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A day after the Supreme Court suggested that the Centre should put on hold the three contentious farm laws and open talks with the agitat- ing farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made another outreach to the farmers and said he is ready with folded hands to discuss their concerns. The PM emphasised that the system of Minimum Support Price (MSP) will stay and “talk about MSP ending after the new laws is the biggest lie ever”. “If anyone has any con- cerns, then with our heads bowed and our hands folded, with humility, we are willing to discuss with them and assuage their fears,” Modi said, address- ing farmers in Madhya Pradesh via video as part of the Government’s redoubled efforts to reach out to farmers. Modi said the Government is ready to alley farmers’ fears and maintained that “they are being misled by Opposition parties” who are supporting the protests to promote their own agenda. Agar hamain MSP samapt Karin hoti to hum Swaminathan Committee report kyon lagu kartain”, he said. Seeking to dispel farmers apprehensions, Modi said, “It is six-month since the new farm laws have come into effect but not a single mandi has been shut down.” Phir ye jhoot kyon failaya ja raha hain?” asked the Prime Minister as he defended three farm reform laws. Farmers have been asking the Modi Government to pro- vide a written guarantee on the continuation of the MSP, appre- hending that farm reforms which now allow trading, would gradually end the MSP and the mandi system. Opposition is feeling slight- ed as “we have delivered on farm reforms”, said the Prime Minister. Modi said Opposition par- ties are using you (farmers) to do politics to find relevance today, since they have lost their political ground. “They fear that Modi will get the credit for reforms. Please take the cred- it, for me, the only thing that matter is growth and progress for farmers,” he said. Modi said all old mani- festos of other parties said the same thing “what his Government has dared to implement”. Without taking any name, the Prime Minister said Opposition parties are trying to take mileage from farmers’ protests. He said farm reforms did not happen overnight, years of discussion and consultations have gone into it. “In the new farm laws, the centre has only stated that whether the farmer sells his produce in the market or out- side, it will be his will,” Modi said, adding that not a single market has been closed after the new laws were enacted. “Today I want to expose those who have absolutely no care or genuine concern for you — our anna-daata (farmers). I want to caution all those who are being misled and instigat- ed in the name of these farm laws,” the Prime Minister said. It is the 20th day of protest by farmers on the outskirts of Delhi and agitators hope that the Government would take concrete steps to resolve the stand-off by walking the talk as the Government seeks farmers to not to press for scrapping the new laws. U nion Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar who is leading the negotiation with about 40 farmer unions along with Food Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Commerce Som Parkash — asserted the three new farm laws are beneficial for farmers and the Government is ready to give a written assur- ance that the MSP and mandi system will continue. He put the blame on Opposition parties for mis- leading the farmers and accused them of changing their stance on the reform process. A day after senior Trinamool Congress leaders Suvendu Adhikari and Jitendra Tiwari left the Bengal ruling outfit, two more legislators, one from TMC and the other from the CPI(M), quit their respective parties dropping hints of their rightward movement. Sources close to Adhikari whose resignation from the Bengal Assembly was not immediately accepted by Speaker Biman Banerjee on “technical grounds” said he would join the BJP in the pres- ence of Home Minister Amit Shah during his Saturday rally at Midnapore. Adhikari has been sum- moned by Mamata to explain his position personally to him before considering his resig- nation. Shah is coming to Bengal on a two-day organisa- tional trip. “The letter he submitted personally to the Assembly secretariat has no date while the e-mailed letter to me contains a date ... this discrepancy has to be clarified by him for which I have asked him to meet me on December 21. Then only I will be able to accept his resigna- tion. Till then he continues to be a TMC member of the House,” Mamata said. Adhikari a former MP and Bengal Transport Minister later said he would meet the Speaker at the Assembly on the desig- nated date. The leader who had expressed concern about his personal safety and that of his followers was being provided with Z-category security by the Union Government sources said without providing further clarifications. The other two leaders who on Friday left their respective parties are TMC legislator and Mukul Roy confidant Sil Bhadra Dutta and Tapasi Mandal a CPI(M) MLA from Haldia whose husband left the Marxist outfit on November 21. Continued on Page 11 W ith the stand-offs con- tinuing for the ninth month at the Line of Actual Control (LAC), India and China held yet another round of diplomatic-level parleys on Friday to break the logjam. There was no breakthrough, but both the sides agreed to sustain the process of dialogue and ensure speedy disengage- ment at the border. The latest round of diplo- matic level talks under the aegis of Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) was held nearly 11 weeks after the last round on September 30. These talks, though incon- clusive, could pave the way for the ninth round of Corps Commander-level talks between the armies of the two countries. The two comman- ders had met last on November 6 but of now no avail. Given the apparent mis- trust at present, India has ramped up its military pre- paredness and has deployed additional mountain warfare trained troops for the winter months all along the 1,700 km long LAC in Ladakh. More than one lakh troops from both the sides are facing each other in the Ladakh sector. In the virtual WMCC talks, the sixth since the face-offs began in early May, the Indian delegation was led by Joint Secretary (East Asia) from the Ministry of External Affairs Naveen Srivastava. The Director General of the Department of Boundary & Oceanic Affairs of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hong Liang led the Chinese delegation. The two sides reviewed the developments along the LAC since the last round of the WMCC, the External Affairs Ministry said here. Continued on Page 11 T he high voltage tension between the Centre and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee escalated with the Trinamool Congress Government on Friday decid- ing to move the Supreme Court after the Centre issued a mandatory order to three Bengal cadre Indian Police Services (IPS) officers — whom they had earlier ordered on Central deputa- tion — to report in Delhi by Friday. Even as the State Government refused to release the officers accusing the BJP of violating federal norms — that made the State’s clearance necessary to send Central services officers on deputations the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) summoned the three IPS officers to report to the Centre setting a report- ing deadline of 5 pm on Friday. The MHA had issued transfer letters to the three officers — Rajeev Mishra (ADG, South Bengal); Praveen Kumar Tripathi (DIG, Presidency Range) and Bhola Nath Pandey (SP, Diamond Harbour) — over alleged lapses in security arrangement to BJP chief JP Nadda during his December 10 visit to Bengal. The convoy of Nadda was attacked by an alleged crowd of TMC leaders in which a number of vehicles were damaged and senior leaders like Kailash Vijaybargiya and M u k u l Roy received injuries leading the Centre to question the law and order situation of the State. The Bengal Government moved the Apex Court citing the provisions under Article 312 of Constitution according to which the officers could be taken on Central deputation only after getting clearance from the respective State. The law suit came hours after Bengal Chief Minister called the Centre’s attitude as “expansionist” and vowed not to cow down before News Delhi. Interestingly retired IAS officers, Bikram Sarkar and IPS officer Gautam Chakrabarty referred to spe- cial circumstances when the Centre could lift officers from the State and “there is noth- ing that the State can do about this.” The Centre-State tussle went beyond the IPS transfer controversy with the MHA once again summoning Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay and DGP Virendra for meeting in Delhi which the officers politely refused to comply with citing the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The two officials howev- er proposed virtual meeting that the Centre had agreed to sources said. T he Supreme Court on Friday said that any deci- sion to impose curfew or lock- down must be announced in advance so that people may make provisions for their liveli- hood. The court said this while observing that Covid-19 pan- demic has spread like wildfire owing to the lack of imple- mentation of guidelines and SOPs. “Curfew on weekends/night may be con- sidered by States where it is not in place. However, any decision to impose curfew or lockdown must be announced long in advance so that the people may know and make provisions for the livelihood, like ration,” a Supreme Court bench com- prising Justice Ashoke Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and MR Shah said. The apex court said strict and stern action should be taken against those who are violating Covid-19 guidelines and SOPs, irrespective of their position. The bench said there should be more police person- nel at food courts, eateries, veg- etable markets, sabzi mandis, bus stations, railway stations, etc, as these are the places which are seeing gathering of people. No permission shall be granted for any celebration as far as possible, the SC noted adding that there should be mechanism in place to check the number of people attend- ing such gathering. The bench also observed that there shall be more and more testing and the focus should be to declare cor- rect facts and figures. Continued on Page 11 F our people have been arrest- ed for allegedly posting an online advertisement listing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi office for “sale”, police said on Friday. The accused had taken a picture of the “Jansampark Kaaryalay (public relations office)” of Modi, who repre- sents Varanasi in the Lok Sabha, and put it “up for sale” on OLX website, they said. The office is located in the Jawahar Nagar locality of the city, and it falls under the Bhelupur police station limits, Varanasi Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Amit Pathak said. “Yesterday, it came to our notice that the Prime Minister’s office here has been put up on sale on OLX website. An FIR was immediately lodged at the Bhelupur police station, and the matter is being probed,” he said. “Four people involved in the case have been taken in cus- tody,” the SSP said, adding that the person who took the picture and put it on the web- site is among them. The accused are being questioned, and further legal proceedings are being carried out, he said. Modi was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Varanasi in 2014 and then re- elected in 2019. D elhi is likely to witness “severe” cold on Saturday and Sunday. “Cold wave” con- ditions are predicted in Delhi on Saturday and the cold spell is likely to continue till Monday, the the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The minimum tempera- ture dropped below the three degrees Celsius-mark in parts of Delhi on Friday as frosty winds from snow-covered Western Himalayas continue to sweep the national Capital. The mercury plunged to 2.7 degrees Celsius at Jafarpur. It settled at 3.5 degrees Celsius and 3.8 degrees Celsius at Ayanagar and Lodhi Road weather stations, the IMD said. The Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative data for the city, recorded a minimum of 4.4 degrees Celsius. The maxi- mum, however, rose to 19.8 degrees Celsius. Dehradun : Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said he tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday. “I had undergone a coronavirus test today and my report has come out positive. I am well and have no symp- toms. So on the advice of doc- tors, I will remain in home isolation,” tweeted Rawat. The CM also requested the people who had come into his contact over the last few days to get themselves tested for the infection. I ndia’s coronavirus tally crossed one crore mark on Saturday. The country added over 25,661 cases and with 308 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 1,45,137. With a continuous trend of daily reductions, India’s share of global active coronavirus cases is down at 1.51 per cent (one in 66). The last one mil- lion cases for India have come in 29 days. Continued on Page 11 Lucknow (PTI): The Allahabad High Court on Friday issued notice to all ten newly elected Rajya Sabha MPs on a petition moved by busi- nessman Prakash Bajaj claim- ing that the returning officer had wrongly rejected his nom- ination. The Lucknow bench of the high court fixed January 27 as the next date of hearing in the matter. A bench of Justice Jaspreet Singh passed the order on the election petition moved by Bajaj who contended that the returning officer had wrongly rejected his nomination citing fault in the affidavit and form and all ten candidates were declared elected unopposed on November 2. “Since the nomination was arbitrarily rejected, the elections should be conducted afresh,” the peti- tioner demanded. The plea also said that same mistakes were there in the affidavits and forms of the others but by “applying double standards”, the returning offi- cer allegedly illegally and arbi- trarily rejected only his papers. After hearing the plea, the court issued notices to all the ten newly elected MPs seeking their response.

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Aday after the SupremeCourt suggested that the

Centre should put on hold thethree contentious farm lawsand open talks with the agitat-ing farmers, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Fridaymade another outreach to thefarmers and said he is readywith folded hands to discusstheir concerns.

The PM emphasised thatthe system of MinimumSupport Price (MSP) will stayand “talk about MSP endingafter the new laws is the biggestlie ever”.

“If anyone has any con-cerns, then with our headsbowed and our hands folded,with humility, we are willing todiscuss with them and assuagetheir fears,” Modi said, address-ing farmers in Madhya Pradeshvia video as part of theGovernment’s redoubled effortsto reach out to farmers.

Modi said the Governmentis ready to alley farmers’ fearsand maintained that “they arebeing misled by Oppositionparties” who are supporting theprotests to promote their ownagenda.

“Agar hamain MSP samaptKarin hoti to humSwaminathan Committeereport kyon lagu kartain”, hesaid.

Seeking to dispel farmersapprehensions, Modi said, “It issix-month since the new farmlaws have come into effect butnot a single mandi has beenshut down.”

“Phir ye jhoot kyon failayaja raha hain?” asked the PrimeMinister as he defended threefarm reform laws.

Farmers have been askingthe Modi Government to pro-vide a written guarantee on thecontinuation of the MSP, appre-hending that farm reformswhich now allow trading,would gradually end the MSPand the mandi system.

Opposition is feeling slight-ed as “we have delivered onfarm reforms”, said the PrimeMinister.

Modi said Opposition par-ties are using you (farmers) todo politics to find relevancetoday, since they have lost theirpolitical ground. “They fearthat Modi will get the credit forreforms. Please take the cred-it, for me, the only thing that

matter is growth and progressfor farmers,” he said.

Modi said all old mani-festos of other parties said thesame thing “what hisGovernment has dared toimplement”.

Without taking any name,the Prime Minister saidOpposition parties are trying totake mileage from farmers’protests.

He said farm reforms didnot happen overnight, years ofdiscussion and consultationshave gone into it.

“In the new farm laws, thecentre has only stated thatwhether the farmer sells hisproduce in the market or out-side, it will be his will,” Modisaid, adding that not a singlemarket has been closed afterthe new laws were enacted.

“Today I want to exposethose who have absolutely nocare or genuine concern for you— our anna-daata (farmers). Iwant to caution all those whoare being misled and instigat-ed in the name of these farmlaws,” the Prime Minister said.

It is the 20th day of protestby farmers on the outskirts ofDelhi and agitators hope thatthe Government would takeconcrete steps to resolve thestand-off by walking the talk asthe Government seeks farmersto not to press for scrapping thenew laws.

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Union Agriculture MinisterNarendra Singh Tomar —

who is leading the negotiationwith about 40 farmer unionsalong with Food MinisterPiyush Goyal and Minister ofState for Commerce SomParkash — asserted the threenew farm laws are beneficial forfarmers and the Government isready to give a written assur-ance that the MSP and mandisystem will continue.

He put the blame onOpposition parties for mis-leading the farmers andaccused them of changing theirstance on the reform process.

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Aday after senior TrinamoolCongress leaders Suvendu

Adhikari and Jitendra Tiwarileft the Bengal ruling outfit, twomore legislators, one fromTMC and the other from theCPI(M), quit their respectiveparties dropping hints of theirrightward movement.

Sources close to Adhikariwhose resignation from theBengal Assembly was notimmediately accepted bySpeaker Biman Banerjee on“technical grounds” said hewould join the BJP in the pres-ence of Home Minister AmitShah during his Saturday rally

at Midnapore. Adhikari has been sum-

moned by Mamata to explainhis position personally to himbefore considering his resig-nation. Shah is coming toBengal on a two-day organisa-tional trip.

“The letter he submittedpersonally to the Assemblysecretariat has no date while thee-mailed letter to me containsa date ... this discrepancy has tobe clarified by him for which Ihave asked him to meet me on

December 21. Then only I willbe able to accept his resigna-tion. Till then he continues tobe a TMC member of theHouse,” Mamata said.

Adhikari a former MP andBengal Transport Minister latersaid he would meet the Speakerat the Assembly on the desig-nated date.

The leader who hadexpressed concern about hispersonal safety and that of hisfollowers was being providedwith Z-category security by theUnion Government sourcessaid without providing furtherclarifications.

The other two leaders whoon Friday left their respectiveparties are TMC legislator andMukul Roy confidant SilBhadra Dutta and TapasiMandal a CPI(M) MLA fromHaldia whose husband left theMarxist outfit on November 21.

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With the stand-offs con-tinuing for the ninth

month at the Line of ActualControl (LAC), India andChina held yet another roundof diplomatic-level parleys onFriday to break the logjam.There was no breakthrough,but both the sides agreed tosustain the process of dialogueand ensure speedy disengage-ment at the border.

The latest round of diplo-matic level talks under theaegis of Working Mechanismfor Consultation andCoordination on India-ChinaBorder Affairs (WMCC) was

held nearly 11 weeks after thelast round on September 30.

These talks, though incon-clusive, could pave the way forthe ninth round of CorpsCommander-level talksbetween the armies of the twocountries. The two comman-ders had met last on November6 but of now no avail.

Given the apparent mis-trust at present, India hasramped up its military pre-paredness and has deployedadditional mountain warfaretrained troops for the wintermonths all along the 1,700 kmlong LAC in Ladakh. Morethan one lakh troops fromboth the sides are facing each

other in the Ladakh sector.In the virtual WMCC talks,

the sixth since the face-offsbegan in early May, the Indiandelegation was led by JointSecretary (East Asia) from theMinistry of External AffairsNaveen Srivastava. TheDirector General of theDepartment of Boundary &Oceanic Affairs of the ChineseMinistry of Foreign AffairsHong Liang led the Chinesedelegation.

The two sides reviewedthe developments along theLAC since the last round of theWMCC, the External AffairsMinistry said here.

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The high voltage tensionbetween the Centre and

West Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee escalatedwith the Trinamool CongressGovernment on Friday decid-ing to move the SupremeCourt after the Centre issueda mandatory order to threeBengal cadre Indian PoliceServices (IPS) officers —whom they had earl ierordered on Central deputa-tion — to report in Delhi byFriday.

Even as the StateGovernment refused torelease the officers accusingthe BJP of violating federalnorms — that made theState’s clearance necessary tosend Central services officerson deputat ions — theMinistry of Home Affairs(MHA) summoned the three IPS officers to report to the Centre setting a report-ing deadline of 5 pm onFriday.

The MHA had issuedtransfer letters to the threeofficers — Rajeev Mishra(AD G, South B engal) ;Praveen Kumar Tripathi(DIG, Presidency Range) andBhola Nath Pandey (SP,Diamond Harbour) — overalleged lapses in securityarrangement to BJP chief JPNadda during his December10 visit to Bengal.

The convoy of Nadda wasattacked by an alleged crowdof TMC leaders in which a

number of vehicles weredamaged and senior leaderslike Kailash Vijaybargiya andM u k u lRoy received injuries leadingthe Centre to question the law and order situation of theState.

The Bengal Governmentmoved the Apex Court citingthe provisions under Article312 of Constitution accordingto which the of f icers could be taken on Centraldeputation only after gettingclearance from the respectiveState.

The law suit came hoursafter Bengal Chief Ministercalled the Centre’s attitude as“expansionist” and vowed notto cow down before NewsDelhi.

Interestingly retired IASofficers, Bikram Sarkar andIPS of f icer GautamChakrabarty referred to spe-cial circumstances when theCentre could lift officers fromthe State and “there is noth-ing that the State can doabout this.” The Centre-Statetussle went beyond the IPStransfer controversy with theMHA once again summoningB engal Chief Secretar yAlapan Bandopadhyay andDGP Virendra for meeting inDelhi which the officerspolitely refused to complywith citing the ongoingCovid-19 pandemic.

The two officials howev-er proposed virtual meetingthat the Centre had agreed tosources said.

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The Supreme Court onFriday said that any deci-

sion to impose curfew or lock-down must be announced inadvance so that people maymake provisions for their liveli-hood.

The court said this whileobserving that Covid-19 pan-demic has spread like wildfireowing to the lack of imple-mentation of guidelines andSOPs.

“Curfew onweekends/night may be con-sidered by States where it is notin place. However, any decisionto impose curfew or lockdownmust be announced long inadvance so that the peoplemay know and make provisionsfor the livelihood, like ration,”a Supreme Court bench com-prising Justice AshokeBhushan, R Subhash Reddyand MR Shah said.

The apex court said strictand stern action should be

taken against those who areviolating Covid-19 guidelinesand SOPs, irrespective of theirposition.

The bench said thereshould be more police person-nel at food courts, eateries, veg-etable markets, sabzi mandis,bus stations, railway stations,etc, as these are the placeswhich are seeing gathering ofpeople.

No permission shall begranted for any celebration asfar as possible, the SC notedadding that there should bemechanism in place to checkthe number of people attend-ing such gathering. The benchalso observed that there shall bemore and more testing and thefocus should be to declare cor-rect facts and figures.

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Four people have been arrest-ed for allegedly posting an

online advertisement listingPrime Minister NarendraModi’s Varanasi office for “sale”,police said on Friday.

The accused had taken apicture of the “JansamparkKaaryalay (public relations

office)” of Modi, who repre-sents Varanasi in the LokSabha, and put it “up for sale”on OLX website, they said.

The office is located in theJawahar Nagar locality of thecity, and it falls under theBhelupur police station limits,Varanasi Senior Superintendentof Police (SSP) Amit Pathak said.

“Yesterday, it came to ournotice that the Prime Minister’soffice here has been put up onsale on OLX website. An FIRwas immediately lodged at the

Bhelupur police station, and thematter is being probed,” he said.

“Four people involved inthe case have been taken in cus-tody,” the SSP said, addingthat the person who took thepicture and put it on the web-site is among them.

The accused are beingquestioned, and further legalproceedings are being carriedout, he said. Modi was firstelected to the Lok Sabha fromVaranasi in 2014 and then re-elected in 2019.

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Delhi is likely to witness“severe” cold on Saturday

and Sunday. “Cold wave” con-ditions are predicted in Delhion Saturday and the cold spellis likely to continue tillMonday, the the IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD) said.

The minimum tempera-ture dropped below the threedegrees Celsius-mark in partsof Delhi on Friday as frostywinds from snow-coveredWestern Himalayas continue tosweep the national Capital.

The mercury plunged to2.7 degrees Celsius at Jafarpur.It settled at 3.5 degrees Celsiusand 3.8 degrees Celsius atAyanagar and Lodhi Roadweather stations, the IMD said.

The SafdarjungObservatory, which providesrepresentative data for the city,recorded a minimum of 4.4degrees Celsius. The maxi-mum, however, rose to 19.8degrees Celsius.

Dehradun : UttarakhandChief Minister TrivendraSingh Rawat said he testedpositive for Covid-19 onFriday. “I had undergone acoronavirus test today and myreport has come out positive.I am well and have no symp-

toms. So on the advice of doc-tors, I will remain in homeisolation,” tweeted Rawat.

The CM also requestedthe people who had come intohis contact over the last fewdays to get themselves testedfor the infection.

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India’s coronavirus tallycrossed one crore mark on

Saturday. The country addedover 25,661 cases and with 308new fatalities, its Covid-19death toll reached 1,45,137.

With a continuous trend ofdaily reductions, India’s shareof global active coronaviruscases is down at 1.51 per cent(one in 66). The last one mil-lion cases for India have comein 29 days.

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Lucknow (PTI): TheAllahabad High Court onFriday issued notice to all tennewly elected Rajya Sabha MPson a petition moved by busi-nessman Prakash Bajaj claim-ing that the returning officerhad wrongly rejected his nom-ination. The Lucknow bench ofthe high court fixed January 27as the next date of hearing inthe matter.

A bench of Justice JaspreetSingh passed the order on theelection petition moved byBajaj who contended that thereturning officer had wronglyrejected his nomination citingfault in the affidavit and formand all ten candidates weredeclared elected unopposedon November 2. “Since thenomination was arbitrarilyrejected, the elections should beconducted afresh,” the peti-

tioner demanded.The plea also said that

same mistakes were there in theaffidavits and forms of theothers but by “applying doublestandards”, the returning offi-cer allegedly illegally and arbi-trarily rejected only his papers.

After hearing the plea, thecourt issued notices to all theten newly elected MPs seekingtheir response.

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Lucknow (PNS): Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Partypresident Om Prakash Rajbhar on Friday said that hisparty supported Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwalwho tore down the copies of the three agricultural lawsin the Delhi Assembly as these laws were against theinterest of the farmers and were for serving the cor-porate. Attacking the agricultural laws brought by theUnion government, Rajbhar said his party would sup-port the initiative by the Aam Aadmi Party againstthe agriculture laws. Rajbhar was in Hardoi districton Friday to take part in a meeting of people fromthe Arkvanshi community in Sandila town.

The SBSP chief said that those who talked aboutdoubling the income of farmers were in reality ben-efiting the industrialists through the farm bills.

“They have nothing to do with the interests of thefarmers. What Arvind Kejriwal did was right. Hewants that the lands of the farmers are not usurpedby the corporate houses,” Rajbhar said.

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protest against the three agriculture laws, theSamajwadi Party will celebrate the 118th birthanniversary of former Prime Minister ChaudharyCharan Singh on December 23 in a grand manner.

SP spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said here onFriday that a grand programme to celebrate the birthanniversary of Chaudhary Charan Singh would beorganised at each district headquarters.

Lucknow (PNS): Troublecontinued to mount for jailedSamajwadi Party Member ofParliament Mohammad AzamKhan as the Rampur policelodged 11 more FIRs againsthim, taking the total casesagainst him to 100.

