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F resh tension is reported from Line of Actual Control (LAC) after the Chinese army tried to intrude into Indian ter- ritory on Monday and Tuesday in eastern and southern Ladakh. While the first attempt came at the south bank of the Pangong Tso (lake), the other took place in Chumar and Depsang. The Indian Army foiled all the three bids in the last 24 hours and is on high alert all along the 1,600 km long LAC in the Ladakh region. All these “brazen” and “provocative” actions by the Chinese took place even as the Brigadier-level talks were on between the two sides at Chushul-Moldo at the LAC on Monday and Tuesday Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held a series of meetings with the military top brass here on Tuesday to review India’s readiness to meet this threat. The Chinese troops engaged in “provocative action” on August 31 “even as the ground commanders of the two sides were in discussions to de-escalate the situation,” the External Affairs Ministry said. India has taken up the issue with China through diplomatic and military chan- nels and has “urged them to discipline and control their frontline troops,” it said. Giving details, sources said the Indian soldiers were sur- rounded by Chinese soldiers, who were trying to regain the heights that are being domi- nated by the Indian Army fol- lowing the action on August 29-30. Chinese soldiers were warned not to proceed near the Black Top hill and they were dissuaded. This came after their mil- itary commander in discus- sions with the Indian brigadier at the time was told to tell his forces to stand down to prevent any escalation. The Chumar incident on Tuesday saw the Chinese try- ing to provoke the Indian forces by attempting to intrude into India in ten to 12 armoured vehicles. However, the Indian forces blocked them and asked the Chinese to desist from escalating the situation, sources said. F ormer President Pranab Mukherjee’s last rites were performed at the Lodhi Crematorium in the national Capital on Tuesday. His son Abhijit Mukherjee performed his last rites in the presence of friends and family. The former President was consigned to flames with full military hon- ours, under restrictions for Covid-19. The mortal remains of the late ex-President were taken to the crematorium in a hearse van, instead of a normal gun carriage, keeping Covid-19 protocols in consideration. Several political leaders, including President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi paid their last respects to the former President. “Paid tributes to respected Pranab Mukherjee. He would be remembered by genera- tions for his efforts towards India’s progress,” Modi tweet- ed. The demise of the former President was also condoled by the Union Cabinet. The Union Cabinet said the country has lost an outstanding parlia- mentarian and a distinguished leader. Headed by Prime Minister, the Cabinet also observed two minutes of silence in the memory of Mukherjee. O n the 12th day of its inves- tigations in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, the CBI on Tuesday questioned actress Rhea Chakraborty’s parents Indrajit and Indrajit Chakraborty extensively, even as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) grilled hote- lier from Goa Guarav Arya in the Sushant case-linked money laundering case. On a day when the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) — in an apparently Sushant death case-triggered raids conducted in Mumbai and Delhi — seized 3.5 kg Marijuana (bud) worth 1.75 crore, the CBI subjected Rhea’s parents to questioning for more than eight hours. D espite all-round protests, the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Mains for admission to IITs and NITs took place on Tuesday amid stringent pre- cautions and social distancing measures in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. Staggered entry and exit for candidates, sanitisers at the gate, distribution of masks, and maintaining social dis- tancing as candidates queued up, were some of the measures at the exam centres across the country. But several States reported that candidates faced difficulties in reaching centres due to heavy rain and lack of conveyance facilities. Education Secretary Amit Khare said JEE was conduct- ed smoothly all over the coun- try. “I would like to thank all the State Governments and officials of the National Testing Agency (NTA) for the smooth conduct of the exam- ination,” Khare told The Pioneer. There has been a decline in JEE aspirants in 2020 with 8,58,273 registering as com- pared to 9,35,741 in 2019. The West Bengal Government had earlier opposed the Centre’s deci- sion to conduct JEE during Covid times as students would be exposed to the pandemic. W aiver of interest on deferred EMIs during the moratorium period would be against “the basic canons of finance” and unfair to those who repaid loans as per sched- ule, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Reserve Bank of India has however come out with a scheme which provides for extension of moratorium for two years to certain stressed borrowers, the Cenre informed the apex court. The Ministry of Finance has filed an affidavit before the apex court which had asked the Centre and the RBI to review the move to charge interest on EMIs and interest on the inter- est during the moratorium period introduced under the scheme due to the Covid-19 pandemic. During the hearing of a PIL on the issue, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre and RBI, told a bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan that the moratorium period on repayment of loans amid the Covid-19 pandemic is “extendable” by two years. The bench would hear the case on Wednesday. There cannot be a “one-size fit all” solution to all the prob- lems faced by the banking sec- tors, Aditya Kumar Ghosh, Under Secretary with the Ministry of Finance, said in the affidavit. The Government said any “post facto” change in the terms of the RBI circulars with regard to non-charging of interest during the moratorium period would be unfair to those who kept paying EMIs. A gainst the backdrop of the Congress’ allegations that social media platform Facebook (FB) favoured the BJP and the RSS, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has written a letter to FB CEO Mark Zuckerberg claiming it was the BJP which suffered due to policy pursued by some biased officials of the Facebook India. Prasad said there was a “concerted effort” by FB India officials to delete pages of right-of-centre ideology. Prasad, in his letter, said, “Right from India MD to other senior officials, they all belong to a particular political belief”. The Minister said FB is the latest tool in their arsenal to stoke internal divisions and social disturbances. He said there have been “multiple instances” where Facebook was used by “anarchic and radical” elements but no action against them have been taken. “I would like to point out that there have also been mul- tiple instances recently where Facebook has been used by anarchic and radical elements whose sole aim is to destroy social order, to recruit people and to assemble them for vio- lence. However, we are yet to see any meaningful action against such elements,” he said. “I am writing this letter to raise serious concerns, some of which we have also raised in the past with senior officials of Facebook,” said the Union Law Minister. T he Supreme Court Tuesday granted 10 years to telecom firms such as Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices for paying the Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR)-related dues to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) with certain conditions. The apex court asked telcos to pay 10 per cent of the AGR- related dues by March 31, 2021. A Bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra held that the demand made by the DoT and the verdict delivered by the top court in the matter are final. The Bench asked the Managing Directors (MDs) or Chief Executive Officer (CEOs) of the telcos concerned to fur- nish undertaking or personal guarantee within four weeks for payment of dues. Failure to pay the instal- ments of the dues would incur penalty, interest and contempt of court, the Bench cautioned the telecom firms. The top court said issue of sale of spectrum by telcos fac- ing insolvency proceedings shall be decided by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT). The Bench delivered its verdict on the issues, including the time line for staggered payment of AGR- related dues amounting to about 1.6 lakh crore. T he Allahabad High Court on Tuesday quashed the detention of Dr Kafeel Khan under the National Security Act and ordered his immediate release, saying the Aligarh dis- trict magistrate did a “selective reading” of his speech at the AMU. The Bench comprising Chief Justice Govind Marhur and Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh said a complete reading of the speech does not disclose any effort to promote hatred or violence and it gives a call for national integrity. The court allowed the writ petition filed by Khan’s moth- er Nuzhat Parveen and said the order for his detention passed by the DM is illegal. The peti- tion argued Khan was granted bail in February and he was supposed to be released on bail. New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will take part respective Ministers’ meets of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Moscow. China and Pakistan too are part of this grouping. Both the Ministers may meet their Chinese counterparts there. A belligerent China has blamed India for the latest round of friction at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on south bank of the Pangong Lake, calling it a step to divert pub- lic attention from the domes- tic issues, and warned India that, “the PLA is bound to make the Indian Army suffer much more severe losses than it did in 1962.” China’s Western Theatre Command said on Monday evening that Indian troops once again illegally crossed the LAC near the south bank of the Pangong Lake and Reqin mountain pass, a blatant provocative move that seri- ously infringed on China’s ter- ritorial sovereignty, and under- mined the peace and stability in the China-India border area. China on Monday also tried to come close to one of the peaks occupied by India on August 29, however, local com- manders dissuaded the Chinese from coming close. A report in the China’s mouthpiece Global Times said that after the June clash between the two armies in the Galwan Valley anti-China opinion dominated Indian society and India overreached itself by economically sanc- tioning China and strength- ened interaction with the US in order to gain an upper hand over Beijing. Washington almost pub- licly sided with New Delhi, which further encouraged the latter, the report said. F or the first time, more than 1500 coronavirus patients were detected in Chhattisgarh on a single day. Also, 10 deaths were reported on Tuesday. In all, 578 patients were discharged from hospitals after their recovery. Now the total number of Covid positive patients in the state has crossed 33,000, the Health Department said in its daily report. With the death of 10 Covid-19 positive individuals, the total fatalities in Chhattisgarh have reached 287. A 43-year-old Covid pos- itive man from Sukma was admitted to the AIIMS Raipur on August 29. He had breath- lessness and died of multi- organ failure on Monday, the report said. A 38-year-old man from Raipur was admitted to AIIMS Raipur after testing Covid pos- itive and with breathlessness on Monday. He died on Tuesday. A 68-year-old woman from Torva in Bilaspur was admitted to AIIMS Raipur on Monday with breathlessness. She was detected Covid positive and had ketoacidosis. She died on Tuesday. A 65-year-old woman from Vyapar Vihar in Bilaspur was admitted in SEC Railway Hospital Bilaspur on Monday after testing Covid positive. She was admitted in a semi-con- scious state and she died on Tuesday. A 38-year-old man from Kumhari Durg was brought dead to AIIMS on Monday. He was detected Covid positive, the report said. A 58-year-old Covid pos- itive woman from Kansiram Nagar in Raipur was admitted to Dr BR Ambedkar Memorial Hospital Raipur on Monday with breathlessness. She died on Tuesday. A 65-year-old Covid pos- itive man from Tikarapara in Raipur was admitted to Ambedkar Hospital on August 30. He had tuberculosis in his lungs. He died on Tuesday, the report said. A 70-year-old man from Trishuli Balrampur was admit- ted in Ambedkar Hospital after testing Covid positive on August 22. He had stomach cancer and died on Tuesday. A 65-year-old man from Janjgir-Champa was admitted to Covid Hospital Janjgir after testing Covid positive on August Monday and died later. A 58-year-old man from Jashpur was brought dead to the Community Health Center Pathalgaon on Monday. He was later tested Covid positive, the report said. So far 33,107 persons have been detected corona positive in Chhattisgarh while 17,567 have been discharged from hospitals. Currently, there are 15,163 active cases in the State. RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015

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Fresh tension is reportedfrom Line of Actual Control

(LAC) after the Chinese armytried to intrude into Indian ter-ritory on Monday and Tuesdayin eastern and southernLadakh. While the first attemptcame at the south bank of thePangong Tso (lake), the othertook place in Chumar andDepsang.

The Indian Army foiled allthe three bids in the last 24hours and is on high alert allalong the 1,600 km long LACin the Ladakh region.

All these “brazen” and“provocative” actions by theChinese took place even as theBrigadier-level talks were onbetween the two sides atChushul-Moldo at the LAC onMonday and Tuesday

Defence Minister RajnathSingh held a series of meetingswith the military top brasshere on Tuesday to reviewIndia’s readiness to meet thisthreat.

The Chinese troopsengaged in “provocative action”on August 31 “even as theground commanders of thetwo sides were in discussions tode-escalate the situation,” theExternal Affairs Ministry said.

India has taken up theissue with China throughdiplomatic and military chan-nels and has “urged them todiscipline and control theirfrontline troops,” it said.

Giving details, sources saidthe Indian soldiers were sur-

rounded by Chinese soldiers,who were trying to regain theheights that are being domi-nated by the Indian Army fol-lowing the action on August29-30. Chinese soldiers werewarned not to proceed near theBlack Top hill and they weredissuaded.

This came after their mil-itary commander in discus-sions with the Indian brigadierat the time was told to tell hisforces to stand down to preventany escalation.

The Chumar incident onTuesday saw the Chinese try-ing to provoke the Indianforces by attempting to intrudeinto India in ten to 12armoured vehicles. However,the Indian forces blocked themand asked the Chinese to desistfrom escalating the situation,sources said.

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Former President PranabMukherjee’s last rites were

performed at the LodhiCrematorium in the nationalCapital on Tuesday. His sonAbhijit Mukherjee performedhis last rites in the presence offriends and family. The formerPresident was consigned toflames with full military hon-ours, under restrictions forCovid-19.

The mortal remains of thelate ex-President were taken tothe crematorium in a hearsevan, instead of a normal guncarriage, keeping Covid-19protocols in consideration.

Several political leaders,including President Ram NathKovind, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, former PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh,Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal, Congress leaderRahul Gandhi paid their lastrespects to the former

President. “Paid tributes to respected

Pranab Mukherjee. He wouldbe remembered by genera-tions for his efforts towardsIndia’s progress,” Modi tweet-

ed. The demise of the former

President was also condoled bythe Union Cabinet. The UnionCabinet said the country haslost an outstanding parlia-

mentarian and a distinguishedleader. Headed by PrimeMinister, the Cabinet alsoobserved two minutes ofsilence in the memory ofMukherjee.

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On the 12th day of its inves-tigations in the Sushant

Singh Rajput death case, theCBI on Tuesday questionedactress Rhea Chakraborty’sparents Indrajit and Indrajit

Chakraborty extensively, evenas the Enforcement Directorate (ED) grilled hote-lier from Goa Guarav Arya inthe Sushant case-linked moneylaundering case.

On a day when theNarcotics Control Bureau

(NCB) — in an apparentlySushant death case-triggeredraids conducted in Mumbaiand Delhi — seized 3.5 kgMarijuana (bud) worth �1.75crore, the CBI subjected Rhea’sparents to questioning for morethan eight hours.

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Despite all-round protests,the Joint Entrance Exam

(JEE)-Mains for admission toIITs and NITs took place onTuesday amid stringent pre-cautions and social distancingmeasures in view of theCovid-19 pandemic.

Staggered entry and exitfor candidates, sanitisers at thegate, distribution of masks,and maintaining social dis-tancing as candidates queuedup, were some of the measuresat the exam centres across thecountry. But several States

reported that candidates faceddifficulties in reaching centresdue to heavy rain and lack ofconveyance facilities.

Education Secretary AmitKhare said JEE was conduct-ed smoothly all over the coun-try. “I would like to thank allthe State Governments andofficials of the NationalTesting Agency (NTA) for thesmooth conduct of the exam-ination,” Khare told ThePioneer.

There has been a declinein JEE aspirants in 2020 with8,58,273 registering as com-pared to 9,35,741 in 2019.

The West BengalGovernment had earlieropposed the Centre’s deci-sion to conduct JEE duringCovid times as students wouldbe exposed to the pandemic.

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Waiver of interest ondeferred EMIs during

the moratorium period wouldbe against “the basic canons offinance” and unfair to thosewho repaid loans as per sched-ule, the Centre told theSupreme Court on Tuesday.Reserve Bank of India hashowever come out with ascheme which provides forextension of moratorium fortwo years to certain stressedborrowers, the Cenre informedthe apex court.

The Ministry of Financehas filed an affidavit before theapex court which had asked theCentre and the RBI to reviewthe move to charge interest on

EMIs and interest on the inter-est during the moratoriumperiod introduced under thescheme due to the Covid-19pandemic.

During the hearing of a PILon the issue, Solicitor GeneralTushar Mehta, appearing forthe Centre and RBI, told abench headed by Justice AshokBhushan that the moratoriumperiod on repayment of loansamid the Covid-19 pandemic is“extendable” by two years. Thebench would hear the case onWednesday.

There cannot be a “one-sizefit all” solution to all the prob-lems faced by the banking sec-tors, Aditya Kumar Ghosh,Under Secretary with theMinistry of Finance, said in theaffidavit.

The Government said any“post facto” change in theterms of the RBI circulars withregard to non-charging ofinterest during the moratoriumperiod would be unfair tothose who kept paying EMIs.

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Against the backdrop of theCongress’ allegations that

social media platformFacebook (FB) favoured theBJP and the RSS, Union LawMinister Ravi Shankar Prasadhas written a letter to FB CEOMark Zuckerberg claiming itwas the BJP which suffered dueto policy pursued by somebiased officials of the FacebookIndia.

Prasad said there was a“concerted effort” by FB India

officials to delete pages ofright-of-centre ideology.

Prasad, in his letter, said,“Right from India MD to othersenior officials, they all belongto a particular political belief ”.

The Minister said FB is thelatest tool in their arsenal tostoke internal divisions andsocial disturbances. He saidthere have been “multipleinstances” where Facebook wasused by “anarchic and radical”elements but no action againstthem have been taken.

“I would like to point out

that there have also been mul-tiple instances recently whereFacebook has been used byanarchic and radical elementswhose sole aim is to destroysocial order, to recruit peopleand to assemble them for vio-lence. However, we are yet tosee any meaningful actionagainst such elements,” he said.

“I am writing this letter toraise serious concerns, some ofwhich we have also raised inthe past with senior officials ofFacebook,” said the Union LawMinister.

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The Supreme Court Tuesdaygranted 10 years to

telecom firms such as VodafoneIdea, Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices for paying the Adjusted GrossRevenue (AGR)-related dues to the Department ofTelecommunications (DoT)with certain conditions.

The apex court asked telcosto pay 10 per cent of the AGR-related dues by March 31, 2021.

A Bench headed by JusticeArun Mishra held that thedemand made by the DoT andthe verdict delivered by the topcourt in the matter are final.

The Bench asked theManaging Directors (MDs) orChief Executive Officer (CEOs)of the telcos concerned to fur-nish undertaking or personalguarantee within four weeks forpayment of dues.

Failure to pay the instal-ments of the dues would incurpenalty, interest and contemptof court, the Bench cautionedthe telecom firms.

The top court said issue ofsale of spectrum by telcos fac-ing insolvency proceedingsshall be decided by the NationalCompany Law Tribunal(NCLT).

The Bench delivered itsverdict on the issues, includingthe time line for staggered payment of AGR-related dues amounting toabout �1.6 lakh crore.

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The Allahabad High Courton Tuesday quashed the

detention of Dr Kafeel Khanunder the National Security Actand ordered his immediaterelease, saying the Aligarh dis-trict magistrate did a “selectivereading” of his speech at theAMU.

The Bench comprisingChief Justice Govind Marhurand Justice Saumitra Dayal

Singh said a complete readingof the speech does not discloseany effort to promote hatred orviolence and it gives a call fornational integrity.

The court allowed the writpetition filed by Khan’s moth-er Nuzhat Parveen and said theorder for his detention passedby the DM is illegal. The peti-tion argued Khan was grantedbail in February and he wassupposed to be released on bail.

New Delhi: DefenceMinister Rajnath Singh andExternal Affairs Minister SJaishankar will take partrespective Ministers’ meets ofthe Shanghai CooperationOrganisation (SCO) inMoscow. China and Pakistantoo are part of this grouping.Both the Ministers may meettheir Chinese counterpartsthere.

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Abelligerent China hasblamed India for the latest

round of friction at the Line ofActual Control (LAC) on southbank of the Pangong Lake,calling it a step to divert pub-lic attention from the domes-tic issues, and warned Indiathat, “the PLA is bound tomake the Indian Army suffermuch more severe losses thanit did in 1962.”

China’s Western TheatreCommand said on Monday

evening that Indian troopsonce again illegally crossedthe LAC near the south bank ofthe Pangong Lake and Reqinmountain pass, a blatantprovocative move that seri-ously infringed on China’s ter-ritorial sovereignty, and under-mined the peace and stabilityin the China-India border area.

China on Monday alsotried to come close to one of thepeaks occupied by India onAugust 29, however, local com-manders dissuaded the Chinesefrom coming close.

A report in the China’smouthpiece Global Times saidthat after the June clashbetween the two armies in theGalwan Valley anti-Chinaopinion dominated Indiansociety and India overreacheditself by economically sanc-tioning China and strength-ened interaction with the US inorder to gain an upper handover Beijing.

Washington almost pub-licly sided with New Delhi,which further encouraged thelatter, the report said.

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were detected in Chhattisgarhon a single day. Also, 10 deathswere reported on Tuesday.

In all, 578 patients weredischarged from hospitals aftertheir recovery. Now the totalnumber of Covid positivepatients in the state has crossed33,000, the Health Departmentsaid in its daily report.

With the death of 10Covid-19 positive individuals,the total fatalities inChhattisgarh have reached 287.

A 43-year-old Covid pos-itive man from Sukma wasadmitted to the AIIMS Raipuron August 29. He had breath-lessness and died of multi-organ failure on Monday, thereport said.

A 38-year-old man fromRaipur was admitted to AIIMSRaipur after testing Covid pos-itive and with breathlessness on

Monday. He died on Tuesday.A 68-year-old woman from

Torva in Bilaspur was admittedto AIIMS Raipur on Mondaywith breathlessness. She wasdetected Covid positive andhad ketoacidosis. She died onTuesday.

A 65-year-old woman fromVyapar Vihar in Bilaspur wasadmitted in SEC RailwayHospital Bilaspur on Mondayafter testing Covid positive. Shewas admitted in a semi-con-scious state and she died onTuesday.

A 38-year-old man fromKumhari Durg was broughtdead to AIIMS on Monday. Hewas detected Covid positive,the report said.

A 58-year-old Covid pos-itive woman from KansiramNagar in Raipur was admittedto Dr BR Ambedkar MemorialHospital Raipur on Mondaywith breathlessness. She diedon Tuesday.

A 65-year-old Covid pos-

itive man from Tikarapara inRaipur was admitted toAmbedkar Hospital on August30. He had tuberculosis in hislungs. He died on Tuesday, thereport said.

