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S ix States on Friday filed a review petition in the Supreme Court against its deci- sion to allow holding of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) despite the coronavirus pan- demic. The States are repre- sented by four Opposition par- ties — Congress, Trinamool Congress, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and Shiv Sena. The Congress also held countrywide protests on Friday. Party president Sonia Gandhi and former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi expressed soli- darity with the students and asked the Centre to postpone the entrance tests. Cabinet Ministers from Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan and West Bengal have sought a review of the August 17 judgment of the SC on JEE Main and NEET 2020. Addressing a Press confer- ence after approaching the court, the parties said they were not for cancelling the exams but wanted them to be deferred till November so that the Government is able assure the safety of the students. The decision to move the Supreme Court was taken dur- ing a meeting convened by Sonia with seven Chief Ministers two days ago. Sonia and Rahul continued to target the Government and said the safety of students should not be compromised due to the “failures of the Government”. The Union Government has made it clear that they will be held as per schedule with due precautions. In a video statement, Sonia said, “My dear students, I feel for you because you are now facing a very difficult situation. The issue of your exams, of when they should be held and where, is the most important issue not only for you but your family too. You are our future. We depend on you to build a better India. Therefore, if any decision has to be taken regard- ing your future, it is important that it is taken with your con- currence. I hope the Government listens to you, listens to your voices and act upon your wishes. This is my advice to the Government. Thank you. Jai Hind.” Rahul also shared a video statement over the issue and said safety should not be com- promised. “NEET-JEE aspi- rants’ safety should not com- promised due to the failures of the Government. The Government must listen to all stakeholders and arrive at a consensus,” Rahul tweeted, along with a video of his mes- sage to the student communi- ty as well as the Government. “What I don’t understand is why you should be held responsible and why further pain should be imposed on you... So why should the Government force anything on you? It’s important that the Government listens to the stu- dents,” he said. Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday wrote to the Union Education Minister requesting him to postpone JEE and NEET. “Each these aggressive examinations are extraordi- narily important within the profession of a scholar because the success or in any other case in these examinations would resolve the course of their future life. Each examinee would thus attempt to put his finest foot ahead and, due to this fact, this can be very important to make sure that they take these examinations in surroundings of well being security and psychological peace,” Soren wrote. Senior TMC leader and Rajya Sabha member Derek O’ Brien said the petitioners do not want the students to lose the academic year and the petition aims to ensure better safety and security measures for the students. Continued on Page 4 A ctress Rhea Chakraborty found herself in the dock in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case on Friday as the CBI grilled her for nearly eleven hours over the issues that the investigations into the actor’s death have thrown up in the case, even as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned Goa-based hotelier Gaurav Arya for questioning on August 31 in an alleged money laun- dering case. Rhea, who has been accused by Sushant’s family of abetting Sushant”s death, reached the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO)’s guesthouse at Santa Cruz’s Kalina area for ques- tioning at 10.15 am. Her ques- tioning went on for nearly eleven hours. Rhea walked out of the DRDO guesthouse at 9 pm after questioning. From there, she reportedly headed to Sanata Cruz police station to lodge a complaint against some jour- nalists who had tried to enter her Juhu residence. While there was no confirmation yet, it is quite likely that she may be re- summoned for questioning on Saturday or Sunday. Rhea’s brother Showik, late Sushant’s flatmate-friend Siddharth, cook Neeraj, house manager Sammuel Miranda and his other associates were also questioned all through the day. Friday was the second day when Showik was grilled by the CBI in connection with the case. On Thursday, Showik had been questioned by the investigators for nine hours on Thursday. Continued on Page 4 A s the Line of Actual Control (LAC) remains tense, the coming days will see a flurry of activities beginning with the Corps Commanders of India and China Armies holding sixth round of talks to resolve differences. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar are also likely to travel to Moscow to take part in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conclave. Both the leaders may meet their Chinese counterparts there. These high-level dialogues will take place against the back- drop of China not withdrawing its troops from the “friction points” and further ramping up its infrastructure like 5G net- work all along the LAC. Reports indicated fresh Chinese construction in terms of temporary huts and bunkers have taken place in the Pangong Tso (lake) zone. It is one of the four “friction points” where the stand-offs are on and the Chinese have intruded more than five km into India. On the 5G network, sources said the Chinese engi- neers were seen laying fibre optic cables and installing relat- ed equipment along the LAC in the Demchok region. Continued on Page 4 I n an apparent attempt to keep dissenters in the party in check, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed several leaders to new positions in the party. This comes fol- lowing the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting early this week after 23 party leaders wrote a letter to the party chief expressing concern about the state of affairs and demanding appointment of a full-time president. Sonia, who continues to be the interim chief of the Congress, appointed Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi as deputy to legislature party leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu as the whip. Anandpur Sahib MP Manish Tewari, another dissi- dent and a signatory of the let- ter to Sonia has been down- graded despite being much senior to Gogoi in the party. Also ignored was Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, one of the signatories. “Both Tewari and Tharoor have lost out because they were signatories to the letter,” said a party leader. Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, one of the signatory of the letter to Sonia, and AlCC general secretary (organisa- tion) KC Venugopal, who made his debut in the Upper House recently, have been made part of the new five-member deci- sion-making group. Both Gogoi and Venugopal are con- sidered close to former party chief Rahul Gandhi. Jairam Ramesh has been appointed the Congress’ chief whip in the Rajya Sabha. The five-member group in the Rajya Sabha includes Azad, Venugopal, Anand Sharma, Ahmed Patel and Ramesh. The move to constitute a five-member group in the Rajya Sabha is also seen as an attempt to sideline Azad and Sharma. Continued on Page 4 T he Ministry of Civil Aviation has permitted the airlines to serve pre-packed snacks, meals and beverages on domestic flights and hot meals on international flights. It has also said airlines could put a passenger on the no-fly list if s/he refuses to wear a face mask — considered a vital safeguard against the coro- navirus — on board. Passengers can only remove face masks if absolutely neces- sary for “legitimate reasons”. The Ministry has also issued a standard operating procedure for this. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, in-flight meal ser- vice was not permitted on domestic flights since their resumption on May 25. On international flights, only pre- packed cold meals and snacks were being served depending on the flight duration since May this year. In an order issued on Thursday, the Ministry said, “Airlines may serve pre-packed snacks/meals/pre-packed bev- erages on domestic flights depending on the duration of flight.” Airlines and charter flight operators can “serve hot meals and limited beverages” on international flights “as per the standard practices”. The Ministry said only single-use disposable trays, plates and cutlery should be used while serving food or bev- erages in domestic and inter- national flights. “Crew shall wear a fresh set of gloves for every meal/beverage service.” The Ministry also permit- ted the aircraft operators to let passengers use the in-flight entertainment system on inter- national as well as domestic flights wherever available. Continued on Page 4 J apan’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, said on Friday he is stepping down because a chronic health prob- lem has resurfaced. He told reporters that it was “gut wrenching” to leave many of his goals unfinished. Abe has had ulcerative col- itis since he was a teenager and has said the condition was controlled with treatment. Concerns about his health began this summer and grew this month when he visited a Tokyo hospital two weeks in a row for unspecified health checkups. He is now on a new treatment that requires IV injections, he said. While there is some improvement, there is no guarantee that it will cure his condition and so he decid- ed to step down after treatment Monday, he said. “It is gut wrenching to have to leave my job before accom- plishing my goals,” Abe said on Friday, mentioning his failure to resolve the issue of Japanese abducted years ago by North Korea, a territorial dispute with Russia and a revision of Japan’s war-renouncing constitution. He said his health problem was under control until earli- er this year but was found to have worsened in June when he had an annual checkup. “Faced with the illness and treatment, as well as the pain of lacking physical strength... I decided I should not stay on as prime minister when I’m no longer capable of living up to the people’s expectations with confidence,” Abe said at a news conference. In a country once known for its short-tenured prime ministers, the departure marks the end of an unusual era of stability that saw the Japanese leader strike up strong ties with US President Donald Trump even as Abe’s ultra- nationalism riled the Koreas and China. Continued on Page 4 Chennai: Congress MP from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu H Vasanthakumar died of Covid-19 at a hospital here on Friday, the party said. The 70- year old first time MP, who was admitted to the Apollo Hospitals on August 10 after he tested positive for coronavirus, succumbed to the illness, a party spokesperson told PTI. Earlier, in a statement, Apollo Hospitals said the MP was in critical condition and treated by a team of doctors for severe COVID pneumonia. Vasanthakumar was a two- time MLA and elected to the Lok Sabha in the 2019 elec- tions. President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday con- doled the death of H Vasanthakuma. A n India T20 specialist is among multiple members of the Chennai Super Kings contingent who have tested positive for Covid-19, forcing the IPL franchise to extend its quarantine period in Dubai and causing upheaval ahead of the event starting September 19. The franchise is yet to issue a formal statement but a league source told PTI that the number of positive cases could be between 10 and 12. “Yes, a right-arm medium fast bowler, who has recently played for India in white-ball cricket, along with a few staff members have tested positive for Covid-19. The number could be as high as 12,” the senior IPL source said on con- ditions of anonymity. The development has forced the Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led side to extend the quarantine period till September 1. Detailed report on P12 L ok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday said that all MPs have to undergo Covid-19 test for the forthcoming Parliament Session starting September 14. All staffers and Ministers’ staffers and media personnel will also be checked and no vis- itors will be allowed this time, said Lok Sabha Secretariat in a statement. The MPs attending the Session has to undergo the Covid-19 test 72 hours before and would be allowed to speak while sitting in their chairs. The Speaker said all preparations based on expert advice will be undertaken to ensure smooth conduct of the Session and pre- vent spread of infection. Continued on Page 4 New Delhi: In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, IIT- Delhi has appealed to its students and alumni to help those appearing for the JEE-Advanced next month with transport to reach their exam centres. T he Supreme Court on Friday said that States and universities cannot promote students without holding final year exams by September 30. Upholding the UGC deci- sion to hold final year exams, a bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan said if any State feels they can’t conduct final year examinations by that date amid the coronavirus pan- demic, they must approach the UGC for new dates to hold the exam. The bench also comprising justices RS Reddy and MR Shah, said States are required to hold final year exams as per UGC guidelines and for any exemption they will have to seek permission. “States can postpone final year exams under Disaster Management Act but fresh dates have to be fixed in con- sultation with UGC,” it said. Yuva Sena, the youth wing of the Shiv Sena, is one of the petitioners in the apex court and has questioned the UGC’s directive to hold exams amid the coronavirus pandemic. The UGC had earlier said that the July 6 guidelines are based on recommendations of experts and have been made after due deliberation and it is wrong to claim that it will not be possible to conduct the final examinations in terms of the guidelines. Assailing the decisions of some states like Maharashtra and Delhi to cancel final year examinations, the UGC had said that such decisions direct- ly affect standards of higher education and will be an encroachment on the legislative field of coordinating and deter- mining the standards of high- er education that is exclusive- ly reserved for Parliament under Schedule VII of the Constitution. New Delhi: Taking strong objection to the coverage of the Sushant Singh Rajput case by many media outlets, the Press Council of India on Friday said the media should adhere to the norms of jour- nalistic conduct in covering cases under investigation and is advised not to carry out its own “parallel trial”.

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Six States on Friday filed areview petition in the

Supreme Court against its deci-sion to allow holding of theNational Eligibility cumEntrance Test (NEET) andJoint Entrance Exam (JEE)despite the coronavirus pan-demic. The States are repre-sented by four Opposition par-ties — Congress, TrinamoolCongress, Jharkhand MuktiMorcha and Shiv Sena.

The Congress also heldcountrywide protests on Friday.Party president Sonia Gandhiand former Congress chiefRahul Gandhi expressed soli-darity with the students andasked the Centre to postpone

the entrance tests. Cabinet Ministers from

Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,Maharashtra, Punjab,Rajasthan and West Bengalhave sought a review of theAugust 17 judgment of the SCon JEE Main and NEET 2020.

Addressing a Press confer-ence after approaching thecourt, the parties said theywere not for cancelling theexams but wanted them to bedeferred till November so thatthe Government is able assurethe safety of the students.

The decision to move theSupreme Court was taken dur-ing a meeting convened bySonia with seven ChiefMinisters two days ago.

Sonia and Rahul continued

to target the Government andsaid the safety of studentsshould not be compromiseddue to the “failures of theGovernment”.

The Union Governmenthas made it clear that they willbe held as per schedule withdue precautions.

In a video statement, Soniasaid, “My dear students, I feelfor you because you are nowfacing a very difficult situation.The issue of your exams, ofwhen they should be held andwhere, is the most importantissue not only for you but yourfamily too. You are our future.We depend on you to build abetter India. Therefore, if anydecision has to be taken regard-ing your future, it is importantthat it is taken with your con-currence. I hope the

Government listens to you,listens to your voices and actupon your wishes. This is myadvice to the Government.Thank you. Jai Hind.”

Rahul also shared a videostatement over the issue andsaid safety should not be com-promised. “NEET-JEE aspi-rants’ safety should not com-promised due to the failures ofthe Government. TheGovernment must listen to allstakeholders and arrive at aconsensus,” Rahul tweeted,along with a video of his mes-sage to the student communi-ty as well as the Government.

“What I don’t understandis why you should be heldresponsible and why furtherpain should be imposed onyou... So why should theGovernment force anything

on you? It’s important that theGovernment listens to the stu-dents,” he said.

Jharkhand Chief MinisterHemant Soren on Friday wroteto the Union EducationMinister requesting him topostpone JEE and NEET.

“Each these aggressiveexaminations are extraordi-narily important within theprofession of a scholar becausethe success or in any other casein these examinations wouldresolve the course of theirfuture life. Each examineewould thus attempt to put hisfinest foot ahead and, due tothis fact, this can be veryimportant to make sure thatthey take these examinations insurroundings of well beingsecurity and psychologicalpeace,” Soren wrote.

Senior TMC leader andRajya Sabha member Derek O’Brien said the petitioners donot want the students to losethe academic year and thepetition aims to ensure bettersafety and security measuresfor the students.

Continued on Page 4

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Actress Rhea Chakrabortyfound herself in the dock

in the Sushant Singh Rajputdeath case on Friday as the CBIgrilled her for nearly elevenhours over the issues that theinvestigations into the actor’sdeath have thrown up in thecase, even as the EnforcementDirectorate (ED) summonedGoa-based hotelier GauravArya for questioning on August31 in an alleged money laun-dering case.

Rhea, who has beenaccused by Sushant’s family ofabetting Sushant”s death,reached the Defence Research& Development Organisation(DRDO)’s guesthouse at SantaCruz’s Kalina area for ques-tioning at 10.15 am. Her ques-tioning went on for nearlyeleven hours.

Rhea walked out of theDRDO guesthouse at 9 pmafter questioning. From there,she reportedly headed to SanataCruz police station to lodge acomplaint against some jour-nalists who had tried to enterher Juhu residence. While therewas no confirmation yet, it is

quite likely that she may be re-summoned for questioning onSaturday or Sunday.

Rhea’s brother Showik, lateSushant’s f latmate-friendSiddharth, cook Neeraj, housemanager Sammuel Mirandaand his other associates werealso questioned all through theday. Friday was the second daywhen Showik was grilled by theCBI in connection with thecase. On Thursday, Showikhad been questioned by theinvestigators for nine hours onThursday.

Continued on Page 4

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As the Line of ActualControl (LAC) remains

tense, the coming days will seea flurry of activities beginningwith the Corps Commandersof India and China Armiesholding sixth round of talks toresolve differences. DefenceMinister Rajnath Singh andExternal Affairs Minister SJaishankar are also likely totravel to Moscow to take partin the Shanghai CooperationOrganisation (SCO) conclave.Both the leaders may meettheir Chinese counterpartsthere.

These high-level dialogueswill take place against the back-

drop of China not withdrawingits troops from the “frictionpoints” and further ramping upits infrastructure like 5G net-work all along the LAC.Reports indicated freshChinese construction in termsof temporary huts and bunkershave taken place in thePangong Tso (lake) zone. It isone of the four “friction points”where the stand-offs are on andthe Chinese have intrudedmore than five km into India.

On the 5G network,sources said the Chinese engi-neers were seen laying fibreoptic cables and installing relat-ed equipment along the LAC inthe Demchok region.

Continued on Page 4

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In an apparent attempt tokeep dissenters in the party

in check, Congress presidentSonia Gandhi has appointedseveral leaders to new positionsin the party. This comes fol-lowing the Congress WorkingCommittee (CWC) meetingearly this week after 23 partyleaders wrote a letter to theparty chief expressing concernabout the state of affairs anddemanding appointment of afull-time president.

Sonia, who continues to bethe interim chief of theCongress, appointed Lok SabhaMP Gaurav Gogoi as deputy tolegislature party leader AdhirRanjan Chowdhury andLudhiana MP Ravneet SinghBittu as the whip.

Anandpur Sahib MPManish Tewari, another dissi-dent and a signatory of the let-ter to Sonia has been down-graded despite being muchsenior to Gogoi in the party.Also ignored wasThiruvananthapuram MPShashi Tharoor, one of thesignatories.

“Both Tewari and Tharoorhave lost out because theywere signatories to the letter,”said a party leader.

Leader of Opposition inRajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi

Azad, one of the signatory ofthe letter to Sonia, and AlCCgeneral secretary (organisa-tion) KC Venugopal, who madehis debut in the Upper Houserecently, have been made partof the new five-member deci-sion-making group. BothGogoi and Venugopal are con-sidered close to former partychief Rahul Gandhi.

Jairam Ramesh has beenappointed the Congress’ chiefwhip in the Rajya Sabha. Thefive-member group in theRajya Sabha includes Azad,Venugopal, Anand Sharma,Ahmed Patel and Ramesh.

The move to constitute afive-member group in theRajya Sabha is also seen as anattempt to sideline Azad andSharma.

Continued on Page 4

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The Ministry of CivilAviation has permitted the

airlines to serve pre-packedsnacks, meals and beverages ondomestic flights and hot mealson international flights.

It has also said airlinescould put a passenger on theno-fly list if s/he refuses to weara face mask — considered avital safeguard against the coro-navirus — on board.Passengers can only removeface masks if absolutely neces-sary for “legitimate reasons”.The Ministry has also issued astandard operating procedurefor this.

Due to the coronaviruspandemic, in-flight meal ser-vice was not permitted ondomestic flights since theirresumption on May 25. Oninternational flights, only pre-packed cold meals and snackswere being served dependingon the flight duration sinceMay this year.

In an order issued onThursday, the Ministry said,“Airlines may serve pre-packedsnacks/meals/pre-packed bev-erages on domestic flightsdepending on the duration offlight.” Airlines and charterflight operators can “serve hotmeals and limited beverages”on international flights “as perthe standard practices”.

The Ministry said onlysingle-use disposable trays,plates and cutlery should beused while serving food or bev-erages in domestic and inter-national flights. “Crew shallwear a fresh set of gloves forevery meal/beverage service.”

The Ministry also permit-ted the aircraft operators to letpassengers use the in-flightentertainment system on inter-national as well as domesticflights wherever available.

Continued on Page 4

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Japan’s longest-serving PrimeMinister, Shinzo Abe, said on

Friday he is stepping downbecause a chronic health prob-lem has resurfaced. He toldreporters that it was “gutwrenching” to leave many ofhis goals unfinished.

Abe has had ulcerative col-itis since he was a teenager andhas said the condition wascontrolled with treatment.Concerns about his healthbegan this summer and grewthis month when he visited aTokyo hospital two weeks in arow for unspecified healthcheckups. He is now on a newtreatment that requires IVinjections, he said. While thereis some improvement, there isno guarantee that it will curehis condition and so he decid-ed to step down after treatmentMonday, he said.

“It is gut wrenching to haveto leave my job before accom-plishing my goals,” Abe said onFriday, mentioning his failure toresolve the issue of Japaneseabducted years ago by NorthKorea, a territorial dispute withRussia and a revision of Japan’swar-renouncing constitution.

He said his health problemwas under control until earli-er this year but was found tohave worsened in June when hehad an annual checkup.

“Faced with the illness andtreatment, as well as the pain oflacking physical strength... Idecided I should not stay on asprime minister when I’m nolonger capable of living up tothe people’s expectations withconfidence,” Abe said at a newsconference.

In a country once knownfor its short-tenured primeministers, the departure marksthe end of an unusual era ofstability that saw the Japaneseleader strike up strong tieswith US President DonaldTrump even as Abe’s ultra-nationalism riled the Koreasand China.

Continued on Page 4

Chennai: Congress MP fromKanyakumari in Tamil NaduH Vasanthakumar died ofCovid-19 at a hospital here onFriday, the party said. The 70-year old first time MP, who wasadmitted to the ApolloHospitals on August 10 after hetested positive for coronavirus,succumbed to the illness, aparty spokesperson told PTI.

Earlier, in a statement,Apollo Hospitals said the MPwas in critical condition andtreated by a team of doctors forsevere COVID pneumonia.

Vasanthakumar was a two-time MLA and elected to theLok Sabha in the 2019 elec-tions.

President Ram NathKovind and Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Friday con-doled the death of HVasanthakuma.

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An India T20 specialist isamong multiple members

of the Chennai Super Kingscontingent who have testedpositive for Covid-19, forcingthe IPL franchise to extend itsquarantine period in Dubaiand causing upheaval ahead ofthe event starting September 19.

The franchise is yet toissue a formal statement but aleague source told PTI that thenumber of positive cases could

be between 10 and 12. “Yes, a right-arm medium

fast bowler, who has recentlyplayed for India in white-ballcricket, along with a few staffmembers have tested positivefor Covid-19. The numbercould be as high as 12,” thesenior IPL source said on con-ditions of anonymity. Thedevelopment has forced theMahendra Singh Dhoni-ledside to extend the quarantineperiod till September 1.

Detailed report on P12

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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birlaon Friday said that all MPs

have to undergo Covid-19 testfor the forthcoming ParliamentSession starting September 14.All staffers and Ministers’staffers and media personnelwill also be checked and no vis-itors will be allowed this time,said Lok Sabha Secretariat in astatement.

The MPs attending theSession has to undergo theCovid-19 test 72 hours beforeand would be allowed to speakwhile sitting in their chairs. TheSpeaker said all preparationsbased on expert advice will beundertaken to ensure smoothconduct of the Session and pre-vent spread of infection.

Continued on Page 4

New Delhi: In view of theCovid-19 pandemic, IIT- Delhihas appealed to its students andalumni to help those appearingfor the JEE-Advanced nextmonth with transport to reachtheir exam centres.

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The Supreme Court onFriday said that States and

universities cannot promotestudents without holding finalyear exams by September 30.

Upholding the UGC deci-sion to hold final year exams,a bench headed by JusticeAshok Bhushan said if anyState feels they can’t conduct

final year examinations by thatdate amid the coronavirus pan-demic, they must approachthe UGC for new dates to holdthe exam.

The bench also comprisingjustices RS Reddy and MRShah, said States are required tohold final year exams as perUGC guidelines and for anyexemption they will have toseek permission.

“States can postpone finalyear exams under DisasterManagement Act but freshdates have to be fixed in con-sultation with UGC,” it said.

Yuva Sena, the youth wingof the Shiv Sena, is one of the

petitioners in the apex courtand has questioned the UGC’sdirective to hold exams amidthe coronavirus pandemic.

The UGC had earlier saidthat the July 6 guidelines arebased on recommendations ofexperts and have been made

after due deliberation and it iswrong to claim that it will notbe possible to conduct thefinal examinations in terms ofthe guidelines.

Assailing the decisions ofsome states like Maharashtraand Delhi to cancel final yearexaminations, the UGC hadsaid that such decisions direct-ly affect standards of highereducation and will be anencroachment on the legislativefield of coordinating and deter-mining the standards of high-er education that is exclusive-ly reserved for Parliamentunder Schedule VII of theConstitution. New Delhi: Taking strong

objection to the coverage ofthe Sushant Singh Rajputcase by many media outlets,the Press Council of India onFriday said the media shouldadhere to the norms of jour-nalistic conduct in coveringcases under investigationand is advised not to carryout its own “parallel trial”.

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The protests were held at all district headquarters andCentral government offices in Lucknow, Kanpur Nagar,Allahabad, Jhansi, Gorakhpur, Faizabad, Varanasi, Meerut,Ghaziabad, Bareilly, Moradabad and other places.

In a statement issued on Friday evening, UPCC presidentAjay Kumar Lallu said they protested across the state againstthe Central government’s decision to conduct JEE, NEET amidthe coronavirus pandemic and raised the voice for students andtheir parents.

He said the Congress workers staged demonstrations infront of the state government establishments and district admin-istration headquarters to register their protest against the unrea-sonable and stubborn decision of the Centre.

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Aday after Bharatiya JanataParty MLA from

Gorakhpur, Dr Radha MohanDas Agarwal, was served ashow-cause notice for anti-party statements, GorakhpurMP Ravi Kishan demanded hisresignation for “workingagainst the principles of theparty”.

The BJP issued a show-cause notice to Agarwal for hissocial media posts reportedlymaligning the party’s imageand the UP government.Agarwal had termed the YogiAdityanath government as a“government of Thakurs” andhis talk with a BJP worker, thatwent viral, did not go downwell with the BJP brass.

Hitting out at Agarwal formisleading the public with hisstatements, Ravi Kishan saidthat if the legislator had somany problems with the poli-

cies and principles of the BJP,then he should resign.

Speaking to media per-sons in Gorakhpur on Friday,Kishan targeted Agarwal overdishing out irresponsible state-ments on social media. “He(Agarwal) is continuouslyobstructing undergoing devel-opment works in Gorakhpurand is tarnishing the partyimage with his outrageousstatements,” alleged theBhojpuri actor-turned-first-time MP.

“Agarwal is levelling falseallegations against party offi-cials. In one of his audio clips,he clearly accused the UP gov-ernment of doing caste politics,which is shameful. Due tosuch acts, the morale of partyworkers and officials dips,” hefurther said.

In the contentious viralaudio clip, Agarwal can beheard telling a BJP city unitworker that Thakurs harass

Banias as it is a “government ofThakurs”. “Yeh Thakuro kisarkar hai. Mujhe maloom haiki BJP me kya ho raha hai,”Agarwal is heard saying.

The tussle between BJP

MP and the Sadar MLA ofGorakhpur has its genesis overa road on Gorakhpur-Deoriahighway near Singhadia thatused to get waterlogged due torains and often left commutersdistressed.

After becoming MP,Kishan spoke to PWD officialsto address the issue and theroad was elevated which solvedthe problem of commuting. Butas a result of the elevation of theroad, adjacent areas, includingtwo housing societies, startedgetting waterlogged.

Agarwal then raised this

issue in the Assembly andapproached Deputy ChiefMinister Keshav PrasadMaurya to get the issueresolved. He even demandedaction against PWD AssistantEngineer KK Singh, after whichMaurya assured to attach theAE to Lucknow office.

However, MP Ravi Kishanand Gorakhpur MLAs fromRural, Sahjanwa and Pipraichcame out in support of the AEand wrote to the deputy chiefminister. However, theBansgaon MP came out infavour of Agarwal.

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Not satisfied with the attitude of the policein the abduction and murder case of their

son, the family of lab technician Sanjeet Yadavmet Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadavon Friday. During the meeting, which went onfor about half-an-hour, the parents and sister ofSanjeet Yadav told the former chief ministerabout the negative attitude of the KanpurNagar police and urged him to help them in get-ting justice. Akhilesh Yadav expressed sympa-thy with the family and assured them of provid-ing every possible help from the party’s side. Healso gave a cheque of Rs 2 lakh as financial assis-tance to the family. Earlier too, the SP had givenRs 5 lakh assistance to Sanjeet’s family.

SP state president Naresh Uttam Patel and

former minister Rajendra Chaudhary was alsopresent during the meeting which took place inthe SP office. Lab technician Sanjeet Yadav wasabducted and murdered by his friends on June22. His body was thrown in the Pandu river andhas yet not been recovered. Police arrested twoof the deceased’s friends in connection with thecase. UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath hadassured the family of a CBI probe but there hasbeen no progress in this matter so far.

The family has staged protests many timesearlier and had also made attempt to come toLucknow to meet the chief minister but thepolice somehow pacified and stopped them.

The family has demanded that Sanjeet’s sis-ter be given a government job and the CBIshould start investigation into the case as soonas possible.

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Congress general secretaryPriyanka Gandhi Vadra

cornered Chief Minister YogiAdityanath claiming that hisgovernment had done nothingto alleviate the condition ofweavers and artisans whowere majorly hit by the lock-down.

Reminding Yogi of ignor-ing her previous missive,Priyanka tweeted on Friday:“You took no cognisance of myletter of May 13 in which Irequested you to intervene andwaive of power bills and pro-vide monthly relief of Rs 12,000to weavers and artisans.”

In her May 31 letter,Priyanka had suggested variousmeasures for the welfare offarmers and business personsin view of coronavirus-inducedlockdown.

She demanded that inter-ests on home loans and

payment of all EMIs for thenext six months be suspendedas it would come as a majorrelief to the lower and middleclass.

She wrote, “As you know,everyone has been affected bythe pandemic. The poor andworking classes have reached acritical stage. Besides, econom-ic slump has also cornered themiddle class. Small businessesare fighting for survival. Henceit is necessary to help thesepeople.”.

“The cost of education andhome loan is a major part of theexpenses of middle class andhence fee waiver of privateschools will be a big relief.Increased power tariff remainsa concern for farmers. I suggestthat power bills for the pastfour months of tubewells andhousehold of farmers bewaived. Penalty and interest ontheir outstanding bills shouldalso be waived,” Priyanka sug-

gested.“Necessary steps should

be taken for small and microindustries/businesses and theseare no longer capable of func-tioning for a long of time dueto lockdown impact. Smalland medium industries are theeconomic backbone of UP andthe lives of lakhs of peopledepend on them. Today theyare under great pressure.Demand and supply is at astandstill. Owners and workersof these industries are on theverge of breakdown. Hencehelping these sections hasbecome very necessary,” shewrote.

Priyanka had also suggest-ed that bank loans of small-scale businesses be waived as itwould save them from bank-ruptcy. She also called for reliefto weavers and workers in var-ious small and cottage indus-tries like carpet, textiles andchikankari.

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Discipline and decorum ingovernment offices lay in

tatters when Chief SecretaryRajendra Kumar Tiwari carriedout a surprise inspection at theoffices of Commissioner andRegistrar of Co-operatives onFriday and found 90 per centstaff absent.