Azam Khan has beenlodged in Sitapur jail for the lastten months along with hisMLA wife Tazeen Fatma anddisqualified MLA son AbdullahAzam in connection with a fakebirth certificate case. Besides,they have also been named incases of encroachment, land-grabbing, power theft, booktheft, idol theft, goat theft,buffalo theft and bullying.

During the hearingthrough video conferencingon Thursday, the Rampurpolice told the SpecialMP/MLA Court that AzamKhan’s name was added to 11more FIRs. Earlier these caseswere registered against hisclose aides for illegal demoli-tion of houses in Rampur.

Additional district govern-ment counsel in the MP/MLACourt, Ramavatar Saini, saidthat Azam Khan was notnamed in the FIR lodged by thecomplainants but during inves-tigation and on the statementsof the accused, his name wasadded. Lucknow (PNS): Highlighting

the importance of mass movementDirector, Vector-borne Diseases, DrAshok Paliwal, said that participationof masses was crucial in making anypublic health programme a successand therefore it was important tobreak the cycle of transmission offilariasis.

Dr Paliwal was speaking duringa virtual media sensitisation workshopto spotlight the upcoming Mass Drug

Administration (MDA) rounds forelimination of lymphatic filariasis(LF) in the state.

“Elimination of polio was possi-ble as it was converted into a massmovement with active support fromcommunities. If the media also dis-seminates the right message, ourfight against transmitted diseaseswill become stronger. Campaign tohave medicine once a year, for threeconsecutive years, can eliminate filar-

iasis from the state and the country,”he said.

Filariasis is a disabling disease thatis transmitted by mosquitoes. Usuallyacquired in childhood, the infectiondamages the lymphatic system and ifleft untreated, causes abnormalenlargement of body parts such ashydrocele (abnormal swelling of scro-tum) and lymphedema (swelling inthe limbs). A few patients also devel-op chronic cough called tropical pul-

monary eosinophilia and could havesymptoms like passing of milky whiteurine (Chyluria).

Joint Director, Medical andHealth (Filaria) Dr VP Singh said thatto start with, eight districts in UPwould be undertaking the MDAfrom December 21.

“Everyone except children belowtwo years of age, pregnant women andseriously ill people, must consume theprescribed anti-filarial drug during

the rounds in the presence of trainedhealth workers,” he said.

Districts where the campaignwill be carried out are: Auraiya,Etawah, Farrukhabad, Ghazipur,Kannauj, Kaushambi, Rae Bareli andSultanpur.

“Those suffering from medicalconditions like hypertension, dia-betes and arthritis must consume anti-filarial drugs, as they will not have anyadverse reactions,” he said.

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After Samajwadi Party chief AkhileshYadav, now Bahujan Samaj Party

president Mayawati has targeted the rul-ing Bharatiya Janata Party, accusing it oftaking credit for development works ini-tiated during her previous regime aschief minister of Uttar Pradesh, includ-ing the much-publicised NoidaInternational Airport and GangaExpressway.

“The BJP as well as the previous SPregimes patted their backs for these pro-jects but everyone knows that these pro-jects were initiated by the BSP. The BSP’sdevelopment model was carried forwardfirst by the SP and now by the BJP gov-ernment,” Mayawati claimed in a seriesof tweets on Friday.

Mayawati further said that theseregimes had no idea of development andhence they were adopting the BSPmodel which played a major role in UP’sdevelopment after 2012.

She criticised the then Congress gov-ernment at the Centre for creating hur-dles in the name of environment due towhich these projects were inordinatelydelayed.

The former chief minister made itclear that Metro Rail projects indifferent cities of UP and thedevelopment of religious places ofAyodhya, Varanasi, Mathura, Kannaujand others were planned during herregime.

“We had also attached top priorityto better law and order during the BSPregime due to which the people wereassured of their safety and lived apeaceful life,” Mayawati tweeted inHindi.

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Rebel Congress MLA from RaeBareli, Aditi Singh, has written to

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathdemanding reinstatement of shop-keepers recently evicted from a landallotted to Kamla Nehru Trust in theCivil Lines area of her constituency.

The Congress has moved a dis-qualification petition against AditiSingh in the state assembly and it isstill pending decision.

The Congress MLA had earlierwritten to the Economic OffencesWing (EOW) and the chief ministerfor a probe into financial irregulari-ties and the functioning of KamlaNehru Trust, which has seniorCongress leaders as its members.

“The Rae Bareli district adminis-tration forcibly removed hundreds ofshopkeepers which is sad and I con-demn it. However, I respect the orderof the High Court,” Singh said in astatement issued in Lucknow onFriday.

“I have written to the chief min-ister, requesting him to reinstate theevicted shopkeepers. I will also meetthe chief minister and request him tohelp these shopkeepers who lost theirlivelihood,” Singh added.

Many families have been living ona land tract allotted in the name ofKamla Nehru Trust near Lucknow-Prayagraj highway in Rae Bareli. TheAllahabad High Court ordered tovacate the land from the people asthey had illegally occupied it. Fordecades, the administration was try-ing to free the land, but did not suc-ceed.

“I have written to the EOW to

investigate the financial irregularitiesin the Kamla Nehru Trust as it neverserved the purpose for which it wasset up. The land was never used topromote girls’ education as mentionedin bylaws of the Trust. Also, the con-version of land into freehold is unlaw-ful as there are around 150 shopswhich provide daily bread to 600 peo-ple,” Aditi Singh said, speaking on theirregularities.

“People who question the trans-parency of the PM Cares Fund shouldalso reveal what they have donethrough this society,” Singh said, tak-ing a dig at Congress leaders whowere members of the Kamla NehruTrust.

Additional District Magistrate ofRae Bareli, Ram Abhilash, who led thedrive for removing the encroachment,said, “On the High Court’s order, theland was freed from illegal occupantsand legal action will be taken. Beforeremoving the encroachments, somemiscreants pelted stones at the policenecessitating use of mild force.”

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Even as protests raged seekingthe repeal of three agricultur-

al laws, the UP Agriculture depart-ment facilitated cultivators andfarmers producer organisations(FPOs) to set up direct links withaggregators and food processingfirms and form unique conver-gences to market their produce.

In two recent examples, theMaharajganj Vegetable ProducerCompany Limited (MVPCL) ineastern UP signed an agreementwith Tuber Foods Private for thesupply of sweet potato, whileMahalaxmi Producer CompanyLimited (MPCL) in Deoria estab-lished a convergence between threegovernment departments –Agriculture, Education and RuralLivelihood Mission – for the sup-

ply of oyster mushrooms bywomen cultivators for mid-daymeal scheme.

The MVPCL has signed anagreement with Tuber Foods, aprocessor from Gujarat dealing infood processing and export toWest Asia, for supplying 210tonnes of sweet potato for twocropping seasons (January andJune 2021). While sweet potatofetches Rs 20 per kg in the localmarket, Tuber Foods would pay thefarmers Rs 25 per kg and lift theproduce directly from their farms.The produce would be used byTuber Foods for preparing health-ier burger-patties and chips thanthose prepared from white potato.

The Union government hadrecently advised the Uttar Pradeshgovernment to include mushroomas well as honey in Integrated Child

Development Services (ICDS) andMid-Day Meal Scheme for theirimmunity-boosting and anti-viralproperties.

An Agriculture departmentofficial said that for the first timefarm produce from UP had foundits way to a market in Gujarat with-out going through the hassles ofAPMC route.

“Earlier inter-state trade washampered due to restrictionsimposed by the APMC system,which have now been removed. Itis going to help both the farmersand consumers. In the comingdays, several farm products wouldbe traded directly to better markets— inter-state as well as intrastate.The department will continue tofacilitate many such tie-upsthrough different channels,” theofficial added.

Lucknow (PNS): In anattempt to make the Gangariver pollution-free in Varanasi,the Uttar Pradesh governmentwill replace the existing dieselengine boats with CNG-runboats soon. The upgrade will bemade at an estimated cost of Rs34 crore and will be the first inthe world on such a large scale.

Varanasi DivisionalCommissioner DeepakAgarwal told news persons inLucknow on Friday that GAIL

(India) Limited had taken upthe responsibility of making theGanga river free of pollutionunder Corporate SocialResponsibility project.

Pegged at Rs 34 crore, asmany as 1,700 small and bigboats with CNG engines will bemade operational. While asmall CNG engine-fitted boatwill cost around Rs 60,000 to Rs70,000, a big boat will come ata cost of Rs 2 lakh. The boat-men will have to shell out a

small amount for thechangeover. Deputy GeneralManager of GAIL (India)Limited, Gauri ShankarMishra, said that 51 boatswould be fitted with CNGengines at a cost of about Rs 1crore in the first phase forwhich Datar stations werebeing built on the river ghats.He said fuel dispensers had alsobeen set up on the jetty andwould become operational in afortnight. Former Director of

Kashi Hindu University, Instituteof Environment and SustainableDevelopment and Coordinator ofMahamana Malviya GangaResearch Centre, Kavita Shah,said that poisonous carbonmonoxide, sulphur, particulatematter and heavy metal werereleased when a diesel-engineboat cruised but in case of low-density CNG engines, the envi-ronment was hardly affected asthe compressed natural gas wasless toxic.

Lucknow (PNS): TheCentral Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI) filed achargesheet against four jailedaccused in the gangrape anddeath of a 19-year-old Dalitwoman in Hathras district ata Special SC/ST Court inLucknow on Friday.

The chargesheet was filedfor murder, assault or criminalforce to woman with intent tooutrage her modesty, rape andrelevant sections of theScheduled castes, ScheduledTribes (Prevention ofAtrocities) Act.

On December 16, theprobing CBI team had submit-ted before the Allahabad HighCourt that it would be filing a

chargesheet by December 18. The CBI team, through

the document, confirmed thatthe victim was gang-rapedand injured leading to herdeath, by accused Sandeep,Luvkush, Ravi and Ramu.

The accused and their kinhad earlier claimed innocence.

Meanwhile, the CBI alsosubmitted that it would takethe Hathras victim’s brother,who had lodged the FIR, toGujarat for a psychologicalassessment.

The CBI had taken up theprobe on October 11 andquizzed over 50 people, includ-ing the family members of thevictim. Besides, the CBIsleuths also carried out brain

mapping of all accused.On September 14, the 19-

year-old victim was allegedlyassaulted and gang-raped inHathras and she later suc-cumbed to her injuries atDelhi’s Safdarjung Hospitalon September 29.

Her body was cremated byHathras district administrationand police without the consentof the victim’s family, trigger-ing an outcry.

The Supreme Court hadearlier directed the AllahabadHigh Court to monitor theCBI probe into the Hathrasincident. On a request fromthe UP government, the CBIregistered a case on October11.

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Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) workers willgo from door to door from January 15 to

collect donations for the construction of Ramtemple in Ayodhya.

This was stated by VHP vice-president andsecretary general of Shri Ram JanmabhoomiTeerth Kshetra Trust, Champat Rai, inLucknow on Friday.

Announcing the launch of Shri RamJanmabhoomi Mandir Nidhi SamarpanAbhiyan, Rai said the campaign would startfrom Makar Sankranti (January 15, 2021) andcontinue up to Magh-Purnima (February 27)when VHP workers would reach out to 110 mil-lion families of 4,00,000 villages of the coun-try to seek donation for the Ram temple, link-ing the common man with Shri RamJanmabhoomi. “The VHP workers wouldissue coupons or receipts with the picture ofLord Ram’s temple,” he said.

“With public support from every caste,creed, sect, region and language of the coun-try, the Ram temple would actually take theform of a Rashtra Mandir (Temple of theNation),” he said.

Addressing press persons, Rai said that theHindu society struggled for five centuries toprotect the country’s honour by reclaiming thebirthplace of Lord Ram.

“Finally, the Supreme Court accepted thesentiments of the society and directed the gov-ernment to form a trust,” he said.

On undergoing preparations for the tem-ple, Rai said that engineers from IIT-Mumbai,IIT-Delhi, IIT-Chennai, IIT-Guwahati, CBRIRoorkee, Larsen & Toubro and Tatas wereworking on the foundation drawing whichwould soon come out.

The three-storeyed temple will be made ofstone blocks and each floor will be 20 feet highwhile the length and breadth of the temple willbe 360 feet and 235 feet, respectively.

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Looking into the currenttrend of cases across the

state, particularly in Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh is unlikely towitness a second Covid wave,a senior health official said onFriday.

“The number of cases hasbeen continuously going downand now that the vaccinationdrive is expected next year,there will be further dip incases and the second waveunder these circumstances isvery unlikely,” he said.

The officials said that tar-geted sampling gave broughtgood results and now they arecarrying out focused sam-pling in areas with maximumcases for effective contain-ment. He said the entire focusat the moment is on vaccina-tion but the surveillance andcontainment activities will becontinued as usual.

“This strategy has workedfor us. The targeting sam-pling which we carried out wasfor the isolation of patients

who were potential super-spreaders. We did it just beforethe festive season and justbefore the wedding season,” headded.Regarding the prepara-tions for Covid immunisa-tion, he said the points wherethe vaccination will be carriedout have been identified andthe list of beneficiaries hasbeen prepared while trainings have already beencompleted.

“The district-level trainingwill also be completed withina week,” he said.

Additional CMO and dis-trict immunisation officer MKSingh said the vaccinationwill be carried out at 50 gov-ernment hospitals in Lucknow.Under the district-level train-ing which is underway, the dis-trict hospital training will takeplace next week.

Secretary, People’s HealthOrganisation, Dr IshwaraGilada also said that the sec-ond Covid wave is unlikely. “Asa clinician and a practicingdoctor, what I have noticed inthe last three months is that

the virulence and infectivity ofthe coronavirus has comedown steadily. Another thingis that if a patient was infect-ing a lot many people earlier,this rate has also come downin the last couple of months,”he pointed out.

He said though there isnot much change in the behav-iour of people, the number ofinfections is stagnant in someplaces or going down in mostof the places. “After recording98,000 cases on September16, the day India achieved itspeak, the cases have comedown has come down to lessthan 30,000 per day eventhough the number of tests hasbeen unchanged. People arealso developing immunityagainst the virus which ismutating to become weaker. Insome places, particularly in theareas where there were largenumber of cases, people aredeveloping herd immunity,” headded.

On Friday, 258 personstested positive for coronavirusin Lucknow while 221 patients

recovered. One more deathtook Lucknow’s toll to 1,073while there are 2,901 activecases in the district. The freshcases included 18 fromGomtinagar, 19 fromIndiranagar, 14 fromVikasnagar, 13 from Rae Bareliroad, 12 from Hasanganj, 11from Jankipuram, and 10 eachfrom Ashiyana, Cantt, Chowkand Alambagh.

Across the state, 1,440persons tested positive, includ-ing 41 in Kanpur, 95 inGhaziabad, 42 in GautamBuddhnagar, 66 in Varanasiand 69 in Meerut, taking theUP tally to 5,72,196. Therewere 18 deaths in the state,including three in Ayodhya,two each in Mathura &Varanasi, and one each inKanpur, Prayagraj, Meerut,Gorakhpur, Muzaffarnagar,Sultanpur, Chandauli, Amethi& Mahoba taking the toll to8,154. Besides, 1,584 patientsrecovered, taking the recoveryfigures to 5,46,087. There arestill 17,955 active cases in thestate.

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Nitin Bharti will receive theHewett gold medal for

securing the highest marks inthe final professional MBBSexamination at the KGMUconvocation which will be heldon December 21. A total of 46students will be awardedmedals on the occasion. Nitinwill receive 10 other goldmedals, including theChancellor’s Medal for highestaggregate marks in MBBS,University Honours Medal formaximum number of Honoursand Certificates in all MBBSprofessional examinations inthe batch. He will also receivea silver medal and certificate ofhonour with distinction inPediatrics and certificate ofhonour in Surgery and a num-ber of book prizes.

Nitin said it was his dreamto get the Hewett gold medal.Born and brought up inLucknow, he is the son of aretired IISR employee. “Beingin Lucknow, I had been read-ing about the Hewett goldmedal year after year and waskeen on securing it for myself.I am also aware of the fact thatthe Hewett gold will be givenaway to a male student afterthree years,” he said.

Nitin said he is not a book-worm but actively takes part inskits and nukkad nataks and isalso a painter. “There is no suc-cess mantra and there were nospecific hours for me to study.I have always believed thatduration of studies notwith-

standing, you must put yoursoul into it and try to correlateit with the clinical cases thatyou see. The studies have to bedone in a consistent mannerwhich I did,” he said.

He said he was not surewhich branch he would takeup after MBBS. “I have kept 2-3 options such as Radiology,Dermatology or MDMedicine, and I also want togo for higher studies inOncology,” Nitin said. Headded that he wanted to joinKGMU as a faculty member asit would help him train youngminds.

Besides, Akanksha willreceive seven gold medals,including Prof UC Chaturvedigold medal for second highestaggregate marks in the finalexaminations, Sri Gaya PrasadTandon memorial gold medalfor the highest percentageamong girl students in thefinal professional MBBSexamination held in Januaryearlier this year.

Anjali Singhal will receivethree gold medals, includingProf Devendra Gupta goldmedal, Prof Dinker Chandgold medal and gold medalwith distinction in

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Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said thataction was being taken at the district

level for the COVID-19 vaccination andall district officials had been instructed toarrange an effective cold chain and trans-portation for the vaccines.

Chairing an unlock review meeting atLok Bhawan in Lucknow on Friday, thechief minister also said that it was neces-sary to maintain vigilance against COVID-19 as little carelessness could be harmful.

“People should be constantly madeaware about prevention of the infection

and be motivated and encouraged tomaintain social distancing and compulso-rily use masks,” he said.

Yogi also said that effective arrange-ments of COVID-19 treatment should bemaintained and testing should be conduct-ed with full capacity.

“Focus should also be on contact trac-ing and surveillance. It should also beensured that the Integrated Command andControl Centres work with full capacity.District magistrates and chief medical offi-cers should regularly hold meetings atCOVID-19 hospitals and the IntegratedCommand and Control Centres,” he said.

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Pharmacology. HarshShanishwara will receive DrBR Agarwal Memorial goldmedal for MCh in PlasticSurgery.Adesh HanumanyPalyekar will receive Prof NCMishra memorial gold medalwhile Khandare Shubhada OmPrakash Dr AM Kar centenarygold medal for the best perfor-mance in DM (Neurology)examination for this year.

Haramohan Sahoo willreceive the Late Smt SutteeNag gold medal for the bestDM (Neurology) PG of DM(Neurology) examination.Kaushal Kumar Gupta willreceive the Prof TC Goel goldmedal for the best MCh(Urology) PG student pass-ing MCh (Urology) examina-tion in the first attempt for theyear 2020. Prashant Bafna willreceive the Dr SiddharthKumar Das gold medal forobtaining the highest marks inDM (Rheumatology) exami-nation for the year 2020.

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A36-year-old propertydealer, identified as

Tauqir Khan, was shot at bytwo unidentified miscreantsaround 9 pm on Friday.Khan was attacked on DevaRoad when he, along withtwo others and driver, wasreturning home at Kamta inChinhat in his SUV. Policesaid the bike-borne miscre-ants were waiting for him topass via the road.

Khan was rushed toChandan Hospital where hiscondition was said to be sta-ble. A native of Jaunpur dis-trict, Khan is said to havebeen into the real estatebusiness for the past 15 years.

Meanwhile, a tricksterdisguised as sub-inspectorduped a woman of her orna-ments on Friday afternoon.The victim was identified asManju Singh (24), who is thewife of Ram Kamal Singh, aresident of Nayak Nagarunder Madiaon police sta-tion. The police said shewas going to her housearound 2:30 pm on Friday.The police said the incidenttook place near AwadhLawns in Keshav Nagar. Ayouth approached her andintroduced himself as a sub-inspector of the local intelli-gence unit.

“He asked me not to

move around wearing orna-ments as miscreants are onthe prowl in the area. Hethen asked me to take off theornaments which I was wear-ing. I took out three goldrings, earrings, nose pin andgold chain and he kept thejewellery in a sachet andhanded it to me. When Ireached home, I was sur-prised to find stones andpebbles in the packet,” shesaid. Her husband lodged acomplaint in the evening.

Meanwhile, an 18-year-old girl, who had gone miss-ing from Central Hotel cross-ing in Aminabad onNovember 30 evening, wasrecovered from LakhimpurKheri in the wee hours ofFriday. The police said thegirl left the house with hermother to a function hostedby her friend, who is a resi-dent of Aminabad. Thewoman dropped her daugh-ter at the crossing as she hadto go elsewhere. She told herdaughter to return home atthe earliest. When she didnot come back, her parentsand other family membersstarted searching for her. Amissing complaint waslodged at Wazirganj policestation on December 2. Thegirl was recovered fromLakhimpur Kheri followinga tip-off on Thursdayevening and was brought tothe state capital.

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secretary Shreyansh Mandloi saidthe ‘Vigyan Yatra’, as part of pro-motional activities of IISF-2020,is being organised in 32 cities andwill conclude in New Delhi onDecember 22.

“This virtual yatra has amajor objective to ignite theminds of our spectators and cre-ate awareness regarding variousscientific knowledge bases. Thiswill provide a platform to show-

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Mushrooms are gainingpopularity in remote vil-

lages and women are interest-ed in producing mushroomsfor their own family. Ruralwomen have basic materialavailable for growing mush-rooms and the simple trainingand skill development hasenabled them for producingpaddy mushrooms.

A one-day training onmushroom production wasorganised at CISH in which 13women farmers from SuralMarufpur, Sandila and Hardoiparticipated. CISH directorShailendra Rajan introducedthe mandate of the instituteand underlined the benefit ofmushroom production, con-sumption and demand in themarket. During the training,knowledge about mushroomproduction was given to thefarmers. A hands-on training

about mushroom productionwas also given to the farmers.After the training, the farmers

visited mango-based poultryfarming at Amlauli village ofMall block. Principal scientist

Dr PK Shukla coordinatedthe training and visit pro-gramme with adherence toCovid-19 protocols. Thewomen from Sandila were incontact with CISH becausethey require spawn (mush-room seed) for seeding mush-rooms.

Dr Shukla has produced agood amount of spawn. “Aone-day mushroom cultiva-tion training on variousaspects helped them to devel-op confidence for indepen-dently producing this pro-tein-rich crop at householdlevel. Learning by doing is oneof the best methods to teachwomen about the skills, espe-cially the mushroom growing.The women farmers werehappy to note that they couldget mushroom seed easilyfrom the institute which isnear their village and a per-son could collect it for all ofthem,” he said.

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Indira Gandhi National OpenUniversity organised an

awareness workshop on taxdeduction at source (TDS) atthe conference hall. The work-shop was attended by the draw-ing and disbursing officers ofthe regional centre, coordina-tors, counsellors of the studycentres, and students of BCom& MCom.

Assistant regional director,IGNOU, Kirti Vikram Singhhighlighted the objective of theworkshop which, he said, isuseful for all those responsible

for financial management intheir institutions. Regionaldirector Manorama Singh saidIGNOU is the first university

to have adopted digital modefor making payment to all itsfunctionaries. She appreciatedthe efforts taken by the Income

Tax department for organisingthis kind of workshop.

The chief guest on theoccasion was joint commis-sioner, Income Tax (TDS),Adita Singh, who appreciatedthe efforts taken by IGNOU inthe field of financial manage-ment. She also spoke in detailabout the provisions related toTDS. The guest of honour wasdeputy commissioner, IncomeTax (TDS), Jyoti Verma, whoinspired the officials to pay theincome tax on time as it pro-vides revenue to the govern-ment, which enables it to ini-tiate developmental work.

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Two members of a gangengaged in lifting two-

wheelers were arrested in thewee hours of Friday. They werepicked up for interrogation nearGol market under Mahanagarpolice station on the interven-ing night of Thursday andFriday. The police grew suspi-cious when the duo failed toshow any documents of thevehicle. They were identified asVipin Kumar and Sujit Kumar.Five stolen two-wheelers andtwo dozen keys were foundfrom their possession. Theysaid they used to lift two-wheel-ers from different places acrossthe state capital.

Meanwhile, police onThursday claimed to have arrest-ed two members of a gang ofthieves. They were identified asShafiq and Siraj, both carryingrewards of Rs 15,000 on theirarrest. Earlier on November 20,the police had earlier arrestedtwo other members of the gang,Sani alias Navin Rajput andShubham Singh, and sent themto jail. The gang members wouldvisit different localities posing asvegetable sellers, rag-pickersand labourers to recce the areasand would raid the houses tak-ing advantage of the dark. Thepolice said more members of thegang would be arrested soon.

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Taking the success story ofself-help groups further,

Uttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath on Fridaydirected officials to link SHGswith knitting sweaters apartfrom school uniform stitchingwork assigned to them.

He said if the women ofthese groups were trained andgiven the work of knittingsweaters for schoolchildren,they would be engaged withthis in a big way.