A 70-year-old man fromTrishuli Balrampur was admit-ted in Ambedkar Hospital aftertesting Covid positive onAugust 22. He had stomachcancer and died on Tuesday.

A 65-year-old man fromJanjgir-Champa was admittedto Covid Hospital Janjgir aftertesting Covid positive onAugust Monday and died later.

A 58-year-old man fromJashpur was brought dead tothe Community Health CenterPathalgaon on Monday. Hewas later tested Covid positive,the report said.

So far 33,107 persons havebeen detected corona positivein Chhattisgarh while 17,567have been discharged fromhospitals. Currently, there are15,163 active cases in the State.

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Union Social Justice andEmpowerment Ministry

will depute an officer of therank of Chief Secretary or evensenior to probe the SC schol-arship scam in Punjab. Besides,the Ministry has also assured toconduct an audit of Rs 1,056crore sent to the PunjabGovernment for disbursementas scholarship to Dalit students.

The information wasshared by a delegation of seniorSAD leaders and legislatorsafter submitting a memoran-dum to the Union Social Justiceand Empowerment MinisterThawar Chand Gehlot in Delhion Tuesday.

The delegation maintainedthat the Minister had giventhem the assurances after learn-ing that the PunjabGovernment had entrusted theinquiry into the scam to theState Chief Secretary.

The delegation added thatthe Minister also assured toconsider recommending a CBIinquiry into the entire issue.

The delegation also hand-ed over the report of the StateAdditional Chief Secretary whoblew the lid off the scam and

has accused Punjab SC WelfareMinister Sadhu SinghDharamsot with presiding overan �63 crore scam besidesother irregularities. Minister ofState for Commerce andIndustry Som Prakash was alsopresent on the occasion.

SAD delegation, led byformer Minister and party SCwing president Gulzar SinghRanike, informed the Ministerthat Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh could not beexpected to ensure a free andfair inquiry into the scam as “hehas become party to protectingand shielding the tainted min-ister”.

“Chief Minister has alreadygiven a clean chit toDharamsot, who as his “yesman” and belonged to Patialadistrict, by asserting no irreg-ularities had been committedby the latter.

This has made the probeby the Chief Secretary infruc-tuous besides demoralizingthe entire bureaucracy whichhas been given a clear cut sig-nal not to report corruption intheir departments,” saidRanike.

ANOTHER ATTACK ON

FEDERAL POLITY: CMPunjab Chief Minister

Capt Amarinder Singh onMonday took strong exceptionto an inquiry being orderedinto the alleged scholarshipscam by the Union Minister forSocial Justice andEmpowerment without con-sulting the State Governmentor waiting for the report ofChief Secretary’s investigationinto the matter.

Reacting to the UnionMinister of State forCommerce and Industry SomPrakash’s claims that a depart-mental inquiry had beenordered, the Chief Ministersaid: “If true, the move is yetanother attack on the federalstructure of the IndianConstitutional polity…

The move is clearly aimedat eroding the StateGovernment’s authority, aspart of the BJP-led Central Government’s agendato undermine the governmentsin all non-BJP ruled states.”

“But my Government willnot succumb to such petty andmotivated pressures by theBJP or any of its alliance part-ners, including the ShiromaniAkali Dal,” he asserted.

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Haryana State HigherEducation Council

(HSHEC) on Tuesday decidedto conduct examinations ofthe last year students of allUniversities and Colleges by theend of September while resultsto be declared before October30

HSHEC president BrijKishore Kuthiala said that thisdecision was taken in a meet-ing wherein PrincipalSecretary, State HigherEducation Ankur Gupta,Director General Ajit BalajiJoshi, Vice Chancellors andExamination Controllers of allthe State universities attendedthrough video conferencing.HSHEC spokesman said thatabout two lakh students arestudying in the final year class-es of various colleges and uni-versities of the State and all thearrangements regarding theirexaminations will be made ontime.

He informed that the StateGovernment has givenapproval for these examina-

tions based on the recommen-dation of the Union Ministry ofEducation and UniversityGrants Commission. In addi-tion to this, the Supreme Courthas also made it mandatory toconduct final year examina-tions.

The Vice Chancellors of allUniversities assured that theinstructions given by theCentral Government and theState Government on 'StandardOperating Procedure' (SOP) inview of Covid-19 will be fullyimplemented. Provision hasalso been made for compart-ment and re-examination forfinal year students in all theUniversities, he added.

The spokesman furtherinformed that the students ofthese classes who have optedfor the examinations have beengiven the option to appear inthe examination either onlineor offline.

A hostel will also bearranged for the stay of stu-dents coming from far offplaces. Rules of social distanc-ing will be followed in theexamination centers.

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Punjab’s first-ever womanboxer to have qualified for

Olympics, Simranjit Kaur onTuesday finally received � 5lakhs that she was promised bythe Punjab Government morethan eight months back.

The state’s Sports andYouth Affairs Minister RanaGurmit Singh Sodhi handedover a cheque to Simranjit’smother, Rajpal Kaur, on behalfof Punjab Government atLudhiana. The prize wasannounced by the ChiefMinister Capt AmarinderSingh after his meeting with theboxer.

Sodhi congratulated theboxer’s mother saying that notonly Punjab but the entirecountry is also proud of her,who won a silver medal in theAsia-Oceania Qualifiers andnow she will represent India inthe world's largest sports arena.

He said that boxerSimranjit was also a beaconlight for the girls of the State,those who wanted to maketheir career in the field of box-ing. “This is an extraordinaryachievement of the daughter ofan ordinary family and every

possible help would be pro-vided from the StateGovernment to move her for-ward,” he added.

Sodhi also announced thatthe entire cost for Simranjit’sOlympic preparations would beborne by the StateGovernment.

Facing financial problemsand peeved over theGovernment’s apathetic atti-tude amidst lockdowns,Simranjit, who is Currently atthe national camp in Patiala,had in August rued that shewas yet to receive the cashreward promised to her, whichshe needed for training for theTokyo Olympics.

Simranjit’s issue had cometo light in January this yearwhen she shared her financialproblems with the media.Taking note, the Chief MinisterCapt Amarinder Singh hadimmediately taken to Twitterand assured all the help to theIndian boxer.

At the time, cricketerHarbhajan Singh as well asSports Minister Kiren Rijijuhad thanked the media forhighlighting Simranjit's finan-cial condition.

Simranjit, who hails from

Ludhiana's Chakar village, isthe sole breadwinner of herfamily of five, which includestwo younger brothers, elder sis-ter and mother.

Her father, who worked ata local grocery store, died inJuly 2018 due to a heart attack.Since then, the family is entire-ly dependent on what Simranjitearns from participating ininternational tournaments.

“She started her careerfrom the village. She won abronze medal in the JuniorWorld Championships in 2013,a bronze medal in the SeniorWorld Championships in 2018and a silver medal at the AsianBoxing Championships in2019.

She also learned the newtechniques of boxing at thePunjab Institute of Sports inMohali and currently preparingherself for the Olympics,” saidSodhi.

Simranjit’s mother RajpalKaur expressed gratitudetowards the Chief Ministerand assured that Simranjitwould definitely win the goldmedal in the Olympics with herhard work and the StateGovernment’s cooperation.

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ASpecial Investigation Team(SIT) of Punjab Police will

probe the attack on India’s for-mer cricketer Suresh Raina’srelatives in Pathankot, in whichhis uncle and cousin werekilled.

The decision came hoursafter Raina, in a series of tweets,had sought the help of PunjabPolice in catching the culpritsand also tagged the ChiefMinister in one of them.

The Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh, from hisofficial Twitter handle, tweet-ed, “Condole the brutal attackon kin of @ImRaina inPathankot. Have ordered a SITprobe into the case and haveasked @DGPPunjabPolice toidentify & arrest the culprits atthe earliest. Beta, my DC & SSPhave met the family and we willmake sure that the guilty arebrought to justice.”

Raina, who recently pulledout of IPL 2020 and returnedhome from the UAE citing‘personal reasons’, has said thatwhat happened to his familywas beyond horrible. “My unclewas slaughtered to death, mybua & both my cousins hadsevere injuries… Unfortunatelymy cousin also passed away lastnight after battling for life fordays. My bua is still very verycritical & is on life support,”Raina tweeted.

“Till date we don’t knowwhat exactly happened thatnight & who did this. I request@PunjabPoliceInd to look intothis matter. We at least deserveto know who did this heinousact to them,” Raina said in aseries of tweets on Tuesday.

Following the ChiefMinister’s directions, the stateDirector General of Police(DGP) Dinkar Gupta has set upa SIT to probe the attack.

Gupta said that the SIT is

headed by IGP Border Range,Amritsar, SPS Parmar, withPathankot SeniorSuperintendent of Police (SSP)Gulneet Singh Khurana,Pathankot SP (Investigation)Prabhjot Singh Virk, and DSPDhar Kalan (Pathankot)Ravinder Singh as members.

ADGP, Law and Order,Ishwar Singh has been taskedwith the day-to-day supervi-sion of the investigations, whileSPS Parmar has been autho-rized to co-opt any other policeofficer(s) posted in the State forexpeditious investigation intothe case, said the DGP.

The DGP said that theIGP is also at liberty to obtainthe support and assistance ofany other Wing or Unit of thePunjab Police to probe thecase, registered on August 20,2020, under sections 460, 459,458 of the Indian Penal Code(IPC) at Shapur Kandi policestation (Pathankot), where the

incident took place late on thenight of August 19 in Tharyalvillage.

ADGP (law and Order)and SIT chairman have beendirected to apprise the DGP ofthe status of investigation on adaily basis. “I will regularlyupdate the Chief Minister, whohas directed all measures toensure expeditious investiga-tion and arrest of the culprits,”

added the DGP.Ashok Kumar, the crick-

eter’s 58-year-old uncle, died onthe spot while his son Kaushalsuccumbed to his injuries onMonday. Three other familymembers were injured, includ-ing Ashok Kumar’s wife, AshaRani, who is reported to be incritical condition.

Though initial investiga-tions suggest that the attack hadthe signature of criminalsbelonging to a de-notifiedcriminal tribe, who are oftenseen to operate along thePunjab-Himachal border, theSIT has been mandated toexamine all possible angles,said the DGP. Specializedteams from the OrganizedCrime Control Unit have alsobeen roped in to carry out a24X7 probe into the case, headded.

DGP said that the inter-state raids are being conduct-ed to hunt out suspects

involved in past crimes of sim-ilar nature, and more than 35suspects are under the scanner.“Few persons from HimachalPradesh and Uttar Pradeshhave been identified as suspi-cious and their mobile num-bers and whereabouts are beinglocated. Raids have also beencarried out in Gurdaspur, TarnTaran, and Amritsar in coor-dination with the local police,”he added.

Six labourers, who wereworking with the deceasedAshok Kumar, have been inter-rogated. Tower dumps of thecrime scene and nearby loca-tions have been taken and sentfor technical analysis to tracksuspicious movements, saidthe DGP, who disclosed thatCCTVs of the area and Armyor BSF area have been checkedfor any suspicious movement.

Investigations so far alsosuggest the accused hadplanned to rob or trespass

three other houses in the neigh-bourhood. Similar previousincidents in Punjab are alsobeing checked out to ascertainwhether the suspects in thosecases were in jail or out, addedthe DGP.

ITS COMPLETE BREAK-DOWN OF LAW & ORDER,SAYS SAD

Shiromani Akali Dal onTuesday said that there was asharp increase in snatchings,robberies and armed dacoitieswhich had recently led to the“slaughter” of two kin ofrenowned cricketer SureshRaina which clearly indicatedthat the people, who were rul-ing the State, had locked them-selves up and left the people totheir fate.

“Even women are not safe,with a girl being forced todefend herself when attackedwith a weapon in a snatchingincident a few days back. In

another recent incident, a 65-year-old woman brick kilnowner was hacked to death out-side her home in Payal and rob-bers killed a temple priest anddecamped with money inAmritsar. A youth was shotdead a few days back even asthere are daily cases of rob-beries and loot,” said formerminister Bikram SinghMajithia.

Majithia said that the “openlicense” given to liquor andsand mafia as well as otherunscrupulous elements hadalso spoiled the law and ordersituation in the State. “Variousclean chits given to scams engi-neered by Congressmen havegiven a fillip to unscrupulouselements,” said Majithia addingthat it was shocking that whilethere was an undeclared curfewfor the common man at night,there was no restriction oncriminals who were striking atwill across the State.

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The infection of theCovid-19is getting more fatal and

widespread with every passingday in Haryana. The StateHealth department reported 17deaths and 1694 fresh cases ofthe disease on Tuesday. Thedisease has so far claimed 706lives while the tally of the dis-ease has risen to 66,426 in theState.

On a positive note amidthe gloom created by the spreadof the disease, the State Healthdepartment discharged 1163patients of the disease from dif-ferent hospitals after theircomplete recovery. A total of53,835 patients have so farrecovered from the disease andthe recovery percentage in theState is now at 81.05. The dis-ease is taking 34 days to dou-ble and the infection rate (sam-ples tested positive out of totaltested) is at 5.69 percent.

The State now has 11, 885active patients of the disease,according to a health bulletin.On Tuesday, 17 fatalities werereported from Panchkula (3),Faridabad (2), Karnal (2), Sirsa(2), Kurukshetra (2),Yamunanagar (1), Hisar (1),Palwal (1), Panipat (1), Ambala(1) and Rewari (1). The dis-tricts from where the maxi-mum cases were reported areGurugram (196), Panipat (161),Karnal (141), Faridabad (132),Sonepat (130), Hisar (98),Panchkula (98), Yamunanagar(83), Rewari (79), Ambala (78),and others, the bulletin said. Asof Monday, the fatality ratehovered around 1.06 per cent,according to the bulletin.

HARYANA ADDS NEARLY30,000 COVID-19 CASES INAUG

With coronavirus infec-tions witnessing a spike inmany northern districts,

Haryana added nearly 30,000patients to its Covid-19 tally, ajump of 85 per cent, duringAugust, an analysis of dataprovided by the State govern-ment shows. On July 31, thetotal number of cases in theState was 34,965 which soaredto 64,732 by August 31, the daywhich also saw the highestsingle-day spike of 1,450 cases.A total of 29,767 cases wereadded to the tally, while thenumber of fatalities rose from421 to 689, the State Healthdepartment data showed.

Also, during the month,recovery rate improved slightlyfrom 80.73 per cent on July 31to 81.37 per cent on August 31,while fatality rate dropped to 1.06per cent now from 1.20 per centat the end of July. The doublingrate of coronavirus infectiontoo went up from 25 to 34 dayswhile tests per million beingconducted rose from 24,165 to45,370 during the same period.

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The union territory ofChandigarh witnessed two

more COVID-19 deaths as204 fresh positive cases werereported on Tuesday.

“With this, the COVID-19toll reached 57 while the totalcases stood at 4550. Therewere 1939 active cases tillTuesday in the city,” statedChandigarh HealthDepartment’s evening bulletin.

Out of 204 positive cases,157 were detected throughRT-PCR testing while otherswere found through rapidantigen testing.

The fresh cases in the city

were reported from Sectors 4,7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28,29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38,39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47,48, 50, 51, 56, 63, 38 west,Behlana, Burail, Dhanas,Hallomajra, Kajheri, Industrialarea phase II, Maloya,Manimajra, Mauli Jagran,Palsora, PGIMER campus,Ram Darbar and Bapu Dhamin Sector 26, as per the bul-letin.

One year old female childfrom Sector 39, two years oldmale child from Sector 23and three years old male childfrom Sector 45 were amongthose found infected.

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With 1522 fresh cases of thenovel coronavirus and

59 casualties in a span of past24 hours, Punjab’s COVID-19tally on Tuesday reached 55,508while the death toll stood at1512. The state’s positivity rateon Tuesday recorded at eightpercent, while the mortalityrate has reached 2.72 percent.

The state continued to reg-ister the trend it witnessedduring the month of August, inwhich, on an average, Punjabrecorded 34 deaths and 1222fresh cases every day. In Augustalone, the state reported whop-ping 37,873 cases — whichaccounts for 70.15 percent ofthe total cases in Punjab, and1067 casualties — whichamounts to 73.43 percent of thestate’s total deaths.

Ludhiana, once again,reported the maximum num-

ber of infections in a single dayamong all the districts and alsothe deaths. With 13 deathsand 216 fresh cases, Ludhianatops the infection chart withtotal 10,950 positive cases and426 deaths. However, Jalandhardistrict has the maximumnumber of active cases at 2308,followed by 2263 in Ludhiana.

Besides Ludhiana,Jalandhar reported eightdeaths, followed by seven inAmritsar, five each inFerozepur and Patiala, foureach in Fatehgarh Sahib andKapurthala, three in Bathinda,two each in Barnala andFaridkot, and one each inGurdaspur, Hoshiarpur,Fazilka, Moga, Pathankot, andTarn Taran.

Among the fresh infec-tions, SAS Nagar (Mohali) alsoregistred a spike with 211 cases,followed by Jalandhar with158, Patiala with 120, Amritsar

with 111, Faridkot with 110,and Gurdaspur with 104 freshcases. Besides, Bathinda (64),Muktsar (60), Moga (51), TarnTaran (45), Hoshiarpur (38),Pathankot (35), Kapurthala(33), Ropar (33), Fazilka (25),Barnala (23), SBS Nagar (21),Mansa (21), Sangrur (17),Fatehgarh Sahib (15), andFerozepur (11), are amongother districts that reportedfresh cases in the past 24 hours.

As many 17 prisoners —eight from Kapurthala, threefrom Tarn Taran, two eachfrom Amritsar, Moga, andBathinda; besides eight Policepersonnel — three fromMuktsar, two each fromSangrur and SBS Nagar, andone from Faridkot, are amongthe fresh cases.

A total of 1,120 patients —182 from Ludhiana, 168 fromPatiala, 116 from Faridkot, 98from Gurdaspur.

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Congress’ senior leader andPunjab Cabinet Minister

Sukhjinder Singh Randhawaon Tuesday slammed SADpresident Sukhbir Singh Badalfor baking political bread inthis time of epidemic instead ofsupporting the StateGovernment which was bat-tling COVID-19. “It is shame-ful and reprehensible for SADpresident to resort to rumourmongering amongst the inno-cent villagers to fulfill his polit-ical aspirations,” he said.

Reacting to Sukhbir’s state-ment condemning the StateGovernment’s efforts to dealwith COVID-19, Randhawasaid that today when not onlythe entire country but theentire world is engulfed in thisgrave crisis, SAD chief is behav-

ing like a schoolboy and mak-ing immature statements forthe sake of regaining lost polit-ical ground.

“By casting doubt on thegovernment hospitals, Sukhbirhas tried unsuccessfully to dis-courage the doctors and healthstaff fighting against COVID asfrontline warriors,” saidRandhawa adding that Sukhbirshould have asked his workersto make the village peopleaware about COVID-19 byproviding correct informationand to cooperate with thehealth workers so that thetreatment of the patients withsymptoms could be startedimmediately after the test.

But it is rather unfortunatethat the Akali Dal is bakingpolitical bread and incitinginnocent villagers against theState Government.

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With an unprecedentedsurge in Covid-19 cases

in the past fortnight,Chandigarh is now among topthree in the country with high-est positivity rate suggestingthat the union territory is fac-ing a tough challenge to stemthe spread of infection.

The city on Tuesdayrecorded a daily test positivityrate (TPR) of 23 percent. As faras the cumulative TPR is con-cerned, the union territorywas at third place with a posi-tivity rate of 14.5 percent. Notonly this, Chandigarh hasreported 6.2 percent averagegrowth rate of infections, whichis the highest in the country.

A day before, the city hadrecorded the highest daily TPRof 37.23 percent in the countryfollowed by Puducherry at

26.44 percent. The country’sCOVID-19 positivity rate stoodat 7.50 percent, while thecumulative positivity rate was8.57 percent. Positivity rate —the fraction of tests that returnpositive – is a crucial metric asexperts say that a high positiv-ity rate is also indicative ofhigher infection in the com-munity and points to the needfor ramping up testing.

A high positivity rate canalso mean limited testingcapacity — meaning only thosemost likely to be COVID-19positive are getting screenedand a large number of mildercases remaining undetected.

Chandigarh’s test positivi-ty rate has shown no signs ofcalming down in the past fort-night as the number of positivecases are surging at a fast pace.From a positivity rate of 6.45percent in April, 6.12 percentin May, 5.72 percent in June,

7.52 percent in July, the city hasbreached the 10 percent markin the month of August.

Notably, the World HealthOrganization (WHO), as wellas the Indian Council forMedical Research (ICMR),advise that testing be rampedup if the TPR exceeds 10 per-cent.

The total tally of positivecases in Chandigarh stood at4550 which included 1939active cases till Tuesdayevening. Till date, 57 residentshave succumbed to COVID-19in the city. While 204 freshcases were reported onTuesday, the city had clocked itshighest single-day spike with261 cases on August 29.

The total samples collect-ed for testing so far are 31268.The city’s testing rate was 150a day in July, which jumped to500 in early August and hasnow touched 700-900. In the

past 24 hours, 891 sampleswere tested in the union terri-tory.

As the COVID-19 graphcontinues to peak, Chandigarhhad reported 3295 positivecases in the month of August.41 residents succumbed to thedeadly virus in the month ofAugust while 15 fatalities werereported till July 30.

GRIM COVID-19 INDICA-TORS IN CHD

A higher positivity rate isnot the only concern forChandigarh as the city contin-ues to maintain its worst recordin COVID-19 parameters. Thecity has recorded 6.2 percentaverage growth rate of infec-tions, which is the highest inthe country.