The miffed official later ini-tiated administrative actionagainst the errants.

“Absence of most person-nel during office hours clearlyindicates that there is indisci-pline in the office and lack ofadministrative control.Strict action will be takenagainst the errants, includingsalary cut and departmentalinquiry. Responsibilities wouldalso be fixed,” Tiwari latersaid in a written statementissued in Lucknow on Fridayafternoon.

The chief secretary saidthat there were clear instruc-tions from the top that all offi-cers should adhere to disciplineand listen to public grievanceswith sensitivity and resolvethem promptly.

Tiwari reached the recep-tion of the building housing theCooperative departmentoffice at 9:40 am and found noone present. He later inspect-ed the entire office on hisown.

Among the absentees wereAdditional Commissioner andAdditional Registrar Shivendra

Kumar, AdditionalCommissioner and AdditionalRegistrar Kripa Shankar,Additional Commissioner andAdditional Registrar AlokSingh, AdditionalCommissioner and AdditionalRegistrar RK Singh, FinancialAdviser PK Aggarwal, DeputyCommissioner and DeputyRegistrar RK Kulshrestha,Deputy InspectionCommissioner and DeputyRegistrar Ashok Kumar,Assistant CommissionerShraddha Anang, AssistantCommissioner Abhay Singh,

Assistant CommissionerMohsin, Assistant RegistrarSwati Aggarwal, AssistantCommissioner Ramsagar,Assistant Accountant GeetaPushkar and Accounts OfficerRajendra Singh Negi.

However, Vinay Asthana,Rajkumar and Santosh Kumar,and junior assistant Umeshand associate Brajpal were pre-sent in section ‘A’. In B section,all staff was found absent.However, Vijay Kumar,Rambalak Verma, RajendraSingh, accountants AtulChandra and Prabhakar

Tripathi, and associate VikasKumar Singh were present inaccounts section.

Besides, ADO RamshankarGupta, junior assistant Manish,principal assistant SanjaySrivastava and associateRamasuman were found pre-sent, while others were absent.. Ramila David, Pramod Kumarand Manish Kumar were pre-sent in the outstandingsection.

Except for NeelamUpadhyay and Anuj Kumar,the other staff were absent inthe purchase sales section, the

education section and thedevelopment section.

The top official also repri-manded peon Dinesh who wassitting on a table talking on thephone. No staff member waspresent in the consumer andpublic information section.

Upset over the massabsenteeism, the chief secretaryimmediately issued directivesfor departmental actionalong with pay cuts for theerrants. He also recommendedto fix responsibilities forindiscipline and lack ofcontrol.

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With the opposition partiesintensifying their

demand of postponement ofNEET and JEE entrance exam-inations, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said that his gov-ernment supported conductingthese tests on schedule.

“The UP governmentorganised BEd entrance examon August 9, wherein about fivelakh aspirants appeared butthere was no problem due tothe spread of (coronavirus)infection. The government iscommitted to ensuring all pro-tection to students appearing inthe examination,” Yogi said ina statement issued here on

Friday.The chief minister said

that UP Public ServiceCommission had also organ-ised exams without any prob-lem in the recent past and therewas no report of any infectionspread.

The opposition parties,particularly Congress andSamajwadi Party, have beenprotesting the conducting ofJEE and NEET and demandingits postponement in view of thecoronavirus pandemic.

Samajwadi Party chiefAkhilesh Yadav wrote an openletter opposing the Centre’sdecision to hold these tests, say-ing that the Bharatiya JanataParty government at the Centre

was unnecessarily putting thestudents’ health at risk. Heeven asked as to who would beresponsible if students con-tracted the infection.

Meanwhile, the UPCongress held a state-wideprotest demanding postpone-ment of these entrance exam-inations.

UPCC chief Ajay KumarLallu said that as the Yogi gov-ernment had failed to controlcoronavirus spread, it was notprudent to hold any examina-tion at this time.

While the NEET is sched-uled to be held on September13, engineering entrance examJEE Main has been plannedfrom September 1 to 6.

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Deputy Chief MinisterKeshav Prasad Maurya,

on the eve of birth anniversaryof late Padma Bhushan MajorDhyanchand on Friday hon-oured 19 sports person fromthe state who won medals atnational or international level.Maurya laid foundation stonesfor construction or repair ofroads from the homes of thesesports person up to the mainroad.

The government is doingthe same for students whoexcel in high school and inter-mediate examinations con-ducted by UP Board forSecondary Education. The gov-ernment has also identified 30martyrs from the state andwould lay roads naming themas Shaheed Path.

The virtual foundation lay-ing ceremony of the 19 roadsbeing laid /renovated aftersports persons, was held atthe PWD auditorium here inthe presence of the sports per-sons and people’s representativeof their areas on Fridayevening. The programmewas held following Covid pro-tocol.

On the eve of MajorDhyanchand’s birth anniver-sary on Saturday (August 29),Maurya, who holds the portfo-lio of Public WorksDepartment, said that in mem-ory of the great hockey wizard,the PWD had decided to hon-our outstanding sports personsfrom Uttar Pradesh who wongold medals at national orinternational level.

Maurya on Friday laid thefoundation stones of construc-tion or repair of connectingroads from the native places ofthe selected sports persons upto the main road.

He said all these roadswould be named MajorDhyanchand Marg.

He also announced thatone of the main roads would benamed after outstanding crick-eter from the state, ChetanChauhan, who was a cabinetminister in the Yogi Adityanathgovernment and died ofCOVID-19.

Maurya said that by con-structing roads in the names ofoutstanding students, martyrs,sports persons etc the govern-ment was trying to motivate theyoungsters to excel in theirfields and also be ready to laytheir lives for the nation. He

also appealed to the officials ofthe PWD to form teams of var-ious games in the departmentand compete in tournaments asit would help in boosting fit-ness as well as create new jobsfor sports persons.

Maurya said that on Friday,they started work on the nativeplaces of 19 sports personsincluding Pawan KumarSharma, Asheesh Gautam,Esha Dhangar, Jeetu Gola,Praveen Kumar, Ravi Kumar,Varun, Komal Sharma, TanyaChowdhary, Tanu Rathi,Akansha Bansal, AbhishekSingh, RP Singh, Kavita Yadav,Vaidehi Mishra, BhuvneshwarKumar, Satish Kumar, ShantiSwaroop, and Chhavi Tomar.Maurya said similar pro-grammes would be organisedto felicitate other leading per-sonalities from the state.

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On a day when Chief Secretary RKTiwari found over 90 per cent staff

absent in an important government officein Lucknow, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath ordered additional chief sec-retaries/principal secretaries to inspectoffices and act against staff absent after9:30 am.

“All normal activities have to berestored while following Covid protectionprotocol. Barring those who are on leave,offices should ensure the presence of 50per cent staff at any point of time,” thechief minister said on Friday.

Yogi said that all the district magis-trates should redress public grievances andalso those related to COVID-19. Hedirected them to review Covid-relatedworks from 9 to 10 am every day, inspectoffices from 10 to 11 am and meet pub-

lic and listen to their grievances from 11am to 1.00 pm.

“Such a schedule should also be fol-lowed in tehsils and development blocksand in the absence of district magistrateor sub-divisional magistrate, some otherresponsible officer should take over.Even the police department should followthis work schedule,” the chief ministersaid.

Yogi told officials to make all effortsto break the infection chain and ramp upCovid tests to 1.5 lakh per day to achievethe goal.

Chairing an Unlock meeting at hisofficial residence here on Friday, Yogidirected officials to intensify surveil-lance, which, he said, would help savelives.

“Besides improving surveillancemechanism, Integrated CommandControl Centres in all districts need to be

strengthened,” he said.The chief minister also asked officials

to intensify door-to-door survey andcontact tracing for protection fromCOVID-19.

He asked officials to complete thework at the Institute of Paediatrics inGorakhpur at the earliest.

“Cases of malaria have come to lightin certain districts. Medical teams shouldbe sent to these districts to ensure ade-quate treatment facilities,” he said.

Yogi also directed officials toensure smooth supply and availability offertiliser for farmers by monitoring fer-tiliser distribution mechanism effective-ly.

He indicated tough action againstsugar mills found lax in making paymentsto cane farmers. He also ordered timelydistribution of compensation to flood-affected persons.

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Additional Chief Secretary,Excise, Sanjay R

Bhoosreddy said on Fridaythat a special enforcementdrive was carried out fromAugust 13 to 19 to preventmanufacturing, sale and smug-gling of illicit liquor in the state.

According to an officialcommuniqué, 1,938 cases havebeen registered all over thestate, 48,105 litres of illicitliquor recovered, and 2,68,670kg Lahan, used to prepare illic-it liquor, destroyed on the spot.Along with it, 263 personsinvolved have been arrestedand sent to jail while 26 vehi-cles impounded.

Bhoosreddy said that dur-ing the special enforcementdrive, a joint team of Excisedepartment and police inGautam Buddhnagar districtraided Dadri police stationarea and recovered 24 cases ofillegal liquor, fake barcodes,

fake labels and one car. Actionwas against the accused underthe Excise Act and IPC sec-tions. During another jointchecking drive near toll plazaLuharli in district GautamBuddhnagar, 2,292 bottles ofillicit country liquor in 191cases being smuggled from atruck under the guise of cottonwere seized and two accusedarrested from the spot andsent to jail. Raiding a ware-house in Bhagwantpur village,57 cases of illegal countryliquor were recovered by thejoint team in Hathras. Alongwith it, fake capsules, wrappers,QR codes, urea, 400 litres ofspirit, alcoholmeter and one carwere seized. Four persons werearrested and sent to jail. InJhansi, 2,400 litres of rectifiedspirit kept in 12 drums wasseized by the joint team.

Bhoosreddy instructed thefield officers to continue theenforcement drive in a moreeffective manner.

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In a tragic incident, a 50-year-oldadvocate and his wife were killed

when a speeding car knocked themdown in Sushant Golf City police sta-tion area when both were returninghome from a morning stroll on Friday.The victims were identified as SheetlaPrasad and wife Malti Devi (46), bothof Khurdahi Bazaar locality in the area.

As per reports, the couple werereturning home after a morning walkwhen they met the mishap. When theywere near Atul Market around 5:20 am,the speeding car knocked them frombehind. Passersby rushed the victimsto a hospital where both were declaredbrought dead. Their son Kartikeyalodged a case in this connection. Apolice spokesman said a case hadbeen registered for reckless driving.The incident exposed police’s claim onhaving controlled the speed limit ofvehicles plying on Shaheed Path. Thespokesman said the police had put bar-ricades at different places on ShaheedPath to control the speed limit and alsodeployed cops there.

Enraged over the mishap, peopleblamed police for lack of preparationin terms of safety of morning walk.Sources said the police had earlierbeefed up morning patrolling for thesafety of morning walkers and for pre-venting incidents of chain-snatching.“After the scheme started with muchfanfare, it was put on the back burn-er,” the sources said.

In another incident, a 45-year-oldman was killed while his companion

suffered grievous injuries in a roadmishap on Thursday night. Thedeceased was identified as SatyendraKumar of Maal and his companion asPappu Yadav of Nigoha.

As per reports, both Satyendra andPappu were returning to their homes.When they were passing from underthe overbridge near dental hospital, aspeeding car knocked them down.Satyendra and Pappu were rushed toKGMU Trauma Centre whereSatyendra was declared brought dead.Pappu is under treatment at the hos-pital. The police said Satyendra died onway to hospital.

In another incident, a youth diedin a road mishap while his companionsuffered injuries in a road mishap asthey attempted to overtake anothervehicle at Shaheed Path in PGI policestation area on Thursday night. Thedeceased was identified as AnubhavSingh of LDA Colony while his friendas Shahnaz.

As per reports, Anubhav andShahnaz were returning fromGomtinagar and took Shaheed Path toreach the destination. Around 12:30am, Anubhav, who was driving thebike, sped up his bike to overtakeanother vehicle and the motorcycleoverturned in the process. The policesaid the bike skidded after it over-turned and both were dragged to sev-eral feet. They were rushed to KGMUTrauma Centre where Anubhav wasdeclared brought dead. Anubhavworked with a private company.Shahnaz’s condition was stated to becritical.

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Fearing cancellation of marriage asher father could not afford Rs two

lakh as dowry, an 18-year-old girljumped off the top floor of her houseon August 26 and succumbed to injurieson Friday. Her father lodged a case forabetment to suicide.

As per reports, Rozi of KanshiramResidential Colony took the extremestep after negotiations for her marriagefailed on August 26 night. As perreports, Rozi’s engagement with Samirwas settled on July 5. On August 26,Samir’s mother reached Rozi’s house todiscuss plans for marriage and demand-ed Rs 2 lakh as dowry from Rozi’s fatherJhugnu. She allegedly put up a condi-tion saying she will not allow the mar-

riage in case Jhugnu failed to meet thedowry demand. Rozi heard all the dis-cussions and feared that her marriagewould be cancelled. She jumped off thetop floor of her house and suffered crit-ical injuries. Jhugnu said Rozi wasrushed to KGMU Trauma Centre whereshe succumbed on Friday. He heldSamir and his mother responsible for hisdaughter’s death.

“Samir’s mother had come to meetus and demand dowry at his behest. Sheand others had not made any suchdemand when they agreed for engage-ment. Had they demanded the moneyat that time, we would not have fixedRozi’s marriage with Samir. Rozi washighly upset as she feared social stigmain case the marriage was cancelled,”Jhugnu said.

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Sero-surveillance survey to mea-sure the levels of antibodies

among people in the district inrelation to the coronavirus willstart in a day or two, CMOincharge MK Singh said onFriday. He said the survey wasdelayed due to some additionalCMOs testing positive for coron-avirus recently.

Under this survey, 45 clusterswill be identified in the districtand over 1,000 samples will be col-lected from each. Through thissurvey, the prevalence of Covid-19 will be assessed by checking thelevels of antibodies in generalpopulation. Blood samples will beused to prepare serum. He point-ed out that for regular activities forcontainment, testing had beenincreased aggressively.

On Friday, District MagistrateAbhishek Prakash carried outinspection at the Aliganj com-munity health centre (CHC) andtook stock of the work being car-ried out by rapid response teams.He also visited Era MedicalCollege and directed the officialsconcerned to increase the numberof critical care beds. He alsoinspected the facilities being pro-vided to Covid patients.

Meanwhile, head ofNeurosurgery department at

SGPGI Dr Sanjay Behari saidthey had conducted over 60-75surgeries in a month in Covidtimes. “We were normally doing120-200 surgeries per month butnow that we have to maintainsocial distancing in wards andsome sections of the wards havebeen taken over by the quarantinecommittee, we are performingsurgeries in the other block,” hesaid. He added that patients werecoming following e-OPD consul-tations from Uttar Pradesh,Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh,Bihar, West Bengal and evenNepal. Dr Behari said they werecovering the entire spectrum ofsurgeries, including for spine,brain tumour, vascular neuro-surgery and others. About e-con-sultations, he said that advantageincluded instantaneous dialoguewith patients and no crowding.Besides, it saves the patients timeand money, he added. “We main-tain dialogue with patientsthrough WhatsApp for follow-upswhere they share their reports andother details. Incidentally, it’s thepatients who are also gettingtech-savvy,” he said.

He said that surgeries wereconducted after thorough check-ups of the patients for Covid-19.“We wear our PPE kits while per-forming surgeries and it’s not aneasy task because some of the

operations go on for severalhours,” he said.

Regarding their plans of e-consultation in future, he said:“We foresee that in the next fewyears, we will have a combinedmodel where we will call patientsselectively while the rest can befollowed through e-consultation.”

Meanwhile, new researcheshave shown that antibodies whichthe Covid patients develops afterrecovery are getting destroyed inthree months’ time. Head ofKGMU’s Transfusion Medicinedepartment KGMU Dr TulikaChandra said researches indicat-ed that patients having recoveredfrom Covid-19 could contractinfection again.

Meanwhile, the Lucknowcluster of CSIR institutes (NBRI,CDRI, BSIP and IITR) continuesto remain the number one inIndia for testing the maximumnumber of samples amongst CSIRlabs. Indian Institute of ToxicologyResearch (IITR) director AlokDhawan, who is the nodal officerfor the programme, said theytested 17,000 last week and 19,000this week. “Following us is theNagpur cluster andBhubhaneswar, which had beenleading earlier,” he pointed out.

Besides, consultant to IndianNational Science Academy(INSA) CM Nautiyal said they

constituted a panel of experts whocould be reached out for infor-mation related to Covid-19. Theexperts can be approachedthrough e-mail.

“This free service is amongseveral initiatives that INSA andother academies that have takenup their mission to combat Covid-19. The experts belong to varioussub-disciplines of arsenal for fac-ing and handling basic science,data analysis, therapeutics &repurposing of medicines, pro-tective gear, test kits, manufac-turing of testing kits and also ven-tilators and validation of drugs.The site can be a big boost to thestart-ups,” he said.

He added that INSA alsosigned a number of agreementswith international science acade-my groups like G-Science andcautioned that the road to recov-

ery should be green, that is envi-ronment-friendly. “INSA alsostarted a series of webinars byrenowned experts in the field,including women path-breakers.Secretary, Department of Scienceand Technology, AshutoshSharma was among the earlyspeakers who talked about scienceand scientists in the new millen-nium. They include DrGagandeep Kang, former execu-tive director of TranslationalHealth Science and TechnologyInstitute and now back as profes-sor at Christian MedicalCollege,Vellore. She is the firstIndian woman to have become afellow of Royal Society. Anotherprominent speaker is KiranMazumdar Shaw of BioCon andChandrima Shaha, the first Indianwoman to become INSA presi-dent, will speak on Saturday.

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As many as 707 persons testedpositive for coronavirus in

Lucknow on Friday while ninepatients succumbed, includingfive residents of Lucknow andfour from Gorakhpur, Unnaoand Prayagraj. Besides, 721patients recovered in the the statecapital, taking the total number ofrecoveries to 18,075. Lucknow haswitnessed 335 deaths so far whilethere are 6,768 active cases.

A senior official at the CMOoffice said those who tested pos-itive in the state capital included42 from Indiranagar, 37 fromGomtinagar, 35 from Chinhat, 31from Cantt, 29 each from Chowk& Alambagh, 27 from Ashiyana,23 each from Mahanagar &Madiaon, 21 each fromThakurganj & Hazratganj, 20from Sarojininagar, 19 from RaeBareli road, 17 each fromJankipuram & Talkatora, 12 fromHussainganj, 15 from Aliganj, 14from Hasanganj, 11 each fromVikasnagar, Kakori & Gosainganjand 10 from Gudamba. OnFriday, two patients died atKGMU, including a youth (22)

from Daliganj and another (25)from Sitapur. Besides, 3,682 sam-ples were collected in the districton Friday.

Meanwhile, in the state, 5,447persons tested positive for coro-navirus, including 298 in Kanpur,276 in Prayagraj, 193 inGorakhpur, 100 in Ghaziabad,140 in Varanasi, 128 inLakhimpur Kheri and 126 inSaharanpur, taking the total num-ber of cases to 2,13,824.

There were 77 deaths in thestate and apart from Lucknow, 12died in Kanpur, four each inPrayagraj & Jhansi, three each inVaranasi, Moradabad,Kushinagar, Hardoi &Sonebhadra, two each in Meerut,Deoria, Jaunpur, Saharanpur,Maharajganj, Lakhimpur Kheri,Chandauli, Rae Bareli, and oneeach in Ghaziabad, Bareilly,Shahjahanpur, Azamgarh,Bulandshahr, Pilibhit, Unnao,Sitapur, Pratapgarh, Hapur,Kannauj, Shamli, Balrampur andAmbedkarnagar, taking the toll to3,294. Besides, 4,986 patientsrecovered, taking the total figureto 1,57,879. Besides, there are52651 active cases in the state.

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Detained by policemen, ayouth tried to commit sui-

cide in custody by slitting histhroat at Mallawan police stationlock-up in Hardoi on Thursday.

He was rushed to a hospitalin critical condition and was laterreferred to the Trauma Centre ofKGMU in Lucknow.

Interestingly, SHO ofMallawan police station, BrijeshSingh, where the youth attempt-ed suicide, denied any such inci-dent and said that the youth was hurt during an attack bylocal villagers.

After the issue snowballed,Hardoi district police chief set upa probe by ASP Anil Kumar.

As per reports, Daroga ofMallhanpura in Mallawan wasnabbed by the police for carry-ing an illegal revolver onThursday evening and taken tothe police station. At the lock-upin the evening, Daroga slit histhroat with a knife. After notic-ing him lying in a pool of blood,

the police rushed him to the dis-trict hospital from where he wasreferred to KGMU TraumaCentre in Lucknow. In order tosave his skin, SHO of Mallawan,Brijesh Singh, claimed that theyouth was a drug addict and hadclashed with some locals inwhich he was injured. He deniedthat the police had taken himinto custody. But when local res-idents and the media raised theissue, an inquiry was ordered bythe superintendent of police ofHardoi.

In another incident inHardoi, a farmer committedsuicide on Friday morning.

Murli (55) of Bajara ofBharwan police station area hadtaken a tractor on loan somemonths back. But after lockdownwas imposed, the family facedacute financial crunch due towhich he failed to pay the instal-ments. Earlier this week, thefinance company took away thetractor as a result of which heslipped into depression andended his life by hanging him-

self from a tree.In another tragic incident in

Barabanki, three childrendrowned in a village pond.Sanjana (12) of Jamuwa inGunghter along with Prakas(11) and Sunil (8) went to thefield on Thursday morning.When they did not return till lateevening, their families launcheda hunt and were shocked to findtheir bodies floating in the pond.The bodies were sent for autop-sy and a probe was initiated.

In another mishap inBulandshahr, four persons werekilled in a head-on collisionbetween a car and a motorcyclein Bibinagar area on Friday.Sandeep and Praveen of Aswarvillage in Gulawati area wereheading to their village in a caron Thursday night when theycollided with a bike carrying DrZahid and Maqsood ofGangawali village. Both the caroccupants and motorcycle riderssuffered critical injuries andwere rushed to a hospital whereall four succumbed to injuries.

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In a sensational case of honourkilling, a woman cop’s father and

brother hacked her husband for mar-rying against their wishes in Jalaun.Besides, the state was rocked by aseries of murders in the last 24 hours.

In Jalaun, constable Rinki Rajputof Bindki area of Fatehpur wasposted in a police unit. Two yearsback, the woman cop had marriedManish Rajput despite oppositionfrom her kin, Later, the couplestarted living in a rented accom-modation in Orai and had a six-month old son

On Thursday night, Rinki’sfather Prem Singh, her brotherAnkit and her uncle reached herhouse. While having dinner, herfather and brother suddenlywhipped out knives and stabbedManish repeatedly, killing him onthe spot. Seeing the horrific act,Rinki raised an alarm after which herneighbours rushed in and nabbedthe three fleeing kin. A case was reg-

istered and the trio was sent to jail.In Firozabad, a mother-daugh-

ter duo was found dead under mys-terious circumstances in NaglaBhajan area of Linepar on Fridaymorning. Pinki’s husband Manoj haddied of cancer after which she livedwith her three minor daughters. OnFriday morning, one of her daugh-ters returned from her grandfa-ther’s house and was shocked to seeher mother and two sisters lyingunconscious. She raised an alarmafter which neighbours shifted themto a hospital where Pinki and her six-year-old daughter were pronounceddead. The police are investigating thematter. In Ghazipur, BA-II studentSurendra Singh Yadav (19) ofBharwaliya hamlet of Dildarnagarwas sitting in the locality when threebikers suddenly stopped and two pil-lion riders brutally stabbed him. Ashe raised an alarm, some locals man-aged to nab two assailants while thethird sped off. The victim was shift-ed to a hospital where he was pro-nounced `brought dead. The body

was sent for autopsy and investiga-tions were on.

Elsewhere in Hardoi, a rationshop owner Habib of Maukepurhamlet of Pachdewra, was batteredto death by unknown miscreants onThursday night. The assailants alsolooted a mobile, other valuables andRs 25,000 in cash from him. A casewas registered and a probe wasunderway.

In Rampur, a petrol pumpowner, Parmesh Kumar (41) ofSimriya locality of Kemri, was inter-cepted by unknown miscreantswhile returning home from hispump. The assailants battered himto death.

Meanwhile in Amroha, Hariom)26) of Soharka hamlet of Hasanpurwas strangled to death after beingcalled by unknown person onThursday night. A case was regis-tered and investigations were on.

In Varanasi too, bike-borne mis-creants opened indiscriminate fire atChaukaghat in Jaitpura, killing twopersons, on Friday morning.

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The Madiaon police arresteda woman and her son for

duping job-seekers on the pre-text of facilitating governmentjobs. Those arrested were iden-tified as Rashmi Awasthi andher son Harshit Awasthi. Policesaid the accused were named ina case at Madiaon and werebeing hunted by police teams.

“On Friday, a policeinformer tipped us off abouttheir presence at Tadikhanalocality and both were nabbedlater,” the police said.

The police said Rashmi,along with her son, was stayingat a house in Keshav Nagar inMadiaon and had taken a sumof Rs 1.5 lakh fromUmashanker Tripathi in thename of job. Preliminary inves-tigation revealed that Rashmiused to introduce herself as aclerk in the Social Welfaredepartment in Ghaziabad. Bothhad duped several innocents in

the name of providing themjobs in the past and severalcases were registered againstthem in Lucknow andGhaziabad. In the recent past,11 youths, including PraveenBajpai of Lakhimpur Kheri,had also lodged a case againstRashmi and her son, accusingboth of having taken Rs 40 lakhfrom youths in the name of pro-viding them government jobs.

Meanwhile, the Gosainganjpolice on Friday arrested theleader of a gang involved insmuggling of Haryana-madeliquor to the city. The accusedwas identified as Sunil Kumarof Haidergarh in Barabanki.Inspector, Gosainganj, DKKushwaha said the police hadbusted the gang and recoveredhuge quantity of liquor laden ina truck in September last year.During interrogation of theaccused at the time of recoveryof liquor, the police had cometo know that Sunil was themastermind of the gang.

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side of the story in the SushantSingh Rajput’s death case throughinterviews given to a few televi-sion channels, Rhea -as was antic-ipated in the wake of the grillingthat Showik was subjected to bythe investigators -was summonedfor questioning by the CBI in themorning. By the time Rheareached the DRDO’s office, theother key witnesses Siddharth,Neeraj and Sammuel Mirandawere there to answer questionsposed to them by the CBI sleuths.After a few hours of questioning,Siddharth was taken to the CBI’sMumbai office at the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) where hewas questioned once again foranother five hours before he wasbrought back to the DRDO GuestHouse where the visiting CBIteam has been camping ever sincetheir arrival from New Delhi aweek ago. It was not immediate-ly known if Rhea was brought faceto face with Siddharth or otherkey witnesses like her own broth-er Showik, Neeraj or SammuelMiranda and the actor’s otherassociates at any point of time onFriday. During the course of herday-long questioning, Rhea isunderstood to have been ques-tioned by the CBI on issues likeher relationship with Sushant,bouts of depression reportedlysuffered by the actor, on why sheleft the actor’s flat on June 8,whether she was administeringmedicine and if yes then whetherthe drugs given to the actor wereprescribed by doctors, about thepsychiatrists, doctors and spiritualhealers whom she had takenSushant to, whether she was tak-ing decisions in the actor’s finan-cial & professional matters,whether she supplying drugs orgiving drugs mixed in liquids tothe actor, whether she hadreceived any money from theactor, what transpired in their tripto Europe and about her strainedrelations with Sushant’s familymembers. Rhea was questionedabout the events that followed thediscovery of Sushant’s body in hisclosed room at his sixth floorduplex flat in “Mont Blanc” build-ing at Bandra’s Carter Road areain north-west Mumbai. Rhea,who stayed away from the actor’sfuneral, is reported to have beenquestioned about her covert visitto the Cooper Hospital’s mortu-ary to have the last glimpse ofSushant. During the course of 11hours that she spent at DRDOguest house, Rhea was posed sev-eral sets of questions. After everytwo or three sets of questioning,she was given a break beforeresuming questioning. Sourcessaid that the investigators wouldco-relate the answers of Rheawith those of other eye witness-es, including Siddharth andNeeraj, who have been ques-tioned for over a week by the CBI,before they summon her back forquestioning once again. In a relat-ed development, theEnforcement Directorate (ED)officials served summons to Goa-based hotelier Gaurav Arya,whose name has figured in drug-related issues involving Sushant,Rhea and others, to appear beforeit for questioning on August 31(Monday). It may be recalled thatthe ED, which has registered amoney laundering in Sushant’sdeath case, had retrievedwhatsApp messages Rhea hadwith others in which alleged pro-curement and usage of drugs likeMDMA, marijuana, LSD andCannabidiol had figured. The EDhad shared the WhatsApp mes-sages to the CBI and NarcoticsControl Bureau (NCB), prompt-ing the latter to register a caseunder sections 20, 22, 27 and 29of the Narcotic Drugs andPsychotropic Substances) Act andbooked Rhea Chakraborty, herbrother Showik Chakraborty andothers under it. On Friday, the EDofficials visited Hotel Tamarind atGoa’s coastal village Anjuna.Seeing the hotel shut, they stuckthe summons paper on the doorof the hotel. Hotel Tamarind hasbeen shut since March this year,because of the lockdown restric-tions

Among other things, the EDnotice stated that Arya will haveto meet Rajiv Kumar, assistantdirector, ED, at 11 am in Mumbaion Monday in connection with acase registered under the provi-sions of the Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA), 2002.The ED had registered anEnforcement Case InformationReport (ECIR) on July 31. It maybe recalled that ED had ques-tioned Rhea, Indrajeet and herbrother Showik Chakraborty onAugust 10. On Thursday, the EDofficials questioned Rhea’s talentmanager Jaya Saha. On the sameday her father IndrajeetChakraborty was also summonedby the ED to access the family’sbank accounts in connection withthe alleged money launderingcase registered by it. The sameafternoon, the ED officials tookhim to the Vakola branch of theAxis Bank to check the bankaccount details.