The chief minister alsodirected officials to link the

SHGs with stitching ready-made garments. He said theyshould be provided raw mate-rial and a proper marketingmechanism should be put inplace. Yogi was speaking at afunction during which hetransferred Rs 445.92 crorerevolving funds online to97,663 SHGs and their organ-isations. He was full of praisefor the SHGs which, accordingto him, did commendablework in making school uni-forms for children..

He said that UP had 1.58lakh government primaryschools where about 1.80 lakh

children were studying.“It means the children

enrolled in primary schools ofUP are almost equal to theentire population of Delhi,’’ hepointed out and added, “TheUP government is providingtwo uniforms each to these1.80 lakh children besidessweaters.’’

The chief minister saidthat in the first phase, the stategovernment entrusted theSHGs with the work of distri-bution of nutritious food tokids in over 200 developmentblocks of the state which wouldbe further expanded to 821

blocks. He said that the SHGscould be helpful in taking for-ward the dream ofAtmanirbhar Uttar Pradeshby making, encouraging andmarketing the local products asthey did during Diwali by sell-ing diyas made from cowdung. He said the SHGs couldplay a crucial role in the self-reliance programmes forwomen empowerment in ruralareas. The chief ministerinstructed officials to linkSHGs with MNREGS also andencourage them while main-taining a dialogue with them .

He said the SHG women

should be given priority in giv-ing the work of ration shops inrural areas even as the stategovernment had already takensome steps to empowerwomen.

The state government hasappointed over 58,000 BankingCorrespondent Sakhis (BCSakhis) in all the gram pan-chayats while the women SHGmembers are being givencharge of community toilets ingram panchayats on a remu-neration of Rs 6,000 permonth. He directed officials toarrange machines for cleaningthe toilets.

case innovative ideas and tosolve the contemporary issuesscientifically by the interestedstudents, research scholars,teachers, and young scientists,”he said. Dr AK Agarwal, actingdirector of Remote Sensing,Application Centre, spoke aboutthe various achievements of theinstitute in the area of GISmapping and satellite imagingservices.

Dr CM Nautiyal, INSAconsultant and vice-president ofVIBHA, Avadh Prant, remem-bered Acharya Prafulla ChandraRay and his contributions to thecountry. Dr Nautiyal said thatAcharya Ray established thefirst modern Indian researchschool in chemistry and isregarded as the father of chem-ical science in India. He alsostressed on the need of sciencepopularisation among the youngminds for India to become aself-reliant country in future.

Dr Nautiyal also spokeabout various schemes and pro-grammes of the Government ofIndia and Department ofScience and Technology foryoung researchers and innova-tors. He said events like IISF willprovide an international plat-form to discover new horizonsin science and technology devel-opment. During the pro-gramme, various short filmscovering the laboratory toursand services of IITR and NBRI,were also screened.

Lucknow (PNS): NBRI and IITRjointly organised Acharya PrafullaChandra Ray Vigyan Yatra andoutreach activities at NBRI onFriday. The programme wasorganised virtually. Organising

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Resorting to cheap publici-ty tactics the Pakistani

army Friday claimed Indianarmy had deliberately targeteda United Nations vehicle withtwo military observers onboard along the line of control.

Highly placed Indian armysources, however, denied theseclaims while clarifying thatthese reports of targetingUnited Nations vehicles werenot 'true'. In Jammu,Defencespokesman Lt-Col DevenderAnand also issued a writtenstatement which said, "onDecember 18, at about 5.40 p.mPakistan initiated 'unprovoked'ceasefire violation by firingwith small arms and shelling

with mortars along the line ofcontrol in Mendhar sector inDistrict Poonch". In a span of10 minutes, DefenceSpokesman further added,Pakistan army also violatedceasefire agreement in theBalakote sector of Poonch also.He added, Indian army retali-ated befittingly. Posting a seriesof tweets around the same timelate Friday evening the twitterhandle of Pakistan armed forcesspokesperson said, "IndianArmy resorted to unprovokedfire in Chirikot Sector of LOC.Indian troops deliberately tar-geted a United Nations vehiclewith 2 Military Observers onboard, enroute to interact withCFV victims in Polas Village inChirikot Sector".

The twitter handle alsoclaimed in a separate tweet, "Itmust be noted that the UNvehicles are clearly recognisableeven from long distances dueto their distinct make and typeand clearly visible markings.

While the vehicle was dam-aged, the two UNMOs luckilyremained unharmed. Theywere safely rescued & evacuat-ed by the Pakistan Army toRawalakot".

The publicity wing of thePakistan army went too far toclaim that "Such illegal andunlawful acts against all estab-lished international norms,signify mal-intent of IndianArmy to target not only inno-cent civilians residing along theLine of Control but UNPeaceKeepers as well".

"This act only goes to showIndian Army’s complete disre-gard to principles enshrined inthe UN Charter. It is indeed anew low for Indian Army. Pakistan Army stands insolidarity with #UNMOGIPofficials and appreciates theselfless services rendered by allmembers of UNMOGIP indischarge of their UN mandat-ed duties" the twitter handle ofthe DG ISPR tweeted.

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Guwahati:Assam ChiefMinister Sarbananda Sonowalon Friday said the state govern-ment will upgrade 50 borderoutposts (BOPs) with an out-lay of Rs 100 crore in the firstphase of an infrastructuredevelopment scheme.Addressing a meeting of thedepartments of Home andBorder Protection andDevelopment, the chief minis-ter said, roads leading to theBOPs should be mademotorable for efficient man-agement of inter-state bound-ary areas and successful imple-mentation of development

programmes, an official releasesaid.

Mentioning that he wasaware of the hardships faced bypeople while manning BOPs inremote areas, the chief minis-ter said, personnel entrustedwith the responsibility ofensuring security and peace inthe inter-state boundary areasdeserve good facilities.Sonowal directed the BorderProtection and DevelopmentDepartment to chalk out anaction plan on an urgent basisfor construction of good qual-ity roads and bridges for pro-viding connectivity even to

remote areas. After receivinga request from the department,the government has decided toprovide four motor cyclesalong with fuel and eight bicy-cles to each of the 100 BOPs,the chief minister said.

The officials were asked toamicably solve all outstandingboundary issues with neigh-bouring states through dia-logue and hold regular talkswith their counterparts.

Sonowal also took stock ofthe situation prevailing alongthe Indo-Bangla border thatAssam shares with the neigh-bouring country. PTI

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The 3-day online inter-national science olympiad,‘Quanta-2020’, organised byCity Montessori School,Chowk Campus, was inaugu-rated amidst fanfare on

Friday. The welcome songand other cultural items,presented online, enthralledone and all.

City Montessori Schoolfounder Jagdish Gandhi gavehis blessings to the partici-pants from India and abroad

and wished them a brightfuture. Students from variouscountries of the world,including Brazil, Germany,Jordan, Bangladesh, Russiaand various states of India,are participating in the 3-dayevent.

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Panic took place at Cantt rail-way station in the morning

on Friday when a car ran overabout half-a-dozen personswho were standing in the Sunin the circulating area of thestation. The injured wereadmitted to the divisional gov-ernment hospital where thecondition of two was stated tobe critical. The police took thedriver into their custody.

According to the informa-tion, the driver Rajesh Yadavwas trying to start the car at apre-paid taxi stand in the cir-culating area of the station onFriday morning around 10.30am but failed in the same. Hetook the help of some to pushthe vehicle to start it. And whensome persons were pushing thevehicle, the car suddenly start-ed but Rajesh, who held thesteering, lost his control over itand hit a biker Vikash NandMandey (35) of Lohta.

Thereafter, the four-wheel-er broke the rallying of mainbuilding of the station anddashed against the main build-ing after running over a rick-shaw-puller Mangru (50) andfour of same family Meera(40), Asha (40), Divya (21),Lucky (10) who were standingin the Sun. It led to panic thereand other passengers rushed tothe spot. The RPF and GRPpersonnel also reached thespot and rushed the injured tothe divisional government hos-pital in Kabirchaura.

The GRP personnel took

the driver Rajesh into their cus-tody. The driver claimed that hefailed in controlling the steer-ing of the vehicle because itsbrake had failed. The conditionof two injured Divya and rick-shaw puller Mangru was stat-ed to be critical. Jamuna Prasadof Kotwa in Chiraigaon, whosefamily members receivedinjuries, informed that he hadcome to his native village inKotwan to attend a marriageparty and he along with fami-ly members was to go toMumbai by Pawan CovidSpecial Train but missedbecause of the change in itstime table.

The police lodged a com-plaint against the driver andstarted the investigation intothe matter.

BODY OF YOUTHFOUND: Sensation prevailedat the wholesale vegetable mar-ket in Lamahi, under theLalpur-Pandeypur police sta-tion when the body of a youthwas found behind it on Fridaymorning. The family membersblocked the road keeping thebody on the road. They blamedthe youth was lynched to deathand demanded the arrest ofkillers. After the assurance bythe police, they ended the roadblockade and thereafter, thepolice sent the body for autop-sy.

According to the informa-tion, the passersby saw thebody of a youth behind thewholesale vegetable market inLamahi on Friday morningand it led to a sensation there.

On being informed, the localpolice reached the site and thebody was identified as ofRajkumar Rajbhar ofGoithahan village. The bodywas half-naked and his headwas badly damaged with someheavy object and there weresevere wound marks aroundthe neck.

It was said that thedeceased was a labourer at ashop of building materials.After completing his work heleft the shop late evening onThursday last and was seen ata liquor shop late night lasttime. On Friday morning, thefamily members received infor-mation about his body behindthe above mentioned vegetablemarket. They along with thevillagers blocked the road keep-ing the body on the road. Theywere demanding the arrest ofkillers. The police succeeded inpacifying them and sent thebody for the postmortemexamination.

Land dispute was said to because behind the murder.

KILLED: A middlemanwas killed in a road accidentthat occurred at Khardahan vil-lage, under the Cholapurpolice station on Friday morn-ing. The police sent the bodyfor the postmortem examina-tion. The deceased identified asRamesh Yadav (48), resident ofSinghpur village was engagedin the work of supplying mate-rial to the bakery. It was saidthat he was going to purchasesome goods by his two-wheel-er on Friday morning and

when he was on way inKhardahan village, a tractortrolley hit the two-wheeler andhe came under its wheels. Hedied on the spot. Seeing this,the villagers rushed to the spotand blocked the road demand-ing the arrest of the tractor dri-ver who managed to escapefrom the scene with the vehi-cle after the accident. On get-ting information, the policereached the site and sent thebody for the postmortemexamination by pacifying theagitated villagers and familymembers of the deceased.

M U S I C A L B U MLAUNCHED: Holy ghats ofGanga attract the Bollywoodmusicians to shoot their musicand in this order, the songs ofmusic album "Faqir Hui" wason Friday shot at Chet SinghFort and Guleria Kothi, situat-ed on the bank of the river. Thealbum was also launched afterthe shooting. The music loverswill have full entertainmentwith the beautiful scenes theholy ghats in the song of thismusic album, the musician ofthe album Ajay Jaiswal saidinforming, the music albumhas been launched on theYouTube channel of Zee Music.

Ms India -2018 Stefi Patel,Yukti Kapoor and KrishabhJaiswal will be seen performingacting in the music album, heinformed adding, the title songhas been sung by singer JyotikaTangri. Rashi Maheshwari is it'slyrist and Uday Rao is execu-tive producer, while SwapnilJaiswal directed it.

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Seeing the potential toincrease the farm exports

from the Varanasi region,Agricultural and ProcessedFood Products ExportDevelopment Authority(APEDA), Union Ministry ofCommerce and Industry, ismaking efforts to set up anAgro Export Hub as it has suc-ceeded in exporting fruits, veg-etables and rice to the globalmarkets recently. To accelerateits activities further, APEDAhas opened its project office inthe Horticulture Complexpremises in front of Circuit

House which was inauguratedon Thursday by APEDAChairman Dr M Angamuthu.

The function was alsoattended by DivisionalCommissioner (DC) DeepakAgrawal, District Magistrate(DM) Kaushal Raj Sharma,Secretary APEDA DrSudhanshu, AGM Dr CB Singhand other senior officers ofHorticulture and Agriculturedepartments were present onthe occasion.

As APEDA did not have anoffice in North India, theexporters of UP were doingtheir exports with APEDAhead-office and other region-

al offices. The DC personally took

special interest in opening ofthis APEDA office in the city.The opening of APEDA officein Varanasi is an opportunityfor farmers and agriculturalentrepreneurs to send theirproduce to the global markets.During the COVID-19 pan-demic, with the efforts ofAPEDA and local administra-tion, local farmers had man-aged to send various consign-ments to different parts of theworld. A couple of days ago,APEDA stored 532 metric tonsof rice from the Varanasi regionwhich was sent to Qatar.

APEDA's persistent efforts willmove towards fulfilling themission of the Prime Ministerto double the farmer's incomeand increase exports.

Meanwhile, APEDAChairman visited Ramnagarto see the farming of brinjaland rice in trans-GangaRamnagar area. He also talkedto Geographical Identification(GI) expert Padmashree DrRajnikant, who told the formerthat the process for getting GIregistration to Ramnagar brin-jal, Adamchini rice and Paanleaves from this region ofPurvanchal (eastern UP) hasalready started.

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Praising the government forits commitment to provide

maximum employment tofarmers through agriculture,President of Foundation forAdvancement of Agricultureand Rural Development(FAARD) Prof Panjab Singhsaid that three new farm lawsare beneficial for the farmersbecause the governmentthrough these laws has made itsefforts to provide good benefitsto the farmers and help the lat-ter get good income of theirproduce. He was addressing thefarmers through virtual plat-form while FAARD team,along with Indian Council ofAgricultural Research (ICAR),and Indian Institute ofVegetable Research (IIVR) rep-resentatives under ongoingBiotech-Farmer Project beingrun in four districts of theregion which is sponsored bythe Department of Bio-tech-nology, Government of India,reached Bhikharipur andBengalipur villages on Friday.

Prof Panjab Singh furthersaid that the main objective of

the project is to provide max-imum benefit to the farmers bydistributing new technologyand seeds to farmers. Hestressed the need for coveringmore and more farmers underthe project. The team membersvisited four villages of Varanasidistrict during the days tostudy the progress made underthe projects at ground level.Apart from Bhikharipur andBengalipur, they also inspect-ed Jayapur and Jogapur underthe leadership of formerDirector of Institute of

Agricultural Sciences, BanarasHindu University (IAS-BHU)Prof Shivraj Singh. He wasalso accompanied by Dr NeerajSingh of IIVR, Project Co-Investigator of BHU DrSantosh Kumar Singh, FAARDTrustee Dr Umesh Singh,Public Relations Officer (PRO)of BHU Dr Rajesh Singh,Secretary of RajeshwariResearch Foundation DrVinod Kumar Singh and manyothers.

During the inspectionwhen a woman raised the issue

of crop damages by the ani-mals, Prof Shivraj Singh saidthat today it is a very big prob-lem and the government wouldtake some steps in this direc-tion soon.

He said that for good farmproduction, under the projectwe are making the farmersaware towards new techniquesof farming and ongoing gov-ernment schemes. FormerDean of Faculty of Agriculture,IAS-BHU Prof RM Singh andmany other senior agricultur-al scientists also apprised thefarmers of the main objectivesof the project.

Dr Umesh Singh said thatunder the Biotech FarmerProject, there is a provision offellowship to the farmers in theselected four districts.

In this, fellowship will beprovided to progressive farm-ers especially women farmersin each district under whichthey will be given an award of� 10,000.

On this occasion, SurendraSingh of FPO Jaya SeedsProducer Company, MadhukarPatel, Adarsh Kumar, TusharKant, Amit Biswas and otherswere also present.

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Friday came as a blackJumma for Farhan Ahmad,

sharp shooter of mafia donAtique Ahmed when threebulldozers roared at hisBamrauli residence under theDhoomanganj police station,and his palatial building wasrazed to earth within a coupleof hours. The PrayagrajDevelopment Authority initiat-ed action against this unautho-rised construction under`Operation Mafia’ launched

by the Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath.

A close associate of AtiqueAhmed and brother of AbidPradhan, Farhan is a sharpshooter and he himselfinvolved in over a dozen mur-ders, including that of BSPMLA Raju Pal, besides scoresof other crimes.

This hardcore criminalhas his history sheet in anumber of police stations ofPrayagraj and Kaushambi.The property which has beenpulled down by the Prayagraj

Development Authority, sup-ported by heavy police forcedeployment, had been raisedon a huge plot grabbed illegal-ly by Farhan When the policeforce and the officials of thePDA reached Dhoomanganjpolice station on Friday morn-ing, people started enquiringas to who will be the target.The officials kept mum andproceeded towards thepalatial house of Farhan withthree bulldozers, and finishedtheir assigned work withinhours.

Farhan is at present in jail.He had made an escape whenwas being taken fromKaushambi to Prayagraj court,but realising that he may beeliminated in an encounter, hesurrendered before the courtto be safe within the bound-aries of a jail.

He is under top-10 crim-inals of Dhoomanganj. Overtwo dozen cases are pendingagainst him related to seriousnature of crime includingmurder of the BSP MLA RajuPal.

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During the month longannual Magh Mela, devo-

tees will also be made aware ofthe world heritage along withbathing and worshiping at theSangam. Special preparationsare going on for devotees tolearn discipline and rituals inPrayagraj. Along with this, theimportance of Sangam willalso be told to them. TheSangam is not only water forbathing, but is a global heritage,this information will also begiven to the devotees whocome here from across theglobe during the month longMagh mela, an awareness cam-paign will be organised for it.Prayagraj Seva Samiti will playthe leading role in this regard.

Prayagraj Seva Samiti willalso campaign against theCorona pandemic withSangam World Heritage MahaAbhiyan at the upcomingMagh Mela. A meeting ofPrayagraj Seva Samiti washeld under the chairmanshipof the president of the organ-isation, Pandit DharmarajPandey, in the context of theupcoming Magh Mela. Inwhich the members gave sug-gestions and ideas, DistrictConvenor of Sangam WorldHeritage Maha Abhiyan andBJP's Cultural Cell andSecretary of Prayagraj SevaSamiti, Tirtharaj Pandey‘Bacha Bhaiya’ said that likelast 14 years, this year also theJan Jagran Magh Mela ofSangam World Heritage Maha

Abhiyan will run in MaghMela.

Tirtharaj Pandey said thataccording to the guidelines ofCorona pandemic, detailedinformation has not beenmade available by the admin-istration.

Therefore, the decision ofcultural programme ‘Ek ShamPrayagraj Ke Naam’ and hon-our ceremony held inTirtharaj Prayag is yet to bedecided, but a campaign ofpropagating the need of wearmask with slogan ‘Do gaj kiduri mask hai jaruri’ betweenthe kalpvasis and pilgrimscoming from out of station.

Mahila Morcha presidentAnupama Pandey said thatelderly women in the camp ofKalpas will be informed about

the prevention of coronainfection. Cultural MinisterVishnu Dayal Srivastava saidthat every time many cultur-al events were organised bythe institution in whichShankh Samrat and ChotiSamrat and street plays etcused to be done but this year,all these types of play will nothappen due to Corona infec-tion.

Senior members KCPandey, Bhakta Raj Pandey,Surendra Srivastava, ShaktiRaj Pandey, Pushparaj Pandey,Yograj Shastri , Raviraj,Prabhuraj, Katyayani Pandey,Durgesh Nandini Pandey,Akash Nishad, Annu Gupta,Hariom Chaurasia, Ashoketc were present on the occa-sion.

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The increasing number ofcorona infections has raised

the Health department's con-cern. On Thursday, 98 newcases of corona infection werereported late in the night.About 29 people defeated theinfection. One infected diedduring treatment. Accordingto CMO Dr. Prabhakar Raiwith 98 new Covid positives inthe district the figure of theinfected has reached 27,657. Atotal of 29 people died of infec-tion. Of these, 12 patients weredischarged from Covid hospi-tals. Home isolation of 17 peo-ple completed. So far the num-ber of those who beat Coronahas increased to 26,529.

The CMO said that thenumber of deaths due to Covidinfection on Thursday duringtreatment of an infected has

increased to 365. He said thatCovid testing of 6,558 peoplewas conducted in the district.A special testing operation wasconducted at the ECC andCRPF camps.

After confirmation ofCovid infection in peoplewith no symptoms at the ECCand CRPF camps, the Healthdepartment decided to con-duct random checks at publicand crowded places. Sampleswill be sent for the Covid test-ing by sending teams to officeswith more than a hundredemployees. On Saturday andSunday, the CMO has decid-ed to get Covid Protocol com-pliance checked in privatehospitals.

CHALLAN FOR NOTWEARING MASKS: Withthe Coronavirus infection isbeing lesser people startedbeing careless. Every public

place in the city is crowdedbut most people avoid wear-ing masks on their faces. Inthis case, the coronavirusinfection can again take adangerous form. The courthas already ordered the policeto take action in this matter byadopting a strict attitude onnot applying the masks by thepeople. In view of this negli-gence of the people, on Friday,on the orders of the officers,the police cut off the challanat several places in the city fornot wearing masks.

Police have been continu-ously checking and fined sincethe coronavirus began towreak havoc. People showedunderstanding by followingthe physical distance andguidelines of applying themask, which resulted in coro-na infection being reduced toa great extent. Four hundred

cases started coming up inPrayagraj, which has stayed onless than hundred cases everyday since last month. Buthere people have started beingcareless again. Market, shop,park or model shop for drink-ing, many people are reachingeverywhere without wearingmasks. For this reason, thepolice had to start checking inthe city on Friday.

Khuldabad police checkednear the Karbala booth and atthe railway station intersec-tion and instructed the peopleto put on masks or else theywould infect their familiesafter being hit by Corona. Thepolice also collected a hun-dred rupees during the city-wide checkup so that peoplecould come out of the houseonly after applying the masksand ending the coronavirusinfection.

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Regardless of the COVID-19pandemic, the Prayagraj

division of North CentralRailway (NCR) is making con-tinuous efforts in the field ofimproving goods loading. As aresult of the efforts being madein the field of increasing thegoods loading, Prayagraj divi-sion has made 4,47,816 tonnesof goods in September 2020and has earned income of �41.99 crore, which is 21.93%and 5.92% respectively as com-pared to the same period ofSeptember 2019, in October2020. 4,55,793 tonnes of goodsloading has an income of �46.91 crore which is 24.73%

and 28.98% respectively ascompared to the same periodof October 2019.

About 4,29,564 tonnes ofgoods loaded in November2020 with an income of �45.82 crore, which is 8.11%and 12.57% respectively ascompared to the same periodof November 2019. In thesame sequence, the revenuefrom goods loading has been�23.8 crore as on December17, 2020, which is 13.5% high-er than the same period of theprevious financial year.

Transportation of goodsthrough railways is safer,faster, environmentally friend-ly and more cost effectivethan other modes of transport

and increased transportationof foodgrains and other agri-cultural goods through rail-ways, an important develop-ment in agriculture and alliedsectors.

Prayagraj division hastaken several steps to improvethe loading of foodgrains andother items including finalisa-tion of Station to Station (STS)proposals for improvementin Goods Shed, provision ofadditional foodgrains and upto 30% exemption for newtraffic streams. New tractorloading traffic at ICD Dadri;Obtaining new traffic throughloading of foodgrains etc.

Some achievements ofloading of foodgrains and

other agricultural relatedgoods at Prayagraj division,after a gap of about 6 years, 2rakes of foodgrains wereloaded from Iradatganj to thetune of �73 lakh, about 522from Naini in the last 2months. Income of � 5.78crore by loading of wagon offoodgrains, loading of food-grains under new traffic fromSonbhadra to 336 wagons,loading of 400 tractors in 4NMG rakes from ICD Dadrito Bangladesh and loading of150 tractors in 1 NMG rakefor Tiruchirappalli , 2 minirakes from Fatehpur and 194wagons from Pankidhaminclude loading of foodgrainsetc. under new traffic.

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As many as 82 new patientshave been detected in the

district on Friday, increasingthe total number to 20,556. Theday also saw two more deaths,increasing the toll to 341.During the day, the follow-upnegative reports included 116and all of them have beenrecovered from home isolation,increasing the number to16,816. As no patient has beendischarged from any hospital,the number of patientsremained at 2,890. The total

number of patients who havebeen recovered so far is 19,706,leaving 509 active cases. Therecovery rate is 95.86 per centwhile the mortality rate is 1.65per cent.