The average growth rateessentially means the speed atwhich COVID-19 infectionsincrease.

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STAFF REPORTER nRAIPUR

Chief Minister BhupeshBaghel has urged all MPs,

MLAs, Mayors, Chairmen ofcivic bodies and Panchayatrepresentatives in the state tomake the month-long‘Malnutrition FreeChhattisgarh’ campaign thatbegan on Tuesday a success.

Across the state, the‘National Nutrition Month’ isbeing held from September 1to 30. The key is creatingawareness among communi-ties on nutrition, behaviourchanges, identification ofSeverely Acute Malnourished(SAM) children and

providing adequate treatmentand nutritional support.

The Chief Minister saidthe MLAs have been active intrying to end the malnutri-tion and anemia among chil-dren. At the state level, a‘Nutrition Month’ was organ-ized. He sought the active

support and coordination ofeveryone in the current drivetoo.

Baghel said malnutritionand anemia among childrenis a critical problem. He saidthat due to Covid-19 pan-demic, apart from the othermediums, mass movementthrough digital format will beorganized.

The promotion of breastfeeding up to six months andgiving additional nutritionafter that is to be promoted.Baghel called for more use ofvegetables, growing fruitbearing plants in backyardand community gardens aswell as open lands andpromoting kitchen gardens.

CM seeks support to beatmalnutrition in Chhattisgarh

Baghel saidmalnutrition andanemia amongchildren is acritical problem

STAFF REPORTER nDANTEWADA

The body of a HeadConstable who had left

his camp on August 28 with-out informing anyone wasfound in Chhattisgarh'sDantewada district onTuesday, police said, blamingthe Naxalites for his death.

Saying Maoists havekilled Kaneshwar Netam (32),Dantewada Superintendent ofPolice Abhishek Pallava saidover phone that a pamphlet ofthe CPI(Maoist) East BastarDivision Committee wasfound near the body, takingresponsibility for the murder.

Netam's body, bearinghead injuries, was found on

Tuesday morning near arivulet on a forest routebetween Bodli and Kademetavillages, the officer said.

The Head Constable ofCAF’s 22nd battalion wastransferred to the Bodli campof his unit from his districtKanker last month, he said.

Netam joined duty atBodli on August 25. He leftthe camp on the evening ofAugust 28 allegedly withoutinforming anyone and didnot return.

Police launched a searchoperation the next day andlearnt that he had food at thehouse of a villager in nearbyGhotiya village. On Sunday,some villagers dropped him

near the Malewahi camp ofthe Central Reserve PoliceForce (CRPF), Pallava said.

"However, he did not goinside the camp and ran awayfrom there," the official said.

In the past, Netamallegedly left his camp with-out informing anyone andremained absent from dutyfor two to three days duringhis posting in Geedam(Dantewada) and Jagdalpur(Bastar), Pallava said.

On Monday, the body of a59-year-old Assistant Sub-Inspector who went missingwhile travelling to his villagein Bijapur district was found.Police suspect he was alsokilled by Maoists.

STAFF REPORTER nRAIPUR

The Anti-CorruptionBureau (ACB) on

Tuesday caught red-handedan Assistant Grade-IIIemployee while taking abribe of `2,500 from a col-league Grade-IV employeefor approving his applicationrelated to the GeneralPension Fund (GPF).

ACB Superintendent ofPolice Pankaj Chandra toldThe Pioneer that DeepakKumar Yadav, posted at theoffice of Deputy Director ofVeterinary Services inBilaspur district’s Janjgir-Champa, has been arrested.

The Grade-IV employeehad complained to ACBBilaspur.

The complainant saidthat he handed over an appli-cation seeking approval forwithdrawing GPF amount of`1 lakh for the medical treat-ment of his wife.

Yadav demanded a bribeof `5,000, failing which hesaid his application won't bepassed.

The complainant onTuesday at 1.45 pm went topay Yadav `2,500 as the firstinstalment of the bribeamount. ACB sleuths caughthim while taking the bribeand recovered the bribemoney.

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

IAS officer Ankit Anand was onTuesday posted as Special

Secretary (Independent charge) ofthe Housing and EnvironmentDepartment in the Chhattisgarhgovernment.

According to an order of theGeneral AdministrationDepartment, Anand (IAS, 2006),will retain the posts of ManagingDirector, Chhattisgarh StateCooperative Marketing FederationLtd (MARKFED), Raipur, and ChiefExecutive Officer, Atal Nagar, NavaRaipur Development Authority andalso be the Special Secretary(Independent charge) of Housingand Environment Department.

On his taking charge,Sangeetha. P (IAS, 2004), SecretaryHousing and Environment, will be

relieved from the post. The chargeof Secretary, Commercial Tax(Registration) Department, held bySangeetha will now be taken over bythe link officer.

On Monday, Renu G. Pillay(IAS, 1991), who was holdingcharge of Additional ChiefSecretary (ACS), MedicalEducation, and additional charge ofDirector General, ChhattisgarhAdministrative Academy, was post-ed as ACS, Public Health andFamily Welfare and MedicalEducation Department, and givenadditional charge of DirectorGeneral, ChhattisgarhAdministration Academy.

On her taking charge, NiharikaBarik, Secretary Public Health andFamily Welfare, will be relieved ofthe charge. Barik is going on a longleave.

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

Raipur District Collector DrS. Bharati Dasan on

Tuesday asked the police toregister a FIR against twoCovid-19 positive individualsfor breaching quarantine andviolating the EpidemicDiseases Act.

Ashish Sharma of SundarNagar and Onkar Dewanganof Changorabhata were detect-ed Covid positive on August21, an official press releasesaid.

The district administra-tion then asked them to getadmitted in a hospital.However, they providedwrong information to thepolice about their location, thepress release said.

The district administra-tion had pasted stickers andribbons outside their houses.However, instead of assistingthe administration, both the

patients acted in a way thatcan cause coronavirus tospread, the press releaseadded.

“The number of coron-avirus positive patients is con-stantly increasing in the dis-trict and the administration istrying hard to control it,”Bharati Dasan was quoted assaying in the press releasewhile directing action againstthe two men.

They have been bookedunder sections 188, 269 and270 of the Indian Penal Code(IPC) as well as the EpidemicAct.

Naxalites kill CAFconstable in Dantewada

ACB nabs Grade-IIIemployee for takingbribe from colleague

Two Covid-19+ves to face FIR

instead of assistingthe administration,both the patientsacted in a way thatcan causecoronavirus to spread

Anand is now Spl Secy forHousing, Environment

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

There is a need to strength-en the public distribution

system (PDS) and the networkof food security, the newChairman of the ChhattisgarhState Food Commission,Gurpreet Singh Babra, said onTuesday.

Babra made the remarkswhile reviewing the imple-mentation of the NationalFood Security Act 2013 andChhattisgarh Food andNutrition Security Act 2012 ata meeting held at MahanadiBhavan (Secretariat) here.

Babra said an action planshould be made to give accessto 222 ration shops during therainy season.

He instructed the transferof 130 ration shops located inNaxalite-infested areas ofBastar division which are notoperating in their originalpanchayats.

The meeting decided to

take immediate action on therecommendations of the quar-terly review report related tothe implementation of PDS forthe last two years.

Babra reviewed rationitems such as rice, sugar, saltand jaggery given by fair priceshops every month to the ben-eficiaries of Antyodaya, pri-mary and above poverty line(APL) ration card holders.

Besides, he reviewed thedistribution of additional allo-cation of rice received formigrants from the Centralgovernment, Mid-day MealScheme, SupplementaryNutrition Diet Scheme,Pradhan Mantri MatruVandana Yojana and RiceScheme for hostels andashrams.

Babra ordered for specialmonitoring on the quality ofration items supplied underPDS, SupplementaryNutrition Scheme and Mid-Day Meal Scheme.

Need to strengthenthe PDS: Babra

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR

The Chhattisgarh Board ofSecondary Education has made

elaborate arrangements for thestudents of Class 10 and 12 vis-a-vis

their curriculum and evaluation. Accordingly, the education of

each student will be evaluated andspecial attention will be paidtowards the education of weaker

students. This system will beimplemented this month.

Instructions have been issued bythe Board to the principals of allrecognized schools.

The Board has said that theacademic session in Chhattisgarhbegins on June 15 but all education-al institutions will remain closed tillSeptember 30 as per the order of theCentral government. So, specialarrangements have been made forthe students of Class 10 and 12.

Keeping in view the delay inopening the schools, the curriculumhas been reduced by about 30 to 40percent. The syllabus will be avail-able on the website of theChhattisgarh Board of SecondaryEducation www.cgbse.nic.in tillSeptember 3.

Elaborate arrangements forstudents of Class 10, 12

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Five States — Maharashtra,Andhra Pradesh,

Karnataka, Tamil Nadu andUttar Pradesh — are reportingover 500 deaths in a day, whichis over 65 per cent of the totalfatalities registered in the coun-try in the past 24 hours. TheseStates have also accounted forover half of the total COVID-19 cases in the country even asthey registered close to 60 percent of the total recoveriesduring the period.

Worst-hit Maharashtratopped the list at 11,852 fol-lowed by Andhra Pradesh(10,004), Karnataka (6,495),Tamil Nadu (5,956) and UttarPradesh (4,782). Together theyaccount for 56 per cent of theconfirmed cases added in thelast 24 hours, a senior officialfrom the Union HealthMinistry.

Incidentally, Tamil Nadu,Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtraare the three States that are con-tributing maximum to theoverall number of tests includeamong others. “These threeStates account for nearly 34 percent of the total testing, “ theofficial added.

“These five states havealso reported the maximum

number of patients that werecured and discharged in the last24 hours, cumulativelyaccounting for 58.04% of thenational figure of 65,081 per-sons. While Maharashtrareported recoveries of 11,158patients, the correspondingfigures for Andhra Pradeshand Karnataka stand at 8,772and 7,238. Tamil Nadu followswith 6,008, while Uttar Pradeshposted recovery of 4,597Covid-19 patients, “ said theofficial.

With a cumulative figure of536 deaths in the last 24 hours,the above mentioned five statestogether account for 65.4 percent of the deaths added to thenational total (819).Maharashtra has reported 184deaths, Karnataka has added113, followed by Tamil Nadu(91), Andhra Pradesh (85) andUttar Pradesh (63).

Meanwhile, India’s cumu-lative tests have crossed 4.3crores today (4,33,24,834).1,22,66,514 tests were done inthe last two weeks alone.Moreover, States/UTs are pro-gressively increasing their test-ing capacity.

India’s per day testingcapacity has crossed 10 lakhstests, including 10,16,920 testsconducted in the last 24 hours.

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Contrary to expectationsthat the new stringent

Motor Vehicles AmendmentAct, implemented almost ayear ago, would lead to lessen-ing road crash deaths in thecountry, the numbers haveactually alarmingly increased—from 1,52,780 deaths in 2018 to1,54,732 deaths in 2019, whichis a 1.3 percent rise.

Concerned over this wor-rying rise, reported by theNational Crime RecordsBureau (NCRB), a high-levelmeeting has been convened bythe Ministry of Road Transportand Highways to plug the loop-holes. Ministry sources said theincrease in overall road fatali-ties in last one year could bedue to the poor implementa-tion of the new MV Act by theStates.

The report on ‘AccidentalDeaths and Suicides in India(ADSI)’ for the year 2019released by NCRB marks a yearsince the notification of theMotor Vehicles AmendmentAct, 2019.

The NCRB report has alsohighlighted that road trafficinjuries constitute the eighthleading causes of death inIndia.

As per the ADSI, 1,54,732people were killed and 4,39,262people were injured in 4,37,396road accidents in India in 2019.The number of road accidentfatalities increased from1,52,780 in 2018 to 1,54,732 in2019.

During 2019, two wheelershave accounted for maximumfatal road accidents (58,747deaths), contributing 38.0% oftotal road accidental deaths,followed by trucks/lorries

(22,637 deaths) (14.6%), cars(21,196 deaths) (13.7%) andbuses (9,192 deaths) (5.9%).

Over speeding contributedto 56% of the total road crashdeaths (86,241 deaths), fol-lowed by dangerous or carelessdriving, contributing to 27.5%of total crash deaths (42,557deaths).

The annual accident reportof 2019 also reveals that out ofthe total 154,732 people killedin road crash deaths in 2019, 65

percent were the youth of 18 to45 years and children of 14years age group involved inroad crash deaths were 2.6percent.

Among the States, UttarPradesh recorded the highestroad crash deaths with 23285deaths (15% of total deaths in2019) followed by Maharashtrarecording 14608 deaths (9.4%)and Madhya Pradesh recording11856 deaths (7.7%).

Additionally, in terms of

crashes - road accidents (67,228cases) accounted for 97.3% oftotal traffic accidents in 53mega cities during 2019.Chennai accounted for 10.2%(6,871 out of 67,228 cases) oftotal road accidents reported in53 mega cities followed byDelhi (8.0%) (5,349 cases).

Last year as per the newMV Act hefty fines were leviedwhich accounted for anincrease in over 10 times ofexisting offences but some ofthe States protested the moveand are still to implementthem.

“On one hand India con-tinues to see a rise in road crashfatalities, and on the other

hand State Governments areyet to fully implement theMotor Vehicle (Amendment)Act 2019, which was passedwith the intent of reducing roadcrash deaths.

The latest figures call forintrospection by all thosewho’ve been resisting or oppos-ing the implementation of thenew law, “ said Piyush Tewari,CEO and founder of Savelife Foundation, whensought for his comments in thisregard.

Every year in India, around1,50, 000 lives are lost in roadaccidents alone according toRoad Transport and HighwaysMinistry.

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In a major feat, the ITBPmountaineers of Sector Head

Quarter Shimla climbed 22,222feet high Leo Pargil peak locat-ed at International Boundary(IB) in Himachal Pradesh.

Twelve members of the16-member team climbed thepeak and it is the only suc-cessful mountaineering expe-dition in Northern India amidthe Covid-19 pandemic, offi-cials said.

The leader of this chal-lenging expedition was DeputyCommandant Kuldeep Singhand Deputy Leader was DeputyCommandant Dharmendra .Head Constable Pradeep Negi,native of Chhitkul, the lastborder village in Kinnaur,climbed it a second time.

Negi has also climbed theworld’s largest mountain MtEverest twice.

Leo Pargil peak is consid-ered one of the toughest andtechnical peaks in India. Thissnow-covered difficult peak islocated in remote Lahaul Spitidistrict of Himachal Pradesh.

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Public health experts fromthree medical associations-

— Indian Public HealthAssociation, the IndianAssociation of Preventive andSocial Medicine and the IndianAssociation of Epidemiologists— have written to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi sug-gesting that schools and othereducational institutions shouldbe reopened in a graded man-ner.

They have stated that theclosure has had a significantimpact on the teaching-learn-ing system and mental healthof the children particularly oflower socio-economic strata,who do not have social capitalfor alternatives like digital plat-forms.

“It is time now to movetowards normalcy. The open-ing of schools and other edu-cational institutions could bestarted in a graded manner.There should be a pragmaticapproach, especially in areaswhere a sufficient populationis already infected, “ theexperts said.

The associations furthersaid that it must be assumedthat an effective vaccineagainst the novel coronavirus“would not be available in thenear future “ and any falsesense of hope that this panaceais just around the corner mustbe avoided.

Twenty members of thejoint Covid-19 task force wenton to say that schools may be

opened with due safety mea-sures with social distancing,alternate work days and withadequate surveillance even inlow infection areas.

“Sufficient evidence isavailable that infected, youngchildren are at an extremelylow risk of developing mor-bidity, “ the public healthexperts said.

They requested theGovernment to discontinuethe imposition of lockdown asa strategy to control the spreadof Coronavirus infection andsaid that limited restrictionsshould be imposed in epi-demiologically-defined clus-ters for short periods.

The three health associa-tions said that even clusterrestrictions should be imposedonly after weighing its impacton the livelihood of the pop-ulation.

They added that creatingcontainment zones and aggres-sive testing for Covid-19 offerslittle advantage in large citieswhere the infection has alreadyspread wide. “The focusshould instead be on prevent-ing deaths from Covid-19 andnot containing the infection. “

The experts said that con-tainment zones should berevamped with a clearroadmap and timelines forperiodic review by an expertcommittee, with the aim to testall suspects, isolate all infected individuals for prop-er treatment and that theyshould be de-contained in 14days.

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The India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) on

Tuesday said that Indiareceived 27 per cent more rain-fall than normal in August, thefourth highest amount in thelast 120 years. This is due toformation of five low pressureareas in Bay of Bengal inAugust which led to heavy tomoderate rainfall across India.

The August of 1926 saw 33per cent more rainfall than nor-mal, the highest precipitationrecorded so far in the month;1976 recorded 28.4 per centmore rainfall than normal,while the August of 1973recorded 27.8 per cent thannormal. This year saw 27 percent rainfall.

The IMD had predictedthat August was likely to receiverainfall that is 97 per cent of theLPA with an error margin ofplus/minus nine per cent.

The overall rainfall record-ed in India from June 1 toAugust 31 was 9 per cent morethan normal. It has recorded784.8 mm rainfall as against

the normal of 716.9 mm so far.According to the IMD,

This is also one of the rainiestmonths of August recorded.“Rainfall recorded in August2020 is the fourth highest inthe last 120 years and highestin 44 years. August has record-ed 27 per cent more rainfallthan normal, “ IMD’s scientistRK Jenamani said. The officialrainfall season in the countryis from June 1 to September 30.Jenamani said five low pressureareas formed over Bay ofBengal brought heavy rainsover central and north India.Of the five, four developed intoa well-marked low pressurearea.

In its forecast for Augustlast month, the IMD had pre-dicted rainfall of 97 per cent ofthe Long Period Average(LPA) with an error margin ofplus or minus 9 per cent.Monsoon in the range of 96-104 per cent of the LPA is con-sidered normal.

According to the IMD,the first low pressure areaformed between August 4 and10 off the Odisha coast.

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The Central Reserve PoliceForce (CRPF) has for the

first time appointed a female IPSofficer as the Inspector General(IG) of the paramilitary’s sensi-tive Srinagar Sector, one of themost terror-hit areas in Jammuand Kashmir.

The 1996-batch Telanganacadre IPS officer Charu Sinhawill head the Srinagar Sector ofCRPF as the Inspector General.She was earlier heading theJammu Sector.

Earlier, Sinha had worked asIG of CRPF’s Bihar Sector andhad successfully led variousanti-Naxal operations in thearea of responsibility followingwhich she was transferred to

Jammu to head the Sector as IG.On Monday, the CRPF

headquarters issued an orderassigning her the task to leadthe Srinagar Sector.

Director General of CRPFAP Maheshwari headed theSrinagar Sector as IG in 2005.The Srinagar Sector startedfunctioning in 2005 but neverhad a female officer to lead it.This sector is engaged in anti-terror operations in close con-junction with the Indian Armyand Jammu and Kashmirpolice.

The Srinagar Sector, locat-ed at Brein Nishat, Srinagar hasoperational jurisdiction overthree districts of Budgam,Ganderbal and Srinagar as alsothe Union Territory of Ladakh.

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The Supreme Court has soughtresponse from the Centre and the

Delhi government on a plea challengingan NGT order refusing permission forregistration of diesel vehicles of theSpecial Protection Group.

A three-judge bench headed byJustice R F Nariman issued notices to theCentre, Delhi government, CentralPollution Control Board, Delhi pollutioncontrol committee and others.

“Issue notice returnable within fourweeks, “ the bench, also comprisingJustices Navin Sinha and Indira Banerjee,said.

Special Protection Group moved theapex court against National GreenTribunal’s October 9, 2019 order dis-missing its plea seeking review of its orderrefusing permission for registration of

diesel vehicles.The NGT had said the permission

cannot be granted in view of the SupremeCourt order that no new diesel vehiclescan be registered in Delhi.

“Subsequently, the top court per-mitted (registration of) diesel vehicles incategory of private cars and SUVs with

the engine capacity of 2000 ccsubject to certain conditions.The vehicles in question arenot covered by the said cate-gory, “ it had said.

The green panel had saidthough it had earlier madeexception in cases wherepublic utility was involved,such orders cannot continueto be passed forever so as tobecome a rule.

The tribunal noted that ithad earlier directed that no

commercial diesel vehicle could be reg-istered in Delhi in view of the high lev-els of air pollution. The green panel saidit cannot pass conflicting orders.

The tribunal was hearing plea filedby lawyer Vardhaman Kaushik who hadfiled a petition on deteriorating air qual-ity in Delhi and NCR.

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The CPI(M) on Tuesdayclaimed that the latest offi-

cial data on the Indian econ-omy has revealed the “totaldevastation “ that had begunmuch before the onset of thecoronavirus pandemic in thecountry.

Asserting that close to 24per cent contraction in thegross domestic product (GDP)is “phenomenal and unprece-dented “, the left party allegedthe cumulative impact ofdemonetization, GST imple-mentation and the “abrupt,unplanned and unpreparednational lockdown “ have allcontributed to the “destruc-tion “ of the Indian economy.

According to official datareleased on Monday, India’seconomy suffered its worstslump on record in April-June,with the GDP contracting by23.9 per cent as the coron-avirus-related lockdownsweighed on the already-declin-ing consumer demand andinvestment.

The GDP contraction inthe world’s fifth-largest econo-my compared with 3.1 percent growth in the preceding

January-March quarter and5.2 per cent expansion in thesame period a year back.

“The data released by thegovernment yesterday showsthe total devastation of theIndian economy that beganmuch before the COVID-19pandemic emerged, “ theCPI(M) said in a statement.

