked thepetitioner to file his plea before
the High Court, but expressedsurprise how a political partycould enter into an agreementwith China.
BJP’s national spokesmanSambit Patra who referred tohis party president’s tweet alsoasked Congress leaders toexplain the nature of the MoUand the alleged dealings withChina.
He alleged that even dur-ing the Doklam border stand-off with China, Congress lead-ers’ conduct was suspect. Inline with Nadd’a assertions,Patra said Sonia and Rahulneed to clarify their dealingswith Beijing.
He also wondered whethera national party could sign anMoU with a political party ofa foreign nation.
The BJP spokesman saidaccording to the MoU, both theparties were to exchange infor-mation on all regional andinternational issues.
New Delhi: The SupremeCourt Friday refused to enter-tain a PIL seeking NIA probeinto the alleged 2008 agree-ment between the IndianNational Congress and theCommunist Party of China.
A bench, headed by ChiefJustice S A Bobde, asked seniorlawyer Mahesh Jethmalaniappearing for PIL petitionersShashank Shekhar Jha andjournalist Savio Rodrigues, towithdraw the plea andapproach the high court.
“Every relief which you areseeking can be granted by thehigh court. Secondly, highcourt is a proper court. Thirdly,we will have the advantage ofhigh court order also,” said thebench, which also comprisedJustices A S Bopanna and VRamasubramanian.
The top court, in the hear-ing conducted through videoconferencing, allowed the peti-tioners to “withdraw the peti-tion with liberty to approachthe high court.”
At the outset, Jethmalanialleged that it was an “agree-ment between a political partyof this country with the onlypolitical party in that country(China)” and the issue per-tained to national security.
“We find that there issomething which appears tobe, what might be called,unheard of and absurd in law.You are saying that China hasentered into an agreementwith a political party and not
the Government. How can apolitical party enter into anagreement with China,” thebench observed.
On being stressed by thelawyer that this was the case,the bench said, “We will allowyou to withdraw this and file afresh petition. We will exam-ine what you say in the petitionand if we find any false state-ment, we may prosecute you”.
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Outlining that there has notbeen any allegation of bias
against the New EducationPolicy (NEP) unveiled by hisGovernment, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Friday saidthat it has the potential to notonly change the education sys-tem but to also transform theentire nation. He said the NEPwill be the foundation of the‘New India’, one that focuses on“how to think” rather than“what to think” that was beingstressed upon till now.
Addressing a conclave on‘Transformational Reforms inHigher Education underNational Education Policy’,Modi also spoke on the con-tentious issue of mothertongue as the mode of teach-ing in the initial years.Justifying it, the PM said, “Weneed to make our studentsglobal citizens and yet be root-ed in their culture. The learn-ing power of students will
improve if the language theyspeak in and the language inwhich lessons are taught inschool is the same. That is whywe have recommended teach-ing in the mother tongue as faras possible - at least class 5.This will strengthen their foun-dation.”.
Lauding the NEP, he saidthe fact that there was no alle-gation from any region or seg-ment that it had any kind ofbias or inclination is an indi-cator that the “changes peoplewanted to see for years in theeducation system, they havegot to see”.
Asking all stakeholders todiscuss the ways to imple-ment the new policy, the PMsaid: “In recent years, therehave not been major changesin education and thus the val-ues of curiosity and imagina-tion were not given the thrust.Instead, we moved towards aherd community. The mappingof interest, ability, and demandwas needed. We need to devel-op critical thinking and inno-vative thinking abilities in ouryouths. It will be possible if wehave purpose, philosophy, andpassion of education.”
The PM said studentsshould get a chance to followtheir passion. “We are also try-
ing to ensure that the talent ofIndia stays in India and worksfor the development of gener-ations to come, said PM.
“With changing time, anew global system has risen.Thus, it was essential for Indiato change its education systemaccordingly. Creating a5+3+3+4 curriculum, andreplacing the 10+2 structurewas a step in this direction.
“Often students find thatwhat they have learned is notin line with their job. Thus, togive flexibility to students wehave given multiple entriesand exit points.
We have also freed educa-tion from the stream system.Students will have the flexibil-ity to change their course ifthey do not think it is right forthem. We are moving fromthinking when a person is notglued to one profession for theentire lifetime and hence s/heneeds to skill, re-skill andupskill. These issues are part ofNEP,” the PM said about themain features of the NEP. Headded that NEP shifts focusfrom what to think to how tothink.
“Till now, we havefocussed on what to think butNEP 2020 focuses on how tothink,” he pointed out.
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Do not let your guarddown”, is what researchers
have warned patients whohave recovered from the coro-navirus infection. For, theysaid, the road to recovery forinfection-recovered patientsmay take months and needvital specialist rehabilitation toensure quality life.
The researchers found thatinfection-free patients facedone or many health issues likefatigue, breathlessness, psy-chological distress - includingproblems with concentrationand memory - and a generaldecline in quality of life.
The research team -involving multidisciplinaryspecialists from the Universityof Leeds, Leeds TeachingHospitals NHS Trust, LeedsCommunity Healthcare NHSTrust and Leeds BeckettUniversity – had followed 100Covid-recovered patients four-to-eight weeks after being dis-charged from hospital.
The findings, ‘Post-dis-charge symptoms and reha-bilitation needs in survivors ofCOVID-19 infection: a cross-sectional evaluation’, have beenpublished in the Journal ofMedical Virology.
It holds importance alsofor India where the
Government has been main-taining that the recovery rateis on the higher side littlefocussing on life after Covid-19 that is not the same forinfection-free patients.
The researchers identifieda pattern of longer-term symp-toms likely to be experiencedby people who were hospi-talised with the Covid-19infection.
Some patients, particular-ly those who had been inintensive care, had symptomsassociated with cases of PTSD(post-traumatic stress disor-der). PTSD symptoms are awell-recognised componentof post- intensive care unitsyndrome caused by a varietyof factors including fear ofdying, invasive treatment,pain, delirium, inability tocommunicate, weakness,
immobility, and sensory prob-lems and sleep deprivation.
Dr Manoj Sivan, AssociateClinical Professor at theUniversity of Leeds and aConsultant in RehabilitationMedicine at Leeds GeneralInfirmary, who supervised theresearch project, said: “Theemerging evidence is that forsome, the road to recoverymay take months and it is vitalthat specialist rehabilitation ison hand to support them.This research gives an impor-tant insight into patient needs,and that will help shape ser-vices in the community.”
More than two-thirds(68.8 percent) of patients inthe intensive care group andjust under half (45.6 percent)of the other group said theiroverall quality of life had dete-riorated.
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In a move to give access tostreet vendors who do not
have Identity Card (ID) andCertificate of Vending (CoV),the Ministry of Housing andUrban Affairs on Fridaylaunched a Letter ofRecommendation (LoR) mod-ule to provide benefit to streetvendors under the PMSVANidhi scheme. Those whoare not included in any surveylist also get benefitted from theLoR module.
The module provides foran end-to-end digitally-enabledprocess wherein an eligiblevendor can request for a Letterof Recommendation from theUrban Local Body and onreceipt of the same he/ she canapply for the loan under PMSVANidhi. Durga ShankerMishra, Secretary , Ministry ofHousing and Urban Affairs,launched the module.
According to the ministry,for applying for the LoR fromULB through the online mod-ule on PM SVANidhi portal, avendor needs to possess anyone of the documents: Proof ofavailing one -time assistance,provided by certain States /UTs,during the period of lock-down; or the membershipdetails with the vendors’ asso-
ciations; and any other docu-ments to prove that he is a ven-dor. Further, a vendor can alsorequest ULB through a simpleapplication on white paper toconduct local enquiry to ascer-tain the genuineness of theclaim as vendor. ULBs willhave to dispose of the requestfor issue of LoR within a peri-od of 15 days.
The vendors possessingLoR will be issued Certificateof Vending / ID Card within aperiod of 30 days. This provi-sion will help in extendingreach of the Scheme to themaximum number of benefi-ciaries.
Since commencement ofonline submission of loanapplications on PM SVANidhiportal, more than 4.45 lakhapplications have been receivedand over 82,000 have beensanctioned in different Statesand UTs.
This scheme targets tobenefit over 50 lakh StreetVendors who had been vend-ing on or before 24 March,2020, in urban areas includingthose from surrounding peri-urban/ rural areas. Under theScheme, the vendors can availa working capital loan of up toRs 10,000, which is repayable inmonthly instalments in thetenure of one year.
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India on Friday openedinternational travel to
and from the USA, theUK, Germany andFrance.
The Union HomeMinistry said thatIndians can also go tothese countries and for-eigners including OCIswith valid visa can nowtravel to these nations andcome to India. India’s CivilAviation Ministry has enteredinto an “air bubble agreement”with the USA, the UK,Germany and France. TheMinistry said that soon morecountries will be in this bilat-eral agreement of air travelknown as ‘air bubble agree-ment’ in the wake of Covid-19situation.
In the order, Union HomeMinistry said that allowingtravel will be subject to healthchecks and only applicable tothose who are not havingCovid-19 and other normsstipulated by the Civil AviationMinistry. The MHA also saidthat the travelers must havevalid visa. “Ministry of HomeAffairs has permitted OCIcardholders to enter India whobelong to countries with which“air bubble” arrangements have
been finalised by the Ministryof Civil Aviation. Other for-eigners from these countrieshave also been allowed to availIndian visa facility for business,medical & employment pur-poses. Indian citizens have alsobeen allowed to travel to suchcountries on any type of visa,”said MHA in a statement.
The Civil AviationMinistry, for its part, said thatDelhi Airport has developednew features in their portal forinternational travelers for “con-tact-less declarations”. TheDelhi International AirportLimited (DIAL) announcedthat it has developed a first-of-its-kisnd portal where India-bound international arrivingflyers can fill the mandatoryself-declaration form and alsoapply online for exemptionfrom mandatory institutionquarantine process.
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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) on
Friday conducted search-es at 17 locations inDelhi, Ludhiana, Jammuand Srinagar in connec-tion with the J&K Bankloan fraud case involvingHilal Ahmed Rather in amoney laundering case worth�177.68 crore. Hilal is son offormer Minister Abdul RahimRather, who served as Finance,Agriculture, RuralDevelopment, Law andParliamentary Affairs Ministerunder the NationalConference-led government inthe erstwhile State.
The investigation underthe Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act was initiatedon the basis of an FIR regis-tered by the Anti-CorruptionBureau, Jammu.
“Investigation conductedby ED revealed that a loan ofRs 177.68 crores was sanc-tioned by the J&K bank, with-out verifying documents andin violation of guidelines ofRBI, to Paradise Avenue forconstruction of a residentialhousing project in Jammu,” theagency said in a statement.
A substantial part of theloan was siphoned off by HilalRather by transferring the
funds from the loan account ofParadise Avenue to variousentities and rerouting thefunds back to the firm’s cur-rent account from where it wasfurther withdrawn and trans-ferred for purchase of mov-able/immovable assets inIndia, Dubai and USA, the EDsaid.
The funds were also spenton foreign tours and other per-sonal activities of Rather. Asmany as three flats in thename of Hilal Rather andfamily members were acquiredin Dubai and one Bungalowwas acquired in the name ofHilal Rather and his wife inNorth Carolina, USA, theagency saud.
The residences of AbdulRahim Rather in Srinagar andHilal Rather in Jammu wereamong the premises searchedby the ED. Several incrimi-nating documents and digitalevidence have been seizedduring the search operations,the agency added.
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Disposing of acomplaint of
M a h a r a s h t r aCongress leaderSachin Sawantquestioning pro-cedures forappointment ofState ChiefElectoral OfficerBaldev Singh in2019, the ElectionC o m m i s s i o n(EC) on Fridaysaid no action is needed in thematter as the appointment wasdone after consultation with theState Government. “Singh hadbeen rated outstanding in hisperformance appraisal recordsduring the five years of his ser-vice prior to his appointment,”the EC said.
“The Commission havingduly considered the matter,does not find any reason fortaking any action in the matter.The CEO’s appointment is donein consultation with the con-cerned state government/unionterriotory wherein a panel ofofficers is furnished to the pollbody,” the EC said in a letteraddressed to Sawant.
The EC further said thatBaldev Singh, a 1989 batch IASofficer of Maharashtra cadrewas appointed by the
Commission following dueprocedure wherein the StateGovernment had clarified thathe was clear from the vigilanceangle and as per records, hehad been rated outstanding inhis performance appraisalreports during the five years ofhis service prior to hisappointment as CEO,Maharashtra.
Sawant has alleged thatSingh was facing an inquiryinitiated by CVC and the min-istry of industry and com-merce in an alleged irregular-ity in SEEPZ SEZ. Sawantquestioned why the credentialsof the CEO were not cross-checked while appointing himto the post and whether theElection Commission of Indiawas working under pressure ofthe Bharatiya Janata Party.
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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) on Friday
conducted searches at multiplelocations in various cities inconnection with a moneylaundering case relating toalleged corruption in the pur-chase of 75 Pilatus basic train-er aircraft for the Indian AirForce (IAF) in 2009.
The searches were con-ducted at 14 premises includ-ing a dozen in the nationalcapital and one each inGurgaon and Surat, officialssaid.
The ED had initiated amoney laundering case toprobe the deal and is carryingout the search operation togather evidence under thePrevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA), theysaid.
The case involvesabsconding arms deal brokerand alleged middleman SanjayBhandari, who is already fac-ing separate ED and CBIprobes for corruption andalleged possession of unde-clared assets in the countryand abroad.
Bhandari is suspected tobe staying in the UK at presentand the ED is in the process ofinitiating extradition pro-ceedings against him.
The CBI had filed a crim-inal case in the Rs 2,895 crore
Pilatus deal in June last year.The PMLA case was
lodged by the ED after takingcognisance of the CBI FIR toprobe the money launderingangle in the case and allegedcreation and generation ofillegal assets by the accused.
The CBI had namedBhandari as an accused in thecase along with unidentifiedofficials of the Indian AirForce, the Defence Ministryand Switzerland-based PilatusAircraft Limited in the case.The Swiss company was one ofthe bidders for the contractfloated in 2009.
The CBI has alleged thatPilatus had entered into acriminal conspiracy withBhandari and Bimal Sareen,both directors of Offset IndiaSolutions Pvt Ltd, and dis-honestly and fraudulentlysigned a Service ProviderAgreement with Bhandari inJune 2010 in violation of theDefence ProcurementProcedure, 2008.
The deal was allegedlydone to get the contract forsupply of 75 basic TrainerAircraft to the IAF.
The agency had allegedthat the company made a pay-ment of CHF 1,000,000 in theaccount of Offset IndiaSolution Private Limited withthe Standard Chartered Bank,New Delhi in two tranches inAugust and October, 2010.