Chief Medical Officer(CMO) Dr VB Singh hasinformed that in the first reportof the day, 43 positive patientswere found out of 2,627 reportsreceived. Till then, the total testreports received were 4,81,208and the results of 3,065 areawaited. Out of them, 4,60,691were negative, while 20,517positive. The total number of

samples collected was 5,02,381.Earlier, a female aged 72 fromCantt succumbed to COVID-19 at Medwin Hospital. Withthe addition of three new redzones, the total number ofhotspots has increased to 2,591including 207 red zones. Onegreen zone has been convert-ed into a red zone again. Thereare 2,384 green zones with 13new ones. On the instructionsof the District Magistrate (DM)Kaushal Raj Sharma, mass/group antigen tests continuedto be conducted at VaranasiJunction (Cantt.) and

Manduadih railway but all 55and 41 tests conducted thererespectively have been foundnegative. Besides, one out of212 tests has been detected pos-itive at Shree Shiv Prasad Gupta(SSPG) Hospital, Kabirchaurawhile one out of 28 at CHCShivpur. However, all the 112tests at LBS Hospital Ramnagar,125 at Government Women’sHospital, 42 at SwamiVivekanand Hospital, Bhelupurand 105 at Sir SundarlalHospital, Banaras HinduUniversity (SSH BHU) havebeen found negative.

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The country has becomeeconomically weak during

the Corona pandemic. In orderto overcome the economic cri-sis, the Indian Oil CorporationLimited has launched theBharo Tel Jeeto Car Yojanathroughout the year at KapilDev Vyas Filing centre atThornhill Road in Prayagraj.

On this occasion, Dr UttiBhattacharya, ExecutiveDirector and Head of State,Uttar Pradesh State Office, toldreporters that a customer canwin an SUV car and bike bygetting oil worth � 400 ormore. For this, they have tosend the code bill number ofthat dealer and an SMS of theamount of oil to be sent to the

said mobile number9052155555. Starting from

December 4, the scheme willremain in effect till December

31. In addition, 100 daily win-

ners will get � 100 each as extrareward points. While 25 week-ly winners will get � 5,000.Also, there will be 16 bikesand four lucky winners ifselected at the end of the finaldraw.

On this occasion, ChiefGeneral Manager Subrata KarNagendra Singh, DeputyGeneral Manager Tanay KumarAtul Kumar Neeraj Tripathi etcamong others were present.

In order to fulfill its objec-tive, two-wheelers will now beable to convert oil or mobilthrough modern technology,quick lube oil change. On thisoccasion, he also inauguratedthe Servo Shop and Petrol BhiHealth Bhi Yojana.

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District Magistrate MannanAkhtar honoured few aged

pensioners on Pensioners’ Dayat the district treasury office inCollectorate premises onThursday. Senior treasury offi-cer Ashutosh Chaturvedi wel-comed the guests and said thatthey were providing pension to13,766 pensioners who includethose who had are settled indifferent states like MadhyaPradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujrat,Odisha, Maharashtra,Rajasthan, Arunachal Pradesh,Assam, Haryana and

Uttarakhand. He said they hadreceived 6,300 complaints

regarding pension out of which6,200 had been resolved andthe rest of them will be done soby the end of this month. Hesaid the pensioners could sub-mit their life certificate onlineat jeevanpramaan.gov.in.Meanwhile District MagistrateMannan Akhtar honouredBharat Sharan Dwivedi,Krishna Chand Dwivedi (84)and Phool Kunwar (80) bypresenting shawls and bou-quets to them. AssitantTreasury Officer Ram ManoharPal and Assistant TreasuryOfficer Rajvir Singh were alsopresent on the occasion.

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As a result of effective leader-ship and compliance of

directives of Divisional RailwayManager (DRM), Varanasi, VijayKumar Panjiar, on the IndianRailways e-procurement systemportal through e-auction theStores department of Varanasidivision in the financial year2020-21 after sale of scrapreceived railway revenue of�13.97 crore which is notable in

various divisions of IndianRailways. In Varanasi divisiontill now the deliveries of 11lots out of 21 have been dis-posed of and further work isbeing done at a rapid pace tomake Varanasi division a zeroscrap one, Public RelationsOfficer (PRO) Ashok Kumarsaid. It may be pointed outhere that in the financial yearso far the revenue of Railwaysincreased significantly due tothe sale of scrap.

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Vindhyachal DivisionalCommissioner Preeti

Shukla directed the officialsconcerned to achieve the targetof paddy purchase and pay theprice to farmers without inor-dinate delay. Such direction wasgiven by the her at a division-al meeting held on Thursday toreview the progress in the pur-chase of paddy and in thework under AMRUT scheme.

The DC expressed her dis-content over the purchasewhen she was apprised by theRMO that it was only 25 percent against the target. Shedirected Mirzapur DistrictMagistrate to expedite the pur-chase work when she wasapprised that the progress wasonly 16.28 per cent in the dis-trict. The DM informed the DCthat the area lekhpals had beeninvolved in motivating smallfarmers to bring their paddy tothe procurement centres andget the payments without delay.During the meeting the DCdirected all the officials con-cerned with procurement thatthey get the fund from theirheadquarters in advance andensure payment of the farmerswithin the stipulated time-frame. Moreover the SE, JalNigam, was taken to task by theDC for not providing the infor-mation related to the AMRUTscheme. The DC directed theofficials concerned with theambitious scheme, includingthe working agency, to ensurethe speedy progress on each

points, including the con-struction of parks, pipelinework, overhead tanks, treat-ment plant etc. On the occasionthe DC made it clear that thework should be completedwithin the allocated fund andstipulated timeframe. Besides,no revised estimate would beallowed at all to increase theexpenditure, she added.

SUICIDE: A 19-year-oldgirl committed suicide inMujehra Kala village underChilh police station onThursday. As per the reportsreceived here, Rani , daughterof Premchand, had gone tosleep on Wednesday night withher family members. Duringthe wee hours her brother wastaken aback on seeing his sis-ter hanging from the ceiling.On hearing his cries the entirefamily got up and brought herdown. On getting informationabout the matter, the policereached the spot and took the

body into custody for the post-mortem examination.

CASE REGISTERED:Madihan police have regis-tered a case of rape onThursday. As per the reports, a16-year-old girl of a villageunder the Madihan police sta-tion had gone to a shop inevening on Wednesday. Whenshe was returning home, shewas stopped by someone at hishouse who then raped her.When the girl did not reach ather house at night, her familymembers became anxious andthen launched a search for butall their attempts ended invain. They came to about itwhen she reached home weep-ing on Thursday. Following anapplication given by the fatherof the victim a case has beenregistered against the 20-year-old accused and the matter wasbeing investigated. No arresthad been made yet, last reportsreceived here said.

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The Banaras RailLocomotive Works (BLW)

administration is striving forthe best care of the health of itsemployees, officers and theirfamilies. In order to check thespread of the Covid-19 infec-tion a camp was set up in thepremises of the BLW adminis-trative building on Thursday.At the camp testing of as manyas 96 BLW personnel was doneand all of them were foundnegative. It may be pointed outhere that the BLW administra-tion for protection from Covid-19 was fully following theinstructions issued by the

Ministries of Health andRailways. Along with it aware-ness campaigns are also beingorganised in the BLW fromtime to time. Posters and ban-ners have also been put in theentire premises, includingoffice and workshop, for pro-tection against Covid-19.Besides all personnel are beingmotivated to ensure properuse of face masks, washing oftheir hands frequently and tomaintain physical distancing.

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A written quiz competitionfor officers and employees wasorganised under the Energy

Conservation Week-2020 atthe Technical Training Centreof BLW on Thursdat. In thewritten quiz competition ques-tions related to energy conser-vation and its importance wereasked. Its purpose was to makepeople aware about maximumenergy conservation and moti-vate them for it.

The BLW officials andemployees participated enthu-siastically in the competition. Itmay be pointed out here thatthe Energy Conservation Weekwas inaugurated by GeneralManager Anjali Goyal onDecember 14 through a videodemonstration to save domes-tic and industrial energy.

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One person was killed in a road accident on the high-way here recently. According to information

received here, a dumper was going from Kanpur toKabrai collided with another one loaded with stone andwas coming from Kabrai in the morning hours. As aresult driver Jeetu Kumar (26), a resident of Nibia Khedavillage under the Sajeti police station in Kanpur dis-trict, who was going to Kabrai for loading ballast diedon the spot. Besides the helper in the vehicle, PuttanSingh (35), a resident of Duda Dev in Kanpur Nagar,who was seriously injured in the accident had been sentto Kanpur where his condition was stated to be criti-cal, last reports received here said. The body of thedeceased had been for post-mortem examination afterfilling the panchnama. Meanwhile half-a-dozen personswere injured in separate road accidents. According toa report, Bablu, a resident of Muskra village, was goingalong with his companion, Dharmendra, from Rath toGundela village on a motorcycle. When they reachednear Gahra outpost on the Rath-Hamirpur road theysuddenly fell down from the motorcycle as it went outof control. As a result both of them were injured.Similarly, Brijgopal, a resident of Chhatarpur (MP),Santosh, a resident of Ambe Palace, Rath, Kuldeep andSunil, a resident of Dhanauri under the Kotwali policestation were injured when they fell down from motor-cycle and got injured. Later the injured were admittedto the community health centre (CHC) for treatment.

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Agang of unidentified thieves sneakedinto a marbles shop located in

Daudpur Deoria bypass under the Canttpolice station and decamped with cash,mobile phone and other valuables. Thetheft has been captured in the closed-cir-cuit television (CCTV) camera installedin the shop. On getting information thepolice reached the spot, carried out nec-essary investigations and launched asearch for nabbing the thieves involvedin the incident. According to reportreceived here, Manish Pandey, a residentof Daudpur locality, Pandeyvati Deoriabypass trijunction, in an applicationsubmitted to the police stated a marblesshowroom and godown was situated inhis house. Yogendra Yadav, one of hisemployees, lived above the godown. Hesaid that at 11:35 pm on Wednesday twoto three thieves entered the shop, stole�12,000 cash of the employee, his mobilephone along with three sacks of hardwareitems. On being told about the theft inthe morning, he immediately informedthe police on No 112 about it. The thefthas been captured in the CCTV camerainstalled in the shop.

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Kanpur Nagar reported 33more coronavirus positive

cases on Friday evening. ChiefMedical Officer Dr Anil KMishra said that 33 more peo-ple had tested positive forcoronavirus infection betweenThursday evening and Fridayevening taking the tally ofconfirmed cases to 31,705cases. He said that 15 patientswere discharged from hospi-tal. He said three COVID-19deaths in the city werereported till Friday eveningkeeping the death toll to 807.The CMO said at present 671active cases were undergoingtreatment. Dr Mishra said4029 samples were sent fortesting in the city.

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Awoman employee of anursing home in Kidwai

Nagar has accused its doctorsof dragging her with malin-tention.

The victim has lodged acomplaint with the police.

A woman of Juhi BaraDevi is employed in the pathol-ogy of a nursing home in HBlock of Kidwai Nagar. She isengaged in sample collectionjob.

She alleged that during theinitial few months of her job,everything was right but there-after the hospital director andlab incharge started eyeing herwith malintention,

She alleged that they wouldoften call her in their cabinsand indulge in obscene acts andon protest, they would mentallytorture her.

She alleged that inDecember 12, the lab inchargecalled her in his cabin andattempted to molest her andwhen she protested, he accusedher of misappropriating Rs.2.50lakh. She said the lab inchargeheld her hostage in the cabinand snatched her mobilephone.

She alleged that the direc-tor and lab incharge pressedher to indulge in obscene actsand when she refused, theyused her mobile phone to tellher family members about themisappropriation of Rs.2.50lakh and collected a cheque ofRs 58,000 from her mother. Shealleged that after getting thesignature of her brother on aplain paper, an agreementshowing her confession for thetheft was prepared and there-after she was freed from thehospital around 11:30 pm.

The woman alleged apolice outpost incharge and aconstable mounted pressureon her on behalf of the hospi-tal director and lab incharge.Station House Officer DhaneshPrasad said the inquiry reportwas sent to the SSP office.

SUCCUMBED: A labour-er, who was knocked down bya speeding truck onWednesday, succumbed to hisinjuries during treatment onFriday morning. Sughar Singh(48) of Dheeupur, Vidhnu, adaily wager, was going to buyvegetables when a speedingtruck hit him near Harha vil-lage. He was admitted to LLRHospital from where he wastaken to a private hospital inRaipurwa. During treatment,he succumbed to his injuries onFriday morning.

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Kanpur DivisionalCommissioner Raj

Shekhar said in Friday thelocal administration hadworked out special plans toresolve the traffic snarls prob-lem of the city on priority in thecoming times.

He admitted that KanpurNagar was currently facing amajor problem of regular traf-fic snarls which had become abane for the citizens.

The divisional commis-sioner said it had been moot-ed that all the bus stationsinside the city limits should beshifted to the outskirts of thecity along the ring road nearthe national highways enteringthe city.

He said it had been decid-

ed in principle to set up one busstand at every national highwayentry point to decongest thecity.

Shekhar pointed out that atpresent around 1,200 busesentered the city on daily basisat various bus stations situatedinside the city area.

He said if these buses wererun from the bus stations out-side the city limits, there wouldbe a large relief and smoothtraffic movement within thecity.

He said for this the admin-istration was identifying suit-able places for new bus stations(with depots) near every entrypoint of the various nationalhighways along the outer ringroad alignment.

Addressing a meeting at hiscamp office here on Friday,

Shekhar directed DistrictMagistrate Alok Tiwari and theADM (FR) to identify suitableland measuring between threeto five acre in the next 30 daysjuxtaposed to other nationalhighways in proximity with theproposed outer ring road forbus stations, especially forbuses plying on that particularroute.

He also directed theKanpur DevelopmentAuthority vice chairman tocomplete pending works ofthe new bus station at SignatureCity in the next 20 days so thatit could start functioning in thenext two months to cater to theneeds of passengers for busesmoving towards Lucknow.

He said this bus stationcould handle 200-250 busesevery day.

The divisional commis-sioner said the district admin-istration had identified aroundfive acre land of gram sabha fora bus station on the Prayagrajhighway in village Sarsaul nearTiwaripur.

He said this land was onthe national highway and wassuitable to ply 400-500 buses ona daily basis towards Prayagraj.

Shekhar said the upcomingMetro, SMART traffic solutionsby Smart City Corporation,proposed new flyovers andnew parking areas in the cityand it would help to a largeextent to ease the traffic con-gestion in the city in the com-ing days. He said such futureplaning and advanced prepa-ration would help in easing outthe biggest problem of KanpurNagar.

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The Uttar Pradesh MetroRail Corporation

(UPMRC) erected the first I-girder near IIT-Kanpur Metrostation.

The erection of four I-girders has been accomplishedbetween pillars nine and 10near IIT-K Metro station.

Basically, I-girder is anarrangement that is adopted inplace of U-girder on elevatedcorridor for creating scope fortrack crossing or platformswitching for metro trains.

According to UPMRCpublic relations officer, 178 I-girders will be placed on the 9-kilometre-long elevated pri-mary section of Kanpur Metro.

The terminal metro sta-tions art IIT-K and Motijheel,and the depot line orPolytechnic metro depot arethe three designated spotswhere the I-girders are to beplaced in the primary sectionof the project.

Approximately 27-metre-long I-girders will be placed atthe three designated spots andthe width of one I-girder isabout one metre and its weightaround 58 ton.

For the arrangement ofcross-over or track change onthe elevated corridor, the I-girder is used instead of U-girder and two U-girders canbe placed above the pier capbetween two piers or pillarswhile in the same space, thereis an arrangement for the place-

ment of four I-girders.The I-girder is shaped like

the English alphabet ‘I’ andthese are pre-cast in the cast-ing yard.

With the help of cranes,they are placed at the fixed spoton the corridor, and after thatthe slabs are prepared on themwhile the U-girders are thecomplete structures along withthe base and side walls.

As there is no wall orboundary between I-girders,the train can easily move fromone track to another.

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General secretary ofKanpur Private SchoolsAssociation and coordinator ofCBSE, Balwinder Singh, saidthat in the current times ofCOVID-19, schools were in a

dire strait and thus the annualconvention of the associationhad been summoned onSaturday at KDMA School andit would be attended by 200members.

He said the conventionwould be graced by NationalIndependent School Alliancepresident Kulbhushan Sharma,Confederation of IndependentSchools, Meerut, chief RahulKesarwani and GlobalEducation Training Schoolfounder Sunita Gandhi.

Singh said the OVID-19pandemic had dangerouslyjeopardised education, espe-cially the primary and sec-ondary, and it was reflectingdangerously on the schoolsand the teachers and this wasa major cause of concern.

He said there were severalmajor issues which were beingignored by the government

and they engender the need fordrawing attention.

He said the conventionwould be a platform to sendacross a clear message that“Unity is Strength” and it wasthe last resort.

He said during this period,the schools had maintained alink between the studies andnormal conduct of schools andworked very hard for a bettereducation.

Singh said that many chal-lenges were faced by the privateschools and the problemswhich had plagued in success-fully running schools would betaken up in the convention towork out a concrete solution tothis vexed problem. He said,“The school runs smoothly bythe holy troika — management,teachers and students — but inview of the pandemic this hasbeen hit adversely.”

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Director General MedicalHealth Dr DS Negi has

allayed all apprehensionsregarding the COVID-19 vac-cines.

Addressing a virtual meet-ing, he said the governmenthad taken all possible precau-tions and proper care for thevaccination drive that would belaunched in a big way.

Dr Negi said there was nodoubt that the new vaccinecould raise some issues of drugreaction but the governmentwas well prepared for handlingsuch a situation. He said all the

vaccination centres would lib-erally be provided with ana-phylaxis kit.

The DGMH said in thefirst phase there would be1,500 vaccination centres andtheir number would beraised to 2,000 in thesecond phase and finally to3,000 in the third phase acrossthe state.

Dr Negi said anaphylaxiswas a severe allergic reaction tovenom, food or medicationand in most cases it was causedby a bee sting or eating foodsknown to cause allergies, suchas peanuts or tree nuts.

He said anaphylaxis causeda series of symptoms, including

a rash, low pulse and shock,which was known as anaphy-lactic shock, but with the kitavailable at the centres it wouldbe administered to the patientif the need arose.

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Meanwhile, Chief MedicalOfficer Dr AK Mishra said thatthe Mental Health ReviewBoard had been set up andissues related to mental healthwould be successfully dealt byit.

He said the MHRB wouldtake care of the family andsocial problems of the mental-ly ill patients and also the

problems that cropped upwhile undergoing treatmentunder a psychiatrist.

The MHRB was set upunder that Mental Health CareAct, 2017.

Dr Mishra said Districtand Sessions Judge RampalSingh was the chairman of theMHRB, the CMO its con-venor-member and SDM, HoDPsychiatry Dr Vipul Singh, DrManish Kumar of Medicinedepartment, Ursula Hospital itsmembers. He said the MHRBhas two members from non-governmental organisations —one from Swaraj VriddhaAshram and other from ShifaEye Care Centre.

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He said a proposal in thisregard was to be forwarded tothe Central government andthe ‘Plastic Park’ could be set upin Dibiyapur (Auraiya).

The additional chief secre-tary said a police outpost hadbeen sanctioned for the ‘PlasticPark’ which would be devel-oped on 360 acre land out ofwhich 275 acre would be usedfor industries while on 85 acrean residential complex wouldbe developed. He said till datesanctions had been given to 77industrial and 109 residentialand one two more areas.

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With India facing hostilesituation on the Line of

Actual Control(LAC)facingChina and the Line of Control(LOC) with Pakistan, DefenceMinister Rajnath Singh said onFriday these posed challengesto resources.

He expressed confidencethat to meet the twin chal-lenges, the Government willensure there is no shortage ofresources, he said.

Meanwhile, apparentlyreferring to the impact ofsocial media in conflictsbetween nations, Rajnath saidthe reach of the mobile phonenow was bigger than that of amissile. “Covid-19 has adverse-ly impacted our economy andwe need to pay special attentionfor efficient utilisation of ourbudget,” the Minister saidaddressing scientists of theDefence Research andDevelopment Organisation(DRDO) at the annual awardsceremony.

Stating that the armedforces will be facing many newchallenges and security threatsin the days to come and tech-nology can be used positively,Rajnath said in such a situationwhile carrying out a realisticassessment, there is need todevelop our capabilities quick-ly, according to our needs.

At the ceremony, he hand-ed over the DRDO madeIndian Maritime SituationalAwareness System (IMSAS) toNavy chief Admiral KarambirSingh and the BorderSurveillance System (BOSS) toArmy Chief General M MNaravane.

“The system (BOSS) hasbeen deployed at Ladakh bor-der area for day and night sur-veillance. The system facilitates

monitoring and surveillance byautomatically detecting theintrusions in harsh high-alti-tude sub-zero temperatureareas with remote operationcapability,” the DefenceMinistry said in a statement.The system is being producedby Bharat Electronics Limited(BEL), Machlipatnam.

The IMSAS is state-of-the-art, fully indigenous, high per-formance intelligent softwaresystem that provides globalmaritime situational picture,marine planning tools andanalytical capabilities to IndianNavy. The system providesmasritime operational picturefrom Naval headquarters toeach individual ship in sea toenable naval command andcontrol, it added.

Addressing the scientists,Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)General Bipin Rawat said theprivate industry is also moti-vated and need the scientistssupport. “I feel that in case ofwar in future, we will win itthrough indigenous weapons,”he said.

Addressing the annualMilitary Literature Festival inChandigarh, Rajnath warnedthat different kinds of securi-ty threats may emerge in thefuture. “This event is impor-tant from another point ofview,” he said through video

conference. “As times change,the nature of threats and warsis also changing. In the future,other security-related issuesmay come before us.” Headded that conflicts are grad-ually becoming “comprehen-sive” in the manner neverimagined earlier.

Possibly alluding to thepower of social media andmobile apps, he said, “Todaythe range (marak Kshamta) ofa mobile has crossed even thereach of a missile,” he said.

He added that the enemycan now reach people evenwithout crossing any borders,and urged everyone to play therole of a soldier.

“We should remain aliveto these dangers and save our-selves from wrong and mis-leading information and saveothers too, and festivals likethis can play a key role in this,”he said, urging literary figuresto make use of their talent tothe full for this.

The defence Minister didnot specifically refer to China.But in recent months, since thestandoff between the two sidesbegan at the LAC , India hasbanned several Chinesemobile apps, citing concernsrelated to national securityand privacy. These includedthe popular TikTok andWeChat

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The Central Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI) has reg-

istered two separate cases relat-ed to bank fraud to the tune ofabout �7,926.01 and �313.79crore. The agency also con-ducted searches at several loca-tions at the premises of theaccused in Hyderabad, Gunturand Chennai.

The first case has been reg-istered against Hyderabad-based private companyTransstroy (India) Ltd. and oth-ers including its CMDCherukuri Sridhar, AdditionalDirectors Rayapati SambasivaRao and Akkineni Satish,unknown public servantsbesides unknown others on acomplaint from Canara Bank.

“It was alleged that the pri-vate firm based at Hyderabadand its directors had availedcredit facilities on multiple bank-ing arrangements. The consor-tium was formed with otherbanks, led by Canara Bank. Itwas further alleged that theaccused had involved in falsifi-cation / fabrication of books ofaccounts, fudging of stock state-ments, tampering of balancesheets, round tripping of fundsetc,” the CBI said in a statement.

It was also alleged that theaccused misappropriated bank’sfunds and diverted the loanamount sanctioned by the banksand caused loss of �7,926.01crore to Canara Bank and othermember banks. The accounthad become NPA and the fraudwas reported.

Searches were conductedat the premises of private com-pany/other accused atHyderabad and Guntur, whichled to recovery of incriminatingdocuments, it said.

The Second case was regis-tered against a private companybased at Chennai AgniteEducation Ltd. and othersincluding its Chairman KBalasubramaniam, Director KPadmanabhan, unknown pub-lic servants and private personson a complaint from State Bankof India.

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As many as 63.54 (6.35 mil-lion) lakh domestic pas-

sengers travelled by air inNovember as compared to52.71 lakh in October and39.43 lakh in September.According to the DirectorateGeneral of Civil Aviation(DGCA), the number of pas-sengers travelled in Novemberis less than 51 pe rcent as com-pared to the correspondingperiod last year.

The DGCA data showedthat IndiGo carried 34.23 lakhpassengers in November, a53.9 per cent share of the totaldomestic market, SpiceJet flew8.4 lakh passengers, which is13.2 per cent share of the mar-ket. Air India, GoAir, AirAsia

India and Vistara carried 6.56lakh, 5.77 lakh, 4.21 lakh and3.97 lakh passengers respec-tively in November, the datashowed. The occupancy rate orload factor of six major Indianairlines was between 66.3 and77.7 per cent in November, itstated.

“The passenger load factorin the month of Nov 2020 hasshown some recovery due toincreased demand after theopening of Lockdown andonset of festive season” it said.The occupancy rate at SpiceJetwas 77.7 per cent in November.