The primary cause for thisis the massive fall in domesticdemand, that is sharply declin-ing purchasing power of thepeople, it said.

“Instead of addressing thisissue by vastly enhancing pub-lic investments to build ourmuch-needed infrastructureand general large-scale employ-ment, which would havestrengthened the demand inthe economy, the (Narendra)

Modi Government isfocused on pursuing the neo-liberal trajectory of makingmore funds available for invest-ment by private corporates, giv-ing them greater tax conces-sions and looting nationalassets, “ the Left party said.

The CPI(M) claimed thatno amount of incentive for pri-vate investment can revive theeconomy and held that what isproduced by such investmentsneeds to be sold in the markets.

“There are no buyers,both globally and domestical-ly. The CPI(M) has all alongmounted public pressure onthis Central Government toincrease governmental expen-ditures. The government, how-ever, continues to pursue poli-cies of constraining expendi-tures which, in turn, also dras-tically reduced governmentrevenues because of the eco-nomic recession, “ it said.

The party said that massivehikes in public investmentscoupled with cash transfersand free food is the only man-ner in which any meaningfuleconomic recovery is possible,along with providing peoplewith some relief and liveli-hood.

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Congress national gener-al secretary and the

party’s Rajasthan in-chargeAjay Maken on Mondayaccused the BJP of usinginvestigative agencies forits own political benefits.

Earlier in the day, theBJP alleged that the RajivGandhi Foundation and theRajiv Gandhi CharitableTrust received donationsfrom organisations linked toMehul Choksi, RanaKapoor, Jignesh Shah andZakir Naik, all of whom arebeing probed under moneylaundering charges.

Replying to a questionon the BJP’s demand of aprobe by the EnforcementDirectorate in donationsreceived by the RajivGandhi Foundation, Makensaid, “We have seen inRajasthan and in otherstates that BJP is using EDand CBI for its own politi-cal benefits. “

“The ED doesn’t comefirst. If anyone knows thelaw, ED comes when dis-crepancies, if there is any,found by any other agency.It has to be identified andproved by any other agencyand then only ED comes, “he said.

Meanwhile, heexpressed satisfaction overthe state government’s workprogress, saying that it hasachieved 60-70 per centpoints of manifesto.

“Ministers have sub-mitted department wisereports on promises madein the manifesto. I am happyand satisf ied. If anyGovernment achieves 60-70percent of its manifesto,then I understand that it isa good speed, “ Maken toldreporters at a press confer-ence here.

He held a meeting withparty leaders at the stateCongress headquarters totake their feedback.

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The Congress has asked theGujarat Government to

provide immediate relief tofarmers affected by poor orexcessive rainfall in the state.

The opposition party hasclaimed farmers in the statehave suffered losses to thetune of Rs 25,000 crore eitherdue to deficient or excessiverainfall.

Attacking the BJP gov-ernment over the newlylaunched Mukhya MantriKisan Sahay Yojana (MMKSY),Leader of Opposition PareshDhanani of the Congress

alleged provisions of thescheme were not logical andmeant to cheat farmers.

“Standing crops on82,98,371 hectare land havebeen damaged due to excessiveor poor rainfall across varioustalukas in Gujarat this kharifseason, “ Dhanani said in a let-ter written to Chief MinisterVijay Rupani on Monday.

The Congress leaderdemanded that the state gov-ernment conduct a surveywithout any delay and ensurethat affected farmers get theirdue compensation under cropinsurance and other welfareschemes.

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Banda (UP): Thirty-two members of an extended fam-ily living in the same locality have tested positive forCovid.

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) N D Sharma said.“Forty-four new patients of Covid-19 have been con-firmed in the district on Monday evening, including 32members of the same family living in Phuta Kuan local-ity of Banda city.”

Since the family members live in different housesas well as separate portions of the house, they have beenquarantined for now.

The CMO said that 807 infected patients have beenfound so far in the district of which eight have died and360 are still active. He said the remaining 439 have beentreated and discharged. IANS

Patna: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)office here has been witnessing a huge rushof ticket aspirants, ahead of the upcomingAssembly elections in Bihar.

Kumar Rahul Singh, Bihar's RJDGeneral Secretary said: “We have askedevery aspiring candidate to submit the appli-cation and resume at the party office. Theyare coming in large numbers. Sometimes,the figure touches the 600-mark. We arereceiving applications since the last 10 daysand the numbers are expected to go up inthe coming days.”

“The party has constituted a dedicatedteam to analyse each bio-data. The processof uploading the bio-data starts soon afterthe ticket seekers submit it to the party'sstate president Jagada Nand Singh. Onecopy is sent to Tejashvi Yadav and anothergoes to party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav,” Singhsaid.

“We have ensured transparency in theselection of candidates. After shortlisting thenames of the candidates, another team willcross check the claims of the ticket seekerson the ground by conducting a survey intheir respective constituencies,” the RJDGeneral Secretary said.

“As per the parameters, the party looksat the popularity of the candidates, theiractiveness in their constituencies, past

work for the party and on the social front,number of people added recently throughdigital methods,” Singh said.

Sanjiv Sahay, Spokesperson of the RJD,pointed out that the large turnout of tick-et seekers is also an indication of the RJD'spopularity in the state.

“We already have a staggering one crorededicated members and digital membershipis currently underway to add maximumnumbers of people in the party,” Sahay said.

Ram Nivas, a ticket seeker fromBenipatti constituency said: “I am associ-ated with the party since the last 12 yearsand digitally added 40,000 people in thephase of corona. I have a team workinground the clock to add more and more peo-ple. I came to Patna in the expectation ofa ticket.” The RJD alliance partner Congressclaims that 100 to 150 candidates are com-ing every day seeking a ticket.

Madan Mohan Jha, the state presidentof the Congress said: “We have parameterssimilar to the RJD. Tickets will be given tocandidates having a good reputation, con-duct and impressive popularity amongvoters.”

“We will look at the strength of indi-vidual candidates and the number of peo-ple added by them digitally. It is importantin the time of corona,” Jha added. IANS

Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanathgovernment is planning to setup a 'Toy City' along theYamuna Expressway in thestate.

The decision to speed upthe planning came a day afterPrime Minister Narendra Modibatted for a local toy industryin his radio programme “Mannki Baat'. Uttar Pradesh does nothave an established toy indus-try as such though toys fromJhansi have been included inthe “One District One Product'scheme.

Additional Chief SecretaryMSME, Navneet Sehgal, saidthat around 70 entrepreneurshave shown interest in settingup toy units in the state. “Wehave even prepared a basicdraft proposal for the same andare now working towards set-ting up a toy city,” he said.

Sources said that the stategovernment would providesubsidised land under theMSME provisions and alsomake arrangements for theraw material needed for the toy

industry.The toy industry in the

country is worth about Rs10,000 crore and according tothe International MarketAnalysis, Research andConsulting Group, Indian par-ticipation in the global toyindustry is merely 0.5 per cent.

In the Indian market, thelocally made toys account formerely 12 per cent. The major-ity of the toys are importedfrom China and other coun-tries.

Varanasi, which is PrimeMinister Narendra Modi's par-liamentary constituency, isknown for its wooden toys thathave lost their sheen over theyears.

Dr Rajnikant, a PadmaShri awardee who works for theconservation and promotion oftraditional crafts, said, “Around3,000 artisans, including crafts-men and craftswomen, earntheir livelihood by making toysout of wood in Varanasi.”

He said that the woodentoys are exported to the US,

Russia, Latin American coun-tries, European countries,including Germany and Spain,several South-East Asian coun-tries and the Gulf.

The craftsmen, however,feel that they lag behind whenit comes to the promotion andadvertising of their products.

Raghuveer, a toy maker,said, “What we need is anaggressive marketing policy topopularise our toys. The gov-ernment should lend a helpinghand because this cannot bedone on an individual basis.”

The local artisans maketraditional wooden toys,including wooden utensils,spinning top, small woodenbirds and animals. They alsocarve many decorative itemsout of wood. These are espe-cially used on the occasions ofShri Krishna Janmashtami andDeepawali. Lacquerware andwooden toys made in Varanasi, Sonbhadra,Chandauli and Mirzapur gotthe Geographical Indication(GI) tag in 2015. IANS

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With inadequate transportand incessant downpour

the candidates appearing for theJEE (Main) examinations onTuesday had a tough time toreach their exam centres inparts of Bengal.

This, notwithstanding thefact that the State Governmenthad earlier directed the trans-port authorities to ensure thatadditional numbers of buses,taxis and auto-rickshaws pliedon the road.

Students said they had tobrave heavy rain to reach theirexamination centres from as faras 200 km away to Kolkata andSiliguri. Such was the situationthat a parent a daily wage earn-er had to hire a motorcycle toferry his son 150 km from EastMidnapore to Kolkata. “I had

no other choice because it wasthe question of my son’scareer… I cannot let him digearth like me,” said his father.

Others Aakash,, Dipanjanand Anamika had to travel allthe way from Behrampore andMalda to Kolkata and Siligurirespectively shelling out hugeamount of cash because “wecould not find public transport.”

“Inside the halls they main-tained good social distancingand other norms but outsideour parents were allowed todrench in the rain… the examscould have been postponed,”said one of the students whotraveled from Khardaha inNorth 24 Parganas.

With August 31 being alockdown day and “we havingno relative in Kolkata we had totravel 200 km fromBehrampore to Kolkata hiring

a private cab and shelling out Rs8,000,” a candidate said addingthe NEET examines might geta better deal as the MetroRailways might be runningduring their exams.

Meanwhile, with the MetroRailways planning to restart itsservices from September 8, thetransport travails of Kolkatacommuters may get mitigatedto a great extent.

The Metro Railway author-ities have written a letter to theBengal Government seeking ameeting of senior officers towork out the standard operat-ing procedures the Metroauthorities said on Tuesday.

“We have written to theState Government … in fact allthe three railways includingthe Eastern Railways, andSouth-Eastern Railways andthe Metro Railways have writ-

ten to the State Governmentseeking a meeting to work outan SoP following the coronaprotocols,” Metro RailwayCPRO, Indrani Bandopadhyaysaid adding “if all goes well thenwe will be able to commenceour services from September 8.”

The Metro Railways havealready started making prepa-rations like installation of san-itizing kiosks besides disin-fecting the carriages and theplatforms, the officer saidadding “following the directivesof the Union Government thesmart cards will be issuedinstead of tokens in order tomaintain social distancing.”

Besides, seats will bemarked alternatively for thepassengers’ occupation. “Thismeans there will be social dis-tancing in sitting arrangementsand passengers will be required

to spare one place to avoid per-sonal contact. Apart from thisthe number of trains runningwill be limited and their timingtoo will be curtailed,” she saidadding the trains will run fromMonday to Saturday and therewill be no train on Sunday.

Officials of the ER andSER however would not giveany specific timing for runningthe suburban local trains con-sidered the lifelines of Kolkata.“At present we are makingsome plans and things willbeworked out after vivid dis-cussions … at present propos-als are there to run limitedtrains and that too ‘gallopingones’ --- such trains skip everyalternate stations,” the officialsaid adding the hawkers will bedebarred from entering thestation premises and the trainsfor the time being.”

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The wish of sugarcane farmers hasbeen finally fulfilled. 13 crore rupees

have been received for farmers who areyearning for the payment of arrears,which will be deposited in the accountsof the farmers from Monday.

Due to non-payment in time, thefarmers were not interested in the sug-arcane crop. This is the reason that thearea kept decreasing continuously.Sugarcane acreage has been reduced byalmost half in the last five years. Alongwith the payment, the sugar mill is alsobeing repaired. The next crushing ses-sion will start running.

Aligarh's land is suitable for sugar-cane production. Apart from the Saathasugar mill, Ladhaua mill was also oper-ational, which is now closed. Good har-vests and close proximity attractedfarmers to sugarcane. When the facili-ties started to go away, the farmersstopped taking interest in sugarcane.

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These days there is continuous increase in the priceof pulses. All pulses are expensive including arhar,

moong, urad, lentils, gram, peas, etc. From whole-sale market of Dhanipur Mandi to retail to consumer’shomes, their rates are increased by 15 to 20 rupeesper Kg. The main reason behind this is the govern-ment policies.

Increasing farmer’s income, free gram distribu-tion, import duty of 200 percent on pea imports, fre-quent shortages in government agency NAFED’sgodown, unnecessary purchases during a lock-down, and now floods have spiked their prices.Forward trading is also adding inflation in pulses.Currently, from Mahavirganj to any retail market,pulses are getting expensive every week.

The Government of India hikes the support priceof pulses to achieve the goal of increasing the incomeof farmers by one and a half times. Government agen-cies have purchased pulses from farmers afterincreasing the support price. In contrast, last year theprices of gram were down due to which farmers andbig traders of stock faced a loss. The government hadpurchased 19 lakh 50 thousand tons of pulses.

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The difficulties of lock hardware manufacturers facing adownturn in corona virus, have increased. The market

is 40-50 percent down. There is no order, raw material priceshave increased. Rates of other raw materials including ironscrap, iron wire, brass blocks, brass scrap have increased by8-10 percent.

If you look at the price of brass scrap, it was �280 per kgin March before the lockdown was �300 in early August, onMonday the price was �330. Jhangat (Silli) was�270 per kgbefore lockdown and in August it was �275 per kg. There isa huge loss of 400 crores annually due to lack of demand inlockdown.

Malting iron scrap is up by �6 per kg. The prices havebeen increasing since July. In March it was �23 per kg, todayit is �29. Cutting seats coming from automobile companieswere �38 per kg in March, the price in July being �40.

Today they are �43 to �44 per kg. Fresh sheet was �41per kg in March, �43 in July and �48 per kg today. An increaseof seven rupees per kg has been recorded on the black freshsheet.

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Former President of India Pranab Mukherjeeis no more with us, but his memories will

always remain. He has a strong connection withAMU and visited AMU three times includinga one-night stay. He laid the foundation of theUniversity’s Murshidabad center in WestBengal. He stamped Prof. Tariq Mansoor as theVice-Chancellor of AMU during his workingtenure.

Vice-Chancellor Prof. Tariq Mansoor saidthat the political life of Bharat Ratan PranabMukherjee has been more than 40 years, thecountry has lost a cerebral and qualified par-liamentarian. His last visit was during the bicen-tennial birth celebration of Sir Syed AhmedKhan on October 17th, 2017. The AMU fra-ternity is deeply saddened by his demise. Ourcondolences are with his family.

The first visit of Pranab Mukherjee as aUnion Foreign Minister was on 10th March2007 as a Chief Guest in the opening ceremo-ny of Vice-Chancellor Nasim Ahmed’s tenure.After this, he attached with AMU.

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The Indian Army on Tuesdayclaimed Pakistan based different

terror groups are desperately tryingto infiltrate weapons into J&K for ter-ror activities, with active connivanceof the Pakistan Army.

Senior Army officers, deployedalong the line of control in Kashmirvalley, also asserted robust surveil-lance and Line of Control domina-tion activities will continue to denyall such misadventures.

According to a statement issuedby the Indian Army, “a huge cacheof arms and ammunition were recov-ered from well concealed locationsin two hideouts in Rampur Sector ofBaramulla during extensive search-es between August 30-31”.

“The searches in the area werelaunched after alert troops of theIndian army first detected movementof suspicious persons along the Lineof Control in Rampur Sector,Baramulla district on August 30”.

Briefing media a senior armyofficer said, “The movement wasfrom a village close to the Line ofControl and the suspects crossed intoIndian territory. Due to terrain ofthick foliage and weather conditionsan alert of a likely infiltration attemptwas sounded”.

“The surveillance grid was alsobeefed up all across the area and

along the likely infiltration routes;ambushes were sited to thwart anyattempt of infiltration. Surveillancecontinued throughout the night.

According to the statement, “onAugust 31 while the searches con-tinued for around seven hours thecache of arms were recovered whichcomprises of Five AK Series Rifles(along with six magazines & twosealed boxes with 1254 rounds of AKammunition), Six pistols (with ninemagazines & six rounds), Twenty-one grenades, two UBGL grenadesand two Kenwood Radio sets withone antenna”.

Referring to the role of thePakistan army, a senior army officertold reporters, “the suspected modusoperandi is to drop war like stores incaches near the Line of Control, sub-sequently OGWs or terrorists wouldpick the same for further trans-portation into the hinterland for ter-ror activities”.

According to the army officersimilar attempts were made on 22July 20, when inputs were receivedregarding likely weapon drop alongthe Line of Control ahead of the anti-infiltration fence. During the searchoperation along the Line of Controlin Rampur Sector, Baramulla, 01AKS-74U with magazines, 05 pistols(one with Chinese markings) &magazines, 24 grenades & otherwarlike stores were recovered.

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Amid 'hullabaloo' by the several main-stream Kashmiri politicians around 10

percent residents of Jammu & Kashmirhave been issued domicile certificates inthe last over two months.Significantly,11398 West PakistanRefugees, 415 Valmiki community mem-bers, 10 Gorkha community members and12340 Registered Migrants have also beenissued Domicile Certificates much to thechagrin of these 'valley centric' politicians.

As per the 2011 census, the total pop-ulation of Jammu & Kashmir was around1.25 crores. On Tuesday, spokesman of theJammu & Kashmir government RohitKansal infomed, “ around 12.5 lakh domi-cile certificates have been issued so far withover 99 percent being erstwhile PermanentResident Certificate (PRC) holders”.

Addressing a press conference inSrinagar, Rohit Kansal said that the processof issuance of Domicile Certificates is pick-ing up rapidly and certificate issuance isbeing monitored regularly.

Kansal was flanked by PrincipalSecretary and Financial CommissionerRevenue, Dr Pawan Kotwal and DirectorInformation and Public Relations, DrSyed Sehrish Asgar.

“About 12.5 lakh Domicile Certificateshave been issued so far. Over 99% of thoseissued certificates include erstwhile PRCsor including Kashmiri Pandit migrants.The process of issuance will be furtheraccelerated and the issuance will be mon-

itored to ensure that pendency is broughtdown to the lowest,” Kansal informed.

Giving a background about theDomicile Certificate procedure, he saidthat the Government had notified theJammu and Kashmir Grant of DomicileCertificate (Procedure) Rules, 2020, whichis the basic eligibility condition for appoint-ment to any post under the UnionTerritory of Jammu and Kashmir follow-ing amendments in the Jammu andKashmir Civil Services (Decentralizationand Recruitment) Act, 2010.

Kansal reaffirmed that the rules pro-vide a simple and time bound procedurefor the issuance of the Domicile Certificateso that no one is put to any inconvenience,besides there are provisions for timebound issuance for certificates includingan Appellate Authority whose orders willbe binding as well as who has revisionalpowers.

“The rules have a provision that appli-cations for grant of Domicile Certificatecan be submitted either physically or elec-tronically online. The CompetentAuthority can also issue domicile certifi-cate(s) electronically,” he said.

He also mentioned that the PermanentResidents of the erstwhile State of J&K inwhose favour Permanent ResidentCertificate (PRC) has been issued by thecompetent authority before October 31,2019 shall be eligible for receiving theirDomicile Certificates on the basis ofPRCs alone and no other additional doc-ument shall be required for such residents.

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As the Assembly polls close by inBihar, Deputy Chief Minister

Sushil Modi , while expressing con-fidence of National DemocraticAlliance (NDA)'s victory, said onTuesday that no political party is ina position to form a Governmentalone in the State where 'alliancepolitics' has become a reality.

Modi said BJP would win in theState if it fights election togetherwith partners. “There is no illusionsabout it”, he said

The senior BJP leader claimedthe opposition grand alliance, led byRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) andknown as 'Mahagathbandhan', wasnowhere in the fight against theNDA.

He said the NDA, under thestate leadership of Chief MinisterNitish Kumar, would contest theelections unitedly and form the gov-ernment again.

“BJP , JDU and RJD are majortriangular forces of Bihar politicsand alliance is the state's reality.There should not be any miscon-ception about it. Today, no political

party is in a situation to form a gov-ernment of its own,” Modi said.

The tenure of the Bihar assem-bly is to end on November 29 andthe polls are likely to be held inOctober-November.

Referring to the 2015 assemblypolls that the BJP had contestedalone and the 2014 Lok Sabha elec-tions fought alone by JDU, Modisaid, “The BJP has no misunder-standing about its strength. We arestrong and we have an organisation,but we will succeed only when wefight together. The BJP's centralleadership is also not under any illu-sion about it.”

He said the alliance between theBJP and JDU has been a smoothaffair since 1996 and it has provid-ed good governance in the state withrobust coordination among alliancepartners.

“We will contest the next assem-bly polls unitedly and succeed,”Modi said.

Asked about the alleged dis-content among the NDA partnerswith the JDU and the LJP target-ing each other , Modi hoped itwould be resolved.

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In a major relief to Jose K Mani,the Election Commission

(EC) has in a fractured judgmentheld that his faction is the offi-cial Kerala Congress (M) partyand is entitled to use its nameand official symbol “two leaves”.

The three-memberCommission pronounced itsjudgement on Monday with 2:1majority in the panel. AshokLavasa, who vacated the office ofthe Election Commissioner onMonday to join the AsianDevelopment Bank, gave a dis-sent order, saying that till thetime fresh affidavits of supportare not called in, neither of thetwo factions can be recognisedas the Kerala Congress (M).