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The COVID-19 pandem-ic has affected humanbehaviour throughoutthe world, causing newfocal points of irritation
to emerge and the old ones to inten-sify, sometimes to levels whereviolence follows inevitably. This, inturn, is the result of the fear of catch-ing the disease and boredom causedby prolonged confinement at home,either by choice or compulsion cre-ated by lockdowns. Moods markedby irritation and anger intensify oldanimosities and create new ones.An example is the resurgence ofhatred towards stray dogs, who havebeen an integral part of India’surban and rural population centressince the time of the Ramayana andthe Mahabharata, if not earlier.
Directly or indirectly, animalsand creatures that live in water orthe sky feature prominently in thephilosophy of the Upanishads andthe narratives of the Vedas, BrahmaSutra, the Puranas and the epics,Ramayana and Mahabharata.Examples are many, but two well-known ones merit a mention. InMahabharata’s MahaprasthanikaParva (The Chapter of the GreatDeparture), a small brown dogbegan to follow the five Pandavasand Draupadi as they began theirfinal journey out of this world. Oneby one, Draupadi and fourPandavas fell dead as they climbedMount Meru. Yudhisthir, the eldestPandava, and the dog marched on.Suddenly Indra, the king of gods,appeared in his flying chariot andsaid that he had come to takeYudhisthir to heaven in his mortalbody. Assured that Draupadi andhis four brothers were alreadythere and well, he asked whether thedog could come with him. On beingtold that heaven had no place for adog, he refused to go without thelatter. It was then that the dogappeared in his true self as Dharma,the God of Virtue, and said this wasYudhisthir’s final test. He would nothave been able to enter heaven aliveif he had agreed to abandon the dog.
This account is widely knownand cited. Another incident isfound in the Bengali translation ofthe Saptakanda Ramayana (TheRamayana in Seven Parts) byKrittibas Ojha. It happened whenRam, after defeating Ravan andsending Sita to sage Valmiki’s her-mitage, was holding court inAyodhya with Lakshman guardingthe entrance. A white dog with redeyes, lame in one leg and limping,with thick patches of congealed
blood on his head, indicatingthat it has hit with a stick, cameand touched Lakshman’s feet.Asked why he had come, he saidhe would relate the cause of hissorrow to Ram if the lattergranted him an audience.
Told of the dog’s request byLakshman, Ram asked for thedog to be brought before himforthwith. Arriving in Ram’spresence, he began to sing theformer’s praise with folded handsand head bowed. Asked aboutthe reason for his coming, hesaid, “A sanyasi (a mendicantascetic who has renounced theworld) has hit me for no fault ofmine. Distressed and hurt afterbeing hit, I have come to yourcourt after starving for threedays. The court should please askthe sanyasi what was my faultthat he should have hit me witha stick?” Ram said that thesanyasi should be broughtimmediately before him so thatthe court could judge. Howcould a sanyasi be cruel to ananimal? (All quotations are fromSaptakanda Ramayana translat-ed from Bengali to English bythis author).
The dog, who accompa-nied Ram’s messenger, identifiedthe sanyasi as he was broughtbefore Ram, who asked, “Whyhave you abandoned your dhar-ma and are cruel to animals?One who perpetrates adharmahas to live in hell. What kind ofrenunciation is yours when yourbody is so full of anger?Castigation of others and malev-olence towards others are gravesins. A terrible hell is the pun-ishment for a cruel and malev-olent sanyasi. A sage who has
given up greed, illusion anddesire, is respected in this world.And, though a sanyasi, you sud-denly burst into anger! What wasthe fault of the dog that you hithim with a stick?”
The ascetic replied, “I wentto the town for alms after recit-ing prayers on the banks of theGanga during the whole day.Begging for alms, the wholebody burning with hunger, Ifound the dog lying in frontoccupying the whole road. Iloudly asked him go give way buthe pretended not to hear. He wasasleep with one eye closed andlooked at me with the other. Ibecame angry and hit him on thehead with a stick. Now that Ihave said all this before the court,you decide what punishment togive me.”
On being asked by Ramabout the punishment, thecourtiers said that the sanyasishould be barred from bathingin the Ganges. At this, the dogsaid that he should not be pun-ished but made the ruler of thekingdom of Kalinjar. Thecourtiers laughed as Ram madethe sanyasi the king of Kalinjar.Climbing onto the back of anelephant, his splendourenhanced by the royal sceptre,the sanyasi began travelling hap-pily towards Kalinjar as peoplelaughed at his attire — a loin-cloth — with the royal umbrel-la over his head.
Asked by the courtiers as towhy was the kingdom given tothe sanyasi when the idea was topunish him, Ram directed themto the dog, who said, “Under acurse by Lord Shiva, death doesnot alter the king’s destiny to be
reborn as a dog…I was the kingin the previous birth and now Ihave been reborn as a dog andsuffered much. But having seenyou, I will now escape from mytorment.” While everybody saidthat the sanyasi’s worldly posses-sions have now increased, thedog said, “Have no doubt, who-ever becomes the king ofKalinjar becomes a dog in hisnext birth.” He then didnamaskar to Ram and walkedslowly to Varanasi where he fast-ed to death and attained heav-en because he had seen Ram.
Ram’s statement that a “ter-rible hell is the punishment fora cruel and malevolent sanyasi”has an echo in a passage inSkanda V, chapter 26 of SrimadBhagavata: The Holy Book ofGod. It reads, “God has given dif-ferent forms of livelihood tocreatures. Some of these may goagainst the interests of man. Butman should not retaliate againstthese creatures for two reasons.They are not endowed with thecapacity to know that they aredoing injury to man; and next,man knows that they will beinjured if he retaliates. A personwho injures lower creations forselfish purposes goes to a pur-gatory called Andhakupa andthere he will have to live in a lowtype of body, attacked by thecreatures he had injured. Indarkness, without sleep, andrestless, he will have to drag ona wretched existence.”(Translated by SwamiTapasyananda).
The passage quoted fromThe Srimad Bhagavata: The HolyBook of God applies especially tothose who inveigh ceaselessly
about the “menace” posed bystray dogs. They can neither seethe role the latter play as sen-tinels, whose barking alerts peo-ple against the arrival of thieves,robbers and terrorists/insur-gents. Precisely for this reason,terrorists in some areas ofJammu & Kashmir and Maoistsin parts of central India haveasked villagers to kill all dogs intheir areas.
In the present situation,how many of India’s stray doghaters have tried to understandhow the COVID-19 pandemichas turned the lives of thesecanines completely upsidedown? It has been said oftenenough to become common-place knowledge that the closureof hotels, dhabas and restaurantshave deprived vast numbers ofthem of their food. It is not justthe left-overs thrown intogarbage bins that they miss.Many of them, who had been fedregularly by the staff and own-ers of these eating places, havenow to fend for themselves —something to which they havegrown unused.
Finally, how many haters ofstray dogs have any idea of thelove and loyalty that most dogsunconditionally lavish on peo-ple? Not surprisingly, KonradLorenz writes in Man Meets Dog,“The whole charm of the dog liesin the depth of friendship andthe strength of spiritual tieswith which he has tied himselfto man.” Author of the landmarkbook On Aggression and perhapsthe best-known authority on ani-mal behaviour, he should know.
(The writer is ConsultantEditor, The Pioneer, and author)
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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Now Pak in map war”(August 6). Close on the heels ofNepal’s issuance of a map show-ing Lipulekh, Kalapani andLimpiyadhura under its territo-ry, Pakistan has released a terri-torially misleading map thatincludes the former princelyState of Junagadh (Gujarat) andKashmir. This prompted a quickresponse from India’s Ministry ofExternal Affairs, which termed it“an exercise in political absurdi-ty.”
Pakistan Prime MinisterImran Khan claimed that themap represented the aspirationsof the whole nation and all itspolitical parties. It is likely thatPakistan has China’s blessings inproducing the map given simi-lar border claims by Nepalrecently. Pakistan has expressedits frustration through a series ofsteps that coincided with the firstanniversary of the abrogation ofArticle 370. It had announcedthat August 5 would be observedas “day of exploitation” even asthe Khan Government againfailed to persuade the UNSecurity Council to come up
with a resolution on Kashmirdespite having China on its side.The FATF has decided to keepPakistan on the “grey” list as itfailed to check the flow of moneyto terrorist groups. If it fails to ful-fil the FATF’s requirements, it
could be downgraded to theblacklist. India must firmly dis-prove the ridiculous claims madeby its neighbours and reassert itsterritorial sovereignty.
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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “After Ayodhya” (August 6).The pomp and show displayed ata simple event such as the bhoo-
mi pujan at Ayodhya was avoid-able. The event has raised sever-al questions. Was it correct for thePM to lay the foundation of thetemple, one which remainedembroiled in a long history ofdisputes? In a secular democra-cy, the PM is not expected to rep-resent any particular religion ororganisation. For a head of thestate, religious affiliations shouldremain confined within the fourwalls of his home.
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Sir — This refers to the editor-ial, “Monumental apathy”(August 7). The massive explo-sion in Beirut, Lebanon could-n’t have come at a worse time forLebanon when the country hasbeen battling one crisis afteranother. Nations across theworld as well as internationalinstitutions must offer help toLebanon so that it can overcomethe catastrophe.
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The pandemic and the response to it by vari-ous governments around the world have posedunprecedented challenges, the effect of which
would be felt for decades to come. People andeconomies are suffering not only due to the hugeloss of lives but also from the slowdown of econom-ic activities during the lockdown. According to theUnion Minister of Road Transport Nitin Gadkari,the contagion is expected to cause a loss of over �10lakh crore to India’s economy. The World Bank, too,estimates that 12 million people in India could bepushed into poverty. While initially, the most visi-ble impact of the crisis was on the healthcare sec-tor due to shortages of personal protective equip-ment (PPE), ventilators, critical medical supplies andhealthcare professionals trained in the handling ofa contagion, its impact is now being felt on the freemovement of people, goods and services, too.
A circular economy is based on the principlesof reducing our waste and pollution throughout thelifecycle stages, keeping products and materials inuse for long and regenerating natural systems.Circular economy-based concepts, such as cascad-ed reuse of resources to design reusable masks tosubstitute single-use masks, supported byGovernment-formulated guidelines and awarenessabout the same, are steps in the right direction.
The global market for refurbished medicaldevices is also predicted to witness significantgrowth. Recently, fuel cell manufacturer BloomEnergy started to refurbish ventilators to meet thesupply gap in hospitals in the US. Due to COVID-19, organisations preferred work from home (WFH)and educational institutes preferred to learn fromhome using virtual platforms for meetings and onlineclasses, which led to an unprecedented surge indemand for refurbished laptops. This cascaded useof refurbished laptops would also be critical in fill-ing the void that has emerged in supporting onlineeducation to rural and urban poor students.Measures like these will create new market oppor-tunities, increase the use of existing assets and reducethe pressure on the environment created by thedemand for virgin raw materials.
Integrating circularity in various governments’recovery agenda and strategies thus assumes impor-tance. In April, the City of Amsterdam launched itsCircular 2020-2025 strategy, which outlines theactions it would take to cut down the use of new rawmaterials to half by 2030. The local government alsoconsiders this strategy to be the basis for econom-ic recovery from the effects of COVID-19. Similarly,the European Union (EU) and South Korea haveboth adopted “Green Deals” as central pillars to theireconomic recoveries, both leveraging regenerativemodels and circular economy principles. Thedeployment of idle railway coaches by IndianRailways as isolation wards during the surge ofCoronavirus infections is adapting the approach touse existing infrastructure to an extent possible. Thisprovides an opportunity for other governments tointegrate resilience, low carbon and sustainablegrowth thinking into their recoveries by avoidingshort-term emission-intensive projects.
Rethinking the mostly linear global supply chainsystems by adopting a circular economy as a modeof production can help economies withstand sup-ply disruptions like those experienced in the cur-rent pandemic. This was particularly visible in thecase of stressed food production and distribution,which was experienced during the hastily-imple-mented lockdowns. By creating new and shorter sup-ply chain connections between producers and con-
sumers, we can ensure a continuous sup-ply of essential goods in vital sectors andhelp improve resilience through stockavailability and competitiveness whilenot giving up the commitment to achiev-ing the UN-set Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs).
In order to support the AtmanirbharBharat Abhiyan, newer ecosystems needto be envisaged that are based on local,shorter and more distributed supplychains via localised material sourcing. Atthe start of the pandemic in India, theavailability of PPEs was critically low, own-ing to non-availability of local manufac-turers, long gestation period to importtheir machines and the high cost. In linewith the spirit of ‘Vocal for Local’ and withvarious Government initiatives, India istoday the second-largest manufacturer ofPPE body overalls within a short span offour months. There is also a need toengage in collaborative consumption toshare resources by replacing traditionalownership of products with lending, bor-rowing and the availability of repair ser-vices to facilitate reuse. This would helpreduce panic buying. For instance, theassurance of the Delhi Government toprovide “Pulse Oximeters” for monitor-ing oxygen levels of patients undergoinghome isolation is a positive step in thisdirection. Acceptance of such “pay for ser-vices” rather than “owning facility options”would gain momentum if hygiene isensured. Local waste sites can be turnedinto resource centres that undertakerecovery and recycling of plastics.
Circular innovations can addressmanufacturing and supply chain shortageswithin the healthcare sector, too, where cir-cular knitted fabric (washable andreusable) can be used to produce non-medical protective face masks. The needfor investment in technology for design-ing responsible packaging solutions thatmaintain food safety and quality standardsand prevent contamination can enhancethe sustainability of the home delivery ser-
vices that people are increasingly relyingupon. Such solutions could also help con-tinue efforts to reduce the usage of plas-tics and styrofoam. Several initiatives byvarious Fast Moving Consumer Goods(FMCG) companies and collaborationsinvolving various stakeholders have beendone across the globe to minimise single-use plastics.
In addition, enhancing materialproductivity also plays a significant rolein addressing the diminishing cost com-petitiveness of industries (such as theIndian automobile sector in comparisonto China, Singapore, Indonesia, andBangladesh) due to high material cost. Thecircular economy emphasises reuse, andthrough this has the potential to generatenot only environmental benefits but costbenefits, too, and create new revenueopportunities. For example, the focus onmanufacturing durable goods would helpthem to generate income from rentals,repairs and refurbishment while reducingthe environmental footprint.
In the COVID-19 crisis, digital solu-tions have promoted virtual workspaces,a mobile Government and a multitude ofplatforms to monitor and trace infections.Digitalisation has not only been limitedto medical solutions or WFH set-ups buthas been an instrument in supportingonline education modes, too.
Digital technology can play a role increating city and village systems that areregenerative and restorative by offering de-materialisation opportunities, increasingour knowledge and understanding of dataon the lifecycle of materials, people andexternal conditions, allowing for moreinformed decisions based on accurate data.This would help close the loop of mater-ial cycles and contribute to keeping prod-ucts/materials in use for a longer periodof time.