Meanwhile, the occupancyrate for other major airlinesIndiGo, Vistara, GoAir, AirIndia and AirAsia India was 74per cent, 70.8 per cent, 70.8 percent, 69.6 per cent and 66.3 per

cent respectively, according tothe DGCA. India resumeddomestic passenger flights onMay 25 after a gap of twomonths due to the coronaviruspandemic. Indian airlines areallowed to operate a maxi-mum of 80 per cent of theirpre-COVID-19 domesticflights.

The DGCA data showedthat in November, IndiGo hadthe best on-time performanceof 97.5 per cent at four metroairports—Bengaluru, Delhi,Hyderabad andMumbai.AirAsia India andVistara were at number twoand three at these four airportsin November with 95.6 per centand 94.8 per cent on-time per-formance, respectively, theDGCA said.

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As winter chill grips theplains, the India

Meteorological Department(IMD)on Friday said nighttemperatures would continueto be below normal in northIndia over the next week and aslight relief can be expectedonly a week later.

In its forecast fromDecember 17-24 and fromDecember 24-30, the IMD saidthe minimum temperatureswould be below normal by 2-6 degrees Celsius over mostparts of northwest, central andeast India. Near normal orslightly above normal temper-atures are likely over remainingparts of the country during thefirst week.

“Cold wave to severe cold

wave conditions would occurin some pockets over Punjab,Haryana and Chandigarh, westUttar Pradesh and northRajasthan during the first halfof the first week and decreasethereafter,” the IMD said.

Cold day to severe cold dayconditions would occur insome to many pockets overPunjab, Haryana, Chandigarhand Delhi, north Rajasthanand northwest Uttar Pradeshduring next two days and abatethereafter, it said. A cold wavehas swept the north Indianplains since last week with dayand night temperatures dippingbelow normal.

During the second week,there would be slight rise inminimum temperatures ascompared to the firstweek.However, the minimumtemperatures would be belownormal by 2-4 degrees Celsiusover most parts of northwest,central and east India, andnear normal or slightly abovenormal over remaining parts ofthe country, the IMD added.

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The Congress on Friday saidthe party will soon start the

procedure to elect a new pres-ident and indicated that RahulGandhi may be back in the sad-dles again, saying that majori-ty of Congressmen want that hebe again chosen as full-timeparty chief.

The grand old party islikely to hold the AICC sessionin January to elect the newpresident, for which the partyleadership will discuss andchalk out the plans.

AICC chief spokesman andparty General SecretaryRandeep Surjewala said thatCongress will soon start theprocedure to elect a new partypresident, adding that 99.9 per-cent of people, including him-self, want Rahul Gandhi to take

charge as the next president ofthe Congress.

Electoral College ofCongress, AICC members,Congress workers & memberswill choose who’s best suited,Surjewala said at AICC Pressconference.

While Rahul Gandhi earlythis week during a meetingwith few senior leaders reiter-ated his stand that he will notwear the chief ’s mantle againwhich he relinquished last yearafter the dismal performance ofthe party in Lok Sabha elec-tions.

Incidentally, , AICCsources said incumbent chiefSonia Gandhi is scheduled tomeet party dissenters and othertop leaders soon to discuss“key” issues concerning thegrand old party.

Sonia has expressed her

desire not to continue as inter-im Congress chief and askedthe party to start the process toelect a new party chief.

The party’s recent poorperformances in the stateassembly elections of Biharand Maharashtra have turnedseveral of its eminent leadersinto dissenters.

Sonia is expected to holdtalks with her confidants aboutthe new Congress chief andrevive the party in states goingto poll in 2021.

AICC sources said Soniawill also meet some of theprominent members of the“letter-writers group”, who hadbeen demanding an overhaulof the party. Among them arethe Leader of Opposition in theRajya Sabha Ghulam NabiAzad and the deputy leader ofthe party in the Upper House,

Anand Sharma. Former Madhya Pradesh

chief minister Kamal Nath,who lost power in the state,after his bete noire JyotiradityaScindia quit the party andjoined the BJP along with sev-eral MLAs, is also slated tomeet Sonia and discuss the fall-out of the recently-concludedbypolls in the state, in whichthe Congress failed to make amark.

This is the first time thatSonia Gandhi will be meetingher party leaders in person afterthe pandemic. So far she hasbeen holding virtual meetingsincluding the crucial CWCmeet in which party leadersdiscussed the “letter” by thegroup of 23 leaders demandinga change in the leadership andan overhaul of the party orga-nizational structure.

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The Prime Minister’s newresidential complex will

have 10 four-storey buildingswith a maximum height of 12metres.

Official sources said thatthere is “no question of drop-ping” the proposed newPrime Minister’s Off ice(PMO) from the Central VistaRedevelopment project, afterthe CPWD did not mentionthe same in its new proposalbefore an expert panel of theMinistry of Environment andForest. The Central PublicWorks Department (CPWD),which is executing the project,has revised the estimated costfrom �11,794 crore to �13,450crore.

The Prime Minister’s newresidence will be built on a15-acre plot and it will have10 buildings and they willhave ground plus three floors,the CPWD said in its pro-posal.

Permissible ground cov-erage at the prime minister’snew residence would be30,351 square metre, it stated,adding that a building for theSpecial Protection Group willcome up on a 2.50-acre plot.

The Central VistaRedevelopment project alsoincludes the new VicePresident’s Enclave which willbe built on 15-acre land andwill have five-storey buildingswith a maximum height of 15metres, the CPWD said in itsproposal.The VP Enclave willhave 32 buildings.

Reacting to the CPWD’smove to drop the proposednew Prime Minister’s Officein its latest proposal, KanchiKohli, legal researcher, Centrefor Policy Research, said thatthe documents submitted tothe Environment Ministry donot give any justification onwhy some plots or officeshave been excluded or whythe costs have increaseddespite such exclusions.

“But equally important isthe CPWD’s answer towhether any alternatives tothe present proposal wereconsidered is a No.

The study of such alter-natives is required to be donebefore seeking environment clearance,” Kohlisaid.

The CPWD’s proposal forterms of reference, which is astep before the environmentclearance, was discussed bythe Environment Ministryexpert appraisal committee(EAC) on Thursday.

The EAC had approvedthe CPWD’s proposal to con-struct a new ParliamentBuilding earlier this year.

The redevelopment pro-ject of Central Vista — thenation’s power corridor —also envisages a new triangu-lar Parliament building, acommon central secretariatand revamping of the three-km-long Rajpath, f romRashtrapati Bhavan to IndiaGate.

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The Supreme Court Fridaydirected all the States to

constitute a committee in eachdistrict to conduct fire audit ofCovid-19 hospitals at least oncea month, inform the manage-ment of medical establishmentabout any deficiency and reportto the Government for takingfollow up action.

A bench headed by JusticeAshok Bhushan said thatCOVID-19 hospitals,whichhave not obtained no objectioncertificate from the concernedfire department, should beasked to immediately applyfor NOC and after carryingnecessary inspection, decisionshall be taken in this regard.

“Those COVID hospitalswho have not renewed theirNOC should immediately takesteps for renewal on whichappropriate inspection be takenand decision be taken. In event,COVID hospital is found nothaving NOC or not havingobtained renewal, appropriate

action be taken by the State,”said the bench, also comprisingJustices R S Reddy and M RShah.

The top court directed thatall states and Union Territoriesshould appoint one nodal offi-cer for each COVID hospital,if not already appointed, whoshall be made responsible forensuring compliance of all firesafety measures.

“In each district, state gov-ernment should constitute acommitteeto carry fire audit ofeach COVID hospital at leastonce in a monthand inform thedeficiency to the managementof the hospital and report to thegovernment for taking followup action,” the bench said in itsorder.

The apex court had lastmonth taken cognisance ofthe fire incident at a COVIDhospital in Gujarat’s Rajkot inwhich five patients had died. Ithad also taken note of similarincidents which had happenedearlier in other COVID hospi-tals.

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The National Green Tribunalhas directed the Ministry of

Environment and Forests(MoEF) to submit a report onthe issue whether EnvironmentImpact Assessment is necessaryfor inland waterway projects inGanga river in the stretch fromVaranasi to Haldia also knownas the National Waterway 1.

The Jal Marg Vikas Project(JMVP) is being implementedon the Varanasi-Haldia stretchof National Waterway-1 (NW-1) with the technical assis-tance and investment supportof the World Bank, at an esti-mated cost of Rs 5,369.18crores (USD 800 million) on a50:50 sharing basis betweenGovernment of India and theWorld Bank, according to theMinistry of Shipping.

Out of the USD 800 mil-lion, USD 375 is IBRD (TheInternational Bank forReconstruction andDevelopment) loan.

A bench headed by NGTChairperson justice A K Goel

noted that the report of theexpert committee constitutedby the MoEF has not been filedeven though almost one yearhas lapsed.

The tribunal was hearing aplea filed by BharatJhunjhunwala and others onwhether EIA is necessary fornavigation infrastructure inthe River Ganga in the stretchfrom Varanasi to Haldia alsoknown as the NationalWaterway 1 (NW1) undertak-en by Inland WaterwaysAuthority of India.

The project envisagesdevelopmental activities suchas river terminal, jetties andlocks and barrages and multi-modal river water terminalsalong with necessary dredging.

The applicant referred toEntry 7(e) of Schedule to theEIA Notification to state that“ports, harbours, back watersand dredging” require clear-ance.

However, the entry furthermentions that maintenancedredging is exempted, in themanner mentioned therein.

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Vice President M VenkaiahNaidu on Friday said there

was need to ensure “sanity” inthe use of the rapidly expand-ing social media platforms,given the implications for socialharmony, common good, peaceand national security.

He said the freedom ofexpression does not meanunfettered outburst of angerand hate against each other that may lead to chaos in soci-ety.

Journalism by nature, theVice President said, is supposedto be critical of the order of thetimes based on facts and supported by evidence. But he emphasised that this shouldnot slip into “complete nega-tivity”.

Media should use a stan-dard set of reporting and ana-lytical tools that captures thechanging narrative withoutimposing respective positions,and should not be seen by thepublic as discrediting thechanges taking place, the vicepresident said.

Pointing out that adver-tisement revenue is key to theviability of any media organi-sation, Naidu said with themushrooming of media outletsand the shrinking revenue pie,the traditional norms and prin-ciples of journalism are beingforced to be compromised with

serious consequences.Speaking at the 6th M V

Kamat Memorial EndowmentLecture on ‘Journalism:

Past, Present and Future’, hesaid the disruption caused bytechnology has resulted in aserious crisis for the media andappropriate revenue sharingmodels need to be evolved forthe survival of traditionalmedia.

“Technology giants haveemerged as the algorithmicgate keepers of information andthe web has emerged as themain vehicle of distribution ofinformation and news. We arewitnessing the consequences,”the vice president said.

According to the the text ofhis speech made available byhis office, Naidu said while thedemocratisation and decen-tralisation that followed therapid expansion of social mediaenabling freedom of expressionis welcome, the world is wit-nessing the downside of it inthe absence of self-regulationand protocols.

In this era of saturatedinformation and over abun-dance of news, the very newsis getting devalued, he felt.

While the traditional printmedia is “sincerely endeav-ouring” to adapt to the tech-nological disruption by goingonline, it is struggling to comeout with viable revenue mod-els, he pointed out.

“The information andreports generated by the printmedia at substantial cost isbeing hijacked by the socialmedia giants. This is unfair.Some countries are taking mea-sures to ensure revenue sharingby the social media giants withthe print media. We too needto take a serious look at thisproblem and come out witheffective guidelines or laws toenable print media get theirshare from the huge revenuesof the technology giants,” Naidusaid.

Over a period of time,media in our country hasacquired a certain orientationwhich is broadly termed by thecommentators as “left leaningand liberal”, Naidu said. “Nobody can make an issue outof this. But the problem arisesif the media is keen to stick tothe perspectives acquired ear-lier and stayed with them forlong and refuses to acknowl-edge the changing narrative,” hesaid.

“I am not suggesting mediato be like a chameleon. Mediashould use a standard set ofreporting and analytical toolsthat captures the change with-out imposing respective posi-tions. Media should not be seenby the public as discreditingthe change that is happeningsince such a change is contraryto their long held positions,” henoted.

The vice-president saidwhile journalism by nature issupposed to be critical of theorder of the times based onfacts and supported by evi-dence, “this should not slip intocomplete negativity”.

“I am not suggesting thatmedia is completely cynical.We have opted for parliamen-tary democracy for negotiatedsocio-economic transforma-tion and nation building.

As a bridge between thepeople and the Governments,media need to focus on thedevelopment taking place onvarious fronts.

“Governments are theprincipal catalysts of thischange for the better.Development journalism doesnot mean beating the trumpetof the Governments. It is aboutexamining and reporting onthe triggers of change, part-nerships built and participationof people and other stakehold-ers, challenges faces and theway they were overcome thiskind of positivity reinforces thetrust of the people in the insti-tutions of our body polity,” hesaid.

Till the advent of modernmedia, print media played animportant role in furthering thecause of independence by pro-moting the spirit of nationalismand nation building throughsocio-economic transforma-tion subsequently, he said.

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Remunerative jobs forfarmers might soundincongruous whenremunerative pricingfor their products is the

argument of the season. Believe itor not, the Narendra ModiGovernment is currently lookingfor two seasoned persons whosemain profession would be farm-ing, who could be leaders of theKisan movement. It is a Level 14post in the pay band of �1,44,200-2,18,200. Counterintuitively, theywill not be deployed to win overthe agitating farmers to the side ofthe Government. They will con-tribute towards determining theMinimum Support Prices (MSP),which the Government currentlyoffers on 24 agri products, includ-ing rice, wheat and coarse grains.

For several years now, theCommission of Agricultural Costand Prices (CACP) has gonewithout two unofficial memberson its panel. Is that really newsunder this Government wheremany institutions have gone head-less for years on end or held asadditional charge by seniorbureaucrats? This writer recent-ly found out through an applica-tion under the RTI Act, 2005, thata position under Article 350-B ofthe Constitution of India viz.Commissioner for LinguisticMinorities has been vacant sinceFebruary 2016. The Commissionresultantly has not been able tofile a single annual report of itsactivities before Parliament in thepast four years. These two adver-tised positions are meant to fillvacancies in the CACP. The farm-ers had flagged this vacancy issueway back in February 2018.However, the Ministry ofAgriculture and Farmers Welfarenotified these only last month.

The Modi Government, to itscredit, has substantially increasedthe MSP on most of the agri pro-duces since taking office. However,it perhaps felt that appointingtwo unofficial members, represent-ing the farming community, intothe CACP was redundant. Thismindset, one is afraid, is dis-cernible in the formulation of thethree agricultural laws as well.They were introduced through theOrdinance route on June 5. Thereis no evidence of any consultationwith the State Governments,farmer unions, agri economistsand allied stakeholders.

One can argue that consulta-tions are lengthy processes.However, to obtain durable results,there is no shortcut to this grind.The consensus over the Goods and

Services Tax (GST) was institu-tionalised through a GSTCouncil comprising the FinanceMinisters of various States.Though agriculture marketingis indeed in dire need of reformsbut everything cannot be a sur-gical strike. Pulling rabbits outof the hat might not be the bestway to pursue reforms. Havingfailed to drum up support fromthe States on the ModelAgriculture Produce andLivestock Marketing (APLM)Act, 2017, and also the ModelAgriculture Produce andLivestock Contract FarmingAct of 2018 that the Centre hadcirculated, it decided to cut theGordian knot by promulgatingthe three agricultural laws.

It cannot be gainsaid thatthe Modi Government initiat-ed several welfare measures forthe farmers. It would be sad tosee them drowned in the din ofthe agitation. However, if onlythe Government had gone intoconsultative mode rather ear-lier, it could have linked certainnational agricultural goals withthe issue of remunerative pric-ing. These goals could be iden-tified as crop diversification,reducing dependence on chem-icals in farming, water conser-vation, reducing the regionalimbalance in procurement,reforms in the APMC Act,increasing IT literacy in farm-ers to take advantage of eNAM(National Agriculture Market),

improving the terms of tradewith industry and so on. TheGovernment could have gener-ated a trust surplus rather thandeficit as at present. It couldhave made the farmers an allyin its mission. However, at pre-sent, the Government is shy ofquoting from its flagship com-mission report. The 14-VolumeReport of the Committee onDoubling Farmers’ Income(2017-2018) chaired by AshokDalwai, IAS, is nowhere in theGovernment’s discourse. Thisbegs for an explanation.

The farmers, fearing theMSP will be withdrawn, wantit to be legally guaranteed. Thetruth is that MSP itself hasnever been legally defined.Even the CACP, the commis-sion which recommends theMSP every marketing season,is not a statutory body.However, it is the Siamese twinof co-born Food Corporationof India (FCI), a statutorybody. The FCI, being estab-lished under the FoodCorporation of India Act, 1964,on the same day as the CACP(January 1, 1965), should beconsidered guarantee enough.

Without procuring foodgrains in both Kharif and Rabimarketing seasons, theGovernment will not be able torun its Targeted PublicDistribution System (TPDS)and manage allocations underthe Integrated Child

Development Services (ICDS)scheme and Mid-Day Meal forlong. These three are statutori-ly guaranteed under theNational Food Security Act(NFSA), 2013. The TDPS alonereaches out to 80 crore peoplethrough 24 lakh ration cards.Without the Government beingsincere about TDPS, it wouldnot have implemented the ‘OneNation, One Ration Card’ pro-ject. Thus as long as the FCIAct, 1964, and the NFSA, 2013,are in currency, the farmershave little to fear about theMSPs which have actually beensignificantly enhanced in thepast six years.

However, this MSP-orient-ed rice-wheat agrarian culturehas become the bane of Punjabdespite contributing to itsmaterial prosperity. Punjab isreluctant to diversify its agricul-ture. With 75 per cent of itspopulation relying on farmingas a source of livelihood direct-ly or indirectly (as per Punjab’sAgriculture Department’s web-site), which is far above thenational average, the progressof industrialisation has beenstymied. The introduction ofrice cultivation on a commer-cial basis since early 1970s hadled to the exploitation ofgroundwater and poisoning ofsoil through excessive use ofchemical fertilisers and pesti-cides. Water is a big issue inPunjab, which is why the Sutlej-

Yamuna Link has been lyingdefunct for the past 40 years.However, Punjab virtuallyexports a huge quantity ofwater in every grain of rice itproduces, meant largely forconsumption by people outsidethe State. That Punjab’s wheatand rice contain the highestconcentration of chemicals isalso a cause for concern. TheGovernment could promotecrop diversification, like culti-vation of pulses and oilseeds,which is likely to fetch higherprofits through the MSP route.

The Supreme Court’s pro-posal of forming a committeehaving representation from theGovernment and farmers’unions raises hope. A good wayto defuse the farmers’ agitationwould be to follow the repealand re-enact principle. Merelyrepealing the three new farmlaws — particularly theFarmers’ Produce Trade andCommerce (Promotion andFacilitation) Act, 2020, andthe Farmers (Empowermentand Protection) Agreement onPrice Assurance and FarmServices Act, 2020 — mightappease the agitating farmers.However, then the much-need-ed reformation in agriculturalmarketing would be left with-out a future roadmap.

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���������������� �Sir — This refers to the editorial‘Stop blockades’ (December 18).The Supreme Court has rightlysaid that the farmers protestingagainst the new farm laws have theconstitutional right but cannotblock a city and destroy propertyor endanger life. But who forcedthese farmers to sit on protest andblock the Capital’s borders?

It is the Central Governmentwhich did not consult them on thelaws, then didn’t listen to theirgrievances, ignored their demandsand dictated its own terms andconditions to try and crush theirprotest. Despite many rounds oftalks between the farmers and theCentre, the dialogue failed everytime due to the rigidness of thelatter. The idea of setting up animpartial and independent com-mittee by the Supreme Court is agood one and both the parties canoffer their sides of the story toresolve the impasse.

But the growers are bentupon protesting until theGovernment repeals all the threelaws. It is time that the SupremeCourt puts a stay on the threelaws and their implementation tillthe issue is completely resolved.

Bhagwan ThadaniMumbai

������������������Sir — I am unable to understandwhy Union Agriculture MinisterNarendra Singh Tomar suddenlychanged his stance? Hardly twodays ago, he sounded egoistic inan interview while saying: “Our(BJP) 303-seat mandate was givento the Government not just to stayin power but to effect change.”

Two days later, his tonechanged when Tomar wrote in aneight-page open letter that thosestopping trains carrying suppliesto soldiers at the borders, especial-ly at a time when the situation inLadakh was “challenging”, cannotbe farmers. It’s nothing but a ployto kill two birds with one stone:Creating anger among the publicagainst the roadblock; and to

create confusion among the farm-ers about its justification.

A convenient argument that ifthere’s a blockade around Delhi, thesupply chains of our forces at theborders will suffer. But have thesefarmers become a threat to nation-al security? Shame on the Centrefor such poor preparedness!

Bidyut Kumar ChatterjeeFaridabad

���������������Sir — The reports that theGovernment is planning to armitself with powers to interfere withthe functioning of the IndianInstitutes of Management (IIMs)are disconcerting as the move canonly harm them.

The HRD Ministry wasapparently provoked to take thisstep after the decision of the IIMsto introduce one-year degreecourse for experienced workingprofessionals. The Ministry wantsto call it a diploma. The worldover, business schools offer a one-year degree course for workingprofessionals. Besides, it is ridicu-lous that the Government consid-ers the terminology of an awarda matter serious enough to betaken up with the IIMs.

It is worse that the issue hasturned into a ground for stand-off and the Ministry threatens tolaunch an inquiry against the IIMBoard. Such an interventionistattitude by the Government isunfortunate and cannot aid thegrowth and development of aca-demic institutions.

Shovanlal ChakrabortyKolkata

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Thinking of Prime Minister Narendra Modias a post-modernist is a little intriguing forintellectuals but a no-brainer for both, his

admirers and detractors. For the former, Modicarries the hopes and aspirations of millions andthere is little that he cannot do, so there is no rea-son why he cannot be a post-modernist. For thedetractors, he epitomises everything that ailsIndia, so it is not a stretch to assign a post-mod-ern dimension to him. Given that the latter grouphas already assigned the choicest of adjectives toModi that establish his limitless power andabsolute control over the Indian body politic, theycannot deny a mere post-modernist tag to him.

That said, Modi’s supposed post-modernitymay evoke surprise and even derision from theintellectual class who, for the first time, see them-selves as powerless and realise that the cliché“speaking truth to power” is just an honourabletrope. For them, the very idea of yoking Modiwith post-modernity is an act of violence and maybe a cruel joke that compromises the emancipa-tory promise of post-modernity and complete-ly de-intellectualises the concept.

In fact, they could imagine this propositionas a game plan to control knowledge. Having beenforced to cede political space to Modi, they hadretired to their comfort zones of universities andNGOs. The possibility of Modi’s post-moderni-ty may appear to them another strategy to robthem of their safe spaces and legitimise him intel-lectually.

Modernisation first: Let me assure them Ihave no such objective and that the presentengagement comes from within the same think-ing class. I would much rather identify the shiftin Modi’s politics that makes his post-moderni-ty an eminently believable idea. Before Modibecame the phenomenon that he is today, he wasa moderniser. After an accidental ascension tothe Chief Minister’s chair, he capitalised on theentrepreneurial community of Gujaratis andchannelised their success to a pan-Indian aspi-ration, to be known as the “Gujarat model”,though critics would still find many contradic-tions within that claim.

In terms of Hindu consolidation against anaggressive Mandalisation of politics and the divi-sion of Hindu society along caste lines, BJP vet-eran leader LK Advani had already sought tounify Hindus through the Ram Mandir agitation.Modi took this unification strategy from Advaniand gave it a developmental idiom. Whether itwas intended to arrest the fragmentation ofHindus for cultural or political reasons is any-body’s guess, but what we can agree on is the factthat Modi went beyond Hindu unity and creat-ed a developmental unity.

As a modernist he was both, disruptive interms of breaking away from traditional politicsand constructive, as in ushering in a new typeof politics that was the beginning of development.His modernity was palpable when he invested hispolitical future in the idea of development as uni-versal with the hope of neutralising particular-ist assertions.

If secularism was the master code of the pre-Modi era, his counter master narrative was devel-opment. The slogan “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas,Sabka Vishwas’’ articulated a new India’s resolvefor the 21st century. This is not to gloss overalleged incidents of atrocities against minoritiesafter his rise as Prime Minister, though they arenot unique to his era. As Chief Minister, Modihad shown his resolve in infrastructure develop-

ment, even by demolishing manyHindu temples in Gujarat’s CapitalGandhinagar.