The order stated: “Thegroup led by Jose K Mani is theKerala Congress (Mani) and isentitled to use its name and itsreserved symbol “Two Leaves,”for the purposes of the ElectionSymbols (Reservation andAllotment) Order, 1968.” “Onthe basis of the affidavits sub-mitted in support of thePetitioner and the Respondentby the members of theLegislative and Organizationalwing of the Party, it is clear thatfour out of seven members of the

Legislative Wing support the fac-tion led by the petitioner (JoseK Mani).

“On the other hand, threeout of seven members of theLegislative wing support thefaction led by the respondent(Joseph). In the organizationalwing of the Party, that is the StateCommittee of the KeralaCongress (Mani), affidavits of179 undisputed members havebeen submitted in support of thepetitioner while affidavits of122 undisputed members havebeen submitted in support of therespondent,” the order said.

Sources said that Lavasahad flagged the issue of defi-ciencies in the affidavits in thefirst week of July based on a writ-ten report by the EC's lawdepartment. He was of the viewthat while some members of theparty have given affidavits ofsupport to both the sides, someof the affidavits were not clear onthe issue of support.

The decision came as ahuge setback to rival faction PJJoseph as he would be eitherforced to toe the party line ormove out of the party. At thesame time, the EC order isexpected to create serious reper-cussions in the UnitedDemocratic Front (UDF) as

well.The dispute in the party had

started between vice chairmanJose and working chairmanJoseph following the death ofparty chairman K M Mani lastyear. The matter reached the pollpanel late last year and the lasthearing was held in Februarythis year.

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Retired 1984 batch IAS offi-cer of Jharkhand cadre

Rajiv Kumar on Tuesdayassumed charge as the newElection Commissioner, fillingthe vacancy caused by AshokLavasa moving to the AsianDevelopment Bank as vicepresident. Kumar, who retiredas Union Finance Secretary inFebruary last after 36 years inthe IAS, will have a five-yeartenure and retire in 2025. Hewill preside over the next LokSabha polls in 2024. Accordingto rules, an election commis-sioner has six years on the postor till he turns 65, whichever isearlier. Kumar was born inFebruary, 1960.

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Hours after a speeding carrammed into an eatery

near crawford Market in down-town south Mumbai killing fivepersons and injuring four oth-ers, the Mumbai arrested a 46year-old vehicle driver SyedSameer Ali alias Diggy, a knownhistory sheeter, in connectionwith the shocking incident.

At around 9 pm, five per-sons were killed and four oth-ers injured when a speeding carran over pedestrians beforeramming into the wall of CafeJanata at Crawford Market insouth Mumbai.

Four persons – SarojaNaidu (65) Zubeda A. Khan(60), Saira Banu (60) andMohammed Naeem (55), werekilled on the spot, while a seri-ously injured person, Kamlesh

N. Singh, 21, who had beenadmitted to the Sir J. J. Hospital,succumbed here on Tuesdaymorning.

The injured were NadeemAnsari (40) Mustakeen Shahand Mohammed H. Jailnul (41)who were employees at theeatery. The car driver, identifiedas Syed Sameer Ali alias Diggy,who also sustained injuries,was formally placed under arrestin the early hours of Tuesday.

Diggy, who was behind thewheels of Maruti Esteem,allegedly lost control near theCrawford Market and rammedinto the Café Janata where therewere several customers andstaffers at that time.

Disclosing that Diggy was ahistory sheeter, the police saidthat he was arrested in a fakecurrency racket case in 1997/.He was sentenced to five years

in jail in 2007, but later securedbail. Along with him, his moth-er Kartaj Banu, brother SyedMehraj Ali and brother-in-lawSajid Shaikh were the co-accused in that case.

In 1997, Diggy and Shaikhhad been booked in anotherfake currency case registered bythe police in Jaisalmer,Rajasthan. The case is current-ly pending in a Special Court inJaipur.

Diggy was externed fromMumbai city-district at least ontwo occasions. He has multiplecomplaints pending against himat J. J. Marg and M. R. A. MargPolice Stations. In addition, acase under the Arms Act regis-tered by the Mumbai p;oliceCrime Branch, in which eitherhe is the prime accused or co-accused with other relativesand associates, is pending.

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The idea of ending fratricidal tax com-petition among States and creating acommon market in India across Stateborders was mooted by the Bhairon

Singh Shekhawat Committee (1995). If sov-ereign nations of Europe could do it, we coulddo as well. So the Goods and Services Tax(GST) was implemented from July 2017 withthe underlying vision of “one nation, one tax,one nation, one market.” The States had agreedto an all-India common slab for particularitems, thereby surrendering the power to taxthe items at a rate of their own choice.

GST changed the principle of indirect tax-ation from originating/producing States to thedestination/consuming States. The benefit ofGST collection accruing to the State, wherethe final sale takes place, was seen as a lossby the producing States. The GST took so longto materialise mainly because the States wereapprehensive not just about the loss ofpower to tax but also of revenue. It was chal-lenging to convince all the Governments toagree to a common tax rate on a particularitem, superseding multiple Central/State/localtaxes like Central Excise Duty, Central SalesTax, Value Added Tax, Sales Tax, PurchaseTax, Tax on Works Contracts, Entry Tax,Octroi and so on, which were discontinuedand subsumed in GST.

To assuage the anxieties about potentialloss of revenue, a revenue protection guaran-tee backed by law was agreed to. The revenueto be protected is calculated by assuming 14per cent per annum growth over the tax col-lection in 2015-16 from the taxes subsumedin the GST. Accordingly, the GST(Compensation to States) Act, 2017 mandatesthe Centre to levy a GST compensation cessover and above the GST. The cess is at pre-sent levied on certain luxury and sin goodssuch as cigarettes and tobacco products, paanmasala, caffeinated beverages, high-end pas-senger vehicles and so on. The guaranteedcompensation period is five years from thecommencement of GST (July 1, 2017).

In 2018-19, the Centre had collected�4,57,535 crore as Central GST, �28,947 croreas Integrated GST and �95,081 crore as GSTcompensation cess. For 2019-20, the corre-sponding figures (all provisional) are �496,699crore, �9,186 crore and �95,551 crore. A totalamount of �81,141 crore was released as com-pensation to States in 2018-19 but the com-pensation requirement for 2019-20 has near-ly doubled to �1,65,000 crore. GST revenuewas already below target even before Covid-19 and the pandemic is set to furtherenhance the compensation requirement for2020-21 and beyond. The States’ monthly pro-tected revenue, which was �49,020 crore for2018-19 and �55,882 crore for 2019-20, hasrisen to �63,706 crore in 2020-21.

A prolonged lockdown, suspension oftrain, metro and air services, and subsequentbehavioural changes are expected to serious-ly dent demand for goods and services in var-ious sectors, especially exports, tourism,hospitality and outdoor entertainment.

Estimates of likely compressionof demand vary widely depend-ing on the observer’s outlook,pessimistic or optimistic.

The Government expects tocollect a total GST of over Rs1,00,000 crore per month butGST collections during April-Julyhave been �32,172 crore, �62,151crore, �90,917 crore and �87,422crore. In FY21, GST shortfall leftuncovered by existing compen-sation cess is assessed to be�2,35,000 crore. The scope for anextraordinarily large increase inGST compensation cess to coverthe whole GST revenue loss islimited as it may adversely affectsales.

When the States were givena five-year revenue protectionguarantee in 2017 with anassured 14 per cent increase, sucha large reduction in revenuecould not have been foreseen.Hence, it can be argued thatCovid-19 is an “Act of God” andthe States should not insist on get-ting fully compensated.

In the law of contracts, thecourts refuse to enforce a contractwhen the performance becomes“impossible” (Section 32 of theIndian Contract Act, 1872). Whatis impossible is open to judicialinterpretation. In the Tsakiroglouvs Noblee Thorl case, defendantshad contracted to supplySudanese peanuts to Hamburgbut the Suez Canal was closed,blocking the customary shippingroute (In July 1956, the Egyptian

government nationalised theCanal earlier owned by UK andFrance causing a crisis). Thedefendants sought to renege onsupply commitment, citing thecanal closure. The House ofLords held that peanuts couldhave been transported via the

Cape of Good Hope, a four-timelonger alternative route. It wouldhave become commercially oner-ous but not impossible! In theAlopi Parshad & Sons, Ltd vsUnion of India case, the SupremeCourt did not allow a supplier ofghee to wriggle out of his pre-warcontract merely because WorldWar II had upset his whole eco-nomics. Increased commercialdifficulty did not amount toimpossibility to perform, thecourt held.

Most contracts, therefore,have a standard clause of “forcemajeure” detailing extreme situ-ations of war, natural calamities,change of laws or other govern-mental actions and so on. But thecompensation to States for GSTrevenue shortfall is not part of anycontract and not amenable toexamination with the lens of“force majeure.” It is basically alegal commitment arising out ofa political settlement to arrive ata common taxation frameworkin a federal polity. The obligationflows from an Act of Parliament.The Parliament can very wellchange, prospectively or retro-spectively, or even scrap the2017 Compensation Act. Theamended law can reduce 14 percent assured growth to a lowerlevel or introduce additional fis-cal measures to compensate theStates.

In the present circumstances,a review of the 2017 Act couldtheoretically be an option but that

can potentially re-open settledissues on GST.

The financial interests ofthe Centre and States are notadversarial but closely inter-con-nected. The States’ dependenceon Central financial support issignificant. Central transfers toStates constitute about 20 per centof total Central governmentexpenditure. In 2017-18, thecombined expenditure of Centreand States was about �45 lakhcrore —�21 lakh crore by Centre(including transfers to State gov-ernments of �4 lakh crore) and�28 lakh crore by the States(including expenditure againsttransfers from Centre of �4 lakhcrore). States realise that theCentre itself is facing financialcrunch and insisting on full GSTcompensation as promised canpotentially mean cut in other dis-cretionary Central assistance toStates if the Centre is asked to gobeyond compensation cess tocover the shortfall.

On August 27, the GSTCouncil discussed the vexedissue of compensation to Statesfor huge loss of GST revenue.States have been given twooptions to borrow additionalmoney. Borrowing is nothing butdeferred taxation. Today’s gov-ernment borrowing is tomor-row’s tax. May be tomorrow’s taxwill become tomorrow’s bor-rowing and day after tomorrow’stax and so on. More than 20 percent of total government expen-diture is financed through bor-rowings. This is how the govern-ments have been piling moun-tains of debt and there is no vis-ible exit from this trap, not in theimmediate future, certainly notin crisis time. Crisis justifiesborrowings, to be repaid/servicedin better times.

If GDP at factor cost (proxyfor total base of indirect taxes) isassumed to be �160 lakh croreand 60 per cent of this GDP paysaverage GST of 15 per cent, thenthe GST revenue should be �1.2lakh crore per month, almost 10per cent of GDP. The revenuefrom taxes subsumed in theGST was about six per cent ofGDP in 2016-17. Obviously,GST revenue is below expecta-tion and potential. Strong facili-tation and anti-evasion mea-sures can reduce the revenue lossand concomitant compensationrequirements.

The great federal bargain onGST among governments is fac-ing an acid test. The hard-wonpolitical consensus needs to bepreserved and nurtured and nocost is big enough to make GSTa grand success, by removing thepending irritants, mostly on theimplementation side.

(The author is an IAAS offi-cer, superannuated as SpecialSecretary, Ministry of Commerceand Industry)

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Sir — A headline on the CNN web-site states, “Biden and Trump to duelover race and violence”, and theworry is that this is not fake news.Any definition of duel mentionsopposing sides fighting each other,and yes, they are from opposingpolitical parties, but there should beno difference in their beliefs. Thedefinitions usually mentionweapons which we do not want tosee and honour which we do wantto see in this forthcoming duel.Racism is wrong. Violence is wrong.These two statements are so simplethat they really are just facts with-out contradiction.

We are going to see two oldmen argue about topics that theyhave not, fortunately, suffered andmay not really understand. One ofthem is going to be the President ofthe US and hopefully the chosenone will work to stop racism andviolence. Let us unite in battle tostop racism and violence once andfor all. If the President does that,then his name will last longer in thehistory of the US and the world thanthe faces of the four Presidents onMount Rushmore. The US has suf-fered enough, the African-Americans and other races have suf-

fered enough. This must end now.Sadly, these issues are being used topolarise votes.

Dennis FitzgeraldMelbourne, Australia

���������������Sir — This refers to the editorial‘Face-off again’ in The Pioneer,September 1. In one swoop, Chinese

troops have undone whateverprogress was made during the bilat-eral talks at the military and diplo-matic levels in the past two-and-a-half months. Amid the ongoing

stand-off in Eastern Ladakh, theprovocative action of the People’sLiberation Army (PLA) on thesouthern bank of the Pangong lakeis another brazen move to changethe status quo. Indian soldiers, whohave been in a heightened state ofvigil, took pre-emptive action to foilthe attempt.

The development has againexposed the hollowness of Chineseassertions about maintaining peaceand tranquility in the border areas,even as the Indian armed forceshave effectively exercised the carteblanche given by the Governmentto scuttle another misadventurealong the Line Of Actual Control.India’s firmness has also been evi-dent in the diplomatic arena, withthe Ministry of Defence withdraw-ing from a multilateral war game tobe held in Russia later this monthbecause Chinese and Pakistanitroops are expected to participate.Though China has reasserted thatthe border issues should be delinkedfrom bilateral ties, India needs tohold its ground and insist on com-plete disengagement of troops as apre-condition for restoring all ties.

N Sadhasiva ReddyBengaluru

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We are moving from ‘Make in India’ to ‘Makefor the world’. But as every nation is alreadyon the brink with the pandemic, we are

faced with the critical question of the existence ofglobalisation as we know it. Countries are lookingto bring supply chains back home as a measure toincrease economic resilience. At this point, India’sposition on self-reliance does not steer away frommultilateralism, rather embraces it. India holds astrategic position to counteract the conservative andunilateral mood pervasive in the global politicaleconomy. Its position as a fast-growing Asian powerenables it to implement more equitable global rulesthat can protect economic interests of other devel-oping nations as well. At the recently-concluded 19thDarbari Seth Memorial Lecture by TERI, ExternalAffairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar reiterated that asIndia enters the United Nations Security Council(UNSC) as an elected member in 2021, and joinsthe troika of the G20 at almost the same time, “therecould be no better opportunity to work with all thosewho recognise the benefits of multilateralism.” Atthe same event, António Guterres, Secretary Generalof the UN, emphasised on the necessity of takingclimate risks into account in all financial and poli-cy decisions and furthering collective action.

Some experts have argued that a retreat fromthe multilateral trade order is likely to widen inequal-ities between countries, virtually disable economiesof scale thereby making everything more expensive,limit free mobility of goods and services, therebyaffecting employment and intensify geo-political ten-sions, making it difficult for an already fragile glob-al economy to recover. As more countries shift awayfrom this era of globalisation, it is crucial to preparefor what takes its place. In this flailing global dis-course, we explore the value that multilateral insti-tutions (MLIs) and developmental banks stand toadd, especially for developing countries like ours.In this context, we discuss three vital roles MLIs play.

Mobilisers of finance: One branch of MLIscomprises Multilateral Developmental Banks(MDBs), which help mobilise finance globally, par-ticularly in fragile States and lower and upper mid-dle-income countries. In the new world order thatcountries are expected to enter in the post-COVIDscenario, the role of MDBs is crucial from three van-tage points.

First, fast-emerging economies like India canenable transformative action by achieving economiesof scale. The extent and potential of scalability of newresearch in India and other developing countries isvery large. This has been evident in wide adoptionof technological innovation in vital sectors such asclean energy, low carbon alternatives and even mod-els of large-scale financing. In order to tap into thispotential, adequate finance must be mobilised to spurinvestment required to achieve scale. Public financeis argued to be one such driver of investment inupcoming sectors. However, such finance is oftenalready stretched thin to be able to wholly mobilisefinancial resources in newer avenues such ashydrogen and wind and hydro-power among oth-ers. In the past, MDB financing has enabled an irre-versible transition to favourable technologies andmeans of production. This source of financing willbe all the more crucial as countries start looking tointernalise supply chains. Second, catalysing privatefinance. Investments by MDBs reduce risk percep-tion, create conducive environment for private invest-

ment and lead to a lower cost of financ-ing for newer sectors. In addition to thesefinancial gains, the presence of an MDBalso reduces policy risk, lack of credibil-ity and minimises the problem of contractenforcement. This in turn helps mobilisefurther private interest. Investment inrenewables in India gained significantlyfrom investment by MDBs. In 2018,MDBs reported mobilisation of over $69billion of private finance in low and mid-dle-income countries.

Third, enhancing institutional capac-ity. MDBs help strengthen developmen-tal policy to bring about institutionalreforms in key sectors. Such measures areessential in building capacity and increas-ing the scale of reach. For example,financial assistance during the pandem-ic has been crucial in such capacitybuilding in a variety of sectors rangingfrom health to Small and MediumEnterprises (SMEs). As economies recov-er, MDB financing will be vital in reviv-ing key productivity.

Tackling global externalities: One ofthe fundamental purposes of the incep-tion of MLIs has been to overcome mar-ket failures. Climate change is the biggestmarket failure that we are currently wit-nessing. MLIs have been instrumental inbringing together policymakers to takecollective action to safeguard against thisexternality by enabling structural trans-formations that bring about more sustain-able economies. Institutions such as theUN Framework Convention on ClimateChange (UNFCCC), IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change (IPCC), GreenClimate Fund (GCF), Adaptation Fund(AF) and other global bodies play the crit-ical role of mobilising technical resources,knowledge and expertise from across theworld into the poorest and vulnerableregions. Even if the global order transitionsinto that of more conservative and closedeconomies, climate change will remain an

externality necessitating collective solu-tions. In such a scenario, support by MLIswill be vital for local civil societies to carryout research and evidence building.

This is essential for three critical activ-ities. First, continued ground-levelresearch on adapting to climate change.Second, dissemination of new research,which can be further scaled by multilat-eral support. And third, increased com-munity-based action to build resiliencewhich can support long-term sustainablesolutions. Climate-related disasters and theassociated chronic challenges that theworld is likely to face require the sameurgency as when dealing with the acutehealth impacts of COVID-19. This neces-sitates countries, the private sector andcivil societies to engage collectively. MLIscan help achieve this with efficacy.

Global coalitions between govern-ments and the private sector: Inter-national multilateral agreements play animportant role in achieving both globalclimate and sustainable developmentgoals. They play an important role innudging national policies to combat cli-mate change and spurring sub-nationaland non-State actors to action as well. Thiswas evident in the 2019 UN ClimateSummit, where major industries pledgedto reducing emissions. Several Indianindustry front-runners were also part ofthe ‘Industry Transition Track’ led joint-ly by the Indian Government and Sweden.Multilateral agreements play a crucial rolein building new alliances and coalitionsas highlighted by the International SolarAlliance and the Coalition for DisasterResilient Infrastructure. Such coalitions areeffective on both domestic and interna-tional platforms. On a domestic scale,these ensure a coordination of actionacross developmental policy and climateaction. At the international level, it wouldhelp in ensuring a continuum in real cli-mate action. They can support coalitions

between governments to developfavourable ecosystems which furtherenable non-State action.

It is evident that countries are mov-ing towards more unilateral policy frame-works. This has raised concerns if thewidespread conservative sentiment oninternational policy and the precariousglobal supply chain could mean a rever-sal of what the Bretton Woods Agreementsought to achieve in 1944. One of themost pressing global problems — climate-related disasters — does not impactcountries and institutions in silos. Theseimpending and ongoing crises requireurgent attention and action. Countries,private sector and civil societies, therefore,must engage collectively. MLIs, by theirdesign and purpose, can help achieve thiseffectively.

In this context MLIs can support threeinterlinked activities: Mobilisation offinance, streamlined action towards tack-ling the biggest global externality andengagement of State and non-State actorsto further climate action. These will holdimmense importance even as countrieschoose to move into more unilateral andautarkist policies. Enabling large-scalefinance to minimise carbon lock-in, cre-ating conducive market conditions forgreen investments and building resiliencethrough enhanced adaptation can beachieved with the support of dedicatedMLIs. Their unique structure allowsthem to disseminate knowledge, techni-cal and financial resources from developedcountries for the benefit of emergingeconomies and vulnerable communities.India’s decision to not only rely on localmanufacturing but also multiply the scaleto meet global demands stands to gainextensively from multilateral support.

(Mangotra is Associate Director, EarthSciences and Climate Change Division andRitu Ahuja is Research Associate, Centrefor Global Environment Research, TERI)

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The provision of safe water isessential to protect humansfrom waterborne diseases. Sadly,

more than 600 million Indians are fac-ing high to extreme water stress and75 per cent of households do not havedrinking water, according to the NITIAayog. At least 163 million people arewithout access to treated piped waterand approximately 70 per cent of thewater supply is contaminated, result-ing in nearly 2,00,000 deaths each year.India ranks 120th out of 122 nationsin the water quality index.

This disproportionate wateraccess, especially in rural areas andperi-urban slums, demands the cre-ation of drinking water security, espe-cially for women and girls who areburdened with the responsibility ofcollecting water for their families.

According to a report, Small WaterEnterprises: Transforming Womenfrom Water Carriers to WaterEntrepreneurs 2019, which wasreleased at the World Water Weekorganised by the StockholmInternational Water Institute (SIWI)in Stockholm, women collect as muchas 80 per cent of water consumed byhouseholds, in addition to their otherresponsibilities.

The report has been prepared bySafe Water Network India, an NGOworking with USAID. The report fur-ther reveals that India has a dismalgender empowerment record and iscurrently ranked 108th out of 149countries. Domestically, women aregrossly under-represented in theIndian economy, comprising only 26per cent of the workforce. It would bepertinent to note that globally, womenspend over 200 million hours collect-ing water daily.