For example, digital technology canhelp aggregate local marketplaces dealingin secondary and alternative materials andformalise the informal sector waste-pick-
ers. Real-time tracking technologies pro-vide information on where a product endsup and how it will be reused or recycled.
However, despite the many opportu-nities that circular thinking presents,ongoing efforts in this direction have beenhit due to the pandemic. For example, inthe waste management sector where sig-nificant work was done to manage plas-tic waste, many efforts have been haltedduring the lockdown, particularly in theprivate recycling space.
Recycling plants are mostly shut or areoperating at limited capacity with a lot ofthe informal sector workers, who playedthe role of aggregators (such as the junkcollectors) leaving urban centres for theirnative places. Procurement of recyclablewaste has also become a challenge.Among plastics, virgin plastic may becomeeven cheaper than secondary raw mate-rial plastic due to falling prices of hydro-carbon fuels resulting from the current lowdemand. This will also affect the econom-ic viability of many plastic recyclers.Efforts would be required to stimulate thedemand for recycled materials and closethe price gap between virgin and recycledplastics.
As countries step towards econom-ic recovery after COVID-19, they shouldundertake circular economy strategies forlong-term sustainable development andfor creating resilient economies. TheBRICS nations recently acknowledged theheightening of social vulnerabilities andjob losses due to the pandemic and haveemphasised on the need for improving theenvironment and promoting the circulareconomy in national plans as stepstowards recovery. The time is ripe for usto rethink our consumption patterns, tobuild in resilience, circularity and an effi-cient rural-urban connection to reduce thevulnerability of our economic and socialsystems and move towards anAtmanirbhar Bharat.
(Bakshi is Senior Fellow and Tewari isFellow and Area Convenor, TERI)
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The Coronavirus pandemic hasmade social distancing the newnormal and the majority of us are
becoming increasingly dependent ondigital technology. Pushed into anuncertain future, we are spendingmore time to digitally connect withpeople, work, shop, keep ourselvesinformed and even entertained.
While a digitally-mediated dailylife can keep us safe from the risk ofinfection, too much exposure to it canharm our mental health. There hasbeen a lot of awareness raised about theimpact of exposing oneself to negativeinfluences on social media and thenews. The more information we receive
the more insufferable the pandemicbecomes. We have seen people feelhopeless and helpless as a result of allthe information they absorb and unfor-tunately, sink into deeper mentalhealth issues.
Fake news and conspiracy theoriescan induce fear and lead us to eitherfight, freeze or fold up. If you are oneof the fighters, the information on dig-ital feeds will help you take action inserving others, hence, limiting youronline time.
You may also minimise the under-standing of the situation and label allthose people, who err at the side of pre-caution, as hysterical and not abide bythe safety rules. Thus, putting yourselfand others in danger. If you freeze, thenyou will lock yourself down and if youfold, you will need support to upliftyour mental health.
At all costs, people must keep theirdigital activity healthy during the out-break. Let us take a look at three evi-dence-based tips for a healthy digitaldiet during the outbreak.
Take control: It is natural to feel
powerless and scared in the face of apandemic but people can use digitaltechnology to regain control and givethemselves a degree of autonomy overtheir life.
This is critical as having controlpromotes emotional well-being. So,people must think about ways inwhich they can use digital technologyto help them do it. It can be somethingas simple as using the technology attheir disposal to make plans, managetheir schedule, organise activities withothers and even do online shopping atwebsites where they get to exert greaterchoice.
The key is to use digital technol-ogy actively instead of letting them-selves get passively guided by algo-rithms. People must think of digitaltechnology as a tool that allows themto extend their autonomy and makesit possible for them to develop strate-gies to cope better. For instance, peo-ple can consider limiting passive screentime and balance passive viewing withmore interactive screen time — play-ing educational games, making
YouTube videos, coding a website —where they are in control.
Nurture relationships: Whilesocial distancing is good for our phys-ical health, isolation is not good for ourmental health. So, we must use thisopportunity to digitally connect withold friends, family members oracquaintances that we somehow losttouch with. We must also nurture ourexisting relationships by schedulingregular chats online and using digitaldevices to spread positive news, expressgratitude to the people serving us andhelping others.
For instance, people can orderfood and groceries online for friends,family members and neighbours whoare not digitally-enabled. Helping oth-ers can give life more purpose and allayanxieties. Organise group chats andregular virtual meet-ups — seeing afamiliar face, even on a phone screen,can be reassuring. People must use thistime as an opportunity to rebuild affil-iations with those who matter.
Be smarter: Our well-being is alsoinfluenced by our competence, ability
to rise above challenges, take smartdecisions and experience a sense ofachievement and degree of success.Hence, people must use this opportu-nity to take online courses, learn newskills and do things that engage them.
People must consider using dig-ital technology to look after theirbody and mind during this period ofconfinement. They may not be able tohit the gym but they can use digitalreminders and prompts to move andexercise more — even if they are con-fined inside a restricted environment.People can consider downloading anutrition app, exercise, mindfulness orrelaxation app. They must think abouthow they can use digital technology toimprove exercise, sleep and dietregimes.
People can use digital technologyto be smarter about their informationdiet, too. Use fact-checking services tocounter conspiracy theories, unfound-ed rumours, urban legends and mis-information. Reduce informationintake to one or two trustworthysources. Most importantly, get infor-
mation from reputable sources insteadof regurgitating what they read onsocial media.
The way towards digital well-being: Our increased digital dependen-cy can be of benefit to our well-beinginstead of a hazard. We need to use ourscreens positively and promote greaterautonomy, relatedness and compe-tence. To be balanced, people mustschedule their downtime, off-screentime, exercise time and fun time. Thiswill form the core of their emotionalwell-being and hold them in goodstead.
People must remember not toreach for their phone as soon as theywake up. They must give themselvesthe time to get ready, eat and then getto their device. We should use technol-ogy to increase our independence, fur-ther our well-being and harness ourinner potential. Doing so will not onlyhelp us get through the pandemic butwill also ensure that we emergestronger from it.
(The writer is Director of a Wellnesscompany and heads a foundation)
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Script Open High Low LTPSecurity Name Open High Low LTPRELIANCE 2124.55 2157.00 2120.10 2146.70BAJFINANCE 3336.00 3480.00 3306.00 3466.00AXISBANK 430.20 437.00 427.40 433.20BANDHANBNK 300.90 309.00 300.10 307.45IDEA 7.90 8.93 7.64 8.83HDFC 1772.10 1781.60 1764.00 1777.95TATACONSUM 487.75 530.10 482.75 518.40HDFCBANK 1036.00 1047.00 1022.50 1044.00RBLBANK 174.55 193.35 171.60 191.30MARUTI 6489.00 6740.00 6472.95 6679.55INFY 970.85 970.85 949.00 950.75ICICIBANK 359.20 359.50 351.00 357.85ASIANPAINT 1729.90 1816.50 1727.55 1805.05CAPPL 649.00 686.00 567.55 584.80INDUSINDBK 495.50 513.20 492.50 509.10TCS 2318.90 2327.00 2287.80 2294.95SBIN 191.80 192.05 189.60 190.65IBULHSGFIN 190.80 199.50 190.25 193.30TATAMOTORS 117.00 119.70 116.25 119.10TATASTEEL 395.30 406.75 393.25 404.00APOLLOTYRE 116.00 124.90 114.50 123.45HINDUNILVR 2219.00 2234.80 2205.05 2210.75LUPIN 908.00 915.80 874.90 879.40DRREDDY 4575.00 4707.15 4554.80 4571.25AUROPHARMA 920.00 923.05 898.25 906.65MUTHOOTFIN 1225.00 1234.00 1191.10 1216.80HINDPETRO 224.90 224.90 212.45 213.55TITAN 1118.00 1130.95 1087.00 1090.70IOC 87.15 88.45 85.75 86.45DLF 144.80 144.80 141.05 141.95CIPLA 739.00 739.60 724.75 728.60GAIL 96.25 97.45 95.65 97.00PIDILITIND 1330.00 1392.80 1322.15 1376.90GLENMARK 465.00 467.20 451.30 453.50BHARTIARTL 553.50 563.00 552.00 560.60M&MFIN 135.85 138.00 134.35 135.20KOTAKBANK 1337.20 1346.80 1323.40 1342.10DIVISLAB 2750.00 2815.00 2724.10 2784.25SRF 3844.00 4122.55 3841.60 4080.50BAJAJFINSV 6296.00 6499.50 6251.15 6469.20JINDALSTEL 197.00 201.05 195.25 199.45BPCL 412.90 421.30 411.35 419.70TORNTPOWER 334.90 357.50 334.80 336.75UPL 467.00 484.90 465.50 480.35ULTRACEMCO 4037.35 4070.00 3984.25 4005.15ITC 195.35 197.00 194.15 196.05HINDZINC 240.00 257.20 236.30 253.40ALKEM 2868.00 3089.55 2868.00 2980.30BRITANNIA 3893.90 3945.00 3850.65 3934.15M&M 609.00 616.05 599.00 600.60LT 922.50 926.50 914.10 915.70STAR 526.00 537.75 514.75 524.05PEL 1480.00 1519.60 1454.60 1464.35APOLLOHOSP 1704.80 1752.85 1703.85 1744.45GRANULES 325.40 328.90 309.20 315.60MANAPPURAM 157.00 162.10 155.70 161.65EICHERMOT 21700.00 22138.50 21549.05 21793.20GILLETTE 5000.00 5003.90 4948.05 4958.75LAURUSLABS 1040.00 1041.95 1010.00 1022.80HCLTECH 700.50 700.50 685.00 689.55GMM 4315.00 5141.15 4300.00 5059.15ZEEL 151.00 151.20 148.75 150.20DEEPAKNI 569.75 619.00 569.75 610.70ESCORTS 1134.00 1147.60 1120.50 1123.85TORNTPHARM 2978.00 2990.85 2927.75 2940.60SRTRANSFIN 663.00 680.00 659.00 676.95FEDERALBNK 52.65 55.00 52.30 54.60BEML 654.15 666.40 647.10 656.35L&TFH 62.70 63.65 61.65 63.45SUNPHARMA* 532.20 535.25 522.70 525.80FRETAIL 107.70 112.65 107.00 108.85NIITTECH 2020.00 2036.70 1971.50 1987.20BAYERCROP 6070.00 6449.00 6070.00 6138.90BATAINDIA 1265.10 1271.40 1252.15 1258.40UBL 957.25 974.35 954.30 965.50ADANIENT 181.00 195.00 181.00 192.75PIIND 2073.00 2154.35 1936.85 1947.70VEDL 124.95 126.60 122.50 122.85TVSMOTOR 422.20 429.95 414.95 421.25ADANIGAS 153.00 163.40 153.00 162.10APLLTD 1110.00 1128.00 1045.00 1051.45IDFCFIRSTB 27.05 28.60 26.75 28.45DELTACORP* 101.00 115.50 100.10 108.35BOSCHLTD 13100.00 13798.10 13036.05 13668.80ONGC 78.50 79.35 78.10 78.65BANKBARODA 46.80 48.80 46.10 48.45GODREJCP 693.55 701.00 686.80 688.60ADANIGREEN 345.00 375.65 342.65 371.00HONAUT 27655.00 31500.00 27655.00 31007.85HINDALCO 177.50 178.90 175.55 177.70CEATLTD 888.00 911.00 880.65 891.55TATAELXSI 998.00 1002.65 978.45 989.40SAIL 37.05 38.20 37.05 37.70CENTURYTEX 305.15 325.90 305.05 323.50ASHOKLEY 49.50 50.40 48.90 49.95CADILAHC 389.00 395.40 387.85 390.70BALKRISIND 1360.00 1382.45 1347.00 1349.50BHEL 35.50 35.60 34.90 35.25BIOCON 407.55 411.90 396.10 399.35WIPRO 280.10 281.55 276.50 277.25JSWSTEEL 239.05 240.95 235.85 240.25SUDARSCHEM 439.35 475.95 426.55 448.75BHARATFORG 405.50 413.15 405.40 408.00HEROMOTOCO 2724.00 2724.00 2670.70 2705.65MEGH 64.50 69.75 64.50 67.65GRASIM 632.55 641.15 628.55 636.70DABUR 505.50 513.00 505.50 511.95