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cation capabilities of the ChineseArmy thereby posing fresh chal-lenge to India. The installationsincluded modern equipment forthe latest spectrum bandwidths togreatly improve cellular trans-mission in the strategically impor-tant area. Similarly, the Chinesewere putting up more huts andtemporary bunkers in thePangong Tso region, they said.The first face-off took place herein early May when the Chineseintruded and obstructed anIndian army patrol. It led tofisticuffs between the soldiers ofthe two Armies leaving severalinjured.

China has so far refused towithdraw its troops from thisregion and have occupied theheights around the lake. Theyhave also tried to stop the Indianarmy patrols between Finger 4and Finger 8 areas besides engag-ing in fresh construction activities,sources said.

This issue is likely to figureprominently during the sixthround of talks between the CorpsCommanders of the two Armiesearly next week, they said. Thetwo commanders Lt GeneralHarinder Singh and MajorGeneral Liu Lin have met fivetimes since the face-offs startedand agreed to mutually disengagefrom the confrontation sites. Theyalso agreed to thin out the addi-tional troops brought closer to theface-off positions in the last fewweeks. The two commanders hadlast met on August 2.

However, China has notpulled back its troops from thePangong Tso and the DepsangValley forcing India to also boostits troop strength along withdeployment of heavy guns andarmour.

In this backdrop, DefenceMinister Rajnath Singh is likely tovisit Moscow in first week ofSeptember for the SCO meeting.Defence Ministers of nearly 20countries, including China andPakistan, are also likely to bethere. However, a one on onemeeting between Rajnath andhis Chinese counterpart is not yetdecided, sources said.

Similarly, Jaishankar will bein Moscow a few days later andmay hold talks with ChineseForeign Minister Wang Yi on theLAC issue, sources said. The twoleaders will also take part in a vir-tual meeting in early Septemberas part of the Brazil, Russia,India, China and SouthAfrica(BRICS)foreign ministersconclave, it was learnt.Notwithstanding the continuingstand-offs at the LAC and frostyties with Pakistan, the IndianArmed forces will take part in amulti-nation military exerciseincluding China and Pakistan inRussia for a fortnight startingSeptember 15. These drills areunder the aegis of the SCO andIndia had taken part in such anexercise last year too along withChina and Pakistan. More than20 nations will take part in thisyear’s prestigious event. A 200-strong contingent of India will bethere, officials said.

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planning; what can one expectfrom a Government who imposeda 21-day lockdown with merelyfour hours notice,” O’ Brienremarked at the joint Press con-ference with Soren and SeniorCongress leader Abhishek ManuSinghvi. Singhvi, who represent-ed all the six petitioners, said theGovernment needs to keep inmind that together the petition-ers represent 30 per cent of theIndian population. Citing Bihar asan example, Singhvi said out of 38districts in the State, there wereNEET centres only in two districtsand IIT JEE centres only in seven.Addressing the virtual Press con-ference, Soren said theGovernment’s insistence on hold-ing the two exams show its “stub-bornness”.

“Not a single day goes bywhen a death due to Covid-19doesn’t occur. Who will beresponsible if any student or theirfamily gets infected because ofappearing in the exam?”, Sorensaid adding that he is yet to getresponse on his letter written toEducation Ministry. JEE Main,which is the entrance examinationfor entry into undergraduate engi-neering programmes, will be heldbetween September 1 and 6.NEET 2020, the examination forentry into undergraduate medicalprogrammes, will be held onSeptember 13.

The petitioners said theAugust 17 SC order does not takeinto account the safety and “Rightto Life” of those appearing for JEEMain 2020 and NEET 2020. It alsosaid there are teething logisticaldifficulties in conducting theexaminations at the proposeddates. It also added that the SCorder did not balance the com-peting but equally importantaspect of student safety and con-ducting exams. The six State

Cabinet Ministers have filed thepetition in their individual capac-ity. On August 17, the SupremeCourt dismissed pleas to directNTA to postpone JEE Main andNEET due to the coronaviruspandemic. SC said the postpone-ment of the exams would put stu-dents’ careers in peril. JusticeArun Mishra said if exams werenot held, students would lose anacademic year. He also added thatlife should go on during Covid-19and questioned how exams couldbe stopped.

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recession, the economy has beenbattered anew by the coronaviruspandemic, and Abe has failed toachieve his cherished goal of for-mally rewriting the US-draftedpacifist constitution because ofpoor public support. Abe said heachieved a stronger Japan-USsecurity alliance and the firstvisit by a serving US President tothe atom-bombed city ofHiroshima. He also helped Tokyogain the right to host the 2020Olympics by pledging that a dis-aster at the Fukushima nuclearplant was “under control” when itwas not. Recently, “The coron-avirus’s impact on the economywas a blow to Abe, who was stuckat home and lacking an opportu-nity to make any achievement orshow off his friendship withTrump, and was pushed into acorner,” said Koichi Nakano, aninternational politics professorat Sophia University in Tokyo.

Abe continued to bolsterJapan’s defense capability torespond to America’s needs,Nakano said. “For those whobelieve the Japan-U.S. alliance isparamount, that was his majorachievement,” he said. But Abebulldozed his expanded defensepolicy and other contentiousissues through parliament, repeat-edly neglecting public opinion,Nakano said.

Abe is a political blue bloodwho was groomed to follow in thefootsteps of his grandfather, for-mer Prime Minister NobusukeKishi. His political rhetoric oftenfocused on making Japan a “nor-mal” and “beautiful” nation witha stronger military and bigger rolein international affairs.

Abe, whose term ends inSeptember 2021, is expected tostay on until a new party leaderis elected and formally approvedby the parliament, a process whichis expected to take several weeks.Abe became Japan’s youngestprime minister in 2006, at age 52,but his overly nationalistic firststint abruptly ended a year laterbecause of his health. InDecember 2012, Abe returned topower, prioritising economicmeasures over his nationalistagenda. He won six national elec-tions and built a rock-solid gripon power, bolstering Japan’sdefence role and capability and itssecurity alliance with the US. Healso stepped up patriotic educa-tion at schools and raised Japan’sinternational profile.

Abe on Monday becameJapan’s longest-serving PM byconsecutive days in office, eclips-ing the record of Eisaku Sato, hisgreat-uncle, who served 2,798days from 1964 to 1972. But hissecond hospital visit Mondayaccelerated speculation and polit-ical maneuvering toward a post-Abe regime. Ulcerative colitiscauses inflammation and some-times polyps in the bowels. Peoplewith the condition can have a nor-mal life expectancy but seriouscases can involve life-threateningcomplications. After his recenthospital visits were reported, topofficials from Abe’s Cabinet andthe ruling party said he was over-worked and badly needed rest. Hishealth concerns came as his sup-port ratings plunged due to hishandling of the coronavirus pan-demic and its severe impact on theeconomy, on top of a stream ofpolitical scandals, including hisown. There are a slew of politi-cians eager to replace Abe.Shigeru Ishiba, a 63-year-oldhawkish former defence ministerand Abe’s archrival, is a favoritenext leader in media surveys,though he is less popular withinthe governing party. A low-keyformer foreign minister, FumioKishida, Defense Minister TaroKono, Chief Cabinet SecretaryYoshihide Suga, and economicrevitalisation minister YasutoshiNishimura, who is in charge ofcoronavirus measures, are wide-ly mentioned in Japanese mediaas potential successors.

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time against the constant declineof Congress, Azad reiterated to aTV news agency, that the partymust hold elections to the CWCand key organisational posts ofState chiefs lest it continues to “sitin the Opposition for the next 50years”. In the Lok Sabha, a simi-lar five-member group has beenformed, comprising Chowdhury,Gogoi, chief whip K Suresh, Bittuand Manickam Tagore, who isclose to Rahul.

“As chairperson of theCongress Parliamentary Party, Ihave decided to constitute thegroups to facilitate and ensure theeffective functioning of our partyin both Houses of Parliament.These groups will meet daily dur-ing the session and can meet dur-ing the inter-session periods aswell where Parliament issues areconcerned. Joint meetings can beconvened as and when needed,”Sonia stated in her announce-ments after affecting the changes.Two days ago Jairam was appoint-ed as convener of the 5-membercommittee to take note of keyordinances of the Government.Former Finance Minister PChidambaram, Digvijay Singh, DrAmar Singh and Gaurav Gogoiare its other members. The letterwritten by 23 Congress leaders toSonia Gandhi said there has beena “steady decline of the party”, aswitnessed in the 2014 and 2019Lok Sabha elections, but no “hon-est introspection” has been doneto analyse the reasons for thesemassive defeats. The letter addedthat Congress workers on theground are demoralised becauseof the uncertainty over the lead-ership. The Congress is yet toappoint a full-time president sinceRahul resigned following the 2019Lok Sabha election debacle.

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cleaned and disinfected head-phones will be provided to pas-sengers at the start of the journey,”it noted. Meanwhile, a seniorofficial of the Directorate Generalof Civil Aviation (DGCA) said, “Apassenger who refuses to wear aface mask can be put on no-fly listby the airline.” The official said nonew order has been passed in thisregard as the airline and its cabincrew are sufficiently empoweredunder the existing DGCA rules totake action.

As per the DGCA rules, anairline can choose to put anunruly passenger on its no-fly listafter internal deliberations.Subsequently, other airlines mayfollow suit in putting that pas-senger on their no-fly lists.

Scheduled international pas-senger flights continue to remainsuspended in India since March23 due to the coronavirus pan-demic. However, special interna-tional flights have been operating

under the “Vande Bharat Mission”and bilateral air bubble arrange-ments that have been signed withvarious countries. Domesticflights resumed in India on May25 after a gap of two months inview of the pandemic. However,airlines are allowed to operate 45per cent of their pre-Coviddomestic flights.

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and infection must not spread, hesaid. The Speaker chaired a meet-ing with senior officers and expertsof Health Ministry, AIIMS, ICMR,DRDO, and the Health

Department of Delhi Governmenton Friday to give final shape topreparat ions related to theMonsoon session of Parliament.The Session will be conductedwith all necessary health safetyarrangements in Parliament HouseComplex. Speaker also asked theMinistries to reduce the entry oftheir Staffers in the Parliamentcomplex and those enter must betested. Along with this, there is aproposal to restrict the number ofmedia persons, both from LokSabha and Rajya Sabha. COVID(RT-PCR) test will be mandatoryfor all media persons,” said thestatement.

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stands,” LU spokesperson said.The students are not allowedto carry bags, mobile phonesand will have to keep themoutside. “If bags or mobiles arefound in the exam centres,their exam will be cancelled,”he said.

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City Montessori School,Gomti NagarCampus I,secured selectionin the prestigiousTata Institute ofSocial Science(TISS) afterclearing its entrance testnationally. TISS has 30 seatsfor Bachelor’s programme inwhich Tushar secured a seatfor himself. For graduationprogramme, over 25,000 stu-dents from across the countryapplied for admission to theinstitute. Tushar gave credit ofhis achievement to his teach-ers and principal Abha Anant.

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The low-lying areas of Balliadistrict, which separates

the state from Saran (Bihar), arefacing serious flood threats asthe river Ganga has inchedclose to cross the danger level(red mark) as it is alreadyflowing above the warninglevel of 56.61 metres. As per thereport of the local office of theCentral Water Commission(CWC), the river was record-ed at 56.88 metres at 8 am onFriday and it is expected tocontinue rising when its levelwould be at 57.17 metres bySaturday morning against ared mark of 57.61 metres. Thehighest flood level in Ballia is60.39 metres recorded onAugust 28 in 2016. Ballia,which is surrounded by threemajor rivers, recently saw floodhavoc by river Sarju and nowthe heartbeats of dozens of vil-lages located near Ganga haveincreased with the continuousrise of the river. Besides, recent-ly river Ghagara had also cre-

ated a lot of damages inAzamgarh and Mau districts asthe two districts of this regionof Purvanchal (eastern UP)are still fighting to return tonormalcy.

In Varanasi, the speed ofrising water level of river Gangahas, once again, intensified asduring the last 24 hours, thewater level was increased by 50

centimetres against 36 cms aday ago.

This shows that the level isincreasing more than two cmsper hour. The river was record-ed at 66.65 metres in the morn-ing whereas its level was at66.15 metres a day ago. In theupstream, as both the riversGanga and Yamuna were risingprior to its confluence at

Sangam in Prayagraj atPhaphamau and Allahabadrespectively, it has speeded upthe rising trend. Right fromPhamaumau to Ballia, the riverwas rising including Mirzapur,Varanasi and Ghazipur.

Not only this, the waterlevel of river Gomti has alsostarted rising at its downstreamMaighat, though it was stillsteady at upstream Jaunpur.This has increased the pulserate of the residents of four vil-lages of Daab area, surround-ed by rivers Ganga and Gomtinear their confluence at Kaithi,about 25 kms from the city.Besides, in Sonbhadra, thewater level of rivers Sone andRihand continued rising atBansagar Dam and RihandDam respectively. In Varanasi,due to continuous rise in riverwater has already entered thebike parking site atManikarnika ghat and over adozen of low-lying templeslocated at different ghats wereeither submerged into the waterfully or partially.

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International Society forKrishna Consciousness

(ISKCON) will develop a cul-tural centre at its local Bhelupurcentre premises, by giving it agrand shape. Its name will beSri Sri Radha Gopal MandirVedic India Cultural Centre(VICC). ‘Our vision is to makeISKCON’s VICC the mostattractive place in the city afterKashi Vishwanath temple andthe ghats of Ganga. We wish tooffer an irresistible centre ofattraction for tourists, a sourceof enlightenment for the spir-itual seekers and a stage forexposing the rich culture ofKashi. It’ll be an effort to pre-sent the traditional values andculture of Vedic India throughmodern means and help holis-tic development of society,’said Chairman of ISKCON(Varanasi) Acyuta Mohan Das.

It has made its formaldebut on Radha Ashtami, theannual anniversary day of thelocal ISKCON centre. Chiefarchitect Anup Sahni, CEOEllypsium Architects said thatthe project would be complet-ed by summer 2023. Aftercompletion it’ll be UP’s secondgrand ISKCON temple after

Kanpur. ‘The temple will haveyoga and other facilities alongwith accommodation of inter-national standards for touristscoming from any part of theworld. A Vedic ashram will alsobe built in the temple for ded-icated spiritual students andsocial activists,’ he said.

ISKCON BhagavatVidyapitha will also be estab-lished in the cultural centre. Init, both basic and advancedcourses related to SrimadBhagwad Gita, Srimad

Bhagavatam, Puranas,Upanishads, ChaitanyaCharitamrita, etc. will be con-ducted, which will be from oneweek to six months.

There will be qualifiedteachers from around theworld. It will also have anauditorium and three seminarhalls with a capacity of 125 peo-ple to attend cultural events andpresentations.

In this, tourists from allover the country will be givena glimpse into the Vedic culture

through video shows, dance,music, theatrics etc., saidAcyuta Mohan Das.

The temple hall will bemade on Royal Jaipur Palacetheme. More than 250 devoteeswill be able to participate in thedarshan, katha and kirtan inthe temple. Deluxe, superdeluxe, family suites, royalsuite rooms will also be madefor the residence of the guestscoming from outside. Twobanquet halls have also beenconceptualised in the templefor cultural, corporate andfamily events. Govindas restau-rants will also be made fordevotees to get satvik (vegetar-ian) food. Under food for life,free prasad will be distributedto visitors and poor people. Giftand natural products shops,sales centre for bhoga prasadwill also be set up in the tem-ple premises apart fromAyurvedic spa in which dis-eases will be treated by natur-al methods, said AchyutMohan Das, adding that thisholy land was originally donat-ed by the Dabur family inmemory of Shri GuruAchyutanand Maharaj Ji whichis now being developed byISKCON Society as a megatourism project.

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The Allahabad High Courton Thursday granted bail to

Dhananjay Singh Member ofParliament from Jaunpur in aalleged case of kidnapping andthreat.

The bail has been grantedby Justice Niraj Tiwari allow-ing bail application ofDhananjay Singh.

It was submitted by coun-sel for the applicant that appli-cant has falsely been implicat-ed, even informant in his state-ment under section 164( state-ment before magistrate)hasdenied the version of FIR. Itwas stated, ‘statement of infor-mant was recorded underSection 164 Cr.P.C. in which hehas denied about the version of

FIR and stated that he wasnever kidnapped or pres-surised by the applicant. Hewas pressurised by SHO tolodge FIR and he dictated thecomplaint to lodge FIR. It isnext contended that there areno chances of the applicant offleeing away from the judicialprocess or tampering with theprosecution evidence. It is nextcontended by the learnedcounsel for the applicant thatthe applicant is in jail since11.05.2020 and in case he isenlarged on bail, he will notmisuse the liberty of bail.’

Allowing the bail applica-tion the court observed, ‘Considering the facts and cir-cumstances of the case and alsoperusing the material onrecord, without expressing any

opinion on the merit of thecase, let the applicant -Dhananjay Singh involved incase crime No. 0142 of 2020,under Sections -364, 386, 504,506, 120-B IPC, police station-Line Bazar, District- Jaunpurbe released on bail on his fur-nishing a personal bond andtwo local sureties .’

KUMAR TAKES OVERAS CE (AIR FORCE): VipinKumar, IDSE took over thecommand of Chief Engineer(Air Force) Prayagraj onFriday while MM Bhatiais proceeding on posting toPune.

Addressing the fraternityof MES (Military EngineeringServices) MM Bhatia conveyedhis best wishes and felicitationsfor their valued contributions

in achieving the commitmentsin Infrastructure developmentand providing works servicesto the Central Air Command.He applauded the achieve-ments and the welfare mea-sures instituted during histenure and requested all per-sonnel to render their full co-operation to Vipin Kumartowards achieving themilestones in the comingfuture.

Vipin Kumar on assumingthe appointment of ChiefEngineer conveyed that it is ahuge honour and responsibil-ity bestowed upon him whichhe not only hopes but firmlybelieves that with support of allworkforce of MES will achievegreater heights in times tocome.

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The recruitment exam forreview officer (RO) and

assistant review officer (ARO)2016 (preliminary) will now beheld on September 20 insteadof September 13. This informa-tion has been given by theController of Examinations ofthe UP Public ServiceCommission, Arvind KumarMishra.

However, he has not givenany reason for extending thedate of examination. The infor-mation released by the com-mission states that for unavoid-able reasons, the examinationwill be held on September 20instead of September 13. OnAugust 19, the commissionhad asked the candidates of thisrecruitment to give an alterna-tive of three districts for theexamination centre. It isbelieved that the commissionwill take some time to deter-

mine the examination centreaccording to the new system, sothe examination has been post-poned for a week.

This examination is to beheld in 17 districts of the stateincluding Prayagraj, in which3,85,191 candidates were toattend, but out of these 41 can-didates have withdrawn candi-dature due to corona’s growinginfection and other reasons, so3,85,150 candidates will beincluded in the examination.The schedule of the interviewhas also been changed by thePublic Service Commission,by modifying the date of inter-view of successful candidates inwritten examination of assis-tant forest conservator / region-al forest officer (ACF & RFO)recruitment 2017.

Earlier, the dates of August26, 27 and 28 were set for theinterview but now it has beensaid that the interview willstart from September 1 and will

continue till September 4. Thedetailed schedule of the four-day interview has beenuploaded on the website of thecommission by the Controllerof Examinations of the com-mission, Arvind KumarMishra. The interview will bein two shifts. Interview of firstshift will start from 10 am andthat of the second shift will startfrom 2 pm.

The commission hassought information from thecandidates of the CombinedState Engineering ServicesExamination 2019 about theengineering branch in whichthey have graduated.Candidates have to file thisinformation on the website ofthe commission by August 31.

Candidates who do notprovide this information will berejected. This information is tobe given by those candidateswho have not given informa-tion about graduation while

applying online.SLUICE GATES

BROUGHT DOWN: Sensingthe seriousness of flood threat,sluice gates of Buxi Bundhsewage treatment plant inPrayagraj have been broughtdown to protect Allahpur andmany other localities.

The Ganga and theYamuna continue to swell,though at a very slow pace of1 cm per hour, and floodwaters have inundated the BadeHanuman temple park. If therivers continue to rise, floodwater will enter the templewithin a day or two.

With the sluice gatesclosed, if it rains heavily inPrayagraj, Allahpur will see aflood-like situation becausethe pumps installed to emptystorm water mostly fail topump out rain waters into theGanga, but it the gates are notclosed, the flooded Ganga willenter into the city.

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Prayagraj district has wit-nessed an increase in the

number of patients gettingcured, and the recovery rate hastouched nearly 73 per centafter a gap of two months.

As per the data released bydistrict health authorities, 7,815patients had been infected bycoronavirus out of which 5,690have recovered and dischargedfrom hospitals or completedhome isolation till August 26.

Currently, there are over2,000 active cases in the district

and the patients are undergo-ing treatment at eight Covidhospitals. The city recorded 126deaths due to novel coronavirusso far. The first COVID-19 casewas detected in Prayagraj onApril 5, when a 35- year-oldIndonesian, who had attendedthe Tablighi Jamaat event inNew Delhi on March 12-13,tested positive. After a fewdays, cases decreased duringlockdown and Prayagraj waseven declared a green zone onApril 23. The COVID-19 casesstarted rising again in the lastweek of June and kept going up.

As per records, over 1,200patients were diagnosed withCOVID-19 infection in Julymonth alone.

Additional Director(Health) Dr Sudhakar Pandeyinformed that COVID-19 casesstarted increasing from June-end and kept rising in July andAugust. The highest count in asingle day was 368 on August26. However, the rate of recov-ery also started rising in mid-July and 5,690 patients haverecovered. While 3,072 patientsgot cured and were dischargedfrom hospital, 2,618 patients

recovered in home isolation.The recovery rate is 72.80 percent in Prayagraj now, headded.

Similarly, in Pratapgarhdistrict total 1,536 Covid caseswere detected till August 25,out of which 913 got cured,while 24 patients lost the bat-tle to the virus.

In Kaushambi, total 773cases were reported till August25. While 562 patients havecured and have been dis-charged, there are 193 activecases. Kaushambi reportednine Covid deaths so far.

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An ACMO (AdditionalChief Medical Officer) of

Prayagraj has also tested posi-tive for coronavirus. Alongwith him, 301 new patientshave been found infected withCOVID-19, the report of whichcame late on Thursday.

Of them the total patientsreported on Thursday night,58 inmates of Naini CentralJail also included. The num-ber of corona patients has nowrisen to 8,484. At the sametime, five corona-infectedpatients died in the last 24hours, including two districtcourt lawyers. This takes thedeath toll to 135 in the district.

ACMO, a resident ofShivakuti was made the nodalofficer of Corona TestingCentres these days. When hewas suffering from cold andfever, he got corona examinedwith a rapid kit, in which hisreport came positive. Afterthis, he also got his car drivertested and his report was alsopositive. He has appealed to allthose who have come in closecontact with him in the pastfor COVID-19 test. It may bepointed out here that twomonths ago one more ACMOwas also infected with coronabut he lost his life in the bat-tle of corona. Similarly coro-na has also been confirmed inan employee of the CROoffice.

Nodal Off icer forCOVID-19, Dr Rishi Sahaisaid that 301 new positivepatients of corona have beenfound and five patients died.The report of 2,565 sampleshas been negative, and sam-ples of 3,616 suspect patients

have been taken. He said that184 patients became corona-free, in which 67 patientswere discharged from hospi-tals while 117 patients wereallowed out of home isolation.

Meanwhile, BJP transYamuna district presidentVibhav Nath Bharti's reporthas also come positive. He had

difficulty breathing sinceWednesday evening. Trans-Yamuna spokesperson of theunit Dilip Kumar Chaturvedisaid that Vaibhav Nath Bhartiwas i l l for a week. Hewas admitted to a private hos-pital.

On Thursday, he was test-ed for COVID-19 and the

report came positive. He hasbeen sent to Lucknow fortreatment with the support ofDistrict In-charge secretaryDr Mahendra Singh andDistrict Magistrate. All theparty workers who came incontact have also been askedto stay in the home quaran-tine.

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In a daring incident, twounidentified motorcycle-

borne criminals shot dead two,one is said to be history-sheeterand injured one other near atemple in the busiestChowkaghat area, under theJaitpura police station onFriday morning. The injuredwas admitted at a private nurs-ing home in Maldahia wherehis condition is stated to becritical. The police sent thebodies for autopsy and startedan investigation into the mat-ter. The old enmity is doubtedbe a cause behind the sensa-tional murder.

According to the informa-tion, Abhishek Singh akaPrince, a resident of MaqboolAlam Road in Cantt police sta-tion, along with one of hisaides Deepak Gond wasreturning home fromMugalsarai by bike. Deepakwas driving the two-wheeler.When both were on the waynear Kali temple in theChowkaghat busiest areaaround 10.15 am, two motor-cycle-borne criminals reachedthem and opened fire targetingboth. They fell on the groundafter sustaining bullets. In thegunfire, a trolley man, identi-

fied as Bamiki Gautam of thesame area, who was drinkingwater near the crime site, alsosuffered bullet injuries. A crim-inal, sitting on a pillion seat,got down from the bike to con-firm whether Prince andDeepak were alive or dead andthereafter fled away from there.

On getting information,the local police reached the siteand rushed the injured to a pri-vate nursing home in Maldahiawhere Prince and Valmiki weredeclared brought dead. Princesustained three bullet injuries,while Valmiki got a bullet inhis head. Deepak was admittedin the hospital in critical con-

dition as he sustained twobullet injuries. His condition isstated to be stable till the newslast came in. The senior policeofficers including ADG BrajBhushan and IG Vijay SinghMeena also reached the siteand took stock of first handinformation about the inci-dent.

The ADG informed thatPrince had criminal recordand seven criminal casesincluding murder were pend-ing against him in Cantt andRam Nagar police stations.Gangster Act was also slappedagainst him and was history-sheeter of Cantt police station.

The crime branch and Canttpolice had arrested him on July1, 2018 when he was going toCantt railway station to catcha train and at that time he wascarrying a cash reward of�15000 on his head.

On August 9, 2917, oneArif Ansari, sand trader ofBihar, was shot dead when hewas at the house of Prince. Thename of hardcore criminaland gangster Abhishek Singhaka Hunny had come to fore inthis murder case. Prince was amember of the Hunny gangbut parted his ways later onand started practising law. Butat same time, Prince had alsobeen indulged in illegal tradeof f irearms and drugs,informed the police adding, hehad also held a talk with any-one over phone about the dealof drug and firearms before theincident had happened. In themeantime, the family membersof the trolley man lamentedthat he was the only source oftheir livelihood and demand-ed compensation so thatthey could meet their bothends.

The police sent bodies ofPrince and Valmiki for thepostmortem examination andstarted investigation into sen-sational double murder.

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As many as 136 newCOVID-19 patients have

been detected in the district onFriday. With this, the totalnumber of cases has reached7,443. The day also saw twomore deaths, increasing the tollto 133. During the day, the fol-low-up negative reports includ-ed 108 patients, out of them, 72patients recovered from homeisolation and the total numberof patients cured at home hasincreased to 3,616 while 36recovered from the hospitals.With this, the total number of

patients discharged from thehospitals has reached 2,231while the total number of curedpatients is 5,847, leaving 1,463active patients. With this, therecovery rate has improvedslightly to 78.55 per cent whilemortality rate to 1.78 per cent.

According to the ChiefMedical Officer (CMO) DrVB Singh, by the first report by11 am during the day, 70 coro-na positive patients weredetected out of 1,429 reportsreceived. Till then, the total testreports received were 97,693and the results of 5,989 areawaited. Out of these 90,316

were negative while 7,377 pos-itive. The total number of sam-ples collected was 1,09,769.Earlier, a female and a male,both aged 70, from SaptsagarMandi (Maidagin) andRamghat (Kotwali) died duringtheir COVID-19 treatment atSSH BHU. With the addition of23 new red zones, the totalnumber of hotspots hasincreased to 1,432 including348 red zones. As many as 12green zones have been convert-ed into red zones again.Besides, there are 1,084 greenzones including 18 new ones.

As many as 511 new coro-

na positive patients were foundin this belt of Purvanchal (east-ern UP) comprising 10 districtsof three divisions a day ago.The maximum number of 140were reported in Varanasi (total7,307), followed by 76 inGhazipur (2,683), 56 inAzamgarh (2,920), 51 in Ballia(3,700), 51 in Jaunpur (3,610),36 in Chandauli (1,728), 34 inSonbhadra (1,419), 30 in Mau(1,228), 21 in Mirzapur (1,599)and 16 in Bhadohi (1,080). Outof total patients of 27,274, therecovery rate was 80.56 per cent(21,972) while mortality rate1.36 per cent (371 deaths).

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Cabinet Minister Sidharth Nath Singh and BJPYamunapar president have also tested pos-

itive for coronavirus. The minister was accom-panied by Mayor Abhilasha Gupta Nandi at anevent held in the city on Thursday. Therefore,she has also quarantined herself at home as a precaution.

He has asked all the private staff, includinghis gunner, to remain at home quarantine forthree days. Apart from this, BJP's Yamunaparpresident Vibhav Nath Bharti has also beenfound infected.

After receiving the report, he has been sentto PGI Lucknow. According to the mediaincharge of the BJP, the minister himselfinformed about being infected by twittering. Hehas said that the report came positive when theinitial symptoms of corona appeared. Since theminister took part in several programmes inPrayagraj on Thursday, a day before, those incontact have been advised to conduct a Covidtest.

At the same time, Yamunapar president ofBJP has also tested Covid positive. He wasundergoing treatment in a private hospital. OnThursday he underwent the test but wasreferred to PGI due to difficulty in breathing.

Yamunapar media incharge DilipChaturvedi said that the Yamunapar presidentwas sent from the ambulance to PGI Lucknowon the instructions of the incharge secretaryMahendra Singh. He said that such people whohave come in contact with the president ofYamunapar during the last few days should get

their corona test done.Since the report of the state government's

Cabinet Minister, Siddharth Nath Singh, Coronapositive, people in contact with him in Prayagrajhave started getting their testing done. MP RitaBahuguna Joshi, Mayor Abhilasha Gupta Nandi,BJP city unit president Ganesh Kesarwani andnearly a dozen corporators, activists and offi-cials and employees have quarantined themselvesat their homes. The mayor said that she receivedinformation at around 3 o'clock. She was thenin Shivkuti. She then came straight home fromthere. She has also directed her entire staff tobe home quarantined.