Under the Jal Jeevan Missionscheme, around 84.83 lakh ruralhouseholds were provided with tapconnections. Post the Corona unlock-ing, around 45 lakh tap connectionshave been provided so far. On an aver-age, daily about one lakh householdsare being provided with tap connec-

tions across the country. Although thescheme promises piped water in everyrural household by 2024, unfortunate-ly most of the water systems are rifewith operational issues due to poormaintenance. While the Governmenthas set itself a target of providing treat-ed and safe 24x7 piped water supplyat 135 litres per capita per day (LPCD)in the cities, its efforts are hamperedby raw water availability, a debilitat-ed and old piped water supply infra-structure and the inability to createnew infrastructure in slums.

The global decentralised watermarket is expected to grow to $22 bil-lion by the end of 2021. Most commu-nity water players are currentlyfocussing on the drinking water mar-ket as it represents the highest yieldper litre compared to other end-useapplications. According to Frost andSullivan, smart Internet of Things(IoT) and digitised sustainable solu-tions will be the two major growth dri-vers in the water industry in thefuture.

For 2020-21, a sum of �23,500crore has been allocated for theimplementation of the Jal JeevanMission. Under this scheme, ruralwomen will be trained to test water

quality, repair hand pumps and fixbroken taps. Women will also betrained to test piped water for biolog-ical and chemical contamination anduse field test kits to know the extentof contamination. The Ministry of JalShakti has tied up with the PradhanMantri Kaushal Vikas Kendra forskilling women so that they can par-ticipate at all levels, starting from plan-ning to implementation, manage-ment, operation and maintenance ofthe in-village water supply.

However, safe water is a collectivemission. We need to recognise the roleof Small Water Enterprises (SWEs),decentralised water treatment plantsthat provide 24x7 affordable safewater, also called Water ATMs, as inte-gral sources to mitigate the issue ofpoor water quality while providingaffordable safe drinking and cookingwater reliably. We need to understandthat SWEs are cost-effective and canprovide customisable drinking watersolutions specifically at places whereflagship Government schemes such asthe Jal Jeevan Mission cannot reach orare yet to reach.

Water is an integral part of ourlives and SWEs should be recognisedas a support to the Government. They

not only provide livelihood but alsosave lives and contribute to the econ-omy. The lockdown following theCoronavirus outbreak has hugelyimpacted operations of the SWEslocated in rural and urban India. Theinability to set up new plants, thereduced consumer footfall, affecteddistribution systems, delay in resolv-ing technical issues due to restrictionson movement, and the consequentloss of revenue for local entrepreneursas well as on-cost recovery on oper-ations are some of the major chal-lenges faced by SWEs.

Although, post-lockdown, footfallhas increased, consumption hasreduced, leading to sustainabilitychallenges. Financial sustainabilityhas become the most important deter-minant for the survival and scaling upof SWEs as water is priced within cer-tain socio-economic parameters toreach all.

Although there is a provision forthe private sector to invest in SWEs,this brings its own set of challengessuch as delayed infrastructure deliv-ery, complex institutional frameworkswith multiple regulatory authorities,politicians offering free water leadingto lower probabilities of recovering

capital investment, and high operat-ing costs. Reforms are required at thepolicy and implementation levels.There is an increasing need for holis-tic collaboration with the Governmentin terms of technology, monetary andresource-sharing partnerships, singlewindow clearance and development ofan ecosystem.

“There should be GST exemptionon equipment and water deliveryservices for cost-effective operations.Further, Corporate SocialResponsibility funds should be allo-cated towards strengthening decen-tralised community water systems,”says Madhu Krishnamoorthy, Head ofBusiness Development, WaterHealthIndia. The critical role of SWEs in pro-viding access to water needs to beacknowledged besides a sustainedcampaign to spread awareness aboutwater reuse, recycling and conserva-tion. The SWEs can make a lastingsocial and economic impact byimproving health, creating jobs,improving vocational skills and bring-ing new technologies to bridge theexisting gaps in the water supplychain.

(The writer is vice-president, SafeWater Network)

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French satirical weeklyCharlie Hebdo, the target of

a massacre by Islamist gunmenin 2015, said Tuesday it wasrepublishing hugely contro-versial cartoons of the ProphetMohammed to mark the startof the trial this week of allegedaccomplices in the attack.

“We will never lie down. Wewill never give up,” its directorLaurent “Riss” Sourisseau wrotein an editorial to go with therepublication of the cartoons inits latest edition. Twelve people,including some of France’s mostcelebrated cartoonists, werekilled on January 7, 2015, whenbrothers Said and CherifKouachi went on a gun rampageat the paper’s offices in Paris.

The perpetrators werekilled in the wake of the mas-sacre but 14 alleged accom-plices in the attacks, which alsotargeted a Jewish supermarket,will go on trial in Paris onWednesday. The cover of the

latest Charlie Hebdo issueshows a dozen cartoons firstpublished by the Danish dailyJyllands-Posten in 2005 — andthen reprinted by CharlieHebdo in 2006 — whichunleashed a storm of angeracross the Muslim world.

In the centre of the cover isa cartoon of the prophet drawnby its cartoonist Jean Cabut,known as Cabu, who lost hislife in the massacre.

“All of this, just for that,” thefront-page headline says. Itseditorial team wrote that nowwas the right time to republishthe cartoons, saying it was“essential” as the trial opens.“We have often been askedsince January 2015 to printother caricatures ofMohammed,” it said. “We havealways refused to do so, notbecause it is prohibited — thelaw allows us to do so — butSbecause there was a need for agood reason to do it, a reasonwhich has meaning and whichbrings something to the debate.”

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Representatives of Iran andthe world powers working to

save the nuclear deal withTehran agreed on Tuesday inVienna to do everything possi-ble to preserve the landmark2015 agreement in their firstmeeting since the United Statesannounced a bid to restoreUnited Nations sanctions againstthe Islamic Republic.

Helga Schmid, theEuropean Union representativewho chaired the meeting, saidafterwards on Twitter that the“participants are united inresolve to preserve the #IranDealand find a way to ensure fullimplementation of the agree-ment despite current challenges.”

Iranian representativeAbbas Araghchi did not com-ment after the day of talks, but

ahead of the meeting said the USmove would “definitely be animportant discussion” topic withdelegates from France, Germany,Britain, Russia and China.

President Donald Trumppulled the US out of the so-called Joint Comprehensive Planof Action unilaterally in 2018,saying that it was a bad deal andneeded to be renegotiated.

The deal promises Iraneconomic incentives inexchange for curbs on itsnuclear program, but with thereinstatement of Americansanctions, the other nationshave been struggling to provideIran the assistance it seeks.

Complicating the matter,the US announced recently itwas triggering a 30-day processto restore virtually all UNsanctions on Iran, invoking a“snapback” mechanism that is

part of the JCPOA agreement.Washington’s argument is thatas an original participant it stillhas that right, even though itleft the deal.

Other signatories to theJCPOA agreement have reject-ed that argument, setting thestage for a potential crisis in theSecurity Council later thismonth, with the U.S. claiming tohave re-imposed sanctions andmost of the rest of the world say-ing the Trump administration’saction is illegal and ignoring it.

Chinese representative FuCong told reporters after themeeting that the membercountries all agreed that theU.S. no longer has “the legalground or legal standing totrigger snapback” and that inChina’s view Washington wasusing it to “try to sabotage oreven kill the JCPOA.”

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The United States requiresIndia standing by its side

for the success of its strategy ofa free and open Indo-Pacificregion, a top American diplo-mat said noting that the Quadconcept has helped New Delhifind a place in the larger Indo-Pacific theatre.

The new Indo-Pacific strat-egy, which reflects the realitiesof the modern world, is focusedaround democracies, free mar-kets and the values that Indiaand its people share with theUS and its people, DeputySecretary of State StephenBiegun said in his remarks atthe US-India Strategic Forumduring the third India USLeadership Summit.

The summit was organisedby the US-India Strategic andPartnership Forum.

“In order to make that suc-cessful we have to tap into the

full scale of the region. Thatincludes the scale of economics,the scale of security cooperation,and that’s impossible to dowithout India as a centerpiece ofthe strategy,” Biegun said.

“So, as important as I’d liketo think the United States is tothis strategy, it’s not going to besuccessful for us without Indiaalso standing side by side,”Biegun said.

Observing that India hasshown tremendous leadershipand interest in contributing tothe Indo-Pacific strategy thatthe US is advancing, the diplo-mat said New Delhi andWashington have deepenedtheir security cooperation.

The two countries are inthe process of seeking an evenbroader economic relation-ship, including through somedimensions of trade liberalisa-tion, he said.

They are also working veryclosely in the security sphere,

with India clearly indicatingrecently an intention to inviteAustralia to participate in theMalabar naval exercises, whichwill be a tremendous step for-ward in ensuring the freedomof passage and the security ofthe seas in the Indo-Pacific, he added.

“So, in many ways, acrossmultiple dimensions, the US-India relationship is con-tributing to this, but also yousee it in the personal interac-tions between Indian leadersand American leaders.

“Those relationships haveformed across different ideo-logical foundations and differ-ent political parties over many,many years. When you seeour leaders together, you cantell that the wind is blowing inthis direction in both countries,and that really will make us thatmuch more successful withour strategies,” Biegun added.

Responding to a question,the top American diplomatsaid “the QUAD representingUnited States, India, Australiaand Japan is a combination ofdemocracies and also illumi-nates those four parties’ sense

of responsibility and willing-ness to uphold the responsi-bilities, to extend the benefitsof democracy, extend the ben-efits of economic development,and extend the benefits ofsecurity throughout the region”.

“All four of us, of course,are Pacific powers,” he said.

As India has grown and itsinterests have grown, NewDelhi recognises that it cannotbe a passive player in how thatdevelops throughout the Indo-Pacific, he added.

“So it’s a real coincidence ofa variety of factors that areunderpinned by that historicshared value of democracy thatI think is really what illustratesthe Quad. The Quad isn’t exclu-sive. I think there’s plenty of rea-son to bring other countries intothis discussion as well,” he said.

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China on Tuesday declinedto provide details about the

detention of an Australianjournalist working as an anchorfor state TV who has beendetained for at least two weekswithout charge.

Cheng Lei, an anchor forCGTN, China’s English-lan-guage state broadcaster, hasbeen held since at least August14 but Australian diplomats sayBeijing has given no reason forher detention.

Her case is the latest to frayrelations between the twocountries which have with-ered over trade, security con-cerns about Chinese tech andCanberra’s push for a probeinto the origins of the coron-avirus pandemic. Cheng hasnot been seen in public sincebeing held, although Australianenvoys in Beijing were able tospeak to her on August 27.

A foreign ministryspokesperson in Beijing battedaway questions over the fate ofthe China-born journalist, whoenjoyed a high profile as a busi-ness news presenter on CGTN.

“I can’t give you anyspecifics,” Hua Chunying toldreporters.

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Guess who is learning fromthe debt enslavement of

Pakistan? It is none other thanIndias eastern neighbour-Myanmar. After having noticedhow countries have beenhoney-trapped by Chinathrough its Belt and RoadInitiative (BRI), Myanmar isholding back on sweet poisonpromises by China.

India’s eastern neighbourhas begun to re-look at a num-ber of projects under the ChinaMyanmar Economic Corridor(CMEC), which at $100 billionis much bigger than theChinese investment in Pakistanat $64 billion. The CMECseeks to connect Yunnanprovince of China to Mandalayin central Myanmar and thenfork off to the Yangon New Cityin the south and the

Kyaukphyu Special EconomicZone in the west.

The Kyaukphyu port willprovide China with access to astrategic location due to its pres-ence on the Bay of Bengal coast.

Under the CMEC, which isnearly 1,700-km long, Chinaplans to implement nearly 38projects in Myanmar. Learningfrom the experiences of othercountries, the latter has how-ever, cleared only nine of these.Myanmar has taken a numberof steps-stopping work on pro-jects, setting-up commissionsto review projects, break-up thebigger ones to make themmanageable and also inviteforeign consultants to partici-pate in CMEC projects, crush-ing the Chinese monopoly.

Interestingly, both-the gen-erals as well as the political dis-pensation in Myanmar-havereached the conclusion that

Beijing cannot be relied uponand the projects not only needminute scrutiny but a reductionin costs as well. The governmenthas also realized that projectshave to benefit the people ofMyanmar instead of the profi-teering Chinese companies.

Towards this end,Myanmar has already unrav-elled the mammoth NewYangon City project and isnow busy with finalizing aninternational consultant to hirea new developer instead of theChina CommunicationsConstruction Company Ltd.(CCCC), which has acquired adubious reputation in the exe-cution of BRI projects global-ly. The project was estimated tocost $8 billion for developing acompletely new township on anearly 20,000-acre parcel ofland. If executed, the projectwould have included five reset-

tlement areas, two bridges, anindustrial estate, commercialareas, residential habitats aswell as the necessary infra-structure for all this construc-tion and development.

The fiscal size, the Chinesepartner, and the location of theproject unnerved Myanmar.The location selected by theChinese was a flood-prone areaand Myanmar was not com-fortable with the CCCC. Thesize of the project deterred otherpossible investors, due to whichMyanmar decided to split theproject into manageable por-tions and reduce the quantum ofinvestment. Myanmarese offi-cials now plan to make the pro-ject transparent as well as hopeto invite international companiesby the end of the year.

Myanmar has deployedmany tools to water downChinese greed and reduce the

dragon’s interference.In June this year, Myanmar

auditor general Maw Thanwarned his government aboutthe high rates of interestcharged by China on loans ascompared to internationalrates. Of its total debt of about$10 billion, Myanmar owes $4billion to China. He cautionedparliamentarians: “The truth isthe loans from China come athigher interest rates comparedto loans from financial institu-tions like the World Bank orthe IMF. So, I would like toremind the government min-istries to be more restrained inusing Chinese loans.”

Myanmar is also taking acritical look at a railway lineconnecting its Muse townshipwith Mandalay in China. Thegargantuan $9 billion rail pro-ject has not seen the green lightfrom Naypitaw as yet.

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Joe Biden accused PresidentDonald Trump of stoking

violence after a week of dead-ly unrest catapulted law andorder to the top of the politi-cal agenda barely two monthsbefore the US election.

The stakes for Biden’sspeech in Pittsburgh, in theswing state of Pennsylvania,could not have been higher aday before Trump heads to thecity of Kenosha, Wisconsin, todeliver his dueling vision on theupheaval.

Emerging from months ofCovid-19 travel restrictions,Biden finds himself suddenlyon the defensive, mocked byTrump as weak in the face ofevents combining leftist anti-racism protests, riots, deadlyshootings and right-wing vig-ilante actions in Kenosha andin Portland, Oregon.

With Trump exalting in theshift of debate from his wide-ly panned handling of thecoronavirus pandemic to hisfavored theme of crime, Bidenrisks losing the momentumthat has put him ahead in thepolls for the November 3 vote.

But the 77-year-oldDemocrat punched back,branding Trump’s presidency “atoxic presence in our nation.”

“Fires are burning and wehave a president who fans theflames rather than fighting theflames,” Biden said.

“The incumbent presidentis incapable of telling us thetruth, incapable of facing thefacts and incapable of healing.”

While Trump has spentmuch of the past week warningvoters they “won’t be safe” inBiden’s America, the Democratsought to turn tables on theRepublican in his 22-minutespeech — delivered in a most-ly empty hall due to coron-avirus concerns — with thequestion: “Do you really feel

safer under Donald Trump?”Trump “can’t stop the vio-

lence, because for years he hasfomented it,” Biden charged.

Trump “may believemouthing the words ‘law andorder’ makes him strong, buthis failure to call on his ownsupporters to stop acting as anarmed militia in this countryshows you how weak he is.”

Biden, who has beenaccused by Republicans ofinsufficiently denouncing vio-

lence by leftist anti-racism pro-testers, tried to set this to rest.

“Looting is not protesting,setting fires is not protesting,”he said. “None of this is protest-ing. It’s lawlessness, plain andsimple, and those who do itshould be prosecuted.”

At a White House Pressconference, Trump still com-plained that Biden “mostlyseemed to blame the police and law enforcement,” not left-ist radicals.

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President Donald Trump isdiving head-first into the

latest eruption in the nation’sreckoning over racial injusticewith a trip Tuesday to Kenosha,Wisconsin, over the objectionsof local leaders.

The city has been riven byprotests since the Aug. 23shooting of Jacob Blake, aBlack man hit seven times inthe back by police. On the eveof his visit, Trump defended ateenage supporter accused offatally shooting two men inKenosha last week and accusedDemocrat Joe Biden of sidingwith “anarchists” and “rioters”in the unrest.

Wisconsin’s Democraticgovernor, Tony Evers, whodeployed the National Guard toquell demonstrations inresponse to the Blake shooting,pleaded with Trump to stayaway for fear of straining ten-sions further.

The White House said thepresident was expected to meetwith law enforcement and tour “property affected byrecent riots.”

“I am concerned your pres-ence will only hinder our heal-ing,” Evers wrote in a letter toTrump. “I am concerned yourpresence will only delay ourwork to overcome division andmove forward together.”

Trump, claiming the man-tle of the “law and order” can-didate, is offering himself as theleader best positioned to keepAmericans safe. Biden, in turn,has assailed him over the dead-ly protests that have sprung upon his watch.

Trump insisted his appear-ance in Kenosha could“increase enthusiasm” inWisconsin, perhaps the mosthotly contested battlegroundstate in the presidential race, asthe White House said he“wants to visit hurtingAmericans.”

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Asserting that Beijing hasbeen picking up fights

right now virtually on everyfront of its interest, a topAmerican diplomat onMonday said the United States’sstrategy to counter it is topush back against China inevery domain.

“Our strategy is to pushback against China in virtual-ly every domain. We’re doing itin the security area. We’redoing it in terms of outsizeddemands to claim sovereignterritory, whether it’s in theGalwan Valley of India on theIndia-Chinese border, or inthe South Pacific,” DeputySecretary of State StephenBiegun said during third India-US Leadership Summit.

The summit was organisedby US India Strategic andPartnership Forum (USISPF).

The TrumpAdministration is also doing iteconomically, he said.

“The President has led thecharge against the predatorypractices from the Chineseeconomy and the Phase Onetrade deal is just a first step inthat (direction), to be followedby many others in the years

ahead to equalise and balancethe US-China economic rela-tionship,” he said, during aconversation with RichardVerma, former US Ambassadorto India.

Underpinning all of that isa demand for basic reciproci-ty, he said.

“For a very long time, therehad been a desire to extend toChina special privileges andbenefits, and even the benefit ofthe doubt among them, to bringChina into a more modern andprosperous future,” he noted.

“Twenty years ago whenthat initiative was launched inearnest with China’s entry intothe World Trade Organization,the bet by most policymakerswas that eventually, the weightof the institutions that Chinawas joining would slowly redi-rect the Chinese political systemand Chinese interests to a pointwhere China would becomemuch more invested in a rules-based order...,” Biegun said.

He added that these rulebased-orders would at leastmoderate the tendencies ofthe Chinese government tomake it a better partner formany around the world, evenif they do not make China atrue democracy.

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Domestic toymakers onTuesday welcomed Prime

Minister Narendra Modi’s callfor making the country a hubfor toy manufacturing, butsought additional time to meetcertification norms.

Though the industry isfacing economic difficulties,the All India Toys Federation(AITF) - which represents toyretailers, wholesalers and man-ufacturers - said it would riseabove the challenges to achievethe goal. “We are happy andencouraged by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi speaking aboutthe toy industry. PM Modi saidIndia should become the glob-al hub for toy manufacturing,but it would take some moretime to achieve that,” AITF VicePresident Abdullah Sharif saidin a statement.The Indian toyindustry is currently strug-gling with a large-scale slumpin demand and issues stem-ming from economic uncer-tainties amid the Covid-19pandemic, the association said.

It also sought more timefor toy companies to obtainlicence from the Bureau of

Indian Standards (BIS). “We also hope that the

government gives us somemore time to gain a certificationfrom the BIS, a requirementfrom today, September 1. Forthis, we need an additional 18-24 months to ensure that allmicro, small, and medium toyenterprises can rise to this chal-lenge,” Sharif added. Accordingto the association, fromSeptember 1, all toy manufac-turers and importers need alicence from BIS. It said manysmall and medium units, facinga financial crunch, would not beable to adhere to these stan-dards right away. “We fear thatsuch measures can hinder PMModi’s vision, causing smallerunits to shut down. We’d be leftwith only big MNCs, who willsell expensive branded toys intheir store chains,” Sharif said.“Very few domestic and near-ly none of the foreign toy man-ufacturers have been able toapply for the required BIS cer-tification, due to multiple claus-es. The standards include qual-ity requirements, the onus to setup testing labs, and the process’stime-consuming length,” thestatement said.

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank’snew guidelines on currentaccount have made the foreignbanks jittery, as they will not beable to garner nil-interest fundsfrom corporate in the name ofproviding better services thantheir domestic counterparts,said a senior banker.

As per the latest RBIguidelines, a bank opening adedicated current account ofany company with �50 crore ormore in debt must have at least10 per cent loan exposure inthe concerned business entity.

Most foreign banks man-age current accounts of corpo-rate without providing anyloan to them. So far, foreignbanks used to manage the largecurrent accounts of India Incwith virtually little or no expo-sure, the senior executive of apublic sector bank said.

Lending used to comefrom domestic banks but cur-rent account management werewith foreign banks as theypromised better services andother incentives, the bankeradded.