ADANIPORTS 327.70 328.15 322.25 326.65JUBLFOOD 1891.90 1895.30 1862.40 1871.05TECHM 660.00 667.85 655.00 662.35MRF 61427.15 63286.55 61414.20 62678.00SUMICHEM 286.90 294.00 285.00 286.80PNB 32.15 32.95 32.15 32.80MCX 1708.80 1750.00 1660.35 1672.05BSOFT 145.70 148.70 139.80 142.85LICHSGFIN 258.40 265.15 258.40 259.60INDIGO 946.00 946.00 928.00 939.50BERGEPAINT 531.80 557.50 529.55 555.05TEAMLEASE 2098.70 2104.00 2046.30 2072.90IGL 390.00 390.70 380.85 388.10BLISSGVS 133.00 133.00 128.00 130.15HEG 769.90 821.80 769.30 786.40SBICARD 759.50 764.75 753.50 757.80INFRATEL 194.90 194.90 188.00 192.55HDFCLIFE 608.25 613.55 605.30 607.05NESTLEIND 16757.00 16893.20 16554.60 16761.45NATCOPHARM 759.00 794.70 759.00 781.60WOCKPHARMA 316.55 322.05 308.25 309.10MGL 985.00 988.70 959.30 969.10RECLTD 107.65 108.75 103.55 105.75ACC 1409.00 1422.15 1392.35 1396.80COLPAL 1433.10 1467.00 1433.00 1457.80TATAPOWER 49.80 50.60 49.20 49.65TATACHEM 297.00 304.20 295.80 300.90TATACOFFEE 100.60 107.00 99.05 106.20AARTIIND 1057.85 1076.50 1057.85 1067.65MINDTREE 1131.00 1156.55 1118.70 1151.90EMAMILTD 239.50 263.70 237.50 257.65ICICIPRULI 475.00 476.20 462.40 470.50BAJAJCON 185.00 187.00 179.55 182.35IDFC 20.25 20.50 20.00 20.30ADANITRANS 237.70 253.55 233.50 249.95ECLERX 472.20 487.50 470.40 480.95MOTHERSUMI 100.70 101.05 97.80 99.80DIXON 7721.00 7850.00 7529.00 7779.10BAJAJ-AUTO 2978.05 3019.15 2974.65 3001.70INDIAMART 3095.00 3146.80 3021.00 3083.40BOMDYEING 64.75 68.00 63.10 67.00COALINDIA 129.85 130.35 128.55 129.70CANBK 102.40 102.80 101.50 101.95GSPL 204.20 211.00 204.20 207.10NMDC 88.65 89.45 87.85 89.15INDIACEM 115.70 118.00 113.55 116.95PFC 86.75 87.90 84.95 85.40VAIBHAVGBL 1699.00 1719.00 1650.05 1689.60RCF 48.55 51.60 48.40 50.95NOCIL 112.70 117.45 110.90 114.85EXIDEIND 158.40 163.25 156.15 161.75POWERGRID 176.00 177.85 175.30 175.90GUJALKALI 337.00 363.95 336.00 344.25SUNTV 398.00 402.35 392.80 394.25CUB 117.50 123.40 117.50 122.80CHOLAFIN 204.80 209.80 203.15 208.95PNBHOUSING 218.80 225.50 214.65 218.25JUBILANT 841.90 856.45 834.00 838.95BIRLACORPN 640.10 682.00 640.10 653.05BALRAMCHIN 125.00 132.30 125.00 130.20
PCJEWELLER 17.00 18.85 16.45 17.37CASTROLIND 119.70 122.70 119.70 121.45DMART 2169.60 2178.00 2135.00 2139.05NAVINFLUOR 1851.00 1950.00 1851.00 1939.75JSWENERGY 45.40 50.65 44.75 48.15ITI 134.80 138.65 132.75 134.80FDC 337.50 344.00 333.20 336.65RELAXO 630.00 638.80 620.45 637.30NAM-INDIA 265.90 278.35 264.00 273.50TATACOMM 873.90 882.60 807.85 814.00FCONSUMER 12.10 12.10 11.66 11.75IRCTC 1344.00 1344.00 1330.10 1331.75AUBANK 725.00 730.65 707.00 708.85DBL 336.70 347.80 325.40 338.65BEL 99.25 100.65 98.40 99.20GRAPHITE 179.00 192.75 176.95 186.05RAYMOND 252.05 255.90 247.80 254.15BANKINDIA 48.00 49.80 48.00 48.90SUNTECK 237.90 242.00 227.10 233.80NTPC 86.95 86.95 85.40 85.75BDL 420.95 429.55 416.80 419.05LTI 2461.00 2508.15 2447.30 2468.35GODFRYPHLP 921.40 953.65 920.90 943.35PERSISTENT 964.00 1009.00 964.00 996.75SOUTHBANK 7.09 7.16 6.92 6.98
HDFCAMC 2391.50 2391.50 2353.75 2369.55AMBUJACEM 224.00 226.25 218.65 219.60SYNGENE 472.90 478.50 467.55 471.85PAGEIND 19303.00 19480.00 18987.85 19019.80TRENT 552.00 597.95 552.00 578.90KEI 358.10 381.75 355.00 376.95GICRE 140.05 142.55 140.05 140.90PVR 1126.00 1138.25 1090.00 1127.50WABCOINDIA 7004.00 7010.00 7000.10 7002.00RALLIS 299.00 306.70 298.35 303.20SPICEJET 45.80 47.00 45.80 46.20PHILIPCARB 106.20 110.95 106.20 107.60UJJIVAN 232.20 243.50 232.20 240.40CANFINHOME 372.20 377.70 367.80 372.75VBL 755.00 787.05 738.00 744.00EQUITAS 50.80 51.45 50.10 50.90HAVELLS 605.90 611.95 604.20 609.55PRESTIGE 222.35 232.00 222.05 224.75COROMANDEL 808.00 808.00 785.10 789.85RAMCOCEM 695.00 697.00 681.95 687.60CUMMINSIND 413.85 421.75 412.00 418.90MARICO 369.95 371.90 365.40 370.00HAWKINCOOK 4477.00 4636.00 4326.00 4615.45PETRONET 246.00 247.00 242.25 244.45RAIN 98.00 101.20 96.80 100.10IDBI 39.50 41.45 38.85 40.30VARROC 234.90 241.00 226.60 230.25NAUKRI 3330.00 3390.00 3275.60 3311.10UNIONBANK 29.40 29.60 29.05 29.50SIEMENS 1135.50 1164.40 1135.50 1152.30NBCC 23.10 23.55 23.00 23.25HFCL 14.50 15.27 14.10 14.30JAMNAAUTO 33.90 34.55 31.50 33.95AVANTI 480.00 497.40 478.85 485.10SPARC 185.00 185.20 180.20 180.90CONCOR 459.30 462.00 449.45 455.60AJANTPHARM 1655.00 1718.30 1655.00 1691.75LTTS 1565.00 1625.00 1546.20 1594.00TATAMTRDVR 41.00 41.60 40.50 41.00SHK 82.45 82.70 79.15 79.65AMBER 1720.00 1801.00 1700.00 1785.15SBILIFE 882.00 883.20 862.50 868.60DALBHARAT* 815.60 824.55 756.00 764.35ABCAPITAL 58.50 59.80 57.95 59.10INTELLECT 181.00 182.45 179.80 182.45LINDEINDIA 642.30 706.10 642.30 675.80PGHL 4401.80 4727.20 4395.65 4667.60JINDALSAW 59.00 62.25 59.00 60.85PTC 53.55 53.70 52.80 53.15POLYCAB 828.35 854.55 828.35 842.60DEEPAKFERT 159.00 159.00 151.45 152.15JKTYRE 65.00 68.15 64.45 65.55ISEC 483.75 498.35 473.45 492.75KAJARIACER 414.00 415.00 404.75 407.50NATIONALUM 35.00 35.25 34.45 34.90HEXAWARE 391.00 397.55 388.95 393.25BBTC 1350.00 1378.50 1332.90 1360.45SCI 55.45 58.35 54.95 57.00LALPATHLAB 1859.00 1917.25 1859.00 1903.05CHAMBLFERT 157.00 158.00 154.35 155.40ADANIPOWER 35.20 36.90 35.15 36.65SUZLON 4.41 4.51 4.34 4.39AFFLE 1810.00 1896.35 1810.00 1841.80SONATSOFTW 291.90 293.50 284.55 287.60UFLEX 312.15 320.25 310.00 315.20AEGISLOG 213.30 218.00 206.80 208.60TV18BRDCST 33.60 34.75 33.50 33.95HAL 969.90 975.45 941.80 947.90MFSL 540.10 543.45 530.10 535.80RAJESHEXPO 475.00 475.00 452.50 458.20PFIZER 4375.05 4422.50 4358.10 4382.00ATUL 5154.80 5278.00 5125.00 5148.40GNFC 164.00 168.50 163.70 165.85GUJGAS 304.00 308.20 302.00 302.75IRB 122.40 125.40 121.50 122.15WELCORP 102.95 104.30 99.00 103.05JAICORPLTD 88.50 90.25 88.30 88.60JSLHISAR 82.30 85.35 80.00 83.15SHREECEM 21804.10 22055.00 21673.05 21894.15KPITTECH 89.45 89.45 76.50 78.65ADVENZYMES 225.00 225.00 215.20 216.45GSFC 62.10 64.55 62.00 63.05IRCON 96.90 97.30 94.75 95.30COCHINSHIP 324.55 336.30 324.55 331.65WABAG 126.00 131.45 123.00 126.20GODREJPROP 885.20 899.10 882.65 889.00CGCL 198.05 207.90 198.05 205.95CSBBANK 196.10 203.70 196.10 199.50VIPIND 260.35 266.00 260.20 260.80ALKYLAMINE 2429.15 2465.00 2370.05 2434.75JUSTDIAL 387.00 387.00 377.10 379.55SWANENERGY 147.85 152.60 145.05 147.00AMARAJABAT 725.00 727.35 713.90 717.85FLUOROCHEM 465.00 498.60 439.25 477.35VOLTAS 602.95 602.95 592.10 593.85JKPAPER* 95.25 96.00 92.05 93.55MIDHANI 208.00 209.40 203.55 204.70ASTRAL 1065.50 1065.50 1016.00 1048.85DCAL 208.00 210.20 196.30 198.00CROMPTON 261.00 265.45 252.90 260.70ICICIGI 1377.00 1377.70 1347.00 1357.60ABBOTINDIA 16300.00 16300.00 16098.15 16188.60DCBBANK 83.00 84.20 80.40 83.00FSL 54.35 55.85 54.00 54.20IBREALEST 55.35 56.05 53.40 53.85GALAXYSURF 1697.85 1752.65 1677.10 1701.60ENGINERSIN 67.00 67.20 66.10 66.35IPCALAB 1998.70 1998.70 1950.05 1955.60EIHOTEL 69.00 69.90 68.00 68.95
GMRINFRA 20.85 21.35 20.55 21.15RITES 241.10 246.75 240.25 244.80STRTECH* 122.00 125.50 121.50 124.65JCHAC 2032.05 2079.00 2015.00 2061.90JYOTHYLAB 140.00 143.90 140.00 141.75WHIRLPOOL 2075.00 2133.80 2062.80 2086.55ESSELPRO 271.00 275.00 257.00 259.00NBVENTURES 49.70 52.35 49.20 51.75INDHOTEL 77.70 78.35 77.30 77.90APLAPOLLO 2136.50 2195.00 2098.90 2164.15ABFRL 124.15 125.00 120.35 121.00IFCI 6.25 6.76 6.19 6.54SWSOLAR 242.10 247.50 234.35 236.30ABB 890.00 904.00 880.00 882.45CYIENT 341.75 348.10 338.55 339.95J&KBANK 16.10 16.75 16.00 16.55TRIDENT 6.90 6.90 6.76 6.80NCC 31.00 31.20 30.60 30.85KRBL 302.15 307.00 297.80 304.00UJJIVANSFB 33.85 37.10 33.70 36.40ZYDUSWELL 1715.00 1725.45 1680.00 1693.70THYROCARE 707.00 709.55 697.95 699.85GRSE 206.05 210.90 201.00 202.40KALPATPOWR* 228.70 240.30 224.30 227.95BASF 1339.00 1362.90 1310.00 1324.95AIAENG 1697.60 1708.00 1661.00 1666.20INOXLEISUR 239.05 239.05 232.55 232.90OMAXE 65.25 72.05 65.25 72.05SANOFI 8167.00 8267.00 8109.20 8169.55PARAGMILK 91.70 95.10 90.65 92.55IEX 189.50 192.00 182.50 183.70DHANUKA 802.00 802.00 770.00 782.40VINATIORGA 979.65 986.40 975.90 980.25TATAINVEST 765.80 790.00 765.00 769.90CREDITACC 590.00 591.95 560.80 570.85EIDPARRY 293.35 303.25 292.00 297.85UCOBANK 13.61 13.87 13.56 13.77HIMATSEIDE 70.00 74.45 68.70 73.40BAJAJELEC 433.00 439.10 428.15 429.75ASTRAZEN 3349.15 3358.10 3320.05 3331.80JKLAKSHMI 284.30 295.00 284.30 286.30THERMAX 741.45 771.00 737.65 751.90JBCHEPHARM 738.45 738.45 730.00 731.50FINEORG 2339.90 2369.65 2273.70 2329.75ORIENTCEM 69.80 71.25 68.15 70.80HSCL 45.80 46.80 45.10 46.10ERIS 530.00 543.35 526.05 535.70VSTIND 3512.45 3606.00 3470.00 3489.90BALMLAWRIE 114.80 117.85 114.75 116.30HINDCOPPER 36.55 37.80 36.50 36.90TAKE 46.00 47.00 44.35 44.90MOIL 141.50 145.35 141.15 143.05FORTIS 140.35 140.90 137.15 137.95LAXMIMACH 3262.00 3442.40 3261.00 3320.40TVSSRICHAK 1430.70 1518.00 1430.10 1481.85HUDCO 35.20 35.50 34.80 35.15KANSAINER 446.30 464.70 445.00 458.10MMTC 18.15 19.45 18.05 18.75JMFINANCIL 74.10 74.50 73.30 73.70TIMETECHNO 38.10 41.00 37.90 39.35CESC 570.00 583.10 568.00 580.80IIFL 71.50 71.50 68.50 69.05SHANKARA 371.00 376.35 361.00 362.75INDIANB 59.75 59.75 57.85 58.95OIL 94.05 95.90 94.05 94.90RADICO 382.00 388.70 376.80 385.95CHENNPETRO 84.10 84.80 83.20 83.70NHPC 20.10 20.50 20.10 20.40GLAXO 1490.20 1500.00 1482.25 1485.05CENTRALBK 17.20 17.65 17.15 17.55JKCEMENT 1551.30 1613.00 1545.00 1600.40BLUEDART 2040.50 2043.00 1991.00 1996.35BLUESTARCO 506.70 508.20 490.00 497.60QUESS 365.00 378.20 360.00 369.10AKZOINDIA 1863.55 1935.00 1863.50 1918.15GHCL 141.00 145.95 141.00 144.05SUNDRMFAST 444.95 451.50 432.20 445.40SOBHA 221.10 226.50 219.55 222.35REPCOHOME 142.15 144.90 138.40 138.85INDOCO 253.30 253.30 242.35 243.953MINDIA 20620.00 21640.85 20576.55 21519.90RVNL 19.10 19.25 19.05 19.15TCNSBRANDS 349.90 353.60 340.00 341.35PNCINFRA 130.50 135.25 130.50 134.25WELSPUNIND 44.50 44.50 42.55 42.75FINCABLES 267.00 274.60 267.00 269.95MRPL 35.35 35.35 34.50 34.55ASHOKA 57.05 58.40 56.70 58.05KTKBANK 42.50 42.75 42.30 42.70METROPOLIS 1637.00 1679.20 1637.00 1654.05KEC 273.90 278.35 269.40 275.70GULFOILLUB 641.00 650.45 622.40 625.95MAHSEAMLES 203.45 219.10 202.30 209.60MAHSCOOTER 3071.90 3143.00 3052.10 3104.15NLCINDIA 49.00 49.30 48.75 49.05OFSS 2953.10 2966.25 2920.00 2930.30EDELWEISS 79.90 81.00 78.10 78.75TIMKEN 1010.00 1045.50 1005.30 1025.50FINOLEXIND 447.00 453.35 446.15 449.85OBEROIRLTY 368.50 375.90 362.00 370.55TIINDIA 522.00 557.80 515.85 540.85HATHWAY 42.50 42.50 39.65 39.65GODREJIND 357.20 372.00 357.20 366.30SUPREMEIND 1300.90 1303.20 1250.00 1264.25FORCEMOT 948.00 957.95 947.20 951.75MPHASIS 1163.60 1169.95 1158.25 1163.95GODREJAGRO 464.00 466.85 462.00 463.60NIACL 114.50 117.00 114.30 115.80WESTLIFE 362.00 362.00 349.80 350.35
HEIDELBERG 183.05 185.80 182.50 183.00BAJAJHLDNG 2676.15 2715.00 2676.15 2702.30GPPL 76.00 76.70 75.55 75.75GESHIP 275.00 278.20 270.50 272.65ENDURANCE 952.75 970.00 947.70 956.40NH 303.00 308.45 299.00 304.75TATAMETALI 507.90 507.90 497.50 498.70TVTODAY 208.00 214.40 200.05 201.45INFIBEAM 75.05 75.70 74.50 74.95ITDC 221.80 236.70 221.80 229.00MINDACORP 72.70 72.70 70.40 70.85SHOPERSTOP 159.75 166.85 158.50 159.40ALLCARGO 99.50 99.80 95.00 98.35IFBIND 363.60 380.45 363.60 377.75KSB 514.05 527.55 510.05 515.75MAHABANK 11.90 11.90 11.73 11.85DISHTV 8.20 8.20 7.86 7.91VENKYS 1051.55 1068.10 1050.25 1053.20SKFINDIA 1466.80 1466.85 1428.70 1459.45PGHH 10342.95 10420.00 10243.35 10297.90VGUARD 163.10 165.85 163.10 164.50DCMSHRIRAM 334.55 341.55 331.40 335.40JSL 38.00 39.80 38.00 39.40SUPRAJIT 160.50 165.55 159.50 164.60HERITGFOOD 323.00 326.00 308.30 313.25
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The increase in loan-to-value (LTV) ratio for gold
loans, or the quantum ofborrowing against a givenquantity of the preciousmetal, will heighten creditrisks for banks, a ratingsagency said on Friday.