Cabinet Minister Siddharth Nath Singh wasin the city on Thursday. He inaugurated 47 roadsof City Western at Circuit House. Before that,the ‘shilapat’ was also unveiled on KamlaBahuguna Marg of Lukerganj. In the samesequence, a shopping mall was also inaugurat-ed in Rajrooppur. He then inaugurated the roadsat Circuit House and also held a review meet-ing with the officials.

People attending these events have becomealert. Dinesh Tiwari, the local representative ofthe cabinet minister, said that all the people whocame in contact with the minister have beeninstructed to stay home quarantined. In a phoneconversation, Minister Siddharth Nath Singhalso said that he was fine. Other people also neednot panic. If someone has any problem in twoto four days, they must immediately get theircorona test done automatically. Otherwise theyshould follow the rules and regulations beingprescribed for the quarantine period and alsofollow all the precautions together, he added..

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At a meeting held at thePolice Lines, Orai, IG

Jhansi range Subhash Baghelgave necessary instructions toall gazetted officers. A reviewmeeting was organised at PoliceLines where necessary instruc-tions were given in connection

with law and order andupcoming festivals. The IGalso gave necessary instructionsregarding action on top-10criminals, under Goonda Act,tackling flood-like situationetc. IG range had deployed 18head constables and 20 con-stables for strengthening lawand order in Jalaun district.

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An old woman was buriedalive when her house col-

lapsed in Patihata village underAhraura police station onThursday. Reports said thatMangari Devi (75), wife of lateVishwanath, a resident of theaforesaid village was living inher mud house. Due to rain herher house collapsed onThursday evening and sheburied alive under its debris.On getting information thepersonnel of Imiliyachattipolice outpost reached there.Meanwhile the revenue staffhad reached the spot for com-pleting necessary formalities.

DM’S APPEAL: DistrictMagistrate Sushil Kumar Patelurged the beneficiaries ofPradhan Mantri KisanSamman Nidhi to approach theAgriculture department ifdespite being eligible they hadbeen deprived of the benefitdue to some mismatches intheir application forms. He

said that those availing the ben-efit on the ground of ownershipof land but their income washigh as per norms shouldreturn the amount. Suchappeal was made by the DM ata meeting held at the collec-torate. Chairing the meeting ofgoverning board underAgriculture and TechnologyMission and the working com-mittee under National FoodSecurity Mission the DMapproved the working plan foryear 2020-2021 and reviewedthe plan of 2019-2020. On theproposal of a progressive farmerthe agriculture tour programmewas discussed under which thefarmers visited places out ofstate to learn advanced tech-nology of farming. The DMdirected the officials concernedto finalise the tour programmein view of suggestions of farm-ers. In the open meetingShikarpur village under blockNarainpur was selected throughlottery for setting up a machin-ery bank with the purpose of

make available costly agricul-tural equipment to farmers atlow cost for use. The meetingwas mainly attended by CDO,LDM, Deputy director, agri-culture, DPRO, assistant direc-tor, fisheries, representative ofNABARD, AR, Cooperative,soil conservation officer andsome progressive farmers.

DROWNED: Vikas Tiwari(30), son of Dharmraj Tiwari,a resident of Khuluaan villageunder Chilh police station,drowned in a nullah connect-ing Ganga when he was goingfor a picnic. Locals said whenhe was crossing the nullah heslipped into a deep pit. On get-ting information locals reachedthe spot and recovered thebody with the help of divers.The deceased was a father twochildren. His family memberswere inconsolable when theygo information about tragicand untimely death. On recov-ering the body the police tookit into custody for completingthe legal formalities.

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Safe rail transport is the toppriority of North Eastern

Railway (NER). In view oflarge scale electrification ofrailway sections for self-reliancein maintenance of electricengines electric loco shed hasbeen established in Gorakhpur.Likewise for maintenance ofDEMU (Diesel ElectricMultiple Unit) and MEMU(Main Line Electric MultipleUnit) which are extremely use-ful in passenger transport andhave high speed DEMU shedshad been constructed a fewyears back at Clutterbuck Ganjin Izzatnagar division and inAunrihar of Varanasi division.These sheds are playing animportant role in the mainte-nance of engines. Last year thework of maintenance of electricengine started in the newly-established electric loco shed,Gorakhpur, Chief PublicRelations Officer (CPRO)Pankaj Kumar Singh said. Thecapacity of this electric locoshed is of 100 electric engines.Under the periodic mainte-nance schedule on IA and IBlevel maintenance of electricloco shed is being done. In thisshed so far IA and IB levelmaintenance of 118 electricengines has been done. In thisshed for maintenance of elec-tric engines advanced and

modern equipment like 12 tonhydra crane, battery-poweredlister and break down voltagetesting machine are available.The work for increasing facil-ities in this electric loco shed isbeing done on a priority basis.In the shed established atAunrihar under Varanasi divi-

sion in year 2019 in mainte-nance of 13 DEMU and oneMEMU trains was done reg-ularly. In this shed equippedwith modern machines andfacilities like pit wheel lengthmachine, computerised loadbox, 30 ton capacity remotecontrol crane maintenance ofDEMU train started since May26, 2019, and of MEMU trainsince October 11, 2019. DuringCovid-19 rakes maintained bythis shed were operated asShramik Special trains. Manynew techniques of mainte-nance were also developedduring the lockdown in thisDEMU shed in which with thewheel turning machine avail-able in the shed the work of in-position wheel turning work ofwheels of LHB coaches is themain one. As a result along

with the reduction in the timetaken for maintenance workthere has been a huge savingsin railway revenue. In the year2018 the work of maintenanceof DEMU trains started atClutterbuck Ganj in Izzatnagardivision. In this shed twoDEMU trains are regularlymaintained. The process forproviding facilities for mainte-nance of MEMU trains is goingon here. In this shed, modernmachines, including 500 KVgenerator sets, jacks of 35 and25 tonnes, radial drillingmachines, high capacity com-pressors are available. In thisshed many tasks like changingthe radiator of the DEMUengine and removing the airspring without trolley havebeen completed for the firsttime in record time. This shedreplaced the windows ofDEMU trains with its ownresources and ensured savingsof more than Rs 5 lakh railwayrevenue. In this shed there areplans to provide facilities like 40KL Railway Diesel Installation(RDI) and automatic coachwashing plant in future. It maybe pointed out here that thethree sheds within one-and-a-half and two years of theirestablishment have shownexcellent working capacity andthe importance of their role inthe coming days will continueto increase.

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Northern Coalfields Limited(NCL) has secured an

excellent rating in MoU per-formance parameters for theyear 2018-19. The holding com-pany of NCL, the Coal IndiaLimited, released these ratings onTuesday based on Guidelines ofDepartment of Public Enterprises.NCL has been awarded 90.69marks for performance on pro-duction, productivity, financialstatus, turnover, profit, capitalexpenditure, research and devel-opment, human resources andseveral other factors. NCL is theonly subsidiary of Coal IndiaLimited to get an excellent rat-ing. On this splendid achieve-ment, CMD PK Sinha and func-tional directors of the company

congratulated team NCL andexpressed the hope that infuture also NCL would contin-ue with its excellent perfor-mance. NCL is a Singrauli-based Miniratna Company ofGoI and subsidiary company ofCoal India Limited which isenergising the nation with itsround-the-clock coal produc-tion. NCL operates with morethan 1,200 HEMMS in 10 open-cast mega mines for more than100 million tonnes of produc-tion. NCL holds one of theworld’s largest dragline fleetand uses mega infrastructure ofcrushers for quality coal andnetwork of coal handling plants(CHPs). NCL is also planning toconstruct CHPs of 50 milliontonne capacity. NCL uses themodern Merry Go Round

(MGR) system for transportingcoal to its nearby pit headplants and boasts to be the onlysubsidiary of Coal India Limitedto use environment-friendlybelt pipe conveyor (BPC). In FY2019-20 NCL completed all ofits targets and became one of thehighest composites (coal + over-burden) producing companyof the nation. NCL has beenentrusted with the responsibil-ity of 113.25 MT productionand despatch in the current fis-cal. Amid Covid-19 pandemicNCL is moving ahead on its tar-gets by following all safetynorms. NCL is commissioning50 MW solar power plants andworking with various presti-gious institutes of the nation forresearch and developmentworks in the company.

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SDM Jayendra Kumar inspected fertiliser shops in Kalpitown on Thursday. While inspecting them, he said for

the past few days they were receiving complaints aboutfertiliser being sold at higher prices andits blackmarketing. In order to get aclear picture SDM Jayendra Kumar andother officials inspected many fertilisershops. He instructed the shopkeepersto maintain stock and cashbook reg-isters. He directed the officials toensure that fertiliser reached eligiblepersons.

ARRESTED: The Kalpi policearrested one accused from Johlupurtrijunction during a drive launchedagainst wanted criminals. S-I RaviShankar Mishra arrested Anoop Kumaralias Annu, a native of Sarsela village underKalpi police station recently. Kalpi police

station incharge inspector Shiv Gopal Verma said that casesunder Sections 452/354/323/506 of IPC and Section 7/8 ofPOCSO Act were registered against the accused.

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The Rajghat police arrested twoaccused of murder on Thursday.

They were identified as Dewan Nishadand Narada Nishad, residents of KathoreSemri Devi village under Ramgarh Talpolice station. Reports said body of a 35-year-old man was recovered from theriver near Baikunth Dham Amarutani onJuly 26. He was identified as ShambhuNishad. His wife had said that he had leftthe house on July 23 with two his friends.His post-mortem report had revealed thathe had died due to injury. On his wife’scomplaint a case was registered.Meanwhile four members of a family wereinjured when they were beaten up a youthand his friends due to old enmity inRithuakhor village under the Sahajanwapolice station on Thursday evening. Thevictim's family had informed theSahajanwa police about the incidentwhich was investigating the the case.

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In view of the increaseddemand of home isolation by

coronavirus positive persons,District Magistrate AK Tiwarimade it clear that the permis-sion will be given to only thosepatients who followed theCovid protocol.

Tiwari said it would be theresponsibility of the kin of thepatient allowed home isolationto regularly provide details oftemperature, pulse rate andoxygen level of the patient tothe control room.

He said mere undertakingfor home isolation would notbe taken at the face value.

The district magistratedirected the health authoritiesto ensure that home isolationkits were available at all med-ical stores and take measuresfor prevention of black-mar-keting of these kits.

He said the price of homeisolation kit was fixed at Rs1,000 to Rs 1,100 and each kitshould contain 25 three-layeredmasks, pulse oximeter, sodiumhypochlorite one litre solu-tion, three sachets of Vitamin

D, 30 tablets of Vitamin C anda digital thermometer.

Tiwari said by Saturday,this kit would be available at allmedical stores and the medicalstores would have to put up flaxbanners stating that the kit wasavailable. He said these kitswould also be providedthrough home delivery.

The district magistrate alsoheld interaction with the lead-ers of the drug dealers’ associ-ation to ensure that the kit wascharged nominally and waseasily available.

Tiwari said in case of com-

plaint from customer that amedical store was selling homeisolation kit at higher price,action would be taken againstthe store owner concerned.

The leaders of the drugdealers’ association assured thedistrict magistrate of full coop-eration and said the kit wouldnot be over-priced at any costand its easy availability wouldbe arranged. Prominent amongthose who attended the meet-ing were CDO MahendraKumar, City MagistrateHimanshu Gupta, and druginspector Sandesh Maurya.

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The three-member judicialcommission probing the

Bikru ambush and theencounter of Vikas Dubey car-ried out investigations inKashiram Nivada village ofChaubepur on Friday whereAtul Dubey and Prem Prakash,close aides of the slain gangster,were killed in an encounterwith the police.

After holding a meetingwith the police officers at theCircuit House, the judicialcommission members wentto Bikru in Chaubepur andthen visited the nearbyKashiram Nivada village forinvestigations.

The commission is head-ed by retired judge of SupremeCourt, Justice (Retired) BSChauhan. The other mem-bers of the commission areJustice (Retired) SK Agarwalof the High Court and formerDGP of Uttar Pradesh, KLGupta.

The team had earlierarrived here on August 4 andtaken stock of the situation ofBikru village where eightpolicemen were killed in anambush by Vikas Dubey andhis gang members in the earlyhours of July 3t.

On returning from there,when one of the staff testedpositive for coronavirus infec-tion, all three members of thecommission had quarantined

themselves. During investigations on

Friday, IG Range MohitAgarwal was also present.

The commission mem-

bers also carried out investi-gations at Vikas Dubey’s houseand the spot of ambush andquizzed a few villagers inBikru village.

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The National Sugar Institutehas become the first insti-

tute of the country to have suc-cessfully produced a derivativeof levulinic acid, methyl lev-ulinate, which is a value-addedproduct, directly from bagassehaving diverse application intransport sector, medical, agri-culture and food industry.

The success came after agruelling research carried outby the NSI family for over twoyears. The NSI is going topatent its technology which willdrastically reduce the cost ofproduction significantly.

This was disclosed by NSIDirector Prof Narendra Mohanwhile breaking the news onFriday. He said the productswhich had been produced sofar were more superior andeconomical compared to theglobal products.

Prof Mohan said this prod-uct was widely used as fueladditive and the raw materialfor the manufacture of spices,coatings, adhesives, plasticisers,pharmaceuticals and manymore. He said methyl levulinate(ML) was considered a hot tar-get product in bio-refinery.

He said while having anti-freezing properties at high alti-tudes or very cold climaticconditions, methyl levulinatewas used as fuel additive in bio-diesel, as food flavouring agentin food industry, insecticide,herbicide, plant growth regu-lator in agriculture, localisingagent and photodynamic ther-apy in cancer and as plasticis-ing agent in many other appli-cations.

The NSI director addedthat this value-added productwas produced from bagasse,which was a fibrous materialobtained as a result of sugar-cane crushing.

He said each year theIndian sugar industry, pro-duced about 80-90 millionmetric tonnes of bagasse whichwas used mostly as fuel in boil-ers. He added that for making

sugar industry economicallysustainable, there was greaterneed for reducing dependencyon income from sugar andincreasing income from othersources through innovations.

Prof Mohan said present-ly methyl levulinate was pro-duced from levulinic acid andsince the market price of lev-ulinic acid was much higher,being about Rs 500-800 per kg,the cost of production ofmethyl levulinate was also veryhigh.

He said the NSI was con-stantly trying to explore possi-bilities of developing a techno-economic process using abun-dantly available cheap rawmaterial and thus it successfullyexplored the possibilities usingbagasse as raw material thatwas sold at Rs 2-3 per kg only.

Project supervisor DrVishnu Prabhakar Srivastavasaid bagasse was composed ofcellulose, hemi-cellulose andlignin and the NSI had utilisedonly cellulosic part and thus theremaining fractions could beused for other purposes.

He further said that theNSI adopted selective alcohol-ysis of bagasse derived celluloseusing acid catalyst under auto-clave conditions. He addedthat product characterisationhad been carried out through

mass spectroscopy, NMR spec-troscopy, gas chromatography,FT-IR spectroscopy and thinlayer chromatography and thesame had been found to becomparable with commercial-ly available methyl levulinateproduced from other raw mate-rial.

Dr Srivastava said thatconsidering the growing mar-ket, availability of cheap rawmaterial and yield of methyllevulinate being about 5 percent of the raw material that isbagasse, the NSI is of the viewthat it would be possible toreduce the cost of productionsignificantly so that the desiredutilisation may be made by dif-ferent sectors,

Prof Mohan added thatthe NSI would scale up theexperiments to get better ideaabout the yields and cost ofproduction.

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underlying crystal formationcan be realised and investi-gated using ultracold dipolaratoms. Dr BudhadityaChatterjee, a DST-InspireFaculty at Department ofPhysics of the Indian Instituteof Technology Kanpur, led aninternational research collab-oration with physicists from

the University of Freiburg,University of Vienna and theTechnical University ofVienna, Austria. In a recentarticle published in PhysicalReview Letters, the researchteam describes how the adop-tion of ultracold dipolar atomsenables the realisation andprecise measurement ofnovel and unseen crystalstructures.

Crystals are ubiquitous,occurring in a variety ofarrangements in diverse mate-rials — from mineral salts toheavy metals. Their structuresemerge because a particulargeometrical ordering of atomsor molecules is mostfavourable, as it requires theleast amount of energy. Thecrystal structure influencesmany of its physical properties,such as its heat conductivity,electrical resistance, its tensilestrength, and brittleness.

The crucial question is tounderstand, how these crystalstructures emerge and howthey relate to the quantumproperties and interactionsbetween the atoms. However,these microscopic mecha-nisms are difficult to probe indetail.

In their study, DrChatterjee and his collabora-tors prepared a system usingultracold dipolar atoms torealise quantum crystals. Thisenhanced quantum simulatorenabled the researchers tofine-tune system parameterswith great precision and pro-vided a detailed picture intothe hidden quantum process-es of the crystal state — some-thing challenging to study inmaterial crystals. Beyond con-ventional crystal structures,the team discovered fascinat-ing new arrangements thatwere hitherto unseen. Thearticle illustrates how thesecrystal orders emerge from anintriguing competitionbetween kinetic, potential, andinteraction energy and howtheir properties can be probedin unprecedented detail.

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Hundreds of Congressmenstaged a demonstration at

Bara Chauraha in protestagainst the adamant stand ofthe government to conductJEE and NEET despite the risein COVID-19 deaths and thespread of coronavirus in thecommunity.

Carrying posters and plac-ards, the protesters shouted slo-gans against the governmentand demanded that theentrance tests be postponed inview of the coronavirus pan-demic and the poor trans-portation facility available forstudents to reach the exami-nation centres.

They submitted a memo-randum addressed to thePresident of India through thedistrict magistrate.

Addressing the gathering,Congress city unit presidentHar Prakash Agnihotri saidwhen the parents of aspirantsof JEE and NEET were appre-hensive and the Supreme Courthad not allowed the opening ofschools and colleges, then hold-ing the entrance examinationswas unjustified.

He said for vested interest,it seemed the objective of thegovernment was to ensure thatvery few students reached theexam centres.

He said when the wholenation was demanding post-ponement of the two exams,then forcefully conducting theexams was violation of humanrights. Besides, he said, if stu-dents contracted coronavirusinfection at the examinationcentres who would be respon-sible for it.

Agnihotri said neithertrains nor buses nor privatetransport were plying as thepeople themselves were notwilling to take the risk of sittingin infected vehicles.

Former parliamentarianRaja Ram Pal said the BharatiyaJanata Party-led Central gov-ernment was adamant on con-ducting the entrance tests in ahigh-handed manner. He saidthis would affect the academ-ic future of the students.

He appealed to thePresident of India to use hisgood offices to direct the gov-ernment to postpone theseexaminations till it was safe tomove out publicly.

Prominent among thosewho took part in the demon-stration were SD Mishra, IqbalAhmed, Gulab Kori, SL Singh,Ikhlaq Ahmed, SangeetaTiwari, Shabnam Adil andPushpa Saini.

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Kanpur Nagar reported 349fresh cases of coronavirus

infection on Friday evening.Chief Medical Officer Dr

AK Mishra said 349 more peo-ple had tested positive forcoronavirus infection betweenThursday evening and Fridayevening, taking the count ofconfirmed cases to 14,131.

He said 4,393 COVID-19patients had been cured in thecity so far, and at present 3,140active coronavirus cases wereundergoing treatment.

The CMO said noCOVID-19 death was report-ed in the city till Fridayevening.

He said a total of 3,796samples were sent for testing inthe district.

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After eight months of herlove marriage, a woman

committed suicide by hangingherself from ceiling inKeshavpuram under Kalyanpurpolice station on Thursdaynight.

“I love you Babu” was writ-ten in the suicide note left bythe woman.

Police found her bodyhanging from the ceiling in theroom with her wrist slashed atfour places and took her hus-band, a coaching operator, intocustody.

Parents of the deceasedalleged humiliation of theirdaughter by her in-laws.

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To better prepare doctors forchallenges posed by pan-

demics like Covid-19, thecountry’s apex medical educa-tion regulator, the Board ofGovernors of the MedicalCouncil of India (MCI), is inthe process of including pan-demic management along withits social, legal and otheraspects as part of the MBBScourse for medical aspirants.

The BoG said it is expect-ed that the pandemic manage-ment module extending fromfoundation course to the finalyear undergraduate pro-gramme will help in ensuringthe creation of an Indian med-ical graduate “who will servehumanity as doctor, leader andhealer in bleak times such asoccurrence of a pandemic”.

The move aims to preparedoctors for challenges posed byemerging diseases like Covid-19.

The document containingdetails of the module to beadopted by colleges has beenput together by a team ofexperts and the academic cell

of the MCI.“This pandemic manage-

ment module is designed toensure that MBBS studentsacquire competencies in han-dling not only the illness butalso the social, legal and otherissues arising from such diseaseoutbreaks.

“The emergence ofCovid-19 and its rapid spreadacross the globe has furtherunderlined the need to devel-op these skills in our gradu-ates,” Dr V K Paul, the chair-man of the BoG said in theforeword.

The BoG has preparedrevised regulations onGraduate Medical educationand Competency basedundergraduate curricula,accompanied by detailedguidance for its implementa-tion.

One of the desirable out-comes of the competencyderived education programmeis to enable the Indian med-ical graduate to be preparedfor the unknown — to be ableto understand, investigate,treat and prevent new andemerging diseases as clinician,community leader and schol-

ar, stated the foreword.It further said that, “pan-

demic or disease outbreakcalls in to play all the five roles

envisages for the Indian med-ical graduate viz clinician,communicator, leader andmember of the healthcare

team, professional, life-longlearner and committed toexcellence, is ethical, respon-sive and accountable to

patients”The competency-based

undergraduate curriculumwas designed to enable the

Indian medical graduate to beprepared to meet new chal-lenges - to be able to recog-nise, diagnose, investigate and

treat newly emerging diseasesas a clinician and communi-ty health leader.

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Lack of social interactionduring the Covid-19 pan-

demic has taken a toll on peo-ple’s mental health which isalready a neglected issue giventhat more than 75 per cent ofthose with mental, neurologi-cal and substance use disordersreceive no treatment for theircondition at all, the WorldHealth Organization (WHO)has cautioned.

Tedros AdhanomGhebreyesus, the Director-General of the WHO, said,“For many people, the lack ofsocial interaction caused by thepandemic has had a profoundeffect on their mental health.”

Sharing his views at a vir-tual press briefing fromGeneva, the WHO chief saidthat people in long-term facil-ities such as care homes andpsychiatric institutions are atan increased risk of infection.

He added that mentalhealth professionals havethemselves been infected withthe virus, and some mentalhealth facilities have beenclosed to be converted intotreatment facilities for people

with Covid-19.He recalled that mental

health was already “a neglect-ed health issue” globally beforethe pandemic, with close toone billion people living witha mental disorder. Yet relativelyfew people have access to qual-ity mental health services.

“In low and middle-income countries, more than75 per cent of people withmental, neurological and sub-

stance use disorders receive notreatment for their condition atall,” Tedros noted.

He declared that for thisyear’s World Mental HealthDay, which falls on October 10,the WHO, together with itspartner organizations, Unitedfor Global Mental Health andthe World Federation forMental Health, would call fora massive scale-up in invest-ments in mental health.

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India is on course to have an“approved” vaccine within

the first quarter of next yearand Pune-based SerumInstitute of India (SII), theworld’s largest vaccine manu-facturer by volume, is wellplaced to deliver the first vac-cine, according to a reportfrom Bernstein Research, atop Wall Street research andbrokerage firm.

“Globally, there are fourcandidates that are close to anapproval by the end of 2020 orearly 2021. Through partner-ships India has access to two ofthose - AZ/Oxford’s viral vec-tor vaccine and Novavax’s pro-tein sub-unit vaccine withAZ/Oxford’s vaccine ahead bya quarter,” said the Bernsteinreport, according to a newsagency.

“With their existing capa-bilities and capacities SII isbest positioned to commer-cialise one or both of the part-nered vaccine candidatesdepending on approval tim-ing, capacities and pricing.”

Data from Phase 1 andPhase trials look promising

for both these candidates “interms of safety and the vac-cines ability to elicit animmune response”. The waythings look now, the reportindicates that both vaccinecandidates “will require twodoses to be administered21/28 days apart”.

The SII, the report said,could supply 600 milliondoses in 2021 and 1 billiondoses in 2022, out of which400 to 500 million “should beavailable in India in 2021” inthe context of the company’scommitments to Gavi, TheVaccine Alliance and lowerand middle income markets.

The report estimates thatvaccine volumes will be split55:45 between the

Government and privatemarket.

“We believe theGovernment channel willhave first access to the capac-ities but also believe there willbe a sizable private market. Interms of funding, manpowerand delivery infrastructurethe Government wil l struggle to shoulder the bur-den on its own and we expectthe private market to step inand supplement.”

Apart from SII, the reportlists at least three other Indianpharma companies - Zydus,Bharat Biotech and BiologicalE - which are working ontheir own vaccine candidates and are currentlyin Phase 1 and 2.

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Defence Minister RajnathSingh will formally induct

the newly arrived five Rafalefighter jets into the IAF onSeptember 10. His Frenchcounterpart Florency Parly isalso likely to be part of theevent besides holding bilater-al talks on further enhancingdefence ties between the twocountries.

The first batch of fiveRafale jets, manufactured byFrench aerospace majorDassault Aviation, arrived atthe Ambala air base on July 29.The jets are yet to be formal-ly inducted into the IAF.Defence Minister, Chief ofDefence Staff General BipinRawat and the entire top mil-itary brass of the country willattend the event at the Ambalaair base, sources said here onFriday.

India had signed an inter-governmental agreement withFrance in September 2016

for procurement of 36 Rafalefighter jets at a cost of aroundRs 58,000 crore.

Out of the 36 Rafale jets,30 will be fighter jets and sixwill be trainers. The trainerjets will be twin-seater andthey will have almost all thefeatures of the fighter jets.While the first squadron ofthe Rafale jets will be sta-tioned at the Ambala air base,the second one will be basedat the Hasimara base in WestBengal. All the 36 jets will bein the IAF by 2022.

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The next edition of theprestigious international aero-space exhibition ‘Aero India2021’ will be held at its tradi-tional venue Bengaluru. Theevent will be held fromFebruary 3-5, sources saidhere. The Defence Ministrytook the decision to hold thebiennial event as scheduledfollowing inputs from thedomestic defence industry and global aerospacemajors.

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Despite coronavirus pan-demic and incessant rain-

fall, farmers have sowed kharifcrop in an area of 1082.22 lakhhectare which is more than the1009.98 lakh hactare of thecorresponding period of lastyear. There has also been asubstantial increase in planti-

ng of paddy in many Statesthat received bountiful rains sofar. This is despite dozens ofStates reeling under floods.

According to the IndiaMeteorological Department’s(IMD) latest forecast, Indiawitnessed 9 percent more rain-fall so far this monsoon sea-son. It has received749.6 mmrainfall as against the normal

of 689.4 mm. As per theMinistry of Agriculture’s datareleased on Friday, the kharifcrops areas acreage went by7.15 percent so far while kharifplantation is still going on inseveral parts of the country.

The data showed that thetotal area under paddy so faris 389.81 lakh hectares, near-ly 35.40 lakh hectare more

than the 354.41lakh hectarescovered in the same week lastyear. There has been a sub-stantial increase in planting ofpaddy in many States likeTelangana, which has sownpaddy over an additional 10.06lakh hectare, Madhya Pradesh(5.23 lakh hectare), Bihar (5.22lakh hectare) and Jharkhand(5.05 lakh hectare).

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India on Friday breached itsown previous day record of

single-day spike of over 75,000cases, by registering anunprecedented 77,266 freshcoronavirus infections in 24hours, taking the Covid-19tally to 33,87,500. As the testrate has increased, the coun-try has now added almost 4lakh cases in five days. In fact,India’s journey to over 33lakh cases took precisely sixmonths and 28 days since theemergence of the first case inthe country on January 30.

The toll surpassed 60,000to touch 61,529 mark with1,057 more fatalities on Friday,said the Union HealthMinistry. India though thethird worst-hit at present,after the US and Brazil, hasbeen reporting the highestnumber of daily coronaviruscases in the world for the lastthree weeks. No other coun-try has reported such contin-ued surge since the pandem-ic surfaced in China’s Wuhancity in December 2019.

The recovery rate in Indiawas recorded at 76.28 percent, while the Covid-19 casefatality rate has furtherdeclined to 1.82 per cent.

There are 7,42,023 activecases of coronavirus infec-tion in the country whichcomprises 21.90 per cent ofthe total caseload, the datastated. India’s Covid-19 tallyhad crossed the 20-lakhmark on August 7 and wentpast 30 lakh on August 23.On July 17, the country hadlogged 10 lakh cases, whichthen doubled in 20 days onAugust 7, and added anoth-er 10 lakh on August 23.According to the ICMR, acumulat ive tota l of3,94,77,848 samples havebeen tested up to August 27with 9,01,338 samples beingtested on Thursday.

In India the fatality rate,which is the proportion ofpeople who die from the dis-ease among individuals diag-nosed, has dropped to 1.81per cent, the Health Ministrysaid. The positivity rate,which is the percentage ofsamples coming out to bepositive out of the tests con-ducted, stands at 8.5 per cent.

The overall number ofglobal coronavirus cases hastopped 2 crore 43 lakh, whilethe deaths have increased toover 8,29,000, according toJohns Hopkins University.

The US accounted forthe world’s highest numberof cases and deaths at58 ,63 ,363 and 1 ,80 ,595respectively. Brazil came inthe second place with37,61,391 infections and1,18,649 deaths.

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Veteran Gandhian and anti-corruption crusader Anna

Hazare on Friday rejected DelhiBharatiya Janata Party (BJP)president Adesh Gupta’s recentinvitation to come and launch anagitation against the AamAadmi PartyGovernment alongthe lines of a Lokpal agitation heundertook in 2011.

Reacting to a statementissued recently by Gupta to themedia inviting Hazare to co-operate with the BJP by comingto the national capital andlaunching an agitation like theLokpal stir he had undertakenin 2011, Hazare said:,“I felt badreading your letter. YourBharatiya Janata Party has beenruling the country for the pastsix years. Your party has a max-imum number of youths asmembers. Your party claims asthe biggest party in the worldthat has a largest number ofmembers”

“Anna Hazare is an 83-year-old man who lives in a 10 feetX 12 feet room located in a tem-ple. He does not have money.Nor does he have property orpower. It is rather unfortunatethat you are calling such a manto launch an agitation in thenational capital against the AAPgovernment,” Hazare wrote inhis letter.