Without having any liabil-ity, another banker said, foreignbanks were managing largecurrent accounts where inter-est outgo was nil but the latestguideline from the ReserveBank of India will put a curb onthis practice.

Since public-sector banksdo the bulk of corporate lend-ing, they stand to gain fromthese guidelines on currentaccounts.On August 6, the RBIhad observed that the checksand balances put in place in theexisting framework for openingcurrent accounts are inade-quate. PTI

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Telangana Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao on

Tuesday urged Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to drop theproposal asking the states to gofor borrowingto meet theshort-fall in the GST compensationand said the Centre can itselftake up the entire financing.

In a letter to Modi, he alsoclaimed the Centre has taken aunilateral decision to lowerthe threshold limit of 14 per

cent for working out GST com-pensation to ten per cent,terming it as a matter of graveconcern.

He underlined the needfor strengthening cooperativefederalism in this crisis situa-tion posed by the COVID-19pandemic.

The Centre was abdicat-ing its responsibility of fullycompensating states by takingrecourse to legal opinion, andviolated the provisions of theGST Compensation Act by

parking the surpluses in theCompensation Fund in itsConsolidated Fund instead ofparking them in the non-lapsable Compensation Fundin the Public Account, he said.

Taking into account thecompelling reasons mentionedabove, it is my earnest requestthat the decision of asking thestates to meet the shortfall inthe compensation through bor-rowings may be reversed, Raosaid.

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The rupee rallied 73 paise tobreach the 73-mark against

the US dollar on Tuesday, sup-ported by liquidity-boostingmeasures announced by theRBI. A weak greenback over-seas and a positive trend in theequity markets further sup-ported the local currency, forextraders said.At the interbankforex market, the domesticunit opened at 73.18 against theUS dollar and shuttled between72.75 and 73.19.

It finally finished at 72.87,up 73 paise from its previousclose of 73.60.The dollar index,which gauges the greenback’sstrength against a basket of sixcurrencies, was trading 0.25 percent lower at 91.91. The ReserveBank on Monday announced ahost of steps, including termrepo operations totalling �1lakh crore in mid-September toease pressure on liquidity andmaintain congenial financialconditions with a view to ensur-ing sustainable recovery of eco-nomic growth.

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The Jammu and Kashmiradministration on Tuesday

withdrew the additional exciseduty of 50 per cent levied onliquor after the outbreak ofCovid-19 as a new excise pol-icy for the remainder of 2020-2021 financial year came intoforce in the Union Territory, asenior Government officer said.

Excise CommissionerRajesh Kumar Shavan said thenew policy for the first timeprovides for reservation of 12per cent to six categories ofpeople, including ex-service-men, those belonging weakersections and unemployedyouths, in opening bars andrestaurants at tourist destina-tions across the UnionTerritory. “The additional 50per cent excise duty on liquor(which was levied in May),commonly known as coronatax, has been withdrawn fromtoday after the implementationof the new excise policy,”Shavan told reporters here.

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The CBDT has said theincome tax authorities can

share information with sched-uled commercial banks, a movethat would ease the lenders’hassle of deciding TDSdeductibility on various pay-ments to their customers.

In a notification datedAugust 31, the Central Boardof Direct Taxes (CBDT) includ-ed ‘scheduled commercialbanks’, listed in the secondschedule of the Reserve Bankof India Act, 1934, underSection 138 of Income TaxAct for sharing of information.

CBDT is the apex tax bodyon personal income tax andcorporate tax.

Section 138 of the IncomeTax Act empowers income taxauthorities to share informa-tion/ details of its taxpayerswith other agencies.

Nangia Andersen LLPPartner Sandeep Jhunjhunwalasaid the addition of these banksin the list of bodies with whichthe tax authorities can shareinformation received from thetaxpayers should ease a lot ofadministrative hassles currentlyfaced by the banking industryin the country.

“This addition to Section138 of Income Tax Act would

surely ease the burden ofscheduled commercial banksfor deciding TDS deductibili-ty on various payments to itscustomers,” he said. The movewill especially help in casessuch as TDS under Section194N, which requires multipleincome tax related informationand declaration from cus-tomers making withdrawal,Jhunjhunwala added.

New Delhi: The SwadeshiJagran Manch (SJM) onTuesday sought changes in theproposed ‘Defence AcquisitionProcedure’ rules to limit ben-efits available for an ‘Indianvendor’ only to those havingmajority ownership and controlwith Indian resident citizens.

In a letter addressed toPrime Minister NarendraModi, the economic wing ofthe Rashtriya SwayamsevakSangh also sought his inter-vention to ensure that foreignentities do not get any advan-tage over entities owned andpromoted by Indian residentcitizens, simply by getting reg-

istered in India. “We areof the considered opinion thatprocurement from companiesregistered in India, wheremajority shareholding is that offoreigners, is no different fromimports,” SJM co-convenerAshwani Mahajan said in theletter.

Applauding the govern-ment’s decision to ban importof 101 weapons and platformsin a staggered manner,Mahajan said a foreign entitycan get registered in India orbuy majority stake in an Indianfirm as up to 74 per cent FDIis allowed in defence under theautomatic route. PTI

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The Covid-19-inducedshrinking of economic

activity for the past few monthshas continued to have animpact on the government’s taxcollections with revenue underthe Goods and Services Tax(GST)falling far below the psy-chological level of �1 lakhcrore to �86,449 crore inAugust.This is second consec-utive month of a fall in GSTcollections after the numbercrossed over �90,000 crore inJune.

The August collection,which is 88 per cent of lastyear’s number, is however, arecovery from the months ofApril and May when theCovid-induced lockdowns andsevere disruptions in econom-ic activities, resulting in GSTcollections nose-diving to alltime low levels.

The GST collection for themonth of April was �32,294crore which was a mere 28 per

cent of the revenue collectedduring the same month lastyear and for May was �62,009crore, which was 62 per cent ofthe revenue collected duringthe same month last year.

Only in June, GST collec-tions recovered to touch�90,917 crore. However, theyagain fell to �87,422 crore inJuly, before falling further inAugust.

“The revenues for themonth are 88 per cent of theGST revenues in the samemonth last year.

It may also be noted thatthe taxpayers with a turnoverless than �5 crore continue toenjoy relaxation in filing ofreturns till September,” theFinance Ministry said in astatement, justifying themonth-on-month fall in col-lections. Out of the total GSTcollection of �86,449 crore forAugust, the CGST was �15,906crore, and the SGST was �21,064 crore, an official state-ment said.

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The relatively shorter time-frame granted to telcos for

payment of AGR dues willexert additional pressure on thecash flows, necessitates “size-able” ARPU hike, and may havelongstanding impact on indus-try structure, ICRA said onTuesday.

The Supreme Court hasgranted 10 years to telecomfirms such as Vodafone Ideaand Bharti Airtel for paying theAdjusted Gross Revenue(AGR)-related dues to theDepartment ofTelecommunications (DoT)with certain conditions.

The apex court asked tel-cos to pay 10 per cent of the AGR-related dues byMarch 31, 2021.

“The proposed paymentpattern adds to the burden ofthe industry which was alreadysaddled with elevated debt lev-

els,” ICRA said in a statement.Noting that the Telecom

Department had proposed 20year duration for payment ofdues, ICRA said that the rela-tively shorter payment time-frame of 10 years that hasbeen granted to telcos “exertsadditional pressure on the cashflows and necessitates sizeableARPU (Average Revenue Per User) increase and can havean impact on the industrystructure”.

Ankit Jain, Assistant VicePresident, Corporate Ratings,ICRA, said it would also leavelimited room for networkcapex and expansion, espe-cially for the relatively weakerplayer.

“Assuming these paymentterms are implemented on thebalance amount to be paid, thetelcos will have to shell out anamount of �9,000 crore byMarch 31, 2021 as upfrontpayment, followed by 10-annu-

al instalments of around �12,000 crore at 8 percent rate of interest startingFebruary 2022 till February2031,” Jain said.

These dues arose after theSupreme Court, in October lastyear, upheld the government’sposition on including revenuefrom non-core businesses incalculating the annual AGR oftelecom companies, a share ofwhich is paid as licence andspectrum fee to the exche-quer. ICRA said the telecomindustry, after witnessing aturbulent phase with intensecompetition and pricing pres-sures, was on a path to recov-ery.

Telecom operatorsannounced substantial tariffhikes in December 2019, whichalong with moderation incapex intensity and deleverag-ing initiatives pointed towards“greenshoots of recovery” inthe sector that was expected to

result in expansion in cash flowgeneration.

“The tariff hikes have led torestoration of pricing power tothe telcos and aided improve-ment in the operating metricsof the industry with growth inrevenues and profit margins,”ICRA said.

It further said that theindustry has been saddled withelevated debt levels amid con-sistently high capex require-ments.As per ICRA estimates,the debt as on March 31, 2019stood at �5 lakh crore, whichdeclined to Rs 4.4 lakh crore ason March 31, 2020 after aseries of deleveraging mea-sures undertaken by private tel-cos during FY2020.

“Moreover, despite theimprovement in cash flow andmoderation in capex intensity,the debt is further expected toincrease to �4.6 lakh crore as onMarch 31, 2021 owing to addi-tion of AGR dues,” it said.

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Moody’s Investors Serviceon Tuesday said India

will be among the large emerg-ing market sovereigns to havehighest debt burden by 2021.

The coronavirus pandem-ic-induced deterioration ingrowth and fiscal dynamics willleave most large emerging mar-ket sovereigns with higher debtburdens over the next fewyears, it said.

We expect Governmentdebt in the large emergingmarket sovereigns to rise byalmost 10 percentage points ofGDP on average by the end of2021 from 2019 levels, drivenprimarily by wider primarydeficits, although some arelikely to see higher interest pay-ments contributing to higherdebt, Moody’s said.

“Debt burdens in Brazil,India and South Africa will riseto among the highest across thelarge emerging market sover-eigns by 2021,” Moody’s said.

The US-based ratingagency said medium-term

growth and fiscal challengespose downside risks as some ofthese nations face economicrisks and potential revenueshortfalls beyond the immedi-ate shock, given their exposureto commodities, tourism andgenerally sectors exposed tolasting changes in behaviours,weak global demand and per-sistently weaker productivitygrowth.

“Fragile financial systemsand/or contingent liabilitiescompound this risk for India,Mexico, South Africa andTurkey,” Moody’s noted.

It further said in India,increased stress within thefinancial system, among banks

and non-bank financial com-panies, raises contingent lia-bility risks to the sovereign.

“Despite steps toward theresolution of high non-per-forming loans, the bankingsystem continues to suffer fromweak asset quality, and lowloan-loss coverage and capitaladequacy. This is especiallythe case for state-owned banks,which account for around 70per cent of total banking sys-tem assets,” the agency said.

Lingering fragilities in thesector are likely to be com-pounded by a prolonged peri-od of subdued economic activ-ity compared to pre-coron-avirus levels, it added.

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India’s manufacturing sectoractivity re-entered the growth

territory in August, driven bya rebound in production vol-umes and new work, amid animprovement in customerdemand following the resump-tion of business operations, amonthly survey showed onTuesday.

The headline seasonallyadjusted IHS Markit IndiaManufacturing PurchasingManagers’ Index (PMI) rosefrom 46 in July to 52 in August,signalling an improvement inoperating conditions acrossthe manufacturing sector fol-lowing four consecutivemonths of contraction.

In April, the index hadslipped into contraction mode,after remaining in the growthterritory for 32 consecutivemonths. In PMI parlance, aprint above 50 means expan-sion, while a score below that

denotes contraction.“August data highlighted

positive developments in thehealth of the Indian manufac-turing sector, signalling movestowards a recovery from thesecond quarter downturn. Thepick-up in demand fromdomestic markets gave rise toupturns in production andinput buying,” Shreeya Patel,Economist at IHS Markit, said.

Despite an expansion innew orders, job shedding con-tinued in the Indian manufac-turing sector. The relocation ofemployees following COVID-19 pandemic was often linkedto the reduction in staffingnumbers. “However, not allwas positive in August, deliv-ery times lengthened to anoth-er marked rate amid ongoingCOVID-19 disruption.Meanwhile, employment con-tinued to fall despite signs ofcapacity pressures, as firmsstruggled to find suitable work-ers,” Patel said.

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Shares of Vodafone Idea onTuesday tumbled nearly 13

per cent, while those of BhartiAirtel rose more than 6 percent after the Supreme Courtgranted 10 years to telecomfirms for paying the AGR-related dues to the Departmentof Telecommunications (DoT)with certain conditions.Vodafone Idea shares tanked12.76 per cent to close at �8.89apiece on BSE. During the day,it plummeted 24.53 per cent to�7.69.The stock went into atailspin after the order, erasingall its early gains. Shares ofBharti Airtel, however, jumped6.38 per cent to settle at�546.75.

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Samanta, Pro-Vice Chancellor, KIIT-DU.

This is the first of its kind meeton the NEP 2020, bringing 30000 stu-dents, Vice Chancellors, policymak-ers and intellectuals from 50 coun-tries on a common platform.

Inaugurating the webinar, Dr RPNishank said: “The NEP 2020 is a stu-dent-centric policy and reflectsdreams and aspirations of the peopleas it has been framed followingwide-ranging consultations.Provisions for early childhood edu-cation, emphasis on mother-tonguebased childhood education; focus onskills, credit bank and multiple entryand exits are some of the importantfeatures of the policy.”

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On August 31, 2020Hamid Ahmed

has been appointed asChancellor of JamiaHamdard, a Deemedto be University.

Hamid Ahmed isan eminent businesspersonality based inNew Delhi. He cur-rently serves as theChief ExecutiveOfficer and Trustee ofHamdard LaboratoriesIndia — FoodsDivision. In addition,he has served as

Secretary, HamdardNational Foundation(India) since 2017.

On the occasion,Ahmed said: “I amthankful to HamdardNational Foundation(India) – HECA forplacing trust in me asChancellor of JamiaHamdard, a universi-ty founded and nur-tured by my grandfa-ther, late HakeemAbdul Hameed. It willbe my endeavour totake it to be among thetop five universities inthe country.”

Advancements in technology have enabledhumans to perform any task in just one

click and have simplified ways of doingtasks.We are all becoming increasingly tech-dependent nowadays.Technology-drivenelectronic gadgets, be it laptops, computersor mobiles, all help to get the job done fasterand better. Whether we are at office, schoolor at home, these gadgets make our life effi-cient and easier. But have you ever wonderedhow these electronic devices execute thecommands given by the user? It’s due to themicroprocessor built in them. Let’s learnabout this key component, its usage acrossvarious industries and the career opportu-nities in this field.

Microprocessor & its design: A micro-processor is the central unit of a computersystem which is responsible for processingunique sets of logical and computationalinstructions. It performs arithmetic and log-ical operations that include addition, sub-traction, inter process and device commu-

nication and input/output management. Itaccepts binary data as input, processes it andthen produce the output based on theinstructions given to it. A microprocessorincorporates the function of CentralProcessing Unit on a single IntegratedCircuit (IC), also referred as semiconductorchip or microchip. If we talk about its design,then it comprise of an integrated circuit thatconsist of millions of small components suchas transistors, diodes, resistors and capaci-tors, which work together.

Devices which contain microproces-sors: From smart home devices to themachineries used to control aircrafts and rail-roads, microprocessors are now used inalmost every device. Apart from desktops,laptops and mobiles, the devices that con-tain microprocessors are washing machines,dishwashers, microwaves, gaming console,self-driving cars, central heating systems,refrigerators, HD televisions, external secu-rity lights and burglar alarm system.

Industrial applications of micro-processors: In addition to the general pur-pose applications, microprocessors are alsoused in various special purpose applicationswhich include cars, planes, elevators, gaso-line pumps, heavy machinery, high-techmedical devices, traffic control devices,navigation systems, and security surveillancesystems.

Microprocessor market size: Giventhe growing use of microprocessors in thefield of consumer electronics such as desk-tops, laptops, mobile phones, the market sizeof microprocessors will witness an upsurgein demand at the global level. The globalmarket size of microprocessors was estimatedat 83.3 billion USD in 2019 and is expectedto rise at a CAGR of 4.1 per cent from 2020to 2027.

Future demand of microprocessordesign engineer: In the coming time thedemand of electronic devices with variousadvanced technologies will grow, which in

turn will create huge opportunities for thecandidates as a Microprocessor DesignEngineer. Microprocessors or integratedchips (ICs) are used in almost every elec-tronic device to enhance the overall perfor-mance of that device. Looking at the greatfuture prospects in this field, ElectronicsSector Skills Council of India (ESSCI)formed under the Ministry of SkillDevelopment and Entrepreneurship andNational Skill Development Corporation, isplanning to skill youth in this emerging jobrole with the help of private institutes andits training partners present across India.

Role of microprocessor design engi-neer: The role of Microprocessor DesignEngineer is to design a key component ofcomputer hardware, i.e., the next generationsilicon semiconductors. This job is one of themost challenging and interesting jobs in theindustry. It takes several years for manymicroprocessor engineers to complete adesign. They have to work round the clockto complete their projects in a given timeperiod.The design engineer has to use itscomputer and electrical expertise to designintegrated circuits for various applications.

Educational qualifications: In order toget your foot in the door of this industry, thecandidate must be a graduate from the reput-ed engineering college and have advanceddegrees in electrical and computer engi-neering. You can lay the foundation of yourcareer in chip design by working as an internin any of the big-name chip maker compa-ny. Having hands-on experience on makingchip designs will improve your skill sets,which will definitely add a value to your port-folio.

Career outlook: The Government isseeking solutions to make the country a hubfor electronics manufacturing. TheGovernment wants to build a homegrownsemiconductor design ecosystem to supportthe local mass of talent in the best possibleway.

If the country soon develops the abili-ty to indigenously design the silicon chips,it will surely create immense job opportu-nities for youth in this field.

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In a bid to re-connect millionsof its alumni working world -

wide, IP University has launcheda dedicated Alumni Portal hereSeptember 1, 2020.

At the online launching cer-emony of the portal, the vicechancellor of the university ProfMahesh Verma said that it is amile stone for the university.Creating a engaged and support-ive alumni network through thisportal will prove to be crucial tothe success of the university. Thealumni are very precious to us. Ifcommunication stops once grad-

uates leave the university, theirunderstanding of the universitywill become stale. Instead, theyshould be kept in forward so theycan remain engaged and keepabreast on the progress of the uni-versity. There is no doubt thatgood alumni relationships bringmany benefits to both the uni-versity and the alumni, opined thevice chancellor.

It will provide help and sup-port to the students at variousstages ranging from their stay inthe university and even afterpass out, he added.

The link of the portal hasbeen placed prominently on the

home page of the university. Theportal can be downloaded as amobile app on both android andios smart mobile phones easily.

It has all the salient featuresof a standard alumni portal likesearch option of alumni acrossprogrammes and batches, dis-tinguished alumni list, availablejob options being provided byalumni, events, news, network-ing, professional developmentoption and option to engage inmeaningful way. The log in/signup option is available to all 12university schools of the univer-sity on the portal throughLinkedin, Facebook, Google and

E-mail. It is basically a platform for

the IPU alumni from all over theworld to come together in thisvirtual world to network,exchange ideas, share insights,update their particulars, men-toring, personal & professionaldevelopment opportunities andsuccess stories.

The portal has been devel-oped by Alumni Connect withmajor contribution by an alum-nus of the University School ofInformation andCommunication Technology(USICT) of the university, ArupGhosal.

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Part-II: Aptitude Sectionhad total 50 questions — Therewere 50 Multiple choice ques-tions with Single correctanswers. Marking scheme formultiple choice questions was+4 for correct response, -1 forincorrect response, 0 if notattempted. Total marks of thissection was 200.

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Technology has made it possiblefor them to analyse their choices andarrive at a calculated decision.However, the youth also faces certainroadblocks when it comes to sex edu-cation, since it is a taboo subject in oursociety. This means that they are notgetting the right kind of education onthe subject. They are depending ontheir friends, Internet and media forinformation, which may not be nec-essarily correct.

The youth has never been under-stood, neither they are able to com-prehend why they are being judged.The youth today needs guidancewhich has to be in an appropriate

manner for proper development andadvancement. These include giving sexeducation, which plays an importantrole in a person’s life.

Our traditions make it difficult tounderstand and acknowledge theimportance of proper sexual healtheducation. And unfortunately, a largepopulation of our youth is oblivioustowards sex education. Due to this,juvenile crime is one the rise and hasbecome an issue that needs to beaddressed immediately.

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India is rapidly growing interms of its education. Now theworld has started recognising

India as a main hub of manage-ment schools. Few years ago,becoming a chef might have beena pipe dream, but all this has beenslowly changing. A wave of trans-formation has hit the world of culi-nary arts. The best Indian culinaryand bakery courses are now in stiffcompetition with foreigner coun-tries like France and Italy that haveevolved in this market.

If you see yourself as a pas-sionate chef and hoping to pursuea career in bakery and culinaryarts, this article will take a look atthe best courses from institutes,you will set apart from the rest andgain experiences along the way.Every single day, new recipes areborn, and new restaurants areopening. While there are plenty ofchef jobs around the world, it isimportant that you have goodknowledge as well as trainingbehind you.

The Academy of Pastry &Culinary Arts has pastry diplomaprogrammes for bakers, providingthem the basic training for baking,which can then be harnessed intoadvanced techniques and cuisines.This course begins from scratchwill take you to an advancedlevel, giving you an exposure to allthe major international cuisines.