The RBI had onThursday increased the LTVratio for gold loans by banksto 90 per cent from the ear-lier 75 per cent, in a bid tomake money available to peo-ple affected by the coron-avirus pandemic.
"...An increase in theLTV ratio to 90 per centincreases the credit risk forbanks as the collateralavai lable in the form of gold ornaments or jew-ellery may not be sufficient tofully cover both principaland interest components onthese loans," BrickworksRatings said.
Its Director for Ratings,Vydianathan Ramaswamy,said the increase in LTV willresult in a "negative carry" forbanks as the total exposurewill exceed the value of thepledged gold.
" It could adverselyimpact the recoverability andasset quality of banks in the
case of a weakening in theborrower credit r isk profile and/or sharp declinein gold prices, which haveseen a s trong ral ly over the last few months," headded.
However, given that thehigher LTV is only till March31 next year, the risk on theportfolio is for a limited peri-od, the agency said in a note.
Also, gold loans aremostly short-tenure loans ofanywhere between 3 to 24months, it said.
The agency said giventhat the RBI's announcementon higher LTV gold loans islimited to the banking sector,banks are bound to garner alarger market share vis-a-vistheir non-bank peers in loansagainst the pledge of gold infiscal 2021.
At present, non-bankfinanciers and unorganisedlenders like local pawn bro-kers with a wider networkenjoy a large market share inloans against gold ornamentsand jewellery.
They also charge highrates on these loans, whichcan range anywhere between20 per cent to 50 per cent,whereas banks charge much lower interest rates, itsaid.
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Domestic equity bench-marks Sensex and Nifty
ended flat on Friday as neg-ative cues from global mar-kets and spiking COVID-19cases in the country keptinvestors on the edge.
After touching a low of37,787.38 during the day, the30-share BSE Sensex clawedback lost ground to end 15.12points or 0.04 per cent high-er at 38,040.57.
Similarly, the NSE Niftyrose 13.90 points or 0.12 percent to finish at 11,214.05.
During the week, theSensex advanced 433.68points or 1.15 per cent, whilethe Nifty rose 140.60 pointsor 1.26 per cent.
Asian Paints was the topgainer in the Sensex pack onFriday, spurting 4.44 per cent,followed by Bajaj Finance,IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finservand Maruti.
On the other hand, Titan,HCL Tech, Infosys, M&Mand Sun Pharma were amongthe laggards, skidding up to2.65 per cent.
Mahindra & Mahindraon Friday reported a 94 percent decline in consolidatedprofit at Rs 54.64 crore for theJune quarter, adverselyimpacted by the COVID-19
pandemic.Global markets tumbled
after US President DonaldTrump signed an order pro-hibiting American residentsfrom transact ing withChinese apps WeChat andTikTok, ratcheting up US-China tensions.
China has vowed to retal-iate against the executiveorder, which comes into forcein 45 days.
According to traders,negative overseas cues andmounting COVID-19 cases inthe country kept investors jit-tery.
Registering over 60,000cases in 24 hours for thefirst time, India’s COVID-19tally galloped past 20 lakh onFriday, while the number ofrecoveries surged to 13.78lakh, according to UnionHealth Ministry data.
The number of casesaround the world linked tothe disease has crossed 1.9crore.
“The unrelenting pace ofvirus infections and otheruncertainties led to thebenchmark indices endingflat today with volatile trades.Global cues were also most-ly negative, after Asian mar-kets ended in losses followingUS act ions on popularChinese apps, and anticipat-
ing retaliatory action fromChina.
“However on a weeklybasis, Indian benchmarkindices ended up by around1 per cent, following gains inthe latter hal f of this week, on expectations of RBIpolicy easing to support eco-nomic revival,” said VinodNair, Head of Research atGeojit Financial Services.BSE
power, telecom, utilities,industrials and basic materi-als indices rose as much as1.21 per cent , whi le consumer durables, IT, teckand healthcare closed withlosses.
Broader BSE mid-cap andsmall-cap indices rallied upto 1.44 per cent. In rest ofAsia, bourses in Shanghai,Hong Kong and Tokyo ended
in the red, while Seoul fin-ished with gains.
Stock exchanges inEurope were trading on anegative note in early deals.
Global oil benchmarkBrent crude was trading 0.86per cent lower at USD 44.70per barrel.On the currencyfront, the rupee ended almostflat at 74.93 against the USdollar.
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Wall Street is stalling onFriday, as a whirlwind of
worries about rising U.S.-China tensions and whetherCongress can deliver more aidfor the economy threaten tohalt its big run.
The S&P 500 was edging0.1% lower in early trading,after a five-day winning streakhad brought it back within1.1% of its record for the firsttime since February. The DowJones Industrial Average wasdown 73 points, or 0.3%, at27,317, as of 9:40 a.M. Easterntime, and the Nasdaq com-posite pulled 0.1% back fromits record.
Markets around the world
got a small boost before trad-ing began on U.S. Stock mar-kets when a report showedthat the U.S. Job marketstrengthened more last monththan economists expected.But the bump for U.S.Treasury yields and Europeanstocks proved short-lived.
It's a busy day for markets,with investors also focused onCapitol Hill, where Congressand White House officialshave been negotiating on ahoped-for deal on more aid forthe economy. A marathonmeeting Thursday left bothsides still far apart on keyissues, and they both said thefuture of talks is uncertain.
Investors say it's crucialthat Washington pump more
money into the economy,which has shown signs ofimprovements since the springbut is still hobbling amid wor-ries about a resurgence incoronavirus counts.
Even though Friday's jobsreport was healthier than themarket expected, it alsoshowed that hiring is alreadyslowing following two monthsof acceleration and remains farbelow where it was before thepandemic.
Trump is consideringexecutive orders to addresssome of the issues if Congressdoesn't reach a deal, such asevictions and unemploymentinsurance, but they appearunlikely to have muchimpact.
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Gold price surged for the16th straight session on
Friday and touched an all-time high of �57,008 per 10grams in the national capital,according to HDFCSecurities. Silver too con-tinued its upward movement,with the price touching arecord-high of �77,840 perkilogram. Silver price jumpedby �576 compared to theclosing level of �77,264 per kgon Thursday.
In the previous trade,gold had closed at �57,002per 10 grams. On Friday, theprice increased by �6 to�57,008 per 10 grams.Pricesof both the metals recordedall-time high prices, HDFCSecurities said.
"Spot gold prices for 24carat in Delhi continued toscale new highs by gaining�6. Gold prices are tradinghigher for the 16th consecu-tive day in India," HDFCSecurities Senior Analyst(Commodities) Tapan Patelsaid. In the internationalmarket, both gold and silverwere trading marginallylower at USD 2,061 per ounceand USD 28.36 per ounce,respectively.
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Kathmandu: NepalCommunist Party’s executivechairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal‘Prachanda’ has asked the partyworkers to prepare for the“worst” as the ongoing powertussle between him and PrimeMinister K P Sharma Oli hasintensified with no solution insight.
Oli and Prachanda haveheld at least ten meetings inrecent weeks to sort out the dif-ferences between them. But, asthe Prime Minister did notaccept the condition of a one-man-one-post, the talks failed.Oli has refused to give up hispost as prime minister as wellas a co-chairman of the NepalCommunist Party (NCP).
A bitter internal feud hasbeen brewing in the rulingNCP since the last few weeksafter top party leaders, includ-ing Prachanda, demanded Oli’sresignation, saying his recentanti-India remarks were “nei-ther politically correct nordiplomatically appropriate.”The opponents of Oli are alsoagainst his autocratic style offunctioning.
“Our main concern is notabout gaining power, what wewant is to follow the properprocedure while running theNCP. We are not focusing ongaining any position, but ourfight is against the wrong trenddeveloping in the party,”Prachanda told a select groupof journalists during a specialbriefing on Wednesday.
He held the press confer-ence along with three seniorparty leaders Madhav Nepal,Jhalanath Khanal and partyspokesperson Narayan KajiShrestha, according to Nagarikdaily.
The dissident groupaccused Oli of trying to dam-age the image of other seniorleaders of the party, the dailyreported.
Prachanda and Nepal haveclaimed that the majority of thepowerful Central WorkingCommittee members havesupported them while raisingvoice against Oli.
Prachanda also alleged thatwhile the Standing Committeemeeting was in progress, at theinitiative of Prime Minister
Oli a new party was registeredunder the name of a lesser-known person at the ElectionCommission with the intentionto split the ruling party.
“If one chairman (PM Oli)does not follow the properprocedure of the party thenhow can the unity of the partyremain intact,” he wondered.
Prachanda claimed that heand other senior leaders of theparty were trying to save theparty by creating a favourablesituation.
“We are trying for the bestoutcome but the communistsof this country should also beprepared for the worst thing tohappen,” Prachanda told mediapersons, indicating a possiblesplit in the ruling party.
“I had agreed to make OliPrime Minister for a full 5 yearsterm and enjoy the executivechairman’s position in the partyfor creating a better environ-ment within the party,” saidPrachanda.
“Oli has dragged the partytowards anarchism by callingseparate gatherings,” Prachandasaid. PTI
Portland: Portland’s nightly protests turned violentagain even after the city’s mayor pleaded for demon-strators to stay off the streets and a police officerhit by a rock early Friday suffered what wasdescribed as a serious injury. The protesters whocame out Thursday night clashed with officers neara police precinct station and also used metal barsto disable police vehicles, police said in a statement.The nightly clashes this week have ratcheted up ten-sions in the city after an agreement was reached lastweek between state and federal officials for feder-al agents to pull back from their defence. AP
Colombo: Mahinda Rajapaksawill be sworn in as Sri Lanka’sPrime Minister for the fourthtime on Sunday after his partyregistered a landslide victory inthe general election, securingtwo-thirds majority inParliament needed to amendthe Constitution to further con-solidate the powerful Rajapaksafamily’s grip on power.
The Sri Lanka People’s Party(SLPP), led by prime ministerMahinda Rajapaksa, won in145 constituencies, bagging atotal of 150 seats with its allies,a two-thirds majority in the 225-member Parliament, accordingto the results announced by theelection commission on Friday.
It won all but four of the 22electoral districts on offer,polling 6.8 million votes (59.9per cent).
The 74-year-old PrimeMinister Mahinda thanked theSri Lankan people for puttingtheir faith in the SLPP and saidthat the country will not standdisappointed during its tenure.
“Heartfelt gratitude to all
SriLankans for placing theirtrust in President GotabayaRajapaksa, myself and thePodujanaParty and voting forthe ‘Saubhagye Dakkama’election manifesto in over-whelming numbers. We willensure Sri Lanka will notstand disappointed duringour tenure,” he said.
Mahinda will be sworn inas the new prime minister forthe fourth time on Sunday ata ceremony at the historicBuddhist temple of Kelaniya, anorth Colombo suburb,according to an official state-ment.
He created a record inpolling over 500,000 individual
preference votes, the highestever recorded by a candidate inthe history of elections.
Prime Minister NarendraModi was among the first worldleaders to congratulate Mahindaon the outcome of the electionsand said the two sides willwork together to furtheradvance all areas of bilateral
cooperation and to take theirspecial ties to ever newerheights.
“Thank you PM @naren-dramodi for your congratula-tory phone call. With the strongsupport of the people of#SriLanka, I look forward toworking with you closely to fur-ther enhance the long-standingcooperation between our twocountries. Sri Lanka & India arefriends & relations,” Mahindatweeted.
The Rajapaksa family hasdominated Sri Lankan politicsfor two decades. Mahinda waspreviously president, from 2005to 2015. President GotabayaRajapaksa had won theNovember presidential electionon the SLPP ticket.
In the parliamentary elec-tion, he was seeking 150 seatsmandatory to execute consti-tutional changes, including torepeal the 19th Amendment tothe Constitution which hadcurbed the presidential powerswhile strengthening the role ofParliament.
Activists, already alarmed bythe diminishing space for dissentand criticism in the islandnation, fear such a move couldlead to authoritarianism. PTI
Putrajaya (Malaysia): Two-time former Malaysian PrimeMinister Mahathir Mohamadannounced on Friday that he isforming a new ethnic Malayparty more than two monthsafter he was sacked from his pre-vious party during a politicalstruggle with his successor.
Mahathir, 95, quit as primeminister in protest in lateFebruary after fellow partymember Muhyiddin Yassinwithdrew their Bersatu partyfrom the ruling coalition, trig-gering its collapse less than twoyears after a historic victory in2018 national polls.
Muhyiddin was sworn in as
new prime minister in Marchwith a new government sup-ported by ex-Prime MinisterNajib Razak’s corruption-taint-ed party that was ousted in 2018.
Mahathir, who was sackedfrom Bersatu along with his sonand three other senior members,said Muhyiddin had hijacked theparty and helped revive what hecalled a kleptocratic govern-ment.
He accused Muhyiddin ofusing money to buy support inBersatu, causing it to stray fromits goal of fighting graft.Mahathir said he believes manygrassroots members are unhap-py and still support him. AP
Kabul: A traditional councilmet on Friday in Afghanistan’scapital to decide whether torelease a final 400 Taliban pris-oners, the last hurdle to start-ing negotiations betweenKabul’s political leadership andthe Taliban under a peace dealwith the US.
The negotiations are a crit-ical step toward lasting peace inAfghanistan.
The talks will decide whata peaceful Afghanistan mightlook like, what constitutionalchanges will be made, how therights of women and minoritieswill be protected and the fate ofthe tens of thousands of heav-ily armed men on both sides ofthe conflict. Besides Talibanfighters, warlords in Kabul
maintain thousands of armedmilitias loyal to them.