“You have your govern-

ment at the Centre. Many of thematters relating to the Delhi gov-ernment come under thepurview of your government.You have CBI, ED, Vigilance andthe Delhi police are under yourcontrol. The Prime Ministerrepeatedly claims that the Centreis taking stringent steps to elim-inate corruption in the country.That being the case, if it thinksthat the Delhi government hasindulged in corruption, why isthe BJP-led government notacting against the ArvindKejriwal government? Or is itsclaim of eliminating corruptionfailed,?, Hazare asked.

Hazare said that he hadundertaken the Lokpal agitationin 2011 as the people across thecountry were fed up with ram-pant corruption prevalent in thecountry. There was unrest in thecountry.

“At this juncture, I do not seeany political party capable of giv-ing a good future to the peoplein the country. What we are wit-nessing a vicious cycle which isbased on the premises powerspawns money and moneyspawns power. Irrespective ofwhich party is in power, youcannot expect a transformationas long as there is a change in thesystem. People will not get relief.That being the case, my comingto Delhi will not make much ofa difference. That is my firmmoney,” Hazare said.

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The Central IndustrialSecurity Force (CISF) has

created an in-house mobileapp “Pensioners Corner” onandroid platform for pen-sioners of the Force.

The latest digital initiativehas been undertaken underthe guidance of CISF DirectorGeneral Rajesh Ranjan andthe app will help the Force toget in touch with the pen-sioners and to bring them onto the digital platform.

“Pensioners Corner willbe available in both web andandroid platforms with thefacility for pensioners toaccess their data on the move.With the launch of this newdigital initiative, pensionerswill get connected to the CISFunits spread across the geo-graphical stretch of the coun-try. SMS invitations will besent to pensioners on impor-tant occasions happening inthe nearest CISF unit,” theCISF said in a statement onFriday.

Apart from an inbuiltgrievance redressal mecha-nism, all important circularslike job opportunities andbenefits pertaining to pen-sioners can also be accessedusing this App.

To tackle the unforeseenCovid situation and ensure thecontinuity of the functions inthe offices, CISF had recent-ly also launched web applica-tion “e-Karyalay”.

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Taiwan has been at thecentre of a global supplychain in recent monthsnot only for its effectiveresponse in handling the

Coronavirus pandemic but alsofor providing medical aid to othercountries and helping them fight thevirus. Simultaneously, there hasbeen increased military and defenceengagement between Taipei andWashington, DC, even as China isincreasingly heaving down on theformer.

Taiwan has also gainedunprecedented attention in India’sforeign policy discourse during thepandemic period. Several expertshave advocated enhanced bilateralties as part of India’s comprehensivestrategy to deal with China, follow-ing the recent military clash betweenthe two countries in eastern Ladakh.Even two BJP MPs — MeenakshiLekhi and Rahul Kaswan — attend-ed Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s swearing-in ceremonythrough video conference in May,indicating a change in the ModiGovernment’s approach.

However, the idea of expandingbilateral relations with Taiwan is notnew. In fact, domestic, regional andglobal factors had led the NarasimhaRao Government to establish an“unofficial relationship” in the1990s, with the establishment of theIndia-Taipei Association (ITA).Ever since, the relationship betweenthe two nations has seen very lim-ited cooperation. But recent devel-opments have underscored theneed for India and Taiwan to trans-form their “unofficial engagement”into a comprehensive partnership.

In doing so, it is imperative forNew Delhi and Taipei to identifytheir shared strategic, economic,regional and other interests as alsocommon means to achieve theirgoals. One such shared interest is,of course, to deal with China’sassertive posturing effectively. Therecent border standoff between theIndian and Chinese armies in east-ern Ladakh once again under-scored the fact that deception anddenial have been the hallmark ofChina’s India policy. Thus, as Indiacontinues to explore diplomatic,political and other channels torestore status quo ante along theborder, New Delhi must also weighin other options to fight back theChinese threat.

While the China factor isresponsible for the transformedrelations between India and the US,

improved ties with Taiwan can beequally beneficial for us. This canbe gauged from the fact thatTaiwan also faces an existentialthreat from the Chinese. More so,it has a better understanding ofChina’s strategic depth because ofits proximity to it. Both nationsalso share linguistic and cultur-al ties. Indeed, Taipei can helpNew Delhi comprehend China’sstrategic thinking in a better way.But for this to happen, Indianeeds to foster military andsecurity engagement at theGovernment level and increaseinteraction between think-tankson both sides.

With Taiwan and Indiabeing the two strong pillars of theTrump administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy, India can take astep ahead to include Taiwan inthe Quadrilateral SecurityDialogue, which now consists ofthe US, Japan, India andAustralia. This move will helpIndia strengthen its counter-Chinese strategy and at the sametime boost Taiwan’s independentidentity. It will also help it ensurethe freedom of navigation in theSouth China Sea through which50 per cent of India’s trade takesplace. At the same time, Indiaalso has an interest in ensuringthe uninterrupted exploration ofoil and gas in the said region.

Ties with Taiwan shouldnot be solely viewed throughChina’s lens. Sure, the econom-ic relationship has been thelynchpin of the unofficial rela-

tionship between India andTaiwan, with the volume of bilat-eral trade having reached to$7.5 billion in 2019. In fact, sev-eral initiatives have been taken toinstitutionalise the economicrelationship between the twosides. In 2014, the IndiaElectronics and SemiconductorAssociation and the TaipeiComputer Association signed amemorandum to promote localmanufacturing in the field ofsemiconductors and electronics.In August 2015, Hon HaiPrecision Industry Co, alsoknown as Foxconn, one of thelargest hardware manufacturersin the world, announced aninvestment of $5 billion in India.

The first Taiwan Expo washeld at Pragati Maidan, NewDelhi, from May 17 to May 19.The Institute for InformationIndustry has joined India’s Centerof Excellence in Wireless andInformation Technology todevelop 4G broadband wirelesstechnologies and other products.Over the past 10 years, Acer, D-Link Corp and Transcend haveinvested about $1 billion in Indiaand China Synthetic Rubber hasexpressed its desire to investabout $330 million in the Stateof Andhra Pradesh. Further,China Steel has also proposed tomake a $180 million investmentin India. CPC Corp, Taiwan, hasproposed a $6 billion investmentin India, which would surelyboost the Make in India pro-gramme in the petrochemical

industry.Despite these investments,

it is true that the two sides are stillfar off from realising the fullpotential of economic coopera-tion. It will be in India’s interestto expand economic and socio-cultural ties. Given its expertisein the fields of hardware manu-facturing, construction, infra-structure, mine exploration, elec-tronic manufacturing, logistics,automobiles, food processingand others, such avenues must beutilised optimally. Taiwan canplay a vital role in the success ofthe Modi Government’s Make inIndia, Digital India and SkillIndia initiatives. It is also a hubof high-tech manufacturing.

Similarly, India, too, shouldexplore the possibility of coop-eration in the fields of artificialintelligence and medical equip-ment. In fact, Taiwan hasreceived global appreciation forsuccessfully controlling the pan-demic.

New Delhi and Taipei needto institutionalise their cooper-ation in the technology sector soas to achieve their shared inter-ests. At the same time, by provid-ing a big market, India can sig-nificantly reduce the deepeningeconomic ties between Chinaand Taiwan, a stated goal of theTsai administration as part of herNew Southbound Policy.Meanwhile, with the use ofTaiwan’s agro-technology, Indiacould transform its agriculturesector as well. Since the Modi

Government has attached hugeimportance to soft diplomacy aspart of India’s foreign policy toachieve its national interests,promoting tourism with Taiwancould also be an attractive way ofcementing ties between the twonations, given that Buddhism isthe religion of the majority ofTaiwanese and India is its home-land.

As the Indian Governmenthas decided to review local chap-ters of Confucius institutes inIndia, agreements betweenIndian and Chinese institutes asalso several MoUs regarding theChinese language programme,New Delhi can strengthen tieswith Taiwan to run the Chineselanguage programme in thecountry. But these efforts wouldbe more effective in cementingties between the two sides onlywhen the Indian leadershipdecides to institutionalise therelationship in an effective form.In this regard, India can take acue from the US’ adherence toimproving ties with Taiwan,despite accepting the “One ChinaPolicy.” It remains to be seen ifIndia and Taiwan succeed intransforming their bilateral coop-eration or the relationship con-tinues to be hostage to the shad-ow of the Dragon.

(SP Shahi is principal, ANCollege, Patna and Sumit Kumaris ICSSR Post-Doctoral Fellow,New Delhi, and former TaiwanFellow, National ChengchiUniversity, Taipei)

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Sir — This refers to the edito-rial, “Strapped for cash” (August28). The Reserve Bank of India’sbleak report on the state of theeconomy only reinforces thatthe COVID relief package hasproved hollow. In this huge dis-ruption to the supply-demandequilibrium, normal financialtools alone are inadequate.Borrowing becomes a must toaddress the health interventioncosts of the virus and for sus-taining an idle economythrough the downturn. Thepost-COVID era belongs toinnovative economies that arecommitted to growth and notshackled by fiscal purity.

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Sir — This refers to the article,“Rot within, threats without”(August 28) by Ajoy Kumar.Media and psychic violencehave brought out the sad state ofaffairs in a world which wasonce the hallmark of the truth,but has now become a mediumof promoting and reporting

anything but truth just for TRPs. The owners and anchors of

prominent media channels seemto be guided by political and reli-gious leanings that have plunged

their respectability to a newlow. The media coverage of theSushant Singh Rajput case is allbut repulsive. Television chan-nels are now airing “never-

before-seen” pictures of theactor’s lifeless body, interviewingRhea Chakraborty’s watchmanand deciphering her WhatsAppchats. The so-called “exclusives”

have taken an even uglier turn.The Indian media has hit an all-time new low. This is not whatwas expected of the fourth pil-lar of democracy.

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Sir — This refers to the editor-ial, “Strapped for cash” (August28). It seems the stage is set fora major confrontation betweenthe Centre and the States overgoods and services tax (GST)compensation. The Governmenthas made it clear that in the cur-rent scenario, it is impossible forit to compensate the States. Onthe other hand, State leadershave contended that the Unionis legally bound to send themoney. Putting the blame-gameaside, what is needed right nowis that the Government mustborrow more. The Reserve Bankof India, too, must work withStates to help them raise moneyto compensate for a shortfall inGST collections.

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When patriarchy in the Koraga tribe, a tra-ditionally matrilineal society, began tomanifest itself in myriad ways, including

domestic violence, it sparked a quiet revolutionamong the women. Instead of waiting for someoneelse to make the difference, the women decided totake matters into their own hands. It was theircourage to question the personal laws of the com-munity and demand concrete mechanisms to dealwith the problem of violence that led to the insti-tution of a community court. With the court mem-bers being chosen by the community after beingtrained and vetted by the district legal aid author-ity, the women were satisfied that justice would bedone to reinforce the gender equality that tradition-ally existed in the matrilineal system.

It was this resurgence of women against the dis-regard of matrilineal values that gave those impact-ed by violence the self-assurance to plead their casesbefore the court. The collectivisation also reaffirmedself-belief in many women that they always had theright to take their own decisions. This is whenManjula realised that she had not done herself anygood by keeping quiet about the mental and phys-ical torture by her husband. The support of otherwomen gave Manjula the confidence to finally leaveher violent husband. She has remarried since thenand is happy she was able to take the decision tochange her life.

In fact, when the going gets tough, it is theKoraga women who get going. This is exactly whatMamta Koraga did when she saw her husband slid-ing into indebtedness and poverty because of hisalcoholism. Although alcoholism is a common prob-lem among men of this Karnataka-based particu-larly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG), Mamtadecided it was time for a change. She encouragedhim to join a de-addiction camp. Mamta came toknow of the camp through an awareness andempowerment campaign run by the KoragaFederation, a community organisation, in collabo-ration with the Samagra Grameena Ashrama andActionAid India, two non-profits working for themarginalised. Then, once he successfully complet-ed the treatment, she joined him in cultivating jas-mine as a livelihood rehabilitation option.

However, Mamta did not stop there. Sheensured that they had equal decision-making pow-ers in keeping with the progressive values of thematrilineal system and also shared householdexpenses. A major part of the profits that her hus-band makes from selling the jasmine is ploughedback into improving cultivation. The rest is con-tributed towards household payments.

Mamta, too, contributes an equal share from theincome that she earns from selling costume jewellery.She used the training given by the Government’sIntegrated Tribal Development Programme tolearn how to make and sell costume jewellery afterthe jasmine cultivation venture stabilised. While apart of her income is earmarked for the household,Mamta deposits the remaining into her bankaccount. With both working and sharing expens-es, the couple no longer needs to take loans to maketwo ends meet.

Assertions of gender equality also came fromyounger girls and women of the community.Susheela always wanted to pursue academics but waspersuaded by her father to agree to marriage.However, when realisation dawned that she would

no longer be able to study if she got mar-ried, Susheela, then a student of Class VIII,called off her engagement. She knew shewould be going against traditional soci-etal norms and the diktat of her father. Butso strong was her aspiration for educationthat she was willing to risk her father’swrath. Her gamble and determinationpaid dividends. As the first girl in her vil-lage to acquire a postgraduate degree,Susheela is a role model for many othergirls in the community. She doesn’t con-sider marriage the ultimate goal. It is pos-sible to be single and happy, she tells othergirls in the community as women in amatrilineal society have freedom of choicein all matters.

Manjula, Mamta and Susheela arepart of larger groups of women who reg-ularly meet to discuss how to preservetheir culture, traditional practices and wayof life, especially within the matrilineal sys-tem. They strategise ways to return to thepractices which valued girls and whichwere an inherent way of life for them.

They want equal representation ofwomen in the Koraga Federation, thenodal organisation comprising commu-nity members that takes key decisions.They see it as one way to sustain theprogress achieved by their campaign forgender equality.

In fact, when Gowri Kenjur was elect-ed the first president of the KoragaFederation, it provided a big fillip to theirmovement. A vocal campaigner, Kenjurpressed for greater participation of womenfrom the community and encouragedthem to stand up for their rights. She moti-vated self-help groups (SHGs), formedwith the assistance of Samagra GrameenaAshrama, to take control of their resourcesand fight for their rights.

So inspired were the groups that whenlocal Government authorities overlooked

their concerns while formulating plans forlocal development, over 42 women SHGmembers staged a sit-in protest. They saton the dharna until the heads of the localGovernment agreed to develop an actionplan in accordance with the suggestionsgiven by the women regarding educationand drinking water for the children.

The torch for gender equality lit byKenjur was carried forward by SushilaNada who became a household name notjust in Nada, her village in Udupi district,but also in all districts in Karnataka wherethe federation works.

This was not just because she was anarticulate and innovative federation pres-ident but also because Nada used her pow-ers to promote gender equality. Concernedthat the traditional matrilineal values ofthe Koragas were being eroded by patri-archal attitudes, Nada organised rallies onevents like Women’s Day and theInternational Day for the Elimination ofViolence against Women to sensitise thecommunity.

She also represented the communi-ty at national and international fora toshare how gender equality was an integralpart of their matrilineal system. TheKoragas celebrate the birth of a girl childunlike the practice in other parts of India,including the Koragas’ home State ofKarnataka, where girls are usually killedbefore birth because of the preference fora son. In fact, in Karnataka, the sex ratioat birth declined by 108 points between2007-2016 according to the Office of theRegistrar-General of India.

Incidentally, the sex ratio forScheduled Tribes in Karnataka is 990females per 1,000 males, which is higherthan the national average of 964 forScheduled Tribes as well as the State over-all average of 973 girls per 1,000 boys.

Another big difference is that there is

no system of dowry among the Koragas.So no Koraga woman was killed for bring-ing a poor dowry or for the lack of it. Infact, being a matrilineal society, the girldid not leave her natal home to live in hermarital home after marriage. It was herhusband who left his house to live withher. This system gave Koraga women eco-nomic and social empowerment.

However, the Koragas are the mostbackward of all tribal groups in southernIndia. Nada and the federation havefought hard for the restoration of prideamong the community and to end thepractice of anjalu in which Koragas are fedleftovers by upper castes to ward off evilspirits.

Plus, being considered untouchablemeant that Koraga children were deniedadmission to Anganwadis. Awarenesscampaigns by Nada, also an Anganwadiworker, and the federation, facilitated theentry of Koraga children to Anganwadis.Mamta Koraga was among the first tosend her daughter to the Anganwadi inher village. Although her daughter was theonly Koraga child there, she didn’t haveto face any discrimination thanks to theenabling environment created by womenof the community. Even older women whohad dropped out of school because of dis-crimination have been inspired to restarttheir education.

What makes their movement laudableis that even while pushing for genderequality within, the Koraga women havebeen equally vociferous in drawingGovernment attention to the plight of theentire community. They have been at theforefront of the community’s struggles toreclaim their right to traditional land, evencourting arrest by the police. They are thetrue beacons in the fight for gender equal-ity.

(The writer is a senior journalist)

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Cultural diversity is a fact ofmodern life and it exists nowin practically all countries of

the world. In addition to convention-al elements such as race, religion andlanguage, cultural diversity is accen-tuated by new factors, includingglobalisation, the breakdown of thetraditional moral consensus, theemphasis on individual choiceregarding issues like the place of reli-gion in public life, family discipline,relations between parents and chil-dren and so on.

Yet cultural diversity is at the rootof most conflicts, tension and uncer-tainties in the contemporary world.Some have attributed the present“international insecurity” to theclash of civilisations while others

advocate dialogue of religions andcultures to prevent such conflicts andbitterness. In 2001, the UnitedNations General Assembly (UNGA)adopted the Global Agenda forDialogue among Civilisations and theUnited Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organisation(UNESCO) endorsed theInternational Declaration on CulturalDiversity.

A common assumption inspiresboth covenants. A multi-culturalsociety needs to find ways andmeans to accommodate diversitywithout losing its cohesiveness andunity. Two approaches are rejected.Assimilation which requires minori-ties to abandon their own distinctiveinstitutions, cultures and values tomerge into the prevailing culture isto be avoided.

This way is sociologically unlike-ly to succeed and is morally unten-able in view of people’s deep adher-ence to normative values such as reli-gion. Similarly, unbounded multi-culturalism, which entails giving upthe concept of shared values andidentity in order to privilege ethnicand religious differences, presumingthat a nation can be replaced by a

number of diverse minorities, isunacceptable. Such a course of actionusually results in undemocratic back-lash, support for extremist parties,populist leaders and anti-minoritypolicies. It is morally unjustified asit does not accept the values and insti-tutions upheld by society at large.

Regions that break away fromdemocratic societies hoping toachieve a larger measure of self-gov-ernment are not likely to enhanceself-government and may ratherweaken it.

Cultural pluralism values diver-sity and implements policies of inclu-sion that cater to the requirements ofall groups. The sensitivities of theminorities as well as of the majorityneed attention. Fundamental rightsand fundamental freedoms of all areto be protected. The rights of theweaker sections are particularlyimportant in a society that respectscultural pluralism.

Inter-cultural dialogue is neces-sary both at the national and at theglobal levels so that contentiousissues are resolved amicably. Themore a nation harmonises differencesat home, the greater is its ability tocontribute to dialogue at the interna-

tional level. The stronger the coop-eration and goodwill among nations,the lesser the need to spend hugeresources on arms and militarystrategies.

Education has a crucial role toplay in providing ethical and spiri-tual value systems that facilitateunderstanding of other cultures andcivilisations. The UNESCOConstitution begins with the words,“Since wars begin in the minds ofmen, it is in the minds of men thatthe defences of peace must be con-structed.”

Education ought to promote tol-erance, respect for diversity andfriendship among peoples andnations. Educational institutionsmust be provided with a learningenvironment which contributes totolerance, understanding and respectfor diversity. They should be protect-ed from teachings that promoteextremism, intolerance and violence.

The State of Goa has made sig-nificant progress in the field of edu-cation over the last 50 years. This ismainly due to Government-aidedand private institutions. Governmentschools themselves are in anappalling condition. Attendance at

several Government primary schoolswhich I visited over the last few yearswas almost 100 per cent but in thecircumstances in which most ofthem function, there is not muchlearning to be done.

Four classes are often taughtsimultaneously in one classroomand in some cases, eight classes intwo languages. There are no black-boards or they are not repaired. Ricebags (for the mid-day meal), discard-ed furniture, school record and so onare all bundled together in the sameclassroom along with the children.

The teachers in Governmentschools are as hard-working and thestudents are as bright and intelligentas their counterparts in privateschools. What is lacking is the min-imum infrastructure. As a result allthose who can afford it enrol theirchildren in private schools.

The children in Governmentprimary schools come from thepoorer sections of society and theirparents are usually illiterate. Thesestudents require special attention buton the contrary they get no attentionat all. Government primary schoolshave suffered from what might becalled a “social attention deficit”, a

sheer lack of attention and concernby the community at large, includingpolicymakers at all levels.

India is home to diverse lan-guages, religions, races and lifestyles.It is a vast country where questionsof unity and diversity interplay. Yet,India emerges with an excellentrecord at managing diversity. Thismakes it possible to survive as anation and to move ahead as thelargest democracy in the world.

The Constitution of Indiaensures that all citizens have equalrights and equal opportunities. Inparticular, the principle of secularismenshrined in our Constitution is thebest method to accommodate reli-gious diversity and could be emulat-ed across the globe.

In a multi-cultural society, theState cannot be identified with anyreligious or cultural group and itshould either be neutral or even-handed in its approach to all suchgroups. Unity in diversity is the high-est possible civilisational attainment.It is made possible through respectfor choice in an atmosphere of mutu-al trust.

(The writer is a former UnionMinister)

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Script Open High Low LTPIDEA 8.93 10.43 8.93 10.10INDUSINDBK 600.70 666.10 595.45 656.60ICICIBANK 394.00 411.65 393.25 409.75SFL 1356.35 1399.00 1353.40 1379.80SBIN 216.50 225.90 216.50 224.85AXISBANK 475.10 512.95 475.10 509.60TATAMOTORS 143.25 146.15 137.00 142.70RELIANCE 2120.00 2131.90 2106.20 2115.60SUNPHARMA* 538.95 564.90 534.70 555.80FRETAIL 134.90 140.35 132.00 135.25BAJFINANCE 3655.00 3687.60 3617.25 3672.25HDFCBANK 1111.95 1124.95 1095.05 1115.00ISEC 491.10 508.15 482.00 492.00ZEEL 211.00 218.50 211.00 213.80HINDUNILVR 2175.00 2180.00 2146.00 2152.15SRTRANSFIN 725.05 783.80 725.05 772.10BHEL 40.15 42.10 40.10 41.65PVR 1355.00 1468.90 1341.85 1446.65BANDHANBNK 314.00 327.00 313.05 319.90HAL 983.60 1034.00 980.20 1010.85RBLBANK 204.00 214.00 202.55 210.60TATASTEEL 429.80 437.90 423.10 424.10PAGEIND 20647.40 20647.40 19971.25 20110.10KOTAKBANK 1410.00 1474.00 1401.55 1467.70BHARTIARTL 513.80 529.50 511.55 523.55FEDERALBNK 56.50 61.15 56.40 60.45PEL 1534.00 1562.00 1503.50 1510.80JINDALSTEL 217.50 225.30 215.70 216.25IBULHSGFIN 222.50 229.45 221.70 223.95NMDC 100.30 108.90 99.80 107.50DLF 176.00 179.60 172.10 172.95GMRINFRA 28.25 28.25 25.40 25.70SBICARD 825.70 845.00 824.45 838.20LT 989.00 1004.40 978.60 981.80CANBK 106.80 115.75 106.05 114.80BANKBARODA 49.00 52.20 49.00 51.65MARUTI 7107.00 7155.25 7030.00 7098.90GRASIM 687.00 717.00 684.50 700.70VEDL 128.00 131.00 127.75 128.80ULTRACEMCO 4032.05 4088.35 4032.05 4062.45TATAMTRDVR 55.40 55.40 52.25 53.35DRREDDY 4460.00 4466.55 4361.15 4374.35ADANIENT 289.00 295.45 286.55 288.25TCS 2265.00 2280.00 2234.50 2237.10HCLTECH 711.10 716.60 703.65 705.80SUNTV 487.00 487.00 475.30 476.85DISHTV 12.62 12.62 11.42 11.66CIPLA 760.00 771.00 747.10 748.80AMBUJACEM 223.00 225.00 220.50 222.20UPL 497.05 521.00 497.05 519.25PNB 35.50 37.40 35.50 37.05INFRATEL 199.00 213.65 199.00 201.40STAR 647.00 647.00 620.00 623.55INFY 950.10 951.90 933.10 934.85CHOLAFIN 242.00 258.90 240.75 249.75ITC 194.80 196.25 194.10 195.55HEROMOTOCO 3137.00 3164.10 3053.00 3059.35TATAELXSI 1165.00 1170.35 1131.10 1138.40M&M 640.50 647.00 629.10 631.20EICHERMOT 2240.00 2255.00 2200.00 2212.80HDFC 1875.00 1889.00 1863.30 1882.40ONGC 80.20 81.80 80.05 80.30MINDTREE 1155.00 1197.45 1155.00 1184.55LICHSGFIN 305.10 318.80 305.10 314.30M&MFIN 141.95 146.75 141.95 143.65DMART 2365.30 2379.80 2301.00 2320.05ADANIPORTS 355.00 362.90 348.60 359.60IOC 87.40 88.95 87.40 87.80IDFCFIRSTB 32.20 33.95 32.10 33.65TORNTPHARM 2735.00 2767.90 2703.00 2705.80BPCL 415.00 422.25 413.55 414.95LAURUSLABS 1195.00 1203.20 1156.75 1164.15HDFCLIFE 598.10 603.40 588.60 589.45ADANIGREEN 434.25 472.00 434.25 462.15BATAINDIA 1354.15 1371.60 1331.00 1340.35JSWSTEEL 285.70 289.60 280.00 280.70BAJAJFINSV 6571.00 6646.55 6512.10 6544.20ASHOKLEY 72.55 73.25 70.25 70.50MANAPPURAM 155.00 157.55 154.75 156.65JUBLFOOD 2174.00 2182.70 2131.50 2170.15DIVISLAB 3274.00 3378.65 3258.75 3271.55TATACONSUM 550.00 555.45 544.00 547.10SAIL 41.35 43.15 40.55 40.95HINDPETRO 210.00 212.15 209.30 209.60ASIANPAINT 1996.00 1997.95 1954.35 1957.70TECHM 737.10 758.05 737.10 752.25VENKYS 1435.00 1549.00 1435.00 1501.75INOXLEISUR 294.00 306.50 293.80 303.95L&TFH 71.60 72.95 71.30 71.55FCONSUMER 11.48 11.48 11.10 11.48NAUKRI 3285.50 3404.70 3275.20 3388.85ESCORTS 1158.00 1171.00 1132.65 1141.50ZENSARTECH 184.00 184.00 170.00 176.30SBILIFE 845.80 858.50 843.00 851.60BHARATFORG 521.00 522.00 499.45 502.05INDIACEM 122.00 124.35 120.80 121.60BRITANNIA 3820.00 3825.00 3786.70 3792.60IGL 408.55 412.75 404.65 410.95NHPC 22.55 23.40 22.45 22.70INDIGO 1196.00 1207.50 1177.50 1183.80ICICIPRULI 447.15 460.40 447.15 451.25INDHOTEL 107.00 112.35 105.10 108.80SPARC 184.50 195.45 182.80 190.15CADILAHC 388.15 393.80 387.65 388.65ATUL 6398.00 6441.40 6064.00 6215.75AUROPHARMA 881.10 885.15 867.00 868.45MUTHOOTFIN 1196.40 1229.00 1196.00 1208.85DEEPAKNI 764.00 767.90 745.00 747.55

ADANITRANS 283.80 287.60 272.90 275.15CONCOR 392.00 412.75 392.00 409.35IRCTC 1369.95 1378.00 1363.10 1366.90BLUEDART 2187.95 2291.55 2158.00 2250.25LUPIN 987.70 991.40 972.10 976.55PETRONET 243.00 249.95 243.00 249.15SOUTHBANK 7.41 7.89 7.41 7.61NESTLEIND 16350.00 16365.70 16090.00 16104.45AVANTI 563.95 575.00 555.25 558.95TATAPOWER 62.45 62.45 60.30 61.15FORCEMOT 1062.00 1185.00 1057.00 1163.15BEL 113.50 114.80 110.80 112.05UJJIVAN 252.00 270.90 252.00 267.05OFSS 3070.55 3071.10 3000.25 3041.10ICICIGI 1277.60 1300.35 1277.60 1284.25AUBANK 730.00 761.65 730.00 736.30COALINDIA 141.35 142.35 138.75 139.00AFFLE 2656.40 2700.00 2656.40 2656.40UBL 1040.20 1061.45 1032.40 1040.10NTPC 103.40 104.25 101.30 101.50RECLTD 110.80 113.55 109.35 111.60GLENMARK 497.00 501.70 491.00 493.50BANKINDIA 50.00 53.40 50.00 52.55MFSL 614.65 614.65 587.95 598.30