Modi took upon himself theresponsibility of creating a new polit-ical culture where nationalism is nolonger a bad word and development isthe master legitimator of contemporarypolitics. His rationalisation of develop-ment as the new mantra may be dis-missed as reflective of a post-WorldWar mentality but the fact that Indiacontinues to be underdeveloped is thereason behind Modi’s success as amoderniser. His promotion of women’sempowerment (through the ‘BetiBachao, Beti Padhao’ initiative), moreseats for women candidates in IITs andthe ‘Ujjwala Yojana’ for rural women,among others, created development asthe new universal and legitimateddevelopment as the new catch-all cat-egory of Indian politics. So much sothat all parties reimagined themselvesas development-oriented ones.

The post-modern turn: TheOpposition had understood that tokeep their hopes alive they had toreclaim Backward communities fromModi and bring them to make commoncause with minorities. The fact thatnon-BJP parties had benefitted heavi-ly from this so-called Backward-Dalit-Muslim unity, something which devel-opment started eroding steadily, madethem jittery.

Theirs was a post-modern chal-lenge that survived on dissociatingDalits, OBCs, women, Muslims fromthe modernist project of development.Modi needed a new strategy to reinventhimself and he found one, to beat hiscritics in their own game. His mod-ernist thrust had created a catch-all andall-encompassing category such asdevelopment that appeared to havereplaced politics. Now began Modi’spost-modern politics, not by replacing

his modernist development agendabut by working around it and mediat-ing the universal development throughparticularist identities.

The mistake many intellectualsmake is imagining that Modi and hisparty as intellectually challenged. Theytoo, imagined the strategy of fragmen-tation as the bulwark against Modi’s jug-gernaut (that depended on universalssuch as nationalism and development)and highlighted difference, fragmenta-tion, particularism and so on. If Modispoke of Hindutva, the post-modernimpulse was to highlight caste differ-ence; if he spoke of nationalism, thepost-modern impulse was to offerregional and religious challenge; ifdevelopment promised equal opportu-nity, the post-modern alternative wasto highlight development’s religious andcaste blindness. Modi used their tool offragmentation to fragment further.

Most politicians and intellectualswere convinced that particulars such asDalit or Muslim or Other BackwardClasses (OBC) can never be anotheruniversal, but Modi knew better. Hecriminalised triple talaq and broke theMuslim universal and its inherentpatriarchy, something that had beenavoided by most political parties.

The Mandalisation of politics hadcreated the greatest monolith of OBCsbut Modi knew that OBC is a politicalconstruct and so can be refashioned.More than 50 per cent of the country’spopulation cannot be a monolith andthat it cannot be a cohesive unit. In2018, the Rohini Commission recom-mended splitting of the OBC quota of27 per cent because about 25 per centof the 27 per cent OBC quota is usual-ly gobbled up by around 10 dominantcastes and the remaining 1,000 castesare largely left out. Modi instinctivelyunderstood that these silent groups canbe persuaded to see the irony of OBC

reservation and can be the site of acounter-OBC formation.

He also worked around the creamylayer among the OBCs (mostly thesalaried and middle-class) who are usu-ally vocal about rights. He knew thattheir exclusion from the OBC umbrel-la would dilute the narrative of OBCassertion. So far as Dalit votes are con-cerned, every State has a few dominantcastes (Jatavs, Mahars, Madigasdepending on the region) who are heav-ily politicised to the extent of hijackingthe Dalit movement away from margin-al Dalit communities.

Now Modi and the BJP are active-ly working with these marginalisedcastes and are integrating their practicesin the Hindu cultural sphere. They arealso actively empowering them throughmobilisation at the grassroots level.

Conclusion: Mandal politics hadpoliticised a few dominant castes.Modi is taking it to its logical conclu-sion by breaking the monolith.Similarly, the single voting block ofDalits is over and politicians and intel-lectuals cannot complain against some-thing that they themselves championed.On top of that, Modi’s introduction ofthe Economically Weaker Section quotawas a masterstroke that brought classrather than caste into distributive pol-itics, something Indian communistshad chosen to ignore.

Intellectuals and politicians did nothave the foresight to see the vulnera-bility of their position. In their enthu-siasm, they had forgotten that thoughthe minority/Dalit/OBC difference canthreaten the universal nation, the for-mer is equally vulnerable to contradic-tions within. Modi beat them in theirpost-modern game.

(The writer is Professor, Faculty ofHumanities and Social Sciences, IITMadras and a cultural critic. The viewsexpressed are personal)

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2020-21 came as a relief to all, rais-ing hopes of the much-talked aboutV-shaped recovery. The GrossDomestic Product (GDP) at constant(2011-12) prices in the Q2 of 2020-21 is estimated at �33.14 lakh crore,as against �35.84 lakh crore in the Q2of 2019-20, showing a contraction of7.5 per cent as compared to 4.4 percent growth in the Q2 of 2019-20.This contraction of 7.4 per cent asagainst a contraction of 23.9 per centin Q1 is a tremendous improvement

and at current prices it turns out tobe only four per cent.

Reviewing the macroeconomicand financial developments of thedomestic and global economy as wellas the evolving outlook for theIndian economy, the Monetary PolicyCommittee (MPC) decided to keepthe repo rate unchanged at four percent, the Bank Rate and MarginalStanding Facility Rate (MSF)unchanged at 4.25 per cent and thereverse repo rate at three per cent.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI)inflation at 7.6 per cent in Octoberis higher than the mandated two-sixper cent inflation target. The man-date set in 2016 requires the Centralbank to keep the headline inflationat the mid-point of its range at fourper cent. For most of the year, retailinflation has been outside the ReserveBank of India’s (RBIs) tolerancelimit, mainly due to supply-sidepressures owing to the lockdowns.

The sticky CPI inflation hasprevented the RBI from announcingfurther rate cuts. In the absence of

much direct fiscal support, the RBIdid most of the heavy lifting byreducing rates by a cumulative 115basis points this year and pumpingample liquidity into the system.

The RBI’s flexible inflation target-ing will be up for review after March2021 and some economists think thatthe Central bank should keep awatch on overheating rather than try-ing to keep inflation within a target-ed range. The US Federal Reserve,too, has indicated that it wouldactively seek and tolerate higherinflation in America.

Reviewing the inflation target forthe RBI may give it the much-need-ed leverage as pressure builds on itto do more to revive the economy.The RBI has rendered supportthrough its monetary policy and useda host of unconventional monetarypolicy tools to support theGovernment’s fiscal measures. It hasmade efforts to ensure liquidity insectors with multiplier effects,nudged the bond markets to respondto the signals from the RBI in the

conduct of its monetary policy anddebt management. One of the uncon-ventional monetary policy tools to beadopted by the RBI was the‘Operation Twist.’ This refers to thepurchase of Government securities oflonger maturities and selling of anequal amount of securities of short-er maturities under Open MarketOperations (OMO). The procedureis designed to exert downward pres-sure on longer term interest rates bylowering long-term yields. Besides,measures to enhance liquidity sup-port to targeted sectors, it has beentaking initiatives to deepen the finan-cial markets, conserve capital amongbanks and NBFCs through regulato-ry support, strengthen supervisionthrough strengthening audit func-tion, ease external trade and expandfinancial inclusion.

Going forward, the primary chal-lenge for the Central bank is goingto be dealing with sticky inflationwhile its eye is firmly set on therecovery of the economy. In theDecember 3 Monetary Policy, the

RBI pegged CPI inflation at 6.8 percent for Q3 of 2020-21 and to 5.8 percent for Q4. These projections wereowing to the likely persistence of foodprices at elevated levels and cost-pushpressures on core inflation.

Apart from some cheer comingin with the Q2 GDP figures, there isa fear about the uncertainty of themacroeconomic conditions and thefact that the current upturn may beonly due to the pent-up demand, thefestival season and initial easing ofthe supply chain.

The results of the ConsumerConfidence Survey by the RBI alsoshowed that consumer confidenceremained very low in November ascompared to a year ago. However, itshowed marginal improvement fromits all-time low recorded in the pre-vious cycle (September).

Low consumer confidence isreflective of the people’s insecuritiesregarding the job scenario, employ-ment levels, household incomes andeconomic recovery in the country.However, the households remain

optimistic about the scenario oneyear ahead as reflected by the FutureExpectations Index. Hence, manag-ing inflation is critical to sustainingthe growth stimulus spurred by thepolicy stimuli of the Government andthe Central bank.

Till now, the RBI’s efforts for liq-uidity injection as a response to theCOVID-19 pandemic and to supportthe Government’s fiscal responsibil-ity, have achieved their purpose, asassessed by the it.

Liquidity influx with ForeignPortfolio Investment and ForeignDirect Investment has been high andthe RBI has been sterilising themwith reverse repo operations. Goingforward, the Central bank needs toadopt a cautious approach as far asmonitoring inflation and pushing forgrowth are concerned. It should beready to do the balancing act.

(The writer is Joint Director, theNational Institute of LabourEconomics Research andDevelopment, Niti Aayog. The viewsexpressed are personal.)

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ONGC 101.35 102.2 98.15 98.95ZEEL 227 230.65 216.8 225.3TATAMOTORS 181.1 181.45 176.7 180.5SBIN 267.7 271.9 264.9 271.4IBULHSGFIN 205.15 209.7 197.55 203.55HINDUNILVR 2321.15 2344 2313 2331.7PNB 37.2 37.2 35.7 36.55JUBLFOOD 2834 2879.65 2740.95 2757.45CANBK 125.25 126 118.55 121.7BEL 121.85 122.65 118.55 121.2TECHM 933 947 929 933.35CIPLA 785 795.7 781.5 793.9ITC 212.9 215.95 209.75 214.5KOTAKBANK 1965 1965 1921.85 1949.05TATAPOWER 75.25 76.45 73.6 76.15IRCTC 1428.95 1455.8 1410 1424.35RBLBANK 236.9 237.05 226 227.45SAIL 57.6 58.35 56.4 57.8VEDL 147 150.05 143 147.35PAGEIND 27298 28420.9 26960.528119.95BAJAJFINSV 9250 9309.2 9128.95 9212.95TITAN 1515 1525.3 1497.4 1520.6BHEL 35.85 36.15 34.55 35.85BEML 901.8 945.3 885.6 910AFFLE 3972.95 3999.95 3761.3 3780.25WIPRO 359.65 365.6 357.7 363.5MINDTREE 1460 1484.9 1437.7 1471.8BAJAJ-AUTO 3266 3363.45 3266 3348.65BANKBARODA 63.85 64.3 62 63.1JINDALSTEL 279.7 280.95 270.45 272COALINDIA 143.45 144.95 139.5 141.7PFIZER 5268.15 5268.15 5175 5200.6SUNPHARMA 577.35 577.35 568 575.25DLF 234.4 234.4 228.45 231.35NATIONALUM 43.5 43.9 42.15 43.7BPCL 398.95 399 389.5 394APOLLOTYRE 197.55 198.4 189.7 191.45ASHOKLEY 99.5 99.9 96.8 98.2SUZLON 4.95 4.95 4.53 4.9MOTHERSUMI 158.95 159.2 153 157.45TATACHEM 491 498.7 487.5 489.7BHARTIARTL 514.9 514.9 505.3 510.6AMBUJACEM 246.7 252.15 246.3 251DIVISLAB 3843.95 3857.7 3781.35 3830.85FEDERALBNK 67.45 67.65 65.25 66.35INDIGO 1640 1684.45 1638.7 1650.8ESCORTS 1330.7 1343 1317.85 1338M&M 731.8 737.85 723 732.05BHARATFORG 562.7 562.85 546.1 553.8L&TFH 92.5 92.5 89.15 91.35LICHSGFIN 378.9 379.6 367.2 370.55BIOCON 461 473 460.2 471.5HAVELLS 910 928.6 907 919.35SRTRANSFIN 1055 1061.25 1016.5 1031LTI 3309.8 3400 3309.8 3341.1NAM-INDIA 314.95 315.4 304.7 307.1

GAIL 124.2 125.3 121.3 125.05ADANIPORTS 467.85 472.75 458.5 463.1PEL 1449 1461.55 1419.25 1442HAWKINCOOK 5178 5700 5145.1 5671.05JUSTDIAL 651 678.8 645.7 652.25PIIND 2280 2360.35 2247 2296.1HINDCOPPER 64.6 67.3 61.4 63.85MUTHOOTFIN 1216 1227.4 1199.95 1210.05SPICEJET 103.1 105.1 101.15 101.6EICHERMOT 2470 2484.8 2425.55 2478.35HINDPETRO* 226 226.6 222.4 223.9HEROMOTOCO 3121 3145 3105.05 3136.8MRF 77950 78219.6 76622.95 77610BANDHANBNK 405 413.8 404.3 409.05JSWSTEEL 368.65 368.65 357.75 363.55IDFCFIRSTB 37.45 37.5 36.2 36.95LUPIN 972 977 955.9 972SRF 5577 5610.1 5485 5529.45DEEPAKNI 940.2 943.85 909.55 922.85M&MFIN 177.7 178 173.5 175.95SUNTV 500.75 500.75 478.55 483.5IPCALAB 2180 2246 2144.4 2232.5PVR 1404 1440 1385.65 1434NESTLEIND 18394 18600 1819018347.25UPL 455 461.95 454.1 460.3COFORGE 2528 2623.2 2528 2556.55ADANIENT 461.8 464.45 451 455.3DMART 2579.8 2650.05 2555.5 2638.6DABUR 511.55 513.6 503.2 509.15VAKRANGEE 55.65 57.85 54.6 57.3ULTRACEMCO 5178 5213.5 5117.05 5141.95NTPC 104.7 104.95 102.85 103.7NAUKRI 4600 4670 4560.15 4645.15GRANULES 378.2 379.95 368.2 369.55HEG 900 929.7 885.2 922.85RAYMOND 362.3 362.3 345 353.6CUMMINSIND 589.25 615.75 584.85 612.1DCBBANK 122.7 124.35 113.95 119.45TATACONSUM 579.7 582.2 567.45 572.4ADANIPOWER 46.8 47.6 45.1 47.35APOLLOHOSP 2424 2425.5 2367.4 2387.15VOLTAS 830 836.7 819.25 828.5MANAPPURAM 175.1 175.45 170.8 174.15LAURUSLABS 344.5 355.5 334.9 354.05ACC 1644.4 1654.55 1626 1650.3BERGEPAINT 713.95 719.95 704.7 708.3BATAINDIA 1592 1600 1576.95 1583.2INDIAMART 5880 6151 5817.6 6095.05NMDC 115.6 116 113.25 115.5SCI 85.2 87.15 82.55 86.55JKPAPER 108.8 112 105.15 110.55AUROPHARMA 874.35 888.7 863 886.9DIXON 13850 13906.95 13285.8 13345.6MGL 1036 1056.2 1026.5 1042.5NAVINFLUOR 2561 2625 2511.2 2620.85GUJALKALI 350.5 374.75 341.35 368.3KNRCON 320.5 346.95 317.1 326.3RECLTD 136.95 138.85 134.85 137GRAPHITE 300 307.85 294.25 304.3HDFCAMC 2857.05 2899 2838.6 2861.55AARTIDRUGS 752.5 769.5 740 741.85PETRONET 259.5 261.9 255.3 257.45TRIDENT 9.7 9.75 9.19 9.4HDFCLIFE 657 657.1 639.9 654.05NCC 57.6 57.6 56.05 56.45BALKRISIND 1637.15 1650.8 1606.05 1613.2AMARAJABAT 940 959.45 937.75 955.45AARTIIND 1229 1268.4 1205.25 1217.7TORNTPHARM 2761 2814 2719.85 2775.3GLENMARK 521.4 522.8 506.9 516.05CADILAHC 478 479.25 470 476.35KPITTECH 111.6 121.4 110.5 119.55SBICARD 847 849.2 834.25 841.5GRASIM 920 920 902.3 910ATUL 6159 6300 6100 6287PFC 117.25 119.4 115.7 117.3BLISSGVS 178 178 172.2 175.75BOMDYEING 80.95 80.95 77.55 78.9TATAELXSI 1633 1662.7 1630 1634.4ADANIGREEN 1040.05 1058 1002 1016.15ALOKTEXT 23 23.35 22.55 22.65BRITANNIA 3759 3759.2 3691.55 3722.3GODREJPROP 1365 1380.95 1343 1371.7BIRLACORPN 724 729.7 713 723.55EXIDEIND 191.75 192.75 187.95 190.25SIEMENS 1523.5 1556.45 1522.8 1538CROMPTON 375 387.05 361.55 375DELTACORP 166.65 166.65 160.2 163.05IGL 480.1 481.7 471.7 477.05DCMSHRIRAM 388 440.9 382.1 426MARICO 414 418.5 407.2 408.95HAL 870 878.6 855.6 864.1RADICO 463.6 475 453.4 457.25CHOLAFIN 377 377.6 362.8 375.35DCAL 147 153.85 147 150.15IBREALEST 75 75.75 72 73.05POWERGRID 193.35 194.85 192.2 193.15ORIENTCEM 83.9 89.4 83 86.5UNIONBANK 31.85 31.85 30.75 31.1WHIRLPOOL 2190 2329.95 2162 2264TRENT 705 709 696 698.55CENTRALBK 14.2 14.25 13.5 13.71GMRINFRA 27.3 27.7 26.65 26.85AVANTI 540 553 529 548.6INOXLEISUR 283.95 284.95 275.05 281.5BOSCHLTD 13375 13420 13160 13208.3STAR 761 792.9 761 778.2COLPAL 1601.05 1624.1 1588 1599.45JKTYRE 76.7 77 72.1 73.7

INDUSTOWER 241.9 244.1 229.95 232HFCL 24.5 24.5 23.25 24.3ABB 1240.05 1260 1204.3 1245.8CENTURYTEX 393.3 402 388.95 396.4RELAXO 764.3 795.55 756 787.35SUNTECK 324.6 338 319.85 330.6RAIN 131.6 132.25 126.15 127.35ADANIGAS 364.8 364.8 353.4 361.8CGCL 295 295.15 288.75 292.55MPHASIS 1358 1397 1343 1363.8ABBOTINDIA 16200 16273.05 15925 16166ENGINERSIN 76.8 77.65 74.6 77.1IDFC 40.05 40.4 38.75 39.25INDIANB 90.5 91.45 86.5 87.4RVNL 24.1 24.4 23.25 23.7TV18BRDCST 32.6 32.6 31.05 32.15ITDC 303.5 308.4 265.8 284.55CONCOR 413 413 398.45 405.25SYNGENE 618 618.2 606.05 609TVSMOTOR 492 494.5 483.15 489.8APLLTD 1127.25 1150 1098 1107NBCC 31.3 31.3 29.75 30.4SHREECEM 24485.65 24721.65 24368.1524571.55INDIACEM 149.5 150.1 143 148EMAMILTD 424 426.7 411 419.1SOUTHBANK 9.1 9.14 8.7 8.96NOCIL 150.5 150.5 144.3 147.05UBL 1137 1162.5 1123.8 1135.45METROPOLIS 1901 1950 1866.5 1875.95SJVN 25.75 26.8 25.45 26.3ABCAPITAL 89.65 90.15 87.45 89KAJARIACER 693.8 705.3 693.8 700POLYCAB 1049 1054.85 1031.85 1039.5ICICIGI 1460 1486.6 1448.05 1463.75HSCL 46.05 46.55 44.25 44.85WOCKPHARMA 518.3 521.35 506.85 509.25THYROCARE 980 983.3 955 960GODFRYPHLP 1000 1004.7 985 990.25ITI 130.2 133.5 128.95 131.1TATAMTRDVR 76.35 76.35 74.05 75.65DISHTV 14 14.7 13.23 14.15GMM 3700 3737 3672.75 3715.2BAJAJELEC 608.25 637.5 597.3 632.75RITES 277 278.55 269.7 270.95TORNTPOWER 325.5 330.4 323 329.4BALMLAWRIE 119 123.25 116.1 120.25WELCORP 135.95 136.1 129.75 131.4AMBER 2353 2377.1 2307.9 2355.9NHPC 23 23.2 22.5 22.6INDHOTEL 129.4 129.95 126.85 127.85IFBIND 1065.05 1125.85 1045.3 1086.55PERSISTENT 1310.05 1342.2 1287.1 1299.75MEGH 80.8 82.25 78.55 81.05ALLCARGO 133.85 142.9 131 140.75JSL 71.4 72.6 68.55 71GLAXO 1600 1617.35 1589.4 1612EPL 262.7 270.15 259 260.75SBILIFE 865.95 865.95 853.5 858.35GESHIP 281.75 283.15 265.1 268.1SWANENERGY 134.35 135.7 129.6 130.8SHILPAMED 468.65 482 455 457.4CYIENT 545 545 524.5 526.2GUJGAS 363 369 361.65 365.05GNFC 242.8 243.7 235.8 240.7TATACOMM 1043.7 1043.7 990 999.05ISEC 463 463 442.5 452SHK 112 118 108 116HUDCO 41.9 41.95 40.45 40.85CHALET 195.1 197.25 190.05 195OBEROIRLTY 557.05 557.05 533 536.65COCHINSHIP 368 374 362.15 369.35BDL 346.05 347.25 340.1 341.8FSL 78.75 79.6 77.1 77.45IFCI 9.43 9.43 8.85 8.98BANKINDIA 50.5 50.6 48.95 49.65MIDHANI 211.6 212 205.5 206.9GODREJAGRO 560 565.85 552.05 557.45LALPATHLAB 2186.75 2195 2155.55 2180.1GSPL 226.35 226.6 215 217.9GREAVESCOT 85.5 86.7 84.1 85.75TATAMETALI 609 618.4 602.65 609.5TNPL 120 125.5 118.25 124.35RAJESHEXPO 490 494 477.4 489HIMATSEIDE 143.5 151.3 138.4 144.2WELSPUNIND 76.35 76.35 72.5 73.35FORTIS 155.15 161.6 153.2 158.55OIL 114.5 114.5 108.1 109.1RCF 56.05 56.4 54.35 55.15EIHOTEL 100 100 95.4 96.55JSWENERGY 68.5 70.4 66.5 68.95GODREJCP 722 724.95 714 719.75FCONSUMER 8.6 8.69 8.45 8.6ASTRAL 1460 1510 1459.85 1501.15CUB 184.25 185.65 179 180.25COROMANDEL 805 805 774.85 782.5NATCOPHARM 954.7 954.7 918.6 945.8JAICORPLTD 97.5 97.5 94.5 95.35PCJEWELLER 24 24.35 23.1 23.9PHILIPCARB 166 166 160.1 161.15MCX 1711.85 1722 1692.05 1704UJJIVANSFB 39.8 40.2 39.05 39.3CEATLTD 1134.95 1170 1103 1115.9JUBILANT 795 795 769.05 772.95CAPPL 510 514 498.6 503CASTROLIND 128.9 128.9 125.45 126.4IDBI 41.8 41.8 40 40.5SUNDRMFAST 550 585 536 567PTC 61.4 61.6 60 60.65IIFL 116.4 118.75 113.85 116.5