The Taliban in a statementon Friday rejected the Kabulgathering, saying it had no legalstatus. A statement by USSecretary of State Mike Pompeoissued late Thursday made itclear that the 400 prisonershad to be released if peace talkswith the Taliban were to moveforward.
“We acknowledge that therelease of these prisoners isunpopular,” Pompeo said. “Butthis difficult action will lead toan important result long soughtby Afghans and Afghanistan’sfriends: reduction of violenceand direct talks resulting in apeace agreement and an end tothe war.” AP
Beijing: China has sentenced afourth Canadian citizen to deathon drug charges in less than twoyears following a sharp down-turn in ties over the arrest of anexecutive of Chinese tech giantHuawei.
Ye Jianhui was sentenced onFriday by the Foshan MunicipalIntermediate Court in the south-ern province of Guangdong.
Ye had been found guilty of
manufacturing and transport-ing drugs, the court said in abrief statement. Another sus-pect in the case was also giventhe death penalty and fourothers sentenced to betweenseven years and life in prison.Death sentences are automat-ically referred to China’s high-est court for review. Tiesbetween Canada and Chinahave nosedived over Canada’s
late 2018 arrest of MengWanzhou, a company executiveand the daughter of Huawei’sfounder, at Vancouver’s airportin at the request of the US, whichwants her extradited to facefraud charges over the compa-ny’s dealings with Iran. Herarrest enraged Beijing, whichcalls it a political move aimed atconstraining China’s rise as aglobal technology power. AP
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Aoun said on Friday thathe asked France for satelliteimages to see if there were war-planes or missiles in the air atthe time of the blast.
The blast is believed tohave been caused when a firetouched off 2,750 tons ofammonium nitrate that hadbeen stored at the port since itwas taken from an impoundedship in 2013. The cause of theinitial fire is not known.
Aoun told journalists thathe received information onJuly 20 about the stored mate-rial and “immediately ordered”
military and security officials todo what was necessary. He didnot elaborate. He said severalgovernments in charge since2013 received warnings aboutthe material.
He said the investigation isconcentrating on 20 persons.He rejected an internationalinvestigation into the blast,saying that it will make us “losethe truth.” AP
Beirut: Hezbollah leader HassanNasrallah says the explosion atthe Beirut port reveals nepotismand corruption that can’t beignored in Lebanon and thatthose responsible should bebrought to justice.
Nasrallah denied in a speechon Friday that his group wasresponsible for Tuesday’s blast orexercised any power at the port.
He was responding to claimsthat his group may have storedexplosives at the port. Still,Nasrallah didn’t rule out a mis-sile attack or an act of sabotage.He said that storing explosivematerials like ammonium nitrateat the port for so long means “itis partially an issue of negligence,corruption, nepotism” thatshould not be ignored. AP
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have a former high-rankingpolitician from the region ofCatalonia extradited, in yetanother set back for the coun-try’s efforts to try several offi-cials in exile over their allegedroles in an independence ref-erendum that Madrid brandedas illegal.
The Brussels prosecutor’soffice said the court had decid-ed not to enforce the Europeanarrest warrant for formerCatalan culture minister LluisPuig on the grounds that “theSpanish authorities who issuedthe warrant are not competentto do so.”
Puig has been living inexile in Belgium since he, for-mer Catalan President CarlesPuigdemont and a number oftheir associates fled to Belgiumin October 2017, fearing arrestover their alleged roles in thesecessionist push and the hold-ing of an independence refer-endum that the Spanish gov-ernment had banned.
The vote sparked a policecrackdown and led to one ofSpain’s biggest political crises indecades as mass protests roiledthe relatively wealthy northeastregion of 7.5 million people.
Polls and recent electionsshow that Catalans are rough-ly equally split by the secessionquestion. Spaniards as a wholeare strongly against it.
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Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia waslooking for a country exceptIndia to send Zakir Naik, butnot many countries are willingto accept the controversialpreacher, former prime minis-ter Mahathir Mohamad hassaid.
Naik, a 54-year-old radicalIslamic preacher wanted bythe Indian authorities foralleged money laundering andinciting extremism throughhate speeches, left India in2016 and subsequently movedto the largely Muslim Malaysia,where he was granted perma-nent residency when Mahathir
was the prime minister.Claiming that the fugitive
Islamic preacher “would not besafe from the Indian public”, the95-year-old politician, who iseyeing a comeback, said hewould like to send Naik tosome country “where we feel hewill be safe.”
“For the time being he(Naik) can stay here but wewould like to send him tosome other country where hewould be safe. Unfortunately,not many countries are willingto accept him,” Mahathir wasquoted as saying by the WIONnews channel.
When asked whether hewould extradite Naik if hebecomes the Prime Minister ofMalaysia again, Mahathir said,“Well, we would like to sendhim to some country where wefeel he will be safe.”
He once again refused tosend Naik to India, saying “atthis moment we feel that hewould not be safe from theIndian public.”
Naik has been bannedfrom any public activities in themulti-ethnic country after hiscontroversial remarks againstMalaysian Hindus and Chineselast year. PTI
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The country, which has seen a major resur-gence in coronavirus since the end of June,added 2,060 deaths in one day as well as morethan 58,000 new cases, the Baltimore-baseduniversity showed at 8:30 pm (0030 GMTFriday). AFP
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United Nations: India hastold the UN Security Councilthat Dawood Ibrahim, whoperpetrated the 1993 Mumbaibomb blasts, and other UN-designated terrorists “unsur-prisingly” continue to enjoy“patronage” in a neighbouringcountry, calling for focusedinternational efforts to addressthreats posed by the fugitivegangster and terror groupsLashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.
India said this in a state-ment on Thursday to the HighLevel Open Debate of theUNSC on “Addressing the Issueof Linkages between Terrorismand Organised Crime.”
“India has been a victim ofterrorism sponsored fromacross our border. We haveexperienced first-hand thecruel linkage between transna-tional organised crime andterrorism.
“An organised crime syn-dicate, the D-Company, thatused to smuggle gold andcounterfeit currencies trans-formed into a terrorist entityovernight causing a series ofbomb blasts in the city ofMumbai in 1993. The attackresulted in the loss of morethan 250 innocent lives anddamage to property worth mil-lions of dollars,” India said inthe statement.
The perpetrator of theMumbai blasts, “unsurprising-ly, continues to enjoy patron-age in a neighbouring country,a hub for arms trafficking andnarcotics trade, along withother terrorists and terrorist
entities that have been pro-scribed by the United Nations,”the statement said withoutnaming any country.
India underlined that thesuccess of collective actionagainst the ISIL serves as anexample of how focused atten-tion by the international com-munity yields results.
“A similar focus onaddressing threats posed byproscribed individuals andentities such as DawoodIbrahim and his D-Company,the Lashkar-e-Taiba and theJaish-e-Mohammed, will servehumankind well,” it said.
India added that terrorismis one of the most seriousthreats that mankind facestoday and the scourge of ter-rorism does not distinguishbetween countries and regions.
“It is the grossest affront tothe enjoyment of the inalien-able human right to life and tolive in peace and security.India strongly condemns ter-rorism in all its forms andmanifestations. There can beno justification of any form ofterrorism. And looking forroot causes for terrorism isakin to finding a needle in ahaystack,” it said.
India underscored that itis important to hold Statesaccountable for activities thatsupport or encourage terror-ism from territories undertheir control. The resolutionsof the Security Council makeclear the primary responsibil-ity of Member States in coun-tering terrorist acts and in pre-venting and suppressing their
financing.It further said that
Member States which sufferdue to poor governance andinadequate oversight on finan-cial institutions are more vul-nerable for exploitation bythe terrorist entities andorganised criminals.
“Implementation of rec-ommendations of theFinancial Action Task Force(FATF) in strengthening thecapabilities of governancestructure of financial and eco-nomic assets should be one ofthe topmost priorities tocounter the menace,” it said.
India said the UN needs toenhance its coordination withbodies like the FATF whichhave been playing a significantrole in setting global standardsfor preventing and combatingmoney laundering and terror-ist financing.
It emphasised that today itis a widely accepted fact thatterrorist organisations andorganised crime groups bothconstitute “transnational crim-inal groups”.
India said that organisedcriminal networks also helpterrorist groups funnel fundsinto legitimate businesses.
“There is documentedevidence where smuggling ofnarcotics, natural resourcesand cultural artefacts are sus-tained by safe transit corri-dors provided by terroristentities. We have seen thedestruction created by thenarcotic trade in our regionthat has sustained and fund-ed terrorist networks.
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The lawsuit filed by SaadAljabri is the latest effort by theformer intelligence official totry and bring about internation-al and public pressure on thecrown prince, following years ofsilence in exile abroad.
Aljabri’s lawsuit claims thecrown prince has detained two ofhis children in Saudi Arabia in anattempt to force him back to thekingdom because of the sensitive
information he knows regardingthe inner workings of the royalcourt and kingdom’s leadership.It also alleges that the prince’sefforts to kill him continue to thisday. Attempts by Saudi Arabia toforcibly return certain citizenswho reside abroad began attract-ing global attention after thekilling of Saudi critic JamalKhashoggi, who was killed bySaudi agents who worked for thecrown prince. Khashoggi wasslain inside the Saudi Consulatein Turkey in an operation theSaudis claim was initially aneffort to forcibly bring him backto Saudi Arabia.
The crown prince denies he
had any knowledge of the oper-ation, but Western intelligenceagencies and the US Senate havedeclared the prince ultimatelyresponsible for Khashoggi’skilling. Aljabri’s lawsuit followsyears of silence by the formerintelligence official, who left thekingdom quietly around thetime his former boss, PrinceMohammed bin Nayef, fell frompower. Prince Mohammed binNayef had been the kingdom’sfeared interior minister and wascrown prince before he was oust-ed from the line of succession andstripped of his powers in 2017 byPrince Mohammed bin Salman,whose father is king.
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The Brussels prosecutor’soffice said the court had decid-ed not to enforce the Europeanarrest warrant for formerCatalan culture minister LluisPuig on the grounds that “theSpanish authorities who issuedthe warrant are not competentto do so.”
Puig has been living in exilein Belgium since he, formerCatalan President CarlesPuigdemont and a number oftheir associates fled to Belgiumin October 2017, fearing arrestover their alleged roles in thesecessionist push and the hold-ing of an independence refer-endum that the Spanish gov-ernment had banned.
The vote sparked a policecrackdown and led to one ofSpain’s biggest political crises in
decades as mass protests roiledthe relatively wealthy northeastregion of 7.5 million people.
Polls and recent electionsshow that Catalans are roughlyequally split by the secessionquestion. Spaniards as a wholeare strongly against it.
Puig’s lawyers had arguedthat Spain’s Supreme Court doesnot have the jurisdiction tojudge him and that only aCatalan court is competent to doso, and they said the Belgiancourt agreed with them.
Lawyer Paul Bekaert toldreporters that the Spanish con-stitution only allows the coun-try’s Supreme Court to issue thiskind of arrest warrant when itconcerns members of parlia-ment. He underlined that Puighas never been a lawmaker.
The Belgian prosecutor’soffice is mulling whether toappeal the Brussels court ruling.
It’s the third time that aEuropean arrest warrant againstexiled Catalan politicians hasbeen rejected.
Bekaert accused Spanishauthorities of abusing theEuropean arrest warrant systemfor political purposes.
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Actor Anushka Sharma became theyoungest female producer in Bollywood
at the age of 25 with the clutter-breakingrevenge thriller NH10 and she has since thenonly shown her passion to tell remarkablynew stories. From experimenting with gen-res to backing fellow outsiders to shine brightin Bollywood, Anushka, through CleanSlate Filmz, has been an entrepreneur whoat her core, is a diverse storyteller.
Anushka feels her Army background hasshaped her content choices majorly. “BeingArmy kids, we are always open to new ideasand all that travelling really helped usunderstand local stories. Such experiences hasnot only helped us in storytelling, but it alsomakes you look at things in different waysrather than a set societal perspective,” saysAnushka, who runs the business with herbrother Karnesh.
She adds, “Watching films doesn’t alwayshelp you understand movies better. Our lifeexperiences have helped us in this business.We have approached everything with afresh mind. If we have taken the less travelledpath, it is because we have followed ourinstincts.”
Anushka is riding on back to back suc-
cesses as a producer with both Paatal Lok andBulbbul doing incredibly well. She reveals thatthere is no formula for success when it comesto content production. “The business of pro-duction is very tricky and even the most expe-rienced can’t say that they have figured it out.You just learn from your mistakes. Even whenthings don’t work the way you wanted, theygive us learnings,” says she.
On the occasion ofNational Handloom
day, Bollywood actressesincluding PriyankaChopra Jonas, KanganaRanaut, Vidya Balan, DiaMirza, Taapsee Pannuand Janhvi Kapoor urgepeople to support Indianweavers and Indianorganic fabric industries.The handloom sector isone of the major symbolsof the cultural heritage ofIndia.
“Most of us havemore than we can con-sume. Fashion industryhas become one of themost damaging indus-tries for our environ-ment. New challenges callfor new resolves. Let’spromote our own Indianorganic fabric industriesand preserve the planet.When we choose hand-
loom, we choose to ele-vate our poor weavers outof poverty, we choosevocal for local, we chooseour mother earth, wechoose love for every sin-gle being on this planet,”said Kangana via a tweet.
Vidya posted a fewpictures in mustard silksaree on Instagram andwrote, “Let us all resolveto support our weaversacross the country inthese difficult times bybuying and wearing theirbeautiful creations in oureveryday life and alsohelp keep#India’sHandloomLegacyalive. Appreciate thelabour of love.”
Priyanka posted apicture in a green sareeand wrote on Instagramstories, “Indian hand-looms are known to be
unique and a work ofcraftsmanship. Let’s lendour support to theweavers and artisans ofthe textile industry.”
Janhvi shared animage of her mostfavourite handloomsaree. “The weavers andartisans in our countryare truly unmatched inskill and creativity. Thebest in the world,” shewrote.
Dia Mirza said she isproud of Indian heritage.“Our weavers need allour support and love.This National HandloomDay, let’s celebrate therich legacy of our Indianweaves and textiles.There is nothing like ahandloom saree,” shewrote along with animage.BC������&���������� �� �
The term ‘Churail’ has been used torefer to witches or to a woman whopractises dark magic. You might have
heard women being called as churail,dayan, bhootni, spellcaster and other suchnames for their “wrong” actions. Buthow often have you heard them being usedto question the patriarchal status quo andrepresent strong-willed women?