APOLLOTYRE 136.90 137.90 132.70 133.60MRF 59500.00 61418.50 59150.35 59611.85MOTHERSUMI 117.00 119.30 116.40 116.65TATACHEM 330.70 336.15 326.20 328.00CUB 140.00 152.05 139.50 150.40PIDILITIND 1480.00 1480.05 1442.45 1446.00GODFRYPHLP 1034.00 1036.00 998.60 1001.45DIXON 8700.00 8821.85 8290.00 8310.60NOCIL 133.75 140.00 132.65 134.70BIOCON 391.50 393.60 388.05 391.30HDFCAMC 2518.95 2522.95 2477.25 2502.35BLISSGVS 158.20 158.40 154.10 155.25TITAN 1151.00 1151.00 1132.00 1134.10CENTURYPLY 160.00 170.25 153.05 158.05BAJAJ-AUTO 3064.00 3064.00 3003.50 3013.10PFC 98.50 101.10 97.75 98.15INDIANB 66.00 70.20 65.95 68.85BEML 711.00 724.85 705.00 711.25DELTACORP* 117.30 120.00 116.20 116.55INTELLECT 201.90 201.90 194.20 201.90REPCOHOME 184.70 186.60 183.40 186.60ITI 143.00 143.40 136.70 137.65GAIL 100.00 100.55 98.80 99.05MGL 995.00 1003.80 987.50 992.25GODREJPROP 901.25 919.75 895.00 902.70AARTIIND 1127.75 1139.00 1080.10 1086.95DCBBANK 91.10 95.50 91.10 94.50TVSMOTOR 460.00 462.90 448.70 449.50CAPPL 565.00 568.00 530.10 546.75HINDALCO 195.00 196.15 192.90 193.70POWERINDIA 998.10 998.10 882.00 956.55WIPRO 274.05 274.95 271.50 271.95MCX 1668.00 1698.85 1652.45 1692.00HAVELLS 655.90 659.25 637.35 639.25GUJALKALI 376.50 387.65 365.30 378.25ADANIGAS 186.75 190.45 183.50 186.65COROMANDEL 805.00 830.75 801.95 812.85RAYMOND 308.35 312.00 301.00 304.55EXIDEIND 176.15 178.45 171.40 172.25CENTURYTEX 372.00 372.00 359.55 362.65COLPAL 1419.00 1419.00 1388.50 1390.75BDL 425.70 436.40 422.00 424.70FSL 64.60 65.95 64.10 65.15BALKRISIND 1390.00 1413.05 1375.70 1380.25DABUR 493.50 496.00 487.70 488.95SIEMENS 1216.50 1236.80 1216.50 1220.55RAMCOCEM 720.00 724.30 714.00 719.00APOLLOHOSP 1651.00 1677.00 1648.85 1662.30ACC 1411.00 1440.00 1391.35 1395.90EQUITAS 56.25 58.80 56.10 57.90BERGEPAINT 558.00 568.60 557.00 564.00POWERGRID 185.70 186.30 181.90 182.30HEG 895.00 906.30 867.00 874.70UNIONBANK 30.55 31.85 30.55 31.35VOLTAS 668.00 669.50 659.45 661.90SRF 4265.70 4275.00 4211.15 4222.70SHREECEM 21999.95 21999.95 21010.00 21294.60ASTRAL 1143.80 1235.90 1138.00 1174.55GRANULES 312.75 315.60 308.10 309.30RAIN 122.95 123.65 118.25 119.15INDIAMART 3785.00 3785.00 3500.00 3536.00SUZLON 3.94 3.94 3.80 3.84PNBHOUSING 303.00 309.35 299.35 301.80BBTC 1525.00 1539.35 1475.00 1484.60SUNTECK 276.40 284.75 275.85 279.15WELSPUNIND 57.30 57.30 56.10 57.30CYIENT 395.45 408.70 394.30 400.95

GODREJCP 683.50 685.75 669.85 670.85RELAXO 640.20 669.20 639.05 660.10LTI 2500.05 2530.00 2500.00 2519.05GICRE 159.25 161.80 151.05 154.45HINDZINC 238.70 238.95 227.60 228.85CREDITACC 659.00 700.00 659.00 696.65RALLIS 315.20 323.05 311.60 314.05CEATLTD 937.30 949.50 926.30 937.55MEGH 75.15 75.85 71.30 72.50JUBILANT 840.35 840.35 812.25 814.90PIIND 1995.05 2000.00 1960.00 1965.05IDFC 28.80 30.20 28.80 29.55ABB 974.35 993.00 974.35 985.35ABCAPITAL 64.35 66.95 64.35 64.75APLLTD 1014.80 1018.85 985.25 989.10RADICO 424.10 429.30 405.00 412.25CANFINHOME 384.65 392.35 384.65 387.75MAHABANK 14.00 14.65 13.95 14.16NAM-INDIA 292.55 294.15 284.30 286.40ABFRL 148.00 149.50 143.00 143.55WOCKPHARMA 332.00 336.60 327.50 329.00CUMMINSIND 472.00 474.55 465.15 471.55JUSTDIAL 378.15 381.65 375.00 375.90IDBI 41.65 42.25 41.30 41.55KEI 410.00 421.90 407.90 414.50ALKEM 2875.55 2890.00 2850.00 2871.60PHILIPCARB 124.90 126.05 121.30 121.75SPANDANA 619.45 656.85 610.00 639.50JAICORPLTD 101.00 101.25 97.80 98.25ASTRAZEN 3550.00 3641.00 3544.95 3614.90AMARAJABAT 745.00 752.55 732.50 735.55BOMDYEING 75.75 76.45 72.70 73.05HEXAWARE 421.00 423.40 405.00 406.70BAJAJHLDNG 2890.00 2890.00 2763.00 2781.40WHIRLPOOL 2208.40 2238.80 2142.00 2176.65CGCL 233.85 234.40 222.85 224.05EDELWEISS 86.50 86.50 82.45 84.30MOIL 150.00 159.10 150.00 153.20JKPAPER* 98.60 100.65 98.50 98.75JAGRAN 44.10 44.10 41.55 41.80NCC 36.35 36.90 36.30 36.40BOSCHLTD 14200.00 14283.30 13975.00 14006.85IIFL 91.55 93.65 90.00 91.05PHOENIXLTD 652.90 654.35 644.10 651.00GNFC 224.00 225.00 217.90 219.20SPICEJET 52.60 52.80 52.10 52.35SOBHA 274.90 275.50 265.95 267.45EIHOTEL 92.05 94.90 92.05 93.45STRTECH* 168.20 168.85 159.00 159.65COFORGE 1956.45 2021.55 1945.50 1995.10GRAPHITE 208.10 209.70 202.05 202.80WABAG 211.00 215.00 206.50 207.85IBREALEST 71.20 71.35 69.15 69.50NATIONALUM 37.10 38.05 37.10 37.55J&KBANK 18.90 20.25 18.90 19.60BSOFT 175.00 176.80 171.20 172.65AJANTPHARM 1590.00 1590.00 1554.45 1569.80MIDHANI 228.75 230.60 221.20 221.75SJVN 26.00 26.00 24.55 24.80FDC 339.40 340.00 324.40 328.80DEEPAKFERT 179.95 182.40 173.25 174.90KTKBANK 48.45 49.55 48.15 48.65VGUARD 179.90 179.90 174.30 175.25FLUOROCHEM 526.70 571.25 511.20 550.15OBEROIRLTY 393.00 418.00 391.55 413.50MARICO 375.90 376.10 372.10 373.80BAJAJELEC 526.05 531.25 512.35 522.05POLYCAB 918.40 920.75 896.50 900.00JSWENERGY 55.90 56.75 55.25 56.00SWANENERGY 134.90 135.85 127.80 130.55GREAVESCOT 89.80 90.75 84.90 85.15AEGISLOG 217.90 224.00 215.75 219.55ENGINERSIN 70.95 72.50 70.65 70.75NBCC 28.50 28.75 28.20 28.25NBVENTURES 69.60 70.70 67.00 67.50HONAUT 35250.00 35733.75 33600.00 33864.30TRIDENT 6.84 6.84 6.66 6.71NATCOPHARM 805.00 820.95 798.20 800.05GUJGAS 323.00 327.35 317.60 320.30JSLHISAR 103.00 103.00 96.35 98.70BLUESTARCO 680.55 712.85 670.00 689.45ALKYLAMINE 3445.00 3465.20 3316.40 3326.85HIMATSEIDE 87.00 88.10 82.80 83.80HEIDELBERG 196.00 203.00 194.90 196.20CESC 642.40 652.90 621.65 624.95BALRAMCHIN 159.15 159.15 155.00 155.50HSCL 57.00 57.90 55.30 55.75SUDARSCHEM 471.05 492.00 471.05 473.15AMBER 1822.90 1828.50 1800.10 1819.75ABBOTINDIA 17249.00 17249.00 16774.75 16811.10GODREJIND 437.55 451.80 436.55 448.80SCHAEFFLER 4040.00 4154.25 3878.15 3946.70UCOBANK 13.90 14.30 13.87 13.97CHAMBLFERT 157.25 159.10 153.25 153.60TORNTPOWER 345.00 350.90 343.30 344.10FINOLEXIND 512.00 523.35 510.00 518.00IPCALAB 2026.90 2028.00 1989.90 1995.90FINCABLES 298.00 308.45 292.50 301.60PTC 61.90 62.00 61.25 61.45ADANIPOWER 39.80 39.90 39.05 39.20IRCON 94.00 95.35 94.00 94.60TRENT 647.00 666.35 646.00 651.20WELCORP 113.15 116.90 113.05 113.25OIL 97.50 98.50 96.45 96.80NESCO 601.00 603.85 576.00 582.85TAKE 58.00 58.05 54.80 55.15DCAL 195.00 195.00 184.50 185.40PFIZER 4830.00 4886.40 4706.05 4745.85SONATSOFTW 324.30 326.20 316.05 318.50

MPHASIS 1185.00 1195.40 1156.35 1164.55SHOPERSTOP 189.00 191.70 186.50 189.05GSPL 218.40 218.65 211.80 212.80NAVINFLUOR 2139.00 2145.70 2101.30 2132.60CSBBANK 232.80 245.00 230.20 234.25KALPATPOWR* 277.55 278.55 269.40 271.00HAWKINCOOK 4903.00 4945.00 4899.55 4902.90IRB 130.00 132.75 128.15 128.80ORIENTELEC 205.75 214.05 205.75 207.75BALMLAWRIE 119.80 120.60 118.75 119.05PARAGMILK 118.00 118.00 113.55 113.75ITDC 248.00 265.00 241.85 262.30TATACOFFEE 117.75 118.25 115.10 115.40VIPIND 305.00 306.10 297.45 298.25PCJEWELLER 16.60 17.16 16.45 16.97SHK 86.75 87.75 83.25 84.55CHENNPETRO 83.50 83.50 81.25 81.60VRLLOG 181.55 183.90 172.10 174.55TV18BRDCST 34.25 34.50 33.65 33.80ASHOKA 75.00 75.80 73.10 73.35CARERATING 408.00 420.45 401.45 412.95COCHINSHIP 368.55 370.15 352.50 354.95SUMICHEM 285.70 286.50 283.15 283.80PNCINFRA 170.25 174.00 168.85 169.45CASTROLIND 123.25 123.40 122.20 122.35DHANUKA 853.00 869.00 821.00 827.50LALPATHLAB 1851.00 1889.65 1833.20 1842.35AKZOINDIA 2173.10 2243.00 2107.90 2123.80HFCL 17.39 17.39 16.45 16.53MINDACORP 80.70 81.45 79.30 79.55BAJAJCON 180.00 182.20 178.25 179.20SANOFI 8756.30 8838.80 8562.00 8643.80VTL 823.00 898.20 823.00 888.00FINEORG 2760.00 2794.50 2670.05 2697.15RVNL 21.95 22.20 21.90 22.00BIRLACORPN 643.95 648.25 635.30 642.50PGHL 5075.00 5100.00 4882.00 4982.05KANSAINER 505.00 506.20 481.00 488.35VBL 767.00 767.00 745.85 753.15GMM 6024.75 6024.75 5825.35 5838.75TATACOMM 889.20 889.20 857.95 873.25SHANKARA 406.35 418.40 395.15 397.40CROMPTON 269.90 272.05 267.00 270.05BRIGADE 173.60 185.00 173.60 181.65TIINDIA 627.00 645.00 610.05 640.50BAYERCROP 6150.00 6150.00 6016.00 6020.00GODREJAGRO 490.15 497.65 488.00 490.20ARVINDFASN 158.00 159.30 154.10 155.60HATHWAY 33.80 35.95 33.80 35.25THERMAX 790.00 806.00 784.00 791.20VINATIORGA 1087.05 1106.35 1068.00 1073.95UJJIVANSFB 36.95 37.70 36.55 37.35RCF 49.55 50.70 49.50 49.60HUDCO 38.35 38.40 36.90 37.40SYMPHONY 902.00 924.30 885.00 899.85MAHLOG 356.00 398.00 356.00 387.55PRESTIGE 263.75 266.65 256.15 263.30JINDALSAW 68.25 68.55 66.75 66.85GILLETTE 5699.95 5699.95 5609.00 5636.35KEC 338.40 343.65 331.25 332.95NILKAMAL 1373.55 1414.00 1366.00 1375.10ERIS 534.55 547.75 515.80 517.85TCNSBRANDS 469.00 469.00 438.70 445.75

TIMKEN 1130.00 1149.95 1104.10 1141.60DBL 398.10 411.80 392.00 393.45IEX 192.50 193.30 189.00 192.80SCHNEIDER 88.00 90.75 86.80 87.20FORTIS 135.90 135.95 132.80 133.10IOB 10.91 11.25 10.87 11.03KNRCON 273.60 280.00 267.85 271.10NIACL 120.00 120.40 117.55 117.90GMDCLTD 50.00 51.35 49.70 49.95KAJARIACER 462.10 466.30 450.15 451.20ADVENZYMES 223.70 230.00 215.85 217.45IFCI 7.24 7.34 7.19 7.21PERSISTENT 1062.00 1062.00 1009.45 1015.30JSL 50.40 50.40 47.00 47.30GSFC 71.00 71.30 68.70 68.80MINDAIND 355.40 355.40 339.60 344.90THYROCARE 773.00 773.00 750.00 751.00VARROC 335.20 335.20 320.60 322.10BASF 1600.00 1613.10 1552.95 1562.15SCI 62.50 62.80 61.10 61.65IIFLWAM 1053.65 1095.00 1038.40 1059.05

JKTYRE 63.70 63.70 61.80 61.95ALLCARGO 124.95 126.15 120.50 122.50JBCHEPHARM 795.35 801.00 791.45 799.40PGHH 10123.75 10225.25 10101.00 10133.45JAMNAAUTO 43.05 43.80 41.90 42.45MAHINDCIE 148.50 148.65 143.00 143.40OMAXE 73.50 74.95 72.90 73.15SWSOLAR 278.95 278.95 265.90 267.70UFLEX 354.00 356.55 348.10 349.55APLAPOLLO 2460.35 2476.05 2395.00 2426.85LAOPALA 233.00 236.45 223.50 224.50GALAXYSURF 1859.95 1866.20 1787.60 1828.80CARBORUNIV 274.90 279.60 272.05 274.40QUESS 391.90 392.20 381.20 388.30DALBHARAT* 742.20 756.35 730.00 749.60GHCL 169.50 171.10 159.45 165.65MMTC 19.75 20.25 19.55 19.65GESHIP 281.70 283.00 271.40 271.85EIDPARRY 288.10 294.30 288.10 290.55JYOTHYLAB 150.00 150.60 145.70 147.00ZYDUSWELL 1701.00 1730.95 1676.40 1682.85CRISIL 1849.15 1885.00 1849.15 1862.65HINDCOPPER 38.10 38.80 37.85 38.05KRBL 284.50 289.70 281.00 282.45ENDURANCE 1120.00 1136.45 1096.70 1125.50SIS 407.00 417.75 390.90 391.90INDOSTAR 308.00 311.90 298.75 307.45INFIBEAM 77.30 77.95 76.40 77.25GRSE 215.50 215.85 210.25 213.20GARFIBRES 1979.00 1979.00 1901.00 1912.10MAHSCOOTER 3182.00 3213.15 3107.85 3133.55IFBIND 500.05 516.65 495.80 499.85SYNGENE 491.90 494.20 485.35 488.45TIMETECHNO 46.05 46.05 44.65 44.85JMFINANCIL 81.85 83.65 81.15 81.45NLCINDIA 55.00 55.20 54.35 54.50MASFIN 820.40 893.80 814.70 860.60MAHSEAMLES 238.35 246.05 232.00 238.90CENTRALBK 17.85 18.20 17.80 17.85JKLAKSHMI 284.00 284.00 274.20 275.60MRPL 34.25 34.40 33.40 33.45GLAXO 1590.00 1601.50 1561.00 1582.60LTTS 1533.00 1555.00 1525.00 1534.10SUPREMEIND 1353.95 1353.95 1326.50 1331.20TATAINVEST 844.70 848.70 831.20 833.25ASTERDM 143.40 146.50 140.00 142.20RAJESHEXPO 476.90 476.90 463.90 464.95EMAMILTD 361.70 361.70 352.00 353.00DCMSHRIRAM 392.00 397.05 377.85 380.40RITES 258.10 259.00 253.60 254.20CERA 2599.00 2638.40 2523.50 2562.75SKFINDIA 1669.45 1670.00 1631.70 1650.20CHOLAHLDNG 439.95 447.65 431.30 434.10INDOCO 239.00 247.20 236.50 238.80ESSELPRO 299.75 299.75 292.05 292.55TATAMETALI 570.25 575.20 565.40 566.85JKCEMENT 1548.00 1548.95 1496.70 1501.10ECLERX 782.25 790.00 770.00 771.40METROPOLIS 1849.95 1849.95 1815.05 1832.25VSTIND 3500.00 3500.00 3457.20 3467.20VAIBHAVGBL 1790.90 1790.90 1755.00 1761.90AAVAS 1537.75 1554.50 1515.00 1523.60DBCORP 81.20 82.25 80.80 81.10SOLARINDS 1175.00 1190.00 1144.25 1149.40GDL 95.45 95.60 92.80 93.35PRSMJOHNSN 58.20 59.10 56.50 56.80SOMANYCERA 170.45 171.90 163.65 165.55WESTLIFE 373.25 378.35 371.60 374.10GPPL 83.95 84.50 82.05 82.85LEMONTREE 30.15 30.25 29.85 29.95SUNDRMFAST 478.00 478.45 466.50 469.90JCHAC 2317.20 2329.00 2252.10 2265.75KPITTECH 90.15 92.45 87.70 88.45TNPL 126.50 126.75 125.65 125.95SHRIRAMCIT 960.00 960.00 931.10 940.80JTEKTINDIA 88.80 89.00 83.20 83.90ORIENTCEM 69.05 70.25 69.00 69.15CCL 277.00 277.50 265.50 268.95KPRMILL 575.00 577.00 565.00 566.25VMART 2056.85 2075.00 1982.60 2000.453MINDIA 20985.95 21114.95 20819.80 20884.95GEPIL 492.05 502.00 490.05 493.35TASTYBIT 13089.05 13089.05 12660.15 12695.05MHRIL 172.05 186.90 172.05 183.50TEAMLEASE 2387.20 2402.40 2361.95 2364.65LAXMIMACH 3356.65 3356.65 3258.00 3307.20TCIEXP 836.60 836.60 811.00 814.30NH 334.80 337.55 330.05 333.60GET&D 114.00 114.00 109.10 109.90TVSSRICHAK 1562.30 1573.25 1543.35 1552.70HERITGFOOD 344.90 349.00 342.50 343.20LINDEINDIA 768.80 769.35 745.80 750.50GRINDWELL 525.00 528.40 510.65 516.15REDINGTON 115.00 117.70 115.00 116.00MOTILALOFS* 709.70 723.00 706.25 715.80LUXIND 1369.90 1374.40 1345.80 1363.55SUPRAJIT 190.85 190.85 182.30 183.00MAHLIFE 284.00 284.80 280.10 282.10STARCEMENT 90.90 91.15 89.60 89.95ESABINDIA 1512.20 1512.20 1449.75 1459.35TTKPRESTIG 5875.00 6027.60 5855.85 5948.40NAVNETEDUL 79.05 80.95 79.05 80.45AIAENG 1850.00 1869.25 1820.60 1826.90GULFOILLUB 683.00 684.20 670.00 672.90KSB 552.05 554.60 546.55 547.75TVTODAY 230.80 233.45 230.80 233.05WABCOINDIA 6889.50 6915.85 6864.70 6914.75RATNAMANI 1190.85 1195.35 1164.95 1182.60ORIENTREF 210.00 212.30 205.10 206.55

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 11602.95 11686.05 11589.40 11647.60 88.35INDUSINDBK 600.00 689.00 595.50 677.00 71.15AXISBANK 476.45 513.00 476.05 509.65 36.60UPL 500.00 521.10 498.30 521.00 24.25SBIN 217.00 225.90 216.80 225.40 9.75ICICIBANK 393.90 411.90 392.90 409.50 17.30SUNPHARMA 538.10 564.75 534.75 554.95 22.70KOTAKBANK 1410.00 1474.00 1401.00 1472.55 52.55ADANIPORTS 355.00 363.00 348.50 359.55 9.00TECHM 741.00 758.35 740.00 751.90 16.30BHARTIARTL 512.10 529.55 512.10 522.50 11.35GRASIM 689.95 717.50 684.00 699.90 14.85ZEEL 211.15 218.50 210.85 213.90 4.35INFRATEL 200.00 213.75 199.50 202.60 2.70BAJFINANCE 3650.00 3688.00 3617.05 3672.05 39.55IOC 87.80 89.00 87.40 88.00 0.80HDFC 1871.00 1889.00 1862.80 1881.00 16.90LT 988.00 1004.70 978.20 983.65 8.05ITC 194.60 196.30 194.05 195.85 1.60BPCL 414.50 422.00 413.50 415.50 2.55ULTRACEMCO 4062.00 4088.80 4046.00 4070.00 22.85HDFCBANK 1111.95 1125.00 1095.00 1117.60 5.50ONGC 80.35 81.80 80.00 80.45 0.30RELIANCE 2120.00 2132.90 2106.25 2116.00 5.40BAJAJFINSV 6580.00 6650.00 6515.00 6542.00 11.25MARUTI 7125.00 7156.00 7028.45 7106.60 8.60WIPRO 274.70 275.00 271.30 272.60 0.25NESTLEIND 16156.00 16368.00 16090.00 16110.00 -3.70GAIL 99.40 100.50 98.80 99.15 -0.05TITAN 1148.25 1148.25 1131.60 1135.75 -1.90TCS 2268.40 2279.95 2235.10 2238.25 -10.15HINDALCO 195.10 196.15 193.00 193.90 -1.00BRITANNIA 3819.00 3827.60 3787.00 3797.00 -19.60BAJAJ-AUTO 3044.00 3062.45 3002.00 3025.00 -18.00HCLTECH 713.70 716.65 703.20 705.55 -4.60TATASTEEL 429.65 438.00 423.05 423.90 -2.95SHREECEM 21645.00 21800.00 21251.50 21350.00 -178.00NTPC 103.15 104.25 101.25 101.70 -0.90CIPLA 763.00 771.00 746.70 749.40 -6.80EICHERMOT 2240.00 2256.00 2200.00 2216.00 -20.35COALINDIA 141.10 142.40 138.65 139.10 -1.45TATAMOTORS 144.15 146.20 140.50 142.75 -1.50M&M 642.25 647.00 629.35 630.15 -6.60HINDUNILVR 2179.00 2182.40 2145.00 2148.00 -23.25ASIANPAINT 1994.00 1997.00 1953.30 1961.00 -21.50HDFCLIFE 600.00 603.50 588.15 589.15 -6.90INFY 951.45 952.50 933.05 935.05 -12.00DRREDDY 4460.00 4466.00 4360.80 4374.00 -63.00POWERGRID 186.50 186.75 181.80 182.50 -2.70HEROMOTOCO 3119.05 3164.00 3050.65 3068.15 -73.60JSWSTEEL 285.50 289.75 280.05 281.00 -8.30

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Script Open High Low LTPNIFTY MIDSML 4006,073.60 6,091.70 6,049.75 6,055.75IDEA 8.95 10.45 8.9 10.1SUNDARMFIN 1,504.95 1,680.00 1,492.00 1,652.50VTL 820.8 897.75 820.05 888.9CANBK 106.3 115.9 106.3 114.75FEDERALBNK 56.5 61.15 56.25 60.6IBVENTURES 206.3 218 202.35 216PVR 1,346.00 1,469.25 1,340.90 1,442.00CUB 139.75 152 139.2 149.8BANKINDIA 50.45 53.5 50.1 53.3ITDC 247 265 241.65 261.5UJJIVAN 254 271 254 271ADANIGREEN 436.1 472.5 436 461BHEL 40.25 42.1 40.1 41.65CREDITACC 660 700 660 696OBEROIRLTY 391.7 418 390.2 416MASFIN 818.6 893 812 864IDFCFIRSTB 32 33.95 32 33.65SPANDANA 611 658 609.55 641MAHLOG 363 398 363 384VENKEYS 1,439.00 1,550.00 1,432.70 1,503.00INTELLECT 201.75 201.75 194 201.75REPCOHOME 186.45 186.45 183.45 186.45WELSPUNIND 57.3 57.3 56.15 57.3FCONSUMER 11.45 11.45 11.1 11.45INDIANB 66.25 70.2 66 68.75FLUOROCHEM 525 571.5 525 547RBLBANK 203.8 214 203.5 211.65J&KBANK 19.05 20.3 18.95 19.6SPARC 183.7 195.45 182.8 190.1IDFC 29 30.2 29 29.85EQUITAS 56.45 58.9 56 58.1FRETAIL 135 140.35 132.65 135DCBBANK 91.4 95.5 91.4 94.3CHOLAFIN 240.85 259 240.35 249.6LICHSGFIN 305.65 319 305.65 314.5COFORGE 1,945.20 2,024.45 1,945.20 2,007.00UJJIVANSFB 36.8 37.75 36.45 37.7MINDTREE 1,154.00 1,198.00 1,146.60 1,185.50RELAXO 643.2 669.75 638.35 660ENDURANCE 1,110.00 1,137.95 1,095.05 1,130.00UNIONBANK 30.75 31.85 30.6 31.5BDL 425 436.75 421.7 425INOXLEISUR 296.7 306.7 294.5 303.05GODREJIND 438.35 452.3 436.05 447.5KARURVYSYA 40.55 41.95 40 41.55CARERATING 404.95 420.8 403 413.2MAHABANK 14.15 14.7 13.95 14.2FSL 64.05 66 64.05 65.1ASTRAZEN 3,559.00 3,640.00 3,545.00 3,620.00INDHOTEL 107.6 112.5 105 109.3BEML 713 724.9 704.5 710.1BLUEDART 2,202.00 2,294.00 2,167.65 2,255.00MOIL 149.75 159.45 149.75 153M&MFIN 142.15 146.75 141.75 144SOUTHBANK 7.5 7.9 7.45 7.6ORIENTELEC 204 214 204 207.05IBULHSGFIN 222.5 229.6 221.65 223.5KEI 410 422 407.1 414NAVINFLUOR 2,112.00 2,145.85 2,099.95 2,135.00EIHOTEL 92.6 94.9 92.1 93.35ABB 972 994.7 972 987GUJALKALI 375.9 387.25 365.1 375.95SEQUENT 135.1 136.4 133.15 136.4NATIONALUM 37.35 38.1 37.25 37.7CDSL 422.4 436 414 425.95

THERMAX 798 807.35 781.2 791.05FINCABLES 297.1 308.8 296.55 301.6CYIENT 398.2 408.6 394 400CROMPTON 267 272.55 267 270.05TIINDIA 625.45 645 623.1 637.2PNBHOUSING 301.1 309.5 299 302.6SUNTECK 277 285 275.75 280BEL 113.95 114.75 110.8 111.85MHRIL 181 187 181 182.6IOB 10.9 11.25 10.85 11.05ASTRAL 1,168.00 1,238.00 1,138.75 1,172.75KTKBANK 48.35 49.55 48.1 48.7CANFINHOME 384.25 392.55 384.2 387.7TCNSBRANDS 460 460 443.1 449AEGISCHEM 217 224.3 211.85 218.7NH 330.5 337.5 329.65 334FINPIPE 510.05 524 510 516.55VAKRANGEE 29.2 29.95 29 29.45ITI 143 143 136.65 137.65INDOSTAR 308 314 297.15 309AMBER 1,813.95 1,830.80 1,800.05 1,821.00MOTILALOFS 708 724 705.7 713MCX 1,680.00 1,700.00 1,651.05 1,694.00UCOBANK 13.9 14.3 13.85 14SUDARSCHEM 468.2 493 468.2 474LTI 2,500.00 2,530.00 2,495.10 2,522.00L&TFH 71.3 72.95 71.3 71.75JSWENERGY 56 56.8 55.2 56.3SAIL 41.25 43.15 40.55 41.1IDBI 41.65 42.3 41.3 41.55MANAPPURAM 155.3 157.7 154.65 156.7PHOENIXLTD 652.95 655 644 651TTKPRESTIG 5,874.95 6,048.00 5,840.20 5,900.00EDELWEISS 86.5 86.5 82.25 84.6RECLTD 110.3 113.65 109.3 111.7WESTLIFE 373 378.75 371.75 375CENTRALBK 17.85 18.2 17.8 17.9BIRLACORPN 641.5 648 635.1 643NILKAMAL 1,368.00 1,415.00 1,364.05 1,373.25RAMCOCEM 715 725 713.75 719.5APOLLOHOSP 1,653.80 1,675.90 1,647.55 1,663.55TIMKEN 1,130.90 1,150.75 1,103.00 1,140.00COROMANDEL 808 830 802 808.35WOCKPHARMA 330 336.6 327.65 329.45ADANIGAS 186.55 190.6 183.5 186.3TRIDENT 6.75 6.8 6.65 6.75BSE 515 525.7 511 518.5BLUESTARCO 683.45 713.65 669 690IEX 193.65 193.65 188.65 192.75CSBBANK 231.5 245.35 230.5 235.2ABCAPITAL 64.75 66.95 64.45 64.8RVNL 21.9 22.2 21.9 22SPICEJET 52.4 52.75 52.15 52.4AVANTIFEED 563.5 575.65 555 558.8TATACONSUM 547.9 555.85 544 548.1HERITGFOOD 347.95 349.5 342 344.35CRISIL 1,842.00 1,886.40 1,842.00 1,860.00WABCOINDIA 6,949.00 6,949.00 6,864.90 6,888.00DBCORP 81.45 82.3 80.5 81.1HATHWAY 35.9 35.9 35 35.6ISEC 491 508 480 494SHOPERSTOP 190 191.95 186.35 189.9DALBHARAT 742 756 739 744AUBANK 735 762 732 734MRF 59,400.00 59,999.00 59,151.00 59,600.00BAJAJELEC 529.8 530.9 512 528PRESTIGE 263 266.65 256 260.95