Also, it prepares its students toface all the competitive aspects inthe culinary and bakery sector.Here, students get the opportuni-ty to practice hands-on trainingwith the best ingredients & equip-ment in the world and most ofthem end up opening their ownBakery start-up or they are placedin some good 5-7 star restaurants.

Pastry Diploma programme:Six months

Pastry Advanced Diplomaprogramme: Nine months

Pastry part-time programme:12 weeks

The International Institute ofCulinary & Arts (IICA) offers all

aspects of cooking— global andIndian cuisine and bakery andpatisserie skills. These courses arecarefully designed to find theperfect mix of practical and the-ory classes with a special focus onexposure. These courses are splitinto six months of classroom lec-tures and four months of practi-cal internships in reputed hotelsand restaurants.

The IICA boasts of an impec-cable faculty and has some of themost impressive facilities includ-ing the main kitchen, Class rooms,culinary theatre, bakery kitchensthat set the stage for students topresent and explain what's andhow’s of the cooking process.

Diploma in Bakery &Patisserie Level II: 1 year

Diploma in Bakery &Patisserie Level III: 1 year

The School of EuropeanPastry offers courses where stu-dents have the opportunity todiscover the secrets of high-qual-ity pastry and become completeprofessionals.

The school sustains that beinga pastry chef is like creating abeautiful painting or makingmusic. Therefore, one of its tasksis to provide the necessary tools tolearn to combine ingredients, tex-tures and flavors without losingsight of the presentation.

Diploma in Baking & Pastry:Six months

Certificate in Baking & Pastry:

Six weeksThe Lavonne Academy offers

a 960-hour course which is acombination of practical and the-oretical learning, tailor made toequip students with the knowledgeand experience required in thevast, competitive baking industry.

Students are equipped to takeroles in 5-star bakery kitchens toset up their own proprietorshipsin the industry.

Students are assisted in secur-ing internships and placements oncompletion of their diploma pro-gram.

Diploma in Pastry: 960 hoursBakery Certificate: Six weeks

courseThe Palate academy offers a

programme in Baking & Patisseriefor culinary enthusiasts who wantto gain in depth knowledge andunderstanding into the art ofmaking baking, confectionery andpastry items.

The students predominantlyare trained to be proficient in mak-ing everything from cookies todesserts, celebration cakes, tartsand decorative confectionarybased showpieces.

After spending 550 hours inthe kitchen & classrooms, thestudents further master over 130recipes and techniques.

Diploma in Baking &Patisserie: Six months

Intensive eggless bakingcourse: Four weeks.

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It is no more a secret that COVID-19 has stretched and pushed themodern professionals into an

uncomfortable zone. With mental andphysical disruptions to the everyday lifeand we have been propelled into a newparadigm of work from which wemay never return. Ability to work fromany location, no more commuting,abolishment of traditional 9-5 workparametres which people initially start-ed enjoying is becoming a challenge tocope with. The top challenge faced byremote workers is unplugging fromwork. Without the clear-cut change oflocation and defined office hours,many are having a tough time bifur-cating their personal and professionalspace.

Another extremely challengingaspect of work from home (WFH) forparents with young children is man-aging them; Along with the regularoffice work managing the kids’ onlineschools and the household choresbecome an added stress for both part-ners. Also, the lack of in-person com-munication became a pain point formany wherein the verbal and non-ver-bal behaviours are vital to successfulunderstanding and collaborationamong team members. For many busi-nesses, the very nature of work does notallow for remote working; there aremany jobs, that cannot be adequatelycompleted in a domestic environment.Also, WFH also leads to bandwidth,network, and data security issues alongwith inadequacy of space where thereare multiple people working together.

With all these disadvantages ofWFH, looks like a major section of theworkforce can’t wait to get back to workbut are sceptical about safety. They arelooking for workplaces which can pro-vide them with the peace of mind abouttheir health and safety. Organisationsacross sectors with active support of realestate developers are learning andimplementing new technologies andprocesses to make workplace safer.

Maintaining highest level ofhygiene, modification in seatingarrangements to ensure adequate socialdistance between employees, promptmedical assistance for employees are

certain things organisations are mak-ing adequate arrangements for.

For the real estate sector, observ-ing and meeting a company’s own con-cern for the highest standards of safe-ty and design is a requisite to invite theprofessional workforce back to com-mercial workspaces. This will requireforesight on part of the sector toalways meet and often exceed ondemands like social distancing andcrowd management practices to pro-vide a safe and comfortable workingenvironment to their tenants/cus-tomers.

To adhere to social distancingrules, office buildings should beequipped to offer facilities for virtualmeetings, advanced touch free visitormanagement systems, online checklistsand many more such innovations tominimise touch. Also, equipping devel-opments with HVAC systems withadvanced filtration process to removefine dust particles from the air to ensurea dust and virus free environment atworkplaces is a must.

Safety being the top-most priority,it is imperative for 21st Century devel-opments to constantly innovate toprovide a pleasant experience to exist-ing and prospective partners.

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The La Trobe Universityis invites applicationsfor its Destination

Australia Scholarships. Theprogramme is open for theacademic year 2020-2021.

Eligibility: Be an interna-tional student commencingtheir first year of study in anundergraduate or postgradu-ate coursework course in thesemester of 2020 and 2021.

Be studying full-time at aregional campus in a coursethat is offered entirely at thatcampus.

Be residing in any areaother than R1 classification, orintending to move to an areaother than R1 classification.

Supporting documents:Academic CV, transcripts, cer-tificates, a copy of the passport,and photographs with appli-cation. Admission require-ments: Applicants must havea previous year’s degree withexcellent achievements.

Language requirement:Applicants must have a mini-mum IELTS (Academic) scoreof 6.5 with no individual bandscore less than 6.0.

How to apply: If you wantto apply for this award pro-gram, you are recommendedto take admission in under-graduate or postgraduate at LaTrobe University. No sepa-rate application required.

Application deadline:

The last date to apply isDecember 31, 2020.

Applications are invitedfor tuition fee programme atFederation University,Australia. The programme isdesigned to support ambi-tious aspirants who are goingto pursue a bachelor or mas-ters degree programme at theuniversity.

Eligibility: An interna-tional student can apply for theopportunity. Applicants mustbe enrolled in semester 1,2 orsummer semester. Studentsmust be eligible to study inAustralia with a student visa.

Seekers must be enrolledin an undergraduate or post-graduate eligible programme.Supporting documents: Atthe time of admission the uni-versity will ask you to submityour academic transcripts,language ability proof, andcopy of your passport with CV.

Admission requirements:Aspirants must have to com-plete the University’s academ-ic admission requirements rel-evant to the chosen programof study. Language require-ments: Applicants must meetEnglish language entryrequirements – AcademicIELTS overall 6.0, no band lessthan 6.0, or equivalent.

How to apply: Candidatesmust take admission to bach-elors or masters degree.Students will be automatical-ly assessed for programmes.

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Fourth seed Naomi Osakaadvanced to the secondround of the US Open on

Monday but was made to workhard during a 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 vic-tory over Japanese compatriotMisaki Doi at Arthur AsheStadium.

Also, top seed KarolinaPliskova shrugged off the eerilyquiet atmosphere to reach thesecond round as the women’sdraw followed the form book.

Osaka, who withdrew fromthe Western & Southern OpenWTA final on Saturday due to ahamstring injury, showed littlesign of a fitness problem afterwrapping up the first set in justover half an hour.

But the 22-year-old 2018Open champion’s composuredeserted her in the second set, asa string of unforced errors creptinto her game and allowed Doito seize the initiative. Doi racedinto leads of 3-0 and 4-1 buttightened when serving for theset at 5-3 — allowing Osaka tobreak back and get back onserve.

However the 29-year-oldDoi regrouped to hold serve fora 6-5 lead and then punished asloppy service game from Osakato break once again and squarethe match.

Osaka raised her gamenoticeably in the third set, cut-ting down the errors and puttingDoi under pressure on her ser-vice. Two breaks helped Osakainto a 5-2 lead and she held serveto close out the win

Coco Gauff ’s hopes oflaunching another deep run at aGrand Slam ended in the firstround with the US teenager suc-cumbing in three sets to Latvia’sAnastasija Sevastova.

Gauff, who created a sensa-tion at Wimbledon last yearwhen she became the youngestplayer in the tournament’s histo-ry to qualify for the main drawbefore reaching the fourthround, was beaten 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.

The 16-year-old formerjunior world number one from

Delray Beach had battled back tolevel the match against the 31st-seeded Sevastova after droppingthe first set.

But after squaring thematch by taking the finalthree games of the secondset to win it 7-5, Gauffwas soon scrambling tosave the match in thethird set.

Although Gauff saved threematch points, Sevastova eventu-ally closed out the win, convert-ing her fourth match point.

World number threePliskova, elevated to top seed inthe absence of world number one

Ashleigh Barty and sec-ond-ranked SimonaHalep, needed just overan hour to dispose ofUkraine’s AnghelinaKalinina.

The Czech ace over-came an early wobble, whenKalinina fought back from 1-4down to level at 4-4 in the firstset, to clinch a 6-4, 6-0 victory in1hr 3min.

The 28-year-old, a finalist atFlushing Meadows in 2016, willnow face France’s CarolineGarcia in the second round.

Pliskova’s sixth-seeded com-patriot Petra Kvitova alsoadvanced safely, downingRomania’s Irina-Camelia Begu 6-3, 6-2.

Elsewhere on Monday,Germany’s 17th seed AngeliqueKerber, the 2016 US Open cham-pion, booked her second-roundberth with a 6-4, 6-4 defeat ofAustralia’s Ajla Tomljanovic.

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Former Indian captain AnjumChopra lauds International

Cricket Council (ICC) decision topostpone the 2021 edition ofWomen’s World Cup by a year, say-ing that the postponement of themega event will give time for teamsto prepare better for the tourna-ment.

ICC last month decided to post-pone the 50 over World Cup sched-uled to take place in New Zealandin February-March to 2022 becauseof the delay caused by novel coron-avirus pandemic.

Speaking to The Pioneer, theformer cricketer turned com-mentator said, “I think some-where it’s nice for playersbecause now they will getsome time to prepare better.Since nobody was preparingso much because everyonewas under lockdown. Sothe preparation was verylimited.

“Except for doing somephysical fitness activities,nobody was having access tonets, bowling areas or battingpitches. But now because the 50over World Cup is postponed,

the training will be done accord-ingly. And it’s good for playersto get some more preparationtime. Because until unless youget back to playing, you don’tknow when you will hit formas everyone can’t get thatstraight away,” she said.

“Also the nice wave hasbeen created and the bestvibe is there within women’s

game over the last three years.So the brand of play will bekeenly watched and it will be a

watchful tournament. So everyonewill get time to prepare better,” sheadded.

Indian women’s team last playedin the final of T20 World Cup onMarch 8 against Australia. But sincethen because of the pandemic, noplayer was able to participate in anycompetitive game.

Speaking about the impact ofthe enforced break on players, theformer great said, “It’s tough for theplayers not to play since March. It’snot ideal because you tend to losetouch, irrespective of your trainingin the absence of competitive crick-et. And since some of the playerswere on top of their game, so it’s notideal for them to stay away for sucha long period,” she opined.

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Star all-rounder Roston Chase feels Windiesbatsman ability to clear the ropes with ease

is one of the main reason why the defendingWorld T20 champions are so strong in theshortest format of the game.

Speaking to The Pioneer, the 28-year oldwho is currently representing St Lucia Zouksin the 2020 edition of Caribbean PremierLeague said, “I think that our (Windies) bat-ting is the main reason why we are so strongin the T20 format because we are natural-bornhitters and our guys find it so much easier thanmost of the other countries to just clear thoseropes and go for the maximum. We guys arebig, strong and powerful. So I guess that’s themain reason why we are so strong in T20s,” hesaid.

“Also another one of myobservation is that T20 is short,so there is not much time foryou to get back in the game.And I guess that is one of ourdownfalls over the years in thelonger format. I thinkthat we struggle to dothe small things andright things consis-tently over a periodof time. But as Isaid, T20 is short; youdon’t have to concen-trate for an extendedperiod. So yeah, it isnot a big task for otherteams to get back withthe game, once we getthe upper hand. Sothat’s one more reasonwhy we are so strong,”he added.

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All members of the ChennaiSuper Kings contingent,

except for the 13 who tested pos-itive for Covid-19 early lastweek, have come out negative inthe latest tests, the IPL team’sCEO K S Viswanathan said onTuesday.

Viswanathan had earlierstated that even the 13, includ-ing India seamer DeepakChahar and India A batsmanRuturaj Gaikwad, were amongthose who returned negative intests conducted on Monday. Helater revised his statement.

“All others, apart from the13, have tested negative forCovid-19. They will have toundergo another test on

Thursday, September 3. We arelikely to start training on Friday,September 4,” Viswanathan saidfrom Dubai where the team isbased right now.

“Deepak and Ruturaj willcomplete their 14-day quaran-tine and then join training aftertwo negative tests as per proto-col,” he added.

The 13 infected contingentmembers will be tested at theend of their quarantine period.

The development is a wel-come relief for one of the mostpopular IPL teams.

Save for Chahar andRuturaj, most of the memberswho tested positive are from thesocial media team of the fran-chise and other staff who are notrelated to coaching duties.

� :�' -�!Cricketers like ViratKohli who depend on externalstimulation and are used to‘pressure’ are “really going tostruggle” in front of empty sta-dium but self-motivated playerswill “do a hell lot better” in thisyear’s IPL, said experiencedmental conditioning coachPaddy Upton.

The 13th IPL will be held ina bio-secure environmentbehind closed doors and Uptonfeels many players might strug-gle. “The big-match tempera-ment players do well when thepressure is on, when there are alot of people around. The factthat you are gonna have gamesin front of empty stadiumsnow, you are just not going tohave that level of pres-sure,” Upton toldESPNcricinfo.

“So the playerswho rely on big-matchtemperament todeliver results ...Someone likeVirat Kohli,will he still beas good whenyou takeaway thatexternal stim-ulation andnoise and pres-

sure? “You are gonna find play-ers who normally fall over whenthe pressure gets high. They willbe able to just carry on battingbecause there is not going to bethe physical presence of specta-tors.”

The 51-year-old from SouthAfrica, who was the mentalconditioning coach of the Indianteam which went on to win the2011 World Cup, said internal-ly driven players will outperformcricketers who look for externalvalidation.

“Athletes who are internal-ly driven, who find the motiva-tion from within themselves,they are going to be fine, they aregoing to do well. Your typicalconfidence players, who look formotivation, inspiration or vali-

dation from outside, they arereally going to struggle,” hesaid.

“Your (a team’s) optimistsare going to do a hell lot bet-

ter. Your pessimists aregonna struggle. So it

depends how manyintroverts, internallydriven, optimistsyou have got inyour team. Themore you have got,the luckier youactually are.” PTI

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Seasoned India pacerBhuvneshwar Kumar

says a bowler’s capabil-ity to deliver what he isgood at is equal lyimportant as introduc-ing new variations tohis game.

Bhuvneshwar, whowill be seen in the theorange SunrisersHyderabad jersey in theIPL, said the years ofexperience in the Indian

team has changed himas a bowler.

“I have definitelychanged as a bowler inthe last few years. Mostimportant ly I havegained experience fromplaying, have learnt vari-ations,” Bhubaneswartold the IPL website.

“I don’t think it isalways about keepadding to your arsenal,it is also about beinggood at what you do,” headded.

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India and Royal ChallengersBangalore captain Virat Kohli

understands “the privilege” of beingable to play cricket in the middle ofa raging pandemic and he wants allIPL participants to respect the tour-nament’s bio-secure bubble.

Speaking on RCB’s Youtubeshow Bold Diaries, the 31-year-oldswashbuckler said he didn’t exactlymiss the game during the Covid-forced lockdown, which broughtsporting action to a halt.

“Maybe because I was going onday and night for the last 10 years...Itwas a revelation for me in the sensethat my focus was not solely on miss-ing the game all the time,” Kohli said.

Now that he is gearing up to beback in action with the IPL, Kohlisaid the BCCI’s Standard OperatingProcedure and the bio-bubblerestrictions should be non-nego-tiable for all participants.

“We are all here to play crick-

et...The bio-bubble needs to berespected at all times for the tour-nament to happen eventually. We arenot here to have fun and roam

around and you know say that ‘Iwant to hang out in Dubai’,” Kohliasserted.

“That is not the time we are liv-ing in. Accept the phase that we aregoing through and understand theprivilege that we have, just to be apart of the IPL. Everyone shouldaccept that and not behave in a man-ner which situation doesn’t requirethem to,” he said.

Speaking about coming back tothe game after five months, Kohlisaid it didn’t take much time for himto find his groove.

“A couple of months back youcouldn’t imagine that you will haveIPL firstly... When we had ourpractice session yesterday, I realisedhow long it has been. When I washeading to the practice session, I feltnervous,” he conceded.

“I felt a bit jittery but things wereokay. I didn’t miss the game as muchas I thought I might...Just carryingon with life was also important,” hesaid.

Kohli credited the side’s supportstaff, led by Team Director MikeHesson, for making everyoneunderstand what’s at stake and at thesame time, not put them under pres-sure.

“Culture will not change for anyindividual preferences,” he said.

On the the tournament beingplayed without in-stadia fansbecause of the bio-bubble restric-tions, Kohli said it would be strangeat first but eventually players willadapt to the feeling.

“I would not say it won’t be dif-ficult, strange. The echo of bat hit-ting the ball, I haven’t experiencedit for the last 10 years. The RanjiTrophy was the last time. But wehave done this at some stage of ourlives,” he said referring to thedomestic games which are played innear-empty venues.

“The crowd factor will definite-ly play a part but the instincts willkick in and it will diminish quitequickly.”

Dubai: The SouthAfrican trio of Faf duPlessis, Lungi Ngidi andKagiso Rabada arrivedhere in the wee hours ofTuesday to join theirteammates for theupcoming IndianPremier League, start-ing September 19.

While formerSouth Africa skipperdu Plessis and speedsterNgidi joined the Chennai Super Kings’ camp,pacer Rabada headed to the Delhi Capitals’ teamhotel.

Both franchises shared pictures of theProteas players on their respective officialTwitter handles.

All three players will undergo a six-day iso-lation period with testing on days 1, 3 and 6. Ifthey clear all the tests, they will be eligible to enterthe tournament’s bio-bubble and start training.

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Pre-tournament favoriteNovak Djokovic marched

into round two of the US Openon Monday as he launched hisbid for a 18th Grand Slam witha straight-sets win.

The world number one dis-patched unheralded DamirDzumhur of Bosnia-Herzegovina 6-1, 6-4, 6-1 underfloodlights at an empty ArthurAshe Stadium. The Serbiansuperstar took just 23 minutes towin the first set before laboringto a narrow victory in an hour-long second set.

Earlier, fifth seed AlexanderZverev was made to work hardas he progressed into round twofollowing a three-hour-long tus-sle with 2017 finalist KevanAnderson.

The German, seek-ing his first GrandSlam title, took thefirst set on a tie-break 7-6 (7/2)before losing thesecond 7-5 in aneerily emptyArthur AsheS t a d i u m .Ult imately,the 23-year-old proved toomuch for the SouthAfrican veteran, win-ning the third set 6-3and the fourth 7-5.

“I am actuallyquite happy with a firstround like that,” saidZverev, who reachedhis first Grand Slam

semi-final at the Australian Openearlier this year.

“Kevin is not someone youusually play in a first round. Thisis a fourth round, quarter-final,semi-final match normallyagainst him. I am extremelyhappy to be through,” he added.

Fourth seed StefanosTsitsipas eased into the secondround of the Flushing Meadowstournament, which is beingplayed without fans due to coro-navirus, with a straight-sets winover Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas.

The Greek player neededjust one hour and 38 minutes todispose of the world number 41,6-2, 6-1, 6-1.

Britain’s Cameron Norrieenjoyed one of the day’s mostimpressive wins, charging backfrom two sets down to sinkArgentine ninth seen DiegoSchwartzman 3-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1,7-5.

The 25-year-old looked deadand buried afterdropping servefive times in theopening two setsbut recovered toclaim a memorable

win. The four-hour-long slugfest saw Norrie

save two match points ina contest that set a USOpen record of 58 breakpoints.

In an all-Americanclash on Armstrong, SteveJohnson beat 16th-seededJohn Isner 6-7, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 7-6 in another five-setter.

-��1���������1����� �� ���� ����6��� � :� 2*��! Naomi Osakaarrived on court for her open-ing US Open game onMonday wearing a face maskbearing the name of BreonnaTaylor, the African-Americannurse shot dead by policewho raided her apartment inKentucky in March.

By the time the US Openfortnight is over, Osaka saysshe hopes to have honored the

memory of six other victimsof racial injustice.

“For me, I just want tospread awareness,” Osaka saidafter her 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 win infirst round.

“I’m aware that tennis iswatched all over the world,and maybe there is someonethat doesn’t know BreonnaTaylor’s story. Maybe they’llGoogle it or something. For

me, just spreading awareness.I feel like the more peopleknow the story, then the moreinteresting or interested they’llbecome in it.”

Osaka, of Haitian andJapanese heritage, said shehas six other masks bearingthe names of black peoplekilled by police that she hopedto wear throughout the GrandSlam.

“I have seven and it’s quitesad that seven is not enoughfor the amount of names,”Osaka said. “Hopefully I’llget to the finals and you’ll seeall of them.”

The 22-year-old has spo-ken out repeatedly in thewake of the protests that sweptthe US following the death ofGeorge Floyd during a con-frontation with police in May.

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