Pakistani filmmaker Asim Abbasi,who is now foraying into the web seriesspace with his series, Churails, believes thatthe term rightly represents his lead pro-tagonists as it has nothing to do with darkmagic. Says he, “The term has historical-ly been used to label women negatively fortheir courage, aggression, ambition — allthe qualities that I associate with a strongwoman, were deemed negative. She is theuncanny outsider who comes to shake upthe patriarchy. And it is the fear that sheelicits in the guardians of the status quo
(often men), that drives men to label themin a derogatory way. So our characters aretaking this term, ripe with symbolic value,to give it a positive spin. Every woman,according to me, should aspire to be a chu-rail.”
Set in Karachi, it is a story of fourwomen from different walks of life whocome together to open a covert detectiveagency to expose cheating husbandsamongst the city’s elite. These self-pro-claimed women run their operationsunder the guise of a fashion store named‘Halal Designs’ that specialise in conser-vative women’s attire. As their operationsexpand, they come to be the saviours ofabused, mistreated and harassed women,and their search for a missing girl bringsthem face to face with the exploitativeworld of talent agencies, escort services,and cosmetic companies. It featuresPakistani actors Sarwat Gilani, Nimra
Bucha, Yasra Rizvi and Mehar Bano.Excerpts:
� The series stars four women reelingfrom personal miseries who further
open a detective agency under the pre-text of a burqa shop. How did you con-ceptualise it?
The themes of gender politics, partic-ularly power dynamics, between a man and
a woman, and the resultant misogyny aretopics that I wanted to address in my writ-ing for a while. But I did not want thestarting point of the series to be heavy-handed. I wanted the darkness to slowlycreep in. So my natural, perhaps humor-ous inclination, was to first make my char-acters colourful spies, who graduallyturn vigilantes. I was interested in talkingabout the lack of autonomy that a womanhas over her body. Often in patriarchalsocieties, women are dressed andundressed at the whims of the society, andare being told what is appropriate andwhat is not. Hence, the store specialisesin modest-wear for women to showcasethis irony.
�The poster of the project has a caption:‘Hojayein tayaar, khwateen aur hazraat.Especially hazraat. Jald arahi hain kuchrangeen churailein, aapki deep-rootedmisogyny ki band bajaanay.’ Anotherscene showed a sign at a store: ‘Pets andmen not allowed.’ How do such strongstatements establish the idea of theseries?
The store titled ‘Halal Designs’ is a safespace that women have created for otherwomen. The clients need to feel protect-ed, hence, the idea of it not being open tomen. The sign for the store is a replay ofboards saying ‘women and dogs notallowed’ that actually existed in prestigiousmembers clubs in the subcontinent beforethe Partition, under the British Raj.
�Your narratives have usually centredaround strong female characters. Arethere any personal instances that haveshaped your choices?
I have grown up in a household of alot of women and have been surroundedby them all my life. So I tend to gravitatetowards their experiences. As a filmmak-er, it is my duty to tell stories about thosewho are under-represented or the ones Ibelieve are not represented fairly in themainstream media. Female-centric storieson Pakistani television usually regurgitatethe same trope about a damsel in distresswho needs rescuing by a prince. Thosestories are not a representative of thewomen I know. And those are not the sto-ries I believe our daughters should growup with.
�In one of your interviews you men-tioned, “It’s not message per se, I preferto raise questions.” What do you aim toachieve through your work?
Well, apart from entertaining audienceby providing a thrilling, edge-of-your-seatexperience, I hope that the show stays withthem long after the 10 hours of viewingexperience is over. They should be able toreflect on the questions the series raises.I wish them, particularly men, to become
more open to working towards a moreequitable society, where women arerespected and treated fairly.
�There has been a surge of grey roles inonline content now. Filmmakers andactors don’t like putting characters in abox. Do you think the same can be saidabout your four leads?
Absolutely. I deliberately set out to tella tale of four very flawed individuals. Theyare not always going to do the right thing.They are going to make mistakes and maynot even apologise for them but thesetraits are all very human to have. All goodcontent, which seeks to create empathet-ic characters that the audience can root for,should be moving away from the binariesof black and white.
�You had earlier said, “It’s very difficultto put Churails into a genre. It’s dis-cussing serious issues, but the showitself doesn’t take itself too seriously.”What did you mean?
In terms of genres, I would say theseries has elements of drama and thrillerbut I tend to find the whimsy in the dark-est of moments, and I feel my workreflects that. The themes that the seriesaddresses are posed as questions ratherthan preachy messages. My charactersfind something to smile about evenwhen everything around them is fallingapart.
�On the artistic front, are we ready tonurture cross-boundary collaborations,irrespective of the political environ-ment?
Yes, because art has nothing to dowith institutional politics. Its sole purposeis to provide a cathartic experience for thepublic by emphasising our shared human-ity and it aims to do that by bridging thedifferences.
�Do you think the audience for theseries might get affected from the Pak-India rivalries?
I don’t think so. People on both sidesof the border are well aware that they havesimilar life realities and are eager to havea dialogue and cultural exchange.
�Can we call this an opportunity for thecountry to attract other global platformsand entertain the idea of producingPakistani content?
Absolutely. We have not had web con-tent come out of Pakistan that could com-pete in the global market before. This isa small but important step in getting ourstories out to the world. I am hopeful thatit will attract more investment intoPakistani talent and filmmakers.
(The series will stream from August 11on Zee5.)
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Awell-set bar is one thingevery grown-up home shouldhave. It is not just about
honing skills to hosting some fam-ily and friends over for drinks, butalso about taking some time out foryourself and enjoying a drink athome. Well, this applies the most tothe times we are living in now. Bysetting up a bar at home, youwouldn’t be missing your favouritecocktail at your most-visited outlet.The bar can also add an unexpect-ed element of design to your home.But it will definitely be a space thatwill inspire you to try new thingsand upgrade your mixology skills.
WHERE TO BEGIN FROMCreating a home bar isn’t as
intimidating as it may seem. Animportant step is deciding what youwant to stock your bar with.However, there are a few morethings to consider before making thejump from a few bottles of spiritsand a chilled beer in your refriger-ator, to several variety of liquor, mix-ers and tools on display in yourhome bar.
If space is a constraint to createa full built-in wet bar, you couldalways have a portable bar designedthat will help you to move the essen-tials to the area of your gathering.A well-made cocktail trolley is thebest fix. Be it a make-shift bar or acocktail trolley, both are readilyavailable in leading e-commerceportals to add to your cart. If noth-ing else, transform your alreadyavailable wooden console table intoa bar top table by just adding a sim-ple yet aesthetic serving tray.
Once you have narrowed downon some space for your bar, the nextstep is to set a budget aside toarrange for all the must-havesincluding your choice of spirits, bartools, bitters, glassware, mixers andgarnishes — that is where the visu-al appeal kicks in!
WHICH SPIRITS TO GO FORThe budget that you decide on
will help you set a base for the spir-its that will bring your home bar to
life. I suggest adding different typesof spirits to enjoy on various occa-sions and settings. It’ll also help youmaster your skills at cocktail mak-ing as you will have a multitude ofliquor categories to experimentwith. Expert tip: Stock up on distinctflavours that will meet the widerspectrum of your audience.
THE ABSOLUTE MUST-HAVESScotch Whisky — A variety of
some blended scotches, which havea distinct maturation element tothem such as the Black Dog TripleGold Reserve, a classic single maltsuch as the Singleton of Glendullanand a limited-edition collectable col-lection such as the Johnnie WalkerBlack Label Origin Series, are theliquids that add an extraordinaryessence to the bar.
Trust me, there is no single wayto enjoy whisky. It can be consumedin the manner you want and recenttrends suggest that scotch cocktailsare a great way for the new gener-ation to venture into knowingwhisky. Try to explore whisky cock-tails and experiment with flavournotes available. If it’s a social occa-sion like a brunch with a close groupof friends or even a cozy movie nightindoors, a Highball will accompa-ny the mood perfectly. Expert tip:One such highball is also JohnnieGinger — Simple, understated andeasy to create at home.
Take a tall glass (highball) andfill it with ice. Add 45 ml of JohnnieWalker Red Label, top with gingerale and drop in a slice of fresh gin-ger, orange or cherry to garnish.
Vodka — Another spirit perfectfor cocktails. I would recommendhaving your choice of vodkas inyour freezer. Frozen Smirnoff isgreat to try with any mixer but if youare looking for more complexflavours and wish to try your handat a Bloody Mary cocktail, Ketel OneVodka will make it a well-roundeddrink.
Gin — It is a great accompani-ment when it comes to brunching.No one can go wrong with a classicgin cocktail. Tanqueray London
Dry Gin will be a best choice to fixup a refreshing gin and tonic. Take30 ml Tanqueray, 60 ml tonic, lotsof ice in a wine glass with yourchoice of citrus fruit sliced up to gar-nish.
Other additional spirits whichyou can stock up your bar with areRum and Tequila to serve at yourindoor gatherings.
Vermouth — An elementadded to your bar for you to makea great martini with your choice ofvodka.
Bitters — For enjoying yourvery own Negroni.
Important tip: Once you haveset up your home bar, do try yourhand at experimenting with mixol-ogy but remember to drink respon-sibly.
ESSENTIAL BAR TOOLSFew things that you would need
to enhance your mixology skills andserve some great cocktails for yourfriends and family are essential bartools, glassware, shrubs and syrups.
Cocktail shaker: A cocktailshaker is essential to make sure youblend in all the ingredients of yourcocktail. I would recommend thatyou invest in a three-piece shaker,which has an in-built strainer andhelps in serving a drink, especiallywhen you’re short of time. If you arejust starting out and don’t have one,a 500 ml recycled bottle with a widemouth works just as well and canresult in preparing three serves at atime.
Jigger or peg measure: As aresponsible host, it is always wise tomeasure every drink. This is espe-cially useful in portioning out yourcocktail when you are trying out a
new recipe.Pourers: Use a pourer while
pouring your drinks into a glass toavoid spillage.
Cocktail strainers: AHawthorne or Julep Strainer, that issimple in design, is handy to use forstirred cocktails. For those that areshaken, use a fine strainer (teastrainer) to filter the ice that breaksinto ice chips while shaking or toseparate fresh fruit and herb sedi-ments that may float in your drink.
Muddler : While usinglocal/seasonal fresh fruits and herbsin your drink, use a muddler tobring out the utmost freshness andjuice of the ingredients.
Chopping board and knife: A
wooden chopping board and sharpknife is useful while slicing fruit. Asmall knife and peeler helps to peelcitrus fruits for garnishing. ACosmopolitan is never the samewithout a fresh orange twist.
Bar spoon: A bar spoon isgood to stir your martinis or tomuddle the sugar cube in an OldFashioned. Chopsticks also come inhandy for stirring.
Mixing glass or pint glass:Who doesn’t love a well-made,stirred, dry martini or a negroni ina fancy mixing glass? A pint glass ora recycled bottle works just as well.
Citrus press / Mexican elbowjuicer: For all those who love theirsour cocktails, use the right tools
while making a sweet lime soda. Ameasure of gin makes it a TomCollins or Gin Fizz.
Juice containers or punchbowl: This helps when you are host-ing an intimate gathering for friendsand family where you can pre-mixthe cocktails and store them in thefridge.
Spill mat and kitchen towels:Very useful in keeping the surfaceclean as bar tops tend to get wet withspilt liquids pretty often. A matkeeps the moisture in check.
Ice cube tray: Ice is the mostimportant element in a cocktail andbig ice cubes help the drink staychilled for a longer duration. Smallpaper cups or 100 ml steel tumblersmake good alternatives. Expert tip:Don’t add your ice until you’reready to shake or stir, melted icemakes the drink too weak andunenjoyable.
Glassware: The right glasswaregives the best first impression of agreat drink. Research reveals thatbeautiful glassware not onlyenhances the perception but also hasa lasting impact. Here are some rec-ommendations.�A highball glass is great for talldrinks like whisky highballs, moji-tos and vodka with OJ.�For cocktails like Old Fashionedand straight drinks, a rocks orwhisky glass is preferable.�Some wine glasses for red/whitewine or a gin and a tonic.�A martini or a cocktail glass,which brings in the bond momentis a must-have.�A beer glass serves as an excellentutility glass through the evening.
Mixers: Stock up on mixers thatyou enjoy to create simple and easy
cocktails. This also works well foryour guests who may look forsomething other than an alcoholicdrink. Here are some mixers thatone must have.�Aerated drinks like soda water,tonic, ginger ale, lemonade�Fresh and chilled fruit juices likeorange, cranberry, pineapple, toma-to�Sweet and sour mix like margar-itas, whiskey sours�Equal parts of fresh lime or applecider vinegar and sugar syrup workwell too�Having a selection of honey, pre-serves, shrubs and flavoured syrupsin your pantry brings in complexi-ty to your drink and never fails towow your guests�Spices and herbs help you addsome the unique flavours to yourdrink�Through local seasonal fruits,you can make a whisky sour rightat home, throw in a bit of ginger toadd plenty of complexity to thedrink�Using citrus fruits for garnishingare brings a sense of freshness toyour drink. It’s always great to havea bundle of kafir lime leaves or mintleaves as a brilliant garnish, uplift-ing the entire cocktail experience.
Essential bitters: What saltdoes to food, bitters do to your cock-tails. Try stocking up on anAngostura bitter in you bar. If youcan’t find one, use your favouritespices, steeped tea or spent coffee invodka gives your drink its ownhomemade tincture.
Well, one last tip: Drink andenjoy responsibly!
(The writer is the BrandAmbassador, Diageo India.)
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Barcelona coachQuique Setién says that he is
ready to count on youngsters AnsuFati and Riqui Puig to eliminateNapoli and advance to theChampions League final eight inPortugal.
Barcelona will be withoutmidfielders Sergio Busquets,Arturo Vidal and Arthur forSaturday’s second leg of theirround-of-16 tie. The match willbe played five months after theSpanish side earned a 1-1 draw atNapoli before the pandemic broughtmost sports to a halt.
“Both Rique and Ansu are readyto play,” Setién said on Friday. “Theyhave performed and played prettywell and could perfectly well start
(against Napoli). And ifthey do start, I am sure theywill be guaranteed to play
well.” The 20-year-old Puig has a
good chance to earn his debut inEurope’s top-tier club competi-tion and Setién values Puig’spassing and ball-control skills,
which remind someBarca fans of XaviHernández and AndrésIniesta, and rewardedhim with a biggerrole during the
final stretch of theLa Liga. Fati, 17,made a huge splashthis season bybecoming theyoungest player toscore in La Liga and
the Champions League, amongother precocious scoring milestones.
With Lionel Messi and LuisSuárez set to start in attack, Fati couldget picked over fellow forwardAntoine Griezmann, who was cleared
to play by team doctors on Fridayafter having recovered from aright thigh injury last month.
Clement Lenglet was alsocleared by team doctors and willlikely play with Gerard Pique in
the center of the defence withSamuel Umtiti still injured.
With only 13 first-teamplayers available,
Setién has called upseven members ofBarcelona’s youthsquad, including
American Konradde la Fuente.