IRCON 94.35 95.4 94 94.55BRIGADE 181.7 185.5 180 181HAL 981.6 1,034.00 981.6 1,013.95SFL 1,375.00 1,404.75 1,370.00 1,380.00GPPL 84.45 84.9 82.55 82.95ENGINERSIN 71 72.5 70.6 70.65GEPIL 491.05 505 491.05 493RATNAMANI 1,190.65 1,195.00 1,159.25 1,183.00CEATLTD 937.75 949.95 927 940GODREJAGRO 494.8 497.6 487.55 490TRENT 653 661 646 650GRANULES 312 315.5 308 310.2JBCHEPHARM 793.1 800 791.25 797JUBLFOOD 2,170.00 2,184.00 2,132.00 2,170.00ICRA 2,800.00 2,820.00 2,715.05 2,820.00JINDALSTEL 217.95 225.45 215.5 216.3MGL 999.5 1,004.70 987.65 993.5BALMLAWRIE 119.75 120.55 118.75 119.1ELGIEQUIP 230 232 226 228TORNTPOWER 345 351.2 343.4 344.2EIDPARRY 291.85 294.65 288.5 290.5BALKRISIND 1,388.60 1,413.00 1,375.50 1,379.00METROPOLIS 1,837.00 1,849.70 1,818.10 1,820.05TVTODAY 234.65 234.9 230.35 233.1LUXIND 1,360.00 1,378.90 1,343.00 1,366.50IFCI 7.25 7.35 7.2 7.25APLAPOLLO 2,440.45 2,478.95 2,393.00 2,449.00NCC 36.6 36.9 36.25 36.4PTC 61.8 62 61.2 61.6KSCL 624 633.95 615 619.4VOLTAS 670.8 670.8 659 662.9SUMICHEM 286.8 286.8 284 284.4BAJAJCON 182.05 182.15 178.1 178.75PNCINFRA 172.15 174 168.45 169.05IRCTC 1,366.00 1,379.80 1,362.55 1,367.00AAVAS 1,540.00 1,554.00 1,510.00 1,518.00ALKEM 2,895.00 2,895.00 2,851.00 2,872.00CENTURYPLY 160 170.45 153.15 157.5LTTS 1,544.50 1,559.00 1,525.05 1,537.00THYROCARE 775 775 750 753CHOLAHLDNG 438.55 445 431.25 440SCHNEIDER 87.95 90.9 86.7 87TEAMLEASE 2,370.00 2,404.75 2,351.00 2,366.00GILLETTE 5,674.00 5,700.00 5,601.00 5,639.10LEMONTREE 30.4 30.4 29.9 29.95DELTACORP 118 119.75 116.25 116.8GNFC 220.4 225.45 218 218.7JMFINANCIL 82.2 83.6 81.05 81.55GMRINFRA 27.8 28.25 25.4 25.65IRB 130.75 132.9 128.1 129.4CASTROLIND 123 123.4 122.2 122.35RAYMOND 307.65 312 300.95 304GRSE 214.75 216 209.9 212.25MMTC 19.7 20.3 19.55 19.6CARBORUNIV 276.9 279.95 272.3 273.75HEIDELBERG 197 203 194.2 195HINDCOPPER 38.1 38.75 37.75 37.9NLCINDIA 54.8 55.25 54.4 54.5SYNGENE 488.8 494.55 485 488REDINGTON 117 118 115.35 116.1SKFINDIA 1,662.00 1,672.95 1,630.05 1,655.00INFIBEAM 77.05 77.9 76.05 76.7TIMETECHNO 45.9 46.05 44.55 45KPRMILL 578.75 579.9 564.95 567.35LINDEINDIA 757 769.95 745 753QUESS 391.35 392.75 381.2 386GMDCLTD 50.5 51.4 49.7 49.95

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KALPATPOWR 278.7 278.7 269.1 270PFIZER 4,834.95 4,880.00 4,700.00 4,730.05JAICORPLTD 100.45 101.3 97.8 98JAMNAAUTO 43.7 43.95 41.7 42.7INDOCO 246.5 247.25 236 238.95WHIRLPOOL 2,205.00 2,269.50 2,140.00 2,155.00BLISSGVS 158.1 158.5 153.9 154.25GSFC 71 71.35 68.55 69LAURUSLABS 1,192.00 1,201.90 1,156.60 1,164.00HEG 892.15 906.55 860.1 871HEXAWARE 420 423.9 405.1 410SCHAEFFLER 4,040.00 4,160.00 3,905.00 3,918.00HFCL 17.2 17.2 16.45 16.65BALRAMCHIN 159.05 159.5 155 155.05RADICO 425 429.9 410.1 410.5SOBHA 275.9 276 265.9 266.2GSPL 221.35 221.35 211.8 213GULFOILLUB 688 690 670 670.2DISHTV 12.5 12.5 11.4 11.65ASHOKA 76 76 73.05 73.5MAHINDCIE 147.75 149.15 143 144ASHOKLEY 72.55 73.3 70.2 70.65SUZLON 3.95 3.95 3.8 3.8HONAUT 35,200.00 36,000.00 33,515.10 33,973.00HATSUN 793.25 800 758 772.95BASF 1,600.00 1,611.00 1,550.00 1,558.00NBVENTURES 69.45 69.9 67 67.5GARFIBRES 1,960.10 1,980.00 1,895.25 1,904.00KAJARIACER 464.5 467.45 450 452CCL 277.45 277.75 265.3 269.9MINDAIND 355 355 339.5 345JSLHISAR 102.9 103.25 93.65 99.3COCHINSHIP 368.95 370.85 352.5 355LAOPALA 233.05 236.6 223.15 225.85PERSISTENT 1,060.00 1,060.00 1,010.00 1,019.90VRLLOG 180.5 183.85 171.9 174.9ALKYLAMINE 3,447.85 3,464.65 3,325.00 3,340.00RENUKA 10.55 10.55 9.95 10.15ADVENZYMES 225.8 229.9 216 217.85AARTIIND 1,135.00 1,139.90 1,080.10 1,092.00TCIEXP 839.15 846.25 810 814.7JAGRAN 43.4 43.4 41.65 41.7DHANUKA 857.95 870 821 826KANSAINER 502 507 481 483.8NESCO 596 604 575 578SADBHAV 59.45 59.45 56 56.6GODFRYPHLP 1,023.95 1,024.55 1,000.00 1,004.00STAR 642 645.5 621 621.4FINEORG 2,789.00 2,797.00 2,661.00 2,681.00ERIS 538 538.5 515.15 516.8VARROC 333 335 320 322BOMDYEING 75.55 76.45 72.6 72.6STRTECH 166.8 168.8 159 159.8SUPRAJIT 189 191.15 182.05 182.5CENTURYTEX 371.9 371.9 359.15 362DCAL 194.5 194.5 184.6 184.75ESABINDIA 1,496.90 1,520.00 1,444.95 1,459.00DIXON 8,700.00 8,824.00 8,290.00 8,310.00RAIN 122.5 123.75 118.05 118.45DCMSHRIRAM 396.9 398.95 377.05 380.5TAKE 57.5 58.2 54.75 54.95GREAVESCOT 89.2 90.8 84.7 85.05SJVN 25.95 26.1 24.6 24.75INDIAMART 3,720.00 3,721.00 3,490.00 3,525.00JSL 49.65 50 46.8 47.4AFFLE 2,654.65 2,700.00 2,654.65 2,654.65HIMATSEIDE 86.8 88 82.7 83.75

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Beijing: Chinese ForeignMinister Wang Yi, on a rarevisit to Norway, warned Osloagainst granting the NobelPeace Prize to Hong Kongpro-democracy activists muchon the lines of awarding theprize to China’s human rightsactivist Liu Xiaobo and Tibetanspiritual leader the Dalai Lamain the past, causing strains inbilateral ties.

Wang, who is currently ona tour of European Unioncountries to shore-up supportfor China in the face of theincreasing pressure mountedby the US, is the first ChineseForeign Minister to visit Osloin 15 years.

Relations between Chinaand the US are at an all-time lowover the coronavirus pandem-ic and strained trade ties. Thetwo countries also recentlyclosed each other’s consulates inHouston and Chengdu.

Wang’s visit comes in thebackdrop of Norway preparingto take up a rotational seat onthe United Nations SecurityCouncil, of which China is apermanent member.

Wang also held talks withNorwegian Foreign Minister

Ine Eriksen Soreide onThursday.

Later, when asked duringmedia interaction on howChina would react if the Nobelprize would go to Hong Kongprotesters in future, Wang said“I would only say one thing: Inthe past, today, and in future,China will firmly reject anyattempt by anyone to use theNobel Peace Prize to interferein China’s internal affairs”.

“China is rock firm onthis principle. We don’t want tosee anyone politicise the NobelPeace Prize,” the Hong Kong-based South China MorningPost quoted him as saying.

He called on Norway tocherish the current relation-ship, saying “If we can contin-ue to respect each other andtreat each other as equals …

our bilateral relationship cancontinue to develop in a sus-tained and sound manner, andthe political foundation of thebilateral relationship can befurther consolidated.”

Both officials stressed thatthis was the first visit toNorway by a Chinese foreignminister in 15 years – a subtlereference to the previouslyfrozen diplomatic relationshipbetween 2010 and 2016, afterthe Oslo-based Nobel PeacePrize committee awarded theprize to Chinese dissident Liu,the Post report said.

China was also cut up withthe Nobel Peace Prize to theDalai Lama in 1989.

Till 2012, the Nobel Prizewas viewed with contempt byChina and its official media asit was awarded to the DalaiLama for his peaceful strugglefor the betterment of Tibetansand to Liu.

However, Beijing wel-comed the Nobel Prize for lit-erature to Chinese writer MoYan in 2012, saying that Mo’s“victory reflects the prosperi-ty and progress of Chinese lit-erature, as well as the increas-ing influence of China”. PTI

Minneapolis: After a Blackman fatally shot himself on apedestrian plaza in downtownMinneapolis, rumours ofanother police shooting in thecity still reeling from the deathof George Floyd began spread-ing quickly on social media,sending concerned residentsand activists to the area —many of them anxious andsome of them misinformed.

Tensions and anger havebeen running high inMinneapolis since Floyd’s May25 death, and some activists saycommunity members aremobilizing more quickly asincidents occur — refusing towait for explanations from acity police department theydon’t trust.

But others say the unrestthat unfolded Wednesday —

which damaged multiple busi-ness and resulted in more than130 arrests — had nothing todo with anger, but was due toopportunists intent on com-mitting crimes.

“I just think that thingshave reached a boiling pointand people are fed up,” saidcommunity activist NekimaLevy Armstrong. “Now we’re ata breaking point where there isno tolerance for even a hint ofpolice abuse or police murder.”

Emotions have remainedraw over the death of Floyd, ahandcuffed Black man whodied after a white Minneapolispolice officer pressed his kneeagainst Floyd’s neck for nearlyeight minutes. Floyd’s deathsparked protests worldwide,including several nights of vio-lence in Minneapolis. AP

Islamabad: Pakistan PrimeMinister Imran Khan has saidthat allowing former premierNawaz Sharif to leave thecountry for medical treatmentin the UK was a “mistake” andhis government “regretted”the decision.

Sharif, 70, was allowed toleave for London in Novemberlast year after the Lahore HighCourt granted him a four-week permission to go abroadfor treatment.

The three-time premierhad submitted an undertakingto the court to return toPakistan, citing his record offacing the law and justice,

within four weeks or as soonas he is declared healthy andfit to travel by the doctors.

In an interview with ARYNews on Thursday, Khan saidit was a “mistake” on his partto al low Sharif to leavePakistan. He said his govern-ment “regretted” the decisionto lift a ban on Sharif.

“Now we feel embarrassed.Now he (Nawaz) has starteddoing politics [from] there aswell and, when you see him, itseems like there is nothing(wrong) with him,” Khan said.

In May, a fresh picture ofSharif having tea at a Londoncafe along with his family

went viral on social media,sparking a debate on his healthwith the ruling PakistanTehreek-i-Insaf membersdemanding his return to facecorruption cases.

In the picture, he was seensitting at a roadside cafe withhis granddaughters. He sport-ed a blue shalwar kameez anda cap and apparently looked inbetter health.

The government cameunder criticism when last weekSharif ’s photos surfaced,showing him strolling in astreet, prompting calls fromwithin the ruling party tobring him back. PTI

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four years in the White House,US President Donald Trumphas slammed Democratic rivalJoe Biden’s record as a “shame-ful roll call of the most cata-strophic betrayals” and said hisvictory will endanger thenation and destroy theAmerican greatness.

Speaking from the SouthLawn of the White House,Trump, 74, said that no one willbe safe under a Biden admin-istration.

Launching a blisteringattack on his November chal-lenger, Trump said: “Joe Bidenis not the saviour of America’ssoul.” “He is the destroyer ofAmerica’s jobs, and if given thechance, he will be the destroy-er of American greatness.”

“Biden’s record is a shame-ful roll call of the most cata-strophic betrayals and blundersin our lifetime. He has spent hisentire career on the wrong sideof history,” Trump said in hisacceptance speech after theRepublican Party re-nominatedhim as its presidential candidate.

Trump and Vice PresidentMike Pence are being chal-lenged by Biden and hisIndian-origin running mateSenator Kamala Harris in theNovember 3 election.

“Biden voted for the

NAFTA disaster, the singleworst trade deal ever enacted; hesupported China’s entry into theWorld Trade Organisation, oneof the greatest economic disas-ters of all time. After thoseBiden calamities, the UnitedStates lost 1 in 4 manufacturingjobs,” Trump alleged.

During the 2016 campaign,Trump had pledged to replacethe North American Free TradeAgreement (NAFTA). Trumplater replaced it with the UnitedS t a t e s - M e x i c o - C a n a d aAgreement (USMCA).

Trump said that despite allof the American greatness as anation, everything that the UShas achieved is now endangered.

“This is the most impor-tant election in the history ofour country. At no time beforehave voters faced a clearerchoice between two parties,two visions, two philosophies,or two agendas,” he said. PTI

Washington: Indian-originSenator Kamala Harris, theDemocratic Party’s vice-presi-dential candidate, has blastedPresident Donald Trump forfailing to protect the Americanpeople from the deadly coron-avirus pandemic by being “fix-ated on the stock market” andcaving in to China.

In a blistering speech hoursbefore Trump delivered hisacceptance speech to theRepublican NationalConvention from the SouthLawn at the White House,Harris alleged that the presi-dent’s policies have been “areckless disregard” for the dan-ger a pandemic would pose toAmerican lives.

“Donald Trump has failedat the most basic and importantjob of a President of the UnitedStates. He failed to protect theAmerican people. Plain andsimple. Trump showed whatwe, in the legal profession,would call a reckless disregardfor the well-being of theAmerican people,” Harris said.

With the Republican lead-ers attending the four-day con-vention largely downplayingthe impact of the COVID-19pandemic, which has killedover 180,000 people and infect-ed over five million others inthe US, Harris pointed out thatTrump’s failure to address thehealth emergency more aggres-sively is emblematic of a tweet-driven presidency.

“Here’s what you have tounderstand about the nature ofa pandemic: It’s relentless. Youcan’t stop it with the tweet,” the55-year-old Senator fromCalifornia told Trump.

Instead of rising to meet themost difficult moment of hispresidency, Trump froze andwas scared. And he was pettyand vindictive, she said.

She said Trump “doesn’tunderstand the presidency” andbelieves it is “all about him.”

The Republican conven-tion is designed for one pur-pose: To soothe the president’sTrump’s ego, to make him feelgood, Harris said. PTI

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Donald Trump as the “people’spresident” and listing out hisadministration’s “people-friendly” policies during hisfirst term, his daughter IvankaTrump delivered a fiery speechin support of her father’s re-election bid.

“America doesn’t needanother empty vessel who willdo whatever the media and thefringe of his party demands.Now more than ever, Americaneeds four more years of awarrior in the White House,”38-year-old Ivanka said in heraddress to the RepublicanNational Convention onThursday from the SouthLawn of the White House.

“Tonight, I stand beforeyou as the proud daughter ofthe people’s president. He’s ourcommander-in-chief, cham-pion of the American workers,defender of common senseand our voice for the forgottenmen and women of this coun-try. He is our president, and myfather, Donald J Trump,” shesaid amidst loud cheer fromthe Republican Party support-ers. PTI

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Beirut: The office of Lebanon’spresident said Friday that bind-ing consultations with membersof Parliament to designate anew prime minister will beginearly next week.

Monday’s consultations willcoincide with a visit by FrenchPresident Emmanuel Macron toLebanon, a former French pro-tectorate. He will offer Frenchsupport after the devastatingAug 4 port explosion but alsoensure that millions in inter-national aid go to those whoneed it. Prime Minister HassanDiab’s government resigned on

Aug. 10, six days after nearly3,000 tons of ammonium nitrateexploded at Beirut’s port wherethey had been stored for sixyears. The blast, the mostdestructive single incident inLebanon’s history, killed morethan 180 people and left near-ly 300,000 people homeless.

Lebanon is also mired in itsworst economic and financialcrisis in decades and Westernnations have said they will nothelp the tiny country beforeserious reforms are carried out because corrup-tion and mismanagement arewidespread. AP

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Torrential rains and flashfloods have claimed 39

lives in several areas ofPakistan with its financial hubKarachi pounded by heavyshowers that submerged roadsand underpasses, paralysedbusiness activities and broughtnormal life to a complete halt.

At least 16 people, includ-ing a woman and two children,were killed and eight othersinjured due to flash floodscaused by torrential rains innorthwest Pakistan’s KhyberPakhtunkhwa (KPK) district, a

disaster management officialsaid on Friday.

Eight people died in UpperKohistan district, six in Swatand two in Shangla district ofthe province due to the floodson Thursday night, an officialof the Provincial DisasterManagement Authority(PDMA) said, adding that 40houses were damaged in theseareas.

The flood water inundat-ed houses in Shahgram andTeerat area of Swat districtfrom where six deaths andinjuries to eight people werereported.

Cairo: Egyptian police arrest-ed a high-level leader in the out-lawed Muslim Brotherhood athis hiding place in Cairo, anInterior Ministry statementsaid Friday.

Investigators recentlylearned that Mahmoud Ezzat,the acting Supreme Guide ofthe country’s oldest Islamistorganisation, was hiding in anapartment on the outskirts ofCairo, the statement said.

After searching the apart-ment, the police found com-puters and mobile phones withencrypted software that allowedthe 76-year-old Ezzat to com-municate with group mem-

bers in Egypt and abroad, thestatement said.

Documents bearing thegroup’s “destructive plans” werealso found, according to police.The statement did not say whenthe raid took place.

It wasn’t immediately clearif Ezzat had an attorney.

Ezzat had been at largesince the summer of 2013, afterthe military removed Egypt’sfirst democratically electedpresident, Mohamed Morsi,who hailed from the ranks ofthe Muslim Brotherhood.Morsi’s short-lived rule proveddivisive and provoked massprotests nationwide. AP Port Louis: At least 40 dolphins

have mysteriously died in anarea of Mauritius affected by anoil spill from a Japanese boat,officials and witnesses said onFriday, as a witness describedthe moment one mother dol-phin died in front of him.

Residents who had ven-tured out in a boat alertedReuben Pillay to a mother dol-phin swimming around herdying baby. He sped off to tryto find them; the baby had diedby the time he arrived, he said,but the mother initially lookednormal.

“But in a few minutes shewent on her side, one fin in thewater, and one out of the waterand then she started flappingher tail really really rapidly,”said Pillay, a professional droneoperator and environmentalistwho is providing video toReuters. AGENCY

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India has been ranked a lowly72nd among 106 countries in

terms of the average wage permonth, while Switzerlandtopped the chart, according toa global ranking of averagewages prepared by Picodi.Com.

With an average monthlywage of �32,800 (USD 437),India has been ranked a lowly72nd among 106 countriessurveyed by Picodi.Com, aninternational e-commerce plat-form which provides discountcoupons.

Switzerland, where theaverage wage converted intorupees amounts to �4,49,000(USD 5,989), topped the rank-ing, while in Cuba the average

wage is the lowest at �2,700(USD 36), it said.

Switzerland was followedby Luxembourg and the UnitedStates, whose citizens on anaverage earn �3,00,900 (USD4,014) and �2,64,900 (USD3,534), respectively.

Others in the top ten listinclude Denmark (USD 3,515),Singapore (USD 3,414),Australia (USD 3,333), Qatar(USD 3,232), Norway (USD3,174), Hong Kong (USD3,024) and Iceland (USD2,844).

India, with the averagewage of �2,800, outrankedcountries such as Kazakhstan(�32,700), Brazil (� 26,000), orEgypt (�16,400), the reportsaid.

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The income tax departmentwill soon start sending out

intimation to assessees under-going scrutiny that such caseswould now be handled underfaceless assessment, a tax officialsaid on Friday. CBDTAdditional CommissionerJaishree Sharma also said thatdomestic transfer pricing casestoo will be covered under thefaceless assessment mechanism.

Asked whether the previ-ous notices still stand valid,Sharma said, “Previous noticeswill not become redundant.First, an intimation would besent out that your case wouldnow be assessed under facelessassessment scheme and if the

Assessing Officer of theAssessment Unit feels that heneeds some more information,he will send fresh (notice) under142(1).” A Section 142(1)notice is sent to an assessee toinquire about details and doc-uments before making assess-ment under the Income Tax Act.Speaking at a webinar organisedby industry body PHDCCI,Sharma said reassessment caseswould also be part of the face-less scheme.

“So all the 148 cases thatwere going on, they have beentransferred to the faceless assess-ment scheme and NeAC will besending out intimation in allsuch cases which would now beassessed under the facelessassessment scheme. So by

September 15 or before that, youcan expect an intimation fromNeAC,” Sharma said.

The Central Board ofDirect Taxes (CBDT) had ear-lier this month notified theNational e-Assessment Centre(NeAC) at Delhi for all com-munication with taxpayersunder the faceless assessmentscheme. Since August 13, allincome tax returns picked upfor scrutiny, except those relat-ing to search and seizure andinternational tax, are beingassessed under faceless assess-ment. Under faceless scrutinyassessment, a central computerpicks up tax returns for scruti-ny based on risk parameters andmismatch and then allots themrandomly to a team of officers.

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Equity benchmarks defiedgravity for the sixth straight

session on Friday followingsmart gains in bank andfinance stocks, while globalmarkets were mixed despite theUS Fed outlining a moreaccommodative stance.

A sharp jump in the rupeeand unabated foreign fundinflows further bolstered sen-timent, traders said.

After touching an intra-daypeak of 39,579.58, the BSESensex ended 353.84 points or0.90 per cent higher at39,467.31. The NSE Niftysurged 88.35 points or 0.76 percent to close at 11,647.60.

During the week, theSensex soared 1,032.59 pointsor 2.68 per cent, while the Niftyadvanced 276 points or 2.42 percent. IndusInd Bank was thetop gainer in the Sensex packon Friday, spurting 8.43 percent, followed by Axis Bank,ICIC Bank, Sun Pharma, SBIand Kotak Bank. On the otherhand, PowerGrid, Infosys,NTPC, Asian Paints, HUL,M&M and Tata Steel wereamong the major laggards,shedding up to 1.24 per cent.

Global equities weremixed after US Federal ReserveChairman Jerome Powell saidthe central bank will remainaccommodative and shift to amore relaxed approach on

inflation. However, lack ofspecifics disappointed mar-kets, analysts said.

“Global markets were trad-ing uncertain following theUS Fed Reserve’s policy shift tofocus on economic growth andless on inflation. However, theindication that the US Fedwould continue to let interestrates remain low and expecta-tion of more stimulus to follow,boosted the Indian markets.

“The stimulus and theassociated liquidity are impor-tant to our markets since thathas been one of the drivers forthe current stock market run.As per NSDL, FPI net invest-ments into equity, as a whole,have been around Rs 45,000crore, which makes it one of thebest months for net inflows,”said Vinod Nair, Head ofResearch at Geojit FinancialServices. BSE bankex, telecom,finance, oil and gas, energy andrealty indices rallied as much as

4 per cent, while auto, utilities,IT, FMCG and metal closedlower. In the broader markets,the BSE mid-cap index rose0.55 per cent, while the small-cap gauge fell 0.23 per cent.

Strong foreign fund inflows,led by high global liquidity anddecline in US dollar, also fuelledthe markets, traders said.Foreign institutional investorsbought equities worth a net�1,164.32 crore on Thursday,exchange data showed. Therupee soared 43 paise to end at73.39 against the US dollar onFriday. In rest of Asia, boursesin Shanghai, Hong Kong andSeoul ended with gains. Japan’sNikkei tumbled after PrimeMinister Shinzo Abe resigneddue to health reasons. Stockexchanges in Europe were trad-ing on a mixed note in earlydeals. Global oil benchmarkBrent crude was trading 0.35 percent lower at USD 45.44 perbarrel.

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Industry body Solar PowerDevelopers Association

(SPDA) on Friday pitched forpostponement of imposition ofbasic customs duty on solarcells and modules.

The body is of the viewthat the imposition of basiccustoms duty (BCD) canseverely slow down the plan of

having 100 GW solar energy by2022. In June, Power MinisterR K Singh had indicated aboutimposition of BCD on solarcells, modules and invertorsfrom August to discouragedumping and encourage thedomestic industry.

SPDA, a national associa-tion representing India’supcoming solar power gener-ators and developers, said in a

statement that the governmentmust reconsider its decision ofimposing BCD on solar cellsand modules.

The implementation ofsafeguard duty on cells andmodules has been extended bya year recently, hence settingadditional tariff barriers at thisstage is not appropriate as it willdamage the sector’s prospects,it noted.

New Delhi (PTI): The BanksBoard Bureau (BBB) on Fridayrecommended SBI’s senior-most managing directorDinesh Kumar Khara as thenext chairman of the country’slargest lender.

Khara will replace SBIChairman Rajnish Kumar,whose three-year term comesto an end on October 7.

Members of BBB, the head-hunter for state-owned banksand financial institutions, inter-

viewed four managing direc-tors of State Bank of India (SBI)on Friday for the upcomingvacancy.

“Keeping in view their per-formance in the interface andtheir overall experience, theBureau recommends...DineshKumar Khara for the vacancyof Chairman in State Bank ofIndia (and) Challa SreenivasuluSetty as the candidate on theReserve List for the said vacan-cy,” BBB said in a statement.

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cosmonaut and Squadron LeaderRakesh Sharma, Upar se Bharatkaisa dikhta hai aapko?” When heanswered, “Main bina kisi jhijhakke keh sakta hoon, Saare Jahan SeAchcha,” our national song hadfound a new meaning. Not just that,India herself had found a new iden-tity. For the first time afterIndependence, while Russia and theUS were competing in the spacerace, our country was achieving itslandmark mission of sending thefirst Indian man to space.

India’s passion to reach the starsis that of grit and glory, and at thecentre of that story lies the inspir-ing tale behind the Indian SpaceResearch Organisation (ISRO),established in 1969. From launch-ing small rockets to heavy-liftlaunchers, from conducting humanspaceflight projects to carryingout communication satellites,ISRO’s journey has stories of greatchallenges but, above all, of evengreater achievements and peoplelike Vikram Sarabhai, HomiBhabha and Aryabhatta.

Documenting the ‘rags-to-Mars’ 60-year-old history andbringing some of these stories tolife, Spotify has launched MissionISRO, a podcast hosted by cricketcommentator Harsha Bhogle.Talking about the iconic conversa-tion between Gandhi and Sharma,he says, “I was 23 when this hap-pened. I had just started out as acommentator at the All India Radioin Hyderabad. Like millions of myfellow Indians at that time, Iremember reading about this con-versation in the newspaper, feelingcompletely exhilarated, even a lit-tle emotional. India’s space aspira-tion had gained its enduring sym-bol. An Indian had finally managedto break free from the glass of gravity.”

Well, as a journalist once said,

“When Harsha Bhogle begins totalk, you cannot but sit and listen!”Excerpts:

�Why do you think talking aboutISRO and India’s space missionsis important?

I think it is very important toknow and celebrate the work ofsome great Indians who achievedoutstanding things with very littleor whatever was available to them.They had this fire of doing good forIndia and putting the country onthe right path. It shows us what ispossible and the benefits havebeen there for everyone to see rightfrom the first site education pro-gramme.

Through this podcast, we havealso tried to bring forward the storyof Vikram Sarabhai, who was unde-terred by the insufficient trainingand basic facilities and a limitedbudget. The team set out to assem-ble and launch their very firstsounding rocket into space!

�Do you think there is also a needto inform the youth about howIndia’s space history has evolvedwith time and what it still lacks?How does the series address this?

Without doubt, yes. It’s impor-tant to make them aware of how lit-tle India had and that what they areenjoying today is a result of the pio-neering work of those who camebefore; to remind them that in theearly years of Independence, Indiahad its priorities right and weshould never forget that. The pod-cast addresses this by celebratingnot just the achievement of thespace programme but the incredi-ble, very romantic stories of someriveting characters like Bhabha,Sarabhai, Satish Dhawan and APJAbdul Kalam, of heartbreakingfailures, and the success of anagency that powered modernIndia’s space fantasy.

�Being a cricket commentator,how did you adapt to narrating

stories of a completely differentsubject — space? Did it come outwith the same level of excitementwhich you have while comment-ing on cricket?

Cricket commentary is one ofthe things I do. I have an enjoyablelife outside it and have alwaysenjoyed the audio format. I washoping someone would ask me totell a story that must stand by itselfwithout the crutch of pictures toembellish it. A good story can besimply told and this is one of those.Yes, it was exciting because it wasbeautifully written and the dramabuilds up. Telling a story is differ-ent from live sport because it buildsup. I hope this works on that front.

�You have recalled a memory inthe podcast that you were 23when you heard about the firstIndian man making it to space...

Yes. I feel it was uplifting to bean Indian because it was still a timeof scarcity and we were still recov-

ering from the plunder of colonial-ism. This news had thrilled me. Itwas wonderful.

�In today’s world of enhancedvisual effects, why do you think apodcast will turn out better forstorytelling?

Well, both have their place.One doesn’t have to be better thanthe other. As long as it tells the storyand takes it to people, it shouldn’tmatter. Also, in many ways, audiois a more intimate narrative. It feelslike you are listening to a friendnarrating a story and that is some-thing that the world of visualeffects cannot do. It does its job dif-ferently but it wows, it doesn’tsoothe as well as a simple voicedoes.

�Why do you think podcasts aredominating the media landscapetoday?

Honestly, I don’t know but theyaren’t easy. The rigour in Mission

ISRO was an eye-opener. I still thinkthese are early days for podcasts inIndia but just remember, our story-telling tradition is quite old.