BAJAJCON 219 223.7 212.05 214.35ASTRAZEN 4398.75 4404 4335 4343.1GRSE 209 209 199.4 201MINDACORP 92.8 93.9 90.05 92.05ADANITRANS 428 428.4 421.15 425UJJIVAN 290.55 291.8 283 286.3KEI 487 492.4 468.1 482.45CENTURYPLY 231.45 238.7 229.7 233.45JMFINANCIL 89.5 89.7 86.5 87ALKEM 2936.7 2965.4 2907.65 2963FRETAIL 78.9 79 77.55 77.8BBTC 1324 1332.75 1291.75 1296.75SOMANYCERA 319 347 319 329.9PGHL 6900 7030 6789.3 6806.25APLAPOLLO 791.85 791.9 750 769.8KTKBANK 58 58.2 56.15 56.8WABAG 210 213.35 202.5 206.3GMDCLTD 55.4 55.4 52.6 53.95HEIDELBERG 217 217 203.8 206CANFINHOME 487.7 493.2 481.4 490.6SANOFI 7971.3 8006.55 7925 7987.1NIACL 131.75 133.7 127.9 133.1OFSS 3159.35 3190.6 3110 3171.95SUDARSCHEM 483 489.65 475.05 484.5AJANTPHARM 1688 1688 1631.8 1646.05ARVINDFASN 160 162 155.1 156.75ASHOKA 91.25 91.75 88.35 89.9PRESTIGE 272.35 279.9 272.35 276.4SPARC 187.4 187.55 182.75 186.15SUVENPHAR 419.65 427 402.8 413.1AAVAS 1700 1719 1608 1657.3EQUITAS 69.4 70.65 67.35 70.25JKCEMENT 1950 1950 1856 1879.5SUPREMEIND 1725 1747 1702.5 1735.95VARROC 365.55 391.8 365.55 377SYMPHONY 930.55 957.4 912.85 937.1VBL 998 998 952.5 967.65FINEORG 2499.95 2519.65 2471.75 2495.25NETWORK18 38.05 38.5 36.8 37.9TCIEXP 900.05 945.15 899 944.3ZENSARTECH 234.5 246 234.5 237.8ZYDUSWELL 1951.7 1969.95 1899 1935.05PNBHOUSING 372.3 375.4 363.2 366SONATSOFTW 370 372.95 359 369.1GSFC 76.2 76.5 73.8 74.7WESTLIFE 426.55 444.7 421.45 429.9TCNSBRANDS 496.9 510.3 468.9 483.15J&KBANK 23.99 23.99 22.62 23.38BALRAMCHIN 179 179 173 173.75RALLIS 288.7 290 282 283.7SOBHA 340.5 340.5 326.5 334.15THERMAX 974.95 974.95 912.7 919.43MINDIA 22675 22856.7 21800.621953.75BAYERCROP 5337.5 5381.95 5219.65 5257.45PARAGMILK 118.7 118.95 115.15 116.25VGUARD 194.65 195.3 190.25 193.55ABFRL 165.3 165.3 159.1 159.75CHENNPETRO 115.35 115.35 106.7 109.05ALKYLAMINE 3826 3872 3800 3852.95MAHABANK 13.5 13.72 13 13.38MRPL 36 36 34.75 35ESABINDIA 1850 1975 1790 1903.2KPRMILL 915.05 942.3 911.4 925FORCEMOT 1418.75 1420.95 1370.7 1396IRCON 90.2 90.2 87.55 88JCHAC 2221 2237.75 2080 2191.95CHAMBLFERT 228.5 231.35 221 221UFLEX 397 399 384.55 385STLTECH 167.85 167.85 160.7 162.2MMTC 25.1 25.4 23.9 24.2EIDPARRY 340.9 341.9 335.85 337.9MOIL 147 148 142.4 144.25NLCINDIA 57 57.05 54.8 55.55ERIS 574.9 574.9 550 567GILLETTE 5998.95 5998.95 5785 5791.1FLUOROCHEM 585.6 595 579 589.8SUMICHEM 312 312 300.25 304.45SCHNEIDER 87.5 88.9 85 86.55HATHWAY 33.2 33.75 31.25 32.3VRLLOG 208 208 197 199.75GODREJIND 468.1 473.3 440 448.45GHCL 204.6 204.6 198.1 198.95GEPIL 305.45 307.75 290 295.8ENDURANCE 1234 1234 1192 1203.5JAMNAAUTO 58.9 58.9 54.75 56.75SOLARINDS 1115 1115 1057.45 1063.45HONAUT 32418 32949.75 32078 32900JBCHEPHARM 1075 1075 1050 1064.5IRB 113.4 113.5 107.6 110.55BLUESTARCO 783.8 787.95 774.2 775JKLAKSHMI 346.5 346.5 339.35 340.3TIMKEN 1094.75 1154.7 1092 1153.8ADVENZYMES 348.65 348.65 337.8 341.25LAOPALA 236.95 238.65 228.75 234.2PNCINFRA 174 176.65 170.55 170.95JSLHISAR 133.2 141 133.2 139.4JTEKTINDIA 87.8 93.35 84.5 92.15HINDZINC 241.95 244.45 239.6 241.75FINCABLES 359 360.85 347.85 357.2SWSOLAR 266.4 267.55 251.6 254.2TATACOFFEE 110 110.05 107.75 108.5BAJAJHLDNG 3120 3124.4 3052.1 3091.4DALBHARAT 1048.25 1085.9 1048.25 1075.95POWERINDIA 1324.4 1354.95 1280.25 1300NBVENTURES 60 60 56.65 58VMART 2380 2443.9 2371 2425.35IEX 220.5 220.5 214.4 218GICRE 147.6 147.6 141.6 142.65KANSAINER 554.95 563.7 550 550

LINDEINDIA 925.8 951.55 914.05 938.45EDELWEISS 73.9 73.9 72.05 72.95CHOLAHLDNG 531.95 546.5 530 540.55FDC 349.95 349.95 340.8 345.65NESCO 538 546.95 533.55 539.1AIAENG 2023.3 2061 1990 2028.6FINOLEXIND 623 639.25 621 633.75RAMCOCEM 841 848.05 835.8 837.5JINDALSAW 77.35 77.35 74.65 76.15NAVNETEDUL 86.7 87.05 83.5 84VIPIND 364.8 364.95 356.95 360.7TVSSRICHAK 1961.35 2001.95 1910.25 1923.75LAXMIMACH 4843 4884 4750 4801VINATIORGA 1180 1180 1134.65 1169.1UCOBANK 13.05 13.05 12.61 12.77IOB 11.1 11.2 10.84 11.01CREDITACC 818 822 804.7 808.25CARERATING 535.1 535.5 521.5 523SHOPERSTOP 225 225 209.15 210CARBORUNIV 384.15 387.5 377.8 380TATAINVEST 1010 1012.65 995.1 1000.3VENKYS 1689 1689 1671.1 1679.25MASFIN 1005 1010 980.65 991.1STARCEMENT 91.95 92 89.65 90.75LUXIND 1601.35 1632 1590.25 1621.6ORIENTELEC 230.05 232.5 225.4 230.6KEC 371 374.95 366.05 370.1KALPATPOWR 320.35 320.35 311.6 313.7CESC 617 617 603.6 609JAGRAN 44.35 44.75 42.7 43.15MAHSCOOTER 3899.85 3899.85 3800.55 3841.2DEEPAKFERT 164.95 164.95 161.5 163KRBL 247.5 249.1 245.55 249SIS 478 478 453.3 464.85GALAXYSURF 2002.95 2009.45 1953.65 1970.1SPANDANA 727.3 730.6 705.6 720.9CSBBANK 221.95 226 218 223.6SFL 1710 1710 1611.1 1618.6VTL 1013.6 1038 992.05 1033.8GDL 123 124 117.05 122MINDAIND 384 398 378.6 398BLUEDART 3850.05 3920 3815.1 3868INDOCO 273.3 273.35 265.5 271.4JYOTHYLAB 145.5 145.5 141.4 143.05REPCOHOME 253.2 253.2 246.05 249.25ECLERX 815.1 815.9 793.8 797.4DBL 396 401 387.6 398.45BRIGADE 249.95 254 236 240.35TIMETECHNO 47.2 49.1 47.2 48NH 418 425.45 410 417.15CCL 269.95 269.95 263.25 266.25PHOENIXLTD 769.15 775.65 761.2 761.2DHANUKA 740.1 745 732.95 745AEGISLOG 244.9 246.8 237.5 245.6KSB 636 636.85 616.95 633.85SUPRAJIT 199.35 200.85 196.6 197.55GPPL 91.7 94.1 90.25 93.5VAIBHAVGBL 2184.45 2184.45 2135 2168DBCORP 87 87.2 85.5 85.8REDINGTON 134.15 135.05 132.5 133.9HERITGFOOD 308.5 314.2 304 305ASTERDM 167 171.5 163.25 167.45BASF 1647.75 1657 1621 1630.8CRISIL 1903.45 1910 1891.5 1910

INDOSTAR 338 338.6 327.65 337.25TVTODAY 220 228.9 213.1 224MOTILALOFS 636 638.75 626 630.45QUESS 482 482.05 476 478PRSMJOHNSN 92.1 92.1 88.45 88.85MAHLOG 406.4 420.95 405.15 414TEAMLEASE 2578.4 2578.4 2516.05 2545.4AKZOINDIA 2280 2286.7 2234.55 2256NILKAMAL 1423.8 1450 1415.5 1435.6SKFINDIA 1664.05 1679.6 1662.6 1678TIINDIA 824.8 824.8 805.2 815.15GULFOILLUB 751.95 756.65 742.55 747.15MAHLIFE 343 344.6 335.2 336.05PGHH 11172 11172 10995.4 10995.4RATNAMANI 1590 1590 1549.25 1558.25MAHSEAMLES 315.6 319.95 305.85 316.45MHRIL 206.45 208.2 201.8 206IIFLWAM 1028.5 1062.45 1012.55 1043.85VSTIND 3820 3835.75 3788.55 3795.2ORIENTREF 226.05 226.95 222.3 225.5CERA 3377.35 3400 3349.75 3375GARFIBRES 2208.35 2216.75 2175 2199TTKPRESTIG 5888.8 5888.8 5747 5819.45SHRIRAMCIT 1056.55 1088.05 1040 1051.9TASTYBIT 11119.6 11359.8 11119.6 11359.8SCHAEFFLER 4299 4299 4232.35 4264.9WABCOINDIA 5666.2 5700 5602.6 5665GRINDWELL 658 660.35 645.75 656OMAXE 86.6 86.6 84 84.15

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Markets darted up to freshpeaks on Friday, capping

off a stellar week where equitybenchmarks closed at recordhighs every session on unabat-ed foreign fund inflows.

After opening at its life-time intra-day high of47,026.02, the 30-share BSESensex succumbed to sellingpressure but rebounded in fag-end trade to finish at a record46,960.69, up 70.35 points or0.15 per cent.

Similarly, the broader NSENifty rose 19.85 points or 0.14per cent to 13,760.55 -- its newclosing record.

IT stocks hogged the lime-light as better-than-expectedresults from Accenture Plcenthused investors.

Infosys was the top gain-er in the Sensex pack, jumping2.64 per cent, followed by BajajAuto, SBI, ICICI Bank, HCLTech, Titan, Asian Paints andTCS.

On the other hand,IndusInd Bank, ONGC, HDFCBank, Maruti, Bajaj Finservand Bharti Airtel were amongthe main losers, skidding up to3.30 per cent.

During the week, theSensex rallied 861.68 points or1.86 per cent, while the Niftysurged 246.70 points or 1.82per cent.

Continuing their buyingspree, foreign portfolioinvestors (FPIs) purchasedshares worth a net Rs 2,355.25crore on Thursday, accordingto provisional exchange data.

FPIs have been net buyersin the domestic capital marketsin each session this month sofar, following record inflows ofRs 60,358 crore in November.

“Domestic equities recov-ered from today’s low in tan-dem with recovery in bankingstocks. IT index was top per-former today with strong buy-ing in many IT counters due tostrong performance and upbeatcommentary from Accenture.

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The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) said its Central Board

on Friday reviewed the currenteconomic situation in the back-drop of global and domesticchallenges.

The Central Board metunder the chairmanship ofGovernor Shaktikanta Dasthrough video conferencing. Itwas the 586th meeting of theCentral Board.

“The Board reviewed thecurrent economic situation inthe backdrop of global anddomestic challenges and vari-ous areas of operations of theReserve Bank including thecustomer education initiativesand resolution of customercomplaints,” it said in a state-ment.

The Central Board alsodiscussed the draft report ontrend and progress of bankingin India, 2019-20.

It also noted the change inthe central bank’s financialyear from July-June to April-March and the changes in theunit of presentation from mil-lions / billions to lakhs / crores.

Besides the deputy gover-nors, directors of the board NChandrasekaran, Ashok Gulati,Manish Sabharwal, PrasannaKumar Mohanty, Dilip SShanghvi, Satish K Marathe, SGurumurthy and Revathy Iyerattended the meeting.

Tarun Bajaj, secretary,Department of EconomicAffairs and Debasish Panda,secretary, Department ofFinancial Services, also attend-ed the meeting.

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Food Minister Piyush Goyalon Friday said the govern-

ment cannot reduce the FRP,the minimum price at whichsugar mills buy cane fromfarmers, and asked the indus-try to be efficient, profitableand diversify product portfoliowith less dependency on thecentral subsidy.

Addressing the 86th annu-al general meeting (AGM) ofindustry body ISMA, Goyal,who is also the railway andcommerce minister, said thegovernment’s decision to pro-vide Rs 3,500 crore subsidy forexports of 60 lakh tonnes ofsugar in the current marketingyear 2020-21 (October-September) will help in liqui-dating surplus sugar stocks.

On the industry’s demandthat the sugarcane purchaseprice be linked with sugarprice realisation, he said it isnot practical to reduce the fairand remunerative price (FRP)and told the industry leaders toproduce more ethanol as well

as other bye-products to boosttheir income.

“Let’s be practical about it.We cannot reduce the FRP. It’san institutional mechanismgoing on for several years,” hesaid.Goyal also expressed con-cern about some mills beingprofitable and others in badshape and asked the IndianSugar Mills Association(ISMA) to undertake a gapstudy to make mills efficientand competitive. He said aholistic assessment should bemade to find a sustainablesolution, which is workableand make industry efficient aswell as profitable with “least

stress” on the government’ssubsidy. On the government’sdecision to give a subsidy of Rs3,500 crore to sugar mills forthe export of 60 lakh tonnes ofthe sweetener during the ongo-ing marketing year 2020-21, theminister said this will “givesome comfort to industry indisposing surplus sugar stocks”.He said the sugar output isexpected to rise 20 per cent inthe current marketing year.

Goyal said the food min-istry will also soon clear thesubsidy worth Rs 5,361 crore ofprevious marketing year, tomills pertaining to exports andethanol programme.

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Mumbai:The rupee appreci-ated by 3 paise to close at73.56 against the US dollar onFriday amid sustained foreignfund inflows and positivedomestic equities. Traderssaid weakness in theAmerican currency in theoverseas market supportedthe domestic unit. At theinterbank forex market, thelocal unit opened at 73.55against the greenback andwitnessed an intra-day highof 73.49 and a low of 73.57.It finally ended at 73.56against the American cur-rency, registering a rise of 3paise over its previous close.On Thursday, the rupee set-tled flat at 73.59 against USdollar.

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Corporate India has invest-ed USD 12.25 billion over-

seas during the first eightmonths of the current fiscal,

most of which has gone into thefirms’ wholly-owned sub-sidiaries in the US, Singaporeor the Netherlands, accordingto data collated by CareRatings. In the whole of FY20,

total foreign direct investment(FDI) by domestic companieswas USD 13 billion, while FDIinflows had hit a record USD76 billion, according to the rat-ings agency.

Of the total USD 12.25 bil-lion outward FDI during April-November this fiscal, the actu-al outflow was USD 6.35 bil-lion, of which USD 2.97 billionwas through equities and USD

3.38 billion in loan commit-ments and the balance USD5.90 billion was in the form ofguarantees, the agency saidquoting RBI data. As againstthis, during the first five

months of the current fiscal,total FDI inflows rose to USD35.73 billion, the highest-everfor the period, and 13 per centhigher than same period inFY20 when it stood at USD

31.60 billion. This was pri-marily driven by the string ofdeals that Reliance Industriesclinched for its telecom andretail arms. For the full FY20,inflows stood at USD 76 billion,

which after adjusting for repa-triation of around USD18 bil-lion, meant USD 56 billion offoreign direct investment,which was the highest achievedon record.

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Little Rock (US): One in veryfive state and federal prisonersin the United States has testedpositive for the coronavirus, arate more than four timeshigher than the general popu-lation.

As the pandemic enters its

10th month — and as the firstAmericans begin to receive along-awaited Covid-19 vaccine— at least 2,75,000 prisonershave been infected, more than1,700 have died and the spreadof the virus behind bars showsno sign of slowing. AP

Kabul: A bomb rigged to a rick-shaw killed at least 15 childrenand wounded 20 others in aTaliban-controlled area in east-ern Afghanistan on Friday, aprovincial official said, as vio-lence in the war-weary countrycontinued to surge.

The bomb went off after aman driving a motorised rick-shaw entered a village in theGilan district to sell goods andwas soon surrounded by kids,according to WahidullahJumazada, spokesman for theGhazni provincial Governor.

He said the casualty tollcould rise further. No one

immediately claimed responsi-bility for the attack andJumazada said an investigationwas underway into why childrenwere targeted.

However, Talibanspokesman Zabihullah Mujahidsent a message to the mediaclaiming that the explosion wascaused by the remains of unex-ploded ordinance in the area,which the children had alleged-ly picked up and brought to themerchant.

Mujahid gave a lower deathtoll, saying 12 children werekilled.

The conflicting reports

could not be reconciled as thearea is under Taliban control andoff limits to reporters.

Violence in Afghanistan hasspiked in recent months even asthe Taliban and Afghan gov-ernment negotiators hold talksin Qatar, trying to hammer outa peace deal that could put anend to decades of war.

Earlier this week, US Gen.Mark Milley, the chairman of theUS Joint Chiefs of Staff, held anunannounced meeting withTaliban leaders in Doha, Qatar,to discuss military aspects of lastFebruary’s US-Taliban agree-ment. The agreement, signed in

Qatar where the Taliban main-tain a political office, was intend-ed to set the stage for directpeace talks between the Talibanand the Afghan government.

It also provided for thewithdrawal of US and NATOtroops from Afghanistan.President Donald Trump hasordered the reduction of U.S.Forces in Afghanistan from4,500 to 2,500 by January 15, justdays before President-elect JoeBiden is to be sworn in asTrump’s successor. The trooplevels are now at about 4,000 andare expected to reach the 2,500target on time. AP

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About 100 teenagers ralliedin northern France on

Friday to pay homage to atransgender student who killedherself this week after facingtensions with school officialsaround her gender identity.

The case has drawn indigna-tion on social media.

The students held a sit-inand a moment of silence out-side the entrance to the FenelonHigh School in Lille as schoolstarted Friday, expressing theiranger and distress at the suicideof their classmate Fouad.

Brussels: More than 10,000elderly people living in Belgianrest homes have died fromCovid-19 since the start of thecoronavirus pandemic.

Yves Van Laethem, aspokesman at Belgium’s coro-navirus crisis center, told anews conference on Fridaythat the death of 10,270 resthome residents accounts for 56percent of all the victims.

In a report published lastmonth, Amnesty Internationalsaid Belgian authorities “aban-doned” thousands of elderlypeople who died in nursinghomes and did not seek hos-pital treatment for many whowere infected, violating theirhuman rights.

One of the hardest-hitcountries in Europe, Belgiumhas reported more than618,000 confirmed virus casesand 18,371 deaths linked to thecoronavirus. During the firstwave of the epidemic lastspring, the European nation of11.5 million people recorded amajority of its Covid-19-relat-ed deaths in nursing homes.Van Laethem said the situationhas improved, but remains“precarious and difficult.” AP

Katsina: More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped last week in anattack on their school in northwest Nigeria have arrived in thecapital of Katsina state in celebration of their release.

The boys were abducted one week ago from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School inKankara in Katsina state village.

Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadist rebels claimed responsibilityfor the abduction, saying they attacked the school because itbelieves Western education is un-Islamic, factional leaderAbubakar Shekau said in a video earlier this week.

More than 800 students were at the school at the time of theattack. Hundreds escaped, but it was believed that more than 330were abducted by the attackers.

The boys met Friday with Katsina Governor Aminu BelloMasari, who said late Thursday that the kidnappers hadreleased 344 students and turned them over to security offi-cials. The government had said it was negotiating with theattackers. The governor told The Associated Press that nomoney was paid for the boys’ release, though it wasn’t clearif other negotiations were made. The boys will have physi-cal examinations before being reunited with their families,he said. AP

Washington: CongressmanCedric Richmond, a closeadviser to President-elect JoeBiden, has tested positive forthe coronavirus, accordingto the transition team.

He developed symptomson Wednesday and took arapid test which came outposit ive, Transit ionSpokeswoman KateBedingfield said on Thursday.

Richmond, 47, has beennamed as the White HouseSenior Adviser and Directorof the Off ice of PublicEngagement in the incomingBiden administration.

“Richmond was not inclose contact, as defined bythe CDC (Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention),with the President-elect.President-elect Biden under-went PCR test ing forCOVID-19 today andCOVID-19 was not detected,”B edingf ie ld said. OnDecember 15, Richmondtravelled to Georgia for acampaign event with theOssoff and Warnock cam-paigns. Neither the candi-dates nor any member of theOssoff or Warnock campaignteams were in close contactwith Richmond, nor wereMayor Keisha Lance Bottoms,Stacey Abrams or NikemaWilliams, who also attendedthe Tuesday event, she said.

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Washington: President DonaldTrump on Friday said that theUnited States has authorized asecond coronavirus vaccine,jumping the gun on regulatorswho have yet to give it the for-mal green light.

“Moderna vaccine over-whelmingly approved.Distribution to start immedi-ately,” he wrote on Twitter.

This follows a recommen-dation by an expert panel onThursday to grant emergencyuse approval for Moderna’sCovid-19 vaccine in the UnitedStates.

The Food and DrugAdministration is expected toissue formal approval Friday.This would make Moderna’svaccine the second to beapproved in a Western countryfollowing the one developed byPfizer-BioNTech.

Trump’s announcementcame as US Vice PresidentMike Pence and his wifereceived the Covid-19 vaccinelive on television, in a publicdisplay designed to boostnational confidence in themeasure.

Pence indicated that formalapproval for Moderna would bea matter of hours.

“We have one, perhapswithin hours two, safe and

effective coronavirus vaccines,”he said.

Thursday’s hearing came asthe number of deaths from thecoronavirus quickly approach-es 310,000 in the country withthe world’s biggest Covid-19outbreak, which this weekbegan vaccinating health careworkers and long-term careresidents with the Pfizer vac-cine.

Both of the frontrunner

vaccines are based on cutting-edge mRNA (messengerribonucleic acid) technology,which had never beenapproved prior to the pan-demic, and both are two-doseregimens.

The US, which has recorded more than 17 million cases of the virus, willprobably become the firstcountry to approve theModerna vaccine. AFP

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Washington: A federal pris-oner scheduled to be executedjust days before President-electJoe Biden takes office has test-ed positive for coronavirus,his lawyer has said.

The Bureau of Prisonsnotified attorneys for DustinJohn Higgs on Thursday thattheir client had tested positivefor the virus, his attorneyDevon Porter said during acourt hearing Thursday after-noon.

The revelation comesamid concern about anexploding number of coron-avirus cases in the federal

prison system and specifical-ly at the complex in TerreHaute, Indiana, where the exe-cutions are carried out. It is theonly federal death row.

Higgs is scheduled to beexecuted on January 15, justfive days before death-penaltyopponent Joe Biden’s inaugu-ration. Higgs is the last ofthose currently scheduled to beexecuted in a series of federalexecutions that began in July.The Trump administration willhave executed more people ina single year than any otheradministration in more than130 years. AP

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nuclear facility at Fordo amidtensions with the US over itsatomic programme, satellitephotos obtained on Friday byThe Associated Press show.

Iran has not publiclyacknowledged any new con-struction at Fordo, whose dis-covery by the West in 2009came in an earlier round ofbrinkmanship before worldpowers struck the 2015 nucleardeal with Tehran.

Beijing: A citizen journalistdetained in China after report-ing from the Covid-19 groundzero of Wuhan will face triallater this month, her lawyersaid Friday, as fears grow forher health.

The coronavirus firstemerged in central China latelast year, and Beijing has facedaccusations that it covered upthe initial outbreak andsilenced early whistleblowers.

Zhang Zhan, a formerlawyer, travelled to Wuhan inFebruary and livestreamed herexperiences on social media.She also wrote essays critical ofthe government’s response —

including the strict lockdownof millions of people.

Zhang was detained inMay and is accused of “pickingquarrels and provoking trou-ble”, according to a court noticeseen by AFP — a charge rou-tinely used to suppress dissi-dents, with a maximum prisonsentence of five years.

The 37-year-old’s lawyersreceived notice earlier thisweek that the hearing will takeplace in a Shanghai court onDecember 28.

Zhang began a hungerstrike in June, her lawyers said,and has been force-fed via anasal tube. AFP

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Even as a video showing Mandalholding a closed-door parley withBengal BJP president Dilip Ghoshwent viral, the Marxist outfit prompt-ly expelled her from the party whereafter she said, “It had become impos-sible to work with the CPI(M) and soI am leaving the party.”

She too is likely to join the BJP inpresence of Shah on Saturday.

When contacted CPI(M) legisla-tive party leader Sujan Chakrabartysaid, “She must have done what shehas done either out of some pressureor some lure … no it is for her toexplain her stance to the people andnot the party… currently the TMCand BJP are engaged in a dirty gameof leader swapping that may not godown well with the people of theState.”

Meanwhile, Trinamool Congresstop brass on Friday met at theKalighat residence of Mamata appar-ently to weigh up the present politi-cal situation in Bengal against thebackdrop of frequent desertion byparty leaders.

The meeting that started late inthe evening was had battle plans forthe 2021 elections prime on its agen-da said sources, adding efforts wouldalso be taken to assuage the ruffledfeelings in the party.