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India on Friday retained theright to host the 2021 T20World Cup while Australia will
conduct this year’s postponed edi-tion in 2022, the ICC announcedon Friday after its board meeting,straightening out a schedule thatwent topsy-turvy due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
This year’s edition had to bepostponed because of the ragingpandemic, which has severelyimpacted all sports calendars glob-ally.
“The International CricketCouncil (ICC) today (on Friday)
confirmed that the T20 World Cup2020 that was postponed due toCovid-19 will be held in Australiain 2022. India will host the T20World Cup 2021 as planned,” theICC stated in a press release.
The global body also con-firmed that next year’s women’sODI World Cup in New Zealandhas been postponed untilFebruary-March 2022 because ofthe impact the pandemic has hadon cricket globally.
ICC Chief Executive ManuSawhney said: “We now haveabsolute clarity on the future ofICC events enabling all of ourMembers to focus on the resched-
uling of lost international anddomestic cricket.
“We will now proceed asplanned with the Men’s T20 WorldCup 2021 in India and host the2022 edition in Australia.”
The format of the 2021 T20World Cup will remain as it was for2020 and all teams that qualifiedfor that event will now participatein India in 2021.
A new qualification processwill be started for the 2022 editionin Australia.
“BCCI were never keen to hostthe 2022 event which would havemeant that they had to host backto back ICC events including the
50-over World Cup in 2023. Thatwasn’t a viable option,” an ICCBoard member told PTI.
However, it was a big setbackfor the women’s game with themuch-awaited World Cup beingpushed by a year.
Sawhney said the decisionwould “give players from everycompeting nation, the best oppor-tunity to be ready for the world’sbiggest stage and there is still aglobal qualifier to complete todecide the final three teams.
An ICC Board member saidthat due to various countries fac-ing different situations with regardsto the Covid case load, it would
have been difficult to hold the qual-ifiers in time.
The postponement also raisesdoubts about the future of Indialegends such as Mithali Raj andJhulan Goswami, who probablywould have played their last ICCtournament in 2021.
The decisions were taken bythe IBC (the commercial sub-sidiary of the ICC) following anextensive contingency planningexercise which took into accountthe health, cricket and commercialimpact of Covid-19 around theworld.
The format of the postponedWorld Cup will remain as it was for2021. Five teams have alreadyqualified for the event and that willstand for 2022.
The original global qualifica-tion event to determine the finalthree teams to contest the eventwas scheduled to be held in SriLanka in July this year, but waspostponed due to Covid-19.
The qualification event willnow be held in 2021.
“There has been no women’sinternational cricket played sincethe conclusion of the women’s T20World Cup earlier this year anddue to the varying impact ofCovid-19 globally that is likely toremain the situation for a numberof the teams,” Sawhney spoke
about the impact of the pandem-ic.
“Moving the event by 12months gives all competing teamsthe chance to play a sufficient levelof cricket...So the integrity of thetournament is maintained.”
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Wolves battled into the quarter-finals of the Europa League on
Thursday while Sevilla, BayerLeverkusen and Basel enjoyed farmore comfortable victories in thematches that brought the Europa League round of16 to a belated close.
Raul Jimenez scored the only goal from thepenalty spot in the ninth minute and Wolves sur-vived a series of scares to edge Olympiakos 1-0 atMolineux for a 2-1 aggregate win in a tie that beganin Athens on March 13.
At Molineux, Bobby Allain, the visitors’ Franco-Scottish goalkeeper, failed to control a back pass inthe seventh minute.
Daniel Podence, who scored for Olympiakos atTottenham in September but moved to Wolves inJanuary, darted in and stole the ball.
Allain clumsily bundled his former clubmateover and Jimenez converted the penalty.
The Greek champions created a string ofchances but were thwarted by good saves by RuiPatricio, a tight offside decision and their own inac-curate finishing.
Wolves, who began their Europa League cam-paign on July 25 last year against Crusaders in thesecond qualifying round, will next face Sevilla atDuisburg on August 11.
Sevilla were also in Duisburg on Thursdaywhere they took the lead against Roma after 22 min-utes. Captain and right back Jesus Navas switchedplay with a cross-field pass to left back SergioReguilon that caught Roma flat-footed.
Reguilon surged past two defenders and intothe box before sliding a low shot past Spanish goal-keeper Pau Lopez’s foot.
Sevilla added a second on the counter-attack inthe 43rd minute.
Lucas Ocampos burst down the right and afterLopez failed to cut out the low cross, Youssef EnNeysri finished into an empty net from close range.
Sevilla, coached by former Spain boss JulenLopetegui, dominated as they stretched theirunbeaten run to 18 games in all competitions andkept on course to add to their record five EuropaLeague titles.
In Basel, defender Fabien Frei scored the onlygoal in the 88th minute as the home team won 1-0 to complete an aggregate 4-0 victory overEintracht Frankfurt.
In Leverkusen, Moussa Diaby scored the onlygoal after 51 minutes to complete a comfortable vic-tory for Bayer, who won 3-1 in Glasgow in March.
In the quarter-finals, Bayer will make the shorttrip to Dusseldorf to face Inter Milan on August 10,Basel will play Shakhtar Donetsk in Gelsenkirchenthe next night.
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Women’s world number fiveElina Svitolina and Kiki
Bertens, ranked seventh, onFriday joined a growing list ofplayers withdraw-ing from thismonth’s US Opendue to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I under-stand and respect all the effortsthey are putting to make it hap-pen in a safe environment, butI still don’t feel comfortable totravel to US without putting myteam and myself at high risk,”Ukrainian Svitolina, whoreached last year’s semi-finals inNew York, said on Twitter.
The United States has closeto 5 million cases of Covid-19and almost 160,000 people havedied.
“The situation aroundCovid-19 is still worrying and
the health of everyone and thecontrol over this virus is prior-ity,” said the 28-year-old Bertenson Instagram.
The US Open organisers arecreating a bio-secure bubble inNew York to hold the tourna-ment from August 31 withoutspectators. But concerns remainabout whether players wouldface mandatory quarantines
upon returning home from theUS Open.
“Our prime minister indi-cated yesterday that we shouldbe quarantined for 14 days aftercoming back from the States,”
Bertens said.“Of course we respect this as
a team and this would disturbour preparation for my belovedclay court tournaments in Romeand Paris.”
�-���-� The Australian state of NewSouth Wales (NSW) has offered to hostthe 2021 edition of the AustralianOpen alongwith other sporting eventsthat are usually held in neighbouringVictoria.
The Australian Open is first of thefour Grand Slams during the season andusually starts in late January. Victoria’scapital Melbourne has been the hostvenue since 1972. However, the state iscurrently under a second lockdown andhas nearly 8,000 active Covid-19 cases,while NSW has about 800.
“Some of these events down inVictoria are national events hosted inVictoria,” NSW deputy premier JohnBarilaro told 2GB radio. “It’s importantfor the economy, important for theAustralian psyche when it comes tosport.
“Absolutely we should be able towork with Victorians to find ways tomake sure these all happen, theseevents are far too important in this cri-sis to not have.” IANS
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World champion PVSindhu, along with B Sai
Praneeth and N Sikki Reddy, hitthe courts for training on Fridayunder strict safety protocols atthe SAI Pullela GopichandBadminton Academy inHyderabad, ending a four-month-long coronavirus-forcedhiatus.
This was after the SportsAuthority of India (SAI) decid-ed to resume the national bad-minton camp for the eightOlympic hopefuls followingTelangana Government’sapproval on August 1.
“I am very happy to haveour elite shuttlers back for on-field training after this longbreak. We are fully equipped toresume training in a safe envi-ronment,” Chief national coach
Pullela Gopichand said.The eight Olympic hopefuls
also include London Bronze-winner Saina Nehwal, formerworld No 1 Srikanth Kidambi,
women’s doubles player AshwiniPonnappa and men’s doublespairing of Chirag Shetty andSatwiksairaj. Saina, who is basedin Hyderabad, didn’t train onFriday, while the others, whohad gone to their respectivehomes in March, and are yet toreturn to the city.
On Friday, Sindhu was thefirst one to train with Gopi andforeign coach Park Tae-Sangseparately.
“Sindhu trained today from6:30am to 8:30am. Gopi andPark were also present. She willbe training everyday at the sametime this week. In the evening,she will have her fitness trainingat Suchitra academy for agilityand endurance,” the RioOlympics Silver-medallist’sfather, P V Ramana said.
“She has been training athome so physically she is in
good shape but there are notournaments till October, soshe can afford to go easy, nopoint exerting too much. We
have to be careful.”After Sindhu, Praneeth and
Sikki also trained at the acade-my from 8:30 to 10:30 am.
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The Indian men’s hockeyteam captain Manpreet
Singh and four other playershave tested positive forCovid-19 but the nationalcamp will resume inBengaluru as scheduled withthose who are fit to train, theSports Authority of India(SAI) said on Friday.
Besides Manpreet,defender Surender Kumar,Jaskaran Singh, drag-flickerVarun Kumar and goalkeep-er Krishan Bahadur Pathakhave also tested positive forthe dreaded virus.
The players tested pos-itive after returning to thenational hockey camp at theSAI South Centre inBengaluru following amonth-long break.
A SAI source, however,said that the camp willresume from August 20 as
planned with the fit players.“As of now the camp is
on and will resume asplanned. The fit players canstart their individual train-ing and the players whohave tested positive forCovid can resume later afterrecovering but they will haveto pass a fitness test,” thesource said.
According to the SAIsource all the players whohave tested positive werepart of a 10-member groupwho have travelled togetherand there are chances ofmore positve results comeout.
The SAI further saidthat all the five players ini-tially tested negative in therapid test.
But when Manpreet andSurender began to showsome Covid-19 symptoms,they along with 10 otherplayers, who had travelledtogether, were made toundergo the QuantitativeRT-PCR test on Thursday.
“...And the five havebeen found to be Covid pos-itive. Though the test resultshave still not been handedover to SAI, but the stateGovernment has informedthe test results to the SAIauthorities,” the SAI said.
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England was bowled out for219, a 107-run first innings
deficit, after losing six wicketsto Pakistan’s leg-spinners on thethird day of the first Test at OldTrafford on Friday.
At tea Pakistan stretched itslead by another 20 runs to takecontrol despite Shan Masood’sduck.
Ollie Pope’s 62 was as goodas it got for the England bats-men, with the majority of thoseruns scored on day two, withYasir Shah claiming 4-66 andShadab Khan taking the lasttwo wickets.
England resumed the dayon 92-4 with Pope and JosButtler hoping to continue therescue mission they had start-ed the previous evening.
Pope had 46 to his namewhen he walked out but almostfell short of his half-century,deflecting Shaheen Afridi overthe top of the stumps in anearly scare. He got there soonafter, off 81 balls, but the firsthour was little more than a trialfor the home side.
Just nine runs came off thebat in that time, outscored bythe 10 extras Pakistan con-tributed, with the three-pronged pace attack ofShaheen, Mohammad Abbasand Naseem Shah working upa head of steam.
Buttler edged the thirdball of Naseem’s spell just shortof second slip but after that itwas a string of plays and miss-es. Somehow the duo reachedthe drinks break without anycrucial nicks and when both hittheir first boundaries of the daythere was a small hope they hadweathered the storm.
Tentatively, the fifth-wick-
et stand crept up to 65, everyrun hard-earned, beforeNaseem produced a memo-rable delivery to claim hisdeserved reward.
Pope was hardly to blame,reeling back and fending togully after the teenager got oneto kick viciously off the surface.Barring an early blow to thehelmet for new man ChrisWoakes, the remainder of thesession was better for Englandas they eased the score out to159-5.
Buttler had scrapped hisway through to 38 but fell to hissecond ball after lunch, leavinga gap between bat and pad thatallowed Yasir enough room topart the stumps.
The experienced spinnerwas buoyed by the success andmade short work of Dom Bess,producing the turn and bouncethat left Asad Shafiq with a div-ing catch at slip. He claimed his
third wicket of the spell andfourth overall when Woakeslost his patience and his shape,bowled for 19 swinging hard toleg.
England were in turmoil at170-8t but had Stuart Broad tothank for two tail-end standsthat added 49 to the total.
He finished unbeaten on29, with three boundaries in arow off Shaheen and a slog-swept six off Yasir under hisbelt, but all-rounder Shadab didenough at the other end to seeoff Jofra Archer and JamesAnderson.
Broad then chipped inwith the ball, getting Masoodcaught down the leg-side for aduck to go with his career-best156 from the first innings.
Anderson should havemade it two down by tea butBen Stokes dived in front ofRoot and spilled the chance toleave Pakistan 20 for one.
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India’s white-ball series againstEngland, scheduled at home in
September-October, was onFriday postponed to early 2021with both the boards citing theCovid-19 pandemic, whichwrecked the international calen-dar and created space for the IPLduring this window.
Both teams were scheduled toplay three ODIs and as many T20sand the matches could now beheld after the Test series betweenthe two in India early next year.
The series was to be apreparatory one ahead of theT20 World Cup, which was orig-inally scheduled from October 18to November 5 in Australia, buthas now been postponed.
“BCCI and ECB are in con-sultation with a view to confirm-ing the 2021 schedules for an all-formats England men’s tour toIndia to run from late January tolate March and for India’s Test tourto England due in the summer of2021,” the BCCI said in a state-ment.
BCCI secretary Jay Shahadded: “The BCCI and ECB areworking closely to finalise the day-wise schedule as we move towardsthe resumption of cricket.
The five-Test series to behosted by India could be trimmedto four to accommodate thewhite-ball games next year.
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The men’s doubles pair iscurrently apart with Shetty athis home in Mumbai andRankireddy lodged at his basein Amalapuram in AndhraPradesh.
“It is great to hear that the
training camp has resumed butwe will have to wait for a cou-ple of weeks before we take acall on joining the camp,” the23-year-old Shetty, who along-with Rankireddy won theThailand Open and finishedrunners-up at the FrenchOpen last year, told PTI.
Shetty said the coron-avirus threat is real and hewould not feel safe travellingat this point. Rankireddy isbased closer to Hyderabad,which is just over 450km fromhis home town. PTI
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Former world No 1Murray, currently ranked 129after a lengthy period battlinga hip injury, narrowly misseddirect entry.
The 33-year-old won thefirst of his three Grand Slamtitles at the 2012 US Open,becoming the first Britishmale to win a major sinceFred Perry in 1936.
While Clijsters will be
looking to repeat her magicfrom the 2009 US Open,when she famously won thewomen’s singles title as awild card after returningfrom an initial retirement,during which she became amother.
The three-time US Openchampion (2005, 2009-10),who came out of a morethan seven-year retirementearlier in 2020, will be play-ing the US Open for the firsttime since she stepped awayfrom the game following the2012 tournament. AFP
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