�What was your research work forthe podcast? How much did youlearn in the process?

To be fair, the research wasdone by the team from all thingssmall. They did a fantastic job andmade it much easier for the narra-tor of the story. In effect, they wrotethe story, and I am telling it.

�Any anecdotes that you’d like toshare.

Just simply that, when I wasgrowing up, scientists were lookedat as heroes and it is good to havereal heroes being talked aboutagain — simple people who didtheir job proudly and put into it allthat they had.

(The first season will have 12episodes, with one episode releasingevery Friday on Spotify.)

�What’s the concept of the show,Funhit Mein Jaari?

It is basically a breather for theviewers. It is going to take the audienceon a two to three-minute-long laugh-ing spree, every weekend. The adbreaks are going to get very interest-ing now as we will bring some funnygags for them, based on a few topicsfrom around the world. It is not a showthat you need to sit and watch for halfan hour altogether. These small gagswill come in between the shows onweekends and will give you the much-needed laughter break. I am sure theviewers are going to enjoy the idea somuch that they will actually findthemselves waiting for ad breaks tocome so that they can enjoy hilariousgags.

�What made you be a part of thisshow?

It is always exciting to be working

with Bharti (Singh). Our camaraderieis on a different level. So, when I wasoffered this show, I was told that I willbe working with Bharti, I didn’t eventhink twice to say yes. The concept ofthe show is very interesting and differ-ent from what I have previously done.It’s basically an attempt to bring hap-

piness in people’s lives during thesechallenging times.

�How does it feel to be a part of theSony SAB family as this is your veryfirst show?

It is a lovely experience workingwith the channel. Since the time I have

started doing television, I have been apart of the Sony family. I have previ-ously performed and hosted the SABke Anokhe ke Awards.

But this is the first time I am doinga show for SAB, it is a very excitingfeeling for me that I cannot express inwords.

�How has the experience been so farworking with the entire cast?

It is really fun shooting for theshow. The entire cast and crew wouldlaugh so much while shooting the gagsthat sometimes our cameras wouldalso shake because of people laughing.Bharti and I enjoyed a lot while play-ing so many different and interestingcharacters for various gags. I hope ourviewers enjoy them too.

�Were you skeptical about shootingin these unprecedented times?

It was very different in the begin-ning and was a little difficult too as wewouldn’t understand who my make-up man or hair dresser is becauseeveryone would be in masks and PPEkits (laughs). However, it wasn’t thatchallenging as we all were more excit-ed to be back shooting after sitting athome for four-five months. Everyonewas very cautious and we all main-tained proper distance and followed allthe safety protocols while shooting.Although it was a bit of a differentexperience, we were more excitedbecause we love doing comedy andentertaining our viewers.

�Any favourite gag that you’d shoot?It’s actually quite difficult to choose

one because all of them are packedwith equal punch and deliver the rightkind of entertainment to the audience.However, for me, my favourite is theBaahubali gag — The Adventures ofRajmata. Its interesting thing is that thelooks have been worked upon so nice-ly and with detail that it actually bringsin the entire vibe of the film.

Actor Ali Fazal has been ona roll lately. After the mas-

sive announcement of Death ofthe Nile last week, the muchawaited Mirzapur’s second sea-son is ready for release. Withthe show’s final edit underway,it’s being said that the show willbe delivered to theplatform by the endof this month. It’sindeed a doublecelebration forthe actor and hisfans. Well, both theprojects arrive togeth-er on October23.

A l isaid, “Ia mh ap pyt h a tt h eworldw i l lget tos e etheset w ov e r ydiffer-ent cine-m a t i ce x p e r i -ences ofmine inthe sameyear. Andgiven the fact

that Death on The Nile will beone of the first films to releaseworldwide in theatres, I feel itwill be a fresh change for theaudience across the board. Ifonly there was a panel sittingsomewhere watching my work,they’d see the range I am aim-ing for. Both the releases have

their audiences and certain-ly are two different

ends oft h espec-trum.T h e

oppor-tunit ies

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have opened upthis range. And foran actor, it is nectar.Right now, I am justhoping that Death OnThe Nile gets a the-atr ical release inIndia.”

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Once upon a time, ashow like Star Trek —based in the twenty-

third century — was a fascinat-ing thought. Where would weend up, many of us as kidsasked, our imagination run-ning free and wild. There wereonly trees to climb, so we hadplenty of time for dreaming.Now when we hear that theside-tilting selfie is keepingmany a doctor in business, fix-ing endless instances of cricksin the neck, we know we havereached somewhere “whereno man has gone before” — toborrow the phrase from theoriginal series of the 1960s.Now we have kids lookingalmost robotic, online identi-ties merging into one another,days flowing into nights…This is a generation of childrenthat has an entire galaxy offriends and yet, they could nothave been on a lonelier plan-et...”

Journalist and authorJyotsna Mohan Bhargava pensthese lines in the context of thechanging landscape of theworld of teenagers today. Herbook, Stoned, Shamed,Depressed, is a narrative oftoday’s school life in urbanIndia and an insight into thelives of teens. It attempts toinvestigate and chronicle thelives of children as theyembark on a confused journeyto adulthood — a road that isfull of temptations and easyadventure, where the bound-aries get blurred and wherewhat happens today can haverepercussions for years tocome. Excerpts:

�The book subtly looks attopics like the impact of socialmedia, body neutrality, trustissues, anxiety and morewhile talking of journey toadulthood. How did you con-ceptualise it?

I have written articles onsome of these issues for sever-al publications over a period oftime and the deeper I went, themore I realised that I was onlytouching the tip of the iceberg.Controversial incidents likethe Bois Locker Room disap-pear from public memory aftera news cycle. Yet in the back-ground it all continues to playout. A person I have a lot ofrespect for suggested that I col-late all my work into a holisticnarrative and I realised that itwas indeed the best way to geta reality check on issues thatour urban teenagers are con-stantly facing, away from theoccasional limelight.

�What was your first point ofresearch? How long did it taketo complete the book?

I finished writing the bookin a year but my research start-ed almost two years prior to thatwhen I started writing blogs andopinion pieces on bullying,body shaming and the normal-

isation of the word ‘rape’ in theteenage vocabulary. My sourcesand interviews were made eas-ier because it was already a workin progress when I started onthe book.

�When you began yourresearch, the idea revolved

around late teenage. However,it now speaks broadly aboutmiddle school battlegrounds...

Yes, I would say that wasone of the startling revelationsI made as I went along. Ithought I would be tackling theissues of 17 to 18-year-olds,instead social media and its

repercussions seem to be moreprominent in urban India’s mid-dle schools. In fact, a schoolprincipal told me that whileclass XII is out of her hands, sheis putting all her energy into sav-ing students of classes VI to IX,which are now considered theepicentre of social media use.Today, kids, whose ages are noteven in double digits, are behav-ing the way teens did 10 yearsago. Their exposure is differentand so are the expectations.

�As a society, it seems thatanything uncomfortable is toosensitive to debate or question.But if there’s no conversation,there will be no answers. Howdoes the book aim to initiatea conversation around thiswithout being preachy?

This book is a reflection ofwhat is happening in real timewith children we all know orassociate with. It is not limitedto the rich and the elite and isinstead a narrative across townsand cities. I believe it will res-onate among many families forthe pervasive nature of socialmedia and even addiction.Through the stories of childrenin the book, I hope familiesmake informed decisions goingforward because no two fami-lies may have the same issues.They have to ultimately decide

what works for their childrenand themselves.

�What does the title, Stoned,Shamed, Depressed, signify?

The title reflects the rangeof realities of modern day urbanIndian teens and the issuesthey face, which are not alwayssomething we are willing to faceas a society. For instance, whenit comes to mental health andchildren, it is so far down ourradar that we forget accep-tance, we are not even ready toconfront it. Similarly, bodyshaming is also something wedismiss as a phase that schoolchildren may face. But thesedays, because of social mediacompulsions and desperation,even girls’ behaviour towardseach other is an eye opener.

�Why do you call it “secretlives” of urban teens?

A lot of what this book nar-rates is through stories andcase studies of children whichhave been seconded by coun-selors and school authorities.But as we always say, the fami-ly learns about things the last.In some cases, though they doknow what their child is up to,there is denial. This generationis also very good at hidingthings, whether it is the weedthey are smoking, theirInstagram accounts beinghacked or the sexual bullyingepisodes they may have faced.Many parents will tell you thatfor this generation what theirpeers say is sacrosanct. Most ofthe issues that I covered are noteasy to uncover if you aren’tlooking for them or are aware.

�As children learn to navigatethrough the online and theoffline world, the paths lead-ing to adulthood might be tax-ing and confusing. What’syour take on this?

For this generation, thereare too many temptations andmany counselors admit thatwe adults would perhaps not beable to multi-task the way thesechildren do. We are also send-ing them conflicted signals. Onone hand, you give them freeuse of a gadget and on the otherhand, you have left them opento the repercussions withoutmonitoring their use. As fami-lies we need to sit down and

Even though over the years wehave all witnessed our favourite

film stars play some extremelydiverse roles, there are some char-acters which have not really fadedaway in the Hindi cinema. Speakingof which, we have had variousBollywood actors portraying therole of taxi drivers in some cult films.Right from veteran Dev Anand inTaxi Driver to perfectionist AamirKhan in Raja Hindustani, everycharacter has touched cinegoers init’s own special way, which is whythese films continue to remain trulyiconic.

Meanwhile, in today’s modernera, we now have A Suitable Boyactor Ishaan Khatter who’s current-ly gearing up for his next Khaali Peeli

that features him playing the role ofa young taxi driver. As much excit-ed we are to see him, below we listdown Bollywood’s truly unconven-tional on-screen taxi drivers. Take alook..

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Dev Anand is Chetan Anand’s TaxiDriver. Released in 1954, the filmsaw the actor playing the role of arough and tough taxi driver, Mangal,whose rustic side gets charmed byMala (played by Kalpana Karthik) inthe romantic drama. He rescuesMala when two thugs try to molesther. They fall in love with each other,

but Mangal’s affinity towards a clubdancer drives Mala away.

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Directed by Ravi Tandon,Khuddaar comes with an ensemble starcast of Amitabh Bachchan, ParveenBabi, Sanjeev Kumar, Prem Chopra,

Mehmood, Vinod Mehra, Tanuja andBindiya Goswami in the lead. The 1982release starred Big B playing the roleof a taxi driver and marked his last pro-ject with the late actor Sanjeev Kumar.

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This Dharmesh Darshan directo-rial starring Aamir Khan and KarismaKapoor is the story of a super-richheiress falling in love with a lowlyguide and driver. Portraying the roleof a taxi driver, Aamir shared a greatchemistry with Karisma. His perfor-mance in Raja Hindustani is consid-ered to be one of the finest in his morethan two decade long career. PardesiPardesi continues to be one of the mostpopular songs of Hindi cinema tilldate.

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Helmed by Maqbool Khan andproduced by Ali Abbas Zafar, themasala entertainer features Ishaanplaying the role of a taxi driver for thevery first time. Starring oppositeAnanya Panday, Ishaan has alreadybeen making headlines with hisrugged avatar and tapori dialect in thefilm. The teaser of Khaali Peeli hasalready gone viral and we sure can’twait to see him driving his yellow andblack taxi around the city of dreams— Mumbai, and take us on a thrillingroller-coaster ride.

take the time to really talk to ourchild and teach them how tomake their way through theonline maze. A lot of these temp-tations like vaping, gaming, socialmedia are not going anywhere.Many of the online actions are adirect reaction to what happensoffline and we have to normalisetheir existence without normal-ising their use. For that, ourgeneration first needs to confrontthese issues.

�The virtual world is usuallylooked at under a bad light forteenagers. However, you seemedto balance it with the offlineworld and equally emphasisedits merits...

I am not a fan of kids and thevirtual world, but I also know thatit is an integral part for this gen-eration. COVID-19 has exagger-ated that use, whether it is onlinestudying or gaming excessivelywith no outdoor outlet. I feel theonly solution lies in how respon-sibly we harness its use by ourchildren. I see no reason for a six-year old to be gifted an iPad, nordo I understand why an eight-year old has a smartphone. If weare looking to ease our lives, wemay have a lot to answer in time.There is already a lot of angst andaggression amongst some oftoday’s school children and in bet-ter times, I can’t emphasiseenough the importance of a childplaying a sport.

�How do you think school-leveleducation in India can maketeenagers reflect on their choic-es? What does it lack now?

I think schools have to gobeyond traditional teaching andembrace a wider canvas of learn-ing. It can no longer just be aboutwhat is in the books, we have toteach them about issues like con-sent, misogyny, slut shamingamong others. A classroom is nolonger a place where a childcomes, studies by the textbookand goes home. Social media has

ensured that schools are now aplaying field for many otherthings and just like our society,schools too need to accept thatthings are happening. Recently, Iheard about how a girl questionedher school in the Bois LockerRoom and the school tried tohush it down and clamped downon the girl instead. Sex education,counselors on campus — theseare the issues that schools need tostep up on. From what many chil-dren say, it is still at a nascentstage.

�What do you think socialmedia is — a good or a badinfluencer?

It all depends on how you asa family embrace it. A twelve-yearold may be the smartest kid inclass and yet be outplayed by theanonymity of social media. Theage that you use it at, how you useit, the amount of freedom given,all adds up. I see girls as young aseight and nine constantly makingvideos, I wonder why their par-ents allow it? The thrill for thisgeneration to be online is enor-mous. If they have one upload onInstagram, they will stare at thelikes for the next 24 hours. It isextremely unhealthy and I canonly hope that the older the childis, the more equipped s/he is tohandle its pressure. I have spokento many people in their twentieswho are doing brilliant thingsthrough social media.

�Parents constantly face thedilemma of giving in to theirchild’s demands versus what’sright for them. Does the bookaddress parents’ concerns overcertain challenges they facewhile handling teenagers?

It is not a parenting book butone that highlights the lives thaturban Indian teens are currentlyexperiencing. It attempts to por-tray the true story of a section ofa generation and then hope thatparents can make an informedchoice going forward. As they say,knowledge is power. I sadly feelthat with such intense peer andsocial media pressure, the fairytale is over before its time for thisgeneration.

(The book, published byHarperCollins, releases onSeptember 3.)

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Watch till you drop: We under-stand if you do not wish to travel butthat doesn’t have to mean you ditch thisfriendship’s day. Don’t worry, here whatyou can do! Just load the snack traysand figure out the best shows or moviesto binge-watch all weekend through.We have a few fun ideas to help youpick who gets to choose! Choose tobinge-watch shows that you all grew

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Make your living room yourvisa: Yet sceptical of stepping out?Want to enjoy the best of both worlds?Worry not as we get the outdoors intoyour living room. Invite over yourfriends, keep the masks on and gear upfor some fun virtual travel. Goibibo isoffering some exciting weekend virtu-al travel experiences like the live JeepSafari in Luangwa National Park,Zambia with a local ranger, live onlinestrolls through the Diagon alley withthe Harry Potter Trail in Edinburgh,day outing with the Koala Whispererat Byron Bay Australia, or explore thehistorical places like Pyramids ofGiza, wonders of Petra, lanes of Cusco,

there is something for everyone. Allyou need is the goibibo app to bookyour slots before it is sold out. This willnot only satiate your travel pangs withyour favourite bunch but also allow youto travel together without going

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Friends who laugh or cooktogether: Miss going out for concerts,stand-up comedy shows, or those

workshops to learn anew skill with yourbunch? Well, youdon’t have to wait forthe world back tonormal for thatbecause goibibobrings all thesethings to you at thecomfort of yourhome. For thisfriendship’s daychannelise yourinner masterchef andtake the live cookingsession with chefGayan DarshanaAberathne to cookthe perfect risottos orjumbo prawns, or

enjoy the laughter riot with stand-upcomedian Jeeveshu Ahluwalia. Be restassured that your next pot meal willcertainly be a feast and you will nothave to hear the same old jokes andsame old clowns in the group!

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The first set of crew mem-bers comprising the techni-

cal team, directors, cinematog-raphers, production designers,music director and assistantsof Gaurang Doshi Productions’web series 7th Sense went toDubai recently.

The Bollywood producer isall set to shoot two web seriesin the UAE, with this onebeing the first. With some ofthe finest actors such as RMadhavan, Ronit Roy, ChunkyPandey, Ameesha Patel, PrateikBabbar and Tanuj Virwani,among others, the big ensem-ble murder mystery promisesto be captivating, keepingviewers on the edge whilebringing out their inner detec-tive. “The series will not onlyintrigue and excite but willalso create history,” saidGaurang.

The next web series Lineof Fire comprises of two sea-sons and boasts of stars suchas Prakash Raj, Jimmy Shergill,Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub,Tanuj Virwani, Vijay Raaz,Tannishtha Chatterjee, KabirSingh, Sana Saeed, Manu Rishiand Tanvi Azmi.

“I am thrilled and excitedas the action has began. I amalso thankful to the UAEGovernment for making theprocess so seamless. It hasdone a good job in controllingthe spread of the virus and hasbecome an inspiration for theworld. Our team would be tak-ing all the precautionary mea-sures,” commented Gaurang.

He added, “This wouldindeed be the first web seriesfrom Bollywood to be entirelyshot in UAE. Bringing togethera stellar star cast after fivemonths of lockdown seemslike a milestone. The team isexcited to start shooting againand be back at work,” addedGaurang.

The entire cast and crewfor both the web series con-sists of over 100 members.The crew of 7th Sense alsofeatures actors like ElliAvrRam, Aashim Gulati,Sana Saeed, Ahsaas Channa,Dibyendu Bhattacharya,Sajjad DelaFrooz and ManujSharma. It is being directedby Karan Darra.

(The first series will startfilming from August 20.)

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World number one NovakDjokovic’s path to a 2020

US Open title could include asemi-final against StefanosTsitsipas or Alexander Zverevunder the tournament drawunveiled on Thursday.

The 33-year-old Serbianstar, a 17-time Grand Slam win-ner who has captured five of thepast seven men’s singles Slamcrowns, begins his quest for afourth US Open title against107th-ranked Damir Dzumhur.

Austrian second seedDominic Thiem, who pushedDjokovic to five sets beforefalling in this year’s Australian

Open final, was placed on theopposite end of the bracket, set-ting up the possibility of arematch in the championship

match on the Flushing Meadowshardcourts.

With fellow Big Three play-ers Rafael Nadal and Roger

Federer absent, Djokovic has aprime chance to close the gap onhis record rivals in a field of 128that is missing several standouts.

The tournament begins onMonday in a spectator-lessquarantine bubble at the USNational Tennis Center inNew York, with Covid-19testing and other measuresdesigned to safeguard playersfrom the deadly virus that forcedWimbledon to be called off.

Djokovic would meet eitherBritain’s Kyle Edmund orKazakhstan’s Alexander Bublikin the second round with US16th seed John Isner a potentialfourth-round foe. His highest-ranked possible quarter-final

opponent would be Belgian sev-enth seed David Goffin.

The other draw quarter inthe upper half of the men’sbracket has Greek fourth seed

Tsitsipas and Germany’sfifth-seeded Zverev aspossible quarter-finalopponents.

In the women’s sec-tion, third seed Serena Williamshas tricky path in search ofrecord 24th Slam.

Serena could see plenty offellow Americans in her recordquest, including AustralianOpen champion Sofia Kenin ina semi-final match.

She could meet 2017 USOpen champion Sloane

Stephens in the third round and2017 US Open runner-up andseventh seed Madison Keys in aquarter-final before a chance atKenin in the semis and poten-tially Czech top seed KarolinaPliskova in the final.

And that’s not even count-ing a possible fourth-roundmatchup against Greek 15thseed Maria Sakkari, who oust-ed Williams from this week’s USOpen tuneup event in New

York.Williams lost in the US

Open and Wimbledon finalseach of the past two years, andwith the England grass eventwiped off the schedule by thepandemic, the US Open marksa chance to break through andclaim a seventh title on the samecourts where she captured herfirst Slam crown in 1999.

Top seed Pliskova will openagainst Ukraine’s Anhelina

Kalinina with France’s CarolineGarcia or Italy’s Jasmine Paoliniawaiting if she makes the secondround. Croatian eighth seedPetra Martic could await in thequarter-finals.

Japanese fourth seed NaomiOsaka, the 2018 US Open and2019 Australian Open champi-on, could face Czech sixth seedPetra Kvitova in the quarter-finals and Pliskova in a semi-final.

�A���������" � LewisHamilton will not boycott thisweekend’s Belgian Grand Prix insympathy with American sportsprotests following the shootingof Jacob Blake in the UnitedStates, but said he felt unifiedwith their cause.

The world championshipleader and six-time championtold reporters via an official

video news conference that hewas impressed by the athletestaking action, which had led tothe postponement of events.

“I stand unified with themand trying to do what I can overhere (in Europe),” he explained.

“I don’t really know how notdoing the race...it will still go on,but I will speak to Formula Oneto see what else we can do tocontinue to raise awareness andcontinue to push.”

A number of athletes in the

United States led boycotts ofsporting events this week inprotest of Blake’s death.

Hamilton added it was“incredible what many out therein the States are doing withintheir sports all the way down tothe people that are hosting —commentators, for example.

“But that is America and Idon’t know really if me doing ithere will have any affect. We’rein Belgium. We’re not in theUnited States.” AFP

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Jurgen Klopp said onThursday there is “no chance”

of Liverpool signing LionelMessi, but the German admitsthe unsettled Barcelona starwould be a great addition to thePremier League.

Messi has told Barcelona hewants to leave after growingunhappy with the club’s prob-lems on and off the pitch.

The Argentina forward hasbeen linked with a move toManchester City, where hecould link up with his formerBarca boss Pep Guardiola.

Paris Saint-Germain, InterMilan and Juventus have alsobeen mooted as potential des-tinations for Messi if he gets hiswish to quit the Camp Nou.

Klopp insisted he wouldlove to have Messi, but madeit clear the 33-year-oldwould not end up atAnfield.

“Interest? Yeah, who does-n’t want Messi in their team.The numbers are absolutelynot for us. We don’t evenstart thinking about it. Nochance! But... good player,”Klopp told reporters.

Liverpool f inished 18points ahead of second placedCity last season as they won theEnglish title for the first timesince 1990.

And Klopp concededLiverpool’s bid to retain thePremier League crown wouldclearly be under threat if Messijoined City.

But the former BorussiaDortmund boss believes itwould be a significant coup for

English football to have one ofthe world’s greatest ever playersin the Premier League.

“It would make it evenmore difficult to beat them(City) which was already verydifficult,” Klopp told a newsconference ahead of Saturday’sCommunity Shield clash withFA Cup winners Arsenal atWembley.

“For the Premier League, itwould be great having the bestplayer in the world in theleague. I’m not sure the PremierLeague needs a boost but itwould be.

“It would be interestingtoo because Messi has neverplayed in another league apartfrom Spain. I would like to seeit but I’m not sure if I will.”

Klopp confirmed centreback Virgil van Dijk is fit to faceArsenal after recovering from ahead injury sustained duringLiverpool’s pre-season friendlywith RB Salzburg.

Jordan Henderson is alsoset to play but Trent Alexander-Arnold may miss out because ofinjury. “Trent’s very close butwe have to make a decisionabout him tomorrow,” Kloppsaid.

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Cricket Australia (CA) hasrestricted its players from

using sweat from the head,face and neck to shine the ballduring the upcoming limitedovers tour of England in a bidto reduce the risk of Covid-19transmission.

The ICC has banned theuse of saliva on the ball asan interim health safetymeasure in the wake ofthe pandemic. However,a player is still permittedto use sweat from any-where on the bodyand rub it onthe ball.

But CAis taking ac aut i ou sapproacht or e d u c eany riskof transmissionof the novelcoronavir us .Based on med-ical advice theboard hasasked its playersto not use sweat

from near the mouth or nose,according to Cricket.Com.Au.

This leaves players withoption of using sweat fromeither their stomach or back,during the white-ball seriesagainst England, startingSeptember 4 in Southampton.

The team’s premier pacerMitchell Starc feels the regu-lation will not have much

affect in the limited oversformats.

“It’s probably notsomething that’s too rele-vant in white-ball cricket.

Once that new ball startsto go, you’re trying to

keep it dry anyway.It’s more of a ques-

tion for red-ballcricket,” Starcsaid.

“No doubtwe’ ll f ind out

what it’s like inthese practice

games and if weneed to revisit someplanning around it,I’m sure we’ll have a

chat before the seriesgets underway,” he added.

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Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldoon Thursday said that his “spir-

it and ambition were as high asever” as he strives to “break recordsand conquer the world” next sea-son. The Portuguese forward wonhis second Scudetto withJuventus, but despite his dou-ble against Lyon the Italiangiants exited the ChampionsLeague to the Frenchclub in the last 16.

“As I’m gettingready for my thirdseason as aBianconero, my spir-it and ambition are ashigh as ever,” the 35-year-old wrote onInstagram.

“Goals. Victories.

Commitment. Dedication.Professionalism.

“With all my strength andwith the precious help from myteammates and all of the Juventusstaff, we work once again to con-quer Italy, Europe and the World!Breaking records.”

“Overcoming obstacles,” con-tinued Ronaldo of his ambitionsfor next season which starts on

September 19.“Winning titles and achiev-

ing personal goals. To do moreand better once and again.

“To reach higher and tosucceed in all challenges thatmay come our way.”

“We are Juventus! We arethe Champions! We are backand stronger than ever! Weare counting on you! Alltogether! Fino Alla Fine!”

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An India T20 specialist isamong multiple members of

the Chennai Super Kings contin-gent who have tested positive forCovid-19, forcing the IPL franchiseto extend its quarantine period inDubai and causing upheaval aheadof the event starting September 19.

The franchise is yet to issue aformal statement but a leaguesource told PTI that the numberof positive cases could be between10 and 12.

“Yes, a right-arm medium fastbowler, who has recently played forIndia in white-ball cricket, alongwith a few staff members have test-ed positive for Covid-19. Thenumber could be as high as 12,” the

senior IPL source said.The development has forced

the Mahendra Singh Dhoni-ledside to extend the quarantineperiod till September 1.

While there is panic in theBCCI’s rank and file after this butit is understood that for the timebeing, there is no imminent threatto the league, shifted out of Indiathis year due to the pandemic.

The scheduling conventionfollowed in the IPL is two finalistsof the previous year playing theinaugural game which would have

been Chennai Super Kings anddefending champions MumbaiIndians this season.

However, it’s still not clear ifCSK would be ready for theSeptember 19 league opener.

The source revealed that allCovid-19 positive results cameduring day 1, 3 and 6 of testingafter the contingent’s arrival inDubai.

“As far as we know, one of thesenior-most officials of the CSKmanagement, an official’s wife, andat least two members of their social

media team are also Covid-19 pos-itive,” he said.

According to the BCCI’sStandard Operating Procedure(SOP), all those who test positiveare mandated to go through anadditional seven-day quarantine.

They can enter the bio-securebubble only after returning nega-tive in tests to be conducted afterthe extended isolation.

It is understood that all themembers of the jumbo contingent,who tested positive, are “largelyasymptomatic”.

The biggest challenge will betracing those who came in contactwith these contingent members asit is understood that most of themcontracted the virus in Chennai,where the team had a short train-ing camp before heading to Dubai.

“If you see, they all had test-ed negative for Covid during thetwo RT-PCR tests conducted inChennai ahead of their departure.Had they been positive, theywouldn’t have been able to boardthe flight in the first place,” theleague source stated.

It is understood those whohave tested negative will be allowedto enter the bio-bubble. However,the IPL source believes that thelikelihood of the team’s campstarting on September 1 is slim.

“I don’t think they can start thecamp from September 1. It willtake at least till September 5before they can even think ofresuming the camp,” he said.

In the BCCI corridors, therewas bewilderment over the team’sdecision to have a camp inChennai before boarding the flightto Dubai. Tamil Nadu has record-ed more than 4 lakh cases so far.

“CSK practised three days inChennai out of the five days. Wasthere any tangible gain achievedfrom that camp?” a BCCI officialsaid.

It remains to be seen what pro-tocols will be followed for allthose players who will be arrivinglate after the conclusion of theCaribbean Premier League and theEngland vs Australia limited-overseries.

It couldn’t be immediatelyconfirmed whether the BCCI willbe coming out with an officialrelease on the issue confirming thename of the player and the staffmembers.

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Rohit Sharma’s childhood coach DineshLad expects nothing less than a World

Cup-winning performance from his protegein the 2023 edition at home following hisstellar show in the 50-over showpiece eventlast year, when he smashed five hundreds butIndia lost in the semifinals.

Rohit was recently announced as one ofthe winners of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratnaaward, India’s highest sporting honour.

“Getting the Khel Ratna is a greatachievement. I should not say this but if apoor boy has talent and he justifies it andhas luck, then that boy canreach the sky and a livingexample of it is RohitSharma.

“All that he has earneddue to his hard work andtalent. My expectationis that the forthcom-ing 50-over WorldCup, Rohit shouldwin it for India onhis own ability,”Lad, a popularcricket coach inMumbai circles,said on Marathicricket chat showCoffee Cricket AniBarech Kahi.

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Manchester United cap-tain Harry Maguire

defended his actions inGreece that led to him beingcharged with assaulting apolice officer and attemptedbribery, saying that hethought he was being kid-napped and feared for hislife.

Maguire was convictedand handed a suspended21-month sentence by aGreek court on Tuesday butwas granted a retrial afterlodging a successful appeal.

Maguire made his firstpublic comments about theincident on the island ofMykonos in an interviewwith the BBC, saying plain-clothed police officers pulledhim and a friend out of aminivan they were travelingin and started hitting them.

“My initial thought, Ithought we were gettingkidnapped.

We got down on ourknees, we put our hands inthe air, they just started hit-ting us,” Maguire said.

“They were hitting myleg saying my career’s over:

‘No more football. You won’tplay again.’

“And at this point Ithought there is no chancethese are police or I don’tknow who they are so I triedto run away, I was in thatmuch of a panic, fear, scaredfor my life. All the waythrough it.”

Maguire claimed thatincident took place outsidea police station after heattempted to take hisyounger sister Daisy to ahospital because sheappeared to be losing con-sciousness having beenapproached by two menduring a night out.

The 27-year-old centerback denied attempting tobribe the police.

When asked about that,he replied: “No, for sure. Assoon as I saw that statement,it’s just ridiculous.”

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