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The two sides agreed that basedon the guidance provided by seniorleaders and the agreements reachedbetween the two Foreign Ministersand Special Representatives, theywould continue to work towardsensuring complete disengagement inall friction points along the LAC inthe Western Sector at the earliest.

The two sides noted that the 7thand 8th rounds of SeniorCommanders meetings held onOctober 12 and November 6 respec-tively had in-depth discussions in thisregard and that these discussions hadalso contributed to ensuring stabili-ty on the ground.

Both sides agreed to maintainclose consultations at the diplomaticand military level. They agreed thatthe next (9th) round of SeniorCommanders meeting should be heldat an early date so that both sides canwork towards early and completedisengagement of troops along theLAC in accordance with the existingbilateral agreements and protocols,and fully restore peace and tranquil-ity.

Airing more or less same views,the official Chinese communiquéalso said the two sides had candid andin-depth exchange of views on the sit-uation along the LAC.

The two delegations agreed toearnestly implement the five-pointconsensus reached between the for-eign ministers of both countries at theMoscow meeting. The talks alsofocused on the disengagement offront-line troops and take concretemeasures to deal with the issues onthe ground to further deescalate theborder situation. The two delegationsalso reiterated their commitment tocontinue dialogue at the militaryand diplomatic level.

India on Thursday had stressedthe need for further discussions withChina for a mutually acceptable solu-tion for complete disengagement atthe LAC.

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Meanwhile, ICMR DG (Prof)Balram Bhargava has tested positivefor COVID-19 and been admitted toAIIMS trauma centre on Friday.

The Covid-19 cases in India aresteadily coming down while the case-load of infection in many parts of theworld is experiencing a second oreven a third peak. The global tally ofcoronavirus cases stands at75,456,940. While 53,012,389haverecovered, 1,671,822 have lost theirlives. Meanwhile, the US continues tobe the worst-hit countr y with17,628,578 cases.

According to the health min-istry’s data, the five most affectedstates by total cases are Maharashtra(1888767), Karnataka (9,07,123),Andhra Pradesh (8,77,806),TamilNadu (8,04,650), and Kerala (693866).

Kerala has reported 5,456 freshcase in the last 24 hours, highest inthe country, taking the total numbercases to 6,93,866; even as 4,701

patients have recovered from thedisease. Meanwhile, 23 deaths in thelast few days were confirmed, takingthe death toll in the state to 2,757.

Maharashtra's coronavirus tallyhas reached 18,88,767 after 3,994 peo-ple tested positive for the infection inthe last 24 hours. With the death of75 patients, the fatality count went upto 48,574. A total of 4,467 patientswere discharged after recuperating,taking the recover y count to17,78,722. Mumbai division, whichcomprises Mumbai city and its satel-lite towns, reported 1,250 new cases,taking its total to 6,46,756. As manyas 18,809 people have died so far inthe region due to the infection, theofficial said. Mumbai city reported642 new cases, which pushed itsoverall count to 2,85,632, while itsdeath toll rose to 10,970 as ninepatients succumbed to the infectionduring the day.

West Bengal has reported 2,239fresh cases , taking the total tally to5,32,695. With 42 deaths, the totalfatalities rose to 9,277.

With 1,418 fresh COVID-19 casesand 37 deaths in the last 24 hours, thenumber of total cases has touched6,14,775 and death toll rose to10,219 in Delhi.

Karnataka reported 1,222 newcases in a single day, 1,039 dischargesand 8 deaths, taking the total tally to9,07,123 active cases and 11,989deaths so far.

Tamil Nadu has reported 1,134new COVID19 cases, 1,170 dis-charges, and 12 deaths in the last 24hours. The total number of coron-avirus cases rose to 8,04,650 in thestate.

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“One must be transparent innumber of testing and declaring thefacts and figures of the persons whoare Corona positive. Otherwise, thepeople will be misled and they will beunder impression that everything isall right and they will become negli-gent,” the bench noted.

“Another issue is the fatigue of thefrontline healthcare officials. They arealready exhausted physically andmentally due to tireless work for eightmonths. Some mechanism may berequired to give them intermittentrest,” the apex court said.

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Afresh war of words broke outbetween the Opposition BJP

and the Maha Vikas Aghadi(MVA) government on Fridayover the latter’s proposal to shiftthe Mumbai Metro III car shedfrom Kanjurmarg to a locationearmarked for the proposedBullet terminus at Bandra-KurlaComplex (BKC) in north-centralMumbai. The Shiv Sena, whichheads the three-party govern-ment in Maharashtra, lent cre-dence to the reports in a sectionsof the media that in the wake ofthe Bombay High Court’s stay onthe Mumbai Metro-III car shedproject at Kanjurmarg, ChiefMinister Uddhav Thackeray hadasked the senior officials toexplore if the car shed projectcould be re-located at BKC.

Shiv Sena spokesperson andMP Sanjay Raut ticked off theBJP – which in the wake of thehigh court’s ruling felt vindicat-ed over its earlier stand on theMumbai Metro-III car shed pro-ject – when he confirmed that thereports that the plot at BKC forre-locating the Mumbai Metro-II was being considered.

Talking to media personshere, Raut said: “(In the wake ofthe high court’s stay on the highcourt’s stay on the MumbaiMetro-III car shed project atKanjurmarg), the Oppositionneed not get worried about thelocation of the car shed project.Today reports have been pub-lished that the state governmentis considering re-locating thecar shed at BKC. Yes. We areexamining that venue for re-loca-tion”.

Incidentally, the plot of landwhere the Uddhav Thackeraydispensation is considering to re-locate the Mumbai Metro-IIIcar shed is a state-owned landunlike the Kanjurmarg landwhich is trapped in litigation.

Maharashtra’s UrbanDevelopment Minister EknathShinde also confirmed that thestate government was consider-ing the BKC plot for relocatingthe car shed project. “We arestudying the Bombay High Courtorder. At the sqme time,we haveasked officials to the land at theBKC as an alternative for the carshed project”.

The BJP -- which hadopposed the the UddhavThackeray dispensation’s decisionto shift the car shed projectfrom Aarey colony at Goregaonin north Mumbai to Kanjurmargin north-east Mumbai – has nottaken kindly to the Maharashtragovernment’s move to re-locatethe project at BKC, as it feels thatthe car shed project would jeop-ardise the terminus locationPrime Minister Narendra Modi’spet Bullet Train project.

Former chief minister andsenior BJP leader DevendraFadnavis hit back at the ShivSena-led MVA governmentdescribing the move as “ridicu-lous” since it would involve exor-bitant costs. “Whoever is advis-ing the state government is doinga bad job. The advisor is out todeplete the state exchequer. Thisis because the BKC plot is a priceland. In all, the car shed projectneeds 25 hectare land. Going bythe current land rates there, theland itself would cost as much asRs 1000 crore”

“The bullet train terminusthat is coming up there is goingto be three levels under theground. Above the ground, aninternational business centre iscoming up. When it was decid-ed to build the bullet train ter-minus, we realised it would costRs 5,000 to 6000 crore. If wedecide to locate the metro carshed, which currently costs Rs500 crore, it would cost Rs 5 to6,000 crore if we decide to locateit underground. Plus, the annu-al maintenance cost would go upfive to six folds. Hence it is notfeasible to locate the metro carshed project at BKC,” Fadnavissaid.

Another BJP leader AsishShelar was equally critical of theUddhav Thackeray governmentfor its move to re-locate theproject at BKC. “Just because themetro car shed project has runinto rough weather because of thehigh court’s ruling, the MVA gov-ernment is now spokes into theBullet train project by choosingthe same venue for metro carshed project.

The latest exchange of barbsbetween the Ma governmentand BJP comes in the wake ofWednesday’s order of theBombay High Court’s furtherstaying implementation of aMumbai collector’s land allot-ment order dated October 1,transferring the Kanjurmarg landto the state-run MumbaiMetropolitan RegionDevelopment Authority(MMRDA) for the project. Thehigh court has put a stop to allconstruction activities at theKanjurmarg site. Though theShiv Sena-led state government

is also considering moving theSupreme Court against the highcourt’s order, it is now trying toarm twist the Centre into havingits way.

It may be recalled that dur-ing the end of October this year,the BJP-led NDA governmenthad opposed the re-location ofthe Mumbai Metro-III car shedproject at Kanjurmarg in nortjh-east Mumbai.

Nearly three weeks after theMaharashtra scrapped the previ-ous BJP-led government’s deci-sion to locate Metro phase-III carshed at Aarey colony at Goregaonand moved the project toKanjurmarg, the Centre’sDepartment of Promotion ofIndustry & Internal Trade(DPIIT) had shot off a letter tothe state government opposingthe location of car shed project atKanjurmarg would be “againstthe interest of the Government ofIndia''. The DPIIT also claimedownership of the 102-acres landthere.

Lodging a protest with thestate government against themove to relocate the car shedproject at Kanjurmarg, DPIITSecretary Guruprasad Mohapatrasaid: “The improper and uni-lateral action of the MumbaiSuburban District Collector andMumbai Metropolitan RegionDevelopment Authority hascaused severe loss” to the DPIITand the Government of India”.

The latest move by the Sena-led MVA government to relocatethe Mumbai Metro III at BKC isbeing seen a tit-for-tat act againstthe Centre for its earlier opposi-tion to the relocation of the carshed project at Kanjurmarg.

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In a marginal increase in theCovid-19 infection and fatali-

ty tallies, as many as 3994 peo-ple tested positive forCoronavirus while 75 more peo-ple died of the pandemic in var-ious parts of Maharashtra onFriday. A day after it logged 3880fresh Covid-19 infections and 65deaths, Maharashtra witnessed3994 new infected cases and 75deaths.

With 3994 fresh infections,the total infections in the stateclimbed from 18,84,773 to18,88.767. Similarly, with 75 newdeaths, the Covid-19 toll inMaharashtra rose from 48,499 to48,574. As 4467 patients were dis-charged from the hospitals acrossthe state after full recovery, thetotal number of people dis-charged from the hospitals sincethe second week of March thisyear rose to 17,78,722. The recov-ery rate in the state rose mar-

ginally from 94.14 per cent to94.17 per cent.

With 10 new deaths, theCovid-19 toll in Mumbai camedown from 11,013 to 10907because of reconciliation of deathfigures, while the infected caseswent up by 642 to trigger a jumpin the infections from 2,84,990 to2,85,632.

Meanwhile, the number of“active cases” total cases in thestate dropped from 60,905 to60,352. The fatality rate in the

state stood at 2.57 per centPune district, which contin-

ued to be the worst-affectedcity-district in Maharashtra, sawthe total number of cases increasefrom 3,65,101 to 3,65,652, whilethe total number of deaths inPune increased from 7654 to7667. Thane district remained inthe third spot --after Pune andMumbai – after the total numberof infections rose from 2,48,979to 2,49,436 while the total deathsclimbed from 5424 to 5475.

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The dream of a space telescope took20 years to realise. Now, 30 years on,comes the incredible story of one of

the most complex machines ever made.The Hubble space telescope has mademore than 1.3 million observations andenabled over 15,000 scientific papers to bewritten. Its history has been dramatic. Atriumphant launch that turned into disas-ter. Astronauts risking their lives to fix it.But ultimately, it’s an invention thatopened up the universe in unimaginableways. This anniversary film, Hubble:Wonders of Space Revealed, tells the wholestory and meets the scientists andastronomers who use Hubble on a dailybasis as well as astronauts from each of themissions that have serviced and updatedit. We talk to Steve Crabtree, the executiveproducer of the film, to know more.Excerpts:

�What prompted you to bring up a filmlike Hubble: Wonders of Space Revealed?

The film was to celebrate Hubble’s 30thbirthday, really. It coincided to mark the30 years since the telescope was launchedinto space. So that was the simple reason.We thought to make a special shot, tellingthe whole story of Hubble, what is oftenreferred to as the one of the most produc-tive scientific instruments that has everbeen invented.

�The film includes real astronauts whowork on Hubble daily. How was the expe-rience of filming with them?

I’m the executive producer of the film.So this time round unfortunately, I didn’tget to meet the astronauts, the directorDavid Briggs met them. They were superfriendly and helpful. I have interviewedastronauts before and what I love aboutthem is their training means that they’revery precise and very accurate with any-thing you ask them. They’re almost likesorts of space journalists in a way. They’realways amazing and way friendly. And, youknow, it’s a real feeling, a real privilege towork with them, but there’s not many ofthem out there.

�How did you go about curating the sto-ries and choosing the people set to fea-ture in this film?

We sat down for a long time along withthe director and we tried to work out howto structure a programme such as this. Andwhat we settled on was to tell the storythrough each of the service missions. Therewere five service missions in total. Eachservice mission then led to a new discov-ery because each mission was basically anupgrade which led to a new discovery. Sowe knew that we wanted to structure thefilm in that way. The first job was to makesure that we had astronauts from each ser-vice mission. Otherwise, we wouldn’t beable to tell that whole story. Luckily, theywere very kind to give us their time. Then,once we knew we had astronauts, we justfocussed on one of the discoveries thateach service mission had led to. Thathelped us decide which sciences to pick,I mean, obviously, in real life, there werehundreds of discoveries but in an hourlong programme, you can only pick one.So we just picked some that we thoughtwas great. If you watch the first one, whatactually happens is as the film plays, eachdiscovery is further and further out intothe universe until the last one, which is

basically the farthest Hubble can see. Sothere’s quite a little narrative there as well.

�What were the challenges involved dur-ing the making of the film?

The big challenge for us in the UK wasthat we wanted the programme to tie inwith the actual 30th anniversary of Hubble.And on every birthday what NASA doesis that they release a very special picturethat Hubble has taken and we sort of triedto get hold of that picture earlier becausewe were making a TV programme. We gotthat finally and we got to see Hubble’s 30thanniversary photograph exactly the sametime as everybody else did, which wasabout six or eight hours before our film wasgoing to be broadcast by the BBC. So me,the director and the editor were in an editsuite together, just waiting for this photo-graph to be given to us. Once we got thephotograph, we then cut the picture andre-finish the entire film, and then gave itto BBC to go on the television. It also

means that there is a sort of another ver-sion of the film without the picture in itthat’s never been seen by the audiencebecause we managed to use the proper pic-

ture at the end. So that was quite a chal-lenge, really. I haven’t had to do that veryoften in my television career. I feel live tele-vision is very different. But I don’t gener-ally work in live television. So this time wasquite interesting.

�You have also been a core part of theshow 250 Million Pound Cancer Cure, canyou provide some insights into theshow?

That show was really close to me. I was

the editor for horizon when we startedmaking it. But then I’d left by the time wefinished it because it took about two yearsto put the show together. Initially, I wasinvolved in the making and the engineer-ing part of the technology and then leftit midway for the team to finish the show.In 2014, five-year-old Ashya King’s par-ents were arrested. Unwilling to accept thattheir son’s brain tumour was incurable.They took him to Europe against the doc-tors’ advice for Proton Beam Therapy. In

this treatment, high-energy protons trav-el at two-thirds the speed of light througha patient’s body. It can transform treatmentfor children with inoperable cancers. Butbringing it to the UK needs a £250 mil-lion investment, and one of the world’sbest facilities. A nuclear bunker with six-metre-thick walls. Nearly 2,000 tonnes ofkit squeezed under the streets of Londonand Manchester. Horizon goes behind thescenes of a super-sized engineering chal-lenge. It’s an amazing piece of technolo-gy and all of the engineering that goes intoit is just awe inspiring.

�What is the future of Proton BeamTherapy in India?

In India? I don’t know. All I know isthat it seems to be very successful in theUK. They’re doing many treatments now.So, you know, it just seems like it’s a real-ly good piece of technology. But I don’tknow the future of it in India.

�Any message for the Indian audi-ence?

I would just say that both of these pro-grammes, in very different ways, godown to show that not only how impor-tant science, technology and engineeringis, but also how they can sort of bring peo-ple together. For the Hubble film in par-ticular, those amazing images that we seeof the universe and the cosmos are inspir-ing for young people, especially who maywant to have a career in science, technol-ogy or engineering. I mean, if you wereto boil both films down to their core ingre-dients, what we’re talking about is amaz-ing scientists and engineers, buildingincredible machines that help humanity.I think that’s something that we can allaspire to. They spread a positive messageto say, look, what we can do together whenwe invent amazing things.

(The film premieres today at 9 pm onSony BBC Earth.)

The Thursday Murder Club byRichard Osman is difficult to

fit into genres. “Thriller” is oneway to look at it. “Slice of life” isanother. “The quaint countrysidecontemporary classic,” if everthere was such a genre might fitin too. Ever so slightly.

We have septuagenarian andoctogenarian protagonists in thisunlikely murder mystery set in ahep and happening retirementcommunity. Well, if Pilates is

“hep and happening” that is. Elizabeth is a methodical cru-

cifier. Joyce, poor little Joyce, is apeople pleaser, perhaps, there’smore there than what meets theeye. Ib is an analyst with a differ-ence while Ron, a firebrandactivist. What happens when thesefour get together? Some good old

wine, choice desserts and jigsawpuzzles. Only, the jigsaws are ofthe police file kind. Having accessto unsolved mysteries fromdecades ago, our foursome meetevery Thursday trying to puzzleout the solution.

And then suddenly, one day,they have a murder in their midst.

Or two. Perhaps three. Leveraging seniority in age

and frailty of body, these alert andfertile minds of the Thursdaymurder club get access to informa-tion and people the police aren’table to worm out themselves.This strange group then solves themystery, trading info with the

police and jumping into the frayand action many a time withoutwarning the police. But, that’s noteven half of what this book isabout. While the mystery is get-ting solved, friends are dying ofold age, spouses getting dementia.Sometimes, flowers are all that oneneeds to wase through anuneventful day.

If you are curious to knowwhat happens when Miss Marplemeets Holmes meets Nancy Drew,all in a quiet little English coun-tryside consuming almond flourcake and mint tea, this is the bookfor you. A light and adorable read,perhaps, a befitting end to thishorrible year.

Having marked her debut with VickyDonor in 2012, which won her

wide acclaim, there has been no look-ing back for actor Yami Gautam. Herfilm choices have proved her versatili-ty. A self-made actor who has workedher way up through sheer talent anddedication, she has been hailed for herscintillating screen presence and play-ing her characters with a rare eleganceand restraint.

After a slew of box office success-es in 2019 with Uri: The Surgical Strikeand Bala, Yami is all set to have anoth-er eventful year as she has a bunch ofprojects lined up for 2021. A sourcereveals that she will have a packed slatein the forthcoming year.

“Yami has now been approachedwith eight interesting scripts and she haslocked in as many as six films for whichshe will start shooting in 2021. Theoffers are quite overwhelming andYami is taking up dynamic roles that willchallenge her as an actor,” says thesource.

Her recent release, Ginny WedsSunny co-starring Vikrant Massey,proved to be yet another massive enter-tainer. She recently wrapped up theDharamshala schedule of Bhoot Policewhich also stars Saif Ali Khan, Arjun

Kapoor and Jacqueline Fernandez. Asshe gears up for a choc-o-bloc 2021, weare definite that she is all set to surpriseher fans with her forthcoming projects.Needless to say, 2021 is surely going tobe Yami’s year!

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Senior off-spinnerRavichandran Ashwinproduced one of his

most memorable overseasperformances as Indianbowlers collectively ter-rorised Australia into sub-mission, bowling them outfor 191 on the second day ofthe opening Day/Night Testhere on Friday.

Courtesy Ashwin’s 18-3-55-4, India successfully man-aged to neutralise a sub-parfirst innings score of 244.Rival skipper Tim Paine (73off 99 balls) was the onlyhome batsman to showstomach for a fight.

With a handy firstinnings lead of 53 runs, Indiafound their opener PrithviShaw’s defence beingbreached again before endingthe day at 9/1 — with anoverall lead of 62 runs.

Pace spearhead Jasprit

Bumrah (21-7-52-2) playedthe night watchman’s roleafter Shaw’s dismissal, givingcompany to MayankAgarwal (5) when stumpswere drawn.

Indian magnificentbowling effort during theday could be segregated intothree phases.

In the early afternoon,Bumrah bowled the fullerlength to make the firstinroads.

Ashwin thentook charge oflate afternoonwith his perfectlength and madeuse of the additional bounceto blow away the middle-order.

And then under lights,Umesh Yadav (16.1-5-40-3)was brilliant with the oldpink kookaburra as hebowled back of the length toget rid of the dangerousMarnus Labuschagne and

Pat Cummins.Mohammed Shami (17-

4-41-0) was also immaculatewith his length but he was let

down by the fielders as theonly glitch in their secondday’s performance was apoor catching effort.

But Virat Kohli wouldn’tmind even four droppedchances as his bowlers forcedthe Australian batsman to go

into a defensive shell in their72.1 overs on second day.

It was one of the most‘Un-Australian’ batting by ateam that prides itself onintent. Save for Labuschagne(47 off 119 balls), who could-n’t capitalise on threereprieves, and skipper Paine,no other batsman seemed toknow how to bat on a sur-face, which picked pace onthe second day.

After Bumrah removedthe two openers in the firstsession, Ashwin did the starturn in the second session.

Ashwin set up Smithwith a few that were flightedwith the angle and thenbowled one that straight-ened and bounced a touchmore. Smith, expecting turn,squared up and AjinkyaRahane at first slip made nomistake.

Travis Head (7) wasn’treading Ashwin well and theleft-hander got a flightedone that took the leadingedge of his bat, which endedin a chest-high return catchfor the bowler.

Debutant CameronGreen (11) would curse him-self as his was a long hop ask-ing to be pulled but the extrabounce got the top edge andcaptain Virat Kohli pulled offa fabulous catch at mid-wicket, diving full-stretch tohis right.

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New Zealand cruised to a five-wicket win over Pakistan in

the first T20I at Auckland’s EdenPark on Friday.

The Black Caps ended on156/5 with seven balls to spareafter losing the toss and being seta target of 154.

Tim Seifert top-scored forthe hosts with 57, while debutantpaceman Jacob Duffy took 4/33.

Pakistan never recoveredfrom a slow start, despite a fight-ing 42 from stand-in captainShadab Khan. Haris Rauf was thetourists’ best bowler, taking 3/29.

Player of the match Duffymade a sensational start, dismiss-ing opener Abdullah Shafique fora duck in his first over. He thenclaimed the scalps ofMohammad Rizwan and

Mohammad Hafeez in his sec-ond as Pakistan lost three wick-ets in three balls to slump to 20for four.

Khushdil Shah was out for16 when he mistimed a ball fromIsh Sodhi straight to Martin

Guptill in the field. Khan tried torescue his side’s innings, smash-ing 42 from 32 balls beforeDuffy coaxed a top edge toSodhi.

Pakistan’s attack made earlyinroads as two quick wicketsfrom Rauf restricted NewZealand to 72/3 at the 10-overmark.

Seifert brought up his halfcentury off 35 balls but was outon 57 after a sharp catch fromAshraf, who then dropped aneasy chance sitter to give MarkChapman a life. Mitchell Santnersteered his team to victory witha six to seal the win.

The second and third T20swill be played in Hamilton andNapier on Sunday and Tuesday,with the first of two Tests start-ing in Mount Maunganui onDecember 26.

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Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski wasnamed men’s player of the year on Thursday at

Fifa’s ‘The Best’ awards ceremony in Zurich.The 32-year-old Lewandowski, top scorer

in Europe and winner of the ChampionsLeague with Bayern, came out ahead of theother two nominees, Lionel Messi and CristianoRonaldo.

England defender Lucy Bronze took thewomen’s award, seeing off the chal-lenge of Wendie Renard andPernille Harder.

It is the first occassion forboth Lewandowski and Bronze towin the award, with the Pole only thesecond player after Luka Modric in2018 to break a 13-year Messi-Ronaldohegemony.

“I am very proud and very happy,”said Lewandowski. “I have to honestly say thatit is a great day for me and for my club. It isan unbelievable feeling. Winning an awardahead of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

means a lot to me.”Lewandowski’s stellar season for all-conquering

Bayern has already been recognised by UEFA whoawarded the Polish striker European player of the yearin October.

His Bayern teammate Manuel Neuer was cho-sen as ‘The Best’ Fifa men’s goalkeeper.

Bronze, 29, who succeeds last year’s winnerMegan Rapinoe, won the Champions League

with Lyon in August before moving back toEngland to play for Manchester City.

France and Lyon’s Sarah Bouhaddicapped her fine career with The BestFifa women’s goalkeeper award.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Kloppwas named men’s coach of the year while

current Dutch women’s national teamboss Sarina Wiegman took the women’s

award for the second time in her career fol-lowing her 2017 success.

The Puskas Award for best goal wentto Tottenham’s South Korean striker SonHeung-min for a mazy, individual goalhe scored against Burnley in the PremierLeague in December 2019.

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